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from the'Prnce Regent of Portugal` to tbi6 country. The same of that due from • the .Spanish Govern ment.—AccountS of Ate amount of the unfunded debt of E gland and freland•rmide tip/to the same peri , Al —The same of , the funded dtbt of England and Ireland w;thin the same pertod ? The CLIANCE;LLOR of th- EXCHEQUER objeded to the prouuttion of the papers -mentioned respecting the Navy, from the difficulty of making them up, and of distingui. - Thing that portion of the expence in curred off the Peninsula. Sir T. TORTON would be.ratisfied with those ac counts, made Out so tar as they.,could be conve niently made. The others, he hoped, might - be sl.ee.dily produced. Those he thought so necessary to his motion, which stood for to-morrow se'nnight, that it they could not-be produced by .that time, he would he ling to postpone it to Monday. For the present, howewr, the Honourable Baronet de ferred g , %ing any notice. On the motion of Mr. RYDER, the Report of the COMlDltiee on the Bill for tiro more exemplary pu 'nishing of Breaking Frames,. &c. was- taken into fusther ~:osideration. The Resolu(ions were agreed to, a new Clause added, and the Bill ordered for a third reading to uto.-row. Mr. BROUGHAM, on account of the abserce of the Pap(rs he had mentioned, postponed the mo tion of which he had given notice lot to-morrow, respeaing the Droits of Admiralty, to Tuesday next. The House of CommonsOfficers' Bill was read a third time, and passed. On the motion of Mr. G. JOHNSTONE, Accounts of the items from which the gross sum was made, expressed in the Return presented to that House by the Inspector General of Exports and Imports, were ordered to be laid before the House. Adjourned. MAI L 5. ARA IV D— r Malta, r West Indies, a Waterford. DU'a-1 Malta, a Guernsey, r jersey, t Dublin, z Waterford. I.7onsols. PRICE OF STOCKS. THIS DAY A T TWILVI O'CLOCK. - 62 f I Red. Ann. - -62 f TTS E S UN. SOLENT QUIS DICiltE FALSUM ALIDEAT ? L OND ON, 'HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, ISI2. It was this morning -confidently reported, that a Messenger bad arrived from Sweden with a Copy of a Treaty between that Country and Great Britain. It was even added, that a .Swedish Minister had landed in England. Upon inquiry we cannot find any official authority for this report. We know indeed that some communication has been recently received from Sweden, but we state with confidence, that nothing to the extent of the teport above alluded to, has transpired at any of the • Goternment Offices, and therefore we cannot prd tend to say to what degree of credit this report is entitled. We have made copious extraas from the French Papers which arrived last night. Our Readers will find some amusement in the perusal of MARbIONT'S Dispatches respeaing Ciudad Rodrigo. The French G.:neral seems as unlucky in his prediaions, as some persons that we could name in this country. We had not room to offer yesterday any observ tions upon the refusal of Lords GREY and GREN VILLE to give their assistance in forming an united ed Adm'inistration, upon a liberal basiS, at this ardu • ous crisis. Indeed the simple perusal of the PRINCE REGENT'S letter, and the, Noble Lords answer, are . _ quite sufficient; without any comment whatever, to enable the public to form a clear and decided opinion upon the whole transaaion. His Royal Highness, to use the enaphptical language of his own lever, had no predileaions to indulge, no resent , meats to gratify, no obje&s to attain, but such as were common to the whole Empire. Aauated by such sentiments, he applied, at the expiration of the Restriailps, to those of whose talents he thought highly, and with whom " the early habits of his -public life were formed," to strengthen his hands, and- to form a part of an united Administration on a, liberal basis. Such was the proposal of the PRINCE REGENT, which met with from the Noble Lords art immediate and a positive rejetclion. One would have , thought, that the Noblemen and Gfntlemen who constitute the tarty, of which Lords GREY and GRENVILLE are the head, would have been consulted, before a peremptory refusal was returned to the PRINCE'S offer; One would naturally have imagined, that those who con sider the country in such imminent danger, 'and who think that it.can only be saved by their advice, would.not have haughtily reieaed a proposal from their Prince to take a part in the Councils of the Eaapire. It, surely, was not too much to expea from these Noble Lords, that the areaion"which they profess for the PRINCE REGENT, and the anxiety which they must naturally feel for the wel fare of their country, would have led them to make some efforts to comply with the wishes of the one, -and to promote, as far Is they could by their coun cils, the interests of the other. The Noble Lords, however, thought otherwise ; on Friday, the letter was communicated to them, and on Saturday morning tb_ir positive rejeaion of the raiticE's offer was trans mitted to his Royal Highness. It is not necessary, as we have already stated, to comment at any length upon this letter ; .it is sufficient to observe, that Lords GREY and GRENVILLE disclaim exclusion principles in terms, and insist upon them in sub stance ; that they demand, as it were, a pledge from the PRINCE REGENT, that be should permit them to bring forward; under his sanction, a measure which has repeatedly met with the decided disapprobation of Parliament,—a measure, almost without excep tion, the most unpopular that could be brought for ward in this country. Within these-few days, Toth Houses of Parliament have given their opinions, in unison with those of the public at large, hostile to the Catholic claims ; and ytt the Noble Lords insist _upon that very measure as - a preliminary one. They proclaim their- country to be in danger, and yet when an ofler is graciously made to them, by their Prince, to take a share in his Councils, they refuse - it, and decline all negociation, all efforts to remove the impediments that may appear to obstruct an union. We wish not to speak disrespectfully of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE we have no doubt that they thought their duty pre scribed to them the course which they have follow ed; but we-believe that they will find few persons in •the Utlited Kingdom to concur with them in the opinion, We cannot close this article without noticing the change which has taken .plate in the language of those who have hitherto overwhelmed the PRINCE REGENT with every species of adulation. Because his Royal Highness has not thought it right to trust the Government of the country exclusively to Lords GREY and GRENVILLE, that Paper, which has hitherto been the loudest in its panegyrics upon that Illustrious Personage, after stating the par tial - changes that are likely to take place, says, •" Such is the vigorous and united Admini stration, that through the new Councils in Man chester-square, his Royal Highness has been able to form for the outset of his unrestricted Covernment !" Such language needs no comment—His Royal Highness will, we believe, have many opportu : nities of judging of the sincerity of professions. Lord LIVERPOOL received the Seals of. the Fo reign Office yesterday, to hold in trust till a SucCes sor is appointed. The Marquis WELLESLEY yesterday resigned tide seals of office. Lords SIDMOUTH, CASTLEREA4I4H, and BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Will, we understand, have seats in the Cabinet. It is also said that Lord Pow is is to succeed the Duke of RICHMOND in Ireland, his Grace having expressed a wish to return home. Yesterday, about two o'clock, Earl AYLESFORD had an audience of ►he PRINCE REGENT at Carlton Palace, and resigned. Afterwards the Noble Ea►l went to Downing-street, and had an interview with Mr. PERCEVAL. Yesterday, about half-past two o'clock, the Mar quis WELLESLEY had an audience a.f . the PRINC4 REGENT, and resigned the Seals of Ortice as Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs. There was no Council at Carlton Palace on Tuesday. The PRINCE REGENT has direEted a Statute to be passed, to invest General's GRAHAM, HILL, and Sir SAMUEL AUCHMUTY, with the ader of- the Garter, as re wards for their signal achievements. Mr. and Mrs. GOULD JEST yesterday entertained a selea party of friends, with a grand dinner, al their elegant house Porlat3d-place. Camelford House, the residence of Loi.d QREN.• VILLE, has been the great rendezvous of the leading Members of the Opposition since- the recent over tures. Lords GRENVILLE, HOLLAND, CARLISLE, and a large party of Opposition Peers, assembled on-Mon day at Earl GREY ''S house, in Portman-square. Yesterday a Court of DireEtors was held at the East India House, when the Hon. J. ABERCROMBIE was appointed Commander in Chief and Second in CouncA at Madras, in consequence of the resipa %ion or Sir S. AUCHM.UTY. N. B. EDMONSTONE, Esq. was Appointed Provisi onal Counsellor at Fort William. The undermentioned Commanders took leave pre vious to departing for their respe&ive destinations, viz. :- Captain Halkett, of the Ciriencester ; Captain Hamilton of the Bombay ; and Captain Roland, of the Ainwick Castle; for China ; and Captain Cameron, of the Ann, for •Madeira, Coast, and Bay. - • The Court adjourned at six -- o'clock till to-mor row, We were deceived yesterday in an article which stated that the Judges had decided In favaur of Mr. WALsa. It does not appear that they took any no tice of his case. During the late alarm in consegtience of the hor rid murders and numerous robberies, a Lady resid ing on ,the: south side of Lincoln's Inn fields, near the Earl of PotTsmouTn's, employed workmen to make her house particularly secure, and on the night of the day when they had completed their un dertaking, her house was broke open and robbed, and not discovered until the servants got up in the morning, when it was ascertained that it had been accomplished by splitting. the iron plate of the coal cellar, and no doubt but a boy was let down into the Cellar to let the robbers in. They found and carried off the plate that had been in tile the pre ceding evening, to thu amount of about iOOl. and to her property, NAVAL NEWS PORTSMOUTH ) FEB. ig...—Arrived the Vedour, Capt. LAWLESS, and the Pickle brig, from 'Guern sey ; and the Sandwich from a cruize. Sailed the Royal Oak and Venerable for off Cher bourg; the North Star, Vautour, Goshawk,' and.' Violet, on a cruize 5 and the Peacock, Capt. PEAK, to the Down', with convoy. Gone into the Harbour, the Rosamvd and Fa- liant. Sailed - the San Josef to Spithead from St. Helen's, and the Poiaiers to St. Helen's from Spithead. DEAL, FEE. I9.—Arrived the Insolent gun-brig from a emu ze, and remains wilh a large fleet of outward-booed. FALMOUTN, Fait. 17. Arrived the Princess Mary packet, from the Leewa►d Islands, with a - Mail, 34 days from St. Thomas's; also arrived his Majesty's ship Pheasant from Compri. Put back by contrary winds his Majesty's packets Marlborough and Fretling. SHEERNESS, FEB. i8. 7 --The following ships of 'war are ordered from this port to proceed imme diately to Anholt, and as they are all ready for sea, they will do it without delay : Daphne, 22 guns, Raleigh, 18 guns, Plover, 18 guns, Fly, 18 guns, and the Sheldrake, of 16 guns. His Mijesiy's fri gate Pyramus, of 36 guns, that sailed from Ports- Mouth the 15th inst. i 3 ordered for the same desti- nation. CHATHAM, FEB. Ig.—Came up to refit, his Ma jesty's gun-brig Thrasher, Lieut. DORNFORD, Corn mander, fraying carried away her main-yard, and otherwise damaged in the cutwater.—His Majesty's ships Conqueror and Ardent are,ordered-ta be paid off at thi; port. FOWEY, FLB. 7.—The Express packet that s-,iltA from Falmouth on the 13th- inst. for Rio 4neiro, put in here to-day by contrary winds. His Majesty's ships Barbadoes and Dominica, that sailed from England in November last, with a convoy of twenty-five sail for the West Indies, ar rived at Barbadoes on the 4th ofJanuary, with only tour ships in• company ; on the 7th of January, se ven more of the convoy had arrived. The Borta does frigate sailed from Barbadoes on the Bth ult. with the ships bound to Jamaica. The 37th Regiment is ordered to prepare for em barkation for foreign service. Major-General GoLnrs is to be placed on the Staff of the army in Portugal. • Return of the effe6tive strength of the Regular and Militia Forces on the 26th Dec. 1811, laid be fore the House of Commons on the 1-Ith inst. Cavalry, at home . . 12,050 Abroad . . . . . 11,7:9 Foreign & Colonial 1.865 Abroad . . . . . 2,136 Foot Guards, at home 3,748 Abroad . . . . . 3.133 Infantry, at home . 4,5 , -,1 Abroad . . . •99 735 Foreign & Colonial 2,745 Abroad . . . 30,320 Militia . . . . . . 77 0 59 General total . 143,068 Ditto, abroad . • .153,040 't otal Desertions, from Dec. 25, 1810, to Dee. z;, at 1, 3,63! Return of the number of Recruits raised Quar terly, by the ordinary modes of recruiting,--fmally approved for the Regular Army, (t'xciu,ite of Fo reign and Colonial corps) in the year 1811 :=- Men, for a limited period, 1639 For life . . 7, 5 193 Boys, for a limited periods 360 For life, . , . . 1,580 " Total Tuesday the State Lottet'Y finished . drawing.— No. 3,486, a Prize of 20,0001. was sold in' one Quarter, two Eighths;', art.)] eight Sixteenth Shares, by RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK and Co. at their Offi ces, Cornhal and Charing-cross. ExEctmoN.---.C/ayton and Jenkins, for burglary, suffered the awful sentence of the law yesterday, at NeWgate. After the culprits had been divested of their irons, Clayton observed to Jenkins it was an awful moment, and he exhorted him fo, cheer his spirits, and die with manly fortitude, adding, that the sentence was just, and trusting their example would warn others against keeping bad company. It has never been Prothulgated, that a ,servani who had lived with Mrs. Martin .planned this robbeiy, byinfortuing a man with whom she lived, that there was always money in the house. This was com municated to others,- and seven persons had beset .the - house - several nights, but MrS. M was prevented leaving home of an evening as usual by in•lispo'sition. One of .the gang who had squ.,bbled about the division pf ether spoil, gave information to Bow -street, of the intended robbery, and Larry and his party witnessed a gang of seven beset the house several evenings bef re they were ripe. They were at length tired by disappoi.tament, and on the eveninewhen the burglary was committed the two culprits attended alone, and got into the house by previous acquaintance with the then servant of Mrs. Martin. On Friday afternoon, a Coroner's Inquest took place at the Shovel public-house, in Craven-street; on fhe body of Ann Wildman, servant to Mr. Le gate, a Solicitor in the a.love street. She was found hanging on the_above morning by a silk handkerchief fastened to the baluStrades of the stairhead. From the evidence adduced before the Coroner and . Jury, a verdial of Lunacy was returned. FREDERICK KELNER.—The Mystery which hung about this young man's sudden disappearance in a wounded state, from the 'Post Office, was on Mon day last cleared up, by the body of the unfortunate youth being found floating on the surface of Poplar Cut, in a state of putridity., with the ball of the fatal pistol with which he attempted his life still sticking in his neck. The body was conveyed to the Har row public-house, and a Coroner's Jury impanelled from amongst the clerks in the Post-office, who re toi ne4 their verdiA Lunacy, FRENCa PAPERS. At a very late hour last nigh+, French Papers to the 15th inst. inclusive, reached town ; the follow. log are their principal contents. OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Vitom TICE IMPERtII►L IN SPAIN, ARMY OF VALENCIA. The disarming of the militia of Valencia goes on rapidly. By the attention of the Duke D'AL;UFERA, forty thousand English muskets, an enormous quantity of bayonets, pistols, &C. have been deli vered to the French artillery.. Many stores of uni, forms, both for cavalry and infantry, have been dis- covered, as also of ready-made cloathing and of red cloth,i intended for the use of a corps of the army. A contribution. of two hundred millions of reals has b theprovince of V a l enc i a . Th e city een has, imposed beside supplied on s us with f our h un d re d , mules, completely harnessed, for the service of the artillery. The Archbishop of Valencia, a most respeelahle man, who, together with the principal nobtli:y of the country, and the magistrateS, had for a long tirne trembled at the atrocities and abuses of all kinds committed by a frantic Junta, have re-enter ed the city, where they have no longer to dread the yoke of unavoidable war; 1500 infuriated monks have been arrested, and sent to France. The chiefs of the insurgents who frequented the house of the English Consul, as well as some assassins attached 'to that despicable being, have been executed in the public square, to the great satisfaction of allihegOod inhabitants who had not been participators in the assassination of the French. , • The cities of Alcira, Saint Philip, Gandia and De• nia, have submitted to us : in the latter place we - found Go pieces of cannon ; it k a very strongplace on the s'e coast, at the distance 01 - 20 from Alicant and near to Cape Martin. REPORT OP THE MARSHAL DUKE D'ALBUFER A, TO HIS HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF %VAGRANT AND NEUFCHATEL, MAJOR-GENERAL. Valcncia, jan. 24. Monseigneur,—M. MEEKINEM is arrived;. he has • delivered me your dispatches of the 28th, in which your Excellency informs me, that his'MajestY has noticed with pleasure the measures. taken which render the fall of Valencia inYallible. The Gen.Couut REILLE arrived in time, but Gen. MO N TBRUN, with the divisions of the Army of Portugal has too long retarded his march; had he arrived at the time ap pointed, all tliat - have escaped of the Army of Murcia would have been taken, On the even ing of the Itth, two days after . the taking Of Valencia, I received a letter' from General MONT BRUNT, dated from Almanza, wherein he in formed me of his :arrival there, and requested my further orders ; I answered, by sending him the capitulation of Valencia, and ordering him to re turn to the l army of ,Portugal, for which be had manifested a desire, , He had communicated to me his projed of marching to Alicant, to which I re plied, that. I did not conceive the present moment as being favourable for an operation against a town so well fortified, and against which it would be ne cessary to bring heavy artillery : nevertheless he would try the event, and has summoned, the city and thrown someshells into it, after having defeated the insurgents in the open country, and made songs prisoners ; but, as I had foreseen, the Governor re fused to surrender. General MoNTnaus, feeling the inconvenience occasioned by his absence, re commenced his route to the Tagus, which he might have done several days sooner. 1 am well, sa-, tisfied with the people of Artagon. My commo• nication with Saragossa has not been interrupt ed one single day for three months pst ; thu people have resisted all insinuations, and have sin cerely submitted. I have summoned'Peniscola to surrender, and shall in a few days commence the bombardment. Should the place refuse to surrender , I intend opening the trenches. The situation of this little place, on a rock on the sea shore, is such, as will render this a brilliant ope ration for the engineers. The whole province of Valenci.i, beyond Cape •Martin, is Consequentlf subdued. Alcira, St. Philippe, Ganclia, and Denia; are in his Majesty's power. Denia is a strong place, and to which the insurgents have thrown up (13 ,14 works,which have cost them a great deal of money. The inhabitants of these towns have submitted to the army. General CeDotvscr.r., the former Governor of Valencia, has, at patting, transmitted me a chart of the cordon established to prevent the ravages of (110 yellow fever h reaches to the Xucar. The ra vages made by this dreadful malady have been realty terrible in this_unfortunate rut of Spain : 45,000 persons have perished in the towns of Elche,, Ori• truela, and Murcia only; fortunately it has noW ceased. My communication with Madrid is per• fectly established through Requena and Cuenca., General HUBERT has found at, Denia cannon and mortars, and -a great quantity of cartridges. This