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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEE ~..1 MONDAY, JU,NE,"„ ) ,2. t TETE Commission for opo.ning,the yarliament was read yesrerday, at two o'clock. 1. he toinwissioners were the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord HA%ViCESBURY, Lord AYLES FORD, 64C. Mier the Commission was read, and the House constituted, ;a great number of Peers took the oaths. Among their we pbserved, , The Dukes of Cumberland, Gloucester, the Duke 6f IVlon trOse, the Earl of Dorchester, Lords Hood, Bridport, Kellie, Aboyne, Hawkesbury, Lonsdale, Molgrave, Arden, &c. the A renbish. pof Camerbury, the Bishops of Chichester, Ely, &c.. Lord GARDNE4 was introduced between Lords IN.ilui.ottAvE and AR DEN, and took the oaths and his seat.—Adjourned at four o'clock. The House meet at three o'clock this day, when the Speaker eleCt is to receive his Maje'sty's apPros bation. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JUNE 22.. About two o'clock, the attendance of the Com, mons, at the Bar of the House of Lords ; was com manded in a Message by the Black Rod. About two linndred Members, who had been previously sworn in by the Lord Steward of the" Household (the Earl of Aylesford), according to custom, in the Long Gallery, went up immediately, and having received his Majesty's command, signified by the Lord Chancellor, to elect a Speaker, returned, and shortly after proceeded to the exercise of that pri vilege in the usual forth, Mr. Ley, the Chief Clerk, presiding. Mr. YORKE (addressing Mr. Ley), said, the House was now called upon to exercise one of its most - antient and valuable privileges ; in' eke - ling, from among its Members, a proper per Son todis charge the functions of its Speaker 7 fneetions always important to the maintenance of °rider and decorum within its own walls, and the execution of which was at the same titre most essential .towards obtaining for the proceedings of the House the respe& and san&ion of the community abroad. Some apolo gy was perhaps necessary,, for his presuming to (der himself to the House on this occasion, which implied an assumption, that the person whom Ite should ,recommend as the most .fit and proper to discharge the arduous ,dlitieseapnexed, to the chair, shohld immediately appear to the House universally to,poSsess in a pre-eminent degree the assemblage of great qnalities which was requisite for tie! office. He was aware that there were many Gentlemen in the House, who, by their abilities and conduet, and the authority annexed to their names and persons, were very capable of filling this im portant- station with dignity and advantage. But there was, something farther. than • mere personal qualifications which atibrded not only a fair presump tion, but even the assurance of full conviction, that the Right Hon. Gentleman he meant to propose Was,. even among' the many other highly gifted persons whom he saw around him, the most worthy to fill the Chair of the House in these times of - difficulty ; , In ad'3ressing the House on this occasion, he had, : in addition to the satisfadion of discharging a high duty, a pride and pleasure in bearing his personal testimony to merits which he had long privately known, and which, the more he . knew them, the more he esteemed and honoured, • and.the more he eongratulated himself on his acquaintance with the person who possessed them in so eminent a degree. tfe anticipated, therefore; with peculiar delight, the testimony that he knew \vould,be uniminiously borne this day to every thing that he had,said in behalf of Otis Right Hon. Friend. It was a-farther satisfadion to him, to think that the vote which the-House would on thiS occasion, would be ilimind from all party epktices and interests, the prevalence of which, in that House, was oh every occasion to be deplored; but the prevalehce of which, at the present difficult and dangerous crisis, was partiehlarly to be deprecated, a, it May, perhaps, be pregnant with the ruin of these 'Once flourishing. United,'and happy Countries. He was satisfied that, on the present occasion at least, ito party feeling would find room among those lie saw arounu him.This happy unanimity would enhance the pride and ' pleasure he felt on being permitted to address the House on this oc easiun ; and he 'hailed: the approaching unanimous eleCtioo of his Right Hon. Frikmd to the Chair, as omen of the future concord which he hoped to see prevail generally in the I-louse. It was not he cessary for him to descant On the qualifications re quisite tb fill the Chair with propriety, as there were many Gentlemen' present who . had repeatedly seen it filled in the most hotionrable manner. But if, he Were called upon to give an instance of every thing that a Speaker of the House of Commohs ought to be,' though the Chair had, within hiS memory, been filled by many persons of very high and chs tinguished merit, he should not hesitate to name Oe Eight. Hon. CHARLES ABBOTT. If he pos sessed more eloquence, he could with pleasure dwell (in the merits by which this Right Hon. Gentleman 'was so emihently distinguished and recommended; he could dilate upon the independence. of his cha racter, his accurate knowledge of the laws of the Country, 'his -intimate acquaituahce with the forms .and the practice of the House of Commons, and his love' of the Poustitutiop. all praise must fail short of the merits which the Hon - se knew so weli, • arid estimated so highly. The, services which Mr. Bllo# had rendered as Chairman of the Committee of Finance, and as Chief SecretarPßnreland, were, however, so deeply impressed upOti his mind, that be could not restrain himself from makingparticblar thentiou of them. As a Member of the Committee Of Ifihance he had had particular opportunities of Observing the meritorious conduct of his Right Hon. t . riendas Chairman of that Committee ; and he had also particular reason to know how much cause Ireianti bad to regret h i s being called from his high t:;atidii in that'country to fill the Chairof that House. elhbOtt 'one - word, iii `every sense, the peFt !ei-‘, ant of the people; and it' 'every other ser-' yant the public, - 'at the present time, anctin the ?o i2olUe, 'performed his duty with the'same zeal, and diligence, the . country would find service the most effeduat means of extri from the difficulties with which it was , ... su now -encompassed. Ve should trespass no farther on the House, but conclude with moving, that the • Right Hon. Charles Abbott be called to the Cl)lir of that House. Mr. BrIAKES never rose with more satisfaaion to Second motion, than he felt in seconding that • now' made by his Right Hon. Friend ; not only ir.e. cause he was satisfied of the unanimity with which , every thing that had been said by his Right / Hon. Friend was received and accorded to, but because he was convinced that nothing could be more con ducive to the honour and dignity .of the House of Commons, than to replace in its chair the distinguish ed person by whom it had been already so usefiilly and honourably filled. To those who had been lately Members of that House it was unnecessary to expa tiate upon merits which were known to them by their own experience; but as several new Members had been introduced by the late Alealions, it might not be improper to state to those Members, that no man, -i that had ever filled the Chair had evinced moreim partiality, more dignity, or more ability. Profound research into every branch of knowledge essential to ,i the station, great legal knowledge, an intimate ac quaintance with history, and a perfect possession of the customs and usages of Parliament, eminently qua lified Mr. ABBOTT for the 'situation to which h&was now once more recommended. s His easiness of ac cess, and,his clear and satiSfaaory mode of explain ing all matters of business, in which it was neces sary to consult him, could be best explained by the numerous Members who had had the advantage of applying to him. For himself,- he felt a pride in acknowledging the facilities he- had thus re ceived in the discharge Of his Parliamentary duties;' and it was a grateful sattsfaation to him now, tha in discharging one of the highest of those duties, by in some degree 'did justice to the merits to whicl he owed the obligation ; he felt a further pleas= in being able to combine - on this occasion. with the most faithful discharge of his public duty, the gra tification of one of his most earliest and most con stant private friendships. It was, indeed, a heart• felt triumph to that friendship, that an assembly of men so highly gifted with every advantage of talent and education, : the friend whom 'he had so lon g esteemed and loved so, particularly, should be uni-' versally acknoWledged to be the best qualified to fill the high and honourable station which the House was, in virtue of its ancient privilege, now proceed ing to fill up. , As such, he recommended his Right, Hon. Friend; those who knew him would recognize the justice of the recommendation. To those who did not know him, he could with confidence hold out the assurance, that they would never regret the vote they would give in his favour.—(A7 ,cry of " Chair! Chair!" front all parts of the' House.) Mr. CALCRiIIt hoped it would riot be deemed 'impertinent in him to state the reasons which parti cularly induced him to concur in the motion now be fore the' House. Hehad witnessed, in common with every other Member, the able and becoming con du& with which the Right Hon. Gentleman now proposed had-filled the Chair; and he could not do Justice to his sense of those merits, without bearing this public testimony to them. It Would, however, he conceived, be an injustice to the House at large, not to suppose that there were other indiViduals in its body equally qualified; but here, with every qualifiea •-tion to recommend, there was the security olexperi 'ence for the successful application of those qualifica tions in the office. Under these circumstanCes, there fore, the House could notmake so judicious a chOice in seleaing any other individual. He thus coinci4cl in all the detailed recommendations. enuinerated on . the other side; but his principal motive for concur, ring in the vote, :and that which he rose particularly to call. to the attention of the House, was the hide• . pendence with which the Right Hon. Gentleman,' now pro Posed, had alwayS exercised the authdrity of the Chair; He alluded, particularly to 'one:ctistin guished occasion. Such occasions were not -unlikely again to fall particularly to the lot of the Ilight Ron.' Gentleman, and if they did, he was sure theywoUid be met with the same impartiality and independente. It was upon a Maim made by a Right HOn-. , Friend of his, now absent (Mr. Whitbread), thata 'division took place, and the numbers on both sidei:of the House being equal, the Right Hon. Gentleman then in the Chair, by exercising a firmness 'arni- independ ence always becoming, but most so in 4 such high sta ,tions, gave form and body to the public wish, by Con verting into a %Resolution of the House. the Motion which was the foundation ofthe Impeaeh went of Lord Melville. It was the remembrance 01 this a& that was his strongest motive for concurring in the Motion by which the Right Hon: Gentleman was now again called to the Chair; and if the Right Hon. Gentle man had then given a diffitrent vote, he should have thought very• differently of him: In an inquiring Parliament, for an Inquiring Parliament this should be; or the People would. not be satisfied with its--- tlie same recollection would be an assurance '-to• the Empire at large, that the authority of the Chair of the Commons could. not be placed in better hands. He would not expatiate farther on this head-. at present, lest he should be liable to the imputa tion of an inordinate desire to touch on party topics. But he feared, that whoever hoped for the total'ex , ,, tin6tion of party interests in the present Parliament would:be much disappointed ; far, in his apprehen sion, there never was a Parliament in Which -Sikh were more generally felt or diSplayed. Air. SMITH (of Norwich) gaVe his hearty concur rence to the motion, and had great Satisfaaion in see,, ing recalled to the Chair a Gentleman who had ac quitted himself in such a manner in the public and private &Ales of the office, as to prove himself pos sensed of the best disposition, as well as the most perfect ability to fill it in the most beneficial manner. The discharge of the public_:duties of the Chair in the. House was a matter that came under the obser vation of every Member. He shOuld, 'therefore, say nothing on that head, though he believed there was the most ample room for commendation ; butin the private duties of the Chair he had had more fre quent opportunities than others to observe the pune7,, tuality of attendbnce,-and the zealouseti4eavours, •t 9,, forward the business that came before him, by which, the Right Hon. Gentleman now proposed . establish- ; ed.the strongest claim to the approbation and cop fidence of the House. It was unnecessary : Jo . add any thing to what had 'been already 8*; .but:he could not abstain from adverting to one expression which had fallen froth. the Right Hon. Mover:, The Right Hon. Gentleman expressed a wish that all .ou.r. discussions may 'be :equally free from party motives as this. He could only say in answer, tfiat if every proposiiion' that should be lurroolitced should - be equally unexceptionable in its nature,.no party inte rest should traverse it, at least so far as Ire was con- Cernecl. - -[A4 universal cry of Chair, Chair I—Mr. ABBOTT, Mr. ABBOTT !) Mr. ABBOTT (from the floor, at the bottom of the Treasury Bench, where • he sat) said, the proposition which his Hon. Friend .had submitted to the House as its first aft, so far as it concerned the magnitude of the duties annexed to the Chair, received his fullest concurrence. The history and pradice of Parlia ment, at all periods, confirmed that opinion. But if it bad been thus matter of grave and solemn de liberation at all periods to *hose hands the high, important, difficult; and delicate duties of the' Chair should be entrusted, a just sense of the difficulties of the times in which we live—difficifities which may be expeEted to increase instead of diminishing-, must make it matter of particularly serious consideration now. The partiality of his friends had ascribed to hiM a capacity for discharging those duties, which, gratefully as he acknowledged it as a mark of their kindness, filled him with fear when it led him to a comparison of the arduous nature of the task with his humble ability to execute it. He had further only to add, that. if the House, in the exercise of its first privilege, should think fit to call again into its service the qualifications it had experienced in him, they should - be exerted with the utmost zeal and abi lity of which he was master. With this lie sub mitted to the pleasure of the House. Mr. ABBOTT was then concluded to the . . Chair by Mr. YORKE and Mr. BANKES j and having ascended it, he again addressed the House In obedience to the commands of the House I have taken the Chair. I return my humble acknow— ledgments, for this further mark of its confidence and good will, which I shall exert my utmost abi lity to preserve, by maintaining its authority unit-. paired, and by discharging the duties belonging to it with fidelity and impartiality. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER availed hiMself of the usage of the House, to offer to the Speaker, not his congratulations, but the unanimous congratulations of the House of Com-, mons, and the unanimous congratulations of the Public.—The feelings of friendship with which the. Speaker honoured him, were alone sufficient to make him rejoice to see him again restored to 'a situation, which, from every consideration, public and private, must be as desirable to hiM as' it was honourable. But it was not so much from private considerations, as from a sense of the importance of the duties of the Office; and of the peculiar quali fications, to distharge them, that he exulted in the present - appointment to the Chair, to which the Speaker's former condu& in . it gave additional luStre. The proper objet of congratulation 'was mit the Speaker, but the House, whose good for tune in providing so amply for the respectability and utility of its Presidency, could not be too highly estimated. On the first occasion on which the Speakerhad been 'called to the Chair, he had made the same, modest comparison between the duties of the office and his sense of his own abilities to dis charge them. To compare his • fe,slings on that occasion, and on the present, was a thing that could scarcely be abstained from. The statement then :offered of the 'arduous duties of the office, and of the incapacity, as the Speaker had been pleased to call it, of the individual 'to perform them, was then subje& to the test of a severe criticism. There was fresh in the memory of the House the COMIlla of a predeCesSor in the ,Chair, who, in a time deeply marked with the violence of party conflidts, had so concluded himself as to acquire the unanimous ap ,probation of men who scarcely agreled in any thing else. Lord SIDMOUTH, the person to whom' he alluded, was suppOsed to have possessed every quality- which the idea of a perfect Speaker of the House of Commons comprehended. It was enough , to. say, that on the comparison with him, the resent Speaker was not fOund- in any sense wanting. 'The ,dignity, authority, aoct utility of the 'character of the 'Chair, was as fully sup ported as at any forther. period ; and the respect which it was properly entitled to command, was not 'in any the slightest degree diminished. All that could - be wished now was the continuance of the cbfidud. already .. experienced. The trial to which the Speaker was called was less unequal. .All that was necessary to his honourable acquittal, was. to persevere in doing -as he had done. Nothing could' be so gratifying, as to be called unanimously to a station so arduous and so exalted, afier so full a trial. ' The silent assent of the'House would have been perhaps sufficient to mark its according ap= probation. But from'the express and declared con currence of persons, who were not in other_ instances likely to 'agree, the mast unequivocal sandlot) of :universal approbation was given. Thus, however, in the frequent changes of Administratijn .that bad lately taken place, the minds of men may dace' as to those who, may be best qualified to hold the reins of Government in the country, 'there was nodoubt any where that - the Chair of that House could by any other person be so - well filled as by its present holder. He felt - that any thing he could say would be but to give expression to the sentiments' of every Gentleman, around hiM, and therefore it was un necessary to trespass further.—The House then Ad jcinrned. During this Debate, the four Afembers for the City sat in their robes as Aldermen, at the tipper end of the Treasury Bench, taking rank according to their station on the Poll at the late Election. This,.it seems, is , in confOrmity with antient etiquette, and is a point of privilege in rank in the Representatives of the City. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS, .DANTZiC, JUNE 3.—His Majesty the Emperor and King passed the whole of the Ist instant on horseback. He reviewed the Legion of the North, At two o'clock yesterday his Majesty set. out. on his return to'head-quarters. The repairs for the housts which have been da- Maaed in the course of the siege amount to twelve mil7ions., at least. The houses destroyed in the suliurbs; by order. of General KALKIIEUTH, are esti 7 niated at nine millions at least. This city, in houses alone,.ha fO S therere suffered a loss to the amount of twenty-onq No flash uteat as consumed during the siege.--- : ,The pound of mea since the termination of the siege, provisions not being yet arrival, cask from three to foul• livres. The quantity of ship- im Jer is the canal an .1 La the luifys is cousiderable. PA-R 45 ,:‘ . .JuNE I.—Thii day, at three o'cloc':, in obedience toilieOrders of his Majesty the Emperor and King, the Arch-Cluncellor of the Empire re paired 'to the Senate, and delivered the following Messa g e from his Majesty :••••-• MESSAGE OF HIS MAEESTY THE EMPEROR AND KING. SENATORS, " By our---Deofees. of the 30th of March, 1806, we have established ~Duchies, as. recompences For great civil and military, services which have been, or may be, - rendered unto us, andlo add new sup ports to our.. Throne, and to surround it with fresh splendotic bcsl "-It is our duty to secure the state and fortunes of those s Flinlni who entirely devote themselves to our setviee,- and 'who continually sacrifice their in tereit te. our own. The permanent - honours, the. honourable,'and glorious fortunes which we wish to confer on those who render us eminent services, whether in. the military or 'civil line,- will form a striking contrast .to. the illegal, concealod, and scandalous fortunes of those, who, in the exbr cise-:of - their funCtions, 'only 'sought their own in terest .in the place of our's and the good of our set- - vice, - Without doubt, the consciousness of having done his duty, and the advantages attached to our •appfobation, are.suffieient to keep a true .French man within the line of honour ; but the order of , our society Is so constituted, tnat to apparent .dis linaionsi and to great riches, are annexed a degre6 of-consideration and splendour with which it is our wish that all our subjeets who are signalized by their talents,. theirservices, and their mind, that greatest gift to man, should be surrounded. • " He who has given us the greatest assistance in this the commencement of our reign, and who, after having rendered the greatest services in all the events of military- career, has affixed his name to a me morable siege, in which he has displayed talents and strikidg bravery, appears to us to merit the highest distfii4lion: We have also wished to consecrate an epOehisuilionourable for our arms; and. by the Letters' Patent which we have instruEted our cousin the Arch- Chancellor to communicate to you, we have created our cousin, Marshal an'd Sen at o r L EFE BVitE, Duke of Dantzic. May this, borne by his descendants, recal to them the virtues of their ancestor ; and may t hey fiir - ever acknowledge themselves as unworthy ot it, if ever they prefer a cowardly repose and idleness of a great city, to the perils and the noble dust of camps ; if ever their strongest wish ceasea to be for Us and theft *WI.. -Let not one of them end his days : withopt_haying shed his blood for the honour and glory bf our noble France ; and let -him see,in, the name which he bears, not a privilege, but his duty toWard fhe'people aad ourselves. Up on these Con ditionS, they may. be always assured • of our protec tion, and that of our successors. ". Senatbrs, We feel the highest satisfiaion . in the . refle6tion, that the first Letter's Patent, which, ill consequence-of our Sencous coqsultum, of the 14th of August, 1804, are to be inscribed upon. your Re gisters, consecrate the services of your PrF:tor. ..".• Dated from our Imperial Camp, at Fitlcken.- stein, May 28, 897 o: (Signed) cc NAPOLEIN, _ • ‘..F H. B. 1V1.1.11t.r." [Here'follow the Letters Patent, creatin4 LE. ! FEBVRE Duke of Dantzic, with territorial possel ? sions in the InteriQr of France.] MUNICH,, JUNE 2.—Tll.7,,Perma . nic states, w ho are allied to France, are soiiii..if occupied at this mu-! ment iii supporting,•with all-their energy, the vast desigot of the .Emperor NAPOLEON. They spare neitheri pains nor expense in procuring. for this MOnarly the means of sustaining with honour.the coin St in which he is engaged, and of restori n g peace, t .pffering humanity,. • To attai n thi s Objeca;• all the 'embers of the Confederation of the Rhine . have resolved to double their contingents. . The King of BAVARIA has ordered the assembling of a fresh corps of the army in the environs of tiamberg it which is to form a junalion with the Army of Obser vation corninlinded by. Marshal BRUNE. The Saxon, troops, which form a pat t of the Grand Army, are'to be augmented to 20,000 men. The King Of WIR.!. TEMBUIiGH has ordered three new regiments to . march tbcvitrds Silesia: The Grand Duke Of BADEN sends Is,ooo men to Magdeburg h : tile contingent of the Grand Duke of WIRTEMBURG IS has already set off for ;Stettin : in short, the other Princes and States, lately entered into the Confederation, are eager 'tofurnish their respeaive contingents. PARIS JUNE 11 .---By - letters from Zara, dated tho 22d May, we have received the following 1^ telli.. ! gence :—"The Russians have evacuated Wallachia' and Moldavia in great precipitation. Qn the 14th; this intelligence was communicated by the Paella of Bosnia to M. DAVID, the French Consul General, who resides with him at Trawnick. This hasty re- : treat is ascribed to' the just fear which the Russians entertain, lest the right wing of the French army should cut off all communication between them and their great army. in - Poland. The same accounts from Trawnick also mention, that the Grand Vizier has. left Adrianople, and advanced with the whole of his army towards the Danube," NAPLES, MAY 22.—A letter from Barletta, dated the 12th,: states as follows :—" According to the re port - of a Ragusan ship lately arrived here, a troop of Montenegrins, joined to the inhabitants of Cataro, on tlie:2d inst. attacked the little town of Tubina, si tuated in . Turkish Albania. The Governor of tli town, Atplick;tad, on applying to General LAuarsTog, received a 'reinforcement, immediately attacked the insurgents. They were completely defeated, leav ing more ,than 300 dead on the field. We are assured that the Paellas of Scutari and Janina, wllO are at the,, head of more than 20,000 men each, are occupied in organizing a junction of their troops," PRIVATE LETTER. EO,II4IUR, JUNE 12.-A report is in circulation thautßattle s iias been fought between the Russiaq and .I.4encli Armies, in which the latter were de-t featecl. We are without 'any correct information on this subject, but our bait hopes axe fox its, con#nna-. tion,