Star. — London, England, 1810-02-24 00:00:00

n services, of the o pp ortunity of repelling ; deducing the reasons trout taav ......... ...-_ e ri and asper s i ons derogatory to his high hono ur, his Ma j est y 's Ministers' to entertain the idea of inquiry, ,ads secretlyand clandestinely conveyed against he proceeded to the main question, namely, the con- I sichwer e • his soverei gn." (Hear . , hear!) I beg leave to duct of Lord Chatham, in appealing to the considera °, i t s t h e re one Member in this Hotise, who does not in tion of his Majesty through the medium of his Narra ''''ee,.ez believe,that although the Noble Lord refused tive. In every view he had taken of that Noble li l ' -- .. r still that he had delivered other papers to the Lord's, department in this particular, he could not aan swe ' h A v 0 I said before, this was a ques- but say that he had acted contrary to the accepted -en ) (Het'' , ' .i, n rc ''f r .,.. e from factious imputations. It is an attack notions of propriety. Though the circumstance of right den individual, and like an invasion, his being a Cabinet Minister, and forming a Member 1 her t• Ir‘ . uni te us all in one common object of de- of tartarshs Majesty's Privy Council, might entitle him to e e to • p e r myself, I feel proud to say, that I have n privileges peculiar to such a distinguished V e rs ' er.oue e e being in the confidence of . that gallant situation, those preges did not accompany 13im in or e ss e, and I trust, my devotion to his interests will his capacity of Commander of an Expedition. In . 1 , s i nc erity of my feeling. It remains but for that situation he was as subordinate to the interven rlvene the to certain circumstances, in answer to ing authorities between his Majesty and the eze 13e • eees contained in the Noble Lord's narrative cutive as the humblest Officer in the army. Ad ee tees. re l a tive to the disappointment he experienced from mitting, therefore, the truth of this doctrine, Lord pot:tion of the Navy, after the Army had landed Chatham became responsible to the Secretary of Ma y Walcheren. In the first place, it is stated, that State, and had no more right to memorial his Ma iled occurred before any part of the naval jesty, than any other individual in the exition. ire d a ys , :er se had proceeded up the Scheldt. Now, Sir, I How much soever the narrative was called f orayer it have only in answer to refer to that part of Sir Ri- ought to have come through the Secretary of State d leeate's examination, which states, that I had or the Commander in Chief' of the Army. He un cial' `- is with 16 sail of sloops of war, and 50 gun- derstood that some doubt existed whether the Noble eyse 9 i c es, gon e up in y fort -six hours, and actually within Lord had not the right of claiming the privilege of that interval burned the advanced boat of the one- i addreseing his Majesty in perso consequence n, in cons of ' s flotilla. It is nex t,averred, that Lord Chatham his commission beng under the sign manual. Cer- P de write to Sir Richard Strachan a letter, dated taints , no doubt ever existed that- every Minister has e ie 4th of August, to which he received no answer a right, in consequence of the sign manual, to ad sailofLord Chatham of the 4th was not received by Sir article in his instructions, to carry on his correspon e;chard until the morning of theand as it re- dence through the medium of the Secretary of State, e r red to a variety of topics, he considered it more re- or some other interfering authority. Now he begged edal to wait upon his Lordship petsonally, which to ask, what was there in the sign manual of Lord te did so in the course of that day, (Hear,) unwilling Chatham to authorise him to take the step he bad to Sir Richard was, to sacrifice his public duty to done ? Supposing him to have been in the situation t ee delay which writing would occasion. It was of a Foreign Minister, he could have been entitled to ;nest true, that he did not send for 48 hours after the 1 no other advantage than the sign manual of such an interview with Lord C hatham the letter of the Bth, offiatcer • passed Majesty and Noble. Per st that interview bad taken place, upon a variety of son. Adverting to the Narrative already before the topics connected with the public service. I have House, he could not help being a little surprised at the also authority to state, that my Gallant Friend did manner in which that was made an official paper; p r offer to Lord Chatham , th at if he found any delay all the formality in that respect was by handing it i n c ommencing the bombardment. of Flushing upo n . from his Majesty to the Secretary of State. He did the land side, he (Sir Richard) was ready with six not mean to say it was wrong, nor would he find sail of the line to lay himself alongside the walls of fault with it. All he could say would be, that the that fortress. (Hear, hear.) Was this a proof of a want papers which the House wanted now might be made of zeal or energy ? Was such an offer an evidence ojicial, by the advice of the person who made the of that maritime interruption and disappointment, former communication official. This brought him upon which so much hail been said ? Did the Noble to that part of the subject under consideration the Lord in his dispatches hint at that interruption, or, most important, viz. the existence of any such paper on the contrary, did not his panegyric upon the navy at ell. Nothing had fallen from any of the Hon. increase in proportion to the difficultiesit had surmoun- • Gentlemen on the Treasury side of the House which ted. Never until the 14th of February did we hear could induce him to a belief that there was any such 1 that the Noble Lord had changed his opinion—that paper i certainly, for himself, he had strong doubts ; Igen which was presented his corrected, revised, se- upon the subject ; foe the sa thou ghtisft it however o the House, f the ut cretednarruive. I have to conclude by expr essin g m y most im p ortance, action of =nest hope, that no man will be found in this House that a definite answer of nil should be given to the iii night, endeavouring by a sophistical and fella- proposition. The great object he conceived to be cious species of argumentation, to dissuade it from gained by the motion was to put ter ta thiin t s mat hat ter no such out of ' voting for the proposed Address." all doubt. If Ministers were General LOFTUS observed , th at after Sir R. Stra- papers existed, why did they not say so ? The pre than's dispatch, on the abandonment of the ulterior veiling sentiment of the House was, that they were obiects of the Expedition, he contended it was impos- , in existence ; but he believed rea ll y in his own con- sible for Lord Chatham not to have g iven in his mar -1 science, that such construction was grossly exagger rative in vindicaticn of himself. 1 ated. With respect to the Narrative already on the Mr. ROBERT WARD said, that as soon as the I table, he had purposely abstained from entering into Noble Lord at the head of the Admiralty was ac-1 a condemnation of its contents, or of the influence euentee with the existence of Lord Chatham's Nar- i some of its insinuations might have upon the charac rative, ee seat a letter to Sir R. Strach an, statin g , ! ter of an Honourable O ffi cer, preserving still that that if he, as Commander in Chief of the naval ,part ; line of conduct, he should now conclude by expressing of the Expedition, would draw up a narrative of the ' his approbation of the motion, calculated as it was to proceedings of the navy, he would be the channel of • produce a definite and explicit answer. conveying it to his Majesty. The Hon. Member i The SOLICITOR GENERAL was thoroughly recd Jr. extract from a letter from Lord Mulgrave to I convinced that the Address could not consistently be Sir R. Strachan to this effect, and proceeded to ob- i adopted with the established principles on which the sere, that the Navy would be able to hive a suffici- House ht governed its proceedings ; nothing co uld est explanation to those points on whichi Lord Chat- i be more defective in the nece ssar y re q uisites to coin ham's Narrative seemed to a ffi x blame. I mand the attention of the House than this motion. — Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY observed, that if the i In the first place, it was not known that the paper papers called for were not in existence, that would be 1 required had any existence, and consequently the a strong reason to vote for the proposed Address. It House was proceeding without any sort of fonnda would go a long way to tranquillize the jealousies of i tion upon which it could consistently act. He must the navy, to shew that no further hccusations had : disagree with the opnion of the Right Honourable been thrown out against them. Gentleman who spoke last , t hat the p recedent este- Mr. R. S. DUNDAS contended, that no evidence 1 blished by the manner in which the p a p er already had been adduced to shew that there were any addi- . before the House was made official, could govern or bona] papers in existence. He thought Lord Cha- i was analogous to the present case ; in the former their them had taken a fair and manly course in laying . Address to his Maj est y specifically called for the produc before his Majesty the proceedings of the army under 1 tion of a particular paper ; now in the latter there his command. He concluded with vindicating the I was no ground whatever for supposing that the paper answer returned by his Majesty's Ministers to the ad- had any existence. After ably canvassing the argu dress of the City of London. 1 ments of the Right Honourable Gentleman, he con- Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER thought that if any , eluded with opposine the motion. aers were in existence they ought to be produced. i Mr. WHITBREAD replied, and recapitulated Ica fair and e ffi cacious inquiry was meant, the House 1 mist of his former arguments, and refuted with his svoeld vote for the morien. i wonted force the arguments of his o pp onents ; he The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended that . again deprecated the conduct of Minister s, and con there was nothing in the demeanour or langu a g e of : tended that nothing short of impeachment would sa- Lord Chatham from which the House could infer i tisfy the country. Ministers, he said, were extremely that any other papers had existence ; nor could he injudicious in the opposition which they gave to his agree with his Learned Friend (Sir Samuel Romilly) : motion, for who knew but Lord Chatham had poi that the e:rcumstance for the Noble Lord's declining soned the Royal ear against themselves ? (Hear.) If to give a definite answer to the question put to him they examined his Majesty's scrutoire they might find was pres u mpti v e evidence to his disadvantage. The a piece of paper, which perhaps would make - the Chan- House, therefore, having no specific grounds upon 1 tenor of the Exchequerand hi s colleagues exclaim with which they could form an Address to his Majesty, , Sir Peter Teazle and Joseph Surface is the 'School would act in a manner inconsistent and incongruous ; f or Scandal—" Lord Chatham, by all that's woador with its usual proceedings. In the former cas e there ful !" and on discovering another pritrate communi was a defined and distinct object in view ; but in the cation—" Lord Chatham, by all that's damnable !" r:esent, the House was really travelling in the dark, .(A laugh). It might not be impossible but Lord aid knew not what it sought. Under every view he Chatham had not only thrown blame on Sir Richard had taken of the subject, he could not but give the motion his negative. . Strachan, but on the Ministry , and assi g ned such rea- I sons as might be important for the House to k now. Mr. BATHURST declared himself decid edl y in ; It w as well known that a wily King, who lived in the , 4. WOUT of this motion. He was at a loss to conceive i end of the 17th Century, heard the mutual accusations • upon what principle of reason it was the Hon. Gen- of his Ministers, and thereby kept them in complete tlen tea on the other side of the House opposed the' ; subjection, to the great injury of the people. Such a Address t for if they knew that such a p a p er had no ! p ractice was not expected in the present King's reign ; untencee why refuse a definitive answer ? The cis- , but who could say what a future Monarch might do, if cumstance of their not saying through whether it had or ha d I means were not taken to prevent it ? At present the re)t existence, was in his opinion presum ptive proof at i country suffered severely the incapacity of !east that the r e we re papers, th e possession of which ' those who ruled them, and he thought any ad ditional they w ere d es i rous o f d en ying the House. He would i i press ure would crush ;hem. He had heard a gr eat d eal cot go so f ar as some g entlemen had, as to say what of Cabinet dinners lately, which induced him to say, the contents of such papers might be, whether of a that if Ministers meant to partake of a Cabinet sup ''''''illatieg tendency or not ; but certainly for the sa - per, after the discussicn which they had heard, he I;sfa c ti on o f t h e H ouse an d t e sake of justice, even to Lord Ch at h am hi mse lf, he would vote for the wished could command. them all the appet ite the y Strangers were then excluded, and the House di. mot'on. tided on Mr. Whitbread's motion—Ayes 178—Noes Mr. CANNING entered into an elaborate detail of 171--Majority 7. the motives h e enterta i n ed for the vote he sho uld o h readmi ss ion into the G Estimates Gallery, the Order of the Dry, ;lye. After d eta ili ng su mmarily the circumsta nces tor 1 014 into * Committee of Supply to Vote the Army :1 1 late unfortunate expedition to the Scheldt, and . ws , moved. 1-1 ' We ire happy to hear that Selong-lookod tor new Medical Boatd, for the concerns of the Army, is now appointed. The Members, all of them Officeti of long service; and of distinguished abilities, are, DrJobti Itireta,Director General. Dr. Tsconotta Catboat, and/ Membsri. Dr. KLIIllt, None of these Gentlemen ate of shortei service than thirty4wo years the Director General has =Ted forty-six years in the, Army. It is said that the 13th Light Dragoons, 4th FoOf, .28th and 82d, which lately embarked at Portsmodh, have been sent . to Cadiz, whither several more regi ments of Cavalry and Infantry are immediately to be sent. That excellent Officer General GRAHAM is to command this expedition—an appoiotment which gives universal satisfaction. Chal --- ;;niseliaiy Ohaintat:dd . :at it - place at the disposal of the present Ministers one shilling of public money . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Coidd not apse with the Hon. Baronet. '[tie House would undoubtedly be of opinion that stiorver were the Ministers, there ought to be voted an army. Thus much he would say, this though the Hon. Baro net seemed RS think-the best way of getting lid of a Government was, by &handing the army, he trusted the country would be of It different way of thinking. For his part, he could not co ceive why the Hon. Baronet did not come forward ts manfully with an Address to his Majesty to remove his present . Ministers, :hat would be the most proper course, and be (Mr. P.) shoutd be ready to meet him. Mr. WARDLE thostght that there was one Objection to going into the Committee, and that was, that the papers were not sufh dently understood. He should not be doing his duty 16 his con stituents, if he did not oppose the increase of the expellee of the Staff of the Army, which arose principally from the desire of Mi nisters to provide for the vast number of foreign Officers intro duced by them into the country, whatever consequence might be attached to the Inquiry it to the Walcheren Expedition, at least in his opinion, it was of equal consequence that the Representatives of the People should see that the money of their constituents was not lavished away. Mr. TIERNEY was for postponing the Committee. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no wish 134 to assent to any arrangement which the House might deem expe dient, and therefore would bring on the Army Estimates on Mon day, and the Portugal question on Friday. After a short conversation between Mr. POIVSONAT, Mr. TIZRNtIr, and the CBANC&LLOI of the EXCHEQUER, this ar rangonnent was adopted. Lord PALMERSTON was not aware of any papers necessary to be produced upon the subject. The Noble Lord observed that there would be an alteration in some of the clausns of the Mutiny Bill. With respqct to the Honourable Baronet's obser vations about the army, he should just state for the information of the house, that for the last year the establinlitnent of British corps was 207,013, of this number 199;i:5 were effective men. For the present year the numbers were :108,045, eff.:cti - re men 192,837. It was then ordered that the Committee should sit on Monday. Sir THOMAS'I'URTO N gave notice, that he should on Mon day move for a Return of the Expenditure of the Army Esti mates and the disposition of the force. Lord ' Viscount Wellington's Annuity Bill was ordered to be tead a second time on Monday. The Stage Coach Regulation Bill was brought in and read a first time, ordered to be mad a second time on Thursday and to be printed. Mr. A. COOKIE brought up the return of the securities of Jo seph Hunt, Esq. the Ordnauce Treasurer. The House then adjourned at Half -past 12 o'Clock till Monday NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 22: The Nattcissus frigate, as I stated in my last letter, only canto in to get rid of her prisoners: she will sad again this evening, after post, unless countermanded.—She is going to cruise in quest of the Laurel frigate, which is known to be on her passage home, with immense treasure on board. She is a very small class fri. gate, and was only rated as a sloop in our service. She vititakan front us in the Autumn of 1808, by the Cannoniere, after a sharp engagement, in the Indian Scas; and it will be recollected, that the account of her capture front us appeared in the S-rau nest three months earlier than Government received any dispatches on the subject.—if our cruisers are fortunate enough to fall in with her, and theae is littla doubt on the subject, her capture will well repay for her tonnage during the time the enemy have had her in their service. The following is a List of the Ships in commission now at this port, (exclusive of PrisOn, liospital,and Receiving ships) the whole of which are ordered to be got ready for sea with the greatest possible dispatch; in coniequence of which order, tile shipwrights and other artificers work both extras/4ton In Hamoase, refitting—The Fornileahle. 93; Caesar, 3o guns ; Aboukir, Inmetueux, Defence, and Vanguard. 71: Africa, ac Dictator, 64; Seraphs, 44; liVirginie, and Bourbom:se, s ; Tribune, 36; l'Aintable, and Tartar, 32; Prometheus, .1 itr tarus, Heureux, and Lynx; 18; Swinger and Dosing, 14; 4:7'1 I.everet, 10. Stonehouse Pool—Black Joke hired lugger, Britannia cutter, and Weazle schooner. In Barnpool—ind fatieabli• and AreOusa frigates. Between the Island and the Main—lntelligent, Monkey, and Ba silisk gun-hr gs ; and Ernreprenante cutter. In the Sound—iris and Imperieuse, ; Narcissus 32 (going to night) ; Iphigenta (spainsii), 32; Plover, Raleigh, and Eclipse, lis ; Espi gle, 16 ; Encounter , 14 ; Swan cutter; P hilomel: brig, 18 ; Lyra 10; Dryad, 36 ; Naiad, S B . In Caws La flav—lmplacable, 74; Pickle; 14; Nonpareil, 12; Christ an Vilth; 74. Arrived the Navigator transport cartel, from Jamaica, with 300 French prisoners; sailed front thence the 3d of December; spoke the brig Venice, from Newfoundland for London, about 20 leagues to the Westward of Scilly, in great distress. 'I he Na vigator had a very tedious passage, and experienced much bad weather; but only lost one of her crew, avid eight prisoners dur ing the voyage. Arrived the CuFIrrIAN VII. 74, froM Basque Roads; she has so successfully blockaded the mouth of the Garoune, for six weeks, that no French vessels could either go in or come out—all who have dared to make the attempt; have either been destroyed or taken. Two days previous to her sailing, eleven French gun.- boats came out to defend three chasse-marees ; when eight small boats of our squadron,' armed only with musquetry, by a skilful mamceuvre, and a sham retreat, enticed them out ; which they had no soouer done, than they attacked them suddenly, and suc ceeded to cutting off one of them, which the CiietsmouVll.'B barge immediately boarded and took; she was armed With twelve-pound carronade six brass swivels, musquetry, and pis tols ; and was maimed With 23 men i two of whorn.were killed, and the Commander, with three ot hers, dangerously wounded. The remainder of the flotilla fled precipitately, and were pursued under the batteries of their own fortress of Aix. The Cams - mit VlL's boat bad 19 men in her, who all fortunately escaped.— Also arrived, the Puttosext. and .LYRA, brigs of war, from a cruise; the NAIAD frigate, 38, front Rochefort ; and the Day AD frigate, Captain GALWAY, from a cruise on the Coast of Ireland. —hailed, the Caoctrs brig of war, on a crease; l'Annhe frigate for Portsmouth; and the SuaveiLtasere on a cruize, sailed, as stated in my last. GREENOCK, FEBRUARY 21. The ship Camilla, W. ORR master, is below, from Amelia bland, but as the wind is still [ruin the Eastward, she has not been able to get up, though momently looked the Ariadne, liters, is also in the river, from Martinique; sailed thence the 14th ult. in company with the brig lady Carleton, for Belfast, but she having sprung her foremast and bowsprit, to leeward of Monts- teat, in a squall, on the 18th, was obliged to bear up for St. Kitts or Tortola.—Off Bassetterre, Guadaloupe, was brought to by his Majesty's brig of war MORSE Forma sat, and received information that the ship Si. Andrew, Mmatta, from Clyde, in lat. 38. long. 19, had fallen in with a French squadron, of four frigates and a corvette, and was captured by the latter and carried into Bassetterre. 'Fhe corvette was taken by the squadron block ading Guadaloupe, on her coming ion of Bassetterre, laden with Produce for Frame, and sent to Martinique, and two of the fri gates were destroyed in a small harbour to the North of' Ba, .c -terre, by boats dispatched from the squadron; but the other t. , .v0 had gut off in satety.—On the 21st ult. spoke the brig lA'ill;ant, Feenusom, from St. Kitt's, bound to Waterford, all well. On the 23d, saw a schooner, supposed her to be a French priva.i.er; on the 25th, was boarded by the boats of his Majesty's ship SWITTSURE, of 74 guns, and ST. MARTIN sloop of war, with the Goree in company ; (on the Bermuda Station) on tbe 6th inst. passed a ship standing to the eastward, supposed the EUen,for Port- Gla.st ow, which salad ten hours b.:fore supposedriadne; au the 14th off Misenbead, Saw a large schooner, a French priva teer ; when the Ariadne sailed,Guadaloupe was stricklyblockaded, and the Expeditioh against it would sail from Ma: Unique, a few days after the Ariadne. The Ariadne has brought dispatches for Government. The following vessels had arrived at Martinique: Trusty, I.ANOTON, from Carthagena, [Spanish Main; Ocean, frost London ; African, -----, St. Thomas's; left loading the following vessels c—For Clyde, Lord Melville, AULD, and Hamlet, Stella, to sail in ten days ; Royal Sovereign, Ho ItN.. SY Irmelinda, GaAaAM , and Herald, M`K essoct ; uncertain. —For Liverpool: Alexauder, PERREN • and Aurora, Roach For London : Arundel, and Maitland, --, cleared mit ; Sir Chatles Spencer, loaded; Rose, John O'Gaunt, ; and Resource, --, nearly loaded; Sybella, Lova ; Hey wood, NViNTOSII; and the Governor Halkett, Eight o'Clock A. M.—The following ships have just come up : Camilla, ORR, from Amelia Island; Ariadne, BIRD, from Mar tinique ; United Kingdom, U n>r EY, from •Kingston, in 43 days ; Loyal Sam, LE eosetto, from New Providence ; Louisa , REI D, from Trimicad; and ahrig, name unknown: THE VA' EN ENG STA LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. Sr. MATtillAS—lioliday a the Bank, Exchequer, and Stamp-Office. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. India Stock - India Bonds, Its. prem. Imp. 3 per Cents. 66 Eticheq. Bills 3s. 10$. pre. Omnium Cons. for acc. 6:'i} Bs ik Stock S per Cent. Red. 88g. ft per Cent. Cons. 611 I 4 per Cent. 84 83i 5 per C. Navy 9941 Long Ann. 18 7-16thr4 Ministers.were last night in a minority on Mr. WipTBREAD'S motion for an Address to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to order that there be laid before the House Copies of all Re ports, Memoranda, Narratives or Papers submitted to hi►s MAJESTY by the Earl of CHATHAM) relative to the late Expedition. Last night we received Dutch papers to the 20th instant, containing intelligence of some importance. An article from Madrid, dated, the Ist, extracted from the Moniteur, states, that the Duke of BELLUNO had entered Seville, that General SERASTIANI had en tered Grenada, and that the Bth and 9th corps had arrived at Burgos and Valladolid, where they had formed a junction with the 6th corps, in order to enter Portugal. If three French corps enter Portu gal, our troops must soon be withdrawn from Por tugal. The permission given to the British to occupy Ceuta has not a little vexed the French. They re present it as an act of treason ! By the same conveyance that brought the above papers, private letters have been received from Hol land. Commercial men are greatly distressed by the endless changes and uncertainty that attends all their transactions. TIT following is a copy of a new De cree, which, in the first article, doubles the duties on all colonial goods. The reservation in the second article, refers to a former Decree (published in the STAR) by which colonial produce taken by privateers . is permitted to be sold on payment of a very low duty. Their combined object seems to be to restrain regular foreign trade, and encourage privateering. DECREE OF THE BTH FEBRUARY, 1810. The Duties fixed by the Tarif of our C us t o ms on Colonial Merchandize, in which a re included drtigs, spices, and generally the productions of the Two Indies, whether they come from prizes, from seizures, or from ottvr confiscations, or even if they enter in virtue of our authority—AßE DOUBLED. 2. Nothing in the preceding Article shall be understood to change in any respect our Decree of the Ist instant, relative to goods and merchaudize coming from ships captured by French privateers, and brought into foreign ports, the transport and ad mission of which into France we shall authorize. MAIIRID, Fee, l e —The King of Spain was, on The 28th, at Eccija. The Duke of Belluno has entered Seville The wretched Junta, the true allies of England, are driven away by all the peo ple of the South of Spain. The inhabitants of Cadiz appear to have denied the. entrance of their n to the Junta, as they bad refused it to the English. The last to a c t of these traitors was the delivery of Ceua to the Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India House, when Captain lER tMIA ll R. J. 'I on ssaiN T was sworn i n to the command of the ship Juliana , ceas i gne d to Bengal direct, In the Court of king's Bench, yesterday, Mr. Benjamin Hunt was found Guilty of feloniously endeavouring to procure a coun terfeit stamp, iu imitation of that which is fixed to the bond en tered into by the Captains employed in the Licence Trade, and subject, to a duty of is shillings. CITY BUSlN;sS.—Yesterday, a Court of Ccmmon Council As held at Guildhall, which was numerously attended. Mr. WAITHMAN brought forward Ifs mo tion for a Petition to Parliament, against granting a Petsion to Lord Wellington, for his services, which, i after two divisions, was carried by a majority of seven ; and a Petition to the House of Commons agreed to accordingly ; and the Sheriffs, attended by the Re membrancer, directed to present the same. Mr. WAITHMAN'S motion was warmly supported by Mr. FAvELL and Mr. QUIN. It was opt eied by Mr. SAMUEL DIXON and Mr. JACK . English. General Sebastian' has entered Grenada, and has received a de putation from Murcia. We understand that the Sth and 9th corps have arrived at Burgos and Valladolid, where they have formed a junction with the 6th corps, iu order to enter Portugal ; thus it appears, contrary to the prediction of Lord Wellesley, that the entrance of Portugal has been determined on by the French. PARIS, Fes. 14.—An official letter from the Duke of Dalmatia states, that he had not received the account of the state of the magazines found at Jaen ; he knoas, however, that there were found in the place forty-four pieces of artillery mounted on the batteries, 6000 stand of arms, a great quantity of provisions and considerable magazines. There were likewise found at Cor dova 6000 stand of arms and a full arsenal, of which our artillery has made great advantage. kr Canillion and Baser, four 8-pounders and one howitzer, and six other pieces left behind in the moun tains.oSince the passitge of the Sierra Morena, the Imperial army has this made itself mas ter of 80 p ieces of artillery. It is probable, the letter adds, that Cadiz will follow Seville, and thus the Spanish squadron be taken. • The Junta bas fled to the island of Leon, In the neighbourhood of Cadiz. It is understood that the greater part of the Members will embark for America. It is also said that they are desirous to enter into a capitulation. . . - . as . , 13 sL L's S -1.2! •,... 17.71