Star.
London, England, 1811-09-23 00:00:00

Martiß Cam late of Plymouth, Devon, but sew of Lbw'NCl
merchant, dealer and chapman, October 14, at eleven, at the
Globe Tavern, Liverpool.—John Hodgson, of Birmingham, met.
chant, October 19, at twelve, at the Stork Two's, in the Square,
Banaingham.
CERTIFICATES, OCTOBER It
Susannah Bailey and Thomas Bailey, of Hanwell-heatb, Middle-
sex, chandlers and copartners.
Jonathan Fox, of Coleman •street-buildings, London, merchant.
Joseph Cooper, of Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, tanner.
Joi.n Patrick, of Mary-la-Bonne-street, Piccadilly, linen-draper.
Thomas Mather, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, oilman.
Francis Brown Wright, of l.iverpool, stationer.
Daniel Allies, of Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, Middlesex,
fancy trimming-maker.
GeorCe Dicker, of Non istawton, Devon, serge. maker.
Richard Sweudall, of Bristol, dialer and chk.man.
Peter Beaker, of Dover, Kent, mealman.
John Dawes, Wm.. Noble, Richard Henry Croft, and Richard
Barwick, late of Pall-Mall, hankers and copartners.
FRENCH PAPERS.

FINANCES OF ENGLAND.
ARTICLE TRANSLATED FROM A GERMAN JOURNAL.
The financial measures of which the English Mi-
nisters procured the adoption in Parliament, during
its-last Session, are of a character so singular, that
they cannot escape general attention. We perceive
in them
The creation of a Paper Money, by giving bank-notes
a fOrced circulation (1). .
The abolition of the law wiich imposed on the Bank the
obligation to recommence its payments in specie two year:
afters pea:e. This is a necessary consequence of the
preceding measure ; for Banknotes, become repres
sentative signs, • are no longer susceptible of conver-
sion into specie ; a thing, besides, impossible, when
we consider the numerous issues of notes that will
take place in rapid succession (2).
The depreciation of Me Coin. The pound is actually
coined at 16s. instead of 20s.—a measure evidently
' adopted in order to place gold and silver on a level
with the existing value of Bank-notes, which are at a
' discount of 20 per cent. The export of gold and sil-
leer is thus hoped to be prevented ; for, according to
the old proportion between gold and notes, alf.s fin
(notes may be purchased for se4 sterling in gold. ,
The solemn declaration, that England being no longer
able to pay off her debts, most confine herself to se-
curing the payment of the interest ; which is in effect
saying to the English—lf you mean to receive the
interest of the funds lent to Government, you must
accept of paper money (3).
' The necessary result of these data is—that the
English Ministers have changed their system of fin-
Lance, and propose that the system of loam should
give place to that of paper money.
All enlightened men have foreseen that the infal-
lible and combined system upon which the French
' Government pursued its attack upoa English mono-
poly must sooner or later sap the system of loans is
Its very basis—public credit: Its predictions have
been strikingly accomplished ; the facts which we
have enumerated leave no doubt of it, and equal the
most brilliant victories which could have been obtain-
ed. The acknowledgments torn from the English
Ministers themselves are real spolia opima, for they are
a conquest gained over what the English hold most
dear—their credit.
But what were the events which convinced Minis-
ters that their credit began to fail, and that it was
time to abandon a system which no longer had any
support ? The Ministers are silent ; let us endeavour
to penetrate the darkness in which they love to wrap
themselves.
It is well known that the Enlist Government
ti
employed the house of Goldschmit, of London, to
Lnegotiate its loans in the Stock Exchange, and to
[exchange them for money. Goldschmit advanced
to Government considerable sums in money, and
in bills of exchange payable at the times when he
depended on receiving from Government the funds
' which he had advanced. But whether the loan pro-
-1 ved unsuccessful, or Government was under the ab.
'solute necessity of otherwiie employing the funds
destined for the payment of their banker, Goldschmit
failed to receive them at the time agreed upon, and
found it impossible to pay his bills, of exchange, and
satisfy the bankers who had assisted him with their •
advances. There was only one resource left him—
that
was, to expose the inability of Government, and
to demand a delay; but what a scandal, what humi-
liation
for the Ministry! Goldschmit preferred taking
the shame of the event upon himself, in order to save
if possible the honour of the Government, at the ex-
pence of his personal credit.
The English Ministers have escaped, as it were, by
a miracle, from n danger so imminent, perceiving that
there would be too much risk in any longer making
the movements of the machine of politics depend up-
on springs which were worn out by long friction. A
second embarrassment of the same sort with that
from which the heroic devotedness of Goldschmit ,
delivered them might prove fatal, because the bankers GENERAL ORDERS.
would be more cautious in their advances, and it 0 Head Quarters at Cintra, August Iti, 1811.
was not probable that a second Codrus would step " His Excellency the Marshal having learn...l that
in to save them. I there are some officers who are too familiar not only
The matter then was—to replace the borrowini 5.r- with the serjeants, but even with the privates, his Ex-
tern by another. 1 cellency cannot help observing, that this familiarity,
There are only three modes of providing for the ha-aides being indecorous, and not conformable to the
wants of a State : t dignity of officers, is incompatible with subordination
Ist. By a good organization of Me system of contribts-!and the due respect with which soldiers ought to look
tions and imposts ; but this system, pursued by France, :up to their superiors. It is far from being his Excel.
would have been insufficient for a Government whose lency's meaning that officers shoold behave in a harsh
pretensions are so greatly beyond its natural re. and forbidding manner towards the sedum: and pri.
sources: to adopt this system, (the safest of all,) it vates, on the contrary, he wishes them to be treated
would be necessary for England to renounce her . with all proper attention—nor does he mean to insi-
usurping claims. , 'mate, that serjeants are persons of slight considera-
'2d. Ify loan:; but they require credit, and Eng-
tion ; it is only his Excellency's object, that each
land lia,. lust experienced•that the most extensive cre- class should keep within those limits which are ne-
dic has its limits., cessary to maintain becoming decorum, and to pre-
3d. By the crostini al a paper money. As this was serve that respect upon which military subordination
the only expedient that remained to the, En discipline depend. The seneants in like manner
r.t.g lish Go-
vernment, it had no other choice left, andE parliament ought not to associate too familiarly with the privates,
adopted this system, contrary to its own convictions. and are reprehensible for a contrary conduct.
Such has been at all times the financial-career of ' " MoziNno, Adjutant• General."
weak Governments. They borrow when their ex- GENERAL ORDERS.
pence; exceed their ordinary income, and they create a " Head Quarters at Centra, August 18, 1811.
;paper money when they can, no longer find crOt for . 14 His Excellency the Marshal, in consequence of
their lamb. For some months the EnglishGOvern. the alterations which take place in regard to the as-
mem will experience no great difficulty la, meeting sembling of the regiments of militia, and their return
its enormous expenditure ; but is there in all Europe, to their homes, has determined that, during the war,
and even in England, one rational beitig who does even when they are not assembled, they small trans-
(t.) (2.) Ste Lora Stanhope's 13d1 011 the Circulation of Gold, mit to the Adjutant-General monthly returns of their
and aat of hank netts, agreei won the nth of July by the House • gone, in place of quarterly ; and that always, on the
ut Lords, and on ;be 15th by the Commons, red the debates regiments being assembled, or on their return to their
which took place in Parliament Ca that occasion, in deferent
nunitieis of tile Journal de l'Empire. the day of their assemblage or return shall be sepci-
(3.) See the Debates In raalitant wista ths litOsst was &CI 11) gm Monthly return. .
breePtferward. !
.0 Moms°, Adjutgalt-General.''

PORTUGUESZ PAPERS.

LISBON, AUGUST 26.

The Spanish Paper called the Redartar Genera!, of
the 7Lh, contains the following article :
4, It is said that General Apodaca has transmitted
from London a copy of the Propositions made by Bo-
naparte to the English Government, and that they
were laid before the Cortes in the last Secret Sittings.
According to report, these propositions are incompa-
tible with the honour and dignity of the British pe0p1,..,
and still more so with the resolution of the Spanish
people, since they contain a plan for dismembering
the Spanish Monarchy. The territory beyond the
Ebro, and a part of America, was to belong to France
—the Prince Regent of Portugal was to reign over the
rest of the Peninsula in right of his spouse, preserving
the other part of America ; Cadiz and other points t,)
be given to the English. The Government is indeed
wonderfully just and politic to agree to this, if, indeed,
such plopositions have been made by the tyrant, who
may for a time suspend, but will never renounce his
plans fcr the disturbance of the world."
The following is an extract from the Concise, a,
Spanish paper:
14 The blow struck by Santocildes in the environs ,
of Astorga, where he killed 400 of Bessieres' men,l
and compelled him to full back, attracts Marmont's
attention, and must, of necessity, put him in bade
humour, as before this reverse, he was telling Napo-
leon, in a letter which has been interceptedohat in
order to recruit their strength, his troops wanted to
rest themselves until the month of September ; that.
money must be sent both far their pay and for esta-
blishing magazines ; that, without this, it was impos-
sible to organize the army," &c. This correspondence
has given the greatest satisfaction to Lord Welling-
ton. And his Lordship says, that it is worth a bat-
tle, since the application to Napoleon for money,
affords grounds to hope, that the war is drawing to
an end.—Marmont adds, ~ that he sees that the con-
quest of Spain is difficult to achieve; that, in this
war, every thing is new, and that there is no town or
village but acknowledges Ferdinand VII. the moment
the French evacuate it." The bearer of this corre-i
spondence was taken by a partisan of the name of
Cuesta.

not foresee where such a system must end ? Is it
not evident that the paper money drives specie out of
SALSONA, CATALONIA, JULY 26.
circulation ; and that this exclusion, with the always
increasing wants of a Government bent on chimerical The head-quarters of the Catalonian Army have
enterprizes, must indefinitely augment the issues of ' been again established here. The greatest harmony
paper money, and thus accelerate its fall ? Have not and union prevail between our Commanders, who have
the Ministers themselves announced it, when to this agreed that Baron de Eroles shall command the Army
question, " What will set bounds in future to the of Operations, and that General Lacy shall ezercise
issue of notes ?" they reply, " Our wants !" (4). the civil authority in the province. The enemy hoped,
If, on the one hand, paper money may lend an by their barbarities at Tarragona, to strike terror
apparent strength to Governments, it does nothing into the inhabitants, and produce immediate submis.
more but augment their embarrassment for the fu- aion ; but instead of fear, indignation, revrage, and
cure, and they arrive by rapid strides at the fourth determined resistance have been produced, as hew ill
financial catcutrophr—bankruptcy. The eternal laws, shortly experieace. The principality is again rising:
which secure the preponderance of the real one the formi:aable bodies of Somatanes every-where aprear
chimerical, will not permit, for the first time, an ea-
ception in favour of England : she *ill be reduced to in arms; and we hope in a few weeks to have 3( woo
men disciplined and organised. The enemy having
bankruptcy, by the very extent of her efforts, sooner menaced Cardona, measures have been taken to hut.
than any other nation. trate his designe. _
Lord Stanhope may maintain as long as he pleases, GIBRALTAR, AUGUST Vt.
" that to consider gold as the only legal money is an It appears certain, that the object of Sault, in his
idea worthy of barbarous times." Sheridan may ex- , late advance into Grenada, was to defeat and anni.
claim, " it is only in countries where there is no credit hilate the army of the centre, and afterwards to car.-
that paper must be replaced with specie."—These ! eat measures with General Sachet for the reduct—n
declamations will not restore to bank-notes that cre- ;of Valencia. Such a plan of operations was certai: ly
dit which they have lost since the Bank ceased to pay of too great magnitude for the French cummanJer
in specie. Ito undertake, were his force more than double the
England seems to reckon upon bankruptcy as a number it is represented to be ; but under the recu-
last resource. Let her not hope for safety in this et- liar circumstances of renewed patriotism, courage,
pedient I National bankruptcy is the situation in and zeal of the inhabitants of Valencia and Catalonia,
which a nation, deprived of all means of credit, is re. there can be little doubt of its failure.
duced to its own physical force: it is a resource which ; VALENCIA, AUGUST se.
brings into play all the springs inherent in a machine,l We have just received intelligence here from Cats-
but at the same time destroys all such as were only
lonia, that Sachet, having completed his preparavons,
fictitious and imaginary. It is in such a moment had laid siege to Cardona, a fortress strongly foul.
that a nation shews all its physical power, and all that tied, well provisioned, and capable of holdiog out a
it is entitled to pretend to. Deprived of her credit, long time. Our Commanders in that province ark
England will be obliged to combat with her naked we aware the importance of the place, and deter.
11 of•
arms—that is, with all the force which her territory mined to make every effort to relieve the garrison.
can furnish ; and then the contest will not be long
doubtful between, a nation of 14 millions of men, and PENISCOLA, AUGUST 1.
90 millions of men inhabiting the Continent. The enemy have a considerable force in Tonnes.
England cannot console herself by the example of from whence they menace this town. Our (mince.
revolutionary France. France then numbered about : ion are strong, and our Governor an excellent offi.
SO millions of inhabitants, and had all her resources , cer. In case of attack, God grant that these &cleans
within herself ; she exercised a natural preponderance tagea may not prove unavailing !—Resieder Gra.
upon the Continent, and even then required a tutelary CADIZ, AUGUST IL
hand to draw her out of the crisis in which she was
placed. England, on the other hand, excluded from rrenThe reciprocal confidence between Spi& and Enks
Iland has been impaired by some faud occuce'.
the Continent, is unable to do without it. The British armies have been of very great use to
(4.) See the exposition of the situation of the Bank of Eng- , Spain ' • and would prove still more useful, if we aheuld
land, in the Journal de l'Empire of the 14th of ApriL make the best of time, and did not sleep on the blink
of the precipice. We ought to consider the natiae
and obligations of an auxiliary army : this would
prevent our requiring from it setwices which it cannot
render. V'llat stipulations has England omitted to
fulfil ? How can she think of incons.derately expos.
ing her armies, which are to defend her own ground,
if Bonaparte should rashly attempt to land ? How
can they venture into the interior of the Peninsula,
while we are without well-organised armies to co.
operate with them, and without the means ef pro.
riding for their maintenance ? Let us make greater
efforts ; let us oesanize armies, and Lord Wellington
will depart train his defensive system, which &heady
puts French impetuosity to the severest trial. To re.
`quire that another should save us, is neitlur magnani.
mous nor possible. Another of our evils is the wart
!of an energetic and powerful Governme .t. Can the
present one inspire our allies with confidence enough
to negociate with it? With the weak, people do not
choose to treat ; or, if they do, they oppress therm
Let us strengthen our Administration by shaking di
the inveterate prajudices of a bad colonial and mer-
cantile system ; and lac the Spaniards of both worlds
unite. Let great armies be formzd, an,' the Guyon.
went be consolidated. Our interest reiTiires that the
ties of the alliance with England be t:rawn closer .ind
closer. For the very reason that the i.iterests of lo-
reign nations may chance to be opposed to cur's, let
tis enable ourselves co prefer our chums on pr per
grounds and unaswerable reasons.— Revitor I'm 1, i. : .

FROM THE GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE.

THL ENINti

LONDON.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.
Hu 3yL►JasiY'; csmoitutiost kept this day. Holiday at all tit,
Public Offices.

DEFEAT OF THE BOULOGNE FLOTILLA,

The firing on the opposite coast which was heard
last week is now satisfactorily accounted for. It was
not exactly afto th joie in consequence of BONAPARTE'S
arrival, as onr Readers will see from the following
letter, which records as gallant an achievement as
ever was performed by British seamen. Our br.ive
countrymen had the glorious satisfaction of knowing
that BONAPARTE and Marshal NET were eye-witneses
of their heroism:

" DOVER, SEPTEMBER n.

Tl!e cause of the bring he ird on the French
coast, ou Friday, was an engagement between t ut
Beet, consisting oldie NAIt.D frigate, three sloops of
war, and a cutter, in all live sail, and the French
flotilla, of seven large ptAams (each nearly as :ocg
as A.trigate), &seven gun-brts„ and other small chin,
in all twenty-seven sail

0 The action commenced nearly at noon, our s'. '.lf,
having dashed in ainungst them were soon siirrounued.
bast they fought lire Di itons, and Lion c mpelled the
irvencli Admiral to strike. At this time BONAPAaIas
i who v..as v.swing the Action, with Marshal Nei, in a
barge, at the outside of the hat hour, AirecteJ a French
' Cumninikre to proceed wills his Pram to the attic.
1
trace iS the Admiral ; this v,..is coinplied with, and
I the French vessel ran aloogiide with A V:CW to boards
1 Captain t...ARTEIILT, fearing the Commodore would
serve him as the Admiral had done, viz. r.in soar,
igave orders to lash the two ships together, mil ;,fret
a short engagement the Praam struck. Shit ninutita
twelve long tir.iss ‘2B.poundeis.
1 ..I.)toing this engagement the Preach Admir..%
land the rest of his fleet, made toward the liar tio..r ,s:
Boulogne, which so enraged his Imperial NI ijes•;.,
that he ordersd tire guns of the batteries to he tin ns.i
upon the invincible Fktilla, to drive them to ICA ;'..tio,