Star. — London, England, 1808-03-10 00:00:00

aMet . PzIALIAMJSIVTART nocz4sDmice, • " • ", .:: _ ittnisi of LORDS IdAtteri 9, • • . . • i rtlitied,..pichit .4 _Ttail and nthers--14/.AvAie end ?eft ietei ireetAipseii Oaf thi Respondents. livethei hearkig la. ZZ.:ita tuft *is iead i,eeond time t abil aefnihkt ted ' Hi; Wati kiwi; ind,several Members bf tiouie Or for 046. bsoa t hit the Shier Bountl.lllll, 0164 PeteDlekv • hack IAIL ieete. Lead #tret duA • #l"idrf.d* • HotTSE 01? et:IMMO*. ... . . , •' - , -'- - -1. ‘: ~ , . .. • •'.• ' .S I : 4 6 1. 1 4 ALUSBUItits Chairmen of the CoMmittee . *he , .• '•• ' . ' Efectloh,:.reported tbAt Mr, Fuller , i 2 ' that Con4ittee/ pad thiS da*abitented hhnielf Evian _ • Mt. it tr,ll iii:ored,i)i . i Medical Pent . ..in, Altak Mr. d Jyt,„ U'ait, not likely to tie able to attend 1'111411:J0n Me Can`' ,trilttic fliA'Atinti days . He Was. therefore eatueed faun further And the Chin:Mate it ,• auctedio proived lei** hire - , Mr: SWAN gave,Mitiee, thin to-morrow he wool; MeV* to : Vet the Order for the eenskieration of the Piet Eleetion Pekticin. , . . - . cit fbE trintion iiliMr. CALCR.U'T It lias ordeft4;that there ~lip Auld before the Hense an account of. the effective number of • Volunteers, According to the latest returns, distingisishing Cs • yeti, Infantry, and Artillery: • . . . ttl/101/TTEE dO supirtya The Rollie in a Committee of Supply, on the inotinii {,it', Mr. tiUSKISSON, voted the folffiiiing stints : . is,sbli in pay off 5 pee cent. Annuities. .144000 for the relief df French end other EMlgrants. This *at exceeded the vote of List yeahinder this head,hlt 3,000 L The reaaorr of the increase * - 114, that the Unite of in**, for lit. Doniingo Emigrants, uffordcil a surplus vildeli ci!i vered in !erne c h ores, the expellee that was to be pixoi• • ' %tied for :nevi. Mil year. 7,5411 For thb Charges of the Alien Office: 4,690 TO mike good the Deficiencies of the Vote of last *eats, for defraying the Expence of Printing v.ncl Stationety for the House of COminons. 4;337 Ti mike gond the Deficiency of the Vote for French held other Emigrants in 1607. 12,000 For the Expences of the Public °dee, in litive.erfeet4 . . The Report to be received to-morrow Thu Cotton Wool Bill was ordered to be read i third time tba morrows, WA'I Am) MEANTS . The House having gone into a ebititnittee of Ways and Meat% • TiteCl#Al4CELtse it bf the EXCHEQUE foie to inforni the Cdmitilttee that as it had been deter mined chi the part of his Majesty's*MiniSteri to pro pose to Parliapient to fund JC4lOOOjOOO of the Out standing Exchequer Bill's, he was now glad to be enabled to state at What rate such bill's thotild be written in: To open a negociatibn 11* a Louan Would riot present be advisable, and th e • that Would lie necessary to be raised for the sup ply of the year 'would' be tnilcb more conieniently negotiated after the lapse of a few weett, and Oen then lid did tibt think that the Loan required .(or this f6iiiiitY Would exceed eight millions. Aitording td the ternts proposed to the hbiders 'of Exchequer liill3, they would hai'e an option of sub-. scribing in the 5 pet tents. or in a Proportion between the 4 and 5 per cents: If the holders chose all s's, he proposed to give 1051 , for every 100 i. Exchequer,' and it they chose pail 4's and part sis, he proposed to give for every 1001. 631. ss. of 5 per cents. arid 501 t a 4 per cents. which would be a banns of from 13 to 2 per cent. He commented upon the advantage bf concluding a Loan - after the Exchequer Bills id question had been provided for. He then moved a teabltieion tti the aboVe effect, which, after a few ob servations from Mr, Varitittart, across the table, Was agreed to. The House then resumed, and the Report was 'or dered to be received to-morrow. AFFAIRS OF 003 E. • On the rhotion of Lord Folkestone, the Order ‘C the day for resuming the adjourned debate on • the bude Papers was read. ' Lord FOLKESTONE then addressed the Masi hi_ a long speech, alluding to the Papers on the table; . in Winging forward the consideration of which,. portant as they were, he had lost no One, though the contrary had been iMputed to him. The char. he imam to submit against the Marquis Wellesley • eras his cruel and harsh treatment or the Nabob of Dude; 'once a great, a powerful and independant Print In India, but now shorn of his rank and freedom.- Wheh that Nabob ascended the nitisitird (thethrdne) • ti lad and one half of rupees were due by the terri tory. of Oude to the East India Company, and Lord Wellesley, on his setting out to India, conceived tke Plan of ruining this Potentate, which he presently ,et about carrying mute executinn, at least the Mniltils did sts after the exl)i . iation of a twelvemonth / he hay . - big been in the mean erne occupied by other hunters. At that time there was a treaty in existence, which had been but recently entered into by the Nabob of bude and the East India Company, which abrogated and did away all foriner treaties, and clearly settled and defined the terra's of the future relationship and inter coutie of the contracting parties. Lord Folkestone said he should be enabled to shew, by evidence the Mbst clear and latistat ttny, that Lord Welltsiey had WanionlY violated and broken through that tteaty.4--" , That treaty stipulated, that the Nabob should.ht • lure Be deprived Of-all external political consequence, un.l yet that he should retain the entire manageinent of.his Own affairs, and the usual authority vested in him over his dominions: The contpA'ny - , by that treaty, eon- aged to defend tjie Nabob's terfitory, ithd it a force for that puippse should tvi rietessary betond i 3,400 'Awn, 'the numbers beyond these Were tp : he paid by the Nabob.' Of this. POsitive Lipid Wellesley made a veil improper use. He tied tt as a Means of pppiessing the Nabob, insistingohat • nimble:it dangers tntpesded , o'rerthe Nabob's posses. lions, and urging the necessity rot• the introduction of British troops into Oude, it order tb the profectinnOf tt's Soirtreign, the Nitbdn's own ttoipshemg,vTryslis... tlidetly and Amain:ins, which indsZed the - Nabob •fo • wish a 'redaction of their numbers, The Nabob did 50.,. and reduced all hit battalions bat that . under.thv 4commnnd of alt . officer !named Alma's .: is the ' -14.tiquis cortsfited i;ato a design against the Compa yty, and.was one of the causes of his immediately sen ding British troops into OndE. There ' , ,vas another Charge - against the Noble hlargais, which was that 'ar ioinpilling the Nabob to cede the one half of hit territory, and. this 'latter, Lord Folkestone said, Ap., fated to have been Marquis Wellesley's twit de. sign. Lord Folkestone then referred to the lattess tietweiktt olortel Stott, the Brit,Ws resident Zaitra, )w, the capital of Oude, and Lord Wellesley; sill l 4 -ironColowl Stotes itsttws, vonterglea, dais the 1 • • •.• - - Nabob hat: beset b, iotttity • ire faithful, to his atai. ear' agettetna, alid anilous.* • fulfil all the stipulatiOns into which he had entered its thus with the coins pany, From Lord Wellesley'snd cliepatchds to Colonel Scott,, his Lordship espied, . that it wall evident Lord Wellesley had treated the Nabob with most opprobrious contempt. Lard WellesleY, *fief this,. in order to compel the Nabob to cernelle with his urgent demateds, (though that Mtetarch had been pufictual iii payiitg his subsidies to the Company) ha rassed him with a claim for an arrear due tb the Corns patty, front the time the British forces had formerly .defended hi! territofyi This Win was due at the time the treaty was made, and in it was a clause Securing its paymeht therefOre Lord Folkestone contettded, that it Lord Wellesley Meant to insist on payinetit of that arrear, he ought to have specifically intitrlated - such a demand to the Nabob. Distressed beyond all. hearing by these Measures, the Naboli, at tengthe consented to code one half of his territory to the Com. pany, and to disband his troops. In the subsequent arrangements, the Nabob *as still anxious to possess the active management of his own affairs, and the governMent of hit people; but these points, although they were stipulated in the treaty,. Lord Wellesley withheld from the Nabob, and ap.pOinted a person to reside at Lucknow to superintend *ll the transac tions and conduct of its Sovereign. After dwellitig upon these points, and cominrating on the harshness of Lord Wellesley, Lord Folkestone . concluded by iiioritiethe first of a sttifig of resolutions, censuring lisid condemning the conduct of the Marquis Wel- . lesr.ii in g_ard t o the Nabob of Oudei. Ir. W. KEE/4E supported the motion, and la mented that this inqni* had been so long procrasti nated: ~ , Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHtR also complained of the delay, at it seaSlnjurioas to the feeling ~ o f the Noble Marquis, He was astonished that such 'Ebel ! Ibus Matter had been V, long on the table of that House without reprobauniu No man could have any well founded cehnplalnt sigahtst the Noble Marquis on the score ofinjunicei and the native Chiefs of India, only, had to complain of the nature and principles of the'British Government, which protected the lower order front, tinnily and oppression: The Honourable Gentlithan was himself well acquainted with the wise and equitable policy pursued by the Noble Lord, and with ttspeet to the conduct adopted towards lthe Na bob of Oude-eesurele that measure was sanctioned by the Court of Directors. It 'was well knoten to the Direiiiii% that the Civil and Military GoVerritnent of Otide Washi such a state as to require an immedi ate reformation. The whole State was in confusion, and the Nabob without authority over his tubjects.---; In that situation it betathe absolutely necessary for the Governor Genet-al to interfere. Satre y; if he act% ed by the instelictions of. the Secret Committee, he could not how he impeached for obeying their orders. This coulehe . dearly /tweed , from their. own die: patches-for when the Noble Lord sent hoMe his re , signatioti, they -wrote hint an answer, which strtingly Indicated a confidence id hit meritorious achninistrae! tion. They begged of hiiit to continue in India .anoe ther season, and tomplete the whim'y reform he had Introduced into the Governitieist of Oude. The Hon. Gentleman then entered into the history of the Noble Marquis's Indian policy, and concluded with moving the erevions question, and submitting another motion to the folloWing effect, viz. e That it appears to this House that the conduct purssied by the Marquis of Wellesley in India *as highly inetitorious and bene ficial to the British interest, and the inh abitants in general" Colonel ALLEN said, he must oppose the kesoltt tions of the Noble Lord (Folkestone), because they. were subversive of our poksessions in India. the Honourable Member theft entered into a detail of the transactions which were now .brought as charge!: against the Noble Marquis, and ecnichided with star- ing, that the Nabob wal lit A state of dependency on the British Government. This opinion, he contended, Was confirmed by the Board of Controul and by Lord 'l'eigtonouth, Mr GRANT diffeetei litre the tibnoarable Gen tleman who spoke last; _ e . certainly conceived the conduct of the Noble Marquis to have been founded in injustice, and of course must he contrary to . sound edits-. All the ingenuity, and all the talents brought Reward in support of the measures pursued by the Noble Marquis in India, could not induce him to think that there was any ground whatever for violat ing treaties, at forinaliy and solemnly concluded as lily that lutee ever been ratified. The House tiittst be aware of the dangers and calamities which such a gross departure from professions :ntd acts had in kea lity caused. The Hnnourable Gentleman enume rated the sei'eral treaties entered into with the Nabob of Oude, in order to sheW that on his . part they had been observed With the utmost rigidness. From consideration of every thing Which had Occurred, ate was decidedly of opinion, that redress in some shape or other ought to be made to the Nabob of Oude.--,.. This was also the feeling and opinion of Lord Come, wallis, who lutd likewise disapproved of the principle 'on Which we had acted. Some per seemed in clined to defend the conduct of the . Noble Marquis, alledgitig that the change which had taken place was favourable to Otide; but surely it could not be main: tanned, blast acts of injustice and violence should be perpetrated Under the pretext of advancing the inte rest of those so injured. Mr. WALI.ACE Inaintained that the Nabob of Onde was dependent on us, and that our first con nection with Oude Was a connection of comptest. He was sure that he could not be tontradicted When he said that the Nabob had been a prisoner in our camp. These Were facts which most Materially 'changed the complexion of the charges, and proved at least that the outcry of having violated treaties with ntt inde pendent Prince was wholly unfounded: The Hon. Gentleman opposed at some length the arguments Urged in support of the resolutions, which lie Consider. ed to be a most ungrateful return for the great and substantial services performed by the Noble Marquis. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, he was sorry eo see the House neelined to pass over the question before them, which he considered of the greatest iniportance as it regarded the humanity, honour , and justice Of the national character. He then deprecated the conduct of Lord Wellesley, and complained‘Z the first Eno nor* of salt, wh ich he said, had prosluced * sum amounting to-eft120,900.. The -NOW VlaAtilt: had formed a plan for getting possession of the territories Of the Nabob of Oude in the first inaance, and it ap, -g • . -•. oat he had tampered with the Hahots by a _hing and weaning another. He consider t the statutes of the fibrin had heel! vialgted 1 use conduct of the Noble Martini!' He eked trot; F und other writers; to prove dun injustice had been done to the Nabob of Oude, and concluded his speech-, bt dbseriing that the Noble Marquis had acted with cruelty and perfidy ; that he hid insulted the Britis h . statue, and abused the dignity of the House of Com moils, in eonsequence of the House was called upon to express its censure. Mr. IIANKES considered the peetettt titteettott subjett on Which the House was incapable of forming a. solid judgment. The case of Sir Thomas Rumbold. iri 1789, arid that of Mr. Hastings, had proved that the House was incompetent to judge . precisely upon charges similar to the present.. He should abstain, himself from forming any opinion upon the subject. If there was any defect in the judicial powers of the. House, It was not disgraceful to acknowledge it, ra-i the than form a hasty, and perhaps animproper kid*• riletit, upon the present oecasien. " Mr. WILLIAM SMITH rose, and obiefiea,ihat. no twithstanding the malty speeches that had been de livered that evening on . the important subject before the House , yet the debate Was not likely to close for many hours, an 1 as many of the - Members preserit must be considerablyfatigued, and as business of con siderable importance was us be discussed that day, he would then propose in adjournment. • 'the CHANCELLOR .of. , the EXCHEQUPt observed, that le must therefore be adjOarried.for ten or fourteen days, as subjetts •thit were very likely to ,create some discUssiOn, stood for. evtwy: day of' the present, and the next week. After some conversation, Mr. SHARP. agreed to postpone the motion of which be had given notice for Tuesday next : and the House deferred the further discussion of the Oude charges till Tuesday. • Adjourned at half past once •• ON THE PROPHECIES• TO THE ENTOR OF THI STAR: Sitt-=The judicious quotations or Scripture, in.: contaminated by profane applications, and unso phisticated by an enthusiastic imagination, which I have frequently observed in your Paper, induce me to think that you feel a sincere regard for the great "truths of Religion. Under this conviction, I beg leave to offer to your. Readers a series of Papers on an important subject--the rULFILMENT of the Pao , PIIECIES. • - When the politicii hemisphere is uncloude d, when .... . the bark of life glides smoothly over an unrafilek sea, the Mind is lulled in security, heedless.. of. the: great events, which are silently brooding . fiver •the', World. But *hen the storms arise, - Act•the thunder ' is ready to burst; when' the jUdgmeriis of Heaven threaten to overturn the order of Nature, and,involve nations in a whirhirind of desolation; thenihe mind is agitated, and endeavours to.trace.the, cruses. and the progress or those tremendous revolittl i ms , - IA it i 1 Under the impreSSiOn. of this feeling that,' since the 'fearful events Which have lately astonished. and af 'fleeted the. world, men' of a c o ntemplative dispo- . sition have turned their thoughts to the Prophecies, :which they believed to be on the eve of completion; `Some df then hate built their systems on grounds, -which I conceive to be erroneous, if net presiitop,, 'tuous. They have not only applied sortie Prophecies to the events pauing before their eyes, but hate Ten,- titled to Aetermine the exact periods of the future ae torriplishltient of others, and the very way in which they must be fulfilled. But, as men naturally affix , the greatest importance to the transactions, circurn r . ,stances, and tittles, In Which they live, it has fre-- ,quently happened that succeeding interpreters hate proved the error of former applications, and hive proposed others, which the lapse of years has shewn 'to be equally destitute of forindation. Influenced by the desire of avoiding those clan gers, I shall restrict my investigatiens' to the Prophe cies, which I conceive to have been actually accbin .plished, and occasionally draw such deductions as may be undeniably proved to bear on present. occur rences.' It will be found that I shall frequently dif fer from Mede, Vitririga, Daubuz, Fleiating, Lloyd, Newton (Sir Isaac, and Bishop), Blayney, Michaelis, i Louth, Lowman, Hurd, Wintle, Woodhouse; Valpy, Ir.ett, Faber, Zoueb, arid all those who have treated. tihe same subject. Where so many have laboured, it mar readily be supposed that, on different points; tone of them have elicited the truth ; hot . I. ti..§b it. I:6'be understood, once for all, that, for thelitke of levity, I shall seldom mention the authors 'With` .Whom I concur in judgment, or from whom I die .tent, .nor occupy your cOlumns unnecessarily with a detail of the various and contradictory systerns that have been produced by my predecessors. My inferences will be made, and my reasonings drawn from the words of -Scripture, from historical evidence, and from Chronological and Astronomical eilculations. I wish not to advance a single step, uttenlightened by the sacred torch „of Truth. Let .it be premised, that if this unerring luminary should grilde me to discoveries, which may militate against the principles of some individuals, or the interests of sdtne establishments, I am not to be accused of an intention to wound their feelings, or to ridicule their prejudices. If my system is defective, it will be pthductive of injury to itself alone. If it is founded on a solid basis, it will not be shaken by the cavfls of detraction. It is my sole Object, to " vindicate the ways of GOD to man," to spew that the ALIMOHTY , hat 'yen*r kft hiatrl without witneti, and to confirm my FelloW-Christians In the - . conviction that Heaves anal Earth shall lour away, • bu t Aii ever& mall eifpars alrily, BIB.LICV3I. tebtl4:4l CONSTANTINOPLE, JANUARY 16. Out trade with GernrattY continues to suffer intetruptioni. The Vienna. merchants can sm o l t send us any thing ; they are ittwant of mall fog io tied Articki. On the other side the comtnunitai with theNediterfanean is entirely interrepted, receive no intelligence from Egypt and the Ar c * lAgo:blonds6;:. - The fort. of: Satfyrna confltu ies MPOkafiedk. m„yallanite, a Russian .Colonel, is still'her t is thought lie ii charged with very important - AtiOps.•--Maniteur, February 26. SEMLIN, FEB. 2. A o ccittrdin g to the last accounts from Wallachia, th e i t ebtquarters of Prine Prosorowsky are sill in Jar ! , Thrett Russian. Generals only :remain- in .Birchg esti among whorn it, General. Barlunetief, Governor of 'that city and country. We• understand that Pri nce Ypsala.nti meals to return from Petersburgh to Iluch ayest,'. The general cpinion here is, that impotent events will,ere long take place in Moldavia and Walachia. The Turks have repaired and considerably into* sed the fortifications of Giurgew, Brahilow, au 4 Ismallof, and the garrisons of those places hav e been strongly reinforced. BERLIM i'E11..9. We 'Pahl by letters from. Konigsberg; - that Mr. de Steid contintkes to . direct the affairs of the Prussia cubipet,.:,making considerable reform in the military departineat 3 • but, in..spite -of the reports inserted-ie. the publie.papers, no beginning has as yet kolas* tolvettgauLee .the army....or forth the militias. . VIENNA, FE&••1t►• L':••• A Convention has lately been concluded betrtid our Croat and that of.Bayaria, and has already been ratiOestloy. both parties.. This treaty, which zoutaiss Sfi l jactisies, is interesting to the inhabitants of` boas; &Nes/ particularly to those Of the-frontier diStricts: It v isnstains several stipulations• relative to the. tad. .t*ce of salt and that of the woods bet Ween Uvula and the Austrian Principalities of-Saltzbarg and Ber. chtolsgaden, in respect : to ths :transfer of all public Erortty .and private effects, upon the -fialach, tbt Salmi th:l4nn acid ; the. Danube, whether.deseentilig towards Austria, or • rising . towards Bavaria This treaty has ileen.sqpcluded for six years. • 4... report again. in circulations, that I.buraefoll ipOdy of troops of the Confederacy of the .Rhine is to march to Dalmatia: The garrison of Trieste is to reinforced.. . . • TRI~ST~; 1E$.•IO . . Fe, Russian. fieeLleft,Our goad is on the sth of this moi?ai . ; w e e'lelitsihaat arrived at Venice on the 6th. On tbi iittad day a . rriiii.4 here froth Malta, a vessel laded with 500 bales of cotton I three other vessels, ladmi also with cotton, Whith the English had In detained at Malta, in order to search them, haring with difficulty obtained peiltiission to put to sea, hive beets iii their voyage from Malta to Trieste captutti by_some French jarivateeis, and akiled into Ancona.. • ' BARCELONA, FEB. 1. Indirect Intelligence .has been received at Cadit from Spanish AMerica ; it appears they .have great abundance -of money in silver and ingots of gold; which they know not what' to do 'With ; and in return, therm* absolutely in want of woollen cloths, hard. ware;ind-othet articles Of 'mantifactute. There arri , . 44/16 6 uSPortl4st .I.eg ;018 TeritS, under different firawn; ktench, 68 Americans, st :Danish, 28 . Algetines, 20 Austrian; 14 Moors, 1 $ Ragnsans, 12 Sardinians, 9 Turks, &c. The Napoleon Code has been introduced into the States of the Duke. d'Areisiberg, where it will be• tht law, with some modifications, after the Ist July nett. PARIS, FEBRUARY 46. The privateer, the Active of Rochelle; Captain Argnaudeau, has carried into Pasage, a port in Spain. a three masted ship, under American colours, bound from Salem to London, with a cargo of rice and • cotton We understand that the interided.marriage of tht Prince of Neufachatel, Vice High Constable of France► witha Princess of Bavaria, will soon take place. CONSERVATIVE SENATE. SEISATORA....o I hate thought proper to appoint my brother-in-law, prince Bori g hese, to the place cfG 9 ' vernor-General, - eretted by the Organic &saw Coe odium of the 2d of this month. My peoPled th e department beyond the Alps will perceive, in ti* erection of that plan, and in the appointment of die - person tb whom I commit It, my 211XibUS desire,cl being thade acquainted with whatever Cart prove in• teresting for them, and the affectionate sentiments , * 8 )604 op. and filla thd • . ;.• -Ater ' lOgr v. P t-4*s • 44. 01 Jake °I . s f 'h i • cliaat 1 It is sion of We ha arly kl and ti means to the suffen tamirm 'NAN el, 23 ishal rsnd a.Pal -;-------. . . , _ u t e lk With ‘r Tilt ttitSING WAR. ed.% —.—.7- . ..... ... salect • - list --. ` b - T ----- T ------ 4401 ma - ---%4DOtt . ii : .....,-: . - a rlitlllsDAY, MARCH to', .d or ons -- ItitlCg Or eroawrins DAY AT ONt - o'Clox : aq: 1 :::,. /. Consols, Disney, 6& 64-4 or April ace: 64i l i'llehitel d o e ' es 3 mei S per C. 97—Ousnisosi 14-.Frzehequer ails , h pit, Wits .. "-- : sowed _ I . W E: I BM: Bon : 1 5 4 s. 4l' tsi li i : ' ' ' paw? O t nocki irEs-rERDAt. , _din mai I per Cent . Rest shut g pef Coat. s er u t. 641_ 114 imp, 3 per C. ati ..., • o f ina u 4 per Cern. S i pa Gat. 97i 94 97 - !E..allig s ' Tickas, 34 nth '• CO 1414#1.a' shit C u ss for Feb. 641. I'j let .-...,—......_ lit s i leci" lige day Paris papers, including the Meffileu r , t o s y ser , sfte the 28th tdt, tvere received. Dutch papers to the 2 4 - :ra. A instant have also come to hand. The followin g k i e l og keit the only articles they present worthy of the l ox it. t ags, • : ,! . :, of the - i W 2 a n . as PI I is