Star. — London, England, 1812-12-15 00:00:00

s iettek tether Ili thing& - He had heed, the other eight, a thing which was to him perfectly unintelli: sinle explained by a Noble Lord. That Noble Lord, tr. , s atisfy the Howie that itertnantnt meant tetrifarary, • ;nfarmed than . that there was an official and a vulgar • 6 a rage. He supposed they should•now be infor, • used that there was a ParSessentary language also, l • • which differed as muck from 'the vulgar acceptation of the word as it appeared !Ali/language did. On this p r inciple, he had no doubt the supporters of the pre. l ent Bill acted,rend reconciled themselves to a measure no otherwise reconcileable to common sense, by hold. ire that equivalent means as three to two. As to two •,N.' ,Properly speaking, such a thing could not exist s ;statue then the higher in value will vanish, and al. w the other to remain in possession of the field.—i '. Grant then contended, that this Bill *as no ad. satage to the public creditor ;* by defrauding others lo ir * did not benefit hitn. It. was an oppresive tar on • Weij' description Of annuitants. He concluded by declaring, that the heal object of the Bill was testoh. keel our true situation from ourselves& We were like thadres who hold their hands before their eyes, and " then hie gine themselves out of dangers Alderman SMITH spoke in favour of the. Bill. . , bi r z t1..001$ declared the Resolution of the ' Some, that gold and paper are equivalent, to be toiletry to the fatt. It was not true ill 'England, nor . *stit is trite in Ireland. 'Before' he,left his own court *, *stajratd Weald Awns bring him home the sobeatihtity-of provisions •for 20 pounds in gold as fat 113 iapaiO• 1 11 )el.tfe Witt e 0 tvct this (.)1111tIts. - lt - lit0 ( 0 ...01 ! IT i toile; tho kilaner. =bed, SS • Oases for its he used to give more than Se.; but as sew ash. opened his puree, which was lined , with gli . Bleees the MO tots, k him Wt his *Ord. ' fleAtow.. - 'Wel, 'objected AS the oppressi ve idea of ionic .Isinci . jords,.who Woad ea being paid theft rents. in vold, to wkieh'ha thought they had no right in reason or lacistisnee. f . Mr. PRESTON spoke for the gill; at did also Mr. MAR.RIOTT, who said, that the question mho. then' Bank notes Were equivalent to specie had' bead is much agitated by the Moderns, as the question whether the earth turned round the sun, or the sun itieed ibe earth, had been by the Ancients. •,. ' .• This idea. was inemodrously applied against. him : by Mr. WHITBREAD,;who declared that his whole , speech wet ;rick/rant tethe question, and utterly tin. •uttelligible,exceptio the Nestors and Ulysses of that Xclue. He complimented Mr. Preston ( who• had •stateddiat bereeeived one or two guiheas every'day `hi the cdatiiebf his practice) on the superior excel., fence bf his lasi, t 6 Oast or all the othei pkiessionall tentlemenOfhisamaisintance, who never received 4 single guinea croon one year's end to another. ' The House then diiiided—Ayes 80—Noes 1.4—. • Majority 6.5. ..... ~ . . costattrilol 4 EVPIALI: The. House resolved into a Cominittee 6f Su?PIY, to whiCh the Army Estimates, and those for Miscel hewn: Serviees,baving been referred,. . Load PAL MERSTON moved . the following . Re • behltione, Which were agreed to, via : AN,tioropOo for &IMO* do Eips:ces at Home to /Woad INtioyear 1812. , .• • , ' 1•4 .*: 07,500 for Ave Taitinslsf Dragooas. . • t a.li - 4'77,000 for Elabacke miAtia. of Great Britain and Wind. ,Oksno tor StpernsinearTo•l4l.o . ' . ' ; 1 " . r 1 . 1 ' 4 2 t - fdr l ittaajberea_lkf• ,-..:-:: • 1. —ass -iot;viut ~ *- --- 11550100i0r - FoTeiftt UorpOs . ~t , ..,. ; 41111,000 for Vdiusreers. ' - : '- . 7 ; 11- , . iNi,OOO to Leal Militia. •"' " • • . :• PAP for Suadry Allouraintei. . "'•`, .:1; 1 ; MT). WHARTON moved the 101101tring 'kiwis" ) lllich Were agreed to, viz. . .. . • • • : ..119,000 foi Americaa Loyalists. • • .. • • :- • .•-•-•--• On this grant there was a shoot conversation be. hatch Mr. WHITBREAD and the CHANCELLOR of the • Zietisnuett, in the course of which the litter Gentle istan said; that it 'was Ones the amount of which was mutually diminishing. £6,000 for St. Domingo Slafferen. , . • , £143,000 for the Suffering Clergy and Leer of France. • £11,500 for the relief of the Corsican Enthrones. 44,000 to pay Bills drawn by French and Cordean Emigrants. 5,500 for relief of Dutch Elltigrants. 44.500 for the relief of Dutch Emigrants in Guernsey and . Jersey. ' Mr. WHITBREAD said, that before the Chair man tiuitted the Chair, he should be glad to be in formed, in One round sum, how much the Committee had just been voting for the relief of those people whom the folly of our Government had induced to have, or to remain out Cii, their respective countries. MAW HA ItTON an sWered , from 149 to it 150,006. Mr. WHITBREAD observed, that with the s hfi. Noy Grants acceded to on the motion df the Secre tor), at Wde, the Cosernittze had been toting nearly itt0)0 3 000 of money for thb purpose of enabling Ministers to have. A lobg Christmas vacations. He *add be glad to whether there was Anypro visieit made, or whether it was intended, beMethe mots, to make any provision for this sum ? . ' .. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQVE f skid, that them Votes, Were in strict conformity tAI Usage a Parliament. ,il-• Me. WHITBRtAtt Observed, these grants tack, thee roltelrearlier:in the Session than had been Cut team, ; and the . light HonourAbleGentleinan must recollect. that; hairmg abandoned one of his taxes last/ear s his budget Was consequently defective, and there was a balance id make up, and yet the Right #Onourable• Gentleman had began the Session with; "ling away mote moneys without saying how that!, stoney was to be piovided fir ; And so, perhaps, he void go on until theGratits coUld not be . paid, ands rhea there wou ld b e an e n d of the business. Did .the lht Hon. Gentleman mean to inform the House, re the teceSs, of his scheme of ways add means for the year, or did he mean to ask for a grant of Vlchequer Bills, or what other course did he mean. to ' take ? , . 4 , the CHANCELLOR of the EkCHEQttlili .• A nsweied, that the grant; just moved for, were founded on annual taxes, and on a vote of Exchequer Bills to a large amount ; although he would not say 11 was the ultimate sum he should require. Mr. WHITBREAD said he must. apologise for not having known that a vote of Exchequer Bills to 10 large an amount as A 10,500,000 had been agreed to by the House—perhaps it had passed on Saturday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sbiened, that this particular vote' had been a tran sactiod as public as any since the opening of the pre. ' ta t Session, and had been communicated to the country through all the usual channels of information. The Report was ordered to be received toAZ=ow. ...Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TIIEBDAY, DECEMBER 15. IPRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCKi Reduced 99.1.-4 per Cime. 754-Cons. for at. 61 tt Oitt. 7f—Sonds 4s. es. dis.--1 4 . Aelie. 3-16th, Each. El& (34d.) is. Is. pr.--(44.) Sa—Lott. Di. Ai length we have tt ip Our itowet td tar before our Readers a copy of the Message of the President of America, delivered to Congress at the opening of die Session: It reached this country by the way of Lisbon, having been conveyed from Philadelphia to that port by I licensed vessel. As we stated yesterday, this document is another indication that an inveterate spirit of hostility to wards this cotantry Is deep rooted in the minds bt thOilkiiho tOtnpose the American executive. It is by no means a manly or dignified composilion, suck as might have been expected to issue from the en lightened Chief of a great and independent Nation: But to Mr. President MADISON, and the rabble who men him for their leader, these are denominations Which can never applys He begins sith congratulating:4st nation on being good hea*h! the totripliments of ,tbc lease* Aitsc folloer—suchatithe defeat of Genera Hcrit.*.andate ho less disgraceful affair of Geneeel Ransses.Ates— General •HA uslsoN, however, the kabitis; datur resiitssere rem—has now a large Militia force under , him, and a few regdigis. So far we have sib beta sion to be alarmed. The dispatches of their deffated Generals have made tit fully acquainted with the base semi-metal of which diet* same Militia are cow pounded ; and as for the free regulars, we must pi", sume, that with such coadjutors, they will comities to. think discretion the better part of valour. 1. The capture of the Guerrieri.; as might be expected, is spoken of in the language of triumphs Here we must confess there is some ground for feeling sore ; for it has conjured up the phantom of an American Navy to frighten the tenants of the nursery, and will tend more than any other circumstance to procrasti nate the war. The hopes which the Americans have built upon their nail', in a contest with Great Bri tain, must be destroyed ere we can hope for a per , manent peace—they must, in fact, be beat into sub , . mission; and, while they have a single frigate or a gun-boat capable of floating, they will never acknow ledge the superiority of the British flag. It is, in deed; highly ridiculoas to hear America talk of ma. aititne rights. • What means has the of enforcing them ? ' Mr. Mninaostassureihis Constituents, that he will .acquire a. navitsismiority, no the Lake* next season. Here again we , Is Im - implied:threat of conciotted hostitalial bus all . 440kue Milikat beadle removed by his concluding paragraphs . He jppepb to the - .batiun far their assistance to enable him to carry on a war, which, he most impudently asserts, is neither founded on ambition nor vain-glory, but on a deter. urination to Vindicate , what he is pleased to term .4 ' national rights," What these national rights Are, We are not pl.tinly told ; and it is from this strong mark of duplicity and cunning that we are enabled to fill up the outline of character ivith which the p.o. ceedings of the American Government have long since furnished us. The hypocritical mask of the MArISON faction is now thtown off. The repeal of the Orders in Council hat nut allayed thtir animosi. ties : and to their claims of national rights, they have never yet given (and we may venture to add they never will) M -r— a local habitation and s naded" • 'rhas then the two nations are at •wtr—they know not why—arid unless WE tecuie to the otd eharze Qi ; French influence in the'Ainericitit Council—a charge whirl has never been fairly rebutted—we must once more declare that MArnsms has not made out a case to jnstiktostilities. Thitt• there is s secret tinder sitt4ing between the heioils of. the rreneb and Ame: Stan tovernMents,canisot, we think, be now demlicl, The object of Joiss, , ,Pant.ow's 'Visit to. Warsaw ce Wilna, is now fully developed. 'llut like all ambitions and vain glorious men tfor htintson t natiithstaitling tis disaiowal is of this de. scription),. he, Isas possly miscalculated - the chancel' Of the war no* waging in Europe. He thought,, Perhaps, that an indissolOble treaty of amity between France and America Would ere this bare bean signed at St. Petersburgh. 'We have now seen that the character of this Mee - sage is decidedly hoit44 l let us enquire what are the resources Rom which *hip champion of maritime rights is to make good his pretensions. His Militia And Regulars are already' disposed of—his navy is now lesissir by our Cruisers, and will be wholly sent , borne to British ports by the comrhencernent of spring. Then He assures tis, that he has great reliance on the' friendship of Siveden and Rrissia, and coldly speaks ' Of - Ft:lnce its haVitig put of the day of her atonement) btit as being uhitnately to be depended on—that is to say, itt the pteserit wits 1* is the Willing instrument in the handi of the French Ruler.—and sees nothing in the flagitious litvasiens of Spain, Pdrtugal, and Russia, and the conitquent extinction of all rights, indiVidual, maritime, or national, which ought to shake his allegiance I SO intich for the enlightened policy of Mr. MADLSON ! With respect to the Finances, he would fain im press a belief that they are flousishing.—The relent importatiors of tiritisb goods have greatly increased the revennes--bnt out of a Loan of Eleven Millions, only Eight and a half hivi been st proof of the popuLarity Of his Government among the wealthy and respectable classes of the community. But *ill Russia, now so nobly struggling for her own independence against a most ferocious enemy of all national and maritime tights, permit America to assist France in her destruction, by acknowledgink her neutrality ? Will Sweden revoke her treaty of amity with Great Britain, and open her ports to the commerce of a nation at war *itli her great and powerful ally ? Are these all the elternal relations which are to assist M. MADISON in tht war ? His calculations on domestic resources are not less erroneous. He tells us in his Message, that the States of Connecticut and Massachusets refused to allot their militia to march upon an offensive expedition; and he is constrained to admit, that the war expen diture has been made pod from an adventitious source, namely, the ithpdrtation of British goods—a Source which will be speedily dried up. Upon the whole, we cannot think that this man's reign of delusion an be of long duration. The ran corous ebullitions of party spirit which prompted him declare war. have st*arly subsided, and btlt for the " Litre of the GuartateWthere is not an Amerieae of common sense who' would not long since have been sick of his warlike operations, naval acid mili tary, diplomatic and financial& L —another RENEWED REPORT OF TILL DEATH MO BONAPARTE. Mr. WHITBREAD stated in the louse of Commons last nighti that he had heard of BONAPARTE'S arrival in Berlin, "AN know nothing of the information upon which this report is founded. It is our dnty, however, to lay hefom out Readers reports of a dif- Iferent description; and we give them as we have re ceived them in the following letters : " DOVER, DECEMBER 14. ig Vire have it reported here to-day from Deal s that a Spanish ship has arrived in the Downs, after a very short passage from Gottenburgh, which brings an account that BONAPARTE was killed in attempting to make his escape. This is all I can learn of that re port, but which is probably true, so long a time hav ing elapsed since any thing official has been heard of him ; and, had he effected his escape in safety, he certainly would have made his pod citizens of Paris acquainted with it, and we should have had Papers over . 'ere this announcing his safe arrival at some place out of the reach of the Russiant4,-A ship having left Ostend as late as last Saturday., is now in our Roads, but will not be in the harbour be-. Fore the Mail sets out ; and from what I can learn from the boatmen, who went off with a pilot to her, the Captain does not know any news, or at least he mid them so. I regret I cannot get on board to see him, bu t . thatis impossible, the Wind blowing tab bail No other boat than that Which carried off dui pilot has had communication with the ship s sintehei [ arrival off here." " DOVER, DECEMBER it * A Spanish vessel has arrived in the Downs last 'night, in fout days from Gottenbu;gh, bringing an ,account of the death of lioNAeAart—the Tyrant hiving been killed by one of his officers. so A vessel from Ostend, arrived in DoVet Roads ihis evening, repeats the intelligence above-meptinned. this news leached Ostend a few hours before this j sessel sailed." DOVER 4 DECEMBER IC N A vessel is arrived in the Downs, said to be Spaniard, froth Gottenburgh, bringing an accOnnt . that BciiLiewava had been shot by one of his Officersi She was only four days in corning. 44 Another vessel, it is stated, bringing a similar aconant, is just come into the Roads from Ostend. Thb news reached that place a few hours before i th ie' r AanstL". flaiiii itiom f.tovri'S oorrea-sicinst. . is In reference to the above letter from Doier, we have to observe, that in the Deal list received today r 'ansi wrote yestei•day, do mention is made of the at.' iiVil . of those vessels'; but, on referring to the Deal . the received yesterday, and wrote on Sunday (*Atl i "extract from which is given below), it will be seen that one of those vessels arrived in the Downs on. Sa- ' .rarcfay evening, and the other on Sunday morning. I It also appears from the iblloiving extract, that the Dealboatmen were able, and did obtain the names of both these vessels, also the names of their Captains ; .and it is certainly very odd that the latter did not communicate so important an event as that alltided to in the Dover letter. We fear our Dover friend has I been building cattle; in 'the air : " DEAL, SUNDAY, DEC. is. ~~. J.' a Arrived last evening, bound to Dover, the fo reign vessel Providence, Capt. Losucz, from Ostend. Alm) arrived the Spanish brig St. Jynacio de la Yoki, Capt husAno, froth Gottenburgh, bound to Cadiz." Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held his first Levee this season, which was attended by all the Royal Dukes. There were also present the Archbishop of CANTZRZURYi the great Officers of State, the Spa nish, Russian, Portuguese, Neapolitan, Swedish, Turkish, and Hessian Ambassadors, the LORD MAYO and the Sheriffs of Loudon, the Dukes of Di NORFOLK. &c. ARMY. We are hippy to learn by our Port Letters, received this clay, that the troop-ship seen in distress was not One of the ships with the Life Guards ; being the Ca ledonia, with detachments on boArd for Cadiz, be longing to 9th, 67th, and gith regiments, which Were taken out at sea by his Majesty's ship Nemesii, with the exception of a suflitient number to aid the management of the vessel, which arrived damaged at Falmouth on the 6th instant. It is thus highly gratifying that the Life Guards are accounted for, the whole being now arrited, exceptihg• four eessels, one of which is still at Falmouth, and the re maining three have already sailed from Plymouth, Wider the ALPHEA. LA fa iidtiitional 'snail detachment of Artillery- Drivert. is ordered to embark immediately, at Ports inotith, for Lisbon. If we are inferior to the French in any species of Ebro, it is in this and the Engineers. • SitUrday Morrting, a Serjeant, of the Gloucester -Regiment, in barracks at Plymouth Dock, received 1150 lashes for desertion, and was reduced to the ranks: •-• • Xi YL itaiLLfGANCE: • FALMOUTH, DECEMBER HP. Ntf arriials. Sailed the Qtfeen Charlotte packet, for Lisbon. The West India fleet, for tome tin loiiirt cause; still remains.—Wind E. k. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER IT. Artiireil the DAN/MARX, of 74 gin* fiom the Eastward. Sailed the Svast.t.a, of 58 guns, for Cork, whence she will proceed to the West Indiel; and fi holly to Halifax. ' • FILL * , of 20 g tins, on a ciuize ; find Semitto*, of 18 guns, to St. Andero.—Admiral Sir S. H. Linage, this Morning, hoisted his flag on board theA.NnabstaDA, of 24 guns, no* in the &wad, and prbeeeds to Cadiz inthiediately.—Wind EathE. .•4 • - . PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER it • -'Altered his Majesty's shipi MrLonAtlti ,tititurri Sod MARS, from the Downs. Sailed his Majesty's ships CCIRDLLIA and NIMROD, on a cruise; CUIVULRa . LARD, for Cork ; and the Mtstzros, for Guernser and Jersey. The COUNTY'S of Etats takes low/or to the Downs.—The Horse Transports at this port are ordered to proceed immediately to Cork, to t.hip . . cavalry for the Mediterranean:— = A very large whale was seen yesterday afternoon; close off Benbridge Ledge, which is considered a Very extraordinary cir. cumstance on this part of the Coast. DEAL, DECEMBER 14. Came down and sailed to the West Ward, the Ceres, Scorr, for India .her arrival in the Downs was stated in the list through mistake on the 10th inst. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER Is. Arriked the SNIPE gun-brig, and the StARLDra loop of war, from Cronstadt, but last from qotten burgh, which place they left with 40 fail of English and Russian ships of war, and some merchantmen. .Sailed the BRITOZIARt, for Sheerness ; and BOXER, 'for the fleet off Flushing. The Shire it under sail 'ins order* for the Down*. Remain in the Roads, ins' Majesty's ships Solelskj, Petuti3Oliogr, SAlye s and watchful.—Wind . . The Augusta privateer, •of 'l4 guns and 150 thin, sailed froin St. Maloes on the 29th ult. with four others of the satne class. The Princess Mary; Stogy, from Lcmdoii td - )2. inaice; wal /poked with in company with the V icto: ,rious man of war and 29 sail, in lat. 44: long. 12. on the 19th ult. all well. The Sarah, Sacstorr, front the coast of Spain to London, is taken and carried into Mothiz. The Hope, MiCsivstesr, from Tobagd; arid the Hercules, Mn.Lan, from Guad.iloupe to Greenock, parted from the convoy aborit the 2d inst ' The Mary, Barite; front Prince Edwatait tsland to London; Cape Breton, Beath; arid Providence; Lvticu; from Cape Breton to Jersey ; and Sparkler, - Bitowx_, from Cadiz to London, were taken about the 7th inst. near Scilly, by the Anguita priVateer, of St. Maloes. The Mary Was gives up, and has ar;. rived at Cork. The Cape Breton escaped. His Royal Highness the Doke of OLartrotEt it to hoist the union flag in the river as Adniiril of the Fleet, in complitticnt to the Russian Admiral, teho is to be formally recbi ved in state bthis Royal Highness: Sir EDIIIINLI Name is appointed, by his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, to sutteed Sir Some .T. - Bucawoarti in the comnialid at Newfoundland. A. M. Far, Di. is appointed Secretary to Sir Ethitixa. A numerous Meet* of the Electors of West. ihiaster, was yesterday held at the Crown and An. 4hor Tavern Strand; to celebrate she retutn rf 'Sir Brnizierr and Lord C.ddrritstut to Paths" mink. The worthy Pdionet addressed The cosilpimy speech of some length; as did also Lord COM. lA* gr. Wtanaat wad id the Chairs Thir,ADPUL OUTRAIM—Last night, bettireea nine and ten o'clock, a rest singular and daring outrage wal• committed at the iVine.vaults; in Glasshouse. streeti Sackville.street A, fellow, dressed like a sailor, • with one eye; called fer a glass of rum with some *arm water: The landlady turned round to serve the villain, and received from him a most dread ful blow with k hammer on her head. Her screams immediately brought out of the parlour a Gently:sin, who fortunately secured him, and prevented his bad. tat Intention. He was immediately - safely lodged in the Watch-holm but would not give any reason for this eondoci." Friday, as Mr. M. Quantock, son of J. Quantock, Esq. of Chichester; was skaiting on Fletcher's ponds the ice suddenly gave way, and the unfortunate young man disappeared, and Was crowned before any assis tance could be rendered him.—He was ..215 years of age. Last week, as the boatswain of the Penelope frt• gate and his boy, J. Dennis, .were passing under the stern of a vessel in Hamoaze, the wind suddenly caught the sail and turned at boat over, by which the poor boy was drowned. Within these few days past. 1149 prisoners of war have arrived at the Perth depot, making she total number lodged 4626 ; .900 more are expettet Bat i tn.—No alteration in price this week...pries of the Quarters Loaf la. Std., . • • •