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FRENCH PARtRS. DRESDEN, MAY 23. The Emperors of France and Austria are still in PS/COPP, APRIL 24. . Majesty the Emperor Alexander, in his pas: through this place, reviewed the detachments itillery which were at the moment in the town. Majesty invited the superiOr Officers and Civil overnor to dine with him. Immediately after din this Monarch departed, and arrived about seven at Ostrow, eight German miles from hence. POSEN; MAY 13. is Serene Highness the Prince Viceroy of Italy 'ed here on the morning of the 15th, and set out at nine in the evening. BRESLAU, MAY 16. is Serene Highness arrived here on the 18th-from tenberg. The Prince Viceroy of Italy has de ed from Glogau for Warsaw. It appears tliat a of the troops of the Confederation of the Rhine proceed to that part of Gallicia which has been iced to the Duchy of Warsaw. BERLIN, MAY 19. 'esterday his Excellency the Marshal Duke of , iso passed through this city, without stopping, is way to Custrin. The Duke of )3elluna corn tds the 9th Corps. MADRID, MAY 6. esterday. his Majesty held a Council of the Royal Order of Spain. His Majesty deigned to appoint Compagni, Grand Cordon, and Chevalier D. Pedro Garcie Navarro, Brigadier and Governor of f'rt of Peniscola. PARIS, MAY 29. lis Majesty the King of Prussia, according to :ers of the '23d, from .Dresden, arrived in Dresden the 23d of May. CHEMNITZ, MAY 11. 'esterday, in the afternoon, 4000 French and RR troops entered this town, and, after residing a , proceeded towards Dresden. FRANKFORT, MAY 24. almost all the Superior French Officers, who were Berlin, have lcft that city to repair to their re 7tive destinations. VIENNA, MAY 17. .ccording to accounts of a very recent date from Ilachia, the troubles in Servia increase, take a tin consistency, and the people openly express discontent at the actual state of things and their els. COPENHAGEN, MAY IS. .n enemy's cutter, which on the 30th lilt. east 'or near Hauwig Ogg, and disembarked twelve ~ was quickly obliged to stand nut to sea. On 9th inst. an enemy's brig, of twenty guns, wished :ize some merchants' vessels in Flastrand Roads, they placed themselves under the protection of de. Git, and the brig renounced her project. PdIRLIAMEN7AR7 PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 3. :If int The House met about half put two o'clock, and resolved It o o a Committee on tie Orders in Council. Mr. Shore, of 'Birmingham, was examined until near five. Another Witneu I called, btt war not in attendance. It was then stated by Earl of LAUDIRDALR, that the case of the Petitioners was closed (reserving the privilege of calling a Witness,. not now ending, if it should be thought necessary) and Earl BATHURST mated that it was intended to go on with the examination of witnesses la lavour of the Orders in Council on Monday. The Rouse then resumed, and the Commit ee was appointed to sit on Monday, at two o'clock . SMITH, from Greenwich Ho-pita!, presented the annual nt under the late Prize Act, which was ordered to lie on able. The Irish Grand Juries' Bill was, on the motion of the Earl of &SMARTT, read a second time and committed for Friday. he Duke of BEDFORD presented a Petition from the Pre. and Members of the Board of Agriculture, praying for d assistance, which was ordered to lie on the Table. .Placevat's Family Provision Bill was, on the motion of arl or lavutroot., read a second time and committed for ..ay. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved to adjourn till Friday. The Earl of LIV ERPOOL said be had no intention of pressing -lotion of adjournment if any Noble Lord had any business Bring before the House. Earl GREY, Who had just entered the House, said he had Petitions to present, which his Lordship presumed; one from several inhabitants of Margate, igainat the Margate Bill, which was ordered to lie on the Table, and the Peti. :rs to be heard by Counsel. The second wits from the Mayor ! Bury/ewes of Bury, fur opening the East India Trade; and third from a number of Christians of all denominatiovs, pray for the removal of all disabilities on account of religious opi , both which were ordered to lie on the rahle. luring the reading of the latter Petition, the Marquis War.- 'sr entered the House. THE ADMINISTRATION. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved that the House IJjnurn till Friday next. The Duke of NORPOLK.—" Previous to the ad journment of the House I wish, my Lords, to ask a Istion of the Noble Lord (Liverpool) opposite. If evil', the Noble Earl, who appe: rs to be acting :he important station which we all know he held, ill Minister, and likely to continue so, I have no fir n to ask of him. If also he is no longer a Mini- I have no question to ask of him ; but it he is only ,aster f r two or three days, until his successor is ipointed, then I wish to have some information as to ,e present situation of public affairs ?" The Earl of LIVERPOOL.—" My Lords, in wer to the question put:by - the Noble Duke, I have tate to this House that I am in the same situation ,hich I was last Friday se'nnight, and that iii :onseqUenie of a welt-known event that then took ' I am only continuing in that situation until .ioYal Highness the Prince Regent shall be gra. A owdy pleased to signify his pleasure as to apy ftitu* iir r O nt2l The Martini? WELLE3LEY. 44 Although, my Lords, t'have not bait personally called upon, I itiei it my ditty to itate to this House the share !bleb I haye had in the transactions which have re ientfy taken place; with a view to the forming of 'tome arrangement to meet the alarMing difficulties the present crisis. My Lords, his ROyal Highneis Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the ialf'Of *his Majesty, was graciously pleased to . lay , ioiemands upon me to state to his Royal Highness ori 'on, with the view to the forming 'of an Ad iistration. In obedience to those comnands I e sated to his Royal f3igb#4B my opinicra, with all that deterence due to his ezaktrirauk s but • at the same time with alI that freedom which. I I humbly contend, it is a duty that a Privy Councillor owes to his Sovereign and the country to use. I have ! this clay tendered to his Royal Highness my resigna tion of the authority which his Royal Highness was I pleased to vest in me, with a view to the arrange-1 ment of an administration, which resignation his Royal Highness has been graciously pleased to ac cept. My Lords, 1 deeply lament, that the most dreadful personal animosities, that the most terrible difficulties, arising out of questions the most com- ' plicated and important, should have interposed obsta cles to prevent that arrangement which It was so highly desirable, which it was so essential to the in teres:s and the welfare of the country to make. That, such personal animosities, and such di ffi culties, should have prevented the so much wished for, the so highly desired and desirable arrangement, at so arduous and perilous a crisis, is indeed most deeply to be deplo red.. In consequence of these results, I humbly soli cited of his Royal Highness permission, and his Royal Highness was graciously pleased to give me full autle rity to state to this House, if your Lord ships shall desire it,..a1l the circumstances attending the pi ogress of this transaction, in which I have had `any share. But, my Lords, if I may be permitted to advise your Lordships, that advice is not to call for such disclosure, convinced as I am, most fully, thit in the present situation of the country, such a disclo . sure would be highly mischievous to the public in terests. If, however, your Lordships command me to make the disclosure, I shall feel it my duty, and am ready to make it; but allow me again to advise t , your Lordships not to call for it, under a full convic t tion, that at,the present crisis, it would be highly mischievous. _ Earl STANHOPLa- 14 My Lords, the Noble Marquis having very handsomely stated his readiness ' to make the disclosure to which he alludes, I think it becomes the duty of tour Lordships, to call for that disclosure for the satisfaction of the country, par ticularly after the declaration of the Noble Earl (Liverpool) opposite, that he is not a Minister, but a daisy, a flower that appears to bloom in the morn ing, that dies at night, and is no more thought of'.-- I trust, therefore, your Lordships will feel it to be your duty to call for the disclosure to which the No ble Marquis adverts." The Earl of LIMERICK.—" My Lords, I rise as an individual, unconnected with any party, to de precate the disclosure called for.by the Noble Earl (Stanhope), and I trust your Lordships will adopt the advice given by the Noble Marquis, not to call for a disclosure which must, in the present cir cumstances of the country, be highly mischievous, and highly. prejudicial to the public interests." Lord G kENVILLE.—t' My Lords, in agreeing in opinion•as to the impropriety at the present mo ment, of taping for the disclosure alluded to by the Noble Marquis, I may be permitted to state, that in the little share which my Noble Friend near me, and myself, have had in the transaction referred to, we have nothing to disguise, nothing to conceal, nothing that we shall not be anxious should be publicly stated whenever the proper moment for so doing arrives.— After stating this, little else remains for me to say, nor should I have risen upon the present occasion, had it not been for the allusion made by the Noble Marquis to dreadful personal animosities, which had interposed obstacles in the way of a wished-for ar rangement. My Lords, for my Noble Friend and myself, I can most distinctly say, that we were ac tuated by no feeling of animosity, by no personal feeling whatever, that we were actuated by nothing but a feeling for the public interests, a desire for the public welfare, and an anxiety to set aside every other consideration, save those which arose out of public principles and public interests, and I do most distinctly disclaim any of those feelings of personal ani -1 mosity to which the Noble Marquis has alluded." The Earl of LIVERPOOL.—" My Lords, 1 feel it necessary to say a few words in consequence of what has fallen from the Noble Baron (Grenville) and lest my silence should be .construed into an ad missies of being actuated by those feelings of perso nal animosity, which have been alluded to by the Noble Marquis. My Lords, for myself and those who have acted with me, I do most distinctly dis claim any feelings of personal animosity. In my conduct in this transaction, I have been only actuat ed by considerations of public principles and pulolic interests, and by no feeling whatever of personal ani mosity. Having said this, it only remains for me to deprecate the calling for the disclosure alluded to by the Noble Marquis, and which I am satisfied would at the present, moment be highly detrimental to the public interests, nor would such a disclosure at the present moment be either proper or decent." The Earl of MOIRA—" Whilst I fully agree, my Lords, in the opinion which has been expressed, that it would be highly mischiqvous and improver to make the disclosure alluded to by theNohle Marquis, I cannot but most deeply lament the unfortunate turn which this negociation has taken. It has been my office, my Lords, in the course of this negotiation, to be the humble instrument of conciliation, and it has bees my earnest endeavour to smooth those diffi culties which unhappily interposed obstacles in the way of an arrangement so highly desirable in the present crisis of our fate, but I deeply lament to state, that differences and estrangements have ren dered those endeavours unavailing. My Lords, I believe, nay, I have no doubt, that persons who in ' terpose those obstacles, have convinced themselves that they Possess a conciliatory disposition, and that ' they have induced their own minds to believe, that ' what they urge is a fundamental principle of the Constitution. I cannot, however, but lament that 1 points of form should stand in the way of a concilia non, and an arrangement which is so essential to the 1 interests and the welfare of the country, but I am satisfied that it is all misapprehension, that nothing but misapprelicasiOn stands in the way, and I trust that before the House taw s again, some arrange ment will be made satisfactory to the country." Earl GREY.--" My Lords, I cannot but think that the Noble Earl mho has just sat down has, in some degree, overstepped the line which other Noble 1 Lords have thought it right to adopt, in regulating ' their conduct up. n this occasion. lam thoroug h awate, my Lords, of the anxiety of that Noble Lord in the service of the Prince aho now possesses tbp Sovereignty, and of his zeal for the public interests, and it is to these motives alone that I attribute his hiring; in shy opinion, overstepped Slip )ipe'observed by others upon this occasion. My Lords, the noble i - - • Earl (Moira) has spoken of point, of form interpos ing obstacles in the way of the proposed arrange ment. lam anxious to remove any misapprehension which may arise from this expression ;—apd I trust your Lordships will give me credit when I state, that in the little share which my Noble Friend and myself had in this transaction (only since last Mon day), we were not actuated by any consideration of points of form, but by that of principles, which if not fundamental to the Constitution, are at least essential ' to the existence of a Government. a ith a view to the interests and the welfare of the country. lam also anxious to remove any misapprehension. that may arise from an expression used by the Noble Marquis, and which I confess I do not exactly understand.— The Noble Marquis has spoken of dreadful personal animosities interposing obstacles in the way of the proposed arrangement. I trust that your Lordships will give me credit when I state, and that the Noble 1 Marquis will do me the justice to acknowledge, that in the little share 1 bad in this transaction, I was not actuated by any feeling of personal animosity, but actuated alone by public considerations, arising out of my conviction of public principles, and my view ,of public interests.—[The Marquis Wellesley nodded assent, and called Hear, hear.] —My Lords, such considerations alone actuated my conduct in this transaction ; and when the proper time arrives for that conduct to be known, such will be proved to be the fact: the present period, I am fully satisfied, is a 'most unlit moment for making the disclosure." The question for adjourning till Friday was then put and carried. The this Cit His sage t 1 of .Art Plis M Gorey ter, th o'clocl His arrive( again His Wane parted part o will p. united Yes • Trevi on his =and Yet Order D. J. Pgdrc the k Hi letter Orl th Ye Tian t dAY, 1 • Al in Be speed Ac Wall certai their Chief Ar knelt( men, the 9 to sei but tl Fot t The self int third, was ei the Ea dosed intend intima witnei Rouse •again Mr. accolir the *ra The CLAW '1 he sident aid an. Mr. the Ea Friday, The The the me to brin Eart three I was to Pier B • toners and Bt the Chit Ins for Rinns, Dori 1.L81.11 Th do atJ Th . . journi inuesti ,owe' in the is still Ruesti ater, I Minis appoi the or Th • answl 10 sia In wl conse Place R Fious wart ' Lord ; I whic fent! Forpc Of th 6e 1 rny rim state ,hat HOUSE OF COMMONS. Lord lOCELYN 'informed the House, that, pursuant to Ad dresses to the Regent, his Royal Highness bad ordered that the representations made to the rnvy Council, relative to the pro- Frio) , of laying au increased duty upon foreign linens, and the account of the disbursements from the Dreits of Admiralty, should be laid before the House. Mr. WORTLEY moved tur leave to.bring in a Bill to enable Justices of the Peace to 'tenni parochial relief to Friel:wets con ' fined•under lIICSiIt process for debt, in such jails as amain eoun tr After a single remark from Mr. Rosa and Mr. DAnts Gra f or, leave was given. ORDERS IN COVCIL. General GASCOIGNE inquired of Mr. Broug ham, whether it was his intention to bring forward his motion regarding the Orders in Council on Tues day next ? Mr. BROUGHAM replied, that he saw no mo tive Er postponing it beyond the Thursday follow. ing, which day it was his intention to fix as the pe riod when he should positively submithis propositions to the House. It indeed it were wished that the dis cussion should be deterred until something in the shape of a GOveinment were formed,.he thought that it would be postponing it to a period infiiiitely too distant for the decision of a question so momentous and important. At present, it however would stand for Tuesday next ; but if a Riaht Honourable Gen tleman (Mr. Canning) should put off his motion, which was fixed for the Thursday succeeding, ke (Mr. Brougham) should name that day for the de. bate upon the Orders in Council. Mr. ROSE observed that it was impossible that the House could at so early a period be prepared for the discussion : the evidence given at the bar, gene rally only in the presence of six or seven Members, could not be printed in time. Mr. BROUGHAM reminded Mr. Rose that be tween five and six hundred pages had already been printed and distributed. Mr. ROSE warmly protested against so hasty a proceeding. IRISH CUSTOMS D17T1113. The House resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means, when -Mr. W. POLE proposed a Resolution for conti. nuing the Irish Customs Duties, which expire on the sth July next, for another year. Sir JOHN NEWPORT objected to the vote, at a time when the country was destitute of an Executive Government. Mr. W. POLE said, that all parties agreed in the I propriety of the Resolution itselt, and he should have thought himself guilty of a gross breach of duty if he had not submitted to the Committee a resolution for continuing to the public creditors of Ireland one very important security for the repayment of the debt. Colonel BASTARD acknowledged that the Right Honourable Gentleman had (lode hi duty ; but the House had likewise a duty to discharge. He for one should uniformly object to any financial measure til an Administration were formed. When a pew ,Government was establ►shed, he trusted th:tt some inquiry would be instituted to ascertain whether . the immense taxation now collected were necessary for the maintenance of the State. The Resolution was then agreed to. Mr. W. POLE brought in the Irish Loan Bill, which was read a first time. THE ADMINISTRATION. Mr. CANNING said-- , 1 Having been the chan nel of communicating to the House on Monday the circumstance that a Noble Friend of mine (Marquis Wellesley) had en that day received authority from his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to proceed to the formation of a new Administration, I feel it in. cumbent upon me this day to state to the House, be ing in possession of the information, that my Noble Friend has this morning resigned that authority again into the hands of his Royal Highness. I sh ac company this disclosure with no observation, unless I might be permitted earnestly to deprecate discus sion (Hear, hear), which can be productive of. no ' good, and may lead to great mischief, by kindling animosities, which are certainly not wanted to add to the embarrassments of the country. Being now, however, in possession of the information, and hav ing been on the former day the channel of communi. cation of the cme fact, I thought I should be guilty of something like delusion if I had not communica ted the other." Mr. MARTIN (of Galway) said, 4 4 After what has fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman, the HMSO may be assured that nothing will proceed from me that can in the least degree embarrass any arrange ment hereafter to be attempted, but as a Member of Parliament I feel it my duty to ask one question.*nd it is this ; I address myself to the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite," (Mr: Ponsonby Mr. CALCRAFT rose to Order. • He adniitted that a precedent had been the other day set of putting interrogatories to infsidual Mergers jo their places, but he did not think that k ffi was sucienl the practice. It would be recollect.' day last the question had been • objected; he now interposed to df the question, as well as the ansk Mr. MAR TIN replied, that had tioned by the proceeding of Mon( not have ventured to propose the - which he was desirous of obtaining an answer. If the Righ t Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ponsonby), after it had been stated, felt that it was a question which he could lug reply to, without difficulty, he (Mr. Martin) would not press it upon him. Mr. CALCRAFT said, that the point was not whether the question could be answered, but whe t h er it ought to be put in the manner proposed? The pu t . tice of a former day had lent some support to t hi s mode of proceeding, but he thought that it ough t not in future to be coutrenanced. Mr. MARTIN.'—‘ , Then I will not put it in t h„ form so much objected tn. I will only Ay this, to what cause is it to be attributed that the nego c t ii , tign—." _ _ _ The Honourable Member was interrupted by k e d cries of Mr. BARHAM declared his determination, if t h e question were persisted in, to take the sense of th e House upon it. Whether it were read from a writte n paper, or pa by word of mouth, could make no fertnce; he warmly insisted that such interro gator i es were wholly out of order. Mr. MA RTIN.--4 4 I eensiglY shall not Pentrere. My object was to put the country in possession tith e cause. as far as was able to ascertain it, tha t t h e negociation set on Nut, under the auspices of lag Wellesley and Lord Moira, had failed. P that it is not the sense . of tht House that I proceed, I shall acquiesce. In consequence alto of what has fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman o a the door (Mr. Canning), recommending that th e subject should not now be agitated, I shall abandoa the notice I have given.—(Hear, hear). The other Orders of the Day were postponed anti Monday next. eannitti IN COUgClL—coNcLunow OF THE EXAMINATION. On the Motion of Mr. ROSE, the H ase thee resolved itself into a Committee on the Petitions 's. specting the Orders in Council, and immeshing proceeded to the examination of witnesses. Mr. Winton, a Merchant, who trades solely to Malta, was under examination for upwards of tee hours. Two other witnesses were examined, bet not to a very great extent. Mr. ROSE then stated, that the next and last witness which it was his intention to call was Ma Mani:yam a Member of that House. Mr. BROUGHAM objected to the calling of Mr. Marryatt, for the purpose of questioning him, at; the ground of his being a Member of that Simi contending, at the same time, that any thing Mick that indiv►dual might have to communicate could be given to the House in his speech, and in such a way it would come before them in a less objeetioa. able shape. He (Mr. Brougham) had never dreamt of calling on an Hon. Friend near him (Mr. Baring), it being his opinion, that any information respectiag the Orders in Council, of which a Member m►gbt deem it right to put the House in possession, iould, come in the most proper manner through the me• dium of a speech. He trusted, that the Ei in. Gen. tleman opposite would not persevere is calling Mr. Marryatt. Mr. STEPHEN and Mr. Rosa then contended, st some length, on the propriety of calling Mr. M. they maintaining, that it was preferable to have a examination instead of a speech, because the Home would have the former on record, and would bas time to consider it. After some further observations, Mr. BAUM lin opposing the call, Mr. Marryatt was called. Mr. M.arryau was then examined at some lead b 7 Mr. Robs and Mr. STENOS f but before the exasu• nation was concluded, Mr. 1311101.1011 AM objected to its tendency,and morel that a considerable portion of it be expunged own We Minutes. Atter considerable opposition and many wigwag observations from boat sides, we understood Mr. Brougham's motion to .be acceded to, and coop quently that a great portion of Mr. Marrystes dence was rejected. No other Member desiring to call any person for the purpose of giving evidence, it was announced. th the esamination of witneskes had concluded, and con• sequently that the inquiry had terminated. The House then resumed, when it was ordered that the Report should be brought up on another day. Mr. BROUGHAM, considering the present amt• tied state of the Government, and ardently borg that affairs would not long be suffered to remain is their present state, observed, that be could not tel when he should move, that the Report of the Cow mittee of Inquiry on the Orders in Council, oda the State of Trade, be taken into consideration. The House adjourned at nine o'clock, to Friday • THE EVENING STAR- , LONDON. THURSDAY, JUNE 4. • Ittata's Bsara-Dat.—Holtday at tbe Pa rtc 0 0 0 The country has still to lament that the End at a moment when all its energies ought to be is action, remains without even the Anti", of an ello cient Administration. To repeat all the remorse( yesterday, (and which we stated in a Second air Third Edition) would be idle, when we hoe 01 our power to Ny before our Readers various so, ments made last night, in both Houses of Parlhotd by the different parties that have been occupied wie the negociations. We hate been at g reat P sis. give what tell from the different speakers, as mg* as possible, in their own words. From our Wai l will be seen that a dreadful prams/ arsimeritia NIP" ribk en.fficulike have hitherto prevented any sail. tor! arrangement. Tbis is not to be quest:knoll M the authority on which it rests is indisputiblet is its truth at all invalidated by the perscltal dadd tions of those individuals who chose to Irak 11. this delicate subject—their declarations are WW II ' rg, sad equally to be ceed tea as klexisis Irsleg Am Infficient to authorise aected, that on Mu*. read before be had prevent the read le i answering of it. had he not been sane. mday last, he should le question to which . s