The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-15 00:00:00

ARMY AND MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.

The House went into a Committee of
:So. pply.
Lord PALMERSTONE proposed 2,06.9,00t.n.... to
wards the Expences of the Army.
For time Embodied Militia
For KilmainhaM .
276,000
' for the Foreign Corps ,-.
For the Volunteer Corps
For the Local Militia . -
- '.1:: Resolutions were agreed to. .
Mr. WHAwroN then proposed the following Re.
solutions.-: , ,

For the itelief of the American Loyalists
For the St. Domingo Sufferers
For the Suffering Clergy and Laity of Franee • , 123,009
For the relief of the Corsican Emigrants
For the relief of the Dutch Emigrants , 3,500
For the relief of the F; each Emigrants in Guern-
sey and Jersey
Bill to regulate the office of Deputy Remembraneet
of the Court of Exchequer. Leave given.
The SPEAKER having given notice, that that
was the last day of
_receiving Election Petitions,
four were presented—from Seaford, Aldborough,.
Downpatrick, and Camelford. That from.
ford was ordered to be taken into, consideration
on the 18th of March next ; those from Aldbo-
rough and Downpatrick on the *1; and the one
from .Camelford ou the :15th of the same mouth..
r—Adjottrued.

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TUESDAY, DECEMB?R 15, 1812.

The PRESIDENT'S Message, as we stated yester-
day, has been received, and we this day lay it be-
fore our readers. • We have frequently had occa-
sion to notice, that the public documents, both of
Mr. JEFFERSON and Mr. MADISON, were most
wretched compositions, often ungrammatical, and
sometimes absolutely unintelligible ; and the Ales-
,
sage now before us is very much of the same charac-
ter. It must however be admitted in candour, that
Mr. MADISON had a most difficult task to perform.
He has plunged his country into a disastrous war,
at the desire of a foreign tyrant ; he has sacri-
ficed the interests of America, to promote the views
of IRIONAPARTE ; he, the Chief Magistrate of
a free and independent Republic, is assisting, by
every means in his power, the Corsican in his
nefarious attacks upon the independence of Spain
and Portugal, and in the unprovoked invasio
'Russia.

It was not, therefore, easy for him to
reconcile his conduct to the feelings of a people
who have any notions either of freedom or of jus-
tice. But the PRESIDENT had other causes of

embarrassment ; he had shewn himself as unable to

carry on war as he was anxious to provoke it. His
schemes and his boasts of conquering Canada,
have ended in defeat and disgrace, and his invading
armies have been made prisoners. These were,
to be sure, not pleasant topics to touch upon, but

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he was forced to perform his task, and we cannot
compliment•hirn upon the way in which he has pet.
formed it. But if Mr. MADISON felt it difficult
to justify his conduct to Great Britain, he
must have felt it equally so to vindicate his tame
subserviency to France. The almost unbounded
concessions of Great Britain cannot incline him to
peace ; the uninterrupted insults and aggressions
of France cannot provol-e him to war. It remains,
to be seen whether the Legislature and the peo-
ple of America wili•subtnit to become the vassals
of BUONAPARTE, and whether they will suffer
their best interests to be sacrificed to promote the
plans of that execrable 'tyrant.

Letters from Dover Intl "Deal mention the arri-
val of two vessels, one from Gottenhurgh and one
from Ostend, which bring the account of puo-
NArARTE's being shot by one of his Officers.—
One of theSe vessels arrived in the Downs on Sa-
turday evening, and the other on Sunday morning,
and had immediate communication with the shore;
but none of the letters from Deal or Dover re-
ceived yesterday mentioned their having brought
such intelligence..

Mr. WHITBREAD last night adverted to a re-
port of BUONAPARTE having ;cached Berlin : Upon
what authority that Gentleman made the assertion
we do not.know ; but; from the facetious manner
in which he mentioned the subject, we are inclined
to think he did not believe it, for the arrival of any
authentic intelligence, untavourable either to .us
or to our Allies, would of course have excited
sensations very different from those of merriment
in the mind of any. man who is attached to the in-
terestS of his country.

Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held his first
-Levee this season, which was attended by,all the
Royal Dukes. There were also present the Arch -
bishop' of CANTEEBURiri the great Officers of &ad!
the Spanish, Russian, Portuguese,. Neapolitan,.
Swedish, Turkish, and 'Llessian Ambassadors, the
LORD MAYOR, and the Sheriffs of London; the
Dukes of DEVONSHIRE, NORFOLK, &c, The fol- •
lowing, among other presentations, took place.: •
Mr.Wathen Phipps,nn his marriage with Baroneis Howe;
Mr. Samuel Whitcoinbe, on presenting a Treatise on the,En-
.
glish Constitution, upon which occasion he received the ho—
sour of Knighthood ; the Marquis of Northampton,, on his
promotion to that title; •Lord Camden kissed handS, as did
Marquis Camden ; Mr.. Christopher Sweedlaad, upon which
occasion he received the honour of Knighthood ; Lieutenant
General Sir Thoinus Graham ; Earl Clancarty, upon being
appointed Master of the Mint; Sir Ralph Woodford, upon
being appointed Governor of Trinidad; Sir Claudius Hun-
ter,.on his beingereated a Baronet ; Sir Wm. Ousley,, on his
arrival from Persia; Lieut.-General Phipps, on his appoint-
ment to the office of Clerk of the Deliveries of his Majesty's
Ordnance : Lieut-Gen: Sir W. Congreve, on his being created
a Baronet ; Monsieur d'Engstrom, Secretary of Legation of
his Swedish Majesty;. the . Chevalier St. Martin d'Agile,
Charge d'Affaires.ortbe King of Sardinia; the Earl of Mul-
grave, on his advancement in the Peerage; Lord Arden, on
being appointed a Member of ber Majesty's Council, in:room of
thedate Earl of Aylesford ; Vice-Admiral Bertie, on his be-
ing created a Baronet; Sir E. Home, on his being created a
Baronet; Li ent.Col.CountSt.Paul, on his having permission to
assume and bear the title of a Count of the Holy Roman Em-
pire ; Lieut.-Col. Warre, A. D..C. to Marshal Sir Wm. C.
Beresford, on his marriage; Brigadier-Gen. Downie, or his
return from Spain, for the recovery orhiswounds,by his Ex-
cellency the Spanith Ambassador; Sir Win. Knighton, on his
.Iseing created a Baronet; Lieut.-Col. John Malcolm; ou his
return from Persia, by the Earl of Buckinghamshire ; Mr. A.
FoSter, late Envey Extraordinary to the United States, on his
return from America; Mr. J. Ody, to present a Report oh the
Western Fishery; Sir G. Warrender, on being appointed a
Lord of the Admiralty; Mr. Osborne, on being appointed a
Lord of the Admiralty; Mr. Robinson, on being appointed a
Lord of _the Treasury ;
.Mr. T. Sydenhain, Commissioner for
Spanish America, on his return from Spain; Mr. Brogden,
on being appointed a Lord of the Treasury ; Mr. T P. Cour--
tenay, vin his appointment. as Secretary to the India gout!,

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