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'WE lIRITISH PRESS. 1.0NI;ON, TIIt;RSDAY, Arlin. The offitiial accounts of the surrender of Fnrt Bourbon, an event which has put us in complete possession of the Island of 'Martinique, were re ceived yesterday. Shortly ufter their arrisal, a !ti ter, of which the following- is a copy, wan Kilt to the Loup Marna'-. " Dowilin . tr-street. Isih April, 1809. "MY Loan—l have the satisfact to acquaint your Lordship, that Captain Preedy it just arrived with dispirit:lns front Lieutenant-f3eireral Beck with, bringing the intelligence that Fort Zotirho iu the Wand of Martinique, surrendered by rani t•:!4•loti to His 'Majesty's anus, on the .24th Feb. bi which the conquest of that important colony was c ciii.lined. The garrison are male prisoners SA . War, and the loss of the British force is not ceusi 'tiered)le. no Officer having been killed or wounded, subsequent to the date of the Lieut.-General's last dispatches. " t hive the honour to he. &e. (Strad) " CASITLREAGII." " To the Riest 1100. the Lord STayor." • Covernusent, we under4and, yesterday, received an account of the surrender of Vigo, by ipito lation, to the Line! g frigate, of .ta C tptoin M.Ktocur, and the Venus. of aided by a party of Spanish Patriots. About 50 Officers 1,500 privates. 130 horses, the military thorn., maga zines, Ike. were taken. The Officer* and men land down their arms before Captain NPlitst.t.Y, and are on their way to this country. Accounts hare also been received from the Nlar- 1111 . 1 i It OMAN A. dated March 25, stating, flint on that day the garrison of A'illa Franco had Rurrendured to him, and that he was on his march to Astorga. The official details of the surrender or Fort Bour bon, wiiten :.re said to be ot considerable length, • and the .tficiai account of that expit:..ioit of tilt French front Vigo, will, we understand, be pub lished this day in an Extra ,rclistary Gazette. Two Gottetiburgh Mai k arrived last night, with Letti:rs and Papers to the Ist instant. Hostilities have ceased between the Russians and the Swedes, and a negociaticon for peace has commenced lie tween thetu. It app ear. that in settling the terms Russia is resolved to consult the will and pleasure of France. Our hope of : k co n ti n uance o f friendship between Sweden and England, mast, of course, be very slight. The: King of SWEDEN has been re moved from protlingholnt to the Palace of Grips- holm. Ns reason is assigned for tlis change.— Perfect tranquillity p-evailett is Sweden. Sir /tam.' Wert.EstEY aial his Staff resnaiii ed at Yortsniouth, o;t waiting for order'. A Meeting of the Inhabitants of the not.,iiqii of Southwark was held yestenky, at which R series of Resolutioos was passed in Arour of lUr. W A 11, DI.E, and his principal political supporters, and strongly recommending a Parliamentary Re form. Au account of the Meeting, and also of a similar one at Norwich, is given in our suhse quent columns. At the latter place the retainers of Ministers attempted to raise the senseless cud odious cry of " No Popery," but it would not do. We give thh§ day the evi,tence before the Select Committee that relati.4 to. his§ ltoitt the Doke of CAMBItIOGIi. Yesterday, a ballot was held at the Eust India ilou&e, far the election of six Directors, in the room of JACOB BOAANQUET, JOSIPH CO/TOlll, EDWARD PARRY. THMIAS MEW, JOHN ItURZILTA, and Itoatatc Tama rom, Esquires, who go out by rotation. At Sim o'clock, the glasses were finally closed, and delivered to the Scrutineers, who reported the numbers to lie as follow, viz : Sir Francis Baring, Dart. 1630 Sir Hugh Inglis, Bart. .......... 55.... 1693 Gaviria Mullett, But Sir Theophilas Metcalfe, Bart..•is. 1616 Jahn Maaslup,Esii 1504 Rupert Fag Goorgr Woodford Tlteltiumos, Eui 7oti Whereupon the underusentioned gentlemen were declared duly elected to serve the term of four year., via. Sir FRANCIS BARING, But. Si, HUGH INGLIi s Halt. JOHN MAIk6HIII ) , Sir l'H BOP AILCS 311 . 11'1 LEL, But. GEORGE /lIILLEFT, 14.1 ROBEM r I.sq. 'E v en , week, and almost every day, displace, eith augoventei: emphasis, the rising spirit of the times, the- awakeind energies of the people, and the strenotit of the current which runs towards a systematic reform or abuses. The investiption into, and .e.ensisre of, the late Comrusinder-iss- Chiers cosuidet, however totally it engrossed, for a certain timeothe public attention, war only a symp tom of the malady—it was not the malady itself. Those who do oot, or who will not, perceive that a reform. and a very extetisive one too, most be granted to the rail of the nation, are the worst ene mies of the Sovereign,: , nd of the Crown. If lint, . o r Fpx, wets now at the head of His NlAJesTv's .coun‘sle t he the plenitude of their taleuta, or thtir • -~- popularity, they could not oveyt ur prevent it.— But if such 44 we slow poises', destitute of any head, compii,eil of men, who, whatever parliaint 'wiry for li•gal abilities they way some of theist uultvidually have, are neither dreaded abroad, nor remtected sud baioved a home ; if such well attempt to stand betureea the burs rod his rag, they will Ix• the victims of their own temerity and mdirirn•ttoo. ' There is moreover au additional mo tive for inquiry, and we will add, for punishment of same 6nll, ptelleittOti to tilt : 110)11C In the per- non of one of the members of the Administration Weinessi Lord CASTLEREAGH. Tilut Virtuous mud immrrupt wohletnati, after r.tionlifling all the nays ailia meridian genius iu Ireland, where his hi- boors facilitated so greatly the unionof the two king doms, continues still, for his owo, and for the bene fit of Mankind, todee ote his exertions to his country. How lie will• reconcile the transactions, bargains, and exchanges, which the East India Committee have reeently disclosed, either with the nice honour of his rank in life, or with the decorum and purity of his Nlinisterial othee, we are yet to know ; and we trust that a clear diselirsure will be extorted Irian his own lips, by the !louse of Commooa. They owe it to their own dignity; we had almost said, to their own aa;ety-, to do it. W. observe erith•souic surprise, that lie was reduced to the necessity of. correcting his ciisleilet , given before the Committee alone stairs; u circumstance not to be forgotten, when we recollect how much advantage was at- • tempted to be taken of Mr. WARDLE'S inaccuracy or omissions, iu stating the precise time and num ber a hiavisits to Airs. C LARK E. on particular days. i'so Ministry, without excepting vireo those at the head of which were sisceevaively placer!, the late Earl of Burt, the present Duke of OtAFTON, or the lite Lord leave ever, dining the course of the present reign, including the apace of near 1.0'14 century, received such revere, as well.. as pitch solemn sod unanimous marks of national reprobatiom as the present Administration! Other Ministries may have been wore execrated, and more unpopular ; but, none have been declared by thecitiesof London and Wratwinster, as well as by the osounty of Middlesee, 'to Mire forfeited all claim to public eutdidence. Cud to be unworthy of future toast. They are, if we inuy use such an ex pression, at?atitted ; by the Crown; but by the people. 111 • effect, and cousequeßces lot a political, and mordattaint ; for, it is in tat both ; at ore 3rt to I. :MI. The case is iu sons: measure new ; and so are the times in wheels we live. 'nines, which, whether we couteen plate them internally, or externally, till us with fear and wonder! Withal, we behold a Revolu tionary Chief, decorated with all the Ensigns of Imperial dignity, coercing the Continent of ' Europe, extinguishing, subverting, and regenerat. Mg kingdoms ;• but stamping every country - , from Portugal to Poland, with his owu image and attri butes. Already, the ancient dynasties seem to be meowed with complete annihilation, or .only to exist by sufferance of the Con q ueror. If, after exploring this altered map of the world, we look et borne, what prosseet presents Accumulatiog public debts, interminable taxes, rooted abuses, and au Adinivisttation e q ually unwilling, as it is unable, either to repel the enemy without, or to extend re lief within. A Ministry originally raised to power by clamour and delusion, and sustaining itself, iu spite of defeats and disgraces, by corruption ! One of whose very Members has been tampering in the vilest recesses of indirect East India communica tion, in order, be a new species of alchymy, to. tionsioute seats in Parliament into Writeniliips.— We believe, that since 1641, such symptoms of national fermentation have not exhibited them selves. They demand the wisest, mildest, and most healing, as well as conceding measures, in order to restore and to preserve that calm so intlispensible to our gene's! safety. No little personal changes or sacrifices can effect it. The Cowin must co-operate with, and even meet the wishes of the people, on all those great and Vodkal points of pecuniary, or of Parliament ary Reform, where their sentiments and opinienis lisve strongly prononntecl. This is the o n ly remedy consonant with our actual situation, and which can hold out a rational prospect of future tranquillity, or durability. The first step then, which we would recommend to this great and de sirable end is the removal of Viscount CASTLE REAGH. If there be equal law and equal justice to this country, and such has been always its boast, out he must go. We repeat, out he must go ; and in doing so, we ore not afraid of being charged with prejudging, 119 in the rase of the Convention of Cintra—or of clamouring for a trial, as its the case of the Duke of VORIS. Vise. CASTLEREAHH has been already tried, and found guilty ; and it now only remains for justice to be done upon him. Ile has been found guilty upon his owe' coo cession ; a confession, neither "totted by threats, nor emoted from him by promises, of the compound crime of stteni ming, under toe cover of at. exchange, to sell a Writership , which is a breach of the iallit.••••itild to buy a Seat in Parlia ment, which is a breach of the Constitution. • The Good latent, one of r fleet of 30 sail from Lisbon, which left that city on the 2211 List, is arrived at Plymouth, and reports that the whole of the British forces had quitted Lisbon, hut that their destination was not known. Captain SIIITARDt the Commander of the Good Infest, we understated , has deposed on oath to this effect. OLD BAILEY Yesterday the Sessions eirturnencer: here for the trial of Prisoners. before the Hight !fon. the Luau MAvos, Mr. Justice Laviakticr, Mr. Justice Lk I.ll.mst*, Ice. &c. Jarnes Morgan was indicted for stopping Joseph 110 , 01 on the king's highway, putting hitu iu fear, and taking from his person a silver watch. Joseph Hawes, the prosecutor, stated, that 'emu *lug front Ilsuipoteird, on the night of the stb of February last, he stopped !war Chrilk Farm by three footpads, a: inert with pistols, who rifled luta, sod took his watch. The slight was dark, and he could nut be positive of the person of the Pri soner. but believed he was one of thou. Cowlwr, u pawn-broker, in Ratcliffe Highway. proved, thut the Prisoner punned the watch the next day, under a feigned name end addreve ; and the Oflicyr who took hies into ett.aody and search ed Ind lodgings, bond the (hiplic.itr of it. The Jury found hi .n guilty—Death. namarltultun and Andrew liteu were indicted fora burglary. with intent to stein, in the dwelliii I.loUge of Willman SatIMOD., on the night of the lyt of Abaci]. The Prosecutor keeps a cheese and butter shop in Doswell-street. About the hour of nine, on the above night, his shop-door being latched, and he sitting iii his back par!our, he was alarmed with a noise, and saw the prisoner, Bolton, veizt.c.l in his shop, by a man of the mime of Dewick, who had observed the Imp pri.tial!rs at the shop. Bolton lied crept into the shop upon his hands and feet, and 'Offen had stayed at the outside, and upon sonic alarm, had called to his companion—" D-4-n you, you are dune." Upon this the alines). had darted into the shop, and seised the former on the ground. Ile afterwards went unit, mid with sonic difficulty secured the other.--Guilty—Death. James Crowder was indicted for a burglary, by breaking and entering the dwellisig-house of Timo thy !Haycock, with intent to steal, up the night of the uth of April. The Prosecutor keeps a linen shop at No. 6-1, Broad-street, the corm rof Drury-:ane. About half-past seven on the above evening, he heard a pane of glass break, and saw the Prisoner attempt ing to drag a piece of handkerchiefs that were ' banging in the window, through the broken pane. Several persons, in passing along the. street, NM the transaction, and giving the alarm, the Pri soner, in attempting to escape, was secured. The Learned JUDGE explained to the Jury, that breaking a pane of glass, and, thrusting the arm throngit it, fur the purposes of theft, was a ranch a burglary, as the breaking into, and entering the house with the like intent. The Piieouertiras found guilty—Deaih. John Awe was. indicted under Lord Ellenbn rangier Act, fur cutting ltuAl wounding Richard Pearson with a poker. This case, as stated by Mr. OvatVEY, was of a most atrocious nature. The Prosecutor had married the mother of the Prisoner, and coming home one evening found him and his mother together, the latter stultified with liquor. Having reproached him with giviug her so much ; the Prisoner retired, and, ammo :himself with a poker, attacked the old man, and gate him a des perate wound on the head; he atterw:irdo attempted ' to strangle him with a rope, and in that state drag:Teti liiiu . seentingly dead down to a ce:lor.— Snime nrighbottrol t *be Isetnd a Noise, etttotred Ithe house ; (Zs seeing the blood Which flowed from the wound, scisrehril for, and found the unfortunate victim, who, by the skill uud humanity of a bur geon, Waif rvitured to life. Both the Learned JuDGEs agreeing, that upon this statement this was not a case to he Wrought within it, winch upon the decisions already had upon it, only applied to wounds inflicted by instru ments used in common to cut with ; the Pit,ntter was of nectsrity acquitted, but was ordered to he detained to answer for the IVIiIG CLUB. A most numerous meeting of this Club, was, on ' Tuesday, held at the Freemasons.' 'Coverts, S.tuc 1. WMITBREJLU. the Choir ; where, after the regular constitutional toasts of the day, and tsie in-• teresting recollection of Mr. Fox, Ciwyllint Lloyd W ardle, Esq. was proposed as a candidate for ad mission to the Club. moved fur by his • friend Mr. Ntiuldocks, and seconded by Mr. Whitbread, and which was received with unbounded acclautations. Mr. Wurraskau then gave the Duke of Nor folk, as a warm and constiset friend of the people. Mr. DEN ilos proposed the health of Mr. Whit bread. The toast was drunk with applause. Mr. WHITBiIItAD returned thanks, and said that he felt himself peculiarly honoured, not merely by the toast which had been drunk, but by being placed in the chair of the Clnb that day. lie sletinet I the present an sera in the history of the vomit's- the most momentous, soil the Whig Club was placed its a most trying predicament. The pre sent eat to the Club a One of prosperity, fur he called it prosperity to see the country at large alive to the priuviples by which they hod so loog been animated. lie cutlet uiled•with proposing the health of .. Mr. Wardle," which was received with an uoi errant burst of niiplattne. Mr. Lhoilsor. the,' rose, he said, to propose ;use ries of Resolutions upon die proceedings which had , lately taken place. Mr. PLUMMER seconded The Resolutiotis were then severally put, and are as follow ;- 1. That the Whig flab of Elgland, feeling it their duty to maintain the genuine prioriples of the British Couatitia- • Ron, as asserted in ti,. glorious Revolution of stkin, have. long ofwei sett, with the deepest rcpt t, that the purity of the CMastitation has ken sallied, and its pr.ileipka violated, by gross, orandalous, and mereming cut ruptium its carious Jr. partineuts of the state, and which, if not vcrsvisi iu its coarse, must crentualli endanger the indepeudeuce, and' even existence, of the comitrs. 4. That the recent Virliamertary Inquiry into the cm den of his Royal tlielmesa the duke nt lurk, as of the I:ritish Army, has eideiblied instances of corruption iu tbe Milti.ry Drpointent, a.the degrading to the high and bonotarabla character of the British whiter', and derogatory from the pristeipka and privileges of the British subject, clearly manifesting to every part of the Vetted Knagthits, at onee, the ematewer of the evil, sad the necessity fur a speedy and effectual rewedy. There were four more resolutions of thanks to Mr. WARDLL, and his priucipal supporters in the I louse of Commons, and recommending a reform or all 'butes , by the abolition sir all sinecure places and pensions. SOUTHWARK MEETING. • At a Meeting of the linsatotants of the ancient Town and Borough of Southwark, convened on the Atka April, law, for the purpose or coosideriog the peoprlety of a vot.• 4f cheukr to theillirai Lloyd Wardle, Esq. and the Kiembers of the House of Connector who supported him in the late inquiry . into the conduct of the Commander-to-Chief, a string of Resolutions was moved by &Ir. Davis.— /tor which Act the Advertieement.) Mr. D rising to propose tie. Resolutions, said, that he hod always felt a diffidence in alarm ing before the Public; he was happy, however, to reflect, that the present occasion VlO4 the one evils which that diffidenee, least Ic!t ; for after the ample discussion A:00) the tittcrti.,t. had al re,,iy undergone in the /1 .I).e of Cimiero's, hut little retuaineil for hint to say upon the subject; at ''.e same time, he must express his ourpri-o at the de rision of that Hunouraiite lionse, if' he were juryinao, before whom the till...atoll of anift or in. titicence ass brought, he wont" iiot have harintered unpineurto have brought to the Duke of Y guilty of the whole of the clioNes exhibited aye: 4 him (Loud applausee.i • Re had isowe iteSolll%Ha.s to propose, which he hoped would meet their a; - probation ; and he elm. entertained the tapeetetica that all persona would he heard, as well those who were against, as those who mete in fiiiour of the conduct they were assembled to applaud. If any doubt had remained upon his wind as to the connivance of the Duke of York. the teetiusinly of Mise Taylor would he suffiatetat to mourn if-- (here he quoted that part of the.teatimony' of Miss Taylor which ref. rred to the conversation between the Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke, with retigect to Col. French's conduct to that lady). 'After they lied decided upon the Resolutions he had al. ready read, It was his intention to proptioe moldier, thanking Sir T. Turton for his conduct epos that occasion: though he had disapproved of much r f his conduct in the Bototigh, his exertions in the • instance he all uded to met his decided approbanou, and he was desirous that they should all afford hi n the tritute he deserved. He concluded with user. t,i the first Resolution. Mr. Favat rose to second it: lie said that it Iraq 30 veers since first he had the honour of addreseing these, and never upon any ore :Ism hod he expe rienee.l greater satisfsetion ; r any qiicotton had arisen out of the general feeling of the peo ple. that had. Any man who had the exercise of his senses could nut hesitate upou it: the simple tact was, that a kept mistreas had differed with her protector. and out of that differciier la-d arisen all the circninstanceo ohich led to tha lute distosreries in Parliament. Ihe country already owed its re. toast from popery to the ditietenee boot-en aI: - o r Mistress mid Henry the nth. When 1;€ recollected the privations which the people of England .- eel when he recollected that the army coot tiStlts twenty-four millions a year—surely it was right *to require that the person who presided over it should be like the wife of Como', virtuous aud un suspected (loud applauses); he was convinced that if the Attorney-General was speaking to them fur three hours, he could not persuade them that tam Duke of York was intiocent. (Load •41anses.) He had been sitting for many years as Chairman, to enforce tire collection of taxes, and upotenianv carious it wrung his heart to see the persons irons whom they, ouvreowilswasdi. The least that could he required, in his opinion , was, the lawful rod limiest application of us., oar collected (Arad opplasurss/ and that was a strung reason for agreenig in tits Re. solutious proposed. They had already appeared ie military characterr, they had stood forward in the de fence of their country—Mr a hat they wanted %isnot Fret'. li Reform, but thorough English Refisnuo.- (Loud and conOuiced applaumrs.i When they tea fleeted loom the conieteteeces which such a err tem us had been lately disclosed ill the Meow of COIOIIIOIIS roust produce apoii t 1,.. trilby at lettne, their strongest diaapproloatiLlii Aisne. If the question, do you {tome Mrs. Clarke ? whs. p., to any follower of the gallant Moore, in Spou t hoe would Ins spirits, his ambition he det.reased ,by the recollection of such a counteractiog icfluend (loud opplaissef). Celess a ;Anal reform took place, he had no hesitation io declaring Viet there would be no accents for the people of (load applarses). He had been a delegate open a former occasion, from that Borough, in favour of Parliamentary Reform—and, though unstieeessft.l upon Cud occasion, lie was 'dill attached to the cause. He would never forget whit she Duke of Richmond said at the nine; iii accounting for their disappointment, he said, " that the great mum of England knew the authority which they possessed cooler the old system, but none of them loco what they would possess under the new." Whim a Nobleman espoused the cause of die people, he was then most truly noble ; hut it was by the guiddliiig ranks of people that that renarnation was to he principally promoted, and the country most effico Melly to be preserved. It wigs said, upon many occasion'', that the reformers ought to leave the country ; but be was renal,' they *mild agree with him, that the coitiory was tio.:11 refortumg, atid it' any party was to leave it, he was sure it ought to be the abettors and friends of. corruptive (hied appfairse.v). The constituted authorities were stir fivient to collect the sense Pithy people. if County meetings were not re-oft-Ate Pisioehiol itioettage might, and as Ministers had foluteriv r. rte.l io them for these purposes, he saw no rearm.' oily the people should not result t.t itte.lll for their • • n (load endorses!. The Admiral had hoisted I is for reform, and it became them to observe tont dal (upplaires!„. He would is the words of the great Nelson. " England experts every emu dill do his duty ;" and ate way to do that duty, will he to defend end to reform it. Mr. ALCOCIE said, that he could not give a silent vote upon that occasion. The petniatic and inde. pendeot mangier, in which Mr. Wardle con . 'hotted himself witted him to their warmest ap prolgetiort and he eras confident he would mart its He regres.t4 extremely to have. *eel', tire Morn ing Papers of that day, a tiaragraph which limited coorealitient which in i o ht h a ve led to the dee.. Imminent of corruption more effectually then any other oceirreace. (Here he read • paragnqsh stating the destruction of the Doke nt Vinoirk's lets ter, in consequence of a o reuwary critiotiferatiori. by ' Mrs Clarke.) Ile washed that these letters co uld rise like a phoenix from tl.e ashes, that the cocas, I , I . _ yi :1~ I