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/- PP" FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE; ?MOS, Afti tA. It is said their Majesties will soon proceed on a journey to Compiegne. The fete given on the 23d at St. aloeCld, by order tef the Emperor, was as bsilliant as to be ex. limed. The number of spectators could not be less than 300,000. -The gardens were illuminated with equal taste and magnificence. Their Majesties tta. versed the Park in a phaeton 'about stx o'clock. They mere received with the loudest acclamations. When her Majesty approached a column surmount ed by a basket of flowers, a dove alighted at her feet, and presented her an ingenious &eke. In one part of the garden peasants executed a rural dance round a statue of Hymen. The Comedians Of the Opera Comique and the best Dancers per formed a Ballet on a Theatre erected on purpose. • Every part of thetPark was a scene of life and Madame songs, and other amusements.— Madame Blanchard ascended in an illuminated bal loon. After being beaten about brthe wind, rain, elltd hail, for several hours, she descended between six and seven next morning, at St. Maur, near Vincennes. Their Majesties retired abdut eleven .'clock. . . Jusx 27.• His Excellency the Duke of Abrante'm and Ge viral Loison are arrived at Paris. The King of Westphalia and the Grand Duke of Wurtzburg, have left Paris to return to their own territo ries. His Majesty held a Council y6terday at St. Cloud. French funds 80f. sc. AMERICAN PAPERS. PHILADELPHIA, MAT V. We bad expected by the mails of yesterday, to have been able to afford some particulars of the re cent action off the Capes of the Chesapeake Bay, but Find only a few particulars additional, in the New York Evening Post, which we copy :- 1 . The event izself has excited a sensation per fectly decisive of the wishes and the feelings of the nation, on the subjects of our flag and our impressed citizens—mot a man of any party Finless a few British agents to whom our honour and interests are both objects of anguish) has expressed a senti ment, but such as renders credit to Commodore Rogers, and such as goes to sustain the Govern ment, if it will•but sustain the rights of the nation and its citizens throughout. " NEW-YORK, MAT 25. " She Stoops to Conquer, or the Mistakes of a Night, a new Play with an old title, was performed with loud applause on Thursday evening, the 16th instant, off the Capes of Virginia, by the frigate President, and a British picaroon, to the gratifica tion of all America. 44 The British picarQon, whose rashness Commo dore Rogers chastised, is suspected to be the same man stealer that kidnapped a young American, on 13oard the Spitfire, about a fortnight since, as she waaentering the port of New York. • • NEW YORK, At AY U. 46 Rumoun.—A report was circulated yesterday of a desperate engagement between the frigate United States, of 44 guns, Commcdore Decatur, and the British frigate Gaerriere, of the same force, off Cape Henry. The story gained considerable credit for a while, and occasioned a deal of interest and anxiety. Upon tracing the report to the source from which it was said to have been derived, the rumour was flatly contradicted." FROM THE BALTIMORE FEDERAL REPUBLICAN, . __ JUNE 27. - - - - - - " Taking it for granted that Captain Rogers had 1 positive orders from the President to search for the British frigate, to demand the impressed men, and if refused to tgke them by force , we Offer the follow ing solution'of this extraordinary matter 4 4 First, therPresident derives no auth4ity from the Constitution of the United States to g ive any such instrwtion—he may resist hostilities, ,but can not order hostilities. Second, there is no public act of Congress au horising the President, under any circumstance, to *commence hostilities upon any toreign nation." 'pet,- vere from the contrast which was exhibited by the lenient manner in which the other was treated. It was not denied that Mr. Finnerty had been sub. jetted to solitary confinement, whereas it appeared that Mr. Drakard's friends were not denied access HOUSE OF LORDS.. to him. Now the sentences of the two prisoners MONDAY, JULY 1. i were exactly the same; he had heard them both At four o'clock their I d erdships met, and soon after, the pronounced. They were, moreover, for similar Sprax ea, attended by several Members of the House of Corn - offences ; the punishments were intended to be the mons, appearing at the Barin pursuance of the summons of same • and yet the one individual was depo si t ed in that House, the following Mi l ls l received the Agri ' , Assent by Commission, via. a felon's cell, while the other h ad all the comfort The Militia Interchange Bill, the Police Regulation Bill, the which the Hon. Gentleman had just stated. He Deer Stealing Prevention Bill, and one Bill of a private na- could not sufficiently condemn this, particularly as ;lire. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of 1,1. •this toleration of partiality in the execution of sen . verpool, and Lord Wahine:am. maces passed in Courts of Law ; and his hoped it Upon the question for agreeing to the amendments made by would receive due attention Itoin the House in the the House of Commons on the Insolvent Debtors' Bill, Lord REDESDALE rose to vppoae the amendment extend ingtout the provisions of thft Act to debtors in the Isle of Mart, his ' Mr. CHA PLIN said that the Hon. Gentleman Lordship opposed this clause upon the principle that the linpe- laboured under a very great mistake in supposing *MI Parliament had no right to interfere in the local legislation • . that Mr. 'Finnerty was confined in a felon's cell ; if that island. Lord HOLLAND shortly supported the clause, which was ne- he was on . the contrary confined in the very apart . . raved without a divisioo. ment with which Mr. brakard had expressed him- Upon the third reading of the 1.64 Bog Drainage 13ill, a de r sultory conversation, took place bet Ween Earls Bathurst, Gros- self satisfied ; for in consequence o f t he j ail bein g venor, and Lauderdale, upon the application of the money ap- crowded it had been found necessary to place them propriated by Partiiinent for this purpose, after which the Bill . together. . - • leas read a third tim e and passed. • Lord Lave tarlaxs gave notice, that be should, to-morrow, . I Mr. BROUGHAM said that he bad had a letter , . . m ove that there be Laid before t he H o use an Account of an from MT. Drakard, in which that g en tle man had Bulk-notes above and below 51. width have been issued by the stated that he was - permitted exercise in the open Bank cf England during the last alx months. •' ' . . Earl STANHOPE po.tponed his motion relative to Bank air for two hours every day, or three if he wish ' Tokens, Which stood for this di ,'until to-morrow, in come- ed it. Spence ora later he bad recc:ved from:, Noble Lord to whom : Mr. RYDER said that it had not been alltted in - - he had alluded on a former orNalbt. • • Their Lordship having sent *Message to the House of Corn . - j Mr. Finnerty's petition that he had been subjected mons demanding a conference ort. ahe 'lnsolvent Debtors' Bill, to solitary confinement, but merely that there had and the Deputy Usher of 'the Nook, Rod having announcetidto been two or three, persons refused admission to him. their Lordsnaps, that a deputation from the Commons awaited a conference with their Lordships in the Painted Chamber, the The eon. Gentleman who had advocated his case, following Lords were appointed, a nd Immediately weut - fortlkto had thought proper to make complaints which had managed the said conference :the Doke of • Montrose, Earls Bat- ' burst and Grosvenor, the Bishop of Clonfert, and Lords Wak, : I .. 'lngham, Redesdale, art Arden.- . On the return of their L irdshipt from the conference, most . probably of the petitioner n himself. r se e i n c tered into the contemplation He had inquired particu -1 laxly into the circumstances of the case since the late The Duke of w i th reported, that their Lordships had -- discussion with 'respect to it, and he could confi. 'bad ~ conference with a deputation of the Commons, who per- elated in a c, rtain. amendment to the said Bill, extending its pro.. cisious to the Isle of Man. v The House then adjosigned to to-morrow kthis day). pen . tly assure the House that 'some part of what re mained was very much exaggerated. The room in Y` the prisoner was lodged was noc4 as his Han. - rAiI i I4MENTARY PROCEEDINGS. --•-, . .. _ Hem or eoimmott. • kriend had tru l y stated, a telon's cell, bat an apart- wawa as he professed, or, otherwise, how strong MONDAY, JULY 1. ment appropriated for the confinement of persons a colour it would' impart to his assertions the ell-- A Commission went up to the Lords, add the f oun d guilty of misdemeanours, and as that was cumstance that such principles were *vowed and the species of offence of which Mr. Finnerty bad been upheld in publications under the auspices - of the SPEAKER, on his return, announc ed their Lordshi p s' assent to the Militia Interchange B ill, the Deer c onvicted, he was in his proper place. The room wa s Gove rnment. What was to be ex p ected front the- Stealing Bill, and others. by no means uncomfortable, it was twenty feet long, temper or the principles of the man but the most Colonel STANLEY rose to c orrect a mistake sixteen high, and looked out into a yard exclusi vel y de ter m ined retaliation ? The y eertaini y should which had been made in a report o f his s p eech, with appropriated to the use of whosoever might become not be t he p ersons to sli g ht the a pp rehensions of* respect to the number of persons who received p a- its occupant. Mr. Finnerty could not have the b e- suc h retaliation, who maintained that he kept in his rish relief in Manchester ; he h a d been re p resented nefit of the doubt, expressed by a Noble Member, -pay a band of assassins, and that one of those per. to have stated, that they am ounted to twenty-five as to his misconduct, for against his allegation t here sons was actuall y in En g land some time since on a thousand, but he had included t went y -nine town. happened to be the testimony of two person s in c ommission of murder. Havin g seen this most. ships, with Manchester, as giving that number. support of the Turnkey's assertion. With respect damnable and dangerous doctrine justified in papers to the Jailer's house, it was , so long as he h eld the l said to be connected with the Government, and hay- Mr. GILES made a few ob s e rvations on the Pe• tition of the Straw Manufacture rs, which had for office, his castle, like the house of any other ind i- ing heard of the manl y disavowal of the Mar q uis vidual, and he would be glad to know if it we re of W ellesle y on the subject, he wished, before the its object to obtain protection ag ainst the competi tion of the French prisoners. reasonable to require him, or what means could be House rose, to give the Right Honourable Gentle- The amendment of the Lords on the Spirit Draw. resorted to in order to compel him, to give it up. man opposite an opportunity of in like manner dis. back Suspension Bill being taken into consideration, Mr. BROUGHAM contended that the sub- claimifig any wish to promote such abominable on the observation of the bpeakeraha t it was merely stance of the Petition would afford an ample deft. opinions. The extraordinary man , against whose the correction of a clerical error, the clauses were nition of solitary confinement. existence the peoplepn whose writings he had ani agteed to, Mr. STEVEN observed, that the prayer of the i madverted, amid the shafts of their eloquence, was The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUE R moved the Jailer's Petition was for inquiry , and that• Gentle. i an instrument in the hand of Providence by which second reading of the Vexatious Arre sts Bill, which men should wait for evidence as to the counter as. l some mighty change in human affairs was proba. was read a second time accordingly , went through sertions now before the House , ere they should bl y to be brou g ht ahem, and it would be a vale a Committee of the w h o le H ouse , R e p or t received, enter into a discussion with respect to them ; the I attempt for a short-sighted man to think of chang. and read a third time. time moreover chosen for it, at so late a period of , ing or obstructing the arrangements of the Almighty Col. P i temen gave notice, that he would take an I the Session, might form a reasonable ground of ob. 1 Disposer of events. early opportunity in-the course of next Session of jection. i The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER: !hinging forward his father's claims in t he sha p e of M r. W HITBREAD observed, that if the Noble professed himself obliged to the Hon. Centime* a Bill. Gentleman would refer to the Petition, he might for the opportunity he had afforded him to disclaim, Lord COCHRANE gave notice that he would move, 1 find the reason why it was not presented at an earlier . en the part of the Government, every thing like a - to-morrow, that the House should address his period of the Session. I wish to count enance the abominabledoctrine in q ues- Royal Hi g hness the Prince Regent , praying that h e MILITARY PUNISHMENT. . tion, though he was sorry to observe that such a dis avowal. could be thought in the smallest degree ne would be graciously pleased to order the rtcal of the Mr. MANNERS SUTTON rose to state, that ' cessary. He was entirely of opinion that suck Judge of the Admiralty Court in Malta. i . in consequence of a notice given on a former even means could have no tendency to advance the MR. FINNERTY. ing by an Hon. Baronet, whom he did not then see . wishes of such as were base - and impolitic enough Mr. CHAPLIN presented a Petition from the inluis place, withrespect to the case of a person of Keeper of Lincoln Jail, stating, that the Petition the name of John Evans, who had been punished .to adopt them, and any temporary advantages t h at presented on behalf of Mr. Finn ert y , contained ain the Isle of W ight; he had inquired into the mightbe gained by the establishment of such a sys ' gross and scandalous misrepresentation with respect affair, and woule, detail the circumstances to the tern would, be vastly out-balanced by the evil con to. the treatment he received i n his confinement. House. The name of the individual was not Evans, sequences hat must inevitably flow from it. He That so far from that having been p eculiarl y severe but Every. This person had been brou g ht -from would admit, in its fullest extent, the doctrine_ he had been allowed an extraord inar y de g ree of in- Tilbury, and delivered over to the Royals in the which the Hon. Gentleman had endeavoure d t o in - diligence, such as the use of his (the jailer's) yard Isle of Wight. He was considered, from the first, as culcate with respect to the necessary disposal of all and garden, consisting of three acres of ground, a suspicious character, and as it appetred not without human affairs, at the nod of the Almighty Ruler till his own conduct made it necessary to withdraw reason, for remaining with his regiment only till he of the universe, but he should be very sorry them. He had not scrupled to offer money to him had received the whole of his bounty, he attempted that any inference should be drawn thence which the petitioner, to induce him to permit him the to desert in company with some other individuals, would induce us to quietly bow beneath means of illicit intercourse with a female convict, he was taken ,however by a press-gang, and while the sceptre of him who might be the instrunftnt and when he found diet attempt unavailing, be had the sentence of a court-martial which sat in judg- appointed to fulfil his behest. If i: was pursuant endeavoured to effect his purpose by bribing one of ment on his offence was yet unknown, he attempted to the decrees of Providence that Buonaparte de. the turnkeys. to cut his throat; when put on his defence he threw spoiled mankind of their rights, we might be the Mr. WHITBREAD was happy that the Petition himself on the mei%y of the Court. He (Mr. S ut- chosen instruments by which his ravages were in be had been presented, because-the charge with respect ton) did not wish now to argue the question of the checked, and as long as such a surmise could be to his conduct was therein specified. That conduct 1 expediency of corporal punishment, but if it were 'cherished, it was our duty to act accordingly. was undoubtedly improper, but hot to such a de- to subsist he could not cone eve a fitter case for it This person might be sent forth as the scourge of gree as would warrant the excessive rigour with than that of the person he had been speaking of, the human race, but we might take a more consol. which the delinquent had, been treated. He had and he had theii::,la it right . to explain it that it ing view of the intentions of Providence. We had a letter from Mr. Finnerty, stating that he had I might not hang en the public mind for so long a might suppose hint ordained to call forth splendid made no; offer of money to the turnkey, but on the 1 period as from this time till the next Session of . exertions of unman virtue, and assuredly there was contrary, that that person had offered to assist him ' Parliament. no lack of spited and noble deeds perlormed.by provided he would pay him for so doing, and on his 1 Mr. WHITBREAD said, that the case, whe th er ' our countrymen .to impart probability to the hypo. refusal he had framed a falsehood in order to antici- , of peculiar hardship or otherwise, did riot iuterfere thesis, or it might be that both conjectures were c orrect, the French Despot might be pate the complaint he was apprehens ive would be with the general principal,whether corporal punish- part i a ll y lodged against himself. There was nothing in the I ment in the army we re or were not necessary. He designed .to inflict ills on suffering hum anit y to petition of the jailer which went to prove that Mr. had lately received information which, in his opi. ; a certain extent, and we might be the favoured Finnerty was not improperly confined, and in the 1 nion, was quite conclusive on that head : it was : nation before whose efforts his fortune was to retro circumstances of that improper confinement there I contained in a letter from a general officer coin- I grade. If we were to consider his extraordinary was nothing which went to prevent a recurrence of,l manding in a place where recruits were received ; achievements on one side, as indicating the probe that part of his conduct which formed the groundlof and where, it would seem, that if at all, corporal 1 bility of an interference from above, would not die na complaint which had been urged against hint. He punishment would be peculiarly requisite ; but onof our achievements warrant on the other as lively might still bribe the turnkey, or the turnkey might the contrary this officer stated, that if there were I a faith ? If his progress to universal dominion on require a bribe, as the case might he, so that there any cat-o'-nine-tails in that quarter, they m ust be land was considered as a proof in his favour, was was severity without 'any reasonable motive. He lying rotting, and if there were triangles they were our proms: towards the empire of the seas to be could not think there was any reason why Mr. Fin- never produced on the parade. accounted as nothing in opposite scale ? or was it netty'i punishment should exceed in rigour that of Mr. Bitinonsm said a few words on the intentions not rather the counterpoise from which mankind as non con fi ned for a similar offence. of Sir Francis Burdett in giving the notice to which might reasonably hope for safety from the horrors Mr. CHAPLIN stated that there 'were altera- Mr. Sutton had alluded, ,of a despotism embrazing the world ? He had not tions making in the jail which would remove the Sir C!taitms BURRrLL argued for the necessity expressed himself thus because he conceived that it stench complained of, as one.of 'the grievances un- . of corporal punishments in the army. was the wish of the Right Hon. Gentleman to palsy der which ;ylr. Tumerty suffered.; and as to the DOCTRINE OF ASSASSINATION, our exertions against the enemy, but because there other circumstances of his confinement they were Mr. WHITBREAD would take the opportu- was a part of his speech which might have given by no means so bad as the Hon. Gentleman seemed nity, while the House was unoccupied with other to imagine, as would suf f iciently appe ar from a let- business, to observe on the doctrines with respect birth to erroneous opinions on that head amon g others. He would conclude with renewing his ter he could produce from Mr. Drakard, another to the legality of assassinating our enemies, or porson confined in Lincoln, in which it was stated causing them .to be assassinated, which he was son y as surance to that Hon. Gentleman , . th at it was with much pleasure he siezed th e o pp ortunit y o: that nothing like severity, but on the conti-arrevery to think were gaining ground, and which were suf. disavowing any assent to the abominable principles indulgence and humanity was to be found in the ficiently mischievous, if ' it were only that the vets mode in which his sentence was carried into me- geance aimed at the guilty objects of our aversion, which he had so justly reprobated. Mr. WHITBREAD was happy that the object cation. but whose misdeeds we were not to assume the Mr. BROUGHAM 'said there was no necessary office of pUnishing, would not unfrequently fall on' of his speech had been so happily obtained in the connexion between the respective cases of Messrs. innocent and meritorious persons. It would per- 1 manly exposition of his sentiments, which had pro- DiAkard and Finnerty, unless that the rigours to haps be in va i n - to tell the persons whO preached up , ceeded from the Right Hon. Gentleman. As he whit t the latter was subjected appeared more se- assassination as a duty that the system on which . h ad j_ disclaimed any intention , f imputing to him A •- • • • - - whe deeds we were i ?‘" 5 - ign of slackening our efforts against the enemy, • ito a finches- those persons had acted whose taught to. regard with admiration in our boyish days,, had given place to the milder principles of the Christian religion ; but he would call upon them to say in how many instances where assassination had been perpetrated with a view to the benefit of mankind, the hoped-for consequences had en sued. Had the fall of Cesar contributed in the least to procure the restoration of liberty to Rome, and he would ask them, whether the steel of the assassin had not been more frequently di rected by mistaken zeal against the deserving or the innocent than against the guilty. He would notice the cases of Henry IV. ot France, orLouis XV. of the Prince of Orange, the King of Swe den, the Emperors Peter and Paul, and the two attempts which had been made against the life of., our own Soiereign. Ere we preached to the Spaniard that the assassination of Buonaparte—of the invader and despoiler of his country—was a duty he owed that country, we should con sider what might be the feelings of a Zealander with respect to the late atrocious attack upon his country, whether they might not be at least as fairly and as easily set in action by doctrines such as those of the Spaniards. Could it fail to be perceived to what danger the reception of such doctrines might have subjected the Marquis Wellesley in the course of the operations which he had planned in India; how frequently they might have rased against his life the hand of a subject of the Nabob ot Oude, or the Nabob of the Carnatic, or of Tippoo Sultaun, or of any other Sovereign Prince who had been de spoiled of his territories ?• There were French pub lications in this country, meant for circulation on the Continent, in which this doctrine was sedulously circulated ; but their conductors would do well to recollect with what pertinacity, whether real or affected, Buonaparte had attributed the plan of the infernal machine and other attempts against hi; lite to the machinations of the government of this country. They should recollect how much it would tend to colitfirga his stispiciop if he really it Wras unnecessary for him to enter in Lion of himself trots the charge of being a fatalist. Before he sat down *tie would take the pporten!ty of pointing out a signal instance of how futLe the petty attempts of men were to frustrate the designs o: Providence. When the Emperor Paul fell beneath the hand of the assassin, the tidings of his death were received in this country with exultation, as tending to dissolve the amity then subsisting between Russia and France • but what wore the consequences of the alliance ;hat ensued ? Fiance was aggrandized at the expense of Russia, and Bunnaparte now proclaims her ruler, and the succes, sor of Paul, his firmest friend and ally. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. A Messenger from the House of Peers requested a conference with the Commons, in the Painted Chamber, on the subject of the English Insolvency Bill. The House complied with the request, anl a Committee was appointed to manage the same. Mr. Secretary - RYDER, returning to the House from the conference, reported that their Lordship' could not agree with that clause of the Bill which extended the law of Insolvency to the Isle of Man. Mr. HORNER, by the regulation of that clause s -so founded on reasonable law, seemed to insinuate that their Lordships were not versant in the particu lar jurisprudence of the Isle of Man. He felt sur prised to heat that objected to by a branch of the L egislature, which required to understand every local law throughout the dependencies of the kingdoms. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that a clause of that importance revised time for serious considerittion. 'The House then dropped insisting on the clause being sustained, and intimated the some by Mr. ,lionsge.-,—Adjourned. Mr. G. VANSITTART, M. P. left town on Sattli day last, for Bishatn sN s lebey, near Marlow ) L' - Buckinghamshire. •