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London, England, 1812-02-20 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

WEIINE36AY, FEB. 19.
, .
On the Motion of Mr.WIIARTON, the Hodge 'vent
Conitnittee on the Acts relating to the Draw•
backs on Sugar, in which-it was resolved to conti-
nue the expiring Law s.--. The Report was ordered to
be received t:.-toOrrow,
Mr. WHARTON brbogbt in
,a Bill for granting
Annuities to discharge ExclfeCiner Bills.—Read a
first time, and ordered to be read a second trine to-

monow.
The CHANCELLOR of the Excueo.una informed
the House, that the Prince Regent had born .Warted
upon with the Address of that House,- on Mr.
Benthani's plan for construtting a Break Water a&
Plymouth Sound, to which he had returned an
answer. The answer was afterwards brought up,
which authorised the construclion of the proposed
'Break Water.
On the motion of Mr. CALCRAFT, returns of the
number of recruits raised for th'e regulir army, oy
other than the ordinary mode of recruiting, exclu-
sive of foreign and colonial corps, in the year
anddistinguishing men and boys, were ordered to
be laid before the House.
Mr. BROUGHAM moved for copies of the different
printed forms of Licensesgranted within the last ten
years.
Mr. CROKER and Mr. ROSE Objeaed to the nto-
.
tion, on account of the difficulty of making • a pro,
per retUrn,arisirg from the multiplicity of the forms
were the
which had been used within
such inthattime.
Mr. BROUGHAM sail,
city of the forms, he, if the Right Honourable
Gentleman would point out the various clauses,
would be sa.is.fied with one of each. He was nut
very anxious for copies of the common licensers
granted to, inderiduals, but he ui,hed particularly
for those which had been in use from the end of the
year 1807.
-Mr. ROSE would make some inquiry into the sub-
ject by to-morrow, if the motion were not pressed
at that iime.
Mr. Bizoooll.ker, with this understanding, had no
objection to withdraw his motion,' it the House
would permit him to do so.
The motion was then withdrawn.
Mr.-BaoucH.Ax.complained that the Papers that
had been produced, pursuant to an order. of this
House, lo consequence of a 'former MOtioll of his,
were not complete. Tire order was for the produc-
tion of the accounts of all thr.-.; sums recCived for
all tie prizes condemned as Droits of Admiralty,
from February 1793 !o. January 1812.. Varieos pa—
pers which he specified were wanting, respecting,
the sums disbursed by,the Dutch, D.lnis!l, Spanish,
and Prussian Commissioners., amouoting to several
millions. Of these no returns had been made from
the Office which had furnished the other Papers,
because the sums alluded to had n6t !)(..eltegisteted.
He thought' it was not necessary 'to make a new tee.
tion on the subject, as the last order of the Housse
was sufficient. He would ikerefore• oitly stu-;est
that that order should be renewed.
Tee SFEAKHR was of opinion, to renew it was
not necessary.
Mr. CnoteEr, offered a few words on the saject
which were inaudib:e in tee gallery, and the sub-
ject was dropped.
Mr. BULLUR presented copies of the several Or-
ders of Council respecting Trade Licenses, which .
were ordered to, be printed.
On the Motion of Mr. FREEMANTLE, the papers
presented to the House on' the itith January, re,'
spectioge the state of tiro Consulelated Fund, and
the amount of the War Taxes, 'acre ordered to be
printed.
Si( T. TutroN.wished to know if thu Right Hen.
Gentle titan opposite (the C',ancellor of the Exche-
quer) had arm objeccrion to the following papers, lot
which he had .oten.ion of m,,ving,
counts of all,sums of Money paid for the inainte-'
fiance of our army in -the 'Peninsula, and for the
main enanee n t tine foreign troops in the pay of Eng-
land, from. June, 1803, to the 221 Dec. 1811.
Accounts of the sum, e4ended tor the Anain?enatlco
of the Navy, or teat part of it eltiployed elf tine
coasts of the Pen:risme. Accounts 01 the debt due

from the'Prnce Regent of Portugal` to tbi6 country.
The same of that due from • the .Spanish Govern-
ment.—AccountS of Ate amount of the unfunded
debt of E gland and freland•rmide tip/to the same
peri,Al —The same of, the funded dtbt of England
and Ireland w;thin the same pertod ?
The CLIANCE;LLOR of th- EXCHEQUER objeded to
the prouuttion of the papers -mentioned respecting
the Navy, from the difficulty of making them up,
and of distingui.-Thing that portion of the expence in-
curred off the Peninsula.

Sir T. TORTON would be.ratisfied with those ac-
counts, made Out so tar as they.,could be conve-
niently made. The others, he hoped, might-be
sl.ee.dily produced. Those he thought so necessary
to his motion, which stood for to-morrow se'nnight,
that it they could not-be produced by .that time, he
would he ling to postpone it to Monday. For
the present, howewr, the Honourable Baronet de-
ferred g,%ing any notice.
On the motion of Mr. RYDER, the Report of the
COMlDltiee on the Bill for tiro more exemplary pu-
'nishing of Breaking Frames,. &c. was- taken into
fusther ~:osideration.

The Resolu(ions were agreed to, a new Clause
added, and the Bill ordered for a third reading to-
uto.-row.

Mr. BROUGHAM, on account of the abserce of
the Pap(rs he had mentioned, postponed the mo-
tion of which he had given notice lot to-morrow,
respeaing the Droits of Admiralty, to Tuesday
next.

The House of CommonsOfficers' Bill was read a
third time, and passed.
On the motion of Mr. G. JOHNSTONE, Accounts
of the items from which the gross sum was made,
expressed in the Return presented to that House by
the Inspector General of Exports and Imports, were
ordered to be laid before the House.
Adjourned.

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SOLENT QUIS DICiltE FALSUM ALIDEAT ?

L OND ON,

'HURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, ISI2.

It was this morning -confidently reported, that a
Messenger bad arrived from Sweden with a Copy of
a Treaty between that Country and Great Britain.
It was even added, that a .Swedish Minister had
landed in England. Upon inquiry we cannot find
any official authority for this report.

We know indeed that some communication has
been recently received from Sweden, but we state
with confidence, that nothing to the extent of the
teport above alluded to, has transpired at any of the
•
Goternment Offices, and therefore we cannot prd-
tend to say to what degree of credit this report is
entitled.

We have made copious extraas from the French
Papers which arrived last night. Our Readers will
find some amusement in the perusal of MARbIONT'S
Dispatches respeaing Ciudad Rodrigo. The French
G.:neral seems as unlucky in his prediaions, as
some persons that we could name in this country.

We had not room to offer yesterday any observ-
tions upon the refusal of Lords GREY and
GREN-
VILLE to give their assistance in forming an united
ed Adm'inistration, upon a liberal basiS, at this ardu •

ous crisis. Indeed the simple perusal of the PRINCE
REGENT'S letter, and the, Noble Lords answer, are
. _
quite sufficient; without any comment whatever,
to enable the public to form a clear and decided
opinion upon the whole transaaion. His Royal
Highness, to use the enaphptical language of his own
lever, had no predileaions to indulge, no resent-
, meats to gratify, no obje&s to attain, but such as
were common to the whole Empire. Aauated by
such sentiments, he applied, at the expiration of the
Restriailps, to those of whose talents he thought
highly, and with whom " the early habits of his
-public life were formed," to strengthen his hands,
and- to form a part of an united Administration on
a, liberal basis. Such was the proposal of the
PRINCE REGENT, which met with from the Noble
Lords art immediate and a positive rejetclion. One
would have , thought, that the Noblemen and
Gfntlemen who constitute the tarty, of which
Lords GREY and GRENVILLE are the head,
would have been consulted, before a peremptory
refusal was returned to the PRINCE'S offer; One
would naturally have imagined, that those who con-
sider the country in such imminent danger, 'and
who think that it.can only be saved by their advice,
would.not have haughtily reieaed a proposal from
their Prince to take a part in the Councils of the
Eaapire. It, surely, was not too much to expea
from these Noble Lords, that the areaion"which
they profess for the PRINCE REGENT, and the
anxiety which they must naturally feel for the wel-
fare of their country, would have led them to make
some efforts to comply with the wishes of the one,
-and to promote, as far Is they could by their coun-
cils, the interests of the other. The Noble Lords,
however, thought otherwise ; on Friday, the letter
was communicated to them, and on Saturday morning

tb_ir positive rejeaion of the raiticE's offer was trans-
mitted to his Royal Highness. It is not necessary,
as we have already stated, to comment at any length
upon this letter ;
.it is sufficient to observe, that
Lords GREY and GRENVILLE disclaim exclusion
principles in terms, and insist upon them in sub-
stance ; that they demand, as it were, a pledge from
the PRINCE REGENT, that be should permit them to
bring forward; under his sanction, a measure which
has repeatedly met with the decided disapprobation
of Parliament,—a measure, almost without excep-
tion, the most unpopular that could be brought for-
ward in this country. Within these-few days, Toth
Houses of Parliament have given their opinions, in
unison with those of the public at large, hostile to
the Catholic claims ; and ytt the Noble Lords
insist _upon that very measure as -a preliminary
one. They proclaim their- country to be in danger,
and yet when an ofler is graciously made to them,
by their Prince, to take a share in his Councils,
they refuse-it, and decline all negociation, all efforts
to remove the impediments that may appear
to obstruct an union. We wish not to speak
disrespectfully of Lords GREY and GRENVILLE
we have no doubt that they thought their duty pre-
scribed to them the course which they have follow-
ed; but we-believe that they will find few persons
in •the Utlited Kingdom to concur with them in the
opinion,

We cannot close this article without noticing the
change which has taken .plate in the language of
those who have hitherto overwhelmed the PRINCE
REGENT with every species of adulation. Because
his Royal Highness has not thought it right to trust
the Government of the country exclusively to Lords
GREY and GRENVILLE, that Paper, which has
hitherto been the loudest in its panegyrics upon
that Illustrious Personage, after stating the par-
tial -changes that are likely to take place, says,
•" Such is the vigorous and united Admini-
stration, that through the new Councils in Man-
chester-square, his Royal Highness has been able to
form for the outset of his unrestricted Covernment !"
Such language needs no comment—His Royal
Highness will, we believe, have many opportu:
nities of judging of the sincerity of professions.

Lord LIVERPOOL received the Seals of. the Fo-
reign Office yesterday, to hold in trust till a SucCes-
sor is appointed.

The Marquis WELLESLEY yesterday resigned tide
seals of office. Lords SIDMOUTH, CASTLEREA4I4H,
and BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Will, we understand, have
seats in the Cabinet. It is also said that Lord Pow is
is to succeed the Duke of RICHMOND in Ireland, his
Grace having expressed a wish to return home.

Yesterday, about two o'clock, Earl AYLESFORD
had an audience of ►he PRINCE REGENT at Carlton
Palace, and resigned. Afterwards the Noble Ea►l
went to Downing-street, and had an interview with
Mr. PERCEVAL.

Yesterday, about half-past two o'clock, the Mar-
quis WELLESLEY had an audience a.f. the PRINC4
REGENT, and resigned the Seals of Ortice as Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs. There was no
Council at Carlton Palace on Tuesday.

The PRINCE REGENT has direEted a Statute to be
passed, to invest General's GRAHAM, HILL, and Sir
SAMUEL AUCHMUTY, with the ader of- the Garter,
as re wards for their signal achievements.
Mr. and Mrs. GOULD JEST yesterday entertained
a selea party of friends, with a grand dinner, al their
elegant house Porlat3d-place.

Camelford House, the residence of Loi.d QREN.•
VILLE, has been the great rendezvous of the leading
Members of the Opposition since- the recent over-
tures.

Lords GRENVILLE, HOLLAND, CARLISLE, and a
large party of Opposition Peers, assembled on-Mon-
day at Earl GREY ''S house, in Portman-square.
Yesterday a Court of DireEtors was held at the
East India House, when the Hon. J. ABERCROMBIE
was appointed Commander in Chief and Second in
CouncA at Madras, in consequence of the resipa-
%ion or Sir S. AUCHM.UTY.

N. B. EDMONSTONE, Esq. was Appointed Provisi-
onal Counsellor at Fort William.

The undermentioned Commanders took leave pre-
vious to departing for their respe&ive destinations,

viz. :-

Captain Halkett, of the Ciriencester ; Captain Hamilton
of the Bombay ; and Captain Roland, of the Ainwick
Castle; for China ; and Captain Cameron, of the Ann, for
•Madeira, Coast, and Bay. - •

The Court adjourned at six-- o'clock till to-mor
row,

We were deceived yesterday in an article which
stated that the Judges had decided In favaur of Mr.
WALsa. It does not appear that they took any no-
tice of his case.

During the late alarm in consegtience of the hor-
rid murders and numerous robberies, a Lady resid-
ing on ,the: south side of Lincoln's Inn fields, near
the Earl of PotTsmouTn's, employed workmen to
make her house particularly secure, and on the
night of the day when they had completed their un-
dertaking, her house was broke open and robbed,
and not discovered until the servants got up in the
morning, when it was ascertained that it had been
accomplished by splitting. the iron plate of the coal-
cellar, and no doubt but a boy was let down into
the Cellar to let the robbers in. They found and
carried off the plate that had been in tile the pre-
ceding evening, to thu amount of about iOOl. and
to her property,