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of neutrals, should have no jealousy of the track_ of the eneinie It WaS the true policy of this country tb throw .all the trade she could not ca ry on herself into the hands. of that power which was most na turally 'contrecied with our interests. He objected to the print !Ede of licenses as connected with the Oiders in Council ; 11- kne.V Chit at all times licenses had beeit granted, that it was 'a pre rogative of the Crown exercised by — Ministers, but the operation of them being to abelish the. 0 dens in Council, they were objec tionable on that account. They were 'not mere relaxstions, bur provisions to defeat the object for which those Orders were instituted. The mea sore they hart taken was only to be justified on the g!outid of necessity. It a port was blockaded not tor the purpose of preventing theetiemy, but of pro leotieg some objets of their own, .he was sure the Jude of the Admiralty would decide against such a blockade. They had no right to convert to another purpose that which was intended to harass the ene my, The Constitution had .certainly lodged the power in the Crown ; but it had not granted it ea intuitzt. .Tht. license system carried on to the extent in which it now eitisted, was liable to enormous abuse, and she confidence which Ministers might claim was no way olarguing the constitutional ques tion. The* real ground of the motion was the pre sent situation of the country.—He knew thati-Mi ntsiers coojd produce documents to answer any case, but lie would look, not to their documents, but to the country. Why did not the Noble Lord, who had made so flattering a statement of our condition, persuade the inhabitants of Liverpool,. Nottingham, Ew. to its truth ? Why did he not introduce it at the end of every bankrup: list, for the purpOse of shewin - g the flourishing state of the country ? He thotn s lit the line ,pursued by the Noble Lord was ptecisely the one upon which France had c &Owed and it was precisely the one which was most favoUrable to her interests. There were two parties nt America, who took different views of the interests of their country ; - for he was unwilling to believe that either was actuated by any other motive —the one consisting of pe-sons of high respeaa .bility, thought tier pol'cy should direCt her to unite with Great Britain—the other with France. The consequence of a under such circumstances, %it oriel be to lose for ever the party which were at tached ,e) us, and' to throw all together into the arms of France. The solitary measure in which he agreed with ihe Noble Lord, was the war in the Pen nsula. In his opinion, a war with America would be the loss of that Peninsula. The great im provement in military .tactics, arose from the prin ciple of sacrificing all senaller objects to the more ,itoportant. In the same way should the Statesman `relinquish every petty consideration to tt.c.ise w loch were 'nue grand and material. Even if all their pretensions were right, he would have them reflect, that this was not the time to contend for them, and :thew the world a proof of their wisdom in their lior bearer', e. Lord WESTMOKELAND allowed that it was the in terest of the country to avoid war with America, and maintained that this country had uniformly acted • with the *most forbearanee. The quarrel, such as it was, ori r ;inated with the Noble Lords, and not with his Majesty's present Government, who of c urse were not responsible for ihe commercial %var. fne that had ensued. He went into a history of the Orders in Council, and maintained that under them the trade of the country hid prospered greatly. He had never seen any petitions against the Orders in Council. All the petitions which he had seen At ere against the Trade Licenses, that was. against the relaxation of the Orders in Council. Of this character was the petition from Hull. He allowed that a slight impression had bten made on our com merce, but experience convinced him that it would spring up again with renewed vigour. He objthed to the proposition, because it involved in it princi ples desttudive of commerce and of the national rights and honour. Lords HOLLAND. and WESTMORLAND explained. Lord LAUDERDALE defended his NOble Friend who had brought forward the motion, from the im putation of being ignorant of the nature of - the Or ders in Council. But even were that imputation just, could there be a stronger argument against the continuance of those Orders than that such men as his Noble Friend could not accurately discover their import ? He contended that the looseness oltheir interpretation, and the continual changes to which they were subject, gave to the Merchants of Lon don, who were on the. spot from which they were issued, a great advantage over the Merchants of the out-ports. His Noble Friend had been accused of not knowing what Orders he Would have repealed. The Order of the 7th of January, 1807, was un questionably one which - he would not have repeal ed. 'He denied that the subsequent orders were an extension of that order; they proceeded on a dif terent princ . ple. In answer in what a Noble Lord bad been pleased to assert, he expressed his convic tion that had his Noble Friends felt that any incon- Nenience resulted front the order of 1867, they, would not have hesitated to proceed to the repeal 'of that Order. In neither of the speeches of the Noble Earls opposite_ was there a single sentence addressed to the proposition that , there be a Com mittee appointed. The prOTerity of the commerce, -of the country had been talked of. Prosperity It was a prosperity accompanied by numberless phe nomena. It was accompanied by an unprecedented . list of bankrupts. It was accompanied by an unpre cedented distress among the manufacturers. It Was accompanied by an unprecedented change in the. wages of. the lower orders. Into. these phe nomena, attendant on the alleged prosperity of commerce, it was fitting, in his opinion, that a Committee should inquire. Had the Noble Earl - read the memotial from the merchants of Hull? If so, he was astonished that the Noble Eirl could reject the motion of his Noble Friend.— . With respect to the returns on the table, of exports and imports, they were in no wise to be depended .upon. Circumstances of a peculiar, and indeed of a -contradictory, nature, had conspired to swell them. In the exports, for instance, all goods exported -without duty, might be entered to arty amount.— Thus, an export of only 501. in value, might be en tered as worth sOOOl. Added to this, commercial speculation had proceeded to such an extent that it was a well-known fact, that goods to a consideratile amount had been transported from this country, par- ticularly:to Heligoland, at which place no market big found for them, they were actually returned, thus . frui . les4y swelling the list of exports and imports, and s,eld by awtion for h.df the ortgi , al price at which they !tad been purchased from the manufacturers, Ti.is was tar front that legitimate prosperity of commerce which resulted from actual consumpt _ _ Lord Ross opposed the motion, as one of those humiliating propesi , ions to winch he cou'd never consent. At one time their Lor,!ships were called upon by the Noble Lords oprosile to prastratp the . . ,Constltution at - the tett of the Catholic Convention; at another, to pipstiate the ruarit:me rights . of the .c.onntry at the feet of America; at another, to prqitcate the cause of the Peninsula at the f. et of Buon:TA - tt..; and now, to revoke the &Jets in Counc I , wliar the decree . s of the. en-my, ny which . _ they were called (or, ren:ai-ned in tull force. II was impossible to deny that the cothinerce of the coon- try lidd sustained some depression .; bin as reasona bly might it be exvcted to fight a bailie wilioat having any me?) slain, as to c,irry on a war viiihout occasioning some injury to commerce. To destroy our commerce appeared to be the fixed de:ermina tiori of Buormparte, arid as fixed ought to be our de termination to counteract him. Buonaparte bad declared. to his maritime towns, that England must be humbled at any expense. To at cedeto the mo tion of the Noble - Lord would indeed be going a great way to w ard. htimbling To accede to the motion of the Noble Lord would be still more to depress the Manufactures of Great Britain, and to give to the inanufautures of France, 'by the re peal of the British Orders in Council, that stitnui,is which the exchange of colonial produce (illiough the mediUm of America) for the manufactures •of France must inevitably occasion. • Lord SIDNIOUTH was l anitious to take his full' share of the responsibiky c'if . 'the Order in Council of. 1807, which was moddled on that' of 1758, and founded on the principle that neutrals ought not to be permitted to carry on that trade during war which they would not be. permitted to carry on chit-- ing peace. He certainly objefied to the older of the 7th November, 1808, because it iwerdicied neutral' trade except on the degrading condition that neutral tiessels should in the first instance touch at British pOrts, and be there subject o a duty of the nature of a contribution. This regulation appeared to him unwise and impolitic. Happily the evils attend ant upon it were done away by the Order in Council of April; 1809, which substituted block ad-. Legitimate, however, as he thought the system of blockade, he confessed that he could never attach to it so much importance as had been supposed to belong to it both in and out of Pirliament. In his opinion the system of blockade ould proceed much more successfully were the Sys tem to trade by licenses abandoned. There were great abuses in that latter system. Undoubtedly it was expedient to obtain articles of the first necessity, such as grain and natal stores; but generally speak ing, the license system was injurious, and in no way more so than in the offence'w - hich it gave to morals. Besides, it was adverse to, and completely incon sistent with, the principles on which the Orders Were founded, namely, to it.tlict privation on the enemy. There was one consideration which had great weight in inducing him to vote-against the pro position of the Noble Lord. He would not assert the general doctrine, that there should be no Parlia mentary interference whiles negociation was pending With another Power; but under the circumstances of the pending negociations with America, be was decidedly hostile to any Parliamentary interference. To accede to the motion of the Noble Lord, would be to.recommend to the Crown to repeal those Or ders in Council which were the adual subjeal oldie disputes between the two cquntries. 'He, for one, would not be a party, under the existing circum stances; for the transfer of that discretion which ought to belong to the Executive Government to either of the other branches of the Legislature. No one attached more importance than he did to the maintonance of a good understanding between Great Britain and America ; but he should deeply regret if Patiiament were rashly to recommend those con cessions to Ametica which the ExecutiveGoverment had, for such a length of time, thought it w ise to re sist. Fort hese reasons he dissented from the motion. ..,The Marquis of LANSDOWNE made.an animated reply to the various arguments of the Noble Lords who had opposed his motion. He particularly ad verted to the observations of the Noble Viscount who had just sat down, and expressed his astonish ment, that after the Noble Viscount had allowed that the blockading Order in Council and the sys tcm of Trade Licenses were opposite in principle, he should proceed to declare that he would not vote for the motion, the pui port of which was, not to repeal the Orders in Council, but to inquire into the effects which had been produced by deem. ' Lord FITZWILLIAM felt it to be his duty to state to the House, that there were petitions preparing by the Nianufa6turers of Yorkshire, complaining of the severe distresses under which they laboured, at tiibuting those distresses in a great measure to the pernicious operation of the Orders in Council, and praying that Parliament would address his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to cause those orders to be repealed. He could assure their Lordships that the distresses - of the manufaauring districts of York shire, and particularly the clothing distrkas, were 'extreme. What had happened in Nottingham was but too well known, and it ought not to excite sur prise if similar disturbances were •to take place in Yorkshire. Lord GRENVIL - LE did not rise to add a single word to the arguments which had been so ably urged in support of the motion, but merely to say, that what ever might be the decision of their Lordships upon the present question, he was persuaded that when the petitions which his Noble Friend stated to he in preparation were laid on their table, nut a man would be found to oppose a deliberate inquity into the nature and effect of those measures in which the evils so justly cotnplained of by the petitioners,were by them said to originate. The House then divided — For the Motion 34 Proxies 37 - 7 1 • Against it- s . 66 • Proxies . . 69 j 35 Majority 64 Adjourned at Half-past Twelseo'Clock. LONDON: Printed by THOMAS WOOD, of No. 35, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden; and At the SUN (.mice, No, 112, Strand, where 4iivertj‘ements, Orders. f Dap PRICE 0) YESTZ Bank Stock, 2'o Navy s per Cent 93 a ,3 Irish 5 per Cent. 4 per Cent. 78i per Cent. ked. 62 11 3 per Cent. C0n5.62.4 61i bank 1.. Ann. ' Published by -WI! LIAM ARMICER SCRIPPS, south Moltou-street,,Grlsvuror,squve, or the _Po/per, eltc:rs tar . . /4itur, &c. (pos . ll9c,rid), mulsL ildOrebseclo, the crew of the prirateu on the first occasion, and to lodge her in a port. TO substantiate the . defence,- Kennedy, an American, and another witness, were called.‘— These Aitnesses were serving on bad the privw eer when she was taken. Their testimony Corroborated the defence, thnt the prisoners had formed a plando get possession of the privateer, by overpowering. the crew ; but, on being class-examined, it lout , ed out the two of them (Qtinitlis airtlCurbLit), hai also sersed in the - Napoleon privateer. The Judge•observed, that the distresses of ilia prisoners was no excuse for serving the enemy.--... : Gyilty—l)eatil. • 11. Jemott was indiEted for stealing, on board the.. ship Maria, doilars to the amount of 70,0 W)!. the property of various merchants. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner-, conjunction .with others, had bargained tor a yes , ,e/ called the Maria, a, d they Succeeded in the chase for 7001. put porting to have acted as agents for Lazarus and Cvhen, t o .Lws. Atter the pur chase of the vessel, it was announced by. advertise .mentat Llo) d's, that she was bound, for Pz-rnam bucco. A person named De S3lva was appointed Crptain, and she vas laden with the doll , rs' in ques tion, and other goods, to a very considerable amount. Instead of proceeding on her voyage to the Brazili t . she was steered to A port in the 'West Indies,' where; the Maria was transformed into the Columbus, of New York, by being painted from black to yellow. The prisonet was a, kind of supercar'o on the voy age; and at Cuba the dollar chests were broken open, and carri,:d otT 'in a schooner, under his di rection. The ship was afterwards taken into another port•and sold. In defence; the prioner stated himself to hare been merely a servant in the employ of tl:e owners, and did not know that -the cargo was misapplied when &livered on board the schooner. It, however, turned out, from various circum stances, that the priSoner was privy to the whole fraud. Pearkes, an officer at Bow-street, producvd some letters, found on the prisoner, to his wife, and which proved that he was even in want of a dol lar when he sided on board theMiria, but that on his return it was proved,that he was north 60001., and he was getting heavy blls discounted, and de. positing large sums in a banker's hands. The prisoner was found Guilty—Deuth. The Judge proceeded to pass sentence of death on the prisoner, separate from the rest, and he inform ed him that he had no lopes of mercy. The other four prisoners received sentence of death also, but the Judge gave them sone hope of mercy. The RhinoceroS and 'the_ Elephant being the largest -and -strongest of all terrestrial animals, a'e considered the most formidable enemies to each other;—how highly gratifying it mist be to any person w‘ao takes even the }east notice of Nature's wonderful pryduaions, to see t o such poker tel ememies, so closely united, in perfeM harmony, in the very centre of this great metropolis ; but that is not all, the most fierce inhabitantK of the exten sive tOrests of Asia, Africa, and Atnerica, even those of the most blood thirsty nature, are seeo. fit peaceful en joy men t of health, daily improving id size and condition, seemingly delighted with the familiarity of their keepers, 'thid even at being no ticed by strangers—a scene equally astonishing as is pleasrog, and confers the bight st credit Ott Mr. POLITO, the Proprietor of the Royal Menagerie, Exeter, 'Change, whose peculiar treatment of ani mals has enabled hint io possess the finest speci mens and the_greatest variety. , 13IRTHS.• On NVednesday, at his house in Gloucester-place, the Lady of Theopitilus Gunton, Esq. of a Son. In Gloucester, ;he Lady of Joseph T. Hone, Esq, Bar rister at Law. of a Daughter: Yesterday, the Lady - of JOhn Turner, Esq. of Woburn. place, of a Daughter. The same day, ar. his Lordship's house in Hamil.ton.pl ace, Lady Cork, of a Son. • MARRIED. At Mary-le-bonne Church, the Rev. Houlton Hartwell, to Miss Ball, of Portland-place. On Tuesday, at Putney, by the Rev. William Marshall, EdWard Whitmore, Esq. Banker, of Lombard -street, i() Prances, eldest daughter of John Pooley Kensington, Esq. of Lime Grove. . The same day, at Harrow on the Hill, Mr. Frederick Turner, of liloombirry- square, Solicitor, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter 01 John Roberts,, Esq. of Harrow Weald. On Thursday last, at the Parish Church of St. Vedast For ster, Mr. Johh, Dent, of Milton, near Northampton, t? Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Michael Smith, Lace-merchant, of Paternoster-row. The same day, at St. James's Church, Mr. Joseph Olive. of Rumuey, Hants, to Miss Jane Stroud, of Saaville-strect, On the 27th inst. at Greenwich, Captain C. F. Sandharn, of the Royal Artillery, to Maria Munro, daughter of George Munro, Esq. of Vanbrugh-field. Blackheath. At the Mauritius, Lieutenant Heron, to Mademoiselle Deverriner. At the same place, .Lieutenant tilrvey, of. his 23d Regiment; to Mademoiselle Regnauct. On the evening of the 19th January, in the breach of Ciu dad Rodrigo, Lieutenant Alekander Bell, of. His Majesty's 45th Regiment, in' the zoth year of his age. On the Ist Inst. at Leith, George luhnston, Esq of Over-, ton, age,.l 56 ‘C.US. On Sunday the t6th inst. at Boyle, in the County of Ros common, Redmond Barry, Esq : t•irst Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sunlit Cork Regiment of Militia . • On the 25th inst. at Hans-place, Chelsea, after a painful illness of six years, Miss Catherine Maughan, aged 46 years, late ot Kew-preen, Surrey. On Wednesday night; Mrs. Atwo,d,. the wife of Henry Gresley Atwood, Esq. of Tavistock.st%et, Bedford-square, Early on Sunday morning, in the 48th }car of her age, af ter one hour's illness ►without previous indkposition, .Cache_. %ina Nlargaretta Maria Beck, wife of join, Beck, Esq. Comp troller of the Customs, at the port of. Workington, only daughter of the late Rev. lifvan A Ilott, Rcetor of Burnham, in .Notiolk, and niece to the very Rev. the Dean of Raphov, in Ireland. COAL AIARKET, FEB. 213. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. s3i Newcastle . „ 3ok 415. ed. to . 525. 9d. Sunderland . 2j . 4os. (,)d. to 425. oa. F STOCKS RDAY. India Stock, 177 i India Bonn!, 15s. 14s. pr, Excheq Bills, ss. 6s. pt. Omnium, ; i dis. 1 Imperial 3 per Cent. Ditto Ann. Cons. for ioth April, 62U HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TU.MOR. ROW. Morning, 8 min. after 4.) Evening, 33 min. after 4. LAW REPORT. CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS. MOORE V. MOORE. This was a proceednig for a divorre, instituted by Richard Moore, Esq. of Long Meltord, Suffolk, against his - Wife, Mis. Sidney Arabella Moore, on the ground of adultery. It appeared in evidence, that the parties were nee - ried in the year 1796. They lived very happily together till the introduaion of a Mr. John Miller into the family, as steward arid assistant to Mr. Moore, in his farming concerns, in the spring of 1810 ; shortly after which, the servants in the fa roily observed a great familiarity of conduce betx'veen Mrs. Moore and Mr. Miller, particularly in Mr. Moore's absence, on which occasions they were frequently closetted alone for a considerable - time together ; and were observed kissing and using fond expressions towards each other. Upon one occasion, when Mr. Moore Bias from home, Mrs. Moore - desired a spare bed to be got ready, saying she would sleep in it instead of her own, in order to air it ; and likewise directed a china closet ad joining the bed-room to he - cleared out. The • suspicions of t he servants . being excited by these Unusual preparations, added to what they had pre viously observed, they determined to watch Mrs. Moore's conduce that day very c!osely. Her mother and Mr. Miller having dined with her, in the even ing, about ten o'clock, one of the servants looking through the key-hole of a doer commanding a view of the staircase, saw Mrs. Moore come out of 'the drawing-room, and, after looking to see it any on e was near her, go softly op stairs„b , _-ckoninv, to some one to follow, and in a tew moments Mr. Miller stole softly after her. She came down again soon ,aiterwares, and returned into the drawing-room : teo of the servants then went ap stairs, "and searched all the rooms, but without finding Mr. Miller. Tne china closet alone withstood their state!), being locked, which: was a very unusual circumstance, and they ' missed one of the chairs from the adjoining room. Mrs. Moore's -mother having taken her leave, she retired to .her dressing room, and from thence to the spare bed-room she • had prepared for her. The servants then listened, and heard a creaking heavy step, like that of a man with boots on, go from the china closet-to- Mrs. Moore's room. They continued watching for a considerable ; time, but finding no one return from the room, they retired for the night. The. foot man took an opportunity the next day to raise a ladder against the china-closet window, and, upon looking into it, he discovered the chair that was missed_ the preceding- day. These circumstances weie afterwards communicated to Mr. Moore, by the Servants ; he immediately had their evidence taken before a Magistrate, and 'brought an aEtion against Mr, 'Miler, in. which he recovered heavy damages, and he then commenced the present suit. No evidence • was offered in opposition to the charge: the, only defence set up was, that the evi dence was only circumstantial, and that of the slightest nature, being nothing more than the mere surmise of the servants, who were young, and there fore liable to be easily deceived by .appearances. It was likewise urged, that the servants not disclos ing the transa&ion to Mr. Moore, for a consider time afterwards, and his then -obtaining their oaths before a Magistrate, to hold in terrorem over them, were circumstances tending to throw a great dis credit over their evidence ; and, therefore, with all these considerations combined,. the proof was not Sufficient to justify -the Court in venting a divorce between the parties, after an uninterrupted happy intercourse of 14 years. The Learned Judge, (Dr. ARNOtn, surrogate of Sir WM. SCOTT, and presiding tor him, in his ab absence at the Admiralty Sessions), observed that the evidence had been objected to as. insufficient, because further facts had not been pointed out which would have made it more conclusive; the question was nor, however, whether all the evi-' dence possible had been adduced; but whether what adually had been, waS suffici en t t o susta i n the charge. Evidence of fads like these in the present case was in its very nature mostly circumstantial, positive evidence being seldom to be expeded, and it was therefore sufficient it of well a nature as to raise the presumption of guilt. He then recapitu lated the principal points at considerable length, from which all the witnesses inferred the actual commission of the crime ; and observed, it would require a great 6gree of scepticism in' any one, not to arrive at the same conclusion. - He did not think there was any thing to shew they , had been tamper ed with, or to affed their evidence, in any suffi cient 'degree. With the result of that evidence, therefore, in his mind, it only remained for him to pronounce the husband emitled to the remedy he svight, and the divorce was accordingly pronounc ed for. OLD BAILEY, FEB. 28. An Admiratiy Session was'held .yesterday at the Old Bailey, before Sir W.. SCOTT, Mr. Justice LH BHANc, and a Bench of Civili J. Griffiths, aliis Hines, P. C Theft, J.. Duncan, and J. Brown, were for that they, being subjects of lii.o Britannic Niajesty, did take up arms against 'heir King and Country, on board a French privateer. The c;rcumstancos attending the case are as fol low :—lt appeared, by the testimony of Captain' Parker and two Lieutendnts of the Amazon frgate, that the French privateer La Cupidon was taken on the 24th of M Ira, 1811, seven leagues from -St. Apdero, and the prisoners, amongst others, were serving on board the said privateer. They repre sented themselves to be Americans but some sus picions arose, and they were taken into custody, as traitors. They ihen acknowledged themselves to be Englishmen, and volunteered to serve 111th - country,' bait their offer was rejeaed. The prisoners gave in a long written defence, wherein ' they stated themselves to have snlYered much in a French prison, and their only motive in getting on board the privateer, was to seek an op portuniv of returning to their native country.-- They ,had no intention of aiding and assisting the enemy i .but, on the cowtrary, they had engaged with other Englishmen and Americans to ove.ri , ova er