1 his Majesty's illness, the Address be presented by such Members of the House as were of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Lord Castlereagh then moved an Address of Condolence to his Majesty on the Death of the Duke of Kent, which was unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be presented in the same manner as the former. A Resolution of Condolence to the Duchess of Kent was also agreed to. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 18. The Marquis of Cholmondeley laid on the table his Majesty's auswer to the Address of yesterday. It concluded with stating that his Majesty was "impressed with the deep sense of the duty of following the great example which had been set him, and assured them of his endeavours to promote the happiness and prosperity of the Nation." On the motion of Lord Liverpool, an Address of Condolence to his Majesty on the Death of the Duke of Kent, and a message of Condolence to the Duchess of Kent, were agreed to. The Noble Lord highly panegyrized the conduct of the Duchess. In these praises Lord Rolle sincerely concurred. So close, he said, was her attendance on the Duke in his last illness, that for five days she never had put off her clothes: but she had her reward in the look which her Royal Consort gave her before he expired, and which proved his feeling of her conduct, and the consolation it had afforded him. The Earl of Liverpool then rose to move an Address to his Majesty in answer to that part of his Message which related to the dissolution of Parliament. His Lordship expatiated on the inconvenience which would result to the public business from entering on the discussion of the Civil List, and other matters incident to the commencement of a new reign, under circumstances which, from a prospect of a certain dissolution in the course of a few months, would preclude that attendance and due deliberation which it was desirable to obtain. He concluded by moving, that an Address be presented to the King, thanking his Majesty for having taken into his Royal consideration the present state of public business, and concurring in the opinion that it would be most conducive to the public interest to call a new Parliament without further delay; also assuring his Majesty of the readiness of their Lordships to concur in such measures as may be necessary to provide for the exigencies of the public service until the opening of the new Parliament. The Marquis of Lansdown said, the measure of submitting to Parliament the pro priety of its own dissolution was entirely unprecedented; so was that of postponing until the meeting of a new Parliament the settlement of the Civil List, and the other questions connected with the commencement of a new reign. Were their measures in contemplation now of a different nature from those which took place in the accession of Queen Anne, Geo. I. Geo. 11. and Geo. III. ? Was it also intended by a side wind to procure the sanction of Parliament to the permanent increase of the army in time of peace, by procuring its consent to the Mutiny Bill, which it would be absolutely necessary to pass under existing circumstances? Lords Harrowby, Bathurst, and the Lord. Chancellor, supported the motion, which was opposed by Lords Grosvenor, Lauderdale, Carnarvon, and King.-The motion for the Address was then carried without a division. In the Commons, the same day, Lord Castlereagh, on the same grounds as those advanced by Lord Liverpool in the Upper House, moved an Address of Thanks to his Majesty for his communication respecting the intended dissolution of Parliament. The motion was supported by Mr. Vansittart and Mr. Canning, and opposed by Mr. Tierney, Mr. Brougham, and Mr. M'Donald. In the course of the discussion, Mr. Vansittart stated, that the hereditary revenue was no longer applicable to the Civil List, having been appropriated to the purposes of the Consolidated Fund; its amount might be between 5 and 600,000l. a year. He intended to propose a vote, enabling the Crown to make payments out of the Civil List during the quarter commencing April 5, and ending on July 5. That of 1812 would be strictly adhered to; and, instead of any additional burden being laid on the people for the purpose of defraying the expenditure of the Civil List, he hoped that some considerable saving would be made. The money measures would be confined to 500,000l. for the army, and provision for one quarter of the Civil List beyond the 5th of April. In answer to a question from Mr. Hume, as to a provision for the Queen, her income as Princess of Wales being now extiuct, Lord Castlereagh said that a cómmunication would probably soon be made on that subject. Lord John Russell, after some discussion, obtained leave to bring in a Bill for suspending the writs for Barnstaple, Grampound, Peuryn, and Camelford, till the new Parliament met. Lord Jocelyn appeared at the bar, and read his Majesty's most gracious answer to the Address of the House. FOREIGN [ 167 ] FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. FRANCE. In the Chamber of Deputies on the 26th ult. the Minister of Finance presented the Project of Supply, or Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1820, after delivering an introductory speech, in which be minutely detailed the various items. It appears, that the estimate of the total expenditure for the current year amounts to 511,371,550 francs; which, added to 228,341,200 f. for the interest, charges, &c. of the Public Debt and Sinking Fund, gives a total of 739,712,750 f. `(somewhat more than 30,800,000) There is an increase of expenditure this year of 3,900,000 f. compared with 1819; but to counterbalance this, it is stated by the Minister that sums to the amount of 11,000,000 f. are included in this year's estimates, which formed no part of the expenditure of last year. The project was ordered to be printed and distributed. ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE DE BERRY. Feb. 14. At eleven o'clock at night, his Royal Highness the Duke de Berry was assassinated on leaving the Opera, by Louvel, a saddler's servant (garcon sellier), formerly a soldier in the old Imperial Guard, who appears to have been impelled to this dreadful act by the most atrocious political fanaticism. He was immediately arrested; not having, indeed, made any effort to escape. He declared that he had meditated the crime for four years. The Prince was immediately carried into one of the saloons of the Operahouse, where all the assistance the medical art could supply was administered to him, but without effect, the weapon having penetrated too deep not to inflict a mortal wound, and he expired at 6 o'clock in the morning; all the Princes of the Royal Family, and even the King himself, being present with the Duke in his last moments. Political fanaticism armed the hand of this wretched assassin, as formerly religious fanaticism armed that of Ravaillac. The last words which the Prince uttered were in favour of his assassin. He entreated his uncle to spare the life of this wretched man. It is incidentally mentioned in some of the letters, that the widowed Duchess is enceinte, which may give the Royalists the prospect of a Prince in the lineal descent, as heir to the Crown. Some have imagined, that the assassin perpetrated the crime in the presence of the Duchess, with the view that the shock might deprive the nation even of this feeble hope. [A Memoir of his Royal Highness will be given in our next Number.] NETHERLANDS. Several parts of Holland have been subject to the most dreadful inundations; for a statement of which see our "Domestic News;" where an account is given of the subscriptions entered into for the relief of the distressed sufferers. SPAIN. News from Madrid, dated the 8th of Jan. state, that "the agents of the rebels of America had sown the seeds of insubordination in the army of the intended expedition stationed in the villages about Cadiz, Granada, and Seville. It spread from the out-posts to the head-quarters, where they seized the person of the Commander in Chief, who had no troops with him but his guard of honour. On the 3d, the mutineers endeavoured to take possession of the magazines, but were alarmed by the appearance of the militia of Cadiz in arms; they accordingly dispersed, and their leaders escaped across the mountains. The troops of the expedition, under the orders of Don Manuel Freyre, had, on the 5th, begun their march to restore and maintain tranquillity." It appears, that Madrid is in an agitated state; the troops parading the streets with drawn swords to keep the people within doors. Ferdinand is stated to have demanded 25,000 men from the King of France, to put down the rebellion. Bayonne, Jan. 18.-In the night of the 1st of January, six battalions of the expeditionary army, encamped near Cadiz and Seville, broke out into open insurrection. Their force amounts to 5 or 6000 men.Their chiefs, commanders of the said battalions, Quiroga and Riego, and Lieutenant colonel Miranda, an intrepid man and extremely able military officer, took the lead. They seized on the person of Count Calderon, Commander-in-chief, and General Sancha Salvador, Chief of the Staff, whom they imprisoned in the Castle of Arcos. They have also arrested General Cisneros, Governor of La Isla de Leon, They seized on the military chest, arms, &c. The garrison' of Cadiz made a sortie in order to oppose the progress of the insurgents. The latter were beaten and forced to evacuate La Isla. Gen. Freyre' was at the head of the Royalist troops. The cavalry and artillery, it is said, have taken no part in the insurrection. The Cadiz Papers of the 28th ult. contain the following Proclamation, dated Jan. 25: "The Governor is penetrated with gratitude for the faithful and heroic conduct of the worthy inhabitants of this city, in the deplorable event of last evening. A hand handful of factious persons were led on by Colonel Nicholas Santiago Rotalde, who was officer of the day at the Marine Gate, and who, wanting to the confidence of the Government, wished to disturb the tranquillity of this noble and illustrious city.. You are aware that the plot was foiled, and I flatter myself, that similar seeds of discord will not again be re-produced, but you ought also to know that similar crimes cannot remain unpunished, and that in making use of my authority, I am bound to take the most energetic measures, in order that all good men may enjoy repose in their houses and families. Wherefore the said Rotalde having fled in order to avoid the punishment he deserved, I command the inhabitants of this city, if they discover him, to deliver up to me the person of this rebel, or to point out to me the place where he may be. At the same time I recommend you to prevent all assemblies being held within or without the city, and if they take place, I command that they be dispersed by the armed force. Inha bitants of Cadiz, I thank you for your conduct, and I hope that, henceforwards, you will in the same manner correspond to my esteem and affection for you. "ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ VALDES." DENMARK. The shutting of the English ports against foreign corn begins to be sensibly felt in the Baltic. A Copenhagen article, Jan. 1, inserted in the foreign journals, "The prohibition to import corn says, into England, and the high duty imposed on it in Sweden, having contributed still more to depress the prices of grain, to the great prejudice of the farmer, it has been proposed to lay a duty on the importation of foreign corn into Denmark, which is to prohibit it for some time." PRUSSIA. An ordinance has been issued by the King of Prussia, for strictly prohibiting the introduction into his dominions of any newspaper in the German language, published either in England or France; and of all papers published in the Netherlands, except with licence of the Prussian Ambassador at Brussels. RUSSIA. The Emperor Alexander has signalized his birth day by releasing his subjects entirely from the burden of war-taxes. ASIA. Accounts from Batavia, in the Dutch papers, confirm representations received by previous letters from thence, and exhibit a very unfavourable picture of the state of the Dutch colonies in the Indian Archipelago. The Dutch tenure of those insular possessions even seems in a high degree precarious. The authorities of the King of the Netherlands are carrying on a contest with the Sultan of Palembang ; while discontent and insurrection threaten them at Sappoora, at Macassar, in the Isle of Ceram, at Banca, and in the immediate neighbourhood of Batavia itself. The natives appear tired of the Dutch Government. The new settlement at Sincapoor, founded by Sir Thomas Raffles, is rapidly advancing in strength and population. AMERICA. It appears by the American papers, that most of the States are earnestly labouring to banish slavery from the Union altogether. Congress is occupied with the admission of young States as independent members of the Union. The American Government is employing an expedition to explore the Copper Mine River: this is described as part of a system of measures, for the security of the North-Western frontier of the United States, and for the protection of their fur trade. In Congress, on the 17th December, a resolution was submitted for preparing a bill to indemnify those citizens of the United States who lost their property in consequence of the general conflagration by the enemy on the Niagara frontier, during the late war. The Annual Treasury Report was presented by the American Government to Congress on the 10th. This document contains a full exposition of the amount of the revenue for five years past; viz. from 1815 inclusive. It exhibits likewise a concise account of the public debt in its separate branches. The whole revenue for 1815 was 49,555,642 dollars; in 1816, the second year of peace with England, 36,657,904 dollars; in 1817, 24,365,227 dollars; in 1818, 26,095,200 dollars; and in 1819 (calculated at) 25,827,824 dollars. The customs in 1815, when the ports of America were first opened to the introduction of British merchandize (after the war), amounted to upwards of 36,000,000 of dollars; 1819, about 20,000,000 of dollars. The public expenditure for the last year is stated at 25.492,387 dollars, leaving a small balance in the Treasury. The total of the public debt unredeemed on the 1st Jan, is estimated at 88,885,203 dollars. The revenue for 1820 is estimated at 22 millions dollars, being about 4 millions less than 1819; of this sum the customs are taken at 19 millions, which is less by one million than their produce last year-a proof that the Government is not sanguine in its speculations as to a speedy increase in the prosperity of foreigu commerce. The expenditure for 1820 is estimated at 27,000,000, being 6,000,000 more than the revenue; and the reporter adds, that, "it is probable, that the estimate for succeeding years will exceed, rather than fall 1820.] Foreign and Domestic Occurrences. fall below it.' The President, in conse 161* the description may be easily guessed, from his subjoining, that the present he conceives to be a favourable moment for affording "protection to the cotton, wool, len, and iron manufactures" of the United States, so as to secure them the home market. The report states that a loan is absolutely necessary. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. Our present most Gracious Majesty, George the Fourth, has been proclaimed in most of the principal towns of the United Kingdom with the greatest ceremony. The Corporations, and the principal gentlemen of different towns and cities, have formed the most splendid processions to celebrate the Accession of His Majesty to the throne of his ancestors. Feb. 2. A destructive fire broke out this evening, at the house of Philip Aldevel, esq. called Somerton-lodge, Herts. It was occasioned by the negligence of a maid-servant in suffering a candle to set fire to a bed-room on the second floor. Instead of endeavouring to extinguish the flames, she ran down stairs and alarmed the house; in the interval, the room was on fire in all parts. The Southern wing of the house, consisting of eight rooms, together with the valuable furniture, which was uninsured, was destroyed in less than two hours. A strong wall confined the flames to this wing of the house. The damage sustained is estimated at 3,0001. Feb. 13. A curious circumstance occurred at Market Lavington, Wilts. A person named Jane Webb, attended divine service attired precisely in the same suit of mourning for our late Sovereign George III. as was worn by her for King George II. The singularity of its make attracted much notice. This venerable and frugal spinster has attained her 76th year. A Druidical Temple is to be seen in the highest point of the farm of Craigmurthro, a mile South from Forfar.-It is a circle of large stones, the largest in the middle. The field was fallowed last year, and this temple trenched; from which a great quantity of stones were turned up: nothing else appeared, except a few stones that went to dust. The field this year was sown with barley, and this trenched part with the rest now, as far as this space extended, there are considerable quantities of oats of various kinds sprung up among the barley, the seeds of which must have remained there more than 1000 years! without the trenched ground there is not the least head of oats to be seen. Orders have been given to preserve these oat plants. GENT. MAG. February, 1820. Accounts from Ireland describe Roscommon, Mayo, and Galway as in a very disturbed state-infamous oaths administering to the lower orders, and arms seized by them for illegal purposes-they swear "No Protestants;" and part of their creed is, to pave a new road that is to be made by them with Protestant bones, and an abolition of tithes, division of property, and no more than a certain sum to be paid per acre. Norwich, Feb. 2. On Wednesday evening last, about eight o'clock, the North bank of the Wissey (about three furlongs above Hilgay-bridge) suddenly gave way, making a breach to the extent of upwards of 50 feet; through which the water rushed with such impetuosity, that in a very short time a tremendous gulph of 22 feet in depth was formed. We are sorry to add, that by this calamitous event, several hundred acres of land (a great part of which was sown with wheat), in Roxham and the vicinity were from two to three feet under water. OCCURRENCES IN LONDON OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS ON THE Whitehall, Jan. 31. On Saturday afternoon, at thirty-five minutes past eight o'clock, our late most gracious Sovereign King George the Third, whose strength had gradually declined for some weeks, expired without the least apparent suffering, at his Castle of Windsor, in the 82d year of his age, and the 60th of his reign. No Sovereign ever possessed in a higher degree the veneration and affection of his subjects; and their grief for his loss is only abated by the unhappy malady, which has precluded his Majesty from directing the measures of his Government during the nine latter years of his glorious reign. Upon the news of this melancholy event arriving in London, the Lords of the Privy Council assembled yesterday at Carlton House, and gave orders for proclaiming his present Majesty, who made a most gracious Declaration to them, and caused all the Lords and others of the late King's Privy Privy Council, who were then present, to be sworn of his Majesty's Privy Council. And this day, about noon, his Majesty was proclaimed; first before CarltonHouse, where the Officers of State, Nobility, and Privy Councillors, were present, with the Officers of Arms, all being on foot. Then the officers being mounted on horseback, the like was done at Charing-cross, within Temple-bar, at the end of Woodstreet, in Cheapside, and lastly, at the Royal Exchange, with the usual solemnities; the principal Officers of State, a. great number of the Nobility, and of other persous of distinction, attending during the whole ceremony. "Whereas, it has pleased the Almighty God to call to his mercy our late Sovereign Lord, King George the Third, of blessed memory, by whose decease the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, is solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Prince, George, Prince of Wales. We, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, being here assisted with those of his late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal Gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, do now hereby with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim that the high and mighty Prince George, Prince of Wales, is now, by the death of the late Sovereign, of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege Lord, George the Fourth, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith and so forth, to whom we do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience, with all hearty and humble affection; beseeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless the Royal Prince, George the Fourth, with long and happy years to reign over us. "Given at the Court at Carlton House, this 30th day of January, 1820. "God save the King." FREDERICK. WILLIAM. AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. WILLIAM FREDERICK. LEOPOLD, Prince of Saxe Cobourg. C. Cantuar, Eldon (C.), Montrose, Athol, Wellesley, Camden, Lauderdale, Chatham, Bathurst, Liverpool, Mulgrave, Melville, Sidmouth, Melbourne, Chetwynd, W. London, Wm. Courtenay, W. Curtis, John Famer, John Perring, James Shaw, George Scholey, Samuel Birch, Matthew Wood, C. Smith, Gerrard Andrewes, R. Hodgson, John Ireland, G. Cockburn, H. Hothain, Besborough, C. Warren, Sam. Carlisle, Ellenborough, Charles Manners Sutton, N. Vansittart, Frederick John Robinson, Wm. Scott, T. Wallace, W. Grant, John Nicholl, R. Richards, Charles Arbuthnot, Robert Peel, W. Sturges Bourne, Charles Bagot, John Leach, C. Abbott, R. Dallas, B. Bloomfield, Ailesbury, George Bridges (Mayor), George Clerk, Christopher Robinson, R. Gifford, J. W. Croker, George R. Dawson, Thomas Pere. Courtenay, J. S. Copley, H. Bankes, C. Flower, John Atkins, John Silvester, C. Magnay, Robert Alb. Cox, John Thomas Thorp, Richard Rothwell, John Edmund Dowdeswell, R. Clark, Henry Woodthorpe, T. Tyrrell, Wm. Borradaile, jun. Thomas Smith, Herbert Taylor, W. Keppel, F. T. Hammond, William Congreve, Newman Kuowlys (the Common Serjeant of London), James Buller, Jos. Whatley, George Nayler (York). At the Court at Carlton House, January 30, 1820, present, the King's most excellent Majesty in Council: His Majesty being this day present in Council, was pleased to make the following Declaration, viz. "I have directed that you should be assembled here, in order that I may discharge the painful duty of announcing to you the death of the King, my beloved father. "It is impossible for me adequately to express the state of my feelings upon this melancholy occasion, but I have the consolation of knowing, that the severe calamity with which his Majesty has been afflicted for so many years, has never effaced from the minds of his subjects the impres sions created by his many virtues; and his example will, I am persuaded, live for ever in the grateful remembrance of his country. "Called upon, in consequence of his Majesty's indisposition, to exercise the prerogatives of the Crown on his behalf, it was the first wish of my heart to be allowed to restore into his hands the powers with which I was entrusted. It has pleased Almighty God to determine otherwise, and I have not been insensible to the advantages which I have derived from administering, in my dear father's name, the Government of this realm. "The support which I have received from Parliament and the country, in times the most eventful, and under the most arduous circumstances, could alone inspire me with that confidence which my present station demands. "The experience of the past will, I trust, satisfy all classes of my people, that it will ever be my most anxious endeavour to promote their prosperity and happiness, and to maintain unimpaired the religion, laws, and liberties of the kingdom.” Whereupon the Lords of the Council At |