Star. — London, England, 1812-01-28 00:00:00

P atmwas intended to be appl i e d t o raise an Undue hlllnence for the Crown. It war said, that his Royal to ive up £50,000 out of his Ex treeless was rea d y g . t be tt u —l Incbme to the Civil List —lsis Royal Highness ho d — ne e :told them so. Indeed there had been no mes. de e delivered to the House, and of that he corn -01-/ned . But, assuming the fact—the Prince was o f eem g W— h2 t he had not to give—hie whole income s pa id out of the Civil List, and on that being would all merge into it. These s o le d to him, Ire some of the reasons he had for opposing the Spea ker leaving the Chair. But he also objected to she Bill itself; for although the title was goed, the • c i p lewas so bad as; would induce him to withhold ba assent to it altogether. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sa id, t he question was, whether the House, atter the o bjections which had been made to the Dill, would ieel itself justified in p roceedin g with it witho ut more wiled inquiry ? If the House . were satisfied t h at no D itch was not proposed to he granted by this Bill, b et hought there would be no reason for that detailed layeStigatio2 ; and so far from that being the ca se , Gent lemen had expressed their fears lest the proposed grain should not be equal to the expenditure. The Rd ) , Gentlemen (Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Tierney) b a d adverted to the increaseunder the head of Foreign His ion!. The fact was, the missions now undertaken vise gen erally special ; such had been the case with se fect to Lord Wellesley's mission. It had been said t h at4 lie sum here expended was very large for the o n e, butthe shorter the time of the mission, the larger 1 i s p r oportion must be the expence. (Hear, hear) The . Gentleman had also said an explanation w.:s Joe to Sir S. Smith. He (the Chancellor of the Ex- I dxguer) thought sufficient had been said to satisfy t he Gentleman—(Hear, hear)—but if the Hon. Gentleman wished for further information he might b a re it (Hear, hear.) He could, however, take o pen him to say not a farthing had been paid to Sir ~Smith as a remuneration for services.—Did the lion. Gentleman say that sum was an extravagant tot for the services performed by Sir S. Smith on ne coast of Syria and Egypt ?—(Thar, helr, from the' ( r hivilion.) Gentlemen seemed to say it was not ; ties why should the proceeding in the present Bill b es nspended for the purpose of justifying Sir S. smith's conduct ; when no justification, it was agreed mall sides, was necessary— (hear, hear.) With re spect to the grant to Mr. Arbuthnot, to Sir A. Paget, &c. would the Hon. Gentleman say, it would be consistent with the honour of this great nation, that p er ms engaged in foreign missions should have their pirate fortunes ruined by losses they sustained in tem—(Hear, hear.) The next objection o f th e Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) was to the Weis to be paid to the Commissioners for =nag. the King's private property. He had no doubt Tenons would be found in the Household who would tuidertake the task without any salary. The Hon. Gentleman (Mr.Whitbread) had said is would be in delicate to legislate on the King's private property ; be agreed in tha . : opinion ; but h.. could not agree t the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman, that to prevent the necessity Parliament should make a leap, .nd deprive his Majesty of it altogether. That was a mode of legislating, of which he (the Chancellor of die Exchequer) should be more jealous than any other mode whatever—(Hear, hear.) This was nut intended as the ulterior proceeding as to the an ange. /mato( the Household, in case or the Prince Regent coming to the Throne ; nor were these proceedings adopted with an idea that the recovery of is - Majesty l and his consequent resumption of th e loyal Autho rity, was Lopelers. The Right Hon. Ge nt l eman h a d II asked if there were to be two separate privy purses, one for the Kink, and another for the Regent. It did appear reasonable, after this arrangement should be effected, to apply to Parliament for some arrange ment on behalf of the Princesses, who, in the present irate of things, must be deprived of that occasional assistance which they could formerly have received from their Royal Father. He. denied that he could fed in his own mind any distrust of, r disrespect to, his Royal Highness, as the Right Flom-n-able Gentleman had 'said, Ministers had slice - throug h the whole course of these arrang ements ; but the sight Honourable G ent l eman , by searching his mind, might find some such feeling there.—. l regard to the custody of his Majesty's person, , lalmost certain that his Royal Highness would, a sense of delicacy, decline such a task, it it proposed to him. He ti weed that tl •• • - the a. ‘. • - be had \ proposed would be considered by the and by the Country to be letter than that the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Tier vished to see adopted. He hoped that the would see no reasan for refusing to go into uniniittee. ARBUTHNOT declared himself fully pre. Ito g o into the investig ation of his accounts in a"hest manner ; hut tilt that seas done), he hoped Gentleman would harbour any ungenerous suspi him. PONSONBY said that his Right Honourable bad only declare.' that there was no evidence the House to shew that the accounts were cor m. incorrect; and all that lie asked for was the an of such evidence. His objections to the were, that this arrangement did not give the Re the.entire management of the Civil List; and he rift tha t the Regent should have just as much as ; ig had to support the Royal dignity. He ob . to the great increase which th is arrangemen t .4111 g i ve to the Queen's influence, as she had al- I f £5B 000 , out of the Civil List, and a large esta- I nlent of Officers of her own. He would vote Motion of'his Right Ilonourabli. Friend (Mr. and Mr. ronstsnbt) who objected to this Clans* w•thout some communication from the Prince Re gent, signifying his assent thereto, when, after a few words from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was agreed that the Chairman should report progress and ask leave to sit again, in order to give the Chancellor of the Exchequer an opportunity of making such communication officially to the House. The House being resumed, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUER Csignified his Roy a l Hi g h ness ' s ap p ro b at i on of the ause, as Regent, which he was authorised to com municate to the House, having taken his Royal High nesc's pleasure thereon. Mr. ADAM made a similar communication on the part of his Royal Highness in his character as Prince of Wales. The SPEAKER explained the usage, and instan ced a case ie 1766, when his Majesty wanted to trans fer some property in the 4, per cent 3. and %%hen the course now pursued was adopted. Mr. TIERNEY contended that the nrnperty about to be transferred did not belong to his Royal High ness as Prince Regent, but as Prince of Wales; the Message delivered did not come under the proper de- i nomination. The Right Honourable Gentleman must have a Message delivered to the H ouse f rom the Prince Regent as Prince of Wales, unless he wished the Prince Regent to give away the Prince of Wales's money—( el laugh). The SPEAKER then declared, that in point of form the matter was now complete, and the Com mittee was again resumed— an d t h e 14 t h Cl ause b e i ng again read from the Chair, Mr. BRAND renewed his objections to the Clause, until he should hear it explained how this sum was to be appropriated. Mr. ADAM feeling himself particularly called on to redeem the pledge he had made to the House, to explain in what manner this sum was to be ap propriated stated, that since the passing• of the Act in 179;5, the Prince Regent was not in a situation to owe any thing upon his own account . B y t h at Bill, a certain course was marked out, and it was provided that when a tradesman had not received his Bill within the quarter after it became due, he was to give ten days notice to the proper officer, and if he failed in giving such notice the amount became forfeited, and the officer became personally responsible for the sum so retained in his hands ; but in the ex cation of this . Bill such a clause was found next to impracticable, and on many occasions his Royal Highness could not discharge the obliga tion for articles necessarily furnished for his use, unless there existed an honourable understanding between him and his tradesmen. In 1808, which was three years short of the expiration of that Act, and according to which his Royal Highness's reve nue was given to him by anticipation, it was stated at that time that there were certain obligations of honour, different from those just alluded to, one of which was due to the Elector of Hesse, which was iii part discharged and part left behind unpaid; be sides 10 per cent. taken from some tradesmen, while 10 per rnt. was added to others, which latter in point of justice should have been taken off ; and these , lorrned a part of the present charge. There were other engagements, which, from the limited state of his Royal Highness's income at that time, he was Inca pable of discharging. When the Property Tax was established, by the letter of the law, he was required to pay to the amount of twelVe thousand pounds per annum, which created considerable embarrassment. In 1808-9, there were demands of a peculiar rewire, which he was anent's should not form any demand upon the public. He meant no reflections upon any iadividual, whether these charges arose from any ex traeagance or misapplication ; but theyamounted al. together to a sum of £175,000. There was, besides, four thousands pounds for rent, with taxes, and im provements at Carlton-House, which was a Royal Palace belonging to the public, and the only one which was not exempt from these charges ; £17,000 to the Princess of %Vales, with other demands which the Hon. Gentleman enumerated, and from which, he hoped the House would be satisfied the peseta grant would not be more than sufficient. As to the claims of the Duchy of Cornwall, it had been decided by the highest authorities that the right existed.— I Having made this statement, he concluded by inti- I that this was probably the last time he should have the honour to address that Houle, having, he hoped, discharged his duty with fidelity to the Prince and hoeesty toss ards the public, he hoped he might be allowed to retire, to pursue his prokssional avo cations. Mr. BRAND conceived that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent should be placed at the head of i the Government free from all incumbrances. Mr. TIERNEY had but one opinion with respect to the embarrassments of his Royal Highness, and that was, that he should be released from them when called upon to assume the high office he now exer cised. It the £70,000 were vested in Commissioners, as was done in 1;95, with the £64,000 added to the £13,000, arising from the Duchy of ;abutCornwll, then the objeceons started would ba done away 1 cording to the proposed arrangewent, his Royal Highness would stand in the purview of the Public, as drawing annually from the national revenue a 1 sum of £370,000, a situation in which it was by no 1 means desirous he should be placed. The Honour- I I able Member concluded by eepressing a wish, that some person of understanding and experience would bring forward a plan for the purpose of freeing his Royal Highness from the incumbrances under which I • lie now laboured ; a wish in which, he had no doubt, every friend to his country would cordially unite. I The clause was then agreed to, and on that with Mr.tcDAM would vote for goin into the Corn- respect to the Civil List being read, was opposed by and would t h en b e willing to investigate one M r. BROUGHAM, and a discussion of some length took 4 minutely, which tak es k 50,000 from his Royal p lace between him and Mr. Glees on the one part, A's Exchequer income, and adds it to the Ci- and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUER on the other, lit. Thi s Bill h e consider ed' as the fittest he had Mr. Buon - o HAM in particular, contending that it Wes _ e to go t o a C omm i ttee. not su ffi cient that the excess should be reported to to explained. I Parliament when above the sum designated in the The House then divided.—For the Committee, ' clause, but that any excess should be so reported.— ; against i t , The Committee then divided on the Clause—Ayes' • The Hou se ; 59. hen went into the Committee. 1103—Noes 33—Majority 72. The several clauses of the Bill, f rom When we- were re-admitted to the Gallery, we were to which there no ob jections, the Ist to the W were thee d ie found that the other Clause had been agreed to, and to, and th e bl an k s f i lled up. on the House being resumed, the Report of the 14th Clause, providin t he transfer o • • of Committee was ordered to be received tomorrow _ from the Prince Regent's Exc h equer Reve-to the Civil List, some discussio n - The other took place be- • this day). Orders of the Day were then disposed Mr. Tierney , Mr. Whitbread , Mr. Freeman of, and the House adjourned at one o'clock. Tilt EVENING STAtt. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. - - - - - - - --- PRICE Ok STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK S per Cent. Red. 63I—Navy 5 per Cent 94 per Ct. Cons. for money utii.! ; —Dit to for account 62j 4 per Cent. 791 —Bonds 17s. 18s. pre.—Omniunt Bich. Bille (31) :is. to Us. pre.—Ditto (3.0.) to pro. -t mind ' With rega r was airr ILL oi a se re prop ( ut he I 'me an uh the , IF) Irish woi Cuirmi A d to a, Gentler ' l 3 of hi ) I r. PO r ead hat ore the znr inc . duction ' were, the 41 looght ' King I • zed to "AIM gi v £SE the M I 'erne) , ). .14. Ai ",an IL Se Mil it List, er seen It. Ti The ti 41 ; aga i The H The set 4 th, to v • dto U POII 1 000 to th / 24 1 MI SECOND EDITION. STAR OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. The following Bulletin, on the subject of the re pulse of the enemy from Tarifa has this instant been issued 4 i DOWNING STREET, JAN.2B. " Captain O'DONAHUE, Aid-du-camp to Colonel &ma'am, arrived this morning at Lord LIVERPOOL'S Office, with dispatches lrorn Major-General COOKE and Colonel Sxgarttrr, containing the satisfactory intelligence of the complete repulse of a stroug de t ichment of the French army under Marshal VICTOR in an attempt to take Tarifa by storm, on the 31st December ; and that en the morning of the 4tll Ja nuary, the whole French army retreated from before that place, leaving in the possession of the allied troops, the whole of their artillery, ammunition, and stores. The French employed under Marshal Vicron, in the attempt to reduce :Tarifa, appears to have con sisted of 10,000 men, and the allied force opposed to them, of not more than 1000 British and 7 or 800 Spanish troops. « Colonel SKERRETT speaks in thehighest terms of the admirable conduct of all the troops under his corn med. He praises particularly the exertions of Lieu tenant-Colonel Lord PROBY, second in command, of Captain SMITH, of the Royal Engineers, and of Lieu-' tenant-Colonel Gouou, and of the 2d battalion of the 87th regiment. The British loss consists of two Officers (Lieu tenant LONGLEY, Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant HALL, 2d battalion of 47th regiment), and seven rank and file killed, three Officers (Lieutenant Hut., 2d battalion of 47th, Lieutenant M. CARROLL and Ensign WALLER, 2d battalion of 87th), and 24 rank and file wounded." [A communication has been made to the Loup MAYO/1 9 in terms precisely similar to the above.] Letters were this day received from Alicant, dated the 31st ult. On the 27th Valencia still held out, but a most tremendous firing was heard on that day. It has been ascertained that only one wing of BLAKE'S army was defeated. An American frigate has arrived off the Isle of Wight, with dispatches of great importance. They are said to convey the ultimatum of the American Government. The Walsingham packet has arrived from Lisbon : it is reported that she brings an account of the fall of Bad.ijoz. The French Garrison abandoned it at midnight, after blowing up the fortifications. The dispatches from Lord WELLfzioros on this subject, have not yet reached town. His Majesty's ship LEOPARD has arrived at Spit head from Lisbon : she parted with convoy, and spoke with the ENDYI4ION I who was in chace of two French frigates, and A brig, which were in sight. The following is the Bulletin issued yesterday, on the subject of Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches. It was inserted in part of our impression only, having been issued after this Paper was a: press " DOWNJNO-STRIET, JANUARY 27. " A dispatch is received from Lord WELLINGTON, dated Gallegos, 9th January. 44 His Lordship invested Ciudad Rodrigo on the Bth. The enemy had increased the difficulty cf ap proaching the place by a strong redoubt, constructed on the Hill of St. Francisco. It was necessary to at tempt to take it. It wa3 stormed on the night of the Bth, by a detachment of the light division, led by Lieutenant-Colonel COLBOURNE. The work was car ried in the most l►rilliant manner, and all the garrison either killed or taken. Our loss was oNly six men killed ; Captain MEIN and Lieutenant WOODOATE of the .52d, and Lieutenant HAWKESLEY of the 95th, with 14 men, wounded. By this success Lord WErLINGTON has been ena bled to break ground within 600 yards of the place, the redoubt of St. Francisco being converted into a part of the first parallel. " General HILL entered Merida on the 30th of December. He had hoped to surprise General DOM BROWSKI', but his approach was discovered by a pa trok. The French General retreated from Merida, leaving magazines of bread and wheat, and several unfinished works. On the Ist General HILL marched to attack DaouET's corps d'Armee at Almendralejo, but the enemy retreated to Zafra ' abandoning 450,000 pou n d s of wh-at. Oa the 3d adetachment of our cavalry beat a body of the enemy's horse, at Puente del Maes tro, taking two officers and 30 men prisoners. " General DROUCT retreating to Llerena, General HILL foupd it useless to pursue him, and returned on the sth of January to Merida." By the Cadiz Papers, received this morning, we learn, that General BALLAsTErtos has been dispatched towards Valencia c in the mean time, SUCUET drawn a strong cordon of troops round the town, and occupied all the villages. According to letters from Rio Janeiro, of the lat ter. end of tit ptember, the Portuguese General Don Ditoo de Sot:zis was, on the 12th, at Monte Video, with 8000 men, and about to co-operate against Buenos Ayres, with aro and GOYCVACHE. ht•PELLicrAtcL __ FALMOUTH, JANUARY 43. Anlvedtbe Spanish brig titoon, JVAN Bea tars D 2 004116 TA, hound to Lon. lon from Corunna with wool, brought in as recapture, by the FAVOUR! re sloop of wa: ; alms the Northacki Bcoc c, fmm Dartmc uth ; Ble,sing, Se LOMON from Near!: ; Jam mini* ED, front ; bobella, Hu N cit, from Gibraltar Join, lick, front Gibraltar and Lisbon; Fame, I.oNo, front St. Michael's; Elzabeth, STRIDE, from Sumbatiwtou ; Lord Nt4- son, GRAY, front Waterford; and thr Severn, FIt?.VVRTT, from Chichester. Sailed the Cant rut packet, DAVY, for Lisbon and Surinam, with Mails. JANUARYs4.—Arrived the brig JOIIP, AXTON front•Lisboa, 38 days. parted convoy from the M.tarsaz guu-brig two days after sailing. Salkd the Severn, F a r br Waterford.— Wind N. JANUARY 25.—Arrived the Marlborough packet, Captain Butt. in 12 days, from Lisbon, with Mails; left in the Tagus the Walsinghain, and Princess Elizabeth pa•kets. Dlspa:ches were receiv. d at Lisbon (rum to British Hea I -quarters for the former, and was to sail on the 14th instant. Ihe :•peedy packets Captain SUTNt LLANO, is also arrived Irum Cadiz in eleven day., with Mails and dispatches; the brig I.ondun Packet, 'recast, 25 days from Gibra.tar—brings n t news, (is under quarantine) ; Frienus Endeavour, Cil APMA N, irons Arundel ; gicenomy,SOr • TON, &snit Southam2tun ; Adv. :Imre, Ast es, (ruin Pnr:srauuth ; SpeedweU, HARRINGTON final Susannah,Jouns,from Fowey Sailed the Hero, Pat T PYJ on N, tor Saicornb..-; Vetwy nAvit. for Penzance ; and the len Pin brig Wi h the tuuuwi• i &g ships mi ller her convoy Nemesis, Brothers, anJ Danish brig Wilhelmiva Charlotte. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 25. Sailed on Friday the Rill , 38, Captain MALCOLM, on a cruissi eff Brest. Went out of Harbour, MU anchored iu Cawsand Bays the be LWA , 74, Cartain UKOWN, 4:trF IaVUIS undergone thorough renting. Ihe CoN.2ncetok, 74, Capta.n was released front quarantine yesterday—she is ordered to Ports mouth to be paid off, and wilt Like the trade hence uudcr coovor. The Scar: ea, 74, is ord. r:d up Harnoaze to refit and the Mee r/a sloop of war is uuder sto take the next convey to Li,- boo. The linwx. sloop IS h m .ef , rth to be called the bu STAID: Arrived tire Aluaitt sa oaf istrea brig tro.o swansea, with a mail convoy. J AN war 46.—Arrived tl.e Swtdish ship Creole, Captain P. BLROMAN, Isom Lotukm, bound ts Liverpuol, to load a cargo in salt tor Stuckhoun ; the American schooner Ply, tat and front Baltimore, which plac: s. e lett to day. ago, bound to Boor. dean; with a cargo tat sugar, coffee, indigo, etc. detained by Majesty's ship UNICORN, J.: guns, Capt. SALT; the ship Cale. lonia, of Greenock, Capt seven weeks from ti(.John's, (New Brunswick) with masa; for the Dock-yard here.—Arrived the PULASANT, Id guns, Capt. PALMER, front a CrUtZt ; she was chased on the iith inst. by two large French frigate,, off Cape Finisterre—the Fwvouarre, 18 guns, Capt. loiters, with two prizes, one a recaptured Spanish brigaatine, the Union, Captain . J. F..01111t LA, laden with b i anish wool, from Coruuna ; the other a recapture, the Vigilante, is. Liverpool, lad .n with ruin, sugar, cotton, indigo, and Ludes, tro.n 1 eal,rara—ali the crew, except a buy, taken out by a Fretch privateer brig. Sailed the Couquestoa. 74, for Chatham, to be laid up—she has taken the trade ur.der convoy for the .Uowns; the Oacsres s Ib, hi chug tit a French pt.vateer, wilich has b.:en seed oil :bus port capturing an English merchantman, v. hose name is not knosen.--Arrived the MAGNIFICENT, 74, trona the l'eledLeria near, and anchor d iu Cawsaad Bay; she is under quarantine.— Also arrived the ship Hamilton, Captain P. at gess, Loin Ja maica, ten weeks passage, no news, much disabled and leaky, iu consequence of a severe gale, experienced about four weeks MAC, off the Banks of Newts utieland.—A fleet has just hove in sight to the Westward, supposed a fleet of transports from Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 25. . Arrived his Majesty's ships the 'IE34 CitAIRL from the Medi.% terrAnean ; and the CRANE sloop of war rrom a cruise. Sailed the 011tILON with a convoy for the Dawns. Arrived the An: ee rican ship Jupiter, Hu rent's* master, (ruin Churieston ; felt ith oh. is compaay with the Mount Ho,te, M•liaa master, and i.ar ted the same day. On the 19th lust. in lat. 49. long. 9. was ha.: - ded by a French privateer of 14 guns : the privateer had capture d the ship Mary of Greenock, from Lisbon to London, which shv burnt : while Captain Hut CHI we was on board the private. r Le saw ass English brig that was in company the sight before, which he supposes t►ould be captured. JAN. t7.—Arrived the I,ILOPAP.O man Of war from Ll.bon f PAR TRIDOL sloop of war from the Downs ; math, ROTA L OA a. and Vass [RANA men of war from off Cherbourg. Also arrived the MINSIVA frigate from America, and is put under quarantine. . Also arrived between SO and 40 sail of transports from Lisbon, among them are the Alfred, Ceres, Apollo, and Wakefield. Thu Peace, Royal William, and Dawson transports have arrived from Cork with the M..atb Militia en board fur Harwich. Sailed Ms Majesty's ship Alio° to join the convoy tor the Mediterranean now in Yarmouth Roads ; the Tuaroi z and Nioat to j o in the • 13a:tr convoy also in Yatmeuth Roads; and the NVITU STAR sloop of war on a cruise. N. B. Since the Aaoo sailed front Spitheasl, there is a report that she has gone oa shore,--Wind Westerly. • DEAL, JANUARY 26. Came down from the River, the Agus•us Czar and the Pkti West Indiamen, for Jamaicai and remain with the La►kins. Asia, Astell, and Earl St. Vince: t East Indiamen, and several °thin. JAN. 27.—Arrived the I ocuar from off the French coast, Fu RICK; s from the Westward, Ac tics acme I cutter from Dover' and the OBERON sloop of war with a convoy from Portsmouth, which are sailed for the River. The East inlamen remain. s' POOLE, JANUARY 26. ' None of the ships destined for this port, that sailed with the fleet front Newfoundland the 29th ult. under convoy of the HA 'LARD, have yet made their appearance, and it is to be feared that some of them will fall into the hands of the enemy, as the Hw ZARD, in her run home, just before she got souhdings, fell in with a ptivateer, cruirmg exactly in their track, which, atter a long chace, eluded their pursuit at night-fall. it is likely ti is pd. v.eteer would again resume her former cruizing ground, and if so, it is ten to one but some one or more o f t h ese stragglers will be- come her prey. A fleet for Portugal left St. John's likewise on the 29th ult. under convoy of the AvaNccuit sloop of war, and this ship tou has arrived at Portsmouth. French Papers to the 21st instant, have been re. ceived. They seem to discredit the rumours of a peace having been ccncluded between Russia and Turkey. The body of Admiral REYNOLDS has been found on the coast of Jutland. These papers are silent on the subject of the fall of Valencia, an event which must have been known at Paris long before the 20th. We trust, therefore, that Blames misfortune may not have been so disastrous. as reported at Gibraltar. At all events, we are as yet unable to state positively the final surrender of the place: its population amounts to 150,000, not 15,000 as stated by mistake yesterday. By letters from Petersburgh, received yesterday, dated December 16, 0. S. (the 28th, N. 8.) it ap- • pears that the exchange, which had risen, in expecte tinn of Peace with Turkey, from 14d, to 204 d. at which it bad not before been since the embargo in 1807, had on that d.ly fallen to 16A—The most con vincing proof that there wa► no truth in the report formerly received from that quarter of Peace between Turkey and Russia having been siggnt►eed. Trade, which is generally dull at that season, had never been , known so much so, as when these letters came away. On account of the open winter, the sledge roads had not been established, and the communication with Cronstadt by the sea (the only mode at that season) was very dangerous, the ice being unusually thin and cracked in many places. Should the weather not become more seasnnahle r , the Capital, it was feared, would be in some danger of a scarcity, from the impossibility olconveying the grain from the interior, and what might arrive by sea at Cron stadt.