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last s, ssinv , be (air F. Burdett) saw no grounds for the stateineut ; the reports he: belied were fond to be very accurate. Conattlering the dis sdesottges under whicb they were executed, it app • red to him flea they were done with consi ea d e rable ability—(Hear! haw !)--And he much tivuted whether uny change would be for the b ol ter, which paroled that it should be conducted ithier the authority of the House, rather than by those who had no oilier interest than to tell the truth. He was surprised to hear the Standing Order spoken of as such a sacred thing, when all their practice went to prove that it was otherwise. Ile thought the relaxation of that order portico lady necessary since the union with Ireland. He sashed that the House should keep well wish the public. He olijected to the practice, which was o wing ground of late, of drawing analogies be tween that Houle and the inferior courts, and denied that there was any similitude between their nrorredings and those of a Grand Jury. What' was !;,. use of secrecy to this case ? All they waked to have s subject technically before them, ;.:'i was alreotly known to all the world— ar!htae was well known how many . ....... . . .. , ,- ,1 irri.hed. what treasure and blood were thrown ;way. Hetitnceivied thus to exclude the public, anon such an occasion, was an insult to them ; they hid almady determined upon a public inquiry ; whe then should they s-ek to constitute themselves lilt. li Pc...vet cornn:ittee ? They were sick in repute ton, and should du every thing in their power to 'snort the I t•le that remained to them. Mr. Snr.nt DAN said, that it wail with great and t ribiti,ned relit( ta , tee he took advantage of the in dellinee whit.n . the House was in the habit of vitiating to those who submitted motions .to its consideration; but after %hat had fallen from h,. Right Honourible Friend (Mr. Windham), lie Mimed be wanting in the respect which he tined to himself. to the House, and to the pal.ic, if lie did not wrail himself of the op r‘iii• • 't to make a few remark*. it was, he - i•y ilsitiglit, 14ouiething istnoillar. that no one from the trnin-ite cdr, but the Right lion. Gest. who had stirred the Standing Order, should hare taken part in the olubate. He (Mr. Sheriden) had stated expli e:tly to the Nob:e Lard, and to his colleagues, who scents° coin owned in the inquiry, that it became Mein to come turivird, and if they did not mean to stie:ttr tin madves under the concealment at lls,ited to he r• sorted to. to declare it in the face 81 the country. (Year, her.) But he would is n from them, and from their conduct. to the eK. travagaiit doctrines of his Right, Hon. Friend, against %Lich hr mar anxious to protest. His Rt. Item. Frteml had commenced moll criticising his atannee, a subject of which he himself was the soly fudge, a. its alone ligi in polar ssion of the pri sate re .•0 3 which caused and justified ir. HIS Rig: i Ilan. Fiieud had taken much oftener be nt lie !.e au, nut present when an important party quesit,a %,a, to be discussed, which was likely is suite N;iiii-terv. acid. that he rather pre- Pima caini.i; dons,. when qui-Atom affecting l'arliin.-i t. tt , elf were brought under consideration. 'il hit cc his eimillict aas approved or not. he f oill.t aeLne,,leitge, th.tt, i f .tie too descriptions of question,, the latter a.:: # . that to which he would scour sectifice his prii-ve convenience, as he e:nnyht it mere important to hi* public duty. A Itar: queutue of party should ne ver possess such seer. with ha l . Ile heard Gentlemen upon one Wit 3 - :14131g rsAinis'ers of incompetence. and Ma arten, upon t; e other, retorting the Charge ; and it as. risichle tnat the country, in a civil compro mise between them, might incline to believe both. Ili, Han. Friend I/ al pleased to compliment humus a frinid to the linerty of the press; a friend to it he "Thuril: els% sad be was proud to Ise so considered. A, is Gm releion of patron es:client, he should only al, that if indeed he was the patron of the press, hr ass a z.elous one; if the lawyer, he was a distill. nostril one; lie acted without fee, for even the re writ (..1 its flattery did not attend him.—(Hear ! ker!)—But his Right Honourable Friend, with all h ilipprthrUllloll3 of a free priv, with all the dim& rsiit, ge , h e gnrib i ,t, l l to it, 1,.!, iced willing enough is own,. in with him far a .hare in the creitit of be fn. n4l l its liberty ; if such was the fraternal enl ist...a...be proposed, tie ("Jr. Slit.:iilal) must beg to he ". used. U. clamed no participation in the ' 2 " O - I, '• of i i, litrht Iliii.ourable friend upon tint ens . , i r.-- shat . 0 (4 hi4gh )—lint it bad been asked, I '4 • ,r ..;”3 re Ll:ttli truin it? and whether the rum I;r\ .1.41:11,• inn; ii• lilty tears ago. Wall not as lyel. nt brit. r r,ti 114,1 i it this moment ? 11.. would 1, Cot into tile , 'Aimee-latch of all the ad va nt age s :lc r -u:ted, out he would say, undervalue it 2$ 16. V , iogl . t, gtte turn the liberty of the pre.* alone, rid i.e soul.l giie Nlinisters all the means of op. 0 '" „ tiny ciiuhl 1% lib for, he would give them a '' .lllol ll'e 14 Peer s is cunupt House of Corn t''.... NI:(I till t;le corrupt application of which "e. tin:rti:uents were susceptible, yet he, ii.t literty of the press won with 'A 'hake down all their e.crot. in tires, or a l ii.hdplish the true principles of 0: Corbtita.ion, and the rights and privileges of Nple—;:f load awl gerieral bora, a/applause!) ,ffect%, winch, in his omnion, a her ' 46 C llClllated to 'notifies. What he corn nue.l of in the minims which the Right Hon. !•tb..llsis had iu.id.?, was that he stated no reaa •fo .. I,el ~1.11 turn out the strangers if he would. '..rut let I i 0 iii r souse ground for so doing— ""' Ewe 'hem some room for anying, that • , r..lo,ii•al proceeding. and, not as it iiiipe.ii-..1 - .t, pr..pesterotis and af.surd. (11eari hear !) .;e 4,t time in his life, he was almost inclined .. i Vint night t , -.at the Stsuding Order was en .""d, s..d rtricigers excluded from the ‘Allery ; ' •si inclined to wish it from affection to his Ht. ll' • I iiend, whose speech would by thut niesiis '-' IA lii. rupretire or a repo-. Gokstieln' ,l l te rrors edit Vitors a the liberty of the 1 , 1-.• s 17 7 L. • n et %rut the leiNtb of sa, tog, tLat it w..% . I, s, 'hat it would !tad is the dow n h i ll c f t h e '.' '-'y t: , y had inked , triumphantly, wino w.n. t. '' '!.le o' the country, whi n no suc h Id a .. tv I IP-silted % Perhaps cotnihintively rcy is. it , "sloe 1 021^, he was not one of those who waa 't L . ": to dra w a det.polldits?, it eture of the present 'itei: he crinsiderid that wr 'to-KO upon a proud I "' e nte--(Hear ! Aro,- I).—`:nr were we a little , 41 .1 ii i that situation I y th • ini:d!eitv of their Li'vv.liogs; in s , :.,rt, ii , . tan .f tort very libertV I ." / "" in' lir" d in Fro, tot us ilaliwerrio,-- * III iew- !) - -Tlic cuul.try might ii .te iicen 14 %Ile THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON. WEDNESDAY. Fasatuar 7. Yesterday. at twelve o'clock, a deputation of the Catholics of England waited upon Earl GILT and the Right Hon. WILLIAM Willman, and .deli vered into their hands, the Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, of that most respectable body. The galling and degraded state in which the Catholics of England are placed, calls the attention of every enlightened man, an i of every well-wisher to his country. Is it in the spirit of the Union. that the Dissenters of Ireland should be exonerated from all tests, and that the English Dissenters should have weary civil and military situation in their country denied to them ? The Casette of last night contains the official account of the gallant achievement ofiGuadatutipp, of which we gave some particulars yesterday. l'ri rate act omits state. that Capt. Congos, of the Hozatd, was uhfottunately killed by one of his ism mid.hepme•n, who mistook him for ■n enemy. in eonscgwzne•p of ni. having the French flag wrapped round his body. timid*loupe Las probably fallen before thw time. —An att..rk warto be made upon tt with 10,000 men, gib() %I t the worl.lle of last month. A short, hut very animated and important dehate, t t,k 1);.4, e. but eight, in the !louse of COUIIIIOI9. Upol. t:.e inotiou of 31r. Stu RI tit to •ospenJ the Sr.v: :?‘ Order for the ea , tucost of -1140006 f en fn.c..d by Mr. Yuacc, to the c of the loin:ry into the Welchem:a Expedition. Mr. SHUMAN'S manly end liberal exertion* were nut crowned with success, but in each a close we would rather be the defeated than the victonous party. • In the curse of the debate, Mr. WI NDII4III inuulged himself in a most extraordinary attach upon the pnbl:c press, of which we regret it is not in our power to take ',to per notice until to-morrow. Last night, in the House of Commons, after the exclusion of straugers, Mr. Tnouss )(KATIE, Surgeon-General to the Forces, Victi examined, in the Committee upon the luqui: y into the Walcheren Expedition. We understand, lie stated, in the course of his evidence, that lie .could not send an additional supply of Balk to thin Island, without a direct authority from Covc•riiment, which authority he never received. His examina tion did not close until half past 1t o'clock. After which Mr. Koine r, Apothecary to the Forces, was called in ; but, we understand, his examination produced nothing but a dry medical detail, and did not tend to elucidate any of the material points in question. The House adjourned at half put 12. The Committee will sit again to-morrow. A Mail from the Brastli reached town last morn ing. It left Bahia the 24th of October, and Rio ' Janeiro oa the sth of December. The letters, wa understand. captain some further particulars of the late patriotic movement in some of the Spanish Proinuces in South America. We understand, that the dispatches received on Monday, by the Court of Directors, from Lord CALsnott, at the Cape of Good Hope, aiinniii,ce the complete resteratioo of tranquillity ill and that it is cot ovreisary to send'anc military force to Madre,. Yesterday ' shout half put twelve o'clock, their MS.IIIITIES, Princesses AUGUST A . ELIZABETH. and Sorffiri. attended by Lady SYDNEY, arrived. in twu carriages. at the Quacres Palace. from Wind sor. escorted by a party of Light Horse. The Prin cess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER. and the Dukes of CUMEERL•ND and SUSSEX. dined with the QUERN and Pluncgsgra. In the evening. their MAJLETIES had a select party to tea and cards. This day. His Menne will hold a Private Levee and Privy Conucil, at the Quest's Palace. To-morrow, the Qmetn will hold a Drawing. rooiri, at St. Jamss'. Palace. Earl GREY, Lord GRIEVILEC, Lord Potted's ?Ca, Mr. WHITIMEAD, Sir Jolla CoI HIPPS.SLEY. Sir JOHN Nswenter, and the Earl of Essai, bad a long conference. yesterday morning, with Mr. Pons° sae. at his house, in Arlington-street. Yesterday. Sir DAVID DUNDAS held a public day, at his Office, in the Horse Guards. and gave asdiesces to -‘ number of military officers. S 4 DAVID will hold public day.. on Fridays and Taco days, dining the rutting of Parliament. We have rex-co% eti n copy of tile " Instructions," nr Regulations. ii,sned by the Supreme Junta of Spain, prescribing the manses in which the Depu. tie. to the Cones are to be amen. The anode of election seems to be founded on the prin ciples laid down in the first French Constitution. —The Parishes are to elect the Members who shall represent their in the District of Assemblies; these, the Representatives to the Provincial Meet. lags ; and the latter, the Deputy to the Cortes. Mr. HAY. the S ecretary to the Irish Catholics, arrived in town, yesterday, at FLADONG'S Hotel, Oxford-street. When this Gentleman first came to Fnz,land oa peblic business, which was sith a Pe -1.10,1 from the county of Wexford, upon the recal of Lord I. ITZWILLIAsi from Ireisnd, nothing could have evinced tne general 'pint of the country, and his indefatigable industry, more titan his having ob tained 210161 signatures in the abort space of one week. A vessel is arrived at Plymouth in fire day* from Villa Viciosa, in the vicinity of Gijon. The Captain writes to his owner, that the Spaniards were reported to have attacked tho centre of the French army un der View's, which they had defeated; but that a strong body of the enemy, under King Jammu, bad penetrated into thr kingdom of Valencia. A Court of Common Council was held yesterday, wLicb was numeronalf attended, at which the Committee of City Laois presented a report in re lation to removing Smithfield Market, upon which a long debate took place. and it was finally resolved. upon a division, by a majority of sixteen. that the Report sould lie upon the table. and the former Resolution of the Court for its retuov,l he rescioded ; and it was referred to the Committer to treat with the Governors of St.Bartholanien 'a Hos pital, for their ground near Hosier-lane. Cow-lane, and Smithfield, for t:.e purpose of etdariong the market. The Irish Society for the year ensuing was ap pointed. and Ense.tan Wm.'s', Esq. Elected De putv-Gowernor. Mr. EDWAIIe FausT WILS appointed • Go of Christ's Hospital, is the room of Mr. Cannot, It was referred to a Special Committee to coosi der its relation to the number of Common Council men for tt.e NVerd of Cripplegste Within being in eomplr-A, and to report thereon to the Court. A Deputation to Dir. Simms Ltattl. as Cot lector ortbe Tolls (or navigating on the River, was sealed with the City Seat. A COOtabau Council will be held on Thursday. Eighty thousand poutids will be gaiiicd by one Number, on the 14th of the present month, when the whole of the State Lottery, contouring prize money to the amount of two hundred thousand pounds, will be decided in twelve hours. So long as Tickets or shares remain for sale, they may be hod st the Old Fortunate Offices of Maw',sox. GooDLoctt, and Co. .• Nothing vtnture nothing hate' is an adage which every one should hear in mind—e 'weevilly as the •torpicious day anotroaebts, when the adventure of a were trifle must. in a re. Lnur. , realize to many noble inci•-petkilenre. '- WITT and Co.'s °lke.' are reeornmesided, as hs.tog bran %er e fortu nate to those who purchased Twkets •nd Shares in fume: 14ttetirs. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTZ. .Admiralty-o.ffice, Feb. 6, MO. The following ace C opies of Dispatches which have been received at this Offce, front Vice-Admi ral the Hon. Sir AlesanderVochrtne, 'K. B. COM minder-in-Chief of His Majesty's ships and vei brio, at the Leeward Islands, addressed to John Wit ten Cruker, Evq. . Poiapee, Fort Royal Roy, Martha**, December it, Sta—l send herewith the copy of a letter from Captain Ballard, of the Blonde, detailing the patfie cullers of un attack on an enemy's privateer. ; . I have the homier to be, &c. A LSI. Comically. His Majesty's Ship Blonde, fla4rta, September as, 1809. St!—The signal for on enemy's vessel was made from the hill, standing for Besse Terre ; the boats of the vessels named in the margin • were sent in permit of her, under the orders of Lieutenant Ri chardson, of this ship. On their approach, she ran on shore in a bay between two batteries. which kept up a very heavy cross fire at the boats ; but that was not an obstacle to prevent their getting posses sion of her, and attempting to tow her out, al though a very large body of men, with small arms. were firing at them out of bushes ; she was bilged, and they left her. I beg !woe to recommend to your notice Lieu. Outwit Richardson, for his brave conduct ; he epeaks highly of the cool and determined valour of every individual employed on this service. Mr. Thompson, Master, and one sailor of the Blonde, were moot severely wounded ; the latter soon after died • Mr. Thompson's right arm has been amputate"; I hope lie will do well. I beg to, recommend him to your particular notice. hive, atc. (Signed) V. V. BALLARD. To the Hon. Sir A. Cochrane, ki.B. Rear. Admiral of the Red, Sic. &e. Posapre, Fort Royal Boy, Nartlatipse, Dec. to, moo. Sta—The inclosed copy of • letter frees Capt. Cameron, of His Majesty's sloop I - Lizard, addressed to Commodore Fahie, in my absence, I request you to lay before the Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty; !he total destruction of the schooner pri vateer mentioned therein, sad the silencing of the battery under which she was moored, were &cerwt plished, under cirrumetancis of censiderable diffi culty, in the face of a formidable force. and are highly honourable to the parties employed. Onr loss in this little dash has, I am sorry to my, . been severe.* I have, &e. (Signed) ALEX. Cocuaaar. His Majesty'. sloop Hazard, of St. Mary's, Guadaloupe, Oct. 17, mai. Sin—Cruising on my station. blockading Point a-Peire. Pelurus in company, at day-light this morning I observed a privateer schooner, moored under the battery of St. Mary. I immediately de• termined on the capture or destruction of her.— Both ships stood iu sufficiently close to silence the battery effectually. and cover our boats, which were dispatched under the orders of Lieutenants Robertson and Flinn, First of their respective ships; and, I am happy to say. they succeeded in bearding her ; but as she was moored to the shore with a clubs from the mast-head and each quarter, finding it impossible to bring her oat, they shorty after blew her up. Is justice to the officers and men employed on this service, I cannot omit particularising the eery gal lant manner in which they approached the schooner, ander a very heavy fire of grape from the bat tery, uatil it wet silenced by the ships, and of grape and musqurtry from the privateer, until they were nearly alongside, when the enemy quiued her, and joined a long line of musquetry ou the beach, and two field-pieces, to the fire of which they were ex posed during the whole time they were preparing to blow her up, at a distance of not more than tea yards. . _ The privateer had one long eighteen-pn•nder on • circular carriage, and two swivels, about one hundred tons, and appeared to have from eighty to one hundred men ; she was coppered, and appeared new, and left Point-a-Petre yesterday on a cruise. Our joint loan has been fifteen killed and wounded. lists of which are inclosed ; that of the enemy must have been very considerable, as the shore was com pletely lined with musquetry, exposed to a heavy cannonade from both ships, as well as from the small arms in the boats. I should be very deficient in my duty was I not to mention the very gallant style Captain Huskisson of the Pelora* supported me in totally destroying the enemy's battery by a joint tire. It is impossible for ate to express my ideas of the very gallant manner in which Lieutenants Ho. bertron and Flinn conducted theasselt es on this oo- c ,sion ; and they speak in the highest terms of Messrs. Brisbane and Hunter, midshipmen of this ship, Mr. Ferguson, boatswain, and Mr. Scott, mate of the Pelores, who, as well as every indivi dual employed, were volunteers on the service. 1 hove the honour to b.. &v. Li u nil CANIRON. To Comoodoro Fahie. Report of killed sod ortund, I on board Hu ITejetd)'s sloop Felons, ou the morning of the 17tb October, 1..4. Lienteaaat &lend ; mach bort by blowing up the esesay's echooner . Alexander Nl•Cardell, Captsis Meat ; Richard Gruiciby, private Marine; ditto Michael Law, private Marine; wounded (strict dead ) Joke Seseress, yettema of the pander-roues severely noandeell. Thee. ite4isrewe, promo el the sheets; slightly ersooded. Jobs Livingstone. qaarter.auister Jam gotta, consaida; ditto. Report of killed and ormsueled on hoard His Maferty's sloop Hazard, oa the sottraiag of ale 171 b Oct. , ver, loop. Js,ucs Murray, Ceptatu of the foret-asittst haled. 'I ',nun Farthing, Corporal of Manner yn tor. ‘%iiivant Perryman, private Sistine Mr. Ferguson, borisawain badl, l.loon sp. (idea, pri“te Manse 4 , digeroov:% awarded. Walton Tallovreva, pr • tate Veer. ; wetteilled. Pierce Hestia, moony Merton; Italy ` w°9 l•4leti. (Sled) lAtte CAMLIOII.- Pempee, Feet -Royal ley, Niettiakree, December lb. Nog. _ _ Sta...! have to regret that you awl lay befog* the Lords Comm:•stoners of the Adi,,i re l t y, th e accompanying lever trout Captain Ballard. o the Blonde, with ita inchoate. frau Captain Miller, of the Tilt tiS• The Manner in ohich the cay.tite or i.• Ni.u. • Bumble, Focus. Sei.. in h good situation in the days of the Star Chem. bee, but it requ:red other tribunals and pact prin. ciples to support it in such times as the presto, to give it energy Utili to give it patience. It was the publicity of their proceedings alone, which sup ported the spirit of the country; it was the pub licity of their proceedings which reconciled it. to all the privations and burdens it was to undergo.— But the old bug-be ir had been set up; they were told that it would lead the people to undervalue the coustitution. mud from thence to get rid of it. Surely if his Right Hon. Friend had given himself a moment's rellection4he must have retracted such an amertion. Allusion had been made to France ; but was it the liberty of the Press that brought about the revolution there ?—(Hear ! hese 1)—lY as it not, on the contrary, the loss of that liberty ? What was the cruse of the fall of all the rotten Moiorchies of Europe; wus it the liberty of the Press ?—(Hear! hear !)—No, it was its absence. Had such a liberty existed in Austria, in Prussia. or in Spain, Bonaparte had not hero at this moment the tyrant of the Continent—(Hear ! hear I)—He would oily say a few words on what had fallen from the Right Honourable Gentleman, who prOposed the motion ter the Standing Order, Hr had compared the House, in the exercise of its function of enquiry, to a grand jury; but he would ask, did grand juries mitt their proc• edings ? The grand jury was sec.et, and justly ; because it wool,' be wrong that its dis closures should bias the petit jury. But even upon this principle, how did the Right llo noarableGentlernen procied, with all hisansie.y tor the secrecy of theerand jury? If he A igbtly informed, the gallery alone was cleared. Peers were admitted to retain their prat.ondet the to.lery, so that strangers, who hail nothing to do wit ii the were excluded; while Peers, who might ',Willett ly become the jury, were allowed to remain.--(Near! hear 4—What did the Noble Lord mean by this? —(A lessgh.)—He begged the fight Honourable Gentlenn..i 'a pardon; but it was profs ode that he would suon become a Noble Lor.l.—(A laagA.)-- The Right lion. Goodrum had spoken in a very manly way, of being responsible to his constituents alone, with whom only he wool.' deign to consult as to his conduct upon such necasions. It did not appear. however. that he was Vt:1: anxious to make the experiment. Ile seemed rather diffident of mumble% with them; nor would his conduct upon that bucness conduce to wale hum a bit more ready to encounter them than he was before. He con cluded with observing, that the course which he proposed. appeared to him the most moderate they could adopt. It was necresary, on every account, that some step should be taken ; but after the speech of his Right Hon. Friend, the necessity was increased. Mr. PEIOEVAL binged leer. to state. in reply to the Hon. Gouittemen s questions, that he dill hot sIA to shelter : self etude' , toe Sounding Order. If it was his Right Hon. Friend's intent io u to clear the gallery optics all occasions, he would oljerot to it 'himself ; (hear I hear!) but he must insist upon the right of every Measlier to move foe clear. ing the gallery, without stating his reasons. Stranger. were then eructed to withdraw, and the House divided; when there appeared, for Mr. S:oe riden's motion. Ayes Nuts ttifj Moja ill - - . We were again autia , tted tato the ganef, for few minutes. dniing which, Mr. BAKU! gave notice that hr would mare, to-morrow, for an account of the increase and di miontion of certain salaries.- lie t.ioved. after wards, That the papers presented list Session relative to the Linen Board of lrelsnd, should be referred to the Committee of Publ.c Expenditure;" which was agreed to. Sir Jolts 'I - Slawrnae ntovei, Ti.at the Aiipen di* to the 9th Report of the Couimisoioriers of Mi litary Inquiry, in Ireland, should be printed."— Agreed to. Lord PORCHESTER then moved the Order of the They for gaol; into Committee on the inquiry into the Scheldt Exptclition, upon which 'Amgen were again excluded. and nut admitted for the night. The HOGS! Adjourned at Half-past Twelve. s s a No accounts of Deaths, Births, or Marriages, aro ever inserted is this Paper, "micas communicated by perms% sr is abaad-writing, knows to the Editor .