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Gentleman, Endowaged, >t soma likely te. go on step by step, till the whole System of our present laws was changed. He supported the Amendment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL considered cor ruption of blood in cases of High Treason to be one , of the great safeguards of the State, in its tendency to prevent the commission of the crime. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL followed on the same side. He contended that the law as it stood was excellent, in so far as it acted upon the feelings and affections of mankind ; and that there was no adequate necessity shewn for any alteration, nor any practical good likely to result from it. Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, in reply, said that he really should wonder if the Honourable Member who moved the amendment persisted in his intention of dividing the House upon it. Most of the Gentlemen who had spoken against the Bill had confined their arguments to the case of high treason, whereas the Bill included other felonies. They had generally appeared to agree, that for other felonies it was not right that the corruption of blood should be suffered to exist. If this was their opinion, why should the hill be thrown out altogether, when there was a part of it to which nobody objected ? If the Honourable Gentleman should divide the House upon it, his vote .vould be at variance with his speech. Was it con kistent that corruption of blood should still attach to felonies, when it was now by law excluded from tnany kinds of high treason—for example, with re spect to the coin ? Some Honourable Gentlemen had objected to his plan, for being part of a system, and conceived they were saying something severe to him, in stating that he was pursuing a regular sys tem.—lf by charging him with acting on a regular System, they only meant to say that he did not act capriciously or without thought, but that he had Considered the consequences and the bearings of ti.rery measure which he proposed, this did not ap pear to hin't to be a very serious charge, nor was he very Anxious to refute it. It wAs not, however, more than 48 hours since it was objected to him in another place that he did not introduce his Bills as parts of a general comprehensive system for the amelioration of the laws. Some objected to him for not stating general principles in the preambles of the Bills ; and when he had done so, it was said in that House— t' Let us have the Bill without the preamble." An Gentleman had talked of new lights, and new systems of philosophy ; but he was happy to say, that in the principles of those Bills which he had submitted to the House, he was supported by the opinions of the preatest men who had ever ornamented this country. Pe then read several passages from Blackstone, high ly disapproving of the principle of corruption, of blood. lie also read a letter from the late Mr. Charles Yorke to Judge Blackstone, stating, that in his juvenile pro duction he only intended to lay down the grounds of the law as it stood, but to give no opinion about the propriety of altering it. The authority of the late Mr. Yorke could not, therefore, be set up-on this point against that of Blackstone. Independent, however, of authorities, reason would shew that this corruption of blood ants most unequally, as while it attaches to freehold land, it does not operate on leasehold or on chattels ; and, in feet, the corruption of blood never acted, except as to the person in possession of an estate, unless upon the accidental circumstance of an ancestor dying intestate; for the father of a person attainted might certainly devise his estate by will to his grandson in spite of the attainder. After a variety of other observations, he concluding by hoping that the tiouse would not reject the whole Bill, merely froth disapproving of a part of it. If he had heard the objections sooner, he might have left out that part before the Bill had gone into a Committee; and even now, if that was all they objected to, the Bill might be re-committed, and the case of High Treason left oat. The House then divided, when there appeared, Against receiving the Report, 55—For it, 43. The till is therefore lost. NISCRLLAICEOUS. The Sinecure Bill was read a third time and passed: The National Debt Bil,b went through a Cbmmittee. Report to be received to-morrow. Mr. LUSHINPTON brought up the Resolutions imposing an addiduntl duty on Frenck Wincs, which were ordered to be re ferred to the Committee for preparing the Excise Bill. In the Committee of Way; and Means, an error was correc ted in the Resolutions respecing Debentures, and these Deben tures were declared to be entitled to the same di count as Loans. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Bill for renderiog more expeditious the payment of Creditors in Scot , land. Mt. ATKINS obtained leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the distribution of a sum of tnoituy given in compensation for certain goods seque.tra:ed in Sweden during hostilities with that Country. Mr. FITZGERALD obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the Irish Better Trade. The Committee on India Affairs was postponed to Wednes day.—Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR LONDON: TUESDAT, APRIL 6, 1513. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK kedUced 571 ex. div.—Cons. 5811—for ac. 531 4 per Ct. 72 73 ex. div.-5 per Cent. 87i—fonds 2s. 4s. &I. /3ank I.g. Anns. l 4 li-ltiths ex. &v.—State I.ot. lick. £22 91. Exclwntier Bills IN. 12i. pre.—Ontn.— To-day we give some further extracts from the American Papers received yesterday. The most im portant ui these is a document, purporting to be a Message from the PRIaIDENT to the Ilouse of It epre. aentatives. It is, like every other production with Mr. MAoisoN's signature, a most intemperate and nnstatilman-like composition. It accuses, in lan guage not at all usual even among the Diplomatists of the modern French School, the British Govern. meat of undermining. by torgery and perjury, the principles of morality and religion ;" and this mighty accusation - is further embodied into a sweeping charge of attempting to separate the Union, by our exempt ing the Eastern States from some of the calamities of fipar. The agony under which MArnsoN is writhing, as vented in his malignant Message to his Consti tuents, is the best proof which can be afforded of the wisdom and efficacy of the measure which has given him so much offence. _ _ The fact is, that the States of New York, Massa thusets, and we believe, Virginia, have never cor iially givta their' assent to the war, nay they have openly fictive ! thett• abhor:eau et die. ihouittest principles upon ychtc.h their executive Gtrierntnent has acted: It is but fair, therefore, that Sortie grad tude should be :hewn them by Gre*t Britain—their ports are therefore exempted from blockade—their ships are still allowed to carry lumber and provisions to the West Indies, and there is consequently a par tial activity among the American traders. Mr. MADISON, in his holy zeal for the Continental System, for this is the mad . project with which he has been in furiated, wishes to starve our West India Colonies; but, like a staunch Republican, he cares not at what expence he gratifies his revenge. Ruih, misery, and starvation are therefore awarded to the unhappy States who have incurred his displeasure, and forth comes a Proclamation, in which he invites the Legis lature to accede to a most unreasonable proposition : namely, to blockade all their ships in their own har bours, and to condemn all the produce of his unhappy I country to rot upon the soil : for to this his projected prOhibition of all exportation, even in foreign tallow, would amount. Surely the American Congress is not composed of idiots and madmen, like their Pre. sident As a set-off against this Indum fidmen, the House of Representatives haVe passed laws permitting the importation of British goods, and prohibiting the employment of British seamen. There was a period when these measures might have been hailed as con ciliatory. But we cannot augur any thing favourable from them at the present crisis. The PRINCE Rzurit's Declaration reached Wash. ington on the Ist ult.; but there had not been time to know what effect it had produced. The blockade of the Delaware appears to have been kept up with great strictness, and to have excited no inconsiderable degree of alarm on the coast. Two American fri gates and eighteen gun-boats were stationed so as to be ready to act on the defensive, or even to cut off any part of our force that might be accidentally sepa rated from the main body. Such an accident was not unlikely - to have occurred on the 20th of February, when a violent gale came on in the Delaware ; but fortunately our ships rode it out, with the loss only of a tender and twelve men, who were driven ashore and made prisoners. A corvette had reached Ame rica with news, that a fleet from the French ports would quickly follow. Rumour had stated that the American frigate Essex was Captured ; but there was no authentic account of the fact, and the story may probably have grown out of the capture of the Lot tery privateer, of Baltimore, by the BELVIDERE, after some considerable resistance. ARRIVAL OF A DEPUTY FROM HOLLAND. We stated yesterday the arrival of a Flag of Truce from the opposite Coast. It now appears that the report originated from the arrival at Deal of a Gen tleman from Holland : the object of his journey may be easily guessed, although nothing circumstantial has been allowed to transpire. The following is out Port letter on the subject : DEAL, APRIL 5. it Yesterday evening, after post, a Foreigner of Consequence was landed here from one of the armet cutters attached to the Downs station. From the in-1 quiries I have most particularly made, I learn tha. the Gentleman in question came from the Dutcl coast in an open boat, which he had procured at a very great price, and was put on board his Majesty's ship NYMPHEN ) Captain HANCOCK, crnizing ofl Blackenburg, and was immediately dispatched for the Downs in the BADGER cutter. " An express was sent off last night to London I to inform Ministers of the circumstance, and also to procure the necessary passports for his going to the Metropolis. Conjecture is very busy as to the object of the stranger's mission, but it is generally believed that he is deputed by some of the Dutch provinces, that are in a state of revolt against their tyrannical French Governors, and this he is sent to England for aid." Numerous convoys of light transports continue daily to arrive at Yarmouth, destined to take on board a small Expedition for Germany, of which the Duke of CUMBERLAND will take the command. His Royal Highness will be accompanied by several military men of distinction, chiefly foreigners. The furce which will embark will consist entirely of what may be termed skeletons of regiments, viz. Officers, Non commissioned Officers, and such privates as may be be deemed worthy of promotion. Hanover, Hesse, and even North Holland, are mentioned as the places where these useful men will be employed. Almost all the counting-houses in London have been stripped of their foreign clerks, in consequeace of their eager ness to enrol themselves in the service of their coun try. Some of them have abandoned situations of great profit, to enrol themselves as volunteers. Out columns of to-day contain some further ex tracts from the Paris Papers. On the subject of the state of the North of Germany they speak with much apparent hesitation. Alarm and consternation are evidently every where the order of the day with the scattered French troops—Witness the precautions said to be taken at Dresden. Yesterday Lord SIDNIOUTII had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-house, as had Count MuNsratt and Lord MOIRA. NAPA INIELLMENCE, The foiltswitag Notice %Its this daty posted at LLOYD'S i 4 ` ADMIRALTY-011 1 10E, APRII, S. Liz—l have It in command front my Lordt Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, in return to your letter of the Sd (skint, respecting protettion for ships to the Elbe, that no Convoy is to gb further than Heligoland, whither Convoys will proceed once a fortnight.-1 am, &c. (Signed) " J. W. CROW. " To Robert Taylor, kel. Cnitched Friars" FALMOUTH, APRIL 31 Nothing arrived or sailed but two coasters. Th Nymph packet• with mails for Cddiz, has had a sig nal flying for sea this afternoon, and it is supptised will sail in the course of the night.—Wind N.N.W. PLYMOUTH, APIttL 4. Arrived the American schooner Eliza, FAIRCHILD, from New York for Bourdeaux, with cotton, &c. captured by his Majesty's ships SURVEILLANTE and Los. His Majesty's ships MEDUSA and LYRA have taken a large American ship, from Bourdeaux, with a valuable cargo—she has gone up Channel for Lon don. Sailed the TEARER, 14 guns, for Cork ; and the Neptune Tender (2), for Dublin. The Expedi tion is to sail on the arrival of the Success frigate from Jersey, whither she is gone to take in the Vete ran Battalion. The SAN JOSEPH, of 112 guns, un docked last night. Docked the SATURN, of 74 guns, to be cut down (razee) ; and the SCYLLA sloop of war, having been on shore. The most astonishing efforts have been used last week in Plymouth Do ckyard to expedite the equip. ment of the SAN Josar, of 112 guns, the largest ship in the British service. This huge vessel was taken into dock on Thursday evening. The following morning her copper was stripped off, and the whole of her bottom was dubbed clean in four hours, the bottom was then caulked, and she was shoared, lifted, and again settled on the blocks before evening. On Saturday the knee of the head was leaded, the bottom was coppered in seven hours, and the ship was finally sent out of dock. This expedition has excited not merely the surprise; but the wonder of every one acquainted with caval affairs, and has never been paralleled in this or in any other country. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6. Arrived his Majesty's ships TYRIAN and INTELLI GENT from a cruize. Sailed the Cherburgh squadron, to resume their station ; and the DERWENT and SA VAGE to the Westward.—Wind W. S.W. HARWICH, APRIL 5. Arrived the Viper, Revenue cutter, MORGAN', with the French cutter privateer Louise, taken between Folkstone and Calais, after a long chace, during which she threw all her ballast, water, and stores over board. By her muster-roll, her complement of men at the time of sailing was SS, but at the time of cap ture she had only 22 ; the other eleven are supposed to have been put on board prizes made by her. DEAL, APRIL 5. Sailed yesterday after post the Tottenham East- Indiaman, and several coasters, to the Westward.— Arrived the FERVENT gun-brig from Portsmouth, and sailed again for the Baltic.—Admiral YouNo has hoisted his flag CR board the IMPREGNABLE, 98 guns, in the Downes as Commander-in-Chief of the northern squadron—Rear-Admiral BEDFORD is appointed to act under him as Captain of the Fleet. The CIIA. TRANI, 74 guns, ,Capt. MAUNSOLL, has arrived in the Downs from Spithead, to join the northern squadron. A smuggling vessel, called the Fortune, has just been sent in here by the boats belonging to a Revenue cutter—her whole cargo consisted of 140 casks If spirits, 82 of which were taken. The remainder was worked by the crew, and the men escaped. Five o'Clock—Put back the Tottenham and all the ships that sailed with her yesterday. MILFORD. APRIL 3, Arrived the Diligence Customs cutter, Captain DOBBIN, from a crutze, who gives the following de scription of a vessel (late his Majesty's sloop Chal lenger) now lying in Brest Harbour ready for sea a si She has fourteen 24-pounders, two nines, and two sixes, is manned with 160 men, has an American Commission , and is named The True Bleed Yankee. She has on board false licenses for the prizes she may take, in order to deceive the British crui zers. She Is to cruise a short time from the Land's End to Lundy Isle, then to proceed to St. George's Channel. The prizes she takes in the latter are to be sent to Norway. She has on board 14 Prize Masters and four Lieutenants, and has one side painted black and the other yellow." It appears this vessel has been lately eruizing in the Channel, and made several prizes. Also arrived his Majesty's ship BITTERN, of 18 guns, from Plymouth, with stores for the Royal Dock-yard here • Sarah, STEWA RT, from Bristol for Malta; Vine, WINDLEY, from London for Newry; Lamb, Lewis, from Fowey for Liverpool • Dove, BULLOCK ; John and Jane, MARTIN ; and t he King George, DUNOEY, from Bristol for Cork ; the Lady Fitzgerald, ELMFA, from Bristol for Waterford ; and Bat Customs cutter, Capt. PA LATER, from a cruize. MONTROSE, APRIL 2. During a dreadful gale yeFv‘rday, two vessels lying in this river, were clinve among the rocks at Ferryden, and one of them, the Ert? lof Cassils, CAI 11, from Aberdeen for Dundze, considerably damaged in hull and cargo; the latter has been landed. We have not heard of any other loss, buf from the violence of the storm, we fear it has proved fatal to many unfor tunate mariners. ABERDEEN, APRIL s. This day five of our whale-ships sailed with the morning tide ; but making for the harbour about ten o'clock, in consequence of a most dreadful storm, the Oscar struck on the Girdleness—went to pieces—and every person on board perished, with the exception of one man and a boy (some say two men and a boy). The Hercules is also a-shore on the north of :he pier head, but should the storm soon abate, it is expected she will be got off with little damage. The other three got safe in. BRIDGETOWN,BARRADOES, FEBRUARY 9. The ()lumens arrived this morning, having accomplished her 'dyne from this island to Surinam and back, in the short period ot twelve dips • in whiLh she landed at that colony a detachment of the 60th, end returned with another of the 04th regiment, undo Abe command of Major MaeriossAhll. The VESTAL (alined en atre) sailed yesterday evening with part of the sd W. I. regiment, to relieve that of the ist, now doing duty at 'Trinidad; and the Meese turn s brig of war, with the transports Edward and Arm and Mary, having on board ordnance Keyes, proceeded at the owe time ler be.rnunia, VIE Alitit Colonel blmtvnr, lately Commanding Office!' at &I Foreign Depot at Fort Cumberland, is going to Ha. nover with several officers and WO non-commissioned officers and privates, detachments of the King'a Ge!a man Legion, for the purpose of raising and organising a military force in that country. Generals Sir THOMAS GRAHAM, Cthrirott, PANE. OSWALD, and PACK, are all arrived at Portsmouth tlf go out to Portugal. The four first go out in the Po. MONK, Captain CARTERET, and the litter in the Prince Regent transport. The PostoNe also takes out a quantity of money for the army in Portugal. Sit' THOMAS GRAHAM'S horse ran against a carriage, by which means the General's knee was slightly hurt, General PicroN is expected to go out in the Poe atoNE alto to Lisbon. Tuesday about 100 non•cotn missioned °Meets and prisrates of the 13th Light Dragoons, arrived at Ports mouth in a transport from Weymouth under convoy of the /Anis - cox, Lieutenant Waciasis ; they are going to Cork, where the regiment is expected to ar. rive shortly from Portugal. About two o'clock on Sattirday afternoon, a boat belonging to a transport at Spithead, with a part of the 13th Light Dragoons on board, proceeding to Ireland, unfortunately upset near the platform I in it were, the wives of two officers of that regiment, a fe• male servant, a private, the master of the transport. and his boat's crew • providentially the whole were saved, although seve ral of the party were a long while in the water. and it was a considerable time before animation was restored. We are sorry to learn that Marshal Brit oosn perienced a severe accident on the 14th tilt. *hen, ae he was passing by the Loretto in his curricle, the bar of the pole broke, and the horses (two of the Prince's stallions) took fright, and threw him out t his face was much cut by• the fall, and one of the %%heels nearly passed over his head. His Aide-de-Campo Conde d'ALvs, who was in the vehicle with him. escaped unhurt. The patty were returning to Chitra l having come to Lisbon on the lath the day before) to dine with Don %ow PEREIRA FonjAz. The Officers of that highly distinguished corps, the 2d battalion 24th Infantry, with their gallant Com manding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel CFSAMBERLIN, gave, on their return from the Peninsula, a splendid ball and supper to the fashionable , of the town and vicinity of Malden. The display of elegance ani beauty on this occasion, could not but prove highly gratifying to a distinguished corps which has served in the Peninsula four years, under the immortal WELLINGTON, during which time they eminently dis tinguished themselves at the metnlrable battles of Talavera, Busacco, Fuentes de Honora, the reduc. tion of Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, and very re cently at the siege of Burgos, in taking by storm, on the evening of the 4th October last, the outer work of that Castle, in a stile of gallantry which called firth the approbation of the Marquis of Ng/rut/wrote in his dispatch of the following day to the Secretary at War. The volunteering from the Militia regiment! in the Garrison of Plymouth commented MS the Ist inst.— The Guards, Sd, 22d, 23d, 46th, 48th, and 85th regiments, have got a r.umber of fine young men the last regiment seems the favourite. The volnn. teering still goes on with spirit, to the no small ad vantage of the public-houses and the hackney-coach men. The Berkshire regiment turned out 30 more than their number in less than an hour; and the 2d Lancashire, with the Shropshire, have completed their quotas. The volunteering from the Militia into the Line goes on at Portsmouth with great spirit. The Here. ford, Worcester, and Oxford regiments, have fur• nished their full quotas. The East Suffolk would have supplied double the number, had it been ree quired. The Limerick have as yet hung back; nei ther have the North Cork nor King's County militia: produced the requisite number. The Ayrshire Militia have completed their quota of volunteers for the line, with their usual alacrity...ft The ♦olunteering began on Thuriday. Last week the Renfrewshire Militia marched inter Carlisle, on their route to Haverfordwest, in Yens• brokeshire. The 2d battalion of the 71st Highland, or GlasgoOF regiment of Light Infantry, landed at Leith on Tens day last, and marched immediately for Glasgow. The Worcester detachment at fort Cumberland have been relieved by q detachment from Hilsen. It is expected that there will be a change di quer ters, this week, among the Militia regiments quartered in Portsmouth for the summer. The embarkation of the Clare and Leitrim resit ments has been delayed. in consequence of the vo• lunteering having commenced. - Monday se'nnight the Ist division of the Ross-shire regiment of Militia, commanded by Major Rottemsu sox, marched from Glasgow, on their way to Eng land, where they are to be stationed. A quantity of English merchandize was burnt at Rome on the 16th of February. One of the officets who attempted to conceal a part of the condemned goods, was detected, tried by a court-martial, and cashiered. An accomplice was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. BREAD.—No alteration in the price this week t the gam - tern loaf, eighteen-pence-halfpenny. THEATRE, Lvcrum.—The Play of The MeherAtem was pet. formed here last evening, for the benefit of a MOB Lewis, who sustained the character of Muria with great sbilitr, and was ho- noured with repeated plaudits The Play, upon the whole, wad well performed. Mr. WRIINCII, in the Deis, and a Mr. Min. DLFTON who played Baltigsor, were truly ending:it and loudly applauded. Miss SYDNEY, froth the Brighton and Wiadsot Theatres, made the unimportant part of V. very prominent. l'h,s young lady possesses rare endowments for the stage: bee person and figure are enema:aunty graceful and attractay., and her features capable of powerful and var:ed expresaion for the higher walks of gen eel corn dy. She will prove a great acquit& tion to the London Boards EZTRACT If A LETTER 'ROM IT. GALL S (11WITSEILAND) DATED MARCH 8. " We learn from Carat nee, that a frightful calamity threatere the town of Überlingen. For more than eight days it was pct• cetera that the ground up..n the Do deli of the Luke had sunk, and this phenomenon waa announce.l in a manner so &kerning, that the inhabitants, after having secured their cattle, fled from. A& dwellings. 'This prerenymen• of t:usg t Rub. en realized t on the 16th and 17th ult. 13 houses gradually intik into theabyst, coddicappeared. On the 16th, au Coi.vetitet Capuchins, so well ..own for us hospitable reception travellers, m rded tnto the abyss 1 i feet, and threatened to disappear gradually from sight. Other houses have since sunk many feet, and it la feared don the whole ww touches the moment of its destrucieso ~~_,a-. i L.... 4. A ,• . T . t 111 .,, es '' p , 1 Z , '.., ~, L 1 . 4 ~, ~. , , i ! 1 %. i . 1.., , ~ l i 'I