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•• ' e should have been only thought present time. Our ancestors ought attended to ; bin the d gree should bestow on them, roust justice. The oiled of the Bill in heir to pay what his ancestors id. lie was confident that every be glad that such shoul.l be the his etradta after his decease, if, stances, he was prevented from psy ile living. The Lords, he observ iise their judgment when the 1311 • consideration, and they had the is of information. _ . AL ►aid, that he recommended the Bill, as an ail of justice Thu was, resent impression. ale expressed the •• with the Attorney-General. But as 'Acuities •in the way of adeptirg it, t be more fully weighed in a future !fore paused. It was partirolarly case of one dying unexpeaedly. :S expressed surprise at Mr. Can , arguing, and regretted the orpo.i had met with from the Mast.: of the FINANCE REPORT. Hothouse brought up the R.nort of the Com '. inance ; and, upon a motion being made ,ES BOURNE rose and observed, lain; were se complica.ect, that it mcn.las to compret , end them; vet, in House was called anon to give their tm. There was no Estimate of the the Table. As no new Tax was I push it so fast. The Loan last year There was, hr said. no party spirit on ke House. After making some oijec ' was contained in the Report, he i I period of eight years would be a more Than that adopted, and that then the judge HORNTON rose, but asked, if the continue, bef , ,re be should proceed ? thektteness of .the hour, a postpone reed ro, after some conversation between Lti. Hnwick, Castlereagh Messrs. Rose, Cs iini og.ou the express stipulation. the t 'guild certainly take place to-morrow, ballots. and Mr Whitbread's ruction Poor Laws, Amid for mat day. Leone BtH was read a st.cond time, in be coom a itted to.rnori ow. otion of Str JOHN NEWPORT, ti e Rent, Lris' A .eion Reguiation, and ntwhack Biils, were severally read a third passed. then went into a Committee en the am Importation Bill ; the st v, 1%11 Re - read aud agreed to ; and the Report receivsd to morrow Adjourned. ___--- fie sa.lo. a law shi ass at the present ay ,h,1e..-s to be 'if a d ni ration we cegalated by j 4 a n to compel an f A . ght to have paid 114 freest man would 1 -- administration of I Ise tbroutzh circumstax tist jag his debt, while he a d, wo uld exercise bit rue under their c de t oast ample means 4 Mr.PERCEV A as, a doption of the Bi 4 at least, his preset e'• same surprise wir Is. there may be (M. hit and as it was to b ea : stage, he thereto' 't adapted to the cat • Mr. MORRIS n ring's mode of at es tion the Bill had it Rolls. K § ss Mr. Hillhouse Iss mince of kinanct se that it be read, 11 Mr. STURGE n that the calculat e wear' require m a a fox days, the I Satlainti to thgr. to War 'lazes on t if proposed, why p it was later. The is his side of the 1 7 tions to what w. i served, that a pa II proper plan rha ... co untry could jt ✓ Mr H. 11-1 .y debate was to et i. On a ccount of t as merit was agree' it Lords H Petty, o Barres, and C s tilt, debate shoe a though two ba' 3 rrepeasng the I s. The Sierra . 3 and ord red to re On the btsti, 3 It Qtait • Ron ti Spirit Drawba . time and passet The House t. German Yarn a soluti 'no were i a ordered to be r e- s_ A THE 2 ..,..----- - g I THI 1- e We have Fr I Dutch to the e the Fifty Fast i is dated Wars t- time BON A t A e b• eight or ten d d In the accoun i• operations, 1 i F light infantry c had advance, it menu ; the a mode a morel ✓ lions returned BRITISH PRESS. LOT DON, THURSDAY, FEIINUART 19. received Paris papers to the 10th, and the 14th instant. The form r contain cuitr/A Bulletin of the Grand Army. It -stw, the 27th of January, at which ARTE hal left that city, non a visit of . days to the cantonments of his army. :ount which this article gives of militaty ,we firid, that Some battalions of tantry, beloog 7 ng to Marshal Nay's corps. 'armed t.venty leopies from their canton- Ru,sian :only took the alarm, and rement on its right ; and that the batta- irned oitbin the ling of their cantonments, without sustaining any loss." It is also stated, that BUN ADOTT c'S corps hiving, about the same time, taken povession of 1-11:,rg, and the coontry situated in that neighbouth.-nd, on the Baltic r and the General of Division, DIMWIT, having entered , Christbourg, a town to the South of Elbing , and a Rua: an column of 12,000 having advanced to Leib• stadt, beyond the little river Passarge, and driven in the French out-posts, Barisaborrc broke up from Ming, and marching South, defeated the Ru.sirns at Mohring, or Morungen, to which place they had penetrated, and compelled them to repass the 1 3 .issar , .ze. This affair is said to have taken place time nor place of the ire mentioned. The some point in the line az, as an article, dated la part of Nev'. corps irtress. &KW ADOM had eg, to open the way to rrpose, it is LtAted, in ATSAW, the 20th, G •neral 'watched troops its the Meths informed us, that isoner by a Prnss:an pa his carriage to Stettin. :r, that he was defeated r to Elbing, and that it defeat, Bias atiorra to that quArter. But circurns:ances of these to show, that the result :orps was engaged, must Russians—that they do system of retreat—that ity offers, and attack the The unofficial Articles the right of the French Abandoning Ostrolcnka, had re-occupied it ; and that some of the troops had crossed to the Left Bank of the Vistula, and gone into canton:runts. between Blonie and Looks:. On that wing and the centre, the enemy are sad to be at a considerable distance from the French posts. It is, there:ore, between the left of the French and the right of the Russians that the Pict nt :1 4 1 . 4'f'S hayt. taken place. The Fifty fourth Buli •tin adds, th..t General KAMINSICOY has &en disgraced; hut as this is only an infer-nee draw from the circumstance of General BEtitscist.s having succeeded to the chief command, it deserves no notice. Stral•und is closely invested. e mission of Baron VIsCIST is said to relate to the demand of a p tssage for 40,000 French troops through the Austrian States t., Turkey. We have also received Hamburgll Pipers to the 7th, extra 9s from which, and the other Foreign Jou rnals, ate given I the 64 Fake. We were correct, yes , rd.ty, in announcing the arrival Sir HOME l'oraem, on Monday. at Weym• uth. from the ltio de la Plata, in the Rolla, an American merciia.lunan. The kola left that river en the 27th December, at which time, Ku nos Ayres was in the posseas4so of the Stsaniartis, but Sir Hosts Poem •ii stiles, with confhlence. thaw it may be recaptured with hula difficulty. Ile came home in c nsequerice of having been super. seded by Admiral 'li I Luso. and is now at his seat near Wiadsor, accompanied by Captain Imo and SecietAry The reinfercenienu sent to Bu nos Ayres, rn4 ; ht be daily expeete,i, when the 14 J.LA sailed. end it they succeel.l in reciplaring he °lace. that even , pro. banly took plas.e het we the fleet mrreha tot n, wkicb wens nut in N nrn.r. could have 4tri• The following ship h.d arrived in the ltio de la v;z The Doke of Kent, Itobtnion ; Spina Drove, Graanwood; Anna, Leatr , clc ; tctive, Nueerva,.......; and 'smarm, B itoa, from London; Jahn Bull and Neiman, from Jerse, ; Venue, Paint, and ins He'd, (mot Gum m! ; Me , lway, ; and Kati Dane, ....-.. from ,ratio. Brawn; and the Jun .. Harter, , 111 CIVtIO,I . They were left with Admiral Srtkows, st Mal- Jonad:), when the Head ended. The Asa, ad packet arrivrd on fluaday at Falmouth, in eight days frrm Ttivate litters from Madi.d, received ay ;his eon, .ante, state, that tine nt the first measures nt the Pu ince, since he was invested s.ith new and extranyttinaly powets, has bee . n nrier to all French Emigrants in. Spain, fit for set vice, to join the French Artily in Poland as Conserii..a ii:s MAJESTY came to town, ye , terslay, about twelve o'cic.ck, holt V indsor, and 'lO4 a . p r i vate I.#-etc at the Quern ' s Palace, soon ictei two o'clock, which was attended by The Irch4ehei , el Catrethurv, t" , e Lord Chancellor, the Lord Prioa•denter the Goo tett. the Ft st Lord or t he T r , sash , the Seertat.tti„..e! State(orYoe..go Alton and the Colonial tie. pertinent, the First Lord of the Al:tetralry, t Muter Gen rail of the Orina.te•, Ertl of Car-intuit, I.,,tfs •ep-afetrh,lieathlie A, and St. Iles. n'a, the Rev. Dr. Hail, Captain Agar, Mesa% Greville and Eavrisener The fiallawing had the honour of bring presented tO His MAJESTY• Lord Seaforth, upon his morn to En g land, torn the Go. vetnitaa!iiii ot Barbad.ea. The iti • Dr.11.:1, by Mr. lievetary Windham. upon his being appointed to the King's Profeasurshte of Datot.y, At 0 lleiveaemp of 0xf0,4 Captain Agar, by Lord Heetlikld r spot his p otaint,on in the Firm Kerman of Life (triads. Tae Loan CaireaiLoit, Lords GttENVILLE, Holtca, and SIDS ooze, had audience , ill His MA• WIT 'r i altos' Which His Mgt Mg held a Privy Couitc.:. A' fire o'cluek His Majesty set off on his retivn to VsTinci,or. Yeiterday the Minister enntraaed for another Lottery, to finish on the 23d May, to convi,t of 25,000 Tickets, the scheme, Days of Drawing, aLI Number to be drawn each Day (so as the sr: ole is concluded in Ten Days) to be at ;he option of the Contra/dors. The Gentleman who termed the Lists, were as follow 1111411 sod Iran 'comb. Rielia.d..in aryl 1.1.1. Cnpe Hensley and Palley. Tnogund and Cu The above G-ntlemen coalesced together, and gave 161. 10s. per Fickct. The Days of Payment as under: L. S. 24 Deposit . . I W March 17 . . . A val 1 . . . . 5 Three Days before Drawing 5 1..16 Id The relies will be r•ady shout Nd ndny , :ext. Ye.terclay, a Court of Direaors was held at the Fast India House. when the following Corn. minders took their final leave of the Court. prey .us to their departure for their respeaive destinations, viz.— Captain GlNrrp Wnod, Charlton. for Swebay direa. Captsin John A. Curnberlego, Surrey ; Captain T. Had. MIN Ceylon ; and Captain J. Sandalauda, %Valpule; fur Ma dras and Bengal. Captain S. Smith, Lord Hawkerbwry ; and W. Berm Aide Castle; for St I lelena and Reu s s:. • The Court adj•turned at six o'eloek.till to-morrow. In return for the Loan or Subsidy which we under. I stand is to be granted to Russia on the part of the British Government, the Court of Petersburgh have testified eleir gratitude, in a manner which cannot hut be welcome to the mercantile interest of England : it is said that the Russian Ministry have presented to the English Government. the draft of a Commercial Treaty, which puts the British Trade to the Baltic on a level with that of the Russian mtrchant, from port to port. —The greater part of the Alien Duties, as far as respects Great Britain, are to be taken off; and it is even expeeted, that Russia will employ her mediation with the Court of Denmark, to procure, in favour of Kagland• a most closiderable Jiminu tioa au the Duties paid at the &Lind. on Iwpnra probably scene t .flansbh ai e nbov:l 2 .sfeyw", anioni t heat h hhdd , :vtNg b ahi, 2n u etawc t : flneaa, i n sts tseGe:tirator corps h rtt :ae e n either sua.rcb t eb h tihnya e nt:: ~Conisg.bcrg, for which pur another article, dated Warsa Vteroa had previously disc same direftion . The 53d Bul Vicrua had been taken priso (role, as lie was travelling in It is more probable, howevci with his corps, on their way was in consequence of that • had been obliged to advance -whatever may be the precise I affairs, sufficient is admitted t of iliac in which Na%'s cm Lave been favourable to the I not as uniformly upon a s • they advance as opportunity French in their cantonments. in these papers state, that on I army. the troop% after abanc - . •• ..-z".•--. 1 A *oreck e ,_ ,--- .00 - i f... V.- -,... - --- 0 .1 i OS. lACIL \T The third Concert took place last night, under the diree9inn of the Earl of Detainer. The s•leßion was prircipaliy from frfaxoet. and Day nes. The firu t& comme ced with the ov.•rtute frnm deiarhes. The E-:n•tftil quintetto, /)e , i Pate ad eve core, was c iarmingly Own by Mrs VAUGHAN. Messrs. Gf$SS, HARRISON, WILLIAM KNVVETT.anci BATTI EMAN.and Intidly applauded. Mrs. Mots t sirs sang, I etwander, he haves, with greet sweetness and vivacity. The n•le oa St. Ctfilim't Day was finely given by Mr HA RILVON and M s. VAUGHAN, and rapturoittly applauded. hlessrs. HAR11•180/4 and CANTER'S beautiful glee, Oh Nanny wilt thav gen% site Nat IF was sung by Mrs. VAUGHAN, Messrs. W KNYVATT. H 42111091, and HARTLAM AN, and received such applause, as such music and such execution must always command. Such is the power of maic, that the severity of the night did not deter several nt she great world from hei g present ; mong‘t whom were— Their Royal Illghnessl, the Det,e4 e f Cambridge sled Cost heroine ; the Feria of Darnley, sort-•eu^, Dostoonti , .nd Utthrilit.; the Karl and Cou.tt.•r of IN maftehl ; 1.. l and 0,09..1. of Efrngha.n ; the Count-saes A;nbornltans and Banht . ; discount and Vive.tastress Aclthrnoke; Lords Ar den. 11.4tnn, and Macrt..n.od I Lad , a Arn'aer-t, Blaeket, Cave, CtronnaiDettlar,Thetilsemetreh, Mechem, Luca*, /teed, Lad Sir. Thum/ arid Lady PQsTRY. itiGF AM, ON Tier oitost TROPIC Tuft SIAOIIITIIaTES TO DE• sTe4T •LL p.m Toutto ICY Tar rriitaTs. Qa t al•Cssur. pour Dug' w , th hit mater revert gftys - r is .ne decree put..ne quite in denim ; Thu' ensiled. and th4r.gat mad, yet I've anise t• think stra..got, That Yrppie. vnivatfed at liberty NAM CiSAA'$ TIMING !WIND. Bri,t, 4 Feb. 17 Lord Co RIAS SoliansEr lett town, yesterday. f •r Fla 'm•• .;on. I'h. D•lc' ess of Geis es slept, last night, for the first time. in her new hou.e in Grosvenor- stoat,. The Countess -f CARDIGAN had a card party', last night. at her hno,e ip Lnwer Grosvenor-sti err. Lady E. ‘l..taa's party, la.t night, wis Attended law,:mis of two hun•irrd F.l•;w , mables. The. H n and Rta. L s.-;ct. a few days siAte spraint•l his right frint,'a. I will remain at the EATI of lle.a.T sou rtes noise, in Berkeley-square, until :Os recovery. The Eze.er and S?urhampton Mail Coaches ar rived y.sterday morning two hours and a half later than osual, owing to tin snow, which, en some parts t:f t e road. was too , feet deep. The E irl of Des ay turned ont a Deer, last Tees day. which afforded greet sport; h e was ta k.. 6 near Farnhorough. •hirty miles ftvrn the Osks. Hii Lords:l;p re; stried home from Farnborough, in a :also an I four. The Sacred Oratorio of T he Nraia 4. was per form ed, last night. at Covent Garden The ire, to an elegant audience. who honoured the ri for mance throughout with the most rai..:tirous applause. Yesterday the Cabinet 111;nivers dined with the Loan Cnaticsa.Loa. 41r."1' Genres La gives dinners on S:•:nr-day and Sunday, to newtons parties, at his house in the Admiralty. Qu Saturday Viscount SIOMOUTFI entertains the JUDO! ADVOCATE, the Juana A ovoe•ts of SCOT. L AND, the KING'S Anvoc stir, Mr. SIIILEsDAN, Mr. ritarrev, Lord R Seances and a numerous party of the Members of the House of Commons. with a sumptuous dinner, at his house in Gloucester-place. During the high wind, on Tuesday night, a great part of Richmond Garden Wall was blown down. Several trees in St. James's Park were likewise blown down. The Duchene' of Gowoon. RICRIOND, an I Sr. ALDAN'S j the Marchion,sses of SALtssuar, Haarsvoar LApsnowes, Wait:assay, DowNsuiaa. and &too : the Countesses 14 Cnol.monottay. Wisaiormotta. Coarse. and Saslow, were at the Opera on Tuesday night. Jamas and Perst.ev open their Theatre at Battle, in Sasser. this eveniag, with the Comedy of 7Lc Soldier's Davht.,. Arrivals at Gloucester House, Hotwells. Brit a 1... Hl.l Ow. the Duke Newcasti-; Her G•ar• the I), •ipiis 01 New asele; Sir Jo'.n H Res Mr. and Ars. ti• den; Mr. and Mrs. Daly ; Mr. and Mrs. Els ; M., S•nnh . Mrs Gr.rtism; Mr. Baker; &111.. LAMM@ i 111..11d M.S. Alcorn; Mr and Mrs. Marlin. Mr. HOLMAn'S benefit, at the Dublin Theatre, on Monday se'nnight. was numerously attend •cl. I receipts amounted to more that. 3001. Mr. Sr. Pi 's benrfi produce.' about 200 guineas. Mr. and Lady ELIZAIICTH WHITemcAD will give a grand dinner. next Sunday, at their house is Dover-street. On Sunday morning, a most excellent charity sermon was pteac'red at Berkeley-Chapel. John street, Berk-ley-square, by the Rev. Taos Rarest", DD. Dean of Wi-erester, and Master of the Temple, for the benefit of the Institution, called the Befoge for the Destitute." The °Ned of this charity is to provide places of refuge for per. sons discharged from prison, or the hulks. unfor tunate and deserted females, and others, who. from loss of chara,oer, or extreme indigent., cannot pro cure an honest maintenance, though willing to work. Nothing evinces more superinr;ty of Entertain ment at Am.'s's Pavilion, Ws ch-street, than the numerous resort of genteel company every night to this el,gant Theatre ; Eque.trian Science was never so conspicuous as at the present moment. The ele gance and gracefulness at Mr. CILOSSII 411 in this performance, is the admiration of all ranks—but, ahove all, his comic seting of Billy Barron, and his drollery on horseback at Brendord Eleti m, with the wonderful sagacity of the Tail or ', n•hite horse, beggars all description.—The veteran AST LIT knows well that such things will please the town, and that the town will not let tntrit go intrewar.ied. LAW INTELLIGF.Nrs. COURT OF KING'S B .N.,11, WtsTiAmsren, ra I Is. Salinv at Pr,,. lord Jiss e ELLAta PASAUI.TS MATULW V. lust. This was an union for ai.sauiiing the Plain•if, his • wife, and daughter, to which the Deleadant had pleaded a justification. that having a writ against the Plaintiff, he bed gone to arrest him, when ite endeavoured to escape. and the assault necessarily to-.k place. It appeared that the Plaint:o' was a reepedtabli schoolnasPer,resieing at Hendon, where he kept as • seminary for young ladies, which WAS superintended by Mrs. Mayhew, who chicly Inctr r. d her pupils in the musket department. The • Defendant was a shopkeeper in the strand. and previous to tkemooth of (Mohr* last, had two drighters, pupil: at this school, whom he withdrew from thence ab fire r t period. Madame Bernie, who had been French C vanes., and had left the Plaintiff before her sal.o y was pail, applied to the Defendant for his advice. how she should recover the money so due to her. A Writ was ire;ed against the Plaintiff, a:1 thy Defendant atitorripar•i•A a Sherif f 's OfEcer t., don, a order to arrest the Plaii.tiff. They did n•.t need in flndina him upon the , rays but in a few clays after, the Defendant and the B at an early hrlir in the morning, again r. paire c to the Plaint iff's house, when the I)efenda:.t went int r the setaelarwmv-fotrere the yoipug ladies were jest as semb.ing for the husin , vs of the moriiiip, and he appeared to be coun-ing their number ; which. being perceived by M Mayl•cw. , he potitely r , . " quested he w• add walk into the ni st room, where her husband arsuli wait upon Lire.-- He accordingly left-the school.rotim with sip: moist regret. misttefing &ast against Mrs. Mayhew, and calling her, before All her pupils, 5.01e - ,A indecent and opprobrious names. /le afterwards met :he Plaintiff hi an adjnining room, voted upon I. , and was dragging him away, wh: n Mrs. Olayhe • , her daughter, and several 01 the Loyiis, ran cut, and entreated his forbearance; but up n this he violently assaulted Mo. Mayh-w, knBek,d Les down, and dislocated her thuntb, so as to deprive erot the use of it for some length of time, accom panyrig the aCtion with this sipression. " D have (lane for your bands." kir next assaulted 111 s daeghter of the Plaintiff, and aiterwards the gat. dialer, who came up upon hearing the disturbance, Ina at last succeeded, with the assist.tice of the b. - tiff. in dragging the Plaintiff into a carriage, and conveying him to a lock.up.honse in London, settee he retrain:4 Ira , ' the ev-nieg, wham the debt was an I he was ace.orlirgy di charged. Mt GA a tow, far the Plaintrtf, observed, that ossultini, and ahnsing this Gotta. man was not the jca of the Defendant. He was aboot to set up is e;dest daugh.er along with Madame Bernier., in a rival sch )01, and his object was to ruin tee iti and his family, to pull down thor fabric, in or to exalt Mad::me f:erniet and his daeighter oprd ,heir ruins. Mid he the fe lings of a etas of honta.r, or of eratitiolo, rewards the per'ons who had care. fully and anxbasly supeton social toe education of i,is child, he would have at least sent the Plaintiff a decent attorney's letter, and the money would have keen paid at once ; but payment was not his obj-la; ..e wished to disgrace and degrade him, as would appear from the very words he made use of when this shameful transaehon took place: ° I)—n you, is not this enough to ruin Tour ichoo. The case of the Plaintiff was proved by several of the young ladies, and other witnesses. Toe first witness produced, on the :3,itt of the Defendant, was Wilson. the bailiff ; who stated, tit .t when he and the Defendant went iota th- rot m where the Plaintiff was, be demanded to see their warrant, which being prootwed, the Plaintiff. at the instigation of his wife. tore it in maces. a. d in endeavouring to get it back, a scuff • ensued, and he secured the Platntiff, who struggled to get locos On his rross-examiriation hy Mr G r COW, it cam. out, that a Bench Warrant was at that mom-n• on a against the witness himself, for his violence upon that occasion. Mr...1151M5, on the part of the Dioen.lant, was proceecing to examine more witnes e ; when Lord LLLI.%IIOROUGH observed, tot th. re did not appear one syrnioom of the Plaintiff's even at. tempting to escape, or of a rescue by the )(mug ladies. The Jury, alter a short consultation, bronght us a verdia of Wol. Damages, for the Plaintiff. TMS KING CIA 4ANT. This was an indiOrnent tor an assault. Mr. G•aaow, for the prosecution, stated, that the Prosecutor was a young gentleman, the sbn of General Lyman, American Consul. resident in this Coo. Some time ago t!e Qaneral placed his son at the school of Mr. Barnes, at hackney, and having an aversion to bodily chastisement, from his know ledge in military and naval discipline, directed that his son should not be flogged for any im,wepriety he might be guilty of, but punished by depriving him of pay houts, appointing additional tasks, & It haopened one day, while Mr. Barnes was c fined, and unable to attend nil school, that Mister Lyman and some ot:ler of the hays, during play. hour, had abused aad quizzed a Mr. Adams, a very little man, who was one of the assistants. He cm . plained to the Defendant, who was also an usht and acted as master for that day, when the latter insisted that the boy should go down tiorin his icier , , and ask pardon of Mr. Adam. The hey offered to beg pardon, but would not kneel down to di • $ upon which the Deten.lant took a bamboo cats Item his desk, and bee. bun violently with it, until be brdke it in several pieces upon him 13..ing hat subdued, lie fell on his knees, and booged par dust. The next Jay he was ali over braise., trim head t:, foot, in a much mire danoerols wiy than scarcely ever appeared in the course of niaitary chastroments. The Learned Counsel admitted, that by law every parent and master had a rg..t to exercise. whole. some and necsissary punishment upon their children. domestics, and apprentices, titt. in .sing so. they should not exceed the botrids of moderation. The tags wets proved by Ma-ter L man. who admitted his miscon.ind in *fr.:sing isft Adams. and by other witnesses, among whom was the , 6 • :~