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-. • - P4RLIAMENTART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, DECEMBER 10. The House met at ten o'clOck. in the morning. In the Appeal " Lord Seaforth v. Hume," Mr. Array, jun. was heard for the Respondent, and Mr. Anita( in reply.--Judg ment deferred. In the Appeal a the Lord Advocate v. Mac kende," Mr. ADAM was lurther heard, and judgment fixed for Monday. In the Appeal " Duff tr. the Magistrates of Inverness," judgment was partly reversed and partly remitted to the Court of Session. In an Appeal from the Court of Session in Scotland, " Stuart v. Booth," Sir 3. ROMILLT and Mr. Baouon•Se were beard for the Appellant.—Further hearing on Monday. In the Appeal„ " The Duke of Queensberry v. the Earl of Wemyss," after some observarions from Lord RIIDLSDALE, judgment was fr rt her postponed. •. The Loyal Auent was notified by commission to the Exche quer Bills Bifl , the Scots Salt Bill, the Ninthly Bill, the Local Militia Bill, the Militia Amendment Bill, the Insolvent Debtors Amendnient Bill, the Madder Bill, the Watch and Ward Bill, and two private Bills. T:le Commissioners were the .I.oato CSANCILLOI ) Lord WALSSNOUA't, and Lord REoesowt.e. The temporary Insolvent Debtose Dia wail returned from the Commons by Mr. Holt NCa and other Members, with Amend ments, to which they desired their Lordships' concurrence. The amendments were afterwards agreed to. Lord HOLLAND presented a Psitition from certain Debtors confined in the Xing . ..s Bench prison, praying for speedy relief, and complaining of some of the reg ulations of the prison.—Or dered to lie on the table. The East ludia Trade Bill, the Bast India Trade Shipping Bill, a Private and a Loyal Bill, were brought up from the Commons by Mr. COURTENAT, Mr. •FOWNSIIIND, Mr. BENSON, and other Members, and read a first time. The Irish Illicit Distillation Bill, the London Militia Enlist ment 13il1, the British find Irish Spirits Interchange Sospension !till, the Irish Peace Preservation Bill, the Sun Flrelnsurande Bill, the Sun Life Insurance Bill, the Dorset-square, Bryansten synare and Mowague.square• Improvement Bills, were read a second time and committed for Monday. The Royal Ivfarine Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed. The Police Bill and the Brandy Bill passed through Commit tees and were reported. FRAME-BREAKING BILL. The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Frame breaking Bill. Lord HOLLAND observed upon the absurdity of the word ing of the Bill, which stated " that whereas it is expedient to amend and render perpetual the said Act (the former Act), be It therefore enacted, that all the provisions' or the said Act shall cease and determine." Lord REDESDAI.E proposed amendments to obviate this in congruity, by inserting words to the effect, that the former Act should be repealed, and other provitions substituted in lieu thereof. These amendments having been agreed to, Lord HOLLAND expressed his satasfaction at the repeal of the former Act, and that Ministers had found it effectual in put ting down the evil. That it had been so effectual, however, Sivas owing to the activity, the intelligence and zeal of the Cor poration of tie town of Nottingham. He men•ioned this, be cause it would be recollected, that some time since a Bill passed the three branches of the Legislature, for depriving that Corpo tation, to a considerable extent (unjustly, as he contended), of their corporate rights; and if that subject should again come tinder the consideration of the Legis'ature, he trusted the obser vations he had now made would be borne in the memory of their Lordships. The Bill passed through the Committee with the amendments. Report to•morrow.—Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir EGERTON BRYDGES gave Rot ice of a motion soon after the Recess, for the purpose of securing the Copyright of hooks to Authors. Sir JAMES M'INTOSH gave notice, that on the second Wed nesday after the Recess he should move for leave to wend the priv:leges of the Insolvent Debtors' Act to India. Mr. FITZGERALD gave notice of a motion relative to Pre ferments by Grand Julies in Ireland. . _ . • _ . A Meskage was received from the Lords, agreeing to the Royal Marine Mutiny Rill, and to a private Bill. . The House went'into a Committee on the Portimouch Lands Bal. Mr. BENNETT moved east there be laid b.-fore the 'douse an Account of the Orders for the Payment of the Forces in the Peninsula from July,-1812, to the present period, specifying the Arrears now dues—Agreed to. 1 - he French Wine Duty Bin was read a second time and earn• smutted for to-morrow. The Bill for raising Five Millions by Exchequer Blill was read a second time. • ' The Circuitous Trade Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time an Monday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend an Act parted in the present Session, relating to the repeal of duties on Madder. Thi% Act had Veit found insufficient, from the =flit= of an essential word, which was the word " Madder ."-[ A latch • The Bill wix brought up, rt ad a first and Second time, and or 4ered to be committed to-morrow. CROWN LANDS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved Poll:aye to bring in a 13111 tg amend an Act of last session relative 4 0 the Crown Lar , ls. Mr. BA:\ KES did not chject to the motion. It had been ori ginally !mended to raise the money for building the new street on the insurance offices; but it was found that the Commissioners of Crown I.andi had XkiK.,ooo in their bands, and it was thought better to apply this sum; as far as.it would go, to defray the ex pense: of the intended irr provements.• He wated, however, that the Chao liar of the Exchequer had laid Mire the Howie summary s•aternent of the rtla;ich: advantages of the two me. thous of raising the sum, ti:hcr by applica•ion..to the insurance offices, or by coming on the Crown lane,. COPPER cult it ENC Y. Mr. PASCOE GRENFELL rose to . move far certain. Papers relative to the state of the Copper Cur• rency. He had, at the close of the last Session, of , fered some observations on this subject to the House. The information he had since received, and the ob servations he had made in passing through several parts of the country, convinced him that he had not over-rated the incor.veniencies and mischiefs arising from the redundancy of the Copper Coin in circula tion. They were not owing, however, to the redun, dancy of the legal coin, but of the counterfeit half pence and copper tokens, not authorized by the law of the.land. He had made some calculations to shew the mischief arising from the circulation of the coml. terfeit halfpence. It appeared that a pound of real copper was made into seventy-six of these halfpence, which were in value equal to three shillings and two pence. Now a pound of copper was worth only nine teen pence ; so that the profit to the manufacturer 14 as cent. per cent. and for every twenty pounds :loch he disposed of, lie put twenty pounds clear gain into his pocket. The copper tokens were not so debased, ni r the profit so great but there was temp tation enough left to the maker to furce them into Circulation in every way he could. Among ether ratans resorted to, he was informed, by a letter which he had that moment received front a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood of London, that.an oilman, had applied to a manufacturer of these tokens to supply him with soap and candles, and that the latter had consented tt, deal with him, on condition that the tradesman would take his copper token's in payment. Mr. Grenfell thought that these imposi tions were the more lot derable in this country, where there were copper mines producing four times as much copper as all the rest of Europe, and twice as much as all the rest of the world. 'the most effec. tual remedy would be for Government to meet the iisPerise of calling in the old Tower halfpence, and at, the same time to put down the counterfeit halfpence . . and sapper tokens by Act of Parliament. He ton g eluded with moving, " lb; there be la,id before she House copies of a Memorial of the Maaufaererers and Traders, Brewers, and &anted Vlo• molten, addressed to the Committee on the Copper Currency ; and also a Lent? from Jame, Clarke, Esq. to the Members of his Majesty's Council, on the same s ubject." Mr. WHITBREAD seconded the motion. • , The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, lie had been asked last year whether any mea sures were in the contemplation of Government to remedy the abusei. arising from the debasement of the copper currency, and he was now happy to con firm the answer which he had then given. The con sideration of expence would no longer deter them from calling in the Old Tower Halfpence, and the issue of a new coinage would soon make the counter feit halfpence and tokens disappear. He wished the intention of Government to be made as public as possible, as it might prevent persons from incurring considerable loss by the manufacture of copper tokens. Mr. WHITBREAD expressed. his high satisfac tion in the measure which was thus announced to be in the contemplation of Government. The motion for the papers was then agreed to.— Adjourned till to-morrow. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, DECEMBER S. Yesterday, Sunday, Dec. 5, being the anniversary of the Coronation of the Emperor, the Mass was fol lowed by Te Drum, which was performed by Mons. the Baron de la Roche, Bishop of Versailles, first Almoner to his Majesty. There was a grand .u -dience at ,the Palace of the l'huilleries. In the evening the tragedy of Nina: 11. was represented at the Court Theatre ; after the play there *as a circle in the grand apartments. The Palace and the City were illuminated ; the festival of the anniversary of the Coronation had been announced the evening before, and in the morning by discharges of artillery, which were repeated at noon, and at six in the evening. If the greatest happiness that can fall to the lot of a people plunged in anarchy, is to find itself again under a government whose stability secures for ever the rights and properties of the citizens, there is no event the anniversary of which deserves to be cele brated by the French with more lively sentiments of gratitude, than that of the coronation of his Majesty the Emperor and King. It is, dating from this me morable day, that the seeds of discord between the citizens have been destroyed, the revolutionary vol cano extinguished fc 'ever, and that the laws have.l acquired an authority which can no longer be shaken by the rage of faction. What Frenchman, reflecting on the disastrous scenes which have passed before his eyes, when words were without influence, the law without power, pro perty without security—when civil war desolated our fairest provinces, dues not congratulate• himself in living under a Government which maintains public .order, ensures obedience to the laws, and gives to every thing motion and life. Order has riscp from cntifusion ; private interest is now blended with the interest of the whole ; the so cial edifice is new built in all - its parts ; every one knows his rights and his duties, and the wills of in dividuals, the collision of which causes so many evils, are subordinate to one Supreme Will, of which the law is but the expression. To whom do we owe this internal tranquillity, the first benefit of a wise legislation, this security ultich gives so many charms to the social and domestic ths? We owe them to the Gut::rnment which pro. tects all the citizens equally, and watches without ceasing that every individual may labour without fear, and enjoy the fruit of his.labour in peace., A state of war abroad is doubtless at all times bur thensome, it requires Sacrifices—but when the natio nal glory and interest are in que.tion, is there any sacrifice difficult for generous people ? Honour is the fairest possession' of a nation—we have hitherto pre served it with care, and we will transmit it, unim paired, to our children. Dgcniaga 6.—The quintal of sugar, which sold at Frankton a week ago for 50 rig-dollars, has sud denly risen to 81.—The Cossacks having pillaged a great number destined for that city, and coming to it by different roads. PAU, NOVEMBER 27. General Harispe has just entered this town with a strong division of troops coming from Catalonia.— These brave troops, who have grown old under the _banners of victory, have been welcomed with cries ,of 44 Vive l'Empereur" at St. Gaudens, at Tar ber, and on the whole of their route they have been I i received as on a festival ; every one has been eager to provide them with the best lodgings and food. At Pau we have readily followed this example. The arrival of General Harispe, who is at Basque, has excited a noble enthusiasm in this country, and a crowd of volunteers are come to place themselves under his standards to serve the Emperor, and de fend their country and their property. This generous ardour has, no doubt, not a little contributed to the retrograde motion of the enemy,—. 'Almost all his artillery is repassing the Bidassoa. TEXEL, NCI VEM BER 25. Admiral Verhuel, with a respectable form seconds the operations of the other French Generals. WESEL, NOVEMBER 30. -The Prussian Commissioners at Munster claim the payments of the domains sold, which are due or in become due. This order has been posted up i,, all the Communes. When the Allies shall have rid the countries os the right bank of the Rhine of alt the mom►, all the cattle, all the provizians, and levied all the men able to bear arms, they will be well en , tided to call themselves the Deliverer: of Germarl, General Burch has taken the command of Wesel, as Governor. CORCUM, NOVEMBER SS. • Generil Ferino is just arrived in this town, with strong detachment of French infantry. CARLESRUHE, NOVEMBER SS. The garrison of Strasburg make frequent patroles and reconnoisances along the right bank of the Rhine. The Baden post.office which was at Kehl has been removed to Kork. Saxony is treated definitively like a Russian pro vince. It is Baron Roscu, Colonel in the service of Russia, who has been named Director• General of the polite of Saxony, and who is charged in this quality to watch over 'the internal and external safety of the State. Twelve hundred French troops have made a sally from Magdeburg, they have occupied Wilmir, Staet, and the neighbouring viltages, have carried off all the cattle, and csnveyed into the fortrrss all the corn both threshed and unthreshed. COLOGNE, DECEMBER 1. In the arrondissement of Muhurn, in the Grand Duchy of Berg, which is much less than that of Co logne, the enemy, among other requisitions, have made one of 1200 horses. SI'IIA.SBURG, DECEMBER 1. The patroles sent to reconaoitre from the fort of Kehl, advanced many leagues without meeting any enemy. They nre Bavarian troops who are opposed to us on that side. The accounts given by the inha bitants of the neighbouring villages agree in the im mense losses which the Bavarians confess having sus tained in the battle of Hannan. Their General has lost much even in_ the opinion of his partisans since this event. His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Bavaria has been appointed General of Division. The King of Bavaria must now have left Carlsruhe to return to Munich. AUGAURG, NOVEMBER 23. •It seems that the dysentery which, in 1792, was so fatal to the Prussian army when it had the temerity to attempt to penetrate into France by the way of Champagne, has made its appearance in the army on the banks of the Rhine, and has quickly extended to the Russian, Austrian, and Bavarian armies, in which it causes the greatest destruction ;—it is singular that it is the Prussian army which suffers the least. This fatal malady is ascribed to fatigue, to damp, to the excesses of every icind in which the It ussian sol diers in particular have indulged themselves. It seems that these armies are not in a condition to attempt any thing. It is affirmed that an agreement has been condo. ded between the ProrailAn General Kleist, who besieges the Castle of Erfurth, and the French General who de.ends it. The besiegers ate not to attack the cita. del, and the latter is not to fire on the town. It is the same convention that has• been • made between the town and the castle of Wurtzburgh. The exchange on Augsburg is at 161. CLEVES, NOVFMBER 22. 'l've Journ.,l of the Rory has published the follow ing adveri istrnent of Che Grand Rabbi, H. Carlbourg: " TO MESSRS. THE DOCTORS OF RELIGION, THE OVER. SEERS AND ADMININIRATORS OF SYNAGOGUES IN TUE ISRAELITE DIVISION OF THE HOER. "Cleves, November 22. _ _ GEXTLEMEN—New events have placed the Go. vemment under the. necessity of requiring new sacri fices, to deliver the country from an imminent clin ger ; to obtain a glorious peace, suitable to the bra very of the great nation, and to the •genius of our august Sovereign. " In consequence I invite yon to exhort your flock to behave, under these circumstances, like good citi zens and faithful subjects. Recal to their minds the sacred duties prescribed to us by honour, gratitude, virtue, and religion, and chew them, that the n e w sacrifices have for their object to support the best of Monarchs, that he may be able shortly to attain his object, which is to render us happy —us, our children and our grand-children. " I expect, Gentlemen, that your exhortations will have the desired effect, which they have had hitherto. " Receive the assurances of my perfect esteem, and my very sincere attachment. " The Grand Rabbi, H. Catu.sonao." BASLE, NOVEMBER 25. The works of Huningen hive been prosecuted so vigorously, that they will soon be finished. The gar rison of that fortress is 3000 strong, and so fir from any troops having been detached from it to the Lower Rhine, as has 'been reported, new reinforce ments are expected there. The Swiss troops here are going to be increased by two battalions and a division of artillery of the canton of Argovia ; the battalion of the canton of Vaud will be cantoned at Rheinleld. We see detachments of Swiss troops arrive_ here from different Cantons, who come to cause the Hel. vetic Neutrality to be respected. These troops have a good appearance, and conduct themselves well. On our northern frontiers there are planted posts with inscriptions which are to shew the line of de marcation and indicate our limits, in order to avoid all kind of discussion with the coalesced powers. ZURICH, DECEMBER 1. The Diet has ordered that the tax on colonial pro. duce shall be employed to defray the extraordinary expencer occasioned by the present circumstances._ The Diet, at the close of its sittings, has directed the Landatninan to observe the strictest neutrality. . Vi&VONA, NOVAMBER 27. His Imperial Highness theyice-Rny left this place yesterday for Legnago, whence he returned to-day after having visited the place and the line of Adige. In a reconnoitre made by General Mormet beyond Legnago, many of the enemy's posts were surprised and cut to pieces. The enemy has retired diree miles on the road to Bevilaequa. The troops which returned at noon to Legnago, brought back seventy prisoners. The columns of troops under. General de Couchy, setsich mauceuvre on the Lower Adige and the l.cwt; Po, have also obtained some advantages. MILAN, NOVENIBER se. Her Imperial Higl u the Vice Queen yesterd .y honoured the Theatre of la Seata with her prrseoc, , where she was received with the mist ardent accl ; mations. By the last news from Mantua, th".t city is in a good state of defence, and amply fornlsl , eu with provisions. Nov. 29.—Yesterday morning his Escellencv Count Fontenelle, the Minister of War, revieweJ the troops of different k'nds, which are in this capita, and which are destined to join the different corps of the Army of Italy. Colonel Itoenbourgh of the 3d rcOment of Italiv. chasseuts, supported by someinfantry, has sorpri•A some of the enemy's posts. Since the affair of the 19th, the whole line of posts beyond Verona has been perfectly tranquil. I.UCERNE, NOVEMBER 26. Since the defeat sustained by the Austrian army of General Hillier at Coldiero, it has not ventured to attempt any thing, and its bead•quarters are at Trent. The column which it had detached from Roveredo upon Riva, Ladione and Arefo, in order to penetrate on the west bank of the Lake of Gard*, towards Bre scia, have not been able to make any pmgress. It has every where found troops ready to engage it, and which have advanced and repulsed it into the in terior of the Tyrol. The entrenchments which Ge. neral Hillier is raising along his whole line, give rea• sons to presume, that he intends to remain on the de. Pensive. The spirit which animates the troops of the Viceroy's army is very satisfactory. It will soon be joined by numerous reinforcements, which are march ing from different sides. TOBIN, NOVEMBER 29. All necessary preparations are made here for the formation of the camp of 100,000 men, who are to be assembled here. The accounts received by the last express from the Prince Viceroy announce several advantages obtained over the enemy on the line of Cie Adige and on the Lower Po. General Pino entered, on the 49th, into Ferrara, [from which he has driven the enemy, who has. retired precipitately towards Volano, with the design, it is supposed, of re-embarking. He was briskly pursued. EX fRACT OF A LETTER FROM CADIZ—NOV. 20. ".A detachment of the Army of Andalusia, con sisting of about 5000 men, arrived here yesterday. This force has been judged sufficient to keep in check the populace, who, since the late events, can no longer endure the - sight of the English. The Officer com manding the detachment is Don Pedro D'Aguilar, an old officer of rank, who has served under B.sllasteros. a' This latter is still confined in the Cierm s of Ceuta, where he atones for the creme of having re fused to acknowledge Lord Wellington as supreme head. 66 Ballasteros is a true Spaniard, who has shown a decisiveness of character, and who has still numerous • friends in Spain, particularly in the Castilles, and in Andalusia. A letter is circulated among tire public, from this General, to the President of the Cortes, which has made a great impression on people's minds, and in which is the following passage : " ' After having served the common cause with some success, I am deprived of my liberty, and yet I cannot be charged but with having refused to dis grace the Spanish character, and not having chosen to submit to the humiliating orders of anEnglish man. Shall Spain be like Portugal, only an English colony ? I have too good an opinion of my country men, to conceive that they can thus sacrifice their honour and their independence, and submit to the yoke which England desires to impose on them.' 66 They say that it is intended to send General Ballasteros to London." CONSTANTINOPLE, NOVEMBER 1. The Queen of Sicily, who was obliged to fly from her dominions, to withdraw from the tyranny of the English, remained forty-three days in this capital, under the name of the Countess of Castellamare.— She departed the 25th of last Month for Odessa : the wind was very favourable. During the stay of the Princess, the Grand Seignior and the Ottoman Mi nistry did not cease to give her every m Irk ot respect. The Sultan being informed that this Pnneess desired to be a spectator of the solemnities ot the feast By . ram, ordered by special Hatticherit the house nearest ' the Grand Mosque to be put at th. , disposal of her Majesty and her suite. A Capedge Paclia, at the head of a numerous guard ot how .nr, received the Queen at Vesir-Isicellessi, whither her M r, • paired in the grand barge of the Austrian : gilded sedan chair was waiting there for ocr —The Janissaries attached to the 1.g.it.,19 pieLeded the retinue of the Queen ; she was co. diict::d Sack with the same ceremonies. At the eve ot her depar ture, the Grand Seignior caused to be offered to her by two great officers or the Seraglio, among other presents, a medallion rici.ly set with brilliants, and ornamented with the tougra, or cypher ot his Highness. The Queen, who, in the midst of adversity, retails ! all the vivacity of her mind, said frequently to the persons who had the honour of being admitted presence, that she found the Turks much more ant:- 1 able than the English, and that it was a sight worthy of being remarked in history, that a Christian cess, exiled by Lord Bentinck, should find an hospi !, table asylum with Sultan Mahmoud. French' lands sti Francs.