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, I them back term the world, withont enabling t h ia en to live in that situation to which their merit en ,:th.,. if rut or which their children expel. These are ~r i " plei which have their foundation in sound „` ; I n and not depending solely upon the feelings . 0 { t h e moment. I trust, that the Government will ah ,„ Ts a ta with fidelity towards those who have Tendered eminent services to their country, and. that t hst fidelity w ill be met by liberality on the part of the people, and that they will uniformly act from a ceaviaion that thZy have one interest, and one cre dit to maintain. On these grounds, I shall support e i e Amendment which has been proposed by the Noble Lord." Lord HENRY PE'r TY. in explanation, said, that his Honourable Friend had inadvertently tnis coeceiveii some part of what he had stated uon pro this subjeß. With regard to the comparative pr ia granting Pensions, iii place of making Sinecure Of fi ces, he only wished to say, th tt if he sieve felt to choose an alternative in rewarding pub !o. se rvices, Pensions were undoubtedly preferable. ! l it, however, WAS merely a speculative opinion, , ie was not called upon to determine wi•ft ex , t• 64 upon the suhjea. Since he was up, he wished .old t 3 the Amendment he h od made," That the o :nmittee should also extend their riquiiies to Ir 14nd." Mr. FAWKES—di Sir, I should have been cnn• t o ted with giving a silent vote upon this occasion, .cote I not hopeful that I shall meet with the inJul rote of the House in hearing a few observations, by way of stating my sentiments, for the first tirne, in this place. Notwithstanding all the numerous btu,- dens which it has been found necessary to impose upon the people, to pre , eive its from slavery, I feel s disked that we are fully in possesion of resout CCi. which, when ptopetly managed, will not only he sefficient to enable us to cope with our adversary, but even to carry us through our contest with trinmph. I am, however, at the same time, con yince4, that this can only be attained by certain con ditions being observed, viz. by the anxiety sheen by Ministers to convince the people that they deeply feel for their situntion, and that no eff iris shall be w anting on their part to remedy evilo and alleviate their butdens. When I consider the state of the finances, and the weight of these public but der a, and t when t h e Government have told the people that they must ithiiii;:,ve their comforts and even Sl crific.. .their9ives to defence of the - Constitutinn, I should not think that I fulfilled the hope; and ex peßarions of those who have sent me here, were I to b- silent upon this occasion. I must say, that wherever gallantry has been displayed, or exrranr dinary diligence and ex ertions used by inilividuals, for the publ:c good , nobody can be less disposed t.i quarrel with national liberality than I am ; but, et the same time, I think, that in times like tl.ese, it is neither fair nor just that the produce of the labours of the peoyle should be bestowed upon th ise who have no claim to public generosity. The people of this country ate, in general, either insensible of t;ie blessings they enjoy, or of the evils which they have to avert ; and thet dare, I think, they demand a.; that the Ministers can do for them. They de m ind indemnity for the past, and security for the future. They expel no itich national economy, as that which would tend to trammel the exert:oils of Government; but they look to that liberalOy which would coatribute to the advancement of our national prosperity. I agree entirely with those motives which have aßitated the lion. Grntleman in bring ing forward this motion, and I rejoice to find, that Ministers have received it in the way they have done. I prognosticate from this, that they have given a pledge for their future concs.% and that they now intend to show to the people, that what they preach, they intend to perform." Mr. ELLISTON said, he thought this was an ominous night for the country, whether there were abuses aflually existing or not. • Mr. BIDDULPH, in reply, said, that he found that the substantial difference WAS so small, that he should not press his origin it motion, but acquiesce in the amendment proposed. It was with sincere saris. fatlion that he had heard the liberahsentimetus of the present Ministers, and he sincerely hoped thot their intentions, and his wishes, would be fulfilled. Ile thought that many sinecures might be retrenched, as they generally arose out of circumstances un• foreseen at the time of their creation. There was a great difference between patents and hereditary offices. Patents might be granted by a Minister, who may lose his head for granting them. Mr. CALVERT observed, that the only differ ence of opinion seemed to be as to the mode in which soviets engin to he remunerated. Remunerations, adapted immediately to the services performed, were preferable to granting sinecures, which are mort gaged. His Majesty's Ministers were now about to do a great good to tbe people, but he could not help thinking, that they ought particularly to endeavour -to abolish sinecure places, which, upon looking back, we should find, had Leen frequently abused, lay being bestowed upon undeserving people. The Amendment of Lord Henry Petty was then put and cat' ice! unanimously. On the motion of Mr. BAKER, it was ordered that the Committee have power to send for papers and records, as evidence before them, that five he a georian, and that they shall sit, notwithstand gig any adjournment of the Honor. On the motion of Lord HENRY PET I'Y, it I 5e ;t ordered, that the Repot ts of the Commissioners o. Accounts, and the Commissioners of Inquiry and eissance, should be referred to the said tom . a tatteeei SLAVE TRADF. ABOLITION BILL. A Message was sent to the House by the House of Lords, announcing that their Lordships had pass ed a Bill, entitled, " An Alt for the Abolition of the African SL,ve Trade." and to which they de sired the concurrence of the House.—The Bill was laid upon the table. Lord HOWICK rose and moved, "That this Bill be read a first tinier upon which ' Mr. 1115111i:1a rose, and said, that he wishod to make a few observations upon the map& of this Ettt:—Tt n•as a Bill which went to introduce a ma terial innovation, and entirely to remove those iti:ms, upon which our prosperity, as a nations as well as the prospcity of o•tr colonies, bad Leen seised. What had pasy.d in anotivr House, or in ottrar Pu:li.unents; JiJ not prevent Members fram stating seritimems urn this imPartilnt nah - I Ii- should fasl it his duty to oppose the mcas I • . . • sure, iii every stage, as being pregnant with the greatest evd. Lord 110 WICK defended the Bill in a very able and spirited manner, both upon the principles of hum inity and sound 1 ,..1;cy ; and in doing si. he seemed to carry 4ith him the almost unanimous sense of the House. He thought it was of the ut most importance that it should not be delayed one moment unnecessarily ; and, that those who had oh. jeflions to .rare a'4.onst it,from their being intetested in its cons q iences, had already had sufficient time t o prep ite their arguments. After the Bill should he r-ad first time, he should propose its second reading to take place on Tuesday nett. General GAeiCOYNE exclaimed against the principles of the Btll, with great farce and vehe mence. He said, that there was no mode of ad. dressing the public feelings which had not been re sorted to, in order to impress the minds.of the peo ple in its favour. The Church. the Dream.. and the British Press, 1444 all equally contributed *lhc dignified Clergy had even gone the length of say ing, that Britain entild never get vianties till suds time as this trade was abolished This he denied, as we had got more viat'ries during this Reign, and particularly during this war, than ever we Ad oh. tained before. Restriftiolts had been even laid upon Candidates for Cities and Boroughs, that they should vote for the Abolition. This was a speries of undue ir.llu nee, of which the N. , ble Lord seemed enihtsly ignorant. Detestation had been ex sited, and abuse had been lavished, in all towns.. and in all manor-Vl:Aries. against cid" trade; and even against the rtAnters themselves, who have been described AS a worse description of men than even th- Slaves. He should. however, deem any further eisservations unnecessary and ill-timed. upon this stage of th- liesiness ; bot he wished to caution the House to divest itself of all prejudice. The Hon. Merriber then concluded by making some alloasions as 'nits being a Cabinet measure. Mr. PLIVEit, of H,ertlordshire, begged leave to set right - the Hon Gent. who kite last spoken ; and to inform him, that no one man. in the whole county he rein esented, ever asked him (Mr. Plu mer) to pledge himself upon the jrcl of this Bill. He c , uld assure him, that it any man had asked him to pledge himself up in that, of any other subjea, he would have refused to accept of Lis vote. • He should, therefore. vote quite free and ancontrouled for the Abolition of the Trade. He did not knot" what the I lon.I on. Gent. m ight have met with in boroughs ; but as to t7abinet measures, and Cabinet Ministers, he cared not OK any measure-, which were so denominated. The time was. when a Menther would have tieeo called to orste., for having hinted at such things As Cabinet measures. General GASCOYNF., in explanation, said, be did not mean to express himself sty generally as what the Hen. Gentleman had ssipprised he had done. He rather meant to say, that there was scarcely a city or burgh, that had not imposed re striaions upon the R .p7esenratives returned. qr.T.W. PLUMMER thought it necessary, that a Bill of such general int rest should not be rain fly carried through its cliff• rent veg.:3. bur that ',A dept time should be goren for toe consideration of the measare. On which account, he conchs led, that the proper time to debate the question. would be on the second reading of the Rill, which he hoped would be fin td for a day stifficiently distant tq admit of Members being in. nistied with every information no this important übjea. Lord HO'XICK was almost persuaded, that from the nuother of years which had elapsed since the int discussion of this Bill; and from the fit:- gunk debates which had since taken place on this subject. as well as the decision of the last Perlis ment, there wnnl4 be no necessity an postpone its consideration to a more remote period then Tues day next. Mr. G. HIBBEPsT was of opinion this, period would not be sufficient to admit a meeting of those merchants, who were, ahovte all others, concerned in the present measure; and therefore requested the Noble Lord would put off the second reading until this day fortnight Lord HENRY PETTY hoped the humane movers of this saltitary and merciful measure;Mould persevere in bringing it, as soon as convenient,' again before the I►louse. It had already been sub mitted, for above a month or six weeks, to the public, daring its discussion in the Upper Horse, from which it had come with every recommenda tion. As that House undoubtedly contained many of the most enlightened and virtuous Statesmen, this was a consideration, which. he hoped. would have its due weight with Gentlemen., He concluded with x:sressing a wish, that the second reading of the Lid should not meet with any unnecessary delay. Colonel HCABF.Ia thought with the Hen. Gentleman near him (Mr. Hiblsert) that time should Le Oxen to consider the consequences aris ing from the passing of the Bill just now read. This Rill, he was of opinion, would not of e.ft the Abolition of the Slave Trade, hut rather would be come the ruin of the British Colonies in the We.t Indies, and consequently of our finances in that part of the world. As to the argument resorted to by the Noble Lord who proposed the suction, he conceived it to be very deft/live, inasmuch as he was not, nor could he devise how he should be, hound to conform to the decision of the last Pat. liament. Mr. H. ADDINGTON thought it necessary to defer the second reading to a more remote day. In which opinion he was supported by Mr. LETH- BRIDGE. Mr. H kWKINS BROWNE said, that though the uniform enemy of the Slave Trade, and that from a conviaion of its injustice, inhumanity, as well as impulicy, yet, when an innovation was About to be made on the private properties of a cor.siderahle portion of this CUITIMCI Oat country, he could not think the suggested delay of a fortnight mire 'sortable. ,„ He should, if the FloiLe divided on this point, certainly vote for the pis ponemena, an.l therefore creild net be content without express ing him'elf as he had don-, le‘t he might he sup , pose.l an enemy to the abolition of this detestable traffic. • Earl TEMPLE ohjeSed to the day intended for the second reading of the Rill, and was at a loss t conjedure the reason of his No sae Friend's wishing thin to harry the Bill through its stages. he col csaved it would be prudent, in a case of this it:l+pm • • • • • ante, to furnish the Rouse with a printed account of the proceedings in the other House. It shoal ihe remembered. that this Bill was introduced with the hlanks filled. up, and in this respra. not similar tither Bills, on choir first reading, which originate in this House. From them circumstances, he was induced to hope the Noble Lord would concur with him, in deterring the second reading fur another 'week. Mr. TIERNEY endeavoured to refute the ob jeftinn of the Hon. Member (General iscoyne), As to the expedience of delay, by iibsei Ong, this coestion had already , been a sWij t of debate for rear fifteen years. He obs-rved, th-re was abun dance of time for • meeting of the West India Planters; and i ghe same C tuusel, if it should be thooglit expedint to hear Counsel on the subjett, might be employed in this. as in the other House. pr-sumed, it vioul I be necessary ter the lion. Gentlemai again to consult his Constitoems, sine. he had already infor.ned the House. that previous to the late elation, almost every city, county, or car fietrittion, bad intimated their wishes t their Regre setitatiees. This, at least, was r.o proof of the ne i xesitY of delat, for the dissemination of intUrnoation on tic sulijeCt • Mr. tiABINITON thought a .meeting of the West India Merchants emit easily be called wit:Sin tile time appointed by the Notile Lord, HIBISER V then moved, as an amendment, sr That the second reading be used for this day mrtnig!tt." Mr. iIAR.I - IAM. thought the time already suffi cient. Sir 10.11 N NEWPORT though?, that as t nem, inciple of the Bill had been almost univ , 2 7 ; admitted, the objedions of .the Kibbe Earl (Tem. ple) wore irrelevant to the time ut thesecond reading of the Bill. as it weal! be a fith,r opportunity to examine the different bearings of the regulations of the Kill. preeioiss to going into a Committee en it ; when, it the House thought proper. its progress could be as effeStially checked AS at the present momeat, by refusing to go into the Committee This. he believed. would be also the more usual spode. Mr BATHURST regretted, that as the friends of the 1 had admitted that some delay was Le cessary. Vier - had been no concecsion on the part of Ministers. In Parliament piwase, he observed, the second reading of the WII was the adoption of the measure itself ; it was, theretate, at least material, that new Members should he acquainted with the transations of the Upper House, and the reasons adduced itkfavour of the measure. LordMONICI: wished, if p ssible, to accommo date all sides, particularly the ll , Md.of the mea.e'. ; but was still of opinion war the cpiesticm might as et . fectually be discussed in a we, k as a fortnight, as it WAS abill expressly framed for the purposes cfiennie diate a'uottion, and less inciimh-red with detail..th.io any m nim of th- kind ev-r offired to the..l loose. It was no the second reading cat the B-11 the House athiuld hear Counsel, and then, if tree Bill were• found objeeionable, it would meet with talc-dis cussion, and perhaps rejltion. Ay he wished,-I a bove all things, that no pretence should be given for cavilling, to the enemies of the 11.11, he would, if the Hon Gentleman withdrew his Am-ndiner.t, fix the 'scoot' reading for F. Way week ; whieh being assented In ity Mr. Hitibrrt, the motion, ter tie second reading on Friday sennight, was put and carried. On the motion of the SECR::TARY at WAR. the secon.l reading of the Mutiny Bull was post poned from Friday se'nenglit, till Thursday fol lowing. Tl a e Newfmndland Fishery Bi 1 was read a second time, aid ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Howe then went into Committee on the Irish Sugar Drawback Bill, when Sir JOHN NEW POE 1' moved a clause, permitting British Planta tion Sugar to be warehoused in Ireland The re vrt was read and agreed to, and a Bill ordered ac cordingly. Mr. Hobhouse then brought up the Report on the Barrack Commi‘stouets • Bul, and also that on the Irish Elation Bill. The Resolutions were rend and agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be read a thsrd time to-morrow. The House went into a Committee nn the South Sea Trade Bill ; when, on the motion of Earl TEMPLE, leave was given to bring in a Bill, re pealing so much of the 9th of Queen Anne, vesting in the South Sea Company the exclusive trade to the South Seas. The Cape of G-ind Hope Trade NI went through a Committee; the Report was then brought up, and ordered to be received to-morrow.—Adjourned. . . Asa WaserisooLv..— Holiday at tin- Patine O ff ices. THE BRITISH PRESS. LAN DON, WEDNESDAY, Fsaau•ax 11. FROM THE THEATRF. OF WAR. At a late hour last night, we received a series of the n.it,ur, and other Paris Papers, to the 3,1, arid Dutch Papers to the 7th instant. They con.ain the 49th, 50th, 51st, and 324 Bulletins of the Grand Army, all dated Warsaw, where B•irs AAAAA e still remained on the 19th last. Of these Bulletins, the 51st is the most interesting and important. It is dated the 14th of January, and purports to be an answer to Genet. .1 Batiormossa's report of the battle of Pultusk, on the 26th of December. In • this Bulletin it is expressly stated, that a battle took pl ice on the same day at G,lymin, in which Gene ral Buzuoavose was defeated, and obliged to et, leaving behind him 100 pieces of ordnance. 1600 I iggage waggons, and all his wounded ; and that the loss of lissome's. at Pultusk was 3000 killed, and 6000 prisoners. It also states, that th force opposed to Betretmosam consisted merely o the corps of Suet's? and LASI4III, and that the Fr-tich were unable to pursue the enemy in their re ( Mat, only in consequence of Lavin/ ourflanked . . . . ri ern by almost tr.e. days smirch, with a view to pc. Nitrate betivetn them and Ostrolenka, cf which plan the badness of the roads prayer ted !he ezerwina• BIINNIKGSI.III% 11..3X.rt is :toted to have bren re ceived mt the 29th December, et th• Kirg of Nes s: A's Head Quarters, at Koningsl-erg, shoe it dif fused universal joy; t•ut the truth hating transnind on the 31st, this joy w,,s conv.ired int) sorr w. sal rite King of PIIUSIA A resolved to evacuate the plate. Accordiiigly, we are told, that the Queen cf Pa us eta th011:111 still ill, left it on the 3,1 of January s and the K.ng on the 6th. The French army is .1 d to be in gond health, and tbe troops ere rept esented in mot inn to besiege Graucienrs, Colberg, and DAnt. zic. It is evident, from thi; account, that the re ports of the hAttles on tl e 27th, Mb, and fah of December, are unfounded. At the seine time, we must observe, that the Air tif levity and ridicule. which pervades this.frulleiin, throws tome suspicion upon its Ili hty. The style is precisely that an advocate, who feels that there are some weak points in his case. • The M•Nritvr, of the 4d inst. 21111eUeCCI the arri val of the Efr press Joscentos at Par..; it also mentitcs the capture of an English frigate, w i h 1(0 Fr. nch pri,oners on beard, which, throu34 Masi of scntlier, had put into fit. St-Chelan, unar American colours. The lollowiiig are the Bull Ons which the have announced. 11:e Fr.ncli and Dutch Papers ccia. caul nothing else of at.y importance. ►ORTY-NlNl'tt BULLETIN OF THE GIASIO AR•IY. VIAIIIIIW, JAN. S. Beerlaw has surrendered. The capitulation h is not yet bet received at the head-q tarters ; neither has the inventory of the magazines of subsistence, or of the clothing and artillery, yet come to hand. They are, however, known to he very considerable. Prince Jerome must have made his entry into the place. He is gGing to besiege Brieg, Schweidnitt, earl Kozel. General Vifler, commander of the lah corps of the army, his marclied to besiege Cdberg and Denteic, and to take these places during th.e remain. de: of the winter. M. de Zastrow, Aid-dc-camp to the IZ.ng of Pr nssi I, a wise and moderate man, who had signed the armistice, which his master did not ratify, was however, on his arrival 'at Koningsburg, appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. Our cavalry is not far frcm Koningsburg. The Ressian army is c intinuiag its movement towards Gratin& We learn, that in the last en gagements it had a great rumber of Generals Bill: d And wounded. It evinces great discontent against the Emperor of liurs%; 4 and the Court. The soldiers say, that if their army had been judged strong enough to fight with advantage against the French, the Emperor, his guards, the garrison of Petershurgh, and the Generals of the Cunt, could have been conduct ed to the army, by t..e same means which brought them to it last year ; that if, on the contrary, the events of Austerlitz and those of Jena, made it be thought that the Russians could not obtain successes against the French army, they ought not to be engaged in an unequal .trug : *ie. They also say, the Emperor Alexander has compromised our glary. We had always been vanquishers ; we had established and shared the opinion that we were invincible. Things are greatly altered. For these two years past we have been led about from the frontiers of Poland to Austria, iruna the Dniester to the Vistula, and made to fall every where into the snares of the enemy. It is ettficult not to perceive that all this is ill managed. General Michelson is still in Moldavia. There is no news of his having marched against the Turkish army, which occupies Buchase.t and Wallachia. The feat. of that war are hitherto confined w the investing of Chocxrm and Bender. Great move ments are taking place throughoat all furkey, to repel so unjust an aggression. General Baron Vincent is arrived from Vienna at Warsaw, with letters from the Emperor of Austria for the Emperor There had been a great fall of snow, and it had fiozen for three days. the use of sledges had given a great rapidity to the communications, but the thaw his just began again. The Poles assert, that such a writer is unexampled in this country. The temperature is in reality milder than it generally is at Paris at this season. FIFTIETH BULLETIN of THE GRAND ARMY. - - WARSAW, JAN. 13. The troops found at o%trolenka I sick Rus sians, whom the enemy had been unable to take off with him. Independent of the loss of the Rmuian army, in killed and wounded, it has suffered still greater losses by the illn:ss which increases in it 'torn day to day. On the Bth of January, the garrison of Breslow, consisting of 5,300 men, defiled before Prince Je. rome. The town has sustained consid..rable da. maze. Flom the first moment it was invested, els " I t i 1