The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-13 00:00:00

NAVAL, NEW

-Imotn-r,.Aratt, t.—Arrived the ship Cum-
ocri
"d, PARKER, from Martinique, laden with
Eno
Or and coffee, bound to London, put in here by
'ltchitiary winds ; the Matilda extra ship, Captain
Gs, from Bengal ; the Friends, LE GROS, from
the Progress, GILLEBRAND 5 Hope,
1),48, and Two Brothers, COWLING, from London.

jORTSMOUTH, APRIL I2.—Dropt down to Saint
"us his Majesty's ship Horatio, with the out-
cl bound Indiainen, and will sail in the morn..
41g.
told's Majesty's ship Avenger is appointed convoy
Newfoundland.

came in his Majesty's ship -Linnet from a cruize.
Went out of Harbour his Majesty's ship Escort,
44(1 is aplointed convoy to Guernsey and Jersey.
Al'rived the George, COCKBURN ; and Ann, FRB-.
frEilicK, from Sunderland ; Hibernia,
f°4l Dungarven ; Union, BORROW, from 'Dept-
:4lf Industry, PEARCY, from North Yarmouth;
44 , MONDAY, from London.

4LMOUTII, APRIL 10.—Arrived the Princess
Charlotte
, packet, Capt. KERR, from Lisbon, wi:h a
in nine days; his Majesty's ship Humber,
th a C, ilvoy for the Downs; and his Majesty's
a bill Leveret from a cruize.

I''NZANC'S, APRIL to.—Arrived the Redpole sloop
of ,
ar, with dispatches from Lisbon.

• • --- •
'IvStiEERNT-! s, APRIL it .—His Majesty's ships
941Pheri and 11 enzesis were paid up to six months;
, His Majesty's brig Martial has made the signa
40t
a convoy to Heligoland.
I\lent out of harbour, and anchored at the Little
01. his Majesty '-t brig Cruizer.

--RAM QUAY, APRIL 11.—AI-rived and sailed
14 Riertnor war.
till."' East Essex I\l received their route last
ai d the first d bijou marched this morning
The T.,i:d Regirpcnt of Buffs remain
"le barracks.

A Proclamation, signed by the Secretary of State,
theistined yesterday, offering a reward of 5001. for
s apprehension of the person who fired at Mr.
rNIIPHurr COWEL, Ensign of the Coldstream
'nlards The payer states, that Mr. COWEL was
hie
from Olt Palace-yard, Westn'.inster, to
'tle liaise Guards, ;,bout twelve o'cl,)ck on Monday
h'ight last, wh,,n, opposite St. Margaret's Church,
heard the report °fa gun or pistol, and saW the
at that moment lie It his hat go from his
shall; and on finding it, he found it perforated by
O,cconnts have been received of the safe arrival at
tic:B'cm of the 3d battalion (,:r Colonel Hves) of
Tie Scotch Royals, and of the 13th Light Dragoons.
Wese two corps were lo reieve.the tst or Royal
Dragoons and the 74th Highlanders, who
tt,"t to march from Lisbon .to join the army in
qe,,,, field.
411 e private accounti from Lisbon give the most
rat'f •
Prig statements of the condition of our army,
,rich now bids defiance to all the enemy's efforts.
(1' letter received by a respectable house in the City,
:,e3 the 26th ult. says—" We entertain no fears
the French at present. They are in a starving;
tt
°ndttion • their sick amount to twenty-four thou-.
They are daily deserting and coming into
i.tsbon, almost naked. The Spaniards have driven
.4e cattle, buried the corn, and burnt the straw.—
qui', army is on the advance.—Head-quarters at
ilarda."
East India
Court of Directors was held at the
'ast India House, when the ne,.cly elected Directors
took the oaths and their seats.
WIA• ASLETT and JACOB BOSANQUET.,
vv
',era unanimously chosen Chairman and Deputy
‘.hairrnan for the year ensuing.
b THEATRE.--Apand and beautiful new
whet was last night brought forward at this place,
entitled Psyche. It is, we understand, nearly a
ac-simile of the Ballet with the same title, that has
3
Cen highly popular at Paris. The parts of Cupid
and Zephyr were sustained by DES HAYES arid
kvESTItIS with admirable skill, and the Manager has
drought forward the piece itself in a very beautiful
41'`l magnificent style.
IPriday a fire broke out at the mansion of Glass-
l'"11)ton; at Asiley, Worcestershire, the residence
t,
t; the Rev. J. DENHAM COOKES, which destroyed
a''ut superb edifice. The pictures, a valuable organ,
'ld the wines, were the only property saved.

SNIITHFIELD WARKET, Aritzt 13.
This day's Market had a considerable supply of
"IfTerent kinds of Cattle ; Mutton and Veal are
aqarer than our last report ; Beef is cheaper; Pork
uPPerts last price; and the trade for the most part
kas somewhat ilat.—The sales in the Hay Market
i"re gifting ; Hay, Straw, and Clover, obtained
4t plices,—The following prices and numbers are
,correct statement :
To sink the oird per stone of 81b.
Beef 45.•
cd. to ss. 411. Nlutton 45. ad. to ss. 6d. Veal cs.
to 7s. 6d. Pork ss. 4d. to 7s. od. Lamb 6s. od. to 75.6 d.
Beasts i 050.— Sheep 27oo.—Calies :So. —Pigs 320.

SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET.
%,,HaY I.ss. od. to 61. tos. od. Straw Al. 4S. od. to 31. cos.
C lOV:tr 61. JOS. od. to 71. tes.

CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL. 13.—This day the sup.
Plies of Wheat are considerable, mostly this week's
foreign arrivals, of about 20,000 quarters, sales at
s(3ii)ewhat less; Barley with Malt' likewise ; new
lick Beans 355. to 40s. per quarter; in Oats and
tier articles little variation, as per currency an-,
nex,d,
11e4,t - 743 a ,es a loos' Tick Beans (old) 483 a 533
'"ll4'
N • loss a loBs Oats zis a z4s a 2.6 s
• I
- - - . 4ry.. a sa Poland ditto . 286 a 3zs od
,•
• •• SoS 4 4( Potatoe ditto -36 s a—s od
- ois a is Rape Secd - - 471 a ill
;11tec tos a bSs ' Fine Hour . 85s a oos,
- 4:s a 4Ss *Seconds - • 1105 ais s
t, .
•I(;) sos ii fits
~, •

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

THURSDAY, APRIL 12.
The Duke of PORTLAND took the oaths and his
seat.

Johnson from the Office of the Chief Se-
cretary of State for Ireland-, presented a report of
the state of the prisdns in that Kingdom.—Ordered
to lie on the table.

Some private
,Bills were brought up from the
Commons, and read a first time.

FOREIGN TROOPS.

Lord KING, pursuant to notice, moved the Order of
the Day to submit a motion to
.their Lordships re-
specting the Maintenance of Foreign Troops in this
Country. If any apology were to be thought neees-
sary fur his offering such a motion to the House,
that apology might be found in the wording and pro-
visions of the Bill which had been passed a few years
ago, sanalioning the introduEtion of such troops into
these.- kingdoms. The circumstances of which he •I
should have to. complain were principally these of
late years it seems to be the intention of Gmern;.
metif to render permanent that which had been •
permitted only for temporal and special purposes.—
Every day. seemed to relax the principle upon which
the introduction of foreign Troops was allowed ; and
not only to relax that principle respecting the--
1
amount of the foreign force so introduced, but to -
betray in many instances an undue partiality in fa-
vour of these foreigners. To these points chiefly was
he desirous to -direct the attenti.ai of their.
Lordships. And first, he begged their Lordships to
recollect, that foreign. troops were fist admitted into
this country in pursuance of the- At of the 29th of
George 11. But they would at the same time recol-
led; that then they were introduced for -a special
purpose, for a limied service, viz, as a corps to- serve
in America. Ever since that period the spirit and
letter of the law in this respeet seemed gradually to
be departed from, alt Sough_ in all these departures
the spirit and letter of the law were still unequi-
vocally against the adoption of such a prac ice in
geaeral cases. It was only within these last
ten years, that
.the law which limited the ex-
tent of the foreign force, and the objects and
manner for which it was to be applied in these king-.
Toms, seemed •in a great measure to be overlooked.
The Noble Loid then adverted to the different
periods at which foreign troops had been introduced
into this country, and to the ctrcumstances under
which their introduction has been allowed ; and
argued from thence, that their number was not only
circumscribed, but that the clause in the Biil, passed
in 1804, a Bill, which,by the bye, had not, notwith-
standing its extreme importance, been introduced
till the middle of July, a period in the Session when
it was impossible it should undergo a full And minute
discussion, was far from giving an unequivocal sane-
.tion to such a pradice, much less of appointing
:foreign Officers on the Staff, or to the command of
iiistricla is these kingdoms. Nevertheless it would
noN appear that the limitation of foreign iro >ps to
the amount of ten thousand men, has of late. been
exceeded, and that foreign officers had been placed
on the Stattand had been even put in- the conunand of
districts where they not only had the foreign troips
under their orders, but also the national tr,ops, and
even the Militia. This he could not help considering
as incompatible with the spirit of the At of Settle-
ment, as coptradiCiory to the, preamble and tenor
of the Militia Acts. But it was- not only to this
violation . of the spirit of the Constitution that he
had to object, but to the instances of undue partia-
lity which he had observed in favour of the foreign
corps. In looking over the estimates of the year,
he found that the amount of the estimates for fo-

reign corps, particularly the cavalry, exceeded the
ratio of
,the estimate for the national_ troops as 47
• tb 44. The same might be said respecting the-esti-
, mate of the recruiting service for these corps. But
the partiality in favour of the Officers was more
marked. Many of them were on the Staff, and
. though on the Staff continued to enjoy their full
pay, while if a native officer on half pay was ap-
pointed to the Staff, he must forego his half pay.
The foreign Generals had besides not only the com-
mand of districts, but it this partiality in their fa-
vour was to be followed up, he saw no impediment
in the present practice to making one of them Com-
mander in Chief ; for the only impediment would
be, that he was a Catholic, which impediment had
been removed by the act of 1804, which made that
objection attach only to a native Catholic. Now,
how inconsistent was this partiality with the general
• tenour of the provisions of the Bill, since they al-
most all provided that the foreign Officers should
serve in, and b~ restricted to the foreign corps, on
the ground that they were best acquainted with the
language, the manners and the customs of the troops
whom they were destined to command. There was
another strong consideration that should not be lost
sight of, and that was, that at present there was no
danger of an immediate invasion, which hitherto
had been the great argument for employing foreign
troops; but more particularly the present state of the
countries from which these foreign recruits were
chiefly drawn. These countries, Hanover and West-
phalia, were now under the dominion of the enemy,
and was it to to believed that men drawn from those
parts were to lose any attachment to their native
soil, and ail recollection of those whom they left in
it, under the controul and at the mercy of the enemy
of the country ? These reasons were powerful with
him for not countenancing the permanent employ-
ment of foreign troops, and more especially for de-
. .precating the intrusting of the command of distribts
' ' to foreign Generals. With that view he should
now Move a few resolutions that would mark the
'spirit and the'occasions in and on which the employ-
.
ment of foreign troops should be allowed."
The Earl of LIVERPOOL had but a few observe-
' tions to make in reply to the speech of the Noble
Cord. The praelice of introducing foreign troops
had more or lesF prevailed for the four last years,
but on no occasion had it been admitted without the
sanction of the Legislature. So far it might be
.said to be recognised by the laws, and so far might
' the constitutionality of the pra&ice be said to be as-
j certained. It was true that the number of such
troops to be introduced was limited to ten thousand,
nor was that number exceeded till the year 1,806,
when a Bill passed admitting a force of that descrip-
L titin to the amount of about sixteen thousand, and
them the circumstances of the case seemed to yistify

the departure from former praaiee. At, to the par-
tialities complained of by the Noble Lord, there
would be no foundation whatever for such a sup- ,
position if the mater was properly inquired into.
The difference in estimate alluded to by the Noble
Lord ?rose merely from a difference in the mode of
preparing the Estimates- for England and . Ireland.
As to any other partiality, he could not see the least
colour to countenance the supposition. Of 18,000
or 19,000 foreign troops at present in the pay of
Great Britain, not 5000 of them were serving in this
Country—they were almost all employed on foreign
servie, and had always been engaged in the most
toilsome and perilous service, in which they had uni-
formly distinguished themselves. Would it. be fair
• therefore to bar the road to preferment to the offs. •
cers who commanded such men, and whose talents
and services had given them a just claim to every
promotion and distiction they could aspire to ? He
• was at a loss therefore to see the• necessity of the
Noble Lord's motion, and the best mode in his opi-
nion to get rid of it, was to move that the other
Orders of the Day be now read.
Earl RossLYN could not omit the present oppor-
tunity of bearing testimony to the uniform good
condua of the foreign corps on every occasion in
which he had the honour of serving with them.
Their valour and zeal might be estimated from the
degree in which they had suffered iu all the- Batons
in which they were engaged, among others, in the
glorious battle of Talavera, He agreed with the
Noble Earl who preceded him, as to the cause of
the apparent, higher estimate for the foreign. than
for. the national troops ; but that arose merely from
the difference between the mode of making up
these estimates in Ireland and England. As to the
expellees of the recruiting service, if they were ac-
curately investigateJ, he was sure the recruiting
of the foreign corps was not so expensive as that of
the national corps. They did not exceed on an
average !M. or ill. per man ; and even in that cal-
culation, the expence attending their conveyance to
this country was included. He did not howeVer
agree as to the constitutionality of the
.praaice of
admitting foreign troops, laid down by the Noble
Earl. Without pretending to any nice constitu-
tional knowledge, the tendency of his mind was to
adhere to the policy pointed out by the COnstitu- •
• lion, which in. points of such • importance was : not
to be expressed in doubtful and ambiguous terms.
• It was not usual,' as iusinaated by the Noble Lord
who brought forward the motion, for foreign Gene-
. rals to have the command of our national troops.
They generally had only the command of their own
brigades, which upon consideration would be found
to be necessary and proper. It was only occa-,
sionally, -and that but for a short time, that they
could have the command of any of our national
troops. • ,
Lord LIVERPOOL, in explanation, observed, that
when he talked of the constitutionality of thoprac-
' tice of admitting foreign troops, he considered it
only as an exception from the general principle of the
Constitutiob, observing however that the exception
had been recognised -and sanctioned by ditfereot
Acts of Parliarnnt.

Lord f_';!t ENVI LLE said that the explmatkm just
given by the Noble Seerz!tary of State, made it un-
necessary for him to offer more t! an afe words
on the pr sent quesCon.—He must again repr:ibate •
the practice so fit:yet:lft rest a;ed to by, Musters
of referring to the measures of others, and et.di!a-
vouring to shift the blame of their own C:tithla on
the shoulders o; their pre !eCessors.in •.)11i;;e: The
Noble Earl •had advettt,cl to a Bill passed in 1801;
when he had the honour, of being one of his M.,,-
jes'y's advisers. That Bill was passed only at;ol., a
week after he had entered into of ice, and tieder
what circumstances ? A rash expedition had been
sent to the Elbe, among the consequences of which
• was, that a large addition had been made to the Ha-
noverian troops employed in that service. That
addition arose from the necessity a numbfr of the
inhabitants of Hanover •were-under of escaping from
their nsative country to avoid the resentment they
must experience from the enemy for their. adher-
ence to their legitimate Sovereign. We' encourage
their flocking to our standard, and if an asylum. had
not been opened to them, what would become rt.f
the national honour and good faith. The Bill re-.
ferred to was,. therefore, passed not as a matter of
choice, but of compulsion, and merely as the neces-
sary consequence of the rash expedition in which he
had no part, but which, on the contrary, he wholly
disapproved. •
The question was then put on Lord Liverpool's
amendment, and agreed to without 'a division.
The other Orders of the Day being read accord-
ingly,
Lord GRENVILLE proposed, when the Revenue
Penalty Bill came, under consideration, that instead
of •a Selett Committee, the Committee to whom the
Bill as referred should be open to all such Peers
as had taken their places this Session.—Ordered.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, APRIL 12.

On the motion of Sir W. CURTIS, the second
reading of the BlackfriarS Toll Bill was postponed
to Tuesday.
A Person from the Office of the Chief Secretary
for Ireland presented an account of the compensa-
tions granted to Custom-House Officers in Ire-
land, for fees abolished.—Ordered to lie on the
table.