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This da) was published, in 12rno. price Ss. 6d. bound, AN ABRIDGMENT of UNIVERSAL HIS- 1 TORY, adapted to the use of Families and Schools; bring divided into portions calculated for each day's learning ; to which are annexed sr. propriate questions for the Instructor. . By the Rev. H. J. KNAPP. Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orinf., Paternoster-tow ; C. Law, Ave-Maria-lane; J. Harris, St. Paul's Church-yard; and Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch,,street. FOREIGN INPELLIGENCE. BAYONNE, JAN. IL Accounts have been received, that the corps.of Ge neral Suchet his advaneed, into the kingdom. of Va lencia; and taken a positio n at Stigerbei, eight leagues from the capital of that kingdom. It is added, that there had been some disturbances in the city of Va lencia ; the issue of which was not known. Troops of every description continue to pasithrcmgli without intermission, for Spain. This morning the 26th regiment of the line, 3600 strong, eontinuedtheir march, after being inspected by Generat Heiiouville. The utmost dispatch is used in completing the ma gazines of provisions for the reserve. Great quanti tities of ball, howitzers, forges, and "military stores of every kind, continue to pass in this direction. Letters from Bourdeauz mentidn the arrival there of several battalions of fuzileers of the imperial Guard. It is supposed they will remain in the environs of that city, until after the passage of the Bth corps. Between 6 and 800 dragoons have arrived here to by rem° li lted. They escorted a great number of prisoners. PAR!, JANUARY 24. - - P4RLI.4II4EIVr4Itr .PROCZEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 2. - INprA AFFAIRS. 'Mr;PETIR MOORE observed, that be had waited sr days in unclean; expectation that sort* otVc ial coman , -' - have been made to the House. the ... . *4.the. CHANCELLOR of the ExcuMusit, ,rind - Sirs 'AWN TGOAtEitY, spoke in favour of the nomi- Vready made, : -1 . LUSHINGTON rose and said, it would ill afkome him-to speak of his own qualifications for the arduous office to which he had the honour of being --- ----- critical and .ave beeu ~ upon very , ing rate of India affairs : and seam now in his place an Honour able Gentleman ivlio was a Member of the Board of Controul, he desired to be informed whether it was intended to revive in this Session the Committee up stairs upon India affairs ? Mr. WM.LACE answered in the affirmative. Mr. 13ANKS presented his Bill for perpetuating the Act of the 48th of the King, for restraining the Crown from granting places in Reversion--Read the first time, and ordered for the second reading on Monday. Lard COCHRANE gave notice of a motion, on Monday, for a Copy of the Oath administered to the Members of Courts Mar tial, by the Judge Advocate. Mr. WHAR I'ON moved for a return of the Exchequer tills issued last year, and now outstanding and unprovided for ; atm) the debentures on 3 per cent. annuities ; together with an 'Ac count of the Surplus of the Consolidated Fund for the last year. Ordered. The Committee of Supply was further deferred until Wednesday, and the Order of the Day read for the House to resolve into a Committee of Ways and Means. The SPEAKER having left the Chair, Mr. W.: SMITH rose, and addressing himself to Mr. Lee; the Clerk, said, he wished before the House should resolve into the Committee, to call its atten tion to a proposition which he felt it necessary to offer for its consideration. • The SPEAKER said, that although he had left the Chair in order to the House resolving into the Committee, it was not regular in this case to address the Clerk upon any subject which the Hon. Member might-wish to submit to the House. The regular mode would be for the Speaker to resume the Chair, to receive his proposition. Mr. SMITH thanked the Right Honourable Gen tleman for setting him right, as to the point of order; but he felt it necessary to rise, as the object he had in view was, to propose that a different Geatleman should fill the Chair of the Ways and Means, from the one who had recently acted in that capacity. The SPEAKER then took the Chair, and said it would be for the Honourable Member to call upon the Gentleman whom he meant to propose, by name, and move that he take the Chair ; and then the ques tion might be put, and the House might decide in favour of the Member it should deem most eligible. Mr. SMITH then moved that Mr. Davies Giddy be called to the Chair. The following is an extract of a letter from Brest, of the 19th On the 10th, at ten o'clock in the morning, eight boats belonging to the enemy's squa dron in the outer road, gave chace to several vessels coming from the southward. Seven were forced to run ashore near Pointe du Chai. The enemy got one of them off, and set fire to the other six. The mas ters of two, however, succeed:rd in extinguishing the flames, and having got their vessels afloat again, brought them into this port. These were Captains Duvaux of the chasse-maree la . Marthe, and Drouil lad, of la Catherine, from Bourdeaux, with a cargo for Manus. The vessel captured is la Felicite de Blare, freighted also for account of Marans. The vessels ht.rnt were the Bougainville sloop of 80 tons, the .leune Emilie of 95 tons, both bound. from Leg horn with cargoes for this port; the galliot Marl- Lorougof 40 tons, bound from LeghorntoNantes; and the Chasse-maree the Passe-partout, from Bourdeaux for ltedon. All the crews escaped in their boats." Iris Imperi.,l Majesty has conferred the title of Baron upon M. de Bo3sy, Prefect of the Department of L'Ain, with an income of 4000 francs, settled up on estates in Hanover. Count Mongelas, Minister of his Bavarian Majesty, has arrived in Paris. Letters from Agen of the 17th inst. mention, that since the Ist of the present month, a great number of Spanish prisoners had passed through Tarbes, Auch, and Montauban, for Autun. There were, in all, 14,000 prisoners expected to march in that direction. Positive orders had been given to prevent any of them from straggling from their respective detachments, and that diey should be quartered in one place, so as to avoid all condtminication with the inhabitants of the towns where they halt, and consequendy-to pre vent the diseases which might result from such inter.. course. At every place on their route, the utmost promptitude is shewn in administering , to them that assistance which is claimed by thei. fatigues and dis- lat on the sth ►f the Natinnal Ind Monte Croce !d.and dispersed endeavouring to Majesty held a The CHANCELLOR of the .ACHEQUER on the other hand, slid he was . not aware until this moment of any objection on the part of the Honour. able Gentleman, or of the House, to the Honourable Member who was already nominated to that situa tion. Besides, this was not the regular stage to make such a motion consistently with the uniform usage of the House. The motion, if inte,nded, ought to have been made upon the question for going into the Corn. mittee of Supply on a former night. Mr. W. SMITH disclaimed any opposition of a personal nature to the Hon. Gentleman whom it had EX pleased his bfait t y's • Chancellor of the Exchequer to nominate to department. But he thought at least, that, in naming to such a situation, some de ferense was due to the opinion of the House, and that , some previous intimation ought to have been given of thename of the Gentleman whom it was in contempla- 1 tion to nominate. Besides, it was at least to be expected, that the Right Hon. Gentleman, in naming a Mem ber to fill a situation of so much importance, should pay particular attention to the qualifications indispen sably necessary to the person who fills such a depart ment It was a situation that did not require a Mem ber skilled in the quickness and volubility of debate ; but it required one who, from long observation and habitual experience in Parliamentary proceedings, as well as matured age and sound judgment, would be competent to impress the Meuse with a confidence in his ability, and a deference for his decisions. But was this, he would ask, likely to be the case with the Gentleman at present nominated ? He meant not to depreciate the . Honourable Member's talents or na tural abilities, but he begged to observe, that a young Gentleman, whose Parliamentary experience scarcely exceeded three. years, if any point of order in pro ceedings should call for his decision from the Chair, was but ill calculated to impress Members of 20 or 30 years standing in that House with a very profound deference for.his authority. During the period which he himself had the honour of a seat in that House, he always understood the principle he had laid down to be the one which guided the House in the choice of a Chairman of the Ways and Means. It had in fluenced the House in that of Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Hob house, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Whar ton. This was the first instance in which the prin., ciple seemed not to have operated. The House had an undoubted right to exercise its own judgment and discretion in the choice ; and for the dignity and re gularity of its own proceedings, ought to choose k Member every way qualified for the purpose, and likely to attach respect and deference to his opinion. It was by this principle the House had been guided in the choice of the Right Honourable Member who now filled the Chair. He was not chosen at random, or merely because he had been a supporter of Mini sters ; but because his long experience, eminent abili ties, and well known application to the knowledge of Ali -*der- proccedinf wen on Sunday and Wagram ; Issano ; on Friday ; and on Sun ellor of the Em and King, ho- NeufchateF, with uncut at the hotel me of hisstables tiling upon some ; and before it e burnt to death. speak in confi. inn of the whole Westphalia. 2.th, state, that the submissive and td resolved not to :r way along the ; but in the Pus almost annihi ips. It was ru. Fected his escape, Vienna ; where, •mitted to remain. ipers, under the rations a report of )osed to make an the new Prince istenburg. The late Vice Presi- Ni at Franckfort, • . Moscow, on the e and Princess of :urn to his capital ,of the Dutch Lc 'sequence of a mes- Session Ex tt aordi obedienco to the the supeefor in daily orders the every description, igen, for the !mir th, Iznperial De- tng the an ears of iniind, Danish passports from . the 1941 with corn. Member, by saying, .alat u.ts cc. not come ;ore them in any form of debate—that it was an ch der which must be complied with, if required to be en. forced. Mr. CROKER gave notice, that on Monday he would move for certain letters, which passed between Sir Richard Strachan and Lord Gardner. Mr, ROSE wished to correct some misrepresenta tions which had been suffered to go abroad respect ing the trade of the country. It had been said that we paid for our trade in bullion ; but nothing could be more unfounded. The rate of our expot ts exceed - - before the House hi an embodied form. r im verz many documents, however, whi c h still migl:t 14 ,, duced. For instance, the original pl an ; t h e measures preparator( to the service : the t-:id tlr : connected with its origin and performance. li e anxious to give all the information which cnuld -clan • nominated; but although he had not the good for-1 furnished relative to his connection with the matter tune to possess the mature age and long parliamen- Inquiry. There were two branches o f that lanuirt. tary experience which the Honourable Member who f i rst, the policy of the Expedition, and next the ‘•(:: introduced this subject thought so indispensable, yet ; formance. The House of course would not ex p . t , his life, so far as it had gone, had been devoted to to receive any of those peculiar details which situations calculated to proniote experience in public ! involve the Foreign Powers with whom we hi.d business, and qualify him for the duties of an office ;in alliance ; but much might still be given. la.: which, with the indulgence and support of the House, ! House might require every thing connected iy;tl l t h e be hoped to be able to discharge to their satisfaction. I state of the army, its power of acting with cife cz • Mr. WHARTON spoke in favour of Mr. Lush-; the particular points referred to, ancithe ington's nomination. ! of our plan for the general benefit of the Empire a tt t I Mr. SMITH rose to explain. He conceived that the Continent. The Noble Mover had noticed, i i,, the qualifications of the Gentlemen who had been ! dry digest of orders, as he conceived it, transmit tt i mentioned might adapt them severally for the office: !to the Commander in Chief. • But, it should be re. but there was one paramount to all others, which, if collected, that the instructions under the Sign Marra not found, the Candidate was decidedly unfitted— , al were always as brief as Untechnical, and as gi that one was, pure impartiality. I t was necessary, ' ral as possible. The Admiralty instructions lind gr re of course, that there should be a certain correspon- more into detail : but. the Admiralty wete a pros -. deuce with Ministers, but no connection, in the man sional Board—a number of men acquainted w i t h t t,, who was fitted for the duties of a.situation attended peculiar practice of the service. His Wiest\ ' s with much weight, increasing in importance, and in- nisters were, as it was to be expected, but genera& fluencing some of the most valuable interests of the , informed on matters of a military nature; and teear country. nical points would not, of course, be found in th e t r H The SPEAKER put the .question, that Mr. Lush- instructions. But still there' was Much valuable ington do now take the Chair of the Committee ; formation to be required— . much was contained in the when it was carried in the affirmative, without a di- i different dispatches -froth- Wakheren and South B e . vision. veland, and much relative to the attack on Arymerp, The House resolved itself into a Committee of which he did not hesitate to admit as the first and Ways and Means, Mr. LUsniNcrrox i n the Chair. prominent object of the Expedition. Before he sat Mr. WHARTON rose to move seve r al Resolu- down, he begged to know of the Noble Lord to dons relative to the Supplies. The Resolutions were which of the divisions of Inquiry he proposed fir a at. received, and ordered to lie on t he Table. The tending—whether to the policy of the Expedi:ion, House resumed, and the Committee were ordered to ; its execution ? report on Monday. I Lord PORCHESTER conceived, that the polity A desultory conversation took place between Ge- could not properly be disjoined from the melanin: neral GASCOIGNE, Mr. MARTIN, and Mr. PONSONST, they were connected with each other, and might to on the propriety of deferring the Resolutions of the ;ether be considered. In the conduct of the Incirirt, Finance Committee, pe;iding the Inquiry into the. Ex- 4 proposed to follow the order of time, and first to pedition. i examine all the proceedings that occurred previously Mr. WHITBREAD hoped that no business would to the embarkation ; then the amount and nature of be suffered to interfere with the great business which ; the force prepared ; then the conduct of the Expedi. they were then about to commence. He also hoped, ; tion, when on service ; and finally all that occurred that there would be no attempt to enforce the stand- , from the capture of Flushing, to the evacuation ing order which had been noticed on a former night. Walcheren. The consideration of policy went The SPEAKER interrupted the Honourable :by side, with every question of the Jntpirv, and la that thi , could befc - them. should not separate t.. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT thought the papers o n the Table' altogether insufficient to the purpose of a:. riving at the only object worthy the feeling, or lahoi; or mind of the House. The printed papers were mi. serably deficient. Where were the letters that passed between the Naval and Military Commanders, and their subordinate Officers? Where were the Jcpcns of those detached Officers to their superiors ? A nar. rative of the general proceedings, a military journal was always kept. Where was that narrative? Why was it not to be found on their Table ? :pot ed that of imports nearly by sixteen millions. The Mr. CROKER wished to know whether it teem export of British manufactures had amount e d to :28 the intention to move for any additional Papers from millions ; and when the returns from the Baltic trade the Admiralty Department. could be produced, the balance would be found to Mr. TIERNEY said, he did not conceive that it reach to 20 millions. The loss of trade with the i was at all incumbent on his Noble Friend to move kr United States would be more than compensated by them, or any other papers*. The House had deter its increase with other parts of America. The trade j mined to go into an Inquiry ; and he appreherakel it with the United States fell since 1808, from eleven i would be competent to the Committee, from time to millions to seven ; that with the. other parts of Ame- time, to instruct the Chairman to move far all such rica had increased from five to sixteen. j papers as might be found necessary in the course c: Mr. HORNER expected, when there was such a the investigation. tribe of officers connected with tfp_t. public disburse- The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER ments, to have obtained somethipg in the shape of a t h oug h t t h e Ri g h t H on . G ent l eman per f ec tly canct regular statement of the prices / of bullion. It was in his latter statement, and that the Chairman m:glit undeniable, that to a certaiff "extent bullion had en- . unquestionably be ordered to move for any papers, tered into our system of trade in a manlier unusual to especially if the course pointed out by his Noble all commercial transactions. He had no doubt that I Friend behind him should be adopted, viz. that of there was still a vigorous spirit—a spirit of strength, • appointing a Secret Committee to consider of such and even of superabundance, in the internal commerce papers as could not without prejudice to the public of the country. No man who had passed through' interests be promulgated, in a Committee of the the interior could doubt it, or avoid admiring the I whole House. He thought such Secret Committc7 nerve with which that most important species of trade . would be very proper, and it was his intention, if the rose up against the idle, meddling, and wasteful folly I House would give him leave, to move himself, ca and narrow expedients of public men. But to think I Monday, for its appointment. that the excess of exports above imports could be per- I Mr. TIERNEY said, considering that the Corn. manent, was childish ; and to assert it, was an impo- mittee for the purpose of inquiry, was voted by the sition on the cdmmon sense of the people. There House against the sense of the Right Hon. Gentle must always be a final equality. The present differ- : man, he was somewhat surprised he should now at ence appeared to him resolvable into the encreased ; tempt to interfere in any of the particular mock; to lx foreign expenditure of Government. But it was of adopted for carrying the wishes of the House into ere peculiar importance that all possible light should be cution. He thought that, on consideration, the Right afforded to the House on such a subject. It was a ; Hon. Gentleman would not be too prompt in comrg time that called for sacrifice ; it was a time that forward in the appointment of Committees. Instead, promised struggle, and neither could be met with of-- ! therefore, of waiting till Monday, he would ode se feet by the nation until all fallacy was taken away in his Noble Friend to move this very night, befcre the statement of their financial concerns. separated, for a Secret Committee, to exam P.a. Mr. ROSE observed, that in the account of exports titular papers ; on which they should make their Re. 1 he had not reckoned any part of the foreign expendi- port to the House. turn. He had restricted himself to the returns of Bri. Mr. CANNING said it was not his intention to tish manufacture. , detain the House more than a few minutes. Fe • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was desirous of preventing any misunderstanding or wished it to be understood, that the Government nee misrepresentation of what he had said on a form er . ...ter pretended to be the sole authors of the commercial n i g ht on t h e su bj ect o f t h e Inquiry, by then stat'"g prosperity of the country. They had merely desired what he really thought respecting it. He had heard to prove that the measures which they had adopted it was by some understood, that he had intvnitted, did not thwart the course of that commerce. He that let the Inquiry turn out as it might, it was concluded by moving, that several papers relative to intention to move for another Tribunal, before whit the iblit is should be laid r the Table. r -thin; haly• I Parliamentary orders and pry,. iings, so eminently ie public account _on , •it might be investigted, There was not,. Ig, , fitted him for that high and arduous situation, and EXPEDITION TO WALCIIELLEN. ! eve r , farther from his, thoughts. What he had said v.— % the House was not disappointed in its choice. But if Lord PORCHESTER said, before he moved that th a t h e was on ly sorry t h e su bject had not been r; tell" such attention was necessary in former days f or t h e Order o f t h e D ay s h ou ld b e rea d, h e thought it to another Tribunal before the meeting of Parli.:mer.. the qualification of a Chairman for the Ways and necessary to call for certain papers, which had not , With respect to th e I nqu i r y into which the Cot' Means in that House, how much more necessary was yet been s ubmitted to the Committee. He could not mittee was now going to enter, he considered it t) it now, when the business of the House was so much conceive that the entire of the papers important to the embrace f our p o i nts . Wi t h re gard to the first, t increased since the Union ; and when the duties had investigation into the conduct of the Expedition had poli c y o f t h e E xpe di t i on , as c omprehending this .! become so arduous as to call for additional remune- been printed. He found among them, in the first in- Co untr y, as to h er re l at i ons w ith other Powers ont.ie ration. For these reasons it was, that he proposed his stance, a short form of instructions for the Comm an - C ont i nent , h e cons id ere d hi mse lf equa lly resPeasibe l Hon. Friend , Mr. Giddy, who had, on many occasions, der in Chief. Was there no more det a iled one ? w i t h a ll t h e ot h er Mi n i sters . Wi t h res pect to the t ir: ' e , acted in the capacity, during the absence of the re. ! Was he left to this dry digest of his orders ? Was of it s d e p arture f rom our po r ts, he also cc nsideteti 6 crular Chairman, and amply evinced his competence there no plan, no succession of objects proposed to himself fully a nd co mpletely responsible. to the duties. the Noble Lord at the head of the Expedition ? Were . As to the execution of the naval and military Flr ts Mr. GIDDY rose, and expressed his thanks to his there no explanatory communications ? He should of the Expedition, though he was r.ot actually resP . ° - Honourable Friend, as well for the favourable opi- on Monday move for those papers. i s t i . ble, W he ith di re tl nion he was pleased to express, as for his good inten . - . Lord CASTLEREAGH was pecularly solicitous not mean m t e o an th e t o policyu in ofa d t i h s c e l : c t iynaict:Lai. cft tions on his behalf. Of those intentions, however, he that all information should be collected. The infor- Walcheren, he could not be considered le.. at 4 11 I .c. declared that he knew not a word until he came into oration on the table was decidedly imperfect. But sponsible. the House this day. He was not at all privy to the the deficiencies were not to he filled up by any_ thing The question was then put and agreed to. ,;,, purpose of his Honourable Friend ; and though he that was to be found in the O ffi ce of the War De- ( Lord PORCHESTER then moved the mderof •-• should be ready at all times to discharge any duty partment. Much of die information on which such' day for the House to resolve itself into a Comm: 'the House should be pleased to impose on him, to the Expeditions were unckrtftken, was not of that species' of the whole House, to enquire into the W.114- 11 t• best of his ability, he h a d yet no wish nor intention which - could easily be reduced into official forms.—.' Expedition. to have offered himself on the present occasion. i Much gf it was oral ; much connected with things 1 On the question that the SmArit should leav e ' After some further coaversation a in which Mf. and persons that could not, with propriety, he brought chair being put) lI4IG W. 14.1. 11111, ...MAW. 6114.4 c v o e u n r t .e th . e disea t wic every p h la h might resu ce on lt It r ro f u n promptitude is shewn in administering assistance which is claimed by thei. far tresses. • We learn from Pieve di Cadoie, th; December, a body of 600 men of Guards penetrated into Ampezzo.ani in the night time, where they surprised a pant of Tyrolese rebels wbo were et excite insurrection in those quarters. Yesterday, at three o'clock, his b Cabinet Council. A ball and masquerade were give se'nnight by the Prince of Neufchatel ; on Wednesday by the Duke of Bassar by ire Minister a Foreign Relations day last by the Prince Arch Chancel pire. His Majesty, the Emperor a *loured that given by the Prince of ikit his presence, During the entertainrn of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, oni caught fire, owing to a lanthorn fall turaw, in t he absence of the groom ; was extinguished. thirteen horses were 1 Letters from Hanover of the 14th, dent terms of the speedy incorporatin of that country with the kingdom of N Advices from Lindau, of the 12th, interior of the Tyrol is completely s tranquil. A band of rebels, who had surrender, endeavoured to make ther mountains, to the Austrian territory ; tenthal they were encountered, and lated, by the Franco-Bavarian - troop moored that the noted Hoffer had effei and that he was, at the above date, in 1 doubtless, he would not long be permi An article in the German pap head of Franckfort the 9th inst. ment Charles XIII. of Sweden being dispol immediate transfer of the Crown to t Royal, the Duke of Ho's! ein Angus same article says, that Colonel Burr,l dent of the United States; had arrived .on his way to Paris. • The Emperor of Russia arrived at I 18th ult. accompanied by the Prince ,Oldenburgh. He was expected to retu by the 27th. On the 17th the ordinary Session of I gislative Body was closed, in consegt sage from their Sovereign ; and a Sel nary was immedi4tely opened in of .same authority. On the 6th inst. Baron Candras, 'command in Pomerania, notified in c prohibition of the export of grain of et •trom that country, or the isle of Rug :pose of .facilitating the execution of tl Free of the I;th of October, dirktini the war contributions to be levied in yessels, h9yevcr, provided with pas IS/eitch cainsgl i ant permit;e4 4419;0