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BdRBADOES. I COLONIAL PARLIAMENT. -On Tuesday, August 14th, his Excellency Governor Sir George Beckwith' having gone in state to the Town-hall, and being seated in the' Executive Chair at the head of the Council Board, and the Members of the House of Representatives attending by summons in the Council Phamber, he .. opened the first Session of our Colonial arliament under his Administration, with a concise Speech to both Houses of the Legislature, calling their attention to various objects of policy and im provement. His Excellency haVing , withdrawn, and the Mem bers of the Assembly reured-to their own House, the Speech was there by order read, and a Committee appointed to prepare an Addtess in answer. ; Mr. Mayers moved the Bill of Settlement, for pro viding the sum of £4OOO per annuin to be granted to his Excellency towards the better support of the dig nity of the Administration of his Government, and being seconded by Mr. Pinder, a Bill was ordered and accordingly introduced, enacting the same ; which passed through all its stages with the unanimous concurrence of the whole House, and was sent up to the Council. Their Honours having also given their unanimous approbation to the said Bill, and it being sent sawn passed by them to the Assembly, and the Governor being returned to the Council Chamber, it was presented to his Excellency by th e Speaker, at tended by the Members of the House, for his assent; which his Excellency was pleased to give with eapres sions of the highest regard and satisfaction for so cor dial a testimony of the Legislative liberality. A Bill was afterwards also introduced into the House for appropriating a sum not more than 41000 to the purpose of fitting up Pilgrim House (the seat of Government) with necessary articles of furniture, for the accommodation of the Governor ; which pissed by a large majority, and has been sent up to the Council. The House was, after some other business, then adjourned. SPANISH PROCLAMATION. TO THE SPANIARDS, SUBJECTS OF THE INDIES. VII. IN 66 Cadiz, September 6. The Supreme Council of Regency of Spain and of the Indies, would unjustly assume this latter title, BO great and glorious, if they had not for the object of their paternal cares the welfare and preservation of those precious dominions, as well as of the mother country. Their obligations are numerous, and diffi cult to be fulfilled, in the critical circumstances du, ring which the primary necessity of repelling haughty enemy has prevented them from attending as promptly as they desired to the wishes and At mate prosperity of those loyal subjects of the King, whose sovereign authority they represent, and whose sacred rights they defend, in both the worlds which compose the indissoluble Spanish Empire, and its great and powerful family. " Every account which arrives in Spain of the con stancy, fidelity, and patriotic enthusiasm of these good subjects and brethren, affords inexpressible sa tisfaction to the Supreme Government, which directs the Monarchy, involved in the most tremendous tem pest which any nation has endured, or which ages have witnessed ; and excites universal gratitude and hope in the hearts of Spaniards. 66 The Regency has already received the strongest proofs of these dispositions, which it will never dis trust, in the favourable accounts and authentic infor =don which it has incessantly received since its in stallation, of the acknowledgement and of the obedi ence of the provinces which compose transatlantic Spain. These solemn demonstrations of love and fidelity to their legitimate King and Lord, Don Fer dinand VII. and of respect and obedience to the repre sentatives of his sovereign authority, are the most distinguished and glorious testimony that the Spanish nation in both hemispheres is indissoluble, and that it will ever remain so, in whatever event of fortune. But in the midst of this sincere joy, it has learnt with the utmost pain and alarm, that in a certain'ciiy and territory of that Continent, as if they had not been sprung from the same mother, commotions of discon tent and disobedience have taken place, under the false pretence of security and good government, pro. moted by some spirits restless and ambitious, or blind ed by those political doctrines and maxims which ' have converted those who preached them up in Eu rope into slaves of the tyrant Napoleon. It was be lieved in those deceived regions, that with the inva sion of Andalusia, the supreme government was an nihilated, and that Spain no longer existed. These first accounts, magnified by fear or ignorance, or fal sified by malignity, were immediately propagated by turbulent and restless men, whose purposes it suited to wake them be believed, in order to disturb the tran quillity of the good, 'and to raise themselves to the proud title of reformers, under the pretended characs ter of loyal subjects. a The excesses of the Caraccas were so scandalous that their very enormity was suMcient to disgust the districts,of that jurisdiction, open the eyes of the un wary, and even to induce repentance in the very pro moters of transactions so impolitic and antinational. In Buenos Ayres, ignorance of the true state of the Peninsula, together with perplexity and fear, have done more than the malignity or indiscretion of the new system. There, also, vacillating minds have re linquished their errors, and the light of truth and hope a.as reappeared. 66 These unexpected transactions have filled with bitterness and alarm these Spaniards who with breasts of steel have been struggling for the liberty and , happiness of all, and who did not expect this, parti cularly when some new connection was more than ever necessary to eriahle them to support the calami- Cee which they have so long resisted for the salve- Con of the common country. Afflicted and heroic epain, kerpin her eyes and her heart fixed on these happy regions, trusts, and the Supreme Government to whom is assigned the care of all expects, that an example so abominable will be detested by all the in ltabitants of this Spanish hemisphere, quashed by their own hands, if necessary, 'and blotted out for ever from their remembrance. In this they will as sist both the power and force of the superior and In . ferice authorities, who, in the name of the Ring, 40- cdsm these provinces, in o r d er t o mithealte godd dcr, and justice respected, and to EMT* des union, concord, and fidaity • ages. Of4at use is it that there resound universal . aies of execration against the Europe, if by such excesses the very - abominate his name serve him without knowing it ? In Europe, makes use of one war ; in America he promote his service by another, without employing any other hands but yours, beloved Spaniards ! " The liberty which suits you at this moment is that of delivering your country from such disturbers, who, erecting themselves into legislators, under the pretence of reforms, would precipitate you into anar chy before the arrival of remedies from the Mother Country, which has entrusted her safety to a Na tional Congress, in which you are invited to bear a part. " The independence of a nation consists in its not being dependent on another : it is for that we are contending. Its liberty consists in maintaining its rights against every kind of tyranny, domestic or fo• reign; to attain that good, the Cortes are convoked. The evils which the nation has suffered for so many 1 years in both hemispheres have not been the work of a day ; as little can they be remedied within that pe riod. Imitate us, then, in moderation and confidence, ' while even during the strife of arms the means are ' preparing for promoting the common good of all.— Impatience and violence erect nothing, though they tnay destroy ; and the first happiness of men is to preserve peace. You enjoy that inestimable blessing which unfortunate Europe has lost. 1 i 4 It you call yourselves children of Spain, how tan you fail to love and obey your mother, and spare her every pain at a moment when she most requires your succour ? Never was she more worthy of your love, your gratitude, and your concord, than at this critical moment, when shedding her last blood for the safety of all her children. You boast of obeying Ferdinand, of defending his rights, and of forming a ' part of his Crown ; and Ferdinand tells you, that whoever does not acknowledge and respect the Go vernment which represents his royal person and so vereign authority, offers him only mouth honour and affection. " The fire of our sacred war in the Peninsula has never been more lighted up and extended than now ; the national resentment, hatred, and revenge have never been more inflamed than since our enemies have spread themselves over Andalusia. The earth ' seems to produce armed patriots, and our troops have become veterans by reverses and experience, and by the new discipline dictated by necessity. i " The resources of Napoleon's Treasury are ex hausted by the continuance of the war in Spain.— Since the introduction, by the most detestable perfidy, of his troops into the Peninsula, he has lost more than 200,000 men. He invents new plans and new or i ders to support and reinforce his legions ; but discon i tent has never been more prevalent among them, i nor desertion more frequent, which even spreads among the officers. 1 " And what- is the force which Spain has preser ved, and does preserve in a war so - terrible, in a con i test so unequal ?—the unity of the Sovereign Power, generally acknowledged, and the union of individual will against the enemy, in the defence of the same cause. Let then, Transatlantic Spaniards, the firm ness and unanimity of your brethren, environed by the formidable warlike preparations of the most 1 powerful enemy, serve you for a lesson, for admira ition and example. The Tyrant has never hoped to rule in this Peninsula, but by the disunion of its cont. 1 ponent parts. This alone will enable him to triumph, but his attempts have been frustrated. It is union which he fears in Spain, and which he Would destroy in America. • Not being able to produce disunion, he has la. boured, by all the most atrocious and abominable means, to plunge the nation into absolute anarchy ; and in this expectation he has also been frustrated. In Spain the authority of ttie Supreme Government, recognized by the nation, has never ceased, and has undergone no other change but that of names, members and place. The Provinces did not hesitate a moment in recognizing the Council of Regency ; and every Spaniard, forgetting his individual opinion or interest, has embraced the general, because thui only he saw the existence of the nation, its power and safety, secured. gg And who could doubt in the Indies of the exis tence and legitimate authority of a government not only obeyed by the subjects of Ferdinand VII. whom it represented, but acknowledged by the King of Great Britain, by that of the Two Sicilies, by the, Regent of Portugal, and with whom resided their re spective Ministers and Envoys ?—of a Government which preserves with the Ouoman Porte, with the Emperor of Morocco, and with the Barbary Powers, their diplomatic relations and amity.?: And yet, pre tending the non-existence of a common centre of Go vernment in Spain, and the necessity of governing themselves at their will, covered by the pretence of security, a set of wrbullt chiefs proclaimed their in dependence, destroying the eternal ties of an union universal among all Spaniards, without denying us, as they say, fraternity, in order to make their attempt less detestable ! " You ought to appreciate the happiness which hi therto, perhaps, you have not fully known : inasmuch as the monster of iniquity and ambition, who is called omnipotent by the French, can do nothing in these remote and vast regions. You ought also to congra tulate yourselves, that he Whom Europe calls the Tyrant of the Continent, shall never be that of Ame rica, unless you open the door to his wicked designs,. by dissolving your firm connection. " This is the true, the incomparable liberty *Melt ; you should never destroy. But what will it avail that I your happy country remain free from the fury of his arms, if it is not also free from the mischiefs of his plots and machinations ? Be sure that what he can- I not attain he will endeavour to destroy, and what he cannot accomplish by force he will by hisidliance. " This disturber of nations will never enjoy the power of the seas while England e;ists—that any and friend will protect the Spanish flag in all guar- I ters, both by sea and land, provided we live united : 1 the entire union of the Spanish monarchy is no less important to her than it is to us. The district that , would separate itself frog this great body would re main abandoned by atuitleaewenty of all. It wauld ago j os Ti r devour ;wow, mad its illyanlits and holm - 0m,..-..:, ":" :...•• ' " Pic 14 11 0 9 114 .39 0 1 loilweipologisci- LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. Hi. MAJESTY'S Accusl•x TO TICK TIMONE. Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, and Stamp Office. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. S pee Cent. Red. 45i-fi India Stock 185 3 per Cent Cons. 56M India Bonds, 21s. 15s. pr. 4 per Cent. 821-1 Exch. BMA 7s. 9s. pr. 5 Per Cent-Navy too! too Omninos dis. Long Ann. 17 15-16ths 18 Cons. for acc. 65.1 67 6614 CAPTURE OF THE ISLE OF BOURBON. It gives us great satisfaction to usher in the Jubilee to our Readers with the pleasing intelligence of the 'capture of this last hold of the French Government in the Indian Seas. At halfpast ten o'clock last night, Lieutenan BRODOHTON, of the Navy, arrived at the Admiralty, and Captain PARKINSON, of the Army, arrived at Lord Liverpool's Office, with the agreeable information. Oar Readers will recollect, that the Expedition which has performed this important service to the country, was fitted out at Madras. The troops con sisted of the 69th and 86th regiments, with detach ments from the 12th, 33d, 89th, &c. with the 6th and 12th Native Infantry, a company of Artillery, Pio neers, &c. 'making in all a force of 2500 Europeans, and 2000 Natives. They were to be joined by 1000 men at Rodriquez, and the whole were to proceed under the command of Colonel KEATING. The DORIS, DIOMEDE, and CEYLON men of war convoyed the Ex pedition. The Officers who brought the dispatches came home in the OLYSIPIA, Lieutenant TAYLOR, which left the Cape eight weeks ago, and arrived at Ports mouth yesterday. The OLYMPIA has brought home a French brig, richly laden, which she captured off the Isle of France. The Isle of Bourbon was recently new named Isle Bonaparte, in compliment to the French Emperor. • The following letter was sent from Lord LIYZR POOL to the LORD MAYOR on the subject, at a late hour last night : " Downing-street, 24th October, 1810. " MY Loan—Captain PARKINSON, Deputy Adju " tant•General to the Detachment acting under the 41 command of KEATINO, has ar- 66 rived this evening at my office, with the intelligence 44 that the Isle of Bourbon, since designated the Isle 64 of Bonaparte, had surrendered by Capitulation to 48 his MAJESTY'S arms on the Bth July last. I am a happy in being able to add, that the loss sustained is in the operation which has led to this event, amounts ss only to one subaltern, one serjeant, and sixteen rank 44 and file wounded.—l have the honour to be, my " Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble ser a ♦ant. (Signed) " LIVERPOOL. " The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, &C. &C. The mysterious allusions in the last Paris papers to the arrival of " a foreign Prince at Fontainbleau,'' and the happiness that the Empress was about to receive in a few days," are explained by letters to the 20th instant, received yesterday from the French coast. According to these, this foreign Prince is no less a personage than the Emperor FRANCIS, whose visit is supposed to be for other purposes besides the imie indulgence of a father's fondness. Great political ) objects are conjectured ; such as the engaging Austria so assist in the subjugation of the Peninsula—the lino of policy that is to be observed towards Russia—and i definitive arrangement respecting the future con. dition of Turkey. These speculations may or may nor be well founded. They are all likely enough to 'enter into the daring, subtle, and ambitious views of NAPOLEON, and the cautious' and calculating policy of the Court of Vienna. That the Emperor FRANCIS is the foreign Prince expected is rendered probible from the sudden departure of BERTHIER from Fon tainbleaui who was to be absent only a few days. A per'on of his consequtnce would hardly have been deputed to do the usual honours to any of less dig nity- than a - crowned head. ••• • • ". The account of Mr. ARMSTRONG'S departure from France, it seems, was premature. He bad arrived at Bourdeatix. from whence he was expected to sail about the 10th inst. in an American vessel. It was supposed that the delay of his departure had arisen from some pending negociation with the Duke of CADORE, to which one of the letters seems to advert in the follow ing terms : “ General Armstrong has received a note froth the Duke of );adore, in which he tells him that the seizure of American pro perty throughout France is considered by the Emperor as a rsprl. sal for the seizure pf French property made in the United States —and that whenever the United States shall restore the property belonging to Frenchmen seized by them under the Nat-Inter course Law, and remit, as far as relates to his country (hence), all fines and fbrfeitures, such act will be immediately Mowed by the restoration of American property throughout France.— He also states that American vessels direct float the United States, loaded entirely with American produce, will be admitted and protected." Other advices from high , that rl:erican have and •.% , ' tro t, • • maiotaisma fbi• so taaay ttdi , to unite, Mit 11 Sim closely with * the mother country., aksoa 6 .to Ow Sias of blood, of . iere resound oaths ant , jell and of thepoWnal sysiemi the interests of This day t against the Tyrant iE require that that be added tboboofthe national GE his reign tdmen i the very persons w . cation in the , Getieral Cortes, to consolidate perfect heal him indirectly, thong happiness happiness and welfare of the whole." years in the trope, this infernal man kmerica he will promote . THE EVENING STAR.' da bs y t f wo t h e ld 1 1 THE JUBILEE, rwil w : re is life his MAJESTY entered into the Slit Tex ; and we rejoice to learn that be pouesse health, ansl promises the enjoyment of mail _ the bosom °this family and people. Ti 'would have been universally devoted to rejoiciny for the Melancholy state of the amiabletPzzl sufferkgs are expected every h our to e• is worthy of remark that our present Sovnte; bog reigned es a am, longer than any Monarch aid ever swayed the English Sc e ptres for though He at 111. reigned six years, and EDWARD 111. sit moot a er, they both came to the Throne boys ; e lk ing i scarcdy ten years old, and the other fourteee, The following are additional Stanzas to the Rin i of 44 GOD save the Kips., ' adapted to the Albite Octobps-44, 1810 : It Isms'd la his /WM reign, Moos in gratefelstrain Make the ide ring ! My full years case's-, 01101GL bas niabitaked ibis mat o Virtuou Pa s. telid, geed , end greet, A triot Ia I 0148agland Wee b n ee known, Oa' her unabges *row, A better Xing ! Is Weer?, deathless Moe. King Osoitoes reign beam From age to age shall Aim-. Goo save tie King ! . Chores of Wry heart. !Atom, come bow year r e, Width to our Ring Islay he still ac ed the hillga _ Kok this nui-eleketalibli. Our foes and Ida Aeolis, CoD save die JONI ALMIGHTY ICING Of AD, Let arf Sidereri snit bri lovl d Zio ra y "b•m iau msege r i t i. . Our rights an — iihlimul, Goo save the Xing! Long has his Sceptre sway% Long have we as ebey'd Great GIORGI our KIR I And, since a Nation prays, • (Britons your voices raise), • • Halivsu lengthen-out his clays! Long live the King ! Henley, October 23,1810. Paine's: AMELLL—About ten days or a fortnight since, on the awful communication being made known to the Princess AMELIA, that it was the opinion of the Physicians, that she could not survive long, she urea sad a wish to have a very valuable and choice stone, in the possession of her Royal Highness, put to a ring for the KING, for him to wear in remembrance of her —and to complete her wishes, she desired it to be manufactured without delay, that she might have the pleasure of presenting and putting it on the finger of her beloved Royal Father, previous to her depamire. To satisfy her wishes, a jeweller was sent for express from London. On his arrival he was 'hews into the chamber of her Royal Highness, and she gave bins instructions herself. The ring, with the stone, was executed in a very short time, and she had her wisb ed-for felicity of placing it on his Mmiarr's finger. We have the painful task again to state, that her Royal Highness had a very bad night oa Tuesday, she only slept one hour, and that was one hour is twenty-four. During yesterday she was in the same distressing state as on Tuesday. Yesterday, about one o'clock, the Prince of WALES arrived at Carlton-house, and after dispatching busi. ness returned to Windsor, to be near his departing sister. The whole of the Royal Family are in attend ance, and every hour is expected to be her last. The Board of Trade. yesterday desisted fiorn grant ling Licences to and from French ports, and alsom and from all blockaded ports within the range desig• rated in the Orders of Council. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India Home, when Captain J. Frruarstseetwas sworn into the command of the ship Haig Adifurt ton, consigned to 13orrib4 and China. The Cogil adjourned at six o'clock till to-morrow. Letters have been received fmm the two comPanies of Shipwrights that went from Plymouth to Cadiz, stating that they expect soon to be ordered home, as ' they cannot do any service in the dock-yard them owing to the French batteries approximating so nett ' Letters under date of the 15th inst. were yesserday received from Rotterdam. They state that the newly introduced system of the Conscription had met with considerable opposition in every put of Holland.— from They also mention, that it was intended to i an exorbitant duty on the importation bald Ate` rican of ' rican produce, equal in fact to that exto from the trafficks in British Colonial produce or manafacrures. Extract of a letter front Dantsk, dated 25th Sep ternber, received by a mercantile house in beith : " In our trade, every thing is v i ol dull. The doe aniers have taken possession of the halm and harbour. and do not even allow the exportation of grain to n•. klau, which lass hitherto hcarlernsitted• E ver i f r e• paration is making . for war, and all the h3h are orti fying, as if the enemy were already before the gates. A considerable corps of artillery has arrived here, and several new barracks are building. The Governor (General Rapp), is appointed Commander of the whole west Prussian brigade." Mr. S—R-4—n, the Captain of a merchant ves sel, who had been a prisoner in the interior of France upwards of six years, lately found means to make his escape, and getting to the coast, he was taken on board a neutral ship, which landed him at Plymouth 'last week. He represents the people as tolerably well satisfied with tl:e Bonaparte dynasty; sboa t th e in many places they murmured loudly against rigours of The conscription and the war in S p ain. Bich were their chief topics of complaint. He also represents the late harvest in France as having been uncommonly abundant, and states the produce of air earth, and provisions of every description, as bug remarkably cheap. No hopes were entertained in I France, in the companies to which he was admitted, either of peace with this country or sa exchange of -•Ts I but they where whete taug ht to as this nation. This , the British 0- ,0 but in others The farni-bwi es mfg t° 4 1 o i s of t 4 - r - Other advises from high authority inform us, that prisoners I but they wets every whell all American ships that have entered French ports in tribe the fault, in both cases, to this ballast, and whkh had bolus boarded by British crtti- gentleman says, that in man depots, zers, were at liberty to Toil With French produce, Sad :own are treated 1 w ell i titan tti the United State ' , 'their usage is altogether as bad- Ti A vessel under the of the Rtcp44ll,l44l44lllPrip asad tamps at which he stoPPsd• i n Carte,. and other con had paranima, ise the coast, treated him' kindly, and sup] a French harbour, ti* . diniviegtblf arra lopolligkr , nay facility for nuking his WV' in); the stipulated d Nam ?,• ,h