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years an - increase navk- than a million .'each rear took place. We mean not to assert that the extraordinary increase of the value of imports and exports in the years 1809 and 1810 was owing to the Orders in Council ; but 'we think that we shall be borne' out in assuming that the Orders in Council have at least had no tendency to min (u-commerce 'or distress our manufacturers. That our manu facturers suffer distress is deeply.to be lamented; ut those NVIO lead them to suppose that their distress arises from the-Orders in Council grossly deceive them. So long as Buonaparte decrees that ,British produce and British manufactures,- ' wheresoever found and to whomsoever belong ing,' shall be seized and confiscated, it would - answer no good purpose to ourselves to revoke our Orders and remove 'every restriction. The Orders in Council might be right or wrong in point of belligerent policy ; they Might be right or wrong in point of inter-national justice ; but it is uti.erlY absurd, it is mere perverseness, to Contend that our passive acquiescence under the blockade - decreed' against our trade andinanufac lures - would haVe been less injurious to them than even an imperfect ) or otherwise questionable tnetsure of retaliation. Among other evils attributed to the Orders in Council, is the mass of fraud, forgery, and per- On the Jury connected with the license trade. zubject of that trade we have had occasion, in a former number, to deliver a free opinion : and We must here repeat the objection we then stated - to the filiation by which that trade is represented *ls the offspring of the Orders in Council. They 'have no necessary connection with each other. — The license trade may exist, and has existed, and does exist, wholly independent of those Orders. ' The fraud and perjury with which it is accompa hied existed in as great a degree or perhaps greater before the birth of these calumniated prders, and among the same class of men to 'which we believe it is still principally -confined, - then known by the name of neutralizing agents,' ‘lr as an indignant American calls them, NO scoutarels.' It is now principally carried ton in the Baltic-, where the Orders have no ope vation. Wherever it co-exists with the Orders 111 Council, it is not as a consequence of them, but i n derogation to them. It complicates the Process, obscures the principle, and brings into doubt. the justice of the original Orders : while it shares, in common with the other.relaxations °f those Orders, and we think more justly than a ny of them, the fate of being thanklessly ac, ' o pted by those for whose benefit it is professedly ntend e d. if no relaxation had taken place in the °rders iu Council of November, 1807, and no licenses whatever had been granted, the effect of the naval power of Great Britain would have been felt by the enemy .more severely, and might even bare given a different turn to, the war: We can- boot but regret that the experiment was not tried ,upon the Northern Powers, by hermetically seal , lug the Baltic, and . not suffering a'Single vessel of any description to pass -or repass the Sleeve,whieh c ould effectually be , done by a small squadron of frigates. A single season of such comfActe ex tlusion would have brought ,Russia and - Sweden to sue for our alliance ; whereas, by the license 4 Ystern, they have, enjoyed all the advantages of Carryingon, without restriction and Without risk, 4, trade which to us has been a trade of mere ne cessity, discouraging to the increase. of British Shi pping and to the growth of British seamen.— liad the Orders in Council been ,rigidly carried 1111, " execution, had the license system never t -x e jsted, and had America, inste a d o f thwarting, itl e,onded the views o f G rea t B r it a i n , we b e li eve n; l eeti that the evils of own injustice' : 41 d hav e been r et or t e d on th e enemy ; an d th at 4 trat c ommerce wou ld l ong ere t hi s h ave b een eQtored to its ancient footing. (To be continped.) es The Lord Bishop of HEREFORD has instituted Rev. H ENRY C ARD , M as t er o f A rts, P em b ro k e ov?llege, Oxford, to the Rectory of Sapey and the tparage of Wolferlow, both in the County of e ltford. •T9- morrow the Lottery will be drawn. • ' 11 , 4) 1 1 111 :Isl.! NAVAL FORCE.—The following . _ state to 1 , 1 extracted,from the Official Returns, up 4 onday :---At sea, 94 of .the line, 8 fifties, Z-1 f rigates, 101 sloops, 6 bombs, 128 brigs, 33 i tt tte rs, 57 schooners ; total 5 42. port and Slog g , 23 of the line, 4 fifties, 36 frigates, 37 soh Ps," 2 bombs; 20 brigs, 10 cutters, thirteen 42ellquers ; total 145, Guard-sliips, 5 of the line, 4 h h i fl ies, 2 frigates, 5 sloops ; ctotall4. Hospital t o P s, 35 of the line, 4 fifties, 4 frigates, 2 sloops ; ni t t a : l 45 • In Commission, 157 of the line, 18 b r 'es, 163 frigates, 145. sloops,. 8 bombs, 148 orbs' 43 cutters, 64 schooners ; total 746. In i o ctula rY, 33 of the line, 13 fifties,- 66 frigates, 31 20° P's' , 6 bombs, 'l4 brigs, 4 schooners y total fri'• Building, 33 of the line, 4 fifties, 13 in gates, 7 schooners, 9 brigs ; total 66. Form ,toe grand total cif 1017 ships of war, 261 of 1, 0 e ,,, t ,ine., 35 fifties, 242 frigates, 183 sloops, 14 O f ":,", 174 brigs, 43 cutters, and 38 schooners. g, t his force there are, 'in Spain and Portugal, 91 gels--29 of the line.- In the Mediterranean, th e I ,'l° of the line. In the Channel 75-15 of ' 4 e• In,,the North Sea, 80-12 of the line. resterday was a great day amongst the Amateurs of Pugilism, no ,less than three ' matches having taken place on the spot,on the Uxbridge road; 'HOLLOWAY AND LANCASTER.—This bVtle last ed 24 minutes, and did not htl - Ord,,much amuse ment. T.J ancaster commenced the combat under a disadvantage by:a hurt 'in the thinb, 'and, he' .never pulled the odds, which were two to one acrainst him at setting to. Holloway beat his matt without much hurt. Baldwin seconded the' win ner; and Cropley the loser. • ' FORD AND JONES.—This battle, which was' mhde for a subscription purse on the. ground, ex cited much attention, Ford having been known to be, a tried goon man, who stood high on the box ing list ; and -Jones, who had never before ex hibited in a ring of London amateurs, was a re puted good man, of 20 pounds more weight than Ford—and he' had the advantage of being 'under the tuition of Richmond. The battle lasted one hour And twenty minutes, and was most gamely' contested.--4ones had superior strength—but Ford's reputation as a fighter made him the fa 'yourite. In the first rounds, Jones continually lunged in at fast fighting, and hits were 'often planted on both sides ; but the rounds generally ended to the discomfiture of Ford,' who received tremendous falls. Under these disadvantages, alxions courage never forsook him to the 'last round : his length did'not give him . much -ad 'vantage in placing hits, but he executed many. He was also opposed' eo -a man of real bottom, and Jones gave more,tremendous cross-buttocks and hip-falls, than ever the celebrated Jan . Belcher-did in any battle. He th re w F or d in tAVO instances from as high as his breast ; but the latter, although often 'stunned, bored in at action, as at the commencement of the conflict. Strength was ultimately served, but Ford's friend's resigned the combat. He Was blind of both eyes, with a face 'hit in pieces, and. the body seriously injured by falls, yet .he begged trial after trial, until it was _absolutely necessary to carry him away, to prevent fatal consequences. Jones is a good right-handed 'hit, and will doubtless Tank high as a 'fighter. He is also much puniShed.-- Gregson pledged himself to the care of'}'ord, and he procured him surgical and other assistance. Although the length and superior strength of Jones, who; as observed, fought with fury, pre vented Ford executing 'as expected, yet it was a battle exceeded by none in game on both sides. Richmond seconded the winner; and Cropley the , loser. A third battle, and a truly scientific one, which lasted twenty minutes, was fought between two lads in their teens, of the Mosaic tribe. Both promise fo figure away at some future time, as the .successors of the renowned • Mendoza and Dutch Sam. POLICE. GUILDHALL, JOVE 2.—A woman named Hester ,Queozy, , servant at a late house of ill-fame, No. 18, in Gutter-lane, Cheapside, was brought up for examination, charged on suspicion of being the person who set fire to the premises ; conse quence of which not only the house was burnt, to the ground, to the .danger and alarm of the whole neighbourhod, but one, if not two lives were lost. The charge was brought by a Mr. Lane, who resides in Gutter -lane, and the circumstances were as follow : About one yesterday morning the neighbour hoOd was alarmed by the cry of " Fire," and im mediately afterwards.,it was found th a t th e fl ames had spread through the whole house, and every thing from the cellar to the garret was in a blaze. Two unfortunate persons, the one named Watson, who had been. rider, for a commercial house in the city, and the other a woman of the town, named Story, both of whom had taken their lo.dgings for the night on the second floor, roused froth their slumbers by the flames which enveloped them, jumped, in - a state of nakedness, from the window of their apartment into the street.; Story was killed on the spot, and Watson was carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, so desperately hurt, as to leave no hopes of lib recovery. Ilia mediattly:after this unfortanate occurrence, the prisoner, who was known to have been a servant in the hoUse, was observed in the ,street with a bundle of apparel in her hand, which she said had belonged to the persons w h o escaped from the window', and that. she was going to, carry them to the Hospital. She alsii said that the house had been set on fire by aivoman of thetown, -whose name she knew—whom she had seen before—who was, . in the course of the evening, twice intro duced to a room on the first floor, and who, the second' time, set fire to the apartment, and ran away. She discovered the fire shortly afterwards, and found the whole house in flames. The prisoner in her defence stated,, that she found the cloaths in the street, after the parties had jumped from the window, and supposing them to have been thrown out, she picked them up, to carry them to the owners, then taken to the Hospital. No appearance of dirt, however, was on the garments, although the street into which -she stated they were thrown was deeply covered - .kith mud, after a day of -heavy rain, and they must have unavoidably been trampled on by the crowd assembled. The Magistrate s conceiving there was no posi tive evidence to bring home to the prisoner the charge of arson, ordered the prisoner to be dis missed. CORN-EXCHANGE, JUNE 3.—This day the Mar ket has not many fresh arrivals of Wheat, but the quantities on hand fully adequate to the demand ; sates again at little fluctuation ; Barley, in short supply, in request for'the Western counties, and somewhat higher; Fifie Malt rather so ; . Peas and Beans of each sort nearly at last prices. The supplies of Oats are but inconsiderable, and this article also quoted at rather higher prices ; Flour in. good supply, mostly from the North country, and continues at the late quotation. Wheat - - 865..1105. 128 s. Tick 13eans - - 665. Fine ditto - - 1335. 138 s. Ditto (old) - 735. 745. Rye - - - 455. 505. , 555. Barley - - -60 s. 675. Poland ditto - 565. sss. Malt - - - -88 s. 955. Pototoe ditto - - 595. 60s. White•Pease (boil.) 80$. 85s. Rape Seed - 761: 801. Grey ditto - - - 70 s. 765. Fine Flour - -105 s. 110$ Beaus. - - . - 718. 761. Seconds - —100 s, 1.94. PjEI,I*AIIIEN7 ; . 'MUSE QF LORDS-Tvr-iDAY, JUNE 2. A meeting took place soon after two o'clock, and after forwarding several Bills, their Lordships resolved into a Committee on the ORDERS IN COUNCIL, and proceeded forthwith '0 the examination of witnesses. • Gladstaines, of Liverpool, was thd .first examined, and at very great length 3 when,..abont qwirter.after five o'clock the:House resinneeand The PerceVal Annuity 'Bill was brought up from the Commons, by Mr.' W. -fitzgerald, ac coMpanied by a great number - of Members. Ttiis Bill was forthivith read first time, .and on the motion of the Earl of LrvEaPool., Ordered to be read a second tithe to-morrow. On the motion of Earl STANHOPE, the Order for going into a CoMmittee on the 'Tenants' and Pea santry Bill, this day, was discharged ; his Lord ship observing, that a subject of such great and peculiar importance was not *fit forAiscussion dur ing the present unsettled state' of things, which, however, he thought would sewn have an end. He proposed fixing. the Committee for Monday next, and that the Lords be summoned for that day, which was ordered accordingly. PROTESTANT DISSENTERS. Earl STANUOPE rose to bring forward his pro thised Bill on the subject, Their Lordships knew the great alarm.which now prevailed in the minds of a very numerous body of his Majesty's sub jects, in fact the Major part of them ; he-meant the Non-conformant Body. It was known, that on the 'part of one who met a fate which he by no means 'deserved, expectations were „held out to these persons of some alteration of, the laws in their favour.. He had more than once given no tice of the measure lie was now abort. to propose. He felt the subject.was not proper to be dis'cuSsed -at the present - moment, or perhaps in the present week. He would only say that the mode devised by hiin was, in, his mind, a simple, 'temperate, and. excellent mode of accomplishing the necessary ob jects he had in view. He would now merely move that the Bill be printed end stand over for consideration on a future day.. The. Bill, he said, was entitled " An Act for the Relief of Members of the Church of England and others from cer tain unjust penalties and disabilities." He ob served, it would not go to touch the Test or Cot.= poration Acts, or to introduce Catholic Emanci pation ; it simply proposed the-repeal of certain exiting laws, which he never could real without horror. The Noble Earl then presented the Bill for a first reading. _ The Earl of LIVERPOOL - did not, object to the first reading, but that part of the 'wording of the title, " Unjust," was. objectionable, as it aasurned.that which was to be a matter of subse qtten(pro—of. STANHOPE said, he little thought of hear ing such an objection from brie of the notorious good sense Of the Noble Earl. •Surely laws were never repealed because they were just or proper. He would agree to omit the word at present, but should certainly propose its re-insertion on a fu ture opportunity. • The Bill, with the title so amended, was then read k first time, and ordered to be printed. After a short conversation between _LUIS STAN HOPE and LIVERPOOL, the second reading of the Regent's Canalßill was appointed for Friday. Earl HARROWBY, in a very low tone of voice, notified his intention of bringing in a Bill, re specting Clerical Residenc e , on Friday. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL. ' Lord REDE3DALE having moved the Order .of the Day respecting this Bill, The Earl of MoIRA rose ; and urged a variety of objections against their Lordships proceeding. farther with the Bill, at least at present. He ad verted to the great and various difficulties, consi dering the very important and complicated details which such a measure involved, of getting through the Bill, •in any time, so as to afford a chance of its passing throUgh another place this Session. He felt, in the strongest manne4 the obligations which the Country was under to.. the Noble and Learned Lord, for prOducing the measure to the 'consideration of the house, and for the great, pains he had taken, and the honourable activity he' evinced in bringing it to its present- degree - of. maturity. The Amendments which Were meant to be proposed, he had since been satisfied, were not practicable for a full and thorough discussion in the House.; With respect to the numbers•who were immured at present in the prisons; which was of , course increased by the circumstances of distress_ which pervaded the country, he trUsted. some Noble Lord ivould feel it his duty,to bring forward a temporary Bill for the purpose. He felt it was not practicable to carry the general measure through the Legislature this Session. He would, thert.fore, leg leave, after again ex pressing his sense' of the merits of the Noble and Learned Lord, to move to discharge the order, indefinitely, for the further consideration of the Lord ,ELLEN - BoaotTGII cordially concurred is the eulogium of the Noble Earl on his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Redesdale), and thought it would be impracticable to do justice to such a subject in the way of discussion this Session of Parliament. He was not prepared to say upon what terms the Cessio Boaarton was fit to e adopted as a principle of legislation in this coun try. •He approved of the intermediatory Insolvent Bill, and avowed' his willingness to assist in de vising any fair.and practicable methOd of removing the evils complained of as to the g$- oral subject. The' LORD CHANCELLOR was Of opinion the due consideration of a general and permancat measure, as contemplated by the Bill, would take up infinitely more time than could be given tO,it during the. present Session. To the introduction of a temporary Insolvent Bill he had no objec tion. Lord REDESDALE, defended - the principle - upon Which he had proposed that of the Cessio Bonorum As a part of the English Law. On the general subject, he 'thought their Lordships should speedily. come to some final result, fou thingS with respect to it, were in the worst state possible. The pre sent state of suspense had the most injurious ef piet, with respect to the relations of debtor and creditor. 4r,' 1:.: felt' it Was therefore rig-ht that the question should be disposed of, yea, or nay, some way this Session if possible. Lord lioLoAr4o Was induce 4 to vote upon the present question, from - his c nlidencc in the thorough luoWladge Which his N, ble Friend-(Ead Moira) possessed, on a subject to the cousidcra \awl of Which he , had de;oted himself so many years. ~With him he felt the necessity of doing something to ameliorate. the law generally and permanently; and he deprecated the temporary expedient of Insolvent kills, as fraught with all the evils of the two systems. lle greatly wished for the introduction of the principle of the Ce. , :sio Boiiorum into our law; were it only • to try its elfect. No Onerel measure could be . brought for warn. so as to be entirely free froni . objection. The Earl_ of -LA , UDMIDALE . said, if :no other Lord should come for Ward, he should deem it his' duty to propose, on Friday . next, a temporary. Bill of Insolvency for tngiand _ and Ireland, be cause lie saw that things were in, such a state, as that no general Bill could be got through this Session. The LORD CHANCELLOR lamented one of the injurious effects of fr9.4uent Insolvent Debtors Bills, which went to ittold forth tie idea that a Debtor after renuining a few months' in may become free of his debts. • . . Lord ELLENBOROUGH regrett e d. any measure which would go materiaLlytO deprive Cue Creditor of the means of duly enforcing his just debt:4.l The distresseS the: (ireditor were' equallrwortly of the attention of the Legislature, find many of those were so_ circumstanced, as to he under the hecessityOf ,, coereing their Debtors in" order to save, themselves . from'-a jail. • .LOrd.HOLLAND spo4e in explanation. .THE LORD CHANCELLOR in a very feeling anki eloquent strain panegyriied the general huinanity o . English creditors, and pointedly histance:'; that ddring the. period of his presilng in the Court of Chance_ry. (within a few days of ten years), he did not recollect more than three or four applications made to him - unde'rthe anthority of the law, to•arrest thes . shumanity of Creditors in giving Bankrupts their discharges : and the Noble and Learned Ibrd • seemed to think the principle of the Bankrupt Law. might be - most beneficially introduced into the general system of the law of debtor and creditor. Lord STANnOit, in reference to certain points of the Noble and Learned Lord's speech, advert ed to : certain fraudulent practices which not uri= frequently obtained, of obtaining certificates 14 means of antedated Bills. With respect to the Bill before the House, he agreed to a postpone ment of the consideration of the subject, Which' he said he tvould prefer seeing in, the hands of his Noble Friend, .to . that of the Noble and Learned Lord who introduced it. The' LORD CHANCELLOR and Earl STANIrOPP: spoke respectively in explanation. And in a short reply made/by the first-mentioned,. Peer, , he observed, that if the ruble Earl supposed he had not been previously aware of those practices, respecting which he had communicated 'to him, he was much mistaken. He thought, however, that the question, whether these would best be obviated by means of the general trap which tl.e Noble Earl talked of, or by the lenient and tem perate measure, which he (Lord Eldon) proposed, might be left to time to determine. After some farther remarks from Earl MOIRA and Lord HOLLAND, the farther consideration of the Bill was adjourned sine die. • Their. Lordships then resolved again into the, Con - unlace on the Orders in Council, and four other witnesses were examined on the subject. The House being resumed, after a short conver , - sation between Lord SHEFFIELD, the Earls of AdSSLYN and FrrzwiLLlAm, and the LORD CHAN CELLOR, it was ordered the Committee should sit again at Half-past TwO o'clock to-morrow, and at Nine the House adjourned. HOUSE OP COMMONS-TUESDAY, JUNE 2. Lord COMPTON took, the oath and his seat for Northampton, in the room of the Right Hon. Spencer Pereeval, ':deceased. Mr. WHARTON -biought up an account of the amount of the additional stamp chides, which was ordered tolie on the table. The, report of the 'Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the ease of Mr. Bt. john Mason, was or d ere d to be jrinted. DROITS OF ADMIRALTY. . Mr. BriotionAm . said, -that he had stated the ob ject of his motion on this 'subject in the lifetime of the late Chancellor - of the Exchequer,, which was to obtain a return of the sums applied out of the • Droits to public purposes. The opinion of that • Right HOn. Gentleman was, that the return would be nil : but being corrected in that opinion by oLe - of his, colleagues, he had with his usual ,urbanity acceded to the motion.' No return, however, had sinee.been made. The- same reasons - Which then justified the motion existed still, for the fund might be applied to purposes of accommodation, without the knowledge or concurrence of,Parlia ment. The present state of the country rendered it even more formidable. He did not accuse Go vernment of having interfered with this fund ; un the contrary, he hoped it . would appear that they were innocent of such a charge. Whether Go vernment, in its present state, had any other way of getting money, he knew not; but he hoped, from what he had already stated, that the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wharton) would have no objec tion to making the order. Mr. WHARTbS said, ,that when the ion. and Learned Gentleman had mentioned the subjett be fore, he (Mr. W.) stated, that he believed the or der already made hart been complied with : he had since found, -upon inquiry, that that was the case,_ the Papers having been on the table ofthe House since the of May last. Mr. ROSE said, the „Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) was quite mistaken if he supposed that any money was applied from the fund alluded to, to public purposes. Some money had been bor rowed, and afterwards repaid. After a few words from Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. Ro st , some additional Papers were ordered. Mr. MARTIN said, he wished, before he deter mined on the propriety of withdrawing or proceed ing on the motion of which he had given notice the other day, and which stood for to-morrow,