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r: • madvenion which they deserved. Like many (- her r:.r..rlttis which he bad been permitted to utter in that .lon.e, it had a dire* tendency to alienate t!-e min is of the people of the country from His Majesty's Govern/neat. It was neither more nor less than telling the people, telling those brave men who had armed in the defence of their countrY, that the Government was about to oppress them, by raising the price of the necessaries of life. He knew of nothing that could tend mere to encourage disaffeaion in the country, and serve the common enemy, than such observations. They were the very same which that Noble Earl bad been making fur many ye-an in that House; and which, fortu nately for himself and the people at large, had failed of producing the desired effea. But he was happy to find, that the minds of the people at large were now completely changed, with respell to those extravagant and pernicious principles, which some of 'them might have once entertained; and it was a proof at once of the security of the Government, and of the attachment of the people towards it, that an individual like the Noble Earl was still suffered to propagate those doarines, which had done such mischief in other countries. One of the propositions suede use of by him was, that every dire& tax should be taken off the farmer: and that, he imagined, would lave the effuse of lowering the prices of pro visions. Never did a more erroneous idea enter ire the istagir.ation of any man. Every body who bpant him might lecollea the attempts which had InbrelitadottytherevolutionJry government of Vrance Ws hewer the price of provisions. Mien th a t tem • eiepia:nd 'sanguinary monster ltob••snierre. had been •..afisittimg - thousands and tens of thousavds re.ple beirslungenus, and driving die miserable vittims of bar tyranny to the guillotine, he attempted to pass a taw for the benefit of the people, and by thar•means M lower the price of provisions. Hr inc.:AAA that his obis& was to Relieve the public from oppression. Butisow was that to he effeeted ? By establishing a seatiassats by fixing a certain price on all tl.e rcces pries of life, beyond which ti.ey were not to be sold. Ilse consequences were the most dreadful, and ruin ous that could possibly be imagined. So far front • kenning the price of provisions, the law ilia - tied'- • . ately produced scarcity grad famine. Such was the are of speculative reforms. like those which the Noble Earl would introduce Another plan which the Noble E tri svi•hed to have adopted, was that of establishing puhlic granaries in the c• - •untry, for theparposcot laritigulcorli in years of plenty. which might be made use of in years of scarcity. However such a planes this might be beneficia_ in certain states, it could never be practically beneficial in a country like Great Britain. In Cle first place, there was no ' redundancy of corn even in the most plentiful sea son in this country, which could be reserved for such a purpose Thi re was no more corn grown in Great Britain in any one year than WAS Lll(ficient for the ellosumption of the inhabitants; and we wen continually importing corn to supply the de ficiescies of bad swims. The cause why a greater quantity of corn was not produced in this country, was very obvious. It was a great commercial try, and in such a country, agriculture WAS never carried to such an extent as in places where them was little commerce. A great portion of. oar population was employed in mmut. failures, and in various other p...tr.....r.!s betide those of ; and therefore, although the coun try • not, in proportion to its population, produce as great a quantity of corn as it might do t yet the Industry of the people was equally as produelive its other vespers; and the wealth which that industry procured, supplied them with provisions from other countries, when they could not be got at home. It was evident that the plan of public granari• . was not only imprsaieable, but unnecessary. To such a plan, each as was proposed by the Noble Earl, he had another objeelion, still strow4er than any be had stated ; which was, that of putting the public Rummies under the corn:out of G .vcr.,. meet. if any one thing could be more unconstitu tional or mischievous than another, it was that of allowing the Government of a country to have the of supplying the suhjeas with provitiuns. Cel w : r a power should never be wife:L:l to exist in this country; and he would icsiu it as far a , lay in his power. Another plan of the Nohle which be said the price of the quartern loaf cou!..i be lowered to .sd. was still more iniprailicable. The price of bread must always keep p.ie- wilt the prices of all the other necessaries of life ; and the price of bread in this country was, at the present mo ment, proportionably too low. How was it pos sible then that it could be lower? Importation c•tild not have that taiga and if it had, it would have the still worse effete of preventing the growth amen in the country. The real cause of the high prices, which took place in almost all the r.ccesia rim of life in this country, was the great wealth which it possessed ; and that must be alweys the case in every great commercial country. Ile con ordered it unnecessary for him to enter into the merits of this Bill, which had bern discussed before in that House ; but he wait convinzed, if the Rill did not pass, it would have the effea of producing real scarcity in the countr.-. His Royal lli•rhness the Duke of CLARENCE said he thought necessary to make a few observa tions on what tell from a Noble Earl who opened the debate on this subjea. He had said. that the mea sure then before the House was brought forward by ice Government. This he most positively denied. he measure had met the approbation of; and been planned by the members of the late cabinet. The present Ministers gase their sanetion and sup. port to it; and. in doing so, they had the advice and assistance of their predecessors in oilice. But so far from its being a measure coming from the Govern. meet, it was brought forward by a Member of the other House of Phrliament (Mr. V.:stern), nho had uniformly been in opposition to Ministers, and who had alw a ys voted against the late and the pre sent war. His Royal Highness then advanced other arguments in favour of the Biil. The question then WAS put, when Lord Staa hope's amendment was negatived, and the Bill was read a second time. An order was afterwards made that it be read a third time to-morrow. Earl STAN HOPE. next rose to propose the Te. galAtiOWS which he had mentioned. Ha w :it over several of his former arguments ; and in answzr to thereharge, that he had used violent and inflamma tory language, he contended he had said nothing more than that a g reat part, and perhaps a majo rity of the perpleof the country, would be itissaus. \ fled with the Bill befell. the Howe: sad that it would be a dangerous thing to run the risk of alienating the affections of men, who had come for ward with arms in their hands to defend their country, and their gocenunent. This was an argn ment he thought he had a right to make use of. He then moved his resolutions; and said, if they were agreed, to that he would move to adjourn the debate upon them to this day se'nnight. Lord MULGRAVE thought the conduet of the Noble rarl higlly reprehensible, is supposing that the brave men who had taken up aims in defence of their country, were likely to become disaffected in consequence of a Biil of this kind. Thank God, very fiat persons now entertained the same principles with that Noble Earl. Whatever errors men might formerly have had on the subject of our constitu tion, he was convinced that their refleiioa and good sense, with the experience they have bad, did since teach them that they enjoyed more freedom and happiness than were to be found in any other part of the world ; and he was therefore convinced, that the inflammatory sentiments of the Noble Earl would produce very little etre& allli,iugh it was ne cessary to notice tl , em when they were uttered in that House. His Lordship thza cmitended, that the resolutions just moved were useless, impracticable, and mischievous His Lordship concluded with moving, that the House do now aejourn. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, it wis a roof of the extraordinary indulgence of that assem bly, that the Noble Earl .had been on the pre sent, as *ell as olt former occasions, permitted to utter di-: sentiments which he did ; and, in order to do so. to wander away into extraneous matt.', wholly foreign from the sulijiia uncle! ciiusideratito, With iesped to the rcsmutions which were now pin. Posed. it was impossible to entertain them for moment. The plan for ereirtinzi granaries in the country would Lave the elleet of cutting off our supplies of grain (tom other nations: and the idea of taking ~tr all dire,. taxes from far mers could confer co benefit on them ; while it would considerably dimit.ish the public revenue. It any particular tax was taken off a farmer, he knew very well, and that horn his professional ha bits. that the )andlord would raise the rent, so as to make the hurthen tall equally heavy on the tenant as if the tax existed. lit) take away tythes would be a great injuqice to th se who had a property in them ; but it would be no relief to the cultivators of land; for they would be obliged to pay to the or. hen of the land an additional - rent equal to what they had paid in tythes. As to the plan of lower ing the price of bread, by encreased importation, that would have an effect directly the contrary to what was intended, because it would discourage, and completely do away, the cultivation of graiii in this country. He could not help expressing his thanks to the Noble Lord who bad moved the question of adjournment, because he thought this was is debate which ou'ht; not to proceed any further. Eat l 6 rANHOPE replied, that the Noble Sec:-e -tary of State, and the Noble Lord on the woolsack, had both misconceived him, the former had said, that he intended the warehousing of corn should he in the power of certain persons only. He did not mean any such thing; he meant it should be regu lated by persons properly appointed by an Ad of Parliament made for that purpose. The Noble Lord on the Woolsack had misconceived him in saying that he intended the whole should rest under the controul of die farmers. This again was not his meaning ; it was his desire that they also should be subjed to the persons appointed by Ad of Par liament. Having now explained, as well as he was able, the two misconceptions which their Lordships had up.in the resolutions he proposed, he should not trouble the House with any further observations. The Duke of CLARENCE expressed his sur prise that any debate had taken place upon the sub jed at that time : it s. as not his intention to have made any further observations ; but he had 'forgot ten one, and was happy the Noble Earl had now given him an opportunity of mentioning it. The Noble Earl had said, that by the Bill not tak ing effect until next November, it was an abso lute nullity, as the utility of it would be done away by that time. He remembered at the time of pa.. , ing the Navigation AR, the Noble Lord was a 5.i-sinuous supporter of that measure. and of postpon ing the effect of it for some time after it was passed. The reasons why the Lill in question was not to take dr.& until November, were, because several misre presentation:of it had guile out among the public,and It seas necessary full time should be given, in order t:!at it might be fully understood, and that the har vest might be made up, so as that no party whatever sb. old be prejudiced by the operations of the Bill. The question of adjournment was then put, and the House accordingly adjourned to to-morrow. •.• %ye are 'till oSliged to Ferstpone our prunio.t4 article relative to England and Russia. THE BIt.UPISII PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY. JULY 2d. Among the causes assigned for Mr. LI w a s cisrom x's dismissal and disgrace, it is said, that he is charged with having misapplied the secret service money of his government, in feasts and entertainments to Citizen TALLZY RAND. and his worthy friends, X, 1, Z.—lt is also reported, that he has exceeded his insulations in his zeal to gratify the extravagance of the Corsican Usurper, by advances of the pur chase money of Louisiana, before it became due. and borrowing it at an exorbitant interest, in the name of the United States of America, where his condo t is abused by all parties, and has already stripped the PRZSID ENT Of Malty of his most zealous partisans. It is farther reported, that Mr. Jame son has been insulted in the most audacious man ner, by BONArArre, in a letter in his own hand writing, in which be blames him for not preventing bis brother Jammu irons marrying a woman so far below him in rank and fortune, and permitting the American merchant. to supply Dueausis, and the Republic of Haiti, with arms, ammunition, and provisions. _ We have seen four letters from Italy, which all concur in stating, that the proclamation of Bos A PARTE, as Emperor of the French, has been re ceived by the French army in that country, not merely with discontent, but also attended with dis affeaion. When General JOURD AN announced this new revolutionary dignity at Milan, and, with his staff, exclaimed, " Fide l'E sr !" the troops re mained silent, the soldiers smiling at each other. At Leghorn, the soldiers hissed, and hooted, .ti,u grounded their arms; and at G.ito,i, tr ey made a square, and desired to deliberate, when BoN A ar E'S countryman and Minister there, S A Lice, - T interfered, and, by his advice, the men were ordered back to their barracks; where the officers dreW up an address of congratulation in their own names as well as in that-of the soldiers. General Sr. Cvlt,the commander of the army in the kingdom of Naples, had more difficulties to encounter before he could procure, not the consent of his troops, but an ad dress from individual intriguers. It is supposed that ',veils BON•PARTS. had his emissaries in this army, and from enmity or envy to his brother NA PO: tux, had gained over some of the principal officers, who, on the 24th of last May, delivered a ; )etition to General Sr. Cv s, demanding, " that as their men resided in an aristocratical or rather de spetic country, where liberticide principles may ea sily be imbibed; a new oath to liberty and equality, and &lent) , to a Republican Government might he taken." Sr. CYR, in answer, said that he would transmit their demand to the FIRST CONSUL. On the 4th of June, a Courier arrived from Paris with the information of the Senates Couches, of the 18th of May, which declared Bona raILTZ an Emperor, and the Imperial dignity hereditary IA his family. The am day General ST. Cy a ordered a grand parade of all the troops in the gulph of Tarentims, and read to them the &naffs: Con amities. Their only answer was V.ve RqueLligue ! Vier la Liberte ! la Liberle, ou la Morte ! In the evening he ordered plenty of wine, and of brandy, to be distributed among the soldiers. Promises and money were given to the officers, notwithstanding not more than 692 signatures could be colledled by his aid-de-camps, in an army of 22,000 men. The next day, however, an address of' congratulation was made out, in the name of the whole army, and these 692 names were affixed as delegates. That similar sentiments have prevailed in France, and similar uses made of the names of some few misled or seduced officers and men, is more than probable, as :very account from the army on the coast. as well as from the army of the interior, mentions the discontent both of the officers and men, upon see. ing a revolution, begun in the name of liberty, ter minate in die most abjeet slavery. It is reported that Mr. Purr intends to advise His MAJESTY to dissolve the Parliament shortly after its protogation. A change is about to take place in the Office of His Royal Highness the COMMANDER in Cotter. Colonel CLINTON is to be appointed Quarter Master General of Ireland, vice Sir JOHN CRADDOCK ; and Colonel GORDON, Deputy Barrack Master General, is to succeed to COIOneICLIPITON's present situation, AS Military Secretary to His Royal Highness the COMMANDER in CH►cr. Colonel GORDON'S sue. cessor is not yet named. We understand that General Haverty has refused to accept the situ ation of Barrack Master General, unless Go vernment shall consent to elonerate him from all responsibility respeaing the passing of bar rick accounts, for which the Barrack Master- General has been hitherto held accountable. It is cettainly a hard case, that an officer should be held responsible, as Barrack Master-General, kr money issued by the Treasury, and over which he has not a complete and entire controul. Yesterday arrived a mail from Lisbon..brmight to Falmouth by the To-,.nii:eld packet in thirteen days. The Eaterctd, Wells, from Liverpool is captured. The sloop of war, with the fleet which sailed from Falmouth on the l4.th arrived safe at 0i , .,:t.), with all her sth of July. Letters from our cru is ors opposite lion, that General M A I NIONT . French der in Chief its liollan.j, has been th. Middleburgh, where he had lung confer. Field Marshal LYAv oust. and Admiral I and afterwards, accompanied with Gen, inspe'ted the principal ports in Zealand. day 22 flat bottomed boats, sir gun boat transports, sailed from Flushing up th. to juin by inland navigation the fl tills ; It was impossible for our st:ips to ann;y they were protated every where by thei One of our boats, with a Lieutenant and ti went last Monday night into the inner roam ing, where they counted nor than i and ten other armed vessels, CA. of sto:m assay. They were hal ed by one of me batteries, ant not an.weiini nut wita , .ut sus:al:dog any damage, other b..:teries opf3ed a fire on them. MORNING !LINCS. A Lk ROYALE. Sampson. the a la m a / a - executioner of He. nour, who beheaded George and the other !loya lists, sold their hair to some leathers in the Paleis Royal, who made mourning tilits, containing so me of the hair of each of them mired together. These rings soon became very fashionable. AD the cabe r jewellers set about making rings in imitation o f them. The Police Pratt informed the Botperor el this circumstance, and that thew rings were a kind of signal to rally for tin disappointed, disaffefted, dtscontented, not only among the RoTalsts, but even among the Jacobins. His revolutionary Ma jesty ordered, therefore, his police agents to sup every person who made an ostentatious display of these nags, as several, both ladles and _gentleme n , wore these rings outside their gloves. Near ninety pestanu were arreseed on the 6th .r Tuly, th e forenoon, as they were walking .he Tbuillery Garden ; and what nos a tittle - vflanied the indig. uatiou of Bonaparte, be heard war. among the, were officers of his household, and ladies attached to him or to his consort, the Imperial Jolepld n ... At the Opera, on the Stb, they were, notwithstane ing, very numerous upon the fingers of the lad i es particularly, which so enraged Bonaparte, that In did not stay longer than five minutes This alanned the fair speEtators, who apprehended, that die 3.. gry upstart would, as he had done before, era" the house to be surrounded by gems yi'anters and police spies, and that new impruonments wood be the consequence. Before the first ad wrs over, ;al the boxes were, therefore, left empty, sad t e rm , spread all over Paris. The executioner, glan l p, o , ) , and his son, were sent to the Bicetre, and nine jest. ellers to the Temple. These rings are called mourn. ing rings a LA ROT AL L. EPITAPH. Here mitt my Spouse; CIO pair throe& We So rral liv'd as we did ; ♦like we shard perpetual mile, Aar knew I rest till she did. Yesterday morning. soon after breakfast, Rs MAJESTY, accompanied by the Princesses SOPMIA and ASIEL,A, with their usual attendants, took al airing on horseback in Windsor Great Palk, aLd viewed the several improvements. . . Her MAJESTY and the Nisei:Am yilaterdas nnured Lady MARY BOOTRBY and Miss IL% ,s -az% n with a visit, at thz Roand Tower, in Wir.lor Castle. The Duke and Duchess% of MARLBOROUGH, with 1.-dy E. SPENCER and family, left Sion Hill Thursday, for Brighton, where they will be join,:, in a few days, by Loud and Lady F. Svc sects, v 5...) are now with a large party at Oxford races. Earl Pout. err and family left tow:s yesterdiv for his Lordship's beautiful seat, Hinton St. Ge4rge. Somersctshire. Lady ANNE WYNDif AM left town yesterday f r Brighton, where she will remain until N ivem'aer. Lady A. CARPENTER gave, last night, her fare well rout for the season, at her house in Lower Grosvenor-street. Mr. LU 'SOCK, the banker, came to Uwe yr. terday, to attend the Brentford Elation. The tail of P 412.:. A. and his amiable Countess, left Hampto.i Court on Thursday last, for Don nington Castle, Leicestershire ; and, in the coursed' ten days. his Lordship will set off for Scotland, :3 resume his command. The Duke and Duchess of BIIDTORD Lord ;1. 1 Lady Boaisooom, Lord and Lady CRAVES, -71- Lord and Lady Kilo, are expeaed to honour C . city of Exeter with their presendedoring the assiz:f. Two Austrian Officers smoked pipe to pip- for a full hour, at the Duchess of St. ALS K's Mmq,: , - ra.dc, on Wt•dnesday night. Throne was a main I Lt.L'ST R luus Pc AlON•Gi.—the other was Lord Ps- TtEISHANI. Mr. DUWTON, of Drury-lane Theatre, is to mate his debut at the Exeter Theatru, in the assize wee's, which will commence on Monday next. Young M imwastiso has.pinsa facie, as good a right to be returned for Middlesex as the late Mr. W,I.KLS. lle cannot look you straight in the face. Mrs. L. TC rir LD has received the 41‘ dire stain► at Birmingham ; she performed Slrlittreou on Duns day last. The statements hitherto published, respefting the large property of the late Lady S• Lissy sr, art very inaccurate—'lle bulk of her fortune is dieiJel between two of her nephews, Sir Rosser S si. BURY, of Lanwern, Monmouthshire, and the Ile velead LYNCH SA( 1.3111.1 RY, of Hitchers. Hens — who shares a very considerable sum of readr money s and an income of at least 12,0001. per ann. A ehemi•e is one of the insignia displayed by . Sir FRANCIi I.II.:RDZTT'S party. We presume. I: 01 thence, that the Baronet is put to his lass shift. In thelist of recent arrivals at P.ath are— !. ad K:twa• I.a lv Bathurst, 110?;. and Res %V W&;4uw, Hon. Capt. &mks, Rev Mr. Williams, 11 1l ' a nu° '‘istu i t u , I M . r R .:nd j. N . 1 1 !s '11. Gallon. Ma j C 4 Caps. Nu"l. The Painter Day .:), so famous since the Rol" r. ,. ; for Africa, lotion, and according to whose plan. all forme , ' "' 1 .• tion.il fetes have been executed, is now empkied to ,„ t t ii: ( o l l. 3 sail ), ltle p ne. r : e tr p to .i n r a e ed t an o ca d . arr ll t ange s d eiv ie e 7r .in e m mo Err Eros ' s on :La The aaors of the French f t u ba t n u y a r t e re , c4. t h t have b c e A : i be:T On Par ti : t. ' k coast , ....,..ig men- I...STEROL The actresses of the same theatre isve, uch snore II Comman hv gracious rmission. intit led thamse:ves Foxe 1 rer.cea wita The charminf sea bathing place of Aldirnr.' ,l .' rc VERM CUI L, upon the Ni 1. Mo::iscr, than at any previous season. Last Sun- up on th e sout h ern coast are ': ht e ' rae a w ll a y te i ri n n tte l. s l a a rr ic'e ats, ar.d IS state. S.) much for the lean ul French and Du ::b he Scheldt, inva...; a. at Ostea J. Yesterday, the Crnydnn Mitcham, Caraha ltes6 " 1 oy them, as Twi . den, and Nterton Vel'unteer Infantry Corp. as t e n btteries. s.o. wets brigaded at Pewnare m i, near Mitcham , u° seamen, .!. the command of Col one l WAIIL INOTONI the Coo' J ad of Fl"s" - wander of the Croydon Corps. The Brigade ` vas ..: I tan cutters inspeaed by General l - lousrON and Colonel Jac . others have sore, who paid many well-deserved compliments on „. ^e sentry in their superior state of discipline. Tb. Cr°Ysi :: lg. 67 '-'d at: i and Carshalton Corps marched fiveiniles to be 7: t . tho'aei sea gaded ; atid the wh-:: of them were updOr an/35 svr near fagot • ' hours.