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ti r ih pall of theiesolutions, wduld not be dispatch •'M &no? with the whole; and it stoidd therefore be Thit the Report should be brought up so *arty as was contemplated by the Noble Lord (Cat- The SPEAKER suggested the prdpriety of lea,. tc ,e .hc last Resolution for the consideration of a fu. d a y, which would obviate this difficulty. WriTIONS UPON THE DISTRESSED STATE OF TRADE. 'll3c House then formed into a Committee on the Drders in Council, to examine Witnesses, when Mr. Thomas Leech and Mt. Deighton, Hosiers, from L e i,. e i ter ; Mr. Thomas Short, from Tukley, in , Lane ~,h:re and Mr. John Park, of Warwick, also Ho ; ilfr. William Midgley, from Rochdale, Manufacturer; and Mr. William Walker, in the same trade in Hoxton, in Lanca. s hut. were exAmined, principally by Mr. BROUGHAM, Mn Ross, Mr. STEPHEN, Mr. BARING, Mr. C. AWNS, and Mr. BROGDON. Adjourned at twelve o'clock. MURDER OF MR. PERCEVAL. This day the Members of both Houses of Parlia ment proceeded to Carlton House, the Lords at two, and the Commons at three,with their respective A d dresses on the melancholy occasion of the ever to be lamented face of Mr. PERCEVAL. The scene was of course of the most solemn and impressive descrip tion ; but the Public will derive some consolation from theconsideration, that in Parliament a conflict of generous feeling only isk:isplayeck on this most afflicting occasion. On, the Message of the Pancce raorci being taken into consideration last night, it Was proposed that the sum 0fZ50,600 should be given to the family of the deceased, and in addition an annuity of £2OOO per annum to Mrs. PERCLVAL, to commence from the day of her husband's death.- 111 s. H. SUSINTER "moved to continue the annuity to Mr. PERCEVAL'S heir after the death of Mrs. PERCE VAL ; which amendment was in the end carried by a great majority. Disposed as weare at all timesto view with a jealous eye the expenditure of public money, there is no occa sion on which we call more sincerely congratulate the countrythan on the wise and liberal spirit in which thi s Parliamentary grant has been voted. Butwe ought not to pass from the subject without taking the oppor. tunity of shewing the absurdity of Sinecures and Re versions being permitted in future. Has there ever been an instance, we would ask, in which a British Parliament his refused to concur pith the Sovereign in rewarding meritorious services? for what purposes then, but for those of rewarding Ministerial Dependents, or in other words, for those of corruption in all its baneful ramifications, can a Minister seek to retain the odious power of granting sinecures and reversions? The handsome provision made by Parliament for Mr. PERCEVAL'S family, proves, we presume to hope, that the great reversion of the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, which has how become vacant, will not be again filled up. It has long been admitted by all parties, both in and out of Parliament, to be an useless office ; and in the present instance its emoluments have not re lieved the country from the duty of making a provision for the surviving relatives of a deserving individual who has just expired in its service. —Let the income arming from this Office in future, therefote, be -ransferrcd to the public purse. • Mi- I nisters %might to come before Parlianfs•nt with a fair and nialily ,;:hen they with to reward public services—but let us hear no more of the Chancellor ship of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Sheriffs, accompanied by several other Gen tlemen, visited Mr. Bellingham yesterday morning, and found him nearly in the same state of mind as the day preceding ; but on entering into conversa tion with him respecting the melancholy l subject of 'Mr. Perceval' s assass i nat i on , h e became less tran quil, persisted in vindicating the act, and said, when his trial value before a Jury of his countrymen, it would then be determined how far a Minister was justified in refusing justice to an injured iadividt al. Had he shot Mr. Perceval from peisonal malice he should .have been worse than a brute. It was the Minister, and not the man, that led him to commit the deed. He further declared, that had he a mil lion of lives to lose, they would not prevent him from pursuing his object in-the sirne way. Mr. Rome, his Solicitor, had been with him. for two' ' hours to receive instructions, preparatory to the trial, which is set down for to-marrow, and he expresses a wish N hare Mr. 13nm:waist and Mr. ALLEY, aiel Counsel. He does not converse freely with the corn. mon turnkeys. but has no objection to talk with others. Peison, named Fidler, an old school-fellow, called upon him and wit most cordially received upon being recognised, hut did not remain knger than While the turnkey staid. He has received some of the articles tentioned in his letter to Mrs. Roberts, together with a Prayer-b oo k, which he occasionally looks into, par ticularly the Psalms. Every attention is paid to his "Wort ; but no newspapers are allowed into his it'ora, and two persons, as from the beginning, are can stantly w i t h him. Whenever his trial is men tioned, he declares iris confidence of acquittal, if Justice be done ; .and,' what is not very customary, Mr. LITCHFIELD, the Solicitor for the Treasury, has personally intimated to him, that his. trial is to come on to.morrow. He was not diware that it could be brought on so soon ; and having sent to the country for sonic papers which he considers necessary for his LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY 14. PRICE OF STOCKS 11-11 i DAY Al' ONE O . CLOCIL: 3 per Ct. Cons. for money 6I—Do. act. Glt 51 ' S per Ct. Reduced 631--4 per Cent. 741 6 per Ct. 911i—Scrip pre.—Long Anna. 151 7-1611ta Exch. Bills par Is. (31.1.) pr.—Bun par Is. pr. Nothing is as yet known, with any kind of cer tainty, as to the Ministerial arrangements that will be rendered neCessarAy the death of Mr. PERCIIVAL. The reports are various, and we can only mention reports.—The following names and places have been handed about :—Earl LIVERPOOL, First Lord of the Treasury; Marquis WELLESLEY and Mr. CANNING, Foreign Secretaria • of State ; Lord HOLLAND, Home Deirariment; Mr. Hus lasso/4, Chancellor o ftheExeherier; Earl MOIRA, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Another reportstates, that it is probable that Earl BATHURST may be appointed First Lord of the Trea sury, and that Mr. Anaorr, the Speaker, will be called to the situation of Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the interim, it. is said that Lord CASTLZRZA *ill conduct the ordinary business in the House of Cominons, and that Mr. VANSITTART will attend to the Financial department. On this business there was a Cabinet Council this day, which sat till one o'clock t but nothing was suf feed to transpire. That NAPOLEON has tor some time been prepared to take his departure from Parii for his army in the North has been confirmed by all the accounts lately received from Paris, and was very generally inferred from the circumstance of his having, as on precious occasions, sent a flag of truce to this country. This event, we are now assured, has actually taken place. So long ago as the - sth instant be set off for Dresden, and the letter which furnishes this important infor. mation adds, “ Now, indeed, may you expect to hear of truly luteros4os ovate' defence, he means to apply to pnt-off his trial till Monday di Tuesday, if Mete papers should not ar ;rive in time. With respect 'to the manna in which Bellingham passed the previous part of the day un which he com mitted the murder, he states, that lie went with a Lady to the European Museum, where he was detain ed till past four o'clock. He parted from the Lady at the extremity of Stdney's-alley, and went down im mediately to the House of Commons without having dined, and with his pistols loaded. He was so anxious not to be disappointed by the failure of his weapon, that, after he had bought his pistols, for which he gave four guineas, he went to Piimrose•hiil to try bow they would go off, and, when he had ascertained their efficacy, loaded them for his purpose. Bellingham had been long meditating this murder, and has been in the habit of attending the Gallery of the House of Commons, where he generally took his station at the door which commands a view of the Treasury Bench. The Gentlemen who usually at tend the Gallery, recollect him frequently standing in this position, viewing the Ministers who occupy the bench through his opera -glass, and inquiring their names,•evidently for the purpose of accurately ascer taining their persons. On a question being put to him on Monday night in the lobby, by Sir Wtwass CURTIS, relative to Mr. PERCEVAL'S assassination, he coolly answered— ! " I have been fourteen days in making my mind up I to the deed, but never could accomplish it until this moment." Se states that he drew the pistol from his right-hand breeches-pocket. He has made par ticular inquiry of the keeper as to what direction the ball took. Being asked if there was any other per son close to him when he fired, or beween him and Mr. PERCEVAL, he replied there was none, or he should have been fearful of firing. The preparations for the interment of, Mr. Pence- VAL, in a private manner, are said to be already in a state of forwardness. The leaden coffin was prepared at Greenwich on Tuesday; an Undertaker at that place has received directions from Lady WILSON (Mrs. PERCEVAL'S mother) to superintend the aCCUS lomed duties of the funeral. Asa mark of respect to the deceased Mr. pERCEVAL, we perceive that many respectable persons have already cloathed th&ttselves in mourning. The House of Commons, on Tuesday, presented one of the most novel as well as one of the most so lemnly impressive scenes that the imagination can conceive. Every seat, both in the body and in the galleries of the House, was crowded to excess. Cn the entrance of the SPEAKER all arose, and with heads uncovered, received him in the most profound silence. They remained standing until the Chaplaiti was called, and on the commencement of pray ers, they all knelt and seemed to joins ith let vent devotion in the ceremony. It is computed that there were upwards of 450 members present, a number far exceedinrany that has ever been witnessed previous to the chair being taken. This day, at one o'clock, the Grand Jury of 4 Mid dlesex found a true Bill 'against JOHN BELLINGHAM for the WILFUL MURDER of Mr. PERCIVAL. It is uaderstood, however, that although he will be ar raigned to morrow morning at the Old Bailey, tht: trial willbe put off on the motion of his Counsel, on the grOund of his friends at Liverpool not having been informed of his situation. [For Bei.i.ineHAst . S Memorial, as presented to his Majesty's Ministers, see the last Page.] THE EVENING STAR. Aivttßiek. By several artivals at Liverpool fromAmeriii,•Ve have received New. York Papers to the 6th of April, and Letters to the 7th, being the day on which the last vessel sailed. The comniunicaaous from Wash ington are of the 4th April. We have already stated, that the attitude assumed by the American Govern ment was warlike, although Mr. FOSTER had, in a most spirited manner, solemnly disavowed en the part of Great Britain all participation in Htsay's Conspiracy. Mr. FOSTER has also, in an equally firm manner, informed the American Ministry, that should Congress pass a law, Authorising merchant vessels to arm for the purpose of resisting the right Of search, it would be considered a Declaration of War, and his functions, as British Minister, would from that moment cease. It is evident that the Ameiican Ministers must have been Staggered by Mr. FOSTER'S declaration, for three Cabinet Councils were held in succession on the three following days, and a itubour was im immediately circulated, that Commissioners were about to proceed to this Country, as a last effort at obtaining,peace. Mr. BAYARD, a most respectable Member of the Senate, and Judge LIVINGSTON, of New York, are said to be nominated as two of the Commissioners. Since the passing of the Embargo Act, Congress have continued to deliberate with closed doors, and of course the precise n.tture of their subsequent re solutions hits not transpired.. It may be fairly con jectured, however, that they have not been rash enough to hazard a positive declaration of war--the Embargo being a very good temperiting substitute in the harts of the Democrats. To this we have to add, that Mr. FosrErt is daily sren in familiar and close conversation with Mr. NlanotsoN, at his levees. In the mean time the greatest consternation has been occasioned by the Embargo at New York.— Flour has experienced a temporary rise, and 53 ves sels were instantly put in requisition to convey it to Europe before the commencement of the operation of the act. The New \fur!: politicians have been thrown into a state of complete despondency. . The flour trade was the only branch of cor.merce which the Americans had left, and the agricult..re of the country was daily improving in conseque;:ce. The farmer will of course no longer have a market at which to dispose of his produce. It is true that the British arntit•s in the Peninsula may also suffer from a perseverance in the Embargo, but, from the letters we have seen from America on the huh jec t, we have no doubt that the measure, if continued, will produce incalculably greater mischiefs across the Atlantic than it can effect in Europe, and tse may once more hazard an opinion often risQued by all those Ameri cans Of sound ju fgment with whom we have con versed, that the United States will not go to war with Great 13tit.,in. The language of the Nationel Intl/Armen Which may be regarded as the organ of the American Go vetnnient,.is, of course, severe against this country. The Editor founds his complaint; however, not so much upon HENRY'S affair as upon the declarations in Parliament, by the British Ministers, that the Or ders in Council are to be persevered in, and he sedu lously copies some stupid declamatory articles from some of the vilest party prints in this country on the subject of these Orders, telling his Readers, at the same time, that they speak the sentiments of the peo ple.of this country !—Risum km*: amice In addition to the particulars which we have giveh above, and which have been collected, from the best possible sources, we subjoin the followin4 letter from some most intelligent sorrespondents at Liver pool " LIVERPOOL, MAY 12. Aititt We have great pleasure in skating. that denttiti Km., the hero to whom irt are indebted in a great measure for the capture of Badajns, is Treading Of his wounds ; and that General WALEER, another az cellent officer, who entered the town on the left, Is out of all danger. The 91st Ragimeiii fame marched frooi Canter. bury to C h atham. The Tipperary Militia are Rode from s ,Chatham to Dover, and the 3d Lancashire Militia from Dover to Cabterbttrr.---.The 94 batta lion of the 71st are to march from Ospringe to Dsal to-morrow, and the Westmeath Militia from Deal% Ramigate on Saturday. 44 Several, ships have arrived here to-day, which bring intelligence that an Embargo has been laid on all the ports in the United States. 4# As far as I can learn, the Magdalee, from New York, was t:ie latest of them that left America ; she sailed on the 7th April, the day on which the Em bargo was to commence. The Orbit, another that arrived to-day, is not nea r f u ll, and w h at cargo she has, was put on bbard in the River, some distance below New-York. Indeed, the whole of them must have dome off very suddenly, ai they have brought almost no lettet-s. Nelif.fL INTELLIGENCR. EAST 116:bIA SHIPPING. The undermentioned ships- arrived 'off Wetiskinits at one o'clock on Tuesday morning, underbonvoy of his Majesty's ship INDETATIGABLL The Faller' the ships.lnglis, Ann, and Perseversnce Untied there: The Henry Addington, Essex, Cumberland, Pa severance, Marquis of Ely, Charles Grant, Ceres, Warley, Warren Hastings, Lowther Castle, inglis, and Balcarras, left China 12th .14nuary, arrive :I at St. Helena about 20th Mtrch ; left St. Helena 2Sth March. The Carnatic, Metcalfe, Rose, Marchioness of Exeter, Union, and Castle Eden, 11-ons Bengal, left their pants 19th December 'act. arrived at St. H elena 4th March, and sailed the I6th, under convoy of the MINDEN and Acas-rA men of war. The Taunton Castle, tior, Ptincess Amelia, and g Al i r afi al i m n e g r a Ca j siic anu , ar le y f t t in China; arrived there the be . 1. The following shipi Were left at Bengal the 'lsth December, - 181 Europe, Streatham, Devon. shire, Baring. Lord M4Ville, Ocean, Devaynes, Ge 'twill Stuart, Sit Wm. Iwulteney, and Uui tniPheenir. lereiton, Hugh Inglis. William /rat. Huddart, and Northumberland, fromfava I Lady Castlereagh , Canine4o, Warren Hastings.-Surrey, Casnbridge. James Daiid Scott, Waltham stow, Lord Forbes; Retreat, Harlestoni and Lady Lushington ; Denier Castle and Martinis or V.'cliesiey, from Ceylon. The Dorsetshire and Sc-deby Castle had been sent from 134ithbay to Java, and had arrived there. ' A letter hts been xceives! from Captain DOYA L SON, of the Neptune, dated the 29th January last, ,lat. 15. 24° N. long. 27. L'. W. advising that the ,Neptune, Arniston. Royal Charlotte, and Courts had Palled cotinsany front the Thaw.; and Tigrii 4 the atter ships were consigned to St. Helena. 'file Thames arrived at St. Helena the 20th Mech. The Tigris pitted company from the Thanes on the 28th January near the C tpe de Verde Isl nds, and ' had not arrived at St. Helena the 27th Wish, but was hourly expected; FALmotiTi4, MAY to This morning the fallowing ships put into this port by ecintrary wind, under convoy of his Majesty's ship MONTAGUE, of 74 guns, Admiral Dixon iais the Princeis Charlotte of Wales, Thomas Gitrnv 11a Broxbourninny, Sir Godfrey Webster, Apollo ; and the Lord Duncan East-Indiamen. PLYMOUTH, MAY M. Sailed the Cowsriur, for Basque Roads t Aunott cutter, for the Brest station ; ACHATtS, 18 grins; on a cruize. The Omni, of 98 guns, and MioNtrrottztr and NORTHUMBERLAND, of 74 guns eath, detained hs harbour there nine days by contrary winds, this day passed from liamoaze to Cawsand Bay.— Arrived the American schooner Arrow, and the American ship Tantivy, both from France, and detained by his r Majesty's ship A ftMIDE ; the American ship Eprripe ; with timber; the Concord, TAYLOR, from Teneriffe t in 31 days ; Castor American ship, frOrn. Washing ton ; and the Princess Caroline, from the Brazils.— Sailed the Monos gun-brig to the Eastward.—Wind North-Westk PORTSMOUTH, MAY )9. - Arrived his Majesty's ships Menstato and COll3lO. RAN? with a fleet for Lisbon.—Wind Southerly. • DOVER MAY I& • A trench , row-boat privateer, with 29 men, was taken by the DECOY cutter, off Dungeness, andr sent in here; she is lugger-rigged. The ctptain of her was shot. We fear those vessels will do us Much mischief this suntmer, as there is no comistg up with them, and are only to be taken by surpiize. . DEAL, MAY 12. Arrived his Majesty's ship JASPER, with * convoy for Oporto, which are sailed for the Rivet; the Fox. novsn sloop of war, from Plymouth.—Sailed bis Majesty's ship ABOUKIR, Rear-Admiral MARTIN, to join Admiral Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ in the Baltic...-. Came down from the River the Fairlic and Earl Howe, for Bengal ; and his Majesty's ship Nemesis, from Sheerness, and remain, &c. as per last. MAY 13.—Arrived several West Indiamen from the Westward, and are sailed for the River.—Wind South-west. FLEET OFF TOULON. EXTRACT OF A LETTER ERONI AN OFFICER OF ?RR CALEDONIA. " Off "Tilton, 15th April. le We spent a good part of the winter in Mahon Harbour, and sailed from thence on theJst of ApriL It is exceedingly tedious to be constantly cruising ' I here in front of an enemy wh o , w i t h t h e same pum -11 a LIVERPOOL, MAY It. 1 ber of ships (16 sail of th e li ne) fight: to sky o f „,. . An Act lbe laying an Emba r g o h a d p asse d t h e Solnetimes they come o u t an d sp l as h t h e water about : lAwer House by a majority of twenty-one, and there when we have made a good offing, but run like geese as soon as eve dash at th e m an d c h ace t h em, under was no doubt it would pas t h e S enate an d r ece i ve Tom their batteries, which a r e warm ones an d numerous. the signature of the Preside n t.' I n d ee d, t h e Hazard, an American ship, h a s arr i ve d h ere , which When we left Engl a nd we expecte d to b e out for three years, but it is re p orte d t h at we shall come left New-York on the Bth March, and she reports, home at the end of this summer to be docked. A that a boat was sent down to the Hook, off which great many of our men have been drafted into dif. t she was, to inform her that an e m b a r go hid ac t ua llyerent ships since we l e ft En g l an d. W e have as fine a fleet here as ever England sent to sea, and in the taken place, and that the Coll ec to r of the po r t o f day of trial it will be lad to be a feet :hat will do its duty." New-York had received order s to put it in fo r ce o n , , the 7th ult." / - 44 Its Majesty's Ship Keit, art Toulon, I*b Apell. The French Minister to-the United States at thel is we are now with the fleet, 'but lam afraid we time the embargo was laid, caused it to be publicly shall not get the Frenchmen to venture, out. On the ' - . e made known, that all vessels dis c overed to be bound 10th instant we had a dreadful fire on board fin is sh to England would be bur n t by the cruizers of France i p ; ha pp il y , b y great exertions , we succeeded l eitinguishang the flames. It was a dreadful ',erne --thus admitting that the Berlin and Milan /hates I cannot bear to think upon it. I would rather go are warepsalod. 1 i m p so bundred actions dams be is a skip oo fire. There are at pfesent signals hohted for several More ships being in sight, which will be round to morrow, aad most probably we shall have further accounts by them."