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M .1••••• lwe."."- IMPERIAL PARLLIMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Jax.l4. Mr. Phil Emote was further heard in tehalf of the Respondents, in the cause of Page - and others v lainil!on and others Its further consideration was anal:lied for Friday next. The Exchequer Bills Bill went through a Com mittee, and was repo' ted —Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Six Members took the oaths and their seats. Amongst them was Mr. R Arm Ward, late Llodcr Secretary of State. Sir John Newport brought up a Bill, to amend t to At of the 423 of H.s present Majesty, for re gulating the Trials of Controverted Eledions ; or Returns or Members to serve in Parliament for Ireland. Read a first time, ordered tet he read a sec rod time un Friday next, and to be printed. Duni ELECTIoN DILL. S , r JOHN NEWPOR•I' then gave notice, that itr•rn no ow he should move for leave to briny in a Bill, for the purpose of abolishing certain offices, its coru t il-ance with the Report of the Commission ers nt liluiry in Ireland, and of regulating certain oflser2s, the duties of which had ceased to be per furinea in the manner originally intended. ARMY. The Secretary at War presented Estim Ire' and Schedules for the Army and Ordnance Szi vier:, for the year, 1807. He also. in conformity wiTti the provisions °fro! Ad of Parliament, passed in the 45th of the king, presented aCopy of a Warraot issued by Government. fur the purpose of establishing certain orders and regulations for improving the condition of non•commi,sioned otli.:ers and soldiers in His Majesty's service, and for granting that relief to which they are entitled on their discharge.—Ordered to lie on the table, and to he printed. The SECRETARY at WAR. gave notice, that it was his .nt , ntion, on this day sennight, to move, that these Fitim.ttes be taken iatu consideration, in the Contm.t•ee of Supply. Mr. PeAttEVA I. Inidredl of the Right Hon. Secretary, whe,het it was pu•su.tnce of the order of th • Hou,e, on the motion made chi, week by a Noble Lord (Castlereagh) that these papers were presenter'; The SKCREPARY at WAR answered, that these Ertimates were not presented in consequence fo the Motion alluded to, but in compliance with the At itself. He, however, presented them at this particular time, as he was desirous to know whe ;thee these papers would not do away the necess.ty of the last Mottos of the Noble bird. He was in hopes they would fully answer his purpose. Mr. Hotthouse brought op the Report of the Committee on the Malt Duty Bill, the amendm-nts on which were read and agreed to, arid the 13.11 ordered tu ba read a third time to-mortew. AINFRICIN TREATY. General GAS6OIG said. that seeing .t Noble Lord in his place (alluding to Lord klowi,:k), lie should take that opportunity of putriog a apleatian to him upon a sabjeft of gttat iaira L ance to the mercantile irrereets of the country in genet..l, but particularly to the town which he (General Gaseoigne) represented. Publicity. he thougA, was always peculiarly necessary upon such matters. and therefore it war, that he wished a Brewer grre of information to be given to the atieri.Ali:il.: interea, relative is the 'Treaty bets in Amer.:a tLis country, than what had as yet bon giv.a. In a later which had been inaerted in all ilat pitidic Prints, purportiog to be written by 11:a L:^id to:. the great mercantile body in this city. they were inform. J. that a Treaty of Amity bad taken place w:th America. 117 that letter, ouch diattit had been created as to whether the Decree passed in the Congiesa of America bad been done away mil ely. cr any alteration made upon it, as we had had ino intimation that Congress had a.sern'led. flan far the Pre-ideal or Chief Ma gistrate may have it in his pores to alter that I)..cree, be knew not ; be:.this he knew, that in cou , -Inel•et• of that letter, much doubt bad arisen as • to she Jet- it was proper or safe to exprt those prohihited goods, which it was formetly yea. us ti) tt:tint to America, and horn which LTA: this cauatry Was Lately entirely excluded.— lie was wall aware that this quettion might be look. ed on as premature, hot nevertheless, it that Noble Lord had meant to intimate that the trade should be carried on as formerly, some explanation was ne cessary u and even if nut so, it was still equally essential that the public should be informed upon that print. Ca lee these circumstrnces, he trusted he should 'retire an answer from law Lordship, in a matter that would remove all doubt upon the sub jeCt, anal be sbatild be happy to hear that such trade was torte continued. .. A Lied HOAVICK answered. that he certainly feh • very anxious to explain every thing that could tend to the advantage or information of the mercantile interest; bin he was sure that the House would see, at once. the impossibility of aosweriag such a ques tion as that nom proposed. The Hon. Gentleman had statid the impressions, which he conceived had taken place, in consraper.ce of the letter written to the inercantale body; hur he (Lord H.) could not see any reasons for such impressions giving rise to the qaestion !I± had, in the letter alluded to, f .amply stated the fa& that a treaty bad been signed by vie Plenipotentiaries of Americo and this country. Wh oilfrrrnce thus pie:e of information was to e:eatr, it reg.:T.l to their Nitre transallions, hr si.ulal not trally discover. It was surely soon en 'ugh to iafo:srs the ptrilc upon other points, when that freAty was aguilly taraied, wine* he admit be erreiney happy at, and I.re no time in communication: No fuither info:msins, there. flare. croilet.be given at present. As this Treaty Laid boor s;okin of, he *heard take that cpportunity oftraWt r-ug a question put by a flight Hon. Gen• tl!L•ruAr. art a rnrmer night, open the snhje.ft. I: had been asked, whether there was a ieservation contoured set that Treaty, betwixt as and Amami. to euuntrt balance or -et:tr.:toad the effe&l of the Irate Deere* i pAssed hr y the Frerei Gneertrnent against th.o aoaintry Undoubtedly, a just and R eaper cor.;roul, as to tae ships of neu:rais, had hen careot ;y /Iterated in t'ie Treaty alluded to; an tho we cineld aiwaya be :tole to en ia a manner eq fitly ptejad eiil t.i ti e commerce of the e..emy, a. the French might do in regard to the cminterce sfli *sun GENERAL DLUCIIF.R. OBSIRVATIONS ON THE RETREAT AND CANTU. LATIUN OF GENERAL eLUCHeAt. The following observations on the above subjeft, by an eye-witne,s of the events to which they allude, were occasioned by Remarks published by a French Officer on the Official Report of the g.111.:a General Blucher 1 I.t Remark --" Centerrl 111 u-ht( is mistaken, wlton as. sa:s that he tht not give wa) but to a Luce a.x ti:not superior to his own," &e. No Prussian Officer can shiny proof to the cnn• tray. General Von Blucher N. t s o'..liged, in thin point. to follow the statemcnta of the French Marshal. 2A Remark —" General Blucher f :ilea in his design," 3:e. This is unfortunately very true ; as General Blucher would much rather have crossed the Elbe ; and even had he been at length compelled to sur render, he would have done it with far greater satis faaion on the Rhine than on the Trave. General Blucher knew perfealy well that he had to c pe only with the first corps; but as it was his object to reach the Elbe with all possible expedition, the strength or weakness of his pursuers could not induce him to deviate from that plan. General Blucher never had 22,000 men. It is nut known that the first corps several times offered him battle ; but it is certain that it engaged his rear-guard for the purpose of detaining G:ncral Blucher, and giving all the French corps time to come up. Marshal Bernadotte displayed too twiny instances of intelligence to seek to engage 9.0,000 men with a force of 12,000. He would undoubted ly have retreated, conformably to the dictates of reason, as soon as he saw General Blucher advanc ing towards him with 20,000 men. Had Blucher pursued him, he would have placed himself be tween all the three corps; had he not pursued, but continued his retreat, his situation would nut have been improved, but, on the contrary, he would have lost a day. Ou the tith of November, .54 pieces of cannon were lost at and near Lubeck ; and it is corr,..ft, that these still had sufficient ammunition, because mast of them had belonged to tile corps of the Duke of Weimar, and !Lid been used %cry little or not at all. At the eapitu!:tion, however, only some thirty pieces of cannon stir r:ndc:ed, exclusive of the pieces belonging to th.: battalions, the remnant saved from the anion, of Auerstadt, Jeca, and Halle, and which had since ti:2n not been supplied With amtnunition. As for reserve ammunition, General Umber hal n , :na. The fifty powder wag. sous that a:e motioned, wer;! waggons attached to tie battalions, for musket cartridges, of which the loaded ones of the corp; farmerly under the Duke of %Velma:, were lost on the 6th. 3 t General Blucher is mistaken again," are. It is very true, that the French troops had fewer resources than General Blucher, but they were so much the better provided with immediate supplies. 4th Remark While GznA..al Blucher ke.it to the right taa st,c.tt," Ste. General Blucher forbore to take possession and defend the towns of Strelitz and Schwerin, in the hope that the enemy would spare them. nth Renta.:.—" Marshal Soul' pursued the eqiumn of the Dulv: of WeirniZ," ft is true, that the vanguard of the French army threw itself between the columns of General Pellet and the Duke of Oele at Cladrum. Their junftion, therefore,. did not take place, as well fat that reason, as on account of the disposi tion, till :hey tern: past the defiles of Banskow and Plate. Gen?ral P,11::t marched, accordiag to the dispo skim ul Fra,lenmark, by way of Suchow to Bans kow ; the Duke 1)I Ocis, from Cl4drum, by way of Criwits. t. Plate. 6th It ..ma , k —"HA General Blucher chasers, as he ■sserts, to attack the cnrp; ul Nialshal Bernadotte or Mar sisal S J ult," Be. It is eorreFt, that General Blucher had an oppor. tstnity of attacking the French army; but it is no t true s that General Blucher had still his whole army at his disposal, %%hen he perceived that the anion at Criwita became seri , ,us. The columns of the Ge neral. Natainer and Larisch had long passed the de al: of Fahre, and had already entered into canton ments, when the rear-guard lost the defile of Fahre. K. nark —"'CM.. acri at at Criwitt prom to Cl:nertl 1111rwher, It..w vwy litt:e the /reach tufautry car: for the ens troy% ca atty." .2e. 1 2 t h e anion of Crivritr, the Rudortr regiment of hussars formeJ the rearguard. It was closely pur ism! Sy the French cavalry. .4*:-.e regimmt of Re do• ff, alrnst 830 in number, wheeled round, attack ed:he mem i's cavalry, whom they drove back, end par.ned to their support of infantry, which t‘pened aWA the of mu.ketry. The remoant of the re. gitne-t of Itodoil rallied, and condi:to:A ha rctrcat with its prisoner S. No aturk with cai:Ory thz er.cmj's infAntry aok.pl , ce the day. Bth Re.n•rrk.—" When Marlal B.rna.lotta saw that the enemy een'.l nut maintain the defile at F,,h7e," Sc. The difile at Fahre was ta::en by . the enemy, bc- C4t152 it WAS not defende'd by the rear-guard, con• si&ng principally of cavalry. It has alr:•aJy been obs.lved above, that the divisions of GenerAl4 Natzmer and Larisch had gone into cantonment., be use General Blucher did not expea to be pur sued so far. Had General Blucher been able to keep his infantry in the field during the night. Marshal Bernadotte would not, that day, have made himself master of the defile of Fahre. If a General always knew the aflual siruatirn and intentions of the enemy, his operations would often be very different. The corps, lately com manded by the Duke of Weimar, had taken can toments beyond the defiles of Banskow and Plate.— It was not till late at night that it was informed of the loss of the defiles of Fahre ; and it cULI not break up till early on the tat of November, to match to Gadebuscli. On this march, half the infantry were left be- hind, exhausted, and did not arrive till night, in quarters, at Gadebusch. hlad Marshal Bernadotte, at break of day, sent a small corps to ‘l'alsmuhle, the late corps of the Duke of Weimar would have been separated from the late corps oldie Duke of Wurtemberg. But it was impossible that Marshal Bernadotte should be acquainted with this circum stance. Far from ascribing it to him as a fault, that they stopped this day at Schwerin, he rather deserves praise, for having lost siest neither of the neces.ary- precaution, nor of his grand objed. This circumstance is mentioned oaly for the pur pose of spewing how unjust it is to judge a Gene ral, a7crrdir.g to what might happen, in particular cases, and not according to that which all the cir cumstances of the case obliged him to do. The whole army was united at Gadebusch. Ge neral Blucher might, perhaps, have been able to fight ; he had ammunition for his artillery, hut not culicient for his infantry. The cavalry hid, for several days, scarcely any cartridges, and the hussars none at all ; and all, both cavalry and in fantry, had neither fodder nor provision for a single meal. Supposing he had been vinorions, into what new p•:;plczities would he have been plunged? How was he to provide for his troops? especially as new battles, with the other corps, would await him the day following. For this reason, General Blucher marched to Lubeck, that he might procure supplies for three days. It is very true, that in the retreat to Lubeck, Ge- neral Blucher lost much more than 2,000 men ; but in the aCtions, he lost not .100. The others were such as were left behind asleep, from fatigue, wounded, sick, and deserters. 9th Rein r.k.—" General 6,ucher was palmed, stop by ste,, on his march to Lubeck," &c. It should be observed, that the market-place at Lubeck, which is mentioned, is situatel ez taly cp posite to the Golden Angel, in which General Blucher had his quarters; and that the Burg-gate was to have been defended by the Duke of Bruns wick Oels. It k consistent with truth, that the French troops attacked the Burg -gate. and forced their way into the town with the greatest intrepidity. 10th Re.nark.—'• General Blucher tags attacked in the n:; , ;kt, at Schwar!aa, by the 54th tte. General Blucher left behind the regiment of Osten tint-goons, and the infantry regiment of Kuhnheitn, w.th the remains of the light infantry, as advanced posts, at Schwartau, in order to draw tngether during the night the troops detached up the Trave. The troops left at Schwartau were cur pri.ied during the night. and most of them made prisoners. General Blucher bad at Lubeck sixteen battalions, which scarcely composed 6,000 men, and of which six battalions were about noon detached to Mcist. Lug and liansteLt. llth ittinirk.—" We •re ignorant whether the Chin of the Prtiviian Staff JiJ not commit some mistake in his statiment of the numbers of the troops:' The following account 'hews the number of troops lost before, and by the capitulation : CORPS OF THZ •lINY or LIEUT AAAAA -011141111 AL BLUcHell. Tromps lest bdore the Capitulation : 1 Hatt. of the Itegintunt of Arnim, Latest ita the entiruns of Scliwer+ii• U te. Gr:nad•er Ratnli n, 1ta740, 2 Itattaliont, Tscham. o'er, 201 itn,Ow,teen, I ditto, o.ls, 2 , 13 2 ditto, Matsrucr, ta%vi at I.oer k Four Battalions of Falser, an! sin Companies of 'Liters, At Lubeck and Schwanau. 2 Battalion•, Kulinheim, taken at Seherartas. 2 Ditto, Mansteia, taken at Lolseck, 1 Ditto, Jung 11.srasch, taken at %lensing. In sin Annis, capitulated at Wismar. 5 l`ittn, Koller, and 1 Ditto, King of Bavaria, capitulated at Ilanafeid. 4 Dittii, capitulated at Luneburg. 4:00 Horse, M.jor Von Schmude, taken at Atraten. 12 ;Ave.' of Cann.nr, T ia4Jan ; 12 Ditto. Lange; 4 MM. Kubnen , a ill ; V Ditto, of reserve; and 22 I) belonci o r to the havaletti. taken by the Enemy at ane near Lo.Leck ; 4 pierce of 'brie Ana cry, eyit..!ated at Lunie) , lrg , 4 ll.vo, W.-gen.Fr i ca,..tu:..tc: at iLnlifed 64 pl-eta of cainuis. Troops that capitulated, near Lobe* of November; 1 G , enadier Battalion of Signet . 1 I)itt. . 11,1 , ,:ann 1 Ditto • . C;Ifl H I 1).1:6 . Datu . Sch7ve:.ng Total 2 Battal:ons 3r Bork. 1 Ditto . Jung Lu.sch I Ihno . drutismck (.k:s Liao .Ikrauth . 2 Date . Alt.Larisch ct Rheinbaben Total of lufaniry 10 Soot/thous of lime 10 Ditto Ruilorfi . 10 Ditto Blocher 5 Ditto Ir. wing 5 D;tto Ogen Ditto Herzberg Ditta Hercking S Ditto Beeten Detachment under Qpneral Von Kotler M:,;or Von Wut tub Total of Cavalry THE BRITISH PRE LONDON, THURSDAY, JA NUA nv On the I Ith of November last, we Bi.ucitert's report (.f his masterly retreat That enterprize is one of the most the history of modern warfare. with a view to tarnish it; lutre, hay some animadversions upon it, to which been recently made in a respeflable forei It is given in our preceding columns. The repott of the death of the Queen in a Morning Paper of yesterday, is only tion, founded upon the paragraph which yesterday from the Altona Paper of the that Her MAJ Lsr v Was Government are in daily expectation dispatches from Lord tic ICIIIKSON, Prussian head-quarters. The Aberdeen Paper of the t Oth instant yesterday, repeats the account which • French ship having beta driven ashore the Orkney I.lands, but contains no farther Bence upon the subje4l. • The report of a great battle upon the tween the French and Russians, which in favour of the latter, still continues to upon the authority of persons arrived from Viscount I lowica stated la.,t night, of Commons, in an answer to an oSservation General GASCOIGNE, that care was Treaty, recently signed by the Anizrican sinners, that we should be enabled, with Neutrals, to aft in a manner equally preji the commerce of the enemy, as the Fr aft in regard to the commerce of this country A new Writ has been issued for Eye, of Admiral CORNWALLis, who had dec) his seat for that Borough, and accepted Hundreds. It is said the Duke of Beoroan is , vacant blue ri:lbon, won hp the late Rica NICIND ; and the Earl of Cnicites r mand of the Sussex Militia. The Thetis, SII AW, from Petersburgh, pool, is on shore on Shetland ; crew and cam.) saved. The Impsitantia, —, from Hull, for is stranded on the cow of Norway. Letters from the fleet off Cadiz, of I state, that Vice-Admiral Lord Cot.t.ta the squadron under his command, w.. health and high spirits, ardently lorging brush with the Dons and Monsieul-s, in Cadiz, but lying at single anchor ready for a start. Lord C.'s fleet consists of the line, 3 frigates, and 2 brigs. The Board nf Admiralty, having big. of the conduift of Lieut. CAL 1. AVIA y, the msn of the Lat 4 Pialt armed ship, of ' 39 men, in her late gallant aftion wit cure nf, l.a Facori, of 14 gins, and 71 Lizard, about ten days since, have appoint. C. to the command 01 a new gun brig, now in harbour ; and have also promort Master to bee regular Master in the N' aprointed the Sub-Lieutenant to be Lieutenant also in the Navy. We are happy to state, that orders a few days, been received In Nor% it East India Company, for 20,000 pi. camblets. Agree Abl y to a general system of ecotom , intended to be introduced by the pre', r trlit.nn, in the •about depATtiht ins expenditure, the OidnAnce And I:I4ITAt I about to be consolida.ed. Before Sir John Newprot sailed for . erpeoded a considerably tons of money s stable in::itut:‘.ns in Waterford ; and .ho the dishuisemeat of other sums to the de different persuasions, for the relief of attached to their congregations.-1 speaks mote strongly in his rraise, than mium which wir can besow. ▪ the 7,h about maw • . 1,0 • 5113 . 170 • SO . It • brio • 300 el . 300 tt 900 ti an 130 tr . .0 • - 9J3 r. - - IJ0o• - - - VOO - 210 - 160 170 10) 3;80 'RE SS • lr. re gave Ctn. rent to Lubec. st 1 he aye publi.iti leh a reply has orei&in Papt.t. en of Parsara, inly a spectila- tich we ccpied he 2d, stating a n of receiving , now at the ttant, received I we gave of a ore on one of is farther intent- It le Vistula, he- It ih termin.:tei o be repeated. lona I lollana. in the House s ,Sservation by taken in the icon Commis- ith respea to prejudicial to French might country. e, in the room caned taking id the Chilter n s to hare the late Duke of 1 i LER the toro- th, for Liver- nd part of the or Hamburgh, the :Nth olt. NCIVCOOO, and v• re in good ng for another who ate snug tr. Apparently ,aists of 11 sail r f l i g : } 7 l:o m, °l7 e g ffi a a n u;n ep o s rr , s a o a a l t n ne h j e 'pointed Lieut. g, of 16 guns, nted the ailing :avy, and have e a confirmed s have, within ich, from the pieces of tiny iconorny ii at 14 rs nt Adminis - of the publ.e .uk Boards are ▪ F.ngland. he )ei n: ac y litersoh o let ta iyi t t ! 4or e :zi e s la ett l etin.a - t -This conit a than asty eaco- '"