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Eis ' PLYMOUTH. • FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At the London Tavern, Plymouth, on Tuesday, the 6th April, 1819, at Twelve, THE Amerkan.built Schooner LA DESIREE, Admeasuring about tie Tons. ~She is a strongdourthensome verso, and in good condition;; Las recently had large repairs in FThwe ; sails and takes the ground well, and mafbe sent to Sea at an easy expence; cap gured by his Majesty's brig CONSTANT, LieIIteIIaInJOIIASTOLIS Commander, and condemned is Prize. Also her CARGO, consisting of 40 Howheads French Chalk or Whiting, About Four Thousand Hogsheads Staves and Heading, About Three Thousand Slates** . After which, the handsome, fast-sailing Schooner JENNY, Adiikleaiing about 152 Tons. She is a tight, atm** Vessel, coppered and topper-fastened, American built, pierced for 16 Guns, well found in Stores, has a good Hold; and sails remarkably fast; captured by his Ma k •lesty'‘ ship SEMIRA24II, CAARLIII RIOEIARDSON4Sq. Captain, 1 and condemned as Prize. And then, the Good Brig ADVENTURE, pength - 65 ft. I in. I Depth -- 9 ft. 144 in. Breadth - 18 7 I Admeasures 1 '74 68-94 'lons. a This is a remarkably firm oak-bult Brig, abode three years bid, strongly fastened, and treenailed, and has been lately docked and refitted, bulwarked, sails fast, and takes the ground weil has a large Huld, will burthen about 110 Tons • is well calcu toed for the Mediterranean, Lisbon, Newfoundland, or Fruit Trade, or for the Irish, Coasting, or any other employ headitnen- Mons may suit; abundantly supplied with valuable Stores, and u requires nothing but men and provisions to send her immeiately /p any voyage. And then, the Goods undermentioned, lig. 13 Plies, t 2 Hogsheads Spanish Red Wine 5 lihds. French 4Lto 'About 10,000 Frenc6' Tiles II Long Guns (4 and 3-pounders) with tbeh Carriages, And sundry Warlike and other Stores. For viewing the Vessels and Goods, Inventories, and fiirther Particulars. apply to Mr. THOMA§ COLE, Plymouth, March 18, 1819. George-street, Plymouth. PARLLIMEIvTARr PIcoC.E.EDINGt HOUSE OF LORDS", MARCH 24. .Judgment, on the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, *asdderrrd in the Appeals " the Bank of Scotland st. Watson," the " Wight v. Wilson," until Friday next, and in that of Craigdalle v. Aikman," to Monday next. • The Earl of LIVERPOOL called the attention of their Lord salsips to the recent melancholy event of the death of his Majes ty's sister, the Duchess of Brunswick, an event which, according to the usage of Parliament. it became his duty to communicate to their Lordships. in pursuance of that duty be should move— 'l hat an humble Address be presented to his Royal Highneu the Prince Regent, assuring his Royal Highness that that House most deeply condoled in the loss his Royal Highness had sus tained in the death of the Duchess of Brunswick," and he further moved—" that the Address be presented by their Lordships iirit# white staves." Their Lordships thenadjeurned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought up two Bills, the first fot issuing five m:lrtons, and the other 1,600,000 Exchequer Bills, for the payment of similar sums of Exchequer Bills, outstanding and unprovided for. The 81115 Were respectively read a first time, and ordered to be read a se stood time tomorrow._ The Newfoundland Corn Bill was then committed, and the epurt ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. H. SUMNE.R :noted for leave to bring In a Bill to enable Justices of Peace, at the Quarter Sessions, to levy county rates, for the purpose of building rooms, in which the records of county Courts might be preserved. Alter a few words of inquiry from Mr. ELLISON, leave was elven. The Mall CoaCh Guard BiII was read a second time;—and the Irish Schools Bill otOered to be read a second time on the ttlth hut. NELSTONE ELECTION. Mr. ASFITON, from the Committee appointed to try the merits of the Helstone Election Petition, re ported that the Sitting Members were duly elected, and that neither the petition nor the opposition to the petition were frivolous or vexatious. He stated, in addition, that the Committee had come to the fol lowing resolution Resolved, That it appears to this Committee, that an illegal agreement has sub tisted between George Duke of Leeds, and a num ber of Burgesses, in violation of the freedom of elec tion, and contrary to the orders of the House." The Hon. Member concluded with moving, that the mi nutes of the Committee be laid before the House. Mr. STUART wo RTLEY was anxious to state, that he bad been one of the nominees on the Com mittee, and he felt the utmost solicitude that all the minutes should be produced, on which the Committee had been induced to bring so grave a charge against the Luke of Leeds and so Many of the Burgesses of Helstone. He trusted that no delay would take place in bringing the whole proceeding under the re vision of the House. Mr. SWANN said, he too had been one of the no. sninees, :Ind was as desirous as the Honourable Mem ber that the whole of the minutes should be imme diately produced. DEATH OF TILE DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK. Lord CASTLEREAGH row and observed, that the Motion which he was about to submit, was one that naturally arose out of a very recent melancholy event, and which must be, be was confident, in uni sou with the general opinion and feeling of the House. It was in perfect conformity with all the former pro ceedings of Parliament, that wh , :never any branch of the Royal Family, under whose mild and benignant sway the empire had attained- its present state of prosperity and grandeur, paid the debt of nature, the }louse should lay at the feet of the Throne the ex- pression of their c, ndolence, and, as the organ of the people, declare the anxiety which all felt to evince their sympathy on such an occasion. ( Near, hear.) Without pressing the subject farther on their atten tion, leavieg it entirely to the spontaneous feelings of the House, he should merely move— ., hat an humble Address be presented to his Royal High ness the Prince Regent, to express our deep concern at the loss Lis Royal Highness has sustained by the dealt of the Duchess of Brunswick ; to condole with his Royal Highness on this melan. etoly evew ; and to assure his Royal Highness, that this House will ever participate, with the most affectionate and dutiful at tachment, in whatever may concern the feeliup and interests of his Royal Highness's illustrious House?' Sir F. BURDLTT had no intention of giving any opposition to the motion of the Noble Lord, v hich merely involved a question with respect to which there could be no diversity of feeling. But, as from the nearer degree of relationship, her Royal Highness the Princess of W.tles must naturally be supposed the most deeply affected, it appeared to hits that an Address from the House should, in the first instance, be voted to her Royal Highness. lie wished to know, whether they would be justified in passing over the feelings of the Princess of Wales, when the) were iddres.in her Consort ? Lord CAS ! LEREAGH replied, that there was nn precedent for any delay being suffered to take place is cases of 014 nature d and tha; the Address ".,. which be had had the beleat to e lic rather than on personal gm Mr. WHITBREAD wished to know whether' there was any precedent for addressing a Queen Con. sort on a domestic affliction, because, in that case, he should certainly deem it incumbent in the House 4 to vote an Address on this occasion to her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales. Lord CASTLEREAGH could not satisfy the Hon. Gentleman with respect to the question of pre cedent ; but if such precedent were in existence, he was not prepared to admit that her Royal Highness stood precisely in the situation of Queen Consort. The question was then put, and the Address voted unanimously. PETITION OF SIR JOHN AND LADY DOUGLAS. Mr. C. JOHNSTONE moved, that the Petition presented on behalf of Sir John and Lady Douglas, on the 17th of March, and then ordered to lie on the table, should be read. The Clerk accordingly read the Petitiono—[See The STAR of the 18th.] Mr. C. JOHNSTONE then observed, thit he rose Recall the attention of the House to the, Petition hich had just been read. As no steps had yet been taken, he could not justify himself, although labour ing under indisposition, in deferring longer to submit a moien, which might declare the sense entertained by theillouse of the nature and character - of that Petitiod. He was persuaded, that the House would agree with him, that this Petition was nothing but an implident attempt to give the colour of truth to the most' notorious and glaring falsehoods—falsehoods already sworn to by the parties, in the prosecution of a foul conspiracy. That Petition was then before them—it lay on their table—and it was but justice to the Princess of Wales, and to the country, that it 'should not be suffered to remain there longer—that it should not be placed on the records of Parliament, ' without that House having fixed on it some decided mark of their reprobation. By some persons it might possibly be thought a paper wholly unworthy of no tice.—( Here the Hon. Gentleman being manifestly over. come by indisposition, proceeded to READ his speech from a written paper )—By some persons the Petition might be considered as unworthy of observation— they might think, that noticing it, in any way, im parted to it a degree of importance which it did not deserve. His opinion was very different. They ought not to consider the effects of that Petition, as they re lated to the present day, but as they were likely to ope rate at a future time. That Petition might be looked upon as containing presumptive proof of the statement of the Douglasses ; and, at a distant period, might, in the minds of many individuals, afford something like a support to those shameful calumnies which had been levelled at the Princess of Wales. Therefore, he wished to fix a strong and decided mark of repro bation on it, as unworthy of belief. And, it woulgt be seen, from the Resolution which he should have the honbur to move, that, so far from the notice he had taken of the Petition being likely to give it any degree of importance, it was calculated to prevent its doing the slightest mischief, either now or hereafter. Mr. ROSE here spoke to order.—The Honourable Gentleman, he observed, complained of his ill state of health, and he felt as much regret on account of his indisposition as any Gentleman possibly could. He conceived it his duty, however, to interrupt the Honourable Gentleman. To read a speech, be thought required as great an exertion of voice as to speak it. The former proceeding was contrary to the estab lished usage of the House ; and if it were permitted, a Member might, in reality, be giving the opinions of another person, while he profesr:d to be delivering his own— (Hear, hear.) A considerable noise VIII here occasioned by the conflicting cries of 64 Go on, go on!" and g i No, no !" At length, ' The SPEAKER having obtained silence, obser ved, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Rose) 'was perfectly right ; it was contrary to the established usage of the House to read speeches • and he had to reproach himself for not having interfered, which he certainly should have done, but for the delicate state in which the Honourable Gentleman had described his health to be—(hear, hear.) Mr. TIERNEY said, it certainly was against the ordinary rules of the House to proceed as the Hon. Member had done ; but, if they chose to dispense with those rules, it was in their power so to do—it was in their option to permit a speech to be read, if circumstances warranted it. He (Mr. Tierney) recollected a Member of that House, not then in his place, who, on an Indian Question, read a speech of considerable length. There was not a doubt, that no person had a right to read his speech in Parlia ment, but the House, if it pleased, might grant the liberty.— (Hear, hear.) The SPEAKER said, he considered it to be ex actly the same as the rule, by which every Member was bound to speak on his legs. If, however, illness prevented him, and he wished to sit, he must apply tor the indulgence, and as an indulgence only would it be granted to him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WHITBREAD said, he recollected the case to which his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Tierney) had alluded • and it was still stronger *hen the one then before them. An Hon. Member was, on that oc casion, too much indisposed to come down to the House, and he desired a friend to'read from a paper the speech which he intended to have spoken.- - (Laughter.)—His friend did as f.e was requested, and, after having read the paper, took a part in the debate himself.— ( Much laughter.) Mr. ROSE admitted, that the House could sanc tion the reading of a speech if they pleased ; but still contended, that, if an Hon. Member had strength enough to read, he must also have strength sufficient to speak his sentiments.— ( Loud cries of go on, go on.) , Mr. COCH RAN E JOHNSTONE said, he would not have obtruded himself on the House, indisposed as he then was, if it were not from an unwillingness to put off a discussion of so much importance. He then proceeded to read—The honour and lite of the Princess of Wales were placed in peril by the foul assertions of those petitioners; and when he examin ed the conduct which had been pursued by them, he did not entertain a doubt that they were connected and combined in a settled and premeditated conspi racy to alledge false, infamous, and malicious charge s Against her Royal Highness. When he had the ho nt,ur of making his former motion, he thought he should have heard no more about them ;—unfortu nately, it had turned out oth e rwise . aw e he would not MAY have obtruded leiatkeif ea the How, but • and shameful attempt made e medium orthe Petition, to give an ap f truth to that. which was proved to be of credit. The Honornkle Gentletnan ludid by moving—. - • or That the Petition of Sir John De s, In behalf of himself and of Charlotte his wife, laid upon the table of this House on the 17th instant, Is regarded by this House as an mutat:loos effort to give, in the eyes of the nation, the colour of truth to the filo hoods before sworn to by the Petitioners in the prosecution SY foul sod detestable attempt against the puce snd happiness, the homer and life, of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales." Sir FRANCIS BURDETT seconded 1. 1 . - ae motion. Loud and reiterated cries of Question followed, and strangers were ordered to withdraw, preparatory to a division—when f!T tit! Mr. HERBERT, of Kerry, rose in the midst of the storm, and observed, that he felt it due to his conscience, and to the justice of the ceunay, to de clare, that he never would consent to make the Ric solution of that House a vehicle of opinion on matters connected with judicial proceeding—on matters, which, by possibility, might be brought before that Hcuse for decision. .Were they, he would ask, to prejudge this cause ? He knew that the preponde rance of evidence was clearly with the Princess of Wads, but still be never would travel out of the strict line of his -tuty to deliver an opinion without a proper ground on which the proceeding might be defended: esey agreed to the Resolution, he con tended they would prejudge the cause ; and, there fgre, if he stood single on the occasion, he would divide the House on the proposition. The cries of Quettion were now redoubled. • Mr.WHITBREAD rose and observed, that as he understood his Hon. Friend (Mr. C. Johnstone) in tended to press his motion to a division, be wished shottly to state the grounds,. the obvious grounds, which prevented him from voting for that motion— he could not vote for it, because the House were in possession of no evidence to support the allegations contained in the • Resolutioo.—(Hear, hear.)—Ac cording to that Resolution, the Petitioner had at tempted to set up as true, in the eyes of the nation, evidence which was proved to be false. New, the House had no documents whatever, on which to found this statement.—(Hear, hear.) --And although every step he proceeded in this dark and mysterious affair, tended more perfectly to convince him that the evidence was most false, ind that a wicked con spiracy existed against the life and honour of the Princess of Wales, yet, as they had no papers before them on which that judgment could be fairly form ed, he not only thought, but he was quite sure, that they could not proceed with the resolution of his Hon. Friend. He was, therefore, of opinion, that it would be better for the House not to take this ques tion at all into consideration, but to get rid of it alto gether, by having the previous question, or the order of the day moved upon it. lf, however, he should be obliged to vote on his Honourable Friend's mo tion, he must, for the reasons he had already stated, vote against it. Sir WILLIAM GARE.OW said, he believed, if the House manifested impatience during the time an Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Herbert) was speak ing, it was now very clear it did not arise 'from the feeling which that Honourable eentleman seemed to think it proceeded from. He need not have been afraid of opposing the resolution tingly—for, with the exception of the Honourable Mover, and of the Ho nourable Baronet who came forward reiuctautly to second the motion, he was sure it would have been negatived by every voice in the House. He would say but one sentence more—he hoped the House would not entertain any other question, but would get rid of this most extraordinary, and, it it were car ried, most disgraceful, because most unjust proposi tion, by a direct negative. If such a resolution were tolerated, it would be subversive of all justice, and the House of Commons, instead of being a blessing to the people of these realms, would soon become a curse Hear, hear.) Sir FRANCIS BURDETT did not mean to perH . sist in the motion, because there was not evidence, in a formal and regular shape, before them, to support it—and, perhaps, his Honourable Friend would not press it on the House. He would, however, take the present opportunity to shew the awkward predicament in which they were placed by the Petition then lying on the table. That Petition, lying where it did, ren dered them, in a manner, accessary to those false hoods and calumnies, which the parties, who had once sworn them (although they have been since dis proved), now stated they were ready to come forward and re-swear, in any Court whatever, where the pe nalties of perjury would apply. He contended, there fore, that they were in the awkward predicament of giving an indirect sanction to calumnies, which ro man in that House, not even the Learned Gentleman, who had just sat down, would willingly countenance. Into this situation they had been betrayed by a trick ; with a view of correcting it, his Honourable Friend had brought forward his motion ; which, shougb re jected, contained a truth, which every nian in the House, he believed, would assent to. Mr. TIERNEY obje;ted to the course proposed by the Learned Gentleman opposite (the Solicitor- General.) He (Mr. Tierney) wished to express no opinion either of the Resolution or Petition ; but, if he negatived the proposition, he must, of necessity, ajirm that the Ptaition is not "an audacious effort." (No, no, from theTreatury Bench.) The substance of the Resolution was, " That the Petition is an auda cious effort to give colour of truth to certain false evidence, whereby the honour and life of the Prin cess of Wales are put in jeopardy." Now, by his ne gative, he would deny that these allegations were true—and he must, of course, at the same time, af firm the converse of the proposition, namely, " that it is not an audacious attempt."—(No, no, no.)—lf his statement were not correct, he did not understand the English language. His wish was to proceed to the order of the day, but nc.t to come to a direct ne gative. He was prepared to vote, that the proposie tion ought not to be entertained, no mote than the matter of the petition. And he should be glad to know what objection the Learned Gentleman had to moving the order of the day ? Was it for any desir able purpose that he (Mr. Tierney) was required to give the proposition a direct negative ? If the Learned Gentleman could thew him, that such a vote would not produce the exact effect he bad stated, he should feel very mach gratified, Sir W. GAR ROW.—" Notwithstanding the light is which the Right lon. Geutlematt bias enclwou- 111111 red to put the question, I have no difficulty in giv. 4ng him an answer immediately. If I had proposed an amendment to the Resolution, which should have the effect of calling upon the House to declare, that die Petition was not an audacious attempt of the kind described, then indeed it might be said, that my object • was to give a direct negative to the riicter of the t motion ; but if I am asked to say that black is whitet% or that white is black, and I answer no, I apprehend the effect of the answer is, that I shall give no opi. nion on the subject. If the House refuses to say that dle Petition is a scandalous or audacious attenipt, `does it Llierefore say, that the attempt is meritorious! If that ilkre the case, I should admit that the obser. Tation of the Right Hon. Gentleman is well foundcd; but Ido not think so. By giving a negative to the Resolution, the House declares that it will not enter. tain t the question ; and my objection to that Resolu tion is precisely this—that it proposes for decision a question which the. House ought not to entertain." Mr. TIERNEY— ,6 The opinion of the learned Gentleman, then, is, that to negative the assertion that the Petition is an audacious attempt, does not mean an affirmation that it is not an audacious at. tempt. But suppose a future historian were to find on their journals, that such a motion as this had been made in the House, and that the House tad given it a direct negative—what would be his continuos ?. Attending only to the plain sense of the English lan guage, he would immediately conclude that the House had decided that óe Petition was not an au dacious attempt. Unless this be the meaning of a negative, I protest I do not understand the English language. I ask again, where is the objection to moving the Order of the Day ?" Mr. - BARHAMig When persons of great genius appear among us, we now and then certainly do get new and extraordinary lights from them. For my own part, I always thought that when a question was submitted to the House, there were only three modes of proceeding—to say aye, or no, or to refuse to give any opinion at all ; and when it was intended to avoid giving any opinion at all, that the course was to move the previous question. Now it is agreed, that the object is to give no opinion at all upon the pre sent Resolution ; and if that is not a case for the pre. vious question, I don't know what can be a case for that particular course of proceeding. Bur, then, we may certainly derive new light upon the subject, from the talents and learning of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman ; ;Ind, therefore, I hope the House will indulge him with an opportunity of 'hewing what 'species or kind of propositions form proper subjects for the previous question, if that course of proceeding is not the right one in the present instance." 'Sir W. GARROW.—" I do not mean to persist in a criticism upon words. To induce me to give way, it is enough that I find a considerable number of a different opinion. I have no objection, therefore, to move, that this House do now adjourn." The question of adjournment was then put and carried without a division.—Adjourned. DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK. This venerable Princess, whose decease we an. nounced yesterday, was in the 76th year of her age, and the last surviving sister of onr Sovereign. She was born on the 31st of July, 1737 ; and on the 17th of January, 1764, she was married to the late Duke of BittoNswiest-WoLvereeurrLE, by whom she had issue, three sous and three daughters. Her Royal Highness was confined to her bed only two days.-- Dr. BAILLIE left the Duchess about slx o'clock in the evening, thinking her much better. A little before nine o'clock she was seized with violent spasmodic attacks, upon which Dr. BAILLIE and Sir HENRY HALFORD were sent for wish all possible speed; the forme: did not arrive in time, but the latter came within a few minutes of her breathing her last, which took place at half-past nine o'clock. Sir H. HAY,* Fora) proceeded from her house in Hanover-square to Carlton-house, and had an interview with the PRINce REGENT, at ten o'clock, to communicate the afilict. ing event. By the death of her Royal Highness, her pension falls in. The KING is now the only surviving off spring of the late Prince of WALES, which cons;sted of the Princess AUGUSTA, Duchess of Bet/my/Ice, now dead. his MAJOSTY, the late Duke of YORK, the late Dukas of GLOUCESTER, the late Duke of CCU. BERLAND, Queen 141ATILDA of Denmark, who was born two months after the death of her father. ELI. ZABETH CAROLINE, who died unmarried, and two others, who died in their Infancy. The Princess of WALES arrived in time to receive a mother's last blessing, and to share her last em brace : she was present for two hours before the Du• chea expired. No directions or injunctions being found from the Duchess as to her funeral, orders were given yester day morning from the LORD CISAMBERLAIN'S Office, to the Royal Undertakers, to proceed in making ar rangements in the same manner as other Royal Fu nerals. The corpse was put in the inner coffin last night about eleven o'clock. Expresses were sent off to the QUEEN and Princess of WALES on Tuesday night.—Yesterday, between two and three o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT received a communication ttom the QlntErcupoß the subject. All the Public Places were ordered to be shut, and the follewing notice was posted on the doors of Drury-lane Theatre early yes. terday morning : " The Public are respectfully informed, that, in consequence of the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of BRUNSWICK, the performances at this Theatre are suspended until after the funet al of her Royal Highness." Many persoes, not informed of the melancholy oc currence, drove up to the Theatres in the evening, and consequently were disappointed of the rich treat, which, but for the above melancholy event, they would have enjoyed from the Oratorio at either theatre. Saint Paul's bell tolled, as usual on the death cf any of the Royal Family. The death of the Duchess of 13Rutonvicst will be a most severe hardship on the manufacturing part of the community, since it happens at the precise mc ment when orders for the Spring fashions are ac tually in hand, all of which will be immediately countermanded ; and thousands of artizans will be thrown out of employment, while the goods which may have been completed will be a dead loss to the mercers and other shopkeepers. To the many per sons employed at the different Theatres the ititerrup tlon will be a serious loss, since Passion week will immediately follow the interval Wore the cobioluies.