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GENERAL ORDERS. • Horse Wards, April 11. 'Ti. Coulmonder•in.Chief has beta pkasot to direct diat it shall he expressed in General Orders that he is extremely gratiled by the appearance of the teems a bah he has seen this day. w Krum of the Rot Regiments of Life (Swards, Hume Artillery, and Corps of Cavalry, lelitels he inspected on the tOth Mat ; and be has still ,veater satisfactiois in enn treeing to them, reflectively and inchviduntly, his thanks fur the good conduct they have uniformly maintained in their cantimmints soil vial -ten since their *creme has been re . s l owed iu the metropolis. No one complaint of irregularity of Ally kind Lain reached the Commando nu Chief. It is a cii consistence whir 6 41.1" 1111111011 honour to the troops, and to then Commanders, and the Consinainkrin Chief has de. need peculiar .iiistiction front buvpix lull it an 1. power to make hie teport to the King ill terms 1,1( . 11 host obtalued fin . thou His 3lnjesty's most genetoot approbation. ACT/ON ,IT S.4N FE LICES. iT "I°'inot he .r•ilu o int of the action , terween the F. rip It and • putty I the f)sth Rifle Corp., ut S:111 Felices, on the Agashr, noticed iu The Gazette S4turds I le' gill. VI extracted from r prorate 'earl fr,utk ru Utfil Cr ul the 95th .• 5 IHa I DK Tonto, NiAgc9 eo. .11 aii , e this 00000 after au act with the enemy. We had hero reinforced be three more compaiiies of our regime's', making alt' erilier 300 men, under th-• commend it our gallant Colonel BECKWITH. Very near Mehra de Pure" is a town called Sat, F. lice., at which place the enemy have • garrison of 3000 iiif.ntry and 500 cavalry: betawea the town anus the river Raguita. At this time of the year it is passable only at the bridge, which is situated at the bottom of tine motintaius. The enemy had a strong picqurt, the advaticetleentries of both parties, during the night, being within ten yards of the bridge. The whole country on both sides of the river IS so MOolitiloollit at..l full of rocks, that 1 always thought it impossible for either party to hurt the other. The French thought otherwise, and last night, about eight o'clock, they advanced with SOO chosen inen towards the bridge. Here I Confess Ain at a loss to know in what man nerthey passed smell an i time precipice. In tour hours the 500 met, were asserolthrd at the bridge, us, tly at 12 o'clock at night, passed over it, and made our ailvanced ceutries prisoners ; but our pit quet of h 0 men, posted behind the rocks, 'mute diately opened a tremendous tiring upon them. The enemy did not fire, but kept forcing their way up the mountain, thereby, I suppose, to surprise the remainder of our men ; but they were deceived— our picquet retired slowly and in excellent order, aud, in less than ten militates. the whole of our 300 were down upon thins. The enemy, finding the ) had failed iii surprising us, comment.. hiring iu every direvinn. Here a general action took place, and continued upwards of an hour. At this time, half-past one o'clock, and quite moon-light, the enemy made a desperate posh, apparently with as intentom to charge up the mountain-, shouting— " Long live. Naecir.tosi;“ we, in return, gave them three hearty cheers, and immediately ehar l !ed ; then the enemy gave way, atilt fell down the rocks in every direction.—l have not tune to learn the relict number of killed and wounded; howtver, we have only one officer, Lietreionit M 1.111.1.11, killed, and about It men. We have found two officers and go Frenchmen killed. Colonel liacawyrs received a shot through his cap; the fellow was tied more than six yards distant at the nine that he fired; the Colonel knocked him clowii, sod nails him ti prilooer—lie begged the Colonel to spare his life, saying he had give') an English .oldier a ,hire at Corunno. The enemy had 20110 men t..rimal on the hills, ready to cross the bridge, if the .;00 chosen men had succeeded in forcing the P•c•-•. I forgot to mention we had 100 Sparii,to sot ,h,-r, with us; the Captain and 30 men fuoigeit ti! other officers sod 70 men ran off the moment. *`u y heard the enemy had crossed the bridge."— action arc gilds in our 'apers, SIR FRANCIS BURDE7I".! LETTER TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. 66 Tower, April 20, 1810. " Sir Francis Burdett presents his respectful compliments to the High Bailiff of Westminster, and transmits to him his answer to the letter of the Electors of that City, which be did him the honour to present to hint tins morning. " Arthur Morris, Esq. High Bailiff for the " City and Liberties of Wiatininster." " Tower, April go, MO. " CaNri.ixtitst..—lf any thing could increase, or confirm the constant resolution of my life, never to betray the confi dence vim hare placed in me, it is the kindness and affec tion which your letter of the 17th inst. testifies to me, and the wisdom and propriety of your conduct at the late meet ing. A scrupulous adherence to the Common Law of this land, and the wise provisions of the ancient statutes Jecla• rattily of that law, which together form shat, I understand by the Constitution, raised uor country to an unexampled height of happiness and prosperity ; ■ud, in an exact pro• portion to the Minim:. neglect of them, has the: country declined. " la defence of these Lawn , and this Constitution, I smile at any prnation to which, personally, I may be subjected, thinking as I do, that life canned no well, awls° happily, because, id cannot be so honourably and usefully, expended, se iudefeneeof this our best inheritance, slid in the main tainance of the good old cause, fur which Hampden died in the field, and Sidney and Rumen on the scaffold. " Laws, to he entitled to respect and willing obedience, must be pure—must come from a pure source—that is, from euturnon consent; and through go lancorrupt channel—that is. an Howe of Commons freely elected by the people.— Ntorcover, they who pay the reckoning ought to exatninsanil coutrioil the account ; and the only controul the peoPle ran :have, aby a fair reprematatiou in Parliament. The -neces sity of obtaining this check by • consilintiosal reform, is •ow acknowledged by all, except those who, contrary to law, have possessed t►emselres of • property in the Home of Commons, by whom this land; this England— - this dear, dear land, Dear, for her reputation through the world, Is wow leas'd out Like to a tenement, or pelting • farm ; England, bound in with the triumphant sea, - Whose corky shore beats back the envious surge Mowery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With Ink) blots and rotten parchment bonds. " From this foul and traitorous traffic, our borough monger Sovereigns derive au igtmeose revenue, cruelly wrung from the bard hand of hpoest lal . 1 do, however, now enter. talo an ardent hope; that this degraded and degrading system, to which all dur difficulties, griermict-s, and dangers are ow ing, will at length give way to the moderate, but determined pee vev entice of a whole united people. " Magna rbarta, and the old law of the laud, will then re sume their I mpirc; freedom will revive ; the cite, pillars of the State, coiling theinselvie up iet their own naturally Mr row 'phi re, will fall utf and pee ish ; property, and political power, which the law never separates, nil be re YOIUYI ; the replat ed in the happy and dignified station allotted Lien by the Constitution; the people, relieved from the bit terest atilt enema, time curse of Canaan—that of being the servant of servants ; and restored to their just and indisput able rights. " to effect thew• great, important, and necessary pur poses, no exertions of sine ►hall rye, be wattling ; without these atiasament, no efforts of mine can avail. " The people of England must speak out—they must do snas-v—.4lrey must act ; and if, following the example uf the Electors of tiesturiaster, they du .nx in a firm and regular manner, spun n concerted plan—ever keeping the Law and Constitut•u is view—obey must finally succeed in recovering that, to which they aie lemihy entitled—the appointment of their mill guardians and trustees, for the protection of their own liberty and pcuvrrly. They must either do this, us t►ey. must inevitably fall • sacrifice to use or the other, of the usual custriuptible fa. town that ever disgraced this or any other country. "The nitration is sow at issue; it must now be ultimately determined whether we are henceforth to be slaves, or be free. Hold to the laws, this grim country may recover , for sake thew, and it will certainly perish. " 1 am, Geutkruen, " Your most obedient, bumble Servant, " FRANCIS BURDETT." Te the Electors of Westminster." • PsHIT, aseau —JoitvioN. Onr readers rill hud ths beautiful quotation from Shah' speare, an happily applied by Sir Francis Burdett, by re hiring to Richard II Act 2. Scene t. Rl€ll.4hD TILE SECOND. (1 FROM HUMICS INGL4ND.I " To .apply treasure, the Parliament imposed • new tat of three groats ohi every person above 15 50:0r, of aer; loot the miwl♦ of the populace mere noftvi , iirahly disposed for this measure; they had to oroothli for a better condition, and to 11111 r. inur against the °lyres...iota of the Nobility. Tao vt-rbetc were forrpient in their mouths: •' %% hen Adam debt% and Evr own, " 11here was thou the Gettiletsmi ." " These duets-men were x rredily rect n•ed by the multitude. and eugraeen on their hearts. when a rritural incident fanned the Pplif ks of generrl revolt tutu open it tune. ' The tint-ortherers demanded, Or* blacksmith of Emit it. payment for his daughter, whom he as st mil to be below the ale assqpied by the st a tute. o.so of these (Amite offered to produce a very in decent proof to the contrary. which the father se ar immediately knocked out the rufilin's broil.' with hi' hammer. The eels, was appland et', the people flew to arms, the sedition spread fun th e en n isty et Ea s es into that of Kent, Hert ford. Surrey, Swims, tee. The leaders assumed the finglierl names of Wet Tyler mid Jock Strew. Trmy committed the most outrageous violence on the Nobility and fientryt het had the misfortune to fall into their haudt—t hey assembled their followers on Blarklweih, to the number of se hundred thou sand—they broke into the city, and required of the King the abolition of slavery—freedom of com merce in merket towns, without toll or impost— LYCFON Tiff 4TR rUniler the special bermes( the Lord Chamberlain .] Their Morgues' tier/sets •ill, this present MONDAY, Ap ri l in, IStoi, perform the Tragedy at GEORGE BARNWELL ; OR, THE LONDON MERCHANT. TharoughtUod i _Mr. Powell Litierarga. Barna..ll, Mr. Mel ; NillwnnJ, Mrs. Posta Marla, MlOs RSV. Lad .4 the Play (tint tow), a Ne. room Ballet, called VII.L 4GE, DOCTOR. Composed by Monsieur Fraucerco Antonin Mootignaiii, ■ celebrated Mime, sad Principal Grotesque ()amps, from the TIMIre at Lisbon his first appearance in Eszlaud. To which Mitl be added, the Colienly of THE 3111)N14:HT HOUK. The Marrone, Mr De Camp. the General, Mr. Parma Julia, Oiger Mns Edwin. lu anairuw, The Confederacy, and Hit or Mts.! THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON. MONDAY. Aram i:i. The East India, Mediterranean, •nd Qin.lieir Convoy*, remained yr.terday at Spithiad. The two latter will sail the first fair wind. We stated, en Suiiirilay, a report that three islands, on the cow,t of Sicily, with Syraerae were destroyed in Friarnary, by an earthquake. The following are ihe the salaudeNintgettli, Alacata, and Terre N o. fir FAANCiII BUIDSTT written a letter to his Caustitisents, in vwyr to their letter °Utile 17th instant, approving or gilt conduct. We this day insert a copy of it, u poldiated by the 1;,„,,,, , solar of the evettitig pronto wf so,ani. ) . with ,„„ raphoiniury twits, for the benefit of the two ypele,, we have addend several other ,. . 0 . !Mew that hr has boat carefully sturlyise arcainee Historical-Play of kirks/41 der S, ewer tau his letter te little more than a win.• o f dies of particular µimages from I hitt Brawl'. caterpillar." and the catalogue of the good s to derived from the change which be recommend., were evadrutit beret" the ilartinet, when be isidifea his leiter. Itieffeati waia minor, when In amounted the Throne, and his reign Ors out continued ss.ei t .,„ f evil -trite, and treason:Llr plu s. Hems, so a s nor e magnificent resin, th an any lii",;g befure or after hies ; his very h o u se h o l d conmisied of Root) persons; and this prodigality wa. prnt 4 l, 4 our or the principal sources of the public di.c o ". tent." We have, is another part of our ce ~,tract f r.,tu nom to chew the chewier of t i,, people, and of the num. It was the reign of J... I, Straw and Wet Tyler, characters that live in age, and may he traced in our own ; a reigo which we had much such a mob in Suothtiud, that which lately pe !tektite people before ;he net's house its Piccadilly, and atnicked iu the Monies. The reasons which mite loo t induced Sir FRANCIS to direct the puhlteattetitil, to the unfortunate seigis of Mensal) il. , to au.l.e his quotation, and to borrow all the ideas and imagery of his letter from it, we do not pretend to poi:lively know. If the people, however, will tale the hint sind read, they may there dente a salutary lesson. They will find that HENRY of BOLING. DRONE, a principal hero of the piece, declared, and vowed, and protested, that he only wasted his own, and that all he asked was the rester.- tints of tights, of which he was unjustly drprired, but no redeem or compensation could satisfy him ; he murdered his King, and succeeded to his crown. We do not, however, mean to couple Sir Faucts BURLOCTT will, Hasse of Bostxceause, and to charge the Baronet with traitorous designs, lie has, by his q itotat ion, pointed out the state of Eti 4 . land under teen 4.RD 11. as similar to its state un der GEORGE the TuiND ; and we have tnerely cited some passages from the history of the former rime, to enable our readers to understated sold 'olio-ew e his quotation. The minority of It Int En, slid his extrovagauce, produced re Jack strew and a Wat Ty/tr. and public discontent, in whatever cause oriOititilig, will always produce such eharicters ; but, without classing Sir Fasmicis Manny with ambitious, artful, sedition' demagogues, all candid mind.; must admit, that he has not coil ductial I self, as pat riot and champion of liber”, iu • way wholly unexceptionable. The charges of superfluoui re.istatice, attended with the effusion of blood, and of having wilfully misled the Serjeaut, we pass by, and come directly to his last letter.— Ilis call upon the people to act, has certainly some thing equivocal in it; and the paesege where he describes the noose of Commons as composed of two of the most contemptible factious that ever disgraced this or any other country—for it will bear no other [tweeting—is as false as it is gross. There never was a more respectable Opposition then the presetit, whether viewed in relation to its numbers, its talents, its rank, or its property ; but it has been the principle and practice of Sir FRANCIS and his followers to hate and revile the Opposition, mach more than the feeble mid imbecile Ministry who are the real source of the public discontent which now prevails, and has encouraged him to come for ward as the champion of our rights and liberties. — There is another objection to thin letter. In pri vate life, when a party resorts to the law far redreo, lie is hound in justice and propriety to patiently await the result, without attempting, in the mean tone, to excite a prejudice and inflame the public mind against his adversary. We are no reasou why the same rule should not apply to the case of Sir FRANCIS and the House of Commons, with which he way be considered as having joined issae„ on the question of right. If that right shall be de cided in his favour. he will entitle himself to the everlastiag gratitude of his country ; hut such let. ten Hs that alluded to, will only dim theorist of his triumph. The report that Sir D. Mamas had tendered his re.ignation *so Commander-to-Chief, io cons , - quence of a wait of cordiality hetween him and Ministers, is, we are assured, wholly attlout foundation, and that he urither has expr:ssed desire to retire from his office, our has any intei:- bun or disposition to do so. Strong detachments from the ban:Oil - ma of the with and Nlst regiments, are (intend to embiii. tor foreign service, to join the Ist battalion of Ili •r regiments. Tote squadron for the Battle, under the com mend of Molina Sr J. ' , Luau's, was expected t.i sail from Y aritiiiutn on Saturday. It consists of the Iforbark. Meteor, Plaatergertet, Gavel, Vs" - award. Hero. and Princes Cary/lac ships of tier line, with the Illeynard and Prometheus frigate+, sai d some smaller scrods. Capt. J. Silt ANT is appointed to the Saklaitka frigate ; Ciiplmill SPCA*, to the Royal .Y.ircreigni the of Admiral Picsmoas. G,neral WIALTII SM. I.ltollteibtaiit-GOVergiOr of Portsmouth Garrisoe, is appointed to the comensi.d at the South-West Mantel, and hiss 6 sedtlieheasl quarters at Portsmouth. The Earl of Crtir•n re-ii the command, by the general reduction which h- 4 taken place lii the Military St a ff aheriugfinout the kiiigi'mu. M.J.o Fic.rs a. Asststaut Adj la INu t-1;r -enti awl 1 4 i I .1131.TT, Assistant Vinii iris lirlaster-trentrsl, ret.stu thine situitivos. • ts of thui "I • 4, •lo Pa d - 1 end a aged rest of lauds, instead of services of va- Waage. Though Charters to this purpose were grunted them, several parties continued to insult and pluu• der the capital ; end the King passiug through Suvitlitield, very slenderly gnarded, toes with Was Tyler, at the head of them nutte d , and entered into a confereuce with him. Tyler hosing ordered his compallious to retire till he should gite thew a signal ; after which they were to murder all the company, except the King himself, whom they were to dawn prisoner. fea►ed not to come auto the midst of the orb) al retinue. He there behoved himself ill such a manner, that IValwortli, the Mayor of Lourloa, mot able to bear his insolence, drew his sword. and struck him rist violrot a blow as brought him to the ground, where he was in stantly dispatched by ethers of the King's attend outs. The mutineers, seeing their leader fall, pre pared themselves for revenge. and this whole com pany. with the King himself, had undoubtedly perished on the spot, had it not been for au extra presence of mind which Richard diseo-' v• red 011 the occasion. Ile ordered his compaily to stop, he advanced alone towards the euraged I • titude, anal, accosting them with en and smiling countenance, he risked them— . What is the meaning of this disorder, nay good people ? Are you angry that you have lost yonr leader ? 1 4111 your king : I will be your leader.' The populace, overawed by his presence. implicitly followed hint ; he led them into the fields, to pre vent any disorder which might have arisen by their continuing in the city; bring there joined by Sir Robert Knolles, and a body of well-armed veteran soldiers, who had been secretly drawn together, he strictly prohibited that officer from falling on the rioters, and committing an undistinguished slaughter upon them. and he peaceably dismissed them, with the some Charters which had been granted to these fellows. Soon alter, the Nobility and Gentry, hear ing of the King's danger. in which they were in volved, flocked to London with their aullitTents and retainers, and Richard took the field at the head of an army 40,000 strong. It then behoved all the rebels to subunit ; the Charters of enfranchisement and pardon were revoked by Parliament ; the low people were reduced to the same slavish condition as brfure, and several of the ringleaders were se verely punished for the late disorders." KIVG RICHIRD THE SECOND. The following are extracts from Shakespeare's Play of Richard the Sec "d, quoted iu Sir Francis Burdett's letter; some of them bear • striking re semblance to some passages in the letter. Northuatbertmed speaking of ticury's enterprise, to depolie King, says,— . Then we shall shale off our slavish yoke, Imp out our bloke is country's Molten wing, Redetill from Molting pawn the blemished crown, Wipe off the elms that hides our sceptre's guilt, And make high Majesty look like itself." Act the .14,Sctore I et. Boliopt.roi. —" Bushy, Begot, and their 'compile:es the King's friends), The caterpillars of the CUIS111101111ealth." - - - . - Art 11. Sem 4. inehroke—.(To the kiog.;--My gracious Lewd, I come but Cur mine own." Art In. Sc. J. IJt S, runt.—" Our sea. walled garden, the whole laud, Is full of weeds; her fAiii•st flowers choked up, Her fruit-trees all iiiiptuied, her hedges ruin 'd, Her knots disordered, and her wholesome herb'. Swarming with caterpillars." Act 111. Scrim 4. Holing breke.--(TO the Disko York.)--" God's name. ru ascend the regal Meese." Act IV. See.. t. NEW 77114rat.inorA COVENT-041MM. Thib present !MONDAY. April 23, ism, will be sated KING RICHARD THE THIRD. Rirhant, Doke Glciater, Mr. Cooke ; Henry, Earl of Rielinrosol, Mr. C. linable. Chasm Elizabeth, Mra. st. Leger Lefty Anne, Mies Norton. To which will be arkileel, she Pantomime of HARLEQUIN PEDLAR; OR, THE HAUNTED WELL. linrlequin Pedlar, Mr. It.slorsa, jun.; Cluwo, Mr. Gri garl' • ( olumbine Meer Twunrruw, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, M 1 Siddons; her second apptaraoce this arsons*. y PflllCe 1%11 . 5. Gwvs ChA.." to the At At' 1 IS Sd C Gram' PROW a tt that G Tb BI•MII Sun Ur Sour ofOrt Th •nd I Situ, Th tourlr day V. I , l _ Or i • to be MAI Loll rbse T fore how LLIe Low goal two tar► r► T" tr• VII the cro Sev DE' Au yr• rad &c.