152 in its vortex ah the termer votaries of the Church ? What incitements to apostacy, does not the comparison of thee: relative state hold forth to a blind and easily misled peasantry ? and how can we blame the Dissenters -for displaying an indefatigable spirit of proselytism, when we open so fair -; field for its unresisted exertion ? These con,ideratiensd o are n facts. really i But mport is aitnt,true tit m haayt be said, if they are, founde in any part of the United Kingdoms, and at the present time, when the Church, awakening from her torpor, puts To l d) all her strengthland activity to repel the hosts of enemies by whith she has so long been assailed ; is it true that any of lie: Ministers are left in situations so de • grading and so a ff licting ? The fact has already been esta blished by the report laid before Parliament about two years ago, when the value of every living in. England and \V a les was registered: a list was then pi oduced,which called forth not only the sympathetic commiseration of humanity, for so many respectable Ministers toiling through life with numerous families, on incomes of fifteen or twenty pima; a year, but the most unfeigned astonishment that in these times ( t dearness and difficulty, it should be pos. sible for a single being to subsist on so ti illing a sum. A fresh ins!7An_e of still gi eater privations with which we accidentally became acqu tinted, has given birth to the p,..eceding ternaiks, whit 11 we hope may attract the notice of the Legislature. This instance of unexampled excl.- frugality, and suffering, is given in the last Bath Paper, on the authority of the most respectable chat ac ters, amongst whom we find the Rev. R. WARsinn, whose purse and exertions have bun devoted to the relief of the respectable unfortunate clergyman wiih a zeal truly wor thy or a christian. As the Rev. Mr MeatEnern's letter contains a plain and affecting relation of his necessities, we shall lay it before our Readers, as a document which fully establishes the truth of our observaions, and whilst it awakens sincere sympathy, proves the necessity of a re form ill the system of provision adapted for out country Clergy. • - .{ RI:VERLND Sis, 6 ' It is with nmch reluctance I address the subsequent lines, humbly begri!:g your pardon for such all intrusion upon your goodness ; but hearieg, in a letter from the Rev. Mr. IlowrLt., of Clutton, near Pen ford, in Somersetshire, of your candour, symptthy, and readitn•ss to aabi.t the distressed; I presume to lay before you the mtlanehely and di-tressed circumstances of myst If and family, being four In nuta ber e home, v;z. a wire, a daughter, and a son, of the age of 2S } ears, deficnia in his intellects, quite incapable of getting his bread. My k yea iv income is only thirteen guineas, for servhig two churches once i a futt.-ight at yOa. ati. per Sunday, besides teaching .t few small children in my own hause, which brings me in about four shillings jet week; which, together with my income, produces upon an aver- age about nine shillings a week, towards supporting my family, house-rent, tuxes, &c. Clothing we are not able to purchase, and rt.ally set, are become vtry hart ; was it in my power to purchase sea-mid-hand clothes, they would do for us, but it is to- tally out of my power to purchase any ; and so must trust in God , who is always better to us than we deserve. I can never render align due thaoks for his benevolence to us at all times, and his infisen cing the hearts of his people to relieve our nectv-side;; and may the God of mercies pour abundant blessings upon a Lady of Sydney place, Bath, who bath innumerable times relieved our wants when we were in the utmost distress, and ready to pine away. I have been forty-four years in orders; am sixty-seven years of age; and through bickness and infirmity hardly able to do duty ; and my eyesight fails me very much.-4 have brought up a lace family, viz. seven children, and I:ever before felt the times SO pressing; all the necessaries of life so dear, that we cannot reach but little of that valuable blessing to support slature.—Thank God fur them, we have a few potatoes, reared in a farmer's field, which is most of our food ; and as an addition to our grief we are involved in debt, which I am not able to litluidate.—ln short, we are nearly in want ;--therefore, Reverend Sir, I hoe you will be pleased to pardon the liberty I took with your goodness p ; and amain, Reverend bir, 66 Your most humble petitioner, EVAN Mk,REDITIi." " Usk, Monmoutlabire, Feb. •Bth, 1519." THE NATIONAL RECISTER. M ARCH 13. FOREIGN I N TELI,IG FRENCH PAPERS. • THE MARSHAL DUKE DI ALI:UFERA TO THE PRINCE Or NEUFCHATEL AND %V AUlt '.M. Head-quorters at Valencia, Feb. 7. The fort of Peniscola, which, during the sh ges of Saginituni and Valencia, had forced me to throw a detachineot in my rear to cover Ike communication of the army, became immediately afterwards the obk et of my attention. I before observed that it could not be blockaded in account of its natural position. It is situate on a rock insulated by the sea, near the great road, one league from Eenecarloa, and is oely che fleeted with the Continent by a tongue of sand, thirty toises in bred and sixty in length. An old castle of the Templars, built on the MUD - mit, is surrounded by the town, containing 2000 inhabitants, And wits a fortification of sufficient extent, guarded by several ranges of ban( ries. A garrison of lOno wen defended the place, under the orders et• B : j o „ diet - Garcia Navarro, a man of rack, who was taken prisoner List y, ar at Falcet, and made his escape. Five English vessels crul , ed on the coast, andi communicated with the place, which thus r:•ceived crank thtl succour from without. On the 20th of January, the Comma ot Severoli, with five battalions, cemmenced, by my orders, 11 , e operations of the siege. A bombardment commenced on the and continued with activity for eight days. The trenches were orer. , in the night of the 314. The enemy kept up a brisk fire. On the 2 t tit February lieutenant Prunel, an Officer of my Staff, ae whom I had t w ith instructions, having been admitted into thr plr. brought tack an answer and propositions, which were itnmedhtt.ly seat to Ile-. The preamble was remarkable, and of a nature atinunticing the se.- mission of the place. The Governor, In an atimatrti iii, , cott. ye, t xpre.t :E his true sentiments and his hatred of the Envlish, who pressed him %.:1.!, menaces to surrender the fort to them. lie hesitated not to pre ter the French, and to recognize the present Government as the oely ot.e calculated to put an end to the misery of his country. I sent imme diately the proposed capitulation, with my answers , in t he martin, sub joining a letter to the Gove rnor. In the interval the labourt of the siege Were continued, but the Governor acce oing the meddled card tdation, put an end to hostilities. On the 4th, at noon, Pet h.reta was surf endered to the troops of the Emperor with provi-ins for two monthi, and a considerable quantity ot am munition. The tiro:ln stances which have accompanied the surrender of Peniacola, mat the submission of the Governor, Garcia Navarro, are a conquest of oei- Pion, from which I hope the best effects. Every thing here I'vith the exception of Alicant, of which an English General, Roche, has taken tLe com mand) tends to the conclusion of th e war, which may all early be regarded as terminated. The inhabitants show themselvei to 1w act Lated by a good spirit, to the gates of Meant. lam D , wit uc h respect, &c. The Marshal D'ALBUFERA. The following Letter from Pedro Navarro, Commandant of Peniscola, in answer to ot,e received from Duc D'Albufera, shows the treachery of the traitor. Peniscola, Feb. 3, 181'2. M. Ls lk.lns sus r. The letter of your Excellency is very agreealle. and I desire only opportunities of proving the sincerity of the principl: I hive manifested. I have followt:c1 with seal-1 may say with fury. pat ty which I believed just ; but now that I recognise the neeey.it uniting ourselves to our King, to render our i; ountry less unfortunate. ► Iflfcr to serve !loM with the same enthroirum. Your Ercellenry may tie certain of me. The surrender.of a strong fort, s.v . nli provisions. and that i> ti , :resiary for a long defence, must operate as a tali cotivicao , and is a sure gti.irantce of my promises. I salute you with the greatest respect, &C. IMI'EUTAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, MARCO 9. DRURY-LANE THEATRP. Lord DUNDAS moved the third reading of the Drury-lane Theatre Bill. The Duke of Noarotx made some observations upon the moncr,,4 which had been claimed under the patents granted by Charle:, 11. ‘vi';( ll, he said, had been granted at a time when the population cat the moro: polls did not amount to mo r e than a third of the present numiar qt inhabitants. It wai but fair that with the present greatly incr(1:••,1 population there should be an additional number of Theatres. A c`;''' trary course bad, however, been pursued, and the theatres erected ut"''''' these patents had been enlarged, till it was scarcely posmble to hear br see the performances ; and this again had led to the degradation of ihe stage.—lt had lately happened, wh en there was only one theatre, .: wild beasts from Africa had been in troduced u p on the stage, aud sec: O o had been exhibited, which were only tit for a bear-garden in 1 loyitki' in-the-Hole. He did not, however, wish, after their Lordiiiips' torn,,r decision, to make any motion upon this point now but to confine 1.3 att e ntion to the power of creating a limited n umber of private bc,.-.OPa He thought that the public access to a theatiii was a public right, " NI :T. tb Inc 1) - \