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London, England, 1815-06-03 00:00:00

ARMY F,XTRAORDINARIES:.

The CITANtiELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, ill rising
tO move the Army Extraordinaries;'said that three
millions had been.already voted towards the twelve
millions which would:form the. Army Exttair-Ji-
naries„ - !fhe expences of the army oti the Conti-
nent he calculated at 250,000/. a Month,
would be six millions in the year. Three millions
More would be the expenses of the army in Ame-
rica • and the \Vest Indies. The three remaining
Millions would go in the payment of debts and for
the extraordinary and incidental expences in the
Mediterranean.

Mr. TlERticar asked whether the 2ltllilliOnG to
be distributed amongst the Allies on account of
our deficiency in out• quota of 1'50,000 men were
included in those 12 u►illions ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered
that they were.

Mr. TIERNEY said, the Navy expenees.for this
year, under one denomination or another,. would
amount to SO millions ; how.-then was a. war of
such expellee to be carried on tur two years 1
The motion was then put mid carried.
The Nelsont.s Estate Lill went through a Committee—Re-
port on Monday.
The Glass Bill was read a second time—to he committed on
Monday.

deport of the new Post-Office Grant was brought up,
agreed to, and referred to the Committee on the new Post-
Office Bill, to be embodied with that Bill.
The Reports of the Ii ish Newspaper and Irish Law Stamps
Bills were agrp:ll. to. The Bills to be read a third. time o❑
Wednesday.

Lord PALMERSTON presented a return of the expence of
the Volunteers and Local Militia for the years MI, 12, 13,
and IC—Ordered to lie on the Table, and-t 6 be printed.
Mr. H. MARTIN gave notice of a motion fur Wednesday
next, upon the subject of Peusions.
GOVERNOR AINSLIE.

Mr. R. GORDON expressed his regret, that in
the performance of his duty as a Member of Par-
liament, he should feel himself hound to animad-
vert" upon the conduct of an individual -ot high
rank, and who, previous to the instances which
het had to .s-übinit to the consideration of the
Houie, had maintained an irreproachable charac-
ter. But it was due to justice and humanity to call
the attention of the House to the conduct of Go-
vernor Ainslie, at Grenada and Dominica, in both
which colonies that Officer was accused of acts ut-
terly subversive of those principles. From the Pa-
pers before the House, it appeared that Gov. Ainslie
issued a Proclamation at Grenada, in Nov.. 1812,
calling-upon all the free men of colour to take the
oath of allegiance within a week, and among those
who took the. oath accordingly V, as John Michele,
whose name was therefore entered in the hook of
the Governor's Secretary. Yet this John Michele
was afterwards arrested by order of Governor
Ainslie, and, upon the pretence of not having
taken the oath, of allegiance., whipped in the
public market-place. of St. George, and after-
w;mis detained for somettime in the common cage,
which prison could only be. compared to the Black
Hole of Calcutta.--This act naturally ontraged
the' feelings of the colony, and
.especially those
of the flee men of colour, and upon an investi-
gation instituted by the- Legislative Assembly, it
proved to be wholly incapable' of justification or
excuse._ As a set off against this charge there
were some documents on the Table, containing
addresses to Governor Ainslie trom this Assembly,
but then those addresses, whic;,, no doubt, testi-
fied to the general good conduct of the Governor,
were dated prior to the illltreatment 6f Michele.—
Then, • as to Governor Ainslie's misconduct at
Dominica? to which island he was transferred from
Grenada. At -Dominica - some insurrection was
said to prevail, occasioned by slaves who were
either deserters from theplantation or xvho always
resided in the woods, and in consequence of this
insurrection, as it was alledged,.Governor Ainslie
issued a proclamation, dated October 3,. 1813, that
unless they should come in from the runaway camps
and submit by the 24th of that month, the troops
should be employed against them—adding, that
neither age nor sex' would be spared, but that all
would be put to death. Combining this flagitious
Proclamation with the gross abuse of authority in
the case of Michele, the House would see how
far such a man as Governor Ainslie was worthy
to hold the office aseigned to him, or to be in-
vested with-the almost absolute power which be-
longed to that office. It was, he understood, as-
serted, • that this Proclamation was never acted
upon, but this was not owing to the 'disposition
Of Governor Ainslie, but to the diScretion of dip
()Meer who commanded against the iVlaroons It
wqs,however, a fact, that in this war nine slaves
were executed, 12 killed in the woods, 42 pu-
.nished, and 592 Were brought in prisoners, some
of whom had been 35 years in the woods ; all
these prisoners .were restored to their owners,
as thty were called ; but bow, he wool(' ask,
could slaves so long absent he identified ?-
1"0, upon the allegation of dick idimtit*

these- unfortunate beings were banded over as
runaways to men from whom they could not; of
course, expect very kind treatment. The whole,
in fact, of Governor Ainslie's eoLiduct in this,
transaction appeared to have no parallel but in-the
notorious war, some time since; against the Ma-'
roons in Jamaica. The LegiOaitive ASsemblv of
Dominica had no doubt voted an address of thanks
to Governor Ainslie for putting an end to this war,
but the House would judge of the character' of
that ,Asse•mbly from the Proclamation bf• the Go-
vernor himself, who ordered its dissolution on the
express ground of its incapacity and inattention to
business. An act of an extraordinary nature had
been lately mentioned to him (Mr. G.) by a Mr.
Aberdeen, namely, that Gov. Ainslie, on the 17th
June, 181-1, ordered two slaves to be sent to him.
who were charged with.selling some provisions to
a runaway camp. The order was of course, corn-
pried ‘eith by the owner of the slaves, who heard
nothing more ofthem until the 22d of June, when
he rex-deed a box, accompanied by a letter from
the Governor, ordering him to. place upon a
pole, as an example to others, the head of one of
the. slaves Which the box contained, and stat-
ing that the other slave was committed to prison.
It might be that Governor Ainslie was unjustly
accused, and he should be happy to find that
officer's friends aide to make out his vindication.
But as this case appealed at present it was in his
(Mr. G's) opinion impossible to deny that an in-
(pity was luadly called for. Time Hon. Member
concluded with moving for the appointment of a
Committee to inquire into the alleged misconduct
of Governor Ainslie at Grenada and Dominica.
Sir R. lienotly in a speech of considerable
length, entered into a minute examination of the
whole of• the charges exhibited against Governor
Aiuslie; With -respect to the case of having
punished four black soldiers, he contended that
the accUsation was wholly -uusupported by any
evidence that deserved attention. Then as to time
Proclamation which he issued upon his
-arrival at
Grenada, the reason of it was, that he found the
Island it a very disturbed. sfate, which was not
winuler! because the inhabitants _were chiefly,
Frenchtnen, and -of course disaffected to the Bri%
tish Government. Ile believed, however, that
not a word wOmmlml have been heard respecting that.
Proclamaticini had it not been for a man of.
the name of Arley; an attorney in the Island, and
President' of the Council. That person Governor
Aimikie dismissed froni his office for misconduct,
and hence the present charges against him. ' The
ease of Jean Michele was simply that he had been
accused of stealing, and for. that ;"fence he was
flogged. He admitted that Governor Ainslie was in,
discreet in having punished :him Ly his own act,
instead of handing him over. to the regular con-
stituted authorities ; but he could not admit there
was any cruelty, for if he had been tried before
the proper tribunals, being a stove, the evidence
against him would have been every thing, and his
own declarationS nothing. The punishment," how-
.was so leniently inflicted, that if was cur-
rently reported in the island it was perfornied only
in dumb -chew. When Governor. Ainslie heard
that the affair excited considerable sensation in
the island, he immediately did what any candid
-man would do %vim had acted hastily—be sent a.
person to Jean Michele, offering him
_the only
atonement in his power, which was a sum of mo-
ney. • That was accepted with gratitude, but af-
terwards-returned from the suggestion of advisers,
who hail another game to play.- Governor Ainslie
was also fined by the Colonial Assembly of the
island in as large a sum as they could fine hint, and
in addition recei.:ed a reprimand from Lord Ba-
thurst. Were not all these circumstances punish-
ment enough, and how often would the Honour-
able Gentlemert.wish to punish him for the same
offence lie really thought •the, offence of Go-
vernor Ainslie had been sufficiently expiated.. With
respect to. the Praclamation which he issued at
Dominica, he maintained•thatsin putting it forth,
he acted with the utmost discretion and lenity;
and it was drawn up precisely in the manner in
which all preceding Proelarnatious in the. Island'
were worded under similar circumstances. It was
dot •pretendcd that he had opted up to the letter
of that Proclamation,' while the terror and. dis-
may which it struck into the Maroons had the
effect of subduing them, and reducing them
.to
Obedience. The issuing of it, therefore, .had
been attended with a practical good. As to
the romantic story about the slave's head which
was sent in a box, the real matter was, that
whenever a slave was put to death. for any crime,
it had been found useful, in order to repress the
commission of offences in others, to hive the head
of the crimninal stuck upon a pole in some con-
spicuous part of the estate, where the offence was
committed ; and hence the.. occasion of rise head
being inclosed in a box, and sent for that pur-
pose, under the circumstances alluded to by the
Hon. Gentleman. Upon the •whole, he thOught
no ground of censure upon Governor Ainslie exist-
ed, but, on the contrary, his conduct on those
particular occasions, as in all others, was distin-
guished by a true and active zeal fon.whathe con-
sidered the interest of the Colony,
Sir S. RoMILLY supported the motion, which
was not, as time Hot). Baronet seemed :to think,
fOr punishment, but Merely for inquiry.

'Mr. NV. SMITH also maintained the necessity of
inquiry.
Jr., GOULBURN said, ,be was not actuated with
a wish' to screen Governor Ainslie, but merely
wished to •protect an individual, -whose conduct
ivould come before another tribunal, from having
his cause prejudged. There would be an impro-
priety in the House interfering; and the decision
of the House could not be so satisfactory as that
•of the proper tribunal. .Madernoigelle Alichele
bad, within the lest ten days, given notice of snit
to .Governor- Ainslie in the Court of King's.
Bench ; and the.evidence would be taken in a less
perfect form in the Committee than in that Court.
.11. t had never been theimention to allow Governor
Ainslie to return till his conduct- had been fully
inquired into. -

Mr. GORDON was aware of the notice of action
by Mademoiselle Michele; -but from the opinion
of Council, which he had seen, and the difficulty
of procuring witnesses, 9nd other circumstances,
there was no chance of the action ever corning
on. if be could understand that Livvernor Ainslie

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Mr. W. SMITH , •
was not to return till after a full investigati°ll' be
should withdraw his'motion.
ils.Aiiir.,. GGo6uru repeated,LantruTißiti:asskae:l
1
ei , because by appointment he might drassl At!
salary •
without returning - ointea
theO rd eur so_
uosfe
Inti.,,
6 ago, and Me Hon. Member %s'oull "t s i
Adjourned onuaryne
to have ' ' '
him dismissed without inquirY' '
--She other
The motion
.i:fliebeh,tav(ais tb neenbeaa:Prr:isti
was then withdrawn. . to
.1
were eraet
it then
Monday.
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LAW JNTELLIG ENCS.
COURT OF KING'S BtNal, JUN '2' - tEr
CRIMINAL '
INFORI,4IATION.--Slit- N. WiASAL'S " 1
MOll{S. ‘ , 1 COO
Mr A
...-TTORNEY-GEN-ERAL moved ror' leave of
Li 1
Fp..proAcsTeelre
‘tvl i:l,, IT:
to
a Criminal Intormaiion against a Gentlenl3ll.ll,. of
rank and respectability for a most serious 0
and he moved it at the instance of a Nobleinanml:
great consequence, who had for man} Veals ,he
ed_ a diplomatic situation at this Court'froln •
~
The libet,he complained of was the innre Court of Russia—he meant the Count \\d
dangera,a'
booKi;
as it was. contained in a most entertaining
and which no one could open IlirtbOnt being dra,v;rso
on insensibly to go on ‘vith it, as it cootainea lie
much interesting anecdote. The bOOko whi,cl3,,i„,
published by Sir.N. Wraxall, who',
alluded was the Memoirs of it is owo Life, 'asi.,.
set of his book,:proposed he would tell his readeor;
in the Yeq c'u __
only what came within his own, knowledg.6„
what he had learned from sources of ood-11-°;„,
Court
oration.--The Veuerable•Count Woronzow, as ti e
well knew. bad for many years fi.„..ileid,i,l is
charcter of Ambassador from the late -un'r.:es
of Russia. Ile had now retired frau) that station.,
but continued his residence iv this conntry,lo"
Ing named his daughter to a Nobleman of 00.'1
country. The passage in the book of ‘viiieh l''. '1(
reason to complain, was what related to ;hc !;:,'''c
Wirtemberg, to our own
riage of the present King, tl;en ths P"I1'
states, . " that when that marliage ‘vas in ers
temptation, it was repOrtc %d tt die 1.),1--', ',.,
poisoned his hue wife, and tillt rep,, z. v'''"'
reached r. r. Majesty's ears, with the solicitude. na"
-t,
N. tn a parent, . Prinr•ess 1.3 J, al. 1.2.:
he made inquiries into the stil•Je;-3,.
and fora time suspended the proposed in,itch; 'lt'd:
the Duke iminediately sent an agent to Eng!'"
whom the writer knew, who was a sensible ii•OP
and who traced the report up to the Russian I,i!ni-
bassador, That having ,so done, he did that wine,:
is commonly called " making him e"'lll9.° 'vss
of Wirtemberg was murdered: it was
words" and that he shewed that if the late Duc,dc,
by the rl;;
lee
falsity of it ;
press Catharine at Petersburgh, ,and rwt,bYlit.e.
husband." Immediately upon reading this idia
oe, Count wrote to Sir N. Wraxall, and state' ""er
le got was, that it should be struck. out oit'
next edition. from
the
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL added, that fr— „r
and Courts of Law no longer
amusing style of the book, be had no doubt‘'ent
when the long vacation came, and the-r 1111°111 of
but, in •sooth, all the ansc)l4
the Newspapers; but allthesee anecdoteS wuro,
bah I d theirinto the Publi ouls and pr
ly be _translated into the Papers ofalitil t'.
Rule Nisi granted.
TB- E Itrsa V. siritiGHT. ffilavit
The
ATTORNEY-GENERAL oroduced the a ( at
with Lady Deerhurst ; 1
of Colonel.Berkeley,,denying that be had ever'rse
any time', or in any place, bad erifoinal inter„,al
filled theolnauo
information s ,
. vz...s aceordin,,,j Sisi%
FlRE.—This mornino• -
between Wye 3.. e..
to
o'clock, a fire broke out on the extensive Prrh,
mises of Mr. Cntractr, a sugar-baker, in Ohl Yis'i`ri
street Hill, Doctors' Commons ; it cornaieuce!;
of
the whol
the interior part of the sugar-house"
which, was consumed. • . 1 2ist,
and *is rule for aerially
The recruits enlisted for the Sth, 17t1',1, e-
-22d, and 24th Light Dragoons,
all of "'''''',--t,lfoll
giments are in the East Indies, with the "cernoet
permitted to volunteer into the 7111,
of the 21st, at the Cape of Good 1-10Pc, are! it
h,
12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, and 23d, "v/.,,,sefel-
ing in Belgium, and most of these fine Y°""ryic:s
lows have in consequencetransferred their se
to,
into the ith, 10th, and IStli,.which are flus3:l,bt
BlGAray.—Yesterday Willidnz Dodd %vas b1..-` ' 5e
up to the POlice Oa W• 1 ip-stree, In ...
ce, 015 1 of to
custody of Gleed the officer, on clerkcharge • slot
gamy, William Homan, parish atter of
lk_lary's! Paddington, produced the regis f7E36,
Dwiodd's marriage to Mary White, in the.year• nor.
i- in.havina deserted some time acter, he 's
lie.Pari -
ried '`.l. • E' • 'ivat v wington, as appeared from t tool,
register of St. Luke's 1 •'ceremony not
, w lei e the
recollecting.' the circumstance, Ik, 11
place ion-
the prs._as g 0
Counsel took an objection, allegiug.there
ivaviog
-Proof lie was the person • but the posoPcr n“101,
admitted the fact, the o'hjection was °Ye'
and ire was fully committed for trij.
in
18.4`) ; but
H.
w.
jacy,
th le.c°.telir' 1

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Richard Bedingfeld;l3art. of Oxburgh, in the (o°'"
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At St. Chad's the Rev. H. C. Cotton, Viar°- esir MostYli
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Owen, Esq. of Woodhotise, Salop,
• DIED. a Isi• ter'
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The same day, the Rev. William Church% 4,.)1 ,
Place, Portman-square, in the 760 year of hi 4e•
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