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tenant, being a very good man, and the nrst Lieutenant was very unwilling to part with him. Where was the Poictiers employed during the twelve months he was on board ?—The first part of the time the Poictiers com manded the blockade at Brest; then she went to Lisbon, and afterwards to the North Seas. Did Carrington come on board with a draft of meld'?—He cam, as far as I recollect, with a draft of men, about 6 or 8. During your continuance on board the Poictiers, was the ship in a course of pay ?—I can't say positively, but I believe she was. The ship's books will shew the fact. To Lord CARNARVON.—The First Lieutenant. now a Captain, resides near Carnarvon. Lord GREY.—Do you know where Capt. Jones lives?—No. 111 r. BROUGHAM.—My Lords, the evidence of the witness does not contain a contradiction to the testimony of Carrington; for Carrington has not said that he was rated as a Midshipman. Sir John Beresford was then ordered to withdraw, and leave was given by the !louse tp him to depart from London. Mr. BROUGHAM then addressed the House. He declared, that before the cross-examination of the witness Pomi should 'commence, it was considered by her Majesty's Counsel indis pensably necessary that they should be informed precisely who was the adverse party in this case. The more he reflected upon the nature of these extraordinary proceedings, the more was he convinced of the necessity of being clearly informed upon that subject, otherwise the difficulties, which were accumulating rapidly, on all sides, would be increased beyond all possibility of removal. The LORD CIIANCELLOR said a few words, which were inaudible below the bar. Lord CA LTHORPE expressed a wish to know, for the pur pose of having a clear understanding upon the point, with which no future question could interfere, who was actually the pro secutor upon this case? To him it was quite evident that there was a distinction between being a Minister for the King and a Minister for the State, in a legal point of view ; and he was surprised that his Noble Friend (Lord Liverpool), whose candour had drawn down the approbation even of those to whom he was politically opposed, had not at a for mer part of these proceedings rendered it unnecessary to put the question. He had seen it exemplified in the conduct of the Noble Lord ; there existed the distinction to which he alluded between the Minister of the Crown as a part of the State, and a Minister of the King individually. If he were not correct in this statement, he hoped to be corrected by some Noble Lord of more legal and Parliamentary knowledge. It certainly would have been desirable to have given the intelligence required at an earlier period. No party had so little reason to complain, however, of the delay , as the Queen's Counsel, for they had taken all advantage of the in risibility of the prosecutor, and of the odium which always arose from the establishment of a se cret Commission. The Brazil packet arrived on Saturday, with ac counts from Rio Janeiro to the 2d, and from Per nambuco to the Ilth August. Nothing particular had occurred in that part of the Portuguese Mo narchy. General Lecor retained possession of Monte Video, and the pirates under Artigas's flag continued their depredations. His Britannic Majesty's ship Tyne had arrived at Rio from Lima, with a large sum in specie on account of merchants in this country. The advices received by this conveyance from Buenos Ayres, from which quarter we have not . had an arrival direct for the last month, are of a most heart-rending nature, as will be seen by a letter from thence. It is indeed difficult to speak in terms of measured indignation and regret at the turn things have taken in that devoted portion of South Ame rica, which, for a considerable time past, has become the extended theatre of portentous broils, follies, and intrigues. The country for the last year has exhi bited one unvaried scene of party turbulence and projects of violence, which has at last assumed the aspect of open civil war, undertaken for the basest of purposes, viz. personal ambition. The country is now to be immersed in the horrors of a civil war to gratify a lust for power, and to place the reins of Government in the hands of Albear, a rash and in temperate stripling, who was never so well described as when his own countrymen called him the " Ame rican Catiline." is rapturous beyond conception. 'Upwards of forty thousand persons of all classes, seemed animated by one mind and actuated by one feeling. All de manded that the reign of terror should' Cease, and that a Government should be formed in whom they could confide. It was done, _and this immense as sembly dispersed without the smallest accident. What an awful and instructive lesson to rulers who have been accustomed to revile and maltreat their people, loading them with chains as the only means of insuring their submission. At the date of the last letters, the Oporto Junta had not arrived at Lisbon, where they were anxiously expected, when the preconcerted union would take place. This delay was alone owing to distance. In the meantime two Secretaries had been named, viz. Felipe Ferreira Aranjo Cimo and Baron Molellos. The tWo Oporto Secretaries were to be added, when the usual establishment would be complete. Two other individuals had also been attached to the Go- vernment in the character of a deputation to repre sent commerce and agriculture, viz.—Dr. Benito Fereira de Carmo and Dr. Betancurt. Boston Papers to the 15th September arrived this morning. BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 14. Captain Hunt is arrived from Savanilla. He re ports that Admiral Brion's squadron *as fitting for an attack on the Spanish city of St. Martha ; that a correspondence has taken place between the Spanish General Morillo, and the Governor of St. Martha; also between General Torres, Governor of Cartha gena, and General Sanches Lima, of the New Gra nada Army ; and with General Mentillo, of the In dependent Army. The nature of the correspondence had not transpired. A flag of truce has been sent from St. Martha to General Bolivar, at Baranguilla. GREAT FIRE AT MO3ILE.-.4IITRCt of a letter, dated August 15 :—" What we have long feared has happened—a large part of Mobile is lain in ashes. On the 16th August, in the evening, a fire com• menced in JORDAN'S gin-house. The fire swept all Dauphin-street. I have counted about twenty stores. The Market-house was pulled down. I calculate the damage and loss at 300,000 dollars, which, in proportion to our capital, is as great as the fire at Savannah." We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday. : 1 The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordonnance, con voking the Electoral Colleges of the Departments of the 4th Series, for the 4th of November, and those of the Departments of the other Series, which have to elect Deputies, for the 15th of November. The, following are extracts : PARIS, OCTOBER 11. The King held a Council yesterday, which was attended by all the Ministeis. Monday night, at a quarter past twelve, a man attedipted to gain admission at the wicket of the Co lonna.le cif the Louvre, and being refused by the sen tinel, the man fired a pistol at the latter, the ball from which penetrated the sentinel's Schakos, hut fortunately did not wound him. The sentinel fired at the assassin, but the latter effected his escape. The King is expected to resume his - usual piome nade this day or to-morrow. On the 29th ult. there was a slight tumult at the Theatre of Lyons. French 5 per Cents. Wednesday, 74f. sOc. ROME, SEPTEMBER 27. There is no certain news from Sicily since the 12th instant. The army of General Florestan Pepe was at Cefalu, 40 miles from Palermo. The troops of the Palermitan Junta were reduced to 4,000 men. The intelligence from Corfu continues to depict the affairs of Ali Pacha as desperate. One of his most distinguished Generals had turned against him. If we may believe letters from Florence, the re port of the formation of a confederation f Italian Princes assumes a considerable consistence. It is even stated that the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Sovereigns of the Peninsula will assemble immedi ately, for the purpose of deliberating on this subject. NAPLES, SEPTEMBER We have received intelligence from Sicily, that Lieutenant-General- Florestan Pepe was in negocia tion with the Junta of Palermo, who had earnestly solicited an armistice, with the view of sending a De putation to Naples. The City will not fail to make its submission ; the enthusiasm of the Palermitans is singularly tooled. INSPRUCK, OCTOBER s. Private letters from Italy state, that an Italian Con gress is to assemble at Florence, consisting of Pleni potentiaries from all the Sovereigns of Upper and Middle Italy. It is said that an Austrian Plenipo tentiary will preside. But we turn from this melancholy scene to one more cheering and unclouded. The Spanish Cortes go boldly and steadily on in the grand work of re generation, the good effects of which begin to dis play themselves. They have already commenced reforms on two delicate and important points affect ing the Nobles and Clergy, and we rejoice to say, with great judgment and success. When they first assembled, their views and efforts were denounced as those of mere political speculation, but the most supercilious will now acquit them of this charge. The condition of the people has everywhere been ameliorgted, and by the removal of unwise distinc tinctions and old prejudices, on which the late Go vernment had partly founded'its support, a common Wing has beer. given to Provinces, formerly uncon nected and in an actual state of rivalship. Public credit is fast reviving in the country as well as abroad, now the sources of revenue are known, and the Ministers are accountable for their public admi nistration, and cordially engaged in the work of re trenchment, so essentially necessary in the concerns of Spain. Trade and confidence return, and vigi -1 ‘cl feeling is kept alive among the , ance an,, a strong g is kept _ .ig , people ;an attitude that will be maintained till things German Papers bring the following intelligence. are consolidated, till all external dangers blow over, VIENNA, SEPTEMBER I. The Chevalier Noeli, Secretary of the Spanish Le and till the new Code has undergone the modifications gation, has just left this city, to go express to Turin. deemed necessary for its permanent establishment. here is a vague report in circulation of a Note of if with regard to Spain we are cheered, we feel the Spanish Minister, addressed to our Court, in cc , mpelled to avow, that as far as regards Portugal, which King Ferdinand VII. declares that he recog nizes as legitimate the . changes lately made in th . e the result has exceeded our most sanguine hopes. form of the Neapolitan Government, and that he is We have perused upwards of twenty mercantile let- ready to interpose his mediation for the maintenance ters, brought by the Lisbon packet, chiefly written of the integrity of the territory of the Two Sicilies. by Englishmen established there, or Portuguese long The actiVity with which the armaments apparently in commercial intercourse with this country. Such destined against the kingdom of Naples were carried on, has abated all at once, the march of troops has pictures—such enthusiasm, joy, and consolation, we ceased, only the corps which have arrived in the never before saw expressed. The 15th of September kingdom of Lombardy and Venice, have taken up is rendered doubly memorable in the annals of Por- any concentrated cantonments on the frontiers.— teguese history ; for besides being the era of their There are regiments which have not yet been placed political regeneration, it was also, as they express it, on the war establishment. The interview of the Sove reigns at Troppau will take place on the 29th of Oct°. " the anniversary of their freedom from a perfidious ber ; no Ambassadors were to be admitted to it except and foreign yoke." "It again renders us worthy," those of Great Britain and France. add they,' "of the society of European nations, and Our Sovereign continues to give daily audience to , of our ancient and imperishable glory." The pic- Deputations from the di fferent countries of Hun ture drawn of the immense concourse of uoops and gary, and to receive them with the greatest affability; ' the attachment of the Nation and Nobles to the per - people assembled in the Roscio-square, one of the son of the King exceeds belief. It is said they have largest and finest in Europe, and where the grand offered him 30,000 recruits and 12,900 horses free of p rocession of Corpus Christi is annually performed, expense. • ; • • Ira. • . SPAIN. Madrid Papers have strived to the 3d inst. The following are ettracts MADUTI SEPT I E3II3Rit 2A. According to the statements of the Junta of Health at Xeres de la Frontera," received by the Captain General of Cadiz, it appears that the yellow fever has spread; in the week, from seven in the morning of the 12th to the same hour of the 19th, the num ber of new cases was 14.9, deaths 26, recovered 41, the number of patients remaining was 125; on the 12th there were only 43 patients. , MADRID, OCTOBER 2, By an account from Murcia, of the 26th of Sep tember, we learn, that fevers of a malignant and sus picious character prevail there, which are believed to originate in the stagnant waters. THE CORTES. SITTING OF 28TH SEPTEMBER. A Report was read from the Special Committee appointed to examine into the case of the sixty-nine Deputies, who, in April, 1814, signed the represen-. tation to his Majesty, advising him to overthrow the Constitutional system.. The Committee says, among other things, that having found in the case many causes which may mitigate the rigour of justice, to give place to mercy, the Committee had decided on adoptiqg a general measure, though with some re strictions ; and finding no other means than rigour to terrify, and that •of indulgence to conciliate, it vias of opinion that the first, as less noble and less conformable tathe generosity and elevated sentiments of the Ixtislative Body, was not the one which should 'be chosen. In consequence, the Committee proposes its opinion, composed in five articles ; that the said Ex-Deputies be relieved by the present law from all legal proceedings against them, but be bound to repair to their respective places of abode, to which they shall be confined, without active or passive voice in the elections. Those who do not conform to this regulation, must appear before justice and wait the result ; but it is not understood that they are hereby exonerated from the obligations they may have in curred towards private persons. Don Bernardo Moozo Rosales is excepted from the preceding dis positions, it being declared that there are grounds to institute proceedings against him. The Report was ordered to be printed. ' SITTING Or THE 29TH. The project of law respecting the reformation of the religious orders, was read as drawn up by the, Committee, conformably to the additions approved er admitted to discussion by the Cortes, and it was approved in that part which was not so before. In the Sitting of the Ist of October, the Secretary announced that he had written to the Minister of Grace and Justice, that his Majesty might be pleased to appoint a day and hour to receive the law on the religious orders. In the evening Sittings of the 28th and 30th of September, the law on the Liberty of the Press was discussed, of which Articles 6 to 31 inclusive, were read and approved, some without debate, and others after considerable discussion. His MAJESTY left Carlton House Palace on Friday night, for his Cottage at Windsor. •Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, the Duke of YORK attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. YesterdaT the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCYSTER attended D►vine Service at St. George's Church, Ha- nover-square. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess So rum visited the Duchess of CLARENCE yesterday. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE entertained a large party of distinguished personages yesterday, at his seat at Chiswick. The Earl of LONSDALE gave a grand dinner yes terday, at his house Charles-street, Berkeley-square. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM had a dinner party yesterday, at his residence in Pall-mall. Thursday her Grace the Duchess of ST. AsliAtis and suite passed through Portsmouth, for the Earl of DYSART'S cottage, at Undercliff, Isle of Wight. The Marchioness of CAMDEN had a select party of fashionables, yesterday evening, at her house in Ar lington-street. Friday afternoon, Prince ESTERHAZY arrived at Chandos House, from Worthing ; and on Saturday forenoon, his Serene Highness left town on a visit to Lord CASTLEREAGH, at North Cray, where he passed the night. Yesterday forenoon, his Serene. Highness took leave of Lord and Lady CASTLEREAGH, and paid a visit to Count and Countess LIEVEN, on his way to Worthing, where he joined the Princess and family. Wednesday next their Serene Highnesses and the whole of their suite are expected to arrive at Chandos House, from Worthing. Friday forenoon last, an Italian Courier arrived at Brandenburgh House, with dispatches from Milan for her MAJaart. He left Milan on the Bth inst. and was fourteen hours on his passage from Calais to Dover. On the afternoon of the above , day he had his passport signed at the AUstrian Ambassador's, and immediately set out again for Milan, with dis patches from her MAJESTY. Last night an Austrian Courier was sent off from Chandos House, by Mr. Ds NIEMAN, with dis patches for the Court of Vienna. Yesterday a Spanish Courier arrived at the resi dence of the Duke Da FRIAS ' in Portland-place, with dispatches from the Court of Madrid. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess de CAZES gate a grand entertainment at their seat at Harrow-on-the Hill, to the Marquis of LANSDOWN, Earl and Coun tess of DAWNLAY, Count and Countess de BOURKE, Baron de CAZES, Count CARAMAN, Duke do Fasas, Mr. de NIEMAN, Baron MALTZAHN, and a large party of distinguished personages. • The Earl Of WESTMORELAND entertained the Mar quis of EXETER, the Earl of HARROWBY, Lord FAL MOUTH, and a large party of the Peers, on Saturday, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Saturday, the Earl of VERGLAM left town, for his . seat, Gorhambury, near St. Alban's. Yesterday the Earl and Countess of DERBY enter tained a select party of their distinguished friends .with a dinner, at their house in Grosvenor-square. Yesterday the Earl and Comitess GaosysNoa gave a dinner at Grosvenor House, Upper Grosvenor•street, to the Marquis and Marchioness of STAFFORD, the Earl and Countess of St%RRBY, Lord and Lady Bat.- GRAVE,. the Duke of GRAFTON, and a large patty of distinguished personages. • _ DREADFUL FIRE. • Wednesday night, a dreadful fire broke out in North -street, York, by which the corn-mill of Messrs. L. and J. SIMPSON, in which it originated, was con sumed, and property to the amount of seven or £BOOO was destroyed ; to aggravate this calamity, the gable end of the building, which had been suffered to stand when the mill was reduced to ruins, fell with a dread ful crash about noon on Thursday, and buried a num ber of persons in the ruins. A youth, the son of Mr. WALKER, plumber and glazier, was killed upon the spot ; and a fine girl, the daughter of Mr. DAI,Tott butcher, had her skull so dreadfully fractured, that she died soon after: from 15 to 20 other persons have been hurt, some of them dangerously, but the above are the only persons to whom this melancholy acci dent has yet proved fatal. The Address to her MAJESTY . from Southampton finally closed on Saturday evening with 3,000 signa tures. The deputation proceed to Brandenburgh House on Wednesday next. The folloiving is her MAJESTY'S gracious Answer to the Address from the Inhabitants of Croydon : " I have been much gratified by the loyal and affectionate Address from the Inhabitants of the Parish of Croydon, in the County of Surrey. " It is not possible for the dint sight of man to penetrate fat into the dark immensity of the moral world; but still there is light enough upon the confines of that awful vast, to teach us a few simple but salutary truths. Our limited experience and con fined observation are sufficient to prove that evil is often one of the means of good, and that the seeds of misfortune ,often throw up a harvest of happiness. My life will furnish numerous in stances of a moral retribution; and will, at the same timeorove that there is more native strength in unprotected innocence, than in the most systematic falsehood or the best fabricated perjury ! " In the conspiracy against me in 1806, there was no want of well-contrived circumstantial particulars, which were formed into a very plausible story ; nor did the tale want the support of witnesses who had no scrupulosity about an oath; but the whole fabric was no sooner touched by the wand of truth than it dis- solved into empty air. The present conspiracy, in like manner , is demonstrated to have been the deliberate contrivance of false.. hood and malevolence. Where a country has been long governed for the benefit of a few, it is not surprising that the people should be clamorous for such an extension of political rights as may enable them t check that corrupt influence which , while it lasts will mare or less paralyze the moral energies of those within the sphere of its agency, and finally sap the very vitals of the Constitution. All political institutions, like the material fabrics of man, are composed of perishable elements. They con tain in themselves the principles of decay, of which the agency, unless scrupulously watched and carefully retarded, is never But how few Governments ever see the necessity of early refor mation ! Hence they delay reform till it is too late—or too late to be beneficial They either never intend a remedy, or they procrastinate the application till it is applied in vain." ' Mr. EVERY, a respectable brewer, in the Borough, was robbed on Thudday evening of a geld watch and seals, facing St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, by a slender youth, about seventeen years of age, dressed in a blue coat, who ran against him, pulled his watch out of his pocket, ran up Union-court, and escaped. About seven o'clock on Wednesday 'evening, as Mr. THOMAS BURN, of Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, sv?s walking along Searle -street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, he was hustled by a large gang of thieves, and rob bed of his gold watch, chain, and seals. Friday, as F. Kinnair, a drayman, was driving along Red Lion -street, Borough, the wheels'became entangled in those of a coal-waggon, and on his en deavouring to disengage them, the horses backed suddenly, when he was jammed between the dray and a house, and killed. Verdict, Accidental Death. Mr. Woon, a respectable clerk in the employ of Mr. Gossacit, of Hull, was going from Newark to Retford in the night of Friday se'nnight, on the box of the Ilighflyer coach, when the horses taking fright at some cattle lying on the road, the sudden motion threw him from the box, and produced so severea con cussion on the brain as to prove fatal on Wednesday. A few evenings since, a canvass parcel, containing two bars of gold, weighing 1994 ounces, value L7OOO, was stolen from one of the Dover coaches, on its way from London to Dover. Saturday morning, a most daring robbery and burglary was perpetrated at the house of Mrs. Willis, jeweller and silversmith, Bishopsgate-street Without, the particulars of which are of a very singular nature : Mrs. Willis, who is a widow lady, slept on the second floor, and retired to rest about twelve o'clock on Friday night, leaving the house securely fastened; Miss Caroline Willis, about 20 years of age, slept in a bureau bedstead in the shop,. Between three and four o'clock ea Saturday morning she was awoke by a noise, and on her raising herself in bed, to ascertain from whence it proceeded, she perceiied two fellows standing behind the counter, one of them held a dark lantern in his hand, whilst thi other was filling a large bag with plate, trinkets, and other valuables, which he was taking from the indow. The villains then forced open a drawer, filled with plate, which by some accident they let fall ; one of them exclaimed. " By J—e we are discovered !" and instantly made towards the door, which kids into Catharine Wheel-alley, taking with them the bag, con taining their valuable plunder. Miss Willis instantly jumped out of bed, and seized one of the robbers by the skirt of the coat, but he forced himself from her hold, and both ran off. Miss Willis instantly shut the street door •' and in her night clothes, without either shoes or stockings, pursued the vitiates, crying aloud, " Stop thief ! Murder!" &c. through different courts and alleys, into Spitzl-square, where she lost all trace of them. The shutting of the door alarmed Mrs. Willis and the shopman, who ran down stairs in a state of nudity. Mrs. Willis flew towards her daughter's bed, and on finding that she was gone, and her dress left behind, she fainted away. A light was procured, when the robbery was discovered, and Miss Willis was supposed to have been murdered and carried off by the ruffians. Several per sons went in pursuit of them. In about ten minutes after, Misa Willis returned in a state of exhaustion; to the amazement of her mother, to whom she relatesl the circumstance and the cause of her absence. The'pioperty stolen is estimated at /1000. HUNTINO.-Mr. Mytton's Fox-bounds meet to-morrow, at Lower Heath; on Thursday, at Prestos Springs; on Saturday, at Boreatton House; 'on Tuesday, at Lizard; on Thursday, at Chillington ;on Saturday, at Ran-100 WOod; and on Monday, at Chillington.-.-Mr. King Sampson's Sussex Fox-hounds com menced hunting, for the season last week, ss ken they =ken nelled three, one of which broke cover, and made a fine burst. The Buxton Harriers and Stockport Hounds now hunt the country round Derby in high style. There are fine fields for Sportsmen. Boxsue.—A fight took place, early on Sunday se'nnight, in a field at the top of Park-row, between two young men of Leeds, named Steyran and ItAbinson, in which the former was ea much hurt, that he was taken up in a state of insensibiEty, and clicd on his way home !—They had been drinking together the pre ceding evening, and Steyran was quite Intoxicated. Before he left the public-house, he had repeatedly challenged any one to fight him for five shillings; and it was not till ailed much pro vocation that Robinsonoke survivor, accepted the Offer. Coax Exenasma, (kroaat 16.—The supply of Wheat was rather large this morning front Essex and Kt nt, yet the best runs from those Counties met ready sale at an advance of from Is, to 2s. per quarter on the prices of last Monday, but the trade was not ditarer thanon Friday. Fine ganef is full Is. per quarters and the inferior qualities full 2s. per quarter cheaper, the supply /toeing much larger than the demand. Oats are Is. per quarter lower, and heavy sale at that abatement. New Beans are also Is. per quarter cheaper. In other artickano alteration. SMITHFIZLD 111AIMIZT, Our. 16.—Beef,'s4s. Od. to 4s. 10d. pet stone of Bibs. ; Mutton, 4s Od. to Ss. Od. Veal, Ss. Od. to 6s. Od. Pork, Ss.od. to 66.0 d. Lamb, Os.od. to Os.o4L—Cattle at Market Beasts, 29.10 ; Calves, t". 00; Sheep and Labs, 19,000 ; Pip p in°. Hay, 3/.los. to It. 43. Clover, St Os. to fIL Os. buew,..lL to IL 14s. ~,~. .. 11_ • de* , • • 1 :i ~.....1 . , ' s