The National Register. — London, England, 1809-06-18 00:00:00

TEIE NATIONAL REGISTER. relationq of Sweden with England, if it be true that the change which ha% taken place in Sweden, has no other object than to Faye the state, and rescue it from the calamities to which it was exposed by the false political system hitherto pursued, what can Sweticn do better than change it at once. Ati A ribistlce has ap peared inadini , ,:able to his Majesty, and he note which I have presented to Baron Schwerin, and of which I annex a cop, contains the Lmperor's opinion on this subject. I have the honour to be, (Siva.) COUNT NICHOLAS ROMANZOFF. STRA LSUNP, JUNE 3.—On the T6th ult. Schill entered this place, making an altogether unexpected attack. On the 31-t, the united Dutch and Danish troops advanced to deliver the city. `chill, sPein7 that uo resource was left for him, resolved to defe:td himself stone)., and convert Stralsund into a second Sal - ago-4a. The to%%u w:is defended by 27 pieces of n.on. But the Dane , . and Dutch entered the place b. assault, and the battle wa: fon.:ht in the streets. In every street were den.' bodies. Schill in tl, , spair ,ent to the Town-hall, and (I,.m;li k lec suiphttr and pitch to set )he plate on fire. l'his was refused !limn. A musket b.,11 killed hint in the FahrstrNsse, and his hod wa, , carried to the Town-hall. Those trf his troops w hich were made their escape. Al any prisoners were lakeo, 5 0 Were killed. The Dutch lament the loss of their General, Carteret, and two Colonels, and some other officers. .1 - e , terclay evening the body of Sebill waq buried privately. A monument is to be erected before StralsunJ, iu memory of ?his event. MPE RIA L PAUL I d EAT. HOUSE OF LORD. TtiesrTery, une 13. The Irish Auction Duties, and the Blackfriars Bridge Sunday Tolls Bills, were read a third time and passed. The Woolley: Bill, was read a third time and passed. The Earl of Ile,horough moved to suspend the Standing Order with respect to the Manchester Water Works Bill. After a long conversation the House divided :—Contents 19 — Not Contents 10—Majority 9. rso and almost itsperceptitily, iocre.oe!, i•vt • r t.te •.• • )- Illtion. Neither clotogt• of men sal - chaage of torosures teade.l to cheek (.1i the color:Irv, it ‘‘ait found to iocrel.-e lu bol.t. magt,itudc :IF. it procee(ed. It therefore heritioe neces,ar) to put a ha..., ter to the mischief. It Nab for; (!;e happinebs, ti.e .afety of ti!e vople orotanded .1, at:d tne &moor and dignity of Pat liatueot r al.t.itl f o r is. Che 13 11 before th..ir Lertlehips t‘ null t 4.0...vi0h.J, (hat ; wi l d ► trusted that, omit r prtitertion. it %%mild into ;t flis Lordship cot:doled a %ery animated t.peecii by moving 'rhat the Bill he now cornmittud." Earl t'ROSYENt)r a ppo,ed every part ;Ir.} !!tom of the Bill, but its title ;sett preamole. These. hi- I.ordship were he could defend ; the rest %%as all .t f.srte, ant) v%toit to toottra verse the very ptiarei l de it me.io: !..41i rat'iet and con•ra‘ert the ohject it preteodel to re..cit. 1 he' toe ut igloo! shape wherevs ith It as first prest-itel io the l.ec;i-la itre, exhibited an honest ;111d Nince!C desire to aC4 . 4lll4pik! that v%'aich it prhfe , sed; bat that whit Is nas )it fp.f.) . !e their I 0r.1.• stilt)• l oa d si,,s the betili)i.,ilee of it. lie owilvd It.. Mt I .y atiached to ' l ad irlOWOtary itelOrM. UI Its 1•1•1 ;Old ~ tore mode, such as that great State-man, the I..ie :sr, i-iss, isroissolgat , .-d, and sach as, if adopteti, %%mild ;is farther he w c!tre the liberty of the subject, than any measure isitherfa pro- Lordship tissished his 4 peech ‘s it decht iilc. iu i!Je most unequivocal manner, Brat the measure thei, !,eCore the ilouse would he pro:hit-the of more evil. t mut -egislative iaterferetice that could he atlens,:ted upon the subject. The Bill passed through the CominiLce ssithaut an d Amend ment. The insolvent Debtors Bill was mid the third time, and pats• sed—Adjourned. Friday, June, 16. The Sale of Parliamentary Seats Pre‘ention Bill, and the Strand Bridge Bill were re:id the third cane.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMNIONS. Mond6.7", June 12. IF,ATS IN PARLIAIIENT. Sir T. TCRTON elpresSed himself warmly as a friend to s' ow and gradual Parliamentary Reform, and the enemy of It:titular pre judice when it sought relief by unconstitutit.nal . No man conl" deny, when he was told that fifty-one NlettiheN in ;fiat House were returned by fifty ind i vide and that only 11,000 e!it of 11,00) ' I OO of the population of Great Britain were s e presented in Cie Legislative Body , that Parliamentary Reform was necessary. It was with the firm belief that the present Bill, curtailed even of its original provisions as it was, would have a most useful iAluence on the representation of the flow , e, that he would give it his best support. Some tientli»en who were the opposers of this measure, having grounded their objec tions upon a persuasion, and even assertion, that the Cor.tito (ion was now in a purer state than ever it was, and therefore that any further amendment was unnecessary, he must beg leave to (Biter from their mode of reasoning. He thought the circum tances of our Constitution being c!earer of the excrefsenees of corruption now, than it was formerly, was no argument against a further removal of similar inctinibrances. In every point of view conceiving the Bill of his Hoa. Friend to be pus fectl v con sistent with the wisest political considerations, he concluded by giving it his enost cordial support. The SEcitc raft at IV n felt confident that if the House was composed of the most wise, efficient, and virtuous men in existence, it would still not ,give that generA sati4;.ctioit to the popular feelings which seemed to bethegeneral objec. of gentle.. men on the other side. The people mipht have too much . power, and popstlar passions too great an ascendancy. It became ti.crefore necessary, to apply a counteractive, which was filly answered by the 6onstittotou as it stood. He did not see that v inconvenience or ill e:i'ect toulci arise front the Sale of Seats in Parliament, as those p:•roms who were enabled to lay (lowa so large a sum for their return ta that House were certainly the persons the eople would ',morally wish to represent them, as men of prope:ov and iwiependeore. lie regretten the Bill had ever been and conceived it unnecessary ; but not with stan.:ing, at shoul..l have his support, as it had net with many judicious altoottioils. Mr. An at it was impossible not to consider the. sale of seats in Partlament a' the m.i•t cr% ing grie v ance. Had the Bill r-fr.aned in its or:gilt:it form, he should certainly t ave gi‘en hss Ft Note in its support; but it had met with so much mutilatten that SA I.E OF OFFICES PREVENTION BILL. Earl Grtosv c..co ft perfectly agreed in the principle of the Bill, but objected to the exceptions with respect to the Sale of Commis sions in the Army, and of Offices attached to the Law. With re spect to the former, he thought that a matter of so much import ance establishine, the practice of the Sale of Military Commis sions should have been made the subject of a substantive Bell ; and with resptct to the latter, that Cu. practice of selling such Offices should be confined to the present possessors of these situations which wore entitled to the sale. The Loan CHANCELLOR observed, that the exceptions in the Bill did not establish the practices mentioned by the Noble Earl, hnt left them as it found them. The Sale of Military Commissions was subject to his Majesty's regulations,• to which it was left by the Bi:I. With respect to Law Offices, no mis chief whatever had arisen from the practice of sellixg, them ; and it should hc recollected, that the Salaries of the Chief Justices of tile Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, who derived emolument from the Sale, had not been increased for a lonz period of Sears. In the Court of Chancery no Offices were saleable. The Bill was read a third time and passed, with Amendments, and sent back to the Comaions.—Adjc.urned. Wednesday, .hare 14. The Bankrupt Bill, the Prize-tow - ley Bill, the Ship-owners' Bill and the Societies' Bill were read a third time, and passed.—Adjourned. Thursday, June 13. SEATS IN PARLIAMENT. The Earl of Ltyr,RPOOL, in a very argumentative speech, .addressed their I.,ordsitips in support of the Bill for pi 'servinK the purity of Parliament. His bordl.hip appealed, in forcible ternia, to their judatnent and wisdom upon the necesity of adopt ing mea , ,ures v Rich would effectually stop the gross and tlag,rniii violation of the comtPalion, T high so notori3Wly prevailed. and so deeply !truck. at Vse flin;la;n-ntal principles of a free le i:latioa. TL, 11 hitt. cumplaiiieti or had grades JUNE 18. f