Star. — London, England, 1808-04-09 00:00:00

I it !z an, n- S .he cd and ica, Pe int se• of ght ted cd, no the 1 0j: - . . , sines: could hot be.' 'carried on, except that species of sece co mmunication , which it was the objett of the Hon. \ on d u) th d e o e a m w is i l y oYe w c a l ; s PebettinWeite:dotbretwMe en n 7 ' had fallen employersMtheembersnti an eo \ and bubs sten atForeign Courts, and persons filling the situatio n air —(A he had the honour to hold. These communications . talked of were made always on an implied understanding, some torial in his i times on an , expressed condition that they should not hie respect ! be made public: The honour, therefore , of the persons Hoeonrable ! concerned, those who received, and those who corn ' icity would ' municated, was engaged that they shoeld be kept secret. lan secrecy. 1 He would next, with the indulgence of the House, suppressed. state his reasons for agreeing to the production of the Vie air of se" stration af- 1 Declaration , and t h e Correspondence relating to it, might cte a to prize, serve them for a time, but in' moved for by his Noble Friend. Much industry had di e t h e y , must be p com cited to give up their under- ' been employed out of that House to' ipress the Pub -1 n • • ef , e works, and then, when they blundered into lic with an opinion, that the Administration of that [e l l i t, calla cert a i n ly per la u g h.) 1 d a y was dis p osed to make some concessions of our "herivelAWKINS BROWNE denied that the No- , maritime rights. • He did not come now to discuss *Lord had in a former debate made any quotation ; that treaty, but he would not shrink from the task of peevete letter. He had used the fact in the . justifying that and every other measure of his great free a ument leaving it to the House to give and lamented Friend (Mr. Pitt), should the Honour eaT 4 arg ' • they please d h is •• w hat degree of credit H e t hought the production of the letter without the public discussion. Be would content himself for s uit would not be a sufficient guarantee for the safety the wastepresen, with repelling that insinuation, that d a te pe rson from whom the communication was re. there y disposition in the Administration et a e nd would ' therefore support the *amendments to make a sacrifice of that great foundation of m mr. s ec retary CANNING felt some anxiety to our power. There was, it was true, an article in gate eh masons far supporting the amendment pro- that treaty which related to a revision of the Code of w ad by his Noble Friend. 'Upon this, as upon a the Laws of Nations—but how that could be termeroccasion, if the Hoene should not feel inclined made to imply to a consent to modify our Marisl to take the view of the question he did, he would time Code, he feund some difficulty in eomprehed. I weal to them on the ground et confid ence ; and if in g . That article.'referred to the seizure and sob- I, d ot a ppeal did not succeed, he would retire.frcm his sequent made" - ofthe Duke d'Enghien, to the arrest situation, and preserve his honour. The Honourable of a British Minister by the French troops, upon the 'Gentleman on the opposite Bench, in the course of territory of a Neutral and Indendepent State. These i his argernent, by pushing possibility to an extreme, atrocities it was known had aroused the indignao bad made out that great inconvenience might arise tion of the Emperor of Russia, and it was to these f r om making any thing which had the least relation alone that that article, which the Honourable Gen e blic affairs the subject of private correspondence. tleman found it convenient to refer to our m t° pu etee s ractice is to prevail, says he, there'will be no time code, related. The first of the papers, which, of the correspondence wit h t he Ministers to Fo. in consequence of the amendment of his Noble r eign Courts in the public archives ; the Head of the Friend, would be laid on the Table, would state Goverarnent might be kept in utter ignorance of the i that no consideration, not even the total nip-. sitestion in which he stood with respect to other Sove- ; tare of the negotiation then pending with Prince reigns; the relations between the country and other na- I Czartorinsky and M. Novosiltzoff, would have in fens might be withdrawn from the copizanceand con- iduced the ofthen Administration to agree to any modi troul of Parliament. What ! did the Hon. Gentleman . ficatio our maritime code. It was true, a Declnra . appose that messengers would arrive, and mails be re-1 non to the effect mentioned by the Hon. Member was t eived, without dispatches being received at the same . delivered, but it was delivered after the Treaty was time? Would notsuchacircumstance eccasion enquiry, ', signed. It was not an article signed by Russia on sad produce the remedy of the abuse? He was astonish- ' one side, and Great Britain on the other, but an lir aat such an argument from a person possessing such tide which was distinctly rejected by his Noble acuteness and knowledge of business as the Honour- ' Friend. The Honourable Member, perhaps, was sble Member. But he had been long eneugh in that dispoeed to blame him for transmitting• it, and to House to discover that acuteness, not practically ape interpret it into some kind of recognition of the de. ?lied, did often much mischief, and seldom little mend. To this he would answer,. thatit was not in pod. The hypothesis upon which the speech of the the discretion of his Noble Friend to refuse to re- Honourable Member was grounded was so eetrava- , ceive it and transmit it to Government. But gant, that it was impossiblehineself, ardent as his ima. • perhaps it would be said by the H on. Gentleman, that elation was, could believe in its existence. In the his Noble Friend found his Court cool on the question. liplornatic correspondence of this country, there al- 1 1 The House would judge of that by a few extracts eaysires, and must be, a degree of confidential con- more, which he would take the liberty of reading from mmication which could not be conveyed in a public the correspondence on the subject. [Mr. Secretary dispatch. Cases Might, and often do arise, in which Canning here read extracts from Lord Mulgrave's the secret springs of action are necessary to be ex- ' (then Secretary for the Foreign Department) Corres plained. Ambasstidors will sometimes have informs- epondence with Lord G. L. Gower ; and also from his tion to transmit which they derive from the mistress, . Official Note to Count Woronzovs (then Minister of from the Minister; or the favourite of a Sovereign.— i Russia to this country),in which it was stated that the Would it be prudent that such a c ommunication, . principles of our maritime code were rooted in the upon which, perha`ps, the success of a great political ' heart of every British subject, and that it was his Ma operation was to depend, should be made in such a : jesty's determination never to submit them to any re shape as to subject it to be laid on the table of that I vision or modification.] These, the great foundations House a few days after ? Did the Honourable Gen- of our power, he trusted future Administrations would denials mean to say, that no tatters of a nature not assert and uphold with the same spirit and firmness fit to be made public should be written ? If this prin- that they were by that Administration which the Ho ciple were established, any Minister deputed to aFo nourable Member and his friends endeavoured to pre reign Court must say, the moment he was about to judice in the public esteem. He trusted, that at no enter on his mission (and if he were an honest man, time any disposition would arise to compromise this he would do so), "Communicate nothing which you the solid basis of the honour, the glory, the interest, wish to have concealed, to me; confide nothing to me and the security of the Snit Se—that what would not which you do not wish to have made public." Did the be given up to acquire great gain, another struggle Honourable Member mean to say, that all communi- for the independence andirappiness of Europe, would cations between the persons who might fill the de- not be relinquished to turn aside any danger, however partment of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State imminent ; that that would not be conceded to the for Foreign Affairs, and the King's Representatives threats of any eneni y which would not have been aban to Foreign Courts, were to be deposited in the public 1 doped to ensure the co-operation of the only po w er on archives, to be perhaps drawn from th ence b y some ! the Continent then able to make head against France.' haute compiler of dispatches, and published, for in- Mr. WHITBREAD replied with greet animation; stance, under the name of the Gower, or any other when the House divided—For the amendment 114 — Papers ? How would the substance of these commu- Against it 50. The original motion was of course lost. nications be prevented from transpiring, and what REVIaSION BILL. would be he situations of the individuals implicated On the Report of the Reversion Bill being brought in them, if it did? Did not the Honourable Gentle- up, Mr. WHITBREAD observed, that he wished to man know, that the publication of the translation of a defer, till Monday, the motion he intended to make book into a foreign language had occasioned the ruin respecting this Bill, which was of great public im of all who were concerned in it ; that it had produced portance. The Amendments were then read a second tee imprisonment of sonic individuals , and the deaths time, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed, printed, of other s.—(Hear! Hear !)—The Honourable Gen- I and read a third time on Monday. denten who made the motion found it convenient for 1 'IRISH DUTY BILL. his argument to assert, that his Noble Friend had I On the third reading of the Irish Duty Bill, a des made a quotation from the letter so often alluded to. I cussion of some length took place between Mr. Tier- New, what was the state of the case ? His Noble 1 trey, Mr. Perceval, Mr. Foster, Sir John Newport, friend, in the course of his admirable speech, states a I , Earl Temple, Mr. Rose, &c. respecting the principle feet in su pp or t o f hi s a umcnt. The Honourable l o f the Bill, it being . contended by Gentlemen on the Member as k s across the able," can it be produced ?" 1 opposite side that it went to lay fresh taxes without " Yes, but in a private letter."—" Oh, ho !" says 1 any reasonable grounds stated. The Bill was how , ?be Hen. Gentleman, " Now I have you : you state . ever passed. a fact, you refer to a private letter, and by so doing 1 Jou fix upon it the character of a public document.' This is all that passed on the occasio n ; and this is what the Hon. G e ntleman calls a quotation. Among all the pretensions which the Honourable Gentleman ens in the habit of arrogating to himself in that House, the manner in which he called for information seas not the least extraordinary. These pretensions he telt it his duty to resist; and to that Hon. Gentleman, and to him exclusively, as long as he persevered in that 'high and dictatorial tone which he lately as sumed, he would deny that information, which, by the common courtesy of the House, was due to every Member. The question, in fact, resolved itself into e , : :—A letter of a private nature is a prima facie sense against its production before Parliam e nt ; and the circumstance of its not being produceable, is P rind facie reason against adopting the motion of der Hot. Member. The Gentlemen on the other side did not question the truth of what his Noble Friend h assevted; they only doubted the authority from whic his information was derived. He could not think that, Won such grounds as these, the House would een , ent to go against the ordinary course of Parlia mentary usage. The other arguments which had been ured. applied to the char ac ter of his Nob le 1 tit rid W and that he would leave to the decision of the I !wee.. ve • -e would again repeat, that public bit- t by vely ali Fairs ectu than .hich been elves ORDERS IN COUNCIL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, that the further examination of witnesses upon the Orders in Council Bill, which stood for Monday, be postponed to Tuesday next.—Agreed. The House then adjourned, at eleven o'clock. Tfi E EVEN IN G STAR. LONDON. r i led _cd toted ofn alai% iota• had n.—. ICS' The Metcal4 saheil-from liengel. with the Gene ral Stuart, and parted on the 'l4th of Deceniber off Ceylon, bound to Bombay: • A considerable•force, uxiiiet the comrriand of C.OlO-' nel DICKER and Colonel HORiFEED, matched-against Doondia Khan, a refractory Chief in the ceded pro vinces, ss'ho was obliged to evacuate the fortress of,, Comona, but not till the troops sent against irtu had ' I sustained a considerable loss in off i cers and Men. • 1 Fresh accounts, received at the Ont-ports, stet*, that one of the French frigates, =Acted by the Aigle.; has actually been taken, and that the Impetueux, di 74 guns, was in company. We fear, however, that; this intelligence will not be confirmed. The dis patches before received by Government state, that as soon as the Aigle had brought one of them to action, and the latter perceived • she must be taken, , she set all her sails, even her steering sane, and ran directly stem on upon the Isle of Groais, which is off L'Orient. All her top-masts immediately went over her side, and her mizen by the board, and she seemed the next morning to be a perfect wreck, the sea break ing over her, and herself upon her beam-ends. A shift of wind unfortunately rendered it impossible for the Aigle to set fire to her, and the enemy sending some craft out of L'Orient lightened her in such a manner that she floated off and succeeded in getting into L'Orient. The other frigate eseaped by out sailing the Impetueux, which was in company with the Aigle. The Aigle had nine men wounded, Captain WOLFE slightly. A Gentleman, who escaped on board the Leyden frigate from Lisbon on the 13th tilt. lend arrived at Plymouth, states, that the sufferings undergone throughout Portugal, for the want of bread and flour, are rendered more acute by the sad prospect of the future harvest. The lands had Snot been re freshed by a shower of rain for the last four months, during the whole of which time North-easterly winds had prevailed. The conduct of the Spanish troops in Portugal, the same Gentleman informs us, is highly extolled by all ranks. If the French imitated their example, the sufferings of the people' would be greatly ame liorated, instead of which they insi-klee in every ex cess of rapine and plunder. Mr. Sete:Les still remained a prisoner ins•-tbe hos pital. It was known he was very rich. Genet - Al Jeeor refused to abate any thing from his demand of 10,0001. for his release. General FRAZER ob tained his freedom for only 4-00 guineas. It is al most needless to add, that the French, General, JUNOT, is pressing an immense fortune out of the , unhappy people over whom he is placed. All the cotton, coffee, and other Colonial produce found in the public warehouses, has been seized. JUNOT says, they are very much wanted at Paris ; but that being too heavy for transporting over the Pyrenees, he will wait for an opportunity to send them by sea, when the English squadron may be driven off the Coast by some favourable squall. The Unicorn frigate, which sailed with Admiral Sir TttoNfas Ducewoent to the West Indies, is ar rived at Torbay. It is reported, that Sir THOMAS, having ascertained that the Rochefort squadron had not gone to the West Indies, deemed it likely that they had proceeded to the Brazils, and accordingly, having taken some stores from Admiral CoennaNE's fleet, proceeded thither in pursuit of the enemy. This statement is not improbable. By other accounts from the West Indies, it appears that the French were making treat preparations at Martinique and Guadeloupe for some expedition, having lately received from Europe a reinforcement of 2000 men. Admiral COCHRANE, however, was perfectly aware of the enemy's design, and no appre hensionsewere entertained with respect to the result. The advices from St Domingo, by the same con veyance, state, that occasional conflicts contiatted to take place between the Rival Chiefs, but that Cum -tome., on the whole, had evidently gained ground. The Unicorn sailed from Barbadoes on the 2341 of February ; and on the 19th of the same month, part of the fleet which sailed from Cork on the 17th of January, and which were dispersed on the 21st, ar rived at Barbadoes. • A letter from Madras of the 22d October, states, that Sir EDWARD PELLEW left Madras on the 19th of the same month, on a Secret Expedition, to the Eastward, in theCulloden, accompanied by the Power ful, Dasher, and Samaram en o the Worcester and Byrangore, m used as transports. f war, and He was accompanied by 500 men of his Majesty's 30th Regiment, a company of artillery and pioneers. I was said he was to proceed from Penang, where he was to be joined by more troops from .Bengal. It was first surmised that the object of attack was Ma nilla, which was taken by the English in 1762 ; but, on comparing the strength of the island with the force sent against it, that idea was abandoned, and the more general one prevailed, that the expedition was meditated against Java. Mr. RonsoN, late M. P. for Honiton, who pro duced so much benefit in several branches of the public expenditure, set out yesterday from his house in Manchester•square, to offer himself as a Candidate to represent the Borough of Sandwich, i nstea d of Admiral RAINIER, who died the same day. The Tartar frigate, Captain Bmaswoßni, has dropped down to Northfleet, where she is taking bj i her powder and guns ; after which she will P roceed to receive her complement of men from the guard ships at the Nore , and then, it is supposed, go round to Portsmouth, In order to receive Lord STRANOFORD and suite, to convey him to his embassy at the Prazils. SATURDAY, APRIL 9. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK C onso ls, for money, 65 1; —f account, 61- 1 -oMuluin 4 pr. Exthtquir tills, ss. prc. This day the Bask begin paying the Dividends to the Public at large, due the sth instant. We have the pleasure to announce the safe arriv of the General Stuart at Portsmouth, on the Bth instant ; sailed from Bengal on the Bth December ; arrived at St. Helena the 14th February ; sailed from thence the 21st. The General Stuart was ready for sea when the fleet, lately . .arrived, left Bengal Th e Kingston whaler, RICHARDS, arrived at St. Sydney, Covz, Helena the 13th February, a id t h e t h e 20th, and were )eft at the island. • - • - - AfiluticAL INTELLIUkcii. • PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7. tame in the Amazon, of 3fi guns, from a cruise : by this ship accounts are received, that the Impetneux, of '74 guns, and the Aigle, of 36 guns, have taken a French frigate, and that they have driven another ashore off L'Q.i : the one captured is said to be expected every. hour. Came in the Lion, Captain BLYTII, frciro Limer vk ; Hope, RICHARD S, from Cork; • Robert knd George, BEMEti, froth ditto; and Fri end, Birrsen, from Limerick. • PORTSMOuTH, AlM'', 8. Arrived his Majesty's ships Cour-40u: from the Mediterranean ; Coquette from off Lisbon ; Peacock, from Plymouth ; Locust, from a truite ; and the Dryade with a convoy from Cork. Sailed his Ma jesty's ship Boadicea on a cruize. Wind N.W. DOVER, APRIL O. For several days past, the wind has blown very hard from the westward, attended with a thick fog; so that we have not been able to see ships passing here two miles off'; this morning the wind suddenly shifted, and for a few hours blew excessively heavy from the northward, with squalls of rain. About 10 transports, and several vessels, have come round into our roads, from the Downs, for shelter ; and hisida• jesty's sloop Kangaroo, and several gun , brigs, have likewise brought up off here. Several sail of East , India ships passed by here this day, from the Downs, bound to the westward.—Wind N.W. and moderate. DEAL, APRIL P. Arrived the Dromedary store skip, from the Note, and passed through to the westward ; Trident, 64 guns, from Sheerness. Sailed the Challenger, Beagle, and Royalist, on a cruize ; Baring, Lord Melville, United Kitigdost, Dover Castle, Tottenham, De vaystei, AdmiratOardner, and Marchioness of Azeter, Eastbdia ships; for the River. Sailed also through the Downs from She River, the Snake privateer, on a cruise ;.Streath;aino Dats,for the East Indies ; John, BLit' %.I fear Jitfetaica ; Juno, Rossntsos, for Lon. dotal?? ; Industry, Kiiinv, for Quebec rand several other outward-bound vessels, coasters, and colliers, to the westward.. The wind shifting round suddenly from West to N. N. W. and blowing strong, the En counter and Bloodhound got foul of each other ; the Encounter appears to have sustained much damage in her rigging and hull ; the Bloodhound lost ap• patently only a bolt, which broke adrift from the davits. astern.—Wiati N. YARMOUTH, APRIL e. Arrived the Cs:lipso sloop of war and the Blazer gun-brig, which has brought in a galliot deeply laden. ' The Roebuck remains in the Roads with the above. . . NEWHAVEN, APRIL S. A vessel came on shore on Seaford Cliff this morning and went entirely to pieces. The crew, melaml.oly to relate, have all pe. fished. It will be dibicult to collect, from any circumstances at.' tending this wreck, the name, owners, or derination of tht ship.. A piece of wood has been picked up, attached to the end et the cable, with these words, " Peter Young and Son," and k bas been reported theta water cask has been found at same dam, I marked " Three Brothers, London." The length of the sable la 120 yards. From the clrcumstante of the stern lighisbeing mad up, and numerous pieces of raw cotton hanging about, it is con. lectured that the ship is fronrthe West Indies :. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. , • 0 GRAVY S YND, APRIL. IL—Pained .by the Simon TOO, Meek, for Jamaica ; Lynx, Phillips, from Riga ; and the Andante, Danish prize. Sailed the Experiment, Dicey, fn . Montserrat - Albion, Thompson, for St. Croix • Alfred, Hutchins, for 1 aniaica ; Sally, Tracey ; and the Lovely Liu, Carter, fa Cork. . The Couragenx, Prom the 'Mediterranean, has arrived at Portsmouth. The time at which she left the Gut we have not learnt—but she brings no news of any action. The second battalions of the 6th, 35tt, and 50th Regiments are quartered at Ashford under the com mand of Brigadier General HAY. The following is a correct statement, taken from the Parish Register, of the number of soldiers buried at Ashford, in Kent, from March 1 to April 6, 1808, out of about sixteen hundred men, of which the gar rison then consisted : NEN 51:15110. MEN BURIED. MEN SUITED. MEN EVE/TD. March 1. One March 9. One Mar. 23. One Ape I.One 2. Two 11. One 24. Two 2. Two 3. One 12. One 26. Five 4. One 5. Two 13. One 28. Four 5. Two 6. Three 14. Or.e 29. Three 6. Four 7. Two 17. Two SO. One 8. One 20. One 31. One Total in 37 days - Forty-seven. The diKirder, we are sorry to add, is not in the least abated, though, happily for the inhabitants, it is by no means infectious, not a soldier, or a person living in the town, having died of the same complaint—at positive proof that the malady is entirely owing to the unhealthy situation and construction of the barracks. But what shall we say of the criminality of those, who, knowing the cause of this mortality, and pos sessing the power to terminate it, by removing the men, still permit the evil to continue ! No satisfac tory excuse can be offered for continuing the men in these barracks for a single day longer. If a remedy be not instantly applied, we shall not be deterred, by any consideration whatever, from holding up to me rited execration and contempt, those who can be so criminally callous as to turn a deaf ear, for a single hour longer, to the imperious call of duty and humanity. On Tuesday last three French prisoners made their escape from the Batavier in .Gillingham Reach ; that ship's timber is chiefly cedar, and they managed without discoverf ar to ; nut a hole entirely through the side of the ship e enough to pass through, took a small boat alongside, and without an oar got clear away. Thursday morning, 11 French prisoners made their escape from the Vigilante prison ship, in Portsmouth harbour, by swimming from her, alongside of a fri. gate in ordinary, and took her boat from astern : from ince they proceeded to one of the King's buoy. boats (a fast-sailing vessel, being coered), secured the men, three in number, below, belonging to her, and about a quarter before five o'clock went out of the harbour. It being a vessel belonging to Govern ment, was not hailed from the watch-house (though observed going out), and, no doubt, ere t hi s , h ave gained the French coast. Two of them, in attempting to alongside of the frigate in ordinary , stuck in the mud.get is . of whom was found dead, and the othe r muck odousted, who was taken back to the prie' cetship. . • II I I II f asted wed tosansack the pnvate communications to ced Wrirn m .. el LA t' WRENCE, in allusion to what had fa inl* 40 LAM the las! Speaker, described it as froth and I uvbie:which in t he end vanished in empty a ir— tr4l The Honourable G entleman had talke gu t • ouoarable Friend having been dictatorial it of • pr b u t he denied that to be true. With ret the 02 • 1111.-- iii, the comm unication for whic h his Honont • d had moved, he contended that publicity w of i nen oge e, with all its disadvantages, than sec Noe s, r t hat was an objection, might be suppre at ,„,,„ a i r o f sec recy which this mote dministratic . . Cr.• rime_ erect ~" U r. 1 II