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Lnnena. Monday, 29th J anuary, 1810. FIFTY GUINEAS REWARD. IF the Person who, on Friday the 19th inst. pre tented for paymecit at Sir )Aria ESDAILL and Co. a Glou cester Bank Note for Ten Pounds, and upon being qu.mtior.ed concerning it, withdrew abruptly, will apply to Mr. Dickenson, law Stationer, in Gray's Inn, he will be referred to a Gentleman who is authorised to pay him ilftv Guineas, on his discovering his Employer, so that any material light may be thrown on the transaction. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JANUARY 17. His Catholic Majesty has made a new promotion in the Royal Order of Spain. having nominated 25 Commanders with a pension of 30,000 reals each. The Moniteur contains two long articles Qn the sub ject of the finances. The first is a Report by the Mi nister of Finance to the Emperor, in which, after a summary of the receipts and disbursements for the years 1806-7-8, occur the following passages : " A sufficient time has not yet been afforded, to enable me to submit to your Majesty a precise state ment of the receipts and disbursements of 1809. It is, however, probable, that the war expenditure for the last year cannot be under 640 millions, of which 1.-urn only 350 millions are chargeable upon the pub- tic treasury. 44 The amount of this expenditure will excite no surprise, when it i 3 considered that, besides an im mense staff, your Majesty has, during 1809, main tained an establishment of 900,000 infantry, 100,000 horses for the cavalry service, and 50,000 for the waggon and artillery train. " If the year 1809 must thus have been, of neces s;ty, expensive, there is every reason to conclude that the year 1810 will admit of great retrenchments. In fact, your Majesty levied two hundred thousand men in 1809, and it does not appear to be your intention to make any levies in 1810. " Sixty thousand horses were bought and equipped in 1809. It does not seem to be in your contempla tion to purchase any in 1810. " Your Majesty also expects to be able to make a reduction of 200,000 men in your military establish ment, and to limit it to 700,000 men ; one half of this force being intended to carry on the operations in Spain, and the other to be employed in the defence of the coasts, and in maritime expedititins. " Upwards of 800,000 -new muskets are deposited in our arsenals, exclusive of the foreign muskets which the fortune of war has thrown into our hands ; and your Majesty has upwards of 40,000 pieces of cannon, with all their necessary equipments." The second article is a long and laboured speech of the Chairman of the Committee of Finance of the Le gislative Body, in support of the new projet of revenue regulations. The following are the only passages in any respect interesting to an English reader : " A political measure, which drove back to our enemy's ports every thing that their commerce and industry tried to export to the Ce.ntinent, occasioned considerable diminution in the revenue accruing from the customs during the year 1808. The expen diture for that year was also augmented by the army being stationed within the French territory, and by the preparations made for a new war. " The proceeds of the customs were estimated, in the budget 14 1809, at 12,000,000, that is to say, at less than two-thirds of the sum to which they were reduced in 1808. This reduction cannot occasion aniy embarrassing deficit in our revenue system ; whilst it implies en annual diminution of more than four hundred and sixty millions of francs in the exporta tions of England: so that the measure that diminishes the proceeds of our customs, must prove fatal only to that power which has rendered its adoption necessary. • " Our contributions remain stationary, whilst Eng land, already sinking under the enormous weight of her !public debt, is every year adding to it. by fresh loans. The debt is at present 20,769,000,000 f. and the annual interest 736,000,000, which must be defrayed by permanent taxes / " In France, the first item of the Budget is 111,000,0i/0, as the interest ref the public debt of Ile richest einpire in the universe. " During these three years (1807-8-9) if we com pare the budgets of the respective countries, the ex penditure ot - England will be found to hive surpassed that of France by the sum of 1,304.021,000 1. It should be observed, that under the head of expences, the budget of England includes only those incurred for the army and navy, with the subsidies granted to foreign powers. " To institute a just comparison between the bud gets of the two powers, we should subtract from that of France all that is not comprised in that of Eng land. But one may, without much calculation, per ceive the inequality of the struggle between the two countries ; and it is easy to foresee the issue. In the one, the science of finance consists only in throwing into the shade an immense debt, and finding ways and means to augment the load of taxes borne by 15,000,000 of inhabitants. Her Government boasts of having perfected the ruinous system of loans.— Her Treasury conceals the amount of the revenues and their application ; but her Bank cannot any lonnger conceal its embarTassnient, not having for a length of time paid in specie any of its notes but those of its lowest denomination. In short. such is the situation of her finances, that she is compelled, in or der to perpetuate her taxes, to reject peace, and re g:irds as a calamity the greatest blessing that PROvi- Zz.NCL can bestow upon mankind." V ADRID, DEC. 29. The gang of the freebooter Empecir.ado, which has so often made its appearance on the left of Ma drid, and by its depredation.; and atrocities of every descriptions struck terror into the peacc•ahle inhabi tants of the country, happened, a few d ays s i nce , b e _ tween-kruerte and Cuenca, to get into the very midst of the cavalry, under the orders of General Milhaud; 100 of these banditti were killed on the spot, and SO more, including three of their leaders, were taken, ,gether with 60 of Orel). horses. It appears certain, Empecinado, and his cousin Matiana, ate a rn,,lig the slain. 'Cllr day after (the 23(.1) another gang was also ea to pieces in The same quarter. This roufi-de-main, • the part of Ceneral Milhaud, was preceded. by the clispersitin of the rebellious Junta of Molina, in • rah oa, where he found and destroyed a great ( 4 . liantiPy of arms and stores. In every place this di „ ha l passed throosh, its excelleit appearance LONDON. MONDAY, JANUARY '29. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI.OOK. 3 per Cent Cons. For moles• CA—acc. 681. Reduced 6841-omnium 2 prem.—Excheq. Bills 65. to 10s. pr, - _ PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURI: AY. Bank Stock C 76 I Long Ann. 18 946-' 1 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 6 , 3174 India Bonds 17s. 18s. prem. per Cent. Cons. 6811 68t Excheq. Bills, 7s. 11 s. pre. 4 per Cent. 84P State Lottery Tickets £22. 15s. 5 per Cent. Navy 9911 Consols for acc. 6830 We have this day laid before our Readers Lists of the Majority and Minority on Lord PORCIIESTER'S Motion to enquire into the Walcheren Expedition. The result of the debate in the Commons on Friday has occasioned much speculation in the political circles. The friends of the present Minkers affect to regard it as an event of little importance, and as merely determining the time when an enquiry, which all desired, should commence ; an,3l affirm, that but for the kind of necessity laid upon officers engaged in that expedition to appear anxious for a speedy investi gation, the motion would have been negatived. The Opposition, on the other hand, hail the result of that night's contest as a victory which will infallibly drive out the present Ministers. Which of these suppositions have the best founda tion cannot long remain in doubt. Indeed if we may credit a rumour which is circulated with borne con fidence this morning, some steps have already been taken which seem to indicate the speedy arrange ment of a new Administration. Communications on the subject were, it is said, transmitted last night to Lord GRENVILLE and Earl GREY. The bearer of the letter to Lord GRENVILLE, was Mr. TURNER ) the Messenger of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The following article, evidently on Ministerial au thority, has been circulated as a contradiction of the above rumour : 44 A Morning Paper having asserted that the Mi nisters ha7e taken steps to form a new Administra tion, and that they have made another overture to Lord GRENVILLE, we can take upon ourselves to asert that there is no foundation for the statement. No overture has been or is intended to be made to Lord GuExvit.LE—Lord GRENVILLE has written a letter as Auditor of the Exchequer, to Mr. PERCE• VAL, on account of the sudden disappearance of Mr. EDEN, and Mr. PERCEVAL has replied, but that is the sole subject of their correspondence." French Papers to the 18th and letters from Hol land to the '2lst instant, have arrived since our last, from which we have givcn extracts of any thing worthy of notice. Yesterday Mr. H. WELLEsLEY and Mr. VAUGHAN sailed from Portsmouth for Cadiz, and Mr. STUART for Lisbon, on their several missions. A second deficiency has been for some days talked of on the part of a Public Accountant to the amount of £200,000. The department is the Ordnance, but it is expected that eventually there will be no loss.— What the real deficiency may be we know not, but them can be no doubt that the report has truth for its foundation. The . KING has been pleitsed to appoint THOMAS ALCocK, Esq. to be Treasurer of the Ordnance, in the room of JOSEPH HUNT, Esq. resined. Friday sc'nnight, in the Common Obuncil of Dub lin, on the motion of Mr. GiFyA,lin, to petition agabut the Catholic Claims, an Amendment was moved that ' the Question be adjourned for oseyear,and that amend ment was carried by 39 to 34. A meeting of the General Committee of the Catho lics of Ireland was held in Dublin on Monday last, at which a plan of regulations received from Dr. Tam,' was road, in which, we Understand, it was proposed to concede the veto. It was, however, stated by Mr. HAY, that a meeting of the English Catholics will he held in London on Thursday nett, and that he had re.ISOu to hope that they will not adJpt any measure on the subject not appruved of the . I.rk cikkhulicst „4. excited universal admiration. The been not less astonished at the which these troops are subject; and them with blessings for the invalual they have done them, in clearing the country bands of robbers, who, under the name of patriots, perpetually ravaged their possessions. Accounts are daily received at the office of the Ge neral Staff, of the destruction of some new gang of marauders. ANTWERP, JANUARY 8. The following is a copy of a Proclamation which has been published and placarded at Middleburgh " Head-quarters, at Middleburgh; Dec. 27, 1809. THF GENERAL OT DIVISION, SILLY, BARON OF THE estrum, COMMANDANT OF THE LIGION 07 HONOUR, KNIGHT OF THE ROYAL ORDER Of IUE IRON CIOWN,•TO TUB INHABITANTS •T THE MS or WALCHEREN. " Your isle forms a part of the French Empire. " You are called to participate in the happy destinies of 40 millions of people, who, while they feel proud of being governed by the greatest Monarch in the world, enjoy, with purity, under his almighty protection, the fruits of his creative and vivifying genius. " Inhabitants of Walcheren, hew yourselves worthy of this high favour, by your obedience to the laws of the empire, and your devotion towards its illustrious Sovereign. Dlicontinue all mercantile traffic with that nation which is the enemy of all the nations of the Continent. Henceforth, every connection with the English would be a crime. But how can it be supposed you would maintain any relation with those who set foot, for a few weeks, upon your soil, only to spread fire and devastation aronnd them. at the moment of their flight. " The presence of the troops appointed for your defence, will occasion no charge upon you. They will be subsisted by means of the regular distributions, which will be provided for by the administration of the army. " Until further orders, the Administrative and JUdicial Au thorities, established in the Isle of Walcheren, before the landing of the English, shall resume their functions. All acts of public authority shall be executed in the name of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, Napoleon, Emperor dthe French, King •f Italy. (Signed) " GILEY, Sec. &c." THE EVENING STAR. v . 117, `. t.~- "ArN ARMY. . and 28th regiments now embarking at • for Gibraltar, are to relieve the 2d Bat 30th and 47th Foot, who will embark on board the same transports, which take out the 4th' and 28th, and sail immediately to Madeira, there to await the arrival of the East India fleet, w hich will ' take them to the East Indies. A great number of horses are to be embarked at Portsmouth, to remount the Dragoon regiments in Portugal. The 94th, and detachments of the 57th ana 61st regiments, amounting to 1800 men, sailed on Mon day last from Jersey, for Lisbon, under convoy oldie SCYLLA, Captain ATCHISON. The 74th, and a detachment of the 40th regiments sailed from Cork on Sunday se'nnight, for Lisbon, under convoy of the ROTA, Captain SOMERVILLE. The remains of the 23d Light Dragoons, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord PORTAR LINGTON, arrived at Portsmouth last week from Lis bon ; they gave the few horses that remained to the 114th and 16th Light Dragoons. The 23 d has since marched to Chichester. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JANUARY 25. Arrived his Majesty's ship PIGLOMEL, from Ports- I mouth. The brig Tom, Captain LAMB, from Man ham, was capu'red 15th inst. by a French schooner privateer of four guns, an J. recaptured on the 17th by his Majesty's ship HYPERION ; the privateer took out Captain LAMB, and all the crew, except the mate, who with the vessel has arrived here. Sailed the Diana packet, Captain PEARSON, with mails, for Malta, &c. JAN. 26.—Arrived his Majesty's ships TERMAGANT and SIIEARWATER, with about 15 sail under convoy for Portugal and the Mediterranean.—Wind • • e inhabitants have rigid discipline to id all of them load The 4tb and Liable service which' Portsmouth for C the country of those talions 30th and PLYMOUTH, JAN. 25. A large American ship, called the Canton, of Baltimore, arrived last night, detained and sent in by one of our cruizers. Sailed the ORESTES sloop of war, of 18 guns, Captain LAPENOTIER, to cruize off Scilly.—Arrived, the DEFENCE, of 71 guns, Captain EEINS, from the Eastward ; and a Portuguese brig of war, (name not yet known) of 18 guns. JAN. 27.—Arrived the SWAN armed cutter, from the Westward ; the Swedish ship Navigation, from Stockholm, laden with deals, &c. for this port ; the Hamburgh galliot, Anna Maria, But( KER, from Faro, with cork ; and the George brig, from Stockholm, with timber and tar, for this port. Sailed the GAM BIER hired cutter, to the Eastward ; the NIMROD hired cutter, for L'Orient ; the ECLIPSE brig of war, to convoy the Zephyr private schooner of war, past the Western Isles ; the Zephyr is bound to Martinique, and has a valuable cargo on board, the property of a respectable Merchant in Plymouth ; and the ship De vonshire, MARTIN, for Liverpool. The DEFENCE, 74 guns, is come up the harbour to be docked and repaired ; as are also the PROMETHEUS and Lvsx sloops of war. Tke ALLto ITOR and LAP WING, each of 28 guns, have been taken into Dock and refitted, and are ordered for the Cork station. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 26. Arrived the ALERT sloop of war, Captain RENNY, with a convoy from the Downs ; JASON frigate, from ditto ; GANYMEDE sloop of war, from a cruize.— Sailed the TALBOT, with a convoy for the West ward.—Came into harbour his Majesty's ship ST. GEORGE.—Wind E. and by S. JAN. 28.—Nothing arrived or sailed to-day. DEAL. JAN. 26. Sailed the Seringapatam, Poor., for the South Seas ; the CHEROKEE sloop of war, with the Bri tannia under convoy for Portsmouth.—Remain in the Downs the Princess of Orange, San Domingo, Audacious, Aboukir, Agincourt, and Monmouth ; Fisguard frigate ; Cretan, Beagle, Crane, and Echo sloops of war, and the Furious gun-brig. JAN. 28.—Came down from the River, the Ma riner, Captain HENRICK) for St. Croix ; and pe mains with the ships as per last.—Wind N.E. YARMOUTH, JAN. 26. This morning sailed the EXERTION and PINCHER gun•brigs, with prisoners to Portsmouth. Arrived from Heligoland, with convoy, the AccrrE gun-brig, PAZ schooner ; and from Gottenburgh the ALBAN cutter, Lieutenant WElR.—Ships in the Roads, Roe back, l'Amiable, Onyx, Hearty, Britomart, and Redbreast, gun-brigs. In the night of tire 24th instant four sailors and a marine, on the watch on board the RE,DBREAST gun brig, took the jolly-boat and made their escape on shore.—Wind S.E. - - ------- - - - JAN. 28.—Arrived from.a cruize the DESIREE fri gate, and the BLAZER gun brig from the Downs.— Sailed on a cruize the ACUTE and PINCIIER g.un brigs; and the ALBAN cutter, Lieutenant WEIR, for the Downs. Wind N. W. with sleet. Mr. SALT, - Secretary to Lord VALENTIA, who is gone on a special commission to Abyssinia, arrived at Mosambique on the 25th of August. Most of the commercial articles on the Captain's account found a ready market. Mr. SALT left Mosambique on the 16th September for the Red Sea. It appears that Bit uc is anomalous monsoon is erroneous. Of Lord CALEDON I S mission nothing has yet been heard. We are sorry to say, that no certain accounts have yet been received respecting the Hono W. F. EDEN, the son of Lord AUCKLAND, A e as been missing ever since Friday se'nnight. He was a young man of such mild and tranquil habits, so independent in his circumstances, and living in such happiness with his parents, that it is hardly possible that any thing but a fatal accident could be the occasion of his disappearance. An account, indeed, was received from Bedfordshire, that a stranger, nearly answering the description of Mr. EDEN, had been detained by a Magistrate, under the notion of a temporary derange ment, as his manners were singular; and an express is gone down to see if it be Mr. EDEN; but without hopes, as no traces of mental infirmity have ever been ob served in him. Two bodies have been found, one in the Thames, and one in the New River,but neither of them prove to he that of the gentleman soug o ilt for. Placards are posted up every where, offering a reward of 100 guineas to discover him alive, or of 50 guineas if n accident il4ll 4ye harecacd to biro, - .:A LAW 1141TELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN.I.S. On a motion for a rule to sheercause why a new trial should not be granted, on the ground of exces, sine &images, &err, at the Sittings after last Thin, against a mate of an East-Indiaman, for an assault Cord thief Justice MANSWIELD took the opportu• nitY of observ'ng, that the East-India Directors ought to be advised :o instruct their Officers to be more h u . mane, and rot to commit such outrages. Th e y ought to make out a code of direction, which then. sea-officers should be obliged to abide by. He wa! sorry to see those actions so prevalent—There one, a few days ago. in the Court of Kip g's Banal, Finn o. Williamson, which added to the catalogue of cruelties perpetrated by the Company's servants ; and the defence set up, by procuring two witnesses to swear to what they did not see, was an aggra va . tion of the case.—Rule refused. CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, JAN. i:i CILANIBEttS V. CIIANIBERS. This was a cause of Divorce, instituted by G. Cea n hers, Esq. against the Hon. Jane Chambers, by re:!. son of adultery with Captain Caulfield.—Pleas of crimination were also preferred by Mrs. Chambc:.. against her husband,charging hin►with adultery, conai. vance, collusion, incest, and cruelty. The particulars of this case were reported last Term, and the Leanied Judge (Sir W. Scorr), in giving judgment this day, entered at considerable length and very minutely into the various pleas and evidence produced on one side and the other, and made several pertinent observations thereon, and concluded with being clearly of opinion that Mr. Chambers had most satisfactorily proved the charge of adultery against his wife ; and was furthor of opinion, that none of the charges set up by Mrs. Chambers against her husband had been proved, and therefore pronounced for the remedy which he prayed. COURT OF KING'S ftNCH, JAN. 97. THE ELNG V. TILE INHABITANTS OF SCULCOATS. The quesion here was, whether the Trustees ap pointed under a drainage act were liable, as a Corpo rate Body, to be assessed for rates within the parish where they resided, but within which no part of the lands to be improved by the drainage was situated ! The Court were clearly of opinion that the increased value of the lands, arising from the draining, being to be rated in the parishes where thslands respectively lay, and there being here no beneficial occupation in the Trustees, within the parish, the rate could not be ristained: Were the Court to do so, it would be to open the door to the assessing the Trustees on canals, for the profits along the whole line of each canal, within the individual parish where the Trustees might happen to reside. THE KIND v. THE INHABITANTS OF NEWTON. This was a question as to the settlement of a par.- per. The pauper had been engaged for a year, :I; servant with a farmer residing within the parish.— She had served the whole period, short of about three weeks, when the son of her mistress turned her out of doors on some frivolous pretence. She returned the next day, expressing her wish to conclude her contract, which was refused ; but her wages vete paid her, according to the rate which her mistress contended was due to her for the whole period. The pauper alledged that scmething farther was due to her, but never took measures for enforcing it. It was contended, on the part of the parish, that this was not an abiding, under the words of the der, for a year. The Court held, that the forcible turning of a ser vant out of her situation, without an acquiescence on her part, could not disappoint her of her legal settle , ment. The sentence of the Quarter Sessions, sustain. ing the pauper's claim to relief, was accordingly can. firmed. THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OF TBIGNMOUTII. An appeal had been taken in this case against ai assessment for poor's rate, by which the proprietor or tenant of the light-house at Teignmouth, had poor's rate imposed upon him, in proportion to the supposed profits of the light-house, arising from duties payable by the different ships that passed, and which duties became payable, not within the parish, but at :he ports from which such vessels cleared out, or to which they were bound. A case having been put for the consideration of the Court, it was determined, after very ingenious argument, that there being here no toll, or other beneficial interest, nor any local ratcnble property, within the parish, the rate ought to be quashed. 'The Parks were yesterday very much crowded, ani sever-A ventured on the ice ; two or three fell in, 1) were got ow, without any other injury than a good ducking. A remarkably thick fog prevailed throughout tbe metropolis on Saturday morning; and in most of the shops candles were burning at twelve o'clock. The town at that hour had all the appearance of night. It was decided at the Mansion I:kluse on Saturd.:F, on the application. of Mr. VA.UGH AN, a farmer, Enfield, that agreeably to an ancient char - et - . •',' goods.belonging to the district where her.* ded, Wel" to pass to London toll free. Friday a Court of Directors was held at the East- India House, when Captain MARSHALL was sworn into the command of the ship Diana, consigned :0 Madras and bengal. The Court adjourned at sax o'clock, till Wednesday next. On Tuesday, a Court-Martial was held at Ports. mouth, on Mr. JAMES HOBSON' Clerk of the iTlyss,:3, for contempt, and disrespectful, and mutinous CO duct to Lieut. SOMERVILLE, and the Officers of the said ship. He was acquitted of mutinous conduct, but the charges of disrespect were in part proved ; and he was adjudged to be admonished to be more careful in his behaviour in future.—Captain BEDFORD, Pre' s dent. CORN EXCIRANOR, MARK-LANE lAN. 29 The fresh or plies of What to.clay are Inconsiderable, but foreign in abtm dance on hand—the buyers numerous, and in demand causes sales fully to support last prices—fine Dantzic about 11 0 s. r r i quarter—Barley is cheaper—Malt keeps it s p i ic Pen r t Beans, of both suits, little variation—there are large supplies 9' Oats, and this trale is again named chaper—Flour at last pliee % 01114ZRAL cuaaincr AS 0141)55. Wheat, 755. 90s. 190 s. Beans, (old) 545. 605. Fins ditto, 102 s. 1965. Tick ditto (old) 48$. 50. 1 Sty% 4Ss. 30s. Oats 21s. Sst. 28s. SBs. 48s. Ot!. Yobnd ditto, sOs. 321 A ltilt 745. 82s Potatoe ditto, S 4. bite Peas (boilers), 65.. 711.. Rape Seed, 471. 54 r!r" J