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~ • . N 9.VAL NEWS. - _ PORTSNIOUTIi j i'cn. 6.—Arrived the Gaimeti, 1 0apt .in SrE I H ENSON' • fro .., Seaford ; and the Peo• rock, Captain I i, A E. Sailed the Vengeur, Captain T. Bitowfr ; the r° i 6- iiers, Captain J. F. BERESFORD j the Crane, CaPtain F. A. COLLIER j and the Minerpa, Cap iain HAWKINS. Gone into the harbour the Avenger. PALMOUTII, FEB, 4.--=-Sailed this day the follow iklg Packets, which have been detained by contrary inds these several days :—the Duke of Kent, COTESWORTII, a;1.1 Arabella, PORTEOUS, with Mails for Lisbon; the Prince Ernest; PETER, with Mails for the Mediterranean ;' and the Darlington, HAR iTRY' with Mails for the \Veit Indies. • Arrived off the Harbour the Dotterel brig of war, ' lieu t. W. W. DANIEL, train Lisbon, in 12 days, with dispatches, and, after landing , them, proceeded , for the, Eastward ; had directions from Admiral ERKELEv to cruize in quest of his Majesty's ship Elizabeth; having sailed previously to, the Herring, we have received by her no further information. C C/WES, FEB. 6.—The 'outward-bound convoy for Portugal and the Mediterranean have nmade the signal for sailing, TO RBAY, FEB. 5.--Sailed -yesterday the L o i re frigate for ' Plyrriouth; and this morning his Ma- J e stYs ships Aboukir, Cumberland, and Fawn, for their station of the Bass Isle. DEAL, FEB. G.—Came down from the River the Pair 7 rader, YORK, for Naples, and r ema i ns w i t h NA Ills • -'Majesty's ships, East and West lndiamen, masters and colliers. F LAB o'CLocic.—The outward-bound are not pre paring to sail ; but they appear doubtful, as the though now fair, looks as if it would come ba c t. • in again from the Westward. YARMOUTH, FEB. 6.—Sailed the Portia sloop of W ar, Capt. THOMPSON, on a cruize. Arrived the Hearty gun-blig from a cruize, and rettainS w ith his Majesty's ships So!day, Starling , 4ncl Thrasher. APPOINTMENTS.— . —Capt. Browne, to the kistian VII. which is to be the flag-ship of Rear aiLnitral Durha m; C a pt. Sh o rtl an d, t o th e H an - C; Lieut. Sartorius, from the Caledonia, to be hug Commander of the Minstrel; Lieuts. Hutd, r 31:I ntim, Benifant, and Pickmore, from the Teme lehltei to the Royal . ,George; Lieutenant Holt, from fr e Temerai te , t o th e Bl os 4 orn ; Li eutenan t P r i nce , ell the Ville de Paris, to be Ist of the Rodney ; st til etlant Richardson, from the Rodney, to be of the America. ; Lieutenant Phipps, from the ii. °3 surn, to the Temeraire ; Four Lieutenants, . 4. ° 1 11 1 the Royal George, to the Temeratre ; Lord g ; er "on Percy is made a Lieut e nant, and ap b to—flied to th e T r id en t, and thence to be removed t the C aledonia; Lieutenant Dobree, to the Vic -0 s l t) ; Lieutenant Evans, to the Alonzo ; Lieutenant , Y n tfm, to the North Star; Lieutenant Luke, to to e Christi an VII . ; Li eutenants R o b erts and S tan;, Al th e Jasper; Lieutenant Innes, to the Queen ; 1 % Burn, rnaster, to the Poictiers; Mr. Nidein m aster , 1/. ,to the Latona ; Mr. Watson, master, to 114 'e, Hannibal ; Mr. Bates, maSter, to the Impreg uule ; and M r . Mansfield, master, to the Jasper ; M the Conqueror Mr. J. Wilcox, late Purser of h e Virginia, to the Fisgard ;Mr. Morgan, Surgeon, d 1 „ 111 „ the Temeraire, to the Royal Gorge •; Mr. Th ,"„,lrie Surgeon, from the Rodney, to the Te qraire ; Mr. Girvan, Surgeon, from the Royal x inre or s ; to the Rodney ; Mr. Noot, Surgeon, from e Centaur, to the Blake ; Mr. Fowell, Surgeon, 1 3 ,, t he Centaur; Mr. Proalor, Surgeon, from the Sur, d , to the linperiellse; Mr. M4Gee,Assistant 10,e°n, from the Hospital, to be Surgeon of the th - ,:`,„ a rd; Mr. Burnside, - Assistant-Surgeon, from v tile de Paris, to the Temeraire; Mr. Waight ves'n, Assistant-Surgeon, from the Temeraire, to Ville de Paris ; the Rev. —. Wall, to be l aPiain of the Centaur; Captain Baillie, R. M. 11.'411 t heTemeraire, to the Royal George ; 'Captain r a ?"' M. from the ,Royal George, to the Tetne r-!re; Lieutenant Hunt, R. M. from . the Teme h4''e to the Undanied ; Lieutedant Bury, R. M. tlle Undaunte u d to the Temeraire. t n ,„ rtI TISH NAVAL FORCE.—The following is ex- N Great from t h e O ffi c i a l Returns of the .Force of Britlin, up to the Ist inst. :—At sea, 80 of 12 1 e, l'oe 9 fifties, 129 frigates, 97 sloops, bombs, b6 gs, 30 cutters, 59 schooners—total 522. - In p o rt and fi(ing, 43 of t')e line, 7 fifties, 30 li igates, 38 81 °°1 , s, 1 bomb, 29 brigs, 6 cutters, 17 schooners total; 171. Guard-ships, 4of the line,,l fifty, 4 fri g a tes, 5 sloops—tobl 14. Hospital ships, Sec.,,. of the line, 4 fifties, 2 frigates—total 40. Total n*C ommission, 16f of the line, 21 fifties, 165 friq 130 loops, .6 bombq, 152 brigs, 36 cutters; I ." schoo ners — twat 747. In ordinary, and repairing for service, 69 of the line, 13 fif.ies, - 56 frigates, 37 b ° ?Ps, G bombs, 10 brigs, 2 schooners—total 193.. "Illiding, 32 of the line, 2 filtiei, 13 frigates, 5. B , 6, ps—Cotat 52.—Grand total, 20e of the line, ' 36 fifties, 234 frigates, 172 sloops, 12 bombs, 162 b • rl g.., 36 atters, 78 schooners--=in the whole, 992 ‘%7els of war. Of the varied force of the British I \ravy, there are, in the Mediterranean, 87 vessels; ' 3 2 of the line. Off the coast of Spain and P(irtu gal, 72 ; 1.5 of the• line. In the English Channel, 8 2; 14'ortile line. By the Eli.zabeth schooner, arrived at Falmouth I from St. Michael's, we learn that the Island.of Sa brina had disappeared, leaving depth of water sail tient for any lessel to pass over the place where it 'AtOOd. sw.rLt MESS INA, DEC. 7.—We do * not remember ever to have witnessed a more general expression i. Of po poularsatiitaclinn, that which was manifested on the arrest of those who have tern discoVered to hold a communication with the enemy. The coun tenances of all the inhabitants of this city, and its environs, display that, kind of .satisfaCtion which arises when a great danger is avoided, and those 'exposed to it have reached &place of safety. This general satisfaolion was, however, unmixed with any exultation and triumph over the detected enemy, nor were the friends and famities the per sons arrested in any manner insulted. On the con trary, all the persons arrested were permitted to write to their families and friends, and to receive answers from .them, as also clothes, utensils, and whatever else they thotight proper to apply to them. Every one of them have a good dinner served up to them every day, at the expence of the British Go vernment, and money has been sent to the families of some who are known to be in want ; and to the families of all the greatest attention has been paid, and every request granted consistent with the great end we have in view, which is to extirpate en tirely the French conspiracy in this ety, which, fortunately, we now seem to - have the means of accomplishing. 'Ye congratulate our readers on the discovery which has been made of a number of spies and as sassins in the night of the 4th instant, in the follow ing manner : Notice having been received some days back, that four Calabrians, of a very suspicious character, were in the suburb of San Leo, ail their motions were watched, and, on the aboVe-mentioned night, they were all surprised in bed ; although dressed, and armed with pistols and stilettos. When the Officers of Police entered their chamber, they all leaped out of bed, and endeavoured to make their escape, at the same time making a most desperate resistance ; one was killed on the spot, two others severely wounded, and the fourth taken, after having been pursued.— The following are the names of the four : Giuseppe Prestia, killed ; Antonia Crisera, wounded ; Anto nio Musolino, wounded; and Pietro Reitanc. On the sth of Dec. a Commission of all tie. General Of ficers, in Messina and its vicinity', was appointed by the Lieutenant General, Commander of the British forces, to investigate the circumstances. Proofs were at hand in abundance, to convince every one that they were spies sent by the enemy, but be sides these both Crisera and Musolino confessed their crime, and both confessed as persons whose death was certain, and could only hope for pardon in' the other world, that they had been sent by Ge neral IVlanhes, who commands the army in Calabria, for the express purpose of assassinating ar Officer in the British army. This declaration was volunta ry, and made in the presence of seven English Ge 7 neral Officers, and Crisera, in particular, repeated; as he said, the very words spoken to him by the French General, when he gave him directions. We shall forbear to make any comment on this dreadful fael ; we will not say that we can scarcely believe that any man, bearing the name of a soldier, even among the Calmuc Tartars, could so disgrace that honourable title as to become an assassin. We shall content ourselves with merely stating the vo luntary declaration of two men who knew they must be hanged, and who knew that nothing was to be gained by such a declaration. In fad, they were tried, and condemned merely A spies, when, to the surprise of all those who wete present, they con fessed that they were also intentional assassins ! Sicilians ! form your own judgment on this af fair ! In consequence of the above-mentioned in vestigation, Musolino was hanged yesterday morn ing, alter the usual exercises of religion. Crisera has not been hanged, because his wounds did not permit him to be taken to the place of execut ion.— As soon as he shall be in a condition to be removed, lie will be executed. Pietro Reitano is under sen tence of death, but will not be executed till one Ca p4sso has been tried, who is now a prisoner in the citadel. It is known that Reitano was one of the ruffians employed by the said Capasso to murder and rob the courier from Palermo, as soon .as Lord William Bentinck should arrive there, in order to get the dispatches which might come from his Lordship, and carry them to Calabria. This Pietro Reitano appears to be a hardened villain ; he will confess nothing, and seems to be perfeelly suited to ,his horrible trade. He was seen to throw some let ters and papers into a cellar when pursued, and these, when recovered, were found to ,be most of them in his hand-writing, and to consist of letters to the enemy, and receipts for money 'sent to him. He had for an adherent one Gregorio Solano; it was he who. pmvided the assassins with knives and stilettos. Solano will be tried immediately,-and, if found guilty, there is no doubt but he will be exe cuted the moment that sentence has been passed.— All these treacheries, assassinations, and horrors, make our blood run cold, aria, no doubt, must cause the most lively emotion in all hearts, who have in- them a spark of sensibility. But we have (!isco vered the whole chain of intriguelr, and spies em ployed in them, and, with the assistance and pin tedion of Heaven, we will extirpate all the traitors concerned in these plots, and we will save Sicily.-- S cilians ! let us again remind you, that nobody has been arrested, nor will be hereafter, without proof. Thu &his!) army has lost a brave and worthy officer, who is universally lamented, Major General Vesey, who died on Monday, December 2, in the fortieth year of his age. He had been on a tour round the lonian Isles, and through the Archipelago, when, on his return he was seized with a malignant fever. On his arrival here the disorder had made so great a progress that all medical aid was in vain. He was buried with every military hon Our. On - Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, as Tho mas William Carey, a deaf and dumb yuung man, the son of Mr. Carey, of Crown-court, Liquor pond-street, was passing on the south side of Lincoln's-inn-fields; near `the archway leading to Duke-street, he was stopped by a .villain, with an iv lent to rob•hitn, armed with a dirk,' with which It attempted to stab Mr. Carey ; but Mr. C. was senible what the robber was at, and give him a violent blow un his wrist, which disabled him for the instant, and some people approaching, the villain ran off, and trade his escape. Mr. C. was not able to make the people understand what bad happened; however, when lie got home, 'be made his father understand by signs. hrpEülL P~ iL MIWENI. ROUSE OF PEtii§, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY O. The Feu ,branch of the Roxburgh Cause being taken into further dansideration„ Mr. M'Conochie spoke in continuation, as second Cotinsel oh the part of the Respondent, Sir J. I. Kerr; but being suddenly taken ill, the Learned Gentleman was un able to proceed, and their Lordships in consequence adjourned the further hearing till Monday next. The Regency Expellees Bill was brought up from the Commons by Mr. -Lushington and others, and read a first time. On the motion of the Earl of Liverpool, it was ordered to be read a second time to morrow. Mr. HAsa presented certain Annual Accounts from the Commissioners for the Reduelion of the National Debt, which were ordered to lie on the table; as were also some Accounts presented by Mr. Johnson, from the Irish Secretary of,State's Office. Lord WALSINGHAM (as Chairman) presented a Report from the Committee of Privileges appointed to consider the Claim of Sir Wm. Jerningham, Barr. to the Barony of Strafford, together with the eO - taken before the Committee, which was or dered to be taken into consideration on a future day. , The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the Order of the Day for going into a Committee on the Royal Household Bill. The same, after a - few words from the Earl of Radp or, in ,a very low tone of voice, was agreed to by their Lordships, and reported with out any amendment, as was also the Household Officers Bill. These' Bills were, on the motion of the Nob!e Secretary of State, ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, and the Lords summoned thereon. VISCOUNT WELLINGTON. _ _ The Earl of LIVERPOOL gave notice, that it was his intention on Monday next, to move the Thanks of that House to General Viscount Wellington, and that part of the Army engaged in the Capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, for their very gallant and rm-ritori ous condutt and moved that the Lords be sum moned for Mo►►day next.—Ordered. Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, FEB. 6' • Mr. HOUETOUN presented a Petition of the Mer chants of Greenock, on the•suNe& of the Regula tion of the Trade with India, on the expiry of the present Charter of • the East India Company. Or dered to lie on the Table. Mr. HASE presented the Annual Accounts of the Commissioners for the Redudlien of the National Debt. Ordered to be printed. *Mr. WHARTON presented certain Accounts of Re ceipts and Disbursements relative to Pilotage, &c, Ordered to lie on the, table. On the motion of Mr. WHARTON, leave was given to tiring in a Bill to amend the Acts relative to the making of Exchanges in.-his Majesty's Forests. Tire Coal Trade Bill went through a Committee, the report of which was ordered to be received on Tuesday. The Insolvent Debtors Extension A6l was read a third time, and passed. . - . . . On the motion of Mr. PARNEpL, an account was ordered to be laid before the House of the quantity of grain, malt, and flour, imported into Great Britain from Ireland during the year 1811. DROITS OF ADMIRALTY. Mr. BROUGHAM wished to know why the vari ous Papers that had beel ordered relative to the dis position of •the Droits of Admiralty h a d not y et b een presented ? Mr. \VHARTON replied that orders bad been given to expedite their production. Mr. BROUGHAM trusted that as little delay would take place on the subject as possible, and gave no tice that on Friday se'nnight he would move for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the 'particular application of the different sums already appropriated from the Droits of the Ad miralty. The Naval Stores Embezzlement Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to morrow. • ROYAL MARINES. Mr.'HUTCIIINSON gave notice' tint on Wednes day next he would submit to the House a motion relative to the Royal Marine Corps. CAPTURE OF CIUDAD RODRIGO. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCFIEQUER gave no tice, that on Monday he would move the Thanks of the House to Lord Wellington and the British Army for the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo. PAYMENT OF THE LOAN TO THE EAST. INDIA COMPANY. Mr. WALLIS rose, in pursuance of his notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Act for the repayment of the loan of 1,500,0001. to the East India Company. The object of his mo tion was not to prolong the term of repaymeut„ but, without injury to the public, to tetuove a hardship and_injustice to which the Company would other wise be liable. By the Act it was directed that the loan should be repaia into the Exchequer in a given time. Now the fact was, that advances had been made in India by the Company to Government, which considerably exceeded the amount of the loan ; but these advances being by Bills,•on the one hand,' which would not come Iwo this country, so as to be' available for the services of the present year, and by sums granted for the expedition to Mauritius, for the charges of troops, &c. it was ne cessary to relieve the Treasuty from the restrictions imposed upon them by the Act, and to enable them to receive, in payment of the, loan, the advances which he bad described. What he had mentioned would sufficiently shew how groundless were the observations of those Honourable Gentlemen, who, on a former occasion, treated the probable re payment of this Loan by the Company as a mere joke. Alter a few words from Mr. CREEVEY, who said that the Hon. Gentleman tattled him with ha\ ing declared, that in his opinion the loan would not be repaid, at the very moment when, by moving for a new Bill, he proved the existence of the difficulties on this subject.—Leave was granted. RIOTS AT NOTTINGHAM.. Mr. WHITBREAD, before the other business was proceeded with, wished to ask the Right Hon. , , • secretary of State fer the Home Department; to whose panicula, charge was entrusted the peace of the country, for some information as to those dis turbances in Nottinghamshire, which, to the scan dal of the Government, had so long existP. , , and which, as he had,been told, were organiz e d i nto a regular system; and not merely going on,. but in creasing in extent an d d an g er . H a d t h e Ri g h t Ho nourable, Gentleman any-objection to lay before the House such information, oh thesuhjett,..as •wciula enable them to proceed to an inquiry into it, or was it in his, power to give the House the satisf4tory in telligence that ..the disturbances were so neatly quelled as to tender such an inquiry unnecessary at the present moment ? Mr. Secretary.RYDEß assured the Hon. Gentle man, that, from the latest information which he had received, he was justified in stating, that dur ing the last two dags the disturbances alluded to had considerably sunsided ; but, at the same time, not to that ckgree as to preclude the propriety of sub mitting the . subjea at some time or other to the consideration ; of the House, - If the H o n. Gentle man had it in .contemplation to bring - forward a charge against him for the non-execution- of his duty, he was 'pet feelly ready to meet it; and in deed he should be .himself disposed t o ag it ate that question at that very moment, were it not thai measures were, in contemplation, which he shobld have the honour of bringing - before Par liament in a few days, on winch occasion hi; own condua, if it so pleased the Hon. Gentleman triigh,t be fully discussed. 3 Mr. `WHITBREA D would not give any formal no ice on the subject at the present period, but un, questionably the existence of riots in the heart of the country, and for such a consi:lerable length of time, tt as, prima - facie,. a heavy chaig against the Right Hon. Gentleman. Mr. LAMBE declared, that so far were the riots from having subsided, that he understood they bad increased to a dangerous eVent. Mr. C. BATHURSsT, on the contrary, said he had heard that they had considerably subsided, and that 0 theY had never been so great as they were rt pre sented to be. AFFAIRS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. Mr. WAx.LIS, alter expatiating on the advantages hick bad been derived from the labours of lot vier Committees on the subject, and on the necessity for obtaining sqcli accurate information with respect to the finances, &c. of the East India Company, as would afford materials for considering the great question respecting that Company, which would so soon be agitated, mated, " That a Select Cormnit tee be appointed to examine into the present state of the atiairS of the East India Company, and to report the same, as ir.should appear to them, to the House, with their opinion thereon." It would be necessary to make two alterations in the Members composing the Committee, by substitutin; two new Members ; the one for Mr. Dundas, no .v Lord •Nelville, the other for his lamented friend, ihe late Sir J. Anstruther. At the desire of Mr. CREEVEY, the Clerk read that passage of, the Lords Cominis,ioners' Speech at the opening of the Session, which recommended to Parliament to make provision for the future Go vernment of the possessions in India. Mr. CREEvcY then • proceeded to state his objet. tions against the re-appointment of a Seled Com mittee. Such a Committee had existed for five successive Sessions, and he was persuaded that no human being was a tittle the wiser for the reports 'which they had presented. Asa sutastiwte, he pro posed that the House should resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House on the .stitjea.— The exis - ing documents were quite sufficient to lead them to a conclusion as to what steps ought to be adopted. This first inquiry must be into the re sult of the agreement between the Government and the Company, as compared with what was held out when the agreement was entered into. If the House were to resolve into the Committee, he should pro pose-as a resolution, that in the space of 19 years the sum of 500,0001. which the Company agreed to' pay annually to the public, was paid but once, and that that p Tment was met by a loan of thrl f ce the amount. He should also- propose a resolutien, that the debt of the Company, which by the agree ment was fo be reduced to t wo millions, bad attually - been increased to thirty. He should propose a third resolution, that the agreement on the part of the Company to lay by twelve millions out of their • savings, as a guarantee to the holders of. English stock, had not .been cariied into effeet. He ;advert ed to the history of the connection between the Company aneGovernment. Formerly the Corn- - pony always paid for their exclus've privileges. of, trade. "ums soon as they were converted from Commercial men into Sovereigns, they then held out to the' country a participation of their profits, from - which participation the public had never rived any bolefit. The causes of difference would be manifest to the House, if they would re fer to the 9:11 Report of a former Conunittee on this subjea. Mr. Burke, the 'author of that Report, had clearly explained the r e a s o ns w h y the , Com pany, as Sovereigns, could not contribute a s th ey drd when they were possessed of cisil power. He had observed, that they were no longer merchants, and 11131 trade was with them a secondary consider alien. But elthough trade might be a seco:tdary consideration with the East India Company, it was a primary consideration with the country at large. From the papers on the table, it appeared that the produce sot the Income Tax for 'Bll was less by 100,0001.. than the produce of the preceding year. Whence could this arise ? The laud and the Stocks had not diminished. The clear inference was, that the diminution originated purely in the decrease of trade and 'manufactures. (The Chancellor :of the Exchequer signified his dissent from this in ference.)— He . should be glaJ to hear the 4 girt Hon. Gentle man on this subject. It' was one of great ;nor lance ; for if, as he believed, the decrease in the pro. ceeds of t he tax wastetributatafe to tliedecrease olcoar coerce and manutaeturers, that decrease roust be to the enormous amouot of t i,000,0001. 'in one year.' In one large commercial town, he could say of his. own knowledge, that a great revolution had taken Alice—he meant Liverpool.' So great was ale Com mercialdistress of Liverpool, that a Committee had been appointed to erideevour to alleviate it ; and he held In his hand au ottLal report of that Committee, w which stated, th a t d ur i ng t h e last oht h the) hat .relieved—in the first week, B,oou ;in the secoed w ee k, 11,000 ; in the third week, 13,000; and lu