Star. — London, England, 1813-06-26 00:00:00

men et sheeting the Itaslurton'orylt. Crteivey would b to move upon it the other orders of the day. The subject had been already argued so much to his sa tisfaction,, that he should only make a single remark ,pun the quotation produced by an Honourable Gen tl..nian' (Mr. Western). He ought t o reco ll ect , i n ' referring to the doctrines laid down in the document I.e cued, that circumstances were now greatly cl)..need, and the Judges were not/ completely inde pendent of the Crown, and could not be said to be at any time influenced by its wishes. Mr. WESTERN, Mr. WYNNE, and Lord CkETLEP RCAGH severally explained. Mr. WHITBREAD thought that his Hon. Friend had been perfectly regular, and had introduced this shbject as early as possible. With regard to himself in the proceedings, three years ago he had steered a. middle course, always contending for moderation, because when its privileges we're pushed to extremes, the House had uniformly been in error. Every man must be in favour of the publication of the proceed ings of Parliament, but whetheY the Member himself ought to deliver his speeches tO the public, especially if they were of a libellous tendehcy, was another question. Upon this point he could not go the Nhole length with his Honourable Friend, although approved of much of the arguitient, and of many of the remarks that by him were made.— He was Somewhat surprised by the uncalled. for talogium pronounced by the Noble Lord Upon our Courts of Justice ; but while the House *as so anxi ous for the welfare and security of the public, it might not to forget the protection due to itt own Members. If the individual libelled had a remedy against the libeller, what remedy had that libeller Pgainst the unfounded assertions of the Court. Sup pose it was said (as it had been in his presence) that his Hon. Friend had been guilty, in this instance, of a libel upon the late Mr. Perceval, and that he was disaffected to the Government, was he to obtain no etiress f He appealed to the Law Officers of the Crown, whether there was or was not in the power of individual so accused, any remedy for the gross injury which he sustained in his character ? Upon the whole, although he could not vote in favour of the original motion, hut should support the Amend ment of the Noble Lord, he thought that Mr. Creevey had done the tountry a considerable service, by intro ducing this important question upon the journals of :he House. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said k was not his intention to have spoken; but he could not avoid expressing his astonishment, that, after so much con sideration, the Hon. Gentleman could not make any proposition but to enter the narrative on the Journals of the House. He wished to ask him if he meant to ground any other proceeding on that proposition ? [Mr. Creevey said he would not be questioned.] He imagined not; and it was extraordinary, that in a ease where the privileges of the House were con serned, no other course was pursued. But did the Hon. Member hereafter mean to move to impeach the sudges or to address for their rem Oval ? or did he in trnd to call up the judgment for revision ? The Hon. and. Learned Gentleman then alluded to what he called reflections on a Judge now no more, and another who had retired Leith the highest character a man could passess—he would state his recoll ec ti on o f t h e matter . then detailed the proceedings in the Courts—de ri:ed that malice was necessary to constitute a libel— cited the case of a murderer, who should kill his master and mistress without malice ; and said, that the Hon. Member had inferred that the Judges had dealt out a different measure of justice to him because he was obnoxious to the Guvernment, and that they 'were guilty of the greatest enormities, because they thought it would give good pleasure to the Ruling Powers. This he denied. Lord Ellenhorough had not said that he had never heard of the pi ivilege of Members to explain their sentimeats to their consti tuents ; but he had said, that he had never heard of their privilege to libel all the King's subjects. With regard to the sentence complained of, it was well known that the sentence was that of all the Judges ; but the corrective admonitions belonged only to him 'rho gave them. The Learned Judge, in delivering the sentence, was accounting for its lenity. He said, that the prosecution had been brought forward for private purposes, and had somehat of malice in it, and therefore the sentence was less severe ; but that the great object of the Hon. Gentleman's speech was to attack the late Mr. Perceval, and through him the Government. These, he confessed, were severe ob servations, but they were not libellous; and, in apo logising for the lenity of the sentence, the Learned Judge had not made up for it by libelling the person on whom it was passed. He wished the words had been more guarded, but they did not weigh a grain in the sentence. The rights of the House would not be at all trenched on by the decision. Mr. CREEVEY said, the Attorney-General had declined taking any part against him in the Courts, evidently reserving himself for an attack in that ]louse—(Hear, hear)—and being deficient in argu ment, he had reverted to his old trade of examination, and questioned him like a witness at the Old Bailey. •—(if laugh.)—Any one entering that House during .he speech of the Learned Gentleman, would have taken him (Mr. Creevey) not for a Member defend ing a proposition, but for the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar.—(Hear, hear.)—The Hon. Gentleman then shortly replied to the various speakers, and said 1 4 , s:_w in the proceedings the beginning of a system cutting off all connection between Members and !:;eir Constituents ; he , only wished. to have his pro t osition on the Journals of the House ; he would not pres; the division ; and the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman had admitted the words used by the Judge in . lel;v , :ring the sentence. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL denied any such .admission. Mr. WHITBREAD was ready to depose to the wcrds. Mr. BENNETT affirmed, that the words used by ;udge Grose as he had taken them down at the time, ..tar, that the speech of his Honourable Friend was bottomed nn disaffection to the Government," •'rich words he considered to be a gross and scanda '•cros libel. The Motion proposed by Lord CASTLEREAGH for passing to the other Orders of 4he Day, was then put, :And carried without opposition. - : MISCELLANEOUS. lard CASTLEREAGH moved the second reading of the East bdia Bill. After some conversationbetween Mr.Tizitmtv, Mr. GRANT, the SPSIINES, and Lwd CasTatniatutis the JiW was rea4 a se ,tend timu k und ordered to grumitted on Mondat next, with, an undeistanding that the de ate was to take place on the going into the Committee. • • On age motion of tbeCHA'NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Hons, in a Committee of Supply, agreed to a Resolution for raising one million by Exchequer Balk—Report to be received on Monday next. The Deputy Remembrancer of Eichequer tills was postponedi to this day three months. The Fur Coeds Duty Bill, Land Tiix Alupodment BiU, Funded Debt Bill, Local Tokens Bill, Peninsula Cogrt Martial Bill, Mi li Pay Bill, severally went through Corm ittees.a—Reports or dered to be received on Monday next. 11 Mr. WILLIAM SMITH presented a Pultlon from the Citt of Norwich against the Corn Bill about to by brought into Par liament.—Read, and ordered to lie on the table. he bids sees Commissioners Bill was read a first time.—Or dered to be read a second time on Mondiy Ile Peninsula Military Accounts Auditing Bill was read the firit time, and ordered robe read a second time on Tuesday next, and printed. —The House adjourned to Monday next. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. • • SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 181 g. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O . C . LOCE: Red. 5541—Cons for ice. 57H-4 per Ct. 71-} Bonds 46.55. dis.—Eseh. Bills Is. par, 2s. dl,. Omnium 4it pr.—Book Long Anns.l4 1-16th We can now state from authority that a Forekner of distinction is daily expected to embark at Morlaix on a diplomatic mission to this country. Orders have been sent to the various Out-ports, by Government, to receive him with all due respect. He is expected to be the bearer of Dispatches of importance' from Austria, and we have reason to believe that arrange ments are being made for a communication with the Continent to be kcpt up during his residence here, through the direct medium of Dover and Calais. Mr. M'KENZIE, who went on a mission some time ago fur the purpose of effecting an exchange of pri soners of war with the French Government, set out, we understand, yesterday morning at five o'clock, to embark at Harwich for the Continent. Mr. M'KENZIE is said to be the bearer of important dispatches to Lord CATHCART, who is understood to be at the Em petor ALEXANDER'S head-quarters. His Majesty's ship ROLLA arrived yesterday at Yarmouth, from Wismar, with General HOPE and suite on board, from the Baltic. The General ar rived in town th's morning, and immediately waited upon Lbrd CASTLEREAGH, with whom he had a long audience. The late abortive attempts to conciliate Denmark, are understood to have occasioned Gene ral HopE's unexpected retu-... The Lady Nepean pat.kat has arrived at Harwich from Gottenburgh in four days, with a Mail and dispatches, of which Count Batman, of the Russian Legation, is the bearer. By the Lady Nepean we learn, that notwithstanding the Armistice, the Rus sians, about 3500 strong, entered Leipzic on the 7th instant—attacked the French in the suburbs on the same evening, killed 1500, and took the same num ber prisoners. The Duke of PADUA then sent Gene ral LA Mourn to notify the Armistice ; but which Count WORONZOFF and General TCHERNICIIFT re-' fused to regard until properly announced to them by their own Government. The above is no doubt one of the affairs alluded to in the French Pa pers.—By the above Mail we have also received the Prussian account of General BuLow's brilliant affair on the 29th, on the Berlin road—the defeat of the Doke of REGGIO (OUDINOT) was complete. The following are extracts from Berlin Papers of the 6th and kith, and Altona of the 10th and 11 di inst.: is BERLIN, JUNE 6. " Yesterday afternoon a Russian Staff Officer, in company with a French Staff Officer, passed through this city for Hamburgh,' with important dispatches from their respective Monarchs." " BANKS OF THE ELBE, JUNE 3. " Several concurring accounts state, that the French are hastily removing their wounded from Dresden towards Erfurt. This, combined with other facts, ap pears to confirm the retrograde motion of the French main army on the Elbe, which was to have been masked by the unsuccessful attack on the 4th. " Hamburgh was, as our Readers probably already know, occupied by Danish, and afterwards by French troops, without endangering the security of persons and property. As the Russian General, Count Wal moden, who with his corps has taken a position before the Trave and Stekenitz, is tinder the orders of the Crown Prince of Sweden ; the further conduct of the operations are to be expected from the resolutions of that Prince. Should, as is not to be doubted, the differences between Denmark and England be accom modated, the possession of Hamburg!' can be of no military importance." " BERLIN, JUNE 8. 66 The return to Head•quarters of the Russian Mi nister, Count Nissilrode, from Vienna is expected daily, and it is supposed he will bring with him the Austrian declaration of war against France, as, accor ding to all appearances, the Cabinet of Vienna has rejected all the propositions made to it by France, re lative to its alliance." " COPENHAGEN, JUNE 5. 41 Last Thursday arrived here the third and last transport of our sailors, from Antwerp. They marched with drums beating and colours flying through the gate, called Westerthor, to the Holm, the place of their destination." 4 , JUNE B.—On the 29th ult. in the morning, Prince Frederick left Christiania to embark for Co penhagen. Above 200 persons accompanied him to Setter, two miles from the city, or received him there. The Officers of the CorporOoo' expected hho there to breakfast. " Tbere were about 3000 persons assembled, and few eyes were dry at the departure of this noble and excellent Prince. Prince Christian was much affect ed at the scene, and, taking a glass, said—" GOB tant, that my departure f rom h ence may resem b le ours !"—The two Princes parted at Frederickstack. Prince Frederick hai already arrived here." We have received Paris Papers to the 23d, and they contain detaili from the French Army to the 14th. The Armistice has been rigidly fulfilled by those who were paities to it, i. e. th( Emperor of Russo and King of PRUSSIA on the one hand; and BONAi'ARTS on the other ; but as the War in Ger ifany daily assumed more of the character of a po pular insurrection for liberty and indepengence, it could not be expected that those tvho considered them selvei as owing allegiance to no legitimate Sovereign (and we may sidely exhibit the subjects of the fugi tive King of SAXODIY as in this predicament) it was not to be exiiected, we say, that those men would de sist from their sacred labours, merely because the belligerent Sovereigns required rest for their regular armies. It is, therefore, with unfeigned joy that we find BONAPARTE, his Report to MARIA LOVISA, con. fessing that al some of the enemy's partizans are in his rear, waling wor on their own account, after the manner of &HILL, and refusing to acknowledge the Armistice." It is long since we knew that there *ere bodies of armed men in Germany, who had sworn to deliver their country from a foreign yoke, or to perish in the attempt; and, upon turning to the STAR of Monday, our Readers will find that we de scribed these gg Jacobins," as BONAPA R TE calls them, in the following language There is at this moment en the shores of the Elbe a corps of three thousand mounted Prussians and Germans, armed and equipped at their own expense, composed of the higher classes of students In the German Universities, and Officered mostly by the Professors themselves, who have sworn allegiance to no earthly Sovereign, but have embodied themselves for the express . pur pose of delivering their native land from the yoke of foreigners ; and they have already intimated, that they consid* themselves as bound by no Armistice which leaves the French in possession of a single inch of ground on the German side of the Rhine ! " Ministers are fully acquainted with the determination of these heroes, for they have been applied to for arms and ammu nition to be distributed among the lower classes, by whom they are followed in great numbers. Many of the Chiefs of this pa triotic baud were in London within these few months—a Doctor AEBROCK, who was sonic time ago the bearer of a letter to the KING of PRUSSIA, written by the PRINCE REGENT'. own hand, now holds the rank of Culonrl in this Death-ar-Victory-Corps, The celebrated German Professor ST aril F N b holds the same rank." It must be in the recollection of every person in this country that the fate of the Peninsula has been suspended as much by the persevering spirit of the Guerillas as by the arduous exertions of tl.e regular Armies.—Germany, we find, has her MINAS, her lONGAS, and her ENIPECINADOS ••• and long may they be spared to grace the annals of their own and future times by sim►lar achievements ! • Not a word is mentioned it; there Papers of any advances towards a pacification, or even a Congress. —This does not look as if the Allies were beaten into submission. A laboured attempt is made in the Moniteur to jus tify Denmark in her late intrigues. In a tone of in solence peculiar to the upstart Protector of injured Sovereigns, BONAPARTE emphatically proclaims that Norway shall remain Danish—the integrity of Den mark is guaranteed by FRANCE !" FASHIONABLE PARTIES, &c. The Duke of Grafton, a grand dinner party on Tuesday, in Piccadilly. The Countess of Buckinghamsh ire, an elegant dejeune• this morning, at Fitzroy Farm, Highgate. Dowager Lady Clermont, a large card party this evening, in Berkeley-square. Lord and Lady Dynevor, a grand dinner party, on Monday next, in Dover-street. _ _ The Marquis Camden, a large dinner party on the 4th July, in Arlington-street. _ _ _ Tbe Earl of Harrowby, a grand cabinet dinner on Wednesday next, in Grosvenor-square. Lord Dungannon, u select dinner party yesterday, iu Dover street. Lord Palmerston, a Jarge dinner party, on the Ist July, in Stanhope-street, May Fair. Letd Eardley, a grand ball and supper, on Tuesday next, in Grosvenor-street. Colonel and Mrs. Chichester, a Urge party to dinner, on the 12th July, in Portman-square. Lady Castlereagh, a supper party, this evening, after the Opera, in St. James's-square. Sir William and Lady Call, a grand musical party to-morrow, In Old Bond-street. The Earl of Hardwicke, a select dinner party yesterday, In St. James's-square. Lord Falmouth, a few friends to dinner yesterday, in St. James's-square. Lady Hampden, a small party, to-morrow evening, in Green street, Grosvenor-square. DEPARTURES. The Duke of Norfolk, fur Arundel Castle, on Ms way to join his regiment. The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, from his house in Cleve land-square, on a visit to Lord Grenville, at Ms seat ► Dropmore. ARRIVAL. Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, at the London Hotel, Albemarle street, from Portsmouth. The Duke of YORK dined yesterday with Mr. GnagNwooo, at Park House, Brompton. The Hon. Mrs. COCHRANE gave a grand Ball and Supper on Thursday night, at her house in Portman square, which was attended by the PRINCE REGENT, and a long list of Fashionables. The Countess of Gnosvnion gave a Public Break fast yesterday at Grosvenor House. The company arrived in their carriages between two and four in the afternoon ; the breakfast took place at fire, and soon after the company broke up. The Marquis of WINCHESTER gave a grand dinner yesterday to the PRINCE REGENT. The Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES took an airing yesterday in her carriage, accompanied by the Duchess of LEEDS. The Duke of 13ttrogswicK paid a visit yesterday tp the Princess of WALES, ATIPAL iNTELLIGENCL FALMOUTH, JUNE 23. • Arrived the Princess Mary packet, with Mails, 35 dais from Demerara, and 38 from Guadaloupe— also arrived the Duke of Montrose packet, Captain Butwrrz : she sailed from hence with a Mail for Ha• lifax on the 28th ult. and was taken the 10th inst. in lat. 43. 12. long. 31. 10. by the American frigate President, Commodore ROGERS, who had taken the day before the brig Kitty. LoVE, from Newfoundland for Alicant, and the day after the brig Maria, BALD, from ditto for Lisbon—the crews of those prizes were put on board the packet as a cartel, and ordered for this port, under charge of an American Officer. The Duke of Montrose fell in with an American schooner ptivateer, of 14 guns, the day before she was captured, and sustained an action for two hours, and beat her off. —Captain BLEvrErr states, that the President and Congress frigates parted company on the sth instant. Captain LOVE, of the Kitty, arrived in the Cartel, says he left St. John's the Slst of May, in company with the Cossack, of Greenock, bound to Lisbon, and parted from her on the 6th :—he also states, that the brig General Wellesley, in running out of the harbour of St. John's, struck against a piece of ice and immediately went down. The President Arne. rican frigate brought to a cartel on the Ilth, from Chatham bound to America, who inforined them he had spoke the Cossack the day before. PENZANCE. JUNE S. A large fleet from the West Indies, Is now off this port; standing up Channel with the wind at E. N. F.. TORBAY, JUNE 2s. Arrived his Majesty's ship TALBOT, to collect the trade for Newfoundland.-3Vind E. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 24. Arrived the Tantivy letter of marque, one of the West India fleet; Fearnought privateer, of this port, from a cruize ; INDEFATIGABLE store ship, from Lon don for Corunna ; and the SULTAN, 74, from the Eastward, to join the Channel fleet —Wind E. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 23. Arrived 114 Majesty's ship Nvaumnr, from the Downs ; and the SUREEY cutter, from Guernsey. The UNICORN frigate gives instructions to the trade for North America ; and the SURLEY takes convoy back to Guernsey:—.Wind E. DEAL, ItINE 25. Arrived the Eat° and RINALDO sloops of war, and the VIPER cutter, from different cruizes : 54 sail of transports, with troops and ordnance stores, for the Baltic, are still detained. Sailed the NYMPH cutter, with dispatches, for off Flushing.—Wind E. N. E. HARWICH, JUNE 21 • Arrived the Lady Nepean packet, with a mail and passengers, from Gottenburgh : met the outward bound convoy, of about forty sail, list Monday even ing, between Rob's Snout and Holmans. Few or no ships remained in FLM ke-roads when the packet left. Wind E. YARMOUTH, JUNE 25. Arrived the LASIDRAIL cutter, from Gottenburgh. with a Danish sloop her prize,_ and five.dctained yes• sell. Sailed the ROSARIO and BEAVER sloops of war, on a cruize. Put in, wind-bound, the Anckland Packet, Captain THOMAS BRIDGE, with Mails and Passengers, !mind for Gottenburgh, and remain with his Majesty's ships SOLEISAY, Vice-Admiral MURRAY, and CHANTICLEER. The PRINCE REGENT gaveaudience yesterday to the Duke of Yong, and also to General MAITLAND and Colonel CHURCH, the former of whom took his leave to assume the Governorship of Malta, and the latter on his resuming the command of the Greck Light In fantry. _ . _ _ Lieutenant General Sir JAMES LEITH proceeds im mediately to Portsmouth to embark fur the British army in Spain. Mr. Ross, eldest son of Sir CHARLES, IS arrived in England from Constantinople ;—falling in with a party of French cavalry, he was taken to head-quar ters, and ordered to be confined in a dungeon, which he was for six days, under a suspicion that he was charged with intelligence to the Allied Armies. By an article from the Dublin papers, it appeal that Lords FINGAL and CURREN, and Sir F. Gooti positively deny ever having had an audience wit the PRINCE REGENT, or received any pledge or pr( mise from his Royal Highness on the subject of th Catholic Claims. Mr. Justice DAMPIERRZ yesterday took his seat at one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench.— The business of the day was unimportant. The preseht salary of a Judge is £4OOO per annum, by no means an extravagant remuneration, as he pays his own expences of the Circuits. The pension is only two thousands pounds per ann. and nn Judge can have this pension without fifteen years service, unless he is afflicted with some permanent it:firmity, which incapacitates him for the duties of his office. Upon a late trial in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, an Attorney of the name of Hope pressed for his Counsel, Mr. Joy, to attend. The Lord Chief Nonsuay waited for some time ; but Mr. Joe not making his appearance, his Lordship proceeded wits this preface— " Yore tnld a flattering tale, That Joy would soon rt.turn!" LUCAS PEPYS, according to fashionable report, has prescribed to himself a third wife, as a pleasant, tonic to the nerzom: system. It was rather a bold assertion in one of the Prrh cial Papers to say, that all the widows in France wei lamenting the death of their husbands. A large house, lately tenanted by a man name Malone, on the lands of Meelich, near Limerick, pa of the estate of Sir Whf. BARKER, Bart. was malic ously consumed by fire. on Wednesday se'neigbc.