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. . ... • • peifectly correct. If the Hon. , Baronet, hciwever, meant to imply that the Noble and Learned Judge, who tried the cause would wickedly alter his charge, so as to give it a different colour, be who knew the Noble and Learned persons presiding in the Courts would say that there was not a Judge on the Bench who was capable of such 'conduct. Why should not the Solicitor General have delivered . his opinion on this subject ? It was well known that he, as well as his Learned Friend, had peremptorily refused to be employed on either side on that trial. If it was said that they must be supposed as Counsel for the Go vernment. he should ask, what had Government or the Administration to do with that trial, except in the ipstaace of administering the mercy of the Crown upon .the present occasion ? It appeared now, that not% ithstanding the denial of the Noble Lord, he had gilien instructions for his brief with his own niout.h, and bad heard it read to him. The Judges, notwithstanding the rule, would have allowed in this case, as in many others, a new trial, if any sur prise or mis;ake could have been proved to have hap pened ; but there was nothing of that sort here. The Hon. Baronet believed Lord Cochrane innocent, because his Solicitors and Advocates had not appeared to contradict him. Alas ! their mouths were sealed, but his Lordship might, if he pleased, unseal them. His defence had been conducted by great and ho-' nourable rnen : they had not called witnesses, because they dared not. If the three servants could have cOntirmed the affidavit of the Noble Lord, where was the advocate who cculd have been stupid enough to hesitate to produce them ? Would he not have rained himself by such an omission ? He was glad that the period had arrived when the trial could be read at length, and thus do away the effect of those imperfect statements which misled the public mind. But the Honourable Baronet thought the Noble Lord innocent. Perhaps De Berenger was innocent also. Pethaps there had been no fraud committed ; but all was merely a gov-ernment plot to hunt down an innocent rival, who, by the way, was neither very important nor very formidable.— (A laugh.)—Lord Cochr.ne, it appeared, was so innocent that the pillory was to be dignified by his mere appearance therein. Whit liad'hitherto been considered such a punishment as to bow down the head v:ith humiliation ever a't..r, was now to be esteemed an honour : the pillory was to become a place of favourite and ambitio.i., resort : delinquents, is stead of deprecating its disgrace, would now be eager to attain it, because the two noble colleagues of Westminiter had graced it with their presence. If*Lord Cochrane was inno cent, then De Berenger was also an honourable man, for he had his a!ibis and his affidavits as well as my Lord. Mr. C , ;chrane Johnstone was even more in. pocent, for scarce!) , any connection had been proved between him and De lierenger. The Lcarned Gentle man then commented n the advantage which L o d candtrane had icapeJ irom the fraud, by which he pot only p=et off absolute rt.irt, but picketed a large sum of money. /kind . a consideration of all the cir cumstaaers, it was impossible . to believe that Lord Cochrane was innocent ; and he trusted that the country, as soon as its prejudices, too hastily raised, had subsicied, vinuld acknowledge that the Grand Jury had clone its duty in ending the Bill, the trying Jury in their verdict, and that the Judges had done their duty in inflicting that sentence which Lord Cochr ac himself allowed not to be too severe, on the supposition that he was guilty. Lord Eli RIINIGToN rose to withdraw his motion, ifer the communication made by the Noble Lord. He regretted, and was surprised, that it had not been made earlier, especially us the Noble Lord had on a fAmer occasion so earnestly deprecated discussion. Mr. HoT..,bdEa hoped Lord Cochrane would re base his Counsel and Solicitor from their obligation gl,secreCy, otherwise every man must come to the same. conclusion with the Solicitor-General; but he (Mr, .Holmes) had no doubt Lord Cochrane w•- - ,tad do 60. .• The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, the instrnc- . ;ions for the br!ef (he heard from the Solicitor) were taken from Lord Cochrane, and the draught of the b; let was read to him, and approved of by him. The statement of Lord cochrane's servants was taken at his request, and before him; and I'. Dewman, the servant, corrected his statement before his Lordship. Mr. ABERCROMBIE said, he had been furnish ed with a statement from the Counsel for Lord C. as to his having heard the brief ; both Rarts of the brief were read to his Lordship, and on the proof part he ' made some remarks. Mr. WETHERELL corroborated the statement of the last speaker. Mr. WHI I'BREAD merely rose to state, that there were in the brief 12 other lines expunged, besides the four alluded to by the Solicitor General; and against these the name of Lord Cochrane did not ap. year. He was not aware that the fact was of any value, but he mentioned it to shcw that the circurn etance of the expunging could not fairly weigh on ei ther side. The communication whic!) had been made by the Noble Lord precluded the necessity of any ob rtvations on the present question; though he thought that the Noble Lord would have done better to make That communication_ either earlier or before the debate. If, however, he had been called upon to vote, he cer tainly should have voted for the motion, but without any reference to the guilt or innocence of Lord Cochrane. The original motion and the amendment were then withdrawn. REVERSIONARY GRANTS. Mr. BANKES then rose, and after some prelimi nary remarks made his annual motion for an humble Address to the Prince Regent, that he would be gra ciously pleased not to grant any office, place, or sa lary, in reversion, or for joint lives, till six months f il er die next Session of Parliament. Lord CASTLEREAGH opposed the motion on the gr , )und, that arum the rejection which the Rever iion 411 had received from the Lords, there was , reason to prestime, that there was a deliberate repug nance to it in that H. use. The Address now pro posed by his Honourable Friend appeared therefore t : : Lion a summary mode of giving the Commons le. i s w atitiiority to the exclusion of the other House. thii ground' he would oppose the motion, though (torn no pal Ocular hoitility, to the object of the address.. pE RNLY ipprelsehded that as the grant of versions kid been stopped fin 614 or Xix years pad, _ • tl, -- • Imre and to this he was induced to ascribe the Noble Lord's opposition to the motion. He ridiculed the idea of the House of Lords becoming wroth, because an address of the Commons put a temporary stop to the prac• tice of granting reversions. But if there was any disposition to wrath on their part, surely the Noble Lord, with his pacific talents, might contrive to keep the peace between the two Houses at least till next Session. _ _ _ Mr. BANKES contended that there was no hope of taking any other step but by an address, to carry into effect the repeated vote of the House against re versions, as the session would probably close in the course of five or six days. There was nothing unusual in addresses of this kind, and he apprehended there was little danger of any breach of harmony between the two Houses. It must be recollected that the mo ment the House let this subject out of their hands, that moment they restored to the Crown the power of granting reversions, against which so many unani mous votes of the Commons had been passed. Lord CASTLEREAGH wished to suggest to his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bankes) that the Bill rejected by the Lords was preventive of the grant of reversions for two years ; but another Bill of one year's duration might still pass that House, and be sent up to the Lords this session. Sir C. BURRARD supported the Address. The House then divided, when the motion was lost. —Noes .58—Ayes 34—Majority 24. Adjourned at HALF-PAST ONE o'Clock. HAMBUAGH MAILS. BAYREUTH, JULY 5. Franconian and Bavarian Journals contain the fol. lowing article :- 4, It is said that Napoleon wrote to Count Bellegarde, Commander of the Austrian troops, saying; that he did not consider hin4elf safe in Elba from the pirates, and requesting some bat talions of Austrian grenadiers ; that this request was granted, and when the grenadiers were on the point of embarking at Leghorn, accounts arrived, that the English Comn4issioners had had the Emperor seized in Elba, and conveyed on board a ship, and had galled with him to Malta; or, by other accounts, even to St. Helena, in the Atlantic Ocean. Oiher accounts again pretend, they have carried him away from Elba ; and scaled orders which they had re ceived from England, and which were not to be opened till they got to a certain latitude, would ac quaint them where to convey him to." THE EVENING STAR. • LON DON. • WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1814. PRICB Olt STOCKS TIM DAY A I TWELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced 68j=—Coal. 684 i—for acc. 69i 4 per Cc. 84Z —5 per Cr. Navy 97 it —Omn. 411 priu Bank Long /taws. 16 11-16tha—India Boads,l3s. 14$. pro. Blelscquer alb, is. ss. pre. We have received New York Papers to the 22d, and Boston to the Od ult. As our Readers already know, the recent events in Europe were fully nude known throughout the whole of the United States. The sensation excited among the people at large has been similar to that which has been witnessed in Eu rope : ppblic meetings, dinners, bonfires, and illumi nations, have celebrated the downfall of BONAPARTE, With the exception of t he' Waticial lalelligenter, the Editor of which seems to be a miserable, drivelling, and illiterate pensioner of MADISON and BomAPARTE, the whole Press of America is in favour of the good cause. They do not hesitate now to tell MADISON and his despicable faction to retire from office, and formal Addresses to this effect have been voted in several places. • In the mean time, no attempt is now made by the American Government to keep up the war-cry against gagland : on the contrary, their sycophants now bold out the prospect of peace, and eagerly catch at every feather which can tickle the credulous multi tude into a belief that the European Sovereigns, and above all the Emperor ALEXANDER, were to take up the American cause against Great Britain. Mr. Ca* wrutto, the American Envoy at Paris, has, it seems, informed his truly respectable employers, that he had the honour to dine with Lord CASTLEREAGIt: 66 this," says the National Intelligencer, 66 looks well t" Then we are told that the American Ministers rejoice that the BOURZONS have been restored under the auspices of ALEXANDER; because forsooth Russia was always hostile to the maritime rights claimed by England, and the ENIPEROR, who now comes in , for an immense load of praise, will of course dic tate the terms of Peace on behalf of America.- -But the very miscreants who make this appeal through the medium of the National MA:enter, had a few days before designated the great and good ALEXANDER (and we have files of their infamous ,paper at this moment before us) as the ea semi-barba rian Despot" and 66 the murderer of his father !" His gallant army, in the same breath, is *tiled " a horde of robbers, cut-throats, and incendiaries." Nay, the very day previous to the solemn declaration tf 81IRRURIER ) the French Ambassador to the Ameri can Court, that BONAPARTE had abdicated, and that the BOURBONS were restored, the cowardly Jacobins at Washington fabricated a report that BONAPARTE bad retaken Paris with 200,000 men, and had anni hilated the Allied Armies I This wicked falsehood is blazoned forth in the National Intelligenctr, MaoisoN's favourite Paper, under the 'head " Mosv Gwarous NEWS—the TABLES TURNED."-But ‘ve are sick of noticing such repeated abnegations of all moral rec titude. • . By all accounts the war is now coming borne to the &eagles of the Americans with a vengeance. All their'' ates, liAd other ships of war, are laid up; or idler 1 ,-* - .ihe gain s have been unshipp e d to Ind the seamen h xve been marched they will find ebundAnce of em . .... ir..,.14 • , . . . ployment. Our armaments from Europe lave ail arrived out—ten thousand troops, flushed with vic tory, have landed at Halifax, for the service of Ca nada; and the Southern and Eastern States are on the eve of experiencing a most tremendous, but just exer cise of vengeance. New Hampshire is probably by this time laid waste, and the road to Washington %trill be cleared. The British Commander in that quarter has inti mated that fourteen days only will be allowed for a categorical answer to the demands of his Govern ment. MADISON and WAR ; PEACE and A FEDERA L goyim:mart I These ought to be the teats of the British Negdciators—they will, no doubt, be echoed by every enlightened man in America. In short, MADISON and his illiterate faction must, withdraw from public life—the Americans themselves have at length decreed it. " BALTIMORE, JUNE 10. " Yesterday, for the first time, after a lapse of 2t) years, appeared the French white cockade, and the insignia of the Cross of St. Louis. Those signs in• spired every where hut one sentiment of respect and admiration. General Willot (Junel) was the first who appeared in this city with the ancient decorations of royalty. May such an example of devotedness to his legitimate Sovereign be followed by all French men, who, like himself, have served their country with sincere affection! _ _ " It is said that General Willot is breveted by Lou'is XVIII. to the rank of Lieutenant General of his armies. “ WASHINGTON, JUNE Is. a The dispatches front France by the Olivier have been received by Government and by Mr. Serru rier. Those to Government have not transpired.— The 'della:pacer may perhaps contain somuthiag about them. Mr. Serrurier has been confirmed as Minis ter of France near the American Government by the new French Authorities; and it is believed that he has been commanded to assure the President of the continued good-yin and regard of France for the United States, and of the hereditary friendship of the Bourbons towards us. It is not to be doubted that the new ordp of things in France is highly auspi cious to the commercial relations between her and America, and will conduce to the more speedy. resto ' ration of general commerce, if not of peace, between us and England. K As a peace in Europe is almost certain, and as l a practical end of impressment will follow, our dif ferences with the enemy will, it is believed, he ad justed at the general Congress, whatever insolence the British may in the mean time exhibit towards us. " Private letters to the 20th April, have been re ceived from Mr. Crawford by the Olivier. He had dined at the house of Marbois, one of the new French Authorities, in company with Lords Castlereagh and Cathcart. This looks well. mouun, mougn By all accounts the war is now cot titan no pal Ocular luistility, to the object of the address. Mr. "pERNIES apprehended that as the grant of • . . • the firesedes of the Americans with a vi elm fr ates. and other slilos of war ieversioias 'had been stopped air 614 or 'six years past, ' • , • a! , they ina;ss adcumuLated consider Ably • the h•be of lat e; rawer licked up-- s ave ell tis,s had, *probably, bh.srpeued tlw appetite of scdmini form Lunt batteries, and the seamen have siration to &its away a lumber cdreversionary grant s •° the Lakes, where they will find •thu •• • •,. I • •• / • . . %. 4.1 %.• ••• lio.•1111 • 4, An honourable peace is the more desirable to us now, as, having made a fair experiment of the efficiency of a navy in defending our commercial and maritime rights, a few years of repose and pros perity will enable us to increase it to an extent capa ble of bidding defiance to the hostility of England, and of causing our claims on all occasions to be re spected." " BOSTON, JUNE 18. 44 On Wednesday the solemnities and services in honour of the list restoration of Safety and Peace to Europe, and in commemoration of the downfal of the Tyrant, were given in the Stone Chapel in this town, agreeably to the notices given." . BOSTON, JUNE 20. " An expedition is said to have gone from Detroit, supposed against Michilimackinac. It is said the President has declined to ratify the last convention with Sir George Prevost, for an ex change of prisoners, complaining that it was not reci procal. The prisoners who have been released, are' therefore to be considered as on parole. General Winder's mission was on this subject. " About fifty seamen from the flotilla at Newport, passed through Providence on Saturday last for Lake Champlain. " On the 29th nit. fifty-nine British prisoners, near Chillicothe, were suddenly ordered into cjose confine ment, by instructions from the President." 44 QUEBEC, MAY f 7. " His Majesty's troop ship Dover is arrived, with troops and sailors from England ; the forerunner of the fleet. Major-General Cuurran is a passenger in the Dover." We this morning received the following Letter from our Plymouth Correspondent s " PLYMOUTH, IDLY IF. " This morning a Russian vessel passed tl,;s Ih:it from Boston ; she sailed on the 23d ult. in cortip4ny with another Russian vessel, both in ballast. By a Gentleman landed here from her we learn, that the latest news from Europe, via Halifax, had caused great rejoicings in the Eastern States. At Boston the Town-house had been illuminated, and much railing and clamour against the President for bad policy. In return, the Government were using their best endeavours to convince the Citizens that they were suing for and de s i r o us to o b ta i n a P eace . A n Address or Petition from part of Virginia, suggest ing the propriety of Mr. MADISIN'S resigning (not having been able to have 'things according to his wishes), had been presented. • All the American Navy (except the Wasp and a brig) were laid up, 444 the crews turned over to the Lakes, which ap. • •.t I •t • •o . 1 peered to be their chief concern. A isle regal* I. had been launched on the Lakes. Sir JAM= Yj had left Sacket's Harbour, and returned to Icingston, from indisposition : in his absence part of Comma. dore Crintracay's squldron had got to Sea, but re. turned again. The Independence of 90 guns, has been launched at Boston on the 20th ult. The Cuerriere, a6O gua frigate, to be commanded by. Commodore Rooccoa, was ordered to be launched immediately at Phila delphia'; a 90-gun ship was also ordered to be launched at Portsmouth. " His Majesty's ship GOLIAH boarded the Russian two days after being at sea, and the Officer deprived our informant of some newspapers, so that the pre. ceding is only from recollection. His Majesty's ship FIHIASANT was spoken with a few days ago in the Channel, and yesterday a navy transport from Hali fax. A French chasse maree has this day arrived with 57 persons, late from his Majesty's ship R raN. nun, which were carried into L'Orient in the Wasp American sloop of war. The Wasp is refitting at L'Orient ; she will require a new foremast. The Captain of the Chasse-tnaree says,.that the Americans lost in killed, in the action with the REMUS / eight or ten persons only." The Nelly, INHas, froth the liavannah to Greenock* was taken the 7th ult. in lat. 45. 5. long. S 9. SI. by the. Yankee American brig privateer, of 15 guns, and sent for America. The Yankee had been out 9Q days, and captured 36 English, and fpnr foreign vessels * and destroyed them. We have received Paris Paper; of Sunday last.- r . They contain no notice whatever of the foolish nt. mour in the Hamburgh Papers that BONAPARTI has been carried off from Elba by his English keepers._ We are inc ned to believe, therefore, that the Ham. bprgh story is a hoax. The dowager Duchess of Orleans has arrived at Marseilles from Spain, and was received with every mark of distinction. The Duke, her son, has caned from the aboye port for Sicily, to bring his family tp France. The Moniker is filled with royal or4on. nances : one. of these relates to the new organization of the gene-d'armer. PARIS, JULY 17. • The King is better to-clay than he was yesterday ; he was pot at mass however, but will be present tq l morrow. The Court, it is said, will be removed t Fontainbleau in October. In future all persons in public offices will be paid quarterly, instead of monthly, as formerly : this, it is stated, will diminish the expense of the Pay Ofacs Department. Letters from Rome of the 41 June, announce, that Cardinal Maury had arrived there, but was expressly' prohibited from presenting himself at the Palace of the Pope. Nothing is rnovgn as to his future desti l nation. DIJON, JULY la. The King of Prussia passed through our city on Sunday last, under the name of Count Ruppin. He was accompanied by his two sons, and they took the route of Switzerland. According to new arrange. menu the King Will arrive at POWAIG on the 2lst instant. Last night his RoyalHigliness the Duke of SUE= put five questions to Lord Ltvlaroot. respecting the present situation of the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALL& We cannot but infer, from the whole procedure, that a degree of superintendance, to which some may be inclined to give the name of restraint, is at present exercised over her Royal Highness. The contrary was so confidently asserted atter the removal of the Princess to Carlton House, that we believed it, an 4 in consequence stated, that no impediment existed to her intercourse with those with whom she might wish to communicate. It would appear, however, that the fact is not pre. cisely as we stated it ; and therefore, without mean: ing, however, to express any 'pinion on so delicate 4 question, we have thought it our duty to give as . inn and accurate a report as possible of the proceedings . in the House of Peers last night, for the information of our Readers. We are not prepared to say, on the one hand, that in the case of t► e . presumptive heir to the Crown ao direction or superintendance should be exercised, even after attaining the years of the Prin • cess : nor, on the other, io allow that, in the case of the presumptive heir to the Crown, the people have no more concern than in that of any private family. —We think that no sober-minded person will 4EOI either the one or the other. It should, however; •be recollected that Ministers are accountable for the general management of the Royal Family; and such responsibility existing [let litho will deny it] the public should be slow to . believe that any undtle degree of restraint can be exercised over the Princess CtrAttl e OTTE. Report states, that the Duke of Sussex having re. quested to see her Royal Highness had been refused ; ,tnd that in this refusal his notice of last night of his intended motion originated. If so, the discussion, when it comes on, will lead to some explanation, r the declaration of some principle on which a mot correct opinion may be formed th.til on any thing ye bet ore the public. It willhe seen from Lard Cum:mean% speed , c in the Howse of Cuuinionb,. iaovertinienthaVe milted the sentence of the Pillory on Lori Coet4toAna. reR ,, .!, . i.• tied •1,0 .k.Xt iviAtch.-11it.s 1..••41.• We had ao fresh amvals of Wheat this tiitirathg, sad VIA was left over cf tine quality tram hlondity's marl , t sold at Ilse same prices as %vete obtainable, bqt there Ia no dirnand for nv • tier sorts. Harley 1. Is. per quarter dearer, ow:- to the se.olt nes' of our supplies. Oats ale Is. per quartet c.caper, ►Sinn la. ge arrivals both of Ltigluh and foreign. In white articles t bare 11. 11U 4141•611U11. LONDON; Printed by Laval. KtwT , Ptelittt Merl rAilsbed ald IbilbfUlbe9.Tecayle Da.