The Sun. — London, England, 1811-02-06 00:00:00

MUSE OF' COMMONS, TUESDAY, FEE. b. Mr. SHAW LEvev nu obtained leave to bring in a Bill, to enable the Sun Fire insurance Company to sue and be sued in the name of their Treasurer. He also obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the said Company to have annuities enrolled in the name of their Chairman. • The Bath and Bristol Canal and Water Works' Bill was brought in by Mr. Dundas, and read a first time. On the motion of , Lord Poreil►ester, the Order of pilonday, was discharged, and a, Message ordered to the Lords,' desiring aent to give leave to ,eriu Rosilyn, Nlendip, and Carlton, to attend the Com mittee on Sotcure Plates on Tito-Way. REGENCY BILL. Mr. LUSIIINOTON informed the House, that the Lords had agreed to hold the conference request ed by the Commons, in the painted chamber nu m, d a tely. • itin of Mr.' R. Dundas it was ordered, that the Lords be informed the Comu,ons had ccnsented 'to their Resolution, and tilled up the blank [be words, "aid Commons." The Managers Of the last Conference, will the add lion 61 the Lord advocate of Scotland and Sir J. Niehols,' were Ordered to mat age the conference, then, to be held. , On the return of the persons appointed to hold the confert nee, Mr. R. LhJNUAS informed the House, that the conference' had been held, and the assent of the Commons to the Resolution cotnmunieated, in °bo o. aifence to th 6 Older of the House. Tire Deputy Usher of the BIM( Rod summoned the Nitinset ! ) the House of Peers, to hear the Royal As•ent given to the Regency Bill. The Seitik,KElt;Oti his return, informed the House that the 'House had been in the Howie of Peels, wi , r•re the Com Mission tar atiiiing the Great Seal fad been 'read, and the Royal A:isent given to the Regeocyr MAILS. Allll4l/ 2D —1 Lisbon, t Malta, I Dublin, 2 Watcrford► Dtia C2t112, 1 Watertord. PARA.: oit Ivrt)cKs rifts 'ID Y At TWILVR O'CLOCK. Consols r roar.. r. 661 66 THE whole of tlie STATE LOTTERY will he drawn on: IttDAY, the I oh. . Forty.tim twig ki.oool. and 4,0u0 other Trite 'f !I S I. N. VUIS c A I,SUM AVOLAT ? LUND() IV, WLDNUSDAY, riBRUARY &, 1811. " Windbor Castle., Feb. 6, ISI t. " Jii S MAJESTY is quite as well as. he was yes- terday:' Signed as usual. We this morning .received, by the Lishou Mail, Portuguese Papers to the 20th ult. We have ex traaed their priliciril cat)teutS, WhiCl : l will be 'Omni in our subscqueni columns. . . The Royal Asseut was )estetday given , by Com mission to the Regency Bill. His Royal Highoess.t he Pa t Nee of W.it.:Es' is therefore now in vested with, the Office of Regent, and will this day take the, Oaths . before the Privy Coruicil. The Oppositicin Papers still continue to reprobate the mode dfproceeding by Bill, and by wav of comphinent, We Presume, to Lord Ott lINVILLE,: ;to designate it a 'Phantom, -ft ha - , always been admitted by thcie who StippOrt cd the mode of 'proceeding by Bill, that it Could only be justified by the necessity of the case, because it was impossible to extricate the country train the unfortunate situation in which it was placed by ,his Ma.arssri's indisposition, without deviating from the stria and regular course, which, in ordinary cases, is preieribed by the Constitution. When, therefore ; we are triumphantly told, by. the Opposition Writers ,and Speskers, that the two Houses of Parliamen t cannot, according to the Constitiation, legislate, and , that the Royal Assent is necessary to convert a 1141 into an ACtof Parliament ; they tell that which any schoolboy knowe, and which has ,never been . pied. But ist the case which has occurred, it was necessary either to depart, in a certain degree, from the forms of the Constitution, or to suffer the whole Government of the Country to Stand sti:l. It has been contended, however, that the difficulty would have been quite obviated it' Parliament had addrtss. s o 'the Prince of WALES, requesting him to take . upon hinnell the office of Regent, .instead of pass i ng a n .A to. inVest him with that office. But this is really a distinction in terms, and oat i n substance. Thee two ROOM of Parliariient love no more right, we conceive, speaking in stria ores, to create an Executive Power by Address, than, they have by Bill ; that is to say, the Coti s stitution Ws pointed out i nO such mode of proceeding. We ithwt mean to say that the Regent could nut have been appointed by Address, but we contend that that mode would have been liable to the very lame objections which the Opposition now urge against the proceeding by Bill, because in that case the two Hooses would, Its tired, be performing a substan tial Act of Legislation, though under another name . If then both modes of proceeding are liable to the rune objections in point of forge,-but that the pacu liar nature of the case renders the adoption of one of them necessary, then the question to be considered is, whether there are any peculiar advantages that belong to either?' And,here we contend that pro ceeding by Bill hai decidedly the preference, be cause, it limitations and restrictions upon:the power of the Regent be, under all circums4nces of the Case, necessary, it enables Parliament in impose those limitations and restrictions at the very moment that :t conveys the power whereas, by the other mc,de of proceeding, Parliament would convey aa the power in the first instance, and then proceed to settle the conditions and impose the restrictions. It has been very erroneously stated, that Mr WELLESLKY departure fur Ireland was pcca sinned by accounts received by, Ministers, of riots in different parts of the Kingdom, and of massacres in the streets of Dublin. The simple ha is, that Mr- Pot.r. was suddenly obliged to come to England in consequence of the unexpected meeting of Parlia ment itt November, and of course could 'Hot have completed all-the arrangements for the business of the ensuing Session, and that he is now gone over for that purpose. With respet to the story of the maysacres in Dublin, if no other foundation than that an outrage was committed in the streets of that City upon an individual', but the circumstance was considered to be of so little importance that it has not found its way into the Irish Papers. Yesterday his Royal Highness the'Th ince of WAT,us lett town for Windsor, and went by the way of Oatlands, where hi 4 Royal- - Highness took sumo re freshment, and in the evening his Royal Highness ret Lulled to town. Yesterday, at. three o'clock, a Cabinet Co' ncil was held at the Foreign Oitice, The LOtto CHAN* CELLOR and the Earl of LIVERPOOL arrived in Down- ing-sireet abou► halt past three o'cloCk from Wind sor, and attended the same. The Council broke up in a shun time afterwards. All the C.tbinet isters were present. Yeiteiday morning, about. half ow nine o'clock, Mr. PERCBVAL received a letter from the Prince of WALLS. On Mr. PERCEVAL and Mr. Yoe itte's arrival from Windsor, on Monday afternoon, ie Downing-street, they immediately attended a Cabinet Council, which was then sitting at the Foreign Office. At length the Spaniards have consented to raise a force like the Portuguese artily under Marshal Be 7 BUFORD, Officered by British Officers, the only way in which we are convinced the Spaniards can be officered, and brought on all occasions to n eet the French'. in the field, or with the same credit to them selves as they have on so many occasions acquired within• walls or when besieged. Colonel FentiaN `naz, formerly an officer in the 44th British regi tnent,; has just sailed to Cadiz, with arms and clothing fur a regiment which - be is to raise. Majors GREEN and CAMPBELL will soon proceed to Spain to raise their regiments, and several others •of our 'enterprising and Olive officers, who have attained a knowledge of the Spanish language, will receive kite's of service* to raise Spanish regiments. In tbe Spaeiard arc all the materials that form a good soldier ; tiny only require officers. Minorca has freer} dlentiOtled as a' depot for training, clothing, and perfeding in discipline 20,000 Spaniards, to re main, there till complete as an effective army ; and then to be embaiked and landed where they may A a with most ads enrage; to the public good of their Count 4. Letters were yesterday received from France con taining the folloWing communication, which is' of great importance to all pemons in this country, con neded with the trade to the Continent : PARIS, JAN. TB.—At ten in the evening, his Ma jesty learned that the Merchants had been informed. that the English Government had sequestrated in the pops of Great Britain, French ships and vet. sels belonging to the heretofere Hans Towns and l)antzig, having Imperial licences,' and which con isequen-ly had also licenses furnished to them in Lone dun. His Majesty has therefore directed that the sailing of all ships, furnished with licenses, now boned to British ports, shall be suspended until far. titer orders. The moment the above Order reached the French coast, a vessel was sent tiff express by the merchants to theireotrespondents here, with information that Buonaparte would returns:the embargo upon its being ascertained that the ships . ' having licenses in our ports would be permitted to sail. The subsequent intelligence from Heligoland came. to our hands yesterday. Heligoland, Jan. sit, rata. " At a General Meeting held yesterday at the EXchange Room, it vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the Hon. Lord George Stuart, for his tuts remitted exertions at all times to promote and sup. port the trade of this island. " It was further voted, as a testimony of respea and approbation by the Merchants, that be' be pre sented with an elegant vase, and that a subsCription be entered into for that purpose." • I 1 ' ,I ~,. ..., .!:1 ~' ~~r 1 :y 1 ~Y. AtioTIIRK, SANE DAM " A large force is colleaed in the Eyder and the Weser, of gun-boats, armed hriga, &c. and many think they will attempt to burn the lower town when the ships of war leave us. "'Tobacco is sold by auction 'at 3id. to 4d. which, hardly covers the charges. Fine Londim loaves are sdling at bid. to bbd. Good coffee at aid. No purchasers but, the natives, who have bought up large parcels of colonial produce." Nett month it is expeCted that there will be a ballot for the Militia, by which the 2d battalion of almost - every regiment will be completed, and may speedily be fitted for service. GLottersTsa C9UN7'Y ELacTroN,---Seventh d.iy' poll: Sir O. W. Guise Holt, Mr. Dutton 1 Toni 111.tiority for Sir W. Gui‘e 557 NAVAL NEWS. From Ibe LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 5, In i. iltimirally . 44fice,' Feb.s, 1811. Copy of a Letter from Captain George Downie, of his Ms inty's Sloop Royalist, addressed to Viee.mliniral Camp bell, and transinftictl by the Vice-Admiral to loin C roker,-Esti.- - • Hl3 Nlrjesty's Sloop Royalist, Downs, SIR, 3.1 February, OS: L. I beg leave to inform yo,t, that hi. Majesty's sloop under ,tny ,conttnand, . being yvsterday morning be tween St. Valery en Cauximil Fecattip, a sail was seen at daylight, to which we gave chase, and soon' after' made her out to be one of the enemy's priva teers ; the wind having %eered round from South to South East we were brought upon a vi Ind; at one P.M. between Estaples an.ll3oulogne, tie CAStIIIBII joined in chase, v. it It the adv.iiitage of the weather gage, and obliged her to tack ; at four We brought her to, nearly together, at d fount'. her to be the lugger privateer Le Braconnier, of Itygrnus, (t(ro,v n overboard in the chase), and 47 men ; Out t%O days from St. Valery eta Caux, and had, made no captures. I have lite luinonr to b.; kc, • GEORGE DOWNIE, Captain. Admiralt y-Olfice, Feb. 5,, 18 tI. Vice-A(ll,mA Caropbril lists tratisinitte,d, to John Wilson Crokt-r, Esc):. a ietter lion] Captain Di by, ol h s Mojesty's ship the 'rib ban, ping an account of the boats of that ship having, on the 2d iosiant, under the threetions at Dent, nant aid snpporteci by the Skylaik sloilp, brou,;ht out, in a %try gallant wanner, a ttierchant brig, trot)) on Itore under two of the enemy's batteries neat Dieppe. And A also a letter from Lieutenant Gedge, cotn• mantling the Locust gun•vessel, giving an account of ,his having, on the gOth uE laq month, captured, close to pnt , kirk, a French Naslonal armed ves sel, carrying tit° long twelve-pounderi, with small arms. 1 1 / 4 5 hti()U Fir) FEB. 4.—The Post-office packets are ordered to return to Falmouth, and in consequence, those now at this Port that hate nut recrked iii , ils, will proceed there without delay. Arrived the brig Swallow, of Poole, JE 11E111111 it CltAu.set S, Master, front Alieant, la,t from. G. braltar, in ballast,' bonnd to this Port for o,ders, and is under quarantine ; sailed.frorn the 'suer place on the 26th January; in company with a fleet, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Undounted, of 38 guns, Captain MACKENZIE ; parted company an the following day. A fleet for Lisbon and Africa sailed from Gibraltar on the same day. Arrived this morning the schooner Ann, RICIL- A'RD WEEKS STEER, master, Wen) Lisbon, with a cargo of fruit, after a short passage of six days, and does not bring any news; the brig Alert, NIEL , from Kidwelly, with a cargo consisting Of oats, in digo; &c. bound to LOndon, arrived here yesterday yesterday morning in a very leaky. state, having encountered several very heavy gales of wind, and will be 0b1i . f,..d to land her cargo at this port to re p the damage she has sustained. Put back by contrary winds his Majesty's ship Fisgard, of 38 , guns, Captain MASON, bound to Torbay, to join SirJuSEPH YOKKCS squadron, boUnd to Lisbon, that were driven in there by contrary winds last Friday night. , Arrived his Majesty' s ship nifiemon, of 18 guns, Captain PEAKSE, front , Torbay. Sailed. his Majesty's ships Antelope Of 50 guns, for Portlatouth, and Lightning, of 18 guns, to the Westward ; also sailed his Majesty's ship with a fleet for the Downs, among them, are the following vessels,'viz.— Wasp for Guerniey ; the American 'ship Fame, Fitzhugh;. Golus,'Sendry ; Industry, Lewis; the spainsli brig Nbarii Senora da Bagogna, john lbagona; Youngletijamin, Pen. treath ; Wilding; Stert, Coath ; Elizabeth, Gros* sett ; the Spanish brig Serina, Venegara, master ; and the Margaretta, Mitchel, for 'London ; the St. Nicholas, Byre, for Portsmouth; and the john and. Elizabeth for Alder. ney. - FOUR o'CLocx, r. at —Arrived the Prince of IPales packet, Capt. T OD D, f r o m Li s b on with Mails, lb days passage, and does not bring any news ; the following came passengers in her viz.: Maj•mi MURRAY and KELLY, Messrs. LANGTON, 01IMEROI), Sdorr, COLLINGS, and Ilarrour. His MajeNty'a ship Amelia, of 38 guns, Hon. Capt. P. P. luny, sailed from the Tagus two days before the packet for England. with Generals HILL, LEITH, COTTON, and CAIt4PHP.I.I. ; Sir THOMAS WILLIAAIS With a squadron con,isting of the following ships, viz Hannibll, flag ship, aesar, Tonnant, and two otlier line of battle ships, sailed from the 'rages the day before the Amelia on a cruiie; hiiMajesty's ships Zea lous, Dreadnought, Poibliers, Bar/lent-, several other line of battle ships, three very tine Portuguese fri gates, and a large fleet of transports were left In the Tagus there was not any packq at Lisbon, but the IPalsinham, Capt. ROBERTS, was hourly expected there from this port. Elk Majesty's ship Gorgon, with a fleet of light transports boundsto Par: imouth, sailed from the 'Tagus two da) a before Ilia packet. DUAL, Fan. 5.-4,liled the liedpole ti)oop of wn r t t it') several Irat, ort* to die Vit•st ward. Arri%ect the Bar.on, anti - lacing faken by a Frenc.h ptivwecr, anti given op to tht: Capin ieveit of hur ciew. FALMOUTH, Fla. 3.--Arrived the PrueA' pitus packet from Malta, le days from GO Sailed the Foxhound cotter on a croite. ToRBAY, Fgß. 4.—Put back t he iiutsarif with the Henry s iddingion, Widmer Castle,l° and CumberlandEist•lndiamen. Sir josein Ybatte with the men of We S 1 troops for Lisbon ternain wind-boend. .0.0.1.•••• 't PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 5.--Came in this uai• j schooner for a cruize, and the Saleiah, WOOD, from Waterford ; and the SI. Aid'al°4l Dtingarven. 00 Hi; Majesty's ship Grasshopper fakes Guernsey and Jersey. Deti i.o Sailed his Majesty's ships Donega l, limpid', for a cruise off Cherbourgh i h ii 1 ,,,,',. ship Diana for off Havre ; and the Ilerfifir er on a cruize. POIiTUGUISSE PA PEUS , hp IV LIMON, JAR. YO...—MoKTIEH , With 3"-til men, crossed : the Tagus a'nove Baclajoz, inching down, with au immense ifai° °l , gr e , ) ammunition, stores, &c. On th e left sii%l Tagus we have about 0,000 meth pot ° A t, w hin - Lind ot Marshal Belt Ei FORO, 6°l°l '4 hating returned . iu the Gorgon irigsio of ill health, ' On. the 30th, of December, denvral tacked the tea - T division of Dunne, ' 1 4 0 ; 1 o e t % ti v e r r y v P i r il ° i s ti P a eci fied °,l ti►e Linn sgo and le bac:iii:gribils' s weight 0( the action on the 24th di mantled by Colonel MACHEAN, and 3 caY , liry, under the orders of ,Lieut.-C°l',iPpip TtP se A V. 1() corps teuglit west gallAnilP . sevr • It is sail that the gallan t Col. ' ll, is wounded. The Portuguese retired t° I na• The enemy consisted uf c•ivali), with two or three pieces of c4 lo o i Tins campaign will, no doubt, deci.leil° Portugal . 4 nts Qeived from Vixen °‘' tb611 ;; that the French, on the hisht the , leaving behind .them 411 Una cookin' uteri'' a 11 4 11 10er of bullocks. ul in:9141 1 1 13 . ed, • have boell received, the pi in/0d C Spanish .territory into 6 grand ivision eG so "e lu nh t e e dr ahitisietlft: h ho is to be iu►'rstcd gip'' ere an all visions are whole pr lite] j a , s it i lity of catnlonta' (ui 't n O w l tabus the iNitigtium of Arragan an d Governments of Alit:lint and Of ini - f t c) • army, coinni3 ;ill, ever excluded from the latter, dist 1 ot. Castile., which is satiated between h i° I , lt i V„ of the Lbw and Tagus, and the disniCt ► its tar as t h e Po i n t where TOO% I.V road trout A ran j uez to Albatet ° ' - ' 1 p c :cl il ' P j r e e a li n e , ad a s n d t all that king dom OfiC1:5111:14141?; from th e high road whichad' ici.tl7' to Andalusia as tar 35 itlg the places situated on that rue cl ' 4 : 1 11e vertiments Alieant and Orlitteliv--‘-100, Comprehends , the Kingdom 01 Sev ille ' ° OP , Isle ooi Leon,: Cadiz, the hoes of GI % P i county of Niebla, and the district b0 ,A1 , 1 ", sc s i i i i: l t t i u_ u rnli a a e t t ' el u d l o ' i n i t 'C l ii t ue l l : r l e ti e ku. r i s v i l u t : i h h d t ct r o o l oa ln f a d tt t a l : ip e nag : E b t s o to ter: Ciudad ra ß t u ti d u r e i zso, the district tfli s e i G ti; lic l i e a f: of the Dom'' ' • of eamilP which . nee on lte ligh t (4 . Ci tt Baron Da Envt.ks uestroY cj Astoria, L,e o °' O 't .1 Fr enco clivisitau, cuttipo„j of 3000 414 01 )1 ,1 4 '. I°oo were slain in the tic:lion. 54`11!p1it0"77 :•?.,I,LD had . been recalltd.from Alla $ 31 7 ;de l on atcouta of his having been o° lll as his predecessor AUOttIiIAAU; and. tv that Priuce Boßongss ro et . 0 i P ART E,to be his stieCebSOr• i" f , VILLACAMPA has Ice:died Gen' Cl i l t) : 1 00 1; "t iwmiy tooti inch. Geli eral — a ! 1 414 ° 4 Dot plOt NULL .:O4.U' a ll 3t "14 1 dr' tv teneve the detenctas of 'l'L ) r tu ' a ‘ , 13 Cy , 0 to surprkte the French pos itions, bu t 1,0 0 , ideu tht; v wing, not ham' l); so" 40 P time as illy 0:114,f, hid l a tter was °Ai° watt so;ott moat. • , Ay AmuN its (IN Sr Airs) Asc. of tv - twov,ittiolts of t he corr 0. ti 4 f)00 ` ll titWer tte cotnitiand of t;e 4 "'co Cc'euNs NAviA, from 11 14 $ Ic4 I ilia,