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wbuld not use if he were to write the Letter over agoin; but as he clearly had nor acted from improper motives, there was not sufficient ground fur the Motion which had been made. lord HENRY , PETTY observed, that Morrison had been severely punished, without having been heard in his d , ferce, and asked, if they passed to the Order of the Day, whether they, had any secu rity that Morrison, and many others, might not be bubjeeted to rutlishmeht by the Decrees and dates of the Lord Advoc.te, secretly recorded, and to be acted upon hereafter ?. Lord, Durmo defended - the Lord Adrccate, as having only used a wholesome exercise of authority. Sir 3. NEWPORT was of a different opinion. Both in Ireland and Scotland-, and all - places distant from the seat of Government, the Great Officers of Slate were apt to forget the law, and abuse their power ; and therefore it was the duty of that 1 - louse to exercise the most vigilant superi:itendance over them. Colonel FEREKER - defended the proceeding, and maintained, "that if the stria Letter of the Law had not been exceeded in Ireland, that Country would not now be a part of the present Eropiie. - If those who exercised necessary severities in Ireland had been called to account, instead of being pro. teaed by Indemnity Bills, the Country would have. been ruined. • Mr. FOX said, the Learned Lord bad made a manly defence, but, at the .same time, had called fora decision upon that question, which was now attempted to be got rid of.by the Order of the Dry. Wit)) respeEt to the case of Morrison, he asked, whether it was a case deserving punishment, that a man should prevent his servant from atrcrauog Volunteer Corps ? And no case of urgencY had been made out, as it merely appeared that the man wished to attend on this particular' day specified, but that it was not absolutely necessary he should attend. If Mr. Morrison, however, ,was guilty, how much more guilty was the British Legislature, which allowed. all the Subjeas of Great Britain to aa in the same way that Morrison had done ? mar, besides, ought to have been heard before ire was punished. He next came to the recomtnenoe tion of the Lord Advocate, that no person- should hold any communication with Morrison; and that in case an Enemy landed, he should he imprisoned. It might be said, that Morrison had not been im— prisoned or would not be imprisoned; but was pub lishing such a threat no , punishment ? If the Lord Advozate could do this, he might imprison, in the same way, the greatest men in Scotland ; but he would not do this, for obvious reasons; and therefore it was incumbent upon Parliament to take up the cause of the w•eale,avinst the strong. The urgency was so little proved,' that it appeared there would have been, time to write to London cOn cerning the arrest, if it was considered necessary.— It had been said, that 'the threat of . the Lord Ad. vacate, Oat he would do all he could to prevent Morrison from obtaining compensation, in case his property should be destroyed by the enemy, amounted to nothing, as he could do nothing ; the law would take its course. If it was so, a fu tile threat was added to the atrocity of the case. It appeared that the Learned Lord, notwithstanding the multiplicity of his avocations, had some leisure upon his hands ; he might as well have employed a pare of that leisure it) revising his former deter minatioh, and making atonement to this injured . party. He thought it did not look well for the Learn ed Lord, to rest,his defence upon charaaer ; it. was seidOm in any : case the, best mode 'of defence. It was sqid .that the words used' in the Letter merely arose ftom zeal-and warmth ; but it . was not their business to- accept of, such aneexcuse. After some further observationtocondemning the condo& of time Lord Advocate., he, concluded by calling upon the House to_apply, a sofficient remedy to the evil, and DOE to forgev that it_was their first duty , tu protea the weak, against the strong. . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in a speech of some lengthocontended that no case had been made out which warranted a Parliamentary in_ terferenee. He was free to admit, that he some points of view things- had been said which, it were rather to be wished 'had not been said-, and which there was fair ground for assuming would not be said again. But were he driVen to the option of deciding between a -complete negative to the proposition urged in the discusSion, and according An affirrne. tive thereto, - he should, as the latter was supported by no conatisive argument, decide in the former alternmive. Tfitre:was nothing which *called for the severity -of Parliamentary censure; or that should degrade a •Magistrate vested with impor_ tart fun&ions; who had for a leoletloof time ad_ ministered those faithfully and zealously, : end whose services neither policy or necessity .would justify their dispensing with. He would- appeal to, any man, whether his feeling's now, being appriz,ed.of all the cireomstances of the case, were t•he same as when the investigation was commenced ? The Lord Advocate aded upon the representation - of the She riff, whose office in Scotland was very different from what it was in this Country; the faaa tieing taken on the authority of that Officer, 'the fault in that Tee ped; if any, rested. not with theoLord Advo cate, who at - led tinder considerations of incum bent duty with a reference to the:public safety - and it should be considered, the very different powers with which -the King's Advocate in Scotland was vested, frorn'those of His I\Njestyls Attornes" , Gene. 'al in England. In the former he was an efficient MAgist rate in every county in that part of the United KitmOom, and at the same time the then cireum. • Stances of Scotland shooed be especially considered. An Invasion - was es:petted, even in: the very neighe bourhood ofEdinburgh, anal irwas obvictoly neces sary that the Volunteer Corps shoUld be as fully at tended as possible—she case Of' the individual then came under consideration - , and his offer to do any kind of work as an equivalent, fore that his - military apt) , in the defence of -his Country prevented his 'cLing, should he duly attended to, as• well as..thecir eurnstance that his, master refused -to - pay him even for the Time he had hisAabour, and which obliged the servant to seek for' redress at law—O'aine intirrupion)—" If any-Gentleman,". ob. served Mr. f' thinks-'what I have let fortiCt riL!icplotrs, Will , State his reasons - in 'ar,swer to it, - so as riot to be ric.lic'.;lous himself Pr (h . laugh).• :He contended for the neces. sity of the Corps being fully E!tterlde‘i at that ?arts, E followingletter from Surinam, gives-some particulars of the capture of that valuable Colony : SURINAM, MAY I Z.—ThisColony is again re, stored to His EitITANNIC MAJESTY'S Government, after a short resistance on - the-.part of. the Enemy. .BramSpoint, at the entrance of the River, was - car. ried by-the Navy, and two days after, the impor tant posts of Frederici and Leyden were stormed by the Seamen under Commodore -Hoop. . Many lives were lost by the blowin'g tip of . a mag:tiine. The number of prisoners were 1300, with a 3z gun Frigate an'd a Sloop of Whir. THIS -Morning arrived the Hamburgh (ie on'Sunday. The following are the must important articles of intelligence which it brings : VIENNA, JUNE is understood that the PoP,a has applied to this Court, by means of the Austrian Ambassador, Count KHEVENHULLER, soliciting its interference for the accommodation of the difference subsisting between His Holiness and the Court of Russia. RATISBON, JUNE Z.—As in many of the Fo. reign Journals, among others the Hamburgh Papers, the verbal declaration of the Envoy for Branden burili to the Diet, on the i+th- ult. has been in. (forret - 11y stated,. the folVrwing is authentic : The Envoy said, 14; not failed to send the Russian Imperial Nutt.; to the - h. - INC of eltl. W sl A, the ELEC TOR Of BADEN, and his other Constituents, but had not yet received, nor could have received, any order on 'the subjeef; he conceived, however, that he might declare, that His Majesty, his most gracious Master, had confidence that the - FR.I(ST CoNsuL would, of himself, give in such a declara. tion. relative to the late oqctuonces) so alarming to *e Empire,. aS'chotild, according to the observation of 'the Dectity for Pohemia.anS the Arch4iitclr,7 of Austria, ilOyC conciliatory ant sarisfaaory, an 4 answer the expenation3 of His Russ?an IMPERIAL MAJ ESTY. FRONTIERS OF SILESIA ? JUNE S.—General LA HORTE and Citizen FRESNIERES, •both implicated in the late Conspiracy at Paris, have been arrested at Neisse, at the demand of the French. The for mer was, as is well known, the Chief of the Staff: of General MOREAU, and the latter his Secretary. Thursday evening the ROYAY FAMILY walked in Kew Gardens. The PRINCESS MARY, attended by Lady J. THYNNE, took an airing in a coach and four through Riamond. Yesterday morning THEIR MAJESTIES andPR IN CESSES, and the DUXES of KENT and CAmsaroos, walked in Kew Gardens, and viewed the New Palace. The Dutchess of MARLBOROUGH yesterday gave a grand Dejeuntl at Sion Hill. I t was an entertain ment, in paint - of magnificence, , worthy of her Grace's noble family. The P RINCE of WALES and a large concourse of the higher orders were present. Marquees were placed on the lawn. Musicians at tended, and the day was devoted to-dancing, revel ry, and elegance. The Margravine of AsseAcH repeated her. new theatrical entertainments. last night, at Branden burgh.House. 'well they are Married, and The Gauntlet, went off with increased success.— There was a very numerous audience. The Duke of Marlho , ough Packet, which sailed from Falmouth on the z6th of March, bound to the West Indies, fell in with a French Privateer to windward of Barbadoes, and after an engagement of two hours, she was obliged to strike : five men Were killed, and one Passenger and several Seamen wound ed. It is reported that the Packet Which - sailed from Falmouth on the Ist of April, is also Captured. A letter from Malta gives the following particu. gars ni•speding ELF! BEY, after he landed at Abou kir Before he 'reached Cairo he Was attacked, by a strong Maineluke party, who were posted to intercept him by OsmAN BEY. His immense Bag gage, and the valuable Presents with which he wa s enriched,' attraded the principal attention of his assailants, the plundering of whiCh afforded him an opportunity of making his personal escape, in a - small boar, across the Nde. Upon hislaud ing on the opposite side, he observetka camp of Be douin Arabs formed, the Chief of which Was his mortal enemy, but who, fortunately for the fugi tive ELFI, was absent with 0 -:.MAN Bay, for the express purpose of. Concerting a plan for the more certain destrunion of ELF! Bay, who, on this &is covety, instantly threw himself on the mercy of these people, and demanded a horse of the Chief's wife, which was immediately granted him ; for it is -a sacred custon, with the Bedouin Arabs to pro. test any stra:zer who throws hina:.eli; on their mercy, at the haiird of their own lives : on the Chief's re turn'to the camp, and hearing grow ELFI BEY had escaped, he 'applauded her condua, and added, al. thoush he himself was ahxious for his destruittion,lf she nad violated the ancient usage of their race, he would have put her to death by his own dagger.— The last accounts of the filgi6ve ELFI BEY, stated him to be wandering in Upper Egyp-r, endeavouring, if possible, to coiled a totce st4teient to meet 11AN Bar in the Desert." C, uarter-Master JAMES RtrsmA,,,of the Ist Re. giment of Dragoon Guards, has been tried by a (..:ourtZtArtial, at Arundel, and dismissed His MA. ESTI' 'S service, having been found guilty of un soldier,likecondua,in having kit tne of the gitarters of the said troop unsettled, when the Regiment matched from Honitoni in March 1804, to the amount of tool. and upwards." BOLTON,. of Soho, near Birmingham, is at., present employed by the Bank of Ireland to stamp Soo,ooo Spanish dollars, as Tokens of the Bank, . for the purpose of circulating change. In stampiry this coin," the Spanish coinage is totally effdced, and the dollars come from under the dye with a most beutiful impression of our beloved Sovereign ; and on the reverse side an inscription, purporting thiit they circulate for 6s. Lich on the credit of the Bank. It is expeat'd that the Sik Shilling Tokens of the Bank will go into circulation net week. His Ek .cellency the Lord Lieutenant has received trt, , rn Mr. BoLTolsr a proof coin of them, which is so quisitely.beautiful as .to leave no danger of imita tion by coiners. Half and quarter dollars are also in preparation. it is recorded, that on the days on which the' Novels.of Kr CHAR D5Oll made their first appearance, the approaches to the Shop of his Publisher used to be blocked up by the Multitude of purchasers. As the charader of that Writer has`cnntinned• to rise in the estimation of the Literary World, the Shop of the Publisher of his Life and Correspondence, and of the various Bookcllers, may be expeled to be in a state of siege on Thursday next, when the last and long.promised Remains of this Classical Author, are to be given to the *odd:" THEATRICAL FRACAS.—Covent Garden Green. Room was, on Thursday night, the scene of a pu. gilistic contest, which excited great terrors among the followers of THESyn. A dispute arose upon the comparative comforts of a low aaur and a hack ney writer. A celebrated singer was in favour of the aaor's condition. A comic performer, who was formerly in the other cApacity, thought a'refiraion was cast on him on that account, and. gave the singer the lie. The latter, thinking that Christian patience could not be expeaed from him, answered with a blow, and would probably have given his adversary a good drubbing,. if the surroUnders had not interfered. It should be - observed, that the singer is remarkable for his gentlemanly manners, and, that his a d versary h as no suc h reputation. • A Dancer at the Opera House,' it is said, has made heavy complaints on the necessity of being on the'Stage for a quarter of an hour at once, alledging that in Paris he was never more than eight minutes. We have little doubt, however, that he.taftry well, paid for the time he is so good as to dignie tan English audience. The following Gentlemen were, on Tuesday,' called to the Degree of Barristers at Law, by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, viz. LEwts vALI EN. ROWLAND HVNT I Esq.; and Si; F RA Ncis VINCENT Bart. • IVIiYA L NEWS. 11''N'OtiTlif JUNE 2l.—Sailed the Doris Frigate and Hazard Sloop of War, on a cruize to the WC° . ward: - " Sailed also, the Danish East India Ship Norval, Capt. KRAAG, fOrChin2. The Witiefror Castle, of 98 guns is gone out d Harbour, and anchored in Cawsand Bay. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 2Z.- Sailed HisM a j e s ty " Ships Beaulieu, and Bacchante, Hon. Captain DAl°' wool), for the West Indies, with about forty 0;0 under convoy: • • Sailed His Majesty's Ship Aurora, for Hags% s. and. His Majesty's Ship Isis, Captain OgmANEl')l°r Newfoundland, having on board the Flag of A dinif ral Sir E. GOWER. DEAL, br JUNE 22.—Saiicci' the rafladflS itnni and Indefatigable Transport, for Sheerness; frolf.P. Fury, Bonetta, Illoodb.xvd, and Bruizer, on a Cruise off Boulogne; Humber Armed Ship, with the .8`1 2% Navy Transport, Baring East India Ship; -8t11'..3s India Packet, and about thirty Sail of Mercha'nt Vessels under Convoy, far the Westwar d ' c Came down the United Ki ng d om , Capt. J. °A tt . C . ; TER, East India Ship; from the River, a nd saP , ;vith the Convoy for Portsmouth. e, v. tn the 'Downs—Nlonarch, Utrecht, Ardent, Infle%re,-14 irgi9le, Scourge, Tartarus, Zebra, with the Dosielli c * . Ships as per last. JAMAICA. . . ....---- KINGSTON, APRIL I.4.—Saturday arriv*e i t e l a o tio ti r je t Royal, ` the Ship W a d stri y. Stie was or Fleet which arrived at BArbadoes, antl, ' with four • others, sailed from thence for Demerara. Two OL were captured by the Ahem, with the [Vac/stray) • Off Curacoa, this Egyptienne French Privateer. the IV d L' rietereux Sloop of War, Captain BLAND, eng4;, ‘ Slap was, retaken by 'the B/w :the Frigate, . ing a French Frigate, which had loS't her toP- 114 t ~ a_stray was off Barhadoes; she disco\vle'irleedil: in the 'aftion.• Before she lost sight of then), ° LI Sloop appeared to be 'gaining - fait - on the Frigate. fi APRIL 19.—Thi four 'Companies of the 4t' ILmilion of the both — Regiment, : quartered Pere, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel 11. 813 ' BRIDGE, were reviewed this morning on The rain ground; by His Excellency the Cturunan; ° ' Chief. . . „ 0: 4 here, spoke Artttt an A 2l .--The ianvessel fotn Schooner ess /J' r i r fisb „,0 s t at e v : ; age: °ill 'sr 1 a beets and- received informati,u), that Martinique - 14 • taken by oue - Forces to windward. - golall - ' APRIL 2+. Yesterday arrived, at P° Tl '" dit gun . ~ ibisir prize trenchAl t a °Fars National , t r eh i sgetaBt'e.s-- Ship—, Franchise. cla 1 . ipe:l6Ft Schooner,L e r o k r t ' d fromunder I t o ti n i e:r z a C g ° c o: 1 ; 3 : 34 ; : cie .3; , e re a te ' I )11- Otetrft: i sze;tvilec,iinsor. by y i t p h e e N v i s c s. h e o l, la. M ole, on S u n d a °11 , 12% , thief, last from Charlestown. ,On the following M i d, 0 ,,r fell in with a fraggler, •supposed to be ill e r o f t he capture of the Bronte. ACeounts•have since - been receive' ; er r. Ihe llomnd Sloop arrived - at'Port Royal ° n il 004 above vessel by a French Priv a iw e d. nesday, with a small Convoy t(031 England, 'a i '.. s g 06 except tlie ship lien ry . Addington, Witich . iS ' 10- • ..' . .oarebush Key.. . . • ... which arrived ' u...- a On Thursday night a riot occurred in Prri e9 'lli; Oxford.strett, 'on an attempt to secure e t ri delegates of the boot.makers. Warrahts ha v li f) ' delegates, tor the apprehension of the :emain cle-r n - t.tho aaeniciegaintetOs'ektetuurtioun,cattri.theveC"-arpdeisnPtaeirc'sleAdrir"'i:- hethr: a n 62a, u e n r i s be e r m o e f ri t n h g e i to he rn o rn o i ir tt . e t e he w b e u re et. s ni itt a i k it' st h td them, with loud imprecations. A. fter ,: wl n 4 tltie mnititotl-• became so immense. in :tne 9 " T et ,. / . 3 110 the house, that the officers d rew t h e i r cizilass es '' they secured three 01 one o f whom W 41,5 cued before they c ou ld ta k e . them from r ile liv11;i -, Person of the name of w as che,rged rough-strect yesterday, wiCh rescuing the b and ordered to find bait tat the offen ce. Edward" a clicker, was also ordered. to find bail 104: rtr i °— on one of the patties. „ re d in A few d a y s s i r as some men Well •-g - .PT removing a small c,,rn-stack, 7 at Ar iin g c" ' fic b t tLewes,heal,peatlriae appearance e w o e f re a interrupted; i o n f r a mitred{.t9 et had t _ d i t heir. blisin ess v y s d t t. a d t o t r l t e ' ; an attack upon tl2ers‘i ti forks, &c. they commenced sheaves, ilt oleli i i i e n n d bLe h i e gl r g ei t i v i e e li at a n rinc i ‘v itch' . vermin invaders, and atter a bloody onfl ia °b"%1104 a complete victory, by leaving upwards of t so, 4 7 on the field of battle. c theist On the 4th 'inst. Mr. MILESGIBsON, (1 of Wainey , and some other persons, fishing 0 - - /1 4 a boat in Walney Channel, perceived a shark' it whifst they were endeavouring to get betWee n. v. „, and the mouth of the Cliannel,.they discovered 1.,: others of the same voracious species, but evicleoliir sick and exhausted. They persevered in their a t ; tempt to keep them in the shoalest part of t sc water, till the ebb of, the- tide, left them ai”.° ng a.dry, when they were easily ,killed. On oPent„ them, there were foUnd in the bel l y of one of ("lei"' a • a pair of buck-skin brcechei, a man' t's handi a" - hat diamond ling, marked B; _lt is conjeduredt ho thesA.t ravenous fishes.followed some ship iron' t wesrward. SIIIP , ORAVESSND, JUNE 21: • Ile s ' • Passed by--the Good Wagsden, Caineling, from Ch 3 /a t:, .11, ton i Vrow Emma, Sutch, Vrow Ciesnia, 'Christphtr,4l.o Prow Haminia, Dg Vries, and the Twee. Gebroders, I Lean. • ' nd t l/ ' 4 1 k Sailed -he Dis,patch,. Loring,-for St. Ittichael's ; a ... Marylhite,,tot ErnbcW1L',,,._......._,,,..—,----__.:--.-- S Covent,garden South and PLiblisiir by Wx JLLIAm As.t.“'" it Londoni rinteri-1 1 1 r 3 t . w. M st s ecd M c i t oy ea No. itz, Strand, cular period, and alluded to the petuliae desire whi c h every man, whose breast was warmed wi tkat spark o f patriotism, had to he present at the time of insPeftion by z General Officer. Gentlemen should also consider the diarence between those suspicions which m a y justify the apprehension of an individual, and those proofs which should necessarily precede passing gen. fence. RecUrring again to the circumstances of the • case, he observed, in answer to a corresponding point of In Honourable Gentleman, that he knew not whether those agricultural philosophers would not rather he found thatching their barns while the enemy were burning their houses. But it forci bly struck him that such condo& would alike savour of apathy and cowardice; but if the Right Hon. lilagistrate in question had contemplated the aid ca.i cirm-nstances of the time with that degree of apathy which it was contended Mr. Morrison had a right• to do, he should be unfit to fill a situation, which, however, acting as he did, he trusted a vote of that I-louse would never incapacitate him from fill ing. Wil li resped toy the charge of iiiegali ty, the letter which had been adduced- in proof of it was divided into three heads. Now, two of these heads he could make appear, even•according to• their own views of 'the subjeet, did not apply to it at all,, and the third only remotely and conditionally; Ist, as to the e general opinion expressed by the Advocate Ge neral of the conduft of Morrison, this might be li bellous indeed, but the mere expression of an opi nion, which, in this, case was the matter charged, was- equally free to_an ()leer under- Government, as to any individual, and therefore that had com pletely failed. 2d, As to the destruaion of Mor rison's-property-. Now it was obvious, that the Let ter does not order it absolutely, but only recommends it under certain circumstances, namely, •the Land ing of an Enemy, and that by the Troops, to prevent . its falling into the hands of the Enemy. In this case the Aft would take place 09 the order of the Corn. minder in Chief of the Furus, not on that of the Advocate General. - As to its being destroyed by the Enemy, what the Autim - r of this Letter had ex pressed of Morrison himself,' cendvi not be supposed to produce that effect. On the contrary, if lie were, as represented, a disoffeded man, .that cir cumstance, or even the allegation of" is, would have the very contrary effect, and rather tend ,to secure his property. Now, as to tile order of imprison ment, it certainly was entirely conditional, andhad not any immediate effea a hatever. Great allow_ anew, he contended, were to be made for an active and ardent mind, placed in the situation of the- Advo. care General. He felt under peculiar circumstances the pressing perils of the Country, .and his candua should be judged of on the principles of indulgent consideration, with which the law judges the can_ duct of inferior Magistrates, when they-ra, as in this instance, with pure and upright motives ; for these and other reasons, he should vote for the Or der of the Day, and against the original question. Mr. WHITBREAD b4Ving IMICIC . a short reply, the House divided : For the Original-Motion 82 Against it - - 159 M3jority - - 77 At Half. past Three o'clock the House adjourned MAILS. nuE. AR RAvzti. Hamburg!' • .. I'IkICE OF •ST()CKg, THIS I>A Y AT TW/LVIi. Consols . - 56 s Orn. 4 Itcd. ssi THE SUN. SOLE/1 QU IS DICERS FALSUM AUDEtt ? LONDON, JUNE zs, t80.t.,-'