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,dace. The previous accounts of its aatintsture.i•
der were probably premature.
The fortress of Gaeta continued, on the 6th of
May, to make a gallant resistance. The Governor
has declined the offer of reinforcements find the
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Bntish Commander in Sicily, observing. that his
garrison, in whose loYalty he confided. was fully
adequate to the defence of the place —Several
British ships of war defended it from the sea.
Private 'letters from Hamburgh, dated the 23d of
NI ay, a rte that intelligence had been received there,
from Paris, of the rupture of aegociations between
England and France, which. it is said. were broken
off in consequence of the latter insisting on the pos.
session of Naples, Sicily, Malta, &c. The same
letters report, that a courier has bLen sent from
Paris to Lisbon, requesting the Palmas Bement. to
shut the ports of Portugal against the commerce and
manuladitres of Britain.

We gave, erchtsi;:ely, on Saturday, a Report (tf
the extraordinary proceeding which took place is
the House of Commons, between three 1.

past six o'clock, nn the morning of that day. Tl e
most moderate Metnters of the I.loiese, mon
whom was Viscount Howtort, called it .‘ new, ex-
traordinary, and unprecedented." The Er sager,
whose candour and impartiality are miquestionable,
aad whose ;claims wish it is to hold the seal., of
truth and ity.:ice even between all patties, calledir
•' undesiraLle ;'' and Mr. llot denominated it
" stand pus, vcx t-oous, and only calculated to an-
swer the purpose of delay." To citable the public
to judge whether the coniiia of the Opposition did
or did not deserve eiese epithets, it fitly be neces-

sary to stare, that tlii: nous:, in a Committee, had
been debating from live o'clock on Fi id iy, until

three o'clock on •iaturity tn,w;ting, on a mots
wade by M'. WistrawNt to Lave out certain
words in the Mutiny Bill. for the purpose of
introducing, in t!:Cr s:.•.:1, a claty.,,
the pvti ;J of tii,l -'merit t:r seven years, with
a power to 11;. in time of wsr, to
tet.sin the troops so vr.liste.!, three years longer.
The original Mir,ion. in i•s and
form, was, " that these words," meaning the
words in the BM to be expunged, should be

left otr." The cert..; ,ly was the question upon
which the House sl riled at three o'clock on Sa-
turday morning ; but then, on the comet-ncement
of the Debate upon it. oa Friday evening, Mr.
W1,4°111.31 was called upon to state, and did ac-
turly state the words which he meant to substitute
in their place, viz. a limitation of the period ef en-
li-ttnent, to the extent which we have already stated.
Hal :.tr. Wi situ se merely moved that certain
worUs should be left out, and bad the House de-
bated that question, without knowinsg for what pur-
pose, or what were the'words to be substituted, then
and in that case, as Mr. WINDH It justly observed,
the .coeds to be substituted would to a sepa-
rate and distinct cple.tion, :mil as such requir-
ing discussion. But the reverse is the faa,—
The House took a more ratioital e ,utse, and the
two questions, viz. the words to be left oat. and
the wordi to be sithstittued, had been discussed to-
gether doting the whole of Finlay night; and as
we have alrea,!y state :, were jointly taken into the
consideration of the douse, in continued debate, un-
I til three o'clock oa Saturday morning. When. theft'
I fore, it was carried by a urge majori,y, that the
words should he left out, was it not, under the ere
sent circumstances, to be fairly presume !, that
the other words to he subgthaxtcd should be
ic-
serted, particularly, as upon every future star of
the Bill, an opportuntty would anise of &hat-
jug them over again, and movin:: iiniziiil7neuts?
Upon this point we have alre.riy the voice of lie
public in our favour.—That p-rtion of it w!.Ut
the Gallery of the House of Comment cap
contain, and which was admitted on Friday
we have a right to consider, is not of or
most ignorant and illiterate class of soviet;;
and many of them are well acquainted etith
forms of tore-house. And what was their feelq
noon the occasion ? As soon as the question f
leaving out the words was carried, they ran away:
taking it for granted that nothing mote 'email
for debate. But t:.e Opposition preferred a vet"!
Parent course,and pursued it with pertinacity.Y.r.FX
I (iteat had discovered that . Member may repeated;
move that the Chairman do new leave tll,,
because the word now is only applicable, and so
contended, to the present moment ; and, therefor
although the motion was negatived at one morn
it does not follow but that it ought to be carried t
next. Viscount Casrtieessort bad also discoveg
and where or how we know not, that he hail ma
vigour than Mr. Fox, and therefore bad no
tion to protract an unavailing debate until ia
six on Saturday morning—and old GEOIGZ 101
now in foil bloom, had provided a mode to •isl
Mr. U11E1111)&11'1 expedient to extricate the Hotl
from the embaiiasment in which tlic Opoosia
sang:.: to involve it.—Mr. S lipiDAN threaten'
the friends of the Miuister should form then`..