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self that agreeing to such an amendment would do a great deal to reconcile the imalk to their burdens, and to take from he disaffected a handle and a wea pon. What practical good could such an amend ment produce ? The prerogative of the Crown *as in the first place to be invaded. by the abdlition of t h o se places, and the public were not to Alibi any a dvantage: His Right Hon. Friend himself had slot stated any advantage, for he talked of a stibstknte for those places which would cost as much as the places themselires. He had proposed to give the Crown the power of granting pensions commensurate ~ to the falling in of the sinecures. .1 Mr. BANKES said that was not his intention.— 1-le only thought that a power should be given to a certain amount, to reward services by pensions. i The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER resumed. He did not see that thisexplattation at all remedied the objection. The Right Honourable Gentleman proposed the abolition of sinecures abso. lutely, and he talked of a substitute, without inform ing the Committee to what amount he would propose that this substitute should be carried. The Commit. tee, therefore, only knew what he would have destroy ed, but not what he was to put in the place of it. If le really did not mean to produce a diminution of 1 expence by the amendment, it was merely a matter lof his private fancy with respect to a preferince of pen sions to sinecures. As to the illustration which the Right Honourable Gentleman had selected of the dis posal of a sinecure a few days ago, Iseconsidered the disposal as most imexceptionalsHear, hear, and la w laughter). His merits had been compared with •,.11at of a Noble Lord (Wellington). He must, how ever, say, ti,at it never had been supposed, hitherto, that those places were to be disposed of exactly ac carding to the merits of all public services. They -, ere considered as belonging to the patronage•of the crown, to be given by it to any deserving servant of tile Lountry it thaught fit. Mr. Yorke had served his country in high public situations; and if such a place I had ban granted to him, immediately after his ser ices as Secretary at War and Secretary of State, there ,1 erii , i i...ve been but little objection. The Right H. n Gentleman himself said, that long and faithful s erv:,:es should be rewarded by something more than I the daily pay. Now, what length of time would he allow to be sufficient to earn such reward ? Mr. Yorke had served above three years, and if it Were allowed that it would have been a natural reward for his services at that time, he would ask in how many Scars the merit of former services was to be forgotten in consequence of a man being out of o ffi ce ? A great deal had bs.s en said about the increasing influence of the Crown ; but he should always contend that it had not izere.ised of late years by any means in the proportion that the popular branch of the'Legislature had increased in its influence. The di ff usion of wealth and information had greatly increased the rower of the people in the scale of the Constitution. The ChancAlor 'of the Exchequer then read a long eoract from Mr. Burke's book with respect to pub llc (economy, and showed that the opirucnts of Id;.. Marie were in many respects totally different from those of the Right Honourable Gentleman. Mr. BANKES suggested the idea of a postpone ment of the debate till his resolutions were printed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER acceciA on caudition that the postponement was sub sequent to the debate on the expedition. MT. WHITBREAD could not allow the clues: tier:, even now, to pass without a few observations. H. remarked on the peculiarly bad grace with which the Right Hon. Gentleman came forward in defence of sinecures, he himself possessed .of Sinecures,,.tht greatest rerersionist in the kingdom, and who hid in the recent gift of one of those offices, to. Mr. Yorke, shewn how widely the original 'principle for which they were intended had been abandoned. (Near, hear!) The conduct of his constituents plainly sheaved the feeling of the country with respect to such grants.— (Hear, hear!) He could not help thinking that M. Yorke had in this been but justly treated, and cer tainly did not regret it, however inclined he might be to confes s hi s pur i ty of intention. This dis posal of Sinecure Offices could not continue—it - was rendered evident from the pan hlet of the Right 1-I :mat:rable Gentleman oppoaite Mr. Rose), who •wa s an atohor in mo r e senses one- it an one—it was rendered , evi oont f rom t h e pamphlet of Lord Mel. .1---It was rendered evident from the pamphlet of P110: 1, .C., ^ LI —on. Member, all of which plainly proved I tf i l a l d t c r! , :f .. publi . c were plundered. —(Hear.)—A note . (. 1 L into the notorious work of the Gentleman op p;:•,-; :opecting Lord Carrington ; it was most invi -17.11:c, and Lord Carrington, though a subscriber to 'jr.l ieo . Pilttr: ey r sco l n h lf . orts . , had ref use d to r e c eiv e a n y ' o f ten had been subscribed to pay his 41 bzs; he hoped so much could be said by the. Right Honourable Gentleman and his friends. Another most invidious note respecting Mr. Fox was to be found i n t h e same production. A * defence of these offices had been, however, set up by an Hon. Gentle clan, who ::ad they were dsaid collected Exche quer, but not pa i d out of the ft- from thisw the asoneo fthe roisest del us i ons h e had ever he ard attempted to be imposed upon the p atience of the publi c . H ow did th e money g:a into the Exchequer, but ,from the purses of the people ? W as not every shilling of it paid from the ht.i:hesari? u scltd e. so was ashamed t o re p eat arguments w hi c h often already, and regretted much the postponement now proposed,' as he was ready at that Zi the vih n i t c t h o m d oo that which had been long expected, finecure.s alto mu st be done at last—namely, to abolish The people were now disgusted with the gros s s g :d y el er usions which had been practised. It was idle to soup ,„ , that the power of the Crown was 1, ,ht to be abr idged by the abolition of sinecures. fecl'le.onncsbalensdtstreth of the Crown consisted in the af. confidence of the people.—(Hear.)—He "tended that an economical reform must at length Le a dopted, trit , and h e h oped that the people would stand 'Y by the man who had the boldness apd virtue to Porsn e it to th e Mr. op • en d. SE defended *hat had beets called his aot ;r i, confut u t ' ci work , and denied that any feet in it bad been ti d ib .i.! he also declared, he had not 'participa ted in sum subscribed to pay Mr. Pitt's debts, and crheivteid or uttered whole course of his life he had never con uttered a disrespectful aentiment of Mr. Fox. in ncte w ith respect to Lord Carrington had beeh ' able Gente4deinta second edition. The Right Honour conclusion _ f .Tt, Was so much a ff ected towards the teed. Ul ms*peech as to be scarcely able to pro. Mr. WH IT BREAD explained, and thot.,,,lit the Right Honourable Gentleman ought trhank him for giving him an opportunity of thus pu %cly retrac ting his errors or misapprehensions. The correction in a second edition was not enough—" Pdai irrevo tabile verburn ;" and many might have seei( a first edi tion who never saw the second, which contained the list and Correction of its errata. After a few words from Mr. H. TIVITINTON,_Sir .T. NEWPORT, Mr. riaptEs, and Mr. MARTIN, the further consideration of the resolutions was referred to this day fortnight, the Chairman reported progress, and the House resumed. Mr. Secretary RYDER br.aught up copies of letters ficom Mr. Canning and the Marquis Wellesley, to Mr. Frere, which were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. , Mr. CROKER brought up the answer of Sir R. Keats to cer tain questions put to him respecting the Walcheren Expedition; ordered to be printed. The House having resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, 5E14,662 were voted towards the erection of. a pier at Ardglass, In the county of Down. The other Orders of the Day were dispbeetrof, and the House rose at Half-past Twelve. • THE EVENING STA 11. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 20. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent Cons. for money 6911—acc. 68a. 5 per Cent. Navy 93f—Bonds 16s. prem. Exc. Bills (aid.) 99.115. pre.—Ditto (33d.) 14s. 15s. pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Cons. 681 i Exch. Bills, (3 ; d) 21s. 15!. pre. I 4 per Cent shut Lottery Tickets £24 6s. 5 per C. Navy 98; 98 1 Bank Stock for open. 2761 India Bonds,lss. 17s. 15s. pre. Cons, for April 69.,} 681 694351 One of the French journals noticed in our last con tains the following address voted by the Senate in re ply to NAPotatox's message on the subject of his mar riage, with . the subjoined reply : ADDRESS OF THE SENATE TO NAPOLEON. SIRE —Your Imperial and Royal Majesty has been pleased to announce your approaching marriage with the Archduchess MMIIA LOUISA, the daughter of t 1 Emperor of AUSTRIA. The Senate, Sire, feels most sensibly that joy which all Frenchmen must experience on learning so memo rable an event. Every thing that interests the hap piness of your Majesty is dear to all Frenchmen. The august Princess,•whom the wishes of the Peo ple of Austria are about to accompany, will arrive on the banks of the Seine, suntunded by the tributes of the grateful love of your people. Her presence in the capital of the Grand Empire will be %happy sign of the duration of that Continental peabe which is ce mented by the inuderation• of your character, and which perfidious insinuations can no longer disturb. How happy a destiny is that of Naint.uou and MARIA LOVISA The happiness of the World is in your lunch, Sire, and your. happiness is to be confided to that young Princess, whose brilliant qualities have fixed your regai4r. Seated near you on the first of thrones, and placed to high in your thoughts, she will fulfil the wish of the French people, she will render you happy, she will charm the Hero's hours of leisure ! May France be indebted to her for YOUNG PRINCES, who, under the paternal eyes of your Majesty, shall learn to render themselves worthy of the great name which will be transmitted to thim. By What gratitude will not the French be bound to her Thlt will love her for the love of yon—they will love her fcr all her virtues—they will; above all, adore her for the felicity she will give to you, and,.like posterity, they will confound in their homage the greatest of Monarchs with her, who will have to embellish .the most glorious of lives.—May that precious life' be also the longest Such is the most earnest desire of the French people. . The Assembly decrees that this Address be pre sented to his Kijesty the Emperor smiting, by the Senate in a body. . REPLY OF NAPOLEON. " Senators—l am touched with the sentiments you have expressed. The Empress MARIA LOUISA will be a tender mother to the French ; she will also be to me a blessing. .1 am happy to have been called by PROVIDENCI to reign over this affectionate and feeling people, whom I have found, under all the circum stances of my life, so faithful andi&kind to me." The following article, contained In a private letter, is not unworthy of notice, as it exhibits an example of one of the means by which BONAPARTE endeavours to conciliate persons of all sects and opinions : Mute, MARCH 10—His MAJESTY has appointed M. CoLooNA (Grand Rabbi of the Central Consistory of the Israelites) a Knight of the Iron Crown. Our Readers have already been informed that the late dispatches from France related to an exchange of prisoners of the Medical Staff.—A civil message has, we understand, been likewise received relative to the conduct of an English Officer, whose name, for the present, we shall forbear to mention, but whom the French Government fancy they are com pelled to try by a Court-martial. His alledged of fence is this : that having been on his parole, btit• being, on account of some irregularity, subjected to a more rigorous confinement, he had repeatedly escaped from prison, and had as repeatedly been retaken. The last time he absconded, he joined two French deser ters, and attempted to effect his escape with them.— ' The offence for which he is to be tried, is for having rescued these deserters from the gens.d'armes, in `whose custody they were. The English Officer pre sented a memorial in exculpation of his conduct; but the offence is repreiented to be such as to render the form of a trial indispensable. BONAPARTt, however, has consented, that in the event of his being found guilty, he shall be pardoned ; but that with the form . . NAVAL .INTELLIGANLE, FALMI,U.TH, M/OCH i 7. The fleet for Portugal, Spain, and the Mediteira; nean, passed this port to-day, and were joined Ly the ships - here:—Wind E. PLYMOU 111, MARCH is: Sailed the DOLPHIN, '22 guns, Captain PtPair, fci .Jersey PORTSMOUTH, MAR 'lf 1 9 . The ZENORIA is appointed convoy to the West Indies.—Sunday the VICTORY went out of harbnur. This morniug the GANGES made the signal to get out of harbour, but the wind came round so far to the southward as to prevent her.—Wind S.E. • YARMOUTH, MARCH 19. Sailed the MAW.; er_,_ Captain SM I T H , do a cruize,Arrived the PAZ from Portsmouth ; the PRINCESS Au- GUSTA from Leith ; and the Commerce, M. Amman, from the Baltic, with a cargo of deals for a market. The EDGAR, 74 guns, Captain Povwrz, will sail for the Belt on the arrival of sit gun-brigs, which are to accompany her, and which are daily ekpected. DEAL, MARCH 19. Sailed the ARIEL and RAVEN sloops of war, on a cruize, off Flushing. Arrived the VIPPR cutter, from a cruize, off Dungeness.—Wind S. S. E. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Oftavisamo, Matte* 19.—Arrived the Fancy; Msre, from Valencia; Brilliant, Lockland, from Smyrna; Atlanta, Pincher, and Louisa, Moor, front Malta ; and the Charles, Llck, from Palermo. Sailed the Preston, Sturroch, fur India • Linskell, Hogg, for Quebec ; Youn g Ch ar l es , Pi tc h er, for St:Michael*, ; and the Marena, Lambert, for Jamaica. 'of trial, the laws and constitution of the French em.; Tire cannot dispense. Letters to the 15th of October from India, repre sent our affairs in that quarter as in an improving state of prosperity. The 8 per cent. paper; which in 1798 was at 17 per cent. discount, now bears a pre rnium of 4 per cen t. a n d t h e GO vern M ent i s about to a Psi lower the rate of interest on the public Loans. • No.serious interruption to the public tranquillity is to the expected; but it appears that the declining years of of ha the PEI SHWA , an d a disposition to contend fo r th e aal to g succession to thi s 'nom i na l supreme authority, had ;c) far t given rise t o a f ew h ost il e i n di cations on the part of E. ,the Mahratta Chiefs ; and it is said, that an irruption , tin a cr into the territories of the Petstiv.rA might possibly PRINCESS soon take place. I n t hi s case , i t would be difficultp M. Atka to avoid hostili t i es ; f or , b y t h a _T reatY of Bassein, we for a mar car stipulated to uphold hi s authority ; and; if an attempt z, will sa , which are should be made to divert the succession to it from the , xpected. regular channel, it may become necessary that the British Government should interpo se . Th e affairs of is of war, on the Mahratta s seem to b e i nvo l ve d i n some confusion, 'PR cutter, fro; from the situation o f H OLKAR , t h e most act i ve, and, E. next to the Rajah of BERAR, the most powerful of the Fancy, Mare, frort Halvahs Chiefs. It app ears , that HOLKAR has, for ;Atlanta, Pinch er from some tirne, been in a state of mental derangement‘ :r India • Linskell, , Some of the acc oun t s state , t h at MEER KHAN, a ,tor St; Michael',; • follower of HOLKAR, who was so roughly handled by Lord LACE, has made his appearance in the ter ritories of the REJAIi of Bettan, the Mahratta Chief- I tain, who has solicited the a id o f t h e C ompany ' s f orces. (CIRCULAR.) Whitehall, March 10, 181 P.; An army, amounting to nearly 20,000, and composed ' sta—t am directed by Mr. Secretary Rya r.R to transmit tor principally of the subsidiary forces at Taulna and Hy- your information the e n cl o s e d copy o f t h e 107th Clause ° of the General Militia Act (42 Geo. 111. cap. 90.) the provisions of drabad, has been formed under Colonel CLOSE, and which are, by the 6th Clause of the Local Militia Act, made is moving towards the frontiers of Derar, in order to equally tipplicable_to the Local Militia. Mr. Rtnaz wishes to call your particular attention to that part of It which relates to secure the tranquillity of the possessions of our allies, the constant residence of the Adjutant at Head-quarters, and to the regular transmission of monthly re t u rn s to t hi s Office; r.ncl the PEISITSVA and the Nizas r . Thi s movement i s re- he desires that the provisions of the Legislature may be duly and presented as having been made more with a view to regularly complied with. It Is also judged necessary titat the returns in question should afford employment to our army than from any appre f be made on the Ist of every month, and according to the form ;pension of danger. herein inclosed, specifying the number of Non-cemmi,siored Officers and Drummeti that may have been sick or absent dir:ng In another column we have inserted a letter from the preceding month, and also the number of days during which Canton, of the 29th of September, which presents they may have been so sick or absent. • lam also directed by M r . R IDER to suggest the prapriety of , some interesting particulars. I not giving leave of absence at any one time to more than one.; • fourth of the number of Non-commissioned Officers and Dna& ' mess retained at Head-quarters on permanent pay, and of limiting such leave to 28 days In each year. You will no doubt see the necessity of ordering the Adjutant to make a daily muster of the Non-commissioned Officers an/ Drununers under his command. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) iILNRY GOULBURN. The Commandant of the Corps of Local Militia. • The clause alluded to relates to the residence of the Adju tant at Head-qaarters ' and his not bein g per m itt e d to l eave t h em ' . but for a short period in each year ; and to the regulation of the. Regiment during his absence. The 2d battalion of the 14th Foot ivill march into Portsmouth on the 21st and 22d instant, And embark in transports for Gibraltar. General Fox, Governor cf the garrison, arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday : he inspected the fortifications on this side the water yesterday, accompanied by the Lieutenant-Governor ; this day he visited Gosport. , Friday the Ist regiment of Royal Edinburgh Vo lunteers, commanded by the Right Hon. CHARLES HOPE, were reviewed and inspected on Burntsfield Links, by Lieutenant-Col. Sir JAMES G. BAIRD, Dart. We are happy to hear that the new Army Medical Board has shewn every wish to correct the many abuses which have, unhappily for the service, t ,, 0 long exi:;tA in that Department. Their first public act has been to nominate an experienced Army Physician, to go out to Cadiz to take the direction of the medical arrange ments which it may be necessary to' make in that gar rison.—We understand that Dr. FELLOWES, who has been appointed to this important duty, is at the head of the Staff Physicians, and is well acquainted with the diseases of Spain, having resided in that country, and set ved in the campaigns of Flanders and Holland —in the Expeditions to the West Indies, to the Hel der and Portugal :—and, when the fatal yellow fever prevailed at Gibraltar in 1804, he was ordered there, and lately to superintend the Military Hospitals of the Wakheren sick at Colchester.— , By thus employing men of professional experience, united to other indis pensable qualifications, the Medical Department of the Army cannot fail to become respectable, and of the first importance to the service. THE ARMY. The Election for a Member for the town of Hythe - in the place of the late THOMAS GODFREY, Esq. came on yeisterday at two o'olock : when the Mail left that town, at four o'clock, the following was the state of the Poll— Sir JONN PERKING, Bart. - 51 WILLIAM Bum, Esq. - - - 30 J. H. BR T DGt 3, Esq. - - - - 18 There are not above 190 Voters in all. A trading vessel arrived yesterday from Cadiz, and a sloop of war from the Mediterranean.. A consider able quantity of merchandize was shipping off from Cadiz, and the inhabitants were daily diminishing by emigration. Some letters have been received from Rio Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco, to the date of the '26th Ja nuary. The PRINCE REGENT principally resided at Santa Cruz. A change had taken place in one im portant branch of the public service, the Conde d'AL MEIDA, who was formerly Ambassador at this Court, having been appointed Mini,ter of Marine. The commerce of Bahia and Pernambuco has greatly improved, it not being liable to the same dif ficulties and exactions to which it is exposed at the seat of the Portuguese Government. Accounts were yesterday received from Holland, which state that BONAPARTE had issued a decree or -1 dering all the American property in France to be con fiscated and sold, and the produce to be vested in the , Imperial Funds, until the nature of the relations be tween England and the United States should be ascer tained. The same letters add, that General ARM STRONG had presented a strong remonstrance against this violent measure, in which he declared that he could enter into no treaty, nor hold any intercourse with the French Government, until the property con fiscated was unconditionally restored ; and concluded by demanding passports. If this intelligence should be confirmed, we may consider a rupture between Ame rica and France as unavoidable. We cannot give it as ja fact to which implicit credit is due, but we are assured that an account to the same effect has been 'received by one of the departments of Government. It was objected to some of our Volunteers that they were too fat for soldiers—that objection is pretty well done with, as most of the corps are Lila eno:igh now. Friday evening last, the late residence of General MALCOLM, its Mansfield -street, was opened tothe world of fashion, by the PERSIAN AMBASSADOR. The 6 ptin cipal rooms in that mansion were fitted up and illu minated, for the occasion expressly, with great taste. The Ambassador received the company in great form. His Excellency was dressed in a very rich [ tissue ♦est of gold ; he wore many jewels of inestima ble value; he was much pleased with the•company; the ladies he complimented on their beauty in very good English. The company staid until nearly 5 o'clock. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday, at two o'clock, an Inquest was held, at the Grange Inn, Carey -street, before Anthony Gell, Esq. Coroner far Westminster, on two bodies that were dag out of the ruins of the place where the fire happened, a few days ago, in Holles.street, Clare-market. CHELMSFORD ASSIZES. John Wilson Robinson, a foot soldier, was indicted for feloniously uttering three forged notes, purporting to be notes of the Bank of England. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the indictment, and was convicted. Baron MACDONALD took frequent occasion to ob serve, in the course of the trials, that there was no county in England so much disgraced by this species of robbery, of servants upon their masters, as the county of Essex ; the offence was so heinous and pre. valent, that it became necessary to put it down by the severity of the law. In the course of this Assize he had sentenced one receiver to 14 years transportation, because he considered the encouragement for rob bery held out by a receiver, rendered him worse than twenty thieves. He had dealt by the thieves them selves, this Assizes, with a lenity they little deserved; but he declared, that henceforth, and at every future Assizes of the county where he should preside, he should transport every such thief convicted betbre James Heath, the driver of a north post chaise, was capitally indicted for feloniously driving his post chaise against Joseph Dawes, en the Bth of August last, on the high road at Romford, who thereby lost his life. The prisoner was acquitted, but received a strong admonition from • Chief Baron MACDONALD for his future conduct, as he had now a most narrow and critical escape from capital conviction. The following capital convicts received sentence of death : • Wm. Nichols and Thomas Dean. for stealing an ox ; Charles Raven, for a sim;lar crime ; John Plum. mer, for a burglary and a robbery : Henry Newland, for stealing bank notes above 40s. in a dwelling house; Wm. Payne, for stealing in a dwelling house to the value of £5. 165. - 641. ; John Wilson, for horse-steal ing ; and John Brown, for burglary and robbery. • Though the bodies were in a dreadfully mutilated state, their friends were enabled, by some small mi nutia, to identify their persons v---the one was sworn to be the remains of Brodie, the tinman, on whose wife an Inquest was held a few days ago ; and the other those of Elizabeth Rake, a poor woman, aged 62, who lodged on the attic story as well as Brodie and his wife. It is supposed that finding the lower part of the house was all in flames, they were too much terrified to attempt a passage that way ; and that the roof at length fell in upon them, and preci pitated three or four unfortunate persons into the very heart of the fire ; Mrs. Brodie happened to fall on a beam on the two-pair floor, and her body, as before stated, was prevented from falling into the great mass of fire. The verdict of course was Accr- DESTAL DEATH. There are the shattered remains of another person (supposed to be a man) now visible in the ruins. • ,• , .