Star.
London, England, 1813-04-13 00:00:00

SICILIAN SUBSIDY.

Lord CASTLEREAGH said the next subject to
which he had to call the attention of the Committee,
was the Sicilian subsidy. The House would recollect
that this was a grant to which the faith of the country
was pledged. Regulations, however, bad been made
,since the subject was before the last Parliament,
which might supply an additional inducement to
come to the Vote he should recommend.. He moved
the grant of a sum not exceeding £400,000, to enable
his Majesty to make good his engagements with the
Government of Sicily.
Mr. WHITBREAD wished to know what were
the regulations alluded to by the Noble Lord, as.
likely to induce the House to come to this vote with
more than ujual alacrity, and whether the advantages
held out were likely to be realized ?
Lord CASTLEREAGH felt he might be to
blame for not having gone mare into the subject.
The treaty recently concluded with Sicily being be-
fore the House, he had assumed the House to be in
possession of its contents. By that nearly two thirds
of the subsidy were put under the care of the British
Commander in Sicily, and were made generally ap-
plicable to the service in the Mediterranean. There
were at pesent 6000 men actually serving in Spain
who were paid out of the subsidy, which was much
more generally applicable to the exigencies of the
war than formerly. By the treaty, more than half
the forces of the Sicilian Government were placed
ender the British Commander.
Mr. WHITBREAD said the Noble Lord had de-
scribed as regulations what, in point of fact, were sti.
pulations. the 6000 men employed in Spain might
undoubtedly be of considerable set-vice, and it was
certainly a great amendment that the money was
to be so applied which used to be granted so loosely.
He wished to know of the Noble Lord, whether these
vgulations which had been adopted it the suggestion
(4 the British Government, were likely to produce
thrAe political advantages to the people of Sicily and
to this country, which had been held out as that which
might be expected ?
Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, it was a very
great question which had been put to him. The Hon.
Gentleman was aware that the basis of aConstitution
had been laid down very different from that which
was formerly the Constitution of Sicily. This was in
progress of discussion, but was not yet finally com-
pleted. Re was sanguine enough to hope great ad-
vantages from it. He trusted it would prove bene.
ficial to the Sicilians and their posterity, and secure
their attachment to this country. The Honourable
Gentleman was aware this country had never at-
tempted to exercise such a ceptrouling power in
Sicily as would be inconsistent with the independence
of its Government. It had been the endeavour of
Ministers to unite the feelings of the peoples and era.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, APRIL' 3, 1813.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY ONE O'CLOCK:
Reduced 581581—Cons. 591-4 per Ct. 7sia
5 per Cent. 881.11—Bonds Is. Ss. die.—Exch. Bills Sr. 7s. pre.
Bank Long Annuities 1411- itStlis I—Lottery Tick. ,C 22. 9s.

We have extracted from the Prench Papers a Sena-
tus Consultum, Calling out, or rather 'appropriating
the new Levies for the defence of France. The
Senators do indeed talk of once more bringing the
Hanseatic Towns under subjection, and of chastising
'Prussia for her perfidy; but, as they have omitted
from their calculations the growing strength opposed
to them in the rising population of Germany, Hol-
land, and, may we not add, Austria ! we are not
disposed to sound the tocsin of alarm for our Allies.
The defection of General D'YonK with 15,000 men,
occasioned a call for 350,000 fresh troops—the per-
fidy of his Sovereign calls for 180,000 more ! This is
44 employing great means to obtain durable successes"
with a •engeance !

What is said of Denmark, we know to be absolutely
false ; and it is gratifying to find that no mention is
made of Austria in these vapouring speeches. It is
evident that BONAPARTE cannot depend upon the
Cabinet of Vienna. Even the Confederation of the
Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Holland, are spared
the mortification of adding to these immense levies.
To what but to his suspicions of disaffection can we
attribute these exemptions ?
We yesterday mentioned the proximity of an ami-
cable understanding between Denmark and this quo-

tilt • ire sto* lad that Count titititthriP hat been
apPottiteci bt the bat& Govemmeic MiOstet to
thts k is also reportdci, that a Danish
force will co-operate with: the Allies In erehssany.—
An t nglislt Gentleman ('Mr. JACKSON, wt believe,)
had proceedlefrom Cuxhaven to Copenhagen, and
he was afterwards to visit terlin.
With respect to Sweden, the Camas Ilmsce has
pledged himself to support the common cause.
The following important document may be consi-
dered as the first public act by which the Court of
Sweden has pledged itself in support of the common
cause :.

" STRALSUND, MARCH SO.
41 His Majesty the Emperor of the Flttricn, in the Treaty of
January, 1810, agreed that Swedish Pomerania and the Princi-
pality of Rugen be given up to the King of Sw URN, and by the
sth article of the same Treaty, it vas acknowledged by France
that the right of conquest be abandoned, and that to Ssireden be
conceded the quiet possession of the territory and revenue. The
Emperor NArotrom violated this engagement by his unjust at-
tack on the country, and his entrance into it in the month of
January of the last year, the sacredness of the Treaty was there
garded, and the bonds which united Sweden.und France wore
thus rudely torn asunder.
" By this defiance of all deeency and neglect of solemn obliga-
tion, the rights and sovereignty df these possessions have reverted
to the King my Muter, and, under these circumstances, I am
authorised to declare, by his royal will and mandate, as tollows

" 1. That his Majesty the King of Surrnen resumes the pos-
session of Pomerania and the isle of kuseti.

" 2. That all Agents and Contractors for the French Govern-
ment ate to account for their receipts, and to pay their balances
to such officers of the Pomeranian territory as shall be appointed
" 3. That the territorial arrangements shall be according to
the regulations of the !Convention of 1810, between Count Von
EISEN and M. CAILAND.

" 4. Thu if, contrary to all expectation, one or more of the
Royal domains may have been transferred by the French posses-
sor', the Ring, my master, will not acknowledge the validity of
such alienation ; but he declares by these presents, that he will
seize his property wherever he may find it, ordering, however,
such investiptioo of the pretensions of the parties as justice may
require.

" All Public Authorities, Civil and Military, are to obey this
Royal Mandate. (Signed) " Lkut.-Cen. SANDELL"
.-----

All the accounts from the Peninsula concur in
stating, that, from the great efforts of the Marquis of
WELLINGTON, the Army is nearly in a state to move
forward on the enemy. His Lordship has 46,000
British, as fine troops as were ever brought into. the
field ; 29,000 very fine Portuguese troops ; besides
the Spanish armies now, under his own immediate
command and controul. By the drafting of the
horses and men of the 4th Dragoon Guards, the 2d
German Hussars, and of the 9th and 11th Light
Dragoons, and by the arrival of numerous recruits
and horses, every cavalry regiment will take the field
in complete order, and very strong. The artillery
equipments are all of them almost knew, and they
will go into the field in a very superior style. We
have been 4 and 5000 artillery now, and an immense
number of guns. When our letters left Lisbon, ac-
counts had been received that head-quarters were
about to be moved in advatice into Spain at Ftiente
Guinaldo, and. that the French had begun to steal
away.

His Majesty's ship NnHPHEN, Captain HANCOCK,
has arrived at Yarmouth, to take on board several
General and other Officers, mostly Germans, for the
Continent. Major-General the Honourable CHARLES
STEWART (brother of Lord CASTLEREAGH), and Co-
lonel FITZJANIES, are among the number.

The following article is copied from a New-York
Paper of the sth.of March :--" We are informed that
all our Pilots have received orders not to bring any
British packet, if sailing under a flag of truce, or
otherwise, within the waters of the harbour of New-
York."

The Governor of Wanger-oog, a little island at
the mouth of the Jande, and his wife, have made
their escape from the French, and have arrived at
Heligoland, where they surrendered themselves to the
Governor.

When our Readers shall have perused Mr. HOLT'S
letters, (given in our last page) they will see that the
caution which made us avoid publishing the cones-
pondence alluded to was not without reason. To cir-
culate more widely, by a re-publication, the produc-
tions of a person in a state of insanity, would savour
off the very malady which has rendered it necessary
to commit the writer to the care of Dr. WARBURTON.
We hear that his Majesty's Advocate has indicted
the Episcopal Minister at Perth, to stand trial at the
approaching assizes there, for celebrating clandestine
marriages.—Glasgow Chronicle.

I3nEAD.—No alteration in the price this week : the
quartern loaf, eighteen pence-halfpenny.

Friday, in Haddington market, all kinds of grain
experienced a declension in price of 4s. per boll.

Another French prisoner, Louis Heriet, surgeon in
the 70th regiment of French infantry, has broke his
parole at Dumfries.
EXECUTION AT IigoRSENIONOER-LANE.--This.morn- ,
ing Thomas Norman, William Haue/don (alias Moss),
Thomas Boggington, and Thomas Francis, for divers
burglaries, and Lake Martin, for coining, were, pur-
suant to their sentences, executed on a temporary
scaffold upon the top of the New Prison, Horse-
monger-lane. The above unfortunate men were con-
ducted to the platform by the Keeper and several
attendants between eight and nine o'clock, in pre-
sence of an immense concourse of spectators, who at
an early hour had assembled to witness their unhappy
end. They conducted themselves with becoming
fortitude, and appeared perfectly resigned to their
fates. They were attended on the scaffold by a Cler-
gyman, with whom they remained a few minutes in
prayer ; and the remainder of the melancholy task
being then assigned to the Executioner and his assis-
tant, they were launched into eternity, when their
bodies, after being suspended the usual time, were
cut down, and delivered to their respective connexions
for interment.
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Tiff ARMY.
•
'The Royal Pernbroke Rifle Corp, stationed at
Antrim, have received their route to march to Dun.
dalk this day, preparatory to their embarkation for
England.
There ate no* a great number of deserters destined
for condemned regiments on board the hulks, at
Portsmouth r flee hundred were lately sent to join the
different corps assigned them in Africa, and the East
and West Indies,
The Dorset regiment of militia turned out their
quota of 60 volunteers for the line last week, with
great spirit, at Falmouth. The greater pa: tof them
entered into the Queen's and 81st regiment.
Saturday two hundred of the 19th Regiment of
Foot marched into Portsmouth from the Depot at
Hull, and embarked on board the Indiemen lying at
the Motherbank. They are t' join their regiment at
Ceylon.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The undermentioned ships, outward-bound, artiti
rived off Madeira, on the evening of the 18th of
February last, via.—Essex, BRIDGEWATER, ATLAS,
PRINCESS AMELIA, ROSE, MLTCALPE, BARING, MAR-
QUIS or' WELLINGTON'S also the country ships Novi-
DENCE and CLAUDINE, under convoy of his Majesty's
ship DAstmt.t3, together with the Brazil Beet, untie*
convoy of his Majesty's ship ActurtoN.
FALMOUTH, APRIL O.
Arrived the SYLVIA cutter, from Gibraltar, In t5l
days vats° a Prussian vessel, froth Bourdeaux, with
salt, prize to his Majesty's ship DtspArcn.--Sailed
the Prince Ernest packet for Lisbon.—Wind E.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL IL
Arrived this morning, a very fine American
schooner, from New-York, with g cargo of colonial
produce, bound to Bourdeaux, captured by the Fox-
HOUND brig of war.—Sailed the COMET sloop of w.e
and VIRAGO gun-brig, on a cruize in the Channel.—
Wine South East—Fine.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 12.
Arrived 1111PMajesty's ship AJAX, of 74 guns, Cap.
tain Sir R. LAWRIE, from the Mediterranean, with
dispatches from Lord Wm. BENTINCK, at Sicily, and
Sir EDWARD PELLEW, off TORIOR ;—the lamr are
landed, and forwarded to the Admiralty, but the
former remain on board -with the Messentet, tint!
the ship is released from quarantine—.of course they
cannot be of Much importance. Sailed, the TUSCAN,
of 16 guns, Captain JONES, on a cruize ; and SURLET
cutter,' for Guernsey. The STIRLING CASTLE is ex-
pected to sail to•morrow, with the Indiamcn under
convoy.
NiAL: APRIL 12.
The fog has been so thick the whole day, as to
have prevented us from discerning any of the ship-
ping in the Downs ; but suppose, from the fineness
of the weather, they are all well.—Wind N.E.
HARWICH, APRIL. 12.
The Lark packet, Captain SHERLOCK, sails this af•
ternoon for Gotter•.burgh, with two Mails and a.num-
ber of passengers ; as does the Lord Duncan, Capt.
HAMILTON, witlithe Hamburgh Mail. Mr. JACKSON,
our Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Berlin,
and many foreign officers, take their passage in her;
as well as in the Little Auckland, Captain Lyme, that
sails for the same plice. This town for these several
days past has been thronged'with foreigners passing
to and fro.—Wind South and very fine.
YARMOUTH, APRIL 12.
Yesterday P. M. arrived the NYMPHEN frigate flouts
the Downs, and waits the arrival of some of the Royal
Dukes (as reports state) for Hanover. Shipsas per last.

COVE OF CORK, APRIL 7.

Yesterday afternoon, the Newfoundland and Ha-
17fax Fleets, with the CRESCENT man of war, that
sailed from this harbour on Sunday morning last, was
forced back by adverse winds, notwithstanding every •
effort made to prosecute their voyage. The ROSA.
MOND, Capt. CAMPBELL, came in this morning with
more of them.—The return of the West-India Fleet,
under convoy of the BEDFORD, &c. is spoken of as not
improbable.—The Quebec Fleet of Transports, with
the 19th Light Dragoons, the 41st regiment, and se-
veral detachments of infantry, under the SYBELLF, &c.
are ready for a start the first fair wind. If the wea-
ther moderates, his Majesty's ship STORK, Captain
GouLsoN, sails to-day for Loughswilly. The Hon.
Colonel O'NEIL, M.P. for the County Antrim, and
Major PARKER, go ont to Oanada, with the 19th
Light Dragoons. Earl O'NEIL came down here to
see his brother, and the gallant fellows of the 19th,
off for America.—A large party of naval and mili-
tary Officers dined on Monday at Rostellan, the has..
pitable mansion of the Marquis and Marchioness of
TROMOND, where Earl O'NEIL was a visitor. He
set off for Middleton this morning, on his way to -
Dublin Castle.

Among our recent arrivals %ve notice that of Admi-
ral WHImHED, late Commander on this station.
NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Captains—the Hon. Spencer, commanding the Kite, I.
appointed to the Espoir, in the Mediterranean ; Purvis, of
the Ganymede, to the Thames, in the room of Napier;
Wm. Shepheard, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Hargood, at
Guernsey ; Dutton, of Portsea, to the Plater, at Sheer-
ness ; and W. Stewart, late of the Revenge, to the San Josef, st
Plymouth.
Lieutenants— --. Russel, aho went out under Sir hues
Yeo, is promoted to the rank of Commander; R. Barri iv, at Ha-
lifax, to the rank of Commando'. ; W. Knight (I), to the Expel -
men!; J. Mandalay, to the Talbot; and R. Ctawford and J.
Manton, to the Amelia.
Chaplain—The Rev. John Baron, to the Fame.
Pursers—Mr. William Christi the Northumberland, to
the Poletlers; and Mr. J. Wilcox, of the Flsgard, to McGuigan&

The Dexterity, of Leith, Captain DAVIDSON. for
Davis' Straits, after experiencing very bad weather,
returned to Stromness on thelOth March, with the
loss of foremast and bowsprit.