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London, England, 1809-03-31 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P4RLIAMEA7'.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Tee ass Ay, M mu; el se.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to
the Corn Exportation Prohibition llhll ; the Spirit
Wash Duty Bill ; the Crown Office Clerks' Bin ;
and several private Bills. The Colittuissiuners were
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chan-
cellor, and Lord Wsltiogliain.
The other Bills were forwarded in their respec-
tive stage..
Judgments in several appeal* were postponed
till after the Recess.
Adjoitrovd till to-morrow fortnight.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair this day at half
past two o'clock.
The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod buminoneil
the House to the House of Lords to hear the
Royal Assent given by Commission to certain
Bills.
Ou the SPEAKER'S return he informed the flowte
that the Royal Assent had been given to the Coro
Exportation Prohibition Bill ; the Spirit \Vail
Duty Bill ; the Crown Office Clerks' Bill, and
several private Bills.

Mr. PtKCEVAL then moved "That tins House do
now adjourn to Tuesdayse'unight," which being
agreed to, the House adjourned accowlingly.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
FRIDAY, MARCH 31.

Orders were received on Wednesday at Ports-
mouth, that the transports in that hatiniur be wade
ready to receive on board a considerable land force,
which will begin to embark on Saturday. The 3d
and 4th Dragoon Guards will be the first to cuter
upon service.

If the discoveries which took place in conse-
quent,* of the investigation at the Bar of the
House of Commons, relative to the Duke of You,
excited general surprise and intliguation, the in-
formation derived from the labours of the Coin-
mittee which has reported on East India abuses,
and which was given in THE BILITISH l'aess of
Wednesday, cannot be perused without astonish-
ment had concern. It is, in fact, the 'first glim-
mering of day which has penetrated into the dark
and corrupt recesses of Leadenhali-street. The
Committee, with delicate irony, begin by stating
the case brought before them respecting Mr. Tim.-
LIMON, " a Member of this. House, and likewise a
Director, in which Inc patronage and confidence
appear to have been grossly abused." Grossly
abused indeed ! Three Writerships, in two years,
appear to have been given by this Gentleman to his
first cousin, EMPEROR WOODFORD ; hut to have
been immediately sold by the latter to ditltrent
purchasers. In the third transaction, besides
3,0001. received by Mr. Memel:its for his own
use, from a Mrs. GARDINER, he " undertakes to
procure the next presentation of a living of the
value of 3001. per /ammo, for a friend of Mr.
ll'oonroan's." If, after such disclosures, the
House of Commons shall permit one of their own
Members, who is thus pointed out as the uuques-
tionable source and dispenser of these venal nomi-
nations, to at quietly among them, without further
notice ; or if they only make regulations of a pros-
pective nature, without stigmatising the part enor-
mities ; no radical amelioration or cure will be effect-
ed. It is certainly matter of compassion, and of deep
regret, that so many young men, " innocent and-
ignorant as they probably are, of the undue means
by which their appointments were acquired," must
be, as the Committee obeerve, " instantly deprived
of their employnients, re-called from belie, and
declared incapable of again receiving any einplo)
went under the Company." The consequence is,
nevertheless, inevitable, and follows from the pre-
miles. We venture, however, to differ a little from
the Committee in their remark, that " the money
improperly given for procuring these situations,
will be absolutely lost, without any possibility of
recovery." If it is meant to say, that such sales
and purchases cannot be brought before a Court
of law or .of justice, we' agree in the fact ; but,
we conceive, that the futility of tracing to the first
source all such pretended donattous, and the dread
of exposure, will extract the original purchase-mo-
ney out of its processor's pocket, at least in Limey
instances. The Augeran stable, in Leadenhall-
street, is not to be cleansed by ordinary hands, anti
requires Herculean strength, •s well as perseve-
rance. But we live, and we are evidently abort
to lice, in an age of reform. The Duke of You,
though protected, and even declared innticerat by
the CIII•XCELLOR of the ERCUEQUER and his Mu-
jority, yet has been driven front the head of the
army. The Directors of the Bast India Company,
however entrenched to the teeth they may be in the
arts of mutual concealment, for mutual benefit,
though, as hats been justly said of them, they are
" self-elected, and self-conde ell," yet coinot
long resist against the spirit of the times, which
demands, awl will obtain, reform. Mr. THU.-
missoa's name appears in every newspcper.
among the persons enumerated, bat not recom-
mended, by their brother Directors, as candidates
to be re-chosen, ou the approaching election, in
the Howe List. If he succeed, those who re-
place him in his situation cannot, we must sup-
pose, believe, or cannot disapprove, the proceedings
err strongly reprobated by the Committee. Reform

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is obviously about to linotrt., '.l every tleitartin I i'!, ,
the Order of the hay. War, taxation,
and, above all, the revoietioaary scenes act-
ing ou the Contitieid, will produce it. Look at
the Corsican Ruler of Europe himself ! 1V hit is'
he but a rrAratter? A reformer of kings, and
governments, and tuitions. liars he uut profess,
wherever he goes, to reform? flas he not begun
by abolishing the most inveterate abuses iu Spina ?
Wbo has extinguished the Inquisition ? Who has
suppressed the superfluous convents and monastic
establishments? Who has elmlished the liquid
exemptions, and the badges of servitude Unposed
on the lower orders, in the darkness of the middle
ages ? Let us be just, and while we boll up to
abliorreoce the crimes, the outrages. mid the per-
fidy of this tyrant, let us profit by the example
of his knowledge and comprehensive mind. That
instrument, r(furtn, with which he det !Mille 8 Prince.,
slid dissolves the bond of allegiance, we possess.—
Do not *utter him to avail himself of d. Let us
use it ourselves. Reform is the magic wand by
which this political harlequin pinduces all his
changes. With this conviction we dread, lest, is hen
the Spassimils shall have stitmounted their first
emotions of indignation at his unprovoked in,
stoop's, they slimy submit to the reformer, though
they would have resisted the invader.—These

Cwt. tnent deep atteutitm. The tau arc full of

By the Packet from Cl'uttelibur:4ll, which brought
the Mail of Wednesday, we itnikriitiind the SWEDISH
A MEAS4A DOR ut this Court received dialler:hes

containing an official notice of the recent revolu-
tion. and ith a continnution of Lie public cha-
racter. 11.1: also understand, that he lens receict d
instructions to assure our Government. that should
Sweden be compelled to withdraw herself from the
close alliance hitherto subsisting between the two

countries, British property in Sweden will be respect-
ed. This language i al I/I 1 es a strong appreliensi oil that
our friendly relations with that country are not to
be of long duration, and that she is shortly to be
ranked among the slaves of Bonarawrs. Before
Ministers could have foreseen this event, they had

made preporotions. suppored to be for the lialtie,

•n a largescale. The Princess Royal, flagship, in the
Downs, the A►dent, Capt. lllonians's, lately flag-
ship at Leith, and the flagship recently at Yarmouth
Roads, ha►e bee,' for some time fitting at the
Nore. Their lower deck guns are ordered to be
taken out., and an additional quantity of provision*
is to be stowed on board. They are also to take
.1 or 100 mere over their complement, and three
Commanders, in addition to the present Captains.
These three vessels, it was supposed, were to be
stationed iu the principal tracks of our vessels, in
►he Baltic, to supply and protect them, and also to
cover and assist the Swedish gun-boats. It was
also intended to have in the Baltic, in the course of

the present Spring, 18 sail of the line, and 3.2 fri-

gates, brigs, and sloops, making 50 pendants. Up
to the present day, the greatest activity has prevail-
ed in the Thames and the Medway, in forwarding
a flotilla of row gun-boats, to carry one gen each.
Two hundred sail of these gun-boats are to be at-
tached to our cruisers in the Bisbee. The Owen
Glendower, a fine New frigate, is just arrived at the
Nore. from Chatham ; the Africa, of 64 guns, after
complete refit, has dropped down to Long Reach ;
and the Dictator and Standard were expected
these every tide, all supposed to be destined for the
Baltic, as they have a division of the row gun-boats
attached to them. It was also the intention of Go-
vernment to have floating l.ghts in the Baltic.
exactly corresponding with the Danish lights
in the Baltic, to supply their place, in case the
enemy should destroy their lights on shore. Such
were the preparations making previous to the late
change in the Government in Sweden. Whether
its application will be altered from the original de-
sign, will depend upon the effect of that change ea
our relations with that country.

On Wednesday ofternixin. Mr. rumens, the
Messenger. was sent off with dispatches to our
Miiiimter at Sweden.
I.etteis of the mth February base been recei►ed
from Hayti, by which A appears. that a uegociation
was carrying on between the twin rival Chiefs, I's:•
?lON and CIIRISToPME.

The first brigade of Guards, DOW in Chatham
Barracks, were revised, yesterday, by General
Hort, on Chatham Lines.
NICHOLAS VINCIIDT. Esq. Admiral of the Red,
the oldest Admiral in the Nary, eseept Sir P.
PARKER, died last week at Plymouth.
Forty-three cop-es of the account of BONA
PARTA'S intrigues ii► Spain, by Don PEDRO CS..
v•i.t.os. have been discovered, and burned at
. .

Magdeburg.
Jzatomz BosuestrrE, the murk King of West-
phalia, has presented the Museum of Gottingen
with the curiosities which he collected in his tra-
eels, purtietilitrly in America, containing duplicates
of those of the celebrated Captain eons L.
The accounts received from the western ride of
Italia, I the recent arrival from that roost, state
the continuance of tranquillity, and add that Sir
listizoau Jones, our Ambassador to F•TAI.i
Sovereigo of Persia, bud been most cor-
dially at tout Court. No circumstance
would tend more to disconcert the projects of Ho-
N APARTE in the East, than such a reception of our
Minister at Scheraz.
lit the (mre!) of Caglesham, C 1 us on Sun.
day se'unight, Mr. Jous Gt:ans butt it son bap-
tized by the mune of MOORE CORUNNA. in com-
pliment to the memory of the late guPant Com-
mander iti Spain.