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• *.• f_ ri'l4 g ; 1)011lIalled, It, lientAnion, to Wn Royal Hisloam 114 . . _.: PRVNt_E. OF WAI.I.N. rye Ay St e ribi"ll4:49 is Two Volume. Ro)al i2010.' price It* i• boards, .- 13 -1 0 1 1/V0 : hv lla i %...J.,ES JAMES, Author of the Mfille.trt Ihrtivaarh Itegioarntal Compasion, ice. Air, lie. Ike Ibirit taitiou, •t Hs thildititior together tritL *striking Likfairin of tba .tutlim., era • Illintrait of Pe trovich from Morglien, the celaboticd Italian tograver, and comer approprtait Lugravtup. Loudon : Saki by T. Eprtun, Military Librai.), M hitt- Iltaii; J• Doubts,, New Buotl-3intt ; and J. Richardson, Pima Dubow. •_ .—__-__.____.__ _ a_ __—_-----1 PARLI;i:V I. HOME OF LORDS—Ssso 'wit, June Is. The wined Agents for the different Parties ►e the Rost "'argil Appal Cause, wpmi a competition of brieves, ap. r rated at their Lordships bar, and, by order of the House, t hey were required to appear again on Tuesday, when the Moire would ge into • Committee of Privileges regarding Site claim to the Title of t►e Earl of Roxburgh. The Royal Mitre was gives by COIIIIIOI6/011 to the Loan Sill. the Copper Duty Bill, the Irish Ceetmax and L•xcise tic Expert Coffee and Sager Bill, the Irish (my Re s.der•e Bill, the Irish Glebe House Bill, tb• Malt Doty Hill, e iine ..:her riblic Bills, and forty-nine private Bills. The I JAM% IdllilMlloll were this Lard Chancellor, Lind Daakesliaty, ird Lard Wslairgham. Irr. trrur.v, and other Members tram the House of c..aashama, Area& tip the COII/111110%104W111 . of Land Tax Naples Bat, the Ale beetle, Duty bill, mad a few private ahtc wove laid opus the tattle, tad severally raid a Int time. The British Fishery, Bill, and some others, wet c 'read • se cond time. The Exelsequer Bills Bill, the Hare Shunting Bill, and th'e Irish Loan Bill, passed through Contuottres, and were re ported *Shout our amesdnient. The Scotch Tent& AuLtsaeutatimi Bill alto passed Brasil' a (:iimmittee, *lwo mow alteration was introdseed into the same, spas the abetruu of the Lo*D CtUAIICaLLOa. The import was or d ered to be Pruned up es Moods!. Earl Se AS sopa sad, that he could net help thinking it strange that mach Bills, which bad gone through their differ ant stages that day, should be read at so early an boar blc thought that alien • Bill was of a public nature, it ought to be read at that time wf the day which was particu larly appinitted fur the thee-swiss of public bosoms. Ills Lordship added, that mallet these Fabler Bills im had no ticed ate far the Augmentation of Tythes for the Clergy,. The only answer he had reamed upon this subject was, that such as were debateable were always pastpused till dee o'clock. The Luao Cssascstr.oa rose for the purpose of moving that their Lordships would agree with him fat the prupriet) of fixing Tuesday for that House to go into a Committee of Privileges respecting the Claim of the Roxburgh Peerage. 1 heir Lord ships airmail take into cousideration, that 'Jiff celes tial respecting the title seemed to he matenally involved to the other question, respecting the es tate, and after that House should hare received the Report of the Committee, it might greatly tend to waist in forming their Lordships' . judgment re specting tile appeal upon • competition of Bejewel. The case was one of considerable intricacy, and it was contended by some of the parties, that it must be determined by the construction which that !louse ought choese to adopt in explaining a deed of the Earl of Roxbergh, bearing elate 1645. If it should turn out that the question respecting the title, as well as that yes-acting the estate, should both be determined by the deed already meutioned, for it had beeu contended that both the dignity and the property h.:4 betu convepril by that writing, then it woald be expedient t h at tbe . Committee of privileges, in order to make that report upon which the Rouen might be led to form its judgment in the one ruse, 'should have the benefit of that ryi deuce, and those argurnei:tai which hued been ad duced by the parties in the Appeal respecting the estate, mlioraise it might happeu, that the de. vision in one of there cases would be diftitr• rut from the other. although it might also occur, that both of them ought to be decided upon the seine grounds. *llia cause had been litigated for a considerable length of time, Counsel ha& been heard at the Bar, great number of days, and the expense of this appeal altogether was mu. mener to the parties iiiterchitesl. The session being so near to its close, induced him to think it highly, ptoper that this question should draw to its conclit.. 10011 ; fur is, ease it were postponed till the next !Session of Parhainiat, their Lordships would take non einisideration. that all the points which had beets argued, and all the evidence which' lied been given, must weigh very heavily upon the minds of theme persons who had hues, concerned to the discussion ; mad it might Also happen, that some of the parties. during the recess of Parliament, might be rtinoved (ruin this life, anti in that ease evomaltrable itijary would arise some where or co ier. On thee gronnils, lie trusted their Lordships would agree with hint in the propriety of going into a Co:towittee of Privileges net Tuesday. and that this 'natter Amulet be dreaded before the end of the Sessiou. It was ordered accordingly. The Banbury Peerage Claim win pestemed till the next Illatelatt olr Pariiaisivat, Fart Pr • • ;tore 'resealed ■ petition, signed t'y rartwnght, t mu! , laiuin; of Ow inefficiency soil opp:e-s:cot of the Loral Mod.% Pill, awl praying that it might Dot pass hit. a law,—Ortleml s• Ise Mad span the haste ahoy wee ranaiave Mosinee. eta ikons asigouroacl. HOUSE 01 COMMONS, SAT%;RD•Y, Just is. The Ilur A Ren arteroteLl, agreeably to requ',..ities,iii IM r e ev e of Lon's, and, on Ism erten, aetittatotrit the Htlele that he bad Leard she Royal Aweat goes Ir) Commission W a samba of Public and Private Bills--for which sew the I.erila 'I he Irish Tremor? Pills Bill, the Tenter Hamlets 'Mili tia Cc.vo oit BM, ti,e at.aerietto Gonda Bill, the South am tileilt. Pial.t•r• P.,::, ..4 the Silk Italie, Bill, went martrillp It'd • see. ud time. sad conitentterl f.o. Nlooriap. The Stelad.e.vion Clerks 811 l wits reads tibia limo sad y«awd. la • Cannolltse on lb. Markt,* Moises Duty Rill, the Postage of o Nine* Letter f.i,m Grist Brit... ne Ireland to Madeira, was h.... 4 at :s nd ; of • &oleic Letter, is , of a treble la tier, 43 ..I t Of an unbar weight, ha.; sad se at propertleu 'I be Lotteries Bill went throuzb • Cecinas:tee, owl was *Mewed to he reported in 'MAAR, Mr .1 4:00 el It thotr.tit up the Ittlinet• td the Commit •dra °flu aat) anti of Ways and Milani, •liteh writ nAreed to. and it.lis tr-dered to be h.ott;ht is suet.ally to the Kew- Istinsa 'II:. Excheyo r Bilis Bill (Tnt , at •..e.lit, am read a se cond tune, and erhouistte.l Mr 31oralav ne 3:esiage from the Lords stated their Lorl•liip., aitteot to the Barraele:llthee I r.inkinx Bill ; on the motto: of Mr. C. tl . lliatue, the lamas' Aestralasents to the Panpc. !Austin' PM vein agreed 1... Ibe W.strnit.ster leiptoreureats Bill ass orderi.l to Le teal • mr.i.ot terse ina Mosiday. Mr C W. %I • •it g. 1%. ootier, that be should. us Mon iik., into, an humble 4..1.d...... , • to His hlaPrilY, lerv.!, L vvit ll ': be ...mild be g l acannOy pleasant to order that • roam be 116 .6._ 4 rectal Co. the reception of Pauper sad Criminal !moat.. • Mn, It ••• hi s !live notice, that be alesula, .10 M....ehly. Make a trautithistlattve to list ltriust• :41mettavaeAtIjuitrue. ..1 Exn 1 C lON OF rgg TONTIFICATI, lu any other age thtto the present, the Imre eoked seizure of the dominions and revenues of the HoLY SEE, in other wprda, the suppression of the temporal power of the Pores, as Princes, would have excited astonkhinent, and attracted the at tention of all mankind. Bat. like Macbeth, wu have supper* full of horrors," and are become fa miliarizeitsince 1789, to every species of subver sion. Pit's the Vlith, who so few years since performed "the painful ceremony of crowning a Corsican soldier of fortune, Emperor of the French, has expiated that involuntary act of self-degrada tion, by his own deposition. which BONAPARTE has inflicted. He does not, however, dare to push his resentment farther, and to transfer the Pontiff to Valency or Ventainblenu. Though Pius has protested *wring this act of sacrilegious violence, offered to the successor of St. Preto, and, as far as he d•res, has attempted to oppose NAPOLION's order, lye Vetaisias still et Bowe. If the Corsican were •to fcl the impulse of his resentment, it is' probable that the HOLY FATHER might be committed primmer to the Castle of St. Angelo, and share the fate of Toustztrr, of FIEREORV, or of Vtzt.anzuvz. But he is an Italian, and he knows his countrymen. Though unaccustomed to the operations of war, they understand the use of the stiletto; and enthusiasm might arm some desperate hand against the scourge and the tyrant of so many nations. It is beyond a question that BON ...PARTS', conduct, in thus extinguishing the Papal Authority. and leaving him only his ecclesi astical functions. lies excited a sensation of horror throughout Italy. We see that cockades have been distributed. and that some apprehension has been excited, of popular commotion. If Spain is subjected. Italy must submit. But should Murat fail in coercing the Spaniards. we may net impro bably see some efforts made by the people of hems and of Tuscany to expel the French. SPANISH MONARCHY. Whatever movements may take place in some of the towns or ports of Spain, ',maid by indigna tion against the foreign enemy, who has so treech erously seized on the kingdom, it is not, we fear, very probable. that any efficient and successful . . resistance eon be made. The artful machinations of NAPOLEON, aided by the tame subservience of an incapable Goverement, have placed Spain un der his power. Their beet troops being seat, on distant metrics. to tits extremity of Europe ; the Royal Fatuity basing spontaneously, as it would saes, put thasinelves into the hands of their per fidious Corsica* Ally ; and a great body of Preach forms being stationed in the capital ; how are we to expect a disarmed nation, destitute of leaders Sr concert, to expel their uew tyrants ? A people ahrugcling for constitutional freedom might easily effect it, but a cnnotry so 111 administered, and so meanly abandoned by its native Princes, can lose nothing essential by • change of sovereign. MURAT knows this well. In his Proclamation, or Address to the Spanish Nation, dated at Madrid, the Yd May, though every line betrays his appre hensious of resistance, yet he most ably states every ,notice which can terrify, convince, or wince the people, to acquiesce in his usurpation. To those possessed of rank or property, he bolds out the loss of both, by confiscation, plunder, or attainder. To the military, scattered in the provinces, he pro poses, " the conduct which has been observed by the troops of the royal household, of the garrisma of Madrid, and of the Spanish military quartered in the Court. as a model worthy of imitation." After this candid ari.wal Joacntx. we need not in- quire how the wretched Princes that lately reigned in Spain have been betrayed, or tamely surrendered to their enemy. The Pretoria!' Betide might isave acted more ferociously, but not more basely. To the Spaniards, at large. he offers and guarantees, in the name of His Imperial Master. :hat most tempting bait, the preservation of the mr!vilibility and integrity of the monarchy. He engages that not even a village shall be dismem bered, from it. nor any war contributions raised. flow well NAPOLEON and his agents have studied end understand the genius of the Spaniards ; how Nell they can address their declarations to the chameteristie pride of the Castilians; and how weil they are versed in the past history of that rometry, is obvious. It is not from the office of Mr. CANNING, that such State Papers as that of Waal- are issued. The desire to preserve in violate the integrity of the Spanish Monarchy, it is well known, was the principal inducement to Cnasi.es 11. the last Prince of the AL iTRIAN fa mily, in 1700, to call to the succession the Buts ' WIN hole. He dreaded, that, by leaving his %est tiolaitoolas to tilt A MIRIAM branch. the Monarchy would be dismembered by a partition treaty : whereas. the power of Lot is XIV. (like that of BOXATAINEO) coold, he justly conceived, surmount all opposition. Such are evidently the leading causes that appear to have effected this great re .olotiou, which will probably transfer the revenues, 'refusals. Sees, std harbours of Spain, to an in ..eterate and active enemy. If that country should net. remain ender BOX *PARTE'. authority', it will wholly change the character of the present war, :itiltiply the points from which we may be at t and infinitely liniment the dangers by whinis. from every qaarter, we are now assailed. How, with such blimatmu as the present, we are to repel the united Aorta of so many nations, con ducted by energies like tho►e of BONArARTE, may well appal the most confident. and excite the re flection of the most unthinking. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, MONDAY. iONN. 20. The 111ntorca brig, whiLh arrived on Thursday night at Pct.-holm Ji from off Cadiz, with dispatches from Admiral Puavis, was Dot releasod from qua rantine until Saturday. In the interval the public were of course at the mere• of mere rumours and reports, but we are now able to afford something more satisfactory and authentic. The following is an extract of a letter from on board Admiral Po a en's fleet, dated the 30th last :—" The Minorca is about to leave the fleet for England, with dispatches —the unfavourable termination of the aegociations with the Governer of Cadiz, will reach you by this conveyance.-.eFor the last ten days, Col. BATHuitsr, who was deputed by General SrEncin, has been at Cadiz ; and we have had four and twenty transports at anchor off the harbour's mouth, containing about 2,500 effective men. The arrival of the troops off Cadiz, we understand, was in consequence of an invitation from General Marquis SALERNO. the Governor, through the medium of General Cana- Nis, the Governor-General of Andalusia, pro- posing to put the British troops in possession of the principal forts, and Spanish ships, on their arrival off the port. The ships were to take to Spanish South America any of the Nobility and others who chase to emigrate, together with their moveable property. It seems that this business happened at the critical moment when the Prince of Assuan.' came to the Throne, in the interval between the abdication of the old King of SPAIN, sad his restoration. But it appears their sentiments underwent a change on BON AAAAA walking Or with the Prince of AST.; RIAS, making him a prisoner. The party that wei.7 attached to the old King and unfriendly to the Prince of As- TUaIAS, being relieved from all fears on that ea count, hare dispensed with the services of the English. COLLINGWOODIS off Toulon, blockading the whole of the French force in the Mediterranean. The Spaniards (five sail of the line) arc still at Port Mahon, Minorca. Lord Coculuse, we un derstand, has proposed, with five sail of the line sod 5000 troops, to take Minorca in fivabours, or forfeit 5000 guineas—so much for the noble Cap. tain of the Imperiemse. It appears to me that Minorca ought not to he overlooked at this mo ment ; the inhabitants have always been attached to the English, and we should get possession of the enemy's ships as well as the Island." Colonel Tolima', Military Secretary to Sir ARTlllat WE LLesutY, left towa, en Friday night, to join the Expedition at Cork. Doctor Hums, of Lower Gresvenor-street, gees ont aY Phypician to the Forces, which will amount to about 10,000 men. The Expedition is eurtainly destined for Spain. The following is an extract of * letter from an Officer of His MAJErry's ship Dofienre, dated off Ferrol. June 6, ItfOs :—.• Yesterday a messenger from Spain came on board, with a letter for the Commanding Officer off Ferrol, humbly entreating his assistance against a small French squadron. which they think want to seize upon 40,000 stand of anus they have in a small port in the neighbour hood of Ferrol. He at the mine time produced letters from the Eaglish Agent for Prisoners of War, and from several Grandees of Spain, with a printed declaration of war against France, by the provinces of Asturias, Leon, and Biscay. Asturias alone has raised 150,000 men; the other provinces hare not yet declared. He informs us that an Am bassador has sailed for England to implore assist ance. Time King and Queen are close prisoners at Valency.—We sand. a frigate (the Swim) with the news. and expect an Admiral here with a large squadron. Time French Captain commanding the Spanish ships in Ferrol has resigned, glad to get away as fast as possible.—Their force at Ferrol is four sail olthe line.—Captain floras* commands the squadron liere, consisting of the Defiance, Gibraltar, and two frigates. It is to be hoped that some Member of the House of Commons, who is coluptkut to the in quiry, will put certaiu questions to Mr. on the present state of our military affairs in the Baltic. Su much has our attention been attracted, for some days past, toward* Spain, that we scam to have forgotten Sweden. The most inexplicahle and alarming stagnation of all operations has taken place in the last-mentioned quarter of Eu rope. It is fur the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to explain the cause. That full information, which was, perhaps, most properly denied on the business of Spain, in its present state, ciansot, as we cons ccirr, he refused in relation to Sweden. Au expe ditiou fir the attack of Norway, jointly with the King of SWEDEN. is sent from this country, an tler the command of a most distinguished officer. Never was a season or a time more favourable for effeeting that conquest. But, no sooner does our naval and military force resell the scrim of action, than it instantly becomes frozen, as if iu the midst of winter. Neither Norway, net Zealund, nor Finland, are atta.:ked. Tioi armament remains in the port of Gottonburgh, and no attempt what ever is made against the enemy. Frets what cause arises this suspension ? We hope that Mr. C. N (NG will be found ahle to mistier sad to espies.' it satisfactorily. Tbe resent Steretary at War, when. in ieoo, be made his memonsole non-attack of Ferrol, was called to a severe account in the House of Comtions for that failure. We trust, tort be fore Parliament is prorogued, a similar investiga tion will take place relative to the expedition seat to Gotteuburge. Forty sail of the homeward-I>cm Ad Leeward Island fleet passed Portsmouth on Friday. Yesterday mortiiiig His MAJESTY, Princes , es AUGUSTA, MARY, and AMBt.IA, accompanied by LordAYLEsPoito, Marchioness BATH and &Ugh.. ter, Ladies ALBINIA CUMBERLAND, and Caio- LINE WALDEGRAVE, GCHMIS GARTH and FITZ. Hoy, and Colonel DEsatow, rode to St. tiettrge's Chapel. and heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. DODSWORTH. from Exodus, chaµ xx. verse _ . ; afterwards rude to Fragnuore, There the KING, dined, and returned to the - Palace at three. _ . The QIJ LEX, Print ewes Soros• and ELIZASETII, heard di►ine service in the Palace ; afterwards rode to Frog pore, ready to receive the fits G. Several more transports hare arrived at Dover, to take in troops. it is said that a confidential person, who has been frequently entrusted with high diplomatic commissiiins, set off on Thursday, from the Secre tary of State's Office, on a special mission to a Northern Court. The Spanish Deputies had an interview on Satur day tnortaug with the First Lord of the Admiralty. The Rom Brig.-Ceneral Meade, who was dan gerously wounded in Egypt, is appointed to sue. teed Gen. BraEsroan in the command at Madeira. if. takes his passage from Portsmouth. The lion. Admiral Grabs ea hoisted hie flag. eta Wednesday, on board the Bellerophon, in the Downs. to comniaud the squadron off Flubbing-. Government are purchasing large quantities of oats, supported to be intended either for the supply of our cavalry in Sweden, or for the use of tbe pa triots in Spain. Administration is said to be dissatisfied with Ge neral Sir Joss Moose, for having given an opi nion, in his dispatches to this country, that nothing could be done in Norway. and having in come quenoe remained inactive at Gottenbtugh. Never did any expedition appear to have been more lulu diciously !dunned. or to have more completely " hung tire," than the armament sent so long ago to the Baltic. The French force in Spain is now understood not to be so considerable as it was at bast repre sented, and it is dispersed is garrisoning VOTIOdS forts and cities. The Asturian, it is said, were in patisseries of a proclamation from Commis the IVtli, dictated no doubt by the Corsican, appointing his brother, JOSEPH BON•PARTE, King of Spain. Three hundred theusand pounds, in dollars, wu sent from the Bank on Friday last, to be shipped off to Spain, for the use of the Provinces in revolt against the French. Government, it is now well understood, are in possession of very few (sets respecting the nonme tal in Spain. Whatever asse►tiuws may be ha waded in the blinisterial Papers, relative to Biscay, the Asturias, and Gallicia. if the Administration were under a necessity of publishing any thing on the subject, it could consist of little except opi. ohms, hopes, and eostioetores. AU the revenue cutters at Plymouth were, last week, put under the orders of .Wmiral Youan, to be at his disposal. It is supposed they are to carry home the Spanish prisoners (about 2U00) at that part, as lists of all the Spaniards, natives of the four Northern maritime provinces, are ordered to be made out for the purpose of being sent home to assist their countrymen. Letters were received in town yesterday, from Gibraltar, to the .24th ult. brought to England by the Minorca. They contain the following ex tract of a letter from Tangiers, dated 10th ult.-- " A powerful army is now fitting down before Ceuta; but whether it irs meant to attack is not cer tainly known; Nisch will depend on what Eng land may do by pea." In the reports circulated upon the alleged autho rity of the Spanish Patriots, lately arrived in this country it is said that the Bishop of Sr. JANO DE Costrorrat.L4 WWI among the most zealous opposers of BONAPARTE in Spain. The plate from the churches was, if neuemary, to be converted into dollars, for the purpose of carrying on the war, and the Patriots were already . in possession of a fund for that purpose equal to eight millions of dollars. If any speech, pronounced in either House of Parliament, on theCatholicQuestion, was ever cal culated to produce conviction, it seems to he that of the Bishop of Nonwics, given in this paper of Saturday. Those who take a pleasure iu perusing sentiments of the mast enlarged policy, blended with the true spirit of Christianity, will there see their esemolitication. The manner and language in which the Bishop his handled the words of the coronation oath, merit peculiar attention. We have only to regret, that a prelate, whose mind is mat once so expanded and so enlightened, should stand alone. Nor can we sufficiently lament the circumstances which stern still to place at a dis tance the time when the Catholics of these restart shall be admitted to all the civil and political rights of fellow-subjects. The Denbigh Militia have taarched from Ina ba:unit Lees to Fort Pitt, Chatham. The Rad norshire Militia have marched for Bopre? Bernie kr, near Hastings. The Middlesex Militia have marched into Horsham. The td Dragoon,, or Queen's Bays, tOth Dragoons, and the East Kent Meitia, are at Chichester. The lath, or Maid* re girnimt, a part of which marched to sclera bac racks, a fortnight since, being afflicted with the ophadatia, %e are happy to state. are fast sccover lag. of rd pz. Nla of Lie