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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20. yglOE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. c a moh, for money, 64H—for January, 644—Reduced 63k. Omnium 244—Excheq. Bills par to 3s. pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. k 2264 226 India Bonds, Is. dis. par ed. Ann. 634.4 Imp. 3 per Cent. 63 , Cons. 64} 63 Imp. Ann. 7 9.16t1$ 214 . 694 614 Each. Bills, 45. is. pr. Niii English Tickets, 201. 19.. 16 1-16th Cons for acc. 6+ i 72 THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA. EV. o'clock yesterdayevening,Captain Muat irigade Major to General BEREAFORD, arrived Duke of YORK'S Office, and delivered to his Highness dispatches, announcing the surren. this valuable island. HENDERSON, of the Centaur, Sir SA. 's First Lieutenant, arrived with similar at the Admiralty. At one time a most strenuous resistance was in have been made, the batteries and works , in the best state, many of them newly The greatest cordiality existed between our and the Portuguese. General BLIMSFORD is _ conciliate the inhabitants. General BERESFORD landed the troop!, and took on Christmas Day. The dispatches were on 4th January : the winds being light and passage was 13 days to Falmouth. General BERESFORD sent the 25th and 63d Regi 13arbadoei, to General Bowyrst, which will to start against St. Thomas and the Danish settlements in the West Indies. The of Artillery, the Buffs, and 11th Re , both of them, Ist battalions, are retained Madeira ; the General has likewise retained the of the Staff for the present. Sir &own. kept the whole of the squadron with him the frigate which brought home the dispatches . winnow be fixed on es a cruizing station Flag Officer. the arrival of Sir SAMUEL HOOD and General , the London man of war had put into and announced to the Governor and inha emigration of the Prince Regent and Por to the Brazils. a considerable part of our impression of yester we had the pleasure of announcing to our Rea the surrender of the above important and valu- Island, to his Majesty's Naval and Land Forces, :ommand of Sir SAMUEL HOOD and General Our pleasure is increased by the reflec that the present acquisition has been attained -mt of a drop of human blood. Letters to the LORD MAYOR, trans by Ministers in the afternoon of yesterday, the only particulars which have as yet trans- " DOWNINGSTALLT, JAN. 19, 1808. MT LORD, the satisfaction to acquaint your Lordship, that Major has arrived with dispatches from Major-General Bra a S -111 account of the surrender of the Island of Madeira, , on the 24th of Decrinber last, to a detachment s Forces, and a squadron of his Majesty's Navy, of Rear-Admiral Sir SA NI DE I. HOOD. (A true Copy.) " I have the honour to be, &c. /Ste. 4',lt ET, Mayer." " CASTLEREAGH." " ADMIRALTT-OTTICE, lAN. 19, 1808. Lost), Quarter-past 9 P.M. 'the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that Lieutenant (CC FIEND ! 490 N, of his Majesty's ship Centaur, has just at this Office is. ith dispatches from Rear-Admiral Sir Hoop, K.B. dated 4th instant, stating that the Island of . ..red by capitulation to his Majesty's Foram, 4th w list month. " 1 havc thclonour to be, &c. g: Risk: Hon.:hi Lutz.. MaroA." " MULGRAVE." Int IlEsnEusme landed at Falmouth from Icoss frigate, Captain AYSCOUGH. lsLnd of Madeira is of a triangular form, is situated 210 miles N. by E. off Teneriirep 360 from Cape Cantio ott the coast of Africa; and SOD N. of the Island of Ferro. It is said to have been discovered by an English Gentleman in the year 1344, and conquered by the Portuguese in 1491. Some late French Geographers dispute this, however, assuming, as usual, the merit of the discovery to their own countrymen. The capital is called Funchal, and is the residence of the Governor and Bishop; is in a fer tile vale, on the south side of the isle, a handsome town, with about eleven thousand inhabitants, there being about 64,000 in the whole island. The chief trade is with the English, who export about ten or twelve thousand pipes of wine annually ; the re mainder, about seven thousand, being consumed in the country. The richest Merchants are English or Irish Catholics. The interior consists of high moun tains, visible at the distance of twenty leagues. To the N. E. is the small isle of Porto Santo, only re markable in the history of the Portuguese discovery. It is however a fertile little isle, with a good harbour, often visited by East India ships. An Order was sent to the Court of Admiralty yes terday, for the restoration of all Portuguese property belonging to such owners as reside in the Brazils, Madeira, or in this country. The property belonging to the Portuguese in Portugal, is to remain under sequestration. The Austrian Courier, who arrived at Dover on Sunday night, and reached London on Monday, left town early yesterday morning, and reached Dover the same afternoon, when he embarked immediately on board a Flag of Truce, and proceeded for the French coast, with a light breeze from the W. N. W. In consequence of the last dispatches which have reached Prince STAIIREMBERG from Paris, there is now no longer any doubt ;hat he will immediately quit this country. The Earl of GALLOWAY is to move the Address in the House of Lords, and Lord KENYON to second it. Lord HAMILTON is to move the Address in the House of Commons, and Mr. C. ELLis to second it. Friday morning early, the ' , mains of the Hon. Lord ALEXANDER GORDON arrived at the NOW Inn at Aberdeen, from Edinburgh. At one o'clock, by invitation of the Lord Provost and Magistrates, the principal inhabitants of the town, together with the Professors of both Colleges, and the Military Officers, met in the Town Hall, wler aftt r hearing an excellent and appropriate prayer from the Rev. Dr. SHUIREFF, they proceeded with the corpse to the utmost extremity of George -street, a distance of nearly a mile. All the military in town were out, and lined the streets through which the procession passed, the different bands playing pieces of sacred music. Mi nute guns were fired from the battery and Castle-hill, and the different bells tolled in rotation. The whole procession was conducted in the greatest order, and had a most solemn and melancholy appearance. His loss is most generally regretted, as was strongly ma nifested by the numbers who were seen in tears as the procession passed the streets. We understand that the body will be deposited in the family burying-ground, within the antient Ca thedral of Elgin : and that a detachment of the 42d regiment are to perform the last melancholy marks of respect, by firing over his grave. Letters to the 13th instant reached town yesterday from Holland. They were brought in an American ship, which is arrived in the Downs. If we may credit the intelligence contained in some of those letters, the Dutch Government has consider ably relaxed from its severity in the execution of their late decrees. It is stated that Colonial produce is to be admitted into Dutch ports in future, on the Con signee's paying a duty of 25 per cent. and these letters assert, what has already been reported here, that vessels and cargoes detained will be given up to the claimants, on the payment of 60 per rent. Such are the unqualified assertions contained in the letters received ; but probably they relate rather to the reports of the day in Holland, than to any certain and ascertainable act of the Dutch Government. It was also rumoured that a general embargo had been laid in all the Dutch and French ports. Three American ships, which left Holland on the 16th, passed down Channel yesterday, and landed a passenger at Dover, who was the Captain of a vessel lately stranded near Helvoet. He brings neither let ters nor papers, but states, that American ships are now allowed to enter the Dutch ports, and to pro ceed to the discharge of their cargoes without inter./ ruption. An embargo had been laid on all vessels at Antwerp, and the adjacent ports, and it was sup posed that some measure of importance was in con templation. A very valuable ship was lately lost near Helvoet, called the Sultana, bound from Ame rica to Rotterdam ; her cargo is estimated at 50,0051. FORGERY.—This morning, was executed in the Old Bailey, Joh* Abricmd, for the crime of forging the will of a working man, his acquaintance, appointing him self sole executor, and receiving at the Bank of Eng land, under that will, 3001. stock, the hard-earned savings of his friend. Of course, the loss fell on the Bank of England, which became his-prosecutor.— Almond had been many years inspector of the lamps for the Parish of Saint James's, by which he might have maintained himself by means of honest independence. According, however, to his own confession, a habit of drinking and consequent idleness, drove him to the commission of the crime for which he has suffered the punishment inevitably attendant on the perpetration of forgery. The unhappy culprit has left behind him a wife far ad vanced in pregnancy, who has been in labour in the work-house of St. James's ever since she heard of the order forher husband's execution. In his last interview with the Sheriffs he acknowledged the justice of his s entence, and expressed a fervent hope that his exam ple might operate as a warning to others, not to com mit an offence for which the law in this commercial country necessarily allows no mitigation of punish .. ment; NAU7ICAL INTELLIGENCI. ' FALMOUTH, JANUARY 17. Arrived this day the Portuguese brig Deitin.ado, Capt. THEODOR°, from the Cape de Verd Islands, de- . tamed by Sir SIDN EY SMITH ; the brig George, SMITH, from Swansea; the brig Druid, WILKINSON,a from Newfoundland, 22 days passage ; the brig Indian Lass, CourroN, from ditto, 47 days passage ; the Hope, LAwsos, from Plymouth; and the Queen Charlotte packet, MUDGE, from Tortola, 31 days passage—on the 25th ult. in lat. 34. 15. long. 62. 14. spoke his Majesty's ship Leopard, 50 guns, Vice-Admiral BERK.. Lsr—on the 14th inst. spoke his Majesty's ship Re nomee, 38 guns, all well. The Queen Charlotte pac ket brings an account of an action having been fought by his Majesty's ship Heureur, 16 guns, and a French privateer, formerly a Guineaman, in which the Cap tain and 22 men of the Heureux were killed and wounded—the privateer escaped.—This evening an officer was landed from his Majesty's ship Success+ and went off immediately ; it is reported that Madeira was taken possession of on the 24th ult. and that his , Majesty's ships Captain, York, and Intrepid, had pro deeded for the West Indies with 3000 troops. Sided his Majesty's ship Fortunt.e, 36 guns, with five transports, for Cork.—Arrived this evening, the ship Governor Milne, from St. Domingo, for London. —Wirid N.E. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19. Arrived his Majesty's ship Stork, with a convoy from the Downs.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Beagle, with a fleet for the Downs ; Niobe, for Cork ; Lively and the Paulina, to the Westward. His Majesty's ship Amphion, with the fleet for the Mediterranean, has brought to at Yarmouth (Isle of Wight).— Wind W. N. W. as it was known that the army of the Grand Vi- er had evacuated Lower Bessarabia. Some resi- ts r ely remain in the entrenched camps formed ore G i urg ewo, Brailow, and Ismael, where bar- have been constructed ; other troops have re- s to Poland. The greatest part of the above a re in cantonments in Wallachia. Prince Pro- us hi, Commander in Chief, has been promoted th e r ank of Field-Marshal. T h e t hree free corps of Ypsilanti, Milviadorsi, and • tr b, which were raise d l ast y ear, are to be dis- Au • he troops who composed the army of the Grand crier were dismissed, as soon as the army had shed the environs of Adrianople, pursuant to a ( idle Grand Seignior.—Mewiteur, Jan. 8. TRIFSTE. DECEMBER se. A gr eeably to the tenor of the new arrangements by our Government with that of France, all e, direct and indirect, \rah Trieste and one, is prohibited to the English ; and, that we y n ot fear an expedition similar to that of Copen- ge n, the most vigorous measures of defence coati- to be taken. An immense number of workmen e been put in requisition to complete the works, erec t batteries in the neighbourhood of our city. e are assured that general embargo will noon be • u pon all English merchandise, as also upon the of the English, Sicilians, and Maltese. English on their part no longer respect the cla i m flag, since she learnt the political system , • oar Court has adopted with regard to them. we see c ontinually arrive here numbers of English cma, who embark for Malta or Sicily. k va ns few weeks there will not be any English t b e A t utrian states.—Mottitenr. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. stock 2264 226 F Cud. Ann. 6sj Pr Can. Cons. 61i 6: Fer Cat 61391 81i Cad. Am. 1 18 81-16th • Stoll 1721 THE ISLE Abdut fv o'clocl Brigade Mak the Duke of Yof .pal Highness disi . of this valuable Lieutenant HEM) Hoon's First ..• ts a the Adn At one time a r . . to have beer •• found in the t • ed. The great and the Poi . • likely to concil General BEAESTC .sesion on Christi .• off on 4th Jam • • •g, the passage General BERESFO: to l3arbadoei cable him to Danish settler • companies of J t, both of t} Madeira ; the G .ole of the Staff °on has kept the ess the frigate w fadeira a Flag Officer. Before the arriva' • . ORD, the Le • • • , and anno ••• ts the emigrati ese Court to th, In a considerable , we had the p • the surrender Island, to his I der the com man woo. Our 1, that the press hout the effusiol The following L ted by Ministei the only pt d W Mr LORD, I hale the soisfat PRY has arrived lv '• giving an accoun tapitidatien, on the Majesty's Force, • the command of (..% true Copy.) k.isdill ET, ilk • NIT LORD, lave IN. honour 'CC HENDERSON • at this Office HOOD, K.B. had surrendu Iht 24th of last me 1. 0 Risk Hon. r• Litrxaant Ha' SUCcosc frigate The Isl.ind of is situated 2 DEAL, JANUARY 19. Arrived, the Furious and Bustler gun-brigs, from a cruize off Flushing ; Pandora sloop, from off Bou logne ; Marquis of Ely East-India ship, DALRYMPLE, from India and Cork. Sailed, the Hebe hired armed ship, for Yarmouth. This morning an Irish brig, laden with bale goods from Ireland, got on shore near Kingsdown ; the weather being very fine, she got off again at the flowing of the tide without sus taining any damage, and proceeded for the River. REMAIN IN THE DOWNS. Princess of Orange, Vice-Admiral Rowley ; Trusty SO guns,l Mutine, Royalist, Pandora, and Sparrow Hawk sloops of war ; 1 Ernest, Bustler, Mariner, Furious, and Bold, gun-brigs ; and the Marquis of Ely East-India ship, for the River.--Wind West and moderate. HARWICH, JANUARY 19. Arrived (with damage) the hoy Vrow Magdalena, i of Bremen, from Memel, for Ostend, captured off Ostend by the Starling gun brig. Sailed the Lady Francis packet, with mails, for Gottenburgh ; and' the Lord Nelson packet, with mails, for Heligoland. LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 18. The America, PADDOCK, from Savannah for this port, was stranded on the Saltees the Bth inst. ; cargo expected to be saved. The Endeavour, DESMORR, from Messina to this port, is lost on the Point of Gar lock, in the Highlands of Scotland. Several of the crew were so worn out with fatigue by the extreme bad weather as to be incapable of getting on deck, even when warned of the danger.—One had died.— Much praise is due to Captain DESMORR and his mate for their persevering efforts in endeavouring to pre• serve the ship without any other assistance whatever, either at the pump or working the vessel. Although much reduced themselves when the Endeavour drove on shore, yet they then used what little strength was left in affording relief to their fellow sufferers, and , succeeded in getting two on shore, one of whom died immediately after; the remainder perished below.— Captain DESMORR was the last of the survivors who quitted the vessel, was much bruised against the rocks, and greatly frost-bitten. ELSINEUR, DEC. 17. Two masters of ships, M. M. Petersent and Wich mann, from Altona, who have arrived at Gottenburg, report, that, at their departure, intelligence had been received that above fifty vessels, making part of the last English convoy, had been forced, by stress of weather, to take refuge in the ports of Norway, where they had been declared legal prizes. According to let ters from Sweden, a number of English merchant vessels have gone into Stockholm, and put their car goes on board Swedish vessels, in order to convey them to England.—Moniteur, Jan. 2. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Wanderer, for the recapture of the Nancy, October 24, 1807, will be paid and recalled at No. 22, Arundel-street. L'Aimable, for the recapture of the Pactulus, Sept. 29, 1807, will be paid at North Yarmouth, and recalled as above. The Poulette, for the recapture of the Prince of Wales, August 15, 1805, will be paid on Thursday next, at No. 22, Arundel street, and there recalled. _ _ _ The Fox, for the capture of the Demerara Packet, July 6, 1803, will be paid at No. 23, Norfolk-street, Strand, on Friday next, and there recalled on Tuesdays and Fridays. The Amaranthe, for the capture of the Juffrow Henke, Aug. 18, 180.5, will be paid on board this day, and recalled at No. is, Great George-street, Westminster. The Blanche, for the capture of la Guerrier, July 19, 1806, will be paid on Saturday next, at No. 11, Cecil-street, an d t h ere re called. The Sophie, for the capture of the Henrkk and Jan, August 27, 1803, will be paid on Wednesday next, at No. 9, New Broad street, and there recalled on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ADMIRALTY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, JAN. 19. This day the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT pro ceeded to the adjudication of the following cases: Frau Maria Catherina, Huger muter.—This vessel, with a quantity of honey, was captured on her voyage from Nantz to Bremen. This was a further proof case with respect to the cargo, which the Court pronounced to be insufficient, and directed still further proci Zwey Freunde, Steeg master.—The same order was made in this ease. Fortuna, Fasner master.—This vessel, laden with oil, was sail ing under Danish colours. Property restored. Fox, Drummond master.=-This was a claim for a quantity of &trine, which the captors contended was Spanish. Pan tg the property condemned and remainder restOtel FROM U.OYD'S LIST. -- - - - Amttllanp—Off Dover, the Liberty, Reilly; and the Prince Town, Frazer, from Monte Video—At Portsmouth, the Shilla la/a, Brown, sad the Industry, —, from Waterfall; the Mai garet,Poynton ; and the Marquis of Ely, from Cork; Tra vers, from Bombay ; Colonel Vassal, —; Surry, Black ; Collingwood, Butler ; and Harriot, Thomas, from Monte Video and Cork—At Dartmouth, the Syrene, Taylor, from Newfound land—At Tobermory, the Leonidas, Favell, from Quebec—At Loodonderrr, the Henrick, Reitz, from Dantsic; and Raleigh, Nordy, from Philadelphia—At St. Kitt's, the St. Anna, Derby shire, from Lancaster—At Ramsgate, William, —, from Wa terfard—At Leith, Charlotte, Ray; Rose, Scott; and the Johns, Rennie, from Quebec--At Sunderland, Harriot, Ord, from Que bec—At Ayr, Nelly and Peggy, from Quebec—At Water ford, Placentia, —, from Newfoundland—At Dover, Minerva, Barrett, from Cork—At Grenada, Emerald, Hunter, from Africa. The American ship Ulysses, Captain Patterson, from Witessett to Cork, laden with about 950 tons timber, was wrecked on the night of the 28th ult. near Achin Head, County of Mayo, Ireland --crew and part of the cargo saved, but the vessel is gone to pieces. Letters have been received from Surinam, oia Skiberoon, but not marked by what ship. From this circumstance, it is conjec tured, that the Mary, Oswald, from Surinam, (supposed Tester slay to be lost near Margate), may have put in there; air well as the indefatigable, Williams, from Berbice. The William and Henry, Silk, from London for the Cape of Good Hope, is on shore on the Swin Rock, to the westward of Ramsgate harbour. The Benevolent, Hay, bound to Boston, is lost on the toast of The Union, Jacobs, from London for Philadelphia, is put into Ramsgate harbour, air having been on shore. The Sally, Balmer, bf !Welds, coal loaded, is sunk near Sri& lington—crew saved. The Cranford, of New York, bound to Amsterdam, is seVnear Heligoland—Part of the cargo saved. elagns, Conndly, front Witte Video, is on shore in Cork harbOur. The Sultana, Scroby, from Philadelphia fir Rotterdam, is lost off Heivoet. The Queen, Purvis, from Oporto and Southampton, for Lynn, is put into Cowes with loss of anchors, cables, and other damage. The Elizabeth, Ray, from Quebec. bound to Liverpool, was lost on the Orkneys on the ult.—Crew saved. The Indefatigable, Williams , trom Berbice for London, is put into Skibe,roon dismasted, and with other damage. The Neutrality, Ellison, from Vera Cruz, has been detained by the Caledonia, Captain Thompson, from the Clyde, and soon at• terwards foundered. The William and James, Souter, from Dundee, is on shore on 'annouth Beach. The Deighton, —, from Quebec for Portsmouth, is lost on the Isle of Sky.—Crew saved. The Mary Ann, Cooch, from Surinam for London, is supposed to be lost near Margate. The Levant, Miller,from London to St. Michael's, was run foul of in the Downs, on Thursday, and abandoned by the crew ; it Is supposed she shortly after foundered. THE ARMY. Workmen are busily engaged at Chelsea, in pre paration for General WIIITELOCK'S Court Martial— the scaffolding is nearly complete. The troops in the neighbourhood of Sandgate, con sisting of a brigade of artillery, the 2d battalion of the 9th, 43d and 95th Regiment, with the Staff Corps, assembled on Monday morning, in review order, on Shorn Cliff, and fi red afar de je in honour of Her MAJESTIC'S Birthday. The fineness of the day at tracted a number of the beauty and fashion of the neighbourhood.—This brigade, drilled chiefly on Sir Join; MooßE's system, is expected to compose a part of that gallant Officer's Expedition, and if we may hudge from their appearance, no Corp s can be in a igher state of discipline. Monday being the anniversary of Her _•Lwrsrr's Birth-day, the same was observed at Chatham with the accustomed formalities. The brigade of Guards fired a most excellent feu de jo.ye. The 35th regiment, late from Egypt, passed through Chatham last week. About•l9o recruits for the Royal Cornwall Militia, under the command of Captain Hosicem and Lieut. HAMMY, lately marched through Birmingham.— They are all fine young men, and conducted them selves with great propriety wherever they halted. We have been informed by very respectable autho rity, that a Fsiu fo7 extending the services of the Mi litia of Great Britain and Ireland to both countr respectively, will be one of the first measures subm ted to Parliament the ensuing Session. Colonel CdESAR BALBIANE and Count CAsAtia, Spanish hostages from Buenos Ayres, are arriv , 4.1 at Portsmouth. The former is a single man. He is the officer who received the surrender of General CRAI:-. FORD, to whom he behaved with the utmost liberality and politeness. The latter is accompanied by hs family, sixteen in number, almost all females, whom he meant to have landed at Lisbon, had he not been prevented by the blockade. A General Court Martial sat on Tuesday and Wednesday last, at Gosport Barracks, for the trial o, a private of the Ayrshire Militia, for desertion. Lieu tenant Colonel PEMELL, East Kent, President. Major ASHItURST, Deputy Judge Advocate. GENERAL ORDER. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Edinburgh, Jan. 7, 1808. At a General Court Martial, held in Edinburgh Castle, on the 28th of December, 1807, whereof Colonel the Earl of DA, • Kuril, of the Dumfriesshire Regiment of Militia, was Presi - dent, for the Trial of Andrew Williamson, Private Soldier of the Edinburgh Regiment of Militia, upon the following charge: For having deserted from the Edinburgh Regiment of Militia, Gn or about the 11th of November last. OPINION AND SENTENCE. The Court having maturely deliberated on the evi dence adduced in support of the prosecution, and whole proceedings, is of opinion that the prisoner is guilty of the charge, in breach of the articles of war ; and there fore sentence him to be transported as a felon, for seven years, and at the expiration of that time to be at the disposal of his Majesty, for servic e as a so ldi er, in any of his Majesty's forces at home or abroad for life or otherwise, as his Majesty shall t hi n k fi t . Lieutenant- General Viscount CATHCART, Com mander of the forces, approves of the proceeding and sentence of the above General Court Martial ; and in publishing the same to the army in North Bri tain, his Lordship is sorry to add, that he feels it ne cessary to declare his determination to carry into effect; with the utmost rigour, every punishment awarded for the crime of desertion, especially wh( n aggravated by the swindling practices of taking bounty as volunteers, for the express purpose of de- Setting. -This ordir to be read at the head of each corps of the regular and militia forces in North Britain, and entered in die* regimental orderly books. By or . 4 .of Lieut.-General Viscount CATHCAR ander of the Forces. AUX. MACKAY, Dep. Adj. Gen.