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ids dr. use aas'no ? The on . i j•titfesii ;Nit was, whether it a civil offence, or an indictable one ?, In Lnrd Macclesfield's case, age Of the 'articlei of impeach. . went was for permitting use of 'suitOrs' money by' 1 . ; , e Masters in Chancery,:fortheir own benefit. Such , a use of suitors money vrou)d now be 'sanctioned, it' rould in these times have been " 1111 inequitable harsh.' !ss " to deprive diem of it. Such was 'not the lan-, la se in the days Of Lord Macclesfield. The late Perceval had such an opinion of this practice, that w h e n the charge was brought forWaid in that House he denied it, though, on inquiry, he was obliged to Mess his error. This office also, which they were s o fearful of injuring, had loetlid emoluments to the o lount of 12 or £13,000 alittr, And was wholly executed by deputy. After some remarks by Mr. STEPHEN, Sir SAatiniz.. ROMILLY, and Sir FREDERICK FLOOD, The House divided, when the numbers were, Ayes 11—Noes 80. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL. The House resolved itself into a Committee upon this Bill, when Sir W. SCOTT proposed several altera tions, some merely verbal, and others affecting the principle of the Bill itself. Annng . the latter was one that c o ntinued, to inferior. Ecclesiastical Courts the ' power Of etcoMintinication in consequence of the difficulty which he (SirW.Scott), had found in ac commodating that part as it originally stood, to all she variety of local circumstances throughout the kingdom. Sir S. ROMILLY thought the Bill was to be so altered as to deprive it of its chief Value, in his esti mation, that which went to remedy the serious evils a:rendant upon the power of excommunication in in terior Courts, and expressed his disappointment at :Le alteration in the Bill relating to excommunication. Sir W. SCOTT regretted that he should cause the iinappointment of the Hon. and Learned Member, sot he was compelled to do so from information he received from different parts of the country. The Amendments and Alterations were then -greed to. Upon the clause enacting that no person should be appointed a Judge of any Consistory Court, who had not practised a certain numbei of years as an Advo cate, which Sir W. Saorn proposed to omit, from the difficulty of finding persons so qttalified, Sir Salmon Roma intimated his intention of proposing that it stand a part of the Bill on its third reading. Several other clauses were then proposed, when the House resumed, and the Report was ordeted to be received on Monday.—Adjourned. LIST OF THE MINORITY ON TUE ADMIRALTY REGISTRAR'S BILL. lobo Newport Sir S. RnmiUy Sir E. Bridges H C. Combe P. Smith C. P. Symnions Lard A Hamilton W. Courtenay C. We.cerri Lord Tavistock TZLLEIRII. :1r M. W. Ridley Kirkman Finlay F. Barham. Sir Wm. Rowley- Forbes Henry Alzrtin. SPANISH COLONIES. EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. " BULNOS AYRES, MARCH 4. VICTORY OF THE ARMY OF THE COUNTRY OVER THAT OF TRISTAN. 3:O2SPATCN 07 GENERAL D. MANOR'. BELGRANO TO THE SWPRZME GOVERNMEN T. " MOST EXCELLENT SIR--The ALMIGHTY has owned our armies with complete success. The ei:emy is defeated at the point of the bayonet. The army under D. Pio Tristan surrendered, as appears by the annexed Capitulation. I cannot give your Ex cellency an exact computation of the killed and wounded on the one side or the other, but which I will hereafter detail, saying at present only, that my Se cond in Command, Major General Diaz Velez has been shot in the mouth by a musket ball, when he was discharging his duty in conducting the left wing of the army to glory. His conduct, that of Colonel Rodrigues, who commanded the left wing, and that of all the other Commanders of Division, as well infantry, cavalry, and artillery, deserves the highest praise • and the deportment of all the corps is worthy of American freemen, who are sworn to maintain the independence of the United Provinces at the River Plate. It is ny pleasing duty to repeat to your Excellency, what Isaid in my dispatch of the 24th of September, that from the meanest soldier to the highest officer, and even the peasantry, have acted worthy of fellow citizens, and of the rewards which I have no doubt year Excellency will confer upon them. (Signed) 44 MANUEL BELGRANO." " February 20th (Night), 1813. " To the Most Excellent Superior Governor of the United Provinces of the River Plate." CAPITULATION. the the " General Manuel Belgrano, commanding the Army of Buenos Ayres, and Colonel D. Felipe de la Hera, on the part of the Van guard of Peru, have agreed as follows: " Art. 1. The Army of Peru, at ten o'clock tomorrow, shall leave Salta with all the honours of war; the troops of the River Plate retaining their present position. At the three Squares the .ormer .hall lay down their arms, including the andlery and zArnunition, of which they shall give a proper statement. " Art. 2. The General in Chief and his Officers shall make 4th not again to take up arms, and all the soldiers of the army t:eneral Belgrano permits to return to their houses, as well in the provinces of the River Plate, as in Potosi, Charms, Gotha tut-ay., and la Paz. " Art. 3. General Belgrano agrees that all the prisoners, whe '`.u•r Officers or soldiers, shall be restored, and he requests General Tristan to urge his subordinate Officers to collect the prisoners tilde in the different actions since the battle of Desaguadero. " Art. 4. The property belonging both to the army and to te people of the country shall be respected, and no one shall he r.ulested on account of his political opinions, whether in a mill or situation. of so :e -'er An. 5. The public property shall remain in the Treasury, tfJrct 'u the account which the Minister of Ficatice shall I ~Ply. le, Ni in " Art. 6. The corps of troops which are in Juju: shall be per ivitt.-d to retire with their arms, but with the ttigagemeat not to - ....rntint any hostility in their retreat. " Art- 7• Cr aeral Belgrano permits General Tristan to send a tii;patch to the General in Chief, with a copy of this arrao.enient f" its Confirmation it is hereby signed in the Hotel of Ilth of February, 1813. (Signed) " scstaitzt. RI:LCRAND. FELIPE DE LA DELA. (Countersigned) riu TRIST AN. T. O. DE LOCASA. (And by the other Officers of the rank of Lieut.-Col.)" We congratulate eur countrymen on this happy period of our history, and the victory we have now recorded will render ever dear to their memory the return of the 20th February. The triumph of this fortunAte day will animate the feelings of a thousand generations in this part of the world, and the disgrace of the inhabitants of Peru who have endeavoured to ?upprcis liberty, will be equally remembered in ages uzborn. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1813. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Red. 557a—Cons. 581i6 }—for acc. 58i-4 per Ct. 72 7111 5 per Cent. 87ii—Bonds 1 S. 2.5. dik—Each. Bills 3s. ss. pre. Bank Long Annuities 14 11-16ths Farther extracts from the letters and papers from Germany, received by the Heligoland Mail of yes terday, will be seen above. The most prominent- and interesting article is that which informs us of the levy cn•mane in Prussia, a measure to which the King had declined to give his consent at the commencement of the campais;n, and thereby in curred some degree of unpopularity. Berlin alone furnished 40,000 men within a few hours to this for midable defence ; they are to be clothed in no uni form, and to be armed each man with his favourite weapon. This is as it should be. If the inhabitants of Prussia had been thus a foot in this way when the remnants of the French army retreated through Prussia from the Duna, not a man would have es caped, and should the French army again be led into Prussia by the madman who commands it, these Pa. triots will do their duty. The report which we stated yesterday of I.eipsic having been once more in possession of the Allies is confirmed by subsequent arrivals. Halle is also free frotn the enemy. There are 'some hopes, therefore, that a movement, with a view to come in the rear of the enemy, may have been made by the Allies after the battle of Lutzen. They do not seem to have re treated before the French army—at least we have no direct information to this effect. As at Borodino and Moskwa, they may have merely made way for the French to pass on. The speedy occupation of Dresden- and Meissen may thus be easily accounted for, but their situation must be precarious in the ex treme, for they have numerous armies if not in their rear, at least on both flanks—to say nothing of the population of the countries through which they have already passed, and among whom the seeds of pa , triotism and independence have ere now been widely I sown. It was yesterday reported that occurrences of the description just alluded to, had compelled the French army precipitately to abandon Dresden and Meissen, bur this is not true. In the mean time, an additional• Russian Army, that of the West, under General BARCLAY DE ToLLY, in fast advancing to the seat of war. We believe it may be rated at 100,000 effective and well.appointed troops. Amidst these cheering prospects, it would be gratifying to hear that Austria had decided for the hopeful cause ; but even her neutrality is an as sistance not to be despised, and upon this we think we may firmly rely. The new complexion which matters in the North have recently assumed gave us occasion, on Tuesday, to hint at the seeming anomalies presented by recent events. Sweden, in a demi-official form, announces, that causes may exist which will justify the annexa tion of Norway to her dominions; and more than hints, that Russia and England have agreed to gua rantee the possession. This naturally suggests the question :—ls this measure to be considered as the caw, or as the effect of the hostility to the common cause that has been imputed to Denmark ? If Den . . . , . . ... , . k be from principle, Cr fiestn r . a mistaken vie* of ' her own interest, attached to the French Despot, how is her recent ccifidnie, in not merely 'promising, but actually rending, an armedloree to defend Ham burgh; to A be reconciled with such in attachment ? If it be true that any part Of the conduct * of Enk. land or Russia has given the semblance of a warrant nar to the assertion that they agree to the 'dismemberritent of Denmark, is it not possible that 'this conduct ba3 only gone to the length of a semblance ?—ln other words : is it trot probable ?—pay we may say cer tain ; that this would be made to depend only on certain contingencies ? If, in spite of every argument and remonstrance, Denmark bad, by her conduct, given complete proof that she was determined to make common cause with France in the present struggle, nothing could be more natural than that the Allies should endeavour to make her suffer the fruits of her own folly, and heap upon her all the calamities and miseries of war ? In this view nothing could be more reasonable than that another Northern Power that had promised, and given some indications of an intention to take the field in the cause of the Allies, 'should be encouraged to hope for a reward from the possessions of the hostile Power. All this reasoning is, however, completely nega tived by the actual'conduct of Denmark, in sending an armed force for the defence of the Hans Towns : nor is this all•we announced yesterday (but the late hour at which the news reached us prohibited any remarks) that a Danish naval force had convoyed twenty-five craft from Heligoland, past Stadt, to Hamburgh ! Such a procedure on the part of Denmark gives ten fold force to every argument she may offer, founded on that justice which independent nations owe to each other—and we are strongly inclined to believe that the opinion above hazarded will prove to be correct, namely, that any Measures contemplated by the Al lies, of a nature hostile to Denmark, were made to depend on the conduct of Denmark herself ; and consequently that some new way of remunerating Sweden (if Sweden must be paid for doing her duty) will be devised, and the possessions 'of Denmark be left entire. Such appears to ns to be a reasonable view of the present aspect of Northern politics. But the whole of what we have hazarded is merely a matter of opinion founded on public facts. There may be facts un known to the public which may influence the conduct of the high parties interested; but certainly the whole argument, so far as it rests en public conduct, is fa vourable to Denmark. We go farther. We say, that the conduct of Denmark has been highly map. nanimous. Convinced of the danger with which the arrogant pretensions of France threaten Europe, she acts with promptitude and vigour, under circum stances which would probably have induced some other Powers to pause, at least till their own security and integrity were guaranteed. Has Sweden exhibited stronger proofs of a wise policy in favour of general interests than Denmark ? We mean not to arraign the conduct of the CROWN PRINCE: we are willing to allow (and we believe it (to be true) that he has done every thing that strict prudence and the extent of his means have yet ena bled him to perform ; but if Denmark has at least equalled all his performances, and that too without any vaunting professions, we may rest confident that Great Britain will not act unjustly towards the for mer in favour of Sweden. The defence of the Hanse Towns is a matter of the first consequence, not to England only, not to the Allied Powers only, but to all Europe, in the present struggle. If their independence cannot be maintained, and that it cannot by their own means it evident, the next best boon that could be conferred on them by the Allies, would perhaps be to put them under the entire protection of Denmark. They would them• selves highly prefer this to passing again under the galling yoke of NAPOLEON, who, in his inveterate enmity to England, thinks nothing of sacrificing the commercial comforts and interests of every territory that has the misfortuse to be subjected to his sway. The Swedish brig Concordia, JUKES, has arrived at Plymouth, from New York. She sailed on the 2d ultimo, at which time that port was not blockaded by the English. On the coast of America she was boarded by a French corvette, with dispatches from New York for France ; and off Sandy Hook spoke the ACASTA frigate—all well. Mr. SYLVT-STER, one of his Majesty's Messengers, in cqmpany with Captain Hesse, a Russian Officer, left town last night with dispatches for Lord CATJI. CART, our Ambassador at the Court of St. Peters burgh. The subsidy to Sweden is £50,000, not £500,000 per month, as has been stated, by mistake, in most of the daily Papers. Buenos A yres Gazettes to the sth, and letters from the same place of the 7th of March, state, that on the 4th of that month the Peruvian army was completely routed on the plains of Salta, by the Revolutionary army. A capitulation was signed on the field of bat tle, by which the former delivered up their arms, and engaged never again to serve, and a corps sta tioned at Jujui was compelled to return to Peru with out committing any act of hostility in the province of Buenos Ayres. We are concerned to state that the Earl of Sur- POLK, in getting out of his carriage on Tuesday last, in Harlow•street, missed the step, fell, and had the misfortune to break his leg. His Lordship is about 74 years of age, but is in a fair way of recovery. 1 '41 7 4 Y4L INTELLIGENCE. , ,• CAPTURE OF THE EXPRESS PACKET; (tROII THE BRAZILS). . . FALMOUTH, MAY 19. • Ar;ivcd this day the Express pAckct, Capt.Qulcx; from Rio de Janeiro, 57 days passav on her sage fell in with, and was captured by, the American brig privateer Annaconda, of IS guns, long nine and 12-pounders, with a compliment of I'2o men, 75 days from Boston ; then in lat. 6. '26. south, long. 29. S. west; after an action cf one hotir and a half, in Which the Packet had all her masts and yards crip pleA, and all her rigging cut to pieces. The privateer had not made any oche; capture; and no mention is made of the killed or wounded on either side. The privateer took out £20,000 sterling in gold, and all the stores, spars, canvas, cordage, provisions, acc.— threw all the guns overboard, and then gave her up, giving the passengers all their private property. The packet put into Fernando deNoronko to water, when she learnt that his Majesty's ship CASTOR and-a sloop of war had proceeded on for India. His Majesty's ship RACOON sailed from Rio for Pernambuco, with the following vessels under con voy : Levant, SMMI ; Esser, MILES, for Liverpool; John Panic, WISHART ; Eliaaceth , FEATHERSTON ; John, —; American ship Pert, for Lisbon ; ditto Hope, prize to the RAcoos ; ditto Hazard, for Greenock; ditto Peter, for London. —The DAnt cutter, with the David Shaw transport, arrived at Rio on the 15th March, from St. Sebastian's Bay ; and the EMERALD, from River Plate, for London.— The Young Holkar and Yankee, American priva teers, were cruizing on the Coast of Brazil. The Swiftsure packet had not arrived nut. Yesterday sailed the following packets, with Mails :—Duke of Kent for Corunna, Arabella for Lisbon, Queen Charlotte for Lisbon and Cadiz, and Hinchinbrook for Jamaica.—Arrived the Dispatch.BOYD, horn Pa. lermo, in 22 days ; spoke his Majesty's ships SCYLLA. and MYRTLE off Cape St. Vincent, and was informed that they had seen several American privateers, but could not come up with them. red v t 1 .1( Bid t Seat Vl tho teat Bill tt 1i he 5 Le. col the Sp aRI. a rt 0,0 eV aes. RC 1 to the !are le. and till do Bali Fri the ion vete r of CO and t h ki 4,14, 'risk all Into rrg Irish xt l the ? 1. ours ::.e t, to Lee. :1: rent )ere :edtl Ol 10SC tof - ' ll !red 10 c' of a ail 11( sta lit .%; not Was ther • the the ;oh. the • e of He ,ns ; Aire err, and VI gilt ing the c: ne- El CC : at Irish GERMAN PAPERS. . LEIPSIC, MAY 4. Leipsic is again clear of her unexpected guests, 'and our communications are, again free. , BERLIN, MAY 0.. 4 , • On the 6th instant, at two o'clock in the afternoon, proceedings were made in all the quarters, parishes, and suh.parishes of this capital, in the organization of the Landsturm (10y-en-masse s .) All the inhabi tants of this capital, from the age of 15 to . 60 years, without any exception of rank, condition, or country, were summoned, by'printed notices, to appear in com pliance with the ordinance of thi 21st of April, con cerning the Landsturm, and they accordingfy, wil lingly and joyfully, aprea4d in full numbers, to be entered in the lists of their future companies, by the Magistrates of the circles, and the Commissaries ap pointed for the purpose. tie Landsturm for the *city . of Berlin, it is esti mated, will amount to 40,000 Men. l'esteaty afternoon, at two o'clock, one howitzer, two cannon, three powder-waggons, eight French officers, and 410 privates, were brought in 1;6.4 vzhich had been taken by Lieutenant-General Von Kleist, near Halle. They were escorted by Lieutenant Count Fenkinslun, of the Life Guards, with a detachment of the guards invalids, of the gnardtgens (Parma, and Burgher guards. POSEN, MAY s. Today the Russian General in Chief of the Wes tern Army, Barclay de Tolly, arrived here with his Staff ; with him are Lieutenant-General Salincoff, Chief of the Staff, and several other Generals. The army has already arrived in this vicinity. It marches by different roads in several columns, Lieutenant- General Saas commands the reserve, and Lieutenant- General Ischaplitz the advanced-guard, which has been here for some time, and yesterday began its march for Frankfort on the Oder, for which destina tion the army will follow the day after to-morrow. NEIGHBOURHOOD OF DANTZIC, APRIL so. According to the account of a Prussian Officer lately arrived from Dantzic, all the Prussians there have been arrested. Of the 17,000 men of which the garrison consists, there are, by the same account, 10,000 sick, and of these 100 die daily. Three thoa sand of the garrison of nantzic lately made a sally, in which they carried off a considerable quantity of cattle. PLYMOUTH, MAY 20. The American ship Magdalen, of about 300 tons burthen, with part of a cargo on board, consisting of brandy and wine, captured and sent in here some days since, on her passage from Nantz to America, by the SUPERB man of war, caught Ere in the hold, by accident, last night, in Hamoaze, and was imme diately scuttled. A very small part of her cargo was destroyed, and as the tide leaves I,er at low water, it is expected the remaii.der will be saved. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 21. The AcoNza sloop of War takes convoy for Guern sey. Theitimmove. gives instructions to the trade for Newfoundland and North America. The fol lowing convoys runtain at Shithead, viz. his Ma jedy's ship Fn.vot'lu'rE:, for the Brazils; 12.Lsoixit. fcr Plymouth, Cork, &c.; LA(1:DFNION1:IN, for the %Vest ; ALONZO, for Guernsey ; and the Rixou3vil, for Newfoun.lland and North America. Wind W.S.W. blows hard. MAY Ct. Arrived the ProTt•cr, Burkt.Ev, from Skrr t I enne. The outwatdbound is Mill dctained by contrary wind. 1 IVERPOoI., M ‘Y ,20. The ADERCRONE:II:, from BUMbay to CLina, and the CORONIANDEL, from Bengal to Batavia, arc tot illy lost in the Caramata Passage—crew savA. The CHARLTON is lost in the Red Sea. • Arrived here the brig Anna, from Boston, hcond to Lisbon, detained the day before off the Ormsheacl by the 13aitTox and LawNIA, from Barbadoes, which sailed on the 9th April. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEE FlNG—isis. FRIDA•, MAY 21. Mr. Sbakespear's Dobadit, bst. 41b. beat Major Wilson . * Spet• less, sst. ;lb. A. F. 100 gs. h. fc.-2 to lon bobadil. A Gold Cup, value Sogs. to be paid for by a Subscr;ptinn or lOgs. each, the surplus, it any, to go to the winner; to be run for by horses of all ages. T. M. M. Lord Foley's Teasdale, 6 yrs old, Bsr. 91b. - Gen. Gower's Crispin, 6 yrs old, Si. 91b. - - 2 Five others started, but the Judge could place only two. 5 to 2 agst Teasdale-3 to I agst Crispin. Dynuw, M* 18.—The Catholic Prelates have re. dered a Session to be held in this city, on Tuesdav, the 25th instant. The Bill now depending is, dotibt less, the occasion of the Meeting. The Catholic Board met on the 15th instant. After some prelimi nary business, Mr. DRUMGOOLE moved the following Resolution : Resolved, That we do renew and re-adaft the Resoltrion en• tered into by the General Committee of toe Catholics ut Ireland, on the Sd of March, 1 8 10--" That, as Catholics and Irishmen, we never can or will consent to any interference, either direct or indirect, upon the part of the Crown or the Servant; ot the Crown, in the apto utinent of our Bishops;' and that we Gel ourselves called upon to repeat this our fixed and unalterable de termination, at a time when we see,with regret and astonishment this interference in the election of our Bishops, against which the Catholics ot Ireland, both Clergy and Laity, have with one voice protested, about to be established by Law, and that in a way more injurious to Rai ; - :ion, and much more objectionable than heretofore proposed. A long discussion ensued, and the question was at last adjourned until Saturday the sth of June. It was formerly said of Foitunatus's Purse, that 66 Me more you emptied it, the fuller it grew f" however paradoxical this may be, it seems true as to the pre sent Lottery Wheel ; for although the Blue, coat Boys have been pulling at it for two days and nights, yet there are now more Capitals and other Prizes propor tionately than at first, being only two days to draw, with 4 Grand Prizes of 4-20,000 and 810,000— 7 of 82,000 and £l,OOO, and several thousands of £5OO, £3OO, £2OO, &c. either one of which above MC/Ram receive in additicn t'lo,ooo next Thursday morning ! i I r I