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me system would Jet is 6 Coentiitteo. Many
embers had withdrawn from that appointed last
we, ea account of the difference of opinion that
eersi:cd ; not on matters of detail., but on the
wi points and principles for which they were
ppointed. If Gentlemen went to that Committee,
ea a predisposition to suppose reform unneces-
ri, what good could be expected from them ?
He, however, had one objection to the list
f the Honourable Gentleman, whiclt w■s, that
contained the name of not one Member,
they from Scotland or Ireland. Of this he
a+ sure, that no part of the United liiiigdein
ore required theirlabnurs than that from which
e was sent as a representative. There was no part
where wore abuses existed—uo part where more
lobbing wen carried on—wno pint whore others were
Converted into sinecures -with more rapolite.—lic
therefore hoped, that some Member friWn that
Count►? would be named on the Committee, who,
From his loeil knowledge and information, would
he able to direct their inquiries to very neceiwary
Ind important reforms.
Mr.I3ITHUUT thought that the present matter

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toles some reams was alsigned„ and some breach
of dety obeys against the Gentlemen who con►.
,used the Committee of list sesitbn, and who were
excluded from the list of his H. Friend (Jr.

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blokes) he. for one, could give his con'aesit
or that exclusion. The suestioo before the Com-
ittee was ant one in which party was at all con-
reroed, and c'eutlemen might entertain very dif-
ferent, yet very fair and proper views on the sub-
'et. They might differ, nut uto the necessityffor
farm, but ut•on the manner of carrying it into
execatioa. Such being the case. the Committee
otr4ht not to be a select's.; of Gmitienaeu. all of one
mind, but there might to be a bald nee of opinions,
from which the right might he elicited. The Hon.
Gentleman. however, seemed to thiiik it would be
better du was n.R crrried on his owa way. He said,
4. Let lithium no discusaion, but either let me have
it all my way, or elect a Committee all on the other
side." He (Mr. B.) would nit pin his faith to ■ny
Chairman's sleeve; and considered it as highly on-
Mat to throw out, without any cause, worthy and
efficient members. for the purpose of substituting
others in their place, who had no exporieoce, and
were unacquainted with the preceding bu,iuess of
the Committee.

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1 Mr. Bastes defended himself from :be charge
of arrogating the idea, that if all did not go his
sin way, he would not ad 40 any other ground.
'Stich conduct would have boas very unbecoming
'en his part ; nor could it be supporeci, front the
list he had produced, that the i ientleativ,i who.
cortmeied it would yield to his dictat••s. Ile had
selected them from all parts of the House; and.
fries a knowledge. that, when they did differ from
hie in opinion, it- would be in such a way, as nut
i to preclude thins from acting together for the good
of the public. With others, he was aware. he could
rot act soh any prospect of public utility. He
bad not consuhed any Gentleman upon his het
tut two; tied, therefore, he must he acquitted of
the charge of having canvassed for a Committee
bolding opinions similar to lii, own. They would
do their duty, h• was convinced, from a sense of it.
and not out of respect to Min. With respect to
there being no Irish or Scots Member to it, he
,trntld see no obectipu to istroduciag one or two
lama Corn theaetmentries, in the boom of soma
Iran his list, which might, perhaps, be omitted ;
wither had he any objection to take all the mites
of the liNt Committee, if that should be thought
preferable to the mode he hed proposed.
Mr. FULLER had only to say. that, whether the
Committee consisted of IS, 20. or 25, they had not
yet dune their duty. They had been sent to in-
quire into the abolition of tineinrce planes, and they
Lab uut carried into effect any resolution on that
subject. Ile hoped, however, that this would Mill
he done, and that every honest man would assist
No 6 the motion be would bring forward in a few
1 days, and that it would be Larne& As for the
tomes on the list, if they had any doubts on that
sali.ct. let the Hon. Proposer and the Minister
Some mail and Willi apiece, till the ',umber was
completed.

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Lord A.flausLrew &Hurled to the want of de-
enun no the pen of the Chairman of Abe original
roniniitt cc. It was three years since they were hr-t
estahlidiesl„ end from what had b eu done, he
uespored of any great public beuelit accruing
from the it lebours.
The SAILITOR-Galtaaal. strenuously opprwed
the mode of proceeding recommended by Mr.
banker. He preferred a Committee of 21 to one
of 13 Nlembers ; end contended, that the public
I"l6'neo was more likely to be expedited by the
firmer than the latter, which was °lkea inefficient,
from the lulu-attendance of its N.lenibers. The
I!eNt 41(1(16011 was, whether the greater pert of the
a''''olint'ce last se-sion should be rumored, on the
1o1" looi_irlion of one Geutlentan. mod without
the evidence of nny one fact whateveir ? lle would
hare thought, supposing, for the moo tent, that they
a•Te equal savegrity en.: ability with any others 13 it roitlii he named, that their mtperieuce with
t .e past LlitalleSl of the Committee wee a strong
fivoutinendsnun to their bring continued upon it.
The third point to be considered wits., what ground
had been Idol for their removal. The lion. Gent.
had brought forward a charge against Ahem. which,
nni.t ray, wits of a personal neturme-he charged
lily in wide manners for the duty; with being Kahle
4 the 019,,ri of the Cotninitteet and osith distract-
“ig their hoNitiroi. But would the I lotese adopt the
lane and unfounded assertion thus me de,, end de-
upon the removal of these Ge oilmen ?
lb. Lir our, could tint do so. He woe tld never go
a loose general charge, to stigma-
l'" mill, many of wheat he knew to be of the
erieiest ititegrity, and most sincerely devoted to
knrniiie the good of the country. In lusher to
nolo, ill,. lion. Gentlemen was bonnet to tying for-
eliar,4ee rpeeilically, y.mid
unionior ; and he now rolled On him to do an.
hat these charges had in fact been refuted by an-
.:ther Member of the Coinnuttee, who told them. in
;Place, that he never. though he attended rain-
nny, saw may hostility to reform evinced, or any
e.,:linaction given to the business of the Committee.
Hon. Cent:ernan seamed to n ant only those on
ylanyi re cuuld depend --
apt it Jersey is veria•Mogisiri ;
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LONDON, .
THURSDAY, Froauwr I.

The Walcheren Papers were delivered last night
to the Members of the House of Commons. They
consist of four sets, viz. No. 1. Containing letters,
ptiocipallyfrom the Naval Officers iii the Eerie-
dition. pal titularly Sir R. STRACHA 4.—No. 3. Let-
ters from the same, respecting the departure of the
aruiameat. and subsequent operations. No. B.
Dawatiises from the Earl of CHATII AM, detaifibt
his progress, down to his determination that the
ulterior objects of the expedition were unat-
tainable ; and Nu. D. Dispatches fruin Lieut.-Geo.
Dox, stating his measures for the evacuation of
Walcheren. Of these four sets of papers, contain-
ing 180 folio pages, we do nut suppose that 20
pages bear upon the merits of the
.Expedition. or
eau throw any ligot upon its merits or demerits.
We have (ruin the inane selected such parts as we
consider most pertinent ; from which, and others,
it appears, that. in the month of January, Ministers
knew that Flushing. and the !left in the harbour,
were sickly, that they buried 30 a-day, .and that
half the town was upon the sick list. That so
far back as the 7th of April. an attack by the
EngliA was expected at Flushing, at which
time the army there was very sickly ; and that
on the 2ln of May 10,000 troops had arrived
at Cadaand, and 10,000 on Wakherea, in expec.
Cation of such attack, sad the ships had gone
up the Scheldt to is stated by Sir R.
STRACMAN, that the capture of Codsand was a prima-
ry object of the Expedition, yet so resson.is assign-
ed why it was not attempted ; but it does appear,
that Lord CHATHAM was required, by his instruc-
tions, to obtain, in the first instance, a safe sod
permanent footing in Welchers's. Upon this point
the question almost entirely rests; for it does ap-
pear, that, by the delay of reducing Flushing, the
ulterior objects, if ever attainable, were completely
lost. Admirals ICIIATI and STRACHVI were both
of opinion, on the 17th or August, that the ene-
my's fleet, having then gone above Lille, nothing
could be done for the ultimate object of the Expe•
dition, without Cie co-operation of the army ; and
Lord Csis man. wus of opinion, that, from the
advanced scuon of the year. the sickness of his
troops, and the increased strength of the enemy,
nothing farther could he dour. The number of
his sick, cas the geth of August, he states at 3000,
and, on the fith of Sepember. at 8000. We have
already stated. that, of this great mass of papers,
the greater part is irrelevant, or merely surplusage ;
but from such part as tints bear upon the point,
Lord CMATUAM stands acquitted, aid the failure,
sapposing the of attainable, is to be imputed
to Ministers.

We have receive"! French Papers to the 23.1,
and Dutch to the 27th instant. French troops are
pouring into Spain. through Uayoune. They ar-
rive at that city upon an average of from 12 to
15,000 men a-day. The sth corps, under the
Dulsc of ASILINTIS, begw• to arrive on the 12;11.

• The Beld&ecptipcgeV lift;tkhal latttrittEtt, Prince
of NEU FCHATUr. had reached ti•at city at that date,
and his Highness was expected in a rye days.—
Wig been in all 3 01114FARTZ.4 campaigns,
his Mentor and Fsvourite ; and his arrival at
Bayonne will probably b the sig.'s! for the ap.-
proach of the Emperor not, how-
ever, left Paris on the tli; but as a considerable
bustle was observable in the Cabillet. for several
preceding days, he was perhaps p.eparin g II( his
departure.

Au article, dated Munich, the 12th, states, that
the Tyrolese Patriots, who were iii the prisons of
flown, have been set at libetty ; awl that
the Special Tribunal of tlic: Circle of the Bier,
established at Liiichiu, uu account of the insur-
rection in the Voralberg, has been dissolved.—
If this statement be founded iu fact, it is decisive
evidence of the total suppression of the insurrection
in the Tyrol and Voralberg:
The exiled King of Sweden, after.. residence of
dve days at Haruburgh, left that city with his fa-
mily. on the Ithh, on bit way to Switzerland.
It appears that, central, to expectation, a con-
siderable part of the French troops, forming the
army of Germany, will aot repass the Rhine.—lt
consists of .two corps of thirty thousand men
each; one under the Duke of Rscioto, which will
be stationed in the vicinity of Ulm and Augsburgh,
the other in Wurtzburgh, Fulda. and Hamm
It is stated in a letter from Boeharest,of the 12th
December, that the Russians, who had retreated,
after their defeat at Silistria, had again advanced
towards that place. It is also said; that the for-
tress of Brsilow surrendered to them on the 3d inst.

We have been charged with prec4iitancy, in the
Treasury Journals, when, relying upon the majority
in favour of Lord Poacaavria's 'notion, we an-
nounced the &meall of the present Ministers. For
our justification, we must refer to the proceedings,
last night, in the House of Commons. The loyal
and patriotic motion of Mr. BANIES, to restrain a
profligate Minister from dissipating the property
and patronage of the Crown, to the impoverish-
ment of the successor of the reigning Esau,
sail the comeituelit necessity of saddling the coun-
try with new phices and pensions, to supply the
waste, was the subject of last night's debate,
and Mr. PrIttAVAL had announced his deter-
mination to oppose it ; but he shrank from the
contest, and the motion of Mr. BeugEs was car-
ried without a division. Thy Minister thiu de-
feated, with all that little finesse, in which cer
tainly is en adept, hyped to break his fall, and let
himself down easy. , On the appointment of the
Finance Coininittee,• he appealed to the argyles**.
tun ad oereestudiann, and the ergo/meninx' ad ho-
miness. lie pitted his own friend, STURGES
Banana, against his own friend, Mr. 1. H.
Itauwet. • Hera he was defeated; and, going
to ilia *Other ektrtnie, he proposed Mr. 1).
Beeman spied Mr. Hammy Cowas. And
here, too, the Minister was left in a still greater
mi-
nority. The !lista+, of Eogland does not afford an
instance of a Minister who has stuck, and clang,
and fastened to place, with the eagerness, the lust,
and•the pertinacity, of Mr. PIRCEVAL. Loy MOO
of ordinary sense and reeling. or of common pru-
dence, in his deplorable situation, would have
thought hiusaelf fortunate, had be been able to make
a safe retreat, some months ago, into privacymnd re-
tirement; yet he still grapples to office, and nothing
but the exercise of the public mind, divesting itself
of all that delicacy which he disowns in his conduct
towards the public, can reduce him to that situa-
tion, from which the Historian if England will be
puzzled to explain, how a man, so destitute of ta-
lent., and of so little a mind, could have ascended
to so great a height. or ever had in his power to in-
fluence. or direct. nut the destinies of England,
but of even so paltry a place as the isle of Jersey,
or Gaernsey, or the Isle of Man.

Mr. PIRCVIAL. finding himself io a decided
minority, last night, on • Mr. BANELIVI motion, ex-
erted all his powers to collect his frieods, but when
they did come, hr had the rnivfortune to find that
many of thetas voted uguisist
Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Capt. Gnomes Hourga
was sworn intu the command of the ship Sir Wil-
liam Beasley, consigned to Madras and Bengal.—
The Court adjourned at ■ix o'clock till to-morrow.
The Narcissus frigate has captured and seat
into Scilly. the French privateer Darr, Troia. of
16 guns ;. she had captured the tenia/ation, Trom-
so*. and the Maria, Para, from Newfoundlaud, for
Pool; the form✓.r is retaken by the Narcissus, and
also arrived at Scilly.

The Antelope Antelope men of war, with the Hon. Henry
Welles!. y on board, *wird from Portitmouth uu
Tuesday, for Cadiz.

Yesterday, • very respectable meeting was held
of the Proprietors to the proposed establishment ef
a Public Stock Market, %Vit. SALTE, Esq. in the
chair, for the purpose of electing Trustees and a
Tresswer, whew the ft...Aosta% Gentlemen were
tin int ineuslv elected •
Bane, Esq. B. Timone'', Esq.
.1 Blades, Esq. William Esq.
Brock, Esq. Benjamin Walsh, Esq.
Abraham FAVCRC, Fag Robrri P.iekrtt, Esq.
John/2;13.4th, E.'s Treassiery.
The capital of the propos-d estAhlishment is
30,0001. iu shares of 501. each, which, as soon as
the result of the meeting was known. were doue at
forty gulueas per share Pl'lEllllllBO.

The election tnr the CUM )of F.•s.s.c/mmetyced
yesterday at Chelsustard. Mr, tiousLow and Mr.
Bum:wig% are Use tbso