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THE ADDRESS of CONGRATULATION to Field-Marshal Lis Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, arprnved at a Meeting of Merchants, Bankers, and others, held taw &la instant. will remain for Signatures a few days longer at the or LONDON Teviaw, between the bouts of Twelve and Dorn o'Clock. WILLIAM HOLDEN. LET! ER FROM MR. .RLMAS TO THOMAS .HOP.E, ESQ. All those who feel interested by the substantial progress of the Flue Anrs—all those who have feel ings to admire the sacred solemnity and the awful gr.►ttdeur of those venerable piles which the genius of Egypt, of Greece.and of Rome, and of the middle ages have left us—must be de ply interested by this discussion of the means by which that spirit may be irevived, by which these works of onfading enchant ment were raised, and which now seems slumbering beneath them. Animated by such feeling, Mr. ELMES deplores the decline of Architecture among us, and proceeds to investigate its causes and point out the way in which they may be removed. For the new plan proposed by Mr. ELMaS we refer onr Readers to the above valuable Tract lately published in the XAMPILLETEER, No. VI. page 329. PARLIAMENTdRr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY is in the Appeal, Roberts v, the J;htle of Athens Ste SAMP" ROMILLY was heard in rtply. 'the Northern Lig,ht Houses Bill and the Scots Creditors BW were read a third time and passed. A Pettier] from the Debtors confined in Warwick Oaol, praying for relief, was presented by Lord HoLLAND.--Ordered to lit on the table. The House went into a Committee on the Irish Assaults Bill. A long conversation took place as to ' , the wording of the Bill, between the Earl of LAu- _ DERDALC, Lord REDESDALZ, Lord HOLLAND, the Lotto CoANcei.Lon, and the Earl of .I.tstgarcit. In the course of it Lord REDESDALS, to chew the disposition of the lower class of the people of Ireland, mentioned a circumstance of his observing some men beating another, and on his enquiring the cause, he was informed that it was because the khan they were beating was a taylor, and it turned out teat they had been assaulted by some taylor, and had therefore come to the determination of beating every taylor they met with. Lord HOLLAND in the course of the conversation observed, upon the ano maly of applying these kind of Bills to Ireland alone, and remark-d, that it that principle were to be acted upon they ought to go into an enquiry as to the ne cess ty for s.tch measures, and the causes for that necessity. It was at length agreed that the Chairman should leave the Chair, and the s Committee sit again on a future day. The Irish Peace Preservation Bill, the Loan Mis take Bill, and the Irish Duties Bill passed through Committees And were reported. SPANIEI PATRIOTS-GIERALTAR. Lord HOLLAND said, a Report had reached him, which he could scarcely believe, and which he trusted would prove unfounded, that three distin guished Spaniards, who had taken refuge at Gibral., tar, had, At the instance of the Spanish Government, on account of political differencel, been arrested by the >io . eriloi• aGiriaitar, imd delivered up to the ' Spanish Government. He v►ished to know whether there was any truth in this rumour ? The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, he had received ;to intelligence of any such circumstance, nor did he know whether it had pccurred. It it' had, however, it had not arisen in consequence of any orders from dkii.cotpitry. ' GLOUCESTER GAOL. Earl §TANHOPE presented three Petitions from persona confined in Gloucester Gaol, complaining that the letter from Lord Viscount Sidmouth, stating officially, that the practice of opening and inspecting the letters sent by the prisoners, and refusing them permission to communicate with their law agents, *as illegal, had been disregarded—that the letters of the prisoners still continued to be opened and in ipected —that an Attorney of Gloucester had been refused admission to one of the prisoners, his client —that upon the remonstrance of the Attorney to the Gaoler, referring to Lord Sidmouth's l etter , th e aoler had said he did not care for Lord Sidmouth • r -that it had also been stated that the practice of opening and inspecting the prisoners' letters would be persisted in, and that a Prisoner who had petition, edlhat House had, on that account, been put in irons, which latter transaction his Lordship consider. ed to be clearly a breach of the Privilege of that ' House. The Petitions were ordered to lienn the table. Earl STANHOPE trusted the House would take the subject matter of these Petitions into consi deration. The LORD CHANCELLOR suggested that the regular course would be to appoint a day to take the Petitions into consideration, and the Attorney alluded to might in the mean time be debited to at tend to give evidence. • Earl STANHOPE said he would write to the Attorney to attend, and moved that the Petitions be taken into consideration on Tuesday. He named this day because he had received a letter from a kopil Duke whose motion stood for Tuesday, that his Royal Highness intended to be in the House on that day, but if he found himself too ill to bring on his motion he should postpone it till Wednesday. • The Petitions were ordered to be taken into consi. deration on Tuesday, —Adjourned till to-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Expiring Laws Bill, and the Local Poor 13ill were read a second time, and severally ordered to be ccmmitted to-morrow. The Tea Export Bill, the Game Doty Bill, the Gunpowder Bill, the Silk Handkerchief Bill, the Agent General's Bill, and theWestmioster Improve pent Bill, were severally read a third time, and passed. The Report of the Duke of Wellington's Annuity dill teas agreed to, and the Bill ordered to he read a third time so-morrow. The Ship Letter Bill was read a second time, apd ordered to be committed tO.I7IOETOW. The Post Office Expense Bill was ordered to be eosnaiuted :h;s day month. Sir SAbiI.TEL ROMILLY pr_esented a Petition froM a 'perm l'of the name of W. James, praying atm the Houle would pass some Measure to enable • *Sp la the Souse of Lords to chalk, any Peer interested in the tense, to abstain fintli vot ing on it. A Bill to authorize the issuing of Three Millions of Exchequer Bills for the service of Ireland, was brought in and read a first time. The usual Addresses were voted to the Prince Re gent, praying that some dignity of the Church be conferred on the Rev. James Webber, Chaplain of the House ; and fur the issuing sums .of money to raise the emoluments of the Office ofJerethiah Dyson, Esq. Clerk of the House, to 12,500; those of J. H. Ley, Esq. to X 52,000; for the Printing of the Jour nals, and remunerating the Committee Clerks. Mr. TIERNEY said!, be held in his hand a Peti tion from certain corn growers, praying the House to adopt and act upon certain Resolutions agreed to by the House of Lords, for removing the taxes to which growers of corn were subject. He had doubts whether with propriety such a Petition could be received. The SPEAKER said, that such would be cer tainly improper, for the House to receive a Petition praying them to act on Resolutions of the other House, which had not been communicated to them. The Scotch Spirit Duty Bill was brought hi, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. • The Cordage Bill was committed ; and the Re port to-morrow. The Thames Police Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The :Report of the .Princess of Wales's Annuity Bill was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday. The Report of the War Duties Bill was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to morrow. The Report of the Committee on the Compensa tion to the American Commissioners was brought up, and ordered to be printed. ARRESTS ON MESNE PROCESS. Sir F. BULWETT presented a Petition from a person of the name of Walter J. Baldwin, which he said contained the account of a case of great oppres sion under the present system of imprisonment for debt. The Petitioner had been arrested under a charge of debt, and had taken every legal means to obtain his discharge, yet he had been detained more than eleven months, although on his liberation the Judge said that there had been no ground whatever for his arrest. It was too late to take any measures on the subject in the present Session, but ,early in the next Session he should make some motion on the subject of the grievance complained of in the Petition The Petition WAS read,, and ordered to lie on the table. The Honourable Baronet presented also another Petition of a similar nature from John Abraham von Lengerke, formerly of Bremen, complaining that he had . been arrested in this country for a debt contracted at Bremen, for which he would not have been liable in that place, as he had made a surren der of his goods as a bankrupt, and obtained a cer tificate after the manner of that country.—Ordered to lie on the table. :VES. Lord MORPE CH said he had read in a Morning Paper, an account of three Spaniards of 'rank having been seized by the Governor of Gibraltar, in which they had taken refuge, and delivered Up to the Spa nish Government. He wished to know from the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) opposite to him, whether any orders on the subject had been issued to the Go vernor ? He also wished to know, whether any ap plications had been made to the Spanish Government in favour of those persons who had acted, perhaps, imprudently in their ideas of liberty ? Lord CASTLE R EAG H said be was totally ig norant of any such trinsaction as had been alluded to. The col rcsr;ondence with Gibraltar did not come exactly within his department, but lie had not heard of it, and his Honourable Friend (Mr. Goulburn) near him, connected with the other department, knew also nothing of it. There had also arrived dispatches from the Court of Spain within the lait three days, which alluded to nothing of the kind. He should, however, make further inquiries on the subject and, communicate the result to the Noble Lord. He could state, that all the legitimate influence this country could use with the Court of Spain had been employed in a manner which the Noble Lard would highly approve of. SP . ANISU Fl:6lTl' GOVERNOR Mr. GOULBURN wished to know whether it was the intention of the Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. P. Moore) to make the .motion, of which he had given notice, respecting Governor Gore ? He (Mr. Goulhurn) was anxious to bring the question to a discussion in order perfectly to clear the charac ter of that Officer. Mr. P. MOORE said he was in expectation of a Petition which was to be presented on the subject of Mr. Gore's Government. Mr: GOULBURN was sizions that a refutation of the charges against Colonel Gore . should go forth in the same Session in which Zie accusation had been brought. Mr. WROI7ESLEY thought the question ought speedily to be brought on. Mr. P. MOORE said, that the postponement of the motion had•not arisen from any neglect of his, out from the quantity of information which had, poured in on him from all quarters respecting Upper Canada, which caused the private injuries which he had at first intended to redress, to merge in the gene. ral question. Mr. ONSLOW thought it unfair that a charge should be so long kept hanging over Colonel Gore. On the motion of Mr. WHITBREAD, the Amend 'stsent made by the-Lords in the Finsbury Sewers Bill was taken into consideration, and, after a few words from the SPZAKRR, agreed to. The Bill was ordered 'to be sent to the Lords by Mr. WHITBREAD. After sonic prefatory observations front Mr. BABLEB, it was ordered, on the Honourable Mem ' bees motion, that the Committee upon the several petitions and documents respecting the New Post Office should have power to report its opinion to the House, together, with the evidence taken before it. The Offenders' Escape Bill was committed; pro ress was reported, and the committee was ordered to sit again to-morrow. GRANT observed, that in consequeace of the Bill which had passed to prevent 'seditious meetings id Ireland, and the declared opinion of Mi. 'nispen i that such a measure was rendered Atcassary 7 . br the disturbed situation of that country, upon which opinion that House had thought proper to adopt the measure not for one year only but for three years, be should feel it his duty (unless the subject were taken up by some more able person) to move, early in the next session, for the appointment of a Committee.to inquire into the state of Ireland. Sir E. BRYDGES also gave notice of a motion for next session, upon the subject of the Poor Laws. The Irish Yeomanry Bill was read a second time, and committed for to-morrow. POST HORSIC FARMING BILL. The House having resolved into a Committee upon the Post-horse Farming Bill, Mr. WROTTESLEY proposed the clause which he described last night, with regard to the suspension of any prosecution for penalties under the existing Act, upon the certificate of two Commissioners of Stamps, who should have pow er to issue such certifi cate, upon any case made out to their satisfaction, that a penalty was incurred through mere inadver tency, without any intention to defraud the revenue.' The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the clause, as affecting the interest of those pull% and as inconsistent with the contract entered into by Government with the farmers of the Pest horse Duty; but he should have no objection to a clause of thus nature prospectively, with reference to the Bill under consideration. After a few remarks from Mr. Serjeant ONsLow, who dwelt upon the grievances suffered by innkeepers and others under the existing law, in consequence of vexatious prosecutions, Mr. LUSHINGTON proposed a clause actord ing with the opinion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER, such clause to take effect from and after .4nuary, 1815. After some farther conversation between Mr. R. SMITH, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. WETHERALL, and Mr. WROTTESLEY, Mr. LUJIIING TON'S clause was brought up. The Report to be received on Monday. COLONIAL AUDI'. BILL. The further consideration of the Report upon the Colonial Audit Bill being moved, Mr. ABERCROM BY objected to the Establish ment which the Bill proposed, as unnecessary arid ex pensive. The duty to be assigned to th e propose.' Commissioners might, i n hi s op i n i on , be discharged by the West-India Commissioners, or by the Colo nial Department, without encumbering the country with any additional burthen. The 'CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defeadtd the Bill ; and contended that the proposed Commission WAS necessary to audit the account, of those distant Colonies which were dependent upon his Majesty, namely, those which had no local legis lature. The new Board was particularly necessary, with a view to the expeditious examination of accounts, without which expedition, indeed, it was found that no examination was likely to be effective. This new Board, he observed. was also to examine 1 any accounts . referred to it by the Commissioners of the Treasury, under whose orders the Board was to adjOurn from place to place, as it became necessary to the effectual examination of public accounts. As to the West India Commission and the Colonial De partment, both were to 4 much occupied to attend to the objects which were to be assigned to thee new Board. . Mr. BANKES concurred with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the most effectual way of audit ing public accounts was, that the examination should follow the expenditure as soon as possible; and he wished that this rule were generally attended to.— He wished its application particularly to the auditors of public accounts in this country, which was lamen tably impeded by old Exchequer forms which ought to have been long since removed. After a few observations by Mr. ABERCROMRY, Mr. R. SMITH, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in which it was understood, that the Bill, which is immediately to apply to the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Malta, Mauritius, and Trinidad, is to be li mited to five years, in order to see whether its farther continuance may be found necessary. The Report was recommitted; Report received and agreed to, and the Bill was oidered to be read a third time to-morrow. A LIBN BILL. On the further considerat ion of the Alien Bill Re port, a clause was proposed by Mr. R. SMITH, and agreed to. Mr. WHITBREAD took the opportunity of ask ing the light Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Addington) concerning the memorial he had presented respecting the Alien Office at Gravesend. Mr. H. ADDINGTON read a letter which he had received from Mr. Walsh, the Inspector of Aliens at Gravesend, acknowledging that the Alien Office was holden at the White Hart Inn, but de nying that any inconvenience arose from it; and sta ting, that he had refused an offer of 1150 a-year to remove the Alien Office to the inn of Mr. Woodford, and all other offers ot private emolument. Mr. WHITBREAD observed; that from this offer which had been made, it was evidently an ad vantage to one inn over another. The Hon. Gentle. man then read a letter from a person on the behalf of Mr. Woodford, shich stated the circumstances under which the offer had been made by Mr. Wood ford of £l5O a-year • and stating that Mr. Walsh lived in Lambeth-walk, and went but once a-weebto Gravesend. Mr. Whitbread observed, that the hold.' ing of the Alien Office at an inn was at all times im proper. Mr. H. ADDINGTON observed, that it was quite improper to believe the assertions of a letter from a person who was not known, in opposition to the statement of Mr. Walsh. As.to the holding the Office at an Inn, he should represent it to his Noble Relative (Lord Sidmouth), who might take such measures on it as he might think fir. Mr. ABERCROMBY observed, that the arrange ment alluded to was by no means a matter of indif ference, as the settlement of the Alien Office at the White Hart Inn, created no less a difference than 41150 a-year to that inn, to the prejudice of the other similar establishments in the town. Lord PALMERSTON brought op returns of the efiecti►e military force of the Country in the years 1781, 1782, and 1789. General THORNTON moved that there be laid befoie the House an account of the expenditure and receipts of the South Sea Company in the last year. Adjoussed till to•mvrrow (this day). IMPORTS AND IzpoRTL Return to an Order of the Honourable }Noe or Commons, dated 29th June, 1814—For an Account of the Imports and Exports of all Merchandise of Great Britain, to and horn Foreign Countries,• is the years ending 56 of January, 1712, 1304, wad 1814 ; distinguishing the official from the real value. orrictat VALUE Of IMPORTS INTO GREAT sarratti. Year ending sth January, 1792 JCi43,95141107 f P 1604 - 24,713,191 IS v ISIS - 21,362,114 IS ' OPPIEIAL YALU/ OP IMPORT'S PROM GREAT SMITAIN. Year ending Sth January, 1791 • 39,011,552 2 17 1804 127,819,237 10 6 ISIS - 17,847,8741! • All parts of the World; except Ireland, the Isles of Mrs, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and the British Whale Fisheries. Custom-house, Loodan, July IS, 1614. Note.—The official value of the trade of Great Brit it. the year ending the sth of Jahuary, Is I 4, cannot he stated. quence of the lest of the ducumetts by fire; arA the amount sa the preceding year has therefore been substituted. unfortunate destruction of the official !soul:s p rat:T.l;l,4lg the particulars of the real value of imports and exports.:n the years referred to in the above recited order, renders it fro pi o.'ll , 4khLe afford that part of the Irian/I:Woo required. W lover:or-General of lin s and Lawn. 4MERJCAN PdtPtRS. BOSTON, JUNE W. The annexed deserves publication, for . the sake of those Englishmen who m.iy visit this country, where they, will be prisont:rs &ring the war, as there is co exchange allowed them : st I'ORM OF PAROLE TO BRITISH MERCHANTS RESIDENT IN Tut UNITED SIATTs. • 44 Whereas, I, , au alien and a British subjee' de. scribed at the foot hereof, h ave b een directed by the President -of the United States of America to repair to a certain &stance from tidewater; and the Marshal ef tbs district of has heretofore granted me a passport to proceed to t witbia the district afort..ald, and leave has been granted me to reside in aforetlid, and to go from time to time, at my own discretion; to a distance therefrom not exceeding five miles, upon condition that I give my parole of It Itiour, not to withdraw front the bounds so prescribed, without leave for that purpose front the slid Marshal ; that I will behave with due respect to the law; and a , thonties of this country ; and also that d will not, di . reedy or indirectly, carry on a correSpntidence With ally of the enemies of the United States, or receive, Or write, any letter or levers to or from any alien eittnly whomsoever, but through the hands of the sail Marshal, in order that they rosy be read and - approved by bins.-1 dy hereby declare that I have given my pa role of honour accordingly, and that 1 will keep it inviolable. 44 Given under my band." BOSI'ON, JUNE. 16. (FUONI me CARACCM.) The latest accounts received at New York by the Henry Guilder, state that the Patriots had wrought up their cuter ige to a deskierate phrcnzy against their European m esters, and put to death all without dis. unction, that were natives of Old Spain or the Ca iry lshinda i with Ow exception of a few only on whose fidelity to their cause they could firmly rely. Various numbers, in different cities throughout all the pro vinces or states, have suit red, so that it is not easy to ascertain the whole ; but by the reports. of such places, AS, Calabosa, Caraccas, Laguira, Ste. we sup pose the whole cannot amount to less than 2.rej or :lull:). It is said they generally formed a kind of 'al. banal on those unfortunate Europeans before set..• teoce, and that they were shot by the military of the Patriot or Ova* forces, and afterwards their bodies were piled together and burned. . It may not be improper here to remark that thq .British first encouraged this revolution in its com mencement, and more particularly under the diretit tion of the adventurer, Francisco de Miranda—a man now only known for his cowardice and treachery ; but no sooner were their interested motives.ffectad . by the change of affairs in Old Spain, than they sit their faces against the very revolution they had ifts strongly encouraged, and lest them, :mu ceremenie, shift for themselves—nay &alter, they took every step, in conjunction with the Spanish Cortes, to crush the exertions of the colonies for liberty, notwithstand ing they had so recently invaded Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, Scc. Which must still be fresh in every one's, memory . , employing the must formidable expeditions without success, but where now, we are happy tO hear, a mild and well regulated Republit is esta blished independent of the mother country, and un stained by any of the fierce retaliations which disc. grace the other Republican provinces. CARRACAS, APRIL 11. This afternoon the most illustrious Archbishop entered this city, and was received by the people of Carracas with the most joyful acclamations. This, illustrious Pastor witnessed in the city of Valenti* (where he was. vigorously &fended) the most horrid and sacrilegious deeds perpetrated by the banditti of the West, led on by Ceballos, Calzado, and other Spaniards. He has seen the tabernacle and sacred vases taken out of filthy places, and knows also that a woman has been violated and murdered within the temple of GoD: he is finally shocked at the irreligion and sacrilegious attempts of our ferocious enemies, who profane and set fire to the churches wherein so, have received the sacred religion of our fathers—a Fitliffien which we respect, and for which we would willingly sacrifice our own lives. The illustrious Archbishop has declared his most lively satisfaction in finding himself among a religious and Christian people, who love his virtues, and the seal and interest manifested by him in ;he salvatioa of tilt! country. PROCLAMATION OT THE Deraveßza 04' vesaztieLi TO lIIS n&WW CITIZENS. " CITIZENS Or VENESKJELA..-.YOU owe, foe the third time, your liberty to your defenders, who, in more than one hundred actions have braved all kind of dan gers to save your honour and your lives; but their sacrifices never were more commendable than in the present campaign, wherein all the enemies of the country have made their unanimous efforts to demo. lish the republican fabric, but which was marvellously preserved in the midst of the tiiiist extraordinary con. vulsions which the anger of HEAVSX h.ta ever inflict. ed on weak mortals. " Your oppressors have displayed all the cunning and mischi e f w hi c h t h e i r innate per~ f is capable oL A universal devastation, carried on with the utmost rigour, has destroyed, on the soil of Venezuela. the work of thine centuries, in point of agriculture, im 'provementi. and industry: the whole has disap peared I fire has consumed cities and villages to ashes ! pikes have demolished the buildings that the flumes spared I the are of the erecurioner has immolated children, old persons. virgins, and invalids, without exempting innocence or debility I finally, not eves