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* 0 • * -4 . 4 Z• (1'• e:* FRIDAY, DECEMBER 181 •MN 7sfi t ,i,. l ' .11 7 i 4 • F • 41- i•IN . • • ••i "' • c, 0441 0 r \ NV . \ n s • , 0. . _ _ Alt ;* • NUMBER 8658. PRICE S I 3ePINCE-11ALP/PEN NY. ADM RALTr-OPPICI, Nommelier 10, 104. °TICE b heroh gem, That a Swim of Ogor ad Tereeiaer wed Goal De;evny, /kr the Trial ef °feasts commifted 0 ,, the ffl2h Seal, Within theist isdistirs oftke Admiralty e llaslased, mill be he at Artier Hall, ea the Old Balky, Lobito, ea Tue3dayi eke 13th of December mat, at tisk o'dmi is the samesises. O • J. W. CRICBII. CHARTER-HOUSE. HE ANNIVERSARY MEETING of the NO BLEMENN and GENTLEMEN educated at CHARTER HOUAE SCHOOL, will be held on MONDAI, Dtc. 14. STEWARDS. ,Lord Tuna Low Ronal. Wst. HAT Esq. Rev. Um IS C.7111.1LY I Rev. C. ROWLATT 'JAMES CAZINOVIC, Esq. Rev. JOHN FISIIII. PREACHER —Rev. Causes RICHARD FANSIRAWI6 Divine Service will begin at Half-past One &Clock. Dhow on Table at Pive,o'Clook. BANK OF ENGLAND. ~.,.. Yesterday a General Court of Proprietors was held at the Bank. The Minutes of th a t bst Court Iz u isiz been read, which signified that thriNvidend be 45. 10s. The CHAIRMAN said, It would be recollected, that in 1808 a loan of three millions had been granted to Government without interest, which was to continue till the .sth of April, 1815, or till• six months after st* , peace. In consequence of the peace this loan would become payable on the 13th instant. Mr. Vansittart had, however, applied for a continuance of it till the sth of April, 1816, reserving to himself the right of the public to the balances and deposits in the hands of the Bank. Mr. Mittaasti then said, the Directors had resolved that the same shoultfbe complied with, if it met the approbation of the Proprietors. Mr. Ho*a wished to. hear Mr. Perceval's letter read, which being complied with he said,he admired the candid manner in which Mr. Perceval had made his application, and which had been so closely copied by Mr. Vansittart. He aeproved the Resolution of the Directors, but must express his hope that the loan would not be extended beyond die sth of April, 1816. Mr. Raman (the Deputy Chairman) observed, that the balances were not diminished. • Mr. Swann said, he could not approve of the Re solution. It might be prudent tor the Bank to assist the Government on great emergencies, but it was a serious matter to become the Bankers of Government by paying for that honour i 11150,000 a year. Mr. FARNANT said; he undentooi there was ano. ther loan of three millions ; and begged the Chairman to inform him whether the first was to be paid off, or both were to continue? The Chairman said, the first loan was actually in a course of re-payment. Mr. SisseoN said, he thought the Proprietors oufI l i: to have known'why they were called together. present notice wasp unquestionably, very detlClent - ; and, as the Proprietors placed the greatest confidence in the Directors, he thought they were in courtesy bound to shew some regard to the feelings of their Constituents, and when they called them together to *action their resolutions, not leave them antirelY in the dark as to what they, were to approve, or disaio prove. He hoped the Direftors would in 'future. eon• descend to be a little mare explicit, aed iu their no tices give so much information on the subject, as not. to 1. ave the Proprietors entirely in the dark. discasofc observed, that the propcsiiion was not to lend Government three millions of their capital,, but that, floating balances, formerly in the hands of' tjie eublic.cifficers,. being now by the Act of Parlia ment paid iuto the Bank, the Bank bad agreed,' in. ;MS, to lend to G• Iverument, in consideration of each influx, three millions; and the present proposal' was to extend. that loan open the same gratuitous If/His until April,' 1816. The first qtreition there- fore, was, whether the average amount of such floating balances NUS so considerable as' to justify the proposed Loan! This was a question which coulU oaly be answered by the Directors, as they only were privy to chose statements which must de termine i t . I t a pp ea r e d, from Mr. Perceval', letter, that their amount was . then twelve minims, and frog that, of, the salt Chancellor of the Exche quer, that tba. vitas now as much ; and 11 he had uuderstood.the rat; *Governor peitectly right, such was his admit, But while he wished Geo• tleuten not-to:cciaside aan advance from their Ca- BAAL on the one hand, wished' them ilsci on the other not. to regord it'AS a transient a c commodation to Government. Mr. Percev4l and*Mr. Vansittart had, in the most open, expficit,:and . manly, mime declared, that while. the Bank continued to receiVe• those ha. they, espi.sl an adequate return' to cpublic:Whether or no the average amount was mare, or less, he thought they shoulduot at the pre sent moment deal. with 'Government by too nice, a rule. It was true, diat'accoeding to the letter of the law, the contract . wathe l ialy at an end, and Mr. Van stunt Lad so treated it; but no man would sly, that according to the spirit of -the coatract, which was founded upon theesigenciee cf war, it did suit stilt continue; his (Mr. Jackson's), !fish, theref4rei was, that thi:ir vote should not be owe of cold concession, I.ut a cheerful determination to give to Government trery possible support, inthe. pecks:nen; in which ti.ey stood. The. Chairman put the qyestion on the resolution,, when a Proprietor begged to ask, it some conversa ono had not. taken place. relative to the Bank Re- tatiction Act, at the meeting be.tatten Mt. Vansittart and tiie two Chairmen, and what WAS the. tendency of the conversation? Mr. HoAne observed, that what passed at that, ding cooktiot be a proper subject for the present tiug to coasider. Mr. Mraaasu then read the Resolution of the Di rectors, continuing the Loan of Three Millions to Governme nt fo r aao tb e r year, from sth April, 1815, which was agreed to nnaninsously.—The Court ix,' Taeaiately altsterassis adjourned/ PALIAMEATAir riivcEzialt#. nes: to appease. 'rbe regulations respecting the fisheries were another subject of ill will on the part of America, and were no less incompaible with the id terms of this country, which Appeared tobe carrying on the war merely for the - of aggrandizement. , the Promissory Notes Suspension, tha Neural Bagqing,'the Foreign Colonial Ships, the East India Goods, the sigh Glue Duties, the Irish Woollen Importation, ind the Irish Spirits Warehousing, Bills. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a Bill for introducing Into the Laws of Scotland the Trial by Jury in civil cases, which *as read a first time, and ordered to be printed. The Earl of EGREMONT said, that unless, •as he hoped, tome other Noble Lord would anticipate him, he would, soon after the recess, move for an Address to the Prince Regent, re: sating that the Minutes of the late Con ct-martial on Colonel , together with the Sentence and consequent Proceedings, bid before the House. FORISIGN NEGOCIATJONS. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE, adverting. to the notice which he had given, regretted that circum itancea had occurred which induced him to waive, or the present, his purposed motion. Every circum twice had tended to convince him of the necessity of an. enquiry into those matters to which he had called the attention of their LOrdships; but when he per ceived the very thin attendance, he felt hiMselicorn-, peUed to postpone it. He had flattered himself that ' the magnitu4saLtbe question would have induced Ap adequace.as: mothlage. He• had, 'however, been , .Feiptiointed. rut triough he shoUld not then enter et &r ms. into the subject, he could not refrain, in his Own !unification, from stating.brielly that he intend. ed to move an humble Address to the Prince Regent, tapressive of the hope which that House fslt, that under his Royal Highness's Government the re sources of this country had not been applied to sub sidize Sweden, for the purpose of subduing the gene rOu.s tpirit of a brave people, and starving them into a surrender of their liberties and independence.— That the engagements which had been entered into with the Eine of Sicily and Naples were not so ut terly contradictory as that one of them should have been subsidized to enable him to make a hostile at tack upon the other ;that no sanction had been given to the transfer of Saxony.; and that the British Go ' 1 vernment were not participators in any measures cal culated to oppose theinidependence of Poland. That no lure of false ambition, or acquirement. of nett territory, should induce . a British Minister to make undue sacrifices in bivour'of Hanover, who. after all 'that could be doni in that way, would never be able to resist an attack from her more powelftd neigh bours, while it would have a perpetual tendency to this country, on her account, in continental: wars. He would further add, an humble suppliel. tion to the Prince Resent, that he would' pleasito• recall to the minds of his Ministers the Declaration made by the Allied Powirs on their entering Paris. IL thpp appeared that the illustrious Confe#racy was beat on repressing injustice, anal on its securing, on a new and solid loundation, the blessing! oi'' Ream; fmedorn, and indepeude,nce to all misnentoil,, Usish was the substance of what he had intemied to larinj, before the House that' day. He thought the subject. worth the serious. attention of the lestslature ; and' he should, soon after the recess, taring the subjet ' , e.gat , e antore the House. . Lord GRENVILLE expressed regret that a Mo tion of such importance could nut be discusteil ; and intimated that he should oppose the Motion intended ;to be made for Adjournment. The Earl of LIVERPOOL thought it tutneces. HOUSE OF LORDS, DEC. 1. Royal Assent was given by Cannily'lon to the 14,500,000 the Etchequer lh Aldi, the M.h Peace Ptesertation • . s- ...silk. : purpose , These were pressing points for the consideration ofl Parliament, and while they presented themselves bey could not consent to an adjournment of so unusual a length. 4-,, The Earl of LIVERPOOL could not forbear taking notice of some parts of the speech of the Noble . Earun. . Many considerations must, as the Noble e4rd had obeffved, have reference to the external re lations; and 'with that view it was, whether with re gard to America, or to the general affairs of Europe, that he thought the public interests would be best consulted by the adjournmeet he had proposed ; and the Noble Baron, if he bad given himself the trouble to recollect, would have found that the term of ad. journnsent was by no means unusual. He should not then eater at large into the various topics introduced by the Noble. raor4 ;00nk, r e could not avoid a •:' , e. t6erice to ivhat had been saidnn the subject of public credit—he meant the suspension of call] payments at the Bank. It was an act dt fearful consequence no doubt—it *as an act, however, in which the Noble Baron had the credit of participating ; an act to which, not only the credit, but the ultimate safety of die country was really owing. It was founded on necessity, .nd only necessity could justify it. His Lordship begged explicitly to disclaim, on the part of Government, any idea.of deferring the consideration of the various important topics to which the Noble Lord had alluded. He felt that most, if not aft of them, required serious discussion ; but he felt that this was not the dm., consistently with the sense he enter tained of the prosperity of the country, and its con nections with ocher Powers, to answer the questions which bad arisen respecting plans of spoliation: and 'aggrandisement. With respect to the maintenance et a British force on the Continent, he did not hesitate 'to avow that it was kept N.') for the advancement and security of objects in which. the real interests of the . tonntry were mere concerned than in any other, with the single exception of internal safety. With regard , to the Negotiations then going . on, they were so in terwoven and complicated, that it would be extremely difficult to allude to ohe specific object without in ' (tieing-others in tte consideration. for the conduct tersued by Ministers throughout the negociati ins, he ad only to observe, that th ey were perfectlY aware 1 t their great responsibility, and he entreated the use to do them the ' justice of s believing, that they tile, at the proper peribd, be ready . to meet every barge which might be preferred against them, and justify the whole of their proceedings. One impu tatton called', losvever, fore clear and decided denial, and he deemed it his duty to declare, that; at - no mo. mein. had the Coveenzttenrcirthis country - entertained any idVa• of aggrandisement at the eel:Rosa. of other Wwiti. 'ire - as zed` merely welt we` Wad' A right - to ask, suid - Whirtias strictly accordant with our means, our vieuis . ,.otiritlits, and our security. He enereat "ett their Loidsitipitta reflect that the great questions 'at issue were - not tube canvassed one by one, but that they ought - to be viewed' as a whole, in order to form a• far ground-work fbr the decision ot Parliament, 1 and when die roper season shottlct present itself he small ink Artnk fmm any enquiry which nfght be ',uted; His' Lordship crmcluded by declaring he ty Lek illrb Ad nor proposed tt,„ adjournment under and hitith of personal convenience, but under an impres bibn that it would' be inconsistent with the stint of Ministers, as well as with • die best - interests of Grro and'her Allies, to enter intb au's' discussion. Lap under the present circumstances, to troable their Lordships with more words than barely to,, move—" That the House do then adjourn to the 91h 4 ,of February." • - • Lord GRENVILLE objected to the Moticn, . __ __ _•..., to e 5.... ....___ especially as no reason whatever had been .urgea' i n :asitifour theriecesiary grourttli; camel andifibtiaoes by which their conduct had• been directed, being fully answer to the statement made by his Niibl..: IPriead ,t ( Lord Donoughm a ore). Their Lordships sboure- known. eda llect under what circumstances they had' been cal. The Duke of SUSSEX was ready to admit, that peculiar allowance was to be made at the present ex dto meet. And though the peril of that time ap peared to have been removed, let l e vital importance still remained. He alluded to the uthei points of ariordirsary crisis for what had fallen from the . Noble Earl, and he felt real satisfaction at that part of his . speech which assured the House that the Govern-, recent proceedings, not only'on the Coritinetif, but.in America. It had been said that a vet must smite- merit had not been influenced by any views of aggran- , ;times be thrown over the acts of Govan mem . B ut idisement. But while Ministers refused to enter into .explanations, he was justified in maintaining that if .a v,eil were necessary to disguise our (()reign pro- 401 , ceedings,atone should cover our internal situation.— - - Noble Lord was at full liberty to express his -- , :Theintertot of the merchant, the mechanic, the agri- ' ' and feelings on the grand and leading points avitich Were publicly known to be at issue in the pen. cultuxist, and the landholder, required the immediate • jog- negociattons. It was, however, rather remark ntention of Parliament, to prevent , the evil* whiali • • )e, that whilst the conferences were protracted, this !threatened them all. In such a condition of things country should be called'up.on, according ta the treaty at was the duty. of Parliament . to interlere with us i of peace, to restore colonies within the period of three ,wisdom and authority. Upon the question ofeislolic Credit, and the Circulation of our Currency, there and six months. He could not help o b ser vin g , th at on the treaty of Sweden, by which the island of Goa- could only be one opinion of its magnitude. Was it tharou‘der these pressiug fir- daloupe was ceded to that power, the aboon of the ;fit, said his Lordship, Slave Trade was, according to the 4th article, made icumstances, the Parliament should' adjourn, merely an express and positive condition ; and yet, when the for the convenience of Ministers ? The Sinking Fund had been the stable and the only hope of redeeming colony was restored to France, that stipulation wa s altogether lost sight.of. The rnociations,.unques !public credit; yet that sacred source had profaaely !anti shamefully , been viatted. -n it measures lately amiably, involved many objectsthe highest impor- pursued by Ministers had not only thwarted the tance. Among these objects were, Portugal, Si c ily, W !efficient operations of that measure, but"had loaded Saxony, and Poland. ith respect to Sicily, he should only express a hope that an old ally of ours the country with &debt which nothing, he feared, would .be able to rempve. He would Instance the would not suffer, in its most valuable possession, on aecountof its steady fidelity to tot and 'with regard maintenance of 75,000 troops on the Continent in a time of profound peace; a o, ae h ot was worse, t h ose to Poland, he had at all times, and • did at that filo.' s anent, consider it as an object dearest to his heart; and troops were likely to be ensislo/pd;not for thareedam. dearest- to the noble' and (Notified • feelings of this •of the Continental States, but 'their enslavement.:— country, which had never consented to the unjust par- With respect to America, the war'aikain.st that eolith . tationazit'its territory. He sinterelttrussed that some try preceding its separation frOm thoi, was thought plan would be carried into effect, calculated to confer smpolitic. 'What must it be at present, when Atnea r sodependenct • and happiness upon theodistracted and ica is of more than double its. lousier force ? 13ut,. oppressed people of thareotintry, andthat, while the putting the comparative forces out of the question, negodiations were contitmed, 'the spiritolthe great every thing which had been urged by this couuuy Sobieski, one of its ancient sovereigns, wtstsld influence against America WAS impolitic and wrong. • No th ing the Comical Of the Sovereigns . of Europe. and rteal ; icould be more impolitic, unjust, or extravagant, than to their minds, that his gallatttintarposition and erer the demand that A neutral independent State should tions had routed the Turks e tf lo ttanywalls of Vienna, be established fox the Indians, intermediate to the and driven theft front the English and American possessions. The evil curse. of 'Germany. • queaces were obvious. Without any possibli benefit, The Earl of 1)0 HS/ORE opposed the 'sea hither to America or England, the neutral territoryy i° oll mont- He attention of the House to would become a receptacle for desperadoes from al ..o•actual state She caftan"; t 6 its heavy taxation, pod its agsaeidtural wants, - all- of *Mel) required countries. That proposition was inevitably calcu- I laud to outrage d os fte ii 2n ., yr : lkb it was our b a g, . prompt and'silutary re al Mt' COlatitit 1111 4 OF saver of Ministers to every question and 411 every sub. jest was, " this is not the proper time, for Congress Is deliberating." Whether the enquiry related to finance or to agriculture, the reply Was—it must de pend dpon the deliberations of Congress. This was letting thC eat out of the bag, and in fact stating, that they were ignorant of what Was passing and of wit.tt was intended, and had no communication to make. The manner in which money bills passed was most ettraordinary. They were hurried over almost with ont notice. The House was not even lighted up, and frequeSttly had more the appearance of the hall of the Inquisition than of a Sitting of a British Parliament, from its gloominess and from the little publicity with which its proceedings were conducted. The Noble Earl had observed, that this was the usual period of adjournment, no former period was, however, like the• present—thecountrybAd never been in such a conjunc ture; and therefore no argument could be founded on precedent. He was sure that the Noble Earl would mat assert that within his recollection there had existed a crltfr*hen the exertion of the greatest aca tivity arid wisdom was so necessary as at present...-. He was well aware hob; vexations it was to Ministers, who were occupied in parcelling out kingdoms, and. assisting in the depositions of Sovereigns, to be found to descend to such trifling subjects as the finances and agriculture of this country. It was, therefore, the more necessary for Parliament to be ready to give advice and stimulate them. If there was no other reason, hisslaistd wish for the continuance of the bit. ting of Parliament, if it were only to enable Ala lusters to profit by the etperience and talents cf his I Noble Friend, which could not but be highly . useful 'to them, ai well with respect to diplomatic affairs is CO general subjects. Was it set necessary that the great Council of the Nation should be sitting when titrch great changes were taking place on the Conti , nefft—when dectaratioas of Sovereigns of the most 'Momentous import, might be expected—when it was 'asserted that a Monarch had been dethroned, with the consent of Great Britain ? The King of &ulna' 'had not only been fo: ci?ly deprived of his cr own, but orders had been issued that he should nut in fu ture be prayed for in the churches. No able peliti. clan—no honest Englishman could consent to r h e a ' apoliations which were rrojectcd. The consequences . of them would be a disturbed state of Europe instead of the permanent peace Which had been hoped for, and the necessity of our maintaining a large military restablishment. Yet in these circumstances Ministers, already overburdened with responsibility, scorned and despised the advice of Parliament, declared they had .' farther need of its ail when it had passed the Tax Dina, and that its advice was bcneath their notice.'. On these grounds he considered the proposed ad journment far too long. The motion was then agreed to without a division, and the House adjourned to the .9th of February. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Cleared Ttroluto re, lb allialon to some hints Whirl' be had thrush). out on a fortiwrevening respecting the better regulation et Hackney Coaches, wished to be understood as recommending some provision in the amended Bill, for placing the nutuhers upon white tickets (isin the Fiai-rgi in Paris) triain the A Bill to enable the Union Society to grant Annuides on Sur vivorship was brought f i and read a ern dine. Mr. Serjeaat BUT moved for a return of the number of Pri• ' toners confined for Debt in the King's Bench Prison, on the Inch July 1812, lel s;and 1814, and those in custoly int the ht Dc ember, 1814. His object in moving was, after the Recess, tb poutrose some altessatltin inthe law tor their relief, so as to give Mime security , to the tradesman. At the time the Bill passed, lie was strongly impressed with the conviction that it *as aqui woo f° trade. In 1)1111)0)mm/ to make an attention, he would taias e care to distinguish tft real unfortunate Debtor !rum the frautlu *se one. / Mr. Alderman AILTIC4NS spoke to a stmilar effect. I Mr. HORNER declared, that hews, convinced of the utihtr pf the present hill. The motion *u agreed to, as were others for the number of Oboe discharged, the sums fer which they wore discharged, actl` Mr. Aklerniab C..SMITH moved the second reading of the London Bread Repeal Bill. The SPEAKER saki, this being a local Bill, the other unto could not be proceeded in without the regular notice. Mr. Alderman C. SMITH bad no wish to press the 3W. He ;would move that k should be primed. The SPEAKER observed, that helve( dm nature of a pri vate BM, the Hee. Member might gel k printed on his own at. count. Mr. PONSONBY asked, whether k was tke Weldon et MI. viscera to disembody the Militia littera& this and the met Meet ing of Peritianwnt Me CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not pre pared to answer that question. Mr. PONSONBY then gave notice, that if they remained em. bodied at the Meat*, he should tube* a motion on the subject. Mr. BARING, in rekreuce to a kien to bpain, asked if the tact were so 1 and the reason why certain Papers ordered had not been laid on the table? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that thi Papers had 'to pass the Auditor's (NW. There was no founda tion for supposing that any loan had been made to Spain. In answer to a question from Mr. Witt , whether two of the vesseb which had been seat out to Canada In frames had tx. been 'eV Mt. C.ROIERit stewed, that there was no foundation for the supposition of the Right Hou. Gentleman. Mr- WHI tBREAD, however, moved fir copies of any Cor. respondence which may have taken place on this subject. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OP WALES. i Mr. MARTIN desired to ask the Chancellor of the Erchequer i whether any establishment had been tired for her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte orWales, pursuant to a minute of the Treasury which Out been Made on__Ae subject The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER per .nv ‘..L - acam...c.s.L..vit of the LXCHEQUER replied, that a separate establishment had been provi- ded for her Royal Highness, but that since her Ito) al ,fighacat No been taken into the Prince Regent's establislunierthe separate one had cease d. ~Mr: 13 wished to know how the £7OOO per tbtttirn, w . had been voted for her Royal High_ was of ? The CHAAIerf,LOR 011ie EXCHEQUER. t ea To her itilipll'Highnives it is issued to her own asuret * * CONDSK I THZ NAVAL WAR HI NORTH AKIRICA. Ells in rising to move far Papers con- Ntiff' the consiict of the &rill War against e Una! States of America, &dam* that it was The of Ms %Mention, in what he should, sit that evenin g , eutut is t ‘o any discussion of did resucipie of dm r• wii `i