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MUTINY BILL.

Lord GRENVILLE observing that the printed Co-
pies of this Bill were on the'table, moved that it be
committed on Friday.—Ordered.—kijourned till
to-morrow (this day). ,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18.

A Message from the. Lords informed the House,
that their Lordships had agreed to the Irish Tobacco
Importation Bill; to the Sierra Leone Company Bill,
with amendments, to which they desired the concur-.
rence of the House; to the Royal MutinY'Bill, and
to the Thames Police Bill.

Colonel STANLEY gave notice, that he would on
Friday next move for leave to bring in a Bill for Re-
gulating and Adjusting the Wages of Persons employ.
ed in certain Woollen Manufactures.

Sir J. NICHOL gave notice, that he would ter
morrow submit a Motion to the House relative to the
Regulation of Seamen's Prize Money.
Lord STOPFORD read' at the Bar the Report of
the Colchester Committee, declaring Robert Thorn.
ton Esq. duly elected, and that the Petition, as far
as same relates to' said Robert Thornton,' was not
frivolous or vexatious; and also, that William Tuff-
net', Esq. was duly cle&ed, and than the petition, so
far as relates to the said William TufFnell, did ap-
pear to•the Committee to be frivolous and vexatious.
Mr. VANSITTART gave in at_the Bar a Special Re-
port of the ShreWsbury Committee, stating the at:l-
- One, of,its- Members,,,and the cause of such
absence (sudden indisposition) assigned. A medical
Gentleman attended and proycl ..t the Bar the illness
of Mr. Windham QUI:1, and the, imposSibility, in
consequence thereof,, of his attendance on said Com-
mittee. -:Leave was-then given to the Committee to
adjourn till "Saturday next.
Mri.lolinson, from the. Office of Chief Secretary
of Ireland, gave in at the Bar their. Filth Report,
and =also the Grand Jury Assessments from the Of-
fice of Chief. Secretary of Ireland.' Both were or-
dered to lie on the table; 'and to be printed.
Lord H. PETTY moved; that the House be called
over to-morrow, and the defaulters committed' to
the custody of the Serjeant.at Arrus—Ordered ac,
cordindy., -
The Irish Paper Duty Mil was read a second time,
and committed for to-morrow..

Mr: HonuousE brought up the Report of the
Corfunittee of Supply with respe& to the Irish Loan.
The Resblittions were severally put 'and agreed. to,
without any further observations.

ROMAN CATHOLIC OFFICERS' BILL,
Lord Howic,K.—" Mr. Speaker, Since I had the
Aonour of introducing to this House a Bill for enabling
hiS Majesty to avail himself Of the Services of ali
liege Subjeets,' In his Naval and Military l'orces,cir-
ciimstances have occurred which induced MC tMce to
postpone the Second Reading of the Bill. The Second
Reading was fixed fur to-morrow; it is my duty now
to state to the House that those circumstances still
continue, and that I shall not to-morrow move for. the
Secotid Reading of that Bill ; it Is also my duty to
state, that I cannot preciSely say when I can make
such a Motion. I am perfealy aware, Sir, that the
statement I
,have made any excite much general Ob-
servation, and cannot satisfy it. It is not for me, how-
ever, to explain that statement. I..rely confidently upon
the indulgence of the House, and ar sure that that
• indulgence will ndt prejudge it. • I could not enter
into that explanation without being authorised; and
when I say that I am not so authorised, the House
will think nie justified in now withholding it. I cap .
only say, Sir, that when the opportunity shall 'ar-
rive I shall willingly embrace it, in the hope of giv-
ing to the House that satisfactory and decisive com-
munication, which urgent •necessity, in the, present
instance, compels me to withhold."

WESTMINSTER PETITION. -
Lord H. PTY Moved that the Westminster Peti.7
tion nO4,taka into further 9posderation. The
Question being put and agreed•
Mr. SHERIDAN said, that he was aware- that
standing in The situation he did, he was entitled
to comment,: to remark, and to sum up, on all
the evidence that had been adduced in support
the allegations-'contained in the Petition now he:
fore the House; he should, bowel*. Waive :that
right-the evidence was in the ha.mds of every
Member of that House, and he was not anxious, if
he could do so, to add to the impression testimony
of such a nature must' have already produced; he
Would content hiinsM with one remark, which was,
that that evidence, weak and futile as it was, 'did
not say More to its own contusion than would,have
been Tfrovettby witnesses gni:l-Teachable, which he
(Mr. Sheridan), had the House thought it neces..
'sary, was ready to bring forward. As an instance,
he should mention merely Mr. Weatherhead
-self: when an inquiry xi, as made as to Eis'serVices'iti
the Navy, he confessed himself not quite satisfied
with the return of the Navy officers. . A Noble
Lord (Folkstone). was equally 'dissatisfied, hut upon
different grounds. The Noble Lord seemed to t hi
ilia this Mr. Weatherhead bad been calnmniated,
and accordingly the N.)ble Lord moved for a rethi'h
at 'otce more exa6t and comprehensive. What
had been the i%sae of this attempt' to reSene
the chataaer of Os Mr.
,\Yeaoeritead fiQrn this

sepposed slander? Why, hi truth, no more than
this, - that he, Mr. Weatherhead,- had not served in
one .ship only, but in twelve or thirteen—that he had
continued in one a year—in another ship three
mouths—in a third, a month—in a fourth, three ,
weeks—and in afilth dive days—running, as it were,
the gauntlet of the British Navy; for it- appeared that
he had been a&ually guilty of desertion from each
ship, though in the' first return it appeared that he
ba,', deserted-. buLonce. lint it •was not more' diffi-
cult to fix the station of this Naval Officer to a cer-
tain ship, than to fix his birth to a certain place.—
(.4 laugh), He had the singular good -fortune to be
born at a number of different placeshe was born
/Zest at Newcastle, he was born next at Morpcth, '
and after some other births, he was finally 'brought
forth in London.;but there was another Glight ground
of objection to the character of this witness—in the
month of. Sept. 803, he petitioned to be examined for
Lieutenautcy, and to the recommendatory certificate'
of the different captains under'whom he served, there
Was but one objeEtion,'namely,, that they were
covered to_be forgeries. He was not anxious to' press
upon the House the gross and flagrant contradictions '
and absurdities in the evidence they had heard; he.:
did not wish to "expose the miserable wretches to
the just rigour of the honest indignation they had so
universally excited ; but he would put it to the feel-
' ings of that House; whether it was not necessary to
inquire how far those wretches 'had .been the tools
of a conspiracy how far it was the duty of any
agent or agents to Inquire into'the nature of the tes-
timony and the charaEter of the Wituesses,, more
especially in a case where thiS evidence went directly
to affect the seat of a Member of Parliament, to
mention nothing of the danger of propagating ground-
less slander against a Privy Councillor.? It was for
the House to consider hoW far the agents are respon
sible. for employing. the wretches, as_substantial evi-
dence, whoSe character they might. have learned (had
they been ignorant of it) in the neighbourhood of
Bow-street, Hatton-garden, and Newgate ; but he
should abstain, he would keep: his word wit h the House,
and not enter into any remark, upon the eVidence.
He had an idea of submitting some motion for the
purpose of • investigating the charge of conspiracy ;
he should, however, in compliance with the sugges-
tions ofthose Right Honourable Friends, whose su-
perior judgment was with him decisive, give way,
and should now, through a sense, of delleacy, retire,
leaving his cause with confidence to the House,
assured as he was, that the House would, with be-
.
coming dignity, assert its own charaEter and honotir,, 1
and, in doing so, preserve his.
Mr. SuEntbArt immediately withdrew.
Air. TAYLOR declared, that he had been. very
attentive to the whole series of evidence that had
been adduced with .respe& to this Petition, and he
had not a dOubt upon his mind that the whole was 'a
flagrant and infamous conspiracy. He had been al-
ways an advocate tbr.the-G;-enville AZT, and he could
not consider this' business:in any other light than that
of a dire& attack upon, it. The Win. Gettfleirtan
then went into a re-capitulatiOn of the eviden6e, esia.l
dwelt-with some warmth, and at considerable length,
upon the various instances of gross.prevarication and
direet contraditaion in the. course -of-the testimony
advanced, both' by Weetherhead and Drake.' He
insisted that the. letter which Drake said he had
been commissionedhv Shet idan to purchase from
Harris was an infamous forgery. He thought the
House would be jiastified in' punishink such conduct
to the utmost rigour : he was convinced that a pro-
secution for a conspiracy Could be suctessffilly main-
tained in.a Court of Justice. If, hoWeNer, the House
was- not willing to go so far, he should be content
with their inflicting some Signal punishment on the
wretches who had •been guilty of every
could convia them in the opinion of the world as
men detestable and infamous.—He concluded with.
moving,' That the allegations contained in said Pe-
tition were false and. scandalous....

On the Qubtion being put. Lord FoLtssToNE en-
tered into a lopg. vindication of the testimony of
Drake, as to the charge of tampering with evidence;.
in that respett he thought lltake's• testimony con-
sistent throughout ; he could, not say so much for
that of N'Veatherhead ; it certainly proved nothing;
but he denied that it had appeared in evidence that
the letter, in possession of Harris was a forgery of
Drake's. _

Mr. TAYLOR explained.
Mr. WHITBRE,AD rase and observed, that he
would not say that the charge was • malicious on the
part of Mr. Patin, because there was no evidence that
included hint with any certainty. lie would not tra-
vel out of the evidence before him to seek for grounds
to form a judgment of these Witnesses—brit if out of
their own mouths he could prove their infamy, then
surely he must conclude that they were not . to be
depended upon. Drake was asked what he was,?
The reply was, A6ting Lieutenant--that was false.
He was then asked where he had received his
wound ? The answer was, at 'Camperdown—tliet
was 'false, for he was not there at the time he stated.
He stated that he had received several pensions ;
ate
bad only received one,. though that had been aug-
mented. Here, therefore, at the outset, were three
instances in which' the.evidence was false. With
this view the Noble Lord might go on to examine,
if be chose to examine' such a witness farther. As
to Weatherhead, the Noble Lord di4claithed
However he would take him in, in order to'compare
his evidence with that of Drake ; and he was en-
titled to do so, as the Petitioner's Counsel had dWat
upon it in the summing up. But as to Drake, he
said, that he had been .direa-ted by. Mr. Sheridan to
get' _a letter from one Harris. . He stated,.that the
interview with Mr. Sheridan on that subject was on
the'gth or loth of February : here it came out that
ih&e had been a previous:letter, which, according
to Drake's statement, had been written only, two or
three dAys before. But Harris, Who was the 'most
competent witness on this point, stated, that it_was
at least a month before, and that he had obtained it
for money paid to Drake, having asked it before the
dissolution of Parliament. The Noble Lord asked
how, slip-posing the letter • to be a 'forgery, Drake
should have openly mentioned it ? Vor this plain
reason, that he had burnt it. The NOble Lord must
look at all theevidence together, and not rest- upon
that particular part Which.tbrwards his own views.
Drake said he added M. P. to the letter. Weather-
head then came and said that M: P. was -added by
Mr. Sheridan, and that he saw it wet as well as the
name. -Drake said that the letter was signed under
the Piazza, Covent-Garden ; that lie was present at
the time, and that there was a great crowd at 'the

door of the Tavern. Harris then caw, and sal I,
that he had it •a month before, when the Tavern w_ts
not open, and when there was no crowd. Did the
Noble Lord look at that part of the cridence ? He
surely did not ; for if he had, he could not have said
that the:evidence of Drake was consistent with itself.
Then as to the second letter, Drake, when pressed,
allowed that lie did not see Mr. Sheridan sign it.
Weatherhead said' that he saw the letter, for he Wrote
it He saw it after it was signed, and the name and
M. P. ran in ontk line; whereas it appeared from
the letter on the table, that the name, the M. P.
and the Treasurer of the Navy, were in different
'lines. Were these witnesses then to be believed ?

He must take the evidence of Weatherhead, be-
-cause, if- he contradiaed the material evidence of
`Drake, then the conclusion-was, that the whole was
false. Then, as to its being true, Drake said that

he went and offered money from Mr. Sheridan to
get the letter, with a design afterwards, as he stated,
o use i,t_ against him. Harris shewed the letter to
_

Mr. Sheridan, who advised him to give it up to Mr.
Paull, or to Mr. Graham the Magistrate. Was it
. .

probable then that Mr. Sheridan should have ems.
ploYed Drake with a View to suppress the letter If,
'after all this,: the charge was not to be considered
false and scandalous, no conclusion could ever be

• drawn from internal evidence. These witnesses
wire. produced against Wallice ; but there.
was :no proof that lie was the agent of Mr. Sheri-
dan
; and, at any rate, what were the witnesses ?
• Richardson was one who was stated to have been
sent out of the Way, and yet he appeared at the Bar.
Bahtam and Richardson said that. they went under
the authority of Mr. Powell (he did not say that Mr.
Peiwell was guilty on the statement of such wit-
nesses) to ivir. Burgess, to induce him to give them
money .to keep out of the way. This, however,
- Richardson confessed that he had offered to
give Mr. Burgess the briefs, the evidence, and the
whole • case on the other .side if he chose to accept
of it. Mr. Burgess, like an honousra,bolleeraensAd,ahsonceers-t
man, and honour aou honesty allrays‘entittogd Ar.
together,
• said, that he would have tiothitio• at all to do with
Paullttahi
the
yb u no of
oi r I groundsemalices business.—(Hear
antii
to aff oe ea I
c Near
i!)--He avcgiate
y a
him. He acquitted Mr.
Powell too of all, malice. He thought no irnpuka;
' tiOn could attach to the Counsel, although he,w44.,
astonished they. had 'not gifted the evidence better.
On the evidence, therefore,, before the House, he
considered it as impossible not to Note the charge
false and scandalous, and, of course, concurred in.
the Motion.

The Motion was themagreed.to, Lord Folkstate,
alone having faintly said " no."
W • 6rsletr,
Mr: TAYLOK thed.rhavedi -tirat ilitam , -
in giving his evidence, Was guilty of wilful falsehood.
and gross prevarication.—Agreed to. -
Mr. TAYLOR also,
,rnoved, that William Drake,
for the said offence, be committed to his Majesty's
Gaol of Newgate, and that the SAeaker do issue his.
warrant aCcordingly.—Ordered.
WM:I:READ observed, that 'though the
other wllifessokfor the Petitioner had grossly misl
conduaecl themselves? he did not think it neces.
sary to have recourse to any further severity; and,
therefore, would propose no Motion • with resped
to .them.

Lord HENRY PETTY gave notice, that he would
bring in a Bill for regulating extaiii Offices in
Scotland. -

FRE[WILI) ESTATE BILL

, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved. tbeTthird read.,
in,prtf the Freehold Estate Assets Bill.
Mr. TUFFAVELL-ohjeaed to the Bill, Ott till,
grounds that it would .extend the credit of the land.
ed proprietors in a-manner that might be injurious.
Be thought it was unfair that this burthen
.should
be: thrown on the freehold estates, while the copy=
Mold estates were exe4ted. • A remedy might, 114
apprehended, be found for the evils menticined by
the Solicitor-Generalrwithout carrying the measure
to this extent ; and he wished-that should
be re-committed, in order to consider that point.
The SPEAKER informed. the Honourable Mem-
ber that the Bill, could noti in this advanced stage;
be re•committed.

SIMEON stated, that evils Which
went to remedy were occurring continually,
knew from 'experience—being one of the Masters
in Chancery. This was no new measure. One
similar ,to it bad passed that House when Sedeant
Glynn, Mr. Dunning, Mr. Wpdderburn, &c. &c,
the most eminent Lawyers that ever graced the
English Bar, were Members. The. feudal prin.
pies on which these inconi,eniencies were founded
had been done away, and these only remained by
accident. They undoubtedly ought tticease when
the reasons for them no longer existed. He con-
cluded an able speech, by declaring his cordial as-
sent to the Bill.

MASTER of the ROLLS, upon such a pro-
position as that which was then before the House;
a proposition which, if it was carried into eifeet,
would make a most material change in the Law of
the Land, felt it to be his duty to state his sena-
ments most fully and explicitly on the sebjed„ —fa
so doing, it was necessary first that he should en"
deavour to bring . to the recolledion- of the House,
that it was only under the feudal laws that freehold
property was first established; and it was itni3O*.
sible for any man to tell what further change the
present innovation might lead to. By the old Lai.,
of-France; the moment a man was' married, one
half of his property, was secured fot the benefit of
his children 5 by the present Law pf-Scodand. in
certain cases, -the whole property was secured I;i7.
law to their -heirs : but did any man ever say that
these laws. were unjust ? they might. be .deereed
politic in many instances, but they certainly were
not unjust. It had peen said that it wvwd n.e uditist
that the 'heir to an estate should be living in afflu-
ence whilst the creditors of his predecessor were
left to starve ; but would it not be also injustice if
the heir • to an estate were to be deprived of his
birth-right through the improvidence of his prede-
cessor, and be left in the greatest possible distress,
perhaps' in some cases, whilst • he was paying the
debts of another person's contrading ? If this new
principle was to'get footing once amongst the Laws
of England, almost every marriage contrad in the
kingdoth might possibly , be' annulled. Allowance
should be made for - the necessary fictions and peat•
liarities whidi arp:adopted in Law Proceedings ; it
might be reckoned absurd, for intance, that m the
case of specialty or simple coutrad debts, the 'addi-
tipu. of a bit of wax in the elle c;se whilst in the

:other thct was nelliieg bait file name ;:ilbsetily.t&.:
shoul give the one such superiority ever (lie other'
that te oie weuld be fir the most parr paida,whilst
the of Would, in many instances, be left unpaid.
But sae's were the established distinCtions which
were san.qioned by the Laws of the Realm, and ,no
evil was found to result therefrom.---With respeet
to the cases which were stated to have occur! ed be-
fore the Master' in Chancery, a Bill might be
brought in to remedy those particular eases without
makiag any general alteration in the 'principle tof
our Law. 4. This he conceived to be' a most impor-
tant consideration, and it brought into his mind the
observation; that no country in the world • was so
jealous of its political liberty as this was—apd yet he
maintained that our political was nothing in coin,
parison 'with our civil liberty. In this point of
view he considered 'the WI as one that might be
produ6tiVe of the most serious consequences to the
country. It might have been necessary at the time
of Edward the Firsf, but it was not suited to the
state of England under Geo!ge 111. when commer-
cial speculations had increased to an extent that our
ancestors donld not have thought possible ever to
have been brought • about. If this measure was' to
be new adopted'. a man who was disposed to corn- -
mit a fraud would only be led to vest his money
in copyhold instead of 'freehold-property ; and the
commercial Man, if he possessed the most exten-
sive funded property, would have only to get into
that House and he might defy hiS creditors. At
Ole time of the introduction of the Statute of Frauds,
the Statute of Limitations, and at the time. of the
enactment of a Law to regulate the cases of Debtor
and Creditor •in our Colonies, it must have. come to
the recolleEtion of the Legislature thai. there was
this peculiarity in the law which it was now pro-
posed to alter ; but still it was never, at these times,
thought of changing, the law with resped to Eng-
land'; a Plantation was only considered as an instru-
Ment of commerce, whilst the attachment to the
soil of England was cherished by the Legislature.
There have, since that, been two attempts to graft
treasure, of the nature now before the House,
upon the English Code, the one by the late Lord
Kenyon, and' the other by another eminent Lawyer,
but 'both these luminaries of the law, upon ma-
turd 'deliberation, abandoned the measure, as being
unsuited to the genius and manners of the people.
Mr. WYNNE ( ()served, that the frequent
paSiing of...A.Cts of Insolvency was a proof of the de-
fetkof Our laws with relation to debtor and creditor.
As the law now stood, a man that advanced a sum
of -Money to another would take care to have the
best security possible for the recovery of the amount
cif- that debt, whilst the honest and industrious
tradesman would, for the most part, suffer for want
of a similar security. •
Mr. NICHOLSON CALVERT declared, that
he had conversed with severs upou.this subject, but
he never beard 'or sticlr frauds as had been - alluded
to this night. The men oflanded property he : now
heard represented as being the rich and the oppres,.
soli; and the commercial part of the community
were spoken of as a poor and distressed set of people:
The very .revetse of this he believed to be the fad.
—The lhnded property-men-were the sheep, whom
the Minister, whoever he was, could easily fay
bold.of and sheer at pleasure; 'when, if a Minister
attempted 'to iay his hands on •any particular branch
of commerce, there were meetings in every coffee- -
house in London, • and, in many cases, they escaped
from 'his grasp.
The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND ob-
served, that it was a peculiarity in the English law
Which was unknown to the ancient Greeks or Ro-
mans, or to any modern state in Europe, that the.
death of a man should put an end to all the, moral"'
obligations which he owed the world. He was
himself, in the proper sense of the word, a strong
Aristocrat, but he did not think it right to support
the Aristocracy by such means as the law now sanc-
tioned. In. Scotland and in Germany a Most high
and honourable sentiment of the antiquity- of fami-
lies prevailed ; -bat still they did not allow a nian to
roil in the wealth which had been left him by his an--
ces:ors, whilst at the same time he would stare the
creditor of that man in the face and say he would
Trot, pay him. He asked any man in that Horse,
Would it not give him an additional pang-upon his
death bed if he knew that he was to die without be--
ing able to do justice to his fair creditors ? *lle asked
any man, could he bear to think of going in gran-
deur to the funeral of a relation who had left him a
considerable estate, without, at the same time, some
qualms of conscience disturbing his breast, if he
knew that the debta of that relation were left unsa-
tisfied, and that he'did not mean to discharge thetri ?
A' man must have a mind incapable of judging right
from wrong, 'or else he ' must design wilfully to de-,
ceive, if he did not answer those questions in the'
affirmative. It was but two days since the House
passed a lavv'en the grounds of humanity and justice
against every Argument of expediency which could ,
be urged, and could they then refuse their 5211611011
to A measure so foianded in justice as the 'present !
The idea of imu was held out as a bugbear;
' but was every science, art, manufaEture to improve
by innovation, whilat the law alone should be de.
prived of its to pursue 'a similar course of
amendment ?

Mr. CANN/NG ciimpared the present to • a law
which had formerly been introduced tin. tho Regula-
tion of Country Banki, by making
:their estates lia
bye to their debts. Lord Kenyon observed mum-
that measure, that' it would be necessary that every.
Banker should hifve a wap. of his estate, and cata-
logue of the incumbrances on it hung up in his
house. 'A
measure of that sort had been adopted 'in
Ireland, and the:only result was that it increased
commercial property,: and rendered the •estaresun-
saleable. Such, he contended, would be the result
of the present -Measure, if it was to be adopted by
the House.

• The SOLICITOR GENERAL replied to the se-
veral arguments advanced against his Bill, which he
could never hesitate to.call a remedy for grol4 inps-
ti6e. By what other name, he would ask, could
the principle be.called, which this Bill proposed to
remove, than unjust ? Was it just that one descrip-
-Con of men should be obliged to deliver up the whole
of his property to his creditors, and.,if that were not
sufficient to satisfy their claims, be himself liable to
imprisonment .for life, while another. description of
'men should be permitted to hold their property ms-
touched by law, above the rearll.9l a creditor's equit-
able claim? With 1-:...gardf to the assertion that
Bill ~vas- an atNtek upon the Rrittocr,xy, he would

A reportwas very generally circulated this morn-
ing, that His-Majesty's Ministers had resigned their
offices, offices, and the Speech of Lord How icx. in the
House Of Commons last night, upoil putting- otf
the Catholic Bill, was considered as an almost
unequivocal declaration upon that subje6l. We
are, hoverer, enabled to state positively., that
Ministers have not resigned, nor do we believe that it,
is their intention to tender their resignations. In com-
pliance with the Opinion expressed from a high quar7
ter, they have abandoned the intention of pressing the
Bill respthing the Catholics; but it is stated that they.
have been also called upon to give certain pledges
with respe& to future measures, and to enter into
engageMents which they do not conceive that they
would be justified in entering into. This we under-
stated is the precise state of the question at pre-
sent. It is understood that His MAJESTY'S pleasure
will-be made-known upon the subjea this day.

`Then-latter:rests precisely upon the grounds which
we have stated, and having said thus much, we think
it our duty to refrain from any observations upon a
point of .so much delicacy and importance.

LAST night we received Heintburgh and Altona
Papers.: to the tjth inst. but they do not bring aly
intelligence of importance from the Seat of War.- The
general retreat of the French 'Army is however at
length distinaly admitted, and the head-quarters at,
fixed at Osterodc ; " becauie from that place the coin-
munications with the different corps• of -the Army
will be more ,easy." We have very little doubt that
the next French official accounts will inform us that
some place on this side of the Vistula is still moro
fit fur keeping up a communication with the different
corps of the Army. The Prussian Garrison of Col-
berg continues to make frequent sorteei by which
the French are very much harassed; and their coin•
munications interrupted.

THE subjeEt of the Peti.ion against .Mr.
DAN, on the charge of'' tampering with evidence,"
on' the 'Westminster tleetion, was yesterday deter
milted in the House of Cormnons, to the satisfac-
tion of every just and liberal mind. The Petition
was decided to be " false and scandalous." DnAkt,
who was one of Mr. PAnt.L's chief -Witnesses on
this disgraceful btisiness, has been committed tO.
3Niewgate,
•

We received this tirorning Letters and Papers from
BCutland, but they contain no further accounts re-.
spe(:lling.the Dutch Frigate which ran on shore near
Thurso:-

Yeterday 'His MAJESTY came to town from
as usual, and held a Court at the Queen's
.Palace; at two o'clock, when the Private Levee com-
menced, which was attended br

The Archbishop. of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor,
the herd President of the Council, the Lord edit), Seal, the
iFirst Lord of the Treasuryohe Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Three Secretaries of State, the Master...‘.;eneral of the
Ordnance, the •First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Chief
I justi‘ie of the Court of King's Bench, the ludge Advocate,-
the Laid Steward of the I lousehold ; Earls Winehilsea and
Carn:itvon; Lord Heatlitidd ; Adniiral Dotninet ; General Messrs. Pierre point, aWkener. and Fordyce.
Mr. iPierrepoint was presented to kits Majesty,' upon his
return-Arun:l his .Erribassy at Sweden..
Admiral DommET and Mr. FoßpvcE laid before
• His MAJESTY the Seventh Report of the Commis-
. sioners bf Navallnquiry. •
. His MAJESTY 'hod a Privy Conucil, and .gave pri-
-I'7.ate audiences to most of the Cabinet Miiiiters.
Mr. BoNni the Judge Advocate, kaid,. before,his
MAJr.s-ry the proceedings of several Courts Martial.
His MAJps'r V' left the (-I,4EN'il",ilace, t:‘,)-r
sor, five o'clock. •

AVAL •N
\

DEAL,' MARCH 18,---Arrive I yesterday eOtiink
-the Eipli)siOn Bomb from PortsthOuthi' with a
'het under convoy, consisting of coasting and Sive-
.
dish Vessel,:
_; the' latter are-saileci for Sheerneis to
join convoy for the Baltic.• :
This morning the Fary Bomb, with the 'Fran§-
ports, outward-bound Vessels, Bce. unkler convoy, for
Portsmouth, 'which sailed from the Downs on the
15th inst. put back ; also the Si and ..Lord
liqwholury East Indiamen, and other Vessels which;
sailed from the Downs last night. • • ''•
Arrived the Zetra Bomb from Portsmouth;
Rail-
lcur Sloop of War, Phosphorus. Fire-vessel, and
several Gun-brigs from a Cruize, :fltid- remains in
the Downs with the Ships as. per last: .
P.S. Sailed the Flora Frigate for Yaraiouth.

Arrived the Earl Spenter Cutter with • a convoy
from Dublin and Scilly, which are sailed for the
River.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 1 7.—Arrived the Renown,
of 74 guns, from the Squadron cruizing off Roche;
fort.

Sailed the Dbadicea Frigate, on a cruize to the
West‘irard, and the Lady Warren Armed Ship, with
a convoy, for the Downs:

Comiuodore KEATS, who commands the ,Roche-
fort Squadron, has shirted.his broad pendant 'from
the Superb, of 74 guns, to the ,S;bari:att!, of 74 the
former is hourly expeeled here tb

FALMOUTH, MARCH Ib.-Arrived the
_Nimrod
Cutter from Off Ushant ; she left the Fleet all well
on the .ioth Inst. •

• Sailed the Insolent Gun-brig, Lieut. Mottßzs, for
Plymouth.

' SUN-OFFICE,

THREE O'CLOCK, P. M.

EVE stop the Press to state, We have just 're-
ceived information that Lord ELDON M1;1 Lord
144WKESBURY were sent forto attend ITiS MAJESTY
at Windsor, and that they left Town this. Morning
for that purpose. It is understepd that they were
sent for in order to receive lits.MAJEsTy's orders
respelling the formation of alSieW Administration.

Letters from Deal .and Dover say, there was no
truth in the .mport of a firing having beetT heard
along the Coast of Fraace on ThorSday last.

Sir HOME Porn AM, accompanied by Capt. KING,
and Mr. 14,0'1E, Agent to the former, appeared yes-
terday at LLOYD'S Coffee-house, and addressed a
short speech to the Gentlemen- of that place, ex-,
- pressive of his respe& 'fix them as-the Commercial
Props of the first City in the. world, and of his oWn
hiyMty and patriotism during the whole of his pro-
fe6sional life. This Address was well received by
the company present.

ANrcnoTE.—ln a letter from benrmtk, dated
24th ult. Gen. Vic Ton, .now a prisoner of war at
Elbing, requested permission, after his capture, to
wi ite a letter to his wifit; bnt, some how or other,
being suspe&ed of having Wrote another, an expresA
was sent after his courier, in whose neckcloth a let-
ter was found to B'ONAPARTE, to whom be had
wrote many particulars which belonged only to the
profession of a Spy ; which occasioned him' to be
searched, and a letter ‘vas found about him from
NAPOLEON", Wrote on the battle of the 26th Deceni,
bet, which he described as a yery tide day, but it
had cot him 25,000 !
s.

'The Birth-day of the, Marquis. of Towzsisni?,ND,
was celebrated in Dublin on the, I bth irist.with the
re.ika due to that venerable Nobleman,- whose
private virtues and social character will be long .re-
vered wherever they haveteen,knowli.

Tug ORATonto.-The •sele6lion of last night,
principally from flAspeL, was a proof of thy' snittid
judgment of the /1.5i11..EY5. It was well attended,.
and' veryiwell received.
Yesterday the 'Recorder of London made his Re-
port- to his Majesty of the Convias capitally eon-
iCted at the Sessions before last, •at the Old Bailey,
except four. Twelve of them were respitedi• during
his-Majesty's pleasure ; and Patrick Pr'endergrovt,,
for breaking open and robbing the house of Mr.
near Edgware, was ordered for execution next We&'
nesday.

Married,, on the 16th inst. at St. George's, Han-
over-square, Mt. WILLIAM SHERMAN, of Dedham,
Essex, to toufsn, third danghter of JOIIN SKIN-
Esq.' of Surrey-street, Strand.
On Tuesday everting, about six o'clock, a most
daring attempt was made by seven desperate con-
to escape froM Carlisle Gaol. Six of them liar
ink got quit of their irons, rushed forth, and after
knocking down the turnkey and his assistant, 1.1,:ho
in vain opposed their passage, unbolted the door of
that, part of the Gaol-yard which opens into Eng-
lish-street, whence
.they fled in various dire6tions
towards the fields, closely pursued by the Gaoler's
sons, the turnkey,. and a number of other persons
who 'happened to be passing. On the alarm being
given, Capt. Scott, commander of a detachment of
the Sussex Militia quartered in that city, ordered
the drums to beat to- arms ; and great praise is due
to that excellent Oflicer, as well as to the Serjeants•
and Privates of his party, who assembled to a man
at the main guard in less than eight minutes, and
immediatelymarched to the door of the gaol, where
they leaded with ball cartridge, and set out in quest
of the fugitives, whoin they soon after. met in yes-
session of the jailor's ions and turnkey. They were
then 'delivered over to the military,,; who marched
them into the jail-yard, where they were loaded
with the heaviest irons, and re-conducted to their for-
tner cells. This appears to have been a deep-laid plot,,
as the villains had procured a pear of. pilitols, one of
which was fired in the first attempt 10 c,4cape, the
other was afterwards feund upon one of the Con-

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f*DiVlTFir..f44l4l3i7k.Cll AND. Ai.;IONA
BrituN, F,Ra.'2:3.--,-The last accounts fr6rn tho
..Head-arters of the French army.-:areft-orn
of the 200;February : notliing had occurred sin ee the
affair of the i (ids. It is said tbat the -heod-nuartt.,rs
of hip Milje,ty viii be horn._tdiately 're-
moved to OsterOde, from whence the conlmdkiications
with all
.the corps of the army will be more easy.
Authentic - intelligence "from Stettin,. Etate,
the town of Stutgard was attacked on the 16th

of this month, by a Prussian corps, consisting of 50..) •
infantry, 200 cavalry, and three pieces of Cannon;
.belonging to the garri.4on of Colberg ; all the effur:.s..
of this detachment to enter thetown were fruitless;
.it was repulsed at ail points, Ifter a brisk fire, and
pursued to the neighbourhood of Massow had 30
_men wounded and 24 killed,
.of whoa; two Oflicers.
remained .upon the field of battle ; there is beside
in the hospital one Officer and eight, soldiers : the
French,had .two killed pod some wounded.

Gen. 11E= E Bet out in. the night of the 18 t h from
Masst,w,mid i.ppeared at break of day before Neu-'
garten. There is near that town a kind of morass,
very deep, in tie midst of which is a height of firm
land, upon-whch the enemyhad ereeted a redoubt.
From the imp( ssibility of passing this morass, either
by landor
.water, and.of being able to turn it, it w 4
resolved to at t. ek it in' front. , When the necessary
triaterials.were colleaed for filling'up the-ditch and
mtking .a rood, Col. BOYIER put hi nself at the head
of the frisiteers of the guard, in this new road, over-
came all obstacles; and was the third who arrived on
the enemy's parapet, in spite of .the violent fire,
which did-not cease an. instant ;. the redoubt wt
carried in five minutes, and the. French were masters
of the town... The enemy eannon, and left
near 'too killed .on the field of battle 138 prisoners
were tile The loss 'of the French *.consists
three killed and 22 wounded : the Gendarmerie OR
duty behaved extremely well on this occasion.
VIEN Vrl, FEB. frbin the front:ell
of Turkey, dated the 7th of this month; States, that
the Russian army, under the cOrnmand of G.L4cral
I.ll;:ctkr..-soN, is marching strait 46 Constantinople,
and is alreatly at Georgia, beyond Widdin,- where it
engaged a Turkish corps, and ki:ted dept thou Lind
men, but it sustained itself a loss of theee thousand.*
The Servians appear to have made :only- a 'seeming
Peace with the Turks; besides, they have not yet
given up to the latter Belgri(de not' Sehabatz ; and it
is not dbubted but that they will join the Rnssihn4
as soon as these shall'.ba.ve pass(.,(l the Danobeyanti
appear oil the other, side of Widdin.- There was
lately a heavy discharge of artillery towards Sella-
batzi • _

. CON Sj'AsITINOPLIZ, JAN. is known that a
Russian Corps of t MOO 'men is at Bucharest, and it
is prc'paring to attack Giurgevo, which is sit,aated on
the other side of the. Danube, apposite ttuzink ; that
fortress has been put in thc. best state of defence.--
P4ll/0,v.,%;c AGA has. dislaiguished himself against
the Russians, near Ismael ir he defeated a corps • cf.
3000 men, and has tent here 250 heads and 500
prisoners.

ANCONA, Pacha of Janina, in

consequencerof orders from the Sublime. Ports, will
proceed to Ragusa with a corps of from
,8 to 10;000
men, for .the .purpose of joining Gen. LAunlsToir.'
• CONSTANTFi:OPLE, :L YS. 2.5.--,Much has been said
of a fruitless attempt of the Russians to obtain poSt.
session of the fortress of Istnael; and it is reported
that the RuSsian Commanding Officer summoned the
commandant to open the gates. A report is also.
current, that'thd garrison, Made-a sortie; and teak
about 1000 prisoners, among whom Was a General:
• But .25 na,prisoners have yet arrived, the report of
that viaory seems to. be without foundation. • .
Tile Turkish squtdron, ..which' is stationed off Ba-
joukdera, where new batteries have also been ereEt-
ed,..is. daily increasing. It consists already of thirty
Sail, eight of Which ar ships of the_line. The Porte
has al."o demanded of the three Governments of Bar-
bary pccours of 30 ships of war. . The English line
of battle ship Canopus, which took' Prince TTALINSKY
as far as the Dardanelles, has there come to- an an-
char. The Prince went afterwards on board-.a Fri-
gate belonging, to-the same squadron, and proceeded
io Malta.