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I ± l r DIPERIAL PARLIASfENT, HOUSE O} LORDS, tION - DAY, ►JEc. 14. MISCELLANEOUS. The Marquis of SALISBURY took the oaths and his seat. Counsel was beard, viz. Sir: Arthur Pigott as Leader,. in the important Ajipcal 'Cause " Th e East' India company v. Antrohus and others, Clerks." which respects the Tithe of certain Pre- ThiSCS occupied by the Company in the City London. Partiter hearing to take place to-mor row. - The. tniolvent Debtors' Ametichnent Bill was ' react a third time and passed,. a nd a message ordered, to acquaint the Committee therewith,. In the Scots Appeal Cause, Thompson v. Thomp son: the Judgment of the Court of Session wAS,uf. 7 firmed by their Lordships,- on the motion of the Lord Chancellor. The Starch Manufacture .and the Sugar Brewery Bills severally passed throligh Committees of the whole House, and were reported :without any amendment. Several Orders were made with respect.to ju dicial business, after which an'adjourtunent took place. ROUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, DISC. 14. On the Motion of Mr. D. GIDDY, and after the reading of the return by the Clerk of the Crown Office, and the examination at the Bar of the Steward of the Borough, in order to prove the Misnomer; it was agreed to amend the Return of a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Bo rough of st. Michaels, by erasing the name of Robett George, and inserting George Robert no.: hart. A Message from the Lords brought down the Insolvent Debtors Amendment Bill, in which their Lordships desired the concurrence of the Coiu CONTESTED ELECTIONS The SPEAKER announced, that if any Gentle man bad Petitions to present complaining of un- . due Elections of Members to serve in the present Parliament, now was a proper time to give, the► . in to the Clerk. A Considerable number ,were inimediately pre tented, the names of ~ vbich were severally written flown on slips of paper, and put - into- a balloting glass, from which they were &awn by the Clerk, and the days for taking them into considera tion fixed in the order of priority. They Wen: as follow : Pembroke County, against die return of Si John Owen ; the Committee to by the merits o Ivhich was appointed to be ballotted for on Tues day, the 2d March, at three o'clock. Carmarthen Borough, against J. Campbell, Esq.; Committee same day, at half past three o'clock. , Cork City, against Sir N. Colthrusi ; Com mittee on Thursday, 4th March, at three o'clock. ' Liverpool Bormtgh, against the Right Honour able George Canning and General Gascoyne ; Committee same clay, at half-past three o'clock. Hythe Borough, against M. White, Esq.) Cons inittee on Tuesday,. 9th March, at three o'clock. Grarnpound Borough, against the lion. A. C. Johnstone, &c. ; Committee on the same day, at half-past three o'clock. ' Deilbigh Borough, against Lord Kirkwall ; Committee on Thursday, 11th March, at three o'clock. , Cardigan Borough, aga i ns t th H e on. Colonel Vaughan ; Committee on the same clay, half-past three o'clock. Pembroke Borough, against. Sir John Owen ; Committee on Tuesday, 16th March, at three o'clock. Youghall Borough. ; Committee same day, hals past thiee o'clock. Helston Borough, against U. Hammer!lcy, &c. Committee on Thursday, • March 18, a t three o'clock. A Petition against the return for Tregony Bo rough; and a Petition against the return for the Ilbrough of GriMsby, were . severally referred - to 'the same Committees which were appointed to be balloted for to try former Petitions affecting the same Elections. Sir James Graham obtained the further time of thirty days the• Petitioner against the return of the Hon. F. Pousonby, far Galway,' entering into his recognizances, on the grouud that the Member returned could not be found, to have the necessary notice served upon him. On the motion of Mr. INTANNINd. the Accounts of the ,issue of Bank Tokens laid bet re the House on a former night, were ordered to be printed. GOLD COIN BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXIIECILTER moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Gold Coin Bill. Mr. WHITBREAD moved that the Clerk should read the Resolutions entered upon their Journals in 1811 (Mr, Brougham's), on the subject of the Gold Coin and Paper Currency; which being done, he moved the _first, as'a question. before the House. • {This Resdlution states, that, by the Law and Oinstitution of the realm, every indi )idual has an undoubted right to sell. or dispose 4 his . property as lie pleases; to give his Bank t otes for nothing, 'keep them, or - exchange them for any stun in coin.l The CHANCELLOR. of the E XCHEQUER me t t hi s motion by the previous question, which was put and carried. Mr. WHITBREAD then-moved the 'second Reso lution, declaring, that any statute, the object of which was to restrain this right, was .a. flagrant violation of the' Constitution, &c. The previous question was also put and 'carried en this proposition without a division. Ma. WHITBREAD proceeded to move 'the third . Resolution in a similar manner ; upon which the .Chancellor of the Exchequer baying also moved the previous question, the gallery was cleared for -a division. For the previous question • "1 Against it. ' 29 ' Majority against Mr. Whitbread's resolution-44 On re-entering the gallery we found Mr: Aber• 5,.. . „ crOlhbit upoli liifi legt ) Oppasingtfie third reading of the Bill ; both parts of Ivhicli he condernned; and contended . , that the establi s h men t o f :t w o prices .in th e country, namely, h paper price and a coin priee, would. be productive of many ad vadtages. Mr. Rost , t, again mentiOned the facts, which he had stated on - a former occasion,' relative to the issue of Notes from the Bank, These facts, he said; 'Wove!d incontestibly that issue of Note's neither ratsed:the price of gold,, nor lowered the rate of, exchange. Mr. J, P. GRANT, to d maiden speech, recapi tulateds most 'of the- arguments, Which had , been Urged. against the Bill. He thought that 62 rate of exchange could throw no light whatever on, the subject. With regard to what had been said about a pound note anda,stkilling be:ing eq'ii valent to a guinea, - he thought that it proved that the parliameptary'meaning of the word equiva lent was very difkrent front the common acc,epta tints of it ; and that thus the word equivalent, like perptaneat (ai a Noble Lord had; stated a few evenings before) had two different meanings,— :Unless this were the case„ it was certainly im possible.tO prove that a poundnote,and a shilli ng 'weree qual to a guin ea . The two prices of_gpld which had been talked of were quite imaginary ; it was , quite inipossible that two prices could exist, .except i n fancy. The ohjcct l of the Bill , being - to draW a veil setween the public and its situation.• The effect of this Bill would' not he to remove the evil' Which he professed to suppress ; it could not'even palliate that evil;, on the con trary, it would aggravate it to a degree,altogether incalcalahle. Under these eiretimstatiCes ; be foUnd himself called upon to protest against tbe'Bill; thinking that to urge the .matter further, after all that had been said on the subject, , was quite unnecessary. Mr. Alderman C. SMITH .stipported. the Bill. He was not alarmed .at the exportation of gold, the effects of which had:been considered by some Members as ruinous. Ile saw no reason why gold should not be exported as well as any species of merchandise. Sir F. FLOOD thought, that from the nature of the should have been called We Bank Note and Shilling Bill, and no Coin Bill. The Hon. Baronet then told.several anecdotes to il lustrhte the truth of the doctrine which he vehe mently supported ; 'namely, that, for any number . . 7 - - - of guineas; .a greater quantity of goods Would be prOcured than for , the .same number of Bank Notes and shillings. He had on that very day been inquiring at a .goldsmith's shop - what the • intrinsic value of a guinea was, and he found that it was worth .28s. Such being the case, did any Gentleman in the House suppose that any body, would part with a guinea for 21s. knowing that it was worth 28s. ? He did not oppose the Bill as, a party question, but from a conviction that its effects could not fail to be eminently injurious to. the country. Mr. AlanairAT thought that the present qnestion Was somewhat like that among the Ancients, whether the earth moved round the sun, or the sun round the earth, width queftion had come to such a height, that the Legislatore was obliged to interfere, as it had done in the' matter now before the House. He considered the public as a 'pa tient, on whom, at an early stage of a disease, an: operation might have been performed with 'suc cess, but - that crisis had been allowed to pass, so that the opportunity was lost. Of late the' issue of paper money had gone to such an excess, that he was' happy that the. present question had been agitated; Although he had'all along opposed the Bill, yet considering the state of affairs now, he was inclined to support it.' The Hon. Gentleman then 'Arent into a detail of the state of trade be tween this county and France during the opera tion of our retaliatory Orders in • Council. He concluded by proposing to the consideration of Mi nisters., some alterations in the issuing of licenses for the exportation of the, different articles to France. He thought that the exportation of those articles which are most necessary for Buonaparte should not be permitted. Mr. Wnyrnar.Ab made a number of satirical ob servations on the ,speech of , the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Marryatt). , He said he would not commit /he absurdity of which that Hon. Gentleman had been guilty, by opposing the Bill on two f orn ie r occasions, and at l as t,_ without any visible cause, on the third time that the question Was ag it ate d, agreeing to the Bill. He would continue to be consistent with himself, by protesting against the Mato the last. The House then divided— , For the sd reading 9O Against it Majority for the Bill The Bill was then read a third time, and passed. MALT BILL. The Malt Bill went through a Committee of the whole House, in which some conversation took place between Mr. Wharton, Mr. Brand, Lord A. Hamilton. Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Har vey, and Mr. Robinson. ARMY AND MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES. The House went i n t o a Co mm i ttee of :So. pply. Lord PALMERSTONE proposed 2,06.9,00t.n.... to wards the Expences of the Army. For time Embodied Militia For KilmainhaM . 276,000 ' for the Foreign Corps ,-. For the Volunteer Corps For the Local Militia . - - '.1:: Resolutions were agreed to. . Mr. WHAwroN then proposed the following Re. solutions.-: , , For the itelief of the American Loyalists For the St. Domingo Su ff erers For the Suffering Clergy and Laity of Franee • , 123,009 For the relief of the Corsican Emigrants For the relief of the Dutch Emigrants , 3,500 For the relief of the F; each Emigrants in Guern sey and Jersey Bill to regulate the office of Deputy Remembraneet of the Court of Exchequer. Leave given. The SPEAKER having given notice, that that was the last day of _receiving Election Petitions, four were presented—from Seaford, Aldborough,. Downpatrick, and Camelford. That from . ford was ordered to be taken into, consideration on the 18th of March next ; those from Aldbo rough and Downpatrick on the *1 ; and the one from .Camelford ou the :15th of the same mouth.. r—Adjottrued. THE SUN k_ 6 sor,Em Qr:s DICEItr. F.l L 31.131 AuDnAT L 0 NI) 0 N TUESDAY, DECEMB?R 15, 1812. The PRESIDENT'S Message, as we stated yester day, has been received, and we this day lay it be fore our readers. • We have frequently had occa sion to notice, that the public documents, both of Mr. JEFFERSON and Mr. MADISON, were most wretched compositions, often ungrammatical, and sometimes absolutely unintelligible ; and the Ales , sage now before us is very much of the same charac ter. It must however be admitted in candour, that Mr. MADISON had a most difficult task to perform. He has plunged his country into a disastrous war, at the desire of a foreign tyrant ; he has sacri ficed the interests of America, to promote the views of IRIONAPARTE ; he, the Chief Magistrate of a free and independent Republic, is assisting, by every means in his power, the Corsican in his nefarious attacks upon the independence of Spain and Portugal, and in the unprovoked invasio 'Russia. It was not, therefore, easy for him to reconcile his conduct to the feelings of a people who have any notions either of freedom or of jus tice. But the PRESIDENT had other causes of embarrassment ; he had shewn himself as unable to carry on war as he was anxious to provoke it. His schemes and his boasts of conquering Canada, have ended in defeat and disgrace, and his invading armies have been made prisoners. These were, to be sure, not pleasant topics to touch upon, but . - he was forced to perform his task, and we cannot compliment•hirn upon the way in which he has pet. formed it. But if Mr. MADISON felt it difficult to justify his conduct to Great Britain, he must have felt it equally so to vindicate his tame subserviency to France. The almost unbounded concessions of Great Britain cannot incline him to peace ; the uninterrupted insults and aggressions of France cannot provol-e him to war. It remains, to be seen whether the Legislature and the peo ple of America wili•subtnit to become the vassals of BUONAPARTE, and whether they will suffer their best interests to be sacrificed to promote the plans of that execrable 'tyrant. Letters from Dover Intl "Deal mention the arri val of two vessels, one from Gottenhurgh and one from Ostend, which bring the account of puo- NArARTE's being shot by one of his Officers.— One of theSe vessels arrived in the Downs on Sa turday evening, and the other on Sunday morning, and had immediate communication with the shore ; but none of the letters from Deal or Dover re ceived yesterday mentioned their having brought such intelligence.. Mr. WHITBREAD last night adverted to a re port of BUONAPARTE having ;cached Berlin : Upon what authority that Gentleman made the assertion we do not.know ; but; from the facetious manner in which he mentioned the subject, we are inclined to think he did not believe it, for the arrival of any authentic intelligence, untavourable either to .us or to our Allies, would of course have excited sensations very different from those of merriment in the mind of any . man who is attached to the in terestS of his country. Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held his first -Levee this season, which was attended by,all the Royal Dukes. There were also present the Arch - bishop' of CANTEEBURir i the great Officers of &ad! the Spanish, Russian, Portuguese,. Neapolitan,. Swedish, Turkish, and 'Llessian Ambassadors, the LORD MAYOR, and the Sheriffs of London ; the Dukes of DEVONSHIRE, NORFOLK, &c, The fol- • lowing, among other presentations, took place . : • Mr.Wathen Phipps,nn his marriage with Baroneis Howe; Mr. Samuel Whitcoinbe, on presenting a Treatise on the,En . glish Constitution, u p on w hi c h o c cas i on he received the ho— sour of Knighthood ; the Marquis of Northampton,, on his promotion to that title; •Lord Camden kissed handS, as did Marquis Camden ; Mr.. Christopher Sweedlaad, upon which occasion he received the honour of Knighthood ; Lieutenant General Sir Thoinus Graham ; Earl Clancarty, upon being appointed Master of the Mint; Sir Ralph Woodford, upon being appointed Governor of Trinidad; Sir Claudius Hun ter,.on his beingereated a Baronet ; Si r W m . O us l ey,, on his arrival from Persia; Lieut.-General Phipps, on his appoint ment to the office of Clerk of the Deliveries of his Majesty's Ordnance : Lieut-Gen: Sir W. Congreve, on his being created a Baronet ; Monsieur d'Engstrom, Secretary of Legation of his Swedish Majesty;. the . Chevalier St. Martin d'Agile, Charge d'Affaires.ortbe King of Sardinia; the Earl of Mul grave, on his advancement in the Peerage; Lord Arden, on being appointed a Member of ber Majesty's Council, in:room of thedate Earl of Aylesford ; Vice-Admiral Bertie, on his be ing created a Baronet; Sir E. Home, on his being created a Baronet; Li ent.Col.CountSt.Paul, on his having permission to assume and bear the title of a Count of the Holy Roman Em pire ; Lieut.-Col. Warre, A. D..C. to Marshal Sir Wm. C. Beresford, on his marriage; Brigadier-Gen. Downie, or his return from Spain, for the recovery orhiswounds,by his Ex cellency the Spanith Ambassador; Sir Win. Knighton, on his . Iseing created a Baronet; Lieut.-Col. John Malcolm; ou his return from Persia, by the Earl of Buckinghamshire ; Mr. A. FoSter, late Envey Extraordinary to the United States, on his return from America; Mr. J. Ody, to present a Report oh the Western Fishery ; Sir G. Warrender, on being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty; Mr. Osborne, on being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty; Mr. Robinson, on being appointed a Lord of _the Treasury ; .Mr. T. Sydenhain, Commissioner for Spanish America, on his return from Spain; Mr. Brogden, on being appointed a Lord of the Treasury ; Mr. T P. Cour-- tenay, vin his appointment. as Secretary to the India gout!, • MAILS. .', ,_,.. AN7Tvltn--3 Waterford. Doc— / Cacti 1 Malta, i iliazils, 2 Guerwiey, 2.lersey, 1 Gottenti rgh, !Heligoland-, 3 Dub lin) 2 Waterford. ' . PRIt:F. OF STOC} A ruts 1).11' rwrixr: o'(.t.octc. Consols GI fGI b 1 Red. An,,. Otliniunt.:.•/1 NAVAL SEWS. PC/RTSMOtni, DEC. O.—Arrived hi‘• Majesty's ships Muignive, Cressy, and Mari, from' the Downs. Sailed his Majesty's ships Cordelia and Nimrod on a eruiie ; Cumberland, - for Cork ;- issletoei • for Guernsey and Jersey. DOVER, DEC. 14,--Arrived in the Downs last evening, 'a Sp an i s h vesse l frOm Gottenburgh in four days, and brings an account df the death of BUONAPARTE, who. has been shot by one of hiS own Officers. A vessel has just arrived .in the Roads froth Ostend, which confirms the above ac count ; the news of BUONAPARTE'S death having arrived but a few hours befoie this Vessel. left thu plaCe. She will come-into this harbour next FALMOUTH, DEC. 12.—Sailed the (211:7en Char lotte packet for Lisbon. Tile West India fleet, for some unknown cage, still remains. ELECTION DINNER. There was yesterday a meeting of the f r i en ds of Sir FR ANCIS BURDETT and Lord COCHILANE, at the Crown and Anchor, fOr the purpose of cf.flis l)rating the•return of those persons to the Repre sentation of the City of. Westminster. Mr. %Iris [Lull' was idthe Chair ; and,' after din ner, briefly touching upon the object of Reform, and congratulating the Meeting on the return of such Representatives, he gave us his toast— , The Sovereignty of the People." As this toast, if -it had any meaning, 'was fa.= vottrable to.the cause. f insurrection and anarchy.' it was received with triumphant applause, ts.nd Three times three." The toast, however, whitis7. was to call forth the chief feature of the nieeting,,. was " Sir FRANCIS BUIIDETT," and the Baronet, of course, arose to pronounce his ,usual philippic against the existing establishment; the conduct of Government, and whatever is entitled to the respect and veneration of the country.--In the course of his harangue, he imputed the election Of Mr. CANNING, at Liverpool, to corruption. He - naturally regretted the rejection ofMr. at the same place; becatjse, to adopt the word used by Lord ELLENBOROUCiII, the Barrister and the Baronet are "inoculated" with the same prin ciples.—As usual, the Baronet attacked the flouse* , . of Commons, and intimated that the late General Election was a mere farce, and by no means ex pressed the voice of the people.---The Court of King's Bench came in for a share of his id-,use ; he pronounced it little inferior to the Star Chain ber, and he doubted not that, if its present con , ''' duct should continue, it would be deemed equally odiona.• He then vindicated the conduct of all the persons who have been, or are likely to- be, convicted of libels, and bitterly reviled the course of legal proceedings against them. A licenser of the Press he represented as destructive of liberty, and lamented the wretched slavery and submission to which, according to his representation, the- Press is reduced.—The Baronet, of course, 'never reads the Opposition Journals. But it is needless for us to folloW the patrlotio Orator through the whole train of grievancts which he mustered in formidable array ; it is suf ficient to observe, that he said, (referring to' the legal decisions in the case of libel - , and the Fend- , ing cases), " in a word, every thing was nowe . , mockery and form, without any of the substance cif justice." He proceeded to say; that the patriotic complaints " were never met by argument, but by falsehood and misconstruction." There is, of course, nothing of "falsehood and misconstruction" and nothing but " argurnenr* at party dinners. But in the general zeal of the Baronet to indulge in a rein of abuse, he would not let even the. "poor plf4el 3" escape, }slit spoke of theta as exhibiting themselves from place to place, and . accus:ng the friends of Government of hunt ing for popularity in the same manner. The sup porters .Ot' party, of course, Weyer do the,same,. and a tavern dinner is not intended for such a purpose. But rank and office could not ex pect to escape from the lash of the: Baronet, and accordingly he 'said, that he should, " frit his - part, sooner .expect to hear of a great genius carrying a pitch fork than a white stqtr." Hence • • we may 'infer, that no man who is born to' the ex pectation of rank and office is likely to have any genius ; and that there is nothing in the opportilz nity of education. His friend, Mr. LaNcaalcag, • might surely have taught him better. In conclusion, he promised to continue his efforts for Reform, and though " his solitary en deavours" (the solitary - endeavours of a Party Meeting) we r e no t lik e l y to be successful, yet " myriads of Petitions," (procured of course by solitary endeavours,") mast in the .end be tri umphant. • Lord COCHRANE signified, that his worthy col. league's remarks were so full, that it was utm-.!- cessary for him to say much. His Lordship then implicitly assented to all the Baronet's. remarks. He, however, thought proper tr, condemn the -endeavours of this country to effect • the deliver ance of Spain, and censured Government for keep ing' 10,000 men in Sicily for the support of the most despicable . of all Governments. • His Lord ship, we presume, then has not heard that a new Constitution, upon the British. model, has been introduced iu that. Country. The remainder of the proceedings at this Meet-. ing are not worth notice, we may say, except as they skewed of what sort of people it was coin posed, since all the wild, ahasive, .and inflamma-. tory declamation which they heard, was And. turott4ly applauded. thic. -.—Ad vices the Irene coast received this morning leave us in the St l 2 l i. e , suspeilse as hrietcifore as to th e s it u a t id n o r t 4 te, 'of BJONAPARTE . Th e p eo pl e o f France are . pro foundly ignorant of the present state Of, theic Artily in Russia, or where the Emperor is, W h ther living or dead, but their conclusions favriar the latter assumption, and they are drawn frti7ii the silenc e observed by a ll COn ne b t ed w i t h th e , . Government. It is a; fact, that the difficulty cif communication (from what cause is unknowto between the Grand Army and Prance iS so great; .; that the families of officers holding high Situation; in tile Atiny, have not received a single letter from-them since the occupation of MOsco*.