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. LAST-INDIES. MADRAS, OCTOBER 10. General Ward (recently arrived from England) is directed t be President of a Court-Martial which is to assemble on the 20th instant at Bangalore, for the trials of Lieutenant-Colonels John Ball, John Dove ton, and Major Storey, who were concerned in the late unhappy disputes, adverted to in my letter by the Ganges. lam sorry to say, that the mild and gra cious General Orders published by Lord Minto, on the 25th ult. have by no means had the effect in tended—in truth, discontent appears to pervade the Company's troops as much as ever. Nothing but the fear inspired by a potent and numerous body of the King's troops keeps those Officers in check. The declaration (or test of obedience) which Lord Minto directs to be signed, is exactly the same as that ten dered to the army by Sir George on the 26th of July last ; and which nine-tenths of the officers, of all ranks and corps, refused to sign ; and, in consequence of which refuial, they were exiled to the sea coast, on both sides of the Peninsula ; there the major part of them still remain, and there is every reason to suppose, that many of them will finally decline signing. How Lord Minto will act concerning them, we have yet to learn. He is aware, no doubt, that the fire is only covered, and it may break out with greater violence than before. The King's I.lth Foot, the finest regi ment in India, is, therefore, ordered from Bengal, and hourly expected to arrive. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, JANUARY 23. Last night the Boadicea, one of our cruizers, ar rived from the Mauritius ; she brings the unpleasant intelligence, that our prisoners have not been sent to India for exchange, es we had previously been led to suppose ; and what is still more afflicting, the Go vernor had intimated his determination not to ex change them on any terms. The Leopard has been joined to the squadron on the Bombay station. GERMAN PAPERS. The Deputies from Hanover, appointed to take the oath of allegiance to their new Sovereign, on the part of the people, arrived at Cassel on the I.lth ult. The States of Westphalia had been previously assembled ; and on the introduction of the Deputies, Patje, their Chief, addressed JeitomE as follows : " SiaE -All Hanoverians appear before your Majesty to de posit at the foot of your throne the respectful marks of !heir sob nii‘sion. The countries of Hanover were the first in the North of Germany halzen by the war now terminated. For these seven years, our finances, agriculture, and trade ; our population and cireulatirm of ready money, have greatly increased. DiviNC PRO• VIDE NC I: has reserved to your Majesty the salutary work of heal ' Int , our wounds, to restore peace and tranquillity to our families, and secure our general happiness.—Sire ! this political regenera- Coti, reserved for your virtues and high qualities is, above all things, worthy of the august name you hear. History will pre se:•ve tor ever the glorious remembrance of the vast victories to which your Majesty's name G joined ; but it will, with peculiar pkasure, consecrate in all hi-arts the recollection of the benefits yo •r Majesty shall bestow on all classes of your subjects. Please yucr Majesty, 19 surround your throne with a new, a happy, grateful, and faithful people." Jettoran niade the following reply : " Gentlemen, Deputies of Hanover! With pleasure i receive from you this first homage. I thank you for the zeal with which you bring it me. I know the evils that oppress you. Happy shall 1 be in endeavouring to cure them, and procuring you better days. The treaty which unites you with my kingdom, unites you again wink the Continent, from which you appeared to be parted, and brings you und-r the protection of the great system which se cures to you peace and tranquillity for a long time. I know what influence all habits have on the spirit and affection of nations, but I know also your morality and enlightened minds. I believe, therefore, in the oath you arc just taking to me ; and your senti ments of honour are guarranteas to me, that there is not one perjurer among you. You shall forthwith increase the family of any old subjects. Be their devotion towards me your imitation, and your may rely on it, that I will also bear the same love and are for you in my heart." GERONA, FEB. 27, 1810.— ORDER OF THE DAY. His Excellency the Marshal of the Empire, the Duke of Castiglinte, Governor General of Catalonia, and General in Chief of the Army, being informed that great assemblages of troops had entered Olot, where they were levying contributions, and ill treat ing the inhabitants ; his Excellency, grateful for the good reception which the inhabitants gave our troops on their entrance into that city at the e.td of Decem ber last, ordered a strong column of troops to march thither, under the command of Colonel Geither, Com mandant of the infantry of the Duchy of Berg. The column defeated and dispersed the enemy, and re stored trangailiity in the whole of that district. These insurgents had the audacity, on the 20th tilt. to ap pear before Besalu, and to attack that post. By the judicious arrangements of Colonel Geither, and the undaunted valour of his troops, 150 of the banditti were killed or wounded, and the rest were compelled to fly. His Excellency cenycys with pleast:re to Co lonel Geither, and the troops under his command, his extreme satisfaction with the good conduct and intre pidity which they displayed in this affair. Signed by order of the Marshal, I.EI.ONG, Colonel. PETERSI3IJRGH, MARCH in. Prince Repnin, our present Envoy at CosF.el, is said to have been anointed Amtwsador frem his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias to the Court of Ma drid, for which capital he was speedily to set out with all the Legation. The course of exhange here "as yesterday 11 sch. b.lnco on Hamburgh. Colonial produce has consi derably fallen in price ; the market here is greatly overstocked in consequence of its consumption in the interior of the empire being entirely prohibited under t'ie existing obstructions to commerce. LEYDLN, APRII._6. It is reported that, by virtue of a special conven tion between France and Prussia, all the Prussian coasts are to be occupied by French troops, until the conclusion of a peace with England. of August. My secret summons of the 4th of Au gust, which was circulated from district to district, has rendered immense numbers wretched, and made my passage into the other world in the highest de gree painful. On the other side of the grave, I be hold a rigorous Judge, who takes account of our mi- nutest transgressions. " Over the passage which I am just entering, I be hold inscribed in glowing characters, 4 What have you done ? Why did you do it ?' Those who have fallen through my means, demand back their lives.— Multitudes of wives, sisters, children, address me with bitter lamentations—' give me back my husband, my brother, my father!' I see the habitations and posses sions of whole families a prey to the flames, and the re flection—' this is your work,' pierces me to-the heart. I advance with a down.cast countenance, into the pre sence of my Judge, and confess that lam guilty. I stand before you, countrymen, as a criminal, and be seech you to forgive the calamities I have brought upon you; but I more particularly entreat you to be at all times observant of your duties, and never more to brandish the torch of insurrection, nor again, un mindful of your obligations, to strive against your own happiness. Religion, morality, and justice were on all occasions the expressions wherewith I incited you to resistance. Herein did I wrong ; for religion enjoins obedience to Sovereigns under all circumstan ces; morality prescribes order and submission, more peculiarly in a situation of urgency ; and justice clearly pronounces, that he who has once been justly put in possession of any thing, canr.ot, without in justice, be despoiled of it. " It was I who acted contrary to religion, morality, and justice; and all who co-operated with me are bound to join with me in this confession. Yes ! coun trymen, it was a self-interest of the meanest descrip tion that tempted us to forget our duties to God, our Sovereign, and our Country, and not to represent our actual situation in a true light. This, and not the welfare of all, was what we had at heart. Each wished to make booty for himself and to despoil his neighbour. With tears of the bitterest sorrow, I take my last leave of you : and entreat you all, Tyrolese, henceforth to renounce every thought of insurrection, in the conviction, that an all-governing Providence takes from and gives to nations rulers, adjusts the relations of States, and has these thousands of years governed tile world with omnipotence and wisdom.— To me it is no longer permitted to implore forgive ness of our injured but good King. Eut to you it. belongs to do so. Do it, and henceforth be the most faithful of subjects, in like manner as our fore fathers were to their rulers ; for which conduct they are highly celebrated in the past history of our country. I go to give my account in the other world, strength ened by a confident hope that you will give heed to these my exhortations. I prepare for death, which I have justly merited.—Alas ! I am already in its arms —forgive me, and long may you continue to shout, , Long live King Maximilian 1" 'll - 11., EV EN] NG STA It. BOTZEN, MARCH is. f•Alowinlgfarewell address of Andrew Hoffer to his countrymen, is now circulating in the Tyrol : Tyrolese, countrymen, all yen► who have known me and witnessed my conduct, but particularly you tvlu I hay Lt!ducLd to a participation in my guilt —listen to me. l address you on the threshold of eternity, and a few moments before my entrance into the ookty.wo world of reward or punishment. What say t you is sacred until ; I stand on the brink of eray:•, here no mortal ever uttered a f►lsehood. A heavy burden of crimes—the greatest crime that Cr a subject committed against his Sovereign 7,re,se, like lead upon my soul. What in particular lies heavy upon mi.:, is what I have done since the Ist LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL IG. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per C. COWL money, 693 —aec. 69k 70. Reduced 641-4 per Cent. 831-5 per Cent. Navy 99ii, Exchequer Bills 94. 16s. prem.—Bonds 135.:195. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. Bank Stock '2 , 19 India Stack 1854 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 6814; India Bonds 126.155. pry. S per Cent. Cons. 69ii 4 Exc. Bills, 9s. 12s. pr. 4 per Cent. 83=} Omnium -- 5 per Cent. Navy 9944} Lottery Tickets 524. Is. Long Ann. 181 .5-16 Consols for Ace. 694 70 German Papers to the 3d instant have arrived, from which we have made a few extracts, among which is the answer of King JERONIE to the Hanoverian De puties. The French Law of Conscription has been adopted into the Danish Code. A Diet is to be held this month of the Confederation of the Rhine, when the Protector is to announce the further exchanges of lerritory on which he has determined. A paper has been circulated purporting to be a recantation by the allant Hermit of all his patriotic principles, but it is evidently a most contemptible fabrication. Dutch Papers to the 7th have also arrived, con taining a list of the American vessels captured and se questrated by the French in the ports of France, Spain, Holland, and Naples, for twelve months, ending the Ist instant, will be found in a preceding column. They amount to the number of 136, the value of which may be estimated at some millions. The effects of this system, however, it seems are not to be exclusively restricted to the countries under the immediate influ. ence of France. They are gradually to be extended' to the whole of the Continent. The principle is pro bably by this time in full operation throughout the whole of Denmark, if we can rely on the report of the Mate of an American ship, who arrived on Sa turday from Tonningen. He effected his escape on the 9th instant, at the hazard of his life, by putting to sea in a small boat, in consequence of its being understood that all American citizens would be seized I and put into confinement, until the future relations between France and America were ascertained. He also states, that a large French force had entered Holstein. The American Minister had not left Paris so late as the 6th instant, nor was it known that any prepara tions were making for his departure. It was, however, a general opinion there that war must take place be tween France and the United States. His Prussian Majesty has contented to allow the coasts of his kingdom to be occupied by French troops, until the conclusion of peace with this country. It is not impossible that She Emperor ALEXANDER may be invited to accede to a similar arrangement. The following letter is from an Officer belonging to one of the ships of war in the Tagus : 46 LISBON, APRIL 3. it We arrived here on the 26th ult. and found' every thing tranquil. There are a great number of merchant vessels in the Tagus, and trade, on the whole, is very brisk. The French are, however, in considerable force on the frontiers, and both armies have been in sight of each other for some time. The Douro, (which is not so wide as Hamoaze in its nar rowest part) at present separates the main body of 1 each army ; but detached parties of the enemy are continually crossing over, and skirmishes almost daily take place ; these have, hitherto, ended in favour of the British, who have, in different affairs of this kind, taken a considerable number of prisoners—sixty-eight were brought in yesterday. There are now lying in the Tagus, the BARFLEUR, 98, Honourable Admiral 1 GEORGE BERKELEY ; CESAR, 80, KENT and! IMPE- 1 TUEUX, 74, three sloops of war, and a number of 1 transports. Admiral BERKELEY is going to shift his flag to the CrESAR, in order that the BARFLEUR may Igo home to get some repairs. , g P. S. Accounts have just arrived here, that the French have received a reinforcement of several thou sand men ; and that they are preparing to cross the Douro at three different points. The news of a ge neral battle is hourly expected. Our army is in the best possible condition, and there is here no alarm or fear for the result. My next shall convey you the ' issue of the pending conflict; till then, Adieu ! Duty divides us: yet, to Fancy's eye, Remembrance paints the social homely scene; i And Friendship claims a tributary sigh, • When Recollection points the space between 1" Orders have been sent to Plymouth by the Lords of I the Admiralty, for the Gleaner ketch, or any other swift-sailing vessel, to sail for America, and from thence to the Island of Sombrero, and all the other West India Islands, to search for and endeavour to ascertain the fate of NATHANIEL JEFFERY, the seaman late belonging to the RECRUIT sloop of war, who was in humanly set on shore on the above-named barren rock of Sombrero, by his commanding officer, the Hops Captain LAKE. The Gleaner in consequence went into the Sound on Friday evening : she sails in pur suance of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S motion in the House of Commons ; and the persons who go out in her are ordered to have the unfortunate man advertised in all the American and West India papers ; and to be very minute in their search on Sombrero, to asc!.rtain whe ther any of his bones, or other trace of him remain there. Barbadoes papers to the 7th of March have been received ; by which we learn, that the Cork fleet, in stead of having been destroyed by the enemy, as was reported some says ago, bad arrived safely iaz the West Indies. • The Oratorios this season, have had tine! ampled attraction and Success. They concluded on Friday night with an overflowing house. The musical Selec tions, and indeed the whole arrangements for this sea son, reflect the highest credit on the Messrs. ASHLEYS, whose exertions for the pubitc entertainment it has long been our pride to record. The Opera on Saturday night was retarded for some time by an accident to the front row of lamps. The consequence was that the Ballet of Pirhe proceeded no farther than the middle of the second act when the clock struck twelve. The celebrated PAI'L BENFIET T. died at Paris, at the latter end of last month, in v:Jry indigent circum stances. His fortune on hi- !,4-.urn from India, a few years ago, was supposed to ccilsiderably exceed half a million sterling. Married, on Friday the 13th instant, at Maidstone, by the Rev..lnstas REEVE, ELY CRVMP, L,i. surgeon to his Majesty's Forces, to MARIA Lovis., eldest daughter of the late FLINT STACEY, Esq. Thursday se'nnight the first stone of the intended new Pier at Margate was laid with the usual forma lities. A duel was lately fought at Paris between two comedians (M. PRESQUE and M. DOULE) of the Theatre Francois, in consequence of a quarrel occa . - sioned by jealousy, both h tying for some time paid their addresses to the same Lady. It is not a little singular that both gallants are upwards of sixty years of age, and the object of their tender flame on the verge of seventy. They were attended to the field— the former by his son, the latter by his nephew. On the first fire, M. Doute was wounded in the arm, when a reconciliation took place. Friday a Court-Martial was held at Plymouth, on I . Mr. Ellis, carpenter of his Majesty's sloop the PEA cocx, for contempt to his superior officer. The charge being only in part proved, he was sentenced to be ! severely reprimanded, and admonished to be more cir cumspect in his conduct for the future. Saturday Mr. W—N, M. I'. attended, with his Solicitor, at Bow-street Office, to complain against a woman, who had considerably annoyed him. The defendant stated, that she had a child by the com plainant, for which she had received an insufficient maintenance • Mr. W. replied, that he had already paid £1.3, and that she had reported the child to be dead, but now contradicted it, and alledgeci, she had seen it within a few days, and that she had ex pended upwards of £lOO which she insisted on his repaying, otherwise she would never leave him. On this, Mr. W. swore, he considered his life to be in danger, and the defendant was compelled to find bail to keep the peace. Saturday evening, an inhabitant of ChandOs-street, was charged with forging the acceptance of Mr. Strickland, of Richmond, to several bills, for one of which Mr. Strickland had been arrested on Saturday. The prosecutor, however, not being in possession of the bill, caused a defect in the evidence ; and the pri soner was ordered to find security for his appearance on a future day. Saturday three men were committed from Bow street for trial, charged with picking pockets. Tak ing advantage of the curiosity or interest which, from recent events, is now more than usually directed to the movements of the military, these men constantly followed the city guards) and while one stopped to tell to any persons he could induce to stop some pre tended service or object of the guard, such as to carry Sir F. BURDETT to the House of Commons to be re. primanded, &c. his associates.ivere busied in empty. mg the pockets of his auditors. _ ' THE ARMY. The following is a List of the Troops stationed at present in London and its environs, CAVALRY. Two Regiments of Life Guards ; td and 3cl Dragoon Guards Royal Horse Guards Blue; sth Light Dragoons; 10th Light Dragoons; 15th Light Dragoons; Horse Artillery, two troop;, with twelve cannon and howitzers. Total 3600, exclusive of the City Light Horse, the River Fencibles, and other Volun teer Corps. INFANTRY. Royal Artillery; Guards, five Battalions; 11th Foot; 26th ditto ; 51st ditto ; 52d ditto; 7th Veteran Battalion ; Lotion) Militia, East and West; Tower Hamlets, two Battalions ; North York Militia ; Huntingdonshire ditto; Cambridge ditto ; Cornish ditto ; Westmorland ditto. Total 16,000.—Amount ing in the whole, cavalry and infantry, to 19,600 men. All of which are stationed at the following places, it, and about the Capital, viz. Knightsbridge; the Duke of Glo'ster's Riding-house, Hyde-Park, Portman square Barracks, Horse Guards, King's Mews, Soho square, Savoy, Gray's-Inn-lane, City Road, St. Luke's Hospital, Worship -street, Tower and Tower-hill, Bow, Stratford, Hackney, Highgate, Hampstead, and Islington, on the North side of the Thames ; the Borough, Lambeth, Camberwell, Deptford, Green ; wick, and Blackheath, on the South side of the I Thames. From these stations regular piquets are in readiness to be sent out to almost every street in the metropolis, to assist the civil power, if necessary. In reserve, and within a day's march of the me. tropolis, there are about 15,000 men, cavalry, in fantry, &c. The Earl of RossLYN commands the cavalry, and the whole, horse and foot, are under the personal command of Sir DAVID Dutinits, assisted by the Staff of the Home District, and other General Officers, who have attended their brigades now brought for- ward. The head-quarters of the 26th are removed to Mitcham, with detachments at Morden, and the neighbouring villages. The sth, 10th, and 15th Light Dragoons, to gether with two troops of Horse Artillery, were this morning reviewed in Hyde-Park. Orders to this effect were sent on Saturday from the War•Oflice. At one time they occupied the whole of Rotten-row from Kensington-Gate to Hyde-Park-Corner ; and with their new and splendid uniforms glittering to the sun, made a grand and martial appearance. Monday morning the first division of the Fifeshire Militia marched from Musselburgh for Aberdeen. The 75th Regiment is on its march from Aber deen, Stonehaven, &c- towards Glasgow, where they are expected to halt for some time. Their destina tion is Ireland, as we have already mentioned. _The Honourable Brigadier-General STEWART, Lieutenant-Colonel WATERS. and Lieutenant FITZ CLARENCE, left town, on Thursday night, to embark on board the AMETHYST frigate at Plymouth, fur Portugal. Return of the number of Yeomanry and Volunt , 7er effective, in each County of Great Britain, according to the return of December last.—Total 77,288. The returns of Effectives in December last have not been received from the following Counties, viz. Devon, Elgin, Nottingham, Orkney, Peebles, and Suffolk ; nor from the Isle of Man. M a r. a ß ym AN ar N , : ( S e l t 'E i rt i c e l: t s r e e d t i o lis a ß c ut i /g .ow et il 7 d S an at d ur g d e a n y te a e t i h s e pe se r r fo v r ic rn e a , n ,f ce ti s i . e ye H ai e , l a )a n s d r t li a se t d w a id n for e h t audience. His success had been equal to the merit ample mosth the su P ifer ) : feet consent of the public. Hvne-PanK.—Tliis char ming place was, yester day, visited by all the Fashicnables of Westminster, as well as a numerous assemblage of visitors from the East-end of the town. At four o'clock, the lines of carriages from Kensington-Gardens to Hyde-Park- Corner were four in tireadth ; the concourse of eques trians was numerous in proportion. Te female costume assumed a more settled aspect than has been observed for the last two or three weeks, and spring fashions seem to be confirmed. Spencers, of figured sarsnet, were very general; they are of a medium length in the waist, and principally of rose, pink, straw, viola, and azure colours. Short pelisses, reaching to the calf of the leg, were numerous, and much taste and fancy was excited in their colouis and ornaments. White chip hats and lace] veils, white satin caps, straw hats and artificial flowers, were uni versal ; and sandals, laced high over the instep, have superseded half-boots. Amongst the beaux, great coats were consigned to the wardrobe. Of body-coats, in the shapes of which there has been an alteration—bottle-green, corheau, mixtures, claret, and brown, seem to be the prevail ing colours. White and brown s mall-clothes, and jockey-boots, were very general, but grey pantaloons and hessians seemed to be the favourite walking-dress. Rotten-row mustered in morc than usual force. — The visitants were much increased from the tallith& of military officers, drawn to town by the late Ist urb• antes, who exhibited their superiority of horsern.t::: , !ol; in a very prominent view. Lord HAWSE, Mr. flux- TON, Lord SEFTON, Sir JOHN Lam:, and oth;.r cele brated Members of the Barouche and Four-innanl Clubs, made their appearance about two o'clock. Amongst the distinguished personages observable in the gay throng, were— Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and Cumberlar, the Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Earls of Westmoreland, Can den, and Bathurst ; Lords Ellenbornugh , Newark, Coduane General Mathews, Sir Archibald Hamilton, Sir Godfrey We ~ Bulkely Craven, &c. Several Officers of the 13111 1.4:11t Dragoons, Oxford Blues, and Life Guards, in their full uniform ; the Pers,an Ambassador, &c. &c. the Duchesses of Manchester and I.erd 3 . the Marchionesses of Salisbury and Bath, the Countess of School Lady Pole, Lady Harvey, kr. kr. The Drive was crowded, almost beyond precedent, with veitures of infinite elegance and taste, comprisT.g. all the Jehas of dash in town, who occasionally drel up in the space before the sate of ingress, to the io• minent danger and great inconvenience of the fot• passengers.