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, a/Mlllllll ;4. LON DON, THURSDAY, Jvwx 14. Yorkshire. With respett to the Bill sow before the House, he certainly thought it contained princi. pies which the House ought not to entertain hastily. He did not know that the whole county was unani mous on the subject of it. There was a certain die. tritt which would certainly not agree to it ; and if the Bill should pass. he hoped that distriet would be excluded from its operation. If not, the manufac turers of that ilistriet would go into Lancashire, and carry on their trade there. He did not think it fit that a restriaive law should operate in one place, • and that the people of the rest of the kingdom should be left to carry on their business as they pleased. The people who were hostile to this Bill . , did not petition .against it; because they knew that the House of Commons would never maintain such a principle of trade as it held out. He wished to take this upportunity of asking the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of His Majesty's Cabinet, whether he thought it would be right next year to revise the whole of the statutes relative to the Woollen Manufafturers, and bring forward, in the course of next Session, some simple, comprehensive, aid effectual law on this stilsjeet ? He earnestly wished that the business might be taken up on a keyed ground at some future period ; and if se, the ream Bill would be unnecessary. Admiral BERK ELY said, he was happy to hear riare an explanation on the subjeet from the Gentleman. The present Bill he considered . nowscessary : and would therefore move to put it of fur three months. Mr. PITT said, it was most evident that the Bill contained provisions which ought not to be adopted without mature deliberation, and he did pot think it ought to be passed in the present ses siou. With respeit to the revision of those penal statutes, on which many vexatious aCtions had been brought. he could not pledge himself to the Hon. Gentleman as to his adopting any measure on the sulaieet hereafter. It was much to be wished that the consideration of the whole of those statutes , might be gone into ; hut, at the present advanced it . period of the Session, he was afraid that could not 1 1 be done ; and that no other mode for meeting the exigercy of the moment cceild he resorted to, but that of reviving the suspending AR of last Session. He hoped, however, that, in another session, the business might be introduced in a manner by which it might ha brought to some general ema il/Gait:XL Mr. BROOK said, that the Bill pissed last ses- Ina for suspending the penal at ions, had cost the panics interested in bringing it forward, no less a PM than 13,0007. Mr. WILBERFORCE wished the Bill to be put of, and that some great and effectual regulation a -. At be adopted for the whole kingdom. But he v 'ever consent to any measure, that might al ter sip: that general ~ rstem of domestic in clustr j - -nestis happiness, which prevailed among u.s. I•Tanufaeturers of the county he had the honor.. -present. The •econd reading of the Bill was then put off for three months. SLAVE TRADE. On the report of the Bid tor abolisl ing the Slave Trade, and the question being put for calliag in Counsel; Mr. %VILBERFORCE gave notice, that he would move an amendment in the Bill. The Bill already stated. that all vessels coming with slaves to the Vest Indies, after the first of .laimary, should be forfeited, except those that had cleared out from Great Britain within five days after the passing of the Aft. But as he understood many vessels had been SI. some time in a state of preparation, and might 'wit be able to clear nut within that period, and as , they might surer great injury, if the words stood as tl , ey now were in the Bill, he should move to insert, ihstead of them" the Ist of Oelober IVA." Counsel beit g attending, were then called in to -'-"se accordingto the ddcreut Petitions against the Mr. Picot- and Mr. Pt vote appeared at the Bar as Counsel for the Mcishants, Traders, and Mort meet, trading to, aid possessing property in, the West India Islands. Mr. ALLIANDI it and Mr. Cr. A PK C, as Counsel for the Merchants and Traders of Liverpool ; and Mr. SC • 111.1 LT. AS Ccansd for 'lr. Lyon, agent for the island of Jamaica. Mr. Psoor was first heard ; and, after speaking about half an hour— A Motion was made that the House be counted ; when there being no more than 30 Members, the House of course adjourned. THE BRITISH PRESS. Yesterday, the RECO/IDE attended it the QUEEV'S House. and made his report to His MAJLS r r si the convias under sentence of death in Newg.ite. Three sessions have passed since this form was interrupted in consequence of His MAJISTY . S indisposition. The Race:flu:ma's Report, we understand, only embraced the convi&s of the two former Sessions, being 18 cut of 36, the whole number under sentence of death in that prison. His Marrs: was most graciously pleased, in his Royal Mercy, to respi•e All those reported to him. Mr. ASTLLTT, we learn, was not in the list. The Minister, it is said, experts to be able to pro rogue the Parliament about the sth of next month ; as, in consequence cf the opposition to his pres •nt Bill, he mears to defer the residue of his System of Defence until the next session. The overweening vanity and ambition of the Ntir:;sttr have received a check, and he is at length consin.-ed, by melancholy experience, that, great and powerful a his chars ter and talents may be, he is not competent to constitute an Administration in his own person, for these critical times. A despot liXe LONA,' kPTF may and CTACTS, the best at,eni ates of a government over slaves ; but in free and spit iced England, the people will look not with con fidence but jealousy to man, whose conduct shew s that he thinks himself every thing, and every one el3e nothing. It is certain that Mr. Crr ris now straining every nerve to conciliate divide Mr. Fox's immediate party. Ii h:_ has not yet mule greater advances, his backwardness is not to be im puted to want of will, but the extreme difficulty and delicacy of his situation. Nothing but a state of des pair could force his proud and haughty spirit to bow to Mr. Fox, and pray the aid of that great but much negleaed statesman. Those, however, who know Mr. Fox's temper and character, his magnanimity, and his disinterestedness, are confident that all over- tures must prove in vain, that do not embrace every individual of his constant, steady, and long-tried party. Aware of this, and adopting tke favourite and avowed policy of his friend, Lord C AST r. ERE A CH, which advises a man to have "}two strings to his bow," Mr. PIT r courts every opportunity of assuaging the just resentment of Mr. ADDINC.TON. Tu those whom he most dislikes, he is all cnndeccentiou and politeness ; but to those who hold their importance at his will and pleasure, he is as usual haughty and offensive. Indeed the necessity of his immediate re signation, unless he should he able to place himself upon some rew ground, and rally round his stand ard some of the talent of the country, has been, for several days past, so obvious to the meanest capa city, a rutnour is at this moment afloat, that a change in the new Ministry is actually determined upon. Earl S►euces, it is said, is to succeed Lord Mrtvtxte in the Admiralty, and the latter occupy the place of Secretary of State for the Foreign De partment, now filled by Lord HARROW/IY. What we wish we readily,believe, and perhaps the wis dom of such a change is the principal foundation for this report. That some important change will soon take place, may, however, be considered cer tain. The people of England cannot so soon for get the glory which the British Nary atchieved under Earl Srstscut. And what have they to ex pea from the ti-dc mg HARRY DUNDAN now Lord Mx tv t r t►, the man who planned the invasion of Holland, and the Ferrol expedition An agreement has been entered into by the Courts of St. James's and Copenhagen, according to which, the letters from England to Norway, and from Nor way to England, are, in future, to be dispatched way of Gottenburgh, instead of liusubs, as was formerly the case. The Kings of Dcit si ARR and of Swgor is have, besides, made an arrangement, ac cording to which the letters are to be forwarded from Guttenburgh to Norway, with all possible dispatch. This measure is very advantageous to the commer cial part of both nations. Last night we received a series of the including that of the 90th, with a Supplement, con taining the At of Accusation against GEORGES, TICIIEGREI, MOREAU, and others. We this day give the conclusion of this article, as it has been taken, with the other extracts alrea.ly published in this Paper, fiom an abridged Report in the small Paris Papers. The Official Report in the Sup plement to the /We occupies twenty-four pages. It is a curious i.pwcimea of French jurisprudence. It sets out with stating the evidence of the existence of a conspiracy, and then lays is down as a principle that a conspiracy has been proved. Its second point is, that England is the soul of the said conspiracy ; a , •id having assumed that as a faCt, it priceeds to detail the evidence against the several prisomrs ; con sisting of the various answers and confession' extort ed from them upon their several private ex.unina tinns, tile declarations of fellow-prisoners, And, finally, every other specie; of evidence, paroie r written, that bears in the remotest degree Hpon the case. The article then concludes with stat. ing, that the persons, thus tried and prejudged, are put in a state of accusation. History does not fur- nish so perfett a !ample of the practice of the cri minal court of the infernal judge described in the following lines : Gnisesius hoe Rhadansanthus habet datist;roa inns Castigatlue a uditqu e dolos; iula.gltque %seri. The remaining part of the judici4l process against the unfortunate Prisoners will probably consist in little more than the formality of reading over this report of the evidence against them, and playing the judgment of the Court. That they will, therefore, be found guilty, there can be no doubt ; and, accordingly, we find that a report to that effea, grounded solely upon the probability of the event, has been put in circulation. Tie con clusion of the Aft of Accusat:on will be fuund in the last page. The New York Papers, which we hare received to the 1 sth ult. confirm the former statements of the dreAdtul situation of the unfortunate Whites in the isles.' of St. Domingo. On the 1 t;th of March a horrible massacre is stated to have commenced at Port-au-Prince, which continued four days ; during that time upwards of four hundred persms aver.• murdered. nESSA,LINES had arrivhd there on his way to the city of St. Domingo, against which he was determined to bring all his force ; but, as he expressed himself, would leave no W'hites in the tear. Further accounts reach to the I ith of April, and mention, that, ten days previous, a gen^ralmas sacre of the Whites I: id Liken place, and that it was to be carried all over the southern departments. The Americans are said to be treated with great respea throughout the Island, exzept at the Cape, where CHRISTOPHL infliets the greatest cruelties, without regard to age or sex. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Mr. PITT had an and:ence of His MAJESTY. Soon after two o'clock, His tiastsvr gave au diences to the Duke of POETI.ANz, the LORD CHAN CELLOR, and Lord HAw:trsattar. At four o'clock, His M ._ajrsry held a Privy Council, which was attended by the Duke of P .RT- I. At 11), the IJORD CNANCEI.LOR, Mr. PITT, EArli CAMDEN, COUTEETISI,O. WESTNIOELAAD, and BATNUEET ; Viscount CASTI.IIIEAnN, Lords As- Dan, Haalloway,Flawassacay. STOEFORD, MUL 011AVI, and Dt.NLO. After the Council, His Maresra gave audiences to the Earl' flavnuesr, and Lord DUN LO, who had the honour to kiss His MAJESTY'S hind; the former ow his being appbhited Master of the Mint; and.the.. L• tter on being appointed one of the Commissioners of the Board of Controul. • About six o'clock, Their MArrsriza.—the- CeSSeS ELIZABETH, SOPNIA, AMFLI A. and the Duke ofKENT, took an airing in the neighbourhood of Dulwich. Yesterday morning, the Swrnm and IMPERIAL AVOASSADORS had audiences of Lord H•asowsv at his Office. A Gentleman, from Holland, landed a few days since on our Eastern coast, who, on being interro gated, said, that he had an imp •rtant plan to to Government for the capture or destru.!tion , Of certain divisions of the enemy's flotilla. He was accompanied bv two other perions; in a small vecc'l, and was picked up by one of our frigates,fwiiwliicla he was landed on Saturday last. Letters fr.xn the Kentish coast state, that the Dungeness squadron got under weigh on Monday, at noon, and proceeded for the French coast, : with a very fine breeze. About the same time. several ships of war sailed for the same station irons she Downs. We understand that a r!in is now ondrr the con sideration of the Privy Council. to remedy the pre. sent delay in hearing and deciding Scotch Appeals before tl.e House of Lords. It is proposed that rwo or three Grntlettten. well versed in the Scotch law, shall be introduced into the House o: Lords,. to sit as assesscrs to the LORD CH A SCRI.I.OR, and to ad, in cases of Scotch Appeals, in his absence. Last night the St. Clement's Volunteers held a General Court of Inquiry at the parish vestry room, on the conduit of Serjeant Bec tr. r, of the 4th company. relative to his having spoken dicre spetrtiully of his superior officer, and in a manner that tended to lessen the latter in the opinion of the Corps. It appeared that while the Corps were praflising charges and .other mana tyres in Lin• coin's Inn Gardens, sorts time sirc•, Serie-ant BUCKLE expressed much dissatisfaainn ; and, on being ordered to charge with his company, refried, s.tying, he would charge down, but would he d—d if he charged tip at the same time, he relleOed on the conduA of Captain Poiret , his superior Officer. The evidence to prove the charge was an Ensign, and several others who heard the expressions ; and the Court. after an investigation that lasted till eleven o'clock, were of opinion the charge was proved. The dismissal of the party from the Corps is to follow. A Private belonging to the Corps was also yes terday dismisvd, for having written improper letters to the Adjutant. tending to introduce unsubordina %ion into the Corps The follosving lettrr, dared of Viann. coast of Spain. the 22d of May lag, from the gallant and persevering Capt. RORIRT of the Sufe"ou privateer, of 14 guns, has been received by his owners at Plymouth : " Swallow, off Viatia, May 22. " I have this day xot a certificate from the Consul hem, for a French privateer 1 drove on shore on the 17th instant, and which wit entirely lost; she had forty three men ou Mani her when she went on shore, fn• which 1 %hail be entitled to 51 per head. l Inst an anchor in the attempt, but have since recovered it It now hlovre a hard gale of wind, and 1 really have net tame to say more " Yours, ke. RORT. HOSIER." The Captain of an American vessel, on his re turn from Georgia to New York, picked up nine Frenchmen, ne.tr the west end of Grand Bahama, where a French vessel, with 200 men, had beer. wrecked 2 few days before, only 21 of whom were saved. General LA VALETTZ was on board, and was amongst the sufferers. The drys contains Sarni very severe remarks upon Lord liswecsacer's note, concerning the correspondence between Mentz and DIAKt. Madame lisccusocui and Madame Niue sr are to have the title of Imperial Highnesses; but as to the Em r. aus's mother, nothing is yet determined many think that she will pass the remainder her days in Italy, with her favourite son Lucie.. and with her favourite daughter the Princess BoitUN His Imperial Highness, JoscPu Bo N AAAAAA has no male children, but only a daughter two years old ; but his Imperial Highness, Prince Louis Bo- AAAAA c, has, by the daughter-in-law of the Eu prep., a son called NAPOLION, born the 10th of Otis:ober, 1802. In consequence of the late regulation in the Span ish capital, 15,000 strangers have been obliged to leave a. No Frenchman, thanks to the respell commanded by our Government, was subjeft to it ; whilst several hundred Englishmen and Irishmen were treated ~ pith less cerernuny than the subjols of any other natiun.—(Psdherrte./ The first Italian privateer Mau has been rather unfortunate. A Swedish ship was captured by it, but was released, after obtaining 50,000 livres da mages. The day after, this privateer went to sea, and was driven on shore, and burnt by an English cittifr. 11111 VAUXHALL OAADVIS. The amusements of this delightful sl st aaraged an immense crowd last night. : It was a Gale Ni.aa and, as is usual on such decamps. many pe rsons o i the first fashion were presept. It is alrenss Me, to exaggerate in speaking of the shart as orth;., Gardens, when lighted up, and ,filled with an as semblage of beauty and fashion. It seems to realise some of the Fairy Tales. Tho-maay_ th aw _ sands of lamps suspended among the tifeos, and is the grand avenues ; the beauty of the trees them. selves, the forms of whose foliage are sufficiently displayed by this blaze of light ; and the graMlez. of the tire-woks; with that splendid and moving scene of persons dressed with the wrest refined taste; all these produce a most striking effzet.-. There certainly is not any thing of the kind to raial it in Europe. it is one great quality of English amusements, to combine propoimy and convenience with the utmost degree of ele,-,:nce ; and no where is this mcre exemplified - Ca in in these gardens. The tables are laid root wi:a such neatness, and the whole is condutted with such order, that in t!iis respfd nothiag is left to be desired by the most fastidious .011 very larg e portion of the enmpany supped last aught. Them were fashionable parties in ail tie principal boxes. The company appeared to be uric, a _ sally satisfied througbout the night. The fire works of the evening gave: peculiar satisfaction. Weimar saw them equalled, we might almost say, and certainly never surpassed, in ticveriety, the grace, the beauty of die *nuns they exhibited. Perhaps the first of these was, the transparency of FA Me Mowing her trumpet, with appropriate and illuminated trophies. Every ore seemed to depart with regret front this scene of the Ere-works. Mack of the best company remained in the gardens till a very late hour. THE DUCHESS LA V VLLIERE. • So great is the jealousy excited among the Paßliaa authors by the astoni,hing Gucces% vi Med - itue et Geniis's-Nevelt of which the Duchess La Vailiere is the heroine, that they have published in all the French Papers, thetwo following letters, said to hare .been found upon the demolition of the EastUt. among the papers of the Superintendant Fcritquee ° MADAM& DE L♦ VALI-IEIID TO VOLIUir. a I d ni t knew you en loch to love you, yid W I knew yet bette-, perhaps I should love you Lns. there ever avoided eve, and naturllly hate -in, Dot I acknowledge that I '4-'e ear. were. I have reveivtd your 10,000 crowns. It pu to amid me 10,000 'more within 'two Jays, I shag set what ea do.* smr SAM) TO 'FIVE SAIle. at liiihSetal I bare brew so caiialent in way meta that I deft al the whole weld. But I oldie :6 that the leet awe eemmins, which I had wwil hal chzr net! :23. 1 lury in yuntcan,er.atir a thoewid bee.diel or which{ I sever 'Ne6 for:. had any idea Shoirli I eter see you asa.:a atcrie, I nips what may I.e the COllliegtiClee." Tuesday Mr. ANION gave an elegra dinner to Oat Dipske of SADS ea o, the 1:ar1 of er weri,u iL Mr. Coca, ani several other distinmtidaed Agin!: forint. Tne Han. Miss CR AVatt lelvei t"lrfl en SIMIL: , d4y, for the Earl of"CeereA's'ceat, coot:4 Abbas near Coventry. Lord Ossotsvost, Earl and' Countess of Bt gao.. Rouen, and Lnrd and Lady Moats''', have ka tut ned to town, from the Jucht,s of Davottentat's rill, at Chiswick. Lady NORTHWICK F a ire a grand rout reftealy evening, at her house, Cavendish-square. Sir JOSEPH Bastes gives a Public Breakfast this day at Smallberry-green, near kew. The MARCHIONISS of HENT/01D. on Moab% had her first assembly this season at the noble fan* mansion in Manchestcr-square. Above 70claslai-s -abks were present. A able Lord, a few nights ago, gave his esosh man a pair of black eyes, and nest morning pre. sensed him with two guineas. A large party of the fashionable world propose to attend the AVolvirn sheep-shearing, a commence on M , ado:•. The Holkhain sheep spew is ►e.l for Mcalal se'nnight. The Gentlemen of the University of Cambri.ige, learning the use of arms, h.ive presented r a ptai• Bt RCIIAM with a purse of £OO gutseas, for hi• ser vices. Mn. Citantonvis grard //jp,, , I 1 cin wit owe mence for some time. Her public d-ys are eve', Wednesday. The Kentish Greys marched intro F.,ver,isane at J Ospringe, on Monday, to do duty for ten days. The Warwickshire Militia marched ir.to Marrur. nn Friday and Saturday last. Since their atrival. the town has hems very nay. Their band.rays every Morning upon this Lit. and Crary e v e ning Cecil-square. _ _ _ The Non. Jon,. Scots, eldest sen of the Lose CH ANCILL OR, is very sho rtly to 1)a married to Mess RIDLEY. daUghter a Sir MA r flit* Wang Br LEY. Ban. M.P. for Newcastle. %tr. BANNISTER mad. his dviat law n:ght at t'-' Haymarket Theatre, and was received wida :t . s enthusiastic applause which so meritoriwis a P•'. - former has a right to expea from a disc,ra og a A Liberal public. Curia, we find, has turned " Vohnsteer," and is he has been reckoned from the beginning of shy world a most mischievous fellow, he will prase'' prove a match for Bo N AAAAA Z. A great deal of nutrient: is going on at present: but it is not of that precise kind that will tell is Illiidor's Commons. ------ The stone expethuon, having originated in a Ravi. •eller's aiep, is now eery properly laid upon the • _ Ealing Church opened on Tuesday with-1 ir• worn, and was attended by a faShloll4ble (Lin, including the Earl and Coante,s of Ilsit a noaais, kc. The veteran General Massa died on Ts- , •:•1 morning at his house in Charles-street, Be: kr.ir.r• square, having been indisp mai many months. Sunday se'nnight died AI Winds/At. in King. g al 33, Lady MAKI4 MOUItE, wife of the lief. Nie• Mooaz, son of the ati‘hbishop of Cassaastam. *Ol P" us' as Re ev, Zr ln a tit ha hit V he w eta la( fay m i 1111 hir an ea Inl So oo at Pa Is I