Star.
London, England, 1807-01-29 00:00:00

BARRACK,.

Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, after a few 1
prefatory remarks on the public interett excited to-
wards
the condua of the Barrack Department, by
the Third Report of the Commiffioners of Military
Inquiry, (an interen in which he &nog!), partici-
cipated,) moved, for the purpofe of comparifne, that
there be laid before the Houfe a return of the Barrack
fupplies furnifbed by Alex. Davifon, Efq. during the
whole year that be was fo employed, fpecifying
the articles furnifhed, their quality and price, the
Barracks to which they were delivered, and their to.
tal amount. Alto, a fimilar return of the Barracks
(applies furnifhed by the Commaary General of the
Barrack Department during the whole firft year of
his being In employed.
Mr. STURGES BOURNE feconded the motion,
conceiving it to be highly deferable that the Houfe
fhould be put into complete polleilion of all rabic
information on this important fubjeet. He witted to
call the attention of the Houle to a Paper relative to
the Barrack Department, laid on the table of the tall
Parliament, which mutt render it obvious to all thofe
by whom it had been read, that the lag Adminiflra-
tion had taken every pollible meafure to prevent the
premature Wire of public money in the Barrack De-
part ment. This Paper proved that the fubjedt had
engroffed the attention of Government towards the
end of the year 1804, when an arrangement was
made, that could not well have been entered into at
an earlier period. That arrangement went to remedy
the evils complained of, to bring the whole of the
tranfaelions in quellion under the immediate fuper-
intendance of the Commiffary General, to abatis the
Treafurer, to prevent any expences for building or
repairs from being incurred without the knowledge
of the Treafury, and to produce a variety of other
beneficial effeas. If the Noble Lord oppofite (Lord,
Henry Petty) had no objeBion, as Coon as the prefent
motion &mild be difpofed of, be would move for the
reprinting of that paper.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
declared that he fhould have no ejeillion whatever
to the motion of the Hon. Gentleman. He allowed,
that the regulation to which he alluded was extreme.
ly proper. It was now under the confederation of
his Majefly's Government, and in all probability the
fubjeft would loon be fubmitted to the contideration
of Parliament. Lord Archibald Hamilton's motion
was then agreed to.
Mr. STURGES BOURNE immediately moved,
that the copy laid before the Houfe of Commons on
the 24th March, rBo6, of fa much of his Majelly'ri
regulation refpeiting the Barrack Department, ail
related to the Cafe cuflody of money intrufted to the
Barrack Matter General, be reprinted.—Ordered.

CARN•TIC.
Sr THOMAS TURTON rote to give notice of a
motion for reprinting the Paperi that had been laid

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before the Houfe, relative to the affomption of the of the Carnatic by the EaR India Co. •
party. He regretted that this fubjeit had not fallen
into abler hands ; that it had not been taken up by
men poffeffing more information upon it, and who
would, therefore, have the power of doing it more
plaice. He was, however, happy to learn----
The SPEAKER interpofing, requefled that the
Hon. Baronet would confine himfelf to his notice.
Sir THOMAS TURTON then gave notice, that
on Monday fortnight he would move for the reprint,
ing of the papers which he had mentioned, as nett al
for the printing of others which were neceffary
elucidate the Carnatic queftion.
REAL ESTATES ASSETS FOR PAYMENT OF DEBTS.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL rofe to make his
motion, of which he had given notice. He laid, he
did not with to detain the Houfe by length of ama.
went on the fubjed ; but, as he believed it was ;Cud
when any Member moved for leave to bring in a Bill
which went to alter any part of the eflablifhed law of
the land, to affign Tome reafon for fo doing, he would
briefly Rate to the Houfe the motives which induced
him to bring forward the prefent motion. He be•
lieved it was within the knowledge of every Member
of the Houfe, that according to the law as it Rands
at prefent, a man may contra& debts to any amount,
and may die without his teal eftates being liable to
pay thofe debts. Such a circumftance, in a rummer
cial country like our's, was unqueftionably a very
great grievance ; and it mull he a matter of much
forprife that in a commercial country like this, where
Pimple contra& debts mull, in the natural courfe of
things, be very numerous, and run to an immenfe
amount, the law on this fubjed Should have remained
unaltered fo long as it has done. There were name.
rods inftances, he faid, of perfons who had for a feria
of years entered into various fpeculations in which
they had been fuccefsful, who as Coon as they found
the tide turning againft them, and their affairs grow.
ing defperate, had endeavoured to acquire and as
cumulate landed property which they might leave to
their heirs, and when they found they could go on
no longer, had committed fuicide, under the certainty
that their real climes would not be liable to the pay.
ment of their debts. In the Roman law it was other-
wife, and alfo in the law of other nations • and it
appeared to him a very great bardfhip, and an aft
of the higheft injuflice, that in a commercial country
like this, an heir at law Should be permitted to retain
and enjoy unnoolefted that real property on account
of which his anceftor had perhaps, in a great degree,
obtained the immenfe credit which involved him in
fuch an ocean of debts. People in general would
therefore be led to wonder how filch a law could
originate in Great Britain; and in order to account
for fo very extraordinary a fee, it would be neceffary
to look back to the feudal times, when every man
held hiiproperty at the will of his immediate Lord,
and the alienation of it was ftriely forbidden, on the
ground then univerfally held, that no debts were
fuppofed to be contracted by any man thus holding
as tenant under his Lord. The firft inftance of a
tenant being allowed to alienate his property, was
given by the Statute of Wefiminfler ad. t 3 Edward
I. By this Statute the proprietor could only alienate
half his land, and then the Writ of Elegit was given.
In that Rate the law has remained ever (ince, and
for five hundred years furvived the reafon of its er-
illence. It mull certainly be matter of great furprife,
that the law which was fo lenient to landholdm
fhould be allowed to remain Co revere and inexorable
to perfonal debtors. It was unqueftionably molt
union, and in a commercial country molt impolitic.
A man may be indebted to the molt enormous amount,
and his real eftates are not liable to the payment of
thofe debts : was it not therefore wonderful that the
law Should be fo fevere on thole who had no other
than perfonal property ? A man in trade gives credit
to a landholder, and the law gives him no remedy
againft his landed prqperty, which he has perhaps
purchafed by the means of that credit fo given, and
at the fame time it is fo fevere on the trader or mer-
chant fo giving this credit, that he than be doomed
to the melancholy lot of immediate arreft of his per-
fon, and in many cafes to the dreadful confinement
and contagion of a jail, where, unlefs the Legiflatare
Should think it right to iatcrfere, by thofe Ails which
humanity has, from time to time, diftated for the
relief of perfons unfortunately futfering for debts
which they are unable to pay, loch perfons might
remain in prifon during their whole lives. What he
had Itate4 was not an imaginary, but a real evil, and
it was neceffary for him to Rate alfo the remedy he
meant to apply to it, which waL to place the Pimple
contra& creditor on the fame footing with the fpe-
cialty creditor, and merely to declare, that Pimple
contra& creditors Shall have power to proceed again&
real eitates by an anion at Common Law, which they
are now only permitted to do by an application to aCourt
of Equity, which Court, it was true, had, from time
to time, attempted to fupply a remedy to this defed
of the Common Law, but that remedy was fo circui.
tout, and attended with fo much expence and delay,
that he thought a Short and dired remedy could not
be too loon provided. He propofed the Bill, if leave
was given to bring it in, Should extend to Ireland,
fur, as the law on this head was the fame in both
parts of the United Empire, he thought the fame re,
lief Should be equally extended to both. He con-
cluded by mowing,

" That leave be given to bring ins bin to make Freehold Mies
of Perron* who die Indebted Atreus for the payment offing!'
contra ti debts."

Mr. C. W. WYNNE expreGd his warmeß appro.
bation of the motion jut, made by his Honourable
and Learned Friend, and hoped he would not (top
there, but would apply the powers of his extenfive
and liberal mind, not only to the rendering liable the
Mates of Perfons deceafed, but .of thole alfo who
are living.—Leave granted to bring in the Bill.
Mr. HOBHOUSII brought up the Report on the Ida Odom.
Duty Regulation Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered
to be read a third time to-morrow.

The Thames Pence Bill was read a fecond time, and ordered
to be committal on this day fen-night.
The Committees of Supply and Ways and Means were pat,
paned to Monday.
The Grain Intercourfe NI went through a Committee, aid the
Ripen was ordered to be received to-morrow.
The Houk went into a Committee to confider of the espodienci
of permitting the Esportadon of Worded Yen! to Canada... Mt.
Hammen in the Chair.

On the Houfe being reamed, the Report waa 44 and the
Cbairtnan obtained leave to bring in a BiU to permit a limited
quantity of Waited Yarn to be exported annually to Canada.
Adjourned.

`fag tVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Confols, money, 6c;;--for Feb. 6ci—Omnium 4 prem.
Exchequer &Is, par to zs. prem.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
3 p. Ct. Red. Ann. 6c 14 South Sea Stock 6s
3 per Cent. ConfMn. Soft Sof I Old S. S. Ann. 6ot
4 per Cent. 78+ 79 Exch. Bills, is. dif. Is. prem.
5 per Cent. Navy, 94i 94+ I Omnium prem.
Long Ann. 17+ 3-16 Englilh Tickets all tos.
India Bonds, 4s preen. I Cool foe acc. 6011-1

We can pofitively aired, that accounts were re•
ceived from the Hague yefterday, dated the 18th
which take no notice of any aftion having taken place
fume the 26th ult. between the French and Ruffians.
They mention the heavy lofs which the former full
tained in the battles of the 2.5 th and 26th, particularly
in General Officers. Of eourfe the proportion of
men killed and wounded in tittle aelions mull have
been vaßly greater than their Bulletins have admitted.
From the filence as to fubfeque►tt battles, we may
venture to infer pofitively, that none had (recurred,
or, at any rate, that if any took place they were not
unfavourable to the Ruffians ; for the enemy would
not have failed to trumpet forth their victories, had
any recent movement been attended with advantages
on their part.

In the Sraa of Tuefday IA we gave the accounts
received that day from Leith, and which were brought
there by the NIGHTINGALE on Friday laft. An Edin-
burgh Paper (the Caledonian Mercury), which publifh-
ed the fame accounts, has fence (in a Paper received
this morning)publifhed the two following paragraphs
as a correction of the &ft flatement:
It appeared from the Hamburgh papers, received in 'rennin-
gen, the 14th January, that the French army in Poland had at-
tacked the Ruffians in all directions, defeated then with great
lore, and took So pieces of cannon; and, after tLis fuccefs, had
returned into winter quarters.

" On the dth January, a perfon from Hamburgh arrived in
Tonningen, with intelligence that the Ruffians, in great force, bad
fuecefsfully attacked the French, and drove them with immenfe
slaughter from their pofition ; and it was faid that, in confequence,
the French army was in fullretreat to Berlin. It was, moreover,
reported, that the Archduke CHAKLLS bad entered Silefia, at the
bead of do,occ) Aultrians. There reports were not eommuni.
cited by the Britilh Confbil to Captain MOTT, of the Prince tVil•
ham, as formerly Rated, bu t brought by one of the Prince \William's
boats from Tonniagen to Vollerwyk, where that vcffel and the
Nightingale were at anclur. The Nightingale failed on the morn.
ins of the aoth January.

The former of there paragraphs is evidently found-
ed on the French Bulletins, which have already been
publifhed here (fee the STAR of Monday 'aft), and,;
therefore, take nothing from the reports circulated
relpeding the fuccefs obtained by our Allies.
A letter received yefterday by a refpeetable mer-
cantile houre in the City, dated Warfaw, the 4th in•
Rant, fpeaking of the Rate of commerce, &c. con
taint the following enigmatical fentence :
" N. B. & Lo. have STOPPEILI-.-minus 50,000!"
Which is conceived to be intended as an intimation
that NaPoLsom's progrefs in Poland has been put a
flop to, and that it was believed at Warfaw that he
had loft 50,000 men. We can vouch that fuch a
letter has been received, and that it comes from
authority known to be good.
To this we are happy in being able to add the fol.
lowingintelligence, obtained by means of an American
brig, the Bellifarius, Capt. MILLER, of New York,
which left Amilerdam laft Saturday, and, having loft
her bow fprit by one of our hoops of war having run
foul of her cn 'fliurfday night, was fent into Dover
by the (loop. When this of left Amfterdam, it
was currently reported that the Poles had then again ft
the French, and maffacred a great number of them,
viewing them as the greateft fcourge that had ever
vif.ted their country. Capt. MILLER flares, that no
veffel is now permitted to leave Holland, till the
Mailer gives bond to forfeit double the amount of
the value of his veffel if he call at any Englifh port
on his voyage home.
.mother veffel from Holland has reached the Ri-
ver this day, in feven days from Bremen. The news
by this veild is, that it was reported at Bremen that
a battle had been fought between the French and
Ruffians in Poland, in which the latter had been de-
feated with (he hfs t.f ten thoufand men and eighty
piecei of cannon ; but that, notwityanding this vitkry
en the tart of the enemy, A AroLzox was halening back
from Wari.;:w to Berlin with all re3le celerity ; that
eighty thoufand :nen have been ordered to be railed
immediately, and fent to him zs a reinforcement; and
that every precaution is taken by the French in Bre.
men, to prevent any unfavourable reports from get-
ting into circulation refpeeting the Rate of the French
army.

From the whole of the intelligence now before us,
we think there is a rational ground for belie ring that,
noteithilanding the boated viElories announced in
the Frznch Bulletins, the enemy has gained no fo lid
advantage whatever, tut that on the contrary, his
army, what with difeafe, the climate of Po'and, and
the hard.tighting of the Ruffians, is mosl probably
at this moment in a very pet ilous fituation.