The Sun. — London, England, 1811-02-28 00:00:00

l i !i , f ' t n HOUSE OF COMMONS. wErn:Eit)4lY, FEB. 27. who 'elm , . Lientenrint. Frederick yen Steinwl er to be ditto, •Ait 11 temporary rank, vice Hertel, deceased. To he Franz von Thie,xliwitz, vice tiralifielooeol. Lod. von Schwartztatmg, vice Gladis, deceawn. .W. K.retchnian, rice von Steinwhet. To he Serjeatits ---- Meyer, vice von Thies chwitz. Zweifel, vice Schwatzenberg. Griesitani, vice Kret,lttilar. MEMOR A N nun, The appointment or Robert alsh, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, in the 6ith Foot, as stated in the Gazette of the Inn instant, 14a$ not taker place. The removal of Assistant-SurAeun Vermenlin, from the Cape Regiment to the 6-,tti Foot, as stated in the Gazette of the thth instant, hasnot taken lace. En:OA littikeley, of the 6 6th Foot, is superseded, being absent ',trout leave. EAR AT n in the Gazettes of the t 2,th and t6th instant. 74th Foot, For Enkign 'Wilbraham Neven to be Lieutenant, Reao Ensign ThoittaS Neven to be Lieutenant. 3d Regiment ache Royal East India Volunteers, Eor Major lulu] Daniiril to tie Llentenant-Colonel, Read Major lames Uutuell to be Lieutenatit.Colonel. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County ut Kent. SeTenoaks and Bromley 'Regiment of Local . Militia. : To be ht►stgn—Charles Keison, Gent. 2d East Kent, or Lath of Seray and %Vingliarn Regiment of Local Militia. To be Captains—Thomas Pittman, Esq. ,Samuel herd, F.sq. To be Lieutenants—William . Sea, Gent. Robert 'Linde, jun. Gent. Thomas' %Vatter. Gent. Edward Gardner, Gent. John Gent. William C ' , airman Gent. William Gunnell, Gent. W titian Shove Chalk, Gent., Robert !Jackman, Gent. lames Kniglit a .Gent. To be Ensign Charles dills, G ut. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of /Tants. • porsmouth Battalion of Volunteer Light Infantry. To be Second Lieutenant—John Godwin Williams, Gent. Vice Crocker, promoted. Commission in the:Royal Cardigan Militia; signed by the . . . . Lord Lieutenant. To be Ensign-1. Brinley, Gent. Cotntnission in the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant. To be Captain, by Btevet— lusi.th Smith, Esq. Commission in the porsetsliire Volunteer Int4ntry, signed by tile Lord Lieutenant. To be Adjutant—Lidsyard Tho►npson, Gent. vie e Meggs re signed. IMPE B. IA li. P.41111J4411EN1.' Sir S. Rottittr.oit piesented tt Petition from severe' Proprietors of bleaching-grounds, in the north o Ireland, which he said‘ were sigi ed by 150 names but that these consisted of the most respectable itt habitants, Who were all interested in these bleach in-ground's, praying a repeal of the several ACt4 making stealing cloth from bleaching-grounds.a ca pital felony. The reason stated for this was, that titan the excessiveness of the putt ;sit ment both juries and witnesses were deterred from doing their ilent , dud the petit'oners were thereby left Veit hoot fp means of redress ur remedy.-e-Ordered to lie on the table. He also presented another Petition to the same effect, from the Master Calico-printers in the neighbourhood of London, who constituted a ma jority of the trade.—Ordered to lie on the table,. The Hotiourable and Learned Gentleman then gave notice, that he would take an early opportunity to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the repeal of the 3d Geo. 111. making it a capital felony to steal cieth from bleaching-grounds, entitle, 18th Geo. If, snaking it a capital felony to steal to the value of los, in a fulling-house. The Petitioners, he said, were persons who did net speak on speculation or unfouteled information, bitt from practical know ledge. They were the persons Moat intimately itt.. terested, and Who were ,the only stiffi.mes by these Ails being inadequate to the purposes tor, which they were framed, and therefore had the strongest reasons to wish for their repeal. Mr. Lzecu gave not cc, that he would on Mon day move for leave to bring in a Bill to explain and amend 30 ,much of an Ad passed last Session as relates to the salaries to Foreign Mmister4. Mr. Keox postponed the consideration of the Limerick Petition to the kith of April. Mr. Pattrieet. gave notice, that he would, on an oily day, mote for copies of the Orders issued to prevent Officers in the Army from compelling Ito mm Catholic Soldiers to attend places of Protestant worship. The CII4NCKLL,PR of the EXCHEQUIIIt rose to make the motion of which he had given notice. He' said,' he conceived the House must be sensible of the great inconvenience and delay which had been occasioned to the public business last Session,' by the centieual confild there was between Notices of Mottoes and the Orders of the Day, by which many orders of the greatest importance were obliged to be broughton nt so late an our as two o'clock in the morning, This, he thought, might easily be avoid ed bymaking an order of the House, that orders of the day should have the precedence on certain days in :he week, and notices of 'notion on the others. When he Mentioned this matter before, the princi- • pal objection seemed to be, that such an arrangement would affect the right which every Member pos messes of making a motion without giving any . no tice. Toobviate this, however, he would propose, that let the matter of this motion be settled how it might, he intended it should in no way whatever peeelede any Gentleman from 'netkie tT , s u c h leut i e e as he reel ht think necessary, without giving any no tice. He would foot, therefore, trouble the House farther than to move, " That in the present Session of Pa r li ament , t h e Orders of the DI set down in the Order-book.for Mondays,,Wedneeleys, and Friday's, shotild have the precedence of Notices flied for those days ; and that Notices should have precedence on the other two days." The question being put from the Chair, Mr. Poisoteav (injected to the motion, because, potwithittanding what bad been :laid by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, be could see.no inconve pience from adherne to the oh mode. He thought, therefore, it. would be better to leave it Loan under atattrthig of the Hoose, than. to make it a standing 'order. It would be deneetons to depart from the standing rules of the House, estabhshed by long tly ege and practice, which oUP.slo to he adhered to - *them thong') , some meonvetnence should be pro. famed 'rein so doing. M, You te. tile in support of the mutton. Me, C. W. WINN!: thritle,6l it would be butter to ix it eat aft uuderstanetog et the'Hortse. Mr. Bistittes said, he had felt the inconvenience alluded to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course of the last Session and if it came to a vote, lie should certainly give his in favour of the mo tion; but he thought it would answer the same end if agreed to as an understanding of the House. • Lord FOLKSTONE said, if any inconvenience bad arisen in the course of the last Session from the causes mentioned by the Chancellor of the Ex— c !lever, tt was ow ing ie the first place to the assembling Parliament so late, and in the next to Ministers so lung deferring to bring forward the public business. Before the Union took place, and brought with it so much more pressure of business, Parliament used to sit near double the time it had done since that pressure was so much increased. He thought it would, therefore, be better to let it be fixed as an understanding of the House. Mr. WHITBREAD opposed both the resolution and the widen stantlieg. He thought it unfair that three days should be allowed for a preference to orders of the day, and only two left tor notices of motions, which might involve the most- important conceals of the country. The Minister had seized on Satur day as his, own, and bad made it merely a day of registtatien : and so would all the. other days be converted into days of rei:istration in a very few years. He objected to the ietroduaion oldie word notices" at all. Mr. Burke said, that f‘ forms" : were the lutrenchments of ~ minorities'; and there was a time when the Right Hon. Gentleman had thought it necessary to intrench himself to the teeth in rhi,se forms, and had thereby baffled the whole power of Government. The Right Hon. Gentleman kneW,,therefore,,that by this expedient he Would be, able to get through the public business ins compara-' tively short time ;. and though a nuniber Of notices of inquiriei of the highest importance stout' on the book, he would advise the King to prorogue • the Parliament, :ind those notices would be rendered nu gatory. The Right Hon. Gentleman complained. of public business having been delayed-,-why then did he not bring it forward sooner ? This reminded him of the story of a Nobleman travelling in Germany, who was very urgent with the post-boy to' drite on faster, as be was in great haste ; to which the driver replied, " If you are in such very great haste, v by did you not set off yesterday ?" So if the Right Hon. Gentleman wanted the public business done sooner, why did he not assemble Parliament in No vember, instead of the latter end of January, as had been the case in thsithree last ' Sessions.. He Con cluded by moving, that the further consideration of this debate be adjourned to Monday. The question having been put on . Mr. WHIT BRE An's amendment, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIRCLUER rose, and said, that if any Gentleman, or a number of Gen tlemen, should think he bad been precipitate in his notice, or would wish for more time to consider it, he should not object to postponing the discussion fir' a few days. He had, however, last Session given a: &mind notice, that,he would bring forward a mo tion 10 thifil etre& early in the present Session. He would, however, now say, that the Honourable Gentleman, who %puke last, appeared to have lois taken the object of his motion. It did not go to prevent motions coming forward on Mondays, 'ednesdays, and Fridays, hut merely to give the orders precedence on those days. It the orders of the day were to be passed merely in the way that the Hon. Gentleman called regislralioe, they could not take up nOich lime, and therefore there would be plenty of lime for the motions after they were :disposed it would naturally appear as if the orders of the day ought to have precedence of no -tices, because t.itey were a portion of the public business tixed,by the House itself . to come forward on a.,certain day) whereas notices were only fixed at the pleasure of an individual Member. A Eight Honourable Gentleman (Mr, Ponsonby) • who op posed his motion, must recollect, that in the Irish Parliament, orders had Awls the precedence of no ' tices. He thought it was a grievance universally, felt and complained of, that important public busi ness was often necessarily thrown hick to such a: time that it was necessary to pass it in a thin Heuse. The Irish finance business had been in that preni cement. As to the remedy , of lengthening the Ses sion, it appeared to him that, since time Union, it was not desirable that Irish Members should be brought over, for a short Session of about 'three weeks previous to Christmas, and therefore it ap peared to him most inexpedient that Parliament should sit before Christmas. Every Member roust ' observe the great impatience that there always was in the month of hoe for the Session to con clude, and the difficulty of retaining a stiffiCient at tendance of Members. As to Saturday, he denied that that was a day reserved by Ministers ; it was a day that he had never objected to the House sitting 'on arty business, which was . not likely to produce discussion, As other business was fixed for Mon. day, he suggested to the Hon. Member, that Tues day would be a bet o ter,day to name. Mr. PONSONBY shortly explained. Mr. CitStiVitY said, that what he had principally . complained of on a former day, was, that time busi ness did not come can in the House in the order that it was entered, and that on that account Members were frequently taken by surprise, and business of the ; first importance disposed 'of in a thin 'House, and in the absence of those who were most anxious to attend the discussion. In this manner the grant , to the East India Company was passed. Mr. BATHURST suggested, that instead of giving the orders the precedence for tree days Out of five, it would be fairet that they should each base two days alternately. Al ter some farther conversation, the Amendment was put and carried, by which the farther consi deretion of the motion was postponed till Teesday , next. Mr. Knetticx obtained leave to bring inn Bill to amend the Act, monied " The General Inclosure Bill:" Leave was granted, and the Bill was brought in *led read a first time. The Population Bill was read a third thne, and passed. Time Silk -MannfaCluters' Bill, the. Mali Doty Bill, time Irish treasury Bills Bill, the Ten Millions and a H.tlf, and One Million tied a Half Exchequer Bills Bill, were read a sec , ,,nd time, and.orderectto be reported 10-morrow. The Bill for amending the Poor Laws, with re spea to the settlement of persons renting premises of a certain value, %,as read - a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday, the 2d of April.—Adjourned, MAILS. ARRIVED—I Waterford.* Dtat—i Dublin, a Waterford. (F sTocKs THIS DAY Af TtIISLY I O'CLOCK. Contots - ------ . . • - 1-i 1., 8 t N. SOLLNI QUIS chI.SUM AUDILAT?, LUND CI h, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY f2B, 1811. "Windsor Castle, Feb. zB, tBtt. " His MAJESTY continues to go on fdvourably."i (Siened as usual). The Poictiers, of 74 gnus, has arrived from Lis bon, which placeshelett on,the IGth, and nothing new had occurred up to that date. . . • - • - • It is stated in the MORNING CHRONICLE that all discussions have terminated between this Govern 7 ment and the American Plenipotentiary. The same Paper proceeds to add, ". we understand further,, that, in consequence of the decision of his Ma-i je,ty's Ministers not to recognise the neutral rights of the United States, the powers, of ,Mr. VINICNE Y have ceased under the instrudions he has received, so that - ad hope of conciliation seems now to have disappeared." We beg leave to enter the strongest protest agaist this mode of stating the point at issue . between the two countries ; his Majesty's Ministers have in no one instance refused to recognise the neu- . tral rights of America; it is the American Government that has suffered them, almost without a murmur, to be violated by France. The measures that have been adopted by the. British Gwernment were net . adopted from any feeling of hostility towards Ame rica—they were the result of necessity. The violent and unprecedented Decrees of Berlin and Milan, left our Governmont only the alternative of-issuing the Orders in Council, or of seeing our own trade `destroyed, a bile that 'of our enemy was safety carried on, notwithstanding our nail su periority by means of neutrals. But it is said that BUONAPARTE has 'repealed, his Decrees, and that therefore We . ought to rescind. our Orders in Coun cil. We do most positively deny that the Berlin and Milan Decrees are revealed. , BUONAPARTE did indeed say, that after the tat of November they should cease; but have they adually ceased ; Has any ono ad. of the French Government. since the tat of November proved that BUONAPARTE consi ders these Decrees as bring no longer in existence'? - DO The GoVernment:ano People of America believe that these decrees are actually and Substantillly re pealed ? All the accounts tram America afford a negative answer to that question. We laid before our Readers, on Tuesday, a letter from Boston, which began thus : "It is now sixty-nine dtqs since the'tst Of Nos ember, and yet no direct ac counts from - Fiance after that date. Had the De cree been repealed on that day, should we Out pro-' bably have had, some arrivals before t his." We have every reason to believe that the British Go►eriimeut have expressed a disposition to rescind the Orders in Council, provided the Decrets w hich rendered them necessary are really repealed, and more the American Government has no right to ask.—Whether the French party in America have influence enough to force that country into a war with Great Britain it is impossible for us to know; our opinion is, and, we do not advance it upon light grounds, that awar will not take place. We trust that his MAJESTY'S Ministers will persevere in the firm but temperate course which they have adopted towards America. We hope that a war ber+A (len the two countries may be avoided; but it cannot be de nied that fur a lung time past the American Govern ment se e m to have forgot that it neutrals have rig'its to protect, they haVe. also duties to perform ; that Government has, towards Great Britain, been most pertinacious in elainiing the rights of neutrality, while it has almost uniformly manifested the most undisguised hostility. Since writing the above, we have been favoured with American 'Wets to the 23d ult. from which we have only time to make the following extrAct : 110USii OF KEPRESENTATIVES rr WASIIINQTON, JAN. 4 23 , c The subject which Congress base had under consideration in conclave was finished in the House of Illitre•ontatives i lam evening, at six o'clo, k. " The Cothamtro of Foteigh ittlations have op der cuti4ideratiott a Bill reipoctiog the Non-Inter-: c ourse Law, of which the following are pratopal features : , g Sept. J. That in me Gnat' Britain shall qa re ..vnlie or modify her Ed:et, Sic. tho President shall declare the fa& byiVroclamation ; arid socb Prc ° I [nation shall be the only evidenc e of the da suit or prosecution under the 4 th SeElio of to which this is an addition. " Sea. 2. That in case said Prochttrgios od of not have been issued on or before the v bruary . next, the several piovisions of they 4°' tit a b, , 7th, A Bth, gth, oth, and 13th . Seaiolt°flFl' entitled,carried An AN into efiet. to Interdict, Stc• sha ll ' that day, " wg' Sec. 3. That any vessel or tu erchandizt . prior to the fad being ascertained that Great 80, has revoked, prior to the 2d Feb, s hall be fri't ° to the owners, on Kivu:, bond, with approral7 City, equal to the valpe thereof, to abide thojccl4ii of the Pript:r Court of the United States; bond shall be considered as sat i s fied in csic 6 , l Britain shall have . revoked or rood‘flect ou °r 46' t F h e ' e b ' . 9 a Sic..2l d d 11 2 0 : d i n4d o: E x e February. m p is from selzu rcs ""; , n t vei l which departed from anywh icßbritsiiiilaiiii):::::l,, put c ( I ) : l im b a o t a io rd n t :J e f fo ll7e ..e.kinf°Nw'olv'eetebeOrf. the Pre° ' e l the land 'or naval 'forces of the UniiedStates,°r , the duties, G al e ld d i within the waters of the United States,lll3lrl,,,, Militia and for employing any 31 taws; accrue to-the United States, shall, at icr' : re which may, aCcording to 6 '' 4 : p d till u )ir et :l i Ct : : : :rtille.lll‘' sons making seizure; in such proportion:lo°) difeCted by the. President. irll''' i lt i lie but seizurese danisol,iiigill ibcilav' " Sic. U. Gibes that portion of forfritores 4 , belong to the United States, except Ji 4blwe f f', hed, to be divided between the ltifortners, e tors, and Captains of Crews. ( o n Ile dcf° , ' (ant p() sge S s i 7 i s o da t i :S ti F e l i:O e t. t: e s l b e N u i zraudtr?ieonsnot:f.e:at h C 01t° and eiPPIoY not e b :c r e is' e e d s' i 4 1 not t o n. ' S a x t n e e c y c : . .7: B e l c t gi ) t i )e (t: e t tt. ):a .l 4n l ' ll ):iy i r e b d e ' I n d ) ce t a rt r Y Y a CI oeedlog one year. f rb ij " ' probably 'be reported by the CoMmittee. eat Tu WAY , ,'For6 n*gliconPerehsuidnedLriet:looolllsl,:/1 • 7 from the Corualitt'd olj tionj Relations, reported a as on stldi t the al passing Non-Intercourse oi the in The Bill is therefore passed." our • y:riin eonnnfi e n , extrat. ed some days We -...........— e ni\a t :i c es_ t,i'arenkrnetnot from 4: 1 1 ) 1C A t T ls t l t et r a o t se a - at:mm : l i: ospi:wrtwhirlei.c s i t i lt a l pv e re l en:tB:: , :e i tr i ir li former article, uItNING CH Ito NICOL The 10110 Wing (11 7 ' I,it ! ' our statement 0( the military force in this!' to e I: , tlllAre, which we wish to 'correet. ‘B°,,,lnit' rated our ialssietacrryhyioci:tioe:wedelil,soc:ivillitiiiiicncle',loj'ic,ia:etissritosena° f d j : ti b i.10 : 0 :: ::0: 1 1: 5 14 : 1 ' , it says—" There %%la 1. 0 ,:;' , . as we have since discovered, th e 4„0,01.: aga a very octiticell.:l;:,, tlo o I ' ' o " f Fil a ic r h ev a o ri lu iv t e io d- n w , 179 a (which did not mllOlllll 10 Mc' re „rce , l' c ' ~ . .rit . number, of .24,000, before the nett ~0 n sfi) . ' shouldt s sed ) i h e '' u n preserved t n i il t a t p 'i ap e ny t d r) te,nlt.glehelitieei lerasgrrscerisobisUpriniceotirvyneirnf:lrVnclichtstae . r i , cle' d l o ,, ii ' i r h d l l 'e e c4 : ll i r' r l.' f Frio"'...-' 4. preserve it from anarchy and dttsolatieo, an , c o We can ass ure tit 11.0 , sceptre of BUONAPARTR. 0 of the MORNING CHRoNICI.R, that 14'11° otli every religious Ireland,' of 4ll P /. more intelligent, numerous, and powe...t Ivo' comprise a larger share of the popu lauctri 0 le ~,, 0 seems to be aware of; and that if l 4; I ' 4 id' an d 04 , tnent and the loyalists are encourage ~aittit' as they ought to be, front his side 01 'b et erve . ili' are fully able 'and willi n g I° P rei , ) gl most„ li ti i country from foreign and domestic e,11'0,1,41;1' that as long a s they are upheld and 6'l , P fctits o il , Is for tot) many land i s in no danger. But if the 'n". orll' statements Of the disafreded Print s in , 11 „i g eo , 't persuasion, nre,sue ji pi o ,),- li write • principle still), of wh,Cl) or° , lof t were obliged rnol wi . , criMer and sedition in t 798, and wh°, • ooliii. tug their eniig t • ,robe.ls oo d se' rio l` ration, are i ; tle ir to fly from their ul ' ill o ,of leo 21 ' 4 li° we say , o and their Eoglish assoC la be ;0 ,4 i revolittion and in' lto :t, fortunateli , l ib ' fix to, , tIO 45000 ,ii influence by their persuasions an I. `, 1 il igli tt , winds and contiod ot those who a re ii ,,,,ii le, should person soft .1-' i it ellu P . dgivP" rel tiotis in England, as to bias their .1 11 ~, / i t • rePresentations of the state of tliii o' lll4 .' l tat' t . g o . Mud is in dunger --and it these person richpe ' he f 1 influence ii, England will abe t I aJ o,O O , hiteruprrance of a port of the P „ lo t ° 1 0 1)- d land, or will sutler themselves ° co t go by the threats and liaranguel OW" , ' d ' E.o6ues, laiaidlaoi of 1 4 ° -