Star.
London, England, 1809-03-25 00:00:00

HOUSE Of COMMONS.

's cnnicluc nce of a Message from the Lords, the liouse atten-
'n the I-louse of Lords ; and on its retarn the SPFAKER an-
.ted that the Royal Assent had been given, by Corrmlistion,
r Public and Private Acts, (for which see e..e Lords).
.31,:••:man CURTIS obtained leave to bring in a bill for re-
‘triithfield Market to Bagnigge Wells, as also leave for a
to..t t'• arm nd the City Lottery Act.
( ..lore•' FOSI•ER obtained leave to bring in a bill for improv-
g t!t Ilarbour of Drogheda.
M. I. 'ITIORNTON brought up the Fourth Report of the
Committt e.—Ordered to be laid on the Taltle, astd to be

V!'• 1.1
A Clerk from the Bank presented an Account of the Number
natl.:: Notes, on the Ist of Februarys ISCH, and also on
t'e Ist r,f 1. broary, MO, distinguishing each quarter.—Ordered
4 he or. the table As was also an Account from the Exchequer,
of the Amount of Funded Debt in Great Britain, upon the Ist of
itlr!..:ry, 1809.
Naval Officers Widows' Pen' ions Bill went through a Corn-
the P.cport was ordered to bebrought up on Morday.
The Committal of the Plymouth Dock Police Bill v:as, upon
Ike motion of Mr. C. JENKINSON, postponed till Wednesday
'irriet.
Mr. !lIISKISSON presented the Annual Account of the Pub.
'.c lecnrne and Expenditure.—Ordered to lie on the Table, and
o ht- printed.
OAt red, on the motion of Mr. MANNING, that an account
'.6.,,u1er he presented of the Quantity of Sugar Imported into Great
'r,zdin for the year 1808, distinguishing the amount from our
Iv* / India Colonies, from Foreign Colonies, and from the East
!idit s, arid also distinguishing the Amount exported to Ireland
elsewhere.
Mr. WI llTBREAD.observing, that among the accounts upon
•nk• table from the Stamp Office, there was a charge of incidents
frr Eri;land and Scotland, wished to know whether there was
t::y objection to give in a particular statement what these inci
d.:.ts were ?
Mr. 1-1 I 1 SKISSON answered, that tinge 'was no objection to
:•7es'nr, such a atasenbeat.

Mr. WHARTON brought up the Rephrt of the Committee
upon the Expediency of reducing the Duties upon Spirits distilled
from Sugar in Ireland.—The Resolutions were agreed to, and a
Bill orderrd.

Lord TEMPLE withdrew the notite ke had given for this day,
for the production of certain papers respecting the Campaign in
Spain and Portugal ; which he was induced to do in consequence
of some of rhe•se papers having been laid before the House. The
Noble Lord al I took this opportunity of stating, that as, since he
had giv,.•n his notice of a motion for Tuesday, a number of papers
had been laid on the Table, which must from th it na urc, open
a wid,r field for observation, he thought it proper, in order to
pii7,rd mono fur examining these papers, to postpone his mo-
tion. He therefore would postpone it until an early day after the
recess.

Mr. WHITEREAD, from the same considerations which his
Noble Friend had mentioned, also postponed the motion of which
hr had given notice, until after the Holidays.
Lord CAS I LE REACH assured the House, that no delay that
was avoid iblt• had occurred in preparing the papers alluded to by
the Nobly Lord on the other side. It was expected that, by Mon-
day or Tuemlav, other papers required would be in readiness ;
and as. the Nt,Me Lord had postponed his motion until after the
Ilollidays, he should take care that the whole should be laid on
the Table, in the most correct shape.
Seven, accounts with regard to the advances made for the use
of our ari,iies in Spain and Portugal were presented by Mr. Hui:-
kit/in-I.—Ordered to he laid on the table and to be printed.
Ordered on the motion of Mr. Vasscrra a'r, that a Report
should be laid It.-fore the House of the proceedings of the Com-
missioners for making Roads and Bridges in the Highlands of

Scotland.
Sir ARTHUR WrIA.ZSLEY moved for leave to bring In a
Bill for completing the number of the Irish Militia, and supply•
ing the draft occasioned by the Act intro Weed by his Noble
Friend (Castlereagh) for transferring the service of some of the
Militia to the Line. '1 he Right Honourable Baronet described
his Bill to be of the same nature as that brought forward, with
'respect to the Militia of this part of the United Kingdom. It
was'proposed, that volunteers b !mild b.! sought for by the or-
dinary system of replacing the deficiency created in the militia,
but that it should be at the discretion of the Lord Lieutenant, if
to him it should seem meet, to resort to a ballot. Leave given.
The Report of the Irish Flax Seed Bounty Bill was received
attl agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time
on Monday.
Mr. GILES expressed a wish to know, whether any procoed-
ings bad yet bet n taken against Ds. Mayne, in consequence of
the lath Report of the Naval Commissiners ? This Report had
been for a considerable time before the Horse. It charged Dr.
Mayne with obtaining money by false cer rificates from the Sick
and Hurt Office, with which he had formed a contract ; and it
was desirable to ascei tain, whether th: Report had had any effect,
or was meant to lie a dead lctter? The Report of the Military
Commission had led to the prosecuton of another Gentleman,
and was not the Report, and the ca ,e he alluded to, entitled to
an equal degree of attention ?
Mr. ROSE assured the Honourable Member that proceedings
had been taken against Dr. Mayne, In consequence of the Report
referred to, and were going on as expeditiously as the ordinary
course of law woNI,I admit.
The I Trotie re...OIINA icto a Committee upon the Pension Duty
Bill ; in which a Resolution was adopted, upon the motion of
tae CHANCELLOR of tae EXCHEQUER, more effectually to pro-
vide for the collection of thz said duty.—The licuse resumed,
and the Report was ordered to be brought up on Monday; on
which day th-.:CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice of
hi; :.;tention to refer the Report to the Committee of Ways and

Ordered, on the motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, that an Ac-
count should be laid before the House of the Law Proceedings
carried on by the Trustees of the Linen Board in Ireland, for the
Recovery of the sums due in consequence of the embezzlement
of James Corry, formerly Secretary to that Board, and the result
theteef. Also a Copy of the Report of the Architects to the said
Board. The Rigid Honourable Baronet rave notice that, when
those papers should he presented, he should feel it his duty to call
the azit Orion of the House to the subjects to which they related.
• I've Irish Provision Bill was committed. Report on Monday.
Mr. PERCF.VAL moved that the House should, on Monday,
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the compensation to
he allowed to the officers of certain Registries of Records in hcot-
land, for the loss of fees, in consequence of a late regulation for
the better keeping of the Public Records in Scotland.—Ordered.
Mr. THOMSON moved that there be laid before the House a
Return of the Names, Ages, Residence, &c. &c. of Annuitants
under certain Irish Acts, of 1773, 4, and 5, together with the
l':atoes, Residence, &c. o' tl o et who signed the certificates of the
Nomine‘ S to those 4-Votaries, being alive in 1805.--Ordered.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT asked, whether the Ae for the Abo-
lition of certain Fees anti Customs had been executed in all the
Iports in England?
Mr. HUSKISSON replied, that there had not been time to
carry it into execution in all; but that it was in a fair train.
Sir JOHN N IiWPORT stated, that the inquiry was made with
a view to some improvements in Ireland.
Mr. HUSKISSON brought up the Annual Bill relative to Inn
keepers' Rates for Quartering Soldiers.—Read a first, and ordered
to be read a second time on Monday.
GENERAL CLAVERING.
The Serjeant at Arm; informed the Hcu,e, that,
in pursuance of their orders, he had taken General
Clavering into custody.
Mr. C. W. W. WYNNE then moved,
" That General Clavering having been found guilty of gross
prevarication before the Committee of th:t House, appointed to
Inquire into the conduct of his Royal Highness the Duke of %r oil,
he should, for the said offence, be committed to his Majesty's
gaol of Newgate, and that the Speaker do issue his warra it ac-
cordingly."—Orderell.
BROKERAGE IN THE SALE OF OFFICES.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
gave notice that he would on Monday move for leave
to bring in a Bill to prevent Brokerage in the Sale of
Offices, &c. .The .Right Honourable Gentleman also
statctla that he would, on the same day, in the Com-
mittee of iiupply, move some Resolutions relative to
the Regulation of our Foreign Customs.
MILITIA:
On the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, the
Order of the Day for the second reading of the Mi-
litia Completion Bill was read. He then moved that
the Bill he now read a second time.
Lord A. HAMILTON opposed the Bill altoge-
ther, as faulty in general politics, and ill calculated
to afford a great national defence. He particularly
objected to it, as being directly in contradiction of
an Act, 37th of Geo. 111. by which the House was
pledged, that no ballot should take place till January
1810. He concluded by moving an amendment, that
instead of the word " now," the words " this day
three months" he inserted.
Mr. GILES also opposed the Bill, as going on the
principle to recruit the army by larger bounties, and
at a greater expence to the country than in the usual
way, though that expence was not to be raised by
the Noble Lord or the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It had the appearance of raising men by compulsion,
whereas not above one man in 12 was raised by the
ballot ; the remaining 11 were substitutes, bought
at an immense expel ,e to the individual balloted.
It went to raise the price of men by sending 19,000
purchasers into the market, and the latter part of the
Act would defeat the first part, as no person would
enlist by beat of drum, while the expectation of an en-
suing ballot, which would increase thebounty, existed.
Colonel DUCKET, in a very neat speech opposed
the Bill ; but from his taking his place under the gal-
lery, we could not exactly ascertain his arguments.
After a few observations from Mr. LOCKMART and
Mr. BASTARD, the House divided.
For the Second reading now -
For the Amendment

_
Majority
The Bill was then read a 2d time, and, committed
for Monday.—Adjoursed.

THE EVENTING STAR..

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MARCH 25.
LADt-DAY.—No business done at the Stock Exchange.

AME RICA.

We this morning received New-York and other
American Papers to the iBth ult. inclusive, brought
to Falmouth by the Princess Amelia packet.
Another debate in Congress upon the grand ques-
tion of the Embargo has been fixed ror the 4E4 of
March.

'Upon the 6th of February Mr. RAsootrn made
a motion for arming all American vessels, in older
to enable them to resist the right of search assumed
by the Belligerents. Mr. RAN Dow' stated, that he
did not think this measure would produce a war with
Great Britain. The motion was referred to a Com-
mittee of the whole.

On the same day, a Resolution to the following
effect was brought forward by Mr. DUI{ F 1.1., and un-
animously carried : -" That the •:rst capture of an
American vessel, made by the Belligerents under their
Decrees or Orders in Council, shall be considered as
a declaration of war; and the American Minister
shall be forthwith recalled from the Country so of-
fending."

In the mean time two vessels were ordered to sail
for Europe With dispatches on the Ist of March.
Their names are the Mentor and Pacific. The Mentor
proceeds to France, and the Pacific to England, and
their arrival may be daily expected.

Private letters from New York, of the nth ult.
state, that it is generally believed that the Embargo
will be immediately taken off quoad neutrals, and re-
stricted to the countries actually at war.
Mr. BARCLAY, the British Consul at New York, has
come home in the packet, and it is said he is the
bearer of important dispatches from Mr. ERSRIRF...

Since the arrival of Mr. 13ARCLAY, it has been re-
ported that the Embargo is rescinded ; with this un-
derstanding, that, in the notification of this arrange-
ment, our Orders in Council will be repealed, so far
as they affect America. It is our duty to add, how-
ever, that no credit is attached to this report in the city;
nor do the private letters from America warrant the
assertion.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, Sir DAVID Dt Num held
his first publ!rday at the Commander-in-Chief's Office
siwce his appointment to that Office, and gave audi-
ences to about thirty General Officers. Among them
were, the Marquis of lii;Nmy, Lord CiatuYA, S'r
EYRE CoorE, Sir MARE Woon, General Bituraun,
General THORNTON, Lieutenant-General BAIA:m:1i,
&c. &c. Sir DAVID was dressed in full uniform, hut
received the Officers ont of Uniform. The Adjutant
and Qunter-Mastcr-General attend Sir Davin DLN-
DAS every day, at his Office.
_ _

We understand that Sir D. DUND IS is not to bold
the same appointment as that of the Duke of YORK.
He i; only to be Command;r in Chief, but net Cap-
tain-General of the Ling's Land Forces.

General CLAVERING, pursuant to the Order of the
House of Commons the preceding day, was yester-
day taken into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms,
and in the afternoon was thence committed to New
gate. A Vote of the House of Commons on Thurs.
day had declared him guilty of Prevarieation, on the
InvestiAation of the Duke of Yon k's case ; the punish-
ment now noticed was the consequence of that
Vote. General CLAVEItING was accompanied to New.
gate by his brother-in-law, Lord JOIIN CANIPBELL,
and immediately lodged on the State Side. Lord
Jorew CAMPBELL dined with the General to his new
apatements: The cavalcade to Newgate consisted of
two coaches, attended by Constables, &c. &c. in the
first of which was General CLAVERING, Lord .10/IN
CAMPBELL, and the Serjeant at Arms, or his Deputy ;
in the other were Mr. lleimsorseen, and Mr.Ocatz.vre,
Army Agent.
Letters dated the 20th inst. from Holland, state,
that a considerable degree of alarm has been excited,
by a demi-official intimation of the intention of Go-
vernment to rait.e 70,000 men on the plan of the
French conscription. When the letters came away,
it was understood that a Memorial was prep.-ring to
be presented to Louis, reminding him of the solemn
promise he had made, when raised to the throne, not
c' to concur in any measure repugnant to the wishes of
the people.
A new decree was about to be published, for the
more effectual prevention of commercial intercourse
with England, by which all persons concerned, are
to be rendered liable to corporal punishment. Up to
the 20th, no intelligence had transpired in Holland
of the actual commencement of hostilities between
France and Austria.; but it was the general sentiment
that war was inevitable.
From Oporto we have intelligence of the 2lth ult.
brought by passengers who came in the ADONIS. It
had Lain astertained that the Marquis de la ROMANA
• had still 17,000 effective troops. The advanced guard
was stationed at Orense,- whence the French had
fallen hack upon the province of Leon.
' Sir ROBERT WILSON, with about 1000 men, had
left Oporto, and on the 17th of' February alter had
arrived at a post between Salamanca and Placentia.
Another division under the command of the Portu-
guese General BERNARINE FIIIERA, was in the rear of
Sir Roemer ; these parties had been very successful
against the marauding detachments of the enemy in
that quarter. We learn with regret that the popula-
tion of Oporto is divided into tva) parties, the one at-
tached to English, and the other to French interests.
The movements of Sir ROBERT WILSON are corro-
borated by letters from the neighbourhood of Vigo.
They state that he was with the Lusitanian legion at
Miranda Castanar, between Salamanca and Placenti I,
on the 17th of February, where they were employe
I in keeping open the communication between the ire •
cruiting army of General ROMANA, at Chaves, and
flat under General CUESTA, which was then at the
bridge of Almarez on the Tagus.

THE ARMY:

An immediate embarkation of cavalry frr f,reigra
service, is ordered to take pLiCe ; it is supposed they
are destined foi the Tagus, or the southern parts of
Spain: among the regiments ordered for this service
are the 3d Dragoon Guards, and the 4th (Queen's
own) Dragoons, both from the Sussex to form
a brigade of heavy cavalry, under Major-General
PANE. This brigade, with the loth Light Dragoons,
are the first to be en:barked.

Farther detachments of the VW, 50th, .53d, 91st,
and 95th regiments, which were kit sick in die Mili-
tary Hospital at Gosport, have ti:is week joined Ll.eir
respective regimen!.; in tkis district.

Lieutenant-C, I,)nel BRADFORD of the 87th Foot, is
apnointcd Assistant Adjutant-General on the Staff of
the Kent district, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel
Lord A viNER.

Four divisions of troops, viz. the Foot Guards, the
38th, thel2d,ani part of three other regiments fatelf
pass .d through Wareham, in Dors tshir.f. rn their re,
tom fr.-m Spaia.—The inhabitants of th.t place, be-
treating each min with a pint of beer, made a
liberal subscription on b,thall of the sick and die fes.
milei. None of the troops left the town without ex-
pressing in a grateful manner their thanks to the in-
habitants—the Guards and the 42d gave them three
chAtrs on marching out.
M:4nday the Rochester and Chatham Volunteers,
commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel TWOPENY, and
lately forming a part of the North A ylesford Legion,
assembled on their parade, at Chatham, and wet e in-
formed, that a letter had been received by their Com-
manding Officer, directing that the members of the
corps should deliver in their arms and accoutrements,
his MAJENTY not hiving any furtheG occasion for
their serviceF. A short time since the three compa-
nies, commanded by M tjor Ttiomsos, received a
notice to the same effect ; as did also the troop com-
manded by Captain TYLDEN.
Monday, the llth regiment, (2d battalion) marched
front Chatham barracks for Maldon, Essex.

Tuesday Lieutenant ROBERT MILNES, of the Derby
Militia, was buried at St. Nicholas Church, in Ips.
with, with military honours. He was an amiable
young man, and highly respected by his Brother
Officers.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

(Continuedfrcm our last.)

INSTRUCTION FROM LORD CASTLEREAGH TO SIR JOHN

v:irril REsPEcr TO THE OPERATIONS OF THE

I,:lrisH ARMY IN SPAIN.

No. LXXX.

Copy of a Letter from Viscount Castlereagh to lieutenant Gene-
ral Sir John Moore.
Sin, • Downing-street, Nov. 14, 1808.
With the exception of the four regiments of cavalry, and two
troops of horse artillery, wh.-11 are under orders to embark upon
the return of the horse transports from
From Portugal 43,7 4 5 Corunna, your army, consisting of the
f It:eland 14,11;: numbers stated in the margin, will,
U. +airy; ei.%:.togo 2,760 t rt,,t, by the time this dispatch shall
rt-ach you, have assembled on such
41.(1G(; points of the Spanish frontier as may
---- have been concerted with the Spanish
Government,land be preparing to ad-

VaTICC.

In entering upon service in Spain, you will keep
in mind this the British army is sent by his Majesty
as an auxiliary force to support the Spanish nation
against the atternots of Bonaparte to effect their sub-
jogation. You will use your utmost exertions to as-
sist the Spanish armies in subduing or expelling the
enemy from the peninsula, and, in the conduct of
your con:mand, yon will conform to the regulations
hereafter stated with respect to the question of mili-
tary rank, and your intercourse with the Government

of Spain.
In framing •hcse instructions, it is necessary dis-
till:rly to provide, first, for the case of the Spanish
;,,v,:nment havinqr entrusted the command of their
,n-raics to a Generalissimo or Commander in Chief;
ant!, srcondly, fcr the case which has hitherto existed,
of dictiv,:t atinies, each commanded by its own Ge-
ticral.

Sly•nld the Spanish Government appoint a Com-
mander in Chief of all their armies, the necessity of
which appointment every day's experience appears to
demonstrate, you will consider yourself as placed un-
der the orders of that officer.

If the .:mies of Spain should remain, as they have
hitherto done, under their respective Chiefs, the co-
operation of the British army must, in that case, re-
main to be settled as a matter of concert by you with
'the Commanders of the respective armies of Spain,
in connection with whom you may be carrying on

operations.
When the officers of the British and Spanish armies
meet on service, they must take rank according to
the dates of their respective commissions, without re-
ference to the powers from whom those commissions
are derived, provided such commissions are at present
acknowledged by the Supreme Government of Spain.
You arc to consider that the British force under
your command is intended to act as a field army, to
be kept together as far as the circumstances of the
war will permit ; and that all orders from the Com-
mander in Chief, proCeeding either directly or
through his Staff, are to be given to the British army
through you, as its immediate Commander ; but it is
not to be separated into detachments, nor any detach.
ment to be made from it but with your entire con-
currence, and by your express order. It is not to be
employed in garrisons, whereby a material diminu-
tion would be made of its effective strength in the
rich!, nor to be occupied in sieges without your par-
ticular consent.

Whenever you shall have occasion to make any
comtmnic ttion to tho Spanish Government, you are
to eon e! pond with it through the Minister at Ma-
drid, and all communications from the Spanish Go-
vernment are to be made to you through the same
thal;;),.l ; and although communications, either from
tits :;p wish Govornment or the British Minister, are
not to be considered by yen as in the nature of or.
do;-3, you will nevertheless receive such requisitions
or re prc.entations, upon all occasions, with the utmost
dPro::ce. and attcntien ; and in case you shall feel it
your d 7to dissent from them, you will take care to
7eprcsent, in the fatst mintier, your reasons for so
doing, :Is \veil to the British Minister, for the infor-
mation f,f the Spanish Government, as to the Govern-
ment at Ernie. . .

You are also to kee, v' a constant and intimate
correspondence \!ith the Bt:tish Minister, and to co-
operate is the most cordial manner with him in car-
rying or, the public service.
Should any difference of opinion arise on impor-
tant military subjects between on and the Spanish
Ccinmander in Chief, Villl ate to consider it your duty
to pay obedience, in the firs: instance, to the orders
von may receive ; but you wiil, if you should think
it neassary, make a representation thereupon, through
the British Minister, to the Supreme Government of
Spain, as also to me, for his Iklajesty's information.
As it is of peculiar importance at the present mo-
ment that his Majesty's Government should receive
early, regular, and detailed reports of your proceed-
ings, I am to desire that you will make it a rule to
acidaiss a dispatch to me at least once in every week,
or much of as any occurrence of sufficient im-
portance may arise, always being careful to send du-
plicates of the preceding dispatch by the subsequent
conv cvance.

It '‘‘ id be most grateful to his Majesty to find that
the intercourse between the British army and the
Spaniards has been invariably distinguished by marks
of reciprocal confidence and kindness. His Majesty
camot doubt that the most exemplary discipline will
he otw.Tved, and his Majesty commands me particu-
larly to enjoin the utmost re petit and 2eterence should
b. she'vn by his Li oops upon all oceosions towards the
manners and customs A the Spanish Nation. His
Majesty trusts that the example and imlnence of the
Officers will be directed to inspire that sentiment
throughout every branch nt thc army. I have the
honour to be, Sze. (Signed) CASTLEREAGH.
'lO Lieut. Cvner.d Sir 3,,bn %%me. N. B. &e.

No. SB, eakins Sir I),:via B•iird to urge the Spa-
niard', to put lerrol in a qate of defence, to prevent
it from tailing into the hands of the enemy,

ate t.. 1 inform the Nobilit7. Cimnoissettrs
and artists, tirit the sale of all Mr. SuLuAtv's valuable
Miniutiire,
.I.incy and Historical Subjects, has been

- [postponed till Monday next, the 27th instant, when
I.:a! Sale will take place by Mr. Coxi, at Mr.Wigley's
great room M Spring Gardens, at one o'clock pre-
- eiselv ; and that, in the mean time, the Public will
have the ple.r:liri! of two days more view of those ex-
suisitely iinil,hed ler:on:names.