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.~ !Mika! 4L FAALIA3fENT. HOUSE O. LORDS, Wcoutsuat, AUGUST 12. The Scotch Appeal Cause, the Duke of Hatt:l. th•n v. \V. son. sttr , n - go:ne observations trom tne LORD CHANCELLOR, was ordered to be sent back to the Court of Sessions, with the sevcial cob jeztinnh for their re-eensideration. Mr Pierce presented at the Bar an account of the state and condition of the Forts on the coast of Africa, which was ordered to lie on the table. The Post 0:Ike Regulation Bill, the Irish Salt Exportation Bill, the Legal Quays Bill, and Gene ral Delancey's Estate Bill, were severally read a third time. Tae Exchequer Bills Bill, the Irish Treasury Bills Bill. the Consolidated Ftsnds Appropriatien Bill, and the Curates' Relief Bill, severally went through Committees, without any amendment, were reported, and ordered to be read a third time to morrows Upon the third reading of the Militia Transfer Bi'l, V't,count 31E0 , 10UTI - 1 renewed hi; former oh :- cies to this Bill, as wholly inadequate to the ;e...qosee for which it was intended. It was a mea sure winch, in his opinion, went to destroy that force which had r. arrived to that state of perfeetion for which it was intended, without yald ing any advantages to the general force of the coun try. His Lordship then entered into a comparative view of the At my of lieerve, and the present mea sure, and considered the former as calculated to the purposes of a permanent addition to our d.sposahie force, while the latter produced a temporary suppiy, not sufficient to meet tee present eeigencies. Lord HAWK Ei BUR 17 defended the meeeure, as the best cis:culated to produce an immediate dis posable force, so trained and disciplined as to be able to meet any emereency. fir did not deny that the Army of Reserve was a most excellent mea sure ler the time ; but the present measure not only added greatly to the disposable force of t?.e coun try, hut secured the sin vice of a number of the Militia force, who witeld be entitled, at the end M the presena year.totheir str.chargesbesidesthe advantages of filling u? the vacancy they should create with a numb r of other men ; by which means the dispo sable force was inetease I, with an addition to oar defensive Mice of 41,0n0 men, thus enabling the country to meet any emergency abroad, and in the event of our fleets not being a ble to proted our shores, leiving, besides Voluntners, a trained po pulace, kc. a sufficient d f esive force to meet any emergency which ceuld possibly happen. Viscount t• IHMOU • 11 sloyly explained. 'ne LORD (41AX-le . -LOX admitted. th it the Army of Reserve, at the time of its adoption, was the best measure that could be thought of ; tar, in his opinion, the present 8.11 was calculated to procure an immediate and permanent disposable tome, equal to the pros. nt rnerg ti Lord NIULGRii V F. assn di fended the measure ; when, after some further explanation by Viveount SIDMOUTH, the Bill was read a third time. ne Barrack felataces Accounts Bill, and Four sti;er's Patine Paper Bill, were severally read a third time and passed. The Traders' Assets Bill, after a verhal amend ment, by 1..,4d ItedescLle, and:the Philantliropie Society's Bill, were ordered to be committed to merrow.—Adjourned. FRENCH MILiTAItY LDUC.47IO.V. (Fiona a F .ch Pa, er.) The PhEo t opher who undertakes to investigati. the causes of the present military sur,seriarity of the Trench, will, perhlps, be inclined to att.ich some importance to the fasts containel in the following anecdote: It is well known that in tke course of last winter pan of the pupils of the 1- I ,yeeneeni, at Paris, left that city to receive appointments as officers in the !rand army in Poland. The route of these youths, of wham many had not attained their full stature, and others had a weakly appearance—though they were neither so small nor so tteak as were tormerly many subalterns in the Prussian army —led them through Berlin. An officer accompanied them in quality of inspeaor. They passed one night in the capital. A well-it,foirned inhabitant of the city, who had formerly been in the sinviza, and pestessing consi derable military attainments, had occasion to be in the ne:ghbourhood of their qua; tars. Their juvenile appearance induced him to ask the offizer who ac companied them, whether these youths would be capeale of enduring the fatigues and dangers of field encampments in a northern climate, so inclement a season, ani in stria a country as Po land; The officer, alio seemed to be a polite and nsible man, made this reply t— og Thee young men, Sir, can scarcely be subj.ited to any contingency fir which they are net perteelly p-ep-ired by education and pranice. You are niiiiaken if you imagine that the Emperor Napoleon considers theoretical insuniftion suilicient fora sol dier; our institution g-.es farther, a great deal farther. Ail these youths whom you here see, have had much more experience than many officers in *anal service in other armies. Their constitution is early inured to ell the prejudicial influences which menace the pratlical s4dier. Among these young men there is pot one but what his winked with his own hand at the constritaion of real forts ; not one but what has stood sentinel whole nights together. All of them have slept many cold and tempestuous nights in the open air. and next day performed a 18 leagues ; have climbed lofty nth the combing rays of a meridian sometimes in their clothes, some rough impetuoutrivers and chilling strums ; have even been &Aged to c.bstair. whole days from food, and dovir.;;; the h itteA weather from drink, that they might k un to andara all possible iilionvenifnces incid.ht to a soldiet's life, and that they might he in'vria-.71y acquainted with them before they were involved' in them by necessity. Nlthing would terrify them in an un common degree; for, ;n the sham fights in our In stitution, the rapier is thrown away after the first kw hours, and a sharp sword is put into the hands of the pupils. If any of them receives a v.-nund ,he has notiiim but his own aukw.ardness to blame for it. It is his business to protea himself by his su periority. Would you now repeat your cliestion ?" It is easy to conceive what a happy effe& such a praaical cclocation must have urn the soldi-r in the higher ranks! What may not be expened of an officer thus prepared for every event the conduet of their leader operates with a pir.reifu impulse on all those who are under hi; command, is not to be denied. Exercise begets courage and I energy, and at a period when war is a trade, flick who possess these t.vo qualities in the highest di wee, must predominate. EXTRACT Of A LElTati TROY ?ARTS, DATED JULY 12. u Among the various new works, either g 'hi!! for ward or projeacd at Paris, preparations are milt ing for the execution of a may ifi:cnt monument, • in honour of the French soldiers who have fallen rie late campaigns. The decision of the Eineetor respeaing this moimmerit is witthy of notice. It is well kriown.that in consequence of a decree is. ued after the battle of Jena, prizes were offered fur the best plan for this sirtiaure ; hut with this con.ii tion, that the whole should not cost more than three millions of livres, and that ate principal parts of the Church De le MuttAine, on the scite of which it is to be ereEt•d, should be retaine.l. Among the many plans sent to this competition, and which were exhioiteJ for some time in the Ma,eurn of Paint ings, about thittrea were particularly dibtin ;lashed. M. Beaumont otitailied the first prize, and three remaining prizes were adjudged to three other Architeas,among whom was H. Vignon; who, though he did not adhere to the condition erpc2- ing the expense, yet produced a plan in a style of extraordinary grandeur. The prizes were adjudged by a Committee of the National Institute, appoint: , ed for the purpose by the Minister or the Interior. As the Madefaine, of which one colonnade and the exterior wall are finished, was originally intended hr a Church, it appears as if all the Artists had suf fered themselves to be misled by this idea ; all their plans of the monument are plans of temples. Vir non alone, rejeaing this . idea, had given full scope to his imagination. His plan was not a temple, but represented a monumental edifice, in a grand and original style. What Was the astonishment of the Committee, and the whole tribe et Aichitcas, when the Emperor, in a few words, decided as fol ' lows:— , I shall adopt the plan of M. Vignon ; what does it signify it the edifice costs more than three millions ? I am certainly et opinion, that the other artists should receive their prizes ac cording to the decision of the Committee; M. Beau mont, to w:.cim the first prize is adjudged, shall also receive from me an extraordinary gratuity ; but Vignon's plan alone shall be executed ; partly because be proposes something grand, something new, partly becau.e his performance is not a tem. plc, but a piece of arthieeaure adapted to' the spi rit of the monument. If we had a. temple, our edifice would continually be subjea to comparisons with St. Peter's us St. Paul's churches, or with the $ Pantheon.'— l'his decision of the Emperor requires no commentary. " In retirement. and accessib!, only 0 a few friends, David continues to work at his Pinar?. of the Lwapresa's Carom:tam. He has lost some time with it : his design had not pertsaly expi cried the effta pro duced by the attitude of the Emperor. The mo ment is that of the aft of Coronation, in the church of Notre Dams. The position was such. that the Emperor app:ared alone, in a strained, and, indeed, it might be said, a theatrical attitude, in the aa of placing the Crown on his head. The Emperor dis. approved the idea, and the Piaure will now repro- Bent him, after crowning himself, placing the Crown on the head of the Empress." ilii — r . match of 16 or mountains, hermit] ma ; hare swim, times without, thri -........ . , . iiim raw-rolur, Amy 11, 1107. The following &hire's was agreed to at a meeting of the Citiscas of Richmond and its vicinity, con• vexed on account of the late •utrage : To the Presideett of the United States. St a—We, the citizens of Richmond,Manchester.and their vicinities, and many other persons from distant places, who have assembled to take under consider ation the late hostile attack upon the frigate Chita peels, by a British ship of vow, and the murder of a number of American seamen in a time of peace, are impelled by the strongest motives to carrells those seatiments of whisk the occasion must naturally inspire. When we reflect upon the 11111 form Corse of pec..sc conduct svhich has. been ob. served by the. Government cf the United grates, to wards all foreign nations; when we recollect, on the other hand, the innumerable insults and a:gressients which Great 13i rain has inflicted on our just and lawful commerce; we can only diszuver in this re cent act of violecce, the consummation of a system which has for its object the prostration of neutral rights, at the feet of a haughty and ambitious power. The door of negociation is finally closed; the first blow of war has been struck ; and the People of America are called upon to decide, whether they will rally around the staodard of the Constitution, or resign at once the glorious inlependence which was purchased by the valour of their fathers, and ce mented with their blood ? At a period of such mag nitude as the present, it is peculiarly necessary that the People of Awrica should display to the world the devotion which they feel to the free, mild, and here ficent Government under which they live, and their invincible determinetion to resist to the utmost ea• tremity, every outrage on their lights, from what ever quarter it may proceed. The persons who now ettijress you, speak not only fer but for their country ; they fed that they deliver the senti ment of the nation ; and they arc confident that they will find a corresponding emotion in the bosom of the Chief Magistrate of tee Union. When an aa of unequivocal hostility has been perpetrated ; when cur armed vessels are not per mitted to leave our own ports wits impunity ; when a British Commander gives the signal from our very hat bours, for the capture of cur shies ; it be comes a question, not of reason, but of feeling.— Whetever may be the grounds of the ecntest in which we are engaged, we are compelled to close in the appeal to arms, which has been made by cur adverse' y. It is impossible to pursue a tempt i sing conduit, without engraving an indelible stain on our national charaaer. The reputation of our country is at stake; and it met now be decided whether we shall assume the e'igniFled attitude of an independent state, or meanly crouch under the lash of ac insolent foe? No nation upon earth has so many cogent reatons for maintaining a friendly intercourse with the rest of the world, as the United S:ates. removed from that bloody scene of ambition, which kl:arope has exhibited for centuries ; pursuing the eves tenor of honest industry ; regardless of that illusive glory which is only to,he obtained at the expense of hap piness; anxious only for that 5411Gi renown, which springs from an undeviaing course of justice and virtue: too simple for the insidious arts of courtly intrigue, and too refined for the exertion of lawless power; they might have flattered themselves with the hope, that they should escape the ravages of those conflias which have desolated the old Conti nent. America hes every thing to hope from peace, and every th'ug t, deprecate irons war. But her growing commerce and rising pro,perity, cherish ed by the genial warmth of Freedom, were ob- Jeffs too tempting to the rapicitius eye of a power who arrogates to herself the exclusive dominion of the seas. From the monsent when our inde pendence was established, Great Britain rezard ed with malignant jealousy the progress of a na tion whom she had once held in bondage. From that moment, until the present, she has waged an open or concealed war against our indisputable rights. It would be superfluous to dwell on the varioas crimes altich she has committed against the law of nations ; but it may not be improper to enumerate a few more prominent than the rest, which mark the spirit which has pervaded her whole condna. She had occupied posts within Ger territory, which ought to have b:en surren dered by treaty ; she has enlarged the law of con traband, beyond the /Urea liberal construaien of the law of 'nations ; ;he has *mod our vessels laden with provisions ; she has invented a ne.. , system of blockade, which extends not merely to single ports aaually invested, but to whole coun tries with whom she might be at war ; she has modified, restrained, and enlarged the rights of neutrals, according t% her interest or caprice, v bile her Courts of Admiralty have ceeried their edits into rigid execution ; she has denied to neu tral nations the incontestible right to re-export to a Belligerent Poweri the commodities which they have fairly purchased from a Colony of the same power—and she has blockaded our ports, and im pressed seamen from our vessels, within our lawful jurisdiftion. But atrocious as these eels may seem, they are insignificant when compared with the fla grant outrage lately committed on the frigate Chesap►ake. The most humble sycophant of Great Britain has never yet asserted her right to search a 'hip of war belonging to a neutral nation. A vessel of this description is as sacred as the territory it self—its flag is a pauport throughout the world— aad an insult offered to it is a dire& attack upon the sovereignty of the state to which it belongs. A conduit like this can neither be defended nor pal- listed- -and :t is nteetotry to meet the 'mom meth& with the decision becoming freen.en. Wbile we are sensible of the erili whi resole from war, we are prepared to f then* in defence of our deare.t rip,:a s . continent that but one sentinitnt pert, American people, and that howevzr 012! divi.i!ed as to points of domestic p.2:cy, actuated by one soul in repelling the at of is foreign power. It remains for the of the Constituted Auttori•ies, to siren C.:Jcy the energies of the nation It is of &elate you and to the world, that WI ;sued to support, with our lisr , s and tom Givrinmmt of our choice, against ere' :Tan th. SP rtiCtlt ko Cbai Tuosiss GOTFENfiffti ti ExtrAa of a Letter rtt,to Gotten'au-gl Aaguat 3 : '• Th.,. English sloop of war, the Mau r rived here the day before yesterday, when cer landed from her, for the purpose of pi pilots for the Belts, but without success the English fleet destined for the 13.11tif this pltce. Twenty sail were seen from of as the -;:ind has been very fair ; they must, f:tne, have reached Copenhagen. '• Private letters from Copenhagen, reed yesterday's post, state, that General Bernadc Prince of Ponce Corvt.) was with the Prince of Danmark at Kiel and that a large. Freud waited his commands; it this be true, the fl .:et could not have arrived at a more cri:ir tore.. " We have no news today from Stralstn THE BRITISH PRE , LONDON, THURSDAY, Ammar IS. A strong report prevailed yesterday hi that the Exptdition sent to the Baltic bad session of Copenhages and the Danish feet oppoiition. It was also reported that the had t...icn possession of Tonningen. Both moors, we uadcrAancl, were mete specolati; did no: rest upon any positive intel:igenee. A Gottenhurgh mail arrived yesterday tern and Papers to the 4th instant. Admin et err's 6:et passed that place on the 2d, with a fair wind for the Baltic. He had . Ilfaufairo forward, to provide pilots at Gotten) to conduA the ships through the Belts, ane cir landed at that city, en the tat. f:R . pose, but without succest. As we cannot some that the place could be without some acquainted with the navigation, it is that the service was declined from towards Decmark and Russia: Should settee of our fascia in the Baltic Foal sure offensive to either of these, Sweden mi their di.e.easure, by urfo:ding any tacili passage of our ships. Slaw may. therefore, aft of prudence, decline the request of pilots. out any imputation upon her frienisbip and will towards this country. Private Lew Copenhagen state. that BILIMADOTTIt the Prince Royal of Destaaac, at Kt had made him an offer of a French army the object of our fleet in the Baltic was Denmark from the fraternal embrace of r.rs:c, and prevent her fleet from fain hands, has been long mentioned as a probable culation. For our own part we have been Lime of opinion, that the whole of the expedi are destined for the Baltic. We may be ' but many circumstances have arisen to that idea. A Hull Paper, received yawn. tains the following article, in corroboration sentiments : so The expeditions which have left oar are now so far advanced in their voyage, consider ourszlvcs no longer precluded municating that intelligence of their desth which we have received from officers and the first rank and information, and whict, own mind, amounu to positive and absolai taiuty. We believe oar arm..menta to gone to Boulogne, Antwerp, Flushing' Helder. Boulogne is impregnable, wil digious risk and loss, and Antwerp is si by a most diffi:ult country. The embarkatim not calculated for what military men term. wain. Enormous mortars, and cannon of calibre, with immense stores fur sieges, 1000 artillerymen, are embarked. We a • Officer of Engineers of rank was seat Woolwich, and employed, merely from knowledge of the place of attack. 4 , The grand objea of our Expedition. r:ons one it is, we therefore confilmtly 1111111111111 roteltio z en. rhich must encnant ee We are rades the icy May b e they are iggression s he visite-% t et- mit p4rt to re are pit- tures, th e cry Pruitt. .trt•r f . s an Cirl- procuri l YeAetiLy ics pds;:d nu- recks; befur tuu mired by tdotte (the see Royal tech army e English :ical pine- end." .ESSS Ow city, tarn pos. et without the French h thesern. ations, and rwith i let; ir l G a 1, steering I sant the tumborgh a ad an oi- that par.. MOM pre. tome pilots probable delicacy d the pre. re a raw sight incur ility to the Fore, as as dots, with- and good. iters from was with Kiel, and ny. That to secure a BON e- og into his Dhabi* ape- n for some ropeditioas e mistake% strengths' , rday, ma- ims of out Our pOrth v s that W from c-:•• • destinati•• id others o ich, in ouf ,solute err b e neithi p nor th ithoot p surrounde• kations ar• •m, care Ua the larges - t. and pe I know tha at for fro . as his log , and kg ' .• • -