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otallOuts 0001 P Uk arnb' 18(4 att. t tat icrru ~rh a .1.! •-.4ASEsLtaI of the Etwereerrit gown reh, ~te wade *aa comprised tii the former Treaty. re riTiON At2.I.I.NST THE ORDEttS IN COUNCIL. LOl. 6TipILEY -Keseuted a eetitio.s from the 31a:unit:curers of .tianehester, privily', to be iward a: their Bar against the Ortilms m Couyell. "[Ms Petitions was laid ono t the 'l'.tble, and or del ei CO be taken Cut° cOaSidc:olloa upou Tliur&- dxy uext. !ward intre. honk! a asy rCM 'lig a Pt'. to no F,aal 000' e ul rh IIIIICCI )r, 1,..- II iliary of i, tlx:: ri t on .l ' .nalrn es. :0, 111:1 low': the r% Char. n 4 %, rim, ed her' iW , N)/ w 1 .44di ORDERS IN COUNCIL BILL. The CUANCELLOA of tli! Ei:nl.4act:n. moved du, Order et the lluy fOr revuathi4 the udpittriied debate upon this 13111. • Lord Fovszs - roxi; expressed his sentiments at eolsideruble len,;th against the 11111 being resd third time, before the t'etitions which had beet presented against such o'hnittiuus ineiesures should be coasidered, and the Petizioners heard by their Counsel at Inc 'l34r of the House. To advance this Bill further beiare Thursday test, the day ap rointA for heti. lug thi Petitio.rerJ, w.,s iferogatery Ii coal:dun reuse, decency, aLld justice. It was evidently iuvulting the felingii of the people who thus onjected to it, to say, that the House would pios the wiry Bill they were objecting to, before hi,,.ring what they bad to sae. He should., themrort,propose, ay 113 . 11tnetidunent." That the d,c bate upon this Bill be adjourned to Monday seu aight." The CIIANCELLcsit of the EXCIZQUER conceived that the opinion of the House had already been 'taken upon that point, and that it had been deter mined. deliberately, that this hill, being partly for Objects of revenue, (mild not be obstructed . by throe retitisog. If, after the mil had parsed, it sire thotigt.t necessary to repeal it. the Petitioners bad still the liberty of addressing His Nlajesty. Col. STANLEY spoke in favour of the amend- Meat. The amendment was then put, and negatived without a diriwan. - - Mr. ALEIAND:ta BANN° then entered at great kWh intu a gnu:scats against the BitL Ile said, it was evideat. that Erance had uever iiiteiscied to tarry their tJecrees into execution, so that our measures of rt.:lllation were unneeessary. 11 Mi wirers bad taken tweemres of conciliation with America. the embargo would not have taken place, and lmt with that country would hate heci avoided. Mr. STSVINI maintained, that the arguments addl:eft by tire Honnurable Gentleman who had lola sat down. were incoasistimt. and inapplicable to our Illettaiureb aganza A inerica. hlr. A texas r0..2. Baer Nu explained, and sup ported hts former arguments. Mr. /toss said. ne man would deplore more than himself any snisunderamediag between this country and America. ,The late measures were not intended before that colintry ; and in every rase that came before the Learned Judge who presided iu *Or priacipal .1 4 rise Court, reery leuity and coil eenienee were manifested toward: bar. In every ease of uniest detention, he gave costs and da mage*: anii : e private ship of War bad been deprived of her license of letter of rifirque, for having abused the power with. wlsich she was vested. Mr. Moat denied the applicetion of the law of retaliation wheu applied to the interference with neutral rights, and wan sorry to have heard such opinions as had fallen Nat the Lcarued Judge last night upon this subject. Mr. ILA dtkaded the useesure of -the-Orders in Conare.. inth Ebarended that we wciejnatilied ie 11hern by the :nu!tiplied aggressions of trance, and 'by the law of self-prevervatossaad retaliation. The botacerow-Geetaat entered at length inter. defence of the Bill. Ile rnainttiaed that it was of inauite importalics at this awful period of the world that we should stand high in point of moral character its the eye* of Europe and the world. Ili therefore cuuld not but deprecate the attempts that had been made to depreciate it, by holding up those measures as violations of all law wed jiidice. lie contended they were, under the - circumstances of Europr,.perfeetly conformable to, and consistent with, the Lam of Nations, and that they wereigoveroetl by principles of the soundest policy. Mr. GRATTAN, in a speech replete with sound argument and eloquent expression, declared his de coked hostility to the uutasure in discussion. He felt that, to Great Britain. ker name, her principles, sad her moral chareeter ' at all times necessary, were now iudispesiable ; because, whatever dim"- wished the credit of her reputation, whatever ren dered a disregard fot moral principle the measure of her actions , however it might afferd a temporary benefit to her interests, must, in the result, prove degrading to her character, amid consequently irre coverably' impeir, if not destroy, the sources of her power. With such Ito impression fixed upon his mind, he deprecated the system which should force. by au impolitic and uujustitiable violence, a war between this country and America.-- No measure could be more improvident. and so more precipitate Minister could exist, than Lim who should Kopttee it. It went to as eleiiite your cause with the views and principles .f France. and carried in the fleets of Eng land the spirit of French domination arrow time waves of the Atlantic. Indeed, however • highly it alight be rated for inenediatecoromerciel profits, in its ultimate effects upon England and the world, it was the extreme of insanity. The Hight Honour able Gentlermin next proceeded to a coasideration of this measure, as regulated by the public law of smtions. He did uot see that Minister had attempt ed to prove the only justification on ullieh their measures could be supported, 'timely, the acrlics eence of America iu the French Decree. It was true, that they had recommendvd their policy with an abundance of seal, only to be equalled by the de ficiency of the artzument. They totally forgot that paramount considersstinn, the manner in which it was ad riiihistered. Had they afforded a single proof to justify their rigorous measures against Ame rica? line they forniAlcii a single ease where that nation had .nbuntted to the requisition. of France? Surely in such :la absence of [Tamil, law ought not to be vir;luted, and the eltarrett e and polity of , this great caprice forfeited and disgraced, !sty its wanton imitation of French violence mid Ftench oppression. 144,1 America such a system of conduct In espvt from tins cownry ? Ou the mu test'', did not the mild yet dignified, the forbearing yet determined disp.tteli of Lord I hevick, declare to the American Gover.i• •ent, that as long as they abstained 'from an acquhisceues to that De- THE BRITISH PRESS. LL N DON, SATURDAY, Mace 13. To a question put, last night, in the House of Lords, by Eurl GRLY, relative to the Subsidiary Convention with Sweden. Lord MULGRAVE an swered, that the sum of 1,4200,0001. therein sti pulated, is exclusive of prior engagements with that Power, amounting to 3 or 400,0001. a-year— The whole amount of the annual subsidy stipulated to be paid by this country to Sweden, thus appears to amount to little short of a million and a half. The Insolvent Bill was thrown out, tact night, in the Homo of Lords. One of the papers of yesterday, devoted to Mi nisters, which speaks exactly. what is set down for it, contained the following paragraph "A ',other late Debate, last night, 'meaning Thursday night) . and upon the repeatedly discussed subject of the Orders in Council '.—Tbe Debate lasted till between fire and sis this morning. Several divisions were pressed by the Opposition, —The first, on the question for deferring the third reading of the LID till Monday selinight ; the second, on a question of adjournment ; the third, on the question of aii:inuni meet ; the fourth, on • motion for the reading of the Or den iu Council. At half past Aye o'clock the Debate yes adjourned till to-day, when the• Douse is expected to sit es late as it did yesterday. It is astonishing that 31inistein, also are thus kept in the House from four o'clock iu the afternoon till fire is the moroiug, can find time for the dis patch of the business of their respective Offices." We (=mot pais, without bouic o!Arriiiione, the flesh sample of candour. The Copenhern Eerie. • dition has been sought to be justified by Ministers on the precedent of the Expedition to the Darda nelles. The late, rigorous and i,upclitic Orders in against neutral commerce, they attempt to j umtify on the preeedent of the Order of the 7th Of January, 180(i. As Ministers are so partial to precedents—as they are so fond of referring to the conduct of their predecessors, in justihcatiou. of their own, they surely cannot in candour refuse the same measure of justice to others which they , claim for themselves. We hope then it will re move a little of the dreadful horror which they feel at the late debate, and four divisions, which took place in the House of Commons, on Thursday night, if we remind them of their own conduct when in Opposition. It will be seen, on referring to the proceedings of Parliament. on Friday, the 30th of May, 1406, that the House of Commons had been 'denoting in a Committee, from five o'clock on that day, and until tliree o'clock on Saturday morning, on a motion made by Mr. Wixtmast, to leave out certain Words in the Mutiny for the purpose of intnalucing in theit dead a clause limiting the period of enlistment to seven years. Through the whole debate the wowis to be left out and the words to be substituted were diecussect together, and: Mr. Wtsitou's motion having been earned by a great majority, it might be expected that the subetitutioo would follow ; but Mr. Pencevot. and his friends took a different course, and insisted that the words to be substi tuted should be debated over again, and they kept the . Ileeast sitting until 6 o'clock on Saturday morniug, during which time they divided the House seven times, fuse of them upon the motion, "that the SPEAKER do now leaser the chair ;" PEIU;EVAL contending that the word " now" being applicable only to the present moment, it punt be, whenever put, a new motion. and consequent ly diet he might divide the, Hose* upon it as often as he pleased. We wish the retainers •of Mr. PeacevaL, who now think it so hard and cruel that Ministers should be . troubted with such a thing as debate in the House of Commons, to refresh their memories by reading the report .of this proceeding on the night to which we 'Meade; which they will find correctly given in / rue Bo- TISR Peess, of the 31st of Maw, and tbeitd of June. 1806. If precedent he as effectrral ground of justi fication, they will there see how inll4 and nierci ' ful their successors are, :aid how far they fall +hart of the example. But the whole of the case of that night is not,. perhaps,' 1 the recollection of the public. Mit yoesditooke ens piping fast ape him at that time, and the change in his constitution was no secret to the that Opposition. With this knowledge, and although he was then, in addition. to the ordinary business of his office, engaged in ' the arduous tusk of conducting a negociation with France, Mr. Ps.actvat; and my Lord C4STLE RE ten, had no mercy nor pity for. him. Sews times did they divide the House, four times upon a repetition of the same motion, while Mr. Fos sat worn out and exhausted, and almost writhing with Pain. Sir EDMUND NAB= seas yeaterday appointed Cummicider Chief of the squadron on the Jer 'sey and Guernsey station, in the room of Sir JAMES SAUMARGZ, who is to be employed in a Secret Expetliticit. We have received some more Foreign Papers and Letters, of which those front Hollandoreto the 7th, but their contents are of no iiiterest. The French Mission to Persia, coodtict:id by Ge neral GIRDAMNI, which has been so often men tioned in the Foreign Journals, arrived on the frontier of that empire in the beginning of Novem ber; and the report of the actual entry of the Rus sians into Swedish Finland, is revived, but it ap pears *till to want continuation. The private letters from Halmd are to the 7th instant. Souse of these state, that fresh orders had been given for the rivirous euforcement of the late order of eushargo. A vessel arrived at Liverpool from New Bruns wick, is stated to have brought Aineriran Papers to the .26th of January. The embargo still conti nued, and had eseited much dive ,teat. One hundred and fifty seamen, it is added, had deelnr ed themselves British subjects, and demanded to be restored to their country. Yesterday, *limit one o'clock, the hmly.of a man was discovered in the ileservoir, helonging to the New River Company, Ly some•hers at play. Ile was naked, with his throat cut ; his clothes, tre,re ther with a raziir-oase, were lying by the side of the water. On the hogs making it known, the beadle attended, and, with assistance, had t:i.• body of the unfortunate man conveyed to a house, near the spot. He was owned by his brother, from whom it ap pears the deceased was • Serjraut in the Nliddle sex Militia. We have the satisfaction to state, that hv order of His Royal Highness the Prini e of N ALIA, Patron of the Society for snoerseiling the ne cessity of Climbing Boys, Sic. the Chimney- Sweeping Maritime has been introduced it.t3 Carleton-hoiie: and that, in e:ery instance, it has been used with complete sin:yes,. Yesterday evening:d adame CATALANI arrived here, to owe, us she tends it, the tint of two Sub 4 acription Conceits ; as early as three o'clnbh•iu the Afternoon, scores of Ladies and GentlyineoMEter untied to have good seats, were crowding at the doors of the New Assembly Rooms, and, two hears before the commencement of the performance, the room was thronged ithno3t to suffocation. Expect ation was on the tiptoes all the levers of sweott sounds, eagerly anticipating the most delicious of all harmomons treats, thought every moment an as,e, whey, at ball after seven, Mr. Raoul= enter ed, attended by Mr. BENNETT, and the latter ad dressed the astonished audience as follows • Lau:ars suf! G 88888 POI gOrry to• it:fore:lß that Mvisme Catslani, by travelliug all *Ott, GUI • serene cold, io,d is asiferipg wider a dreadful koarseneas sad wire ilir:iat ; otill, so Oise a anxious w perform to at Fist of her sbilities, sl.e will appear Wore y bet btirs you will idiots der to iotAitiste other some for Uwe, disticidt atm mentioned in dm bills. Never did ~./estitasereeseeddetre chime in an audienre--aoase thought they had bees tricked by the conductor—others that it was one of those fcirda great performers ocessiooally practise, in _order to make their exertions appear still the more woo- - derful ; but their conjectures were soon set at rest ; she entered the ofehestre pile and languid, and at tempted au easy air, which was traniposed a th;rd lower for her ; but all was vain, not the ahados of a note remained : and thus situated, the remain der of the Concert was performed a- soon as possi ble, without apolainie,- without atteritmu—and the conductor made his bow amidst complaints and inurniurs, " rut . lend, Ina deep." I nersorry to add, that CATALANI is very much indisposed to day I and the second Concert, which was adverf tited for to-uvorroe, ( Friday ;, is postponed uric! next Wednesday se'neight. I understood she sets _MT for London to-morrow, for the best advise, sad suppo-e to exonerate herself from finer at Ufa Opera-Iluuse. ORATORIO. COVE WT.CM LOIN. The selection, last night, consisted of the favourite .Sere is of Ads anti Galatea. rthia was delightfully performed by Me. Ifitssisls, Mr.. DIf3LONS, Madame Dosses. Mrs. BLAND, Mass Bovrors, Mr. Goss, end Mr. BELLAMY. BLAND was loudly applauded in * 4 Ironhi you goisa a tender creature.' Al.. BIZAP/All WWI nip. turously encored in "Lose syue..:4 the darn; he also sang, in the happiest stile, flaunt.. Ilea sweet air 'to Sir JOHN DALLAS. " Strike. strike the Herp,". and received unhouttd- ! ed applause. Mrs. Dtcnosis was most rapturously mowed in 0 ! had I Julia's lyre." The whole ended wjtji Lite grand chorus el w Live, hoe ,*r ener." The house was crowded, and the company Si—. _ IMAL CONCERT. The fourth of these elegant Concerts.* Messrs. HARRISON, Tkaavtritair, and Gaa.asoatia, touk place, last night, and was brilliantly attendvd:— The resection boasted much novelty, and was highly applauded. Mr. Halarscia and Mr. TI.E3LILV mere loudly favored iu DAN*" beautiful duet, As I saw fair Clem wa'k abroad. A new Glee, for four voices, was much applauded, the words by Bt.nou TICLD, and the mune bv Caordit. Mrs. BILLINCTON Wes in fine voice. aid sweetly sang, la sweet harmtney they /it'd; she also joined Mrs. VADGEIAIY, Mr. Ilsainsort, and Mr. ll•a- TLFAI.Ve in Mi. BILARAM'e beiULifill air of hide"' Ellen, h'arisouised for tour voices, by Mr. Has aisow ; and the whole performance went off with great spirit. Amongst the company were— 'Mir Rove itidtmemes the Dukes of Somme and Cam hahlgo; the harts of Qxford, Pomfret, end Altenvout z !ha I:mantes§ of Oxford; Ve.mano Curzon ' • Ladies Lucas, Mae. queen, and Dien; the Hots. Mem Caveadisk; sowl Uncoil - Holm. The Venerable Earl of ORFORD was tutiehlfetS ter last 'light. • The Countess of DAR in FT had het first party. last &runty, at her house io Berice , e)-scia'art, which ids attended by the principal Nobibtr in town. The Countess of Essex had. a select card patty, Jest evenitnr, at her liou.e in Berkeley:4onm. .I%lmb:tine-CATALANS lotd not arrived at ner hOttse its Leicester-tields, Just rii•ilit„ but was expected et twelve o'clock this day. The Nbachioness of Sattlavtur had a grand rout, last evening, at her hirnse in'Arliugton-street, which was numerously attrit4ll. Autougst the companv were— The lintebstors of Nitettotothretangt, Bukea, Ley* out Dr coissies ; Sittrehionetoes rot tittattat, Ahsressit Doooettire, Month. star, sad Both ; the Coooteosse aso4 mondt-ley, earclivin, Stile., oak liorrystsore. The new Comedy announced at Drury-lane Theatre, is written by Mr. K NET, to whom the public are so much indebted fur Ella Rollenterg, the Opera of l'alse iitorms, the Musical Farce of Matrimony, and the very huutourous one of Rais ing the Wind. Mr. Sur RiD tee Comedv of The Rieeels, witktba Farce of Raising the the part of Noire by a private Gentleman, for that might only, by ' desire of the (;entlemeti of the hunt, was to be perform , ed last Itig,ht at the Northampton Theatre, *hick crowded every night. The Duchess of I:101140ND gave a trvan.l ball, en the lid instaii.., at Dublin Castle. The Duke rs:wneti the h.lll with the Countess of Mayo, and was followed hy several couples of merry dearer. ; they afteres•da adjii,urned to supper; w!lun! they withetoLui a fitsphy of - gold plate, "c•evered with every driirltry of the season, t!,e first wines, While the I), ! ehess, be her lineal gain ed the levrts th•• Lillie-, the bed close siege to the head , of the ...relitloinen. Tl•e (7!;tb 1,...h1 us meetitii,l7 for the pre. mat ea Titc , ?.sy last. Mr. Bilge: way iu,the Chair, Lit nothing worthy of tavtice 'amens& Ai 111, •• 1 . .g ? '" gik.• '611 % r . -.0 - , • 1111 MADAME (drALAIVI. MITILACT OF • LETTER 111011 ■ail, DAM* MARCH 10. eree, so Tong **lid this country abstain - from the adoption of the measure's of a juatitied re tidied:tom To proceed ot her s4' Ile wad ILISiIDi tut. Mg your policy to that of a rower, who re svted no ,riglit, or admitted of uo neutrality. however Caught in the s t stract, there were cireurnstauccs with respect to !reload, which ought to have recommended • more and a more honest po'iey. That country depeuded upon the im!lortation of flax-seed from America, for the raw material of itastapte commodity, the linen trade. It deocuded Ameneit for a great consumption of-that manufacture. In what way, then, was that manufacture, so vitally impoitaut to the iutere,ts and prosperity of Ireland, affected by these orders of commercial rigour? It heft this effect, that. at the last linen market iN the Metropolis of Ireland,. not one-fifth' of the linens exposed for sale were puritased, amt what were sold were at a deprectatioa of in per cent. for foreign, and lu per cent. for home consump tion. There was itho a considerable want of pot ash for that branch of Manufacture, as well as a consideralle deticieitcy of staves, so tnuch want ing for the South of Ireland. On every view, he knew of no greater addition to the calamities of the world than an American war. In the present cinmnistances of the distracted globc, that nation which yielded most to avoid such a state of hostility, was the nation of most undemanding. In such a contest, victory and defeat were synotd moils terms; as v. hatever, in point of success, each s onld ohtnin over the other, would be no thing more th .n the secumitlated gain of Fraace. Much had b , en said of the host de seal of the .American Cn.tgress, and of the warmth with which its Member. debated the stature of the relations existing bet reen the two countries. Have we not hrd argy debarts in the Briti..h Parliament ? is it to affix an evil character to the warm contentions of this House? Let oft, then, recollect, that Allll. rice was animated by a sivark of the same spirit, that the attack would be between the parent and the child. It would tie wo a Isccanne it would then he freedom arrayed a ainvt its Litilred spirit. De pend upon it, that a . h ivisr wilt give the title deed of inheritance to the dynasty of Ilona:la:tr. It will . • lace these two Island . the brit place of liberty, between two tiki widely sacritice the tasc 'pot of that tlAert.-1 where it will he possible for a freeman to trial. And for what purpose shall we realize such au evil on Eng- . Isuid, on the world, on the last resoneee and future hopes of ?—Forsooth, to gvt a, tuarket 14)r sugar—aaischievous policy ! Cue the tritit•lt Par liament eu soon for et, that the imposition of a Tea Tax on Autericu brought on a l':operty Tax upon England. Beware how you ettablish France in America, aid by your frunte quartet with that nation, enlist the navy of Etigla”il in the servife of BOnsparte. The ocean protests cgal,t4 the cats mitv, and will an infatuated Ministry proceed ? Mr. BANILILII argued ably on the same side. and conjured the ;louse to pause before it proceeded . in that career of violence against neutral status. Mr. WI t osseous supported the measure; and Lord Iles RY - P STTY MSe, at two o'clock, when he entered into a most perspicuous statement of the consequences which would result from these measures, and cautioned Ministers of their respon sibility for the system of political empiricists whiel‘ibsy were pursuing. Mr.SocretaryCANNlNS conceived that the mea sure wool t ultimately tend to support the British commercial co wittition and her naval superiority at sea. He entered lame ;.urea refutation of the doctrines laid down by tl e Noble Lord, and con cluded with strongly urging the necessity of the measure. Mr. Werrnaean answered Mr. Canning in a very animated speeeli ; hr considered the princi ple laid down by the Right Hon. Gentleman who preceded him, ns totally• subversive of the commercial policy of the country. lie was anxi *as the (louse should vindicate its character by an almost unanimous opposition to the measure pro posed by His Majesty's Minister, Mr. Rosy; plaine I ; aft r which a division took place, when there appeared for the Bill— Ayes lgo Noes M‘jOrity PO) 'The Hnn4e adjourned at SIX o'CI,OCK, this morning (Sst irday), till Monday next.