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The Cumberland Pacquet - 25 Feb 1812
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having been adopted. They are now at an end, and it is proper that they
should be at an end: but there is not a man, we are persuaded, who will look
back to their adoption with disapprobation.

A Council was held this day at Carlton-house, and Mr. PERCEVAL paid his
dutiful respects to his Royal Highness as his declared Prime Minister upon
the termination of the restrictions.

Some changes and new appointments consequent upon them will take place
almost immediately; but we do not hear that they are yet settled.

Mr. YORKE, it is known, retires from ill health -- he will remain in to
bring forward the Navy Estimates, in about a fortnight. It is feared that
ill health may also render it necessary for Mr. RYDER to quit his present
office.

Generals GRAHAM, HILL, and ACHMUTY, are to be installed Knights of the Bath.

There will be some new appointments in the household. The Earl of JERSEY is
mentioned as likely to be the new Master of the Horse.

All these rumours are afloat, as might be expected, at such a crisis; but
nothing is decisively known or fixed upon except that Mr. PERCEVAL remains
in office as Prime Minister.

The Earl of AYLESFORD has resigned his place of Steward of the Household.

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National Debt. -- An account of the reduction of the National Debt, from the
1st of August, 1786, to the 1st of February, 1812;

Redeemed by the Sinking Fund £ 189,538,430
Transferred by Land Tax redeemed 23,941,057
Ditto by Life Annuities purchased 1,606,340
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On Account of Great Britain £ 215,083,577
Ditto of Ireland 9,083,958
Ditto of Imperial Loan 1,234,514
Ditto of Loan to Portugal 118,568
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Total £ 225,234,617

The sum to be expended in the ensuing Quarter is 2,962,955L. 5s. 8¼d.

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Our military force in Canada is stated at 22,000 men.

The Servians have been defeated by the Turks in four pitched battles.

A Mail from Anholt arrived this morning and strengthens the idea of an
immediate war between Russia and France. The garrisons of Frankfort and
other places have been ordered to proceed to Dantzic. The Prussian army it
is apprehended will join the French. General BLUCHER is said to have
resigned in disgust.

The French have taken possession of the island of Rugen, and have seized
upon and numbered and registered all the vessels which were lying there.

At Hamburg all kinds of grain have been taken possession of on account of
the French Govenor.

A Proclamation has been published, signed, CHARLES JEAN, and dated
Stockholm, Jan. 4, 1812, addressed to the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of
Scania, in which after condemning their rebellion, it states they had been
imposed upon by ill-disposed persons, who told them, that the army was
recruiting for the support of a cause foreign to Sweden, when in reality
they were called under the flags of their country only to assure its
independence, and that Swedish blood should never be spilt for foreign
interests.

Government grant no more Licences for the present for the exportation of
Hemp and Flax.

Private letters from Corunna, mention, that two French armed vessels, and
other vessels with sick and wounded, had fallen into the hands of the
Spaniards, having been driven into the port of Ravadesella, in Asturias, by
stress of weather. A number of French officers were on board.

A morning paper says, the pain which the Prince Regent has so long felt in
the hand, and which has made it so difficult for him to use the pen, has at
length been proved to proceed from gout. -- His Royal Highness was advised
last week to take the Eau Medicinale. He has had a Douche erected at Carlton
house, for the purpose of restoring strength to the sprained foot.

The Army Estimates for the present year, laid before the House of Commons
are for 370,434 men. The expences for this force, and other disbursements of
the Military Department, amount to 15,293,092L. 14s. 6d.

According to an Account laid before the House of Commons, the duties on
Sugar, in Great Britain amounted, in the last year, to 4,586,018L. 14s. 6d.

Friday the funds experienced a depression of about ½ per cent. Consols left
off at 62. Exchequer Bills, which were recently at 10s. premium, fell to 4s.
The Navy 3 per cents. fell in equal proportion.

Five French Ladies at Bourbon have recently been led to the Hymenial altar
by British officers.

The following is an extract of a circular letter, recently issued by a
respectable Mercantile House at Riga: -- "Our import trade increases in
magnitude progressively; and Russia now being the only country to which the
greater part of the Continent must look for a supply of all Colonial
produce, and a number of other articles of the first necessity, this branch
of trade promises peculiar advantages. -- Great quantities of sugar, coffee,
spice, and without any allowance of drawback on the import duties. -- Our
Government are sensible of the benefit the country in general derives from
the traffic, and have hence evinced a determined resolution to countenance
the import trade, in spite of foreign representations."
 
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