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~.. A . Motion of the Honourable Baronet, should not cen sent to the attainment of the' same object by - a side wind, in agreeing to thnAmendrnent. He thought the confinement already suffered by theindividaal a sufficient punishment for his offence ; but would not consent to his discharge till he should express contri tion for his offence. The Bill of Rights was not in tended to prevent constitutional meetings, legally convened, for discussing the conduct of public men. He could not consider self-called Meetings as entitled to the same clinsideration as Corporation meetings or County meetings, legally convened by the Sheriffs. He should therefore vote against the original Motion and the Amendment, distinctly stating, that if a. pe tition were to be presented, he should vote for the discharge of the individual. Mr. WHITBREAD was sorry that the Honour able Baronet had brought forward his motion in a shape which, whatever way it. -should be decided, would not attain his object. He could not but agree " that the House had the right to commit persons for a breach of its privileges ; but he must also add, that in his opinion that House very seldom got well out of such proceedings. It was clear that the Hcinourable . Baronet had gone the whole length of denying that that House bad the right to commit any person, but one of its own Members ; for he had put his ergo *tent in the form of syllogism : a Court 6f Record only had such a power of commitment, that House was not a Court of Record, therefore that House had no such right of commitment. He should therefore Vote for the amendment. Mr. CHARLES WYNNE declared his intention to vote for the amendment, because he thought the • confinetnent already suffered sufficient as a punish& went for the offence. • ' Sir FRANCIS BURDETT in reply,recapitulated Most of his arguments. He contended that his ori ginal propositionVias yet unshaken. The point to which he was, anxious to direct the undivided atten tion of the -House was the legality of the sentence of imprisonment by that House upon persons not Mem bers of that House. This had been confounded with the power of committing for contempt:. All Courts had that right, because without it they could not pro ceed in the adMinistration of justice. What was the legal meaning of contempt ? That which throws obstructions in the Way of the proceedings of any Court; is a contempt of that Court ; therefore the privilege of the Court in such instance was.the right of removing such obstruction ; but how were the pro= ceedings oftliat House' a ff ecte, or at least obstruct ed, by a libel ? besides, upon what principle had the House a right to call to their bar, accuse, adjudge, and punish in their own cause ? Law was the per fection of reason ; what was opposite to reason must be opposed to law. He had expected a nruch greater display of constitutional and legal knowledge, from the learned luminaries of the law, than he had. yet heard: Notwithstanding what they had said, he still relied upon the cases he had already mentioned. The Attorney General had in vain relied upon the, case of Ferrons, in Henry VIII. Neither had that' Learned Gentleman '''at all affected the obvious in ferences from the -case of Bridgemen v. Holt, He admitted . that he had called the Ilsitise of Commons the Third Estate. .He had always considered it . as such. The' Government he had always thought to be in the Monarchy—a Monarchy limitecl_by the laws; and if extraordinary poWer was to be given to one of the three estates, he should rather it was invested in the Mostarelly, because the King could do no act. He Whist : Vette his advisers, and those advisers Must bereitoonsible. Chief Justice Martin was asked by - Edward' the Fourth, if lie (the King) could not attest a -- nsan ? The. Judge replied in the negative, because that his Majesty_ could do nothing rs advisers were his agents, and those advisers *ere respOnsible. 'They had heard a good deal of the ietc'Parrtaatentaria. He knew 'of no such law ;at least, of none committed against-the la terra. Magna Chaste was the law of the land ; and if law was founded' upon reason, laws could not be contradictory. 'They had. been applied to, to preserve their dignity. He (Sir Franeis) did not wish them to do any thing that could - hazard it; but he, for his part, thought that true dignity in individuals or bodies, consisted in, the due discharge of the duties of their respective stations, it surely could - not consist in, punishment. The dig airy of punishing, was a dignity that Jack Ketch Might shale With the best of them (a laugh)—but he thought that House ought to trace its pretensions to dignity us another and higher source. He concluded by stating . ; that none of his ' arguments had ,been answereder conceived, and that the authorities he had cited, had not been at all controverted. Mr. SIiERIDAN'S Amendment was then put and ne gatived Withoot,a division, when Thequestion on the original motion being loudly. called for, the gallery was cleared for a division, when the min:tiers Ns-6e Ayes' i'4 —Nc - es 152 - Majority 138. On the roadlncssion of strangers ' we fopnd Mr: FREEMANTLE s on is legs, complaining of a staterdent'that had appeared in one of the Daily Pspers, of arcaidged oversight tha t had been made in the telling of the numbers on the division upon Friday night list, Of overlooking a whole row of /,'embers, to the number of 40; the publication in csestion had not merely stated. this,—it had gone further—it had intimated, that he (Mr. Freemantle) . as one of thelekters, had obsirviiithe error, and had not detected'it. Now, he had only to appeal to those who foie* him, to say if he could he capable of such connivance. He felt toefident, that he and his Honourable Colleague (Mn. etoker)• had done their Any with accuracy ; and however natural or national, the propensity of his Honourable 'Colleague might 1* *ld to be in 'the way of blandeni, he, could answer for hint, that he had been Oil* of maw upon that occasion. Mr. CNER observed, that he should be very happy to te satisfied by a mistake of his, that forty Members' had voted upon his side, more than had' been counted; but unfortunately the matter of fact was agaitittshim, anil he must agree with his Honour able Colleague, that the numbers were told with mornthan usual care, owing to the great numbers present, as indeed had been preliiously agreed on between thetei, . - scuILDT EXPEDITION. Lord' PORCHESTER understanding that the ex iination tit the bar by the Committee, appointed to (dire into the Policy and Conduct of the Expedi o alt-scheidt viouid.4o.3 close, or was likely to • . or remoi ceedings ed, by a House v and ptm fection e be oppo greater c from the yet hears still relic The At case of ] Learned ferenc es admittec the Thir such. be in the and if e of the th in the /s , He int must be by Edv not arri negative —his were res lex Parli of none c was the reason, been am Francis') could ha true dig due disc, it sorely pity of Might a ' thought dignity 1 by stab fairly an he hid Mr. S gatival The 'q called fo the uum On th Mr. I of a rat 1):. pets, in the to Friday 1 l v fnlber rIICStIOR further- -4 its one of not deter who kne connivan Honour% duty wit the prop , .said to I for him, occasion, Mr- C happy tc • Member , been cou was agai able Col more tha present, between Lord . lltninatic 1 moire Ow to is • . , SOMA to a speedy termination, gave notice, that if nothing material should interpose, it was his intention to submit to the House certain Resolutions upon the Evidence, on Monday se'nnight. SLAVE TRADE. Mr. BROUGHAM rose, and adverting to the Re solutions of the House, passed iii 1306, for the aboli tion of the Slave Trade, regretted that although that shameful traffic had been prohibited by this coun try, yet it was still pursued to a considerable extent 1 by the subject. of other count: ies in alliance with us. Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and America, still permit ted that trade to continue, which effectually prevented our laws from accomplishing the ends for which they -were enacted, and he thought the British Legislature ought to adopt every means in their power to induce other countries to promote the same object. Spain was so circumstanced, that if a friendly recommendation I was made to its Government, a result perfectly corres ponding with our wishes might be expected. Sweden had lately been in amity with this country, and he could not think that Government had omitted to re- . commend to that Power to discourage and prohibit a trade so revolting to humanity. The Government of Portugal was also on the most friendly terms with our own, and our influence must be great with it, consi dering the esstnial services which we have always rendered thit country. The American Government •was perfectly willing to co-operate in our design of abolishing the trade entirely, and if any vessels be longing to that country should be found employed in it, he believed the Government would not counte nance theta, if detained by our ships, or those of any other country. .He concluded with moving for copies of all communications made by the Secretary of State to the Ambassadors of foreign nations respecting the abolition of the slave trade, stnce June 1806. , Mr. CANNING gave his hearty concurrence to the motion, and said that the Government of this country had recommended to every power in amity , with-us to adopt such regulations as might prohibit the.continuance of so odious a traffic within the sphere of their authority; but it could not be expected that foreign nations would immediately accede to the wishes communicated to them, considering the extent to which the trade had attained. An immediate adOption of our recommendation could not be ex pected in another country, when the question for the abolition of the Slade Trade had been agitated in England twenty years before it was resolved upon. After a short discussion the motion was agreed to. WAYS AND MEANS. The House then went into a Committee of Ways and. Means, when the CHANCELLOR of the EX . CHEQUER proposed diat.the sum of eight millions should be funded in the Five per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, being the amount of unproviaed-for Ex chequer Bills. .After` some discussion, this proposi tion was agreed to. Lord PORCHESTER postponed the order of the day for the House going into a Committee to enquire into the Expedition to the Scheldt, as the night had -so far advanced; but wished it to be understood, that it should have imecedence of every other order to-morrow. Wednesday next was appointed for the House going into a Committee of Supply, to whom the Ord nance Estimates should be referred. On the Order of the Day for receiving the Report of the Committee of Supply being read, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered, that the Portuguese troops were not to re ceive the same pay as Briusb troops. Mr. NV ILLIAM" SMITH stated, that, from the lateness of the hour, it would be impossible for Gen tlemen to deliver their sentiments at length, and he therefore moved, that the House should then adjourn, but his motion was negatived without a division. After some further conversation between Mr. H. Addington, General Tarletcn, Mr. WhiLbread, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Sheridan, (Who gave notice of his intention, on Monday next, to submit a motion to the House on the conduct of Ministers with regard to Portugal and Spain), the Resolutions were agreed to. The House then went into the Coinmittee of En quiry into the Expedition to the Scheldt. After a short discuision the House resumed.—Lord Castle reagh moved for a Copy of a Letter sent by his Lord ship to Lord Chatham, on the 21st of August last. Agreed to.—The Mutiny Bill was read a third time. The other orders of the day were disposed of. -Adjourned at Three o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH IS. PRICE OF STOCETHIS DAY AT ONE ,OCR . - Cent Cone. for per _ ..... money 6711—ace. _ 4 . Omntuni 11 pre.--.5 per Cent. 97H—Exeheq. 101s11s. pre. 13onds lls. 12s. prem. The dispatches brought by the RATTLESNAKE, the arrival of which from India we noticed yesterday, con firm the in telligence fortnerlyreceived of the establish ment of tranquillity in our Indian Army. A most interesting document, under the title of General Or ders, and containing the names of the offending MEI cers, will be found in our front page. Of these Colo.: nels DovrroN and BELL, and Major STOREY, are to be tried by Court Martial, and the remainder, consisting of a Colonel, two Majors, 13 Captains, and two- Captain-Lieutenants, are to have the option of quit ting the service or of being tried in the same manner. Two Company's officers, Lieutenants ROWLEY and M , Coronot, had also been tried by a Court Martial, and found guilty of disrespectful conduct to Captain CAMPBELL. They were charged by that offit.er with sg coming to his quarters, on the 20th of August, 1809, to acquaint him that they were deputed by the officers of the 21 battalion, nth native infantry, to say that they considered his conduct to belnfamous, and that he was a disgrace to the cloth he wore !" Lieutenant M'CORMICK was sentenced to be cashiered, and Lieu. tenant RowLEY to be suspended from rank and pay for twelve months. Both sentences were however remitted in General Orders, on condition of the of. fending parties apologising to Captain CAMPBELL. The offence taken against Captai CAntrzrAL by I • his Brother Officers, seems to have been oecoslened by his having withdrawn himself from all participa. tion in the steps they had taken to obtain a redress of their alledged grievances. Reports have prevailed since the arrival 'of the RATTLESNAtE, of hostilities having been commenced by some of the native powers against the British terri tories in India ; but we do not find that any Official or authentic information has as yet reached this country on the subject. The general tenor of these rumours is, that 10,000 of the Company's troops were ordered to proceed to the Upper Provinces, in conse quence of KUMMER UD DEEN CAWN having made a predatory incursion from Berar into the British ter ritory ; besides which it is added that the Malicattas were assembling a large force, which was expected very shortly to take the field, without any declara tion having hitherto been made of the object of their preparations. They are saidtohave no less than 40,000 cavalry,and some accounts state that theyhave already plundered several towns, and carried off immense booty. We have no means of ascertaining the accuracy of the above reports, although the following document seems to allude to an act of hostility of rather a serious description, but of which we have na further details. G. 0. BY THE HONOURABLE THE VICE-PRESIDENT IN COUNCIL. . Fort Wil liam, September 19,1809. The Vice-President in Council has received with sentiments of the most sincere satisfaction, the official report of the capture of the strong and important fortified-town of Bhowanie, by the de tachment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Ball. In publishing the &fails of this gallant exploit, the Vice-Presi dent in Council desires to express the high'sense which he enter tains of the zeal, gallantry, and professional skill manifested by Lieutenant-Colonel Ball in the conduct of the important duty committed to his charge, by his Excellency the Commander in- Chief, under the authority of Government, and of the distin guished perseverance, spirit, and gallantry of the Officers and men under his command, by whose energy and valour a fortress of great strength, and defended with desperate courage by a nu merous garrison, hell in the short space of a few hours before the irresistible bravery of the troops. The Vice-President in Council deeply laments the loss of Lieu-' tenant Stephen O'Brien, of the Ist battalion 22d Regiment_ Native Infantry, and of the brave men who have fallen in this sltr shunts and honotirable service; and he indulges.an earnest hope, that Captain Whitehead, and lieutenants Buckley and Hors- Lurgh, hornet flyers, and Ensigns M'Donald and Playfair, and l the Not-ccmniissioned Officers and men who were wounded on this occasion, will soon be restored to the duties of their profes sion. The Vice President in council has particular satisfaction in ex pressing his sense of the meritorious con, uct cf Lieutenant- Colonel Mac Grad: of the 9th, and Major Smlth of the 18th, who conducted the assault; of Captain Mason cf the Artileryt Captain Houstoun of the 6th Native Cavalry, and Captain Skinner of the Irregular Horse; and in repeating his high appro• bation and applause of the conduct and bravery-of tke whole of the. Officers and men of the Corps employed on this service. The _Fort William country ship, arrived at Ports mouth yesterday—Sailed from Bengal 12th October, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope 2.5 th December ; sailed from thence 3d January ; arrived at St. Helena about the 12th January. The Fort William on the 4th November, in lat. 3. S. spoke the extla ships Sarah Christiana, Sir William Pultenel, and Lady Lushington, outward-bound. ' Captain BRENER, of his Majesty's ship RATTLE SNAKE, on the 7th November last, in lat. 2. S. spoke the United Kingdom, in company with the Windham and Charlton outward bound. The extra ships Gene ral Stuart and Unicorn, and the country ships Warren Hastings, Boyne, and Providence, arrived at the Cape' of Good Hope the 24th and 25th December. The Austrian Messenger, whose arrival we mew tioned yesterday, is reported to have brought an offi- I cial notification of the intended marriage of the Arch duchess MARIA LOUISA, and an offer on the part of the Austrian Monarch to mediate between Great Bri tain and France, for the restoration of Peace. 1 ..4 ' It is also reported, that to hasten the acceptance of this mediation, a hint has been thrown out that in the event of delay, Hanover will be annexed to the king. dom of Westphalia. We sincerely wish that, no ar: rangement. may ever restore that country to a situa- - tion which would expose the inhabitants to new clan 'ger% whenever the French Sovereign might be in clined to inflict a wound on Great Britain, This Country, or its Sovereign, should hold no territory whatever placed beyond the power of British pro tection! By the packet which brought the Austrian Mes senger, letters were received from Hamburgh to the 24th ult. and from Heligoland to the Bth instant.— French troops were crowding into the Hanse Towns, for the• ostensible purpose ) as we stated yesterday, of enforcing - commercial restrictions, but some suppose that the real object is either to seize upon Denmark, or to prepare for a conflict with Russia. P, Paris Papers to the 6th instant came to hand last night. It appears that Etmatts, the Viceroy of Italy, is to receive some compensation in consequence of the marriage Qf NapoLams, the Grand Duchy of Frankfort being given to him and his male issue after the death of the Prince Primate, the present possessor, who had previously nominated, as his successor, Car dinal FESCII, and which nomination NAPOLEON has, without any ceremony, annulled. A letter of the 224 ult. from Gibraltar, states that the Exchange havingrisen to 40 per cent.'no business was doing but for money, and that the stock of Man chester goods on band is immense. The subjoined letters Qf the 23d and 14111: are extreme inVartant, 174 _ ,ney iments, whatever tL y were which' prevented the admis s i on of British troop into Ceuta, have been removed. " GIBRALTAR, FEBRUARY 2e. " English troops are now leaving this port for Ceuta. The Commander of that fortress had applied to our Governor fur pro. visions, and 500 barrels of flour have been sent to him. " The Janta of Cadiz ordered accommodations to be provided for 4000 families ; and to this mandate the Spaniard in command replied, that he could not receive theta for want of provisions. — Notwithstanding this notice, the families in great numbers pr o . ceeded thither, until they were in danger of a famine." •46 r te . 24. e..- We can discern from hence the British tr oop landing under the batteries of Cent a." ..~ _ AVe have also letters from Cadiz, not later tha n some before received, but more minute in their de. tails. The one which we subjoin will be found in. teresting : u CADIZ, 22. " It is the opinioh of General Stewart, as well as cf stay British Officer conversant in engineering, tlaat this place is Im pregnable. "'We reckon our army to amount to 21,700 mer, of Kph 16,500 are Spaniards, 4000 English, and 1,200 Puntquezp. " Oar supplies of provisoes are ample and our tank •,t z li.iird with water. " Our population, usually 60,000,1 s increased to 160,000, a: d yet we are all healthy. " The first attack of the French must be made on the land side by the Isle de Leon, at a point about CO English miles twin hence. The entrance to the Isle is upon a high road or eausew:y which will scarcely admit four men abreast, and it is defended oa both sides by batteries, mounting each eight 12-pounders. " The road is Intersected by trenches hiled w;111 water fri the small rivulets, and on the borders of the causeway arc dykes or fosses. Further inward is a trench 200 feet in bread:ll, o , kt which was a bridge which is now dcstrojed.—The other pass by the bridge called the Puente de Suaza (likewise destroyed) is dr. fended by a series of batteries, each of atm mounting ab.•ut fidelity 32-pounders. Such are the obstructions the french Dave to• overcome before they can. approach within six miles of Cadiz, after which they have to encounter a, shccesslon of most tremen dous fortifications, which it seems to be the excess of rashness to venture to oppose. " At the-distance I have just mentioned commences the works called La Cortadura, or the Intersection, extending acress the Isthmus, where, besides mortars, upwards of forty pieces of ar tillery are to be mounted. Thirty-five pieces already occupy that situation. These entrenchments, which appear calculated to be come ibe grave of the besiegers, if passed, will remove the attack to the town itself, which can only be assailed by regular approaches. " The most accessible point of the Isle of Leon is by the road of the Castle of St. Peter, raised at the mouth of a river of the sante name, which station can be defended from the sea and 27 gun-boats are now at anchor beneath it for that purpose . " The British tars are actively employed in firing away at the forts of the enemy in Port St. Mary, to prevent him from mounting the guns on the batteries which were spiked previous . to his entrance. " A Spanish ship of the line, of 64 guns, manned by Briti.h seamen, is peppering away upon the Cuna de Trocadero, where the French are endeavouring to erect mortar batteries, which, if completed, will prove of great annoyance to the shipping. " The two British frigates from Vera Cruz have Dollars. jointly brought for the King to the value of - 2,675,210 4 For private Individuals -2,231,70 S 0 Composing a total of . - 5,900,918 4 ARMY.—A reduction of the Home Staff wia im. mediately take place. All Officers holding Regimes. tal Commissions with Staff appointments, are to be put on half-pay : and in future no Officer will be al. lowed to be on the latter whilst on full pay of the former. This step will not only produce a consider. able saving to the country% but must likewise give very great satisfaction to the Army in general.—The allowances of forage, coals, candles, &c. Sic. are to be thoroughly investigated, in order to detect, and at the same time correct the great abuse and glaring partiality that pervades the distribution of them in the different Staffs; at almost all the-depots in this country. Sir HARRY BURIIARD is to be removed from the London Staff. Yesterday Lieutenant-Colonel BROWNE set off for Portsmouth, to embark for Portugal, on his return to the allied army. We are.glad to observe, that in the new Code of Medical Regulations, justice is done to that most sci entific class of officers, the Physicians to the Army, to whom the door is now open for promotion, the same as to the other class of officers. The 13th Light Dragoons, the Ist Foot, and 82d Regiments, sailed front Portsmouth on Monday, for Lisbon, with the. trade for Portugal and the Mediterra nean, but have not succeeded is. getting farther than Yarmouth Roads, in the Isle of Wight. Several of the transports have indeed returned to. Portsmouth to get watec.for the horses belonging to the Dragoons, most of which have been embarked three weeks. DEAL, MARCH 12.—Arrived the ECHO sloop of war with a French privateer, which she captured yes terday afternoon, after a short chace, off Dieppe. — Came down from the River the Tobago, Mersey, Delaford, Admiral Gambier, Renewal, and Juno, ' and remain with the outward bound.—Wind S.W. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Neptune (2) tender, from Dublin, with new-raised men and volun teers for the Navy.—Sailed the Earl Spencer hired cutter, with a convoy of SO sail of merchantmen and transports, for the Downs ; the Deptford Dock-yard lighter, with a cargo of shipwrights, for Portsmouth; and the Portia East-Indiaman, for the River. YARMOUTH, MARCH 12.—This morning sailed the BIWIZER gun-brig on a cruise. Arrived the WRANG LER EDGAR from Sheerness, with supernumeries for the ExiciAß ; the Jean, (of Scotland) Ater. BLACK, master, laden with wreck timber and plank, taken by a French privateer, retaken off Hasbro' by the MAGNET sloop of war—the crew were all taken out, and put into the priv-4teer ; also, a large bark, laden with deals, taken by a French privateer, and retaken off Goree by the Quin= frigate. DIED. On Sat ere 07 the 19th instant, at Medan, In Kent, the Lady of T. W. Payler, Esq. 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