The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-06-14 00:00:00

,

a/Mlllllll

;4.

LON DON,
THURSDAY, Jvwx 14.

Yorkshire. With respett to the Bill sow before
the House, he certainly thought it contained princi.
pies which the House ought not to entertain hastily.
He did not know that the whole county was unani-
mous on the subject of it. There was a certain die.
tritt which would certainly not agree to it ; and if
the Bill should pass. he hoped that distriet would be
excluded from its operation. If not, the manufac-
turers of that ilistriet would go into Lancashire, and
carry on their trade there. He did not think it fit
that a restriaive law should operate in one place,
• and that the people of the rest of the kingdom
should be left to carry on their business as they
pleased. The people who were hostile to this Bill.,
did not petition .against it; because they knew that
the House of Commons would never maintain such
a principle of trade as it held out. He wished to
take this upportunity of asking the Right Hon.
Gentleman at the head of His Majesty's Cabinet,
whether he thought it would be right next year to
revise the whole of the statutes relative to the
Woollen Manufafturers, and bring forward, in the
course of next Session, some simple, comprehensive,
aid effectual law on this stilsjeet ? He earnestly
wished that the business might be taken up on a
keyed ground at some future period ; and if se, the
ream Bill would be unnecessary.
Admiral BERK ELY said, he was happy to hear
riare an explanation on the subjeet from the
Gentleman. The present Bill he considered
.
nowscessary : and would therefore move to put it
of fur three months.
Mr. PITT said, it was most evident that the
Bill contained provisions which ought not to be
adopted without mature deliberation, and he did
pot think it ought to be passed in the present ses-
siou. With respeit to the revision of those penal
statutes, on which many vexatious aCtions had been
brought. he could not pledge himself to the Hon.
Gentleman as to his adopting any measure on the
sulaieet hereafter. It was much to be wished that
the consideration of the whole of those statutes
, might be gone into ; hut, at the present advanced
it. period of the Session, he was afraid that could not
11 be done ; and that no other mode for meeting the
exigercy of the moment cceild he resorted to, but
that of reviving the suspending AR of last Session.
He hoped, however, that, in another session, the
business might be introduced in a manner by
which it might ha brought to some general ema-
il/Gait:XL
Mr. BROOK said, that the Bill pissed last ses-
Ina for suspending the penal at ions, had cost the
panics interested in bringing it forward, no less
a PM than 13,0007.
Mr. WILBERFORCE wished the Bill to be put
of, and that some great and effectual regulation
a -.At be adopted for the whole kingdom. But he
v 'ever consent to any measure, that might al-
ter sip: that general ~rstem of domestic in-
clustr j --nestis happiness, which prevailed
among u.s. I•Tanufaeturers of the county he
had the honor.. -present.
The •econd reading of the Bill was then put off
for three months.
SLAVE TRADE.
On the report of the Bid tor abolisl ing the Slave
Trade, and the question being put for calliag in
Counsel;
Mr. %VILBERFORCE gave notice, that he
would move an amendment in the Bill. The Bill
already stated. that all vessels coming with slaves
to the Vest Indies, after the first of .laimary, should
be forfeited, except those that had cleared out from
Great Britain within five days after the passing of
the Aft. But as he understood many vessels had been
SI. some time in a state of preparation, and might
'wit be able to clear nut within that period, and as
, they might surer great injury, if the words stood as
tl,ey now were in the Bill, he should move to insert,
ihstead of them" the Ist of Oelober IVA."
Counsel beit g attending, were then called in to
-'-"se accordingto the ddcreut Petitions against the
Mr. Picot- and Mr. Pt vote appeared at the Bar
as Counsel for the Mcishants, Traders, and Mort-
meet, trading to, aid possessing property in, the
West India Islands.
Mr. ALLIANDI it and Mr. Cr. A PK C, as Counsel for
the Merchants and Traders of Liverpool ; and
Mr. SC • 111.1 LT. AS Ccansd for 'lr. Lyon, agent for
the island of Jamaica.
Mr. Psoor was first heard ; and, after speaking
about half an hour—
A Motion was made that the House be counted ;
when there being no more than 30 Members, the
House of course adjourned.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

Yesterday, the RECO/IDE attended it the QUEEV'S
House. and made his report to His MAJLS r r si the
convias under sentence of death in Newg.ite. Three
sessions have passed since this form was interrupted
in consequence of His MAJISTY.S indisposition. The
Race:flu:ma's Report, we understand, only embraced
the convi&s of the two former Sessions, being 18
cut of 36, the whole number under sentence of death
in that prison. His Marrs: was most graciously
pleased, in his Royal Mercy, to respi•e All those
reported to him. Mr. ASTLLTT, we learn, was not
in the list.

The Minister, it is said, experts to be able to pro-
rogue the Parliament about the sth of next month ;
as, in consequence cf the opposition to his pres •nt
Bill, he mears to defer the residue of his System of
Defence until the next session.

The overweening vanity and ambition of the
Ntir:;sttr have received a check, and he is at length
consin.-ed, by melancholy experience, that, great
and powerful a his chars ter and talents may be, he
is not competent to constitute an Administration in
his own person, for these critical times. A despot
liXe LONA,' kPTF may and CTACTS, the best at,eni-

ates of a government over slaves ; but in free and
spit iced England, the people will look not with con-
fidence but jealousy to man, whose conduct shew s
that he thinks himself every thing, and every one
el3e nothing. It is certain that Mr. Crr ris now
straining every nerve to conciliate divide Mr.
Fox's immediate party. Ii h:_ has not yet mule
greater advances, his backwardness is not to be im-
puted to want of will, but the extreme difficulty and
delicacy of his situation. Nothing but a state of des-
pair could force his proud and haughty spirit to bow
to Mr. Fox, and pray the aid of that great but much
negleaed statesman. Those, however, who know
Mr. Fox's temper and character, his magnanimity,
and his disinterestedness, are confident that all over-

tures must prove in vain, that do not embrace every
individual of his constant, steady, and long-tried
party. Aware of this, and adopting tke favourite
and avowed policy of his friend, Lord C AST r. ERE A CH,
which advises a man to have "}two strings to his bow,"
Mr. PIT r courts every opportunity of assuaging the
just resentment of Mr. ADDINC.TON. Tu those
whom he most dislikes, he is all cnndeccentiou and
politeness ; but to those who hold their importance
at his will and pleasure, he is as usual haughty and
offensive. Indeed the necessity of his immediate re-
signation, unless he should he able to place himself
upon some rew ground, and rally round his stand-
ard some of the talent of the country, has been, for
several days past, so obvious to the meanest capa-
city, a rutnour is at this moment afloat, that a
change in the new Ministry is actually determined
upon. Earl S►euces, it is said, is to succeed Lord
Mrtvtxte in the Admiralty, and the latter occupy
the place of Secretary of State for the Foreign De-
partment, now filled by Lord HARROW/IY. What
we wish we readily,believe, and perhaps the wis-
dom of such a change is the principal foundation
for this report. That some important change will
soon take place, may, however, be considered cer-
tain. The people of England cannot so soon for-
get the glory which the British Nary atchieved
under Earl Srstscut. And what have they to ex-
pea from the ti-dc mg HARRY DUNDAN now Lord
Mx tv t r t►, the man who planned the invasion of
Holland, and the Ferrol expedition

An agreement has been entered into by the Courts
of St. James's and Copenhagen, according to which,
the letters from England to Norway, and from Nor-
way to England, are, in future, to be dispatched
way of Gottenburgh, instead of liusubs, as was
formerly the case. The Kings of Dcit si ARR and of
Swgor is have, besides, made an arrangement, ac-
cording to which the letters are to be forwarded from
Guttenburgh to Norway, with all possible dispatch.
This measure is very advantageous to the commer-
cial part of both nations.

Last night we received a series of the
including that of the 90th, with a Supplement, con-
taining the At of Accusation against GEORGES,
TICIIEGREI, MOREAU, and others. We this day
give the conclusion of this article, as it has been
taken, with the other extracts alrea.ly published in
this Paper, fiom an abridged Report in the small
Paris Papers. The Official Report in the Sup-
plement to the /We occupies twenty-four pages.
It is a curious i.pwcimea of French jurisprudence.
It sets out with stating the evidence of the existence
of a conspiracy, and then lays is down as a principle
that a conspiracy has been proved. Its second point
is, that England is the soul of the said conspiracy ;
a,•id having assumed that as a faCt, it priceeds to
detail the evidence against the several prisomrs ; con-
sisting of the various answers and confession' extort-
ed from them upon their several private ex.unina-
tinns, tile declarations of fellow-prisoners, And,
finally, every other specie; of evidence, paroie r
written, that bears in the remotest degree Hpon
the case. The article then concludes with stat.
ing, that the persons, thus tried and prejudged, are
put in a state of accusation. History does not fur-
nish so perfett a !ample of the practice of the cri-
minal court of the infernal judge described in the
following lines :

Gnisesius hoe Rhadansanthus habet datist;roa inns

Castigatlue a uditqu e dolos; iula.gltque %seri.

The remaining part of the judici4l process against
the unfortunate Prisoners will probably consist
in little more than the formality of reading
over this report of the evidence against them,
and playing the judgment of the Court. That
they will, therefore, be found guilty, there can be no
doubt ; and, accordingly, we find that a report to
that effea, grounded solely upon the probability
of the event, has been put in circulation. Tie con-
clusion of the Aft of Accusat:on will be fuund in
the last page.

The New York Papers, which we hare received
to the 1 sth ult. confirm the former statements of the
dreAdtul situation of the unfortunate Whites in the
isles.' of St. Domingo. On the 1 t;th of March a
horrible massacre is stated to have commenced at
Port-au-Prince, which continued four days ; during
that time upwards of four hundred persms aver.•

murdered. nESSA,LINES had arrivhd there on his
way to the city of St. Domingo, against which he
was determined to bring all his force ; but, as he
expressed himself, would leave no W'hites in the
tear. Further accounts reach to the I ith of April,
and mention, that, ten days previous, a gen^ralmas-
sacre of the Whites I: id Liken place, and that it was
to be carried all over the southern departments.
The Americans are said to be treated with great
respea throughout the Island, exzept at the Cape,
where CHRISTOPHL infliets the greatest cruelties,
without regard to age or sex.

Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Mr. PITT
had an and:ence of His MAJESTY.

Soon after two o'clock, His tiastsvr gave au-
diences to the Duke of POETI.ANz, the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, and Lord HAw:trsattar.
At four o'clock, His M ._ajrsry held a Privy
Council, which was attended by the Duke of P .RT-
I. At 11), the IJORD CNANCEI.LOR, Mr. PITT, EArli
CAMDEN, COUTEETISI,O. WESTNIOELAAD, and
BATNUEET ; Viscount CASTI.IIIEAnN, Lords As-
Dan, Haalloway,Flawassacay. STOEFORD, MUL-
011AVI, and Dt.NLO.

After the Council, His Maresra gave audiences
to the Earl' flavnuesr, and Lord DUN LO, who had
the honour to kiss His MAJESTY'S hind; the former
ow his being appbhited Master of the Mint; and.the..
L• tter on being appointed one of the Commissioners
of the Board of Controul. •

About six o'clock, Their MArrsriza.—the-
CeSSeS ELIZABETH, SOPNIA, AMFLI A. and the Duke
ofKENT, took an airing in the neighbourhood of
Dulwich.

Yesterday morning, the Swrnm and IMPERIAL
AVOASSADORS had audiences of Lord H•asowsv
at his Office.

A Gentleman, from Holland, landed a few days
since on our Eastern coast, who, on being interro-
gated, said, that he had an imp •rtant plan to
to Government for the capture or destru.!tion,Of
certain divisions of the enemy's flotilla. He was
accompanied bv two other perions; in a small vecc'l,
and was picked up by one of our frigates,fwiiwliicla
he was landed on Saturday last.
Letters fr.xn the Kentish coast state, that the
Dungeness squadron got under weigh on Monday,
at noon, and proceeded for the French coast,:with
a very fine breeze. About the same time. several
ships of war sailed for the same station irons she
Downs.

We understand that a r!in is now ondrr the con-
sideration of the Privy Council. to remedy the pre.
sent delay in hearing and deciding Scotch Appeals
before tl.e House of Lords. It is proposed that rwo
or three Grntlettten. well versed in the Scotch law,
shall be introduced into the House o: Lords,. to sit
as assesscrs to the LORD CH A SCRI.I.OR, and to ad,
in cases of Scotch Appeals, in his absence.

Last night the St. Clement's Volunteers held a
General Court of Inquiry at the parish vestry-
room, on the conduit of Serjeant Bec tr.r, of the
4th company. relative to his having spoken dicre-
spetrtiully of his superior officer, and in a manner
that tended to lessen the latter in the opinion of the
Corps. It appeared that while the Corps were
praflising charges and .other mana tyres in Lin•
coin's Inn Gardens, sorts time sirc•, Serie-ant
BUCKLE expressed much dissatisfaainn ; and, on
being ordered to charge with his company, refried,
s.tying, he would charge down, but would he d—d
if he charged tip at the same time, he relleOed on
the conduA of Captain Poiret , his superior Officer.
The evidence to prove the charge was an Ensign,
and several others who heard the expressions ; and
the Court. after an investigation that lasted till
eleven o'clock, were of opinion the charge was
proved. The dismissal of the party from the Corps
is to follow.

A Private belonging to the Corps was also yes-
terday dismisvd, for having written improper letters
to the Adjutant. tending to introduce unsubordina-
%ion into the Corps

The follosving lettrr, dared of Viann. coast of
Spain. the 22d of May lag, from the gallant and
persevering Capt. RORIRT of the Sufe"ou
privateer, of 14 guns, has been received by his
owners at Plymouth :

" Swallow, off Viatia, May 22.
" I have this day xot a certificate from the Consul hem, for
a French privateer 1 drove on shore on the 17th instant, and
which wit entirely lost; she had forty three men ou Mani her
when she went on shore, fn• which 1 %hail be entitled to 51
per head. l Inst an anchor in the attempt, but have since
recovered it It now hlovre a hard gale of wind, and 1 really
have net tame to say more

" Yours, ke.

RORT. HOSIER."

The Captain of an American vessel, on his re-
turn from Georgia to New York, picked up nine
Frenchmen, ne.tr the west end of Grand Bahama,
where a French vessel, with 200 men, had beer.
wrecked 2 few days before, only 21 of whom were
saved. General LA VALETTZ was on board, and
was amongst the sufferers.
The drys contains Sarni very severe remarks
upon Lord liswecsacer's note, concerning the
correspondence between Mentz and DIAKt.
Madame lisccusocui and Madame Niue sr are
to have the title of Imperial Highnesses; but as to
the Em r. aus's mother, nothing is yet determined
many think that she will pass the remainder her
days in Italy, with her favourite son Lucie.. and
with her favourite daughter the Princess BoitUN
His Imperial Highness, JoscPu Bo N AAAAAA has
no male children, but only a daughter two years
old ; but his Imperial Highness, Prince Louis Bo-
AAAAA c, has, by the daughter-in-law of the Eu-
prep., a son called NAPOLION, born the 10th of
Otis:ober, 1802.

In consequence of the late regulation in the Span-
ish capital, 15,000 strangers have been obliged to
leave a. No Frenchman, thanks to the respell
commanded by our Government, was subjeft to it ;
whilst several hundred Englishmen and Irishmen
were treated ~pith less cerernuny than the subjols of
any other natiun.—(Psdherrte./
The first Italian privateer Mau has been rather
unfortunate. A Swedish ship was captured by it,
but was released, after obtaining 50,000 livres da-
mages. The day after, this privateer went to sea,
and was driven on shore, and burnt by an English
cittifr.

11111