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PARLLIMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JAN. tn. Mr. Smears was heard In the appeal of Page and others v. Ha vellum and others, ha behalf of the Appellants. Its further con fideradon was deferred andl Thurfday nett- The Bad of Briftol and Vitt:count Wentworth took the &atlas and their feats. On the motion of Lord ELDON, the ennfideration of the claim to the Zouch Peerage was ordered to be returned by the Commit tee of Privileges. on Thurtday fe'nnight. His Lordatip fubmit ted to the Houle, whether it would not be advifable for the right citablifionent of the precedent, to infert on their Lordthips' Jour nals the Adt of Henry the Eighth, immediately referring to the dignity of Zoueb. The Duke of NORFOLK rote,in purfuanee of the notice he bad giien, to move, that the prefect order, for taking into confideration the claim of the Petitioner for the Barony of Howard de Walden, be direharged, and that the time be enlarged to the loth fonniey next In the pretest cafe, their Lordihips were not called upon to afeertalir the propriety of the claim of one perfon, in con tradittindion to the right of another. it was a matter of greater delicacy and importance ; inafmuch as it would become the duty of the Houfe to inquire, whether the Barony of Howard dc Walden was a Barony in fee, or whether it was limited by patent to the node fine ? This was a eireundlance which rendered it ricceffsry for their Lordibips to have full time for adequate itvelligation, moil particularly, as front tbp Petition prefented to the Houle, it appeared no detriment etraltacerue to the. claimant from the poft ponement : that document alkdging that he was at preterit an in fant. •It was alto a matter of coofiderable doubt, whether the Ba rony of Howard de Walden was pet of right attached and includ ed within the dignities of a Noble Earl (Suffolk) a Manherpf this Hook. Under thefe drantanoes, be trolled there would - be no oppofition to the motion otpoiliteuenmt. 'LortrHAWKESBURY declared hinsfolf unwilling to oppofe any audios, as its nature likely to afford to their Lordthips folk( and more correetiatortnation upon soy fubjed fubmitted to their eagadmatiaa. and particularly on one relating to their own privi leges; bat. in tbefrek-ot cafe, be could allure the Houfe, that .avesy inferemdon was given to the only Noble Lord who could be lotereaed whilft this bufinefs was under the eonfider/don of his Majetty's Attorney General, during the laft St Sion; therefore, there could be no imputation of a with to take by furprife attri bated to the prefent Petitioner. The Petition was prefcnted as early as the forms of the Houk would admit, sod had now lain for fume time on their Lorelthips' table. With retpera to the poft poneutent, he &mild feel no difinclination to accede to the motion for that purpofe, were there not tome difficulties &riling from the nature of the teltimony.whiel the delay mutt of neeeffity inereafe There were tome material witneffes, eonfiderably advanced inane; . . there were a/fo others who were foreigners; and, with the know ledge of the uncertainty of human exiftence, It appeared highly cangerens to the intereft and claim of the Petitioner, to poftpone the confideration of at leaft that stage of the Inquiry which refer. te.ti to the examinadon of evidence. Indeed, he uuderftood there was one material witncfa, of a vary advanced age, and confcquent ly, if any thing was to happen in the mean time, a chafm in the cede would take place, perhaps fatal to the views and rights ut _ the claimant. - Lord ELDON was of opinion, that there could be no objedlion Jo examine any wltnefs, or to go into evidence, where, by t h e delay, a probability may appear, that loth a charm itt the cafe may happen, as would prove tajnrious to the intererts and righ's of the .Petitioner. The LORD CHANCELLOR. left the Woolfack and laid— that the Houfe, &equated by the fame principle of juftice, which governed the Courts below, with refped to the perpetuating of evidence. was always willing to provide againft the dangers which fuitors were liable to receive from the deaths of any of their ma terial witneffes. In the prefent cafe, the only difficulty was, whe ther the Noble Earl alluded to, as aifo baying a claim to the Ba rony of Howard dc Walden, would not conceive it his duty to eras examine the evidence produced. But it was not upon thefe grounds the Noble Duke lubmitted the prefent motion. It was • for the purpofe of allowing to this Houle a idibcient time, fully to afeertain whether the Barony of Howard de Walden was a Ba rony in fee, capable of a female defcent, or whether it was limited folely to the male line? The motion was then carried, it being un. derdood that evidence may be examined by the Petitiouer in the intermediate time. SLAVS TRADE. On tree motion of Lord GRENVILLE the fecond reading of the bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was appointed for Friday le'nnight, for which day the Lords were ordered to be fummrned. Lord HAWKESBURY adverted to the two Re folutions adopted by the Houfe latt - Sett on—the one declaring that the (lave trade ortg:st to be abolifhed; and the other, to addrefs his Majetty to make filch communications to foreign powers as his Majefly thould deem advifable, with the view of procuring the abolition of the flare trade. With refpefl to the fe condof thefe refolutiuns, he thought the Houle ought to be informed of what had been done in purfuance of it, or whether any thing had been done. This in• formation he conceived not only thefe Noble Lords who were holt& to the abolition, but alto thole who were friendly to that meafure. would with to have. There were five powers who were materially inter. efted in the flare trade, namely, Portugal and the United States of America, France, Spain, and Hol land ; Denmark and Sweden had alfo Tome interelt in the trade, but it was of a fubordinate nature. — With zefpea to Spain and Holland, be could readily conceive that there had been no means of making any communication on the fubjea to thefe powers. As to France, he did not know whether, during the late negotiation with the Government of that coun try, there was any communicatii n upon this fubjea made, and this was a point upon which he thought the Houfe ought to be informed. So silo with re foga to the United Stater of America, and Portugal, commenications might have been made, of which the Houk ought to be in pofreffion previous to the fccood reading of the bill. His Lotdfbip concluded by moving an addrefs•to his Wetly, praying his Majelly would be gracioufly pleated to order to be laid before the Houk copies of all commonisations which bad paired between his Majetiy and fcreign powers refpcaing the abolition of the (lave trade, in cenfequence of the addrefs of that Hotde. Lord GRENVILLE laid, he was not aware of any material objeaion to the Noble Lord's motion. With telpe4 to France, the fail was, that during the late ne• gociation with the Government of that country, corn. munications on this fubjea did take place, to the pro duaion of which he raw no objeaion. As to Spain and lioliand, the Noble Lord had join) , fuppofed that no communications had taken place. With refpea to Portugal, it was not thought expedient to make any communication on the fubjea during the negociai ion with France ; and the fact was that none had fince Mee made. With tell:yet to the United States of America, communications had certainly paired dur ing the negociation between the Plenipotentiaries of this country and the United States; and this fubjea actually formed one of the articles of the 'Treaty which had been figned by thofe Plenipotentiaries-- The only difficulty he had in acceding to the Noble Lord's motion was, that this article could not be produced, as it was well known that a treaty figned by Plenipotentiaries could not regularly be laid be. fore Parliament until ratified by the refpcaive Go. • weraments. • A fbort converfation enfued between Lords Gren ville and Hawkcfbury as to the wording of the mo tion. It was at length agreed to Wert words lea,- ir,gui f t c to bis Maje@y• to order to be laid before the filch of the conwinicatint a, his *jai, •. • .. • Mould judge proper. The motion, theknall was agreed to. Mr. Hathoufe, Mr. P. Moore, and feierd et Members of the Houfe of Commons, brob - ght up Exchequer Bills .Bill, and Bowyet's Lottery I which were read a firft time. Adjourned tilt to-morrow (this day) - _ HOUSE OF COMMONS. • The Tweed Flihery Bill was read a fecoud time and egenagels4 to a Seled Committee. Mr. MANNING brcught in a Bill to amend the illireeltets. relative to the London Docks—Read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. Several Members were introduced and (worn among whom we noticed Mr James Martin, Sir W. W. Wynne, and the Honourable Mr Mathew. A new Writ was ordered for the Borough of St. Mawes, in the room of Sir John NeWport„ who has been %alio returned for Water ford, for which place the Right HoifGurable Ba: ouct has made his eledtion. A Writ was alio ordered for the Borough of Leftwithiel, in the room of William Dickenfon, Efq. who has been alto returned for SometfetChire, for which place the lioa. Member has made his clef' ion. Omni Wil}LPO LE moved, that the term for entering Into re engtditinee for the Londundtre&Pctidon be enlarged till Friday *me, which • war agreed to The new Malt Doty Bill was read a ftcond time. Several Pri vate Billsirere alto read. The Committees of Snyply and of Ways and Means were poll potted till Wednefday. Tle kl , Million Exchequer Bills Bill vias read a third um pai . lu SH REACTIONS. Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for leave to bring in a DM to amend a Bill paged in the ead of the King, whh refpea to kith Elaffilons. la daat Bill-there was a clank orderinj the Commit . - Boners before whom the evidence refpeding Controverted eke dons was taken, to be (worn, but there was no etaufe which or dered the Cler k of the Comtniffioners to be foram. The HOok would at once fee the neeeffity of fupplying this deficiency in• the former Dili. The whole proceedings of the Comrniffiontrs might, in a certain fenfe, be raid to depdiel od the Clerk. It was even more needier/ that be fhould be (worn than the Commiffloners, tor the Infertion or omiffion of a word might make a very material alteration in the cafe. He Rated to the Houk, that in the Bill to which be had referred, there was a clank againft Consirtiffioners who had voted, but be thought this was not Rad/idly general, fo as to meet the objetst which the Bill was certainly intended ode natty to have in view. He therefore propofed, that there Mould be a claufe againit Commitgoners who had a claim to vote. He ago mentioned, that the purpofes of the Bill would he very mate• rially fervsd by the Commiffioners being empowered to obtain whatever books or vouchers they might find it neceffary to caU for. At prefent. their power. were not fullielently ample to effed this. The Clerk's fees were alto worthy of notice. At prefent, the fa lary of the Commiffioners was soot per annum ; the Clerk's fees mounted to 7ooL and fometimes Sool. per annum. Every meet was not to contain more than feventy-two words, and for every sheet he was allowed 6d. The evidence was form:times very vo• .uminous and unneceffarily extended; he therefore propded, that the Clerk Ihould have 3d. Inft•ad of 6d. for each Meet. There was another dark which he intended to introduce into the Bill; on (*owe occalions, a lift of three or four hundred perfons was given in, whereas evidence was net produced agand fifty. When: rods difpruportion mould he found, he meant to prupofe that the Pe [Won (tumid be deemed frivolous and vexatious—Leave granted CIAK BARK. Lord FOLKSTONE prefented a petiti , :n from the Tanners of London againti the fccoud reading of the Oak Bark Bill. Upon the motion being made for its lying on the table, Lord TEMPLE Rated that he had, upon the fub• jeEt of this petition, taken occafion to communicate, as his duty prefented to him, with the tanners of London, among whom he found Come alarm pre. vailed, relative to the Bill before the Houle. But refult of this communication served fully to con vince his mind that that alarm was nct well founded., Such indeed was his opinion, even before the conk- rence took place. But Rill he felt it not only his duty but his inclination, to confult any clafs of men in terefled in a queltion of this nature, to confider their opinions, to examine their objeitions, and even to pay attention to their prejudices. He would therefore propole to al.ow full time for inquiring farther upon this rubjea, in order that the grounds upon which the petitioners relied their objections to the Bill be fore the Houle might be amply invelligated. For that purpcfe be would move, that the fecond reading of the Bill fhould be poliponed till this day fortnight. In the interinithe cafe might be diligently examined; and as the Oak Bark Trade was furpeneed, at lean until May, no injury could refult from the propofed delay, to chore concerned for the carrying of the Bill. The Petition was ordJ to lie on the tablaijad Lord Temple's motion for the fecond reading iti-...eer Bill cn this day fortnight was agreed to. COLON EL C AWTHORN E. Colonel PORTER rote to poftpone until Wednef day fc'nnight the motion of which he hid given no tice for Wednefday next (on the fubjed of Colonel Cawthorne's Court Martiil). This poftponereent the Honourable Officer fated to be nectlfary, as many Members could not, in confequence of the (natter Seffions, conveniently attend the difcuffion of this quelkion fooner. Colonel CAWTHQ RNE complained of the addi tional futpence to which he muff be lubjelled by the propofed delay ; and expreffed his with that this cafe thould be decided-one way or the other ad fooi poffible. Colonel PORTER Aid, that kis only.objeft In propoling the deby was. in order to infure a fug at, tendance, whichhe ddemed highly defirable upon this occafion, and which could not be looked for if the difcuffiont were occur while the Quarter Seffiuns were pending. .‘, Colonel LAWXHORNE declared that he was as anxioni as any man that the difcnffion of the cafe alluded trilhould have as full an attendance as poffi• ble; for withoui'any reference to Matfett; be thought it involved a queilion of very great moment. Putting entirely out of view the confideration of holding any Member of that Floofe, or any perfons whatever whore charafter was implicated, one moment more than was iadifpenfibly neceftary in a hate of fufpence, he fish. mitred to the candour and judgment of the Houle whether there was not fomething in the courfe of this proceeding which juftified complaint. The Honour. able Gentleman gave notice of this proceeding, in the tirft inflance, in a way certainly very unufual, at a time when the Members were very little likely to have any knowledge of it, namely, after the debate had doled on Tuefday morning, and after almoft all the Members had retired. Not a word of it appeared in the Morning Papers, in which accounts of the pro ceedings of that Houle generally appeared ; and if it were not for fame Gentlemen who happened to per- ceive the infection of thisnotice in the book upon the table, the thing would have been very liule known indeed. Colonel PORTER reputed the grounds which in. duced him to pc iipQIIC his ;potion upon Wednefday ,• • • J TSB ADM litfrotiei te STLEßEAGH rote M Ryas motion /be of whic/s had given notice. Hs Aid *at hawk% understood the Right Honotarabli Gentlemen (Mr. Windham) did not mean to make any oppofition to the produBion of any of the pa pers be intended to -move for, it would not be ry for him t•- trouble the Hno( at any length. He fbould, therelore, eon tent himfelf with fisting the points be bad in view in making his motion. The 6rll was, his with to obtain information in refpea to the prefent *anal effeltive force of the army and Militia—that of the army up to the tit of March; 1806. The next. which naturally grew out of the other, was, the fonrces from which this force was fupported, that we might fee whether ' they were commenfurate or not, and likely to keep the army in Inch a Rate as the military policy of the country required. There were two other points which he looked upon as collateral. via. the Volun teers, and the general training of the people. With rein& to the Volunteers, he withed to have their aaual force on the 61h of January, 18o6f in order to fee whether they bad. iocreafed or diminifhed, and what that force exaaly is, and how employed, fo that we might be able to eke:lain whether it would be likely to prove efentialto th; defence of the country as it had formerly promifed to be. As to the point of the general granting piths people, he molt coach that he found himfelf by no means en lightened on the fubjea, in eoofequence of the quef tions he had taken the liberty to afk the Right Ho. courable Gentleman, on a for m er night, on which be had given notice of his modes ; and he believed the Houk found themfelves equally deficiebt in infor mation with himfelf, in confeqUence of the anfwer of the Right Honourable Gentleman being Co very general and uncertain. When the iitformation he meant to move for wa/ before 'the Monte, he Ihould ) perhaps, find it necefary to Rate his opinion very fully on the inkjet% His Majeßy's prefent Minillets, in order to make way for the plan of the Right Ho nourable Gentleman,' with refped to our military force, had new modeled our military fyllem. If, when the papers he intended to move for were pro duced, he found the force inadequate, in his opinion, to the general fervice and to the defence of the coun try, he Iheuld think it is duty to fpeak freely on the tubjea. He would not now combat the principle of the Bill for training the People, but would referee himfelf on that head to a future opportunity when the papers were before the Houle. All he Ihould fay on the prefent fub jelt was, that the foundation was bad ; and' that no proceedings bad taken place, or were promifed to take place on that Bill. It had, in his opinion, weakened, and leffened our force; and his Majetly's prefent Minißers had made a very con fiderable change in the Mutiny AIR, for which they were highly refponfibk. If he found the force fuch as to require the training of the people, as the means necellary for the defence of the country, he &mild think it his fluty to propofe Come meafure for that purpole,• ask' to endeavour to reliore that Ati to its original purity. He then moved, That there te laid before the Houle a return et the moodily effceive ftrcugth of his Majefty's Forms, esefilling of Cavalry, Foot Guards Army of the Aloe, Veteran Garrifons, Germs Legions, MIA& and kill Mak* Black and Foreign local Culp; diftingetihing ordinary recruidng from the number 'vilified Nan die Militia." • On the Dilation being read from the Chair, Mt. Secretary WINDHAM faid, that when the Noble Lord firft, mentioned his motion to him. be thought it was no more objeaionable than other mei 'ions of a fimilar nature. He was defirous of giving the Houfe every information in his power on all filch fubjeBs, as they might will; for ; at the fame time he thought information on the fubjeet of our forces had fornetimes been required, and he did not know but he might himfelf have been acceffary to it, to a much greater extent than was confiftent with pru dence. All information, however, that could be granted, without giving an advantage to our enemies.. in pointing out the actual difpofition and ftrength of our forces in particular places abroad, be was willing to agree to ; but he thought the mention of Black Corps pointed directly at the places they were em ployed in, and would give the enemy an opportunity of judging of our arength in thole places. It was well known that all our black corpk wire employed in the Weft Indies and Nova Scotia only, and if an exae return was made of their force, it could not fail to give the enemy an advantage in the information. He hoped, therefore, the Noble Lord would fo modify his motion, as to obviate that objeaion. Lord CASTLEREAGH coincided in opinion with the Right Hon. Secretary, as to the too great extent to which the returns of our forces had been carried; for he remembered one inlance in which the return of our whole forces, not only as to the number, but the places where they were feverally diftributed, was aftually °printed. °He *Med not, however, to elk for any return that might have that tendency, and thought he had-worded his motion fo generally, as to make it free .froin fach objeßion. The black regiments. were certaiply known to be in the Welt Indies and Nova Scotia ; bot they formed only a fmall part of our forceo =here., 'However. to obviate that obje&ion, be agreed to leave oat black regiments, and to mention only 'foreign' and local corps. The motion, thus an:fended, was then agreed to. " Alto a return of the monthly elfedbre ftrength of the Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry; alfo of the number of mom railed for the Regular Army, from ift January, tBos, to tft January. t acts ; alto copies of fuels Orders and M eguladona as have been ifued to the Lieutenants of Counties, fine the lag SeMottotrarliament ; alto an abftra.ft of the Strength of the Volunteers, owtbe tit January, 18°6, dittinguifting Infantry and Cavalry, and thOperiods at which the mums were received ; alio an abated of fuels Inftrudions as had been Iffrd to the Lieutenants of Counties, aid of tub pro ceedings fs nave been had thereon, in execution at the Ad for training his Majefty's Subjeds to Arms. LORD WILLESLIT. Lord FOLKSTONE gave notice of his intention to move oat this day fortnight, for the reprinting of certain papers which had been printed lait feflions, relative to one of the articles of charge exhibited againfi Marquis Wendel. After the converfation between Lord Caftlereagb and Mr. Windham, Lord HOWICK expretled a with to know from the Noble Lord (Folkftone) with what view he pro poled to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, and what was the nature of the meafure be mean: to found upon the papers to which his no tice referred ? Lord FOLKSTONE replied, that his motion would refer to the reprinting of the fevers' papers conneiled with the Oude Charge. namely, numbers 3,4, and 5. With rdpea to any fubtequent proceed • . j a g, h e believed that Mee was Mali to be taken fn t .tone time. The Hoare was aware that the Honour. ,alille Gentleman with whom this base& had oriei. Wised was now a petitioner, and until that peti ti o n ICU decided, it was not intended to ground tuts eaeafure upon the papers to which his notice relat e d. But yet, to prevent any delay hereafter, it wastheugh t expedient that thofe documents fhould be fully b e . fore the Houfe, in order that if the Honourable Ge n • tleman already alluded to, mould be in a fituation is profecute this important inquiry, he might be toe. Ma _to proceed at once, unimpeded by the prim*. .tuition which the printing of papers upon this flab'eet had In oft'en produced in the courfe of the left Pie. %Intent ; and in order alto, that Whir. Paull auntie sot be .in a- Carnation to follow up this butted's, be himfelf (Lord Folkßone) or Come more capable per. fon, might be furniflted with the means' of proceed. ing upon it. The Noble Lord concluded with es. Fuelling a belief that he had fully replied to the is. quiry of the Noble Secretary of State; and expreffee a readinefs to afford any further information in hi power upon the fame fubjeft. Lord HOWICK apprehended that the 'reales t Rated by the Noble Lord could not be confidered e fufficient parliamentary ground for the propofitina be profeffed to have in view. It did indeed appear to his -quite without precedent to make i motion for de produftion and printing of certain papers upon whiei the Mover did not (late that any direct proceeding was to be inaituted, but merely upon the chan ce Wet another man, not a Member of that Houk, might ground Come proceeding upon them. This, however, he felt was not the proper time to argue the quellion; but he could not help obferving, that the courfe pro. poled mutt be attended with extreme harcifhip to the party concerned in the cafe to which this notice re ferred. For that Houfe was to be called on to pro. mote the circulation i . .f the molt revere attacks upon the charatter of the Noble Perron alluded to. Tht effects of loch publications were eafily.to be enigma. ted, and •he would fubmit, whether they could in fairnefs be acceded to, without any precife Ratement that a parliamentary meafure would be founded upon them, or without any definition of the nature of fuck meafure. The Noble Mover did not fay that any farther parliamentary proceeding would be taken upon thole papers ; but merely that it might ; and really he could not think that a fufficient groun d for the Noble Lord's intended motion. Lord FOLKSTONE was aware that this was not the proper time for any argument upon this Cubic& but he would, with the leave of the Houfe, make a further reply - to the Noble Secretary of State. The obje& of the motion of which he had given notice, could not be fairly Cuppofed to involve any barthneft towards Lord Wellefley, as the Noble Secretary of State Rated, any farther than as it profeired to all and facilitate the inquiry refpeaing that Noble Lord's ermine. But the Noble Secretary of State feinted to imagine, that there was tome probability the in, quiry might be relinquifbed, and that therefore the documents his motion would relate to, might not be necellary. Of this, however. he could afore ths Noble Secretary, that the inquiry would certainly be perfilled in ; for, if no other perfon thould offer, 14 pledged himfelf, if a Member of Parliament. s . gab. low it up. The papers he had defaibed were, the Noble Lord Waved, laid before the houfe laft Set. lions, and therefore there could be no jolt ob'eftion to ' rheir being reprinted,particularlyastheinq t 7 would be proceeded in. Indeed, if the Hon. Gent man whir originally brought it forward fhould not be enabled, from his pretence in that Houfe, to profecute it, he would, rather than let it drop, take it up bimfelf. Thole Papers would not therefore, be Offered to lie dormant on the table. It was for no fuck purpore that he intended to move for them. They were, in• deed, already in the hands of the greater part of the Meinbers, and in general circulation ; but in order to faddy the forms of the Houfe, it was neoeffary to have them again laid on the table, and reprinted, before any Parliamentary proceeding could befound cd upon them. Whether his motion for this purpoTe lbould be agreed to or not, he could net gods. He did not indeed anticipate the oppofition manifefled by the Noble Secretary. But whether that oppofition thould be perfißed in or not, waterer the fate of his motion might be, that motion would certainly be made, and the inquiry to which it related as certainly profccuted. Lord FOLKSTONE Rated that en Hon. Friend of his, Ms. Huffey, who was in an advanced Oar of life, aimed to avoid the courequenies of a call of the Houfe, which he thought not improbable in the prefect Rate of the country, and therefore requeftek him to move that be thould be granted leave of aln fence for two months. The motion bang retested to . the Chair, - The SPEAKER obferved, that therf Wall po pre cedent for a Motion of this nature upon fuch a groudf as that Rated. The ufual cueoen was to gram tow porary leave of abfence for a temporary purpofe. Lord TEMPLE fuggefted to 'his Noble Friend that his objeft would be anfwered by &medial to courts implied in the obfervations of the Bpather, a leaving out thole word's in the Motion which were objeaed to. After Come farther converfatioq between the Speaker and Lord Folktione, the Motion for leave of abfence to Mr. Huffey was agreed to. SIYEDEN. I Svocartotw, Dec. 15.—A rumour has been afloat here for Come time Fait, of very feripas differences between our Court and that of guffia, relative to the frontiers of Finland. This mifunderftanding ;s Sc. cribed to a very trifling cattle, but which, from the impreffion it has made . at St. Peterfburgh, may be produdive of very ferious confequences. The Ruf flans' in order to form a hong light corps ender Ge neral Benningfen, have been obliged to ftrip Carelia of troops. A young owedifh Lieutenant, ,Fho wal charged with relieving a putt upon the Finland friin tier, in eonfenuence of an overfight, took poliFi s ° l of a village upon the Ruffian territory. Thi'oext day the Governor of Frederickfdam fumutoned hiat to leave it; the Swedifh Officer dernancted time to fend to his fuperiors' for iiiltrultions. Ih the Al)n" while the minds of both ishies had beck confiders bly embittered by the reports made upon this Aral& Raffia, at this moment when her Wellern and ktollth; ern frontiers- are both threatened, cannot caecisrf from herfelf the neceffity of keeping up a good derlandiag with Swe(ien..iteyailipe Ciwrwt