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lie ila 4i . the other dtities the country might take 'an alarm. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, it had been af ways the moon to allow a measure of this nature to pass through a Committee, and to be reported to the House. Mr. PONSONBY said he should persist in his in tention.. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, be would not press the tax at present, but bring it forward on a future day. Mr. A. BARING hoped some previous notice would be given. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, two or three days would be given. The Resolution was then put, with the exception of the duty on cotton, and agreed to. The House having resumed, the Report was or dered to be received tomorrow. The other Orders of the Day were then proceeded in, after which the House adjourned. - FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MARCH 27. They write from Bayonne, that the Communica tion with Spain daily becomes more free, and that the couriers arrive regularly from Madrid. LEGISLATIVE BODY. The President announced, that the Deputation charged by the Legislative B 'dy, to carry an address to his Majesty the Emperor and King, had.been ad mitted on Tuesday to the Palace of the Thuilleries, with the usual honours. The Address was)then read, as was the Emperor's reply. The Legislative Body then ordered that it should be printed, and six copies of it distributed to each of the Members. At. one o'clock in the afternoon the Counsellors of State, Counts Regnaud de St. Jean D'Angely, Mini ster of State, Bartholucu, and Appelius, were intro duceti,—Count Regnaud de St. Jean D'Angely read a Decree, by which his Majesty had fixed the 25th of March for closing the Legislative Session. The PRESIDENT — " Messieurs the Orators, and the, Council of State—At all times when the voice of the Sovereign has assembled the Deputies of all the-De partments of the Empire in this spot, they have brought with them the desire of doing justice to the confidence with which their fellow-citizens have ho noured them, by manifesting their devotion to their Prince and their COuntry, in providing for the wants of the State, with that *ise discernment which neither excludes the generosity so natural to the nation, nor the confidence so well merited by the Government. • " Your very important labours, Gentlemen, can not be better appreciated than from this imposing unity of the proprietors, who, having always kept watch in the public functions, in offering to you the tribute of their own knowledge, come to enlighten themselves at your source, disperse your lights through the whole . empire, and thus become the most useful agents between the Government and the people. This, Gentlemen, is, in effect the most con- Stant employment of the Legislative Body—to make researches into the benefits conferred by Govern ment, and to publish their merits. It does not ter minate its Ministsy at momentary sessions: united, it is the exAmple of fidelity ; if alone it is still the model of it. If its most honourable mission be to bring the homage of the people to their Sovereign, there is one equally dear to its hoc. t, that of justifying its grati tude, to render it more general and enlightened, to form 'these particular .sentiments into a public one, and to assure to the G^ nment the recompence most worthy pfd great Pi ince—that of seeing his generosity equally acknowledged, and his benefactions equally felt. " Nevertheless, if the projects of laws willich - - should complete our legislation are yet submitted to your meditations, we are less occupied in these great interests. The Session which is now just dosed will leave great and valuable impressions on the minds of the Legislative Body. 46 We have rendered to private industry, benefits which languished in.the carelessness for the common interest. It has occurred to us, that if order and police allowed . of general community, the rights of prosperity did not admit of partition, and that what belongs to all is indifferent to every one. This law, which gives new riches to the State without dimi nishing those of the Communes, has been a useful resource to our finances, and it is the only one which they have required of us. Nevertheless, being called upon under circumstances where honour required us to wake every sacrifice, we brought with us an equal share of zeal and generosity ;—but the people of . Fiance would be before hand with us. One moment was sufficient to repair cur losses, and it is in this spot that the unknown means of so much energy and power have been explained. 6 , May tho. e words, so replete with grandeur and kindness, which his Majesty addressed to us from the height of his Throne, remain for ever engraved on our minds ; may history transmit them• to posterity, the greatest compensation that can be made by the nation, and by the Legislative Body : they impose on us great du,i.s, we shall not fail to fulfil them. 64 Our wishes call for that august ceremony which shall for ever consecrate among us the titulary rights of hereditary succession. We shall see the crown of the greaf'est of Monarchs and of the tenderest of fa thers, repose befcrehand•on this infant King and on his virtuous Mother, as a pledge of our security, and himself taste the haepiness of ensuring at the same time the gl ry of his reign, of his dynasty, and the tranquillity of his people. " After the departure of the Orators of the Council t of State, the Legislative Body declared the Sessions to be finished. • VERSAILLES, MARCH M. Their Majesties, on Tuesday the 23d, left the Pa ' lace of the Thuilleries to proceed to Paris. During • al/ the time their Majesties sojourned there they en • jOyed the Lest health, as well as the King of Rome. a' The Emperor and Empress every day went out a bunting or walking in the large and small Parks of Versailles. VIENNA, MARCH 15. On the 9th instant six prisoners of state were con• Keyed to Olmotz. Among them was Baron de Hor payer, known by his writings; the Captain of a Circle; de Roschmann ; and DoLtor Schneider, known by the part which he played in the troubles of the Vol alberg the law wars It is nisi, that they composed of 166 'work today to rick* imago. isatolgiiiiaW State. As could not disavow their 'Uniting, their trial and judgment was but the business of a day. FRANKFORT, MARCH 21. To-day the Dpke of Treviso reviewed the Merl regiments of Guards which are here. Generals Gerard and Ruerd hive arrived here. NUREMBERG, MARCH 20. According to intelligence from the Army, much marching and counter-marching is observed among the Russian troops stationed beyond the Oder.. It is said that one of their corps has retrograded upon the Vistula,because the Russian forces before the fortresses occupied by the French troops were not sufficient. VIENNA, MARCH 14. Government has caused several more persons to be arrested suspected of being accomplices with those of whom we have already spoken, and who have been transferred to the citadel of Olmutz. Of this number several Are military men of distinction. It is not known how far they allowed themselves to wander, but it is generally believed that they are guilty of little more than imprudence. As soon as the Police were in formed of the means they practised to excite rebellion in a neighbouring allied country, they gave informa tion t,f it to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his Majesty the Emperot ordered suspected individuals to be watched and seized, as soon as proofs could be obtained against them. Intercepted letters gave the first information of a crime which was afterwards .proved by witnesses. Another society was afterwards discovered, which was formed but to imagine and propagate bad news. The Police and their Chiefs before them forbid them all kinds of meetings, and threatened them with the most severe penalties if they mere not more circum spect in future. A part of Count De Narbonne's househould has already arrived in this capital, and every preparation has been made for the - reception. of the new Ambassador. It is said, that Major- General Prince Maurius de Lichtenstein is immedi ately to,set out for Paris. THE EVENING STAR LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1815. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Cons. WI ac. SBI4--5 per Cent. &pit Exchequer Bills Ss. Ss. prem.—Bonds Ga. 76. dls. Oonliwn, nothing done. We have now received Paris Papers to the 29th ult. and, however scanty the intelligence they convey, l it is nevertheless capable of exciting high interest in the present state of Europe. Numerous arrests daily take place at Vienna ; and, from the description of persons thus become objects of suspicion to the slaves at the Austrian Court, who still cling to the French cause, we have no doubt that great changes are about to take place in Austria. The wishes of the Nobles, the Army, and the People, are evidently with the Anglo-Russian cause the miserable and degraded Father-in-Law of the Corsican. and those immedi ately about his person, alone seem inclined to tem porize with all the combatants. But this is no time for armed neutralities, and Austria should be told so by the Ministers of Russia and Great Britain. We presume that the patriots of Germany, Baron HoR. MAYEN and Dr. SCIINFIDER, are now shut up in the dungeons of Olmutz, for holding the same intrepid language. Both these v;rtuous characters have been frequently denounced by BONAPARTE in former years ; and, if our recollection does not fail us, a price was set upon the head of Dr. SCHNEIDER, for his services in the Tyrol in 1809 ;—services which, at'the time, called forth the approbation of that Sovereign who has now consigned him to impri sonment for a similar display of loyalty and patrio tism.—Surely FRANCIS, that mild and acc iplished Gentleman—that representative of the once chivalrous Dukes of Austria, and the descendant of MARIA TERESA, did not sign the warrant for Senszinsit's commitment. The grand-father of the King of Rome, and the father-in-law to the august NAPOLEON, may well be excused from the performance of any acts of magnanimity, for which other Sovereigns have been renowned ; but as a man, the Emperor of 'Austria ought to recollect that gratitude is due to:the suppor ters of his Throne and existence on former occasions, and that posterity will call him to a severe account for this wanton outrage upon all that is estimable among mankind ! We are the more anxious to point the finger, of execration at this atrocity at the present moment, because Baron WEssENaaao, the Austrian Minister, has arrived in London ; —and we trust that, as at former periods in our history. Great Britain he came the advocate of the oppressed Protestants throughout Europe, her Ministers, on behalf of the prostrate nations around them, will demand the in. stant liberation of the Patriots of Germany from the dungeons of Olmutz. Great Britain, the Protector of the Liberty of the Press, and Russia, the Cham pion of the Independence of Europe, cannot surely treat with a miscreant, who is so completely degrad ed by the enemy of all human happiness, as to tor ture, chain, and imprison his faithful and virtuous subjects at the nod of the tyrant. The same Papers which announce these afilicting events, contain a Speech from the President of the Legislative Body of France, in which he says, that the recent disasters of France have been repaired in a moment I After this it is scarcely necessary to add, that nothing can be gathered from this absurd pro. duction.—The Coronation of the King of Rosin is again and spin threaseried. Does the Emperor, WMWMlrEdireis eallWopeble aatio—nioThis blushing honours before he declares hiniself ? • A letter received by a Mercantile House in the City from Bremen, communicates the intelligence of the surrender of Generals MORAND and ST. CYR.— The letter is dated the 19th ultimo, and contains the following statement 44 That General Mound, who commanded the retreating army from Stralsund, and General St. Cyr, who ebmmanded that from Hamburgh and Bergadorf, had arrived in Bremen, with the Bre men Prefect, and eight other French officers, eleven, in all. It being impossible for them to escape, on account of the general insurrection round about the city of Bremen, Generals Morand and St. Cyr; with the Prefect and other officers, threw them selves upon the mercy aid protection of the principal people at Bremen, who have given their words to protect, at least, their persons from the fury of the populace. There is no doubt they will be made prisoners by the Russians." The account of the operations of General MORAND, received by the last Heligoland Mail, chew that he was reduced to great extremity in his retreat from Swedish Pomerania, and this renders the above report the more probable; but it is remarkable that nothing is said of the troops of that General, or of those which were under the command of Sr. CYR. . A native of Germany, who has travelled from Bourdeaux through France to Holland, and wh2, within forty-eight hours left the opposite shore, states that much anxiety prevailed at Paris to ascertain what were the intentions of the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, as to the approaching campaign, and it is said that not only Trieste and Fiume, but the Venetian States are offered to him, on the condition of his co-operation with the forces of BONAPARTE. The same Gentle man represents the authority of the French as very I precarious in Holland, if any security could be given to the Dutch, that they would be powerfully sup ported in their resistance to the common enemy. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, Earl MOIRA, and Viscount CASTLEREAGH, had au diences of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. We refer our Readers to the Report of the Budget in the House of Commons for the new Taxes, con sisting of an increase of the War Taxes, and addi tional duties of Customs and Excise upon various articles. The only objection, perhaps, to them is to the increased duty upon French wines, not as to the article itself, but as it may induce Ministers, for the sake of an additional revenue, to give a greater faci lity to their introduction.—The sum proposed to be raised is as follows : By a duty on Tobacco, estimated at per annum Consolidated Customs additional Duties - BEIOO,OOO 870,000 30,000 French Wines - - - - Duties on Imports from France and its Dependencies, and increase of War Taxes - 960,000 .C 1,960,000 Total per annum Yesterday, at one o'clock, pursuant to notice, the' : parties who contracted for the last loan, and others, waited upon the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and Lord LIVERPOOL, to receive the proposals of Govern mentl for funding Exchequer Bills, and rai s i ng a sum • of money by way of Debentures. The Gentlemen were told, that the Exchequer Bills to be funded were of the class of those dated between the Ist of March, 181:4 and the 31st of March, 1813, amounting to 5e12,000,000. The holders to have for every £lOO, 4115. 10s. The interest on the stock sof created, to commence from January, 1813. Sub. scribers to be at liberty, likewise, to subscribe a far ther sum of 450 per cent. in money. • . DAYS Of DEPOSIT. 17th of April • 10 per Cent. 16th of July 20 per Cent. slat of April 10 per Cent. 27th of August 19 per Cent. 2ist of May .10 per Cent. 24th Of September to per Cent. I t:th of June 10 per Cent. 29th of Octobrr 20 per Cent. DiSCOUIAt at Four per cent. per annum on payment in full. Holders of Exchequer Bills so subscribed, to be en titled to receive for every *lOO money, a debenture, to be dated the sth of April, 1813, transferable; in terest at 5 per c‘nt. per annum, payable half-yearly at the Bank of England, viz.—on the sth of April and 10th of October, to the holders of such debentures. The principal sum of the debentures to be payable in nviney, on the sth of April, 1815—on three months notice being given to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, such notice to be indorsed by the Bank on the debentures, or they will be paid off in money on the sth of April next following the twelve months after a definitive Treaty of Peace, and to have the option, upon the same form of notice being given to the Bank, of receiving for every 4100 money, /€lOO Navy 5 per cents.; or £l2O 4 per cents.; or £l5O S per cents. Reduced. The Debentures may be funded on any sth of April subsequent to April 1815, during the war, on the same notice being given to the Bank. Interest on the 4 per Cents. and Reduced, to be from the time (April) of being noticed to be paid off; and the interest on the 5 per Cents. from the sth of January preceding such notice. If the 12 millions of .5 per Cents. and the 50 per cent. in money, are not subscribed, the Treasury to reserve to themselves the power to add the deficiency to the Loan. It is expressly declared, that no more than the above 12 millions will be added to the Navy 5 per Cents. Stock. Days for funding Exchequer Bills at the Exchequer Office :—From the 7th of April to the 10th, both in. clusive • and for the subscrip t i on i n money at t h e B ank, from the 13th of April to the 15th of April; both in. clusive. Interest on the Exchequer Bills funded, to be com puted to the 26th of April, and to be paid in money. The Debentures to be made out in the names of the Subscribers (whose indorsement will be sufficient) in any way, sum, or sums, at his option, above the sum of £lOO. In the course of conversation, the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHRQURR suggested the probability of a rise in the funds from the favourable state of the affairs of Europe. Some of the Gentlemen, however, in reply, observed, that it might be supposed the funds had al ready received every benefit from that consideration, in the maintenance of their present price. A matrimonial union is on the tapis between the Right Hon. Sir Wn.uials SCOTT and the ,Dowager Marchicontas 01Suou, From our Plymouth letter, it appears that the Expedition for North America was only delayed to admit of a greater concentration of the various de scription of forces to be employed on that service. and to avoid nll risk of capture. It will now sail with the first fair wind. PLYMOUTH, MARCH so. Sailed the BITTERN, -16 guns, for Liverpool; the BLOODHOUND, of 1+ guns, with a small convoy, for Swansea; BARHAM, 74 guns, for the Downs; LAN. DRAIL, 8 guns, for Falmouth ; ACHATES sloop of war on a cruise; and the DRYAD of 36 guns, having the WooLwicii of 44 guns (en . 1 lute), bound to America, with Sir Jeme.fYso, a number of officers, and 404 picked seamen on board, to man the vessels to be em. ployed on the Lakes of Canada.—The rest of the Expedition is expected to sail directly.—Wind N. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31. Sailed his Majesty's ships STRENUOUS and HOLLY, for the Downs.—The MISLETOE takes convoy foc Guernsey and Jersey.—Wind W. DEAL. MARCH 31. Sailed last evening, ifter Post, the Tottenham East Indiaman, and the whole of the outward-bound mer chantmen, transports, and coasters, under convoy of his Majesty's ship SPECULATOR, for Portsmouth.— Arrived the SERAPIS . store ship, and Gnowt.tut gun. brig, with a convoy from Portsmouth, and are sailed for the River. The GROWLER remains in the Downs. The COUNTESS OF Et.e.m cutter has a signal for con voy for Portsmouth.—Wind S. W. HARWICH, MARCH st. The Lord Nelson, Captain DWIE, and Aucklan( l . Captain BRIDGE, saile4 this afternoln ; the former for Gottenburgh, and the latter for Cuxhaven and Hamburgh, with their respective Mails.—Wind S.W. SHEERNESS, MARCH 31. Sailed the PINCH= gun-brig,- with a convoy for the Baltic. The next will sail bout the 12th April. STATE OF THE NAVY. The following is the state and disposition of the British Navy, made up to the present day :—At sea, of the line, 87 : from Sts to 44 guns, 10; frigates, 117 ; sloops, Su. 49 ; bombs and fire ship), 4 ; brigs, 154 ; cutters, 33; schooners. &c, 51. Total, 530. In port and fitting—Of the line, 33 ; from 50 to 44 guns, 10 frigates, 32 ; sloops, &c. 27; bonsbs and tire-ships, 4; brigs, 55; cutters, 7 ; schooners, &c. 10. Total, 158.—Guard-ships—Of the line, 5; of 50 to 44 guns, 1 ; frigates, 4 ; sloops, 5. Total, 15. Hospital-ships, Prison-ships, &c.—ol the line, 31 of 50 to 44 guns, 3; frigates, 4 ; sloops, &c. 1. Total, 39.—1 n Commission —Of the line, 158; of 50 to 44 guns, 24 ; frigates, 157 ; sloops, &c. 102 ; bombs, &c. 8 ; brigs, 193 ; cutters, 40 ; schooners, &c. 161. Total, 742.—Ordinary and repairing for service...Of the ' line, 73 ; from 50 to 44 guns, 10; frigates, 65; sloops, &c. 36 ; bombs, &c. 4; brigs, 10; cutters, 1 ; schooners, &c. 4. Total, 203.—Building, of the line, 26 ; from 50 to 44 guns, 4; fri. gates, 15 ; sloops, 7 ; bombs, Stc. • ; brigs, 2. Total, 54. Grand Total, 1009.—Decrease in the Grand Total this month, 7. We are sorry to learn that the Leith and Aberdeen packet, from Aberdeen bound to Leith, owing te• the darkness of the night of Wednesday se'nnight, got in among the rocks about Fitimess, where site soon went to pieces. The crew fortunately were all saved. Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders took leave previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz. 4—Captain GRAHAM, of the Wil liam Pitt, Captain BAYNISS, of the Marchioness of Exeter, for Ceylon and Bengal ; Captain Swisrox, of the Carnatic, Captain MURRAY, of the Devonshire, and Capt. MORTLOCK, of the Streatham, for Bengal. Wednesday se'nnight, the Princess Coantorri wrote a letter to the PRINCE REGENT, requesting his gracious permission to pay her personal duty to her Mother, on the melancholy event of the death of the Duchess of Baunswicit. In the evening, it is said, she received a verbal message that it would be time enough, and more decorous, to visit her after the oti sequies. On Thursday the PRINCESS wrote a second letter, beseeching his ROYAL HIGHNESS to grant her leave to visit her Mother. Having received no second message to the contrary, the PRINCESS on the Friday. said that rileace gave content, and she went to Black heath. DOCTOR THORNTON'S BOTANICAL LICTURIL-...-Dr. THORNTON, Member of the University of Cambridge, and of the Royal London College of Physicians, will deliver a Course of Botany, consisting of Six Lec. tures, in the Grand Saloon, 96, Pall-Mall, by means of Transmrencig of Flowers, brilliantly illuminated by Gat-fights ; and th,. Doctor's first Lecture Is ill be delivered on Friday Evening, at a quarter after eight ; and this Lecture is expected to be much crowded from the great interest the Public take in these Lectures, several hundred persons having been each evening disappointed of seats. Monday last, as one of the. insane patients at Bethelm was mowing the grass, which he had been accustomed to do, the Governor came up to him, and Observed, he did not think he was mowing it the right way : this gave him so much offence, that he imme diately struck at him with the sharpend of his scythe, which penetrated into his body, making an extensive wound, but fortunately the intestines were not injured, and he is in a fair way of doing well. Sunday last, an altercation having taken place on Mount Wise, Plymouth Dock, between a sailor and a centinel on duty belonging to the Roscommon re. giment of Militia, the latter plunged his bayonet thrice into the breast of the sailor, who was conveyed on board his ship, with slender hopes of recovery.— The soldier was instantly relieved from his post, and taken into custody. HATTONaGAILD I N.--The mother of the child found drowned In the New River, at 'Sadler's Wells, was finally examined yes terday, as was Thomas Aria, late Keeper of the House of Con► ruction, the father of the child. she was fully committed far trial, and Mr. Aria on his own recognizance was ordered to at tend at the trial. PRICE OF PALS—COAL MARKET, MARCH 31. Ships at Market Sold Prices. 34 Newcastle 394 41s. Od. to 50s. Si 3 SuDderbad 1 41s. 9d. to 435. 9d. HIGH WATER A f LONIION BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning...... ........ . ..... ...... Wilms after 2 Afternoon LONDON s Printed by Levis. Kim , Podia Pima; and Uwe, and a& the Scar-Oes• Tropic-Bac