Having received certain intelligence that Buonaparte intended to visit Madrid, the King of Spain, at the desire of his favonrite, sent to demand the object of his journey, and the destination of his troops. This extreme and painful measure ought to ensure to us compensation, to which we have so much title, and affords an irrefragable proof of the sincerity and constancy of our efforts in the common cause. Thus we must postpone all idea of a defi-The answer was laconic-" That he came nitive and permanent system until a maritime peace, when alone it will be possible to reduce our expenditure to the amount of our revenue." It then goes on to state, that the expenditure for 1807 had been 78,000,000 florins, and the revenues only 55,000,000; leaving a deficit of 23,000,000, exclusive of previous arrears. To meet these, a loan of 40,000,000 had been negotiated, which produced 38,000,000; the 15,000,000, after providing for the deficit, was applied to the payment of arrears. The estimate of expenditure for 1808 is 74,000,000, while the revenue is not estimated to produce more than 50,000,000.-It is said in this part of the Message, "We cannot dispense with maintaining in a good state the squadrons of the Texel and the Meuse. We an nounce with pleasure to the Legislative Body, that, as the price of our efforts, France has expressly engaged to procure the restoration of our colonies, and particularly those of Guiana." A Loan has been opened at Amsterdam, under the direction of the principal Mer chants and Bankers, for fitting out small armed vessels. The first subscriptions, it is said, amounted to 500,000 guilders, and the books were to close in the beginning of the present month. The works for converting the Stadt- DETAILS OF THE REVOLUTION THAT HAS By Letters from Madrid of the 19th March, it appears, that that city presented a most distressing scene of turbulence and confusion for the six preceding days, during which the Royal Authority was disregarded, and the person of the Monarch in danger. Instead, however, of being a rising of the people to prevent the introduction of the French troops into Spain by Godoy, the Prince of the Peace, the popular fury seems to have been directed against that degraded favourite for very different reasons; and the interference of a foreign power was welcomed by the inhabitants as the means of geting rid of so odious a Puler. That Godoy was at one time attached to the interests of Buonaparte, there can be little reason to doubt. Circumstances shew, however, that, from whatever motives, this understanding had ceased to exist, and that the perfidious Minister latterly regarded the approach of the French Ruler with appropriate feelings of terror. He in a peaceful manner-for the good of the nation-and to make a Prince happy.” The purport of this reply proved entirely satisfactory to the unsuspecting Monarch; but the conscience of his Minister rendered him more acute, and he at once saw the destruction, which threatened him. without delay commenced preparations for escaping to Mexico, whither he had induced his Royal Master to accompany him, by instilling into his mind a belief that the people of Madrid demanded his head. With this view, the accounts state, that he took out of the Royal Chest 36 millions of rials, having already, in the course of last month, sent 60 millions to Corunna, which were destined for London, where he had 40 millions of dollars.-The intended departure of the Royal Family having once got abroad, all was instantly turbulence and confusion. A scuffle took place in the Council, in which several of the Grandees were wounded. The result, however, was, that the departure of the King was positively interdicted by that body. Godoy with difficulty escaped to' his house, which the mob forced into, and his brother Don Diego Godoy was killed in attempting to repulse them. The Prince of the Peace, who had fled, was brought back prisoner; and harmony could only be partially restored by a Royal Decree, stripping the favourite of his public employments. [From the Bourdeaux Paper ("INDICateur”). dated April 1.] Madrid, March 19.-There have passed within the last few days, events that have shaken the throne of our Masters. On the 15th March the report was, that the King, who was at Aranjuez, was about to retire to Seville; that a great Council, which had been held at the Palace, had so decided it, but that the opinions on the sub ject were not agreed; that the Queen and the Prince of the Peace wished to go; but that the Prince of Asturias, and his brother, wished to stay. We were speedily informed, that the troops which were cantoned in Madrid, had orders to quit the city. Alarm was in every breast; when a proclamation from the King was published on the 16th, with a view of tranquillizing the people; which in some degree had the desired effect. On the 17th it was understood, that the Spanish Guards were to march to Aranjuez, and that the two Regiments of Swiss were alone to reThese Regiments have not main here. for for some time been popular inthis city. All the world, on this news, hurried to the road leading to Aranjuez, Spaniards," every one cried to the Soldiers," will you abandon your country? Will you protect the light of a Prince who sacrifices his subjects, and who goes to carry disorder to our Colonies? Have we then as little spirit as the inhabitants of Lisbon ?" Several of the Ministers, who were not favourable to the departure, circulated handbills in the surrounding villages, stating what was going on, and the immincat danger in which the country was placed. On the 18th the peasants hurried in crowd's to Aranjuez; relays were already stationed on the road to Seville; the town was filled with troops, and the baggage of the Court was packed up in all the apartments. The night between the 17th and 18th was a night of tumult. The house of the Prince of the Peace was defended by his Guards, who had a particular watchword; those at the Castle had another. At four in the morning the people rushed in crowds to the Palace of the Prince of the Peace, but were repulsed by his Guards. The Life Guards took part with the people, and fell upon the Prince's Guards. The gates were forced, the furniture broken, and the apartinents desolated. The Princess of the Peace ran to the staircase, and was conducted to the King's Palace, with all the respect due to her rank. The Prince of the Peace disappeared. Don Diego Godoy, his brother, Commandant of the Life Guards, was arrested by his own soldiers. The King and Queen sat up the whole night between the 17th and 18th. The French Ambassador arrived at Madrid, at five in the morning, and immediately waited on their Majesties. On the 18th a Proclamation by the King dismissed the Prince of the Peace from his employments, and declared that he would take upon himself the command of his armies. This was published at Aranjuez, and at Madrid. On the receipt of this intelligence, the people of Madrid rushed in crowds to the house of the Prince of the Peace, and to those of several of the Ministers. In all of them the furniture and the windows were broken.-There was no one to oppose this disorder; for the Captain General had lost the command. The Swiss regiments remained cantoned in their quarters. Aranjuez, March 21.-From the 16th to the 21st, Madrid and Aranjuez have been the theatre of several insurrections, in which the houses of the Prince of the Peace, the Minister of Finance, Soler, the Director of Consolidation, Espicossa, of other Ministers, and of several relations of the Prince of the Peace, have been pillaged, and the furniture burnt in the public streets. The Prince of the Peace has been arrested in a loft in his own house, where he had concealed himself. The tumult increasing, the King thought fit to puolish the following ROYAL DECREE. My habitual infirmities not permitting me to support any longer the important burden of the Government of my kingdom, and it being requisite for the re-ustablishment of my health, that I should enjoy in a more temperate climate a private life, I have determined, after mature deliberation, to abdicate my Crown, in favour of my heir, my dearly beloved son the Prince of Asturias. My Royal will therefore is, that he should be recognised and obeyed, as King and natural Lord of all my kingdoms and sovereignties, and in order that this Royal Decree of my free and spontaneous abdication may be exactly and duly fulfilled, you will communicate it to the Council and to all others whom it may concern. I, THE KING. Done at Aranjuez, March 19. On the 20th, an Edict was issued by order of the new King, Ferdinand the Seventh, dated Madrid, March 20, stating that His Majesty had determined to confiscate all the goods, cstates, &c. of Don Emanuel Godoy (the Prince of the Peace) and appointing the Duc d'Infantado Colonel of the Spanish Guards, and confering on him the Presidency of Castile. A Proclamation was also issued by the Council to the people of Madrid, desiring them "to retire to their homes, and to remain in the most perfect tranquillity: persuaded that they will then give to his Majesty, in the first moments of his reign, the best testimony of the sincerity of their sentiments, and of those acclamations of fidelity which have been recently heard." The head quarters of the Grand Duke of Berg were at Aranda. On the 19th they were at Somosierra, on the 20th at Bruhajo, and on the 21st at Aldevanda. He has with him the divisions of Marshal Money and of General Dupont. His arrival appears to be generally desired. The mass of the people of Madrid are calm and tranquil; and, as it happens in similar cases, disorders have only been committed by a sinall number of individuals. Private letters, relative to Spain, dated Gibraltar, March 23, say, "The provinces of Catalonia, Navarre, and Biscay, no longer belong to the Spanish Monarchy, They are taken possession of by the French troops; and the Grand Duke of Berg has published a proclamation,' stating, that this measure is taken for pacific purposes, This Proclamation has occasioned a fall in the Vales, from 63 to 60. The number of French troops which have entered Spain exceeds 150,000 men. A French force is The Coquette sloop of war, arrived at Portsmouth, has brought letters from the fleet off the Tagus; in which it is stated, that the scarcity in Lisbon was bordering on famine, and that Gen. Junot had sent a flag of truce to Sir S. Cotton, supposed to relate to the Russian fleet. One of the letters-states, that Gen. Junot and Admiral Siniavin had proposed to the British Admiral, that the Russian fleet should be allowed to return home; the crews to be considered as prisoners of war on their parole, and, the ships not to be employed against Great Britain or her allies during the war. ITALY. Letters from Rome mention, that an entire change has taken place in the goverument of that city, and that French troops were expected to seize the treasures of the Convents there, in the same manner as they had done in Portugal. ASIA. Government have received detailed reports of the depredations of the Zemindar Doondea in the district of Allyghur, and adjacent country. A number of horsemen have been discovered to be stationed in the defiles and jungles of Barowley, from whence they issued in the night to forage in the neighbourhood. A party of these freebooters having entered the village of Kharea, demanded assistance of the inhabitants, which the latter refusing, they collected all the cattle and grain of the place, and then set the village on fire. Achmet Khan, the brother of Doondea, at the head of a body of cavalry, entered the' district of Taoree previous to the fall of Cumoona, where he committed great excesses, and carried off several of the inhabitants, being unable to seduce them from their attachment to the English. Doondea is stated to have retreated to a strong hill fort, about 20 coss from Cumoona, and has been followed thither by a detachment of British troops.-It appears, by intercepted letters, that some foreign officers, who had arrived in disguise from Georgia, were in Doondea's service, and directed the defence of Cumouna. It farther appears, that Doondea had endeavoured to attach to his interest Arkber Shaw, the heir apparent to the late Mogul, and had in some degree succeeded with the younger branches of that family. Orders have been given to destroy the works of Cumoona. Dispatches have been received at the India House, by the General Stuart packet, arrived at Portsmouth, dated Calcutta, Dec. 8, with advice of the capture of the fort of Kitsinore, near Alleghur, on the 24th November, by assault, after a month's siege. Doondea Khan, formerly in the Mahratta service, having assembled, by promises of plunder, a numerous body of followers, was laying waste the provinces of Agra and Delhi; when the approach of the British army, under the orders of Colonels Duken and Horsford, compelled him to seek shelter at Kitsmore. The determined character of his resistance is manifested by the magnitude of our loss; which, besides nearly 500 men, mostly natives, killed and wounded, we are distressed to hear, comprises the following officers. Killed: Lieut.-col. Duff, Brigade Major Fraser; Captains Radcliffe, Thesk, Robertson, and Brown; Lieutenants Sneyd, Defue, Macleod, and Ramsey; and Ensign Jones. The other intelligence by these dispatches is of a more agreeable nature. It is stated that the Indian Government, apprised of the designs of France and Russia against Hindostan, were engaged in attaching the native Powers to its interest. Scindea and Holkar are represented as having made the warmest professions of friendship, and offered to assist the British Power in repelling any attempt to disturb the common tranquillity. The Gauacur, Peishwa, and Nizam, have made similar declarations, probably with more siucerity: but the circumstance which more than any other manifests the general sentiment in India in favour of the English is, that the Seicks have consented to the occupation of some strong passes in their country by British troops, in the event of the menaced invasion being attempted. AMERICA. Mr. Rose, the Minister for settling our differences with, America, has returned, without having been able to accomplish the object of his mission. The embargo still continues in the American ports; and the Proclamation, prohibiting the entrance of our shipping into the waters of the United States, is in full force. ERRATUM: P, 256, line 19, for „Foran, read Baron. IRELAND. March 28. At the Wexford assizes, W. Congreve Alcock, Esq. and Henry Derenzey, were tried for the wilful murder of John Colclough, Esq. Mr. A. and Mr. C. had been candidates at the late Wexford election, and, in consequence of a dispute respecting voters, they went to fight a duel, in which Mr. G., was killed. The principal ground of charge against Mr. Alcock was, that previous to his firing he had put on his spectacles. In answer to this, it was proved that the effect of the glasses which Mr. Alcock wore, on a defective eye, was, that the object was made 1 clearer clearer and more defined, and that it diminished in size and light: he did not think it rendered the hitting a distant object more secure. After a charge from Baron Smith, the Jury retired, and in about three minutes returned a verdict of Not Guilty, as to both prisoners. The Judge, in discharging the prisoners, expressed his satisfaction at the verdict. COUNTRY NEWS. Jan. 21. As the workmen belonging to the Rev. W. Shaw, D. D. were employed in digging the foundation of his new schoolroom at Chelvey, in the diocese of Bristol, they discovered, about 4 feet below the surface of the ground, a large pot or urn, of a hard blackish substance, resembling over-burnt, brick, filled with ashes and bones undoubtedly human. One of the labourers soon after struck his pickaxe against a stone bottle containing about 274 pieces of silver coin of Julius Cæsar, which are esteemed a great curiosity, being in the highest state of perfection. No other antiquities have been as yet discovered; but, as Chelvey is only two miles distant from Rectunum, an old Roman station, farther researches would probably be attended with the desired success. The Doctor intends presenting a selection of the coins to the British Museum; and several members of the Antiquarian Society are anxious that an engraving should be made from them. March 26. We are concerned to announce the loss of the Caledonia, of Aberdeen, on the rocks of Redcar, near Gis borough, Yorkshire, this night. Seventeen persons perished, including five or six Gentlemen passengers. March 29. A remarkable occurrence took place this morning at Spithead. A man, belonging to the Salsette frigate, was sentenced to be flogged through the fleet for thieving. The boats from all the men of war, as is customary upon these occasions, were assembled; when, at the moment the punishment was about to be inflicted, he jumped overboard, and was never afterwards seen. It is conjectured he had previously concealed some shot in his pockets, to prevent the possibility of his rising again in the water. April 2. A few days since a violent explosion happened at the Gunpowder Works belonging to Messrs. Jenkins and Love, at Battle, in Sussex, containing upwards of 200 barrels of gunpowder. Two men were killed, and a child lost its life by being struck by some of the shattered ruins. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. This day the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, with a deputation from the Court of Com`mon Council of the City of London, waited upon his Majesty at the Queen's Palace, with an Address upon the state of public affairs; in which they renew their assurances of their unshaken attachment to his Majesty's sacred Person and Government. "We are not unmindful, Sire, that by the preponderating influence of the Government of France, almost every State upon the Continent has been compelled to unite in forming one vast gigantic Confederacy, whose efforts are solely directed to bring destruction upon your Majesty's dominions. We view this combination without dread, firmly relying upon a continuance of the Divine Protection, upon union amongst all ranks of your People, the extinction of PARTY SPIRIT (most essentially necessary at this very important crisis), upon the goodness of our cause, the palour and skill of your Majesty's fleets and armies, and on the Vigour, Firmness, and WISDOM of your MAJESTY'S COUNCILS. "With these aids, we doubt not your Majesty will confound and defeat the designs of our inveterate Enemy, and in due time be enabled to conclude a Peace, at once honourable, secure, and lasting." His Majesty was pleased to return a most gracious Answer. The honour of Knighthood was conferred on Mr. Sheriff Phillips. Thursday, March 31. Tuesday, April 5. Yesterday a huge stone fell from the steeple of the church of St. Mary, Aldermanbury; and this day a large stone fell from one of the porticoes of St. Paul's Cathedral; but without doing any mischief. About one, a large sheet of lead was raised, by the violence of the wind, from off the top of a house on Ludgatehill. It fell on the pavement; in its way it broke a part of the parapet wall, which fell in the street with a terrible crash; but no person was injured. Saturday, April 17. This morning a fire broke out in a fresh occupied house at a new street at Somers Town, at an early hour, which consumed that and two adjacent houses before it was got under. Vol. Officers and Civil Magiftrates attended, with four Regiments of Infantry to fire Vc!. LXXVII. p. 1075. Col. Kington having advanced a confiderable way into the town of Buenos Ayres, on the morn-over the grave. A tablet, with a fuitable ing of the 5th of July, received a mufket- infcription, was ordered by the General ball through his right leg, which occa- to be placed over the remains of the defioned him to fall, whilft cheering and ceafed. To hear that this gallant young animating his Regiment to follow him, hero, cut off in the prime of life, received and endeavour to take two pieces of can- fuch marked attention, and experienced non, oppofed to them in the centre of the every comfort from his enemies, in his ftreet. Refufing any affiftance from his laft moments, muft be highly gratifying. men to carry him off, he defired they, to his afflicted widow, the Marchionefs would march forward, and do their duty, of Clanricarde, his relations and numeunder the command of the brave and rous friends; and fhould another expedi much-lamented Capt. Burrell, who foon tion to South America prove more fortureceived a mortal wound. In the mean nate than the laft, his brave Countrymen time the Colonel contrived to remove may have an opportunity of convincing from the centre into one of the cross the Enemy they are not to be outdone in ftreets, and there remained till the Cara generofity and humanity, the grand cha bineers had been ordered to retreat, when racteristicks of the British Nation. the Enemy advanced, and used him in a moft brutal manner; they were upon the point of dispatching him with their bay onets, had not an old Spaniard rushed from his house, and, throwing his cloak over the Colonel, and his perfon between him and his countrymen, befought them to fpare his life, and not take advantage of a fallen foe. The old man then dragged him into his house, and having bound up his wound, laid him on his own bed, and watched him during the day and night with the tenderness of a parent. On the 6th he was conveyed to the citadel, where Gen. Liniers ordered every attention to be paid his wounded prifoners. The General told the Colonel a relation of his (Madam O'Gorman) had offered to accommodate one of the wounded officers at her own house, and requested he would be removed to her dwelling, where he fhould have every poffible care taken of his wound. In this hofpitable manfion the Colonel lay feventeen days before his diffolution, receiving from the hands of bis fair hoftefs and her relations all kinds of nourishment and medicine directed by the Faculty. General Liniers attended him daily, and visited him always before he retired to reft. He fhewed as much intereft for the Colonel's fafety as he could have done for his own fon in a fimilar fituation. The old Spaniard was conftant in his enquiries for the state of the Colonel's wound; and, though preffed by him to receive a sum of money for his great humanity and tenderness, he could not be prevailed upon to accept the leaft pecuniary reward, though by no means in affluent circumftances. Gen. Liniers' generous behaviour continued after the Colonel's decease; he directed the body to be removed to the Viceroy's palace, and there to lie in ftate till the interment, which took place on the 23d of July. The funeral was conducted in the English manner, and all the principal Military GENT. MAG, April, 1808, Vol. LXXVIII. p. 175. James Crowdy, efq. of Swindon, was one of those few men who, without the advantages of fuperior education, poffeffed more correct information, more folid judgment, and more useful mental acquirements, than many whose fituations have provided for them that defireable opportunity for improvement. To a quickness of compre henfion was in him' added a foundnefs of understanding not found in many accomplished scholars; and the estimation in which, as a profeffional man, he was holden by numerous refpectable perfons, evinced not only his legal abilities, but the honour and integrity of his conduct. He was, indeed, eminent and truly incorruptible in that very trying profeffion the Law; and, in the courfe of more than 20 years practice, no one was ever known to accufe or even fufpe&t him of the flightest departure from the moft fcrupulous dictates of fidelity and probity. Having to encounter, in his profeffional career, with fome prejudices, and with oppofite interefts and influence, he had not made that progress in it to which he was most justly entitled. But, notwithstanding these obftacles, his merits were becoming more widely known and more adequately rewarded; and, had he lived fome years longer, there is no doubt that he would have been a distinguished ornament to his profeffion. In private life he was one of the moft amiable of men. Bleffed by Nature, or (which is more estimable) by reflection and felf-government, with a fingular equanimity, he eafily gained the elteem and affection of every one with whom he was in any degree of intimacy; and the fuavity and hospitality of his manners fecured him unfeigned refpect from an extenfive circle of acquaintance. In the more limited intercourfe of domeftic life, Mr. C. was truly exemplary, and juftly to be envied. He had had the good fortune to massy a very amiable young lady, poffeff |
