Star. — London, England, 1812-02-07 00:00:00

iti he 4st e j, The fact spoke for itself, and could notlnett." troeerted by the statement of figures to which the Ri o t Hono urable Gentleman had resorted. The he , last question had to put, and to which he tho ug ht the House required an answer, was, whether it were t he intention of Government to propose the renewal of the Ch ar ter of the If East India Company, d ur i ng t h e present Session .satisfactory replies were not T hen to these interrogator i e s, he s h o uld feel himself wind to vote against the motion proposed. Lord FOLKESTONE was of opinion, that if the R epo rt of the Committee now proposed were not very ( *rent from their former statements laid before Par j tent, little or no useful information relating to the question of the renewal of the Charter would be ob. , t ined from k. It was trues as had been said, that t h e se Reports had produced some beneficial effect, but only to the Company, since upon them two loans t o the East India Company of £1,500,000 had been f oun d e d, but they comprised no opinions regarding t he great question of policy, and no examinations of pewit s, who, from local knowledge, could thronr the faintest light upon the subject. One Hon. Gen tleman on the other side of the House had stated, that t he Report was prepared, and that it only awaited t h e a ppointment of a Committee, that it should be Lid upon the table. If such were the fact, it would b e a mere farce to accede to the motion proposed, since a Committee of the House was not to be de- ' graded to an o ffi ce that a messenger could perform, 'that of bringing the Report into the House. With , eg ard to the receipt of the Income Tax, it might be 4/ well to compare figures with figures, the account of one quarter with the account of another ; but, as S tates men, it was most fit that other matters connect ed with them should be taken into view—such as the risen occasioned by it, the calamities actually ex isting, the surcharges after surcharges, without cause, and the appeals after appeals, without redress; all creating distresses, the picture of which, however melancholy, could not he exaggerated. Mr. HUTCHINSOk, in a few words, called the attention of the House to the existing state of the trade of Ireland, and to the advantages it would derive from opening the trade to the East Indies. Mr. WALLACE, in reply to the several remarks that had been made, and- to the questions proposed by Mr. Whitbread, said, that if the Committee were revived, he had sanguine hopes that their Report mould be in the hands of Members before the di scus s;un of the propriety of renewing the Charter. He believed that it was the usual practice in cases of this kind, that the Report should be prepared previous to the appointment of a Committee to give its sanction to it, and to present it to the House with such amend ments as were deemed necessary. That such a docu ment v °aid contain all that was necessary for the de cision of the ultimate question, could not be imagined, nor could such topics as must be entered upon be fit tubjects for the deliberation of a Committee. With regard to the inquiry, whether the renewal of the char ter would be proposed during this session, he was happy to sap he believed it would, as the preliminary steps were in great forwardness. Private aegociations be tween the East India company and the Ministers were absolutely necessary before any proposition was made tothe House. He was surprised to hear the revival of khe Committee objected to, by those who, when the ac counts were laid upon the table, had strenuously insist tdUpon its appointment. The principle on which the Chatter bad been granted was wholly mistaken . it ottght to be recollected, that it was only formed as a peace arrangement, and the state of war in which the country had since been continually eitga• , ed was not in the contemplation of the Legislature. Mr. CREEVEY observed, that at the termination of his srech he had omitted to move, that the House resolve itself into a Committee to consider the present state of the Affairs of the East-India Company. The SPEAKER observed, that such an amend- Matt was now out of order. The question was then put and carried without a division, and the Committee revived. Mr. H. MARTIN gave notice, that on Monday se'nnight he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the Office of Registrar of the Court of Admiralty. Mr. BROUGHAM gave notice, that he would tomorrow move for some papers relative to the grant licences by the Board of Trade.--Adjourned. CATHOLIC QUESTION. LIST or. THE MINORITY ON LORD MORPRTII 9 BMOTION. Abercrombie, Hon. LGrati an, Rt. Hu. H. North, D. Adair, IL Greenhill. R. Odell, W. Agar, E. M. Grenktl, P. Oglauder, Sir W. Aithosp,, Vise. • Gienv.lle Lord G. Orde, W. Aubrey, Sir J. Greenougli, G. B. Oiborne, Lord F. Antcnil, Let Halsey, Jos. Pelham, Hon. G. A. Bazenal, W. Hanbury, W. Parnell, H. Baring, A. Hamilton, Hans Piggott, Sir A. Paring, Sir T. Herbert, H. A. Ponsonby,Rt.Hon.G. Bennett, Hon. H. G. Herbert, Hon. W. Ponsonby, G. Bennett, R.. H. A. Hibbert, G. Ponsonby, F. Bernard, S. H o bh ouse , B. P ower, R. iradsbaw,Hon. A. C. Horn er , F. Po ) ntz, W. S. Brand ) Hop. T. Howard, H. • Pt ittie, Hon. F. A. Brougham, H. Howard, Hon. Wi P. m, F. Brown% A. Hughes, W. L. Quin, Hon. W. Busk, NV. Hume, W. H. )(Utley, Sir M. W. 1 4 11 0, +G• Hurst, Rob. Romilly, Sir S. ' O O9 Thos. Hussey, Thos. St. Auhyn, Sir J. Campbell, D. Hu t chi nson , H o n. C. S avage , T. Chaloner, R. I ng l e b y , Si r W. S cu d amore , R. P. Cuke,T. \kr. Knight, R. Sharp, R. Coke, E. Knox, Hon. T. Skeridan,Rt.Ho.R.B. Colborne, N. R. Lamb, Hon, W. Sinclair, G. Combe, H. C. Latouche, D. Smith, John Crtne7, T. Latouche, J. Smith, Wm. etithhrr t,J. R. Latouche, R. Smith, G. Cori,, James Leach, J. Stanley, Lord Nadas, C. Lemon, Cb. • Speirs, A. buo,, dai Hon. R. L. L emon , J . .ravistock, Marquis rmannon, Lord Lemon, Sir W. Temple, Earl 'ill, Bowes Lyttletun, Hn. W.H..Fempletewn, Visc. 3.4 m.H0n. G. I.loyd, J. M. Tierney, Rt. Hon. G. It hot Rt. Hon. W. L o n gman , G eo . Ti g h e , W. Fitzpatrick, R. C. Macd ona ld, J. T rac y, C. H. Hon. IL M a d oc k s, W . A. T al b ot, R . W . F e ! tt r°Y, Lord Ch. M a h on, H on. S. Vernon, G. V. ' uzzoy Lord Wm. Markham , J. Western. C. W. • yAiley, T . Marryat t,J. Whitbread, S. l ' r euell, A. Matthew, Hon. M. Warrender, Sir G. I' , u lkeitone, Vise. Milton, Vise. Walpole, Hon. G. tranki an d w testi/trait', Lord H. 11 M loor tade e , P. Wynne, Sir W. W. ; n on. J. Wrottesley, H. Gil t. Mildmay, Sir H. Txt.cras. Cdotr Earl Nyforpeth, Vise. c. w. W. Wnne 'rant, C. j un. Neville, Hon. R. W. H. Frem antle. let following Gentlemen were in the House, and favourable to t he Motion, but either p aired off, or were obliged to leave it before the Division : R o, .. ui . f , — li ' , ir C. Howorth , H. Maxwell, Wm. • Di orwen, Jultll,3. likulion. Hon. A. Mah y on, Lord Newport, Sir J. Tarleton, General to° + Lord A. Martin, Henry Ward, Hon. .1: W. 1_ THE EVEN INC SEAR. LONDON. I VRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. PRICE OF 3 COCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Red. 831— S per Cent. 1797 94q S per Ct. Cons. for money 6211—Ditto for anount 6211 4 per Cent. 791—Bonds 17s. Iris. pre.—Omninns Exch. BlUs Ss. to Bs. pre.—Long Anns. 161 9vrirr's Is the only Office that sold a Prize of £20,000 In Shares, in the last Lottery. Letters have been received in town, from Malta to the 23d of December, and from Gibraltar to the 16th of January. The latest intelligence received at Malta from Sicily states, that since the return of Lord WautANt BENTTNCK, perfect tranquillity had been restored. It is some days since we informed our Readers, upon the authority of our Correspondent at Gibraltar, that several spies and traitors had been executed at Mes sina, and that much good was expected to result from these vigorous measures. The extracts from the Sicilian Gazettes, which we this day lay before our Readers, contain ample details of the recent events in that quarter. Our letters from Gibraltar inform us that the enemy had totally disappeared from that neighbourhood ; but from Alicant we are sorry to learn that the force which had been detached by SUCIIET against General Mexy previous to the capture of Valencia, had suc ceeded in driving that General, with 5000 men, into Alicant, where the consternation was great, and the inhabitants were leaving the place in great numbers. The letters from Alicant are dated on the 10th, at which time the fall of Valencia could not be known. The garrison of Alicant consisted of 2000 regulars, besides those under General MARL ; and General FEEVRE, with a Spanish division of equal force, was at Requena. The operations consequent on the cap ture of Ciudad Rodrigo, may perhaps suspend the fate of Alicant, but we fear the worst. We have received accounts - from Mexico, to the 21st of November. A large convoy of silver was ex pected at Mexico, which consists, according to re port, of 1600 bars. Accounts have been received, which state that the army under Gallaga, of 4000 Infantry and a quantity of Cavalry, was advancing , towards the insurgents ; another division, under CONDE, is also approaching. A noted insurgent leader has been shot. Several other divisions of the IVice-Roy troops have not succeeded in taking Garcia, who bids defiance to them at the head of GOO Cavalry. No sort of security can be relied upon in the central provinces ; in New Gallicia there is some tranquillity, there is great deficiency of supplies in the various provinces ; the insurrection is general on the Southern coast—nine towns have taken up arms. The roads to Mexico are infested by the insurgents; the want of arms and money is greatly felt ; and even if troops should arrive from Spain, it would only tend to widen the carnage which has already destroyed twenty thou sand human beings. A letter from Paris, to a respectable American house, dated January 30, states, that the affairs be tween the United States and France bore a very flat tering appearance : that no condemnations whatever of American vessels detained since the 2d November, 1810, have been made ; on the contrary, that many have been liberated : that American vessels loaded with the produce of the United States, and arriving in French ports, are immediately admitted to entry, with permission to sell and to reload with merchan dize, of the produce and manufactures of the Em pire, and depart with the same at pleasure.—This information contradicts the statement made in the letter said to have been received from ,Paris, dated the 30th ult. : and when we consider that several letters came over in the Hornet, and that the one last referred to appears to be the only one upon which the report of the seizures in question is predicated, we feel no hesitation in declaring our unbelief of the account. Private letters from America, to the 3d ult. were received in town this morning. Among these are immediate communications from some of the most intelligent Members of the Senate artd the House of Representatives. The whole of the the proceedings in the Congress are hostile ; but on one distinguished occasion, a dis. po:ition was manifested to pause before the Bellige rent measures should be carried into effect, in order that the ultimatum of Great Britain, as to the Orders in Council, might be made known, before those mea sures were definitively carried into operation. In the mean time the MADDISON Party is most powerfully supported even by its late opponents.— Mr. QUINCEY, a man of great ability and influence in Congress, with about 30 other Members, have gone over from the kderalists and have become the advo cates for war, should this country persist in its pre- Sent deportment. The National Intelligencer contains a strong Address from Pennsylvania, highly complimentary to the con duct of the Executive Government, and abusive, if not vindictive, towards England. The LORD MAYOR has backed a warrant for the impressment of Seamen ir. the City for the Navy. Lord GAMBIER and Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ attended yesterday at Lloyd's, for the purpose of proposing a subscription for the relief of the widows and orphans of the unfortunate sufferers in the late shipwrecks off the coasts of Jutland aad Holland. NAPAL tAtTELLICEArCt FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 4. - . Sailed th is day the D u k e o f K ent , Contswonnt ; and Arabella, PORTEVS, packets, for Lisbon with mails ; the Prince Ernest, PETRY, for tl:e Mediter- ranean ; and the Darlington, li.iitvv, for the West Indies, with. mails. Arrived, off the hatltour, the DOTTEREL, of 18 guns, in 12 days from Lisbon with dispatches, and after landing the same proceeded for the Eastward. She had directions from Admiral BERKELEY to cruize in quest of his M tjesty's Ship ELIZABETH. Having sailed previous to the HERRING, no information has been received by her. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 5. Arrived Ms Majesty's ship LOIRE, from Torba y,with the loss of her fore-top-mast, together with cne sea man, who was on the mast at the moment it was car ried away. Sailed the TRIMEIDUOUS, of 7l guns, for Basque Roads. Arrived an American schooner laden with fish, from Marble Head, bound to Bourdeaux, detained by his Majesty's ship BELLEPOOLEWiIId S.E. and by E. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 6. Arrived his Majesty's ships PEACOCK and GANNET, from a cruize. Sailed the VENERABLE and Poicricas, for off Cherburgh ; and the CRANE, with a convoy for Cork. Wind N.E. IRELAND. ABANDONMENT OF ALL FURTHER PROCEEDIN(IS AGAINST THE CAT HOLIC DELEGATES. The Dublin Papers of Monday last, which arrived this morning, inform us that theArTonxev-GENERAL came forward that day in the Court of King's Bench, and in the most handsome and liberal terms declared, that notwithstanding the conviction of Mr. KIRWAN, It was not the intention of the Irish Government to press for judgment, and that in the other cases he was instructed to enter a noli prouqui. The following are the particulars : " COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY, FEB. 3. gi The Judges did not come into Court until near three o'clock. Judge DOWNES said, that in the case of the King v. Harvey, the Twelve Judges had given the most serious consideration to the objections of va. riance urged by the Traverser's Counsel. Indeed, he said, the Judges had given the point referred, for their opinion, such long and serious deliberation, it was that which had occupied their attention until that hour. He did not think it necessary to occupy their time further, than to inform them that the Judges were unanimously against the objections offered on behalf of the Traverser. He thought it right to say, that Judge Mayne was not present, as he is in the country. " The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that he had some important matter to communicate to the Court, if it were not otherwiseengaged. In the case of the King v. Kirwan : as he found that the Court would not sit on Wednesday, and that Thursday had been ap pointed for the trial of Lord Fingal : he would then move, that the verdict, in his case, should be set aside on the collateral issue, and that Mr. Kirwan should be brought up to-morrow for judgment. . 1 " Judge DAY—Is not the traverser entitled to four days, Mr. Attorney-General ?—He is, my Lord: but as Wednesday is an idle day, and Thursday being appointed for my Lord Fingal's trial, he said, he be lieved when he offered what he had to say on that point, that the traverser himself would acquiesce in his proposal. He did not intend to offer any observa tion which might appear an aggravation of the tra. , verser's offence, or to call for any severe punishment; he would go no further than the justice of the case. " The Government of the country had taken into its consideration all the merits of the business, and they were satisfied that enough had been done to sa tisfy the ends of justice and the public at large. It was the earnest hope of Government, that enough had been done to restore peace and public order in the Country. He had great pleasure, therefore, in stating, that as it was not at all the intention of Go vernment to act with any degree of severity, in the present instance, and he would not proceed with any other trial for offences committed against the Con. vention Act. It could not enter his mind, for a mo ment, that all those Gentlemen, who he was persuad ed had honourable and legitimate objects in view, would encourage proceedings which had an evident tendency to disturb the lower orders in society. " The Government were satisfied that every thing had been done which was necessary to satisfy the ends of public justice ; and, if any person, mistaking that spirit of lenity and conciliation, which it then displayed, for any other feeling, should be found hardy enough to transgress the law, he would find the strength and firmness of Government would be exerted for his punishment. " He concluded by observing, that the Duke of Richmond's conduct had always been that of conci liation, and that his Majesty's Government felt that the object it had in view would be more effectually accomplished by a lerlient than a rigorous conduct, more particularly as no man could now plead igno rance on the subject : both the law and the fact hav ing been established by a Jury. " Mr. Goomo asked him would he enter a noli pro :qui in the different cases ? he answered in the affir mative, and that he had not leisure to proceed in the Attachments against the different Printers till to morrow." Mitt " MECSINA, DECMIPIt " We do not remember ever to have wittaffsed * more general expression of pnpnl .r satisfacti II than that which was manifested (lithe arrest of those who had been discovvred vi hold a communication with the enemy. Tl a souotenances of all the is•h ihi:ants of this city and its environs display th it k nd of sat's. faction which arises when a weft dangzr is avoided. and those who have been exposed to it have reached A place of safety. " This general satisfaction was, hoWever, unmixed with any exaltation and triumpfi (seer the detected enemy, nor w..re the friends and famiiies of the per: sons arrested in any manner insulted. On the con. Crary, all the persons arrested were vermited to unite to their families and It iends, and to receive answers horn them, as also clothes, utens•ls, and whatever else they thought proper to apply t i them for. Each has a good dinner scrvei up to him every day, at the expence of the British Gavernmen., and mr'ney has been sent to the families of some who are known to be in want; and to the families of all, the greatest attention It is been FAO, aad ev , ry request grants d consistent to the great end we have in view, wit ch is to extirpate entirely the Fien.ll conspiracy in this city, w:lich furtun ttely we nuw seem to have the means r f acconsplisiiing. " We coligralolate our roaders on the divcoverr which has been maJo of a number of spies and 3SS3, sins in the night of the 4:li instant, in the folbwing manner : " Notice havilg been received some days back, that four Calabrese, of a very suspicious character, were in the suburb of San Leo, all their motions were watched, and on the above mentioned night they ). ere all surprised in bed—although dressed, and arnecl with pistols and stilettoes, when the (*ens and Po. lice entered their chamber, they all leaped ottt-of bed and endeavoured to make their escape, at the same time mak ng a most desperate resistance. O. was killed on the spot, two others severely wounded; And the fourth taken, after having been pursued. The following are the names of the four :—G iu seppe Pres. tia, killed ; Antonio Crisera and Antonio Musolino, wounded ; Pieto Reit:tn.), taken. " On the sth of December, a commisii-m of all the General Officer s in Messin t and is vicinity, was appointed by the Lieutenant-Genet d, comm older of the British forces, to investigate the circurnsta•ices. Proofs were at hand in abundan,:e to convince every one that they were spies sent by the enemy ; but be sides these, both Cr isera and Nlusolino confessed their crime, and hih confessed as persons whose death WAS certain, and could only hope for pardon in the other world : that they had been sent by General Marshes, who commands the army in Cal tbria, for the express purpose of assassinating an officer in the British army. ' This declaration was volunt,:ry, and made in the pre. sence of seven English General Officers ; and Crisera an particular, repeated, as he said, the very words spoken to him by the French General when he gave him directions. We shall forbear to make any comment on this dreadful fact. We will only say that we can scarcely believe that any man bearing the name of a soldier. even among the Calmuc Tartars, could so disgrace that honourable title as to become an assassin. ‘ire shall content ourselves with merely stating the voluntary declaration (f two men who knew they must be hanged. and who knew that nothing was to be gaint - d by such a declaration. In fact they were tried and condemned merely as spies, when, to the surprise Of all those wbo were present, the:' confessed that they were also intentional assassins. _ eg Sicilians, form your own judgment on this affairi 44 In consequence of the above-mentioned investi gation, Musolino was hanged yesterday morning, after the usual exercises of religion. Crisera has not been hanged, because his wounds did not permit him to be taken to the place of execution. As soon as he shall be in a condition to be removed he will be exe cuted. Pietro Reitano is und,r sentence of death, but will not be executed till one Capasso has been tried, who is now a prisoner in the citadel. It is known that Reitano was one of the ruff ins employed by the said Capasso to murder and rob the courier from Palermo. as soon as his Excellency Lord William Bentinck should arrive there, in order to get the disp.riches which might come from his Lordship, and carry them to Calabria. 4 ‘ This Pietro Reitano appears to be a ha. dened villain : he will confess nothing, and seems to be per fectly suited to his horrible trade. He was seen to throw some letters and papers into a cellar, when pur sued, and these, when recovered, were found to be most of them in his band-writing, and to consist of letters to the enemy, and receipts for money sent to him. He had for an adherent one Cregorio Solano. It was he who prcvided the assassins with knives and stilettoes. Solaro will be tried immediately, and if found guilty there is no doubt but he will be execu ted the moment that sentence has been passed. 6 , All these treacheries, assassinations, mud horrors. make our blood run cold, and no doubt must cause the most lively emotions in all hearts who have• in t►em a spark of sensibility. But we have discovered the whole chain of intrigues, and spies employed in them, and with the assistance and protection of HEAVEN, we will extirpate all the traitors concerned in these plots, and we will save Sicily. " Sicilians, let U 3 again remind you, that nobody has been arrested, nor will be hereafter, without proof." Letters have been received from Malta to the date of the 23d December. The exchange was at.fild. and was likely to be still further operated upon by a large demand for specie in Sicily. The trial of James Lila:hay Crawford, and James Bradley, accused of forging certain deeds relative to the tiues and estates of the Earldom of Crawford, which came on at Edinburgh on Monday. lasted till seven o'clock on Tuesday morning; but the Jury were not to return their verdiZt till Wednesday at one o'clock, so that we are still ignorant of the result. Cot'. AIARKIT, MARK -LANG, FEN. 7..=-To-day Vie market has taut shun fresh suiaplies of Wheat, not much resallining on hand, anti the general tiles fetch a small advance in price: Mar ley likevalie, and is short supply. Malt anal White Peas nearly at the last quotation : t;tey and Beans of each description dears r. surplies of Oat» are also short, and sales in this trade rtadily support the prices quoted. Flour fully at Monday's advance. smiThEIELL) htAKKET.—February 7. Beef - be 24 to fra 24 Veal Is Oil to 85 04,1 Mutton Ss 04 to Os 41 .Pork bs tad to 71