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Ilk i - ilor Mr. CROKER conceived, that all authors must be proud of contributing to the supply of those great reservoirs of literature, which enabled so many of them to write for the public advantage, and their Own credit. Therefore he could not subscribe to the objection urged against the proposed grants to the several public libraries; and as to the booksellers, they could not suffer by those grants, for they would always take care to make the consumer or purchaser of their books pay every tax to which they might be subjeded. There was no reason, indeed, to appre hend that these gentlemen would ever fail to take care of their own interest. Mr. MARSH said, the privilege in question on in times not very favourable to property or liberty, namely, in the reign of Charles 11. and was, he believed, an act of regulation and police to re strain the liberty of the press. Sir E. BRYDGES was against the Bill. An Hon. and Learned Gentleman had "mentioned as an in stance of the modern abuses of the art of book-malt ing, that though :ill the works of the immortal poet Grey were to be had for a shilling, the booksellers had lately got up two quarto volumes of his remains, the price of which was 7 guineas. Now if all that was good was to be had for a shilling, there was no great evil in refusing the Universities those two Co. volumes which cost so much and were worth nothing. Mr. SMITH spoke in reply. The Bill was then ordered to be engrossed, and Lead a third time to-morrow. Mr. MARSH presented the petition he had previ. +=sly Alluded to, from Mr. Fisher, stating his labours in making drawings of various subjects of antiquity throughout thi: kingdom, to the number of near 50(X), to which some letter-press description was necessary. He had specimens of painting earlier than the time at which Lord Orford thought no such things existed in this country. The petitioner complained of the ex nse he must inc ur by g i v i ng t h e e l even cop i es.— Ordered to_ lie on the table. Mr. CROKER moved that the House to-morrow resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to consider farther of the gracious Message of the Prince Regent, respecting the Duke of Wellington. Lord P ALMERSTON brought in the Agent Ge nerals' a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Lord PALMERSTON brought in a Bill to defray the expences of the Local Militia.—Read a first time and to be read a second time to-morrow. Sir T. AC KLAND presented a Petition from Great Stanmore aipinst the Slave TrAde.—Adjourned. HALIFAX PAPERS. MONTREAL, JUNE 11. 1c is with extreme regret we have to acquaint the the unfortunate result of a gallant enter prize by the ••ate of our squ uh on on Lake Ontario, under the command of Captains f',.ph am and Spils bury, of the Royal iJ ivy, against a flotilla of the enemy's craft, laden with ri:vial stores, which had got into Sandy Creek on its war [mom Oswego to Sac. kett's Harbour. On the mortunk of the 29th ult. a 'arge boat, with two '24 pnunJers, ..:nd a 19i-inch calile, for the enemy's new ship, was captured by our squadron, having sailed fr. m Oswego, the evening before, with 13 others. Captains Popham and Spiii but y, with two gun-boats, and some smaller craft, having on board about 200 seamen and marines, en tered the Creek on the morning of the 21st, where the enemy's flonik being shortly afterwards discovered, parties were landed on each side of the Creek, and proceeded together with the boats, without opposi tion, to within about a quarter of a mile of the enemy, when suddenly a considerable force, consisting of 150 riflemen, nesriy 200 Indians, and a numerous body of militia and cavalry t attacked and soon overpowered our small party, whose gallant resistance to such numbers proving unavailing, a surrender became in dispensible to save our brave men from certain death. Our loss on the occasion was 19 killed, and 50 wounded. Ms. Hoan, Master's Mate of the Mon treal, is among the killed, and Lieutenants Cox and Veagh, of the Marines, are severely wounded. The boats also fell into the hands of the enemy. P*OII THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCES. or public rnjustice, if a bookseller were punished in being obliged to dispose of eleven copies of such a work gratis Mr. MARSH said, if he bed been present in the Committee on this Bill, he should certainly have felt it his duly to move the omission of that clause which went to .sve to the Universities eleven copies of all books published in the United Kingdom. He did not enter the House in time, or he should have pre sented a petition from a Gentleman connected with the East India House, named Fisher, who, it ap. peered, had travelled all over Great Britain, for the purpose of collecting specimens of painting, architec ture, and the arts, fOr the piii pose of hereafter pub. lishing them, with plates and illustrations ; but who, having finished his wok with respect to one county only, that of Bedford, was deterred by the great ex. pense of the work, and the necessity of presenting the Universities with eleven copies of it, from proceeding further. This was a proof of the tlisadvahi age which arose from the existence of such a law ; and he had no doubt that many other instances, of a similar nature, might be cited. The Hon. Gentleman con cluded by giving notice, that he should, on the third reading of the Bill, move to omit that clause in the Bill which went to allow eleven copies to the Uui. versifies. Whilst France contended for the dominion of Eu rope, and menaced even Russia with subjugation, it was natural that the usurpations of England on the ocean should be tolerated ; but, from the moment that danger disappears, the galling oppressions of England way, in their turn, have the due effect, and AMC with a like resistance. Since the year 11307, Russia has been a leading Power in support of neu tral rights ; and we trust that her present illustrious Sovereign will, in that respect. follow the example of the Empress Catherine. The late offer of his me. diation is a strung proof that he is not indifferent to that policy ; while the rejection of it by the British Government may, perhaps, operate with him as an additional motive to pursue it. Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, and Spain, have the same interest; as have likewise the United Netherlands, should they be came independent. Of France we will remark only, that should a Peace be made on such conditions as to secure from future apprehensions the other Powers of the COMinelli t we way reasonably expect her joint • . • and harnionhing . oti.bieitat3oii ivith th . dna in tile . ..4n* . system. Whatever main be the tone which the Bri tish Government assumes in the negotiation at Got tenblirgi,i or the part which the Baltic Powers take in the questions depending there, it is incumbent on the United diates to support, with a manly firmness, the rigists for which we contend. Confident in our resources—in the virtue, the patriotism, and energies of our fenny..-citizens, we have nothing to fear from the hostility of Englandi should her Government, by vainly attempting to dictate unjust and dishonour able conditions, impose on us the necessity of prose cuting the war. 70 THE EDITOR OF 7718 STAR. Stn—On reading your just obsetvations on the new Alien Act now before the House of Parliament, I notice that all your remarks on the insuf f iciency of the Act is with respect to Aliens arriving and de • parting ; and not a word is said respecting the many thousands (I think Mr. Ann:Norm; mentioned there being 18,000) of Aliens already in this country, that this Act does not affect in the least ; they may travel to the Sea Ports with impunity, and embark, as you observe, when there is no penalty or law in the Act against the Captain, at any port or place they please where there is no Collector of the Customs. They may resort to the Dock-yard, and then we may con stantly see in your Paper similar paragraphs to that of last Saturday, respecting the Magazine at Ayr.— Really it is truly alarming that this Isle should be come the sanctum sanctorum of all those wretches who are fearful of meeting their just punishment in those countries that they have already brought to ruin, and we be obliged to foster our bitterest enemies without any check or controul. veRAX. Tuesday n orning. THE EVENING STAR. LON DON. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1814. PRICE OF s rocKs THIS DAY A I' TWELVE O'CLOCK. Reduced 663—Cons. 6641—f0r acc. 69 f 4 per Ct. 844 —3 per Ct. Navy 971—Olen. si pre. Bank Long Anus. 16 11-16ths—Indu 80nd5,135. 145. pre. Eachequer Bd ls, 3e. Ss. pee. This tiorning we received Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday. An Address of Thanks has been voted by the Chamber of Deputies to the KING, for his Exftes; of the real state of the kingdom. The motion was opposed as informal, but excited no dis cussion. The debates of last week chiefly relate to the system of Taxation in France, which is oppres sive in the extreme, and still retains too much of the scourging principles of the NAPOLEON Dynasty.— Various modifications have been voted, and they await the King's approval. His MAJESTY still continues indisposed—he is un able to attend Mass, but gives audiences. PARIS, JULY 16. His Majesty has not yet appointed any Admini stration for Cayenne. The nomination of Victor Hughes as Governor, therefore, is founded on ru. mour only. The use of the Napoleon Catechism has been so lemnly forbidden in the departments of the Rhine, by the Provisional Government. The same prohi bition is expected to be extended to France. A column of English cavalry, consisting of 1200 men and 1300 horses, is in full march for the De partment of the Somme and the North, to proceed to Brussels. The Cratle, a Paper published at Brussels, an. nounces the entrance of the Swedish army into Nor way, after several combats. This wants confirmation. Baroness de Stael Holstein has left Paris for Cop. pel, near Geneva, whence she will proceed to Italy. Fv.m Italy, we learn that the silk-worms have been very unproductive this season; and the price of silk has accordingly risen. FRONTIERS OF NORWAY, JUNE 40. The ports of Norway are blockaded by twelve fri gates I viz. four English, four Swedish, and four Russian. According to the Norwegian Gazette, the land forces of Norway amount to 3'2,000 infantry and 40(X) cavalry, 5000 of whom only are in active service, but all the inhabitants of the values are en rolled as volunteers. • We still hope, however, that all will terminate favourably. We have news from Copenhagen to the 14th June. All was tranquil there t Scotch and Dutch vessels continued to smuggle in grain in abundance. ZURICH, JULY 6. The English Minister, Mr. Canning, arrived here on the Sd instant. Next day he had an audience of the President of the Swiss Diet, M. Reinhardt ; and this day he gave a grand dinner to all the Foreign Mini sters at Zurich. ALTONA, JUNE 24. It is reported that the Swedes have failed in an attempt to penetrate into Norway, and lost a great number of men.—Bremen Gazene. A slight reverse of fortune has befallen our opera tions in Canada. Halifax Papers to the 13th ult. contain accounts, that on the 29th May, a detach ment of 200 men, headed by Captains POPHAM and Smsauftv, was overpowered by numbers, at Sandy Creek, and compelled to surrender. It was a boat expedition, and if successful would have crippled the American armament on the Lakes to a formidable extent. An article in the National Intelligences gravely insi nuates that Russia will take part with America in demolishing our maritime rights I How pertina ciously does the present Government of America ad here to its worse than frantic policy I Fraud, delu sion, and deception, are the engines employed to re tone& the people to die continuance of the war. I'l4 veil will of course be speedily removed. The Copy-Right Bill deserves the particular atten tion of every Member of Parliament. There never was a claim pteferred in Parliament more directly opposed to all the ptinciples of equity and sound po. licy, than that of the Universities to have eleven copies gratis of every Author's work, and of every imprbired edition. The supporters of these claims tell us, that a Tax thus laid upon Authors, for the benefit of the Universities, will be laid by the Book sellers upon the public. This is an admission that the public alone ought to bear public burthens—and no private individuals exclusively. If then the Universities are in want of funds [but the assertion is false], let them be supplied from the public generally—let them have a grant for the pur. chase of books. To recognize their claim in the Bill, would be to legalize oppression and injustice, and would prove a great hindrance to tl.e progre,s of science and literature. We have often cbserved, that public bodies feel no compunction, as bodies, in doing that which would make the face of any mem. ber burn with shame, as an individual. The de. mend of the Universities is a strong proof of the justness of the remark. Yesterday, a little before two o'clock, the Princess CHARLOTTE, attended by her Ladies in Waiting, Mrs. LEWIS, her dresser, &c. left Carlton House for Cran bourn-Lodge. Her Royal Highness went in one of the PRINCE REGENT'S carriages, and attended by the Prince's servants. Her saddle-horses went before ; eight of the Royal Bays are to be at the disposal of her Royal Highness during her residence at Cranbourn- Lodge. Her four phaeton ponies were exercised in the King's-mews yesterday, in expectation of being ordered for Cranbourn Lodge. Lord STEWART, brother of Lord CASTLEREAGH, is to be our Ambassador to the Court of Vienna. His Lordship will be accompanied by Captain Frrz• CLARENCE. Yesterday the Workmen began new erections in the front of Carlton House, for the Grand Ball and Fete on Thursday next. The Duke of SAXE Weisteut and suite embarked on Sunday, at Harwich, on board the Albion packet, for Helvoetsluys. The Petition for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, presented last night to both Houses of Parliament, from the Tower Hamlets and vicinity, was signed by 3:3,681 , names, on 410 feet of parchment Yesterday afternoon several Members of the House of Commons inspected the General Post Office, in Lombard -street, in order to ascertain, for their own satisfaction, how far it is sufficiently commodious for carrying on the business of that department. Lord CASTLIMEAGH gave a sumptuous entertain ment on Sunday to the Prince Regent, the Dukes of York and Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, &c. The Officers of the Army gave a superb Fete last night at Burlington House, in honour of the Duke of WELLINGTON. Yesterday a Common Hall was held at the Guild. hall of the City of London, to elect two Sheriffs, in the room of WILLIAM BARLOW, Esq. discharged, and 'JOHN Trromws, Esq. who has paid the fine to be ex cused. The names of the several Gentlemen in no mination were put up, and the Sheriffs declared Wit,. LIAM CLARKE, Esq. and JOSEPH LEIGH, Esq. to be duly elected for the year ensuing. THE GRAND JURILEL—In our Paper of yesterday we gave the Official Programme of the approaching grand Jubilee in the Parks. We have n•iw to add the following :—The whole of the Green Park, out side the circular fence round the TeinCe, will be , open to the public at large, where, from the gradual rising of the ground in every p :rt, a most excellent view will be obtained of the T.:mple, and in most pacts of the Pagoda and Bridge in St. James's.paik. From the Green Park also the people will have a communication into the Mall, and up Constitution hill to Hyde-park, where the Naumachia will corn , mence about five o'clock in the afternoon. In this , representation of a sea-fight, the various manoeuvres of two hostile fleets will be practised, with every ap parent circumstance of I eality, such as chacing, form ing and breaking .the line, with distant and close action ; occasional and heavy cannonading, and at nightfall the effect of fire-ships on an enemy's fleet will be displayed. After dark grand fire-works will be exhibited on the Terrace of Kensington-gardens, at the head of the Serpentine, with the most extensive, flights, and the largest girandoles of rockets, rising from amidst the trees in the gardens. A twenty feet balloon will also ascend from the terrace in the after.' noon, from which parachutes of various forms will be let down. This Park also will be partially illumi nated with Chinese lanthorns. In short, although for the convenience of all classes, tickets of admission are allowed to be purchased for the inclosure of St. James's Park, still those persons who do not feel in. clined, or may not be able to afford the purchase of tickets, Will, in fact, have full possession of two Parks out of the three, and a view of the third, and will find also that equal attei.tion has been paid to their amusement, security, comforts and taste. Baaan.—This day the LORD MAYOR ordered the ' price to advance one penny in the peek-loaf —to take place on Thursday— the price of the quartern loaf will then be Eleven pence Three-farthings. Private letters have been received from Flanders, and the following will be read with some interest, on account of the peculiar importance attached to the future situation of the . Scheldt as a commercial station : ANTWIUIP, JULY 14.—Lord Lynedock, his Ce. nerals and Staff, are ordered home on the '24th inst. The Prince of Orange assumes the government of Brussels; but whether Piro tempore, or as a prelude to the union of this beautiful country with Holland, no one can tell. Thu natives are in great consternation at the thoudits of such a measure, for they hate the Dutch beyond all other nations. The fortifications of Antwerp are to be demolished by us, and that im• mediately. We shall still maintain a small army here. The greater part of the depot, the commissa riat, the hospital, &c. will be broken up." ~h~B aR~. • • • The 29th Regim en t was i ns p ec t e d on t h e . .I' April last; at Gibraltar; by.tsfajnr-Gen rat trEonywo. TON, when lie expressed himself highly sAtisfiv. l l,_with the manner in whi c h Major 11.0us,and the Officera of that regiment, had trame the corps acid Secured the health and c om f ort o f the mcn. l#e iilio paid some well-merited compliments to the regiment fx the distinguished valour with which it had cooducted iueli during the greatest and most awful event, which were ever witnessed by the eye of a soldier. The Veterinar y Surgeons of the several corm are ordered to inspect the hossei on their Landing from France, and to direct those to be destroyed that ars not deemed serviceable. The number yet to be lao4; ed exceeds 11,000. Di:mounteil detachments et the we Guards and 3d an.l sth Dragoon Guards, arrived in Cant. diary on ‘Vedneql.ty, on Cieir r , ,ntes to join their res . peed,' regiments; !Living I):*ss landed at Deal. out of st transport him.) B i t i r d e • Air • In consequence of the arrival of the heavy cavalry on the opposite coast, the depot Tined in Canterbury has been broken up an,f the dctachns..nts have pro. ceeded on their tnutes to Ihe plates where their re: spc:tive Regitrents are to b.: ca .tined. The Dragoon Guards for York ; ht Royal DrAgewnts for Exeter ; 5 h DragOen Guards for Cr:kite:ter ; 4tfi (Q•ievu'. Own) Dragoons for Liverpool, to embark for Ireland ; and the 3d (King's Own) Drago ms for Durham, Nt:wcastle, and Darlington, that baba.: quent Jestinat;on, it is sum) is9o, North Britain. 4\4V44. IN*l LLIVENCI. FA 1.7400 JULY id. No arrivals. Sailed the Flitelliabroke packet, with a mail ft,r Jamaica, Duke of Kent packet, with a mail for Bourdeaux: the Express packet for Surinam, it gone into the Road.—Wind N. lute weather. COWES, JULY Is. The Fleet und e r co ;t voy o f his bialestro Alpo Rue WARD, TVRIAN, and tit u wow, boand to Spain, tugal and the Mediterranean, remain wind-bound Ia our roads.—Wind W.S.W. PORTSMOUTH, JULY Arrived his Kijesty'sship HYENA from the Downs, bound for Bermuda and H.slii.tx ; also arrived the Thomas, El zabeth, Roy.il African and several other transports from liourdeaux. No sailinge to-d 47.— Came into hatbour his Majesty's ship GALAI AA. No additional coaroysappointed.—Wied S.W. JULY Came down from the Rived* Malta. LLEWELLYN, for C o nstantinople. Sailed the Atalanta tender for Calais. —Wind S. W. RAMSGATE, JUNE is. Arrived the transports Mary (V). and Isabella (CK) from Calais, with part of tl,e 13th and 18th Regiments of Foot on board. DOVER, JULY It. Last night arrived at the York Hotel, his Royal Highness the PRINCE ROYAL of BAVARIA, accost). pawed by Count ALBERT BAPPENHEINI, his Aide.de- Camp, and Count de STUPAIITELE And Baron MsEsz. BURGH. This day, about twelve o'clock, the Illustri ous Strangers embarked under a salute on board the )(layout sloop.nf war, Captain DeNasals, and btood over for Calais, with a fine breeze. I)IIPARTURRS FOR FRANCE raost rat Yolit Hntrt—Lbrd Cahir, Sir James Anderson, Baron Abets, Gamut Laskin, for Germiry, General Murray and family, Mrs. Percival and fa. mily, I ady Rolle Lady 'Litchfield, Lady Fane and d aug h ter , Lady C. Camp hell, Lord and 1.. L ! ), Dootirl!y, Mr. and Mrs. Paget, T. Taylor, Esq. Blackburn, M. P. Hon. F. Pow let, and Sir T. Stanley. ARRIVAL* FROM k!t•NCZ AT ?NZ You liovat —Eari TA. Dna, Lord Portarlington, Major Hosrard.Major G66E114044 Mountenay, Countess la Minden, Captain Chltrihnun ' Madan a Overley, Madam Dupont and fantly, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. Burne, Lord Blaney, Lord Cartioetan ' Earl of Rain Lady North, Lady Sidhey, I ply Bond, Mks Frit..ett, Hu n. Miss Drummond, tioa. M. Cunliffe Barnmss de l Sporheit. Count Strasburg, Count Maticty, &rim! Hewitt, General Roach, German I ed!on, Cardinal Raman, Buren Coutherbatg, and Baron Duntseirtel Mr. BAYNE, in addition to his house, has made a purchase of a fine L ,, clging-house, near the York Hotel, as a hem r accommodation. for the numerous families that visit Dover. P.S. The Marchioness of WILLEALIT has just rived, on her way to France. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Redbreast, for the Manly, will be pall ea the 19th Inst. at N 0.37, Southampton street, Strand. The Royalist. for the Napoleon, Ennitek, Zebra, and Revenge, will be paid on board ; and retailed at 70, tir,at Russell street. The Helicon, far La Revenant., on her arrival; and retail at No. at, Notiolk-streetb Strand. 'the Minerva, for the Fries:4l,lp, on the '2lst inst. at lb. el, Norfolk-utter. The Scorpion, for the Treode &lore sod Hannah, the 22.11a5t. U No. 12, James-street, Adt The Pliceniz, HILLER, him Quebec, has arrived at Portsmouth ; she sailed 15th ult. under convoy of his Majesty's ship Dow:a, and parted convoy on the 24th. in the Gulf. The Halifax packet, lbctrattbs, and the rest of the fleet for Halifax, which sailed from Cork on the 2,1 inst. were driven into Bantry Bay on the Bth, by con trary Winds. • The fleet for Newfoundland and Quebec, which sailed from C. rk nn the Ist inst. has been dispersed by bad weather—several of them have put into Beer haven, Crookhaven, and Baltimore. The money brought home in the DURHAM. weigh ing 48 tons, and consisting If two millions of Mexi- Cats, Provisional, and lasuzgent dollars, and a quantity of gold at:d gold dust, W. 411 sent from Mr. EIPWARD IC:GULDENS, at Deal ( in whose c are i t was placed) INst week , in thi r t een large waggons, and has reached the Bank of England in safety Aniongst th-_. money is half a million of dollars for Govern. ment ; the rest is enirely (or die mete' ants. The effect produced on the Bullion Marki.t by the laze large importations and genera' peace, is wonderful : the precious metals are rapidly rt ceding to their ori ginal and intrins i c value ; guineas are reappearing and getting tit:lent at 21s. Early on tl.e morning of Saturday last, two young men set off in a boat from Ayr harbour, to take a soil, which, on their turnivg to make the second tack, un- I c or; s un , n a l t e e It time, ' o e n r. e l A t i l t i t e sr m, k J e o t t p l i N ng PA t v h , e )N7 e w l e v ir : e tt a ti h s companion he could du no mole—bade him fare well—and calmly sunk into his watery grave. The other, after being nearly an hour in the war. r, was relieved from his perilous situation, by a boa: which had just set sail for At ran.