Star. — London, England, 1814-12-02 00:00:00

.• or lueir.)—The simple qd-salm before the House is, whether certain papers shall be presented ? and we on all hands agree that those pa pers ought to be produced ; then, whatever be the neoceedings upon those documents, this certainly is not, cannot be the time at which their contents ought 0 he discussed: Mr. HORNER said, that before he minted for his next Paper he must observe, that the Gentlemernop. posite took great Credit to themselves for granting all ' the Papers he had demanded, when the fact was that tie Of the most important were refused. The pro. eeedings of the Court-Martial on Captain Barclay', were refused to be granted until the issue should be ' known of another Court-Martial, the period of which nb man could tell, Under these circumstances he Must confine himself to extracts of the proceedings ; and he would therefore Move, '• That an !tesible Address be pres-ated to h:s Royal kligb. ness the Prince Regent, praying that he would be graciously ileased to direct, that there be Lid before the House Extracts of so much of the Proceedings of the Cow e Martial on Captain Barclay, for the loss of the British flotilla on Lake Erie, as re lated to the state of preparation of that flotilla In point of strength and equipment." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expressed his acquiescence in the motion. Mr. WHITBR EAD availed himself ,of the op portunity to declare, that what bad been said by the Henourable. and Learned Gentleman opposite corn: 'newly confirmed - him in his conviction that in the only speech made by Mr. Canning in that House, on the subject, he had complained of the want of vigour with which the war with the United*States was . ear.. lying On. The very quotation from the Right lien. Gentleman's speech, which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman had adduced, proved this tine. quivocally ; and when Mr. Canning said that nobody could ever think that Canada was in danger, it was impossible that he could have it in contemplation Mo mortal:could have had it in contemplation) th a t inisters would take credit to themselves for eco nomy and wisdom, in not making any preparations to defend Canada, because the American Govern ment did not seem to have made any preparations W attack. it. With respect to the infirmity on his part to which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman alluded, he was sufficiently sensible of it. His me• mory was certainly bad, although, perhaps, some people might wish it was worse--(o laugh). He should always feel himself at liberty to comment on • the poutiwa ,ceaduct of any inch v idual.whatever. But Ise dettien any attempt to cast a shin on the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. W. l,'ole) ; all he had • said was, that his near relation to the Duke of Wel )ington had.prolubly placed him in his present situa tion, as those in whose veins blood royal flowed, had iiequently and unexpectedly been mated ono throne. nerthe Duke of Wellington's achievements the world Was full ; be had conquered all that was opposed to him; and is had only remained for him to conquer „she Miat for tbe Right Hon. Gentleman—(alatsgh). Mr. W. POLE said that the Honourable Gentle men had several times taken the trouble to point his observations at him and his official situation. The Ho. nourable Gentleman had asserted that he (Mr. Pole) held his present post in consequence of his having the Duke of Wellington for a brother. This was a mis take.—He had before been offered a seat in the Ca binet and pressed to accept it. His political life was before the world; but the Honourable Gentleman had no tight to take every opportunity of makin g a deliberate personal attack open hint. • Mr. WHITBREAD reminded the Right Ho nourable Gentleman, that he had scarcely taken his seat in the House in the commencement of the pre sent Session, when he counselled all his official friends • not to answer the botheriag questions which he (Mr, -Whitbread) had for twenty years been in the habit of yputting to Government. The attack, therefore, had . - i kft.n commenced by himself. He readily acknow. Hedged, that when the Right Honourable Gentleman held a subordinate situation, he was a most useful and active servant of the public ; but lie owned his surprise to see him in the Cabinet. : Mr. POLE stated the mode of his appointment to his present situation. • The Earl of Liverpool sent to him to desire to know if he would accept an office in the present Administration. Never having differed ens principle Tram that Administration, (having for. anerly quitted it:on other grounds), he had no diffi culty in declaring . his readiness to accept the offer.— It was unquestionably true that-the Duke of Wel lington was auzio.us that he (Mr. Pole) should be in the Ministry ; but if the Hon. Gentleman thought that lie was mean enough to wish to be brought in on the solicitation of any Inert alive, he was very nisch mistaken. Me, WHITBREAD said, that the explanation of the Right Hon. Gentleman shewed the mos: delicate attention to him on the part of Lord Liverpool. He bad no object in the remarks which he had made, but a sense of duty. An Hon. Member had recently said, that he would not cbange any thing with him. For his part. be did not wish to clinnge either himself or his opponents. He wished them ail to remain just as they were. • The motion was then agreed to; as were also mo tions for the following Papers, after a good deal of I desultory conversation, in which Mr. HORNER, Mr. Cat:amt. the CklANGist.Lon. of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. WIIITBBLAD, and Mr. BARING parucipated, viz. " Copies of an Y 04110126 to his Royal Highness the Prince Re . get,t, from ary of his Majese -,'s subjects, complaining of Made qui.te protection affercle.l by the Admiralty to their trade. " Copies of all iVi..ittorials presented to his Majesty's Minis ters on the tae subject, with their answers thereto. " Au Ac:uu:.t of all of War and armed Vessels belong- La to his Maje ty, taken by elle Vessel° of the United States front the commencement of tie contest, distinguishing the force, viz. the number of guns and the number of men. " A similar Acc o unt of the Americankhips of War and Armed Vel.e's taken by us. " Ln Accuuot of the Number of American Seamen made pri ,:.ers of war, from the commencement of the contest, distill. those avured from those detained in British ports. " An Account of all British Merchant Vessels taken by the Vessel' of the United States, distinguishing their classes and ton. " Copies of ail Correspondence and Orders relative to the Creole atid Psyche frigates, from and between the Admiralty, tie Navy Board, Sir James Yeo;the Navy board at Quebec, Sec. " An Account of any frigates of a large class, or of any Slips era larger class than frigates, but less than line-of-hank) ships, tails and fitted oat (as far as the same could be made out without detriment to the public service) since the 18th of Juni, 1812." AWOL/ RNIUICKT. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that be now rose, in of the notice fen had Bien, ttl move that . the House, at its rising, shoul n d adjourn:till Thursday, the 9th day of Febru nry ut.' a r Mr. Tltititltt diattit4, that When the question !of adjournment catate'tts' be put, he should move that the dropped orders of yetittiday, les fir as they related to the Committeesof Supply and of Ways:lntl Means, should nand for to-morrow. Two Acts also were do the eve of expiring, filr which no provision had been ; though he anderstood that one of them, by a eertaia kind of atrimgemeat with the Bank, made without consulting the House, and tallith he acci dentally heard of this morning..was to lay over, the Bank having consented to permit a loan of three mil , lions, borrowed first without interest, but which was conditioned to be repaid in six months after a Treaty of Peace, to stand a year and a half longer in the same state. This was certainly some indulgence on the part of the Bank ; but as the Cash Restriction Bill teas to expire in Marcb; it seemed not impro bable to suppose the Bank might anticipate some ac commodation on the part of the Right Honourable Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer).— Could he consent to t!:e proposed adjournment, hu must consent to leave three millioas unprovided for; he must consent, by the same vote, to leave the Committee of Supply in like manner as unprovided for,, in violation of all former' precedent ; and for these reasons he thought it necessary for tl:e House to sit to morrow. But, this did not trouble the Right Honourable Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Ex chequer), whose convenience alone must be consulted. They had nothing to do with the Bank, and as little to do with the Committee of Supply : all their ohjs:ct was Christmas holidays and Christmas pies, and so efftliey must go.—(l..ayhr).—No provision had been made for more than One halt of the supplies just voted by the House, .the Right Honourable Gentleman by his conduct thus assuming the fact that the Property Tax would be continued; for except from some such source, it was difficult to guess what quarter he in tended to look to for the supply of the demands that crowded upon him.—(Hear, bear.)—The whole pro ceeding was as unjustifiable as ever had been taken by man. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed, that the Bank having this day confirmed the arrangement as to the three millions last men tioned by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Tierney), no practical inconveidohe could happen, since the entire sum would continue in its present state till April 1816. He should, therefore, have to propose a Bill, imme diately on the re-assembling of Parliament, to conti nue the Act in question; but here he begged to ob serve that this measure was quite unconnected with the Bank Restriction Bill. Certainly it was true that the Ways and' Meant fell rather short; there was, boarever, nothing in this.circumstance that would not be found perfectly agreeable to Parliamentary prac tice, though the Right Hon. Gentleman ("Tierney) appeared not alto6ether to understand the subject. It was nothing more, in fact, than a transfer, which made the Ways and Means of either year applicable to the purposes of each. Unless it could be proved that the three millions were actually to be provided for, without a moment's delay, he could not conceive .why the House should not now adjourn, at a time when the state of private business admitted of an ad journment, and as no positive inconvenience would be occasioned to the public service. Mr. TIERNEY still persisted in censuring the arrangement so suddenly made between the Bank and Ministers, together with the manner of its being kept secret till the precise day when' the Holise eiak to adjourn, for the pleasure of the Right Honourable Gentleman. The truth stood perfectly thus :—that Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Ex chequer) was afraid to meet the condition of the finances of the country.—( Hear, hear.)—He had not been misrepresented out of doors, when he was de. scribed as having called Parliament together for money, and as intending to dismiss them whenever the money was voted. But, lie would ask, why were they now to adjourn ? He called upon the Right Hon. Gentleman to assign at least one reason for the adjourement ? He knew of no earthly reason for it, unless it was proposed on account of the labour they had gone through, and on the ground of hard work, having voted away 24 millions in the course of as many days, sshich, unquestionably, was hard work enough.—( LarThs.)—Still he wished to know, if ad journ they must, slam voktu on his part at least. why it must be till the 9th of February, when Easter would be at their heels, and, before any business was transacted, send them again to the country, so that no time would be allowed for the dispatch of business of the most weighty kind ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that no facility would be obtained, as it re lived to public business, by an earlier meeting than that which he proposed, to the House, it being in the knowledge of every Gentleman how difficult it was to obtain any attendance at.a season of the year when Members would neither be inclined to neglect their own business nor forego the hospitalities they were accustomed to enjoy—(4 laugh.) Another reason was, that he confidently expected the return of his Noble Colleague (Lord Castlereagh) from the Con gress by the time he proposed to adjourn to, with im portant conimurications to Parliament. Mr. Aszacnosiais opposed the adjournment, which was suppfated by Mr. ROBINSON. Mr. PONSONBY entered into a variety of argu ments to prove the necessity that Parliament should continue sitting. Mr. FITZGERALD spoke for the necessity of reposirg a confidence i■ Ministers at this crisis. Sir G. HEATHCOTE spoke •.n the opposite side, arguing from the different situation of the country now and at the time the property tax was proposed, that there was no occasion for it, provided the resultof the discussions of the Congress at Vienna was pacific. Mr. J. P. GRANT very strenuously opposed the adjournment. However he esteemed the private con duct of Ministers, he could not give them his cnrifi dence in the management of public affairs, for which they were wholly incompetent. Mr. MARRYATT conceived it would be useless for Parliament to be sitting while such great events were depending and as yet undecided. Mr. WHITBREAD declared, that the late abo minable transactions on the Continent, and the state of ignorance in which Lord Castlereagh kept his col leagues, induced him for the present to withdraw his confidence from that Noble Lord. The financial blunders of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were no torious, and he had called the House together, not to provide fur the evil day, but only to postpone it.— As to the questions he felt it his duty to put, one Centleman tMr. Marryatt) had called them chit= dren's play of quettions and commands ; it was well i.e did not say , answers, for none were given, or if given they well deserved the appellation of children's answers. (Mr. W. Pole .shook his head.) 'lle Right Hon. Gentleman needed not to agitate himself : he (Mr. Whitkrend) would talc^ no nilre notice of him, however he might wish it, for the Right Hon. Gentle- Mali had already sued for mercy, had cried lorquarter, and it would be ungenerous to insult the fallen—laugh. j The part•which Ministers had acted might, indeed, be properly called child's play ; they had behaved like children, who, conscious of their own weakness, were seeking for support and assistance from others ; they were constantly calling out like infants, " Where is daddy-oh dear I Where is daddy-:--we want daddy !" for Lord Castlereagh was absent and they sorely felt the want of his paternal guardianship and assistance. (Ilear, hear, and laughter.) The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to refer to the precedent.. of 1797 and 1806, to chew that the present adjourn. ment was unjustifi ible on that ground ; he had no doubt Ministers found Parliament a very troublesome machine, which they had not the power to manage, and wished to get rid of it, but the people of England knew its value, and t'iat the I.berties of mankind de pended upon the discussimii , in the House of Com mons. Bonaparte, at the Lk of Elba, must chuckle exceedingly at seeing what had happened since his :Thdication, when instead of one great and efficient Tyrant, a great many inefficient tyrants had stßrted up in his room. Mr. BATHURST spoke in defence of Ministers, and expresscd his belief, that were Lord Castlereagh at home and another Minister sent to Vienna, his Noble Friend would have observed the same silence respecting the affairs of the Congress that he and his friends now did. A division being .now loudly called for, there ap. peared—For the Amendnient, 23—Against it, 66 Majority against the Amendment, 63. The original question was then carried. SLAVIC TRADE. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH wished to ask the Chan cellor of the Exchequer if he could give the House any information with respect to a Correspondence be tween the Commandant of Martinique and the Go vernment of this country? This correspondence he un derstood to be of the utmost importance with respect to the question of the abolition of the Slave Trade ; and the facts it established might have no small tendency in forwarding that object at the Congress. He wished also to impress upon the Ministers the pro. priety of concurring with the other Powers of Europe in some measure for repressing the depredations of the piratical States of Bob try. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, this was the first time which the Correspondence , of the Commandant of Martinique had ever been mentioned to him. Ar Two o'Clock, the Home adjourned, till Thurs day, the 9th of Febru.try next. THE EVENING STAR. LO Ni DON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER n, 1814. PRICE OF.STOCIcti THIS. DAY A r TWELVE O'CLOCIEs RAnced 6511-4 ;:er Cent. —5 per Cent. Navy tv.l Consols 66i—for account, 66.4-osunium 11 Y die. tank Long Anne..l6 S. tabs f—andis flood. 17$. 18s. Pro. Exchequer kills par, to 4s. pram. Consols shut to-day, and open January 20, 1815; also d per Ce::t. :Navy, and open Jaauary 19, 11115. Paris Papers cf Monday are now before us, but they contain little intelligence of igterest. Letters from Vienna state, that the fate of Poland and Saxony is srili undecided ; and that Lord CASTLEI:EAGiI in terests himself [(.,r the independence o: both. From Madrid there is a rei • ort that the Kt G has cot sQi.tr,d to the convocation of a Certes : it will of course con sist of his personal friends, as was tha case under the reign of his preclec:-:,6rs for many centuries. NAPLES, NOVEMBER is. The King yesterday visited the School of Mars at Aversa, where his MAJESTY waited for the arrival of her Royal Highness the Paixcess of WALES. The KING invited her to a collation, of which she most graciously accepted. About four o'clock these illus trious personages took the road for the capital. Her Royal Highness sat in the King's carriage on his right hand. All the inhabitants of the country on the road from Aversa to Naples preceded their be loved Monarch, whom they received with the most lively acclamations : they congratulated Ws (nape) at the same moment the august Princess on her ar rival. The Royal Procession arrived at Naples about five o'clock : an immense crowd filled the streets. The KING was like a father surrounded ly his family, who never ceased to applaud his MAJESTY and the PRIN. cast, whose nation has so powerfully co-ope::ated to wards the termination of the war, and with' which our relations are every day more consolidated. There was not a single Neapolitan who did not p Inicipate in the exultation occasioned by the arrival of her ROYAL HIGHNESS. His I'vlintEsrit conducted her ROYAL HIGHNESS to the residence, where, since: the morning, there had been placed a guard of honour, selected from tile Royal Goart% A Dublin Pape: of Nlonday contains the following article, dated Cork, November 26 : " GOOD ,laws.—A veNsel has arrived at Cove, in 17 days, from America, wide!) brings an account of the American flotilla being completely destroyed by Sic JAM ,s Y CO°. The LIEFEY frigate, from Quebec, has arrived at Portsmouth, in '2 0 days. 'She brings dispatches from Sir GEO. PKLVO.IT, date,' the Bth ult. wliich is only a few days later than his last dispatches. They bring nothing new respecting military operations; and, as the revrt cf the clpture of Sackett's Harbour was dated the 9th tluvcrnb,:r, ve must still wait fur a confirmation. The LIFFEY sailed irona Quebecon the 10th ult. with a fleet bound for England, but parted on the 15th off the bilni of Newfoundland in a violent gale. Tip to the peri ,, tl of her departure, nothin 7 . ! was I:nwma at Quebec respecting the taking of Sarkett's Herbour. NAVAL INIYILLAUENCE. A C Itrrroi.—The American privateer Lemma, of Baltimore, of nine guns and 121 men, soiled hods Wilmington on the 18th of October, to cruise in the English Channel. The Thet;s, fvfono,tv, from Liverpool to Newry, was stranded 2/1 ult. near Drogheda. DIVER, OPCIVMSER 1. Sunday motning the Neptune Packet, Captain CLEGII 1151, (about 70 tons buithen) sailed from Shorehem for Dieppe. The company consisted of Mrs. Itexson, her three servants, and .four young children ; another lady, and her husband and child ; with eight of gentlemen—together ter passenger's. About nine in the evening, when only about 23 miles from part, a gale came on from the N. W. which en creased to an alarming degree ; and at half past eleven, p. m. a heevy sea brake ever the vessel, which laid her upon her beam ends , ceetpletely at the ritrcy 01 . the S2A, which re•Lel into the mi:iship cabin, and the starboard bads w tit water, producing a scene of horror, known to th se only who. have been in a similar situation : itll n beard rave themselves up for lost, as the lreksel refnwd to right. An order was given to thinw Mn. J.'s carri.ige and every trunk upon deck overboard, when, to the great Joy of the passengers, the vessel righted 1 Every blanket was then sent upon deck to stop the boles, as part of one side was literally carrier! away. One man ma forced overboard, and broil. ht providentially back by another sea. The C tptain made fir the first port, asd landed at four o'clock in the afternoon of Nion day at Hastings. Mrs. Jacit.sae, it is understood, is the widow lady of our former Anister in America, and her loss is supposed to he above t ne thousand pounds; and all on board suffered more or less in property or in d.tm:tge. Captain CLEGIIM: and his crew exerted themselves greatly. A Captgiults.attElt, who was on board, contributed not a little to the re lief of the people on board by his wonderful personal exertions during the gale. FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER es Arrived the Speedy packet, Captain SUTRIMILAND, with a mail, from Rio Janeiro, in .5"/ days. Captain S. died co tat• silge on the 25th nit. Also arrived .the Speculation, DVEIt, from Cornnna is four days she brings. a mid. Likewise the Mary, Fox, 6om Malaga, bound to Dublin. On the Stb inst. the SPREDY spoke the ship Admiral Berkeley, TAYLOR, from St. Helena for London; and las.. night,ofFSeilty i , MI in with a schooner, which tiicy supposed to bean American, and fired several shot at her. The slnop William and N 'hey. TO KIN, ir•sut London for Les. bon, inconsequence of some damage. has been obliged to discharge her cargo ; part of which is damaged.— Wind W. fr-. 21 breeze's and sPrty. . PORTh MOU H. DECEMBER t. Sailed yesterday Helen's. a fleet of trans. lye ts, &c. for Givr 'sly. under convoy of the ['MILL This day arrived the 4alrrcir, from Quebec, in 20 days passage—particulars of the convoy she has brotn±ht in our next. Sailed the Comus,..with sealed orders. The West India fleet. so long detained here. under convoy of thl Swirrsvar, &c. attempted to proceed t s.za this morning, but have brought to again in St. Helen's Reads. ti EMnRA N " Avant:m/s 0270rr., Dtc. vetre?A now at Spithead, bound to . Spain, Portug .1. an:.! t Medi! , :r. raneun, arc to proceed to Plymouth, to join the fitwastra's convoy." Several ships have arrived from the Downs and jollied the outward-bound West ludia convoy. DEAL, DECEMBER 1. Sailed last evening, alttr post, the FAVOURITE and the whole of the West India thet, transports, coasters and colliers, for Portsmouth. Came down from the River, a few ships, and remain.—Wind W. ' NEW YORE, OCrOBER SO. Arrived the Bride' ship Captain Athol, from Greenock, bound to Newfoundland,. captured on the 4th September by due privateer Amelia, which had made five other captures, via. brig Collier, Fatter• son, burnt; ship Nancy, Allen, manned apd ordered in ; brig Harmony, Laws, given op to prisoners ; brig Betsey, Boyne, burnt; and brig Ann, Jenkins, manned and ordered in. SLAVE TRADE.— 01 this interesting subject, Mr. WILBERFORCE has written to a friend in the following terms I am happy to infrrm you, that a letter from the Duke of Weirington brought me a few days ago the welcome intelligence, that the French Govern. ment had actually issued an order prohibiting the Slave Trade, by French subjects any where to the North ward of Cape Formosa. By this measure protection is afforded to 1500 miles of coast; and the measure is the more important, because, from the shape of the coast, slavus might be brought from the interior either to the southward or the western coast. Let us hope that this concession is the earnest of more complete success." EXTRAORDINARY ItosnEnr.--.Lord LONGFORD'S late house, Charles•street, St. James's, is purchased for forming the new street from Carlton-house, and his Lordship is &Ale to Ireland. The man in care of it spent Sunday out, and did not go back that night. On Monday morning he found it stripped ( , f four chimney g!a,sez., three pier glasses, and others, v..lued at thr.T. or lour hundred pounds: They had ;;Len taken down without violence, or any symptoms to drew how the rol.;!).rs entered. The Westminster Play was performed for the first last 'Light, preparatory, to the Christmas vaca tion, by the King's Sch lays. It was tl:e Mrado, of Titai:NcE, and was acted in an excellent st) le CORN EXCIIANor. MARK•LANE. DEC:. 2. _ _ Our Market continues abundantly supplied with Wheat., chiefly consisting of what has been left unsold Irons dwarfism's of Mon. day and Wednesday lair, alld herring but little demand, th,• oar's arc exceedingly heavy, and Monday's prices with difficu!ty t r:ALI,:d for the snail qua:mity that has been d:sposeduf. horley is :AL per quarter cht.Ter, and a toieraide Large vat , t;ty retnavi; unoki, o Leis could not be got oil' at that reeuction. Oats arc rather cheaper, having a liberal supply ofthat article. In Leans, Peas, awl °ilia Grain, 'harlots no alteration. SMl' ritiatio MARKET, DECEMBER 2. Beef se 04 to Os Od Veal 7s 01 to 8s 01 kluttnn is Od ro 69 14 I Par! 61 Od to 7s 6d Beasts 1140—Sheep 211,1 Lambs 4,190 . --Calvoo 110—Pigs 400 iIAY AND sie4AW, PER. LOAD, . blesdow Ray 41 10 41 Oa Clover el Os to 71 Os Straw 11 NO to 11 1114