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• PARLMMEATARr IItOCEEDINGis 410un OF totem, JUNE its. DE , MT ' S DIVORCE. Counsd were. 'finally heard on Dyott's Divorte.l taws evidence came first to be given in the teal it Isanner ;.) prove the adultery previous to the second. beading orthe Bill, Counsel (Me Jacitaria) appeared jut Mrs. Dyott, and stated that his object was to prove misconduct on the part of the husband, not with a vie% to prevent the divorce, but to shew cir cumstances nt •xcase for Mrs. Dyott. The LORD CHANCELLOR` upon this said, that whatever might be the object of those who offer ed such evidence, the Houle Would hear it with a view to the consideration whether the divorce oug' to 14. granted at all. Tire Counsel (Mr. WARREN) int. General Drift then c .11.4 witnesses to prove the adultery ; and Mr Jackson by his cross-examinati ,, n endeavoured to re duce the evidence to this—that Dunn (the alleged adulterer), who is a Surgeon, had attended Mrs. Dy At merely in his medical capacity, as she was not in g-rat health at the time. rltr T the evidence had been gone through which had been given in the Eccl , siastic el Court, and upon the action T t damages ; further evidence was acie Cloud on the part of Mrs. Dyott to prove misconduct in the General ; and the nature ot that alleed mis conduct was, Isa, that he himself had been g uilty of that sort it (defiler with which he charged his wile; lead 2d, that he had in other respects used her ill, arid e ,, en on one occasion proceeded to personal violence. The principal witness called to prove these cir- Ctuustances, and the only one who spoke to the Or. torostance cif personal violence, was a Mrs. Clement, a Quaker, in whole house at Bath Mrs. Dyott had lodged for a fortnight upon some difference with General Dyott, who, however, visited her there, ap parently for the purpose of reconciliation, and of in ducing her to return home. The general material facts spoken to by this witness were, that General Dyott and.. Mrs. Dyott's servant girl, Hannah Bat ker, now Turner, were seen by the witness coming out of a MOW), where they had been for a quitter of an hour together by themselves; that the girl appeared t be with child and that the witness taxed tar with bring with child by General Dyott, and advised her t. , horde to her mothet's, who resided at Southampton, for taryinemeni, AS the witness expressed it, and what the girl was dismissed by Mrs. Dyott. She then stated, that on.nne occasion, hearing a noise la tan. ot mums, she went into it, and saw Gen. Dytitt graspii f his wile as if he meant to strangle het. air to that effect ; and that she took him by the hart -1 the head. and pulled him away, and said, she would report his conduc: to the Duke of Yen k. This white.: was, however, materially contradicted by others, and especially by Hannah Turner, who was then pri.. duced on the part of General Dyott, and stated, that the quakerow lady had charged her with being with child by General D)utt, but that site de Oat it, be. cause it was not true, and dismissed lietself been se she had bten so chat ged. She denied that she was in a room for a quarter of an hour with the General by themselves and that he hsd ever used any improper freedom r, h th an having oil one occa sion kissed her. This witness was, to a certain extent, confirmed by another, a Mrs. Clarke, who saw her sti.the time she coined Mrs. Plight's setvire ; and stated, that she had then ne, appearance of pegna neT• Att:r the Counsel had closet their observations vu the evidc • The LORD CHANCELLOR, while he admitted . tha.t there was; upon the whole, strong enrich:nee of the fact of adultery committed by the wife, Stated— subject, however, to a further cunsideration of the 4 1 6,i..ore—chat the cAbe was left somewhat short on both sAes. There did appear, according to his pre sent impression, to have been something in the ern duct of General llyott calculated to instate the vie. thous fieliogs of a virtuous woman ; and, on the other band, General I)yott had been accused. of a greviedeal more than appeared to have been proved agaii,st h;in. This case was a strong instance of what he bad bef ire observed—that the proceedings in the Ecclesiar.tical Couit, and upon the action for da mages, did not by any means afford complete secutity to this House in its proceedint4s upon hills ef this description. If all the evidence now bJore their Lordships had been given upon the trial of the action, it was impossible to deny that the additional evidence would have afforded strong grounds of to the Jury, with reference to the quantum of da rages ; and if it sad. been given in the Ecclesiastical Coat t, that additional evidence would have there - tuo afforded matter for grave consideration. As to the esiJence of Mrs. Clermont, that was certainly mate via'''. contradicted ; and the story she told was be sides in some respects so extravagant, that, even without contradiction, there might have been some • difficulty in giving it implicit credit in all-its parts : best the evidence of Hannah Turner too was in some particulars not perfectly reconcileable with that of prow other witnesses besides Mrs. Clermont. The 4rtmost divorce known to our ordinary law was the 6 . 4-orce a maws a Moro and when a husband came here for the extraordinary remedy of a legislative act for a divorce a vincula malrim2nii, he ought to appear free from serious misconduct on his part, and espe. cialiy from that ,species of misconduct which he charged against his wife as the foundation for his remedy. He should examine the evidence minutely before the House met again. In the mean time it was not his intention to object to the second reading of the Bill, lest, if that were further postponed, it should be prevented from passing at an this Session, even though their Lordships- should be of opinion that it ought to pass :—but • though he consented to the second reading now—fer a reason which he trust ed he might state, as the circumstance had been so often mentioned in that House, the near approach of the conclusion of the Session—yet he begged it to be Understood, that he did not consider himself as there by in any degree pledged not to oppose the further progress of the Bill, in ease he should, on examining the evidence, be of opinion that the Bill ought not to pass. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal Assent was gitrel by Commission to the Irish National Debt Bili, the new Silver Coin Bill, the Madder hill, the Offices' Duties Bill, the Malta l'Ay Bill, the Miners' Offences Bill, the Soldier and Sailors' -Trade DX, the lath Yeomanry Corps Bill, the fluslataiki lioise * Duty till, the tdinbargh Po lice Bill, the Customs Funds Bill, and Penitentiary Bill.—Cnmmissioners, Lords Eino l a and, Suing*. Mee, end Duke of MoNTßose. The Irish. Paper Duty Bill, the Sugar Bill, and Sloth Sea Bill, were read a third time and passed. The Irish Grand Juries Bill was reported. Dyott's Divorce Bill, Stage Coach Bill, and Metro. pnlis Streets Bill, were read a second time ; the New foundland Passage Bill committed and reported; and the other gills before the Ho.ise forwarded in tbeir.re spective stages.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Elgin Marbles, the Licensed Victuallers, and the Windsor Forest Bills, were read a second time, , And committed for Monday. The Coal Drawback and the Navy Half-pay Bills were reed a third time and passed. On the second reading of die , Town Lands Fines Bill, Mr. HORNER objected to the Bill on the grounds of the injustice of it's operation ; as , by the p rovisions of this Bill, persons innocent of offending, even in imagination, would be liable to penalties and fines for the offences of others living miles distant. Many of the Town Lands in Ireland extended twenty miles in length, and five or six in breadth ; and if an of fence coming under the penalties of the Illicit Distil lation Laws was committed at one extremity of the Tun Lands, every person dwelling at the other ex treinity of the Town Lands was subject to a share of the penalty. Laws of this description were calcu lated rather to irritate than to conciliate the Irish. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended the Bill, as a measure necessary to protect the revenue, and as the only means of checking illicit Mr. W. SMITH said this was a measure which must stand or fall on its owe merits. H understood it had been the practice of persons to :ravel about with portable stills, and the moment they were dis covered they got into :mother district, and thus esca ped detection altogether. This system was not new; it was practised in the case of tints, where a whole country was made liable for a breach 'of the peace in any part of it. The Bill was then read a second time, and com mitted for Monday. On the second reading of the Clergy Non-residence Bill, General THORNTON opposed it. He wished this Bill to be postponed for a short time, and he should be ahle to convince the Right Honourable the Clesnc.4tor of the Exchequer vest it ought not to pass. 11 it did, he theug•a i' would g . a great way towards overturning the Lstablistied Ch arch altoge: her. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished the gallala General would postpone his oppo sition till the 13it1 c ime a Committee. Cemerat THORNTON consented to do this, de. elating, that he would on Monday take the sense of the Committee en the Bill ; which was then read a sec"nti time, and committed for Monday. The Iris.. Clerk of the Pleas 1341, the Irish Cilmi. nal Returns bill, the Consolidated Funds Bill, the Claremont Estate Bill, the Mutiny Act Amendment 1111, and the Crinan Canal Bill, went through Com tnittees.—Reports to be received on Monday. The Stamps Amendment Bill was committed. Mr. HORNER wished to know why College and wirer Ecclesiastical Property, that species of property which above all other property ought to pay Stamp Duriv., was to be exempted by this Bi . l TLeCHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the present Bill was only intended to carry into effect a provision relating to College Property which was to.have been introduced into the Stamp Act of list Session : it was an indulgence intended to be eaten ded to Colleges, on acceunt of the manner in which College Property was generally leased. Mr. HORNER did not consider this reason as suf ficient for making this distinction in favour of Col leges ; they let their property in the manner most ad. vantageous to themselves, and to give them this ex emption was iiinvice to the rest of the community. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQULR said, that Colleges had always enjoyed this exemp tion, and it was omitted in the last Stamp Act by iiii;rake. Sir C. MONCK opposed the exemption. After some turthrr observations from Setjeaßt BEST, SerivatiL ONSLOW, Mr. H. SUMNER, and others, the Chairman reported progress, and asked leave to sit again on Monday. • The Reports of the Irish Militia Pay Bill, the Beer and Malt Bill, the Small Coal Bill, and the Stone Bottle Bill, were received, and the Bills ordered to be read a thiid time on Monday. On the third readin g of the Insolvent Debtors Bill, . General THORNION objected to the clause of the Bill which gave a power of imprisonment for five years in cases of Debtors where gross fraud was proved to exist. Sir C. MoNce and Mr. LOCKHART supported the clause. Serjeant BEST also supported the clause. He was convinced that the effect of the late Insolvent Act had been to create the most unexampled distress. in his opinion, it had been nothing less than an en couragement to swindling. It had, in fact, intro duced riot and confusion into our prisons, where hun dreds who had come up to London to get " white washed," as they termed it, had lived 'riotously and luxuriously, v.itilst,their unfortunate creditors were starving out of it. Mr. W. WYNN wished that in future care should be taken that persons about to take the benefit of the Act should be confined within the walls of the prison, and not have the benefit of the Rules. The Bill was then read a third time and passed.— Adjourned. As it bas been a•prevailing custom with Adven turers in the ,Lottery, to delay their purchases until the eve of Drawing, the Act of Parliament permits Wren's OFFICES, for this Met paler, to remain open until. Twelve o'Clock, until which hour, (and before the Wheel goes round is the Morning, at Ten o'Clock), Tickets and Shares may be purchased.— The Lucky Number which wusi gain £2o.ooo—per. haps i 650,000 I—is probably yet on sale at •me of W ann's 0 dices, 8, C. 01114 LULL. or l7,LUD3airt.arsart; where Nth 12,693, the Grand Prise of 451.000, in the Last Lottery, besides others of COCA *KW, &c. wcre Au. Shared and Sold. • • L4NDERIS 1411. • InttiaollL3,. JIM 19. An immente crowd of people went yeiteran to the Alfre rem. Nothing could be more magnificent I s nr better arranged than this fete giyen to our brave Karr ison. The nurnber'of carriages, of horsemen, anti per sons on foot, who filled the road from Brussels to Waterloo, yesterday, were prodigious bin it wa , particularly cutious to see them return in the eveni i when the procession was uninterrupted. It can he compared•to nothing but the crowd which thronged this same road a year ago. lint what a strange dif ference between the cou/s itail of last year, and that which we have had the pleasure of witnessiog this year. The musical funeral service was performed in the Church of Waterloo with the greatest pomp. An abundant collection was made by the Countess ot Tolet, and Mrs. Armstrong, an English Lady. After the service the visitors went to the wood, where a great many persons took their repast. The place where the Noce of Orange was wounded was one of the principal objects of the homage paid to these celebrated fields, where the blood ot so. many illus trious warriors flowed .HANOVF.R, JUNE lg. The whole plan of tie new system of Taxation is drawn up, and under examination by the Govern ment, to be laid before the Prince Regent. The last deliberations of the States related chiefly to an object . upon which there is still a diversity of opinions. It has been already' resolved, that a new eqttalized lamd-tax shall be composed, but is not yet arranged upon what basis. In every case a considerable.time must elapse, and till that, sonic provisional measute must be adopted by which the quotas of the s veral Provinces must be regulated, and this is the problem which the Committee appointed by the Government and the States, has been hitherto employed in riving. This Committee his now laid the result of its la'muts before the States for examination, who have found the subject too important so deliberate upon without A previous and exact inquiry. The Report of the Committee is printed add sent by the President to the States. People are very anxiops for the result, as many interests are implicated in it. The States ate adjourned till the Ist of August. FRENC3 P.IPERS. PARIS, ILINC This day their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duaress Berry wi'.l receive, on the• occasion of their marriage, the compliments of the Municipal Body of the City of Pat is, as also the customary pre. sews, consisting of wax flambeaux and dried sweet meats. The :ding and his august Family returned yester day 'eveibing, at nine o'clock, from St. Cloud. The Duke and Ditches, of Berry went on their arrival to the Palace of the Elysee Bourbon. There was a ball yesterday at Court. They have bee: wor4ing for two days with the greatest activity on the necessary dispositions at the Salle de la Co medic. His Majesty arrived at half-past eigln. The ball was immediately opened by the Duke of Angou leme and the Duchess of Berry. Their Rord•High nesses danced several country dances together, and performed mat: waltzes. The Duchess Dowager of Orleans, the Duchess of Bourbon, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Cunde, were present. Letters trenn Leghorn, dated June 4, contain the following " M. Jacques Villann, owner of the felocca the St. Louis, who sailed from Leghorn in the latter part of February, has returned to this harbour. He ar rived in 13 days from the coast of Barbary, front Bona, a small town in the Regency of Algiers, where he went to fish for coral, and gives this deposition : •6 ' On the '23d of May :150 barks of different tut dons assembled, accorditig to custom, near Bona, and along the shote of , that town, engaged in the coral fishery. At sun-rise a cannon shot was heard, and at the same instant a great number of armed men, about 5;000 of whom (part were cavalry) is sued from the town, and fell on the sailors ot the barks who were ashore ) massacring all without dis tinction of tag. I was enabled to escape this car nage, because, fortunately, being at some distance from the town, I bad time to embark with only the three passengers who arrived here with me, abandon ing all ens fishing utensils, our provisions,. &c. As far as I could observe, I calculate that about 100 of the vessels have become a prey to the Algerines, with the greater part ot their crews, and that SOIL men have been slain in this unexpected . attack of these' barbarians. The brother of the English Vice Consal residing at Bona, saved himself by flight after having been wounded. I am ignorant of the fate of the Vice Consul.' " It seems evident that the Government of Algiers is an accomplice in this unexpected iiggression, :is the cannon of the forts of Dona did not cease to lire on the vessels." A Proclamation of General Maitland, Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Fnrces in the Me diterranean, Governor of Malta. and High Commis sinner of his Majesty in the United States of the Lillian Islands, itrinourices, that every circumstance iitthice: hope of the total extinction of the Contagion which has desolated a part t 4 the island of Ci,riu. This Proclainatiory is dated from Corfu, May 18, 1810. ROME, JUNE 6. All the great works are resumed : it is a means of occupying a number 0 unhappy rersons, who have no means of livelihood. The digging up of the Ca pitol is continued with activity, and hopes are enter tained of some important discoveries. BERLIN. JUNE I. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of .Eng land has resented a great quantity of erotic plants to his Majesty. The Counsellor Otto will prficeed immediately to London to receive them, and super intend their removal. Some Jimrnals have announced that the painter David, known for his revolutionary conduct, and hie vote against Louis XVI. has demanded permission. to enter !do the service - of Prussia, to preside over the Conservation of the Works of Art, but *the Go vex:meat has not accepted this Proposition. THE EVI4:NINI; STAR. LONDON. o ,* To Cola astotenr.:: Ts —The loyal and truly pc.4 4 fusion on the Battle of Waterloo, and the classical and de g ," Verses on the Venetian Bronze Horses, have been received, wad .vill had an early }dace. TO-MORROW AT. TEN O'CLOCK THE orrrai BEGINS. A NI) ALL . 1 HE CAPITALS MOST BF. DRAVi; AS . 1 HE WHOLE DLCIDF.D IN ONE DAY., 11014. M V, JUNE 94, 18[6. . ST../OUN TUi BAPTIST.—HoIidar at the Sank; A Mail from Ilamhurgh and another from ILL land rerivel tn.day. The Papers brought by them contain the following articles of intelligence: Vr. PE VERS:',URGH; MAY 20. In a few days a-mpiadron will sad from Crotigidt to perf , o m the usu 41 minceovres in the Baltic j ii4, miral Crown commands it. Fifty guards marint, from the corps of Marine Cadets, go on boaid it, to cur. cise themselves in practical navigat'.on. About 100 merchantmen of different nations h are already arrived at Cronstadt, chiefly with ev es . many with fruits and oysters, which being of a pe, able nature, a:e sold cheap ; but in must other goods no particular tailing of the price is observed, thnuel this was expected to result from the fresh importation. NOVO I SCHERKAZIC, APRIL 9. On the 29th of March an earthquake w.sperceived at Minsksysk, in the country of the Don Cossacks, accompanied with a noi..e like that which proceeds from a violent storm. How populous and how lively Moscow must be, and how gloriously it rises from its ruins, is evident from the single circumstance, that on tLe usual pru. menade, on the Ist of 1 1 +.14y, there were above thtce thousaild equ pages. PRAGUE, JUNE 6. Yes?crday we had the pleasure to revive in cut city the revered hero Lib Highness Blucher et Wahls. tadt, and rep•ot flatters us with the tv-pe that he v.:ll remain some days Wit!) us. FRANKFORT, JUNE I. An hotel is bespoke at Cathbad for the King of Prussia, hnm tlx . lsth of June to the 15th if July. An extroorditilry Conimissiim i: appointed in Wur. terriberg, to make a revision of the lablurs and con. elusions of the.Commiitee that has hitherto subsisted, and consisted o! the Members appointed by the States, and those appointed by the Government. The rbport circulated in many pui,:ic print: tl . at the Rini Government and the :)tates are now q , iite agreed, -istrholly untounded. The King of Wu rtemberg's Deportatorlum to the former Priyes of the Empire, in which the German Confederation is, called a " Union cf Foreign Sou. reline has made a singular sensation here. The Senate of this city published, on the Bth hot, a notice, according to which—Because the 16th Ar. tide of the Acts of .theMnion secures to the Jon the peaceable enjoyment of the rights hitherto granted them—the riglit of put:aiming houses shall no longer be allbwed them. HANOVER, JUNE t 4. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will, immediately after the solemnisation of the Anniver sary of the Battle of Waterloo, on the 18th June, leave this city, and go *to Berlin, Stuttgard, Cassel; and so by way of Holland to England; where 5e means to arrive in time to be present on the Nino Regent's birth-day. LEiII.IN, JUNE Jo: Besides the great military fete on the 18th of June, for which several regiments from the neighbouring garrions will arrive here today, the Sth of July, the anniversary of the last entrance into Paris is to be . observed, not only as a fete of victory, bat also as-a funeral solemnity in memory of the fallen warriors, first by Divine-service, and then by various festivities. IiAMBURGII, JUNE 18. Yesterday afternoon at ti o'clock we bad for the first time the pleasure of seeing a steam packet, the Lady of the Lake, enter our harbour. Some mea sures necessary on account o: its passage over the sea were the cause that it took ten hours to come up here against the stream, but when these are dore away it.goes fon. English miles in an hour againt: wind and stream, and thirteen miles with wing' anJ =cream. This vessel is 63 feet long and '221 bro. 4 and the steam engine of '2l horse power. CHRISTU.n.k, MAY t 9. The King has allowed the Storthing now Flea. bled to continue its sitting till the end of Juue. Exchange on London at Hanituargh,--35. BRUSSELS, JUNE 17. Many French refugees hilve anew received ordtrs to quit this city, and two Ita;e already departed. it is observed that these refugees came from Switzvi• land, from whicil they were ordered to depart. We learn from Liile, that a number of young mere of good families, in the northern departments, have offered to serve in the Royal guard. Several detach. ' meats of these are soon to go to Paris. FRANKFORT, JUNE 16. Today we expect the steam packet from Londou. Trade has become a little more brisk here within few days : the colonial goods are more in demand, .(11 the prices are rather better. They write from Stutgard, that the King of Wu:. zemburz, has et;t4bl:.,;:ed a fend (crtiut d'amr fiat! Wig 1 it 1 itit s ao En all via Fo , fot r