The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-04-24 00:00:00

F •i I , I • i t 1 '4 r I. 1.4 .1~ r, THE ST before the noontide . heam. while the whole Rock of timorous birds slew ; scared and terrified at the new . appearance!' Mr. MARA:I'OT cnnebrred in the propriety of the motion. Helririshedito.concede Emancipation to the Catholics ; but he wished to concede it with cer tain restrictions and &nerds. Ile thought the,Com mittee should he.gone tuto, .if it were only to ascer tain whether,such oats could be devised as w ould se cure the Establish:4Bc' or whether they could not. Lord MILTON depritated the cry of the Church being in danger, raised, he believed, only 'to answer political purposes. But they who raised it uniformly avoided coming to close,qearters—they avoided speck. Eying where the danger lay. The tests which had been enacted, wereenacted not against Catholicism as a re ligion, but as a protection of the State ; the necessity of that protection had now ceased, and the tests should cease likewise. Ile trusted, indeed, that they had run their race, and that more liberal notions were now spreading over the whole empire. He was willing to allow that the opposition which the Right Hon. Gentleman so consistently maintained to the mea sure, wai the result of a sincerity for whirls he ho noured him ; in him he firmly believed it arose from a decided conviction of its danger : but he could not say se much of his subservient colleagues, who got into office by pledging themselves to no very sincere hostility to the Catholic claims. Ile should con rclude by giving the motion his support. M r.. C. AD.klrl rese to oppose the Jootiosar Amid loud cries of " eiljuutts—Lodjouro." cooddered the Catholic religion as essentially dangerous in its idolatrous worship, in its invocation of saints and' ! images, its auricular confession, and' its consoqueot absolution. Mr. BARNARD spoke against the motion, WWI the question was adjourned at two o'clock, till this I day. - - (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) as by Members on tic other side of the House. Then if the tests at present imposed on the Roman Catholics of Ireland. were such as were not destructive of the security , of the country, it followed that those tests must fall: Ile could not but say, that the public was much di vided on this subject. The Catholic Question was gradually gaining friends year after year. The mist was daily falling frem the eyes of those interested in the question.—[llear,heaer] Many enlightened men, both in and out of Parliament, who formerly op. ro.ed the measure, now gave their assent to it.[lfrar, hear, hedr .9 A tl if so, at the leastoltis was a ground for enquiry. He believed that there was an insuperable objection against this measure, on the part of an illustrious personage, who, on account of his age and services, ought never to have bad it pressed on him, in opposition to his conscientious scruples. Now, however, the House was informed that they were strived at whit was called a new kra—at which new era the Roman Catholics were given to believethat they should meet with an impartial hearing. The Roman Catholics were ready to meet their oppo nents on this subject, but the argument against them ee,•.sed to be, the impugning of every Act of Con cession ever granted to them. The Acts against the Romeo Catholics were of such a nature as must make the people look to them with a. species of suspicion. The Acts passed against them, after the Revolution, and before it too, kept pace with the alarms which then egift* the-publicadvice. In 1671, Kiog James published ftc,_finueus Declaration of Indtilgence.— After 10711, '( fie Popish plot took place, on which Roman Catholics were turned out of Parliament. The Popish Plot, he was convinced, would at this moment be unavailing to any one of our enemies; be. he inclined to esteem its operations ever so much, who aided us to enforce it against him ? The Popish Plot, at this moment, deserved only to be laughed at. How far the disabilities against Roman Catholics were intended to be perpetuated, he thought might be judged of from the terms of the Declaration of Rights, in which there was no mention of any such resolutions biting to be regarded as fundamental, which, otherwise, they certainly would. To give freedom to four millions of our subjects, he thought, would be the bed way of meeting any danger that could arise to us. We were not to carry these laws, as formerly, to the extreme, because the period for this penal tyranny was gone by. —No Petitions against the Catholic Claims had, as on former years, been transmitted by the Ge tters! Assembly of the Church of Scotland, against the Catholic Claims.--This she• Ned, however, only that the Rights of the Catholics were no longer looked upon with the same jealous eye as formerly. If we looked to Catholic Europe, we saw that all the finest arts had there flourished— which could not have been expected, had the Catho lic Religion been so dangerous, and inimical to true prosperity as had been represented. To our Catho. lic ancestors we owed our greatest blessings. The field of Ittinymede—the glorious fought battles of Cressy, Poictiers, Agincourt, &c. ; and were we now to be told that our Catholic countrymen would not' fight for us, because our situation had been matured under a Protestant Government? That it had been the intention of Mr. Pitt, in granting to the Catholics the rights they at present enjoyed, to go en tall he had given them all they could ask, was apparent. If the Roman Catholics were not enti tled to receive what they wow asked, then had those privileges formerly granted them, been improper. ly conferred !----Every thing that justified their former conduct, condemned that which they now pursued. It was impossible that the Catholics should not consider what remained of their disabili ties as a stigma and disgrace. By the indulgencies already granted, the face of the country had as sumed a greatly improved appearance ; a circum stance which gave encouragement to go on. As to any dread for the Established Religion, he felt none. lie bad a better opinion of the Protestant faith, founded as it was on principle and reason, than to be afraid of it : but if it could not stand against Ro man Catholic logic, he was satisfied it could not be LONDON: sppported by all the tests which could be passed. We FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1812. • might create a source if weakness to out Church by increasing her enemies ; on the contrary, by repeal. FALL OF BADAJOS. lug the tests, the Protestant Church might be regard- The official details of the storming of isdajos s ed as the enlightened Patroness of Toleration I He the account of which, as we mentioned yesterday, approted highly of the motion of the Right lion. Gen- , was received at the Admiralty by a telegraphic die+ tleman (Grattan) who might be truly styled the ve nerable advocate of Catholic rights, and thought that patch, did not reach the Secretary of State's Office a list of their grievances might be selected to present till between the hours of eight and nine o'clock last to the Mince Regent, so as to procure a removal of night. They were brought by Captain CANNING the most pressing disabilities under schich they la. of the Guards, who had a stand of the enemy's boated. This would have the effect of immediately lours taken at Badajos, over the roof of the carriage increasing our re-ources. Twenty thousand men from the Catholics of Ireland would immediately join which conveyed him to London. The dispatches I our standard on being informed of the adoption of were opened by the SECRPTARY AT WAR, in pre. such a measure ; and such an addition to the army of sence of the Duke of Yoga, who was wailing their Lord Wellington in the Peninsula, would do more ' arrival, and the following Bulletins were shortly for the Fatablished Church, than all theetests that after Issued:_.- . •. • • could be imposod.-r[ffecte, hear!] BULLETIN. Mr. OWEN, in a long and argumentative speech, WAR DEPARTMENT opposed the motion of the float. Gentleman, as not Downing-sired, April 23. Int more inconsistent with the ancient laws and policy of Dispatches Save been received by Lard Lir adroet beta see the realm, than with the immediate interests of the Earl of WIELLIIIGTOn i dated Camp at Badajas. April I. Empire. " /Hs Lordship reports, that the fire was. opened Mr. VERNON professed that he had beard no- l from kia socoodpavaliel on the Sist of March, and thing alleged against the Catholics, and nothing hi. I deed short of some original sin in that body, there was continued withgreat effect till the night or the 6th lest. whew a gestural attack was made upon the was, that could induce him to agree with the opi nions of the last speaker. The Learned Doctor had ! place. Three breaches bid been effected; the attack talked to them a great deal about the dangers of the I woo these was made by - the 4th Division, led by Ma- Catholic persuasion, but little or nothing on the in-! jar-General Cogitate, and the Light Division ender justice of excluding from 600 offices 9f one kind, and . Colonel rraatttf but such were the °Wades 20(X) of another, a fourth part of the Empire. There certainly had been delay in pressing the question, on which the "oaf . 11 . 41 1"Paredt and Pilch the gad acoottut of the known scruples in a certain quarter ; saes , of his defense, that in spite of the most atm. but stow, when the time had arrived that the Prince ordinaty efforts Gotha part of these two Divisions, of Wales had assumed the Government of these Lora Wnatuirrou roved it necessary to withdraw realms, an expectation was certainly entertained, , from r b e assau l t . I n the mega time, the billed that bettet principles would have -been adopted, andi . getter views entertained, than those on which the I "a' commanded by - Lieut e eee ‘ General Pleg°w ' greatness of the Right Honourable Gentlenrinn was , made aa attack e n the Castlq of Bsdaeints which tatc founded. He himself was a Member of the Uttiver.itroops mewled by amlade to the most gallant man. sity of Oxford, and could say, that 'neither he nor ner, and truly established themselves there, his friends had had auy previous knowledge of the 'th e R eve ll. e r It. R oque ; w hil e so t h e ou r ad o Petition: The Honourable Gentleman concluded an lof the cit h iihdee*Gebtral Ditigeat wMplt able speech, by quoting the celebrated anticipation of Milton, is which he congratulates himself in the tad heis la** to m a ke aNO VW*, M .M, 06 ' 11 contemptation of seeing "a noble lead puissant ea- Telt !Cis* II Ned ON If i 1111111d.:01013,106 lima, like a young eagle) staling her matiusled eyes tug the 4.0/111111 ratilibillia pd - • • T a very numerous MEETING of the M ER CHANTS, TRADERS, and OTHERS. iatere-ted in the INDIA and CHINA TRADES in the PORT of LON DON, held at the City of London Tama, the 4.1 d of April, 1812,The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR, in the Chair. It was moved by Henry Smith, Esq. seconded by George Ward, Esq. aid L'oanitnisusly Resolved, That the imports from the East Imlies end China as now. by law, confined to the Port of !modems; cannot he extended le the Out. port. without great injury to these now established in those Trales in the City and Port of !Ambit' ; nor without great detriment to the Revenue and to the Country at large. Tb it a Petition be presented to both Houses of Par Hastiest in the names of the said Merchants, Tiadess. and Others,praying that the homeward trade from India and China may be coati titled exclusively to the Port - of Condon. That this Petition be 'saw signed by these presect, and do re main at this house for five dos for signatures. That the Members of the City of London and County of Mid diesel' be requested to support the prayer of the Petition iii Pars lausent, whets any discussion on the subject shall take place. Thai the Crimmittee of Merchants. by whom this Meeting has been clammed. he requested to continue permanent diaries the discussiorn in Parliament. and to use their best todeavoun to promete the abject of this Meeting. 'Putt the Thanks of this Meeting be gives to the Committee (or bringing forward this important subjest. That the Thanks of this Meeting he presented to Sir William Curti;, Dirt. one of the Representatives in Parliament for this City; and to George Syng, Esq. nee- of the Representatives to Pa r liament Nettie County of Middleses ; for their elated :slice this day, and their kind ;locution to the important objects of this Meeting.' That these Resolutions and the Petition of the Merchants, Traders, and Others ' of the City of Londe's. after tiresome shall be presented to the Houses wf Parliament, be piakdished it the Moruing and Evening Asper,. HUNTER. Mayer. The Right lion. the Lord Mayor having retired from the Chair, the same was taken by Henry Smith, Esq. and it was thereupon moved, seconded, and unanimously resolved, That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the Right Hon. the Lord Moor, for the readiness he has ever evinced to pro mote the Interests of the metropolis, and for his polite and in polka conduct in the Chair this day. HENRY SMITH. PRICE. 01 STOCKS THIS Bank 227} 3 per Cent. Cow. 6011 3 per Cent. Red. Nft 4 per Ceuta. 74} 5 per Cent. Navy 90}} Long. Asa. 15} DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK India Bonds 1 2 pr. - Exchequer Bills p.r 1 P Ditto Olooittoe Consols for Ace. GO; Lottery Tickets X% :18 THE STATESMAN. ;r t`. i , ,into the ditch, escaladed the bastion of San Vicenti in the meet brilliant manner, and established themselves la Bedsits. Major-Gen. Waipitaa particularly dis tinguished himself la the achievement ; the success of Gen. PiCTOtell and Gen. Lstru'e Divisions, while the fourth and Jight divisions were preparing to re .new the esstult upon the breaches, brought this severe Conflict to a termination, the enemy laying down their arms. The garrison consisted originally of about 3000 men, of whom about 4000, and Ge- Ilefab PHILLPPON and iraud.swr are prisoners.— „Major-Generals Co!Amax, Wii.xtft, and 80w5.., have been severely wounded; Lieutenant-General Pic-rox, and Major-Gen. liestrr, slightly. The loss of both British and Portuguese has been very severe. In the storm, 821 men of the two nations hate been killed, and 2869 wounded. Mr. STUART, in a dispatch of the 11th of April,from Lisbon, states, that the Telegraph from Elves had announced that Bst.t.srrenos had entered Seville ; and this report was believed to be authentic." • •Dowaipg-street, 231 April, 10 P. M. . _ My Loasr—lr hare the satisfaction of informing yen, that Captain CANNING, Aid-de-Camp to Lord WeLitwasos, ls just arrived, with. the intelligence of tkormistere of Bedsit's ; by stores, in the night of theidthlnat..after ameat revere. contest, in which the troops of hts NG - Jests, aad those or his Ally, parti cularly distinguished theraselves.—l regret to be un der the necessity of adding, that this most important fortress has not been obtained without a very heavy loss. The loss in the storm consists of about 51 Officers, and 580 serjeants and rank and file (Bri tish) killed ; 213 officers, 153 serjeants, and 1983 rank and file wounded. The Portuguese less consists of about 170 kiUed, andmore than 500 wounded.-o- The Earl of WELLINGTON speaks in the highest terms of the gaUantry and good conduct of every part of the annyin this important operation. No General OMcer was killed ; but Major-Generals COLVILLE, WALLER, and ?owls, were severely wounded ; and Lieutenant-General Pic-tort, and Myer-General Kuser slightly wounded. I have the honour to be, My Lord, &c. 1 20 the Right Noe. Os Lord Mayer. LIV ER POOL. It will be observed, that there is a difference in the above two accounts, se to the number of our killed and wounded ; the first tinkle( it 3600, the second 3650.- This, however, is not very material, as even the lowist number, in our apprehension, was too great a sacrlfic.e to make for the advantage there by obtained. Our Toss, in fact, is little short of the whole French troops which formed the garrisoe.— It is said to have been below 5000; and, what is somewhat remarkable, the number of the enemy killed, siting they. ward the party defeated, stud appear to have defended the plus with obstinate fury, is 'comparatively trilling. Four thousand ear. rendered u prisoners, which shows that only 1 0 00 had fallen. Our loss in killed is stated, Iti-oneac count, at 321, making a difference of only, 79 he. tween the besiegers and the besieged. The whole loss of the Allied Army, from the commencement pf the Siege of Badajos to its final reduction, is esti mated at 5,000 men: The Park and Tower guns fired last night about eleven o'clock, and " the belts," says the 'lapdog► Port, " rang merry peals in honour of the brilliant event," which, continues the same virtuous Journal, 64 sheds a new ray of glory on the consummate skill of Lord Wuxi:furrow and the valour and perseverance of his gallant troops ; and we trust that u a further mark of the gracious approbation and favour of the- PaiNcE Reover, the noble and gallant Chief will be honoured with the Blue Ribbon of the Illustrious Order of the Garter t" We ban been prevented from giving the particulars of this daring achievement to the public, by the de lay., which we think requires some explanation, is haying the anat. at the Government Office. Surely, were so many individuals must be kept in cruel and anxious suspense as to the fate of their relations, neither considerations of interest nor actual expence ought to have retarded the publication. Lisbon Papers have reached us to the 7th, but they 0 1 4 :K gastais any thing respectice, &LAU of Ba. 4 : _ . LISRON. Arnim 6. Some has advanced from Seville, and the enemy, In general, appear upon the move ; but we do not think they hare either ability or inclination to attack us. General GRAM,, and a part of our troops, are now on the road to Albuera, to give the French. men a meeting, should they dare to come on; but this they will not do. • I , ....sw..— . Two Malta Mails have arrived, by which we have I received Gibraltar Papers to the 29th March, and; , Sicilian to the 11th...--The following extract from the latter il the only article worth noticing : MESS11;111; Fre. 1. 011ParSdey, the 30thlit January, the proceed [ow lip egilmt the persona arrested on the 2d Decem ber, , "Pm laminated. The last brought before the Omit was the President de FrurrEs, whose de fame by Counael, was yesterday morning heard.- 1 The-plossaegelostAio being concluded, the QOM. Oiwatif*Or-Gesessi addressed the Court is the fol- lowiefiltenisP.—../ " Nil Usk Purdient aud Members of the Coon. ell,-1 Imilesw i '460 the painful, but necessary, *Ay 111 1 .4 tfipiikru!, 10 conducting the prosecu- Oetle fel*, btouilk Wore this Council.— ' ___... , Another duty, however, rema i ns f or me to__ fulfil, which I shall execute with very different sensati ons from those I have hitherto f e lt. You 'have heard, in the course of these proceedings, freqtletit allusions made to a paper which I Row hold in my hands, and which contains a list of the names of a great number of persons pointed out by Captain SPADIA, for the information of the French General, as par. tisans of France. The existenee of such a list must have occasioned great anxiety to many per. sons in this country. Some may tn , conscious that they are in a greater or lesser degree implicated, though they now perceive the folly and iniquity rf such conduct ; while others, though distinguished f.r their attachment to their Sovereign and their faithful Allies, the English, may be apprehe ns i ve t h at their inserted in this p roscr i ption apprehensions, I h ave re. l u i a s tin. es T h a o v r e e mbeoevne all f a l s t e h l y es e ceived permission from the Commander of the forces to destroy this odious document. Let me also be permitted to destroy it in your presence ; and in do. ing this, I solemnly assure you, on my honour, that no copy has ever been taken of this list, and that it never has been out of -my possession, since it was given to me a few hours after it was signed by Captain SPADIA y and I .also assure you, that I have 'not communicated, nor will common'. cats *my name contained in it.---lie concluded by burning, before the Council, the list above. mentioned;. and thus was buried in oblivion a paper, which bad certainly caused ukuch: uneasiness to a great number of persons. We need not make observations on this fact ; Ire shall Only say, that it is evident that the British Commander in Chief, by destroying such a document, could hare no other ri. ject in view,than to convince the world and4ll Sicily, , that he wished that reciprocal confidence and ge nerosity-should be the only bonds of union between the two nation}; and that-wit/ices might remain.of events equally afflicting and ihjuribus to both," — (Gazettes Britannica, Feb - . 1.) DISTURBANCES IN. THE CpUNTRY.. The following letter, dated Manchester, eight o'clock Tuesday evening, presents a melancholy pie. ture,•indeed, as to the scenes which are transacting in that neighbourhood :—" The affair of yesterday at Buaron's has not pat a stop to farther riot. oui pvialedilip. To-day the populace met thou. sari dd arelEits . and burnt the dwelling-house of Ell A BVIITON) who so resolutely defended his father's premises yesterday. As soon as the news arrived, a party of cavalry set eat fee Middleton, aud we have since heard that the mob and the mili tary ha►e been firing on each other. The rioters have sworn to burn down the fact•ry. Various are t the reports of the killed and wounded this evening : sift state them 'tips. No davdt.asany have suf feetd, for surgical assistance has been sent for to re pair to the scene of action." • - Tuesday se'nnight, at Ayr, in the West of Scot. land, there being a short supply-of meal in the mai. iiet, the populace, chiefly women and boys, at tidied the houses of certain dealers in that commo. that place, laying open their repositarier•, hi/felting their windows, and injuring their furniture. They were, however, - quelled,and order was restored ' by the inorference of the Magistrates. 1 • - An Anholt Mail, which reached town late last night", brings a report of a treaty of alliance, offen• skewed defensive, having been entered into between Sweden and Russia, to which we attach no credit. A French frigate has been captured in the Medi- terranean by the Apollo, Captain TavLoa. The Catholic Question was debated in the House of Commons till two o'clock this morning, when the further discussion was postponed to this evening.— The anxiety to hear the debate yesterday was so great, that a Tait number of persons, eager to gain admittance, completely blocked up, at an early hour, the avenue immediately leading to the gallery. At twelve o'clock the gallery doors W ere opened, when the rush was so groat as almost to overwhelm the Messengers. In the pressure one person was so much hdrt as to be taken away on men's shoulders, but for • tunately none of his limbs were fractured. Another sustained a serious injury in one of his knee pans, and the stairs of the gallery were strewed with hats, shoes, gild the fragments of tern coats. it Oils yestewiwy revert:xi that sritaet beet to place between. the Earl of DomoucumoßE and thtt Earl of YARMOUTH, In consequence of sonr expreg. Sions made use of by the former in the delete urn the Catholic Question, and that the latter was wound ed in the body. Upon enquiry, however, we found that the report vas entirely unfounded.. _ . COHN EXCHANGE, APRIL 24. This day the Market has not many fresh arrivals of Wheat, and sales thereof sere brisk, at a small increase in price, Bar. ley, Malt, and Beans support the law quotation; Oats some what dearct. Rape Seed iv much higher. Flour, no variation. Wheat .• • 9Bs 120 s 134 s ! Tick do. (new) • • 61) I N 14 Fu se ditto ..... ~. 136 110 Da4(Flae OW) .. fq Rye ......... ... 74 80 1 Oablo - 43 .- ' 43 4n it 5.: hi 8ar1ey.......... t 4 72 Poky. do. 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