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LONDON. THE STATE LOTTERY Will be Drawn in TWO DAYS, viz. 14th of I'llls MONTH (JANUARY), and following Day. A meeting took place yesterday between some Members of Government, and the merchants in- terested in the trade under licences to France, at which it was intimated, that under certain limitations and restrictions such licences would perhtips not be suspended. We are told as one of.the reasons, that 80 licences have been issued in France, which do not stipulate, as the condition of their validity, that any export whatever to Great Britain should be made of the produce or manufacture of that country. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1813. Ehruntsr.—Holday at the Stock Excitarge. 1 he Bank pay the Dividends to the Bankers to-morrow, and to the Public on Friday. Our columns of to day present a full report of a discussion in Leadenhall-street, in which the vital interests of the Empire are more deeply involved than in any public question which has excited the attention of the nation, since the period of the glori ous Revolution of 1688. Having said this, it becomes the duty of every thinking individual in the Empire, calmly, temperately, and deliberately to review the Irguments of the contending parties, whose corporate and individual intc.•rests are now so completely at 'stake, 'ere any opinions are formed, or doctrines pro mulgated, which might have a tendency to prejudge. the grand question about to be agitated. Ministers and the East India Company are now decidedly at issue. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE'S letter admits of no alternative—he demands, in the name of the great body of the Merchants of this country, a full participation in the export and import trade with India. His Lordship guarantees the con tinuance of the territorial dominion of the Company, And admits that the natives are happy under it. Tne Company is likewise to exercise their usual controul over the Europeans who may resort to India :—in •other viords, no person is to be perthitted to reside in. the Company's territory without permission from the local governments. The exclusive trade with China is also to be preserved to the Company. In answer to these proposals the Directors contend, that ruin to the whole establishment will inevitably *low —that the trade with China is not sufficient to enable the Compuny to keep .up their commercial respectability—that the tempt4tions to smuggling will be so great as to injure the public revenue, to an By an arrival from the North of Spain, we have been put in possession of some details of operations, which convince us that the Spaniards in that quarter, at least, are still alive to the interersts.of their coun try. The successful enterprize of LONGA, the Gue_ rilla Chieftain, merits the highest encomiums : 66 LETTER FROM COLONEL DON FRANCISCO LONGA, COM MANDANT OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE SEVENTH ARMY, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL IN CHIEF DON GABRIEL DE MENDIZABAL : • " Poza, November an, ism " Respected General—l recently acquainted your Excellency that various French troops, proceeding from Burgos, were quartered in the valley of Sedano, but that I had not ascertained their numbers and object. I have since been enabled to do so, and have discovered., that in it, and the adjoining villages, there were 4000 men, under the orders of General Fromant, making requisitions, and committing their usual robberies and excesses.' g , The protection which I promised to all the in habitants within the hoe of demarkation which you were pleased to assign to me, and the marked afrec tion which I feel for them, determined me to act in thee; defence. With this view I took all the neces sary mtaiures, even though I should not be able completely to rout the enemy, at least to liberate the district which they were barbarously oppressing and I have now to inform your Excellency, that I have had the good fortune to attain both these ob- equal extent with that of the East-India Company.- jests, by the action which my division yesterday hal that there will be an influx of rash speculators and with the enemy, and of which I shall now give you adventurers from this country who will seek estab. ! a brief detail. lishmeuts beyond the limits cf the Company's juris- I " After a rapid and secret-march, I succeeded in diction ; and finally they maintain, that the ports of taking post a quarter of a league from the town of India are as much the freeholds of the Company as Sedan°, and the road which leads to the church, their landed possessions at home. I which is in reality a fortress. There the division re- In reply the Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, on the 'pained till seven in the morning, when three com part of Ministers, assumes a bold, dignified, and re- panics, detached to take the church, and the house of solute tone. He tells the Directors, that no dept.'. the Colonel Commandant in the town, opened their ture will be made from the terms which he has al- fire. 'I hey accomplished their object with the ready submitted to them, and threatens them with I greatest bravery, making 87 prisoners, with the loss taking the whole institutions of India, political, civil, of only three grenadiers, and the First Serjeant of the and military, under the immediate controul of the Battalion of National Guards. I then advanced the British Government. whole division, pursuing the other French who pre- In the present state of the great question now at cipitately retired to the heights and ravines, till they issue, it would be presumptuous in us to pretend to collected various detachments, to the amount of 800 give a decided opinion on points which yet require men, in Mozuelos. They were all, however, corn consideration, and which will no doubt receive much pletely routed, and the greater part of them had ;:a elucidation from the discussions, both in and out of other resource but death, or surrender ; so that after Parliament, to which the question must inevitably seven hours vigorous firing, there were left in the lead. So far as the matter is yet before us, we cannot town of Sedano, and for two leagues along the road . but subscribe most cordially with the Earl of where they were pursued, more than 700 dead, with BUCKINGHAMSHIRE to the utmost extent of his corn• a great number of wounded. Four hundred and munication on the part of his Majesty's Govern- ninety prisoners remained in our power, besides two ment to the Court of Directors. On one topic, small cannon, all their baggage, muskets, camp in particular, we would be inclined, from every kettles, &c. all the cattle which they had robbed, their view we can yet take of the subject, to go much far biscuit, brandy, bacon, and other provisions. ther than is expressod in his Lordship's letter ;—we .4 General Fromant, Colonel Bremond, and several mean, the introduction of an increased number of other officers, were killed. We also succeeded in Europeans into India. If the trade is to be laid op e n, liberating sixty respectable inhabitants, destined to as proposed by Government, the country should also be conducted to Burgos, where they were to remain be rendered as free of access to British subjects, as till the contributions imposed on the valley were paid. any other of his Majesty's dominions. Without this, " Such is the brilliant result of an action in which it is impossible that the commerce can ultimately the brave Iberians have distinguished themselves, and prove beneficial to the new adventurers ; without of which I shall soon send you the details more at this, all the evils predicted by the India Company length. (Signed) " FRANCISCO LONOA."• to those who may embark in the new trade will pro- [Here follows a letter front Geperal Mendizabal, recommen ding the promotion of Colonel Longa.] bably be realized. In one word-cif the partners, agents, factors, and servants of the Merchants of the Out-ports are, in any way whatever, to be subjected to laws, regulations, and restrictions, differing .at all from those to which the India Company itself and its servants may be.subjected, the former must enter the field of competition under disadvantages, which can not but work effectually, though secretly, ultimatel; to under Mine and blast all their speculations. To us there appears no way possible to be devised that can so effectually secure to Great Britain, as an empire,- the co-operation of the energies and resources of Hindostan ; and to her merchants the utmost be nefits of their mutual industry, as the unrestrained colonization of India by British adventurers; nor can any way be .devised so well calculated to hasten the civilization, to advance the knowledge of the natives, and to destroy their lamentable prejudices. If the partners and servants of the new adventurers are to be subjected to the operation of municipal re gulations, devised and dispensed by the monopolists, against whom they come into the market, the nature of men must be changed before we can believe that their efforts will receive countenance and support from the local Governments, and their persons equal and impartial protection. The supreme power ought to be vested in men who have no interest in spewing favour to one set of merchants above another : nor would such a regulation be any more an encroach. ment upon the freehold rights of the India Cernpany than the daily decisions in our English Courts of Law can be conceived to affect their freehold rights in the buildings which it has erected in Leadenhall. street. THE ARMY, It is rumoured that the Marquis of WELLINGTON is coming home for a short time, to put Govern ment in possession of the real state of Sp:tin. Monday and yesterday six troops of the 18th Light Dragoons marched into- Portsmouth, and embarked for Portugal. By the death of General Sir THOMAS MUSGRAVE, Bart. the Government of Gravesend and the 76th Regiment of Foot, which was raised in 1787, and has never had any other Colonel, is vacant. The Edinburgh Militia. at the late volunteering, made choice, almost exclusively, of the 102 d Regi ment, stationed at Bermuda. It. was mentioned some short time since, that in consequence of the appointment of an Officer from another corpf to the Blues, a coirespondence had passed between the Duke of NORTUUMIERLAND, as Colonel of the Horse Guards, and his Royal High ness the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, on the subject, a similar appointment not having taken place for up wards of 50 years. The result we now hear has been, that his Grace on Monday sent in his resignation. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has ex perienced a relapse of his very distressing asthmatic disorder. Letters from Ireland represent the health of the Duke of RICHMOND to be in so precarious a state, that his Grace's physicians had recommended him to try the air of the county of Wicklow, and that, in consequence, the Duke had taken up his residence at Newry-bridge for some weekspast, and had received considerable benefit from this change of air. Sunday, Lord and Lady MALPas arrived at Lord CtioLuo: , DELEY's elegant mansion, Piccadilly, from Portsmouth. His Lordship and his amiable consort (late Miss CAMPBELL, second daughter of General CAMPBELL) were received by the Earl and Countess of CHOLMONDELRY, with the warmest affection ; in short, the greatest happiness prevailed on the occa sion. All the family will leave town in a few days for Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, to celebrate Lord MALPAS'S birth-day, which occurs on the 16th inst. when his Lordship will attain the age of twenty-one. It appears, from the country papers, that the libe ral subscriptions in the capital, for the relief of the Russians, are likely to be generally followed. Sub scriptions have already been commenced at Birming ham, Brighton, and Swansea. J. F. RABBE, Colonel of the regiment of infantry of the Parisian Guards, who was condemned to death as an accomplice in MALET I S conspiracy, has had his sentence comuted into perpetual imprisonment. Marshal DUROC ' the personal favourite of BONA PARTE, arrived at Paris from the Grand Army on the 211 ult. Mr. B. ROBINS, who was shot on Friday, the ISth ult. on his return from Stuurbridge market to his house at Kinfare, expired on Monday, in consequence of the wound he had received. To the reward of £lOO already offered, the inhabitants of Kinfare have added £5O, for the detection of the villain who per petrated the horrid deed. CHARGE OF Mum:mt.—Sullivan and Griffith:, the two men taken up cm suspicion of murdering Bloom field, the watchman, on Snow Hill, on Sunday mor ning last, and for an assault in the street, were yes terday again brought before the Sitting AlLternian at Guildhall. No evidence appearing as to the .eithtiou, part of the charge, they were admitted to answer for the assault. CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, JAN. 6. We have ralme few arrivals of Oats fresh up tre•clay, being prihripally of an inferior qualay, do not jo off eery tr't ly Hug I'ea.l and Boilers are each per quarter lower ; aid in other recpects we observe no alteraion in the trade this weak. English Wheat, Sr. 100 i. 120 s. Caraway, rer cwt. BCs. 9V s. Cum:oder, do. 40s. 445. 130 s. Foreign do. 765.10C5.1145.1245. Ryr, 725. 741. 765. Barley, 655. 681. 70s. 745. Malt, 105 s. 114$. Oats 48s. 535. 695. 645. Horse Bans, 76s 82.. 'Pick Ditto, 68s. 745. Hog Peas 81.. 90s. Boilers 910.1195. 120 s. Canary Seed 95..1055.118h Fares, per bushel, GOs. 004. White Mustard, tie. 2t;g. :ag. brown do. 32s 3Cs. Rape Seed £58,1.62 per la , t Flour 105 s. us 1 los. per sack. Windsor beans, 945.1055. 1 CUs. 130 s. Long Pod do. 765. 80s. 82s. _ _ _ Dwarf Marrow Peas 1151.1 4Cs. H. P. Peas 1265. Ms. 170$. INTELLMENCS. FA1.D.101.71W, Ls.Nti.taY 3. Arrived the Ma!win, Cum:, from Nassau—sailed in company with the George, under convoy of hit Majesty's ships Mo. LLLE and VARIABLE, and parted from them in lat. 32 :!0. Icing. 50. • • _ , , murmurs and disaptirobation), The CHAIRMAN said that as they had heard a great deal said in their praise, it was but fair to hear what could be said on the othtr side. Mr. Hem& in continuation, said, that he did not renceive that he had been sneaking either against the Interests of the Company, or against the Directors.— had not said, or implied, that the conduct of the Directors was not entitled to praise; but he had said, that it was better to take time to know what ii was, and to consider those papers, before they thought of either expressing praise or censure. Mr. CHANT (the Director) said, that the Gentle man who had just spoken had mistaken the object of the Meeting, which was not for agreeing or diia greeing to the question about the imports, but for the general purpose of receiving information respec ting tpe negociation with Government about the re newal of the Charter.' I'he Chairman had expressly stated, in the opening of the business, that it would be adviiable that no Resolutions should be entered into at present. That Gentleman (Mr. Hume) seems to think, that this question about not confining the imports to London, was a question which might be treated of separately. Now, he must have read all the papers relative to the.negociation with very little attention indeed, if he did not see that the Court of Directors throughout, had argued that this question could never be considered separately, as in their opinion it involved the whole of our interests in India, and their entire means of paying their clivi deeds, and carrying on the Government of India. Theybad always stated to Government, that giving up this, appeared to them to be giving up every thing; that the China trade would follow, and with it, their whole means of supporting their establishments. The Directors had not categorically called upon Ministers for their decision: they had only wished to know the regulations which they intended to propose, and the .reasonings which had induced them to change their opinion with respect to the great point of confining the into sto the Fort of London. He could not avoid think that that great body had the same right as every individual in the nation to offer sug gestions upon what they thought of danger to the Constitu to-. He thought that when Ministers had professed their wish to come to a full, frank, and candid discussion with the Court of Directors, it was not unreasonable for them to ask to be informed what those argnments were, which had produced a change in the minds of Administration to the prejudice of the most important interests of the country. He did not see that the Directors had done any thing which me sited a reproof ; but Ministers, instead of arguments, chose to send them their decisions. The CKAIRIAAN stated the recorded opinion of that great statesman (the late Lord Melville), that it was of-essential importance, " that the whole produce of the Indian Trade should be brought into the port of London, and sold in that room." The great Mr. Pitt was also of the same opinion ; and he thought that they should all feel that this was such an important point of their political and commercial cited, that they could not abandon it. Alderman ATKINS spoke for some time in favour of the part which the Directors had taken during the negociation, and of the principles which they had supported. Among the benefits which the country had received from the Company, he stated, that during the Dutch war, the Glatton, and other vessels of the Company, had been lent to Lord Dun can, and had assisted at the battle of Camperdown.— It was a pride to the country, that if ever there should be a real occasion for it, they had always a number of East India ships, which were of force enough to be put into their line. A long conversation ensued, about the day that it was most convenient to adjourn to. Some were for a shorter adjournment ; but, in consequence of its being stated that a meeting of the shipping interest was to be held on this subject next week, the motion for the adjournment to Tuesday, the 19th, was finally agreed to. $ THE EVENING STAR. TORBAY, JANUARY 4. Last night, abott five o'clock, a French matte: privateer hoarded and took possession of the schooLc t Thetis, of this place, bound flora Cotk to Guer4s el ., abcut twelve miles S, W. of the 131 y-head. Ti a Lord Cochrane, a brig, Lein in sight, the cram T set fire to the Thetiq, and pertilitt,d the r:-./ to t.-r) 011 $/:!.rtt in the boa:s. The Lord Cochrane id:: in chase of the privateer. pi.YmouTH. JANUARY 4. Arrived this morning, the DIADEM, a CI guns, mil LATDNA and IRIS frigates, from the coast of Spair, with a battalion of marines. It is said, that this bat talion will be sent off to our squadron on the coast of America, for the purpose of strengthening the fri gates, as well as that of offensive land operations.— Arrived also an American schooner, with flour, prize to the llitAziumg, of JO guns, and a Spanish recap. Lined ship.—Sailed the RFINREER, of IS guns, on a cruize. The KENT, of 74 guns, came from the Sound to Hamoaze.—The ABERCROSSRA Of 74 guns, is mentioned as being about to go to the coast of Am .• rica, in addition to those mentioned yesterday. PORTSMOU JANUARY 5. Arrived the Junes, Iticitaaosotr, from Surinam-. ;ailed from thence in company with seven others the 31st of October,. and parted from them the sth of December, 4114.35 N. long. 45 W. iu a heavy gale from the S.W. ; and' on the t9th, in Soundings, passed the Susan, RUTER, from Halifax to Poole, under jury-masts. Arrived also, his Majesty's ships BARROSA, 36; DXDALUS, and the MLUSTOS schooner, from the Downs.—Wind W. DEAL, JANUARY S. Sailed the BARRPSA and D/EDALVS frigates, to; Portsmouth.—Wind . • YARMOUTH, IANUARY S. Arrived the BANTERRR sloop of war, from of Flushing; and the RAvErs gun.brig, from a cruize. Sailed the Biunsa FAIR, on a cruize. Passed in the Offing, several Ivge ships from the Northward.— Remain in the Roads, the solebay, Viee•Mmiral MURRAY, Hearty, Banterer, and Raven. The snow Union, of Liverpool, TWADDLX master, on her passage from Prince EdwartPs Island, was captured by l'Attguste French privateer, in lat. 6Q. 25. N. long. 20, W. CAPTURE OF THE LAURA BY THE DILIGENT, SIINUTES MAD* ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SCHOONER LAURA, LIEU T. CHARLES N. HUNTER, CoNsaa voza, 44 Sept. 8, 1812, at Qh. SOm. p. m. saw the French brig Ms gent, Captain Gamuts:, of which we had received previous in formation by one of three American ve.sels we had captured, the last of which had been spoken with by the Diligent, a short time previous to her capture, off the Delaware ; at this moment we were In the act of bringing to an American ship and sloop, and preparing to take possessioa—but being already reduced ro forty in our total number, out of which but 35 could stand at quarters, and having already 30 American prisoners on board to guard, it wield have rendered sts entirely too weak to even think of bringing the Diligent to action (who bad now hoisted French colours); we therefore quitted the ship and sloop, and bore down on the Diligent, she being net more than three miles to leeward, the weather thick and hazy. Having sent the prisoners below, prepared for action, and within pistol-shot to windward of bee, at sh. 55m. we hauled up on the starboard rack, and the action commenced; at 4k. I Om. from the superior sailing of the ' Diligent, we were obliged to set the courses to keep abreast; — at 4k. 15m. she tacked, and we, from missing stays, were obliged to wear, which brought us almost alongside, and the action contiriued; at 4b. 30m. the Diligent luffed up close to our quarter, and got right astern, and as she bad now pined the wind of us, we put our helm up, to bring ouj breadside to bear again, but her very superior sailing prevented It and at 40m. she ran her bowsprit over our stern and through t he main-sail (which held her here) and made several attempts to board under a heavy fire of musquetry and the bow guns, but was as repeatedly driven but. Getting now still more reduced in our numbers, and obliged to repel hand to hand the enemy's boarders, we had but few to op pose their numerous musketry. At lb. 55m. no enemy's toot was, or had been seen, set on board the Laura; at which time I.ieutenant flursTse was shot in the head; he tell, and from a ces, of bleeding, was incapable of further effort, and, nulortu nately, no officer was left to take command. In this situation, , their great superiority of numbers overpowered the opposers; they effected a boarding, and subdued further resistance. " The Laura mounted ten 18-pound carronades, and two 9-pound guns; had Se men, officers and buys, at the commence ment, out of which five were incapable of standing to quarters; 13 were killed and wounded in the action, and there were 31 1 prisoners of war to guard. " The Diligent carries 18, but had only IS guns of diferent calibre mounted; had 7d Men aver the Utica, unhurt, and 19 killed and wounded in it." HALIFAX, OCT. 26.—Wednesday lase, a Court Martial was held on board his Ai.ije.ty's ship Statire, for the trial of Lieutenant CitAimes N. 1-luNrut, the officers and crew of his Majesty's hue schooner Laura, for the surrender of that vessel on the &h September, to the. French privateer brig Diligent, Vice-Admiral HERBERT SAWYER, President—Captains BY RON, STACKPOLE, 'hoar, and Lord JAMES TOWNSHENO, Members:—After mature consideration, the Court were of Opinion, " That the capture of his Majesty's schooner Laura arose from the loss of I.:eutirrant N. liuuter, her commander, who was obliged to quit the deck, being wounded; untilwbich time heap' pears to have conducted bimselt in the action with the french brig privateer Diligent, of superior force, in a brave and able manner; ata that he was gallanly supported by Lis crew, will , the exception of ‘l , Blum May, John nrown, and Jas. Cooper., The two first-named perious remaining in the United hates America, and only the last.nanted person (J. Cooper) being bel• to the Court, who, it is I:11y and clearly proved, forsook his quw t ets during the and •hereby falls under the lath Muck . of War, which directs the of death to all g uilt ) o: cowardice, negligence, or chsallec:loo. "Ike Court cloth then fore adjudge the said James Court to be hanged by the net.ll,se board such of his Majesty's thip-, and at such time, SS the L..ar rr.indi•niie Chief shall think pauper; and he is isereby se-uteuced to suffer death accordsrigly. •1 lie Court cloth the. etote hemouralil acquit Lieut. Charles A. taunter; and further a. judge ewe with the excxpt.on of the above-mentioned persons, Win. May, John Brown, ai.d James Cooper, to Le act i uuted, and they ag' hereby acqui.tea accordingly." 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