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•. tio to the Bill as it stonl, and in oivosFtiod to Its immediate tiassage. The Hornet, he said, had gone to.Fngland with th. Presicknt's .Nressage and the Report of the Commirtve of Foreign Relations should these have rio effeet On the Br)tiih Ministry, he feared that war wai inevitable. Mr. STANF6II - 13 spoke some time against the Bill. He had occasion to l siceak of the fUle-lately'_establish d, respecting the preliOnS question, which he called_ a Gag Law, of the same character with the Seditidn ; Act. A Motion was now made by Mr. QUINCY ' to adjourn, and lost. Mr. STANVORD cyntintied Speaking a little while; when Mr. Flsnr.A'y moved that t'he House adjourn, which motion was carried. a little after sun-do un. MONDAY, JAN. 6. The. House again resumed the consideration of the Bill for raising an adjitional army. Mr. STANFORD spoke against the. Bill, and against War measures generally. He insisted that the Unit ed States had as good if not better cause of war with FranCe in 1798—g, than we had noi.v with Eng land• As to the QpiDion that the fears entertain- Ft that time of a French invasion were merely visionary, he observed, that there was good authority • for believing that,the. ExecutiVe Direcloty did medi • tate such a project. The former French decrees were as flagrant violations of neutral rights as the Present Britith Orders in Council ; and the depreda tions under those decrees even exceeded Itie captures U nder the lei ter. Yet the nation was now called upon to fight for honour, although the minority in Congress were violently opposed to it then. They though t this do4trine unwise, because honor would as tnuch compel a nation to go to war for the capture of e lle vessel as of any other number; but the great bchly o f Arnericatrpeople Were in favour of peace :—with re gard to impressment, that was never consider-, e d a sot - lir:lent cause of war under any former ad- Ri inistration. A great proportion of the men im- Pressed werel3ritish subje&ts,sorne of whom had never eLtii the United States. To - sliew that this was the • I ' l6 , he recd an extra4l from an official document ..i presented t o C ongr e ss ' last year.—He deprecated the P n liey of goingto war for ,ft reign conquest. 'lt was t his that had deluged Europe its blood. He did not • d oubt our ability to conquer the Canadas - ; but he did 11 0 1 believe that this would accomplish our (abject.— In Let, he believed that the. Cananas had hitherto P r eserved us at peace—for Great Britakti knew it was in our power to take them; and it Was this cOnvic clioll that had kept her peaceable under our embar 7 Ines and non-intercourses. He hoped we should ne ver go to war, except to resist invasion. . -. Mr. BLACKLEDGE made some reotht ks relative to w hat had (alien from Mr. Stanford on the subject t .:f the pro j ected i nvas i on of this ' country by the le rench Directory. Mr. ST ANFORD sa id, h e h a d nothing to retract. Ire could p rove t h at suc h a project was in content- I l ation, and that such a person had been asked by a member of the French Dir,•ctoty whether the Demo crats in this country would join them, whts possessing ' ' a Republican heart; immediately answered no, no, 1/°, nobody will join you. Mr. S. repeated that he ieth.oeuld pro ve t hi s t ac t, b ut he did not feel himself at ttY to menti on hi s aut h or i ty —i t was one, h ow - e ver, entitled to lull credit. He appealed to,. Mr..ltA.Nooepn, who confirmed Mr. Stanford's I, a ternent—and a dd e d, t h at it --M r. Si's speech o ulci go before the public unmutilated, it was Possible the evidence alluded to would be produced. abMr• Stow also spoke ag a i nst t h e Bilt. We were out to fight for the proteelion o f ship s , h e o b- „' r ect, while the ship owners the m sel ves wereop i'l°l3ed to g o i ng t o war . Sh ou ld we " em b ar k i n. l s war, he scarcely knew whether he should wish 1 t su ccess or not—for, if successful, it wou ld t em pt il t s t ° go . to war on every occasion : and if unsuc "si'l•;Tfol, we sh ou ld be disgraced for ever. '"rr• BOYD al.() opposed the Bill. tb -I ‘. Ir. WILLIAMS su pp or t e d,' it, although it was wJeaionahl e i n some o f i ts d eta il s :t h e s h ou ld vote i t because he consider e d it t h e fi rs t s t e p to a war • 1 1 ;' (1 11 Gr eat B r i ta i n. H e co n ten d e d that no stone s tl . been left unturned - to settle our d i ff e r e n ce s 1 t leabl th y witer. e at some C'it on the numerous H aggressions commente of d the British . ' i over t - tl i nen - , I which he said aught no longer to be 1 11-I hnitted to. vaAfter a variety of other remarks, the question slttided b'y yeas 94, nays 34 —Majot ity 60. TUESDAY, JAN. 7. I \i tir. BAR ON , flOnl the Committee of - Ways and t Ba tts, reported a Bill making an appropriati on for t:Pences utcident / to 'the companies of mounted tigers, during the year 1812. Referred to a Com 'Wee of tb.e - whole to-moriow. -. tCZr. NEW TON o b seive d, t h at the Committee of i tn rnerce and Alanufactures had been for sonic p r e o " hesitating what report to make on the var i ous I ~ tnions o f merc h ants, pray i ng permission to itn i9rt Binish goods purchased previously to the 2d of tl,ebr"ntoa,y. The delay of the Commi t t e e ha s b een „ . g oa • wish to ascertain the c ourse t h at Con , . i 1 r:_ess would pur sue . A n d as t h e N at i ona l- Legis w-t!ure had determined to assume a manly attitude 8 , 1 . 11 ' regaid t o G reat B r i ta i n, t h e C ommittee, be ;tki, instiucted him to report a Bill for the relief ; ,e petiti oners . M r. N . accord i ngly reported a w w, tuthotising the - inthortaiioi - COT certain goods, at ar es, and metchandize, under c e rtain 'circuna , , a nces, from Great" Britain, b er . co l on i es , an d de ''Nillencies. The Bill was referred to a committee - i Of t he whole on Friday: W hole, House went into the Committee of the , b.;bie, Mr. BRECKENRIDGE in the Chair, on the ,11;,11_ making provisiou for the purchase- ord . nce, ordnance stores,, camp equipage, and small ~-..._, [ e "s• The Bill was agreed to; and ordered to be , fi grossed for a third reading. [lt appropriates 1 ',4')0n,000 dollars for the purpoSe.] kiG4 imkAs'oM, SPECIAL COMMISSION; FIORSENIONCER-LANE, WEDNESDAY, FEU. 12. The Court resumed their proceedings under the Special Commission this morning, at ten o'clock.— An entire fresh Jury was impannelled, which con sisted of the following Gentlemen, viz. Edw. Matter, Esq.: it. Dallet, farmer. Wtm Bragg, ship-builder. I. Phillips, ironmonger. R. Edw. Williams, Esq. John Keely, Gent. G. Ives, liquor-inerchant. lames Dredge, Gent. Henry Gilbert, grocer. Win. Coward, Esq. john Fentanon, builder: William Johnson, Esq. - . Charles Bird was put to the Bar, divested of his irons.—The overt-aEts of treason charged against this"prisoner were simply, that being a liege subjea of the King of Great Britain, he illegally - and treitor ously entered the French service, in the Isle of .France; and continued therein for six months, and that he wore the uniform of a French soldier. The circurustulCeS of the case were shortly stated to the Jury by the Attorney-General, when the fol lowing witnesses were called John Lowe stated, that he was a — seaman, along with the prisoner, on bnard the Iphigenia frigate, at the tiine she was captured and carried into the Isle of Fiance by a super for French force. He had heard the prisoner frequently say he was an Irish man, and often heard him speak the Irish language to his countrymen on board the ship., Shortly after he crew had been landed as prisoners of war, the prisoner had a quarrel with some of his countrymen, with whom he wanted to fight. He was, however, prevented, and then began to upbraid them for their cowardice, saying,that " they were a parCel of cowardly rascals, and that there were enough of them to fight the whole people of the island." The prisoner then ran out of the prison, and witness did not see him until abont six weeks afterwards at Port 'Louis, where he met hint in the streets at liberty, but apparently very ill—witness himself being guarded by a FrenCh cent nel, im..l going with some money to another prison, from Captains Lambert and Curtis, to relieve the prisoners therein confined. The prisoner was not then dressed in a French uni form, but, in about six or eight days atter*ards, he met him again as he Was going upon the same et - rand, dressed in the French cannoneer's uniform, a sword by his side - , and a French na,ional cockade in his cap. lie saw him frequently afterward.; in the same unitorni, opposite the prison gate, and on one occasion he put his hand to the hilt of his sword, as he thought, in a menacing winner, whilst the Kri tish•Otiicers were playing b.,11 in the cool I of the prison.; but he acknowledged that the prisoner ap peared to be in a state of intoxication Thomas Westlake, another seaman of the Iphi genia, proved tirit he heard the prisoner say, he was a native of Ireland, and was brought up a tailor. — He saw the priSoner at large in a French uniform, and on one occasio:i said, jeeringly, to the witness, who was in prison, " that it would be better for him to be on board st►ip baking the Captain's bread than remain in prison," but assured him that he would remain where he was for some time. On his cross examination he - sad he ria,t Dever any serious quar rel ith the prisoner, but he had charged him with stealing some of Captain Lambert's property.. Elitabeth Westlake, wile of the last witness, and who was a prisoner also in the Isle of France, stated, that before the Iphigenia struck 'o the French ship of war, :he prisoner said he hoped they would be taken, and when she did actually strike her colours, he observed, that he was very glad, and that he would go into the French service. The wi:ness wits suffered to go to market, at Port Louis, guarded by. a centinel, and about five or six weeks after the Iphigenia surrendered, she met the prisoner in the market, dressed as a French soldier. She met him again afterwards, and drank .along with , him, and another woman, and that she pad for the liquor they had had. On this occasion he jeered her about her impiisonment, and said she was . not so fast as she should be. He distinctly told her then that he was in the French service, upon which she remark, that there was hemp spinning for. him and many more. On her cross-examination, she admitted that she had some difference with the prisoner about some property of Capt. Lambert, which she saw him take, but denied that she had ever suffered the prisoner to take any liberties with her. C iptain Lambert, of the Iphigenia, stated l thit when his ship was taken, 'he exhorted all his crew to avoid following the example of many of their countrymen, in traitorously deserting to the French service. He did not take par Ocular, notice th:it the prisoner was one of the persons present. He fre quently saw the prisoner, after he was liberated, in the French uniform. Captain Curtis, of the Magicienne, also frequent ly saw the prisoner in a French uniform he ac knowledged that he had frequently saluted him and other office's, but he was inclined to think the re sped he had shewn was insincere. The case fur the Crown being closed, the prisoner was asked ,if he had any thing to say in his defence. Upon which he entered into a detail of the circum stances of his case, endeavouring to impress upon the Court and Jury a belief that he was induced to put on the French uniform, nut from disloyal mo tives, but ,with a view of escaping from the island, and also of endeavOuring to administer to the com forts of his counirymen in captivity. - He attributed to the female v. ituess examined, malicious motives for the evidence she had given) and mote particular ly her assertion, that he had robbed his Command ing Officer, in consequence of his having discovered her in au improper situm- ion with a French Officer. He put it to the judgment of the Court, whether a man, who had fought and ,bled in the 'service of his country, whose father was an old veteran soldier of forty years service in the army, and two of whose brothers were now at this moment serving as offi cers in defence of their country—No.9ld desert that King and Country to whom he owed allegiance from duty and affection. He left them . to judge of his conduct from the circumstances .of his rewriting home to take his trial, and indignantly rejecting the offer of going to Old France, when made to him at the time the island capitulated. Martin Ryan, a seaman' in his Majesty's service, who was a prisbner in the Isle of France, deposed to the humane and benevolent conduct of the pri soner to his countrymen in prison, which he was enabled to do bywbeing at large. Witness -had ten dered him,money, not knowing what' countryman be was at the tithe, but he rejeded it 'with dis.. , . . i . . n iliiii; iiying, that he required o reward for relieit og his tellow creatures. H e state d emp h at i ca ll y,‘ that the prisOnerdid all in hiS peWei to dissuide the English prisoners froni deserting to the French cause. Lieutenant Grimes, of the iphigenia said, that the prisoner was always a willing hard working man, and ever desirous of satisfying his officers. Mr. BROUGHAM then addressed tip! Jury upon the evidence, with c on sid era bl e e l oquence ; and after a reply from the ATTORNEY-GENTRViL, Mr. Justice Le BLANC summed up the evidence with suitable ,Cotnments. The Jury having then retired, after an absence of half an hour, returned with a verdiet of-7-ac- QuITT4L. During their absence a new Jury was sworn , an d John Quigley, anothe r of the prisoners, was put to the . blr. , The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in opening, the case, observed, that the charge against this prisoner was nearly similar to that preferred against the Men al ready tried. He felt it his duty, hOwever, to state, that there were circumstances in his condua, sub sequent to his• entering into the .Frenolt service, Which', although they would not entitle him to a verdict of acquittal, might operate in another place in his favour. He then •proceeded to call his wit nesses to support the charge. Michael M'Nabb, a seaman belonging to the Ma, gicienne, Was a shipmate of the pisoner's, and . fre quently heard him say he was an Irishman. John Baker and Charles Caswell were ship- Mates of the prisoner's. on board the Iphigenia.— They heard him say he was an Irishman, were with him taken prisoners into the Isle of .France, and subsequently saw him, opposite their prison in a a French uniform. John Low, Stewa N rd of the Inhigenia, saw the prisoner dressed in the French uniform, in the I,le of„Foance. He addressed him, and said, " John, I am astonished to see you in that dress;" upon which the prisoner cried, and said, he was v_ery sorry for it himself, but that he had gone int o th e F 4 enc h service io . the - -hope of getting a woman named Mar garet Coombe to live with him.. He finally declared his intention to escape as soon. as he could. Wit ness frequently met the prisoner afterwards, and on every occasinn he exptesscd his . - iregret for his offence, and. at one time asked witness to carry a letter to hiS Captain (Captain Lambert). This, however, witness declined doing, as - he had been charged,by the Captaill to received no. messages (ions persons in French uniforms. Witness bore testimony to the former good charmer of the pri soner. Captain Lambert deposed; that he saw the pri soner with others of his crew, in French uniforms. While the ptisoner was in his 'ship, he „considered him an expert seaman, and his conduct was uni. formly coired. Lieutenant. Grimes certified also, that he was art excellent seaman, and always the first to fly to his duty where his services were wanting on desperate occasions, cutting out or otherwise. Captain .11avi; and Captain Willoughby also bore iestimooy to the excellence of his former cha racter. Mr. BROUGHAM, in. commenting on the evi dence, exhorted the Jury to consider that the pri soner, although he appeared in a French uniform, had assumed that disguise; not with the intention of aiding and abetting the enemy, but for another purpose, which his own confession had disclosed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in reply, remarked, that if such pretexts wese once admitted, the con sequences would be truly dreadful, as every man who felt disposed to aeit in defiance of his alle giance, would plead precisely the same excuse. The LORD CHIEF BARON lia‘'ing summed up the evidence, the Jury found the prisoner Death ;—but strongly recommended him to Adjoutned at half-past fire till to-morrow (this day). MANSION•HousE.--Yes'erday Thomas - JaFreys was charged before the LORD MAYOR with having married a second wife, his first being still living.— The ptisoner was charged by the Officers of the •Parish he belongs to, they complaining that he hart deserted ' t his first wife with two children, 'who-had become chargeable to them ; that since that, a se cond wife with a child, had claimed the same privi lege; that they got the certificates of both :mar riages from the parishes where the ceremonies were performed, and both the wives attended. The pri soner did not deny his guilt : he wished to be sent to sva, but the officers said the parish was deter mined to prosecute him, as an example to others. He was accordingly• fully committed to take his trial. FAMILY ROBBERY.-A most extraordinary bur glary has recently been perpetrated in one of the home counties. In the dead of night, a gang of ruffians brake into the seat of an elderly Gentleman of considerabie consequence, and stripped it of cash, plate, and die Lady's jewels, to a very large amount. Suspicion falling upon a fellow of desperive charac ter, he was apprehended, and warrants were issued for securing others ; but on the examination of the ,former, it appeared that the Gentleman's n son had leagued himself on this occasion with the band robbers, and, in consequence of, this di,covery, the warrants are said to have been recalled, in order to prevent any farther disclosure of this singular transaction. SurclDE.-- 7 Late on Tuesday night, or early yes terd.►y morning,. Mr., Marshal, one of the King's Yeomen of Guard, put a period to his existence, by hanging himself io the King's Guard , Chamber, in St. James's Palace. It was his turn to do the duty of sleeping in the Guard Room on Tuesday night. He entered• the Guard Room at 9 o'clock,. o❑ that duty. He has been for , several years, past in a low desponding way, bordering, on insanity, and he discovered evident symptoms o f insanity (in Tuesday afternoon, so much so, that one of his brethren -did some of hisAnty for him. Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held at •the Three Tuns public-house, Cross -street, Hatton garden, on the body of Mr. Archer, watch-maker, in Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, who was bin - tied almost to a cinder, by the premises taking fire on Monday afternoon last. He was very far ad- vanceJ in years. and sick in beat the time of the accient. Ile Jury returned a vtirdia of Axiden ial Death. MIPERI7IL PAIILI/131EN2. ROUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1 fe. POPULATION OF IRELAND. Sir S. Nsweorri. brought in a Bill to ascertain the Population of Ireland. Read a first time; and or dered to be read a second time on Monday. WAVY ES"! IMATES: Mr. CitokEtt presented the Ordinary EstiMates of the Navy. Ott the of Mr. Yoxiiti - , CopieS were or dered to be laid before the Honseot the reports that had been made to the Admiralty reipecting.the pro posed Breakwater in l'lyinuuth Soun,!, and an bum ble address was ordered to be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying, that hiS Royal Highness Would be graciously pleased to 'Cause the proper officers to lay before the House the Order in Cntincil of the 22d June, iBl 1, on that subjeet.t Mr. WpiTtaE.o was desitOus of having die minutes of Mr. Bentham, relative to the Breakwa ter, produced. Mr. Yo k Obierved, that those minutes had been sent by the Navy Board to the Admiralty, out that nut being fornial in their shape, they h id been, returned, and had not again been sent. He shotld dot object to any Motion which the Hon. Gentle. man Might himself think prdper to make for their production, although in the discharge e of his duty, he did not think it expedient himself to make any tnutiod on the subied. Mr - . WHITBREAD then moved, and it was order ed, that there be laid before the House copies of all communications made by the NoVy Board to the Admiralty At Minutes by Mr. Bentham, on the subject of the proposed Breakwater in Plymouth Sound. The papers Ordered on the motion of Mr. Yotu were presented by Mr. CROKEIt. Mr. YORKE then gave notice, that he would move the Navy Estimates on Friday se'nnight. LEEWARD ISLAND DUTIES. Mr. CREEVER gave notice, that to-morrow se'n night he would submit to the House a proposition on the subject of the four and a half per cent. duties: On the Motion of Sir J. NE wPoaT, a copy of the case, and of the opinion of the Attorney-General of Ireland, dated March la, 1811, respecting the warehousing of Martinique sugar, was ordered to be laid before the House; and on the motion of Mr. W. FLTZ GER A LD, a copy of such proceedings as had been taken on the subjedt'since the Ist May, 1811. RIOTS AT NOTTINGHAM. Mr. Secretary RYDER gave notice, that he would on Friday move for leave to bring in a Bill, the bet ter to irrevent the breaking of stocking frames, etc. and also a.Bill moreanctually to preserve the peace of the town and cuuntry of Notlingh.m. While on hislegs, he observed that the second reading of the, Local Militia Bill stood for to-morrow, which day an important motion by an Hon. Gentleman (Mr: Whitbread) was also fixed. He hoped that the se cond reading of the'Bill would be allowed to pass without any opposition, and that the prosiSiuLlS would be discussed in the Committee . 9)one. Mr. WHITBREAD : Said, that he had great objec tion to the principle of the Bill, one oi the -enao - of which broke down the whole. existing system. He hoped, - therefore, that the Honourable Gentleman would fix the second reading for some open day. . . Mr. Secretary RYDER,although . anxious that there should be . no unnecessary delay, coniented to post pone the second reading sof the Bid to Thursday next. He was the more easily induced to agrt e t. phis long posiponement io cons,quence of tht do nestic, ca lanuty in the family of a Noble Lord we presume Lord Castlereagh), whose presence, he cohceivtd, %&ould be very advantageous ►n the discussion of such a subject. CORN INTERCOURSE ACT. Sir J.-NEWPORT complained of a v , oiation of the Corn Intercourse At, which he described as being, next to Act of Union, of the most vital importance to the two countries. By this Act, passed in. 180f3, it was provided that ali vessels,laden with cola Irons either country, should be admitted into the-ports of the other, as if proceeding coastwise, without pay ing any duties, and even without making any Cus tom-House entries. Irish vessels had been so ad-. mitted into a:l. Brttish ports, with a recent excep tion in the port of Bristol, where, on the ground that these vessels had on board Russian mats and boards, which.were indeed there, but merely to pre. vent the corn from shitting, they were refused ad mission; • without making Customs-;louse entra 4 . Nothing could be more evident, than that there was no fraudulent intention on the part of the masters of these vessels, as Russian masts and boards were actually of higher value in' Ireland titan in . Great Bri tain. He trusted the House would not countenance such a violation of the law. Mr.. WELLESLEY POLE declared thatttbis was. the first time he had heard any thing on the subject. No application whatever had been made upon it, either the Board of Customs, or to the Treasury ; to which latter place the complaint ought properly to have been -made. It the merchants had applied to him, he should immediately have gone to the Tret sury (or the purpose of investigating the same. He should feel it his duty particularly to4,nquire into the subject but be could ,not conceive it po,siLle that the 1.31 isiol Custom-house Officers had any intention of viditing the law. The 'trot:ability was, that Ikey suspected the tnasters of the vessels in question of an attempt to smuggle.. ROYAL MARINE CORPS. Mr. HUTCHINSON rose, in pursthince of bis no tice, to call the attention of the House to the loyal Marine Corps. His motion would be for Popers, on which he meant to found an Address to the Prince Itegent, unless the 'Right Honourable Gen. tleman oppOsite should declare that an arrangement was in contemplation, by which the wiShes the Corps would be gratified, •and that redress atiOrded them to which they were justly entitled ; iu which case he would most willingly withdraw his motion. It was a great cr:wsulatron to him that the Corps in question was one, the merits of winch were uni%er 7 solly acknowledged, for he thereby telt assured, that however he}night lad in placii.g then ( - )unii ion in a clear point of view, the Corps itself could sustain no injury from his deficiencies. The 11.1al Marine .Corps cougisted of - thirty-five thousand men, bring