The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-01-28 00:00:00

had ; and he saw no reason why he should have less. As the Prince was to support the honour of the Crown, it was proper that he should have all the means of attaining that object. What did the House know, at present, of the honourable engagements NI, ilia rendered necessary the appropriation of 70,0001. a year on the part of the Prince?— Were they to vote this sum without enquiry, w hat justification of their conduct could they give to the country ?—The constitutional way, would have been for the Right Honourable Gentleman to have brought down a message, stating the demands which certain honourable engagements occasioned, their amount, and their nature; in which case the House would have acted with all its wonted liberality. This plan would have placed his Royal Highness in a far more dignified situation in the eyes of the country at large ; and , never did a British Parliament feel reluctant to deal out its pecuniary aids to the Prince, when they felt that they could confide in-his constitutional princi ples. It could not be denied, that the controul of the ' King's household would be a great addition to her Majesty's power; and there was at least a 'possibili ty of its being abused, while there was no responsibi lity to Parliament for its management. The Queen mid already 58,0001. a year out of the privy purse, and this controul would create a great deal of addi tional influence. Upon the whole, he should ♦ote for the amendment, wliich did not go to put an end to the Bill, but merely to postpone its consideration till further information was obtained. Mr. ADAM shortly supported the main principles of the Bill, lie would not now enter into any de tail on the clauses which it contained, as that would be much better done in the Committee. There was one of those clauses, appropriating a certain sum out of the Exchequer income of the Prince Regent, to which he should beg leave to direct their attention in the Committee; and he trusted, he should be able to ahew, that the provis;on colvaiiiril in that clause was hot only consistent with the manner in which his Royal Highness held his }.chequer income, but that also the appropriation of the sum in question was Called for by the rules of justice and honour. Ile titould vote for the Bill going into a Committee, con sidering it as of all other Bills the fittest to go into that stage of its progress. Mr. TIERNEY sail, that his lion. Friend (Mr. Adam) must have very much mistaken him. His ob jeet was not, by any means, to prevent tl:e House from going into the Committee finally. The House then divided, Fur the Speaker's leaving the Chair—Ayes 141—Nues 59. The Mouse then went into a Committee on the clausal. Oa the 2d clause, for transferring 50,0001. of the Prince of Wales's Exchequer revenue from that fund to the Civil List, an objection was taken by Mr. Tierney on a point of form ; it being necessary, as he contended, that a message should be received from the Prince Regent, conferring away that po perty from one fund to the other. - After some conversation between the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Freemantle, and Mr. Ponsonhy, it was agreed that the Chairman should report progresi, and ask leave to sit again immediately. The House was resumed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER presented a message from the Prince Regent, trans ferring his claim on the Exchequer of 50,0001. to the Gvil List ; for the presenting of which he declared he had the Prince Regent's authority. The SPEAKER explained the triage, and instan ced a case in 1766, when his rdnjesly wanted to transfer some property in the 4-1 per cents. and when the entitle now pursued was adopted. Mr. "fIERNEY contended, that as the property about to he transferred did not belong to his Royal Highness as Prince Regent, but as Prince of Wales, the message delivered did not come under the proper denomination. The Right lion. Cent. must have a message delivered to the House from the Prince Re ',mit as Prince of Waies, unless he wished the Prince Regent to give away the Prince of Wales's money.— [4 laugh.] The SPEAKER sanctioned the opinion of Mr. Tierney, with this difference, that a formal message was not necessary in such cases, but merely a verbal declaration of any Member authorised to make it. Mr. ADAM conceived the objection as to identilg taken by his Right Hon. Fricnd to be rather too sub tle, yet he would make the declaration required.- Ile was authorised to say, in the Prince's name, that he gave up his claim on the Exchequer to the amouut of 50,0001. The Committee was resumed. On the fourteenth clause being read, Mr. BRANU.eaid, it was his intention to hate moved au amendment; but ho understood his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. A.) was determined to ex. plain to the house the necessity of this clause. [That witntling.to the remaining 71A,0001. -ef the Priam?* Ex-' chequer Revenue being appropriated to the discharge of his Royal Higliness's debts.] Mr. ADAM thee rose, and said, he was ready to redeem the pledge which lie had given to his lion.- Friend. In the course of the debate, there had been n deal of allusion to what, by one Right Hon. Mem ber, were termed the hanourable obligedions, and by , others the debts of the Prince Regent. Fly whatever I denomination they were mentioned, Was of very little importance; but what he consklered of great importance was, the House should be in possession Mae nature and the history of those obligations.—. It would be in the recollection of the House, that in 1795, an act was passed putting the property of the Prince of Wales into a certain course for the pay.. trent of his debts, and regulating that payment in a particular manner. It was then enacted, that if a • tradesman of the Prince should not have his debt discharged iq the quarter immediately after it. win eetracted, he should serve a notice of ten days on the proper officer ; after the service ef which that .olficer was made personally respon ibbt for the debt ; but if the tradesman failed so to then there was an end of his demand. The ope lon of this enactment was felt•very severely by Royal flighness ; and he found it impracticable leal witii his tradesmen without entering into an tdetstataling with them, that what the Act mili ttth agalest should be to him a matter of honour able contract. He hoped that tile Rouse would par ipa.te in the sentiment of delicacy then felt by his . .a/Jliglinets, particularly wueu they should 1, • • 4 - ) I 5 I PI ble for the di do, then there satiozi of this hid Royal nig to deal with hi • noderstatding tate& against alile contract. ticipAte in the THE STATESMAN. tbao before its recent retreat from that place ; or whether the Peninsula, which could not be rescued from the grasp of NAPOLEON, when the Spani s h armies were able to make some appearance i n the field, is now to be delivered after they have been defeated, dispersed, and captured, and th e whole provinces of Spain over-run by the enemy.. The French Papers are entirely silent on the clans of Spain and Portugal. With regard to .the late battle between the Russians and Turks, they sta!e, tlrt the GRAND VIZIER, w h o was shut up in 144. chuck, was without, provisions, which intluctil him to make a furious sortie from the place the whole of his army, amounting to 25,000 aw n . 'fhe result was a terrible conflict. The Turks placed their dependance on the sabre, and speed of their horses; the Russians were defended by the artillery of their lines. PAcuss and Be vs were seen pre c ipi. feting themselves in the enemy's ranks. \Ye are as. stared that upwards of 10,000 men fell err the field of battle. The GR.% VD Viz.iza, disguised as a ple Janissary, escaped toSchumla." A ccouoli It cut Naples, of the Bth instant, state, that the arril t i of. Lord WILLIAM BErrisca, at Palermo, had to, producedi tlie - eikts which this country espoct e d. littnasiatelt upon Ma arrival," says ill Jomrnal dc Clues ire, of the 22d instant, C 4 h e had a long audience of King FEastssxn,the issue c which was the ordering of fresh arrest% princitrally persons the most dear to the Sicilian Government. These arrests,execut ed in the niost iigo - rouittnd u dee:. ing manner,and in places hitherto respected, have pro. duced sensations easy to be conceived. Such mei,. sures prove that the Sicilian Government is reduced to the humiliating necessity of sacrificing their befit friends and individuals the most distinguished by the ties which unite them to FERDINAND aud CAno. Due. Arr. 1 • 1/oblin 1 0 0 • 1 1 0 find no very improper extravagance in his cou duct, and when they should know the addi tional charges to which leis Royal Highness was afterwards subjected by the country. Every person trust remember, that in 1803 the demands on the ' Prince of Wales became the subject of Parliamentary regulation : and it was then perfectly well under stood, that those demands were of that hnnouraable kind which he had just described-180,0001. were then granted him by Parliament, being part of his re venue, by anticipation for three years. A sum, which his Royal Highness had borrowed from the Elector of Hesse, and which was known by the name lof the foreign loan, was the only exception to the nature of his debts ; but such was the limited state of Ibis income, that the best economy could not cover /them. His Royal Highness was besides, as he had before hinted, made subject to the payment of 'the i property tax after 1803, and it was exacted from Mk' for ,tine years, to the very letter of the law. He die ; ' not wish to throw blame on any one; but he had to Istate, that the whole of what his Royal Ilighnette paid in taxes of different kinds since 1803 was 175,0001.; which sum he had a right to count upo* ! for the liquidation of his debts, and which if it.had 1 I been at his disposal for that purpose, would have* !gone a great way in answering it. It was alsb rather hard, that the royal palace in which the i Prince of Wales lived was the only Royal Palate Iwhich paid any rent: and that for rent, rates, taxes, • and insurances on property in it 4( 7 04 1. was not his lown, he had to pay upwards of . a year. When the House took these charges, placed upon him by the House itself, into consideration, he would take, 'upon himself say, that it was merely fair to allow his Royal Ilighnessahe sum of 53,0001. proposed by the I I clause to be appropriated for the payment of his debts. The system, too, of leaving this 53,0001. to his &aye! Highness, as the residue of his Exche quer revenue, he coasidered the best in principle that could be :I:.vised, and that certainly which mutt be most agreanle to the feelings of the Prince Regent himself. When the argument was ad dressed to Gentlemen ad verecandium, they must feel, that if the Prince had come down to Par liament, and asked fur this sum of 53,0001. that the granting of it, though instantaneous, could . not be made to him with the same grace as by the mode re commended in the clause. The Hon. Gentleman al luded to his Royal iliglineFs's claims on the Derby. lie would not go into the question whether those claims were well or ill founded, because it was more important far the house tO know that it wets not the inteutinu 0( his Royal Ilighnoss ever to press them ; although, a Chancellor of England and Ire land, and a Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had given their deliberate opinions that those claims were founded in right. Strong, however, as these opinions were, the Prince would not act upon them ; but when he made this declaration, had he not a right' to argue the justice of the present clause? for if the! claims had been allowed to the Prince, he would . have had infinitely more than all his demands. When! they saw what was withheld from him, and what as ; taxes, &c. he was obliged to pay, was it but merejus- ; tice to require the appropriation of 53,0001. a year to ! the payment of those demands ?—The Hon. Gentle- man next alluded to the fines received by the Prince from the Duchy of Cornwall, since he (Mr. Adam) had been one of the Trustees. The whole of those i fines amotinted to only 60,0001, 57,0001 of which ; were applied to the liquidation of debts ; and the re- maining 80001. retained for his Privy Purse, were distributed in such a way as must reflect eternal ho-.' The Legislative Restrictions on the Niece RI - - 'lour on his principles and his heart. It was the Ho nourable Member himself, who, by the direction of CF.ST expire, by the Regency Act, on Tuesday, the his Royal Highness, had given away those 30001. to lbth of next mouth. Letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 27th of Do three Eoveral objects of his bounty. The Helmer. ... • • . I Since wr i t ing the above, we have received Cadiz aisle Member concluded by saying, that this last comber, make no mention of the peace with Turkey. duty to his Royal Master was the last of his own ; and Lisboa Papers to the 15th,and French Papers to the The exchange has fallen to 161. political life. Altair, which it was of no • eons.- ; 23d iest. It does not appear that any official account All the letters by yesterday's Dahlin Mail repre quence to the world to know, drew him to the la.; of the euiredder of Valencia bad been received at sent that capital to be in a very disturbed state, from hours of his profession. In taking his leave of ; Cadiz when the Mail came away ; but a report pre- the . violence with whicitthe Catholic Question is now that House, and of the Public, he hoped it " l id railed in that The House of BoLDERo and Co. it is now said ) not be considered presumptiost in bias to say, that; he believed he had acted with honesty to the public ; the 20th December, which proved disastrous to the, w ilt pay 15s. in the pound. and fidelity to his Prince. He felt that he could . Spaniards. Au article, dated Tan. 13, states, "We BREAD.—To-day the Lord Mayor, and Aldermen, carry with him into his retirement the proud bet de- . are highly delighted with the gallant resistance of 'l'a- after inspecting the returns, ordered it to fall 3d. per rightful consciousness havingacted right. • 1 rift, though we are much afraid we have to regret peck' Mr. BRAND 'Wed, that if the explanation which bad been . the loss or dispersion of BLAK e's army before Va- • HORRID Mreniais.—The following article is ex just giVCI4 try his Doc and Learncd Friend had been n fi rred in united from the Plymouth Telegraph.—" It it aii rattier iit.i f e of the debate, he slioald not have troubled the • lencia, and eventually of that famous rich city."— House with his objection. Thou g h he was of opi n ion, that the with the deepest impressions of horror we hare present mode of fleetin g th e . e star a c e was not well wiected ; ; But what appears still more remarkable is, that to add another iustatice of atrocious tithing to stilt h•• thaughe after the candid statement just made. the 'louse ; B would no lun g er ohject to relie v ing the embarr a s smen t s of the ; LAKE is openly accused of having carried on a the dark catalogue of crimes committed in this t Prince. • ' 1 treasonable correspondence with the enemy, and country. On the evening of the 20th inst. Marga . re Mr. TIERNEY said, that after the full and satisfactory state- • is stated " to have been receiving the pay of , Huxtable, of Dodbrooke, near Knightsbridge, a child, mewl of his respected I. Head (Mr. Adam), there could be but I only nine years old, was sent on an errand by her oue fing in that Houseful the subject of thr Prince's conduct a General from Box WRIT, for two years - as to hi linsourable engagements; nor conld lie help observing, that there wm. on our- to whom the honourable fulfilment past ! ! !"---The Cadiz Government had received mother to a neighbouring shoemaker's : but it was to return 1110 more—for enticed, as it is sue of an houtiorabie engagement could be better entrusted, than dispatclic w from General Mani, stating, that, in at- posed, by two men, with whom she bad been to one of such acknowledged accuracy and fidelity. It appeared that the Prince's dehts were ' in a train to be tempting to open a communication with' Valencia, he disaion.rn, w its o the plan was prevented partly by the yittitatioa seen on the Totnes road, she was fi rst violated, et' eras WOW ', mil partly by the p r os i of an act of that was attacked on the 26th ult. by a division of MAR- and then murdered in the most inhuman manner.— ' itent.e. Al/he Prince had e'en Pilteed ill eft seelcPerfeltinesw :InONT'S army, and forced to re t ir e . The "CatriPti-' tiou. in %: Well ii was the duty of Parlianteut to assns him, It Drives !Weft to deeperetion by her' not returning was the it duty to interfere between the Prince and his creditors, pers are tilled with details respecting the retreat of home, her parents instaritly madeevery research and and to rriieve those endmrra:nments Which its oat ri enactments inqu i ry f or their child •. but, etas !to no purpose, mi .the French from Tarifa — an occurrence which we ail the following morning, u hen her shift was disco had br a g g :in ; yet he disapproved of the proposed method of exteguirbing thine di ffi culties: it was one by which no saving would be inclined to regard of importance, were we vered about a mile from Dodbrooke, much torn and .would seem. to the country. and which would put the Prince ander the unplestsult appearance of drawing annually a large not persuaded that the object the French had in into from tho Palle. ' 11e hoped, theretnre, that some Monter v i ew in w ithd rawingtheir f that troops romquarter, corpse was found in the same field, deprived of life,and dyed with blood. On searching further, her mangled of hi g her authority than himself, and whose character and rank .to might place Min beyond suspicion of a sinister motive, mined - was of greater magmitudethan the capture of Tarifa— -sedily bring forward a specific motion to place the Prince in namely the reduction of' Valencia, which, wills p pe ie r c fe e c s, tly ap d p ile re st i e tt d ly of wi c t l i o i cl o thin g . Iles I l l v e a r s h i e j a te d ra s:n ii ;)shed driven that situation is which all his well-wishers must wish to see him, into the earth ; and her whole body bore Wm:- with his Mind free from all anxiety, and capable of devoting its the assistance of the besiein army of the testible evidence of tbe effects of ruffian forces — entire faculties to the public service, g g I former place, the enemy have completely effected. The 14th clause then passed. M r . BROUtiIIA M wished the 15th clause postponed, from They never hesitate at sacrificing minor objects caped detection : but the Police is attic ., and guilt, The perpetrators of these crimn have hitherto es the lateness of tie hour, and because several lUembers mho had intended to oppose it were then absent. such as theirs, cannot remain long undetected. I when they have a greater in view, because they know Mr. PERCEVAL said, ,the Bill I% ah diViled into two parts: ; WC prewar) deterred ; and the present use, and one more , well when they have obtained the more important cOn Saturday the Lords of the Council met at the node tee all that would then engage the att lion of the House. Council O ff ice, to hearand determine Prize Appeals. I advant age, . that the lesser will follow as a matter of Mr. GILLES and Mr. PERC LV AL made some observations, ! la which Mr. P defended the application of the Droits towards i course. Its the Lisbon Papers we find it stated, that Dacron.' commoes.—Chs Friday as intererting mate case supplying the deficits of :he Civil List ; and Mr. G. insisted, that 1 bast erns William Peter Puget, E sq. and Lucretia. his wife. It on before Sir . . W. Scox r,respecting the validity of a marriage, that, to the Parliainent was bound to look to the application of this mo ne y, ; the garrison of Badajoz is greatly straitened from and also to examine what foods were publieatioti et haus between the parties, the word Peter, a pan was moved to iiet aside this marriage,. on the ground which miziit arise. ildrmicat to meet debts , 1 the want or pteviiions, and that numbers of the in- iesia• thi tisnial name of the husband, had been omitted. tar the Mr. BPsOUGHASI spoke against the clause. - habitants had be4n ordered to quit it on that account. ! . P fraudulent purpose o preventing f than open The House then divided on the 15th clause. • • " ' the Marriage Oct Nandi ed. After bearing the ar g uments of the For it 1051 Against it 39 1 Majority 72. In an article dated Valenca de Alc.antara, 3d • COWISIPLION 011 tithed. ride, the Learned Judge .aid , he . r hombi reberee his judgment on this nevi aud linen:Ant i ; q uestion to a The Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. instant, it is.said, " that the blockade of Ciudad l 'e as „, da y . pen notification which Leave was g iven to brin g iii a Bill to carry into effect the R e . R o d rigo has: been and that the enemy 's ' tvaketteld House of correction has, within the last Yettrh!tf solutions of the Committee of Supply.formed, ; ecived ii.l3 culprits ; 115 more than the sear pre..etling.— On the motion of Mr. WHARTON, the Petition of Ml. Cott forces io that quarter had been much diminished."— , not this decrease of, virtue and morality necesrarrly doe was referred toe Committee.—Atour un d at one o'clock.. 1 from the complexion and distresses of the times; and would not These new Operations o f L o rd WELLINGTON seem t o : ministers he better "played in devising means for retrieving at have been resorted to by way of a diversion in favour . , much as le thealfairs of the couutry bb eudeayouring in at.. llis Royal Highness the PRINCE Rtevrr arrived tate r o and thus effectually omote the cause of religion I at a late hour on Sunday night, front Windsor, ael of Valencia and of the army of BLAKE. Now , than by id vier to raise as u nfounded alarm for the safety er eat ng ; of the church. Carlton House. His Royal Highne ss gave au di ence that these are in possession of the enemy, we shall yesterday to the Earl of Mom., Mr. SIIIIIIDAN, see whether the Allied Army will be more saecessful L - 0 ------ . it ND(,)N ; Piloted and Published h • Me y D. Lesser., and Mr. ADAM. .; '... :0 . , - • • .. ' stn its present operations against Ciudad Rodrigo, ' . STtTEIRICIN OFFICE, 87, Pleetrstrort. PRICK OP STOCKS THIS Rank 9 per Cent. Co,.s 6.2 a 3 per Cent. Red. 631 4 per Cents. 7911 5 per Cent. Navy 911 Long. Ann. 161 7-16 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, India Bonds 17s. 19.. pr. Exchequer Bills 3d.3 6 pr. Ditto Oinniuin Consols for Acct. 621 Lottery Tickets THE STATESMAN. LONDON: TUESDAY ) JANUARY 28 ) 1812. As the following official Bulletin appeared only in a part of oar impression of yesterday, we relepublish it for the sake o' those of our Readers who received the first Edition : " A dispatch is received from Lord WELLINGTON, dated Gallegos, 9th January. - 44 His Lordship invested Ciudad Rodrigo on 'the Bth. - The enemy had increased'the difficulty of ap proaching the place by a strong redouit constructed on the hill of St. Francisco. It was necessary to at tempt-to take it: it was stormed on the night of the Bth by a detachment.of the light division, led by Lt.-Col. Cotiortsx. The work was tarried in the most bril liant manner, and all the garrison either killed or taken. Our lois was only six men kilted ; Captain MAIN and Lielbt. Woonekrt, of the 52d, and Lieut. HAwar.sLey, of the 95th, with 14 men wounded.— By this success Lord WELLINGTON has been enabled to break ground within 600 yards of the place, the redoubt of St. Francisco being converted Lao a part of the first parallel. " General HILL entered Merida on the 30th De cember. He had hoped to surprise General Dom mows[', but his approach was discovered by a patrole. The French General retreated from Merida, leaving magazines of bread and wheat, and several unfinished works. On the Ist, General HILL marcMd to attack DROUET's corps d'armec at Almandrelgo, but the enemy retreated to Zafra, abandoning 450,000 pounds of wheat, &c. " On the 3d, a detachment of our cavalry beat a body of the enemy's horse at Pucuco taking two officers and 30 men prisoners, General DROULT retreating to Llerena. General HILL found it useless to pursue him, and returned on the sth of January to Merida." We also announced yesterday in a Second Edition, the fall of Valencia, and the defeat and capture of the Spanish General BLAKE, with the whole of his army. The particulars have not yet transpired ; but it ap- Peat* that SACHET, having summoned BLAKE to sur render, which was not attended to, battered the walls In breach, and having effected a passage for his soldiers, on the 2Gth of I.); , cember, he stormed the place with his whole army, amounting, it is said, to 28,000 men. After a sem-L. and sanguinary conflict, the town surrendered, and 81. and his army were made prisoiers of war. Displtches are said to have been received by Government, containing the olcial details of this event. !ANC. " - STATESMAN OFFICE, Two O'CLocx. A letter, of which, the following is a copy, has just been received by the Lnetn MAYOR:— ,‘ Lord la vsaroot. presents his compliments to the Loan M I. von, and acquaints his Lordship that Caiaain O'Dosisut r, Aid-de-Camp to Colonel Bantam, has arrived this morning a ith dispatches from Major-General Cooks and Colonel Stint. neer, continuing the satisfactory intelligence of the complete repulse of a strong detachment of the Fnmets army under Mar shal VICTOR, iu an attempt to take Tarifa, by storm, on the Lint Dec. and that on the morning of the 4th Jan. the whole of the French army retreated from before that place, leaving in the possession of the allied troops the whole of their artillery, am munition, and stores. The French force employed under Nlarsaal Micron, in the attempt to reduce Tarifa, appears to have consisted of ten thousand men, and the allied force opposed to them of not snore than 1000 British, and 7 sr Son Spanish troops. Colonel Sauntrestspeaks in the highest terms of the admirable conduct of all the troops under his command.— Ile praises particularly the ezenions of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord PkORY, second in command; of Lieutenant-Co mai Douce, and the 2d Batalliun, 87th regiment; and Captain Sam!, of the Royal Engineers. The British loss consists 6i two officers, Lieut. Lortus.mr, It. E. and Lieut. liau. , 47th, tfd Battalion, and 7 rank and file, killed—three officers, Lieut. Mut., 47th, `2d Battalion ; Lieut. M. Carroi, and Ensign lii ler; 871 h llat7alion ; and S 4 rank and tile, wounded. 'Downing-street, Jan. 28-111 A. hi. , , •.^.. , •%0` ,4 t • '1 I .