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N Mr. GILES observed, that was where the Noble Lord was in error : they only took a view .of part of the amount of the i n terest—whereas if he had looked . into table L, he would have foUnd that it summed up the whole. Mr. .bill/lES GIDDIF, highly applauded the plan at the Noble Lord (H. Petty). He had made acme ,calculations, upon. the subjeet himself, and had taken some time to consider the plan which that Noble Lord bad before . the House ; and: he found that tt .united all the physical and Meral powers that were necessary, for the attainment' of the obje.6t which be had in view. It was with arithmetical calcu4tions as with the machinery-used iu reeehanics-.--the operating power must be pro_ portioned to the weight or sum which it has to raise. On this principle he found the Noble Lord's :;ysNm to be coiTeEt in, all its, parts, with making o,nly the allowance for apy thing that may hereafter. accider.tall,y impede the, operations of the' machinery.. It also possessed the . moral power of exciting the contidenyeand energy of the people.— The Resolutions were then read and agreed to. The House resumed, and the ,Report was ordered to be rece*i,vell ,on .NYednestl ay nex t . .„ . 40rd*De.Dunstanville's was , reported, read a thir'd time., and passed.—The Sugar Drawback Bill Was committed, and ordered to be reported to morrow.—Adjourned at Twelve o'clock. • MAILS. ARRIVED-2 Got tenburkh, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWTLVIS I Reduced Ann. - - 63 Consols - TEI IT E S N. 'AOLSRI Qi;IS DICE:23' FA: tUM A UDLA.T ? 1, N .7) ON, TUESDAY, FEdiallAnY • I Y I . I E-07. Tins Morning at a very early hour a persim.-ar-:, rit'ed :it thelzotei d n OPrice with DispatcliefrOrn Lord HIT-v_6lincsoy,atid - fro'm Mr. WYNNE.Iie is,-pot a re gular Messenger, • hut. a Confidential .Servant , of Mr. `VrNsE. The _Dispatches from LordßurcniNsoN are of an old date, 'and we believe merely contain the details of the battle of the 26th December.. The Letters from Mr. WyNNE , are,of a much later date. 1:1r. WY2,:Nc's Servant lea his Master on . the 78th of last month,and at that tithe accountshad been_re-. • ceivcd Of Anions having been fought on the. sth ,and 6:h of .fan. whieh, though not decisive in their re . siilts, terminated favourably to the Russians. Another Luta° was 161:ght. on thz 16th of Jan. in which, the Russians had more decided ',advantage, and immedi ately. after the adion Marsbal•Nlr, who commanded that part of the Army which was engaged in these * different anions, applied_ for an. Armistice, which the Russians refused, and it was generally be lieved that 'the. Russians intended to make 'a ge neral- attack un the 70th. -This is, we believe, the substance of the iptellizeni..e brought by (! e Courier who enibarked , at- Piilau on the 22d. . . Some skirmishes have taken place- in the neig,hbour hood of Colberg, hetween the Prussians and the French, in which the former were So successful a Prussian Colonel was 'dispatched with the-details t) the KING of PRUSSIA. This accounts foe a very • • . singular pasiage in the 5 . 3 d flulletin, which appeared to us at Lest .almost inexplicable. The passag , ; ; tp which we-allude is this : • •' General VI crow, on his way to Stettin, and" in a car uith hiS Aid•de-Camp and'a Servant, was Made I'll - sorters by a party of twenty-five llussars who were Scouring the C ,entry." " . .This singular statement is now explained, and General VlcToa," we have no doubt, was not only !?1 - 4. tshou:d. take .place , ,at tyre er;e: thtlt period„ :or. before, .no new taxes : would ,be necessary. Tie .systent of tiouble loans,an(1:0107 pound interest of the Noble LOrdi : would only lead-to WnlcruptCy ! and rain, aud..would ; bent . _ no compaiisen 440er, wit h_the present. system, ; or either of ,the szyk gestions...%l4l). ho, had the ,honour to inake by way 9-,of..liicotiot) of the Noble Lord's ,plan. GZLE§,4gclarrcl that -.he would not have risen at ; 'that .IC - tie hour-of the night,. but that' be saw one :gelier4l- error pfiTvade ti e who‘ l e system of the Noble Lord,..(eastkereagh), W l hich he - thought it ,was in -cumbynt op , ,him A& state, to,his Lordship and the House. There. : .were many errors into which. Op. Noble --Lord had fallen 5 but he proved. the existence .of this one 4Unciarnental error throughout • the, whole of the -Noble Lord's statement, he thought that night, in itself be,sutheient to induce the House to ro . }etzt :,.,.theso;calculations 'which had so, much of . their foundation. The, Neble • Lor.d..pro poec a lean. of eleven' millions for twenty years, with: ever mentioning, or ,taklpg into his conside ration, akyording to the:calculations in his own pa pers, the ;ecutulating ipteret, for that period.. The sum,borrowed .would amount to 2,«0 millions the, interest to accumulate on the different sums. so bor rowed would be.twenty years for ,the first sum of eleven millions, nineteen for : the-second, and so on in proportion. This would amount to something upwards of one hundred and forty-four' millions of. interest, in:the whole, at the end of the-time stated. the Noble Loid had stated, that the interest, aC corciiig to his calculation, would amount to only the, sum of 14/6 . 56,Q001 . . or something thereabouts. This immense ditfereneearose, from.his mistake in not having taken any idea of the accumulating tcrest along with him as be proceeded. The plan.. of his Noble Friend (Lord Henry .Petty), whilst his calculations were fair and correEt, had, also this &I-• Kautage over that of the Noble Lord (Castlereagh), that,iat the expiration of the, term proposed, it would leave the-Sinking Fund entirely free and unfettered. 2,s to its.itit ore operation. Lord CASTLEIiSAGH insisted that the error was not his ; ha had taken the statement from : Table C, F,,and K, of the Chancellor of the:Exchequer's taken Priagner). ckftited, t bp, Ehe airrison of CoPoerg.. .130NAPAIITE had quitted the Ariny',for Berlin, with the intention it w a s stipposed, of going to Paris. •_ :Tins .morning two Gqttenburgli Mails arrived.— The only . ibteresting intelligence which they conNin is that which - t'va• communicated at Gottenburgh by the Courier wo arrived in town this morning. Paris Journals to the Bth inst. were at a late hour last night 'received in town. They give .the Fifty'-. • third Bulletin of the Grand Army, dated 2-2 d Ja 7 : nuary, at Warsaw. ,It gives no . important intbrma, tion.. , JAROME BONAPARTE is stated to :be'aCtiVely engaged in besieging different Fortres4es in Silesia.' A Corps of I' ussian, 'Htissars had taken General . Vlcron prisoiler, near . Stettin. These Papers con- . • , tain it, report, which is also in the. Husum Mail, that Konigsburgh bad been taken by' the French. This report, hoWever, is not likely to be wells founded. It is . , positively stated that the Porte . has declared 'War against' B ussia. The arrival of Madame BONAPARTE in 'Paris ,excited an expec tation that . her husband would soon follow. • TH-E elaborate Petition, which was cOntrived,; . prepared, and arranged by 1.12 Freeholders of the County of Southampton, in three month.s.of inven tion and ,iiidutry, has been pronounced by.a great majority Of the: House of Commons unworthy of being,referred to a Committee of Inquiry. Thus this' mighty effort Of party-spirit has completely mis.=. carried, though the instigators of • the measure will doubtless acquire great credit for the foresight, dili- . gence, and capacity which they exerted to prevent the bubble from.bursting prematurely. After much deliberation, and .many alterations and improve; ments, the Petition. was presented: to Parliatuent at the expiration of seven weeks from the commence ment of the Session. By . long persuasion and great misrepresentation, it was enabled to boast the nature of one Elector in sixty. It was very judi ciously-, if not very candidly, withheld from the knowledge of the individual who was the objeta of accusation; inasmuch as -the communication 61 its contents would have disordered the.whoie machinery . ' of the Drartp,' would havp.unraVelled . the-first sCC , Ie, and have ;isappod-ited those whose-.. parts had been • ibr the representation: The.. charge of ;:;%,;. interference, on the part of Go; the .]lesion in Hawpshire, : . is concentrated in 4 - complaint ZlS,iirlSt. the Secretary of the Treasury, for, exercising• undue- influence . in his official ciiaracie - rl . To establish this Charge, a Letter to Lieut. Gen. HEWITT has been quoted, audit i s assumed that Mr. FaximawriE 'had no propeily its the County of Southampton.. Upon this foundation has calumny raised a superstrUClure, which the first breath of truth has easily demolished. 'The Letter to Gen. HEWITT bears 'the charaater of a private cotninunication, as it was marked ."Private," agree ably to the praaice constantly and uniforody adopted 'for the purpose of distillation: The Secretary of the Treasury is'net prohibited from the exercise of his . Ele6tive Franchise, or from using his cxertions, - in his capacity Of Freeholder, iu behalf Of his fri.inids. But the Petition asserts that Mr.FREcmA NT!, E had no pro ,perty in.the County, and that his interference must therefore be referred to his official capacity, Me .re verse of this affirrrition is the fast. Mr. FREE MANTLE possesses considerable property in the County ; his nearest.' connexions possess property in Hampshire equal to, if not More extensive, than that of-any per son Who signed the Petition ; and he is allied by mar , riage .with the Family of Mr. MISTLE'TiIWAITt.. 'The only ground Upon' which the Petition rests is , thus completely invalidated, and the impossibility .0( establishing any charge against Government is strong ly proved by the ill success of the labotir which has been bestowed,"and the tifUe which has-been con, sr reed, on this fruitless effort.- The earnest, manly, and convincing strain, in which the Individual, who was sekaed as the obje& of a,T.eysion .rnaintained his cause before the i - lonse, and the repeated ter.timonics which his high. nd independent' charaLter drew forth • from every quarter, have. severely disappointed the hopes of calumny and malice, , and have raised the public estimation of his merits, which Faction has vainly endeavoured to de preciate: The declaration of Mr. FiccEmArm.E, that the Public Money and the PatrOnage of the Treasury have in no instance and in no mode been applied to • promote the Influence of Government during the late Election, will entitle Ministers to universal approba• lion, and will overwhelm their Accusers with . shaMe and humiliation . .. Lieutenant IToFt:NIAN, First :Lieutenant of - the Diaimind Frigate, - !;,t3tiioted off -Havre, lately recon noitred that harboo:.‘ He wenrin an Armed Boat close in with the pier head, and distia6tly,saw the rem's.. and Jivio Frigates, a large. Ptaami and 18 Gun-brigs, a GAiiiot, a Schooner, and an Armed Private Sliip of Wai:. ,None of-them, however, will venlnre out while ggr - §hips. so vigilantly blockade them. To-any Cie Lottp-r..`ir.i.yott, after inspealing the Returns of tiaa .%lenl-I.veiAhers, ordered thc price of tv last week. • . , • (P - A L 4V‘E IFS.. , ' . • The under-mentioned ihteresting . Shipping Intel .. ligence was reeeived this morning at the East India . . House, by an overriand.,Packet, yiz. - The Lady . Jane, Dundas., Lord aistlerea_7%i, Sir Hcgh highs, Sir I~'illiam Tens ley , and ben gal, sail ed from Madras the 3d, and arrived in hengal,the of July. , , • • The ..dlnwick Castle, David: - Scott, and ,Essex; sailed from Madras for China on tfw 3d of August, under convoy of His Majesty's Ship Duncan:' The EarlSt..Pincent and Tham — es arrived at Born: ha} ::19th August. . • • .s : - . • The Streatham, William Pitt, Europe, .and 4/1 lion, arrived at Bengal (last from Prince of Wales rsland) 27th Rily. , The Ganges and Earl St. Vince,nt .were to be dis patched 'from Bombay for Europe.' ' - The Grapple Gun-brig was l to be dispitched from Bengal for yturope. VIYMOUTH, FEB. an American Vessel just -arrived here frbm - Treguier, in France, and who , has . brought ii Passenger, recently from Paris,; inteiligenCe is received that a battle was fought in Poland on the ibth January between. the- Russiang - and French, 'in which' the 'hitter were defeated with, great slaughter, and A. divisionOftheir Arruy; under. General MoaTIER; .made Prisoners. The French. people . acknowledge having sustained a defeat' on the 26th December ; and it is currently reported at Paris that BONAPARTE. has been severely attacked by the. Flux: All the Artillery aldng the'Coast; tog=ether with the , Troops,, ha‘;e been 'sent off to join the Grand Army in Poland. • • • Sailed• the Royal Sov'ereign, of no guns, Vice Admiral TimiiK-BROtion, to join the Channel Fleet ; the Brisk Sloop of War, with a Fleet of:A.lerchatit- . men and Vi6tuallers under convoy,sfor Cork, .11 . 0m . ' whence they are - to proceed to the West ...Arrived the Bellerophon, 01 . 74 guns, .from Tor bay. . _ . YARN:OI77'u, FEn. —Arrived the Lark Packet, Captain DELL, from Gottenburg - h; and landed Pas sengers and a 1 kessenger,f charged with Dispatches . • from Lord HoT . cniNsoNl- who .reports that the French were defeated'on thelth, Bth, and gth of J4nnary, in Porand; and that Martha' p-ropbkd a Snspension of A4 - ms ; but being reje&ed the Freta. re-crossed the Vibtnlaf , 4general.bat.tle was expected to take place pp. the Igfir Ininary. - Konigsbtirgh - i's reported not- tgbet Arrive . crihe.'Colionbine Brig . of War; Capt.'l3tiAusHAw; fropi a :- Orct4 e. Sailed the Diamond frigate,,. Capt. ARGYLES; On a Crnize. • - Tile Dreadnought ' of 'll . nd tlie_Curieux Evrig. were this citq.pai4:theiK vages..• ~DEA.I4 ; FEB, G.—Remain in the. Downs a. lilrge !Fleet of .Bhips • of, War.and Transports, Lord Dun :can., City,fLoridon,. Barring :_andilietcaflast:ln diamcln;.and-a large Fleet of Ships of War and Out -ward-bound Vessels, - . 1 N.,. SHEEENES3, FEB.. 1.5.•--ArriVed .the PhosSorus Fire-brig. .- .. • • Sailed this day His Majesty's Sloop Kangaroo, Capt. BAKER, .to Deal, ' TRE GOTTENBURGH MAR,. 'GOTTENIWRGH, night arrived the Lark Packet with an Erigliri and Russian Courier, whb,both set off immediately fOr St. Petersburgh. Accounts from Stralsund received to-day, State that General MORTAR,,:and the troops tinder his command, have left Pomerania and proCeeded to Poland. . JAN. 30.—Last night a Courier arrived here with Dispatches from Vienna; and from the Prussian head-quarters, he is also the bearer of an overland Dispatch from India, It is reported frdm'Elsineur and Copenhagen, that the French were defeated three successive days . after the affair of - Pultusk, on. the 2f.ith. December last; we do not learn any particulars. The 6th of January was celebrated at St. Peters burgh, . as' a general day of thanksgiving, under ihe. 'firing of artillery, for the signal:vi&ory obtained over BONAPARTE, on the 26thult. . FEB. I.—.A.llohPr Courier reached this place , last .. night from the' Prussian Head-quarters ; be reports that there were - battles between the 'l'.!reOch and Prussians and Russians, on the . sth, 6th, andfifb of Jan. and that as late as the 16th; news 16's r ceived. f l at Konig - sbuith, of successes obtained over the iirench; . , . „ on Which account there had been gun-firing z 11t1 r - joicing ; .be also state's, that General :NE), had pro posed an Armistice, which had been refusest. . The King of PrUssia was at Memel. ' '' .,' ' ' . This Courier embarked at Pillau on the 22d in an E.iglish Merchant. Ship, which brought bins to the Sound.' . . 'On Satt.irday night, about six o'clock, a very, licivy cannonading was heard at Dell, in the dAdiori or lioulogne, which lasted two hours. It was conjec tured to have proceeded from some of onr.Crnizers annoying the small craft stealing out of lioulognd, and crf.tepillg . along-shott to the IN'orthern Ports. 1:130.1V THE FRENCH PAPERS. FIFTY-II4IRD BULLETIN OF THE GRAN? ARMY. .WARSAW 7 JAN. 22.—We found pretty consibr ap;l magazines of pro v i s i ons a t. Brieg. We annex rlie• 'Popio,ilatioi:i of that Fortress. Prince" JEROME pursues 'his campaign in Silesia areatitaivity. Lieutenant-General DERVI has heady surrounded Kesell,,andppened the trenches. The siege of Schweidnitz and that of Neisse were • carried on at the sametime. • General Vicwoit, while on his way to Stettin, in his carriage, accompanied by his Aid-de-Camp and'a servant, was'carried off by a body of 25 Chasseurs, who'were Scouring the country. The weather is become cold ; most p ro bably in a , 'few days the: rivers, will be frozen. The season, • however, is not more . severe than it usually is at Paris at this time of the .year. The Emperor is em , •ployed every day. on . the parade reviewing dif- ferent 'regit*nts'. All ,ihe magazines .of tne army - 'are putting in ' order and furnishing with provisions. Biscuits - are — baked wherever there is a convenience. The Ent- " peror has ordered the establishment of large maga ' ,tines, and the rnaking,uP of a Considerable quantity of clothing in Silesia., The English, who on no longer make it be be• lieved that the Russians, the. Tartars, and > the Cal-. mucks are going to si. - vallow -up the French Army, • for even in the Coffee-houses of LOndon it is well kncnyn - that these worthy Allies of their's can no longer endure the aspea' of oar bayonets, now call" to their aid .dysentery, the plague, and every species of eyidemic disease. .• If these scourges were. at the nod of the British. • Cabinet, not only . our army, no doubt, bUt the' c .over tn t o themselves 'their ravl t e Whole of the manufaauring clas se s o f t h e Conti tient, would' be :deli vere d -- Aleanwhile, the-English content publishing, or getting publi s h e d b y ' their numet n' publishing,' or l 4 5 - emissatiPOlni.ler every sort of form, that the French artily is destroyed by, disease. According to their accounts, whole battalions perish at once, likelthose of . the Greeks at the beginning of the siege of Troy. What a comm.odious manner have they dis covered in getting rid of their enemies ! but after 'all they must give it up—never was the army in better - health r ..the wounded are recovering, and the ~ number - of dead is,. very inconsiderable -•---we have :had not •somuch sickness as in the 'preceding earn paign-;--neteVen.so much as is experienced in France . in time of peace, according to the ordinary calcula7 t • . _ • wos. [ l'he.Terrris of the Capitulation of Brieg have nothing ur'fr, usual' in them. The Garrison were made Prisoners of Wt,, t " and all tlio - Warlike Stores, Oc., were to h e d e li vere d tlP the•French.2 • ft...a... . B:ANTES THE Mnlx, JA..1 , 1% 30.—An Ordonnanc e i • was publishecl.at Breslau, on th e 16th ordering, 811 - Bankers, Merchants,. and other persons,..who- have intheirposessiOn any English merchandize, o r pro ,perty• belonging to English stihjeets, to make a faith" ful return of the same within: twenty-four hours.. A. Proclamation:was:published at Brunswick, on !Al 15th; enjoining all the inhabitants of.the.DuchY and • of the Principality of Blackenbourg, to-, deliver LIP L° the•MagiStrates,. within ten days, the whole of the 'arms in• their possession, under pain of punishment according- to the .French - military, laws. VILICNA, JAN. 24;—The arrival. Of. M. DE Luc- - cnesiNl in this city, is a subjea of various COnietki , ture ; but it seems' certain that he is. not Nested with any public charader. Thirty-six thousattd Austriort prfsoners,.-who were detained in France, have re turned to their own country. Parti4 FEB. the German Papers, 'all the Letters from the - vicinity of the Theatre of War, speak of the commencement of Negotiations for Peace. The. English Vesse,s -Hero, from Belfast to Lon' dpn ; Phenix, from s Teignmouth to London a and .. Speedy, of London, have "been captured ; the two f?riner have arrived at Calais, the latter at the Isle de Rite. • • RANKFORT, JAN. 31.—The French Corps des' tined to lay siege to Co:berg and Dantzic.continue to assemble at Stettin.—According to letters from JO head-quarters'orhis Majesty the Emperor, the - light troopt have pushed on to a considerable distance/ and their reports confirm the retreat of the Russian* bri a r re d ei ty e a n i t ys p to r c e k v . aiis W bv We are are ei the` re - assur ß ed uss t i h a ti n t s great disagreement Prussians, relative to the proceedings of the former. -The says,ready is appointed to the chief' c omma nd o f t h e se s s s t ai ti d A t:o . rebepo ; al A o r r m ga y n d c ; Confederated era ed Marshal P troops. He arrived at Bareuth on the 25th of Ja" nuary. 'CATHOLIcs OF .laELAD.--In donseqnence Of a summons from the Earl of F INGA L, a _ Meeting of this body took place on the gth inst. at I.) , AacY's, in Earl-street, Dublin. The objed of the Meeting was to consider the propriety of Petitioning Parlia mentfor a coMplete emancipation, as it was tdrmed, of the Catholics of Ireland. The Earl of Fisloat, took The chair, and after stating that he conceived it to be. his d u ty t o c a ll che present rvieeting, con cluded, withh declaring that he understood it was the intention of Governriteut to signify Low far such an application was likely to obtain - a Legislative sant> , tion. Mr. .KEOGH. then arose and audressed the. Chair; The, substante of his,speech was a recotW mendation of unanimity. Some of his declarations might not be thought prudent, particularly when he said, " The fate of the Catholics is in their :own hands." In the course of his speech he humourous ly described BONAPARTE as " 20 honorary Member of all Religious." At length he proposed,a Reso lution,'iMporting that the present was a proper time for presenting a Petition to Parliament for the re quired cmangpation. The Resolution ,was carried unanimously, and a ComMittee of fortpone :Gen tlemen was appointe4 to prepare and forward the Petition. ___ ___. • • - BIRTH. Itth inst. at - Kentish Town, the Lady of Colonel Sy Ines, M. P. at a Daughter. MARRIED. Ott the 9th inst. 'by special licence, at Castle 'M‘Garreat County of Mayo, Ireland, the Hon. Henry A ug,ustus to Miss Brown; eldeSt daughter of D. G. Brown; Esq• 64 the above pace. , . • LoNnoN ;.Printed by R. HARRIS (Of Martiett..CO Urt ' 13ow.stroct), and published by W. A: .Scit !pia& (of South' MNllrou-street), at the Sun.olfice, ;12, brand.: ,•' ;:4 ._~~]