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r • atanatp, MARCH 19. NINS &mom At MOUT. Sunday the 1 3 th instant, such important siete Sue ' , e taken pla ce, that the hurry in which I efn e pill ne t allow m e ,to arrange them in a proper c e rtain • • in telligence having been received •of • eler' to Emperor of France coming here, it was asked on King, and at the request of the Admi & Pa rt () f the a s, prince reaFe), what was the object of his Iley,and w hither his troeps were directed to marcht aa wer was, that he came in a peaceable manner, aa — r aed of the nation, and to make a Prince •pi, e King, with his natural simplicity, and tsa tisfaction , sh ewed this letter to the Ad el° b -a h-ebeine i mm ediately aware of • the blow °l:6dt who, him, prepared to make arrange to es cape to Mex ico, takin g with him the King, aelt s t he succeeded in persuading to follow him, ap-, ... or hi m w i t h what they had to fear from the ar -7...aci the 1 1 `" Emperor and his troops ; and for this pur the Admiral took out of theßoyal Chest, 36. mil tv;seftiais. In the course of last month, he had sent m illi o ns to Corunna , which were destined trade sixty e l k d en , where he has forty millions of dollars.— oe Wednesday, he arrived in Madrid, and withdrew co s o d* M the evening, according to his usual ow n, to Aranjuez. As soon as he arrived there, o il e d a meeting of the Council, in which the flight of their hiajesties was discussed. The following day cceday),early in the morning, the signatures of the erson s were collected , and wh en Ca tr;Prin'sturnciP4 P ca me, he said that he did not chuse to . 0 ear s h ou ld he allow them to do what they intend. represented to him in the most earnest s' el 'The King runner the danger in which they found themselves ;: t h e general discontent of the people of Madrid, de. : e anded his head, (as the Admiral had falsely made • him believe). Cavallero said that there was ne such Mil, that all was false, and that he had been deceived. The King immediately answered—do they deceive ) Do they betray me ? Who is the traitor ? me • Th t i s the yentleman, pointing to the Admiral, who drew his sword. The Council i mmediately broke up. • Thei m e eipal party consisting of Cav eller°, the Prince, •Ajt e nere, Fernando Nunes, who they saw was woun ded, as were most of the Grandees. This happened • atnightth : at the noise the Life Guards entered, and a mong em the Halbert bearers, and s oon of ter ads' t he mob. The project, which was for some time only suspect. s e was ascertained by the orders given to, he in th I.ife e Guards. On the f ollowin g day (Monda) • toning, the Life Guards tock post on the road of canna. The Hall of the Council and the whole of tee Palace presented a scene of popular tumult. Some of the Guards cried out " Kill him!" others " Seize km!" and some pointed the sword to his breast. The Prince of Asturias clung to the Admiral, who • Flacing himself between the troops with fixed bayou- ea, fled to his house, or concealed himself in the Palace, and the Queen to her apartment. On Wednes der, in the evening, a mail arrived, with an order for C the ganison of Madfid to assemble and prepare to march. At seven o'clock at night the bearers et these ekes went to all the coffee-houses, and wherever :her found officers or guards, directed them to join their corps, and through the whole town the ear rages and horses were put into r equisitio n. The he :els remained all day in the i r quarters, which of them were en any account permitted to leave, and much fermentation was observed among the people. And it was a matter of joy to them to go to the house of the Admiral, to see that he had no longer a guard of hussars. The Council of Castille met the same day, and continued in deliberation from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon, to answer the two ques tions of the King, whether he should leave the coun 'l!, and whether lais people were disturbed ? to which nestions the reply was, that he ought rot to leave the stery, ;tor would they allow hint to do so. That the rople were quiet and loved him, as he might himself se, if he would come to • Madrid. This and the thole of the preceding day, nothing but complaints, clamours, and farewells, were heard in Aranjuez, e cause the King entertained the project cf departing, until two in the afternoon, when a courier arrived from Napoleon, assuring him that he came with pa t& intentions. This intelligence was immediately promulgated, and the lamentations were converted into shouts of joy, ccmgratulations, and embraces through ut allAranjuez. The Patriarch returned home full of joy, exclaiming, "nothing is the matter, every thing is " lettled, go and make it public , let ever y one know. At half past eleven o'clock the same day, five loaded waggons passed through Aranjuez. Silva and Don Vineent arrived and brought the news, and a courier j dispatched by Cavallero brought it to Government, with a charge to proclaim, as soon as it should reach Belicias, " All is settled. I am the bearer of good news, and of the orders for the troops to depart." At midnight all the Kin's Guards, the Adm iral ' s Hussars, the Volunteers of` the State, and the Ca valry with loaded carbines and pistols, and the Ar-1 dicey with lighted matches were on duty. Yesterday (Thursday) in the morning, the annexed edict was posted, intended to undeceive and tranqui lize the people; but at the same time, it was well known that the Admiral was neither apprehended nor disgraced, as had been reported. On the contrary, on the Tuesday the Royal Family breakfasted at his house, and on the following day he was at the Palace, which grieved every body, and the inhabitants of Aranjuez c ontinued much di s t u rbed. Last night the Admiral withdrew from the Palace, at l 1 o'clock, and at one attempted to escape. The life-guards ob served it, approached, and having ascertained the fact, fired a pistol, at which signal the rest of the guards assembled, and a throng of people endea voured to force their way through the Admiral's hus sars, who surrounded his house. Some of the life surds were killed, and Don Diego Godoy (the Admiral's brother), who was at the head of his regi meat of Spani'h guards, ordered them to fire, but n-ne obeyed. He repeated the order , when the p eoJ F i x, and even his own soldiers, fell on him, fired at hi.n,. i beat him, and tied his hands and f e et, The esturbatice became general, from a belief that the Royal Family, who were in bed, intended to escape. I , !rtv Life Guards set off at full speed after the Ad- • rseral, who had fled, and they succeeded in overtak; ite- him, when they bound him, and took him to the Pa'..ice at two o'clock— they came up with him at Oauma. The Princess of Peace and her daughter • tiey caused to alight, put them in a coach drawn b y t.v peasantry, who conducted them to the Palace and delivc red them to the Prince. who came out to re ceive them with two candles in his hands. This day, at eight o'clock in the morning, our Royal Family appeared in the balcony of-the palace, to thank the people. At twelve, two deco es were ' , posted up in Madrid, one of which, address: d io the President of the Council, is in substance as iolllws : " The King, in order to undeceive your Lordship and the Council, and that the Publiz. may be correctly informed of what occurred last night, makes known, that in consequence of a dis turbance between some hussars and life-guards, some military and peasants aisembled, induced by an erroneous belief that their Majesties intended to leave the country, but their Majesties neither think of leaving their country, nor have they ever thought for a moment of withdrawing themselves from the bosom of their beloved subjects ; that at live o'clock in the morning, every thing was quiet in the palace, and he directs the President to make it known, in order that the public may banish from their minds all false reports," &c. &c. The second Decree recommends the public to hold good harmony and peace with the French troops, who are to pass through the capital and its environs, on their march to Cadiz. This evening, the annexed Manuscript Decree was published, which levelled the Grand Colossus. Such is the general joy and satisfaction of the Public, that 1 doubt whether a General Peace would cause greater; and we all publicly congratulate each other. The Public look upon the Fr ench without fear, without dread, and as their deliverers. The privates will be received at their quarters, and the Officers at the mansions and dwellings of the great. Order is recom mended. will enter the city ; the To-morrow, about 4,000 following day, the Imperial Guard; and on Monday, Prince Murat. General report says, that the Em peror is detained by these occurrences, because letters from Bayonne and Yrun say, that he arrived there on the 12th, and others contradict it. La Manche i 3 in a state of much confusion, and the people are determined to prevent the departure of the Royal Family the intelligence of which had reached that province. LONDON. DECREES.--" Aranjuez, March IS, ISO& " As I intend to conurian4 my army and navy in person, I have thought proper to release Don Manuel Godoy, Prince of the Peace, from the employs of Generalissimo and Admiral, and give him leave to withdraw whither he pleases. You are herewith in formed of it, and will communicate it, to whom it concerns." To Don Francis Gill. MADRID GAZETTE, MARCH is, Ism His Majesty has been pleased to transmit the fol lowing Decree to his Excellency Don Pedro Ceval los, First Secretary of State My beloved Suisk:cts ! Your generous agitation in these cir cumstances is a fresh proof of the sentiments of your hearts, and who love you as a tender father, take the earliest opportunity to console with you in the distressed situation in which we are placed. Be tranquil ; know that the army of my dear Ally, the Emperor of tit:" French, traverses my kingdom with ideas of friendship and peace. Its object is to march to the points which are threatened with ,he danger of a des cent b y the enemy, and the juucti9 my life-guards has no other object than to protect my person, and they are not intended to accompany me oil a voyage, which malice endeavoured to represent hs necessary. Surrounded b.; the un shaken ioy.:lty of my armed subjects, of which I have received such unquest:onable proofs, what have-I to fear ? and should any imperious necessity require it, could I doubt of the assistance which their generous bosom offered me? But no such necessity will ever be witnessed by my people.—Spaniards, allay your fears: conduct yourselves as you have hitherto done towards the troops of the ally of your good King. in a few days you will see peace I and tranquillity restored ; your hearts, and mine enjoying the hap piness which GOD bestows on me in the bosom of my family and your love. Given in my Royal Palace of Aranjuez the 16th March, 1808. " By the Kin g , " A.l). PEDRO CEVALLOS." PARIS, MARCH 9.1. By a Decree of the 17th of this month his Majesty has ordered the execution of the measure' determined on at Paris in December last respecting the Jews. A Synagogue and Israelite Consistory is to be establish ed for every 2000 Jews, but there can be only one Consistorial Synagogue for a Depurtment. The Consistory is to superintend the Rabbis, and see that their teaching be conformable to the doctrines of the Grand Sanhedrin. They are to give information re specting the Jewish Conscripts of their districts. — Every Jew, who wishes to settle in France or Italy, must give three months previous notice to the nearest Consistory. There is to be a central Consistory at Paris ; each Consistory is to luive a Grand Rabbi, elected by 25 Notables. The Rabbis of the Central Consistory are to have a salary of tAXX) francs ; those of the Consistorlal Synagogue 7000, and the other Rabbis are not to have less than 1000 francs. Another Imperial Decree, dated the 17th, annuls all obligations for loans made by Jews to minors, without the sanction of 'their guardians, to married women, w ithout the consent of ' their husbands, or to military men, without the authority of their superior Officers. Bills granted by French subjects to Jews cannot be demanded, unless the holders prove that full value was given without any fraud. All debts accumulated by interest above 5 per cent. are to be reduced by the Courts of Law. If the interest grow ing on the capital exceeds 23 per cent. the contract is to be declared usurious. After the Ist of July next, nu .low will be allowed to trade without a patent, re newable annually. This patent the Prefects are not to grant to any individual, until he produces a cer tificate of his character, testifying that he is no usurer. • No Jew not actually domiciliated in the Departments of the Upper and Lower Rhine, can be admitted to a domicile. there. In the other Departments the Jews cannot be allowed to settle, except upon the condition of their purchasing rural property, and abandoning commerce. The Emperor may, how ever, grant to individuals exemptions from this law. The Jews of the Conscription are required to perform personal service, and ais net allowed to find substi tutes. These regulations are to be continued only dur4ig ten years, in the hope that after that period there will be no difference between the moral cha racter of the Jews and other Citizens of the Empire. If the contrary should appear, the law will be con tinued in force. The Jews of Bourdeaux, of the Gironde, and the Landes, having given no cause of complaint, are not made subject to the above regulations. MA11.(11 23.—The official journal of this clay con tains the declaration of Russia and Denmark against Sweden ; and also the proclamation issued by Gene ral Buzhovden, on his entraace into Finland. This last is preceded by an article from Stockholm, in which tin account is thus communicated of the imprisonment of M. Alopeus, the Russian Envoy. It was on the .sth instant that we had the pain to witness the Russian - Minister, M. Alopeus, taken into custody. The folletving is an account of the man ner in which that strange event took place ;....That day, at two o'clock in the morning, Baron de Rove, the King's Aid-de-Camp, was announced to M. Alo- peas, and made know n to that MI t'i'er that he had received orders tontrrest h im, and to seal up his pa: pers, anchthose of his mission. As was natural, the Minister protested against this treat vent, And wished ' to oppose it, when some officers, wi . .. 1 1 a numetous de tachment of the body guards snide their appear etc and obliged him to submit. All persons employed We have received Dutch Papers to the 2,1 instant, under the Russian Embassy were roused from their beds, and those in the city were searched oat, and a containing Paris news to the 27th ult. Their con. guard set over their residence. A Lieutenant of the body guards was made responsible for the per- tents are intensting. HOLLAND. son of the Minister, and four subaltern officers were s • ordered to guard those e m p lo y ed by him, sentinels A Message from the King to his Legislature on the being placed at. the door of d e he hou of leavingse. Madame state of the Finances for the year, acknowledges the Alopeus was offered the choice, ither her house, and going to live elsewhere in the city, or of denierable state of die country, and thiet they cannot hope for an amelioration of their circumstances until submitting and r emaining with those who are con fined. te . e establishment o f a maritime peace, • In this d e- The following is the Note which, under these cir cumstances, M. de Ehrenstein, the Swedish Minister plorable state of their commerce and,gnances, their for Foreign Affairs, traesmitted to M. Alopeus— King has thought proper to acquakt them, that e The King has just received information that a Russian army has entered Finland, and has approach. the French Emperor has given them assurances that, in the Peace to he negociated with England, he is to ed Louisa. This unexpected inroad bears upon it all the characters of perfidy, on which account his Ma- stipulate fur die restoration of the Dutch Colonies, jestyhas given orders to the u ndersigned to declare particularly o' f Guiana. This:notice would seem to to M. Alopeus, Minister of Russia at the Court of imply that a Negociation was actually on the tapis s • Sweden, that the King considers all his diplomatic and that NAPOLEON even spoke with confidence of the functions as wholly at an end. (Signed) • terms he expected to obtain. " EHRENSTEIN." On this Note the Mot:War makes a long and most SWEDEN AND DENMARK. vehement comment , in w hich it is called an out- According to the accounts from C o p enha g en, the rageous violation of the .rights of Amhassanors, :.ad l Danes are proceeding with t he utmost activity in to be equalled in barbarism only by the acts of the • I their preparations to invade Sweden ; and th e y even Dey of Algiers. In the same Number of the Official Journal, there :, assert, that a body of troops has been actually able to is an article from Copenhagen of the 1 eth instant, ! cross over to Scania. ; but this we totally disbelieve. • containing the following information : I There is a long article in the Moniteur against the The Russian Minister M. Alopeus, who was i Saved : sh Monarch, for the arrest of M. ALOPEUSI arrested at Stockholm, has nevertheless friteid means 1 which it calls a treacherous violation of the rights of to transmit hither a letter, which was immediately for- I warded to Petershurgh. The King of Sweden, who diplomacy. It totally omits all notice of the charge has long spurned every thing that was b ec oming, has ! brought by Sweden against Russia, of basely attempt. given a severe shock to the Diplomatic Body. He; ing to corrupt the Swedish C ommander from his duty. has done still more ; he has catised a Russian coerier, I TURKEY. sent from Petersbuegh to M. Alopeus, t 9 be plan- i dereci at Abo, and has robbed him of his dispatches. • One of these Journals contains an expression which confirms to a great extent intelligence communicated Because every one murmured at Stockholm, he has retired to Grypsholm. l in this paper some time ago, respecting the change " Our Court has declared war against Sweden,' i of sentiment that has taken place in the Divan. It and letters of marque are is sued a g ainst Swedish ships. The Porte appears desirous to negot iat e with ' It has been lately ascer tained, that no p reparations for 1 says—•*" defence arc going for ward in Sweden. A traveller, England." When these words are seen in a p a p er published under the influence of France, their import who lately came hither from Stockholm, saw no kind of troops in motion. The coast is as defenceless as iis undoubted. Sentence of death is already passed, Finland was—indeed, it is impossible not to lament and nothing but the bill of indictment is to be drawn the fate of the inset esting Swedish nation ; her fate resembles that of Portugal, which country England up. Attachment to England, is under BONAPARTE) came to help, and deprived her of Madeira. Now what attachment to Royalism was under ROBESPIERRE ) men see all the blessings of the revolution of 1778, the enormous crime, the very suspicion of which is and that it has been the spring of all the distresses of equal to conviction. Sweden. SPAIN. There are two other articles in the Moniteur, one We have had the afflicting task for some time to • giving an account of a new act of baseness commit. record tine extreme distress which the people in Por ted by the English before Trieste ; the other a report from Ostend, with regard to the situation of the coast. tugal have been made to suffer by the invasion of the " In the course of this winter nothing of importance .French--a. 1 part of which, the dreadful famine, we has occurred at Boulogne, Dunkirk, or Ostend—the hope our Government will do all in their power to works alone the coast and in the harbours have been . alleviate by allowing vessels laden with corn to enter damaged b y' the inundations, but workmen are busy the Tagus. Yesterday we gave some particulars re in restoring them , and soon no traces of the damage I will be visible. The fitting out of privateers still goes specting the perfidious conduct adopted by the French towards the Spaniards : this day we p resent a detail on in the ports, and with so much the more zeal, since the profits which the owners derive from them have of some most important events which have taken become more considerable. The mercantile interest a place iu that devoted country,—lf such be the bless of Paris even takes a s hare in these s p eculations, c ircumstance which has seldom happened before.— hies conferred by NAPowiar an his friends and allies, Letters from Nantz,i Bourdeaux, and other ports on w hat have his foes to expect, if, neglecting the means the Ocean, also speak of the gainful state of priva- with which PROVIDENCE has blest them for their pre- . teering along the coasts. Already various mercantile nervation, they ever allow themselves to become his houses in Belgium place out a part of their capital in this species of enterprize." MARCH prey There has been an insurrection at Madrid ; 26.—Letters from Rome state, that the the Royal Family is in a miserable state ; the Prince of PEACE is disgraced, his brother killed, and the 'troops of his Hbliness are incorporated with the French army. They arc, however, allowed to wear the Papal/ French subject every thing to their own i wll _.....---.. cockade. Cardinal Caracciolo, Pignatelli, Salazzo, , and the two Rufus, who arc Neapolitans by birth, these occurrences originated in the general appre and also all tin e other Prelates, have left Rome. hension entertained with respect to the designs of the DUTCH BUDGET. French upon Spain. The PRINCE of PEACE proposed Urns:etre, Masao 30.—A Committee of the Conn• the emigration of the ROYAL FAMILY to Mexico ; for this he was denounced by the N obles, a nd his cil of State, consisting of M. M. Van Ley den, Van Westharendrecht Coypus, and Heinlopen, brought, • - diegrece demanded by the people, whose insurrec on the 9th instant, to the Legislative Body, the fol lowing Message , relating to the Finances, and in the tion was favoured by the military ; and , in the con sitting of yesterday the projet of a decree, proposed fusion that resulted, the Brother of the Prince Nvas in the Message, was adopted. killed. :pain, however, has gained nothing by THE KING To THE LEGISLATIVE Root. the event ; the French troops continue to ad " GENTLEMEN—We have charged a Committee of vance ; they have already approached the capital ; our Council of State to pre se n t to y ou a p ro j et of a and the poor KING) in his Proclamation to the law relative to the Finances of this year. p e o p l e , professes to be satisfied with the assur e At the commencement of your present Sess ion iven him by c. his Ally , " that he invades ances we expressed on our paet a strong desire to adopt a g of England. definitive and permanent system with respect to the Ibis Kingdom in perfect friendship, and proceeds through it for the harmless purpose only of occupying Finances, but since the 2Eth of November affairs have not been ameliorated, and we have been under the its sea-ports, to guard against the des ig ns Whether the PRINCE of PEACE acted traitorously or iudispensible necessity of p rovisoril y shutting our ports. This extreme and painful measure ought to not, in the advice he gave the unfortunate Monarch , ensure to us compensation, to which we have so much title, aad affords an irrefragable proof of the sincerity it is obvious that in the situation to which the Royal and constancy of our eff orts in the common cause. Family is now reduced, the wiser eolicy for the latter Thus we must postpone all idea of a definitive and had been, as he possessed not the cou ra ge to res ist, permanent system until a maritime peace, when alone to have fled from the tyranny of — his ally — by whom , it u-ill be possible to reduce our expenditure to the a mount of our revenue." ere long, he will inevitably be made a prisoner in his It then goes on to state, that the expenditure for own capital. 1807 had been 78,000,000 florins, and the revenues only 55,000,000, leaving a deficit of 23,000,000, ex clusive of previous arrears. To meet these a loan of 40,000,000 had been negociated, which produced 38,000,000 ; the 15,000,000, after providing for the deficit, was applied to the payment of arrears. The estimate of expenditure for 1808 is 74,000,000, whilst vie revenue is not estimated to . produce more than .50,000,000. It is said in this part of the message—" We cannot dispense with maintaining in a good state the squa drons of the Texel and the Meuse. We announce with pleasure to the Legislative Body, that as the price of our efforts France has expressly engaged to procure the restoration of our colonies, and partial,- ' laxly those of Guiana." To meet the deficit of the present year a sort of forced assessment is proposed, which was adopted by the Legislative Body,' by which those paying it are to become creditors of the State to the amount requited. This is resorted to instead of a loan. - • TUF,SDAY, APRIL 12. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONB O'CLOCK 1 Con 4 , ‘!3, tor roomy, C: 1- 4 1 --for Apra (551f —for May 64:.-. Reduc.al 641-1 , a. 7 9 4 4—ExchNiter Bale, 4*. 6s. pre. PORTSMOOTH, APRIL 11.—Arrived his Majesty': ship Trident, with a fleet under convoy from the Mo diterranean : . also the following outward-bound yes sets iron; the Downs, viz. the Fortitude, RAND; Flora, HARDY ; Lyalls, —,- ; Experiment, —; General' Beresford, ; Caerivent, BI2TI,ER ; Mail , Ann, —; Vigilant, GIFFORD • Hannah, REAY i Provi. dente, WINTNR ; Fame, HARDING ; General Boyd, ----.; Russell, Powas ; Juno, SWAIN ; Prospect, TAYLOR ; and Addington!, PARRY. Sailed the Pro. selyte frigate, with a convoy for the Downs. YARMOUTH, APRIL 11.—Sailed the Pincher and Calypso sloops of war, - and Charles (arzre I ship) with prisoners for the Nore.—Arrived the Urgent, Archer, and Havoc ; and remain with the Roebuck an] Amiable frigate.-... Wind N. W. DIAL, APRIL 11.—Came down from the River, the Vulture, Captain Cultism, for the South Sea; ; and remairi in lila D wt.. with the ships as per last. .