The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-26 00:00:00

LANCASTER ELECTION.

We also found Mr. DENT od.ins legs, explaining
the manner in which Mr. Alcock had obtainod and
served warrants of the Speaker, which were by him
addressed to persons who were to come forward as
witnesses before the. Committee appointed to try the
merits of the Lancaster Petilion. Mr. Aleoek's con-
du& in that respe& appented to him to be highly 176-
pivlielisible, and to be a Violation of the privileges
of that Honse:--The Hort. Gentle Man concluded
v‘iith muting, th:it Jolni Alcock,' for having served
warrants, not duly' authorized/by the Speaker; was
guilty of a breach of the Privileges of that 17.touse.

Mr.TIERNEY assured the Rouse lfr. Al-
cock, in doing what he had.done, had no suspicion
whatever that he was acting wrong. He iuiagiiied
that Le Was a6ting only as an Attorney, and.aiAtror-:
nio usually do in the Courts of Law. H,e noWßnd,
however, that the praElice of the House was 1-,t-ry
different, and. he wits ready to"throw himself on the
percy of the House, and ask pardon for the tranS-
gression. . The Hon. Gentl-r,o.n couldl not surely
take up any, of the-animositi s that" might have ex-
isted betWe,i Aleoc4 aJd other lersuns inter
rested in the eleCtion: •

Sir. H. 411LD.111AT defended his Hon. Friend
fron.l any imputation of ‘eing capable of .a6.l;ng from
motives of revenge, or from any disposition to seve-
rity babe tlionght such a precedent -should not
be allowo to. i ass

LONDON,
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1807.

, WE yesterday stopped -the Press to announce the
receipt of Foreign Journals, Containing Intelligence
of 'the rapid retreat or rather flight of the French
Army towards the Oder, a step which weTprediEted
ISONAPARTE would take as soon as we were apprized
of the full extent' of the Victory obtained by the'
Russians at Eylau. .If Austria had taken a de-
cisive part a few weeks ago, this Retreat would
have been --itnpraaiCable, and the- French Ar-
my in, Poland would inevitably have been-
cur oft: It evident, however, that i3APART.E

entertains strong suip!eions of the.intentions of the.

f;INIPERQR of AUSTRIA, fbr be
_has "reinfbrced the
Qarrison of Brannau with 3000 additional troops.—
Gen. BENNIGSEN has been joined by ve'rylitie're;-
inforcements, and will, of course, follow the French
with as much rapidity as the state of the Country
and the scarcity of provisions and forage will
permit him. There is, "however, reason to ap-
prehend that the French, from the .celerity of
their movements, will etTe& their retreat 'to the
Oder with little loss. BONA PARTE was expeC-ted at

Berlin last week : TALLEY4A ND had left Warsaw for
that City, and all the Foreign Minister.q who wereat
Warsaw were ordered to follow to Berlin. We,
are prevented by want of ropmfronx commenting at
length upon the important intelligence whirls
swe
have received; and must. refer our Readers, for the
details, to the Extraft ill. our First Page, which, we
have made from the Foreign Journals brought I),y
the Hzisum 'Mail *bid' arrived last night.

A very interesting conversation took place last
Might in the House of Corm-none, upon the Motion
of Mr. INIAky u for an Address to HIS MAJESTY,.
praying that he would not grant a,ny Office for Life
which had usually, been, grimed during pleasure.
This Motion was directed against Kr. PERcIvAL, to.
whom it was in contemplation to grant the Chan-
cellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster for Life,
as a compensation to him for giying up his. PrOfes-
sion on accepting the Office of Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Mr. PERCIVAL took his seat on the
Treasury Bench, and after having expressed his sen-.
timents upon the Motion, he withdrew. The Motion
tbr the Address wfis carried .by a considerable
Majority. During the 'course of the Debate Lord,
e a
Howicx adverted to, a. statement which -appeared
in a resp& ble Paper
Yestrdpy Morning.; nVon
the snbje& of the differences which subsisted
between HIS MAJESTY and his late Ministers,
and said, that that statement rendered it ne-.
cessary,for him to explain_ to the, House the !:lircum,
stances which led, to the dismission of, hitnkif and

his-Colleagues from ot6ce.' That explanation is to
be:given this day. The' statement to which 'hisLord.'.
ship alluded, and which be represented to hare been
an Extract from a Cabinet Minute, was as follows:
" That Ministers, in Consenting to withdraw the Ca-
", tholic Bill, trusted that Ills MAJESTY would see
• " • the indispensiblos necessity of their expressing;' on
withdrawing the Bill, the strong persuasion. they
felt of the benefits v.vbich would result from ddif-
ferent course of policy to the Catholics of Ireland •
" and they further stated, that it was indispensible
r.,,g to their charaeters, that they should openly avow
" these sentiments, not only on the present occasion,
" but in the event of the. Catholic Petition coming
- " forward: and they further insisted; that their pre-
seat deference to. His M.A.IESTY might not be un-
derstood as, restraining them- from submitting,
" from tm e to time, sucli measures as circum-
" stances Might require respecting she statet:of Ise-
" lid.,'

'WE alluded 4 le v days a;‘) to the ieports which
were in circa tion of some very Unfortunate events
having happened tu the Carna,ti:, and at the same,

time we-stated the grounds which ws wee lcd
.to hope that those reports were unfounded, •Or ai
least very much exaggerated. It gives, us much
pleasure to find that our statement was confirmed by
what fell from Mr. TIERNEY last night in the House
-of Ootnmons, in answer to a question proposed to
him by Sir PHILIP FRANCIS. Our Readers will dc
us the justice to recoiled that we stated that neither
Ahe'Dispatches to Government, from General MATT- •
T AND, dated on the 21st of September last,. nor
• those received by the East India , Company, con-.
twined any account of any fresh insurrection in tits
Carnatic ; and after what fell from 'Mr. TIERNEY
last night, there is every reason to believe that the
reports which have recently been in circulation are,
merely .-repetitions of the . unfortunate events at
Vellore. •

Yesterday morning his MAJESTY'S late Ministers
attended at Buckingham House, and, in conformity
to the Royal command, resigned their seals of bake.
Lord Chancellor ERSKINE, is not to surrender the
Great Seal till -Wednesday next, 'is it is hisMaJgs-
Tv's pleasure that be should retain his high office till
that period, in order to enable
.him to-pronounce his
judgMent upon several causes in the Court of Chan-
cery, upon - which he was about to' decide. The
Duke of PORTLAND kissed hands on being appointed
First Lord of the Treasury. Mr. CANNING went.
through the same ceremony, as Secretary of State for
the Foreign Department, and not as first Lord of.
the Admiralty, as reported. • The latter situation is,
we find, to-be allotted to Lord MULGRAVE ; Lord
HAwKEsatlAy also kissed his MAJESTY's hand oil.
being appointed to the Home Department; Lord
CASTLE. REAGIi for the War ,and Colonial 'Depart-
_
Ment: Bari of WESTMGRLAND, Privy, Seal. Earl
CAMDEN is to be President of the Council.

• Earl ELGIN is appointed 'Lord Lieutenant • of
Fifeshire, and Earl SELKIRK Lord Lieutenant of
Kirkcudbright Stewartry, and bbth yesterday kisaed,
hands on the occasion.
His MAJESTY, after the. Levee, held a Privy Cogzl•
oil, which sat till five o'clock. -

•
A'Paragraph having appeared in a Morning Parer
of yesterday, stating that the Marquis WELLEst.EI
had " spurned at the (Ter which was made to him
of Hie; Seals of the Foreign Office," we are ail
thotized to contradia that statement in the most
positive terms.. If any such offer was made to the
Marquis WELLESLEY, it must have proceeded from
persons for whoni he always entertainecl the highest
resped, and therefore, must have been reoeivd
with sentiments of gratitude on his part. If such
an offer was ultimately declined, the considera-
tions which 44 to such a result were hohourahle
to, 41. pitrtier4.

The Princess- Ilinry Packet, from the Leewar3
Islands, with Mails, is arrived at Falmouth ; she
sailed from Tortola on the 3d of February ; the
letters will be delivered to•morrow.

The Diana Packet, from America, was spoken
''ith on the ii.th inst. in lat. 44. 46. lopg. 31. .2, 7 .

Mr. DACRE ADAMS, who filled the Office of Pri.-
ate Secretary, to Mr. PITT, at the time Of the death
of that lamented Minister, has been appointed to.
Ipiu
tibclaispet
entitled the same situation by his Grace the Duke of 1.'011T.!
LAND,
We
d ~ tindesriszotarr; a.dtehmantrt
khs upon! Pamphlet latelyphßleectentPolitical
currences,". is from, the pep of the Right Hon. C.
Among other interesting topics very ably
touched upon, _are some suggestions upon Finance,
tiarticnlarly worthy attention at. the present tu' oment;
;is being the most practicable and solidly beneficial
of any yet submitted to the
It is understood that_ Sir ANDREW HAZIONS ".
fIomp'POPHA., and AdMiral GAIOIER are to
have Seats at the Admiralty Board.
Yesterday P. Pendergrast was executed before the.
Debtors door at the Old Bailey, for a burglary in the
house* Mr. Reit,. in Edgeware,road be was an
aged man, and submitted to his sentence with appa-
rent signs of penitence.
A dreadful and fatal accident befel Mrs. Gel!,
widow of the late Col. Gell, at her residence, H'ott's
Hill, near Bayswater, on Tuesday. That lady en-
tertained a party of friends on the evening of Mon-
day,. and early on Tuesday morning the man ser-
vant of Col. M'Donald heard a shrieking in the
house of Mrs..Gell, and oh his entering, her dress
was in a perfe& blaze, and she was'on the stairs.—
Immediate assistance was afforded. the lady, nut
without effe&, for she expired, and has left a familf
often children to bewail the loss of a tender parent.
•It is supposed that the unfortunate lady had sat with
her head reclining on the table near the candle, and
her head-dress caught fire.-

" Ten per cent. and a prospe& of a Bonus," ex-
claimed a Proprietor of Bank Stock, the other'day,
to an acquaintance—" that's somethiiiglike-i4terest,.
my friend !"—".TrUe, Sir," replied the tatter; but
I. hope speedily to make a thousand per cent. by, a
stake from my stock purse." Aye ! some harum
searum plan, I suppose !"—" No, Sir—but by the
very plan, which you once honestly confess «I to me,
laid the foundation for your great capital in Bank
Stockby an adventure in a State Lo.tery."—The
Proprietor candidly acknowledged the faa, and as
honestly confessed, that the present State Lottery
Scheme was the most inviting one he ever knew,

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