Star.
London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

ADJOURNMENT.

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER. the Committee of Supply was post
poned from to-morrow until Wednesday the 23d
instant.

On the CHANCELLOR of the EXCH EQUE R's
making a similar motion with respect to the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means—

Mr. TIERNEY 'wished to know what reason the
Right Hon. Gentleman had to assign for postponing
the Committee of Supply and Ways and Means?
On whatever grounds he proposed this (he, Mr.
Tierney) should have thought it would have been
proper to state them before he made the motion he
had submitted to the House.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied, the reason which induced him to wish for the
postponement of the Committees was, that in conse-
quence of the existing state of public affairs, he had
a communication to make to the House from his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, which commu-
nication he would then make, namely, that it was his
Royal Highness's pleasure, acting in the name and
'on the behalf of his Majesty, that the House should
adjourn until Monday the 21st instant. In conso-
nance to this intimation, he would move, that at its
rising the House should adjourn to Monday, the
21st instant.

Mr. W HITB RE AD observed, that although every
one had anticipated the communication which had
just been announced by the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman, yet it was certainly surprising that the Right
Honourable Gentleman had not preferred making the
communication the preliminary step to the postpone-
ment of the Committees, instead of making the post-
ponement of the Committees the preliminary step to
the communication. If he were not avow that such
was the usual style of a communicatimpOlhat na-
ture—namely, that it was his Majesty's Near:ire the
House should adjourn, he confessed that he should
think it rather an ungracious mode of expression.-1I
It was certainly, however, justified by the prece- I
dents on the Journals. He did not rise by any
means to oppose the Adjournment, to which, on the
contrary, he should consent with the same readiness
as he did to the last proposition of that nature. Nor
would he express either disappointment, or hope, or'
fear, with respect to the events that had taken place'
since their last meeting, or that might be taking place
at that moment. It was his wish cautiously to abstain
from any observations on the subject, reserving him-
self until the period when that information should be
afforded, to which he, the House, and the Country,
looked with confident expectation. But although he
had no hesitation in voting for an Adjournment, and
for an acquiekence in the pleasure of his Royal High-
ness the Prince Regent, yet he owned that he enter-
tained some apprehensions lest the present proceed
ings should be drawn into a pernicious precedent :
he was not without his fears, that when the circum-
stances of the times should not be well recollected,
posterity might accuse those who consented to the
present proposition, of an abandonment of their duty
to their constituents. He was aware, that in 1799 an
adjournment of a much longer duration even than
that, the termination of which had that day as-
sembled the House, had been proposed, and without
difficulty acceded to ; but that was at a period of the
Sess on at which the public business did not press so
heavily as it had pressed during the late recess, and
would necessarily press during that which was about
to take place. Therefore, although he did not regret
having voted for the last adjournment—although he
did not repent having placed the confidence which he
on that occasion placed in his Majesty's Government
—although he was not disposed to cavil at the ad-
journment now proposed, yet he did wish to guard
the proceeding from being converted into a dangerous
precedent. He wished to have some record on the
Journals of the House, of the grounds on which Par-
liament had been induced to take such a step. In the
words which he had committed to paper for this pur
pose, he hoped he had so entirely abstained from ex.
pressing an opinion, or any thing like an opinion, or
an anticipation with respect to public alai's, that he
really entertained a- confident expectation that the
Right Hon. Gentleman opposite would not object to
their adoption. He would therefore move, as an
amendment to the Right Hon. Gentleman's motion,
to leave out all the words after the word a That,"
for the purpose of inserting the following :
An humble Address be presented to his Royal Highness
the Prinee Regent, to express to his Royal Highness the grateful
acknowledgments of this House for the communication which
his Royal Highness has been pleased to send to this House, in
the name and on the behalf of his Majesty.
To assure his Royal Highness, that notwithstanding the re
cent Adjournment of this House, at a sow when so many mat-
tees of the gravest Importance pressed themselves upon Its cond.
deiratio% and for a period of very animal length, this House will
cheerfully comply with the pireare of his Royal Highness, signi.
lied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and adjourn itself to the
Bin day of March instant, 'rustics that unexampled state Of
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possibility of lb being attributed to inattention to the gra* cos-
cerns which call for the Increased 'vigilance and activity of the
House of Commons, or any dereliction of its sacred dutks."

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
stated the reason for his moving the postponement of
the Committees, before that motion which the Ron.
Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread!) bad conceived might to
have had the precedence. He had done so, in confor-
mity to the precedents in a similar case. He was
aware, that the motion which he had now submitted
to the House was liable to sbch observations os had
been made by the Hon. Gentleman ; but he thought
that when the House considered the nature of Ito
proceedings, they would not conceive them likely
lead to any pernicious Precedents. It was consi-N
dered that a delicate attention to the feelings cf
the Members of that House, made it advisable that
the decision of the question of adjourning should
be left to them ;—but if the House should think
proper to adopt the suggestion of the Honourable
Gentleman, heleszed thit it would tend to establish
the more dangerous mcedent of the Crown being
induced to exercise its prerogative of proroguing
Parliament, rather then recommending to them
adjournment. This adjournment was, as the Hon.
Gentleman had observed, sanctioned by usage, and
by precedents. As to the recommendation of his
Royal Highness, for that recommendation, like every
other act of the prerogative of the Crown, his Ma-
jesty's advisers were responsible; and when the pro.
per season for explanation should arrive, they would
be prepared to give their reasons. He had only found
two instances'where any debate had taken Once upon
an adjournment so recommended. Jo one of those
instances only was there a division ; and in that iv-
stance, the whole body of the House divided against
the two who were the tellers on the opposite side.—
lie should abstain at present front assigning any rea.
sons for the recommendation, and would confine him-
self to stating, that 4 was an act advised by his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, for which they were responsible. A
time would possibly come when further explanations
might be required; and when the. proper season
should arrive, he would then be ready to assign his
reasons.

Lord ARCH. HAMILTON, when he considered
the advanced period of the Session, and the length of
the Adjournment which had already taken place, felt
himself compelled to resit the motion of the Right
Honourable Gentleman. He would ask the House,
if they had foreseen, when they agreed to the Lite
Adjournment, that at the end of two months a all
limber delay would be asked, they would have con-
sented so readily as they then did ? He. wished to
throw no embarrassment in the way of his Majesty's
Ministers; but he really could not see in what way
the sitting of the House would embarrass them. The
quantity of papers exhibited that day in the House
was a strong reason for opposing the Adjournment.
Mr. PONSONBY said, no man could feel more
forcibly than himself the inconvenience to the public
with which an Adjournment would at present be
attended ; but every man must also feel the very im-
portant and delicate situation of affairs at this crisis;
and when his Majesty's Ministers, on their responsi-
bility, came forward to the House and asked an ad.
journment for three weeks, be felt himself unable to
resist the application. He could not conjecture what
the affairs were which rendered such a measure ne-
cessary ; but when the time arrived, at which a dis.
closure should be made to the House, he would then
be prepared to enter on the consideration of them.—
He should feel a difficulty, if his Honourable Friend
pressed his Amendment, of supporting it ; for he
knew no instance of the liouse, when it ;Treed to
any measure like the present on the recommendation
of the Crown, having entered a reason for that com-
pliance on their journals ; as the House had always
considered the recommendation as a sufficient reason
for its compliance. To act otherwise, would be to
bring on a premature discussion of that which it was
the object of the measure to avoid bringing under
discussion. He would therefore confide entirely, in
this instance, to Ministers, on that constitutional re-
sponsibility which attached to their situations, 'and
which at no time they could be, more called on to
exercise.
The motion for Adjournment was then put and
agreed to.

On the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, the time for receiving Private Bills
was extended. No Private Bill to be read a first
time after Monday, the 28th of March, and no Re-
port to be received after the 23d of May.
Mr. HORNER moved that there be laid before
the House an account of the amount of Bank notes is
circulation, from the 4th of December, 1812, to the
Ist of March, 1814: also for an account of the
proceeds of the Droits of Admiralty, and the pay-
ments out of that fund, since the time up to which ac-
counts had beeti laid before the House.—Agreed to.
A short conversation then took place respecting the
sitting of Committees on Private Bills, during the
adjournment ; after.which the House Adjourned.

GERMAN AND =Tat PAPERS.

AMSTERDAM, FEBRUARY 17.
Yesterday was received here, with every demon'
stration of joy and affection, the organised Militia,
which had come from Haern.
GOES, FEBRUARY 13.
The country of Hulst and Axel has, within the
few last days, been delivered from French intrusion. I
The day before yesterday, in the evening, Commis.
sioner De Yonge, from Zierik Zee, arrived, and yes•
terday he proceeded through Axel, for the purpo
of taking possession or the States of Flanders, in t!,c I
name of his Royal Highness our Sovereign Prince, •
and to appoint the National Functionaries for thg
establishment of the same, authority. 0
Yesterday 300 more Russian marines reached us,
by which the joint Anglo-Russian force on our island
is increased to 2,400 men.
BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY
Yesterday all the troops belonging to the division
of General Borssel, and which proceeded from MeC
lin, left our town to pursue General Msison, who had
•
retreated by the way of Aash and Daorniek.

By a vessel arrived at Sheerness, from the Mato
we learn, that on Thursday last a heavy cannon!dil
was heard in the direction of Flosithle which law!
from &Tett o'clock to three.

PRBNCii

PARIS, F hit VARY 23.
l-ler Id4jesty the Empress and Queen has received
ele following news, respecting the situation of the
sones, el the 21st of February :
64 Baron Comilaridaiit at Besancon,
liter• as follows :
On the :31st of Satinety the enemy' made an at-
tack from the side of Briguelk ; in the night he
weed to play upon the town two batteries of howit-
trs and cannon, and attempted an attack upon the
fort of Chandoue t he wab every where repulsed,
stuidst the cry of " eve rEmperesii." He has lost
more than IWO men. At whatever part the enemy
presents himself, we are sn a condition to well re:eive
tine'
" All the Cossacks whO had spread them-selves as
pcar as Orleans are hastily falling back. Every where
!the peasants pursue,
and take and kill a great num-
ber of them. At Nogent, these Tartars, who have
nothing human, burnt some barns, to which they
:et fire with- their hands. The peasants having
come out to extinguish it. the Cossacks charged them
and rekindled the fire. In a village on the Yonne.
the Cossacks were amusing themselves in burning a
fine farm-house, the tocsin was sounded, and the in-.
habitants threw some thirty of them into the flames.
" The Varier Me:ander slept on the l'tth at 'l
Bray. ; he bad flied his head-quarters for the follow:
ill day at Fontainebleau. The Emperor of Aus-1
tria did nauquit Troyes.
14 the Emperor Napoleon had on the,2oth, in the
mein, his head-quarters at Nogent.
All the enemy's army is marching uppn Troyes.
—General Girard has arrived with his corps, and the
division of cavalry of General Roussel, at Sens ; he
had his advanced guard at Villeneuve l'Archiveque.
The advanced- guard of the Duke of Reggio is half-
way between Nogent and Troyes, at Chartres and at
lalesgrigny ; those of the Duke of Tarentum are at
Pavillon. The Duke of Ragusa is at Sezanne, ob-
serving the movements of General Winzingerode'
who, having left Soissons, has marched upon Rheims,
by Chalons, to unite with the wrecks of General.
Blucher's army. The Duke of Ragusa would fall
upon his left flank, if he should again engage himself.
" Soissons is a place sheltered from a comp de main. '
General Winzingerode, at the head of four or 5000
light troops, summoned it to surrender. General
Rusca replied as he ought. Winzingerode placed
his twelve pieces of cannon in a battery : unfortu-
nately the first ball killed General Rusca ; one thou-
sand men of the National Guards were the only gar-
rison in the plate ; they were thunderstruck,. and the
enemy entered Soissons, where he committed all the
horrors imaginable. Tile Generals who were in the
place, and,who should have taken the command upbn
the death of General Rusca, shall be brought before
a conned of enquiry, for Chit town ought not to ha
been taken.
" The Duke of Treviso re-occupied Bo;ssons on the
19th, and has re-organised the defence of it.
" Gen.-Vincent writes froln Chateau Thierry, that
X5O of the enemy's light troops having returned to
Fere, in Tardenois, M. d'Arbaud .Missun marched
against them with sixty horse of the suede; d'konneur
which he had collected, and with the assistance of the
national guards of the villages, beat them, killing sc.
veral, and dispersing the remainder.
41 General Milhaud ntet the enemy at St. Martin-le.
Bosnay, upon the old road .from Nogent to Troyes.
The enemy had about eight hundred horse. He
caused them to be attacked by three hundred men,
who overthrew him, made one hundred and sixty
prisoners, killed some twenty men, and took about one!
hundred horses.- He has pursued, and is still pm.'
suing tee enemy retie dame let ream.
The Duke of Castiglione has left Lyons with a
considerable corps d'arnsee, composed of chosen troops,
to march into Franehe Comte and Switzerland.
" The Congress of Chitillon still continues; but the.
enemy throws every difficulty in the way of it (mail
tennemie y pa* mite eeittri d'estravet). The Cossacks
at every step stop the couriers, and although we are
bat thirty leagues distance from Chatillon, in a direct
line, couriers do not arrive but after four or five days
)oanwe- It is the first time the rights of nations have
in this manner been violated. Among nations the
least civilized, the couriers of Ambassadors are ee-
:petted, and no obstruction given 'to the communica-
tions of negotiators with their Government.
"The inhabitants of Paris might have expected the
greatest misfortunes, bad the enemy arrived at their
gates, and they surrendered their city without de-
fence. Pillage, devastation, and fire, would have,
finished the destinies of this fine capital.
" The cold is very sharp. This circumstance has
been favourable to our enemies, a% it has enabled them
to carry off their artillery and baggage by all the
• roads. Without that, more than half their waggons
would have fallen into our hands."
MINISTER OF JIJSTICE.
We, Count Molc, Grand Judge, Minister of Jus-
tice, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Grandl
Cordon of the Order of Union,
" Considering the letter addressed to us on the
17th of February,;lBl4, by M. the Duke of Vicenza,
whereby he informs us, according to the orders of his
Majesty the Emperor and King, of the King of Na-
ples having declared war against France, and that
it is the intention of his Imperial and Royal Majesty
that we should, by a formal declaration', and confor.
•

LONDON.

NEXT FRIDAY
THE LOTTERY BEGINS DRAWING.

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Paris Papers to the 25th ultimo have now reached
Town. They furnish us with no accounts of fresh
battles, with the exception of a slight affair between
Troyes and Nogent, which is narrated in the usual
stile of gasconade. The head-quarters of BONAPARTR
were at Nogent on the 20th and 21st. He admits
that the armies of the Allies were concentrating at
Troyes. The most important passage in the official
Report to the ENIPRESS is certainly that in which the
negociations at Chatillon are noticed. The Congreis
continues, but " the enemy throws every difficulty in
the way of it." This does not allude to the conduct
of the negotiators. It is evident from what follows,
that the Cossacks, not understanding the laws of na-
tions, and probably anxious to check every approxi-
mation to a pacification until they have visited Paris,
are the aggressors. The interior of France must be
in a most distracted state, since a courier with dis-
patches can travel one hundred miles in four or five
days only !
A pathetic appeal is made to the Parisian Public,
anticipating what would have been their sufferings
had the Allies carried Paris by a coup de maim. The
Generals who commanded at Soissons are repriman-
ded in• the same querulous tone which has recently
„
;parked BONAPARTE'S Bulletins.
The defection of MURAT is formally announced In
the Paris Papers. Count MOLE, calling himself Grand
Judge, announces that the King of NAPI.ES has de-
clared war against France, and calls upon every na-I
tive-born Frenchman to quit the service of the Nea-
politan Government. We apprehend that MURAT
will sustain no loss from the absence of the spies and
sycophants of his brother-in-law, NAPOLEON.
On the whole we eonsider the present intelligenee
as more favourable than any received for some time
from the Grand Allied Army. The different corps,
approach each other, and by this time we may be-
lieve ate united. They ought, in our opinion, never
to have acted separately in their approach towards
the French capital, if they had the means of keeping
together ; but perhaps the demand for provisions for
such numerous hosts in an enemy's country, and other'
circumstances, with which those who superintend the
operations could-alone be acquainted, compelled them
to pursue different roads. Whatever may have ori-
ginally occasioned the advance of BLUCHER and
WINZINORRODS by different routes, the circumstance
was favourable to the general system pursued by Na-

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roiaex, which has aiwayaheeri td ear owe npon
some weak point of his adversary with an over-
whelthing force ; and the whble history of the war for
the last fifteen years, proves that to this system he
has been indebted for his greatest successes.
From the hasty view we have just taken, our
lteadets will easily perceive that we consider the re-
treat of the Allied Annies as not having been with-
out its advantages. It is a matter of no small im-
portance to perceive, from the asuerly retreat of
BLUCHER, the unshaken bravery and perfect disci-
pline of his army, how much the morale of the Ger-
man troops has been improved, since the spirit of the
Continent has been roused to throw off the chains of
the oppressor. The time has been—nor is the pe-
riod very remote, in which the advantage gained by
BONAPARTE in his attack upon BLUCHER would have
been followed by a complete defeat instead of a
masterly retreat.
The consummate skill, valour, patience, and forti-
tude displayed by the Allied troops on this occasion,
are of infinite importance. In our estimation such a
retreat as they effected is in its consequence of more
real advantage than even a victory under common
circumstances ; and sure we are that BONAPARTE
must so view it. If the army be composed of mate-
rials that can present such a front to the foe when' di-
vided, what may we not expect from its united la-
bours

The ilutution of the allied troops is a circumstance.
of great Interest at the present moment, as it will
have no small influence on the negociations now car-
rying on at Chatillon, and which there is every reason
to believe will lead to the restoration of a General
Peace.

The French Papers to the 25th, besides the extracts
which are given in another part of this Paper, con-
tain an article stating that Admiral VERIIk.VIL still
holds out in the Texel, and praising the condu ct of
that Commander.

Last night both Houses of Parliament met, pursu-
ant to adjournment, and again adjourned to the list
March. Our Readers will perceive that no particular
opposition was made to this measure. The retarding
of the• routine business of the Session was slightly
hinted at as a matter of inconvenience, but no amend-
ment whatever to the motion was suggested.
The House of Lords was numerously attended,
and to strangers were behind the Bar. Amongst
the Peers present, we noticed—.
The Archbishop of Can:erbury, their Royal Highnesses the
Dukes of Sussex and Gloucester. the Dukes of Norfolk and
Montrow, the MaNnisses of Lanschrwn and Catatden, the Earls
of Abergavenny, Carlisle, Chohnondeley, Darnley, Derby. /far,
roWhy, Liverpool, Nelson, Pomfret, Sandwich, Sienc- r, and
Stanhope, Vvcounts Melville and Idmouth, the Bishop of
Chester, and Lords Arden, Eldon, Eilenburough, Kenyon, and
Watsinghstn.

The attendance in the House ofCommons amount-
ed to upwards of 200 Members. The gallery was
eorowded with strangers.
The Lynn ettanesta.on waited upon the Papier
Ii.EGENT, after the breaking np of the House of Lords,
at Carlton House, and had a long audience.
Mr. Rosixsos was in constant consultation with the
Earl of 14tvitawsk a few days previous to his depar-
ture. He dined with the Noble Earl and Countess,
Madame STARE., and a select party on Thiwsday.—
On Friday he was closely engaged with the Noble
Earl before and after the Cabinet Council. On Sa-
turday and Sunday he also attended the Noble Earl.
On the latter ,day the Letan CHANCELLOR was present
part of the time, till their Lordships waited-upon the
PRINCE REGENT, to take his final sanction to the dis-
patches. Mr. ROBINSON dined on Sunday with hi,
mother, Lady GRANTHAM, and afterwards saw the
Earl of LIVERPOOL again, to take his last instructions.
We are authorised to state very positively, that
' Madame CATALAN' will contract engagement this
year at the Opera.—At her Concerts, which will com-
mence at the Argyle Rooms on the 24th instant, and
continue once a week during the three best months of
the season, she will sing several pieces of new music,
and tunas from some of the most admired Operas.
Toe CAMBRIAN .JUBILEE.—The Loyal Society oil
Antient Britons held their Centenary Meeting yester-
day. A number of Noblemen and Gentlemen, also
many Ladies, assembled in the morning at the School,
in Gray's-Inn-lane Road, when each, according to
custom, was presented with an artificial leek. Soon
after elevea o'clock they moved in grand procession,
but the morning turning out very wet, the children
Gould not walk ; the girls were consequently taken into,
the ladies' carriages, and the boys in hackney-coaches.
—A band of music preceded the President's carriage
(Earl Pas= ), then the Bishop of CHESTER, afterwards
Ills City Marshal in full uniform ; here a few of the
ibts walked, then followed a long. train of Gentle-
men's carriages; the servants wearing leeks. Had
the weather been fine the sight would have been
a • truly gratifying one. The procession arrived
at St. Martin's Church about half past twelve,
when the service was read in the Ancient British
language, by the Chaplain of the Society, and an ex-
cellent discourse was delivered by the Lord Bishop
of Cintsrge. They proceeded afterwards to Carlton-
House, where the children gave their Royal Patron
several hearty cheers, continuing their route through
St. James's-square (saluting the puke of NORIOLK
and Sir W. W. WyriNz), through Hanover-square,
&c. to the Freemason's Tavern, where an excellent
dinner was provided, of which between seven and
eight hundred persons partook : Earl Piracy in the
Chair, with the Duke of KENT on his right band and
the Bishop of CHESTER on his left.
Private letters from Holland state, that VIRHUEL I
i is fixed a limited time to give up the Testa flect‘
provided the country continued in possession of ha
present Sovereign. He has solemnly protested that
be will burn the whole of the shipping in case mu.'
stares are taken to compel him to surrender. Sixty
Frenchmen are on board the ships for the porpoise of
carrying into execution any orders of the Admiral
for their destruct*.