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;de t 'it 3tith er:le cr J late ge ntle is ,t mat rfil an j ; led In • i t t r,cut t h" ic, ! ,1 11 Fhrits era iy : 1 1 a ifised •ivering letteti o. t h e staeoe P. m alt eV'. it. 13. Site r. .:h the %en et e ;' ye a. ke tter s kr , are of maim ot the been ref fine. the: 4 gvt Iron. Witne *n.e, rm° l ' at : ‘V. 0 1 tortlit in 4A of It Do , Wshl of i nstieta, o is,,-r is, re ch'.te :r:haul at Du , , u. n itlied he slter the t he tlaf d. pion :as ctifeall ye tends st 1 at Ince , t , 0 17, talents ough it wise 41 at the tic vi. Witnn I did not enter into 2 defence hold property. If was impossible to limit it, as it rode; charaeter or testimooy, since it rested merely on the discretion of the individual, Ave been loss of labour, and ‘ot time ; ' how far the system of revising our whole code,ot eA se will do well to compare the testimony laws might be aeled upon. I let defels arising in with his worthy coadjutor.— from the present law might be ploy idea tor by !renntalen—yjitinconsistencies in the evidce of specific remedies. He would say Walter, that this e point out one which I thin k s un- measure would not effea its objeet. 'Ole man, i n n -th.e attnals letterdn Drake said whose proprity WAS this dey a security to simple ured the first for Mr. Harris, and contraet.debtots. might, by his voluntary eel, trans- ; 'c h*m at a period a full month after the ter it either to his wife and chilateti, to the utter 1 i-a;risthimselt acknowledges to have received exciosion of hit creditors. He did not see the fair- as sonie considerable time before the ness of . not extending it to copyhold estates. As the teas tignatere of Mr. Sheridan to this Bill now stood, it was only giving a rem to written bey Dtake), he says, copyhold pnrchases. It would have been more ich was iced by Mr. two days before coa sistent with the sound views of legislation, to put a to Mr. Harris Sheridan, ; yet Harris says, an end to the distiod ton between specialty and sg were, at the time ire received it, wet.— simple contraft debts. The H onourable and r'rood letter too, Weatherhead committed Learned Gentleman then put some very soong equally, by asserting that the signature ot cases, in which the impolicy and efacieitcy ot the enrian," was written in the same line measure were visible. He thought it would tend wor ds " Treasurer of the Navy, Somerset-increase the number of persons imprisoned tor • yet t hese, on recurticig to the letter, were debt ; a circumstance of great injury, in a armory 1,- in different lines ; and here it is . to be where thejealousy ot political liberty WAS so greit,ane 1, that this accurate Witness not only wrote yet the civil liberty of the subjett so irequently seen ,,i, but was present at the signing ot it, ficed. An eminent lawyer and statesman, the late iesays occurred at Somerset-House. These, M. C. Yorke, had formerly proposed to bring in, only a few of the fAlshoonds which have such a Bill as the ;retreat ; but, after having passed atempted to he played off on the easy credo- that House, it Was aftei w ords throwii tem in the ;be House. But, however eagerly they may House of Lords, through th energetic opposition it been adOpted by the Noble Lord, lam happy met with from that great lawyer, Lord Camden. they are likely to meet with the fate they de- lie acknowledged that the laws of Debtor and mm the rest of the House. (Htar ! laar! ) Creditor were very unsatisfactory ; at the same itnesses of this cast, who, in theveme of jar time, he should m uch metes a geOerel Aaki, timid, for a moment, give any credit or be- which a meld include A revision ot the Veal. w ou ld suc h per sons, on their oaths, be ad- syttem, than one ot this partial description. in evidence, against a common culprte, in a but the present Bill went too far one way, elitist of Justice? And yet, will the Noble Lord treat it stopped. short, in yielding the remedy, in the ' hly esteemed Ftinet with less than common case of funded property, winch would cid remain is :e, uot to mention the delicacy vrhich he should untouched, for the ',Appetit of debts. He wfshed re, when brieging a charge against a rinen, toe House to be patio:o4,ly cautious in itutoduc • poblic seevices have raised him so deservedly ing any changes an the law of property, which bed , estee m o f t his House thate country at large? been generally tumid to g i tat beyond what was in Sir, it has been stated, Mr. Sheridan had the original cootetuplation of the ptoposers. On ,:,lied to Mr. Harris ford, the letter in question, even these accounts, he Must disseue irons the present ' , r the ciaroination'of Hans before .vlr. Graham, Bill. laristrate ; when he must know, that the e sup. fir. SIMEON explained. tsision of this letter, when :he contests of it were Mr. C. W. WILLIAMS WYNNE said, he saw e ,f e dly well tr s own to the Magistrate, must be at- no objeftion to this 811, on the ground at its brit% ;Tieseeviela more aggdavated suspicion, than i( the an ituaovation ot the la* of the lerei, fur every Act Litt were produced. Such a charge defeated of Paeliament might be so charged; and AS he eirl, or At least did little justice to the well ktiown preferred the cortection of the present doteinive law in* of my Right Has. Friend the charge t espetting debtor aed creditor, oy detail, rattier that; night against Mr. Wallace, if proved, can in no uy i nuouuctng any substantive measure,. this Bill eA. Et Mr. Sheridan ; thoogli lam of oploion. should theretore have his Assent. House wiil be little inclined to give credit to the Mr. N• CALVER I opposed the Bill, on the ,eitnesses Balsam and Richardson, oho both went ground that no 'euflicient case had en niAde oat for the purpose of seeming Mr. Fowell ; d tindieg ot any serious Minty sustained by creditors, owing this ineffeetuel, wrote a threatening letter to Mr. to the law as it now stood ; hoe be enght also ti 'l.Seeridan ; which bring treated with similar con. would imposo lreiery suffesedd e additioual harshmore ips n n theicint laude of d te mpt, they had .eco urse to a new expedient for interest, wh a ra:stng a contribution, and preposed to betray Mr. taxes, &c. teen any Other aesetiption. Paull, and his friends, it properly paid for their hell,R A DVOCA CS wa ruly supported trcolde. Should any coofidence be placeil in such the in A speech of considereble isigebuity and accomplished shufffers and prevaricators : Cer- eloquence. He insisted, that in no couttry. in any taitly eat ! Had I been in the place of my Right other part of the world, in ancient or in modern litea. F7iend, I shoo scarcely have thought it ne- tunes, was there any such law as that which existed c log to bring forward any Witnesses oft[watever, or in England respeeting debtors ari creditors. He urge Any erguments in my defence. Out ritter . own &treed that this Bill would prover njurious to the maths would I have drawn the strongest proof of dignity and independence et the tandeolders ot the blackness of their conspiracy, and the falsehood Lugland ; and shoved that the vast increase in the of tneir assertitefts. Arlo Mr. Paull and his Conn- piece ot taud in Set:fueled inere"tnan in England, eel, I acquit them of any malicious mte ntion ; but was principelle owing to the c red i t of money lent I cannot strip being sin prised, that Gentlemen at 1 upon the security of the tended property ; nor s uch high legal autho rit y as had been e n g aged 1 he perceive, that the House could with any con - tot the Peitioner, s hould have sufferl suchsistency so. lAte.y pass a Bil Abolishing the Slave deace to b e detail e d to the Hous e, or such a serious Trade, as contrary to the pli l eciples ot justice and charge to be made' on so very inade quate a found- hurnseity, aue yet cont inue a law which enabled a ation." man of landed property , either throu g h negligence The question was then read from the Chair, and to disappoint the just demands a his croon olio nnanimously agreed to. or through knavery to cletrAml them. Mr. TAYLOR then moved, " That it was the Mr. CANNINO seoee, warmly against the Bill, opinion of the House, that Wrn. )drake had, in the and priacipalty opposed the arguments of the Leant evidence given by him at the Bar of the House, ed Lord Aevocate. whose name we been guilty of wilful falsehood anti grass prevalent- A Meme er, wader the Gallery, tio*; and that, in consequence of such prevarication could not. tears, arguea,nt favour ot the Bill, On the and falsehood, the Speaker do issue his warrant, di- plain pi Maples or justiCe. leeting that the said Wm. Drake lie committed to Tile SULtral JUR-GENERAL vindicated his the gaol of NeWZAte I " which was unAnimously motive , i n we e - „, - 6 6 tdrieard this measure, and went agreed to. into a genet Ai aed able reply to the argu ments ad- Ur. WHITBREAD said ess its a similar, it was nnt hi punish- Leonel Judge s inten- duced against th (the e ill Master ut jaid p the Rolls articularly by the tins to involve tee ether witnd ), who, lie mend; !ince, though ctimmal, he was so in a much remarked, wAs the only one ot the Profession of the lesso r egree. LAW WhO had opposed it. He had previously con . Lod H. PE rT.Y gave notice he would move , suited the most erniattat men ot the Law, and parti te-morrow, for leave to bring in a Bill for the better cularly the three persons presiding in the highest regulation of certain Offices in Scotland. ttibutrals o f this countay, from ail of whom this On the Order of the DAT being read, for the Bill had met with the most petted approbation s third teading of the Freehrld Assets Bill. nor had his Right lion. Friend given any decided . Colonel TUFF N I'LL rose to eepress his ob- objeetion to it, whet' lie Mat consulted Mtn on the litellon to the principles of the Bill. He considered eutijeCt. st an infriegi meld of the settled Law of the Land. 't be House called loudly for the question, when and of that p , licy, tLe wisdom of ntich was best there appeared, on a division—As 45, 47 ; Noes, by ascertained in its effeCts. He by no means thought were being majority of 22 alpinist the third read the eatension of credit a source oi prospesity ; ing of the Bill, it was conseqaentiy lost. Adjourned in some cars, the converse of that proposition at line o'clock. was the truth. In the consideration of the remits o' this measure. the House should reculleet, that the leqed in had botne more than a proportionate abate to the burdens of the country, and, there:ore, it shoCle be slow to adopt any measure of legis lation, fatal to their interests, and likely to increase the difficulties of that body. He wished that the }fill Should be recommittt d, for the put pose of a more mature discussion of its provisions. Some ersee ot injustice and fraud were not sufficient argu meats tor a suteiersion of the law of the land, An d to guard against their recurrence, proper remedies miht be proyided, without entAilins stich an in cumgbrance on freehold property. He should Again put it to the House, that the present Bill he recom mitted. The SPEAKER intimated to the Honourable Member,that the House could not inthe present stage of the Bill, as engrossed, discuss its recommittal. Mr. SIMEON could net reconcile the objeflions, which were made against the principle of the Bill, with that spirit of jusuce, whichhe presumed actuated every honest man to feel anxious for the discharge of his debts. He had opportunities of ascertaining, from Isis (mishit du t ies, the irjostic e here the which seve ter al con the tract creditors suffered, wof debtor was proteeted, and there WAS not a sufficient personal fund for the liquidation of the specialty debts. The MASTER of the ROLLS argued with cleat force and clearness against this principle of tort.). ita...,u or, the established law, with respect to Lee- FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE HANIBLKG/1 AND ALTONA CAPERS BERLIN, PM 11. 28. Authentic intelligence from Stettin, states, that the town of Stargard was attacked, on the 16th of this month, by aPcussiJn corps, consicing of 800 infantry, 200 cavalry, and three pieces of cannon, belonging to the garrison of Colberg. All the efforts of this detachment to enter the tow❑ were fruitless ; it was repulsed at all points, after a brisk tire, and pursued to the neighbourhood of Massow. It had 30 men won ded and 24 killed, of whom two Officers remained upon the field of battle; there are, besides, in the hospital, one Officer and t;ght sol diers. 'rhe French bad two killed and some wounded. Gen. Tenlie get our in the night of the 18th, from hlasvor., appeared M. break of d 47 belure Nougarten. here is near that town a bind of mnracs, very drop. in the midst W. which is a height of firm bald. opna which the enemy had crated a redoubt; iu the impossibility of l ra►.uty this mot asi. either by . .. land er water, einl of beint.abie to tarn it, it was tesuleed to attacle it in front ; when the necessary materials wore colleded far filling up the ditch and making a road, Colonel Boyer put himself at the head of the fusileers of the ;;std, in this new road, overcame all obstacics, and was the third who arrived on the enemy's p.,rapet, in =rite of the violent five which did not ceaseala inst.mt : tlx t i:- doubt was carried in five minutes, and the French were masters of the town ; the enemy lost Ilia can• non, and left near 100 kiiizil on the field of battle ; 158 prisoners were taken ; the loss of the French consists in 3 killed and 22 wounded ; the Gen d'armelie on duty behaved extremely well on this oteasion.—(Labelle eu Nord, 6th Marc!).l CONST ANTINOTLE, JAM. 25. Much has been said of a fruitless attempt of the Russians to obtain possession of the fortress of Is mail, and it is reported, that the Russian Command ing Officer summoned the Commandant to..:pen the gates. A report is also current, that the garrison made a successful sortie, and took about 1000 pri soners, among whom was a General. Bat as no pri soners have }et :mired, the report of that victory seems to be-witl • ut foundation. No certain imslligenee ha's - yet' been 'rece:va, whether Prince Ypsilanti, on his return to Bucha rest, caused himself to be proclaimed King of Wal lachia, Moldavia and Bessarabia ; toe confirmation of that intelligence, i., the:eft:re, daily expeded. As to the number of Bat sisal troops which have occupied the said province*, it seems to be much exaggerated. According to a mc,re probable ac count, the corps which has atually penetrated into the Turkith dominions, does nit exceed 30,000 men, while an army of more than 80,033 men strong, has halted ..:-. ,ha left bank of the Dniester. The Turkish squadron. which is stationed off Bajookdera, where new batteries have also been eretitecl, is daily increasing, .It ccAaists already of SO sail, Bor which are ships of the lime. The Porte has also demanded of the three Governments of Barbary, succours of 30 ships of war. The ngl;s11 lire, of battle ship, Ccropus, which took the Ruts - lan Ambassador, Prince Italinsky, as tar as the Dardanelles, has there come to an anchor. The Prince went afterwards on board a frigate be longing to the same squadron, and proceeded to M:ilta.--(flarefuesh Corresponet , rieu, lit.'s Marc's.) DE 4,NDEi.BUILGII, TEE. 28. The garde de reserve of the Emperor Napoleon, arrived at Berlin the 24th of this month ; it comes from Paris, and is dest'%eal for Warsaw, where Ge neral Couvion is Governor, and front whence Mac shall Massena set out on the 18th. FRUM THE. DU ICH PAPERS• NAPLES, rim. 17. In the beginning of this month seri(.ut disputes occurred at Messina and otl:er places, between the English and Skibap troops, in which the latter were app nted by the inhabitants. In one fight which took place between them at 'Messina, forty men were killed, among witom was an Staff Officer. TEL 12. Yesterday, the British Consul notified, that the Admiral commanding the English squadron had re ceived orders from London to put All the harbours in Italy under blockade s and that the merchants and shipmasters of Trieste oust regulate themselves accordingly. It is not yet known wt. :Aber this blockade extends to all neutral ports and ships. VIENNA, FEB. 25. Central Vincent is still at the French head-quar ters. Couriers arrive from him daily, and the dis patches they bring occasion frequent meetings of the Cabinet, which are in general attended by Elis lbjesty, or the Archduke Charles. Our Cord aleetre of this day, contains the fol lowing Article “ Osman Pact' of Widdin, known by the name of rum= Oglou, celebiated fur his =tasty talents. hit enterprisong spirit, and the strcessful defence which he made in his town againat I the tinted Power of the Turkish Empire, died on the bth of reb. ev hi. death, Russian freed from a formidable enemy who, thuagla he hail not publicly declared himself, had made preparations swan:a the walla of Wtddut, fur sling against that power. " Muitaplut floirselv, Alan of Rutland:, who ran much sixteen thousand I,loin a gainst the Ruwians, has as yet done nothing that deserves antler. General Micheison dud remains In his concentrated podiniu, but he has detached two thousand soon from his headquarters at ntletlAreet, to reinforce his ad- VAoced rh. Sertian Inturgents bare, as )et, taken no pan in the igigir 1114111 ..euts." vas. ‘2 S. The following article has appeared in TAe Cirri a.titte of this day :—" As successors to Osman Pacha (Paswati (Van) in the Government of Wid din, two utiicets are mentioned, viz. Ichmisch Aga; and Molla ; the last of whom is noted for the cruel• ties he committed during the disputes whieh Pas vran had with the Poste and the nzighboaring Pa char Etch of these competitors have a numerous patty, and hive already come to blows. •• flier-l'acha is appointed to the command of all . . . t he troop: destined to defend the even the Admiral of the Fleet is ri:sides the ships of war, which Road and Canal' of Constantinople , are fitti.tz o rt in It , : arschals, and early for sea. " In the beginuinK of April, the Grand Seigribrja to join the army with the Standard of naliornet. The reinforceivnits of Asiatic troops, which are destined` for the army, arrive very slowly, in conse quence. 4 the distance they have to march. 44 It is understood, that e .. .e Ottoman troops have obtained some advantages over a Russian party which had advanced into the neigi.bon-lanoel of Si listria. The Turkish Commander has sent to Con stantinople the heads of several Russians who were killed in the adlion ; where, according to ancient custom, they were placed, on the 134 of January, on the principsl gate of the Seraglio. 4 , The fleet of the English Admiral Colliogweod, is ez;”..iled in the Dardanelles. 4. l'::e Russian fleet, under the command of Ad miral Siniavin, which cruises in the lonian and Egean Seas, has been reinforced by three ships of the line and nine frigates." — Ai:cordilie, to letters from Trieste, General Bel. legarde his arrived there in the golar ; the unfa vourable state of his health, has obliged him to abandon the expedition under his command, which is now in the harbour of Giuppana. General Vass Lutz has the command ad interim'. WIL•111Cf01 1 1r, Ii•ItCN 5. Yestetday arrived here, 100 Russian pristine's, under esc , ,rt of a French detachment. There are no other Prussian troops in Silesis, except those that are shut np in the fortresses of Neisse, C , z. and Sillunberg. Tice bombar:!Pteitt of the lust of these pacrs has already cctrun:nced. It is.llllll of the strongest towns in Silesia, as the country mod it Cart be laid under water. 1r AMITeIDAtt, MARCH IS. We barn that a Commercial Treaty has been concluded between the King of Italy and Bavaria, the Grand Dukes ef lidera and Berg, and the Prince of Neufchatel. It is very probable that all the remaining Princes of the Confederation of the Rhine will accede to this Treaty. DCLFT, MAACK 14. The French Rapers of the 10th com.in no news. The 5 per Cent. Consols. with interest, from the 22d September, 1806, were at 74 f. 69 e. The i same Stock, for the VI March, was at 62. 20. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, THURSDAY, MAltell 19. CHANGE OF MINISTRY. The varions and crntradidory reports, which have been in circulation for some dirs pest, of a change cf Ministry, yesterday began to assume a serious and cornivent form. We stated in a former Paper. that the measure before Parliament, in fa vour of !Inman Catholics, has produced this crisis. Sanguine hopes were entertained, that the Minister, by assimilating the present BM to the Irish Aft of 1793, would temove all objeaion in a certain Tarter; and that by consenting to do sn, the eaist ing difficulties would be completely done away. The events of yesterday have d trnped, if not de stroyed, these hopes.—We stated yesterday, that a Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday night, at which, as was confidently repotted, this subjed was taken into consideration. In the morning it was agreed that it should be held at Lord Gars •ILLE'S house in the evening; but his Lordship, in the c 'arse of the day, received a letter from Earl Seises*, stating, that he was just arrived from Althorpe, and wished the Meeting to be held at his house, St. James's-Place. Lord Cunt: 'cc', and Mr. Tura. G R ENVILLE, accordingly went Ml * the Noble Earl, and dined with him. At nine o'clock, they were joined there by the Earl of Mote*, Viscount How icK, Lord HasaT Parr v. Lord Hot- LAND, and Mr. WINDHAM. The Loan Cs. cittos,ViscountSto.sautit, Lord Ett.itsaoliotn. a nd Earl Ft rearms . ' am, were the only Mem bers of the Cabinet who did not attend. last is not in town.—The Council sat until o'clock, and it is generally understood th.t agreed to modify the measure. Shortly after the result was seat o ff by Mr. ROUGH. 'yin. the senger, to Windsor, for His NI 44444 v's conan tion. It is also supposed, that at the same the members present agreed to resign, in case measure should be objefted to in its modified slap At twelve o'clock, yesterday, His MAJESTY cams to town, not to hold a Special Council, for the dis cussion of this business, a proceetling quite idealist and contrary to etiquette, but according to him"' custom; His MAJZSTv beieg in the habit of h01d.% a Council every Wednesday, at the Qt. esss's A little before two, the Council was held, and an l'.vening Paper of yesterday, stated, :hat shortiy 0000 1 110 1 111POIMMOMMImibil , bardanelei, and I placed under - biro. „, are lying in the ;)le, nine other aka d are almosireatir NAN* UGII9 Um- The I one they 11 r two s Ides- time. se the shapz. r came the dis- oz. ad, tnk ice Bell Nis ( . 1 ag al doi Prhi : -• !.