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London, England, 1808-02-20 00:00:00

ORDERS OF COUNCIL.

Mr. Po*sorrel, said, is object
inrising to
make the motion, of which he had given notice
yesterday, wee in order to ascertain the proof or
part of the Preamble to the Order of Ist Nov.
iRp7, which stated that His Majesty having found
that the Order of 7th of January last had not
liatl the desired effect in compelling the enemy to
meal or revoke their Decors, an increased rigour
was thereby rendered necessary. Ile was desirous
to know the substance of the information that was
so received, so 114 to see whether that part of the
Preamble of the Order alluded to was warranted
by the proof of tin, fart. The Hight Hon. (;• n-
tfemen then moved for an ILUMILI of the informa-
tion alluded to.

The Cnaxertton of the EzellEnt-en said, tiled
with respect to the subject of the Hight HOu. Gtu.
deinan't, Motion, who had just eat dowu, he tad to,
inform the House, that intOritiatiou of the rigid
ciforcenient of the Freuch Decree had hero rt.
ceived from various quintets by Hit Majesty's Go
tern:neut.. The,,y were in possession of beets sa 4
the execution of thole decrees being rigidly en.
,forced. Merchants of the first respectability 6,1
ako • information of those facts. 'l'hose detests
were particularly enforced along the coast; of Hot.
land. and Northern coasts of France. He thee
proposed an :intendment us the motion, to the tot.
lowing effect :

" Tint instead of extract.' of the inturomettas, the
wad' tubsuutee be ateletututeti."—Arred tu.

Mr. Ponsottny gave notice, that he would, cn
Monday, move for the production of all papers f,
lading to the acquieacence of North America in
the enforteineut of Pe French pticree of Nor.
nog.

• Me.- WHARTON brought up the report of the
Cminnittee on the Unclaimed Dividend Bill, Bank
Loan Bill, and Petty Cuctoin Bill—which were
ordered to be read a third time on Monday.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex.
CHEQUE?, the House resolved itself into a Cota-
inittee e ways and mesas. •
The I :14 ANCELLOR of the EICHRHOHR then gave
notice that he would, on Monday, move for leave
to bring in a Bill to prohibit the Exportation of
Cotton and Bark. /lc would postpone going fully
into thissubject till Monday. ft may be nectssarc,
however, to say, that the object of the Duty to he
imposed on those articles was, to preteut their
exportation to the mann tactsirers on the Continent.
It was also intended to impose a similar duty on
cotton" wool, the growth and produce of this coun-
try, as is now ou that of the produce of foreign
countries. To those person, who
wish to trade in
this snide, it Was ietelided to give an oppor-
touity. If this article sliiitild find its way to the
continent, he thouicht it would be the means of
troduciug others that would be equally important
to the tilde of. this country, He conceived tl.xt
this mode of opening a trade would go in a great
measure to •entedy the operation of the Orders in
Council, with respect to neutra's. He would on
another occasion point out the mode of license for
this Crude. It was intended to extend the some
prohibition to the article of lurk. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer then proposed that 9d. per lb.
duty be imposed upon the exportation of cotton.
Mr. BARING and Mr..PONSONST thought that
the prohibition to the exportation of this article,
under the restriction propo•aid, was a violation of
the rights of British trading. They considered that
America world not in any instance be advantaged
by these regalations, and that they were indeed a
small compliment to her.
The CHANCELLOR of the EICHCQUEI thought
it strange to suppose, that articles should go free to
the Continent He considered it but fair, that as
France hqd tboug+it proper to subject our produce
to rein ictions that we should be entitled to re.
Strict her. Taxing every article the Contiseut
ashy strain need of, would be the way to pro-
mote". the interest of our trade. The propositiou
wits theft put and egreed to.
• •The CHANCItt-J-OR of the EZEILFOUES propoaed
that pit. per bu .1 duty be imported on the export.
etion of salt tothe Continent, and Ed. per bushel ti
dietaut taareauf die World, the ilritish Colonies tohe
eXeented. This measure, he said, was intended as
applicab!e to the war fund. He considered this as a
most valuable measureattidwould,he was satisfied.he
of great service to the trade. of the country. It was
intended that the inaeuractnrer of this salt should
be exempted from the operation of this dui. It
was well known that the northern parts of Europe
were in the greatest mutt of this article, and lie
was satisfied they cotild not obtain it any where on
the terms they could here. He was sure from these
consisenttions that this article would increase in
expo' tntion.
Mr. DAVENPORT objected to this duty, and
hoped, from the importance of the subject, the
discussion of it would not be premed upon the
House.
Mr. BARINo tbonhtl that as salt was produced
in the Bahama Islands, if a similar duty was not
imposed upon it there, the consequence would be
injurious to the trade of this country. He thought
tins additional duty would be likely to induce
America to cultivate the manufacture of this ar-
ticle.
Mr. Husetssote said, if America should,
through this. measure, be forced to cultivate the
manufacture of this article, it would doubtless be
injurious to the trade of this country. He wa.s
however, satisfied that the additional duty pro-
pored would have no such effect.
Lord HENRY PETTY thought the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer hail not given an
answer to tine Honourable Gentleman over agßiniit
him (Mr. Baring), as to whether it was the in-
tention of Government to lay the same duty on
silt, the produce of the Bahamas, as on that of
this couutry ? He conceived..shat great caution
should be need in imposing a duty on any article
that would effict Anience.
Mr. DAvolfilioser spoke on the same side.
' The Resolution was agreed to, and the House
resumed.
ORDERS IN COUNCIL. .

lirCnANice'.L.oftofthe &cc srmu Eft moved the

One; of the Day for the committal of this Bill,
for the purpose of postponement until Monday.—
He obseretal that many alterations were in contem-
plation respecting the subjeet under consideration.
It was the intention of His )lajesty's Govosweat
to do every thing in their power to relieve the tilde
of Neutrals. lk observed, that as other opportu-
nities would occur for the &activation of thot Viet"
thm, he would propose its pootponemeat ozol

. _
Monday. - -
Mr. Poulton irr thought the principle of the Bill
so repugnant to every principle of justice, and so
much at war with tLe interest of this country, that
he consider 4 it his duty to oppose it in every
stage. lie would therefore take the nose of the
House 'p.m it. It was a unman: of hostility against
Britain, and when considered with relation to
France, was a 'mist contemptible and puerile one.
The Hon. (..lentleronn was here interrupted by
the ('aavrEl.Len. of the Excutoura, who said it
was lin! his itite..ti.ni to protract the discussion of
He was not until this day aware,

this messu

rd
roc
be
:he

stteratienewre seeeesary. If the lireemeralge
tie.utlemao had a desire te take the tease of the
house he my it app:isred to hits', that the ree-
ve fat takin4 the sense of the /tease neon the
sestet ei4easten 1114 i b., thit the Honourable
toducal.s.l, looking at the strength of the House,
slay dank, from the thinnessdour benches. that a
tiatatib would be are to him.
Mr. PONSONIIY explained, and denied any such
votive.
Mr. BIIAND and Mr. Davies scary were fey
uK .
HENS/ MetterMetter thought the measure was
fdr f
inch paranteuat delinquency. that every op-
'repottaaity should be taken to expose its venality
sad inimitiela tie wits surprised at the iusinuation
dirowu out by the Right Lion. the Chancellor of
the Eicluequer against MB Hon. Friend. who he
kiss "no tucapabls of the motive attributed to
ide was satisfied the Right Hon. Gentleman
meld wards! Ins troops with inns.* more celerity
than eotdd be etfactod at this side the House.
On dub the question was loudly called for. end
oranges ordered to withdraw—when a division
took place. and there appeared
Fla the postlsooeineat
Against it
Majority — ea
When strangers were re-admitted, we found the
CasecttLoa of the EICHEQUES en his legs, as-
surin,,,, the Right Hat. Gentleman (Mr. Pensonby)
that the division had convinced him, that he was
mistaken in the induustion he had previously
made with respect to any wish of taking on unfair
adviiiitao. /Hear ! hear ! front the Opposition.).
The Report of the Bt.l on the Orders of Council
was then ordered to be received on Monday, with
au understanding that a farther discussion ,should
take place ou the re-committal on Tuesday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
of, after which the House adjourned until Monday.

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FOREIGN IN TELLIGENCR.

GOTTENBURGH MAILS.

JTTENDIMOH, rte. 211.
Yesterday nrrived at Cladaholm, a harbour. to
the northward of this, His Britannic Majesty's
skip Vertgaard. The Nassa4 and Stately, of 64
guns coach, to4ether with the Quebec frigate and
Losi.r biorta. yet remain here, ilk well as several
wroth Luang. vowels of war.
Dimmer four ttsan English merchants have ar-
rived has from St. Peteraburgh, wito, with great
difficulty, obtained pan ports to depart from
thence. They state, that passports were refused
to the pentane remaining, of whom there were ve-
ntral.
There is muiriderable descend here for colonial
produce. A number of foreigners have arrived to
purchase sugar and collet, which articles bats
rixii to AO per cent. in Hamhnrgh and in the
Baltic ; a large quantity, it is said, is (in the pre-
sent difficulty of navigation) going 'wetland to
Russia.
Accounts received this day from Stockholm an-
nounce, that a Russian army of 93,000 men is
ou the frontiers of Finland. There were at tint
50,000, brit as it Was *mod difficult to provision
so many, six regiments were marched home again.
ENS. 12.

IrEP- 1.

The Stockholm post, of this dav, hashrought the
important intelligence that RCSStA has DE-
CLARED WAR AGAINST SWEDEN; and
some accounts state. that the Rusoians have al-
ready entered Swedish Finland. Both Mons.
Alopens, the Russian Minister ; and Count Moitke,
the Danish Minister, were about to leave Stock.-
honn. The Officers and Staff of the Swedish army
in Finland, had received order* to join with all
possible- expedition.
A Danish utan of war (a 74) has been cruising
off this port for more than a week past ; but such
Las been the state of the winds, that, although
three English line-of-battle ships are lying here,
not one of than halo been able to go in quest of her.
The frost set in yesterday very intensely, and
there is now every uppeanuice of a severe winter.

_
u*Novasa, Jan. 24.
The fortresses of Hameln, Fort George, and N
icu-
burgh, will be dismantled. The demolition of
their fortiticatious a as begun the day before yester-
day.
STOOIOIO WI, JAN. 5.
The statue of the late King, Gustavus ILL. wag
Wavered on the _4th tat. It w erected on the
spot where, *her the peace of Werela, the King
landed from the bat which had obtaiued the vic-
tory wow SweaskmalL
JAN. 25.
Her Majesty. ilea Oaten, sod Their Royal Nigh-
ties'', the Priam( Royal smd Princess Sophia Wil.
helinins, arrived Isere Last Friday, front Oripeho
His Majesty the King manased from the above
Royal country seat the ind instant.
COPSIIIIA GEV, JAN. 23.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince set out,
yesterday. foe Kiel, with his Highness Prince
Christian, of Howe, and Suite.
Prince William of Prussia, brother of His Prus-
sian Majesty, is arrived in Paris, and has had a long
private audience of the King.
Sen-eoel, fire-wood, and coffee, are extremely
sea: cc in this capital.
Accurdieg to a notification published by the Re-
racy of Norway, by order of the highest authority,
the late Ordinance relative to foreign privateers is
not to be in fonee when the prize is English. The
principle laid down.-. Free Ships nuskeil'es Goods,"
is to be observed with respect to allNeutralShips, and
those of friendly Powers, which may put into the
ports of Norway, and the cargo shall not he opened
er broken into; but if as English cargo be found
in a free ship, whether discharged or transhipped,
or a ship so laden be stranded, it shall, with its car-
go, be treated as enemy's property.

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His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived at
Kid on the 4th od last month.
LEGHORN, DSC. 26.

The inhabitants of all the towns aad prorinoes
of the former kingdom of Etruria have now taken
the oath of allegiance to the Emperor and King
Napoleon. The Evasions are 'unrolling ►o Upper

Italy, and Otis place is occupied Ity a eunaereus
French garri 3071. In the tort, which covers the
etty and port, prepannions are ins':ing to receive
the Eiglialt with red-hot balls, in ease they should
attempt an attar tc. Whether Etntria is to be in-
corporated with i'miter, or whoher Lucien Bona-
parte into be our Sovereign, is tint het decided.

BRA%DENSURSiII, JAW. 45.
On the 16th instant, their Prosiiiin 'Majesties re-
turistd to liouigsi,urgh, from Alernel, iu perfe.it
health, on which occasion the capital *was
illumiu-
attd in the evening.

maw FORT. J 21.
The French General of ihriaiaii, Michaud, ar-
rived I.cre yeataidin.
The uu.ulper of Swims troops in French pay
amounts 110* to 13.223 men. Brent exerlious are
nuking to precuts the `.1.600 still wanting.

NAPLICS, JAN. 3.
According to letters from Sicily, King Ferdinand
lives in a eery reined manner at Palermo.
The Prince of HMSO Philipstahl commands the
Royal troops, which do not amount to more than
6,000 men. The English cud the. Germane. in their
pay are not more than 3,000 Inch The English
have, in Sicily, •ne ship of the use, three frigates,
two corvettes, and five or six gun-boats.

raen, we are nr longer at a loss tolears frail whence
they have derived their morefity: Their notions of
vigour, of valour,' of modesty, and truth, we
now find are all borrowed from the character
of Sir John FolstnlT nod his companions.—
But it is Not more fair to read garbled extracts
from the First Part of Henry the Fourth, than
from the dispatch of Lord lICTCRINIWN. Why
not quote the fat Knight's soliloquy upea honour,
in justification of the attack on Copenhagen
Why no quote the scene on °within, in the same
play, in vindication Of the seizure of the Danish

navy ?—The two cases, it is true. are not exactly
parallel.—The Prince and Pules set ou Feastafir,
Bardo/pk, and Pete, to rob the travellers, end
afterwards rob the robbers 'of their booty.—
In the business, however, of the Danish navy, the
new morality falls short of the school of Falstaff
and it id mutter of regret that the new performers
di3 not at up completely to the scene ou Gads-
hill, To effect this, they' ought to have let Bo-
NAPARTE steal the Danish fleet, and then rob Do-
NAPARTE. The •xeso morality would then 'be as
complete as the old, and the country would have
to boast a real victory over its enemies. •

The long-talked of regulation of abolishing the
individual Army Agents is at length settled ; they
are to cease on the 25th of March, and a public
office few that purpose is to be established, at the
head of which Mr. GIMENIVOOD, the Army Ageut,
is to be appointed.—Paymasters' bills, after the
26th of March, are to be wade payable at the Pay
Office.

On Thursday morning,_ the Duke of YORIL ate
rived at Windsior from Hampton Court, and was
closeted with His 3lisasser the most part of the
day. His Royal Highness stopped and dined with
the 4steExam sod PKINCEADIS, and in the evening
returned to Hsiniptou Court.
The brig Phcelm, Waists, from London, for
Hull, was all well, in Ltesestotf Roads, on ibth
inist. after hissing been blown over to the Downs,
its the late gales.
The Deputy Governor of Riga has been die-
missed, on account of the negligence and inatten-
tiou of a hilt he rendered himself guilty, in carry-
ing into tried toe eentissrgo usi Engliah ships. -
A .goldsmith, at Copenhagen, luis been employ-
tetto snake a diadem, the price of which is to be
14,000
Sir Sanest. HOOD arrived in town, on Thurs-
day,. from Plymouth, end had a long ioterview • •
with Lord Mu letia4vt, at the Admiralty.
The Wenderiagrauut, Boer, from StoOkholus
the Dublin and Liverpool, is captured, nut carried
into Bergen.
The Amid:Atli, WALKILD, from London, for
Bethke ; suel the Pivrideisce, Surrig. from Lon-
don, for Madeira, were driven net" of the Dotes,-
is the gale of the istth hut. and leave not since
been heurd of.
Mr. SKEIIIOAIet motion relative to the state of
Lielan I, is postponed to Tuesday next.
A letter from Helsiiighorg, dated Feb. 5. nays,
The British ships which twit into Carbliam re-
Ruin there yet, it tact mug possible for them to
Pass the Sound, without a very strong cowry.
The building of gunboats and privateers, at
Copenhagen, goes on with the greatest rapidity ;
and by secoousits from thence, to gureboabi are
already complete. A Danish privateer, of 46 gnus,
has for several days been cruising in the Sound.'
Tile number of Swim troops in French pay.
mounts now to 13423 men. Great exertiovs are
to tkiiig to procure the 1,600 still wanting.
A dret.dtul gale come on in Dublin Bay on.the
night of Thursday the 11th instant. The Olympus.
float Cadiz and *Cork:. the Mercator, Fats:sue,
from ithilacielphie ; the Ante of Killough, the 4'l.
Michael from Wexford, the ODOM. CRA 10E, frota
Whitehaveu, and the American ship ,Dione, from
New-York, all drove on shore, but are expected to
be got off. A ballast lighter, and a fishing vessel
called the John of Rude, both souk, sad two of
the crew o•Pthe latter were drowued.—The Packet
from Holyhead landed her passengers with great
difficulty at Deulsary. having carded away her
bowsprit. •
The Sights's, of 74 guns, sailed yesterday, from
Portsmouth, for the Mediterranean. The Orion,
of 74 guns, Sir Azicutmain Mama ; slid the
Ajlica, of 64 guns, Captain BARRETr. which are
fitted out for sea, at Portsmouth. are ordered down
to St. Helen's, to wait for orders, which they are to
be in readiness to put into execution at a mo-
ment's notice. Our port letters contaiu nothing
elite of any interest.
' Freehold Estates. segued from .e2e,000 to
*R3,ooo.—The Grand City Lottery, consisting of
Rouses, in Skiunereereet and IPicketearect, with
the !And-Tax redeemed, begins drawing April siti.
Tickets sod Shares are selling by Swtrr and Co.
_lll, Poultry, and 12, (,'haring-crow; who aid,
iu
the last Lottery, No. 11,070, the only Prise 01
£lO,OOO, which was sold to the Public, besides se-
veral inferior Capitals.
Extraordinary instance of Resuscitation, by
Mr. Snew, surgeon at Halsfax, on the I ith that..
which was the coldest night experienced this winter :
An industrious man returning house to his nusiter-
on, family near King's Cross. suddenly because
insensible, end sank to the earth, apparently a
lifeless corpse. About two in the morning, the
above Gentl•enan, with his servants awing on a •
professional call, observed him lying by the med.
side ; they conveyed the body to the nearerit house ;
no signs of life, howerer, were visible. Mr. Sliest
employed the usual methods; but it was n •t till
after several hours that signs of retarning Life ap-:
peered. We are happy to say, that the unfortev:
nate sufferer g• in a fair way of complete reeoverye,
/Halifax Jerrwal, the 13th of thla month.) We re-
commend the above to the Humane Soeitty, so
that the Armorer! Mselal may be obteieed as a
eerseeweet /re:aerial of Mr. SDAW'S scat, skills and
pAi/etathropy.