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among our brethren in Mimics's; 4 an intel past — T ailiatated that a dietams a ws Of the nation, and as legi t i mate children the same i i made annua ll y hi f ar c law* : no such divia%..— family. . • ... , 7. The Regent, or Council of Regtisci a shall not : at yet taken illaLle; and all claim td the past of. the fu be allowed to molest the p ersons o f t h e Deputies of tare is abolished by order of Sir GEORGE BARLOW, the Cortes, or Representatives of the Nation, nor those ' which the Field Officers say is little ghost of of the permanent Deputation of the kingdoms, nor to proceed against theni und er t h e Criminal Co de from ' swindling. The Junior Officers entered conipleteli , into the view's of theft superiors, by an order for re the time of their appointment, to that of the cessation Of their powers, &c. 1 trenching their small salaries in respect to a certain The Permanent Deputation of the Kingdom, as * allowance for their tents ; in Short, the military say, the organ of the nati o n a l vo i ce ; w ill w atc h over thethat Sit GEORGE BARLOW, after injuring the military punctual observance of the conditions under which the Provisional Government is restricted ; and one of 1 Service as much as possible, thought it adviseable to , add insult to injury, and the result is before tit. In its highest duties will be th e fo r m a ti on of a new con stitution ; not only that it may be tbmplet e d as soon 1 the memorial addressed by the Officers to Lord as possible, but as perfectly as possible for the benefit . Morro, they say, that the Commander hi Chief is of Religion, the King, and the Nation. To facilitate ' the Representative of the Army ; an expression not this purpose, the Regent, or Council of Regency, will ' only improper but untenable in every sense of the supply the Permanent Deputation with au the means i word, of useful information. and as such, deserving the Censure of the The said temperary Constitution should be corn- Governor-General; in short, considerable • blaMe municated to all the provinces and dominions of attaches both to Sir GEORGE and the officers at large, Spain and America, that the subjects may see the and it is certainly to be regretted that matters have agreeable expectations they may form from a leg i ti- ; ;—not mere lyfor the reasons Proceeded so far mate Government, in which the rights of the Mo. - ' before stated, but because in any future discussion* narch and the People are respected. [The gallant Marquis, after some disquisitions on 1 respecting the renewal of the Charter, the people of public law, as applied to the peculiar circumstances this country may be induced to suppose that some. of his Prince, gives a rapid view of the evils which thing else is required in the Government of 56 mil have been the consequence of bad Government since lions of people, and an army of one hundred and i the invasion, and of the miseries which the enemy has seventy men, than the knowledge of the accumulated on every rank and condition of society ; i he then proceeds to the conclusion.] i price of tea." With these views of the disasters of the nation, I I cannot (says he), separate myself from the common lot of twelve millions of people, who must either be the slaves of the most cruel tyrant, or the children of the most beneficent Sovereign. Ought I, can Ibe an indolent spectator of such scenes as I have de scribed ; must I not rather sacrifice to my beloved countrymen all my personal interests, all my selfish affections, and the whole of my existence ? lo opy j _ s, that the Supreme unta is not so thorou e , Innarvinced as I am of the etpedience of destroying even the recollection of a government which has been s o extensively prejudicial. It is a truth which e ve ry body acknowledges, which has cost the world L i ver s of blood, which in France, and in Spain, has pour ed forth the ruby treasur e o f life, that to make a hi u ltitude of men the (depositories of the sovereign tower, it to introduce the most horrible unity, and to establish on its ruins the fatal Empire of Despotism. Recent events render it needless for me to refer to the -ivil wars which have desolated every nation, and to o te destrection and tyranny which has terminated eve & Government like that of Spain, composed of ftsany Kings, s.vho are no longer the subjects of the tnonarch they affect to represent. I have thus explained the motive of the complaints' the people ; and I assert, that for the evils they i.t'iffer, there is do other remedy than an entire change in the Government, from which they originate. No D emoc ratic Constitution has been able to support it self from its own firmness and energy during political convulsions, and has either ended in sanguinary fero ,:ity, or in extreme debility, the Country and the Go vernment perishing under its own weakness. Al& though I see with pain that such is nearly the situa tion of my own country, and the necessity for bold exe: -t!ons to preserve it, I consider as useless the mea sures that may be employed by the present Authori ties, and therefore I direct all my attention to the re establishment of legitimate power ; and after deliver ir,g my sentiments on the new Government, I will endeavour to point out the means by which the Su vreme Junta may be relieved from its terrible respon-] ability, which otherwise might involve in inextricable embarrassment both the Prince and the People, The new plan of Government which has been pro posed, :1 this, to establish a Junta composed of a Pre► sident and four other Members, who may be selected f r om ;he Supreme Junta ; to confide in this body the execetive power under different limitations ; to point cut the forms of election, that the proper individuals n ay participate in the exercise of the Regal autho rity ; to abrogate all the sections into which the gene ral Government is divided, and this Supreme Central J u nta, not only to be the Sovereign of the nation, and elect:'.: the executive powers, but to preside over fie Crtes, and to answer to the petitions that the Cortes may present. [After some further reflections, most of which we have notice d in the concluding paragraphs of our ex tracts given on the 9th January, the Marquis pro ceeds :] Such is the Government that we require ; and in order to render it legitimate and capable of producing the beneficial effects I have pointed out, the subse quent regulations ought to be adopted. The Sovereign Representation should be exercised I until the time of the Convention of the Cortes, either by a Council of Regency, composed of three or five ] persons, according to law 3, tit. 15, part 2, and elec.' ted in the manner there expressed. As in the present circumstances it is not possible to assemble the Cortes, with the celerity that the public safety requires, the Supreme Central Junta should name the Regent, or Council of Regency, without delaying an instant in the discharge of this duty. Whether the Junta be a legitimate or illegitimate representation of the Cortes for such a purpose, is not very material. On other occasions the deficiency of their lawful power has not been considered any obstacle to the exercise of their authority ; and it would be a proof of their genero sity and patriotism, highly commendable, if in the new Government they would exclude those belonging to the old ; 'tit if the members should be chosen from the latter, they ought to be those who are most distingttished for their virtue, religion, knowledge, and even physical strength, for the discharge of their delicate and difficult duties. Should the Supreme Central Junta deliberate with the Cortes for the election of a Regent or Council of Regency, it may be effected under the followi - ez con ditions as a temporary expedient 1. The Regency should swear to defeuel the nation, to protect it from its enemies, and to deliver the kingdom to our beloved Sovereign Ferdinand VII. as soon as he shall be restored to Spain ; or if he should not be restored, to his legitimate successors, vowing to spill the last drop of their blood, if necessary, in the discharge of this sacred duty. 2. _o preserve the integrity of the vast Empire Spain and America, which compose the Spanish na- also, by a general order, have delivered his owie son- from that city to the Westphalian territory, appre tion, without alienating any portion of her vassals or timents and censure on every person concerned in it. trending some insult or violence from the inhabitants her territories. 3. The Regency should execute the laws, should a reference should assuredly have been made to his having denounced four American vessels that arrived interpret the decisions in cases where the meaning at Hamburgh with American papers, but which in MAJESTY, and not, as suggested by Lord MINTO, to should be doubtful, but its authority should extendfact sailed from an English parr. The vessels were no further than as an irrevocable determination on the Court of Directors. BONAPARTE h a s frequently seized and sequestrated, and will no doubt be con the particular matter submitted to its judgment. called Great Britain a nation of shop-keepers, and we demned. This interposition, in no way appertaining 1.. It should not on its own authority remove the i may now admit there is some little truth in it, if his to the duties of Mr. FORBES'S situation, was warmly public Agents, of whatever rank they may be, with- M AJESTY does not resent the insult offered to a Gene - resented by the whole commercial class. out a i'n idical decision by a competent tribunal, in The storms have been so violent this winter in the ral Officer, so high in his service ; of snch established 'lchiet-:::-,e case of the party may be determined ac- Black Sea, that sevral Russian men of war were onchz to the security of public laws ; but they may reputation. and whose conduct through life had been obliged to run into 1 urkish ports, where they sarren- Cant inLlgencies or retirement to those Ministers of so exem p lar y as an Officer, Soldier, and Gentleman. dered. tate, and others, who ft cm the visitation of disease "It appears that General Macnowam. did not he. The scarcity of provisions is so great in the Tyrol, that the Bavarians have been under the necessity of o 7 the progress of years may be ren &red unfit for their issuing the General Orders, as received . sitate in • ' . - I'.:t•e• withdrawing the whole of their cavalry from that from Sir GEORGE BARLOW, ordering the release of 5. Declarations of War, Treaties of Peace, and district. Alliances, Colonel MUNRO from arrest ; but highly culpa- Letters have been received from Holland to the allould be deter mined by the Coi tes, if sitting, and if ble he would have have been, if he continued to Bth inst. Though stated in former letters, it does ppear that Louis had returned to his dominions. not, by a D e p u tation of the Kingdom appointed for serve any long er after such an event ; he accor- not a A letter of the 6th says-- ,, We are here in so much rich purpose, consisting of chosen Ministers properly dingly resigned, and as the subject was of public qualified by their wisdom and experience. In the uncertainty as to, our future political situation, that notoriety, it became his duty, as a General Officer in tingle case of an unforeseen invasion, should the Re- . trade is at present extremely dull. The prices of in rkeY or Council of Regency be empowered as Su- his Majesty's service, to state in Orders his reasons for digo and coffee are high, and probzbly will continue preme Head of the Nation to make preparations for such resignation, which Sir G. BARLOW seems to so, as there is ground to suppose that we shall have facilities for Maintaining an intercourse with Brabant the public defence, as if war had been declared with consider as highly intemperate and improper, though the customat y formalities. to unprejudiced persons it does not seem to bear the and France." Another letter of the same date, states, that a Pro 6. It should preserve to th e National Represents - clamation for incorporating the Province of Zealand firm the rights of which it has been deprived by the construction put on it by either Lord MINTO, or Sir alit , * of power, and the Regent or Council of Re- GEORGE BARLOW. If the dismissal .ef the Adjutant with France, had been received from Paris. The teicy, without dr grant and approbation of the andDeputant-Adjutant-General for obeying the or- Chief Civil Officer having rcfused to take the Oath ofi Alleg!ance, without a more explicit and formal de- 1 , Cortes, should neitherbe allowed to impose laws, nor ders of their Commanding O ffi cer, is Correct, we , claration of so important a change, was, it is said, vintribuzions royal or personal ; but, as under the • ought to have an entire new Military Code, as we immediately put into arrest by the Commander of the "'.ting circumstances, the safety of the country re- . ' French troops, and sent to Paris, to account for his lateen that all the authorities should partake of tht have hitherto been taught to believe, that, with the 0 I ey:utive character, such grant and approbation of exception of treason again the State, all Military r- contumacy. In Holland they speculate, as elsewhere, on the 1 1 . V! Cortes may find a convenient substitution in a ders arc not to be discussed, but obeyed. dissolution of Louis's marriage with the daeghter of I .llta, under the title of the Permanent Deputation ~ Previous to the year 1802, Commanding Officers , JOSIRHINE, preparatory to her becoming reigning Em ^.f the Kingdom, which may represent the Cortex press of France. One of the letters says-- , his Ma antil the time of its convention, composed of five in- of out-stations received certain emoluments, as did Sir spirituous liquors, jesty went from hence a married, and returns a single flividuals and one secretary, which the Supreme Cen- ARTHUR WELLESLEY at Seringapatam, on the sale of • quors, and of articles brought to market: man.' We consider so unnatural an union as very tral Junta m nominate, or otherwise, from their spir le ^ gri members , but it is requisite that one of the in- r.bo it that year, the Madras Government placed th e improbab . (Signed) Seville, October 4, I 809. MARQUIS DE LA ROMANA. 1 1 11 E EVENING STAR. LONDOI4. SATURDAY, JANUARY 13. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent Cons. for money 694 ex. div.—acc. 691. Reduced 69}}—Omnium 3 prem.—Ex. Bills, 10s. 13s. pr. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 2773 278 Omnium 3 prem. 3 per Cent. Red. 6931 India Stock 18641 3 per Cent. Cons. 691 69 India Bonds 28s. 275. prem. 4 per Cent. 8414 Exth. Bills, 11s. 14$. pre. 3 per Cent. Navy 99)-} State Lottery Tickets £22.135. Long Ann. 18 9-161 Consols for acc. 701 Imp. 3 per Cent. 68} In the course of Thursday night a dreadful fire broke out at the City of London Inir, at Dover, which at the hour of three yesterday morning, had wholly consumed that inn, with the stables, and otherwise damaged or destroyed nearly a whole street of houses. The intelligence we communicated yesterday, of the repeal of the Berlin Decree, is confirmed by an American vessel which has arrived from Dunkirk.— The Captain states, that when he came away the enemy's ports were open to the vessels of all neutral powers. We understand, that in consequence of this change in the French system, several commercial edicts have been published. One decree of this kind ' contains, it is said, forty-two articles : but we have as yet received only the following, which appeared in the Paris Papers of the 3d inst. : DECREE. 44 The ports of France, and all those under her controul, are open for all vessels furnished with pro. per licences ; that is to sac, they must be new ones, of a date posterior to this Decree : ARTICLES OF EXPORTATION. " Vinegar, paper, paste-board, silks, embroidered stuffs, ver digrease, oils of all sorts, honey, perfumery, corks cut, and in picot, turpentine, Spani.h liquorice, dry pitch, rosin, juniper berry, raw worsted, lamb and kid skins tanned and cawed, linen of Britany, cloths and woollen stuffs of all kinds, velvets and cottons, silk, worsted, and cotton hosiery, cutlery, trim mings, china, work of leather and skins. Thosearticles cannot be entered in any greater quantity than one-fourth part of the cargo. The other three parts of the cargo are to be composed of primitive articles; those are corn, wine, brandy, and fruits. IMPORTATION. " Russian tallow, wax, marts, sail-cloth, deals for various purposes, sulphur in flour, pot-ash, staves. row for fishing, Spanish dollars black lead, lead, moor, lisbarge, Inwood, pitch and tar, barrilla, 'unlock, arsenic, Us oil, hide', and lig. num vim." Though Colonial Produce is not included in this list of articles permitted to be imported, we under stand that the arrangements with regard to America go to place her trade in a state altogether unshackled, by which expedient BONAPARTE, doubtless, hopes to accomplish the great object of confirming the hostile disposition of that country against Great Britain. Private letters from Russia, received yesterday, announce that it is the design of the Government to impose new extravagant duties on exports ; and in stead of being payable in bank paper as formerly, they are to be discharged in silver. Such is the de, preciation of the bank paper, that this alone will oc casion a difference in the rate of the duties of 150 per cent. The letters in general indicate a greater de gree of vigilance in the commercial police of the Russian ports, and notice the arrest of a young Gen tleman, who is supposed to have offended against the laws. Letters from Hamburgh of the Ist inst. mention that the American Consul, 'Mr. FORBES, has retired INDIA. The following Letter will put our Readers in pos session of some of the points in dispute which at pre sent distract the public attention respecting our Eas tern possessions EXTRACT or A LETTER )ROM CALCUTTA, DATED JUNE 20, 1809. " The letter from Lord MINTo to Sir GEORGE ti BARLOIA', is rather too prolix for general perusal ; the subject may be comprised within a small compass. If the conduct of Sir Grotteg BARLOW was right, was it, at the same time, expedient ? The first point to be considered is, the general usage among the mili tary records of this kingdom, as to the propr . iety of releasing our officers from arrest before trial, and quashing the proceedings, ordered to be instituted by a Superior Officer against an inferior ; and whether this can be done by virtue of any precedent, where the Suprethe Civil and Military Powers are vested in one person. Agreeable to established military usage, no doubt whatever can exist, but that Sir GEORGE BARLOW (as was done by Lord CORNWALLIS in many instances) might not only have caused the proceed ings of the Court Martial to be revised by the Mem bers, if he did not approve of the decision, but might of • - _ MMINIONIOD • We la4e to eerreit error ad article reapeiti4 64 we* of our Army in Portugal, given in the STA* of Thuriday. The nuMbert; by ion* agitate in transcribing irons Our dOrresii6ndent's legit; Were joined to wrong iiarticillars The follosiing is the correct statement The Mini originally wai There remained fit for that - , - - spot, By the average of weekly returns foe imomb,iise number of sick and wounded was - - 6,600 The firiciatti therefore was - 13,000 Captain LEFEDVEN'S troop of Honie which was ordered yesterday to march from Canter bury this morning for Portsmouth, to embark for Por • tugal, received a counter-order at ten last night to re main till further orders. Two more troops; Captain R; MACDONALD'S and ,Cgptaill JAMES W. Smiles, destined for the same seriricei are also made subject to the same order. The detachment Of the 8 2 d Regiment, which had been landed at Deal front Walcheren, marched from thence on Wednesday, on its route by the Royal Mi- litary Canal, to join the Regiment - at Lewes. Lieutenant-Colonel tiALBIAC, or the 4th Dragoons, arrived at Falmouth on Friday from Lisbon. He has been obliged to return to England for the reco very of his health; A detachment of the Royal African Corps, con sisting of 14 Officers and SOO men, under the com mand of Major CmsnotAt, is on the eve of sailing for the coast of Africa. They are on hoard the Corn wallis and Crisis transports, now at Spithead. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH DOCK, JANUARY 11. Arrived the Swedish ship Neptunus, ANDRELAWD master, from St. tTbes, last from Lisbon, laden with salt, bound to this port for orders; sailed from Lisbon the 10th ult. in company with a fleet under convoy of his Majesty's ship Comus ; parted company, eight days since, in a severe gale.--Also arrived the CESAR * 80 guns, the ACHILLE, 80, and the IMPETUEUX, 74, from Portsmouth ; the PICKLE brig of war from Lis bon ; the PLovEn sloop, from a cruise off Scilly; and the Brunswick, from Quebec,.with timber for the Dock-yard at this port ;it blows a gale at S. with , heavy rain, and d in consequence of her missing stays, she got on shore on Drake's Island ; but it being low► water at the time, hopes are entertained that she will be got off with little damage when the tide flows.— The master of the Caledonia timber ship, which ., foundered at sea on her outward-bound voyage about three weeks since, came home in the Brunswick. The PLOVER, whose arrival I have noticed above, sailed from this port on Friday last, and since that time has taken Hine French brig privateer, of 18 guns (14 mounted), which she has brought in with her, and safely moored in Stonehouse Pool : she has also retaken two valuao ble ships, which were seen standing round Penlee Point for this port about an hour since, one of them, I understand, is the Pomone, laden with timber, from Nova Scotia ; and the other a homeward-bound mer chantman. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12. Arrived his Majesty's ships CoURAGEAUX, MARLIN). ROUGH, and PEAcOcK gun-brig, from the Eastward ; RAPID schooner, from Guernsey ; ROYAL OAK, and DENMARK men of war, OWEN GLENIN3I.I4 COQUETTE, and TYItIAN sloops of war, horn offtherburgh. DOVER, JANUARY 12. The CHEROKEE sloop of war has captured and scat in a very fine French privateer mounting 18 guns. DEAL, JANUARY 12. Sailed this morning the Ocean, Wexford,-and Win , chelsea East-Indiamen, for the East Indies ; also the whole of the outward-bound, under convoy of his Majesty's ship ORIEL, for Portsmouth.—Wind E. YARMOUTH, lAN. ti. with three merchantmen • she parted company slo Arrived this morning from the Baltic the BLossou fog a few days ago with die remaining s o and about 4.06 merchantmen, o u t o f i p s o o f w w i n a a r r a , which 170 are prizes to the ships under the command of Sir JAIkES SAUMAREZ, and are hourly expected.— The ships remain as per yesterday. HARWICH, JANUARY it. Sailed the Prince of Wales packet, Captain MAscox for Get tenburgh, with mails of the loth inst. Arrived the L o rd Nebsa packet from Heligoland, with mails and pass e n g er s: no news de importance. The Beaufoy packet, Captain Notais, sailed from Heligoland with mails (Ist inst.) on Saturday last, along with die Lord Nelson, and she is expected in the course of this evades. 1 FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Gm AVESZieneLs N. 12.—Arrived the Sira, Cryan, from the Rm. , ails; and the Christopher, Banda, from Seville.—No 'he Nautilus, of Leith, bound to Gottenbutgh, is taken and carried into Norway. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE-HiS Excellency the PERSIAN AMBASSADOR visited this Theatre, last nig e t ; to witness the performance of the Tragedy of Lear, and the Pantomime of Harlequin Pedlar. The instant the doors were opened, the pit and galleries were filled to excess ; and, on the rising of the cur tain, with the exception of a few private boxes, there was not a vacant seat in the house. Just as the Play 1 commenced, his Excellency entered the tenth private box, on the King's side, accompanied by Sir GORR OUSLEY, and another Gentleman. Such was the attention of the audience to the stage, that he was not recognised until the end of the first act, when he w a s hailed with three distinct rounds of applause. He was extremely attentive to the scene, and appeared highly delighted with the performance throughout, frequently conversing with his companions, one of whom held a book in his hand, and appeared to be explaining the business of the stage to him. At the end of the Play, Mr. KEMELE paid hisrespects tohim in the box, and in a few minutes retired. The see. nery, music, dancing, and variety of change s , w i t h which the Pantomime abounds, appeared to afford his Excellency much delight. He retired through the door in Prince's-square, Hart-street. tin& :red Lan e 111, lonic e re• sdal and be Drtal can- !ter• nne•