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my c onduct, on An ocea'sion on which I ttnot/uindds of he g oleeed to think that his Royal Hita . hness ab couldcouldtor a moment consider me as wanting either in ' Royal Highness, or in zeal for the public rico to I , _is Mee • and of assuring his Royal Highness that se * In fi n ability to assist in forwarding-his Royal High. to ss's purpose of procu rin g he strength ' tehis Admini stictioni • on the has been plan w . suggested by hi s Royal Highness's confidential servants, does not • s e from any disposition, on my part, to shrink ; I sm the encounter of those difficulties which press, st t hi s time, upon the country and upon the Crown. a m, &c. (Signed) GEORGE CANNING. No. IV. city of 'Letter front the haarquis•WsttasLer to the Earl of Lresaroot transmitting Lord Vir.'s Reply to Lord LlTta titoe• Apsky House, May 18,1812, half-put three, p.m. Mr DEAR Loan—l enclose a paper, containing lay reply to the communication which you were so ki n d is to nuke to me yesterday. Although I find m y s elf compelled to decline the proposal which you con veyed, I request you tnaecept my grateful thanks for the amicable and satisfactory manner in which you communicated with me ; • and to be assured, that I shall always entertain the most sincere and cordial sentiments of personal respect and esteem for you. Believe me, my Dear Lord, most sincerely your's, Eart of LiverpooL (Signed) wELLESLEY. (In No. IV.) • i Lora Wausau's reply to Lord Livursotit's Proposition. , Apsley House, May 18. From the communication received through Lord Liverpool, I understand, that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been graciously pleased to sag reify nis deore of strengtheniag his Administration voop its present basis,. by associating me with it, as or those persons who agree most nearly and ge-i . ;orally in the. principles upon which public affairs have been conducted. From the same communication I also derive the gratifying intelligence, that all Lord Liverpool's cel. leagues have authorized him to express a dispositiou to act with me, under an arrangement, consistent with their own honour and duty, and honourable and sa tisfactory to me. • I receive this notification of the Prince Regent's commands with *vary sentiment ofduty and affection, while it affords me matter of just satisfaction, that, to the distinguished honour of such condescending notice bun his Royal Highness, is added so high a testi. mony of the confidence and esteem of all the respec table persons composing his present Administration. With all humility towatds the exalted authority from which this proposition proceeds, and with the most sincere regard for those through whom it is conveyed, I must, however, declare, that I should have declined it at the first instant of its approach, if motives of defeience and submissive attachment had am imposed upon me the obligation of receiving it with respectful consideration. The proposition necessarily rests upon a supposition that I entertain no such difference of public sentiment with the present Administration as should preclude me from acting with them, under an arrangement; tompatible with our mutual and respective honour and duty But it appears from Lord Liverpool's candid and explicirstatement, that upon the important question, which regards the laws affecting the Roman Catho.: les, Lord Liverpool's opiniouf remain unchanged ; nor is he aware that the sentiments of his Colleagues, en that subject, have undergone any change. • I must therefore conclude, that the policy which has been pursued respecting the Roman Catholics, during the present Session of Parliament, is 'to be continued without abatement; the general constituent parts of the present Cabinet are to remain unchang ed ; the highest , and most efficient offices in the State, therefore, are to be filled by persons, who still don.' ceivc themselves to be bound by duty, honour, and conscience, not only to resist any mitigation of the present condNion of the Roman Catholics, but even to preveht the consideration of the laivs which affect that large portion of the poOlation of the empire. - I cannot concur in the principle on .which the- pre-- sent kamioistration has conducted this important branch of public affairs ; on this point I have recently expressed the strongest difference of opinion with the. present Administration: The dei - laratioh of Lord, Liverpool precludes the . hope of trig such change in the policy of the present Administration towards the Roman Catholics as could satisfy thy judgment. This difference is of the utmost imPortance : without .ally other obstacle, therefore, this alone compels me to decline the proposition which Lard Liverpool has conveyed to me. I entertain a confident expectation, that when the Prince Regent shall h ave cons id ere d the nature of this difficulty, he will extend his indulgence to my *humble representation, and will relieve me.from the pressure of commands, .which ; could not obey, cithout sacrificing a public principle of the highest obligation. Tbese.obsetvations cornpOse a sufficient reply to the conimunication received through Lord Liverpool. But I deem i t to h e a duty towards the Prince Re gan to declare, that the consideratious which induced a me, on the,i9th of February, to resign the station *bids I had the honour to bold in his Royal fl igh. noses service, have actiaired' additional force suite that time, and would constitute an insuperable,ob stacle to my acceptance of ank station in the present Rdsoiaistration. I originally expressed my desire to withdraw from ait.Percevil's Administrations because my general nion; for a long time past, on various important lo!stions, had not sufficient weight in that Cabinet, tn:unify me towards the public, or towards my own character, in continuing in office. My objections to remaining in that Cabinet, arose, In a great degree, from the imperfect scale on which the efforts i n the Peninsula were conducted. It was !iwaysstated to me, that it was impracticable to en woe that systems I' thought that it was perfectly practicable to extend the plan in the Peninsula, and that it was nei t h er sa f e nor h onest towar d s t hi s coun "y or the Allies to continue the present inadequate acheme. From Lord Liverpool's statement upon this it evident, that since my resignation, it bas been /cum prac6cable to make some extension of the sys tem in die peninsula ; but it is still intimated, that my views are more extensive than die resoufccs of the country - can enable the Government to reduce .to practice. I, however, still entertain the same views and opinions, without diminution or alteration ; and t am convinced, that a considerable extension of the stele of odr operatiouse lu the Peninsula, and also an effectual coreection of many brandies of our systent in that qbaster, are objects of indispensible necessity, and of easy attainment. With such a4ecided difreVence of opinions in rela- 1 don to the conduct and management of the War, my return ,into a .Cabinet composed as the present is, would offer to me no better prospect than the renewal of discussions, which have hitherto proved unavailing. I learn from Lord Liverpool, that, he has received no authority, in forming the intend e d Administration, to make any proposal to any of those persons, now designated by the name of es The Opposition." My inquiry on this point originated in a sincere conviction, (founded upon an attentive observation of the general state of public opinion, and of the condi tion of the empire), that no Administration which shall not comprise some of those persons can . prove advantageous to the Prince Regent, conciliatory to wards Ireland, and equal to the conduct of the war , on a scale of sufficient extent. • It has been stated erroneously, that the first act of the Prince Regent upon his approach, to unrestricted authority, was to establish Mr. Perceval's Adminis r tration ; but the fact is, that his Royal Highnes s ' s fi est etc at that crisis was to dissolve Mr. Perceval's admi. nistration ; and to endeavour to form a Cabinet upon a more extended and liberal basis. This endeavour was frustrated at that moment ; and the formation of such a Cabinet was represented to his Royal High ness to be' impracticable. Ii has, however, since ap peared evident to me, from the discussions and deli berations which I have witnessed in Parliament, that his Royal Highness's benevolent intentions on that subject are now perfectly practicable ; and that their accomplishment would tend to promote internal peace and tranquillity, and. to invigorate the whole system ' of our external operations: . Impressed with this sentiment, I should be untrue to his Royal Highness's interests and honour, as well. as to the prosperity of the empire, if I concurred in any arrahgethent of an Administration which did not include a fair and full consideration of this most im portant point. After such a dispassionate consideration, my opi nion is, that a Cabinet might be formed on an inter mediary principle respecting the Roman Catholic claims, equally exempt from the dangers of instant unqualified concession, and from those of inconside rate peremptory exclusion ; the entire resources of the empire might be applied to the great objects of the war with general consent, upon a full understan ding of the real exigency of the present crisis ; and concord and union at home might secure ultimate . and permanent success abroad. WELLESLEY. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY el. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'C LOCK. 3 per Cent. Red. 591—.-4 per Cent. 74 3 per Ct. Cone. for Money 60H—Ditto for account 606 5 per Cent. 1797 9) o—Scrip pre—.l.g. Anus. IS S-16ths Exch. Billapar Is. dis.—Eonds par Is. pre. We believe we an now state with confidence that the New Ministerial Arrangements are completed : As we stated yesterday, Marquis WELLESLEY and Mr. CANNING have most unequivocally refuted to hold any office in an Administration of which Lord CAS-, TLEREAGII forms a part : the correspondence given in another part of our Paper does not indeed cay so ex_ pressly in= terms, but it is most strikingly implied.— It is in the recollection of every one, that Mr. CAN. NING has taken" many opportunities of expressing his doubts as to Lord CASTLEREAGH'S competency to perform thb functions of a Minister ; and yet Lord Livanroat, asks Mr. CANNING to act under, and no t 'with Lord CASTLEREAGH. With respect to the appli . 'cation to Lord WELLESLEY It does not appear to us that Lord lavEmboot could have entertained any reasonable expectations of that Nobleman's services under him, whets he recollected that his formerresig nation was occasioned by his deCliniog to act under' Mr. PERCENTAL, who was avowedly Lord LIYERPOWS superior. Mr. VANSITTART, as *ill appear from our report of the Parliamentary proceedings, is the new Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Lord CASILEREACII takes the lead (as Lord Livenroot, calls it) in the House of Commons, and Mr. BRAGOi Barmen is to be the new Secretary for the Home Department, in the rooni, of Mr. RYDER, who retires, Mr. Wonmex has given notice of a Motion for an Address to the Polka REOaWr, praying his Royal Highness to form a more respectableAdministnttim. Mn WELLESLEY POLE has declined the Office of War Minister, but holds his Irish appointment ; and either Earl BATHURST or Lord PALMERSTON, It 'is thought, will be Secretary for the War and Colonies, ad interim► Stesterclay the I.6an CHANCELLOR, the Earl Of LIVERPOOL, and Lord CASTLEREAGH, had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT ) at Califon House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Ccanzatt re• turned to town yesterday from Bushy. All the British naval officers in the ,Russian service, as we ste t ted on a former occasion, Who had been ordered I to Moscow, in 1807, had not only been recalled from thence, but each was promoted to the rank which he I would have held, provided he had continded to be em ployed since the above period. All the,ariears of pay . are likewise, it is said, to be allowed from 1807. In order to perform the laborious duties on the River Thames, it has been found necessary to revive the-protection to the individuals composing the Corps of Fencibles, which had lately been cancelled. 'two French teachers, long established in Chester, were taken up, on Tuesday, by special Messengers from Government, and all their papers seined; on I what charge Ls not yet knows. . . ANHOLT MAIL An Anholt Mail arrived this morning, lout it con' veyt no intelligence from the North of a striking na tore: Another Decree bas been published by the CROWN PRINCE of Sweden for augmenting his army, but still no declaration is made as to the object in view. We are now heartily tired of the shuffling and temporizing policy of BzawAnorrz, and care not how soon he is visited with aU the calamities of a French yoke, which he has certainly taken no steps to avoid. The following are a few extracts from the journals furnished by the above Mail : "OOTTENBURG, MA' It. " The Vigo, Admiral Morris, with a strong squa dron sailed yesterday for the Baltic, and immediately afterwards the Orion and some smaller ships of war proceeded with the convoy from England.. The Briseis sailed a few days since, and the Zeal6us and Rose this morning fcr the Sound. " It is expected that English cruisers will soon have the liberty of entering the Swedish ports, and that orders will be given to render them whatever assis tance they may require. " 7 1 1 he Russians are said to have given as their ul timatum, that they will not enter into any negocia tion with the French, till the latter have completely efacuated Russia. " When the news of the fall of Badajclz reached Orebro, the Crown. Prince immediately dispatched a special messenger to l'etersbtr,7,ll with the itirelligence. " MAY 16.—An embargo has been laid at Liebau on all vessels, by order of the French, even on those which had cleared out." . • " RATISBONNE, APRIL. o. Count Gottorp yesterday" passed through this .city on his way to Vienna." EXTACT OF A I.r.TrErt FitOM VIENNA, DATED APRIL 29. " The head .quarters of our army in Galicia will 'be at Manislaivow. It is reported that theArchdOke Charles will command this army." We were yesterday favoured with the following satisfactory communication relative to the reported earthquake at Caraccas : .4 Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, Wednesday, May scc -- • - " Don LUIS LOPEZ MENDEZ hastens to inform the Editor •f the STAR, that the account is false which states * on the authority of a letter from Martinique, the destruction of the buildings and inliabitints of the City of Caraccas add the Port of Laguyra,br a terrible earthquake. The said Editor is also empowered to con tradict the assertion, that the Congress of Venezuela was assem bled in Valencia, a place distant nearly 140 miles from the city of Caraccas. The narrative alluded to is evidently a fabrication, prepared in Martinique or else from the worst motives and for the worst purposes. The calamity is represented to have taken place on the 26th of March. Don Luis has received intelligence from his Government of Ihe 28th March, which informs him of the prosperous state of that capital (Caraccas), and that the whole territory of the Confederation of Venezuela was in the same happy situation, and in the enjoyment of perfect tranquillity and harmony." WINDSOR, MAY 20.—The l)uchess of YORK ar rived yesterday at four o'clock, .to dine with the QUEEN and the rest of the Royal Family, and re mained here all night. The Dukes . of YORK, CLA RENCE, KENT, and St:ssim., left last night. Tne Duke of CAdmurior set off this morning. Thii morning,: Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and CHARLOTTE or WALES, took an airing on horseback to Cranborn.— The QUEEN and Princess Euzaairrif took an airing to the Cottage' at Old Windsor. It-gives us great pleasure to state that a rumour) circulated last week of the Duke of DrioNsmaa's Munson: at Chatsworth having been burnt by some Derbyshire rioters, is altogetherunfounded. indeed there are no people to whom the epithet Derbyshire rioters can be applied with any kind of propriety, for in that county the demeanour of the populacebAS been highly' exemplary. NATICNAL DEBT.—:.An Account of the Reduction of the Nati 'nal Debt, from the Ist August, 1786, to the Ist May, 1812 : Redeemed by the Sinking Fund X 194,0118,183 . Transferred by Land Tait Redeemed 5'4,043,477.. Do. by Life Au:midi:6 Purchased 1,745,809 On Acoonnt of Great Britain £219,775,649 Ditto in Ireland • - 9,450,014 Ditto of imperial Loan - - 1;280,388 Ditto of Loan to Pausal - - 118,569 Total £230.624,559 The Sum to be expended in the ensuing Quarter is £3,581,477. 17s. 5-1-d. The following of account has been laid upon the table, and printed, pursuant to _an order of the House of Commons: An Account of the Amount of the PROPZILTT Tae gfor the years riding the sth ot April, 11110, 1811, and 11118: PAYMENTS INTO 'FHB EXCHEQUER. Pot the year ending Aprii 5, 1810 £11,533,871 19 For the year ending April 5, 1811 • 11,222,454 12 6 For the year ending April 5, 1812 5,1£81,98- 6 6 WILLIAM LOITNDas. BARNS SARNI. OASILILL TUCKER STZWAIIII. Office for Taxes, April 31, 1312. The Freneh Officers, prisontrs, now on their parole at Cheltenham, are about to be removed to Aber gavenny. (Sunday se'nnight, a number of persons assembled at Carrig Bridge,WexfOrd, to witness a boxing match, but the combatAtits had scarcely set to, when one of them fell through a hole in the bridge, and was drowned. It is a singular fact, that after the body of Bat- 1 LINOHAM was opened, it was noticed that his heart continued to perform its functions, or in other words, to be alive for tour hours after he was laid open. The expanding and contracting powers continued percept ' tiote till one o'clock in the day—a proof of the steady, • undismayed character, rhich he preserved to the last grasp. It is said of some men, that the heart dies within them, but here the. taergicti remained when Ida was eating. .- • THE Xittivrt 4 • • Mont 70 men of the 14th add 16th Let Ai. goons, arrived at Plymouth on Monday, with 800 horses. They were to embark for the Peninsula yes. terday, and are to sail immediately. The Radnor Regiment of Militia have Marched from Athlone to the Park Barracks, Dublin. Monday se'nnight the volunteering from the Royfi Wegmoreland Militia, stationed in Sligo, commen. ced ; since which time upwards of eighty spirited young fellows stepped lot ward for different regiments. The temporary command of the garrisons of Chelmsford, Danbury, and Maldon, has devolved Upon that excellent at id experienced Officer, Lieute nant-Colonel HUTCHINSON, of the 48th Regiment, who is greatly beloved by the Officers and men under his command. The valuable services of General ACLAND, who is Governor of the above garrisons, have been put in requisition by the COmmander-in• Chief to assist in quelling the disturbances in the North of England. the gallant Colonel ERSKININ of the 48th Regi ment, is Pastrecovering from the setere wounds which he received at the storming of Badajoz. Captain }salmi& of the same Regiment fi dead bf his wounds. He was present with his corps in fall the severe actions in the Peninsula, and was often wounded severely, but not mortally until the affair of Badajoz. lie was an experienced and gallant Officer, and is much lamented by his brother soldiers and by a ilumert.us circle of friends who knew and respected his privatt worth. Nll 7 ilL INTELLIGENCB. • - - . FALMOtTI-f, MAY I Put in by contrary winds the Ship #acifi l t, Botts MAN, irom Jamaica, 49 days 'savage; and tjtetrit Whim, Capt: Wa..tos, from Anti s, in 47 days, with rums; sugars, Sec. ; the laticr a little lei, ky. Also arrived sundry coasters. The Duke of Kant packet, LaewnENce, was not arrived at Antiguil when the Whim left.—Sailed the Duke of Kent packet, C.pt: Coreswottru, with Mails of the 12th i.ns:ant, and dis. patchts for Li<bon ; 27 , 4 the Mary t 1 nn packet, Capt.. CADDY, with Mails of the 6th inst. for Jamaica. PI YNTOtiTH, MAY 40. Arrived, .three or fcur casters. Sailed, his Ma • jetty's .hip guns, for the Mediterranean. PORT:MOUTH, MAY sn. Atrieed, the COSSACK, from the Downs; and the' American -ship Mandnica, Britten, Ch irlestoe for London--On•the Icth :ell in with the War Liam and Ann, off and from Baltimore, for Cadiz, laden' with flour and full of water—took nut tie whole of the crew, who are now an board the Mandniea, Sailed, his Majesty's ships Nonitir STAR, DEUR. tots, SPRIGHTLY, and WoLvettssz, on. a cruizt• ; flirt Majesty's ship Active, and her• prize la P. mone, with a convoy for the Downs ; and t':e whole she Jamairamen that were left here, for the Downs. • DEAL, MAY 20. Arrived, his Majesty's ship WAltatk.,l.-om p'i'ts- mouth ; and the Barter fi - om Jamaica is 54 Gays— On the 3d of April parted company with the Corn wall off Crooked Island; having sprung a itak—on' the nth, 27th, and nth tilt. experienced a very heavy gale from the W. and by 3.-passed several dismasted ships, and some totally wrecked, in Lit. 35.59. N. long. 52. 20. W.—Wind 13. W. YARMOUTH 4 MAY es. Sailed the BItAVEDAGEMN, Lieut. DEVON, for He• ligbland. Arrived the BANTERER sloop.from Flush in& and the BatrostAns . from a cruize.—Wind W. The following East Indiamen arrived yesterdat safe at Gravesend :--Warren Hastings, Rose, Union, Carnativ, Essex, Marchionesss of Metcalf, and Castle Eden, from the Downs. The City of Edinburgh, PATTERSON; from Ltma to Cadiz, foundered off Fayai, vn the t3th ult. . - - The Amelia Wilson, BAK/S, bnund to London, sprung a leak, at St. Vincent's, the begibning of April, and was obliged to unload pit of her c.irgo. The Young Charles, Jury, sailed from Lislion, on the 28th of February last, and has not since been heard of. The Fox, Cox, of and from Port Jackson, on a voyage for skins, was lost, about February, 1811, on • the island of St. Paul's. The Venus, &mama, of London, took on board eight of the crew, on the Sit of June lasr. Captain Cox and the remaind*r of the ship's crew had previously been taken of the Island. Thursday se'nnight, a boat belonging to Portma licanack, with 'pests froth Edderton, was upset by a sudden gust of wind ► in coming jown the Dornech Frith, and the whole crew, consisting of four acti ve and industrious seamen, were untc•rtunatwly drowned. This lamentable event was seen from the shore, bet . the sit►leaoe of tke gale was such that no assistance could be afforded. ~- • , • A stbstription has been opened as Notenglunii.4 Leeds, for purchasing the necessaries of life, net tailing them, at slow price to the poor.. ' I Ac Huddersfield all was quiet last week &pee. son of the name of Syier, a shnekeeper, iii Meltham, near Huddersfield, has been escorted from thence in a chaise And tour, by a troop of the Queen's Pays, on hit route to York Castle, charged with representing himself to be one of General Ludd'slnen, entering peoples' houses in Meltham in the night-time, and demanding and obtaining possession claims. Early on Sunday sells:fight, a body of me,., super. sed to amount to near lob, pass,:d down Kirkgate, in Wakefield, ant miscitievobsly broke - the window s of several of the most respectable inhabitants: irons ' what quarter they came, omen which sliers t su re d, h as not boen ascertained. The following fught, by some of the same kidney, the bot•l ionse of Mr s . Trim!, ciiintaetor, was attacked, and about SOO - sClUateB of glass broke& The perpetrators if this outrage escaped deter! ion. Sunday se'nnight, a thrashing machine at SotbiU. near DeAshury, was set fire to, and with the building which contained it, nearly destroyed, but without On, other datuage being done. .• . , .