Star. — London, England, 1806-07-15 00:00:00

tines Why did riot the prefent Minillers bring forward • ail at once all the 'matures which they meant to in. troduee in the courfe of the Seffion ? As to the breach of public faith that was Co much fpoken of, he begged f leave to remind Gentlemen, that the Militia was not a voluntary, but a compulfory fervice, and that if no particular faith was pledged to the balloted men, cer ' tainly their fubflitutes Rood in no better foliation than they did. Of a man that voluntarily enlified in the regular army, it would be right to confider Aridly the terms under which he entered, but the militiaman, ' whether he is the balloted man or the fubßitute i en ters into the fervice from the compulfion of the law, • and can claim no other terms but what the Legiflature ' chafes to give. . Lord DE BLAQI.TIEREVore, and (poke on many topics ; while he was difcufEng the vote of thanks propofed on a former night to the Volunteert, • Colonel CRAUFORD role to (peak to order.— He felt unwilling to interrupt the Noble Lord ; but Rill, at Inch an advanced period of the Sefton, and ' AL fo late an hour at night, he thought the Houfe ', ought not to Wen to arguments which, although • they might have been very proper on former debates, had nothing to do with the quefiion before the Houle. The SPEAKER decided that the Noble Lord *as not in order. Lord DE BLAQIGIERE then laid, that as he was not made of brats. he mull bow to the authority of the Chair. After a variety of obfervations, he con eluded by oppoling the Bill. • Mr. O,HARA was for the Bill. He was fine that both the Field Officers of the Militia and of the Vo. looters would ehearfully Yield to any deduftioni, that could tend to give the country a greater difpole able, force at the prefent moment. . Sir WILLIAM LEMON conadered that it might be the canto of Much difeontent, that when the Offi dere of the Regulars and Militia meired together, the pee ihould fay, " We are fupertor to you, our pay u higher !" • - . Mr. ELLISQN agreed in the fentiment of the lion. Boone' who fpoke lall, and thought that it 'would be a fubjeft of heart-hurning, and might cre ' ate. if not difcord, at luta a confiderable degree of difatisfiaion. . • Colonel CRAtYFURb could not at all agree with the opinion rf the Hon. Baronet. So far from the legulat 'Officers being entitled to claim any fuperi wily, on account of this dill irilion, be thought the fuperira)ty '(nit far is income - I I) was on the other fide, and that the Militia Field Officers who did not teceave the bier-eared pay, merely upon the ground, that they Were men of f meahat fifperior fortune. and who therefore did not rewire it, ought n .t, In the ground, to claim • a fuperiuriry ov,t •oe ire. gular Officers who were, in general, inlet in, ' , n than In point of fortune. He knew that it wa. iii.pratia anentary to impute any improper motives to Mem. ben of Illat Houfe, brit he mull fay, that if, in any other affembly, men had ailed the fame park as had *been purfued by thofe of Oppofition 1 if, on every Aueflion that could be brought forward, Co much was .laid in praife of the Voltinteers, and fo Much had been Paid of certain expreltions of hit Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Windham), he (hould ihink that their object was t -merely to catch at popularity, to win to their Me that numerous and retpeitable body of men, and to =the his Right Hon. Friend as unpopular and as odious as they could to that body. This would have been his opinion, if a limilar cbminft had beenadopted by any let of Gentlemen out of that Houk, but in that Houfe he knew that it was molt unparliamentary tofnppofe that any Member could be satiated by fuch • motives, and therefore he did not impute filch to them. As to the diffiations of pay, fuch dißinftions already etifted in the regular army, and were not complained of.—Sir W. LEMON explained. Colonel MITFORD was againn the Bill. Mr; Secretary WINDHAM (after Come entiver- Cation with Lord Temple), begged leave to withdraw his motion, " that the Speaker do quit the Chair," and to fubaitute in the place of it, " that it be an ioßruftion to the Committee to empower them to ex tend the provifions of the All, to the Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps." After a few words from Mr.BASTA RD, the motion was agreed to ; as wai alto that of the Houfe refolving itfelf into a Committee. in the Committee, Sir WILLIAM ELFORD moved an amendment, the raft of which was to extend the encreafe of pay to Field Officers of the Militia. On this a divifion took place.—For the amendment 17, againli it 38. While grangers ware excluded, the Committee reported progrefs, and had leave to fit again. £MSANXMINT BILL. Sir C. POLE moved the fecond reading of the Bill for preventing Embankments in Harbours, or Rivers communicating therewith, without notice pre vioully given to the Admiralty. A long converfationthen took place, in which the objeft of the Bill was nnivcrfally approved of (which was to prevent the injury which individuals might do to the great harbours and the country ). The words of the Ad were, however, conceived by many Mem- bers as too general. Sir C. POLE Paid, that in the progrefs.of the Bill he would be very ready to Mien to any fuggeßions that were made.—The Bill was then ordered to be read a fecand time to-morrow. LINEN DRAWBACK RILL. Upon the motion of Mr. FOSTER this Bill was read a third time. Mr. VANSITTART moved a Claufe, for conti nuing the prefent Drawbacks on the exportation of German and Ruffian Linen to the Weft Indies, to the z6tb of March 1807, and for the ufual time that Drawbacks were ufually granted after that time. Mr. FOSTER, with great animation, oppofed the claufe as ftriking direaly at the ftaple manufiteture cf Ireland, and being contrary to the bargain made betweco the two countries. Mr. VANSITTART propofed adjo3rning the dif. cuffion of the clank. Mr. FOSTER laid, that he had been fo often per fuaded by Minifters to papone the Bill, that he could not, in juftice to Ireland, poll pone it any longer, unlets there was a politive engagement that it fhould be the &ft bufinefs difcated tomorrow. Mr. DAWSON and Lord ACHESON contended, that as it was a fubjeft which every Irifh Member was agreed on, the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Vanlit tart) ought not to pref. his claufe. Mr. VANSITTART then contented to with draw it ;--and at half part one o'clock this morning the Houle adjourned. - - romport TUESDAY. JULY 15. T. San ant... Holiday at eke hegaprlmd Esc& 01Brea PRIDE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. hank Steck M 34 as Long tin. 17 13.164 3 per C. R. An-Itsti India da, rs. se. sa diL par C. Conf. 6s/63 63 Etch. Dills, par 3.. U. prem. 4 per Cent. Oninhun 64, J per Cent. soatif Cont. for ace. 63.41 Mr. &sumo has again returned to France with difpatches, and &Tong hopes are therefore. Rill enter tained it the Stock Exchange that the prefent Nego. ciations will terminate in Peace. At one o'clock, this flity, the 3 per Cent. Confols were for the open. ing 631 a 4 ; the Reduced 6:la I ; Ornolunt 64 a 7i Exchequer Bills par a as. premium. - • The fquadron Under command of Admiral Cwt.& Ltausisz and lemma Bo AAAAA vs. failed from St. Salvadore on the 21 lt of April, and on the syth was feen 25 leagues E. N.E. of that place t the fquadron had only ten weeks water and provifioni on board, and, upwards of 800 men ill of the (curvy. •• • The private letters from Harribnrgls by the snail of yelletday are very contradiaory, refpeeling the profpct, of peace—foss of them doubting the p 4.- bility of an amicable arrangement between this eat,- try and France at the prelim period I others affirm ing that the negociations are fir advanced. The greater number of private letters received at Ham. burgh from Paris, maintain the former opinion though the French funds have been on the advance. As to Continental politics all is in a Rate of un, certainty, only it is not doubted that important changes will (portly take place in Gerniany, all ten ding to increafe the power of NAPOLION'i family and connexions. It is Rill a matter of much uncertainty in the North Whether liana' hoftilities will take place between Sweden end PrufGa. Certain it is that the Pruffian army is very averts to a war with Sweden. A very fiagular Proof of this averhotx is mentioned in fume prisite letters t —As the King of Sweden was lately riding along the bank of a riSer which divides the two territories, a very great number of Proffitt° fol. ' eee e of different regiments, Rationed on the esppolite 'tank, threw up their hits, calling out " Long live Gosrevos S Long live the King of Sweden !"—All whn did fo were ordered . , by the King of Profits, to be attuned. It teems, however, not very probable that the King of Sweden would openly ride within view of the troops of a power with whom be is not on the tu olt friendly foaling. TRENCH JOURNALS. In odr firß Page we have given tome further ex trails troth the Piris Papers to the loth inllant. They relate prlociPally to timeline's Expedition, which, according to a letter from St, Sebaftian, in Spain, has entirely failed. The Mowitswr, in a litter from Vienna, flares, that the Km° of SW/DIN has refilled the mediation of Ruffle, on the ground of his being quite able alone to light his own battles, and make hie own peace. AMERICAN PAPERS. Nett York Papers to the 14th. and Bolton to the 15th ult. arrived j'efterday. From there journals it appears that in foam parts they have been feourged with miriads of devouring caterpillars. From there papers we have given a curious article refpe6ing MIRANDA'S Expedition, copied from the Ilaytieut Ga zette. ARMY. Ou: Military Readers will obferve, that by the new Bill for the increafe of Pay to the Officers of the Army,Three Shillings a•day additional is to be given to fuch Officers as have the command of Regiments. —The Secretary at War Rated, that it often happened that regiments were commanded by Majors or Cap. tains, from the abfence of fuperiot Officers, and he confidered it a good military principle to confer this dilliation of additional pay on the Commanding Officer, whatever rank he held. We rejoice, and we think that the country at large will gladly learn, that at length Government have lent a favourable ear to the jet calls of Officers in the Army for an increafe of pay. On the jußice and neceffity of this meafure, it is unneceffary for us to dwell, we can readily refer to many letters and etrayt on the fubjell of officers of all ranks, which have ap. peered in the STAR. We have beard that it is inten• ded, that the increafe to molt ranks will be one-third of the prefent pay. An increafc was fome time ago made to the Medical Officers of the Army, it is curdy no ]cis neceffary to the Military Officers. Preparations begin already to be made at Portf mouth for the grand Expedition which is to go fr.,m thence. The only Officer of rank to go in it, of whom we have heard, is the gallant Marquis of Ilosrt Ey, who is nearly recovered from Ms wounds, and who now goes out with the rank of Lieutenant Gcneral his brother, Lord ALEXANDER GI , RD(N, at the fatne time, accompanies his regiment, the 59(11, with this Expedition. The Duke of CUMBERLAND is expeCted on the 14th at Weymouth, to affitme the command of his dillsid there. General IsPntittaos R commands ad zri?,) The 7th regiment of the German Legion kAve marched from Winchefter to Pot tfmf)uth, to embark, as it is fuppored, for fervice. The 13th Foot marched at the fame time from Winchefler. ~- We are Very ferry to leant that that Ene old eon). the 14th Foot is in fo bad a way, from the prevalence of a contagious fever in Milford barracks, •as to be reported unfit for ferviee, and confequently unable to proceed with the Expedition, greatly to the tnlrtifi cation of this often•tried corps. The Regiment is now under orders to go to Shorncliffc camp, where it will take, up the ground of the 45th and fad Re giments, which march this day and to-morrow for Hilfea barrack,. The 45th (General Lirria's regiment) is to be embarked for the expedition now fitting out at Pouf. mouth. The Dtft Foat, at Athford barracks, has loft fome men by the malady which has proved fu fatal to the te.th. We underhand it to be a pneumonic complaint, accompanied with typhus. .Notwitltftanding that the ad battalion of the pd regiment has been mowed to Maidflone, the Egyptian opthalmia continues to rage in a terrible degree. The number of men already left hone blind by it is immenfe. This terrible difeafe has for nine months refilled every remedy. The Volunteer corps, on the new or Augua ef• tablilhment, have attended fully, and with fpirit, throughout the Weflern dihriet, fine it was arm. tattled that all Corps were to be put on the fame footing, by doing away the anion and impolitic dif tlnition of the " June and Augilll fyflem." The retirement of the Royal Marine Command ants is daily looked for—a comfortable birth for the Veteran Officers, and a noble flimulus for the young (Didier. The Duke of YORK will review the Guards, o f Chatham Lines, on Friday, and the Guards will march from Chatham on Monday nest. Lieutenant Colonel CAM Patti., of the t ft Regiment of guards, nephew of Lord MAN YE RS, and firtt coal n of Lotd CAWDOR. left town yeiterday for Chatham Barracks, and will immediately proceed to take the command of the la and 3d Battalions of the tft Re giment of guards, who will 'embark next week for Sicily. The 36th Reltiment of Foot, now quartered at Battle, the .toth commanded by Colonel Now., the 78th, and 88th, commanded by Colonel Dor., now at Halting., received orders nn Ftiday,tohold them. iclves in readinefs to march at a moment's notice, when ordered. The Bth regiment sit foot, cnmman• ded by Colonel Houc HTON, will do duty at Hafting. in their abfcnce. The gail Effex Militia, which hare been upwards of a year, in Glafttow barracks, have received their route. The IQ (hellion marches on Thurfday for Leith, where they are to be embarked for England. They are expeacd to be replaced by the Lanark(hire militia, who have received a route fi,r Scotland. Mr. Fos, we are happy to learn, is much better ; he tranfaded bulinefs yetlerday at his bode in Sta- Me Yard, with feveral pet lons. Mr. BASILIC(/ ' the MelTenger, called on Mr. Fur at half pall ten, and remained until half pall eleven. Earl TNANar, HOLLAND, General FITZPATRICK, and te%eral other dillingtiiihed perfons, had audience of Mr. Fox dur ing the afternoon. The Names of WALES had a pirate interview of Mr. Fox, and retnamed from tire o'clock until half pall fir. Mr. DUTINI, who has jna pabliaed intercßing Memoirs of his ufetul and adli•e Life, was employed in a diplomatic capacity during the adminitlration of Lord Burs, and has repeatedly •ifited every Court of Europe during the laft 61ty years. A number of the Gentlemen of iffix have entered into a fubfdription for making a road from London to Tilbury ; and have refolved to apply to Patna. meat for the necelfary permillion. Dust..—A meeting took place, nn Thmfday, at Dublin, between the Honourable Mr. WINO vs LD. and Major Nazi's, when the former was killed on the (Pot. We have not been informed of the origin of the difpute.—(The Framan: yorrnal) Sunday lan, failed from Portfmouth fur Pete& burgh, a Ruffian fhip of 400 tons, which has pill arrived from a voyage of difcovery of three years, round the world : tl:e lira object was to take priffeffion of a fettlement for Rufila, in Cook's Strait, in lat. 570 North. The difcoveries made, we hear, are in the Pacific Ocean, and to the northward of New Holland. L'lnvention, Barrow, from London for the South Seas, was all well on the 7th of September LA, in sat. 57. 8. South, long. 72. Weft. The fanner Maria, RANDALL, from JamLica for Halifax. is 101 l on Dry Tortuga. The City rf Cork, WALIZER, from London for Honduras, is loft near Honduras. BRE•D.—This day the Lord Mayor ordered the price of Bread to be raifeJ 3d. in the peck loaf. Among the many awful accidents that occurred during the (term of Friday fall, in the neighbourhood of Guildford, perhaps few are •anre worthy of notice than that which happened at Sutton Place, the feat of JOHN WFU111; WIESTON, Efq. where a ball of fire or eletaric fluid entered the roof by the fide of a chimney, fbirering in pieces the adjoiningrrater,f ter, then taking a hcrizontal direftion to the opporde corner of the room underneath, there forcing its way through the cicling by a small aperture, making a grove in the wall like that cf a ratuflzt ball olvliquely to the corner of the bed head, where, meeting with the crank of the hell it torned again horizontally to the middle thereof, then f , .;lwir.g the bell wire perpendicularly down to the lower apartment, where it mu ft have expanded itfelf, btu taking to fome upright iron bars in the wes teconduiled to that immediately over, forcing itranrcis the lining of that window and the glafs outwards, Left ;es a pint of the Raid that went up The cliimrey of the v;s7e; room,srearly damaging the (haft of the chimney ani driving the pot at the top of it in every direction. But the extraordinary thing to relate is, that Mr. and Mrs. Mirrors were afleep in the bed of this tomes till awoke by the ex. plofion, when though they sound themreires fur -1 rounded with foot and du( and apparently wi:h fire. they were proviJenzially preferred, and efeaped on hat. In a field nor eery far didant vut of liven fit (beep were (buck dead. NAUTICAL INTEELIOBNC2. : 7 "itatitallit,juzr 14.—We had in view off ILI. place, the whote of yefterday evening, a French p: i• vitteer,whickcaptured a brig off the North Foreland. In the mean time, Lord Kat rn gave direflions f( r the Counters of Elgin cutter w go immediately in putfuit. The Countefs of Elgin loon came np wi.h the prize, and we had the pleafure to fee her reca;,• tnrcd. Tie five Frenchmen who were put nn board the prize have been landed here, and fafely conveycl to prif o n. ' PORTI3ntITI4, JULY. 14.--Arr;yed his Majcfly`-, fbip SEEAPI3,frorn Gibraltar. with Admiral liNicH r on board; Maury gun brig, from a ernize ; ;Ind the CLIRIEVX. from Li(bon. His istjeay'i thip CAP TAU:, of 14 guns, in going down from Spithead to Sr. Helen', fall night, got nn (bore within the buoy of the' !Jerre, where fhe remain.:d fr.me time, but'. a. got off with the afliflance of lighters, &c. from the Dock Yard. Wind S. W. DIAL, JULY :4.—Arrived the EsuTtnst gnn brig from a critize, and the Avow brig from theWenwo • d, with the Ruffian (hip Neva, Capt. Lisransar r, 61 m a three years voyage on difcoveries, bound to FAL neur, and remain in the Downs with the sell of the (hips as per Taft and feveral outward bound veffels. YARMOVTN. JULI 114.—Yetterday three P. M. Ad miral Rossazz, and the (hips under his command, gr t under weigh, and at fix were out of fight, with the Mayerrac, the Admiral's flag (hip, STATELY, AGIN COURT, RUBY, NASSAU. DICTATOR, and RESOLU TION. of 64 guns each, and l'Artaaca frigate, fer a cruize off the Tezel : failed alfo the I moo sus il lop of war, on a cruize to the northward; CILVIZER, to the eaflward ; and the Ciesoa gun brig, to the Downs, with 16 men belonging to the fmuggler, lately cap tured by the Causzat hoop of war. Yenerday ar rived the Lady Nepean, Captain Goo. DE•M, with mails and Paffengers, from Hufum ; and this morn ing the Lark packet, Captain DILL, from Hamburg!), with Mr. .4cl:sow and family, from the Court of Berlin. Remain in the Roads the Roasuce, Admi ral Dour:Las, one cutter, and a brig. Wind S. W. CHATHAM, JOLT 15...—.T6C Crane, Pigeon, and Jackdaw fchooners, failed to Sheernefs on the lids intlant. Captain Eyes was appointed to the ARVIN?, of 6+ guns, and Captain SCOTT, to the B3RIAt fri gate,on Thurfday, and on Saturday, Captain BETTEs- WORTH, to the CIOCODILZ frigate, all fitting at this port. The payment of the Dock yard commences this day, and will be continued to-morrow and Thurf day. FROM LLOYD); LIST. Ca AVCSIND, JULY 13.—Paired by, the Admiral Colpoys,..--- from Demarara ; Harriet, Lifter, from Dominica; Magdalena: Onerbuck, from Tencriffe Almira, Clemellt3, from Jerky Jafirom, from Vara; Froderekitc, Eng.; and the Hark Dalin°, Sporran, from Norway. Stilled the rather and Sunk Hop- ' tins; and the Derdentona, Wyvill, for Virginia . Unanimity, Warm', for Bolton ; Bona &Anna, Blithe ; Jnnge Margarmta, —; and the Concordia, Lawrence, for Hantburgh. LT 1 . 4 —Paired by his Majefty's (hip Malabar, from the Weft Indies; 'I homal, Dixon; and Pn•fperity, Douglas, front Peterf turo : J,nze Johanna, front Varell ; Martha, Schoen; and One fhlele, from Norway.—Sailed the Aurora, Finlay ; and the Satyr, Miro:, for Africa; Robert and Sarah, Tealuste. for Piga ; N.vtatur, Evans; and the Bikini Volunteer, fur Petcrfburgh. The JJfeph and Mary, KIDD, from Brilinl, for Gre. nada, is captured and carried into Guadaloupe. The Thomas, *Batts*, from Greenock for New Orleans, has been found on the c , all of Fl •rida by the Nautilus, and burnt, after raking out the cargo. The Brothers, Boars a, from Loud" u conac mud at St. Kitt's. AMERR:A. (FROM THE HAYSIAN GAZETTE.) Ilstradt of a Letter from General Kirkland, one of the principal Commanders la Miranda's Expedition, gated freest Cowan% the 19th of April, to his Hayti= Friend. DCA{ ►RIEND. ■ Pia, (I came. I faw, l conquered) was the metto of Catfir. Bonaparte has lately applied it to !Mad( : It has now become mine, thanks to the Genius who prefides over liberty and independence. " To my great regret I cannot permit 'Well to enter Into ille I Calls which I had promifed you, refpeeting the celerity of oar operations, on account of the rapidity of the events which hurry us on; and the favourable opportunity, which requires halle to take the advantage of the terror which fuch faecal. Imprefs Lit it fulßee to you, for the moment, to know, that the hands of Santa Marguetta, Barcelona, and Cumana, are In our Forel lion, and that, at the moment in which I am writing to you. the army is Wing for Caraccas. At every ftep we take, our army is increafed by thofc illultrious unfor:unsta, who think that they behold, in the Generaliffimo Miranda, a new Wafhington, who comes to re•eltabill them in the primL•he nate of liberty, which the barbarity of the Spaniards bad ravillaed from them. There is nut the Ihadow of a doubt, but that new fuccelfes will crown Co heir an cnterprifc. • •I'he Generals Imo deGres to he remembered to you... His Grit Ald•de Camp, whom you well know, joins with his Com mander and myfelf in witting you every kind of profperity. '• We requeft you inftently to comtuunicata our progrefs to his Majefty the Emperor of Hayti.—.Tell him, that the Aril intelli gence which we than have the honour to give him, will be dated from Ceram's. • . Forget us rot, my dear frl,nd, and believe that, as long as I live, I Mall real for you the molt finecre an Elton. " nut latirpadimes ! Frio: !a Lek. u I (Signed) The Ga eras KIRKLAND.' Nat HTILLI f . KEIT, MAY 117,--A gentleman, who arrived this place, on Wednefday la 9, from New Orleans, which place he left the 25th of April, in forms, that at the time he left that place, a report was in circulation, that a velfel, laden with provifinns for our troops up the Mobile, has been captured by tae Spaniards, and plundered of the whole of itt loading, run on the Baltile, and there left ; he alfo informs, that the poll rider which had been flopped by tbe Spaniards, had been ordered by Governor Cast• aatexe to force his way, on rills of being taken pri. ' furter. New Yoa a Julia I.—The Prefident of the United St a tes arrived Wafhington, on Saturday lall, ft. The Tura:ism Ambairador, accompanied by JAL CATHCART. Eiq. late Consul General for the Barbary State arrived yeller Jay in this city, where he wit conthlue a few days, be ng on his way to 13 0 4. 1 n where he is to embark for Tuitiso—Plilafrigio i tSIMLO r r