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7' . _ P4RL1.4212 - ENT4Rr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY U. ~ . .. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Spirt p tereeurse Lill, the Hackney Coach Regulation, .the Paper . sty th a gback, the Agent General's, the Westminster Improvrirenr, the East India Handkerchief 4, London Docks Improvement; Irish ilistli , ries, and Gimpowdtr Carriage Bills and to four others • eiteltivatv or iocui 4escriptlpp..—T Lhe cusla.:Commlssioners were die roilb Outticiaiox, the Magni& orHattrnith, and Lord IV Petiticn - vearpresented by LordßiDESrijllteffom James 7iiistieleg,' liiielsoot r leitke Poultry for-iegetri%Truli4ehle -and • Darned Leril: bricft y desarib . ekt lie stature of Oar. ease, and stated that alitinugliihe Peti.ioner was still detained on,thek Wilier: the CommisiWner wits cf.ppinien,' . andtightly too, that hii Case - lid 20t eons'e:WithistAteitie .coutentplaled by the Bill, he therefore • . i rayed ssiciy,S„elivf as thvif% ill ~ ships in their wisdom should deem s . Meet —4lsc.petithiti vow o . fed to he ou the Tahis. . .. • * ' 'The i'st'iactitsilif Wiles's blishment Bill, Duke of Wel lifegtbAintiniitirend. Lords Lyndoch, Comber , nerc, fill, iie. • rezfottd,'and Exmonthl Annuity Bills, were read a third time, • • and passed 4 as . were the War Duties Continuation, the .Aliens, Board of Works, - Army and Navy Seduction, and Customs Set 2:ires Illls, • Tbe Earl of BO lIIES preseared a Petition from Cooper, in literbire, against the' revtval of the African Slave Trade. Thuglefty Farming Bill, the Local Militia Pay and ClotbinF, • the" Vote of Credit, :ship Letters, Militia Pay and Clothing, .ZicaoleiPg Powder, Irish Militia Pay and (Clothing, Irish 1114itia Training, and a few outer Bills, were read a second time, the coinaliteuseta negatived, and the Bill Oldcred to be read a third ' time to-morrow. The Copy-Tight Bill was returned from the Commons, by Mr. GIDDY, with their actpirscenee in the amendments made by the Lords therein. •e Post Horit Duties, and one.or two other Bills passed the Cotistnittees of the whole House, and were reported. 'the older for the re-commitment of the JAI Tees,' Abolition . was, on the motion of Earl STAN noes, adjourded till that • day sennight . : his Lordship took the opportunity to trate, that he was desired to say that the person who brorght up the Bill, bad nothing to do with the mistal es in the Bill alluded to. 416sisTANT Csiiicit oF THE BLACK HOD. The LORD C HANCE L LOR quitted the Wool sack, and addressed their Lordships on the subject of the long and meritorious services of Mr. Quarme, in the above higbly useful and respectable office. That Ceesaleman w will known to their Lordships, as was also his father, ti; most of them,.as discharging the - duties of the offices new filled by the son, with fide lity anti diligence, and to the satisfaction of the House, in the long interval between the year 17.54 and the year 1787 ; it was afterwards, and at present filled by the present Mr. Quarme, who, in the most complete, satisfactory, and dignified manner, dis charged the important duties of the office. They were thus filled' and performed above three score years, wiihcut the income of the situation having received any addition. For his part, he hoped he was under no mistake, that his was the universal sentiment with regard to the respectable character in question, and that of his meritoribus services. (Hear, hear.) On these grounds, therefore, and in consideration of the long, diligent, and faithful set vices of the son, he moved their Lordships to Address his Royal High ness the Pt ince Regent-6. Praying that he would be graciously pleased to confer some mark of his favour on Robert Ottarme, Esq. Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, cn account of the long, faithful, and meritorious • services of himself and his late father, in the said office." On the question, the Address was voted by their Lordships run. dis. and ordered to be presented to his Royal Highne.ss in the usual way. 14 0 .1611 SEDIT:OUS ETINGS BILL. Their Lordships, pursuant zo thesOrder of the Day, resolved into 3 Corn rt i ; ttee on t hi s Bill. Earl STANHOPE re-urged his forwier objections to the principle and leading provisions of the Bill. The Earl of LIVERPOOL thought the passing of the Bill would he productive of tl:e most bene ficial effects. Lord REDESDA LE spoke in support of the. Bill. The Report was then received, and the Bill ordered . to be read a third time to-morrow.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Message from Lords Lavin.; required the attendance of the House, the SPEARER, on his return , announced the Royal Assent to a number of private an.'(for which see our Report of .he Lords). ADULTERATION OF BREAD. Mr. LOCKHART, alter a few prefatory remarks, relative to the unwholesomeness of certain mixtures with pure flour, which are understood to be in gene ral use amongst bakers, in the preparation of wheaten bread, moved tor leave to bring in a Bill to prevent the adulteration of flour in the ma!: ng of wheaten bread. Leave being given, the Bill wgs brought in, read a first time, and referred to a Committee. Mr. GIDDY, conceiving that the Bill proposed by the Hon. Geotleman did not go far enough to pro cure a wholesome and nutiinous bread for general consumption, would give notice of his intention to bring forward an additional measure. The bakers of the metropolis were in the habit of usiug, amongst other unwholsome ingredients, a composition called Baker's 5411, part of which was alum. It was ac knowledged and proved, that the constant consurnp, tion of bread in which alum is used, is unwholesome; he should therefore prose a clause to prevent the in troduction of any ingr edieiit, with flour, in the making of bread, except common salt. GttAwOUND EXACTION. Lord YARMOUTH 'presented a petition from Mr. M:ptague, the opponent of J. E. Collett, Esq. the returned tviember. for Grampound, in the rcurn of Cochrane Johnstone, complainiog of an undue return having beets made, by means of bribery andtititer am rupt practices. Tilt petition ivas rteeived, read, and ordered for consideration on Tuesday, the Ist of Sep tember nett. XIALLINSON'S INVZNTION. Sir F. BUlt DEVI', alluding to the motion of which he gave notice yesterday, respecting the re turns of seamen of the King's ships, drowned by the upsetting of buts, was still of ('pinion, from further enquiries Le had read:, di it nething was more easy • thin to fin nish such returns. He read a letter from a naval Oilicer, who info med. him that the returns of . all casualties were tem t.i the Admiralty in the month ly log books of every ship. He had no wish to ob i. ct to die money vot, d to Captain Manby for his in vention, nor to that abeut to be employee in the lauda. ble purpose of carrying it into execution ; hiTt the in vention of Mr. Mal - boson, he would persist, was equally worthy of pat renage,as it was applicable to all stations, aetd ci,uld be used at all times ; and it was certainly "of more national importance to save the lives of men than to remunerate their families for trail:. loss. Exre rietice had sliewu that persons wearing this preserver cannot possibly sink; and the strongest groune that could be °fret ed tor its adoption by Covernnient is, that since the renewal of the wet, in 180, not les? that, !tom bat to 12,000 lives had been lost by die ac• cidents in question. After many =ors observations in favour of the invention, Sir Francis concluded with renewing his motion for a return of all seamen be longing to King's ships, who had been drowned by the as/netting of boats since the sth ofJune, 1811. CROKER regretted that he had not been able lo attend when • the subject was lately urged by the Hon. Baronet ; as he would have then, as he should now, convince him of the utter impossibility of making out such returns with any degree of accu racy, nor even at all, in less time'than from one to two years. As to the inventions so lauded by the Hon. Baronet, he mast say that, in his opinion, it had as little merit as any that ever tell under his notice ; and that, 'of all the inventions for a similar purpose, which were nine in number, that had been laid before •the Admiralty, thii was the last which he should choose, if in apprehension of drowning. The Right Hon. Gentleman then entered into a description of the invention, and urged, that it the opinion of the public were in favour of it, it ought to be employed in tke merchants' service, where the casualities which it purported to remedy, were much more frequent than in King's ships ; and till its utility had thus been proved, the Hon. Baronet should abstain from forcing it upon Government. Mr. WHITBREAD said, he should have con ceived that nothing could have been more easy than to furnish the returns required ; as the returns of all seamen who lose their lives are regularly sent to the Admiralty. He then repeated the high recommen dation which the Committee had given of this article in their Report, and in which they had not scrupled to call it an invention; and he hoped the Right Ho: nourable•Gentleman would cot be able to persuade the House, that his single opinion, perhaps arising from some degree of prejudice, was preferable to that of the whole Committee. He did not wish the Right Hon. Gentleman to fall overboard, but if he should, and bad as many lives as a cat, after trying the other eight inventions, he might owe his salvation to the ninth, which he so much despised. —(A laugh.) It would certainly not at all interfere with Captain Manby's invention, but while it would go in aid of it generally, it might also save thousands of lives under circumstances where the other could not be employed at all. Mr. WYNNE was for protracting the adoption of it till more general proof had been adduced of its efficacy. After some explanations between Sir F. BuaDsrr and Mr. CROKER, the Baronet, conceiving that the returns would not be objected to, if they could be obtained, and also trusting that it would not be de nied that great numbers of livts had been lost for want of the adoption of some such invention, con sented to withdraw his motion. 0 )VERNOR co RR. Mr. GOULDBURN was unwilling the House should separate before he had had an opportunity of stating the cause of his not being present yesterday, when an Honourable Member presented a Petition complaining of the conduct of Governor Gore in Canada. He had been every day waiting in the House for some time past, with a variety of papers about him, which would have enabled him fully to meet the charges contained ht the Petition, and to spew how utterly absurd snd impossible some of them were. He had yesterday attended the Housei and waited some time, when, neither seeing the Ho-: nonrable Member who had presented the Petition "in his place, ncr the Honourable Member for Coreiltryi he had left the House to go to his office, not thinkin the subject could be brought on at that time, anJ had returned as soon as the business which had call ed him away enabled him to do so, when. he found, with some surprise that during his absence the Peti tion had been presented. He was now only desirous that it should be believed that his absence had been purely the result of accident, and that there was no thing in that Petition which would not be met with a full and complete refutation.--Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1814. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY Al TWELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced 67;—Cons. 67f}—fir account Of 67j Se 4 per Ct. 64f1-5 per Ct. Navy 96f 97—Orrin. If pre. Bank Long Anus. 161 IS-16am—inch. Bonds, 16s. 171. pre. Exchequer Bills, Ss. ss. pre. We have received Paris Papers of Tuesday. On the subject of Spain the intelligence is of a painful in terest. Notwithstanding the laboured disavowal of the Spanish Ambassador at Paris, which we subjoin, the state of affairs in Spain seems to be distressing be yond measure. As the best reply to his letter, we re fer ow readers to an article from Madrid, bearing every mark of authenticity, which we have selected from the very Paris Papers which contain his Excel lency's disavowal. Nothing but intripue prevails among the Spanish Courtiers, anci nothing but discontent appears on the countenances of the people. All the Editors of the Spanish Papers are thrown into prison, and the Gazate alone is allowed to be , publisigd. C mmerce is nearly at a stand : the obnoxious royal monopoly of tobacco has been' revived, and no cot. tons are allowed to be imported at any price. —ln short, with such a body of evidence before us on die state of Spain, we must be pardoned for doubting the accuracy of M. LAMA Doles informants, who describe that country as perfectly tranquil. BONAPARTE has opened a hie:idly intercourse, by !cuff, wit Mr. JAMES MADISON-•-this was VI be ex. petted. The affairs of Norway are by no means tattled ; the Norwegians . are represented u having three corps d'armite on foot, and are stated to be in an attitude for threartenitig 6w den. run, /WIN 28. W e a r e assured that General 4ndreossi is appoin ted 4.mbassadnr to Coastantinoßle. The Prince de Condi has set out fcr Passey l wl.cre he intends to pass the summer. There was no meeting of the Mamba of Deputies yesterday.' The discus:l6'ns respecting thc project.cit the law to regulate the Liberty of the Press have ter. minated in the Central Commission, and the Report will be made about the end of the week. • According to all accounts froth Italy, Bonaparte has commenced a most intimate correspondence with Mr. MADISON, the President of the United Stites. The Duke of Wellington, the new English Am bassador, is expected at Calais on his way to Paris. A German Paper states, that Vandamme has not hanged himself, but had entered into the service of the Turks. Chevalier Gomez Labrador, the Spanish Ambas sador at Paris, has adlressed the following Letter to the Editors of the Journal de Paris : " GiNTLEULN, 66 PAW, JULY RS. 44 You have inserted in your Journal of yesterday an article from Munich of the 16th instant, according to which the discourses of the Spanish Clergy occa sioned the greatest disorders in the Cities of Leon and Compostella. al You will be pleased to know that I have intel ligence from Spain of a much more recent date, and certainly more entitled to credit than that of the varian Journalist who furnished you with the article in question. Permit me, therefore, to inform you that the disorders of Leon and Compostella have no more reality than the disturbances said to have been caused by the conduct and sentiments of General Mina and the sedi:ious movements announced for some time in various parts of Spain, whereas General Mina is not less estimable for his loyal and chivalrous frankness than worthy of admiration for his military achievements, and in spite of the inventors of false news, there is not in all Europe a more tranquil country than Spain. 46 Yes, Gentlemen, the most perfect tranquillity reigns in my country—the people there even enjoy a degree of happiness superior to that which any nation ever experienced, • for no nation has succeeded in re conquering its independence and its Sovereign by so great efforts of courage, fidelity, and constancy. Con vinced of this happy situation of my country, I have hitherto been silent as to the report of discontents, which idle or malignant persons have been pleased to propagate, and I would have been silent with respect to your brother Editor of Munich, if, after announc ing a false piece of intelligence, he had not added an atrocious calumny against my august Sovereign, and against his Royal Highness the Infant don Antonio. “ I had flattered myself that we were far removed from these unfortunate times, in which Journalists outraged with impunity, whole nations and Sove reign Princes ; and what outrage can be more hor rible than that of imputing to the uncle of the King of Spain a declaration which would be an act of re bellion, and to his Majesty himself a disease which would render him incapable of reigning ! Upon what foundation has this miserable Journalist built his imposture The singularity of taking news from Spain from a German Journal, ought, of itself, to have struck you, if you had not reflected on the bane ful effects which such paragraphs might produce. 66 All true Frenchmen have deplored the war of perfidy and atrocity which their tyrant waged for six years against Spain : they have deplored this war, not only as unjust, but as having excited to the highest degree animosities and hateful passions be tween two neighbouring nations, whose interest it is I to live on amicable terms with each other. Every thing which can have a tendency to perpetuate these dispositions, ought to be studiously avoided, and no thing in my opinion will contribute more to exaspe rate my countrymen than the continuation of the system which most of the Journalists and other puklic writers of your nation have constantly pursued for a long time. Every piece of false intelligence from Spain, and every invective, is an injury to you own countrymen. " I hope that you will publish this complaint in your Journal. (Signed) " COMIC LABRADOR." MADRID, JULY 14. The restoration of the Supreme Council of the In dies gives us one tribunal more, but it does not re store our Colonies. The insurrections in those distant Settlements have assumed a character so serious, that we know not what name to give them. The Pro vinces or Kingdoms of Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, and several others of the same consequence, have solemnly proclaimed their separation from the mother. country, and published a constitution which secures theirindependence. This example cannot fail to reach Mexico and Lima, which we still retain. Such are the sad results orour political dissensions, and of that pretended energy with which all parties mutually re proach each other. The present Government has not thought it prudent to interfere with opinions which have acquired consistency of late years.— .—We are desirous that the administration may be successful in all its measutes, but when we cast our eyes on the state of the finances, and the misfortunes of every kind with which we are surrounded, we dread the future. The Provinces in the North arc in disturbed state. In Castile, some disaffected persons have set fire to some convents, into which the Eccle siastics were about to return—others have committed excesses against persons merely suspected of having lavoured the Cortes. This capital is tranquil ; but the public confidence, and the national character, which affects festivals and 4 certain degree of liberty, has not re-appeared. It is said that an order from the Minister at War, sent at the same instant to Valencia, to Cadiz, and another prOvincial chief town, directed a General Officer to take the command d the troops, deprived of their functions Generals Elio, Villavicencio, aad O'Donnell, and ordered them to be instantly diot.— The Court was consulted as to the execution elf skis measure, and we are assured that his Majesty do dared he knew nothing of it, and it is even said that a reward has been offered for the discovery of die authors of these supposed orders s however the case may be, these reports are sufficient to spread want of confidence and afflicting uneasiness. The English Journals make war upon us--but the English do rot know, or perhaps they pretend to be ignorant, that at this moment a change of Ministers would be a true revolution in Spain. His Majesty daily receives addresses of felicitation. We etpest every instant a treaty of peace with France. Catalonia is not yet relieved from thit state of war 'and alarm in which it bas been pladked for six years, The tourieri.are not respected, and it is not safe to gravel in that Province. r• Notwithstanding all these diesigieeable cir,entn. stiaces, whicb.c.noaot escape , thelpenetratitin of oar jbligirters. : it seqps that our patient measuraiiwan i. fest an weakness. jt is our habit to speak enajesbi. we have preserved the language of the age-of 'Clarks V. , and. of Phillip 11. and 'the miraculous success which we obtained in the 'lasi v . at, has not eentiibtited to render us modest. Yod will see us at thiCongreas at Vienna, if it takes place. Unfosti. nately We have no longer a navy, and the mines of the Peninsula, abandoned since the discovery of tho se of America, do not, promise us great resources, but we reckon much on the tale Ats and 6rmness of cur plenipotentiaries. A Dutch Mail arrived to-day—the followirgis the only intelligence of intereat.which we have received : BRUSSELS, iv Ly Yt It h certain that the fate of our country was dn. cided at Paris ; its union with a neighbouring nation is no longer doubtful, but the frontiers !Mao' be fixed till the congress at Vienna•; it seems not to'e determined whether our frontiers shall extend to the Maese, the Oardie, or the Rhine. There is much mi. son to suppose thSt England wishes to base our from. tiers extended to the Rhine, The Governor-General has ordered all our Officers and soldiers returned from France to lay aside the French uniform by a certain day, the military wear. ing French uniforms now hcre far eaceeding the gar. rison in number. It seems quite uncertain when the Congress at Ghent will be opened, none of the English Commis sioners having arrived. GENOA, JULY 9. For some days past we have been disquieted by various reports concerning our future fate. It is pre. tended that the Western part of our territory is to be joined to Piedmont, and the Eastern to Tuscany, and . the City of Genoa. without territhry, to he declared free. This would ruin and depopulate the City.— All trade has been at a stand for some time, In a former Paper we mentioned the Litention of the PRINCESS ON WALES to visit the Contil.ent, Her Royal Highness has, it is said, announced is a letter to the Earl of Livearoor., her deign to take op her residence at the Court of her brother. Report says, that, in the letter to his Lordship, several question' were put by her Royal Highness, to which answers were desired to'be given. Is not the consent of his Royal Highness the Parma Roog . and his NTT Council necessary by law to her Royal klishaesei departure from the kingdom t Two days ago we mentioned that an addition was about to be madeao the Ministerial phalanx. TimP following is the reported arrangement • • • • Mr. CAN Mlle. to be Ambassador to the Court "f LitipitesS Mr. W aLLESLICT POLS, to 'be Master of the Mast, aid a Member of the Cabin's ; Mr. HUMISSON, Privy Coaneinar, and Surveyor of the Wegie and Forests ; Mr. &Aeneas D, a Lord of the Treasury; Itilr. ST v BOUJIN a s a Privy COUOCiliat, and Member of the India Board • and '1 he Hon. J. W. WARD, a Privy Councillor, and a Mentber of tLe Board of Controut.- In the reported appointment of Mr. Cuttings it is possible there play be some mistake.—lt is unusual for an es-Secretary of State to 611 such a situation. The Royal Charlotte yacht is ordered toWey mouth to attend her Royal Highness the PRINCESS CHAR LOTTE of WALT=; and the Rep' Sovereign yacht is ordered to attend his Royal Highness the Juke of Comm:ice to the Continent. DEAL, JULY 28.—Arrived the PREVOYANTE HMV ship, with timber from the River Ems, for Portsmouth Dock-yard ; also, the Hero, and Juno, -cartels, from Dunkirk.—Wind S.W. Cmuc, JULY 25.—Sailed his Mljesty'i ships PLO. VER, ACi3AR, EtCOnT, and SUARPSIIOO I Eit, with about thirty sail under convoy. for Newfouncland and Mr BARROW, of the Admiralty, has signified to the Cove!nor of the Rus s ian Company, that ot,e MOM Convoy will be appointed this year for Arcil. angel, to bail from Long Hope Sound on tl:c 10:11( f August. A Circular Lettrr has Lem addressed ti all tho Offices under Guyer - omen', &recto% M,,nday next may be considered as a Holiday, eicept tuiu caiei, where t:.e urgency of public I s.smese will not admit of any delay. CO!ZN It.InRKET, MA/11(.1.AM% JULY £9. We had a little Wheat fr:4l3 in few this ti orr.trnes market front Suffolk, which met ready sale at 114toteay'• 1 riees. What Batley appeare.l, of flue quality, a/so sold fru:ly but In 03t Beans, and othcr ar:l:les, there is no variation. SMIEHFIIiI.II MARKET, JUIN . •J. 9. Beef 5, 01 to Fs 0..! I Veal 7s thl s n ti wMurton 5, O 61 4.1 P•ea. 6s cd ro 7. 01 lamb 7 , Od to es 04. Ear.. 490—Sheep and I.anths 4,7 20—C.iees, son V. : , Meadow' Hay 41 0s to Clover 61 (1.• to 71 . 2 *men 01 Os to 01 01 I Straw 11 lis to Ji, l