after the attack had begun, the surrender of the town was anticipated. The army had possessed itself of one third of the houses, and fortified itself in them. The church which contained the image of Our Lady of Pilar, which by so many miracles had promised to defend the town, was battered down by bombs, and no longer inhabitable. The duke of Montebello deemed it necessary to take possession of the left bank of the river, in order that his fire might reach the middle of the town. The general of division, Gazan, made himself master of the bridge by a sudden and impetuous attack, on the morning of the 17th (February.) A battery of fifty pieces was played off at three in the afternoon. A battalion of the 28th regiment attacked and took possession of a very large monastery, the walls of which were of brick, and from three to four feet thick. General Gazan then repaired 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 two generals, 12 colonels, 19 lieut.-colonels and 230 officers. He took 30 pieces of artillery. Nearly all the troops of the town had beset this important post, 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 mines, blew up the extensive buildings of the Schaals. After these events terror was spread throughout the town. The Junta, soners of war and sent to France. The 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 different inhabitants has set out for Madrid.-Palafox is dangerously ill. He was the object of the contempt of the whole hostile ariny, 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, and found in a dungeon of eight feet square, was released no idea can be formed of the miseries he had undergone." CAPTure of Cayenne. Capitulation proposed by Victor Hugues, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commissioner of his Majesty the Emperor and King, Commander in Chief of Cayenne and French Guyana, and accepted by James Lucas Yeo, PostCaptain in his Britannic Majesty's Service, commanding the Combined Navul English and Portuguese Forces, and Manuel Marques, Knight of the Military Orders of St. Benoit d'Avie, Lieut. Col. in Chief, and Director of the Corps of Artillery of Para, commanding the advanced Army of the Portuguese, dated Jan. 12th, 1809. in order to procure delay, and obtain time to abate the terror of the inhabitants, sought a parley; but their bad faith was ALTHOUGH the advanced posts have been known, and this artifice was useless.-Thir- carried, and that the commissioner of the t other houses were possessed by under- emperor and king is reduced with his garning, or by mines.-At length, on the rison to the town, he owes it to those senof Feb. the whole town was possessed timents of honour which have always disbar troops: 15,000 infantry and 2,000 tinguished him, to the valour and good savalry laid down their arms at the gate conduct of the officers and soldiers under of Portilla, and 40 flags, and 160 pieces of his command, to the attachment of the incannon, were delivered up. The insur- habitants of the colony for his majesty the gents lost 20,000 men during the siege; emperor and king, to declare publicly, 13,000 were found in the hospitals; 500 that he surrenders less to the force than to died daily. The duke of Montebello the destructive system of liberating all the would allow no capitulation to the town of slaves who should join the enemy, and of. Saragossa. He only published the follow-burning all the plantations and ports where ing provisions:-[The garrison shall at there should be any resistance. - The noon, on the 21st, lay down their arms at commissioner of the emperor commanding the gate of Portilla, where they shall re- in chief, after having witnessed the burnmain prisoners of war. Those of the troops ing of several plantations, particularly his of the line, who are willing to take the oath own, the most considerable of the colony, to King Joseph, may be allowed to enter had attributed it at first to the casualties into his service. In case this entrance of war; and the disorganization of the shall not be permitted by the minister of gangs, and the liberation of the slaves, war to the king of Spain, they shall be pri- appeared to him a momentary measure; but being assured in writing, that the Eng-papers, plans, and other articles belonging lish and Portuguese officers acted in virtue to the engineer department, shall be of the orders of his royal highness the equally given up.-8. The sick and woundPrince Regent, and wishing to save the ed who are obliged to remain in the colocolony from total destruction, and to pre- ny may leave it, with all that belong to serve his august master's subjects, who them, as soon as they are in a situation to had given him so many proofs of their do so; in the mean time they shall be attachment and fidelity, the commissioner treated as they have been hitherto.-9. of his imperial and royal majesty surren- Private, property, of whatever nature or ders the colony to the forces of his royal description, shall be respected, and the highness the Prince Regent on the follow- inhabitants may dispose of it as heretoing conditions:-Art. 1. The garrison fore.-10. The inhabitants of the colony shall march out with their arms and bag- shall preserve their properties and may gage and all the honours of war; the of- reside there, conforming to the orders and ficers shall retain their side arms, and those forms established by the sovereign under of the staff their horses; the garrison shall which they remain; they shall be at lilay down their arms, and engage not to berty to sell their properties and retire serve against his royal highness and wherever it may suit them, without any his allies during one year-2. Vessels obstacle.-11. The Civil Laws known in shall be furnished at the expence of his France under the title of the Napoleon royal highness the Prince Regent, to carry Code, and in force in the colony, shall be the garrison, the officers civil and military, observed and executed until the Peace and all those employed in the service, between the two Nations; the magistrates with their families and effects, direct to shall only decide on the interests of inFrance with as little delay as possible. dividuals, and differences connected with 3. A convenient vessel shall be furnished them in virtue of the said laws.-12. The to convey to France the commissioner of debts acknowledged by individuals during the emperor commanding in chief, his or previous to the time fixed by the precedfamily, his officers, his suit and effects; ing article, shall be exacted agreeably to the chief of the administration of the the basis determined by the same article. finances, the commander of the troops, the-13. The papers concerning the controul inspector and the commandant of artillery, with their families.-4. A convenient delay shall be granted to the officers who have property in the colony, to settle their aflairs.5. The arsenals, batteries, and every thing belonging to the artillery, the small arms and powder magazines, and the provision stores, shall be given up by inventory, and in the state in which they are now, and the same shall be pointed out.6. The slaves on both sides shall be disarmed, and sent to their respective plantations. -The French negroes whom the Commanders by sea and land of his royal highness the Prince Regent have engaged for the service during the war, and to whom in virtue of their orders they have given their freedom, shall be sent out of the colony, as they can only remain there in future an object of trouble and dissension. -The Commanders engage, as they have promised, to solicit of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent the replacing of those slaves, as an indemnity in favour of the inhabitants to whom they belong.-7. The and matriculation of the troops shall be LONDON: Printed by T. C. HANSARD, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden: Sold also by J. BUDD, Pall Mall. VOL. XV. No. 13.] LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1809. And now, perhaps, the glorious hour is come, He burns with most intense and flagrant zeal Well manag'd, shall have earn'd its worthy price. 481] [Price is. Ob innocent, compar'd with arts like these, -[482 We can, DUKE OF YORK. "amiable in an old soldier." (Continued from page 457.) therefore, only, in this case, accuse Mr. UNDER this head I shall continue to Glasse of a want of discernment; but, at place all the statements and remarks, the same time, I must say, that one cangrowing out of, or immediately connected not help believing, that he must have with, the recent Inquiry; and, this head known something of Donovan's intention will, for some months, I dare say, be con- to make interest for him somewhere; and, tinued; though we shall now have leisure if that was the case (a point which I leave to attend a little to other matters.- -The to the decision of the reader) he was very affair of the Rev. Mr. Glasse, has not been blameable indeed, however common the cleared up. The public are in the dark practice may be of obtaining church prewith respect to it; and, as it is useful to ferment by such means.- I have now to the public to be rightly informed as to the notice what it appears has been done matter, I will here communicate what infor- against Mr. Glasse by some authority in mation, relative to it, I am in possession of the Church; and which will be best exFirst, the public will bear in mind, plained by inserting his letter, dated 16th that the name of Dr. Glasse was confound- | March, ΤΟ THE COMMITTEE OF THE ed with that of his son, Mr. G. H. Glass?, "SONS OF THE CLERGY,' of which SocieRector of Hanwell. -Next, that Donoty, or Charity, he was, it appears, the Sevan, whom Mrs. Clarke said made the cretary. "GENTLEMEN, In the midst of application to her, said, in his examination, "my indignant surprise at the liberties that Mr. Glasse knew nothing of the applica- "which on a late public occasion had tion which he made to Mrs. Clarke in his "been taken with my name, I received a favour. To this is to be added, that "very intelligible hint, from a high quarMr. Glasse has offered to make oath, that "ter, that my voluntary resignation of what Donovan has said, in this respect, is "the Secretaryship to your Charity would true, and, that an offer has been made, on "be an act decorous in itself, and, possipart of Donovan, to make an oath of " bly, beneficial to the Institution.—My truth of what he, in this respect, de- “ reply was short and simple, and it was clared during his examination.-There" this:-"That as i was not aware of can be no doubt, therefore, that this is the "666 any delinquency on my part, ei.her real state of the case; and, that the ""actual or intentional, I would not beaccharge against Mr. Glasse is fairly reduced "❝cessary to my own dishonour; or skulk to that of being an intimate acquaintance of Donovan, with the addition of the probability of his (Mr. Glasse's) having known," that Donovan did intend to interest" himself with some person or other, in favour of the views of Mr. Glasse. meanly from an ostensible situation, ""under an implied conscion-ness of " guilt."I wish it therefore to be distinctly and generally understood, that in consequence of an anthoritative "mandate, and of that only, I have this day placed your Seal in the hands of my warm-hearted and unshaken friend, your honest, worthy Treasurer.-in times like these, when every wise man would covet and court retirement, it is in itself a mat Now, as to the former, Mr. Glasse, in a 66 Q " 66 guilt, actual or intentional; but, when added to the fact of Donovan's having made an application to Mrs. Clarke for the preferment of Mr. Glasse, it does fairly amount to a presumption injurious to his reputation, in point of discretion at least; and that being the case, I cannot agree with him, as to the justice of his complaint against those, who have been the cause of his dismission, which I look upon as a sort of clerical censure, and as being the only censure of that kind, which his superiors, probably his diocesan, had it in his power to inflict. But, this being the case, where, according to the principle, upon which Mr. Glasse has been dismissed and censured, shall we look for a defence of those, who have contended, that the Duke of York ought not to have been dismissed; and who were the cause of preventing his being formally censured? Where, upon the principle, on which the Bishop of London (for he, I take it, is meant) has acted, shall we look for a defence of those persons? If to be acquainted with a trafficker in commissions and preferment, and to have had an application made to Mrs. Clarke, without his consent or knowledge, be a ground sufficient for the censuring and dismissing of Mr. Glasse; where are we to look for a defence of those, who have defended the Duke of York? And, above all, where shall we look for a defence of those of the clergy, who have acted this part? The Duke of York is, I believe, older than Mr. Glasse, though some people would have us suppose, that he has not yet cut his wisdom teeth, and that Mr. Wardle has been merely lancing his gums. The Duke is too a Doctor, though the fact may not be generally known. When he was at Oxford, some years ago, the "Learned"language" men of St. John's College, finding in him, I suppose, the requisite qualities, gave him a diploma of LL. D. And, I was told, that by mistake, they were within an ace of presenting it to one of his attendants, instead of himself. This, which was told me in 1806, while I was at Oxford, was one of the circumstances, which set me to estimating the value of the understanding and the principles, connected with the "learned lan ter of relief, rather than of regret, that I am no longer to be called by the duties of a laborious and expensive office, from "a home most dear to me. The conviction "of my mind, that my zealous exertions "were in no small degree advantageous to your Charity, was the only considera"tion that could have made me wish "to continue in the exercise of those "duties. I am now completely ab"solved from them. But I do neverthe"less protest, before God and you, against "the "armed doctrine," against the unjust and tyrannous principle, on which "I am dismissed from your service-a principle, by the application of which "to more important cases, an Englishman "would cease to be the guardian of his "own honour and character; and must be "contented to hold his reputation, his li"berty, perhaps his life, at the mercy of "friends or of enemies, without any act "or participation of his own.". This "authoritative mandate" proceeded from I know not whom. Why will not people give us names? There is not common sense in this species of delicacy. How are we to know, who to blame here, if blame be due? -I will not stop to inquire into the utility of this Society (for it is a matter upon which there might be a good deal said); but, supposing it to be connected, in some sort, with the Church; supposing its reputation to be linked, in any way, with that of the Church, I cannot say, that I should disapprove of what Mr. Glasse complains of; because I hold it to have been very improper for him to have been so closely connected with a person like Donovan. The frequency of such connections, and of clergymen obtaining promotion through such channels, does not lessen the fault of Mr. Glasse. He has thus been censured; and I really do not think the censure too severe. Neither can I find, in the measure, any thing contrary to sound principles of justice. All that the Society say to him is this: "we do not wish any longer to have your services." Surely, they may act as they please, in an affair of this sort. There was no need of any trial, or investigation (if that be what Mr. Glasse alludes to); the close intimacy with Donovan having been stated, proclaimed, and acknowledged on the part of Mr. Glasse, there was no occasion for any thing further in the way of proof, especially in a case, where the dismissed party could sustain no injury, except in - point of feeling. It is very true, that the proof of that intimacy was no proof of 66 ings against them respectively to any principle of impartiality. I do not find fault with the censure on Mr. Glasse; but, let me hear what those, who have censured him, or who have approved of that censure, will say of the Duke of York. Let me hear them. Do not tell me of their thoughts. Let me hear what they say. "How?" I shall be asked. In their sermons. They preach against Buonaparté ; they preach against rebellion, and sedition; and, there was a time, when one half of what they said was about jacobinism. If they will not talk about the Duke, let us hear, at least, what they have to say about corruption, which leads to every thing that is destructive of the liberty of the people, and of the existence of the throne; or, if they will remain mum, let them preach to the bare walls. Let us, "hold divines," hear a little of the Church thunder upon this most abominable national sin. Are there no sermons upon it extant? Why, then, write some. Arouse all your pious indignation against this sin, ten thousand times more dangerous than that of stark-naked jacobinism. Come, come! None of your smoothing irons; none of your twisting and wriggling; none of your logic of evasion. Let us hear, in good plain English, what you have to say about what has now come to light. You often enough tell us of the denunciations of God against robbers, and you bid us not to steal. Now, then, when robbery | of the public is joined to all the other vices; accompanied with all that is, at once, the most hateful and most contemptible; now let us hear what you have to say. When jacobinism was the order of the day, you were loud and distinct enough. Every news-paper teemed with sketches of your sermons, and every bookseller's window was crammed up with the sermons themselves. Well, then, let us now hear you. Let me see one amongst you; even one; a solitary individual of you, print a sermon upon this all-important subject, coming, in so many ways, under your immediate province. Dr. O'Meara, too, the divine of "celestial unction," whose "( lips were touched with the live coal from off "the altar;" he, too, was ready to preach against the principles of the French Democrats; and, I would have my readers bear it in everlasting remembrance, that he preached this sermon, before the king, under the patronage, cringingly sought for, of a kept mistress of the king's son. This fact is, of itself, a pretty good com the 66 mentary upon the sermons against jacobinism, and upon all that has been prated and printed about "social order and our holy religion," by those who have been pensioned and preferred for their literary services. That eleven thousand parishes should not afford many clergymen, who hold in abomination the corruptions, which have been brought to light, it were uncandid in the extreme to affect to doubt; and, indeed, I have the honour personaliy to know some, who do so hold them. But, let us hear their voices publickly. Let me witness some little matter of that zeal, which made the book-shops team with sermons against jacobinis. Let me see them "in earnest," as Dr. O'Meara cays; let me see them in earnest upon this subject; or let them, for ever, seal up their lips, not only upon politics, but also upon breaches of the most important of our moral duties. Let us hear them a little upon "the desolation of abomination, standing "in high places;" or, let them leave the low to a quiet indulgence in their comparatively trifling sins. Let us hear Dr. Rennell, who thundered out upon the poor Nuns; who seemed to be more afraid of a string of beads than a thief is of a halter; who was, it is said, so instrumental in bringing forward an act of parliament to prevent our daughters' minds from being perverted by the said Nuns: let us hear what he has to say upon the present occasion. The Doctor has been noways bashful in his applications for the aid of the press. am, That press now presents him its best services; it sighs to become the vehicle of his eloquence, and, as a pledge of its friendship, beseeches him to forbear from his logical and polemic contests with Dr. Milner; the press loudly and earnestly invites the exertions of himself and his brethren, in the cause of political right and pubpublic morals, while, in that respect at least, it sets them an example.- "The Church "in danger," was, some time ago, the cry. With what sincerity that cry was set up I shall not now inquire; but, certain I that the way to preserve the Church from real danger is for it to prove itself the friend of the people; of impartial justice, and of public morals. I know, that there are those, who think, that to take part against corruption is, in fact, to toke part against rank and property. So they have thought all over Europe. Still, in spite of this awful experience, there are many men, who so think, though they do not participate, or want to participate, in the profits of corruption. Fear, a fear arising from 1 |