The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-29 00:00:00

TO i'HE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

SIR,

Sept. 27, 1809.

In a Morning Paper, of the 7th of September, a
Letter was addressed to the Editor, signed Scill/TA.•
Ton VERI, on the subrea of the•,rents of Hack-
ney Coaches. Whether theinquiry proceeded from
a laudable motive, or was intended-to convey an un-
just in,itivation, is•best knownto the Author of it ;
Whdtcvet Might be its motive, it was grounded on
,ery erroneous premises, as the Com'tnissioners do
not receive the rents, they being paid to the Re-
ceiver in his own Office ; add he is incapable of
waking the sincivil answer imputed to him. By the
original Ate, gth, of Queen Mine, -a weekly ditty_
of five .shillings, was imposed,' payable every four
weeks; and by the 24th of George the Third, an
additional, duty of five shillings More ; bat these two
duties are quite distina, are 'kept in separate hooks,
requiring distina certificates,' paid in'distinel' sums
into the Exchequer, two sePaiaie. tallies given for the
payment of them, and they aieYby' apprcf=
priated to distinct and separate Ands and purposes.
When this measure first took place, •separate re-
ceipts for the old and new .duties were prepared
brit by the unanimous request of the Owners to the,
Receiver of that day, they were discontinued ; and-
' the praetice of giving only one receipt has ever
since prevailed, being both -paid' at the same time.
Many of the Owners decline taking any receipt at
all, being satisfied with seeing their payments duly
entered iri a book. Every person paying money is
ceciainly entitled to demand a receipt;. but I believe
they are not compellable to take'them : the number
issued every four weeks is 1100, or; in every year of
thirteen months, 14,300. Hoping this will prove
satisfactory:;

I am, Sir,
Your humble servant,
A. B.

• MAILS.
AaArvap—l Cadiz, r Flushing, t Dublin. Duz—i Got-
tenburgh, 3 Waterford. •

THE SUN.

SOLEM 4UIS DIdERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LONDQ.N,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1809.

We understand that Lord GitExvitit.E, in prompt
obedience to the summons which -he had received,
•
arrived in town this morning. Lord GREY, as we
apprehend, does not quit ,Torthurnberlapd.

We shall abstain from any comment upon the
condua of these two Noble Lords upon this occa-

s:on.

--This•rnorning4e-received Spanish .Papers to the
Ith.inst. • We are happy to .find that a division of
General 4LAKE'S army has succeeded\in thrOving a
reinforcement into Gerona, and a very.considerable
supply of warlike stores and proviSions: There is no
other. intelligence of importance in these Papers.--,
Mr. PnEraE hal his audience of leave of the Supreme
Junta'on the 24th uit.

It 1;11a$ been statee, on the authority of Letters,
.t:
`' •frgrol3ayonae, that the French have sent very large
reinforetmmts of troops into Spdin. These rein-
forcements, -in some of the.accounts, are said AO
amount to 40,000 men, but this, we balie no doubt'

is a very greaf 'exaggeration.

• -
Yesterday,
.at,two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was
held at The,Vortign Office, which sat till half 'past
at. which were present the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Earls CAMDEN, CHATHAM, WiSTMORLAND, HAT,-
RoWBY, and BATHURST, Lords MULGRAVE andLE-
VESON GOWER, and the CHANCELLOR
.Of the Ix-
.
PHECLUER.
Parliament was yesterday prorogued by Commis-
si;ql in the,usual.fOrm, to Thursday the 2d of No-'
vernber next. 'The Commissioners were the LORD
CHANCELLOR, Earls CAMDEt‘i and BATHURST. The
Co.:irnons were repreSenttd by Mr. Lai', jun. and
t ie Officers of the House.

Yesterday her Royal Highness the PriNcess •o
\VALES ,entertained' the Princess CHARLOTTE of
WALES, the Duke of BRUNSWICK, the 'Duchess of
BRUNSWICK, Countess of EFFINGHAM, Lady
CH AR LOTTi.EINDSAY,. Sze. with an elegant dinner,
at her seat at Blackheath.

granted for the exportation to
France of :British -manufaaures, and colonial pro-
duce ; and also' for the importation from the ports
of _France, of grain,. corn, ,flour, meal, and •burr-
;tones. l'he licenses 'for exportation to the Dutch
ports, are extended-tb the 2tl, day of o..aober inclu•
sive, so as to . time for vessels already partly
:laden, to cornplefe their cargoes for the ports of their
destination.

• The. latest letters from Bcdajoz state, that it was
hisrhly
probable another. engagernerit.wOuld speedily
take place betweep:the, British and. ,fench armies.
The French appeared resolved to make themselves
Masters of Ciudad. Rodrigo, arid . Lord WELLINGTON
was determined to oppose the attempt. :All persons
absent from the army were ordered to, join forth-

The .Letters froth Malta, by the Mail, are of the
8t h of August, and froth Gibraltar, of the iQth in-
stank. The following is an Extract of a Letter from
Matta :

"-MALTA, AUGUST,O,774 ha7e only time to tell

you, that we yesterday received letters from Fiume,

of the oth hp,ta.nt, .down to which date the French

bainot mmle their- appearance, nor were bey ex-
, peak!. r.l:hpart-nistice was to e_pir•O on the 13tli,
40 it vas. getierany believed that hostilities would
recommence, as outn,nse levi.Ps had been direaed to
rn
be a,:e3, including all men, capat4iii hearipa arm s,
f,. ,- % ,1 -
up to illt.ag. o( torty-five: It Is adeivd, that the
same measures have been r.vie throughout France
pted
. . . . . . ....
.. ... ...
and lialy:!! -

SPANISH PAPERS

':,SEIAILLE, SOT. fi.—The satisfaaory Intelligence
has bez:n officially received,' that_ a division of
.4AKE's army; commanded by Don JAYI4E GAM,
bas succeeded in breaking the enemy'S line, and en-.
tered Gerona with provisions and warlike stores for
that admirable place.
.The generous movements of
the inhabitants of the Pyrenees, continue with una-
bated vigour and perseverance, and.had not the im-
portant forf.reSs of Java, through cowardice, fallen
into the enemy's hands, those gallant:mountaineers;
supported in their movements by that important
place, and led on by the worthy Chief who com-
mands them, would, perhaps, by this 'time have
carried their vielorious banner's to the banks of the
Ebro. and Navarre ; Arragon would have been a
second time indebted, tothem for their liberty.—
(Government Gazette, Sept; 12.)

ALICANT, AVG. 29.—By a ship, which on the
27th of this month arrived here from Tarragona, in-
telligence has been received that on the 13th and
14th of that month 5,000 horse passed through
that place for Gerona, and that positive ihformatibn
had reached. Tarragona, that provisions are very
scarce in Barcelona ; that the enemy sustains great
losses in his inroads into the country, and that the

French troops are in great distress.
On the 23d inst. entered this port, his Majesty's
sloop 'Carolina, Don JOAQUIM MoLina, Comman-
der, of eight gtins and eighty men ; and the brig
Palomo, Don Disco ChI,LVEDO) CoMmander, of 16
guns and 100 men, which bring from Cadiz a mil-
lion of reals for this kingdom, and another million

for Tarragona.
On the 26th inst. arrived here from Carthagena,
his Majesty's polacre, N. S, del Carmen, Don JuArr
NAVAIiRETE, Commander, of 10 guns and 70 men,
with gun-powder, 'balls of every calibre, bombs,
grape-shot, and other warlike stores, and provisions,
for Gerona and Tarragona; they have all sailed-for
-their places of destination.

.SEVILLE, SEPT; 6.—lt appears by.reports.trana-
mitted by the superior Provincial Junta of Arragon,
that the, battalion commanded by Don ROMAN
GAYON- lately attacked the 'enemy, who occupied

With'd fotlce of 300`inen: Our gallant,coun
trymen. Opened' 'their fire upon the French, who
withstood it for half an hour, and then took to a
disgriceful flight, leaving the conquerors' in posses-
S 101) Gf the greatest part of tlieir baggage:
They Supreme Committee of the Royal and dis-

tinguished Spanish Order of CHARLES 111. Wye una-

nitnously voted t 0,000
.ducats of the money lately
received from America, to be applied to the suppOrt

of the widows and orphan's of that anconquerable

place Gerona.
On the 24th of last month h's Excellency, Mr.
PRERE, who, with such ardent zeal for our nation it

glory and ipdependen. e, performed the functions of
his. Britannic Majesty's Minister with the Supreme
Junta of Government, had his audience Ofleave.

,The Junta of. the Province of Gnadalaxera has.
been provision.illy established. in Siguenza to orga-,
nize the patriotic insurreClion and general armament
in that province. The people conform themselves
enthnsiasin to, every measure which the Junta
thinks proper to 'adopt. All the Young men.-assem-
ble in Si-c-nenia and Molina, in which places a fine
corps of 25P horse has already been. formed. In
Upper and Lower itioja; the same ,patriotic
,zcal prevails, although the' latter is completely
surrounded by the enemy. General D'AGOUNT,
.the ',French' Governor of Navarra, having 'con-
demned four Sri)aniards to suffer. death, on ,a.
charge of their having 'murdered aTreoch Serjeant,-
and given public notice of the execution *of his san-
gumary order, Don MARIANO RAMALIER,
Com-
),
mander in Chief of the, Spanish troops in. the mOun-
talus of Arragon, for hisAlajesty FERbINAND VIT.
has issued a, Proclam4tiOn, in answer to the.former,
which contains the
,foll Owing articles

I. MANUEL ANTONIO GRUYER, THoS. 'PERICAE
JUAN SEAUBIER, FRANcOIS DESUIX, and AtIGUSTE
DE LA CoLomnt ERE, all agents of the French, shall
be conduaed by my troops to •the camp of Erigorria,
and being placed in a position facing Madrid, look-
ing to their king pipe-B9ltellas, (JOE-BOTTLE),
they. shall hear the, sentence of death pronounced,
and being afterwards ordered to face Pamplona, they
shall he beheaded, and their bodies suspended from
.gibbets, on the road which leads -to Madrid, with
the following inscription on their backs-:—" Agents
of the French banditti, punished by-Spanish justice."
11. Should the intruded King, Generals D'AGOULT
and LOMET (who commanded in Jaca), or any other
person, abuSe his authority, 'to take away the life Of
any Spaniard, we shall order double the ntinlber of
Frenchmen who are in our power to be beheaded.—
(Seville Gazette.).

_The Cv7i;pallis transport, Capt. R. STOREY, has
brought home the following officers from Lord
WELLiNGros's army :-.7Lieutenant GEORGE FITZ-
CLARENCE, Of llle Ritir ; *colonel SAUNDERS of the
Gist Lieut.-Colouel HENEBER, Hon. Capt. Liam,.
.P6l. TAYLEK, aud Litkut. POWELL. -