The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-05 00:00:00

SPAtUSif PAPIfa:

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CADIZ; OcT. 3.=-The fAiowing Proclarmtion_
has been issued at Madrid, by Carlos Espana,, the
Military Governor of that capital
The Spanish Government having granted
permission for a certain number of Spaniards to
enter the service of his Britannic Majesty, in any
Of the English regiments composing his army in
the Peninsula, his Excellen..‘y the Captain. Ge-
neral, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, has authorized
Lient.-Colonels Sturgeon, Commandant of the
Royal Corps of Artificers in Madrid, to enlist
(nen into that corpi, under the fallowing con-
ditions
"The recruits must be robust, healthy, fr from
bodily defect, and must be artisans skilled in one
or other of the foliowino• trades :—Carpenters,
smiths, cartwrights, millwrights, rope-makers,
sawyers, stone-cutters, and nrisons.

" The recruits must engage to serve during
the present war : but in the event of the corps to,
which they are attached receiving orders to leave
the Peninsula., they shall then be discharged, and
every man shall receive one month's pay, to enable
him to return to his home.

" The Spanish volunteers or recruits shall en-
joy the free cerci,ze of their religion, and attend
divine service according to the rites of the Ca-
tholic, Apostolic, 1?onlan Church.
" They shall be maintained and clothed in the
sonic :tanner as the other soldiers of his iiritaanic
Majesty : fiat! in this Royal Corps or Artincers
they shall receive a ,!aily pay proportioned to their'
sljil as artisans ; with understanding; that,
thvystuallest,rate of pay shallntit than:three
rials, 10 inaravedis per day (ten-pence); with
daily rations; without deduction.

" The Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo has also issued
orders; that the Captains of companies to whictt
each recruit shall be attached shuil receive the
sum of eight dollars, to pi.ovi.zle, every" volunteer
with the following articies knapsack, two
pairs of shoes, and tWo shirts. The Captain or
Commanding ()dicer of each company shall be re-
sponoJle to every recruit .for any surphis of the
said suiu which may.remain after purchasing the
above articles, • .

" The recruits shall be promoted according to
their respective merits to the various ranks in the
Corps of which they form a part; and in which
the pay is as follows, besides theabove-mentioned
clothing and maintenance':---Serjeant, 8 rials, 24
maravedis; First Class. of Ai-tit-kers, .6 rials, 22'
maravedis ; Second Class, 4 rials, 15 margvedisi
Third Class, 3 Hats, 10 maravedis.

Lieutenant- Colonel Sturgeon will be in
readiness to receive recruits in the Museo llel

I'mto, from nine in the morning till two in the.
afternoon.

" The advantages which 'every Spaniard must
derive from enlisting into the allied army on the
above-mentioned conditions, and particularly is
the Royal Corps of Artificers, are great and cer-
tain, in like moaner as is the becoming treatment
which all Spaniards serving in the allied army ex-
perience. The General Commandant therefore
trusts, that, to carry into effect the wishes of our
Stlpretne Government, the loyal aim! spirited
"youths of this metropolis will 'present themselves
to the said Colonel Sturgeon; with this under-
standing, that all who volunteer into the Royal
Corps of Artificers, shall be exempted from the
enlistment about. to take place, and to which they
would otherwise be subject; because by seiving
in the allied army they act according to the inten-
tions of the Supreme Government.

(Signed) " CARLQS E' SPAN
.Madrid, Sert. 18, 1915.•."

CADIZ, OCT. 11.—The sequestration of tire
property of convents, and of traitorous Spaniards,
ought to produce considerable sums ; but there is
reason to fear that the whole or great part of it
may remain in the hands of the agentS employtd,
unless measures, dictated by reason, and the prin-
ciples of public economy, are adopted for .the
prevention of such abuses.

ENGLISH HUMANITY.—III . the Madrid. Ditrg
of the 27th nit. we read the following article.,
which we publish in order to put iseltish egotists
to the blush :—Senor. Trench, Colonel of the 47th.
and Colonel Ridelw• )d of the 45th, with their
respective officers, witnessing so many unfortu-
nate and 'miserable people, and compassionating
those lamentable objects who were worthy of a
hetterdate, resolved to give a daily dinnerto about
200 of them, among whom were some persons of
high distinction, who without this resource muse
necessarily have perished. , This they continue to
do with the greatest zeal, in 'the quarter of St.
Thomas, some of themselves being generally pre-
sent on the occasion.

The Revenge, 74, arrived yesterday at Ports-
mouth, from the Mediterranean and Cadiz, and
was placed under quarantine. •
STATE OF HOLLAVD.—A Lady who left Hol-
land so late as Friday morning last, states that
the population 'now entirely consists of old men,
,females, and children, the conscription. having
drained every town, village, and hamlet of the
young and active part of the community. The
degree of poverty and wretchedness exhibited by
the inhabitants of the towns; baffles all &scrip-
don : after sunset not a lamp, not a candle, is to
he seen, except at the guard-houses of the Franclx
troops, throughout any of the once gay and 'po-
pulous cities of Holland. The shopkeepers retire
to rest at sun-set, not being able to afford the
.expence of lighting up their shops after dark—
ilideed, the trade carried on in day-light is scarcely
able to afford a miserable-suh3istence. :A strong,
although .secret feeling of disaffection to the
French Government, and a- rooted, abhorrence
against Buonaparte personally, are universal
throughout the Dutch provinces. They are, how-
ever, strongly garrisoned by French troops, and
every thing having the appearance of insurrection
is 'checked-by military execution being instantly
,e; inflicted on the discontented..

We learn, that potatoes, supposed to be damag-
ed by the late heavy rains, may be entirely, re-
stored by drying them on kilns used for oatmeal
or malt. We can state from very good authority,
that one person in the course of a single year, bY
practising this method, saved a field of 12 acres
from being entirely spoiled.