Star. — London, England, 1806-06-09 00:00:00

•• •• • • t ir• 1.• • WoOkYMP4 - T f • 16 : 145 As the Duke' rt BEDFDRI3.4 4ithee wean" .I—h• reeeptlen of Company it the Ablry„ the . sates. sod Lomat win rake *!reel hod eheremitahl be aul • did:abated at the Park Farm. The BeGoe'h via br conducted soloiow s • MONDAY, JUNE 16. _.. _ _ MOE NlNC—Sf•ew of I.eieefteriaod South Down Tope. Prize Weaker., Si , :er-lhentity.:J•EV/SNING-3ale of Lekilter and &ail) Down Ewe. • • TURNMIY, lONN Ir. • MORNING—Show pf klettef6and :Devon Cattle, Prise We. th, radead. Prix, Theavei, ` ins, Trial of Implement.— EV ENI NG...l.rieefeer liboten Topulet, Bak of Here ford and Devon C•arle, Sale of Conti. Down Ewes. WEANESDAY, JUNE 4. LlORNlNGraSecond i Shor Leisetter and South Down Tap, Second Slips, 0r ftrefotil and Doron Cattle —EVENING— . • Leleetter and Soi..h Down Tupilet, Sale of Saudi Down Eons. Sale a 1 IlNlftrd atiatOstroir _ _ Nr4Rr raRiiPRuCEADIIvGS. HOUSE DiSI,CMDS, SATURDAY, JUNE 7. The Hou(emit 'tun o'clock this slay. and Mort- • ly after the new. Mutiny Bill was brought up from the Cuem ssss ,s 1. Mr:Alezander, who all's) prefented a pirate Bell.. -Thee Bills were tben feverolly read a full time. Lord SPENCER laid he &fluid propofe the. print-, ing of the Mutihy Bill juR hrought up from the Commons, in coofequence of fume new tend impor tant provitions it contained, which may produce smelt difference of opinion as well as dikullion in- that Houle. This proceeding, however, he wilhed it to be antlerdooell as not forming a precedent with rape& to-future-Mutiny 11.1 ls, which were very rare- , ly printed in that %Houle. The printed copies. &mid their Lordthips order the Bill to be ptintedreould, he thought, be on the table on Monday ; in which cafe it was his intention to move that the BiIL be read_ a remind time oasTitefday. - His Lortithip then moved that the Bill he printed, vihich , .-waa.bniersd accor dingly.- Adjourned nil Mondays tt - , [The arrival of Foreign Jownals on Sonrday obliged us to be more Mkt In our Repo., of the Debate on the Mutiny Bill klignW could blive siiiMM, particularly in detailing Mr. etc.- li • Maridatib'a Spreeh'oo that occafton, a terra! Copy of which 4irtfitow'ffilrjoinll .n- HOUSE OP COMMONS, FRIDAY, JUNE 6. • Mr. ADDINGTON began with laying, that if he had hitheritti , abflained from delivering any opinion ml the fabled' now under difeuffion, it was not be eat& hiebasi Met long fined f i rmed a very decided one. init•tilat AO hod not in the earlier debates ep- Pettryd en - hint Vote fiegidtrly before the Houle t on 'thetlere leff•he had ifeemprevented by indifpofition. nhiettlAight Inolotfieftti to have deterred him from then offering himftlf to the Speaker's notice. • It doseild; hOwever,:t44his !aft opportunity of delivering Riicentinients; , belh extremely painful to him to gisit sizfilont vote; Ibould make the effort of exe cuing the fitartiefic that he had impofed on himfelf, of (lacing (lone of the grounds on which he (hould fuprmt thii meatiiri, one of the moll important that had ever come undet legiflative difeudion, ittß Deka derails, into whiCh he was at that moment • phyTiciTly_irleompetent to enter. He Y 1161104, That on every oceafion when this queltion had beets , debated, his Right Hon. Friend, (Mr.Wirolham) hid been unhandfomely treated, and meafure been confidcred with a levity to which it'WA feet far from being entitled. It had, no lefs unieeotirttable than un)uflly, been termed a vagary, • Whilitia - halty theory, a crude and extravagant fps- Catmints. Now; if he undertiood at all what a holy theory -meant,• it was fomething fuddenly taken up, and inconliderately titled upon. This war a charge Which would come with but an ill grace from Gentle men nu the other fide of the Houle, who had week after week, anti day after day, been complaining of the time that had been taken to confider, to mature s anddigeß the plan at length brought forward, and who had been connantiy guiding on the propoftr of it, as if in the hope of a meafure being produced whick might better deferve fuch denominations. They were , no refs unjuilly applied, becaufe, however ulivt ! he was to rob hi's Right Honourable Friend of ad 'of the merit of it (and great merit he thought it had) he could not but consider it as a meafure of the whole Government ; he concluded that it mutt have Undergone dircullions in the Cabinet previous to its, adoption, and had fin doubt but that every Member of the Cajsinet, whether in that Houle or in the other, would readily avow his (hare in the rtfponfibility be longing to it. In that fort of refponftbility he could nn( participate ; but he was ready to participate with his Right Honourable Friend in the charge of being. ) a vifionary them 111 ; and, as a Member of Parlia ment; on the fuccefs or failure of this meafure, was willing to Rand or fall with him in the public elli motion, and in the opinion of polletity. —He had heard much regret repeatedly exprefied, that a motion of his Right Hon. Friend oppolite to him (Mr. Yorke), made fi.ime time )iota, for the produc tion of certain opinions of General Officers, had not been acceded to. Had he beet, lotion on that occa firm, he certainly (biotic! have concurred with the majority who refufed them, and pi incipally on the two following grounds ; tin t, lee t.nied that this quell lion had been referred to them at all ; he had Peen .a copy of the circular letter addrefled to them, and the points referred to them for ennlideration were. whether recruiting (imply for limited fervice would be preferable to unlimited; and, if adopted, whether it was likely to affetl the difcipline of the army? But • bete the Houfe was called upon to confider the adop Lion, not merely el let vice for one mint of years, but of limited fervice with a view to does fuccellive pe tiody, with the, inducement of progreffive rewards, anitheboped, progreffive ditlinaions ; and at the end of the third, with a liberal and permanent indepeto dente. By theft auxiliary ptorifions, the charafttr - esf the meafure was ft fobtlantively improved. and the orbjedlions to the ptinciple In completely removed, that it tweatre, in faft, totally different; In much fn, that ft would be pevfeilly cunfilient to fupport the one, Mod tnopp..le the other. In this predicament he R•icid ninieil t and by . the by, that great Soldier and - Sti•efinli (Lord Cornwallis), w ho - was one of the 0 ffieers f o cottßalimi. the advetfe to limited ferric. as , tl-Treunits was rut to him, was no left decidedly. w' opinion, that the dirci ; line of the army would not let :girded by its adomi.m. His other objeSion was, in which he agreed with the Honourable Gentleman haJ jult fat down (Ms. .4•ilhei torte) that it, was fpeakiiig, a wait:Hy 0....1ti0n at ail. ll was I.n 41i4relp0 t4lt h e soattilgtolheu Offs lead, Coen c.in o )tau to fay, t tat intelligent ha( pro,' non•commilTioned officers would be more competent judges of it, who had bees acculiomed to recruiting. and who knew the inclinations, the habits and the views of perfons of their own rank in life. In mart, he thought that little more was neceffary to qu-lily any perfon to from a competent lodgment upon it, than common retire, a knowledge of human nature, and an acquaintance with the national chara.ter. The predation of thole papers would therefore have been nugatory, in the view that he had token of them. If any demongrative proof was wanting to (hew the certainty of enereafed facility of procuring Re cruits for the one fervice in preference to the other, Gentlemen need only refer to the printed Papers on the Table, which had been ordered indeed with an other view, and to which fo much reference had beets made in difolging the repeal of the Parilh Bill, par ticularly and with fo mitch effea by his Friend (Mr. Hawthorne) near him. It would be reconciled by ad verting to No. z of thole Papers. that the explaining infpeftors who were fent forth by a late Secretary of State to fupercede the ditties of the whole Lieute nancy of the Kingdom, aimed to a man reported the g ate of ignorance in which they fooad the °redeem as to the provifions of that Bill ; fo complete was it, that they had even fuppnfed the men were to be railed for suifimited fervice. They bad, therefore, been uni. verfally quite hopelefs of fuccefs. But as loon as the new light dawned upon them, and this mirapprehen fion was removed, they intlantly became alert; were confident of fuccefs ; and did aaually experience Come in thole parts of the kingdom where alone under that Bill fuccefs was prafticable. And this too for a very inferior bounty ; which, with the certainty of great ravings by diminithed defer lion, mould betaken ascon fiderable fet-offs ageing the exaggerated flatements of the expence that would attend this meafttre, made by a Noble Friend of his (Lord Caftlereagh) on a former debate. Mr. A. laid, that nn a former oceafion he had heard, with confiders le furprize, apprehenfions exprelfed, that if this change in our military fyliern wasadopted, we fhould be in danger at a given period, of lofing at once the greaten part of our army. This fanciful alarm had been already fuccersfully refuted. But he would beg leave to put a cafe: Simpofe that we were at peace, that our peace ellabliffiment was so or 60,000 men, and that a war fuddenly breaks out ; in the firft year of that war, we fhould undoubtedly raife a larger number of men than perhaps in any rubrequent period of it—but for the firlt two or three years great addi tions mull be madeto complete our eftabliffiment, and the calualties mull at any rate be annually rupplied while the war Wed, which a Noble Lord had hated at rs,ooo men. He would take them only at to,ooo, confident as he felt that by the prefent meafure the frightful item of defertions would be utterly (wept away, and which had tall year been little (Lori of lie thouland men. Thus, then, is the cootie of ten years, Humid the war lag fe long, the Houfe would fee what large additions mug be annually made to our military eitablifhment, rublequent to the &It year 44; Co that, in Aft, none but what remained of thole railed in the firft year could claim their difcharge at that period. were they dais/sled to do 10. and that infinitely the larger proportion of the army mull continue their finite beyond it.aod could only be gradually releafed. This apprehenfion, therefore, was crake chimerical. He had Paid that he would readily participate with his Right Hon. Friend in the obloquy of being a raft fpeculator I he would go farther, and add, that he was much more fanguir.c as to the immediate fuc- ' eels of the meafure than the projeftor of it himfelf, who, in difelainring the expeaatinn of early good effeas from it, reminded him of the generous and manly policy which marked the conduft of our an cettors, who on all great occafions, not content with having recourfe to temporary and paltry expedients to meet the emergency of the moment (as was too much the modern prallice), teemed to be legiflating for fu:nre contingent difficulties, and for pogerity it felt. He admired and applauded this trait in his Right lion Friend's conduit ; hot owned, that under pt efent cit cuntgances he liked the meafure the better, Inatome!) as it apreared to him to provide a remedy not only for furore but for prefent evils. His opinion had not been haitily formed ; it had originated more than a twelvemonth ago, from the perofal of an inge nious paropitlet publifficd by a gallant Officer (Gen. Stewart), and had been confirmed by mature reflec tion. Ile would hate to the Houle, that under fuch impreffions, he had, in the cootie of the lag rummer, confulted feveral petfons who had raved in the so. my, and whom lie touts,: in the ranks of a Volan. leer Corps which he had the honour to command.-- They had one and all Paid that " it would be the making of the army ;" and fo confident was he that they (poke their real opinions, that he fhould be rut-- prized indeed if many of thole individuals were not among the forentog to take the benefit of this new military arrangement. His own opinions were thus fortified by what he could not but confider as good authorities. On fome former occafion he had heard with incr. predible allottilhment fome Gentlemen give it as their epinion, an! make it the ground of objeaion to the meafure now under cnnfideratiou, that " we are well as we are :"—and it teemed, though not in ex prefs wordr, in argument adopted by his Learned Friend on the bench below (the Mailer of the Rolls) who thought nothing more was neceffary than to per fill in our old fyilem. Well as we are I—Look at the Map of Europe (with whore inielefts our own r moil be ever conceited), and we fhould fee nothing there but France, written in large and frightful cha. rafters; with the exception indeed of two honourable and glorious powers, be meant Ruflia and Sweden, 1 whets fortitude and magnanimity would no doubt he I recorded in she brighten page of fount bianry. Well as we are t When we perceive from the Baltic to the Adriatic every p-rt, every naval miens!, in the bands of our implicable enemy, from which future refour co may be drawn to embarrafs and molar! us?— Well as we are! when we compare what Europe was even a twelvemonth ago (degraded enough then, but com paratively in a golden and Wept' date) to What the is now, when in additinn to the former partial fob itaion, we fee the great Powers of Naples. of Auntie and even of Prof& hetfelf, in a flats of humiliation, 1 proftration nr vaffalage ? And fimilar fentiments 11 - 6 had recognifed with furprife in an expreffion which be thought mull have been accidentally drop{ from a Noble Lord oppnGte to him on a former nighcs.wl feetned to think that the Government, and of co lt the country, wasrepoling nn a " Bed of Rofcse i r 7! ufed the term 47 , xidratal6r, Inca ufc he bad on fubAquent mentions more than once heart his Noble Friend admit, and indeed aroue upon, our increafed danger and Meanie:. Mete expreffions might be perlidaly innocent, as applied to the Government ; not 'fn, however, with regard to the country. He was fatisfied that they were uttered with no mil - chief/taus intention : but, coming as they did from relpcftable quarters. were they not calculated to produce the injtifious effect of parylifing the public fphit; of &flailing our coun trymen to believe that their effbrts and eiertions were no longer neceffary, and that the privations which they were obliged to endure, and the facrifices they were called upon to fubmtt to, arofe merely from the wanton rigour of a tyrannical Government? Nothing but his confidence in the difcernment and good fenfe of the people relieved him from the apprehenfion of fuch dangerous and fatal confcquences. But, he would afk the Noble Lord, whether the fragrance or the foftnefs of his Bed of Roles had been much im proved by events which had taken place fince that expreffion efraped him ? Was it by Prutha being added to the formidable catalogue of our enemies ? Was it by the ports of the Baltic being [hut againft our commerce ; or by the more rment event of Hol land having become, as it were, a part and branch of the new Freud' Dynafty ? Thefe may be con& dered as the unhappy confequences of the failure of the late confederacy, on the tallies of which he did, not think it neceffary to give any opinion. Under all there deplorable circumftances, however, we are told, k Sit with your arms before you—go on in the old routine—be content with a perfeverance in meatures which experience proves, and all admit, have, under lets preffing circumftances, proved inadequate, and with your eyes open to furrounding dangers, follow the example of the improvident thepherd— " Medicos adhiberc mamas ad valuta Mat " Maeda, ct atellora Dec. kact mina pafcessur If his Majefty's Minifters dared to adopt the advice thus given them, they would incur indeed a tremen dous refponfibility ; they would not only entail on themfelves eternal difgrace, but, what is of more confequence, and probably at no diftant period, ruin and deftruetion on the countr7 whore affairs were, committed to their charge. Mr. ADDINGTON Paid, that there were other topics which he'conld have. wilted to urge on the confide ration of the Houfe, but that he had not ftrength to go further. What he had already troubled the Houfe with had col him a painfitl effort. He had fame time fince heard from a Learned Friend of his oppn rite to him (Mr. Percival) that this meafure had created alarms from one end of the kingdom to the other; that the whole militar eftablifhment was Ms. hinged ; and that neither officers nor men fearedy knew whether we had longer any army at all. ft had been laid too by tome Gentlemen, that every military officer, whom they had confulted nut of dome, had concurred in condemning and reprobating the pro; poled alteration. Of thole alarms he had heard no thing, and did not believe that they citified except in his learned Friend's imagination; and he had a con frientious conviftion that this great meafure, fhould it be the pleafure of the Legiflature to adopt it, would prove not only completely efficient, but univerfally popular. He had converted too with many intelli gent military men out of doors on the Cubic°, and cluld fay with truth, that he had not met with one, no not one, who had not confidered it as affording the only chance of improving our military eflablilh• meat. To his undetftanding, it teemed calculated to anfwer every wife purple that prefent or future emergencies might call for. He fhould give it his decided fupport, -beeaufe, intlead of invading the Royal prerogative, he thought it eminently calculated to fix the Crown more firmly on the revered Head that wears it ; becaufe he was fat:afied that it would render this country for ever invulnerable and invin cible ; and that, whether with a view to the fuccefsful and glorious profecntion of the war, to the attain. went of peace, or to the prefervation of peace when obtained, it was not only expedient, but indifpenfibly neceffary. ' Under theft inspreffions, which he bad by no means overftated, be could have no alternative how to aft; and whatever night be the opiniorks, or fuppoted opinions out of doors, on the fubjeft, in quarters however refpeftable, and however he !right be generally difpofed to pay deference to, he had almoft laid to revere fuels opinions, he would not incur the falling Pelf-reproach of fhrinking from an explicit avowal of his decided fentiments on a qttef (ion, which involved, both at prefent and in future, the vital interests, perhaps the very lafety, of the country. LONDON. MONDAY, PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS Reduced 404-..Confols, for n PRICE OF STOCKS 3 per Cent. Red Ann. no* ; per Cent. Conf Dint 4 per Cent. 77 7 8 : Long Attn. E 7 Share Ann. t 7.16 India Bonds. to ilil , JUNE 9. Y AT ONE O'CLOCK. voting. 6ol—Omniurn 21 3. ; ON SATURDAY Imp. 3 par Cent. scot* ErchNuer Bilis, par 2$ dlf. Omni •m 3 pram. Englifh ticket. ail r 5.. Cour for arc. 6iii4 A heavy firing was heard yellerday forenoon at Dover, in thi dire ion of Boulogne, which began between ten and eleven, and Liled for about an hour, ruppoled to bave been oceafioned by one or more of our ernizers haring drifted near the batteries. It is expeCted that, as ufual, this will be magnified into a matter of pompous details by certain dealers in the marvellous. • The Barbadoes, Laws., from Barbadoes, is arrived at Lint pool : faded on the ;d of Mzy: when•fhe was getting under weigh, the alarm guns were firing at the fort in crmfequence of a fleet being feen wing ward, fuppofed to be that which failed from I%lmonth on the sBth March : on the 6th May the B.ttitdoes recaptured the Hornby, Cowaw, of Neweafile, for Jamaica, which had fcparated from the fleet. The L'Orient fquadron proceeded from Lagos to Bonny; and intended going to the Cameroon' and Gaboon: their objea is not fo much to capture as N &Atop ' The Diana packet, with a mail from New York and Halifai, has'arrived at Falmouth, in 14 days from Halifax, by which we bare received Ncw York papers to the Mr of May, three days later than do. tall received. • On the fubjeel of the Memorial prisfsqteo by the Mayor and Corporation of New York to the.Prefidest of the United States, reqtre(ting three, to be Pent to m i le the blockade , of New York, the p. OtOT of the New York Morning rldveriffer „ qlofervi!s. *it this could have arifen from no other motive titan a with to unmaj& the Adosigiflotiott, anCexpore the nakednels of the naval flrsteli ntut/of A!ttefics. The Memorialifts, the Editor .cuues, might is' well of hi' tit frigates I" have requefted 3o flilps t.l2sFori th ree The fame Paper tneritinns fr) a4i late,M . Of Congrefs, the number of fcameg 1 4resstietn Navy was limited to 925, while theT ifittisOy 'mount ed to 5229, which would render ayediptlyon of the naval force neceffary,rather than att The Ann r. 4 Advcriffir of thi . litty, con taiga Abe two following paragraph, : By the . fchootter Supply, arrived at llailluitr i titrom jacquamel, we. learn , that the Leander;, baps., with General htta#sega and his troops, faile‘from thence for the Spaaltit Main on the sail' March, and would probably arrive about the todt or uth of April.— The Leander was chafed by w French frigate in lat. 33. loops. 68. for (even hours, and efesped by fupe• floci.Oiling;liotAd a large 'hip off Poplar Ifland, fitPpo&si so be the Diana from Liverpool. &aria of a letter from a Gentleman at ton to his friend in Philadelphia, dated April 30, e6b; " We have kill received the intelligence froti'Nett York of the murder of Pigmies by a Ihot LIAKDIe. it has produced a ((tong fenfation and it is Paid that ea. Pat.:Liras will be ordered'; mediately for New Turk, and that every, vetel sdiak can carry a gun will be immediately gut in readiieN and that Congrefs will be funimonedto meet to ealik as the middle of June." Some of there papers cnntrai33 th l k ed i t of Maaamtra having a/instil! i main, but hate that all *eget)* Are, in' Ratyrk that there. have been Tfeveral feritfs , istireiMikm South America, fuPpofed to be'coodada . *lips of Miranda. ' , roc • .:74:111105 . , : LOSS OF AN "' • We are Awry. t o lite that tap;a , itc guns, arrived at. Pairtftesooth, intetligeoee WI( received of the total leaf. of?, the outward bound, commanded by captain She failell' cnmpan; Ali 'We on 'the t March from Pottirruinth;inlf Continued ' with them till the day fhe was lo ft , ',bids h4pened on the aoth April. She (truck on a . funken rock between St. Jago, and Bonevitia at two in the morning of that day, and before nine o'clock the went entirely to pieces. The number of perfons on board the Lady Borgefs was 18. s ; and we are Corry to Rate, that thirty-Iwo not of this number perifhed. Among the latter are Mr. cock, the Chief Mate, and Mr. Dice, the Purfer; as aim Meffrs. MONK, Bruer, and lErn, Cadets. All the tea of the Paffengers and Officers, eke.. were faverf. The fleet failed frons'St. Jigri, on the rith April, • and on the 1$;11 were left la' lit. 9. long. 10. 17. When the fhip (ruck it omo fine wei• ther, and the was nearly in the centre of the fleet... ? The Lord Melville alfo ftruck, but came off again without damage. Captain SWINTON rams 00024 Ja the ',wealth We underfland that. Mr. BOND has refigned the poll drudge Advocate General, in confequence of an arrangement, by which the official reports are its future to be made to the Commander in Chief its. Read of his MAJsarr. Mr. BOND conceived, that the charailer and iefpeelability of the office would Idler from fuch a change in a very .honourable part of its duties, which has been confidered as adding dihinc lion to his predeceffors. It has not however been the invariable pratlce for the Judge Advocate General to arakftit Rhea : wag and permoal communication to the leitig 'The , prac tice was introduced when 1• 01 4 lickito.olo44l4l the office of Secretary at War, arieliiir,Cortar.va,bloa• out the !lumina of judge Advocate Cgosral... . The apriorment of the Loft' . tatfa i elrbitt to the Office of Governor General of [Witt', has been again difapproved ty the Court of Diredors.— Another Meeting was held at the India Houle, on Friday, when a divifion took place on this important queltion. The refult of it was, that out of the twenty.fnnr Direttors, twenty voted againd the ap pointment of his Lordfltip, 'three lisppoitedlital and , bne, who would have voted id his fairOith' • ab fent through indifpcfition. Previous .19 i gb.h . urt A Wii o breaking up, the Members came to a refolonon to prefent a Memorial to Government, in s whick they confent. that the nomination flvail proceed, from Mt nilters, but upon the condition that the • pearls fo no- • minated ihall pail's their iull'coofideuce. - Tire me morial, we underdand, was fent in.on Saturday. It has been mentioned, thacwith a 'view ict corn prornife the difference fubfiiking between the Board of Controul and the Company, the Governor,Gene ralfhip has been offered to Lord . Howica, attd re fufed. • The Second Report of the Commiffinners 'frit en goi,ing into the civil affairs of the Navy, which has j•tfl been publinsed, Oates, that the adital &Wks of the officers in the dock yards are fo impeEEeilly un. derflood, that at: officer who may have •fervedhalf his life in one yard, would, if removed tbalibthel;•be ' ac ignorant cf his duty as if he never had'fieentitrthe fervice. It obferves, that great incoftveuielfice•ind difficulty have in confequence ■rifer in thd• Mamige ment of the lanfinefs at the Navy Office ; anti' that to remedy this evil, the Commit ners have drawn up inarnaions fftr all fuch officers and their affißants. There intirnpinns, which occupy tiSs pages, art an naiad to the Report. I r~ l f