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T!'^_" , FORffIGN INTELLIGENCIL PAR/11 PAPURL• MANILID. Inc. 3. Thursday, after parade, His Catholic Majesty was 4raClOWity pleased to admit to his table the stile tili officers at prevelit su this capital, among whom was General Laval, who rs almost completely recovered from the wouod wilts* be received at ()cane. The gang of the freebooter , Ernpecinado, which n have often made its appearance on the left of Ma dn.., and by its depredations and atrocities, of every description, struck terror into the peaceable inha bitants of the couutry, happened, a few days since, between Hoene and Cuenca, to get into the very undrt of the cavalry, under the orders of Gen. Mil head; 100 of these hatnisui were killed en the spot, and 50 inure, including three of their leaders, were taken, together with tiO of their horses. It appears eerteiu, that Empecinado, and his cousin Matiaus, are among the slain. The day alter (the 2351) another gang was also cut to pieces in toe sauce wiener. Thus clop-de m/ON, on the part of Gen. Milhaud, war preceded by the total dispersion of the rebellious Jsinta of Molina iu Aragon, where Its found and destroyed a great quantity of arms and storey. in every pl ice tins division has passed through, 1,31 eXedlrat all reJnaCe has excited universal avisiirotom. The inhabitants have net been less ast iiii Wird at the rigid discipline to which these tromps are 6111.1 . 1111. ; yowl All of them load Mein with I.slessings fur the in v.tlurble service which they have done them, in clearing the country of those bands of robbers, who, 'under the elalble of patriots, perpetually ra vaged their possessions. At Hurcuja, a town in the mountains of Toledo, near the sources of t h e Guarliana, a detieliment of the Atli corps has destroyed a considerable maga zine of arum. Those to whose custody it was en trusted did nut west for the arrival of the Freuch, before they took to night. At an Garcia, in the province of Segovia, a gang of 200 ruffians, that infested the highways, has been cut to pieces. Of these 30 j,eru taken. and 60 tilled, and the rest, coveredospth wounds, owed their safety only to the darkness o(tlw night. This service was performed by Capt. Bourlsnn Ballet, of the t7th horse chatacurs. Sixty horses fell into his hairdo. Accounts are daily received et the office of the frvenerel Staff, of the destruction of soon new gang of marauders. •TITWIIIT. JAN. 8. The following is a copy of a Proclamation which has been published and placarded at Middleburgh : Httadin..rt..-ra, at Middletturzle, Dee. 27, 1509. " The feenerat of Divtaioo, Day, Ms.'', of the Empire, Commandant of the Iwitoot of 110,Hatr, kuight of the Ankr oldie Iwo to the eakalotatits of the isle of ITairlaerea. " Your isle forms a part of the French Empire. You are called to participate iii the happy destioies of forty millions of people, who, while they feel proud of being governed by the greasiest Monsich its the world, tujoy, with purity, under his almighty protection, the fruits of his creative and vivifying genius. " Inbabitasts of Walcheree, spew yeti/selves - worthy of this high favour, by your obedience to the laws of the empire, end your devotion towards its illtoArions Sovereign. Discontinue all mercan tile traffic with that nation which is the enemy of all the tuitions of the Continent. Henceferth, every connexion with the English would be a corer. But how can it be supposed you would maintain any relation with those who set foot, fur * few weeks, upon your soil, only to spread tire and devastation around them, at the moment of their flight ? " The presence of the troops appointed for your defence, will occasion no charge upon you. They will he subsisted by mean, of the regular dis tributions. whirls will be provided for by the ad ministration of the army. " Until further orders, the Administrative and Judicial Anthorilies, estahlidied io the Isle a %Val charm, before the Inisding of the English, shall re . amine their functions. All acts of Public Authority shall l:e executed ie the name of His linperiad and Royal Majesty. Napoltami, Emperor of the French, King of Italy." (Signed) " Gitt.tv. &c. These Papers contain two Irg articles of a finan cial description. The lira is atlteport by the Mi nister of Finance to the Emperor, in which, after a summary of the receipts and disbursements for the years 1806.7-ti, occur the following passages:— • ,$ A sufficient time has not yet been afierdesi, to enable me to submit to your Majesty a precise state ment of the receipts and disbursements of MO. — It is, hoary, r, probable, that the war expenditure for the last year cannot he under 640 million,, of which sum only 350 millions are chargeable upon the public treasury. " The amount of this expenditure will excite no anrprise, when it is considered, that, besides an im mense staff, your Majesty has. during 1809, main tained an establishment of 9taionou infantry, 100,000 horses for the cavalry service, ■nd 30,000 Int the waggon and artillery train. " if the year 1809 must thus have been, of ne osesity. expensive, the►e is every reason to conclude that the year 1010 will admit of great retrench ments. In feet. year M a jesty le►ied 2100,000 men in 1809, and it does not appear to he your intention to make any levies in 1810. " bixty thousand horses were bought and equip ped in 1909. It does not seem to be in your con templation to purchase any in Isle. Your Majesty also expects to be able to make a reduction of iOO,OOO in your military establish went, and to limit it to 700,910 men; one-half of this force being intended to carry en the operations in Spain, and the other to be employed in the de. fence of the coasts, and in maritime expeditions. l'pvisrds of 800.000 new muskets are depo sited 14 our arrenala. exclusive of the foreign mus kets, which the fortune of syst has throws into oar hands; and your Nlajeaty has upwards of 40,0:.00 'Here, of cannon, with all their necessary equip. intents." The second Article to which we have alluded, is • long and laboured speech of the Chairman of the Committee of Finance of the Legislative Body. in support of the uew pettier of reveblie re t zus latmaa. The following are the Wily toiterigel 141 Obi LONDON. MONDAY, hisuAtv 29. We have received Paris Papers to the 18th inst. They tontaiu intelligence from Madrid to the Ist inst. from which we Iwo, that the spirit of resistance in Spain is as general and vigorous as ever. Neither the surrender of Gerona, the defeat at eouria, the disaster. that have befallen the Duke of PA2QUE'S army, nor the uniform misfortune that has attend ed almost every military operation fur the last live mouths, appear ►o bare abated the teal and deter mination of ►he Splash people. The patriots. ur banditti, as the French call them, are every where, in arms, and carry their irregular warfare almost to the gates of Madrid. The formidable state of the country is acknowledged by BON APARTE. He intends to send 350,0M1 men into the Peninsula, and, sorry we are to say. that the prostrate state of the Continent enabler him to afford it. The majority of the Opposition, on Friday, has spread terror and dismay through the Ministerial ranks. The most furious of their Journals have already turned about Ind paid their obeisance to the rising Suu. Among these The Courier stands foremost in the list. We remember, on the evr of Lord GILIAIV11.1.11:11 Adiniiiistration, that Print, then the most furious of the Treasury Journals, ad vertised that it would soon find it its duty to sup port hie Lordship's Adinioistittion. The prophecy, however, was never fulfilled. That Administration was formed, and it despised the proffered service of 71e Coarser. Thus slighted, it was condemned to continue its filthy course of slander and invective against Lord Gaenvitts, Mr. Fox, and their friends. And the return of Mr. PIIRCIIVAL, CAS. NINO and Co. to power, •of course confirmed it in its system of loyalty awl ormitatency. It was, therefore, without surprise, we last week read the following paragraph in that paper, because it is only trying the same ground again : " We must say. that the Speech made by Mr. Porsonsx, on the first day of the Session, the hest, confessedly, that was made on that side of the House, fully entitles him to be the Leader of the Party, nut only in that House, but of the Party in both Houses."—Such is the assertion of The Courier; but how that print means to divide Mr. Punsounr, and make him, at the same tune, the leader iu both Homes; we do not pretend to say. The attempt, however, if it does not originate, as we suspect, in the signs and tokens of the full of the pre sent Ministry, certainly proves, that the Editor is fully impressed with the merits of Mr. PosisoNee. The talents of that Gentleman, his great and ex tensive family connexions, his political-integrity and consistency, liar habits of business, ■nd his temper and manners, equally amiable in public as in pri vate life, in emineutly qualify him far tin proud station of the !ruder of -Opposition in the !loose of Commons, and if he dues nut lead them to certain victory, they will have only to blame themselves.; but this tardy acknowledgment of the merits of Mr. Ponsonav, in The courier, would never have been made, had not the Editor of that Print been fully 'convinced that the PERCEVAL Ministry is at its last gasp. Vermin always desert the sinking vessel. if any speech, ever pronounced within the walls of the House of Peers, during the course of a reign which already embraces near half a century, may lay claim to the praise of being that of a States inn; and peculiarly of a Statesman, whose informa tion extends beyond the immediate interests of Great Britain, and comprehends all Europe in its calculations; it was the speech of Lord GRES.. VILLE, on the first day-of the present Session.— Animated, and even indignant, when he depictured the calamities produced by Ministerial imbecility, or ignorance, and want of enlarged views or concep tions; he was equally solid, calla, lucid, :and ir resistible, when he sheered where and how the forces entrusted to them might h.tve been directed, so as to have disconcerted, if not to have overturned. the plans of BONAPARTS for the subjection of Austria. We may. indeed, indulge a degree of menial. and of pardonable pride, sae may be al lowed to feel a peculiar gratification, at finding that the opinions which we glee, and the statements which we offered, are adopted and maintained. in his place, by a Peer, at the distance of many months, on full consideration, to whose knowledge. judgment, and experience; even his opponents do justice. Lord Gaxxvit.t.s unequivocally declared. that, •' we not only peemeaed. lsyr our areal superi ority iu tfie Mediterranean, the means of trans porting finch a force to the Adriatic, as might have contributed to alter the fatal issue of the late cam paign." He named T ' as the place and point to which our exertions ought to have been prima rily directed; and where, if we had *eat the troops empluyed in Spain and Portugal. we might have prevented both MAgsIoNT and MALCOONALD from detaching those reinforcements to NAPOLEON, which enabled him filially to dictate the peace of Vienna. Now, though our readers may not recol lect, we may be pardoned for reminding them, that. so long ago as July and August last. we repeatedly endeavoured to sliew, and we stood alone in so doing, that Ministeri had manifested equal incapa city. and weut of enterprise or sound discernment, in not directing. at an early period pf the campaign, the principal effort of our military strength. to the head ef the Adriatic. We named Triexte and Flame, as the two plates. particularly the former, where we should have landed the armies which were wasted. slaughtered, or destrored. in the ex peditions against Castile, and apical Maples.-. Aud we then endeavoured to demonstrate the faci lity with which this enterprise might have been undertaken and accoinplished. Nothing was in fact more practicable, nor the beneficial results of which were more palpable. and incontestible. It is not with less satisfaction that we see the setw thnents of Lord Gum/mut, upon this tricot im portant subject, were •pproved, and even reiterated, by Lord MOIRA, and by Lord CAI:Ts in the pro gress of the same debate. In the speeches of Ministers, and of their friel:da or adherents, we vainly seek for any satisfactory explanation, or jus tification of their conduct. Lord Mutoasva and Lord LtvitaPou• seem to have been almost, if not altogether silent, respecting so serious a charge.— Not so however. the Earl of ilsaitownY, who, as having replied to Lord Gaxoeitt.t's accusation, rosy, in this instance. we presume, be fairly sup posed to constitute the organ of His Ms./mei Cabinet and Adiniuistratioo, of both which, he is, indeed, a member. Now, what does this Noble man assert That the expense and difficulty of conveying. or transporting the troops to the head of the Adriatic, rendered it impracticable; and more over, that if it had been practicable, it would have been still imprudent, to send so large a force to so great a distance from this country, ignorant as we were, what attempts France might make oa our own shores during their absence; or what chaugas on the Continent might take place in the interval." We wish to do full justice to Lord Hanitowaeo objections; the futility, inanity, and, we must be pardoned for adding; the ignorance, or utter ab surdity of which. require no superior talent sr in formation to expose in the strongest light. Where, we would ask, was the expense, or the difficulty? Were there not transports Ding rei.dy in the Tagus? Let Admiral HILIIKetuy he called to the her, and asked. He will inform Lord llAR lowly, that the vessels which had just brought over Sir ARTHUR WIILLIZSLRY'S forces, in April. would have conveyed them from Lisbon to Trieste. with the utmost facility, and at little expense. The season was most propitious. If they had em harked, as they might sad ought to have done, by the Ist of May, they might have been landed either at Trieste, or at Fiume, accordiog to circumstances, between the tOth and the 3oth of Jane. Sit JONI STUART might have joined them (di' Sicily. with at least 12,000 men ; Inn!, if we i.iiiipse Sir Avenue to have had only gti,ooo etii t.tve under his command, we should thus have Ltd ac.ono British troops acting ia CsruiUla, by the I).• 4 4.:,!iiiiz It was not till the 4th of flint t$11(11 NA rocson crossed the Danube, soon after. 'wards the victory of Wagram. bate ventured ou either of these meatus Appeared in his rear, within • hr miles of the Tyrol, which was alread tion, and at only three hundred from it be ohjected, tlat we had no magazn niola ? And did Lord ‘VEIIINGTOW • or tind any in Castile ? But, in minions, we should have received . operation and assistance, than were, could be given us, in a country Spain. Lord HARROWBY will not surel ficulties of navigating the Adriatic, SUIDOIIer. Donate himself, who that gulf without apprehension, cated the fury of its tempestuous nevertheless, have trusted himself month of June. But, to a British impediment appears to be altogether the length of time that must have ing the form to Trieste, constitut how came we ever to undertake Egypt ? That country was much France had then a farm at home.: ieiaded the coast of England. _ possessed no means almost of internal much less of foreign invasion, when we►e on the Danube, or on the . Tagus. Lord H•ItROWIIT either insull the understandings and information to which he ventures on producing if, indeed, insertions completely , and to common sense, deserve to be We will not waste the time. Sr weary , of our readers, by. labouring to disprove, lute, illusions only calctilited for deception, cannot " rail the seal from off the _ dent, and not to be denied or disputed. imbecile Cabinet, either incapable their scales the destinies of Europe, the interests of trade, and the receipts toms, to the extrication of Austria •- tinent; sacrificed Firma, in order , and Opertu. They ordered expeditions Castile, and against Ischia ; for Nr the question; but they had neither the enlargement of views, to conceoter the Mediterranean force, to one There, it must have produced, in . leas degree, the most beneficial effects. Vera, at Ischia, and at Badajos, we chased calamity, diseases, Bight, tuent. We last week announced the arri Papers to the IGtlt September, from day resume our extracts. By the mace, the Ganges, we have received t Owing an account of the rise, progress, tion of the late in►urrrc'ior is ludas, parture of that vessel. It stases. dination and mlitioy existed, with in the 'simile body of the Company' estsbliatioieut ; and the causes which unhappy emelt it thus describes:— During the time Sir Jotia OUT tumou or Commander-in-Chief. celled for from Colonel JOHN Munn Nester-General, respecting the mouth' to Officers commanding Native Corps, bullocks, which they supplied to the ' sod men, at a stipulated rate (paid and which formed (particularly wwre in garrison and eantonmentol emolument of such Commanding ' statement it appears that Colonel served, that it was possible (or Commanding Officers might be indm terested motives, to keep their corps cient state, in order that they might upon for field-service, and, conseq , tents might remain undamaged, and more extensive." The Government acted upon this assertion, or supposi holding the tent allowance from mandlig corps. These observations , disgust to the whole army, and apph made to General MacnowaLt., by after the departure of Sir Joni CILIL Colonel Mutiao to a Court-Martial and un.officer-like conduct." With General blaenowatt readily cowl slant (ur rattier Sir GROBAig Liaatu) terfered. and insisted on Cenfral application for the Court-Martial' After • Warm contest between ti the Cominauder.iirChief, the hi and a dreadful and alarming mull •ult. L have to observe, that DOWALI., rations to bis embarl land, promulgated • replimand M wino, in •hich he charged him to biro (the Commander.itrChier) order., said with contempt of wait hiving re.nrted to the powyr of tl OICIst, it deli:owe of the judgment the head of the army, obea be p , arrest. 1111 charges preferred eseiroa ber of oliireti cumnotettling tratiyi rrytwore of whwit wus.. that, h. si t• the Ilan. the Resident in t.:enii reactler•in Cher) received 011.1. Secretary to Givertrinent. to li .ei from orritsV-4sch coudact. 0, dread e i s e a e e s i e e h t : i st , ° ,r g i . e hundredy u. . I. n i ° : u r a e g al z i 0 .1 % i ri . 4 4 1 (7 4 a Co aL r ENO I rots either pr • CAI ',the Austrian I more effici tnt i t tuit Ott so exhaasted nor irely urge the had tic. in the aid t, ()ow to Bever , • • and who de lta , 6.11 lUa Wattl, Itml4 tiou we elf on it —i n t h t u the lists fleet, swi l l C. WI ler ridiculous. # quer,' it elapsed Iu len; or 1 41 ited au oljecttitt, refill to an expeditio n % Adju more remote, to ; nt.( irberewitl) to k at Oa th la June last, A n toed internal defeon ; um . 1 eD aLI her arms cored he Ebro, awl tn n htv an' insulta or despite tit*f of on of the nem* r est in, ; such argument; ty, rei y contrary ti fact led 10 1 ne so denominated till feu teary the pinion" 'eoss:i disprove, or t o 0, I Num sluceptiem Te l ing's bond." It is en. i ovate, tied. that our owl • the ' sk of weighin g a irthon ape, or prerstrin g „ en to !cei pts of the nu. iced i is and of Meet,. • nitga nt to save Zito lie Art tpeditions to the I Naples au oat 41 elstt L er the energy, se pour tit eater and in Ann lute : e point, Trottt to the I a greater, or it s dining effects. At Tata. Office' we bare only pot. swivel • and disapjxust. and as irony arrival of 31adris r c h i t tai ir tom • high we the t the same easety. got in ed a ',nitwits/me wound gear, and Mom. et the die, op to the& the lay that the ;motor. Lt ha .h few exceptiest pax v's ()jinni mit to of which led to di tile ha nom avocc held Atli• o nylon a alatemeot as almost lino, the ( 2""t" . %AVIS iouthly allowsons 1.10111 orps, for tests ash ass the Natieseof6cest 'At. I by Goveromeal), when the troops s rite) the princ4psl E Litin °Seers. In the Multi° had 01. probable) that 1 nduced, tom in. steps is a rito-tli. ght not be callnl tquently, that lie t i .ttri Ind their pout be Lye. ,eat subsequently position, by sub. the Officers yes' sal gave univensl a R,tayhAl p :o p th.h l oc.e t i C sra i : t rieq . o i Th mplied. Cevertal LOW ) L '' & L o cal are, 01 al Mat arm ALL gust, Lei e.g wAdvs.' 16 the EJ the (aoyrfflaf forum , p0 .,, a ,1.4. Sarno aliuy Sni.s the fe• Ilan. t Oenerid Mae' tu ft , irk i ng fee . Ear dips th rr ast ,lis)lt,rruibti agai nst. 1 : v . " ; sdbitred i o : s:1 ."°rt :: r d 7"a, n rCt .f g . l T: 941 : 4 14 11° E ;' , 1 1:1 1 1 , 11 . i ,, : tr : 1 T 11h e h ..(1 1 44 ies i : s from the e h ' gotten Hmt j. Co!. 1 . 1011 ,1 mug [IC pat of I.!°l°'4l harangue, in any respect interesting to an English reoder:— " A political meiviiire,.which drove back to our enemy's ports every thing that their commerce and industry tried to export to the Continent, occa sioned • considerable diminution in• the revenue accruing from the clistouts, during the year 1008. The expenditure for that year was also augmented by the army being stationed within the French territory, and by the preparations made for a new war." " The proceeds of the (instants were estimated, in the budget for 1A0.9, at 12,000,000, that is to say, at less than two-thirds of the sum to which they were reduced in 180 w. This reduction cannot occasion ally embarrassing deficit in our revenue system ; whilst it implies an annual diminution of more than four hundred and sixty million of francs in the exportations of England ; so that the mea sure which diminishes the proceeds of our customs, must prove fetal only to that Power which has ren dered its adoption necessary." " Our contribution , remelt: stationary, whilst England, already sinking under the enormous weight of her public debt, is every year adding to it by fresh loam" " That debt is at present 28,769,000,000 r. and the annual 'wriest 79ti,000,000, which must Le defrayed by penna•etit taxes. " In France the )feet item of the budget is 111,000,000, ais the intetest of the public debt of the richest empire in the universe." .4 Daring these three years (Iso7-6-9), if we compare the budgets of the respective countries, the expenditure of England will be found to have surpassed that of France by the 6010 of 1,304,4c:1,000 f. It should be observed, that, uu dee the head of expenses, the budget of England includes only those incurred for the army and navy, with the subsidies granted to foreign powers." is To institute a just comparison between this budgets of the two powers, we should 'obstruct from that of France all that is not comprised in that of England. But one may: without much calculation, perceive the inequality of the struggle between the two countries, and it is easy to foresee the issue. In the one, the science of finance con sists only in throwing into the shade on immense debt, and in finding ways and means to augment the load of taxes borne by 15,000,000 of inhsbitants. Her Government boasts of having perfected the ruinous system of loans. Her treasury conceals the amount of the revenue and their application; but her Bank cannot any longer couceal its embar rassment, not haring for a length of time paid in specie any of its notes but those of the lowest de nomination. In short, such is the situation of her finances, that she is compelled, in order to perpi ware her taxes, to reject peitse ; and regards as a calamity the greatest blessing that Providence can bobs, upon mankind." THE BRITISH PRESS.