The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-23 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAKcsu 23

This days Market had a middling supply of prime
Peaqs, and the show of cattle in other respetis was
tolerably good ; Pork supports last price ; 13,4ef,
-Mutton, and Veal are dearer, and the trade in gene-
ral was pretty brisk; the sales in the Hay-market
Wele .som.....wliat • considerable ; Hay, 'Straw, and
Clover have fallen in price.—We annex a correa
stmentent of the prices and numbers.

To sink the Offal per stn of glb.
Veer, S 5. od. to 6s. 4d. Mutton, ss. od., to Os. 6d.
611,.._
_ed. to 7s. 6d. Pork, ss. od. to bs. sd..
',Roasts, 2,120 -Sheep, iz,loo. Calves, 96. Pigs, 310.

Veal,

SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET.

Hay, 41. os.vd. to sl. los. od. Straw. al. Los. ed. to 31.
All. Clover, sl. Los. od. to 61. us. od.

•
CI:MINT-EXCHANGE, MARCII 2 3.—The, arrivals of
Wheat to-day again make but a short supply, much
in demand, and sales quoted at an advance of about
s. per quarter, some sete6l samples exceed the quo-
tation ; Rye, together' with Barley and Malt, -are
each named dearer ;• White Pease, and the two
sorts df Beans, are likewise at a further increase in
price ; Oars are in middling supply, but sties also
readily efteaed at a further advance ; Flour is higher
55. per sack.
Wheat - 955 a vtss a 135 s
Fine ditto - -138 s a 14is
Rye - - bbs a 725
Barley - 6;s a 65s
Walt - - 9°' a
965
WhitePease(boil.)Szs a bBs
!•31eY ditto 605 a 6;s

Tick Beans (new) 52s a sSs
Ditto (fine old) - •6es a 6ts

Oats -34 s a 405 a 433
Poland ditto - 44$ a 45.3
I POt2toe ditto -46 s a 47$
Rape Seed . 6zl -a 681

Fine Flour -

itoS 2 lISS
lo.ls 2 Ilea

RREA CH PAPERS.

CONSERVATIVE SENATE,
SITTING OF MAUCH IQ.

The Sitting opened at noon, in the presence of his
Serene Highness the Arch-Chancellor of the Em-
pire. His Serene Highness the Prince Vice-Consta-
ble was present at it.

Their Excellencies the Ministers for Foreign Af-
fairs and War, Count Regnault de St. Jean d'An-
gely, Minister of State, and Count Dumas, Counsel-
lor of State, being introduced, his. Excellency the
Duke of Bassano, Minister for Foreign Affairs, com-
municated the following report :--

REPORT OF THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO

HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND KING.

" Sire,—The maritime rights of neutrals, as so-
lemnly fixed by the treaty of Utrecht, became the
common law o: nations. This Jaw, completely re-
newed in all subsequent treaties, has consecrated the
principles which I am going to state.
" The flag covers the merchandize. Enemy's,
goods, under a neutral flag, are neutral ; as neutral
properly, under an enemy's flag, is considered as be-
longing to an enemy.
" Contraband articles are the only property which
a neutral flag does not cover; and arms and warlike
stores alone are contraband.

"All visiting of a neutral vessel by ,an armed ship
can be made by a small number of men only, the
armed ship keeping without cannon shot.
"Every neutral ship may trade from an enemy's
port to art enemy's port, and from an enemy's port
to a neutral one.

"The only ports excepted. are those really block-
aded ; and ports really blockaded are those invested,
besieged, likely to be taken, and into which a mer-
chantman could not enter without danger.

"Such are the 'obligations of belhg-Jents towards
neutral powers ; such -are the reciprocal rights of
either party ; such are the maxims consecrated by
t treaties which form the. public right o; nations.
Frequently has England dared to atteMpt substitut-
ing in their place arbitrary and tyrannical regulations.
Her unjust prettel,ions were repelled by all Govern-
ments sensible to the voice of honeur, and the inte-
rests of their- snbjeals. She consiantly found her Self
forced tir acknowledge in her treaties the principles
she wished to destroy ; and when the peace. of
Amiens was violated, tho maritime legislation .still
remained upon its ancient basis.
" By a series of events, the English marine be-
came more numerous than all the forces of the
Other maritime powers. England then thought the
moment was 'arrived when, having nothing to fear,
she might dare to do everything : • she immediately
resolved to subjea the navigation of all seas to the
same laws as those of the Thames.
" It was in 1806 she began the execution of that
system, which tended to bend the common law of
nations before the Orders of Cduticil, and the-regu-
lations of the London Admiralty.
" The declaration of the t 6111 of May annihilat-
ed by one single word the tights of all maritime
status,--placed under an interdict vast coasts and
whole empires. Fffitn this moment England no
longer acknowii dged • any neutralS upon the seas.
" The Decrees or 1807 imposed upon every ves-
sel the obligation of touching. at, an English port,
whatever her destination might be, to pay, a tribute
to England, and submit her cargo to the tarifs of the
customs.
" By the declaration of 1806, all navigation had
been interdicted to neutrals : by the Dectees of
1807, the power of navigating was restored to them,
but they could use it oniy'for the common utility of
English commerce, in the combinations of its. inter-
ests anti its people.
" The English Government thus tore off the
mask. with which it had covered its projetis,—pro-
claimed the universal dominion of the seas,—re-
garded all nations as its tributaries,—and imposed
noon the .Continent the expenses of the war which
it maintained against it.
" These unheard-of measures excited a -general
indignation among the powers who preserved the.
sentiment of their independence and their rights :
but in London they raised the national wide to the
highest pitch ; they held out w ;he English people
a future prospect, rich in the mo,t brilliant hopes.
,Their commerce, their industry, were henceforth
to be without -opposition ; the produce or the two
worlds was to flow into their ports—pay homage. to
the maritime and cornmetcial sovereignty of Eng-
land, by paying tribute,—and afterwards arrive to
other nations, loaded with the enormous expenses
from which English mercnandizes alone -would be
free.

" Your Majesty, at a single glance, perceived
the evils with which the Continent was threatened.
You instantly applied the remedy. You annihilated
by your decrees this pompous, unjust attack upon
the independence of every state and the rights of
all nations.
The Berlin decree answered Ike declaration of
1806. The blockade of the British Islands wag op-
posed to the imaginary blockade established by Eng-
land. The Milan decree ansivered the ordt rs of
1807 : it declared denalionalisj every neutral essel
that submitted to English legislation, either by
touching at a British port, or paying tribute to Eng-
land, and which thus renounced the indeperdence
and rights of its flag. All merchandize ,proceeutrig
either from British commerce or industry, was
blockaded in the Britannic islands the continental
system banished them from the continent.
" Never did any acA of reprisals attain its °hie&
in a more prompt, certain, and viaurinus manner.
The Berlin and Milan decrees, turned against Eng-
land the arms.she had diretied against, universal com-
merce. That source of commercial prosperity which
she believed so abundant, became.a source of cala-
mities to British commerce : in place of those tri-
butes which were to have enriched the treasury, her
credit was "deteriorated, hurting the fortune of the
state and that of individuals.

" AS soon as your Majesty's decreec.appeared, all
the Continent foresaw that such would be their re-
sult if they received full execution ; hut, _ however
accustomed Europe was to see success crown your
enterprizes, she could scarcely conceive by what
new prodigies, your Majesty would realize the great
designs which have been so
,rapidly accomplished.
Your Majesty armed yourself with all your power :
nothing could divert you from your intention ;
laad, the Hanseatic toWns, the coasts that unite the
Zuyderzee to the Baltic sea, were united to Lane,

and subjeEted to the same administration and same
regulations,—the immediate and inevitable conse-
quence of the legislation of the English Government.
No kind of considerations
.-could balance in the
mind of your Majesty the first interest of your
Empire.
" You did not,long wait to reap the advantages
of this important resolution. In fifteen months,
that. is to say, since the Sertatus Consultunz of re-
union, your Majesty's decrees have weighed with all
their forCe upon England. She flattered herself
with invading the commerce of the entire world ;
and her commerce, become a speculation, does
nothing but by means of 20,000 licenses, delivered
each year. Forced to obey the law of necessity, she
thus renounces her a& of navigation, the principal
foundation of her power. She pretended to the,
universal dominion of the seas; and navigation is
interdialed, her vessels shut out from all the conti-
nental ports. She wished to enrich her treasury by the
tributes which Europe would pay ; and Europe has not
only freed it self from her unjust pretensions, but also
from the tributes it would have paid her industry.—
Her mannikin, ing towns are become deserts; dis-
tress has succeeded a prosperity hitherto increasing ;
the alarming disappearance of money, and the abso-
lute. want of employment, daily disturb the public
tranquility. Such have been to England the conse-
quence of her imprudent attempts. She already
perceives, and will daily more and more discover,
that there is no salvation for her, but in a return to
justice, and to the principles of the rights of Na-
tions ; and that she can only participate in the bene-
fit of the neutrality of poi ts, inasmuch as • she al-
lows neutrals to benefit by the neutrality of their
flag. But till the British Orders of Council are re-
scinded, and the principles of the Treaty et Utrecht
towards neutrals are again in full vigour, the Berlin
and Milan Decrees will remain against those powers
who allow their thg to be denationalked. The ports
oldie Continent shall , not be open either to dena-
tionalised flags, or British merchwAize,

" It must not be dissembled, that to _maintain in
full vigour this grand system, it will be necessary
that your Majesty employ all the powerful means
,which belong.to your empire; and find in your sub-
jeas that assistance which you have never yet in
vain demanded of them. It is qecessary that all
the disposable French forces should march to what-
ever planes where.the'English or denationalised flag
attempt to land. A special army, charged exclu-
sively with guarding our vast extent of coasts, our
maritime arsenals, and the triple range of fortresses
which cover our frontiers, will answer to you-I-Dela-
jesty for the safety of .the territory confided to their
valour and fidelity. You will send to their fortunate
destiny those brave men, accustomed to fight and to
'Conquer under the eyes of your Majesty,—to defend
the pun+ ical rights, and exterior safety of the em-
pire. The dqots 'even of the corps will riot be
turned from the useful destination of supporting
your active armies. l'he forces of your Majesty
will thus always be maintained upon the most tor-
nidable footing, and the French territory protected
by an establishment which interest diClates ; the
policy and dignity of the empire will be placed in
such a situation, as to entitle it more than ever to. de-
-serve the title of inviolable and sacred.

" For a considerable time the English Govern-
meat has [roclaitned everlasting war,—a frightful
projed, which the wildest ambition could never
really hive intended, and which presumptuouß boast-
ing alone luallowed to escape.; a frightful projrct,
which neverihelesi will be realised, if France is but
to expect engagernents without guarmtee,—of un-
certain duration, and More diSastrous than war it-
self.

" Peace, Sir, which in the midst of your immense
power has been so often offered to your enemies,
will crown your gldrious works, if 'England,' banish-
ed from the Continent with perieverance, and se-
parated fro ,n all the states whose independence she
has violated, consents to return to those principles
. upon which European society is founded,—acknow
led ;es the Law of Nations,—and resneiits the sacred
tights consecrated by the treaty of •Utrecht.
In the mean time the French nation must re-
„main armed : honour coniatands it ; the interest,
the rights, the independence of the people, engaged
in the same cause, demand ; and an oracle still
more certain, often delivered
,'even from the mouth
of your Majesty, constitutes it an imperious and
sacred law."

RETORT OF THE MINISTER OF WAR TO HIS AIA-

JESTY THE EMPEROR AND RING.

"

The greatest part of your Majesty's troops had
been called without our territory, for the defence of
the grand interests which are to ensure the prepon-
&ranee of the empire, and maintain the Berlin and.
Milan Decrees so fatal to England. The continen-
tal sywem has scarcely been fifteen months in exe-
cution, and. England .is- already at the last gasp.
Had not events happened which your Majesty could
not have expeded perhaps in this short period of
time, the prosperity of England would have been
entrely annihilateel and convulsions would have
bee experienced in her interior, which would have
fin illy thrown into' discredit the war fastion, and
called to the Administration moderate men and
frie:tds of justice.
4: No person understands better than your Ma.
jesty, to exped from time, what time is to pro•
duce ; and to maintain with unchangeable con-
stancy, a system and plan of conduct from which
you have calculated the results which are infal-
lible.

During the absen:.o of the greater part of our •
troops of th►e line, the immense number of maritime
establishments, strong places, and Important points
of the empire, are guarded by the fifth battalions
and the depots, and, by the marine troop,; which
is attended with the inconvenience of diverting, by
incessant marches and counter-marches, the fifth
battalions and depots from their proper destination,
which are to supply the active armies. These
marches fatigue the soldier and embarrass the admi-
nistration. Besides, when such numerous armies
are seen without the frontiers, the citizens who do
not understand the measures taken by the Adminis-
tration for the interior establishments, may feel
some justifiable uneasiness ; these inquietudes are
of themselves contrary to the dignity of the Empire;
these must be prevented from increasing, by the
establishment of a constitutional force, for the de-
fence of the territory alone.
By our consitutroual laws, the natiotpl guard is'

specially charged with guarding the frontiers, our
maritime establishments, our arsenals, and strong
places; but the .:national guard, which embraces
the whole of the citizens, 'cannot be pliced on
permanent citify, but only for a loci] and particular,
service.

" In dividing the National Guard into three bands,
and in composing the first of all the conscripts' of
the six' last classes, viz. from the age of 20 to 26
years., who have not been caled upon to join the
ac)ive army; _the second of men from 26 to 40
years; and the 3d of men 'from 40 to 60 years of
age to the Ist band the aaive service will be con-
fided; then ;he 2d and 3d bands will only have the
reserve Service, which is quite local.
" For I8!2, the Ist band, comprehending the
conscripts from 1806 to 1812, who have not been
called to the_army, and who have not since married,
and are in a condition for service, IN ill foim a re-
source of 600,000 men.

I propose to your Majesty to raise from this
number 100 cohorts, which will constitute the firth
pait of those who remain'of the ch7ses Of 1806,
7,,8, go 10, 11, and 1812. These men should he
organised and clothed- at the chief place of each
military division.

These cohorts, composed of eight companies,
six of which are to be fusileets, one artillery,, and
one a depot, will contain nearly one thousand men
each. Your Majesty would Thus have one hundred
cohorts or battalions, who, constantly under arms,
and united in brigadei and divisions under Ur? or-
der of Chiefs of the Line Staff, would offer a
chosen army, and might be compared to the ancient
French 'grenadiers. These troops, constantly en-
camped, and by reason of their service abundantly
supplied with every thing, would suffer few losses
by war.

" By this means our strong places on the Rhine,
our establishments at the Helder, upon the Meuse,
the Scheldt, at...,Boulogne,Chet bourg, Brest, L'Orien t,
Rochfort, Tonlon,:and Genoa, would be guardtd by
a combination of such force, that in five days, thirty
thousand men could be collected at any particular
point of the coast attacked ; and in less than tea
days, considering the speedy means which your Ma-
jesty. has established in urgent circumstances, horn
sixty to eighty thousand men of the first band:the
Marine troops, the departmental guards, and of the
fifth battalions, all of which would march to the
point menaced, and could form a junCtion, inde-
pendent of the assistance afforded by the 2d and 3d
bands of the neighbouring departments.
" I do not propose the establishment•of any ca-
valry; the Gens d'Armes alone, forming a force of
sixteen thousand chosen men, will turnish sufficient
cavalry for the attacks' against which we have to
guard.
" Nevertheless, whilst this institution will com-
pletely protein the french empire against the idea
of an attack, all the-depots and fifth battalions, being
no longer occupied in forming garrisons or defending
the country, will feed the active army with more
attivity and efficacy. This will in teals ybe equi-
valent to an augmentation of the troops of the line.
It is placing too,ooo more Frenchmen under the
banners of your Majesty. But these men will be
renewed every six-years by the conscription for the
army. This augmentation will cause very little. ad-
dition to. the losses, because these t4u:ps wdl to
seldout exposed but lost he or:linary chances of mor-
tality. It will likewise cause an increase in expence
of 48 millions ; but this expence. cannot be placed
in competition with the immense advantages which
will result from it.

" This inslitution is eminently conservative and
national ; it is useful and necessary. Frenc..men
are wiping to make every sacrifice to acquire the
liberty of the seas; they know that they must be
armed; or this grand measure will not bc aeConi-
plished,."

After the reading ,uf these reports, the Coun-
sellors ot- State presented the projea of the Sk:natus
.COnsultutn, of the following tenour

SITTING OF MARCH 13.

The Senate having met at no/on, Count Lace.
pede, in the name of the Special commission, ap
pointed in the Sitting of the loth, presented the
following repoft upon the project s of the Senatus
Consulturn

" SENATORS,

" lour special commission hat examined, with
all the attention the importance of the subj, a de-
manded, the- Senatus Consult= projea, relative to
the organization of the National Guard of the Etti-•
pire, as well as the levy of too cohorts front the Ist
band of the National Guards, and has with care
compared the different dispositions with the reasons
which have been stated to you.
This project is divided under two titles. The
Ist offers one of those important institutions which'
«ill signalize one'of the most illustrious of reigns;
the 2d puts in motion part of that force established
by the Ist; one is the ground of aaion,—the other.
the consequence and application of it.
" Let us, before all, examine the first :—lt se-
parates Lao three bands the National Guard of thu
Empire ; it points out the Frenchmen who, ac.-.
cording to the difference of their age, must belong
16,0ne or other of these three bands; it fixes the
successive renewal of their different stations ; it (!&-
termines the nature of the services which their
country and sovereign have a right to. expert from
t hem.

" And now, what is the national guard of the
empire? The nation armed. And what nation
but that which extends from the banks of the Baltic
Sea to those beyond the Tiheri and whoie ancient
renown every day acquires fresh eclat by its success-
ful and new associations, and by the immortal gl ry
of him who governs it ?

" This nation had not received different succei.
live laws, but particular organizations only. It is,
going to receive a-grand political law, a general o:-
ganization.

" And what a wonderful change is this profound
conception of the Emperor going to produce ! Or-
der was established at his command, among the im-
mense number of Frenchmen, whose very zeal and
bravery, not regulated by his foresight, would have
led. to confusion and disorder.' That admirable and
regular motion, is the result of the high wisdom of
him, who, combining with the fruits of his genius,
the produce of experience, carries his views into ft•
ture ages, to give durability to all the monuments
he ereds.
.6' But what is the arm-A and nrinn;,,,l

•
thi; new institution j The safely of :be inferior,
an ttb'ic security. githerto the safety of the in-
ter ,0 mi es was 'provioed for' by arc:lies, who
be ,rye . offensive or defensive according to the cir-
cia:ri- ,!! tne war and ihe chances of success.
Bu, • i.e ecurity was neither entire nor durable.
f-ar of a reverse weakened it : bad success
mgt antlihiate it; and what a situation was that
poop; in whose comforts and labours were every
momeat interrupted by anxiety and fear ?
Le: us 'refer to history, and we shall see bow
:IreOefitly weak governments could only satisfy
their subje&s by imprudently pointing out the num-
ber of their troops, their military di;positions, and
their political arrangements ; and been obliged to
give way, by dangerous and absurd dispositions of
their forces, to the ridiculous ideas which the want
of security suggested, joined to false notions re-
apthing-the true elements of a good deleme.
" The projea of the Senatus Consultum, which is
presented to you, Senators, prevents for ever all
these misfortunes.
" When should even all the aEtive armies quit
the frontiers, and proceed to an immense distance to
hurl the imperial thunder, the immense inclosure
of the empire would present numerous defenders,
-Which could be replaced by still more numerous de-
fenders; and the French Empire, considered, if I
may be allowed so to express myself, as an im-
mense citadel placed in the middle of the world,
would show its natural garrison, in a national guard,
regularly organized, uniting to the constancy and
instruction of old veterans, all the vigour of a }mall-

ful army.
is what the hero has thought fit to do,- to
render our frontiers inviolable,—to tranquilize minds
the most 1,1'011)0 to conceive alarms,---to guard the
public security against nll the attempts of ftlse zeal,
Irom ignorance or perfidy. This is what the father
of his people has done ; for this great benefit but
trifling sacrifices are required.
" The cohorts of the first band will be renewed
with one-sixth each year ; the yo'ing Frenchmen
who constitute a part of it will know the exact pe-
riod When they will return to their paternal roofs,
and be restoied to 'their affeetioni, their labours,
their habits; they will enjoy the price of their de-

votion.
" Arrived at the age in which ardour is united to
strength, they will find in their military exercises sa-
ltitari gameS and agreeable' relaxations, rather than
-severe duties and painful occupations._ They will
of be strangers to any of the advantages which
the old phalanxes of Napoleon enjoy. Let us now
proceed, Senators, to examine the second title.
You have heard the Ministers for Foreign
Affairs and for War, expose the frank, firm, and
moderate policy of the Emperor. European com-
merce must be freed from the shameful yoke wished
to be imposed upon it. Nature demands this: the
most solemn treaties prescribe it: the imperial inte-
rests of the State demand it.
" Already does the enemy 'of continental inde-
pendence sutieis in his island a part of those evils
with which he wished to inundate the v.orld. He
has sworn everlasting war. Let a formidable power
render abortive this attempt against humanity. Let
all the active armies of the Empire be ready to
march to whatever place they may be called by the
greatest of heroes. Let 100 cohorts of the first
band answer to the cuuntry for its frontiers, strong
placss, ports, and arsenals. Let 100,000 brave
men, chosen from among those of the Ist band,
join the standards of glory. Here we again find the
same paternal solicitude of the-Monarch, and the
sane foresight of the.great captain.
"' What rel ties to the successively renewing of
that part of the first band, which will be placed at
tire disposition of the Minister of War, is fixed-with
care; acrd etery Frenchman of the first band who
shell have married anterior to the publication of the
Setiatus Coirsultum, shall remain in the Fosorn of
his voung family, and constitute part of the second
band. The Osseenbling ola part of the Ist band will
allow the conscripts destined to augment or corn-
plee the active armies, to be longer exercised at
their depots; and every thing,has been calcelited in
such a manner, that at the least sigrial a numerous
army can be promptly colleMed, and, with facility
march towards all' the points menaced.
" In order to be able better to judge of all the ad-
vantages of the institution proposed to you, repre-
. Seta to yourselves, senators, all tire irregular appeals
from the national guard which you have witnessed.
Let those of our colleagues whose military renown
and-the-confidence of the Emperor have frequenrly
placed at the head of these national guards, hastily
colleeled, remember how much they have deplored
the inevitable disorders of forced and truly painful
rnarches,—of dispositions whieh time did not per-
mit properly to digest,—of sacrifices almost ineVi-
table,—of losses in men, ammunition, and money.
" If you call to your tecollertiou the circumstance
so honourable for several departments of the em-
pire, when pride split upon the•banks of the
ilfreheicli, elm you suppose, that it at that epoch, 'at
which you expressed in so solemn a mariner the de-
votion of the French people towards the Emperor,
the institution -which France ;s going to receive
from its tutelary genius, had been established, Eng-
land wou'd have dared to conceive the hope of the
recoil.trifling success ?
Your commission has, therefore, the honour
of unaoimously proposing tee adoption ofahe Sena-
tos•Consultum, which has been presented to you.",
1 f,e. Senatus Consulturn'wis adopted with the ut-
must unanircity,,--(lioniteur, March 16.) -

Gold medals have recently been distributed
in France to the Medical Gentlemen who have
distigni,,hcd themsel*es in promoting vaccination.
A Foreign Journal gives the following as a correct
statement of the annual produce of the mines of
Russia i t6OO pounds of gold, fifty thousand of
-silver, two million of lead, eight million of copper,
623 million of iron, and '156,000 pounds of vitriol.
FlOria the working of these mines the Crown de-
thtices a revenue of six millions and a halt of
roubles:
Coffee, of an ordinary Trinity, was selling in
Holstein, last m, nth, at 36.. per pound, and refined
sugar at the rigour of the laws, and the
vigilance of the otirceri rendered farther inwitation
Vearly impossib!e, the merchants speculated on the
ict being doubled.

FiOin 11:c LONDON G 412 EtTE, March 2i,

At the Court at Carlton House, the 20th of March

1812. •
Present, his. Royal Highness•the Prince Regent in Council,-
This day the nu•st Honourable Charles lngoldsbay, Mar-
quis of Winchester, Groom of the Stole to his Majesty ; the-
Right Horiourable FranCis Charles Seymour, commonly call-
ed the Earl of Yarmouth, Vice-Chamberlain of his Majes-
ty's Houseitc)ld ; and the Right Honougable John MaMahon,
Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Private Secretary to' his
Royal Higimess the Prince Regent, were, by his Royal
Highness's command, in the name ana on the behalf of his
Majesty, sworn of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy
Council.

Office of Ordnance, Marcb 7.

- -
Corps of Royal Engineers..—Gentlemen Cadets Isaac M.
Elton, William M. Gosset, Philip 0. Skene, Thomas F.
Lancey, John Sperling, Richard S. Young, Daniel Bolton,
F'rederic'k W. Whinyates, Alexander W. Robe, Thomas
Hayter, Ralph C. Alderson, and Ives Stocker, to be
Second Lientenats.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED,
Thomas Neave, Gutter-lane, Cheapside, London, silk-
weaver.

BANKRUPTS.

Charles Servers and Cohn Lendstedt, Liverpool, Lancaster,
merchants, to surrender April to, it, and May 2, at one,
at the Globe Tavern, lohn.street, Liverpool. Attornies,
Messrs. Cooper and Lowe, Southampton-buildings, Chan-
cerylane, London ; and Messrs. Orred and Baines, Li-
verpool- -
William Long, York, woollen.drapee, April r 3, 14, and
May 2, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Fossgate,
York. Attornies, Messrs. Brook and Bulmer, York ;
and Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow-lane, Cheapside,
London.
John Townsend, Crane-court, Fleet-street, London, up-
Kolsrerer, March 28, April 4, at due, and May;,. at ele-
ven, at Guildhall.' Attorney, Mr. Dimes, Friday-street,
Cheapside.
William Philippt Phillipps, Great tames-street, Bedford-
'row, Middlesex, coaLinerchapt, March 28, April r 4, and
May 2. at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr.
Lane, Bedford row.
George Gray, Pentonville. Middlesex, Commander of the
ship Canton, dealer, March 24, at twelve, April 18, at
ten, and May 1, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. At-
torney, Mr, Healing, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside.
Thomas Owen, Stockport, Chester, shopkeeper, April 3,
at four, 4, at nine, and May 2, at tbur, at the White Lion,
'Stockport. Attornies, Mr. Norhury, Macclesfield ; and
Messrs: Sherwin and Hall, Great fames street, Bedford-

row, Londdn.
Samuel Pail and Richard Part, Tildsley with Shackerley,
Lancaster, cotton-spinners, April 22, 23., at two, and May
z, at eleven, at the. Bridge Inn, Bolton, Lancaster. At-
tornies, Mr. klerldowcroft, Gray's-inn, London ; and Mr.
Ralph Boardrrin. Bridge-street, Bolton.
Robert Powell, Staines, 'Middlesex, basket-maker and rod.
merchant, March 24. at ten, April 14, at eleven, and May
2, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attornies, Mr. -
Richard ‘ValtheW, ligharn-llythe, Staines ; and Messrs.
Taylor and Clement, Gray's-inn, London.
Francis Cianchettini, New Land-street, Middlesex, music-
seller, March 24, April 7, and May 2, at ten, at Guild-
hall, London. Attorney, Mr. Newcomb, Vine-street,
Piccadilly.
William Barnett Stuart, Saint Ives, Huntingdon, fell-
monger and leather-dresser. March 3.' 3t, and May 2, at
ten, at the Sun Inn,/ Cambridge. Attorney, Mr. Cooper,
Cambridge.
James Thew, South Shields, Durham, ship-owner, March
28, April tt, and-May a, at twelve, at Guildhall, Lon-
don. Attorney, Mr. Sheffield, Great Prescot-street,Good-
man's-tields, London.
George Griffiths, Flamstead. Hertfordshire, butcher, March
24,' April 14, and May 2, at ten, at Guildhall, Lon.
don. Attorney, Mr. Greenland, Red Lion-court, Fleet-
street.
Charles Reynolds, Bridge-court, Middlesex, piaure-dealer,
March 28, April 4, and May 2, at eleven, at Guild-
hall, London. Attorney, Mr. FoWell, . Finch-lane,
Cornhill.
john Turner, Cranboume-passage, Leicester-square, Mid.
dlesrx, silk-mercer, March 24, at ten, April 14, at eleven,
1 and May 2, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attorney,
Mr. Oakley, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street.
‘Villiarn Wilkinson, Thomas G reenhaigli, and lame* Wag.
ley, Clithero, Lancaster, calico-printers, April zl, At five,
14, at eleven, and May 2, at eleven, at the Black Bull Inn,
Blackburn, Lancaster. •Attornies, Mr. Beardsworth,
. Nackburn, Lancaster ; and Messrs. Milne and Parry,
Temple, London.
lames Smith, Greenwich-road, Kent, builder, March 24,
-April 14, and May z, at ten, at Guildhall, London. At-
tornies, Messrs. Holmes and Lowden, Clement's-inn,
London.
l'hornas Etherineton, Lawrence Pountney:lane, London,
drysalter, April -4, r 4, and May 5, at eleven, at Guild-
hall. Attorney, Mr. Oldham, Earl street, Blackfriars,
London.
Daniel Hyde, Waltham Abbey, Essex, 'grocer, March 28,
April 4, and May 2, at twelve, at Guildhall, London.
Attornies, Messrs. Hall and Drake, Salters'-hall, Can-
non-street. . .
George Sizer,Ox ford-street, Middlesex, silk-mercer, March
24, April 14, and May 2, at ten, at Guildhall, London.
Attorney. Mr. Stevenson, New-square, Lincoln's-inn.
John Francis Desanges, Wheeler-street, Spital-fields, Mid-
dlesex, colour-dyer, March 28, April 4, and May 2, at
twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr: Church,
Paternoster-row, S pital-tields.
John Wharlton Bunney, Clapton, Middlesex, cow-keeper,.
March 24, 31, and May 2, at ten, at Guildhall, London.
Attornies, Messrs.
D. and G. W. Russen, Crown-court,
A ldersgate-street .
David Lopes Pereira, Artillery-place, Finsbury, Middlesex,
underwriter, March li, April 7, and May 2, at ten, at
Guildhall, London. Attornies, Messrs. Pearce and Son,.
Swithin's•lane, Cannon-street.
teremiah Lewington, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields, Mid-
dlesex, plumber and glazier; March 28, April 4, at one,
and May 2, at eleven, at Guildhall, London. Attornies,
Messrs. Holmes and Lewis, Mark-lane, Fenchurch-
street, London.

•
D IV IDENDS.
April t 4. W. Green, jun. Maidstone, Kent, dealer, at ten,
at Guildhall, London
April iB. W. Hambly, Falmouth, merchant, at twelve, at
Guildhall. London.
April as. C. A. Wheelwright, -Cullum-street, London,
merchant, at twelve, at Guildhall.
April 17. I. l'Olglase, Bristol, merchant, at twelve, at the
Bush Tavern, Bristol.
April U. I. Wright, Drury-lane, coach.spring-maker, at
twelve, at Guildhall.
April 14. Agnew, Grosvenor-square, banker, at ten, at
Guildhall.
April ii. I. Corrie, Weston-street, Southwark, common-
brewer, at eleven, at Guildhall.
MaAr. W. Smith and F. Becker, Liverpool, linen-drapers,
aYeleven, at the George Inn, Liverpool.
May 12. W. M'Adam, Bishopsgate Within, merchant, at
ten, at Guildhall.
April 1. Sproston, Tewkesbury, Gloucester, grocer,
at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Tewkesbury.
April is. I. Smith, Cardiff, Glamorganshire,. ironmonger,
at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol.
Aprili4 W. lohnson, Hertford, coal-merchant, at ten, at
Guildhall, London.
April 28. W. Brock and B. Le Mesurier, Warnford-court,
Throgmorton-street, merchants, at one, at Guildhall.
Aril 14. I. Bagshaw, Gloucester-street, Queett-square,
victualler at ten, at Guildhall.
April 14. It. Noble, Clarke's-terrace, Cannon-street-road, -
merchant, at ten, at Guildhall.
April 14. T. Bowdige, Lime-street, London, faaor, at one,
at Guildhall.
May la. W. By and I. Sands, Fenchurch-street-chambers,
ship.brokers, at ten, at Guildhall.
April 14. T. H. Macleod, Tokeahouse:yard, merchant, at
eleven, at Guildhall.
April 14. D. Solomon, Sion-square, Whitechapel, weaver,
at ten, at Guildhall.
April ii. S. Goodbody, Horseferry.road, Westminster,
coach-smith, at ten, at Guildhall, London.
April rI. W. Scott, Lloyd's Collee-huuse, insurance-broker,
at one, at' Guildhall.
. April 18. R. Hutchinson, Manchester, joiner, at three, at
the Bridgewater Arms inn; Manchester.
April a:. G. B. Marsden, Manchester, upholsterer, and R.
rith Salford, dyer, at eleven, at the Mosley Arms Inn,
Manchester.l
April 23. W. Hendcy, Swansea, viaualler, at eleven, at the
Mackwortll Arms Inn, Swansea.

April ii. F. Boissonuade,Charthg.crots, jeweller, at tWeire,
At Guildhall.
April 21. 1. M. Shertston, Portsea, salesman, at one, at the
George Portsmouth.
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CERTIFICATES, Aratt. it.
C. Hughes, London; merchant.
I. Child,. Glamorgan, flour-lat.tor.
S. Holmes, Saint Ann's, LimehouSe, soap-maker.
T. Limbrick, Hawkesbury, GloucesterSline, linen-draper.
C. Hoy land, Warringtdn, Lantashire, druggist.
C. Webb, Howard-street, Stridid, wine-merchant.
1. Stone and• P. Constance; Great Yarmouth, Norfolk,
shipwrights. _
E. Roberts and Joshua Welch, Suilblk-lane, Cannon-street,
cotton-brokers.
W. Tipple, Whitecross-stieet, Golden-lane, gtocer.
I. Becks, Cherries-street, Bedford square, poulterer.
Morley, Stewardson, Essex, silk throwster.
S. Clover, Petticoat-lane, vielualler.
I. L. Patseur, Stoney Stratford, Buckingham, grocer.
(. Notley,-Dartford, Kent, inn-holder.
P. Creaves, Manchester, inn-keeper.
T. Earl, Elarripstead.road, linen-draper.
S. Headen, Lime-street, insurance-broker.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
R. White and It. White, jun, Gosport, rope•rnakers.
J. Pugh and S. Pulling, boot-makers. •
W. fine and I. Penn, Chepstow, Montnouth, timber.
rnercnants.
R. Simms and C. Spencer, Nottingham, lace-manufac.
tuners.
T. Griffiths and S. Giles, Oxford-street, paper-hangers.
I. T. Stebbing and S. Stebbing, Chelmsford, "linen-drapers.
H. Gale and W. Cann, Okeliampton, joiners.
T. Butler and Co. Mirtield, Yorkshire, iron-inasters.

INFORMATION OBTAINgD
FROM THE. LIVERPOOL COMMITTEE
FOR BETTERING ,TIIECON DITION OF THE

POOR, &c. &c.

he- late relict extended to the pool is part of a
system established - three years ago, for affording
permanent teliet during the winter months. "
From the _extensive public works going on in
,this
iown upon the ll.cks, &c. a general invitation is
held out to the labouring part of the community in
Ireland and Wales to come here for employment,
The numbers who flock in are very great, and in
winter many of them are out of work,. frequently
from causes not in any-way connected with foreig❑
-trade—such as those who are at summer work in
brick-fields, &c. &c. and, this wittier many who
were at work on the Docks were struck off, from
money not having been raised in proper time to go
on with the new Docks, agreeable to the late Ad
of Parliament.

It has long been a custom in Liverpool, when any
scarcity or distress was apprehended, for a subscrip-
tion to be set on foot at the beginning of winter, to
relieve those who might be in want, and particular-
•l_y as many of the labouring poor are not entitled to
parish relief, being settled for a shorl time only--
others being aged or infirm, cannot earn a liveli-
hood, let the state of trade be what it will.
This winter, distress was apprehended, from the
unprecedented high
_price of potatoes, a suspension
of some of the Dock works as before stated, and.the
decrease of trade with America.

A subscriptio'n was set on loot, and the latter end
of December the-Com.nittee began to distribute. A
del 6i was formed of coals and articles of food, and
tickets gi wen. at the rate of is. to 3s. per week to
each family, according Ito their wants and degree of
distress.
When this distribution became generally known
among the lower classes, the applications to the
Committee were so numerous, that it was impos-
sible to attend to all, and those who were refused
becoming ;.:•;iiitted, exposed .the situation of many
who obtained relief, as being in no way entitled to
it—people who had. never known• distress, and
would never have.asked relief, had they trot seen

tickets procured by those who were not in want.—
The abuses were great ; some pawned their tickets
to procure admission in the-Circus Theatre; others
offered several of them in exchange for a little
coffee.
At the end of February, the distribution ceased ;
the last weekly return was 145 3 1 persons, but the
following week there was not any renewed applica-
tion-from any part of that great number of people::
The committee did not think there were above 3 or
4000 persons really entitled to relief, and that much
of the sum distributed aced as a premium given to
idleness. During
.the two months of this distri-
bution, the Superintendant of the Docks could not
procure any labourer-to work under the full -price of
wages given in summer, 35.. per day ; and Gentle-
men in the country offering to employ men at re-
duced wakes, from motives of charity, could not
get them. .
The sum of money subscribed was 25001. and
about 22701. of it was expended. From the great
proportion of those relieved, being at the rate of Is.
per week to a -family, it will be easily imagined the
distress could not be very great.
The expenditure of the- Parish Workhouse litire;
is about 300@l. per month, the year round.
In the winter of Iso9, (a year of great commer-
cial prosperity), the number relieved by the Cha-
ritable Institution •(the Soup. Distribution) was
23094, exceeding the present winter above 7000.
The following- is taken from the returns of the
present winter's distribution :
Week
enditig •
rate, 4, ' 2263 8288 .186 a o
it, 3156 11265 252 8 o
18, 3824 23256 302 9 6
25, 4243 15350 335 7 6
Feb, 1, 4429 15933 34i 15 6
8, 4370 15937 253 12 2 411•
1 4413 15985 253 It 8
22, 4347 15744 leg 12 0 20.
29, '4042 14531 153 9 3
The statement made by Mr. Creevey in the
House of Commons, and repeated by Nlr.Brougham,
has caused the foregoing minutes to be committed to
paper. Mr. Creevey is at presetit in L'verpool, and
from the explanations which have been-given to him,
as well as his owh observations in the town, there
is every reason.to imagine that the poinis in this
statement have carried with them welt convic-
tion as to make a material'alterationin his-opinion.
A return was.made to the 'Mayor of the shipping
in port by the respea;ve Dock-rnasters, on the ,10th
of February, (three days after Mr. Creevey's speech
in the House) by which it appears there were fewer-
British vessels, fit for use, unemployed, than usual ;
and that the journeymen shipwrights have been as
fully employed in the course of the present winter,
as they are in general at- that season; nor is there a
carpenter's yard in the town, where there are not
ships building. •
Liverpool, i sth March, 1812.

Families. Persons. Amount given. per week
about

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