The National Register. — London, England, 1812-01-26 00:00:00

NATIONAL REGISTPt, MN. 2j6:. the coast. I trust the Russians. will givejthem full employment else where. 44 We have been all last year perplexed with contradictory accounts of war—immediate war ; but, if any reliance can be placed on the demon strations, or the information just received from the Continent, the die is cast, and war is certain. It is but an hour ago that a Gentleman ar- Tired and informed the Governor, that every thing is bustle and prepa ration at Hamburgh. Every Frenchman who could be mustered, and every piece of ordnance that could be collected, has been forwarded to the frontiers of Poland, in order to commence immediate operations against Russia. All the cattle and grain that can be collected together is Ow ready for the supply of the French troops. The King of Prussia, we are told, remains a silent spectator of the busy scene: and how far it is true I will not say, but we are informed from the Continent, that the brave General Blucher has been created a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire, and is to have a correspondent command in that service. All the rivers have been, stripped of the cannon, to supply the French troops; and each regiment is allotted five pieces. The coast is entirely left to the care of the douanierg, whose vigilance can be now and then eluded. The late gales have done much mischief to the shipping, the extent of which, at present, I cannot tell. 'I he sea is, lam sorry to say, every where covered with wrecks. N. B. I omitted to state, that the Danes have of late abated much of their rancorous disposition towards England." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, JAN. 20. 51 Lord GRENVILLE moved, its the absence of Earl Fitzwillfam, that the notice respecting the affairs of Ireland, which stood for Friday next, should be further postponed until Friday se'nnight. He moved this reluctantly; but it was in consequence of a domestic calamity, which was well known to all their Lordships, and which peculiarly affected the Noble Earl, namely, the death of a relative. The Loan CHANCELLOR stated, that he had received (through Lord Wellington) a letter from the lipanish General Blake, acknowledging the receipt of the Lord Chancellor's letter, conveying to him (through Lord Wellington) the Thanks of that House, for the gallant and dis tinguished conduct displayed by him, and the troops under his com mand, at the glorious battle of Albuera.—Ordered to be entered on the Journals. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, DEC. 7.—Yesterday, in the House of Representa tives. when Mr. Porter called up the consideration of the Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, he briefly stated " the objects and views which had governed the Committee in their Report, which he had submitted to the House. The Orders in Council were of them selves a sufficient cause of war with the Committee; and which causes were aggravated by the miserable shifts of the British Ministry, and their authority in this country. Any man not wilfully blind, would see that Britain had not acted towards till even in the manner which accorded with her own ideas of justice; she captures under a principle this week, which she does not avow the next; and if a doctrine so monstrous were sanctioned, she would next trample upon the necks of our citizens in our streets. It was the unanimous opinion of the Com mittee, that these encroachments were such as to demand War, as the only alternative to obtain justice. Our situation was like a young man esta blishing himself in society, who if he submitted to indignities in the outset, would have to incur a double expense of time and labour, to establish his lost character. On the carrying trade the Committee ex pressed no final opinion. It was in our power to harass the resources of Britain, as well on the ocean as by land ; to carry on a war against her coast and colonies at her own doors; and destroy her trade with the colonies, by the number of privateers which would be fitted out for service. We had it in our power to make a conquest of Canada, which, to Britain, was of the utmost importance; and from whence she imported articles of the utmost necessity, last year, to the amount of 600,000,000 dollars, a great deal of which was for square timber for her navy. We hold a sword to her resources which would cut her to the quick. It is, therefore, the dctermination of the committee, to RE COMMEND open War to the utmost energies of the nation; yet he hoped it would not be entered into prematurely fur the howlings of newspapers. .He knew that many of his friends were for immediate war; he felt the indignities of our situation as sensibly as any man in the House, and he would go as far to redress them, when the Preliminaries were settled ; -but he did not wish to invite to the feast till the cloth was laid—till the nation was " put to the attitude, and a war demanded by the crisis." Tie Resolutions were afterwards taken up in the House, and the first carried by Ayes and Noes, 117—to 11. The second Ressolution was then proposed by the Speaker. A plea for time was put in by Mr. Randolph and Mr. Goldsborongh, who said, if they were to be dragged into a war, it was but reasonable to give them one night to reflect on it. The House of Representatives has determined to recognize formally the independence of South America. SUPERSTITION. Superstition appears to be rapidly extending its empire in Germany. The wife of a citizen at Presburg, who belonged to one of the new sects, having been twice delivered of a still-born child, conceived, says a foreign Journal, that she was an object of Divine displeasure, and determined to destroy herself. She spent three days and three nights in continual prayer and great anguish, and having, at the expira tion of that time, made a large fire in the oven, under the pretence of drying some new wood, she rose, and threw herself into it. Next morning, when her husband sought her, he found her remains in the oven, her fingers still grasping the wire with which she had fastened the mooth of it. After an the various attempts to prove the sang e lchman, he uinary : suicide Wil liams to have been an friMman. a Scotchman, and a W. Pr.oves after all, unfortu na t e ly t o be an inglislitaast : beaus a.pativ.c of the town of Coggershall, in Essex. TUESDAY, JAN.2I. The Solicitor-General was heard, at considerable length, in behalf of the appellants in the Roxburgh Peerage.—Further twitting ro.tpuntd till Thursday.—Adjourued. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22. A petition was presented by Lord Hood, of Catterington, from a person named Drummond, c;aiming the title and dignity of Earl of Perth, &c. which was ordered to lie on the Table. Some judicial and private business was transacted ; after which their Lordships adpurned till to-morrow. TUVASDAY, JAN. 23. The further hearing of the Roxburgh Peerage came on, when Mr. Leach was heard at considerable length, on behalf of the appellants. Further consideration on Monday next, and to which day the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, JAN. 120. Mr GILES presented a petition from certain Straw-plat - mers, in Hertfordshire, At stating the grievance which they suffered, in conse quence of the invasion of their trade by the French prisoners of war in this country, by whom al,ove half the demand for Straw plat was at the present time actually furnished, and pray.ng fur redress.—Or dered to lie on the 'Fable. Mr. Wiiirsiteao presented a petition - from the Renters of Drury lane Theatre, praying for an eltension of the Act •of last Session.— Referred to a Committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought in the Bill to make provision for the better support and arrangement of his Majesty's Household, which was read a first time; and on the motion for its be ing read a second time, Mr. Titeriev made remarks on the great Increase of expenditure observable in various branches of the Civil List; the cause of these in creases, he maintained, should he laid before Parliament. When the present question was disposed of, lie should • more for papers on the subject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no objection to the mo tion; the papers were therefore gianted, and the till ordered to be read a second time on Friday. The House being resolved into a Committee of Supply, the CIIAN CELI.OR of the EXCHCQUER moved, " TL.lt a sum •not exceeding 100,C001. be granted to his Majesty, in order to make provision ler the expenes incurred lilt, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in conse quence of his assumption of the Royal Authority." Mr. TIERNEY and Mr. WurreciAto objected to the grant, on the ground that it would he eltliblishing a 6.ed custom, and ought to have been preceded by a messamfrom the Regkt, stating the expenses this sum was intended to cover. ; Mr. ADAM and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHIQU; R replied, deny ing the positions of Mes4s..Tierney and Whicbri_ad; after which the motion was put and carried. The Distillery Bill.was read a second time.—Adjourned. TrESDAY; JAN. 21. Mr Poxso %ray, on acconbt of a great domestic calamity which had befallen a Noble Friend of hit (Lord G. Cavendish), a>kcd leave to postponb the motion on the state of Ireland to Monday the 3d of Fe bruary. PENITENTIARY HOUSES. - - - Mr. HOLFORD, after a short conversatidh, in vihich. Sir W. Crrtis, Mr. Alderman Conlin., Sir S. Romilly, and Mr: Atercromby, bore a part, moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the.orection of a Prnitentiary House, for the reception of Male and Fentaleßonvicti under sentf-nce if 'Fransportatiunin London and Middletwx. This Penitentiary House be intended to be an alternative witty ft linlks and Botany Bay.—Leavo vva , ; giVen to bring in the Bill. - t.. i ter )111 7 i;