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were to he met with, and the sentence in the case before the House might be of use to them, for it served to slim that my Lord this, or my Lord that, would look.in vain for favour or promotion in the army, if he were not attentive to his duty. The precedent; indeed, which this sentence afford ed, promised the most salutary results, while it completely negatived the idea of favouritism. In fart, there could be no 'possible presumption to excuse that idea ; for how could the suspicion be entertained where the decision was against twen ty-six Officers of the first families and connertions in the Empire, and in favour only of one old Offi cer of no family connections whatever in the country—of an Officer, indeed, who had raised himself to rank in the army by his Own merit, ""d who had enjoyed no favour but what he de rived from that merit, particularly in bringing the regiment to which he belonged to the highest state of discipline ?—(Hear, hear, hear'.)--"The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded with declaring his conviction, that no Parliamentary ground bad been laid for the motion under consideration, and therefore he expressed a hope that the House ivrottld see the propriety of declining to interfere Avith the sentence of a Court-Martial, to which interference, indeed, he trusted that Parliament would ever be adverse, unless very strong grounds should be made out, imperiously calling for a de -viation from its general practice. VYSE spoke in favour of Colonel Quentin, and could not consent to that House becoming a Court of Appeal on the present occasion. Mt. BRAND said, in the reign of George 11. in 1745, the House had, in one case, thought pro per to interfere with the decision of a Court- Martial, in the case of Captain Norris, when, in the teeth of Mr. Pelham, the Minister of that day, they had voted the proceedings to be " partial, arbitrary, and illegal." He commented on the hardship of Colonel Palmer's case, who had not signed the letter which had been mentioned, who had engaged in the prosecution but in obedience to the commands he had received, and conducted biinself with the utmost forbearance, te►nl;erance, and candour, while he anxiously laboured to do justice to the cause confided to him by those who had so often fought, and conquered, and Wad by his side. lie thought there was no thing in the proceedings before the Court-Mar tial to justify the conclusion come to at the Horse Guards. On this account, he desired the Mi nutes might be produced, that the grounds of it should be seen. He contended there could have been no jealousy of Colonel Quentin that would have set on the °dicers to endeavour to get him out of the regiment; for as he had never been na turalized, he could not have retained the corn-. tnand beyond the 17th of next June, when the suspension of the Settlement Act would expire. Mr. Serjeant BEST was confident it must he felt by every 6ne that read the names of the Officers removed from the 10th Hussars, that-tbe Regent, in issuing the order for their removal, had made a great sacrifice of private feeling to public duty. Notwithstanding the relaxation which was ad mitted to have taken place in the regiment, Lord Combermere and Lord Edward 6omerset had ac- kuowledged there was still discipline enough in the hour of trial to secure those results which constitute the soldier's glom They . had been praised not merely for their valour, but for their steadiness and discipline. He contended Colonel Quentin could with propriety have done no other titan he had done, and shewed that the only proper course that could be pursued, was to call' a Court-Martial. He then took a retro- spective view-of the conduct of tf►e Officers con cerned in the prosecution, and noticed the delay which had occurred in bringing the charges for ward, awl time intimacy which, in the mean time, had subsisted between Colonel Quentin and some of the parties. He contended no sufficient ground had been made, out to justify any interference on the part of that House.. In time case of Captain Norris, the decision that the proceedings before the Court-Martial had been ." partial, arbitrary,, and illegal,", of itself proved, a case had been made out very different from the present.. Mr. IlEtersoN was of opinion that the sentence of the Regent, far from being severe, was one of great lenity. - -Sir C. gURRELL could see nothing to complain of in the conduct °Elbe Officers who had been re- moved, and should vote accordingly. Consider ing the Due di Quiche a most important witness on two of the charges, had been absent, he thought the sentence the hardest thing that could be imagined. After a tew words from Mr. I'. Moottg, Colonel PALmHa replied. No fact th a t he h a d advanced • bad been disproved. The question now before the House he conceived .to be this—whether the Charges were founded or unfounded—if they were the former, interference might be proper— if the latter, they deserved what they lied met with.—The House then divided— Ayes 37 Nue4 . . . . . Majority against the Motion . -107 Adjourned at Twelve o'clock. ABSTRACT OF IMPORTANT PARLIAMENTARY PAPEILS.—( Co be rept/arty.) l'z.vs:ri:.—The Vote of Credit of Three Millions for the Year 1814 has horn thus appliedl—iss:Lecito the Treasurer of the Nary, 1,314,50 N. :—to t o e Paymaster of the .Forces, V!`.3,oo.ol.:—Remains PitOSTATT TAX.—In the Report of the Cownittee upon expired and expiring Laws, the Property Tax Act is recorded expitihz ita!urully onithe Std •of AyriL, 1315. THE MARKETS. . , CoaN i;:tcuANdE, Nov. 18.--We have had a febiv ,arrivals since Wednesday, - principally with Oats from Lincolnshire ; fine samples -of which sniyorted the prices. .I,4st ' , quoted. The sale of Wheat was very dull, except for f:ne.samples,which sild at the last prices. Peas and Beans -support their price; Barley, if any of f.Hic quality, had appeared - , would- have sots! at an advanced price: In other artrielci- there is no alteration. Nov. 3.—This day's Market had a'short sup ply of the various kind s of Cattle; Beef, .Mutton, Porli, and Veal, nuoptirted last prices, and the trade, Int- the most part, WAS not.o , er 'F lie sales in the iity-market were some witut ; CIUVCI lasi prtelbj Hay - and Straw have ALll:a i n price. mAiLs. A nnivEn-1 Lichen. DUE-1 France, n Hamburgh, 3 Hol land, I Guernsey anti Jersey, I Dublin, 1 Wateiford. Pi: TCE OIL SIC THIS MAY Al TwEi.vr. I L. Ann. 13 15-11itlis Bonds, ms. 17s. pr. I 'Exelleq. Bills, Is. 33. pr. Oanninu), Consols for Account, C-1141 Bata; Stocli, 3 per Cent. Red. Op 3 per Cent. Cons. 6.1 4 )Icr cnt, Cons. 79i !ID 5 perCcut. Nat y Ann.9jtf VG HIGIJ ItATEr. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-M011110‘1". Mornin4, 37 minutes - Aftt9- G. I Erening, 2 minutes after 7. Ti F tv4i E T N L • Sf/LENI Q(7 I S LitINI A U DEAT ? LONDON, NOVEHBER is, 1314. I We veSterday intimated our belief that the Pro perty Tax would be continued in force for some time, and upon this subject we find Mr. WHIT BREAD again pressing the Minister laSt .night. A very short notice wii;, we think, save the Public from being misled on this point.—ln the first place, neither the re-enactment nor the expira tion of this Tax , (whichever may happen) will be a Ministerial measure : the decision rests with the Legislature—with the Representatives of the People, the House of Peers, and the Sovereign. It is, therefore, ridiculous to treat the question as one of Patty, either on one side or the other. The existing; law expires .(vide our Abstract of Parliamentary Papers in a preceding column) on 6th April next; but if the Legislature sec cause in the circumstances of the times to renew its operation, surely Parliament (not Ministers) have as full an authority to do this, as they had to pass the original Bill. 'T talk of breach of faith, and violation of our .pub-: lic engagements in this matter, is the height' of factious absurdity. By such a rule, every war tax made permanent, has been so made at the expence of a breach of faith—every alteration in a Law is a violation of an engagement once en tered into between the Government and the Public. The truth rests in small compass. The same ne cessity in which the Tax originated must be shown to justify its prolongation beyond the period con templated when it was imposed. lf, then, it can be proved that the winding-up of our War Ac counts and the situation of our present contest with America absolutely require the continua tion of • such a Revenue as this Tax pro duces, the same power which laid it on may repeat the Act, and it behoves those who object to it either to iti4rove its necessity, or point out other less , obuoxious means by which the supplies can be obtained. If theyfail in both these points, we confess we are at a loss 4.0 esti mate that patriotism which vilifies a measure in dispensibly called :..or by the state of the country. We have inserted elsewhere the only particulars which the Buenos Ayres Gazettes to the end of July furnish. Since that period the Thomas Blow has arrived at Liverpool with further accounts from the River Plate to the 21st of August. Monte Video remained in piet occupation 'oltbe. Buenos Ayres troops ; but such was the exhausted state of the town, that the inhabitants were nearly re duced to starvation. The Governor, - VIGODET, stipulated in the capitulation he signed, that be was to be permitted to return to Old Spain ; and although he afterwards refused to surrender the town in conformity to the capitulation, the Buenos Ayres Government did not alter their intention, but sent him home . ; and, letters received from Spain yesterday give information of his arrival in that country. Advices have also reached town from Valpa raiso, to the 25th of May last. At that period great doubts were entertained whether the Vice roy of Lima would ratify the Treaty of Peace agreed to between the Lima General and the Peo ple of Chili, in virtue of . which the latter were to be allowed to exercise a Free Trade with Great Britain, and all other Allies of Spain, on the sim ple condition of acknowledging FERDINAND VII. It was understood that the Viceroy was not antho rised to accede to . such terms. Nevertheless, it had been agreed that two Deputies from Chili should be dispatched to the Cortes. , An immense number of Private Communications from Canada are given in every Newspaper, and unite in condemning the conduct of the. Go vernor of our Colonies in the most unqualified' terms. As the Public have, however, been satu rated with this species of Correspondence, we shall content ourselves with simply noticing the fact, and keep from being a prty to the raising of a clamour which may, 'indeed, and does appear to have too good a foundation ; but which seems also to be too loud for reason, and too virulent for perfect truth. If Sir GEORGE PREVOST has,. as i 3 stated, been recalled, and is coming hitlier to stand in his own jUstificatiou, it is assuredly. both unnecessary. and unjust to feed this violent . outcry against hits unnecessary, because the evil complained - of has been removed, and unjust, because the accused hay not been heard in his own defence, and is on the eve of being brought to his answer. No French Papers hive arrived in the usual course this niui fling. Cencral Dcuoun, and the Officers arrested wial him at Paris, have, it is stated in a private letter, been sent prisoners to the Castle of Vincennes. There was last night a long Debate in the House of Commons, on the subject of the sepa ration of the Officers of the 10th Hussars, in con sequence of the Court-Martial on Col. QUENTIN. As we, in the first instance, thought it our duty to abstain from entering into the merits of a case decided by a legal, constitutional, and competent Tribunal, so shall we continue to refuse our par ticipation in the error of making that a party question, which seems removed to the furthest possible degree from any connexion with Party.— If the Opposition have supposed that they could convert this matter into one of their favourite measures of personal annoyance to their PRINCE, they grossly deceived themselves; for at least, so far as the REGENT was concerned, it does appear that favouritism would have been most foolishly conferred, which supported a foreign Officer, rais ed from an inferior station in the army, at the expence of displeasing many of the most power ful and noble families in England. If ever public and honourable sentiments were apparent in the act of a Sovereign, they must be acknowledged, on the face of this business, to have been those which must have influenced the Head of, the Bri tish Government. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the 'Foreign Odice, which sat till half past four. All the Cabinet _Ministers, in town were present. Major-General STUART arrived yesterday after noon from Halifax, in 31 days but the news has not transpired. Letters have, it is said, been received from New York to the date of the 27th of September, which is a week.subsequent to the Message of the President. In the few days of which the reports have been obtained of the proceedings of Con gress, nothing . had occurred of the least impor tance. The Legislature was, as usual at the com mencement of the Session, engaged in forming the several Committees, and until these had en tered on their duties, there was no expectation of any 'debate touching the interesting subject of the war. One of the communications from New York states, that the Fingal has been. in attendance two months for disphtches, in perfect readineSs to sail, but that none had been conveyed from the seat of Government. We are told, from another .quar ter, that this vessel waited for the appearance of the John Adams, and that she would not leave the United States until rtime was afforded, for the transmission of the answer to the dispatches from • Europe, forwarded by that frigate. At New York great alarm prevailed, equally from political, military, and commercial embar rassments ; and in consequence of the bearing' of the two former on trade, and the distrust re sulting from them, many failures among the more respectable classes of merchants had occurred. The statement that Colonel TRANT had been succeeded as GoVernor of Oporto by Colonel PAM PLONA, is not quite correct. The former Officer, it is true, had proceeded on a visit to Lisbon, but no one had been appointed in his stead, at the date of the latest accounts from Oporto. The Earl of WINCHELSEA is gone to Brussels 1 for hiS health, -and will not return till the Spring. COMMERCIAL.—Another Banking House of con siderable consequence, in the. City, we lament to say, was under the necessity of stopping paytnent" , yesterday evening, ,in .A.Morning Paper, says,—" What renders this stoppage remarkable . is, that theßanking House received their custotnere checks till four o'clock, but refused to pay. In consequence of which, at the Clearing HOuse, the other Bankers came to a resolution not to 'pay, through the clearing ; any thing to the - Bauking House that had stopped," • A plan will be laid before Ministers in a few days, calculated to prevent ..the unbounded issue of Country Bankers' notes, by making them, (whenever called on) state upon oath the amount of each sort of notes they have otit„ in the same manner as the Bank of England does. This, it is supposed, will prevent so-wide and destructive an issue as is customary at present. . A Gentleman who left Paris within this fortnight,. was told by his Banker, that -the. daily issne . of money which he made to the Eaglish 1s Paris, was 10,0001. • _ WINDSOR, Nov. 17.—The QUEEN had a select Party in the evening at the Castle. Cranbourne Lodge has undergone some slight alterations dur ing the absence of the Princess CHARLOTTE at Weymouth. BRIGHTON, Nov. 16.—A square box, contain-. ing letters and papers, from Carlton-House, regu larly arrives here,' for the PRINCE REGENT, by the Mail. His Royal Highness rises early, and the morning i 3 invariably devoted to public business. WEYMOUTH, Nov. 15.—This day the Princess CHARLOTTE bathed.—After breakfast she again resumed her favourite excursion on the ocean. In the afternoon, the Party landed under a royal salute, having enjoyed a pleasant breeze at S. W. most favourable for water parties in this capacious bay. Monday evening, the shop of Mr. HARRIS, Charlotte-street,Tottenhaw-court-road,was broke open, and robbed of flannel, &c. One of the robbers was yesterday emulated for trial. rriO' I ' IJ LNG'S A-It'llil3 Cal li , " - - t i By the felucca ate-li f fl u e ll :i°11 1 1; —.....------..__ - anza, croin mo tbe 6OU lovers of their country have received happy intelligence :—Besides-7420 mus k ets,.atb to r bayonets, taken at Ptlonte•Viden, ° E) ti' V e ts, 3ls preottlitc,htelst,erse2ohoascabretreindgceusl,leacnt,7l:2o,sol:niutsi ell:do:::i munition.—(Extraordinaria Alinistella" c r . ' A Dispatch from Don Nicolas itc'ciri,g,:le:dl9/ dated Monte Video, a 0 , ...- t. 20th July, an mov inc - j Director of the u n ited .. I. ` d oil' . the Supreme the Rio de la Plata, states, that be 1 1 3 0 1 0 and taken the command of 31on tevideo °ad/ and that he had issued a proela tn ation ' i ass op g A I I f :i l l i) l, tir ho o population of that district of the 1 311)tec t o y , tracted congratulates the re S q u u store perfect order - and tranquillitl t r ci t he ° I ; I t v t e l , :e e i r t: new Rulers. ne observe; tiff' place.--A -similar Dispa tch, I:404011'1i - •li 13° accommodation of all differenc es Wit Artigas.—(lhid.) The Company's Outward-bound sbiPs ' d NAVAL NOWS• ca: 'are -- -' 6 " ---- 0 co li c cg ‘l, e e n i t i , i . n Su lA rr o e t y . , 3 L 6 Lord Keith ° , n l lll ` ll °a ! 91i1 - r , a t he i t ei J al t l ily . . The . Bengal ha 9 d ng s;p l a - r : at ed. ir°- I ba(ii,yi, l .yr i' ase A l. ; jk l i o mn illi.e.elaneconnisrieletroarbloei to this :f ie on the 23d. f r stl • c i ' e • 1 De :no : •eeling packet, with a mail from ffi s i.oa: P I ; og ii DEAL, Nov. 17.—Came down foal illo !t io, pwardH of 70 sail of West Inclisul.l::,,,, ye l iisv tj le l :r i e l li ll oi llie l e il : s- 0 5 v er i them for Jamaica. Arrived the fl 3r h ll 00 -ti f Monarch, Neactlitts, and Olive Braile"Atriiv, ftom the Cape o f G oo d Hope; in - liai t Nymph packet, with dispatches if° - e sti ./ Wind W, , ii • )_,P ) ; ,,tfi l PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17. Arrive", 1 . 5 yo,ro'r *ship Urgent, front a cruize. saile.:;4l:olAssl,, ship Rosario, for the Downs• ;I*-this7r ajesty's, ship transports (names not known) were pi be : leased M. from quarantine. Carne, in toosterilipY LYM I NOTON, Nov. 17 • --II i s A - pi -°'. e s' s l ' i c t .' 1 ' (I I /# the West India convoy, are ' Prometheus.---il3ll i tY , S , 1 1 0 11 Arrivedue9 16irc:lit:ilyiNpse79.1:1'iVabilteeisre5tPry..11_tu A rri veti: th()11 '7l" Swiltsure, Abraxis, Drake, an d --ecit:o" s till i 9 °- i . 0 04 Wind W. S. W. 1, 1 n PIP RA NI S GATE, Nov; 17. s eve ral swr g in for shelter.—Wind W. blowo str°"' v PARLIAMENTARY' foOrg ST. STEPHEN'S, like Exeter ,cAraige and the ~• A lo p Some Animals holds that oft grurnb.le 411 An i nstance I),PfF of late made the s cene ratbe ;oo .../ b y or Wii I TB READ Sh ew' d Bruin wheil 1 'Tis said that Foray, ill Ass iou pu lls t ' 8 ; Tgf In t the gallery quietly went rou nd Sr. surely no wonder in th is COO ro doh by 0. Since the same h as so = often been The Tragedy pc i e a tic n a u l in e e n r e o l t . ts :y a , nt : ne t: : 11 1 )1 1 .: : : : i i : : , h . a o s v Covent-Garden G il a: i c ic le: Theatre. c s rtIP : 11:: : e1111 : 1 of The f::::::, i of Tlie &vole, po i werful talents o f M r , NE:Apr.B's Z a j ot o i f . ' s 4 l i ' requires a Master-actor to re" though it contains many plis'iggi-104,11,-o,;t sustained by the ..st,if der , i ar „cte i rS ijsi, t unless,, indeed, the .rest of the c ' t i v l)ic bs ,l l b ' ly . to be expected. It way be t . o / oo f (b c o llii c last scene, in which Perforiners, ti ly sti ! 'el l ; 'thli:ey:tslulußigel;lo' very able 'd'i :e l ii t eibt w '.3l e lnlp e dil - D eb' riailfitseielltlileeir eCaSS:ll6Vlila":l:9'ege goPC:ClllS;oloeifelrit'lileeCi;i.llrrelgttlll4l6l 'passion, and the art by which bieffdeul.,Do .1 the feelings of-4.110n.y0, But the r,igoor ` 0 ,10 . ; aside all disguise, and ~,,Flories ill the,ise. 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