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London, England, 1812-03-05 00:00:00

of castoms in France rose, in 18 iO, to 49,000,000

'lyres, but thatwas not owing to any increase ot trade,
but in a great degree to the confiscation ot British
property in Prussia and other placei ; the incorpo-
ration of Leghorn and Genoa with France must of
course have hid some etreciin increasing the reve.
nue. Besides, the duties had been in many in-

stances increased five:and-twenty foid, and even

more therefore„ if the- trade bad remained the
same as it was before the Orders in Council were
issued, the revenue ought to have amounted to
725,000,000. BA al►hough Gentlemen in ►hat
/louse denieJ that the French were affected by the
Orckrs in Council, u►e French themselves cotlfe,s-
rd the fact ; they acknowledged -that they no
longer bad any trade, except what- was carried on
by means of canals, and admitted without liesitkit;on
the difficulties under -which they laboured. He

begged to ask those Gentlemen, who were so hos-
tile, to the Oiders in Council, what would be the
effea of repealing them ? The t.treet would be,
that America would be able to supply Frince with
all Colonial produce, and the Americans would in
turn take away !ver rnauufamnres; in fad, Francs--
would be L. a inure fa%ourable situation than she,

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would be in a lime of peace, and the trade of Great
Britain to the Continent world be annihilated.- He
would not trust himself with the discussion of that
part of the question which related to America, but
when the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite to
him said that the Berlin and Milan Decrees bad
been repealed, and that a Proclamation had been
issued to that effect, his memory must surely
have tailed. The Government of this country had_
repeatedly called for that proclamation, America
calleJ for it, but it had never appeared.--as
There was, indeed, the facnow letter of the
• French Minister tor Foreign Affairs, in which he-
said that the French Decrees should be repealed on
condition either teat our Orders in Council 'vere
rescinded, or that AftlefiCa would no longer suffer
her shirrs to be denation:iitzed ; that is, it she would
not surfer her ships to be searched. But es-en it
the Decrees were repealed with regard to Amcrca,
they would be in force with regaro to Great Britain.
It was therefore not a partial but a total repeal of
these Decrees that Great Britain had a right to
demand before she gave Op her Orders in Council.
The French Decrees were not, as Gentlemen had
stated, internal, municipal measures, they-- were,
adopted in time of war as measures of hostility, and
even if a neutral chose to submit to them, it by no
means followed that a belligerent was also bound to
acqoiesce. But.it was not only to France that these
Decrees extended, but to all; her vassal States, to
every • country over Which she could extend her
power. lie wished to know whether' there wtiss
any quarrel between Hamburgh and France when
Hamburgh and the other Hanse Towns were seiz-
ed by the French. Holland, Tuscany, and Rome
were seized uron no other ground than because
it was comenient Buonaparte to seize them, and
the Berlin and Milan Decrees immediately applied to
them. Could it-be concluded, that upon any prin-
. ,ciple of the Law of Nations, we were bound to
suffer France to give laws to all these neutral na-
tions.without our:making an effort to indece them.
to ass,!rt their neutral rights ? He would not trespass
any loner 'upon the time of the House ; it had
•ben incontestibly shown that the disstresses of our
manufacturers did not wise from the Orders in
Council, alit' therefore he should oppose going into
the Committee, from which no possible beneficial
consequences could result.

'Wednesday, about '2 3 0 men, draughts from the
2d battalions of the 26th and 79th regiments lying
in Glasgow, marchs..d to join their first battalions ,;.11
Portugal.
The following detachments have embarked from
the Depot, Isle of Wight, for Madras :

Per Astell.—Pour Subalterns, tst Battalion 78th Foot ; t
Captain, , Subalterns, and t:6 men, Salt Foot ; and is
men, 25th DritgOoilS.
Per Prince Regent.—Two Subalterns, ist Battalion 3:th
root; 2 Subalterns, and zoo men, tst Battalion 3oth Foot)
3 Sttbaltems, tst Battalion, 6gtlt Foot ; and 3 S uldtt:;
Battalion, ritlt Foot.

The 37th regiment, SOO strong, are expeard at
Portsmouth, to embark in the cour.e of this week.
The suth, 71st, and g2J., regiments, General
Hew Ann's brigade, are, to be wirenched befure
Bat Wit's,

A battalion of Royal Marines, consisting of 680
men, including a detachment of Royal Marine Ar-
tillery, commanded by Major WILLI:VMS, have re-
turned from Lisbon, under convoy of the Prune.—
they have done duty in Portugal for more than a
year, chiefly in the Castle of Lisbon.
Siturday 260 deserters, principally Germans,
Were landed at Portsmouth, from Lisbon, an I
matched to the Foreign Depot, at
.Fort Cumberland,
there to remain until ready to join their regiments,
they, having entered into our service. - -
The 46th 'regiment of Foot, stationed at Kings-
bridge barracks, in Devonshire, has received orders
to embark for the bland of Jersey.
The 2(.1 battalion, 39th Foot, arrived at Ports-,
mouth, in the Romulus, Lord BALGONIE, from Us-
boo, and.are to re-embark for Weymouth.
Colonel CHICHESTER, of, the Cardigan Regiment
Militia, commands the garrison of Limerick, for the.
present.

LORD SOMEIiVILLE'S SPRING SHOW

AND AN.NUAL LIINNER.

On Tuesday Lord and Lady J. Thynne, Earl
Hardwieke, Earl of Stair, Lord Elliot, and a, great
number of other, persons of distinction, including
sever I Ladies, were present in Mr. Sadler's yard,
viewing the! Cittle and other novel objeds in the
S! ow.

Smith, and Co. strewed specimens of stock-
ings, waistoatsi drawers, &c. of Merino wool, spun
by Lord S.)metville, C. Towers, and B. Thompson,
Esirs.
The weights of Mr. Ellis's two sugar-fed Devon
oxen, were stated as folloWs, viz. the dark red one,
seven cwt. from grass, and twelve cwt. now fat ; and
the hght red one, seven cwt. and fourteen lbs. and
now-, eleven cwt. three-quarters. The weights of
Mr. Hudson's tWO Downs, and Lord Somerville's,
both llst year, when shewn lean, and now when
fattened, were stuck up ;" as also the weights of the
six working oxen, which his Lordship intends shew-
ing fat next Spring.
At two o'clock, the Duke of Bedford attended at
Preetna.sons' Tavern, :or a meeting that had been
called of the Smithfield Club, of which he is Presi-
dent ; but the attractions of the Show, in Goswell-
street, were too stiong for the Members of this Body
to-atre3d their Noble President, who, after- waiting
more that an hour, deputed Thomas Mellish, Esq. to
take the chair in his absence. At this meeting, which
was afterwards fully attended, the Judges for the next
D cetither Show were chosen, and, after a good deal
of rot:: Me business was transacted, on Lord Sower-
dinn,r being announced as on the table, -an in-
stant a ijournment took place (to the second day
of the Wobut n Shearing), without balloting for se-
veral Gentlemen who bad been proposed for New
Meinbrs,

About fir .e o'clock, about three hundred .and
thirty of Lord Somerville's friends sat down to a
stirnpir;rous dinner in Freemasons' Hall, his Lord-
ship in the chair, . supported by the Duke of Bed-
ford., Lott' Winchilsea, and a very long list of noble
.and distinguished P.stroirs of Rural Improvement.
As soon as the wine began to.cit oblate, his Lurd•
ship gave, •

"'The King," The, Prince Regent," " The Union of
Husbandry and Commerce," " Our brave Defenders by Sea
and Land," " All good, Fermers in England, Ireland, Scot-
land, and Wales," " The Plough worked. by good Oxen."

His Lordship then rose and broke the seals of the
award of the five judges, Mr. Henry Bray, Mr. S.
Burrel, Mr. Joseph Joiner, Mr. Thomas Adams,
and Mr. Morris Biikbeck,
,appointed for awarding
the prizes for Oxen, and sheep, and pigs, and read
as follows, t iz.

• .
To Mr. James King, a cup, value thirty pounds,
for his pair of Hereford oxen, bred and worked by
Mr. William Jones. Mr. King was called up to his
Loniship's table, and desired to, take his choice of
two almost similar cups, the other-of which was de-
livered to Mr. Western, in like manner, for the
bleeder, who was absent, with short and appropriate
speeches to each from his Lordship.
To Mc. John Terrett, a cup, value :101. for his
pair of Hereford oxen, bred and worked .by- Mr.
Joseph Hill. This, and another cup for Mr. Hill,
were delibered to Mr. 'Ferret, with a marked com-
pliment front the Noble Donor on the great merit
of these oxen.

. To the Earl of Bridgewater, a cup, value 151. for
ills five South Down wet tiers, bred and fed by him-
self. In the absence of the Noble Earl, the cup was
di hveted to his bailiff, Mr. Buckingham.
To Mr. John Boys, a cup, value t5l. for his five
South DUA n wethers:

To Lod Somerville, a cup, NT:due I 51. -for his five
Merino Ryeland- ewe bogs. This Cup his Lordship
set by, fir a different appropriation.
TV Mr. John Cawston, a cup, value 151. for his
five thud-crossed Merino, wethers. In delivering
his cup to Mr. Cawston, his Lordship told that
GentLywan, that, by' be excellence of the frame and
carcase of his sheep now shewn, he had opened the
e ts of bonfire 's, «ho had before doubted on the
much contested subject of Meriuo cro,ses, as to the
qui,thiity of mutton.

- To 6:,arles_Eilis, E 39. a cup for his nine-year old
131.1,-n. cow, sugar - fk.d. Mr, E. in anwer to his
Lordship's compliments on his success in feeding in
this novel manner; wished to
_ascribe a great part
f the melit to his Lordship's skill inf srlecting-atl
growing !his cow, but which his Loidship would by
tio.weatis aLbit.

To Mr..fitnes King, a cup, for his lialibred.Suf,
folk and Essex breeding sow, bred by Edmond T.
Waters, EA.
The aoaid then proceeded to extol the Hereford
oxen shewn by the Duke of Bedford, and furwhicb
lte drsclaimed a con petition for the premium; and
the. D. Ynti oxen, wlt'ch Lord Sotnerville exhibited.
They also complimented the Duke of Bedford on
his excellent South Dt.m n ewe hogsrand Earl Bridge-
water on 11:s Sooth Down .ethers and a beauti;ul
e ve ; Ti;ormas W. CiAe, -E-q• on his Merino down,
d Mr, Sviallowe's pig. Trey concluded by con-
giatulating his Lordiship and the company on the
increasing excellence of the stock in gener.,l that is
shew n in competition for his plemiun], so touch to
the benefit of the nation.

His Lordship then gave—" The-Health of the
Judges;" which met much applaUse. Theseals of
aft. award by Mr: George Clarke; Mr.Williarri Gek-
Ley, and Mr. William Heath, were next broken, and
his Lurdship read as follows, repeating his Lordship's
p emium i'ot the best piece of 25 yards of brord cloth,
manutattured from pule Merino wool; to Mr. Tho-
Uns Joyce, for his piece of blue cloth,. No. 1811,
.from the wool of Charles Jenkinson, Esq. In deli-
veringa cup to Mr. J. in consequence of this award,
his Lordship complimented ban on- his long and
useful exertions in bringing forward British grown
%cool. Tie award farther stated, that. the second
pentium for 'cloth was not claimed, which his-Lord-
sb p lamented,, that no South Down Cloth was
produced this yar, such as he was glad to wear, as
perhaps best: adapted to a rheumatic habit. [We
were sorry so observe a considerable hoarseness in his
Lordship's 'voice, from cold.] These judges also
~}roved the clot Is of the wool of Lord Somerville,
Lord Castlereagh, -Dr. Parry, Mr. Ellis, Mr. 'Hud-
son, Dr: A. Morrison, and Mr. F. Smith.

K« Lordship then delivered One of his spare cups
to Nis. Hudson, with a high cotni liment, for the

skill acid judgment -with ‘whiCh sorted IS s
wools, so as to- make eiccellent cloths, even ifom his
third best sorts.

His Lordship nett opened the award of Mr. Tho.
JoyCe, Mr. Wm. Oakley, and Mr.W. Heath, with
respect to rearing of lambs by shepherds, and read
as follows :'

To John Holland, the shepherd of the Duke of
Bedford, 61. for rearing, from 620 ewes (the- gross
number put to the ram), 898 lambs : on delivering
this sum, his Grace said, that he did not, think that a
better shepherd than Holland existed. To-Charles
Payne, the shepherd of Mr. John Ellman, sen. for
rearing, from 620 ewes; 842 lambs. To 'H. Ellis,
shepherd to Mr. Henly, for rearing, from 240 South
Down ewes, 318 lambs, by Merino rains.
As soon as his Lordship sat dawn, the Doke'of
Bedford rose, and, after a neat compliment on his
Noble Friend's .public spirit and useful exertions,
proposed to drink " the hthhh of Lord Somerville,"
which was drank, with three times three, and loud
applause, at the conclusion of which his Lordship
thanked the company, and jocosely observed, that
he would not risk the hearty dinner of those, with
appetites so delicate as to be influenced by the cla-
mour and odious comparisons of some, respecting
Merino mutton,- by saying till now, that DO other
would be set before them this day ;
\which excited
much laughter. His Lordship next gave,

" Mr. Arthur Young." " Mr. Coke, and Thanks for
having sent sheep from Norfolk."

Mr. Coke rose, and in a very concise speech
thanked the company. -
" Mr. HobhoUse, the President of the Bath So.
ciety," was next drunk, for which he thanked the
company, and stated his Lordship to be one of the
-best supporters their Society could boast.
Lord•Sotnerville next observed, that seeing the
Members of the adjacent counties present, he
should give " Mr. Byng, Sir John SeMight, and
Mr. Sumner," (or which honour Mr. Byng thanked
the compatiy.
" The fleece covering a good frame, with a suffi-
ciency of fat"--." Mr. Western," and whose sheep
were excel'ent, his Lordship observed—" Sir Wat-
kin Wm. Wynne, and the Mountains of Wales."

It is Lhe determination of Government to keep
up the erfe'clive number of the regiments employesl
in the Peninsula, by reinfo'cements as they require
them, instead of ;illowing- them to dwindle away by
casualties, till reduced to skeletons, and then bring-
ing thein home, as in former wars.

The following regiments in Portugal are to re-
ceive small reinforcements, viz. the Foot, the
77th, the 83d, and the Brunswick corps.
A small reinforcement (or the 11th Foot, Ist
Battalion, will be embarked at Ply,mouih and Dart-
mouth.

The following will be embarked at. Cork :-140
men for the 27th, 3d Battalion ; IGO for the 33d,
Ist Battalion ; and too for the Gist, Ist Battalion.

The Britannia, Danvers, from Strangford to Li-
verpool, was totally lost in Duddon Bay, on the 25th
ult.

The Adventure, Jackson, from Liverpool, to St.
Kitt's ; wilieh was taken 2lst Novemb:tr by two
French frigates, was given up to Captain Lefevre,
and the crew of the Three Friends, of Salem, which
they had taken and burnt; the Adventure was spoken
with proceeding to Salem.
The Juno, Kidd, from Teneriffe to London, with
part of her cargo on board, was run away with
from Santa Cruz in January last by some French
prisoners, and has not since been Beard of.
The Berwick, Griffiths. from Barbadoes, with 10
guns and 20 men ; the lPoodland Castle, Young,
from the West Indies, with to guns and 15 men ;
the &gar, Luxton,, from Jarnaica,,with 10 guns
and 15 men ; and the Albion, Smith, flow Jamaica,
with 14 guns and 25 men, all bound to London,
have had licenses granted to sail without coos oy.
The Marquis Of SLIGO'S horse Pope, sst, 71b. is
marched against Mr. JOHN BRUEN'S Hollyhock, Bst.
51b, four miles over the Curragh, in October next,
for five thousand guineas, half forfeit.
The famous mare, which had once done on a trot
19 miles in one hour, lost the match for fire hun-
dred gnineaq, on Friday last ; she was to trot six-
teen tniles within- an hour. The animal is more
than twenty.six years of age. She lost the match
by four minutes.
Four Spanish sailors have arrived 47 the Downs in
a man of war's boat, in which they etfeeted theres-
cape from France, with only a blanket-for a sail.—
It appears that they belonged to some corps which
had been sent to Boulogne to fit out the flotilla,
for the purpose of enabling it
.to form a lunation
with the ships in the Scheldt;
Mr. PAUL, one of the pilots of the Manilla fri-
gate, lately lost on the Haak Sand, has been so fbr-
tunate as to make his escape from the prison at
Ainsterdam, and has arrived in a small boat at Yar-
mouth, accompanied by a Gentleman and three
Ladies. Presious to his leaving Holland, the Offi-
cers and crew of the Manilla frigate were on Owl,-
march for Verdun. We are happy to add, that the
whole of the Manilla's crew, except eight men,
whO lost their lives through their own imprudence,
were saved.

Tuesday, about one o'clock, a well-dressed man
had the assurance to walk up stairs, deliberately, in
the house of Mr. BUCKLAND, the sign of the Red
Lion, Old Cavendish-street ; he was met by the
servant-maid, of whom he inquired for a lodger on
the second floor, who be pretended to know. Soon
after, the fellow came down stairs with a bundle,
and walked out of the house, when it was shortly
discovered that the sheets had bt,:ll taken from the
garret, a pair of boots, and a new and old hat, with
which he got clear otf.
Last week two attempts were made to rob the
house of Captain KINGSTON, at Ctostwick, near
Norwich : the first on Sunday morning, when the
larder was broken open, and the-provisions'earried
away; and on Wednesday evening, in consequence
of• the above and other suspiCious circumstances,
Capt. K. was induced to search his house, when a
man was found concealed in a closet in one of the
bed-rooms, who rushed to the door, knocking down
the Captain as he passed I another villain, who
was under the hed, and hearing what was going
on, immediately left his -hiding-place, and jump-
ed out of the window, when both made their
escape.