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IMPERIAL PA R LTA MENT. HOUSE OF (.: iNt:dONS, Dec 21 Mr. Ni.nt.ing ptesent:d .. Petition from the London Dock Comnany, praying for leave to bring in . hill to amend the A& for regulating the Waft.. o georks of 'hat concern. Granted; And Members ap- IpoititeJ to bring in the same. On the motion of Mrd MOORL the Petition of Mr. Robert Bowyer being read, leave was given to bring in a Bill, to extend the time limited by the Al of Parliament, empowering that Artist to dis pose of his C Ilettion of Pi&ures by Lottery. Mr. Burton, the Member for Oxtord, took the - oaths and his seat. - ° Lord HOWICK wished to call the attention of the House to a matter of cons dei able importance, and deteremg of very serious inquiry It related to the return made by the Sheriff of the county of G tlwor in Ireland, to vie King's wr t, ordering Aim within such a time to return two Knights of the shire tot ti-at cruoty. The return made by that Olifi.er was, that the eleeion was not finished ; he . should. therefor,, in the firer place, move, "That the F. Deouty Clerk of the Crown do :mood to-morrow with that rerurn ;" and would then fix upon some . , proper rime tor taking ioto consideration this un its usual and truly improper proceeding ; also, what peniohm •nt the Huse may think fit to adjudge to such c.oduet. Mr. CORRY thought it his duty to state, that there was Di' law in Ireland for limiting the coo- OiruA ice ..f Elio:Hone within any specific time ; he also recollefted, that t , ere was a precedent in that moor: fir continuino the poll open after the day .peeified in the King's writ. In the present case It may so hero oi, that the Sheriff, admainted with the enlivener of such a precedent, might have considered hist.sett st , tfily jus ifi•ct in going on with ' the Elrefi,n, and in making the alleged return to the prop. r otfico He was induced to say thus much, barely tiom i is knowledge of that circumstance, as he was by no awaits it•tert sled in the present transac tion, nor had he any knowledge of the Sheriff, or of the contest in that couroy. Lord Ht /WICK certainly wished that full allowance should be mate for the irregularity of the proreenling, if the Ofhc T conceived he had :stied pr.spetly on that precedent. but it was 'WI josofication for not fulfilling the inju ic. 'inns of 'or King's Writ. to plead that the lows of trefoil did not limit the continuance of vie:lions.— lin !red, he recommended it to the consideration of , o the n embers In .m that country, whether it would ' a. ,, tsu .'tlyAtitag nue to .steed the provisions of the At ~mltnv toe : e rod for the poll, to that part of the Un'red King.: m In toe pre ant case, whether the condua 11 the sh-riff *As irregular or disobedi int. o a u- : he proper to appoint a time for ascer tain.' g t R. and :11 retool he should propose, " T'ao 'n t e first instance, th. Deputy Clerk of thp Croon she utsl retettd •u in orow with the return; sod toot, or. Wednt sdAy s-limight, the whole mats tar be .akeo into consideration " This motion was re: and ea- led. Mr HOBIIOUSE asked for leave to bring in a Bill to revive, amend. and make perpetual, the • temporary and lately • xrsi ed AR, for regulating the trial of controre.ted Eleflions. This Ad, which bad been tounO so benefit:4l in its operation, both jo reve sing delay hy second ballots, and in cape dione th issue, by permitting the exertions ,:f a ehort.hand.writer, he shotdd almost literally copy In the Lull which he soould have the honour to :11. troduce. save with an amendment of the 7th Clause, to revent an in:convenor:cc in p.m* of ptoftice. Under the nee:miry' of etoediting the public busi ness which existed. he se:omitted to the House the proptiety of passing the Bill this ni.fht through 1 many to its stages, en as to have it committed, and the report brought tip. The Rill was read a first en.l second time, sod ordered to be committed. : Mr. BIDDUI.PH gave notice of an intended mo tion for to.morrow, that the House should declare it as a rewiltoion, no longer to continue the salary to 4 the office of Chairman of the Ways and Meant. A. . tei s u , :Otionsofthatoffir e w i er 11.ou it became inexpedient ,under o ndserlelwithin the tin l exigencies te ' .r tot the crisis, to continue the pecuniary reimburse or •aaeot the following Petitions against undue returns, were ordered to he taken into consideration—Wey mouth, Theersday. 22d of January; and Thetford, Tuesday, 27th of January. The Order of the Day for the House resolving k• itself into a Committee of the whole House, upon the controverted EleEtion Bill, being read— Mr. ADAM in the Chair : The Rill for revi, ng the Controverted Eleßion Bill was agreed to. The House resumed, and the report being brought up, the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, and engrossed. Up , n the Motion of Mr. VANSIT TART, the House resolved twin into a Committee of the whole House, for the purpose of considering of the sup • pia.' to he granted to His Majesty. That part of His Majesty's Speech being read which related to the public burdens, it was resolved, that a supply be granted to His M .jesty. The House resumed, and the report was tottered to be brought up to morrow. Mr C.W.WYNOIE moved, " That there be pre sented to the House an account of the 'dual number of Lunatics coofined in Gaols, Hospitals, &c. pre paratory to a motion for amending the att relating to Lunatics." Lord /10WICK gave notice, that on to-morrow a he would move that the House, at its rising, do adjourn until Monday next. At five o'clock the House adjonrned. ---. _ FOREIGN /NT ALLIGENCE. DANISH MAIL• IF A Danish bag of Letters and Papers fr o m Hu sm. was received. at half-past two ti'.lock this day. at the Post-Office. Tie following are the principal attirlts of their contents: — Letters from Altona, of the 2si inst. repeat the account of the French having btcn defeated by the Russians. Traveller. arrived from Berlin state, that from 900 to 1200 waggons of wounded French , soldiers sr: ived in that city on tt.e 27th, and threw LtgAlowing days. 14. i. Hospitals of Cu , tt in and Stettin are de:c ~ribed as fell of sick and wounded; on the 216 ult. Da , voun was attacked by a corps of *i4o Cossacks, white reconnnidng the Russian out-posis, and ' compelled to fall back, although suppo:ted by 1000 Poles; most of his cavalry were killed. According to accounts from Berlin, of the 29th, General Clarke was still there, and not at Vienna. On the 27th, M De La Rochefoucault, the late ' French Ambassador at Vienna, arrived at Berlin ; Napoleon having appointed General Andreossy to be his successor. Talleyrand has likewise sent his agent, Durant, on a Special Mission to the Austrian Court; he is to demand of Francis 11. the cession of Salzburg, Buchtolsgu den, and the Invertiel, for Bavaria, as well as the Austrian part of Poland, as soon as the kingdom shall be proclaimed; in return be LI to offer the Pi us sian part of Silesia. The Queen of Prussia and the Royal Family have gone for St. Petersburgh. The French have emptied the Hessian and Saxon arsenals, with the contents of which they have loaded several thousand waggons, and sent them partly to the interior of France, and partly to Po land. A very respeetable Russian Corps passed through Memel on the '2o'h and '2lst ult. ()a the thith, the King of Prussia teceived a visit from Mar►hal Duroc, who was the bearer of new proposals for an Armistice, which. however, were rejeard. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, WEDNE'DAY, DECCUIIta 94. A Danish Mail arrived, yesterday, Item llostim, with Letters and Payers of a 'Ate date. They re peat the report of the defeat of the French I , y the Russians.—The particulars are given in our pre ceding columns. Some Dutch Papers, of s late d ite, have been received. The Decree of Blockade is stated to have been already executed in 1-101.41 a, and the Northern part of Germany.—Russia has r. gained all her in fluence at Constantinople, and ti.e Fatness Ast ISAS• SADOR was expelled, in consequence, to quit that Capital immediately. Some very stria reguTations are about to take place in the Alien Department. Few foreigners will, during the continuance of the war, be ad mitted into this country, and these lew, very can tiously. Far be it from us to crush a broken reed, or close the door against honourable and loyal men in distress ; but, we have reason to believe, that Government will not aa unwise:y by Incktng sharply after some Emigrants, now resident in this country, who affect th it charaaer. The miscreant, who proposed to Mr. Fox. to assassinate BOP APA rive, is said to be now in the liisetre. BONAPARTE." add the Paris Papers, seeing nothing in such a pro jea but a proof of insanity." The wrttch, s probably, was employed by the French Government. We this day resume the Negociation Papers. It appears from these and the previous part, which we gave yesterday, that the negotiation, which com menced on the sth March, was carried on until the 9th of August, by Lord Y R MORIN, doting the whole of which interval, his Lordship ur.i forrnly insisted upon the rai pa.ideti:, as the basis, and TALLRYCAND bad uniformly acceded to it. The negotiation bad been hitherto carried on err -1344 ; but the moment the Earl of LAUDERDALE arrived in Paris, and insisted the principal topics should be discussed in owes, the French Minister finding this would be a restraint upon his shufll;ng and tergiversation, objcaed to this mode ; declared, that nothing was farther from the intention of Bona r•STll than to consent to the ati possidistis as a basis, end &eland all the telAfOrtllttl that bad ever paned between him and the Earl of 1all)1014 IN "politic•! reawares." Yesterday, a Court of Direetors was hsld at the East India House, when Lieut.-Ceneral was appointed Second in Council at Bengal, aid Commander-in-Chief of all the Company's Military Forces in the Emit Indies. - Capt. GEORGL WOOO was sworn into the corn mend of the ship Charitoq, consigned to Bombay dirett.—The Court adjourned at six o'clock tdl Tuesday next. The Atlas man of war, with six sail of vessels un der convoy from Falmouth. arrived at (Abr.'ltar on the 2rith of Novernbrr. The Prince of O►a,pe schooner letter of marque. Captain Lav scan, nt I.ond n. is arrived at Suri cam from Africa, with the ll:Jib . ; gion, MITCHELL, of Charleston, from Africa; and a Portuguese ves sel, which she has detained. 1 he fleet for Great Britain sailed from Lidson on the 11th in%t. under convoy of the lonvaica frigate. The Thalia frigate. and Lwdsa, Capt. P Alta amt. arrived at Portsmouth. sailed from Quebec. r.n the 11th November, in company with the eerier, Batty. and the lafa,y, Szevice. for London t Pciler, for Chatham; a brig for Whitehavan, and two for Greenock. 'lb. /adastrp. Kitty, j fined off the Banks of Newfoundland. The fleet was dis persed in a gale, off the Banks. ibe Cruise was s:cn on tk.c 1f);.% MOW. MINIrIFI . f ' _ Ilk ttesit . . . I ' THE ..7RiS. OPERA• 1101.31. Last night a new Comic Opera was pro lure I, called ll Principe di Torento ; the music by Pa eat ; in which twe Comic Performers, Signor SIIIOII and Signora Pzarsr, made their first appearance in this country; they were received, on their entrance, with all the liberality and encouragement cha rafteristie of a British audience. Madame PERINI appears to be about thirty, her figure short, and en bon Nine; her face not handsome. but possesses very good comic expressinn ; she has fine black eyes, and beautiful teeth ; her aeion easy and very lively, and appeared quite mistress of the stage ; her compass and stile of singi • bear a strong similitude to that favcurite singer Signora Svorrecx. The interest of the piece is excited by a young Princess having been confined in a tower, and having made her es cape. The Keeper prevails on Retina, a country girl, to become her substitute The support of this charac ter gave the SIONORA an opportunity of displaying her comic talents to much advantage. She was rap turously encored in a charming duet ss ith NAI.III, who was in fine voice and spirits, and they boil) received great applause. Signor Si Dorsi is about fi►e and twenty ; his voice is pleasing, but does not display much compass, and he possesses a consider able share of science; he was Lest splendidly dressed. Signora GIIOLIZTTI was very interest ing in the runaway Prowess, and was much ap plstuded in the beautiful air Per sne se le stoke. All the fashion in town were present. vaorv-LANG. Last night, Miss RAY, kr the first tim'S, appear ed on the London boards, in the past of Amelia Wild, arum, in Korzteues comedy of Lovers' rows. Miss RAv's age and appearance are adapted to give every eased to the innocent afiseflior!ate Amelia frildeadieire. Iler performance was quite original ; and if she was less simple than her p,edvcrssors, she was pethaps more natural ; on the whole, she de wrved the very great applause she received, parti.u• larly in the scene with the Faroe, when she revealed her love for Anhait, and was not leis successful than is the part of .1 &no. Mr. EL LISTON'S Frac, .ri :"as an excellent pe•formance ; he eisplayed much fine feeling and animation, and received the most un bounded applause. Mr. H. Stopons was very is• teresting in att,b./i ; and Mrs. Pow at Os Avrh Frsi.vre is without a rival. The p'ece went ciff with the greatest rile, ; and from the • xcellent pe►formas cc.. we have no dnuht, will - brio ; ' many crowded houses. The "Ellratre. last bigot, was quite full. rINDSOa MEAT RIC4LS. • row.- - Mt . Cones, of Covent•garden Theatre, appsttieel, for the first time, on Friday night lost, at the Wind. stir Theatre, in the part of I'•r tech,/ in Mammies Comedy of 7be Man of She WerM. We have so often best wed our tribute of applau,e On this gentl man, in this his favourite part, that we had much pl• asure to tear the reiterated plaudits he received firm an elegant Windsor audierce. Mrs. MUDI it did gn a justice to L-ily kiJ#.pba La•n. lereorsrt, and was ea•remely happy in tae nem ti.erri dialect During the p.-it .rmance, a dispute arose bemeen some gentlemen, hot vith the Toucan grape, which R•nde in some hard kneekt at the door of the Theatre However, no set inus'consequences have ensued; and Mr. Cootie played 16.-b...1 on Satur d iy. when all wan goad humour again, and he re eeive,! -he most unbounded applause. Mrs. Mu• ors: was dignified in Queen Itlielbeih; and Miss Mr one mist interesting in The Dole of Ye• 6. The house was crowded. Ric,. ea, the ceiehl ated rope• dancer, has taken the and will cut some of his caper, at the beat of rot •Ity dining the holidays. The Earl of ( rei.aissanetsv, accompanied b' the Hot Mr. Bu , left town, yesterday, on a visit to Lord GWYDII, Mt. Bu father, at his mansion, at Sidmouth, in Devonshire. Lord tharsvitts. entertained the Cabinet Mini% - ters yesterday evening, previous to their leaving town for the Christmas holidays. Thei► Graces the Duke and Duchess of Ben roan, atrd a large party of N iuulity and Gentry, were entertained at dinner, in the most magnificent stile of hospitality, on Mond .v sennight, at the Royal Hospital, Dublin, by the Earl of Hmta G TO N. The Marchioness of DONtOAL, Lord RtcrAST, Lord EDWARD CNICIRLSTAR,, and Miss SINCLAIR, have arrived in Edinburgh, on their way to this city. Mrs. ST. - Riwwtnatte heriltEut, at the Porttmouth Theatre, last week, as principal singer, aad has been very well received ; during one of her songs, some Ruch, behind the scenes, obtruded themselves en the notice of the audience, same of whom chewed their displeasure by timing, which alarmed the La Iv, and until it was explained, created much in ter s. for her. X short time since, a Lady, on a •isit to the Nair,'las frigate, at Spithead. wu safely delivered of a dauglater'before dinner, by the Surgeon of the ship; premature labnur having been brought nn by sea-sickness. The child has since been named N at- CIS44. The race.cnurse at Carlisle, by the ditedlien of Lord Lcaws }lse, is to be much improved. For sum- etne past workmen have been employed in le rei:iog the rising ground, in rendering the course more ruin. ii, and Lkes :se enlargiog it. The Gla,gow Theatre was to open lust night. for the benefit of the lutirmary. The Company are from idanbergb; and comprise Mr. Roca Mr. Dwrsa, sad Mrs. Youso, from Drury - lane Theatre. On Wednesday last, Admiral S:r Isaac Corms gave a most sumptuous dinner, at the ('rlvrn Inn, Portsmouth, to 'remit! Gentlemen. Among whom were Admiral MONTAGU ; General Si r Greece Pe arose, Governor of Portsmouth; General EL LIOTT, Royal Marines; the Hon. Gentoe Gear, Commissioner of the thick-yard; Sir .; Yost's; Captain/ But. Lat and Mastao, and viral caber Naval sad fiLlitary OfCcers. IAW IIITN? L LIGE !WE. COURT OF KING'S nt4cH, Guttoeitee, Dec 29. Satings at l%ui Prtss. be , are. (GI Janice ELLia. no ou om, owl a Special Jury. mowriaau V DC TAsTLT 01 HESS. In 'his case. tlia Plaiiitiff was a most respeis. hie mei chant, residing at Lisbon, and hid c'•nsr l , n .l a quantity of cotton to the Defendaiits, wino wire the successors of Mr. Anthony Mangin, with direr. lions to sell and disp se of it on the first market, and to appropriate a pin of the proceeds in lignizt.i. lion of a debt due by him to the house ; the b a l arce to be disposed of as he should direct. The Deferit. ants had delayed to dispose of the commodity, n u . till the price in the market had diminished consider. ably, and the adion was brought for the difference which might have been obtained, had the go, 1, been sold according to advice. The parties had pr.:. viously agreed to refer the damages to arbitratio n; and the Plaintiff, being a foreign merchant, before the Court merely to have his Lordsliii% c,„, nion upon the liability of the Defendants. Lord EL LIIIIIOROUGH at:night, that fs-in tfi t tenor of the correspondence. the Deferdmts adopted tha preposition of: the Plaintiff, and s t ,,, therefore bound by it. The Jury accordingly toilet a verdift for the Plaintiff, stkjeet to the tefettege before mentioned. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Vie. 93. ASTON V. ports. This was an aOion brought by the Plaintiff, as representative of a blercatrile House in Naplrs, which had obtained a Policy of Insurance on their vessel, the Co/sue/ie, on a voyage to London, fictn the Defendant and others. In consequence of ti .e vessel springing a leak, sh: foundeted in the Me- Jaen anean. the owners had, of course, applied to the Underwriters for payment, which they refused. The defence set up by the Counsel for the Un• derwriter was, that the Owners had insured tie vessel considerably above her real value, wish intent to defraud the Defendant ; .inJ that the Captain had been access:try to siols'ng the vessel, knowing that she was thus insured beyond her 'aloe ; this th-y endeavoured to prove, by producing her ihstuice, which appeared to be 40401 under the sum insured. It also appeared, the Policy was made out not in the name of the teal owners, at Naples, but in that of the former Captain, :a native of Malta. by those means they expelled to screen themselves irons public exposure, should the fraud be discovered. Though this circumstance, the L earne d hurt observed, was in itself of rather a suspicious na ore s yet, as there was no satisfadoty proof of such fraudulent intention in the owners of the vessel, the Jury found a eereiO for the Plaintiff. The 9th, I 4th, and 91 st regiments of font, marched on Sa urday hum Hythe and Shorhcliffe Barracks, .ntsi Dover, where they were to embark yesterday, in boats whr,-I. are to convey them La the transports waiting for them in the Downs. They axe s dto be destined for Ireland. lavers have been r.ceived at the India Hoese, from the East Irdies, dared the 28th of July.— They were brought by an American vessel, by way of America.. It appears, that a very disagreeable ** A ir rreeurred at Vellore, shortly betore the letters were dispatched A Battalion of Semi, in coast". Vence, at is supposed, of a quarrel about score wo men, fell rtpnn the 10th Regiment ot Native Ir. :..stry, and rm.: every man to de.trh, incloding two °Akers, Maj.)? Clt A 11: ? A XS:" R NC, analano ol4.T. Immediately triter Cll.; bloody outrage, a aegimert ot Cavalry was sent for to Meet, winch h.:sty:tech., attack the Sepoys, to whom no quarter was given. nor did the Dragoons think their vengeance cobs- piece, until every one of the guilty battalion were sacs ificed. We have the satisfaction to state, that this un pl asant affair did not originate in any spirit of dis a Iletion to the Government. 'the Galway has at length tetaanate..l. Mr. DALY and Mr. Maims: have been ret ntned.— The latter Gentleman had a majority of 347 over Mr. Ever, on the 2.2.1 day. Our DOlin Correspondent, under the elite of the 19th instant, says—" the good effects o: the Spe cial Commission are already apparent, ail di,tuib ances having completely ceased in the coca :ties in which they lately broke out. In fart, as I men tioned in a former letter. they never bad nt tained any height except in Mayo and Stigo In the other counties, Longford, Le.trim, and Cavan, snitch' unfounded alarm was excite.!.-- The destration of the private distilleries by the Threshers of Longford, had caused som unrasiiii•ss to those who recelkaed that in the year the Irish DireAory enjoined their adlaerents the most exemplary sobriety. But this proceeding t f the Threshers was didlated by a different motive. By the Excise Laws, a fine of 501. is to be levied off every parish in which a private still is found ; and 'hoe fines rlll y nurnerosu in some counties as.to add greatly to the county cess." The Ward of Castle-Barnard is ;he only Ward in the City where a contest for Common Council con tinues. At the close of the Poll, yesterday, t..e ::umbers were as follow ;-••••• Horcombe . 140 Fenton . ISI Griffiths • 121 Far•ence . 1•.• Howell • 157 SIAM. 1. Itutlock . trs Po. •.alt . Trcacher . 134 P , 3 , C11 12 Hors • 133 Vere . C w ß e l h el s Et c : r a s f a c a t l a Y t i t ; l . l k i tei e t h g Me p t L° lsel i cr i-it pt wDe t i n e i . g e ol li a 4 :: : ::B a o r w w ee , ao d s ir n h h ue s e zn l n f da me a th r n in e thi A llg il s e i tl i n z t a he e r e :, w tern Loaf, Wheaten, will be sold for is. lid. and Hon sehold. 11 id. flodor Witt) a, of Kent-road. a few days since, visited a pitient to Paternes.a►.row ; the Water having rode on tiorwbtcit, let his horse At the door, and when he returned, alter an absence of not snare than five minutes. he found, not .he sled *ldes, but the saddle, which cost him seven guineas, but a fcw days before. socun4 mirth new stands on tiptoe to usher in the. happy season of Christmas ; bit amidst its various e-ijoyments. let us not be unmindful of the issue of an Approaching great ever.t, of which a prudent and timely embiace will irsiitie a considerable number of individuals to pass every Christmas, throughout their lives, in blistul prosperity. We allude to the speedy determir.ation of the most opulent Lottery Scheme in Cie annals of 7•ttuut's wheel. yell in bl of to hoi u. 1:11,