Star. — London, England, 1807-01-27 00:00:00

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LAMES AMD N ennfo , mity with my late intimation to become a Candidate for a Seat in the diredioo of your Attire 011 the sett Vacancy which might occur, I now beg leave to determb atlas of coming to the ballot at the General Eleetion in April near. when I molt refpeetfully folich the Mow of your Votes and Intereft in my behalf for the Vacancy which will then be oecafioned by the deeeafe of your late worthy Dindor, Sir Stephen Luilaiostoo, Bart. I have the honour to be, Ladles and Gentlemen, s, Harley place, Your very faitliful and humble (errant. Jan. 14. rBo7. JOHN ALEX. BANNERMAN. PARLIAMENTARY' PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JAN. 26. The confideratioa of the important Appeal Cade, Lowe. w Morgan, being refound, the Hon. SPENCER PEARCEVAL was beard at confiderable length, as fesond Counfel for die Appellant. The farther hearing upon the cafe was Adjourned by t►eir Lord. Sips till to-morrow. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the farther ennilderftion of the kith Appeal .Caufe (with reference to judg ment) was Adjourned till Thurfday. The BMA upen the 'rabic were forwarded in their refpettlive Pages; among theft, the Annual Indemnity MI was read a third time and paffed; and meilages ordered to acquaint the COMM/Of therewith. A Bill for the Naturalization of John Jacob °verbal.: was pre tested, and read a firft time. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A new Writ was ordered for the City of Canterbury, in the room of T. Sinunons, Efq. deeeafed. Thirteen Members took the oaths and their feats. The SECRETARY at WAR 'brought in the Annual Mutiny Bill, which was reada firft time, and orderid to be Lead a (mond time on this t'uy fennight. Mr SHER i N gave notice, that be lhould, on Monday neat, move for leave to bring in a ➢ill for the further regulation of the Office of Paymafter of the Navy. This was a motion of which he had given notice during the lift 9eflon. The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND brought in a Bill for fufpending the Powers given by the Sta ute of Queen Anne, to the Lords of Council and Scffion in Scotland, which empowered them to augment, at pleafure, the Stipends of the Clergy, and which veiled them with other powers. The Bill was read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. ELECTION BALLOT*. Lord HOWICIE hoped, the Houfe was perfeffily aware of the importance of making as great tulle as poffifik in emitting ekdion petitions. This was a juftice due to the Houfe, as well as to the itdividuals who petitioned,or againft whom petitions were pre fented. There were now two ballots fixed for to-morrow ;—tie Ihould therefore give notice, that if there &mild not be a (efficient attendance of Members to form thole ballots, he *mold imme. diately move that the Standing order of the Houfe (tumid be en forme. OAK BARK JUL. Mr. BAKER prefented a petition from the Tan ners and ManulaCturers of Leather in the County of Hertford. againft the Bill now before the Houfe. The petition was ordered to lie upon the table un til the fecond reading of the Bill, and the petitioners had leave to be heard by theinfelves, their agents, or Counfel againa the bill. Similar petitions were prefented by Mr. Cartwright, from the Tanners of the County of Northampton ; by Mr. Herbert, from Southampton, Suffer, and Wilts ;—by Mr. Ballard, from Devonthire ; Lord F ,, rbes, from the County of Longford ; and Mr. Wil berforce, from Sheffield. Thefe feveral petitions were received, and ordered to Fe on the table, and the Petitioners had leave to be heard by themfelves, their Agents, or Counfel, at the fecond reading of the Bill. The Order of the Day was then read for the fecond reading of the Bill. Lord TEMPLE laid, he fhintld move that the bill be now read a fecond time, merely to put the fubjeCt before the Houfe in the regular way of difcuffinn, and t: _n he fhould linen with attention to any fuggetlions that might be offered. Mr. HERBERT could not give his agent to the Bill as it now flood. He thottAlit that it wac a fubjeCt which required a great deal of caution and delibera tion, and one which the Houfe fhould not decide pre cipitately. l'he fopply of bark from this country was by no mean: equal to its coafumption, without a confiderable importation. There were a variety of interelis to be attended to in the difcuffion of this quellion : it was not merely the tanners that were interelled, but there were many other trade,. The fh :e_makers and the curriers were alfo bound by the penalties of the Alt now exilling, and they were bound in fuch a manner as to give a fecurity for ma nufafturing the leather in the manner prefcribed in that Aa. That Aft was therefore a fecurity to the fhoe maker that the currier would aQ fairly; and that he fhould receive his leather tanned in the manner which the al directed. To take away that fecurity without due conlideration, world appear to him an all of great hardfhip and injuflice. Whether it would not he right to repeal the whole of the aO, inflead of fufpending a tingle claufe, was a fubjeft which deferred very mature deliberation. He thought the only way of determining a queltion of fuch compli. cated interefl, and of fuch great importance, would he to refer the whole fubjett to a Committee of she Bottle, who Mould report upon it. If it appeared in the fame light to his Noble Friend (Lord Temple), E r &odd beg leave to lugged 'to- him the propriety of undrawing his motion fur the prefent ; and he t: give notice, that he would move to mor row for 'he awl ...nuo-ott of filch a Committee. L ral I'EMPLE acquiefeed in the fuggellion, and was glad t shear the opinion of the landed interest pronounced up n the little& Mr. WILBk. ft FORCE faid, that he had received a great tuimber of letters upon the Itibjea, at.d found that it had tacked a coofsderable degree of ioterell, and thetetose required an ample confederation. Lord TEMPLE laid, when he firft m.•ved tor the fulpenfion of that Clank, laft Sefton, he had Hated his reafott fur fn doing was, that there had been a confiderable number of informations then laid for penalties under that AQ. The Clan& inßißed penal tie,. on any pfrfon getting bark by any means and felling it, but i• h.rd lain dormant for many years, and had not been atted upon ' • but lately a confiderable n umb e r nt informations bad been laid for penalties under it, and therefore he thought it neceffary to apply that remedy. The Timber Merchants were now the only perfons who were by law entitled to fell hark, becaule when they bought the trees, it had been held by the firfi legal opinions, that this did not corn.. under the nr:aning of the AB,tefpelling buying' balk fur the putpofe of felling it again. Notwith fl nding they appeared to be the only perfons legally authoti•ed to fell bark, yet the pradice in England, Ireland, and Scotland was. that the trade in bark was carried on by regular dealers in that commodity. Although he was convinced of the neceffity of the meafute he propoced, yet he thought it a paramount duty to bring it forward in fuels a ',tape as would be nsoit agreeable to the Houfe and the country. He therefore contented to withdraw his motion for the prefent. in order to wait for the Report of the Com nsittee to be appointed. He concluded by moving the fecond reading for this day fortnight. Mr. ROSE thought the fubje& was fo complicated, that there was not the remoteft chance of getting a report upon it in a fortnight, or hardly in two months. There were, perhaps, fame parts in the Adt which it would be advifeable to retain, particu• larly that part which refpeeed the Triers of Leather. Mr. SHERIDAN approved of the Committee propoled by an Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Her bert) although he was aware that all meafures of this tort ufnally originated with one of the Board of Trade. He was in hopes that this would not be the only claufe of the abfurd All of James the Firft that it would be found necefary to repeal. What he role to Date to the Bottle was this—ln the courfe of left &Mon the clank was fufpended until 40 days after the beginning of the prefent Sellion. The Houle had now fat above 30 days ; he, theref..re, thought it would be the belt way to continue the fufpenfion for two months, and as to the general fubjea, the Houfe might wait till their Committee had reported. Mr. CORRY obferved, that in Ireland they had no home (apply of Bark equal to their confumption, and they imported the greaten part of it from this country ; he confidered the fubjea of fufficient in terea to ;unify the appointment of a Committee to examine into it. Mr. WHITBREAD conficlered the Aa of King James as wholly inapplicable to the prefent times, and he objefted as much to the part fpoken favmur ably of by an Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Rofe), as to any other. Mr. G RATTAN obferved that the Bill had been compleatly mifunderltood in tome parts of Ireland, and that it was in confequence of ihat mifunderitand ing, that a Deputation had been lent from Dublin to p e tition againit the Bill.—The fecund reading of the Bill was then poliponed for a fortnight. MARQUIS WELLIMAY. Lord FOLKSTONE Paid. that in purfuance of the notice he had given on a former night, he thould now move for the printing of certain papers, which are already before the Houle, refpeding the affairs of the Nabob of, Oude, and as they related to the clndult of the late Governor General of Bengal, the Marquis Wellefley. The Noble Lord obferved that this fuhjeta bad occupied a great portion of the time of the Houle, and a very confiderable (hare of public attention during the lall Salons of the late Parlia ment, as introduced to their consideration by a Gentleman not now a Member of the prefent Parlia ment (Mr. Paull): (hould that Gentleman again come into that Houle, he would no doubt resume his objee, and proceed againfi the Noble Marquis as he origi nally intended. He alto thought it right, in this early Rage of the proceedings, to announce, that it was not his intention to follow up the matter with calling for articles of impeachment, but to move certain refolotions, and leave the ref} to the Hnufe to difpofe of as they (Mould deem expedient. He then moved that cer , ain papers, which he enumerated, relative to the affairs of the Nabob of Oude, should be printed. On the cpieflion being put, BLord HOWICK obferved, that as the Noble Lord only mentioned his intention of going into the Oude charge, he wi(hed to be informed whether he means to go into any otlatrs, and how he means to ptofecnte it ? Lord FOLKSTONE replied, it was hardly fair to put fo dired queflions to him, nor did he think hinifelf bound to anfwer them ; at the fame time he would obferve, that it was not his defile to follow up the proceedings of the Houle with moving for articles' of impeachment, but leave that, or any other mode that might be adapted, to their discretion; whether he meant to go into any other charges, he then felt a difficulty of answering. As to the Carnatic huh nets, a Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite to him (Mr. Sheridan) had promifed to undertake it Tome years ago ; but he has certainly thought fit to relinquith the matter ; and if no other Gentleman would attempt it, he would undertake it, humble as he was. He might, probably, fay the fame relative to the Mahratta bufinefs, but he would not pledge himfelf to it. sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER laid it was exceed. ingly deferable that, it thould be brought to an itfue as loon as poffible, and he wifited to know whethe r h e had made up his mind on the other charges ; and if he intended glually to go no farther than to move refulutions, and leave the final decition with the Houfe. Lord FOLKSTONE gave the fame anfwer that he had before given, and added, his objea would be to move for a Committee, on whore report a refoln tion, or a tiring of refolutions, would be moved. Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER acknowledged the candour of the Noble Lord, and appeared fatisfied with his anfwer. Mr. WHITSHF.D KEENE entered into a dif cuffion of the affairs of India, and trolled the intref. tigatinn of the condo& of Marquis Wetlefley would forthwith he entered into. Mr. BANKS was happy to find that the obje& of the Noble Lord was nwt to proceed to impeachment, as, in his mind. the Eaft India Judicature law was fufficient to reach him, and he thought it ought to proceed fo, although Mr.Paull might think otberwife, and as k , were he again in that Houle ; how pro- bable that was, or how defirable it might be, was not for him then to fay ; at all events, our charaaer required it Ihnuld be brought to a fpeedy conclufion. Mr. SHERIDAN noticed the obfervations of the laft Honourable Gentleman, relpeaing Mr. Paull, and obferved, that how defirable it might be that he Amid again return to. that Houle, was for that Hon. Gentleman and his friends to confider ; but how pro. bable h was, would be for him to Rate, and he could venture to fay, therefore, that the probability was very problematic indeed. As to the mode fuggeQed, of not proceeding to impeachment, that method he would certainly deprecate, as impeachment would be the molt conftitutional, the other molt expenfive and haraffing to the individual, and confcquently uncnnftitutional. And with refpeti to the accufa tion of the Noble Lord, that he had promifed to pro- ceed in the Caroatic Bufinell, and neverthelge had dropped it, be begged to be underilood that fuch was not the cafe. Two years ago he Rated the grounds nn which he gave it up, but at the fame time he Rated, that if any other Gentleman would take it up, he should have his fincere and zealous fopport. Lord iTOLIESTONE, in explanation, raid, he ,could be glad of the Right Honourable Gentleman's foPPorf ; and he begged the Houfe to believe, that in his undertaking the proceedings again& Marquis Wellefley, he was not eausted by any prejudice, but by a fenfe of duty, as the honour of the Beitifircha raaer was at Rake. Mr. WHITBREAD congratulated the Houk and the Noble Lord, that he had undertaken the arduous talk ; but he deprecated the idea of fending any de linquent to a trial in the Court of King's Bench from that Houle, when matter enough appeared to bring him before a more augull tribunal. Mr. WELLESLEY POLE acknowledged the candour of the Noble Lord, and thanked him for the open'and generous manner in which he conitated himfelf. His Noble Relation was defirous that the matter lhould be brought forward with as little lofs of time as poffible. He trolled the whole 9f the papers, as they relate to the Nabob of Oude, and the part the Marqus had taken therein, fh.trld be printed, as, from the whole matter being before the Houle, they would be better enabled to judge of his Noble Relative, who at prefent laboured under every fpecies of charge, from error and fraud up to aaual murder, and of courfe he was more defirous, from a confcioufnefs of the purity of his mind, that it timid he concluded. Mr. SHERIDAN role a fecond time. The SPEAKER Paid, Mr. Sheridan, to explain? Mr. SHERIDAN (aid, that did he think at worth while, he Ihould claim the right of going much be- yond explanation, as the Noble Lord had experienced the molt extraordinary latitude. He heard, however, nothing worth his noticing, but the Noble Lord's prefuming, contrary to all parliamentary order and decorum, to aferibe to him motives for relinquifhing the Carnatic queflion ; and the motive affigned was, his fear of lnfing his office had he adhered to it. He wifhed to all the Noble Lord, what title or right he had to venture to afcrihe motives to him, or what ad of his political life he would have the rafhnefs to Rate as juftifying his coarfe inlinuation that either deface of gaining office, or fear of lofing it, had ever yet influenced his political condud ? The Noble Lord made great profeffions of the purity of his own motives on the prelent occafion. He (Mr. Sheridan) underflood too well the orders of the Houle, and the rules of good breeding, to queftion his fincerity ; but he would advife him, as a young beginner in an arduous litnation, that the fureft way of gaining credit to his own profeffions, is to abflain from pre fumptnous infinuations againfl the motives of others. Mr. THORNTON Paid, that when the fubjed had been introduced !aft Seflion, he was one of thofe who wished to go to a certain length, bat not to the whole extent of an impeachment. Thnisgh he remained of the fame opinion, yet he confelfed that, under the circumftances of the cafe, it was neceffary, viewing the queftion as it regarded the dignity of the Houfe, the character of the Noble Marquis, and the interelts of the country, to have it refumed and again fub mitted to Parliament. He was fare that, whenever the whole cafe came fairly under difcuflion, the condo& of the Board of Diredors would appear to be meritorious and honourable. The quenion being loudly called for from every fide of the Houfe, Mr. Speaker then role and put the motion, which was carried. COMP4ITTII OF SUPPLY. Mr. HOBHOUSE brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply the Refolutions were feverally rcad and arced to. Mr. JOHNS TONE moved, that the Army Eftimates, andthofe of the Ordnance and Cummiffariat Departments, be priuted.— Ordered. COSIMITTSC OF WAYS AWD MEANS. The Hou7e refolved it fell into s Committee of Ways and Means, Mr Hohhonfe in the Chair. Mr. PARNELL moved, that x,cm,pcoL Idlb currency, be granted to bra Majesty in l'reafury hills, for the fervice of the cu • rent year, which was agreed to, and the Report ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. The is Militia Services' Bill was read a tidal time, wad paffed. -Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. The late hour to which the Houfe of Commons fat on Saturiay morning, and the influx of news on that day, obliged us to cur tail the eoncluGon of a Debate, which embraced a variety of in melting details relpeding the Military Force of the Natiot The preffare of Foreign Intelligence yelterday, and our antict, to Allah the publication of the Taws Rertirr of the COMMIS. SIONVIS of IVIILITAIT ENIVIIT this day, SS We expedt It will Icon occupy the attention of Parliament, have hitherto pre- vented our recurring to the concluflon of the Debate Waded to. of which we have prepared a fummary to be laid before NW Readers tomorrow—if no heavy debate take place Masi* to prevent as. TUESDAY, JANUARY s?. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE OVLOCItt Conkla, money, 6±-for Fab. 6011—Otnnimen 4 pram Each/quer Silk par to sa• Prim PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3p. Ct. Red. Ann. 64141 I India Hands, 31 a aaprem. 3 per Cent. Cont. An.fttriffi EzeL Bp4, s.. peen. par 4 per Cant. Na • I °snafu= 31 pram par 5 per Cent. Navy, 9544 Tickets lid_ to. Long A. sy ts-joff I =or are. 60ef We are AiH unable to afcertain whether any degree of credit is due to a report circulated yeaerday, that fubfequently to the soth ult. there bad been another battle, in which the French had gained fome import ant advantages over the Ruffians. The intelligence was received in private letters from Holland, which Rate that the Ruffians, 'rinsing to follow up the ad vantages they had gained, had followed the enemy too precipitately, and , became the viitims of a flrata gem linglar to that by which they fuffered fo feverely in the battle of Antlerlitz. The 3d of January is mentioned as the day on which the Ruffians attacked the French and fell into the fnare prepared for them by the enemy, whofe previous retreat is reprefented as having been only a feint to bring them into their toils. We are not, however, 'without hopes that this in• telligence will prove unfounded ; for it is not ealy to conceive that Inch a General. as BOSAPARTI would expofe his army to the danger ciralmoft certain de• ftruaion merely to draw his enemy into a Inure, and Inch we mull fuppofe to have been his conduit, in, the precut Wince, V ye give credit to the news in all its eircumfiances. That the French army was expored to citable deem:lion, may be pthered frets own bulletins ; and theft, as sight be very far (bort tithe trntb. This day other accounts have been received confirm chore we have idready gives. of fes obtained by the Ruffians and even to a mut extent. His Majetly'a Hoop NiONTINCIALS, Capt . WM[lll5Ol4 arrived at Leith on Friday lea N al the Eyder, 'which he left fo late as.Toefday He was informed by Capt.Morr, of the hired armed Duke c.f York, in the Eyder, on the 18th int that h e had a letter from the Confol, Rating the total d e , feat of the French, with the lots of EIGIiTY TNOtt. sum mew; that the Ruffians had met with repe ate d checks, and retreated with the lots of feveral piece; of cannon and many men, which had induced the French to advance confiderably b eyond Warfaw, where they had found it neceifary to p into winter quarters, or perhaps rather to totteodi themfelves ; and that, in this fituation, the Raffia; after collating ail their forces came up with the French and attacked them, the refult of which wi t the MA bloody viaory ever obtained. Captain Mnrr left the mailer of his flip at Ten. ningen, in order to bring off the letters that came by the mail, but he bad not returned to the fhip, wile s Captain WILKINSON left the Eyder. It was, hes. ever, Rated, that the Emperor of Russia bad pro. claimed his brother Coasrat rINS King of Poland ; and that the lan accounts from Auaria bring int& gence of the Archduke CH/ALl:being ready to &be a blow in Silefia. Capt. WsLlClllsom brought no !hips under his col. voy, as none of the Leith !hips bad come down frow Tonningen when he came off. Betides Capt. Morel chip, he left the Starling gun brig in the Eyder. The Arta• frigate, Captain Du Pi BAIL, arrived d Yarmouth yetlerday, and has brought fimilar at. counts from Copenhagen, which port the left lalt Tnefday. Before the Arcata failed, news had at. rived there of the French army having been defeated by the Ruffians with the Ids of 60,000 men, and s number ofitannon. After fuch a revere defeat, it is difficult to believe the enemy could fo foon retrieve his affairs, ani therefore, we with not to credit it ; but (Lill it not impoffible. Indeed tome affirm that the 49th, sotb, and 5111 bulletins, have been received by Government, in the laR of which the French (peak of a battle fubfequeat to tlit 29th ult. in which they were vidorious. We anxioufly look for farther accounts. The IA accounts from the Auftrians were, that the Archduke Camuss was ready to alike the blur in Silefts. the Dote almon i n s "en thee peeed, f tired w hi ch ' the faced AMERICAN PAPERS. Yenerday we received New York and Bolton Pa. pers, up to the 3oth of December incluilve. Letters from New Orleans of the sstb of No4ember, nabs the arrival of the American General Wismsoa is that city, with a fmall detachment of 4o Naafi, but with 800 men cinfe in his rear. The Spanith force which had crolred the Sabha againQ the Americans, is Elated in the Official Intel. ligerice of the Arm ican General, to amount to tsco men, molly mounted militia.—Tbe Bpanifh forced Pcnfacola, Mobile, and Baton, was ellimated at float son to 650. There were no appearances whatever d an amicable adjunment of differences between the Americans and Spaniards. The public opinion its America is in general fay •oarable to the innocence of Colonel Boas ; se proofs have been as yet obtained again( him of saj thing like treaionable or feditious predicts. The Nam Ea:land Pollansma of the s9th ult. coo tains a paragraph, Raring, that intelligence had ben brcught, by a veffel, from the Havana, of the io aquae of Buenos Ayres, on the 12 th Of Aquas b) the Spaniards, and alfo of the EURRIINDER OF MONTE VIDEO TO THE BRITISH ARMS. The Sri part of the above intelligence, we now know to be correa.a hong prefumption that the latter will alto prove fo. It is extremely probable; and, if fojwe doubt not but Buenos Ayres is by this time in the pofleWoa of his Majoily's troops. The laten report of the proceedings of the Hod/ of Cougrefe, bears date'December r 9. The only ar. tide of general intereft, h the Bill to prohibit the Importation of Slaves. It has been reported, with amendments One amendment provides the punilb' agent of death for being concerned in importing naves ; another, that naves imported (hall be for. feited in thole (lates only where flavery is permitted. Great difficulties had miler', when the Bill WaS before the Committee, as to the line of condoB with regard to fuch Haves as mould be imported in future contrary to law. The queflions agitated were, wbe. ther they mould be fent back to Africa, or be fet at liberty ? A Bill is about to be brought into Ccmgrefat is America, impofing a Tax on all Batchelor* above the age of 25. The produce of this tax is to be aP' plied to the laudable purpofe of educating natural and orphan children.