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r li p a u the barley they could find at any pri ce , f or t h e • of increasing their stock of spirits. He there rrped That the measure would be dropped. m t . WESTERN reprobated the measure as one Wkly to b e productive of greater mischief than any that c ould be brought forward. It kept the public e lfi s gs during its discussion in a state of perpetual _ nn • Ha scarcity really existed, Ministers bad toe umut . s of collecting the best information on the sa biect, and ought to have applied the remedy,by ph g t es uponreir own responsibility. 7 in 95, w hc en the h Distilleries sere stopped, wheat was st o s . a quarter, and barley at Vs. but wheat after ards rose to 108 s. and barley to 495. and in 1 SO2, ice! the suspension was taken off, wheat was at 755. ; d ba il ey a t 445. a price considerably higher than they w ere at present, when it was proposed to renew tie su spension. He believed that there was now i n the coun try a supply of corn amply sufficient to meet the demand. This he inferred from the actual mar • k e tprlC es which had been of late remarkably steady. But if there were any apprehensions of a scarcity, we a ught to be extending our breweries and distilleries, is order to encourage the growth of corn, instead of 1 , r elii,"biting those which now existed from using corn. I N e ither the fanner nor the landlord wished to have u n-avagant prices, all they wished was a free and un orkted trade. This as all the encouragement i t ey as ked or desired, and about four years ago he nabrought in a bill to discourage the importation ;coign cern, which met with the support of Mr. F i tt, an d the approbation of the House ; and he con gratulated himself on having introduced that Bill,', because he was convinced that, in consequence of the Act, we were now better prepared to meet the diffi- ' aties of our situation than we should otherwise have 1 016 With respect to the enemy, h.! asserted, that it would be extremely unwise, by a measure of this see, to hold out to him the hopes of being able to in. ige this country by cutting off our foreign supplies. Wst at the same time that he stated these objections the measure, he should be most happy if some pro. r mode of relief could be devised fur the West India Venters. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER red with those who deprecated the frequent inter. efece of thc Legislature in the affairs of Agriculture. He did not think that any serious grounds existed for ipprehending a scarcity ; but from the information which he had been able to obtain, he was of opinion at there was a deficient supply, and upon this round he cor,ctived that it would he wise to antici. ate, by a measure of precaution, the inconvenience which might possible be felt at a future period from Lis defio:ercy. On no firmer occasion, either in 1757, in 179.5, in lboo, the three occasions on silich distillation from grain was prohibited, had it been done by preclamation, but in all these instances k bad been erected by an Act of Parliament. IP sideel a scarcity should be fel: n hen Parliament was tint sitting, a Minister would be unworthy of his situa tion, who would not adopt such a measure upon his in responsibility; but sehen Parliament Is as sitting, it was certainly incumbent upon him to recur to the Ir;islatine for advice. He ss as much surprised to iod that vane Gentlemen who had in the course of thls Session arplied to him under the apprehestsions et' as linpcuaing scarcity to interfere in this very way, i'hould now be the most strenuous opposers of the ;resent measure. (Tne Right Hon. Gentleman al :nied, we believe, to Mr. W. Smith). Mr. IS HITBR EA I/ reniii,ded the House, that tx Hight Ihah. Gent:tin:in who had just sat down, a.l tuttiom the begi:ining to the end of Hs speech, 3./A one acrd of granting relief to the NVest India ousters. He had now raised the platters entirely out .tsiglit, and recommended the measure on the ground a scarcity, which every cite knew did not exist, •.• city which his M.C.estv's Chancellor of the Ex pier fur Ireland denied to exist in that country, • Which WAS denied to exist in Scotland by the Pre eat of the Bard of Ckmtroul. But the Right Hon. (onleman's conduct now was analogous to what it been when he came into power.—Then he set tip .xy about Pl.es:y; and now he wished (or if he did . :wish it, tie effect of his speech now was) to set up more dali g etous cry about Scarcity. it was evi- Jetaalso, that upon this, as upon many other subjects, thee was a great difference of opinion among his Nileity's Ministers. He observed, that Government had contributed very much to increase the distress oft West India planters, h) fjgdishly taking pen, wiun of the Da,:ish Islands. He would willingly Le consented to go into a Committee to consider of laze means cf granting relief to the West India Pesters, but he could not give the smallest counter t•iltr to the present measure. Mr. WM. SMITH strongly protested against the ' l option of this measure, which was calculated to be Th lterially prejudicial to the landed interest of the , o•antry, whil,r. at the same time it was in its very Ware inadequa t e to :lie. end proposed, that of afford. any like substantial relief to the West-India 1: ;units and Traders. Mr. WILBERFORCE declared that he thought I I'M Was reason to congratulate the I louse on the ;40lect which it Olen had of affording even a wan- Vrary relief to oast West-India Planters, and endea. 'Aired to convince :he I louse that there was some-1 IL ' n glPie a conn,A;tion with party is the opposition to tbe questi,, n . Lord BINNING said a few words in reply ; and N'LEOII spoke amidst such a general cry of, ‘.44‘,./524• iz ^ • erlt:on ! that it was impossible to collect L 'PurPort of his speech. A division then took place, and the numbers were, ts 16S; Noes 1'27 —Majority :Mi. "len strangers were re-admitted, atter the Division, we 44 The House ill • CUlllMittet, Ms( iissirg the propriety "Ito an Adjournment un the question, as recommended by "41 adton, Mr. Whitbread mr. Smith, and Mr. " 4 * Tiwpropusiii a n was for owns time resisted lay the Chan. 4 'r of the Exchequer; he at lehltth, huwcwer, declared that 4 4114 'accede to the proposition or an adjournment, provided alts th, linuse would aatuit ot such a proc:xding, under "*erttunstan ees o f the case. I teSPEAtalt then acquainted the Committee; that there Lae mode which was perfectly regular, it the. House thought adopt it. That was, to agree to the whole of the Res.,- pr. forme, with au understanding teat the two hest Reio.• : 1, 2 ! (theist upon whi c h there appeared to be the greatest dit. ef opinion) should be recommitted on aurae other cur.ve ..l! d ay. !ter a few words from Sir GEORGE HILL, the sunestion 4 SPeAk , :r WAS adUlArd, and the debate we believe) was taxed 1 2 11 ,, the amino or M r . SHERID AN, the adjourned debate on "made Question seas ordered to stand Car Vieth; sday. the utiki. Orders were then disposed ot, and tin House ad .4'tUdat twp inlos• LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 2t. PRICE 01. STOCKS THIS I/AY All ONE O'CLOCK. Co/pots, for money, G73--fur May 6311—for July GS!. Reduced 67,1 1 - --Excheq. Bills, 4s. Gs. prem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. imp. 3 per Cent. 66 India Stuck 17n India Bonds, Ss. 4s. pre. Exclie. Dills 6s. to ss. pre. I English Tickets, lul. 10s. Cons. for ace. GI Bank Stock per COIL Red. 671 3 per Cent. Cons. 4 per Cent. 84;4 per Cent. 9911 •..dun. 1 ol His Majesty's ship SUPERB, Capt. JACKXON, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday evening, from the Mediter ranean. Mr. ADAIR, the late Ambassador from this country to the Court of Vienna, has come home in the Surnen, with his suite. The SurEon was one of the ships that went with Sir RICHARD STRACIIAN in pursuit of the Rochefort squadron. On the 24th ult. Lord COLLINGWOOD was cruizing off The Rochefort and Toulon Squadrons were still in Toulon, and the Carthagena Squadron was at Port Mahon. Sir J. STUART had arrived in Palermo to take the command of the Troops in Sicily. Mr. ADAIR and suite Caine home in the SUPERB. By this ship we have received lettersfrom Gibraltar to the 10th inst. inclusive. They are chiefly occupied with details of the insurrection which took place at Ma drid on the 2d inst. of which we yesterday gave such particulars as have been published in the Afoniteur. " GIBRAIXAR, MAY 10, " Accounts received from Spain this day, confirm the intelligence before received, that an insurrection had taken place at Madrid on the 2d of this month, which, after much bloodshed, was with difficulty quelled by the joint efforts of the Regent Dos As rosio and the Grand Duke of BERG. 4 , The particulars we have not been able to learn correctly, from the confused and in some respects contradictory accounts that have reached us. We have only been able to ascertain that the ferment arose from an apprehension entertained by the people, that their new King would not be restored to them, but be detained by the French Emperor. Assurances calcuLted to quiet these fears were given to the people both by the Regent and the French comman der; but the precise terms they made we of we can not ascertain from the accounts that have reached us, —Some of these state that promises were given that FERDINAND should speedily return—others that the assurances embraced generally the safety of the whole Royal Family. All the letters agree in stating that the indigna tion of the Spaniards at the invasion of their country by the French, is general throughout the kingdom, and that it will be difficult to repress the popular indignation from bursting out in acts which, in the present circumstances, can only bring destruction upon the people. In every quarter regrets arc ex pressed at the ports of Spain not having been opened to the British, on the first breaking out of the Revo lt:6)n. Some accounts state, that the Regent has stated to the Grand Duke of Bram, that on the •first symptom of had faith on the part of the French, the sea-ports and arsenals will be immediately ma into the possession of the British ; but this is not credited." Some more Dutch Papers to the 21st inst. arrived late last night, but they add little to the detail; which we yesterday laid before our Readers. From an anti. ck from Toledo, it may be inferred that QUARLES will never reign again. It is usual with NAPoi.FaiN to give tl:e first hints of projects which few can credit, but' which are generally realised at no very distant period. When NAPOLEON has settled matters to his liking hi • the South, he will, as he hinted some time ago, shew himself in the North of Europe. • A Danish Paper, The Dagen, contains the following article : " The new-created Navy of Denmark begins to gain a name, and it shall soon, with hold youthful strength, frowhingly face its insulters :—the squadron consists of the Louisa Augusta ship of the lit.e, four frigates (late Indiamen), two other armed ships, three brigs, and three large flat gun-boats. The Louisa Augusta, Adjutant-Gen. Krieger, who is appointed commander-in-chief of our flotilla, has gone out of part, and taken g station in the roads. All the merchant vessels in this harbour (Copenhagen) have been put in requisition, and numbered ; and those (ruin No, 101 to 240 have been directed to apply for a complement of men, in order to lit them for sea, and employ them against the enemy." . Advices have been received by Government of- a very bold and successful attack having been made by the Rammo, Captain Ustam, upon a Spanish con voy, near Cape Trafalgar, most of which he either captured or destroyed. The Offieers of the Paixem's own Royal Battalion of Plymouth Volunteers, presented to Lieutenant- Colonel HAWKER, on the 2.lst instant, a valuable vase, with the following inscription, viz. " This Vase is presented by the Officers of the PRINCE of WALM'S own Royal Battalion of Plymouth Volunteers, to JoliJ► HAWKER, Esq. Lieutenant-Co. lonel Commandant of that corps, as a public and honourable proof of the high respect and esteem they entertain for him as their Commanding Officer." Lord STRANGFORD, our Ambassador to the Bra zilian Government, who was on board the last fleet, has, through some unludky accident, been left behind. He went from Torbay to Plymouth by land ; and, during his absence, the wind became fair, and the Commodore did not, it seems, chuse to wait. Great exertions are making at Sandgate to finish the Martell() Towers, in order to render them fit for the inspection of his Royal Highness the Ctaama l andi r its Chief, when he visits that Place on his usual tour, I Sandgate begins to feel the vivifying effects of le i turning summer and gives indications of a gay an d cheerful season. A small regiment of Militia is or. Idered to remain at Folkstone to caoperite with the Martell° 'Powers, in the defence of thg ;east, ANNIVERSART ef S:ir FRANCIS BURDETT: .ELECTIO.V. Yesterday upwards of 400 in ;I:e Electors of West minster met, and alined :it the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, in celebration of the election of their representative, Sir Francis Burdett. _ _ Sir FR A Nits Iluitinrr-r arrived about five oecb)ck, and took the Chair amidst the applauses and huzz. , , of the crowded assembly. A most extelknt Diinwr was served up upon the occasion. A B.tnd of Music attended 1 several ea. ceilent Songs were sling; and throughout the euter tainment the following appropriate Toast, were given with suitable honours and applause The King. The Birth-day of our I iherti:s. The Triumph of Westminster. Purity of Lit:cairn, and may thr Fivctor, throughout Englaed take a lesion from Nyestininstertichwii. Westminstter pride, and Engto:d's hope. The Conurattee who conducted the Plectiun. The Llbertv of the Prem. • The prorrem of public opinion. A full, fair, and free Repreaent.l!lon of the People in the Com mon.: House of Parliament. The Life-Boat of England, which no storm can sink, no waves can swallow—a People free, Parli.unetht independent, and the Nation armed. " Sir Francis Burdett': healds" was proposed by Mr. Ailasts, and was drank witk three times three, with the greatest enthusiasm. Sir Fl,Akos Beam:re then rose, and addressed the meeting in nearly the fUllowing words Gentlemen I-1 find considerable difficulty in ex pressing to you the sense I entertain of the honour done me on this and on many other occasions, but my difficulty is increased when l endeavour to express the honour done to yourselves by your electing of me as your Representative. Gentlemen, if any thing can give to my mind any strong grounds of hope in the present melancholy state of our country, it would be the noble, the generous, and independent conduct of the Electors of Wextminster—(Load applause.; Gentlemen, to you I cannot make any suitable ac. knowledgment for the honour you have done me, except I pledge myself once more to yon, that I am still guided by the same principles which re commended me to rur notice, and Yo far as I fulfil that pledge, I consider myself entitled to your than ks—( Loud up/disuses.) Gentlemen, I am well aware that any little weight which the public may hare derived through my election is yours, and mu mine ; and it is not at all impossible that the voice of the Electors of Westminster may be • ultimately at tended to—(.lpplauses). To speak that voice; and to plead your cause, has been the chief object, as it has been the chief duty, of my life. Gentlemen, I have no fears in expressing myself boldly, when I express your feelings, because they are grounded on those public principles which you have so nobly vouched for and stood by. Gentlemen, I confess to you that my views of the state of the country are me lancholy indeed ; for whether 1 look to our external or internal relations, I sec no rational hope of check ing these internal corruptions, which are the real sources of our external danger, or of putting the country into that state in which it may have a force adequate to meet that danger. Gentlemen, the pub lic have been of late amused and led away II petty reforms having been held out to them, and this is the only extent of the views of our present reformers.— Gentlenien, I allude to a reform in the R epresentaticn of the People in the House of Commons—(load ap plaum).--It appears childish to suppose that in a Parliament, out of which a great majority is returned by 130 Peers and powerful individuals, the People can have any redress ; and yet, Gentlemen, it is toj dint House of Commons that Ministers, as if in mockery, chuse to appeal, as appealing to what they call the sense of the People. I have no hesitation in saying, Gentlemen, that a reform in Parliament is as essential to the defence of the Country, as arms and men. Gentlemen, you have had Commissions after Commissions appointed to enquire into the abuses of the Government, but no public plunderer has been as yet brought to justice. Nothing has resulted from the labours of these Commissions of Inquiry, except a su peraddition of die expellee attending them to your bur dens. There are a set of persons who feed upon the bowels of the country, who have been compared to leeches, but I am sorry to say that the comparison does not hold good with respect to them : Leeches, when they are satiated, will drop ofF, but the more these per sons get, the more greedily do they suck; and the People have no hopes that they will ever fall off. You have been frequently told, Gentlemen, that a time of war is not the proper time for remedying abuses . ; but this reminds me of the Captain of a ship, who, when the i enemy hove in sight, and he was advised by his offi-, cers to clear for action, exclaimed, " Leave all things as they arc, and when we come out of the action, I shall settle every thing to your satisfaction !" Now, what we reformers propose, is to clear the ship for' action; and we are engaged in a contest against the . most formidable enemy that any country ever saw. • Gentlemen, once more I repeat to you, that the true way to defend any country, is to make it worth defend ing. These sentiments of mine have been often mis represented ; but I say again, make the People feel those liberties for which you call upon them to fight. It is not in times like these, that the hollow sentiments of placemen can pro dnce that energy which is neces sary to save this land from foreign subjugation : the People must have arms and reform. -We have seen that fist armed People have frequently done wonders among foreign nations, and we have also seen fureign nations who preferred subjugation to a foreign enemy to their own Constitution, because it was rendered not worth fighting for. Gentlemen, it is time that the People of England should think of saving them selves, when their Ministers cannot save them : but I confess it is not a few persons of this land that can produce any great measure; and unless this feeling is extended unanimously and eonsentaneously through-I out the land, no beneficial effects can result tuEng-! land—(Laud apt/au m). Gentlemen, we have fi e quently been told of domestic enemies, and I will tell you an infallible method of discovering those enemies. Gentlemen, when men go about to plunder, they ge nerally plunder their enemies, and not their friends ; but our pl are not of that description : they plunder us: ll : l C:they tell us they ate our friends ! Gentlemen, it has been. said in the House of Com mons, that ins times of difficulty and danger, we ought not to ask who is the Minister, but where is the enemy ? But to this 1 would add another question, where is the Sunder, for there is the enemy !—(L oud • • alolaute). To get rid of that enemy, all my effort.' have been directed; beans I ani convinc al that ther is the danger. There ate abuse, toweriu; above tit? Constitution, and the Country is sick at heart—until some remedy is applied, it is in vain to look for any del :nice against a foreign force. Gentlemen, the per. sent session of Parliament has added ranch to your burdens, and nothing to your liberties. I take sham!. to mysc , lf for . allowing the Indictment BM, to pass through the House of Commons ; but (tom the manner in which tke public business is conducted, it is impossible sfor any man to watch over every Measure Gentlemen, there is another Bill in its progress, which shall not pass into a la .v without my reprobation : 1 mean the Local Militia Bill. 1 hope we are not yet bent so low as to submit, without remonstrance, to the List stage of human degradation laid upon us by this Bill. Gentlemen, befinv I conclude, I must repeat that a reform in Parliament is that only measure whit h can effectually suppress all peculation. This is tits- grand master-key to our national prosperity, and t iw want of it is the real source of all our evils and mi. - fortunes. Sir Fitascis retired about ten o'clock, and the re. mainder of the evening was spent in the utmost har- mony and conviviality. NAUTICAL, INTELLIGENCE. TORBAY,-MAY 22. Sailed, the PARING gun-brig, with the transports having 4.3 board the 39th Regiment for Guernsey,---Wind W. pouTsmouTH, MAY 23. Arrived his Majesty's ship SUPERS from the Mediterranean with dispatches ; the HARDY gun brig from a cruise; the David, WALKER ; Catharine, YOUNG; and Perseus, BAY Yes, from th, Dow :Lt.—Wind %V. DOVER, MAY 23. Passed by this day a fleet of ships from Falmouth bound to the Rirer ; a ship of the line from the westward for the Downs; brig Narden of and for Gottenburgh, with salt, from Lymington; brig Mitierea, front the Cape of Good Hope in twelve weeks. bound to London : she brings no news, did not touch at St. Helena int her passay.e. Sailed the THRASHER gun brig to protect the fishing heats be!uo-:ng to this town and neighbourhood. Another line of battle ship is just going by for the Downs. Wind W. S. W and blows very fresh. DEAL, MAY 23. Arrived the RENOMMEE and ENDYMION frigates from the Me- diterranean ; MALABAR front South America: Altar sloop and SigARPSIGIOTER gun brig from Portsmouth; KAnomtoo sloop and I)r.sre Kara gun brig, from a cruise, Sailed the RILNuMMLL and MAI AZAR for the Nore. SHEERNESS, MAY 23, Sailed this day his Majesty's ship the TusautzNT, with the convoys for Gottenburgh and the Baltic; and the Taustrzotz hoisted the signal for such ships as are reay to proceed to Heli- goland, but has since hauled it down.—Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship CALYPSO, and the TROMFEUSE has been paid wages.—The Baltic and Gottenburgh convoys got under weigh about eight o'clock this morning, and as they had a fuze breeze of wind quite fair, were out of sight of this place in two hours after they bad sailed.—Arrived from Chatham, and sailed with the Baldc convoy, several ships, which have delivered their c a r goes ' there, and are bound to different ports in the Baltic : some have taken in cargoes.—Wmd S.W. fresh breeze. HARWICH, MAY 23, Arrived this day the AUCKLAND packet, Captain BRIDGE from Heligoland ; she landed the Mall at Aldborough.--Saileci the EARL Or LEICEETER packet, Captain HAMMOND, with Baron Lieu's' and suite, for Gottenburgh. The shave packet has not taken but a mail. The Virzi Revenue cutter, of this port, has captured and sent in a smuggling vessel with upwards of 400 tubs of liquor. LEITH, MAY 21. Arrived in the Roads this monde& his Majesty's frigate Twa- t AR, of 52 guns, Captain BRTTZSWORTH Cunimsnder . In at- tempting to cut out some gun-boats out of North Bergen, it be- came a dead calm, and she was exposed to the fire of the batteries, by which the Captain and a Midshipman were killed, several of the tr.:w wounded, and the ship very much , shattered, INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 23. The Person claiming to be the Duke of Norfolk came into Court ' complained tn i j , e want of Justice in the Court of Ch an - cery ; alit-aged that 01 Lawyers were mostly corrupt, and hoped for attention to his case in the Court of King's Bench. lord E N BOROUGH informed him, that if he had any idea of his case merit* attention frum the Court, he should instruct some Gen:len:au at the Bar to state it to the Court. THE KING V. D'EGVILLE. The defendant, ballet-master of the Opera-house, who was found guilty last term of an assault on Mr. Waters, the executor of the late Mr. Could, appeared in Court to receive judgment, and was ordered to pay a fine of 101, which he paid, and eat dis- charged. TIIE KING V. COLONEL WATSON. The Defendant was brought up to receive sentence for assault. ing and sending indecent letters to General avyune ' under the signature of SHOCK Sass, and was sentenced to b e imprison e d for one year in the King's Bench, and after that period to be bound over on his own recognizance for 2001. for the space of two THE KING V. JOHN GOODRIDGE. The Defendant is a surgeon and apothecary at Cranbourn, and was tried at the last Assizes for Dorset, for assaulting and mai- tre ating Mrs. Charlotte Miles, a widow lady. It appeared that the Defendant and the lady had been upon very bad terms for a . considerable time ; in consequence of which be took an opportu- nity of jostling her against a wall when she was taking a walk one evening withlter children, whereby he bruised her arm, and put her in bodily fear ; for which be was impri sone d on the 12th of May in tile County gaol, but on being brought up by Habeas Cor- pus, he was allowed to call at Cranbourne. On his arrival the bells were set a ringing, and the Widow Miles's effigy was car- ried about on a jackass, under the title of Madame Bonaparte, when at last it was thrown into the river. All Mrs. Miles now wanted was to restrain the Defendant from future insults ; he was therefore fined one shilling, and bound over to keep the peace WI . his own recognizance in the penalty of .501. WARDELL V. TIIE SHERIFFS OF MIDDLESEX. This was an action for a false return to a writ offer/ flubs, against the goods of John Maven, who kept the Cock public how.- ' in Tothill-street. Before the execution was put into the house, Mason gave a bill of sale to an auctioneer in cary4ime, Cheap- side, his brother-in-law, who had indenmifi e d the Sheriffs, and put a man in possession, to take care of his interest. The Sheriff's being indemnified, they returned NULLA BONA. It appeared, by several witnesses, that the whole buiiness, on the part of Mason, was a fraud, and the Jury found for the plaintiff sta. Letters from the Isfixigava, of 44 guns, Captain HA WK I Ns, dated the 6th ins 4 off L'Orient, state, that the boats of that ship, manned and armed, commanded by Lieutenant Comm, landed in a bai near L'Orient, attacked and carried a battery d.fended by ore 18- pounder and a large party of soldiers, in the block- house, with loop-holes. The gal ait tars turned the gun towards the block-house, and tired it through ; then spiked the gun, and took the ccntinel prisoner, when the enemy tired through the loop-holes, and stn fortanataly killed Lieutenant Coottx, but his pary_ succ,:eded in call ying the body on boa r d,lith naval an and the nest day honours.Nrascommitted to the deep, with • An Irish pedigree hunter has found cut that Madam CATALANI was a native of the land of Potatoes, and that her original name was Katlern . I —lt would be well &or if he could persuade her to stay in her min coma. try, and spend the money she has got by the lily of Messrs. Ain and Patrici •