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London, England, 1809-03-20 00:00:00

EBRITISH

LOS DON,
MONDAY. Moat u O.

RESIGNATION OF TILE DUKE OF YORK.
FRENCH FLAG OF TRUCE, &c.

A French boat, beariug a Flag of Truce from
Boulogne, arrived its Dover Roads, between two
and three o'clock, on Saturday morning. The dis-
pittchcs brought by her were iu 1111 l aliattly forward-
ed to town by express, and reeciredrat the Fortigit
Office, on Satnrday evening. The master, Capt.
L'Astdr, is well knouit at Dover, us he formerly
commended a vessel in the passage trade between
that place *ad Boulogne. Ile states that it its the
general conversation in France, that a peure is In
Ito means likely to be effected between that coma-
try and England. An English woman, atiral 92,
came over in the Flag of Truce. She bud been a
toitioner it, France a considerable time, haring
been throws upon the coast from a mereltunt-
vessel from the W estnard, that went on shore.—
The flag of truce on her way pussy.' through a
large fleet from the Westward, off Dover, at the
tune. There were also three gun-brigs 111 the
Roads when she arrived, but they took no notice
of her. She was ordered to sea again in less
than an hour after her arrival, stud returned to
Boulogi.e.

His Royal Highness tl e Doke of Yon,: waited
upon His MAJL:STY, at Windsor, on Satorday, and
tendered the resignation of his °aloe of ('oat NI ANDER
IN-CHIEF of the Army. The tender was accepted ;
and, it is said, that General Sir Maio De 1.1/AS is
appointed in the place of his Royal Highness. On
this Liter point, however, we believe nothing is
finally settled, and we rejoice at it. The present
may be a good opportunity to consider-whether the
patronage Rod power attending the office be not
too great for any subject, and whether it may
twit tie auriseble to assimilate the mantsgetnent of
the Army to that of the Navy, by committing its
functions to a Bo.trd. Had Ministers acted wisely,
they woultlihme advised this re sonner.—They
would na have waited until they and the Duke
sit'', left aground with a inr.jority of 82.—Their
first majority was 9 ; a,id tin, reduction 'hew-
ed a hat they had u right to expect upon Mr. BA-
TlitifteiT's motion, this night, which is likely, by its
moderation and de:itacy to receive greater

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port than any that preceded it, on the
same side. And here we must observe, that Mr.
BATHURST'S rs•solution 19 not a new one, but that
of which we laid a copy last week before our readeti.
In this state of the business it is plaits that his
Royal Ili hut;. load no other course to pursue but
to adopt the present moment for resignation. An
obstinate tenacity of office, wider such circum-
stances, for an hour longer, would be little short
of madness or fatuity. This event we pre-
sume will be communicated by Mr. PRRCEVAL
this evening to the House of Commons ; nod
although its full eGet cannot he anticipated. we
may safely assert, that it will grealy inHncace the
farther proceedings in the case. Moderate men
will think that enough has been done. Ti said men
will be afraid to go farther. At all events, his re-
signation will appeu-e the public indigo:mon, and
soften the prejudices entertained against him. But
whatever may be the result, the Debate in the
House of Commons, this night, must be highly
impurtant.—We shall give a f►ithful report
of it ts-n►orrow.—This is the snore necessary, us
Nontiag Chronic/a. of Saturday stated, iii
explicit terms, that the very interesting debate of
Friday slight, which lasted until tour the fUllowing
monolog, was not worth detailing, and treated it
accordingly.
The situation of the House of Commons he.
comes daily inure critical, as the positions of the
Comma X D1:11-11,4471111V I' does snore humiliating,
painful mid slistressilig. After a series of debates,
prolonged to au *mesa of which ther4 is no exam-
ple sluice the Revolution of Was, it has been de-
termined, by a majority of eighty-two, that the
Illustrious Persouage accused " has not been
guilty of personal corruption, or connivance." In
corning to this vote, it is obvious that the Repre-
sseiotatives of the people have put themselves ,in
opposition to the people themselves. It requires
all nor re' wet for thesis to believe, that those
oho decided its this manner can themselves give
credit to the assertions or evidence upon which
they came to such a coliclusion. It is true, that Par-
liament frequently decides contrary to the general
°Motion or conviction of thy country. The House
of Commons did so notoriously in the first years of
the present Reign, when, in 1766, they declared'
Colonel Liartakt.t., the present Earl of C ARtt AMP-
70N, to be legally elected for the County of Mid-
dlesex, though WILKEi had avowedly and indis-
putably a majority of votes. But what happened
in coosequesice ? Great unpopularity, ',oohs, fey-
ntenti and universal oric,soitisfaction, took place. or
dill It terminate there.. For, in 1782, when the
late Marquis of RocKtNuttau came into power,
his fleet measure was to expoinge that most unpo-
pular, mid. a, it was thought, impact and uneonsti-
toition.il vote. The question likewise relative to
Colonel LUTTRE6I„ was one which, though inti-
mately connected sod blended with the Freedom

of the Mile& Constitution, nevertheless, as •it
peenharly regarded the privileg,.., of the Lower
House of Parliament, seemed to be
tome measure, a ease to be derided within their
own walls. But bore it is a tiiikkd subject of in-
quiry, involving private into:slily and pulihe offi-
cial corruption, or connivance; or all igoorance,
not at criminal, yet re degrading, and for: g
nearly 0% strong a ground for removal, as participa-
tion could Imre dune, Lu Mrs. Ct.Atttt::•a miscue-
d

The flatterers and 'admirers of the Cu AIV CRI.I.OR
of the EXCIII:QUIER %Ott ample sirlijcct for eueo-
lni l ion un- his prodigious talents, as manifested
more especially on the lirst and second nights of
the debate on Mr. %YARD, ell motion ; when lie
entered, with so much orentenees, as an Advocate,
into the defence of the Duke of YORK. We shall
not dispute his title to this approbation ; which,
however, is more that of the Bar, than of the Se-
nate.; more the praise due to the Pleader, than to
the Stage:luau. But where, we would ask, WW., the
wisdom or the foresight of his conduct, as u Minis-
ter of State, in ever permitting a business, so
fraught with comlnistible materials, to come to
such a crisis, and to lie brought before such a tribu-
nal ? Should not respect fur the feelings of the
Sovereign and the Father, should loot the dread
of priorlar indigusitiou, and a due consideratiou of
the inflammatory nature of the tomes in which we
bre, when revolution and subeersiou stall, tioicon-
tmitled, from one extremity of Europe to the other ;
should not these motives and reflections have im-
pelled a wise M ter to interpose some veil be-
tween the Covnt SDER-IN•CIIILF and the Nation ?
' It is no apology for sari error, to say. that the
Doke of Yowls, either convinced the Cabinet of
his imowence, or that he was weak enough, and
ill advised enon4ll, to demand the examination into
his conduct which took place at the Bar of the
Noe is it al.y excuse for the letter sent
in his Royal Highness's name to the Speaker of
the noose of Commons, that it MIA 1141%411 U:1 and
forwarded without the participation, consent, or
privity of Miuisters. Such Ministers are wanting
in real duty to MR MAJESTY, hi real regard to the
Duke, and in an enlightened knowledge of the in-
t-rests of Ima h. We believe that such are the sen-
timents felt and entertained on this point, even at
iodsor, and at St. Jdille,.ll. Neither Mr. PITT nor
Mr. Fox, we are persuaded, would have allowed the
great person now at the bar of the putelic, to have
so exposed himself, Of to 1.411! s 0 WOeproultdca hid

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lovereign and P•rliatneitt. Bnt the atirnialiini-
tion tlie present tia,.; saw only t!lteir wis II individual
interests and danger. They eireaded nothing ex-
cept cliatnision, and in their anxiety to retain office,
forgot every thing else.

No event which has recently taken place
rope, could prolathly hare more deranged the gi_
gamic plaits of the common destroyer, or could
hare mote impeded their accomplishment, than the
peace signed by Mr. ADAIR, between (;rent Britain
and the Ottoman forte. It is by no means en.
likely ihet this circumstance•, winch seems to have
been unexpected by the Cuisicais, accelerated his

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returu from SlOlill to Puri*, hot less than the

alarming appear:tilers oil the side of Austria. We
ure, itt fact, so inforiutil by the foreigo joustials.—
Thoae who mottle: little slue to the cessation of
hostilities between its *ad the Turkish Empire, cs.

questionably farm a partial and an erroneous eta—
eeption of the vast resources yet possessed by that
pottier. Mistress of bOUJC of the finest, as well us
of the most advantageously-situated portions of
Ent opt, of Asia, and tVell of Africi, if we include

Egypt within her tiomiraions; the Turks, although
Ur a state of political eaducity 'mad debility, may
oppose. if sustained by Eirgland, an insuperable
barrier to NAPOLEON toward* the East. Ile well
knows, and better appreciates than we do. the in-
estimable advantages to be derived from the ul-
bailee and active co-operation of the Turkish Go-
vernment. Nor does he less accurately perceive
the injuries to be apprenendrsi from their hostility.
All his mho ts, and those dins agent, StitAtiTlA%l,
have been unrernittimey directed, ever sini e
NAPAIATE'S first assumption or seizure of the au.
preme power, to appease, to conciliate, and to
lona the moat intimate 1.01nse:011 with the Otto-
man PuJe. Happily his urachinitions in that
quarter hair laeoa disconcerted ; and that diaap.
peintruent will operate on the Neva, and on the
Ganges, at the remotest extremities of the old
world. It is by means of the Turks., if we
have sufficient energy and policy to re-organise,
in any measure, the springs of that unhinged. but
not extinguished member of the European re-
public. that we way set limits to the ferocious
usurpation, 11ae tiavelian plans, and immeasur-
able arribitimi of the usurper, who reigns from
Madrid to the confine* of Austria trod of Russia.
—it is, us we have so often repeated, in the Black
Sea, tar more than in the Baltic, that we can
wound and attack Alexander with success. Ile
is more vulnerable in the Crimea, at Cherson,
and at Oczakow, than at Riga, at Croustadt, or
in Finland. Nor is the 'Turkish Alliance less im-
portant or valuable, when we exteod our view* to-
wards India, than when we carry them to the
Lower Danube, or to the Don aril the Niester.
All the deeply concerted projects of NAPOLKON,
rOintnitted 10 GARDANIMF, by which he hopes to
make Persia subservient to his vengeance, may be
anticipated or disconcerted in Turkey. FATAL!
SCUAH, the present Sovereign of Persia, cannot
altuitilon the Tigris and the Euphrates, or leave
the western frontier of his dotnimons unprotected,
while they may be invaded at any moment, on the
side of Mosul, of Bagdad, and of horrors. He

will not dire to send armies to invade Bengal,
or to attack the East India Company's Puss -*-
sinus in Gnzierat,whe,i he is liable to inruals on
his own provinces of the most alarming nature.

We consider fleece with Great Dritain us iwarly.
synonymous, uu the part of the Ottoman Goreru-
meat, to war with lloNarattrs: and with llirssis.
We say with BO24RPRIVIT., Rini not with France;
for this revolutionary despot is mt merely, like
Louts XIV. the representative of that part of
Europe ; he likewise represents, coerces, and pro-
pels,Germany. Holland, Denmark, ltaly, Switzer-
hind, awl Spain. How evident it is that he re-
gards a rupture and hostilities betweeu the Turks
and Huasians, Rs imminent or unavoidi,ble. we
may see by the language of his own Jaunt:AN lit
those publications. faluirated at Paris, but dated
from Vienna, as late as the 19th of February, he
sstys, " It is now certain, that no ne4ociatioa for
peace between Russia and Turkey will take place."
We could uut receive. a more pleasing, or grateful
piece of intelligence. Emu a more authentic quar-
ter. nom the same source we learn, with equal

satisfactiamtlatt "tl:r Eoghilt Amhu.sado►, ADAIR.
entered Catlystnatmople on the 17tli or January."
Theme are most imimrhint landmarks, to dine::

nod to goiide our jo,igniettt.

The With regiment embark,..4l at Cork on Sater-
day im'atinqiit ; and the 524, eonnnaudril by Lieut.-
Colonel I iORDON, 011 SOlidlly. 1110 53d, l'Onl•
mande,l by Lieutenant Colonel Ett,ton.t.m. were to
embark on Monday ; and also the. 7th fthileer,,
conancolibtl by Sir WILLIAM MVEMIi, sou to the
1111110.1.1111011t...d (.;enerni Mir Elts.

A letter of eimoestionable authority, from fle -
MI soli, date,' t to 6th last, states, that the troops
Ishii+ sailed Nova Seotia, under Sir Germ(
l'at.voir. for the West holies, were daily expect'
ert at Bermuda, to wait there till the season was
oven for their return to Ilalifax.—This determina-
tion atipeass to have lwest taken in ronstmiteuee
of
intelligence that Martinique was amply furnished
with provisiocs. Sisiy-oue to-sell, hided with the
na•erwiary srumlies, hurt arrireti at that island, and
the attack, of roam, was at,aadotiecl.s—i'lis