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2t it PE RI AL PA A_,l r. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY' DEC 9. Tile" -Lcirm CHANCELLOR being detained at Council, did not take his seat till a quartet past four o'clock, When prayers were read by the Bi shop Of CHESTER. " CATHOLIC QUESTION. The Archbishop o f CAIVTERBURY presented a Pe tition from the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, against the Roman Catholic ClaiMs. The Peti tion (being read.at length - by the Clerk,) assigned various reasons against the concessions whi c h were required' by th e Catholics, as inconsistent with the security of the Established Constitution in Chtwoh and ..cfatc; &c. The Petition being or dered (r).lie on the'tahle ; The Duke of N9ROLK took occasion to ex press his regret that applications to the Legis littnre, on the subjecf of such a stamp, came from the quarter they did. No man was more anxious for the security of the establishments in question than himself, yet he :lid not think removing the tests•whicif were in the contemplation of the Pe-I tioners, lessened the security of the Protestant Es:ablishments.' He was favourable to the re c:ption .and consideration of Petitions from .atn, description of ,his fell Ow-subjects. Whether those applications emanated immediately from the parties themselves, or were promoted . or concurred in by Government, with a View to keep down the Roman Catholics of Irelarid ; he hOped the whole of the intended Petitions would be brought forward soon ; so that when the great question should come to be discussed (which he now understood was not to be-until after the ChriStmas holidays' ; the whole of the objections may be taken into their Lordships consideration. The Vice Chancellor's Bill was, on the motion of Lord REDEsni4,E, read a third timeand passed, and a Messenger ordered to acquaint the Commons therewith. PRIVATE BILLS. It was ordered, on the motion of Lord \VAL SINGHAM, That no Petitions for Private Bills be be received after the 9th day of February next. Adjourned till tomorrow. HOOSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, DECEmBER 9. H. MARTIN gave not►ce, that on 11Tonday reNt, he should move for leave ,to bring' in a Bill to regulate the office ofDeputy-Remembrancer to the Court of Exchequer. Lord G. BERESFORD informed the House that bis Royal, Highness the Prince Regent had .been waited on with the Address from the House, on the subject of a Provision for Lord Wellington ; and that his Royal Highness had been pleased to return a most gracious answer. The . House then resolved itself into a Commit tee of Supply on the - sum voted tor Lord Welling ton, and the report of the Committee was order edto be received to-morrow. • Mr. tiIIfIINGTON brought up the Reports of the Chocolate Act, the Starch Ar't, the Sugar Brewery Bill, und the Customs Consolidation Act ,and each of them was ordered to be read a third time. On the motion for the House resolving itself into a Committee of Ways and Means for rais ing the Supply to be granted to his Majesty, Tile CHANCEL L OR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the Exchequer Bill, the amount of which had already been presented, should he referred to tlii9 co:,:wrrEt OF WAYS AND MEANS. The House having resolved itself into this Committee, The CHANCELLOR 'of the EXCHEQUAR said, that his first proposition was for a renewal of the Land tax.; also that on Sugar, Tobacco, &c. Next, that the sum of 10,500,0001.- . should be raised by -Exchequer Bflls. fie took this opportunity to state, that all. the Exchequer Bills, to the end of January last, had been paid off, A message - fr'oni the Lords acquAinted then-louse that their Lordships having passed a Bill tor settl ing the administration of justice, 'their LOrd ships - desired the concurrence of the House to that Bill. NOTES. Mr: AIANNING moved that there be laid before the House an account of all the Silver Tokens issued by the Bank of England, from the t h of July, 1811, up to the lateit period,towhich the account could he made, distingnishing the Three Shilling Tokens from the Eighteenpenny Lord ARcnißALn HAMILTON observed, that his object was not to have an account of Bank Tokens which had been issued, but to find how long it was probable that these Tokens main in circulation. He concluded by moving, ith an Amendment, that the intrinsic value of the Tokens at the tune of their being issued should_ ge specified., A short conversation then 'took place between Mr. Rose, Mr. Martin, the Chancellor of ehegNer, Mr. Manning, and Lord Hamilton, when the latter hating agreed to withdraw his amendinent, the original Motivn o Itr. carried, neat. con, F,GENCY,Sir • FIANCI3 13U1DETT 'gave notice, that soon -after the Holidays, he intended to move for leave to bring in a Bill, to secure that the Regency should devolve on the Princess Charlotte of Wales, in the case of the death of,the Prince Regent. I.k,rd CASTLEREAGH made some observation on the notice of the Hon. Baronet, which eras not and3.ble in the gallery. COLD COIN BILL. On the motion for a Committee on this . Bill, after some 'observations from Lord Fol,Ks-rot:l3, - . who objected - to this Bill, and protested against it on the same grounds which be and the other opposers of it have so often repeated, and con cludzd by saying, that he understood that Ciorern :anent were reduced' to such. a state for want, of specie, that they were obliged to send 800,0001. in Bank of England Notes to Canada. Mr. W. KEEI , IE again spoke in favour of the Bill, and The Rice Bill %vent through a Committee, in which,. on the motion of . the CHANcELLoti of the ExcitEaunß, 'it was resolved, that an additional .duty of ten shillings should see laid on every hun dred weight of Rice' which was inlported from any part without the British' dominions, or the. territories of the East India Company. The re port of this Committee was ordered to he received to-morrow. The House then adjourned. MAILS AItRIVEO-1 Dublin. ')m —1 Cadiz, I Gotteoburgli, 1 Bra zils, 3 Al'M.ol.ord% PRICE OF .tiTOMS THIS DAy TIVKLvE 6'CLOCK. Consols 61,1 Gbi Red. Anil s9 :i 59 Fri E SUN. SDLEM (JUIS DICERE: AIIDEAT 2.1 L 0 N I) 0 N, THURSDAY, DECRIVIItR 10, 1812. Our readers wilt see, by the perusal of our Yr..r mouth and Harwich letters, that the Russian feet has arrived. It passed Yarmouth yesterday, and may therefore be expected at the Nore this day. We know not on what day they sailed from Gotten burgh, or whether they bring any further account of the sacceses of the Russian army. This decive ineasure of his IMPERIAL LIAJEST affords not only a strong proof of his confidence in the honour and good faith of this country, :.but. also •of his determination, even if his affairs had not taken so glorions.a turn, to persevere in the contest to the utmost. We shall wait with the greatest impatience for the next arrival from the North. If it should turn out, as we trust it will, that BiioNAi , Atini has failed in his at tempts to make his escape, and that he has either fallen by the hands of the Russians, or is in their possession as a prisoner, we may look to the almost immediate cessation of that de strUctive contest which has so long exhaCisted Europe ; an honourable and, in all human proba bility, a durable peace would be the result. We have no official account of BuoNArAriTt after his arrival at Smolensk°, but all the private ac counts agree in stating, that he left that place with all the cavalry he could collect, and took the direction of Mallow. By this route he will have very near 700 miles to travel, before he reaches a friendly frontier. If he has so large a body of troops with hint as has been stated, his progress Must necessarily be slow ; if he diminishes his escort, he increases the probability of his being taken. We yesterday mentioned an intercepted Letter from BuoN:krAßTr: to his Secretary . of State, MA RET, and gave an extract from it Nte,are happy now to have it in .our power to lay the whole of that curious Document before o►►r Readers. (TRANSLATION) COPY OF AN INTERCEPTED LETTER FROM THE EM- PELOR • NAPOLEON, TO THE DUKE 01 , BASSANI:), DATED MOSCOW, OCT. 16, ISI2. " Duke of BAssAIN - o,—l have with inc at this -*.,. two Prussian RenimPnts, who have distin guished themselves in the advanced guard of the Grand 'Army, but which, as may h6-expected; have sufferel severely. Might not the King of Piws- SIA r:!lieve taeSe 710g1111CntS by two others, fresh and well mounted ? The former could then re turn to Prussia, and become fit for service again: The King would he a gainer by this.arrangcment in every respect, since there would not then be occasion to make sash an il-2.mediatc expenditure to remount these regiments, and it would besides add to tae number of his skeleton regiments, ..vaich have bees disciplined and practised in grand manoeuvres. have given to the Prussian con tingent its natural direction, by sending it to Riga ; but I should wish greatly, that the aid of my 7th division were no longer necessary in that vvsh to know, therefore, from the King of. PRUSSIA, whether he would not make an augmentation' of QIIC thousand cavalry and 6000 'infantry, which might proceed to Riga and take the place of the 7th division ; the KING may easily draw these troops from Konigsberg, Col berg, and Graudenz, and thus they could arrive in a few days. These last would be replaced by those which might be drawn from a greater distance, by rendering effective some skeleton' regiments, or ordering troops from Silesia ; in this manner the King of PRUSSIA would form a cordon of 4000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry-. r The CHANCELLOR of th“,r3CCTTEQUEIi, Saiceit was needless to recapitulate • those argnmeuts which had been urged in favour of'the Lord A. HAmiL-roti—moved, that the House should receive further instruction on the subject, before proceeding further'in the matter: The 'SPEAKER observed, that the motion of the Noble Lord came too late ; it should have pre ceded that then before the House, which was that he should reave the Chair. The House then resolved itself into a Com mittee on the Bill, the report of which was or dered to be received on Friday. next. The Jamaica and St. Domingo Intercourse 'Bill was read a second time, and ordered to go through a Committee. " The same language must be held to Austria, the same to Bavaria, at Stutgard, and every where else. I not only desire that reinforcements be sent to me, but I also wish that their force may be ex aggerated, and that those Sovereigns do order to be inserted hr their:Gazettes, not only the great number of troops which' they send off, but that also they double the number in their statement ; and it is to be welt understood, that the Prussian corps at present at Memel is not to be included in these reinforcements. I pray God to take you into his holy keeping. (S.igne,rl) " NAPOLEON. " Moscow, Oct. IG, Sir FRANCIS litimMETT ye , terday gave notice, of,a motion, for le:lve to bring in a .Bill to secure the Regency to (lie Princess CHARLOTTE( OF \\TALES, in the c , ,ent of the demise of her Royal Father, during the life of his Majesty. As the Hon. Baronet could not assign his motives for bringing forward this motion, on giving the no we have no possible means of guessing at his object'. The motion certainly, is unprecedented in its • nature, and appears to be wholly un necessary. Yesterday his Royal Highness the PRINCE RE GENT held a Court at Carlton House.—At two o'clock a Privy 'Council sat, which was attended by, The Lord President of the Council, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the ENcheTier, the First Lord of the Admi ralty, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the President of the Board of Control, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward of the Household, and the Treasurer of the Household. Viscount eiIETWYND attended as Clerk of the After this Council on State business had closed, another Council Was 'held, at which the fiEcottnEn of LO,NDON was admitted, when he made his Re-: port of the following conVicts,.capitally convicted at the last Scntembei•--Sessioa, in the Old Bailey, at Justice gall, viz. . _ JOhn Price, for stealing goOds in . a thi'ellin lionse;. Thomas Williams, Robert Monier,. Ann Watts,, John Rogers, John Roberts, and Stefano Haskett, for like offences; 'William Young and William Lewis, for burglary ; Margaret Palmer and Mary Turner. for privately stealing. goo,L ins a shop ; Joseph Aurora, Catherine Forester, and John Johnson, for like offences ; Francis Ship .man, for forgery ; James Westbr , ok and zabeth Phipps, for house-breaking ; Mary Ro gers, for uttering counterfeit money ; John ,Babbitt, for highway robbery ; William Birch, for burglary ; George Bell,, alias George William Porter, for horse stealing ; Thos. Wright, for privately stealing in a shop ; Aim Owen, for a like of ;. Abel M`Donald, for a highway rob bery; : - ind Thomas Seminester, alias Davis,' for stealing goods in a dwelling-house ; when Francis Shipman was ordered for execution on Thursday next, the 17th instant. . His 'loyal Highness gave audiences to the Earl of HARROWBY, Viscount SIDMOUTH, the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Earl of LIVEarooL, Lord MuL GRAVE, the Duke Of MONT.:WSW, and Viscount INlErstm.E. ViSCOHIIt MELBOURNE was the Lord in waiting, for Lord CHARLES SPENCER j and Col. BRADYL wos the Groom: Letters from St. Petersburgb confidently state, that Lord WALPOLE had left the Russian Capital on a secret mission to Vienna, or rather for the frontiers of Austria,where, it was added, he was to open a negociation With the Leaders of the Austrian armies. A Manifesto'is said to have been issued at St. Petersburgh, in .which the Emperor Ar.r.DEtt solemnly retracts all former acknoWledgments of BUONAPARTE as Emperor of France, and once more declares, that he will never conclude a peace with France while. that villain is acknow ledged as her Ruler. It is even said, that when LAVRISMN came to beg a truce of KuTusow, the Hero nobly demanded the • dead body of his ter as a pledge of his sincerity ! with such evi dence of the spilit in which the Russians view the present contest, where is the Man who 'wo'uld give a sixpence for . the reversion of all the crowns in Europe, at BUONAPARTE'S disposal ? The followin g stratagem is s a i ( l t o h ave b een played off by 'I3 I 7 ONAPARTE, preparatory to his leaving Moscow. He caused it to be . teade public, that as salt was scarce in the country round MOS COW, the peasantry might come to Moscow, and be there provided with as much as they re quired for preserving their meat througn the winter, at the rate of 3 copeck's, per pood. The proposal tempted some peasants in the immediate vicinity of the city, and a few days afterwards up wards of 700 carts were assembled at Moscow, the purpose of bringing ! . away salt. The conse quence was, that drivers, horses, and carts, were all put in requisition for the' service of the army, and employed in removing stores and bagg age . The Protesta n t s o f th e County of Roscommon have entered into very strong resolutions against the Catholic Claims. A meeting of the Clergy, and certain of the Laity, within thc Archdeaconry of Chichester, was held at the Library of Chichester Cathedral, on Wednesday, at which was franied a Petition to the two Houses of Parliament, against the Repeal of the Catholic,Claims. " It will b&an easy matter for You to make him ' comprehend that it is his own interest that this war should be terminated quickly ; because, in the mean tune, he mast be greatly inconvenienced by this struggle ; and that there is only one . effectual way of bringing the same to a termination, which is, to spew to Russia, by the powerful means which the Emperor possesses of , recruiting his armies, not only in his own States, but by the succours furnished by his allies, that the hope she cherishes of ruining the army be void of foundation, and perfectly illusory. cant SECOND EMTTIO'i. SUN-OFFICE, liALY-PAST TWO O'CLOCK' MORE GLORIOUS NEWS We stop the Press to communicate to out Readers the following most glorious gence the French, General AUGEREAU, together whit his whole corps, have been compelled to lay (lowa their arms, and a , :e prisoners of war. Generals WIFTGBNSTEIN and TscHITcH4GOFI have joined. KuTusow, witli Lis Grand Army, is at KG' loona. Smolensko is completely surrounded. The Russians have in all taken TWO MIS' DRED 'and FIFTY PIECES of CANNON. THIRD EDITION. S.UN OFFICE. HALF-PAST THREE O'CLOCK.. We again stop the press to add the following additional particulars : Government have this morning received ac counts from Gottenburgh to the 30th of Novew, ber. No dispatches have been received from Lc '4 CATTICART, but the accounts from the Bussioo armies are of the most flattering description.--- General PL•ATO W had taken 900 men and two pieces of cannon, at-the passage of the Dneiper, below Srnolensko. A Corps of 2,000 men, under the command of General AUGERAU, brother of the Marshal of that name, had surrendered descretion, to Count ORLOFF DENIZOW. The last accounts from KUTU;iOI;I , were- datell the 13th of November, at Lol)kovo, 40 wemts to the :Jouthward of Srnolensko, Nothing at that: trine wa kErl4wn of BUONAPARTE. NAVAL NFIV,v ARRIVAL OF THE RUSSIAN FLEET. YdiRMOUTH, DEC. B.—A fleet from the BiAtic, under Admiral florE, are now at the back of tfie Sands ; it is very hazy, but there appears to be a convoy with them. P. S. We bare just learnt that with the above Acct there are five sail of Russian men of war, and three frigates. ••• liAaw-tenc DEC. e have just time. to an nounce to you, from telNraphic Wm . :nation, tlott seven sail of Russian men of wail., and an Engli 4 h brig with them, passed up this afternoon, with the wind at north-west. CORK, DEC. 3.—Yesterday afternoon arrived in our harbour his Majesty's ship Stork, Capt. COULSON, from Plymouth The Sybille, Capt. UPTON, and 'Stork, are ap pointed convoys for the next West India fleet. Th.: Sybille is taken off this station, and after seeing convoy to their destination with the Stork, we believe, will proceed to Halifax, to join Sir J. B. WARREN'S squadron on the coast of America. There are at present eighteen ships to-take in structions. The Fortnnee frigate, on her arrival here, will prodeed to Loughswilly, it is said to relieve the Leonidas. • The Brisk and Trinciilo arc attached to the Leonidas. THE THEATRE.-- 7 - 1111'. RAE, Who performed thc character of Humlet, at Drury-Lane Theatre, (»n Tuesday appeared in that of Yoiing Norval. The latter character (loci not make such a dernall,: upon the intellectual potters. of an getqr, and 4 therefore, though MI. RAE_ uegnii.tpl himself re spectably in Hairilet,,lic , appvL'ed to nwyc a,civan, t:i4re in Nu/7;a/, The Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Northamp ton hare unanimously agreed to petition Parlia ment against the Emancipation of the Irish Ca. tholics. Orders have been received at Cork for the pre puration of two squadrons of Germain Hussars— oue defined for Gibraltar, and the other for Ali- SEVERITY OP THE WEATHER.-1 1 11C cold and damp - air, at this Seas on , a ff ec ti ng 'generally the human frame, should be carefully guarded against. The Teeth and Gums, however, are more parti cularly liable to be affected.—Frir their protection, the Chevalier IixsPINI, from 50 years experience, can confidently recommend his DENTIFRICE anti TINCTURE, which, by their bahlatnic and astrin gent qualities, ar e o f powerful use in defending the Nerves connected with the Teeth. For violent Tooth-aches, the Chevalier recommends his Elixir, which will almost instantaneoufly removz augniih, GOTENBURGE, DP, c. s.—During the retreat a