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r - „Ai R;, eg seuteiiitike a promise That some remedy i cenld be devised. -should take this opportunity of exp l a i n ing his motive for postponing his motion, for a totimittee to examine into the causes of the discon tents and grievances of Ireland, of which he had given notice to the last Session. In this postpon ement Se had yielded to the advice of some o sonour abirfriends, who were better acquainted with the o pt of Ireland thanbe cduld be supposed to be, and i te l t id done so under the impression that the Catho ys claims, one cause 'of . grievance, had been already i s eres sed, and &it Itfmssetrs had now engaged totake lap the considerdtion of tythes, which were another • s carce of diseontens.--'' The canversatinn was then still further continued, in which On, Mr. Bastard, ind Sir W. Elford took a part, when, Ors few words in ezplanation from Mr. Fitzgerald, the motion drawn. The Order of the Day was moved for the House to go into a germittee on the Expiring Laws Bill. .ggs. SHERIDAN von against the Bill altogether, as be said it oringslatewithabsurdityand inconsistencies. Itwas the dutyof his wows Ministers to apprise the House of the approaching ex gild= of particular laws, and Dm to allow them to expire before • I l l y proposed to re-enact the obi, or to snake new ones. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was 'Set the duty of his Majesty's Ministers to apprize the House of h expiration of any Acts ot Legislature, as a Committee of *Home was appointed at the commencement of awry Session, v ox* peculiar duty it was to inform the House of such laws as were nearly expiring. The Bill then passed:damask the Committee, and the Report vu mined to be received to morrow. • Tbe Mots Bill was then read a third thaw. On tha modes of Mr. Alderman CURTIS, the Cinque Ports 'awes Ordered to be recommitted ea Monday. /10 Howse then went into a Committee on the Colonial Ins , poodas 11111; and aMB was ordered to be brought lo i ns permit ishaportstion of certain articles from the United Scats of Ante date the British west India Colonies. • _ The Prize Capture Bill paned a Committee, and was ordered she read a second time to-morrow. The Home then went into a Committee on the Stamp Duty HID, and on the resolotios being put for extending the Stamp Do na to country small Bank-notes which should be reissued, a lug conversation ensued bets v•en Mr. Alderman Curtis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Dorados Soo. dos, Mr. Spencer Stanhope, Sir William Elfin*, Mr. Bcresford. ad Mr. Davies Giddy, &c. the Home elivided, when there op pearel—For the Resolution, 59 ; against it, 16.—Majority, 43. Os the Resolution being moved for repslating and increasing fate ?;ties upon the sale and conveyance of Estates, a discussion arose. wherein the peinciple of the clause was strongly opposed by Mr. Spencer Staolsope, Mr. Brand, Sit S. Remaly, and Mr. Rock; and supported by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hoskinon, as d the Solicitor General, who cemended that the tax was handed in equity and justice. leed HENRY PETTY denied that this taz woe founded upon *fey or justice, as it shut entirely at th e ladled interest of the orantrp, The CHANCELLOR of the &xenon , . replied to the several objections urged against the swore. sad Pee s full and satisfactory mount of the gradadelis et it, Irma the conveyance of the anialiest to die moveyeatie of the frailest property what form ; hewing that the duty on the eels of small property was reduced by the measure, whilst that on to sensbee property was ssflp inernoed in a anederees and fair propostim Me. D. GIDDY mobs to the snolinre with peat precision. DICIUNSOR dieelod to k. as biasing had Ws the wanellsr prev is deg dpplogineessee. - The cii,m144414. ol si die sxcligOvut observed, that the taawould have oo netreogeedro %U./. The Ones divided—lii the Clause Sis...Agaiass it I9—Ma iO.WIT Ace/Adorable diseneelos ausuedan the dame which subjects Awoke sad Solicitors to be lined and strode Mt the Rolls at the amen wherein they practise, ogee their being convicted of draw ls% isles moveyanose with latent to defraud the revenue. Mr Imam Reamentr Lord Mixon. and Mr. Thews? erred the elms*, on t>te pound that it would open* more *pine a certain doss el individuals than against other classes ; thaw so : sewn why an nasally severe punishment should not briellesed se Bankers. Meschams, and other:. wlria could be emeiseed al titivating the revenue, as well as those to whom the *me IieTtNCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and the SOLI CITOR GENERAL supported the dram, on the ground that it was more particularly the duty of Attendee Sad Solicitors to act eriomy in the discharge of their duty towards their chants, and *dna every fraud on the public revenue. The chime *as carried. Various verbal snsenimenta were agreed tooted the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The remaining orders of tlit! daywere then disposed of, and the Neese adjuneneall at one o'clock. 'PHI; EVENING STALL LONDON. FRIDAY, JUNE 17. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 2 CLOCK Concolt, for July 70i—Reduce4661-omnium 3i pr. Exchequer Bills 6s. prem.—jadla Bonds Is pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per C. Red Ann. 69; 69 Imp. Ann. 7 11-16th per Cent. Cone. shut Excheq. Bills, 4s. to 7s. prem. 4 per Cent. 651 66 651 Omnitun, 4 a 31 prem. S per Cent. Navy shut English Tickets, ttl. Long Ann. In I-16tbs 19 Consols for acc. 7011 lam Builds par ls. pr. General Sir Aswan: WELLESLEY set off last night, at nine o'clock, for Holyhead, whence he will pro teed to Dublin, for the purpose of paying his respects to his Excellency the LORD LIEVELvAN: Of IRELAND, and taking his leave. From Dublin he proceeds to Cork, to join the expedition fitting out there for the assistance of the Spaniards. The Honourable Firs- ROY STANHOPZ, Aid-4111s-Camp to the General, and Captain Cnsmsriz., is Etat Major, left London at the same time. In the preceding columns we have given some neees i from America, received by the Swedish ship Batt s .armed at Dover from Charleston. Private accounts mention, that Congress was to ad iourn on the 26th of April, predious to which a Bil; Iras to pass, authorising the Fassaalan to take off the 'Enhargo, should circumstances occur, shit in his judg rient might render its continuarip unnecessary. The letter from Barbadoes of the 12th ult. is also worthy of notice. The Spanish Gentleman of rank *ho reached town yesterday from Plymouth, left Corunna on the 6th inst. It now appeapF that he and the two Ns/hies who arrived some days 3 / 4 0, were sent to our Government bg the triennial Council of the Asturias, which, for tunately for their country, had their periodical meeting at this critical conjuncture. The Assembly of Oviedo is not, therefore, to be regarded as a body casually collected on the spur of the occasion, but is the regular Council of the province, to which all the districts send representatives once in three years and which choose a body of seven to be a' permanent Council during the interval of their vacation. This regular mpresentative body it is that has taken the steps which every man must contemplate satisfaction. The proalantation they but it is highly animated and patriotic. the brave Asturian, that, in a crisis than the present, the invasion of the thers rose in a mass and preserved their The inhabitants of Biscay, it is have joined the provinces of Astoria - _ in their determination to resist theirinvaders : and it is said that there are now not less than 150,000 men in arms in this quarter of Spain, united by the common bonds of ardour in defence of their country, and de testation of those who have planned so perfidiously, and are endeavouring to accomplish• so violently, its iobjugation. ... It was rumoured before the above Nobleman left Spain, that a body of 10,000 French were on their march from Madrid to Cadiz—if they shall be per mitted to march through the country, unattacked, it must be a convincing proof to the people of Cadiz that the insurrection does not extend into the nits , ior: and our Readers ought to recollect, that all commu nication with the Metropolis, and all advice of what is passing, will be stopped and kept from them. They . will only be told what the French wish them to ktiow.,, i Accordingly, a young Gentleman, who is arrived from Cadiz, states, that he heard the Common Crier proclaim a pretended Declaration made by the Queen, at Bayonne, confessing her own infamy, and announ cing to the People of Spain, that the Prince of Anw ar ns was not the son of her husband, their lawful King, but that he was begotten in adultery. 'This base expedient was deemed necessary, to counteract the prevailing sentiments in favour of FERDINAND, as the Red Cockade; with the figure of 7 in the centre,' was universally worn. The Spanish Regiments which were in Portugal have been disarmed and disbanded by the French, and indeed we may believe from the character of their, leaders, that their measures will be quick and• dect: sive. All the French now in Spain, however, would. be unequal to task of keepir.g it in subjection, if it were possible to erect a barrier against the constant inroad of reinforcements. And it is to this object' that our Government, as well as the Patriots them. selves, have to look: • In absence of the official details from our Com manders, we lay before our Readers the copy of a' letter received by a mercantile house in Birmingham, from one of their agents in Spain, dated Gijon, May 30. " I have only time to inform you of the best news for the pai rs! welfare of maukindtbat has occurred in Europe this le n time back. Spain is in a blaze; and if every province, according to daily report, demonstrates equal activity with this prinelpnlity. upwards of a million of able men will be under arms befasedla Ist of next, in defence of their ieligion and laws. From all quarters Deputies are gone to Great Britain, but as this** spot has been the first that bad courage to declare daimon to France. f hope news well anise from hence sooner, than frees the other poets on. the coast, that were only waiting for aag I write this or board the Stag privateer, of Jersey, Cap e ta i ra lli a ward Fall. whom I base engaged to take two Representatives to inform his Britannic Majesty's Ministers of the situation of again in this kingdom. and of which Government will be better gee to inform you than 1 am, through the public prints.—Our port is open to his Britanic Majesty's ships, -and so are those of Santan der and Balm • and it is expected Coruna* and Ferrol are actu-1 ally so, as we know the greatest part of Galicia, with Leon, is In a state of insurrection." Hamburgh and Altona Papers to the 28th ultimo, and private letters from the Continent, were received last night. Among the articles which they contain are some which place in a very striking light the ter ror with which France inspires all the Governments of the Continent. The Emperor of AVSTRIA has found it necessary morale the German Journals dis- \ countenance the reports of military preparations, lest the internal regulations he might think proper to Make in hit dominions should give offence to NAPOLZON. It also appears that an universal agitation prevails in the Austrian dominions, occasioned by the new levy, which is certainly of such a nature as to corro borate the opinion which we before hazarded, that new measures are to be j adopted by that Government. A force of great amount is raising in the country, which is, or is to be denominated the National Guard. The Prussian Government has been compelled to make a formal investigation into a report in a Ham. burgh Paper, that a Prussian ship had carried Eng lish merchandise from Sweden to Denmark,-in order to give that statement an official contradiction. The accounts received also thrtsw some light upon the nego tiations that passedbetween Admiral PUAVIS and the Chief Magistrate of Cadiz. The British Officer, it ap pears, demanded, in his first communication, the surren der of the fleet in that harbour. With this the Governor Of the talon refused compliance ; and proceeded, in a gasconading style, to threaten the English in return, aid to caution them to lack to the means of their own safety, assuring them that every port in Spain would shortly be protected by a French force, and that an immense body of troops were now on their march to attack Gibraltar ; insinuating, in the same strain, that this was the clief or only cause of the entrance of Navotion's armies into the Spanish territories. These replies were generally understood to have been writ ten under the dic!ation of the French Admiral. A British 74 is said to have been roughly handled during its too near approach 'to the forts of Cadiz. _ We learn too, that a body of French troops, to amount of at least three thousand, have at leogdi gained = pisszge across the Belts, and made their way into Zealand. which island, so far as such a force,may be considered as competent to the act, they have un doubtedly occupied. A camp is also formed at Rends- 1 burgh; in the Duchy of Holstein, containing from' eight to tat thousand Danish troc.ps. • • • with ~.., 2 1 1 h sYmintioi : glig ' v put forth is stibit; iotic. It finaltii I not issillintilout AI ke Moor.; their la:, ci heir cjiley. fr I now sineetainedb * is and Callitia in , • - " 4 * jolt . . . . 1 / 4 7:"7""Ztvw •.7 TETA ' en fr fetAta TNTELLIGENCE WokCAI) 7Z. died freini4esne natural cause of daeny about hSs - heart, of the treatment which was • described This mooting, at seven o'clock, Lieutenant STUART by the CaPeain- On this trial. Sir . Simon Le Blan c thedid not ctse preside with iis b usu ut Lord . Cbsetilareite ctadier wh to o left the arrived at the Adrniraky with dispatches from Admi precision and tat Ptravis, and he was also the bearer of dispatches Jury. stating all the evidence on both sides. The from General Seiticza to Lord CASTLIIHAOII. They : Jury acquitted the prisoner upon the evidence of ti" were brought in the MINORCA, which atlitred at Ports- medical men. Another indictment was subsequendy Ittoush yesterday evening, and Admiral MONTAGUrg P" against a man of the name of 916P01,* who was a Captain of a slave ship, who had with the Pert Admiral, immediately forwarded them to him a young man ca . the name of Francis Dim, and London by Lieut. Bremer, one of his Own Lieute- he was charged with murdering this young man on 'tents. These dispatches are dated the 29th May, and the evidence of some of the crew, and also' of the et that fine the negotiations between Admiral Pea. surgeon. But to invalidate their testimony, it apo Irs and the Marquis DE Socono had not produced peared the crew had mutinied on the coast of Africa, and the surge9n, who was bound by his duty to have Pity definitive arrangement, nor had any pate of the m a de an 'edidaivit of the cause of the death of all per 4`roaps under Ger. SPENCER been landed at that time. sons who died during the voyage, at the first place rTiie insurrection of the northern provinces, and the where the ship touched at, Mountserrat, did make proceedings of Asturias, Gallicia, and Biscay, were such an affidavit, stating that he had died a natural • Afterwards also be was known to have had death' not known at Cadiz when the dispaches were sent off. . a quarrel with the Captain, and to h ave said that he These dispatches are, as we before stated, dated the would do for him, and held some conversations with 29th ult. The intelligence which reached us yester- the seamen,- in which he said they must stick to that, day from Corunna was as late as the 6th of this month, and then they would get their waga, which an ac and the Marquis DE MATEROSA and Don DIEGO DE count of the mutiny they would otherwise lose. The Learned Judge accordingly, in summing up the ea VEGA left Gijon on the 31st nit. so that, in fact, _ these Dispatches are antecedent, in point of date, to eveaerice, told them the suspicion which these facts • cast upon their evidence, and that if they could not al the important accomits which have within these safely believe their testimony, they must acquit the few days reached this Country. Defen d a nt; but it depended upon the credit due to .. Three Spanish O ffi cers came over in the MINORCA, their testimony. The Jury, thanking it not safe to —we understand they are very. recently arrived from convict upon such testimony, acquitted the defendant Chapman. Upon di subject of these trials the pre- South America ; we have not learnt the object for sent Defendants published several letters in the Whi t which they came to this country. of the 19th and 24th of January, animadverting in the most violent and intemperate language upon these acquittals. One of these letters was addressed to Sir Simon Le Blanc, ni: tried Chapman, and though it professed in some parts to suppose that the Jury and his Lordship acted from a conviction of the innocence of Chapman, yet it contained the expressions Of a -contrary tendency. It addressed the Judge, and de bited him not to lay that flattering Unction to his soul, that the public would be inattentive to the horrible effects of judicial corruption. He says, that he knows not to what cause to attribute this excessive • tenderness, this criminal forbearance, and calls on his - - Of fp- Lordship to revise these frightful proceedings. for The Arroestrir-Oatissiee then went into a discus. 4kg tion of the tendency of the libels. They spoke of Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights as a dead letter. and deprecated the more than viaonary aspect of ap proaching tyranny. In one of the libels, the author said, that he understood Mr. Deputy Loveland, of Aldersgate-street, baker, had the merit of producing the acquittal inahe case of the boy who had been mur dered ; and addressing the Jury, said, he thought he saw the blush of shame and conscious unworthiness suffuse their countenances. The ATTORNEY•Gzsgam, in the course of his ad dress, paid some just complimets to the two Learned Judges who tried these causes ' • and concluded by say ing, that it was only a waste of words to endeavour to convince the Jury by argument that these papers were libels.—The Publication being Mr. AnoLrtus, Counsel for the Pendant, in 11. 'speech of great ability, exerted himself with muck emanation, to convince the Jury that these papers, although the age of them was intemperate, were not libels.Vh respect to Sir Simon Le Blanc he expressed - himself strongly, by saying that he would rather bite his tongue off than utter a senti ,arient-which could giv e hi m pain, and be contended that the papers in themselves did not go to charge him with judicial corruption. If any one were to com plain, it should be Deputy Loveland, who was named as the person who had produced an improper verdict, by favourite g the Defendant. He said it never could he the law that a'verdict - of a Jury was not to be exa. mined Ind fairly disci:J.l.gal, and he instanced the ,cases of Donellan, and also of Holloway and Hag- gerty, in which pamphlets had been published upon 'the conduct of the Jury. To hold out that thee e should ha no appeal to the superior tribunal of public op;nion, would in fact be to extend the influence of the inquisition, and the secret tribunals of Weophalia. To place any institution above the reach of public in vestigation was to pronounce it unfit to stand the test of public inquiry. If Government even was to be auppcsed to be strengthened by attacking the liberty oldie prss, it was a mistake, for it was only adding gth to the latent causes of weakness and disesee which would ultimately affect and destroy the system. —He denied that there could be any tendency in , this case to overturn the trial by Jury; for it was oli sriously.the wish of the writer to support it. and it eras his anxiety to see it most pure and undefiled that he had expressed his regret that in this case; from some usletake or other, justice had not been done. He en toed very much at large, and with great force, into the evidence which 'was prodUced on the trial, to shew the guilt both of Bennet and Chapman, and to chew that there was no-mutiny on board the ship of the latter ; and that inference against the evidence of the surgeon 'was repelled by the evidence of letters frets Chapman himself, saying his life was in• the bands of the crew, and offering money to them not to appear. With respect to the boy, Rickman, he stated the circumstances of the - with which he was NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Severn, roam., from B.trbadoes ; King David, Sumaroxr, from Nevis ; Pincent, NORTON ; 'Ulysses, Burt.En,, and the St. Vincent's, Bea., from St. Vin cent's, art arrived at. Bristol: they parted from the Leeward Island fleet 15 days since, in company with his Majesty's ship DEFENCE, and about half the con voy, in thick weather; his Majesty's . ships CERBERIUS and ilmvuts were with the remainder. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 15. CMe in the STATIRA, of 40 VMS, frolll off Cadiz, with a Spa. rdslt Gentleman who set o ff trarnediately for London; 114sueava,, 440 guns, frog; le cruise. Sailed the UNICORN, of ss Sams, of sit guns ; Paacoca and Oasszts, of 1 s guns each, on a cruise. PORTSMOUTH, TUNE 16. Arrived his Majesty's skip COQUETTE from a cruize; Ms !slava from the Mediterranean ; and Flaw with several trans ports under convoy, from Guernsey. Sailed yesterday from Cowes Roads ; his Mr.;esty's ships Stator with the Seet i for Quebec and his and -DONIS for North America. DEAL, (LINE 16. Vice-Admiral Russets., in his Majesty's ship MAJESTIC ' with l'Atseasiz frigate, arrived this morning from Yarmouth, and was saluted by Vice-Admiral CAMPS/ILL with 13 guns, which salute was returned by the same number.—Arrived from Sheer ness the ACIIATas and CADMUS,CWO DEW brigs, and sailed through for Portantooth.—Put back the Pvaultis gun-brig and convoy, from the westward.—Arrived thepaavorr schooter, from the Westward, and sailed through to the Northward.—Wind W.S.W. la the Downs: the Majestic, Princess of Orange, Trusty, 'Fri - simph, Tigre, Minotaur, Bellerophon, Warspite, Clyde, Alert, Furious, and Phosphorus, with a Beet of transports and outward bound vesselsr—P. S. Sailed for Sbeerreur.laststhie frigate. YARMOUTH, It/NE 16. Passed this port a fleet of transports under convoy for Gotten burgh. Arrived the SWALE sloop of war, from Gottenburgh ; and the VIZEN, R T ZE.4OIIIA, and Havoc, from a cruize. A ship laden • co als struck on the sand this forr noon : the boats from the shore are gone to her assistance, and hopes are entertained that by throwh , part of her cargo over board the ship may be saved.---Remain its the Roi.ds the Roebuck, Stately, and Nassau.—Wind N. W. Ga AVIttENDOIIINE 16.—Passed by the RebeEca, Walker, from Gottenburgh.--Sailed the Martha, Elvish, for Barbadocs • E et sey and Sophia, Co/e, for the Brazils ; Mary, Meal; L o ndon Packet, ---, and P,mona, Davidson, for Cottenburgli. LAW lATELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING's BENCH, JUNE 16. • THE KING V. WHITE. This cause being called on, Mr. Justice GRosE in formed Mr. Clifford, the Counsel for the Defendant, that he had been applied to for an order to amend the Record, WMCh he should make though it was not yet drawn up ; but if the Defendant wished to have tune to consider whether or not he should withdraw his plea, it must be granted him, because he might probably not have come there prepared to meet that particular charge. Upon this it was agreed, that the trial should be fixed for Saturday se nnight, and in the mean time, on Tuesday, the Defendant was to give the Solicitor for the Treasury notice whether be would withdraw his plea or not.---The above is the case of a , libel against Lord Ellenborough. . THE KING V. J. HARRICH HART, Mt* H. WNW'S This was an information tiled by the isttomey es 6. neral rx !Pio, against the two Defendants, the former of whom was the printer, and the latter the proprietor of the Sunday Paper called' the Independent Whig, for publishipg several libels on the 17th and 24 th of . January last, in that paper, with intent to bring the .trial by jury, and the adMinistration of justice, into contempt. The libels were set out in the record at great length. • • The ArrolusEv GENERAL stated, that he bad feltit his duty to institute this prosecution, becitek the - . publications were aimed at the Administration otitis- treated ; and quoted forc ib le "ley expression of some ttce, and it was not difficA to see what was die eik.ct . _ of the Catholic witnesses, who from the habits of their which such' publications were designed to produce. religion were accustomed to horrible pictures of It was that- 6f making the public think that the cruelty ; and stated that he was. sent up to the top laws, were corruptly administered, and by making when he was just dying ; that he actually died there, animadversions on the conduct of Juries, to induce and that his body was so livid with bruises, that it as Apprehension, that their conduct would be re- resembled the figure of our Blessed Sa.vuma - when vieilid in this paper, and in some sort keep them in taken from the cross'. There was also evidence of his -iheck and subservient to the wishes of the Editor of express malice ; and the only evidence to acquit him it. Verdicti which pleased the Defendant, would was that of'the medical men. On this verdict, there be applauded by those which were xgalnst his in- fore, the Defendant had express e d his astonishment ; tere.sts, and his Views would be censured. What such and although he used intemperate language, yet the persons, having overturned the Administration of Jury would not from thence infer that he wished to Justice and tht Trial by Jury, would substitute in its subvert the Goverament and bring the Trial by Jury stead, he was at a loss to coojecture, but they had into discredit. chosen in this instance to attak a Judge, who* cha- After an able reply from the ATTORNEY GENERAL / ratter he should have thought would have protected The Learned Judge summed up the case, and ad hint from all censure, Mr. Justice Le Blanc. The oc. nutted that the question vias, whether the Defendant casion of 'the libels was, that in November, 1807, one had fairly discussed the merits of the trials, or had Bennet, a Guinea Captain, was indictedfor the murder b een guided by improper and malicious motives ?As of one Rickman , a boy on beard his ship, whom IA a proof of this he had not stated the evidence, or the had treated with great and unjustifiable hatthaess and nature of the case, lint had confined himself to intern cruelty. Upon his being indicted, the facts of the perste animadversions upon the verdicts of the Julies, cruelty were proved, but all the medical men who and the conduct of the Jud were examined as to the manner in which the boy T he Jur y , afu r retiring abort time , bonght came by his death, concurred in the opinion, that he verdict —Guilty. 1 --