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ROOM OF COMMONS.

111 r. GRAIIAW Mond, " Mat the F.aot 11.44 Judicature
,Lists should be referred to • Committee "--Agreed
lie EDwiltD S t.t, mused far a copy of ■ letter
from I..test,Cwl: Gerdes Its the Secretary at War, dated
the tth at Assiut, respect* the Medical Department
/peed W.
• pstitha from the Debtors i• Waring poi was brought
up awl terkettl Mahe •• the table.
• paws truer the Nast tudia Dort Ceruptusy preeemted
'es accusal of lie rralapta and I Ellaborwriaeuls of the year.
Tha sectrud meatus of the Gas Ltght 1411 was pettpotted

• woottagte keel the Lou.d siguile3 *herr ogreetoeut to De-
ward private Was, sod fropeate.l a ropy of the Cornmeal-
ikon epos the eultivet of the Sootek rhotillorief. together
tettlktholteptert of the Committee otra N.

• The Noe;ich Bridge Bill was mail a Head tins aid or-
dered so M esaamitted.
• The Slamlweti lower 011 was 'rad • weed, thee, awl or-
dered to be helmeted le- outflow.

fir Joms ;wed fur word lovers i• tbe Ad.
' opirolty, respect nog &direst ships, which was wood to.
The various Expiritag Laws west theme' the Committee,
sad the reports were ordered to be merited to-ntorrow.
Lord Arcata? sowed for • copy of the Fourth Report, rs;
spectisti Windsor Forest ...Agreed to.
Mr. M /MINCE FITZGE111•10 brought in • Rill to amesd
fir Irish Yost Rood Act, sod the Grand Jury preseutaests
Inkad. which wee read the first time.
Mi. &stun` Cotton' hareyht up • return of the corps
of Royal Artillery, which woe ordered to lie out the table.
Mr. Ltmoi breughe •p the Report of the Com-
isittre of Way. rod Meow, mil of the Cototaitte so Lathe-
qoerllllls, the Iteselatboa of which ware agreed to.
A !Ina kge fovea She Loras airlifted thew greenest to
Lord tt tlliailaa's Amway 11111, sod others of • priests or
tee*.

_Mr. Feet*? WARD broeglit is the Marine Notiey Bill,
which est mid a first time.
tItINE PAY OFFICE.

Mr. Rootim WARD moved the second reading
of the Marine Pay thlice fill.
Mr. Caeevrr thought that the Bill should not
be precipitated, and proposed that a distant period
'should he named. He made some observations
upon the state of Mr. ‘'illierr's accounts.
Mr. 11 t•ltFi said, that Mr. Villierv's accounts
teem bereft the Committee of Floatiev, which
was occupied in inquiriog into theta, and inio
the nature or the check, e.tabliblied in that
GM, e. Tie nest report would, lie believed, he
satisfactory oa that head ; he (lid thick, how.
ever. that it con:d be produced at an early
and therefore lio;o:A that the present huh isouid
not lie eirried with precipitati.on. The Committee

• •
hul dlW:Orer.d many errors in th,. acroonts of that
lefficr. gad so the manner of m1(111011114 A
lanchunchial error was. that they seethed wily to
ciiiisider the ex p.nditure without payiewq way •tten•
tittua to the 'ecliptic; thoit was the origin of the prin-
cipal tv.h. lie hut *nine Mioutre of the Com-
mittee in his howl, which it was hu interitiou to

en.iimunicate to his [UAW Iforionr.ible Friend (.Ir.
IV,iril). As far w the Cn ttttt duet hod gaily at
prearia, thrre au% nn re..wm, that he could see, fur
suppn•tnq that the MArine Offi, e was oiwfol nr
nece.sary, no the contrary he was inclined to thuik
that it "'wild be r►gltt to cut it off.
Mr. PKaC6►t•l. said, that he ass willing to shy
the pateing of the Bid, until they could have the
bandit of the Rrport of the Committee. Intt th-v

tuight ante to di., stermei reading note ith-
stanclinx. Titry iteiAi•t riefir wool/ into* CotalliA
Upol.l ir Dodd the It putt 1044 made. lle
td that nothing could be more dirigrne.ful
than sets h h.stl haippreted ; but with
r• yevt to thy istiolition of the office. though it ini4ht
p• cLape ite iirCevtairy, it struck bite lit a far Ia•
fervlit point ..f view at iire4riit.
WA/C.O Arlitiet.'ed in the delay ; after
which the Rill Vo 14 Tt..1,1 :1 ••!1.0114 hair, and ordered
it fu: Il:Tutt...l •t .I 4 mouth.
Vt. vto Iw4 to to.,k raMird
Tio t t....r
vr•JUII !five Yl.fll',J ••?

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14.

Five Gotteliburgh milli,. arrived, at a late hour,
bast 'right. Getteral Mzurrts is reported to be
on his way to Stockholm, as Ambassador from
France to the Court of Sweden.

We, yesterday, stated, that of the officers of our
army to India, gl are excluded fioun the general
pardon, thret of whom, viz. Colonels DOVETON and
Bszt, and Major Srosts.v , are to be tried by Court-
Martial, and the retnaining IR are to Save the op-
tion of quitting the service, or of being tried in a
manner. The mimes of those 18 are re-
cited in a General Order, issued by Lord Mitito,
on the 25th of September, at Fort St. George, in
which the residua which induced his Lordship to
adopt, this course, in a cue involving so many offen-
ders, are set out et length. It is a diffuse and ela-
borate moral essay, and may be considered a very
good lecture to the army. We have extracted
from it t,U the parts that are of importance.
Two Comp.iny's Officers, Lieuts. RowLEY and
M'Coautce. had been tried by a Court-Martial,
and found guilty of disrespectful conduct to Capt.
CAMPBELL. They were charged by that Officer with
s' coining to his quitters. on the gOth of Aug. tilos),
to acquaint him that they were deputed l•y the Offi-
cers of the gd battalion, 9th Native Infantry. to say
that they considered hie conduct to be infamous.
and that he was ■ disgrace to the cloth he wore !"
Lieut. fil,Counce was sentenced to be cashiered,
and Lieutenant ROWEL" to be suspended from
milk and pay for twelve months. Both sentences
acri, however, remitted in Geiwral Orders, on con-
dition of the offetoling parties apologising to Cap-
tain CAMPBELL. He cppears to have iticurred
their displeasu►e by declining to act in concert with
them. in their violent proceedings to procure a re-
dress of their alleged grievances.
An order published by the Bengal Government
returns thinks to Lieut. Colonel Bet.t for having
token the strong fortified town of Bhaw■nnie. Of
the cause of the expedition eggnog this place we
are as yet aunt formed. Lieut. STEPHIN 01311111 W,
of the g!d regiment, waive infautry, was killed,
and Capt. Wurritusso, Lizuts.Becut.s and
Cornet BYLIIS, and Ensigns M'Dua•Ls
and PLATVAIR, trete wounded.

The annals of Great Britain, wt.ce the accession
of the House of Bet; xswicn, do not produce, nor
iudeed can its history, at any period of the Monar-
chy, exhibit two more memorable proofs of the
inefftceney of the highest rank, to protect their
possessots against the effects of public indignation,
whet, justly excited, then we hare witnessed in the
eour,e of the last and the present Session of Par-
liament. In 1809, a Prince, the most nearly allied
to the Crown, enjoying the distingui.hed favour
of the Ssvcreign, placed by him at the head of the
armies of this country, and endowed, hiniself, with
many qualities, calculst ed to excite private esteem,
was., nevertheless, pretipitated.from that eminence,
by the inve•ti.4ations set un foot iu the. House of
Common,. In i in, a Nobleman, who has suc-
cessively passed through the lint Offices of the
State, possessing hereditary claims to popular 'te-
pid, of no common these iptiun ; sun to the first,
and brother to the second Wlt.ttan PITT ; Master-
. General of the Ordnance, and decorated with the
Order of the Carter ; has sunk under • similar
blow. In the (newer instance, facility of tempe-,
imprudence, and. above all, the conviction that the
fountains of military prosnmion had been polluted,
or diverted into improper elistinels, reduced the
Duke of VONIC Coin Costimailder-its-Chief to the
rank of a General Officer. In the case Lamm ma,
au wet, emeworstitutional in its tiatnre, subversive of
that publicity, and responsibility, which constitute
the protection of the Sovereign himself, and which,
if impunity hail 'attended it, wonlil have • hilat-
ed all that was done in 16e9, for the Eii;;l.sh
Ipie, has compelled Lord CHAIN IN to My down his
office. and will teimuretionably expel him, what-
ever in ty becalm of the remaining Meridiem of the
Ca;iinet, front • place in tlse Administration. Both
thesse t•entences„ reluctantly extorted limn Praia-
omit, by the publicity and culpability of the acts
nil. ;rd. will assuredly be confirmed and approved
by po•iteritsr.
Vie du not by any means dcoire in revive those
imnresi.ions relative to to the cominct of the Duke
of Yuen, over which time is dr.tivieg a veil. nor do
we mean to compare the respective deArees of tnie-
eonduct iu his Royal Highness and in Lord CHAT..
MASI ; but, the nr,re we consider the terms on
white, Mr. Wittrone D's. Or rathar, in which Mr.
Corral:lea censure is dra vii np, the more striking
dies its moderation If we contricit it with
• the vioisuce and raticour that chararte!tze the deli-

berations and tl:e colts of the Muss of etninor.s,
on the accession of Cisomus 1. against these illus-
trious persons who were rather supposed, than
proved, to have poisoned the ear of Qiiecina sr,
and to have directed the Councils of that rAyerti•
during the four last years of her reifrnso we
shall see how mild,. temperate, dignitirtly and
abstract. is the resentment expressed by Par..-•
'lament on the occasion before us. Regret,.
not indignation, is felt, " that any such communi-
cation as the Narrative of Lord CHkruals, should
have beets presented to His AltaEsvir, without any
knowledge of the other Ministers." They only
declare such coodsict to Ise " reprehensible,
nod deserving tile censure of the Hume." They
neither demand, nor institute ally further proceed-
ings against the offendiog person ; they do not ad-
vert to the ioconsistencies and controdiLtions in his
evidence; nor do they either inculpate his motives
for presenting such a paper to the fits°. nor car-
ry up the resolution adopted to t'.e foot of the Throne.
Never, perhaps, were deliberations of a popular
and legislotive Assembly distinnished by more
calmness, uud this absence of all personal irrita•itm
or c *ty. . .

The fall of two persons so distinguished, in the
short space of °Ay twelve mouths, might uffwd as
abundant matter fur reflection to the moruke, as to
the statesman ; to the philosopher as to the politi-
cian. An the ener4etic snd profound observations
which illustrate the colic! iibiun of JUVIM Aett Tenth
Satire, where he beautifully points out the blindness
and the folly of huenlit *lshii., crowd on the mind
at the present moment. MARCUS and PONIPLY,
like the Duke of Yoga, and the E trl Ctisru %Me
lived too long fur their own glory, and would have
been fortunate, liai they been sooner withdrawn
from pubic life. The evening of u reign, distin-
guished like that of Groanxlthe THIRD, by the die-
play.of 'duos: every virtue which can adorn the
throne, has been darkened by the compulsory re-
signation of his second son.. The illustrious name
of PtTT. SO deservedly dear to this couthry, and so
admired even by our enemies, has been tarnished
by its possessor.
The Master-General if the Ordnance has resign-
ed ; but the Cabinet Minister het survives. 11l that
capacity, his trial is likewise approaching. We
may, without much claim to predictio ii, anticipate
its result. If, as seems now to be geuerally, cos-
ceived, no celerity, or goad fortune, could have con-
veyed the fleet of England, and the military forces,
to Seadvliet, so quickly, as to have ainhortsed the
two Commanders to attack LION end Lief ken- •
shueik, and Antwerp, with any reasonable prospect
of success ; what shall we ray to the Acinsinistra- •
tion which sent one of their own Members, to at-
tempt an impracticable, and unattainable object ?
If, on the other hand, its failure isto he attriburted.to
the inefficiency, procrastination, irresolution.and
adequacy of the Militarx Commander in Chiefowfiat.
apology cap be offered to ap injured country, for such
a selection on the part of His MAJEsee's advisers ?
A selection, which, as they most have known and
felt, at the time they made it, diffused a general •
gloom over both services, and over the whole kingr
(loin ? In either case, their individual and collective
culpability, equally calls for their removal., It can-
not be mach longer delayed, after the late events
which we have been examining, without exciting
universal dissatisfaction. We shall hail its arrival
and accomplishment, as the lora of a new and more
auspicious order of things. The month of March
has alWays been fatal to weak, unfortunate, and un-
popular AdministretMus, durin4 the present Reign,
from that of Lord Noarn, in 178 t, down to Mr.
l'ancev•es, in tato.

Actbunts from Cadiz, state, that the French on
their approach to the Isle of Lenu, place the Spa-
niardtin their van, and bayonet them if they fall
back.
We have received sorne of the sinaller Paris Pa-
pers to the tith instant. It appears that aura E,
the Viceroy of Italy, is to receive some cr.mpensa-
tion in consequence of the marriage of NAN/14:0N,
the Grand Duchy oh Frankfurt being given to him
and his male issue after the death of the Prince Pri-
mate, the present tkII,ACVIOI', WllO had preeimsly no-
initiated, at his successor, Cardinal Fiusctl, and
which nomination NAPOLEON has, without any ce-
remony, annulled.
The limp of B•11.1111A awe' Weirvmarrtr: are
tie accompany the Archduchess Manta LI11:11.1 10
and to Risk in the fetes.

-
The nomination for Cambridge-hire took plJcs
yesterday at Cambridge. Lord Vausicts Osamu+
we understand, has every prospect of buccer,. The
election will commence oil Friday.
The House of Common', last night, v ern info tl.e
Inquiry of the Scheidt, at seven o'clock. Lord
CASTI.EISAGIi was eminined in his place. Sur HI.
CHARD STRACHAR, GrOrral DON, Captain PI•G r,
and General bl.CLutiii, were the other v illnesses
examined.

Mr. SDI:110A ft ;rive notice, in the home of
Commons, ou Momlay, of his •ii! to loing
forward a motion on the conduct of His MAJLSTV'S
Ministers, with respect to the Spanish Peninsula.
Ile thought that Monday lola would probably be
the day.
Yesterday, Sir DAVID DVsDAS held a public
day, ut his Office, its the horse-Guards, aa•l have
audiences to a number of Military ()dicers.
The arrival of the Austrian Messeneer, with dis-
patcher. for Governuar rr, is variou•ly accounted for.
Some persons think he is conic wit:ilal an-
nouncement of the mammae of the Archducl.e•s
1.1/I,lst MARIA. Oilier'.. 11.... t hi. .i.vythes con-
tno an iodoect overtuie n spec:irie. I 1.,.••nr ; and
others, that he brings an otter of the nierb.tiion of
Ans:i la bets tirest li tt.i. tt..d France.