Star. — London, England, 1807-02-25 00:00:00

\ rxtuiimEnTAßT PROCEEDINGS. HOUE OP LORDS, TUESDAY, FEB. 23. Pad Dingy took the oaths and his feat. Thr further confideration of the Appeal—" Mackie v. Dick, wroi deferred till Thntfday. The Spirit Drawback Bill, the Turkey Tnbaeco Bill, the lrt Andtion Duty Bill, and the lrifh Quit Rent Bill, were read a fe cold time and committed for Thurrday. The further eonfideration of the claim to the Barony of Zouch, liras poftponed till the lath of March. Mr. At.eoex, from the Treafury, prefented an Account of the difpofal of the rums granted for the fervice of the year t B:34s.—Or tiered to lie on the table. Adjourned till tomorrow (this day), when their Lordihips pro• <tea to Wcitminfter Abbey. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The reduced Lift on the merits of the County of Mayo Ekaion was as follows— John Woolmore, Efq a Charles lee, Efq Arthur H. Holdfwortb, Efq Jolla Dupre Poreber, Efq Wm. Elliot Lockhart, Efq George Skeene, Ffq Gilbert Elliot, Efq T. T.Tyrwhitt Drake. Efq Hon. Charles Holway Butler Lord R obert Stephen Fit a- Hon. Cranky Onffow gerald Patrick C Bruce, Efq Thomas Tyrwhitt.Efq. Nominees not having been ehofenby the parties, the Committee retired to choofe two Members, the Hon. fames Butler, and the Hon. Thomas Knox, were elated by the Committee. A Meffage from the Lords, agreeing to the Newfoundland Fiihery Bill. The Sheriffs of London prefented a petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of London, againft the Oak lark BilL—Ordered to be referred to Committee on Paid Bill. The Sheriffs alto prefented a Petition from the fame Corpora tion, praying to be enabled to eredt a Coal Market. —Ordered to be referred to a Committee to confider the matter thereof, Lord Hoa•ycr prefented the Papers relative to the Grants of Land in Trinidad.—Ordered to lie on the table. The Order of the Day for calling the Houfe over, was difcharg. ed. and laid Order fixed for Thurfday next. Sir J. PULTENEY poftponcd his notice refpeaing the Finance, for this day to Friday next. Mr. ROBARTS prefented a Petition from the unrortunate fuf ferers from the Fire at Rofeau in Dominica, praying for foci► fn ture Aid as the Evidence by them adduced of their Loges tall warrant—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. SHAW prefented a Petition front the Grand Juries of the City of Dublin. praying to be enabled to Affefs certain Sums of Money, for repairing the Streets of laid City.--Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. HOBTIOUSE brought up a Bill to enable his Majeftv to give the Building in the Neighbourhood of Greenwich, called King's Houfe, to the Royal Naval Aftum —The' Bill was read s firft time, and ordered to be read a lecond time on Thurfday next. Mr. Whitbread's Poor Laws Bill was read a fecond time. The Houfe then went into a Committee on the Bill, the amendments were adopted pro forma. Mr. HOI3HOUSE brought up the Report, which was then re ceived and ordered to be taken into further confideration on the 'l3th day of April next. Sir JOHN NEWPORT brought op the Report on the Dublin Paving Bill—Ordered to be referred to a Committee on Thurfday next. The Thames Police Bill was read a third time, paled, and or dered to the Lords. Mr HORHOUSE brought up the Report of the Ira Sugar Drawback Bill.—Ordered to be read a third time on Thurfday. The kith Tax Bill was read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fccond time on Thurfday. SOUTH SEA COMPANY. Lord TEMPLE moved the Order of the Day for the Houfe refolving itfelf into a Committee on the Bill for repealing a part of the Statute of Qt2een Anne, with refpeEt to the Privileges of the South Sea Company. Mr.CRIPPS hoped that the Committee would al low the Company to be heard by their Counfel, who were then in attendance, againff the Bill, Lord TEMPLE (woofed the hearing of Counfel, as he thought the Petitioners had not made nut fuch a cafe as to entitle them to be heard by Counfel,which would occalion fome delay in the pang a Bill which was of the utmoll importance. Mr. CRIPPS Paid, the Direftora of the South Sea Company felt themfelves in the fituation of guardians of the rights and intereffs of the great body of the Proprietors, and would therefore confider it a dere liaion of their duty to let inch a Bill as the prefent pats without endeavouring at leek to have the cafe of the South Sea Company fully Rated to that Houfe. The capital Dock of the South Sea Company had amounted to 26 millions, and although they had not lately traded to South America, yet it was s miflake to fuppofe that their claims had lain completely dor mant for 65 years. They had fince that time granted many licences to chips to trade there, and although this right had for a long time been but of little value, yet they had hoped that its value would have been tocreafed by the fuccefs of our arms in South Ame rica. He was lure, that if they had offered the right that their charter gave them to the Corporations of Liverpool, Britiol, or London, they would have received a confiderable fum' of money for it. As to the faving the property which had been embark for Buenos Ayres, &c. which was the avowed object of the Bill, the South Sea Diretors did not with to throw any obflacles in the way of it. 1 his Corn. pany had, in many refpeets, been unfortunate, and perhaps entitled to remuneration. in the year 1750 the Spaniards owed them 1,360,0001. and they were obliged to accept of very little more titan ico,oool, in casnpenfation for it. It was evident that their char ter could be of no life to them, or that they could never have a right of trading in South America, wi lds in the cafe that had happened, of the Brit jilt arms having made conqueffs there. He thetefore did miff that the Committee would confider that the Petitin. ners had made out a diffident cafe to entitle them to be heard by their Counfel. Mr, JACOB did not think they had made out a fufEcienr cafe, in as much as they did not date that they would fuffer any injury from the offing of this Bill. Betides the charter that was given them was exprefsly for the put pole of trading to Spanifh Ame rica, and therefore, when it aligned the limits of it, from the river Oroonoko to Terra del Fuego ; Sari. I nam, which belonged to our allies the Dutch and brazil, which belonged to Portugal, that was alto an ally, were exprefsly excepted. The intention of the chatter was merely to allow them to make what they could- of the trade with Spandh America, to eltablifh faaories there, and to vairchafe land; but as for any pate of South America that Mould come into the pniitiThat of hi. Malefic, it could no more be intended that they fhould monopolize the trade of it, than that they th , uld monopolize whatever trade could be cat tied on with the col , -,itl pollen - ions of out then allies, the Dutch and the Portuguefe. They had, !ince their fir( formation, loft their ca pital, and cool.] not undertake the trade themfclves without cooling to Parliament for leave to borrow money to form a c +pita!, which was a permillion that it could hardjy be expeaed to gra.nt in" favour of a monopoly, anti agaluft the inteielts of I.3zitifh fobjeas. The prefent Bill was a matter of orgency, as a million and a half of Btitith capital had been already embarked for Buenos Apres. Mr. CRIPPS, in expl,nation, repeated, that thc . South Sea Company had not the leatl objeftion to granting licences, or doing any thing in their power for the nrotthinn of this property. Mr. BANKES thought the parties would not be likely to be much benefited by that fort of hearing which was ufually given to Counfel in fuch a cafe, and therefore thought it would be an unnec , ltary delay. Sir THOMAS TURTON confidered, that in any cafe where Petitioners complained of an invafion of their chartered rights, they ought to he allowed to Rate their cafe fully to the Houfe. He therefore was for the heating of Counfel, and did not appre. hend that it could occafion any material delay. He thought the noble Lord had 'wrought on the meafure rather precipitately, and without giving fufficient no tice to the South Sea Company. Lord TEMPLE replied, that the Privy Council had fent a printed copy of the Bill to the Governor of the South Sea Company In early as the beginning of December, and waited a month for their anfwer. The Bill which bad been fent in was contented to by the Governors ; and the only yeafon for altering a few words and prefling it now, was the circum , fiance of the information having fence arrived of the recapture of Buenos Ayres, and the danger to which the property embarked for that place was now ex poled. He trotted the Committee would not confi der there had been any improper precipitanc,y in this bufinefs. He agreed with the Honourable Member near him (Mr. Jacob) that the Charter was granted merely to enable the Company to trade with Spaniffi America, and by no means to give them the mono poly of trading with thofe countries which might fall into the potl'c(lion of this country. As to the queflion of compenfation, he thought that it fhould lie over ad referendum. If the Company proved any fpecific injury, there was no doubt but Parliament would confider, with due attention, their claims to compentatton. Mr.THORNTON conceived there mutt have bcen fome millake in this bufinefs on the part of the Noble Lord. The very circumttance elated by the Noble Lord, of his afking the content of the South Sea Dire/tors to this Ad, as well as the Noble Lord's own declaration, on firlt propofing this Bill, •• that all the trade lately carried into South America from this country was illegal," not only implied, but di re/11y acknowledged that the South Sea Company had a right vetted under their Charter, which this Bill would violate ; and he begged leave to obferve, that the South Sea Directors had no right to surren der their Charter, without calling a full Court of Proprietors, and obtaining their content ; that there fore the Houfe had not a right to call upon the Di re/tors fcr an implicit farrender of their rights, with out at leaft hearing them by their Counfel. Lord .TEMPLE laid that, although it was his defire at all times to confult the willies and the con tent of the parties concerned, when any material alteration was aecetTary, in cafes of a fimilar nature to this, from a with to conciliate, yet he by no means acknowledged the principle. that Parliament had no right to act in cafes involving the national interell, without firit obtaining fuch confent. But he eaprefsly declared, that the South Sea Dire/tors had full notice to call a Court, and had even pointed out the parti cular modification of a claufe which would fatisfy them ;—and in which, though not altered to their wither, through a clerical error, it was his intention to make the alteration in the Committee. MI. CORRY, Mr. CAWTHOItIIII, and Mr. WYNNE. (poke againft the Committee, and Mr. Mrwsit, fcr it ; and, on the quetiion being put for calling in the Counfel, it was rejeaed without a divilion.—Adjour ned till Thurfday. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25. In ennfeqr.ence of his MAJESTY'S Proclamation for a General Fart, there was this day a very full atten dance at many of the Churches in the metropolis. To numbers it was a fource of much confolation that the Legiflature had previoufly fbewn a determined refolution to abolilh the Slave Trade, which all good men hope will prove a prelude to the fpeedy extirpa• tion of &very itfelf in all the colonies : for while this abominable and inhuman fyflem continues to be per mined, what are all our fans ? " Behold," Pays GOD by the Prophet. " in the day of your fall you exa3 all yaur labours, and finite with the j 4:11 of wickednefs. I: it filch a fall that I have chofen ? a day for a man to Alia his foul? to bow down his head like a bnlrnth ? Wilt thou call this a fall, and an acceptable day to the Loan" while you difregard his precepts? " Is not this the raft that I have chofen ? to lorfe the bands of wichedneft, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the opprfffed to go free, and that ye break every yoke ?".. 4 Then [halt thou call and the LORD Lball anfwer—if thou tale away the yoke." The conduit of the prefent Ministry has beew clofely fcrutioized lince they came into power ; not by the rabble only, whether high or low born, but by the conliderate and difcerning part of the com• munity—by thole who invetligate the true caefes of the rife and fall of nations : and it is but joftice to fay, that, fu far as they have yet had time al:owed them to [hew the lincerity of their profellions when one of place, what they have done has exceeded the expellations of even the molt fanguine, and has re vived hope in thofe who c-lpaired for their country. The introduction of a fyltern of retrenchment in our expenditure, which will make our means equal to all the calls that the public fervice requires ! The repeal of that iniquitous law of Freehold which enabled thiJ profligate to wallow in vice and difiipation at the ea• pence of . the bona and induflrinus l The abolition of the Slave Trade : The improvement of the PO'T Laws, and a % fyttem of general education for the indigent Are not there Nell bleflings as no man could have i hoped to fee kalized only a few years ago. 'Nay morel theieturn of tilat manly and good fenfe that can lonk at improternsint , aithnut alarm, and dare to enforce the neccehy of it without the fear of being branded with the opprobrious epithets of . 74tobin and leveret- ! Who, upon any rational ground, duet have expeaed it in f*a fh , rt a period? Is not this a bleffing that de, mands the gratitude of all who know its value, in maintaining the political health and vigour of a free people and an envied Nation Yeflerday we mentioned the rumours that were circulated in cnnfequence of the arrival of Count ALOP EVS, and Hated our doubts as to his bringing any intelligence relpeaing the operations of the armies in Poland. Our doubts were well founded refpeeling that quarter ; but, we are happy to add, that accounts were lalt night received by THE HUSUM MAILS, Of which four arrived at a late hour lag night, of the French having fullained conliderable lofs in the neighbnurhood of Elbing, a town in Regal Praia, feated near the Baltic, about 3o miles fouth call of Dant zig. The affair to which they relate, is the fame of which we lad the French account in the Fifty-fifth Bulletin, given in the STAR of Saturday lafl, and there Riled the Battle of Mahringen. From the accounts now received, it appears the French had as little ground for boalling of a viaory on that occafion as at the battle of Pultufk, on the 26th of December, as our Readers will fee by the fohjoined EXTRACT FROM THE OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT, OF THE LIEUTENANTS AND COMMANDING OFFICERS CV THE GENERAL STAFF, MESSRS. VON BODT Dated ELEINO, January 29, 58.4. 46 The intended junetion between Marfhal Berna dotte and Marfhal Ney, the former of whom marched in the night between the 24th and 25th from Elbing, has been interrupted on the retreat of the latter near Mohringen, in confequence of the expeditious and unexpeFted arrival of the combined Ruffian and Pruf fian corps. In the enemy's retreat, near Mohringen, Lich(lair, and Saalfeldt, four thoufand of them were taken prifoners, ten pieces of cannon, and two (lands of colours, as well as the whole baggage of Marfhal Bernadotte. The brave Lieutenant-General Von Anrepp, however, of the Ruffian corps, has been killed by a mufket-ball. " Martha' Bernadotte has been driven back, by the perfevering advance of our forces, into the forells of Stralburg, twenty leagues from Elbing ; and Marfhal Ney to Przafnics, in new Eaft Pruffia. The former is completely furrounded ; but the latter has joined Prince Murat, and the combined army will fhortly give them battle. The Ruffian army is commanded by the General in Chief Von Bennigfen, and confifts of ten divi(ions, or of upwards of two hundred thou fand men, which will be joined in a fortnight by Hetismatin Platou, with twenty pieces of riding ar tillery, and thirty thoufand Coffacks. POSITION OF THE TEN DIVISIONS OF THZ ARMY. " T. General Von Eden, with forty thoufand men, (lands near Brochi and Wiffocki, in Macomiecki, New Eall Pruffia. " 2. Major-General Sedmorataey, with twenty thonfand men, near Johandburg, Cloys, and Nicko. laiken, between the Lakes. "The remaining fevers divifions,which are fronted by two van-guards and a corps of cavalry, have their left wing extended towards Neidenberg and Paffenheim, with their right towards Eglau. " General L'Eftocq is potted from Saalfeldt to Reifenberg and Marienwerder. 4 According to fome reports, for the veracity of which we cannot, however, altogether vouch, a large corps of Cofricks and Calmucks is thortly to come from Pillau, through the dittrid of Dant:tic, to aCt againit the infurgents." The Cnunfellor Theveuit writes as follows to the Government of Dantzie. His difpatch is dated Ma rienwerder, January 27 : 44 On the 24th and 25th of January, two aelions took place at Mohringen, in which the divilions of Ney and Bernadotte were slmoß entirely deflroyed or difperfed, and the remains of the latter Officer's corps is cut off. Murat is wounded and taken, Bet• nadotte feverely wounded, Rapp killer, and General Fourbier made prifoner. " Bonaparte is ill at Warfaw of a nervous fever. The Polifh insurgents are in a wretched condition.— The contributions of Elbing, amounting to 60,000 crowns, arc retaken at Muhringen, with the entire equipage of Bernadotte. The fiat are at Marienwerder ; the Ruffians are at Culm ; the blockade of Graudenz is railed ; the bridge of Thorn has been carried away by the ice, which renders the paage of the French acrofi the Vidula very difficult. 11 Lannes has 101 l both his legs ; fix thoufand French are killed, and four thnufand wounded. The vianry was Ate:fled by the arrival of the two corps of Benningfen and L'Etlocq. A general engagement is expeaed. General Viaor, who has been made prifoner, is arrived at Dantzic." Our Readers, by comparing the above with the 54th a nd 55'h bulletins, will fee that BERNADnTTII moil have he:n worhecl, as Rated in the - Official Report ; for his ohlett was to form a junaion with Grnetal MY, vdACII was prevented. Ttle French themfelve: Rated, that a number of light battalions belonging to /sTsy's divifion returned to their canton merits, after marching twenty league's, and alarming the right wing of the Ruffian army. It is not hid i what the objet of this extentive excurtion was, and an equal !Bence is preferved as to the circumnances which compelled the expedition to return. We have little doubt it was occafioned by the defeat of BiR• PiIDOTTE, and that, if the jtmetion had not been pre. vented, both divifions would have appeared before Koningfberg, perhaps advanced to Memel. Upon the accuracy of the &ft of thefe official re ports, we have . the greateft reafon to rely. Indeed, the circumftance of its being publifhed • at Elbing, of which the French had been previt'ufly in poffeffion, is fufficient to convince us, that the enemy had bona fo completely defeated, as to be obliged to abandoi that country. It was probably the intelligence of this reverie which caufed Borravarr a to quit Warfaw in inch a hurry on the 27th ult. as Rated in the fifti-i fourth Bulletin. From the pofitions of the refpeelive armies, a,s well as the confiderable affairs which were daily taking place, it is probable that a general en gagement has been fought before now. Their Pruflian Majeflies, in confequence of the fucceffes on the part of the Combined Army, have returned to Koningfberg. The fubjoined extra& from private letters and fo reign journals received by thefe mails, will put our Readers in poffeffion of other particulars. BERLIN, FEBRUARY 1• We have received intelligence that the troops of Heffe Darmftadt, with two fquadrons of the fourth regiment of huffars, entered Graudentz on the z3d ult• from whence they drieve out the PrufEans, who, were compelled to leave them in pofrefllon of the fortt efs. WARSAW, FEBRUARY:. The Emperor continues his thort excurfions. Yef. terday he paired the night at Willenberg, and this morning he left it again. We have not fallen in with any of the enemy', advanced polls. An Order of the Day prohibits the admillion of any PrufGan Officers into Berlin, who, being prifoners of war, leave their nations contrary to their parole of honour. The Tartar Ibrahim, a Janizary, and the Greek Stephani Alexandrake, have paired through this city, on their way to Holland, from whence they will con tinue their journey to England. All that we have advanced relative to the rupture between Ruffia and the Porte, is confirmed by official letters received by the Turkifh Minifter in this city. The Greek courier, and the Tartar, have brought difpatches refpeiling this event to M. d'Argiropoloo and Rate, that befides the troops on the Mores of the Danube, which are very numerous, the Grand Vi zier hied - elf will foon join them with a refpeßable force. PASEN, FEB. S. 41 An Order of the Day publi&ed here notices the falfe and abfurd rumours circulated refpaling the army, in which it - is obferved, that people who are in the habit of exercifing a cool and difpaffionate judg ment upon what, they hear, are not likely to fall into thefe flimfy nets , but the credulous being deceived, has a tendency to interrupt the public tranquillity. In confequence of this, orders have been given to all the. Imperial gendarmerie, the Police Officers, &c. to apprehend all perfons who may utter any thing pre• judicial to the interelts of the Grand Army, and the fecurity of perfons and property ; Inch perfons are to be brought to the Head Qarters, and there confined till his Majefty's pleafure be known. Such offenders are alfo informed, that it will not be confidered an excufe for them to fay, they heard fuch news from others. FEBRUARY 7.—A letter from Brigadier General Kofudki, who commands the advanced guard of General Dombrowfici's divition, on its march to Dantzic, dated Head Quarters, Conitz, Jan. 27, dates as follows : The Pruflians fly before us. This day we look poffeflion of Stargardt. My left wing at Stolpe cuts off the communication between Colber t ; and Dantzics and we have not feen a fingle patrole belonging to the enemy. If they fhould defend Dantzic with as mach courage as they have defended thefe provinces, it Will be neceirary for the Poles to come forward in nn►on with their brothers in arms. immenfe fore& feparate me from General Dom• browfici ; but to-morrow I Mall certainly join him in the rear of Stargardt. All the inhabitants, particularly the Germans, awaited our arrival with great anxiety. They tx• peßed to meet with avengers in us : and they htTe found us brothers. The town of Canitz, notwitb• (landing the complaints that have been made again& it, has given me (hiking proofs of its patriotifm. demanded cloathing and other necefraries for money' —the town has promifed to deliver them gratis, and it is already attively engaged in realizing its promifc. 'Plink, then, what we have to expel from Danttic. ANCLAM, FEB. S. Nothing of any importance has taken place before Strelfund. On the part of the Swedes no' a (hot has been fired ; but the ice in the ditches is broken as fail as it congeals, to prevent any furptize on the part of the enemy. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 7. Their ProfTian Majeflies have returned to No ningiberg. General Vilnr, who was made prifoner near Col. berg, bas arrived at Dautzie. The ROCGAZI .ifl3ll It el