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."-- THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. D. B. is perhaps not aware, that, hes' '-s ther charges, Ad vertiseme”ts, even for Wives, arc subject to a city; at the Stamp Office. FRIDAY, JUNE I. pRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK c oss ols, for July 70H—Reduced 691 69—Omnium 4 pr. gichequer Bills 4s. prem.—lndia Bonds, par Is. pre. PlftICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. . s in k Stock 2421 249 Omnium 411 j per Cent. Red. 69f India Bonds, par Is. dis. Is. pr. 4per Cent. Cons. 86 83111 Excheq. Bills 3s. 6s. pre. LAss. l9 1-16 19 English Tickets, 21L Os. Atm. 7 9.161 Cons. for acc. 70ff An American ship arrived yesterday from Cadiz, yhich she left on the 19th ult. The French and Spa. o w l squadrons remained at that time in the harbour, a nd nothing had transpired respecting the communi .. cations which are supposed to have passed between Ad m iral Puavis and the patriotic party on shore.— Th ere was great confusion in Cadiz, but the French bad still sufficient influence at that port to retain their partizans in authority. The accounts brought by this vessel agree, however, with those received on Wed. oes day, as to the extent oT the insurrection in the As turias, Biscay, &c. The whole of the North of Spain is suited to be in arms. It may also be mentioned as another satisfactory re port, that the Commander of the Spanish squadron in Port Mahon has declared his determination to s upport the independence of his country ; and has, therefore, refused to obey the orders transmitted to him by the Junta, over which MURAT presides, at Madrid. We know that this Commander, Don Caom syso Luau, is an officer of the highest loyalty, and is distinguished for strong national feelings. It is therefore quite probable that he would revolt against any order hostile to the independence of his country. Indeed, it wao some time since suggested to us, that this officer suspected the designs of the French Go vernment, and that he took his fleet into Port Mahon rather than to Toulon, to which he could have gone, according to command, merely to save it from falling into the hands of France. Certainly all the discern ing men of Spain must have foreseen the crisis that bas occurred. The only doubt could be as to the time of its arrival ; and few, perhaps, expected it so soon. Unquestionably BouAPARTZ has been in this insa.ice more prompt than usual. Perhaps he may find that he has been too precipitate. Viscount MATEROSA is a Nobleman of consider able local influence. He is not, however, a Grandee ((Spain. Don DIEOO de la VEGA, who accompanies him, holds the commission of a Lieutenant in the Navy; and acts as Secretary to the Viscount. They are both said to be very intelligent men. A letter, dated St. Andero, the 30th ult. and ad dressed to a respectable merchant in the City, conveys a very flattering picture of the disposition and re sources of those Spaniards who are adverse to the ar bitrary proceedings of BONAPARTE. According to this New, the people are in a state of actual insurrection in Arzias and 0 allic i a, and also in the districts of St.An- dero and Leon. Asturias alone, the writer describes, ' from the number and spirit of its population, as compe tent to a very material effort. Certainly, if the people are resolute, the nature of the country must render it peculiarly difficult and dangerous to any invader. An Assembly of Deputies from the Districts we have mentioned has already taken place at Oviedo, the r.pital of Asturias, by authority of which Assembly a f.rnial declaration of war has been published against th French Government. To this Assembly all the districts of Spain are invited to send deputies ; and it is proposed to convene the Corte:, in order to concert measures for the purpose of delivering the country :rom its present degradation. The Marquis de SANTA CRUZ, who is a Nobleman ,f considerable importance, particularly in Asturias, and who is in the vigour of youth, is appointed Ge neralissimo of the patriotic army. This army is al ready considerable, and promises rapidly to increase. The writer to whom we allude paints in the most glowing terms the ardour of the population, without distinction of age or sex, to promote the object of the insurrection. Ample time will, it is supposed, be afforded to this confederacy to provide arms and am munition, and to organize their plans, before Bot4n eAnTE can withdraw an adequate force from any other distri n et to interrtipt them. It is expected that the meeting at Oviedo will be attended by deputies from all parts of Spain. Great exertions are making by Government to Lead a speedy succour to the Spanish Patriots. Sir Aarutat WELirmazir, who is to have the principal command, and who, it was expected, would have left town two days ago for Cork, where the troops are assembling, was prevented by the Dublin Police Bill not having been disposed of till last night. To facilitate his departure the third reading of the Local Militia Bill was put off last night, to bring on the other. He will set off this night or.tamorrow ; but it is now said will not proceed to Cork, but go di rectly from the Downs for Spain with such troops as are ready, whither he will be followed by the Cork transports, as quickly as they can be got ready.--. This promptitude is creditable to Ministers, and will, we hope, be productive of its advantages. We understand that the Spanish Gentlemen who arrived two days ago, have stated, that for some tone the old King of Spain had wished to put himself THE ARMY. and family under the protection of the British fleet, and to have follow:d the example of the Porturueze Court, emigrating to South America; but they had not the means to make their wishes known aad were betrayed, it is believed, by the PRINCE of PEACE, who communicated their intentions to NAPOLECK. A series of bltu.ders followed, and the crisis was ptecipi tated which has hurled the family from the Throne. According to letters posted up at Lloyd's Coffee house, there are now three Spanish ports open to British ships, viz. Bilboa, St. Andero, and Gijoa. The Captain of a vessel which arrived yesterday from a port in the North of Europe, states, that at the time of his coming away, which was on tile 2d inst. a report prevailed, that the Emperor of RUSSIA had been poisoned. The port where the rumour pre vailed, which, from motives of commercial delicacy we forbear to mention, is adjacent to the Russian ter ritory. Yesterday dispatches were received at the Admi ralty from Sir SAMUEL Hoon, dated off Samsoc, May 15, announcing the capture of some valuable prizes; the particulars of which will appear in the Gazette of to-morrow evening.—Samsoe is a Danish island, between North Jutland and Zealand. Admiral TYLER is appointed second in command in the fleet under Sir C. COTTON, off Lisbon. His MAJESTY has been pleased to grant his Patent for three additional Fellows of Trinity College, Dub lin, to be added to the number of the Juniors ; which the Board have resolved to fill up gradually, by add ing one every year in which there is no vacancy. The changes among the Bishoprics in contempla tion, will create a vacancy in the Deanery of Glou cester, which it is said will be filled by the Rev. M. PLUMPTRE. Monday, the New Bank of Ireland in College green, Dublin, formerly the Parliament House, was opened for the dispatch of business ; the different Offices were much crowded. Last night her Grace the Duchess of MARLBO 7 ROUGH had a Grand Assembly at Blenheim-house, adjoining to the Palace of St. James's. As the Frettch would say in their characteristic strain of hyperbole, all the world was to be seen at that seat cf elegance and fashion. The Earl of KENMARE has set out from his scat, near Killarney, for England, accompanied by his amiable daughter-Lady &lARY ANNE. The Duke of ANGOULENE had arrived at Stockholm on the 24th ult. A large body of troops, not less than 10,000 men, destined for Spain, have been all assembled, and a considerable part of them embarked with that secrecy and expedition, which certainly characteriie the pre sent Government. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY will have the chief command, with some of the ablest young General Officers under him. We believe that, among others, this army will consist of a detachment of the Staff Corps, a detachment of the Royal Artillery ; the 2d Regiment of Light Dragoons ; the %I Foot, or Queen's ; the sth, 9th, 36th, 38th, 40th, 45th, 60th, (sth or Rifle Battalion,) 71st, Highlanders, and the 95th or Rifle Corps. One Hundred men of the 2d Battalion of the 9th Regiment marched into Dover yesterday morning from Canterbury, and embarked on board the Colum bine transport, to join the Ist Battalion now in Ireland: that ship, and the Agincourt, which took on board two companies of the Rifle Regiment on Wednesday, both sailed yesterday morning for the Downs, to wait for convoy and a fair wind, to take them to their des tination. The 89th Regiment received ..orders last week to march to Manchester from Shrewsbury, and had pro ceeded the length of Whitchurch, when their march was countermanded, and they returned to Shrewsbury. The c.!ti battalion of the 82d regiment is at present stationed at Scarborough. The Hereford Militia has been suddenly ordered from Hull to Rochdale. The Leicester Militia have commenced their march from Horsham barracks for Hastings, and they will be replaced by the West Middlesex. _ Wednesday se'nnight, two troops of the 19th Dra goons marched into Birmingham, to replace the 4th Dragoon Guards, ordered to Manchester. The 2d battalion of the 45th regiment is on its route to Manchester. - Monday the 9th Veteran Battalion were inspected at Edinburgh by Major-General SCOTT. Th.! Inver ness-shire Militia were reviewed on Tuesday, and the Royal Lanarkshire on Wednesday, by the same officer. The Annandale and Eskdale battalion of the Dum friesshire Volunteers, together with the Yeomanry Cavalry, are on permanent duty at Dumfries. They are a fine body of men, and have devoted much of their time, and foregone many comforts, in equipping and training themselves for the defence of their King and Country. EAST INDIA COBIPANY.—The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons states, that the demand of the Company upon the Public amounts to 88,461,331, and the demand of the Public upon the Company to £3,960,912, leaving a balance due to the Company of k 1,500,419. THE PANTOLOGIA, now publishing in manthly parts, in the royal octavo size, possesses all the ad vantages of other Encyclopaedias, and is, besides, particularly distinguished by two circumstances :- Ist. It is a general Dictionary of /Yards, as well as of Arts and Sciences, comprehending every word in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary ; and, 2dly, all the plates in the department of Natural History are beautiful& coloured. The fourth part, just published, contains, in addition to plates relative to Astronomy, Archi tecture, and Pneumatics, far,. colour cl OM?, exhibiting subjects in Anatomy, Zook , ,ti, anti Ichthyo lo g y. The engraved figures of the Acipenter Hilly (or isintrLu-, Sturgeon), and the Gotha Cataphracius (or Mail-...d Bull-head), are coloured with a delicacy and accuracy unequalled in any English work. The History of the PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 9. • ,theory of Arches contains much information that will be perfectly new to the merely English reader: while Arrived his Majesty's ships PLu ro and EURYDICE, the articles Ami araliels and Areopagus point out im- from Plymouth.—Wind S. W. DEAL, JUNE 9. portant errors relative to those topics, Which have been Yesterday evening, as a boat belonging to a collier, copied from one Dictionary into another for more than a century. Besides many valuable and inte- lying in the Downs, was returning to the vessel, it resting single articles, comprehensive and accurate/ unfortunately upset, the crew being intoxicated. One, Treatises on Algebra, Anatomy, Architecture, and Arith-iman and a boy were drowned, the master of the vessel meth-, are already given in this work, and that oni and another man, nearly exhausted, were taken up by Astronomy is commenced. The Gentlemen engaged I a Deal boat which launched to their assistance, and in this extensive undertaking have devoted much of were put on board the TRUSTY man of war, by one of their time for some years past, in collecting and ar-; her boats ; since which I am informed they are nearly ranging materials in their respective departments ._ : recovered. Arrived the VinaGo gun brig, from Wa so gnat, as the mode of publication adopted, is in 'the terford, with the Rolla, Eliza, Harriet, and John, due medium between the extremes of great rapidity which have passed through for the River ; BEAGLE and tedious slowness, it maybe confidentially affirmed, and FLY sloops; DESPERATE, MARINER, THRASHER, that the PANTALOGIA will be free from the numerous and BOLD gun brigs, from a cruize ; Earl Spencer blunders and omissions which have been too com- cutter from Ireland. Sailed. the FLAMER gun brig monly complained of in some hasty and mutilated . for Harwich, with seven sail of transports having productions, which have recently been laid before troops on board, which arrived in the Downs a few the public. Idays since from Ireland ; FLY, MARINER, FLAMER, Cott° nra's INOUesr.—Yesterday evening a Coroner's Inquest and ESCORT, on a cruize.—Wind W. was held at the Cock and Castle, Kingsland, upon the body of YARMOUTH, JUNE 9. Reuben Main, a boy of ten years of age, supposed to have been the Sailed M AJESTIC, Admiral RUSSELL, and the murdered by his father. It appeared front the evidence taken before Mr. UNwIN, the Coroner, that Reuben Main, the fa- NASSAU, of 64. guns, on a cruize off the 'rexel • and ther of the deceased, who worked as a brick-maker in the fields the CLYDE frigate for the Downs. In the Roads,: the of Mr. Rhodes, at Kingsland, cohabited with a woman of the I R OEBUCK , STATELY, and AMIABLE frigates ; FORRES name of Anne Smith, wbo was not the mother of the deceased, who was constantly endeavouring to exasperate the father and CaNsoit and PINCHER TER Sloop, gun-brigs.— and against the son. On Thursday night, the 2d instant, at the White Wind S.E. From LLOYD'S LIST. Hart public-house, in Hornsey, he was heard to express an inten tion of setting fire to the sand-houses, and afterwards he obtained i GRAVESENN J ant 9. -Passed by the Maria, Smith, front a match from the landlady, it is supposed, for that purpose.— : erm Rella, Per y, from Maim • Swans (a prize), M‘iy, About one o'clock in the morning of the 3d, the people who slept I B erm uda; Portsmouth ; ard the Friendship:l umberry, from Cork.— in the brick-field were alarmed by the cry of fire, and it was dis- • Sailed the Leonidas, Blakeston, for Newfoundland ; &talus, covered, that the outside but of a row of six hovels was in Coor, and the Susannah, Brooks, for Madeira. pe flames; and that Reuben Main, the father, and Ann Smith, ! Ihe Elizabeth aftd Mary,Thompson, for London front Jamaica, had made their escape from the adjoining sand-house, which they ,is supposed to be captured by a French privateer. occupied, but had left the child within. This fact was not dis- . The Mercury, Mason, from New Brunswick for Jamaica, has closed to the by-standers until the hut, which was supposed to , been taken, re-taken, and carried into Jamaica. contain the deceased, was nearly consumed, when the father j The Fanny, Rohe, from London for Hayti, Is captured and ear seemed to express some anxiety for the safety of his son. Durin g , tied into Porto Cavello. the interval between the discovery of the fire, and the de- I The Dryade, Harsborough, bound to London, was lost at Ja struction of Main's hut, the cries of the child had not been heard. ' maica, on the 13th of April. Upon searching the ruins the body of the deceased was however I Extract of a letter from Captain Hor.stas, of the BraokWatson, found, with the feet and head nearly burnt from the body, and ; from London, dated from Annetta Bay, (Jamaica) 13th of April, the entrails protruded through the abdomen. It was not till • 1808.—" 1 arrived here on the 18th alt. after being chased for 12 after three messages that the father of the child could be induced j hours by a Spanish schooner, of one 24-pounder and te n 18-pound to come and examine the body ; and when he arrived, he treated : carronades ; when being nearly within gun - sh ot, the 'Tweed hove the affair with apparent indifference. One of the witnesses, who lln sight, it being then calm, round the west-end of St. Domingo. was a brick-maker, deposed, that he met Reuben Main and ; She lowered down three boats, with 50 men, which came on board Anne Smith on their : way from the fire, when the former told the and remained all night." latter that if she remised, she was a dead woman. A medical EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM R IG A, DATED M A Y 7. Gentleman, of the name of Savage, attended, who had seen the " I mentioned in my last that the ice had left our river ; and body before burial, and who deposed, that to his recollection there ; new we have three arrivals—a Lubecker, a yes , el from Oporto were no external marks of violence, excepting what might be at- and an American. The arrival of the American vessel put a little tributed to the fire ; but, for the further satisfaction of the Jury, life intb things yesterday, but only for a moment, as the orders it was ordered, that the body should be taken up to be re-exams- that are here give us no hopes of trade. There has been an order ped, that it might be ascertained, by a more minute inspection, here since two post days, that no vessel coming from England shall whether any previous violence had been committed on the child. be penni•ted to enter this port, under whatever flag it may 14 (the The examination of the several witnesses on this distresdng occa- Russian ships corning from England are of course excepted) ; and don., occupied the Jury nearly two hours and a half; and after the the shippers of goods are to g ive bond, equal to the amount of the maconsideration of the matter, with the assistance of the Coroner, goods they ship, that they are not to be landed In England. `Tweet for about a quarter of an hour, a verdict was found of Wilful needless commenting on this order; the consequences are evident. Murder against Reuben Main ; toad Anne Smith was declared an I understand that our Port Captain has an order not to allow any accessary to the crime. , vessels to load here." NZ U7'lCilL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JUNE 7. Sailed the Witinsoa CASTLE packet, Captain SUT TON, for Halifax and New York ; and the DUKE OF KENT packet, Captain LAWRENCE, for Barbadoes and Jamaica.—Wind N. W. TORBAY, JUNE s. Arrived his Majesty's ship I'IMPETVEUX, from Ply mouth, and rzmuins with the Channel Fleet. PLYMOUTH, JUNE s. Sailed his Majesty's ships Rams. GEORGE, 110 guns, to join the Channel fleet ; EURYDICE, 32 guns, for Portsmouth ; and Aviv, 24 guns, for Ports mouth, haling under her convoy several Portu guese ships. Came down from Hamoa7e and an chored in Cawsand Bay, his Majesty's ship HERO, of 74 guns. LAZY INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'. BENCH, JUNE WINTER W. mimes. This was an action against the Sheriff of Middlesex for a false return of nal& bona to aft. fa. issued by the Plaintiff, who was a creditor for the sum of ‘5OOO and upwards, against his Royal tlighness the Duke • of Sussex. The question was, whether the Defen dant had done wrong in making this return, the only goods of the Defendant being in the Royal Palace, at Kensington, and it being contended on the .. of the Defendant, that as a Royal Palace, the ordinary civil process of the Court could not be executed there. It was proved, that a housekeeper was appointed kept there by the Crown, and that all the furniture in the Palace, in which the Royal Duke had apartments, was supplied at the expence of the Crown. The only goods of his Royal Highness which could nave been seized, even if it were not a privileged place, were of very small value, and consisted of a bed-waggon, which originally cost about ASO, two or three time pieces, a policy, a phaeton, and an old vis-a-vis. Lord ELLENnonoOcti left the case to ,he Jun - , upon the fact, whether this was a Royal Palace and a Royal Residence, and said it was not necessary to constitute it as such, that his Majesty should actually i sleep there, if it was provided and kept for his occa -1 sional convenience. The Jury found a verdict for the Defendant. WILLIAMS V. TILE RXEOLTTORS OF BARCLAY. An action for debt incur, ed by the di ceased, in con sequence of his breach of covenant with the Plaia:Ar, with whom he had contracted to marry. It being a specialty debt, it was contended the Execut , a-s bound to discharge it in preference to simple contract debts. The plea was plene adminiatravit ; and that the deceased was, at the time he should have ful filled his contract, in so infirm a state of healt ► s be unit to marry. The facts were these—the deceased was a young man, living in the Plaintiff's family, iii St. Clement'slane , and fell in love with the Plaintiff, a virtuous young woman. In 1802, Mr. Barclay being about to visit his relations in Scotland, executed the contract in question before he set off, engaging to marry the Plaintiff within twelve months from the date of the deed, S ptember 20th, 1802 ; or, in default, to pay her an annuity of £lOO a year so long as the marriage was delayed on his part. If not married at the end of three years, then the annuity to be. £l5O. Returning from Scotland, Mr. Bar clay went again to reside in the Plaintiff's family, and the marriage was about to he solemnized, when Mr. Barclay, on his military duties as a Volun teer, caught cold, which confined him to his bed. His illness increasing, he was removed to Judd-place, Somers -town, for better air, but in December follow ing he died. He was at all times disposed to fulfil his contract ; and, on a voyage to Madeira being re commended, the Plaintiff herself applied for advice, in order that they might be married. After his death, the executors received £lOOO as executors, and hav ing paid £BOO in the discharge of simple contract debts, offered the Plaintiff a portion of the reniaining £2OO in discharge of this contract. Mr. GARROW contended; tharthe executors were bound to satisfy this specialty debt before they dis charged those of the simple contracts ; but they pre ferred the latter, to the injury of this lady; who was the object of the testator's affection. Mr. SCAItLETT, on the other side, contended, that the lady appeared rather . more attached to the pro perty than to the person of the testator. Be that as it might, the testator was not in a condition to per form this contract, on account of bodily infirmity, being consumptive, and which disease caused his death. . Sir Ashly Cooper proved that the testator; cal his return from Scodand, in'lBo2, had a weakness in tl.e lunettkely to end in death. - ELLENBOROUGH observed, that it could hardly be the wish of the parties to press for a strict legal de cision; and therefore thought the executors. should pay over the £:200 of the remaining . assets to the ' plaintiff, and each party pay their own costs. Agreed to—Verdict accordingly. • His Lordship then.observed, that this covenant was nut broken, if the testator was not in health to per form it. OLD BAILEY. Yesterday seven prisoners were tried, fOur whom wzre convicted of felony, viz. Wiliam Donington, John Barrow, Mary Smith, and Joia Stokes. _ _ And three were acquitted. Same day the Sessions ended, when sentence of transportation for seven years was passed on Jane Day, Thomas Moran, John Green, James Tolly , France; Spencer, IVary Lewis, Sarah Edwards, John Kenton, alias Brooks, Thomas Alldridge, John Wilson, James Clark, Thomas White, Sara% Kettle, Ann Powell, Robert Passley, Joseph Lebeck, James Tollson, William Lowe, Watkin Roberts, Mary Evans, Richard Abrams, Mary Jones, Ann Hodges, sen. and Thomas Hutchins. Ann Covey and Mary Tolman alias Crawley, were mite:iced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction, Cletkenwell, for two ,years each. Three to be imprisoned in the same gaol for twelve calendar months each; one of whom, viz. Peter Jones, to be publicly whipped 100 yards at St. Giles's. Fourteen to be imprisoned for six calendar months each. Three to be imprisoned in Newgate for one year each, viz. Saachaar, Glosse, and Savan (Malays), for manslaughter. Sixteen to be imprisoned in the same gaol for various periods. Six to be privately, and one publicly, whipped. Ten fined ls. each and discharged, and fifty-nine were dies I charged by Proclamation. The Sessions adjourned to the lath of Idly. Wednesday night, or early yesterday morning, Mr. WILLI tstsores house, of South Lambeth, was broken open, and robbed of a quantity of plate and valuable w,:aring-apparel. This is the second time 'within the short space of fifteen months that this house has be( n plundered. LITERARY Fustn.—The Members of this melt -nt Institution held their Annual Dinner on Wednesday last, at the Ship Tavern, Greenwich. The President, Vice Presidents, Council, and Committee, were in vited by the LRD MAYOR to accompany him in the city state barge. They embarked at King's-stairs, Tower, and proceeded to the West India Docks, a f. ter viewing which they went to Greenwich, where they landed about four o'clock. The Duke of SO.. MBRSET took the chair, and was supported by the Earls of R AMOR, GLENDORE I MOUNTNO Rn is, Viscount VALENTIA, the LORD MAYOR, &C. &c. After dinner, " The KING," and " The Prince of WALES, the Pa• tron of the Literary Fund," were given, and received with the greatest applause. •