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in honour or the hirth-day of Doti ?rands de Paula
Antonio Maria, the Ktf s second brot'er.
" The Grand Date Berg, in the general orders
issued on the Ist instant, acquaints the army that his
Majesty the Emperor oral King would, In a very
short space of time, place himself petsonally at their
head, and gives it in charge to General Laribosiere
to keep them in readiness to perform the necessary
salutes upon the occasion. His Highness further ex
presses his satisfactiOn at the good understanding
which exists between the French and Spanish troops,
and says that he had that day, at the entreaty of the
citizens of Madrid, pardoned a French soldier, but
that this should be the last instance of the kind ; and.
he commands the French soldiers to double their re-
spect to the inhabitants.
" The first object to which Ferdinand VII. direct-
ed his attention on his accession on the Throne, was
to pay up the arrears due to the officers and widows
on the pension.list s and these he discharged out of
the ready-money fund in the possession of the Prince
of Peace, which is estimated at 25,000,000 francs.—
His fortune, exclusivc of this sum, is calculated at
more. than 500,000,000 of francs.
Atom. 12.—The Madrid Calcine of tfit. Mat March
contains the following passage As the:nature of
the proceedings which took place in the Escurial is
only known by an account which was published the
27th October last year, the King our Sovereign being
desirous that all his subjects should know low his
Royal Person, as well as several persons employed lay.
Government, acted on that occasion, has ordered a
brief account to be published of this business, which
is much better understood after the discoveries which I
hive been made among the papers of the Prince of
Peace, which contain amongst others the following.
particulars 1 the 28th of October last, the late King
sent several papers to the Marqnis de Calrallero;Se-
cretary of the General Depaitment of justice, which
papers, he said, had been fo'ind among the papers of
the Prince of Asturias, our present King and Sove-
reign. • The papers consisted, first, of a few sheets
stuck together, written in his Majesty's own hand-
writing ; 2dly, of a similar paper, also written by his
Majesty; idly, of a letter,. dated Talavera, the 28th
of May, written in a disguised hand, and without a
signature ; in the 4th place, of a paper, containing
different figures, designed. to form a system of cyphers,
with one written leuf without a signature. The first
paper is a memoir, the object of which with the
most profound respect, to represent to the late King,
the unjust proceedings of Don Manuel Godoy, Prince
of Peace. This memoir contained a variety of par-
ticulars concerning the proceedings, fortune, injus-
tice, and despotism of that person. The Prince of
Asturias threw himself at the feet-of his Royal Fa.
ther, requesting him, that in his presence an inquiry
might be instituted by those of his Majesty's subjects
whom he thought most worthy of his confidence, or
whom chance might present to him, into the truth of
the facts stated in the memoir; and if convinced
thereof, to dismiss the Prince of Peace from his Royal
presence, and banish him with his whole family :
such a step, were it only considered as a measure of
precaution, would diffuse joy throughout the whole
kingdom. This memoir contained several other ob.
servations, all tending to promote the welfare and pro-
sperity of the nation. They are here passed over in
silence, because what we have mentioned of the con-
tents of the memoir is quite sufficient to form .an opi-
nion of its tendency:and nature ; but it must not be
omitted that the Prince of Asturias concluded it by
entreating his father, in case he should not approve of
the object of his memorial, to have the goodness to
keep it secret, in 'order to avert the dangers to which
he (his son) would otherwise be exposed. The letter
dated Talavera, is written by Don John Esquoquix,
Canon and Prebendary of the Church of Tolado, late
instructor of his Majesty. It is an answer to .several
questions proposed to him.
" The system of cyphers is a means frequently
made use of for corresponding in secret matters of
great importance. The single leaf, without signature,
is written by one of the Prince's servants, whom he
had dismissed from his service, and has nothing to do
with the present business.
" The following day (the 29th of October) at mid-
night, the Secretary General of the Cabinet and the
provisional President of the Council, met by order of
the late King in his apartments, who gave it as their
opinion, that his present Majesty should be examined
concerning the contents of those papers. Iris present
Majesty was accordingly called into the apartments of
his Royal Father, where lie was arrested, and preclu.;
ded from all intercourse with any person, except some
new attendants appointed on the occasion. During
the same night all his present Majesty 's servants w ere
arrested.
" On the SOth of October the late King sent an or-
der to the Marquis de Caballero, signed the same day
and published all over the kingdom, whereby our
King and Sovereign was declared a traitor, together
with his servants. According to the deposition, upon
oath, made by his present Majesty, and four Secre-
taries of the departments of Justice and War, that
order was entirely written in the land writing of Don
Manuel Go do rriuce of Peace, who at that time
was in 11Iad2i1.
" 'The original order could not be annexed to these
proceedings, because, in such cases, the original is
always returned to the King, and the copy dispatched
and published. • -

his tweselitt Majesty,-he presented to him the copy of a
letty which his present,Majeity was made to ask
pardon of his Royal Father.. His Majesty being de-
sirous no: to refuse this new pledge of his veneration
for hiis Royal Parents, signed the letter which is an-
nexed to the decree of the. sth of November,
" His Majesty being perfectly convinced that ltd•
ther the Duke of Ida:nada nor Don John Esquoi-
quir, the author of the letter dated Talavera, are
guilty of any misconduct, deems himself obliged to
declare their innocence, as well as that of his other
servants ; and for that purpose has ordered the present
account to be given of the proceedings which took
place in this matter."
APRIL l7.—Letters from Genoa of the Bth instant
announce, that agreeably to various advices from
Italy, the combined squadrons of Toulon and Roche-
fort, under command of Admiral Gantheauine, were
arrived in the. Gulf of Naples, and that the fleet was
in the best condition, and had already attained a
great object, that of furnishing the island of Corfu
with goods and atnmunition, of which it stood in
great need. The appearance of so formidable a fleet
in that sea, which is now utterly abandoned by the
English, lead us to believe, that Sicily will now be se-
riously threatened. All preparations for a landing,
have, it is said, been made already.
It now appears cert!tin, as it is written from M.
drid, that the Prince of Peace designed to take flight
with the Royal Family, under English protection, but
that this project was destroyed -hy the Infantas of
Spain, more especially by the opposition of the Queen
of Etruria. It Li said they declared they would rather
die than consent to flee. In this project, probably ar-,
ranged with England, the Prince of Peace appears to
have in agreat measure calculated nppn the assistance
of the King's Guard; yet it would have probably
failed, as all the military were averse from this Minister.
It is further announced from Madrid, that King
Charles and the Queen are returned from Aranjuez,
where every thing reminds them of their late suffer.
ings, and have repaired to the Escurial. The Prince
of Asturias was, on the 7th, to leave Madrid, with his
preceptor, and the Duke del Infantado, in order to
meet the French Emperor.
The following General Orders have been issued by
the Commander in Chief of the division of French
troops in Tuscany, the Ecclesiastical State, and along'
the coast of the Adriatic Sea :•

" His Majesty the Emperor and King havi- g been informed,
that, at Rnme and In other,parts of italy, cockades of a new co-
!Our had been distributed for the purpose of forming a kind .of
combination against his armies, declares the authors et' that dis-
tribution accountable (or ail the misfortunes which may arise from
it ; and charges the Generals who command his troops in the Ro-
man dominions, in the kingdoms of Italy and Naples, immediately
to arrest those Who shall endeavour to promote the dis'rihutiun of
the above cockades. All persons who shall be found after the pub-
lication of these orders wearing the said badge of combination,
shall be tried by a Military Commission."
• Nine Frenchmen who were confined in a pflson
ship in Portsmouth Roads, have succeeded, in a very
gallant manner, in effecting their return to France.—
After having broke open a gun-port, they threw them-
selves into the water, and swam to the launch of a fri-
gate which was lying id the roads, cut the cable, and,
proceeded with the launch into Portsmouth harbour,.
in order to find a ship on board of which they could
with any degree of safety return to their native coun-
try. They saw several ships, but judged that a
packet, which appeared to be a good sailer, was hest
adapted to the purpose ; they climbed, accordingly,
on board, overpowered three English. seamen, whom
they found in the ship, and set sail for France. On
her passage they were chased by an English cutter,
but their superiority of sailing kept them out of dan•
ger. On the 7th, at night, they reached Dieppe in
safety, without having paid for their passage, and
being in possession of-a fine copper-bott uned ship,
which in some measure indemnified them for their long
imprisonment.

FRANCKFORT, APRIL 13
Letters from Cosi4i4inple of the 6th March posi-
tively state, that the arm' ice between the Porte and
Russia has been prolonged for • two months, within
which period a definitive maty will most certainly be
concluded, the principal points in discussion being al-
ready agreed upon. It is a fact that the Porte has
given its consent to the march of a French army
through its territory. The French Antb4ssador there
is incessantly dispatching couriers toward's India.
FLUSHING, AI'RII. tr.
A battalion of Prussian troops in the French service
is arrived here from Valenciennes. A division of the
Dutch flotilla has successively come in here from •
Boulogne. Several ships of the line of the Emferor's
navy have beer. hauled out of this port and sailed up
the Scheldt.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 14.
They mantion a report from Copenhagen, that the
Island-of Anholt in the Categat was taken possession
of by the English.
. They write from I.isboh, that' permission was given
there as well as in Spain, for neutral ships to export
wine and fruit, and there were already severs Knip-
hausen, Eve Hamburgh, three Bremen, and one Ol-
denburg vessel in loading for such produce.
'The English squadron which was cruizing • off
Trieste has taken several ships.
ROTTERDAM, APRIL 6. •
Respecting the French squadrons we have no posi-
tive accounts. The following are so contradictory,
that they are not reputed genuine :
It has been reported at Venice, by some masters of

• The same day, the 30th of October, finding him- ! ships, that the french squadron, which sailed from
self confined, and precluded from all communication, ! Rochefort and Brest, for the purpose of effecting a
he deemed it right to make public what he had done landing in Sicily, were overtaken by Admiral Culling-
for the benefit of his country ' • and in order to extri.', wood near Genoa, and not being sufficiently strong to
cate himself from the state of oppression to which he give battle, they put into. St. Pietro d'Arena, where
was reduced, he declared the same day, the :30th Cc- . they are blockaded by the English.
tober, to the Marquis de Caballero, that with a view They w-rite from Naples, the 11th of March, that a
of promoting the prosperity of the Spanish empire, he convoy of 15 ships from Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn,
wished to marry a French Princess of the Blood, and &c. had arrived there, and .that intelligence was re-
that the steps he had already taken for that purpose ceived horn Tarento, that several ships of the line and
were perfectly his-own, and viiithout compulsion; and frigates had appeared off that port, which were sup-
that whatever he had One had no other object than posed to be a, part of the French and Spanish fleet.
to open the eyes of his Royal Parents with rer...rd to tiom Carthagena, as the same was cruizing in those
the implicit confidence which they klaced in Don Ma- seas; and it was said, that the said squadron had
nuel Godoy ; that, fearful lest he Should continue to taken some English ships of war. .
make an improper use of Ilia influence and power, his ' APRIL 15.--The letters from Copenhagen of the
Majesty has judged it necessary, for the welfare of sth inst. state, that a dreadful storm had been see-i
the kingdom, to give to the Duke of Infantado a rienced there on the 3d, at night, which caused a greet
Power of Attorney in his own (the King's) hand- deal of damage in the Roads and port. An English
writing, to assume the command of the troops in New gun-boat, quite dismasted, was driven on shore off
Castile, in case of the decease of his Royal Father.— Langeland, in the Belt ; and a ship of the line, having
At that time the Prince of Peace arrived at the Palace • lost every mast, has rue a-ground and will plobab4
of the Escurial, and having entered the apartments of be lost.