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II ! FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. I !r. I I I r it ~I 1 ~' . I. • Thursday last, at _ Crown Inn, at Torts mouth, a most superb entertainuieut was given, to celebrate the great Vietnry of 'Trafalgar. Tra• hundred and thirty of the most distinguished Gentry in Portsmouth and Gosport, and the ailjacent hourhood, were present. There were 7s ladies in the rooms. Lady CARTER, was Lady Patroness ; and Admiral Sir ISAAC COFFIN, Master of the Cere monies. They did the honours of the night in a manlier peculiarly grateful to the elegant assem blage. Sir ISAAC paid great atteriiion to the younger officers, which was highly fla , tering to them, and honnurable to himself. There were a great number of Ladies from Fareham and Titch field. In honour of the night, Mr. lIF.auAN, had got the Ball-room chalked with device:, which pro duced a very fine effeß. The plan was executed in coloured chalks, contrasted with admirable skill, which produced the appearance of rich tapestry. The whole was divided into compartments, surround ed with a very rich and elegant burder In the first, at the top, were G. R, with the crown, sur mounted by the British flag, and " God Save Ibe King" below, en a scroll. Ihe next panne' had the battle of Trafalgar, the blowing up of the Achille being represented in a most lively manner ; in the centre panne' were Lord NIELSON'S Arms, very no curately done. The next compartment represented the vi Rory of Sir R. Sr sadIIS N. And the lea contained the Flags of the Combined Fleets, lying on the ground, bound round with a scroll, hearing the names of Neasos, Cot. al Nowoon, CALDER, and STIACUAN. ray - , 11...111.1•^ ••••••••rammr• ii 0 . V • " !linnet of Crest Britain, 15,144 4 Pkie• Tht poi. 4' . ' ',.' ; •-..*: 7 4 ! -,..:. .. Latino of the Russian Empire is complied at ~. .=lO l l ....". , ' • 4 ' • . . millitons, and that of France at:0,229,000. ' IP ' -Cr ' W 7 3 11 h -. 11 - o _, ' .........&, , • ..a. —....— In the above statement, the author see4s to have '` • • ..,4' • , •-•- • left the Cth urk: empire entirely out of tha qucstiashr • - 4 " .: • - . ______ _ - ...._ -: . ..___Vali • ALL 47' PORTSMOUTH. TIIE BRITISH PRESS. , On T 1 ____....—... _ Aursday last, at the Crown Inn, At Torts- FROM THE GERMAN PAPERS. VII:W OF TUE FINANICIAL SYSTI•NI Of THE KINGDONI OF ITALY. Italy is the subjed of the new Continental Wu?, which has set all Europe in motion, and the issue of the tremendous contest will decide the future poli tfcal fate of this tine peninsula, which is now entif el dependant on France. An authentic statement co the financial system of the new kingdom, founded h, Napoleon, with which the public have hitherto been unacquainted, cannot, at the present moment, prove nainteresting. It furnishes a standard for judging of the power and internal enereas of this state, com posed of so many various countries, and so inti mately canoodles! with France, by its subjeCtion to the saute bead. STATEMENT OT THE FINANCES FOR THE YEAR 1110. The expenditure of the kingdom of Italy amounts, for the present year, to the sum of 88,670,000 lire, (about 5.140,0001. sterling). The sources from which this sum is obtained, are the lond-tax, in• shred taxes, and revenues. Its application appears from the fullowing list of the public expenses. Lire. interest to be paid by the Monte Napoleon • 1,100,000 ifechanashcal Pensions . 6,000,000 . Civil POlleiwas . 890,000 Cita List . . 6,000,000 . Maintenance of the King's Guards 2,000,000 Ter the Administratiul of the Grand Judge 1,120,000 For Foreign ARarra . 1,000,000 • o:dinars , interior F.xperidiri.re . 6,00,000 Extraordinary interior Expenditure 5 ,',00,010 Per Public Worship - . 200,000 Ordinary Txpen , es of the Department of Filianco 1,430,00 i Extraordinary rammer. of the same 2,890,000 Fre the Public Exchequer 824,100 For the War 25,500,000 . . s.pport of the French Army 25,000,000 • Reacereal Fund o,con,ono • • • Total 88,670,000 STATEMENT OF THE FINANCES FOR 11100. The demands for the next year exceed those of the present. For the public service of the year 1806, the Government will have occasion for one hundred millions of /ire (upwards of 3,340,0001. sterling), the expenditure of winch is already arranged as follows : Lire. Interest to be paid by the Mote Napo:eon . 1,700,006 Neer Interest in addition . 800,000 . • Interest belung sz V. Fralee . 600,040 Eec:miastical Pensions 8, 0 e 0 , 000 civil Tensions . 800,000 . Civil List . 6,000,000 . . . . Maintenance of the King'. Guard . 2,000,60(1 For the administration of the Gland Judge . 5,006,000 For Foreign AlLira . . 2,000000 . . admery loteri,r Expend:tore in,o9n.n24) Istraciolinary brinier Expend:tare . 4,600,100 Tor Public Worship 200,000 . . Ordinary Expenees of the Erepart.tient of Finance 1,45G,000 Extraordinary Expeneeiierf the same . 1,221,000 Ter the Public Exchequer . 324,000 . . For the War 27,060,000 . . Tor the French Army Rarer wed Tend 2b,Abn,o 0 . 3,946.tm0 Total To cover the arrears of 1804, and the preceding years, a credit of four millions of I;,r, in national domains, is placed at the disposal of Government, and all claims of an older date to national property, Ore declared void. By the Monte Napoleon, is de noted the administration of the fund for consolidat ing and paying off the debt of the State. This in stitution, likewise. takes on itself the sum of 15 millions of hetes Tournois of the national debt of Piedmont, for which it pays annually 600,000 iirr to France, at the rate of 3 per cent. for the union of the districts between the Sesia. the Po, and the I icino, formerly belonging to Piedmont, with the kingdom of Italy. According to The Cvart C.oiette, twenty from the Philippine Islands, baptised in the year 1302, in the kingdom of Tonquin, 6,61'l children, and 200 adults ; and administeted the sacrament to 108,352 communicants. The present Monarch, who has recovered the sove trigr.ty of which he was deprived, favours the Christians as much as the former illegitimate • pos sessor of the throne persecuted them. It is remarked, that since Napoleon entered Ger many, he has ordered quarters to be provided for him at three or four different places at a time. lor inuarre, on one and the same day a lodg ing a .is bespoken for him at Manheim, Wish& be,g, and Bruchsal, but he proceeded unexpenedly to Etlingen, and there passed the night, In a statistical work just published at Brunswick by Mr. George Hassel, the total number of inhahit ants in Europe is estimated at 9e,509.000. Of these the author places 47,535,000 in Middle Eu rope, under the inautnce of Austria and Prussia ; in Northern and Eastern Europe, under the in fluence of Russia, 53,339,000 ; in Wes.ern and Southern Europe, 1111 , 1er the influence of France, titi,o3o,ooo; anl in Insular Europe, undo- the in- LONDON, IUESDAY. Novemtua 2(3. Seventeen thousand stand of ATMs, clothing, ac coutrements, &c. are ordered to be sent immediately to Hanover, in addition to a supply of these articles for 20,000 men, carried ont in the transports which conveyed the troops under General Dow. —The serpent's teeth sown by the French must rise in armed men, and Government thence evidently expeEt to muster a force of 30,000, at least, in that Eleftorate. The expedition under General Dow arrived off Heligoland in very foul wea• then, when the Alert armed ship took charge of it, and proceeded to Cuxhaven, where the troops and horses were landed safe on the 15th. We have been mistaken, in common with our contemporaries, in asserting that a second expedition, upon a much larger scale, will speedily follow. Preparations are, no doubt, making for a force of .50,000, including 10,000 cavalry ; and, if so great an exec tion were necessary to the deliverance of Europe, England would make it; but it is only in contemplation of such a crisis, that so large a force is now preparing. Its aftual departure from this country must depend upon contingencies. The afaielape, Rear-Admiral Sir SIDMLY SMITH, with the squadron under his command, arrived on Sunday evening in the Downs. We understand, that every thing was prepared, and the ships and launches were ready to commence the attack, when a sudden squall and change of wind to N. W. ren dered it necessary for the squadron to haul off the shore. The change was so sudden, and the situa tion so critical, the squadron must have been in great danger, had they lost a moment to effeet their escape. They suffered some damage, but not to any consi derable extent, while off the French coast. The Brier gun-brig, for the safety of which we stated, last week. serious fears were entertained, is generally supposed to have blown up. It is also said, that the boat of the 40444 Sir Smut Ss; Ines ship, was driven on shore, and that 14 of his Iwst men, who were on board her, were made prisoners.— Three, some accounts say six, of the launches. went down in the gale ; but their crews were saved. The loss, however, has not been accurately nice mined ; nor is it known whether the attempt will be speedily renewed. The French boats were secured with cables, for the purpose of being drawn on shore, in case of an attempt to board them. --- One hundred and fourteen of the 3d Regiment of Guards, have orders to be on the parade by half past six this morning, to march for Reading, Berk shire, to wait the arrival of part of sixteen thousand French primmers that are to be distributed in the interin-. A large fleet of light transports, from Portsmouth. ar:ived in the Downs, Sunday morning, and passed through for Ramsgate Harbour, where they are to take on board several regiments of Cavalry and in fantry, for the Continent ; the whole of which are to rendezvous in the Downs, previous to their sailing for the place of destination. The Hercules, Palo, arrived in Torbay on the ?I n instant. from Jamaica. She sailed from thence on the 27th of September, with a Rect. under convoy of the Racoon brig of war, and parted from them on Cie 20th ult. in Lt. 33. 16. long. lA. 43. in a gale of wind, and has had nothing but gales since. The Druid frigate, with a fleet of transports from Cork, having on hoard the sth, 9th, 23th, 10 h, Stith, and nOth regiments, are hourly expelled in the Downs, from Falmouth, where they have been de tained for some days by contrary winds. The Swedish Cunsui.-G . at London. has transmitted a Circular Letter to all the Swedish Vice-Consuls at the different ports in this country, informing them if orders having been issued by the French Government to capture Swedish vessels. "lhe Herlo has towed into the Downs the Sari& torsos, which she picked up on the night of the 21st inst. off Boulogne, full of water. She was pre vented from sinking, and tSe crew saved, by Sir Sroar.Y SMITH'S plan of lining with cork, in imita tion of the life-boats. The is,, man of war, with a fleet under convoy, from Newfoundland, is arrived at Cork, in company with the Portnsige, TEM, from Antigua, for Lon don ; and the ship Betsey, Tansy, from Surinam, for London ; which she has recaptured. The Fs Wok, tits•tir, , from Quebec, for Cork, WAS lost at Newfoundland the beginning of Oc tober. The gallant Rear-Admiral Sir R. Sr a scm•oe, Bart. has received a most handsome congratulatory letter from that veteran and brave Officer, his Com. mander-in.Chief, the lion. Admiral CO SPWA L dated Vi le de Paris, giving him joy of his well earned vettory, after so very severe and hard-fought A battle, with Dos *Nos s squadron. on the 4th instant. The Hell•Na, of 74 guns, is arrived at Plymouth. This nesel went in chase of the two large ships state) in the dispatches of Sir RICA 2 RD S raticnais to have separated from the French squadron. which he gallantly fought and captured on the 4th inst. Ilse . &Items lost eight of them iu the eight. and joired the Channel elect two days after the adieu. 1 porrn VERSES TO THR AUTHOR OF THE LONDON CRIES. Mild Boil, whilst Charity inspires your lay, May Guardian Angels speed you on your way ! Awake to every ill which Nature bears, ' You ope the source of sympathetic tears ;' Art.l whilst you teach the heart-telt stream to flow At sight of real poverty and woe, You gusrd the young front every false pretence, And range compassion on the side of semis; No more the Beggar shall Moan, implore, By the feigri'd story, and the mimic sore Thus, while you probe the honest patients' wounds, Your skill, the mumping hypocrite confounds, With wholesome laws that chase the wonh'esa poor Far from the Good Man': e,rr open door ; You bid Humanity, sezurely With generous caution, grant her best supplies! Nor is thy boast by words alone, to raise Th' exhaustless fond of eh nimble praim I; Lo! grateful Bath shall own thy nettle aim, To prop het streets from poverty and shame ; From mimic sorrows to withdraw the veil. Scare the mock plaint, detect the hollow tale; Front prafr.'J aid the cqesciotis Villain flies 4, Nor dams pollute with his, ' TM London cues.• • See where in the Poem, real and feigned distress eloquently displayed. See the nines wherein the laws relating to ■tendica'rts are fully and appositely quoted. Sec note where a Committee to esquire into the Di,tressei of B-ggars in and about Bull, is mentioned. 10 Tickets were *Bolsi to 111-ggars, teferring them to the Committee of Inquiry ; many refused them. These CICCUITI SWICIIIi are related in the notes to this inters ling Poem, with all the reserve and modesty characteristic "(true charity. PHILUTHR ENOS. On Saturday, the Right Hon. I.fled CARTCRIT left tOVIII, for Haynes House, 13edlerdsh•rc. The Duke and Duchess of Warman, left their hnuse, Grosvenor-square, yesterday, for their seat, Twickenham Park, Middlesex. The Dublin Theatre will open in a few days.— The Manager ofers the Officers of the Dublin Gar rison admissions for the season for four guineas each ; a red me being a favourite bait for looseffsh. • Capt. and Lady HONOR IA WOODOATR left Du- RAM is Hotel yesterday, for their beautiful seat, Hanson Cottage. Sunning Hill, Berks. Miss Cuterros, daughter to the Baroness, is re covering from her late severe indisposition ; she has been attended by Dr. VAL:GOAN. Lord and Lady listinieca arrived yesterday, at their aunt's house (the Duchess of Cif Nous), Gros venor-square. from Stratford. The Dowager Countess of Essig is gone to pass a few clays with the Duke and Duchess of Theo:s otto e, at Chiswick. Mrs. JORDAN and Mr. Ex 'Asian were loudly applauded in their favorite parts of Vielnnie. and Den Mir, last night, at Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. Jouster took Mr. D'Eovii.ces part in the Ballet, who was prevented by illness from performing. Madame Past:sag danced with great taste and ex ecution. Viscount CAS ttttt AOll arrived last night at NE ROT'S Hotel, from East Sheen, and Lord R. t vests will leave it this day, for his seat, in Herefordshire. On Saturday evening, 4 Corr far the Heart Aare, and Raisin: /be Wind, were performed at Gos port Theatre, for the benefit of tl.e 1, dows and Orphans of the brave men who fell in the late glo rious Naval adion. Yesterday evening, died, at her house, in Man chester -street, Manchester-svare, the Right Hon. Lady CNARLOTTI Hoanav, only daughter of the Earl Of DUST, by Lady ELIZAORTN HAMILTON, oily daughter of lass rs, the sixth Duke of Haul L ION and BRANDON, and wife of Enlist nu Hoes. v, Esq. whose sister is married to Loid Sianiev. Her Ladyship had been ill for some weejts. At two o'clock yesterday, her brother, Lord St/sier, ar rived at her house, from the Oakes, the seat of his father the Earl of Deese. Soon after eight o'clock, her Ladyship expired, and Lord S r . deeply impressed with grief, returned to the Oakes. CAI-C(777'J, MAT ft, teos. ---, RETRACT /ROPE A PRIVATE LEITER " Our last advices from Columbn state, (h et o .„ Friday. the 1 about aiwx, o'clock. p.- nt. the Guyernme t a House, occupied by the Comm tnd,r of the Forces, was struck by lightning, which in. sturdy demoli.h e d the upper part of the East Fort. and forced, n ith great violence, the walls through the root of the adj risking house, belonging ri. K. Chandler, Esq. hut vecupieil by Brigade-M,,joi. Culebrooke. lase General, at the time of the acci_ dent, was sitting in the hark verandah. but provi dentially received no other i• jury than the effelt surprise produced by so tremendous a &lock from the thunder•clap which succ:!e.lcd. " His Aid-de-Camp, Lieut. Wemyss, fortunately escaped unhurt; although sitting in rile ap.irrme nt , which appears first to have been struck, or, r which, were pieces of ornamental masonry, raised accord ing to the Dutch taste, considerably ahove the roof. and as lightning is klosvn to strike the lii;thest, an d most pointed ohjets in its way, it is presumed this masonry received. and threw off the eleelric fluid to the adjoining house, where evident traces of its cour,e were visih!e. " 'Die roof fallint in, filled the room with frag_ ments of stone, beats dm and drove Lieu!. We myss against a door. with great violence, from the desk at which he was sitting. " A servant of Brigade-Major Colebrooke, who was in Fed, ill, in an apartment adjoining the Ge neral's house (into which the reins fell), miracu. lously escaped with slight bruises, although the bed was shattered to pieces. " We are happy to add, that no lives were lost, and no injury was sustained by any individual, ex cept a boy of the General's whit was slightly hurt.* SURIN.I3I G/IZETIE LX, tL4ORI)IN.IR Y. uEnt4vADAY. 'CPT. TA, 19(q. Official Itcport received sod coneentwe et 11 ler th • i.t• Gto, ffffff sod the Counsellors of Ceeeert, of l'u e ,A Al Cr. mewl Justice, of this Colour, dm rte. On Monday the 9:1, instant, the tint - irate* infer• mation has been received, that the he,. ColcgiiEspliacit 'troops which are stationed at Post Orangebo, under the command( of Captain Muffle Inislaroglefruted their abominable projen, and. on Sat even. ing, between the hours of eight and sf!nt and murdered Captains nil:re an 3 V.jc Der Assen (which last comni.inded at Post Imotave, but bad arrived on a visit to Capta.n Muller. at sit o'clock in the evening), with the whiff/ &leant sta tioned at the Post, and also the resident Commissary, and Serjeant ; and that some of these Black Troops, to the number of ten, had repaired to the wood plantation, called Woolfikamp, where they, on San day noon. about twelve o'clock, also had massacred the residing Overseer, Mr. Backer, and front thence kidnapped and carried off the male and female slaves who were on his estate, returning again to the Post Orangebo; and, after examining every thing, left three males awl three females behind, on accour.t of their not being able to go with them, and then took their route towards Alerewyne. On receipt of this informatior, his Excellency. the Lieutenant-Governor, instantly had written to the Commanding Officer at Port Orange, and charg ed him to march, without delay, a detachment to reinforce the Post of Prince William Frederic ; at the same time detaching from here, under corn-, mond of Maj.,r Roepel, sixty men to the Upper Comrnonwyne, and the same nnmber, under corn mand of Capt. lnthurn, to the Jew Savannah ; the last mentioned to march by land to the Upper Cam monwyne, and on his arrival there, to join with the others ; and, after due deliberation, to do whatever may be jodged necessary to frustrate the objet of the Rebels, and also to track them in the best and most speedy manner. In the mean time, orders have been given to rein force all the posts, which orders have already been executed. A letter has been recoiled yesterday by the General from the Commanding Officer, Turner, at Post Orange, m ent i on i ng to h ave rece i ved a le tter: from the Officer commanding at Post Prince Wiliam Frederick, wherein he states to have received in formation that the Post Armina had mutinied, and that the Officer and Donor had been killed by five of the Black Soldiers, who, the week before, had been sent as patrol to the Post Orangebo, and, on their return, committed this an, after which they had fled, when they were joined by the remaining troops of the post. The Officer, Klein, after receiving this informa tion, called his men before him, to whom he held forth the foregoing circumstances, and demanded of them how they acre disposed, and if Inc could rely on them, to whom they unanimously and with one accord swore to be firm and loyal to the country, and would never leave their officer, and should obey his orders pundually. Hereupon she t Fern Klein immediately sent an express to the Indrairi, cautioning them to take care of themselves, and to watch as clog., as possible wnat was passing above, and also to report the same se thou' delay ; which they had accepted faithfully to accomplish. Thrift men had been dispatched for the purpose of assist. ing in discovering what was going oa, but who had not returned at the time this letter was sent off. The Officer, Klein, the other day, in the mor..iag. had repaired on board of the there lying giinfbrig, and relates' to the Commander a'.l ;fiat had been transaned by the Black troops, requesting him at the same time to go on shore with him, which was immediately complied with. After they had a.- sired at the post, the Lieutenant Klein, for the second time, had called his men before him, when they again swore, in presence of the Commander of the brig, the same fidelity and loyalty as the Ctefl• ing before. It ippears, from the examinations and deposition{ of several persons who were witnesses to the barba rous efts (but who, through favourable (wow:Ami ties, made their escape. and arrived tir•rc), that this mutiny olly exists among the ringleaders, and nut generally among the whole corps, f. .rrr, which there is good reason to hope that several of these mu. tineers, out of fear or otherwise, will yet u. o to their duty. Br Order of the Court, (Signed) M. S Sent„ -rat, Sec. sow- The A.a., tinrriss, twin Mang, has put iota Baltimore (Iceland), in d4ts es*.