Star.
London, England, 1813-06-26 00:00:00

PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT.

Mr. CREEVEY could have wished that this sub-
ject could have been brought forward at an earlier
period. On his own account he had never intended
to make any complaint ; but the sentence passed on
him affected, in a most essential degree, the privileges
of that House, both with regard to themselves and to
posterity, though he should not ask the House to
come to any Resolution upon the case. This was the
first instance in the history of Parliament of a Mem-
ber being arraigned for words spoken in that House.
Early in the last Session, upon a discussion respec-
ting the East India Company, he had taken occa-
sion, among other reasons for laying open the trade,
to state the condition of Liverpool, and maintained,
that because the American trade had been suspend-
ed, the India trade should be laid open. On this
subject he had entered into some debate respecling
theincrease of the poor, who had been compelled to
apply for relief from their paris!ies. He had after-
wards learned that General Ta.ileton, then one of the
Members for Liverpool, had stated that the account
' he (Mr. Creevey) had given was grossly exaggerated,
and had read a letter from a merchant in Liverpool
to that purpose. A petition having been coon after
presented from Liverpool, for laying open the trade to
India, he had taken that opportuetty to restate what
he had asserted before, and mentioned, as an addi-

tional vexation upon the town, a new surcharge upon
the taxes, and that this had been laid on by a collet-
tor of the name of Kirkpatric. Shortly after, a very
incorrect report of his speech had appeared in the
London Newspapers, which had found its way into
the Liverpool Papers, and he had thought it a duty
to himself to insert it in the Paper that had given an
incorrect account of his speech, a correct and faith-
ful account of what he had actually spoken. This
account had been given last March twelvemonth,
and it was not till the middle of October he had
learnt that an indictment had been preferred against
him fir a libel before the Bench of Justices at Man-
chester. This had appeared to him a very new case,
and, with all his respect for the Gentlemen forming
that Bench, he did not conceive them a proper
tribunal to decide upon a question of privilege of
Parliament, and had removed the indictment, by
certiorari, into the Court of King's Bench.--it had
been admitted by the prosecutor, that all contained
( in the Paper had been spoken in the House, and had
i been insetted as a correction of an erroneous report.
No attempt had been made to impute malice, and he
i .
I:rad made an affidavit that he had never seen the
prosecutor in his life. His Counsel contended, that
! he, being a Member of Parliament, was not amena- I
I ble to the Courts below ; but the Judge maintained
that privilege was out of the question ; that malice
was no necessary part of the charge, and that die real
question was, Were the words defamatory or not?—
Such was the charge of the Learne4 Judge, and he
had accordingly been found guilty. He had then
made a Motion for a new trial grounded upon the/
plea of a misdirection on the part of the Judge. The
Judges, however, had been unanimous in thinking
they were bound by the case of the King versus the
Earl of Abingdon. Lord Ellenborough had said, he
had never heard of a plea so absurd ; and Justice
!Bailey had termed it a degradation to publish a
speech in a Newspaper, though B4ronWood had not
scrupled to correct, in that manner, a mis-statement
that had appeared respecting a charge he had given.
Mr. Justice Grose, in pronouncing the judgment of
4the Court, and fining him £lOO, had apologized for
the mildness of that sentence, and insinuated, that it
could not but appear that the publication in question
was a libel on the late Mr. Perceval, and that it was
bottomed in disaffection to the State—(Hear, hear.)
Thus the Learned Judge, in pronouncing the judg.
ment of the Court on him, uttered two libels upon
.him, by stating him to be guilty of two crimes of
which he had not been convicted—(Hear, hear.)
The case of Lord Abingdon related to an attack
upon the professional character of an individual, be-
tween whom and himself there had existed a quarrel,
and malice had been proved. Lord Abingdon meant
to make the House of Lords a vehicle for printing his
speech. His (Mr. Creevey's) speech related to a
servant of the Public, and no attempt had been made
to prove a private quarrel. The two cases were in
' complete opposition to each other. Should this doc-
trine prove true, it would put an end to all commu-
nication between the Representative and Constituent
Bodies. If Judge Grose was right, then his (Mr.
Creevey's) speech was a seditious libel, and he had
made a similar speech upon the hustings at Liver-
pool, the Attorney-General might have filed against
him an ex officio information, and, instead of address-
ing that House, he might have been now in gaol.
In giving a viva 'ace account, he was liable to dif-
ferent actions of legal process, even were he stating
his Parliamentary conduct to his Constituents, al-
though unheard of till now, that for such conduct a
Member of Parliament was liable to prosecution.-
-If a man were to state his reasons for voting for
an impeachment, could he do it without using de-
famatory words ? tie himself had voted against
I Lot d Melville, and against the Duke of York ; and
'were he to state his reason for doing so, must not
defamatory words be made use of ? and, upon the
principle of Justice Le Blanc, lie might be indicted
fur a libel. He regarded it now as settled, that re-
ports of speeches in Parliament should be given to
the Public ; and, according to this new doctrine, a
MeWber must be at the mercy of a lipporter for any

thing he might say in the Hodse, and at the mercy meth to his honour, and the treatment of whom
air
of the Judge for any correction he might make of so disgraceful to that period. This was en additional
an erroneous,report. It was impossible it should not reason, he contended, for jealousy against Judges,
be law, that a man might give a bona fide account who might so easily become the instruments of the
of 'his conduct, and for this he was amenable to the, party most in power at the time.. The Honcu-able
House alone. In the long Parliament (when the de. Member mentioned also the case of Mr. Speaker
bates were carried on with closed doors) the House Williams, who, in the reign of Ch.ules the Secosf,
occasionally adopted the practice of ordering speeches was fined ten thousand pounds for publishing hie
to be printed, and particularly those made by Mr. speech, though a servant of the House of Common&
Pym and Mr. St. John, on Lord Stafford's At- The first objects of jealousy then were the Judges,
tainder Bill, and this was recognized by the King. akd they ought not to be less so in his own case.
—But Lord Digby also printed his speech against 'Me Honourable Member disclaimed all pets ,nal mo.
the Bill, and though the House had ordered Pym's tive in the publication of his speech, or resesentuees
speech to be printed, they appointed a Committee of the slightest degree against the person concerned,
to inquire into the printing of Lord Digby's, and whom he had never scot), to his knowledge. It was
came to a resolution, that it contained matter un- from a regard to the House he had brought heel:.
true and scandalous to the proceedings of both ject forward. He denied that the case of the Kee.
Houses, and should be publicly burned by the hang- against Lord Abinedon forreed any precedent ir.
man. He had scaled this „to shew that this matter i instance. When privilege was mentioned he had give!,
was cognizable by the House alone, and that the pu- ' jealousy too of Parliament it-: It es a body, as in the
nishment only was that the speech should be burned. long Parliament it was well haown that they order. 4
This was a great offence against the Parliament of the speeches to be printed that were is f _Avow of tee
that day, as the speech of Lord Digby was highly majority, and forbade such as were against them to
injurious to-the witnesses against Lord Strafford, and be published. Even in more modern times iie :anat.
in particular to Sir H. Vane. Yet the House only :of a similar nature were not ..,wanting. Ia the la.;
came to the resolution of addressing ilieCrown against Parliament it would be lectiliected that proias we:,:
conferring any additional dignity on Lord Digby, offered of Ministers having been trafficking in seate
and made an order that no Member should give notes which was a gross breach of the Privilege of Pai-
d any thing that should take place in that House. liament. This, however, was passed over, whale
This clearly shewed the power of the House, and pour Gale Jones, for speaking of a particuhr
proved that the House was the only judge whether a Member of that House, was sent to Newgnte, ;Ira
Member should print his speech. In the same Parlia- confined there for nearly a whole Session. Here, nt
ment Sir Edward Deering printed his speech; this this Session too, the Duke of Cumberland acid the
was decided to be an offence against the House, and Duke of Leeds had been both before the. Ilt.ese, for
Sir Edward was expelled. Could a Court of Law call interfering in Elections ; but the moment mention
a Member before them to give a lieu yore statement was made of prosecution, they were told this would
of his conduct ? In the long Parliament, Mr. Taylor, be the highest degree of ill manner 4. 'While the ere-
who had been of the same opinion with Lord Digby ment mention was made cf Mr. Coogan, who vete
as to the case of Lord Strafford, stated at Windsor guilty only of a similar cal) etehe was ordered instantly
that the House had not his consent to pass the Bill to prison, with'-ut any ceremony. Thie with him,
lagainst that Nobleman, as that would have been to was a strong reason for distrust of Privilege in the
commit murder with the sword of Justice. The hands of Perliament itself, as it was liab!e m such
Mayor of Windsor gave evidence as to these ex- misapplication. When it was permitted to ethers to
! pressions having been used, and the House came report their speeches, Members themselves ought cer-
ito a resolution that Mr. Taylor should be expelled, tainly to have a right at least to correct them. Had
committed to the 'rower, and should make acknow- the Judges looked ter any precedent with respect to
ledgement of his offence. This shewed that a Mem- • his case, they might have found one better than that
ber could not be called into any Court to explain his of Lord Abingdon. He contended, that Judges, in
conduct, but must be amenable to the House alone. such cases, were liable to be warped, as in the case
These were all the cases before the Restoration: after of the King against Wright. Mr. Wright net being
that period, from 1660 to 1678, Andrew Marvill, the person appointed by e.eliority to publish the tit ea
Member for Hull, was in the habit of sending weekly of the House, was prosecuted for publishing these,
to his constituents an account of all that he said in and a Select Committee of the House charged hint
Parliament ; and as he was in constant opposition to with high treason, though he was afterwards acquitted.
the Government of that day, his account would, pro. Lord Kenyon said, that it the publication was w!,at
bably, partake of that sarcastic spirit for which lie it professed to be, a true copy, he saw no pretence
was so eminent. In 1679 a Committee was appointed for a rule to shew cause ; but the opinion of Judge
to inquire. into Sir F. Winnington's speech, and that Lawrence was the most remarkable, whom nobody
of Lord Cavendish ; but no proceedings took Wee, would doubt of being inferior in learning to Led
though it was about the time when the question of Ellenborough, without any disrespest to that Learned
the Exclusion of the Duke of York was so warmly Lord. Judge Lawrence said, that the publication of
agitated that those speeches were made. They had, the proceedings of Courts of Law might, in some
therefore, cases, he argued, of printed speeches; of cases, be attended with inconvenience ; but there was
which no complaint was ever thought of being made no act against it, and it was generally of advantage
in a Court of Law, but for which, if any punishment to the public to have such cases known. 'the same,
was to be inflicted, it was to be done only by the added the Judge, would hold true with respect to Pars
House itself, and this had been generally done by an liament, and as the defendant only published a true
• order to burn the publication. At last comes this case copy, lie had the rule discharged. Lord Ellenbo-
of a speech against a person employed in the collec- rough said, on the contrary, that nothing was so vile
Lion of the Revenue at Liverpool, and was he to have as a Member to publish his speeches. It was not for
a right to punish by applying to a Court of Law, him to contend with so high an authority ; but he
while before this even the Crown itself had claimed must say, that there appeared, too much, to be one
no such power ? To printed speeches delivered in law for one and another law for another. The Hon.
Parliament, the public had owed much information ; Member concluded by moving a Resolution declera.
and Members, before the system of reporting was tory of the whole of the legal proceedings against
known, he had shewn, had been often in the habit him, with respect to Mr. Kirkpatric.
of publishing their oan speeches, without being 'file SPEAKER observed, that ;t was not usual
amenable to any Court of Law. Now, however, for the House to receive the whole ofd narrative
that the practice of reporting had become in some ' without any evidence before them. At the same
measure legalized, at length this case had occurred, . time, if the House thought proper, a question might
where a Member-was liable to prosecution fur pub- be raised on the meiiion ; and asked, who seconded
lishing a correct statement of his own speech, • the Hon. Member
against the misrepresentations that might have gone , Mr. BENNET seconded the motion.
abroad. He believed there were about thirty orders ! On the question being put—
of the House against printing and publishing speeches, ; Mr. C. VYNNE said, the question for the House
but notwithstanding these, the practice of reporting to consider was simply this, whether any Member of
seemed to be legalized, and surely in that case a that House had a right to publish whatever he
Member could not be punishable in a Court of Law , thought proper, as a speech spoken by him in Parlias
for publishing a correct statement of his own speech. ment for to this extent would the privilege claimed
The right ot punishing had always resided hitherto in by his Honourable Friend go. The privilege of Par-
the House itself. The Hon. Member here adduced liament implied that every Member should have lull
the case of Mr. Wilkes in 1771, who, though in dis- and uncontrouled liberty of speech within those
grace with the House of Commons, resisted the sum- walls ; but it could not extend to any thing said or
mons of the Magistrates. That Gentleman pleaded published beyond them, without giving to every
that the publication was for the interest of the public, Member of the House of Commons I right to libel
rand if so, the interest of the public must be the same whom he pleased, under the pretence of
now as in 1771. Reporters being now in seine mea- his Parliamentary duty. This had been the decided
sure authorised by usage, should they make an incor. opinion of Mr. Fox, than whom there was no man
rect report, the case became still stronger, and made , who better understood the privileges of Parliament,
it more necessary that Members should, when neces- or who was more attached to the liberty of the press.
sary, correct their mis-statements. Allowing the case, —Mr. Wynne took a view of the cases cited by his
with respect to him, to be a just or legal proceeding, Honourable Friend, every one of ishich, he thought,
it would follow that any man might report a speech made strongly against his argument. The case of
but the Member himself. Ife knew it might be said, Lord Abingdon, which Mr. Creevey considered as
that lie might call a person to the bar, or have him very different from his own, appeared to him exactly
committed to prison for any mis-statement of a speech in point. The greatest injury that could be done to
or for stating it at all ; but he wished to do neither : the privileges of Parliament would be an attempt to
on the contrary, he was friendly to the liberty of re. extend them beyond the limits Axed by our lore-
porting. He knew that speeches taken in haste, and fathers.
often under great disadvantages, might sometimes be Colonel O'HARA spoke in favour of the motion.
incorrect, without any intention of misrepresentation. He argued, that the right of Members to give to their
He wished the speeches to be printed, but he wished, constituents an account of their sentiments delivered in
at the same time, not to be prevented himself from Parliament, implied a right to publish them to the
correcting them when necessary, for the information kingdom at large.
of his constituents. When Parliament talked of pri- Mr. WESTERN said he could not vote for the
vilege, the first object of jealousy, in his opinion, motionof his Hon. Friend, in the shape he had brought
were the Judges, who, in most cases, have always it forward, though he should have voted tor an in-
been the willing instruments of the Crown. In quiry to ascertain the right of Parliament on the sub-
Charles the First's time the Judges had the same ject. He thought it of the utmost importance te
affectation of regard for privilege as now. In Mr. guard their privileges with respect to the law ot libel
Selden's case the same sort of language was employed from any encroachments on the part of the Crown.
by the Bench that he had lately heard in his own case, I Lord A. HAMILTON observed, that it the law
and, like Mr. Justice Grose, they attributed his mo- were not as the Judges had laid it down, it
ought,
tives to sedition.—These same. Judges, however, sen- for the general benent of the public, to be so establi.
tented Mr. Selden to imprisonment during the Kigg's I shed ; since Members of Parliament ought not to be
pleasure, (hear, hear,) and to pay a fine of Raw.. i allowed the impunity they would possess, it the due-.
At that time some even died in prison because they ; trines; laid down by Mr. Creevey were concurred in.
could not pay the fines. They reasoned exactly as If it were otherwise, and Members were only to be
they did in his case. You may say what you like m restrained by the House, the freedom of debate would
the House of Commons, but you must say it no. be more effectually abridged, as none could spe uk hut
where else. When these Judges made their first de.., under the tenor of correction of the Speaker. MA
cision they were on the side of the Court, afterwards Representatives of the people were not to be deemed
the very same Judges, during the long Parliament, a separate class of individuals, amenable to no law,
were for Parliament, because the strongest party ; noe for what they might utter, but what they mug"
and the same Court of King's Bench were against i afterwards deliberately publish.
Lord Stratford, for whom the Xins was figloing I 4,0ril
I so • CASTLEKKAGki wide that the heists

men et sheeting the Itaslurton'orylt. Crteivey would
b to move upon it the other orders of the day. The
subject had been already argued so much to his sa-
tisfaction,, that he should only make a single remark
,pun the quotation produced by an Honourable Gen-
tl..nian' (Mr. Western). He ought to recollect, in '
referring to the doctrines laid down in the document
I.e cued, that circumstances were now greatly
cl)..need, and the Judges were not/ completely inde-
pendent of the Crown, and could not be said to be at
any time influenced by its wishes.
Mr. WESTERN, Mr. WYNNE, and Lord CkETLEP-
RCAGH severally explained.
Mr. WHITBREAD thought that his Hon. Friend
had been perfectly regular, and had introduced this
shbject as early as possible. With regard to himself
in the proceedings, three years ago he had steered a.
middle course, always contending for moderation,
because when its privileges we're pushed to extremes,
the House had uniformly been in error. Every man
must be in favour of the publication of the proceed-
ings of Parliament, but whetheY the Member himself
ought to deliver his speeches tO the public, especially
if they were of a libellous tendehcy, was another
question. Upon this point he could not go the
Nhole length with his Honourable Friend, although
approved of much of the arguitient, and of
many of the remarks that by him were made.—
He was Somewhat surprised by the uncalled. for
talogium pronounced by the Noble Lord Upon our
Courts of Justice ; but while the House *as so anxi-
ous for the welfare and security of the public, it
might not to forget the protection due to itt own
Members. If the individual libelled had a remedy
against the libeller, what remedy had that libeller
Pgainst the unfounded assertions of the Court. Sup-
pose it was said (as it had been in his presence) that
his Hon. Friend had been guilty, in this instance, of
a libel upon the late Mr. Perceval, and that he was
disaffected to the Government, was he to obtain no
etiress f He appealed to the Law Officers of the
Crown, whether there was or was not in the power of
individual so accused, any remedy for the gross
injury which he sustained in his character ? Upon
the whole, although he could not vote in favour of
the original motion, hut should support the Amend-
ment of the Noble Lord, he thought that Mr. Creevey
had done the tountry a considerable service, by intro-
ducing this important question upon the journals of
:he House.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said k was not
his intention to have spoken; but he could not avoid
expressing his astonishment, that, after so much con-
sideration, the Hon. Gentleman could not make any
proposition but to enter the narrative on the Journals
of the House. He wished to ask him if he meant to
ground any other proceeding on that proposition ?
[Mr. Creevey said he would not be questioned.]
He imagined not; and it was extraordinary, that in
a ease where the privileges of the House were con-
serned, no other course was pursued. But did the
Hon. Member hereafter mean to move to impeach the
sudges or to address for their rem Oval ? or did he in-
trnd to call up the judgment for revision ? The Hon.
and. Learned Gentleman then alluded to what he called
reflections on a Judge now no more, and another who
had retired Leith the highest character a man could
passess—he would state his recollection of the matter.
then detailed the proceedings in the Courts—de-
ri:ed that malice was necessary to constitute a libel—
cited the case of a murderer, who should kill his
master and mistress without malice ; and said, that
the Hon. Member had inferred that the Judges had
dealt out a different measure of justice to him because
he was obnoxious to the Guvernment, and that they
'were guilty of the greatest enormities, because they
thought it would give good pleasure to the Ruling
Powers. This he denied. Lord Ellenhorough had
not said that he had never heard of the pi ivilege of
Members to explain their sentimeats to their consti-
tuents ; but he had said, that he had never heard of
their privilege to libel all the King's subjects. With
regard to the sentence complained of, it was well
known that the sentence was that of all the Judges ;
but the corrective admonitions belonged only to him
'rho gave them. The Learned Judge, in delivering
the sentence, was accounting for its lenity. He said,
that the prosecution had been brought forward for
private purposes, and had somehat of malice in it, and
therefore the sentence was less severe ; but that the
great object of the Hon. Gentleman's speech was to
attack the late Mr. Perceval, and through him the
Government. These, he confessed, were severe ob-
servations, but they were not libellous; and, in apo-
logising for the lenity of the sentence, the Learned
Judge had not made up for it by libelling the person
on whom it was passed. He wished the words had
been more guarded, but they did not weigh a grain
in the sentence. The rights of the House would not
be at all trenched on by the decision.
Mr. CREEVEY said, the Attorney-General had
declined taking any part against him in the Courts,
evidently reserving himself for an attack in that
]louse—(Hear, hear)—and being deficient in argu-
ment, he had reverted to his old trade of examination,
and questioned him like a witness at the Old Bailey.
•—(if laugh.)—Any one entering that House during
.he speech of the Learned Gentleman, would have
taken him (Mr. Creevey) not for a Member defend-
ing a proposition, but for the murderer of Mr. and
Mrs. Bonar.—(Hear, hear.)—The Hon. Gentleman
then shortly replied to the various speakers, and said
14, s:_w in the proceedings the beginning of a system
cutting off all connection between Members and
!:;eir Constituents ; he , only wished. to have his pro-
t osition on the Journals of the House ; he would not
pres; the division ; and the Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman had admitted the words used by the Judge in
.lel;v,:ring the sentence.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL denied any such
.admission.

Mr. WHITBREAD was ready to depose to the
wcrds.

Mr. BENNETT affirmed, that the words used by
;udge Grose as he had taken them down at the time,
..tar, that the speech of his Honourable Friend was
bottomed nn disaffection to the Government,"
•'rich words he considered to be a gross and scanda-
'•cros libel.

The Motion proposed by Lord CASTLEREAGH for
passing to the other Orders of 4he Day, was then put,
:And carried without opposition.

- :
MISCELLANEOUS.

lard CASTLEREAGH moved the second reading of the East
bdia Bill.
After some conversationbetween Mr.Tizitmtv, Mr. GRANT,
the SPSIINES, and Lwd CasTatniatutis the JiW was rea4 a se-

,tend timukund ordered to grumitted on Mondat next, with,
an undeistanding that the de ate was to take place on the going
into the Committee. • •
On age motion of tbeCHA'NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
the Hons, in a Committee of Supply, agreed to a Resolution for
raising one million by Exchequer Balk—Report to be received
on Monday next.
The Deputy Remembrancer of Eichequer tills was postponedi
to this day three months.
The Fur Coeds Duty Bill, Land Tiix Alupodment BiU, Funded
Debt Bill, Local Tokens Bill, Peninsula Cogrt Martial Bill, Mi-
li Pay Bill, severally went through Corm ittees.a—Reports or-
dered to be received on Monday next. 11
Mr. WILLIAM SMITH presented a Pultlon from the Citt
of Norwich against the Corn Bill about to by brought into Par-
liament.—Read, and ordered to lie on the table.
he bids sees Commissioners Bill was read a first time.—Or-
dered to be read a second time on Mondiy
Ile Peninsula Military Accounts Auditing Bill was read the
firit time, and ordered robe read a second time on Tuesday next,
and printed.—The House adjourned to Monday next.

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We can now state from authority that a Forekner
of distinction is daily expected to embark at Morlaix
on a diplomatic mission to this country. Orders have
been sent to the various Out-ports, by Government,
to receive him with all due respect. He is expected
to be the bearer of Dispatches of importance' from
Austria, and we have reason to believe that arrange-
ments are being made for a communication with the
Continent to be kcpt up during his residence here,
through the direct medium of Dover and Calais.

Mr. M'KENZIE, who went on a mission some time
ago fur the purpose of effecting an exchange of pri-
soners of war with the French Government, set out,
we understand, yesterday morning at five o'clock, to
embark at Harwich for the Continent. Mr. M'KENZIE
is said to be the bearer of important dispatches to
Lord CATHCART, who is understood to be at the Em-
petor ALEXANDER'S head-quarters.

His Majesty's ship ROLLA arrived yesterday at
Yarmouth, from Wismar, with General HOPE and
suite on board, from the Baltic. The General ar-
rived in town th's morning, and immediately waited
upon Lbrd CASTLEREAGH, with whom he had a long
audience. The late abortive attempts to conciliate
Denmark, are understood to have occasioned Gene-
ral HopE's unexpected retu-...

The Lady Nepean pat.kat has arrived at Harwich
from Gottenburgh in four days, with a Mail and
dispatches, of which Count Batman, of the Russian
Legation, is the bearer. By the Lady Nepean we
learn, that notwithstanding the Armistice, the Rus-
sians, about 3500 strong, entered Leipzic on the 7th
instant—attacked the French in the suburbs on the
same evening, killed 1500, and took the same num-
ber prisoners. The Duke of PADUA then sent Gene-
ral LA Mourn to notify the Armistice ; but which
Count WORONZOFF and General TCHERNICIIFT re-'
fused to regard until properly announced to them
by their own Government. The above is no doubt
one of the affairs alluded to in the French Pa-
pers.—By the above Mail we have also received the
Prussian account of General BuLow's brilliant affair
on the 29th, on the Berlin road—the defeat of the
Doke of REGGIO (OUDINOT) was complete.
The following are extracts from Berlin Papers of
the 6th and kith, and Altona of the 10th and 11 di inst.:
is BERLIN, JUNE 6.

" Yesterday afternoon a Russian Staff Officer, in
company with a French Staff Officer, passed through
this city for Hamburgh,' with important dispatches
from their respective Monarchs."

" BANKS OF THE ELBE, JUNE 3.

" Several concurring accounts state, that the French
are hastily removing their wounded from Dresden
towards Erfurt. This, combined with other facts, ap-
pears to confirm the retrograde motion of the French
main army on the Elbe, which was to have been
masked by the unsuccessful attack on the 4th.

" Hamburgh was, as our Readers probably already
know, occupied by Danish, and afterwards by French
troops, without endangering the security of persons
and property. As the Russian General, Count Wal-
moden, who with his corps has taken a position before
the Trave and Stekenitz, is tinder the orders of the
Crown Prince of Sweden ; the further conduct of
the operations are to be expected from the resolutions
of that Prince. Should, as is not to be doubted, the
differences between Denmark and England be accom-
modated, the possession of Hamburg!' can be of no
military importance."

" BERLIN, JUNE 8.

66 The return to Head•quarters of the Russian Mi-
nister, Count Nissilrode, from Vienna is expected
daily, and it is supposed he will bring with him the
Austrian declaration of war against France, as, accor-
ding to all appearances, the Cabinet of Vienna has
rejected all the propositions made to it by France, re-
lative to its alliance."

" COPENHAGEN, JUNE 5.

41 Last Thursday arrived here the third and last
transport of our sailors, from Antwerp. They
marched with drums beating and colours flying
through the gate, called Westerthor, to the Holm,
the place of their destination."

4, JUNE B.—On the 29th ult. in the morning,
Prince Frederick left Christiania to embark for Co-
penhagen. Above 200 persons accompanied him to
Setter, two miles from the city, or received him there.

The Officers of the CorporOoo' expected hho there
to breakfast.

" Tbere were about 3000 persons assembled, and
few eyes were dry at the departure of this noble and
excellent Prince. Prince Christian was much affect-
ed at the scene, and, taking a glass, said—" GOB
tant, that my departure from hence may resemble
ours !"—The two Princes parted at Frederickstack.
Prince Frederick hai already arrived here."

We have received Paris Papers to the 23d, and
they contain detaili from the French Army to the
14th. The Armistice has been rigidly fulfilled by
those who were paities to it, i. e. th( Emperor of
Russo and King of PRUSSIA on the one hand; and
BONAi'ARTS on the other ; but as the War in Ger-
ifany daily assumed more of the character of a po-
pular insurrection for liberty and indepengence, it
could not be expected that those tvho considered them-
selvei as owing allegiance to no legitimate Sovereign
(and we may sidely exhibit the subjects of the fugi-
tive King of SAXODIY as in this predicament) it was
not to be exiiected, we say, that those men would de-
sist from their sacred labours, merely because the
belligerent Sovereigns required rest for their regular
armies.

It is, therefore, with unfeigned joy that we find
BONAPARTE, his Report to MARIA LOVISA, con.
fessing that al some of the enemy's partizans are in
his rear, waling wor on their own account, after the
manner of &HILL, and refusing to acknowledge the
Armistice." It is long since we knew that there
*ere bodies of armed men in Germany, who had
sworn to deliver their country from a foreign yoke, or
to perish in the attempt; and, upon turning to the
STAR of Monday, our Readers will find that we de-
scribed these gg Jacobins," as BONAPARTE calls them,
in the following language
There is at this moment en the shores of the Elbe a corps of
three thousand mounted Prussians and Germans, armed and
equipped at their own expense, composed of the higher classes of
students In the German Universities, and Officered mostly by the
Professors themselves, who have sworn allegiance to no earthly
Sovereign, but have embodied themselves for the express. pur-
pose of delivering their native land from the yoke of foreigners ;
and they have already intimated, that they consid* themselves
as bound by no Armistice which leaves the French in possession
of a single inch of ground on the German side of the Rhine !
" Ministers are fully acquainted with the determination of
these heroes, for they have been applied to for arms and ammu-
nition to be distributed among the lower classes, by whom they
are followed in great numbers. Many of the Chiefs of this pa-
triotic baud were in London within these few months—a Doctor
AEBROCK, who was sonic time ago the bearer of a letter to the
KING of PRUSSIA, written by the PRINCE REGENT'. own hand,
now holds the rank of Culonrl in this Death-ar-Victory-Corps, The
celebrated German Professor ST aril F N b holds the same rank."

It must be in the recollection of every person in
this country that the fate of the Peninsula has been
suspended as much by the persevering spirit of the
Guerillas as by the arduous exertions of tl.e regular
Armies.—Germany, we find, has her MINAS, her
lONGAS, and her ENIPECINADOS ••• and long may they
be spared to grace the annals of their own and future
times by sim►lar achievements ! •

Not a word is mentioned it; there Papers of any
advances towards a pacification, or even a Congress.
—This does not look as if the Allies were beaten
into submission.

A laboured attempt is made in the Moniteur to jus-
tify Denmark in her late intrigues. In a tone of in-
solence peculiar to the upstart Protector of injured
Sovereigns, BONAPARTE emphatically proclaims that
Norway shall remain Danish—the integrity of Den-
mark is guaranteed by FRANCE !"