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on the ntAinart transactions of life, a Bark-note and 4,0,, t , were eq.iivmenc I. ,•(.I)iic estimation to a ▪ I nas ._ 14e would in , t nropv,e to the Ri g h t H on . bentleman to go to a shop; and if having bought a .„ „ .ay of goods of the value of a Bank-note and a ;ba n g, and in payment be should offer a guinea to the ,no e man, he would find, that in consideration of b e i ng paid in gold, the shopmaa would not give him • A M:ional five shillings worth of goods. He t hought that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had p a ; , ailed in his illustrations. He entirely dif fered from those Gentlemen who had said tlot a Bank -note was more valuable than a guinea, because no b o dy would hoard or bury a Bank-note in the taco n i ,or any such calamity. Ibis was a ci, irTmlent. An Honourable Gel:de tain (Mr. Whitshed Keene) hod argued as it this 131 ,1p.t.i been the means of enabling us to carry. on our operations on toe Continent. But he begged to fetal to the recollection of the House, that this Bill was not enacted until the end of the year 1811. i...fhe measure now in agitation was exactly similar i n t hat of Robespierre in France. Robespierre had gacted, that no goods should be brought to market e bc; a e a certain price. The consequence WAS, that gi , n ds appeared. This law enacts, that nd gold shall be sold above a certain price; tht consequence of Course is, that all the gold disappears. The whole gist= will come ,to its own extinction ultimately, u nless stopped in its progress. From the first he had been averse to the Bill, because, besides its many Slating defects, it tended to defeat its object. He whether any gui neas h a d b y any would again ask, means, or by any connivanye, been bought on ac- Count of Gbvernment ? An offer had been acknow ledged to have been made to Government of a num. ber of guineas for sale : and this offer having been Made, chews that the impression on the public mind is, that Government will ultimately be obliged to act Contrary to their own laws. Had any guard of a mail- Mach, or any such person, been detected in any such prdcticei as that which the Right Hon. Gentlem an had stated at having come within his own knowledge, he would hate been proceeded against with the utmost k m * of the law. The Right Hon. Gentleman, Jointer; had acted in a very innocent and harm la way, by not putting the law in force against the person Oho had offered the guineas to-hi m for pail geld should find its proper value, no gold would appear ; when gold did find its proper value, it would be had in abundance. It might as well be expected that St. Paul's should stand without a foundation, as that public credit should exist without metallic cre dit to support it. Although he considered the pro. posal of the Noble Lord (Folkestone) as a bad one, because tending to give a bad precedent, that they wholundamentally opposed the Bill, should consent to its being passed fora limited time, yet, considering the peculiar circumstances of the case, he would agree to divide the Huetse upon it. The CHANCELLOR of the tXCHEQUER explained. He again positively refuted the war. Lion that Government aid at any time employ per.. ions to purchase guineas for them. He also said, that the last price paid by Government for bills to the Continent was 67 pence per mil rea. Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that this Bill deould not tie up the hands of Government n om any ' ' elterior proceeding on the subject. • . Mr. CANNING thought the principles of this Bill were opposite to every principle of political &cann ily; but that the necessity for it which did now exist, arose from the measures which had been adopted on a former occasion. His Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Vansittart) had stated, that in point of public esti. station, a Bank note and a shilling were equivalent b.a guinea, when. in point of fact, it was well known that at that very time a guinea sold for 255. At that time he thought that Government would be obliged to have recourse to legal force to establish what *a called the public estimation. And this was fulfilled in a few months, by Gover nment b e i ng I Obliged to have recourse to the present Bill. The I Bill was divided into two pans; what regarded the payment of Bank notes, and the other part which re garded the selling of guineas. It was but just, that whoever received paper in legal payment, should not be too:plied by law to pay any thins else than what he had received. As to the penalties by law, for pre- Seating the exportation of gold coin, when a higher rice was to be procured for it in foreign markets 111 writers agreed, and experience concurred in de monstrating, that even if the penalty were death, the thing could not be 'prevented. Colbert had said that if a wall of brass were built round the kingdom, the gold coin would find some chink by whizh it would inappear, and find its way to the foreign markets.— tie not vote for this Bill on any of ahe grounds stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Go vernment had got into a difficulty from the opposite of those principles which he entertained, and he could not see how they could extricate themselves from this difficulty. Mr. BUTTERWORTH read, from under the Gallery, a letter from a friend in the country; in which the writer recommended strongly the passing of. the Bill before the House, in order to save the peo ple in his neighbourhood from the most serious loss, if not from run Mr. Alderman ATKINS, advertinz to what had! fallen front Mr. Canning, expressed his decided opi- I Ilion, that the present state of our circulating medium not owing to the conduct of Ministers, or of airy War set of men ; but to the growing commerce ci the country, which the whole metallic currency of the world would have been insufficient ro supply ; , and he wished that this fact were distinctly under- Stood throughout the country. The question being loudly called for, the House o at --Fee the Amendment 19—Against it 129. '"'Majority 110. The original question was then put, and the Bill Was read a second time, and ordered to a Committee tomorrow: Mr. WHITBREAD presented a petition from D. W. Harvey, Esq. complaining of the return for the Borough of Malden ; and alledging, among other t hing; that Mr. Robert Thornton, who was returned for that Berme], was not possessed of the Property lly requisite to quality him for a seat in that . °ow—Ordered to lie on the table, and to be taken into consideration on the 18th of February next. Pk ILt `I t Ut. Kb DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s ieduted snit-#-4 per Cent. 7544--5 per Cent. s. for at. 03 liffi—Ons. 741,...:-Bonds 7s. es. dits , 41e1LB ilis par....D0.:(314.1 24.55.. pr. THE CVENINd STAR. WE' uVic INESISAY, DECEMBER 9. • The private accounts from St. Petersbargh, re ceived by the Gouenbargh Mail of yesterday, al though they afford no intelligence later than Lnrd CATHCART'S dispatches, do not lessen the agreeable impressions whial the state et affairs in Russia has made. They depict the horrors which attend the retreat of the French army in strong colours. During tl:c rapid flight fu m Viasma to Smolensk, the whole of the c.Lvalry were dismvonted, and the mi. sctable horses were led between files of infantry to be slaughtered as occasion required : nearly the whole of the troops were absolutely without clothing—their legs and feet in particular were particularly exposed. The mortality, under such circumstances, must have been even greater than that occasioned by the hourly irruptions of the Cossacks. With respect to the numbers of the French army, Lord CATHCART'S dis patches furnish us with some curious data, which tally precisely with our own observations. In the French Bulletin, announcing the . first entrance of their army into Smolensk, we were told that there were five Russians fount dead on the field 8f battle for one Frenchman, and BONAPARTE added," 200,000 French troops were witnesses of this."—lf we admit, therefore, that he advanced from Smolensk towards Moscow with 200,000 men, the battles of Borodino and Mojaisk must have cost him about 80,000, for the French Commissary-General informs the Russians that about 125,000 men were at one time quartered in Moscow. When the French army left Moscow, after a residence of a little month only,- its numbers were reduced to 85,000. ANOTHER ARRIVAL FROMTHE NORTH: No Gottenburg . vail.bas arrived this morning, but a Cutter has brought to Harwich a Russian No bleman, who confirms the whole of the statement, recently transmitted from the North, and has brought some important communications to Government. _ _ _ ..... The following are the letters which announce his arrival: 44 HARWICH; DECEMBER 8. " The Active cutter, GRIMSON, from Gottenburgh, has brOught his Excellency' Prince KOSLOSKY, who is going Envoy Extraordinary from Russia to Sardi nia. His Excellency confirms the accounts already received, and states it as his firm opinion, that not Frenchman will get out of Russia." ANOTHER LETTER.-SAME DATE. " His Highness Prince Peter Kosloviky, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of St. Petersburgh to the King of Sardinia, arrived here this morning from Gottenburgh, in a small cutter belonging to Heligo land ; as she sailed on Wednesday last, of course she brings nothing later than the King George packet.— Some time must elapse before we can expect any fur= ther arrivals from the North, as it is very generally supposed here that the Pi ince of Wales, the next packet in turn, may be frozen in, the weather having set in very severe in that quarter on Tuesday night last.—Wind North, and moderate." There was a report in circulation last night that the whole disposable French force in Spain, had qui denly been called back to France, in consequence of fresh insurrections having at length assumed a for midable aspect. We shall be glad to bear of this rumour being confirmed. At all events the destruc tion of the army sent to Russia, must necessarily call for an additional force to maintain order in the Pro vinces. That this force cannot be furnished by France, we need not go far to prove. The evacua tion of the Peninsula, therefore, is one of the great :bjects arising out of the conflagrAion of Moscow, even if BONAPARTE escapes from Smolensk. The following sketch, taken from the best Maps of Russia, will enable our Readers to form a correct idea of the probabilities of BCfNAPARTeS escape : From Smolensk there is no road leading directly westward, but there are two which lead indirectly to svc.s ernly termination; one that rune N. W. to Witt psk, and then, with nearly a right angle, turns southwari to Wilna ; another, which runs S. S. W, by C tsza to Minsk. The former of these, we before knew, is occupied by General WITTGENSTEM, and we learn, that he is endeavouring to reach Orsza, in or der to defend the latter. In occupying both these roads at once General WI TGENETEIN can only be able to act upon the defensive. But General KyTu- SOFF, with the main body of the Russian army, is ad- vancing to Krasnoi, a small town about forty miles from Smolensk, on the road to Or s za. Mobil,w, towards which BONAPARTE. is now flying, is upon a road from Smolensk, which runs rather more southerly than that to Minsk. He ap pears now to aim at reaching Kiow, and running thence to the frontier of Hungary. Thus we have a loss of nearly 40,000 men per month, even when the French were tranquilly em ployed in picking up the furs, the brandies, and wines, which filled the cellars of Moscow. Another month elapses before they reach Smolensk, if we are to believe the French Bulletin ; and if we estimate their loss on the dreary and perilous march, at 40,000 , more, Smolensk contained among its ruins on thet 11th November, about 45,000 men. Since that pe tiod another month has elapsed, and we are per fectly warranted in hazarding a conjecture, that tat this moment there ate not a dozen of French soldiersl in Russia bearing arms ! The sukequent intelli gence from Gottenburgh is more likely to p rove, thit cur calculations are under than &et' rated. When BONAPARTE left Wilna for the Duna, be boasted of having 350,000 men at his disposal in the North. We believe that it was subsequently aster.. tained by the Russian Gcvernment, that his whole line of operetions was limited to 210,000 troops—of these 40,000 were left behind as a reserve, which we are ready to admit has been since greatly augmented, but its communications with the main army have been a t the same time completely cut off. We are the more particular in this our enumera tion of the French army, because its annihilation fur nishes an awetul warning to those European Princes, nay, and we may add, to those Parents, who have . placed their population at the disposal of the foulest COURT OF KING'S BENCH.--This day, HUNT, the Editor and Proprietor of a w ee kly P a p er , was found and most unprincipled murd ere r th a t e ver l eve ll e d the weapons of destruction against hi s race . If ever guilty of a Libel on the P R I N C E R EGENT . Th e tr i a l .. there was a period in the hi s t or y o f man ki n d, in f asted three hours. Sir W. G amtow l e d t h e prose cution, and Mr. BROUGHAM conducted the defence. which whole nations woulde justified in the sight Accounts have reached town from Riga, of the of HEAVEN, in rising suddenly and puttin g to death 17th ult. which state, that on the 15th, the inhabi. every armed slave wha oens such a tyrant for his tants were alarmed by a heavy firing, apparently master, it is the present ! Well may the widow e d not many miles distant. Th e same was re p eate d t h e _ and the childless mothers of France now call for yen- next morning, and at length a Mes s en g e r arr i ve d with intelligence, that a battle had taken place be. geance on him whose horrible ambition has dragged tween the Russians and Prussians ; that the latter . ' their offspring to premature death through all the had been drawn close to a masked battery, which opening upon th e m, h a d kill e d great num b ers ; an d various tortures which have attended this short cam , paign in Russia! that the rest had been pursued two German leagues, We would extend our appeal to th e pitiful a nd a b- and had suffered greatly. The Duchess of M ONTROSE arr i ve d i n town on ject Princes of the Continent, who have poured their Monday. Her Grace's return from the Highlands contributary streams to the great torrent of blood of Scotland has been considerably retarded by a series which deluges Europe, but that we fear, they are of accidents ; the travelling carriage broke down at themselves Dunbar, owing to the extreme badness of the roads.' " In blood so deep, The repairs occupied some time ; but ere the chariot 4. That to wade back, would be as bad ts to go o'er reached town, it again broke down twice. Provi- If Europe is about to .be purged of its abomina- dentially the Duche ss sustaine d no ot h er i n j ury i n lions, and we trust we are on the eve of such a revo. co ‘ting therefrom.nseq . uence, than the delay and fright usually re lution, the whole Sovereigns of BONAPARTE'S creation su i t ing Persons who declined purchasing in the late Lot -nay those who are in alliance with him, will pro- teries, because they could' not obtain particular hint:- bably be driven from their thrones ! Let them ask her: in the high Th ou san d s, whi c h t h e y had been always him for an equivalent! in the habit of bespeaking, may now gratify their' As connected with the hints we have just thrown wishes, as the present Lottery consists of 13,000 out, it gives us additional satisfaction to inform our Tickets, all different Numbe r s, e ac h t o b e d rawn s e. parately from the Wheel, according to the old mode Readers, that the letters from St. Petersburgh confl- of drawing. . dently state, that Lord Waeroee had left the Rus- Dauer-ease THEATRE.— M r. RAE'S performance shot Capital on a secret mission to Vienna, or rather ; of Douala,, last night, did not con fi rm th e id ea w hi c h for the frontiers of Austria, where, it was added, he we had formed of his p o w ers . Mi ss S MITH , i n L a d y was to open a negociation with the Leaders of the Randolph, was dextrous ; b ut , lik e M rs . P oweee in Austrian armies. If the Emperor FRA. cis wishes to the same character at t h e ot h er h ouse , not a l ways e xonerate himself from the charges which the mar correct in the text. Miss SMITH'S , excellence ' riage of his daughter have created against him, it seems to lie in the stronger scenes of tragedy, and must be now or never. Lady Randolph's high and lonely griefs were but A Manifesto has been also issued at St. Peters. feebly suited to an actress who loves to mingle so burgh, in which the Emperor ALEXANDER solemnly ; niuch of passion with h er sorrows . B ut s h e gave the retracts all former acknowledgments of BONAPARTE proof, which take s away a ll answer f rom criticism— . as Emperor of France, and once more declares that he will never conclude a peace with France while she drew many a te ar f rom t h e s p ectators ; an d h er that villain is acknowledged as her Ruler. . It is even brief appeal over th e b o dy o f " h er b eaut if u l—h er brave,"—the wild wringing of her hands.—the re said, that when Lavitistosi came to beg a trace from pulse of the touch of all that could now connect her . Kolusoee, the Hero nobly demanded the dead body with the world, and the glance of eager resolution of his master as a pledge of his sincerity r with`such with which she rushed on her final purpoie, were evidence of the spirit in which tie Russians view the . I Present contest, where is the man, who would give a .sixpence for the reversion of all the Crofts is Europe, at BONAPARTES dLSlpoSill ? equally arduous and admirable. Mr. WROUGHTON si v/ Ati as iv ra sa pe T t e ta G b ieseivon le in Old an N d erv fien a/L ph R AYMOND ‘%ithspi a ri n t d . Hot.. I • GIBRALTAR MAIL; A G ibraltar Mail arrived this morning. The fol lowing vre some important ct n.munications from that quarter: " GIintALTAR. NOVF BFR 29. "By the last accounts from Aircant, teem that the first division of the A 1. d Army marched born thence, in the direction of Valencia, ob the 206, and the second division aas to hillthodre . next day. The litlst regiment had had mall akirmi_h ith the enemy's adiaaced posts. " Lord William Bentinck was hourly exFectea there, with 4Q Sicilian troops, to tate the com. tnand of the army. " By letters tram Carthagena, of the 20th, it ap pears that the yellow lever has entirely ceased there. About 800 pe,•ple have died there this season. AU the accounts fiom the Faculty and Board of Health concur in stating, that, nots ithstandi, g the highly contagious nature of the disease, no pet son Las ever been attacked with it a second time, and that all those who have had it in former years have escaped -it this year. Dr. Wright, Physician to the British Forces there, and his two sons, are dead. " General Ballasteros is to be banished to Ceuta. Nobody pities him, as if be had joined General Hill, agreeably to his crdors, their united armies would have effectually kept Souk's army in check, and pre vented his marching on Madrid, and coming in the rear of Lord Wellington's army, which obliged him Ito retreat from Burgos.". " MESSINA, OCTOBER 17. Yesterday a Council of War was assembled in the Citadel, for the trial of some spies who had been arrested, wEen, befote they proceeded to any trial+ two persons were brought before them, of the names of Don Benedetto Corlando and Don Felippo Car- tese, natives of Sicily : the former had been arrested in the Channel endeavouring to pass to the enemy in Calabria, and the other accused of assisting him to carry his intentions into execution ;—when, after an admonition from the President, relative to their con. duct in future, they were informed that Lord Wm. BentincE had been pleased to order, that they should be set at liberty on giting security for their future good behaviour ; both because they were least cul pable of any of the persons arrested, and to give a proof of his clemency, and of his high esteem for the Sicilian Nation." PAI .ERMO, NOV. 26. " By a Royal Edict . , published ',ere, all possessers of grain are required to give in a statement of the quantity they pcissess, and the place where it is de posited ; and those who shall be found neglecting to comply with this order, are to be subject to a foe, according to the quantity that may be attempted to be concealed." THE AkMY. - . His Royal Highness the Parwol Retagicr is ablut to make some provtsion for the, benefit of old and de serving General Officers of a certaiiimtaaber of yetrs of actual service, whom it has been itopoiable other wise to provide for, by giving them Regiments or Governments. There are many uf this deicriptiT3, upwards of forty years in the service, who are not employed on the Staff, and have no other benefit :rom Gnverntnent but the pay or half-Pai.of nant-Colonel. The Ist Battaiion Gth Foot, and the 20th Regit ment, at rived at Lisbon on the 14th ultimo, and w e immediately landed. They muster about 800 each, and will proceed to join Lord WELLINGTON with all possible dispatch. Orders have been received at Cork for the prepa ration of two squadrons of German Hussars—one destined for Gibraltar, and the other for Alican NAVAL ILVIELLIGENCE FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 6. Arrived the Lady Pelham Packet, with a M a n f r om Malta, last from Gibraltar, in sir claysi; also a man of war brig, and made signal of convoy for Porto. gal and the Mediterranean; a sloop of war, supposed holm a foreign station; and a brig from Isfessioa, for London, and is put under quarantine: The Martha Packet, for Lisbon, has gone into the Roads, and with the Lady Emily, for Malta, and the Sandwich, for Cadiz, still 'via-min.—Wind S. E. PLYMOTITH, DECEMBER 7. Arrived the SUPERB man of war, from Portsmouth, and the SuaaPsnoolza gun-brig, from a cruise..—. Came in the Prussian ship Venus, from Delfzt, bound to Boardeauz, detained by his Majesty's ship BORBA. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER O. Arrived his Majesty's ships VENUS, BELLONA, Bar." LERQPHON, RAWLINS, and THISTLE, with, a convoy from the Downs ; -and the PYRAMUS, frsm off Havre. His Majesty's ship TWEED got under way this morn ing, to proceed with a convoy for Madeira, but was recalled by signal, and remait4.—Wind N.E. DOVER, DECEMBER 8. Passed by for Leith, his Majesty's ship &meta, and the following transports for Leith, viz. Freya, Malabar, Grant, Matilda, Tartar, Elizabeth, and Union. DEAL, DECEMBER 8. Sailed his Majesty's ships ROYAL OAK, Tnesatrs, BELLONA, and 3taLtarr, for Portsmouth, to refit'; and SuccEsa,FRZYA, and six Transports, with French prisoners, for Leith. HARWICH, DECEMBER a. Sailed, the Auckland and Lady Frances PAckera, for Gottenburgh ; and the Lord Nelson, for Heligo land, with Mails. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK -LANE, DECEMBER O. We continue without any further arrivals from Monday; pad we at present have only to notice an advance of ts. per quarter pOats: In other respects the rummy remains unaltered ia ir tut report. .