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4 On the 15th instant, will be ptiblished, A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE PRE SENT PARLIAMENT, on the ARTICLE of CHARGE against Marquis WELLESLEY, which have beets laid before the House of Commons. By LAWRENCE DUNDAS CAMPBELL, Esq. Printed for T. Cada and W. Davies, Strand. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIAN STATE PAPER. • Ukase—St. Petersburgh, Nov. 8, (19), 1607. • By our Ukase of the 28th October last, to the Mi. nister of Commerce, Count N. Raumiantsoff, regard ing the laying on an embargo upon the English pro perty in Russia, we ordered liquidation commissions to be formed here, at Riga and at Archangel, under the controul ofthe College of Commerce. On the representation of the Minister, that the li quidation Compaisu appointed in 1800, were, by their mode of conducting business of this nature, perfectly adequate to the object in view, We now order that liquidation commissions be at present appointed, in every respect; Strictly according to the principles and spirit of the Ukase given the 23th of November, 1800, upon a report of the College of Commerce in conse quence of the embargo laid that year on the property of the English, with this only alteration, that the fixed number of Russian merchants so be chosen for the liquidation commission of this plan, be not otherwise appointed than with the confirmation of the Minister, • and in the other towns with die confirmation of the Chief Authorities contiguous thereto. The said Commissioners are to take cognizance of all the goods and property of the English which were embargoed by our Ukase of the 28th (ult.) October, 1807 ; and this sequestration is to be extended to all their capital monies and bills, excepting their monies placed in our Banks, which, by the laws, are in no case to be touched. The Councillor of State, and Member of the College of Commerce, Baikoff, is to preside in the Commission here. Sent to the Senate the Bth of November, 1807, under his Imperial Majesty's Sign Manual. Comitersigned by Count Nicelay Raumiantzoff.— Published by the Senate the 11th of November, 1807. ST. PETERSBURGH, NOV. 22, (DEC. 4), 1807. A Lilluidaticm Office,tor the settlement of all claims between the . Russians and English, is now established, and the Counsellor of State Baikoff is appointed Pre sident : the merchants who are to compose the Com mittee will be nominated by the Minister hereafter.— In the mean time, an arrest is ordered on all bills and debts owing to the English, the payment of which will be enacted by the said office. None of the esta blished British merchants will be permitted to leave - this tountry till 'our Government shall ascertain that Russian property in England has been respected, and all bills drawn from hence duly accepted and paid." TORTUGAL.—ARMY OF ESTRAMADUR A. GENERAL ORDERS OF THE IST DECEMBER. "' Ferocity is not valour—ft is always the proof of barbarism, and generally of cowardice. The greatest honour the King can do one of his subjects is to place arms in his hands ; they are cons crated to the preserving of his kingdom, the upholding of religion and the laws, the defence of his people, and the protection of his friends. While the Portuguese Government gives us their friend ship, and receives us into their territories, it would be unworthy the Spanish character, sad contrary to every law, to make ene mies of those we come to protect. War has its rights and laws, ail which are framed by the Chiefs of Governments; we who are subjects are not authorized to infringe on them, except by the voice of our Chief - -it would otherwise be assassination, and the punishment of the coward who would so far disgrace humanity, belongs to univvr,aljustice. " Er rusted with an important Expedition, we will go and ful fil the wishes of our Sovereign. Proud of the confidence with which he honours we will not disappoint him; nor will we con sent that there conain amotgst us any who would deprive us of that honour, and disvara the-good name of the whole army. No, I will not suffer it. Any insult by word or deed, or any prove . cation to renew old and disgraceful prejudices, shall be severely pu nished, not only by the due countof law, but as circumstances demand it, by immediate infliction on the spot—such conduct being disgraceful, disobedient to our Sovereign, and dishonourable io the Spanish name. " The soldier shall brprovided for. In the event of wanting provisions, all will know how to suffer momentary privations, in esehanse for a good name, and the honour of completing a great object. The Chiefs of Division of my army arc known to me—with all of you, soldier-, I am personally acquainted—you have not come wit h me from Andalusia to disobey the King and dishonour the nation. - " Head quarters at Budajoz, Nov. 30, 1807. (Signed) MARQUIS Dal. SOCCORRO." 'PROCLAMATION. iNHABITANTS OF LISZON. " My army is about entering your walls ' • it was coming for the purpose of rescuinr, your ports and your Prince from the influ ence of England. 1 • 1 But this Prince, so respectable by his virtues, has allowed hint . - self to be hurried away by the counsels of some wicked nun who surrounded him, and he is gone to fling himself into the arms of his enemies. He has been made to feel apprehensive for his per . tonal safety—his subjects have been counted for nothing—and his interests sacrificed to the base cowardice of some Courtiers. . " Inhabitants of Lisbon, remain quiet within your houses ; fear neither me nor my army; we are formidable only to the enemy _ • and to the wicked; the great Napoleon, my master, sends me to protect you. (Signed) JUNOT." DECEMBY.R. 26. The d decoration., of the Legion of Honour, destinecf l X. l the Emperor Francis 1. for the Archduke Charles; the Archduke John, and Count • Urroa, ar rived at Vienna on the 7th ultimo. A neutral ship from Smyrna, which arrived at Cataro on the 20th November, has brought authentic accounts of the I)eclaration of -War by the King'of Persia against England. A Deputation from the Landaman of Switzeiland s arrived at Milan to compliment his Majesty, and is said to be charged with a mission of very great portance. Letters from.Toulon inform us, that the powder magazine and =ill at St. Barhe, has blown up ; the -cause unknown:. Madame Contate ' the celebrated actress, has with - diawn fro the Th eatre. ai ' Bonaparteliad.not left Milan on the 22d ; on the day before the City gave a grand dinner to the Meni bers of the Electoral Co ages, and on the following • dty ttleyhaft an audience of his Majesty. The :Mirka, de I' Entpire of the 17th says—lt ap ,, .pe,a,E,s . certijli that his Majesty the Emperor and King —.141 to Paris before the Ist of January. ILIMIttIiTtH. NOVEMBER es. who le sotiti4ent ofthc.Rhenish Confederaiesi which amounts to more than 80,000 men, will sq into moments in Franconia. Each Generalein . .C.hiefivill have his head-quarters at Bayreuth. The first division of the Bavarian troops ha\ e already ar rived in ,ate vrritory ofjlayreuth. BELSINBORG, NOV. The Russian Envoy, M. Alopeus, of leave of his Swedish Majesty on ' the nest day set out for -Stockholm. Commercial Agent,. M. Grain, was Penhagen on the 17th at two m committed to prison ; tut on the liberty, And 'permitted to remain under a guard, till the requisite have been made.—Ssotitheics Gawk, Da. 7. SCHWERIN, DEC. S. . . General Laval has transmitted to our Govern. ment, on the 2d of this month, the following letter from his Highness the Prince of Neufchatel, which the Government immediately caused to be pub lished : _ _ Fontaiobleao, Nov. 15, 1807. " The will of his Majesty the Emperor is, that the country of Mecklenburgh shall be evacuated by the French troops, with the exception of an adjutant commandant, who shall remain at Rostock with.a battalion at most, to take care that no English riser chandize be introduced into the said country. You will General, before your departure, see that all the necessary dispositions are made for the carrying this measure into execution." COPENHAGEN, DEC. 5. Our two ships of the line, the Louisa Augusta and Prince Christian, under the command of the Captains Snedorf and .lessen, have safely arrived from Norway, and came into our road yesterday afternoon ; they chaced in the Cattegat an English brig, which, how ever, being too much a-head of them, escaped into a Swedish port. On the 30th of November all the English ships left the Sound, and sailed for the North Sea. They were I very briskly fired on as they passed the Castle of Cronenberg. An English ship, laden with hemp and linseed oil, and commanded by Captain ionic SC! rIMMF.I.S, and bound as he pretended, from Konigsberg for Elsineur, but which had stopped some time at Landscrona, wished to take advantage of the departure of the English fleet, and sail under its protection, but not having been able to join it in time, was taken by a privateer, and carried into Elsineur. A notice was issued from the Post Office here on the 4th of this month, enjoining all the Post Offices, in consequence of superior orders, to receive no letter. for any foreign town, or for Altona, Husum, Tonningen,. Frederickstadt (in the Duchy of Schleswig); Elsi-. neur, Friedrickshald, - and Kosringe, till the porn appointed by Government for that purpose shall lutye examined it, and been satisfied that the said letter: contains no means, direct or indirect, of correspond.. ence with England or with British subjects, and shall, in consequence, for security, have affixed his seal to such letter. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, money, 64f—for January 64i%—Reduced 6311. Oinnium preen.—Excheq. Bills ts. to 3s. pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 225 India Bonds, par Is. dis. 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 63111 South Sea Stock 68i 3 per Cent. Cum. 63V4-1 Imp. 3 per Cent. 63f 4 per Celli. 811 Each. Bills, 2s. to 3c. pr. .5 per Cent. 96f, f English Tickets, 201. 19s. India Stock, 180 fur opg. Cons for acc. 6431 f This day arrived a Leeward Island Mail, brought to Falmouth by the Princess Mary packet, Captain POCOCK, in 33 days from Tortola :—On the 7th inst. she fell in with a fleet from Cork under convoy of his Majesty's ship NEMESIS. The Princess Mary left Barbadoes on the 14th No vember, at which time were lying there his Majesty's ships RAmiurs, ULYssEs, CASTOR, NETLKY, JASON, CAMILLA, HYPOMENES, FAVORITK, DART, and WOL VERINE. A small convoy for England left Tortola about ten days before the packet. • • Letters of the 2d ult. were received yesterday froml Lisbon : the exchange was at 25 per cent. aim*. .'Letters were received yesterday from-Silhoa to the d ult. Even then no information bad reached that place of the arrival of French troop. at Madrid. . . The first of the Gottenburgh Mails that were due, arrived yesterday evening. Sir STEPHEN SHAIRP, our late Consul at St.. Pe tersburgh, has arrived safely at Gottenburgh, and most • from St. Pete*burgh vrere Preparations were making at God reception,- where he was ez. istion and then proceed to Stock. Per d'Affaires, Mr. BATHURST, please which was permitted to sail *in Cracow:lt with the baggage and other effects of I Lord G. L. GOWER, and which has been chaced into 'Carlacrinta by the Danes, has not yet been liberated. There are ten other English merchant ships in that Harbour. Lord Gowza's baggage, &c. must now be brought over-land to Gottenburgh, as these ships cannot venture to come out of Carlscrona without a pass, which the Danes -have.refused. Another Ulan has been published. in Russia Against the English. A Commission is appointed to take cognizance of all the English property embargoed and sequestered, and the sequestration extends to all British capital, bills, and monies, excepting such sums as are placed in the Bank. Supplemental to this is said to be another Order, by which it is directed, that all payments on English account should be sus pended, and that no property belonging to, or in anywise connected with the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, should for the present be permitted to be removed.—The passengers who came over in the packet, which brought the mails, state that all the English subjects remaining in Russia, have been ar rested as prisoners of war; but we are happy to find that none of the accounts received by the most respec table mercantile houses in the City, offered any degree of sanction to this unpleasant report. Some further accounts from America to the 13th ult. were received yesterday ; and the reports were more than usually unfavourable to the hopes of an amicable adjustment of differences with that country. A letter or the 12th mentions the receipt of the Bri tish Order of Council of the 11th of November, and the general expectation of an embargo being laid on in'a few 'days. • • is Nl* You, Dtc. 11.—The accounts from Washington are said (by those in the secret) to be by no means pacific. The doors of Congress are shut, and all appear in doubt and uncer tainty. The ultimatum is said to have been received." " %IVA smi ton,Dec. 7.—A few minutes after twelve o'clock this day, a confidential message was received from the President of the United States. The galleries were immediately cleared, and the doors closed. 1 remained in the capital until dusk; when, as there appeared no probability of the doors being opened, I left it. This message probably contains the dispatches from Mr. Monroe, which are said to be no later than the 10th October. M'h2t, however, may be its purport, or whether it involves the momentous question of peace or war, is yet uncertain." We are extremely sorry to announce the death of Lord ALEXANDER GORDON, second son of his Grace the Duke of GORDON. Lord ALEXANDER has been ill for a considerable time, and died at Edinburgh on Sunday evening last, in the 23d year of his age. By this melancholy event the noble houses of Gordon, Bedford, Cornwallis, Richmond, &c. &c. are involved in the deepest distress. • • On Sunday Lord ERSKINE returned from Hert fordshire. His Lordship travelled on horseback, unattended by any servant. Government yesterday began a sale of oats by auc tion, at the Coffee-house of the Corn Exchange. They sold 4000 quarters, and mean to sell WOO weekly for some weeks to come. _ _ The celebrated painter, Angelica Kaufman, who htely died at Rome, left the whole of her very consi derable fortune to indigtnt widows and orphans and other poor, who all followed her hearse in funeral pro cession, joined by the celebrated sculptor Pasanovu, and all other distinguished artists, now residing in Rome. _ _ His Majesty's ship Minotaur, of 74 guns, Vice-Ad. miral Sir CHARMS CorroN, will sail from Falmouth the first favourable wind, for the Westward, as sup posed, to join Sir SIDNEY SMITH, off the Tagus. His Majesty's ship Antelope, with the transports, will fol low immediately, on the arrival of these from Ports , mouth and Plymouth. Tuesday last, a numerous and respectable meeting of -the Roman Catholics was held pursuant to notice, at the house of Mr. FITZPATRICK, bookseller, Dublin. The Earl of FiNGAL in the chair. It appeared to be the unanimous sense of the meeting, that it would be adviseable to have a petition presented in the ensuing Sessions to the Imperial Parliament, praying fcr tl e repeal of the remaining Penal Laws ; and it was agreed that a further meeting shall take place on the 19th instant, when a petition will be agreed to, as also the mode of its presentation. The following circular Letter has been transmitted to the Officers commanding the different corps of Yeomanry in Ireland : silt, Dublin Castle, Dec. 21,1807. It is of the greatest importance that the discipline of the Yeo manry force should be attended to, and the Lord Lieutenant hav ing been induced to consider that the attendance of Yeomen at pa rades would be much facilitated, if the days of exercise were fixed for each corps on certain days in the month, whereby every man would know, without further notice, of what days he was to pa rade for exercise ; and his Grace further considering that the at tendance on inspections would be fuller if the inspection-day of each corps was always established and fixed, he has directed me to desire that you will call upon the officers commanding corps, to appoint fixed days of exercise, in each month, for their respective corps, not to be changed un less with sufficient reason, and that you will hold your inspection of each corps on the same exercise day of each month, as far as local circumstances and your other duties will permit. It will also be proper that you should urge the Captains of such corps as are deficient in number, to complete them forthwith to the establishment, with men fit for active service; and of approv ed krialty, and that you should urge the attendance of both offi =wood men upotievery occasion of exercise and inspection. ' f the honour to be, Sir, Your most ohedient humble servant, ,a,,friu.Lr s cry Saturday, a company of artillery, commanded b: Captain CIIAMBERLAYNE, marched into the new bar racks, Chatham ; another company is expected in the course of this week from Woolwich. - Some grand alterations are about to be made in the -*avenue to Drury-lane Theatre, now called WobUrn street, formerly Vinegar-yard, as all the tenants have had , nqtice to quit their houses at Midsummer-clay next, r. U. a rl4 1 English merchants! as, had his at ja r iffigcted. Preparatic a the a lar ve rg stabo tia br the Kelp re Ihn. ' as let 0.„ lo remain two days, 1 the =suing. The English Charge ' 97 _th u: _be "Is seta It iompanies his Majesty. 2 :m ”1.1 own hou* , The ship (the Apollo) v eurainatipits " 0 " t.,.. rwlnstadt with the bl TO THE EDITOR OF 'II.E STAR 81111 r—I have taken the libertto se n d rx lei= of the French lines which appea re d i n a ' OLD per of Tuesday last. If you think prop er , , Yr k, please te insert them, as you requested a ; - Ail TO ENGLAND. Dui i ST Tilt MARQUIS Dr /ULM 7 Tho"tis to thee, 0, generous land! I owe That peace, which charms an exile's woes to - OW Spite of p t l h y fyeber I'm butntiets, a stranger still s thetea r r g w n il est l " o w , Ml ' , tw irl dr I l deeply Yet, since upon thy hospitable shore, The sacred person of my King I see, iioli I languish for my Dative land no mere, . . 77tow art my country, titer an all to me ! ri d Ipswich, Jan. 8. i • s Ril . : 10414 NAUTICAL nvrELLlGzsci: . . A .FALmovin, JANUARY L Arrived the Ocean and Fidelity tram • troops, part of those under General 8 , . , WI Hawk schooner of London, from Ports ' ' to St. Domingo with wine and brandy, on; II 1 and is very leaky ; the American brig & tr *. *i OW Boston for Cherbourgh, detained by the Act Pt 2 vateer, Captain Luse, for breach of blo c k a d e art• evening the Princess Mary packet, Captain •,, ._ _IP from Tortola, SS days passage, with the ". Islands mail.' Sailed his Majesty's ship ~ • ,•• vO of 24 pits, and the Capelin schooner, on a ,:, 1' • Wind N.N. W. - . , • PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 11. , . ti Arrivedhis Majesty's ships Cumberland, i , ' 4l'l r .- and Silvia, from the Downs.—Wind W. tric TORBAY, JANUARY 10. . the We have had such fogs for the last two .a. ~ di t days, that not a ship in the Bay could be sea, • • evening it was clear weather, the wind got le d tot the N. E. and about ten last night his Major? .. tail Royal George, Saint George, Dreadnought, 'r , , Temeraire, and Neptune, set sail to the •.• : i ,but this morniug the wind getting round*, . de the south-west, they all returned again, and at .wi at anchor. Arrived his Majesty's frigate P . Captain BARRIE, from Plymouth. ea DEM., JANUARY 11. Arrived, the Undaunted and Proserpine • ' bi o. and Hyacinth and Barracuta sloops, from the pp The Undaunted and Barracuta have sailed • ' to the Westward, the others remain. Also .' . O ll the Blazer gun-brig, from a cruize off Osamd ; • c.• • garoo sloop, from off Boulogne ; Fort William .' i - India 'ship, from India ; Pleasant Hill hind • .',.. from Deptford,—Sailed, the Sea Gull Awls a •eruize off Flushing. YARMOUTH, JANUARY 11. . 1 1 Yesterday afternoon arrived the Ariadne .: • and has brought in two large lugger privateers- .1 tined by her and the Sappho sloop of war; they . pierced for 16 guns each, and were fund • .. was taken on the 7th, and the other cit tie* .. Flamborough Head. They have made`! iiir t tures, one of which was the Gabriel, ot • MATTHEW ROWLAND master, but she beiat . ap• they took out the crew and then scuttled • the privateers both belonged to one owner, .- • from Dunkirk—one is new, and the other hi . reigning two or three years. The crews of the . were landed here this morning, and escorts' ' , son by a detachment of the Cambridgeshire Arrived the Amelia frigate with money, . , been put on board the Nassau and Start guns each, and Lynx sloop of war, and di; s ing they sailed for Gottenburgh. Arrived tin , l• foy and Lark packets, with mails and from Gottenburgh, and sailed this morning fa . with. Arrived the Vixen rp r brag and •. schooner. Ships of war here :Vanguard, k. Ariadne, Azitiable, 4melia, Tartarus, Belot% ', , 1 I sor, and Vixen gun-brigs, and Sealark schooner. , I GRAVESEND, JAN. 11. .. i Passed by the Zephyr, Janata, front St. If •- • - * Quebec, WATSON, from Quebec ; Young . --' '1 ' ,CLAMOR, from Riga ; George, -Pater, and the D I ,„. IN ILSON, from Surinam. .. / BARBADOES, NOV. 25. • The French privateers Confiance, Desist% • „ j 1 , Becune, have been spoken to windward et :, . 1 f, —The latter pursued and engaged the Africa a Croydon, in sight of the island. The General a privateer has been spoken with to windwar d of , - I seada. His Majesty's brigs.Superieure and . ~ ' I have been sent to windward . in quest of Freed d 1 vateers. His Majesty's ship Ulysses, convol n Portsmouth 'and Madeira, arrived here in AMY '- I the Rth instant. The Recruit brig escorte d the , 7 for Surinam , Berbice, and Demarara , in rierl ' " I their destination. His Majesty's brig W' : o' sailed on the 14th instant with the trade for • 'e St. Kitt's, and Jamaica. The Young Rosa •• It i of the convoy, sailed on the 16 th for St. V•"-. se i l without convoy. His Majesty's ship Cu rieta ' here on the sth, with a convoy from Halifax. , 1 'French privateer, General Erneuf, and cutter v to late his Majesty's cutter Barbara) arri vedat *. fl- loupe on the 16th instant with three American ". --; trading to Hayti, and a brig belonging 1 which they had cut out from the harbour of St'' s. :t I tholemew. The Princess Mary packet, from q , mouth, arrived on the 12th, the Duke of Keno' r- 15th, and the Queen Charlotte packet, on their' . he 1 Nov. 26.—The French privateer General- . I Fripon, and Victor, sailed from Guadaloupe it. • he 21st instant, to cruize in concert, having i. ' • n- of four letters of marque from Demerara .to re pool, which were to sail about the Ist of "- . . ty sand two from hence. These vessels will most i cruise off Deseada, and to the northward. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 22. Letters from Vienna state, that the Austrian ports are not yet shut against the English, but that this measure is likely to be soon adopted. The above letters add, that the importation of English manu factures is strictly prohibited throughout the Austrian dominions. We understand that the French civil code, called the Code de Napoleon, is to be introduced in the Hanse Towns. FIA*BURGH, DEC. 18. There is announced for the 27th January a public sale at Copenhagen, which must prove highly inte resting to European commerce in the present posture of things. The following are the articles to be dis, posed of :-600,0001b5. of coffee, of the island of Java; 200,0001b5. of sugar, of the same island ; 100,0001bs. of sugar, of ; 100,0001bs. of pepper ; 50001bs. of indigo, &c. &c. These goods are to be delivered at Bergen, in Norway, where they have recently ar rived, in a Danish vessel, from Batavia and Manila ;' the ship is called the Three Friends, and escaped from the English cruizers by coming North about of the British Wands. The following changes in the Ministry and Corps Diplomatic of holland, were announced in the Royal Gazette of the 19th December : Mr. Hogendorf leaves the War Department, and is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna ; Mr. Jansens, President of the War Section, succeeds as War Minister; Mr. Verhuell quits the Ministry of the Marine, for the place of Mini ster Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Pe tersburgh—he is replaced by Mr. Vander Keser, who ceases to be Minister of the Colonies and Commerce—he is succeeded in that Department by Mr. Cambitr, lute Minister of Justice, who in that capacity is succeeded by Mr. Van Maanen. Mr. De Caulin court, Grand-Ecuyer of the King, is appointed Minister Plenipo tentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Naples. 'rum EV MN ING STAR.