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/ u a corrupt act. He had been a member of the im mittee in question; and it did not appear to him at there had been any corruption. The utmost poor w %%hid, any family in Helstone paid was ae3, and is i t t o be supposed, that so paltry a consideration this would have influenced any respectable and individual to act corruptly ? The fact was,' thiag had been done by the Duke Of Leeds, except tat had been the practice clueing time immemorial. M r . BARHAM said, the proceeding now proposed this motion was not the invariable practice of the Ouse. Mr. P. CAREW was against the original motion. Mr. HOLMES said, he should support the motion ta the prosecution, and if it was not carried, he should aftcrwards bring forward emotion, in which heshould prove three cases of gross perjury. Lord CASTLEREAGH considered the acts done at the election as arising out of immemorial usage, and not out of any corrupt motives. If this should be the o pinion of the House, he hoped a legislative mea sure would be immediately adopted for putting a stop to the practices in question. He knew it to be the opi nion of his Learned Friend near him, (the Attorney- General) that a conviction could not take place should t h e motion be carried. Mr. W. WYNNE considered it a most dangerous practice for an Attorney-General to give an opinion in such a case as this. • Lord CASTLEREAGH said, the House would be placed in a hard situation if, in difficult questions, it was not to be assisted by its first legal authority. Lord A. HAMILTON asked, whether all the purity which the House had held out to the world respecting the election of its Members was a mere mockery ? He declared it as his opinion, that, if the House passed over the Act in question without due animadversion, it would gradually sink lower and lower in the public estimation. Had this Act been done by an humble individual, he would be prose cuted ; andvvhat would the world say, if a man of high rank was to be protected? The ATTO RNEY-GENE RA L said, be certainly had consulted some of his professional friends on the , subject of this evidence, thinking it probable that his opinion might be asked ; but he certainly never bad come' unicated, either to his Noble Friend ( Lord Castltreagh), or to any other person in the House, what his opinion was. Lord CASTLEREAGH explained. Mr. CANNING said, the question now was, whe ther the Vote for prosecuting the Noble Duke should be adopted, or whether the depriving the Blrough of tine power of offending again, by altering its Consti tution, should be preferred ? It seeLled to be agreed on all parts that the Noble Person in question had bad no corrupt motives in the course he hau adopted. He thought, therefore, the punishment should not be inflicted on him, but on the Borough ;—he should, therefore, vote for the amendment. Mr. BAtHURST was in favour of the original mo tion ; as was Mr. Setjeant OwsLow. Mr. SWAN considered the amendment as nothing less than a side.wind attempt to get rid of the Mo tion atwgether. He should certainly follow up his present motion with one for leave to bring in a Bill to txtxnd the elective franchise of the Borough. The House then divided—For the original motion .52—For the amendment 55. Mi. BANKES then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to secure the purity of Election in the Borough of Helstone. Mr. BRAND thought it a most serious matter to be stated, that the first individual in that House had been returned by a Peer. It was stated, that the teats for Helstone were repeatedly bought and sold ; atter which, by a majority of three, it was determi ned that tto prosecution si ould he instituted aga:nst the individual materially colicerned in the illegality. Mr. WESTERN thought, i( there were grounds sufficient to disfranchise the Borough, there were suf. ficietit grounds on which to have agreed to the Ri:so lotion for punishing the person guilty of the illegal act.—The motion was then agreed to. Lord A. HAMILTON gave notice, that, in con sequence of what had passed to-night, he should to morrow nit Ve for the liberation of Mr. Croghan. EAST-INDIA BILL. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he should be able to bring in a Bill on the Eastlndia Resolutions to night, and it would be ready to be priuted on Wed nesday. He proposed to postpone the second read ing for Friday, and the Committee for Monday next. Culls COMMITTEE. After some cbservations from Mr. BARING, Sir H. PARNELL, Mr. ROSE, Sir WM. CURTIS, Mr. ROBIND,ON, Mt. LASCELLEs, Mr. BANKES, Mr. PROTIIE:iOE, Mr. FINLAY, Alderman C. SMITH, Mr. W. SMITH, and Mr. H. , RNE.R, &c. on the subject of delaying going into a Committee on these Resolutions, the House divided on the question for reading the Order of the Day for going into the Committee .57—For post- porting it '27. The motion having been made for the SPEAKER'S leaving the Chair, Mr. A. BARING opposed the Resolutions. The measure would make bread a luxury, which the la bouring classes could not purchase, and he would stre nuously resist the introduction of a Bill on the subject. Mr. BARHAM said, it had been hinted by the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, that the prosperity of the sugar plantations had been consulted in the present Resolutions ; the Hon. Gentleman appeared always filled with the idea of West Indian riches and prosperity, but he would rather have the profits of the Hon. Gentleman's individual house than the proceeds of the whole West Indies. (4 laugh.) Mr. HUSKISSON maintained the propriety of :flaking alterations in the present state of the Corn- La us. Mr. ABERCROMBIE contended that there was no necessity for adopting the Resolutions in the pre sent state of the country. If they had any object, it was to increase the price and operate as a bounty on the production of corn. He had had no hesitation in saying that the testimony given made no impression on him, and nothing was more problematical than the stccess of the proposed measure. Mr. PROTHEROE wished for delay. Mr. BARING explained, after which strangers were excluded, but no division took place, and on our re - admission we found the House in a Committee, in which some farther discussion took place on the sixth Resolution, between Mr. HORNER, Sir H. PARNELL, Sir W. CURTIS, Lord CASTLZBEAGH, Mr. BARING, Ur RARIIAM. Altlprrnan ATICINS. Mr. Husicis,SOND THE EVENING STAR LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1813. PRICE OF S VOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK; Red. 56 551 56—Cons. for ace. 57i1 per Ct. 711 71 Bonds as. is. dis.— Exch. Bills par, Ss. pr.—Onthium 4 3i 4 pr. Bank Long A:1E3.14i 3-I6ths. The advices from Heligoland, by the Mail of yes terday, are to the 14th, and from Hamburgh to the 12th. A private letter from Heligoland to the 13th says, " Ail is quiet at Hamburgh, except that all colonial produce has 'wen seized, not excepting such as had formerly paid the Continental duties. We have received accounts from Copenhagen of the 9th, which inform us, that the English, Russians, and Swedes, have made another attempt w negociate through the medium of a flag of truce from the English Admiral's ship. They demanded of Denmark 25,000 men to be put under the command of the CROWN PRINCE of 1 SWEDEN, to act in the North ; for which aid Sweden would relinquish her claims upon Norway, with the exception of the Bishopric of Drontheim, and some territory lying between Sweden and the Russian fron tiers. The negociators also offered to give up all the j islands .taken from Denmark, with the exception of Heligoland. An answer to the above propositions was demanded by a flag of truce in 48 hours ; and, I am sorry to say, they have been decidedly refused by Denmark." A Mail from Heligoland arrived at the Foreign Post Office this forenoon. it does not bring any news, the intercourse between that island and the Continent being still interrupted by the prevalence of boisterous winds and uncommon swell of the sea. The few letters that have reached town, relate merely to commercial affairs, and from them it would appear, that there is no chance of our finding an opening for our maaufactures and colonial pro duce to the Northern part of the Continent by way of the Elbe, during the existing Armistice. Yesterday, about one o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT left town for Windsor. Saturday the Princess of WALES removed to Ken sington Palace, where her Royal Highness is expected to remain about six weeks. -- - A Meeting of the Catholic Board was held on Wednesday last, in Dublin, at which an Address of Congratulation to the Princess of WALEs, on her late triumph over her enemies, was voted by acclamation. 'ME ARMY -*** The transports with the Third King's Ceerman Itussars on boards still remain in the Downs, waitin for orders tb sail to their proposed destination, which' appears at present to be uncertain. The horses ate beginning to be sickly, and if blowing weather comes on, a great number of them will be unfit for service in an enemy's cotintry. The following changes have lately taken. place in the Inspecting Field Officers of Reuniting Districts, in consequence of the Brevet of the 4th of this month : Major HAMILTON, of the sth Fuot, has been appointed to the Belfast District ; Lieutenant-Colonel Comm, late of the 28th Dragoons, to the Birmingham ; Lieutenant-Colonel FORSTER, of the late Irish Fenci bles, to the Bury ; Lieutenant-Colonel Satvin, who was at Bury, to the Leeds District; and Lieutenant- Colonel MIDDLEMORE, late of the 12th Garrison Bat talion, to the Nottingham District. GENERAL COURT-MARTlAL.—Yesterday a General Court-martial assembled at the Muster-master Gene-. ral's Office, to investigate charges preferred by Captain T. B. V. SYMES, of the East London Militia, against Sir J. EAMER, Colonel of the said regiment, for 1. In issuing, or causing to be issued, an order, on or about the ‘Oth of July, 1812, directing Captain S. to make good, with new bayonet-scabbards, such as would not admit of being repaired, thereby imposing upon him an expenditure, in direct violation of the orders of the PRINCE REGENT, bayonet-scabbards be. ing an article enumerated in the Regulations of the 12th of August, 1811, issued from the Ordnance De partment.-2d. In not immediately forwarding to the Adjutant-General a letter addresses! by Captain S. for information relative to bayonet-scabbards.-3d. In ordering Captain S., on or about the 31st of August, 1812, from the command of his company,the regiment being then under arms in the Artillery-ground, and keeping him there until, and after, the dismissal of the parade, tending to degrade him in the eyes of the soldiers.-4th. In ordering Captain S., on the same day, into close arrest, and refusing him a copy of such arrest in writing, and continuing such arrest for near six days, without bringing him to a Court-martial.- sth. In refusing, in the presence of Major-General TURNER, and others, to give him an answer to an application made relative to bayonet scabbards, agree ably to the direction of the said General, by an ex press declaration, that he was determined not to give an answer to it.-6th. In charging Captain S. in the presence of the said Major-General and others, with direct falsehood, in the following terms—""'Tis false, ,General ! 'tis false !"-7th. In ordering Captain S. to attend at his, Sir J. E.'s private residence, at Black heath, where Captain and Adjutant M , Dosai.o, of the same regiment, were directed to put down such answers, as might be supposed to render him, the said Captain S. amenable to military law ; and then and there using exulting exclamations, expressing that he had so committed himself.—The whole of the pro ceeding in behalf of Captain S. being ended, the Court adjourned till this day. HENRY DAMPIER, Esq. is appointed a Pnisne Judge of the Court of King's Bench, vice Mr. Justice CritosE, who retires. A Rule was obtained yesterday in the Court of, King's Bench, calling upon the Proprietor of the News, to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him, for publishing a libel On Lady PERCKVAL. Yesterday two insane women attended at the door of the Queen's Palace. One cf them wished to see the KING, saying, she was a relation of his, and ought to be Queen. Yesterday evening was married at Knole, in Kent, the Earl of DE LAWARE, 10 Lady ELIZABETH SACK mix, youngest daughter of the late, and sister to the present Duke of DORSET. BREAD.—No alteration in the price this week: the quartern loaf eighteen-pence-halfpenny. The reason of an additional charge of one halfpenny on all letters from Scotland, is, that by an Act just passed, the mail-coaches pay toll in that country. The French General APIILETTE held Salamanca to the last moment ; the consequence was, that the ca valry and horse-artillery crossed the Tormes near St. Martha, and got so close, that the fire of the latter, with a kind of charge by a troop of the Royals upon the stragglers, occasioned them a loss of about one hundred and fifty killed and wounded, and one hun dred and sixty taken prisoners. General VILLETTE lost part of his baggage, his dog, and his Seraglio;—the latter Lord WELLINGTON sent back to him. In the course of the proceedings at Palambang, it was ascertained that the late Sultan, as a measure of precaution against the attacks of General DAgNDELS, with which he had long been threatened, caused the principal part of his treasure to be carried into the woods and buried, employing for this purpose up wards of 200 coolies, and other persons, the whole of whom, with the exception of his son, who conducted it, were immediately after seized and put to death, to prevent any discovery. We lay the following ill-contrived fabrication, which appeared in an Evening Paper of last night, before our Readers, merely for the purpose of guarding them, and particularly those who arc interested in the fluctuations of the funds, from imposition " Advices are said to bavebeen received from the bead quarters of the Allied Army of the gri a:est importance. Our Readers know that the Armistice was to continue from the 4th June to the 20th July, and that it has been Ix ified by BONAPARTE. But it is stated, that the Emperor of Re ss t refused tor:Airy it except for fifteen days, and that on the condition that burgh being evacuated by the French—that, in con;ert with the Emperor of "%evier's, he signified to Bun A eAVI e, !hat during that period of fifteen days, the latter must whether he would consent to bold a Congress at Prague or Breslau, to be founded on a certain scheme or basis Lid down by Austria, which has for its object the dissolution of the Confederation of the Rhine, and the restoration of the T‘,:rol, Trieste, Fiume, and the littorals to Austria—that in the event of an answer being re turned in the affirmative, a Congress shall be held for a General Peace; but that in case the answer 1e in the negative, Austria I will inintediately join the Allies with 105,000 :nen, under the Prince of SCHWARTZ INSURG, who is to delrou-h upon the Elbe in two points; 150,000 men, under the Arehduke CHARLES, are also to act in Italy. It is reported that BoNAPARrs having replied to the joint proposals of Russia and Aus•ria in the negative, Austria was to put her force in motion before tie 12th of June. " Such is the important information which has been trans mitted to us. • " And in addition, it is reported, that roinforcements have nearly doubled the amount of the Russian army; and that the Allies have actually sent 20,000 men under Bu ;ion , to join the CR oW PRINCE. and act under lab orders." Mr. POLE CAttaw, and Mr. rhetAY: Atter which a division look place, when the numbers were—tor the Resolution; 38—. Against it 20 —Majority Is. After a short conversation, the CHAIRMAN was di rected to report progress, and ask lexie to sit again. Lord CASTL'EREAGH brought in a Bill to continue to the India Company their exclusive privi leges for a limited time.—Read a fiat time, and or dered to be read a second time on Friday. The Report of the Auction Bill war fixed for Wed nesday. The other Orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned at hall-past two. TO THB EDITOR OF THE STAR. It is a fact, which, however little known to the public, is unquestionably true, that the failure of the late Emancipation Bill, so called, is a subject of exultation to most of the English Catholics, and to almost the whole collection of the Catholics of Ire land, at appears by the vote of thanks of their Board in Dublin to their Bishops for censuring the Bill, by I, the Resolutions of the Catholics of Kilkenny at their general Meeting, and by numerous other documents. The last named go so far as to degrade their repre sentative, JasaasßuLoEtt,Esq. barely for withholding his assent to part of the vote of thanks passed by the Board. This, however, will cease to be wondered at, when it is understood that the Bill went to put the Catholic Bishops and Clergy ender the arbitrary and unconstitutional controul of a Directory of five per sons, to be named and changed at the discretion of the Minister, and bound by an oath of secrecy as to the evidence and charges, whether of disloyalty or sedition, which might be brought against the former; in fine, to subject them to a far more tyrannical tri bunal than was the famous Star Chamber under the first STEWARTS, or the Inquisition itself. Nor would the religious oppression, implied by this Bill, have been confined to the Catholics, for, by some of the latter clauses of it, the Chaplains of the Russian and Swedish Embassies, 'the Moravian Brethren, the ` Quakers, and various other denominations of Chris tians would have been restrained, under the penalty of transportation, from their usual and perfectly in nocent correspondence with their foreign brethren.— Still, however, it is proper to observe, that the grand and leading motive of the Catholic Prelates in Ireland, and of Dr. MILNER in England, for declaring against the Bill, was the opinion they entertained that certain clauses of it, it complied with by themselves or their people, would have involved them in the guilt of schism, that is to say, wocld have excommunicated them from the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. MIL NER having expressed this opinion in a published paper, called A Brief Memorial, previously to the third reading of the Bill in the House of Commons, and thereby, as it was conceived, having influenced cer tain Members to vote against it, was censured and disowned by a majority of the English Catholic Meet ing, l‘eld in Stanhope -street, on May 29. In return, he has been thanked for his conduct in opposing the Bill by the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, in the fol lowing Resolution ; and it is presumed that, by this time, he has also been thanked by the Irish laity of his communion. 6' At a General Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland, held in Dublin on Saturday, May 29, 1813, the M. Rev. Dr. O'REILLY, President, the following Resolution was unanimously adopted : ‘ 4 Resolved, That the Right Rev. Dr. J. Milner, BishOp of Castahala, our vigilant and incorruptible agent, the powerful and unwearieii champion of the Catholic Religion, continues to pos seis our esteem, our confidence, and our gratitude. " R. O'REILLY, President." N4P4L INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JUNE 19. ! Sailed the Fraticis Freeling Packet, for Malta; and the Lady Arabella Packet, for I.;sbon. Wind N. • PORTSMOUTH. JUNE 21. Arrived the sloop Industry, HOLLAND, from Wa. terford. Wind N. DEAL, JUNE 21. ' Remain all the King's ships as per last ; also the whole of the• transports, with troops and ordnance stores on board, still detained by contrary wind.— ,Sailed his Majesty's ship THMUS, on a cruize off Flushing ; and the Coowrz.ss or ELGIN cutter, with a convoy, for Portsmouth. Wind N.E. HARWICH, JUNE In. No arrivals. Sailed the Au'kland Packet, for Oottenburgh ; and the Lark Packet, tor H beoland —both with Mails and Passengers. Wind E.N.E. LEI rH, 'LINE 19. The CHEROKRE sloop of war arrived at Heligoland on the sth instant, with the following vess , ls tr , der c onvoy, viz. the Jenny, SCOTLAND; Liberty, bp:; William and Mary, SaLmnst; and Phoenix, —, from L e ;th ; the Isabella, BArran ; and P'ie'r BLAIN from Glasgow; and Fanny, BLAI K; Charles, K IGI1T; and Betsey, lbws, from Liverpo Inno, GDR.. DON, from Kirkaldy, arrived at Lisbon the 28th ult. The Nelly and Peggy, of Ayr, from Cork to Mi. ramichi, and the Harriet, of and for Ltindon. from Newfoundland, were t tken and destroyed about the 12th instant, off Cape Clear, by the Fox AmeriCan privateer. The SABRINA sloop of war, which arrived at Ports mouth on Wednesday from Lisbon, spoke on the Bth instant, in the Bay, the FAIRY sloop of war, with ten vessels, bound to the Brazils, which had parted from the INCONSTANT frigate; and the - next day she fell in with the INCONSTANT. — The INCONSTANT sailed from Portsmouth 2d inst. with a fleet of East lndiamen, &c.—The STAR and FAIRY sailed from Falmouth 6th inst. with several vessels to join her. FORTUNATE ESCAPE AND PRESERVATION. Mr. COWAN and Mr. COUTTSI two masters of vessels, lately effected their escape from a French prison, where they had been confined more than nine years, and were picked up at sea, in a boat only fourteen feet long, by the ANDROMACHE frigate, Captain ToBIN, 'while cruizing on the coast of France. They had lbeen furnished with bread and water, a compass, quadrant, &c. by an American Captain, and were ,two days and nights at sea, happily experiencing fine weather all the time ; but only a few hours after they were picked up, a tremendous gale came on, with a heavy sea, which continued more than 48 hours; and had they not been thus timely rescued by the inter ference of PROVIDENCE, they most unquestionably must have been consigned to a watery grave. The American Captain who assisted in their escape, has since been taken prisoner, and is now at Plymouth. Wednesday, three French Officers, who had broken their parole of honour, were brought to Perth under a rtard, and lodged in the depot. Saturday se'nnight, one of the prisoners at the depot. Perth, who was employed as a conk, fell into a large boiler, and was so dreadfully scalded, that he died in the Hospital a few hours after. The following is an extract of a letter received from the Mediterranean :—" We left Mdm on the 224 February, to take a peep at Toulon ; w'e were only nine days out, hut had uncommonly fine weather. Our fleet reconnoitred the enemy's ships pretty closely, but found them all quiet, and returned rather disap pointed, having flattered ourselves with the hope of catching them out; and, under that expectation, made the place in the night, that they might have-the plea. sure of seeing us the first thing in the morning between them and the land. S.nce we had been in Mahon. this last time, we have had boisterous weather. Onj the 13th March, the Scipion's latmch, which went out ; with the intention of giving assistance to the Confoue..' der, a brig in distress at the mouth of the harbour, was driven out to sea, in spite of every effort of the brave fellows who had volunteered on the occasion 'They were pulling at the oar nearly three days, ue able to make any port, during which time eight t the crew died from fatigue ; and when at last the r mainder were picked up by a Greek vessel, they we `so much exhausted by their exertions, as scarcely be capable of moving a limb." SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.—It is with pleasure, that we announce the publication of . NORTHCOTEN Memoirs of this distinguished Chara. ter, who raised the art of Painting to unknown emi. nence in this country, by the unremitted exertions of forty years—A man, among whose friends the learoec and the great were proud to be ranked, and whom works shew how much he deserved the applause o the age in which he lived, and the admiration o posterity. Acmes T.—Sunday afternoon, as some Hibernian were performing the usual ceremonies at a wake, it a house in White's-yard, Rosemary-lane, and just be fore they were about to throw a bottle of gin over th corpse of a Mrs. Thompson, the flooring of the root in which the parties were gave way, and the whol of the persons, together with the dead body. wer— precipitated into a cellar, which was nearly full c water, and not without difficulty several of the pet sons were taken Out slightly injured. The benevolent Mr. Wesa, who commenced h' charitable career at Norwich some time ago, late! distributed £1250 in Shrewsbury, £670 of which appropriated to the putting apprentice of friendle: and orphan children. S sown No.—Sir C. Banbury's black colt Smolensk°, is match far 500 guineas, to run Lord Foley's Benedict, the two mid miles in the Newmarket October Meeting —Smolensk° to reel 91b. Betting at Tattersal's for the St. Leger, yesterday, 6 t agst Altisidera ; 9 to i agst Lord Strathmore; and 12 to I : any other. Poulton is the first fasourite for the Oxford Ca A pugilistic amateur club, of seventy members, at an annual 11 guineas each, has been formed to reward pugilists, defray an scription purses, &c.—Amongst these milling patrons are mai distinguished characters. Manna, the Black, is bringing ft wird a twelve stone countryman, to fight Oliver, the garden A match is also at band between Dutch Saw and Newton, 'en stone man, of the Bristol school. Rainer 's match, to one hundred miles in eighteen hours, is not yet made.— Wednesday, a well contested foot race, of 110 yards, was r at Hunslet Moor, for five guineas, between the Brighton She herd and Abraham Watson, a tailor of Leeds. The distance v. run in 16 seconds, and the shepherd beat Isis antaviust abou yard and 11 bulf. considerable lIIIIIMMINNII