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laid. with respect to those meti who talked of me.. Zeratiun, that they only wished to abridge the rights uts the people, and appease the present lut ist:op. He did not wish that irritation should be appeased until they bad sueeiteded.—(4pplaases.)— flovirar made some farther observations upon the itupolley of einployiog foreign troops and officers, he eniiciodeti with returning his sincere thanks to them for their conduct towards hub upon that, and upon all occasions. Mr. Ft e astir made a fewOlisereatimis in oppo sition to Mr. Windlsm!" attack Editors and Reporters of Newspapers:— • air. WARDLE entered at lenitth into the sy,te. ut of pillar , which he lamented tO see go au f mni.hed. With reference to himself, he• arid. that -he never knew the Uuke of Kent, nor had arms hint, until the day of the trial itithes King's Bench. He agreed i n th g neg e . g it s of Parliaanonntry Reform, which, be Monett, they were heundtoinsist upon, us the only means of *avows the country ; and ssid, ws lang as he brrathsd he would h. a zealous and faithful servant of the public. • The ?haulm of gir Penting were wireu to Arthur Mar rim. Ow Hyde Bailiff, fat the prostitutes , . willrerblvh he called the Remiss. satt..fiat he iaipsilial eiralkiet is the thole. • . . After • few tiboervations frPna a Gentleman, whose name we could not learn, the uteating broke' up at four o'clock. • IMPERIAL P4R1.1.4,VEN.r MOUSE OF LOKOI.AIignAv, FCC. 9. WCLI.PALEY'S nivoacir. HILT_ Mr. ()arrow tad Mr, Harrlion aPpitared a. Counsel at their I.uettsbipeler, ow the Mbar of the Pet Mauer. . . Mr. ( roenter said be thought it hie claire/seining frOm all detail (naive ittellmatinces whit', were oseessary hole 7 he., fore the Itiein: Withont, therefo t 3 : irtering labial per healit• of einiilladinlieb might be ' 'aiding to their Lord ships, he shoddempinely sill the wi es requisite, to prove the r loll.s. g letesumeres Odic Lady, with a certain Noble Lord. • , Mr. Spfnlis proved his baying served a c opy of el m bill 08 Lady Charlotte Wellesley, al t helm& General Bode and W. Soihnomi proved the marriage of Mr. Writhiskyte Lady charlotte, at Howohain, in Suffolk, All 1103.- A ropy of the Judgment in the King's Bench was pro dithCC.l, tiaL Mr. Loom., proved the paymeut of 20,u001. saves, which hepsid into the bands of Mr. Drummond, on Me. occemit. Baron Taytl was meat called. He said, lie had apart 'sent. at Mr. Atkins's, iu blountstreet, which conelenel of • nest lour. /outs/sing a 'alma-roam, a br.l-rueie, sod • dresailut-roorn. Lord Poget sod Lad) Charlotte Wellesley, with *how he had bees semi:muted, canoe at the time of her elopeascut to these npartnieuts, which he consigned to their ase. They cone not a their own mom, fur he re. presented HI were lady and Gentleman met of the country„ who ad tact with a temp.:retry einbannisment, sod who wished to hide themselves is too • fug a few dabs. It wimps the Oth of March, last pier, he believed they came, and "bey vemaised • lbw days He bad an opportualty of seeing them once, and georrolly twice a-day ; there was only ens ,bed is his apartioesta, and no convenience for ties obeying separate. • Nebermi Parris*, ilia maid servant at ItaritiiTayll's apart. tem" aseuneeted Lord Paget and Lady Charlotte Welke lip emileimillemat`no die HA of March, and I maiming there • law dam they Mad JDO - siller bed but Baron Toylre while they reetamed, and she had net the smallest doubt hat they slept together every night, which was corroborated * the appearance of the bed ever) morning. 'fbelr Lordships were nete.ned the evidence was sulkiest, and after Counsel Lad witladraren from Bar, the Bill was mid the second time, sod ordoeml to be committed for Monday. The LORD GAMBIER. ril•xcw.ort " _ .4 Load en• ICI intim idea Admiral Rams GSM' bier of the &Make meet to bins by their Lnidehips, yester day • iodide( which, h • lowetibip n en the part of eke House, passed a encemisne wpm the life and ICI Vil CI of the Nehle die at, and concluded by testifying his personal teepee! Lord GAIIMPR expressed hie Alth sense of the honour motioned upon hins, bat acknowledged cuss nut able to describe the gratitude he hit upon this, eccasina. PORTI GAL. The Duke of Nod:rota wished to taquire, if any T. more than the one with whit h the lion-e Rif already der; iodated, had brew mattered tato by His :11nyc>ty's Govern ment; and If any brfestiest were eatertaiisei to Si ad more fortes I. the defence of that part of the Peninsula! Id arquir Watt's:axe replied ha rebid answer the lotiseittir7 of the Nellie Duke, that so 'Katy of the so. tan elleied to had been caterer/ into; but, with respect le the oder 'pastime, dr Noble Doke. anu.t eitettbe Iii:11 if he did net &wetly answer, aotil he was hater acquaint. J with t the ressulasef such issgairy, and be us, sorry to erten' this answer, from his personal respect of the Noble Duke, hat this camideralion be mast sacrifice to a sense of public duty. Mt Duke of Noisseme t h en .we notice, be Mould raise se antsy My of %Hope this question under the minx dentists of the Haas, which he winds' more partreelarly 'opiate osk MS MAJESTY'S MESSAGE. After the Order of the Day had been mad. The Earl of Livearoot shortly aOttressed the Boise, upon the meritorious services of Lerd Viscount Wellington and coscleded by moviug.— as That an humble Address be prevented to His Majesty, thanking, Sm. and assuring His Majesty that the !louse concurred with every thing contain ed in hi, most gracious message." Earl Goers ow this. as nu the former occasion, when thanks were voted. wished it to be understood that the motion did not meet with his approbatiosa But se the bill from the other House vronld pro. bshly appear before their Lordships. he should tike that opportunity of restating and supporting those spumous which he had stroody expressed, and which remained in hismind incontrovertible. The Duke of Nicratotc was surprised that Mi nisters should term the battle of Talavera • deci sive victory ; sad from the term tieing used in the Message, he was afraid His Majestyad been usa informed of the rest state of tient,. The motion was akreed to without &division. NATAL It VISION. Viscount MaLvi e.t.a roar, and its a speech of considerable length. (which we are prbilittled from sinus for want of roorri,) entered into a histt ooryry wf tee origin of the Commisionen of Naval The repo'rts upon their Lordships table were voluminous; and yet. front some cc/wit happened, that the whole had riot beet' pre sented. These reports. from time to time were made foe the purpose of introducing improvements tato the civil department of our navy. Bat bring wade experimentally, it was necessary that some regula tion of the *bole should he adopted; fur, front the differrot modes which had been resorted to, it ap peared that the mean:re' adopted in the dock yards, were widely opposite to those in the victual ling yards. tt. commented at peat length oo the bate with shorti these report* poised from the Commitalottera to the Admiralty Board, and from theoce to the Conned. Terwards the conclusion. he recaramended the propriety of the substatiLe of these Reports beiiig under the directing of nig 111ajeat%, who, by bis Council, might have every futons of completing, for the prosperity of ihe navy, irhal;harl.bren so wisely bvgun. fie paiWeri Guilty corisphosests upon 4he chordeter cid ability of those who haul been appointed Coluutiaasoueis, aad mowed • ss That therr be laid before that Houses an account of all steps taken by ilia Nlajotty, to forward the object of the second and other Re ports; fcc." . Lord NlVitin4WS: said, he icatcely knew what sort of reply to make to the observations of the Noble Viscount. He alswepoke at great length on , the origin and conduct of the Coruniimiosers of In quiry. There was not any thing to complain of as the -Reports now stood, though hr was not chow , . thee desirous that they shoutd.bove beau laid be fore the House at this particular .tune. Eh de. fended his own conduct at the head of the Admi ralty, neither was there such precipitation in passing these Reports, as the Nahle Viscount meistioriol ; for they had not been acted upon try the Admiralty Board, without the information of oue of the Coin. inissioners, Admiral Duiniett, a mail of awirendleled talents for investigating, this stibject. The Noble Viscount need nut have burn, d Iu town fur fare of the destruction of the British Navy. There was one Report, the Bth, which regarded Noriliftert ; this, he slemlil, at present, oppose being pro duced ; because it could be daligerou• to permit that the contents should transpire to the ene my, mod ar to nnather Report, sot then na the Table, Mot se to supplying timber for the nary, not only now. but always, wheti , er in or out. of office, lied at any distant thee, he wadJ , ter the purpose of opposing irs production, harry u:eto town, even trout Scotland, us the Noble Viscount had done en the present occasion. lie had no he sitation in declaring such had been the prosperity of the British navy, in spite of abu-e., that if the whole of those Reports of the. Commis , iime-s of N*ssL Rev.siori, alOough he highly valued then,, were torn to pieces, or burnt, and lo to the COJII• try ; still there would be no elm mity fur the Noble Viscnunt to hive frightened his imagination with phantoms, and to Moe set off post Irons Scot land, a. he understood he lied done, let, by the want of his suggestions, oar naval prosperity should be completely ruined. Lord NI etviLet trusted, thut lie never would bring a motion before that Home which could not be usdersto id by every Noble Lord. He wta con. tident he could not be misunderstood. He did trot accuse the Noble Lord (Mulgravr) of rashness, but he thought t h at he might have been more candid. He would assert, if the Reports were acted upon, in less thou teelve mouths, what he complained of would be removed. There was not a word which fell from hi. lips which justified the assertion of the Noble Wel. As to him (Lund Melville-) secluding himself. however iblousaiit his rein irk nigh t be, he assured him that he was not idle in his seclusion; fir by could aroure hint that lie had reed the sib aid 9th Report. with attention. while in that sit elnsinn, and had merle threw coinmeets. which M. duecil hint to briuug forward the prestut motion.— Ile would uso assure him, that no power should 4Serltrlit hind from asiug his own discretion. Lord MULGRAVE spoke 4 foe words in explana nos,. and troneluded try moving the p rev i ous ques - non. as the Reports ware already on the table. A comersution then took ritice bete eeo the Earl of I f teeerout. and Lord flouter:D. The Luna CH MreLLOßM;loloTinion that the motion was net intelligible; although he had read it over ioveral times, yet he was not able to an. derstund it; wider these considelatious, he would vote fur tl.e pri vious question. I ord 11:1,vit.i.s: said, that, although the opiiiieti of the whole House might be against him, yet he would per.evere, slid carry into eaceation, the mo tion he had that 111.ght brought forward. The Loan Cita icat.t.ua put the pre v ious ques tion, which was curried in the affirmative. Their Lord.lipo adjourned at nine o'clock. to Monday. HOUSE• OF COMMONS. A pea= from the India House permeated se aosettet of the debts of the Nabob of the Carustie ; and Mr. Heise, from the Bent, presented en accolut of the sums expended by the Cosmaiwioners fee the reduction of the !teamed Debt leetiear, both of which papers sore Mid en the table. Sir C. Pout presented a Petition against the delays in Adrairlity Gusts, with respect to the pn)ruent of prize. 133011ey, which was received, nod ordered to he ou the table. CATHOLIC rIONs . —.....„... Mr. ODELL presented a Petition from the [louses Catho lic Inbahitaste of Limerick, sad Mr. Minty. n, • muralist Patition from the County of Clare. They woe read by the Clerk and ordered to ha on the table. 31r. Jeuntween presented papers counseled wit► t►e inquiry, which were ordered to be voluted. Mr BA NM'S lauveJ for accounts of the Excise, tied other accounts of the rtvenues or !reload, foe t►e use of the Curennitl.! of Foams*. Ordered. The Hill to vest certain parts n( Windsor Forest is His Majesty, was read a Mai, awd ordered to be reed a second time. The CIANCELLein of the EarnrQara, at the Rai of the Mouse presented the papers fur which two A•Lirrases Corn the Hoare had been delivered to His Majesty. The first set contained the American, the seeoad, the Aintriaa Cur reoptitideuee. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Sir F. 11 , after stating that it was segued by a real somber of his coastitisents, preseated the Petitiou (rum the Freeholders of Westminster, agreed to this day, by the Meet. tag at New Palate Yard. It was read and laid we the bible. Os the motion of Mr Psassi.t., the Report of the Cana wiittee appointed to inquire into the state teethe Irish Cur rency, In 18.4, was oedered to be reprinted. Sir E. Ka aren't: LI., moved," That there should ha Mad heftier the Hs u.r , (opine( • Letter from the War.Ofiee, Se the Army 3ledicat Board. dated Sept. sts, plop; sod sissy other letters, reLtive to the Med t ral Dep o rts/et of fibs Scheldt Expedition, from Sir Loess Very; Mr. Kaipe," site Ordered. Mr. Secretary RIDER presented &eremite relative to Irish Bent Arcs. Mr NURSING gave notice, fur Wednesday nest, of • motion on the subject of Marine !minnow.. COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS. The House west into a Committee of Ways sad Menus, to w►ich Ike simplus of the Comolidsted Fund, sad eurplus of Exchequer Sills, were referred. The rent of iu,soilmoot. cod Eseheieer Bills, sad Om amon•t of t►ese surpluses, passed in several eemilistioes, and t►e Report was received. CRIMINAL LAW . Sir SAMVII. ROMILI.Y. is pursuance of the in timation lir had given, rose to tiring under the con4ideration of the House the Cnrrun4l Law of this country. la doing thin he was convinced h e was fulfilling a great public duty, and rodrarour ing to obtain a very necessary and important good, Whate►er might be the fate of the mutton ha *mild hare to Inbrait, the agitation of tl.e ques tion must be productive of material benefits. if he was successful. and prevailed on the House to *pee with him, their decision would have a great effect upon the law. and contribute to its improve ment. If, on the other band, he filled in his ob ject, the discussion would at least thew that the objections now entertained against the law were unfounded. and reader as satisfied with them as they stood. Far his part he had not a doubt upon his mind s but that the whole of our Cr al Lsiva would be mach improved by revision; but at present he would confine himself to one point; that of capital punishments.— Of this there were two kinds, death and transpor. tation—to the former of which he would direct his olsiervations, reserving to himself, fora future occa sions the consideration of the latter. There was no country on the face of the earth► where so many crimes were punished with death. This had long betas complionA of. hut, till the present time, re mained oureruediedi The laws remained, arid were nut acted upon, which was a mast convincing proof that whatever they might have been. they were nut consonant to the sense and feelings of modem nine,. The Learned Gentleman then weut into a detail of the number of convictions oral execu tions at different periods, to *hew that t II now the laws were sanguinary iii spirit as ail leiter, and con tending from them premises, that they ought to be altered to suit the titue.—ln one year of the reign of Henry VI., more per.on, were executed than in France in seven sears.—ln the reign of Henry VIII. seventy-two thousand were execut-d. being at the rate of two thousand in a year.— the nine of Queen Glizibr li , the executions were 40i1 in the year. In the mien years, from 1749/o 17511, the numbers convicted were atm, of whom 306 were executed. being in the proportion of three-fourth.. The next seven years, the propor tion was one-half, and so it continued to decline, till, in the *even years, from lao2 to I SO9, the eollrierlunf were 528, and the executions 67, hieing in the proportion of one-eighth. The Hou. Gent. then west into statement, of the executions for larceny, or mere violation of property; from which it appeared. that. for London and Middlesex, in the last seven years, 1013 were tried capitally for steal ing iu dwelling-houses, and 859 for stealing in shops, of whom only use was executed. He con tended. mast feelingly, that no capital punishments should be awarded for such crimes ; and that, from the great chalice there was afforded of escape from the non-execution of too severe laws, much encou ragement was given to the commission of this species of crime. His object, under these impre.iims onld be, to repeal the Act of William 111. making it ca pital to stcal,tir the amount of 5.. in is shop; the Act of Quern Anne, smiting it capita' to steal to the value of 40s. in a do:ening-house ; and the Act of George 11. making it capital to steal to the same amount iii snips. wharfs, ace. . Mr. WI t4DIIA,oI spoke siviirist the motion. Tree Salm:iron-Gr./stash sand, be GSM not intend to oppose the introduction of the Bill, but would enter his protest against many of the 'dis ciples upou which it was introduced; he thought it nicumbent upon him to take notice ur Ull asser tion made by the Hon. Cleatlearn., that the crimi nal laws of England ware if a sanguinary macre ; the Hon. Gentleman had sot vary rtufaelenly ex pounded this. when he stated, that the ',umber of capital punishment.. inflicted in previous reign. was vastly greeter than had been inflicted within the present. This, rarely, was a tentimimy of the le nity. rather than the seventy. of the British criminal lava. The subject required greet consideration. and he thought it necessary that a plan of what was to he substituted in plats of 4lsese taws, represent ing the mode of preserving a full security of the public property and liberties, should be brought forward. Mr. SMI Till spokr in favour of the introduction of the Bill. The CIIANCIILLOIt of the EttentoOra made a few observations respecting the ipusreprrsentatiena which had been made with regard to the severity of the Criminal Laws. Sir SAIIIHIL HOMILLY spoke in reply. Lord G. Gags MIS supported the motion. Carried so the of Mr. CHRISTOPHER HUTCHINSON moved, " That some Papers respecting the ewe of the Fortifica tions of Antwerp. previous to the sailing of the ex pedition to Welchem', be laid before the Commit. tee of Eiscpsiry. Mr. 'Urine said, he could not state whether the documents were in his office, and that the 'notion stand till Monday.—The Howse hewing resumed the Inquiry into the Walcheren Expedition, strangers were immediately ordered to withdraw. FOREIGN INTALLIGENCE. FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. NOI'LI OF THE 110/111'KUR ON TILE KING'S SPEECH. (dpeeed.)...." Yin idajeoty itoseatairele as to espreoe to rot hie deep regret, that the reerti,,as of the Emperor oldest:is, against the arateitioa and viuteoce of Fesace,,ltavo pm,/ rasvailiag." ( Monet eur.)—What grossness of style I If Aus tria had liven victorious. and het armies had arriied at the banks of the Rhine, we should have heard England boast of having restored the Austrian Mo narchy. and re-established its power. England alone would have done every thing. But the enter. prise of Austria bed only calamitous results, and the British Cabinet now di►avows it. It follows the constant practice of England ; and soon we shell be required to believe, that English frigates did not come to Trieste to bring subsidies from England ; that the Cabinet of Loudon had no knowledge of the projects of the Court of Vienna; that whole it sent an army into Spain to maintain the war in the peninsula, while it excited the Porte against France, and Sweden against the North, it bawl no thought of Austria. Cali • nation be thus shame lessly mocked ?--To know the true opinion of the English Ministry. it will be sullicient to read the Treasury Journals, and the numerous articles in which they express with exultation the hopes they had conceived, when Austria pulksL e ,l hn ration. (speerA.)--#. As attack spun the nasal *maw% establishments in the Scheldt, afforded at vete th e p, of destrmiog s giewiag force, *luck was daily I ftesi more furioidabk to the security (Atha COMOtry ^ Iloniteur. I—lt was not theft to suei:out A t , that you undertook this Exprdition ? (sreech.)—" These ronaideratioad determined Hi s jetty to employ Lit forces itt am liipe4tiva ea the ti e t . ( Monitear.) Excellent logic ! U you wished to excite r evo lt i n t h e north of you should have lauded at the mouth of the and not io the Isle of Welcheren. But there v 4 on chips and arsenals to burn at Hainburso, Lou Expeditions are only incendiary Expeditions. IVliat success could you expect? It dal rat quire much penetration to feel, that, at the nvs,,, when you attacks? the sacred territory, 4 arms, which could not be employed to Pot i ti 'neap were always ready to be *earl in do's v• s i their houses, mud would rival each other in con so end eothussas n its their defence. To attack F,4 1 , 01.1 not to In event the Emperor from disposing(' his troops to conquer German). it was to ovens. • new army iit men, whoms,uace enrolled, he nigh t retain under his standards as log u k shook judge proper. The British Calmat knows little ( ' France and as little of the Emperor; it has imp ( been able to appreciate actual circumstance,, 11 the Emperor had beets asked what Engin/du ( to do to promote his interests, he would, so & l b ; have advised her to attack the territory of Fram e certain that the result of this expedition wouldll to give him an army completely equipped, ',wok after having driven the English into the sea, sigh march to the Weser, to the Rhi ne , or to the Do nube. If the war with Aust r i a h a d coat i nnest 100,000 national guards, collect e d i n B e l g i an, ter having repulsed the Engli s h, wou ld have taw ] the direction upon the sth corps, and have jonai their army destined to act against Bohemia. No thing could have been more easy than to profit by their euthtoiasm. A proof of this is. that mar II the national guards having once left their hewn, and returned to the military life, have net been willing to quit it, till they had tempted am glorious Wards, and have entered into several ere regiments, called " regiments er wetiossal premise the guard," regiments which will only be composed of men taken Awn the national guards, mad abs will maul' to Spain. The men who conduct the Engli•li Cabinet must certainly be very ignorant, since they do not know the difference between the spirit of the French Monarchy. and the spire id the Frettch Empire. between the Royal Court, and the Imperial Court. The times are chanced: the whole world knows it ; the English afoot recants is blindness. But what is most particular us. that this attack, by creating to Fran new niihuri forces, leas pr o tared her new resources Of kat". Thee erninner de g , which had been rip pressed -everal years silice. have been re-establishol voluntarily. and by a simple patriotic decision si the general councils of the greater part of the dts partrneuts threatened ; and beer suficed for tbs expen-ea of this army, raised, as it were, by err chantuient, so that noting sill he added Is the expenditure of the budget. The Fresch have ter ttostati thus : The Emperor suppressed the tau*" de g when the motives which ceased them ti Use imposed no longer existed ; the enemy now sr proaches our frontiers, it is therefore just to pq them as before. These resources, given by patriot. ism, and the good sense of the departments el the North, will Ise definitively authorised by du law relative to the finances of the year. _ . You wished to prevent France from sending by troops to the Danube, but you know not the re• sources of the empire. Know, that to cause ell your Expeditions to fail, the Emperor need cot employ a single man of his troops of the line. The 16,000 men of gendarmerie, which form the finest cavalry in Europe, and a cavalry five time" more ninnerous than any you can bring by sea ; the de partmental companies, and the national gond% are forces more than sufficient to frustrate all the operutinus you can undertake against the French territory. (s pees s.)—.l. His Majesty ronlidently hopes that win* Sages materially affecting the safety of Hie )lajeoty's dom. Nicer, is the further pruner„ lion of the war, will be fined to molt from the demolition of the &eke sad arsensli Flushing. This important object His Majesty was ensaid to accomplish is consequence of die reduction of the 14.4 of Walcheren, lay the valour of his Recta sod wows" (c/Innitene./—The mischief done by toe Emsloho the island of i s estimated at e,000.0. 9 francs; Litt they have repaired the of Flushing, no the laud-side, and left them in the best condition. The expense thereby locums), is estimated, by our engineers, at 600.000 trance. They hire kft hrhststi, bans. bombs, and WC . " of ordnance, and suffered n :;resit number of their ships to 1w taken ; ',event; of them were laden web clothes; 15.000 coat, • ere found un board of one of the said ships. On calruisr,ng the value althea different articles, and taking every thing Into sr co , tnt s it will be found, that our losses WI end! balanced by our gains; at Ira t the former do not teed the litter by 500,000 francs. The made to bless up the s:u.oe of the large basin et . Plucking, were conatru:-ted le.th sick a degree igiasrance, or preripitaqire. that !hi.) d.d not efeet their purpose; they Lase not dams{' the woo f ' b"uni,, which makes a difierenor ul • million. If'd pktrly skoi Oil Ohl At. 101 [ dow n 000 d 4