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• WALSH'S AMERICAN REVIEW, NO. IL On Saturday next will be pulAished, the Second Number of ri `HE AMERICAN REVIEW of HISTORY avid POLITICS, and GENERAL REPOSITORY of LITER. PURE ; to be continued Quarterly. This Number con tains a Retie% of theWOrks of IVLICIANDLIt HAMILTON. NOTICES SUE I' INTERIEUR de la FRANCS, par M. Fiber. LETTERS OD FRANCE and ENGLAND. LETTERS of JAMES LOGAN, written in the year 1731. Mr ELLioTT's SPEECH on the Non-Interconnte, &c. AMERICA ST. JOHNS (N. B.) MARCH IL The most destructive and calamitous effects of fire which is rec^llecteJ to have happened in this province, took place last Tuesday night, at Gage Town ; when. the house of the Rector of that parish, the Rev. Mr. Clarke, was wholly consumed, and in it perished the Rector's eldest daugfiter, his grandson Marshall Andrews, and Miss Mary Hubbard, thy eldest child of Judge Hubbard, of Sunbury. NORFOLK, MARCH 29. The frigate United States, Commodore Decatur, arrived in Hampton Roads, .. Tuesday last, in 40 hours from-off Charleston Bar. During her cruize, she fell in with several British vessels of war. BALTIMORE, APRIL 4. HArrt..—Captain Clare, of the schooner Eleanor, fifteen days...from Port.au-Prince, informs, that the jealousies between Petion and Rigaud hadheen in. a great measure appeased, by the re-election of the for mer to the Presidency, who had resign ed k ificiftirne before, to give an opportun i ty of g a fair 'choice. Information was received a,shqrtrtime previiMi n to the Eleanor's sailing, by an English frigate, that . Christophe intended to make an attack on Port-a n Prince with all his force ; they were Accordingly preparing to receive them, and all was bustle when she sailed. Captain Macty, from Cape Henry, informs that the fleet did sail on the above mentioned expedition on the 10th ult. WASHINGTON, APRIL 4. We understand that Mr. Monroe, the Secretary of State, is expected in this city in the course of the pre sent week. M. Serrurier, the French Minister, left this city yesterday for Baltimore. NEW YORK, APRIL 9. - - . On the morning of the 9th ult. three small hoitses, the corner of St. Phillip and Dauphin-streets, New- Orleans, were consumed by ire. APRIL 10.—His Excellency General Prevost has issued a Proclamation, dated at Halifax, March 111, giving permission to British subjects for the space of six months from said date, to import and bring into the Province or Plantations of Nova Scotia from the United States of America, in British built ships or vessels, armed and navigated according to law, scantling, planks, staves, heading, boards, shingles, hoops, or :square timber of any sort, bread, biscuit, Sour, peas. beans, potatoes, wheat, rice, oats, barley, so grain of any sort. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MAY 10. His M.ll3llSty took the diversion of hunting yester tiay. prince Poniatowski and Count de Kaas had the ,biipour to be of his party for the first time. The Em press followed the chase in her carriage. • The American vessels, Traveller, from New York ; ..the.Settor, from Philadelphia; and the Milo and ,hefrom Baltimoe, arrived on the 3cl instant in mi Of Bourdeaux. They are all laden with cotton. An English flag of truce, which sailed from the Isle of France on the 19th of December, arrived on the 3d instant at Cherburgh, with 300 French soldiers and sailors. On the 30th of April, le Furet privateer, Captain Broquant, captured off Dover the English brig Nep tune, of 80 tons and six men, bound from Lisbon to London, with a cargo of oranges and lemons. The p ize was carried into Ambletense. On the same day, • le Petit Furet carried into Ca lais the English brig the William of Sunderland, of 133 tons, and seven men, laden with 210 chaldrons of coals. On the 4th of May, le Petit Charles, Capt. Dibar boar, took the English galliot L'am, with four men, laden with timber. MAY 12.—His Majesty the Emperor presided at a Council of State at St. Cloud the day before yes. The et:items' ilsperanrmation BM was seed a second time, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up the Report of the Isle of Man Custotns Bill, with amendments, which were read and agreed to' and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Foreign Linen Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up the Report of the Canada Rum Bill, with amendments, which were read and agreed to, or dered to be engrosed, and read a third time to-morrow. Tbe Tinder Duties' Bill was read a second, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. 'The Bermuda Rum Bill was lead a first s and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. .• Colonel MATTHEW presented a Fetid." from the Catho lic Freeholders in the County of Tipperary, la Ireland, signed by twenty-one, in the presence, and on behalf, of several thousands. On the motion of Mr. Secretary RYDER,the whole House re inked itself into a Committee, to take into consideration a Bill for paying the Police out of the Consolidated Fund.—Ordered to lit on the table. Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up the Report of the Irish But lerage Bill. Ordered to be committed to-morrow. Read a Ant time, the Nova Scotia Rum Bill, Irish Election Bill, and Irish Tobacco Duty Bill. Mr. WHARTON moved that the Cotton Wool Duty Bill be printed. terday. Marshal_Ney, Duke of Elchingen, is arrived here. It is not Decaen, Captain General of the Isle of France, who arrived here, as has been stated, but his brother, a Lieutenant in the Navy. VIENNA, APRIL 27. A courier has arrived from Constantinople, with intelligence that the Grand Vizier, Jussuf Pacha, who is SO years old, has been deposed, and banished to Demotica, near Adrianople—the same place where Charles XII. King of Sweden, was so long detained. The Grand Seignior has appoinied as his successor, Ahmed Aga, a man cf . genius and courage, celebrated for his gallant defence of Ibrail. The Caimacan K irclv Ali, Pacha, will command the army until the arrival of the new Grand Vizier. The courtyard of his Excellency Count Otto's hotel is converting into a saloon, capable of cont.itting 1500 persons. We understand that at the last meeting of the prin cipal Thinkers and Merchants of. this city, with the Unister of Finance, Count Wallis, it was intimated to them to be more careful than they had hitherto been, to suppress the absi;rd reports circulated on 'Change; re specting some intended alteration it} our irt.m of Finance. • - . 'Ns* rumours have had a very unfavourable effect on public credit, and it became necessary to adopt lipeasum to check them. Our Administration put sues o SpLeni adopted with die greatest vigour, without regard to private considerations, and punishes all those who contravene the new regulations. It is particu larly seyere against stock-jobbers.opinions of - the most enlightened persons are in favour of the pew ty stern. The intelligence of the victories obtained by the Wahabis is confirmed. rears are entertained for the Safety of Moira, again* villich they hare ected the pancipal part of t . .teir force. , I would be a solid reason iiven to the House 'for fie . taxation of a raw material ; a tax io•eaeefelly avoided by all Statesmen, lest there should be brought on a competition with other countries, wherein Britain would contend heavily being burthened with her du. ties. France, Germany, and all the nations of the Continent, would out-rival our markets in the cheap. ness of their manufactured commodities. The ma. sure, he conceived, might destroy that equitable in• tercourse which had so long existed between America and Britain. It would put our manufacture to an ins. minent risk, and perhaps drive us to a situation in which the lowering of the duties might not redeem what was lost. He looked on the exemption of Ire land from the new tax to be more a measure of cha rity than of policy. He believed that a tax on foreign sheeps' wool would be a measure of much more po. licy than the projected tax on cotton wool. B ot h MISCELLANEOUS. being staple commodities, were it coming to the ne. The Irish Servants Embezzlement Bill passed through a Com- cessity of taxing one of them, he instantly, as a mea. mittee, with an amendment moved by the Earl of Lauderdale.— sure of sound policy, would adopt the tax on shorn Report en Friday. wool. The Southern Whale Fishery Bill also passed through a Com mittee, and was reported. The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER The Portuguese Treaty Bill was read a seco nd time, and corn- • SECURITY PROM SHIPWRECK. was astonished to hearken to the exaggerated state- The for Friday. Mr. WHITBREAD rose to call the attention of meats which, he contended, only existed in the brain of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Baring ). He examined The Irish Bastard Chlldrens' Malntainanc e, th e Newfound- the House to the Petition of Mr. Mallison, presented all the different years' importations of cotton wool land Courts, the Irish Pauper Lunatics , the Q uarantine emcee, by him yesterday, praying for an inquiry into the me- from the British Colonies, plainly spewing, that the rite and the Linen Additional Duty Bills , wi th some Private Bills, of an invention for preserving the lives of seam en h a d quantity of cotton wool imported from the United were brought up from the Commons. ip ces es of shipwreck, etc. The plan he stated , PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE RP LORDS —Ai R. PALMER'S 44 •1 CLAIMS. • tieen biought forward two years ago , and the T ree- States of America bore only a small proportion to surer of the Navy, he himself , and variou s o t hers had the other.. The cotton from the Brazils was muck superior to the American cotton, though he confessed The Earl of RADNOR rose, and said that a cir subseribed, with a view to have the merits of the in. his belief that the produce of America excelled that • cumstance had occurred last night in aisother place, vention broug ht to the test. The . result of the expert ee of the East Indies. He cpuld not see any well - which was of so much importance to the dignity and deed ins xpe.diency in the Bill, he deemed it miler m nn e n ri ' iments was a favourable impression as to the utility respectability Of their Lordships' house, that he felt po me to grant privileges to the vessels of our native to i this plan. The invention was indeed very simple; it con his duty to obtrude himself on their attention, country, than to allow such a participation in • the sisted merely of a piece of cork united by a strap, 1 notice it. The House of Commons had voted a sum trade by the foreigner as would out-rivel the vessels such as boys often swam upon. But the mode . of 1 of fifty thousand pounds in compensation to an indi of Britain. He saw no danger of the Bill creating vidual, by way of address, without the least conside- application was new, and the simplicity of the thing a rivalry against the merchants of Britain either by was no good ground of objection to it. He had re. ration for the rights of the House of Lords. ferred it to some naval friends, Captains Ballantyne European merchants or by those of America ; The Earl of LAUDERDALE, with much and- and he would conclude by giving his opinion that ia and Paget. who had tried it, and stated that it was expediency existed sufficient to make them reject the: there motion, deprecated the conduct pursued by the other House, which went to deprive their Lordships of their could sink or effectual, for that no man who had it on • drown. He therefore had thought it is duty to pre- Bill proposed. just and undoubted rights in the constitution. H ow cent the petition yesterday ; and he would now move would their Lordships stand in the estimation of thetake it into mode in which the Honourable Gendetnan (the Chan; Mr. WHITBREAD felt highly surprised at the for a C omm ittee.to public, if they permitted such encroachments to be cellor of the Exchequer) had answered the arguments Mr. CROKER would not oppose the appointment ( Sir toR . c l o ' n ee s l u e lt . ) tha H t e H (t on he . made on their authority ? There was no precedent of a Committee , . if th e H ouse oug t proper to agree , h H for such a measure su ffi cient to justify it. There was to the motion ; but he would . propose the names of I o Ch t an e cello o r n r I rn ia b d le nev ßa e rn rd ne ei e gned indeed a case in which, from the general feeling of Baronet,. , so well qualified to know what were his some Gentlemen connected with the Admiralty.— the House of Commons, they had addressed the This was in truth no invention at all. It was exactly Crown to pay the debts of an illustrious and distin- opinions of the operation of the tax, nor had he coa. .what they had all often swam upon—two pieces of guished Member of that House ; but that was a dif- suited with any merchants who •es • knowledge en the commodities. He had framed it . p se.sed practical cork, with the addition indeed of a covering of green ferent case from the present. Whether that was done evidentl himself, without any c avers-it n whatever. baize, and a strap instead . of a rope, Of the 87 inven either from fancy, caprice, or generosity, it could . whick w y as an . country,and which 0 in • tions presentedto the Admiraltyßoatd withinthese few . form no precedent for this mode of voting moneyinsult offered to the • he Mr.Whitbread) could not endure to let pass un to Mr. Palmer, against whose claims the House a. years, this was the worst and most simple. Col. Han- Lords had already decided ; so that the Commons gated had presented every ingenious one. The Admiralty stated to him th at his invention wascoinpletely effectual no t ice d. There was a Petition lying on the Table were perfectly aware of what their Lordships judg. for keeping a man afloat ; but it was so cumbe rsome from tespectable manufacturers, shewine that many e ment was on the question. He should move nothing were absolutely starving for want of a market to their that he could do nothing else with it. He adverted on the matter in so thin a House • but only say, that to the furious attack mad e . on the Admiralty Board cotton ; and then the Honourable Gentl e man (the from the particular knowledge he had of the whole C hancellor of the Exchequer ), without by Mr. Mallison for their illegal and hellish opposi-with a consultation transaction, and the pains he had taken in examining tion to his plan; and concluded by stating, that it wasmerchants, or even with the any Honourable it, he was convinced that there was no just claim on too trifling for any Gentleman to waste his time upon. Baronet (Sir R. Peele) behind him, stole a march Mr. Palmer's part for farther remuneration. on the House, and produced his Bill, giving an evi. Mr. ROSE had no doubt that the invention was The Earl of MOIRA said that he could have no dent affront to the Honourable Baronet. When th effectual to its object, though it was certainly a very • objection to what, had been stated respecting the Hon. Baronet said that the Bill would injure manu e simple one. But he did not think the simplicity of privileges and tights of their Lordships' House ; but factures, how came the Hon. Gentleman (the Chan the invention a serious ground o f objection. It was he must add, that he remembered no judicial decd - cellor of the Exchequer) to make so light of it as he little else than the cork jacket in use long before ; but sion in that House which had given him such pain had done. He deprecated the idea of framing a bill Mr. Mallison certainly appeared to have the merit of and regret as that respecting the claims of Mr. Pal- which would enter the British in the lists of conimei mer, which claims he considered to be well founded. applying it to a new purpose. cial hostility with America. By such bill America Their Lordships' Committee took- up merely the evi- Mr. WHITBREAD, in reply to Mr. CHOKER. ob. , would manufacture her cotton wool at home, and Bri. dence from the Commons, and only one more witness I served, that Mr. Ilogarth, the inimitable caricaturist. ; tain vould regret that ever she had contended against was called, who had nothing important to state. He , had ridiculed the extravagant taste for projects, bi i her. The cotton manufacturers of Britain had been repeated, that he should always regret that decision. representing a ponderous machine for drawing a COE I represented by the Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor The Earl of HARROWBY c onsidered the q ues- out of a bottle. But he never before heard of an at- 1 of the Exchequer) in his opening of the Budget, as in tempt to turn an useful discovery into ridicule merely . tion as involving materially the rights of that House. a most flourishing condition ; they were flourishing on account of its simplicity. The Honourable Gen- was of opinion firmly, after the full ilivestigation indeed, splendidly, but not solidly. What was the tleman had said, that one of the most ingenious he had given to the subject, that Mr. Palmer had no : Committee even then sitting doing, but distributing inventions submitted to the Admiralty was too cum- . right whatever to farther compensation. He defen. Exchequer Bills, to ward off the ruin which awaited bersome to enable the man who had it on to do any ded the Committee, of which he had been a member. 'on commerce ? The Hon. Gentleman took occasion thing else than float. But this plan was not,of this ; He could not avoid expressing his surprise at hearingto observe, that the motion he had intimated before description, for a seaman who had it on might do from the Noble Earl opposite the comparison he had an y the holidays he would soon fix a day for, namely, for pert of his duty. He then read an extract from a made between the vote of compensation to Mr. Pal- the correspondence between the American Anmia. letter of Captain Ballantyne, stating, that if he had mer and the vote for the payment of the debts ofdor and Mr. Pole. He then resumed his argument, these jackets on board, much anxiety as to the safet y Mr. Pitt. In the last case, it was not what had been and said, that a perseverance in hostility with Ante d his crew would be removed from his mind.— termed fancy or generosity ; it was a testimony duerica would have sad, and he feared, permanent effects When I boat went on dangerous service, the to the great public services rendered. It was the tri- Ca p - upon the country. He would, therefore, wish that tains would take care that the men were furnished bate of a grateful country to the greatest man that the motion was at least postponed (though he did not thesejackets. with country had ever produced, from that country which ' he had saved : the vote for Mr. Palmer went to give Captain PAGET stated his conviction of the uti- the manufacturing county of Lancaster had consulted a recompence, where punishment was deserved. lit of the plan ; a conviction founded on experiments his constituents. The Earl of LAUDERDALE rose to explain. He made by himself. ! The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had not used words bearing the construction the Noble Mr. CHARLES ADAMS adverted to the cir- proposed to postpone the Committee until to-morrow. Lord had put upon them• Whatever difference of. cumstance that a man with this jacket on could do —He did not think that his conduct merited such opinion he entertained from the Noble Earl, respect.: any part of his duty in the same manner as Without warmth as the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread) ing the public character and merits of the Noble Earl's it ; a circumstance which he considered as the distin- had bestowed on it. For he felt convinced, were illustrious and great friend, lie never brought that guishing feature of its merit. '; even .ie whole duty taken from raw materials of grant into comparison, far less into a precedent, with Mr. CROKER explained. I manufacture, there would not be a single yard more respect to the case of i4r. Palmer; and that must be The motion was then agreed to, and the following j that what was then sold, either on the ontinent, et the more evident to the Noble Earl, who was entirely Gentlemen, among others, appointed to compose the even Britain. His motive in framing C oth Bill vets to in possession of his sentiments on the latter case. Committee—Mr. Yorke, Mr. Rose, Mr. Whitbread, i give energy to the British shipping rather than to het The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that as to the General Ferguson, Mr. W. Pole, Admiral Harvey, enemies. Committee which decided against Mr.Palmer'sclaims, Lod Castlereah, and Captain Paget •to whom the Sir R. PEELE explained. he was one of those who must take either the praise following Gentlemen were added by ' Mr. Croker— Mr. WHITBREAD looked on the one day of or blame which might be ascribed to it- He was con. Sir Richard Bickerton, Mr. Buller, Mr. Robinson • • delay proposed by the Honourable Gentleman (the vinced he had no claims to farther compensation.— and Captain Beresford. Chancellor of the Exchequer), as by far too little for Their Lordships had the right, if they pleased, to re. MILITARY POLICY or THE COUNTRY. a•space wherein information of such magnitude could view their decision. " General TARLETON, on account of the thinness be procured. The only whic h' Britainha d resource .• • The Duke of NORFOLK wished to know, obey of the House, and the absence of military characters, left was, to avoid entering into competition with ther the Noble Earl (Radnor) meant to make any proposed to his Honourable Friend near him (Mr. America, so that by the present 80l that would be motion on the subject? Hutchinson) to postpone - his motion on the subject doinewhich it was • lur interest to avoid. T he cone• of the Military Polity of the Country. . The Earl of RADNOR said, he did not. It always i Vitiate of suds misconducted policy would be, that cost him some feeling when he troubled the House. Mr. HUTCHINSON complied ; and named the when the ports of the whole world were opened br He had thought it his duty to notice the matter, and 7th of June for bringing forward his motion on that the hand ot Peace, there would not be a pound .of he hoped it would be taken up properly in due time. subject ; and the 11th of June for his motion for the - raw cotton allowed fir the purchase, of aln pant repeal of the Irish Convention Act. , of Britain. It had been the entreaty of enlighteard The Duke of NORFOLK made some remarks on COTTON WOOL SILL, merchants to, postpone the Committee. le had the awkward consequences that might result. For in- On the motionf Mr . ROSE . . e o r. SE for the House resolving been . the request of the Honourable Baronet (SI IL stance, if the Crown acted on the address of the Corn- itself into a Comm ittee on the Cotton Wool Bill, Peek) too. It was also his Qs r: W.'s) wish, and he mons, and their Lordships rejected the measure in the Sir R. PEELE opposed the laying on of the addi - ho pe d the Chancellor would not persevere in maul appropriation Bill, who was to pay the -mone y ? clonal duty, because it would harass the already too t he m lik e c h ildren, b y allowin g they only a play The conversatioe then ended . — Adjourned. del much encumbered manufacturer. fox. consideration, He would leeee time fit WI the HOUSE DP COMMONS. ' Colonel STANLEY hoped the Committee would .. teeetmene of the subject or none,.4 all. A message from the Lords brought down LAW Clbaeurv's •be deferred for a few days, until be had consulted - MN ROSE replied, they had submitted patienllY te Divorce Bill, and several PriVallt Bills which-bad pawed the Lords, with his constituents (the People of Lancashire), r e , the Americans taxing British goods without any reta. and to which they desired lse concurrence of that House. whom he had written on the subjept; ' - liation. He therefore deemed the present Bill te be a Ihe lixtri Parochial Birth Bill was rea4 a third tune, and passed. Mr. ROSE could not conceive that the measure very fair one. • Mr. P4RNELL moved that the Road Bill front Holyhead to might be productive of any such consequences as the Mr. WHITBREAD observed, if AtneriCa cased our manufacture.: to the highest , it WAS our dial London be referred to a ta:ihniitter, to take into consideration Hon. Baronet believed, for it was only on a small the state or the road, for the Better conyertnee o f the math-0,46. portion o f the Cotton Wool imported to this country c o get the rev, material at the cheap est rate. lion granted. that the additional duty OH the motion of Mr. WHAETON, the Exchequer Bill; Bill, • . for raising the suins of X6,090,091,5tid ,q, were severally Mr. BARING believed the . measure dangerous to consideration of the Bill, on Friday, was agree t ° ' resit s woad den, and !I'm!!! r, : . . , ... ~ . she raantOcipasilpi the country. 'He expected there auli Olt Hew atkietaruedi ' • .. - • T oral wt •4 I. PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 24. BERKELEY PEERAGE. The Solicitor-General proceeded to call more witnesses for the purpose of contradicting the testimony already given in favour of the Claimant. Amongst others was a Gentleman of the name of Gwlnnet, who was ad Officer in the Gloucester . ..hire Militia, and who knew Lady Berkeley at the time she lived at her sister's, in Gloucester. ' About half past five o'clock, the Committee of Privileges ad• jeurned till Friday at one o'clock. - ROXBURGH CASE. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to state, tbat he sheild, en Monday next, call their attention to the chief piiints connec ted with that use, which he should submit to them in as clear a manner as he mild. After a few words from Lord Lauderdale, 1 1 . twas agreed that their Lordships should meet to consider that cue on Monday next, at two o'clock. r irk: r Ii 3 , I 4 I 1 i