Star. — London, England, 1812-03-07 00:00:00

• . .- - 'fa i n different thing. for an Officer to have the ! .; an d choice from the hulks sent into his regi- I; a ' , 1 And accordingly, in the regiment alluded to, in ~,a , e q uence of this mixture. offences had been miqed, and punishments been inflicted. cl ir s un-roll was cure the Hon. Gentleman had lab v d in his statement. e wished to know been ,ti \loble e Friend or himself intended to introduce ii his 1 r 1 l'sh flogging. They had no such in , tita clan. L r a n " .as i. it n . o d gsiule_ to do it: All had agreed w yea r, on bot h si es . of the . . House, that there was onpr edilection for flogging, if it coud be.changed w ily other. It was wished to ascertain if confine ,,,,nt ass al produce the same effect. In 1811, there cid been but eight sentences of flogging, and since torch, it'll, but one, the other seven having taken place b e f, re the new power was conferred. In the law). c:: se ih•• persoi preferred undergoing the pu. slishment to conniuting it for general service. During the same time there had been forty instances t - the Fs aitliment of flogging in Portugal. He wished it tobe recollected, that this was not the first time it a othere discussed. It had received the deliberate ccenideration of the House in the course of successive punishment so obnoxious to simile s e ssions, yet the *gibers had not been abolished, and the only re. p r o provided was a discretionary power being given to Courts, to substitute different periods of confine r,esa This alteration in the law, he was fiappy to sa y, had been attended with a happy effect in Eng asd.-but what would be its effect in a foreign ar atii; and in the face of the enemy—(blear, hear.!) There it was impossible that any other species of pu. tishment than flogging could effectually enforce ml. pan- disciplint. If any thing else could be substi. toted to have the same effect, no person could adopt it with greater pleasure than himself ; but so long as no adequato substitution was proposed, he felt con siderable surprise on daily reading, that it was a spa . ties of punishment which ought not to exist in a cis vilized country'. Colonel DUCKETT stated, that he had been 17 years employed on hotne service; and no °nicer with! whom he conversed upon the subject ever expressed 1 to him a wish that punishment by flogging should be entirely abolished. He was himself no friend to corn poral punishment ; but, from actual observation, he was satisfied that the power of inflicting it should remain, because he was satisfied unit the terror it im posed prevented the commission of many offences. Colonel DILLON thought that Colonial Service might be advantageously substituted in the place of finning. - . Mr. BROUGHAM raid, that he never meant that if flogging was abolished, no punishment at all should be silbstituted in its place. lie never meant to hold out such a bribe to mutiny and disorder r—' rar from it. It was not the degree, but the kind of ; amity he reprobated. For instance, instead of run ring the risk of brotaliiing a whole regiment, by siiinessing the spectacle of a wretch gradually sinking under the tedious torture of a thousand lashes, who hid been guilty of mutiny, he would shoot him at ante. And as for crimes not worthy of death, could there not be devised a variety of ways of punishing a soldier, even upon actual service ? He had been ac cused of speaking against this odious systeM, in tertiss of unwanantable invective. His language might have been too str ong for the delicacy of some gentle men ; but had it been stronger, it must have been aid weak to express his abhorrence of this mode of punishment. But the Honourable and Learned Gen tleman Lad lamented the general animadversions Without doors, that had been made upon this system. And whit was the answer the Learned Gentleman himself gave to his own lamentations ? Why, that in the last year this barbarous practice had decreased to eight within'the whole year, and hut one of those in flicted. Now (said Mr. - Brougham), I contend that this is a dist:nctly deducible consequence from those very animadversions. (Hear, hear.) The press with. out called the attention of ea public to, and fixed it immovably upon, this flagrant si stem of punishment. The public feeling had at length, as it always must hive, sooner or later, its influence within these walls; :end accordin g ly t h e first step towards the utter abo lition of this callous punishment was made in the in troduction of the clause of last year into the Mutiny Bill. Such, Sir, was the work of a free press ; rind I cannot but sincerely lament that those who were bold and honest enough to begin this battle in the cause. of humanity-stliat those who fought the good fight, and won an inestimable victory in that great cause-_drat Mr. Cobbett and Mr: . Drakard shou!ci now be immured within a prison. Gentlemen smile, no doubt with disdain, at the guilty familiarity of Citing heft re bait grave authority indivitloals com paratively so obscure. I a:Wit them to be so ; and all I wish those Gentlemen is, that their zeal for truth and their country May never place them where less prudential patiotism has placed their less fortu nate fellow.subjects---ta laugh). I say, ther.elore, that the animadversions of an honest press have pro dated this changt in the practice of military flogging, u) triumph a n t ly st a te d by t h e Learned. Judge 4 1 i.dv0,. sate; and that the - Legislature had been obliged; with respect to this question, to act upon the very rinciples of Mr. Cobbett, who is now in gaol for Ins unseasonable declaration of thein. It is now, I rejoice 1 " findi in the hands of my Worthy Friend, the Mem ber fcr Westminster (Sir Francis Burdett), and backed by his talents, it would be criminal to despair of its ultimate success. _Mr. MANNERS SUTTON sa id, th at , w h atever lot merits of Mr. Cobbett or Mr. Drakard mig ht be, 11 vas persuaded that the diminution of corporal pu nishments in the army, within the last twelve months, Ptooectled more from the Officers who sat upon the C ourts-Martial, than from those two Gentlemen. Sir GEORGE WA RRANDER supported What ildfallen from the last Gentleman', and telt surprised tat the names cf Cobb et t an d Dr a k ar d should be umeuced upon the subiect. Lord PA I.IsIE RSTON was gljid that the Ltained r _ osetierna n did not wish to' abolish the present mode O f Ptinishrtient entirely ' • but the mode of punishment ti a la hi t cl o i f he wished to se e, in some cast s, substituted, transportation inte military service in the Co -61, esi could have -no good effect; for what good ciao b e . . expected from a regiment formed entirely of tnen,discharg e d f or i n i sCo nd uct Mother regiments. General TARLETON said, he. felt the greatest te frorn stectbor th e L earne d G ent l eman b e hi n d hi m , b ut , iita; h is oWn experience of thirty-six years in the mi- Y s ervice, lie was persuaded, that corporal punish tent could not be entirely abolishid in it.-.(Hear, • • hear!)—The best reginlents now in the Service, had been brought to what they are by that means, which was surely more lenient than having recour s e to shoot ing.—(ileart hear, hear.)—But, it ought to he ob served, that in every corps, the number of punish ments. would diminish in proportion to the periods which regiments had been embodied. In the British army, which was the best disciplined in the world, flogging had been always practised with the concur. • rence of our best officers, who were, from their pro. fession, much better capable of judging, and as do sirous of doing what might improve the soldiers, as Mr. Drakard or , Mr. Cobbett.- . - ( Mar, hear.) Lord PALMERSTON brought up a clause, miting the nntnber of Officers sitting on a Court Martial nut of his Majesty's dominions, from 13 to •,.-vert. 'the reason of introducing this clause he stated to he, that in l e oni Welington's army four 'emirs M gal were always sitting, am as seventeen. • t.! Officeis we!, ordered to attend each Court, to pre vent any deficiency in the legal number of thirteen, from fifty to sixty Officers'were thereby always with- I drawn from other services. Ail the clauses were then gone through and read, land the Report ordered to be received oti Monday. THE EVEN itic, sTAit. • LONDON. ATURDAY, MARCH/. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Ct. cons. for money GOBS—Do. for acc. 601 sperCt.9O4Y—Bondsl6s. lis.l r. Ezell. Bills (Stl.) Ss. pre.—Ditto Md.) Se. 6s. pre. The EMMELINE has arrived at Falmouth, from Montevideo, after a passage of 100 days. By her we learn, that almost iinrnediately after arranging the differences with the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres, El" the Governor of Montevideo, embarked on board a frigate for Old gpaino with a view to obtain instructions how to act. We have no doubt that the result of his mission will be favourable to the recipro cal interest of the Colonies and of the Mother Coun. try.—Ecao is considered as being also warmly at tached to British interests. By the Eliza packet, the arrival of which from America we stated yesterday, we have received some additional intelligence of considerable importance, in a commercial point of view. The apprehensions of war between the two countries had so completely sub sided, and so confident wefe the holies entertained of the ultimate passing of the partial Importation Bill, that from 35 to 40 dollars per month were offered to seamen for the Merchant service, and the ship-owners of New Yotk *ere hi daily expectation of being per , mined to send cargoes to Europe. Even the language of Congress is altered, and the large majorities by which all the warlike resolutions were cartivd, have dwindled to a mere handful. The following short extracts from the proceedings of the House of Repre• Iseatatives will prove this fact : " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FEB. 1. " Mr. BIOELOW, of the Committee appointed to wait on the President with the Resolution adopted by the House on Thursday, requesting a statement of the captures and condemnations by foreign nations, reporte,ll that the Committee had performed that duty, and had received f„r answer that the subject would meet due attention. " The Bill tOr arming and classing the militia was considered. Mr. WIDGERY, after some remarks in opposition to the Bill, moved that it be indefinitely postponed. Motion lost-16 to 53. " Mr. CONDIT moved to amend by appropriating 200,000 dollars, instead of 400,000 dollars. Amend ment carried withottt a division. " The Dill making appropriaton for the support of Government for the year 1812, was considered in Committee of the whole, Mr. MACON in the Chair. The blanks were filled by Mr. BACON, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. The Committee of the whole rose, and Repor ted the Bill with amendments. The House ordered its engrossment for a thrd reading on Monday, and then adiOurneli 4.—The House resumed the consideration lof the unfinished business of yesterday—shall the BM for Ar:ning and Classifying the Militia of the United States be engrossed for a third reading ? Mesirs.l3lGELow; MOsELY, RHEA, and Stunuts spoke against the engrossment. " Mr. &mon, after having alluded to the nu merous defects in the different Sections, which had been pointed oiit to the House, observing, it would not be for the reputation of Congress to pass it in its present form, even it the principle should be approved, moved a recommitment of the Bill to the same Com mhtee who brought it in. as Mr. HARPER then proposed an amendment to the motion—And that said Committee be instructed to report two Bills—One for classifying and one for arm- 1 ing the ; which Mr. STURGES accepted and 4 auopted, as a modification of his motion. Messrs. SiUtieES, POTTER, RIIEA, GllOLsOsl, and WIDGERY spoke in favour, and Messrs. WILLIAM, &SUM, LITTLE, and MacaN against the motion for recom mitment, which wai negatived. The question of en grossment then recurred—the ayes and noel being taken, it passed in the affirmative—ayes 62—noes 59 —and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-motrow, The House resolved itself into a Corn ! imittee cf the svhole, on a Bin to empower the Presi- I dent of the United States to mount and equip th e light artillery, a part of the .additional military force to be raised. The Bill went; and ordered to be engrossed fora third rlad• l ing to-morrow. • "The House also iesoleed itself into a Commute of the whole Home on the Bill for making a further', appropriation for the defence (•four maritime frontier. Mr.WigkeiittY in the Chair. The blank in the Bill was tilled with one million dollars, and the Bill re ported to the House, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to morrow. " The House adjourned at three o'clock." ii *Mend- . , . This day a Mail arrived from Lisboribronght y - the Duke of Kent pack.% which left Libbon on the 23J ultimo.—The following were r , ..c.viAt by this conveyance: " LISBON, FEBRUARY 2s: . . 14 Head-qu trters remain at Freynada ; some divi fans of the army hive come into the rear to refit, hi other respects every thing remains in stair fro." EtTRAL* OP AH OPPICIAL DISPATCH PROM LORD WEL• LIR4TOR TO 1Y SHOVEL POEMS, DATED FRILYNAbIi t • ltlest FEBRUARY. •" The American Papers brought by the Etta' 1414 received no details of the movements which packet, furnish us with acceounts from the Hawn- Gilit4 - atAhbadia has Made from Galicia. I believe nah, to the 17th January. They do not c o n fi r m the ;he intended attacking Astrwaa; but ietited to Vila , intelligence of M IRAN D A ' S success to the extent for- Pines in the beginning of the pre sent month, and . merly .mentioned, and we fear that part of Louth GeneratCahrire, irtti had advanced toßanera, rr. America is still dritined to be the theatre of wat mud tired upon Puetia Sanahria in sionseqUence cf bloodshed. fi n di ng the en emy were in force in Benavente. I eon. EXTRACT OF A LEVTER PROM THE HAVANNAtf, DATill• • dude• that the right of the army of Portugal has JANUARY 16, 1812. matched ftom t smote to Benavente. .* " All is bustle and joy in this town in consequence The detachment of t h e C on d e d e A ma i ante ' s of the arrival of /000 veteran troops from Old Spain ; troops, which occupi e d P ue bl a d e Si n i b r i a when Geo ,;,r.ll Cabrira m a r c hed u p on S amna , has returned Pi' 1,600 to remain at this place, and 5,400 for Vera Cruz. The Ist division arrived on the 13th, and the p ortuga i, i n collective: me of the doestieh bveas i • sigths • remainder yeStdrday. The troops for Mexico sail arrived t L ere iie. again immediately, that is, as soon as the transports fill up their water casks: I have just returned from on board of the 7 and one transport, and was graatli I Amid one variety of rumours ref tin the ^bieti pleased to behold the strict discipline and cleanliness of General 14rtt's ent in the A. le!ter s • we are of the troops ; they are very fine men indeed. The or o.sioioo, upon the authority of the. following rr- Officers, the Etat Major grid Staff are all young men P tract of a letter from Lisboa, that the siege of Ba who have seen much service in the Peninsula, and the dajos has been committed to the gallant General by Staff is competed of excellent materials, in point of , , .„ tne r.ll Or WELLISOTON talents and experience. " FRB. 18.—By die last levers ht n, the " They troops for this plate are landed thin head-quarters of the An d y, we learn that they are, could not arrive kt a better season, as there is no sick 7 not likely to ht immediately changed. but two divi ness at present, and this is also the healthiest season at sions are preparing ti reinforce General HILL with Vera Cruz. the least possible dclay.' . THE ARMY: " We have letters from Vera Cruz to the Ist inst. Otir friend Zanoni writes, that affairs had assumed a most favourable aspect in that kingdom. The ar rival of the above.mentioned 5,400 men at Mexico will insure the perfect tranquillity of that rich cowl try and its frontiers, The insurgents at Caraccas and elsewhere have made a miserable figure in the attempt to establish an independent government of their own, that all sensible people among them see the futility of their efforts, cnd . find at length, that in lien of bettering their situation, they are exposed to all the liorrofs of anarchy and confusion, and menaced with a repetition of the bloody scenes at St. Domingo. Miranda is obserbed with x jealous eye, and is Quite unpopular except among the Mulattos and Negroes, wliow heartt he has had the policy to secure. His wavering poli tics, which have made him by turns every thing but a Spaniard ; and Jtcobinical principles imbibed at the clubs in Paris, during the revolution, do not by any means endear him to his countrymen of the Main. " This island continues to enjoy trawl:l;ll4y and abund•ince. Our trade, considering the embarrassed .situati6n of commerce in general is brig. Provisins have risen in conseepience of the arrival of the two convoys. A cargo of flour, at this moment, would command A good price. Brandies and wine will also answer very well." • Detachments (tormisting in the *hole cf about . 220 n.cn) arc now on their way from Scotland for embarkation, to join their regiments in Portugal—.- the 26t14.79th, and 92d. NjYAL th7ELLIGENCE. LLOTIA corrga-nouna. fusel t A General Meeting of the Subscribers svil be held st tits Merchant Scaruens' Office, over the Royal Ezclungeoss . Meat Ni:x - r, the isth instant, at Ts,. lye o'clock prycfsciy, to alibi lore soosideration the propriety of alowlng the Widow., aaJ of the Officers and men, belonging to tilt Majesty's lake runlitle I.a NCI', of 12 guns and .50 oleo, to partici; a e in the .tabserfp tion u^ty raisiftp, that vessel haying belonged to be same coo. vey, sad lost as the sane thee. Taoasas Isecusou, Sc.e faii.T. MARCH A (Caine in his thifittes *hip FAVOrnfTP, from a cruise; . CRASS slocp of war, .with a convoy, from Portsmouth, for Gith ; and Neptune terrier, fruit Plymouth, for Dublin.. • PITMOUItat; MARCH S. Arrivtd lit FANCY cutter,. from Quaxioillialr Went oat of harbour to the Sound the' MywiLe. of 18 guns. • poarsitotrrq u ityMedu a. No arrivals.--S tiled his' majesty's slits RovaLtfri for the Downs (ZIPSITR, on a crui se; a n the FERRET, for the Downs and Leidt. Dropt Jcara to Sr. Helens the FlautlAnn frigate.— The ship lonry Wellesley; bound to the Isle at France, has come in ItYky, haw inc; been on shore between Gravesend and the-Downs. DEAL. MARCH tt. • Arrived his Majesty's ships CADMIN, Yor.acst, and I Fenner; from different mazes. Came down from , the River the Bombay East Indiaman, and two shipi An Anholt Mail arrived at a late hour last niaht, h bound to Jamaica. PM' back the Lev a nt, af t e r b e i n g, with intelligence of an interesting d sees lion. The nut four days.—Wind N. W. Swedish GoVernment has published an Official ac- YARMOUTH; MARCH-6. • count of the recent occurrences in Pomerania, but it This morning as a large fleet of ladett collier was is so artfully draun up, that we are fealty at a loss to) working through-these Roads, one (a brig) d r . ae ... n the Cross-sand off this port, and when got of sunk in guess whether it be intended to rouse the eneraics deep -water, the crew were saved by pilot-boat, be- Sweden against France, or to gloss over the atrocious ing in attendance ; and a collier brig, laden, Lot ott conduct of the latter, in furtherance Of some deep de- th e Horne-sand and sunk shortly after, the carw were signs, which, for ought we know, may be in mutual , saved by a boat from the shore ; but as nei , her of contemplation between Beatuzsorte and his late the crews are yet landed cannot get part cu ars.— Master. All the ptivate letters, howeter, front Swe- Ships of war remain as per last.—V4 lad ta. W. den, concur in asserting, that BanNa oorr Yesterday a full Cabinet Cotincil w a s hal.' at the is steadfast ! in Ws attachment to Sweden. In the mean time, he Foreign Office, when it was fingl y Fettled that Lord• has received every possibla provocation to declare MELVILLE is to be thb Fitst Lord tif elle Admiralty. war. Under ptetext of the French Decrees prahibitino I The Marquis of HERTFORD was appoint e d yester e' . commercial intercourse' with Great Britain, some of day to the office of Lord Chamberla i n by hi s Hi g h. nese the Reorirr, a:.d received the staff of office. the principal Merchants of Sweden have been ar i he Earl of YARMOUTH is to be Vice-Ch am b er l a i n . Tested. Heavy contributions ate imposedupon the The Earl of DARNLEY has been offeted the place Swedish subjects in Pomerania. The French pay for of Groom of the Stole, and has refused it. The statement respecting the resignation of Mr. none of the supplies which they obtain for their troops. I R. WELLasoav was erroneous. —All the Swedish vessels and packets, found at Stral-I The Marquis of HERTIttiRD has appointed his ne sund, have been converted to the use of the French, phew, Colonel Sevasoux, to be Serjeant at Arms, at the Swedish flag hauled down, and that of France place worth near stSOOO alear. 1 1 ,iated in its stead : and, lastly, the French Consul A Messenger left Town yesterday fo r C a di z , en d at Stralsund having been charged with conniving at carried with him a Red M Ribbon to. r. ilexar Wet the introduction of British merchandize into Samdish i l-mar, our Ambassador in Spain, as a mark of th e Paiscca Rimearr's approbation of his services. Th e Pomerania, has been arrested. The French found Messenger is also hewer of a splendid star and badge, which the Marquis WiLLESLEY sends out as a pr e sent about 100,000 dollars, belonging to the Swedish Government, at Sttalsund. The Swedes are alsdsaid to his brother. Tables of the Rates Upon which GoveinMent are to be treated with the greatest personal contempt by granting Life Annuitie s ; i n exc h a n ge f or s t 3 per C ent. Stock, are distributed gratis at the Office in Bank their invaders, wherever they meet with them.— Froth all these circumstances, the letters infer, that street. These Annuities'. cannot ba purchased when the Swedish Government cannot but undertake the the £'3 per Cents. are S e l o * 60. duty of avenaing its injuries. Indeed if it does not, Dublin Papers of W e d ne sd ay l ast were rece i ved . '', town this morning. By t h ese we learn, that the we must be allowed to suspect that there is something Catho li c Board a cv occu pied all that day in ballot rotten in the Cabinet of Stockholm. Nothing farther ing for twenty.one Members, to be Leasers of the Is heard of the French troops having taken possession Address to his Royti Highness the Plitses Recreurf a considerable competition prevailed on the oc ca sion. of the Prussian dothinions, and the escape cf • s uccessful Candidate s are , not ye t kn ow n. Th e Prussian Majesty to Russia : but it is now said, that The s . Board is formed of the same individuals who consti tuted the General Committee ; of cou r se t h e 21 lAlt BONAPARTE has called upon the Prussian Govern ment for its quota of troops, in aid of his intended legates from that Delegation, chosen for the purpoeff *at against Russia. We hear of nothing new from of Addreating the Prince. may, with much i iluetitit be ed as the /ra caiti: St. Petersburgh, except the calling out of the levy rag e r flden: The A high depositaries of Cat in reet.lved tika some time ago.ddress, of which they are the bias. 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