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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. - - HOUSE OF LORDS- - el hiPAY, MARCM $. The Attorney. Genera!, Solicitor-General, and tether Learned Cmin.el, were further heasd in the Appeal cause, rnackweil and ether. v. Jef f ries an,: others ; and the fttrlter consideration of the said _ _ Appeal fired for to-morrow. The l'hAmes Polices, SLigar Drawback, and Slutl, Sea Bilis, were resd a second tune, and ordered to b. cuminitud to-morrow. SOOTH SEA TRADE. On the motion for tne second res,:ing of the South Sea Bill, by I.lrd WALSINGHAM, Lord REDESUALE moved the, House, that Council he heard in behalf of the South Sea Ccm• pally, according to t'e prayer of the Petition he heti the isoaour to lay before their Lordshipa yes- t.:rday Lord AUCIZLAND rote, and said, he was ex tre'u-ly voices-4J he could not in the present la smice v ste for extending the usu tl indulgence of the H use to the Peltioners. lie telt that in this case the Petitomets had no ground whatever for suds as Application; and that the beams; of Coun sel would only be attended with unnereAary delay, without any possible advantage to the Company, as it was utterly impossible the House could ever consent to the Kayer of the Petition. The former An, pan of which the present was intern - 1.2d to re peal. had ve-ted in the S•unli Sea Company the exclusive tr.,de to the countries in those seas, which at that time were solely is the possession of the Crow:, of Spain a but would any mut ever couteild, this ,a was intended to be construed to the ex clusion of the Zing's subjects in general, from trod log t ealonies or possessions we might in fu ture pt s.ess in those sofas ? C•artaialy not. Nor would e:•••e. the Nrole Lord, who was so warm an advreve tot Me hearing or Counsel, hazard such an atatertio:l. bet seen admitting that such was toe intemiuo of the Legislature. yes the Company had thedisdres editftually surrendered their privilege, by totally negleOlog to aisv it lbe fact was, that for Se. %Mal years .ftes toe farther ?set had posed, theCtilli patty bad, oss a very confined sCa,e, carried on • losing trade, by the mecium of *net were generally adieu diaisse..to Contracts, with the Spanish G. vsesunsent ; but finding dm trade unprocivaive and bas.roaus, they Way' abandoned it in the year 1744. s ncr which • 0 .h-present hour, the Company Lai ~or a will. Asa:sc....at •in Loose Seas, a period os hear 6 y.sars. if thew atioborn latts could have any proportionate **gist with tut I-1 :use, he was Of ups .i o t : sold .111se the applicett..si, and soder the dill to ~.,as tot rat e h its cliff:mot stages wicouut fv. titer ittterruoti 'Vue Dike of /tOSE. conceived, that al thou.:ll the application would ultimately be of tso off 1, yet as a had been the usual cus.om of the fluast r prima Conowl to oe heard in similar case., it Wen: . be .sly jog to extsaid Weir Suoulgetwe in the pia* .s IsitasAte. Lord HOI.i.,,IsND said, this wool./ not be the only molasses iu violin the House has "mug:. fit .o retuse s Ica an aolicition; be cited ass Instance within his owu rectotettsr.t, wherein a PetitiOn treat the Woollen l'raders had been. in similes circuits • stances. distnizvtd, without granting die prayer us the Prtiassa. it: tit, ught it was bester :he House Should a' on.e gore the company to siuderstasd they Is .d not! ing to etpea front them. It winbu be a sfira.ie. cif itnelLy to hold out eltpethittOllS w!tacn could never be fulfilled; as, from al be (tumid eullell of the sense of the House, he would take upon itiasself to prophecy, the bill mould pass into a 14W vrith.int any opposition. The Qu:s.too was then put, and negatived with out a a. &MOM TREATY WITH PRI7MIA. Lord GitIi.NViLLE informed tne Hons., that, ptia.u.sut w the .notice served to their Lordships. to atteild on pa:males bonne's, he had to lay betote than lan-atop. rim biajeny's most gracious Mei. sage t tato. wing weal, that he bad, With toe ClaaOat of his .%lli.:uter , , ...awed into a l'reaty of I'eace with t las Patiplati Majesty, by his Minister at that Court; who, in enntecintnte of a discretionary power, wicks winch he was invests!, bad consented . to make an advance of b 3,4001. to assist kits Pius law /di -sty, sn rite [newt.' urgent and pullout eat. of nits affairs. Hie Was tatisfied, that to reconcile the House to tae meatuses adopted In pursuance of that Treaty, as ert-it as the arras of the Treaty stall. which %%Atli, as sous as postiole, be laid iie t:te:n. be nett only to , mention toe name of the Nobie Pe.sonage to whose can the bustuess had been confided ; it was no other than rietchieson. a uea,a witose talents, whether in the kii.lst or the Cabinet, were eqoatty conspicwott ; and as tat beyond praise *she himself was %sawn hog io atten,pt his panegyric; to such a man, whom his iltd.ihguished abelitics had raised to ills present exalted station, n..t only We Hous:, but tut wh.tle nation, must look no with sentiments of confidence and veneration ; from the per. rue to whom Use man lument of the treaty Thad b:-en trauma!, as well as horn the ma shie's. stun W.11C,1 had been granted as a supply to lli .'suitian Majesty, the House and the Curette} oast to espedi every thing satistidtory end hollow ali:e so t h is count' y, in the terms of the treaty ; tivese wit having yet been ratifitd, he observed, could Ilt.t be lend batne their Lordships at present ; bur would, with all poplars: Lispatch, be suomatted to Their ire coswiaded with inovveg, 4 * Chat an itildrets of Thanks be presented to His Xis. j• sty; ackeowledging his paternal care, constantly exercised Oyer his liegc tutjals,but more particularly osempiii.ed in the late prate concluded with PlUS ae.i, stating alv, that they teo tb: ptopriety of the measure adopted by His filtije.ty's Minister, in ad vancing the tom tit 80,00Ji. spentioacd in his most gracious Message. as an immediate supialy to the pressing necesnoot of His rrus,ian Nlajesty, and are reaoy, as tar as in them lies, to make good the same. " flat Motion was curie, T rue. dips. and a De putation of the Lords was or.;eresl to wait 00 Llis Majesty itfs the pass. !Aid lothind presented a r:fitinn from the Con fined Ide•nors in the /awl of Worcester, which was ordered to lie on the able. 'HOUSE OF CONINIONS. The Speaker tonic the Chair at half past three. end the House pr , ceeded to ba!iot for twc; Eleftion Committees, af er which they proceeded to call over the mimes of the d2foulrers at the lest call of the House. Ihe three following Members not being p:esent, were ordered to be taken into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms: the Right Honourable William ‘Viiiiham, Sir John Nicholls, and Ed ward May, Esq. The names of the Members that may happen to he absent to-morrow, at the Ballot then to take place, were ord. red to be set apart, and afterwards reported to the Hone. It was ordered, that Mr. Plummer have leave of absence on Thursday next, on account of his having to attend a Grand Jury, but to be in his place on this day se'nnight. Sir J. C. HIPPIifiLEY moved, ft That the order made this day for taking the Right Hon. W. Wind ham into custody, be discha g d," as he knew that Right Hon. Gentleman to be absent upon particu lar business. This Niation was negatived without a division. The lion. Baronet soon afterwards gave notice, that he would to-morrow move, ft That that order be discharged." A Message from the Lords announced their Lord ships' assent to thl German Vara Bill. COLCITES rtR ELECTION. The following Members were appointed upon the reduced list, to try and determine the merits of the Colchester Eleetion Petition : Thomas Blies, Esq. Thomas Estcourt, Esq . L.,rd Viscount Stopfntd, W. Spencer Stanhope, Esq. Thomas Whitmore, Esq. Henry :Chaney, Esq. Gerard Noel N.ml. F.sq. James O'Callaghan, Esq. Right Hon. Sir A. caget, Mr. David Latuuche. John Jackson, Eaq. Russel Manners, Esq. John Staniforth, F.lq, After these Gentlemen had been sworn at the Table, The SPEAKFA informed them, that according to the terms of the Ail of Pailiaiswilt, there heing another B sllcit smt Reduced List to be brolglit in, the Committee now appointed w to not to retire to choose their Nominee:, 61, :::at ot..er Committee had been sworn. On the motion of Alderman COMBE, the con sideration of the Kas, %Noe Elation retitton was ordered to be postponed irom Tuesday the 17th of March ;octant, to Tuesday the 14th of April ..at On the mo.i.)n o. Mr. PLUMMER, Mr. S:iaw le Fevre ss ordered to have leave of ,ih:ence for three weeks, on account of ill state of h ahh. On the motion of Mr. PERCEV AL, it wac ordered, that Mr. Stur;iis Bow ..tve leave of absence, to attend the trial of Sir H3me Popham, at Portsmouth. YARMOUTH COMMIT IT.E. The following are the Gentlemen appointed upon the reduced list : F. W. Gram., Esq. Robert Knight, Est C. W. T.rylor, k.. , q. Slteitecl Siora, Rue The Hen F P , uvrnby. N. W. Ratiey Colborne, Esq W. C. Honker, Ems. Sir R. Salisbury, Bart. The Hon. W. Hell. W.o. Fraiiklosi, Esq. Tire lion. W. Lamb. Ca:reoy irre,eke, E.g. John retr.og, Lsq. MOMIKIZI. William Dick:mon, IlLaq.—iAttuel Whitbread, Esq, Lord HOW ICK said, that on account of the late sitting of yesterday, it would be proper to post. pone the discussion of the Mainly Bill till to-mor ro.v. He .!could Ale , propose, for the same reason. that the committal of the Slave Trade Abolition Bill shmsld be postponed till to-morrow, for the purpose of filling up the blanks, and that it should be further discussed upon Friday. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he had objettions to urge against a particular part of the Mutiny Bill, but he should postpone string so, nil the bring ing uis of the Report. The SPEAKER intimated •ei Cie Gentlemen appointed upon the Colchester Committee, that they alight now withdraw to choose then Nominees. That Committee accordingly withdrew, and soon afterwards returned, having named as their nomi nee, Sir Jahn Cos Ilippesley and Henry Jodre ll, Esq. One of these Gentlemen having appeared, and the other nut, the SPEAKER put it to the House to determine how the matter should be settled, or what step ought to be pursued. Here a eamversation ensued, in which Lord Ho , wick, Messrs. Bathurst. Bankei, and Grenville, took part. When the question was put by the SPEAKER, that Mr. Jodrell be taken into the custody of the Scijeant at Arms; after a few remarks by General Porter, Mr. S. Stanhope, P.L. Tierney, Lords Ho- Wick and Henry Petty, the motion wa. carried nun. role. After this, Mr NOEL introdeced a conversa tion, which involved A question of privilege; the Gallery was ordered to be cleated. Urn re entering the Gallery, we found Sir J. PULTENEY on his legs, who was speak ing on the subject of the Firlancial Resolutions winch he had proposed; he expatiated for some time on the superior merit of his statement, beyond that tit the Noble Lord (Lord H. Petty). His wish was, that the calculations he had submitted, might undergo a candid examination, and that there might he a clear understanding, with respeCt to tigt.res, and whether the principles on winch he had formed his calculations were coned. He mov ed, " That his Resolutions be referred to the Com mittee appointed to consider the new plan of Finance." Lard 11. Pk:l'lY said, he bad no objei9ion to the Resolutions of the Hon. Baronet being printed, and examined by the House, until the time that his Financial Bill shall be brought forward on the New Plan of Finance. It was then moved and carried, that the debate be adjaur led to this day sennight. The Serjrant at Arms then appeared at the Bar, MO reported that Mr. Jodrell was in his custody. Upou the Motion of Earl '1 ENII'LE, it was then ordered, that Mr. Jodrell be discharged, on paying the fees. The bleiLbers of the Committee appointed to y tire nre.ets of the Yarmouth Lleition were them called to the Table. and toot the oath.. I.e.sre of absence was, upon moon. granted to Mr a arce, for one week; also, that lit. Tophan hare leave to go the :Northeilk Circuit. The Serjeant at Arms reported, that be had taken Sir Julia Nicholla into custody. Ordeted, on tlie motion of E.ll TENIrLE, that ha be discharged, en paying the fi-es. The Committees on til.e rsletiny Bill, and the Slave Prize Bill, exerz deferred till to-mnirwe ; and the Committee no the Land T s CA:nrnissioners Bill deferred to this day throve weeks. Ordered—An account of the qu:nety of Tanned Leather and raw Hides Imported into, and exported from, Ireland, within the last twelve Teem The Report of the Sugar Drawback 1';i11 and the Brandy Duty Bih, were brought up, and with the atnendrnents, ordered to be engrossed, and to be read a third time to-morrow. I.lr. Grant, from the Commissioners of Military. Iniltiry, brought up the Foutth Report, the ti:le of which was read, and, with the Supplement, or dered to be I.'d on the Table, and to be ptintei.— Adjourned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GarTrmtußGn MAILS. BERLIN, Ina. We have positive intelligence that the Russian army was attacked on the 4th last. at Altet:stein :Ind at Guttenstadt ; and that its advanced ward was routed ; several prisoners and some piec e s of cannon were also taken from it : sie hourly ruptct the details of this affair.— ( From lie Tch srapi) res. 01. M. Leglise, chef de battaillon, attached to staff, set out on the 3th of this month from A dorf, brought !:ere, yesterday, official intelligeOzi :\ that the enemy had been beaten at all points , and was pursued with the utm - ist activity ; the par ti was continued by night ;20 pieces of cannon, u from 3to 10,000 primers have been taken: i army is in f.ill march for Koningsberg, where di' enesey has retired.-06,4 POSEN, mi. It. A Supplenient Ecttaardinary to the Gazette o this city, gives the following Order of the Day : The General of Division, Governor, and Commandant-4f Chief or the town and department of ?risen, makes known, of well to the troops which ate in that department, as to the die /vent adinonistrAtions, that the Russian and Pusan army been Wady defeated, and that 6 , 40 prisoners, and more the ►wenty piece: .4 cannon are the fruits of this vinory ; the mil' DJ) Command .nts arc charged with giving the utmost paha. say to the pre=ent order of the day. (Signed) LIEBERT, General of Division, Sic. Kashal Massena passed through here this morn ing, ou hi. way t, the Grand Army. M. 3. The Emperor set out nn the 30th of Joutnary, at five in the morning ; he breakfasted at Pultusk, slept at Prazilitz, and proceeded the next morning to Willerleerg, where he %raid the Si st of Jannary and Ist cf February. Pus Majesty set out from Wollenberg on the morning of the 23, slept at Pas senheim, from whence he again set out on the 3d, in the morning, for Aliens:els. '?Ls Majesty is very well. The cold is only at two degrees, ar.d the roads are exceloent. WARSAW. JAW. 22. The Au•.trian Minister, Gene' a: Vincent, is st.ll here : His M.ijesty treats him with the greatest dis tinelion, he grants him frequent audiences, which last upwards of an hour, ail,' almost every day he has conferences with the Prince of Benevento. The Grand Duke of Berg seldom appears in public ; it is tirought that the climate, so contrary to his health, is the came that he recovers so slowly from the ill nest which he has had, and which was occasioned by the faagues of the last campaign.—( L'Abcdie d. Not d. RINKS Or THE ELLIE, ►E{ 16. According to the latest intelligence, the theatre of war in Poland appears to lt e entirely changed , and the French and Russian armies have taken up positions altogether new; the latter as made a quarter wheel, and the greater pat t of its forces is at present in East Prussia ; the Fri nch army has followed this movement, and its left w.:cg, since the bloody affair of fvlchtingen, has drawn nearer to the centre, whose position appears to be near Wil lenburgh. The principal force of the Russians is concentrated between the lake Spirdirg and the Na rew ; it extends its right towards Passcnheim, and the front of this wing is to the South. All accounts agree in saying, that a decisive battle would soon take place in that neighbourhood. We learn by private letters, that the garrison of Dantzic had made a sortie against the confederated Poles; driven them hack, and made several pri soneis ; it is added, that those of the prisoners who were born is Prussia have been shot at Dantaic. According to these last accounts, all was tranquil at Kocir;sberg, where the Queen had also returned. VItNNA, TIP. 4. The Court Gazette of this day contains the fol lowing article, under t! .e head Turkey : " On the ‘22d of December, the declaration of war by the Sublime Porte ag tinst Russia took place: the gates of Constantinople were in consequence shut for some days." LEGKORN, Jll4. 22. The Prince of Hesse•Philipstlial is making prepa rations to eft& a landing in Calabria, with a corps of Sicilian troops, and in conjonEtion with 12,000 Lngl'sh. SOTTIVISVRidf, TBS. 21,, This svenid.g a eonrier has artist tl in tea day. from St. Petersburgli, bringing dif.patches from ClustAntinorolle. from Vienne, from. the Prussian head.crartern, as well as from St. Petershorgh he stars than the French had meivt d some sno re checks Irons the Bussians ; and that the Prustata al my had hem reinforced by 60,600 r recruits. Ac counts tee fired fi orn Malmo yesteerlay, mention, that Bonaparte, in one of the late aftioas, had been wounded in the foot, and that Bernadotte has also been wou.nded. TEL 'l3; The German Papers received to-day, speak of z victory gained by the French, on the 4th inst. sa Alte.artein, over d.c Russians; but private letter., by the post at C(.lberg, s-ate the affair exaffly in a contrary way, and say 1.114 t tile Russians bad tlz: best of it. A caurier has arrived to-day from Malmo, will brings an account that there has been some mer slvirp fighting between the French and Swedes i near Stralsund, and that the former were dri•en back to their intrenel , ments ; Gen. d'Armteldt commanded the troops who made the sortie ; I tannet get the particulars to night. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. A NOTI IF. R IiATTLE. Two Mails from Gotteoburg arrived yesterday, with letters and papers horn that city, to the 25. h last, and from Altona and Ilainburgh to de 18th. Government, at the same time, reteiy. ed dispatches from Mr. Pieeeseotur, our M. nister at the Court of Stockholm, and from the Marquis of Dour:Las, at Saint Pctersbargh. T.ie latter are dated the 10th of January. Thom from Mr. rIERREPOINT, we understand, are dat,cl the t2ittli last. The foreign Papers seate, that a battle was fought on the 4th of February at Altea stein and Guttenqadt, about 18 leagues due south of Koningsberg. The result is vat iously represented. The Telegraph. a Paper printed by the French t Berlin, states, tinder the date of the 14th, that the French were the assailants, and that the Recent were defated with the Eras of from S to lo,O'i prisoners, and 20 pines of cannon, and thatlte French army were in full march for Konirirberg, to which place the enemy had retreated. Thy ee• feat of tl.e Russians on the 4th, was also officially announced at Posen, on the Ilth of Febraary, aaa their loss is stated nearly the same as in. tie Berta articl e.—That a battle took place on the 454.1 , , and tLat it sees the result of BONAPARTE'S manoeuvring tor that pm pose, appears certain. He bad been in coo. stain motion during the five preceding days, and reached Altenstein on the night immediately pre ceding the adion. We may presume, that it wise general engagement ; but, supposing the account The Telrgreph true in its full extentyls:ellktneltol in concluding that the defeat of the inaliaas• mu not general and decisive ; eight or 10,000 men, in must not forget that the official report only mak , .l it 6000, and 413 pieces of cannon, is a loss alit would scarcely be felt by so large a force as en Russian Army. But we must farther consider, that these accounts of the success of the Find, come from two cities, in which Proelainatiniu have been issued, announcing the severest pis and penalties against tho.e who should sly any tlii,ig unfavourable to the Donal arrs,; and that, therefore, a de eat wrist he busied la silence, or represented a vidory. Letters rect.; .. at Gottenburgh, on the 23d, state, that the Russia instead of sustaining a defeat, were vidorinus a Altenstein. We conadently expea that such e prove to have b"en the true state of the qucsti or, at the worst, that it has been a drawn battle. We stated, etn Saturday, that the Gentlemen proposed to bid for the Loan, were informed, !ha' for every 1001. sterling, they should rue; St^tk in the 3 per Cent. Consols, and 70:. S: in the S per Cent. Reduced, the bi.lding to the 5 per Cents. Yesterday moming the G. r•:kr composinri the four followin7, I!ste, waitcd Lord Gatervir.t.a and Lord Hyman Perry, I the Treasury, and the biddings were as follow aOisAaTs and Co. . L.ll 17 6 S.r BARING am Co. 11 0 0 GULDSMIDS aid Cu. . 11 3 0 11ARNEti and Co. 10 Id 0 BARNES and Co. were, of c% arse, the Contracw The rate of interest at iwLicii the Loan has been trailed for is about 41. 14s. 71 The Dispatches brought by the Cermet/is ket, are, we under:tint!, of a more favostrable 11•1 than as expetted, with regard to the final ik mination ol the Turkish Government. It is iti that upon the advance of the Russian Aryl ‘V,lllathia, the Porte applied to Id. Irat.lissxt , i:Jstiaa Amb.issabr, Jedring that he would el I z a! I I i I