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own eircumstancec A principle of caution ought always to be applied, to preverit the advances froth being made unnecessarily, or incautiously, so as to hazard a risk that no benefit _could be derived. He disapproved . of all Subsidies which would hold Out English money to induce- foreign Powers to en ter into war without any objets of their own. But when they wet engaged, or ready to engage, for .common interests, he thought it would be very wrong ,not to hold ourselves at liberty to second and sup port them, He allowed that past experience ought to be made the rule of our condud with regard ',to future treaties ; but not so far as to prevent us from _entering into such treaties.--The Reiolut ion,was then agreed . to ; and also . the Resolutions relating to the a Loan, upon which Bill was ordered. • • WESTMINSTER ELECTION Lord Fouls-rostre..moved the Order of the Day for taking into. further consideration the. Petition of James Paull, Esq. . Mr. SHERMAN declared, he had. no obje&ion to Mr. Paull's continuance during the discussion. Mr. Plomer appeared at the Bar, in behalf of the tetitioner; and, in a speech of considerable leng t h , Observed upon the nature of the evidence which had been produced in support of the , allegations of the Petition. As soon as Counsel had withdrawn" Mr. SHERIDAN commenced in expressing his surprise that . the Learned COunsel bad not thrown up his brief, and that the Petitioner, instead of perseverin g in his support of the allegations o f his p e tition, lud not come forward with one. expres sive of his contrition and repentance. In the pre sent case, he felt so disgusted, that even the neces sity of calling Witnesses, in contradiction of the charges brought against him, produced, in his mind, the feelings of abasement and 'humiliation. But he thought it due to the charafters of some 'respeCt able friends, to the honour of the House, and the 'credit of a respettable body of his constituents, to enter on a full investigation of the merits of that Petition. That duty was more particularly necessary after the observations which had fallen from the Learned Counsel. Indeed he could not limit the latitude ' which. Counsel, speaking from their brief, were permitted to take; nor had he legal knowledge sufficient to convince him when a 'Barrister was tra velling out of the range of .his p i rOlessional 'duty. At the same time he could not reconcile the pro priety of a learned and enlightened lawyer assum ing that as fa& which was only asserted, and garb• ling evidence, as he should conceive it either. his interest or inclination. He could not see in such conduct any thing which he ghould Wish to tate. He trusted he never would be the advocate of prevarication, If . he had the baseness or auda. Oity.to intrude on the attention of-the House state ments which he knew to be false, he would be as'tained to spew his face in society, unless he might expea some excuse in that stupidity which could imagine that the House would believe him. No Man of gentlemanly mind would have so afted; nor 'did he kilieve the respectable professors of the Bar would produce many similar examples. The Lea, ned Counsel had thought proper to assume what lie should not have attempted. What right bad he to take for granted an allegation which was not proved ? With regard to the chara6ters of the so liciwrs had never spoken disrespectfully. Two things he knew of them : first, that they were men of high integrity ; next, that they had no con cern, but actually resigned a connexion with his opponent.. He hoped Mr. Paull and Mr. Dowel would be found equally clear, and that they would rather appear the dupes of others, than the advisers of the umortuuate.deluded. wretches who were ex hibited in support of the allegations of the Petition. But he feared that a scene o f baseness, of suborpa- Con of perjury., and malice, would be disclosed, such as never before insulted', and affronted the heart of mankind. As to the , Witnesses, Drake end Weathernead, he had never' heard' of them from the moment he had ordered them to come next day, for the, purpose of having them taken into cus tody, until they were found togethei in a hackney coach, with Mr. Paull, on the 24th of February last.- He had documents in his pocket to provt.-that Wea thertead was disgracefully dismissed by Capt. Trot ' lope,. from the-Gladiator, and that s he could not pass the Admiralty for having attempted to pass forged, certificates. . . A long and uninteresting conversation took place, with resped to the propriety of examining Frederick Homan, Esq. he being implicated t by the allegations of the Petition. However, on the Motion of Mr. rEncrviti., it was carried, that the allegations against Mr. Homan were not well grounded ; 'and he was, therefore, admitted as a comaetent•Witness. Mr. Homan,- examined by Mr. Sheridan, said, that he was at Mr. Sheridan's, at Somerset House, on the 19th of February, and there saw Drake and Weatherhead : Drake was-very anxious to see Mr. Sheridan ; four of them sat in the parlour until Mr. S. came in ; the conversation was general ; Drake 'said he had recently purchased a cottage in Hamp shire, and had been hunting it that country with Mr. Cobbett ; that be was at that Gentleman's house : it. was a good one, but that the passage to it was through the stables and pig yard. Wea therhead was introduced by Drake, as a Clergyman ; witness remained with Mr. Sheridan during the whole'tirne ; Drake sat at a considerable distance. There was nothing in the way of offer or promise . made either to him or Weatherhead : Drake said he was appointed to the Thisbe Sloop, and that he must leave town. for. Hampshire in the morning • Mr. Sheridan particularly told him not to be out of town at the time the Speaker's Warrant ordered his attendance,. Mr. Sheridan had told .Witness that he suspected Drake to be a great liar, as he was per suaded Mr. Cobbett would not know such a ft:II(JY... Witness was also informed by him, that it v..t.s his intention to commit Drake and Weatherhead to Bow -street. Witness went, at the request of Mr. ;Sheridan, with a mess2ge to Mr. Graham,.for the purpose of having the letter taken from Harris, and kept by Mr.. Graham ; and that a communication of his having it should be sent to the Speaker, and to the Solicitor of Mr. Paull. Harris went through an .examination on the gth. . -Cross-ex:itnined by Mr. Warren, one of the Pe 7 titioner's Counsel. Witness was not at present of any profession ; was eoncerned formerly in the Sour business. Has a v ropei ty in Ireland ; knew a person whom he so ; piiseu to b - the la. her of Drake; wrote a 'letter to hi.n. On Shrove Tuesday last Duke, junior, ca.led. on NVitLlt;:iSi in consequence of his wish to in- i Lig,' ' TIIE private Letters evhich have reached Town from the Continent concur in representing the !ate battles in Poland as the most obstinately contested of any that have been fought in modern times. The great object which the French bad in view was to get possession of Konigsburgh; and if after the Bat tle of Eylau they had, succeeded in accomplishing that object, we should be inclined to give some cre dit to their Bulletins, in which they claiin a decisive victory. • That _the French expeded to have defeated , the Russians on the Bth, and that it was intended in the event of a Vidory to take immediate pOsSesSion of Konigsburgh, is evident from BERTHIER'S Letter of the .7th :—" To-morrow," he says, " we shall be in Konigsburgh." But instead of advancing, the French Army is to go into winter-quarters, " hav ing beaten the Enemy, and driven them 1 00 leagues iron the Vistula." What is meant by the Russians being 100 leagues from the Vistula we cannot ima gine. The Battle of Eylau was fought within one-fifth part of that dist:r.4ce from that River.,-- It is observable that immediately after the Battle of Pultusk, where, BONAPARTE also claimed: a VidOry, the French Army were immediately to be put into winter quarters, which, in fact, was nothing more'than an excuse for retreating after a defeat. His obje& upon that occasion was to turn the Russians, anti, to get possession of their magazines; but his attempt completely failed. His obje& on the late occasion was to get possession of Kohigsburgh, and for that purpose he engaged in all these destructive battles from the 4th to the Bth Feb. and sacrificed so many thousand of his best troops; and yet, after defeating the Russians, he immediately reheats into winter quarters ! There is one fad which -the French have studiously concealed, and that is; that in all these Actions the French Army has been con= siderably superior, in point of numbers, to the Rus sians. The following is an gittraet of a private Letter from Hamburgh The Battle of Eylau was a scene of carnage which lasted from morning until night. It was the Russians, at seven o'clock in the morning, who at tacked three French Divisions, all of wind'. would have been destroyed; if 8 otrtr and. Nrt,i , had not come to their as;istance•aiter in a grey riding-boat, and, Polish bOtlet,. 'placing hiinst.lf at the .head of his Guards, led Oh ihe attack. The bulleti whistled arctuld him, mid a -shell burst a few paces from him.. " AvomtE-ix's arm teas broken, and he hai set but foe 'Paris: LANNEs is wounded, but not severely; and is gone to WarsaW; his Division had fin share in the battle. The Russians were immoveable. A French Officer who was present, estimates the loss Of the French at tomo men ; from the BthitO the 12th, the day on which Capt. 150VILLIERS set off from the scene of Aaion; There had been no fight- We have been favoured alsO with the perusal of a private Letter from Altona, of - as late a date as the ..zsth ult. It states, that General MICHAUD'S Aide:- • de-Camp had arrived at ,Hamburgh from Eylau, which place he leftimmediately after the battle. It was expeaed that upon 'his .arrival sorhe particular:4 of the late anion would have been published, hut that eXpetaation was di'sappointe.l He asserted; that the French had • gained a'viaory, but said that the . Russians had fought :like devil;', and that - the French had lost a gieat many Officers of distinction. It was believed at Altona that the right wing of the Russians was. defeated at Eylau by the left of the French, which BONAPARTF. commanded in person ; but that the right wing of the French, which was commanded by General LANNES, had been nearly cut to pieces. So that BONAPARTE was not only unable to pursue the advantage he had gained, but found it necessary to retreat. The great objea of the French was to get possession of Konigsburgh; in which there were immense Magazines of Provisions . , of which the French were in great. want. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE - OF GERMANY, TIM COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF TFIE‘ IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY. • ". By a long series of the most unfortunate, events, your country his become a prey to the most cruel aod insolent of foes. The manifold sufferings,to which • you have been subje&ed are known to the. Emperor, my most gracious Sovereign ; and his Majesty is so much the more diSposed to take the warmest in terest therein, as he himself has sprung from German blood ; and mindful of the intimate ties which exist ,between his Imperial House and many of . .the • German ' I4inces, he has never teased' to - entertain, with regard to - the German Nation, all :that esteem• to which a . people 'so numerous, enlightened, • and . virtuous, - are justly entitled.— With this sentiment of the warmest- interest in the fate, of Germany, are naturally and insepar ably conjoined his, :Majesty's wishes to deliver this Empire from' its oppressors, and restore it to its just freedom and independence. •' His Majesty will' think rici exertion too laborious to attain this great obje&. " Inhabitants of Ger Many ! the whole Russian . Armyfights for your interests ! Under circumstances . so favourable, shall you alone remain inaaive ? Shall you be so blinded, as. in the present state of things to do nothing for yourselves ? The enemy is at a great' distance from his frontiers, in territories, and at a season of the year, which not only do not afford him sufficient means of supply, but afso. impede all his operations. Will you voluntarily contribute to his relief ? Will yoti aa against your own interests ? Forget not that you 'have all possible aid 'to exped from the brave army entrusted to my command. I trust that I shall vie- • toriously drive back the common Enemy of Europe, and convince bin) that there still remains a People who, faithful to their Country and their Monarch, have both the inclination and the power to re sist the inquisition of his iron yoke. But, however probable this success may be, his. Majesty will still regard it as incomplete, so long as the foe shall not be - driven :back', beyond his natural boundaries; and - as this is the only means of restoring , the independence of your country, and obtaining a ge neral Peace upon secure foundations, his Imperial Majesty relies, with the fullest, confidence, that at this finally decisive cris;s, the inhabitants of Germany will notonly lend no kind of support to the coalman foe, but, on the contrary, that they Will, by a general resistance, render his further stay hi Gee many impracticable, and throw every possible diffi- • culty in the way of his retreat towards his own fron tiers. By this intimate union of the *hole Rnssian • force with all the means 'of the German Empire, the common object may be attained, and Peace, so anxi ously desired, be once more restored to suffering Europe. . " Take courage then, brave and virtuous Germans ! Rale& on the immortal. renown of your ancestors, who, i❑ former ages, maintained their independence with the most-signal bravery. - Unite yourselves un der the colours of such of your Princes, in whom the unfortunate events of our times have not yet extinguished a sense of honour and their own dig hity; To this grand and noble purpose of delivering your l.out)tr7 iron foieigti yoke, Sacrifice evti.; -priVate gdariel;' toils'iderAtion bard, and theii shall you Coinpose ealiable not only of digplaiai& every inch. ground with tfie common enemy, but also tif olti~ mately vahquiishing and tepelling himfor ever witina his natural frontier. " In your efforts to attain so gloriotis an dbjeA, y ti may rely with the fullest confidence on the pO'wertil and 'continued assistance of the Emperor inoSt gracious Soi-ereigui. The universally ackh • dwledged 'principles of his IMperial Majesty afford you a - gua rantee, that not only will his Majesty not aband3u pad in the preserit struggle, .htlf that' on,the , happy termination thereof, he will particularly ditea- hii attention to the restoration of the venerable cortstitu-: Lion of yoUr cotintry, which for a succession of centu ries rendered Our forefathers the happiest people on the face of the earth, and which could only bo,de f : stroyed by the domineering ambition ;of au.EneLny, who rnako no scruple 'of treading under loathe: most sacred Treaties. " Given at the Imperial Russian ttead-quarters, " Baron VON BE NNINC SEN, General of C ivalry, " Military Governor of Lithuania," &c. Yesterday Lords flowtcx moved for and obtained leave to bring in a Bill for securing to His Majeity's Catholic Subje6ts the free exercise of thcir Religion in the Army and. Navy. The charges against Sir .HOMEPOPHAM are coir prized in" a Letter of Instruaions to Admiral Yot3t;.3, whopresides on the occasion, and state in substance, " that having, in conjunction with General BA been direeted to take under his command the ShiD:4 specified, for the purpose of capturing the C„t;-_, (sf Good Hope, he, after that service was effened, proceeded .to attack the Spanish Settlements in Rio de la Plata, without direaion or author]t . therebYTeaving the Cape exposed -to attack and la-, suit, -without means of protecting the tradt of r-;s Majesty's subjeas, or of taking pOssessioo of any Ship of the Enemy whichthight have put into'the' bays, harbours, or places adjacent, • though he had r---ived• information of a detachMent of the Enemy', Siiips'being at sea in the neighbourhood of the Cape; and that a French Squadron was expected at the Mauritius, &c. &c." The Report of the Committee appointed to search . for precedents respeaing theConsequenceoft heExpul sion °Wet:Fibers Of Parliament,which was ordered to be printed,was last night delivered to the Met nberS.They contain a series of cases,of expulsion, from the year 1558, down to the.present time. They are divided into five heads or classes; viz.. Ist. Expulsion for of fences against the State, and frauds affecting the pub lic ; 2d. For offences against the House ; 3d. Vol . other offences ; 4th. Disqualifications by Statute ; sfh: Other Disqualifications. We are prevented, by want of room, from making any extrafts from this Report, which' occupies. 46 folio pages. The husband of a certain foreign Syren recently displayed the modest sMility of-his charaCter, by inviting one of the branches of the ROYAL FAMILY'. to drop -- in 'to dinner with him. when be pleased, and by offering him tickets for the O'pera. . PORTSMOUTH, MARCH s.—The Trial .of Sir HOME PoPHAM is postponed till to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock, for, the purpose of affording an oppor tunity to brill- , more Witnesses from London. Lord M brill; who is to attend on the occasion, is not arrived, but is every moment expeCted. Mr. JRa VIS , the Counsel, and Mr.BICK NELL, Solicitor fort e Ad miraltytare both here. There is a prodigious num. r of persons now in the town, andallis eager curiosity and strong solicitude as to the result.. PLYMOUTfi, MAii,Cl.l 4.—Arrived yesterday, and soon afterwards sailed to ile:Westward the . Dispatch. Sidrp of War, of 18 guns, Capt. - LII:LICRAP, ac companied by two. Gun-brigs, supposed to be des. tined on a Secret Expedition. Sailed this morning the Thilomel and * Maine Sloops of War on a Cruize. .• The Outward-bound East and West India Fleets are in the Oifing, passing by to the Westward, with a tolerable breeze at NAV. Sailed the Lord Keith, Capt.•BRUCE, for Moga dore, and the Savage SicOp of War, with A Convoy for Cork: Arrived the Cockatrice Sloop of, War; from the Eastward. The Dale, Stator: Coca, Mariner and Argo, Outward-bound West India Ships,' sailed this even ing to join the, West India CoUvoy. FALMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Dispatch Sloop of War from Portsmouth to. take charge of tha Ship.; lying here bound to Portugal, &c. the Childers being ordered back to Spithead. SHEERNESS, MARCH 3.—Sailed . the Bold Gun brig, •Lieut. CHIVERS. Arrived the Escort Gun-brig. Came into Harbour to refit, the Crescent. Sailed His Majesty's Ship itesoltaion, Captain BUELTON, to Yarmouth. Came down the River, a few Merchant Ships to wait convoy with the Falcon. Passed by, the Nore, for ,the River, fourteen Sail. ' DEAL, MARCH- 4.—Sailed His Majesty's Ships Seagull, on a Cruize, and Combatant for Sheerness. Arrived the Bellette Sloop of War from a Cruize, and remains in the Downs with the rest of the Ships as tier last. MARCH s.—Put pack the Combatant Praain. Carne down from Sheerness the Bold. Gut Fit. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH 6.---Wne It is here in tolerable quantities, though few. arrivals, and sales are made heavily at a small declension in price ; the supply of Barley is considerable, and good samples support last prices ; Malt likewise; there are but few Pease or old Beans of each kinds, which fetch better prices ; -the supply of Oats are rather large, and this, trade is heavy of sale and cheaper, except inc, tine samples ; Flout at our last quoted prices, *- ~T~: , • . . .4estigate the naturb of the lettet which Drake gave, to Harris, who said be would jet it from him, and made. use of language not proper to repeat. Doei not know the date,of the last note, but suppose . ; it- might be on Saturday, the 22d of February, and met Mr. Sheridan next day, in consequence; of an alr ',ointment with Drake, Is not certain whether tole appointment NV as kept at Mr. Sheridan's, or the house of the Witness. Mr. Homan was, after a number of other in terrogatories, ordered to withdraw ; and a Mr. Ward was next called, *vvho confirmed the -testi mony of Mr. Homan, relative to what had passed at Somerset-HQuse, when Drake and Weatherhead Were present. Mr. Graham, Maoistrate of Bow-street, was next • examined, and stated, he had received from - a person of the name of Harris a letter of recommendation to the Captains of his Majesty's Ships of War, for the purpose of supplying them with slops, Mr. •Sheridan, he said, had denied to, him he had ever written such a letter; and declared it to be a mere election trick. • Emanuelllarris, a Jew' slop-dealer, said, he had. received the letter in question from Drake ; that he had afterwards been applied to for it by Mr.'Bos well. He was afterwards brought to Somerset-_ house by Mr. Burgess, when in the presence of Mr. Sheridan he was requested to' give up the letter. This he refused, alledging as his reason that he had been served with the Speaker's warrant to produce it on the examination before the Committee. The witness said, before that evening he had never seen Mr. Sheridan, who then assured himn it was a gross and atrocious forgery : he had never used this letter for the purpose of obtaining orders for the Navy, and thought an Admiral's order would be much more efficacious for that purpose. Mrs. Butler, publican, in Covent-Garden, knew the w itness,'Weitherhead, to be a person of infa mous charaaer, with whom, on account of her situation in life, she had unfortunately become ac quainted—but would not, on his oath, take his testimony in any affair, provided he could gain one far,thing by forswearing himself. Mr. ,Barnes Hart was. also examined; but his testimony not being . deemed 'Tic :alit, on the Motion of 'Mr. JAMES GRAliAn' it NWL:- ordered to be ex punged. - Steclt? was also . ned—when Mr. SIiERIDsI,24 I)bserve , . hat he !tad, he hoped, given sufficient evidence prove that a conspiracy existed rather_ against .1 than his opponent, and avowed his :,I,en.tion -losing, with the last wit ness, thr.; evidence defence. , Lori: Howicx moved, " That the deposi tionS of the be printed for the use of this H ou se, and the _ consideration of this Petition be adjourned to-morrow (this day) se'tinight," when the witi - A.;ses were ordered to attend; which was unanimtl:siy agreed to. Tire otht 7 Qrders of the Day were then disposed of, and tne House adjourned at Half-past Four o'Clock. -MAILS. Azzavzti-2 Dublin, 2 'Waterford. Duz—z Gottenburgli, a Liabon, a Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols THE SU N. 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