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LONDON.

DECREES.--" Aranjuez, March IS, ISO&
" As I intend to conurian4 my army and navy in person, I have
thought proper to release Don Manuel Godoy, Prince of the
Peace, from the employs of Generalissimo and Admiral, and give
him leave to withdraw whither he pleases. You are herewith in-
formed of it, and will communicate it, to whom it concerns."
To Don Francis Gill.
MADRID GAZETTE, MARCH is, Ism
His Majesty has been pleased to transmit the fol-
lowing Decree to his Excellency Don Pedro Ceval-
los, First Secretary of State
My beloved Suisk:cts ! Your generous agitation in these cir-
cumstances is a fresh proof of the sentiments of your hearts, and
who love you as a tender father, take the earliest opportunity to
console with you in the distressed situation in which we are placed.
Be tranquil ; know that the army of my dear Ally, the Emperor of
tit:" French, traverses my kingdom with ideas of friendship and
peace. Its object is to march to the points which are threatened
with ,he danger of a descent by the enemy, and the juucti9
my life-guards has no other object than to protect my person, and
they are not intended to accompany me oil a voyage, which malice
endeavoured to represent hs necessary. Surrounded b.; the un-
shaken ioy.:lty of my armed subjects, of which I have received
such unquest:onable proofs, what have-I to fear ? and should any
imperious necessity require it, could I doubt of the assistance
which their generous bosom offered me? But no such necessity
will ever be witnessed by my people.—Spaniards, allay your fears:
conduct yourselves as you have hitherto done towards the troops
of the ally of your good King. in a few days you will see peace I
and tranquillity restored ; your hearts, and mine enjoying the hap-
piness which GOD bestows on me in the bosom of my family and
your love. Given in my Royal Palace of Aranjuez the 16th
March, 1808. " By the King,
" A.l). PEDRO CEVALLOS."
PARIS, MARCH 9.1.
By a Decree of the 17th of this month his Majesty
has ordered the execution of the measure' determined
on at Paris in December last respecting the Jews. A
Synagogue and Israelite Consistory is to be establish-
ed for every 2000 Jews, but there can be only one
Consistorial Synagogue for a Depurtment. The
Consistory is to superintend the Rabbis, and see that
their teaching be conformable to the doctrines of the
Grand Sanhedrin. They are to give information re-
specting the Jewish Conscripts of their districts.—
Every Jew, who wishes to settle in France or Italy,
must give three months previous notice to the nearest
Consistory. There is to be a central Consistory at
Paris ; each Consistory is to luive a Grand Rabbi,
elected by 25 Notables. The Rabbis of the Central
Consistory are to have a salary of tAXX) francs ; those
of the Consistorlal Synagogue 7000, and the other
Rabbis are not to have less than 1000 francs.
Another Imperial Decree, dated the 17th, annuls
all obligations for loans made by Jews to minors,
without the sanction of 'their guardians, to married
women, without the consent of' their husbands, or to
military men, without the authority of their superior
Officers. Bills granted by French subjects to Jews
cannot be demanded, unless the holders prove that
full value was given without any fraud. All debts
accumulated by interest above 5 per cent. are to be
reduced by the Courts of Law. If the interest grow-
ing on the capital exceeds 23 per cent. the contract is
to be declared usurious. After the Ist of July next,
nu .low will be allowed to trade without a patent, re-
newable annually. This patent the Prefects are not
to grant to any individual, until he produces a cer-
tificate of his character, testifying that he is no usurer. •
No Jew not actually domiciliated in the Departments
of the Upper and Lower Rhine, can be admitted to
a domicile. there. In the other Departments the
Jews cannot be allowed to settle, except upon the
condition of their purchasing rural property, and
abandoning commerce. The Emperor may, how-
ever, grant to individuals exemptions from this law.
The Jews of the Conscription are required to perform
personal service, and ais net allowed to find substi-
tutes. These regulations are to be continued only
dur4ig ten years, in the hope that after that period
there will be no difference between the moral cha-
racter of the Jews and other Citizens of the Empire.
If the contrary should appear, the law will be con-
tinued in force.
The Jews of Bourdeaux, of the Gironde, and the
Landes, having given no cause of complaint, are not
made subject to the above regulations.
MA11.(11 23.—The official journal of this clay con-
tains the declaration of Russia and Denmark against
Sweden ; and also the proclamation issued by Gene-
ral Buzhovden, on his entraace into Finland. This
last is preceded by an article from Stockholm, in which
tin account is thus communicated of the imprisonment
of M. Alopeus, the Russian Envoy.
It was on the .sth instant that we had the pain to
witness the Russian- Minister, M. Alopeus, taken into
custody. The folletving is an account of the man-
ner in which that strange event took place ;....That
day, at two o'clock in the morning, Baron de Rove,
the King's Aid-de-Camp, was announced to M. Alo-

peas, and made known to that MI t'i'er that he had
received orders tontrrest him, and to seal up his pa:
pers, anchthose of his mission. As was natural, the
Minister protested against this treat vent, And wished '
to oppose it, when some officers, wi...11 a numetous de-
tachment of the body guards snide their appear etc
and obliged him to submit. All persons employed
We have received Dutch Papers to the 2,1 instant,
under the Russian Embassy were roused from their
beds, and those in the city were searched oat, and a containing Paris news to the 27th ult. Their con.
guard set over their residence. A Lieutenant of
the body guards was made responsible for the per- tents are intensting.
HOLLAND.
son of the Minister, and four subaltern officers were s •
ordered to guard those employed by him, sentinels A Message from the King to his Legislature on the
being placed at. the door of d
ehe houof leavingse. Madame state of the Finances for the year, acknowledges the
Alopeus was offered the choice, ither her
house, and going to live elsewhere in the city, or of denierable state of die country, and thiet they cannot
hope for an amelioration of their circumstances until
submitting and remaining with those who are confined. te .
e establishment of a maritime peace, • In this de-
The following is the Note which, under these cir-
cumstances, M. de Ehrenstein, the Swedish Minister plorable state of their commerce and,gnances, their
for Foreign Affairs, traesmitted to M. Alopeus— King has thought proper to acquakt them, that
e The King has just received information that a
Russian army has entered Finland, and has approach. the French Emperor has given them assurances that,
in the Peace to he negociated with England, he is to
ed Louisa. This unexpected inroad bears upon it all
the characters of perfidy, on which account his Ma- stipulate fur die restoration of the Dutch Colonies,
jestyhas given orders to the undersigned to declare particularly o' f Guiana. This:notice would seem to
to M. Alopeus, Minister of Russia at the Court of imply that a Negociation was actually on the tapis s
• Sweden, that the King considers all his diplomatic and that NAPOLEON even spoke with confidence of the
functions as wholly at an end. (Signed) • terms he expected to obtain.
" EHRENSTEIN."
On this Note the Mot:War makes a long and most SWEDEN AND DENMARK.
vehement comment, in which it is called an out- According to the accounts from Copenhagen, the
rageous violation of the
.rights of Amhassanors, :.adl Danes are proceeding with the utmost activity in
to be equalled in barbarism only by the acts of the
• I their preparations to invade Sweden ; and they even
Dey of Algiers.
In the same Number of the Official Journal, there :, assert, that a body of troops has been actually able to
is an article from Copenhagen of the 1 eth instant, ! cross over to Scania. ; but this we totally disbelieve. •
containing the following information : I There is a long article in the Moniteur against the
The Russian Minister M. Alopeus, who was i Saved :
sh Monarch, for the arrest of M. ALOPEUSI
arrested at Stockholm, has nevertheless friteid means 1
which it calls a treacherous violation of the rights of
to transmit hither a letter, which was immediately for- I
warded to Petershurgh. The King of Sweden, who diplomacy. It totally omits all notice of the charge
has long spurned every thing that was becoming, has ! brought by Sweden against Russia, of basely attempt.
given a severe shock to the Diplomatic Body. He; ing to corrupt the Swedish Commander from his duty.
has done still more ; he has catised a Russian coerier,
I TURKEY.
sent from Petersbuegh to M. Alopeus, t 9 be plan- i
dereci at Abo, and has robbed him of his dispatches. • One of these Journals contains an expression which
confirms to a great extent intelligence communicated
Because every one murmured at Stockholm, he has
retired to Grypsholm. l in this paper some time ago, respecting the change
" Our Court has declared war against Sweden,'
iof sentiment that has taken place in the Divan. It
and letters of marque are issued against Swedish ships.
The Porte appears desirous to negotiate with
' It has been lately ascertained, that no preparations for 1
says—•*"
defence arc going forward in Sweden. A traveller, England." When these words are seen in a paper
published under the influence of France, their import
who lately came hither from Stockholm, saw no kind
of troops in motion. The coast is as defenceless as iis undoubted. Sentence of death is already passed,
Finland was—indeed, it is impossible not to lament
and nothing but the bill of indictment is to be drawn
the fate of the inset esting Swedish nation ; her fate
resembles that of Portugal, which country England up. Attachment to England, is under BONAPARTE)
came to help, and deprived her of Madeira. Now what attachment to Royalism was under ROBESPIERRE)
men see all the blessings of the revolution of 1778, the enormous crime, the very suspicion of which is
and that it has been the spring of all the distresses of
equal to conviction.
Sweden. SPAIN.
There are two other articles in the Moniteur, one
We have had the afflicting task for some time to •
giving an account of a new act of baseness commit.
record tine extreme distress which the people in Por-
ted by the English before Trieste ; the other a report
from Ostend, with regard to the situation of the coast. tugal have been made to suffer by the invasion of the
" In the course of this winter nothing of importance .French--a.
1 part of which, the dreadful famine, we
has occurred at Boulogne, Dunkirk, or Ostend—the hope our Government will do all in their power to
works alone the coast and in the harbours have been .
alleviate by allowing vessels laden with corn to enter
damaged by' the inundations, but workmen are busy
the Tagus. Yesterday we gave some particulars re-
in restoring them, and soon no traces of the damage I
will be visible. The fitting out of privateers still goes specting the perfidious conduct adopted by the French
towards the Spaniards : this day we present a detail
on in the ports, and with so much the more zeal, since
the profits which the owners derive from them have
of some most important events which have taken
become more considerable. The mercantile interest
a place iu that devoted country,—lf such be the bless-
of Paris even takes a share in these speculations,
circumstance which has seldom happened before.— hies conferred by NAPowiar an his friends and allies,
Letters from Nantz,i Bourdeaux, and other ports on what have his foes to expect, if, neglecting the means
the Ocean, also speak of the gainful state of priva- with which PROVIDENCE has blest them for their pre-.
teering along the coasts. Already various mercantile
nervation, they ever allow themselves to become his
houses in Belgium place out a part of their capital in
this species of enterprize."
MARCH prey There has been an insurrection at Madrid ;
26.—Letters from Rome state, that the the Royal Family is in a miserable state ; the Prince
of PEACE is disgraced, his brother killed, and the
'troops of his Hbliness are incorporated with the French
army. They arc, however, allowed to wear the Papal/ French subject every thing to their own i wll _.....---..
cockade. Cardinal Caracciolo, Pignatelli, Salazzo, ,
and the two Rufus, who arc Neapolitans by birth, these occurrences originated in the general appre-
and also all tine other Prelates, have left Rome. hension entertained with respect to the designs of the
DUTCH BUDGET. French upon Spain. The PRINCE of PEACE proposed
Urns:etre, Masao 30.—A Committee of the Conn• the emigration of the ROYAL FAMILY to Mexico ;
for this he was denounced by the Nobles, and his
cil of State, consisting of M. M. Van Leyden, Van
Westharendrecht Coypus, and Heinlopen, brought, •
- diegrece demanded by the people, whose insurrec-
on the 9th instant, to the Legislative Body, the fol-
lowing Message, relating to the Finances, and in the tion was favoured by the military ; and, in the con-
sitting of yesterday the projet of a decree, proposed fusion that resulted, the Brother of the Prince Nvas
in the Message, was adopted. killed. :pain, however, has gained nothing by
THE KING To THE LEGISLATIVE Root. the event ; the French troops continue to ad-
" GENTLEMEN—We have charged a Committee of vance ; they have already approached the capital ;
our Council of State to present to you a projet of a and the poor KING) in his Proclamation to the
law relative to the Finances of this year.
people, professes to be satisfied with the assur-
e At the commencement of your present Sessioniven him by c. his Ally," that he invades
ances
we expressed on our paet a strong desire to adopt a g
of England.
definitive and permanent system with respect to the Ibis Kingdom in perfect friendship, and proceeds
through it for the harmless purpose only of occupying
Finances, but since the 2Eth of November affairs have
not been ameliorated, and we have been under the its sea-ports, to guard against the designs
Whether the PRINCE of PEACE acted traitorously or
iudispensible necessity of provisorily shutting our
ports. This extreme and painful measure ought to
not, in the advice he gave the unfortunate Monarch,
ensure to us compensation, to which we have so much
title, aad affords an irrefragable proof of the sincerity it is obvious that in the situation to which the Royal
and constancy of our efforts in the common cause. Family is now reduced, the wiser eolicy for the latter
Thus we must postpone all idea of a definitive and had been, as he possessed not the courage to resist,
permanent system until a maritime peace, when alone
to have fled from the tyranny of—his ally—by whom,
it u-ill be possible to reduce our expenditure to the
amount of our revenue." ere long, he will inevitably be made a prisoner in his
It then goes on to state, that the expenditure for own capital.
1807 had been 78,000,000 florins, and the revenues
only 55,000,000, leaving a deficit of 23,000,000, ex-
clusive of previous arrears. To meet these a loan of
40,000,000 had been negociated, which produced
38,000,000 ; the 15,000,000, after providing for the
deficit, was applied to the payment of arrears. The
estimate of expenditure for 1808 is 74,000,000, whilst
vie revenue is not estimated to . produce more than
.50,000,000.
It is said in this part of the message—" We cannot
dispense with maintaining in a good state the squa-
drons of the Texel and the Meuse. We announce
with pleasure to the Legislative Body, that as the
price of our efforts France has expressly engaged to
procure the restoration of our colonies, and partial,- '
laxly those of Guiana."
To meet the deficit of the present year a sort of
forced assessment is proposed, which was adopted by
the Legislative Body,' by which those paying it are to
become creditors of the State to the amount requited.
This is resorted to instead of a loan.

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TUF,SDAY, APRIL 12.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONB O'CLOCK 1
Con 4,‘!3, tor roomy, C:1-41--for Apra (551f—for May 64:.-.
Reduc.al 641-1, a. 7 944—ExchNiter Bale, 4*. 6s. pre.

PORTSMOOTH, APRIL 11.—Arrived his Majesty':
ship Trident, with a fleet under convoy from the Mo-
diterranean : . also the following outward-bound yes-
sets iron; the Downs, viz. the Fortitude, RAND; Flora,
HARDY ; Lyalls, —,- ; Experiment, —; General'
Beresford, ; Caerivent, BI2TI,ER ; Mail, Ann,
—; Vigilant, GIFFORD • Hannah, REAY i Provi.
dente, WINTNR ; Fame, HARDING ; General Boyd,
----.; Russell, Powas ; Juno, SWAIN ; Prospect,
TAYLOR ; and Addington!, PARRY. Sailed the Pro.
selyte frigate, with a convoy for the Downs.
YARMOUTH, APRIL 11.—Sailed the Pincher and
Calypso sloops of war,-and Charles (arzre I ship)
with prisoners for the Nore.—Arrived the Urgent,
Archer, and Havoc ; and remain with the Roebuck
an] Amiable frigate.-... Wind N. W.
DIAL, APRIL 11.—Came down from the River,
the Vulture, Captain Cultism, for the South Sea; ;
and remairi in lila D wt.. with the ships as per last.

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OF THE CO:

FIFTH REPORT,

EXAMINE INTO TIIE PUBLIC EXPJ

ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

APPOINTED TO ENQUIRE AND

(Continued from the Sr.tß of April 1.) •
It is proper, before we close the consideration of
the establishment of the Army Medical Department,
to notice, that there is a class of Medical Officers be-
longing to a branch of the Military Service who are,
in no respect, under the controul of the Army Medi-
cal Board. These are called Garrison Surgeons.—
The persons who were heretofore appointed by this
name to our islands and stations abroad, are now
commissioned' as Surgeons to the Forces ; for it was
thought, that under the former title, they were not so
disposable for every service as they would be under
the general description of Surgeons to the Forces.
Their duties, however, are precisely the same, and
have therefore been already noticed by us. But the
persons of whom we are now speaking are the Medi-
cal Officers, who, under the title of Garrison Sur-
geons, are on the establishment of the different forts
and garrisons at home. • Some of these last offices
are appointed, as appears in the Appendix to the 36th
Report of the Committee of Finance in 1797, by
Commission frcm his Majesty, and others by the re-
spective Governors ; and they all receive their pay
through the Governors ; none of these surgeons hold
their appointments on the recommendation of the
Army Medical Board, or perform any duty connec-
ted with the Department. Under these circum-
stances, we should have thought it perhaps unneces-
sary to have noticed this class of officers on the pre-
sent occasion, if, in the course of our inquiry, we had•
not learned that two, at least, of these appointments
were mere sinecures : for, having issued our precept
requiring the attendance of the Gentlemen who, in
the War Office Return, are stated to hold the situa-
tions, in the garrison of the Tower of London, of Phy-
sician, with the- pay of one hundred and seventy-two
pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence per annum ;
and Surgeon, with that of forty-three pounds four
shillings and four-pence per annum, the precepts
Were brought back, with the report, that the first of
these officers resided in Lincolnshire, and the other
in Suffolk. Such information suggests the propriety,
we think, of an investigation into the actual execution
of any duties by this class of officers, and of discon-
tinuing these appointments altogether, if it should
appear that they have no duties to perform ; for we
conceive that, even if these appointments be given as
rewards for former services, it is a very improper
mode of remuneration. _ _

That we might have a more enlarged view of the
constitution of the Army Medical Establishment, and
of the manner in which the Army Medical business
is conducted, and be thereby better enabled to propose

any new arrangement, if any should appear to be ex-
pedient, we have made some enquiries into the consti-
tution of the Medical Establishments of the Ordnance
and Navy Departments, and into the anode of con-
ducting their Medical business.
For this purpose, we sent certain questions to the
Ordnance and Transport Boards, desiring that written
answers might be given to them ; and when these
were received, we procured further information on the
subject by a personal examination of Sir John Mac-
namara Hayes and Doctor Harness, who are at the
head of the Medical branches of their respective De-
• partments.
The Medical Establishment of Me Ordnance consists of
an Inspector General, appointed in May 1806 ; a
Surgeon General ; an Assistant Surgeon General ;
13 Surgeons ; one Apothecary, appointed in October
1806 ; ‘24 Assistant Surgeons ; many Supernumerary
Assistant Surgeons; and six or seven Civil Surgeons
resident at certain stations, whose pay is only three
shillings and sixpence per diem.
It seems that there are no persons under the title of
Physicians now belonging to this Department ; and
all those who are at the head of it, except the Inspec-
tor General, have gone through all the gradations of
the medical service of the Ordnance. The Inspector
General has risen, however, from the rank of Surgeon
to the Forces in America under Major General Bur-
goyne, in 1776, to that of Inspector in the Army,
before his appointment to his present situation.
Previous to the appointment of the present Inspec-
tor General, the superintendance of the Ordnance
Medical Service Lead been conducted by Dr. Brock-
lesby, under the title of Physician-General to the
Ordnance ; and on his death, by the Surgeon-Gene-
ral and Assistant-Surgeon-General of this Depart-
ment. These Officers are solely occupied in the bu-
siness of their Ordnance employments, and are resi-
dent at Woolwich, which is considered as the head-
quarters of the department.
The present Inspector-General, who is generally
resident in London, and is not restrained from fol-
lowing private practice, has no general instructions
for his duty ; but " he goes to Woolwich constantly
once a week ;"—" he inspects all Ordnance Hospi-
tals throughout the united kingdom ;"—and " the
returns of Woolwich Hospital, and of all other Hos-
pitals, are made to him weekly."
No person from the Ordnance Department attends
at the Surgeons College at the examination of Candi-
dates for employment in this service ; but few, if
any, are employed who have not diplomas from the
College of Surgeons in London, Dublin, or Edin-
burgh. No difficulty is found in procuring Gentle-
men, so qualified, to fill vacancies when any occur ;
and there are generally Candidates on the list waiting
for vacancies., No medical persons are employed on
the Foreign Service of the Ordnance who have not
bees previously acquainted with the practice of the
hospital at Woolwich. The Master-General appoints
the Medical Officers originally, on the recommeVa-
tion of the Inspector-General ; and promotion, if there
be no objection, always goes according to seniority.
The monthly, fortnight, and weekly returns, which
are made to the Ordnance Board, are the means by
which the conduct of the persons employed in their
medical service is judged of; and it is observed,
" with satisfaction," thlt it seldom or ever happens
any report of the improper conduct of these Gentle-
men is made.

The great distinction, therefore, which appears in
this view of the constitution of the Medical Establis-
hment of the Ordnance, and in that which we have
given of tile Army Medical establishment; is,. that in
the first, the persons at the head of the department
have a general experience in military medical prac-

t ce—that, with the exception of the Inspector Gene-
ral, they are solely occupied in their ordnance em-
ployment at the head-quarters of the ordnance—that,
although on the first appointment of Medical Officers,
the diplomas alluded to are thought sufficient testisno-
nials of their ability, yet that no one is employed on
foreign service who has not been previously acquain-
ted with hospital practice at Woolwich—and, that
promotion, unless in special cases, goes by seniority.
(To &e continua.