Star. — London, England, 1811-05-25 00:00:00

t „,l they Rave the poor an inheritance, possession, a k ;„ ( 1 of stake in their country. This could not be said of ,'h. r pl•iee or ale. He mentioned this only as it had occnrred to him at the moment, though it w as no; quite connected with the question, as he was a t, anao , us to vindicate the Poor Laws from the aspersions that were thoughtlessly thmwn nut on them. Mr. ADAM said, that he was adverse to the Poor Laws. He instanced the ease of Scotland, where the peo plo contrived to live without parish assistance.— Th e Carron Company, whicluemployed two thousand peple ‘ , .ithin their works, and double the number without, has not pauper among them for the forty years .f their establishment. Mr. ROSE approved of the Poor Laws. Mr. CRIPPS. was under the necessity of dividing the House. On the division the Ayes Were 7 ; the Noes 49 ; Majority 42, against the Bill. PRIVILEGES of THE amorous. Mr. WHITBREAD had observed in some of the public prints an account of a proceeding in another piece, which he thought highly derogatory to the rights of the House. It questioned the alsility of the Home to make good a late vote, in which they , had resolved to address the Prince Regent. He would take an early opportunity of making a motion on the subject. BAST-ISDIA COttoflssioNgas BILL. On the question for the House going into a Com mitter on this BM, Sir CHARLES POLE objected to any addition to the expellees of the country at such a moment as the present. The Clerks of the Navy, and other OfSeem were receiving no increase of salaries—why should the Clerks belonging to the Dowd of Comma t Mr. Dl AS said, the Clerks in this Once had very important and confidential duties to discharge, and he could not perceive that they would be over. paid by having, probe* after 20 years service, sala. ries, in the highest class.: of £6OO a-year, and in the second class of 0400► Mr. R. THORNTON bore testimony to the opi n;on of the Company, that the salaries were at present greatly too low, particularly the salary of the Presi dent of the Board. General TA RLETON thought the salaries of the Clerks, even as they at present stood, ton high, when it was Considered how the Officers of the Army were paid. Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER was astonished at any comparison of the kind, coining, as it did, too, from a General Officer. Mr. CREEVEY had no objection to increase the Salary of the President of the Board, but thought it must be made up from the reduction of the Salaries of the other Members of the board. Mr. WALLACE supported the Bill. Mr. P. MOORE thought it unnecessary. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was a measure called for and recommended for many years back, and nothing but its being in some respect personal to his Right Honourablerriend (Mr. Dundas), he was convinced, would have pro. vented him from submitting it sooner to the House. The House then went into a Committee nn the bill. In the Committee, Mr. JOHNSTONE objected to the clause, permitting the Directors to take up ships on emergencies for single voyages. Mr. R. THORNTON and Mr. C. GRANT de fended it on the ground of necessity. After some observations from Mr.Tiemey and Mr. Dundas, :he Bill passed through the Committee. Report on Monday. MISR ciisTnats. The House went into a Committee on the Trish Customs Bill. When the dance imposing a Duty on Tobacco was read, Mr. BANES expressed his apprehension, that from the very defective collection of the excise, the duty on tobacco would not be very productive. Mr. FOSTER said, the Honourable Gentleman was misinformed : it was the collection in the Excise on Spirits had been very defective, but on Tobacco it bad been remarkably good, so that he had every rea ' son to suppose it would prove quite contrary to what the Hon. Gentleman supposed. Mr. MAC NAGHTEN, in allusion to something that had fallen from an Honourable Member (Mr. pankes), hoped that the Property Tax would not be extended to Ireland, as it was a tax which the people if that country particularly dreaded. He also allud ed to the comparative incompetence of that Honour able Gentleman on questions of Irish finance. Mr. BANICES. in reply, contended, that he, as a Member of the United Parliament, had as good a right as any other man to turn his attention to the affairs of Ireland. He would always do so, and he hoped that other Gentlemen would do so likew;se ; if they had so done long ago, perhaps Ireland would not be such a burthen upon England as she now was. He still thought that a modification of the property tax was one of the best taxes which could be proposed in Ireland. Ho did not care what his propositions might appear for the moment, but should continue to offer that which, in his opinion, might appear to be of permanent utility. Mr. FOSTER would never sit quiet in that House and hear it said, that Ireland was a burthen on this country ! Tt was a gross insinuation, which, as an Irishman, he was bound instantly to repel t and he desired the Honeurable Gentleman who had so um guardedly made it, instantly to retract it. What did he mean ? Did he want to repeal the Act of Union ? He as one had voted against that Act, and he would now say to those who held such opinions as the Hon. Gentleman, ,1 If you do oot like it, discharge it." After a few words from Mr. Caortm and Mr. C. HUTCHINSON, the Resolutions were agreed to, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. PRESS IM IRELANZ). Sir JOHN NEWPORT rose for the purpose of mewing for a repeal of the 50th of the king, which related to the additional duty on advertisements in Ireland. When this additional duty , Ras first pea rled, the Chancellor of the Exchtlner calculated that it would produce an increase to the Revenue of 1(30,000,- whereas on the last year the product was er.ly ,E 2 500. He then went into a comparative stpte ment of the duty on advertisements here and in Ire land, and ' , hewed the balance to be much against that country. He also sheered, 'hat in England the Pro: prietors of Ne*spapers were allowed a discount of 17 per cent. en the duty, when in Ireland they were only silvwed per cent. He concluded by moving, " A Repeal of the 50th of the King, as far as related to aklditional du - y on advegisernents and hand-hills." Mr. FOSTER was witifig to place the Irish news- ' Papers on the same footing as the English,. if the Hon. Baronet desired it ; hut he Inspected, if so, that the Hon. Baronet would not be a great favourite with the Irish printers. He must say, that it was rather ridiculous in some Gentlemen to talk of the duty on advertisements as being detrimental to the liberty of the press, when the two subjects were is no way connected. The worthy Baronet seemed to think that he had violated the Act of Uoion by laying on some duties in Ireland higher than in England. The worthy Baronet, when in office, did the same thing. He may shake his head, but he did —" Yes, (said Mr. Foster) you laid a tax upon jaunting cars—(A laugk.) What's the reason you don't hold up your head and answer me ?—(illauti.) You laid a tax upon jaun ting cars, and you laid a tax upon licences for public houses. Ide not blame von—l did the same thing. —(if laugh.) It is not fair, however, that you should accuse me of that as a fault, in the commission of which you must have thought yourself perfectly jus tifiable." Mr. SHERIDAN- 1 . I really cannot' help remark ing the surprising change of temper which has so sud denly manifested itself in the Right Hon. Gentleman. A few months ago, when the Hon. Gentleman below me (Mr. Baukes) said that Ireland was a burthen upon England, he was instantly all on fire—and well 'he might—if Ireland is a burthen upon England, where are you to seek the reason ? Where but in the oppression, the injustice, and the tyranny of this coun try, which has so long enthralled eland—which has debased her for three centuries. I do not wonder, however, at the sudden good humour of the Right Honourable Gentleman. I hear a few of the worthy Gentlemen opposite have been antusin: themselves this evening. —ref lauzh.)—Really I am very far from blaming them—endeed I am one of the last in the House that would desire to interrupt their diversion.— ( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had said, if the Union is to he violated, it is best to repeal it at once: now,all that the Hon. Gent. has done with respect to the press is a violation of the Act of Union—a violation of that clause which says that no tax is be to raised in Ireland higher than in England. It will not be the least excuse for him to say, that my Hon. Friend be side me did so ton. Even if it was the fact, it would not excuse his following a bad example : but my worthy Friend did no such thing. He taxed jaunting cars—there are no jaunting cars in England, so the ease does not hold there. He taxed licences, but licences are not articles of taxation, bat police regu lations; so there also he is in error. In fact he has not made out a single ease where my Right Honour able Friend has violated the Act of Union.—( Mr. Poster and Mr. Perceval here appeared to converse.) I should be obliged to the Honourable Gentleman for his attention, though, perhaps, it would be more politic in me to let him continue his hints to his Right Honourable Friend ; indeed I shall lose but little by his instiiling a few of his argnments to-night into the ear of the gentleman beside him. (Hear!) I turn, however, to the Hon. Gentleman below ( Mr. Bankes), who had the hardihood to sly, this night, that Ireland cannot support her own Government.— It is not so. She can support her fair proportion ;.—.„ but she cannot, nor ought she, to be required to ad vance an over-rated quota to the general defence of the whole empire. See what Ireland is doing for you— see her sacrificing her courage—her best blood in yotw defence ; and Can you in return insely re proach her with her poverty. (gar.) Ye.) have no right to do so. If she is poor she has become so in your support. Spare her, then, the mortifi cation of hearing she owes that to your gratitude, which she has a right to claim not from your bounty but your justice. It has been said that the press can not be hurt by raising the duty on Advertisements. —There are three ways of destroying the liberty of the press ; one is by oppressive Acts of Parliament, another is by ex gnfeio informations, and the uncrssti tutional banishment of printers to distant gaols; (hear, hear,) and the third is by raising the price of cheap pith - lications. This, and this is the way resorted to in Ire. land, is a mean, a cowardly, and a circuitous attempt I have ever been a warm friend to the press, and while I live I shall continue so. I fear no corruption either in the State, or the Government, while the press ex ists. Against venal Lords, Commons, or Juries— against despotism of any kind, or in any shape—let me array a free press, and the liberty of England.sliall stand unsbaken."—( Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the plain question was, whether this measure was a violation of the Act of Union or not f He should contend that it was sot; and that it would net, even if a greater tax were to be levied in Ire land than in England. He Aid not imagine that his Honourable Friend (Mr. Banker) when he alluded to Ireland as a burthen upon this country, lid m lin any thing to call forth the warmth of his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Foster). So far from con sidering Ireland a burthen to this country, he looked upon it as a great source of its strength, and under that impression he thought it as much as act of justice and liberality to Englard as to Ireland, that the temporary deficiency of the resources of Ire land should be relieved from the abundance of the finances of this country. The Right Honourable Gentleman then defended generally the measure. of his Right Honourable Friend. Mr.SHERIDAN shortly explained, and gave notice that lie should, early in next Session, move for a repeal of the law by which Judges ware empowered to order persons for confinement in distant jails. Aber some edwervations from Mr. Po "MOIST Mr. P A POI r l•Lo and Mr. SHAW (of Dublin) in support of the motion, and a short reply from Sir Jens. Nxw►oar, a division took place—For the , modonll2.--Against it Si—Majority 30. ABOLITION 07 CRIMPAGI. Mr. CROIEBR, In answer to a question put on a former night by an Honnerable Gentleman then present (Mr. Whitbread), beggtd leave to state the nature of the fund newly created by fines for the dleebarge of Seamen. According to the old arrange ment, when a seaman was permitted to procure a substitute in order to quit the service himself, his only course was to apply to persons called Crimps, who charged at the rate of 100 guineas for an able-bodied seaman, and l• guineas for a landsman, and they Insisted that the entire sum should be deposited in the first Instance, o ft en Ulcer they had obtained the substitute them selves. The consequence of this was, that months, and even years elapsed, before the substitute was found; and the indivi dual, who paid his money, had often sailed to a foreign station, or. perhaps, died, before the object was accomplished. losing to his distressed family, the full amount of his discharge. The Go venom:at, considering this a subject which called for its inter femme, resolved to interpose Its authority, and put an end to the iniquitous trade of Crimps altogether. With this view it was desermiped by the Board of Admiralty, that the man should be discharged the moment his discharge was paid for at the rate of iso guineas for an able-bodied seaman, in the place of 100 gui neas, and 40 guineas fora landsman, in the place of .50, as char god by the Crimps under all the casualties of imposition and de lay. The motley thes received, was carried foto the Fund for raising Volunteer. Seamen ; and he had the satisfaction to state to the Hasse l thu all the objects of the arrangement were fully aoswered. There was likewise an adequate security for the pro per application of the money, there being no Its, than lye checks upon the Fond. This, he hoped, was a satisfactory answer to the question of the Honourable Gentleman. Mr. WHITBREAD declared himself perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and was sunfideeit the public would be perfectly also.—Adjourned. • THE EVEvINC- WA R. LONDON.' gATURDAY, MAY 25. PRICE OF 9 MCKS I'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Cont. money 64i—for AZCOViIt 634 S per Cent. Red.tced 630-4 per Cent. 7911 S per Cell. Nary 4151i—Exchey. pr to 4s. prem. Beads les. and I is. pre..—Onan;um pre. • GLORIOUS VICTORY J PORTUGAL. ~. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. " DOWNING-sTRER r, MAY 25, isir. " Dispatches have been received from Lord %Va.. LINGTON of the Bth and 10th inst. by which it appear% that the Enemy's whole Army, consisting of the 2d, 6th, and Bth Corps, and all the Cavalry which could be collected in Castile and Leon, including 900 of 11 the Imperial Guard, together with some of the Bat talions of the 9th Corps, crossed the Agueda, at Ciu dad Rodrigo, nn the 2J inst. and on the 3d and sth made two desperate attacks on the British Army, for the purpose of relieving Almeida. " The contest, though very severe, especially on the sth instant, tertninated in the complete repulse l uf the enemy, and in the Allied Army continuing to !hold its position. " O❑ the 7th, at night, the French army retreated from the position which it had occupied on the pre ceding day on the Duas Casas. "On the Bth the enemy continued their retrca• to the woods between Gallegos Espeda and Fuenta de Honor. On the 9th they crossed the Agar*, and on the 10th the Agueda, leaving Almeida to its late. In the action of the 3d May, the British loss consis ted of 22 killed, and 171 wounded ; that of the Portu guese was 14 killed, and 33 wounded. " On the sth the British loss consisted of 148 killed,, and 872 wounded. The Portuguese loss was 50 killed, and 158 wounded. The number of the Allies missing in the two days amounted to 316. . " The enemy's loss appears to hare been great in killed, wounded, and prisoners, but no return has born transmitted of, the ezact amounts." • The above Dispatches were brought by Mr. Sit. varin, a Ring's Messenger he left 'Lisbon on the 13th, and'arrived in Downing-street at twelve o'clock this forenoon. The Park and Towerguns were fired immediately after the 'artival of the gratifying in. ,„ teutgence, and a letter nosh. subject was transmitted to the Lour MAy which is literally the same as the abnve disp Itches, and therefore can convey no new information to our Readers. The following is a LIST OP KILLED AND. WOUNDS& KILLED, ON TILL Ile or MAY. Lieutenant Co+wtll, 71st Regiment. Lieutenant imLull, 79th ditto. wouNuito. Capt. Keatichenherg, l•t Hussar., German Legion, slightly. Captain MlDonald, 48(1 Font, severely. lieutenant Rudkin, 50th Foot, slightly. Ensign Grant, ditto, ditto. Lieutenant-Coionel Will'ams, 60th Foot, severely. Lieutenant 3)u Chanelet, ditto, slightly. Captain M'intyre, 71st Foot, severely. Lieutenant Fox, ditto, ditto. Lieutenant M'Craw, ditto, slightly. Ensign Kearns, ditto, dangerously. Adjutant Law, ditto, slightly. Lieutenant Cal der, 79th ditto. Ensign Brown. ditto, severely. Lieutenant Hill, 921, ditto. Lkutcusait Hinache, 95th Foot, dkeca STH MAY. 10th Hussars—Majnt Gen. Nightingale, Lieut. Fits Claseeee, and Majos-Gen. Stewart, slightly. Royal Fuot Artillery—Capt. G. Ilsompson, Lieutenants Martin and Woolcombe, slightly. Ist Royal Dragoons—Lieut. Foster, slightly. 4th Light Dragoons—Capt. Knipe, severely ; Capt. Mills, Lieut. Gwynne, Lieut. Radcock, and Cornet Ellis, slightly. 16th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Wtylaud, severely ; Lieut. Blake, since dead. Ist Hus-ars German Legion—Major Meyer, slightly; Capt Bin Guiben, Ljeut. Knauchenberg, severely. Coldstream 3d Cuards— Car. Harvey Clitherow, slightly. 60th Foot—MsjorWoodgate avid Lieut. Wynne, slightly. 71st—Ensign Cox, slightly ; Vandekur, severely ; Adjutant Law, slightly. 74th—Captain M'Queen, severely ; Moore, slightly ; Adjutant White, ditto. 79th Regiment—Lieut. CoL Cameron, severely; Capt. Fraser, slightly; Capt. Fraser, severely, since dead; Lieut. Sinclair, slightly; Lieuts. A. Cameron, Webb, and Robinson, and En sign D. Cameron, slig sly. 83d—Lieutenant Verecker, severe. Kith—Captain Nixon, slight; Lieutenant Brock, dangerous L'eu•enant Hogg, severe. 38th lel'Alphene i slightly; Ensign Hogg, severely. 92d—blajor Grain, lett leg off; Lieutatatit M'Nabb, right arm. Cha:ieurs Britanniques—Captalu Treultr, stightly ; Captain 'I surnefort, ditto ; Lieutenant Blamer, ditto; En•ign Foot°, ditto ; Major Beck, ditto, Ist B. L. G. L ; Captain Mesal.er, severely, ltd B.; Captain Decken, ditto ; Ensign Buchelle, ditto, 7th B. Brunswick Otis—Lleutenant Zollikofu, slightly. 1415111N0. 15th Light Dragoons--Captain Bettie. Coldsiream Guards—linogn modart. ad Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel HilL .4th Fnot Foot—Captain Ryan.airputtarinniAndws. 50th 71st—l..eutenaots Roy and Baldwin. KILUMD. Sd Cum d.,—Ensign Cookson. Liiutenauti Ireland, 11th Foot ; Hotnitown, 7 let ditto; Graham, ditto; Johnston, Thth ; Ferns, oSel ; Holmes, acids; Captair: trwiu, itinh ; I,utensot Westby, 15th. Although there is no mention in any of the of f icial accounts which we have seen of the loss of the French in the above engagements, their loss, according to private accounts, has beeu very great in killed, woun ded. add priories... NWPAL The latest accounts from Madeira represent our garrison there as being tolerably healthy. The last accounts from our squadron cruising is Basque Roads, and along the French coast, state, that the greatest activity continues to prevail in all the enemy's ports, in fitting their respective sh is for sea : the progress they make is almost daily visible. 1 The John Adams, American frigate, Capt. Dswr, has arrived at Cowes from L'Ot ient with dispatches for the American Minister now in London, which were immediately forwarded to town. FALMOUTH, MAY at. This morning arrived the brig Shclbnrne, Ronan? TAYWR master, frem Berbice, with coffee: the Cap. fain brings an account of the capture of the ship Bro thers, of Liverpool, Gann` PowIIITCH eo aster, Irons Bahia, bound to Lund et, by the French brig la Di ligente, 16 guns and 120 men, in lat. 11. N. lung. 55. W. which privateer had also taken the Thomas and Mary and Ealingrove, of London : she is fitted out from Charlestovm, and said to be partly owned by Americans ; half of the crew are America ns.--. Arrived the Sir Charles Cotton, Joyce master, from London, bound to Malta, with bale go .ds, very l ea ky ; the Laura, Quica, from Bristol ; the Speedwell, Det• trout Waterford; and the Spanish brig San Jo. seph, Asn*oa, fronrCadie, 18 days passage, with wool, &c. for London. Yesterday passed this port, 'the ship Benetes, from Jamaica ; she has on board d i e crew of the ship Harmony, of Liverpool, C.aptairt MARTINELL, from Amelia Islands, bound to Ply. month, with timber, which she fell in with in lat. 48. long. sfl. water-logged. Sailed this day the General Small cutter, SAVAJIY master, for Plymouth. TORBAY, MAY 23. Passed up Channel the ship Eliza, War. Larimr. -master, from Jamaica, bound to London, all %eel—. She was boarded yesterday by one of the Torbay fish ing boats, who brought letters on shore from her, which were forwarded by this night's post. PLYMOUTH, MAY RIR Arrived the Sczorme, of 74 guns, from a cruize of Brest ; and the Cocossos, of 74, from the toast of France. Also arrived the VENERABLE, 74, from off Brest • and the Neptune (2) tender from Dublin with impressed men. Went out of harbour, the DRYAD frigate. Sailed the Rosa tender for Greenock ; SEAFLOWER, and IVIIITINO on a cruize. PORTSMOU fH, MAY 24. Arrived the VIOLET lugger, fr m Guernsey, with a prize.—Sailed the PARTRIDGE sloop of war, on a cruize.—TheDHOISIMARY store-ship, laden with naval stores for the East Indies, went out of harbour yes terday morning.—The Fame, of 74 guns, made the signal to go out, but the wind hauled round to the Southward, which prevented her.—The STRO)11301.0 bomb warped alongside the sheer-hulk to-day, to get her mortars in.—Wind S.W. DF.AI., MAY 24. Arrived his Majesty's ships Ditir.AnwoUGHT, HAr. SISAL, ORION, MARS, and FIsGARD, from Portsmouth, bound to she Baltic. The Portuguese Ambassador and suite, who have been waiting here some days, embarked on board the FISOARD, and will sail foe Russia on Sunday morning, if the wind be fair...— Caine down from the River Ole Lord Forbes, --, for Bengal.—Wind S.W. SHEERNRSS, MAY 24. The British Fair and Spy passed the More for the River Thames; the Ems andJhade in-boats arrived. and are gone to Chatham4 the Lyra sailed from the Note to the River Thai:nes. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. The Neptune, —, from Lisbon to London, was taken the SOth ult aad carried into Amhteteuse. The W,lhant, of and from Sunderland, was taken and carried into Calais, the fliath The Lapwing, Strachan, from Shield, to Port•mouth, was de serted on 'Tuesday morning, Off Dunkirk. before being taken by the enemy. A beta, belonging to Rye, was deservd a- game time. The Isla, Hallanin, from Sardinia to London, is got intoWor mouth, after having been on bre and scuttled. The Frederick and Teresa, Davy, from l'eoby, foundered off Mount's Bay, the 19th inst. The Felitry, Sheriff, bound to Madeira, was lost at Gibraltar, the 28th of March. The brig Eheoner, Hill, of Rhode Island, with goods and sl2 thousand dollars, sailed from New Providence, the 29th of Au gust, bound to New Orleans. The Master is reported to have proceeded to the United Stases, and, after mains sale of the ver eel, applied the spode to Isle own purposes, std is now it Rhode Island. THE Bootc.--A Work formed upon the basis of the Supisressed Bed, known by the name of " TfIE DELICATE b:vtArichtTioN,': bas been r.Ceinly publish ed by Allen, and Co. of Paternoster-mw. The work is entitled " THE SPIRIT 01 THE BooK," embracing the subject matter of that extramdinary, momentous, and interesting Vi,lume ; and comprehending the Memoirs of many of the most distinguished and il lustrious Personages of the age. MEETING or DISSENTERS.—The Meeting of Dissen ters, of which notice had been pi ven. took place yester dayat the London Tavern, Mr. Mims in the Chair. The CHAIRMAM having taken his seat, he proceeded to state to the assembly, that in consequence of the zealot thepersons to whom they had entrusted the ma. nagement of their interests, not less then three hun. dred and fifty-six petitions had been obtained against the Bill framed by Lord Sidmouth against their rights) they had also succeeded in interesting so great a num b :r of the Peers in their favour, that the Bi:I had been ngatived on the second reading. Mr. Mtats then proposed a resolution, importing that the report of the Committee was highly satisfac. tory to the kteetng, and that there was much reason for exultation, afforded by the complete success which had been consequent on their dim ts. This resolution was the first of a series agreed to at the meeting, of the most remarkable of which the - following is the substant e " The appointment of a Society, consisting of Dis senting Ministers, in consequence of the recent attack on religious freedom, and the sundry:oounce corn. mitted against Dissenting Corigregatt-in.—o, be sup ported by subscription, and whose duty it should be to watch in future over the interests of , he ilissenters, and resist similar attempts on tinge riets." • A Vote of Thanks to the Meu5,..0.0., for their co operation. __ A Vote of Thanks to Mr. PERCEVAL and his col. leagbes ; but this question was carried in the aHitma• tive by a very slander majority indeed. Previous to the meetu.6 breAcibit up, a subecrip sion was commenced.