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reign chose to act as his own Minister, and held con ferences pith him. If the conferences were held with the Minister of that Sovereign they must then be made public. If Foreign Sovereigns became their own Mi nisters what were we know of the conduct of gap Ministers abroad ?—Nothing at all. \Vcre the people , of Fngland then to be told that there was an end to all ' inquiry, because Bonaparte compelled the Sovereign of Europe to confer with Ambassadors personally and not through their Ministers ? Mr. CANNING explained. '• Mr. WINDHAM said, the House and the country might now be congratulated on having.a new defender of those rules of propriety which he had lately broken. Sometimes - a smuggler made a very good ,custom house officer. This was analagous to the Right Ho nourable Gentleman who spoke withl such animation against the practice of disclosing confidential commu nications. The House then divided.—For the mo t on 82—Against it 142—Majority 60. When strangers were admitted, Lord HENRY PETTY was on his legs, and after a few remarks, his Lordship moved—" That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, that there be laid before this House Copies of the Communications between this Government and that of 'the United States, with relation to the Commercial Treaty proposed to that Republic." This proposition, after some observations from Mr. Sesretary CANNING, was agreed to. Affidavits were then ordereilfiT the verification of the papers. On the motion of Dr. LAWRENCE, it was ordered that an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, that there be laid before this House copies of the papers containing the Message of the President of the United States, on the 9th Feb. 1807. Adjourned at half past 12 o'clock. • ' HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 15. The Earl of CAssiLts took the Oaths. The Exchequer Bills Payment Bill was brought up from the Commons, by Mr. VeAaror and others, and read a first time. Lord GRENVILLE moved for a Return of the Number of Ships brought into the different Ports of the United Kingdom, in consequence of the Orders in Council. His Lordship stated, that tt was his intention to move to-morrow, if the debate should not he continued till too late an hour this evening, tor several Palm-3 relating to these Orders. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. The Order of the day having been read— Lord AUCKLAND rose, for the purpose of call ing the attention of their Lordships to a subject of as much importance, perhaps, as any that ever came before them. It was a subject concerning materially the whole of that system upon which the commercial prosperity of the country was founded. There were live points in the Orders of Council which he proposed to consider : four of them were important • the last not so much so as the others.,,, These were their lega lity, their justifiableness, theibpolicy and expediency, the time and manner of issuing them ; and, lastly, their intelligibility. With respect to the first, his Lordship contended that the Orders in Council were in direct contradicion to the received maxims of the law of natk us. They pushed the rule of the war of 1756, which was considered as the foundation of our law with respect to neutral commerce, to as unwar rantable extent. He maintained, that the Berlin De cree of the 21st November was rather of the nature of a commercial regulation than a measure of hostility. Such was the explanation given of it by the French Government to General Armstrong, the Minister -of the United States. The practice of the French was conformable to this explanation, for he believed there was no instance of the confiscation of an American vessel, because she had touched at a British port.— Upon what grounds, therefore, could Ministers jus tify their system, the execution of which must operate a complete interdiction of all neutral commerce? It _odd not be called retaliatioa, for the principle of the Berlin Decree could never be strained to such an ex -.ess. The Orders also were as little to be justified on score of policy and expediency, for they tended to Abroil us with the only state that deserved the name a neutral power. And at what a time too had Mi. .sters chosen to have recourse to this system of re. ariction ? It was at a period when negociations of 'te greatest importance were pending between us and' tat power, who would be most affected by the exe. ttion of these orders. His Lordship here stated a lumber of hypothetical cases, to prove the absurd and ontradictory nature of the Orders in Council, and teir injustice as applying to vessels under the Ame :an flag. The great object which Ministers profes d to have in view, was to starve the Continent into abandonment of the principle of restriction, de tared in the decree of the 21st November. And how id they propose to effect this ? Why, by compelling :utral vessels, loaded with the produce of the French donies, and bound to France, to touch at the ports • this country, from whence, after paying a trifling ity on their cargoes, they were afterwards to be per itted to proceed on their respective destinations.— isLordship having dwelt some time on the inefficacy such a system, concluded with moving, that the riders in Council, which were recommended in his Aajesty's speech to the serious and early attention of 'ornament, should bereferred.to a Committee. Lord BATHURST explained the principles of the /stem contained in the Orders in Council. There was ►ot the least doubt upon his mind, that the French De are, of the 21st of November, went to the complete ex .lesion of all neutral commerce from this country. —Circumstances at the time might have induced 'le Government of France to make some relaxation from k in favour of America; bat that this was the linal intention was evident from the explanation winch was subsequently givet of it by M. Regnier to the American Minister. In this he declared, that the principle of-the Decree admitted of no restriction favour of vessels sailing under the• flag of that iuntry. By that Decree the British islands were. ieclared in a state of blockade ; and consequently ithout any specific declaration to that effect, all :ssels proceeding to a British port were liable to infiscation for breach of blockade. Such was the !neral interpretation of the Decree on the Continent, 101 Was its interpretation in America, and such, he resumed, was the interpretation put upon it by the \te 'Ministers, at the time they advised his• Majesty issue the Order in Council, of the 7th of January, 807. From the 21st of November 1806, up to the 19th . of last September, the date of Regnier's expla nation to General Armstrong, the American Go ,enurent had acquiesced in the principle sanctioned that Decree, and was therefore to be considered as ;onfedirating with the belligerent. But his Majesty's Ministers were so far from resenting this conduct, that hey framed the Orders in Council as favourable to merica as they could consistent.with a spirited and !ffectual retaliation of the French .Decree. The Or lers in Council, in fact, were, under the circurn 'ances,'. a boon bestowed upon America: The ex- vesso t U iry as a c our Berl cess. the emb of a flint stric thej that cuti4 nun cont their ricat sed an ; clan did neut cold of tl chit) mitt His cf Si Ord Alaj Parl L SySt( not tree, clusi the fmn orig whu the the in I tout dccl witl vess con: gen suc! pre late toi. 180 191 nati in ven con - Mil the: An elk der 423 ports of that country were estimated at 101 . of dollars. Of these, 48 Millions were domestic pre. &tee, 19 of which came to this country, or were sent to its West India Colonies; of the remaining 24, bee tween 7 and 8 millions Were exosil - to France or' its Colonies. War it nothing to leave America in the 48,07 Pen- of thir trade ? Had it been struck *at a Voae, these.who lamented the hardships imposed up 'on 'American commerce by the Orders in Council might have some reason for complaint; but as that was notahe case, he could not perceive the justice 41 -the imputation, that Ministers were not so much aliie as .they should be, to the value and importance of American connection. He did not believe, that the people of that country would view the Orders in Council in the same unfavourable light that • they were regarded by the sanguine advocates for Aug rican connection in this country. According to the latest accounts from America, the impression made by the new interpretation of the French Decree was, that it must be retaliated by England ; and instead of a modified restriction of their trade, as contained in I the Orders in Council, nothing short of a total inter-1 diction of all commerce with the Continent of Europe was apprehended. He trusted that these Orders would be considered in the United States, as they were really intended, a measure of self-defence- and not of hostility; that their object was to -counteract the violent system adopted by France, and not to destroy the rights or oppress the commerce of neutral . Powers. Lord ERSKINE, in an energetic speech, of consi derable length, strongly expressed his disapprobation of the conduct of the Government of this country.— He was amazed to hear Noble Lords talk of the ne cessity, or even policy, of the measures under digcus, sion. Did they shelter themselves under the princi ple of retaliation ? If so, the House had been long since apprised, that,this measure of our Government far outstripped that of the enemy. It could not un doubtedly be defended on the principle of policy, for here it met the most direct opposition from the com mon consent of mankind, in the institutes of national law. Perhaps some would be bold enough to assert our right, when we possessed the power, to violate even this sacred compact between men, provided it were for our own convenience. Such a defence would, he acknowledged, be fair and consistent, com ing from the lips of those who had advised and sanc tioned such a flagrant act of national injustice; but it certainly would never be heard with patience by any who regarded the honour of his Majesty's crown, or the dignity of the empire. The French decree, as far as it affected ,America; had, he maintained, been satisfac torily cleared up to the Minister then in France, and .was deemed so even by the President of the United States, and by him communicated to the Senate.- - Hence he concluded, America was no party whatever 'in the decree of the French Emperor. This was evi dent also from her subsequent conduct ; when unaware even of our Orders of Council here, she ordered a general embargo on all the vessels then in her har bours. Much had been said of the right of retalia tiOn, on which there Orders were founded ; nobody denied the right to resort to such a system, when the conduct of the belligerent justified its necessity—but even that law had its limitations. It should not over step the nature of the evil which it went to redress • yet, in • these Orders, all limitation was lost sight of, and convenience alone regulated the extent. It would seem, that if the French Emperor declared the Moon in a state of blockade, this country would have a meeting of the Board of Longitude and our most ce lebrated astronomers, to retaliate, by a prohibition on the satellites of Jupiter ; when he commanded a ces sation of the lunar motion, of her conjunctions and opposites, they would react by a declaration that the whole planetary system should step still. (A loud laugh jean the Ministerial Bench.) He really conceived, notwithstanding the manner in which the comparison was received, that the cases were, in a great degree, similar : inasmuch as he believed Bonaparte had as much efficacy over the Moon, as he had in his decla ration of placing the British Isles in a state of block ade. The Learned Lord cautioned the House how it accorded with a system calCulated to provoke the hostility of America. This country would feel, through every branch of its trade, the evil consequences of such conduct. It would then find, when too late, that it was cutting ip one of the principal sources of its prosperity, and that, by an unfortunate and unjus tifiable policy, it had destroyed the hen that laid the golden egg. The Lord CHANCELLOR took a view of the' various objections made to those Orders of Coun cil, which be contended - were not violations, either of the public law of nations, or the municipal law of this country. They were founded on the most para mount of all rights—that of self-preservation. He considered it inconsistent with his Majesty's late Mi nisters to raise objections against a system of conduct, which they were the first to institute, and which every man must admit was called for by the violent and unjustifiable decree of the French Government. Lord KING considered that it was necessary, be fore those outrages upon neutral rights were carried into effect, to have at least proof that they had ac iquiesced in the provisions of the French decree. No such evidence was before the House. America had disclaimed any such disposition, and yet the King's Ministers had treated that country with the same se-. verity as if she had acquiesced. He was strongly impressed with, the injustice of those Orders, and therefore should give his vote in support f the motion of his Noble Friend (Lord Auckland.) LOrd GRENVILLE observed, that it was fre quently the object of public Speakers, in order to iriterest the attention of their auditory, to magnify the importance of the subject upon which they , ad dressed them. But on the topic then before the. House, it was out of the power of the most eloquent to exaggerate the magnitude of this question, consi— dered in all its bearings, whether to the justice, the constitution, or the policy of these Orders. Indeed it amounted to an absolute impossibility to bestow on them, in one desultory debate, the attention they so forcibly mei iced, and that was, amongst others, a strong reason for acceding to the motion for going into a Committee. It was contended, that those Osders were founded on.the same principle' ps the order of the 7th of ivwxy, introduced - during the late Admi. nistratipo; although the rwo measures stood upon to tally idv: greunds. Let it he temenitiered, that the °rile of the 7ill of January was founded on a-known assumption of the Law of Nationi. It first made a declaration of the blockade, and next took the steps acting upon the Declaration. It was solely ded upon the right of retaliation, not upon any view of convenience, the only prinCiple to which the King's Ministers appeared now to have adapted their policy. Therefore it was that he was surprised how a mind so perspicuous as that of the Learned . Loud, could confound things and measures so radical ly dissimilar. Was it not more natural to expect that Ministers would defend their system of policy by a full discussion of its merits and necessity, that at last there wouldbe an end to that eternal circle of arguing nt questions from past transactions ? With that eeling he entered on the discussion, believing in his soul, that on the revocation or non-revocation of these orders, depended the ultimate existence of this coun try. Let us, then, in the discussion of such a subject, lay aside this petty war of personal recrimination, and look distinctly at the essential interests which it in volves. The framers of these Orders of Council ap peared to have confounded two rights in themselves, totally distinct ; they have confounded the right of re taliation with that of self-preservation. The latter, when truly applied, supersedes every other considera tion; even the horrible act against Copenhagen would, in such a case, be warranted. But though on this right your power against the (n rimy was complete and perfect, yet against the neutral no right was ac quired by the conduct of the enemy. If a neutral power had been forced by a belligerent to afford to it certain facilities and advantages, this change in heil relaticns with the other States at war, gave to the lat ter the option of considering the neutral in the view of an auxiliary, or of demanding from her the same ad vantages and facilities which her opponent had oh- . tained ; but to argue that the conduct of your enemy, without the acquiescence of a neutral, gave to us any right to injure and destroy the trade of independent States, would lead to this monstrous conclusion, that when once war was lighted up in a particular coun try, it would extend itself to every part of the civi lized world. Had Ministers waited to ascertain du intentions of America ? Did they consider first whether the French decree was executed towards them ? and if it had, whether its Government ac quiesced ? This was the consideration upon which this question hinged, and if Ministers were not abl( to make out the affirmative of that position, the) had not one atom of ground to stand upon.--t The French Decree was not put in force against the : direct trade of Denmark with this country ; and with respect to America, a ship of that country had been actuall} taken into the ports of France, and the Court : of Prize released the ship, upon the expressed grounds that the Decree held out no such instructions with I respect to neutral ships sailing direct to a British I port. In Spain, an American ship, simi,larly libelled, was also released. Here were strong proofs to be • opposed to the total absence of even a presumption of proof on which the King's Ministers have ven tured to act. Independent of this, the President the United States intimated to Congress the formal disavowal, on the part of France, of such a rigor ous construction of the French Decree as was at first view apprehended. The American Ministers com municated similar information to the Govern ment of this country, and therefore it was the duty of Ministers, before they violated and dissolved the old public law of nations, either to have called upon the American Ministers for proofs of the verir of their statement, or to have contradicted thes avowal by the production of the evidence. It was im• possible to make out a stronger case, in order to prov that America had not acquiesced in the provisions the French decree ; and it was, in the absence of that acquiescence, an absolute and unjustifiable breach the laws of nations, to have issued orders so directl; hostile to the best interests of that country. The invasion ' of those orders upon the municipal law of the land was the next important consideration. Was it a measure indifference, to have violated ten of the positive sta. tutes of the realm, to have placed the sanctioned ani promulgated laws of the Country at the absolut disposal of the Privy Council ? It was once though:, even by the advocates of a dispensing power in the Crown, and in the great question of Ship Money, that for the violation of a standing law the neces sity should be urgent, and arising, as it were, the interval between the prorogation and meeting Parliament. At the Revolution it was hoped that thi question was for ever set at rest, and that to Parlia• ment was the resort, when it was necessary to delibe rate on measures suited to the occurrence of great and arduous concerns. To what other purpose was' that Parliament was assembled ? Why this fart and shew of an assembly, unless to go through the mockery of Bills of Indemnity ? The Noble Lord continued, in a most animated appeal to the House, to interpose between this country and its destruc tion, to retread its steps, as the path through whic, it moved, led quickly to the grave. He warned them against the renewal of a system of taxation, either directly or indirectly, upon American trade , and conjured them to seize the opportunity afforded them by the pre-eminence of France in this rivalry . injustice, of erasing from the records of the country, and of obliterating from the mind of the people, the least intention of acting upon a system -of polic rashly introduced, and wantonly pursued, calculate for no other purpose than to involve this nation in ; unjust war. Lord HAWKESBURY said, if ever there was question material for the consideration of that Hour, it was the present one ; the measure was founded upon an example furnished by his Majesty's late Mi musters, and surely it was unjust in them to find fault with an act that originated with themselv , The Order of Council of 1807 laid the foundati( for the Orders they were then discussing,; and when a rule was once laid down, it was generally unwise to depart from it. The Earl of LAUDERDALE supported the pro position of his Noble Friend. Lor in hisd Viscountmind uponSl the O'UT oc H casion ; had considerable doubts those dont. were increased when he recollected that in another place the subject had been referred to the Committee n of ions Wa o y f s otrer d N M ob ea le n L s. ordl e. a ..w bd is ' b to ed .hatovehethaer question more t m h o a re t th tl r ly ig d h i t s s e o u f ss i ld u . trai A •s t wo 'all l4 ev ii i ii n e ts:, e h sp e w c a te s d c , o a n n v d in t c hal the prhuiples of justice, - . policy, and expediency woe be strictly a4hered to. The House then divided- Ceieents.sejeroxtes 18 : . . . 48 So*!.Contentl 61, Proxies 45 . 108 • ' . .494erity . , 58 - I MOW* at 'Four o'Clock this Mottling, ct: ' -- I , "' -• • -•- • • • . ~ t ;.. • 4,.., • .. . . •.r.l.' „it, ~ . : , • .. . c , 1 ..0 11 7 *3(41 • , TIIR EVENING STAR ..q. ~ .• ft- 1 :91 * - LONDON. • f •:•' • . . ••• . , ---._. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE Crams • 4 1 .i t , `fr ••••*:-::: Consols, money, 68§i—for account 64i- 3 pe. e „,--w. - ....... - • '-' ' Eleheq. Bills, par Is. prem.- fruee t Wo - ""ollt - 4 3 Mil. --..._ • if*Sl 4l4 . 49 4 9 --.. • • By a vessel arrived in the River from 1.-- I'l5 -,u ' , • ,* -, T HEATIM ROTA' place sjie left on the 6th ult. accounts have ' -BROW EVEN ceived that General Jt:No•r's army had bee n 'eel 14°511 o ewd (tor the 6th tie to 60,000 men, an erpodient which was r en d erti ' KA IN cessary from the growing discontent and ~,4 . , . I T - air lllllVa ollr b e 7, ' of the i)eople towards their oppressors. t. ' - 0 we, yes F te ro rt m lay t , he we Pa ila ris ve Pa a p i e v r e s n to the the De s c votEE WEE Al vt. ret l IWI, e - • Alt' by the King of PRUSSIA. It is in fact a.. - • -ekliteirN i n a Re g , :, 'of the hard necessity of his condition. Th., A. ~,,-tztieln' - e is • ii t s i aie to Hail Pay a sentence in this State Paper which can resentment fora moment. In the ilastra sa ti m 'i°n e el s a i; Vl ; WWI ' lagulkn."..".ll' .14:1- t"tyPtaid) to find the King of HOLLAND imposing straits on navigation, by which his A. n o nad of T. Loss . '" ports are ie ' shut against all ships, unless ships of w • 11111/flb I war , „ ~ ~..;aios published, its S li t in prizes, or vessels in distress, which latter are " 6 ' vial) IRISH i• • .jest under guard until they are able Moo - again, and to land no part of their cargo, h '' il lt e 4 l o' ..lll4un Ts t ifl f • these interdicts, however, a loop-hole is " " -i'shigs. pr ic e it. it , „„wlioe had , . • under the pretence of distress, vessels w ill left:.,, 14;3""1 --.. --2-m1 " 4""A--"----- . T bi,,wvas pubs m t o o re putt i mAt : 1111116 ,7 LIST, 1808, run ; -, with a view to smuggling. E .sLEGf: 'of CO • By JAMES y That past of Admiral SINIAVM ' S fleet which rt - - :-* I• - ' - Author of "'1 It mained in the Mediterranean, has found an asll Iffinbardr Ilia r nin ' Hurt tt the port of Trieste. The Russian sgwadrea s mph; , 11116 . Edinburgh- l i . been extremely fortunate. It was not until then Le of last month that these vessels entered Trieste ll :: 1. 7 . 11: i. riact ‘41.1121" : 4 134b5aPi:114 : 1 • 4°J ;; IY I st most six weeks after the intelligence of a ruptures,* is the Court of St. Petersburgh. It is unfortunate By its_ L.W. c plint .... _ , rbeitlirniati;l itirgt no instructions were transmitted to Lord C :h o v bo. Pe $ ;and'in the co l e WOOD in time to enable him to secure this squads% ,-- — if e t n s gonnely printed 7 .. .. . qTUDIES ; Sacred , LO the TEMP In consequence of the general severity of the ~ I." ie storm, the letters by the inland mails were nct ... th vered out from the General Post Office, who ]his the Second Edition. of the t'n Paper went to press. . wit pf Reason , riiiiosophy, let PoßTsmourn, Frs. IS.--Arrived his Majesty's ship Mtg e illi el ge .„„ 4 „,,,L;fei l iro-••"•""" 4- is with a convoy from the Downs. Among them are the fold% ' ' • daf -Were te of/ Ate.ntalorrueitstthad,ll forby.i.thths th vessels, viz. the Samuel and Jane, Ho err R, Beattie, Roman TeiEtATES itt MI s h and the Fanny, TAY Loa, transports; Sisters, ....-. 4 ek z , A4 IA nt segERIAN DISO d SVI:TH, Lord Mulgrave, TODD, Laurel, HARRISON, Strey , suoiersether Gnat of 'Pm 'WATSON, Albion, I INILLATEM Eleanor, Selonaen, , T ir th er .witt the Report o be Ealme.Fanny, NICHOLSON_, Mar l ey , WASEN, Hanks, Sts leadon, on the Vaccine Inge on LING, SCOrpion, &Nista, Kingsmoor,CHESTFR,PIOO4SI. By CLLAI !II Elizabeth, M I KIRDAT, Adeona , Itacnerans, and the pep, , . . . " tte lii ~,‘• MANNING; the five later with the loss of anchors and - ,Lioden s Petaled In W ' Sailed his Majesty's ships Hyacinth, with dispatches faiths psey.; I. Murr ay, Yu la ails ; and Portmahon , on a eruize. Also sailed, from L ..'. . . w :iggp i t ; I.ootom Dr the Pelter gunbrig, with a convoy for the Mediterranean: s - -roar; J. Aspeme rst of coasters, bound to the Westward, sailed with them. loft-e' - • rn DOVER ' Fes. 14..—Came in this day the transport (Sr) ' ..' llll g --- Z — ' - DEFENCE rn Maybourne, of Boston, Captain Storehouse, from I - • . :2..L1 tt.: Spb; s day -,,, stores, having in the gale of Friday last, in the Downs, . ItIKEMOIR on tot :he away her masts and bowsprit. Arrived in the Roads ~ ' . . By 'ed /1000 his Majesty's sloops Pandora and Royalist, withtle Mr _,9 n 1• "'CaPlaill in led an anchor and cable each, which they lost in the pie of - ma's! fee John StneltdaJ i t y the Downs. Several vessels have gone past here Ma • in roar L night, with loss of top-masts, anchors, &c. A sloop with • 1116rXtri V 4& toMM • tits eir ling stores from Deptford, is on shore on Romney Sandi, andk - • -Ikko WOO, w m- feared she will be lost ; her cargo is taking out. I cznattlen SW8410116; Or, * 'ileac we her name. Wind north and moderate. England, Scotland, and Ire' of DEAL, FEB. 13.—The Indignant gun-brig has sailed for Pas earliest antiquity. -By Wi !tat mouth with the remaining merchant vessels which were leftbs emir byßichsult Goolls. o f hind in the last gale. Sealed the Mutine, and Pandora sloops, a r- , - DR. GREG( a cruize off the coast of France. Arrived the Bold gun-brig, from' T HIS Work, whic try a cruize. ion FEBRUARY l4.—Arrived the Furious gun-brig, from 3 cruise. ano6Pre=lollo render it, has bee ,t , a , Sailed the Skylark and Seagull sloops, on a cruize; Cratiergio- nf brig, for Margate Roads, to the assistance of Use Blazer , Bona, a:26"W preference of I ''' and Mariner gun-brigs. It la Ow in a train of 1 La- nd Rolfe, Thompson, for Malta. Arrived his Alajesty's ships R. fore the Ist of May next. Fe a R ems v 15.--Salled through the Downs for Ports mouth Dr its Erg Part and Number ute elist, Mutine, Pandora, Blazer, and the Furious, from a ofee, The Notes vs- ill -be ilia and remain in the Downs with ships as per last. Wind W.N.11. v t i t l o coemnret ir, u c he SIIREINESS, Exa.l3.--Yesterday we again erperienteda Mt Artists, (Messrs ... violent gale from N. E. and an inundation of the tide awns gale &c. &e.) f: :19 Level, the wall going to Queenbro' could not be repaired sire Gm, Masters in the ae,n VS- the gale that so recently broke it down, and therefore the Main- The plan of this Work in Land Proprietors have again suffered very seriously. Armen ' the execution it is intent o f the disasters that we have to recount, is the Elizabeth, Ojeda, rains Elegance, at aci h• bound to Gottenburgh, with rah fish, &c. brought into the he . Mks stchich are withou "' s hour , with some small damage ; the Hertignanen, Schagushsa lehlge-street, Jan. 1, lia- from Stockholm, with deals, iron, &c. brought in with lots d be- bowsprit, cable, and anchor, and otherwise much damaged; th .. ' A NEW At eat Delight, Bentall. of Charlestown, having been picked up by . • Thi sit fishermen without a soul on board , ta as she has drifted from tie Price Ninepenee, or Essex coast, where she had met with damage, and has has au rce laden; the Feronia, Lindsay, franc Newcastle for Londak wall T HE FIRST C the loss of cables and anchors ; the Elizabeth, Bugge, (a Dauidepeln) astainieg commor o r d with loss of cables and anchor, and has drove on shore at h4b• tarifa* capacity and cur me, water mark, above Queenbro'; the Frau Catherine, (a Ds* V!'irs of Age. prize) with the loss of bowsprit ; the brig Peggy, Cavanagh, hos By the R London, bound to Demerara, with ordnance stores, wine, leak ue- Mbar of the Class Boc ich and other merchandize entirely di.masted, and loss of ablest AO rhe Cass Book; c l ed anchor, and must be repaired 'ere she can leave the harbour-al .Evety.Parent and 'l's on, was picked up by saver fishermen yesterday, in the height of tietiles:end importance gale, and brought in here to-day. One of the Swede s, is coax leothlng the Child to c de into the harbour, has run foul of a line-of-battle ship, and did bet 2tLleals by easy at led sem: damage. off amiliar an( rof Fee. 14,...-Sliiied the Henrys bomb-tender, Butchd,ts Work dr bop.. of life, am wlch to refit. Arrived the New Shoreham smack, Vassal, bra Ml s the same reletl4 ing picked up the American ship Delight, Bentall, with Whet of Dr. Watts, the nett. water in her hold, and no person on board. *listed for RICSAR icy - GRAVESEND, Fel. 13.-e-Passed by the Emerald, Stott; IMP' teelcy, Wilson ; and the Chatham, Mason, from Jamaica. Saha . 44 4 '? Ile. 124 1;t 1 P;IS an the Alexander, Atkins, for Rio Janeiro. t t i- 1414 r4 clf kr ofttAtto , DIED. • he thent rs o y tt t A itAIt.RIED s a Mande- . ,at his house i s Harley-street, in the 82d year of tis use, age r , e Tts . ons..s Edwards Freeman, Esq. of Battesford , in Gloucester- -t o llf .t oive i p it ded shire . M.- illness, of a violent attack upon his lungs, Colonel William ful - I s t ieettradliberaißst At Gordon's Hotel, late on Saturday evening , a f ter a few dip hil'i3ibdimenaises of and tartan, of Fullerton, deeply lamented by his numerous relanTsl ~ :.; 1411 1 t ibts t a nt . . age, espial 1 n Pone to give met for all the social virtues, brilliant talents, and most ac .. . kit aseouductof it. T yes, and friends, as an irreparable loss. He was much di c s n ti m egui . th pbsbc l ~. 14 moti,es 1., ,ion mind; and his death must be regretted by every friend to sgut a laa mt., and 'hen country, to justice, and to humanity. . MiPtattention,•whicl ritic energy of 1 in the county of Buckingham. His numerous acquaintance WiSe On Saturday, the 6th instant, Robert Scott, Esq. of Danesfoldr o agreeable companion, and a most sincere friend. He WU cam' Wieft.tit ply.eeptch Pro_ long have to lament in his death the loss of an elegant schonr,so . p vea rill ent e:P u i st e e S d o t f o t h h i o cuous through life for his acts of unbounded liberality. Being Ig 4 " l eigetlse civil.* clots from the inconvenience of pecuniary embarrassments ;of! able seined of a splendid fortune, he continually sought to re li eve 0 1 11 1 T ern dis i oaauge .: ..._ _gel feats* of k_.] then though his benevolence may have been equalled, it certainly a la_ " c al et I/Milling I ttee tal Ala Mil Wl°, in the House of Commons, he distinguished himself for his mot' has been surpassed. During the short time Mr. Scott had . leo_ . to "ga l loNie. they art °Pt' ible integrity, sound judgment, 'ti t , alfteatandip MC that his ten - don the rights and jiberties of the Puople—SO much so, ~„ ''/ 11 ',,,,„,. : 11 1at fleither. eaq iced ins to be a Welber of Parliarnent has always bean regrettea c . 0 ! --""' , beval Dot ut that those who were best acquainted with him,' as a grunt publi, •r:' ~ hbagi wr i tig - ,. seene, and constitutions ateachmest With these excellent qualities he•combinedibme of great ir . mid mat Bence to others, And of exemplary piety ; and upon the whole,. be ''.,... .It v re l l e er7h ai,.w d— has left behind him a character which will long continue to be • . vered for its rare snotesitraordinarymerit. •'. mho , sas 'Ur C0 ..,..6....i. t LONDON :• Print - sad pas shed by LEVEL KE NT, 01 '• .14, telintry Place, Lambeth) at the STAR -Orrice, NO. I 92 1er ' and. Published also at I. 11:. STAB-0141CL, TeD I P L • . • • .