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~. oi l .4, '!!",%*- • .it —1 • de • •!.,:s a t • .... • a ) ~,....71, •. . .--....- . ... ...... • . . • t..." ~ •-• ' I'l 0: A' • t. • • . • . . • ...t . 0 o,_ , ir• - e ll . 1 . . li s . il kN .- • •• . • . t ••••• 'l' . . 1 ; . • • t , NrmsEß . SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1815. PRICE SIXPENCE-HALFPENNY. OFFICE OP WILDNANCR, Feint ary 1, leis. PRINCIPAL OPIPICIMS of NIS MA 11877's ORDNANC 1, a Away :he N.dt,, . That Proposal will be received at their Office in Pall-Mall, on or before FRIDAY, the 24th instant, from sack Pence. as „ l y be willing to undertake the Supply of Articles of CAST IRON and other Metals appertaining to MW Machinery, for prvice at the Royal Powder Manufactories at Faversham and 'lido= Abbey, for a period of dares Yeah, determinable after repiration of the first year, upon notice of three months, at tc option of either party. Patterns of the Articles may be viewed ration to` Ordnance . upon t h e respective (Akers of the k _ at those Alone ; and further particulate, together with the Terms and Condition• of the Contract, may be known at tke.Segtetary's Mee, in Pall hiall aforesaid, any day between the boon of teu and four o'clock, where the Proposak roust be delivered, sealed up and endorsed, propoeak for Cut Iron Work, am.; but no Proposal can be admitted after the said Seth tostont, at IS o'clock at neon of the same day, neither wlll arty Tender be nodeed ludas tke party making it, or an agent in has behalf shall woad. by order of the Board. IL H. CREW, &crass". Y - 1 - 40T — INSBY and Co. StL arokerb; 26, Corm. AA respectfully acquaint the Public, that they have on Bale Ti,:keta and Shares for the Inconapsrable LO rraRY to be Prawn on the sth of APRIL. The scheme contains Three Prizes of £30,000, ani only 15,000 Tickets ; also, Rae or 4000 Guineas each, to be paid in Geld, and many oiler CapitalLPrteee. HoRNsBY and Co. divided unclog their Friends, kr Taroks Nlontbs, the unprecedented l.i,t of Capital tie. ,►3a XlO,OOO Last Lottery l No, . 1 24 : 4000 I,ICO ►O,OOJ 254 - - 90.200 3,9 3 4 le,ooo 2,590 - - 20,000 Besides Prizes of 10.5,000.1!,000, 41,000, 4500, ace. No. 33,979 and Prises or .210,000, were Sold by HORNSBY mid Co. HREE PRIZES OF THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS. SWIFT and CO. return their sincere Thanks to the Public for the distin fished Patronage they bare re. ceved (particularly during the last ten Lottenes, for allot which they Dave been Contractors) and hawing had the good fortune to sell one or more nt the largest Capitals in almost *very Lottery. they trust they shall continue to be honoured with the priefersaca Cl the i'uhlic the present Lottery, which begins on the Rh April. . The Schen con:ains Three Prises of 430,000, am ace. and Tree of the Llauts will be sanded to 1000 Guineas each, which will be paid tu Gobi. witlllll4 any deduction, as Won OS align. Tickets and Shores are on sale, in great variety, at SWIF and CO.'s OFFICES, No. 11, POULTRY; . 1. 1:40. 31, ALDOAT I Hues- No. I'2, CUARINO.CROSIII; 87ass-r. a * -1 PARLMMENTARr PROC.EEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY Counsel were folly beard respecting the bids cause of Robert Phayre, Esq. v. the representadwes d Peree.—ledgment post rni.d till Wednesday. On the Scots Appeal, !tines v. Downie, COOMMI Were partly beard.—To proceed again en Monday. • The;t• Loidshipithin adjourned fielbille doe dada. Edmore. On the resuming of the House; Mr. hymn, laspeoter-Gentrid, preledled at die. Dar an Ac feint of the quantities of Grain invoiced into, and exported koes Great Britain. during she year this, specifying the different species of Grain, and the excess of either, at different periods, which were ordered to lie ott the fable. The Earl of HALUJWICKR presented several Petklons on the hajcct of the'Corn Laws, raying a speedy revision of the saw; and among other places ftom the County of Chinbtidge. the town and vicinity of Newmarket, Wiebeacii, mad Lynn. The Noble Earl then presented a Pedtio• it, which. be observed, of a different nature, and respecting which be felt it locum f.at on him to say, that be neither agreed with the Pethlonen a, to tbs expediency, in the sentiments'espreesed; nor with ' the V.I.V/ which they had taken of the subject. He could not help th:rking the time would arrive when the public would be uncle ...sed upon the subject; and he was of opinion, that the kind of Tax deprecated by the Petitioners was one properly modified Jrcl regulated. and was in several points of view less exception :hie than most others. After a few words in the way of Mo. t:adon, bib Lordship moved. that the Petition be teal; it was &um Tborney,tn the We of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, against the renewal of the Property Tax and complaining of its effect and qeration, oppressive a nd injurious. The Petition was or dart' to lie on the table. On the IDOIIOII of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, a varier,' of Dectuneats, reopecriog the issue and another of Bank-notes la circulation at differ= parkas, were ordered to be laid before the House. The Duke of NORFOLK preessited a few Petitions, some upon the subject of the Corn Laws, and others relative to ibis Prorerty Tax. One particularly, which he said was' very tut rne►ou+ly sifted, from the county of Dorset, against the renewal of the Property Tax. Thews documents were severally ordered to he on the table. Lord GRENVILLE said, that with respect to the motion of which be had given notice for that evening (for Accounts respect ing the number of British 1 recipe, and Fad. Tr•op• in are" PaY, serrit,g upon the Continent of Europe), though be did not think it would meet with moth opposition, yet, as be alibied to make some obserrations on the oecadoa, and hoped for tbn senor of a Noble Earl who was then prevented from a unts is consequence of a melancholy sad much repined aced= he should move to discharge the Order fee that evening, and move that their Lordships be summoned relative to what he la tended to propose, as Tuesday evening next. This babe ruilla laxly done by the Noble Lord, Is was ordered to take plus se. cordiniy. The Earl of DARNLEY said, that for the same rides is that stated by his Noble Friend, he was lode/aid to th e ma don far whi c h b e bad given node* (for osetsta Documents), that events'. until Twiday tads and Mel' proceeding the tie orders eras made. lbs Marquis o e f ee MsDOWNE said, that before the Hotta "ohrodkturn, be wished to put a question to a Noble IMMO, of State taw in his piece,. who, he doubted not, WWI hemiao difficulty in giving such an exploitation as the Homo shod* tleo sire. He understood that in Meer of rank In the Sritish tee; (Sir James Downie), mussily receiving pay, or within a very late period, receiving pay from this country, was undijtyd, red now actually serving to the Expedition fitting out by the Veleta Government in Spain, for the pewee of reducing' the Parish Colonies is America to their He Wailed to if it were so, w h et h er it was i nn to condom that ' ) scer in the rank and pay he then held soda the British Go ver:unent h It certainly appeared that until a lite period the in question was se one of the Bridsh many. He had ao doubt thlt his Majesty's Goveinramt could disavow sup kind of prd qttion in that expedition, were it only from contideratU - .n of 14 eY. The Noble Marquis added, he understood Sir J. Downie v ita General Officer In the British service, and from the at *(4lll.l it appeared that, very lately at least, he bed received pay. Larl BATHURST shoed , / observed, that he did not know 153 ' :;;r lames Downie was employed la the expedition alluded and he certainly was ant a °enema Officer in the British. 14 Marquis of LANSDOWNE said a few words in mph tattoo ; on which isATHURST saidthe real fact was, that this was the list lIMe he ever beard of the OMcer in %teflon being so employed. li ne Hous e then adjourned till Mooney. . • HOUSE' it COMMONS. I ,... Petiti °^ l Wart the Property lax were presented*oin Moe. C'shire, Hereford, Kendal, lowa of Warwick, several from 41h ridtushire,_ Lincobishire_ Halifax ,. county- of Radaor*, wad places, and ordered to lie oa the table. rilotd LAsCELLES preeinted a Petition from' the Atrealle- Secictyjn the'Coenty of York, preying the House to 1 ' ) ce mdderation die state of tin; Corn 'Laws. lallerektabled •.:P tab! e. I • . . • tal Petkilai was rgiasse text the CONOY •"?'ll'. - bridge mid the Me of Ely, on the subject of the Corn Laws ; as well as From the Agriculturists of the County of Louth, Hunt ingdonshire, sundry places in the County of Essex, and other plesne, and were ordered to lie ea the table. Serjeant ONSLOW postponed the bringing up of the Bill for better securing the liberty of the subject, to Monday se'nnight. Accounts of the Fees received by the Reiastrar of Wills in inland ; of the number of persons committed to prison on com mon process; and of the proceedings of a General Court of the South Sea Company, held on the nth of February last, unrepre sented and ordered to lie on the table. The Papers presented oo Friday last, respecting Camas, won ordered to be printed. The Indemnity Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. Sir J. NEWPORT moved for an Account of the Aassamt Poundage paid into the Court of King's Beach, Imbed s &All the but seven yeirs.—Ordered. The Bleaching Powder 818 was read a third thins gl u t I dler some observations from Sir J. Newportillidat: AMIRICAN WAR. ' Mr. HORNER said, that on looking over the .by order of the House, rotative to the conduct of the war, be found them delivers in one very Shier mart IY. sibs complaints ands by the Commanders; thi made to the Government en this subject wanes easeadhlellieet of theAbotion upon which as erder was aude. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHIIQUaIt dd, *or If irate wii sly &Umy hi the papers bid egos the bible, It 160114 be, as far as possible, supplied. slit JAMES DUFF. . Mr. WHITBREAD said, that it appeared by the paper communicated relative to the arrest of certain Spanish subjects who had taken refuge in Gibraltar, that the object of the motion on the subject was mis taken. It was expected that by the production of all correspondence carried on by Sir James Duff with Lord Bathurst and the constituted Authorities of Gibraltar, a full and fair explanation would be given of his conduct in preventing those unhappy and vir- . tuous victims of a bad Government from effecting their escape by means of the British convoy. Why did Sir James Duff summon the Captains of the ships who composed the convoy, and compel them to de' clue whether any and what Spaniards they bad as board ? This was a specific question, which it wee excreted should be fully answered. This subject in.; volved points so interesti ig to the British character and humanity, that the most satisfactory explanation of it should be given to the country. The co ne& pondence on the subject on the part of Mr. Stedniasi was by no means honourable to him. He expressed a degree of exultation on the occasion, which was alia solutely indecent. The account given of the transact; don by General Smyth was contradicted by Mr. Puigblanch, one of those persecuted Spaniards whe was so fortunate as to effect his escape to this coon. my. It was due to the House that so full an exposit , don should be given on this melancholy subject as Would leave no loop-bole to Sir James. Duff, General. Smyth, and Mr. Stedman. The account given by Sir James Duff was palpably incorrect. He did not desire that a severer. punishment should be inflicted,, any of the persons concerned in this shameful athe Zr, than the consciousness of having cootrieuted sit eruel sentence passed upon Correa. Haisould. ant wish them a severer punishment than to reflect in their own breast that they had been instrumental is sundemning for ten years to the gallies this illustrious and virtuous Spaniard, who had shed his blood in the service of. Spain, and in support of the trogratefol Sovereign by whom he was so inhumanly persecuted, who had two sons prisoners of war in France, one of whom was eleven times wounded - ; and what was the offence of this unhappy father ? simply bis having', addressed a letter to Ferdinand VII. recommending milder councils, and-more regard to those who cons. posed the Cones, and to whose patriotism he owed his restoration. He was not aware that any node* was intended to be made on this subject, but he' wished that Sir James Duff should be called upon to explain his conduct in a transaction where It was pal pable that he had falsified his own passport. He also hoped that General Smyth would be called upon to explain a statement which Mr. Puigblanch had di rectly contradicted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not know whetter it was the intention of any Honourable Member to offer a Motion on this subject; be would have preferred that course, as more fair and regular, than invective without proofs, and declaims don without authority. (Hrar, hest). —He was not aware of any authority upon which the Honourable Gentleman rested his- assertion, that the correspon dence of General Smyth with Lord Bathurst had been contradicted: Mr. WHITBREAD said his authority was to be found in the papers laid on the table, and in the so lean declaration ef.a most respectable Gentleman. When he. had first mentioned this sobject in the House, he had r not seen Mr. Puigblanch, but be had since that time bad an interview with him, during+ which he made* Mittellibent of the facts in this trans. aetiou, which be irm ready to verify at the Bar of the House, or At the Office. of the Noble Lord at the bud -of the Colonial Department , if he should allowed the opportunity. He Was ready to agree with the Right Honourable Gentleman, that a trio: don would perhaps be the better. course, and should therefore gratify his wish by making a motion on this subject on an early , day, as the Right Honourable Condemn was so much dissatisfied with what he was pleased to call his (Mr. Whitbread's) general invective, and declamation without proof. FilLitkle AND MONTAGU'S 'WIWI" Lord NUGENT moved that copies be of all correspondence and other papers Wadi action between, the Pelham and. Montagne rft.— aod the Globe American fillateer.—Agreed to. atA Mr. BENNETT wished to be infornied by the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the &shower for what certain - sums had been paid to the. Spanish Government; whether to toned/ate the Ella your of Ferdinand the Seventh, or for the pers on, ofuade, or, as he was most disposed to believe, - fie the of the Spanish expedition to * the Nevi World ' The CHANCECLOR of the.!EXCHEQP" .said, be found en diem* in aunnseibig tbo .put, by.. abs- Hamm* Grailarrik. The to the fm which he alluded was destined e two mortals families after pay, to enable them to return to the war had concluded. Sir J. NEWPORT wished to be informed whe ther Sir J. Downie, who, as Mr. Downie had been engaged with General Miranda in the attempt to re volutionize the Caraccas, was still reeNving British pay, and at the same time going out with General orillo in the Spanish service to reduce those very persons to the yoke which Ai had formerly been in strumental in inciting thenM•shake off.? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that all be was able to state to the lUght Ho nourable Baronet was, that Sir J. Downie was az Officer in the British Commissariat, and the brother, o( a gallant Officer who bad fallen in the engagement on Lake Champlain. Of his' going out with General liorillo he knew . nothing. Sir J.. NEWPORT said, the Right Honourable' Gentleman might easily state whether he was still fit the Spanish service, and rnfiving pay? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it would aipear, by the papers ordered to be laid on the table, and which would soon be produced,, whether Sir J. Dom - lie was one of the British Officers who continued in the Spanish service. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Ordered, on the motion of Mr. Alderman ATKINS, that an Account be printed of the names and descrip-, dans of the several persons discharged under the last Insolvent Debtors' Act. • BANK RBSTRICTION BILL. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Excrix- WIEN the Bank Restriction Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a *second time on Tuesday next. CORN LAWS. Mr. ROBINSON moved the Order of the Day lot going into a Committee of the whole House on tie Corn Laws. The Reports of the Lords and Commons on the Corn Laws were ordered to be re ferred to the same Committee. Mr. W. SMITH (previous to the SPEAKER leav ing the Chair) said, that when on a former occasion thi*uestion had been before the House, he opposed the investigation of it then, on the ground of its being premature, rather than with a view to its merits. His opinion at present was somewhat dit- Iferent from what he then entertained. He thought that much was gained by the interval that had passed ; but even still he considered the discussion unseasonably biought forward. Lie had understood a few days ago, that the financial propositions of the Right. Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer would precede this inquiry, as in dun course they ought. If the only question at present was a general inquiry into the corn laws, it then might precede the finan cial measure; but when it was intended to propose a specific limitation to the importation of foreign grain by fixing a ,eertein price, then certainly the former should be ascertained as one of. the essential prina. ples by which the latter should be regulated. The duty on foreign grain should be mainly regulated by the nature and extent of the taxes to be brought for ward. How could a prohibiting price be fixed at 63, or 75. or 80 shillings, or at any sum, without first ascertaining to what amount, upon what arti cles, and on what classes of the public the taxes were to press ? Was the House, he would ask, yet in possession of certain information of the discontinu ance of the property-tax ? He would also wish to be informed, before he was called upon to give his Eton upon this subject, whether the tax upon agri ral horses, and other taxes of the same nature, were intended to be discontinued. The course now preposed was preposterous. The natural and proper prder of proceeding was reversed. h would perhaps be said that the Chancellor of.the Exchequer had given a sufficient assurance that the income tax should not be renewed. Of this he (Mr. W. Smith) should be extremely glad, as he had ever considered it an odious and oppressive tax, and a badge of slavery. The Right Hon. Gentleman man smile (the Chancellor of the Exchequer had smiled at the Honourable Member's calling the income tax a badge of slavery), but he (Mr. S.) conceived the inquisito rial dominion exercised by this tax, as bordering rservitude. If the Right Hon. the Chancellor e Exchequer gave irk satisfactory pledge of its discontinuance, (a pledge which, by the bye, he did not expect) he should not object to an immediate discussion of the corn laws, but with the possibility shat still existed of its being renewed, in preference to thi measure which the Right Hon. Gentleman had to propose, be could not consent to go into the discussion of the other questioo. The Stemma having then left the Chair, Mr. ROBINSON observed that his only object, on the present occasion, was to state to the House the general principles of the Resolutions to which they would be called on to agree, and pieviously to explain their nature. He believed that the forms of the House required, that the Resolutions should in the first instance be printed'; and that unless the Committee declined to entertain those Resolutions at all, that they should be voted. It was his inten tion, if they were agreed to, that they should then be referred so a .Committee of the whole House. He regretted that fromhis accidental absence on a former evening, when the subject was mentioned, he had not been able to communicate what was his intention; but he trusted the Howe would feel Assured that it never was his wish to propose the measure in such a way as to preclude.the fullest discuision upon it at a future opportunity ' If the length of time since the topic was fill; intro4uced bad caused k to be attended with the disadvantage of fitilinLto his lot to bring it &wind at meant, there wouldbe one itreawidvan tap to cougtssitct jris VIM want of ability—an ad-, "lOW attendlqg allq'ttioos of this kind, that of receiving t much marstAll.,comPlete, and sadsfac tin havilouga4o,o of alliwilitfonstanses k ;a investi io am; Atk*,,t6,4O bpm but in ibis cafe par ticniaitly berkefisi4li i Askiwq.l4 Amble every Gentle ' Eau! to cams I C L. 1 4 i f cimillog with his mind -- 72E7 ' much better inTormed than if precipitation had been adopted, andtesupply, from hisown actual knowledge, whatever information might be necessary. He had never disguised the fact that the time when importation ought to commence was a matter diffictilt to be de cided on ; but he ventured to think that there need be no difficulty in adopting the principle he was about to recommend. He believed that many of the prejudices which had hitherto prevailed against the measure of prohibiting importation till corn was at a certain price, had been either totally removed, or greatly qualified by intioirra but he could not flitter himself that they had been removed from the minds of many thousands of persons in tlie.whole country. Their opinions, no doubt, remained unchanged, and were likely to continue so ; but amongst many other thousands, a great point hid been gained ; ter not only were their apprehensions much removed, but the gross misrepresentations so prominent .as to the object and motives of those who proposed and sup ported the measure, were done away. He had no doubt in his mind, that the majority of the people no longer believed that the object was the mean, base, and detestable one of enabling one class of society to gain great profits by agricultural pursuits, to the in- Jury of the rest; and for his own part, if by any pos sibility he could believe that this would be the edect of the measure, he declared that no considetation oa earth should have induced him to bring it forward. But he firmly believed that its only motive and ob ject was to do good to the community at large. The 'course, therefore, which he hoped, and had no doubt the House would adopt, would prove that it had not in view the interest of any particular class of indivi dual:, but that it was legislating for the general be nefit of all. In looking to the principles that should guide their decision, they must recollect that they were not now in the situation of deciding for the first time, as to whether they shall act upon the principle of restriction or not. This point had been deliberately discussed ; and on this, as on all sub. juts, they had exercised their discretion. They were not now to consider whether they should adopt this system or not; but they were to reflect that ,when a system is once adopted and fully acted upon, it cannot be departed from without such a treniend *is revulsion as must be generally felt and highly injurious. When we apply existing circumstances to different cases, we find a great similarity be. tween them ; but from not reflecting on this point, many persons are unaware that what is injurious, Oppressive, or, on the contrary, advantageous, in one branch of trade or manufacture, applies equal,, n to others. For example, wool is nut allowed to be exported, even in the smallest quantities, from this country ; but he did not state this to support as argument in favour of not allowing the-exportation of any thing else; but in a question like the present, wherein every person is so deeplyy, interested, what be contended tor was, that it should he.oimin a consideration to be guided by feeling. The- effects ' produced by this system of restriction have been, as ever] body knows, an extraordinary increase* the agriculture of the country, which has also been ac companied by an increase of chaige in its fertiliza tion ; because it is well known that our land devoted to agriculture is of a very liMited extent, when compared with the amount of population which is to be supplied with food ; and that in proportion as this population increases, which It has progressively and rapidly done of late years, together with a cor responding and extraordinary increase in the maim futures, in the same proportion is the demand upon agricultural produce for the supply of food. When ever corn is produced from land, which has been fertilised at a great expense, it must be sold at a dear rate ; and the price may be increased by adven t titious circumstances, dependent upon the seasons $ but this is the inevitable consequence of our situation, unless we have an unlimited importation from reign countries to supply the accidental or regular deficiencies, which, if they were to occur every year, would always keep us in a state , of want. He thought, generally speaking, that times might hap pen, when we might be in very great want and dis r tress. In the first place, then, let to suppose that we were relying for relief on the 'importation of foreign corn ; and that our own home production had. been greatly diminished ; and suppose, also, that at the same time there existed a scarcity abroad ; we should then have to encounter the calamity of a double deficiency. which might produce the most serious consequences. Therefore. although we pay a greater price for our own produce, the benefit we derive is greater and certain. Many circumstances besides what he had alluded to might affect the im portation of corn, if we upon it. War has affected permanently to rely and may again ; besides which, it never could be enough to feed the people. Foreign nations might also be averse from supplying us if we were at war with them 4 and if ever any nation on earth was jealous on this subject, it was France, even at this moment. France, there fore, might cause a prohibition to take'plap when we were most in want of importations; and then what would be our situation, and to what could we trust ? He really thought that such a reliance on importations might at some time or other . prove fatal to our ag ricultural and manufacturing i n tere s ts .— Let the House look only to Ireland. That people were essentially agricultural, although they did nut themselves subsist generally upon Corn; TO coun try, however, grows much more than it-Cahill:nes ; and, therefore, the surplus - raged to meet with imports; and if a sale duce, then what is ' are driven from the go ? (Hear, hear.) . diem to find a market not necessary for hiin `situation to which, country. would be re this is a question of would thus not be e surplus produce should be encou. 4 a sale, in preferedce to:foreign sale is not to be found for this pro- to become . of the people) If chg. le home m arkets, whatnot* they. to It would be ialpbasiblcitif :ket is any other country. *Own 4iin to argue on the trem,endottp under such circumstances, that reduced. When*. were told'that Df humanity, and that the Rouse be justified in takitig any "ea s ure