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three flags of truce, furnished with autho rity, arrived at the head-quarters, and signed the surrender of the place. the 27th, at seven o'clock in the morn"We, Charles, by the grace of God, Hesion of Mermet, and by a brigade of dragoons. ing, the town was occupied by the divi reditary Prince of Sweden, the Gochs, Van- On the same day the garrison was disarmed: dals, &c. Duke of Sudermania, Grand Admiral, &c. &c. do declare, that, under ex- The people who do not belong to Ferrol, the disarming also produced 5000 musque s. isting circumstances, his Majesty is incapa have been remanded to their villages The ble to act, or to conduct the important affairs of the nation. We have therefore, (being the nearest and only branch of the family of age) heen induced for the time being, as Administrator of the Kingdom, to take the reins of Government into our hands, which, with the help of the Atmighty, we will conduct, so that the nation may regain peace, both at home and abroad, and that trade and

commerce may revive from their languishing

state.

**Our inviolable intention is, to consult

with the States on the means to be taken to

render, the future time happy to the people of Sweden. We invite and command, therefore, all the inhabitants of our nation, our forces by sea and land, and also the civil officers of all degrees, to obey us, as our real intention, and their own welfare, demand. We recommend you all to the protection of God Almighty.

Done at Stockholm Palace, 1 the 13th March, 1809.

(Signed) "CHARLES.
"C. LAGERBRING."

SPAIN.

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Thirty-Second Bulletin of the French Army. The Duke of Dalmatia being arrived before Ferrol, caused the place to be invested. Negotiations were begun. The civil authorities, and the military and naval officers manifested a disposition to surrender, but the people, fomented by the spies whom the English left, resisted. On the 24th the Duke of Dalmatia received two messsengers, one sent by Admiral Melgarejo, commander of the Spanish squadron, and the other, who came across the mountains, sent by the military commanders. These couriers were both sent without the knowledge of the peo ple. They stated that the authorities were under the yoke of a furious populace, excited and paid by the agents of England, and that 8000 men belonging to the city and its environs were in arms. The Duke of Dalmatia had to resolve upon opening the trenches; but from the 24th to the 25th, various movements were manifest in the town. The 17th regiment of light infantry had repaired to Mugardos;, the 31st regiment of light in fantry were at the forts of La Palma and Saint Martin, and at Lagrana; and as they blockaded the fort of Saint Philip, the people began to fear the consequences of an assault, and to listen to men of seasg. On the 26th,

during the insurrection, have been arrested. Admiral Obregon, whom the people had arrested during the insurrection, has been put found in the port three vessels of 112 guns, at the head of the arsenal. There have been two of 88, one of 74, two of 64, three frigates, and a considerable number of corvettes, rigs, and unarmed vessels, more than 1500 pieces of cannon of every size, and ammufor the precipitate retreat of the English, nition of all kinds It is probable that but and the affair of the 16th, they would have occupied Ferrol, and seized this beautiful squadron. The military and naval officers have taken the oath to King Joseph with the their sufferings from the lowest classes of the greatest enthusiasm. What they relate of people and the English, is inconceivable.

men who had stained themselves with blood

Order reigns in Gallicia, and the authority of the King is re established in this province, one of the most considerable of the Spanish Monarchy.

General Laborde has found at Corunna, on, the sea-shore, seven pieces of cannon, which the English had buried on the 16th, not being able to take them away.

La Romana, abandoned by the English and his own troops, has fled with 500 men, in order to throw himself into Andalusia,

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There remained at Lisbon only about 4 or 5000 Englishmen. All the hospitals and all the magazines were embarked, and the rison were preparing to abandon this nation, as indignant at the perfidy of the English, as they are disgusted by the difference of manners and religion, by the brutal intemperance of the English troops, and that arrogance and ill-founded pride which render this nation odious to the Continent.

Thirty-Third Bulletin.

The Duke of Dalmatia arrived at Tuy on the 10th of February. The whole province is subdued.

He collected all his forces in order to crost the Mislio on the following day. He was to reach Oporto between the 15th and 20th, and Lisbon between the 20th and the 28th..

The English have embarked at Lisbon ia order to abandon Portugal. The rage of the Portuguese was at its utmost height, and every day considerable and bloody conflicts between the English and Portuguese took place,

In Gallicia, the Duke of Elchingen completed the organization of the province.

Admiro!

Admiral Massaredo has arrived at Ferrol, and bas begun to revive the labours of that impor

tant arsenal.

Peace is restored in all the provinces under the command of the Duke of Istria, which lie between the Pyrenees, the sea, Portugal, and the chain of mountains which cover Madrid. Security follows days of disorder and desola tion.

The Duke of Belluno has marched to Badajoz; he has restored to peace and disarmed the whole of Lower Estramadura.

Saragossa has surrendered; the calamities which have befallen this unhappy town, are a terrible example to the people. The peace which has been restored in Saragossa extends to the whole of Arragon; and the two armies which were around the town have been set at liberty. Saragossa was the centre of the insurrection of Spain; it was in this town that the party was formed which wished to call in a Prince of the House of Austria to reign on the Tagus. The individuals of this party had partly inherited these actions which are irrevocably destroyed, from their ancestors, during the War of the Succession.

The circumvention of Saragoss was considered as inexpedient; and a free communication was left open, in order that the insurgents might be informed of the defeat of the English and their infamous flight out of Spain. It was on the 16th of January that the English were driven into the sea at Corunna, and it was on the 26th that the operations before Saragossa were seriously begun. The Duke of Montebel:o arrived there on the 20th, in order to assume the command of the seige. As soon as he was assured that the intelligence which was brought into the town had no effect, and that a few Monks governed the minds of the peo ple, he resolved to put an end to these indulgences; fifty thousand peasants were collected on the left bank of the Ebro: at Purdiguera the Duke of Treviso attacked them with three regiments; and notwithstanding the fine position they possessed, the 64th regiment routed them, and threw them into disorder. The 10th regiment of bussars was on the plain to receive them, and a great number remained upon the field of battle. Nine pieces of cannon, and several standards, were the trophies of this victory.

At the same time, the Duke of Montebello had sent the Adjutant Commander Gusquet to Zuers, in order to disperse an assemblage of Insurgents; this Officer attacked four thousand of them with three battalions, overthrew them, and took four pieces of cannon, with their car riges and borica. General Vattier was at the same time sent with 300 infantry, and 200 cxvalty, towards Valencia. He met 5000 insur. genia at Alcanitz compelled them, even in the town, to throw down their arms in their flight: he killed 600 of them, and seized magazines, provisions, andarma: among the last were 100 English muskets. These operations took place between the 20th and 26th of January.

On the 26th the town was seriously attacked, and the batteries were unmasked, and at noon on the 27th the breach was practicable in several places; the troops were lodged in the monastry of San-in-Gracia. The division of Grandjean entered some thirty houses. Colo nel Caloiscki, and the soldiers of the Weixel distinguished themselves. At the same mo ment, the General of Division Morlat, in an attack upon the left wing, made himself mass terof the whole fore-ground of the enemy's de fence. Captain Guetteniar, at the head of the pioneers, and 36 grenadiers of the 14th regis ment, hid, with a rare intrepidity, ascended the breach. M. Babieski, an officer of the Voltigeurs of the Weixel, a young man, se. venteen years of age, and covered with seven wounds, was the first who appeared upon the breach. The Chief of Battalion. Lejunez Aide-de-Camp to the Prince of Neufchate!, distinguished himself, and received two slight wounds. The Chief of Battalion, Haxo, is also slightly wounded, and likewise distinguished himself.

On the 30th, the monasteries of the Mani que and the Greek Augustines were occupied Sixty houses were possessed by undermining. The miners of the 14th regiment distinguished themselves.

On the 1st of February, General Lacoste ro ceived a ball, and died in the field of honour, He was a brave and distinguished officer. He has been lamented by the whole army, but more especially by the Emperor. Col. Regniat succeeded him in the command of the engi neers, and in the management of the siege. The enemy defended every house. Three attacks were made by mines, and every day several houses were blown up, and afforded the troops an opportunity of stationing themselves in other houses.

Thus we proceeded to the Cosso (a great street in Saragossa), where we made ourselves masters of the Public School and University. The enemy endeavoured to oppose miners to miners; but, less used to this sort of operation, their miners were every day discovered and sut focated. This mode of besieging renders its progress slow, but sure, and less destructive to the army. While three companies of miners, and eight companies of sappers carried on this subterraneous war, the consequenceso which were dreadful, the fire of the town was kept up by mortars. Ten days after the attack ind bogun, the surrender of the town was antispated. The army had possessed itself or one-third of the houses, and torrified itsef in them. The church which contamed the image of Our Lady of Pilar, which by so many miracles had promised to defend the town, was hattered down by bombs, and no longe inhabitable.

The Duke of Montebello deerved it necessary to take possession of the left bank of the river, in order tha his re might reach the midale of the town. The genrd of division Gazan, made himself master of the bridge by a sudden and impetuous attack, on the mara.

ing of the 17th (February). A battery of 50 pieces was played off at three o'clock in the afternoon. A battalion of the 28th regiment attacked and took possession of a monastery, the walls of which were of brick, and from three

to four feet thick. General Gazan then re

paired with rapidity to the bridge, over which the insurgents made their retreat to the town; he killed a vast number, made 4000 prisoners, amongst whom were 2 generals, 12 colonels, 19 Lieutenant-Colonels, and 230 officers He took 30 pieces of artillery. Nearly all the troops of the line in the town had beset this important part, which had been threatened since the 10th. At the same moment the Duke of Abrantes entered the Casso, through several covered ways, and by means of two small mines, blew up the extensive buildings

of the Schools.

After these events, terror was spread throughout the town. The Junta, in order to procure delay, and obtain time to abate the ter ror of the inhabitants, sought a parley; but their bad faith was known, and the artifice was useless. Thirty other houses were possessed by undermining or by mines.

Atlength, on the istof Febrary, the whole town was possessed by our troops. 15,000 infantry and 2000 cavalry laid down their arms at the gate of Portilla, and 40 flags and 150 pieces of cannon were delivered up. The insurgents lost 20,000 men during the seige; 13,000 were found in the hospitals: 300 died daily.

The Duke of Montebello would allow no capitulation to the town of Saragossa. He only published the following provisions:

The garrison shall, at noon, on the 21st, lay down their arms at the gate of Portilla, where they shall remain prisoners of war. Those of the troops of the line, who are willing to take the oath to King Joseph, may be allowed to enter into his service. In case this entrance shall not be permitted by the Minister of war to the King of Spain, they shall be prisoners of war and sent to France. I he worship of God shall be reverenced. All the artillery and ammunition of every kind shall be delivered up. All the arms shall be deposited at the doors of the different houses, and collected by the respective Alcades.

The magazines of corn, rice, and fruit, which have been found in the town, are very considerable.

The Duke of Montebello has nominated
General Laval Governor of Saragossa.
A Deputation of the Priesthood and differ-

ent inhabitants has set out for Madrid.

Palafox is dangerously ill. He was the object of the contempt of the whole hostile army, who accused him of arrogance and meanness. He was never seen where there was any danger.

The Count de Fuentes, Grandee of Spain, who had been arrested by the insurgents two months ago, on his estates, was found in a dun

geon eight feet square, and released: no idea can be formed of the miseries he had undergone. GREAT BRITAIN.

The house of Commons has been almost exclusively occupied during the present month, in the investigation of the charges against the Duke of York, which were specified in our last, in our detail of the speech of Mr. Wardle. No business since the famous exclusion-bill against a former Duke of York, has ever so solemnly engaged the attention of pathament, or absorbed so much the interest of the uation.

After a tedious examination of Mrs. Clark, one of the mistresses of the Duke of York, and of various connections of her's, and in exculpation of various con nections of the Duke of York, in aid of whom, all the influence of government was in vain exerted, it was at length deionstrated, that his Royal Highness had at least been guilty of connivance in the corrupt practices of his mistress..

On the close of the examination, which would alone fill a large volume, a motion made by Mr. Wardle for an address to the King, to dismiss the Duke from his situation of Commander in Chief, and Captain General, was solemnly argued for the unprecedented period of six days, during which, all the eloquence and ta The speakers on the side of the people lents of the country were displayed. WHITBREAD, WILBERFORCE, BANKES, were, Messrs. WARDLE, BURDETT, BATHURST, WYNNE, and SMITH, and the Lords FOLKSTONE, MILTON, PETTY, aud TEMPLE; and on the side of the Duke, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR General, the LATE and PRESENT SECRETARY of WAR, the WEISH JUDGE BURTON, Mr. SECRE TARY CANNING, and some other members or connections of administration.

Three amendments were moved, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Mr. Banks, and Mr. Bathurst.

At length there appeared on a division for Mr. Wardle's address, 126 against it.

For the Chancellor of the Exchequer's amendment 278, and against it 196. For Mr. Bankes's amendment 199, and against it 294.

But on the interval, between the adjourned debate on Mr. Bathurst's amendment, THE DUKE OF YORK RESIGNED HIS OFFICE, and thus was terminated the struggle.

dent minority against Mr. Perceval's The following is a list of the indepenamendment.

for acquitting the Duke of York.

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List of the Minority of 199 who voted against the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequers

Abercromby, Hon. J. Goddard, Thomas

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Agar, Eman.

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Maducks, W.

Shelly, T.

Althorpe, Lord

Gower, Earl

Mahon, Lord

Shipley, W.

Anstruther, Sir J.

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Simeon, J.

Antonie, W. L.

Grattan, Rt. Hon. H.

Markham, J.

Smith, H.

Astell, Wm.

Astley, Sir Jacob

Greenhill, Robert

Maryatt, J.

Smith, S.

Greenough, G. B.

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Aubrey, Sir J.

Greenfell, Pascoe

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Babington, Tho.

Giles, D.

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Bagenell, W.

Hall, Sir J.

Mildmay, Sir H.

Sneyd, N.

Baker, J.

Baring, A.

Halsey, Joseph

Hamilton, Lord A.

Miller, Sir J.

Mills, C.

Baring, T.

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Bastard, J. P.

Hibbert, Geo.

Milner, Sir W.

Staniforth, John
Stanley, Lord

Stuart, Hon. M.
Sumner, G. H.

Biddulph, R. M.

Hobhouse, B.

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Holmes, W.

Moore, Peter

Talbot, R. W.

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Blackburne, J.
Blackburne, J. J.
Bouverie, Hon, B.
Bowyer, Sir Geo,
Brand, Hon. T.
Bradshaw, Hon. C.

Honywood, W.
Horner, F.
Horrocks, S.
Howard, Hon. W.
Howard, H.

Moseley, Sir Oswald
Mostyn, Sir Thos.
Neville, Hon. R.
Newport, Sir J.

North, Dudley
O'Hara, C.

Taylor, C. W.
Taylor, W.

Tempest, Sir H. V.

Temple, Earl

Thelluson, G. W.

Thomas, Geo. White.

Thompson, J.

Thornton, Samuel

Noel, C.

Cricraft, J.

Hurst, R.

Ord, W.

Thornton, Henry

Calvert, N.

Hutchinson, Hon. C.

Ossulston, Lord

Tierney, Rt. Hon. G.

Cocks, J.

Jacob, Wm.

Palmer, Charles

Tighe, W.

Coke, D. P.

Jackson, J.

Purnell, H.

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Colburne, N. W. R. Keck, G. A. L.

King, Sir J. D.
Карр, С.

Knox, Hon. T.

Lamb, Hon W.
Lambton, R.

Day, Rt. Hon. D. B. Langton, W. G.

Latouche, D.

Latouche, R.

Lester, Garland

Lefevre, C. Shaw

Dickenson, W.

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Lemon, John

Fellowes, Hon. N.

Lemon, Sir W.

Ferguson, R. C

Lethbridge, J. B.

Fitzgerald, Rt. Hon.M.Lioyd, J. M.

Foley, Hon, A.

Lloyd, Sir E.

Foley, Thomas

Lloyd, Hardress

Folkestone, Lord

Longman, G.

Paiker, Sir Martin

Lygon, Hon. J.

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Lord Milton and the three Mr. Dundas's were kept away by the death of a rear relation. Sir Francis Burdett was also absent, through indisposition, and Mr. T. W. Cike and Mr. Owen Williams were obliged to go into the seuntry.

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MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN AND NEAR LONDON:
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased.

MARRIED.

MR. James Wilkinson, of Cateaton-street, to Miss M. Boddy.

At Mary-le-bonne, the Rev. Robert Hughes, vicar of Westfield, Sussex, to Miss Porteus, of Hill, near Southampton.

terms of intimacy by a nick-name, and persisting so to do, after he had taken offence at it, in a large company at Steevens's Coffeehouse in Bond-street. Hence ensued the challenge, and the subsequent duel at Goldar's Green; where, according to étiquette, Mr. Powell fired first, and inflicted the mor

tal wound. Lord F.stood for above a minute in his position, and then threw his pistol away without discharging its contents. On arriv

At St. James's, F. E. March, esq. of the Ordnance Office, Tower, to Miss Jordan, of Park Place, daughter of the celebrated Mrs. J. Captain Francis French Staunton, of the Bombay Military Establishment, to Missing in town, and the chaise coming on the Neeld, eldest daughter of Joseph N. esq. of

Norfolk-street.

At St. George's Hanover-square, Captain John Clitherow, of the guards, to Sarah, eldest daughter of General Burton.-John Rowlat, jun. esq. to Juliet Anne, eldest daughter of C. Roberts, esq. of the Exchequer.-J. Stewart Oliphant, esq. of Rossie, Perthshire, to Miss Anna Read, daughter of W. T. R. esqof North Audley-street.

At Camberwell, Thomas Sindrey, esq. second son of Henry S. esq. of Rotherithe, to Miss E. Rowley, daughter of Jonas R. esq. --W. Sheldon, esq. of Gray's Inn, to Miss Hester Cooper, of Thornaugh-street.

At St. Mary-le bonne, Mr. Edward Churton, of Oxford-street, to Mary, fourth daughter of Robert Smith, esq. of the Nether Wilds, Hertfordshire.-Captain Reade, of the first regiment of foot guards, to Miss Hoskyns, sister of Sir Hungerford H.-The Hon, and Rev. James St. Leger, brother of Lord Viscount Donervile, to Miss Catherine Williams, youngest daughter of the late Thomas W. esq. of Epsom.

At Queen square Chapel, Hambleton, Thomas Custance, esq. of Weston House, Norfolk, to Mary, only daughter of the late

Miles Bower, esq.

At Battersea, Francis Wilson, esq. of Battersea Rise, to Miss Lloyd.

Stephen Vertue, esq. corn-factor, Marklane, to Anne, eldest daughter of Samuel Brent, esq. of Greenland Dock.

At Putney, Charles Hammersley, esq.
second son of Thomas H. esq. banker, to
Miss Emily Thompson, third daughter of
John T. esq. of Waverley Abbey.

Mr. Jacob Joggett, bookseller, of Taunton,
Somerset, to Miss Champante, only daugh-
ter of William C. esq. of Jewry-street.
DIED.

At Stoke Newington, at the early age of 20 and a few months, the amiable and ac

complished wife of Mr. James Elmes, architect, of College Hill.

Of a wound received in a duel with Mr. Powell, of Devonshire Place, Lord Viscount Fakland. The quarrel wnich produced this fatal meeting originated in Lord Falkland's addressing Mr. Powell, with whom he was on

stones, it was observed to his lordship, that

Powell's house was near at hand; Lord F. in

stantly expressed a desire to go thither in preference to any other place, for the world would then be convinced he owed no enmity to his antagonist. Here his lordship languished two days before he expired. Lord Falkland was a captain in the navy, and succeeded to the title of Viscount Falkland on

the sudden death of his brother Thomas, in May 1796; his patrimonial fortune was very small; but he was a very dashing officer; and though he lived in the gayest style, he had realized a very large sum by prize-money. The sister of, Mrs. Gibbs the actress, who had succeeded Mrs. Clarke in the establishment of a Royal Duke, took the name of Ca rey, whilst she was under the protection of Lord Falkland, then Captain Carey. His lordship married in the West Indies in the year 180S, the daughter of a merchant of the first respectability. She has three sons and a daughter, the eldest boy who succeeds to the title being only five years old. His conduct as a husband and father has been exemplary. He was about forty years old, was distinguished for a fine manly person and his company was much courted, which occasioned him to mix too frequently in convivial societies: he was lately dismissed from his ship on account of some irregularities arising from too free a circulation of the bot tle at his own table; but he was about to be restored to a command, a circumstance which had greatly exhilirated his spirits, and perhaps occasioned that levity which has been

attended with such severe consequences.

In the 21st year of his age, Joseph Davis, of Lincoln's inn, esq. a young gentleman

who had sometime since come to London, to undergo a course of studies, to qualify him for the practice of the law. In which profession, his relations and friends had, in consequence of his natural and acquired powers, promised themselves that he would some time have shone with superior lustre.

In Cadogan Place, the Dowager-lody Asbburton, relict of the celebrated John Dunning Lord A.

At Lambeth, Henry Holland, of the Gene ral Post Office, late agent for his Majesty's packets at Gottenburgh.

At

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