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, *es furnished. Whatever was the expenditure, and ilarnong wh never' heads distributed, be did not hesi fife ter say, than k was eniirely lost to the public.. This manniactnry was established for the fabrication Of gun barrels alone j and when it wai considered:) that in the stores of the Tower there were already 420,000 musket barrels, and that 10,000 more could be made annually there, there would not, he was sure, appear the least reason for creating at such ex pense this additional establishment In the Ordnance Estimates there was found a sum of £lOO,OOO fur small arms, which would be deemed extravagant i when it was considered, that in addition to the arms that had returned from abroad, we hadalready ma- nufactured and fit for use, 800,000 stand of small arms, beside 400,000 barrels, making in all 1,200,000 barrels. This sum of .100,000 might be sav e d.— On this subject he would again move for certain ac-, counts that he had foe mrrly referred to. Adver ting to the mode in which the fire arms I..;iven to the army were fabricated in the public manufactories, he had to complain of their coality. • He alluded to a ease th it came tinder his own notice. The arms oiled cavalry carbines began to be manufactured in the Government establishments in 1806, and were put into the hands of the regiment in which he served s but the locks and other parts of them were so bad, that they were perfectly useless and unser viceable. In 1813, when the lOth Hussars were Bring en foreign service, he (Colonel rainier) repre• seined to the Prince Regent the bad state of their 11:111. His representation was attended to, and their carabines were changed for arms of a similar deno. mination, which answered. He had to complain of ann , her instance of abuse or Mismanagement under the Ordnance Board With regard to small fire arms. It WAS well known there were two patterns of neus kets,• One called the Indian pattern, and the second the Newland pattern. The first cost only ►EI 16s. the latter rEP. los. 01 the latter kind, there were 70,000 undistributed. Now the latter kind was either better or worse than the former a if better, why Hot distri .boted ? it worse, why manufactured for a higher price ? ,The Hon. Colonel' complained of the neglect that pfevailed in the proving of the barrels, by which unserviceable arms were frequently allowed to be put into the hands of the soldier. The common trial was by 16 drams of shot, whereas it should be 20, being in the early part of last century 23. If the barrels now proved were to Le suiljected to a second trial, lie was sure they .would not stand it. H-! saw I itely an officer who had gone over the field of Waterloo atter the battle, and he told him that thousands of the , Anusket.barrels mere found burst. In the mill:on of small tire-arms, there was not one straigt.i barrel to be f0und....,-(4/au://).—They were all mule crooked in a greater or le,, degree by the friction used in po. lishing - them. He conielaiued likewise of the mode in which the teusket•barrels were browned, by which circumstance t heir defects were concealed and increased. He came now to the principal charge against the ord nance. The reason alleged fur depriving the trade of the army supply, and erecting government manufacto ries, WAS, that tinder the management of the Ord. =ace, a much cheaper and a bettet article could be fabricated than could be had by ptivate contract. The justness of this defence be very much questioned.— If arms were purchased from private contractors, the Boatd would use more diligerce in proving and exa mining them than if they were made by persons acting under its own authority. With regard to cheapness, the present mode of making arms by public mans factories had as little to recommend it. The estab lishments were fixed in the neighbourhood of London, and all the raw materials were consequently at a great distance, and great expenses in carriage were necessarily incurred. In a tiJition to this there was to be added the waste which takes place in every public establishment, ascompared with these that are watched vetch the vigilance of private interest. The country would, therefore, find its advantage in recurring to the ancient mode of purchase by contract, rather than ma nufacturing the article under the authority of a Board. -It was an injustice to the manufacturers of Birming ham, who had extended their establishments, and thrown additional capital into the trade, tinder the confidence that Government would continue to resort to then: for a supply, to deprive them of the most important branch of their business by the erec tion of public manufactories. If they laboured under this discouragement, they would be forced to emi grate and to transfer their. capital, skill, and industry, tq other countries, where they would enjoy greater protection. On these grounds, he concluded by moving for a Committee to inquire into the manage. ment and expenditure of the small fire-arms depart. anent of the Ordnance. Mr..R. WARD asked if the Honourable and Gal. hnt Colonel was chosen by the manufacturers of Birmingham as their advocate.? (Hear, hear, from Me Imaysaron Bencher.)—He (Mr. Ward) understood the grounds of that cheer ; but he hoped, before he sat dawn, to change it into one of an opposite kind. The Board of Ordnance Lad been in correspondence with the Birmingham manufacturers, and bad rendered them perfectly satisfied, as Would be attested by the Members connected with that district if they were in the House. He therefore knew that the Moot:fable Colonel did not represent the people of Birmingham, and it he represented any manufac. turers, they were those of London. The manufacturers of Birmingham, he allowed, deserved well of the na tion. They had embarked with zeal in the business, and merited encouragement ; but Government like. wise deserved s'anepraise who had set them to work. During the war they had been paid £4,600,000 for their manufacture by Government. But the Board of Ordnance were bound to consult the interests of the country as well 'as the advantage of the Birming ham manufacturers ; and it was justified in establish• ing public manufactories, in order to prevent that monopoly which they had it in their power to create against the state. This benefit was reaped from the conduct of the Ordnance Board, without producing otherwise any detriment to the private manufacturer. When it was considered that one thousand stand of arms had been made daily for some ears past, and that Government only fabricated 50,000 muskets annually, the extent to which the private trade was carried as compared with the supply created by the state for itself would be. manifest, and all grounds of complaint would be removed. Would the Honeu rableColonet suppress establiduments`that had been so useful its keeping down the price of arm? pur- Awed bycontract, merely because the arms that they -... THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. - WEDNESDAY, JUNE• 12, 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 'IWELVE O'CLOCK. Redaeed Oaf 03—Cons..shut—for opetsiaga4ii 4 per Cent. 78 1 4-5 per Cost. Navy shut—floods par. Otnahim Ms—Do. pay. 23f —Exchequer Bills, 31. dls. Is. pr Last night we received Hamburgh Gazettes to the sth, and Brussels to the 10th instant, and this morning the Frankfort Papers to the 6th. . _ Accounts from Warsaw of the 20th ult. state, that the Polish frontiers between Prussia and Austria are• covered with Russian Cossacs, for the purpose of . preventing the desertion of soldiers, and the introduc tion of smuggled goods. The whole Russian army on the frontiers towards Turkey has been broken up, and the troops marched off for the remote Provinces of the Russian Empire. The German Papers are filled with details respect. ing the tour of the Emperor of AUSTRIA through the late Illyrian Provinces. He is every where received with transports by the people. His return to Vienna is not expected before the 18th instant.' A new event in the revolutions of Spanish America is the hostile appearance of the Buenos Ayres flag in the seas of Europe. This same flag has already committed great ravages on Spanish shipping in the South Seas. Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated May 21 : " A schooner privateer, belonging to the insurgents of Buenos Ayres, has lately appeared off our coast, and on the 15th captured a Spanish brig and schooner, which had lately gone out, ten leagues off this port. The schooner was afterwards ransomed by the Cap tain for 10,000 rials (4100 sterling), and in her the crews of both have already arrived here. According to the declarations made by the Captains, at a small distance from the privateer which captured them was another ship of 22 guns, which had only been out from Buenos Ayres 44 days, also on a cruize. The captured brig was bound to Carril, in Gallicia, with wine and oil, and the schooner was bound to Saint Audero with salt. This afternoon the frigate Sabina came in here from Vera Cruz and Havanna)), with three and a half million of doUors in coin and ingots." We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday.— They contain the conclusion of she trial of the assassins BONNAIRE and blievou—the former is to be tran sported for life, and the latter is to be shot. We cannot conceive upon what principle the life of the monster BoNNAIUE has been saved, unless it is in tended that his punishment should be the more severe, by sending him to inhabit the desalts 'of Africa or America, where he can have no human companion on whom to commit another foul and unnatural murder. Not only did he glory in the assassination, in his order a the day, published afterwards, but all the Members in the Municipal Council of Conde swore positively that he announced to them,. after Colonel GORDON was natued,'that he bad just ordered a spy to be shot. As for Myron, he added to the crime of murder that of robbery. and he ought to haVe been banged at Conde for the latter crime. without being, permitted. to occupy the time of Soldiers and Men of fionour at Paris. COURIER RICTRAORDINARY OF SUNDAY MORNING. It is now six o'clock in the morning, and the Members of the Council of War are still deliberating on the fate of the two assassins, Bonnaire and Mieton. Mug o'CLocx, A.M.-13onnaire's Aide-de-Camp, Mieton, is condemned to death ; and Bonnaire is to be transported for life. PARIS, JUNE 9. The Duke of Wellington, the Russian General, count Woronzow, the Prince of Hesse, who com mands the Danish contingent, and all the supeti-,r Officers of the Allied troops, will be present at the marriage of the Duke and Duchess de Berri. Colonels Harvey and Fremantle, Adjutants to the Duke of Wellington, have also returned to Paris with his Grace. We learn from Lyons that the trial of General Mouton Duvernet will commence about the 20th. According to the observations of several German astronomers, the sut.'s disk exhibits at this period six spots ; one of them is of a considerable size ; it re sembles a groupe of small islands lying close toge ther, and has at least the breadth of the diameter of the earth. Another spot is very obscure, and sur rounded by a lighter s'iadow. TRIAL or GENERAL BONNAIRE AND LIEUT. ?AIM roN. SITTING OF TUE 830 OF JUNE. M. DEION, the Counsel for Mieton, called upon the witness Varlet, to prove that the soldiers had struck Colonel Gordon to the ground, during his absence. In this, however, the witness was contra dicted by three other witnesses, oho distinctly swore that Colonel Gordon's pockets tyre twice rifled by Mieton, and their contents carried to Bonnaire, and that upon his coming back the second time, Colonel Gordon was still standing on his feet. They added, that by Mieton's orders be was then knocked down with the but end of a musket, and then shot. One of the witnesses had lent Mieton his handkerchief, with which to bind up Colonel Gordon's eyes—when he was first introduced to Bonnaire, and finding he was to h e murdered, the witness asked Mieton to return him his handkerchief. Mieton refused, and was ac tually so mean as to pocket the soldier's handkerchief. The Reporter, in drawing a picture of the atrocity of the act committed by Bonnaire and Mieton, ob served truly, that by the laws of nations, they had subjected the inhabitants to a general and indiscri minate massacre by the Allied troops. M. CHAVIAU ',At:MIDI then entered upon the de fence of his client Bonnaire, but was inte-rupted by the Court, when he absurdly asserted, that his client bad acted at Condi fur the best interests of the King. Oat of She Members of the Court Martial expressed himselt in terms of just abhorrence and indignation at the idea of a Chevalier de St. Louis wantonly breaking his oath and serving Bonaparte. Bonnaire then desired his Counsel to desist from his defence. M. Beam then made a speech for Mieton, but he merely invoked the commutation of the punishment of death for that of banishment or imprisonment. At h.U•past eight in the evening the Court retired to deliberate. It was yesterday reported that Ministers had re ceived unpleastnt news from the West Indies; but we are inclined to discredit the rumour, as the mo tion of Mr. W/LBERFORCE was postponed at the re quest of Lord CASTLEKSAGH t because information of the late events had not come officially to hand. Yesterday the Dukes of Youx and CUMBERLAND visited the PRINCE REGENT. • Yesterday Earl &slalom. had an audience of the Pntstca REGENT, at Carlton House. THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE'S affords us great pleasure to announce the improving state of health of the Princess CHARLOTTE. Dr. BAILLIE at tended her Royal Highness yesterday, and reported an absence of fever, and that shewas continuing better. Her Royal Highness had enjoyed another good night, and was again able to sit up for a short time. The Duchess of York called, and remained about an hour, on a visit to Prince Leopold. The Ptince Regent and all the branches of the Royal Family sent as usual to make inquiries. Yesterday. a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Capt. BALSTON was sworn into the command of the ship PRINCESS AMELIA, consigned to China direct. The story of the girl who grows horse-radish in her stomach, had better be reserved for the next monthly Agriculiaral Relied. She ought certainly to be taken out of the hands of the facuisy ! VAUXHANL GARDENS.—In the annals of our amuse ments we never remember any thing which so forcibly attracted the attention of the Town, as Madame SA eut's astonishing performances. Each Gala Night, notwithstanding the wetness of the weather, crowds of visitors ate sten flocking to witness the exhibition of this most wonderful Heroine, whose extraot Inary false has excited such an uncommon sensatien. BLACKHEATH PEDESTRIAN.—EATON'S perfoynance on Blackheath yesterday afternoon attracted a greater. concourse of spectators to view his undertaking than' has been there since his first starting, and this morn ing, soon after nine o'clock, he finished his IB3d mile. ASCOT RACES.— The sport comment- d yesterday, and a numerous •1 fashionable assetholage, at an early hour, grat 'le race-course with their presence. The contest for King's Plate of 100 guineas lay between Mr. 6bakell's horse and Mr. Hancock'a mare, although five others started. It was a most excellent race, and Mr. Shakell's horse won by halt a head,. Lord Lowther's Gana afterwards won the Oatland Stakes, boating the Duke of York's Aladdin. This race also afforded excellent sport : one of the heats was a dead one. The Duke of Youst and Sit JOHN SHELLEY severally won Sweepstakes. The last race was not over until seven o'clock in the evening. LIVERPOOL EttetlON, :UNE 10. THIRD DAT. Mr. LEYLANTi still declines coming forward ..._ pe r% nally, and has done every th;ng in his power to te. strain the ardour of his friends, but they say t ru l y i t is their own cause, and seem still resolved to persever e j a the contest. At the close of this day's poll th e di u graceful scenes which took place on Saturday " km repeated, but with tenfold violence, and I am app., hensive more lives have been lost in the contest _ STATE OF THE POLL. For Mr. CAT4NINri 8 .58• For Mr. LILTI.AND 532. Majority in favour of Mr. CANNINO 298, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, FALMOU fH, JUNE 9. Arrived the Doke of Kent packet, with a mail fro m Lisbon, in 15 days; the brig Hannah, Moot;, fro m London for Quebec and _Montreal, laden with rum, &c. struck on-the Manacle Rocks about two o'clock this morning, and instantly tilled with water; th e wind was blowing strong from N.W. and very thi c k weather—she soon fell on her beam-end, which cas e d the Captain and crew to leave her, at which tim e shit was still above water. PLYMOUTH, JUNE io. Came in the Susanna!), PERRY, from Memel fa Dublin. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE Arrived the Lindsay, TURNER ; and the Chan ce , Raw, from the Downs.—Wind \V. DEAL, JUNE li. Arrived and sailed for the River the Sum* EVANS, from Trinidad ; also the GANTNEDZ, trutu cruize, and remains in the Downs.—Wiud E. GRAVESEND, JUNE 11. Arrived the James, POSTLEWA IT E, from Jamaica; Vier Ge Broeders, NEWLAND, trom Woman]. Soiled the Albeona, LLOYD, for Rouen; .Teune Colette, MURTNCE, for Ostend ; Mary, PIM:EON, for Ant werp ; Thames, BROWNE, for Hamburg!) ; Ri ga , STEPHENSON, and Holland, PorPLEAvELL, fnr Peters. burgh; Friends, MAR, fur Revel; and Emulous, A ItTli utt, for,llantzic. The San Jnze la Constantia, from Cadiz to Cattil, and San Antonio y la Ma&line, from Cadiz to St. Andero, were captured on the 15th ult. about ten leagues W. of Cadiz, by a gallint of six guns, re. ported to be a ptivaiet-r from Buenos Aytes car. vet to of 22 guns was in sight). The latttr prize was ransomed, and returned to Cadiz on the 13th. The toll3wiug are extracts trotn the American Newspapers : " Joseph Bonaparte, Marshal Grouchy, and General Lefebvre Desnouettes, are mitt' residing in Philadelphia. " Joseph totiaparte, Ex king of SoMie has removed his eel. bEsbment from the neighbourheod of New pork to I.anidowa, on the barks of the Schuylkill, and about four miles front Phila delphia. That large and beautiful house is now fitting up for Ls rtcepzion." Standard silver has fallen a halfpenny per ounce, being now at ss. Id. These have been nu sales of gold within the last few days. About three o'clock yesterday afternoon, the tide broke in on the workmen employed at the Regent's, sewer, Scotland-yard, which occasioned the utmost confusion and alarm, but happily they succeeded is escaping from use deluge, which threatened their im mediate destruction, and ascended opposite Mr. DRUMMOND'S banking-house, Charing-Cross, to the infinite pleasure of a large concourse of spectators, who assembled on hearing of the circumstance, and very liberally contributed to a subscription made for them to drown melancholy during the remainder of the evening. TUE LUIYDITES, its the vicinity of Nutinghant, Irate again resumed their mischievous practices of frame-breaking. The following is an extract of a letter from Nottingham, dated Sunday last, on this unpleasant subject: . 6 1 am sorry to inform you, that the system of frame•hmkitig recommenced this morning about two o'clock : nineteen lace frames were broken at New Radiord, near this town, working to Waynman; nine of them were his c.w.), the rest belonging LI different people. The cause assigoel for de-troying these trams is, that he had just sold nine to the workmen, to Le worked oat by stopping one-third of the work. There was an armed party, upwards of thirty, and sentinels placed at eliffere:a avenues, whilst the work of destruction went forward. '1 here will be uo security for property in our bminess, or any other, ut.til tl:e law is clearly defined, that the county, hundred, or district, shall make good all property wantonly or malciously destroyedr and as the system is spreading to so many parts of the kingdum, vice are surprised that the Home Secretary of State should not see it would take away every motive of revenge against personal pro. perty." OLD BAILLY..--Yesterday a few cases, of DO Importance, Were tried.—The Sessions having ended, the It eco 'Dee proceeded to pass sentence on the following prisoners :—.Jahn George Wilson, James Moulder, Mathew Marrett, Wm. I'm love, Samuel Davis, Mary Ann Hunt, lames Warty, Jane Cross, John Bradley, Francis Riley, Samuel Heal, John Kim William !Games, James Cooper, John Cooper, sad Wm. to be transpured fur life.—[When the sentence was pronotauccd upon the above, they behaved In a very disorderly manner, sane of them expressed a wish that the Recorder would stick in hit sea: till they came back :gain i—Archibald, alias Thomas Small, Henry Dye '2 Robert 1 lenry Dye, Benjamin Hart, and Satrael Nash, alias tuilter, to be transported for fourteen years.—Nlar garet Hill, James Wood, Sarah Bennett, '1 hennas Ceneptc.l, Sarah Hardy, alias Sullivan, Joseph Irwin, Harriet Collins, alias Hill, William I latris, William Griffin, Edward Jones, Willie^t Thompson. Frederick Ga•ktil, John Whaterburn, Ste. to to transported for seven years.—A great number were semenced to various peritils of imprisonment In the House of Ccrrectio-i— -some to be privately, and others to be publicly whipped, ith.cit mandate was pet in execution in the Old Bailey Yard. Its Sessions theta adjourned is Wescluesday, the 10th of lily. HATTON C•RDEN.--.lf". Hergar,in the employ of MT.HOHP', a farmer, of Enfield; was charged, on Thursday last, un der the Pedlars' Act, with hawking green tares without a licence. Ca that day it was suggested to the Magistrate, that the: Wide, being faml for horses, was exempted under the clause allo win g ' victuals to be sold is seggestion the MAgistra:e was iiielined • to a.!tnit, and the case was ordered to stand over. Yesterday, however, Mr. Attest attended on behalf of the Office; when tbe suzgution was Oyer-staled, and the defendant convicted io the nahy of .£5O. CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE I4.—There were but few buyers or Wheat at market this morning, and the trade was heavy ; samples from Essex, Kent end :=rifrolk, support Monday's price% but Scotch Wheat is arearly ,unsaleable, our millers not app twist the quality, especially as it will not keep in conditten its walla weather. Barley, B-ans, and ad ether articles, are the sante as on Monday. IPNDON: Primed by Lavay Kann, Pickett Pace; kiubbled there, and a• the .s:ar-Office,Topple Dar raapufacttited oat II Vale more than ptivate,contrac - ' tort could afford to-te d kl i On this principle we ought to suppress 'our aids, and employ pri vate ship builders. He saw no reason for the ap-. opintment of a Committee Of Inquiry, and, therefore, would oppose the motion. . Mr. DUGDALE believed that Government ma. nufactories could supply as good and cheap an *article is could be obtained by private contract. Mr. W. smtru supported the motion. COlone! PALMER replied at considerable length; but as his motion had already produced some of the effects he expected from it, he consented to withdraw it. Attar a few words from Mr. LITTLETON, the Motion was accordingly withdrawn. MISCELLANIES. Mr. H. ADDINGTON obtained leave to bring in a Bill to revise the Act which passed last year, called•the Watch and Ward Act. Lord CASTLEREAGH, by order of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, brought up a copy of the Treaty of Marriage between her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and his Royal High ness Leopold, Prince of Saxe Cobcurg.—Laid on the table. The House'restdved itself into a Committee on the Report on Leather; when Mr. LUMINGTON moved a Resolution for leave to being in a Bill to regulate the drawback upon Leather exported, to allow Tan ners to shave their skills in the ooze, and to separate• the thin from the th:ck parts of the skins, after they had been put into the pit, and to allow curriers the use of shumac for colouring only. Lord ALTHORP would not object to the Reso lotion, as, in Iris opinion, it would do more good than harm ; but, he did not think it would be of that bene fit which the Honourable Gentleman anticipated.— In the next Session he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Duties on Leather, as he bad attempted a short time since. Mr MABERLY conceived that, by the present plan, the principal part of the tanning trade would fall into the handy of the capitalists, by which means the small tradesman would be ruined. Lord COMPTON, the CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHE- Qum, and Mr. Rose, spoke in support of the Reselu ! tion ; after which it was agreed to, the report receiv. ed, and a Bill ordered accordingly. The Watch and Ward Bill was brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday. In a Committee on the South Sea Trade Act, Re solution► were moved for the repeal of all the Duties granted by the said Act. A Bill to prevent irregularities in driving Stage Coaches was brought iu, and seadA first time ; second time on Friday. The Insolvent Debtors' Detention Bill was read a 2d time : to be committed tomorrow —Adjourned. HIGH wATi . ..a ro moagow AT LONDON BRIDGE: Morsziug . - - li min. after • Afternoon - - • - 36 -.—..-.. -......, r .