The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-28 00:00:00

FEB. 28. London, complaining of certain violations of the Act for setting the Assize of liread.-..Laid on the Table. petjtjoll from the Joureeymen Sir F. Burdett presented a Bakers in the City of London, and within twelve miles round the same, complaining of their being obliged to work on Sun. dais, contrary to the Act of the 34th of the King, chap. Si. 'Cite petition stated, that that Statute imposed a penalty of lOs. on every master baker, who suffered padding!, pies, or tarts, to be baked in his Mell on that day. That the master bakers had wholly disregarded the Act, on account of the lowness of the. v The petition prayed relief, and was ordered to lie ou the table. Mr. Mellish presented a petition from the Tanners o f L a nd o n, in -upport of the Bill for preventing the, damaging of Raw - , Mr. Van'ittart moved for accounts of the quantities of Jesuit's Bark, imported for six seaes, endiog 1796. and for six years, ending ImOs, sheoing the average go:unity imported in each r. =Ordered. Mr. Davenport presented a petition, signed by two thousand manufacturers and labourers Of Stock part, in Cheshire. entreat ing; th e Hou s e to advise his Majesty to avail himself of all op portunities fur conducting a peace.—Laid on the table. Mr. Ruse otstained lease to bring in a Bill for the better regu lation of Pilots. The only novelty in the Bill was, vesting in the Elder Brethren of the Trinity-house the power of appoint ing fit and able men for that important duty, instead of those who now exercise that vocation. Mr. Canning presented Copies of certain Dispatches from the ]lnn, Mr. Stewart, at St. Petershurgh, to Lord Viscount How ick. Mr. liuskisson brought up two Bills, one prohibiting the ex portation of Cotton Wool to the Continent, and the other for - imposing a Duty on all Raw Cotton, imported from the British Colonies. These Bina were severally read a first, and ordered to he road a second time on Almiday. Mr. liuskisson brought up a Bill, prohibiting the exporta tion af Jesuit's Bark. tat the question being put, that it be read a first time, Mr. %V. Smith oh-erved, that there was something, very strange in a diyision that had taken place the other night, as two Gentlemen only seemed to think that cotton wool and Jesuit's bark were ale and the same thing. The minority against the one was 78, aial against the other 76. .s'sn w. I:LFOND said, an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread) had the other night declared, that if he had,the command of an army , and the forces of the enemy should labour under a dv ,entry, , he would readily supply it with hark. This lie thought was as absurd as if he would furnish them with arms and ;nn der. tin. Sara/Das said, that the idea of his lion. Friend was not quite so absurd as the lion. Baronet imagined. Mr. Whit bread did not mean to say that Peruvian hark alanr would enable tile enemy to take the field. The Pilchard and Herring Fisheries till the coast of Holland were never molested in time of war, as the-se ti-h were esteemed in that country a medicine. It would appear from their reluctance to part with bark, that Ministers themselses were affected with a Typhus Fcver. ( A laugh). The !louse divided, when the question was carried by a majo rity of 3 V: the Ayes being 74, and the Noes 40. On our re-admission, sr found Mr. Secretary Canning moving an Address to his :Majesty, for Copies or Extracts of any Dis patches received by St inisters from the British Envoy at Coven- Itaz:en, in 1/eceniher, itinti, relative to any actual invasion or menace for ()crop ittg a part of the Danish. territory by France. T 4 e j;;; 11 Itr.u. SiTlctary stated, that he was induced to move for these po perk, in order to vindicate himself from the charge of having Eisen a garbled account of Lord ilowick's Dispatch to Mr. Garlicky, and of that Gentleman's answer. He concluded by minim.; accordinglN. Aln. PuNNosnr observed, that the papers proposed to he produced, evidently chewed that Mr. Canning did wilfully mis represent Lord Ilowick's dispatch. and that he now wished to vindicate his own character; and insisted that all the other pa pers taught to be produced, indicative as it was said of Den mark's hostile disposition towards Great Britain. Some conversation ensued of a desultory nature, when Mr. Sheridan, in a long speech, supported the motion, and moved an asneadment, ealliug fur all information received last year by Ministers respecting Copenhagen, and the equipment of the Danish fleet fur the purposes of France. He also moved for papers in vindicatian of the conduct of Mr. Carlicke. An. rdystaa dissented to the amendment, defended his con duct ill reading an extract f i rm turd ilossick's dispatch, and ..:ajority 70. And on the original motion—Ayes 140—Noes 9. Majority 131. On our return, we found the House in a Committee of the whale, considering of the Army Estimates, and the Secretary at War stating, that the Cavalry remained on the same establiiih meat a.s last year. The infantry were 147,000 men, which in creased the last year's numbers by 12,812. In the aggon Train there ma. a considerable reduction ; hut the Militia, not withstanding the volunteering into the Line, had reached its usual establishment; and as for the Volunteer Corps, they were nearly on the name footing. The Right lion. Secretar♦ therefore pro• posed, that 14.752,000 i. should he granted to his Majesty for the military service of the current year, making an increase of 59i,000/. on that of last year; that increase, lie said, was eat irely owing to the number of Officers appointed, and to the number of men volunteered from the Militia. ,►1 R. i INDH AM condemned the mode of reef-lilting from the Militia, and said, that men could not tie had to make up defici encies, as 601. was the current payment of a substitute; colwe. queutly, a grievous burtlten, not only on individuals, but on pa rishes. LORD C4STZISREAGII pregumed, that the Volunteering System was the most convenient, and less oppres.sive than anv other, and found more productive, as 37,000 men had been already :trifled to our regular establishment, and 1,000 more would be produced before the Ist of May. Hence it would he found that 60,600 men had been recruited since the hon. Gentleman had left his office. On the question for granting 2,960.000/. for the service of the Ordnance, a long discussion ensued. It involved a debate on the Corps of Drivers, the Works of Woolwich, Chatham. and Dover. It was agreed to, and several resolutions, of minor impart, were put and carried. The report was ordered to he received on Monday. Lord Castlereagh deferred till Monday, Lis. motion for print ing a pension to the family or the late Lord Lake. the Committee on the Orders in Council Bill was deferred till Monday.—. Adjourned. S Trltl) V FEB. Tr. The Deputy Clerk of the ('town attended and amended the Return for lloryl►aun, by erasing therefrom the names of Sir S. Romilly and Love Parry Jones Parry, Esq. and iteerting tl►ose o f Joseph Alarriot and Henry t;touldhurne, Eirir , •. For Salta , h, the Nlembers returned were Matthew Russel and James Petll%, Esqrs. REGISTER... 17f insisted that the expedition to Copenhagen could be oarrantel on the opinions advanced by his Lordship. The gallery was ordered to he cleared, when two divisions took place.--For the amendment 40---Againt it, 110-11a.iority TIVM AMERICAN I•'fATI: PAPERS. Monday evening American State Papers, were laid upon the table of the Douse of Commons, and delivered to Members. They are in substance as follow : 1. The first set of papers contains Lord Howick's Dispatch ; the Honourable David Erskine transmitting to him a copy of the Treaty of Amity signed on the Slst of December, 11;06;, together with the notes delivered, at the time of its i u re, by Lord Holland and Lord Auckland ; and also transmitting the Order in Council, of the 7th of January, 1807, for preventing all commerce from the port of ilrest to the Elbe. To these papers, when communicated to the Government of: America, Air. Aladison returned two answers. In the first, he. said, " With regard to the particular Order issued against the . trade of neutrals, from one port to another of the enemies of Great Britain, no fair objection can lie against it, provided it be founded on and enforced by the actual blockades, as authorised by the law of nations." in the second letter Mr. Madison enters into a long series of objections to this Order, on the ground that so extensive a line . of roast could not have an actual blockade ; and that it could not be founded on any supposed illegality of the trade of neutrals bet ween these ports. 2. The next set is the communication by Mr. Erskine, of the President's Message to Congress, stating the adjustment of the Negociation between the Commissioners of Great Britain and America, and also the Correspondence between the American Minister at Paris, and the French Minister of Marine, relative to the French Decree of November 11, 1806. 3. The third set of Papers—containing a Note front I Mcs , rs. Monroe and Pinckney, to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated Juiv 1607, proposing to renew the ne,;ociation for a Treaty of