the enemy's army, and not apprehend the bearers of them, fhall be confidered as accomplices, and fubjected to the most rigor ous punishment. "WELLINGTON. Headquarters, Aug. 1, 1810." From the following prociamation it would appear, that the Portuguese are no difpofed to risk much for the common caufe; and Lord Wellington, accordingly, threatens to "compel the careless and indolent to make the neceffary efforts to preferve themselves from the dangers which threaten them, and to fave their country." PROCLAMATION BY LORD WELLINGTON, "Lord Viscount Wellington, Marthal General, &c. "The time which has elapfed during which the enemy has remained on the frontiers of Portugal, must have proved to the Portuguese nation what they have to expect from the French. The inhabitants of fome villages have remained in them, confiding in the promises of this enemy, and hoping that by treating the enemies of their country, they might conciliate and mollify them, and infpire them with humane fentiments, that their property would be refpected, their females preferved from brutal violation, and their lives fecured. Vain hopes! the inhabitants of these fubmiffive places have fuffered all the evils which a cruel enemy could inflict; their property has been plundered, their habitations burnt, the women atrociously violated, and those whofe age and fex did not provoke the brutal violence of the foldiers, have fallen victims to the imprudent confidence which they placed in promises made only to be broken. "The Portuguese must now fee that no other means remain, to avoid the evils with which they are threatened, but a determined and vigorous resistance, and a firm resolution to obftruct, as much as poffible, the advance of the enemy into the interior of the kingdom, by removing out of his reach all fuch things as may contribute to his fubfiftence, or facilitate his progrefs. This is the only and most certain means to prevent the evils with which this country is threatened. The army under my command will protect as large a portion of the country as is poffible; but it is obvious that the people alone can deliver themselves by a vigorous refiftance, and preferve their goods by removing them out of the reach of the enemy. The duties, therefore, that bind September 1810. me o his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, and to the Portuguese nation, oblige me to make use of the power and authority with which I am furnished, and compel the careless and indolent to make the neceffary efforts to preserve themselves from the danger which threatens them, and to fave their country. ་་ "In conformity with this, I make known and declare, that all magiftrates, and perfons in authority, who shall remain in the villages or towns after having received orders from the military officers to remove from them; and all perfons, of whatever clafs they may be, who shall maintain the least communication with, or aid and afsist in any manner, the enemy, fhall be confidered as traitors to the State, and tried and punished as fuch an enormous crime requires. "WELLINGTON. "Headquarters, Aug. 4, 1810." FRANCE AND HOLLAND. that the ports into which, by the Trianon We are informed, by letters from France, decree, (a copy of which we inferted in our last number), the importation of colonial produce is permitted, are oftend, Rouen, Rochelle, Nantes, and Bourdeaux. The following is a copy of the licenfes, by which the French Government allows fuch importation: [From Aug. 1810-for fix months.] "To fail from [the name of the port the veffel is lying at], for England, and the ports of the north, and return; the captain, and confignees to fulfil the regulations of the customs, and paying the usual duties. "The veffel's cargo, on failing, to confift, 1-6th of her tonnage, or 1-8th of the value of the cargo in wines and brandies; the remainder 5-6ths optional in wines, brandies, vinegar, feeds, vegetables, and fruits, and of any kinds of articles of French manufacture, or of the French foil, allowed to be exported. "Returning, the may bring timber for fhip building, the fame as before allowed: Further, mahogany, indigo, and other dyeing materials; pepper, nutmegs, cinnamon, together, to the amount of the cargo exported or to be exported from France. The price of the goods fo exported to be regulated according to their price at the place of deftination, and the value of the return cargo to be regulated at the current price of the place where it has been taken in," In 706 In the licenfes granted by Bonaparte to the American veffels, the following are the chief paragraphs: "We have authorised, and do authorife by these prefents, figned with our own hend, and delivered under the numbers the American veffel named (name of the veffel, and quantity and qualities of each commodity to be here specified) to carry into any of our ports of France, cotton, fish oil, dye ftuffs, falt fish and cod, coffees and fugars of French iflands in America and Afia, cocoa, fpices of all kinds of the Dutch islands, all the merchandizes and colonial productions of the two Indies, with the exception of tobacco and all articles whereof the importation into France is prohibited; under the obligation that there fhall be exported by the faid vessel from any of our ports of France, an equal value to that of the faid produce and merchand ize, and according to the price current at the port where the veffel fhall arrive; the value to be exported fhall principally confift of half at leaft of French wines and brandies, and the other half in woollens, fiks, hemp, and linen cloths, and other productions of our manufactures. "Be it understood, 1. That the faid veffel fhall be exempted from the formality of the certificate of origin.-2. That the captain be the bearer of a letter from our conful to our minifter of foreign relations. 3. That he fhall bring with him the American journals of the day of his departure from the United States.-4. 'I hat previous to the landing of the produce and mer chandize in France, the prefent permit fhail be fent from the port of arrival, of verification, to our Board of the General Direction of the customs." An imperial decree of the 12th Septemher, in regulation of the currency of France, orders, that, from the date of the decree, the gold coin of 48 livres Tournois fhall be valued at 47 francs 20 cents.; the gold coin of 24 livres Tournois at 23 f. 55 c.; the filver coin of 5 livres Tournois at 5 livres 60 cents.; and the filver coin of 3 livres at francs 75 cents. In addition to the reftraints on the prefs in France, to the liberty of which, Bonaparte is of neceflity an enemy; an order was lued on the 3d' August, limiting the num ber of news-papers to one in each department, with the exception of that of the Seine. The following is a copy of this order, which could not be relished in any country poffelling even the fhadow of free cion):- 1.-There fhall be only one journal in each of the departments, with the exception 2.-This journal shall be under the au- 3. Nevertheless, the Prefects may provifionally authorise in our great cities, the publication of papers containing advertisements in the nature of pofting-bills, or hand-bills, relative to fales of articles of merchandize and immoveable property; and The faid journals treating exclusively of literature, the fciences, arts, and agriculture. publications muft contain no articles foreign to their objec. 4.-Our Minifter of the Interior fall, on the 1st September next, make a report to us upon the faid advertising journals; the publication of which may be definitively determined. In recent communications from Holland, it is ftated that at Antwerp there are at prefent twenty fhips of the line, 15 of which are ready for fea, and the others in a state of great forwardnefs. Admiral De Winter had been at that port for fome time, superintending or pufhing forward the operations. On the 3d Seember three new gun-boats were launched, of the largest fize. A great number of men were employed in building thefe veffels, and were working extra hours in order to proceed with the greateft rapidity. The number of French troops in Holland are ftated to be but few, and it is faid they conduct themselves most exemplarily; returning to quarters regularly at nine o'clock The in the evening. In fome of the principal The collection of the duty of 50 per cent imposed on colonial produce in Holland, which has been reduced to 40 per cent, has been commenced with fome severity; not a place in the country is left unexamined by the custom-house agents, as they are allowed half the value if they difcover any goods of this defcription concealed. In order to prevent articles of colonial produce rifing to an exorbitant height in Holland, the government has thought proper to publish a price current, according to which, all these commodities are to be fold. The best reafted coffee, cofts 44 ftivers per lb.; beit raw coffee, 33 livers; hyfon tea, 6 guilders; and other kinds, 4 guilders the ᏗᏱ, ; Ib.; Carolina rice, from 7 to 8 flivers per lb. TURKEY AND RUSSIA. The intelligence we received leaves us ftill uninformed as to the actual fate of the war at prefent carrying on between these two countries. The articles dated Peterfburgh represent the Ruffians as conftantly victorious, while the accounts from ConItantinople as uniformly lay claim to success on the part of the Turks. Some German papers, received lately, hold out a profpect of peace being speedily concluded between the belligerents, by the Porte ceding to Ruffia the provinces on the left bank of the Danube. It is reported that Alexander has taken alarm at the late election of a French Marfhal as fucceffor to the throne of Sweden, and that confiderable changes has already, or is about to take place in the cabinet of St Petersburgh. It has been even stated, that overtures have been made from that court to this country. This, however, for the prefent, appears to have no other foundation than mere conjecture, and is only cherished by thofe who feel interested in hearing of new allies, and fresh fubfidies; and we doubt very much, whether the Emperor of all the Ruffias will ever again be recognised in this country as the magnanimous Alexander. MUNGO PARKE. We feel much fatisfaction in communicating the intelligence contained in the following extract, refpecting this celebrated traveller. We trust that the hopes which it holds forth will be speedily realized : Extract of a letter from Colonel Maxwell, dated Government-house, Senegal, 6th July 1810, to the Secretary of the African Institution. "I have juft received information from Goree, that Mr Laporte, of that island, was, on the 27th of March last, at C——, and had there met with a Toucaloor, who informed him, that a month before, he had feen Mr Mungo Parke, in a village, the name of which has escaped the memory of Mr Laporte; that he was very well, but alone, having loft all his companions; that he intended to return to the coaft by Galam to Senegal, it being a fhorter route from where he was than by the Gambia. If he really is in existence, and had been feen by the Toucaloor, he probably adopted this refolution owing to the disturbed ftate in which the upper part of Gambia is, on account of war between the "It is much lamented that Mr Laporte was not more precife in his inquiries; there was another inhabitant of Goree with him, who, he fays, has more particulars than himfelf, as he speaks the language of the Toucaloor; this perfon, Mr Pigcand, has tranfmit to you the earliest intelligence on not yet returned from Gambia. I will the fubject which I receive. If this rumour is true, I fhall feel particularly delighted to have the pleasure of receiving Mr Parke, and to forward him to his native land." 708 HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24. HIS day came on before the Court, the Collector of Excife at Kirkaldy, accafed of forging Excife debentures. The pannel was, as our readers will recollect, tried fome time ago. The libel was reftricted to a particu lar ftature, which enacted, that the forging of debentures, fubjected the paunel to feven years tranfportation. The Jury returned a verdict, finding, that Hewghan had not forged the debentures, but that he had uttered them. His Counfel infifted that no punishment could follow, as uttering was not mentioned in the ftatute. The Court ordered informations upon this point, which were delivered in for both parties. Their Lordfhips delivered their opinions at confiderable length, and unanimoufly found that the pannel must be acquitted. After a fuitable exhortation from the Lord Juftice Clerk, he was difmiffed from the Bar. The pannel was no fooner difmiffed, than a petition was prefented and read to the Court, praying to apprehend him on a charge of forging another debenture. The Court immediately granted the warrant craved, and he was recommitted to prifon. The Court then proceeded to the trial of William Lawfon, officer of Excife at Duddingstone, and David Smith, falt manufac turer at Magdalene Salt Pans, accused of the murder of Richard Ewan, officer of Excife, on the 18th of May laft. No objection was made to the libel, and the pannels having pleaded not guilty, a Jury was chofen, and the trial proceeded. A number of witneffes were examined on the part of the profecutor, and the declarations of the pannels were also read, (which were remarkably confiftent with each other). From thefe it appeared, that, on the 18th of May, an Excife Court was held at Dalkeith, which the pannels and the deceased went to attend. Upon their arrival in Dalkeith, they went into Morrifon's inn, aud had a refreshment; and afterwards went to the Court, where Mr Smith was acquitted of a fraud alleged a gainst him. The pannels and the deceafed came back to Morrison's, where they din ed; the company confifting of 18 or 14 people. Mr Smith wifhed to go away ears was liquor, they ftopped for him, and between eight and nine o'clock, they left Dalkeith to go to home, Lawfon leading Ewan, who was by that time much intoxicated. They went first on the common road from Dalkeith to Muffelburgh, but returned to the Duke of Buccleuch's gate to get through the parks. After a confiderable altercation with the woman at the gate, they were allowed to pafs, and went by the ftables through part of the policy. The deceased was then it fuch a weak ftate that he fell repeatedly, and was at one time carried a confiderable way on Lawfon's back, who at last was unable to proceed. Ewan was laid down on the grafs, and Lawfon went to endeavour to find a road out of the park, while Smith ftaid by Ewan-Lawson was unable to find his way out, and, being quite fatigued, all the three fell asleep. After fleeping feveral hours, Lawfon and Smith awoke, and endeavoured to aroufe Ewan, but did not fucceed. Lawfon then proposed to go to Dalkeith for help, which he did, and Smith stopped with Ewan. The above particulars are taken princi pally from the declarations of the pannels, as no person saw the parties after they went into the Duke's policy.-The only perfon who heard any thing, was a groom at the ftables, who about ten, and afterwards at twelve o'clock at night, heard people, as if quarrelling, a little way from the ftables; but the dogs disturbed him so much that he could not hear what paffed.Next morning the under-groom found fothe things about the grounds, which belonged to the deceafed and the pannels, particularly two broken ticks, and the deceafed's hat, which was militia, and proceeded to the place, where they found Ewan, with Smith fitting befide him. One of the foldiers took Ewan on his back, and, in that manner, he was conveyed to Torrance's houfe, but was accompanied no farther than the ftables by Lawfon and Smith, who left them, after the former had given Torrance 5s. to pay the foldiers, and promised to pay whatever more might be wanted. On their arrival at Torrance's houfe, the deceased was fet on a chair, but died in a few minutes, without having fpoke. Torrance fent for Mr Skeddon, furgeon in Dalkeith, who endeavoured to draw blood, but did not fucceed. The body was afterwards examined, about ten o'clock, by Dr Graham, and Mr Scott, furgeon, who were of opinion that the deceased's death was occafioned by external violence, to which opinion they adhered, on a fubfequent examination which was ordered by the Sheriff. Their opinions were principally grounded on the circumftance of the deceafed being bruifed on the back part of the body, by blows, as they imagined, from the neck almoft to the heels-This was the fubftance of the evidence for the profecution. In favour of the pannels, it appeared, from most refpectable witneffes, and alfo from their own declarations, that, the moment they heard of the death of Ewan, they went to Dalkeith, and immediately after wards to Edinburgh, to the Sheriff's Office. They were defired to go home, till called for; and, when fummoned to attend, eritted the declarations which had been read, and were admitted to bail-It was alfo fworn to, by feveral witneffes, that the deceased was fometimes in the habit of getting intoxicated, on which occafions he was exceedingly helplefs, and could not get home without affiftance: That a perfect friendship and good understanding fubfifted between him and the pannels; and that Lawson often did duty for him, and many times had helped him home, when in a ftate of intoxication.-To the characters of both pannels witneffes of the greatest credit were adduced; who, from long knowledge and experience, teftified as to their quietness of difpofition, and peaceable and orderly behaviour, upon all occafions. As exculpatory evidences, two medical gentlemen were produced, viz. Mr Bell, furgeon, and Mr Fyfe, anatomist, who underwent long examinations, and gave their opinions on the queftions put to them by the Court and Counsel in a manner highly tarisfactory. They were examined principally on the appearances which dead bodies exhibit, found in fituations fimilar to that of Mr Ewan's. After the evidence was gone through, Mr J. H. Mackenzie declined charging the Jury on the part of the profecution, observing fhortly, that he had not made out his cafe, and that the pannels ought to be acquitted. The Counsel for the pannels faid nothing; and the Lord Juftice-Clerk defired the Jury to inclose, and the Court would wait their return. Accordingly, in about half an hour, which is nearly as foon as the form of returning a written verdict will admit, they returned their verdict, all in one voice, finding the pannels not guilty; on which, after a fuitable advice from the Lord Juflice-Clerk, they were difmiffed from the Bar. This trial excited confiderable intereft, and the Court-room (the Court of Exchequer, the Jufticiary Court being now painting) was much crowded. Counsel for the profecution, J. H. Mackenzie, James Wedderburn, and William Horne, Efqrs.; Agent, Mr Hugh Warrender. For the pannels, Francis Jeffrey and John Reid, Efqrs.; Agent, Mr Steedman, writer. MONDAY, AUGUST 27. This day came on before the Court, the trial of John Cameron, ship carpenter, lately refiding in the Citadel, Leith, accused of the murder of Mary Macinnes, or Cameron, his wife, on the 20th of July last. It appeared from the evidence, that the prifoner, a fhip-carpenter in Leith, had been often heard by the neighbours quarrelling with his wife; that on the morning when fhe was found dead, the neighbours were awakened betwixt one and two o'clock, by the cries of a person in great distress, and a noife refembling ftruggling and fighting, and toffing the furniture about; after the noife had fubfided, fmothered groans were heard, and a smell of burning was felt; the neighbours knocked very loud at the door, but no answer being given, they were ob liged to force it open, when the deceased was found burnt to death, near the kitchen grate. There was a piece of tobacco, with a bit broke off it, lying on the floor, and an empty bottle, which might hold about three gills, standing on the table. The prifoner was in bed, along with his child, in another room. On turning the clothes off him, he turned round, and asked what was wanted. No direct answer was returned, the prisoner being merely defired to lie ftill. He ac cordingly laid his head down on the pillow, but fhortly afterwards arose, and asked how they came to break open his door without a warrant, and that he would make them answer for it. The prifoner was then taken into custody by foldiers. One of the witneff |