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i HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Gallery was not opened till after five o'Cledt, In nob*. einem* of the balloting fbr Committees oh the Peitbroke, And Carmarthen Election Petitions. Mr. WAITE appeared at the Ber with the retina:id list Of Members balloted to serve as a Committee for trying the Merits of the Petition complaining of an undue Election for the Town of Pembroke. The names were then read as follow :- T. F. Heathcote, Esq. Lord Rancliffe. J. A. S. Wortley, Esq. E. Hornby, Esq. J. I. Blackburne, Esq. Sir C. M. Pole, Bart. Sir T. Sutton, Bart. Anthony Browne, Etc!. Lord Apsley. Hon. J. Vaughan. Alexander Allan, Esq. Hon. Thomas Brand. George Osbaldestou, Esq. Hun. E. Phipps. 'W. M. Pitt, Esq. Mr. SHAW brought in a Bill Court of Conscience in the Cii first time. The reduced list of the names of the Members balloted to serve on the Committee for trying the merits of the Petition, complaining of an undue Election for Carmarthen, was brought t.p and read, as follow.: H. M. Ogle, Esq. Benjamin Hobhouse, Esq. T. R. Beaumont, Esq. George Benne, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Hon. Charles Hope. Arthur Atherley, Esq. T. F. Lewis, Esq. Lord COCHRANE gave notice, that he would move, to morrow, for different returns of Seamen in his Majesty's service, distinguishing them into particular classes. A Message from the Lords informed the House, that their Lordships had agreed to several Public and Private Bills. EAST INDIA COMPANY. • , Sir W. CURTIS said, lee held in his hand a Petition from the Merchants, Bankers, and Traders, of the City of LOndon, pray ing for the renewal of the Fast India Company's Charter, which had been so great a source of public and private advantage as to make them must anxious tat its continuance should receive the sanction of Parliament. Ihe Petition, the worthy Alderman observed, expressed the unai.imous sense of front six to seven thousand honourable and honest Gentlemen.—(,l latigh.).-I'he Petition was-then brought up, and ordered to be laid on the table. THE PRINCESS OF WALES. On the SPEAKER calling on Mr. COCHRANE 3oHNSTONE, Mr. LYGON said, he felt it to be a duty impera tive on hint to move the Standing Order, that stran gers should withdraw. This notice called forth expressions of disapproba tion from many Members ; but the SPEAKER, of course, felt it his duty to enforce the Standing Order of the House, and the Gallery was cleared. After the Gallery was cleared, Mr. BENNETT rose, and moved that the House should adjourn. Mr. BENNETT's motion was supported briefly by General MATHEW. and Mr. P. METHUENJ and op posed by Lord CASTLEREAGH. Alderman C. SMITH, General MAITLAND, and Mr. PONSONBY. A division ensued, when the numbers were-s Again.a the Adjournment I'LL - the Adjournme n t Majority against the Adjournment The House being resumed, Mr. COCHRANE JOHNSTONE said, that as an Honourable Member opposite had thought pro per to clear the Gallery, he should not bring forward his motion that night, but would reserve his right of renewing it at any suture period. Mr. .LYGON said, that whenever the Honourable Member renewed his motion, he shouhralso renew his motion for the exclusion of all strangers. Mr. W. WYNNE suggested the propriety of his Majesty's Ministers bringing forward some motion upon this suubject. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the Princess of Wales having thrown herself upon the wisdom and justice of Parliament, he did not feel it to be his duty to originate any motion whatever on the subject. It was, however, perfectly open to any Member of that House, who thought that the Princess of Wales had received any injustioe of which her Royal Highness had a right to complain, to make such motion as he thopght proper. Mr. WHITBREAD said, he felt himself called upon to rise and say a tew words, after what had fallen from the Noble Lord, at whose silence on a former night, on this subject, he had already expressed his surprise. When he (Mr. Whitbread) spoke on that occasion, he was ignorant who were the Mem bers of the Privy Council who had framed the Report in question. Since he entered the House, he Mad seen in an Evening newspaper, that purported to be a copy of this same Report, signed by twenty-one of his Majesty's Privy Council. He must presume that the , Letter of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales related to that Report. The Noble Lord i (Castlereagh) had already told the House, that when' the motion of the Hon. Member (Mr. Cochrane 1 Johnstone) came on, he should be ready to give cer tain details and explanations ; but those details and explanations he (Mr. W.) conceived would not con. vey all the information on this matter to which that House was entitled. in fact, the Report itself ought to be laid on the table. He considered it to he the duty of some of the Members of the Privy Council who had signed it, and more particularly of the No ble Lord, who had also signed a Report made in 1807, respecting the conduct of the Princess of Wales, and which was understood to relate to matters of the utmost importance, to take some step on the trlijr•ct. Some passages in this last Report appeared to him so ambiguously worded, that they might be supposed to convey imputations of the highest criminality ; they were capable of being otherwise construed.— 'Whenever the proposed debate came on, he should feel it his duty to express his sentiments freely ; hut, in the mean dine, he must observe, that having been neither an acquitter nor an accuser, aid certainly not both together, of her Royal Highness, lie was not yet in a situation in which he could, with propriety, enter into a discussion of the subject. He felt it highly important that such documents should be laid before Parliament, to conie to such resolutions on this case as it might seem to require. Lord CASTLEREAGH said he was not shaken by what had laden from the Hon. Gentleman. If there was any individual Member who felt what was kilready known to be of sufficient importance to make it the foundation of a motion, he was quite at liberty to make it. For his own part, he must observe, that he should not make any. He conceived that his duty and obligations as a l'rivy tiounciilor forbade such a -proceeding from him. He should discharge his duty steadily. He had given no advice in this business which he .should not be ready to justify whenever he might be called upon to do so by Parliamentary au -1 t;ici ity. The present Report was not a revival of a loaner investigation. The question was not one of :large or no charge ; but whether the Intel - coarse be- to extend the juriedietion of the ity of Dublin, which was read a Timothy Shelley, Esq. John Wharton, Esq. Hon. W. Elliot. Robert Shaw, Esq. Richard Preston, Esq. §tr C. Saxton, But. James Macdonald, Esq. . 248 • . 189 -109 J men Rent illghltees the Nano bt Wales Ma the Princess Charlotte of Waled 'Mold or should not be subject to refutations and restraints. ? wHrrintEAD rose again ; and after a re* ohsertations read the Report of the Privy Council; from a newspaper, which had eoine into his band that evening. He remarked, that the public, though they had now the Report, were yet unapprized of the circumstances which had induced the Privy Council to form their Resolution. It appeared to him to be of material importance to the understanding of the subject, that those documents should be laid before that House. He thought it was hard to throw a slur on the proceedings of the Princess of Wales, who came before that House as a petitioner, and who had no Privy Council to advise her, and to frame Re ports in her vindication. It was certainly the duty of the Noble Lord to move for the production of this Report, which, if that Noble Lord or some other Member did not move for, he (Mr. Whitbread) in tended to do ; and indeid he should have done it al ready, had •the motion of the Hon. Member (Mr. Cochrane Johnstone) been withdrawn. Lord CASTLEREAGH could not suffer the House to separate on this business, with an imputa tion on the conduct of the Privy Council which did ' not attach to it. The criminality of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was not the object before the Privy Council. In the case of the crimi nality of her Royal Highness, the intercourse between her and the Princess Charlotte of Wales, would not have been an intercourse subjected to regulations and restraints ; but would have been prohibited alto gether. Lord 'STANLEY wished to know, whether his Majesty's Ministers intended to take any other notice of the letter received by the Speaker from her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales ? Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he should give the accustomed notice, whenever he should have any in tention of submitting any motion upon tile subject.* Lord MILT ON said, that as the Hon. Mover of the original motion had abandoned, or more strictly speaking, had postponed his motion sine die, he was desirous of knowing whether the Noble Lord also in tended to postpone all proceedings on the subject of the letter sine die ? He considered the present as a very grave subject, and not of that trivial importance which the Nohle Lord affected to represent it. Mr. 'BENNETT intimated his intention, when ever the Gallery was cleared, to persist in his motion of adjournment. He should repeat his motion, that 66 the House do now adjourn." Mr. YORKE expressed his regret that the Ho nourable Member should persist in his resolution, ' which would tend to impede the progress of the pub lic business. He thought that the House ought to mark their sense of such conduct. He had once been himself a marked man, and had been nearly in dan ger of having his house pulled down, for clearing . the gallery, for doing his duty. He would not hesitate to say, that unless the House maintained that ancient , and indisputable right, Gentlemen had all better go home to their respective counties and places of re sidence. Sir JOHN NEWPORT trusted that the Honour able Member (Mr. Bennett) would exercise the power lie held of moving an adjournment ; and that he would not be deterred by the threats of any man, however high in authority. He begged to remind Gentlemen of a period, when a late Right Hon. Friend of his (Mr. Fox) was exhausted by his appli cation to his public duties, some of those Gentlemen, who on this occasion exclaimed against the question of adjournment, had themselves repeated that ques tion, perhaps foerteen or fifteen times in the same evening. If strangers were to be excluded from the gallery, the consequence would be, that the public would consider the House of Commons as a sort of Secret Tribunal, sheltering itself from public opinion. Mr. YORKE explained, that the reason assigned for the motion of Adjournment, and not the motion of Adjournment itself, wet the foundation of his , complaint. Mr. CANNING observed, that he had already ;hewn that he disapproved of the motion of adjourn ment, by voting against it ; which he should again do, whenever it should he pressed to a division. The motion for clearing the gallery, and excluding stran gers—with what propriety now made, he should not decide—was founded on a privilege, the exercise of which must ever be maintained, without any qualifi- I cation, or question upon it ; or it would, in tact, lose f its whole essense. The present motion of adjourn ! ment he considered highly impolitic under all the ! circumstances: though he would admit that lie had 'himself again and again moved it, to the manifest impediment of the progress of public business. He had done so with the express intention of marking his sense of the impropriety of proceeding on the par ticular business of the House, without due time for deliberation ; conceiving that motion to be among the lawful arms of a minority against an overbearing majority. The attempt to restrain and limit the power of clearing the House of strangers would, if successful, destroy its independence as to the public ; and any attempt to enter into a disquisition on the motives, or on the disci etion of Members, in moving the standing order, would destroy the independence of the House within itself. Mr. STUART WORTLEY explained the mo tives en which lie had, on a former occasion, moved a question of adjournment. He did not make that motion from the consideration of his having no au dience to hear his speech. Lord CASTLEREAGH trusted that the House would never be called upon to deliberate on the right of any Member to move an adjournment. The mode, however, in which that right was now exercised, was different from any ever before recorded in the procee dings of Parliament. He would put it to the candour of the Hon. Gentleman, whether it was a proper proceedings' Captain VYSE observed, that a Gentleman, in milling such a motion took upon himself the respon• sibility of involving the House in an unpleasant di lemma. An Honourable Member (Mr. Cochrane Johnstone) had declared, that he had abandoned his original motion because the gallery was cleared. — He, for one, was therefore determined that it should always be so, whenever this motion was renewed. Mr. BENNETT enquired, whether, if he withdrew his motion of adjournment, the Hon. Member (Mr. Lygon) would also withdraw his motion for enforcing the Standing Order. Mr. OSBORNE recommended Gentlemen, who • were in favour ot the atijottrhtient, to flow for the 'rescinding of the Standing Order. which Conferred the right of cleating the gallery. Mr. WIIPTBREAI) thought, that the existence br the Standing Orders Was essential to the indepen. dense of the House of COll/MOtts, both of the Crown and of the people ; although the indiscriminate exer cise of them would be injudicious: One extreitte na. turally tended to produce another. One Honourable Member having declared that he would clear the gallery, another declared that he would move the question of adjournment I In the course of his Fa iiamentary life, he had known the gallery twice cleared in consequence of something which he ( Mr. Whitbread) had said. He, however, had not imme diately declared that he would speak no longer. The same line of conduct he begged to recommend to the Honourable Mover of the original motion. He should also recommend him either to make his origi nal motion at once ; or, if he did not choose that, to move that a copy of the Report be laid on the table. Mr. COCHRANE JOHNSTONE said, he was anxious co comply with the wishes of the House, and should bring on his motion again to-morrow. Sir GILBERT HEATHCOTE explained, why he supported the adjournment. Captain VYSE explained. After a cry of so on ! Mr. COCHRANE JOHN STONE rose again, and mentioned indisposition as an excuse for his not proceeding till to-morrow. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the Army Estimates stood for to-morrow; but that his Noble Friend, the Secretary at War, would not object to giving way for the-Hon. Gentleman's motion. Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1815. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Red. 581 59-I—Cons. 58f4—for ac. 5811 59f-4 per Ct. shut 5 per Cent. 884 89—Bds. ss. dis.—Long Anna, shut. Exch. Bills 4s. 6s. pr.—Ornulum nothing done. er To•morrow we hope to be able to lay before the Public a most important Document, relative to the Letter addressed by ber Royal Highness the PRINCISS of WALLS to the LORD CIiANCZLLOR, and to the SPEAK ut of the House of Commons. Yesterday, in a great part of our impression, we laid before the Public a copy of the Report of the Privy Council to his Royal Highness the PRINCE Re- GENT on the Letter of her Royal Highness the Prin cess of WALES, which we this day again insert in our columns. It will be seen, that it confines itself prin cipally to two points—the propriety of continuing the intercourse between her Royal Highness the Printers of WALES and her Royal Highness the Princes: CneaLorrs, ri4eit to regulation and restraint—and the words gg sub orned traducers," employed in the Letter of her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. The first they de clare to be highly, t and proper, with a view to the wel fareof her Royal Highness the Princes; CM 41LOTTE, in which are equally invohed the happiness of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in his parental and royal character, and the most important interests of the State. And on the expression a suborned traducers," which by mis construction might, perhaps, be reiel red to some part of the conduct of his Royal Highness, they feel it their bounden duty to declare, that the documents submitted to them a afford the most ample proof that there it not the slightest foundation for such an aspersion." It was upon this Report that her Royal High ness applied by letter to the LORD CHANCELLOR, and to the SPEAKER of the House of Commons for an open trial ; nor, under all the circumstances of the case, can it appear surprising that her Royal. High./ ness should have made such an appeal. That the matter must come to ansopen investigation stems to be now indispensibly requisite. The copy of the letter sent to the LORD CHANCELLOR has not been laid be fore the House of Peers, his Lordship having had some doubts as to the propriety of the measure :—it ' is even understood that he returned the letter to her Royal Highness. While the discussion was supposed to be carrying on by the high persons to whom the subject had been reserved, the PRINCESS is said to have protested against all secret proceedings, but already the Report had been concluded. It is added, that the PRINCESS did not immediately resort to Parliament till she had pre viously signified her readiness to have her conduct in vestigated by those to s hom the task had been as signed of preparing the Report. As this important topic must soon undergo a Par liamentary discussion, we shall abstain for the present from offering any farther remarks on a subject that very much engrosses the public attention. As Mr. COCIIRANE JOIINSTONE'S motion on this im portant subject was generally expected to come on last night, an immense crowd occupied the avenues leading to the House of Commons, at so early an hour as two o'clock—an extra number of Constables was therefore sent for, and the door-keepers, about five o'clock, recess ed orders not to admit any person but Members. This gave rise to an idea that the discussion would take place with closed doors, and many persons went away. The anxiety of those who , remftined was soon relieved, however, by the Gallery being unexpectedly thrown open, when a scene of tumult and confusion took place which has scarcely ever been witnessed in that place at least. The numbers who rushed into the Gallery far exceeded its capacity, and many would have been precipitated into the body of the House, had they not prudently availed themselves of the permission given them by the Serjeant to step across into the Members' Gallery, and thus to make their exit through the House. Those who remained did not long enjoy their tranquillity, for, as our Readers will perceive from the sketch of the proceedings, which we have laid before them, all strangers were excluded by Mr. 'LIGON'S motion. brottawiten IN 4/oLLAND. We haft adrigilay noticed, that throttghout ram* t l ;e new Conscription was not received with that tor ,liality which the Pieoth Papers wool.' indite* tho woad to believe. The same sprit of disaffection has broke out in Millard. l3y a vest,•l which has arrived at Fiarteich, and which left the Dutch coast nn the 2d inst. we learn that at Hat- s tem a most seritodf dis. turbance took place a few days since, while an at. tempt Was making to organise the Conscript 4__. The latter having obtained possesdbn Of fire arms, shot several of the Officers who were app' i.tted to command them t and, among others, a French Go. neral was killed. N PRL IN7 EL ENCL PALMOUTH, MARCH% No rrivals—Sailed the ritike of Kent packet whit a Mail, and the Sylvia cutter, with dispatches for Lisbon; PROMETHBUS sloop of war, for Cape de Verds‘ ANDROMEDA frigate, for Gibraltar; and the Lord Hobart packet, With a Mail for Gibraltar and Malta.-1 - iis Majesty's ships RkiNDEER, LYRA, and WRITING, still IreMilillWind PLYMOUTH, MARCH s. Came in the Pert, American schooner, prom 13nttri deans, bound to Philadelphi I, captured by his Ma• jesty's ship Siitnuous,--Wind N.N.W. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4, Arrived his Majesty's ship SAX „fosse, with the Lad Melville and Hugh Inglis East-Indiamen, and dte ship Betsey, from the Downs. Sailed his Majesty ships TIGRE, VEN unntut, SPITFIRE, and GALATP* S for off Cherburgh, and the DISPATCH to the West. ward.. Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship IN. DEFATIOABLR —The Wind most part of to-day has been from the N.W. but it has got back to the B.W. and looksidirty. DIAL, MARCH 4. Arrived and sailed for the River, the John and Isabella, KIRK, from St. Michael's. The outward• bound remain.—Wind W.3.W. TRINADAD, DECEMBER SI. A convoy for Europe is appointed to sail froth St. Thomas's on or about the '2sth of Januar,. The Louisa, POLL6CIC, and Elizabeth, Bmato, join this convoy, and will leave this under convoy of a mad of war, on or about the 15th. Mr.Wntts, jun. Proprietor of the Isideiteglitt was this day found guilty of a Libel on the Duke of CumaancAso.—The trial lasted nearly sit hours. A Letter from Admiral Youxo, received at Ply. mouth Dock, mentions, that the Scheldt fleet ha* , been dismantled, and the crews marched off to join the army. The 'forum:, arrived at Portsmouth from Lis. I bon, has !nought an account of the lamented and melancholy end of Lieutenant-General Sir WILLIAM Ettseta, Commander in Chief of the Cavalry undet the orders of Sir Itowt.aso Hsu.. In a fit of delirium Sir WILLIAM threw himself out of the upper windovir of a house where he was quartered, and was killed on the spot. Several vessels have arrived from Holland, and by one of them a letter from Rotterdam has been re. ceived, which states positively that Dantsic had fallen. Another from Amsterdam mentions, that the Rus. sians had entered Berlin. Through the same channel it is noticed as a report, that the preliminaries of a Treaty between Denmark and the neighbouring Powers had been satisfactorily arranged. On Tuesday evening, soon after the SPEAKER of the House of Commons had r ea d t h e PRINCIMI of , WALES'S letter in the House of Commons, leters Were sent off by the LORD Cuitecat.Lott and the Earl of LIVERPOOL, to her Royal Hiiihness at Blackheath. The Princess answered the LoanCitaNctu.oft's letter the same night, but we did net understand that the Earl of LIVERPOOL received any answer to his letter. On Wednesday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was summoned by the Lotto CHANCELLOR, to take the letter he had received from the Princess into con. sideration. The Cabinet met at one o'clock, at the Foreign Office, and continued sitting till past three. The long expected Expori of the State of the French Empire has at length arrived. For the first time since BONAPARTE assumed the purple, this docu ment is void of all interest so far as the general as pect of the affairs of Europe is concerned. Not a word of the campaign in the North, or of the war in Spain ? It leaves us in the dark also respecting the j dispositions of Austria, Prussia, and even of the Princes of the Confederation. No threats are held out of perpetual war, and he no longer maintains the I haughty and overbearing attitude of dictator to the world !—How are the mighty fallen ! • In his Expos; of 1811, he burst upon astounded mankind in all his splendour. He then declared him self " the most extraordinary genius ever formed by nature in her magnificence"—he laughed to scorn " the system of balances, of guarantees, of counter. f , poise, of political equilibrium"—he, " the Conqueror, from the height of his car, looked down on nations," 1111 sought out for faithful Princes, and entrusted to them the de'tinies of those regenerated States of which he had declared himself the Protector"—,.r " where the aggregations were too small," there, " to prevent their total dissolution," he comnunded their union to the Great Empite. CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, MARCH S. The Market to-day has a tolerable liesb sisrply ot riving intl. cies ;and although there is but tittle business doing, the trade in general appears brisker than on tVednesday.—Fitie Wheats rea dily obtain last prices ; interior, heavy sale: the same may be no. ted in Barley. Malt, Peas, and Beans, at little variation. Wit have sonic fresh arrivals sit Oats, part hunt the Baltic, and this article rather declinesio price. FEintageis2s. ritt V o l l e 2 a t t is 7 . 8 3 1 ;4 1 5. t Os. 1125. Potato* ditto, 42$ Rape Seed "0, £65 whet. Foreign 41165. 114 s. Linseed. LON. 1403. per qr. Rye 7es. 110 s. Coriander do. per cwt. yds. 425. Barley ties. 745. Caraway, ditto, ens. 116 s. Malt, eas. toes. Canary do.. 80s. 100 r. per qn Ditto fine Ware 1)0*. lles. White Mustard Seed, lbs. eels White Peas (boilers) 948. 106.. per Gray, ditto, 84s. 86s. &mini do. 244. 34.4. Beans, 7Gs. 84s. Clod oetd, white, pee eWti Tick ditto 74s 60s. Oats (feed) 265. Sis. SU. Poland ditto, 40s. 455. Fins Pim loin i• 11004 001. 1416. Ditto. ►ed. We. 11111 e. I are., per babel, 14e. Ne. aids was. to 103*. pa Nab.