Star.
London, England, 1809-04-13 00:00:00

ARMY.

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TO be SOLD, at, his Majesty's regulation price of
X 735, a Cortsetcy in the sd Dragoons, now stationed near
1. )adon.-I.etters addressed (postpaid) to A. B. No. 4, Corit-
street, lk•nd street, L:ndon,will be duly attended to.
N. B. None bat principals, or accredited Army Agents' need
anpit.

GOTTENBURGH MAIL.

GO rTENBURGH, MARCH 31.

The Emperor of Russ a has given his sanction to
the Nrmisuce, and the evacuati. nof Aland. It is,
howev,x, Kaden:clod to be onl, Cal he receives from
Paris an answer to a communication be has made to
the French Emper .r on the subject. A Loan has
been demanded by the new Government. The ap-
plication was made to the Mm-chants by the Governor,
who assembled them yesterday for that purpose ; and
a few minutes after the subscription was opened, the
sum of 38,000 baoca dollars was subscribed

General Arnifeld is appointed Commander in
Chief for the district, and Gottenburgh is to be the
head-quarters. The troops that are alreiady here
amount to 5000 men, the finest in the Swedish ser-
vice. Fe• feet tranquillity toasts here. AdroiralKewes
w !o put to sea. y. sterd.ty in the Superb. It is said
he is r,o to to protect the fleet of merchantmen
from Lind*.crona, who are not suppovd to b.. sutfi-
`cicat y i rot !cted. The Charger gun-brig is expe.::ed
to go short yto England as convoy. The Ranger
came into Hawk Roads this morning..

WrOCKIIOI.NT, MARCH es.
Yesterday morning the following Report was re.
ceived from GeneraL Von Doibeln, lathed the 20th
• instant :

" On the 19th the out-posts of the army near
Grislehamm.were attacked, and drove back by the
enemy's Cossacks, dragoons, and chasseurs.
van-guard was commanded by the Russian General
Koulnoff. In a short time after a letter came to Ma-
jor General Von Doelan, from the Russian Com-
mander in Chief General Knotting, whose contents
were, that as he was assured by what had been commu-
nicated to him by his Royal Highness the Duke, and
Protector of the Kingdom, that the Swedish Govern-
ment was disposed to enter into neFociation for
peace, and likewise knew that it crinCtcled with his
Royal Master's sentiments, he had immediately
given orders for all hostilities to cease, and ordered
General Koulnoff to return to Aland, with the troops
under his co.nniand. General Knoning also deli.
livered a letter us Lieutenant General Barclay de
Talley, whb was from Wasa, to pass Quarken to
Uncan. In the event he had already passed the Gulf
immediately to return to the Finland shore. Gene-
ral Knoni,ig mentioned that similar orders were sent
to Wasa by way of Aub;.
" On the 2:ith, in the mgrning,-Grislebamm was
evacuated by thd enemy. All the magazines at that
nine remained untouched. The same day, Colonel
Lagerbring, Knight of the Royal Order of the Sword
with the Grand Cross, was to go to the Russian head-
qtiarters, to proceed from thence with. propei -pass-
ports to the place where his Russian Majesty may
n w be. _ _

" Lieutenant General Commander and Knight a
:he Royal Order of the Sword and , Grand Cross,
Count Gustaf Wachmester, left here the day befor •
yesterday in the afternoon, to take the command o
the army assembled near Grisieliamm."
The following Circular Letter, Paressed to the
Public Boards, Courts of Justice and Consisturies, has
been lately issued
66 Charles by the Grace of Goo, &c. ours, Ect.
" Whereas, in consequence of the events which
have lately taken place, his. Royal Majesty is not able
to superintend and direct the affairs of the realm,
therefore, we • being the only Prince of the Royal
Family who is of age, have found ourselves moved to
assume, until further, the reins of Government, and
shall endeavour to acquit ourselves of the arduous
task in such a manner, that the Empire may regain
its former tranquillity and peace both abroad and at
home, and that trade and industry may be revived ;
it being our firm determination to deliberate jointly
with the other states of the realm, on the means which
shall appear best calculated to promote the welfare
of the Swedish people ;we Iherefore charge-and com-
mand you to evince towards us that fidelity and at-
tachmenewhich our sincere way of thinking, and the
sincerity of the country demand at the present time.
Your official reports are to be addressed to his Royal
Majesty in the same manner as when during the mi-
nority of the King, we presided over the management
of the concerns cf the State, &c. &c.'&c.
(Signe.l) 66 CIiARGES M. ROSENELAD.
I " Stockholm Castle, the 13th March, 1809."
•
STOCKHOLM, MARCH 23. •

Yesterday at noon, that part of the Western Army
marched into this capital, which, under the command
of Lieutenant Colonel Adiersparru, put itself in
nintion from Coolstad, and was considerably rein-
forced on its march through-l•Zeake and' Wastmoin-
;and. The troops were received with universal shouts
.of applause.
MARCH 24, 8 P. M.—The r...ing has this afternoon
been removed under a strong e2cort from Dortmingy
holm to Cripsholm, a Palace about 45 English miles
ftom Stockholm. 1-1 k has hitherto been kept closely
confined, and has not been permitted to see the Queen.
About 600 CossaCks, who had come over from
Aland to Grisleitamm, being a pert of die army who
had taken the former island, were ontheir.march to
Stockholm, when they were met by a tag of truce.
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in the nam
immcciiie
answer.

ame of the ljnke Charles—:a armistice was
Ltely signed, to wait the Enamor of gliasidss
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'RLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 12.
COMBE presented a Petition from a number of res.
Titers against the removal of the cattle markes from
Ordered to lie on the table.
On the motion of Mr. GRATI , the Royal Dublin Insuranez
Company Bill was read a second time.
The Temple-Bar Lottery Bill ts as read a second time. Ordered
to be committed to-morrow.

Mr. Yo R r moved the second reading of the West Warton In-
closure Bill, which was oppose. by Mr. WHARTON, and a division
took place—Ayes 37—Noes CO.
On our readmission to the gallery, we understood that Sir C.
HAMILTOv had complained of a breach of privilege, the precise
nature of which we could not learn, but from what fell from the
SPRAK ER in reply, namely, that the Hon. Member was perfecly
right in complaining to the Hou-e, and that the Sheriffs were re-
sponsible for the acts of their officers, we presume that the com-
plaint referred to his being arrested on his way to the House.
A new writ was ordered for the Borough of Saltash in the room
of Mr. Pedley.
The Brograve Divorce Bill went through a Conunittee, when
several witnesses were examined, and the Report ordered to-
morrow. _ _ _ _

Lord CA srLei EACH presented a Return of the Casualties of
the British Army in the late Spaaish Campaign. Ordered to IP.
printed.
Mr. Ca EIVY gave notice of an intended motion for to-morrow,
relative to the production of some Papers on the four and a half
per cent. duty.
Mr. Iit:MUSSON brought up the Report of the Commissioners
respecting the State of Windsor Forest, and the adjoining woods.
Ordered to be printed.

On the motion of Mr. 1-1/NRT MARTIN, an account was or-
dered of the balances remaining in the hands of the High Court
of Admiralty.
Lord Ossuxrrotr moved for an account of all Offices regulated
or abolished pursuant to the recommendations of the Commis-
sioners of Account in 1782, and of the Committee of Finance,
1797 ; and also an account of ail Offices created since that period,
and the authority under which the creation took place. ',Ube Noble
Lord also moved for a return of the number of Offices created
iisce the same period, under the Commissioners of the Treasury
and in the Excise, under the salary of £2OO pet annum. The se-
veral motions were agreed to.
There was another motion relative to Colonial Appointments,
and to persons residing in this country holding sinecure places in
the Colonies, which was withdrawn on the suggestion of Mr.
Thornton, as the desired information would be derived from a
Report which the Committee of Finance would shortly lay before
the House.

—On the motiotrof Mr. Hu sICISSON, the two bills for £5O pro-
duced on the late Investigation of the Duke of York, by the exe-
cutors of Messrs. Parker and Birkett, were ordered to be returned
to Mr. Coke, their Law Agent.
On the motion of Lord FOLKESTONE, the Papers belonging
to Ker.nett's Bankruptcy, produced on the same occasion, were
ordered to be returned to Mr. Archibald Duff, of, 'I basics Inn.
Mr. HUSKISSON presented an Account of the Sums a Money
advanced from the Civil List, and not replaced by Parliament.—
Ordered to lie on the table. _ _ _

Sir GEORGE HILL gave notice for Friday of smotion for leave
to bring in a Bill to continue the Act for Encouraging Benefit So-
cieties in Ireland.
The Scotch Creditors' Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be committed to-morrow.
The Scotch Records Bill was committed. Report to-morrow.
Sir 'cm NEWPORT moved for a Copy of the Instructions of
the Lord lieutenant of Ireland to the Board of Customs tbr car-
rying into die ct the Propositions of the Commissioners of Inquiry
of 1806-7. Ordered.

The Irish Constables' Eill was ordered to be committed on this
day se'nnight. . . .

Mr. HjsKissoN moved for an account of the sums issued by
Majesty pursuant to At.t.ires,,es of the House. Ordered.

THE DUBLIN PAVING BILL.

Mr. ROBERT SHAW rose, pursuant to notice,
to move for the production of certain Papers, rela-
tive to the conduct of the Paving and Lighting
Board of the City of Dublin. He thought that those
papers contained information that would materially
affect the judgment of the House in deciding on the
merits of the Bill now pending ; and as the Citizens
were not only averse to enlarging the powers of that
Board to so extravagant a degree, but very anxious
to repeal several of the powers already granted to
that Board by the 47th of the King, as appeared from
their proceedings at several of their cexporate and
parochial meetings. He begged permission shortly
to state the facts that had induced him to call for
these Papers. And in doing so, he particularly
wished that the House we bear in mind, that the
Citizens of Dublin are now paying, under the 47th
of the King, heavy and enormous taxes for the sup.
port of this new establishment, and that common jus-
tice requires, that, if they are to pay a great deal
more than formerly, the services they were to recoil
in return ought to be in the same proportion. It ap-
peared, however, that the Commissionel.s of this
Board were more active in levying the taxes than, in
rendering sunk services; for by the Act of last Ses-
sion, they were empowered to raise the tax on each
house to any sum not exceeling -1-s. 6d. in the pound,
on the valuation of Minister's money, and this power
they carried into effect upon their very first meeting
after the Act, by assessing to the full amount allow-
ed by the Act ; and yet, though this increase was
more than double the former tax, the first step of the
Commissioners was to take down nearly half the
number of lamps in a city not too well lighted before.
One of the papers he should move for would contain
a return of the number of those lamps, and when
Gentlemen read that paper, they would, no doubt,
think with him, that it was rather a novel mode of
improving the lighting of the city, to put out half
tl.e number of its lamps. Nor could he think it the
most reasonable proceeding towards the Citizens first
to make them pay double, and then to abridge their
accommodation one half. And inde. ' of the remain.
ing half, the lamps were so badly fed with oil, that
they were in general all out by one or two in the
morning, so that the city was. in total darkness from
that hour till the return of day-light. It was wholly
unnecessary for him to comment upon the inconve-
niencies and dangers resulting from a neglect of this
sort. The next pa}'cr he intended to move for was
a return of the expences incurred in opening a sewer
in CApel-street, one of the most populous streets in
the city. It seemed that the Commissioners were
ery anxious to carry into effect a favourite project
of their own ; this pr.iject was to make a sewer with
ledges to support main pipes, and large enough for
men to work in. And here he begged that the House
would observe, that this project had been submitted
to the ablest and rni.st mil:ea engineers in either
country, who had one and all, after the maturest

consideration, condemned it as intolerably expen-
sive, most absurd, and absolutely impracticable.—
Onewould have expected, that, after such an opinion
from the best judges, the Commissioners would have
paused before they would have wantonly squandered
away the public money in useless experiments ; but so
.., far from it, they immediately proceeded to open an
'unmoor stilph in one of the most frequented streets,
widening-tbesulph until the very foundations of the
uses were in danger, and the houses themselves
were shut out from all access by the quantity of
carth thrown up on each side, and all business actu-:

•
ally suspended for three months, in one of the most!
trading streets in the city of Dublin. So severely
warthis nuisance felt, that the Corporation petitioned
the Lord Lieutenant, and his Grace, with all his
characteristic politeness and attention, interfered and
put a stop to the work, till the propriety of continu-
ing it should be farther considered. The opening of
this sewer to the extent of about thirty yards cost
little sh'brt of £lOOO. The length of the pipes in
Dublin exceeds fifty miles, so that this circumstance
in itself confirms the report of the engineers, when
they stated the expellee to be intolerable ; and that
they were equally justified in reporting the project as
i absurd was evident from this consideration, that the
water passing through pipes so placed must be una-
voidably contaminated by the filth of the sewer, and
of course be rendered unfit for the use of the inhabi-
tants. And as it was to avoid an evil of this sort
that the London engineers, in laying pipes, always
lay them as far from a sewer as possible ; and when
obliged to cross a sewer, the pipes were always made
of metal. The remaining papers he had to move
for would, he was sorry .to say, prove to the House
how little inclined the Commissioners have shiwn
-themselves to consult the wishes of the citizens, from
whom they were levying such enormous taxes. The
circumstances which led to the correspondence, of
which these papers would be a copy, were simply
these—The Commissioners of the Ballast Board, a
most respectable body, had just completed a wall on
the Quay of Dublin, much to the ornament and se.
curity of that part of the city, and not without consi-
derable expence to the inhabitants ; scarcely had it
been finished, when the Commissioners of Paving
erected a paling under the windows of the Ballast
Office, in the hand'omest part of the city, and against
the new wall enclosing a sort of depot for sand fora
paving, though, at the other side of the street there
was a vacant piece of ground equally near the work
carrying on, and the occupation of which could have
been productive of no inconvenience whatever. The
Ballast Office Commissioners wrote to them, requir-
ing the removal of the depot upon two grounds—
that it was a great nuisance to the street itself, and
that it .seriously endangered the new wall, by the
weight that it imposed upon it. The Commissioners
of Wide Streets, conceiving it to be their duty to pre-
vent such a nuisance in so public a situation, made
two applications to the same effect. The very extra-
ordinary answers, to give them no worse name, which
communicated to these two most respectable autho-
rities the unqualified refusal of the Paving Board,
will be found in the papers he now intended moving
for. The Grand Jury also wrote, and, indignant at
a similar refusal, presented it as a nuisance. The
Paving Board entered a traverse against the present-
ment ; and thus the public mercy designed for the
improvement of the city of Dublin; and placed in the
hands of those Commissioners for that purpose, may
be thrown away in defending their wanton and out-
rageous insults upon the citizens who supplied that
money. The papers he now moved for, he was con-
vinced, would satisfy the House, that, so far from
extending the powers of this Board, they should re-
scind many of those they already possess. The Ho-
Inourable Gentleman then corcluded with moving—

•that there be Lid before the House a return of the numbtYr of
lamps taken down within the City of Dublin since the month of
August 1807 ; also a return of the expences already incurred in
making a sewer in Capel-street, in the said City ; and, thirdly, a
capy of the correspondence between the Commissioners of Wide
Sweets, the Ballast Office of Dublin, and the Grand Jury of the
City of Dublin, on the one part. and the Commissioners of Pav-
ing and Lighting, on the other, so far as said correspondence re•
sated to a certain nuisance on Aston's Quay, Dublin. . .

The motions were then severally agreed to, with-
out any opposition.

PAR.
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Alderman
pect able butt
Smithfield.