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abd yet it - is asked why the Petitioner did not pie., pare all the necessaries for an applicaticn to a Cocrt • of,Law between the 4th and 6th of November, though he was not at that time apprised of the, in adequacy (to vote) of two of the persons 01;;- jetS - ted 'to. lie should think it a monstrous in justice to refuse the application for a longer day. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. TUESDAY. JAN. 6. The tibyal Assent was given by Comml.ssion to the Contro•;erted Eln6tions Trial Bill. The Commiisioners were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Walsinghain, and Lord Auckland. the Duke of 'Rutland and the Eail of Aberga venny took the Oaths and their Seats.. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL conceived that the House was now about to exercise a judicial sanction, and that it should pause before it would rai l hly go to establish a precedent. The Gentleman wino spoke last had said, that it was hard to expe& that the process of an application for a Quo Warran to could have teen made within the first day of Term ; but the Gentleman should recolleet, that though term did not commence till the 6th, it did not end till the 28th, and that it was rather sus picious that in all that time no step had been taken by the Petitioner to make such application. As to the argument, that delay was not alledged to be an inconvenience to the Sitting . Member, he did not think it conclusive, nor should he.think it fair to be compelled to prove his title to his estate, merely be cause that proof was entirely FaClicable. 119 should vote against the Motion. After going through spore private business the House adjourned till tomorrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY, JAN. 6 The SPEAKER informed the Home that he had received a letter from Thomas Boutcher, Esq. De puty Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, acknowledging the receipt of the necessary Recognizances for the additional Petitions presented ,respecting the City of Dublin, the County of Mayo, and Newry Elec 7 Lions. Leave was given to bring in a Bill for improving the. Fisheries pf the River Tweed ; as also for a Bill to enable the London Dock Company to regulate the 'Shadwell Water-works. Mr. floßnouse brought up the Report of thp Malt Duty Bill ; which, with several Amendments, were agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. HOBIIOUSE brought up the Bel:6ft of the Pension Duty Bill ; which, with its several Amend ments, Were received, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Report . of the Committee of Ways and- Means, granting. to His Majesty the- sum of 10,500,0001. to be raised by Loan. of Exchequer Bills, was also brought up and agi'vedsto, and leave given to bring in a Bill pursuant to the same Resolti , tion.—Leave also was given to bring in the usual An nnal Indemnity Bill. THETFORD RETITION. • The Order of the Day for relituning the ad:- journed Debate on the Question of granting a fur ther day for the hearing of the Thetford Petition, being read, Mr. WHITBREAD rose and said, that he was the more confident' in soliciting, on behalf of the Petitioner*, a more distant day than bad been already fixed upon, when be considered that it was an' in, diligence generally granted by. that House, and. Which the sitting Member was seldom unwilling to accede to. From what had fallenfrom an Ho nourable Member (Mr. Mingay) in the beginning of this discussion, he believed that that Gentleman was under a mistake in supposing that there was but one unqualified voter only objected to among those of the Corporation who composed that Gentleman's majority ; but he was instructed to state, •that there were three, fOur, or more persons admitted to vote for the sitting Member who were not Elea - tors, whose pretence to the right of suffrage was founded upon an illegal 'claim ; and though an undisputed possession of franchise for a limitted time made that right of suffrage valid, yet that time not being yet e:gaired, the ,objeations have been made within the periceprescribed by law, and,. of course, no ar gument in favour of those votes can be drawn from the tact of possession. The sitting Member had said, that the Court of King's Bench, it applied to for a quo warranto, would not hear such application. IVIr. Whitbread would contend for it that that Curt Sir WILLIAM WYNNE thought, that however it might be a question whether such delay was in convenient to the Sitting Member, he was sure that it was inconvenient to that House, and to• the Public. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL did not think that the Nouse could reje& the Motion, consistently with justice—it had come within his knowledge that of three of the 'persons objecled to, bne only was op posed at the time of tendering his vote, and that a mouth hid elapsed since the eletaion - betbre. the Petitioner was apprised of the illegality of the. other two votes.-- , -He hoped. that tiui strong Cir cumstance would have its. due weight with the House. could not recluse such application, because the time iirnited by law was six years. Now, those voters are but nve years exercising thiseledive capacity, and consequently the time for confirming a doubt ful franchise is not yet expired. But there was ano ther circumstance, the - Petitioner, did' not know of the illegality of two of the. Voters objected 'to. till 2ong after the beginning of the Term, and Yet it is obje&ed to him, by the sitting Member, that the. Petitioner did not apply to the Court of King's Bench against. 'nose Voters, of the validity of whose fran chise the Petitioner had not at that time any donbt. He then moved, That the, Order of the Day for hearing the ThettOrd Petition be discharged. Mr. MIS G 1 contended with considerable warmth, that the question then before the House was not whether the King's Bench would receive or reject any application that might be made to it on behalf of the Petitioner, but whether that House would, in this so comparatively unimportant a case, make a precedent that might in all future cases Of this kind be produaive of consequences the most serious : five years ago the persons objected .to voted for the PetiliOner ; and is the House now to be told, that' this is the first time the Petitioner had diseo 14i-et! those alledged inadequacies i That after a five Tears dream, he, the' Petitioner, awakes, and dis c avers for the first time, that certain persons who voted for him upon a former. occasion, now that they voted against him, were from the beginning in 'competent to vote ? And there was one fact, how:: ever, that he could not pass by. It had been said, that four or more voters were ohjeaed to.' He (Mr. 111ingay) assured the House, that there were not more than two objected to at the time of voting, upon the ground of not being franchised, as the third Was objeeted.to not upon this ground, but' as Laving some employment in the Post Office. He -.-- said that, anx,ous as he waited for the decision of that House upon what he would call a vexatious proceeding, be should, however, bOw to that de:6- 'ton with unfeigned humility and respect. Mr. MRIVEY said, that• he ought not to be anxious to speak on a question 4pparently agitating the feelings of two Gentlemen, for each of whom Le felt so much respect. He should, however, - re move all such personal considerations from-his mind; .! and consider merely the . Simple fa& of a Petitioner asking fora more distant day than that a!ready fixed upon fel - hearing his Petiti6n, thdugh in the case of Petitions the granting a further day was by no means an unusual indulgence yet he Was, upon the gt.neral principle, an enemy to delay in such cases. But •ha thought the present ease sufficiently' exempted from the general rule by its peculiar cir cumstance—the Petitioner - desires a further day as indispensihle to the object of his Petition—the sitting Member, on the other hand, does not chew. that any possible inconvenience can arise to him . frOni this &lay. It is objected too that the Petitioner did not make an earlier application to the Kinesßench. ; The eleEtion took place upon the 4th of November; 1 : End the cigif next but one was the firA day of Term, Mr.ROSIOE was of opinion, that the time prayed for by the Petitioner should be granted. BATHUfiST entirely concurred with the At-. torney-General, and thought that the Howe would not. : be justified in postponing the hearing to a . more distant day than that, aiready 4ixed upon. Mr: FO.LONVES Wai against the delay. The question being now loudly called for, the House divided on Mr. Whitliread's Motion PRICE OF STOCKS Till* DAY AT TWELVE 0 1 aLDC1C, Consols 58 a ex. div. Red. Arun '; - 591 THE SUN. 80,2,74 QCIS TnCERZ FALSUIV! AUDEAT? I. 0 V 1) 0 N, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1807• AT a late hour last night we received Hamburet and Altona Journals to the 27th ult. The intern , gence which they bring is of considerable import ance. BONAPARTE has concluded a Peace with the ELECTOR of SAXONY, who, it appears, has been. elevated to the Royal Dignity, and who,, of courk, ha's become a Member of the Confederation of the' Rhine. l'here is strong reason to believe that the French Troops have suffered most . severely in Po land, in consequence of the, extraordinary fatigue they had undergone, and the severity of the climite Letters from Berlin state, that-waggon-loads of sick. 'Frenchmen are nightly brought into the Hospitals from the Armies. An epidemic disease not only •rages in the French Army in Poland, but in Mar shal MORTIER'S Division, which is on the Frontiers of Poinerania, ,and a great number of Phylicians have been put in requisition, and sent off to join: the Army. Rumours of battles, which we , kia9w . . to be unfounded, are still circulated on the Conti nent these reports, though fabricated; are very im, partial : according to one of them,'the Russians lave been defeated, with the loss 9f 50,000 men ; while another account gives the victory to the Russians, and represents the loss of the French at Ileac . : 40,000 men. BONAPARTE is using 'every possible:. exertion to reinforce his Army in Poland ; Troops on the 15th of August ; but this tipper', to be tt mistake. An American Captain, who is just arrived,. also brings intelligence that it was retaken on the 17th of August, It seems highly improbable that the Spaniards, who were unable to defend that place on the 28th of July, shoUld be able to retake it a few days afterwards. Besides, if that event had occurred so early as the middle of August, it almost impossible but that some, authentic intel ligence should have reached this Country before this time. Whether Buenos Ayres has in point of fail been retaken we have not the means of ascer taining, but we cannot believe that the Spaniards could have colle&ed a sufficient force to attack it at so early a period. • The -following was yesterday transmitted to LLayp's : cf Admiralty-Office, Jan. 6, 1807. " A Spanish Packet from Monte Video, last from Rio Janeiro, has been captured by His Majesty's ShiF Phoenix; on board of which was found some Papers,, dated at the former place, the 2i st August. No intelligence on the subjca of 4ueno.s Ayr has been obtained." Princess CurAiii,o-ra'i of 'WAtEf? completed her ifth year this day, and her Royal' Highness will 'Dave; a Concert and B,elea fatty in the evening, at Warwick House. Lord HuTexitasoN, it i s coajeaured, reached the. Prussian Head-quarters about the lath ult. His, Lordship ana suite, in the Sparrow- Gun-brig, paSsed theisland of Atholm, or Christiansand, on the lath, and expthed to land at Pillau, near Koningsberg, in three or four days after. Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the East-India House, when the 'light Honourable Lord M iTaTo took the usual oaths on being-appointed Go .s:etior-genera,l,A did Lieutenant-General tiEWI , ;TT, on. being Appointed .Second in Council and co:n mander-in,;chief of all the Cof4any's Military Forces in the East Indies. The sum of five hundred guineas was voted to Capt. LA KKINS, for the purchase of a piece Of plate, As. a mark of the Coureapprobation of his bravery and good conduEt in defence of the Warreti kidsfilms ; also two thousand guineas to the Officers and crew of' that Ship. The Court adjourned at six o'clock to the London Tavern, where a magnificent entertainment was Pre pared for his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, Lord MtNiTo, General HEWETT, the leading Mem bers of Administration, the President and Members of the Board of Commissioners, and other distingaish 7 ed.personages, The distrasses under. which the British Seamen suf fel; in France is excessive. An Officer lately arrived friOna Verdun, waited upon the Committee of ;he Patriotic_ Fund yesterday at LLOYD'S, for ;he put.- pose. of snaking the Gentlemen acquainted with the real sittiation of our Seamen taken as prisoners into France diiritz the war. This Officer affirms, that. tlie scanty pittance.. allowed each man daily, eon -0,44 of a stna4 square piece of bullock - s liver, a 'slice"of. black bread, and a glass of new brandy. Had it ijot been for: the relief they ha.l received from, the Nriotic Fund, - for warded to them through a private chanwl, many of them must have perished from want. Thq object of the French, in treating our Seamen with's4 inhumanity in this respect; was with a view of nfalcing them dissatisfied w ith their Government, by "ii,?llcitig a belief that they were neglected by it, and i,•Jer to tempt them . 'wh,ito to enter into the F n c,, rench sereice. .f the were the otTers made to them for that puroa;,-,, hic the eternal honour of our brave but 6 1 4:rtunate Tars, were rejected with -contempt and.indigifin:on;; ' They resolved to perish rather than prove traitor's Yk their Country. A few renegado Irishmen, we regret to, state, atlbrded the only exceptions to this ge resolution:, They gladly accepted the proposals Nofthe French, and were accordingly employed in their service.' THE THEATRE.—The part of Douglas was re presented for the first time last: night, at Drury-lane- Y Theatre, by Mr. ELLISTON. This Performer ainr-o. .ij L ail in such a . variety of cbara&ers, that he cannot reasonably be expeiied to be equally succestifuli.in..: all. Ibis chief fault last niglit was, a want of that simplicity which' must be deemed. an essential fea tar in a'youthful hero brought up in rural seelusion.• Too rune!, eiliVre'and stud . ); was, on 'the whole, ap parent, but "several passages were given with great spirit and power All erfed. • The annual celebration of Twelfth, Night took plaCe yesterday evening at Drury-lane Theatre, with all dee festivity, in eonformity to the Will of BAD the 'Aalor, who lett the interest of iOOl, fcr ever for that purpose. The immortal memory of the Testator, was of course the chief Toast, and the who're ,passed' off with great mirth and good-' ' lfutrenr. • . ,Moit,ToN was resolved .", to make a ssurance d ou bl e are advancing thither from quarter. On the every • • • - : Sure, .in his new CoMedy, for he has secured the other Valid, the Russian Army is daily receiving - - of .. , - .* support, KEMBLE, CHARLES KENiBLE,MUNDEN, • • reinforcements ; but its numbers, we fear, are,c , m-• FAwcETT, EmEay, Mrs. GLOVER, Miss BRUNTON, siderably exaggerated; it is said, that in th e co urse o f and*Mrs. M . A .. .rTocKs. ''Such , a combination of pow , ' ers could hardly fail, even if the Piece h a d not so this month it would amount to 330,000 inen , ant the i •• • . , good a repoit n Its favour as ahappy mixture of the . . remnant of the Prussian Army is estimated at'7o,oo • •nferestiu,p- and the h um o urous . i ,•, men. There are some reports of a Peace haying been - Last week upWards of three thOusand poor per concluded between Priissia and France ; but the sous - in the neighbourho'od of Blenheim partook of Answer which his Prussian M ~~c st' the'atinual 'Christmas bounty of his G race th e D u k e y gave to the late of MARLBOROVGH: The usual number of fat oxen; proposal for an 4rmistice renders it highly lin- and a proportionate quantity of *bread, * was divided probable that any such event should hare . taken amongst them; and at the - same time the liberal place. . . donation of her Grace. the Dutchess of MARLBO gotiGn was distributed as ' u'sual amongst the poor ............_ _ . . ... : • i;Vidow's and married women in Woodstock. We are : still unable to relieve the solicitude of •the Yesterday the LORD MAYOR ordered the Price of Public respcttmg the interesting subject of linetios i Eread to continue as last week. T ' , .- • Ayres. A Spanish srigantine, named El e,hp No i Warried,‘on Saturday, by the Rev. T. T. W ALIOS .. , L'EN'', from Monte Vid eo , de s tined fir St. S e b ast i an ' s , -b u t ' .at St. Clement's Church; in the Stra n d, I LT i D . i I'';ICHOLL, ESq. of Do6tors' Commons, nephew of captured by His Y ajes"ty i s ''.:ip Plicenix, has `been Sir -JouN NIcuoLL, His Majesty's Advocate-Ge brought into Plymouth: It was reported tlit they neral, to Miss SARAH ODDIE, second daughter 1:31 . 1 brought an account of the capture of B UDDOS 'A Yre3 HENRY Ho YLE ODDIE, Fol. of Carey-street. ' 1 Ar!vrpL Kto.t_vrA. EXTRACT OF A PIIIVITE LETTER FROM DEIZMARIt DEC. 21, 1806. " ,The Negotiations opened between our Court and the Emperor NAPOLEON have assumed a serious complexion,- considerable preparations are , making in tho Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, as well a 4 in the r fcMgdom of Denmark. All the Danish Re giments have received orders to hold themselves readiness to march at a moment's notice, and cannot+ has been Riounted on the Sea Batteries at Copenha gen and the Fortress of Cronenburgh ; at the former place the number of guards has been doubled, and six or seven Sail of the Line will, it is said, be. fitted out for sea; in the. mean while our Court .employs every exertion to maintain its neutrality, al though it, is known that the French are fitting out every Merchantman they find in' the Prussian Porte to hinder the free trade of the Baltic, to secure which and maintain the Pass of the Sound are thiP ohjets of the above-mentioned armaments," *fliArg, DEC. 16.--The,,hospitals of this place are full of 'sick and. wounded French who arrive here nightly by- waggong full ; as also at Magdeburgh.--- The doors .9f the hospitals are closely shut, and no one allowed 'to enter or come out. Con tagious fevers and the . white flux prevail to that degree among the Vretteh in Germany and Polapd, that thousands of them have already fallen vittimit, and thousands mare will probably share, the same fate ; their troops in Mcckleuburgh, Saxony, and other parts, are all atieiited with similar diseases.-- From Harnburgh, Francimia, Scc. ocq, a number of Physicians - have been put u requisition . in order to be spot to Poland to atteno to stop the progress of thosc clisea,ss i which continue to make the mast dreadful ravaaes. Froin Russia we learn that Field. Marshal Count KAMINSKOY had been invested ; with the chief cony. mand of the Russian army, for which purpose be has received the most extensive powers.. The ,RUS,' Sian armies on the frcintiers of Poland amount CO near 3W,000 men, which will be considerably en t largekby. : the month of January. exchange Of Couriers between St. Petersburgh, Stockholm, Co penhagen,' and Konigsberg, is now. brisker that) E(TRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER; pENMAR/c, DEC. 30.-Sind yVsterday and to, day various reports have been in Circulation of an Acaion having bgepA fought between the Russian 'awl French Armies in Poland, in which some state the logs, of 'the French, at near thirty thousand men) whilst others state that of the Russians at near fifty thousand; but the latest accounts- from Ber:;0,1 Which corne down to the 28. th inst. do. not cor;r r 11? any intelligence ofthis'kind con the contrary, t he French Army in, Poland is repregented as havir4 suffered so much from' epidemic disease and conta' gious, disorder, aggravated by the constant fall o rain) , as not to be capable of undertaking any offal". sive operations with safety." Ayes o.s , —Noes 54L—Majcgity 19; The Order of the Day for hearing the Dublin Petition,' was, upon .thelMotion of Mr. e,L . 6nArr, discharged, and the said Petition .ordered to be .1-,clard on Thursday the 12111 of March. • Mr. SHAW assented to . this motion upon ;he. ground (as stated by Mr. Cale'raft) of Mr. Grattan's not being at all aware of the intention of any one Or more of the Eleetors . petitioning ;;kgainst - him ; and that owing: to his (Mr. Clcrif(4), inadver tency, the Petition of . Mr. Latouche had bc, , ,en in at a period earlier than was intended. _Adjourned. PRIVATE L4TTER,. " HAMHURGH, DEC. 29.—Yesterday morning tb, Deputation of this City returned fto►n Posen, wherCt on the 14th inst. they had an audience of the Empeo ror NAPOLEON, which lasted near an hour. Their I I , - -, N *lsion seems to have been, unsuccessful;' although every lq uasion was used to convince' him .of the k -lance of the Free CoMmerc e o f Harr , great, burgh to the .. , liti i , ef trading towns o f Fra n c e . The by a list of acceptances ; the French Empire re that proved - to, 17 1 12 1, t.flat '(1 - i - a / C4mmercial Cities ;,..' 20 44; .,:;0ns of marks hall' ~.. .. 44;.,:i Oh last year no less - than co through th 4 immediate channel of - i 4 .,%naburgh. Not' 1.. Avithstanclina so forcible an argument, N,', - 4 -;)LEols: re -?.. ferrcd the business toTALLEYRANIS, dllolllliici ,SYndi C . DOORMAN folkowed to Warsaw, irk hopes, by tariiift representations, to induce him to tVoye the Emperer i l to be less rigorous to the Hainb ur ah e rs. It -is .said that NAPOLEON, in his conversation with, theDepki.,- ties, - spoke very viole n tly aga i ns t England, declarin : that the objet of the measures he had adopted, ill •- f l regard to their city, was to distress the English, aeci. I their trade. , The Italian troops quartered in this City were ern' barked for Hamburgh, in Hanover,' the day before yesterday, being replaced by a battalion of Dutch) troops that arrived the preceding day, which have since been increased to 11,000 men ; and this num ber is expeaed to be still augmented. They will, it is said, , reMain here,two months, and a part of thett ii;rM the 'garrison of Lubeck, whose Coin mandant, Gen. BUGET, has received order's to march to Poland with the two battalions of ltalian troops under his command. Many of the troops here are ill of fevers, and are immediately removed to the great Hospital without that City. A house has been prepared for the reception of the unfortunate Duke 01 INIECKLEN BURGH SC:IM'ERIN,_ WA) IS expthed bore. BRANDiNBURGII, DEC: 23.—A Travelha of dis , tinetion . who has arrived from the. Head-quarters of the'Eniperor NAPOLEON, bungs the news that a de wasto take place to-Jay or to-morrow, , between the Prussians and Front:ll_ ‘vrt ?re ve n pre! hav wai Wel tns Eat