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lace, there Musehare been-some supineneis in not
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a
h sag notice of what was going .on in its neig bon r
(1. He 'conciudetllSy moving the following reso,
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their present Allehrtra ; artd should move that the
report lie on the table, previous to heifT printed.
Mr. ADAM rose to move the adjournment of the
debate till Monday. He could not refrain from re-
gretting, at the same time, that any Hon. Member
should have even intimated his doubts as to the
power of the House to enforce its.privileges.; a
Power which was, to say the least of it, as ancient,
as .those vt,ry privileges.—Measures most be taken,
sooner or later,.to recognize their privileges as the
*neient and uodoubtkl usage of the kingdom.
Mr. St,t2:4lk ER was putting Mr. Adam's motion for
adjourning the debate till Monday, when
Mr. W. WYNNE rase, and apologized for his not
attending the Committee of privileges; as he ob-
irded to it entirely; and it 'was not the praCtide. of
Members to attend Committees, to the principle, of
which they obje&ed. He was, on the whole, for
the motion standing for Monday.
Mr. HottsT saw no obstacle to the reception of
the Report, which granringit were laid on the table,
would not preclude the House from further discus-
sion. ,Their Committee had most duly discharged
their duty, and their Report was entitled to con-
scleration. Legislative authority might, he was
sore, settle. all. the matters in dispute; while if the
House possessed such omnipotent privileges as were
contended for, it was highly proper that their pri-
vileges should now be ascertained and declared.
Mr. H. SMITH could not see theTroptiety of any
novel declarations of undoubted privileges.. The
uncontrolable privileges of the House of' Commons
had been the means of its conservation.

utioi)s :

" That fos. Pitnt, Esq. Membet of this House, and late
I'-e',,tieer of tire Qrdnance, has been guilty of a violation of
4f,th Ad of his present Majesty, and of embezzling the
titn--f 93,00(31
• That los-. Hun'', Esq. be expelled this 'Pause." •.

When the question for the first resolution was put,
t! e CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER suggested the
‘.vord " misapplication" •in place-of embezzlement.
Nlr.‘ CA LCRAFT agreed to the suggestion.'
-Both the resolutions were then agreed to nem. con.

I'l A new Writ was ordered to be issued tor the Bt -
r-
of Queenborough, in the room of J. Hunt,
4-N 1. expelled this House..
COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES.
1-;,.!'1 On the motton for bringing up the Report of the
:,:ointniitee of Privileges, -

Sir T. Turton opPosed it : lie_ernered into a de-
-3il of the proceedings on Mr. Gale Jones and Sir F.

Buidett, Which, he said, he had alWays deemed
ti -*aish, and had protested'. against, inasmuch as he
N..ight such severity unnecessary. He had an Lb-.
linrrence to the measure of the Committee; he now
Asked what it had done ? It was a Committee corn-
'll . posed of persons who were the cause of the mischiefs
s hich' had taken place, as without their interference
and authority, an Hon: Barone+ would not be now

ret where he ,A as. did not, nor even could deny the
right of the House in co ► milting for-breach of pi-
vilege. In the report were ..statements wh:ch the
,;1 Committee • bad no -authority to proper opinions,
which argued an. anahigy to the procte • ings of the

Mr. Secretary RYDER described" the-last Hon..
Gentleman as apparently mistaking the object
,Of
the proposed declaration. Considering the immedi-
ateimportance of the Report, however, he must op-
pose the adjournment' of it. . • -
Mr. D. GIDDY again rose. He was convinced
that the .privileges of the House were riot to be
questioned in the Courts treloyv ; and that steps
should be taken to stop any such process against
them.

Courts of Law ; lie .therefore Would oppose the
bringing of it up, as Parliament must either stand or
_ from the authority of its bwn proceedings,• The
Crwamittee had no right to repirt the opinions of
others. He expres.cd his astonishment thali.report
should on the table, •yhich was to itself a breach
of the privileges of the Horie; a report of a junta
inure unbecile, and more devoted to the destru6tion
of the interests of its country than that of Spain.
The House did not aEt right in not punishing the
Solicitor who had served the notice on the Speaker.
He hoped there might be some attention paid to the
distinction of-the cases of the
.Speaker and the Ser-
jeant ; the latter only atiedacc-rding to his instrue-
tions. the name of the people, he conjured the
House not to entrust its privileges to a Committee.
Gentleuen might smile, but they were playing 'a
I,.6ing game if they aged with . seve,ity ; they
should not maintain .their rights with laxity,
many of which were lost by appointing this Cum-

Mr: WHITBREAD thought that the motion of his
Hon. Friend (Mr. Adam) ought to be gupported.
Certain variations- in the different /Reports of the
Committee furnished sufficient grounds for the mo-
tion. He confessed himself to be adverse to new
declaratior:s of their privileges ; if those privileges
were the law of the land, why were new acts vr. ant-
ed to declare them ? Both sides, the high-privilege
and the low-privilege men, appeared to hun to be in
146 wrong; " though, said he, ifyou contend that
the House of Commons had privileges at all, you
are sec down for the 'most tyrannical man in' the
world !"- Feeling the whole proceeding to be sblemn,
and being of opinion tlrat the rep:tut was open to
comments, he must vote for the adjournment of the
debate. 'He would also propose a measure some-
what •novel, thOugh he belitved it had been acted
npon in the case ot. Papers relating to Marquis 'Wel-
lesley, for the indi••ridual_ information UllVlembers.
- The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended generally the
report or `the Coininittee, but was unwilling to enter
into details, as if tire report was allowed to lie on
the table; Gentlemen would have an opportunity of
•
:making their remarks upon it. • •
Mr. LOCKHART supported the motion, and Mr.
HI'LLIA Eris t% as for the adjournment.

mittev.
Mr. W. WYNNE ,also disapproved of the reports
that bad already been receited. 'He censured the
condu6t of the Hiqlse in appointing 'be Attorney-
Genet al to undertake the defeni.e of the Speaker and
of the Serjeaut at Arms. A matter of so much im-
portance ought not to be commit ted,jo a servant of
the Crown, and such was the Attorney-General.
The question. was, the defence of the, privileges
of the Houseyand that he thought was a question
at lino Much iMportence to be committed to one indi-

vidual.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHECVUER observed,
i he. pending question was, whether the report should
be brougla-ep, and not what might or ou6ht to have
been tl:e previous proceeding of ,the, House on to-
pics connected with the report. Why .did not the
Honourable Gentleman (Ur. W. Wynne) previous-
ly enlighien them on the s subject before them ?
Those who objected to the propriety of entrusting
the %ind.cation of their privileges to the Attorney-
General; would not, he believed, have very readily
undei taken the
,painful duty. Besides, where the
Crown had no posqble interest, which was now the-
case, what danger could arise from employing cne
of its' Co-tist notional Office's ? He did not conceive
that any Low Court would be found, at last compe-
tent to denier the question of privilege; but the
only qu- stion now was, whether the Report
.should
be brought up.
Mr. ADAM reminded the House of 'the course
'Which he had taken the liberty to suggest to them;
and this course was, that before they allowed their
Speaker to plead to the ation brought against them
in a Court of Law, they should have,cometo some
legislative declaration of their privileges; while the
Solicitor who ser.ed the notice on the Speaker should
have be n committed to prison. However, as their
Committee had sat, he was-of opinion that the re-
port should b brought up, and then lay on the ta-
ble for general perusal. :Privileges were now to be
watched over under very extraordinary -circum-
stances, and called for the utmost precision in their
definition. Circumstances now rendered it neces-
sary that ail mankind should learn what were their
consti;utional privileges.
Mr. HORN ER wished, previously to receiving the
Report as declaratory of their privileges, that. the
_matter and wording of it should . be maturely dis-

On the motion that. the report-do lie on the
table,

. Mr. HORNER repeated his former arguments
3gain,t the reception of it; and moved, as an amend-
ment,
.that tile report be recommitted.
Mr. Wit.BcitFoace expressed his apprehension
that people' out of doors were too much iu the habit
of ascribing the proceedings of that HOLM to party
feelings: From a long Parliamentary experience he
was satified that that was not the case, but that all
sides of the House was sincere in their wishes for
►he public good. Adverting to the efforts which had
been made to-diminish the priv'ileges of the House,
he characterised them as in the highest degree mid.,
chie'vous. The Constitution of the Country, excel-
lent as, it. was, 'found, its best safeguard in the power
and privileges of the House of Commons, add he
was convinced that the individuals who attacked that
power and those privileges, were desirous of loosen-
ing the pins by which the. Government was held
together. He was anxious that the report upon this
subject should be one not merely adapted to the ca-
pacity of learned men, but which should be generally
intelligible by the Public.

Mi781101./GHAM argued in favour of laying the re-
port on the table. , •
'Mr. W. WYNNE stated an inaccuracy in the re-
port, occasioned by the substitution of • the name of
Wilson for She'ridan, in one- of the precedents,
which, in his opinion, required that it should be re-
committed.

Mr. PARNELL also described several other errors,
which he conceived demanded revision.
Mr. ROSE and the CHANCELI.,OR of the EXCHE-
QUER supported the original question, and Mr.
WHITBREAD . the amendment ; atter which the
amendment was negatived, and the original question
carried without a division.

cussed.
Here Mr. SPEAKER interposed; observing, that
the question now was, that the Report be brought
'up, and read; which was accordingly done.
Mr. D. GIDDY, as Chairman of the Committee,
felt it neces,ary to say a few words. It was greatly
tb be regretted, he thought, that they were actually
in the constitutional possession' of very extensive
privileges, which they had hitherto no effeelual
means of asserting ;—and it was.on this account that
_their Committee' deemed it expedient, in the Re-
port just read, to recapitulate the occasional `recog-
nit jon of such privileges in specific instances. This
he also thought due to the present enlightened
slate of the country. As an- ult4ior measure,, it
might be found indispensable in them to state, as
they should ste fit, the nature and extent of their,
privileges; .but this they would do without respea
to that low and contemptible faction, which tried
to make up for the -smulness of- their numbers by
the loudness of their clamour. Yet, called upon as
they were, to assert their privileges in a Court of
Law, he was persuaded that they, ought not to pro
ceed ag-;l4isti those who stood up to plead the cause
of him had contested their privileges,and there-
by deprive him of his legal support. Would , that
he at all lair ? arid expediency has rego-
hied his vote in the committal.. of Sir Francis Bur-
dett; and discretion and expediency ought to regu-
late all their proeeedFngs. He confidently expected
that some measure would be taken to rescue the
House •of Commons from the pcssibleleCurrence of

Mr.- W. WYNNE moved, that the whole of the
Appendix, under tete head " Analogy)", be struck
out.

This motion Was also negatived without a divi-
sion.

- The report was then ordered to be "printed.'
INNKEEPEIIS RATES OF SUBSISTENCE.
Mr., BASTARD, after expatiating on the evils
which the Innkeepers sustained in consequence of
the insufficient ailokances for soldiers, &c. moved
to refer the various ; ,:titions on this subject to a
Committee of the whole House.

'Mr. SHAw LEFEYHE SecOlided the motion.

Lord PALMRSTON thought the Hon. Gentle-
man's motion premature, als it was in contempla-
[ton to introduce a Bill for the purpose of granting to
the Innkeepers the relief which they required.
Mr. BAsTAtin urged the propriety of at least hear-
ing what the Petitioners said.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended,
that the intention of. proposing a Bill for their relief
precluded the necessity of referring the Petitions to
a Committee.

. CAVENDISH BRADSHAW said a few words, af-
ter which the House ,divided.

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Mr. SHAN.v. gave notice that, he should on Monday
next, move (or a Return of. all Newspapers charged
with Postage- in the Dublin Post-office, addressed

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tinder privilege of, Meinbers Rirliament, since the
first-of March and the cause thereof.
The Warehou,ing Bill was read a third time, and
passed.
The Workhouse and Starrip Duties Bills went
through Cornmiittes; 'the Reports of. Which ~were
ordered to be reCeived,to-morrow.
The Report of the Poor Overseers' Bill was, taken
into further consideration, and re-:committed. The
Bill then went. through, a Committee, the Report of
which was ordered to be received to-.morrow.
The CHANCELLOR 'of the EXCHEQUER moved the
Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into
a Committee on tilt-, Assessed Taxes.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY objeaed to everY order of
the day taking.precedence of that respeEting his Bill.
A short conversation followed, in which the

Chancellor of the Exchequer explained th&,. reasons
which influenced.him in wishing for the CommUted
on the as,;essed taxes.—The Speaker assqrte.d. his
• claim to impartiality ; and Sir S. Romihy did j:,stice
to the upright cendoet of the Chair. _
The 14,,use re4olved itself into a Committee on
the Assessed Taxes, The Chancellor or the Ex-
chequer proposed certain regulations, and moved
that carriages drawn by mules should be taxed in
the same proportion as those.drawn ty horses.—
The Rrport of the-Committee was ordered to be re-
ceived to-mortow. '
. Mr. LpSHINGTON .brought up the Report tf the
Navigable Canal Robbery Bill, the %resolutions 'Of
which were read and agreed to, and the Bill older-
ed to be engrossed and read a third time on Woliies.-
day._

Mr. WHARTON brought in a Bill fOr preventing
Surcitarges in the.colledtions of the Asses,e,t Taxes.
It was read 'a first And second time, and ordered to be
committed to-mot row. •
• The bill for rrgulating tie mode for raising Sol-
diers to serve in the East Indies was read a second
time time, and cotnroitt.d for Friday.
Mr. M. FITZGERALD MON-,4 second reading
of the Irish Grand Jury Bill.. He :said •he did not
I wish to. press it'npun the House this Session ; he
merely wished to have if proceed as far as a Coin-
mittee,
that the blanks might be filled up, and the
Bill print.. d, in order. that the. Gentlemen of Ireland

might have an opportunity of considering' it during

.
the vacation, and come prepared to decide upo'n it
.• next Session.
.Mr. W. POLE said, he certainly came into 'the
House with.the intention of oppoiing the
.Bill alto-
gether, but the mode proposed by. the Hon. Gen-
tleman appeared to him so fair, that he should not
' objed to it. He had no other motive for the oppo-
sition which he meant to•make to this Bill, but that
he thought it a bad one. He should however, feel
it his duty to concur with what appeared to him
• to be the general setlse of the
,Gentlemen of Ireland
'upon it, after they had: fall time to consider it ;
• if their opinion was in favOnr of. it, he would with-
. draw his opposition, and freely acknowledge himself
mistaken. The principle of
,this Bill was to with-
draw the poweis now vested in the Grand Juries;
respe6ting the raising and accounting for the money
granted for county purposes, and to throw it into
the hands of the Quarter Sessions. To this measure,
as at pfesent informed, at least,. he ,could not give
his assent, but' as the Bill was to' remain over till
next Session, he should not
.occupy more of the
time of the House at present. After a few words
from Mr. Fi!zgerald, the -Bill was read a. second
time, and cOmmittledifor MOnday. •
The Committee on the Poor Settlement Bill was
postponed to Wednesday next.
The House resolved itself into a 'Committee to
take into consideration the. Duties on Coals import-
ed by inland navigation, in which the Chancellor of
the Exchequer moved, that an Additional Duty of
Ten Shillings per 'Ton should be laid on Coals
brought by inland navigation nearer to the City than
'the stone placed by the Bridge of Staines.
The Report was ordered to be received to-mor-
row.

On the motion of Mr. 11. DUNDAS, 'Accounts of
Monies Expended for the Naval Service in the East
Indies, were ordered to be laid before the House.

The Foreign Silk Regulation Bill went through p
Committee, the report of which was ordered to be
received to-morrow. Adjourned at half past 12.

Extra& of a Letter from oit board the Castilian
sloop of war, dated the 17th instant :—" Ye•terday
we ran a large privateer on shore, undo the bat-
tery of Triport, after an anxious chase of six hours;
we an hundred times made'sure of her, when sud-
denly she caught the breeze, and we were as often
disappointed. Although the battery, situated on-an,
eminence, was firing at us red hot shot, yet We fol-
lowed ourchjed to within pistol shot of the -shore;
and gave her three broadsides. As her deck was
full of men, the slaughter must have been very, se.'
were. • The French coast was all in uproar ; the
inhabitants. ran out of the town, and sought refuge
on t 3 hill at the back of Triport, and there waited for
our departure our studding-sail was shot to pieces,
but wd had not a man hurt."

A- shocking accident happened at Carnarvon, on
the morning of Saturday the sth inst. The chim-
' ney of a house in
_Southern Penrallt-street, occu-
pied by David Jones, the :Fanybwlch post, and
his son-in-law, daughter, and their infant child,
was observed to be on fire about nine o'clock' on
Friday night. The fire in the chimney was
supposed to have been exringuiihed, and the
family retired to rest: David 'Jones occupied the
lower apartment, and- his son-in-law the upper
one, to which there ' were distina
cations from the street. About three o'clock
on Satuitlay morning the husband awoke, nearly
suffocated with smoke, and endeavoured to rouse
his wife and child, but in doing So he was so
dreadfully scorched that, he was Obliged to make
his escape. David Jones, finding his daughter
and child were left behind, rushed into the flame's
to rescue them, when, shocking -to relate, the
three fell victims to the devouring element. The
fire vas- got under in about an hour, and their
remains taken from among the ruins,' Spectacles too
horrid to describe. It.is supposed that some -latent
sparks in the chimney, which 'was chiefly wood, had
re-kindled, and were the cause of this catastrophe.
Wri. Ews, Esq. the Coroner for the Borough, took
inquisitions on the-bodies the same morning, when
the Jury brought in verdicts of Accidental Lath.

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Ltsth)ic, MAY- I:2.—We • are now able to' corn-
tnunicate at length the Decree of Napoleon, in
which he unites to. France all the countries on_that
"side of the Ebro. • This Decree resembles that of
the blockade of the .13titish - Isles, or that other by
-Mali he Constituted his dept. Brother King of the
TWo Sieilies, without his ever having set loot in the
one, tlkough .he had' become the transitory King of
the other. He is the first King who has promul-
gated Decrees' for. countries 1i never possessed
and what is most amusing, es, that at the very time
when this Decree is dated, O'Donnel defeated the•
French in Catalonia.

By the 6th title it appears that Blionaparte intendi
to extend this Decree to the whole o 4 'Spain.—
The Decree is dated front the Palace of the Thuil:
leries; Feb. 1-0, 1810:
Considering that the . enormous sums which out
army of Spain costs us, impoVerish our treasury; .
and oblige our people,to make sacrifices which thek
cannot support considing on the other band, that
the Spanish Administration is without energy, and
tri many provinces does not even exit ; and So far
from being able to derive any advantages from the
resources of (he country,.leaves them to be eau- •,
ployed by. the :insurgents ; .we have decreed and do
deetee as follow : ' •. '

, TITLE 1.-OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CATALONIA.
I. The Seventh Corps of the Army of Spain
shall take the title of, the Army
.of Catalonia.
2. The Province o! Catalonia shall- form a par-
ticular Goverument, under the title of the. Gover-
nment of Catalonia.
3. The Commander in Chief of the Army of Ca-
talonia, shall be Governor of the Province, and shall
unite .the civil-and militarY rowers.
4. Catalonia shall be declared in a state of siege.
,5. The Governor shall be charged with the ad-
ministration of justice and finance, and make 'all ne-
cessary regulations. . • •
6. All the rents of the Province, or ordinary im-
posts; shall -be paid into the chest of the army, to
be,applied to the payment ,of the troops, and the
maintenance of the army. ,

T.ITLE 2.---OF THE 'GOVERNMENT OF ARRAGON--"

_• SECOND GOVERNMENT. •
General Sachet shall be Governor of Arragon,
! with full civiLand military power's ; he'shall"Appoint
to 'aW employments,i'make.all regulations, &c. &c.
and from the Ist of March-our public treasury shall
supply no funds for the thaintepance of _the artuy.
bat the cntantry shall furnish whatever may be ne-
.
; -CeSsary.

TITLE 3.-Or THE.. GOVERNMENT OF NAVARR-E--"

THIRD .GOVERNMENT:
)t. N

_ . _nee c. .avarre shail, be called the Go-
vern:bent' Of Navarre. General bufour shall ~C
Governor of Navarre, and shall conduct thither the
tour .regiments of his division. With respeCt
his authority and the maintenance of the army, the
same is ordered as with respeel to Arragon. *-.

TITLE 4.-OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BISCAY✓"'

FOURTH GOVERNMENT.

_ . __...T,.„...
Biscay shall be called the Governipeut of Biscay.
General ThouvenOt 'shall be Governor. to other
respeas the same is ordereii as with regard to Na-,
varre: •

BADAJOZ, MAY 7.—The French corps; of bee
tween 3,and 4000 men, which marched from A 1
mendralejo, with ten pieces of cannon, arrived at
Fuente dei Maestro on, the sth.

Regnier, with the rest of his division, iJ at Ige'!.
rida, and his advanced posts at Mirandilla and Ar"
roio de S. Servan.

Ballasteros, who was here this day and set ott
again, has his division still posted in Fregenal, and
that of Imas also remains in Burguilhos.
It is certain that the enemy have assembled moot)
men at Seville.

CA RTII AGENA, APllit. 21. By advices fiom
Lorca, we learn that the French, to the number 01
6000, were approaching that,city, and it is proba.
ble they have this day entered it. We expeaed 3
reinforcement here this day. Should the Vandals
attempt an attack, they will find us .completely
crepared to resist them. Those marching in 11'13'
direalion are estimated at about 10,000, and are
under the command of Sebastiani. Our army still
occupies Murcia and Orihuela.. The greatest' 11'
thusiasm and an "unprecedented activity prevail i 3
this place.

tvitiv.‘y.

oitAviszpn, MAY 21.

Arrived—the Union, Somber, from Malta.
Sailed —the Suspense, Simuionds, for lainaica ; Lord Ne!'
son,. I3rind, tor Lisbon ; Aim, Gillespie, and tartar, I (Alli-
son, for Cadiz.

8!R rti.
On Thursday last, at the Manor-House East Aton,
Lady of W. E—Allen, Esq. ot a son. '

MARRIED.

On Tuesday; at St. James's Church, George Rush, Es'L
Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire, to Clarissa, daughter or
Sir Willi.rrt Rush, of

D/4.D.
Oti Friday last, :Elizabeth, Wife of Charles Gilchrist,.
Esq. Surgeon, of Sunbury,.
On Sunday morning last. Mrs. Ileathcock, at her honFet
Upper—street, Islington. -
On Monday, in Siialilk-street, Mrs. ferVais, of Windsor,
widow of-the late Thomas lervais,- Esq:
On Tuesday last, at Margate, aged ten years, Alexander,
the eldqt-son of atnes.Bo mien,- Esq.
The pameday, at his house at Stratford Grove, in Fosse/4
at the advanced age of 78 years, Snel,,rOve, Esq. ,
Yesterday morning, at the Colonial.and Ilantation Office'
Downing-street,. Mr, Williant-Levvis.
At Nottingham, Mr. Williain'Dotibleday- Crofts, Attor
ney at Lavy, aged 7a years. •
ts
Lately, at her. brother's house in Caernarvonshire, N., •pft 1,
Caerine Edwaids, sister of R:,-113rd Edwards, Esq•
Ntinhoran-House, the Colone: of t.::z Royal Caernatvonshlr
Militia.

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