Star. — London, England, 1801-03-19 00:00:00

• • 'r had yet nt b' 1 r - 0 . rec.* tyn een at be for e .he Roufe. It was befides td be recollefled, that by the Gazette Of Taft night, it appeared this great Vohleman was no longer to continue at the head Gf affairs In Ireland, and that Lord Hardwickc seas appointed his fuccelfor. If then the Houfe were to Ad oh a fyftem of confidence, it was cer tainly previoutly neceffary to prove Lord Hard wicke before he could be fafely entrufled with the vaR powers which the Bill conferred. He belirv ed Lord Hardwicke to be an excellent man, and one who would be far from employing the powers which the Bill veiled in him to any improper pur poles. The Houle had yet no experience of his INing worthy to be entrufled with it, and therefore they ought to proceed on the principle that the power may be abufed. Mr. DAwsom was willing to agree to the amend ments propofed by the Honourable Gentleman who had fpoke Taft, but could not allow that no cafe of the general neceffity of the mcafure had been made out to the Houfe. On the other hand, he thought there was the belt pollible cafe, as it was one made out by the reprefentations of the Irifh Gentry, who fat as reprefentatives in the Houfe, and who had Rated that a neceflity for the meallire now esified. Tile Honourable Member then went on to the con fideration of the age of thole officers, according to the Bill as it now flood, and maintained that it was liable to ferious objections. He could not al- I low to be juftifiable that thole whom the law of , the land did not recognize as capable of managing their own private affairs, fhould have entrufled to them the lives and property of Bi itifh lubjcas. Colonel Losrats contended that the rebellion in Ireland was equal to any war, and that during its height, it was far from being eafy to find a fuffi cient number of officers to fit on courts martial for the trial of the rebels. He Rated, however, that in almoft no cafe had fewer than nine officers com poled thefe courts. There was not, he averred, a fingle hint Gentleman in the Houfe who would not admit that Ireland was in great danger, and therefore he was the more aftonithed to hear it al iened that no necellity for the mcafure now exifted. Mr. TRENCH could not allow Ireland to be in the Rate of danger which was reprefented ; but on the other hand was convinced that it was now able to protect itfelf. He could Rate with certainty what fell under his own knowledge, and he would affirm that the county he reprefented was as quiet at this moment as England. Lord De BLAWEILL aliened that inftances of the affaffination of jurymen had occurred feveral times within ahe laft two years. He withe that the Judges who had been defcribed as having gone their affixes in tranquillity, could be called to the bar of the Houfe, that they might have an op portunity of Rating that they were favourable to the law as having been inftrumental in relloting public order. Mr. GREY, Lord de BLAost ERE, and Dr. LAW RENCE then feverally explained. Mr. OGLE laid that he had avoided entering into any detail of the cruelties of the rebellion, but lie could relate flories to the Houfe which would bar row up their fouls. He called on the Englifh Mem bers to beware of promoting any convulfion in Ire land, fince it would certainly return to their own fhore. The Irifh Members he defer ibed as ftrangers who had been taken in, but, now that they were united, he [rutted they would Rand or fall to gether. He concluded by reminding them of the famous maxim of antiquity—lea via azitur cum proxi mo rs parier ardet, and applied it to the prefent cir cumstances of Ireland. Mr.TitEri cm and Mr. OGL a raid each a few words in explanation. Lord CASTLRIEAG fhortly dated the reafons why he could not agree to the propofed amend ment. The queflion he conceived to be, whether cafes might not occur where it would be extremely inconvenient for the public fervice to have more than feven officers on a court martial, though he could affure Gentlemen, that in all cafes where it was poffible, no lefs a number than 13 ever had been or would be employed. But it was not fair to contend, becaufe courts martial in moll cafes confided of 13, that cafes could never occur where it would be neceffary to depart from the general rule. The Noble Lord having gone on to (hew that cafes of filch a nature might not unfrequently take place ; concluded by giving his decided op polition to the propofed amendments, as altoge ther ufelefs and inexpedient. Mr. BROWN brought forward feveral proofs drawn from the circumflances of counties with which he was more particularly connected, that ap• pearances of tranquillity in Ireland were of the molt deceitful nature. In one county, he dated, that on the Monday of one week there WAS every ap pearance of quiet, and in the end of the fame week, 20,000 rebels appeared in the field, co-operating ith the French invaders. In another county. while the Gentlemen of property and influence had met for purpofes of conciliation, the rebels were bufily occupied in burning the honks of their be nefactors. _ _ _ Mr. Maar in (of Galway) (poke at confiderable length in oppofition to the propofed amendments. Be let nut with remarking, that whether the Bill tow offered to the Houfc was confidered in its Own future, or in the time of its being brought for ward, it was equally honourable to the Noble 4rd who had introduced it to the Adminiftra• ti .on the eve of retiring from office. After illuf t-ating this idea fully, he proceeded to viadicate the zeal with which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman (the Attorney General) had fpoken in fupport of the Bill, and contended that lo far was be from being liable to cenfure from the zeal with which he had fpoken on this occafirn, that the fubjeet was one on which no "ood man could help entertaining a certain degree a interett anil ar dour. He objeEted to the propofed amendments on the ground, that if any change was to take • place in the mea f ure , it oug ht to originate with Government, and that it was altogether unnecef far, to fpend fo much labour in improving a me:l - which was not defigned to be tailing, but of temporary eziftence and operation. After a few words from Mr. Grey, Mr. Trench, Mr. Brown, and Lord Caftlereagh, the quellion was loudly called for, and the Gallery was cleared. • , . • We titkelettlood, however, that the Anieraitue,t: of Mr. Grey were negatived without O. our return into the GAlery, Mt. Dawfon rofe to move a Claufe, fixing, that no officer fit on a Court Martial under this Aft who fhall' not have completed his ztft year. After a thort diteullion betwixt Mr. Dawfon and Lord Caftlerea2,h, the Houfe di;iided, when there appeared—For the Claufe 17--Againft it 7x — Majority 55. Mr. W H ITBREAD brought ur a Claufc which in rubfinnee was calculated to probtbit the ufe of tor ture in the execution of this Bill. , He fpoke with great animation on the unjutlifiable nature of the undefined fpecies of punifhment which might be inflieled by this law. He gave full credit to all that had I.t en faid of the humanity of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, but contended that the Houfe was hound to take care that the Execiitive Government fhould in no cafe have the means of inflifting undefined and unknown punifhments. Lord CASTLEREARGH, in reply, repelled any charge which might be intended againft the frith , Government as having tiled torture for the pur pore of extorting conteilious. He entered into a detailed and elaborate defence of a celebrated fpeech delivered on this rubjeCt by the Chancellor of Ireland, And by a long induetion of particulars attempted to thew that there was nothing in the fpeech which did in the fmalleft degree offer any jollification of the atrocious cruelties which the rebellion had exhibited. The Claufe, therefore, he judged to be unneceffary. Mr. WHITBREAD denied that he meant to throw out the leaft infinuation againft the prefent Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; but he maintained that the Houfe ought to throw out of their confidcration entirely who the individual is under whom thefe powers are to be exercifed. The queflion was, ' whether the Lord Lieutenant would be authorized by this Bill to inflift pundhments unknown to the civil law ? and that this was the cafe no one could deny. Had there been no inllances of Inch punifh ments having bten aCtually inflieted ? What were the &IL orders iffued by the Lord Lieutenant upon his arrival ? Thefe did more good than all the feverity which had been exercifed before. Mr. W. mentioned the conduel of the High Sheriff of Tip perary, and feveral other Magillrates, who had been obliged to call for a Bill of Indemnity • by rafting it the frith de Parliament had made 'dell a party to their cruelties. He quoted feveral patfa ges from Lord Clare's celebrated fpeech, in which he maintained and vindicated the ufc of torture to force confeffion. It was only by a Claufe of this nature that it was poffible to prevent thefe enor mities from being repeated. Mr. J. C. BERESFORD faid, it was an eafy thing for Gentlemen fecurely deliberating in that Houfe to blame the conduit of thole who had been con cerned in quelling the rebellion in Ireland, but had they been upon the fpot, had their property, their wives and theie children been in danger, froni the attempts of thefe fcoundrels, their hearts would have bled rather for thofe who inflieted pu nifhment than for the culprits who fuffcred it. He allowed that torture had been applied to force con feflion—it would be unmanly to deny it ;—torture had been applied univerfally wherever infurreetion appeared. But this conduit was by no means h fanCtioned by Government, nor founded upon the provifions of this Bill. The moment that Govern ment became acquainted with thefe prafkices, or ders were ailed for their being difcontinued. Mr:Hostiousa contended that the lafk fpeakcr had allowed that there were circumfkancesin which torture was juttifiable. He denied that any could exifk ; and that it might never be applied he voted for this amendment. Mr. j r. C. BERESFORD explained. Mr. PEnctvat. and Mr. Dawson each (poke at considerable length. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR ('aid, whether the conduel of thofe who had perpetrated thefe cruelties could be palliated, that of thofe who coolly defended them certainly could not. Yet this had been done in die mofl folemn manner by a Noble Lord, hav ing one of the highett offices under the crown. The behaviour of the Judge was ver- different, who, when he was applied to to let .afide a verdiet awarding damages to a man wbo had been tor tured, !Aid he would not have dept quiet in his bed if he had not affirmed it.' This motion of his Honourable Friend would fuperfede that of Mile!' he had yetterday given notice. The ATTORNEY GENERAL contended that the amendment was nugatory, as the Bill did not att. thorife the infliEtion of pitnithment before cons fic tion, nor could any punishment be inflieted in vir tue of it even then that was an alien to the civil and military law of the country. Mr. GREY inferred the neceffity of the amend ment from that confeffion, that punishment un known to the municipal law might .be infliacd in virtue of the Bill as it then flood. The very per. fons who had introduced the Bill mull, therefore, on their own principles, now agree to the motion of his Hon. Ft tend. They had never laid the mt.- nicipal law was infufficient ; but that it could not be adminiflered from juries refuting to do their duty. He then adverted to the conduit of Rober fpicrre, when lie WAS accufed of having been con cerned in the rnafEscres of September. To luflify his cruelties he made ufe exactly of the fame argu ments with the Gentlemen on the other fide of the Houle, in vindicating the conduCt cf their Irifh Friends. They appearc.l not lefs plaufible in his mouth, and they made an equal impreftion : but whin was the confeqttence ? Mr. C. YORK (Secretary at War), Mr. MARTIN and General Lorrus, oppofed the amendment, after' which the Committee divided.—For the amendment B.—Againft it 84.—Majority 76. ►OOL ■ILL. When ("rangers were again admitted, we found the Houfe engaged in a converfation upon the Re port of the Poor Relief Bill. Mr. Co RWIN, after intilling on the impolicy of the Bill, moved that the further Report be put off for tix months. A divilion thcn took place, on which there ap. peared for Mr.Ctirwen't motion, 38---Azaina it 8. Before ("rangers were admitted, the Houle had adjourned at half-pail Twelve. LONDON. TEIT'ItsDAY, NIARCH 19. MICE 3I STOCKS MIS DAY AT ONE (YCLdCI4.. Confols 56i—for acc. 57 --5 per C. Onmium 3 31 prou. PRICE 0} STOCKS PEST} RDA); : Bath Stock (hut 3 pc , Cvnt. Red. film 3 per C. Conf. 361 ; 4 per Ct nt.COnf. Riot per C. Navy ) 4 I Imp. 3 pm C. 36 Itnp...lnn. a 1-16 Oinniuni 21 31 !rah I)eb. rank fur Ace. Indi.l fur Ace. Conf. for April 561 57.157 It gives na great pain to be obliged to (late the lots of his Majefly's (hip INVINCIBLE, of '4 guns, which failed from Yarmouth on the 16th Mama, in order to join the North Sea fleet. Soon after failing, which was about twelve o'clock, fir: (truck on the Ridge Sand, fourteen miles from Winter ton, where the remained, notwithflanding every exertion that was made by cutting awry her malls, &c. till Tnefday morning, when the was got ofT the fand ; but, unfortunately, had fuflained fo much damage that flue foon after funk in deep water. Admiral 'Forry was taken out of her by the LIVELY excite cutter, Captain GINTHORP. According to one acccount 125, according to another 197, of the men were alfo laved ; but Cap tain CA: Lev, and the remainder of the crew, perilhed. Such an event mull at all times be dif treffing ; but is more particularly to at the prcfent period, when the affdlanee of our brave tars is fo much wanted to maintain the honour and dig nity of the B:itifir flag, and to break the penverful combination that has been formed againft it. By the packet whiCh brought over the lall mail from Hanthurgh, a MelTenger arrived at Lord HAWKESBURY'S Of with dificitches from LOW ELGIN, dated Conflantinople, February sth, very favourable alTurances in regard to the Egyptian expedition. Sir RALPH ABERCROMBIE is fuppofed to have failed, but the original plan of the attack had been changed for one better fuited to circumffances ; and the Turks were to co-ope rate on the fide of El Arifch. Lieutenant HARRIS arrived veßerday morning at the Admiralty with difpatchcs from Lord KEITH, which were landed at Portfmouth on Tnefday, from the CONSTANCE frigate. By this conveyance, let ters from Malta of a later date than thofe which arrived laft week were received, and the difpatches bring the lateft account from the army under Sir RALPH ARLRCROMBIE ; at the period, When they were fent off, no important Rep had been taken to wards the reduction of Egypt, and a report is fence current, that on account of the backwardnefs of the Turks to co-operate, the expedition will be abandoned. For the truth of this intelligence, however, we do not pretend to vouch ; we give it merely as the report of the day. The private letters from Berlin by the Ham burgh Mail, Rate, that no meafures hoftile to this country have yet taken place in that quarter ; and that, ou the contrary, appearances are favourable to Great Britain. It is even faid that the Court of Berlin has offered to mediate between this Country and the Northern Powers, in order to ac. commodate the exilling differences. A private letter from Copenhagen Rates, that Mr. DRUMMOND, UIIO had been left Charge d'afj: fairy:, at that Court, had on the Nth Wt. received letters tiom London, appointing him Minister Ple nipotentiary at that Court. It is alio Rated in private letters from Stocl:hclm, that a fleet of twelve men of war failed from Car lefcroon on the t tth inft. for the Sound. The La is as plait. ely avowed in this letter, as the appoint ment of Mr. Daum stomn in the preceding. Bnt it is hardly probable that the ice (hould have given wav in the Gulph of Finland. • The American Agent at Paris has addreff e d the following Note to the American Agents at the other ports.: " A circular Letter of Mr. CATHCART, the Agent of the I Yoked States at Tripoli, in Barbary, dated 3d January lall, informs us, that that Re gency has officially declared War againft the United States; and that the KING of SWEDEN having made a Treaty with the Regency, can no longer, by his frigate‘ hi the Mediterranean, pro tea our (hips again I the Tripohine Corfairs." The Mai a l-ilk of TOWN SEN Ws Birth-day was ce lebrated in Ireland, as ;dual, with great feflivity. Mr. Do; rTAS has not yet resigned his Office of President of the Board of Controul, as he is com pleting. a:6 bufincfs before the Board previous to his giving it up to Lord Idwistfam. the Talc. at the Corn Exchange yefterday were rather brilker than on Monday.though f:w famplcs of Wheat übtain:.d more than eight guineas a quar ter. Fine Flour was from I 255. to I 3os. per lack. ORATORIO..--A new Seleaion from the •Works of Ha vnct., confitling of tome of his moll ad• mired Vocal Performances, attraeled a numerous audience halt night at Covent-Garden, and the whole was fupporrcd with admirable force and cor reanefs. Mrs. MARC F atiPt was the novelty of the evening : the is a refpeftable Performer, and with more praelice will be very ufeful. er " Aw ful pleating Being," was much applauded. The fine old Canon, N:a A'o4ir, was given with good I effe.9, and a Hymn originally compofed by the famous MARTIN LI/ rm Ea, with appropriate ac companiments by Mr. BAUDIG AAAAA powerfully interefled the feelings of the audience. The blind young Lady played a Sonata on the Grand Piano Forte, with two ordinary degree of skill and tafte. NriUTICAL tr,r7',7r.LIGENCE. rL.I•MOU'rh, MARCH z 7. Came in the Daniill b Singende Carolina, Capt. Jts JANSLN, itOM St. Thomas's, bound to Altana, laden with fufar ; dctaincd yeacrday fe:a by his Majelly's Ihip UNICORN, 0132 ganJ. Captain WI L. it! Is SUN. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 18. This day arrived the DRYAD frigate, Captain MANSFI ELD, with the Ulla Fz:rfen, Swcdilli frigate, her prize, and the Premier Conful, French priva teer, from St. Maloe's, which port flue left three weeks ago, and captured a Portuguelc schooner laden with fruit. YARMOUTH, MARCH 18. Arrived the Rovtß and - Hazaitto cutters, and the SPECULATOR lugger, from a cruifc.—Sailed the ZEPHYR armed brig for the Baltic. FALMOUTH, MARCH 16. Arrived yeDerday the Expeelation, fmaggling lugger, belonging to Looc, having'on board 5 is mikets of fpiritc, a pi-lie to the ACME cutter, Capt. Ns AN.—This day the So &PRIZE rChOOIICT, Capt. RoscRIAC; r, from Scilly; the failed from this place on the 24th January with the fleet for Liibon, but having loft her foremaft was obliged to put into Scilly to refit ; having afterwards loi her topmall, flit was obliged to put in hera.—Ar.. rived alfo the Lillion packet, Captain JsxxiNs, fiorn London, and the 'fiber, TmoAtesos,•from Liverpool. Sailed, yetlerday, the Pelican fchooner ptiva. Leer, of to guns. Captain GAGE, on a three months cruise. Wind W. LOSS OF THE LONDON TRANSPORT. We are favoured with the following particulars refpee.ing the lofs of this thip, by a correlpondent, as related by the Chief Mate :—On the 17th of February they were chaccd by a privateer near to the thore, and were wrecked that night at eleven o'cl.ick, on Tome rocks celled the Merlins, to the fouthward of Lifhon.—The following perfnns wet e Paved providentially, by flaying by the thip, and when the went to pieces, got on a raft and drove on fhore : H. Hill, chief mate; Andrew Lawfon, foreman man ; snd three lads, John Childs, Englifh ; TubiAs Chriftian, a Dane; and John Cr..in, a French boy. Drowned by the overfetting of the boats, Capt. Andrews,matkr ; the carpenter,cook, and 6 failors. Paffusgers drowned—Capt. Many, 11, of the 17th regiment of Foot ; Lieut. Wainwright, ditto ; Lieut. Everitt, ditto ; Capt. Durant, Engineer; Mr. Owen, affillant furgcon of the 44th regiment; Mr. Lynn, purveyor's clert Mrs. Groves, and three feivants—Nineteen drowned, five I,,vetL—The Chip belonged to Mr. hlatins. On Tuefday arrived at Torbay the Channel Fleet. cor.lifting of cloven fail of the line and one frigate, under command of thelion. AdmiralCoa Nw Letters received yefterday bring advice, that the Ihip HENRY * ADDING TON, was (poke with at . fea on the Ift ult. in lat. 27. 34. N. long. 19. 30. W. with the Company's fhip Ore.., and (x other veffels outward, under convoy of the HUSSAR, Lord GAitt.l Es, having parted with the Norrt NC. HAM, on the 19th of faintary, and the CA RNATIC, on the zoth, thick weather, and blowing hard from the wellward. Advices received over land from Bengal, dated the 13th of November 1:4 (late, that the MOR• NINGION packet was tinder difpatch for England ; that there had not been any importations lime the lois of die KENT; and that the PRINCESS MARY, and ANNA, had failed for England the 29th of, Yeftertlay a Court of Dirthors of the Eaft-India Company was held at the India Houle, when the following Commanders attended, and took their final leave or the Court previous to their being dif patched according to their refpeetive deftinations, viz.—Captain Jamrs PETER PERRON, of the (hip BELVLDERF ; Captain JAMES FARQSHARSON, Of the flip ALFRED; Captain HENRY IVILsos, of the (hip \VARLET, fcverally configned to China dire& ; and Captain BFwjamts RiciNtotosov of the PRINCFSS CHARLOTTF, CCllfigTled to Ma dras the Molucca Elands. Gener.il STUART, Wh. %A as lately appointed Commander in Clikf of die Britifh forces on the coati of Coromandel, proceeds to Madras in the Company's fhip the CIIARLTON, Captain JOHN ALT HAM CUMBEILEGE. Thurfday laft at twelve o'clock a dreadful fire broke nut in a candlemaker's workhoufe, in a bye lane in the town of Invernefs, near which fix bar rels of gunpowder ha.l been lodged, and to which the fire communicated before it was difcovered— The explofion was awful, and its efFals melancholy. Two amiable young ladies, daughters of Captain SIMON FRASLR, of Finellan, were palling at the time; the •me was killed on the fpnt, and the other fo Mockingly mangled that little hopes are enter tained of her recovery. Many others loft their lives, but the numbers are not vet known. Mott of the bonfes in the town arc much damaged; few have efcaped broken windows. It is to be regretted that there is not a proper gunpowder magazine in levery town—there are laws to that purpofe, but I feldom abed upon till after fuch warnings. ENGLISH STATE-LOTTERY.—FIFTLENTH DAY. —Nos. 34049, 35,062, prizes of Sol. The Ticket No. 27,487, drawn this day a prize ('2,r:col. was fold and regificred by J. littaxscom its Proprietor of the Lucky Lottery Office, No. 1 1, Holborn ; where the tiro 33,00c1. prize ever (hared, was fold in One Half, One Fourth, One Eighth, and Two Sixteenths; and where Tickets, and Shares of Tickets ale now fellins, warranted undrawn, as cheap as at any Office in England ; and where likeu ife the Holder of the above C:r tunate Ticket may receive the amount of faid prize on demand, at the rate of 97 per cent. ; as may the Holders of any of the Shares of No. 38.443, drawn a prize of wool. •on Friday the 6th intlant, which was iota in One Eighth. and Fourteen Sixteenths, at the above Office ; or the full Money ss ill be paid the firft week in Augnft, agreeably to Ad of Parliament. '