Star. — London, England, 1801-06-12 00:00:00

fares oflife, they bad fcarcely uttered a complaint. " It (hall be thus when you thew a iliflicicnt potation to military employments, and jou will defend the State with your perfons, as well as your fortunes!" It would be idle for him to put fuch queftions, or to return an :intim- to them. He defied any ode to point out a lituation of the country when fuch a meafure would be more objeCtionable. He Riled it the ltrongeft nico tine that ever intuited and degraded a Britifh Se nate. It was !till maintained that the Conititu non had been preTerved Notwithflanding the inaudible fighs, and invifible tears, which had been teen and heard by an Honourable Gen tleman, there Rill was a coffin and corpfe, to whorofoever the murder was to be afcribed.— Bulwarks had been thrown up to guard the Con flitution, and cireumvallations had been drawn around it. Thefe were very good things when they were not made of the citadel itfelf. Bit it would be rather odd if after peace it fhould be afked, where is the citadel ? and the anfwer was, we have employed the whole of it in throwing up works for its defence: When the Contlitution was gone, it was but poor confolation to fay we hest frittered it into pieces to defend it. He molt carnet:fly withed that the example of France thuuld not be loft fight of. He mole carnally wifhed that it fhould be conftantly confidered. He was, indeed, tench afraid that modern French principles were rapidly gaining ground, and he was firmly convinced that every exertion fhould be made to prevent their inirodudion. What were French principles at the prefent day? in the people to fubmit contentedly to a military delputititt—in the Government to opprefs the peo ple for the advantage of a few individuals. The evil in the beginning of the toff century had cer tainly been very accurately Rated by the Noble Lord. To remedy this , evil were Bills of this na ture introduced? Was the Habeas Corpus wet fafpended for eight years I Was it found necet- Cary to keep in pay a band of (pies Rod informers ? Were the accufed kept in eternal ignorance of their accufers ? And were there no fecret meetings held by the difaffeded in thole days? Had they no correfpondence with each other ? Did they drink no toafts but what were perfeelly loyal ? By fuch meefures Government would certainly become odious. The old Government ofFrance hadbecome odious by loading the people with unneceffary bur dens. Had not we done the fame by proliituting the honours of the Crown ? Had not we done fia' too by fquandering the public money on the un deferring ; had not pur revenue been thus Caplan dered ?. and by confining the people on the Infor :nation of Spies, was not this pray ice now about • to be legalifird ? Mr. S. then alluded to the fubjed of Ireland. The Rebellion he attributed in a great meafure to oppreffion. When there was a pros feribedeaft, he anted, and that comprehending the grea telt part of the population, how could content ment be expelled ? He declared that he had been an enemy to the . Union, and patticularly to the Manner in which it bad been brought about. But, fince it had been brought about, he was convinced there was no alternative for the two countries but to stand or fall together. The Hon. Member next proceeded to advert tothe evi dence given by himfelf and his Hon. Friends at Maidftone, which had been the theme of fuch co pious abufe, and maintained that the tehhimony at tending the circunaltances in which it was given cepofed them to no fair charge, either of dififfec tion or incredulity. That Mr. O'Connor was highly ditcontented with the fyftem of Govern /nem in Ireland he was fufficiently aware ; but if, at the fame time, he entertained treafonable pro jells towards this country, he knew him too well tb make him the confidant of his guilt. He knew his charader too well to fuppofe that he was a perfun who would have been inftrumental either in concealing or promoting the defigns of treafon and difaffedion. • The different reports of the fe vent Secret Committees afterwards fell under his confederation, and he was very free of his peculiar file of farc t aftic ridicule to each of them in fucccf. lion. In defcribing the charades , of the one, firft relented in 1793, he defer:led in a very humor ous manner . the tre-atugy, the armoury, and the camp of the difaffeded. The treafury confifting of fifteen pounds , together with a few bad &Wings; the armoury of fewl nifty muftpiets, and the camp of the circumference of a back garret. He was willing to allow that at that penod the wild en thufiaTm of certain perfons in their attachment to French principl e s was at its height, yet even at that period there conftituted tome of the fortni dable preparations which were to overthrow the Gevernment and religion of the country, to level all the molt venerable diftinelions of humanfociety, tofpread devaßation and death over the face of this once happy land. On the Report of t ego, he con ceived it unneceffary for him to dilate, fince it had formed the fubjed of the animadverfions Honourable Fnend (Mt. Grey), who had quoted from the inftruaions to General Humbert certain very ingenious plans for tranfporting horfes over ,rivers , In the prefent Report, all thefe former d' gets, Rated in the two fiat Reports, were re vived, and we were told of the exillence of the moll exte n d e d an d dangerous confpiracy. We were told with confidence that arms were rprovi• d . ,ed, that uniforms were prepared, and that every thing was tending to open rebellion againft the Government.—Bert he begged leave to alk, from whom fuch information was obtained, except from I the e v id ence o f (pi es , a let of men whole nter& it was to keep alive the fame alarm of diLiffedion to an indefinite period ? If he were afked when had reafon to hope that this alarm would fub rdc, bewould anfwer, not till the band of tetra Quin* were annihilated, or biniflied from the r-infidence of Adminiftration. Till there efforts acre deflroyed, and counterafted, we might look Lrward for an eternal furpenfion of the Contlitu• lion, to a perpetual deprivation of our liberty...-. Bdure a Bill like the preterit was palled, Tome , heck Rill remained on there men, that a day of retribution might yet arrell them in their career. —Some hope Rill remained to the unfortunate individuals who had been the objea of unjuft ^ppreffion, that they might be enabled to obtain kers on their perfeeutors. Ad let this Dill once be paired, and conflitutional oppontion to what was conceived an intafion of tle national liberties' ' was at an end ; the hope of the injured was anni hilated, and encouragement was given tothe endlefs increafe of fecret informers, a tit of men abhorrent to the principle and the habits of a free Rate. It was Paid, however, in the Report, that the difcitifure of the names of there perfbns might be attended with fatal consequences, and might even endanger the lives of thofe thus held up to public obferva tion. But he muff confider this as a libel on the charader of the Englifh people, and be muff ark, whether one of there fpies had in any one inflahce been touched, abufed, or even intuited ? The only perfon who had experienced a revere fate was Watt, at Edinburgh, and he was punifhed by the inter. ference of that Government who enjoyed the be nefit of his Cervices. There was one part of the prefent Report Co extraordinary in its nature, that he could not leave it without obfervation. It was bled that a numerous meeting had been invited to affemble for purpofes of infurration on Ken nington Common, but that the aftembly bad failed on account of the hadnefs of the day 1 He had often heartiof a Lady's ponponing a Fete Cbamfieire on account of the rain, but never till now had he heard that inrurredion, for the execution of its puts pores, was dependent on the changes-of the atraof phere, or that, in order to be fuccefsful, it demand ed a fine day. Since, however, this proved to be the tare with thofe formidable revolutionifit, his Majeny's Mininers, in future, on receiving the ne ceffary intimation from their fcouts, inhead of feizing at once Upon the cannons, mortars, and magnets, of the iafurgents, would have nothing more to do, in order to frufirite their defigns, than to obtain quiet poffeffion of their great tuats and umbrellas I After cxpreffing in very pointed terms his reprobation of the ufe of Spies in a free Government, and calling on Gentlemen on the other fide to point out any one evil which could refult from the Amendment propofed, he con ' eluded by giving his hearty negative to the Bill. The Aimit/ay GENEaAL repeated his former arguments in favour of the Bill ; defended the con dud of the late Minifiers in the cafe of the State Trials of 1794; infi fled that the Coat anion would not, ultimately, be injured by the meafures now purfued, and gave his decided negative to the amendment. In antiver to Mr. Sherilas obfcr vation refpetiing Ireland, he reminded the Houle, that, by the contented of Arthur O'Connor and feveral other leaders of the late Rebellion, it was evident, that Catholit Emancipation was nothing mare than a pretence ufed by them to effed the reparation of that country from Great Britain. Dr. Lawitence argued at confiderable length in favour of the amendment, and Mr. ALllmitat (poke againft it. After Tome explanations, the Houfe divided on 1 the amendment, when the numbers appeared, For the motion t7—Againa it 92. The queffion was then put, " that the Bill do now pals," which was carried in the affirmative, the numbers being—Ayes 84—Noes IS. The other orders of the day being difpofed of, the Houle adjourned at three o'clock this morning. IMAIBURCH MAIL. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAT 9.---ott the evening of the 7th, the Englifh Ambalfador, Lord ELGIN, re. ceived a courier, who left Egypt on the aad of April ; and yefterday morning the following ac accounts were communicated to the foreign Mini fters here : After General Hutekimsow had compelled the French to keep within their lines, on the defenfive, be avoided engaging in any new aetion of confe quence, till the arrival of the reinforcements which be expeeted, and the army of the GLAND VIZIER. The GRAND VIZIER had proceeded on his march in the beginning of April, upon which the French evacuated Salahich, and retired. Their retreat encouraged the Turks to batten their march, and on the sad of April they were only two days match from the advanced pods of the Englifh. MURAD Bay had joined the Englifh with his troops againft the French. Three important polls, among which were Da- Mime. and Rofetta, were occupied by, a Itrong Englifh garrifon. In all the fmall anions and ikirmithes which had taken place during the laft four weeks,the Euglifh had conflantly had the ad vantage. At the departure of the courier the Englifh had received a reinforcement of Soon men. Admiral ligrrit had taken a French convoy of az flips, efcarted by a French corvette which had troops on board deftined for Egypt. This con voy, immediately on its appearance, was furround ed by a number of Englith (hips. The reinforcements which the Englilb in Egypt have received, came from Gibraltar. Minorca, and Malta. _ _ _ May 27.—Our Gazette of this day contains the following article: og This morning an En,gliffi courier from Vienna paired through this city, on his way to England. According to the account he gives, he carries in telligence that the Engliffi in Egypt , had again attacked the French before Alexandria, and driven them into that city. All the water by which that city is fupplied, is cut off; which has compelled the French to offer a capitulation, which the Eng lifh Commander has refufed, Willing on sat un conditional furrender of the French army, as pri foam of war." Extra& of a letter from an Englifh commercial lioufe at Smyrna, April :7 :—As the laft accounts from Egypt arc extremely favourable, all thofe commodities which are uffially fent to that COON ' try, have within there few days confiderablT rifen in price. From the fame :talon, the price of Moka-Coffee, which has been extremely high fince the French have bad poffeffion of Egypt, has now very much fallen. V a NNA, MAT 57.• -•The eitaltioll of the treaty of peace of Lnneville appears to meet with many-. difficulties. The Englifh in Egypt, and the GRAND Valet, have now received intelligence of the death of Pans. I. and the Turks will now af. fa t he Ensiles in OH nroa vigorous swam MUHLNEIN ON THE Ruing, MAT tachment from the 4th Regiment of Huirars, at Cologn, has again entered Deufs, oppofite Co logn. This unexpeeted advance of troops on the Right Bank of the Rhine, no perfon can explain. HANAU, Mar 30.....Yefterdly an account from Archaffenburg, from the Eleetoral Commander at Calk!, Z*EYER, fisted that Gen. CI4•MaIItLAC, at Mentz, had required that French troops fhould again occupy the almoi t demolifked fort of Cartel. 'I he caufe of this we know not. Yelterday and to-day feveral orders and reprefentations have parted between Afchaffenburg and Mentz. FILANCk PONT, Mar 3O.—The account that the town of Dents, oppofite Cologn, had been occu pied by French troops, by an order of General GR m an, and that the fame thing had been done at Cafe!, neat Mentz, at Dufreldorf, and Ehren breititein, has occafioned a great fenfatiott here. It is raid, thit the French have been for fame time diffitisfied, that the inhabitants of there places tuanitefled fo Much fatisfaCtion at their being evacuated, and fo great an attachment to their former German Sovereigns. The fuperior Prete& JOLLIVRT, has alto flailed other difficul ties relative to the influx of fo many emigrants from Germany s the levying of the old tax on the Jews, who yet Were to be confidered as French citizens; and relative to the navigation or the Rhine, and contraband commodities. BARKS OF THE MAINE, MAY 30. —We have re pdrts here, though they certainly require confirma tion, that three (Millions of French troo ps will Im mediately enter the toipire ; that the last Cow s ut. has declared, that he will Admit of no co.oper atiott of any other power in the accomplifhttient of the Peace of the Empire: and to prevent all de lays, will immediately occupy the countries der tined for compenfations with French troops ; and a thong French corps will immediately take pof talon of Bamberg and Wurtzburgh. , LONDON. iiIDAY, JUNE Is. PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Conf. for opening 64—Reduced 60M-4 per Cent. ;Bi-... New s per C. 94—Ornnitun pi to prem. This day , arrived the gamburgh Mail, due on Wednefday. Its contents are of confiderable im portance, as the events it points at refpeaing Ger. many may lead to confequences Which cannot be calettleed. The execution of the treaty of Luneville feems to meet with confiderable difficulties, owing to ob tlacles arising out of the bufinefs of indemnifies lions, and the f.:tuldrizations Which ffand Con nzded with that intricate matter. Oilier powers have, it is laid, interfered to pre vent the fecularizations being carried to the extent propofed by France, and agreed to by Aollria ; Ind alto to effed fome alterations in the prefent Rate of Italy. In tilde indications of a renewal of ha . vock and deftrodion among the human race, we may fee ex plained the dryncfs which has been obfervable for Come time between Pruffia and France I. but be that as it may, once 'more THE TROOPS OF FRANCE OCCUPY GERMAN TERRITORY, Having crofred to the Right Side of the Rhine, and taken polrefrion of feveral places, which they had lately abandoned. Some of the letters from Germany afcribe this movement on the part of the French, to the dif pleafure with which the teffimonies of joy, expref fed by the inhabitants of the right bank of the Rhine at the return of their own Sovereigns, had infpired them 1 This account of the matter may fatisfy a Ger man Burgher, but, for our part, *e fee a much more fatisfadory motive in a refolution adopted by the Ftarr Coxsut, to allow no Foreign Yower whatever to interfere ;n the execution of the Treaty between France and Aullria.—A little time will thew which party muff g've way. Should a re-commencement of hoffilities take place among any of the Continental Powers, to a certainty we (hall not, by the asth of March next, fee Peace concluded between this country and France, as Mr. ADDINGTON gave us reafon to hope by his fpeech, on Wednefday, in the Houfe of Commons. The news from Egypt by this Mail do no t come down later than the accounts which have been publithed by the Gazette. Of courfe what ever is (fated more than has appeared in the Of ficial details, Mould be received by our readers with proper caution. Lord Ezorm would not have failed to mention fo important a piece of news as the capture of as fail of French tranfpotts and their convoy, by Lord Isir tr, had information of any fuch event reache him at the time he wrote. It mutt be obferved too, that bit accounts from before Alexandria, come down to the azd of April, the very date of the difpatches which are pretended to have brought this account ; as alto news of a reinforcement of soon men haring reached General HUTCHINSON. Letters from Peterlbnrgh Rate, that Lord ST. Hermes was not arrived, but was expeeted hour ly. The Miniller of Commerce in Ruffla rent to the BIWA Faaory requefiing an interview, at which, he tepid Orem his Mailer withed to (hew his rod "orbs to the Emilia, and requefted they would hold a Meeting aitiodg then . felitet tb defer; mine on the Neil Mode of reteiring again ilte Pro• perty that, had been etihfirpaled, and to make, out the quantum of &image they may have fullained by the Embargo, which independent of the re; pairing of their fhips, (which would be done at the expcnce of Ruffia) s watticrlie made good by hil Ruffian Ma - jelly i a meeting was held, and ber of propofitions drawn up and prefented to the Mir.iiler : but the final deterinination on that rub jca had not been given when the letters canie away . CORN-MARKETS. • At Kull -lane, the opening of the Market thh morning was very dull, but towards the clofd s confidcrable number of heavy purchafei were made. Prices much the fame as lei markdt day: Wheat, Bss. to 106 s. Dantzick Wheat, 1245. to 1305. Red Wheat, icy. to 106 s. Rye, sos. to 60s. White Peafe, 6os. to ysi. Grey Peafe, 425. tb 505. Short Small Oats, 3os. to 41s: Fine ditto, 315. to 445. Small Beans, sos. to gas. Tick ditto, 44 1 . to 59 1 . Malt, sos. to yp. Price of Flour, loss: CHELT4I3 FORD, JUNE 12.—The price or tht tern Loaf in this town is ss. Idi per peCk. FiA I.III47LLIdEIVCE. . . .„, ARMdUTH, JUNE 1 E.--The Rciyt • Capt. H MOND, has jult arrived with a Mail fra Cuxhaven, which became due on Tuefday . lafhas This morning failed the PRINCR of WALES paeldis Capt. THOMAS Hi AR N, with the Mails, feveral Pad fengers. and Mr. licswbarts, king's Metrenger; with Difpatches. Mr. EAT, the Melfenger, rived here laft night from London, to efcort Baroti BRAIISTORFr, the Danifh Knitter, to town, whd is hourly expeSed. FALMOUTH, JUNI 9..;..-This day failed his ma: jelly's Packets PRINCR of WALES, and Pxxecorti , the former for America, and the latter for Ba;-. badges, Martinique, and Jamaica. The paffengere by tbe PRINCE ERN zsr are Colonel Jacos Trlosity - sox; Mr. and Mrs. Jitter/4os ; and the Revs Mrs BASSET: and by the Pipticora, Mr. RUDDACH.• and Mr. DYCE. Sailed yeilerday the DIANA floop, . (cartel), Captain %Vacate, with about 7o French prifoners on board, from Brillol for Mdrlaix ; the chip tranfport, No. 45, Captain WRITS, for Lou' don. &Imam, June t to.-Sa;leti hie Ma jelly'e IRRESISTIOLP S to the Great NOTC • came out of Ddck the Brt cc: ANT frigate ; the Isis will be uns docked to-morrow. Disc, Jima z I.—Arrived the Aaoo frigatei with the BRUNSWICK, GRANT; ARNISTON, M. 11.1 JORIRANR ; CIRENCESTER, ROBERTSON ; EARL ST! VINCINTs SAMPSON LORD NELSON SPOTTiaI WOOD; CARRON, SIMPSON ; MARMIE IA Or WELLif- LIT, MITCHELL; WALTHAMSTOV4 MONTT ; CAII4 TON, LUSHINOTON I aad Cuts, thrtvaits, front China ; and the Dragon (whaler) from the Capes Wind N. E. Hasa 'tic a, Jun o.—Three Danifh Alias ithicil had been flopped at this port, under the general embargo laid upon all Ru ffi an, Swedifh, and Da= ni(h veifels, in January 'aft, were releafed there.;- ' from on the Bthrinfl. in eonfequence of the amicah ble adluftment which has taken place with Den mark and this country; and an order. is daily ex paled to releafe a Swedifh fhip, which is flill de tained here, for the like reafonsa GRAVESIND. JUNE rt.—Paired by the Motile. Anna, —, from Amllerdam ; Union, Pa MN T i t 1 from Lilbon ; and Ruth, CURTIS, from Boflon. —Sailed the Progrefs, Faorr, f or Dominica ; John, ANDREWS, for St. Croix ; Imolinda, Emelt; for Demerara ; and John and Pieter, for Hamburgh. The Nati'. armed brig, of 16 gtrus, On Tue . = day arrived at Plymouth with difpatches from Ad , miral Colt rrwatzts,cornmanding the Channel fleet, dated off Bra, the 7th inftant. The difpatches, which were avowedly of importance, were imme diately forwarded by exprafs to the Admiralty.-- We underfiand a great part of the Combined fleet is !till in the outer-roads ready for tea, with troops on board, and making apparent difpolitions for failing. Whether thefe demonftratinns are made to prevent us from fending troops to Egypt, left we thould be attacked at home ; whether an invation of Ireland is actually in contemplation; or whether a grand effort is to be made to rein force Warm; ; are queftions refpefting the prepare ations at Breit, on which there are different opi nions; but the conduEt of the enemy in their fea• ports keeps our Go►ernment and Navy much up. on tha.alert. A letter from an Officer on board la Louts fri gate, off Havre, June 6, has the following flate ment :—Yeaerday evening we went in to attack the enemy, both numerous and powerful, when compared with all the other fea.port towns—Brea excepted. Onr fhip, by drawing tOo much water, was not able to come into anion.—Tire other (hips of the little fquadron engaged the enemy artist two hours, and feveral (hot were obferved to lirike the French veffels. 'The batteries kept up a Con fiant fire againit tjsc Britifh; and although between so and 6o guns, in various direeions, conic annoyed the veffels, yet onr friends fiatarneff or no damage. The force oldie French is u follows r-- ▪ Frigates, (each of 16) - rt lAIUCT gin Sow., 2 galas each 4 Gan begs, about II cat& • Logger - - - s aiiiitaner s Sass (about 4 cash) - ns, Inmeatlat thined little rich at Havre Guns Mrs ;s Igo as 410 4$ 14 $ 0 IN S• . as goo de Ms