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7.!!' the Bill sppett.a tb laterither trabeeeildels ;It difficulty arose out of the ingenuity oftsbsig a 'yen No practical evil resulted from it, noreould 'result, except that, by bringing in this Bill, a doubt might appear to be thrown upon the tenure of certain property never doubted before. The Coat: mittee had already decided the matter by an una nimous voice, and all further proceeding was ren d !:•ed unnecessary. Mr. MONTGOMERY was willing to defer his mo tion for the convenience of the Members ; but, with respect to the necessity of it, his opintou re. fouiwed the same; a great sensation was excited in his county on the subject ; und the aptilions of many Lawyers, amo u r; whom wus the Attorney. General of Ireland, declared that property was out to be considered sale tinder such a tenure. Mr. CROMER explained. Sir GEORGE HILL declared, twat he vas * Member of the Comusittee, and assured the llowe e Oro they had decided the question without u fits. ng voice. rite question a :is then pit nail carried. Messrs. 1;4049'0111cm., Poii.cuby, and Lushington, were u..dcred to bring it Mr. BARIUM Tliat an account of the eett"is nod flax into behind, should be. 1.1.1 un the tattle." w Inch was agreed to. PHLTIEFGES OF THE ROL SE. • Mr. C. IVYNNE declared his isitemion of bring ing forward a motion respecting the Privileges of . . the House ;he would defer it until the main ques tion was 'list:kissed; but after that eyelet, lie felt him- self called upon to submit a resolution to their cou sideration, in consequence of the concluding pent graph of a letter lately preseuted to the House ; he thought there could be no objection to Ins fixing it far Monday se'imight. Mr. l'accevaL did not think it was acting fairly to animadvert upon that letter, until they had . conel to a resolution on the inquiry; however, as that was done, he thought it more consistent with justice teiwards the Roya: Personags; concerned, to come to a decision upon the letter first, that all prejudice might be removed. Mr. WT sae declared, lie did not wish to excite. any prejudice, but thought his duty imposed upon Inns the task of giving the notice he had given, that it might be known that the attention of the House would be called to it without delay. Mr. PERCEV tI. was confident that the discussion would rein ye all prejudice. Mr. atruoase agreed in the propriety of giving the ' mh o% He was proceer'ing to Make some Olk-• •••t retinue upon the letter, When the SPLAKLI/ IT inaided him that was not the time for such a dis cussion. Thet.PEAltrit apologised to the House for letting the conversation proceed to such a Ic.igtb. The re.ieiu was, that the notice purported to be upon a question of privilege. in which case there is always „-reater lautude allowed to tii.! Members of that Blouse. COIMERCIAf. IItEGULATIONS. Mr. PI:RCEVAI. ri:/servesi, that he had given no tice, yestenloy, th it lie would move the House to appoint a Cismuittee for the purpose of inquiring into the regilltious that govern the drawback* and countervailing duties respecting the imports moil exports between Great Britain and Ireland ; and also to consider what changes might he necessary to bring them to the terms of reciprocity, provided by the Articles of fission. lie accordingly moved it now. After a few words from Sir .lone NEsseoar. Mr. SMITH, and Mr. l'AliliLLl.,, it wet refermil to a Select Committee. Mr. MARTIN mowed, " That' certain papers, re lating to money account's, should lie laid ins the table," which was agreed to. TREATY WITH SPAIN. Mr. PONION UT rose to put seise• questions to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs; the that was whether se treaty with Spain was ratified, and haul ar rived; 6u:second, whether a report to which he (Mr:Ponsoiiby) ail mkt!. oti a former night, was us vertaine4l to lie true, miiudy, that the fore.: trots Lishon wa. refused aclinissiou into Cadiz ? r.C.t %X IN.:stated, that the ratitieation was not urri%ed ; as to the other - uptestiou, he did not feel himself equal to answer it. srAmi , ACT Mr. Git.ts wished to know whether it was the • • intention of the. Chancellor of the Exchequer to propoic sty aiteration in the Stamp Act passed last ear ? No answer was given. estr~ CORN DISTILLATION BILL. Mr. Peaces lt. prow...v(l to sippend the intercourse to•twtro fbr twocountries till the Ist of June, when the Cniumil tee appointed to 'adjust the regulations respecting their permanent iiitereottpir oli•olld have reported. It war tigrt et! to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Reports on the Irish alai Military Estimates were brought up by Mr. Wittitron. • Mr. CANNING rose to notice an ide.ervation which had Eiden from an lion. Member, not then prearot, upon a former night.. It had a tendency, though he was cell:tin it -was not intetideil by the Member, to sow distrust in the minds of the Government. Ile (Mr. ttttt ing) heal the satiafaction to inform the !bow.. that there war the most perfect good understanding between both :nversiinents. It misery!' ;he ititeutipo of the Sici lian's tombinit their forces, in caw of danger, tinder Briti-ls Commander, so perfect aas their re liance upon fist. country. Mr. Wu tarivi brought np the Report of the Con tttt ittee ou the Flax Bill, and also that of the Committee apon the Irish Bank Note Bill. Adjairlied. I I 6.- 1 i lIIS 114.11:stl'S iIIIP BRUNSWICK. EXTRACT OF A Lt•rica FRO/I AN OFFICER OF /11l NIAJFITY'S SNIP BRUNSWICK, TATZD YAR MOUTH, FEB. 2•! Our arrival I.ere wa+ truly welcome, as Vll' have Buffeted the severeq chores'', during our erni,e in th e Baltic. ths the 1I th ult„ se were t.ozen up i;i the Cutte,;it, but ii•lt so completely a+ to pren•nt the rurectoN un l ono!, from buffeting; us about most monorrtfally. In our various concussions against tine ice, we 111Yt! last the whole of the copper from the shift's bottom. ~ntr+o tier fain keel. We have been ogreund four eliffeststit 'times ; tad, roe the purpose of lightening the vessel, were obliged to throw over:. hoard all one guns, gun-carriages, sod shot. We have only wee anchor left, and that unserviceable, having lose sae arm in the ice. We have been twice driven on the coast of Jutland; the first time so near the shore, that the enemy endeavoured to reach the ship over the ice, with a flag of truce, to reader assistance, in consequence of our almost indescribable distress, but were obliged to return Oil account of the great quantity of ice which in tervened. From thence we drifted in another di rection„ and, unfortunately, got aground on the Danish island, Lassoe, some miles from the shore. We remained aground ten hours, in two and a half feet water less than the ship's draught; at length, by keeping sail on the ship, sod the current flow ing, we were fortunate enough to get off, when we had given up all hopes of extrication: most undoubtedly, had our guns, ice. been on board, we must have perished. Shortly after, the wind having shifted to the S. F.. and blowing fresh, the ice he4ati to break in different places, and fur 70 or Ent miles we drove ow. arri, with partial inter ruptions. The health of our crew is greatly im paired, the sick list consisting of nearly 100 men. Olir provisions have heel' extremely short ; and se were also latterly restricted to a pint of water, each man, per diva." f STATE OF AMERICA. The numerous arrival* from various American ports, of vessels laden with colonial produce, and the language held in different parts of that vast ewehoot, expremice of disapprobation and indig nation at the continuation of the Embargo; these farts, while they announce the general dissatisfac tion, seem to foretell the approaching separation of the coutpoueut States, forming the American Union. In fact, when we reflect on the nature of the General Government, placed, it is true, in a central position, lint incapable of coercing the dis tant extrimilties of the nominal Confederation or Republic, when we consider how destitute of ruergy are all Democratic Constitutions, and how 'Toots:moue is the submission paid to the Congress, or representative body; we shall not, or we ought not, to he astonished, that it seems about to exhi bit rem ulutionary scenes. There is not, indeed, in America, any Throne, like that of the Locasons, to subvert; nor w there a Nobility to level, and to devour, like that of France in 17t49. Scarcely can there be said to exist a national debt to extinguish. But, on the other hand, the Executive Power has neither a vast regular military form: to quell insur rection; nor a naval urusamu•nt sofficieutly nume rous and active to enforce obedience to their legis lative rzgulations. Perhaps, under other circum stances, and if Europe had remained on its ancient basis, the American Union might have subsisted for a much longer period. But, when the old world is become a theatre of revolution, followed by military despotism, vested in the hands of one Chief, who has already placed his family, or his dependants, on half the Thrones of the Continent, and who will allow no neutrals to navigate the seas ; the new world must, in its turn, be visited by poli tical convulsions. They seem to be begun, and to threaten a rapid progrese. As commercial regulations, or restrictions, im- I prudently undertakeii on the part of the British Onerinnent. in 1774, wave rise to the American rchelhott, so other and similar acts of prohibition in the "Cuenca* Government, in tans, wiil, appa rently, produce a second paroxysm be} mid the At lantic. The symptoms of opposition end of resist- Race seem to manifest themselves in the wale places, peculiarly in New England, at Huston. Dow curious will it he to every philosophic mind oinil how instructive a lesson to inankiud will it exhibit, if the same Sovereign, who, inot thirty scars ago, witnessed the first emancipation of North America from his own sceptre, should behold a second insurrection against that very power which they bad themselves so recently created ! Yet this extraordinary fact seems about ill be realized. If, instead . of extinguishing, by embargoes, and by non-importation laws, all ex. ternal commerce, iadust►y, and exertion, the American Government had adopted a more ener getic and masculine line of policy; if she had at once declared herself either for France or for Great Britain ; for revolution, or for legal legiti mate government; for NAPOLI:Od, or for ULORGN ill.: it is probable that more general acquiescence and submission would bare been paid by the people to their Rulers. Two parties would, in deed. necessarily have arisen and existed; but tsar would have occupied, employed, and fur nished means of subsist are, Lay, even of emolu ment and of wealth, to vast northers of individuals. The ocean Mould hare been still open to commer cial enterprise, and to maim! ardour. Nor would the %tight of America, m a Naval Power, have been unfelt by who of the two eouteisding nations she had joiner'. Mr. Jeeexasox, by too refined and subtle a spitern, may precipitate the very evi n Inch he has smetlit to avert. How um a Conti nent, extending along the shore of the Atlantic Oat-an, through so sonny degrees of latitude, abounding ni valissible natural productions of a theusaud kinds, inhabited by an industrious race of men, but wanting many commodities or so ticles, may to be obtaimd from t urope, subsist, *Maga trade or navigrition beyond its own coasts 4 porbt How can aril country thus pass lien .** of extinction on itself, and enforce rubmis. WM from those who become its victims ? The thing is most hazardous, and may recoil, like loony other ingenious speculative inventions or devices, on its projectors. A short time will put to the test the solidity or the fallacy of these reasonings. If. DA• f D—. 154019 fits I:choicer ea Emus. Offints. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH I. It is thought that the Brest fleet has put to sea with ad expectation of joining the Bochfort squadron, of five ships of the line, in the Bay.— From thence it is bupposed they mean to proeced together to Ferrol, and having joined the Spanish fleet there, to proeevd off Cmlit, %there the Toulon fleet is to join them. That this plan, if practica ble, would be very advantageous to N A POLE° N, we admit; but in order to carry it into complete effect, it is necessary that Lord COLLIN GWOOD Nhoulti permit the Toulon fleet to pass him. ,huuld, however, the Brest fleet he able to rim down even 60 far as Ferrol, it may do great injury to our trade.— Three frigates, it is said, were left off Brest at the time that the fleet under Lord G AMMER were obliged to relinquish their station and bear up for Torbay. These frigates informed Lord GA MBI Ea of the sailing of the fleet ; they ulso spoke Nis grey'; ship Nassau and the C.gji. •11% Indiamati, and gave them the information of the fleet having put to sea. During the tune strangers were excluded from the Gallery of the House of Commons, on Mon tiny night, upon the re-committmeut of the Corn Distillation Bill, a resolution was moved and ac ceded to, for pla-in;; the English and Irish Dis tilleries under the same restriction. The Bill was also ordered to be recommitted again yesterday. Mr. PERCEVAL having stated it to be his wish to conform to the sense of the House, expressed by the majority against him upon Sir JOHN' N IMPORT'S motion, and to make the necessary alterations in the Bill, to carry it into full enact. The Bill, us it ori ginally stood, creating a distinction between Crtat Britain and Ireland, originated with Mr. Fos and was, of course, a ruisisterial measure.— Mr. Peacevsb, however, deserves praise for the candour which lie has sheau iu admitting its int policy, and his readiness to abandon the distinction between the twocountries w inch it proposed to create. The measure in its progress had excited great late , rest, and the gallery of the House of Commons was nightly tilled, whenever it was expected to come on. Purchases of corn to a went extent were made, we understand, in Ireland, by persons who speculated largely iu that article, relying on the strength of Ministers that Mr. FosTea's measure must pass. In addition to the remarks which we have had occasion to make on the present situation of the Duke of You. and the Charges preferred against him for imilversation in his public character, that his ltuyul nighties. in a moral, no less than in an official point of view, has committed a grave and serious offence against himself, and against the nation, is not to be denied : Mach less it, his con duct to be defended. Those who love him most, do hint the greatest injury, by undertaking to vin dicate, or to treat with contempt, the depositions of the various persons who have appeared to give evidence against Inin. Of the note found in Cap tain HUXLEY SANDER'S possession, every man may form his opinion, according to the preponderance in his own mind of the arguments and assertions for and against that paper. Certainty- will, in all pro never be attained, relative to its authen ticity, or its forgery. Ent, that the Duke's loose as sertion of his general innocence, ignorance, and free dom from allaurpicion of Mrs. CLARKS'S line of eon duct, is to pass for proof, and to insure him an ac quittal, or even to overset the moral conviction re sulting from the various appearanceeof culpability, too apparent throughout the whole transaction, would, indeed; be too much to ask of a British Public. The Grand Doke CONSTANT' rtE might, under similar circumstances, expect his denial to be received at Moscow for proof : but iris different in London. Even suspicion should not light oa the Cuminander-iii-Chief.. That the Duke's letter is not only a weak, but an indecorous, and, to himself, au injurious pro duction, cannot admit of u doubt. We much fear that his Royal Highness is ill-advised ; and we dread that he should not justly appreciate the na ture of the times in which we live, when Princes, who even deserve well of their countrY, find it diffi cidt to maintain their dangerous elevation. BOMA.. rame, like an evil genius, after destroying. ° IN dethroning, or imprisoning, all the ancient fiy: mastics which stood in his way, to the sobjuptiOn or acquisition of one half of Europe, overhangs the remaining Royal Houses.. He wi:l never enjoy en hour's repose of mind, till he has subatituted Be and Mum*Ts, and other rerolntienary Chiefs, on the thrones antecedently occupied by the Families of Vasa, of BRAWKWPCSOIII, and of !!- LoutAlin. That tbs Homo of BRUNSWICK Oil, survive these awful surrouwlint; shocks, and will remain last of all the Families who hive swayed the sceptres of ancient Euriye, we 'never Lave doubted, because they stand oa . eonstitutioual and elective, far more That, ou lieretlita 7 title. We believe it, because they do not rei 4 o, like the C. PVIAN line, by prescription, and because their Crown. are not covered with the hoar of successive ages. AVe believe it, because they cannot ehent to govern, either as the race of the TuDoR Prihees did, by right of contriest, or of marriage ; nee as the infatuated, or weak, or profligate Sovereignsiof the STUART hie did, jure rheiae, us desceurling from the Saxon or from the Plantagenet Dyuasties, and therefore posetssing un inherent title, lad e • pendent of their people. Such antiquated and Pxplod,ml machinery is not fritmed to meet, or to iepel, the rude assaults nt. a philosophic, • revohni tionary, and a levelling age. accustomed to s ui t . version, and become familiarised with deposition in every shape. It is happily true, that, us /lissom beautifully said on a didereut occasion, to whit:it we do not desire to allude, " The star of Brunswick shines serene, " And gilds tLe i ors of the deep." It shines serene, because the virtues, the morals, and the inattackable purity of the reigning Me mirth, rendered only more august and more vener able, by the years and by the infirmities or priva tions of advanced life, endear him to Every order of his people. But it must be maintained in its lustre nod serenity by the seine qualities that 'aims , sup port it, or it will be shorn of its beams- This is a truth which, RS we deeply feel, we cannot too forci bly inculcate, and of a hich the Duke of Vomit has, to our unspeakable regret, made trial in his even person. We trust that he will rise superior to the present attack. But if he does surateunt the actual danger, it must assuredly be by temperate and wise, not by angry, sesuming. or dietator'ial addresses to either House of Parliament. Among the political phenomena of the present age, one of the must extraordinary, and we may add, the most unexpected, wit be the ren,tiince of the Southern and Eastern Provinces of Simia to the arias of Boxer...cure, after the reduction it the Central an.l Northern Provinces, ACCOIDI.aiii...I by the recent expulsion of the English from the Peninsula. l'ct for this patriotic and aprarently &venue efl'ort, we are taught by the last arrtvals from Andalusia, to prepare ourselves. Nay, even the Portuguese, wbo, according to all the accomits transiuitted us, tnanifested so little energy or re. source, when our troops appeared in the neigh bourhood of the Tagus, seem now to evince a de termination to resist the French, although shun. cloned by the English. Those who have seen NAPO. LRON successively overrun and subject all the greao Conti ueutal States, may smile at the i mpotent efforts of Lisbon, Cadiz, Carthage/la, and Sarragossa. to re., • ' pel the victorious anus of the Corsican Emperor.—.• Nor should we flatter ourselves that they can avert. though they may perhaps protract, the fate of the Spanish and Portuguese Monarchies. Already mankind, front the Atlantic to the Baltic, and the Euxiite, notwithstanding the abhorrence of the crimes, the perfidies, and the atrocities of EONA• PARTE, begin insensibly to anticipate a new order of things, new dynasties on the European throats, and the entire extinction of those [louses, which. for many successive ages, had swayed the sceptre in Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, and even in Ger many. The ritett of the CA PILTa, which had Boated itself on the Thrones of France. Spain, and Na ples, is already nearly reduced to the condition of individuals. anti will succeed to the maid plac e of the extinct and abdicated STUAIATS. so long the object of historical commiseration. FERDINAND IY. driven from his Neapolitan, still continues, it is true, to reign in his Sicilian territories; but even the duration of that precarious Monateby, alto gether upheld by British forces, cannot be counted on for a single year. MURAT appears anxious to approve himself worthy of the elevation to which he has been raised, and is approaching Reggio.— We should not be surprised to hear that he soon refuesus the visit at Catania. or at Messina, winch; Sir Joys STUAIIT paid some time ago. to bus prc ilemesor Jormest, at Maids, in CJlalwia. The Ceeek of Palermo can mow 00 resistance to the attack of Ahear n , except that of their Enlist , VIMOIXAND vii%at all events, haw. ever, have had the eonsolation of outliving the powerful Suveleigns of Franit and of Species, his relatives, and of perishing the last of the liourboii Line. Lord FOLIESTONE'S motion for a call of as House, on the nth instant, was carriell, yesterday, in the Noose Of Commons, by a maim ity of b 7, the numbers, upon a division, beint,e, fur it 102, noes 15. Private accounts from France state, that JOIIIPO BONAPANTE, and the whole of the French troops at rblailrid, were preputing to depart from that cipf., Marshal LAN NES luiviug received positise ',w:dern from NAPOLEON to march the whole of siOe troops under his command hack to France. Simi* zeportskve reached us from so many quartets. that it as impossible to treat the state ment with iaditference; the more especially if we combine with it the rumours, frnio the. North of Germany . and other parts, of Austria Inning declared war against Frame.— Dr. LAWRENCE, we regret to state, d'irri en Mae day last.