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abd yet it -is asked why the Petitioner did not pie.,
pare all the necessaries for an applicaticn to a Cocrt •
of,Law between the 4th and 6th of November,
though he was not at that time apprised of the, in-
adequacy (to vote) of two of the persons 01;;-
jetS-ted 'to. lie should think it a monstrous in-
justice to refuse the application for a longer day.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS.

TUESDAY. JAN. 6.

The tibyal Assent was given by Comml.ssion to
the Contro•;erted Eln6tions Trial Bill.

The Commiisioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Walsinghain, and Lord Auckland.
the Duke of 'Rutland and the Eail of Aberga-
venny took the Oaths and their Seats..

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL conceived that
the House was now about to exercise a judicial
sanction, and that it should pause before it would
railhly go to establish a precedent. The Gentleman
wino spoke last had said, that it was hard to expe&
that the process of an application for a Quo Warran-
to could have teen made within the first day of
Term ; but the Gentleman should recolleet, that
though term did not commence till the 6th, it did
not end till the 28th, and that it was rather sus-
picious that in all that time no step had been taken
by the Petitioner to make such application. As to
the argument, that delay was not alledged to be an
inconvenience to the Sitting. Member, he did not
think it conclusive, nor should he.think it fair to be
compelled to prove his title to his estate, merely be-
cause that proof was entirely FaClicable. 119 should
vote against the Motion.

After going through spore private business the
House adjourned till tomorrow (this day).

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY, JAN. 6

The SPEAKER informed the Home that he had
received a letter from Thomas Boutcher, Esq. De-
puty Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, acknowledging
the receipt of the necessary Recognizances for the
additional Petitions presented ,respecting the City
of Dublin, the County of Mayo, and Newry Elec7
Lions.

Leave was given to bring in a Bill for improving
the. Fisheries pf the River Tweed ; as also for a Bill to
enable the London Dock Company to regulate the
'Shadwell Water-works.
Mr. floßnouse brought up the Report of thp
Malt Duty Bill ; which, with several Amendments,
were agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time
to-morrow.
Mr. HOBIIOUSE brought up the Bel:6ft of the
Pension Duty Bill ; which, with its several Amend-
ments, Were received, and ordered to be read a third
time to-morrow.
The Report .of the Committee of Ways and-
Means, granting. to His Majesty the- sum of
10,500,0001. to be raised by Loan. of Exchequer
Bills, was also brought up and agi'vedsto, and leave
given to bring in a Bill pursuant to the same Resolti,
tion.—Leave also was given to bring in the usual An-
nnal Indemnity Bill.
THETFORD RETITION. •

The Order of the Day for relituning the ad:-
journed Debate on the Question of granting a fur-
ther day for the hearing of the Thetford Petition,
being read,

Mr. WHITBREAD rose and said, that he was
the more confident' in soliciting, on behalf of the
Petitioner*, a more distant day than bad been already
fixed upon, when be considered that it was an' in,
diligence generally granted by. that House, and.
Which the sitting Member was seldom unwilling
to accede to. From what had fallenfrom an Ho-
nourable Member (Mr. Mingay) in the beginning
of this discussion, he believed that that Gentleman
was under a mistake in supposing that there was but
one unqualified voter only objected to among those
of the Corporation who composed that Gentleman's
majority ; but he was instructed to state, •that there
were three, fOur, or more persons admitted to vote
for the sitting Member who were not Elea-tors,
whose pretence to the right of suffrage was founded
upon an illegal 'claim ; and though an undisputed
possession of franchise for a limitted time made

that right of suffrage valid, yet that time not being
yet e:gaired, the
,objeations have been made within
the periceprescribed by law, and,. of course, no ar-
gument in favour of those votes can be drawn from
the tact of possession. The sitting Member had
said, that the Court of King's Bench, it applied to
for a quo warranto, would not hear such application.
IVIr. Whitbread would contend for it that that Curt

Sir WILLIAM WYNNE thought, that however it
might be a question whether such delay was in-
convenient to the Sitting Member, he was sure
that it was inconvenient to that House, and to• the
Public.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL did not think that the
Nouse could reje& the Motion, consistently with
justice—it had come within his knowledge that of
three of the 'persons objecled to, bne only was op-
posed at the time of tendering his vote, and that a
mouth hid elapsed since the eletaion-betbre. the
Petitioner was apprised of the illegality of the.
other two votes.--,-He hoped. that tiui strong Cir-
cumstance would have its. due weight with the
House.

could not recluse such application, because the time
iirnited by law was six years. Now, those voters
are but nve years exercising thiseledive capacity,
and consequently the time for confirming a doubt-
ful franchise is not yet expired. But there was ano-
ther circumstance, the- Petitioner, did' not know of
the illegality of two of the. Voters objected 'to. till
2ong after the beginning of the Term, and Yet it is
obje&ed to him, by the sitting Member, that the.
Petitioner did not apply to the Court of King's Bench
against. 'nose Voters, of the validity of whose fran-
chise the Petitioner had not at that time any donbt.
He then moved, That the, Order of the Day for
hearing the ThettOrd Petition be discharged.
Mr. MIS G 1 contended with considerable
warmth, that the question then before the House
was not whether the King's Bench would receive or
reject any application that might be made to it on
behalf of the Petitioner, but whether that House
would, in this so comparatively unimportant a case,
make a precedent that might in all future cases Of
this kind be produaive of consequences the most
serious : five years ago the persons objected .to voted
for the PetiliOner ; and is the House now to be told,
that' this is the first time the Petitioner had diseo-
14i-et! those alledged inadequacies i That after a five
Tears dream, he, the' Petitioner, awakes, and dis-
c avers for the first time, that certain persons who
voted for him upon a former. occasion, now that
they voted against him, were from the beginning in-
'competent to vote ? And there was one fact, how::
ever, that he could not pass by. It had been said,
that four or more voters were ohjeaed to.' He (Mr.
111ingay) assured the House, that there were not
more than two objected to at the time of voting,
upon the ground of not being franchised, as the
third Was objeeted.to not upon this ground, but' as
Laving some employment in the Post Office. He

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said that, anx,ous as he waited for the decision of
that House upon what he would call a vexatious

proceeding, be should, however, bOw to that de:6-
'ton with unfeigned humility and respect.
Mr. MRIVEY said, that• he ought not to be
anxious to speak on a question 4pparently agitating
the feelings of two Gentlemen, for each of whom

Le felt so much respect. He should, however,- re-
move all such personal considerations from-his mind; .!
and consider merely the
.Simple fa& of a Petitioner
asking fora more distant day than that a!ready fixed
upon fel- hearing his Petiti6n, thdugh in the case
of Petitions the granting a further day was by no
means an unusual indulgence yet he Was, upon
the gt.neral principle, an enemy to delay in such
cases. But •ha thought the present ease sufficiently'
exempted from the general rule by its peculiar cir-
cumstance—the Petitioner- desires a further day as
indispensihle to the object of his Petition—the sitting
Member, on the other hand, does not chew. that
any possible inconvenience can arise to him .frOni
this &lay. It is objected too that the Petitioner did
not make an earlier application to the Kinesßench. ;
The eleEtion took place upon the 4th of November; 1:
End the cigif next but one was the firA day of Term,

Mr.ROSIOE was of opinion, that the time prayed
for by the Petitioner should be granted.
BATHUfiST entirely concurred with the At-.
torney-General, and thought that the Howe would
not.: be justified in postponing the hearing to a. more
distant day than that, aiready 4ixed upon.
Mr: FO.LONVES Wai against the delay.
The question being now loudly called for, the
House divided on Mr. Whitliread's Motion

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THE SUN.

80,2,74 QCIS TnCERZ FALSUIV! AUDEAT?

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1807•

AT a late hour last night we received Hamburet
and Altona Journals to the 27th ult. The intern,
gence which they bring is of considerable import-
ance. BONAPARTE has concluded a Peace with the
ELECTOR of SAXONY, who, it appears, has been.
elevated to the Royal Dignity, and who,, of courk,
ha's become a Member of the Confederation of the'
Rhine. l'here is strong reason to believe that the
French Troops have suffered most . severely in Po-
land, in consequence of the, extraordinary fatigue
they had undergone, and the severity of the climite
Letters from Berlin state, that-waggon-loads of sick.
'Frenchmen are nightly brought into the Hospitals
from the Armies. An epidemic disease not only
•rages in the French Army in Poland, but in Mar-
shal MORTIER'S Division, which is on the Frontiers
of Poinerania,
,and a great number of Phylicians
have been put in requisition, and sent off to join:
the Army. Rumours of battles, which we, kia9w
. .
to be unfounded, are still circulated on the Conti-
nent these reports, though fabricated; are very im,
partial : according to one of them,'the Russians lave
been defeated, with the loss 9f 50,000 men ; while
another account gives the victory to the Russians,
and represents the loss of the French at Ileac.:
40,000 men. BONAPARTE is using 'every possible:.
exertion to reinforce his Army in Poland ; Troops

on the 15th of August ; but this tipper', to be tt

mistake.

An American Captain, who is just arrived,. also
brings intelligence that it was retaken on the 17th
of August, It seems highly improbable that the
Spaniards, who were unable to defend that place on
the 28th of July, shoUld be able to retake it
a few days afterwards. Besides, if that event
had occurred so early as the middle of August, it
almost impossible but that some, authentic intel-
ligence should have reached this Country before
this time. Whether Buenos Ayres has in point of
fail been retaken we have not the means of ascer-
taining, but we cannot believe that the Spaniards
could have colle&ed a sufficient force to attack it at
so early a period. •

The -following was yesterday transmitted to

LLayp's :

cf Admiralty-Office, Jan. 6, 1807.

" A Spanish Packet from Monte Video, last from
Rio Janeiro, has been captured by His Majesty's
ShiF Phoenix; on board of which was found some
Papers,, dated at the former place, the 2i st August.
No intelligence on the subjca of 4ueno.s Ayr has
been obtained."

Princess CurAiii,o-ra'i of 'WAtEf? completed her
ifth year this day, and her Royal' Highness will
'Dave; a Concert and B,elea fatty in the evening, at
Warwick House.
Lord HuTexitasoN, it is coajeaured, reached the.
Prussian Head-quarters about the lath ult. His,
Lordship ana suite, in the Sparrow- Gun-brig, paSsed
theisland of Atholm, or Christiansand, on the lath,
and expthed to land at Pillau, near Koningsberg, in
three or four days after.
Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the
East-India House, when the 'light Honourable Lord
M iTaTo took the usual oaths on being-appointed Go-
.s:etior-genera,l,A did Lieutenant-General tiEWI,;TT,
on. being Appointed .Second in Council and co:n-
mander-in,;chief of all the Cof4any's Military
Forces in the East Indies.
The sum of five hundred guineas was voted to
Capt. LA KKINS, for the purchase of a piece Of plate,
As. a mark of the Coureapprobation of his bravery
and good conduEt in defence of the Warreti kidsfilms;
also two thousand guineas to the Officers and crew
of' that Ship.
The Court adjourned at six o'clock to the London
Tavern, where a magnificent entertainment was Pre-
pared for his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK,
Lord MtNiTo, General HEWETT, the leading Mem-
bers of Administration, the President and Members
of the Board of Commissioners, and other distingaish7
ed.personages,
The distrasses under. which the British Seamen suf-
fel; in France is excessive. An Officer lately arrived
friOna Verdun, waited upon the Committee of ;he
Patriotic_ Fund yesterday at LLOYD'S, for ;he put.-
pose. of snaking the Gentlemen acquainted with the
real sittiation of our Seamen taken as prisoners into
France diiritz the war. This Officer affirms, that.
tlie scanty pittance.. allowed each man daily, eon-
-0,44 of a stna4 square piece of bullock-s liver, a
'slice"of. black bread, and a glass of new brandy.
Had it ijot been for: the relief they ha.l received
from, the Nriotic Fund,-for warded to them through
a private chanwl, many of them must have perished
from want. Thq object of the French, in treating
our Seamen with's4 inhumanity in this respect;
was with a view of nfalcing them dissatisfied w ith
their Government, by "ii,?llcitig a belief that they
were neglected by it, and i,•Jer to tempt them.
'wh,ito
to enter into the Fn c,,
rench sereice. .f
the were
the otTers made to them for that puroa;,-,, hic
the eternal honour of our brave but 614:rtunate
Tars, were rejected with-contempt and.indigifin:on;; '
They resolved to perish rather than prove traitor's Yk
their Country. A few renegado Irishmen, we regret
to, state, atlbrded the only exceptions to this ge-
resolution:, They gladly accepted the proposals
Nofthe French, and were accordingly employed in
their service.'
THE THEATRE.—The part of Douglas was re-
presented for the first time last: night, at Drury-lane-Y
Theatre, by Mr. ELLISTON. This Performer ainr-o.
.ijLail in such a. variety of cbara&ers, that he cannot
reasonably be expeiied to be equally succestifuli.in..:
all. Ibis chief fault last niglit was, a want of that
simplicity which' must be deemed. an essential fea-
tar in a'youthful hero brought up in rural seelusion.•
Too rune!, eiliVre'and stud.); was, on 'the whole, ap-
parent, but "several passages were given with great
spirit and power All erfed. •
The annual celebration of Twelfth, Night took-
plaCe yesterday evening at Drury-lane Theatre, with
all dee festivity, in eonformity to the Will of BAD-
the 'Aalor, who lett the interest of iOOl,
fcr ever for that purpose. The immortal memory
of the Testator, was of course the chief Toast, and
the who're ,passed' off with great mirth and good-' '
lfutrenr. •

. ,Moit,ToN was resolved
.", to make assurance double
are advancing thither from quarter. On the
every
• • • - : Sure, .in his new CoMedy, for he has secured the
other Valid, the Russian Army is daily receiving - - of ..
, -
.* support, KEMBLE, CHARLES KENiBLE,MUNDEN,
• •
reinforcements ; but its numbers, we fear, are,c,m-• FAwcETT, EmEay, Mrs. GLOVER, Miss BRUNTON,
siderably exaggerated; it is said, that in the course of and*Mrs. M.A...rTocKs. ''Such ,a combination of pow-
, ' ers could hardly fail, even if the Piece had not so
this month it would amount to 330,000 inen, ant the
i•• •
. , good a repoit n Its favour as ahappy mixture of the
. .
remnant of the Prussian Army is estimated at'7o,oo •
•nferestiu,p- and the humourous.
i ,•,
men. There are some reports of a Peace haying been - Last week upWards of three thOusand poor per
concluded between Priissia and France ; but the sous-in the neighbourho'od of Blenheim partook of
Answer which his Prussian M ~~c st' the'atinual 'Christmas bounty of his Grace the Duke
y gave to the late
of MARLBOROVGH: The usual number of fat oxen;
proposal for an 4rmistice renders it highly lin- and a proportionate quantity of *bread, * was divided
probable that any such event should hare. taken amongst them; and at the - same time the liberal
place. . . donation of her Grace. the Dutchess of MARLBO-
gotiGn was distributed as ' u'sual amongst the poor
............_
_ . . ... : • i;Vidow's and married women in Woodstock.
We are:still unable to relieve the solicitude of •the
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR ordered the Price of
Public respcttmg the interesting subject of linetios i Eread to continue as last week.
T ' , .- •
Ayres. A Spanish srigantine, named El e,hp Noi Warried,‘on Saturday, by the Rev. T. T. WALIOS..
,
L'EN'',
from Monte Video, destined fir St. Sebastian's, -but ' .at St. Clement's Church; in the Strand, ILTiD
. i I'';ICHOLL, ESq. of Do6tors' Commons, nephew of
captured by His Y ajes"tyis ''.:ip Plicenix, has `been Sir -JouN NIcuoLL, His Majesty's Advocate-Ge
brought into Plymouth: It was reported tlit they neral, to Miss SARAH ODDIE, second daughter 1:31.1
brought an account of the capture of BUDDOS'AYre3 HENRY Ho YLE ODDIE, Fol. of Carey-street. ' 1

Ar!vrpL Kto.t_vrA.

EXTRACT OF A PIIIVITE LETTER FROM DEIZMARIt
DEC. 21, 1806.

" ,The Negotiations opened between our Court
and the Emperor NAPOLEON have assumed a serious
complexion,- considerable preparations are, making
in tho Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, as well a 4
in therfcMgdom of Denmark. All the Danish Re-
giments have received orders to hold themselves
readiness to march at a moment's notice, and cannot+
has been Riounted on the Sea Batteries at Copenha-
gen and the Fortress of Cronenburgh ; at the former
place the number of guards has been doubled, and
six or seven Sail of the Line will, it is said, be.
fitted out for sea; in the. mean while our Court
.employs every exertion to maintain its neutrality, al-
though it, is known that the French are fitting out
every Merchantman they find in' the Prussian Porte
to hinder the free trade of the Baltic, to secure
which and maintain the Pass of the Sound are thiP
ohjets of the above-mentioned armaments,"
*fliArg, DEC. 16.--The,,hospitals of this place are
full of 'sick and. wounded French who arrive here
nightly by- waggong full ; as also at Magdeburgh.---
The doors .9f the hospitals are closely shut, and
no one allowed 'to enter or come out. Con-
tagious fevers and the
.white flux prevail to that
degree among the Vretteh in Germany and Polapd,
that thousands of them have already fallen vittimit,
and thousands mare will probably share, the same
fate ; their troops in Mcckleuburgh, Saxony, and
other parts, are all atieiited with similar diseases.--
From Harnburgh, Francimia, Scc. ocq, a number of
Physicians -have been put u requisition . in order to
be spot to Poland to atteno to stop the progress of
thosc clisea,ssi which continue to make the mast
dreadful ravaaes.
Froin Russia we learn that Field. Marshal Count
KAMINSKOY had been invested; with the chief cony.
mand of the Russian army, for which purpose be
has received the most extensive powers.. The ,RUS,'
Sian armies on the frcintiers of Poland amount CO
near 3W,000 men, which will be considerably en-
t
largekby.:the month of January. exchange Of
Couriers between St. Petersburgh, Stockholm, Co-
penhagen,' and Konigsberg, is now. brisker that)

E(TRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER;

pENMAR/c, DEC. 30.-Sind yVsterday and to,
day various reports have been in Circulation of an
Acaion having bgepA fought between the Russian 'awl
French Armies in Poland, in which some state the
logs, of 'the French, at near thirty thousand men)
whilst others state that of the Russians at near fifty
thousand; but the latest accounts- from Ber:;0,1
Which corne down to the 28. th inst. do. not cor;r r 11?
any intelligence ofthis'kind con the contrary, the
French Army in, Poland is repregented as havir4
suffered so much from' epidemic disease and conta'
gious, disorder, aggravated by the constant fall o
rain), as not to be capable of undertaking any offal".
sive operations with safety."