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. . „. ou ht only tend to promote idleness. He did wish, ovevi r , to see the system of' education improved t'r , trOlout the countty, hot not at fint npon such ex trusive pl in. The building of cottages would g •sre rise to jobbing, and continual contention and quarrellinnt, from one end of a p:trish to another. lie recommended strongly to the lion. Gentleman to turn his mind to au improvement of the system of ; the beneficial effefts of which ha bi•en alteody experienced. Beforethe House proceeded to abrogate any of the eliding laves as to the poor, he was *are that it ought to pause, and consider if any advantage WAS to he gained by merely relieving o ne class of the people, and throwing additional !airtime upon another ; he meant the lower shop k \pers. This was relieving upon one hand and o ppressing upon the other. Mr. PLUMMER approved highly of the system n 1 education, and thought it was the most desirable o tieEt of the whole plan proposed by the Hoa. Nicmtier. He did not (Nen at all to the spirit of I li- proposed B !Is, but had various objestions to sate* , certain parts of them. Mr. PERCEVAL said, he was a friend to the principle of the Bill, and hoped there would be n o germ to the Speaker's leaving the Chair. FgLLOWES thought that too much cau tion and consideration could not be abeam to a sub. kft. which embraced objeas so extensive c.s the pre sent Bill. PATTESON spoke to the same effea. air. FULLER wished to see distinaly the whole extent the plan proposed by the Honourable ; and to give time for mature deliberso tier, he wished the measure to data over to ano ther Session. Mr. DAVIES GIDDY was fearful, lest, whilst endeay..utivg to remedy partial evils, mole serious ones au s lo 'se introduced, and partienlarly animad verted on that part of the Bill for building Lott ..ges. Mr. PisRNi.f.LL contrasted the Poor's Laws of Enaand and In ,and, and thought any existing evils were not owing to a defea in the laws Sir RALPH MIL HAMM deci fired himself in favour of the going into a Committee. Mr. SHAW LEFEV RE, inquired into the opera- Orin ,of the b.'l, with regard to the equalization of the Poor. Rate. Mr. Wril l bREAD raid, he had Pa ohjeftion to a that yrtestion go over tu another Session of Eat liarneo . Mr. 'A INDHAM said, his objeaion went very iv to tr•e Bill ; and ao complicated was it in that he t...ught it best for the House lint t toe to any final determination respelling it this :••%. i 01. f. e question was then put, and carried, for the S;;eak is leaving the Chair; when the House went awn a Cam/inter or the Hill. Mr. WHITBREAD proposed, that the Bill sh , uld be printed, and considered on the Report ; and also suggested, that any clauses meant to be Furies in the Second Bill might for the present be p.!-Iponed ; but that in case any new clause was prop. sr.,' to be introduced, the Speaker should state whet :r : , ;s clause meant to form part of any sub sequent Mil Mr. 'W I LSE RFO RCE. wished the Committee to eater irao a minute investigation of every pert of the Bill, tiat such parts of it might be deterred till another Session, as could not undergo a com plete investigation during the present oue. Ntsmine-diessons, Pattescm, Fetlovets, and niddy. also spoke a few weeds, as to the future mode of proceeding ; when Mr. PIOBHOUSE suggested that each proposed Bill should be considered separately, and be printed as divided ; and also that the principle of each Bill might be afterwards debated on the Report. Mr. POLE CAREW thought that the present Fill should he printed, And afterwards referred to lie next Session of Path:mews Mr. SIMEON spoke to the same effea. Mr. WIiITBREAD com;,l 'Med that he had not been treated with candour on the occasion and tencluded with moving, " That the first Clause sued pies tit the Bill." Mr BRAGGE BATHURST recommended that the Bill bhnul.l be reported, in order to letve room for discutsion ; and that it should be divided into sepa rate Bills ; and tecommended to the Hon. Mover to leave out any clauses which he did not wish now to be debated. The Bill, with the amendments, was then agreed to, arid on the House being resumed, the Report was ordered to be taken into consideration, on this day se'nnight, and the Bill to be printed. Mr. Bankes brought op the Report of the Bill to prevent the granting offices in reversioa, during nit lives, wun. benefit of survivorship. The Hill eat ordered to be tead in its next stage, on ties day next, and to be printed. Hie Traders' Assets Bill, and the Oak B fir: Bill, were reported, Aud ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. l'he Committee oil the London Part Petition Bill was postponed to Monday nest. Adjourned to Monday next. FOREIGN !N I ELLIGLIVCE. iIAMSUAGII V N,PERS. vaansia, MARCII U. The following intelligence, dated the 3 of Muth, ha• been received tiom Constantinople.— On the 28th of I?ebruary, the English attempted a landing, litAild, but it miscatried• Their on the occasion, is stated At 400 killed Lid - entilded, and 'd9o taken prisoners. The lot inrln day, the fleet aeighed anchor, and pto fte'A to the. DardAnciles• preparations at Constantinople, continued with .xtranruinary aetivity. "The French and Spa- Ambassador furthered them by their assistance and arb:c. The Grand Signiut's Cour.cil was made peiminent. On the evening of the lit of Kum. when the English Minister departed with 11,e neanciAtions were suspended. The 1 had till then waited in vsieLfor reinforce. Ira!, the Black Sea. • 'immure of 'lurks whip took op arias in Con !: and its vicinity amounted to 100.000. ' -•', •a. n-t to the le.tst disturbed in that Signior had tent shewn the slight. • •s• /cove the iAaCe, 411 had been taltri) - lital.lll, •reir. 7. (Prim The refterspri ) CONSTAN 1 tmort.e, +arisen 4. After Mr. Arbuthnot. the English Mini,ter, had in vain attempted to intimidate the Porte, by me. traces, he resolved to provoke hostilities against II them. On the 2.lth of January he abruptly quitted Constantinople, in the frigate Lgo tly on mi , together with all the English merchants resident in that ca"l pital, and sailed to 'Fenedos, where he was soon joined by an English squadron of 14 ships. The Porte ordered the passage of the Dardanelles to he closed, and some preparations for defence to be made. But the enemy anticipated them. He passed the Streights on the 19th of February, and on the '2oth, arrived in sight of Constantinople, with seven sail of the line, two frigates, and two 'bombs-vessels. Ns treasures had yet been adopted for defending the approaches to the city and the - entrance of ttie harbour. This circumstance ren dered the enemy sill more audacious. A flag of truce appeared, and, in the name of the English Ambassador, demanded that the French Minister should be immediately dismissed. ti at the Porte should declare itself an .illy of England and Russi.i, furnish the English with 15 ships of the line. and 15 frigates, manned and 'tit:Wailed for fi months, and admit a Russian garrison into the forts of the Bosphorus, and an English force into those of the Dardanelles and Alexandria. On these conditions alone would the squadron depart. The Sublime Porte refused all these propAsition,s; a negotiation apparently commenced, and lasted 5 days In this interval the city and harbour were placed in a state of defionce. Thre" hundred pieces of cannon were mounted on the batteries. The equipment of the Turkish fleet at anchor at Brujiik. dere teas completed. The whole city was under arms ; the public indignation against the fli.glish every moment increased, and on the QGtis of Febra. ary the Grand Signior signified t' Admiral Duck. wroth. the Commander-in-Chief of the English squadran, that he must depart before any negocia tion could he entered into. The Admiral replied by tnreats; he, however, sufferer two days to elapse without making any at tack. and, on the third day, which was the Iv nr March, he availed :timsslt of a northerly wind to withdraw to.the Dardanelles. 'llse Turkish fleet g..t under weigh to putsue the enemy. It is not believed to have overtake i bins, and on the 4 h of March, no intelligence u.. ;hi; subject had reached Constantinople. Tie only result of the expedition nf the F.ngli.-h has been to place that city in a coteltion to make esistance. iIAMAI•RnIi, APRIL iO. The information contained ih the preceding arti cLas is confirmed by tenet, snitch later date, which we have this moment received from Mu nich dated the Ist of April, and which convey the following i•articulars:— We have jars: received the • - •2pertattt news of the failure of the English at Constantinople. After sustaining some loss, they were bliged to leave the Dardanelles. It is reported that General Sebas tiani is charged with the detet.,: .4 - the Coasts. The Courier who brought this ihtelligence to Vienna, left Constantinople on the 12th of :.larch. It is supposed that the English merchandise in Constan tinople, amounts ti snore than fifty millions, (pro • bably of riz-dollass) and is et 'red to be seized. The 'Folks manifest great ardour, and General Se bastiani frequently finds it difficult to restrain them. The head-quarters of His Majesty the Empetor Of France, were still at Osterode on the 2d of April. a e sits Of Tilt 11A114t, MIL I. Duke Ferdinand of Wirtemberg, a Field Marshal 'in the Austrian service, arrived on the 19th of March, at Warsaw. The fortresses of Glatz and Silberberg, in Silesia, are not yet blockaded. The country round Cosel has been inundated. Public papers contain the following article ; " In coisequ.-aee of the retreat of the Prince of Anhalt Pless to Bohemia a ith the remnant of his corps, a correspondence is said to have commenced between the Officers i.f Austria and a foreign power. relative to the demanded surrender of their arms, horses, and artillery." The most authentic letters announce the import ant and happy news, that the F.r.glish totally miscar ried in the negotiations which they had begun withthe Divan. They had cnnfined their last pretensions to the sending b..ck of the French Ambabsachr. The Ott•nnan Government received their propositi Ass as . . a personal outrage. The preparations of defence appeared so serious to the English, that, on the 4th of March, they with drew thirty leagues from Constantinople. The Turkish fleet has sailed our. Sir Charles Arbuthnot is dangerously ill on board the English fleet. We add, that several private letters from Con stantinople, of the 4th and sth, co•.firming this news, give some extensive details upon the mea sures taken by the Divan, to resist the I.ngli.h fleet. The Ottoman ships of the line, t:se fri gates, and other men of war, together with a cvnsiderable number of gun-boats, had been drawn up before the port, and along the coast, to defend its approaches, and an immense number of cannons placed tip.m the shore and in the redoubts thrown up in haste. These preparations, in the midst of wnich General Sebastiant and the French 011i:t•rs who were at Constantinople displayed an ene►isy which acquired them the admiration and gratitude of the Ottomans, were erecnted with an incredible order and aftivity by the Janissaries, Sea men, and Turks of every class, having in their midst the new Capitan who replaced he one .used of having Abandoned to tb' English the pas sage of the Dardanelles. —(Put.ltuste. ) O(YrFENP.I;R:;!! AND DUSUSI MAILS. SWEDISH OFVICIAL BULLETIN MALMO, APRIL 6. According to a report made to His Royal Ma• lefty, by Baron Von Essen, Governor•a•neral, his 'Excellency intended that day to reconnoitre the enemy's position with a great part of the gait ;son, in order to ascertain the enemy's views ; who, ac cording to ail accounts received, seemed on the p iat of withdrawing from this country. A Courier who arrived here in the'night, states, that in the morning of the let of April, he saw the troops march out of the fortress, supported by six gian•boats, and heard a cannonade and musketry fire iinst the French entrenchmetas. The Courier wa, _l, tained by contrary winds at the post-house, in the Isle of Rugeo, till yesterday morn ing, the sth .1 April. A written order was allowed by the Postmaster of that place on the 4th, at five o'clock in the evening, to keep A packet in readiness for Lieutenant-Colonel B. row Beije, Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency, who was the bearer of an import ant report from the Governor to His Majesty. The above orders we-e dated head-quarters at Demmio, the Si April, and vgned by the Aid-:!e- Camp, Lieutenant-Colonel Nlellin. It thereby ap pears, that the French corps which formed the siege of Stralsund, has not only been compelled to raise the siege of that fortress, but also to evacuate Swe dish Pomerania, xi which important event Lieate. aant•Colonel Baron Beije, will bring a full and mi. nute - account. Baron Huaetbein, Major and Aid-de-Camp of the King of Prussia, who was sent on a special mis sion to His Royal Majesty, arrived bar,: yesterday at noon._ _ lITILACT 01 A LsTrait TROM GOTTINSI.MOI6 APIRIL 10. _ _ . A cniiiier attived this morning from Malmo, with the important intelligence, that the Fierch have entirely evacuated Swedish Pomerania, they began their retreat on the Ist instant, and continued it until the 4th, during which time the Swedes pitr sued,and harassed them much,aod made above 1000 prisoners, amongst whom arc 20 officers ; they followed them in two columns, the one going to Anclam, the other to Demmin. A great quantity of stoles, baggage, &c. have fallen into the hands of the Swedes, as well ac a coniiderable turn of money. ROM THE. PARIS PAPERS. P•Rti, APRIL 9. The Imper;al Message upon the levy of the con scription of 1808. gives the most magnificent idea of the power of France. It is difficult to add any thing to the developement► which the report of his Excellency the Minister of War contains. This conscription may be looked upon only as a levy of national guards taken from among the class the fittest for military service; their organisation and service will not differ from that of the national guards, until they are called out to foreign service at the usual age prescribed by the law. Thus, after so many labours, so many difficulties surmounted, and conquests completed, the French army is more formidable than it had yet been. It appears much superior to all obstacles, to all chances, to all the combinations which the enemies of France are able to assemble against her. Never were such successes less deafly purchased. After these pro digies, there is, perhaps, less cause for being asto. nished at the prudence of the genius who knows how to 'terry eeee s even in the favours of fortune, than at the generous moderation, whirl), looking upon peace as the sweetest reward of its labours, is in capable of punishing nati•res for the cruel obsti nacy of their governments. The enterprise of the English fleet against Con stantinople. appears to have completely miscarried. Its effed must bereave the English of all hopes of intimidating the Divan ; and perhaps it is happy that the Porte has had this occasion of shewing, that the forts of the Dardanelles are not the only bul was ks if the Ottoman Empire. Whilst there reigns between France and her Allies an admirable concert of ideas, means, and 'iterations, it is to be resew lord, that England, the 1)10'110w and soul of this fourth coalition, bears al ready about her the seeds which have brought on the dissolution of the three first. The new Minis ters, the impotent remains of Pitt's fathom those whose unsiultelness was unable to survive his fall, can inspire neither sectoity in their fellow citizens. nor cootie:fence in the Allies, whose hopes they have so of ten ditAllioiuted.—(.l,VlB.) THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY, Anil. 18, Government, we understand, have received dis patches from America. confirming the account of the rejtiftion of the Treaty recently n.igosiated with this country, by the President and Senate of the United Staes. Three Hamm Mails arrived at a late hour last night, with letters and papers from Altona and Hamburgh, to the 11 th instant, being merely du plicates of those which, as we have already stated, were receive] by Tat Gt oea yesterday. Two Gottenburgh Mails arrived last morning, and one at a late hour last night, with letters and papers to the 11th. We also received Paris Papers to the leth, and Dutch to the 14th inst. The Got tenburgh Papers contain nffi:ial intelligence, stating, that the Fs ench have not only raised the siege of Strad. sund, but have evacuated Swedish Pomerania. They were hara►sed in their retreat by the Swedes, who took 1000 prisoners. The French retreated by An. clam and Demrnin, and are probably gone to re inforce the army on the Vistula. The raising of the siege of Stralsund, was announced, yesterday, by TMs Gtoac, on the authority of the klamburgh Papers, which it received, eselislidely, to the 1 Ith ; which also state, that no general attios had taken place in Poland up to th. Si, on which day BOM AAAAAA 's head-quarters were still at Osterode, and contain in telligence from C instantinople to March 13. stating, that Admiral Ducewoa ER bad failed in his attempt to reduce the Poats to submission. 'Tbe English squadron is said to have lost 600 men, lolled, wounded, and taken prisoners, in an attempt to land upon lalati. The Faris and liaagiurett Papers communicate a Message from Boma., alg a calling out the Conscription of the year lON. — The erasure lately adopted in hngland, fur calling out '200,000 men under ti.e Training An, is the al leged motive of this extraordinary proceeding ; but the real cause is the great loss tile French Army has ristained in Poland. The lowered tone of Bori 4 p 4 1T furnishes farther evidence of the difficult;es of his situation. He, who was to annihilate Ow Prussian Monarchy, and to restore the Kingdom of Poland, now offers peace to England and Russia upon the same term; u before the war, and to restore to th t King of PR USIA his capital, with iranquill::y to his subjefts. The Message. and other docu ments relative to the Conscription, are given in the last rage. The Paris Papers further state, that Antwerp and Brest have been declar?d in a state of siege, probably on account of same expeditions fitting out in these ports. We have extrieted, from The Awe. an article upon the change of 1 ministry in this country. We have received Boston Papers to the 11th last. They contain a notice, stating that the Ame►ican Minister at Faris Las recei►ed a commu nication from eie Minister of the Ma:inc, on the suljelf of the Decree of BO Nar A era, In: the block. ade of England ; and that the provisions of r: De cree will not ba enforced againct the Americans. The Primers* A strata packet arrived on Tuesday at Falmouth, with mails from Messina, Malta, and Gibraltar. in eleven days' passage from the latter place. 1 he accnunts hrnaght by the mail state, that the the Liss s.f which we mentioned in a rornier Paper, blew up while lying at anchor, in the ntou'h of the Dardanelles; she took fire abusat nine o'ci .:k in the evening, and in 20 minutes blew up: aLro•i: 2:.0 of the crew unfortunately perished. asts...ig whom are the Master, the Surgeon, two Lieu ‘na- Captain of Marines, and eight Midshiprner. was with Sir J. T. DUCKWORTH% squad -on„ whisat have passed the Dardanelles without firing a shot. A packet sailed from Gibraltar for Malta, en the 4th of March. The Corn=al/is arrived at Gibraltar. and sailed for Malta on the 2d of April. An Es pecli:ion, supposed for Alexandria, sailed on the 6th of March ; consisting of 29 transports, with 8000 troops on board, under convoy of His MA'S/Tell ships Tigre, and frizird. His Ma.orsev's ship Nautili, was coming with dispatches from Ad. miral Louts, in the Dardanelles, when she r.n on share in the night, on an uninhabited island. One half of the crew took to their boats, and were fortu nately picked tip by a Russian frigate, ord c;.rried into Corfu; the remainder (Capt. PALMER one of them) were literally starved to death, there ; ' ins no food whatever on the island. PROM TN% UIBRALT•R CHRONICLE, M ASCII 21. •' Ca;turert, and carried to Ceuta, ua the sth, the tnghth schooner Crafty, commanded by Lieutenant Richard Spencer, et the Royal Navy, from the Dardanelles, with Dig:vette, for England, by S Spanish privateers. She was Isaarded with so miich intrepility, that, nntwithvtandii,t her retiu mce, the contest ...sever inlets than a quarto of an hour, which pre. vented the dispatches being thrown overlinara of the English, 3 killed and 14 wounded, the Commaoler being among the latter.—Low of the captors, 4 killed and 9 wound ed ; the Captain of one.of the privateers being among the farmer, and the Second in Command among the potry. A Swedish Messenger arrived, last night, with dispatches from his Court. for the Swamis' Au enSLADOR in London, which were considered so im portant, that a packet was dispatched from Gotten burgh. for the purpose of bringing him over. A Russian Messenger also arrived, last night. with dispatches for the Russia's Au BASt•I3O a. The Duke of Monfrose packet, with from New To k, is arrived at Falmouth; the letters will be delivered this day. His Nina writ, we- understand, has signified to the Suzettes of Lannon, that the defe& in his eyes roidered it inconvenient to him to receive the Ad dress of the City, by the A hole Court, upon his Throne, at St. James's. One of the Lords in wait ing hinted, that a deputation of twelve might be eu .s c i ehr . Th e question' reload% it is said, will be previously siotnitted to • Court of Commute Council. Lieut Doestes is appointed Naval Officer at the Cape of Good Hope. It was yesterday reported that Mr. CA s e IS• has tendered his resignation, in consequence of an at , tempt to bring Viscount StEmou to Into the Ca ' binet. Lord Saatoaris Is going out Coverlet. of Per bice, in South America, and not Mr. CiAP*4 sr, as has been erroneously stated in several p#ers. Thursday, the Duke of Yost: transreed business with Its MAJIIIITY, at Windscir, for upwards of two hours. The ballot, yesterday. at the East India House. was respeAably a'tended ; and the question was car. rued in !avow- of Mt. Rowse° EPHRAINI Pore's return to Bengal, with his rank . in the Company's service. On Thursday a ballot was taken at t"e East ladia House, when the unanimous resolutions of the Ceurt of DiffiaOrS. salltlitiPe the Captains of the Lady Buries,. Wirral eigdiev. And Lad of Aber. geoenot, of any negiea or misconduct, in the kiss of these vessels. were coafitmed. Thursday Am. WOOD, we Larcashire pedestrian, ran forty miles over t .e New.naiket he ,th e in four boors and fitty ,ix minutes t he was allowed five hours.—Mr. Howoartt's I nurdt s won the sweep stakes, aa4 Mt. Fa.amaa's Hipposeses, the Kum'. P