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PARUAMENt. INOUSEI t br LORDS, Tievassat, Maidi taMPBELL'S DIVORCE BILL , • • Cbutasel appeared at the Bar, cud Mary tro-. 'therms was again.etatoined.. She was questioned by the LonoCH caesura:to and. the Duke of NORFOLK, with respect to her motives in not Communicating the facts she had before spoken to sooner to Mr. Campbell, which conduct she captained by saying. that she had lived eleven years with Mrs. Camp. hell, for whom she had always eutertuitied a strong attachment. Mr. Moore, the Solicitor fur .Mr. Campbell, was also examined as to what the other witness, Mary Brotlicrton, had stated to him, at ins office, winch he orroborated. Mr. Scarlet, the Barrister, and brother-in-law to Mr. Campbell, was next called, who folly explain ed Mr. Campbell's conduct, down to the time ho become acquainted with ins wife's intidelitv. He was inclined to suppose that Mr. Campbell had his nest iliformation bran a norsery-maid, who had io the family, or the name of Family, but %huge surname he mid not heard before this day. The Limo CHANCELLOR stated to the House, the isectosny there appeared for the witaiessalluded to, called I maces Metcalfe, being present to give lien monotony. But us she now lived in Yorkshire, it would be requisite a peraal of time should be allowed for her being produced on this occasion. Hr thought their Lordships could out be too care ful in proceedings of this descriptioo ; hr did not mean as to this case iu particular; but the calmer. , vation became More obvious, if it weir recollected that since the meeting of Parliament, the time of legislating iu that House had beau chiefly occupied In Billie( Divorce. After a few wards from Lord AUCKLAND. coo curries, with the Laid Chancellor with respect to the props iety of that House being jealous of all proceedings of this nature, it was ordered, for the purpose of giria one to bring up Frances Met.. calk, that the fur ater proceedings be postponed to. Tuesday sr uni_dat. SIR GECRUE BROGRAVE'S DIVORCE BILL. Mr. M lions stated he was Counsel for Sir George Brograve, Bart. and it would be his duty shortly to reprmeist to their Lordships the particular facts, which he should be enabled to prove by isevelal • IVatuesses at the Bar. Sir George married Aliso Militated, st Bath. in the year 1900, and liv d with her in the most happy way. till *bout She latter end or 1 ;03 or the ginning of I soli. —lie posaessed a country scat in the county of Norfolk, 41111 was Limitearant-Colonel of the Nor-141;k miliaia, and lacilig with his regiine lit frequectl, it ap;r•arcel th at, in the year 1806.` Lade Bayave, during Sir Ce , :r;412 . 11 uhsence in • Sussex, tag desirous (4.taltiot a journey auto Yorkshire, to' see 'her sisur, Mni. Terry, who Was married, and •fireil in that van of that kis& I: was during her jouriacy, siecompaintal try )r.• • iodic', Iva ( he oct.or adultery weir, eriiiiiiinted at . ditkereot ions ma toe road,and would be so describod by toe maid herself; nuttiest:rad waitctsnt the a ions, as would le:terrain doubt upon the subject. In he same regime:at with Sir George was Captain El am, oho prec i ously became acquainted with the family. and it would be found drat this gentlemnit had attended Link Brograv•e at each inn on the mail, in her journey to mad from Yorkshire. lie should also adduce evidence to satisfy their Lord ships of Sir George's conduct, atter he grim:tithe information, and that he brought on action against Capt. Elwin, when u Jury retiontal a verdict of 20001. ditui.ge.., which were afterwards regularly r aid by that Officer, and received by Sir Geto6e B .;rave. l'aie Learned Counsel then proceeded to call Wit n .r4s, who proved that the limier and a imlpy of the bill had been served un Lady Brugrate. A copy of the judgment was ioext produced, and Sit George's Soluator.proved he had received the da mages and costs trove Captain Elwita's Agent, amid paid them over to Sir George himself. The Cler gyman, Mr. tidily, who married them ! recollected the solerniiirsticial, and produced a copy of the marriage register. 11r. Petra, - 'f - - of No►Wlk, rep rented • , a gentleman . his intimacy with the faintly of Sir George Bre grave, and his being particularly acquainted with Sir George's indulgent and kind treatineut of Lady B ...Drive, from the time of their marriage dos ato 18 ob. Ann Niles, the next witness, related, that, as 1 i's maid, she attended Lady Brugrave, i s th e year 1806, to Yorkshire. They travelled in a chariot and post horses, and on their owl they stopped all night, after the tirst clay, at the Rose, in Cambridge. Here she saw Captuiu Elaiii, and she noticed in the morning that Lady Brograve's Iced appeared as if two persome had slept there the p-reeding night. IVhen they arrived at Stamford, e h, Aga in s a w Captain Elam, whom she perceived breakfasting with Lady 113rograve; and that morn ing she also observed a similar appearanee about her Ladyship's bed. They staid about six weeks is Yorkshire, and on their return, particularly at the Kingstou Arena, 'iii Newark, she noticed Cap tain Elwin. as SOMA AS they got into the yard, unit lure she had the same growail to suspect the par ties had again slept together; and after-tiaras ut :NevraiKrkct the land shad ir reasons to entertain the same suspicion. She livp.l with Lady Bro grave some time after their worn, but Sir George, w!io had gained inn liagenee of this conduct, never lived with her from that time. A young 111311, who had been a waiter at the Kiaptoii Arms, recollected a gentleman, whom he he. s i n ce understood to he Captain Elwin, coming there to a 11 0 . 1 elitkiRt't mid ordering beds, which he .de.ireel to look at, and beam& choice of two sin gle-bedded twin,, close together, with a door out of one into the other, and a sitting-room adjacent. Shortly after, Ur lady arrived, and they (limed to gether, the %Vitnes• waited at dinner, after which the bell was ruarz, Kiel he was told he might come again in the course of ten nauseates. lie sons. went up again. without being called for, mai, upo n opening the door, lie saw Lady Lrograve reclining backward on the sofa, ire is very nide:cent positi3ii„ mail Captain Elwin eta idia. f . close by, with his bark towards the witness. Ile shut the door, :and retired, and coutiuurd to wait urn tlemi till the next morning, when they ileperttel from the Lin. Lydia Ilutcniiiann spoke to the beds honing been Wren by the Gentlelnen, and the 'trite of L a d y flrograve'e bed in the morning was such as to lead . ' • ' y ' • • "ht Lei r . her to toppose two persona gust hive slept there. Captein Elwin's bed had been lain in, but, from its aPtri, not during the whole of the night. ?k t r7lson observed, there were several other Witticisms, If their Lohlsbipsthought it proper they should be called. The LORD CHANCELLOR, said they certainly aught, and inquired if there were any person from Stamford ? Mr. Wilson answered, the servant at Stamford had been aubpeaaed, but a certificate had been sent to sheer, that,being near her delivery, it was not proper for her to come. Further proceedings were then postponed till to-morrow. The order on the Banbury Peerage was altered to this day month. Mr. WHARTON, Mr. DUNDAI, and other Mem bers•from the House of Commons, brought up the Distillation Prohibition Bill, the Spirit Importa tion teaspension Bill, the Irish Bank Note Bill, the Londonderry Workhouse Bill, and two private Bills, which were laid upon the Table, and seve rally read a first time. The Earl of Ltv cantor. presented Papers con taining the communications respecting our army in Spain and Portugal, moved for in a former Ad dress ; which were laid upon the Table, and order ed to be printed. The Earl of DARNLEY wished to know if the letter from Mr. Frere to Sir John Moore, in conse quence of which that General *advanced from Sale- Wailed, was tucluded, otherwise he should consider it Ins duty to make aparticular motion fur tke same I The Earl of Liv , ..troot, answered, the letter 'par ticularly mentioned was not AM :not the papers; for, iii fact, Sir John :d..ere beige; aucklenl3 cut del not transmit the some to this country; neither did it coutain what ought to be communicated, -b.:- cause its contents were of a prirote r^ture. At time same time it should be understood, Str John Moore dill not alter his course iii entieerinence of any sun letter. However, every inforrnatiou shmild be given, consistent with propriety, on that and every other occasine. The Earl of DARNLEY had no disposition to press the prodnetion of papers of a private ten dency, and no that ground alone he should wave any intention of making a motion upon the sub ject. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Rost: ware notice mat he would, to-mor row, move that tl.o !louse should go into a Com mittee, to take into consideration the Act for re gulating the trade between the Bermudas and Ca nada. Greg,on's Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. WusitroN brought up the Report of the allawauces to be granted to Militia Officers. GENERAL CLAVERING. Mr. Wrt.i.t4ms Wits es stated, that rumours had gone abroad that he meent to withdraw from a milieu of which he had given notice, respecting the comotitinent of General Clavering, for pre. varicinion on the investigation into the conduct of his Royal highness do- Duke of York ; he, there fore. iii order to do away these rumours, begged leave to inform the limete, it was his intention to briug that matter before them, to-morrow. SCOTLAND. The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND obtained leave to bring in a Big for the batter regulatiug the Public. Itevords of Scotland. Upon the motion of the same Right Honourable Gentlemer, it wits ordered, thut there be laid be fore the Rouse an account of the flintier proceed ings of the Commissioners for t I.e arrangement and preservation of the public records of the king dorm, is , fir as relates to Scotland, from the date of the last accounts thereof lahl Lame the House. 'Mr. iIORN ER, Wore the above motion, was agreed to, put a question, as to whether or not any alte rration will to be made in regard to the Cominis. sioners of Teiuds? But the answer returned was not ' audible to the gallery. IRELAND. Upon the motion of Sir Geofter. Hirt. the Irish flaxseed Importation Bounty Bill was read a ttti time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. MUM Mr. LITTLETON stated, that lie wished to withdraw is notice which he had given as to certain alterations in the Mutiny Bill. His reason for doing this was the incptiry now depending be fore the. House, as to military promotions; but lie wished it to be understood, lie did not obandois the principle of the clauses lie meant to introduce into that Bill, but it was merely heroine he did not think the present time was suitable fur the purpose. The Hoe. Gentleman was proceeding to enlitew upon the reasons that induced him to withdraw Isis notice ; when The SPEAMER interfered, and observed, that it was irregular to animadvert upon tither topics then in dependence before the House. On the motion of Mr. TIERNEY, it was ordered, that Sir John Cottrell should have levee of air settee for three weeks. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Mr. WHITBREAD mn,ell," That there be laid be fore the House ao account of the amount of any Ditties of Exports levied in the kingdom, by vir tue of nay act for carrying into effect the Orders of Cou tied." Ordered. In making thiv motion, the (lon. Gentleman ob served. that many papers bad been formerly moved for, hut he was assured none of them had been printed, and many more of them had been given in • more or le%. coatined way, and but little adapted to throw viifficielit light neon thil subject. SUPPLY AND WAYS AND MEANS. The lit-ports of the Committees of Supply and of Vl'llys and Wait., were preventml, and the seve ral resolutions agreed to. Mr. W& uRToa brought up the Annual Indemnity Qualiication Bill. which was read a lust time, and ordered to be read a sccutut time. till Aft. (hi the motion of Mr. HVIK MON, the House went into a Committee to consider of the Draw back. and Bounties on Surer, in which • Resolu tion was propos. d by hint and agreed to, " That it is expedient and necrioary that the same Bonn ties and Drawbacks should continue upon refined and raw Sugars as formerly." The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow,Adjourned. FRIDAY. MARCH 3. Government have received no farther pirtienlars respecting the Brest squadron, or the movements of the British fleet in pursuit of it. The following extracts of letters upon the subject are copied from a respectable evening print of yesterday Arrived the Caledonia, l to guns, Admiral Lord Gambier, from the Channel Fleet, accompanied by the Naiati frigate, which brought intelligence of the French fleet being observed oft Rochefort, which im mediately made sail from the British fleet. The latter lay-to more than two hours, offering them battle, Admiral Stopford having been joined by three sad of the line and three frigates, making their force ten sail of the linc and five frigates. The enemy made sail, and stood away W.S.W. Shortly after the Channel fleet appeared, and joined the rear squad ? run, and were within a few hours rail of the enemy. It is reported that three of the enemy's frigates had been cut off, and driven on shore by the Cesar, 71, and a 1 aiad frigate. The Caledonia had left her provisions and water with the Channel fleet, to go in quest of the enemy." EXTRACT FROM ANOTUER LITTER, NAME DATE. ." The French fleet got into Basque Roads, hut did not come to anchor. The Naiad met the Cuckoo schooner. She iinnseiliately dispatched her to dire-Adinirtil Sir J. T. Duckworth, to inform him of the enemy's movements. Capt. Beresfoid, ho is senior efticor off L'Orient, a ith four sail of the line, s 1111 l inched them to battle ; but the enemy, fearing the Channel fleet were near, made the best way they could into Basque Roads. " The Cesar, when the Naiad left Rochefort, and the Defiance and Donciral, were fighting three French frigates, and there is every probability of ev,lir being taken." "'The Feench ships of the line cannot enter the river Charente, or go up to Rochefort, without taking out their guns, and being lightened. They have• only taken refuge under the butteries which are constructed on the Isle d'Aix, off the mouth of the Charente. where they will of course be vigilant = ly watched by our Beet in Woggle Roads." The perusal of the nd Bulletin, sod of the vs. rious articles of intelligence relative to Spain, con tained in the French and Dote. papers, recently received from the Continent, affords ample matter fur reflection and speculation. If, on one hand. they renew oar regret ut the conduct and termina tion of the late unfortunate campaign iu Leon and Gallicia; on the other they offer, on a more ma ture consideration of their contents, considerable subject for hope and expectation. Nothing tan in fact be so eloquent and expressive as the pro found silence of these publications. composed under the eye of BOtiAPARTE. respecting the Southern Provinces of Spain. We bear no men tion, nor even any allusion, to Seville, to Cadiz, or to Carthagena. Of Saragossa we are only in formed that Lasses continues before it: while we have at length the authority of the enemy himself, for the fact of RoMana being on his march towards Andalu.i:•. It is principally ut FerrolonulafterWards at Madrid.that the scene ofthese composilionsislaid. Sou LT is the hero of the former city ; Joskett Bo- NAPARTE of the latter. If any thing could aug ment our•conceru at the precipitate retreat from Cornuna, and our abmidosiment of the Spaniards, it would be the manifestation of loyalty and of pa ttiotism, which the inhabitants of Ferrol exhibited, even under the most discouraging circumstances. It is evident, and avowed even by the French them selves, that the people displayed the most ardent enthusiasm, and were only reduced to submission, after eleven days, by those arts which have enlarged the empire of NAPOLEON even more than his arms. MAZAREDO, auother of the traitors who have enlisted under the invader's banner, is sent to Fer rol, to organize and equip the squadron fonnd in that harbour. UnquestiouaLly, if it could be fitted nut, and could form a junction with those ships now blocked up in the Charente, the united numbers would amount to Al or '2 sail of the liue. We trust, however, that such an event will be rendered 'shortie* by the vigilance and activity of our naval force cruising off Rochfort. Their exertions will become doubly necessary, now that the ports of ("officio are occupied by the enemy. The public and solemn entry of JO/MPH Boma- PARTS into the capital of Spain, his inauguration, and his speech, pronounced in the Church of St. Isidore; lastly, his letter addressed to the Prelates of the Spanish Monarchy, and his visits to the theatre cud to the botanic garden at Madrid—all these transactions are artfully blended in the Paris papers, with consummate skill. MAccus Auer- Luis, seated on the throne, could not adopt more philosophiC, more sublime, or more philanthropic sentiments, in addressing the Roman Senate or pe o ple, than are expressed by this second-hand adventurer, whom usurpation ■nd violence have intruded on the Spaniards, when he mani kins towards them his paternal amnesty.— The passive tool and instrument of ■ ferocious foreigner, transported from his Obscure miaow is a Mediterranean inland, and placed by revel.. tionary outrage in the palace of Ferdinand the 7th, harangues the Clergy sod Nobility of Spain, like `THE 13RITISH PRE SS. LONDON, ARV the mildest and inset beneficent of Menarche After having beheld * Madrid and all the surrounire mg provinces converted unto a charnel house, or desert, in order to rifinte the ambition, or the rapacity and vengeance:of Id. creator, Nssoauos, he is now only soli• •to diffuse peace, tran quiliity, end repose. He adjures and invokes the Deity to witness the purity mid sincerity pf his ia tentions, wink occupied in +Jawing felicity ours every port of his dominions.—'the substance of the foreign pipers are given in our oast page. One of the keeling Ministerial Prints of yestei day eontaitis the following chservations:— .• Mr. CANNING acid with great propriety on Tuesday night, hi the notice he took of some reittari:s that had lima made relative to Shale. It has been the moat complai..t of the Opposition we bate no allies. That we have eu few is net the fault of Miosteis. lint do nut let iss rat eh, rack of diminishing the small number we bare, by any Ai% that may excite theirjealonsy, Or welled tiros feelings. (muse of the Sicilian Gureriantimt may not please the Oppo. sienna—bet is it either politic or gencruus to irreigh irgainet it, in thus its loser of butternuts. as.d esielsposse ? We perfectly well remember the violent eatery raked ' epos lbe.nbject of into*, ins in the internal asks eiffrasce t is It wished that we should do that tewmde ear allies which was viewed with such horror when it wan attempted spigot oar enemies ? The Sicilian Government lass proved itself a faithful ally, sad no greater proof could be alfewikd of the cordial atutersiandin that animists between as, than the fact stated by Mr. Callitic, that the Sicilian Goverooseet had determined, in cam of danger, to put the who e of its farce, neither trifling to somber. nor in discipline, under tlae con.. mend of the British General." The above observations made by the Ministerial Print are false and insidious. The M esn i ng Chronicle, it is true, has been for some time under prosecution fur a libel upon the Gov...rot:seat of Sicily ; but what has that to do with Opposition, or the views of Optiositiou ?—lf. according to Yid gar understanding, it be the snails object or Oppo sition to work the Ministers out, and to fence themselves is, we wish to know how this tied is to be obtained by a gross libel, or a silly libel, opus the Covernmait of Sicily ? It is a common prac tice with Mr. CAN Nils G'S prints, schooled in his system, and under his aitspires, to single out a newspaper supposed to he in the confidence of Op position, and to impute every folly awl falsehood.cf which it is guilty to his political opponents.— When Mr. CANNING COGlGlenceil his political ca. veer as a paragraph writer in the newspapers, this may have becu t;,eir common practice. The Right lion. Centleman ma, also be able to answer for the prim, which he has io pay; but it is a gross libel upon the liberty of the press, to assert that every thing which appears in the newspapers, not in the pay of Ministers, his been written or sots gested by Opposition. We wish to know under what undue influence the ostensibly free, pure, and independent part of the public press eau labour, in order to subject itself to this charge or suspicion ?—lt calumet be said that in the event of a change of Ministry, they can expect places or pensions. In such event, the free sad independent part of the public press would speak and act exactly as it now does.—lt would continue to look to the country utid the constitution, and consult the public feeling, and the puLlic interest. —The present Ministerial Papers of Mr. CANNING and the Earl of Itvearoos, we mean The Morning Post and The Coarier, would Le the eulogists of Lord GRENVILLE and Mr. PONSONIST, as. they are now the eulogists of Mr. CANNING and the Earl of Lie Enrooa. Would say man charge us witba rails assertion in this statement ? If so, let him examine the files of the two papers which we have men tioned. Ile will find that when Lord Ihuas PETTY came into office, The Morning. Post, ft.e late enemy, hailed him as the'deliveter of Europe, audolrawing a picture of Athens in its purest times, insisted, in the language of the Prytaiseaut, that Lord HENRY PErry might to be considered • a child at the state, and maintained at the public charge." 'That Lord Hamm Parry is a young Nobleman of great merit, and au honour to his comatry, ere admit; but that• this language in Vie Morning Post was most disgust ing, its present readers 'must admit. That respect able print, The Courier, at the same time assured the public, that it was in the same vein, and must support Mr. Foz, and Lord GRENVILLE, both of whom it has since found it convereisiat to calum niate in the foulest and basest terms. It is very well for such prints, that are a disgrace to the pre.., to reduce every part of it to their own level, and should they catch a free newspaper out of the limits of their own servile herd, to persecute it as the tool of a party equally as themselves, but not so tortnnate or competent, to afford it pro tertian and reward for its prostitution. . Mr. C. W nYNNL guve noce l i ght in t,e Hotiseof Commons, of his intention to resume, this day, his intended proceeding with respect to Cc neral Ct./SERINO, upon the subject 01 hie evideoco on the charges against the Duke of York/tors Commander-in-Chief. The escape of the Brest squadron into Basque Roads was communicated to Lt.orp's, in the fol . halving Notice " Admiralty Office, Merck 1, 1809. " Isfornistion his been received of the squad:as, w►ich lately willed (rata Brest. having entered Basque roods us t►s amorshia of the soda wit." Among the private advice. (rote Paris, it is mentioned that mice lass been piped between England and Turkey : und this ateamastatitt is assigned by same as the came of Balt.UPAßTfi's hasty departure from