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POEThi'; ELEGY, WRITTEN AT Cl/11014, By THg LITE SIR. ItOBERTS; Or BRISTOL. The moomheam glimmers on the hill, Slow rising o'er it's gloomy breast.; Anti all the shadowy scene is still,-- All bt,t the suderer, sinks to rest, 'Oh ! let not mirth disturb the.hour That's sacred to the silent tear In►t let some wand'ring minstrel pour, The straw that sorrow loves to hear. For now tho' thoughtless joy May sleep, I hear the lonely mourner's tread; And many a mother wakes to weep, ler °if!) , hope and comfort nett I For here full'many a child of Love, In pride of Beauty's bl , oin has died ; 'And here tire spirits of the grove O'er many a kii.tited toun have s sigh'cL. trnma, these wild-wood rocks among, Caught the low summons of the tomb ; She saw its angel glide along, And heatti him whisper—" Emma, - come I" Pere would she roam at close of day, To view the sun's departing light; And, as she wateh'd the sinking ray, Would bless the visionary sight. Yet her mild eye would often speak, That o'er her hung the funeral wreath ; And'every smile that flushed her cheek Proclained the hidden power of Death I Where rests thy head, thou loveliest maid ! Long shall the murmuring willow wave; And tairy harps beneath its shads Shall tune the dirge that charms the grave I METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL', BY It. BANKS, 1511 ILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER, STRAND. Thermo Meter. Weather. • ' •.,'; •-•- • %'z' , I •1.•1 I -: I • 1 I E. 2 . 1 --- .- --1 ▪ - c.., .'e c < . 4 .-f. z-. :-.-"? .. -- -4 ''‘• i c''' o. .7-1 --; 2as 1 cr. 1 4 I . ' i E c , o .c. 1 jo _ ___ 39 4t. 1 41. 141 29.65 .o 7 R ain , Clciy. t 4 . 43. 41 . ' 4O . 94 (.. Idy. Hair it 41 4 0 • 41, 34 .b 6 Fair 1) 0. zz 37 ; 4 2 . 47. 41 1 - 80 i I Do i Do. a 47 1 49 50. 40 1 .56 i . .01 f Rain P. I :.in 4 - 4 31 4 2 . .49 1 3 6 1 .5) . Fair hot i 144 i 41. 47. 3 0 :3)1, .341 Rain* i 1 1 . I I i i I .7- 4 2 1 ' I ,~ Storm, ly day. IIIC;H TREASON. 51'rCIAL COMMISSION, HORSEMONG ER.LANE, FIFTH AND LAST DAY. The Court met at the 'he us al hour, pnrsuant to 2(lloutiiment, and thy tarsi Prisoner put to the Bar 'Wag Samuel 41‘Fa . rlane. 4 The evide nc e was near ly s i m il ar to t h at o n the LE BLANC siimmed up the evidence t° the Jury, who, atver re firing for ten minutes , ° und a veidict of Guilty, but recommended him ") Mercy on the rounds of his not being seen in arms. • Josiah T eas t er , a li as T ester, was next put to the 'l ' l2 r; *44 in t J .ry having been sworn, and India ttlen! read, charging hi with sim i l a r overt a a s to those contained in the indictment against the last Pri g . ti : r ; ' e ar The ATTORNEY G EN E RAL add resse d t h e J ury ly as follows " Gentlemen of the Jury,—The obje& of po ernment in the histitution of these prose c uti ons was, to convey to the rublic, and to those pe rsons e w ho are the objects of them, a conviction, that those ngaged i n t h e serv i ce of the i r country, either in the 11 41 Y or navy, cannot be guilty of crimes like those e Prison ers h ave b een gu il ty o f , without being 111-N i ely brOught t o p un i s h ment . Th e pr i soners in'the Calendar were seleaed from many those who seleeled them had not the jOer or opportunity of inquiring so f u lly i n t o their cases as I have since done ;—I have spared ° Pains, no trouble, nor attention, in investi gAi `lg the Isas alleged against the p r i soners , ilt t ld the evidence Which would be proddced in sup * r i Of those, facts ; the result of that inve s ti gat i on 4,8 a conviction, that the ecds o f j us ti ce m a d e i t an i ) erious, though a painful duty on me, to prose 13te them —that painful duty I have perfortned— , e ends of . justice are answered.—[flere the b ar ned Couns e l w a s so mac h a ff e a ed, t h at hi s t ic e bei aree. inaudible, and his agitation in crease d ,f sl ich a d egree , t h at b ut f or t h e support of Mr. -rt ' i s , who sat near hies, he would have fallen.] , — k l en a lit t l e recovere d, l ie resume d — " Gentle veen, I e ntreat your pardon, b ut I have not been th e } well i n health. was about to st a te t o you, lt h a t I consider the e nd s o f j ust i ce as answered, and ii i re fere I here drop the prosecution against ta e remainder of the prisoners. Ire looking into the ti l e 3 of the prisoners untried, I perceive (though k e n l .e is proot to convict there are circumstances to I N l ate; and after what ties taken place here,' I 4 11 4 there will be found none, or if only the I tll -81 degraded and degenerate, who will - tall in f 4l ,' ll e into the error in which . the prisoners have ee n. o it:ilr. BROUGHAM observed, after the statement of I.Learited Friend, which did equal honour to his 4 11 t 'g', and t o t h e h uman i ty of the Government 'ler Which he acted, little rermina for him to say. 1, 4 e eouid not, however, allow toe opportunity to without declaring how grateful to the feelings of mdr ind it h a d been, that in his feeble att e mpt s to tit)R'nd the unfortunate men who had entrusted their him ; he had been opposed to a Prosecutor so 11:11Jane as hi s L e a rned Friend, which, by h;s conduct, 'itnad proved himself to be. One assertion of the vt t ?. r neY-Gern,ral' s , h owever, he could not give th e to, and that was, that his indispUsition W3S lilt e t l tre of ill-health. H e was convinced i t was '' s "se 4 )f a h art sinking and over (cello, g t . , 11. ` c % red in its struggl e to dischat t ;e . a painful though t,.'.eessary duty. Be trusted, however, the mercy tided to these untortureite rreA), would not be ti. is P l aced and ihat they would not repay s,•ith in rnitude that country which had a.,:aitt, with so ,t mercy and forgiveness, opei.ed r arms to eeive • • PZI-1:e oilier three prisoners, ZP tt ) L whey, and James Fill's, tLst to b ar, t.h ?easier. Fr a Weis a The ATTORNEY GENERAL Observed, it was fit Le 'should state to the prisonetS, the grounds on which he forbore to prosecute them—it was not that he should find dny diffi cu l ty i n est abliShi ng their girilt, or that they were not guilty, as they, in theit own minds, very well htiew . ; but ii was that the Crow n had extended its mercy townds them ; and lie hoped, that mercy being so extended to them,. would operate so as to have an effett on their fu ture lives. The prisoners, there being no evidence produced against them, were then declared Not The prisoners already convicted, Cnn- die alias Connel, Cornelius Parker, John Tweedale, alias Twedle, John Quigley alias Colgley, John Smith, George Armstrong, riO.cl Samuel M`Farlane, were then placed at the ban, .and having b : en seve rally asked what they had to say for themselves why sentence of death should not be passed upon I hem, they all threw themselves on the mercy of the Court; and Cluigley, after lAmenting the fault•he had been guilty of, declared his readiness, if mercy were,ex tended to him, to serve his country to the last drop of his blood. The CHIEF BARON then proceeded to pass sen tence in the following terms:— " Prisoners, the scene which is passing here at this moment, is one of the least expected Great Britain ever saw ; for some years past not a Session of Parliament has gone over without the Thanks of the Public having been conferred on the gallant Officers and Seamen composing our Navy, for the performance of some noble achievement for the be nefit of their country; and scarcely a week passed by that we do not read accounts in the NewSpapers of brilliant' ads of courage displayed against the enemy by' those employed in the sea service; and, it is indeed an unexpeded sight to see Bii tish Seamen deserting their King, and arranging themselves under the banners of the enemy.— You, however, have each ot you been found gully under a prosecution conducted against you, not only with huolanitv, but with a uegree Ot delicacy which must have been evident to every one present dur ing the course ot these proceedings, the law in its humanity, directs you should have assistance, and you have had the most able. The offence of which you have been found cuilty is the highest, except the effecting the very death-of the King, that our law .reeognize!. The murder of a single person is a most heinous offence ; but how much more aggra vated an one is it to aid and assist the enemy in their efforts to destroy a whole people. You have by your conduct tempted ibe enemy to use, w,th ag gravated severity, any of your countrymen w5 O w a y be so unfortunate as to fah Into their p o w er b y chew ing them that there are even English seamen ,o base as to be induced, by the hardship of imprisiinment, to quit the service of their country, and enter into that of an enemy. It now only remains for me- to pass upon you the sentence of the law, a duty painful deed, and one which, after having passed so great a portion of my professional life without raving been called to exercise, T had hoped it shonlit also have passed through it without the necessity arising which should call for the pertortmince of it. That sentence, however, is—" That you be taken to the place trim whence you came, and from thence (severally) drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck, not till you.are dead, but to be cot down, and whilst yet. alive your bowels taken out, your heads cut off, your bodies cut into quarters, and those quarters to be at the disposal of the King—and the Lord have mercy on your souls ! ! !" The prisoners were then taken from the bar, and .he business of the Commission having concluded, ,he Court adjourned. POLICE. MAsstoN-HousE.—Yesterday Thomas Clarke, a young man of respectable appearance and connec tions, was brought up for final examination, under a charge of being found with a large parcel of stolen goods, consisting of ten whole pieces of calico, and other articles of haberdashery goods, about a week ago, at Queen -street, in the city of London. . The goods were sto!en from a waggoner, while he was in the act of conveying them from the Towns end Wharf, on the banks of the Thames, to the City-road. The Police Officers, after interrogating the pri soner on the suspicious appearance of the large par cel, took him into custody, and since .then found out the owners of the articles, who this day at tended before the Lord Mayor, and identified the goods. There was no defence offered by the prisoner, but an interesting, genteel, and highly-dressed young lady, sister of the prisoner, who, with his wife and infant child, attended the Court, addressed his Lordship gravely and feelingly on her brother's behalf, to prevent his lull committal; but after a patient and attentive hearing of what she bad to oiler, he expressed his regret that he could not re lieve her, consoling her ,on the ground that the charge was ,not of a capital nature.—The prisoner was fully committed. Yesterday the Recorder made a report of the fol lowing convicts under sentence of dvaill in New gate, viz.—John Clayton, Willidm Jenkins, John. Butler, and John Catherwood, for burglary, and Robert Leech, for housebreaking ; when Jenkins and Clayton were Ordered for execution on Wed nesday next. On Thursdav morning a clog, belonging to Mr. Satclie;,ot Ebury-street, Chelsea, bit his two daugh ters, a son, and the servant girl ; aftewards 'ran after a large Newtoundland-dog that was in the gar den, but it escaped .being bit. The dog then got in to the e street, and bit a soldier and a dog. There being no doubt but the dog was mad, it was shot, and Dr. Munro was sent for. On his arrival he confirmed the opinion. Yesterday the lad, who was bit in his right hand and both his thighs, was confined, in consequence of considerable inflam mation. We have heard that another dog went mad on the same day, at the Duke of Kent's, at Castle bear-hill. Early in the morning of Wednesday .se'nnight, one of the rooms on the second story in the Cus tom-house, at St. Ives, was ,discovered to be in flames, ; which, in a short time, consumed the wholv bui:ding, except the ells, The accident occ,,:,ioned by a oircumtance but too common, iii q of rAing out the coals at night from the grate IJIPERLIL P,IRLL-1,11EN2. HOUSE OF FRIDAY, FEB. 14. ROXBURGH CAUSE. • The LORD CHANCELLOR being detained on im portant business at Carlton HOuse, did not come down to the Houie until nearly five o'clock. Prayers being read by the Bishop al CHE S TER, the consideration of the Feu Branch of the above important cause was resumed. • Mr. Leach,'as Counsel for the Appellant, Mr, Bellenden I , :err, W3i heard in Continuation, and to the end of his reply, which lasted until near seven o'clock. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that with re ference to the great importance of the case, and ;the very long and able arguments which were urged at their Lordships' Bar, it would be proper to allow, some interval for the consideration of their -Lord ships' judgment. He did not now feel himself pre pared to. name any. particular day for the final cob si,Jeraiton of the case in question ; but when he should, he proposed to t:ke the liberty to submit a motion for that purpose. The Naval Stores Embezzlement .Bill was read a second time, and committed for Monday. The Iniolvent Debtors' AMendMent Bill lies over for a second reading. The Private Bills were respeetively' forwarded, and the House adjourned till Monday. ROUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, FEB. 14. Mr. MANNING brought in a , Bill for extending the London Dock Yard, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. A Person from the Admiralty presented an Ac count of the Money belonging to . Suitors in the High Court of Admiralty, and in the Cnurts of 1 3 1 izes. The House proceeded to the further considera tion of the Report on the Lords' Amendment A&, which was agr&l to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. The Reports on the East India Loan Bill, and the Co3i Trade Bill, ~ sere brought up and Teed to, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time on Mon day next. Mr. HALFORD brought in a Bill for the ereEtion of P.-! , .itentiary Houses in London and Middlesex ; read a first time, and ordered to be printed and read a second time this day three weeks. ARMY ESTIMATES. Lord PALIIISTONE said, that in consequence of the absence of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Tieriv...y), who was prevented by an accident trom coming down to the House, and who wished to be present at the voting of the Army Estimates, he was desirops to, postpone them. . . Mr. WHITBREAD said, that though the Right Hon. Gentleman was at present unfortunately de tained by the accident, there was every hope that he would be ab:e to come down on Monday, to which day he. would. recommend the postponement at the Estimates, They were dccordingly postponed to Monday. The Committee of Supply was postponed to Mon day next. FUNDED EXCHEQUER BILLS. The House having resolved itself into a Commit• ee of Ways and Means, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he Jad given notice yeste►day of his intention to move in that Committee a Resolution for funding Exche quer Bills in the Navy 5 per cents. It was not, he conceived, necessary to enter into any detailed view, and hp should therefore proceed to state the terms to the . House. The first proposition was, that for every 1001. of Exchequer Bills, dated between the Ist of Marcho 8 1 , and the 18 t h of February ,1912, funded in the Navy. 5 pet cents, the person so fund ing them, should receive mi. in the 5 per cents. the interest or Cie bills to be paid up to the gth of March, inclusive. The calculation was taken on the 71h of February, the day on which he first sent the notice to ,the LCity, at which period the 5 her cents. were at 94, which would give the acceptor 1011. i os. 3d. for every 1001. fund ed, besides a bonus-of the interest, up to the gth of March, of 7s. Bd. on each, 1001. making, on the whole, tl. 17s. 11d. per cent. bonus. The . 5 per cents. were consequently depressed in some measure since the propoaition had netn originally made. They were this day reduced to g 3 1-Bth, at which Nice the bonus'experienced by the funding would be 17s. 7d, instt....id of. .11. 17s. lid. which, however, he' thought sufficient profit to induce the holders of Exchequer Bills to the amount of fourteen millions (tA,e sum to which he intended to limit the acceptance) to fund. The state of the Fund, as he had already observed, was not so fa vourable as at the time when the offer was made, but there were various contingent benefits to which the. House might lob k on the following year, espe cially •in the event of peace. It was his intention likewise to propose that the amount of Exchequer Bi►ls to be so funded should not exceed 14,000,0001. He hoped, notwithstanding the present depression, that no considerable disappointment would take place, and that it not the emirJ, a considerable pro portion of that amount would be funded in the Five per Cents. He had reserved to himself, in case of failure, the power of creating Five per Cents. to meet he deficiency by the Loan to be raised for the service of the present year. The Right Hon. Gen tleman concluded with moving two Resolutions — the one providsng that every - person who funded Exchequer Bills, dated between the Ist of March, 1811, and the 18th of February, 1812, in the Navy 5 per Cents. should be paid the interest up to the gth• of March inclusive, and entitled for every tool. to 1081. N. , vy 5 per Cents. The other limiting the sum to tie so funded to 14,000,0001. Sit T. Tpwrohi said he was quite at a loss to sup pose how the Right Hon. Gentletna \ tt could expect to add the sum of 14,000,0001. to a fund which must have eiperien.'ed a great depression. He ap proved of die principle of dividing as much as pos sible the sums to be raised among the diffeient Funds. lithe Right Hon. : Gentleman's, object could be accomplished, he saw no objeetion to it, but he must put out of his calculation entirely any advan tages likely to 'result from a state of peace; to that . • !rope, .after the declaration of an elocjuent Statesman, that " war was now the element io which we must live and moire." The consequenc e of t h e present. proposition, he believed, would be, that the stock would become a. heavy stock,.. But after all, In": would ask, w ':at a loan werelhey to cxped this year ? for this was but the comMencetneet, the prjude to ehe grand dramti to Which we .were still to look: Mr. BARING said; that ahe rii.e of reocks in the list year, justified the Right Hon. G:talentait to propo•log the addhien at that period, but there wag a material difference bet wee r , the la -t, and present year, notwith4landittg ..bleb, the Right /lo Gtfn tlernan propOsed to depress the funJ sill tUrilir, te a r his own att. Mr. SNii - ra said, from all he could learn; he did not think the Wein Hon. Gentleman would be ab!ts to lued the Excheqeer Bills this year to the amount praposed, and therefore he .thought it better not to attempt' it. He'was al so appreheosive that the sys. tem might. be carried too far. The t.; ‘ I4ANCELf.oIi of the. ExCumiuEtt said; there was hardlk an arguoient resorted to by the Hong Baronet (Sir T, Turbot)), on, toe present occasion, whi"ch be did not urge against the proposition of the former year. He appeired to think th4t there was some dirferenCe bet wee n the noric,s of both years tO the City, but he would state that, in point of faet,-there.was none. It was true, there was-a greater depreciation in the pres'eht, but the excess preposed above the former did not amount .to . more than ,000,0001. Tire H on . Baronet might .ay that be did not succeed in his proposition last year. II 'wes true he did not obtain the entire sum immediately, but he made up the deficiency only by enlarging the time. The Hon. Gentleman who s;eake list g 'ye reason to suppose that the calculation had varied ainee the valuation was made; but h e beli eve d, t h ft s i nce the otter went into the city, no diminution had taken place in theYalue of Echequer Bills. The other Hon. Gentleman feared that the principle might be carried too far. He (the Chancellor of the Exche quer) allowed that it might; .but. the question was, whether it was so in this instance ? It would be tound, i that if the 5 per cents. were depressed, the 3 pee cents were depressed also, and that the .5 per vents. had kept .up their relative-value, notwithstanding the operation of the Sicking Fund on the per cents. which never operated on the 5 per cents. The hir and competent way to compare them, he thought, was to take them at a period before the presen't mea sure was in contemplation, in which case they woold find that his statement was correct, and that the present comparative state of those Funds afforded no ground for assuming that the, measure was carried to an extreme. His impression was, that it was doing material service to the general state of the Fonds tee divide the Loan into different parts and different periods. It was giving encouragement to those who funded Exchequer Bills, and incressinr he credit of Exchequer Bills themselves. It we atural to wish that the field should be extended as much as possible, and in that view he was sure that the House and the country agreed. He was confilent that this plan held forth greater• advantage to the holder of Exchequer Bills than lie could obtain by disposing of them in any other way. He had never stated . positively iliac the whole would be obtained, but he hoped it, would, and if nut, at least he expected that it would be realized to a greatextent. After some further conversation between Sir T. Turton, Mr. Bring, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the 11::.solutions: were agreed to, and the Report ordered to be received otk Monday next. Mr. W. WYNNE moved for Returns of 'the Es.., tablishmtnts of the differrnt corps of Local Mikis and Volunteers serving in the different Coun ties, and of their Number, at the last returns.-- Ordered. Mr. VANSITTART moved for an Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying that he would be graciously pleased to order a Copy of the Report presented to Lord Liverpool from the Com missioners of African Inquiry, bearing date the 9th of July; 1811, to be laid before the House.--• Ordered. ‘VOOTT,ON BASSET PETITION., Upon the motion of Mr. XV Hi TIIREAD, ' the Woot• ton Basset Election Petition was postponed to 'rues. day three weeks. Mr. BARING gave notice that he would, on a fu ture day, move for Copies of the Memorials prey sensed by the Merchants of Heligoland and Malta against . trading license's. NOTTINGHAM RIOTS. Mr. RYDER said he, rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill on an occasion well deserving the at tention of the Legis!ature. - He had a painful deity to discharge, in adverting to circumstances which had lately taken place in Nottingham and the neighbour ing counties, disgraceful to the chat acter of the coon.. try. He had to assure the House, .tlyit the hop es which he entertained of their cessation were realizt.d, though dirt in such a manner as to extinguish the fear of their breaking out again. He telt himself bound .to bring the subject before the House,. where there were so marry Gentlemen competent to decide upon it, and to recommend the best means of checking such disturbances. It was notorious to the House and to the Country, that the dwellings of individuals were entered by armed men, who destroyed vari e ti es o f machinery, and carried on a system of riot bordering upon insurrection, in a manner which never betel& had disgraced the history of this country. The first intimation which Government had of their proceed ings was on the 14th of November, when applicatiort was made to it by the High Sheriff - and Magistrates of Nottingbath for militat y assistance. A troop of dia.. goons was ordered to proceed to that place, in con.. sequence. Things Mimediately became quieter, heit on the 27th the scene was changed again, and the Lord Lieutenant of the county signified his appre hensions that the same disposition' was likely to ex tend to the counties of Leicester and Derby. From the 14th of November to the 19th of December, be tween 800 and 900 cavalry and 10110 infantry, were ordered into Nottingham; a greater force than had ever been employed on a similar occasion. In the latter end of December the prospect again became more favourable, an , l there was reason to suppose'. that, partly from the military force, arid partly . from a better system of police, the rioters were sup- pressed ; but again they broke out, and two additi onal regiments were sent to the ass i stance of the :11i. finny ford. He wished the House tip understand that imiwArt , •