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~ r VOBLEMEN, Gentlemen, &e. are respectfully LL ,, Informed, that they may be supplied with Money to Any mount, on terms equal to mortgage, secured on Freehold, Cofy old, Leasehold Land, or Houses, Money in the Funds, Marriage ettlements, Widows' Jointures, Clergymen's Livings, or guy' , then property. Persons of respectability may be supplied on their ersonal security only. Gentlemen will find every liberal accom. nodatinn, wltbolit delay: Application from twelve to two, or Mere (post-paid) addressed to Messrs. Willa and Co. No. 49, iouth.street, Berkeirsqnare. ICING CIMRLES I. The following may be considered as the official natrative of the discovery of the body of the above Sovereign, at Windsor, being from the pen of Sir g. H A Lroa D. After describing the situation of the vault in which the coffin was found, his account proceeds : a On removing the pall, a plain leaden coffin, with no appearance of ever having been enclosed in wood, and bearing an inscription, 4 .King Charles, 1648;' in large legible characters, on a scroll of lead encircling it, immediately presented itself to the view. A square opening was then made in the upper part of the lid, of such dimensions as to admit a clear insight into its contents. These were, an internal wooden coffin, very much decayed, and the body, carefully wrapped in cere-cloth, into the folds of which a quantity of unctuous or greasy matter, mixed with resin, as it seemed, had been melted, so as to exclude as effec tually as possible, the external air. The coffin was completely full ; and from the tenacity of the cere cloth, great difficulty was experienced in detaching it successfully Prow. the parts which it enveloped.-- Wherever the unctuous matter had insinuated itself, the separation of the cerecloth was easy ; and when it came off, a correct impression of the features tQ which it had been applied was observed in the unctu ous substance, At length, the whole fate was disen gaged from its covering. The complexion of the skin of it was dark and discoloured. The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone; but' the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, tho.igh it vanished almost immediately: and the pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect. The shape of the bee was a long oval ; many of the teeth re wained ; and the left ear, in consequence of the in terpositicn of the unctuous matter between it and the sere-cloth, was found entire. It was difficult, at this moment, to withhold a declaration, that, notwithstanding its disfigurement, the countenance did bear a strong resemblance to the coins, the busts, and especially to the pictures of Xing Ch.dles I. by Vandyke, by which it had been ' made familiar to us. It is true, that the minds of the spectators of this interesting sight were well prepared I to receive this impression ; but it is also certain, that such a facility of belief had been occasioned by the simplicity ;ind truth of Mr. Herbert's Narrative, every part of which had been confirmed by the investiga tion, so far as it had advanced : and it will not be denied , that the shape of the face, the forehead, an eye, and the beard, are most important features by which resemblance is determined. 4 * When the head had 'bee►► entirely disengaged from the attachments which confined it, it was found to be loose and, without any difficulty, was taken up and held to view. It was quite wet*, and gave a greenish red tinge to paper, and to linen which touched it. The back part of the scalp was entirely perfect, and had a remarkably fresh appearance; the pores of the skin being more distinct, as they usually I are when •naked in moisture; and the tendons and ligaments of the neck were of considerable substance and firmness. The hair was thick at the back part of the head, and in appearance nearly black. A por tion of it, which has since been cleaned and dried, is of a beautiful dark brown colour. That of the beard was a redder brown. On the back part of the head, it was more than an inch in length, and had proba bly been cut so short for the convenience of the exe cutioner, or perhaps by the piety of friends soon after death, in order to furnish memorials of the unhappy King. On holding up the head, to examine the place of separation from the body, the muscles of the neck bad evidently retracted themselves considerably) and the fourth cervical vertebra was found to be cut through its substance, transversely, leaving the sur face of the divided portions perfectly smooth and even, an appearance which could have been produs ced only by a heavy blow, inflicted with a very sharp instrument, and which furnished the last proof want ing to identify King Charles the First. " After this examination of the head, which ser- Vki every purpose in view, and, without examining the body below the neck, it was immediately resto red to its situation, the coffin was soldered up again, and the vault closed. •• Neither of the other coffins had any inscription upon them. The larger one, supposed on good grounds to contain the remains of King Henry the Eighth, measured six feet ten inches in length, and had been inclosed in an elm one of two inches in thickness; but. this was decayed, and lay in a small fragment near it. The leaden coffin appeared to have been beaten in by violence about the middle; and a considerable opening in that part of it exposed a mere skeleton of the Ring. Some beard remained upon the chin, but there was nothing to discriminate the personage contained in it. " The smaller coffin, understood to be that of Queen Jane Seymour, was not touched; mere curio sity not being considered by the Prince Regent as a sufficient motive for disturbing these remains. " On examining the vault with some attention, it was found that the wall at the west end had, at some period cr other, been partly pulled down and repair ed again, not by regt.!ar masonry, but by fragments of stones and bricks put rudely and hastily together, without cement." • I have not a=serted this liquid to be blood, because I bad not an opportunity of being sure that it was so, and I wished to re coil' facts only, and not opinions : I believe it, however, to have been bh.od, in which the head rested. It save to wilting-paper and to a whit: liaticlkerchitf such a colour as blood which had ban kept for a length of nate generally kavas behind. Nobody yresent bad a doubt of Its being blood; and it appears by Mr. -1 ebert's Narrative, that the King was embalmed imeitsdiately ?der decapitation. it is probable, theref , irc, that the large bloc& voasele . eoutisiued to empty themselves for some time afterwards. I am aware that some ol the softer pacts of the human body, and puticulat iy the brain, undergo,* the court, of time, a deconipo- Am a m i, and will melt. • A liquid, therefore, might be tumid ; at! er long Intern:eat, where sands eltly 'bad been bitried; but the wesght of the head, in this Instance, gave no suspicion that the brain bad lost Its substance ; and no moisture appeared in any saber part of the %Olin, as far as we could me, excepting at the beck an of the neck and bead. ~" 4v FUNDED Alp V: l Yr 4/ at e • letherr OF THE TOtAL AM WIT OF THE tIAPITAL of THE FUNDED DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND All. LAW? ON THE IST OF JANUARY* 1813. Great Britain ' - Z 812,018,135 8 111 Ireland -•- 94026,454 7 8 Total, £906,939,589 16 8i AN ACCOUNT OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE CAPITAL OF THE UNFUNDED DEBT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, UP TO THE STH OF JANUARY, 1813. Great Britain - £54,055,632 17 11 Ireland • • • E,342,21518 11 X 56,397,848 16 10 • AN ACCOUNT OP THE TOTAL MONEY RAISED IN THE YEAR ENDED THE 5m or JANUARY, 1813; SPECIFY ING THE SUMS RAISED BY TAINS AND BY LOAN. RAISED BY TARES. OR RAT BRITAIN. Paid into the Exchequer on account of every Branch of Public Reveuue or Income, (est cept Lotteries, and the Interest, &c. Of the Irish Debt) , m08, 942 790,8E1 7 11 Ditto on account of Lotteries - * ,517 17 $ Payments in anticipation of Exchequer Re ceipts : Drawbacks, Discounts, Charges . of Management, &c. paid out of Gross Revenue - - • - • - ¶6,125,141 •II Payments out of Net Produce, applicable to National Objests . - . 1,080,597 2 5,1 • - • Total, 1•66,794,644 Is 4 nati sra. i ik Pahl Into the chequer every on account of Branch of Ic Revenue or Income (es. cept the Int t, &c. of the Irish Debt) i64,772,15i li P Payments In anticipation of Exchequer Re ceipts ; Drawbacks, Discounts, Charges of Management, Ste. paid out of Gross Revenue - - - - - - 1,006,101 1 • Payments out of Net Produce, applicable to National Objects - - 112,214 14 10 Total, 2E15,999,771 1$ 4 RAISED BY LOAN. CR BAT BRITAIN. By Increue of National Debt—By Loan X 29,268,586 la a Retained by the Bank for receiving Loans and Lotteries - - - - 14,0:31 14 0 By Exchequer Bills funded - 5,431,700 0 0 By Increase of kxchequer Bills, outstanding 3,914,600 0 0 Total, £38,633,918 10 $ IRELAND. By Increase of National Deb t ii Loan 3E1,696,61S 7 8 Jay Increase of Exchequer Bills, outstanding 478,578 9 8 Total, e 1,875,194 17 4 Grout Tot;I, X 113,909,599 ID 91 RICHARD V4rHARI'ON. Whitehall Treasury Chambers, April 14, 1813. By a Bill now in the House of Commons (as amen ded by.the Committee) to facilitate the performance of the duties of Surveyors of Highways and Turn pike-roads, it is directed that the cutting of hedges and lopping of trees in or near Turnpike-roads, shall be completed before the Ist of November, and the cleansing of drains, &c. before the 15th of Novem ber and Ist of March in each year, on general notices being affixed on the Church doors, and Proclamations made in the Church-yards after divine service. No fence adjoining highway to be more than five feet high, unless more than five f e et di stant f rom t h e b id e ofthe road, and fences may be lowered by Maicis trates or Trustees of Roads, on giving 14 days notice to the occupier of the land. A Bill in the House of Commons (as amended in the Committee) for the relief of the poor prisoners confined in the King's Bench, Fleet and Marshalsea prisons, directs Justices to settle allowances to such prisoners, those to the prisoners in the King's Bench and Marshalsea to be paid out of the county rates of Surrey, and those to the prisoners in the Fleet to be paid out of the public stock of the City of London. Three Thousand Guineas have been offered for a single Picture, painted by °PIE and RUSSELL, in the Linnzan Gallery. This Picture, together with all the other valuable Paintings in the Gallery, must be gained for the small sum of aB2. ss. on the 6th of May, .that Collection being the first-drawn Prize in the Botanical Lottery, fixed by Government to be drawn with the State Lottery on that day. A requisition was presented to the LOAD MAYOR, on Saturday, to call a Court of Common Council, in order to determine the manner in s.lich the Proces sion, with the Address to her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, on Wednesday next, should be conducted ; when his Lordship assured the Gentle men who waited on him, that he was desirous of complying with their wishes, and would proceed to Kensington Palace as follows :—through Cheapside, St. Paul's Churchyard, Fleet -street, Strand, Pall mall, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, and Knightsbridge. The High Sheriff for the County of Berks, in con sequence of a requisition for that purpose, has called a Meeting of that county, to be held at Reading, on Monday next, to consider of a loyal and affectionate Address to her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, on the late wicked and base conspiracy against her life and character. Yesterday a requisition, signed by several respect able Electors for the county of Middlesex, was for warded to the Sheriffs with a view to calling a Meet ing of the county, in order to present au Address to the Princess of WALES, on her cscape from the foul conspiracy against her life and honour. A Meeting was held on Friday, in Paradise-square, Sheffield, in consequence of a requisition, very re spectably signed, for the purpose of congratulating her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, on her escape from the foul conspiracy against her life and honour. An Order of the Danish Government, dated the sth April, removes the prohibition to import potton, rice, rum, and dye-woods, into the D . .-hies of Schles vig and Holstein ; and permits the import of these articles, subject to the duties imp ose d by the tariffs of the ‘;'oth of October, 1810, and the 28th of May, 1811. _ The fortress of Czentokas surrendered on the 4th instant to a Russian force commanded by Lieutenant. General the Baron Von Sackett, after the batteries had been opened two days. The artillery was so well directed, that it speedily set fire to three of the enemy's magazines, while the Bth and 29th regiments of chasseurs kept the garrison so much in aide, that they durst not spew themselyes on the walls of the town. This part of the operation was under th e di. rection of Major-General the pount De Lieven. The enemy at . first proposed terms that were inadmissible, but itilerwards surrendered as prisoners o war . .-tea N.„-fdik:4,, 100771.40.121ithif. .44EIW, 1 .. 1 .T RIO JANEIRO, JANUARY W. ____ The holders of Brazil produce in' this capital suf-1 fer greatly on account of the obstruction to trade by,, the American Navy. Five valuable ships are wait ing to set sail for Europe, and Lord Strangford has applied for the Benjamin Portuguese sloop of war to accompany them, to give the appearance of convoy. The Nancy gun-brig is under orders to sa il to t h e River Plate, to give i nformation to Capt. Hayw ar d of the Nereus of - the force of the enemy molesting our coast. FEBRUARY 15.—Admital Dixon arrived on the 24th ultimo, and immediately sailed again. Captain Tucker, of the Cherub, has been applied to to protect the shipping for Europe but he has de clined it beyond the line, and the Racoon was to ac. company him. On further representation, he agreed to proceed along the coast, in the hope of meeting with Admiral Dixon, and obtaining leave from the Commanding Officer to abandon the station, for the purpose of convoying the trade. ~, .. FRENCH PAPERS. VIENNA, APRIL 1. Prince Kourakin, who passed the greater part of the winter in this capital, left it the day before yes terday, on his return to Russia. RADSTADT, APRIL 10. All the Baden contingent are at present in the country of Wurtzburg ; it constitutes a part of the confederate troops. Very numerous convoys of ar tillery have lately passed through Frankfort, to join the at my. In a few days, the Emperor is expected at Mayence and Frankfort. Our Grand Duke is going to set off for Mayence, to offer his respects to his Majesty. STUTGARDT, APRIL 11. It has just been announ:ed here, that the King of Wurtemberg will set off from hence to-morrow, with his guard, and part of his Court, for Louibbourg, where his Majesty proposes to pass the fine season. ASCHAFFENBURG, APRIL ii. Margin' the Duke of Ragusa arrived here yester day, at three in the afternoon, on a visit to our Grand Duke. FRANKFORT, APRIL U. Count de Gottorf returned here yesterday from Hanau. PARIS, APRIL 19. Intelligence from Italy states, that events of the highest importance have jest taken place in Sicily. The Sicilians, fatigued with 'the English yoke, have revolted. The sedition was for the moment quelled by force : many persons of distinction, sus pected of 'having excited the people against the Eng lish, were arrested. In circumstances so difficult, Queen Caroline, who had retired to Castelvitrano, received orders to hold herself in readiness to depart for Cagliari or Trieste; she refused to obey ; s! caused the doors of the pri sons in the place of her exile to be opened ; she arm ed the prisoners, and called to her assistance the dis contented 13.1 r( Lord Bentnck has marched 3000 men against Castelvitrano. APRIL 20.—His' Majesty the Emperor arrived at Mayence on the 16th of this month, at midnight. GERMAN PAPERS. BRANDENBURG, APRIL Ig. A messenger has just arrived from Zerhst, with the news that the day before yesterday a very severe battle took place at Nienburg on the Saale. Seven hundred prisoners were yesterday brought intoZerbst, and 400 more were to follow to-day. It is also said that 8000 French were driven into the Saale, and drowned. We conclude that it was the corps of Von Yorck which obtained this victory. The day before yesterday there was also another combat near Biederitz. The issue is not ascertained, but it is known that the French were drivels) back and today 80 prisoners were brought in. HAMBURGH, APRIL 20. Major-General Von Tettenborn, with persevering zeal and unwearied activity, urges on the business, so happily begun, of restoring to our city its ancient rights, and also of supplying the means by which those rights may be maintained with energy. Under the direction of his Excellency, and through the active co-operation on the part of the inhabitants, who have exerted themselves to accomplish, and even anticipate the noble wishes of the General, the raising of the Hanseatic Legion has gone on so successfully, that above 3000 infantry, and a number of squadrons of cavalry, completely equipped, have already, by daily drilling, acquired no small degree of expert ness ; and, full of zeal in their country's cause, are ready to follow their leaders into battle. Not less care has been bestowed in securing the defence of the city. The General daily inspects the works on the walls, and in the suburbs s already all the breast-works are finished, and Hamburgh might now await in tranquillity, even a considerable corps of the enemy. The Burgher Guards are to be raised to 7200 men, and that number will be completed in a few days; they are daily exercised in the use of arms, to receive the enemy, should he approach, with the energy of patriotic warriors, resolved to defend their liberty and property. The raising of these Burgher Guards will be of incalculable advantage to the city for the future. When to all this is adJed, that wherever the victorious arms of Russia and of the United Powers advance, the good-will of the habitants furnishes them with all the resources of the country, without any violent measures, but freely and cheerfully, it must be evident that there is no reason to fear for the good cause, but every reason to hope that the issue of the contest will be of the happiest nature. According to the latest accounts the Russian light troops, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Benckendorff, have advanced within a mile of Bre men ; in this advance they took about 50 prisoners, three of whom are officers. The cavalry of the Han seatic Legion has had an honourable share in various skirmishes. The volunteer Hartung has besides dis tinguished himself by taking prisoners some gens d'armes, Oita in reward for his bravery has been ap pointed an officer by General Von Tettenbosn. Toe booty taken by Hartung was given up by him for tbe - equipment of the Hanseat ic Legion. The head-quarters of the Imperial Russian army were expected to be in Dresden on the 22d. r Yesterday Lieutenant-General Count Wallmoden. Gimborn arrived here from the headquarters of his Majesty the Emperor, and soon after departed. His Excellency has been appointed to the command of the Northern Army by his Imperial Majesty. General Stuart, Envoy to the Prussian Court, ar rived here on the 18th, with two Adjutants. COTHEN, APRIL n. Today the head-quarters of Count Wittgenstein are in Dessau, and those of General Yorck in Co. then, whilst the outposts of the army, which on the 9th crossed the Elbe at Rosslau, are on the Stale, from its junction with the Elbe as far as Nienberg, Bernburg, and Alsleben. General Winzingerode is in Halle, and thus the coinmunication between the carps of Wittgenstein and Blucher is kept up. The French have entirely evacuated the Lower Saale, and in therm of Bern. burg many prisoners have been taken by the Cossacks. FRONTIERS OF SAXONY, APRLL 11. Various parties of light cavalry belonging to the earth of Blocher have been pushed forward to Jena, Weimar, and Erfurt, without meeting with any French. The headquarters of General Blucher were on the 10th at Rochlitz, and were soon to be re moved to Leipsick, where it appears to be the plan to unite the corps of Wittgenstein and Blucher, and then to give battle to the French force posted at Mag. debnrg, which is estimated at 50,000 men. The main body of the French force appears to be assembling at Wurtsburg. Leipsick is to contribute- a considerable sum for the payment of the Russian troops. Yesterday twenty five thousand crowns, and to-day thirty-six thousand were to be paid for that purpose. The Emperor of Russia, with the guards, was exs petted on the 20th, at Dresden. A strong tete-de-pont is to be erected between Loch. witz and Dresden, to be defended by redoubts on thq heights on the right bank of the Elbe. BERLIN, APRIL 15. • From the Lower Elbe the French who had lately ad. vanced thither, have again retreated to the Qld Mark. Davoust, whose force is now estimated at not more than eight thousand men, is at present entrenching himself at Salzwedel. By a parallel march General Dornberg's corps has advanced to Domitz ; and ae. cording to the West accounts, had again crossed over to the opposite bank of the Elbe. The Swedes are ad. vancing by forced marches to the Elbe. We also , learn, that they have not only reached that river, but that sit thousand of them crossed it at Gartau. Through East Prussia are marching at present SCI battalions. and 45 squadrons of Russian troops, for the army. It is not expected that Modlin can hold out long, as only the body of the fortress is completed, and it has no outworks. The Imperial Russian army, under Field-marshal Kutusoff, thirty thousand strong, with two hundred pieces of cannon, was expected at Lubben, on the 15th, and will reach the SaXOR confines by the end of this month. The corps of General Miloradowitch, on the 7th and Sth, passed through Buntzlau. '1 he corps of Count Woronzow is expected in Berlin from Frank, fort, on the Oder—it consists of seven regiments of infantry, and two of cavalry, and has with it much artillery. The King of Saxony, it is said, positively refuseci to obey the order requiring him to repair to Frank fort. The Polish Corps, which still remains at Cra cow, 'ender Poniatowski, and whose strength is va. riously estimated, has requested permission to march undisturbed to France, which of course was refused. Ten thousand stand of arms, accoutrements, and ammunition, have been landed for the Hanoverian% who expect the Duke of Cambridge, their former Governor. APRIL 17.—Private intelligence states, that the head-quarters of General Blucher were, on the 130, at Chemnitz. . We learn for certain, that tome days ago the Saxon General Thielemann. Governor of Torgau, had a conference with the Russian General Count Witizin gerode, at the Inn of Eilenburg, the nearest.post sta tion to Torgau. The Russian General was escorted by fifteen Don Cossacks, and the Saxon by the same number of Dragoons. The bridge between Stettin and Damm has been burned down, probably from the effect of the fire of the Swedish gun-boats. This morning early. Span dau was strongly cannonaded, In the Old Mark the following circular has been ;limed by the Westphalian authorities ; " ZROVISIONING OF TUE FORTRESS OF DIAODESUROs " Salswedel, April 10. "To the Mayor of the Canton—ln pursuance of the orders of the Prince of Eckmuhl, you wUI make known to the different Communes, that if they do not convey to Magdeburg early to. morrow the reqnisltions imposed upon them, I must be under the necessity of reporting to him those which are deficient; consequence of which, detachments of mops will be sent out to inflict military exec utlon, and the houses of such as are refrar. tory will be burnt to the gristuid. (Signed) 4 ' * The WUTIPIIALIAN Stra-Paartcr:* BANKS OF THE ELBE, APRIL l& After the defeat of the French at Mockern, tlry retreated towards Magdeburg ; but only the Generals and the Viceroy with his guards entered that city. On the evening of the sth, the wounded were con veyed over the Elbe by a bridge of boats ; and in the morning of the 6th. the rest of the troops crossed ov er in the same manner, and marched to Stassfurth. 011 she Bth, the Viceroy and his guards left Magdeburg. The garrison left in that city does not exceed sev, thousand men, of whom .nly Y5OO are French. The rest are Westphalians or Dutch. There are freq•cent quarrels between the French and Westphalian troops. The Governor Halo is a resolute man ; the Com mandant O'Hara, a native of Ireland, is the brother in-law of General Clarke. The tcrtress is well s , 11)- plied with grain, but not with flour; and of meat there is by no means a superabundance. It has not more than halt the number of the requisite cannon, and these for the most part of small calibre. Atter the battle of Mocker% Lauristou was alio": for three whole days.