Madrid. Second Gazette Extraor dinary, April 22. The board of government, presided over by his most serene high. ness the infant Don Antonio, has, this day, received dispatches, with the welcome intelligence, that our lord the king safely arrived at Irun of the 19th instant, at eleven o'clock at night; and that his una. jesty expected to have, on the next day, the satisfaction of seeing his intimate and faithful ally and friend the emperor of the French, king of Italy. For this reason, and on account of the uncommon attachment which the loyal inhabitants of Vitoria and of the province of Alara have expressed to our lord the king, upon his setting out from that town, his majesty has been pleased to issue the following royal decree, which the board has received in print:Copy of the royal decree issued by his majesty at Vitonia, on the 19th of April, 1808. "The king feels the utmost gra. titude for the extraordinary attachment of the loyal inhabitants of this town and of the province of Alava; but is concerned at its ex. ceeding all due bounds, and being liable to degenerate into want of respect, under pretence of giving him proofs of that sentiment. His majesty, however, being aware, that his subjects are actuated by their tender love for his royal person, and by the solicitude to which it gives rise, conceives himself bound to undeceive all and each of them, by assuring them that he would not undertake this important journey, if he could not depend upon the sincere and cordial friendship of his ally the emperor of the French, and that it will be attended by the VOL. L. happiest consequences: wherefore he enjoins them to make themselves easy, and to hope, that, before four or five days are elapsed, they will thank God, and the prudence of his majesty, for the absence, which, at present, gives them uneasiness." MAY. From the French Papers. Bayonne, May 2.-Our newspa.. pers contain the following particulars respecting the journey and arrival of the Prince of Peace : "The Prince of Peace was, on his arrival, accompanied by colonel Maries, aid-de-camp of his imperial bighness the grand duke of Berg; he appears to have suffered much during his imprisonment. Not a day passed by, during which persons did not come to his dungeon, and tell him he would soon be led to the scaffold. When he was taken from prison, in order to be delivered over to the officer who was to take him to Bayonne, he had a long beard; during a whole month he had no clean shirt; he had no person to wait upon him. "On the road, he had the con. solation of receiving a letter from king Charles IV. and the queen, full of testimonies of their affec tion. tion. It is said, that on receiving the king's letter, there were the marks of his tears. When the prince received this, he said, 'See there, the only consolation I have had this month; every one abandoned me except the king; the ungrateful, whom I had loaded with benefits, did not dare to raise t voice in my favour. The gards du corps, who sold their king, will sell his son also. I have no other amC bition bition now, than to find an asylum in France, and to have my children about me.'-The officer who ac. companied him, shewed him on the way the newspapers, which affirm ed that he possessed a fortune of 500 millions. The prince answered- Slander will never cease to stain my actions; yet I dare challenge my bitterest enemics to lay any thing to my charge in this re spect. Nothing further could be found by me than the sums necessary to discharge the daily expences of a house like mine. I possess no funds in England, France, Italy, or Genoa, and I can appeal to the testimony of the merchants of those countries. I have employed the benefactions which I have received from my sovereign in purchasing estates in Spain, which every one knows, and which have now been taken from me by injustice and ar. bitrary power. Having now wit nessed the horrid deeds which I foretold, I wish now for nothing but peace and repose. The approbation and friendship of Charles IV. are enough for my conscience." The following important document has been published here : "By authority, travellers and the public are informed, that all passports and other instruments issued by the Spanish government in the name of Ferdinand the Seventh, since the 20th ult, will not be ac. knowledged by French civil and military officers." 2. At this period of the year it is very uncommon to experience such severity and change of weather as has been for the last ten days. The fall of snow during the last week was almost general through out the country. Accounts from Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, aud Scotland, mention that it lay on the ground for two days. 6. A litter of six young foxes was a few days since discovered in the ivy over one of the gateways of Warwick Castle. New Game Laws.-Many per. sons are of opinion, that fieldfares, larks, and sparrows, might be included in the class of game, with as much propriety as woodcocks and snipes. However this opinion may be well or ill founded, those at all acquainted with rural economy, know that it must be as mischie vous to protect rabbits by this description as it would be to include rats therein. Where the soil is dry and light, if rabbits are suffered to abound, the mischief they do is in. calculable, not only by devouring corn, turnips, clover, &c. but still more by undermining and thereby destroying fences, and eating down the young quick and newly planted trees of every description; and it is only by continual attention, and no inconsiderable degree of labour, that they can be prevented from swarming wherever they once gain a footing. Naturalists have calcu. lated that a single pair of rabbits may, in the space of four years, increase to the astonishing number of 1,274,840. Caution.-Ann Watts, of Bury, in Lancashire, eat a quantity of plums in September last, and swallowed the stones. In December she began to be ill, and continued so till January, when she felt so overloaded in her stomach as to be induced to take an emetic, and threw up a few plum-stones. She afterwards took several emetics, and each time threw up more stones; the last emetic was taken on Friday en'night, when she threw up sixtyfour stones, making ju all one bun dred dred and ninety-six stones so discharged, since the first of January. She began to be unwell very soon after she had swallowed them, and wore away as if in a decline. A man undertook one day last week, for a small wager, to carry copper to the amount of 10. in money from Stockport to Manchester without resting: it weighed 108 pounds; and he effected the arduous task with difficulty in two hours. A singular instance of canine sagacity occurred a few days since in the Thames below Blackwall: Mr. Turnbull, the master of a coasting trader, kept a Newfound. land dog on board. Whenever the vessel dropt anchor in the river, the dog swam to shore, and generally swam on board again the same evening. Having recently attempted to get to the ship in his usual way, the tide drifted him with so much velo. city, that he could not reach the vessel; he was consequently forced to re-land, and to the astonishment of all who witnessed the sagacity of the animal, he went near half a mile from the spot where he had first started up the bank, and by swimming across the stream, made an angle, which enabled him to gain the ship. The master of the dog does not say the animal is a mathematician, but he asserts, with reference to this instance of sagacity, no waterman on the river could have reached the ship with more judgment. 7. About half past nine' o'clock on Saturday night, the house of Wright Izzard, of Great Paxton, in the county of Huntingdon, was broken into, and Ann Izzard, his wife, was dragged out of bed by a man, at present unknown, who, with the assistance of two other men, with great violence forced her into the yard without any clothes on; here a most barbarous assault was committed upon her person by three women, aided and abetted by several men: her head was injured by the pin or stick which fastened the door on the inside; she received a wound under her right eye; her right breast was very much bruised, whilst her arms and legs and other parts of her body were lacerated with pins or some sharp pointed in. struments, till they were literally covered with blood. On the next evening an assault, very nearly si milar, was again made upon her. The parties offending were brought before the bench of magistrates of Huntingdon on Saturday se'nnight, and were bound over to keep the peace, and to appear at the ensuing assizes, to answer the charges which shall then be preferred against them. 8. Bonaparte and the Royal Fumily of Spain.-The following particulars respecting the Bayonue usurpation, are given in a private letter from that city, dated May 8: "On the first arrival here of prince Ferdinand, there were a number of private interviews be tween him and Napoleon; in the first of which the emperor offered to him the crown of Etruria, and his niece in marriage. Subsequently to them, however, Ferdinand was de prived of his carriage and of his guard of honour, remaining only with the commandant of his private guard, a Jewish officer of the national guard of Bayonne. "The object of these conferen. ces seemed to be that of gaining time for the arrival of Godoy, and ing amongst the others, he found there were two more living, and following their dams with their << necks bloody, and in the same state as the dead one. The small ones of the other two died. In the afternoon, Mr. John Scarnell, a near neighbour, sent down to him a large male cat, as judging him to be the murderer by the following circumstances: His servants having two kittens in the hay-loft, near half-grown, and not having seen them in the course of the day, one of the men went up to see if he could find them, this cat was found lying by them; he shut the door and secured him. On taking the kittens, they were found to be sucked just under the ear, in the same way as the lambs were, and one of them having the hind part and half the body, with its inside, caten up. Mr. Burton had observed, when the ground was covered by snow, the footing of a cat quite around the turnips, and among the ewes and lambs; but yet never thought that a cat would interrupt the lambs. 10. Dover.-A fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon in the warehouse of Messrs. Fector and Co. adjoin. ing the ordnance storehouses and buildings, through the carelessness of some people employed in coopering some casks of turpentine throwing the snuff of a lighted caudle on the floor, which caught some oakum that had been wetted with turpentine: it was prevented from blazing for some time by about 120 bags of wool in a loft over where the fire commenced; but the flames having at length reached many casks of turpentine, it burst forth with a fury nothing could reaist. The whole range of store. houses of Messrs. Fector, which fronted the York House, are en tirely destroyed, with a very large quantity of prize goods taken from the Danish ships; the Ordnance storehouse, at the back of the storekeeper's house, is also entirely consumed, and many of the adjoining buildings much damaged. A Greek ship at the quay was also damaged. Some of the adjoining buildings were depositories for Mr. Congreve's rockets and other cow. bustibles, which could not all be got out, and several explosions took place, the last of which carried away the roof, rafters, and materials of the buildings, and caused great alarm. No further damage was however done, and the fire was got under between cight and nine in the evening. The loss is supposed to exceed 30,000l. The Duchess of York's Féte at Outlands. On Saturday se'nnight a grand fête was given at Oatlands in honour of her royal highness's birthday. The preparations were unu sually costly. The king, queen, the princesses Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia; the prince of Wales; dukes of York, Kent, Clarence, Sussex, and Com berland, were present. Indisposition only prevented the duke of Cambridge from attending. Their majesties and the princesses arrived about two o'clock. The duke and duchess of York were in waiting to receive their illustrious relatives; from the bottom of the flight of steps leading into the great hall, the duke escorted the queen to the grand saloon. After viewing and admiring the improvements made on the lawn, &c. the royal party par took took of a most sumptuous ban. quet, served up in a costly service of silver gilt plate. During the time of dinner, the duke of York's band, in full uniform, played un. der the viranda on the green. The king wore the Windsor uniform. The queen and the princesses were dressed in plain white. His majes. ty, it was remarked, looked uncommonly well, and possessed his usual flow of spirits. Their majesties and the princesses departed about eight o'clock, escorted, as usual, by a party of dragoons.About nine o'clock the fun and merriment took place. The duchess having ordered the park gates to be thrown open, the populace (princi. pally composed of the neighbouring peasantry) rushed in, and made the best of their way to the lower part of the house, wherein a vast number of tables were set out with hot fowls, veal, ham, beef, and mutton; together with abundance of strong ale and porter, all arranged with perfect order. After partaking of this good cheer, a magnum bonum (about six quarts) of excellent punch was placed upon each table. The lively notes of the fiddle aroused the lads and lasses about nine o'clock. The tables were in. stantaneously deserted for the library, where the duchess led off the first dance called the Labyrinth, Oh the hon. colonel Upton. Her highness never appeared to better advantage; she is improved in health, and is grown rather embonpoint than otherwise. The very awkward manner in which the country people paid their respects to the heir apparent (in their going down the dance) excited the risibility of the royal party to an extreme de. gree. It was not until two o'clock in the morning that the music ceased, and then the company retired. The prince of Wales slept at Oatlands that right. The duke of York returned to town the same night to attend a military council. A similar entertainment was given at York House in the Stable-yard, the same night, France.-Bonaparte's Usurpation in Spain. Bayonne, May 11.-By a treaty concluded between the emperor Napoleon and king Charles, and which has been acceded to by the prince of the Asturias, and the infant Don Carlos, Don Francisco, and Don Antonio, who compose the whole of the members of the house of Spain, all the existing differences have been adjusted. We are still ignorant of the conditions of the treaty. According to the constitution of our government, it cannot be made public till it has been communicated to the senate. But we perceive by the proclamation of the king of Spain, and that of the prince of Asturias, that the emperor Napoleon is clothed with all the rights of the house of Spain. King Charles and queen Louisa Maria, queen Maria Louisa, and the infant Don Francisco, dine today with the emperor, and set off to-morrow for Bourdeaux. They will make this journey in four days, and will repair to Fontaine. bleau, whence they will go to Com. peigne. It is believed that this residence has been destined by his majesty to king Charles, that he may spend the remainder of his days there. The prince of Astu. rias, the infant Don Carlos, and the infant Don Antonio, spent their evening yesterday with their majesties the emperor and empress. They |