Star. — London, England, 1807-03-10 00:00:00

1 Mr. HIBBERT Paid he fhould rekrve what he had to fay for a future nage of the Bill. General VYSE required that the original preamble be read. The SPEAKER reminded the Honourable Mem. ber, that the queltion now before the Houfe was generally, that the amendments be read. General VYSE contended warmly, that the terms tired in the fill preamble, were but charaderiflic of fo infamous a trade, and reprefented in glowing terms the miferies of the wretched vielims in a three fold point of view, the circumaances of their capture and Cale in Africa, thole of their [mirage to the co lonies, and the manner of their reception on their arrival there. Mr. ROSE thought, that the wording of the pre amble as it originally flood, would have been pro. duaive of dangerous confequences among the 04VC1. Mr. WILBERFORCE could not fee it in fo Aiming a point of view, but had no objeElion to the .imendment. Mr. FULLER felt himfelf much obliged to the Nohie Lord for the willingnefs he had evinced to wel& general accommodation on this fubjed ; be could nut, however, help adverting to the unfair and unhandfnme conftrudion that hid been put upon his condua in this butinefs ; he did not much like to fee upon a former night an Hon. Member going about the Houle ageing quellions about his dive in the colonies, the name of it, and other circumhances, as, if it were to detea him (Mr. Fuller) in any aliertion that might not be ltrialy confonant to the faa ; he fhould fcorn to affect any thing which be did not think he could lubßantiate. He knew what was due from every Member to that Houle, and he knew alto what was due from a man of honour to himfelf. He was no pitiful canter; confident in the integrity of his inten tions, no fupeinitious folly hurried him to interpret every little cafualty into a dire vifitation of Novi- Imam But had he no internal principle to guide him. he had to fupport that charaaer a long line of anceary bequeathed him. The family were well known and refpetted in 1607, and this is 1807, and they are now, as they were then—not one of them indebted to any fa'tion or to any Ministry for fix. pence of the public money ; tl.ey were then in prof. perity, and now in the faired way of profpering, if Gentlemen would let them profper (a laugh). As for himfelf, he had always voted in that Houle as a Juror upon his oath. He was not endeavouring e.),cd in with the Government—be felt and aOed as an independent man, and was never an admirer of affected piety. Mr. WILBERFORCE explained, that it had not been his intention to impeach the Hon. Gentleman of any thing more than utter ignorance of what was going on in his eftate in the Well Indies. Mr. BARHAM approved of the amendment ;n she preamble propufed by the Noble Lord (Howick) on principles of policy. The imprefling upon the minds r.f the negroe. that it was by a violation of the laws of jithice and humanity that they came there, would be only filling their minds with unavailing regret. He acknowledged that the circulation of the papers refpeaing the abolition in the Weft was rather a fingular fort of proceeding. But at the fame time, the negroes mull have learnt from thefe that the fentiments concerning the inhumanity, in jullice, &c. of the meafure, were only thole of the minotity in this country. He recommenced conci• barmy meafutes, and obferved, that whatever bad effeEts might retolt horn the mode of proceeding in this bufinef , , he had nothing to do with them. He difapproved of the trade itfelf, but had objeaions to the manner of ah ,, lithing it. Mr. DICKENSON obferved, that the opinions which he formerly maintained on this fubjea were much weakened ; he hill, however, doubted the po• lie) , of the ineafure, but at the fame time could nut help paying his tribute of approbation to the modera tion of the Noble Lord. General GASCOIGNE alfu approved of the Amendment but Itill contended that the meafurc would in the firtl intlance occAlinn a feparation of intetelts and opinions between this country and the colunie , , and ultimately occafinn an entire reparation, unlefs the law pallid in 3807 should be repealed in Lord HOWICK propofed a claufe to prevent the late Regulations for Limited Service extendingto the Negrne, The Negroer, therefore, are Rill to be inlilled in the fire inltance, his Majefty having the power to make fuch regulations refpeding them as he may hereafter judge proper. The ohjed of this vk to prevent any apprehenfions of their becoming charge. able to the illAncls. This Claufe was received and added to the Bill. l'he Amendment in the Preamble,and the Amend. ments in the Committee, were then agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Wed xrefday next. RATUM, in our report of Mr. Animas - rotes Speech, on the Slave Trade, in yelterday's STAnt—kor " evil frtrpetraied," read _evil tertetvated." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH to. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al ' ONE O'CLOCK: Confab, for money, 614 f—for April 6S{„t—Ognotunt 1„1 s pre. Esehtquer Bills, par 16. dif. PRICE OF STOCKS YES fERDAY. 3 p. Ct. Rcd An:: Phut India Bonds, Si 4s. preen. 3 -C. Conf. 62};}} lmp. 3 per C. pct. Cent. thus Each. Bills, par ss. is. IRE I per Grit. Navy, 9' Omnium s ai a a prtm. Lev,: Am. (hut I Lottery Tickets,,l9.ll6s. sh. rt Attn. (hut Cod° for ace. 63-tiil b. the STAR of Thurfday Ita, we laid before our Renders the abitra.g.t which appeared in the Dutch Papers, 9f the 56th, 57th, and 58th Bulletins. This day we have ;aimed Oleic Bulletids at kingth from the French Journals. By comparint their contents, cautionfly as they are drawn up, with General BEN a!Gs WS account., it appears plAittly that the French aflually futtained a revere defeat in the battle of tylau, on the Rth ult. Indeed in all affairs, from th e beginning of the month to that decifive day, the Ruffians gained immortal honour by their heady tondua and manly courage. The French ilate, that in the battle of the 4.th.— `' the enemy's cavalry were repeatedly charged, but 'tie ohitacles prefented by the unevennefs of the !rood operated againtt the vffeas of our cavalry."— That is in plain language, they were completely foiled in their attempt. In the account of the battle of Waterdorf, it is limply Rated, that " the Duke of BERG found 8 or 9000 of the enemy's cavalry before him. Several attacks were made, and the enemy re treated." That is, leveret unfuccefsful attacks had been made before the Ruffian corps thought proper to retreat, for the enemy does not even pretend to fay, that they drove them out of their pofrtion, but merely that they retreated. In there fkirmilhes, three French Generals and two Colonels were wounded. The Fifty eight Bulletin Rates, that the battle of Eylau was begun on the 7th, by Martha' Sousa., who attacked an eminence, which defended the entrance of that place, but that at the fame moment a column of Ruffian cavalry made a charge upon the left of the 18th, and threw fame of its battalions into diforder. The BnUetin alto mentions, that the town was moil obflinately defended, and that, after a murderous affair on both fide, the pnfition was not carried till ten o'clock at night. Such is the French account of the battle of the 7th. The decifive battle, however, took place upon the Sth, when the Ruffians commenced the baffle at day break, by an attack on the divifion of St. Hilaire. It appears that the attack of the Rut: cans threw two of the French divifions into great -confution. It is then mentioned, that a heavy fall of fnow concealed both armies for half an hour, but that as fuon as the weather cleared,theDuke of BERG at the head of the cavalry. and Martha! Bassi sass at the head of the Imperial Guards, attacked the Ruffian main body. This is reprefented as a very bold ma nceuvre, but it is Rated in the Bulletin to have been rendered necrfary by the circumflances ill which our co. lumns were thenplaced." This fhews clearly that the battle wasin favourof the Ruffians from the beginning. This attack of the Duke of BRKG is reprefented to have been to vigorous, that it would have decided the viaory, if a wood, and tome other obtlacles of the ground, had not prevented it. It is, however, con. felled, that it did not decide the viaory ; but that, ' although they had pallid through two lines of the ltufliaw, there was a third to receive them. The victory, however, is Rated to have been gained by DAvousr's appearance on the heights, ind out flank ing the RtnliAns, who thereupon thought proper t. retreat. It is not Rated that DavousT made any at tack on, but merely that he outflanked the enemy. There cannot remain a doubt from all the circum llarces compared together, that General 11 -ENING. SFw has rather under-rated than exaggerated the lots of the enemy. In the tranflation of his letter pnblifhed in the Gazette, it is Rated at 12,000, but in the Ger man copy of the fame leiter the number is tg,ooo. The fmallnefs of the number of prifoners taken compared with fuch a lois in killed, is eafily Ac counted for. The French Bulletin, in which the Radian foldiers bad been branded with many op probrious epithets, had been tranflated into their own language, and read at the head of every lion of the army. The foldiers, indignant at the calumny, refolved neither to give nor take quarter with fuch a foe, and had not their General humanely promifed a reward of a ruble for every Frenchman taken alive, not a prifoner would have been taken. Some private letters by the Mail of yeßerday Rate, that the Ruffians, on the day after the battle,. buried ty.Boo of the French left dead bit the field, and that the prifoners taken were 3,500. The moll decifive point of all is, the admitted refult of the conflid. The Rewire are in )SSOOII of the field of battle I The French have turned back to their winter quarter:! ! SOUTH AMERICAN EXPEDITION. Yetterday the wind having come round, every body honied on board ; and, in the evening, when our letters came away, Captain SHIpH EAR Corn. modore, was getting under•weigh. We ardently hope that tl.e favourable wind may continue, and that no adverfe circutnflance may impede the p;o ;ref, of General WHITELOCK, whole appearance in South Ametica is very defirable. If the cutter fent after Captain Svnproan, and Colonel Caawt van, did not come up to them, they will have got to the Cape of Good Hope fume time ago. Lieutenant Colonel Lord AYLMER, of the Cold aream root Guards, is appointed to fuceeed Lieut. Colonel Tomas, as AlMLint Adjutant General of the Southern Diliriet. A fervant girl in Dublin has, within thefe four days, come into the poffeflion of a moll ample for tune. It is upwards of twenty years fince a young man who paid his addreffes to her, and was refilled, entered into the military ler vice of the EMI India Company ; he had never been heard of until about a month fince, when the received information trt.m a refpeeable law agent in London, that her lover died about eleven months fince in one of the company's fettlemeuts, where he had held, for the lall fifteen years, a civil employment, and that he had bequeath ed to the former object of his affection, if living, the entire of his property, amounting to 25,0001. The fortunate perfon left her mailer's houfe a few nights fince and failed for Holyhead on her way to London, to take poffeffion of her good fortune. Saturday fe'nnight, a young girl about (even years of age, daughter of Mr. John Wangh, of Whitby, cabinet-maker, playing near the fire in the houfe of an acquaintance, the flames communicated to her clothes, when the immediately ran out into the fired, with the intention of proceeding home. Some people who were palling at the time, with difficulty eatin guitlted the flames, but not till the child was fo dreadfully burnt, hat after (*offering , the greaten agonies, the expired on Moniay following. SIR HOME POPHAM': TRIAL. THIRD DAY. Immesliately after the gun fired from the Gladi ator at nine, yeflerday morning, the very interetling' trial of this Officer was continued. He himfelf read a very able defence, in a mon imprtffive manner, which took him till nearly.one o'clock. Then the examination of evidence for the pzifoner went on, via. of Lord Vircount MELVILLE, of Mr. STURGIS BqURNI, and of Mr. H use: ssos, late. Secretary to the Treafury. The evidence of Lord MELVILLE was par ticularly interefling ; his Lordfisip delivered it at confiderable length, but with wonderful clearnefs and precifion. The-evidence of Mr. 13:mass was not of fo peculiar intereft : but that of Mr. HUSKISSON ex cited great attention and intereft. He recapitulated a good deal of Mr. PITT'S late meafirres and hi; lot i rate opinions. Sir Home gained much applaufe, for the addrefs and great ability with which he combated I the Connfel for the Admiralty Board, Mr. JA RVIS, on many points. Sir Host! (hewed the fame Heady firm nefs a► on the firth day ; and the Court, which fat till it was dark, was even more crowded than on the fit ft day, there being feveral dillinguifired lactic; prefent, After the great fatigue which he had undergone in reading his long defence to the Court, the Prifoner accepted the indulgence of a chair, which was of fered to him. The Prefident likewife offered a chair t r Lord Ma vent.' when he came to the bar as an evi dence. Dr. MgAarnuß, who Has to ably affifled Sir HOM E P4PHAM in his defence, is the Author of the Well known work on Courts Martial, and was forme! ly Secretary to Lord Hoon. As we have forborne, in compliance with the or ders of the Court, to Rate the evidence br the profe cution, it would be equally improper to (late the .z • na ture of the evidente, offered defence till the trial is doled. We hope to be able to lay the refult before our Readers to-morrow. The new Plan of Judicature for Scotland has naffed 'the ordeal of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh ; and, after a long and molt animated difcuffion, has received, in feveral furcellive divifions on the principal points, the approbation by a decided majority of votes of the Learned..Bidy. The firft queftion was in fubllance, whether an alteration was necelrary in' the Court of Seffion ? which was carried without a divifion. The fecond queßion, whether there Amid be ttials by Juries in certain civil cafes? was carried in the af firmative by too againft 26. The third quellion, whether the. Conn of Seflion fhoul.l be divided into Chambers? was carried in the affirmative by 78 againft The lag vote was relative lo the Chamber of Re.• view, againft the eitabliffiment of whiCh the votes were 61, and for its eftabliffirnent 64. • A Committee was afterwards appointed. wi'h in flruftions to report to the Faculty upon various; points connected With the above queflions, and other parts of the bill. The great quellion re(peaing the fficceffion to the entailed eßate of Roxburgh, has been decided in the Court of Scflion at Edinburgh. The claimants were Sir JAIME!' NoRCLIFFI INlsEs, - Bart. and General KERR of Littledean. On a former occafion their Lordfhips found for Sir Jamas ; but General KERR having reclaimed, long memorials were given in, and counfel heard at the bar for feveral days. Friday their Lordlhips delivered their opinions, feveral of which were given at great length, and they found, by a confiderable majority, that Sir JAM es Not ctrrre lan's was entitled to fucceed to the eftate. The body'of Mr. Charles Harrifon, of Limerick, hardware merchant, who perifhed lately at Conway Ferry, was found the 26th of Lill month: cafh and notes to the amonnt of 78 guineas, his watch, &c. were found in his pocket, which are fecured for his friends. , I A match of Single-flick Playing, between Davis I and Harding, two Hampfhire men, and G bddard : and Phillips, from Wiltfhire, took place on Tuefday, I at Swallowfield, Berks, for 25 guineas a fide, amidft a great cnncourfe of people. Davis was beaten by Goddard. Phillips and Harding next mounted the Rage, and the conteft was won eafy by Harding.— The two conquerors then played for the decifion of the match, and the prize was ultimately taken into Hampfhire by Harding. A boxing match, as fevere es ever was witn (Ter', took place yellerday in Mary-la B mne fields, between two men of the name of Jarvis . , a lawyer, and Carter, a drover, for a purfe of five guineas. After nearly two hours of knock-down blows ; and, after they - were unable to face each other, except by being led to affirm by their feconds, the humane amateurs who advanced the prize, declared it a drawn battle, and rewarded the bruizers with five fbillings each for the beating they had received. Fiats.—Between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday night, an alarming fire broke out at the houfe of Mr. Cloverdale, No. 3, Judd Place, Somers Town. It was firft difcovered in a back ehunber on the fecond floor, where Mr. Cloverdale's daughter flept, who, having incautioufly left a lighted candle near the bed curtains, the whole was fuun enveloped in flames.— The upper part of the houfe burnt with great fury, and betore the engines could procure a fupply of wa. ter, the roof tell in. By half pall eleven the devour ing element was confiderably reduced, and fuon after eatinguifhed. The adjoining houfes were preferved by the exertions of the firemen, but the whole of Mr. Cloverdale's premifes were cunfumed. The railing in front of Judd Place broke down with a great body of fpeitators who had climbed on them to lee the fire, in cunfequence of which feveral perfons were feverely broiled, but it does not appear that any lives v ere 1011. A female, dangeronfly ill, was carried out on a bed, during the fire, fa dreadfully alarmed, that lee life is conlidered in the molt imminent danger. The Pancras and other Volunteer Corps attended to pre- I terve order, and protat the proper►y. 1 NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCL FALMOU I H. MARCH 7. Arrived the American brig Romeo, Cows, from Rotterdam, in dillref. She left Helvoedluys on MOnday, the ad inft. and brings an account, that a Dutch frigate had failzd about three weeks for Curacoa orßatavia—We had on board goo troops and money—an-embargo was laid on all merchant (hips, and two other ft igates were prevented failing, in conftquence of the appearance r:f two EngMb fri. gates; when the Dutch frigate failed, the wind was S. E.—Sailed the Auckland packet, Scmuya.ca, fur Lifbon.—Wind N. E. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 9. - - At iived the SHARPSOOnr IA gun brig from Gnern. fey. Sailed this morning hii Chips Times, HERMES, and Cnassoaarir, with the following trent*. ports for the River Plata, viz. the Monarch, H vN. TER (Lieutenant Agent SIMPSON) : A!bion, DODD (Lieutenant Agent Tit,siets) ; Jane, Sue LE V ; C.l. Zinc, klAtr, ; William Pitt, Warr ; Mary Ann, PHILLIPS ; Piinccfs Royal, Hows.ost ; Cries, Swain ; Majeflie, Hael.ap.o ; Heron, BROWN ; Ran. Dr, APPLPR P ; Malab a r, H ARCOUGH ; an d t h e achels of Northumberland, tr.—Wind N. W. DOVER, MARCH 9. ~, A large fmuggling bigger WAS . yefterday fent in he►e by the revenue cutters belonging to thic pier, which they captured on Saturday evening off Frd lione, with a ergo of contraband goods. Some of hlr crew, who did not eicape, were committed to prifon tall night. Sailed this day the fchnoner Depa chet Librement, Captain ERR ARA, of and for Lif bon, with a cargo of barley, from Amlle►dam.— Wind E N. E. and blows hard with rain. DEAL, MARCH to. Sailed through the Downs from tl,e River, the Rolla, Gm, for Virginia. Came Down from the River !aft night, the Diamond, SUMMiRS, for St. Domingo, with feveral other vac's, which failed from the D iwns this day, under convoy of the Zebra bomb, for Portfmouth. Arrived the Venal frigate, trom Porttmoinh, and remains in the Downs with the reft of the Chips as per lati.—Wind E.N.E. YARMOUTH, MARCH 9. Ani►ed the Islat.aaaa, of go guns, to join the North Sea Fleet ; and the HYACINTM floup of war, from the Nore, and remain with the (hips as per lalt. Alio arrived the Antonia Lapafa. St 'AIM, from Am• Ittrdam to Litton, laden with cheefe, fent in by the Princefs of Wales cutter. Sailed with a convoy, the nuts'r gun brig.—Wind N. E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. The Fliza, Fitzgprald, from London for New Providence, ha• beta taken. re-ikon, and carried into Purtfruouth. The Phenix, of Weymouth, White, laden with (tones, is on wort near 'Porn - and, and full of water--otateriali feted. The Royal Forrester, Shiflett°, from Lceds for London, le captured by a French privateer. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONFY. - The Mlnx. for the fatherina and Sufaiina Margaretha. captur ed the 4th of ;une, and asd Auguft. 18os. will he paid nn Friday neat, at o. 18, Clenient's Inn, and recalled on Tuefday and Fri - d'ay . for three monthi. 'The Providence, for the I.ouifa Ulrica, captured on the 14th of September, 1804, will be paid and recalled at the above times and 'p'aces. The Adive, fur the Catherina and Sufannah Margaretha, cap tured on the sth of June, and on the sad of Anglia, 18a3, will ; and rtealkil on Tuddays and Fri. b.• paid on heard, this IlAy day., at No as, Effez-Greet, Strand. Thu Triumph, for t he Rants-, captured on the 3d of Auguft. ribs, avi.l be paid on Wednefday and 1 fiurfday next, at No. x 3. Holhorn-court, Gray's Inn ; and recalled there on the fame days fur three months rhe Cormorant, for the Hope, esptured on the 13th of Febru ary laft, will be paid on board, this Day ; and recalled at No. a:;. Norfoik-fire,t, strand, on Tuefdays and Fridays. The Unicorn, for the Catharina Tholcn, captured ou the ssth of Odober, 18a3, will be paid at No. 11, Cecil-itrect, Strand, un Saturday nest. DUBLIN. MARCH 7. The whole cf Thurfday and to a late hour o f i l. e evening, was taken up by a envious caufe at Nifi Prins, for Seduction. The parties were Fullam v. Hutchins, .and the verdid, which was given in at nine o'clock, was to the amount of 8001. damage.. Mr. Gannon, who was conviLed at the late Com miffion of Oyer and Terminer. for forgery, and whtfe executi,sn was fixed for this day, has been re fpitsd. A few days fi Ice a Meeting of the Twelve Judges took pine in the Chancery Chambers, after which an order was promulgated, to deprive the At rornies of the privilege which they had long enjoyed, of being exempt from the payment of lees in all fuits wherein they were parties. This exemption is, however, extended by the fame order, to their wi. dows, when luing for bills of colt. The reafon of this order is fuppofed to be the encouragement held out by fuch a privilege (and fometimes ailed on by a few low Members of the profeifion) to purchafe doubtful debts for trifling fums of money, whereby the revenue was defrauded, and litigation enema raged. On Monday lan, Edmond Francis Garvey, of Rofmindle, in the county of Mayo, Efq. who was confined in the Goal of Caftlebar, on information fworn againft him by the Right Honourable Denis Browne, of Mount Browne. for high treafon alledg. ed to have been committed by Mr. Garvey, in the year 1798, was, by virtue of a writ of Ham: Corpus, brought before the Right Honourable William Downes, Lord Chief Juflice of the King's Bench, and was by his Lordtbip inflantly liberated, the Solicitor General for the Crown having no charge whatever againft him. I'hurfd4y morning, at an early hour, the con cerns of Mr. Jones, of Thomas-freer, were perceived on fire; the flames raged with great violence, threat ening deftruEtion to the adjoining buildings, which was prevented by the immediate affiftance of the Globe Engine and Firemen. At a late hour on Friday night, a fire was diG covered to have broken out in the dwelling houfe of the demefne of Marino, the refidenceof the Dowager Countels of Charlcmont, near Dublin. The affillance of two fire engines was procured, an 4 every exertion made to extingniih the names, which •was ultimately accompldhed t but not till that deftroying element bad focceeded in confirming thenorthero wing of the building, which confined of two apartments for Upper fervams, upon the ground floor, and a drawing room over the apartments 4--ttle windows of which were ornamented with tome of the moil mafterly produc tions in flained glafs, by the late Mr. Jervis.