The Sun. — London, England, 1812-07-29 00:00:00

MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Waterford. Due—l Cadi2, I Lisbon. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols THE SUN. SOLk:M Qt/j1 DICERE FALSUDI AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 hr, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1812. Letters were this morning received in town from Canada, which state, that every thing was then perfectly tranquil, and that no hostile dispo tion had been manifested by the Americans. The - intelligence brought by the Anholt Mail, which arrived yesterday, as far as it is indicative , of the intentions of SWeden, is extremely im portant. BERNADOTTE is evidently on the point of faking a decisive part in the war ; an Army of . 25,000 Swedes' was ready for embarkation, and will, we trust, in a very , short timo, be ac tively employed in the reitr of ' the French Army. It is stated, and we think with great probability, that • the plan of operations adopted by the Russians was suggested by BEr NAnoTT ; certainly no plan could be devised more efiectually calculated to give effect to the co-operation of Sweden. It was stated, indeed, in some of the letters yesterday received, from Riga, that Btro- . NAPARTE had already found the. impracticability of advancing in Russia, and that he had actually • begun his retreat, for . wa it of provisions. We cannot undertake - to pledge ourselves • for the truth of the statement contained- in those let- ten ; but we do positively. aver,_ that .let .. • ten mentioning that circumstance' have been received. The ,rumour of a battleThaving been fought is repeated from a variety,Sof quarters. Accounts from Liebau of :the Bth state, that an action had been •fought siithin three •German miles of that place, in which the French had sus tained a loss of near iO,GuOO men. Letters from Helsingburgh speak of :a battle fought near the same place, which they also represent as having ter minated unfavourably io the French, though their loss is not described as being so great.' It, is, by no means improbable that a skirmish .may have taken place about the—spot mentioned in these letters ; but it is very unlikely that so large a portion of the French Army could be engaged in it as there must have been,' if it had sustained any thing like The lois described. According to the last accounts from the French Army they were at Wilna, and we cannot conceive by what possible plan of operations they could be brought into the neighbourhood of Liebau. If the French ,meant to attack Riga, the direct road would take them through Mittau, at a very considerable _distance from Liebau. Another report brought by the . Anholt was, that a- corps of 5000 Prussians had shot ,the French General untie?. whose command they were, and that they had_gone over to the Rus, siand. give this statement just as it reached us, without pledging ourselves for its truth : we think it right, however, to add; that the hostile disposition of the Prussians towards the French is notorious ; and we know as a fact, that great num bers of them have deserted to Ate RuSsimis. Sir FRANCIS 13,(TRDETT yesterday moved "an Ad - - dress to the PRINCE, REGENT, in which he reca - - - pitulated all the various topics Upon which he is so frequently in the' habit of descanting, but no l‘lember in the House would second his motion ; of course it fell to the ground. The'PRINcE REGENT will hold a Privy Council to-day, at Carlton House. The Duke - ot Yr)Rx held a Military Levee, yes terday, at his Office in the Horse (;nards, which was att4;:ided - by Lord ilooD; and a riuuilier.. of. Military Officers. - -• Viscount CATHCART left town last evening, and proceeds direct to the Head-quarters of the ltus 7 sian arniy. His.lGyal Highness the Commander in Chief will review three regiments of the Honourable East India Company's Volunteers, on Friday morning, at 11. o'clock, on Wanstead Common; The Earl of LIVERPOOL - had an audience yesterL terday morning of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carl ton House. Earl BATuuRsT had an audience; and transacted business with the Duke of YORK, at his Office in the Horse Guards. • Yesterday Mr. RosE transacted business at the ' Board of Trade Office. Yesterday friorning Lords HARE - 63.vEy' and SID MOUTII transacted business with the Earl of LIVERPOOL, at his house in Whitehall. Yesterday morning his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK paid a visit to Louis XVIII. at Wimbledon, where his Majesty has been residing a few days at the Prince of Co NE's. 'Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of KENT and SuSSEx. also went there in .the course of the morning. We understand the whole of the Royal French Family are invited to dine on Thursday at. Oat lands, with the QUEEN, the PRINCE, and all the ROYAL DUKES. NA VA L N EWE'S. PLYMOUTIJ, JULY 27.—. Arrived the Tigress brig of war from the coast of Africa, and has since sailed for Portsmouth. Also arrived the Minerva, belonging to Cowes, ROBERT COLBROOK, Master, and the - Lord Nelson, belonging to this port, WILLIAM PUD DICOMBE, Master, both from Ireland, with cargoes of provisions, for this . port ; the ship John, belonging to Newcastle, GARRATT, Master, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, with a cargo consisting of timber, &c for this port ; and the Mercury, ADAMS, from Wales, eulm-lad6l. ' Sailed the Fortunee frigate, Captain SEYMOU' with a 'few merchantmen tinder convoy to the east ward ; and the Arniide frigate, 'Capt. Du N, for the Coast of France. Went into Barnpool to be refitted, the Dryad frigate, Capt. GALWAY. Sailed the brig Rosamond, belonging to this port, CLARK, Master., and the Abbey, belonging to this port, HANAPORD, Master, both for Dub lin ; together with a feW other vessels to the Westward, names unknown. DEAL, JULY 28.—Put back the whole of the outward-bound, and "the Countess of Elgin cutter. Arrived his .Majesty's ship = Egmont from off Flushng, and remains. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 28.—Arrived his Majesty's ship, Fortunee from Plymouth, with a convoy ; and the Tyrian from 'a cruize, and sailgd again with a convoy for the Downs. Sailed his Majesty's ships Elephant, Asia, and Diligent for the DoWns. - , FALMOUTII, JULY 26. 7 —Arrived the Triton, RICHARDSON, from Prince Edward's Island; and . sailed ap - in for Plymouth ; two days since she spoke his Majesty's schooner, Mullet from Ha lifax. TORBAY, 7 JLY 27.—Sailed the Speculator lug ger, with four naval lighters, for Pirinouth. YARMOUTH, JULY 28.—Arrived yesterday from the Downs the,Cheerley and Attack, and having procured pilots, sailed for the Baltic with the Acteon and Mariner. • This morning the Starling - and Princess of Wales returned to these Roads. HARWICH, JULY 28.—The Lard Duncan packet, arrived from Gottenburgh, brings an account of the arrival from the Baltic, under convoy of the Zealous man of war, of 80 sail of vessels, on the 17th instant. We arc in good hope, that the six ships stated in our last to have been captured, are with the fleet, as a passenger spoke the Maritz , :Capt. GALIIANI , off the Wingo, who_ told him there was not any missing or hurt. The convoy from England had arrived out all well, that for Eng land still remained. - SUPYLEMENT TO THE ST. 'PETERSBURGII GAZETTE. No,- 50. FRIDAY, JITNE,2I (JULY 3), 1812. ' 1 Head-Quarters, June 1.7 (June 29), 1812. " In the month of February. the French troopi crossed the Elbe and Oder, and directed their march towards the Vistula. From that time war seemed unavoidable. In the hope ,of maintaining peace, his / Majesty 'the Emperor took only such steps _.as were dictated by prudence and circum-, spection ; and . with this view the tr oo p s were stationed without the-least intention of hostility This plan ,was - the more readily adopted, from the experience of the former Aar having proved that a' defensive preferable to an offensive sys tem of warfare. By the end of April the French troops. were assembled;. notwithstanding which warlike operations did not commence till the 12th of June—a proof of the effect produced on the enemy by the measures adopted by " The corps under the orders,of Field Marshals Ncy, Oudinot, Macdonald, Princo,Poniatowski, and the Guards, crossed the _Niemen almost at the sonic time, , by Jusburg,-KoWno, Olita, and Mer cez. As soon as the intelligence reached his Ma jesty, he ordered the troops to 'concentrate. - The point of concentration was necessailly at some distance from-the frontiers. Pursuant to this dis position, all the advanced corps fell back to oc cupy the positions allotted to them. That move ment being completed, the• anny this dap stand's thus " The corps of Count Wilgenstein is near Wil komir:---that of General•Baggoh ufst-udt near Schir wink, between Wilkomir and Wilna. a*The corps of Generals Tutshkow and Skewa loff near Wilna—the reserve, consisting of the Guards, near :!:',.;lll,venzen—the army of Prince Bagration is on its march from Slonim- to Wi icka. " The Army of Observation, commanded by General Tormassoff, is at Lutzk. These movements were necessary, in order to avoid a gener4 engagement until Prince Bagra tion-s approach. Wilna has therefore been-aban doned fot a time. " Operations have commenced, and have lasted five days; but not one of our different divisions has been attacked. " Thus the opening of the campaign *las not proddced any of those enterprizes. which charac terised every previous one in which the Emperor Napoleon has been, engaged. " There have been some skirmishes, in which the Cossack guards have distinguished thew— selvel." IMPERIAL__PARLIAMF 4 N,T. HOUSE OF LORDS, TfIEsDAY, THE ROYAL ASSENT Was given by Comthission t() the . Appropria tion Bill, the Assessed Taxes Allowance, the .Volunteers Agent Generals, Privy Purse, Coffee Retail, Medicine Duties, Parish Register, Half pay Officers, and the White Herring Fishery Bill. The Lords CommiSsioners were_ the Lord Chancellor, the Earl df Harrowby, and Lord Wal singham. _ MISCELLANEOUS. In the Writ of Error Cause, Johnson v. Butler, their Lordships affirmed the decree of the Court below, with 1301. costs. The Vote of Credit Bill was read a third, time and passed. _ . , Tlie Stipendiary Curates Bill Tbeing recom mitted, a few additional Anienaments were intro duce Ton the suggestion of the Earl of Harrow-1)v, who expressed his wish that the Bill, as amended, should lie over till the next Session .of Pailia 7 meat, The House then resumed, and the report, :with the amendments was ordered to be printed. Aiesages were received from the Columbus, and the following Bills were returned by Mr. Lushington, Sir James Shaw, and other Members, with the acquiescence of that House to the diffe rent amendingnts made. bytheir Lordships therein, viz. the -Peace Preservation, the Bank .Token, Pour Debtors' Relief, St. George's and Moor- fields Improvement ; London Prisons, Dissenters Worship, Prisbner's of War Escape, and the Woo& and nireSt Bills. The Aniendrnepts - made by the Commons to the Insolvent . Debtors' Bill, W - ,ere agreed to with 'cer tain exceptions; ,and a Message . was sent to quaint the Lower HouSe therewith. " • The Returns made respecting the Population of the Country, wbre,on the motion of Lord Wal singbam„ ordered to be printed for the . Use of the House.—Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--TUESDAY. The House wits summoned to the House of Peers, and on their return, the Speaker announced that the'Royal Assent "had been giveri by Coin mission to several - Bills, - for which see - our Re port of the Proceedings of the,House of Lot ds. The Report of the Committee , on the Affairs of the East Ind:a Company ivas brought up; and 'or dered to be printed. Messages from the Lords announced their Lordships' Assent'. to the White Herrings Bill; th&Agent .Genenrl for Volunteers Bill; The StOCk holders Relief Bill, the Vote of Credit Bill, sessed/Taxes Bill, &c. without any amendments. The House then took into considiration' their Lordships' Amendments to the Dissenters 13i11, the Local Tbkens Bill, the Toleration - Bill; the French Prisoners of iVar Escape the Public Peace Bill, the Woods and Forests Bill, and the Debtors Relief' Bill, when the whole of their Lordships' amendments tb these Bills were a , greed to. BRISTOL ELECTION. Sir F. BURDETT presented two Petitions, the one from Mr. Hunt, complaining of ,'variotis_vio lotions of the laws of _the country on•the,part Of 11. H. Davis, Esq. and his friends, at the late election at Bristol, and praying that he might have witnesses examined before the House, to _corro _borate the statements made in his 'Petition,:cir that a Committee should be appointed to inquire into the matter. This Petition was ordered to be taken into consideration on that day'three weeks. The other Petition was from two of the. Electors, and. contained complaints of the same nature against It. H. Davis, Esq. and his friends, as those stated in Mr. Hunt's Petition. 'This Petition was disposed of in the same manner with the for Mer. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Sir FRANCIS BeRDETT rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, on the • subject of the, present state of the country. The Hon. Baronet began-by stating, that there never was a time when public grievances more abounded, and when tie necessity for some public remedy was more apparent. • -In his estimation, there,was little appearance that the pros - ecution of the war would be carried on with success. The dangers of the country were great, both in a foreign point of view, and as it respected the internal state of things. Under these circumstances;and impress ed with these ideas; he thought it his- duty, before Parliament adjourned, to call the attention of the Prin6e Regent to the-situation - of the country, and to lay before him the'only remedies which, in his opinion; could safely be adopted, to remove those evils and dangers with which we were surround ed. He was not prepared to go at cull length into a detail of all the grievances of the country,: but - would content himself merely with giving a short sketch of those pres Sing and strong paints of abuse , which tendedto produce such great dissatisfaction and danger throughout the country. Those were of various kinds and descriptions. In the first place,- and certainly those were the highest' sort of abuses, were to be ranked those, inroads which from time to time had been made by the Govern- inept upon the Constitution. At first they were introduced with a sparing hand, until by degrees they became more glaring,. and at length were re garded with a less jealous eye. This class of legal grievanCes was then very 'great;; Judges were continually construing the law 'of the land different from what the legislature meant it should be, con struingit most unfavourably to the liberty of the s'ubject, particularly with respect to the press ; the usurpations of power by the Attorney General in filing Ex Otfieht Informations, putting men in peril and danger, bringing them before a jury of their country for trial, and putting off that trial to a distant dav, at his own will and pleasure, putting the parties to great trouble and expence, upon no reasonable ground or pretence whatever, was a grieirance which required an imMediate re medy. Unless Blackstone was totally mistaken, measures of this nature were not to be justified, but upon a supposed overhearing necessity of the case, when the Government was in danger: - • It would not be pretended that the practice was not disgUsting to all, and was too dangerous to be placed in the hands of one man, especially in wa country Where the liberty of challenging' a Jtt r i and of having a previous inquiry into the rfatui' l of any chargewas the essence of the law of d" land. But - by A Bill lately passed, additio o powers had been given to the Attorney neral ; which was a sad evil, proceeding -fo il a branch of the LegWature, where constitu' tionallv all grievances Nvepe to be redressed -- that tiris House should lend its authority to 091 thingwhieh favoured of inroad into, und hostil! to the spirit of. the Constitution. The power 0 ! chaltAging Jurymen had been violated, as he sv'l' informed, iuthe case of Bellingham,: for the fir s ' time ; that person was not indicted'for high trl son, but felony ; yet the Attorney-General tot: upon himself the challenge, and eight out of t ° ' twelve were actually challenged by the proseent°r' Thereaniglit have been reason for the prisoner t° challenge - the Jury, het certainly none for tlit • prosecution ; besides,-if this principle was cof e admitted; there was no saying to what ex t en t the Attorney-General might carry it.. Such an .skinption of power was dangerous and intolerabl e ' It went to destroy the first principles of the (20 1 " stitution.' Among the other grievances which "e had to enumerate, 'Was one in . which it had beet' admitted in this Muse, by the, Clianceller of ti" Exchellber, that there was an .absolute " ne ces.vitY, for some great exertion to support the labouri° 4 finarices' of .the country. - When taxation had ,ar rived to swell an extent that it:was_ found diffietut to collect the taxes, measures of great enonon' E became necessary. _ Three great exaetions finance hatiabeen. mentioned by different Minister'' One of them was, and that was the first and th e greatest, the tax upon income, trilich,.at the tittl e it was proposed, it was denied would lead to vexV Lions. Subsequent experience, however, had 010 0 the contrary,, and those who opposed the tits at first,, had since found that .they opposed it plo4 justly. 'Another great exaction was, . raising th e tax 10 percent. and taking away all exemptil grantee in the first instance to those persons • narrow drul limited incomes. The next gref . action .was levying, the War.. Taxes. • What ' ll these great exactions had-led to, he would shel l from the Finance Committee's Report, in which it was evident that ktigc,sums of money, raised 1 4 means of these taxes, had been s uselessly and Pro - expended. The Hon. Baronet then re:J( l a variety of, items from these Reports, in illustratiu ti of ,his assertion,. Among them 'were, he obscrv ed,.sunis amountitvg•to 392,3611. paid to . s inecw place:nen hr England, Scotland; and-lreland,,n" t one farthing of which Was paid for public •serviec''' es Compensations to Officers deprh-ed Of their °flit' in Ireland by the Ullioll,loo a ll3i. and it W' l singular to remark, that of- this sulmil, there vr" -9 , an item of 2000/. to the Prince of Meeklenburg a Strelitz. The _Consolidated Fund, 382,1101. ; 11 '7 Post Office, 13,7001. ; Excise 14,0001. 5 Scotr ; 49,700/.5 to the French, Dutch, and • Americ' ul Loyalius, 161,0001. ; the money lost in loons r ° the Emperor, ,of Germany (who is' DOW fight i l " in concert with the enemy of this conntry,) „, to other Foreign Powers, amounted to 2„143;59°': He then" went to state a variety of other itc: 9 ' chargable to the Royal Familv a to Foreign Car s ' to the East India Company:, &c. and noticed par ticularly_ the sinus of 176,000/. paid for - Seer& z.M . "' vices. How that money was expended, whethe r in fomenting the war, :by hiring such persons " s Henry, or for paying Spies and infpriners to trap amen at home, into the commission of offenee'l he knew not, but which ever way. it was pended, it was eqUally liable to his observatr° 1 * and animadversion. There as also a•geaot t 100,0001_ for the poor -Clergy of the Church. ° t, England. Why this grant was made he did It'" know, b u t he did think that the poor Clergy u rigU t; have been assisted ..by the rich Clergy -'of O d e Church Of England. If any poor persons stO° in need of.assistance, it was the labouring n"** * .' chanies thrown out of employ by that Measure t" Government, the Orders in Council, were, th e first to-claim relief; they were entitled t to support, since they had suffered by the policy Government. • The, Commissioners of Public Ac counts had done little good further than reccivil their salaries .; that money might have been safe to the Public if the House had done their,busines s ; He next alluded to the various. jobs, as he terine" them; the Boarl . of . ' Agriculture, Scotland' Palace-yard repaks,: the Royal Military CaW 4l '„ Barracks, a sum of. 54021. to the Princess ( " j , Wirtemburgh, &c. 5 all - of those items' making 3. total of nearly nine millions sterling, burtlien . t° the country. With. respect to the Civil List Re; venue—that he did...not object to,. for he thoug h the Kind had suffered by his bargain with 'lie Public for the sale of his Crown ,Taands , ---the 3c were so badly managed 'by the Pub:ie Cottlini 3 ' sioners that, as he was 'informed, they only r.r" - duced 16,0001. a year,, when by. proper manage.' ment they would produce considerably above on ° million sterling. "He expressed himself a fir ° '' friend to the constitutional power and dignity °- , the Crown, though lie had_ been repeatedly re presented as . hostile to Ministers had nnu .l4 the Government of King, Lords, and !Commons" an odious : oligarchy, and to that oligar,chy 50 made, and to the Borough-mongering faction,: he- objected: He noticed the vast expence the . army, which coat the country between twery . ty-two and twenty-three'thillions -annually, nct more than one-third of which. sum went t ° the "'support of the soldiery, the rest of co ast went among the Officers, for barracks, and for jO l l- 4 ' In, order to remedy these abuses, he thought re" form in the representation of the p eo pl e. w as the chief means. He comma-id in the opinicins of.tlm Member for Bedford, with respect to the necessi t y' for peace, and . the folly of rejecting the late over; tures—these overtures demanded a different king of answer to that •*nt over. He denied that Fel— dinand the Vlith was the person with whorls we had a treaty, and consequently th a t th e negociatio,l; might have been entered into. He deprecated the coalitions entered into against France ; at ncl observed; that experience had shewn the inutility of them,for invariably the arms of France had conquered. If we must have allies, he recopy mended to his Majesty's Ministers tb make otr own people their first ally, by giving them th e Constitution entire, by redressing their grievances, by permitting all sorts of — toleration in and using the strictest economy in the public re sources. lia6ng descanted at some le - ogS-11 Or these topi(s., he concluded with expressina lilt -