Star. — London, England, 1812-02-19 00:00:00

eman t the efore how. If the e va. ,‘„,• of his Majesty ' s Ministers. He. saw in their 0 7* --- , 0 policy, grounds enough for the decay of P I T; and he was of opinion, that there were zuea 011%imoderaticio and wisdom, by the adoption of rbe cou ntr y might escape from its prese nt ern sigt: , ids et en ts. Measures of moderation and wisdom P . 0 04 however. to be expected horn his Majesty' s vat m i n . si , rs .—( Hear, hear.) er:COURTENAY said a few words in favour jo ig into the C. mmittee ; and the questi on b e i ng wascarried, that he Speaker should leave the 1 6 ' ‘ • the motion of Mr. RYDER, a clause was in joi that he Act mignt be amended, altered, or do ' led during die Session. li t . LOC KI-IA RT proposed a clause, that the pri. s hould be allowed Counsel on his trial, as in ner o f 2 misdemeanour. ; le R e por t was received, and read ; and ordered ye r aw into further consideration to -morrow.— lie ap er , hick Clerk rite* = ten - THE STAh. LONDON. - - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY' 19. ma OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE fiCLOCX ne t Ct. Reduced 620-4 per Cent. MI S per Cie Cow. for money flit —Do. for Rec. 611 62 sr Ct. 92ti—Bonds 16s. 17.. pr.—Omni um gip, 6i. is. pre.—Long Anne. 16 3.l6ths t b e par. hick Pi.s a the 11$ The PRINCE RECENT, yesterday, commenced the raise of his unrestricted powers. His first act will i t bailed by the country as one of peculiar grace. ft pill be seen in our Parliamentary proceedings, that Messages were last night delivered to both Hoeses from the Pewee REGENT, announcing that b e has created Lord WELLINGTON a British Earl, and ! commending that an additional annuity of 02000 . tegranted to his Lordship. It is a singular coincidence that the Cadiz Mail, received this morning, also announces the elevation of Lord WELLING roN to the rank of a Grandee of Spin of the highest class, with the title of « Ciudad Rdnio"—afid it will, perhaps, excite a smile of sa tisficloo, when our Readers are informed that this vrn one of the first acts of the new Spanish Regency ! The Public will also be gratified to hear that high know, have Aho been conferred on several other brave and meritorious Officers. The PRINCE REGENT has directed a statute to be passed to invest Generals GIAHAMI lint, and Sir SAMUEL AUCIIMUTY, with thcOrder of the Garter, as rewards for their signal achievements. The following are authentic Copies of the Letters to which we alluded yesterday : ex vere not ,he tted and the 2nd 14, ~eec• :oat tign oyt tice, nces ►ad' ive " Carlton-House, Feb. 13, 1812. 11 Mr DEAREST BEGTFIER—AS the restrictions on the exercise of the royal authority will shortly expire, when [ must make my arrangements for the future Administration of the powers with which I am inves ted, I think it right to communicate those sentiments which I was withheld from expressing at an earlier period of the session, by ray warmest desire that the expected motion on the affairs of Ireland might tan ' ergo the deliberate discussion of Parliament, un mixed with any other consideration. " I think it hardly necessary to call your recollec tlca to the recent circumstances under which I assu med the authority delegated to me by Parliament.— At a moment of unexampled difficulty and danger, I was called upon to make a selection of persons to whom I should entrust the functions of the Execu tive Government. My sense of duty to our Royal Father solely decided that choice ; and every private holing gave way to considerations which admitted elm doubt or hesitation. I trust I acted in that re spect as the genuine representative of the august per son whose functions I was appointed to discharge ; lad I have the satisfaction of knowing that such has the opinion of persons for whose judgment and honourable feelings I entertain the highest respect to various instances, as you well know. " When the law of the last Session left me at full waved any personal gratification, in order that his Majesty might resume, on his restoration to lath, every power and prerogative belonging to his Crown, I certainly am the last person in the king dom to whom it can be permitted to despair of our Royal Father's recovery. A new era is wow ar med, and I cannot but reflect with satisfaction, on tiletvents which have distinguished the short period restricted Regency. Instead of suffering in the loss of her possessions, by the gigantic force which la been employed against them, Great Britain has added most important acquisitions to her Empire. The National Faith has been preserved inviolable bards our Allies ; and if character is strength, as applitd to a Nation, the increased and increasing re- Potation of his Majesty's arms will shew to the Na- Continent how much they may achieve by a glorious spirit of resistance to a In the critical situation of the war in shall be most anxious to avoid any can lead my Allies to suppose that I depart from the present system. Perseve can achieve the great object in question, withhold my approbation from those who ily distinguished themselves in support no predilection to indulge—no resent ry,—no objects to attain but such as to the whole Empire. If such is the Ile of my conduct,—and I can appeal . evidence of what the future will be,— iyself I shall meet with the support of Par ' of a candid and enlightened nation.— the communication of my sentiments in this new and extraordinary crisis of our affairs, cannot conclude without expressing the gratification I should feel, it some of those persons with whom the early habits of my public life were formed, would strengthen my hands, and constitute a part of my Government. With such suppoft, and aided by A s igorous and united Administrations formed on the most liberal basis, I shall look with additional confi dence to a prosperous issue of the most arduous con. test in which Great Britain was ever engaged. You are authorised to communicate these sentiments to Lord GREY, who, I have no doubt, will make them known to Lord GRENVILLE. " I am always, my dearest Fatneatcx, your ever affectionate Brother, (Signed) " GEORGE P. R. P.S. I shall send a copy of this letter immedi ately to Mr. PERCEVAL." The following is a Copy of the Answer of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE, as sent to the Duke of YORK : 66 FBBRUARY 15, 1812. " Sm.—We beg leave most humbly to express to your Royal Highness our dutiful acknowledgments for the gracious and condescending manner in which you have had the goodness to communicate to us the letter of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, on the subject of the arrangements to be now made for the future Administration of the public affairs ; and we take the liberty of availing ourselves of your gra-; cious permission, to address to your Royal Highness in this form what has occurred to us in consequence of that communication. The Prince Regent, after expressing to your Royal Highness in that letter his sentiments on various public matters, has, in the con cluding paragraph, condescended to intimate his wish that some of those persons with whom the early habits of his public life were formed, would strengthen his Royal Highness's hands, and constitute a part of his Government ; and his Royal Highness is pleased to add, that with such support, aided by a vigorous and united Administration, formed on the most liberal basis, he would look with additional confidence to a prosperous issue of the most arduous contest in which Great Britain has ever been eagaged." " On the other parts of his Royal Highness's letter we do not presume to offer any observations ; but in the concluding paragraph, in so far as we may ven ture to suppose ourselves included in the gracious wish which it expresses, we owe it, in obedience and duty to his Royal Highness, to explain ourselves with frankness and sincerity. We beg leave most earnestly to assure his Royal Highness, that no sa. crifices, except those of honour and duty, could ap pear to us too great to be made, for the purpose of healing the divisions of our country, and uniting both its Government and its people. All personal exclu sion we entirely disclaim : we rest on public mea sures; and it is on this ground alone that we must express, without reserve, the impossibility of our uniting with the present Government. Our differ ences of opinion are too many and too important to admit of such an union. His Royal Highness will, we are confident, do us the justice to remember, that we have twice already acted on this impres , irn ; in 1809, on the proposition then made to us under his Majesty's authority; and last year, when his Royal Highness was pleased to require our advice respect ing the formation of a new Government. " The reasons which we then humbly submitted to him are strengthened by the increasing dangers of the times ; nor has there, down to this moment, appeated even any approximation towards such an agreement of opinion on the public interests, as can alone form a basis for the honourable union of parties previ )usly opposed to each other. Into the detail of those diffe rences we are unwilling to enter ; they embrace al most all the leading features of the present policy of the Empire ; but his Royal Highness has, himself, been pleased to advert to the late deliberations of Parliament on the afFairs of Ireland. This is a sub ject, above all others, important in itself, and con nected with the most pressing dangers. Far from concurring in the sentiments which his Majesty's Mi nisters have, on that occasion, so recently expressed, we entertain opinions directly opposite : we are firmly persuaded of the necessity of a total change in the present system of tint country, and of the immediate repeal of those civil disabilities under which so large a portiOn of his Majesty's subjects still labour on ac. I count of their religious opinions. To r e commen d to Parliament this repeal, is the first advice which it would be our duty to offer to his Royal Highness, could we, even for the shortest time, make ourselves responsible for any farther delay in the prospect of a measure, without which we could entertain no hope iof rendering ourselves useful to His Royal Highness I or to the country. 44 We have only further to beg your Royal High ness to lay before his Royal Highness the Prince Re gent, the expression of our humble duty, and the sincere stid respectful assurance of our earnest wishes for whatever may best promote the ease, honour, and advantage of his Royal Highness's Government, and the success of his endeavours for the public welfare. We have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) " GREY. " GRENV ILLE. ° a ' To biz Royal Highness the Dvits of Yoaa." Saturday the sum of £lOO,OOO, as voted by Par. liament, wAs paid to the Plum: Rsourr, to defray the erpences of assuming the Royal Functions; from the Exchequer, without any deductions fur Property Tax. LISBON MAILS. This day arrived two mails from lAblin brought to Falmouth by his Majesty's brig FRRVENT, in ten days. When the last accounts left the army Lord War, LINGTON was marching With a diyision towards BA dajos. On the 4th instant they were at Abrantes, and they expected to be at BadajOs on the Bth. A great quantity of cannon from the Portuguese men of war, had been shipped for St. to be employ ed at the siege of 134clijos. His Lordship his left a sufficient force to watch MARMON?. • . The following are the most prominent articles of intelligence brought by the above mails " LISBON, FEg. t. " Relative to the movements of the army w•e know nothing positive, but it appears Lord WeLuxofol4 already begin; to direct his attention cowards Hada; jos ; we are even assured that his Excellency will cause that fortress to be summoned ;'the state of the garrison, reduced as it is by circumstances, is not such as to admit of its making a successful defence. " The army of Gallicia will, it is said, make a movement, it is probable that the Spaniards ptolit by the absence of B3net. Yestet (1 y we were assured Joseph Bonaparte had left Mod: id, and that k was intended to erect fortifications On the banks of the Ebro." " LISBON, FEB. S. " The gallant General Crawford died on the 24th ult. of his wounds ; and on the following day was in-, terred in the breach of Ciudad Rodrigo. The town is not greatly injured. About ten houses are down ; but many more were destroyed by the French to pro cure beams, which they placed slanting against the houses, as a defence against the effects of cur guns ; 1 the sth division, under General Hay, is now repair- I ing the breaches, which is performed, for the present, with gabions, &c. A considerable number of fine guns were taken, all of brass, and many mortars of the largest calibre. When every thing is placed in order the place will be given to the Spaniards to preserve. He.td-quarters are at Gallegos. General, Hill has his troops at Castello Branco, Idaanha Nova, &c. &c." Txtract of an Official Dispatch from Marshal Lord Wellington to Don Miguel Forjaz, dated Head-quarters, Gallegos, Jan. f 9. "E x cel nt Sit—Marshal Marmont arrived at Sala manca on the 22d inst. ; and on the 23d and 24th six divisions of infantry of the Army of Portugal joined, in the neighbourhood of Alba and Salamanca. The division of Souham, with near 600 horse and some artillery, were on the 23d ordered to Martella, and proceeded as far as San Muros and Tamarnes. The object of the brovement of this division was to ascer tain the fact of the fall of Ciudad Rodrigo, It after wards retired towards the Tormes. Ido not know that Bc.net's division has crossed the Douro. We are occupied in repairing the damage occasioned Ciudad Rodrigo by our fire, which was, shortly after being taken, placed in security against a ecvi de main, and I hope in a few days its works will be in a good state of defence. 44 I have the honour of transmitting your Excel lency a copy of the intelligence published by the enemy, on the 13th inst. in the Madrid Gazette, re lative to the battle with the Spanish army near Valen cia, on the 26th December. It is satisfactory to ob serve, that notwithstanding the unfortunate result of that day, the communications of the enemy were so difficult, that they were obliged to occupy the space they did between the date of the said battle and their publication of it in Madrid. " I have, nevertheless, reasons for believing, that notwithstanding Valencia was closely invested, the enethy had made no progress in their attempt of ob- 1 taining possession of it so late as the 7th ; and that General Blake had ordered the divisions of Mahi, Villacampa, and Obispo, which had retired, to return to Valencia: " It appears by the inclosed information, that Ge neral Montbrun's cavalry were in the action of the 26th ult. whilst, on the contrary, some regiments under his command are still in Castile with Marmon, and I hear that the same General Montbrun was ten days ago in Rovilo. gg I have received no intelligenq from Cadiz since my last of the 21st to your Excellency. " P. S. Since writing the above I have received intelligence that on the 28th inst. the enemy &red a fes•dejoye in Salamanca, for the taking of Valencia it is said this event took place on the Bth or 9th Inst. I but no circumstantial account was given, nor is it positively asserted." LISBON, FEBRUARY 4. " To•day we have received an account by a courier from Beira Alta that the two breaches in the walls of Ciudad Rodrigo have already been repaired, and , that Marmont had begun to retreat." " LISBON, JANUARY 31. it All the last letters received from the Alenttjo and Beira, ague in stating, that the army in all the points they occupy suffer great inconveniences and privations. A letter from Campo Mayor, dated 26th January, says, that General Philipon, Governor of Bsclajoz, having given permission to all me families who chose to quit the place, a number bad in coupe quence left it. At Campo Maior alone 40 families had strived, who state the scarcity that prevails in that fortress to I be extreme ; a pound of bread costs 400 revs, and one of rice 240. The ganison is reduced to half a ra-' don, and has scarcely sufficient for its support for 3/tree months. At other places o n the Alan:neje many other families had likewise arrived." ~~ • CADri MAIL • --•- •••••=..m..1 A Nfail from Cadiz a.co arrived this mining i the new Regency seems to be proceeding w'th great vi gour, in filling all the appointments within their reach with 'new Officers, a lint of crulduct wbie.h augurs favourably. —Th e following are a few extracts from the Papers bro:ight by the above hia;l: " CADIZ, JANUARY s 9. ee The Regency Gazette cpotlins tie official accounts of the advantages obtained by Brigadier General Duran over the garrison of Soria ; the intercepted letters to the Governor of Badajos cf the 16th and 18th ult. and the bulletins relative to the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo. Tice partisans, Tembilla and Loridos have obtained adiant.tges over the enemy. In Potts there are 2000 prisoners, made by Longa and Mendigaliel. • 4 4 FEBRUARY 2.—On the 14th ult. tht Intendency . of Pol!ce of Lisbon, published an Edict rel .tive to the Spaniards resident in that city, requiring them to present themsel►es within !Slays, pruvided with . proper dOeuthents from the Spanish Legation. It is said, in consequence of this regulation, more than 2000 Spaniards left Lisboa." The dispatches from Lord WILLINGTON to sters, received by the Lisbon Mail of this m , rnis go are dated Gallegos, on the 29th ult. but . they con tain no news. • The &patches from Mr.Wat.cast,rr at Cadiz also received by the Mils of this morning, ate &Lt. d on the Ist ins:ant. They state that the new Regency were acting with great sprit, and had evinced the molt favourable dispositiot.s towards this c, its •••• 111•3 tans of the Con cm liken animated le forei gn yoke. ise Peninsula, e- measure which mean to m eto depart O 14 nCe alone can r- NI I save cannot wit honourabi of it I ;lave r Le Meats to gratif , r• .are com mon tc ftdin g PrinCipl to • i the past a s e a d flatser myself rnent• and of lia Ti n made t NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. His Majesty's ship BARBADOES and DOInNiCAi which sailed from England in November last wi:o a convoy of 25 sail for the West Indies, Arrived at Bar.. badoes 4th Janu try with only tour ships in company, on the 7th January seven more of the convey had arrived. The IhRBADOICB frigate sailed from Bar badoes do the Bth ultimo, with the ships bound to Jamaica. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARt 16. Arrived this day the Chichester packet, Ceptaih Rocens, with mails from Surin Int—left Martih;que on the 19th ult.—en the 23d, spoke the brig Eir•ct, of London, Captain Twtov, from Mat tinique bound to London, ad well. Also arrived the Dispatch picket, Captain KIIIICNE‘S, with mails from Cadiz -13 days passage—brings no news; left there his Ma jesty's ships Revenge, Alf re d ; S t . Albans, Stately, Columbine, Hound, Bicitsk, •Rehtiff, V.leano, Sa bine. On the bth inst. in lat. :18.49.1nng. 10. 4. spoke the American ship Horace, from Falrtiouth for Na ples, 15 days nut ; this morning saw The Maylborough packet, which sailed on the 15Th inst. about 51eagues S.W. of the Lizard. This evening two rn.tils were Ito lei here fro:n his Majesty's brig FERVENT, of 12 guns, Lieut. Geo. Sycw kit r, from Lisbon, in 10 days. No Packet was at. Lisbon when the Faaitseir sailed. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 17. Arrived the TONNANT, of 80 guns from a cruiwoff Brest. The Foatiotnio. of 18 guns, and Deptford tender came again to anchor in the Sound last night, and sailed for Portsmouth this morning. —Wind W. S.W. very squally. • PORTSMOUTH, PF_BRUARY is. Arrived his Majesty's ship VENTEUR from a cruise; an.• SANDWICH from Guernsey. Sailed the ROY AL OAK and VANKIIABLIC on a cruise of Cher bourg.—Wind W. and by S. DEAL, FEBRUARY IL Came down three ships froth the River ; and with his Majesty's ships as per last, remain all well—Wird West. A Birminghain P.sper contains the fclifostring cnri ous intelligence respecting Lucia): B INAPARTY, for which it does not vouch, but states it to have ixen received through a respectable channel. For our owu parts, we do not believe a word of Mons. L. B. whowith his family reside in the neighbourhood of W. sent a confidential servant to one of his tradesmen, And informed him that a small parcel would be se ►t to his house, directed for Monsieur which, as it would ' contain jewels, &c. of considerable value, was re quested to be left until called for. When the box ar rived, the tradesman thought it most prudent to in- form Colonel —, who is with the family, of the cir cumstance ; and upon the box being itpened, not jewels, but letters, partly in French and partly in cypher, were found to be the contents ; the whole of which, we understand, have been forwarded to Go-• vernmtnt." Foua THOCIAND PODIUM—No.2O4, (Class B) drawn yester day a Prize of £4,000, was sold in one Half, one Quarter, one Eighth, and two Sixteenth Shares, by Weis, at his tor:mute °dice, Ni'. 17, Ludgate -street (near St. Paul's), where the holders may retain their money en demand. he 18th February, 18 t 2, No. 3486, (Claris A), X 93,000, st•ae sold in one Quarter, two Eightfis, and e ght Sixteenth Shares, by it re u AltriSo PI, GOOD LOCI, and Co. at their Offices, the C.llllef of Bank-building., CornhiU, and facing the King's Mews, Chador Cross. Lott ! pest brat extraordinary, onparallel , 4 f.IIOL !r MOM. RIDDING and CO. No. 1, Cot:rill, next to the Mansion. house, have the supreme gratification to announce, that their hove geld the Nitmber 3486 (Class B), a Prize of re 20,000, in twelve Shares; also the Number 3931 (Class b), a Prize of A.'400, in thirteen Shares, in the Lottery drawn yesterday, February No. 1, Cornball. Fe). 19,1012. Celle MAAILICT, MARL -LANZ, Fell. 19.—This day we hue some further arrivals of Wheat, with tolerable quantitirs on hand ; sales of fine samples nearly mailman but prices, but the trade heavy for inferior. Barley fully at the late itwatase an prim Fine Malt dearer. White Peas hardly at law priers. la, Grey Rod Beans but little variation. There are likewise some further arrivals of Oats, but, from the demand, this artiele moldy oar ports the last quiltation. in Flour no alteradoo. coaattur flees: Wheat, nts. Sgs. 105 s. Beans 545. We. Fine ditto, 114 s. 1 1 Bs. Tick ditto 509.3455. Rye its. sas but* (fine Old) 371 511 s Barley, 50s. Slit. Od. Oats, 00s 34* 309 Malt, 114 s. 90s. • lobland ditto, sea. 405.04 Wince Piss (hollers) 701. Us. Pomo* ditto. 41s. 49.. 04 • Gay ditto, 5111. e4s. Rape Seed, .ego, £65. Flee Fleur, 901.956 , --Seseads, es.. to oak • - I r. 1 '0 ti; ) I • I I • • 1 1 r I 1 • •