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London, England, 1810-01-29 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS,

rangue, in any l'eip.tca intereaing Lo an-English
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MADRID, DEC. 3.--Thursday, .after parade, his
Catholic Majesty was graciously pleased to admit
to his table the, General Officers at present in this
capital, -among whom was general hat al, who is '
almost completely recovered front the wound which
be teemed at Deana. -
The gang of the- freebooter Empecinallo, which
has so often 'made it; appearance on the left of Me-
(hid, and by its depredations ana atrocities, of every
description, struck terrer into the peaceable Mita- t
bilants of the country, happened, a few days since,
between Hoene and Cueeea, to get into the very
tuidst of the cavalry, under the orders of General
Milhaud ; tOO of thee banditti were on the
spot, and so more, ioclitaing three of their leaders,
Were taken, together with Go of their horses. It
cPpears-certain, that Empecinado, end his cousin
Matiana, gale among the slain.
The day after (the 23d)
_another gang was also
cut to pieces in the Name.quarter. This coup-de-
main, on the tart of General Mill and, was preceded
hy-tbe total ttispersiou of the teb,llious Junta of
Molina, in Arragon, where he found and destroyed
a great quantity of arms and stoles. In every place
this division haS pasSed through, its excellent ap-
Pearance hag excited universal admiration. The
inhabitants have not been less astonished at the
rigid dicip!itte to which these troops are subjeel ;
and all of them load them :with blessings for the in-
valuable service which they 'have done. them, in
. Clearing the country of thoSe bands of robbers, who
under the name of patriots, perpetually ravaged
their possessions.
At Hurcaja, a town in the mountains of Toledo,
near the sources of the Guadiana; a detachment of
the sth corps has destrmed a considerable maga-
Zine of arms. Those to WiA)ge custody it was en-
trusted did not wait for the arrival of the French,
before they took to flight.
At San Garcia,_ in the province of Segovia, a
gang of 200 ruffians, that infested the highways,
has been cut to pieces. Of these 30 were taken,
and 6o killed, and the rest, covered with wounds,
laWed their safety only to the darkness of the night.
This service was performed by Captain Bourbon
Ballet, of the 27th horse chasseurs. Sixty horses
fell into his hands. .

A political measure, which drove back to our
enemy's ports every thing that their commerce and
industry tried to ,export to the Continent, -occa-
sioned 'a considerable diminution in -the revenue
accruing from the Customs, durirg the year'tBoB.
The expenditure for
,that year was also augmented
by the army being stationed within the French
territory, and by the preparations made' for a new

war."

" The proceeds of the -Customs, were estimated,
in the budget for 1809, at 1g,000,000, that is to
say, at less 'than. two-thirds of the sum to which
they were reduced in I 808. This reduction• cannot
ocusicn any embarrassing deficit in our revenue
systeth whilsCit implies an annual diminution of
more than four hundred an I sixty 'million of Iran&
in the exporbtions of England ; so-that the Mea-
sure which diminiihes tlie proceeds of our Cthloins,
must prove fatal only to that Power which his" ren-
dered is adoption neces'ary "

" Our ccntributions remain staltonary, wii'le
Enghtid, already - under the enortnyus
weiOit. of her public debt, is every yeur adding to
it by fresh loans. _

That debt is a: present'2o,769,ooo;ooo f. and
the annual interest 736,000,000, which -must he
defrayed by. permanent taxes

Iu Fiaree the first item, of the 'budget is
1,000;000, as the interest- of the public.dt'bt of
the richest empire in ttie
" Dorigkg ithest .thre,t years (1807-8-9), if we

compare the, budg,eis of:the, n-spettive countries,
the expenditure of EnglanA, will be found to
hay,' surpassed that of Fiance by the sum pf
• 1,304,421,000 f. It' should be olisefved, that,
under the lead of expetices, .the Budget of Eng-
land includes only those incuned for the Artily
and Navy, with the Subsidies ;wanted to Foreign
Powers."

. .
1 "To institute a just compatson between the
Budgets of the two Powers, we should stbscract
from that of France till that ik not comprised in that
of linghnd. But one may, without much caleula-
i tion, perceive the inequality 'of the struggle between
the' two cimntri..N, and it is easy to foresee the issue.
In the one, tae science of finance conskts only in
throwing into the shade an Immense debt, and in
finding ways and mcans to augment the load of
taxes borne by 15,000,000 of inhabitants: Her
1 Government boasts of having perfected the ruinous
1 system of loans. Her treasury ctmce.tls the ::mount
I of , the revenue and their application ; but he ILIA
cmnot any longer conceal 44 embarrassment, not
i ItiVing for a length of time paid in specie any of. its
1 notes 'but these of the lowest denomination. In
I
I 'short, such is the sit oxi 11 of her finauces, that she
I is _compclled, in Order to per'p:tuate ht:r taxes; to
t reieft- heave -,, and regart!s as a calamity ;he greatest
ble..-oing that VioviJence cut bestpw tlpon Man-
? kind." .

Accounts ate daily received at the office of the
General Staff, of the destruction of some new gang
of inaratiddri.

ANTWEitP, JAN. B.—The following is a copy of
a Proclamation which has been pubiiMed and pla-
carded at Aliddleburgh.:---

" liead.Qnarters, at AlieLileburgh, Dec. .27, tEog. ,
" The Gent,lai of Division-, GellY,Jtaron "of the Empire,
Corninuial,:nt of the Lesion of Honour, of the
Royal Qrder of the Iron- Cronn, to Oar' of
-th2lote of IValchcieti.

" Your isle forms a part of the French Empire
you are called on to pattiipat7e in the happy de,;-
traies of forty millions of people, who, while ['hey
feel pond of being. governed by the greatest Mo-
narch in the world, enjoy, with purity, under his
almighty protection,-the limits of his creative 'and
viyifying genius.
" Inhabitants of \Valcheren, show yourselves
worthy of this high favour, by your obedience to
The laws of the empire, and )oar devotion towards
its illustrious Sovereign. Discontinue all mercan-
tile traffic with that nation which is the enemy of
all the nations of the Continent. Henceforth every,
'tonneialon with the English would be a crime.--
But how Can it be supposed you would main-
tain any relation with those who set toot for a
few Weeks u,pon your soil, Only to spreal fire hud
devastation arotrnd them at the monient of their
Sight ?
" The presence of the troops appointed for your
defence, will occasion no charge upon you. They
will be Silbsisted by means of the regular distribu-.
nous, ‘Ahtch will
,be provided fin- by the Admi-
nistration of the Army,,
" Until furiber °rains, the Administrative and
Judicial Aultorities, estoblished in the of Wal-
cheren, before the landing of the luglish, shall re-
aunse their funeions. All ads of Public l'iuthority
shall be executed_ in the name of his imperial and
ttoyal Majesty, iVaroleon, Emperor of the French,
King of Italy, &c. &c.
(Signed) " GLILY, &C. &C*.

1 Some ntirnbers of the Hainburgh. Papers, to the
loth inst. have been received, by two vessels which
have arrived at Hull 'from ficholnd.
The advanced corps of the 'Russian -army, under
General 14letow, i 4 stared, in an article from Dresden-,
. to have siirprised and etu to pieces a numsrous body
E , ,
oi, ..s.rnts, under the ordet s of the' iiitclia of Aleppo,
i who eas weturded oil I ie.' uEEil.,6li, and narrowly
iescaped being made prisoner. Neither the date nor.
; the scene of actiort ate mentioned ; - but from the a -
I lusions to the battle near Silistlia, it appears to batty
i been some tine sub's'equent to, that event..
ConsidereNe mercantile embarrassment prevails
at St. Petersburgh : very little business is done,
specie very scarce, and credit daily diminishing,
On the 4th instant the Exchange in Han burgl
was 12, and a Dutch ducat was equal to 10 mules
in bank paper.
The States of Sweden have settled a pension .of
10,000 Swedish rix dollars on the unforttniaie GI/S-
-TA.-it/6, 8000 on lns Consort; and 12,000 on his
children, deteitninable on their respective lives.
The other income which the; ill-fated Monarch
will derive from Sweden, will augnieet his revenue
to about 13,0001. stelliiig per atrium. .
The' illness under which the King of Sweden
generally labours, is a giddiness bordering on deli•
tium, and attended NTAtit the cramp.
Prince CHRISTIAN .AUGUSTENBURGH, the heir
.. . eleEt to the throne of Ssveden; is a bachelor, and
, • • determined to continue so..
These Papersconiain two long articles, of a &an.- The Archduke CHARLES has printed a naliative of
tial description: The first is a Report by the Mi-, the psiogress of the late campaign, chiefly with a
Lister of, Finance to the Emperor, in which, after ,
view to his own excnlpation train some im, (nations
4 summary of the receipts and disbursements for the i
of censure in the conduct of the army, after the
years 1806-7-8 s occur the following passages :-••• affair.of Ratisbon and ‘Vagratm The work is riot
A sufficient time has not yet been atforded, to made public,
linable me' to submit to your Majesty a precise state- General MACK has returned to Vienna, and ap-
Ulent of the receipts and disbursements of 1809. ,
pears
,generally restored to the circle in which he
It is; however, probable, that the war expenditure moved previous to his. capitulation at Ulin !—Can
for the last year cannot he under 640 millions, off any people thrive where responsibility is a farce ?
*which sum only 330 millions are chargeable upon the Some mortifying ikbrmation is given in the sub-
public treasury. seqUent article of the sources from which BUONA-
" 'The amount'of this expenditure will excite no PARTE is supplied 'with, money to answer the vast
surprise, when it is considered, tbat, besides an demands upon his financial establishment.
irumense Staff, you Majesty has, during 1809, VIENNA, DEC. 29.--The whole of the contribn-
. •Maintained an establishment of 900,000 infantry, Lion' which we were indebted to France, has been
190,000 horses for the cavalry service, and 50,000 paid; two-thirds in ready money, and one-third in
Tor the waggon and artillery train. . . bills.of exchange. Therehtve been sent offewith-
If the year 1809 must thus have been; of ne- . in eight days, 40 cariages
.loaded with money, for
tessity, expensive, there is every reason to conclude Au'sburg, born whence these sums will be 'emit-
that the year 18 to will admit af great retrenchments. ted to a French Comnrissary, who is furnished with
IQ fati, your Majesty levied 200,000 men in 1809, i powers to receive it. 11t is said, here in confidence,
and it does not appear to be your intention to make that the greatest part of this money has been sun-
any levies in 1810. plied by England, on account of subsidies ; and
" Sixty thousand horsei Were bought and, equip- and that the money was sent from England to
Ped in 1809. It does not 'seem to ,be in your cut- , Constantinople, and from Constantinople to Aus-
teniplation to purchase any in 1810. I t:i a., It is wonderful to see the Eugiish pay to France
. " Your Majesty also expeas to be able to make the contiebution the latter imposes upon us; it is
a reduelion of .200,000 in your military establish-
, thus that English gold tetnros ultimately to ae Nu-
- merit, and to limit it to 700,000 men : one-leads of
LEUN.
this force being intended to Carry on the operations •
The King of PRUSSIA issued an'edi& on the. 17th
in Spain, and t'the other to be employed in thede- se
fence of the coasts, and in maritime expeditions,
ult. authorising the sale of a part of the Royal do-
mains: It was signed by the Princes, his brothers,
" Upwards of 800,000 new muskets, are depo- as well as by his Majesty. This edict is in contra-
ailed in our arsenals, exclusive of the foreign inns- vention of that of FREDERIC WILLIAM I. issued on
kegs, which the fortune'of war has thrown into our the 13th August, 1713 ; WI it has been diaated liy
hands; and your Majesty has, upwards of 40,000 state necessity.
-Pirees of cannon, 'with all their necessary equip-
ments.", • Saturday evening a girl of seven years of age was
burnt to death at No. iti, Ship-yard, Temple•Rer.
The parents of the chrld. , hid gone oet to wet k,
leaving her alone, aod it is supposed -going tot)
near the fire, her clothes caught the flames. The fe:-
niiure of the room was destroyed, and part of the
hoist: dauaag d. t . .

'The second article to which we have alluded, is
a long and Libot‘red speech of the Chairman of the
(3Gaunittee of Unit:lce of flit'. ,Liiilative Body, in
'lnert of the new projet of revenue regulations.=
The following ate the Only passag4 ih the ha-

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•• Tun.. ARTS'. e Often hati (iCCasiali
110ticethe, 'prpdtlet,qn; if Mr;
,WEcrAt..l., but the
Drawing in which be is row eniployed, and has tar
advanced, bids fair to eclipse all, his former works
-in that species of art, not ,t'itlistanding their- acknow-
leked excellence. The subjea is taken from ;one
of the compartMents in the shield of Acint.t.Es,-and
representsa nuptial-ceremony. The figures in this
drawing amount to near an hundred, and not one
of them, :to use a Painter's phr.sse, is “" a figure, to
he let." t They are all: employed in such a manner
as to give a sp:rited erred to the piece, and are
martied -by the ch*traelers of beautiful, tn.:ny, and
Venerable. The grouping is piEtureslue, and most
varied: .The story is-conveyed to the mind,
andsevery. part -oft the work promotes the chief iin-
pre,sion. The Whole of. the c9steme displayS„titste
Larttiz.;' 9., and a classieal sch.um .chi racterrzes
the general compoiiion. Though there is a variety
it) the:c6louring, there is nothing gaudy or glaring,
but all is simple,grac,-ful, anJ itnpressive.
The drawing altogether would do hononr to-an.V.cu-
binet in Europe, and is calculated to increase the
high teputation cf the Artist.

KEMBLE has becu so MUchindisposed within
the last three or four days, that his farnilyhave beOU
seriously alarthed. It seems that it was necessary
fcr him to lose not' less than forty ounces of blood
during the progress bt. his

SII)130N,: We undeistand, does not come
forward upon - theatrical boards till alter 'the Lent‘
season. She is in exCalent health.

. The-94th, and detachments of the 57th and Gist
Regiments, amounting to 1800 men, sailed on Mon-
.day last from Jersey for Lisbon, tinder Convoy of
the Scylla, Capt. ATcnjsoN. •
We have been ia\-oured with the felloWing in-
teresiing anecdote, by a Gentle Man of great infor-
inatuin, and of some donse,queireeon the Continent,
who has lately arrived from St.Tetersburgh. 1-le
assure's-us, 'that in the best informed circles, and at
the Ilusian Court, it was understcod before his de-
parture,
that the Grand Duchess ANNE was to be
the Empress Queen of Prance: The followinipar-
ticulars respetting this Lady may not, be deemed un-,
worthy 61 attention :.-- -
In all Russia there is no other Grand Duel-less
ANNE than one., She left her native c,untry, Calls=
rehe, full of hope and. loveliness, to bec,ane the
' wife-of the Archduke CONSTANTINE, but a separa-
Ifinn Soon ?look place, and the must mofounded ca=
lunmies were propagated. 'When at Berlin,.Cms-
-41 STANTINP. SSW at a tilt/ what he emphatically -Gilled
i e leantif;il Being; he witherl to see her nearer, and
was gratified.. But lo ! to the astonishment of the
whole assembly, he instantaneously qui!ted the
1 -i-o,itn-in ii.,%.ident perturba;iOri of inind.---/t was his
1 wiji, it e inticit-iejurid Giand Duches4 ANNE.—
' All the ignominy f,:i4 o,lcli upon him, a:ld het situ-

ath:fit exCit, d 11;e utini;sl s;inpathy .wherev,r she
~
i \\ ei.-.. al:e \vas-first seen by I..IoNAPARTF, Ater ti,e
conquest of Prussia. kier graceful fie,:ortment- and
amiable 'm inners must "(adds our informant) " in-
-1 Spire tit gers WWI. respea."- N ATor.EoN ‘vas struck
by her p_l'sbilzil and h.telle6tual attractions; he paid
! her many (iitoplinient,." • _ •
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An ingnest Was. held last Pi-kitty, before Mr.
George Wingfield,. coroner, on Ilie,body of Eli-
zabeth 'Williams, servant to Mrs: Ridley, of St.
Alkinond's,square in -ibis town. It appeared by •
the evidence of the said Mrs. Ridley, that the girl
seemed rather unwell on The pleceding Alonday,
that at noon she went to bed, and ate. only soine
broth, which was taken to her in a saucepan ; ttiat
in the evening of the same day, tier d.tughtet' went
.and hirettatiother servant, arlti on their way borne
they called on an apothecary, who; when he ar-
rived at the house,. found ti,e servant dead. The
new servant then carried the deceased 'up stairs,
and placed her on a bed, with her clwhes on, and
she remained in that state till the fullon ing Thurs..
.day.—Mrs. R..stated that her reason for thus le
the corpse was; that, " the fattier might see her
in the state in I.shich- she expired." When ques-
.tioned why she did not intOrtn ',.he sister of the
deceased, who lived in. town replied that she
.had forgotten whereto find her. When asked what
food had been, given the girl the day before; 'she
answered—broth fur: b7eakfast. and supper, and
hung beef fordinnef; this la,t assertion, 11,wevet,
was disproved by the appearance of the beef, width

had not been cut.
The father of the. gill, who lives at GuilsfiCld,
near Pool, deimski that his dani.,,hter tta 15 ye` ti
old; that it was lmr hr,t place ;:f ,-,,,lC;ce; that IS
knew not of lit.r death lid lie entered the house, cin
Thursday tveniug, when he fgund her on the 1).-d,

with her clothe, on ; that he cone to town, con-
sequence of a letter hoan Mr 4. R. written on 'rue-
day, .and received by him the following day, in
that hisd:noater waq-
. which he was info: n
- although at that time actually dead.
The next witness was Jane Williams, of niicshan
Heath, who said that a daughter of "per's had for-
' lived %yid' Mrs. Ridley, and her general foci
was. broth made of heet's liver, and flour pudditt4s :
site was always locked up in the house whdst her
m.stress and daughter dined, -or went frocti hoari,
and was fastened in the breiNhouse to do- het A oleic ;
that
,she came away ill, and contitnued so halt a
year.: Au adjoining neighbour to Mrs. R:tiley
stated, that nine days ago site had heard, for sev -ral
-hours., violent groans in the back part of Mrs. R.'s
premise,, where it appeared the deceased had
contioed, ant exposed to tot inclement night, in,
consequence of having placed small coals, instead
o!' loge, upon ti:e kitchen file.---The ot the
&ceased also stated, that she had called to see her,
but was told she was from home ; she expresed
wish to wait ail her return; but was. not allowed ; a
tone, h?wever, wits lied fur her to call a- sail], but
she. eould nor leave home on that day, Au ac-
quaintance of the de& eased affittoctr; that the' gill
bad co:t:plalned dt li-toger and htrd .usage. •
_ The Coroner called a Surgeon,
,Woo .was of opi-
nion that t..e b tdy was in .1 putrid state, and that
nothing could be ascertaioed by op lling the sto-
mach. TiIISI:C.LIg the cape, the Jury, after a Ist:
tient investigation of four hours, recorded the ful-.
" That trie deces'.sed 111:i departed this life on
Mouary, the lath of January instant, hut- that no
ev;denco hod been rrodAteed to strew td the Sury
deceased had died oth‘..a.wise than -by the
visitation of God : but that they had 'great reason
to suspect that the-deceased had -been itupt-operly
treated by her mistress."

The writer Ot the obove ariMe
Gramknoch,.:3.; ANNE be of N.\
the Firs:, the Frekch imy ftnd iu her ;A Ft. i:itLis
tuft cOinpassion, generosity, and greatness of
mind."

,‘ If ill.;

At Paisley, a few days ago, there- were dug up
by the worktnen ii) the track of the Ardrossan cauul,
several large pi, ccs of pea
,wood, being Ii auches
of trees--,- sezningly- fir. The substance W.:5 some=
thing than and less porons than tree stone, and 'very
heavy. The bark aa I the heart of the wood were
distinctly seen, yet all solid. Shine chinks or drunks
were observable in 'the balk. , nde-d, every external
and internal app arance of prinieVal Substance re-
mained. Stine of these branches were found upon
a sort of till-, imm4iately under a sandy earth; about
five feet from the suriae.) of the ground ; others
were discovered under a free stone lock, at a greater
depth.'
Th 6 coal min-het is at present abundantly supplied,
and we therefore hope to see a considerable reduc-
lion in the price of that nece.s try ar idle ; of B,t
ships offered on Friday, only 30 could find,pur-
chasers, and that at a ft!! of ss..per

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An Inquest was last week Liken -at tiotbury, on
the body of Edzah-Ah Ja,,,,er. On the evening, of
the Vith ult. her husband, John Jaii,ger, suspecting a
lover of ills grand-daught,:t's was coming clandeS-
'finely into the hot-e to-:t.ike away her clothes,
jumped out of hod, and s _-i-zedt he coal rake, to repel
the a:s ;dant. II s wife also, imknown to him, had
stepped out of bed, and in altshing- the rake, he
untortunately hit her on the tc:nple, such
a wound as terminated htr ex'stence ou Tuesday
sennight.--Verdict Accitiertpd Death: •
A story 0( a gh. St litey creat,d extraordinary
sensation iii POiantl, and ne:uly oCcasiotaed the de-,
sertion of two viilages.--Th& •,I.ingh•er of the Lord
of the Manor, Mona %vstc.i, xv:.o lias- a castle in the
town of Murowanzr, two ieagties from Posen, died a
short time since; but, aecordin.:, to the odmion of the
credulous peodle (hue, i. r ispira htts.sioee h‘uluted
the castle, making and uti,,..-Jsondbkt
until at length eety• cue Was irig!vcsi,..l out of- the
place. The clzertion gave gre4t..;:,,Jig:it and credit
to the story, and the panic lu svi-c.,tifiocn the
castle to the town, and thence u the 4 rj,iiiiing barn-
let of GosknA ; all was tort-61' and-cunrusioti, and the
inhabitants were found flying in .evcry -diredion,
Nvhen the Governor of Warsaw foul, d it necessary to

send a commission to inquire into circuntstanCes,
and to tranquilize the minds of the people.
Seceral boys were lately precipitated into a pond
considcrAble depth, belongng to *the Duke of
•Athell, by the nreaking.-Of the ice. On the first
alarm, his Grace hastened . to the spor,' and was
highly instrumental in saving three of them : one
only was drowned.
A child about six years old, belonging to a • per,
1 son of the name of Nenion,• a bargehian at Bishop's

, Stortford, died a few days since iu a state of mad-
ness,oeca4oned by the bite of a dog abjut six weeks

before.

Every body, who means to luxe a Prize, buy
their Lottery Shares at EYTutq'i. Why ? Because
he was the lucky PAttner of rise deceased Sir JAMES
BRANSCOMB—EYTON'S (MCC of course is now the
favourite: remember it is No. 2,,CoTabili, near the
Mantiou Hogs;, •