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cent. He cancicded with moving a string of Reso lutions, the first of which declared, that distillation from grain, should be discontinued from the Ist of Feb. 1812, to the 31st of December. The second empowered his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to continue or discontinue the prohibition by procla mation, frOm the month of October, as circum stances might seem to require ; and the third im posed, the sone duties upon distillation from sugar, with, those which were imposed upon distillation from grain. There were seveal other Resolutions referring to subordinate arrangements. Mr. PONSONBY said, he did not rise for the "pur pose.ol offering any opposition to the (notion now, before the Committee,• but merely to m ake,a few observatiorrs upon the course which was oft-late pur sued both in and out of the House, with regard to measures of thisnature. There appeared to him to have crept in a sort of change in the opinions of the p.. ple, and in the Constitution of the Country, in this respe&. The course in former days used to be, ,to assemble Parliament on any important occasion, not m call upon the Executive Government to aft of itself immediately. He did not mean to say, that there were no cases in which the Executive G o v ern., rnent should as on its own responsibility, at all risks ; on the contrary, he would allow that there were many in which it would be the height of folly and madness not to do so. But this was a ques tion which respelled the agriculture of the country, and wa, not included among those instances of ex treme emergence which called for the immediate hand of Government: it would, have . been more wise to have assembled Palliament, and taken its opinion, .in the first instance. He thought he could observe in .such aas a sudden change in the opinions of the people of this country, who, in s'ead of looking to Parliament, looked now to the Minister of the day. He saw no reason why Par liament should not have been assembled sooner for this purpose, for it was now evident, that since the month of July lasi, none of the Physicians enter taine,l any linpe of his Majesty's recovery ; from that period, therefore, the Government was to be considered as fixed in the Prince Regent. He did not mean to cast the slightest blame upon the Rig h t Hon, Gentleman, as perhaps any other man would have done the same thing, in the same situation ; but he.coold not help regretting, that in -1 he prat) ice of Government, and in the opinions of the people, it was no longer deemed necessary to look to Parlia ment in such cases, rather than to the Executive Power. The CHANCELLOn of the EXCHEQ,LIER said, that in the tew remarks he-should submit to the House, he would follow the same tone in which the Right Honourable Gentleman had delivered his.; a tone of perfect temper and moderation. The .complaint which had just been urged, was addressed to two, descriptions of persons ; the one comprising the Mit.isters, the other those individuals ho thought it ne(e.sary to apply to Government, rather than to Parliament, upon a question of the description now before the Commiltee.—For his part, he saw not de partote whatever from censtitntioual principles in the conduEt of either party. With respett to those who had brought the subjetl undrr the view of Go vernment, if their object was to bring it before Par liament immediately, he did not see how they could proceed otherwise than by applyiug to that Govern ment which had the power to assemble Parliament` for the purpose of affording redress. As far, there fore, as they were concerned, they had done nothing that should alarm the most extreme sensibility.— With regard to / the Government, th .y had to con- Sider all the circumstances. The Right Honour able Gentleman seemed to think that the opi nion off the Physicians upon the state of his Majes ty's health formed iground for the assembling of Parliament, but upon this subje& he (the Chan cellor of the Exchequer) would be ready to meet him whenever inquiry should'be thought expedient. [Here Mr. l'onsonby denied having used such an ar gument.) He was sorry if he had mis-stated the Right Hon. Gentleman, but he thought that the state of his Majesty's health might even have jus tified the postponement. The fag was, that neither the state of his Majesty, nor the situation of the Prince Regent, made such a step necessary, and should be put entirely out of the question. With respect to the measure itself of prohi bitin g the dis tillation from grain, it was necessary ; but it ever Ahem was a time when Government should be -1 -cautious of proceeding, that time was the present. After the discussions of last year, and the reluEtance manifested by the House upon - former occasions, it was right to consider, in the firsi-plaee, in what man ner it could be best carried into execution, for,when the distiller had gone through a great part of his process, to stop him would not only be a hardship on the individual, but-a hardship from which no good consequence could follow to the public: the grain by that time viould be unfit for the purposes for which it was ire ended. The proper way of proceeding was togive the distiller a reasonable time to work up the materials with which he was provided. For this purpose Government should give trot ice to the trade, that if Parliament agreed, they would prevent the distillation from corn, by which means the distil lers would have a sort of notice to keep their stock short. It was mote convenient to the trade, and provided for the commencement of the measure in proper time; for e% en if Parliament had assembled sotner, it would have been hardly wise to have pro , po.ed an earlier day,. Under those vows be had stied. He hoped he had answered in a temperate Manner the arguments that had been temperately urged. Mr. PoNsotiev" denied having said that the state of his Majesty's health required the assembling of Parliament ; all he meant to convey was, that it forine:t no obstacle to it. The arguments of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he must confess, made a part of his objeCtions to the praetice 'Which went to put every thing into the bands of Government. No man could start a subjeEt in that House on the internal regulation,of the country, %%hich would not find a number of persons acquainted with it, arid capable of offering the best advice. But as he had already stated, ,there was a growing pradice which had a tendency to supersede the constitutional in terference of Parliament. He acquitted the Right Hon. Gentleman, but. that practice he must depre cate as productive of- the worst 'consequences. Mr. Ross said, that in every case of Revenue they must always go first to the Gover , omeni. .And Government had certainly.ettvd with great caution in:this case.. They had expressed uo opinion, but merely stated, that they would Nvait until Pail'a ment wet, and then take its opin4m on the subj , ..tt. If, as the Right Hon. Gentleman had suggtsted, they had called Pdrlimmerii ingeth,r in consequeme of the representations made to them, that one cir cumstance would excite an alarm in the country, which would raise the price of gram materially. In a tornaer instance, an alarm Was excited by the letter of a Secretary of State ; much more might it be expelled from snelt.-astep as that tecommended by the Right Bon. Gentleman. Tee several Resolutions were then agreed to, and the RepOrt orOrred to he received to-morrow., The CHANCEL LOR of the .li Cli ECIP Elt s*, that. while the distillation from grain wits permitted in Ireland,'the exportation - front that country should be prohibited. PONSONEY gave notice, on the part of a Noble Friend of his, not th , =:u ii; 1:1e. House (Lord Milton), that he would on 'Monday se'nnight uring forward a motion OH t he state ot, Ireland. The CHANCE'LLOII of the EXCE6QUER said it would be convenient if the Itight . Hon. Gentle man would state mote distinctly the nature of tie mot ion . Mr. PONSONBY said, that the ohjea of the mo tion was the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the state of Ireland, particularly with respell to the present condition of the Catholic popular on The Sugar Exhort Bill went trout a commit tee, and the Report was ordered to received to morrow. _ . Mr. WHARTON brought up the accounts of the Civil List Revenue, which viere,ordeiel to be print ed. Also Estimates of the Allowance to poor French Refugees.—Adjourned. MA! LS. Aititzvin —t Dug—i Cadiz, i Lisbon, i Matta, 2 Guernsey, 2 Jersey, i Brazils, I Wecrford. Consols. PRICE oF sTOCKs. THIS DAY AT TWILV O'CLOCK. - - - 6z I Red. Ann. • - - 63 T i 7 f S U N. SOLIiA QULS DLC[R6 FAL.SUM AUDEAT.? .1., 0 IV D 0 N, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1812. The Report of the Physicians, to the Committee of the House of Commons, respecting his MA- JisTY's health, was delivered this morning. It con tains the Examination, at too great length for us to present to our readers this day, of the Physicians, in the following order : • DR. MATTliii.w BAILLIE. DR. WILLIAM lIIIIIERDEN. DR. rIIOMAS MUNRO. DR. SAMUEL FOART SIMMONS,' DR. SIR HENRY HALFORD, BART. DR.rlOl-IN WILLIS. DK. RODERT DARLING WILLIS. They all agreed upon the improbability, but not the hopelessness, of his MAntszy's recovery.—That early in July last the disorder had taken an aggra vated turn ; and that his mind had been then im pressed with all the errors, which have continued since. Dr. BAILLIE admitting his experience in com plaints of this class, to be limited, said, that the only person whom he had knoWn about his MA JESTY'S time of life, whose mental health was de- raoged, did not recover. Dr. HEBERDBN considered that. there had been , a slight improement since the second week in December, which consisted in - a greater porter of conversation, and in having laid aside some erron - eous notions with which he had before been pos sessed, but he had thought his MAJESTY'S recovery highly improbable since the latter end of last August. Dr. MONRO said, that his MAJESTY had no syrnp 'oin of fatuity, and that it was miller a favourable circumstance. Dr. F. SYMMONS declared that thou he thought his MAJESTY'S recovery improbable, yet he had known many cases. of recovery of persons as old, and older than his MAJESTY, and ►hat after se veral attacks they had died of other diseases than insanity. That his MAJESTY appears to' re tain a consciousness of his regal state, which l makes the case'rather more difficult to conduct, That his MAJESTY'S blindness is rather unfavourable to reco very, hecituse he cannot be guided and managed so well ~a§ if ire could see. His MAJ,ESTY'a health is as good as a man of sixty ; his perceptions, with respect to objects presented to . him, correct ; but he has a number of ideas floating in his mind, which are extremely erroneous. Sir HENRY HALFORD said, that the present state of - his MAJESTY'S bodily health was not good by any means.—That there was no immediate dan ger of his MAJESTY'S - life when he left Wind sor on Saturday, but that within the last twen ty-four hours, the KING had not been so well.— That his MAJESTY'S mind has been deeply stricken by the supersession of his authority, and that this had weighed with him greatly in the opinion which he had formed as to the improbability of his MA- /usTi's recovery. Dr. JOHN WILLIS said, that there was a very great degree of derangement, and particularly bor dering on insanity : That his MAJESTY'S state was worse than it was last week. That there had b •en an aggravation of symptoms within the last three days. That in the corre&ion of an opinion which he had given, respecting the use of the word despair, he meant no more than that he did not expect a recovery. That his present illness is very considerably worse; than any of hi's former, illnesses. That the KING cectainiy held good con►ersations, but it is requisite to get to a further advanced point to be able to say that it is really an amendment : it is often what takes place when de rangement is gradually ceasing. That his MAJESTY had yesterday (Sunday) much of a feverish tendency, but that thert is generally a cap?city in the KING to answer all sorts of questions. That his MAJESTY'S present indisposition is more' nearly allied to insa nity than delirium. Dr. Roatit'r WILLIS said, that the state of his MAJESTY'S mental health is worse at present than it has been at any time since his attack. His MA JESTY IS in an extremely agitated and nervous state, which has been increasing for some time past. It war• reported last night that French Papers had, reached town, containing a Dispatch from General SUCHET, announcing the defeat of. General BLAKE before Valencia. We have made every inquiry in our power, and have not been able to ascertain the taa of the arrival of the Papers. We, are therefore inclined to hope that the whole report is groundless. Mr. PONSONEY last night gave noiice, on the part of Lord MILT&N, that a Motion would be made on Monday sennight respe6tini p the state of Ire laud. The Gazette of last night contains an Order for a General Fast in England on the sth, and in Scot land on the 6th, of next month. Yesterday tile Duke of YORK held a Military Le vee, at his office in the Horse-Guards, which was attended by Lieutenant-General Maitland, on his being appointed to the Eastern District ; Lieutenant-General St.‘"Leker, Major,- General Bailey, Major-General Pringle, General Sir H. Dalrymple, 'General Sir H. Burrard, Major-Gen. M'Ken z,ie, Lieutenant-General Sir W. Erskine, Lieutenant-Gene ral Wemyss, Lieutenant-General Campbe ll , Major-Gene ral Sir joint Hope, Major General Stevenson, General Lord Forbes, Marquis of Huntly, Sir Robert Wilson, and a number of others. The Duke of YORK will give a grand dinner this day to a numerous party. The Duchess of Bac NSWICK gave a grand dinner on Monday last, at Blackheath, to the Princess of-- WALES, and a garty of about six. The nuptial ceremony between Mr. WELLESLEY POLE and Miss TYLNEY -Lor , G took place onsiVion day. The preparations -for this' event were of the most magnificent description. Sir Trromns SUTTON opened Hurst House, near Moulsey, to a select portion of the Fashionable World last night. The Order in Council against the exportation of carriage coastwise of gunpowder or saltpetre, and that against the exportation of pig iron, hemp, pitch, and other naval stores, both of which' would expire on the Bth of February next, are renewed in last night's Gazette for six months, from the said Bth of February. No time is lost in sending out reinforcements to the army under Lord WELLINGTON. Trobps are daily marching to the out-ports, where they are embarked in transports lor Lisbon. Monday 500 of the Guards were selected for this service. The 2d battalion of the Culds'tream, quartered in the Tower, which was inspetied in the forenoon by his Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, supplied 2so of this number; and the other 25 were drafted from the 3d regiment, after inspe6lion, at the Port man-street barracks, by his Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER. These troops are expe&ed to em bark at PortSmouth on the 24th inst. - A Morning Riper has stated, that Mr. C. K6l- . ISLE is not likely to belong to Covent-garden Thea tre next season. If this be the case, we can only say that Covent-garden Theatre will lose one of the very best a&ors of the present day, at a time when there is by no means a superabundance of good actors, and that it will lose also a Jmen of good edu cation, and one who ►s an honour to his profession in private life. Mrs. JORDAN, it is stated, has renewed her en- gagement at Covent Garden Theatre, and is to fill up the interval till the return of Mrs. SIDDONS, af ter Easter. / THALIA,. on this occasion, will be an admirable substitute for MELPOMENE. A pitched battle, for too guineas a sale, was fought on Mill hill Common, Hants, on Monday, betAveen one Anthony Jones, a butcher; and Peter' Smith, a navigator. The parties were matched a month since, half forfeit,' The contest was doubt fully maintained fur two hours and ten minutes. It was stand-up tight without science, and the corn.- batants were considered the hardiest Arlen in the country. Jones at length won the- fight by giving his adversary a hard fail. Yesterday afternoon a person of the name of Mitchell, who keeps an inn; near Bath, took a coach in Coventry-street, and ordered the coachman to drive him to Hatchett's Hotrl, White Horse-cellar, Piccadilly. On the coachman opening the door of the carriage, he found his passenger a corpse. The body was. taken up stairs, and medical assistance was sent for, but the Spark of lifel was gone. The deceased came to town a few days ago to article -one of his sons to an attorney, and was last night to have returned home by the Bath Mail. His body, at nine o'clock, was removed 'in a shell to an undertaker's in the neighbourhood for the Coroner's Inquest. A few days since, Come. illa, the 4 elegant re sidence of Sir JO.ll N HAMILTON, at Twickenham, was thrown into al,irrn by the attempt of several de predators to break into the preinises. The set vants being all well armed, made a sortie on the robbers ; but the latter, unfortunately for justice, effeeted their escape across the fields at the back of the villa. The house of Baroness HowE, in the same neigh bourhood, was broken open, some time previous to the attempt at Sir Jat i t N HAMILTON'S and robbed of property of the value of 3001. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 13.—Arrived the brig Euphe mia, belonging to 'Scotland, CAMOCHAN, Maiter, flout Alicant, with a cargo, consisting of wino and fruit, bound to London, put in here by contrary ,;, winds, and is in want of water ; came a running ship, and is under quarantine. The Maste'r states, the French were hourly expeeted at Alicant. - - Put in here last evening by contrary winds the brig Mary Ann, MAasHm,r., Master, from London, boUnd to, the Brazils ;, and the Queen man of war from Portsmouth; the latter saiLd'again this day to . , • . join ~the squadron off Brest. - . Also sailed the' Helicon brig of war on a c: . uize to the 'Westward. Arrived the Sceptre, Dove, from Newcastle the Bedford, NictioLc, Gratitude, JENKINS, Boulton, SANDERS;and the tillers, DALTON, from Wales. Carrie.down the harbour and anchored in the Sound, alter having been refitted, the Fortuna. fri— gale. Arrived an American ship from the Downs, with a cargo, consisting of hemp and iron, for his Ma jesty's PoCkLyald at this Pert ; the Dorset, HART, from Lyme; 'and the Lard Hawkesbury, STEUG• NELL from Southampton. Arrived the Myrtle sloop,of war from "Lisbon— no news'. DEAL, JAN. 14.--Citud down from the River the Winchelsea East Indiaman, and remains. Arrived his Majesty's ship Aquilon from the Westward, and the Naiad from a ernize. Sailed the Ca /hope for Sheerness. PottTsmoutn; Jnv. 14.—Arrived the Queen man of war from Plymouth. Sailed the Inconstant and Dwarf for the Downs. Yesterday at-Jived the Trion from Cork, .tiolet 7rdm Cowes, Phy//a and Misteloe irom Goernsay. Sailed the Mariner, with a convoy, for the Downs. FALMOUTH, JAN. if.. ) .—Sailed the Dispatch packet fur Cadiz, with a Mail. • ~‘, YARMOUTH, J. 14.—N0 intelligence of tie St. George and Defiince. CIT ATH A IST; - JA . N. - 14.-earne - up one of Sir TITOS. WILLIAMS'S tenders, with 40-French prisoners, and put them on 'board ..the prison ships at Gile ngbam. Ceime up his Al3jesty's ship St. Fiorenzo, uith 400.,Dznish prisoners, _and put them can--board-•-tho Nassau. Sailed from Long Reach, and- anchored at the Nore, his Majesty's ship Bellona, Capt. DOUGLASB. Lieut. BROWN iS appointed to the -command of the irresistible prison ship, vice CRANE. HULL, JAr. 13.—The thnsterdam packet, ---, arrived bete on Thtirsday left Matwick on the 14th of November, with about tarty sail of vessels under convoy of the Diaator and Ardent men of" war, two frigates, two sloops of war, and three brigs, being the last' fleet for this season: On passing Elsinore, the Castle kept up a tremendous fire, but without doing the least injury to any of the convoy. Or Saturday they, experienced a heavy gale from the S. W. for about twelve hours, in the North Sea. The Amsterdam packet lelt. the convoy on Monday -night, Flamborough Head bearing about W. dis, twenty-five leagites, and arrived in the Humber on Wednesday afternoon. The rest of the fleet have arrived off Yarmouth. THEATRE.ThiSTheatre opened for the season last night with the fine seriotis Opera of Semiramide. CATALANI was received at her en trance with very great applause, and she abundantly requited the audience for thiskind reception by a full exertion of her' great vocal powers.—We cannot speak, very favourably of the manner in which the rest of the vocal department was sustained, but we suppose that arrangements are made for rendering it more effective. On the close of the first aat, a new divertis - enzent, entitled La Marchand D'Esclaves, was bought forward for the purpose of introducing Madame DIDEL6T 10 the British public. She is an elegant looking woman, and her movements were. graceful, and expressive: She was, it seems, the first female dancer %of the Opera House at St. Pe tet sburgh, and she is intitled to the patronage of the people of this country. VESTRIS, ANGIOLINI, and Miss SMITH, distinguished themselves in this divertisenient. On the . conclusien of the Opera was represented a grand ballet, called Zdis, ou, La Foret.; , Aventures, also compos , ;_qi by DIDELOT, and which is.- very creditable to Ens taste and imagination. The scent lies on Fairy ground, but we have'no room to enter into a detail. VESTRIS, M d DIDELOT, and ANGIOLINI, again exerted themselves very ably.— Mr. NOBLE, a pupil of D'Evtt.t.a, 'which is a sufficient recommendation, but who has also ad( 1. tior-ial claims to protection as being our countryman, and possessing great talents, came forward, thoue o , 'he had strained the tendon of his heel, and notwith standing ;his accident, made a very favourable im pression on the public. He is a fine young man, and exhibited a marked indication of future excel lence.- The B llet went off with great eclat. We ought not to conclude this brief notice without ex pressing our satisfattion, that so loolz-tried and me. ritorious a servant of the poblic as Mr. JEvvgr.r.., is again invested with a leadng station at thisTheatre ; as we are persuaded that accuracy, attention, pro bity, and gentlemanly manners will always charac, wrile 1114 condu4l of his drparlment. I