Star. — London, England, 1811-04-09 00:00:00

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The command ' —The punishment , of death had not the effect in ing officer returned a confident answer ; and before REGENT, and is abou t to be been sent for by the PRINCE to employed in an important the way of prevention that many imagined. It the French coeldmake arrangements for forcing the ' command. An abler or more gallant Officer cennot hardly ever had been inflictedmere frequently than . b'd a t oniiderable reinforcement of Portuguese be selected, or one more popular with the army; Sit in cases of highway rob b ery- - but it had not di- 1 1 eei . . Jo • indeed , h ld . ' • 1 HN IS, t eso iers ido hen he embark. minished the crime. Measures of prevention had had entered the' town, and the flank of the troops that e been adopted; and since the establishment of the menaced it was turned. d at Guernsey, he was followed to the chore b ore y ;crowds of soldiers and natives. On his landing at horse patrole hardly an instance of a great highway , _....• We copy the following from an Irish Paper, on the, i Weymouth he was received in the most distinguished robbery had occurred near the metropolis. The same : measures of good woutd result in other cases from . above subject : I manner, and under a discharge of 19 guns. prevention. As to the assertion; that the lawyers Cote, meas. 2.--Yesterday evening we received the g ets- . The 2d Battalion of the 18th or Royal Irish Reel bor e were against the measure, if that were really the fact, fying atid important information, which we trust will he n meat, under the command of Major WALKER, sailed he would have felt much more doubt on the subject ; out by facts, and generally found correct, that the Betsey of Pool, f rom Dartmouth on the 27th and arrived at Jersey on but iii truth, of the lawyers that voted on these bills, had arrived in Kinsale harbour, after a passage of ten days from Lie- . the 30th ultimo. Two of their transports narrowly almost two to one supported them. bon, which she left on the 22d ult. and has brought intelligence that escaped being wrecked,having struck on some sunkvis The House then divided.—Zor the third-1./2(sdg, scoot the Ftenc'h eavatry, as prisoners, had arrived in that city rocks off Noirmont Point, which made it necessary to 60, against it 39, majority 11.—The bill then pissed. previous to her departure, in consequence of some serious asti r 1 . run them ashore on the sands in St. Aubin's Bay. • PRINTERS' REGULATION RILL. • mishes with the rear of the enemy. These troops were in the On Saturday last, the 6th instant, Major.G:eneral Mr. ABERCROMBIE brought up the Report of most wretched plight, and both they and their borsesexhibited Ma.. Teomes reviewed the Ist Somerset Militia o rank. the Committee on the Printers's Regulation flill. nifest signs that wr.nt and disease have spread their baneful effects nnd file), on the Glacis, Plymouth Dock. The o Mj Sir ARTHUR PIGOT proposed a clause, extend- ' -tanong the Frill& army. The joy dillfused among the population General was much pleased with the soldier.like ap ing the provisions of the Bill to persons who printed is _y thesuccilis of Lord WELLINGTON ' ,as extreme, ane prom i se d pearance of the, gattalion whilst under arms, and the for the Bank of England, or o t her great companies. to extend and dee•pen the spirit of patriotism which aertneckto mai- steadiness with which it performed a variety of and also to those who executed printing work for the mate the cLuntry." . manoeuvres. The day being extremely fine, a vast superior . and inferior Comae of Law ; which was The Safah, Capt. BUTTRtSS, arrived at Falmouth, ' concourse of people were assembled on the ground, agreed to alter a few words from Mr. H. SMITIV. left Gibraltar on the 10th tilt. and brings accounts of b oth amongst whom were several persons of distinction of The amendments were then agreed to, and the Bill sexes. the arrival of Szzaertext at Algesiras, with a part of 1 eidered to be read a third time to-morrow. I Captain, STONE'S Company of Royal Artillery 'is PORTUGUESE TREATY. his army. I now in Portsmouth garrison. On the motion of Mr. ROSE the Hou went inter A Court Martial is at length ordered, to investigate a Committee on the Portuguese Treater; the charges brought by Gos ernor ELtent against Lieu. Sir JOHN NEWPORT mentioned serif-al care; tenant-Colonel Joueseoxe, in consequence of the cha in proof of ,the very high duties levied on Brea pines which took place in Botany Bay. General goods emported into Portugal and iratil. Kauai. is the President. Mr ROSE then moved several Resolutions for the purpose of extending the Mutual commercial relations of Great Britain and the Portuguese dominions.- - —seed at Twelve o'clock. , aemc:=f-------..-- -- - - m 4. a the- Congolidatfi tund. He trusted this ex lanation noold'be satisfactory to the Committee. . Sir J. NEWPORT said a few words, after which the queition was put and carried. , • The,suin of £427,900 was then voted towards the • Ways and Means, being the amount oi the proceeds i arising from the sale of old naval stores. The Report was ordered to be received to-morrow, and the Committee to sit again on Wednesday. 1 STEALING t A DWELLING HOUSE atm.. Sir SAMUEL .ROMILLLY moved the. third reading of this Bill. ' _. 1 Mi. Seeretary RYDER begged leave shortly to state his .reatons for opposing the measure. It bad i been said that judges and Juriekhad doubts and, ap prehensionsof enforcing the law ; were nor the same apprehensions as likely to have influence with offen ders ? . He believed the existing state of the law filled & minds. of theticions with a salutary terror and ad squally beneficial operation on experienced delin. itiuents and novices in iniquity. They had a tendency to. secure the great object of criminal legislation—that , of preveriting rather than punishing offences: lie agreed to the general principle, that the discretion of Judges °right rather to be limited thin eplarged, and that until some alteration might be of advantage, which should haVe the effect of lessening the propor tion which the number of sentences bore to the num ber of execuiions. The presen t B il l , ho w ever, looked ' I superio. ...._ only at an object of speculation, not of practical ha- agreed to endments atter a le ., • then alp.— inanity. The ar were Mr. WILBERFORCE, in si Short, speech, conten- bidered to be read a third tie to-morrow. -ded that the law, in its. pre;ent state , h eld out the PORTuOuzsE m T REATY chances of impunity, and so far was unquestionably On the motion of Mr. ROSE 0.- •-• - productiie of mischief. It was teen every day, that, a Committee on ihP T r " in'the most hazardous species of gambling, the lottery,, Sir u . " -- persons vvere fond of adventuring. He remembered being told by Judge Buller, that out of 88 convic ons, upon an average , not ore than One execution t snore oo Si rpk iece; , . •: , JOHN NEWPORT Warmly supported the till. Mr. Lars:HART was of opinion, that the un certainty with respect to a just measure of punishment, would be increased in any mitigation of the severity of our penal code. We were travelling, by pursuing . this course, into an uktiown sea, and leaving the &haft and compass Sywhich our aneestoi3 had guided themselves. If however adopted at all, he should kr efer it as an experiment, for two years, although he *esti afraid that in this case there would be a great and necessary arrear, of punishment to be settled.. Mr. W HITB READ said he had hitherto refrained from uttering his sentiments On this question, be- Cause h'e had heen•willing to heat all that could be dried by the formidable array of lawyers who were en this occasion Apposed to his Honourable Friend: tie was ready to do justice to the ingenuity of the ittibbitrable Centlerban (Mt. Frankland), who had 4stinkuislied himself in resisting the present Bill, lia,br Who had puzzled at least as mtich as he 11 had datzled, in his estimation. He eras wrong .11.11 r.. however in his allusiOn to the effect of the cpiotation • An the letters from Lisboa by the three Mails rude by an flonoUrable Friend of his (Mr:Windham) whi c h L.._ nos+ no more to he found among the living, bat he l.4e^e arrived,' are Tilled with details of the Well recolle c ted that his Hon. Friend ( Sit S. Romilly) - rentat of Massexa; most of which are deprived liad then clearly chewed that the' opinions of Doctor of all interest by the publication of the Official Dis. ale!! had been misunderstood. Did the Right Ho- patches. We have, however, the satisfaction of learn towable and Leained Gentleman not know that that • ing from some of them, that a fleet of transporti from dirrilnal law -Which he defeided had been condemned fi'i at greatest lawyers ? His Honourable Friend, En laid ..(that we presume which had been so long A. Romilly) had founded himselfon those opi- wind-bound in the western ports) had arrived in the . dons. He had foonded himself too on the reflections Tagus, with large reinforcemeots for various regi -4'1113 own enlightened Mind, maintained by the expc. menti: Seventeen hundred of the German Legion, lienie of his professional exertions--( altar, hear, hear.) b esides a considerable train of artillery, had been al. Thelion. Gentleman (Mr. Lockhart) had endea tothed somewhat hturiouronsly to pointout the advan. ready disembarked. The force with which Marshal (age in the morals of the peOple, by being accustomed . BERESFORD was advancing towards the Guadiana was f&SpOrt With the solemnity of an oath. Because, said estimated at 22,000 men, of which a large proportion hp,. Jory acts from a principle of humanity in coin • . • -were British troops. The force at MORTIER'S dispo. mating a J udicial perjury, the perj u ry is sanctified by sa i - l, nclt*n not supposed to exceed 15,000 . G eneral g even the garrisons of Badajos a nd Oli. 1 the iribtive. Could there be a more p ernicious notion tbitt this instilled into the minds of m en, a more deadly venza, w as idlsOn tommunicated to the source of a people's BERESFORD would probably be farther strengthened inbrah ? (ll'ar, hear.) —As to what had been urged by a portion of the gatrison of Elva'. We have little Pf the acuteness of-the Judges enabling them to dos- expectation that MoRTIHR Will venture to abide the itiriiinafe and apportion with precision the exercise of . issue of so unequal a contest. theft discretion, he could only say, that lie believed Chit they were sometimes prelsed to reconcile their . The Regency, wisely availing themselves of the et aft *to their feelings. After advancing many other traotdinary exultation produced by the retreat of the . itgrutierts, and referring to several disgraceful Sta. enemy, had opened proposals for a volun tar y loan, Sfitei in illustratibn of his opinion , that man y of our which . in the then temper of the public mind , it was ifirninal laws were •pasied in times of darkness, and ' expected would be soon filled. They had previously tofu the ImpuTse of transient feelings, the Honourable fikifitlernin concluded With a handsome eulogium on attempted to ra i s e a sum of £200,000, on the seen - I the tondoct of Sir Sainitel Romilly, who, Oierlooking city of a new duty on imports, but the scheme was xßtids, directed the force of his mind to the attain- unsuccessful. . • to Ht of an object of which poi terit y was to rea p the . General Carrattoi arrived at Lisbon in in English r fitist share of advantage : to hini might the people frigate, on the .sth of March, in order to take the Seidl peculiar propriety say, Pra.tenti tibi lartimur he ) 4iso f t:••=tit• de; tear-. ' , I , .• . command of the fifth Spanish anny, or that of Es • -1 ,,. •The A.TTO R NET-GENERAL entered at con- tremadura. . fitterible length Into the question, and contended that A • A BUR • •ed # prime- Bulletin -tom 'contains attiiie who violated the laves of the country were ge• • Some account of the. transactions North aft to re-. 'fietally Very sensible of the distinction between the - . .. etvaintt that a capital punishment would tun be in• treating airily. General Stittenta. had attacked ClA if ited and the probability of its infliction arising out mime, in the neighbourhood of San I s edro de Sal , • the -present systerhof criminal law and jurisdiction: whea thi French were beaten and 50 waggons, with • Mr. MARRYArr thought that the punishment their wounded, proceeded in the direction of Ciudad i of death poetic hardly e've'r to be inflicted, accept for •iirtler: To eterid this punishment to other offences Rodrigo. ad a tendeney to Confound crimes. He was in Am. Colonel TRANT, at Miranda de Corso, bad surprised , aterdam in 1802, and found that only two capital an estott, with 200 waggons of baggage belonging funishments had been inflicted in the course of half a to m AsSattA s a rmy. , 1 t ehtiiry ; a great proof of the superior effleaty of the •By the arrival of the RittestaN sloop of war f ro m - mild 4y stem. 'He also adverted to the case (f . the 1 ; insforttinate criminal at Gloucester , who had suffered; ; Oporto; which she left on the 24 th ult. we leant tha t ` • • . erring to a mistakei-a.puoishment not intended to be , accounts were received there fr om Coimbra , on the , !attic ted, whi c h enrildnever have happened under the! prteeding morning, that the advanced guard of the 1 ; Kid system . The opinions of the great moralist,.. F - . ilir . . Joitson,•nti other eminent men, were in faVour • French retreating army had made its appearance at • Garda on the 20th. They also added, that 600 } • . • . . principle i Of the of t h ese bills,*hich he would heat- i 9 - 's tair suppOrt. -. • . . .',- . prisoners were on their way to C oimbra. Colonel ~..Mr. CHARLES WYNN obierirecl, that t ie At- : TRANT, as soon as lie had ascertain ed that Coimbra 3Orriei-General having stated • the most aggravated . wa s out of all danger, pushed forward on the right of the offence to which this Bill referred, hesita. ; bank of the Moudeiro ; and, according to the latest led Whether' he wmilsk have pronounted a cent figh t j . •.., eices from him, had reached Monqualde, near Vi: 'if de4th bpon it. He a llowed, bowever, there migh ad t kites se aggravated Mien in this sort of crime , as seu, where; it ii notimprobable , he has famed - It i Va t eserve.-cleath ; but what would they sa y of the j unction with the corps of SILVJURA. ..- l eichei of trust, of si guardian ertibezzlig the pro- i $o dell concealed were the ititentiOni df MassanA of Mk . ward ; of perjurt tonititnting juditial . L ~ . t m.. si ii the thidi w C h at thti , tolitt rike iof.. to retreatt sand so lit& aPprehensiolt was tbittenoitsid • i inktiV e,1,140, *ld hot to the abstnice: . Upoki by aOldnel titAltr of itni Mcitedien' a ''of. tisif thstt i ' , i•ric'clidei itsvpottell by the Ithet• fide; thq biteifit span biliii iliii ilia *Lit ikali kb ittAliad , • . . ._ . • FURTHER DISPATCHES FROM PORTUGAL. The Gitowczn gun-brig has arrived at Plymouth from Lisbon, *with additional dispatches from Lord WELLINarow. They are dated Oliveiras de l'Ho pital, on thv 21st inst. being the date of Mr. STewaar's last dispatrles from Lisbon, which they confirm in every particular. Lord Wr.cmoroN continued in close pursuit, and MASSUA was retreating under the con tinuation of the disastrous circumstances formerly NA/AL lArrzummitif. MAIM Azarrto. . evu, attain% bit. 2 Dublin 0 •' LYON 9 2 WaterfoYd D • Naha 1 0 Cadiz 1 • • TI-1 If, EV E.NING NTAII. • • I • LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 9. PittCE OF s - rticics THlft DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, money, 44.1—f0r account, 6 4 44. Reduced, ex. dit SEW-4 per Cent. ex. div. ?Of. Navy per Cent. EA—Exch. Bills, is. to 61. prem. Bond e 75. preen. The Dividends due on the Sth of April weie paid to the Baskeni yesterday; and to the Public this day. The fleet which sailed froth Portsmouth the 12th ultirno;for the East Indies, under convoy of the Cu nAcoA frigate, were all well the 21st 4t: iA Int. 42.52. long. 15. 10.—The Union, FAIRFAX, parted the eve ning before. mentioned. The aftowmt• has brought' over an immense quantity of private letters from the artily and some wounded officers. The Fanny, CLARK from Gainsborough to HO, upset, tile 24th ult. The master, bis wife and boy, and two passengers were drowned. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7. The GROWLER gun brig is in the Offing, with dis patches from Lisbon ; but I am afraid she will not anchor in time for a boat to come from her before the post goes out ; if she dots you shall know the news. The GLEANER hired ketch sailed in the night, with important dispatches for Cadiz and the Mediterra nean. Also sailed the BADGER, brig of war on a cruize. Went out of harbour the DIANA, 36 guns.— The convoys still remain. —Wind N. E The following Midshipmen have passed for Lieu. tenants at this port Messrs. WALLACE, HA REY, and TOWN strewn, of 9fieGAmors; Mr. ]*tuts, of the Pinto ; Mr. 14°ra, of the LyitA ; Messrs. WA Litt' and BAUM, Of the ARMADA ; and Mr. Morr,of the Plumate.. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL Arrived the NONPAREIL schooner, and the Amass sloop of war (with a few vessels), from the Downs; and the SOPUTA and COURAGE:Ii= from the weskwarti; —Bailed his Majesty's ship InzutrzrfoAatt, with the Charles Grant, Lowther Castle, Marquis of Eiy, Ce res, Perseverance, and Warren Hastings, for China. —The Twin is appointed convoy for the coast of Spain, the NONPAREIL for Newfoundland, and the LIGRIITING for the Brazils.—Wind Easterly. DEAL, APRIL 7. Arrived his Majesty's ships ST. Ggoicos and PRIN. CESS CHARLOTTE from Portsmouth. Sailed BANTERER and PARTRIAN, on a cruize off Flushing. The AP , PEI, LLS takes convoy to the westward in the morning. Wind N. APRIL B.—Sailed the Armin sloop of war with a few ships to the westward.—Arrived the ACTIVE cut ter from Off Flushing ; she only left it last night at five o'clock.—Wind N.E. with snow. SHEERNESS, APRIL 7. Sailed NONPARRIL to the westward. Arrived Ma. cumus, from Chad - airs ; FLY from the Downs: Yu. mous mid FLA mEn from the river Thames. APRIL B.—Sailed the Watchful for Hull. ‘lll. Last Sunday, being Palm Sunday, the Archbishop of Yoax preachedtiefOre the buke of Camfainue and a numerous assemblage of the Nobility at the Chapel Royal The Communion Service was performed by the Bishop of London ; after which the appropri ate Anthem, " Who is this that comethfront Edon, ?" composed by Dr. ARNOLD, was sung by curs. NIELD, Hawes, W vat:, &c.- The official account of the unsuccessful attack made by the Danes upon Anhoh on the 27th ult. will appear in the Gazette of this evening. The hostile troops landed in three divisions ; but after an obstinate con flict on the Island, were completely defeated in their attempts to storm the fort and batteries, and obliged -ta retire with the loss of their Commander, threeotbel Officers, and fifty men killed on the spot ; and, what is of more consequence still, as a decisive evidence of - the fullness of our success, leaving five Captains, nit* Lieutenants, and FIVE HUNDRED AND FOUR rank a tire, besides the wounded, in our hands. Three piecai of artillery, also, five hundred muskets, and sitteen 1 thousand round s of cartridges, are among our tro phiei or useful acquisitions. When the defeat was completed, and the discom fited Danes were retiring, his Majesty's ships the SRELDRAKE and TARTARluckily arrived in sight. and attacking the flotilla in its way to the Danish coast, captured two or three of the gun.boate, together with some of the transports, and added one hundred and fifty more to the prisoners who had before surrender ed on the Island. • The letters from Sweden speak with confidence of .the change in the politics of Russia. It is stared that the Emperor ALEXANDER had come to the resolution of declaring to Europe his decided neutrality ' • and, that he would suffer his merchants to trad..• wi th any of the nations thereof, England not excepted. Should any Power oppose or counteract this his system of in dependence, he would resist that Power to the utmost of his means. As it has been already stated, a strong The following notice was yesterday placed on the force has been sent.to the frontiers next to Prussia, um, Board at Lloyd's : , del pretence of preventing e sthuggling. " Extract of a letter, dated,Cariscrona, Mach cs. The following Letter indicate? the precautions taken - " All Prussian vessels, laden with colonial produce, an in Sweden, under the expectation of the appearance been . laid under Embargo, to prevest them from gOirg tO the ae• of the British fl eet : pol ite coast, where they would be confiscated." There will be four Admirals employed in the Baltic " GOTTENBURGH, MARCH 26. this season, namely, Vice-Admiral SADIJAREZ, in :he "We heir that the garrison of this place will be augmented VICTORY ; Rear-Admiral R*YNoLDS, in the Sr. with aboet 5000 men, and that Count VON Esszti Is coming GEORGE; Rea.r.Adnairal MAKLICY DIXONsill the Vies); iron Pomerania as our Governor. ' and Rear-Admiral DURVIAM. in the HANNIBAL.— " What Meet the resignation of Cuiaxes, and the assuntption Twenty sail of frigates, sloops, Ite. have already pro. of BERNADOTTE, will have upon trade, Ido not know. Wheat c eeded to the Baltic. All the private letters ft:on the isnot expected to be exported; hut in favour of Danish and Swe- Baltic, brought by the Anholt mail, teem with ex dish vessels thee may be eiciptions." pressions of homage to English courage and firmness. It is likewise stated front Gottenburgh, • that an embargo has been laid on all vessels laden with cola- —The Governor had only received the colours for the battalion on the evening previous to the attack,' vial produce in the Swedish ports destined to those nf and they met with the best possible cons ecration, a Prussia, for the purpose, it is understoo d ; of p revent- ball through them on the field of battle. ing them from being seized and confiscated. BREAD.—This day there being no Court of Alder. Froni Koningsberg if is stated, tinder date of the men, the LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the returns, 19th of March, that all the vessels, to the number of 1 ordered it to fall 3d. per peck. 120, seized in the Prussian ports, were to be saki b y i Yesterday two houses in Ironmonge r-row, Old ' auction • the fi rst sale was to commence the next day, . • street, which, notwithstanding they were under repair, the 20th ' . . were crowded with inhabitants, fell down with a most Our letters from the Russian capital, although of ' very recent dates, contain no interesting facts. We ; tremendous crash, while the workmen were gone to dinner : by this disaster, we lament to say, that a understand that dispatches have been received from great number of the inmates were bur ied in the ruins. thence, by the vessel transmitting the letters, and that , The London Militia, who were at the time exercising their contents are favourable to the restoration of tra nquility between that Empire and Great Britain. in the :Artillery Ground, were immediately se nt to aid the sufferers, and by dint of the most unwearied ex- By the same opportunity we have Hathborgh Cor- ertions, eleven persons were taken out, four of whom kapondattau, containing some regulations respecting were dead, viz. a mother and three children named the coin of the thy, under the new form of its Go- Crewe; the wounded persons were taken to St. Bar- Yernment, and an important Prussian Decree. This tholomew's Hospital, most of them in a most depla Royal-mandate directs, that even vessels under the table state. flag of.the potentate issuing the edict, shall be subject Yesterday morning James Fallon , a Chelsea Pei. to confiscation, conveying British merchandize ; and s in ner , fo r the murder oflis wife, at Chelsea, wa s ex. the severe tiperatibn is increased by the arrangement ecuted at the Daiwa Door of Newgat e. tlpt Only being proyeetlye; bat retrospective, for the , . __:.-----_—__ Verlisases 4 is Nadi olds* tied kibtetvante of tht Con- . tineual tottiM4 I LONDON : Piloted and published byLivl LKanT, at the . T' `AI latit' s No. ly CartlistiOti Md ilt the-Wket Temp le 9i` i 4 1 -; 7 7 .1; S