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IMPERIAL PATZLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY. THE ROYAL ASSENT Was given by Commission to the Stone Bottle Duty Bill, the Isle of Man Trade, the Custorris . Boats, the Printed Goods Transit and to four Bills of a' yrivate.. or local nature. ,The Lords Conimissiowt were...the Lord Char cegox,,Lord • Walsingham, and 'Lord Redesdale. MISCELIANEOUS. • Appeal from the Court of Chancery : Higgs v., Brown. Connsel was heard- upon* this case, viz. S. Romilly, as leading CounSel fa the Appellant.' The further consideration of the case was adjourn ed Friday: The Coffee Retail -Bill, the half-pay Officers, the Medicine Duty Bill, and the. Privy Purse Bill, were read a second time, and sommitted for to-morrow. . TheFranie-work Knitters Bill was brought up, from the Cominans by Mr. D. P. Coke, and Other Members,—read a first time, and ordered to 1)6, printed.. • , e Loan CHANCELLOR suggested the propriety of postponing the Committee on the Marriage Act Amenduient Bill to-morrow. -It was'a sub ject, as involving so nearly the interests of his Majesty's subjects, worthy of the most serious consideration. lle referred to a ease then'before them-in the Court below; in which the consider aticin of the legality of a certain marriage was involved, and which may probably hereafter come before t'hcir Lordships in the Way of appeal, whe ther it was •lawful or not. The provisimis of a Bill ofthe•ltirid were therefore worthy of peculiar attention. .* I Lord REDEsnALE,Observed, he should feel it necessary to suggest a variety .of .amendments to the Bill, and advertedA certain .abuses which had • taken place-froin the imperfect state of the exist . . mg law ; these it wotild be - his endeavour to pre vent ; and seemed of opinion, that to require the oaths of both the-parties as to the proper ages; consent of parents notified- in-writing, and some other regulations, before the granting of a Li-` • cense, would be of beneficial effect. He hoped to be prepared against to-morrow. . The Duke of NORFOLK felt the extreme im portance of the subject, and notified his - sinten-, tion to propose a clause in the, Con - unlace, with a _view to gounteract-tbe evils which arose from at tempts in this country. to set aside or annul mar riages solemnized on the Continent, with jefereAce to the fluctuating and unsettled state of the mar riage laws in Europe of late years, in consequence of the gia.•at-changes which took place at., and connected With, the French Revolution. The Committee on ;he Bill was then postponed - until to-morrow. The Bankrupt Members, and the Revenue Pe , realties Bills, , were, returned - from the-Commons, by Mr. Lushington and other Members, with the acquiescence of that House, in the amendments made by their Lordships thereto. ,The French Prisoners Escape Bill, the Peace Preservation, the Assessed Taxes Allowance, and the Disseuters Worship Bills, were severally, on the motions, of Lord Viscount Sidmouth, ordered . to be read a second time to-morrow ; and also their Lordships to be sunanion'ed. The Manure Carriage Bill was read a third time and passed. _ The Appropriation Bill passed through a Com mittee, and was reported without any -amend- The Poor Debtors Relief Bill received some amendments on the suggestion of Lordßedesdale; and was ordered to be reported to-morrow.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.WEDNESDAY. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House to the House of Peers; and on their return the Speaker announced, that the Royal Assent had been given by ConuoissiOn to several Bills, for which see our report of the Lords. • " The second report Of the Committee on the Irish Finance was brought np . and agreed to. The reports of the Vote of Credit Bill, the White Herring Bill, and the Irish Insolvent Debtors Bill, were brought up and agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time tm morrow. , • The report of the certain English Insolvent .Debtors Bill was-brought up, when—. Sir T. TURTON spoke afew words, lamenting that this Bill was only calculated to aliord partial relief ; but as he was a friend to the principlei on 'which it-Was. proposed,. he did not mean to Op pose it. Mr. ABERCRO \ mipi thought the benefits, hf this Bill should have been made to extend .to the Isle of Man, and the Islands . ofacrsey and Guern- . - . sey, as he understood-that in these' islands the situation of debtors was such as- reguifed,,some . relief. • 'Mr. ItosE said, that the Constitution of these. Islands was such, that tliey ; would require a Bill for this purpose,.. to beluade to apply exclusively to themselves. . - Mr. "OintrnitEAD -observed, that some great amendment should take place in Jersey 'as to the - situation of Debtors, 'Front the smallness of the apartments in which_they are confined, and the treatment they met with, it would seen,as if it were meant for the purpose of terminating their ~existence. He did not take it upon him to say, that this representation is -altogether. true ; he rave it to the House .as' it had been told to him a'person who said be bad suffered such treat ment in that =lsland. if the case was really so, it reflected a censure on the Legislature, for not pro - viling some permanent, eflettnal,.and salutary correction. * The report was. then agreed to; and the Bill read a.third time and passed. - Sir F.'BURDETT moved to refer the Petition of lirfr. Bail, complaining of 'hardships suffered by lin% in consequence of a prosecution for smug gling. No Member seconded the worthy 84- Imet's motion, so That no question could be put, the forms of the Iloussprevented any counter ;ttiement.- . . TREATY WITH PORTJTGAL. CANNING held iu his haul 6. Petition from certain British Merchants trading to Portugal and the Brazils, complaining of the infringethent of two articles in the treaty between this country and Portugal. This treaty had been set on foot' while he had the honour of filling the office of Secretary of State for Foreigp Affairs ; but had been concluded since he quitted the office. The .two articles of the :treaiy, the infringement of which was complained of, were the Bth and 25th ; the first of these stipulated, that the trade be tween the two kingdoms should be. carried on with 'equal advantages by both nations ; that is, that' the British Subject should enjoy; in the sale '''and - purchase of commodities, the same privileges With thesubjeCts of Portugal. The 25th Article puts an end to all the British factories in Portu gal,_ and in return confirms. all the privileges granted,by the Bth. The grievance of which the British 'Merchants chiefly complained, was the existence of a company, Called the Portuguese ,iloyapVine 'Company ; .which had monopolized the wine - trade for a considerable time, to the prejudice of the British Merchants. In conse- - quence of this monopoly, the quantity of wine . exported from Oporto, which, _previous to the existence of this Company, had been 50,000 pipes annually, yielding .a4evenue of two millions, was no reduced , to )8;600, reducing the revenue to only 900,000 k- 'The 'prayer of the Petitioners, after stating the grievances under which they la boured, was, ,that the House take such measures as they should think the most effectual for secur ing the fulfilment of the above-mentioned articles • of the treaty before the' next vintage. • 'He. did not wish to press this on the .House during the .; present Session, but merely wished that the tion should be brought up, in order that Govern ment might take means to provide remedies against the grievances complained of; before the ensuing Session. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the case was of sufficient national - importance to induce inquiiy. Somegorrespond en ce was at present on foot between our Government and the Portuguese Court at the Brazils, .but owing to the great distance Or the present seat of that Court, some time must elapse before an arrangemeincan take place. He thought, it proper to observe, that some advantage was enjoyed by the British merchant, in having his goods imported at a lower tariff than the Portu guese have for the goods they send to this 6-win try : his Majesty's Ministers, however, did not think that this was to be considered in any degree a compeniation for the evil complained of by .our .merchants. From what he had stated,, he thought the Hon. Gentleman would see that it was not necessary to press the matter, further during the. present Session. Mr. CANNING professed himself satisfied with the Noble Lord's explanation,' and merely .wished that the Petition be brought up. 7 Mr. BARING thought that it was a case attended with considerable difficulty-. ffe was of opinion that the interests of the merghants of bothcoun tries should be attended to. Mr. ROSE observed, that by the treaty, Portu guese subjects were placed on the same footing with British. Mr. WHITBREAD understood that the stipula tions of the Treaty had not been very honourably fulfilled on the part of the Portuguese. Consi dering the relations of the two countries, he was surprised that any cause of complaint should ex ist against Portugal., He took this _opportunity of inquiring whether it was .true that the Slave Trade of Portugal luul increased? And if the . case Was so, why the stipulations regarding this trade were not fulfilled ? Lord CASTLEREAGH declared that no exertion on his part should be wanting to carry into effect what the cause of humanity so loudly called upon him to support ; but that in the present, state of, .things, he did not think himself able to give so explicit an answer to the Hon: Gentleman's ques tion as he could wish. ',He only knew that the Prince Regent of Portugal had professed himself anxious'to supp'brt this part of the Treaty, and that nothing should. be wanting on the part of his Majesty's,Government to , insnre the fulfilment of this particular article of it. Further 6.t pre sent he could not state. Mr. BROWNE thought it was proper to. mention that it was reported and very generally believed, that certain persons *ere • employed by our Go vernment on-the coast of Africa to pick up slaves for the, purpose of recruiting the black regiments in the West Indies. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUER admitted that persoth were employed on the coast to enlist free men who,were willing to enter into theser vice but that this enlistment was so free in its nature, that the persons so enlisted were allowed toaremain for some time, that, they might consi der the Trature of their engagements. Mr. WitiTnaHav thought it was. very injudi-, cions on the part of Government to employ per sons on a service of -a nature so likely to be abused, He therefore moved that a copy of the commission, authorising the enlistment, should be laid before the House, in order that the trans action Might be examined in all its features, and that the House might correct any thing that Was wrong. The- CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEAUER had 4o objection to lay before the house c6pies of all the papers and correspondence on the subject. Mr. TIERNEY ,and Mr. CANNING made a few obs -7 2rvations, anci then the Yetiti4 was ordered to lie on the table. Copies of the Quarterly Reports • of the State of his Majesty's Health, *ere presented; and laid on the table.. FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER suggested to the Hon. Baronet (Sir. T. Turton), and ~the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Tierney), that it would be an accommodation to his Majesty's Mi nisters if they would consent to the postponement of the discussion upon the Financial Resolutions till to-morrow. He had received some informa tion since he. came to the 'louse, which made it necessary for his Noble Friend (Lord Castlereagh) to be absent, and therefore the debate could not be so well proceeded upon. Sir T. Tuivrox expressed his readiness to give way for the business, but hoped nothing would interfere with the discussionto-mbrrow. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER knee• of nothing to prevent the diecussion. Mr. TIERNEY hoped that the delay was owing to real business, and not the ordinary business of Wednesday, namely, a Cabincit dinner. On these grounds he would-consent.to the delay. The CHANCEI.LOR of the EKCIIEQU ER assured the Right HonoUrable Gentleman that he.had al ready dined. A Cabinerdinner was not in his contemplation: The debate was then adjourned till to-lAorrow. AMERICA. • r Mr. WHITBREAD wished, to have asked the Noble Lord, if he had been present, what was the latest intelligence feceived from America He liad heard that, General Bloomfield had. stated to the troops in America that a declaration of war . had actually taken place. The. CHANCELLOR of the. EXCHEQUER replied, that his Majesty's Government had no - informa tion of a later date than, what was alteady in the possession Of the .public. But they had reason to believe, the fact was as stated to the Honourable Gentleman. Mr WHI,TBREAD tken asked, whether any ,no . tification of the repeal-of the -* Berlin and Milan Decrees had been transmitted officially to the Court of Admiralty;. because, such notification was of great importance,to the interests of . many Merchants concerned in cases carrying'` on in that Court, and Was necessary to - enable the Court.to decide? Perhaps the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ste phen), would inform Th ' e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER referred to the explanation given by his Noble Friend on a former night, when a, similar question was - pu't by the Hon. Gentleman, that no step of the kind had .been taken. Gowrment,did not feel justified In making the:communication .to the Court of Admi ralty when the case was doubtful. The only-mode of communication of the fact of the revocation of those Decrees, being by the letter of Mr. Russell, and not from authentic documents. Mr. - STEPkEN objected to the catechism• of the Hon. Gentlem'an, having no sort of connection with the Court of Admiralty. Mr; Urf-lITIIREAD was -proceeding to put some further questions, when The SPEAKER observed that there was no ques tion before-the House.—AdSourned. • MAILS. ARRIV I ED- 7 1, Dublin, 2 Waterfard. DuE- 7 1 Lisbon: PRICE, OF STOCKS TIIIS my AT TWELVE Wcr.ocic. Consols THE SUN. SALEM (LUIS DICERE FALSIT3I AUDEAP L 0. N. D 0 N, THURSDAY; JULY 23, lel2 Letters were this morning. received from Lisbon, dared , the Bth inst. which state that Lord WEL LINGTON had advanced as far as' La. Nava, in pursuit of the enemy, -La Nava is not far from' Tordesillas, and about 30 miles from Valladolid. The Chronicle is -very anxious • to contradict.the report, that there are very considerable differences of opinion among the OpiOsition, but still it is cautious in the selection of terms to convey the contradictibn. '" The conduct of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE," we are told, ." was Cordially ap proved of by all the leading characters who coni - - pose- the Opposition?' We wish the. Chronicle - 'had condescended to inform us who are the lead ing diameters ofthe Opposition besides LordsGaEv and GRENVILLE, who, we are willing to suppose, approved of their ownconduct. Is Mr. WHITBREAD 'considered as a leading Member of the Party? If that question had been proposed to us, we should, without hesitation, have answered it in the affirmative. We learn, however, upon the au-, thority of the Chronicle, that that Gentleman is' not considered as a leading . Member of the party; becv use Mr. WuLTBAAD Celainly did not approve of the conduct of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE ;' and the Chronicle assures us that their con duct was approved of by all the leading men of the ••Party._ We should also have supposed that Mr. SHERIDAN, from his long atti chment to the Party, and from . his acknowledged and splendid: talents, would have been entitled to rank as:, a leading • member of it : again we find ourselves mistaken, .I.lr:PoicSoNnir. and Mr. TIERNEY, who approved of the conduct of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE ) , are, it seemi, leading Members of the Party' ; Mr. WHITBREAD and Mr. SHERIDAN, who disapproved of their conduct, 'are not. We Shall not presume to dispute the right Of the Chronicle to settle the order of precedence among the Members of its own, Party, but we .believe that the public have been hitherto quite as much in ignorance' upon'this point as ourselves. Judging fromthe unqualified strain of panegyric in which the :Morning Chronicle al . ways spoke of the talents and principles of Lord MRIRA, we "'should have considered him as hold ing a distinguished rank, in the Party ; ,but ,if ever he did 'hold that rank, be lost it, be cause he disapproved 'of the conduct of Lords GREY and GRENvii i i.t. We could mention . the names of some other members of the Party, who have ventured to think for themselves upon the late transactions ; but after treating 4) lightly the opinions of such men as Lord MoiaA, - Mr. SHERIDAN, and' Mr. WHITBREAD, the Chro nicle will not,' we suppose, be very ;•olicitous about • the sentinents of those who have not acquired such political reputation. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, JULY 21.—Arrired this morning his 311,1esty's ship Melpomene (en-flute), from Lisbon, after a passage of 12 days, and Las not brought - arty 'particular news. General li:xm? , _Lieutenant Colonel XIZIIICES, Captain BUlti' Lieutenant 'PONE, and several. other Officers, came passengers is the Melpomene, many of ivhoth are, wounded,' and, we are sorry to state, Gen.K.EDir Severely. The Wanderer brig .of war with fleet .under - her convoy bound to England, s ailed, from Lisbon .with the Melpomene, the latter parted company three. days . after sailing ; th e Melpomene spoke four days since, the ,Detterel brig of - War from Lishon, bound to this port , which sailed .frOm thence two days after the Melpothene. , No particular' news from the ar mies had reached Lisbon at the tithe of the de - par' ture of the Dotterel. We understind a ship of war passed by thi s port last evenin from Lisbon, with Admira , BERKELEY bn board from thence. Arrived the ship Swan, belonging to London , SYMES, Master, from Mahon and Gibraltar, with a cargo consisting of wine ; almonds, cork, aod nuts, bOund to this port, -for 'orders ; was cat' tured on the 14th instant in lat. 41. 30. N: long. 14. - 30.'W. by the- French privateer brig Courite , belonging to Bourdeaux, of IC guns, fourteen IS poundeis, and two long 24's, and afterward' given up. The euarite is a very fine new v essel, and has captured a Spi p nish merchantman fron l Monte Video, and , three English \ vessels, names unknown, • during her cruize ; sbe was manner with 100 men, nearly half of whom spoke Eng lish. Previous to the Swah-being given up, sh e was.phindered, and her guns, with the exception of two, were : hove overboard by the Frenchmen . The Swan was a.running ship; and is now und er quara.otine. The French cutter privateer L'Aigle (formerly the Chesterfield Guernsey packet) commanded 1) the'famous Capt. BLACK, that has la,telv so nvic • annoyed our trade in the Channel, has been caP' tured by the Sybille frigate, Capt. UPTON, an 4 scut into Cork. Capt. BLACK is now on board a pri son ship in fitnoaze, having been brought hi" ther by the Sptille, which has since sailed for Portsmouth. Arrived the schooner Eleanor, belonging to tl' is port, M`DONALD master, from Bristol, last fO ri/ Penzance; the Lord Duncan, WlLLrAsisot,t, froa / Sunderland; with a cargo of coals for this por t ; and the Vtrtumnits, EINCH, from Wales, 0 111 9 laden. . Arrived, this day, the brig Flora, belonging this port, FuasE waiter, from Liverpool, W ith ' cargo. YARMOUTH, JULY 22.—Arrived L'Eole Fren ch lugger privateer, pierced for, 14 guns, but mol t : ing only 5, captured by the boats of his Majesty' ships Leveret, Osprey, and Biitomart, off Helig" - land, after a resistance, in which the French COI' mandec and several men were severely wounde d ' and 4 men belonging to his - Majesty's ships kille d : t The Desiree frigate is appointed , to convey .Id° l. . CATHCART to Russia. SPANISH, PAPERS. CADIZ, JUNE 30.--Should no unexpected 0 : 0 currence intervene to interrupt the p resen t coun t . of political events, there ,are the best grounds entertaining flattering hopes, that we shall 50 4 see the situation of the Peninsula greatly impl'u sr ; ed. Numbers_of the inhabitants of-its prOvinc o ; now behold themselves liberated from the cha t ' of their barbarous oppreSsors ; and their hither ° concealed, but ardent patriotism, heightened b. O / feelings of national and ersonal revenge, will , i tt i a high degree, increase: our . physical and Inor, e forte; while at the same time it will depress t i l , military slaves orthe atrocious tyrant, who vail l ' l s boasts our subjugation, and weaken the intrigue and cu-operation of 'false Spaniards, sinking th e l l i in that ipfanious debasement, in which they Ns' Expiate, if possible, by the most severe remors c ' their treason and their perfidy. •The wise arrang e ' meats of the Government, the prudent ineasurq of the Generals, the subordination and valour ?' the troops, with the co-operation of the pe o p le affording supplies, may effect the object, that. greatinortion of the Peninsula shall no longer 00' the prey of the enemy—driving them entire l Y thelther side of those elevated mountains f nature appears to have created as an eternal ( 1 ' separation_between the Spaniards and the Fre uc We trust we shall be able to say, " the PYre r '" nees still exist. Such is the result bf a rapid survey of our pr° - vinees, founded on the intelligence recently rte.' cei'ved._ Letters froni Estremadura to the 'j6t./L'i ► not only state the dissipation of the storm which Souk had again threatened that province:, but also that it was probably now entirely f a r c i t i from the enemy. General Hill, the wort:ly PuP,, of Lord Wellingtop, had taken such mea sures, that the French were 'obliged to resort to all t h ee ; measured retrogrAe movements; to escape falls 1); into the hands of- the allies. The brave Per l 7,' 'and Morillo, had -been .commissioned to rep air ,,o certain points, for the purpose of straitening -ere more the troops of Soult, and obliging them ce,:i day to abandon new territory. By these, : erri other accessory means, we trust soon to see t lw , compelled to relinqui4h the unfortunate An" a •