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places in Ireland. net the sum Called for was only
123,001); and he must assure the Hon. Member,
that no money could be better employed than was
this grant. It was grgoted to keep tip permanent
Barracks. The expeece that the country had been
put to for temporal/ Barracks had been very great,
and he believed that the erection pf permanent Bar-
racks had been, in fact, a saving.
Mr.iiVHITBREAD then observed; that no doubt
the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Peele) would think him
a very unreasonable sore of man when he observed,
that he did not like that sort of bill of fare which had
been delivered to him. The Barracks had riot been
described, their state, progress, what was wanting,
how much would be required to complete them ; in-
deed the House was without that detailed information
which they had a right to expect. One word respect-
ing General De Lancey. Nothing, he thought, could
be more galling to the public, than to make this an-
nual grant to such individual—(Hear.)
Mt. PEELE further explained respecting the Irish
Barracks, that the details in reality were before the
House, as the estimates had been printed.
Lord CASTLEREAGH insisted that it was a
fundamental principle of the Local Militia Act, that
the Militia should be a permanent internal defence, in
order that all our disposable force might be exerted
against the enemy, without exposing our own terri-
tory to domestic disturbance, or foreign invasion.—
As to the dress of the army he did not think it a
matter of Parliamentary discussion ; but he was ena-
bled to state, from the authority of cavalry officers,
that thehelmet and saddle were both more useful than
those previously adopted.
Mr. WHITBREAD and Lord CASTLEREAGII mutu-
ally explained.
Mr. BANKES thought there might be a deduction
of 6 or £700,000 ont of the military expences of the
year. He estimated the expence of calling out the
Volunteers at 8209,000, and the exercise of the Lo.
cal Militia at £150,000, and insisted that these forces
were equally available for service by its being known
where to procure them at the shortest notice, as by
the drilling and parading. He did not expect to
gain assent to this pn•position now, but he hoped
Gentlemen would consider the matter. He then
made some remarks against the double office of Pay •
master, insisting that it was at once inconsistent with
ceconomy, and was highly inefficient.
Lord CASTLEREAGH rose again to observe,
that Lord Wellington had expressed the strongest
approbation of the Life Guards which had been sent
out to him. With respect to the Volunteer estimates,
whatever economical propositions were submitted, by
either the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, or any
other Gentleman, to his Majesty's Government,
should be punctually attended to, and his Hon.
Friend had indeed hinted that he had some retrench-
ments in contemplation respecting the volunteer esta-
blishment.

Mr. W. SMITH agreed with the Noble Lord
(Castlereagh) as to the expediency of keeping up the
Local Militia, as a strong and permanent defence of
the country. He then condemned in the strongest
terms the dress of the cavalry, and said there was
but one feeling out of the House on this subject. He
denied that permanent barracks were less expensive
than temporary, because permanent barracks must
be a dead and useless charge in time of peace. If
the Paymaster's duty could be performed by one per-
son, it ought to be performed by one person.
Lord MILTON said, that opinions in favour of
unlimited enlistments were entertained in high guar.
ters, which certainly influenced those who came for-
ward to offer their services ; this accounted for the
statement which the Noble Lord had made, that out
of fourteen thousand recruits, twelve thousand had
enlisted for unlimited service.

Lard PALMERSTON explained, that what he
had said with respect to small savings, referred-to
the impossibility of reducing the great bulk of the
estimate.

Mr. HUSKISSON wished the postponement of
the vote, as to the Home Staff, till more information
could be obtained.

Lord CASTLEREAGH expressed a contrary
wish, as he thought there was no probability of a re-
duction of this part of the expenditure. There were
not less than 130,000 men on home service in Eng-
land and Ireland. This body required a large super.
intending Staff.
The House then divided on Mr. Creevey's amend-
ment. For it, 40—Against it, 124—Majority against
it, 81.

On our return to the Gallery, Mr. R. THORNTON
moved for the production of some papers relative to
the East India affairs; and Lord CASTLEREAGH post-
poned his notice on this subject till Friday se'nnight.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1813.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Cons. .59f 581 59i 59—for ae. 5914-5 per Cent. 89
Bds. 2s. 3s. clic—Exch. Bills 3s. 6.. pr.—Omnium 6i

The following Bulletin was yesterday issued by
Government, and appeared in the greater part of our
impression :

a FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 8.

" This morning a Messenger arrived at t:•:e Foreign-Office,
Downing.street, with important Dispatches from Russia fur Go-
nnimeut, stating, among other important intelligence, that the
Danes had called in their ships that were annoyin; our trade ;
and have shut out of their ports all the French privateers.
" Another Messenger, who sailed before the former, is also
on the road with Dispatches for Government; the full contents
of these Dispatches have not yet transpired."

Nothing further has been suffered to transpire on
the subject of the communications brought by the
above Messenger, who arrived yesterday. That he
is the bearer of proposals for a pacific arrangement
among the Belligerents cannot be doubted ; for the
Continental papers now teem with proofs of the tot-
tering condition of the monstrous tyranny which has
so lung shackled the independence of Europe. The
King of SAXOXY, that willing vass•.tl of the superci-
lious Corsican, who so far forgot what was due to
the Electors of Saxony, as to pay a sneaking vi sit to

his Oppressor, when he passed through Dresden on
his flight from Itussia,—the King of SAXONY, that
marrowless skeleton of a Sovereign ! now sends an
Envoy to Path " to represent the entire exhaustion
of his provinces, by the sacrifices made during the
war." What is this but a prelude to the departure of
Saxony from the Confederation ? In Prussia, too, the
htrvest of revolt daily ripens. At Konigsberg, " the
traitor STEIN," as BONAPARTE designates every honest
man, has assembled a Regency to execute the func-
tions of Royalty in East Prussia, during the absence
of the Sovereign ; and the first act of this new Coun.
cii has been, a solemn ratification of the Capitulation
by which General LOYonic renounced the service of
BONAPARTE, and declared for his Country !
Austria also sends Ambassadars to Russ;a and to
England. Theis names are publicly mentioned in
the foreign journals. Has the mission of Lord
WALPOLE then been abortive, as the Moniteur long
since informed us, and as its echoes in this country
so often predicted ?

The Oder is now avowedly the line of military ope-
rations. 66 Our troops are going to the Oder," says
the French Exposé, 4g to set bounds to the system of
Russian invasion !" How mighty has been the
change, how wonderful the revolution which a few
short nights of a Russian winter have produced in the
mind of the Great Genius who over-ruled the des-
tinies of the world !"

But it will not be the Oder which will stop the ca-
reer of the Russian arms. It is on the Rhine—once
the territorial boundary of the most ambitious French-
man—that the struggle for the maintenance of the
Corsican dynasty must take place. The Russians
will be upon that R;ver, backed by the troops of their
new allies, for Prussia, Saxony, Denmark, Sweden,
and Austria, are now their allies—long before the
new conscription has left the departments. There is
nothing in the shape of a military obstacle to their
progress. The French have an army no where but in
Spain. That in France itself consists of an ill-sorted

groupe of invalids, militia, and conscripts.

In our last page will be found some interesting ex-
tracts from American Papers to the 30th of January.

INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE PRINCESS AND
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES.
-Yesterday afternoon as the Princess of WALES was
returning in her carriage down Constitution Hill, her
Royal Highness observed the Priacess CHARLOTTE in
her carriage, passing along Piccadilly towards Hyde
Park. The Princess of WALES immediately ordered
her coachman to turn about, and, the horses proceed-
ing nearly at a gallop, overtook the Princess CHAR-
LOTTE'S carriage in Hyde Park, near the bsidge.
Their Royal Highnesses threw themselves through
the windows of their carriages, affectionately em-
braced, and continued in earnest conversation for
about ten minutes. A considerable number of spec-
tators were very soon attracted to the spot, and seve-
ral.La4ies who were present shed tears at the affect-
ing nature of the interview. When their Royal
Highnesses had separated, the Princess CHARLOTTE
was observed, on continuing her ride, to be in high
spirits, and apparently highly gratified at the oppor-
tunity she had enjoyed of an affectionate interchange
of endearment with her Royal Mother !

The general satisfaction of the public on the com-
plete triumph of innocence over insinuation, slander,
and calumny, is honourable to the National charac-
ter. While darkness and mystery were suffered to
hang over the conduct of her Royal Highness the
Princess of WALES, her friends and the friends of
truth and justice were continually assailed by shrugs,
significant gestures, sympathetic sneers, and profound
apothegms. Indeed, the judgment of many was, as
it were, carried by assault ; and had not the question
been, in some way or other, forced into discussion,
the unspotted character of the Illustrious sufferer
would have been permitted to remain under a shade.
To enquire whether the steps that were resorted to
for having this business cleared up were the best that
might possibly have been devised, is worse than
folly. Why is so high a character as the Princess
of WALES, the mother of our future Sovereign, left
without a regular Council, to whom she may at all''
times resort for advice ? Is it a matter of trivial
moment that so high a personage should ha left ex-
posed to the effects of error of judgment, arising from
causes of irritation which but few can appreciate ?
Is it not surprising that, in such circumstances, so
much self-possession and command of temper should
have been exhibited, as have marked the conduct of
her Royal Highness ?

Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an audience
of the PRINCE ItEuevr at Carlton House.

°P The Marquis of Ht mortn gave a grand dinner
on Saturday, to his Royal Highness the Pttmcs RE-
GENT, at his house in Manchester-square.
Sunday Viscount CAsTLEREAcn gave a grand din-
ner at his house in St. James's-square, to twenty-four
Members of the House of Commons.

BREAD.—This day the LORD MAYOR, after inspect-
ing the Meal-weighers' returns, ordered the price of
bread to rise half an assize, to take plwe on Thursday
next. The quartern boat will then be Is. 60.
The estimates fi r the service of the Transport
Board arnoun: this year to £3,800,500. The princi-
pal items of this sum are £1,900,000 for the hire of
transprts, supply of provisions to soldiers on board,
&c. ; and £1,150,000 .Cor the maintenance, clothing.
&c. of prisoners of war at home and abroad.