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THE LITERARY GAO/ITV{ AND JOURNAL Or VIZ
Bawls LITTRES, Sec.—The Thirteenth Number of
this interesting new Weekly Paper, contains, among
other articles—
Portraits in High Ilk No. T.•' the Chief of the Rymri ; Mo.
Jena Poets; Thomas Campbell, interesting Account of
Den Giovanni; Discoveries in the Anibrosian Library at Milan ;
Discovery of Ancient Roman Letters; De Pm& on the Spanish
Colonies • French Translation of Lunn ; Milli° Voyage dens
le Milan:is; New Theory of the World; Crocodiles and Tor-
toises of the Mississippi; Dr. M•Lean, respecting his Experi-
ments on the Plague at C.oustantittople; Sketches of Society;
Fashionable Dialatities, &c.; Manes Francalses.—Britias
Drama t Mr. Booth, Riphi Rey, Conquest of Taranto.—French
Opera indien.—Observations on the Mode of rewarding high and
efillaient Political Services ; numerous Articles of Literary and
Fashionable Intelilgeuce, Ste. &c. &ea
Mare Man two Prizes ie one Blast' ! Sixteenths Tamer
e1:6416114p each I nide 85 cheaper I Fear Pilaw .ff
820,000 each, Money and Consolsi—Manizu and
CO. 8, Cornhill, and its;ostorti-strest, respectfully beg leave to
acquaint their Friends and the Public, that in a few Der the
Wheel gees round, and the Scheme undoubtedly possesses greater
advantagestbsn were eveC contatned in any former Lottery.—
in a previous tottery, when there were ONLY Two Prizes 6f
.C 20,000, MARTIN sod CO. sold them both.—Tickets and Shares
in greet variety, are on sale as abotro—Orden from the Country
punctually attended to. •

This day is the Anniversary of Bren's great success
inthe year 1815, see had almost said his extraordinary
success, but ahy good fortune on his part will not
bear that interpretation. as be invariably takes the
lead on that point. Though for one Office keeper ;o
sell all the Grand Capitals in the Sdisme would, if it
was not fresh in our recollecti4k, appear rather mar
venous; what we allude to is the Numbers 9882 and
4544. both drawn Prizes'of Thirty Thousand Pounds
on the 19th of April, 1815, and No. 1406, drawn alto
a £30,000 Prize on the 15th of that month, all three
of which were sold.and -shared by Btsn. Previous to
that period his fame for selling Capitals was well
known ; and rams it must be remembered lie has dis-
ked of 2 Prizes of £50,000, 2 Prizes of £40,00u,
1 Pr4e of 490,000, besides an immense number of
£2o,oooVand minor Capitals; and we should not be
surprized if he sold all the Ft ua £20,000 Prizes in
the Lottery which begins the 90th of this month ;
for be sold the 2 Grand Capitals in then last Lottery,
and $0 Capital% in that Contract, being (as usual)
greater in iludsbernad antouat thin those sold by al
the other Offices.

THE EVEN ING STAR.

I.ONDON.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1817.
PRICE OF STACKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE n.cr.ocK
Co. 7241—D0. for Account, 7241—Reduced 71if
5 per Cent. Navy, 10q1-4 per Cent. 884 k
Exchequer B.lla 11.. 2113. pr.—lndia Ronda dill 68 pre.

The Select Committee of the House of Commons

on Finance, have this day issued their Second Re-
port. It is entirely occupied with the Military De-
partment of the Public Service, in which it points
ont a great variety of very important improvements
that may be made, both in point of regulation and
expense. In our preceding columns we have given
some Considerable extracts from it, and shall endea-
vour to add the rest in our publication.

Government, without noise or bustle, have per-
formed a most acceptable service for Ireland. Indeed
ny thing like parade on the occasion, by setting the
monopolists to work, would have retarded, it not
defeated the object. There was a known deficiency
of seed-corn—and even of potatoes. Of the forma
Article, abundant supplies were obtained from the
Baltic, and from various ports of Germany. Wheat
and potatoes have likewise been shipped from Eng-
land for the same quarter.

A Boston Paper received this morning, one day
later than those which reachecl us on Wednesday
contains another letter from St. Thomas, which states,
that the vessel belonging to BRION% squadron seized
by a Danish brig of war, having been condemned.)
bad caused great alarm in that island, as it was feared
that the Independents might, in revenge, actually
seize on the island, and there was no-force there that
could prevent them.
Admiral BuroN, with the main squadron, and Ge-
neral BOLIVAR had gone up to Margaretta, whence
they expected to attack the Caraccas ; and when
these accounts left St. Thomas' (16th February),
Some Spanish men of war were expected from Bar-
celona, a French corvette froirs Guadaloupe, and an
English frigate from Barbadoes ; a Danish brig was
lying there, and they expected a visit from the Inde-
pendents, ao that they were apprehensive of some dis-
turbances.

In Another column we have given some interestiog
detals from hlezico ; with some official intelligence
respecting the Royal flotilla on the coast of Vene-
zuela. Every arrival of intelligence from South
America convinces us more and more that the cause
of Old Spain is now entirely hepele4.

We have this morning received the Paris Papers
from the 16th to the IGth inhant inclusive. The fol
lowing are the only notices of any interest :

PARIS, APRIL IS.

.The Prince de Broglio, Bishop of Gand, intends
proceeding to Rome after passing same time in Bur-
gundy. He is not in Paris; it is at St. Denis that
he has been stopping some days.
The Emperor of Russia has advanced M. Pon°
di Borgo to the rank of Lieutenant• General. The
rescript in' which this mark Of distinction has been
announced, h conceived in the mod flattering and
honourable t: rms.

The Duke of Orleans, with his family, arrived this
evening at the Palais Royal. _

The King having rematked it his Levee yesterday
Lieutenant-General Oudenarde, Lieutenant of the
Company of Noailles, called him to him, and testified
publicly his satisfaction at his late conduct.

We are assured that Prince Talleyrand will de-
part ler Valenyty in the course of this week.

FRANKFORT, APRIL 9.

The ci•devant King of Sweden continues to reside
here, but lives very retired.
HAMBURG% APRIL Q.

It now appears certain that a plot was formed
against the Prince Royal of Sweden, which was to
have been putin execution on the 13th of last month.
A masked ball had been announced for that day, at
which the Prince Royal and his son were expected to
be present, and the conspirators had resolved to em-
brace that opportunity of attempting their assassina-
tion. The Prince Royal was informed by an anony-
mous letter of the traiterous design, and immediately
called a Council of State, which sat till morning.
The night passed tranquilly—the ball took place—
but the Princes did not attend. Nothing has since
occurred to disturb the public peace, nor as it certain
that any arrests have taken place.

The report that. a Treaty, unknown to and unan.
thorized by the Spanish Government, in Europe, has
been concluded between the Government of the
' Brazils and the Independents of Buenos Ayres, has
suddenly acquired some additional countenance from
an article in a PariaJournal, under the head of Madrid.
By tl e original Report, it was given out that the
Buenos Ayres Congress bad ceded to the Portuguese
an extensive territory, in return for some great ad.
vantages promised to the latter, but whether of ac.
tive assistants in their struggle for independence, or
of mete neutrality, we are nut informed. The article
in the French Papers, which, for aught we know, may
be of Parisi manufacture, says, 64 l'he equivocal ex-
pedition of the Portuguese against Buenos Ayres and
'Monte Video has caused less dread to the Insurgents
than it has perhaps excited distrust in the Spanish
Cabinet. It Would be strange if the only result of
the invasion projected by the Court of Rio Janeiro, on
the frontiers of South America, should be to kindle
war in the Peninsula between us and Portugal. -How-
ever, Though they have talked of some military
preparations at Lisbon, • nothing hitherto announces
on our part the least -doubt of the preservation .of a
good understanding with our ntighbeurs.!

The Madrid letters and Gazettes complain bi!ttt:y
octet receiving any acoountstrom tht Infexican c T..-
tal,Pfor the list ten months, .and ,inured with great
reason, if they dared to state the real causes oi i!;;s
silence. Though welialie not been mach more fo,
tunate ourielves, as far as relates t.. the iti.,aior, we
are nevertheless enabled to lay before i.tar Read. is
translation of an authentic letter wt ith.n by an 7.,1,
pean Spaniard, of the highest &ciection
dolid, Mechoacan, one of the pr./minces of Nl:::aca
most contiguous to the South Seas. It is itd..!teb%,,e
to his friend, high in office in the Pen.nstila ; and h..
sides containing the latest inft.rni.tion Iron. the in.
rior of that secluded country, it describes the s.
and object of the revolution in the most candid at.
undisguised m inner, and conveys a perfet.t as we..
as impartial idea of the Royal cause.
After recommending it to the periital of the par-
zans for mediation, we have onlyone remat k n. 4.
onitscontents, and tha: is, that the ss liter seen.. •I,
no conception of the imn:iinse supplies of all. • iltj
stores the insurgents of Merle,' have been able
tain Within the last year, as well the naval Anna.
ment they have organized since :he possessiol,
Matagorda, w hich no doubt would !Mit! A pu.ciiiiviit
feature in the writer's nest cornmenica.ioit to
friend at home, nor should we be sorry it a
event placed it witoin out reach:
tirrltit IVlttrriol iv A Stilk,PeAti sfANlAntlit.

SOUTH AMERICA.

TO LIS fItIENO IN l'He. I'IOAINSUL•A•

• Valladolid (Mexico) Lo.e 5, ter
DRAII Ft:mu—l:um the very cwitnieneeo
of the insurrection in this kingdona it has' iiti.gtee.
sirely increased,• and we are now deioid of ail !ores
of being Aske to suppress it. The remedies
might have beets res., te.l to for the ptirp..:e of stok -
ping this-glee( evil to Spain; art raw sled, AIL' at
• the present day none of them can be us.d. I
King's treasury daily beconies mire enti:.y.
Mint ot Mexico, which certainly ,i,ay be sLe.ovsit„,
best criterion, last year only cooled s, vets ntillin,., .
&dart, but this year it will nit c, i.t six, and ben.,e
the !evolution the coinage annually was 'A.
interior taxes, called alcaiala:, at.d which as: ;.
on the produce o 1 tf,e country and other things b. id,
do not now produce one-filth of their lorntet amount.
01 the tributes exacted from the Intaians mithait
collected, for scarcely an eighth pail of their teriirae-
ries is under the. King's Government ; snd it the in-
digenes were ceimpeited to pay tribute, they would
immediately go over to the insurgents. The roma
detived from the tobacco monopoly is scarcely any
thing, because the greatest part of this a, tick cilia
sumed is contraband, and the insurgetis have
sides made large plantations of it. 'l') t: es .ire in
a miserable state, since out of the fifty eti,u le is tie.
_ ._ longing to this Bishopric of Vall el I .id a.iic., pa id
this impost, thirty-seven are in possession c f ~he tit.
Isorgents; and out of the remainder in %hid
Royal tronpiare stationed, some produce very small
tythes, and others none, because the gerrisAls do crt
dare to quit the towns, and all the country is at C.:
will of the insurgents. The same is the case in tiis
Bishoprics of La Puebla, Mexico, and Hoe:act; ti.ose
of Guadalaxars, Durango, and Monterey. have n•it
.suffered so much,,but beyond all doubt t..ey h ive, ex.
perienced a reduction of at-least one halo' at their 1..-
mer revenue. •

".Not to be too tedious, I do not enumerate a ca.
riety of cases relating to the Royal treasury, tri.ra
which it would result that its annual recuipts are rct
equal to one fourth of what they used to be, and in
this province of Valladolid they do not reach cite.
tenth. The other resources which at first were seized
upon, such as the church plate, as writ as that cf
private persons, donations, voluntary and fweed
loans, &c. are now completely at an end. No plate
is to be seen any where ; no body is found willing to
give, lend—nor indeed has any one any thing to
give or lend, even if they were disposed. As ail the
persons belonging to the Royalist party see their
exertions and sacrifices have been useless, no cne is
inclined to persist in them, hence does it happen, that
the ardour by which many were before animated in
the King's cause, has been completely extinguished,
and each Royalist now concentrates himself within
his own affairs.

" The King's troops, according to the statements
I have seen, are not less that thirty thousand under
pay, besides twenty thousand vuluctecrs, but wlio in
reality are no other thart forced conscripts. Of the
first nut more than one-third are native born S2l-
- the rest are Creoles, acid consequently cannet
be trusted out of sight. But of what avail is the
parade on paper ? The expeditions performed With
these forces to Various points, produce no effect : rt
general they are no other than military parade:. .1
division goes forth, marshes about for a nv.,nth,
a few insurgents, loses some odd soldiers, ex,ent'l
twenty thousand dollars, and then comes back to 0;`.:
capital to seek for more money ; whilst the proyi;:c:
which had been the theatre of these maiiceuvres 3
left in a worse condition thuvrbefore, owing to the
robberies and outrages of the King's troops; whence
it results, that similar expeditions every day trAc
less impression among the people. From the time
the insurrection first commenced, the Kir,g's frogs
have entered twenty-seven times into Pasquare ; a:.l
Pasquaro is at the present moramt equally as hair
gent as it was at the beginning. The opi!iion
Waned) actuated many is favour of the King, is
now greatly diminished emigrants have beet cu-
mesons, and indeed they would be more so if there
were not so many obstacles. At the present day ao
mass of the population gravitates towards indrece
dente, and at length we Spaniards must be cre-!*.tql
by its weight, which daily becomes greater. T?:5
infallibly must happen if a force does not arrive
from the Peninsula, not of 5 or of 10,000, but of 2.0
or 30,000 men. If not, nothing will be obtained, fer
one action is gained and another lost—one point IS
gatrisoued whilst another is ungarrisoned—ard thusshall we remain under continual alte'natives and re-
dactions, and the final result of this must be the de-
struction of the King's troops, and the iii,;erendeoee
and emancipation of this kingdom from his Itopi
dominion.
" The seizure and death of some of tht: Inturgeol
Chiefs is of no consequence, nor discs it in ..ay.vl4l
diminish the ardour at those who aspire to die ende-
pendente of their country. The Spanish Conn..'
nicat must not feed thanselves on vain but.'' ur

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worm rounded esly on good tvishet The
now divested themselves of all those
formet:s operated as obstacles to
z 'Fite proelt• here no longer beliese
I 4,1 hurit, !sot divine origin; and they
,vo! the roost legal rights to be inde-
haat all cry obi that the dominion
„, , ,toce the conquest has been no other
.ssni!ii usurpation. anti against these doctrines
.;I: ecc!esiastical censure are now of no avail.
it that insurrection spreads and takes

„Jil,! trey day we have less force to tear it op.
h• d system of many of the military Chiefs
They do not adopt proper mea-
.)- core provisions and other supplies; they
;.• w,vtich every thing friim those whq remain
„kt if:. Ring hr main force; continually enp-i
~ ,ou, Ate exacted Irons them, they are compelled
ty arms and serve for nothing, for which rea•
.! thy, tited of endttring these relations, pass
ctr to :he Insurger,ts, and the towns and villages in
:f One King's arms gradually become de-
whereAs those held by the Insurgents fare
.rII, for they neither pay a Icabalas,. tributes,

nor any thing else. They also enjoy the
• and traffic freely. If at any time their Ge-
ne:mem levies any contribution upon them It is very
1'74. Here it ii a common proves*, that it is better
Insweent than a vassal of Ferdinand VII.
besiJea anitOter most erroneous matim
;, „.;TG ,vernetent, which brings great evils upon us,
e.. ,ieveeing the pubic opinion ; and this is, the'lit7
re.itc ty observed in our Gazettes. Curati jrorres,
I se :•.f.tive :aim -gent Chief, by them has been do
fißeen efiles, but he is still in the country
iv,v,.t;: a upon him. The same happens
Insurgent Chiefs. The dissentions
arming them are now at a close, the cotn-
r. (14.1ger obliges them to unite, and the rancour
e;,l iless towards us, is an antidote to allay the
they may have among themselves. ' The
• Curia Toms lately visited the town of Copero,
ti t' he entered into an understanding and made his
:.f..;earats ..sith the chief of the name of Rayon.
the partisois im this quarter have redoubled
-rr energies, and are recruiting men with all haste.
no great abundance of arms, anal, this is
the c.os of their not having :ended with as betore
ea. The King's, pardons produce no effect, lor
I.irti the experieace 44 the past, the Itistirgents view
ram in no new light than as an artifi4e to catch and
ettiti:e esetei. .Tney are ennArtned..in this idea by
tsc limitations or time, and other clauses inserted in
rnJ above all, the h•irrid dread they have of
Lillie; into the hands of the Anqulsition, causes them
to b.• .leaf every measure intended to divert them
tem their main object.
e Die threedeurtks of the whole population of this
Eldora aspire to hEependence. We possess some
tier. s, tow lit and the capital, as well at the point of
Vera Cruz; but erns is little compared to what the
Insurgents hold, since if the former have an opportu-
which possibly may happen, they would unite.
vidithc lair, for they. are.all made up of combusti-
bk m itter, which is, an anxious wish fur independenCe.
• The•poitita of COpero, Mexcala, Cliimilpass and
dojo, which the Insurgeute held, subsist; as if each
of mew was a Gibraltar. We exceed them is disci-
pline and tactics, but nut in courage. • We are also
better r.:aipped with every aqicte,of of„ ward but they
rams us in numbers and activity, and in a short
time they will be superior to us in every thing, unless
the whole knee I have above mentioned arrives from
Spelt. Tneir well-armed infantry is small, but their
cavalry is snore numerous and better, end on it they
place their ester reliance. The Ring's troops cannot
go oat in small divisions, for instantly the Insurgents.
nimble atid destroy them ; neither can they fir or
deeper, e, since they would all peiish and be cut off.
In short, the war carried on here is in every thing
similar to that lately waged in Spain, with this dif-
ference, that here we are what the French Were there.
I shall continue to communicate to you, when I have
a sate opportunity, every thing worthy of notice."

SiPC the abnve was made ready for the Press, we
hate, t.: ffitigh the Fretich Papers, received the fol-
lowing •' counts, the fiat part of which seems to be
COpied Iron a Madrid t.asirtts. as the statement refers;
to the Spanish t)thei4l accounts It c.iitfertes. how-
ever, the defeat ut the Royal flotilla
Matiato; Aran 1•
" A digitate-14 fisted the 17th of September Oust. addressed to
the Minister of Manne,antiouncts that the Royal flotilla, which
crests on the coast of Vent suns, bas compelled the rebel Bo•
MAIL to abai.duo these pane. It appear , from the 96th Buie
inks of tht hapeulitionary Army, of date the 14th of September,
that tbe brigantine Intrepid, moimmided by Lieut. Don WILMA.
zed the gallon La Rita, cowman/aid by Lieut. Don °came,
hue bad a meet obstinate engag meet with seven gailion usder
the ordsn of the pirate Admiral 1.181031. 'libels two ships, when
or the North of Marguerite, were attacked by all the force of
the relate; they fought with a fur y of which there are few ei-
aPP:et to history. Ihe intrepid held out for three hours against
'tree of the enemy's ships of superior force, repelled three at.
teciptsti. board, lose ate ti;otomatolst, sad Pettit al' its crew, by
sunen.:rtits ; only four men remained when she as taken
;otension at.. 'I he La Ilia having had Its Commander kiln d at
the beilaning of the socials, wasonable to resist three .hip,, the
tretre "gth of each of "whirls superior to its own.
• combat has destuusmeleillhat. members alone eats make the',,
rebels triumph.
" 'Re Reyat frigatelbsguilig has delayed departute foe
11!"i r, en accoent of nine oeseibliller semen which are going on,
hurt I_,:s"
"i 0) to tee sane 46111111111110. Another convoy will
uturwards carry use MINI troops to Peru. The Govan-
ftrct reserves a profound silence as to what panes in that Vies-
T 7311; nothing hue tranpired of the divinities received by the
lists %%Lich freckly entered at Cada firm Lima.
It is • loos *Aar a'ro since we have heard any thing of
eti-u and %try 4i:4m...trate reports are spniad.with respect
tr the pest of America. 'I be last letters Irons the iimannak
rent:tri: tome uutiontierahle emigrations from Mexico to the
and Jarman', of k.urepean families, who are re-
irons the dangers of a theatre of war. We are assured
`,;": tt r miaow of the personage whitest out some days note from
..-adld to Location, is contacted with the affsirs elf Anterica.".

It is fry r.ed that Government have prohibited
3rd COCHRANE from proceeding to South America,
in a slap o the force sistich he lately purchased for
t:lat f, cpose.
Anotier original Scots Peerage has become extinct
I, ate death of the Earl of Henget/an, who died at
L
• sec, Mauldshe Castle, Lanarkshire, on Friday
at'light, in the 60th year of his age. Sir J. As.,
"I"Haa, Ban. succeeds to the klyndford estates:
a, we have already observed, is now extinct.
fvf days shrew, the Bev. Jeha Ash Sturgis, Curate
.f
S.. g itr, was fully committed to Maidstone Gaol,
uT imitsirdir ...:ttrars, Esq. of Tenter-den, %for trial
!I the hest As a s tor gent, on a charge of bigamy.
▪ Ge..tiem was married about tercive months
sit'cv to Miss litivit.AN:A, of Cilatelbary.