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London, England, 1809-05-19 00:00:00

LOWER RHINE, MAY a.

The head-quarters of the Prince of Pone Corvo
are removed from Krannyfeld to Mut n, whence we
infer that the Saxon troops are marain against the
Lohernian f on! ler.

On Ca! '29th the remainder of the Austrian army
was on the retreat from the Upper Palatinatt: to Bo-
hemia. The Austrian artily which passed the
had collected behind the Traun.

DRESDEN, MAY!.
Three days since the Saxon army clamed Bohe-
L mia. It has marched towards Pilsen.

ILEMPTEN, MAY S. •
The Duke of Dantzic came on the 29th, with the
Bavarian troops, to the Salza. The Austrians, who
made a chew of resistance at Toissendorf, were driven
back with the loss of a number of prisoners and some
artillery. _

At Saltzburgh the Bavarians took their revenge of
the Austrians, for the incursion on the 4th. They
routed all who opposed them, and entered the town
at the same time with the fugitive Austrians, and
took a great part of the garrison prisoners.
The Duke of Danttic has sent a column towards
Kufstein to relieve the fortress, which the Tyrolese
insurgents have invested.
Fro.n the Tyrol, we hear that the northern part is
entirely in a•state of insurrection. Those who refuse
to take up arms against the Bavarians are compelled
by every species, of ill-treatment. Tke insurgents,
in great bodies, have marched into Suabia and by
the Lech, plundering every where: they drive away
the cattle.

RIEDLINGEN, MAY 4.

The Austrian turps, which retreated over the Da-
nube at Ratisbon, was on the 28th at Cham in the
Upper Palatinate, an 4 on the 29th retreated to the
mountain-frontier of Bohemia. The French army is
still qationed -above Ratisbon ; the fore-posts reach
to Nittenau.

According to current reports, the head-quarters on
the 2d were at Sigharting. The advanced guard of
the French troops had proceeded to Efferding, not
far from Lintz, without. having encountered any
Enemy. The Austrian trop had all passed the
Traun, and were stationed behind that river, from
Wels to Lintz.
The corps of the Dukes of Tivoli, Montebello,
and Istria, together with the Wurtembcrg and Darm-
stadt troops, have passed the Inn, and are on the high
road to Lintz and Wels. The remaining troops had
commenced operations against Saltzhurg and the
Tyrol.
Montebello was to enter Ried on the 2d. It was
understood that the Baden troops were with the cons
under the Duke of Rivoli.

PifiCLIAMENTsfRr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 18.

The Marquis of Sul:to took the oaths and hic teat es Baron
Mowrzwcit, on his succeeding to the Peerage, by the detr.ite
of his falter the late Lord.

The Vauxhall Bridge Bill,and a r umber of Private Bil's, were
brought up from the Commons, and read a first lime; and those
on the table were forwarded in their several stages.
WRIT OF ERROR.-HART AND WHITE V. THE KING.

The farther hearing upon this case being resumed,
Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL, as second Coun-
sel for the Crown, addressed the House in support of
the Judgment of the Court of King's Bench. Like
the Attorney-Gesteral, he adduced a numerous list
of precedents to spew, that the legal authority of the
Court of King's Bench was paramount throughout
the Realm of England, and that the Judges of the
Court were vested with a'discretibnary pots er to order
the confinement of offenders in any of his Majesty's
gaols throughout England ;_ and argued that most
of the precedents brought forward by the Learned
Counsel for the Plaintiffs in Error, had little or no
bearing whatever upon the case ; and that far from
overturning the cases and arguments in favour of the
• legil and supreme criminal jurisdiction of the Court
of King's Bench, they in general clashed with each
other, or ;ended to establish the inferences of their
legal force : besides this, they were all antecedent to
the Revolutimi, with the exception of cne case, that
of Christopher Layer ; and that the dicta ef Lord
Camden, so much vaunted by.the Learned Counsel,
had no reference whatever to the authority of the
Court of King's Bench.
Mr. CLIFFORD, in an able and eloquent speech,
replied to the arguments of the Attorney-General.--
He contended v.rontiotisly in favour of the validity
of the precedents he adduced, and their strict appli-
cation, as he had previously argued —He contended
that from the best principles of the Con&titution, flte
prescriptions of Magna Charta, and the provisions
of the Bill of Rights, the Plaintiffs in error were well
founded in their Appeal to that House, and were en-
titled to a decision in their favour.

After the Counsel had retired from the Bar,
Earl STANHOPE rose, and made a variety of
observations upon the case. He should not, having
heard all the arguments of Counsel upon the
decline voting, or even giving an opinion as to the
question before the House : yet he thought the
House should proceed with deliberatism : ere it de-
cided upon a question of such peculiar importance,
he thought the House ought to have information
as to the number of precedents • and he referred to
some of the provisions of the Bill of Rights, which
ordained, that excessive bail should not be required,
or excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual pu-
nishments inflicted. He thought the parties came to
their Lordships ori just grounds, as to their right of
appeal, iu a complaint of an erroneous judgment of
the Court of King's Bench. And he noticed some
recent judgments of that Court, wherein, for offences
in his mind more criminal and injurious than that
of which the Plaintiffs were charged, the judgment
of the Court had not been nearly so severe.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, though he enter-
tained no doubt in his mind as to the law in the
present case, was desirous of hearing the question
arising from the appeal of the parties to that House,
as it involved points which excited much attention,
as thought to implicate the liberty of the subject.
He then made a variety of remarks upon the case, in
a legal view of it, and considered the offence of
which the Plaintiffs in error had been convicted as
one very dangerous to the peace and welfare of the
community, as tending to bring the administration of
justice in the country, and in the most injurious way,
that of verdicts of acquittal by Juries, into disrepute.
Their Lordships should Lear in mind, in deciding up-
on the case, that there were two patties—the case of
two individualB on the one hand, and the interests cf
the public on the other. The Noble and Learned
Lord concluded by submitting to the House a ques-
tion to be put forthwith for the consideration tf the
Judges; and which was, after some conversation be-
tween his Lordship and Lail StAnhope, as to the'
wording the question, shaped to the following effect:
Whether a person convicted in the Court ofKing's
Bench, sitting at Westminster, of a misdemeanour