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bf the names of any British Officers nov strvinA io sp a nish army, together with an account of the the pay and appointments received by theta from t hi s country, so far as the same could be made out. .After a few words from Mr. BAUM/J. Ilse question was then carried, and the Committee p os tp one d till Wednesday. mr. TIERNEY wished to know whether it was the intention of Ministers to lay the Treaty of Chau mont upon the tablet The substance of that treaty had already b een com m uni c ated to the House , but is was ^t so much importance to know th e p rec i se wording of t he articles, that he hoped they wo u ld not be 0 ;t:l „ e w. On a former occasion, an objection to, producing the Treaty was stated to exist in its ratifi cation not having been exchanged.. ''he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, t h er e was not the slighest wish on the part of the (;ONTAMCIII to withhold the treaty in question ; but be believed all , the necessary documents had not ) ec an ived in t4 . caawitry. . Mr. BENNET rude some inquiries respecting the Treaty or Tread's entered into by this country with skill, and.hoped there would be no objection to the production of thim? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sa id, they were already hairs the House. The bank Loao Ast !sal c o mmitted, whet). offer a few words f r om .thithancellor of the Exchequer and Sir John Newport. the. House mesumed s ,And, leave was given to 'bring in a Bill to uaend thA 0,4, Sir SAhIUEL ROMILLY presented a Natio% from the inbabitaats of the Borough-4 E 44=44 against the Property Tax. 'Fhe other Orders of the Danrinita ssi , of, when the House Adj0urne4,....,,,. FRENCH PAPERS. moin.loM..o FLORENCE, JANUARY u. The Diplomatic Agent of the Court of Naples Lis made no communication on the reports which circulate here. 'rhe Di.r-o Romano of the ISth does not contain the least notice of the approach of foreign troops. Oa the contrary the Holy Father, accompanied by a retinue of seventeen Cardinals, was present at the loitmilization of a mass chaunted by Gulefli in cele braiion of the Annivcrsary of the entrance of his Holiness into Rome. Preparations were making for celebrating a magnificent funeral service on the '2lst. The Neapolitan .Journals do not contain any new at t ;ck on the Holy Father ; they merely announce that t::e Minister at War bad oprued a voluntary enrol ; and state, that in the City of Naples alone, L:veral hundreds of young men bad entered. Several magistrates in the Marc. have presented volunteers arched at their own espence. A letter foam Spoleto, though of an old date, roves that the Neapolitan troops continue to occupy that fiu uess, notwithstanding that it is situated with .ut the limits of the three departments which were believed to be those only which the Neapolitan Go vounient claimed. General Carascosa conducts hawk there as if he were in town, subject to the So. vocignty of his master. Such are the facts hitherto known ; but the rigorous measures adopted by the Father against the Neapolitan Consul at Rome, ate held to have provoked new menaces on the part GI Murat, . and. it is supposed that the objet of the tr.i,:ion of the Chevalier Mozzi to Rome. and Nap/es !i to oltee the mediation of our Court • 801.00 NA, JANUARY es. The situation of King Joachim becomes every d iy r,c,:e critical.' Ktng Ferdinand has numerous parti. zus,s; who begin .to speak in a high tone, and who quote the example of France and Spain. The people general are discontented with the state of uneer niaty in which they are kept, and manifest no dispo sition for war, at the moment when all the world is at peace. The soldiers desert, and cannot be induced to march to hunt the Holy Father from his Sec. It is surposed that Murat will take precautions to place liimsclt and his family in safety, if affairs do not take a mere favourable turn. LEYDEN, FEBRUARY S. Letters from the banks of the Rhine and the Meuse state, that within the last fifteen days there have been several movements amongst the Prussian troops, the motives for which are unexplained. The garrison of Luxemburg has been reinforced, and the P russian corps cantoned in the circles of They, :Marche, and Dinant, have marched to the banks of the Rhine. All the Prussian cavalry, it appears, will be stationed on both banks of the Rhine. The Pius. • , .in army, it appears, is much more numerous than !.; generally believed. if we may credit the intelli ;enee irom Treves, a numerous corps from the atmy ;List Nollendorf will be detached to occupy t.te tin pot tans fortress of Mayence. VIENNA, JANUARY 30. Notl.ing Las yet been agreed upon in Congress, but cession of the Republic of Genoa to the King-of :iarw.l;:i. With respect to every thing elbe, notently concluded, but nothing advances. All that relates L J Poland and Saxony is far from being ar ranged. Russia and Prussia persist in their views, and the mutants proposed to conciliate these two powers, h-s-z not hitherto produced agy satisfactory result. It cannot be dissembled that the Court of Vienna is at this moment in a situation of great delicacy : tit power of Russia disquiets it, and the state of er many is not very consoling ; every Prince and 11 1 ef ir State puts forth separate pretensions. On the Q uar ode, it cannot be dissembled that Italy loves not the Austrian regime, the spirit of the Italian People is no longer the same, the Revolution which has passed over them has changed them. It is said that the Plenipotentiary of a great Power proposi.d to our Government to give a particular Sovereignty to Lomb ar d y an d t h e Milanese, and not to extend our frontiers beyond the Adige. The 27th, an English Officer arrived here, with intelligence that the Duke of Wellington will arrive ar Vienna on the 3lst of this month, or the Ist of February at latest. Lord Castlereagh will set out immediately afterwards for London, by the way of, trussels. It is remarked with some astonishment, that the Austrian regiments are completing, being very act i ve . the recruiting For some days the Aulic Chancellery and the War 011 ice have been very busy. Yesterday Morning an dicer set out with secret and important instructions to enin EUNING STA. " L LONDON" TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al' TWILLYB O'CLOCX t Reduced 641-4 per Ct. Bli-5 per Ct. Navy 931 Consols 63i 64—for account, 64$—Omntum Batik Long Anus. 16 5-16ths—Boudi Ids, 171. pre. li:chequer Bills 31. to Gs. prem. We have received Paris Papers of Friday : they contain some sprightly articles. The annexation of Belgium to Holland, the eternuns sub /lettere vulnue, with all Frenchmen whose intellects are not yet sobered by adversity, or who cannot participate in the enjoyments resulting from a cessation of hostilities throughout Europe These persons magnify the discontents of the Belgians : they eagerly seize upon the exclamations of the rabble, or the manifestations of a few stupid Priests who are their leaders, and tell tit that this spirit is one of friendship for France and Fletestation of England. The refusal of the latter to ling Te Deem for the deliverance of Belgium, is (pot ied in the Paris Journals as a striking indication of ithis mischievous spirit. They ask what deliverance he* the Belgians experienced ? Really this question !might come with a good grace from Elba ; but from ?aria we expect some more liberality. Have the ißmigians no feelings as men, and do they not rejoice see common With all mankind at the overthrow of 180NAPARTE and his execrable system, even if their own individual condition is not yet bettered ? We observe with satisfaction, that the Prefect of ode of the southern departments of France, who in tercepted the glorious intelligence of April last from reaching SOULT, and thereby occasioned the desperate battle of Thoulouse, has been put upon his trial. It will take place on the 23d instant. Just as our Paper was going to press, we received the Paris Papers of Saturday. The accounts from Rome reach to the 24th ultimo, at which time no Neapolitan troops had made their appearance s MURAT and the Pope, however, are said to be at is sue, and the former has intimated that he will oc cupy. the Papal territories until the Allies give him the States which he pretends they have guaranteed to him. The disputes respecting Saxony are de scribed as settled. The last note of Austria is said to have been friendly in the extreme, and Prussia, I with her consent, now gets the greater part of Saxony. A letter from Ghent contradicts entirely the re port of the Belgian Clergy having refused to sing is Dann for the deliverance of their country : matters of etiquette between the civil and religious Authori ties alone occasioned the delay in the celebration. The Piris Papers are still filled with the pleadings i!1 the cause between the Count and Countess de Sr. Lau (the Es-king and Queen of Holland) respect iog the custody of their son. The reports from Vienna are very contradictory : one article states that all is settled respecting Saxony, and another asserts as positively, that the Ex-King pertinaciously refuses to cede a single inch of his ter ritory. He says the Allies can never consider Saxony as a conquered country, for they never declared war against him. This is precisely the kind of logic we may expect from a Jesuit King with a Jesuit Priest at his elbow, for Faller SCHNEIDER / his Confessor, is also his Minister and adviser : in this his Majesty re sembles the beloved FERDINAND of Spain. In common with all the friends of the human race, we exulted at the overthrow of a tyrant who had trampled on all Yaws—who was influenced by no one motive but that of personal ambitiod, and made no other estimate of the value of human beings than as they could be made instruments in his hands to obtain the object of his desire. In common with all the friends of humanity, we rejoiced at the overthrow of a system which threatened to drive Europe back, and at no very distant period, to a state of barbarism. In common with the lovers of social order, legitimate authority, and impartially administered laws, we par ticipated in the general joy of Europe on the emanci pation of her general family and the hoped for restora tion of the individual portions of Sovereignty under which she had before made so much progress in those principles and arts which serve to ameliorate the con dition of humanity, and to foster the better passions of the mind—philanthropy and universal benevolence. And in unison with the feelings of every honest Bri tish bosom, we felt proud at the noble part that had been acted by -our common country ; the high cha racter we had attained among the nations of the world, and the commanding influence which our Government appeared to have acquired, and from which we anticipated the most happy results in the arrangements necessary to be made in re-organizing the long-deranged movements of the complicated machine of European polity : But our hopes were perhaps too sanguine; and we confess with grief, that we look with regiet and dis appointment at every thing that has occurred since the capture of Paris, excepting only the restoration of the Bourbons. We had hoped that the Potentates of Europe, in the days of their distress, degradation, captivity ! had learnt a lesson which they would not only remember but act upon in the days of returning prosperity. We had some reason to count upon this with a cli.. gree of confidence. Their acts, their protestations, their proclamations to the people of Europe, we con , sidered as sacred pledges that the rights and privi leges of all would be respected. 13y long experience *e had bier, 'taught the true vbilue of all professions and proclamations of the. French Government : by an equally long experience we knew that the *Go vernment of this happy country had uniformly sought only the overthrow of an execrable tyrant and the re storation of the llgitimate Govetnmcnte of the Continent—that they sought not the aifgraittlise ntent of Britain or an increase of her territories at the expense of the prostrated nations of Europe. —All this we contemplated, and we v.•, , re wak enough to believe, that each of the Powers of the Continent would feel so overjoyed at a resuk so un- I expected—the overthrow, the annihilation of their enemy's power, and the restoration or Oidividual possessions enure, that room would not Love been left in their breasts in which to stow the smallest portion of any neighbour's possession. But what have we seen !—Enough to fill our minds with despair as to the future prospects of Europe.— Let not England deceive hersef. The seeds of future convulsions are already sown, and already it is time for this country to look forward to the storm. But let us not be misundentool We mean rot to blame, in the smallest degree, the conduct of Ministers,. We sincerely believe they have done every thing that was in their power to prevent the blameable arrange ments that have taken place, and to provide against, or rather to ward off the evils which they threaten; but we had only one voice at the Congress ; and we fear we had no choice but to comply or to withdraw cntirely. —We hesitate not in saying that our opinion is, that it would have been better for the world that we had withdrawn. The motive for the act would at least have brought one other feeling into play—that of Shame I The dividers of Europe would have felt ashamed to proceed in their system of partitions and equivaleatr, had Britain boldly said 44 Do so on your own resisoutibiliey, for you shall not have even the semblance . of our sanction." We shall only add, that could the possibility of such results have been foreseen, it would have been much betta for the Continent, as well at for this country, hid we left the powers of the Continent to make all their own arrangements, without any inter ference whatever on our part. The desire to obtain our approbation, ultimately, to the measures they might have adopted, would have had a powerful in fluence in restraining the cupidity of some of the Powers. But who could have foreseen *hat has taken place ? Neither the Ministers nor those who are loudest in censuring their conduct. Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Carlton House, which was numerously attended. It is said an Illustrious Personage has appointed the Earl of GRANARD to the Office of the Hanaper, in Ireland; and that the Elrls of Ronmx, LIMERICK, and CIIARLEVILLE, are to be immediately created I'eers of Great Britain, which will occasion three va cancies in the Representative Peerage of Ireland. Yesterday another interview took place between Lord LIVERPOOL and a number of the Members of both Houses of Pm-Lament, on the subject of the Cora Laws. It is said that the subject of considera tion was, whether the import duty should commence at 75 or at 80s. the quarter? Busau.—This day the Lord Mayor ordered the price of Bread to be raised Half an Assize, which is One Penny in the Peck Loaf. The Sussex innkeepers have in general reduced the price of posting, and lowered the price of feed one third, or from 6d. to 4d. SOUTHWARK ELECTION. (Third Day.) -- State of the Poll this day, at twelve o'clock : Mr. BARCLAY Mr. W. 1. BO IRDETT 1189 9dl. We ate sorry to hear that another very considerable mercantile failure took place in the City yesterday morning. The sum stated is said to exceed £300,000. The fine statue of his late Majesty, Grano& the Second, is about to be removed from Stephen's Green, in Dublin, to Marion-square, for which the Palma REGENT's rmission has been obtained. The will of Joanna Southcott is still in abeyance.— She is said to have left property to the amount of 413000, and Parson Tor.= and Mrs. UNDERWOOD are the residuary legatees. BONAPARTE is desirous of giving the town of Porto Ferrajo the name of Cosmopoli. The Austrijsns are augmenting their forces in Italy, and placing all the garrisons on a complete footing. We stated yesterday, in the greater part of our l impression, the arrival of the Maria Francisca, from the Havannah, with intelligence tif considerable im portance respecting the British expedition under Ad nsiral COCHRANE, destined for New Orleans. The port at which this vessel has arrived is Portsmouth, and not Liverpool, as stated by mistake. The report which we gave yesterday, on the authority of some passengers, who came by the Maria Francisca, -was, that the British troops, incapable of proceeding to the mouth of the Mississippi in the heavy ships of war, constituting the maritime strength of the armament, had embarked on board transports and other light vessels which could pass the shoals in that situation but they were still intercepted by fire-ships, piles, and other expedients of defence to which the enemy had resorted, to protect the entrance of the river.— Under this difficulty, it was added, that the British landed, and were subsequently compelled to re-em bark, by the powerful resistance given by the Ame ricans, whose force under JACKSON, who commands the 7th military division, is calculated, with the Ken tucky and Tenessee recruit at about 10,000 men. It is but proper to add, however, that there is an abunAsince of letters in town: from the Havana!, of variOes dates up to t h e 9th of January, which do not %Ike the slightest allusion to any such unfortunate octurrences. We apprehend, therefore, that the whole is a fabrication of the American resideots rtt the Havannah i and we have as yet no good reason whatever to *doubt the ultimate success of our Expe dition, which we trust has by this time inflicted a severe chastisement on the New Orleans division of the American States. - Pur,a INTELLIGENCE. t THE STARLING AND MARY ANN E.l sr-IND 1A! , ,m4. The two ships above tnentioned sailed from IttFA under convoy of his Majesty's ship DESIREE, at.Li it will be remembered they parted compar:y on the pas sage, and as the DrArtza fell in with an American privateer the next day, great fears were entertained for their safety ; they were fortunate enouxh to escape the enemy, but the Starling in coming up Ci;annel went on share yesterday mor:rittg at fain a acci:, near Be , ch3 -head, where sbe n‘rw iics with her masts cut away— :rew and passengers saved. The Kay Ann his arrived, but the following extract from Scilly wlll relate in what state : " SCILLY, PCB. 9.—Came in the Mary Ann East- Indiarnan, from Madras, last from Ole Cape, in great distress. She is one of the ships that parted from the convoy—when off the Wcctern Islaaiis she shirped a sea that carried away her whed, binnacle, bulk .hea3r, and cabin-work ; nearly cleared her decks. Her foremast is sprung,, ant p. 14 t of her caigo has been thrown overboard." Information was this day received Ott the India Holm!, stating, that the Comp:int ' 3 ships Bombay, C:thalva, Lady Ni -Mlle, and Neptuae, Convoy ori his Majety's ship Owes Gtexpowt , s, arrived in blalacca Road; on the 91st Angitit la-t, and weze to leave on the :n:1 for WhatripAi. FAI f NIOUni, Fl BRUARY Arrived the Provideniia tram AMsterdam to Lisbon ; the Mary Ann limn Queenbro' ; at.J ►h•! Mary and Susan, from Tcignmouth. Saled ti►e B: i. tannin and the Triton, for London.—Wind W. tresh breez,:s, dirty weather. TORBAY, FEBRUARY 1?. Arrivcd his Majesty's . Act.LoN, trim a cru:ze. PORTSMOUTH. FEBRUARY 13. Arrived a large fleet from the Downs, and remain with the outward-bound convoys at Spithead.-- P. S. No arrivals from the Westward.—Wind DEAL, FEBRUARY 13. Came down from the River the Abundance store ship, for Bermuda.—Wind W. GRAVESEND, FEBRUARY) 3. Arrived, the •ltesmed . e Sonn, KnrucEn, from Ostend. Sailed, the Stranger, ETTRINGIIAM, and the Segar, Courts, for Jamaica ; the Hope, HALL, for Bermuda; and the True Blue, CUNNINGHAM, for Gibraltar. A few days since a brig appeared off Exmouth. standing for the liar, when seven pilots immediately put alto their assistance, bnt on their approaching. the bar, a heavy sea struck the bo:tt and upset her. A boat was immediately manned aud sent to their assistance, which succeeded in s'aving four, who had clung to the keel, the other three untortimatel; foand a watery grave. The following is an extract of a letter received from an Officer in Sir GLORCE COLLIER'S squadron, dated the 2d ult. : " We are now in full thane of the Constitution and Conprns American frigates ; they sailed from Boston on the 17th of De cember, and we had information of their sailing slx days afta wards. If this is the route thsy have taker, I a:u in hopes they will soon be ours. Our lit le squadron are, t he Leander 50, New castle 50, and Aeasta 10. You will soy we are strong enourh ; but it is reported that the President is at eta likewise, and if they unite there will be some broken heals. We ::re steering for the Azores, supposing they would cruise off them to intercept our East and West India convoys that sailed from Britain about Christmas." 'l'lle Good-intent, from St. dr hn's to Bermuda, was taken the 2d ult. in lat. 33. long. 51. by the Wllonough privateer, of 13 guns and l'iT) men. It was reported last night, but we have not been able to trace the rumour to its source, that a letter had reached town from New York, dated about the middle of January, which mentioned the arrival tittle of intelligence of the conclusion of the Treaty at Ghent, and that the news had caused universal joy. SOUTH AMERICA—By letters from St. Thomas, we are enabled, on the authority of a Spanish Gentle man, to furnish some particulars respecting the pro vinces of Venezuela, posterior to the occupation of the capital by the Royalists. After the defeat of the Independent army under Bolivar, its remains assem bled in Aunana, and took up a military position in Maturin, where the Spanish chief, Monteverde, had before been defeated. The Royalist General, Boves. sent Commandant Morales to that point, to act against the Independents, and on the 17th September ult. he appeared before their Ivor ks. The Indepen dent chief, Bermudez, had 3,800 men, of whom 800 were cavalry. The attack of the Royalists was re sisted with the greatest intrepidity, and the Indepen dents gained the day. The loss of the Royalists was 2,500 killed and prisoners, 2,090 muskets, 12 pieces of artillery, and great part of their baggage ; after this the Independents marched forward and retook Cumana and Barcelona. The Royalist chief, Boves. then collected all the troops he had in Caracas, and again took Barcelona and Cumana, but in a second attack on Maturin was defeated. All accounts concur in swing, that the Royalists are as the French lately were in Spain—possessed only of the ground on which they stand. In the east the Independents are strong under Bermudez ; and in the west under Urdaneta, who waits for reinforce ments from New Granada ; and Rivals and Piardo have other divisions. Vidor also has a division in Giuria, and the negroes assembled in Tuy, twelve leagues from Caracas, have declared in favour of the Inde pendents and against Boves. The late fertile provinces of Venezuela, after so much warfare, now bear the aspect Of a wide desart. They have been subject to repeated plutider, and have witnessed every thing that can enhance the evils of the worst of civil wars. Not a negro is Win found on the estates ; these have been delivered up to the flame% and their cattle carried off by marauders. —Devastation has destroyed what the earthquake had spared. Vengeance, in short, has reached its height. The return of Ferdinand has had an effect contrary to what was expected, and as the real picture of Spain is known in America, the minds be come united. The difficulty of procuring arms is the only cause of the prolongation of this unhappy contest ; but it is now nearly at . an end, for the error: of Spain have come in to aid the resolution of the natives, and all the communications of the Spaniards breath nothing but despair.