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• BONAPARTT. r . ... This Day is puulished, price Is. . ip ill's owthe CONDUCT and PORO • Tr . :4, lioN A w.INArARTE. . r ~. • .1. D. Sy.vionds, No. 20, Patemeater.row ; and : ti ' 1 . all 11.ok eller: in Town and Country ..—___ In tew .4•11,6 will is, published, pI't.STANT ASCENDANCY in IRE , \ Nvy cons id ert .d. By An ENGLISHMAN Lhn.i,,s, Print,/ for John Harding, No. 36, St. James's- ~t nienkonvd, price Is. to order to couut-ract A Cotre,h Edition of a LETTER addressed to 1 - a. the Right Hen. Lord HOBART, By Col. THOMAS PICTON, Printed for E. Lloyd, 11a :Ig-street. This Day is publi.hed, price Is. LETTER to JOEIN FOSTER, Esq. Chan cellor of the Exchequer for Ireland, tin the hest Means •f educating and eniploring the Poor in hat Country. By JOSEPH LANCASTER, Author of Improvements in Education. Tri !tell via -.ld by Harbin and Harvey, Graceelturch-street ; ; and other Booksellers. this Day i: published, prig. l TitULTILTM IN I'ARVO. .A LETTER from Sir JAMES FOULIS, Bart. Amanuensis to SII EEL AGM, sad not a Roman Catho lic JOHN BULL, ou Irish Affairs. Pro boo" public°. Nilul ni.i Tenant. London: Printed for .1. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Ma jesty, Ito. 120, cq,posite Albany HOUld, Piccadilly. This Oav was published, in Ilvo price Si. in boards, AStatistical and Historical ENQUIRY into the Progress ant prawn Magnitude of the POPULATION of IRELAND II THOMAS NEWILNH IM, fag. Authier of sever:l %laical Traria relative to Ireland. Lnadon : Printed far C. and K. Wldam, of New Bridge /trent •,, • The object of this Wort it to esit , ibit theses( and in ert...mg Peva/laser of Icoltind La the Political Seale of the 1- nmire TitE OIPICIAL P stTas atrt.ErE, izikrivs TO THE WAR WITH SPAIN. l'h.s D. etTeelse iiCloelt. will be published. panto & on • legible Types is DesayElsesee. eteler. •DAPERII presented HUB to bath AL HOUSES ark . oath& 24* of. January, restive to Its WAR A* 41111. Teethe% are added, the Spanits Ekocialstios e ssi dilirmertable Manifest, of the Ir,aa! at r. as to seta Spud* on that iaapurtant rubbehed by Samoa Cundas, I. IMO, raerbfbeter-few ' • J. Hama, St. Paul's Church-yard; and C. Chapple, Pall Nall . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF PEENS.—Fais+r, Jar. 33. Counsel was heard at considerable length relative to t h e Scotch Appeal. Jab. Smith, Manager for,the Leith Glass-h4use Company, and others, v. John Yeluso, Merchant, and others, viz. Mr. Nowtas, on the part of the Appellanu. After which their Lordships deferred the farther bearing of the case till Monday. The Bills upon the table were forwarded in their risfeelive stages. It was ordered that no Reports be received from the Judges, or Petitions for pnvate Bills, after Wed. nesday, lOth of April next. Some private busancss was disposed of. Adjourn ed till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS . Mr. Myr roan from the C.-- ems in Scotland, presented at the bar of the 'heft an account of Custom Duties due and out- , s on bunt or otherwise ; and of all ships em., in the %Tale Fishery to Davis's Straits.— .. I to lie on the table, and to be printed. He afterwards presented an account of the Dories A Eacise in Scotland, outstanding on bond or other 'wise.- Ordeted to be printed. Also-an Abstradt of the account from the Com miesienets of the Northern Light Houses, which was tweeted to. Ikon the table. Also a it from she Comabsiosers of the Tum my of the Public Aosonstatob isrespoa to whose C:781 has heels stayed, in of the Ails of rode asS4 49111 of this se lie on the table. Mr. Alderouss Ammo= brought op a Petition isms Sir W. Itawliao s ino..ant Robert Albion Con e Esq. lithaidis44lll9 Consty of Middleere, in - . tbis leer 3102, pa*, to be Word by Compel. in 'stir to exculpate dieneeelres frainvertais socassa : diose and charges alleged ageism doliths Ile Re pot of the Sided Committee, apgolassii WI/ the merits of the Elation and Return efa of the a, said Shire of Middlesex , at she Goosed. lasaion in ". I tot, at which they were the RentrolotOtheer.— ' Ordered to bean the Table. Lord Wit.t.t•si Roust,. presented a Petition i, from certain Freeholders in the County of Middle sex,' against "I. Shaw, Esq. and Sir W. Leighton, Beet. the late Sheriffs of the County of Midrilesex, complaining of their having made a false Return at the late Elettitm for a knight of the said Shire ; and praying that the name of George Boulton Mainwar ins, therein inserted, may be struck out, and the said return be amended, by inserting that of Sir F. Burden in its stead ; which being read, Lord W. Russeat. then moved, that the said petition be taken into consideration on Tuesday, the 19th day of Fe bruary next. Sir E. NEPEAN gave notice, that he would, on Monday next, move to continue the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and of Martial Law in Ire land, for a time to be limited. Lord Ellenborough's Insolvent Debtors' amend. ing Rill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. Mr. SIURGESS BOURNE moved a new writ for the county of Hertford, in the room of the Hon. Penistone Lambe, deceased. ARMY PAPERS. Mr. WINDHAM said, tb.t from among the , motions which be had made the other day relative to Army Papers, there was one which he had omitted to bring forward, because he wished to make it a stprate and distinct motion from the others. As it was, however, of the same nature and tendency as the others, he believed there would be no objeChon to it. He then moves!— ' .. 'that there be laid heft,. the !louse a separate return of ' the nunib-r of (-festive men in the levy now raising by Col. Trench, forth- service of the United Kingdom, distinguishing the number ..f Recruits finally approved, tri fettle date of the last reiuin, together with tile number of o fficer, raising men 1,, lank, and the officers all nen coantnitsioned officers who bed been fivally airproveridererl. Ihhk% The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER .4 That there be laid beloie the House an amount a His Majesty's Regiments of Militia and standing IPneces, digit palling the Cavalry and Infantry, and the Garonne amount of inch ' s. they reifies:direly stood on the Ist of January 1604, and tins laid' January 1605." Ordered. SPANISH PAPERS. Mr. GREY rose and said, that he had attentive ly looked over the papers laid yesterday before the House, relative to our rupture with Spain, and it appeared to him there were several chasms and omissions which requited to be filled up or account ed for, before the House could enter properly into the discussion of a subje& of such great weight and im portance. In the first place, there seemed to him to be a total omission of any communications during a long period of time, which must have been as important as any part of the communication; and this is parti cularly referred to by Lord Hawkesbury, in which he mentions to Mr. Frere, that his dispatches to No. 40, had been received, whereas only two or three of these are among . the papers delivered to the House. Another omission was that of every thing which had passed between the Spanish Ambassador here, and the Minister of our Home Department. Neither was there any account of the armaments complained of` to have bren carried on in the ports of Spain ; nor of the English ships carried into, and sold in the Spanish ports In Europe and the West. Indies. He thought the House should also have an account of the orders arid dispatches seat •out to Sir Edward Pelleve, blockading the port of Ferrol, and to Admiral Cochrane, in the. idledyerrattean, re spaing the detention of the 4paiiiih otsips, aild,ltho those relative to the comntencelnent of hostilities. He deemed it, he maid; highly necessary; that these and other omissions should be supplied by every due information which could be obtained, and i% as thus particular in thenmentioning them, that if the light Hon. Gentleman opposite had no objection, he would then make his motion, in order to save, time. If he objected to it, he gave notice, that he would btiag forward a motion to that diet% on Monday aunt. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said. it would certainly be better for the 1-1,,n. Gen tleman to make his Motion on Monday, as there *would be more time to consider the eligibility of granting or withholding the several communications, of any of them, to which he had so slightly allude 1. It was then nderstood, that the notice stands fer Monday. COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MIANS. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, to consider of the supply granted is His Majesty. Mr. A LZIANDER, in the Chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the annual duties on land, malt, mum, cyder and perry, which were agreed to. The House re sumed, and the report ordered to be brought up to motrow.---Adjourned to to-morrow. Several death+, /re. have bean lately emnmunlcatitil to ugly, letter, but.being ignorant of the haakl-writing, we can not velure to insert them. TILE BRITISH Plit ESN LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2G. A report prevailed yesterday in the city, that another. Messenger had arrived from France, but we could not trace it to any authentic source. Thurs day was settling day it the Stock Exchange, and yesterday two defaulters were declared. but their differences do not exceed 20,0001. We yesterday laid the Declaration of our Go vernment against Spain, and the correspondence accompanying it, before our readers. With the exception of a few words in some of the letters, which are merely surplusage, and some passages that were ooly repetitions, our Paper was a faith ful and complete copy of the Official Papers submitted to both Houses of Parliament. Our case being wow fairly before the public, fur nishes an interesting source of discussion, "and is the general topic of conversation, in every political circle. Had the Declaration been an exagger ated or coloured summary of the Correspondence ; had we found in it any points mistated ; any unwar rantable inferences from fads, or any apparent dis position to magnify trifles, or estimate matters of importance below their true weight and value, it would become us to strip the case of all sophistry, and lay it, in a plain and unvarnished dress, before ii our readers. But if the Declaration has any pre vailing charater, it is that of plainness, candour, and simplicity. To present a fair and precise view of the truth, appears to have been die sole obje6l of the writer ; and, in its pursuit, it is almost a matter of regret, that so little aid is sought from the beauties of composition. This course, in a had cause, might be bl-ameable ; but the advocate, who disdains all foreign ornament, gives perhaps the best proof, that he has all the merits upon his side. The Treaty of St. Ildephonse is obviously the foundation of the present rupture. By that Treaty, Spain covenanted to furnish a certain contingent of naval and military force, for the prosecution of any war in which the French Republic might think proper to en t g►age, thereby binding herself in a state of abject and un qualified vassalage to France. Had this Treaty been carried into execution, Spain must, of necessity, have committed herself in open hostilities with England; but, to avoid this result, a subsequent Convention was agreed upon, by which she bound herself to pay to France a certain sum, is liea of the stipulated naval and military succours. — There was one charaaerlstic difference between these two compafis. The Treaty of Bt4ldephonso was 2 public article. The Convention was a secret , agreement. With the inception of the substitution of a pecuniary subsidy fora military and naval force, England was left its total ignorance of it, and all ex planation, as well of the amount of the money, as of every other part of the convention, was evaded or refused. Without then going into the detail upon this subjeli, and that of the armaments in the port of Ferrol, the two great leading points of the case, we ask, what is the true light in which Spain was to be viewed in relation to , England? She could only be a friend, a neutral, or an enemy. Friend ship she did not pretend, enmity ,she disowned, and neutrality she professed. And how did she prove the sincerity of her professions ? She stipulates to furnish our enemy with money, i• the sinews of war," to an extent which she refuses to define. She, in the same convention, agrees to other articles, the nature of which she refuses, to disclose. Spanish ships are removed from their stocks, to make roor_n for,French ships, wanting repair; and French seamen are marched across Spain, to man the French squa dron in Ferrol. Spain herself arms, and, when called on to explain, assigns as a cause, that the ships of the line fitting out were intended to -onvey troops into Biscay. Spain had no enemy upon the sea ; hy then use armed ships for the purpose ; or ashy use ships at all, when the obvious course was to send her troops by land, as she afterwards did ? The insurgents in Biscay were not in possession of any strong place upon the coast, assailable only by sea, and the idea of waiting to equip a squadron, in a case of intestine troubles, which, above all others, will not admit delay, is almost beneath serious notice. The concealment, therefore, of the real motive, was, :n itself, a just ground of suspicion; but, coupled with all the other circumstances of the case, left little doubt but that the armaments were fitting out in contemplation of hostilities with England. If this, then, be the condua of Spain, when purely neutral, what are we to expel from her, now that she is hostile ? She will continue to furnish pecuniary suc cours to France ; she will fit out armaments in her ports, and supply the ships of France in her harbours with every species of naval stores. But she did all this, and a great deal more, when she professed herself neutral. France, herself, that has been professedly at war with us, has not given stronger proofs of hos ti:ity. If she has fitted out a flotilla at Boulogne, so has Spain equipped a squadron at Ferrol. If hostile BONAtAIITt has abused England, the neutral Patrice of Price has not been sparing of his reflation, upon her candour and inte grity.—Neutral Spain, it is tree, had not dared to send out a firet to attack our squadron off Ferrol, neither has hostile BowAAAara attacked Admiral CORNWALLis off Brest. Even this, which is only a partial enumeration of our grounds of com plaint against Spain, sufficiently proves the justice of the war on our part, supposing the anion off Cape St. Mary, and the Spanish declaration of war, had never taken place. The measure of our endurance was full on the day our Minister quitted Madrid, and the aelion off Cape St. Mary does not Ara the merits of the case. Itonlygave the Spanish Declaration of War precedence of the English. Those, however, who would make the ation off Cape St. Mary part of the case, and contend that the door was not closed against peace by Mr. Fame's departure, say, de Cod forbid that the departure of an Ambassador from the Court to which he was accredited should be tantamount to a declaration of war." It would indeed be a mat ter of regret if the departure of an Ambassador should in every case work such an elle& But if an Ambassador has remonstranced against the proceed ings of a Foreign Court—if he has repeatedly de clared that he will consider a perseverance in them a declaration of war—if he has exhausted month after month in demands of explanation, and made the compliance with these demands the condition of peace, and if all these entreaties have been an swered only by evasion. or neglect; and if, in all these demands and declarations, he has been only the org a n of his Court, we see no reason why his departure, under such circumstances, should not be equivalent to a declaration of war. What a pitiful boaster must that Minister be, who instmas as Am bassador to declare, that if certain terms are not complied with, war must follow ; and yet, in the event of refusal, continues to cultivate peace ! How idle, in the nation so refusing, to complain of want of notice ! It surely could not be necessary for England to send a bellman into every town of Spain, to announce that which the Spanish Government was apprised must follow its refusal. The Baron Boo■ arrived yesterday, with dis patches of importance from the Court of St. Peters burgh. Dr. C. M. Strrrots is promoted to the See of Can terbury, and Dr. J. Tuella* is to be the new Bishop of Norwich. llis Gib-.len, Guitormsom from Lisbon, for London, is lost on the North Bull, Dublin. _ FESTIVITIES. On Friday the 11th inst. a Grand 818 alad sap. per were given to the Corporafon, Horgoems, and principal inhabitants of Ludlow, in Shr!pshire, s a d its vicinity, by the Earl of Fowls. The Sipper. consisting of every delicacy of the season, win es . sweetmeats, Ike. Among the ettrimities on the t e . bit, was an enormous piece of mast beef, cow ere d w i t h laded, with the motto, 0 0 Oh 1 the R•ist H a i of 011 England," very ingeniously entwined among the branches. The Ball began at nine o'clock, and was kept up with the utmost vivacity till 6.e th e next morning. His Lordship, with his amiable Consort, and dveir lovely daughters, Ladies Has. gigT and CH /11LOTTZ (Alva, were present. ilex Ladyship was dressed in a most beautiful India mus. lin, with a profusion of diamonds on her head. En e was drawn into Ludlow, in her carriage. by twelve Indian mules, richly caparisoned. The renuinder of the Supper, with plenty of bread and cheese, v% the next day distributed to the poor inhabitant of the town. AMATEUR CUNCE RT. „„ . • prospermis institution had a very crowded meeting on Thursday evening, at liv os's Roo! Tottenham street. 'The instrumental music principally new, and manuscript, procured b; member of the institution, lately from Germany ; and, although the pieces had never been seen before by the performers, they played them with grea t roorrenness. Among thd new music there' was a • symphony /o (Anse, by Waist ;sit v ; a symphony by 'FEY ass ; and a trio for a flute, &toe, and bassoon, by Davitart a. We never heard Mrs. Moon rain to greater advantage. She spoke a Ileenittive, an d sting an Italian Air in the most finished stile, And she enraptured eves y one present, the performers as well as the company. In The Soldier eir'd of 111. e's Alarms, she sung inferior to none hot Mrs. tit, . LINGTON. Mess's. Eves S. \VATTs, and the EL. LIOTS, sung two charming Glees, lit ne br e Cop, and Shakespear s crabbed Age, the music by Srststss in their usual excellent stile ; in the latter cher s, ere deservedly encored. Mr. MOONS ern playe.l t .7y excellent Concerto on the vio , in, and produced some most charming tones—it was rather too long—h e was much applauded. Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, the KING , left Kew for Windsor. Yesterday morning the Dokes of Yoct, Er.Nr, and C A MBEIDGE, •isited Her MaJtsr v and the Patiscesses. About twelve o'clock Her M cIITT the Patricians left the QuasH's House for Windsor. On Tuesday the ILIT•L FAMILY will return to town, and in the evening honour Covent Gat.t-a Theatre with their presence, to see the new Comedy again. and fierifwd Bridge. On Thursday Her Mussy v is expesrted to held a drawing room. His Royal Highness the Duke of Suuts h moureJ the Court of King's Bench with a visit yesterday. The Princess of W•i. es gave an elegant *LIM on Wednesday last, to a large party of fashionable% • at her house at Blackheath. Lord Sr. Hti.gres gave a superb dinner day at his house in Curaou.street, to the Ministers; and in the evening her Ladyship gate a grand rout. The Earl and Countess of BRISTOL left tows yesterday for their seat at lekv•orth Park, Suffolk. The remains of the Archbishop of'C• pi:moat were yesterday deposited in Lambeth Church. with all the funeral pomp attendmg such occasions. The Dean of WEST MINSTER, and great number of No. ! ility and Clergy, attended. Viscount GAIMSTOM and family returned to Grosvonor•scinare on WAnesday, from Gorham. bury, Heits, for the season The Duke and Duchesiof BEDTORO are- gone to Woburn, for a fortnight. The Marquis of BucKlNua a M and family returned `1 Mall k. Buas, to Pall . on Thursday, from Stowe Park, , for toe season. Lady A v Luta, whose death we annoureed last w,ek, was not the widow of Sir For row A Lute, but of Ha.lr Lord Art.+4 (after whose death. in 1785, she successively married Mr. Howsr.t. Parc% and Mr. BowLss), and•mother of the prevent Lord Av cam Loid and Lady CASTLEREAGH, Lady S. Slaw s sr, the 1-lon. Cenral and Lady C. Sivia% with a large party of fashionable% dined on Thurs. day with the Earl and Countess of DAHJILIIT, at their house in Berkeley-square. CHERRY was very successful in Le,d neelte, oa Thursday night, particularly in r: e tile with Pinny, who had an interesting teprcs slaw/a in Mrs. Matt Hews. The new Opera of Za - re, which is soon to be brought forward at the King's Theatre, will have the recommendation of good poetry as well as of good music, for the words are taken from VOL- • r AI Rell Tragedy. The Earl of FINGAL. Lord LISMORI, Mr. Swirl Li, and several Irish Members, arrived in town on Thursday. Lord HUTCHINSON. Mr. BURIOIVE, Mr. S. SNLYO, and several Members, dioed on Thuraiy, with Mr. ADAMSON, at his house, in Somcrs-•r- street. Master Barry 00 Thursday returned to toma from Bushy Park, the seat of the Duke of Cita acmes.. Srsensn Kau ate, it is said. has offered fifty guineas per night, for the reversion of the nay Row.sus. The Earl of 'Atacama presented yesterday a su perb and valuable sword from the city of Limerick to Sir .1 At 4 gi Dur. r. His Lordship was pleased to say, that he was highly flattered in being deputed by the Citizens of Limerick to present the sword to s General he so much valued and esteemed. The hilt and the scabbard are of gold, engraven North emblematic figures, amoag which we observed the heads of the lion and mastiff, descriptive of courage. fidelity, and watchfulness: upon the back of the •blade, is the following inscription: "This sword was presented to Lieutenant General Sir Ji Nti Derr, by the Citizens of Limerick, as a testimony of the grateful sense they entertain of his many public and private virtues, so eminently displayed anrng them during a command in a most eventful period , of five years." - of the l• Notw; plate ht dm „e The is of !totr into C, A l en. r low P pnli ,cht rio., , A ball whici de►n sellii deck the 4 Sr. Den to •1 arms `ins