The Sun.
London, England, 1810-03-07 00:00:00

HOUSE .0F CONLTIONS

TUESpAY; MARCH' • •
Mr. BYNG gave notice, that- he Wo.uld-toTtnorrow
submit to the House a motion relative to the notices
that in future' it should be- nec&sary to give for bills
fut the maintenance of the poor.
• Mr. Mteraasu brwight in the Gas Light
Read a first, awl ordered to be read a second tithe,
Sir J. SINCLAIR brought in a' Bill for Amending
the Fiigh%vays.—Ainong the proirisions of ;he Bill,-is
,one, by which no boy of a less.age than 14 yeats is
to be purmitted to drive a wagon, or of less-than
- 1 d years to-drive a cart. The Bill was.relet a first
time, and ordered to be read "a second time, and to-
be:printed. r
, Mr. *.'POLA brought up the report of the Corn-
inittee onthe Petition fro:U.o:le Foundling Hospital,
dbublin ; and obtained leave to.bring in 'a Bill for
the. better regtilation of the said Hospital.
Lvs-tr;NGTON brellgtlt up the Report of tlio
CoMmittee on the Distillery .Aels and,a-Bill was
. ordered accordingly. -•-
Or. the motion of Mr.- Jlosa, it was ordered that
the Hquse should to-morrow resolve itself into a
o.irrAnittee ott.the Shear l3ourny
On the motion of 4,1 r. CALCNAFT, an account
was ordered to be laid beforelhe ,Hotis.e, of thc
nornberpf Officers wanting- to complete the seven
regiments of Dragoon Goards,,?nsl ,the twenty -five
regiments. of Dragoung, on the, 25th of February,
di,;tingoishieg the rank "and number of Qtficers in
each regiment. Also an account of the ninisber of
ordnatke and gunner-dFiters,'&7l.7.. _
On the motion c' Mr. POLE, a number, of Returns
and Reports, re.l3*,to-.Ardglis,, Harbour, ‘i-ere or-
dzr-ed to be hid iletcire- t:)e House.
On the motion. of Mr." Slow.; the House went
into the further .con,iderafion of the Report of
'the Coinrnittee of Supiny. ' ResolutiOns were
-all agreed to.
CITY OF. LONDON. • .
Lord Adver.ti.,4lg to the notice. whichlie
had given, olipoving for ten" Address to his _Ma-
jesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to
sta'e to the House by whom' he had been advised to
return the answer, which he had ;teen to the
thesi of the City of.Lendon, obsjerved, that the de-
bate of last night -prc:occtipied so -much of the dis,
cossion which such a. motion would occasion,; and
that:the termination of that debate• W 35 of so satis-
fattury a nature, that he would withdraw his notice.
A copy was ordered; to be laid before the House
of a letter from' the Sorgeon-General of the Army
_to- the Secretary at War,. dated the 4:1101 August-,
1809, relative to the conduct of the Inspeelor-
General, &c. _
.

MUTINY BILL
The House then resolved itself into a Committee
'on the Mutiny Bill, in. which a des.Jltory discussion
took place on several of the clauses which related to
4e enlistment of iecrnits.
041 the ITlOuse being resumed, the Report was
ordered lobe rec.civedto-rr,ortn,w.
n:O the motion of .:Sir J. NEWPORT, an account
orJered to he laid 'before the House of the state
Of the iiirritclis in irelJud;-..the number of soldiers,
it:tether cavAry or infintry, itlat they were,capahl,e

oficUon:tining, &c. •
.:tRu.vER.F,P)NARY
NY, B,t kEs rost.:fr the purposerawo.posing an
Address, to' his .I\laj,sly on Ole subject of Itever-
Siunary. Grants. He reminded the House, -rho in
1847, Address of the nature of 'that he now
wished carried to•thefoot of .the Throoc,-_ had been
witi-ons one dis,yrD:iopi voice, under circum. •
stances similar-to-the present.—[Uere the Address.
irOted Actrost- t.O, Isfr,-,` WaS 7Cad by the Clerk
'He did out isool.v. hat grr.;unis ;he Bill, lately
• ,passed in that House ha,i t.,terl thrown out in the
- House of Loris. He hat thought it rnigio perhaps
ha-ve b en, tli at th-;4 Ji,adc a ckitiicuity of rendering
a Susen,lisin A6l, Hr ilia not know that
grOtii):l 'on which it .was thrown out, nor
did he si-_eithit t o 1e was any reason fur rej,..6ting it
on tLat aCci;wit,,b-7,S heiknew-there I.s,'i!re those who.
:%vere inure par;kll.-to raising difficUNies than reaoly
ing theru. He thuNld the Bill-proper, in point Of;I:
Arso. mode adopte'd was the regu'ar mcide.
When a principle api;ewed to resist prohibiting Re-..
^wersionary-G;ants, and that House found itstlf so

°probed, they had a tight to-.pricred
s for.. wet bq could cunstitu:;onaily, by, doipg
the'y cu;.l i;i 1847,-. when illy), carried up an Address ‘.
to his Majety, praying that he would be.A.ased to.

Susperul the Exercise of shat part of his, prerogative
till'another ,Session of Parliament, when they, might
take measures for c-miieting what it) the first
stance they had failed of amoiLlphshing; con-
cluded by moving, that ire Address-of 1.807, pray-
ing:that his Majesty would not grant ihe reversion
of any place or otce in any part of the kingdoM till
the following Session of Parliament, should be again
presented 16 his Mpjkgry.

Mr.. rt.YDER thought the circumstances under
.which the Address was voted in 1807 verydifferent
to the -present. That mode of proceeding- was
adopted, tecause it ,was. the • only prat-Ilea) mode
They bad at thartime of preventing the granting*
places •In reversion. Now, ihough a Bill for abo-
lishing suchArbratits altogether had been lately thrown
out bythe t.oids, they did not know that a Bill for
suspending reversions for a limited time would meet
with a similar fate. Might not therefore the intro-
duction of a Bill to that purpose answer the lion.
Gentlemen's purpose as erfe6tually as the Address ?
That house ought to be careful not to legislate for
the 'Country at large, -unless obliged to do so Rom
,necessity. He wished them to revert to the hisory
of the Calamities brought on the country by the long
Parliament, to see the evils that might proceed from
their imprudently pursuing such a line of condUCl.
He had every reason to believe the Hon. Gentle-
man's.-,objvd. would be
.attained_ by a 'Jilt. He did
not wish to throw that burden on him (Mr. Bankes)
and he would not object to taking it on himself.. H 9
hoped the Hon. Gentleman seeing no necessity ex-
istpd:ror voting such an AddreSs„• would withdraw
his motion, that the experiment of a Bill Might be
. • •

• Lord A. Hit:Ali...rot; Was of opinion that if they
meant to carry into effect the measure they had in
_new, they would accede to the motion. He ap-
proved of the lion. Gentleman's proposition), as he
rhought it tended to a refofm. - -

Air. 11. DUNDAS understood the question., to be
whether the measure shOuld he accomplished by the
mode proposed by the Hon. Gentleman, or by a
If they had no reason to believe that such a
Bill would not pass, he thought that the more •con-
stitu6oaal mode of proceeding. It was an abuse of
access to the Throne to make ise of that • privi-
lege, when every purpose coutd be attained' by, a
Bill. •

_ .
Mr,. S. BoutlE.had always 'been a friend to. the
measure ; but he was of opinion that it would he
better to endelvour to gain their objea by a Bill
than.by an Address. As a friend to the measure ire
could. wish the Hon. Gentletuan would adopt that
taiode, ns-beiDg the more constitutional., • •
Mr. LANa never approved of the substitution tf
'.suspehding for prohibitory Bills. It had. been said
there was no doubt but a Bill for suspendipg such
grants would pass; that he admitted, becaUse it was
khown in the other 'House that acceding to such a
measure was the ..most effectual .way of oppo4rg
the nro,hibition of reversiouaty grants altogether.
Mr D. GIDDY thought the Address would not be
unconstitutional, and he knew Ufa% some Gentle
men were of opininn tht .cupt, a proceeding-would
be advisable previously to the bringing. in °fa Bill.
,Fie firmly believed his Majesty would give his con-
sent to the bringing in off: a Bill to abolish rever-
sionaty grants. He should vote for the motion. .
Sir J. NEI,'PPItT- cautioned the House aoinst
agaili entertaining n Bill merely.tZa the suspension,
of relersiona:y grains. The sup'port of those who
were for .t.r,pensicin only, he shouirt considet as very
suspicious.

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Mr. 13A-crturrtsT thanght the Addre.s
,objetliOns started against the Biil. All the circti.tri-
s;ance, considered, he could riot give-the iitori Ii Ids
s.upport ; he wished it to 1-).; wAndrawn for the in-
t roclui;.3, 4;4 Bill. • ;
Mr. P. Moot would rather con'Settrto vote Ad-
dress upen Address, than risk defeat by. placing the'
measure at the mercy of those..wh9 were iutere:4td
in oppOshig it; he shonld'therefore give.his vote tbr
'the Address.. •

Mr. I,l7lycr.ttß4AD understood the objeCtion of the
Lords to be of a technical nature. If that-Were all,
he-thought the Bill might be agaio brought in to. try
their sentiments.. If that could be done it might be
well for the Hon, Gentleman to 'mak, the experi,
ment, but if it •could not; by would prefer the Ad-
drel9 another suspension Bill. • •
Mr. BANKES, though he thought there was little
prospea of success, had no objection to make. the
proposed experiment. Susponsion.Bills, he thought,
Were jnjuiinus to the cause : with an Understanding
-that he might again bring.in the Bill, he Would (if
the House would permit nim) withdraw his motion
for the Address. , •
. The CHANCETeLOK of the Excncoosa thought it
would be better to bring in a Bill for suspending the
granting of reversions for the time mentioned
the Addecss, as the Lords, tholfgh prtehatly,averse
to aholishiug,them altogether, might be expe&ed to
pass a .suspension Bill. If the original Bill •Were
again brought'in, he should oppose or move an
amendment to make it for a liniiterLperiod. He was
averse to attempt* to attain by Address what they'
might gain by a Bill. ;nd • hoped' the House would
paid against stwii a principle. ..If the Hon. Gen-
tleman wished to withdra'w his Motion for the Ad,'
dress, that was sufficient for the present.'
The SPEAKER observed, the speeches made in
,that House were not to, be quest;loned any where.
Those made in, the House of Lo—,ls, were not to. be
questionedin the Hou,e of Commons. ll,•ingso;
they would offend against their own order. They
must, not therefore discuss the particular sentimerus
,of the Speakers in th'e'House of borols'on the Sub
vjeo. The'Bill was not thrown out on the scord of
irregularity. It mighi have beep t!s'ade more corn.
,plete,.but it 'wits not unparliametnary.
Lord POR-C ULSTER wished to lc,ow if the Lords'
couldiagaiurecs-ive a fill which ti ey harthown
out ? Could they (the House ot (3;arirnotis).,,liivi
lug negatived a, Bi,kl from the other House, again
The SPEAKtIi sa;d, Bill sent from one House
•
to the other must be, received. They would after-
wards detertnine '4(4 it should be disposed of.
The motion wqs;:then•wi.lidrawnl:
After a short Onversation between Mr. BANKES
and the CHANCELLOR Of .the -ENCtifiQUEII,
BANKES gave notice,. that on Tuesday•next he would
moVe for leave-to bring in the Bill.
The Order of the .aty for the. House resolving, it,
self into. the Committee on
,the Expedition to the,
Sche!dt was then read; and 'die douse went into'
the Cor,nmittee. _ • ,

We have this day I.iubrnitted to oar Readers sa
great mass of intelligence, brought by the Cadiz and
Lisbon Mails. 'which :trrived yesterday. The ac-
counts will be found in • many instances confilsed and
ontradietory, but -in Ole present situation. of Spain

The

great confusion must ilatnrally be expeaed.
French have made some slight attacks on the en..
trance of the Isle of Let )n, in order to facilitate, their
approaches. On the 11 th they made one, in- which
they were repulsed with considerable loss. The
French have got possess ion of St. Marys,• and are
busily employed in ereaing -their batteries; their
works are, however, very materially impeded by our
• boats, and the line.of 4attle ships-will very shortly
be brought.to bear upon them. NEYand-jtIN.OI:
continue to threaten V'orttagal with a considerable
force, hut we, do not th'ink they will make apy.se,
rious attempt, at le.,,st fcir the presetit ; tht.ir *object
seems rather to be to kerrir Lord WELLINGTQN from
taking any steps for the relief of tYhe Spaniards.
. Government have, vt-e understand, received dis=
patches from Colonel-Romp; Who has been Itach•
ed to,th9 Spanish Army 4,lthe Centre for some time..
His di: pat Ches contain a detailed account of the fore-
; ing'of all the positions of the Spaniards in the passos

of the Sierra-Morena: H states the French force em-
ployed upon this service I o amount to 60,000 mar,

51im0.........

Contradiaory/reports Fare still in circulation ye-
speaing the occupation v f Ceuta by our troops.--:
We regret that it is not ip our power to remove the
doubts that exist upon that ',ubi,eff, as Government
Wave not received any intelligence resp4ing Ceuta.

I A private letter from Gibraltar states, that a cot)-
; ziderable quantity Oaring_ sk7e- harl been. found con.-
; cealed in the holtse 'of a Spaniard. As there was
4 reason to believe that they. were concealed for the
•
1_ most treacherous. purpose, ail the Spauidrds
were in the garrison had been sent to Algesiras.
.

It is 19 us a suhject of sincere- pleasure-that the'
House of Cpmrnons sdinitea on Monday-the
gated censure prOpPsed by Mr. c.,';.N&INO, reapedittg
Lord cmia,:rnaal..'s conduct, instead of the strong re:,
solutiera which Mr. WIIITnREAD wished to have:
adopted ; for though it is iinpossible to deteral his
• Lordship's cnndba in
.1 he .transadion -in rinestiro,
yet there certainly is -no ground to impute to him
any of thoseimproper motives of whichhe
the first, instance, so .warrnbr. accused. But ivitzt-
ever may be the feelings of the Pubic upon this
question, the QppPsition wiiters, Spe.aking we sup..
pose, 'the sentiments 'of the Party, tell us, very can-
,
: didly, why, they rejoice in this decision, and what
results they expel "fi'-oM it. Their satisfat9i6n does,
not arise from Any benefit which they think the
Constitution may have 'gained' from the vote •0' f
Monday, but froM the_hope it affords the:A:that
it will accelerate the resignation of Minister. This,
is the great leading . objed to which all their views,
are direded, and which animates all their patriotic
•
exertions. It is impossible no,ti to be pleased with
their candour, rtiore especially'as :tie are convinced
that the openness 'with which the Party hate avow-
! ed,their hopes, is likely to operate most-effedually in
preventing their_ accomplishment,- It is curious to'
observe with what facility the. party 'change their
. •
language
yelraing Parliament, according as they
} happen to be in a majority or a minority indeed we,.
Imust do them the justice to acknowledge that they
have a set of arinments ready
.prepared for every
event that may occur. When they are in amino-
rity, then they are defeated by Ministerial influene,e.;.
when they are in amajority, of of course, then Par-
ha:nem speaks the sense the people.-Daring the
• long period of M. Pyres AdMinist.rtion, whew his.
AnajOrities were so large, we heard daily. from the
Opposition,:ehargls of corruption, venality, Eii%
.and- they clarnpur,:d, ar,aiast a Parliament that
uniformly supported a Minister, as ,they
-fight or wrong. - In toe present Session it has hap-
pened, three or fotir times, that the Altnistershiye
been in a minority, and the Opposion, with great'
podeaty, immediately tell-them that they ought to
resign. So that by. this.ingeniOu.s species of reason-.
sing, they ace r doubly armed." If Ministers,have
constantly large majorities, they are then guilty of_
corruption, and of course they ought to be turned-
out i on he other hand, they should happen,
upon a few cccasions„ to divide in a minority; iben‘
the ihfcrence is, tbtt Minigters haye lost the.

confidence of Parliament, .alld thon-fore

odk-ht to rdsign. Nov, as it mist hippeu

inevitably that I‘liniSters must always bt., one-c,r
other of, these predicaments,- it follows mcrst logi-
.
that no Ministers can be justified in retaining,
their p)aces--W hen the present. Oppusition are de,
- -
sirous of removi.ncr them. This reesohing is inge-
nious,. bUt We do not think it will convince either
the Nrliament or the Country.

We 4re,told evel day that Ministers have lost roc
confidence ,of Parliament ; why then will not the
'Opposition accept , the challenge of the CHAWCE,L-
tha of the-, EXCFIE4UER, ad d meet that (Ines- ,
tion ? Why will .thq not adept a mode
of proceeding whicll would remove all dcubt up-
on that subject—why will they not move for ,•
anj Address to his Majesty to remove his. •pre.
'sent Ministers?—The' Opposition know very well
that if they were to bring forward such a' mbasure,
they would be' defeated; and therefore wisely re-
frain from making the .ex.perimcnt.

, ~
We understand that o,ll' nrCHAIID. STRACHAN,yeS-.
terday..leliverpd his Narrative to the Admiralty, and
that it' will_this..day be'sent to-his M4,IESTY alid thu
Ministers. . .

Yesterday soon after twelve Ocloek, their MA-
J ES-I'lllS, Princus AUGUSTA, LEAZAUETH, and-SoPlitA,
arrived .at the (..,Ideeo's PahNe. from Windsor. la
the course of 'the morning the ".RqyarDukes.visited
their. MAJ

The Princess - MAny remains at Windsor with
Princess AMELIA.

The Duchess of BRUN'SWIC;i, `and the Dukes of
,P.JI‘.I.I3ERLAND aiId,SUSSE.X, dineu with their MAJES-.

In the evening their MAJESTIES had a selea party
,
to tee,and cards,

IFS MAJESTY will hold a Oourt this dayiat-thce
Queeil's Polace.---71'o-rno.i-row her MAJESTY will
will hold a I.srawin,,,r-liooni.

A great portion .of the content's, of our privatei
'66tutinuticatioN is Auperseded by the following 9154,
,cial document,
.stiDscribed 'by the Secretary 'to the
„Tuna, iVlJ)atl`e details'af the military events og-.
cuiling on the 17th, 18th, and 1 gt.h of last-month.

GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
FEB. 19.

_ .
" E4B, 17.—Froni iliguerita and Terrcn have'
.arrived twn'yessels, 'one felucca, and six fishing
•Qmacks, which have-brought hither-Brigadier-Gene-
ral and -Chief of DiviS,ion, D. Francisco-Copons y
Navia, la. Olikers of di,lferon't&rps, with troops of
the reginient of La Reyna; Murcia, the Canarios,
'and Marina, and solfie other, with an Adlutent and
sovon Surgpns' Mates. - • .
To-day he Portuguese regiment ocinfantry,
No. O, calico tamp:, zw.tvir ' which came .yester-
day in six transports (-roil), Lisbon, dkera.barked.
" At break of day we were informed, that to the
north 'of. ll* Trocadei4.), anti bet,v:ven the War'e-,
11,buses, the enemy had form.e4 a parapet of sane}
casks at the extreality 'of which, at intervals, seiti
gels were tation,cd.. In, the course of the day a
larger-number of Frenah began accutionlate, un.
der the porches of the said Waietionses, and irregular
parties of cavalry and. intanq'y we observed passing
.•
frornPuerto Real to Trocadexo.. The firing from the'
ship 'St. ',Tristo and batteries was p!)ipt-4d to that di- ,
redid j.; • ,

'".-At :noon, 38 covered waggons, apparently, ,
1014.11-swith 'arnmunition and artillery, and escorted
by some horse', proccedc4 from the port to Puerto,
•

" By information :obtained this day, it is disco-..
vered: that the, force of the enemy employed, to gar-
r4on 'St. Maria consists of 3.00. men ; that ia 'aka •
field of Guia there are two is-pounders, and that
near the .bridge of Sr.. pedro there are, two b 6,..
pousiderS and one 24-pounder. The bridge to,
wards Puerto Real has in, waiting before it, until
repaired, .two',stnall mortars, t*Wo .Obusses, five
flying pieces, and about Gun waggons of various
mensions. . ,

• WEB. 18.-7" 00 the night of the .16.01., and dur-
ing the whole of. the 17th, -an advanced battitY to'
'the right-of the post called the Salero, a battery was
ere&ed- under the protection oflaunches, which att-
noys the enelny very much, and Jas macle
withdraw his artillery. We are assiited in this.. ob-'
jeEt ,by the launches,_ by the ord batteries, and .byj
the adVanced parapet on the Carmin6 Real. These
have 'also killed many men and horses, as . waF as
certained by the 1-iraht who con:eved the -answer
given by his Excel'elk), the Duke of Albuquerve:.;
" Accordtng to the lalcst accurate accounts;
there are in Puerto Real 3000 French alrnost all of"
them infantry, with six pieces•of brass cannon, 24-:
pounders, They marched in on .the evening of..
the !WI); hont at tiliery, and by the road of the
" At the mill of Monte Corto there•are 20 of the,
Frenek guards; a thousand Pates froM
300; and in the town only obour 70,.. They have- .
pillaged Chiclana; and they have conveyed away`
foutwaggens to XeieS. where their forces' are
Minishing, and from whence, according to repolf
they are, about to retite. ht is.said, thatirom
lama to SantiVerra, there are only 70 or 80, infantry
,Ana, the Miil, and the house. of the.
Cots, and the Tower. We hear that they have cut ,
down much wood in the. toles's, and that the nurn
7ber of the enemy lessens daily,-;and some assert that
tlie French designed to concentrate themselves hi..
Xerez. •

.
,
(Signed).. " MANUE.I, MA.HIAAKC'E Sec."
ca.l4, liebtl9,

". P. S. 4.t one o'clock to-day, the discharges of
o,e.artillery,of the, enemy were made ne:tr the Tro-.
,crldero,- from the parapet of Saint Cuses, befote
mentioned. The cannon they employed- was ap-
parently a six-.poundor, and an obuss, which. was
an eight-pounder, some grenades; some of which
struck the, stern of • the ship St. Just:L. From this
ship,, and from the, cannon of our adjacent battery,
the proper return was made- ,for this compliMenr,
and at three o'clock the firing of the enemy was dis-
contidued. It it supposed_ that the'pioces on his
battery have been dismounted:.
" The English,. who were et-Rived in a
have had two killed and twO wounded."; '

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