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CADIZ MAIL. CADIZ, MARCH 24.—SOULT marched from Puerto oti the 21st, it is thought towards Seville, Report states, thaethe Chiefs MoRILLA and 1 3 .eriNe; are with their troops to proceed to the Camp at Gibraltar. General BALLESTEROS has, it is said, obtained permission from the Governor of Morvico, to obtain horses from that kingdom. MARCH 24.—The French have continued, though but slowly, _ the work of bombardment which they began on the 13th - . Their balls, as is natural, fall Shorter every fire; alMost the whole fall into the _Sea : scarcely one of them has reached the lot tifica ti°o, which is opposite to Cabezeula, and hitherto ,neither ball nor grenade have reached a single per son, or caused any damage worth tnentioning to . the buildings. The only thing• which our enemies have , a ccomplished, is to add this rare and uncommon in• C lUent to our history, and a new title of resped to Our constitutional code, because our youths cannot de less than view it with more veneration, \ w•heti they recall to memOry the glorious days when their fore fathers swore to defend it. AIADRID, MARCH 26.—The French and their Partizans skew, notwithstanding all their endea 'ours to conceal it, their great fear at the move- Ments of the allies. JOSEPH has every thing packed 13 1 3 , and is featly to set out on the first intelligence, aid the partizans of the French, who know what their fate will be, under such circumstances, bitterly complain of .the manner in which they have been deceived, and many openly murmur against NA ko.t.zon. After having wished to persuade us that the armies of Valencia and Murcia had been en. irely dispersed, tile French are now obliged to con less' that in Murcia; Lorca, and Caravaca, there ere insurgent troops, and that General MANI has ordered those who were dispersed, to unite in these points. Last night Marshal BELLUNO and, in his corn- Miy, two generals of dividon and 28 dispersed-of liceis, '7 , y lOU infantry and 400 horse, en tered this place. They will, it is said, proc.:ed very Shortly to Ft-ince, with the grind convoy. in which $o many fa ; nilies (ruin hence, and even VICTOR. CADIZ, MARCH 19:—The Regency of the king‘. 11 ° 1 11 3 . under date of the tsth inst. h;ts declared in a *tate of blockade, all the coast *comprehended be t Ween Pu,rto Santa Maria and Ayainotite; to all na tional and forezu vessels, in order that, under no l'retext whatever, provisions may be introdnced to the enemy. CADIZ, MARCH 16.—The French division at Vil• "tbanuque has put' itself in motion in the direelion Seville, and PENNR and MottILLA are now with res PeCtable forces in th , :, Co ,d,fd , de Niebla.' Th e head-varlets of, the ed and ad armies have Peen estdblislitd in Mu under the command of General FRERE, ho has colleded more than 8000 Zed. The Conciso of die Hai March, contains. the following remarks upon the surrender of l'ebiscola " It is sufficient only to read the said capitulation to inter that that fortress has been surrenderdJ with ant a siege, without resstance,by the Governor and Ililitary Junta, who are enemies to the country, who say that true Spaniards.pie those united to the intrusive King JOSEPH. And who is this info-. 'nous and execrable Governor ? who placed 'him in, that situation ? And if it was as is reportei, BLAKE, will prudence permit us to have persons thus ap- P"inted, in possession of posts of such importance-? All the world knows, that Peniscola, even by the confession of the French tnemselves, is a strong ,e astle, that famine alone could compel its surrender, Ike many there are who compare it toGibraltar.— bus the enemies call them , ielves ouinipotent ; but ` lv lien there are CopoNs in Tarifa, or ALVAREZ in 9erona, they either do not take fortresses, of some f eeble walls cost them seven months siege, and thou sands of men. General CoroNts has arrived at Cadiz, at which 1 1 see General MAUI is also expeCted. The informa "en we receive here, respecting the scarcity of pro tisinns in Andalusia, is horrible, and of the progres sive rise in their prices. W e are .assured the French h ave accounts of the great injuries Cadiz has suffer ed by the bombardment. CADIZ, MARCH 21.—Our fire, especially one of °or bombs, has done great damage among the ene- Vs troops. It is slid that G. Cauz has beaten the French in Casus Viegas. General BALLESTERO3 11JS r iLilled at Junqueza Llle disp ers ed t r o o t , s o f d i e secon d an d t hi r d arm i es. The partizan MARCIOINEZ has killed 100 Fieneh, and taken prisoners. sixty, who - Were entering VII, labors, CORTES. - The Constitution wds read by the Senors TERM,: and NAVAZETTE, the one reading, and the other c omparing reciprocally. Senor TERAN asked--" this the Constitution which the Cortes have saric-• Coned ?" I , All the D e p ut i es rose up , - an d t h e S ecretary sa id , I It is declared that it is.". The President then pronounced an elegant dis course, congratulating the Representatives of the_ Spanish nat i on, that ° the wished-for day had arrived which hod compleated and confirmed that constitu tion which was adApted to secure the prosperity and tappiness of both hemispheres.—This discourse Was received with univer,al and unequalled applause.' The decree of the Cortes was then read, which, according to Art. 18 of the Coestitution, excludes from the su( cession to the clown of Spain the infant 1- - ) QII Fan/CISCO DE PAULA and ins descendants, the Queen of Etruria and her descendants, .and the Princess MARIA LOUISA (present spouse of NAPo- LEON BUONAPARTE), daughter of the Empetor of Austria FRANCIS 11. arld her descendants, and in c onsequence, in case of the falure of FERDINAND VIT. the Infanta Don CARLOS, and then - descend ants, the succe:ision to the crown will devolve on I . B \ enora DONNA CARLOTA JOAQUESIA, and the Senora MARIA ISABEL, Infantas of COMMON' HALL. Another Meeting of Liverymen was held ye,-4(er day in Common Hall, to receive the Report of the Sheriffs upon the answer of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to the Address and Petition voted by the last Meeting. The LORD MAYOR stated the object of the Meet ing in terms nearly as follows 4 ' GENTLEMEN OF THE LIVERY—III consequence of your having agreed upon certain specific Resolu tions relative to the presenting of the Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, I have tlought it right to call you together again to inform yob that his Royal Highness has been graciously - pleased to -adopt the same rule which the King, his father, has done ever •since the year 1775, as regarding an 'Address and Petition of the Livery of London ; and that that rule - may be distincily understood by you, I shall desire the proper Officer to read to you the official report of the Sheriff, made to me in writing. Iu discussing this determination of his Royal Highne4s., as advised by his Ministers, it is my duty td tell you, that I.cannot .pelmit the sacred name of the King, or the equally sacred name of the Prince Regent, to. be used contemptuously. You are at free liberty to say A hat you please in decent terms of his. Ministers : they are powerful, and able to defend themselves; but think they need not have a better support that the confidence of Parliament, which they appear to the unquestionably-to possess. lam no politician Inpell. I have enough to do to preside over this great City, and to watch your rights and privileges, which; I repeat, I promise you faithfully to do; and I know no better way of doing than occasionally asserting, in assemblies like the present, the constitutional dodrine that I have just now laid down," The Report of the Sheriffs was then read, for which see our Paper of Saturday. Mr. IYArTful AN recorimended the Livery to pre serve that decorum which the Lord Mayor enforced; a different line of condua would, he said, give their enemies an opportunity to say they were not friends to social order. He then observed that he should bring forward certain Resolutions similar to those In efreil voted at the last meeting, and contended that the right of petitioning the Throne, and of present iog their Petitions to the Sovereign seated on Ole Throne, had been recognized down to 1775, and that it was expedient fur them to defend that right. The only times ;n which ti,e right was denied was previous to the Revolution—the worst of times ; it was then a calm, but a storm succeeded, which drove the then reignina family of the Stuarts from the Throne for ever. ' c' He did not think now to tiod men so abandoned as to advise the Sovereign to turn a deaf e:4 to their Petitions, and thereby to trample on then rights. He then went on to state that the Petitions, if they hadreached the Royal ear, would have prevented the American war and the present war. He contended that the Livery of London were .the Corporate Body, and consequently entitled , 0 apprOach the Throne; fur whoever was read in the history of the City must know, that the Cnirmlon Council was deputed in consequence of' , he business or' the City becoming too gr..at for the Livery to tratisaet it. He denied that the Common Council could be sued at law in any other capacity than as the Commonalty of the City of London, awl atter a variety of obser*atiansy similar in effett, moved . his Resolutions. • Mr. FAVELL, of course, seconded them. The Resolutions were then carried, with one dis sent, that of Mr. C. Dunkin. Mr. WAtrumAs: then prop-used Resolutions for instructing the City Represen atives to support the Petitions, and. oppose in their places all public abuses, peculations, sinecures, Sze.; also that the Sheriffs, attended by the City Rernembrancer, do present to the Prince Regent a copy of the Resolu twits now entered into, and that they be published in six Morning and six Evening Papers. One Reso lution, the Orator obs , .rved, would have a good effeCt ; he 'meant, the one for instructing their -Re : presentatives, at least three of thrill, for one was sure to do what they • bid him. He wished those three would tell thern.wbaf they had done in respect to the (notion abou - t Colo'nel Nl'Mahon, for one of them on the last meeting (Sir W. Curtis) had said he would ati_according to the diCtate of _his con science, and said that he was the best judge of what was good - for them. Another (Sir C. Price) had made an extraordinary declaration, for he said that he-could not sacrifice his conscience by voting against a faction, for 'so he denominated those Members who voted for the appointment of the Colonel, and yet he-would not vote against it, so that in fact he c lied the majority of the House of..commons a fiction. If would become the Hun. Baronet to-ex plain- himself. The other Hon. Member (Sir J. Shaw),was of a different opinion, for he called the fa6tion, that is to say the present House of Com mons, the purest House that ever existed. He hoped- these Gentlemen would deliver themselves from the difficulties in w hien they had placed themselves. . Sir W. - CuaTts came forward amidst loud marks of applause and disapprobation. lie was ready 'to account for his conduct, ai•id to attend to their in structioos, when they seemed correct ; but to tell hint that he was to go him the House of Commons, and not to attend to the areumeffis which he might hear upon a measure brought forward for the in terests of the public, was to tell bins what he would not - do. He would not go there and tell the House that such and such opinions were the voice of his constituents. He would follow his own jiidi r 'ritent, and so htf had told them over and over again. He meant no disrespect to them ; but when the• mover called for an explanation of his conduCl, he gave it, and would not shrink from telling them ' what lie thought to he his duty. With resped to the' b;asiness of Colonel M' Mahon, unfortunately that night illness prevented his attendance ; that he was ill was pretty generally knawn, for he was confined to his house ; but, if he had been in good health; he would have gone down to the House and voted with the majority. Now he could not avoid an observation about the orator who moved the Re solutions when the Prince Regent was first appoint-' ed ; lie was loud in declaiming against the impo sition of•restridions—now he was as lohd in .de claiming in favour of' restrictions.-:—(Hisses)—lt was so notwithstanding their opinions, for, the orator wanted to restrain him from rewarding merit. He , did not like such men who blew hot and cold with the same breath.—As to sinecures, Arc. this wo.lici do his utmost to abolish them, but he was bound to Maintain the Sovereign on the Throne with all ne cessary and just presogafives ; if the Livery wished to cut down those preprog.itit es, they re!idered them selves less in the estimation of the public than they really are. ff the Livery, did not approve of his cowiu&, the time was shottly coming, when they might have the opportunity of telling him so to some purpose.—(Applauses.)' Sir C. Prucz experienced a similar reception, and re•-st.tt.ld his rormer opinions, which were in dired contradidion to those of the Mover, who for the last twenty years had been sowing the seeds of lac, tion and discontent. Notwithstanding the great orator talked in the Resolution of supporting com mercial interests, he (Sir C.) challenged him to chew any one , instance in which he had not so done in the HouSe. He should ad according to the best of his judgment, whe.ther they apptoved' or not. Sir J. SHAW attempted to address the Meeting , but the clamour was so great, that -The LOBD MAYOR came forward, and said, " One side of the question has been so patiently heard that I am astonished you do not preserve order, and hear the other. What will the public think of' your condua, in thus interrupting your Representatives ? Sorely you will, in justice to yourselves, belr all, and take the opportunity of repelling the insinuations which have been made against you." Sir 3.SHAw then stated his intention of support ing all discussions tending to abolish sinecures, and declared, that he h - ad Plways concluded himself in Parliament with a view to the general- interests of the Empire, and' that while there he would be a free man. With respell to Colonel M‘Mhhoia, he was in his place that evening, but viewing the yue,iion as an insulated one, and as being intended to give the Prince Regent a slap on the face, he.did not vote. He could not vote for sinecures, and he did not vote the other way, and yet the Mover of tire Resolutions had chosen to call his proceeding a fac tions one. As to the question .of the tight of pe titioning the Throne, petitions were received at the Levee from every cou•nty in England, which was the proper place, but since 1 775, he was sorry to say very , factious proceediagi had - prevailed; dis graceful to the City of London, and which bad lowered the Common Hall in the eyes of the pub lic'greatly.—(Hisses, and OF, os . ,!)—Ht., was sorry to seZ ,a few factious individuals didate to so re 'sped able an Assembly, by raking together what they called g , ievances, for she purpose ot inso;l ing the Go vernment of the country.—(Hisses, which continued • for some tim).—Sit: J. retired.. • Mr. C. buNKIN would not have come forward, only that he held up his hand asrain , t the Re,6- lutions. He was starry to see the Lis cry disobey the orders of General, 'and keep up such _a clamour,— (Hisses%) —lt was a disgrace to any body of Arlen,' h,e (b.:tight, to pass such Resolutions.— (Hisses, and o i ll - , ofT!)--Mr. D. Was compelled to retire, Alderman Wool) then came forward and observ. t hat one of the papers having stated he ~ hould move an Address'to the Princess of Wales, he wish ed to state that it. was not in his poWer to bring it forward' this day. He had called on the Lord ,Illayor on Saturday on - the. subjeet, who, on re in-ring to the Town Clerk, lvid told him there must be another precept. Ile should therefore defer the subjea. In bringing it forward (and he had an Ad dress in his pocket), he begged to- assure them that he 'had not had any communication with any person connected with the Princess of Wales ; his motive was pure. attachment to the Royal Family, an at tachment which the city of London had strewn on two occasions—on the marriage of the Princess, and on the birth of her daughter. In the Addresses then presented ; they paid to her the greatest adora tion.: The Alderman was about to read extrads from those Addresses, when • Mr. Alderman ATKINS, to order, objeaed to the proceediog, as the q=stion was or.e of pave and great importance, to which the Livery was not now dire led. He submitted, therefore, to the Livery, as men of sense and of judgment, whether Mr: Alderman Wood should he allowed to proceed.— (4pplauses, and " No, no.") The LORD MAYOR observed, that Mr. Alderman Wood had wished to state his reasons for not bring ing the subjeet :forward this day. He had done so, and beyond that could not go. Mr. Alderman Woos then state,d*his„readiness , to bring the subjeCt- forward on a future occasion. • Mr. WA ITHMAN moved a vote of Thaoks (which was agreed to) to the Lord Mayor, for the ability and impartiality which he had displayed this day in the Chair. With respeet to the condu& of Mr. Alderman Wood, he considered, that in bringing forward the subjea of t h ® Prince4s or Wales's situa tion, he ailed Rot only out of order, but in a manner highly indiscreet. He would not support any mea sure withouj due consideration. The Lotto MAYOR returned thanks for an honour which he had not deserved. He had merely done his duty, and wished the Livery had attended to his advice at the onset, and in their proceedings been a little less clamorous. • Thanks were then voted to the Sheriffs., Mr. Sheriff BIRCH stated his intention of conti nuing in the line of conduct which he had.set out with—impartially to do his duty, unmixed with any political bias. The MeAing, after Thanks were voted to the Mover and Seconder, was dissolved. CORN-EXCHANGE, APRIL B.—The Market to day has several fresh at rivals of Wheat, with toler able supplies on hind, sales thereof fully rmaintain last prices; Rye somewhat dearer ; for Barley higher prices are asked ; Malt ; Pease and Beans of each description. may be noted at little fluctua tion ; there tolerable supplies of Oats, hut from a comiqauce of the demand, sales ate named rather higher ; and price of Flour at the late quotstiou. When -94 S a 115 s a 134 s Pine ditto - - x36s al4os Rye . - -72 s a 713 s Barley —62 s 7os Malt -96 s a toes Wilitel'ease(bod.)%4s a yos Gley ditto 6s a 6 s BcAtiiS 4 62s a 67$ Tick Beans . Gos a 64s Ditto (fine old) - Gis a 66s Oats - 4os a 44s a 46s Poland ditto - 47$ a 485 Potatoc ditto . 49$ a 505 Rape Seed - 631 a 6/i1 Fine Flour - tcss a t ies Seconds - loos a i(as POLICE COMMITTEE. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF TI4E HOUS!; OF COMM() S ON THE NIGHTLY WATCH AND I' 2LICE OF THE Y: TROPOLIS. The Committee anoointed to • vumne into t;)c state of the Nightly Watch in the the Parishes adjacent, and farther inlo the Bruit; of the Police; and who were empow(JA to re-port their Cbservarions from time to time to the House; and to whom several Petitions of Licensed Victoal lers, Publicans, within the : - Cities of Lendon and Westminster, and its errs irons were referred, nave proceeded in pursuance, _to their instruaions, and agreed upon the following . Report : Your Committee first directed their inquiries t the slate of the Niotly Watch. They were in duced to pttisue this course in their investigations, as well from a desire to conforo , to the order in which the several subje6s submiattd to their consi deration are classed by the House in the terms of their appointmen as, from' conceiving this branch of the subje6:l to be of itself of the highest import ince, and in consequence of late °cent rences, to be pressed upon N their attention with more urgency than any other. ' Had they found the defeBs in this part of the syStem of our Police'to have been such, at this mo ment, as tohaved&manded the immedia'te interpo sition of the Legislature, they would hate hastened _to have made an - emir Report; but they had the sa tisfaelion..of observing, that the apprehensions which had been excited had produced such a degree of ace tivity and vigdince it , many parishes and di4triats, and such a conviction that the tormir means of se curity were insufficient, that all'immediate alarms on this head had been in a great me renioted. In some Parishes, `tidied, - thezeal and energy of the inhabitants appears to have been most ese it. plary and meritorious k they have agrecd to take upon themselves, iri rotation,, the duties of Superin tendants of the Nightly Watch, to visit and insp e d tl-ie Watch. houseS, the Constables, Beadles, Pat roes, and stationary Watchmen, so , as to ensure the per petual ,vigilance: and adivity of every class of per sons on duty duiing the night, ‘s ithin their palish and a system of the Nightly Watch, thus intro duced by the voluntary exertions of the Hviehold el's, has been so effeaual, that your Committee think it necessary only to recom men d such measures to be ,c-nfoteed by LegiF.lative enadment; as would give anpi,i(ormity and permanency to such a system, and" secure adivity by a constant superintendanco and controi:t Your C , , , ,nininee finding, that, owing to these and similar means Ofsecurity, no immediate. dange r s ,were to bc apprehended, were desirous, indeed .felt it to be their duty; toendeavout• to obt,in a more detaikd ass :welias a more comprehensive view of the vi;iiutis circumstances which influence and affect the state, Of'rhe Metropolis a, to its Police, the wan ner in which its local are divided, the various laws.appticable t o s u c h di v i s i ons, t h e various publ,c bodies,, Of ir'dividuals, in whom powers are vested, (or the purpose of waiching over and i l egulating the .means. by which its security acid good order is to be rnaiatained,.and the mode in .which such powers aro executed.--With relefence to this view of the sub ject, the Metropolis may Lie considered as divided into three parts : The City of London, properly so caed, and the Liberties thereof. The City of Westminster, and the Liberties thereof. The several Parishes which are neither within the City 'of Loudon and its Libertit:s, or the City of Westminster and its Liberties. Tile City of London. is governed by various n - cient Ctlarters and Stwutes.. The Statute of 'he t 3th • •ot Edward I. called Statutnnt Civilatis Limdon, is one of the most ancient ; and as it is not to be found in the ordinary editions of the Statute:s, your Com mittee have inserted it in the Appendix. But the principal Aec.t of Parliament, which at this time ie gulate.s the Nightly Watch of the City of London, is the to Geo. 1,1. c. 22. By this ACt, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, are directed yearly to make re.... gulations on this subjeEt, and the •Aldermen and Common Councilmen in each Ward, are to carry these regulations into etieti,, and make such minor reglations to details as they may judge necessary: The A:A ~ :;, . .q!ifies the duties of the constables and watchmen, and , prescribes the mode in which they are to be punished for misconduel or neglect. Your Committee have not failed to observe, that the City of London, from the nature of its inagis tracy„.: the description of its various public officers, the gra4ation and subordination of their various classes ; ..11e division and s o b-di v i s i on o f i ts local af‘ t fotds an ..example of that unity, and of that . depeadeoce of parts on each other, without which .00, well constructed and efficioot system of Police can eve; be expeOed. - If-such a system could be successfully imitated in - Westminster and its Liberties, and within the other adjacent Parishes which have litthetto for Med an unconneEted mass of scattered and uncontrolled local authorities, considerable benefit might be expected to ensue; for your CoMmittee are disposed to concur in opi nion with several of the witnesses, that a well ar ranged system. of superintendance, vigilance, and COULEOUI, would tend more to the prevention of crimes, by rendering it difficult to commit them, than any degree of activity in the pursuit and con victim) of. criminals, after the crime has been come mitred; at all events, however, the two systems are not only not incompatible, but would necessarily afford mutual aid and assistance to each other. This system of Watch and Ward, adapted by the Legislature to the City 01 London, is not a dead letter, but is kept alive and in action by the con stant superintendance'of the Marshals of the City, with their assistants, who every night visit the WI. fereni wards and precincts, and take care that the Constables, beadles, and watchmen of all descrip tions, are alert and do their duty. Morning re ports ate made to the Lord M,iyor, as Chief Ma gistrate ; deficiencies are noticed, as well as any disorders or nregularitics, or other occurrences of the.night. In ancient times, when the liho`.e of the - Me.ra, polls consisted of hide more 'ban the City of.Lop d. u (properly so called) such a syst.2m might have been abundantly sutlic ent for its g ,od government and security. Tnr. Ctiy of Westru . nster, owing to its baying