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Wow - HOME OP ecamova, . • The RPEAkER actittainted the Hoileb tau he had teethed a letter frail the Marv& of Wodiestoo,' dated 'head% dad March, 1813, the cantons Of which Were expreedira of the gra- titude feh by himself and the Woos* under his cominand, for the Thanks of the House communicated by the Speakers letter. • A new Writ was ordered for the porough of Orford, in the room of Mr.he'lltaghtoss t who, since his election , has accepted of the office of one of the Irish Lords of the Treasury. Mr. W. FITZGERALD presented an Estimate of the charge of the Roman Ceiba ° Seminary in Ireland. The Life Annuity Bill was dtdered to go through a Odattnittee of the whole House on the 18th inst. The Brass Exportation Bill went through a Coagulate of the whole House. Report to-Morrow. The Bermuda Trade Bill weet thrinlgh a Committee, the re port of which was received, and loved to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Scotch Creditors' Bill went through a Committee of the Whole House. Report to-marow. Mr. R. RICKARDS took the. oaths and his seat for Wooton hese. . - Mr. Sheri ff Baton presented k Petition front the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, hpinst the erection of the Queenhithe Bridge. Mr. LOCKHART gate notice, that on the :Sfh of May be world Move that the House take into Consideration the Report of the Committee on the Petition of the British American Claimants, when be should feel it his duty to submit to the House a Resolution expressive of the justice of the claim of the Petitioner. on their country for compensation and relief. The House having resolved itself into a Committee on East India Afars, the Counsel for the Company proceeded to examine Colonel Monroe. The substance of his evidence was similar to that in the other witnesses, and in favour of the Company. When Colonel Monroe withdrew, the House resumed, Mr. Ltrsittflovon reported progreos, and obtained have to sit again to.mortow. Mr. RYDER gave notice, that he would more that the House n. Should be called over o.Tuesday the 11th of May. This notice was understood to be given with a refgrence to the Bill to be brought in by Mr. Grattan in favour of the Catholics. '1 he House went into a Committee on the meth)* of Mr. H. MAaTin, on the Deputy Remembraneer of the Exchequer. Ball. Sir J. GRAHAM did not object to the principle of the Bill, but bad many kmendments to move the principal object of which wzs, to provide a proper remuneration for the Officers of the Court of Exchequer employed by the Deputy Remembrancer, in lice of the emoluments they at present received. Mr. H. MARTIN defended the Bill, as not trenching on the proper fees of the officers of the Court. It went on the same rinciple as that regulating the office of Accomptant General of the Coon of Chancery, which tbuk from the eleven Masters who were not defaulters, the monies with which they had been en trusted (and of which they had been accustomed to take the ince rest), without making them any remuneration. He wished the clauses in the present instance to be gone through pro forma, and taked into consideration soon alter the holidays. Sir J -. GRAHAM wished to know If the Hon. Gentleman was willing to let the Bill be re-committed, as be was not disposed to give up any of his amendments without taking the sense of the House on them. Mr. H. MARTIN swished the measure to be• fully and fairly ton,ldered. The clauses of the Bill were then read preform, and the House having resumed, the Report wts brought up, and ordered to be Wien into turther consideration on Friday the 7th of May. GRANT IN AID OF PORTUGAL. The House having resolved itself into a Commit tee of Supply, Lord CASTLE REAGH, in calling the attention of the House to the'most gracious mes sage of the Prince Regent, as that to which it referred had been already several times before the House, and he not being aware that any thing bad occurred to induce thenf to depart from the line of policy they had pursued nor several years, he did not feel it ne cessary to go into the subject as it had been gone into on former octasions. Satisfied that in the present state of the war, Parliament would be ready to give to Portugal the same aid which it had formerly granted, he would not trespass longer on the tune of the House, but holding himself ready to give any explanation that slight • be required, or to meet any objection that might be urged, he should move pre cisely the same grant as had been made in the last year. He then moved, that a sum not exceeding 42,000,000 be granted to his Majesty, to enable him to continue in his pay the Portuguese troops now serving, and to afford such other aid to Portugal as circumstances might reqaire.—Agreed to. boric their whole Means . of ciAlito to tit WAIN cause. Mr. Mr. WilitalttAn hil t if thddottetittition thirb a gond one, it would be thodt iatisfactoty td find that it benefitted the people of Sicily. If it were felt to do this, we should have in Sicily an Ally very different froth what she had hitherto been, as till now there had always been a very Considerable party against gngland. The Motion was agreed to. MUM MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. Mr.W. FITZGERALD moved a Resolution for a grant of h'52,988 Is. Irish currency, to the Board of Public Works for the present year. This vote, after some remarks from Mr. Burma; and Mr. WYNNE ) which were replied to by Mr. PULE, was agreed to. The sum of 16 1 23,943, odd expenses of the Secre tary of State's Office, was voted without opposition. upon the next vote, £10,4500 for advertisements, proclamations, &c. Sir H. PARNELL opposed the grant, as tending to give Government an undue influence over the press of Ireland. Mr. W. FITZGERALD rebutted this charge, and explained the circumstances which rendered the expenditure necessary to the countr y. . WHITBREAD was against the vote, as to tally unnecessary. Mr. PEELE stated that these advertisements, Sec. were sent indifferently to all newspapers, whether fa vourable to the Government or not; and noticed, if this was an'evil, it was upon the decline, for in 1806 and 1807, when Hon. Gentlemen opposite were in power, instead of £lO,OOO, it amounted to upwards of £17,000. in each year. • Mr. BANKES saw no ground for opposing this grant, and thought it un f air to describe the applica tion of this sum as any interference with the Press on the part of Government. A desultory conversation ensued, in which a consi derable quantity of humour was bandied about. The speakers were—Mr. WHITBREAD, Mr. BARIUM, Mr. W. FITZGERALD, Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. BELL, Mr. CRoKER, Mr. Rosa, and Mr. PONSONBY. The Reso lution was then agreed to without a division. Several other Resolutions for sums were agreed to. Mr. W. FITZGERALD proposed an additional sum for the support of the Establishment of the Ro man Catholic Youth at Mayneuth. He thought that the Establishment should be extended ; at the same time, he was authorised by the persons concerned to say, that they did not by any means take a part in the' great queition at issue. The additional sum which he proposed would be £7OO pep annum. The Resolution for a grant of £1763, for the sup port of the Establishment at Mayneuth, then passed. NATIONAL DEBT. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed a Resolution for granting the sum of £260,000, to be paid into the Bank of England, and to be placed to the account of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, for the purpose of being applied by them in providing for six millions of Exchequer Bills. After some words from Mr. BANJUM, this Resolu tion was agreed to. WAR WITH AMERICA. Mr. LYTTLETON gave notice, that soon after the holidays he should make a motion on the subject of the manner in which the naval war has been car ried on with • the United States, and that to-morrow he would move for the production of certain papers relating to that subject. Mr. CROKE R WAS sure that the Admiralty would not have any objection to produce any papers con nected with the subject on which the Hon Gentleman had given notice of a motion. WEYMOUTII VOTERS' BILL. This Bill was read a third time, and after a few words from Mr. DAVIS GIDDY, who proposed a new clause, Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW opposed the clause. Mr. B. BATHURST spoke in favour it. Mr. Serjeant BEST thought the clause innocent. Mr. W. WYNNE said a few words, after which the clause being read a first and second time, went through a Committee of the whole House, the Re. port of which was received, and agreed to. Another Clause was pfoposed, which was nega tived. The Bill then passed. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. THE EVENING STAR SICILIAN SUBSIDY. Lord CASTLEREAGH said the next subject to which he had to call the attention of the Committee, was the Sicilian subsidy. The House would recollect that this was a grant to which the faith of the country was pledged. Regulations, however, bad been made , since the subject was before the last Parliament, which might supply an additional inducement to come to the Vote he should recommend.. He moved the grant of a sum not exceeding £400,000, to enable his Majesty to make good his engagements with the Government of Sicily. Mr. WHITBREAD wished to know what were the regulations alluded to by the Noble Lord, as . likely to induce the House to come to this vote with more than ujual alacrity, and whether the advantages held out were likely to be realized ? Lord CASTLEREAGH felt he might be to blame for not having gone mare into the subject. The treaty recently concluded with Sicily being be fore the House, he had assumed the House to be in possession of its contents. By that nearly two thirds of the subsidy were put under the care of the British Commander in Sicily, and were made generally ap plicable to the service in the Mediterranean. There were at pesent 6000 men actually serving in Spain who were paid out of the subsidy, which was much more generally applicable to the exigencies of the war than formerly. By the treaty, more than half the forces of the Sicilian Government were placed ender the British Commander. Mr. WHITBREAD said the Noble Lord had de scribed as regulations what, in point of fact, were sti. pulations. the 6000 men employed in Spain might undoubtedly be of considerable set-vice, and it was certainly a great amendment that the money was to be so applied which used to be granted so loosely. He wished to know of the Noble Lord, whether these vgulations which had been adopted it the suggestion (4 the British Government, were likely to produce thrAe political advantages to the people of Sicily and to this country, which had been held out as that which might be expected ? Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, it was a very great question which had been put to him. The Hon. Gentleman was aware that the basis of aConstitution had been laid down very different from that which was formerly the Constitution of Sicily. This was in progress of discussion, but was not yet finally com pleted. Re was sanguine enough to hope great ad vantages from it. He trusted it would prove bene. ficial to the Sicilians and their posterity, and secure their attachment to this country. The Honourable Gentleman was aware this country had never at tempted to exercise such a ceptrouling power in Sicily as would be inconsistent with the independence of its Government. It had been the endeavour of Ministers to unite the feelings of the peoples and era. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL' 3, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY ONE O'CLOCK: Reduced 581581—Cons. 591-4 per Ct. 7sia 5 per Cent. 881.11—Bonds Is. Ss. die.—Exch. Bills Sr. 7s. pre. Bank Long Annuities 1411- itStlis I—Lottery Tick. ,C 22. 9s. We have extracted from the Prench Papers a Sena tus Consultum, Calling out, or rather 'appropriating the new Levies for the defence of France. The Senators do indeed talk of once more bringing the Hanseatic Towns under subjection, and of chastising 'Prussia for her perfidy; but, as they have omitted from their calculations the growing strength opposed to them in the rising population of Germany, Hol land, and, may we not add, Austria ! we are not disposed to sound the tocsin of alarm for our Allies. The defection of General D'YonK with 15,000 men, occasioned a call for 350,000 fresh troops—the per fidy of his Sovereign calls for 180,000 more ! This is 44 employing great means to obtain durable successes" with a •engeance ! What is said of Denmark, we know to be absolutely false ; and it is gratifying to find that no mention is made of Austria in these vapouring speeches. It is evident that BONAPARTE cannot depend upon the Cabinet of Vienna. Even the Confederation of the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Holland, are spared the mortification of adding to these immense levies. To what but to his suspicions of disaffection can we attribute these exemptions ? We yesterday mentioned the proximity of an ami cable understanding between Denmark and this quo tilt • ire sto* lad that Count titititthriP hat been apPottiteci bt the bat& Govemmeic MiOstet to thts k is also reportdci, that a Danish force will co-operate with: the Allies In erehssany.— An t nglislt Gentleman ('Mr. JACKSON, wt believe,) had proceedlefrom Cuxhaven to Copenhagen, and he was afterwards to visit terlin. With respect to Sweden, the Camas Ilmsce has pledged himself to support the common cause. The following important document may be consi dered as the first public act by which the Court of Sweden has pledged itself in support of the common cause :. " STRALSUND, MARCH SO. 41 His Majesty the Emperor of the Flttricn, in the Treaty of January, 1810, agreed that Swedish Pomerania and the Princi pality of Rugen be given up to the King of Sw URN, and by the sth article of the same Treaty, it vas acknowledged by France that the right of conquest be abandoned, and that to Ssireden be conceded the quiet possession of the territory and revenue. The Emperor NArotrom violated this engagement by his unjust at tack on the country, and his entrance into it in the month of January of the last year, the sacredness of the Treaty was there garded, and the bonds which united Sweden.und France wore thus rudely torn asunder. " By this defiance of all deeency and neglect of solemn obliga tion, the rights and sovereignty df these possessions have reverted to the King my Muter, and, under these circumstances, I am authorised to declare, by his royal will and mandate, as tollows " 1. That his Majesty the King of Surrnen resumes the pos session of Pomerania and the isle of kuseti. " 2. That all Agents and Contractors for the French Govern ment ate to account for their receipts, and to pay their balances to such officers of the Pomeranian territory as shall be appointed " 3. That the territorial arrangements shall be according to the regulations of the !Convention of 1810, between Count Von EISEN and M. CAILAND. " 4. Thu if, contrary to all expectation, one or more of the Royal domains may have been transferred by the French posses- sor', the Ring, my master, will not acknowledge the validity of such alienation ; but he declares by these presents, that he wil l seize his property wherever he may find it, ordering, however, such investiptioo of the pretensions of the parties as justice may require. " All Public Authorities, Civil and Military, are to obey this Royal Mandate. (Signed) " Lkut.-Cen. SANDELL" .----- All the accounts from the Peninsula concur in stating, that, from the great efforts of the Marquis of WELLINGTON, the Army is nearly in a state to move forward on the enemy. His Lordship has 46,000 British, as fine troops as were ever brought into . the field ; 29,000 very fine Portuguese troops ; besides the Spanish armies now, under his own immediate command and controul. By the drafting of the horses and men of the 4th Dragoon Guards, the 2d German Hussars, and of the 9th and 11th Light Dragoons, and by the arrival of numerous recruits and horses, every cavalry regiment will take the field in complete order, and very strong. The artillery equipments are all of them almost knew, and they will go into the field in a very superior style. We have been 4 and 5000 artillery now, and an immense number of guns. When our letters left Lisbon, ac counts had been received that head-quarters were about to be moved in advatice into Spain at Ftiente Guinaldo, and . that the French had begun to steal away. His Majesty's ship NnHPHEN, Captain HANCOCK, has arrived at Yarmouth, to take on board several General and other Officers, mostly Germans, for the Continent. Major-General the Honourable CHARLES STEWART (brother of Lord CASTLEREAGH), and Co lonel FITZJANIES, are among the number. The following article is copied from a New-York Paper of the sth.of March :--" We are informed that all our Pilots have received orders not to bring any British packet, if sailing under a flag of truce, or otherwise, within the waters of the harbour of New- York." The Governor of Wanger-oog, a little island at the mouth of the Jande, and his wife, have made their escape from the French, and have arrived at Heligoland, where they surrendered themselves to the Governor. When our Readers shall have perused Mr. HOLT'S letters, (given in our last page) they will see that the caution which made us avoid publishing the cones pondence alluded to was not without reason. To cir culate more widely, by a re-publication, the produc tions of a person in a state of insanity, would savour off the very malady which has rendered it necessary to commit the writer to the care of Dr. WARBURTON. We hear that his Majesty's Advocate has indicted the Episcopal Minister at Perth, to stand trial at the approaching assizes there, for celebrating clandestine marriages.—Glasgow Chronicle. I3nEAD.—No alteration in the price this week : the quartern loaf, eighteen pence-halfpenny. Friday, in Haddington market, all kinds of grain experienced a declension in price of 4s. per boll. Another French prisoner, Louis Heriet, surgeon in the 70th regiment of French infantry, has broke his parole at Dumfries. EXECUTION AT IigoRSENIONOER-LANE.--This.morn- , ing Thomas Norman, William Haue/don (alias Moss), Thomas Boggington, and Thomas Francis, for divers burglaries, and Lake Martin, for coi n i ng , were , pur suant to their sentences, executed on a temporary scaffold upon the top of the New Prison, Horse monger-lane. The above unfortunate men were con ducted to the platform by the Keeper and several attendants between eight and nine o'clock, in pre sence of an immense concourse of spectators, who at an early hour had assembled to witness their unhappy end. They conducted themselves with becoming fortitude, and appeared perfectly resigned to their fates. They were attended on the scaffold by a Cler gyman, with whom they remained a few minutes in prayer ; and the remainder of the melancholy task being then assigned to the Executioner and his assis tant, they were launched into eternity, when their bodies, after being suspended the usual time, were cut down, and delivered to their respective connexions for interment. 1 . • - Tiff ARMY. • 'The Royal Pernbroke Rifle Corp, stationed at Antrim, have received their route to march to Dun. dalk this day, preparatory to their embarkation for England. There ate no* a great number of deserters destined for condemned regiments on board the hulks, at Portsmouth r flee hundred were lately sent to join the different corps assigned them in Africa, and the East and West Indies, The Dorset regiment of militia turned out their quota of 60 volunteers for the line last week, with great spirit, at Falmouth. The greater pa: tof them entered into the Queen's and 81st regiment. Saturday two hundred of the 19th Regiment of Foot marched into Portsmouth from the Depot at Hull, and embarked on board the Indiemen lying at the Motherbank. They are t' join their regiment at Ceylon. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The undermentioned ships, outward-bound, arti t i rived off Madeira, on the evening of the 18th of February last, via. —Essex, BRIDGEWATER, ATLAS, PRINCESS AMELIA, ROSE, MLTCALPE, BARING, MAR QUIS or' WELLINGTON'S also the country ships Novi- DENCE and CLAUDINE, under convoy of his Majesty's ship DAstmt.t3, together with the Brazil Beet, untie* convoy of his Majesty's ship ActurtoN. FALMOUTH, APRIL O. Arrived the SYLVIA cutter, from Gibraltar, In t5l days vats° a Prussian vessel, froth Bourdeaux, with salt, prize to his Majesty's ship DtspArcn.--Sailed the Prince Ernest packet for Lisbon.—Wind E. PLYMOUTH, APRIL IL Arrived this morning, a very fine American schooner, from New-York, with g cargo of colonial produce, bound to Bourdeaux, captured by the Fox- HOUND brig of war.—Sailed the COMET sloop of w.e and VIRAGO gun-brig, on a cruize in the Channel.— Wine South East—Fine. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 12. Arrived 111 1 PMajesty's ship AJAX, of 74 guns, Cap. tain Sir R. LAWRIE, from the Mediterranean, with dispatches from Lord Wm. BENTINCK, at Sicily, and Sir EDWARD PELLEW, off TORIOR ;—the lamr are landed, and forwarded to the Admiralty, but the former remain on board -with the Messentet, tint! the ship is released from quarantine—.of course they cannot be of Much importance. Sailed, the TUSCAN, of 16 guns, Captain JONES, on a cruize ; and SURLET cutter,' for Guernsey. The STIRLING CASTLE is ex pected to sail to•morrow, with the Indiamcn under convoy. NiAL: APRIL 12. The fog has been so thick the whole day, as to have prevented us from discerning any of the ship ping in the Downs ; but suppose, from the fineness of the weather, they are all well.—Wind N.E. HARWICH, APRIL. 12. The Lark packet, Captain SHERLOCK, sails this af• ternoon for Gotter•.burgh, with two Mails and a.num ber of passengers ; as does the Lord Duncan, Capt. HAMILTON, witlithe Hamburgh Mail. Mr. JACKSON, our Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Berlin, and many foreign officers, take their passage in her; as well as in the Little Auckland, Captain Lyme, that sails for the same plice. This town for these several days past has been thronged'with foreigners passing to and fro.—Wind South and very fine. YARMOUTH, APRIL 12. Yesterday P. M. arrived the NYMPHEN frigate flouts the Downs, and waits the arrival of some of the Royal Dukes (as reports state) for Hanover. Shipsas per last. COVE OF CORK, APRIL 7. Yesterday afternoon, the Newfoundland and Ha 17fax Fleets, with the CRESCENT man of war, that sailed from this harbour on Sunday morning last, was forced back by adverse winds, notwithstanding every • effort made to prosecute their voyage. The ROSA. MOND, Capt. CAMPBELL, came in this morning with more of them.—The return of the West-India Fleet, under convoy of the BEDFORD, &c. is spoken of as not improbable.—The Quebec Fleet of Transports, with the 19th Light Dragoons, the 41st regiment, and se veral detachments of infantry, under the SYBELLF, &c. are ready for a start the first fair wind. If the wea ther moderates, his Majesty's ship STORK, Captain GouLsoN, sails to-day for Loughswilly. The Hon. Colonel O'NEIL, M.P. for the County Antrim, and Major PARKER, go ont to Oanada, with the 19th Light Dragoons. Earl O'NEIL came down here to see his brother, and the gallant fellows of the 19th, off for America.—A large party of naval and mili tary Officers dined on Monday at Rostellan, the has.. pitable mansion of the Marquis and Marchioness of TROMOND, where Earl O'NEIL was a visitor. He set off for Middleton this morning, on his way to - Dublin Castle. Among our recent arrivals %ve notice that of Admi ral WHImHED, late Commander on this station. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. Captains—the Hon. Spencer, commanding the Kite, I. appointed to the Espoir, in the Mediterranean ; Purvis, of the Ganymede, to the Thames, in the room of Napier; Wm. Shepheard, under the flag of Rear-Admiral Hargood, at Guernsey ; Dutton, of Portsea, to the Plater, at Sheer ness ; and W. Stewart, late of the Revenge, to the San Josef, st Plymouth. Lieutenants— --. Russel, aho went out under Sir hues Yeo, is promoted to the rank of Commander; R. Barri iv, at Ha lifax, to the rank of Commando'. ; W. Knight (I), to the Expel - men!; J. Mandalay, to the Talbot; and R. Ctawford and J. Manton, to the Amelia. Chaplain—The Rev. John Baron, to the Fame. Pursers—Mr. William Christi the Northumberland, to the Poletlers; and Mr. J. Wilcox, of the Flsgard, to McGuigan& The Dexterity, of Leith, Captain DAVIDSON. for Davis' Straits, after experiencing very bad weather, returned to Stromness on thelOth March, with the loss of foremast and bowsprit.