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Mat ? . :0 10" Bi l l et ) dis' 3 Of ~, , 0 then pe l , ll ,f th e s El)) .ofes' ,cca• pen, the "fall 1 10 to co' Prornoteanv inqniiv which might tend to salt them 'rem the unneoescary expenditure of a single guinea, ?srto receiver a unj,nti obtained from them. rtat this -solicitude f or : he never meant to c arrY to the' e x t l% . tn e - of refusing to the merit of a rublie Officer its 'appropriate reward. No—that, he felt, would be : a perversion of economy not less tlogo teful to tile wisnes thorn degrading to the cha rafter'of the people. Sure he was, from his know ledge of their feelings, that were he even capable of e ntertainiag the disposition to at such an unjust and i i guoble part. thei r - just i ce an d lib era li t y wou ld f or bid 4 i[ll fromindulging it. The people were generous, but t heir generosity ought in no instance to be imposed tlPon. Whenever gallantry or talent was exercised in ,thlz public se ;'Vice, atid .•ntitled to r e ward, he w o uld not. e fuund among those who should quarrel with the liberality of Government. But where liberality t kas misplaced—where those obtained favours from t he public purse who had no claims to alledge, who had,- in fad, not men a plausible pretension to public gratitude—and there existed many in hranees of that sort-;---his sense of duty would not suf fer him to be silent, whoever the objeds of such fiisapplied bounty might be. The people, who had suffered so long and so much Worn the severity of taxation, and from the unjust application of its pro duce, expe . t!..ted now both indemnity for the past and security for the future, and his utmost exertions not be wanting to promote their wishes. He f be ,gged not to be misunderst oo d as w ishi ng t o p ress le principle of economy to any improper extent. He far teem desiring to apply it in such a way as ~"° " 1 ( 1 tend in any degree to cramp or par a ly z e th e Jeeessary efforts for the defence of the Country, or _ t°l4 dit the reward of its gallant def en de rs . But he , '-'ss not at all apprehensive that the present Mi- I lister s would improperly extend the principle of li erality. On the contrary, he had the utmost conti derycr In their disAsition, character, and talents, and be gladly ava il e d hi mse lf o f t hi s occas i on to dec l are t t,7 He was proud and happy to perceive that under 4 ,( 0 e auspi ces o f men w h om h e esteeme d , t h e l ong Promised reform was to come at last—that Mini , - It ters Were resolved not only to preach but to prataice. t E4_,LisoN applauded the disposition mani telred by Ministers. 11 0 Amendment being moved, 111 r. BIDDULPH said, that there then was so 't.e of substantial . ditrerence between the Moti on L had the honour to submit and the Amendment vr'posed by the Noble Lord, that he was not dis t,rsed to press his Motion. The objects he had in .".. would be attained by th e A men d ment. H e 4=laied the sincere satisfaCti on w hi c h h e f e l t f rom `'the .entintents of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 'ld he had no doubt that those sentiments would be followed up, not in the abridgment of public li tertY, fo that he d rdeprecated as much as any man, 1 :4 in the reduction Of those sinecures which are k nown to have gon e i n some i nstances to suc h au fir" *caous extent as to have excited the general and J t lst jealbusy of the public. vfilt% CA LVE RT hoped, that at all events the 'oble Lord and his Colleagues wou ld d o t h at w hi c h t :as now in their power, namely, to prevent the Fledging and mortgaging of those sinecure places, Which was a system . that had heretofore been prac t!!itcl without restraint. The Amendment was agreed to, and the Commit tee :nominated ; to them were referred the Reports 13 .5 Lc:l:mittees of Finan c e, and the Commis swlr.z.::. of 4 ...ccoLints; rz . SLAVE TRADE. h ad Message from the Lords announced that they t o Passed a Bill for the Abolition of the Slav e T ra d e , Whicii they desired the concurrence of the House.]. SC-oid flowicx moved . the first reading of the rh. ! e Trade Bill, announcing- it as his intention to i„ v ettrq second reading, when the discussion might 4 e place, on this day week: gililr HIISBERT spoke against the principle of the anti argued for the further poStponement of the 't-'eond reading to a later day. He named this day " 'Might. Lord flowtcx. saw no necessity for such delay, as th e principle of this Bill had already been so often " l 'eussed, and as its merits were so well understood. t General GASCOYNE reprobated the arts resorted Particularly at the rate Ele6tion, to excite popu iiir Prejudice aga i ns t th e tr ad e , o f w hi c h t hi s Bill oci et , l t 'Unwisely proposed to deprive the Country. He Led the Bill a Cabinet measure. 13Vr• PLUMER d e nied th a t a pl e d ge t o su pp ort thi s jf'" was universally demanded from candidates at e l ate Election. No such pledge was asked of him. 't had, h e wou ld not have ma d e it; but would t! v e declined th e vote o f t h e man . who should make i e request, alth oug h i t was hi s reso l ut i on to support But he had always come into that H o us e do s `'• by pledges, as he was determined ever to s u• As to the Hon. General's allusion to a Cabi :t Mea sure, h e remem b ered the House of Corn thl°P when any Member w o uld ha ve b een ca ll e d t o '" e r who. dared to Mention such a thing. As a p ll rrioner of England, h e k new not hi ng o f C a bi net u .luiste rs in that House, nor did he care whether was a Cabinet Measure or not. "elieral GA3CoYNE explained. 1, 0 kog . and desultory conversation arose, in w hi c h 2,41\1 Howick, Lord Henry Petty, Sir J. Newport, prie~ l - d M B• bin g lon supported the pro- 3 le} anr. and 1 3 1 fixing the second reading for this day week; 4 Efibbert, Lord Temple, Mr. Lethbridge, qtr'l3 - urner, Mr. H. Addington, Mr. Bathurst, arha tn , M r . Herbert, and the Honourable Mr. said, t!:at the measure under consideration InV` "tiler to be c a lled a Bill t o Abolish our West T r ` ? ' oioui es , t h an a Bill to Abolish the Slave 1 ,,, e • At length F r id a y s e'nnight was fixed upon Q, cue Second readi ng , and it was understood that ~ / .1 1tt l s el against the Bill should be heard on that day. SECRETARY at WAR moved to postpone the u d reading of the Muti n y Bill t o M on d a y sea- Ilig,!!H-6rdered accordingly. ind ne other Orders of the Day were gone through, the House adjourned till to-morrow. MAILS. DuE-4 Gcttnbu:gh, 3 Waterford. TIIE S SOLIM QUIB DICER/ FALIVM AUDZAT? LAW REPORT. COURT OF .KING'S BENCH. Fza.ll, GARRow, this morning, moved for a crimi- P'4l information against • the Printer, Publisher., &c. P ' l l 3 er called Th e A urora, f or publishing a state plent, purporting to be a .report of the speech of J. 4 4uL L , Esq. at the Jate dinner at the Crown and Tavera.--ruile grantcd. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1807. WE received, very late last night, Paris and Dutch Papers, the former to the 3d, and the latter to the 7th inst. They contain the 49th, 50th, 51st, and 52d Bulletins. These Bulletins confirm us in the opi nion which we have uniformly expressed, viz. that no Battle took place subsequent to the 26th Dec. The objet} of these Bulletins is rather to abuse the Rus sian Army and Government, and to ridicule the Offi cial Statement of General BENNINGSEN, than to give any detail of Military Operations. It is again positively affirmed, that General Box- HOVDEN was not only engaged on the 26th Decem ber, but that he was completely defeated at Golymin. This fa&, which is a very important one, is quite en veloped in mystery. It, seems almost impossible that a battle should be fought at Golymin on the 26th, and that General BENNING! EN, who was so near as Pultusk, should know nothing of the matter. The last of the Bulletins is dated the 19th January; at that time BONAPARTE was at Warsaw ; but Ma- dame BoNArAwre-had arrived at Paris. In addition to the Bulletins, which will be found in our subse quent Columns, these Papers bring the following intelligence : A Letter written by the Chancellor of the French Consulate to the French Minister for Foreign Aff'airs, dated Bucharest, the 13th December, acquaints him that the French Lieut. Gen. REINIIARp (late French Minister at Hamburgh) has been arrested at Ya , ,sy, by order of Prince DOLGORITCKI, and sent to Russia. The. Duke of OLDENBURGH has returned to his dominions, in consequence of the assurance received from the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, hat his Duchy is only provisionally occupied for the pre sent, in consequence of subsisting military circum stances. The Deputies of the Administration of the De partment of Zealand have given public notice, that his Royal Majesty, desirous to employ all possible means of defence for the safety of the Isles of that Department, has ordered a legion of foot, horse, and artillery to be raised, composed of Inhabitants of the Department, and not to be employed on any other service than the defence of Zealand. The French Frigate Thetis captured on the 15th December the English Sloop Netky, of 18 guns and 100 men, and carried her to Guadalrini:e.-.-(Moil teu? of the 30th of January) All Hessian Officers holding the rank of Cap tain, and first and second Lieutenant, who were hitherto allowed to remain in the Eleftorate of Hesse, have received orders to repair to France. Tran quillity is now completely restored in that Country. —(llloniteur) A Letter from Bayonne, of the 24th Jan. states, that an English Frigate, which in a violent storm had thrown her guns overboard, entered through stress of weather the port of St. Sebastian, under American colours. She had 100 French prisoners on board, among whom was a native of Biscay, who, in his provincial informed the Spanish boats, which came alongside of the ship, that she was an English Frigate, and not an Arne' ican bottom. The English, finding theMselves discovered, cut their cable and stood out to sea, but the uncommon swell in the offing, and contrary winds, rendered her escape impossible : she took ground, and is now in the possession of the Spanish. The name of the Frigate is not known, but she is supposed to be commanded by a Nephew of Admiral COCIIIIA:NE.— (Moniteur,) LINTZ, JAN. o.—The most recent intelligence which has reached us from Vienna, states, that more intimate connexions than ever are on the eve of be ing formed between France and Austria, and which cannot, it is said, but contribute, in a most power ful manner, to the re-establishment of a Continental Peace. It is also asserted that several other Princes desire to come to an accommodation with France, and that it is not improbable that the Rhenish Con federacy may become more extensive and general than was at first expeEted. Letters received at Vienna dire& .from Poland, mention that the advanced Russian posts will occupy the distria . of Bialystock, the only one now remain ing in its possession of all Prussian Poland. The misunderstanding between the Prussians and Rus sians augments from day to day, and it seems to be the general opinion the Prussian Monarch will take advantage of the present moment, when hostilities have almost ceased, to open negotiations in order to conclude a separate Peace. The whole of these letters agree in stating, that the Recruiting Service is going forward with great alacrity in Poland, and that a respenable Army iS organizing there. Several lli:;trias have already furnished their quota, which have set out ea their to arch for Waraw. Erery :hhit is quiet ihrOtihoUt the twO GaliciOs the 'elt due frontier has Olode 's'uffered froth the in cursions of t. e Cossacks : but to put an end to them, the Court of Vienna sent orders to advance a body of troops towards the .PnEr; and several regi ments have in consequence reinforced the line of neutrality of this paint. CONSTANTINOPLE. DEC. ia.—A Council of Ministers was held yesterday, and War Was declared against Russia. The Ulemas have pronounced it to be just; the standard of the prophet has been hoist ed; all the country is in motion; the Paellas of Ro tnelia have received orders to advance with their troops towards the Danube ; another Army advances from Asia, and will follow the same direaion : the Grand Visit- will take the command, and march with the holy standard. M. ITALINSKY was to be sent to the Seven Tow ers ; the French Ambassador, far from imitating the coudut of that Minister, was the first to advise the Porte to send him back honourably; tea Sail of the Line are equipping ; and the press that has taken place has produced several sailors. The two English Ships are still before Constan tinople ; the British Minister does not appear to have had any instruaions on so unexpeaed a cir cumstance. It is the insulting Proclamation of G a. MICHELSON which has excited throughout the EM:- pire this general movement. The Turks say that they would rather. die fighting scymitar in hand, under the banner of the Prophet, than Submit to such outrages. The Patriarch, a ve nerable man,. who possesses the greatest influence, and the Princes Callimachi and Suzzo have made known to the Greeks, by a Proclamation, the incalculable misfortunes which will befall them if they do not shut their ears to the perfidious insinuations of Russian Agentsl; alternate victims of the Russian arms, of the arms of the Turks, and per haps of any other Power, the country would be laid waste for a century, but the brave have not ceased to exist in Europe, and they will not suffer the vast em pire which extends itS confines to China, to reign also upon the Bosphorus. The Turks may perhaps be beaten, but they will eventually be conquerors; they .will have for them our powerful Ally i it is this on which we repose our confidence ; he will not permit that their Enemies should pt ovoke them any longer— that the people whom he has already several times vanquished should destroy the most ancient and most necessary of hit friends. Already his camp is upon the Vistula— , already the Russians, which are in sight of our troops, sufficiently manifest the terror which pervades them. Our enemies will be con founded, and our Empire will come out of this•strug;- glc and re-establish itself upon its natural alliances. —(Moniteur, Jan. 30.) According to a Letter from Warsaw, of the 15th January, the French Emperor has appointed a pro visional Government of Prussian Poland, under the title of " Commission of Regency." Fr CM tke LOND9N GAZETTE, Feb. to, t?,07. His Majesty's Sloop Kite, Downs, 7111 Feb. 1807. SIR, I beg leave to inform you, that last night, about half past eleven,, the North Foreland Light bearing W. by S. I fell in with and captured, after a Chace of one hour and a half, a French Lugger Privateer, Le Chasseur, commanded by Jacques Francois l'our mentier, pierced for 16 guns, two only mounted, the remainder bung in the hold. She is a very fast sailing Vessel, only three months old ; sailed from Calais yesterday morning in company with another Privateer of the same description ; had not made any capture since she last sailed ; her complement of men was 52, but had only 42 on board when cap tured, two of which were wounded. Fortu , nately our shot cut away his jibb when we com menced our fire upon him, otherwise the Chace would have been long, and our success doubtful. I have, &e. • (Signed) JOS. JAMES. rice Admiral Holloway, &c. &c. &c. The ROYAL FAMILY did not come to town yes terday, as was expetqed. Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, Princesses So- PHIA and AMELIA, attended by Lady BULKELEY, Generals SPENCER and FITZROY, and Colonel TAY- Lott, took an airing on horseback. On Monday a Cabinet Council was held at Earl SPENCER'S, at which all the Members assisted, ex cept Earl FITZWILLIAM, who is confined through illness, at ks house, Grosvenor-square. The utmost exertions continue to be used in the King's Dock-yards, at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, in Order to get ready a Fleet for the Bal tic. Sixteen Sail of the tine, mostly old 74's, are to be cut down, and fitted for sea, with masts of the rate of 64's. The Commissioners have purchased Stock in the Funds for Government, between the last day of February,.lBo6, and the 31st of January, 1807, to the amount of 8,3533,3281. 13s. lid. and have fur ther bought, towards the reduEtion of the National Debt, 13,614,4631. in Consols and Reduced. CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 1 I.—To-day, owing to contrary winds, there are hardly any fresh imports of Corn in general, and not much Wheat at hand ; the sales made nearly support our last prices ; there is scarce any Rye here, and but few purchase's of Barley and Malt; Pease and Beans of each kind vary but little in price; Oats are in middling sup plies, and this trade is named rather dearer for. the best samples ; the few of Potatoe quality fetch, as usual, an advance on the general currency of about 2s. ptr quarter; Flour as our last) fine American 445. to 48s. per baae.J. . . . Fnm, FRLiLE'Cri a n L' U; .17 PA,Z3 ARS. FORTY-NINTH BUTT FTN OF THE GRAND A Ni IVAttSAw; nas Capitulation has not yet been received at the heati• starters ; neither ha; th inventory of the maga zines of subsistence, or of the clothing and artillery , yet come to hand. They are, however, knosvn to be Vety considerable. Prince ..TERomE must have .made his entry into the place. ' He is going to be siege Brieg, Schweidnitz, and•KoSel. General Vic- TOR, commander of the to b co! ?s Of the army, has marched to besiege Colberg and Dantzic, and to take those places ddring the winter; M. D ZASTROW, Aid-de-Camp to the King of Prussia, a wise and moderate mati, who had signed the Armistice whichi his master did ndt ratify, was, notwithsuiinding, on his arrival at Konigsburgh, appointed Minister for Foreign AffairS. Our cavalry is not far from Ko nigsburgh. rtenc!ered. 'DA The Russian army is continuing its movement towards GrodnO„ We learn that in the last engaz,t ments it bad a great number of Gmerals killed and It evinces great discontents against tlia Emperor of Russia and the Court. The soldiers wounded. say, that if their army had been judgcd strong enough to fight with advantage against thc french, the Emperor, his guards, the garrison of St. Peters , burgh, - and the GeneralS of the Court, would been condu&ed to the army by the same security which brought them to it last year ; that if, on, the iave contrary, the events of Austerlitz and those of .T.na made it be thought that the Russians could not ob. tairi success against the French army, they ought not to have been engaged in In unequal stragglt2.— They also say, the Emperor .41EANDEli. has com promised our glory. We had always been van quishers ; we had established the opinion that we were invincible. Things are greatly altered. For these two years past we have been led about from the frontiers of Poland to Austria; from the Dnico&r to the Vistula, and made to fall every where into the snares of the enemy. It is difficult not to perceive that all this is ill managed. General IVIrcuELsoN is still in Moldavia. There is no news of his having marched - against the Turkish Army, which occupies linelv-est and Wallachia. The feats of that war are hitherto cmfined to the investing of Choczim and Leader. Great move ments are taking place throughout all Turktry to re pel so unjust an aggression. General Baron VINCENT is arrived from Vienna at Warsaw, with letters from the Emperor of Austria for the E ,mperor NA- POLEON. There has been a great fall of snciw, and it has frozen for three (Lys. The use of sledges had given a great rapidity to the communications, but the thaw has just began again. The Poles assert that such a winter is unexampled in this country. The tempe rature is in reality milder than it generally is I.!C Paris a't this season. FIFTIETH BULLETINsethe GRAND ARMY. WARSAW, JAN. 13.—The troops found at Ostro lenka several sick Russians,whona the enemy had been unable to take off with him. Independent of the loss of the 'Russian army in killed and wounded, it has suffered still greater losses by the illness which increases in it from day to day. On the Bth of January the Garrison of Breslau, consisting of 5500 men, defiled before Prince Js• ROME 3 the town has sustained considerable damage. From the first moment it was invested, the Prussian Governor caused the three suburbs to be burned. The fortress was regularly besieged ; we Were al ready battering it in breach, when it surrendered. The Bavarian and Wurtemburgh troops distinguish ed the►rtselves by their intelligence and bra Very.. Prince JEacimu is now investing and besieging at the same time all the other fortresses in Silesia. It is probable that they wil► not hold Out long. . The corps of 10,000 men, whom 'the , Prince of PL:ES3 had formed cf the garrisons of the fortresses. were cut to pieces in the engagements of the 29th and 30th December. Gen. MONT - BRUN, with the Wurtemburgh Caval , ry, went to meet the Prince of PLESS, near.Ohlau, which he took possession of o❑ the ogt h in the even ing. The next morning, at five, the Prince of PLESS ordered him to be attacked. Gen. MONTERUN taking advantage of the unfavourable position of the enemy's Infantry, made a movement to the left, turned him, and killed a number of men, made 700 prisoners, took 4 pieces of cannon, and as many horses. The principal forces, however, of the Prince of PLESS are, behind Neis, where he • assembled them after the engagement of Streciden. He left Schnr galt, and, marching day and night, drivanced as far as the bivouac of the Wurtemburgh brigade, which were drawn up in the rear of Hube, under Breslau. At eight in the morning he aftacked,• with 600 men, the village of Griesteti, occupied by two battalions of infantry, and by the.Litange,light-horse, under the command of the Adjutant 'Commandant DtrvEY- BIER but he met with so vigorous a rceeptioh that he wag forced to make a' Epeetly wtreat : . (4-