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t assist him in his attempts against this country e could not see that any fair opportunity bad been ffered for negociation by the late overture of France, ,' or could he see that th a t overture was s i ncere . He ', 'oncluded by moving, 1 lest an entreat , ietories be presented to his Royal HI, ttiess he litif,co Urgent, payi ng t h a t hi s Poy.ti Highness wouht or rte' he va;cl two: e rbe tiouse, Copts of all such Corrs- pon iettee as had tz.kert place between this Country and France, siact v • el egionf.l if April Lest. Mr. Vt 7 HITE it EAD, in rising to second the Mo. ion of. his Right Honourable Friend, expressed an , ope that there was no person in the House who ' • otild for one moment suppose that he would be apable of counselling the acceptance of any offers tom the French Government, which would tend to', . eprade us as a nation, bat he could not contemplate' . ithunt extreme uneasiness the prospect of an ex itended war between the two countries. His Right Hon. Friend had dwelt much on the maritime rights of Great Britain, and had insinuated a doubt as to his wish to uphold them, but he was satisfied that nothing he had ever said in tbat House could in the !least evince any thing derogatory to them. His Right Hon. Friend had asserted that England had never done any thing which could reasonably provoke hos. . tilities, but he would ask him if he had forgotten the circumstances under which Spain had been driven into a war with us ? Was the atrocious act commit ted against Spain (the seizure of the frigates) so so o n •, forgotten ? Was the Copenhagen business obliterated from the anrals of our history ? And was it ;recess. eery to call lorth the powerful eloquence of his Right Honourable Friend, to array in brilliant colours those black deeds ? Was it a proper period, when the ar. relies of France had advanced tq the frontiers of Rus. aL ? He would not go the length of saying that we i should have accepted the proposals of the French i Emperor, but we should have, at least, not refused i to treat, let the basis be what it might, in order to make it plain to the world that our enemy was is the wrong. He could see no reason why that negociation shiiuld not go on, and the war, now commencing in the North, be avoided. The ; preseet was a war, during which, some Mem- I bers of that Islotee had been born, and in which many - of them had grown old, and though it may I happen that peace could not he now achieved upon horiourahle terms, that was not a reason why the ne gotiation should not, at least, be commenced. The hatred of Bonaparte to the interests of England was i no reason, at least, against the commencement of the negoti;:tion. His aversion to tngland was not sooner than the aversbn of England to him. • In his opinion, the answer of the Government was a di. sect negative upon negotiation ; they might have been led to this refusal by the expected-state of affairs in the North : he did not think that England owed much 'to Russia. All the Northern Powers, and Russia among the rest, had, both lately and in former times, shewit as moth jealousy of naval superiority of Great 'Britain, as France herself had shewn.—Ministers were so . totaliy unprepared for this struggle in the North, .that lie believed Bonaparte would arrive in Peters.. burgh before Lord Cathcart, who had lately set off on his mission to the Russian Court. He did not think that Russia, considering the state of her finance, could continue the war very long. He would be better pleased the country should perish than do what was dishonourable ; but he could not agree that she should perish, merely on a false point of honour.— He deprecated the war with America, and next to r that event he lamented ntirst, that the late opportunity I for negotiation-with France had.been thrown away. Lord CASTLEREAGH said be would not op. pose the production of the Papers; but he would pet it to the judgment of any man, whether he could consider the answer of the British Government as an 1 absolute rejection of negociation ; and whether, if the suggestion of the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. 1 Whitbread) had been adopted, the Government ' would not have violated the most obvious principles of policy '? It could not be denied, that the views of - the Government of France must be ever hostile to the naval power of this country ; and that such must be its views, even if a Bourbon were to be on the throne of that country, though he was no advocate for interminable war, that man must have attended but little to the events of the last twenty years, who could say that the present was a moment most fa. vourable to negociation. He could not conceive . . there was a man to be found, at the present day, in Europe, alto would say that every negociation corn. .ineneed within the last years by the enemy, was cum. menced 'in sincerity. If there was a man who Could say so, he must look upon him as a person whose mind was not fit to core to the consideration of the present question. He • could, indeed, see no. thing in the lime which lillor.la prevent the Goverh went from meeting the proposal for negociation upon , general grounds ;1 -, ut it was hard not to perceive that, there was something in the time to induce a suipi s . cion t h at suc h a plopos4e vres'not made by the enc. my eoniplctely in a spirit of sincerity, because every person Item that such proposals had bzen frequently made b f.4e, when the person at the head of the French Cover, meat was on the point of leading his armies into the field, with the view of being instra 7 mental in the ruin of the power he was proceeding to crush. He could not, therefore, admit that there was not thatiu the proposal, which should put Ministers on their guard. When Lord Lauderdale had been dis. patched to France stisder a Ministry who bad a better - right than the present to expect sincerity from the' French Ruler, it was well known, that in the midst of the negotiation he had left Paris for the purpose our putting himself at the' head of his troops. With re spect to the proposition made by the French Govern- i went, the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread) had saggested . the species of answer he wished to have beetereturned be this country. • But he would ask, -what answer could be Girly returned until the nature et then reposition made became known ? The de mand of explanation was accompanied with a direct . assurance to treat upon every other point, and to give repose if possabie to Europe. At Erfurth the gooci . faith of this country was sufficiently preserved by allowing sFain, to negociate in conju nct i on witi , the otter Powers. But be would ask could the „late proposition be answered in the same way ?_ 1 .. The'-ohject of it was clearly to preserve th e i n . V s t aa:egpinasts; of Spain. Could a proposition more , insulting to all Coe tc:lings ct a Spaniard be offered' by Cleat Britain, that that he slieuhl recognize the brother of Bonaparte as their Monarch : The Ho. • nourable Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread) had said that the Government took upon them to make that a ques don of negociation, which by treaty, they were not bound to make a question of negociation,— But looking upon it merely as a question of policy, considering the present state of Spain and Portugal, and Russia, he would ask that Hon. Gentleman, as a Statesman, whether such a proposition should be ever made the subject of discussion ? Would it be a wise or politic step to become the channel of such a communication to Spain, to ask them whether they ould sacrifice the faith they had plighted to their Monarch ? With respect to Russia, he believed she had a sincere desire for peace, but he did not think the war with her originated entirely from the desited evacuation of Prussia. She naturally wished for the evacuation of that country by the French troops, but there were other points of difference between those Powers. Nothing, in his opinion, could be more in jurious to the interests of Great Britain than com mencing negociation which could not reasonably be expected to terminate in peace. He would ask if the French Government was sincerely desirous of peace; ', whether they would have refused to answer the sim ple question put to them in a tone of conciliation ? There was not a single expression in the question that could discourage a frank and ready answer, and if the mind of the French Government had not been made up upon the business, they would not have re fused such an answer. The Hon. Gentleman ( Mr. Whitbread) confessed, that if their intention was to leave the Spanish crown in the possession of Joseph,' he would not agree to it. That such was their inten tion nothing could be mote manifest, and upon this ground he was entitled to the support of the Hon. Gentleman ( Near, hear.) If the negociation had commenced without any demand of explanation, what could Russia say but that she had been deserted at the moment she was about to commence her strug gle? War was better than a negociation that must commence under such circumstances. It could have no other effect than to chill an the operations now going forward. Mr. HUTCHINSON thought that if Ministers took any credit to themselves for the war now com menced between France and Russia, they were highly culpable. They should have done every thing in , their power to prevent it. In contemplating the progress of the Emperor of France, lie sought no conqueror in ancient or modern times ever better I I I merited his Crown, or had to answer for fewer acts of enormity. Some parts of his conduct were marked by acts of great public aggression, but it must be recollected he was a great Emperor at the head of a great people, and what he meant to say was, that no conqueror ever obtained a Crown with fewer acts of enormity than Bonaparte. Lord CA sTLEREA GH, in explanation, denied that his Majesty's Government had encouraged Rus sia to embark in the war. The language of his Ma jesty's Government had been always that of caution and not that of incitement. Mr. CANNING said, that the prelent state of the House, the general sentiment which prevailed upon the subject, and ,the clearness of the question itself, should have prevented him trom entering at all into the discussion, it it had not been for what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last (Mr. Hilt ehinson,) and the other Hon. Gentleman who pre ceded him (Mr. Whitbread) He should have been the more particularly disposed not to trouble the House - alter the very full and satisfactory explana tion o f Noble Lord (Castlereagh), as he was per fecdy confident, even betore that explanation, that the policy of Government had not been varied from he the time had hid the honour of a share in it, and that it would never have led them to induce a Power like Russia to commit itself in a war like the present. He was confident that it was felt by them, to be as well their interest as their duty rather to keep erect what remained of the Powers of the Continent of Europe, than lead them to their downfall.—Diit what was the object of this mild and benevolent conqueror of the Hon. Gentleman, in collecting and concen trating his forces towards the Not th, but for the des truction II of this country—and it was a great relief to his mind that the Noble Lord had told them, he had used language cf caution towards Russia, not to en gage in a war with France, for under the existing circumstances of Russia, and the nature of her force, unless this war could be made completely national, he could not look at it without trembling for the con sequences.—The Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, and the Hon. Gentleman who preceded him, were not content with the answer to the late overtures for peace, but they had inadvertently given the best jus- tification for that reply, by contrasting the policy adopted and pursued bir the Government of this' country, with that pursued by the conqueror Dana Nate. --It should seem by them that upon the peace of . Articns he was particularly sincere, and had due regard to the maintenance of the rights of nations ; but if we had not interfered,what mould have been the con-' sequence? He might have conquered all Europe.— The Hon. Gentleman who spoke last told them, that of all the conquerers, ancient or modern, he was the ' man who had best merited a Crown—he was the man who had merited a Crown with less enormity than any other. The extravagance of such a proposition would defeat itself, were there not something in the immorally of it of a most dangerous tendency. It remained indeed, for the present age to uphold the Crown of this unhallowed conqueror ; and it remain ed for the Honourable Gentleman alone to look for the admiration of his contemporaries in such an eulogy upon such a conqueror. This indeed, was a new strain of morality which the House and the Country had to learn. When overtures were proposed, al though ever so desirable, yet if they contained one term of dishonour, it became this country to resist until the point of honour was determined. In this late instance, they had passed by all the other points unnoticed, and demanded a preliminary explanation on that point ; it was evident, that Bonaparte nieant !o settle the dynasty of Spain on his own brother; we had a right to demand that as a preliminary which must be the result of negotiation. He defended the conduct of Government with respect to the expedi tien to Copenhagen, as justified by 4 secret article in the treaty et Tilsit, whereby Bonaparte engaged to compel the Danish fleet to be given up for the put: past of acting against England, and Vie had not in. tercepted that blow, it might be of the utmost conse quence to this country—and it was satisfactory to hem to know, that that measure had been justified by "argument and the decision of the House. He agreed • tout it to prealsatle overture eoalt have been marn•l tamed, this was a favourable time; but in saying this, he did not mean to say that an answer to the pro position of the Noble Lord was not a preliminary, ne cessary to such a step being taken. Mr. WHITBREAD said, that it was impossible for to say any thing in explanation, to a speech which had misrepresented and misconceived any thing he had said. Mr. HUTCHINSON, in explanation, said, t'ae Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Canning) had grossly misrepresented the whole of his speech. Mr. CANNING replied, that after hearing the explanation of the Honourable Gentleman he could only say that he still retained his former opinion. Mr. HUTCHINSON denied that he was chant. pion of Bonaparte, as the Right Hon. Gentleman bad stated, and such an accusation was false. Mr. CANNING said, he never thought it neces sary to reply to observations on that which he never had said. Mr. HUTCHINSON said that applying the words se Champion of Bonaparte" to him was a gross per version of his argument, and the assertion teas grossly false. . Mr. W. SMITH warmly supported the motion, and expressed his approval of the conduct of Mini sters, upon the late overtures. Mr. SHERIDAN, in reply, drew a lively picture of the perfidy of the French Ruler towarsis Spain, from whom he had received no provocation ; and again deprecated giving praises to such an enemy. The motion was then put, and agreed to without a division.—Adjourned at half-past 12 o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. S per Ct. Red. 56461—C0n5. 36 551 551 —for opg.s7M 4 per Ct. 7341—S per Ct. 87111 —Bank Stock Bonds 14s. 15s. it pre.—Bk. Long Anns. 15 1-16th Exch. Ws. (30.) Is. dls. par—Do. (Std.) Bs. 9s. <lts. A Cadiz Mail arrived this morning :—the intelli gence brought by it is, as might be expected, highly gratifying. The Guerillas, by intercepting King Joscen's couriers, afford abundance of matter for the Spanish Journals, in the shape of private communica. tions to his Generals, which afford a doleful picture of the French cause in Spain. JOSEPH is reported to have once more left Madrid for France, accompanied by a numerous retinue. The final evacuation of the Asturias by the troops under BONNET, is confirmed, and his retreat was so precipitate as to compel him to leave his artillery, baggage, and sick behind him. An expedition is fitting out at Cadiz to co-operate in the extensive operations now in contemplation against the whole line of Mediterranean coast, under the do• minion of France. General Roan has embarked at Anemic for the Catalonian expedition with his di. vision—this armament alone, ill then consist of 18,000 men, and we may soon expect to hear of its complete success. The French remained in Estremadura, only until they could strip the miserable inhabitants of a preca rious, but as it happened, an abundant harvest, which they have transported to Andalusia. The supplies of the British army, and of the inhabitants, must therefore continue to be drawn from foreign markets. The Spanish Papers do not supply us with any pre. cise intelligence respecting SOULT and his army. We lament to find, by an additional arrrival of American Papers, that the PRES/DLNT and his friends have precipitated their country into a war with Great Britain. The Columlian, (a Paper published at New York on the 20th ultimo,) states the arrival of an express to General BLOOMFIELD, the Governor, with instructions to prepare for instant hostilities. We do not learn, however, that any Manifesto or Proclama tion had been issued. The President and Congress fi igates, with the Argus gun-brig, were the only ships of war at New York. The British frigate Ba.- vinunE, and sloop of war TARTARUS, were off Sandy Hook; and it was yesterday reported in the City that a naval engagement had taken place, which ended in the capture of a British merchantman ; but this, we have no doubt, is incorrect. We regret to state, that the old-established Banking House of KENSING fON and Co. of Lombard -street, stopped payment this morning. A sensation alarming beyond all precedent has been excited in the city and elsewhere, in consequence of this calamitous event. Some of the Officers attached to Lord CATHCART'S suite, have left town to proceed to Russia, to make preparations for the reception of his Lordship. Yesterday the Earl and Countess of HARIUNOTON left town for Oakley, the seat of the Marquis of TA visromc, in Bedfordshire. Letters from Rio Janeiro, of the 21st May, state, that the differences between the rival powers of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres had not been settled. CORN-MARKET, MARK LANE, JULY a. This day the Market has not many fresh arriwis of Wheat, hat the quantities on hand fully adequate to •tie ti mood ; sales again heavy, at somewhat Ina in price; Rye is lower ; in Barley and Malt but little fluctuation ; Beans of each sort.. likewise ; White Peas hardly at last prices • very few Grey; New Rape deed comes to hand, much expected; and considerably lower ; the trade for Oats is named rather dearer; and no alteiation in prices of Flour. .cvaastrr spies as UNTILIt Wheat, 764. 118 s. 1346. Beans 70s. 77A. Fine ditto, 1404. 1465. Tick ditto, 68x.7 55, Rye, 78s. 80. Oats, 511. 54..565. Barley, 554. ee e. o4. Pola nd ditto, 57a. 60s. Mali, 87s. 955. Potatae ditto, 61s. 625, White Peas (hoilers)764llo Rape Seed £57. fllO. Grey ditto : ' 725. 765. • Floe Flour, 115• 4 1110s0.-11econds, 110 s. to 11 Se. Should the weather eeethere favourable, the Fastness, in the great Corn District, betvieeo Maidtebead and Newbury, hope to begin reaping Wbeat, at the latest on Monday, August 3. The Poratoe Crepe* most abu . ..dart:. Contracts live been made is Stafford tome, *du to 181 per bushel. SECONI) EDITIng. DRE4DFUL MURDER at BARNES, 8r 1 RR,Er, We have this day to record another of those arm cious outrages against human nature which hue ft „ cently stained the annals of this country. The Cn and Countess D'ANTRAIGUIta, two foreigners of X is , tinction and great notoriety in the fashionabk world, were last night savagely butchered by their own ac t . vant ; who afterwards eluded the just vengeance of the law by putting an end to his own wretched tence ! It is a slight, and indeed but a sorry consolati on to learn, that the Monster who perpetrated this series r foul crimes, was an Italian Servant, wh o h a d b ee long in the employment of the Count and COnele it From the particulars which have transpired, it stow appear that the villain watched an opportunity, wh en the Countess was in a room by herself, and rew in d upon her with a pistol, which he presented, in n i t missed fire. He then drew a poignard, and plung e d it to the hilt in her back, as she was struggli ng) escape from his deadly grasp. Her dying screams brought the Count D'Ay. TRAIGVEY into the apartment, where helvecidhir Lady extended lifeless on her face at the fat c hi x assassin. The brutal savage then made at his awe. and with one thrust of his poignard bereaved kis le i life also ! But a few seconds intervened when the serrantsia the other parts of the house were alarmed wi t h t h e report of a pistol, and upon entering the apart mext the dreadful spectacle presented itself of three liftin t bodies drenched in blood, extended upon the ficat,.. The assassin was found with his brains blown and the pistol was still in his hand. Such are the particulars of this dreadful 'Lk a they have reached our ears. We• believe the Cent D'ANTAAIGUES once held the situation of Atoka dor to this Court from a foreign Sovereign. Held his Lady were excellent private characters. Webot heard of no CAW* for the perperatiou of their bawl murders. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The dreadful catastrophe took place this 140,114 1 at eight o'clock. As the Countess was cominglipss stairs to enter the carrj tge for an airing, thermals. Bred a pistol at her, the shot from which lodged 4 the lower part of the abdomen. Finding thstsheid not drop, (for she asked why he fired a *elitist rash manner,) by stabbed her in the left btewt, above described, when she instantly fell. He AS proceeded up stairs, and, meeting his master, stalial him also, in the back ; after which be shot hied with another pistol. The ball entered wider 614 ear, and he ceased to breathe in ea instant. COO VAN/A.I'OMS Is, as we understand, still alive; dr wound has been dressed, but he is not expo:vests/1m NAVAL INTELLIGENC& The Pluarov frigate, with 14 sail, from hie. is arrived off Weymouth. PLYMOUTH, JULY a Arrived the HELICON gun.brig, from a ails. — Sailed the Borst, 98 guns, fur off Brest; Smut an 1 Sakuctions frigates, on a cruize to the nenwnii and the Scowls, 74, for the Medicament. PORTSMOUTH, JULY st. Arrived his Majesty's ship BARILZUKg vire Ad miral BERKLEY on board from Lisbon; his Ilsjort ships BEAGLE, from Cork ; TRINCULO, frog► do Welt Indies ; and MARLIIRR I from a cruize.—WiadW DEAL, JULY et. • Arrived his Majesty's ships PIEDIIONTAIee ACBAR, with the whole of the East-India flest, ht. Portsmouth ; also the Three Soutbseamant sad tta Jane, PATTERSON, from Surinam ; the Earl St. Vo l cent, and the Pitt, FORSTER, from Jamaica i 1111 PHIPPS Schooner, from Plymouth, with a convoy; ,1 the HAMADRYAD and THRACIAN HOIII the Wan" YARMOUTH. JULY at. This morning at-rived the AQUILAN frigate. 6 , 11 1 the Texel ; BAITISH FAIR cutter, from Lynotag the LXVZRETI sloop, Sir G. Wu.us, with the 4104 the Exsanow on board, which wat Lad/ loot. NINO'S TREAT/M.—Last night Motairr'S lir I attracted as usual a brilliant 'circle of fAshionaliol the Opera House. Flamm, as the Cares el!' ditional proof of his musical scitir.e. The whaw of the Ballet of Zeru for the superb reprenalli e of Li Reim de Gnosis is, we tea, an indioatieib i the rest of the Season will pass away with I again wimessing the vigorous chapeau and 0 01 7, lour prosodies of the only mortal representative ea' Dint de la Dana in this our sublunary bemisphill4 we mean me elegant and classical Divaor frequenter of the King's Theatre, and certaieil P admirer of whatever is chaste, elegant, and ra il in t he fascinating department of which that Goudy is cis-taint,' the legitimate soverei F ny will bed( e ell of his temporary retreat without rLgret i hu la " 111 with Madame DIDELOT, in •vhich use rue s pi , C and des benne of a courtship between moo . 1. Muscovites," was most exquisitely depleted. Minuet dr la Cour and arvet—but above ad, nus . and manly movements as the Warrior of C's•loe m have lett anspres?ims, wnich no successor cal abeti When Atrea and her kola red virtues let the EA Hop ling red still behiin?, in pity to despairing inateh anti we trust that the caterers for the public Wit ment, 'yeleited the Islanancrs of the Opera Home• fi Ag • use all the means within their competence te oeller re-appearance of M. DICaLuT i.O one sage. •ficlign ihat itis taietits shufilJ be confined Label se ts rites as prime Minister to the Muses is the ceIIs,PLIP ion 01 tew charming Ballets. It is oa th e osx also as ( f ist dancer that the public will alum / slaw' with additional delight and satisfaction.