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I T '"—. l.lB I ' I ' ' _6 G ; 7 %0 • 1i 13 * Hail sto 1- Jnc hail OFelCfliS BENEFIT FUN. 6. • • t is Withiiteastirewe again return to tite excel - tent plan for file Officeis'of the Army, their- widows I,Ve ex; , e6rl it will he very shortly carried ditto prate k The measure is universally • I. l l)PtoVed, and though voluntary, the advantages *hieh it holds forth are so great, that we doubt not bit every Officer in the Army mill bi•comea sub scriber to it, and tnat every well-wisher to his country must feel an interest in so beoevolent and truly laudable an undertaking, am! applaud, proinhie K s of. the shall take an eatly opportunity of inserting 'lie plan in d.rail : a very ,rifling subscription, amOnaling, toOne penny a day for. t h e Ensgn, to tour-pen,:e to the Colonel, will be required fi out all Members to the Rind; a still less subscription fur wives,and children.' • 4, [lie prospeas are held forth , and , f r own '"e opinions of the most able and experienced 'Offi. ceri, they will be fulfiller' In case of an Otii,:tr being dis ibled by woundi, or by length of service, a handSolue pension will be allowed to him for life, i.t proportion to the rank he the Army: and to. Officers for length. cif service, if not disahled; to the widows of 'Officers a pension for life ; to each of an Officer, on• H the death of i:;; tither, )tt aliowanee until the age of Id; lot' .1 he purow eile t eatino.. Owing to the l umber of casualties in the Army , the pensiorti will be more than ten times the a mou n t 'thesubscrintion entitle she 'Officer to ' fro ,0 'Life Assurance Co:npany in the kine,dont. The ,•.Persons w h o undertake the management are to be. binder the direction'ol the most rispetiiible Coin.. nlltisioneis, who are to nicer monthly, , and be ore "'hem all th - eacciunts, disbursements, and expen ditarr,i are io be laid. • The'Subscriptions are to be invested in the funds ; those for the first ten years will be allowed to ac ;,, etintelate ror the purpose of, prrividin , ,, with the in terest and subscriptiou, pensions to all who okay be tome entitled to thetn,after.l hat period, on account' • t (obtaining a capital. Pensions tannorbe allowed. to individuals before the first ten years hive expited, unless a' donation, proportioned to the rank of each Offieeriis paid' on the commencement of the VIA.. r Ttloi , who may not contribute. by donation, will ", etirtk benefits, its set forth in the first plan.' Thi s • 'iteration has been adopted in conformity. to ihe• Wishes of many Officers, and on accosiot of the war on the I'. niasula. ''• To M 'jor RODEOTS. is the credit ' of having in; • eilleduitis mode of insuring benefits to Officers, 11 nd J..P/lILIPPART, Esq the Gentleman mentioned ' ll the plan, is, with himself, entitled to every coin !bendstian for ilrAt indefatigable, zeal in ttleavour- In g to complete, and bring it into iltectitiOn. We understand Officers of the highest tank and eistinaion t.ave approted and Suppot ted the .mea . ) re, at the h e ad of w hom are some of oar Must riouS Ponces,* whose wishes' for the welfare of the 'Arm„ i Yi by additional teitimony , must be ap r t u ,ded by every Briton. tiedelay in the ixecution of the plan • SriSes from i t he Weight of official business, 'it resttng for the ap. Probation of the Ministers, which is felt' necessary, l' re nous to the Commander in Chief affin - ,ing his I 'lt 4„‘. g 6 io r n e , at fettur ein this ndertakino is, 0311 it opens ro ute f affl ient a means of Contributtng the corn °lts of their widows and chi ldren, in a 41 • 1 7;"er congenial to the*feelings of all. entitle m at -the Commencement of the Fund the donor to the rank of Patron., • • 1 The t)ukes of Kent and. Cambridge. the Proprietors, of Covent. Garden Tlratre hav e announced the, intended , revival of Janus' c es ". and tiller works of bur,gteat dramatic Hard, t i ,,,, I llaY be excused for engaging an Elephant to ai t t liclitnent the holiday . wonders at the ensuing season, b gratily the rising - generation. Passag es Caorcies adaptation of the more striking -a g e s of the beautiful poem of Palestine to ,: d lu sic, in th e f or m of au Oratorio, hasbeeiv mach e niire d in the p r i va te harmonic circles. The in— gni ;,,,:ii () " Composer has shewn his poet ical taste, ;Is musical powers, in the sett:6l4)n of this „I r i ^. as. it is not only cme• of the best pkodittl t ion bill !laces Mr. H the author of it, higlt an the.llit.of British Bards. liCofotiel GURVILLa has addressed the Editor of a : I r ning•Nper on the 1 , übjett of the 'Pantheon , ;Il n& that, by t h e terms of graated to " I ‘ r b Y the late Lord Chamberlain , he has a ti;ht to p e s !""hl Ballets. The er_donel,.. itoaoeVer, says - no -4.14 in answer to the asset tioo, that; by, the terms s e the said license, the Pertotrut'rs Most be under fee thee yea rs ° Ca ge . Fitiw Own wlll he accvuut i lleeag e agemnt of,NALu. At:WOLIN!, .and ,toy ve r 'other Performers, who certainly ,have Fong s'"rd over this juvenile limitation? %on Yesterday week, at Sluftlicld, as. Ann, i-Totchin pi„., was going with a basket .of clothes.,to.be "' l l Ohe tell down in Charles-btreet, an d- iniourtly e*Pire t i. b ei O n Fliday last, a child hbOnt four .years t l i N i ng to a poor woman of the .nAtne of to "eY-lane, Sheffield,. was :olitottunately buret a t' Monday in 'the a b ence 4c - i ts , mo th er . ,_ • ; Motiday morning a collier,-whilst at work in of the pita at Gleatilesi, near Sheffield, fell clown rod instantly expited. PREltre4 MADRID, Ntv. , t 0. , -the confusion Mid .per plerity produced by the defeht• of Saguntum, and the siluarion of are 'such, that the Go- _ vernmtnt of Valencia dare not tontradiat the faf.ls 'stated in the sommops to the GOVernot. We are still ignorant here, whether, rendered More prudent, they prefer an honourable capitulation to the fright ful disasters of an assault. PARIS, DEC. 3 Majesty held yesterday, ‘ at the Thuilleries, a Council of Commerce and Manu factures. ' ,The Spanish Funds have risen at Amsterdam, since his Majesty's journey to Holland. The Kitig' of Rome arrived last Saturday with their Majesties,. at the Thuilleties, to remain Wale during the winter. .. The annual funeral service for the warriors who have died 'in the field Ail battle' was celebrated yes terday at Notre Dame. Generals, and a great number of: the garrison, assisted at the 'ceremony. Mass was celebrated by Abbe Maury, and absolu tion given by C Maury. VIENNA, Nov. 23.—Count Italinsk - y, for Russia, and Flamed Effendi, for the - Porte, have repaired to Giergewo, in order to treat for Peace between the two Powers. NV , _ hear nothing yet.of the nego ciatinns. Adt ices from ananunce positive ly, that the Bosniac troops Wive retired to the left bank of the-Drina, without any engagement between them and the ServianS. We presume tine retro grade movement of the troops has taken place in value of the armistice.' SPAN IS I-1 ,e P Ell S. VALENCIA DE ALCANTARA, N0v...--A4 one of the happy effetis of Gtrard's destruction, we are assured that our Army . Commissary has given no tice, that 800t1 fattegas of wheat, and 4001) of bar ley, will soon arrive here. The most - severe punish mauls are inflicted upon, renegado Spani•irds, who are taken with arms in their hands. Benito Mafia • Civia, the intrwilve vvernor of Altnag'o, who was taken in that town by. the ),,and of Chaleco, and af terwards brought to •Lead quartes, hatrbeen tried by a \Couri-mar!ial, at which General Castanos presid ed. fn pursuance of his sentence, he•was first de graded tit the loot of the seatiold, and afterwards banged; his head was then cut off, and sent to be fixed up at Almagro. Some days atter, five Spa-' nitrds, taken in his comp•iny, were also banged, and six picketed, and sent to a garrison. In short, energy is' here at its height, and produces marvel lona effe&ts. . • _ CADIZ, Nov. 13.----The Minister of Finance lately read a memorial in the Cortes on the snbjedt of ,the excise on tobacco. He observed, that the use of that 14, 31 4 %Ae- introduced into Spain about the mid dle of the 10'11 century . ; t!,e, royal monopoly of to .imcco was esrabl , s4ed in I G 36 ; end in 1789 it pro duced On sum of 110 millions of reals.— Some' financ'eers had called this excise t lie great pillar of the State; but, in his opinion, it was a canker Which devou red it, both trout the innumerable vexations which it ,caused, the number of families who were ruined by smuggling, arid the harsh fiscal regulations which were enaeted to prevent it. Having established, as first. principles at .finance-, that rhe 'public treasury ought nrir -to be Cualtuerciaie nor its interests placed in aired oppost• tion to thrice of the people, let deduced. as infer ences, that all three regulations ought tube abolish ed which impoverished our colonial agriculture and cernieerce, cherished the cupidity of custom-house efficers, encouraged espionage, peopled the dun geons and the, garrisons with eueigglers, ailohe highways with rubbers. He proved that the num ber ot,smegglers sent to garrisons in 1796 amounted to me and in one year they elicit amounted to '5OOO, which was equal to a small' witty. He ton chaded his memori4by subinittitig, that the cultivas Lion and sale of tobacco ought to be free, paying only certain Moderate duties on importation ; by which, while the Exchequer would be benefitted, not oily the cells he had enumerated would be re medied, but the agriculture and commerce of troth hemisphetes woulu be cherish, d, and the coil:lump tion of Spanish tobicco augmented in Europe." This memorial was heard with great attention, and gave general satisfact;on to the Cortes, who re f 'rred it to he Committee of Finance. [The French papers lately informed us, that Bop-. had established an imperial monopoly of to bacco in France, which in his late tour, in Holland he also extended to that country. All the tobacco produced in or imported into his dominions, was to beeunveyed to certain imperial mar utatorie, of which Holland had only two fur her share, .arid from thence to be sold in its prepared state to the retailers. The, principles 'of political econteny ,are well understood in France ; and, certainly. hardly any thing could have eicited moreastenidiment and diSgust anion all intol;gerit men in that cautery, than this 'reliant, by the sole will and flit of parte, to the exploded principles ef stern monopoly. This is one of those traits of- a bl i nd and senseless despotism which Beonaparre is every day exhibiting; arid when contrasted with the liberal and en lightened doeirines of the leading Members ref . the Conies, mu s t excise a_ strong interest iu favouraf the career of improvente4 which the DMus have .commenced.) It is said that the Directors of the East India" Co mpany have entered into an agteernent never to drink French wines at 'heir owii or arty other to-, hies, until it shall appear that the Exchange is in favour of this country. 'Fins is a resolution worthy .or Britons, and we are glad to see so very respett able a body of Gentlethen set so good an example to their countryineli—an exuinple thlt we hope will be generally follo,4ed, and tot be confined to French wines only, but. to every production of France, and every ether State under the immediate government of BUONAP.AIITE;) or meanly _subservient to his'v. ili. Titis . exariiple . ongh t to he, the 'amnia- Lion of a similar determination in --every Corporate ;:Body throughoui the British EiApite,, as will as of , !eveey ink) whq baS any regard tot the interests' of his country, 'and is not indifferent to the itionour qtble reputation of pat must. • ,• pr • Processor : DSvy, who, as, we meniioned some time ago, was' cositmunicasing his chemical disco - veries so the_pepple of_ Ireland, is still engaged in the yar ie laudable pursuit, under the proteelion of she Lord Lieutenant, and ,the chief charsidert =Of that cotintry . LOSS op 'tip' S/ILD_IINHA The following particulars of the loss of this 63 gate arg contained in a letter of 'the 6th iuStant, from Rinhmilton „ RATIIMILTOM, =DAC. 6.--r His majesty's ship Saldanlta, Captain the Hon. W. PAA.4I4IIAM, sailed &mu Cork on the loth of November, to relieve his Majesty's ship EAdyntion, off Loughswilly. Having reached that harbour, she, with the Endy mion and 7 dbot,.qailed on tho aoth ult. w ith an in , tendon, it is said, of proceeding to the westward. On the 3(1 December it blew very hard from the north westward; the wind continued to increase all the 4th and in the evening and night of that day it blew the most dreadful' hurricane that the inhabitants of' this part of the country ever recollea. At about ten o'clock at 'night, through thedai ness and the slot th, a. light was seen from the sign:d-roaers pasaing rapidly up the harbour, the gale then Wowing near ly • right in. This light was, it is supposed, on board ,the Salitailha ; but this is only conjeatire,, for when the day-light discovered the ship, a coMplete wreck 'in Ballyna Stoker-bay, on the west-side of the har bour, every soul on board had already perished, and all the circumstances of her calamitous loss thus pe rished with her. his stated in some of the accorots that the strip first struck on ,sotne rocks near the en. trance of the harbour, , and that the wind drove and the tide floated her to the distant place where the wreck came ashore ; but this also can onl ) be con jecture ; and whether well remitted or otherwise, is trove of little consequence.” The .s'uldanlia was a new frigate, and one of the finest in'oor navy. She had. probably near. three hundred souls on board, mai her Commander was a young otiker of the highest character. Captain Pakenham was brother to. tire Earl of Longford, Lady Wellington, and the Hon. Colonel Pakenham, Deputy-Quarter-Master-General of the Army in Portugal. The Lteutenants of the Saldanha were D. Thomas, G. H. Campbell, and John Gardner. The bodies of Captain Pakenham, and about 200 of the crew, are said to have been washed ashore, and were to hive been imegerl in fr . oeighboutang 'burial ground. It was repelled that :iuor her, ship (ieppos.d to be either the'ToThot or /Stay/neon), had shared the fate of the &Manisa, and in tire same place ; but this, we are happy to say, is not true. Neither of those ships have been heard of stns tire sailed on the Stith ; and it 'was the wreck of . the So/don/La, having completely separated into two parts, that occasioned the speatoors on the shore to believe that there were two distinct wrecks. 01 course, cotSidering the violence of the storm, . we cantor he gone free from apprehettaioty retipe,a ing tt ese ships ; but their not havatg 6een heard of on any part of the coast is encouraging to the hopes which we strongly entertain of their 1) atety. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Yesterday thorning the Annual Show of Cattle, Sheeq, and Pip, opened, in Mr. Sadler, splcions premisei, covertd with a skylight, in Goswell btreet ;, a label being affixed at the head of each ani mal, stating the fall partietilars of -its breed, age, feeding, 61c.- with the names of the parties, and the adjudication of .theCentlemen, who lusty been ap pointed' by the Smithfield Club' us judvs of their retTlitlllifi far this year, via. Mr. Thomas U.tihy , Botcher, or . Grutpisfreet, London ; Mr. Rubel t Hughes, Grazier, of Sal thorpe, in Wiltshire; Mr. I:Llamas Stone, Grazier, of Barrow, in Leicestershire. Thr yard was very Vk• ell attended by amateurs and proCtical breeders and feeders of cattle, and others concerned in the important business of supplying the growing wants of the country with tespeo to ani n4l fi,od. The many tine pens of longo.yoolled Pi beep, attracted much of the attention of the co,- pany ; and the very extraordinaty South_Dow n Sheep, both for carcase and finene•ss of wool, bred b y Sir John Sanders Sebright, Bart. were much admired; together with an ,ox, shewn by Mr. John West ca r. Mr, J. Gardner chewed a very simple and effealive turnip•cutter, which, instead of slicing them in flat pieces, ems rows, of any kind, into irregular shaped pieces, best adapted to the mouths. of cattle: Mr. Hill showed two portable live cattle weigh ing.machines, one on wheels (on Shephor's co,n strtittion), and the other a s'mple tripod and.steel yard. • Mr. W. Webb'sliewed _ample specimens of the 'renovating riled of his American Fluid on old nud airy leather straps and harness. Mr. James Barringer, the Artist, exhibited most •adinirable poitraits of a horse and a dog, belonging tO , INIr. Weston. unusual number of notices of works and things interesting to Gentlemen of landed property and :Igriculturisrs were stuck up or distributed in the company ; ainong the former we noticed the pro posals of three ditfeient mineral surveyois : Farey, B.4ftlq„ and 13.1ke.well and Sons ; several agriron. turidiluhlication, by deeding, &c. Notice of Lord , Somerville's prizes to be distributed on the std and 3,1 of March. At three o'clock such of the Members of the CIO as were present, adjourned to Freemason's Tavern and held 4 meeting, Edward T. Waters, EA. in the Chair, in the absence of the President, the Dnhe at Bcdroid, when the 4udges' award was read and confirmed, with thanks to them for their great pains and judgment in the adjudication, and to the Stewards, Mr. Waters and Mr. King, for their pains in arranging the ShuW. Simnel RtanbOid Lushington, EN. M. P. and Ed ward Greathetv3, Esq. were elected Members. Adjourned to Monday at hall-past tWo . o'cluck. After which the Members dined together, E. T. Waters, Es q. in the Chair. Several patriotic and agri culiUrat toasts were dunk, and useful discussion and great hilarity pici , aiied until a late hour. William Radford, the guard of the York Mail, Vas 'tin own oat of the dickey, near DA -master, on Friday, and died the same d.iy, leaving a wife and four small children to lament big. loss, The acct. dent happened in coptlecitience of a 811 , kleii start of the 'coach in endeavouring to pass the Glasgow Mail. Radford wt% truly unfoitnnAle, having been thrown .from his seat some time No, and had his arm so badly-bat - lured as to reocla amputation above the wrist necessary. EX4IIIIMTION OP Ma tkelLSli. The examination of Ur. Waltlt was resumed yesterday u fore Mr. R ea d and M'r. - iNlares. At a qusrter oef,te one o'clock Mr. Walsh wai put to the bar, when he conclutied himself exatnit es he did on Thursday evening, tioldiiv his face With his hands, &c. A - chair was allowed hun again. His sensibility Wa4 so strong, that it 111 , 23 thought he' would have fainted. Joseph Fearn, a jeweller, of Qornhill, said, that he knows the prisoner, who calledpi him on the gd iiiwant, and inquired it he could let him h-ve some Portukil pieces, sa).ing, he should want be tween three and four 'hundred spottlds worth for a friend. On the followigg day he called again, and thought, ha said, he should Want the pieces cin on the Wednesday or 'Thursday fullowinii. About three o'clOck on the Wednesday he called spin, and said 'he 'should want the gold on Ttairsdiy morning : at that he franked him some letters. On the Thursday morning the witness WM . his clerk to knoW of the prisoner the exaia amount of the sum he waffled, and the prisoner returned fOr answer, five hundred ponds worth of gold, which he supplied him with, and received a draft for that 81.1 M, signed W. Seutt, on Smiths, Pa) ne, •and Smith. In a shun time after the prisoner called ant said it was a irdstake y he said he was only to have three heindred pounds worth, which he gave him, consisting of doubloons, and returned the dd. fereoce of the draft. Daniel ill, Frecman's.court, Cornkil, agent for the salt# of .Ameritan Stock, said, that la ely, to the best .of his recolleklithin . on at.• v9tl) or November last; Mr. Walsh called at his office, and had a coin- Monication with him and his partners respecting American Stock.; and on the following day Mr, „ Deberdt shewed him an order to purchase Ameti can Stink, signed B. Walsh, dated Nov. vB, 181 I, and thought it was between twelve and one o ' c l oc k, when he had the communicnion, which was ac cordingly done; and the certiticg e found upon Mr. Walsh, was the hand of Mr. Ellison, their clerk. William Ewing', clerk to Messrs. Goslings, Bankers, deposed to the hetts wjr ill have beet) l:ready stated, so far as their honse was comwtned: Dennis Peberdt, one attic pz,rtners in the Arms rican house, m Freeman's-court, said he hart linown Mr, Walsh for a long time paat ; he thought about this d called Il i on him bet ween elevt n told twelve n'elo , ..k, and told nim he wanted to per• ztatte bilsc , .:en 10 and 11.,0001. American Stock ; impaired the prices, Scc. &c. and the time it would take to do it. He . replied, it would take several , days to complete it, and as it was for sucl: a very. large sum, he reetored a regular order itrlvr:ting for the. purpose. Mr. Waldt,. either then or the next day, gave him one in .writing, and %aid he should be reidy with the money on Wftiocsday. • 'Ajr. Walsh appeared not to onderstaoo the American Stocks; he suggested to him, that if it WAS intended for a eapitalo4 residiog in Eegland,. he wordd tecurnmend one sort ; out if it was (Jr a person residing in Atne• rice, or going th , le, he would recortimeat 4 differ.. cut sort. 'Mr. W. replied, it aas for a person hav• ing this country and going a America. On the4th instant, about twelve o'cl ck, Mr. WAsh came Iv. his Orr.* in FfrCtllilli t tl• court, Mid t old lona hat he should nor be frail) , for the Ainetlean 'ill the next day about noon, When he should pav fo , it in Blnk or. England notes. 'On the 0. xi day, soon after twelve o'clock, he went. to Mr. Walso's offlee in Nobel-court, and saw him there, when Mr. W. presented him with 30111 e Bank notes, saying, there are I IMO]. count if they are right :he ztccordlogly did so, and found Eleven One Thousand Pound, It ink notes ; he observed they were right : Mr. Walsh' saying; then yon will of courac Myer the S uck to-day, hut he ,tieed not huffy Limn alter o'clock that 'day, he delivered the Stock to Mr. W. with an account at the same time; asking/Mr. W. if be should call on him the next day with a Notary • to have the Stock registered; if it was to ne sent to America, which Mr. W. put off, as he was then going out of town for a fe w d ays . ; he informed Mr. Walsh he had purchased the Stock from s ome o f t he Most respetlable houses, nod it. Was of that descrip tion. that he was in the habit of sending to America. He proved that the American ,Bank Stock Marts, foun.l upon •Mr. Walsh, were the same he fat nish cd him with. Thy► prisoner Was comtnittecl ttt Tothill•fiekts for further examination. POLICE. MA ftt.no !WITCH • STR ART. ' S ' esterday t lam illiams, driver of one of the Reading coaches, was charged with assablting. Mr. Shepperd, a silver• smith, on Wednesly , coMplamant had sent a bpi tit plate to be . ibrwardvd to Maiden!tead by defendant's coach, and in looking to the delivery of'.. it to the coach, tram I - Inn:hetes office, they're)). which biltrowlded it broke, and burst the box. On Mr. S. Owning the property, th. defendant said he looked like a thi, t, and refuted oven tb have it de. posited in the emelt ellice till repaired, Whilst contending for the package, Wiiliams struck the complainant twice, and used n good deal of font language, bat afterwards took pnssestion of the par cel, anti safely delivered ft. The case was dis• charged on the ground thet Williams was respnit. *ible for the box after he had received it from the coach office, and was defending it vvheu the assault was Committed. UNiON.UALL.--• Yesterday Mary Parker Ito charged by Mr. Story, linen .draper, in the Borough, with stealing a piece of printed cotton, cotitainitig e 8 yards. The cotton was hanging that ar, the door, and fastened wit t a piece of pact. thread to the handle of the shop-hell. The prisoner not percek ing t his circumstance, took hold of It to pull it down, a n d bad got one end of it under her clothes when the bell began to ring. This excited the atten lute of Mr. Story,who immediately came to the door, and caught her in the fa&, with one end of the cotton in her hind. Mr.. Story immediately sent . for fiver, who took her i n tq moody, and convoyed l ist before the Magistrate at this ottive, when she wax fully corniiiiteU for trial, On Tuesday night, a watchman, going iii‘ at Richmond, wa4 shot lu some persons unknOWlli„, and whet tOlllO, was at►able to give any amount of the tonstaun he died :won alter.