The National Register. — London, England, 1809-04-30 00:00:00

274 ' contradicted, we might certainly be justified in assuming it AS a fact.—We must express our hopes, however, that the rnitter will not rest here. This kind of resignation, if Mr. N•NSLTI2 has resigned under the eirtumstances reported, will not ammo' the purposes of PublicJustice,—it is no pu' nishmenti—or at least it is no example. In thecae of Mnb TUELLVSON, the Bast India Company, or at least the Great Body of the Proprietors, proved them 'elves to be actuated by very just sentiments, and in direct contradiction to the indulgent opinion of the Committee pronounced by the result, that Mr. TinixesoN was guilty tiller of , :iA!ct participatim, or of a corrupt knowledge. This is another example in which the People have differed Uotia the [louse of Commons, and we fear that this will not he the last.—The Courts of Justice, in the punishincli: o Mr. ,CX t MLR DAVISO.,/, have sufficiently that tlw Law can punish, and can punish with sufficient rigour, any case of direct fraud in a Public Officer. It remains ord that similar examples should be made in the other gr a dations of public criminality—Direct fraud is surely less criminal than a system of conduct, which attacks the purity of Representation, and renders the Constitution but a mere name by corrupting its very source and fountain. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE DUTCH P.iPERS. PARIS, APRIL 18.—The Archduke Charles has established bis Staff and head-quarters at Lintz, and commands in chief the army, which is ordered to,attack Bavaria. The letter which the Prince has sent to the General commanding the Trench army in Bavaria, is to the following puPport : " According to a declaration of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria to the Emperor Napoleon, 1 hereby notify to the Gene ral in Chief of the French army, that I have received orders to advanee with the troops under my command, and to treat as comics all who shall make opposition. 66 CHARLES, General." ' 66 Frotn my Head-quarters, April 9,1809." The Court of Bavaria is preparing to leave Munich for Arup • burg. • The King has given the command of the former place to . Iteneial wtmd ; that of the latter to General Von nahne. The French General of Artillery, La Martineu, is Commandant of the tttwn and citadel of Wurtzburgh, which is placed in a state ofdefeace, and well provisioned. The military road from Rastadtby Pforzheim, Wachingen, Cannstadt, Guippengent, and Was is, as it were, covered with troops on their march to Bavaria. A part of the Imperial Guard arrived at Strasburg on the Mb, and is proceeding aa its march into Gtrmany.— iieffird#m Courant, April 42. PROM THE HAMRURGII PAPERS. • If 4SIBUROM APRIL 19.—The day before yesterday, intelli gence arrived here by an Extraordinary Courier, that the Aus trians bad given notice to the French advanced posts, but no pro per declaration of war had Issued. NUREMBERG, APRIL I.—The 9th will be a memorable day in history. Oa that day war was declared, the Austrians have notified it along the frontiers, from Bohemia to Italy. that peace was at an era. An unfounded report is iu circulation, that an action has taken place at Ilantberg. DRESDEN, APRIL 12.—We understand that a Russian army • bar assembled on the frontiers of Gallicia, w hich is to enter that . province on the commencement of war, to make a common cause with France. hit/ N ICU, APRIL 'l.—Early this morning an express arrived from the army, with intelligence that the. Austrians were ad vancing against Mulhdorli anti Wasserburgh. A second express, this evening, state', that the Austrians are only making strong reconnoitring parties, upon which the departure of the Court bas been th.layr-d. A r n 41J A APRIL B.—The 10v/di were 7.egerdav at Ulin. liAeitkoi, A 146 70,000 it T..HE NATIONAL REGISTER.' frontiers cominanded by General I)octrow Suwarrow Lewis Gertfoleakuw. VIENNA, A Pitt t. B. On the 6th, the Archduke Charles set out for the army, and this morning his Imperial Majesty also proceeded thither. Before he departed, a Prodamation was addressed to the Austrian People. Ils.mucatirr, APRIL 18.--We understood that on the sth the Russian Charge D'Affaires at Vienna, delivered to that Court a Declaration that the Russian Imperial Court remained strictly united with the French Imperial Cabinet, as well for peace as fur war. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. There was no business of importance before the House during the earlier part of the week. Friday, April 28. The Royal Assent was given to the Irish Sugar Bounty, Spirit Excise, Flax Seed Growth Bounty, and Corn Export and im port Bills, Malta Prize Register Bill, Pension Duty Bill, Naval Officers Widows' Pension Bill, Scotch Creditors Bill, Inn keepers Rate,; Bill, Dover and Portsmouth Lines Bill, and up wards of 30 Pri% ate Bills. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Moutrose, and Lord Walsingham. The Captured Ships Disregistering Bill rend a first time. Lord Auckland stated, that the nature of his motion for Tues day next respecting Divorces, would be to make it a standing order of the House, that no Divorce Bill should be received that (lid not contain a clause forbidding the intermarriage of the adul terers. Lord Suffolk rose again, and wished. to know who sent M. (•harn►illy fron► hence, and how he came to be employed in Spain. On the Noble Lord's return to town, he should submit a Reso lution, staling, that those who employed him employed a traitor. lie made some allusions to other French Officers in this country. Lord Liverpool said, he could not tell how he went out of this country, that he was not employed by Government, nor vested with any authority wha►ever by them. Lord Suffolk repeated his question, as to how he got out with out permission of Government. Lord Liverpool could not tell. Government had frequently no objection to foreigners leaving this country sometimes, in deed, they were compelled to order them out of it.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mbnday, April 21. Daniel Butler (the Sheriffs Officer) was brought to the Bar, and after receiving a severe reprimand from the Speaker, was ordered to be diveltarged on paying his fees. OFFICE AND PLACE REVERSION RILL. Lord Porchester prefaced his motion for preventing the dispo sal of places and offices in reversion, with remarking, that two Bills had passed that house in the two last sessions a Parliament, of a nature precisely similar to that which he had now the ho nour to bring forward, and both of which were carried with unanimity through that House, but were rejected in the House of Peers. If his Majesty's Ministers were disposed to evade the Bill, his Lordship said, he hoped they would do it in a fair and open manner, and not clandestinely and indirectly. lie hoped they would giveafriendly advice to their Noble Friends in the other House to rc•pect the privileges of the Commons, and that they would advise those Princes, whom, w hen they had letters to send to the House of Commons, they could advise with, not to obstruct the wishes of the people. llis Lordship commented 1:pon various abuses which sprung out of the grant ing of places in reversion, and contended, that the Bill could ho no diminution of the prerogative of the Crown, as Parliament would never he backward in marking its sense of eminent ser vices, and that it only went to restrain the ('rown from being lOU lavish of its bounty. From the -folly of Princes an awfnl history might be drawn, and the weakneis of • Ministers would furnish a title 'page to every chapter. If Ministers., either openly? or clandestinely opposed time Bilis, they would perhaps hereafter have is say, the breath of Princes have hloWn our isgse• A 11CCILMIll .x I/ I C,4S, ru 111`:11 a tote page vvvi y ( - maim:6 . II a•L 151.71, ••••`,.. is are only making strong openly or clandestinely opposed the Bills, they %you'd perhaps departure of the Court hereafter have to say, the breath of Princes have' blob n our spirits out, and strewed repentant ashes on -our heads: Tire -quarters of the Duke of I Noble Lord concluded with. moving for lease to bring in a Bill prohibiting the 'muting of oily otlicfs or places in reversion-, ,nssians on the Cairo:la', or of. :Lay offices or ptices fur , joint live:, in -uvviv4irAtip. APRIL 30