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'ten signed, then indeed he arguments of the Hon. Gen port of such an extensive mi d suppose there was still the n. Indeed, from the rould the Noble Lord expressed llity not yet consolidated, it vocates for the present Eat r- It was with regret _that he of the Continent a determina he Noble Secretary had so eat military monster.- But :ould Great Britain interpose until she herself first set the !tear.) led--For Lord Althorp's mo -Majority 21. anounced amidst loud cheer- I BOROUGHS. Gll, seeing a Noble Lord ,ord A. Hamilton), wished to estion that he had asked on a • the Lord Advocate had pre lat it was of so important a thought himself justifiable in nent till he had consulted the tland ; and he therefore could forward before the holidays. N expressed his dissatisfaction Aver, and felt that, from what Lord Advocate on a former ought now to be before Par- RT was astonished at the in d. He believed this was the introduced in that House was irst submitted to the Judges, executors of it after it should ramous invasion of the rights irliarnent. LOH replied that he was asto on. Baronets indignation, and ire when he knew that the Bill for giving the Lords of Session )ecuaiary concerns of the Bo that they were the most com ic on the particular remedy )N censured the time that had preparation of this Bill, which nought forward long before X TO[RMS. be Bank Token Bill, General to propose a clause to permit re these tokens as legal coin. R of the EXCHEQUER wish. nt General, that his proposition he Bill as it now stood. • ING WANKS. MR of the EXCHEQUER gave move on Monday for a BM to lks Bill. LONGITUDL to move for leave to bring in re Acts relative to Rewards to very of the Longitude. He were about 21 in number, and Lrious times, before and since me, but though parts of all of n, yet not one of them was a of them awarded 4,000/. for of them 20,0001. ; and a pro :over a more perfect mode, if longitude than that now ge t claim 4,0001. under one Act, Lather. The Honourable Gen nto a complete history of the a made in various attempts to 'itude since the time of Philip mentioning all the discoveries o the invention of Harrison's much improved upon by mo iis, with the addition of Euler's now brought the subject to everal Officers of his Majesty** longitude of Saint Helena to the fraction of a degree, of ch it was laid down. This and what the great Sir Isaac have expected. He thought ited to shew that the policy done much towards accom hey had had in view, for the e country, but of mankind in woud reflection that such had it measures, and that the coup of ascertaining the longitude, prosecution of it, stood allied une of Newton. No reflection cast on the present Board of happy to offer them his humble d praise. The Bill he wished to re the Commissioners of Longi ed by right of their Professor situation ; but it was intended to nes of six Gentlemen of rank In in fact, to revive the original Boards The respectable Pro imposed it, would not, he was o the consolidation of the Acts der to add to its efficiency. As been discussed in that House for 1 years, he was anxious to bring uestion fully before them. The , invented by Dr. Maskelyne (a mentioned but with reverence), he found it necessary to men d over that work, and within a riod he had not been able to dis one or two errata. He was sorry xerly maintained its reputation. r this year, there were no fewer 3, and in that for the next year liese were not scientific errors.— pographical, but these, he con dangerous than the former would miag the Nautical A lmar.ack had to make the observations. i to Cat. Computors, who formed ley laid before the Comparer.— len on the science of the country Mai had occurred. To correct I that a responsible officer should e . ,•:ater.d the amputatiotu and comparisons. To discover a Northt rn Passage be tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, had been an object of much interest to the world in general, since the time of George 11. and to this country in particu lar. Parliament - had offered a reward of 20,0001. to him who should discover such a passage. The re ward, it was hardly necessary to say, had never been claimed. It was however found that fishermen en gaged in catching whales, had approached nearer the North Pole than any other navigators, and a re ward of ten thousand pounds had been offered to him who should get within one degree of it. By another Act, however, these persons were obliged to swear they had no object in view but that which was to arise to them from catching whales. He wished to reconcile these two measures, and to make the oath so as to except the reward offered by Parliament.— Three of the scientific persons that he proposed to associate with the Board—Gentlemen residing near town, who could always be referred to—it was thought ought to receive a moderate re muneration for their trouble. With the concurrence of the venerable and respectable President of the Royal Society, he thought the remuneration given might be so low as 1001. each, and he thought the House would be of opinion that the sum of 300/. could not be better employed. The sums to be given for future approaches to &lie discovery of the Longitude, it was pro posed should be 50001. 71001. and 10,0001. The limits within which these were to be granted, to be settled from time to time by the Board, according to the advances made in science, so that the reward held out should act as a perpetual spring to human industry and scientific research. He hoped the MU would be I suffered to be brought in ; he would then move that it should be printed, and name a distant day for the second reading. He moved for leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the more effec tually discovering the Longitude, and to encourage and reward the discovery of a Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, approaching the Worth Pole. Mr. D. GILBERT most cordially approved of the Bill. He noticed the recent advances in science ; and, in particular, the marvellous degree of perfection to which the sextant had been brought within the last fifty years. Dr. Maskelyns he stated to have been assisted in the Nautical Almanaek by the Rev. Mr. Hitchins in the comparisons. These were astonishingly correct while that Gentleman was alive, but since his death it ap pears, from some circumstance or other, the character of the Nautical Almanack had declined. A Mr. Edwards had assisted as a computor, and his widow (who had been taught by lxim), had, with her daughters, made the computations for thirty years, and he had often heard them praised by Mr. Hitchins as most accurate He was sorry to learn they were no longer so employed, and could not conceive for what reason they had been dismissed. BROUGHAM did not so mucli object to the remunera tion which it was proposed to give to the scientific Gentlemen to be attached to the Board, as to the patronage which would thus be given to Ministers. He wished to know if there had been a disagreement between the present members of the Board? Mr. CROKER said there had been no disagreement. Though some patronage might accrue to Ministers, it would be most atrocious to suppose that in such a case it could be misapplied. That course had been taken which was thought best calculated to guard against abuse in this respect, and with this view it was intended that the sums granted should be placed on the ordinary estimates of the Navy, that the manner in which they were disposed of might be canvassed every year. The elections were to be annual, and he had no objection to state the names of the Gentlemen who would first be proposed, that it might he seen what were really the intentions of Government. The Gentle men it was in contemplation to name were Dr. Wolaston, . Young, and Capt. Taylor. The other three were to be selected by the President and Council of the Royal Society. A short conversation followed, in which Mr. SMYTH (of Cambridge), Mr. Witizaroact, Mr. Fosses, and the Cl/PO.- I=l4l of the EXCUZQUZIL participated, in the course of which Mr. Camelia stated it to be intended by his Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) to relieve the Nautical Al manack, whrch was only an almanack in name, from the alma neck duty. —Leave was given to bring in the lin—Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. ,? SATURDAY, MARC!! 7, 1818. , TILE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE °CLOCK: Reduced shut—Cons. 77fi—Cous. for Ac. 77k 78 4 per Cent. shut—Navy Annuities 106 ft India Bonds 94 96 pr.—Exchequer Bills 10 16 pr. A Flanders Mail arrived this morning, and has brought us Brussels Papers to the 3d inst. The fol lowing are extracts. The late reports from Genoa, respecting Algiers, are, it will be seen, now cor rected by another article from the same place:— " BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 25. " Hia Majesty the King is expected at the Palace of Laken, immediately after the termination of the present Session of the States General, which appears not to be far distant—The Court of Caseation will not decide on the appeal of the Duke o f Wellington against the Editors of the Journal of East and West Flanders before the month of April next. " GF.NOA, FEBRUARY 6. " A Foreign Journal, in mentioning the late events at Al giers, has committed some mistakes, which may be rectified, as follows, from authentic information : " The Sardinian brig was not declared a prise ; the cargo was pillaged, but the vessel and crew were set at liberty, and the Cpatainh ad his freight paid him. It is not the son of the English Consul that the Dey canted to be arrested, but a person of the name of Ben Zaman, son of an ancient English Vice Consul. This young man has not been imprisoned, but obliged to be come a Musselman, and the Dey has given him an employ ment in his service. Lastly, it Is not the daughter of the Sar dinian Vice-Consul who has been carried off, and shut up in the Seraglio, but the daughter of a person, named Ponsibinio, a Sardinian subject, who, after having been for twenty years Is' slavery at Algiers, now lives there at liberty, and carries on a little trade. This young person is only the god-daughter of M. Ddpino, the Sardinian Vice.-Consul, who has formerly been se veral dines in Africa." " COLOGNE,.FEBRUARY 25. " An erdele in the Gazette of Mayence, of the 18th, posi tively states, that the free navigation of the Rhine, decreed by the Aet of the Congress of Vienna, 1815, will soon be put into execution, and that the fetters which have till now impeded it, will be Immediately removed." u BRUSSELS, MARCH 1. " Letters from Paris, of the 27th ult. announce, that the Police has had three individuals arrested, who are suspected of being concerned in the horrible crimes attempted against the Duke of Wellington. People are extremely impatient for in formation on this subject ; it will doubtless fully exisose an at tempt which has filled all France with indignation." “ BERLIN, FEBRUARY 11. " A notice was published yesterday, in our Journals, to all Swdish and Norwegian subjects here, or at Potsdam, to appear on the 15th of 31arch, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the Hotel of the Swedish Ambassador, to take the oath of alle giance to his Majesty, CILARLYS Joust, King of Sweden and Nor way.—Baron Jaube, Minister Plenipotentiary of Sweden, re ceived the special news d his Sovereign's death by a co:trier, the day before yesterday—ha notified this event to the King and the Royal Family, through the Minister of Foreign Affairs. " His Highness Prince Frederick Louis of flolienlolic In viting, General of Cavalry, in the Prussian service, died en the 15th instant, as Schlawanetz,in Upper Selesia, aged 71 years.n! NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. RAMSGATE, MARCH 6. This morning's tide has brought in from the Downs a great many vessels, with more or less da mage, from the late gale; eight or nine out of them dismasted, and bowsprits gone—the oldest man here has no recollection of having ever seen within this harbour so many ships crippled by one gale as at this time. None of those which we reported yes terday to be on shore, have yet succeeded in getting into the harbour, and it is much feared some of them cannot hold together a great while longer, as it still continues to blow hard at W.S.W.—The large Swe dish ship, which went ashore yesterday upon the Bathing Sand, was attempted to be got in this morning, by means of warps, and when nearly within the head, sad to relate, the warps gave way, and that from the west end, in its sudden jerk, killed upon the spot a man named MINTER, who was Master of the Light-house, and broke the legs of two other persons. The ship drifted out again to nearly her former station.—One of the vessels which missed the pier on the night of the gale, struck the parapet of the east head in three different places, knocking fawn many yards of it, luckily without injuring any person. —lt is supposed we have more work cut out for shipwrights at this port than can be corn- pleted in three months. We have only one dry dock, and the Trustees of this Harbour would ren der an essential service to the shipping interest by providing another for emergencies like the present.— The Trafalgar packet, of Dcver, came in here the other evening from Calais, having managed to land her passengers in boats at Dover, am 's whom were the Baroness Howa and Sir W. WALLER, Bart. her husband, who were obliged to come over here post, in order to join their carriages and luggage, which could not be put on shore at Dover, owing to the frightful bar by which that harbour is at pre sent annoyed. Three transports from Calais, which were unable to make Dover harbour, came in here, and have re ceived severe damage. We are happy to state, that the following troops on board have been safely landed, viz. Detachments of the 4th, 29th, 71st, and 79th, Rifle Brigade, &c. some of the 2d Dragoon Guards, 3d Dragoons, Scots Greys, 7th Hussars, 11th and 12th Light Dragoons—in all amounting to about 400 invalids, and some sent home to be discharged. MARGATE, MARCH 6. The cutter reported yesterday, and also to-day, to have foundered in the Downs, has been brought in here, and proves to be the Revenue cutter Industry. The schooner Maria, LOVEYS. was also brougl.t in here last night, with loss of anchor and cable. The Barrosa, ; Lord Melville, ; Victory, ; and Phcer.ix,—, have sailed from Pan-sound Hole this morning. The Java East-Indiaman, and the Frar.klin, Dutch East-Indiaman, remain off thispott. Osptain NICHOL, and part of the crew of the Mar quis Wellington, (not Wellesley, as mentioned in our letter of yesterday) who landed here yesterday, have gone off again to the ship, with an anchor and cable. DEAL, MARCH 6. Wind S.W. and moderate.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Hannah, EDWARDS, from New Bruns wick, with the loss of anchor and cable. In addi tion to what we stated yesterday, we learn the In dustry, Revenue cutter, and two Brigs, coal laden, I foundered in the Downs during the gale, in con sequence of a large Swedish ship having run foul of them. The brig Hartley, CAIIEN, from Shields to Grenada, is missing, and it is much feared that she is one of them run foal of by the above Swedish vessel. Five o'Clock.—The Blenheim, —, has not yet been heard of. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 6. Wind S.W.—Arrived the brig Neptune, —, from Sunderland. The galliot Triton, ONNEN, which was driven out of Cowes harbour in the late gale, yet remains on shore near Seliar's Point. The collier re ported yesterday to have sunk, is bilged, an 4 it is feared cannot be got off. It has blown extremely hard all day, but we have not heard of any further damage having been done. PLYMOUTH, MARCII 5. The gale last night was dreadful, but the conse quences, to the amazement of every body, have been but trifling. The moorings have started, although fourteen ships have hitherto rode by them, in vio lent gales. It still blows very hard. FALMOUTH, MARCH 4. -At day-light this morning the wind was from the if/S.W.-and moderate. About eleven a. m. it backed to the Southward, and from that to the S.S.E. and `slew that time to the present moment (ten p. m.) it has blown a hurricane, with a heavy sea. The ships in the Roads and Harbour appeared a little before dark to ride it out well, but I urn afraid we shall have some damage to the Westward, as the gale is dead on the shore, and the weather very thick. DARTMOUTH, MARCH 5. A French West Indiaman drove on the rocks be.. tween the Prawll and Start Points, about 10 miles from hence, and soon went to pieces; her name is la Jeune Cecile de Cuen, her cargo is all lost, and not one of the crew are saved; a few grains of cocoa and a few cocoa nuts have been washed on shore, and there is a quantify of staves on the rocks which ap pear to belong to sugar casks, and nothing else to be seen but pieces of timber and plank. YARMOUTH, MARCH 6. We had on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning a violent gale, accompanied with heavy rain, from the S.S.E. which caused several ships lying in these lipads to cut and run for safety. The following are on shore on Corton and this Beach, viz. The Catherine, of Peterhead, TURNER, with salt pork and fish ; Friendship, of Wisbeach, TocK, with corn; Mary, of Lynn, STOAK LEY, with corn ; Ebenezer, from Newcastle, HILL, with teals — all bound for London, are on ore on Corton Beach. The Martha, from Newcastle, NicnoLsotr, with coals, is on shore on this Beach, near the column erecting to perpe• tuate Lord Nelson's Victories. The crews of the above are all saved; and the ships, if the weather re- i mains moderate, will also be sated, with the princi pal part of their cargoes. In the same gale, one ship foundered in our Roads, and it is feared all on board perished. Another ship has all her masts and bowsprit carried away; and others have received damage. Put in the Cynthia, bound to Dort, with coals. Arrived this morning, with mails and passen gers from Helvoctsluys, the Lady Nepean, WEYMOUTH, MARCH 6. Three pieces of wreck have been thrown on shore with the letters " cuere-vre-dues" on them, this, therefore, we think will establish the name of " Mer cure du Havre." Up to this moment no part of her cargo has bee; seen, except a few pounds of soap, 50 complete has been the destruction. The beack for miles is strewed with fragments: five more bodies were washed on shore last night dreadfully mangled ; her cargo appears to have consisted principally of casks of wine, tanned hides, lemons, &c. &c. LIVERPOOL, MARCH S. The Parker and Sons, -, from New Orleans, has been ashore on Berkenhead Rocks, lost her rud der, and received other damage. The Elizabeth, M'lNTosn, that sailed for Chichester the day before yesterday, has put back with loss of anchor and cable, and fore-topsail-yard and jibboom. SHIELDS, MARCH 1. We have had a heavy gale last night, in which sit ships came on shore on the Black liddlers--five of them have been got off, but the .llaryAnn, of Whitby, remains on shore, and is lively to'become a complete wreck. The crews of all are safe. The Aurora, DUNN, of London, has got into Harbour, with loss of fore-mast. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 4. Last night we experienced a most tremendous gale from the S.S.W. during which the following ships came on shore behind the North Pier :—The Flora, of this Part; the Goiston, of Whitby; the &stars, of Whitby; the William, of Whitby ; .the Ocean, el.- Lynn ; and the RObert and Francis, of Lynn. They . have all been got off• with damage, except the Sisters, and she has gone to pieces, and the Robert and , Francis has sul.k. HARWICH, MARCH 6. Arrived the Castlereagh packet, with a Mail from Holland. Sailed the Charlotte packet, with a Mail for ditto. ROTTERD AM, FEBRUARY 27. " We are 11:,ppy that we can positively contr:Klict a statement published by the Engii.h Journals, that the Dutch ship, the which arrived in the Delaware from Amsterdam, hal lost 500 passeno-rs, out of 1100, during its passage. This vessel sailed from Ani.terilam with only 500 passengers on board.— Captain Grout had very few dead on his passage." GRAVESEND, MARCH e. Arrived the Prince Leopold, 'Smith, from Ilarseirlev; Two Brothers, ---,from I.tlaga; Hugh William, 31:Alio-ell, Irma Ancona; Sisters, Cullen, from Cate. S.siled the [Award El lie!, Cares, for Yucatan; Henrietta, DougLis, for litiltimore; Prince of Waterloo, Page, for Ostend; Amiti, aaA.Mary, ••-•, fur Rotterdam. CUSTOM-ROUSE, MARCH A. SHIPS F.. . INWARDS. -The Luna, Gaze, and Sylveris, Cunha, from St. Michael's ; Bee Hive, Foot, from Dublin ; AE Won, Wheleman, from Gallipoli ; and Waterloo, Burney, from Madras.—Orrwsans.--The Duguay Trruin, Giffery, for Rouen ; Solon, Stoddard, and Criterion, Avery, for New York ; Therese, Jansen, for Antwerp ; Industry, Adams, for •Arnstrr dam ; Fortitude, Thomson, fur Oporto; and Friends, Maw, for Ostend. A Hamburgh Mail arrived at a late hour last night. Its principal contents relate to the death of the Kim; of SWEDEN, and of the accession of KING CHARLES JOHN, who was crowned on the 17th ult. An article from Venice states the outline of the Con stitution of the lonian Isles, as ratified by the Puma RTOIMIT. There is to be a Legislative Assembly chosen by the Flector.d Body, a Senate chosen by the Legislative Assembly, and the Judges Cr. to be appointed by the Senate. The elections are to be for five years, the Lord CommissM.ier to have the power of convoking or proroguing the Parliament, but not of dissolving it, except by virtue of an order of the Government here. Each !staid to have a local Government. The dominant religion to be the Greek Church, the language to be Greek. There is to be a general printing establishment at Corfu, under the imme diate direction of the Senate, and the superintendance of the Secretary-General, and no other printing establishment is to be allowed in any of the Islands, without the permission of the Senate, and the approbation of the Lord Commissioner. The Advertisement of the Anti-monopoly Com mittee, inserted in another part of our Journal, will be read with interest. Stations are pointed out in various parts of the Metropolis, where free Public houses are yet to be found, and where the working man may procure Porter at the old price. We hope the day is not far distant when we may have to con gratulate the Public on the benefit of such houses in • all parts of the metropolis, on re-acquiring their lost right of buying the national beverage of whom and where they please. But this day will never arrive until the present licensing system is ended. A motion of some importance to the interests of Science, particularly of Navigation, was made last night in the House of Commons by Mr. CROIIER. The object is to condense, or rather to substitute, for the many Acts which now exist respecting the Lott titude, a new Act, specifying the precise objects and rewards to which the business of the Board is di rected. On this subject we cannot avoid noticing that all the advantages to be derived from Cimino meters have not yet been obtained by the public.— In making astronomical deductions, the mean of as many observations as possible is always taken : why has not the same degree of common sense been applied to the use of Chronometer:? Every ship in stead of carrying only one, should have at least half a dozen in use, if one or two are found to differ con siderably from the others, the known rates of all being attended to, the time as given by the one or - two should be rejected but registered, and the mean of the others should be taken as giving the true re sult. Mr. BARROW is well qualified to appreciate this hint, and we doubt not will apply it to the ne cessary out-fit of every King's ship. The expense compared with the object, is not worthy of a mo ment's consideration.—We understand that the ships destined for the Polar regions take with them only two Chronometers each. 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