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a Thtday was published, In Octavn (the Fecond ECi•ion,) price Ms. 6d. boards, GusTAvus VASA, AND OTHER POEM S. By W. S. WALICF.R. PAnted for Longman, Hurst, isres, Orme, and Brown, Pater noster-row ; and at the Bri:N?: Gallery, 54, New Bond street. nig day was published, in gvo. price t 42. hoards, A SKETCH of MODERN and ANTIENT GEOGRAPHY, for the Use of Schools. • By SAMUEL BUTLER, D. D. . . Head Master of tare P.oyal Free Grammar :School of ShrewNbury. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,Ortne, and Brown, Pfeer roster-row, and R. H. Lvan,, Pall-Mall, London : toll also by Dighton and Sons, Qin:bridge; and Parker and Cooke, Oxford. This day was published, ilantlsointly pridted in 1 v'o Vols. bvo. price XI. Is. boards, A SERIES o! POPULAR ESSAYS, illustrative of Privciples essentially connected with the improvement of ti.e Understanding, the Imagination, and the Heart. By ELIZABETH HAMILTON, Author of Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, i:i.ttagers of Glenburnie, &c. Printed fur Longman, Hurst, sees, Orme, and Brown, and Cadeli an, Davies, London ; and Manners & Miller, Edinburgh. - _ P4PERS RESPECTING THE SWEDISH TREATY, LAID BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. substance of the Engagements between the Courts of St. Peters burgh and Stockholm, signed at St. Petersburg+, the .24th of . March, 1812, so far as the same are referred to la the Treaty between his Majesty and the King of Sweden, signed at Stockholm on the Sd of March, 1813. The object of the Emperor of Russia and the King of Sweden, in forming an alliance, is stated to be for the purpose of securing reciprocally their states and possessions against the common enemy. The French Government having, by the occupa tion of Swedish Pomerania, committed an act of hos tility against the Swedish Government, and by the movements of its armies having menaced the tran quillity of the Empire of Russia, the Contracting Parties engage to make a diversion against France and her allies, with a combined force of 25 or 80,000 Swedes, and of 15 or 20,000 Russians, upon such point of the coast of Germany as may be judged most convenient for that purpose. As the King of Sweden cannot make this diversion in favour of the common cause consistently with ti e security of his dominions, so long as he can regard the kingdom of Norway as an enemy, his Majesty the Emperor of Russia engages, either by nttocia tion ot by military co-operation, to unite the king dom of Norway to Sweden. He engages, moreover, to guarantee the peaceable possession of it to his Swedish Majesty. Thetwo Contracting Parties engage to consider the acquisition of Norway by Sweden as a prelimi nary niilitai y operation to the diversion on the coast of Germany, and the Emperor of Russia promises to place for this object, at the disposal and under the immediate orders of the Prince Royal of Sweden, the corps of Russian troops above stipulated. The two Contracting Parties being unwilling, if it can be avoid( d, to make an enemy of the King ot Denmark, will propose to that Soveteign to accede to ti;is alliance, and will offer to his Danish Majesty to proema for him a complete indemnity for Nor way, by a territory more contiguous to his German dominions, provided his Danish Majesty will cede for ever his rights .:o the kingdom of Norway to the Kin g cf . Sweden. In case his Danish Majesty shall refuse this offer, and shall have decided to remain in alliance with Trance, the to o Contracting Parties engage to consi der Denmark as their enemy. As it has been expressly stipulated that the en. gagement of his Swedish Majesty to operate with his troops in Germany in favour of the common cause, shall not take effect until after Norway shall have been acquired by Sweden, either by the cession of the King of Denmatk, or in consequence of military operations, his Majesty the King of Sweden engages tp transport his army into Germany, according to a plan of campaign to be agreed upon, as soon as the above object shall have been attained. His Britannic Majesty to be invited by both Powers tp acct.:de to, and to guarantee the stipulations con tained in the said Treaty. By subsequent Convention, signed at Abo, the 30th ot August, 1812, the Russian auxiliary force was to be carried to 35,01 i /0 ynen ? An Account of oil's of :charge drawn on the Lords Commif. col ors (.1 Li. Majvsly's Treasury, and of Monies issued under thr:r 1 ordshiy.' Wacrauts, for the Sery se of the :'wedisla Go • s.trttn , ent, in vltalt, of die 7 teaty of the .? , ,1 March, 1813. bills than by Ee:watd TI ornton, E.sq. accepted by order of the Lords C't mmi,sion:rs of his Majesty's Treasury, and which were l aid prior to aLd on the lotb June, 1813: Date of Bills. Late of Payment. Sums. 11;13. .11113. )(latch 0 - - - May 5 - . . 18,324 19 1 a - - 27 - - 10,000 0 0 13 • 17 - - 15,067 8 7 1' - 31 - . 11,0r.0 0 19 - - June 11 - • -11,4 U 10 10 5;2 - - 16 . . - 12,1^.6 17 8 69,9p7 16 2 inls aipwr. by Edward Thnrozon Esq. accepted by order of the ~.olds Loninoc,iotte;s of hi% M. , jr.ty'... Treasury, and which become due eubsequciatly to el:e 10:11 of June,l6l3 : Date of Bill 4 Late when Due. - Suiu. 1813. 1813. Niarch 25 . la . 'nue 17 , • ' 9,354 9 7 Aird s - . 9 . - 7 5,427 10 1 10 - 7 - 24 7 - - 11,300 12 2 16 - - 28 - - - 284102 12 2 24 - - . Joly 5.. - - 3107 17 9 iTay 1 s 13 - - - 36,291 710 14 - t.. I. 4 - - - 23,C00 0 ti £144,991 9 7 klonie6 iatied to Baron de Rebaucrn, by the Paytnaster-Gene ril, under warrants of the Lurds Conallirgduners of his Ma je*ty's 11 arrant dated Ist inne, 1018, - Z 75,000 0 0 1411.0 - - - - - - 75,C00 o 0 150,000 0 0 Mal - ai. 364,902 6 9 Memortndurn of Swedish troops an ived at Stral mind rnreiin Office, Jane )6, ma. It appars by the latest advicts received from his 11lajesi.} 4 s savants on the Continent, that successive divisions of S‘ , e(!ith troops had arrived at Stralund, from their different p juts GI enilmrkation in Sweden: ezclusiye of a corps oi -, nt to ithetm twenty IARLIAWNTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 16. In the cause 1, Tsmkins and the Attorney-General," Mr. Scaittar was heard in reply. Judgment on Monday. In the case " The Earl of Morton and Stuart," Sir S. Ro atittv and Mr. HORNE& were heard for the Appellant; and Mr.ADAP4 and Mr. BitouGHAM for the respondent. Judgment on Friday. In the case of 1, Scotland and Mercer," Sir S. Itostitty was Leard for the Appellant. Further proceedings on Monday. The Militia Bill was read a third time : the Election Writs' Bill committed: and the Pall-mall and Mary-la-bonne Park street Bill, the Irish Cotton XII, an d ot h er+ , were b roug h t up from the COMMODS, and read a first time. Lords Sr. - VINCENT and CLitts, acrd the Bishop of Rocats- TEa, took the oaths Lord Worrwoalli was introduced by Lords MELvitis arid Sins! o urn, and the Earl Mar.dial (Duke of Noarotit), and took the oaths and his scat as a British Viscotiut. Lord LIVERPOOL laid on the Table the Papers which he had agreed to produce in regard to the Swedish Treaty.— Adjounacd. th e total stressgth of %Mc!' (ex, Porneianeitit,) is stited W itaiui dlicht tnen. HOL'SE OF COMMONS, The Irish Schools Ilia, en the motion. of Mr. Put, was read a third time and passed. Mr. ROSE brought in a Bill for the better ascertaining of the Value of Goods exported, duty free, which was read a first, ...nd ordered to be read a secoed time to-morrow , and to be printed. Mr. CA.LCRAFT moved, that there be laid before the Hwise an Account of the real Value of Goods exported from Great Bri tain to all pans of the World, during the years from 1 tiO3 to 18151,indthive, ctistioguishiog those exported to the United States of America.—Ordered. Mr. WHARTON moved the orar of the day for the third reading of the New Street Bill, which, after some remarks from Mr. Ciacaiter, on the propriety of having a sufficient fond fur paying ed compensation, was read accordingly a third time and lh,• '1 he commitment of the Irish InsoLena Debtors' Bill was post poned till Tuesday nest. The Loan Bill passed through the Committee, and the Lottery Bill was read a second tints, and ordered to be committed to morrow. The Bill for Preventing the Illicit Distillation of Spirits in Ire land, (by imposing penalties on the districts where any illegal were found) was read a first time, and ordered for a second reading to morrow. Mr. W. POI.E came into the House soon after, and gave no tice, that he should oppose the Bill on a future stage, as he con ceived it a measure of great Injustice, and it was generally repro bated while it was In force in Ireland. SWEDISH TREATY. Mr. PONSONBY rose to ask the Noble Lord (Lord Ca.•i Je• resgh) whether he merely intended, on Friday, to confine him . se.f to reftrring the Treaty to the Committee of Supply, or whether he meant to move any address upon the cccaskin ? Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that be only me,uit to move that the Treaty should be referred to the Committee of Supply. As to moving an Addri.ss, he thought such a measure would be quite unusual. Mr. PONSONBY then gave notice, that lie should make a motion e.n Friday, either before the Speaker should leave'the Chair, or upon his resuming it, to call foe the opinion of the Noma upon the merits of the Treaty 'tat*. Mr. CANNING said, he apprehended the Right Lion. Con demn aid not mean to involve the question of Supply u idh his motion, but merely to take the sense of the House vu tLy stpu lations of the Treaty. 114 r. PONSONBY said, that it was cert&nly not hi.r hl!ention to privunt the execution of the hatpin which bad bull entered into with Sweden, but merely to hriz.g the st!pu:ations of the Treaty before the consideration of the tiouse. He had not )et made up his mind, whether he should make :its motion previous to the Speaker's leaving the Chair, or on his resuming it. Lord CASTLEIIEAGH then brought up certain pipers which had been moved for on a former night ; tiamtly, the 'dirt:lnce of the engagemont entered into between the Courts of Stockholm and Pctersburgh, in 1812 ; the account of money paid on account of the Swedish Treaty; and also the date of the landing of the Swedish army at Stralsund. '1 he Innkeepers' Bill was then read a third time and paiscd. EAST-INDIA (WES 110 N. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved the order of the d.►y for the further consideration of the Resolutions. After a short conversation, he agreed to postpone for a short time the Third Resolution. The Fourth Resolution was then read and unani mously agreed to. Upon the Fifth Resolution being read, Mr. CREEVEY conceived it to be like infatua tion to be still anxious in laying down plans of ap propriation of the diff,erent parts of the Corn. pany's revenue, when all former appropriations had uniforMly failed. The Resolution was then put and agreed to. The Sixth Resolution was unanim6usly agreed to. On the Seventh Resolution being read, Mr. CREEVEY said, that he felt convinced that the Company, in stating their accounts, would con tinue to do as they had hitherto done, and set down every evil that befel the concern, to political causes, over which they had no controul ; and all the good to their commercial prosperity and their own ma nagement. chis Resolution was also agreed to. The tightly Resolution was given up by Lord CASTLEREAGH for the present, as he intended to effect the object of it by a separate Bill. On the reading of the Ninth Resolution, Mr. CREEVEY gnd Mr. PRESTON objected to the Company being allowed to declare dividends as they thou& proper, and pay them out of the territorial revenue, when, parliaps, the commercial revenue had entirely failed. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the dividends fell naturally not on the territori 41 revenues, but en the net proceeds of their commercial profits. He be lieved that those profits had been sufficient to pay the dividends thre-a_.;hent the - whole of Ole term last granted ; in fact, they could not take any thing from the territorial revenues to pay their dividends without the express sancion of the Board of Controul. Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought they ought to bc obliged to come to Parliament for authority to divert the territorial revenues to this purpose, if it should be necessary. He thought they now did so in an in direct manner, by loans, fur the purpose of invest ments, which were afterwards charged as an - ..ong their commercial profits. This Resolution was also agreed to. The Tenth and Eleventh Resolutions were then agreed to. . Lord CASTLEREAGI-I then proposed the con sideration of the Third Resolution. Mr. BARING wished much that k could be post poned till to-morrow. He had seen Mr. Tierney to day, who was still unwell, but hoped he would be able to attend to-morrow. He should hope that the remaining Resolutions, about the propagation of Christianity in India, would not produce much dis cussion. If they were likely to produce discussion, he thought they might as well pto,eed to-night with them, and postpone the Third Resolution till to morrow. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that he felt eve►y disPo.siiion to accommodate the wishe(i l f the Gen tlemen on the otl it side ; hut the question was ul 'Luc urgency, that hy liiyl q .t feel himself jusiit t ed iu ! postponing it, especially as there was so much other business fixed for to-morrow•. - I • The Third Resolution was then read. Mr. BARING mid i he should then offer the Amendment which his Right - Hon. Friend (Mr. Tierney) intended to propose to the House. He con ceived this to be a question'of great delicacy—it was making a kind of experiment. What he meant to submit was, that vessels going from any Port of the kingdom, should be made to return to the Port of London. It might be proper to allow vessels to sail to India from all parts of the kingdom ; hut they ought to be made to return to London. This would tend to t!..e interest of the Merchants; but he thought it would be better to have this regulation adopted fur a limited time. He concluded with moving, as an Amendment, " That the Importations should be into the You of London for the period of five years." . Mr. GRENFELL supported the Amendment. Sir J. NEWPORT differed from the two Hon. Gentlemen who spoke last, as well as from the Noble Lord. It was a mere delusion to sa) that any ad vantartwould arise to the Public from opening the trade, if all the ships, aft er t h e i r voyage o f delusion, were obliged to come to the Port of London. could the Merchants derive any advantage from the trade, if they were to labour under this restriction. He had unfortunately failed in his endeavour to re sist the whole of this measure altogether ; but as be was unable to induce the House to throw open the trade entirely, he would now use his endeavours to mitigate the system that was intended to be esta blished. Mr. FINLAY spoke in favour of the Resolution for opening the trade. He opposed t'le Proposition . for compelling Merchants fitting out ft om the Out ports to return to the Port of London. This would be at once to take away al] the benefits of the exten sion of the trade to the Out-ports. The Hon. Mem ber also condemned, as most inischii. veils, the cry which had been set up, that the exteasion of the trade to the Out-ports would ruin the trade of the Port of London ; ths was a most dangerous fallacy. In his opinion, if the trade were thrown open, the trade of the Port of London would he greater, at the expira tion- of 10 years from the'present time, than it ever had yet been. With respect to the assertion, that the revenue would be injured by the increase of smug gling, should the trade be extended to the Oaf-ports, he was prepared to say, that the revenue. was as cur- 1 cctly collected in the Out-ports as it was in the Not of London—nay, more so, for there was no smug gling in the Out-ports—(a Mr. PROTHE ROE said, the Bon, Member who had moved this Amendmeot had said, this trade would prove to the Out-ports a trade of delusion and disappointment ; and he had given such advice as, if adopted, would go to verify his predictions. As if the vessels sailing from the Out-ports wete compelled to return to the Port of London, it certainly could pro duce to the Met chants concerned nothing but loss. Mr. R. THORNTON conceived it his duty to • enter his most solemn protest against the measure pro : posed to be adopted by this Resolution; and though, as the lesser ev;l, he was inclined to support the amendment proposed by his Honourable Friend, yet he considered even that as attended -with danger.— ; He complained, in the most energetic terms, of the hardships which that class of persons must inevitably who ha d been brought up a n d e d ucate d experience for, and had afterwards embarked their property in, the Company's concerns, upon the promises held out to them by Parliament for two hundred years :past, and who were now to be set aside to make way for rash speculators. It was the practice to say, whenever the hardships to the Company was alluded to, ig Why, your lease is expired !" True, the Char ter, or Lease, as it was called, was expired. -rut, to carry the comparison further, what was the con duct of a landlord on the expiration of a tenant's lease, if that tenant had acted well ?—why, to renew the lease to him, rather than to any other persom.—i- The opening of the trade to use Out-ports was a mere delusion to Them—it could never produce them, any good ; but, whenever this d e l us i on was a ll u d e d to by those who favoured the Company, it was said, if it was a delusion, it was a delusion of their own seeking, and one for which the Out-ports were loudly clamorous. This sort of argument reminded him of the old song of Mrs. Bond and her ducks, where the ducks were tempted by a pretended [won held out to them, and a cry of " dilly, dilly, come and be killed ;" and when the ducks came of their own accord, it was said they sought their own death. The Honourable Member then adverted to the danger which would arise to the Constitution of India by the proposed al teration in the system ; and observed he could not, lon this occasion, help repeating the words of an emi- ; nent Statesman, now no more— ,, perish our com merce; let the Constitution live." To adopt the pro. posed regulations would, in his opinion, endanger the safety of our Empire ; and therefore be should give it his most decided negative.—Mr. !INLAY explained. Mr. GRANT repeated his former arguments in favour of the Company, and opposed tiler clause alto gether. Mr. ROSE thought it would be most conducive to i the interest of the Company fur them to submit to the terms held out to them ;* he thought it would be for ! the interest of the country that the trade should be ' ; extended to the out-ports. With respect to the dan ger to which the revenue, it was contended, would be exposed, he saw it not; he was not apprehensive of any great increase of smuggling in the out-ports. He was persuaded the greatest facilities afforded to smug gling was in the ship's way up the River. That great quantities of goods were run both on the Kent and Essex sides of the River was a well-known fact; the creeks on each side the River afforded such facilities Jo it, that not any regulations which it had been found possible to adopt, had been of sufficient force to do it away. He had paid particular attention to this part of the subject, and in his opinion, after the most mature consideration, he was persuaded, no evil of the kind apprehended would arise, He was per suaded the smuggling in the out-ports was not equal to that in the port of London; not that the inhabi tants of the out ports were more virtuous, but the fact WAS, they had not ;he opportunities of doing it which existed in London. Mr. Rose then entered into a statement of the probable duties which would become payable in the out-ports, which, he said, could nut exceed 5e58,000, and supposing half was evaded, that would not amount to Ar 30,000, he did not mean to treat that sum lightly, or as of no consequence, but when 1 f olibiden s i mut; it w o f ioect with # vim tq great national good, he thought the risk Wit fat from being unwise or impolitic. Colonel THOMPSON maintained that the men chants in the outports were as capable of judging for their own advantage as the Directors of the East. India Company could direct them. lie, as a Repre. sentative of Hull, had no hesitation in saying, tha t his Constituents could fit out as good ships as the East India Company, and he was sure they could do it at much less expense. They had already fitted out ship s in which Captain Cook and his companions went round the world, and who could afterwards say, that they could not build ship to trade to Bengal ?---(Mar, hear.).—He believed what the advocates of the CO M . parry said, that they fitted out their ships as cheap as possible, but he knew that the outport merchants could do the same thing at little more than half the expense. In a conversation which he held with a very respect. able' ship-builder in the Port of London, and wile built many ships fur the service of the Company, he leernt that the builder charged about 440 per ton for building every ship, but he candidly acknowledged, that were he not bound by the direction of the Corn. pany, he could build ships fit for the Bengal tiade at the rate of 415 per ton. (Loud cheering). He woali wish the House particularly to remark the evidence of Mr. Innes, who was a very respectable London merchant, and it would be there found that that Gee tleman having a private ventate to India, seas AC. tunny compelled to pay the Company £lO per eta for freight home, whilst he himself could g et i: dere for £2O. (Hear, hear.) It might be s a id , the Com pany did not derive much profit from private trade. He would admit it ; but he understood every Gaptaie had three servants to attend him, and every Mee had one, whilst a band of m us i c c h eere d t h e pes , enetes and ship's company with their instrumental per.or. nuances. He would not say that such things %eel not requisite for the converienee and amusement of those who went out in the Company's ships, Lut ae wished his Constituents to be. allowed an opportunity of shoving whether the India trade could not he car ried on without such accompaniments. (11:ar, bear.) With regard to the petitions which appeared feet' shipbnilders :tad others on the banks of the Thamce, he could designate them only as foolish and ridica. Taus. They reminded him of a petition presented to the King in the 15th .century, by the inhabitants of the few': of Bridport, wherein they stated, that for many years they had made :Ind ( - s i eved !IA ws-ri and caeles, end therefore they prayed that no other p. rice's ten theniselees in the kingdom sim , ild for he I.tt• me be per mitted tomaieur expo! t hawsers.and cab:es. (.d He had also seen another petition which was wee: teed soot; atter by the manufacturers of .!orcestee pray ing that no inhabitant of the adjacent villages should be permitted to make cloth.—(4 Such petitions might in the present age seem very , foolish, but he th oug h t t h ey were at least equalled by the Snip-builders and others on the banks of the Thames. (Cowiaued laughter,) Such were the regulations at the Company at present, that no pri vate trader could send a ship beyond the Cape of Good Hope without their licence, and he understood that even the Government could not send a thief to Botany Bay without their permission. He knew a very worthy alderman who obtained a licence to carry convicts to Botany Bay, and to bring back a cargo of wood, but on the return of the ship, the wood, which cost hint £353 in New South Wales, was sold by the Company for 850 ; and when the owner called tor an account of sales, sixteen months after, he was ap teed of his unexpected success. (Loud laughter.)-• pamphlets had appeared upon the question of late, among which was one written by a Gentlemen, (no doubt well qualified to give a disinterested opinion) in which it was grave ly sweet, that the poli t ic a l and commercial regulations of the Company approached as near to perfection as possible. (el laugh.) Really such misrepresentation was too gross to be endured; but, in answer to this he would quote another pamph let, very recently published, wherein it was stated, oa the authority of private letters from India, that dte Company's Agents had there of late imposed a duty of eight per cent. on all the cotton trade of privets merchants there, while the Company's cotton trade paid nothing. He hoped Government would take care that such an imposition should not long be con tinued. (Hear, hear.) Much had been said of the difficulty of preventing private traders from smug% gling ; but how came it that Government kept vesseis of a peculiar construction for the purpose of watching the motions of an test India fleet, on their ccming near a British port, while no such precauiion was taken at the - out ports. (ell laugh.) All he want ed for the out ports was a fair and open trade to India, and the interior, and he had no doubt of their success. Sir W. CURTIS said he was astonished to hear the Hon. Gentleman who sat down last adduce il:e failure of an Alderman in a speculation to Botany Bay -as an argument against the East-India Com pany. That Alderman, (whoever he might be,) seemed to know very little of the business of a mer chant, although the part of the country to which he presumed him to belong was allowed to produce men of very acute knowledge— (A laugh.) With respect to the shipping employed by the East-India Con pany, he would appeal to any man of sense, whether they could be built for £23 per ton ? Could any pri vate ship, built at such an expense, be capable of contending against an enemy of the description op posed to the ships of the Company ? or could such private ships be fit for the service of the country, in the event of a war breaking out, under such circurnr stances as the Company's shipping had to contend with Mr. COURTENAY said, that the promoters of the Amendment had called on the House to adopt an untried, unmitigated, and outrageous monopoly. He considered that the natives of India had a right to all the advantages which a free trade, assisted by the capital of this country, could confer upon them. He called on the House to reject the Amendment altogether. Mr. MARRYATT was convinced that it would be a great many years before the vessels of the Out, ports would arrive at the same perfection in smug. gling . with those of the Company. Unless the car• tal of our merchants were vmpLiyed in mutual ad. vantages to this country and to India, and our rs• sessions {bread, it would lee * j ust as useless as it it had remained in the mines ‘sois.ll pioduce,i it. Hu th;refore supported the origii,ai Resolution. 114. FOR tit. 4 also supp.nied the Res.ilution.— * kotwi that 4; SD; 4cunbily itiataly sales, 1.4"0 Sco sell rat , the per inn An tba be ebo me of ] ten a t c glue to V ISM ten van trai this nity last and disc disc mei, whe tits then sent deb; ogre leav tpcx PRI( Re 4E Ex Ma