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comp; tee on the Bill was ordered to be postpoated
to Mou4ay the 18th inst.
M. FITZGERALD brought up the annual Peti-
ti,,nt in behalf ,f the Charities in Ireland. He then
brott.2l.t up !•stimives of the expence of the same, and
rnoved that the Fourteenth Report of the Committee
co 'he Irish Charitable Institutions, which was laid
befwe the How :e on the 2Gth of March, should be
pi io tett. Ordered.
On the motion of Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW, the
County of Mayo Petitions were ordered to be referred
to a Committee On the 19th of May.
Lord A. HAMILTON preset fed a Petition from
Glasgow against the Corn Laws.—The P tition was
ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. 1),;A RING expressed his surprise that the im-
portant subject of the Corn Laws should have been,
put off to so late a period in the Session, particularly
if it was intended to make any alteration in them.—
He hoFed this important. question would not be put
Off till the middle of summer, as last year.
Mr. FITZGERALD said, the subject was in the
hands of an Honourable Baronet (Sir H. paniell)
now on his way to this country ; and he could not say
when he would bring it forward. It was proper,
however, that every information on the subject should
be brought forward at the earliest possible period atter
the recess.
Mr. ROSE presented a Report from the Directors
of the British Museum.—Crdered to lie on the table.
On the motion of Mr. HORNER, the Accounts
presented to the House on the 10th ult. from the Bank
and the stamp Office, were ordered to be printed.
Mr. COURTENAY brought up the Reports of
the committees of Supply and Ways and Means, and
the Resolution, granting eight millions for Exche-
;per Bills was agreed to.
The cochineal Bill went through a Committee, and
was ordered to be reported to-morrow.•
The Gold Coin Dill was read a third time and
passed.
Mr. W 4 LLACE moved, that their be laid before
the House 'accounts of all Goods sold at the East
India House, and the Stock, by computation, con-
tained in the warehouses,, from March 1812 to March
1813,,--Ordered.
Mr, ROSE brought in his Bill for the better regu-
lation pf private Madhouses, which was read a first
time, 4pd ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
gave notice to those gentlemen who had business be-
Tore the House, that he intended to-morrow, instead
of Thursday, to move that the House at its rising,
shottlel adjourn till Monday se'nnight.-,--adjourned.

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.P d PERS.

PARIS, MARCH C 9.
NEWS FROM THE ARMIES.
On the 26th inst. his Majesty the Emperor beat,
at St. Dizier, General Winzingerode, look 2000 pri-
soners, cannon, and many baggage-waggons, This
corps 1144 been pursued far.—: onirryr.
PARIS, MARCH 30.
The Emperor is on his march since the 27th to
come to the assistance of the capital. To-day the
Dukes of Treviso and Ragusa effected their junction
with the troops commanded by Generals Coupons
arid, Ornans, • The enemy's army, which has passed
the Marne at Meaux, will have to fight troops of the
line powerfully seconded by the devotion of all the
citizens and the zeal of the national guard. They
win fail in their attempts, even should the Emperor
EtQg be in their rear.--Gazetie de France, Journal de
fPurlsiret asd Journal de Paris, of Me MA Marc!,.
Yesterday a great number of troops, infantry and
eavalry, trains of artillery and equipage, took the
road of Meaux. Batteries have been established upon
the heights in the environs of Paris; and in front of
the' principal entrances ditches are cut, and entrench-
ment; thrown up in the avenues. Troops of the line
bitV4 .lso been placed from distance to distance on
the outer Bonlevards ; regiment* of different kipd§
bave also repaired to Vincennes.
ROUEN, MARCH O.
• •
Offences in the forests have for some days increased
jn different parts of the district of Rouen. 4 mime-
sous portion of thik manufacturing population, whose
tabours have been suspended 'by political circum-
stances, went into the Imperial forests to cut wood.l
Consumers, mpre greedy than enlightened with re
ppect to their real interests, encourageci these offencesl
by buying the produce of these devastations at a low
price. The administration has been obliged to use;
cxtiaordirtary means to put a period to these abuses,
ii4t.g.NciENNgs, MARCH 13.
The followieg Pecree, issued from the fmperial
flead•quarters at 'Do] eseon the `l6th of February, is
pow put into execution in our department;
)1401,e0N, ILMPEpoR OF TIIE FRENCH, &C,
We have decreed, and do decree as follows:
AFF. ;. Alt the Departments which have been occupiql by the
ientsuy shill furnish, ai soon as they are evacuated, a o•ontingent
pi national guards, out of the lavie ea maw.
2. 1 he amount of this contingent will be determined by the
MinisteF of War. It shall be divided by the, Prefects among the
Severe! einuoeief, which arc to take the necessary inea,ureti to
have it* numb,er of men demanded turniahrd iinoiediately.
E. The national I;uartla of the levee en masse will be obliged to
''serve only as long as the enemy shall be on this side of the Rhine.
* he Mittister of War shall send to the chief place of each
Department as many skeletons of battalions drawn from the line
as the •levee en masse of the Department as to ;*nrnifh mica the
number of ‘,OO
4. '1 be pep:meats- shall furnish the men with their arms, if
possible.
• 8. Our Miniotera of the Interior, of War, and of Military Act-
-11141154-01pH, ate cared with the exccotiJii Gf the ptu•cilt De-
cree. (Signet!) unt•itir,eol„
PROCLAMATION. •

t 4 King J o :,,tri if , 1-motet...tut-Gent:rat of the Emperor, i'om-
niallos:r in Chief of the /vane: iit Cutircl, to the Citizen's
of I.aris :-
O Citizens of Paris--An enemy's colurim has pro-
ceeded tion Meaux. It is advaiKing by t!se road
(gym Qermany, but the Emperor j,s following it close
at tile head of a victorious array.
,' The Council of gegeacy has,provided for the
I
safety of the I.mi Fess and t4e King of Rome. re-1
pain with you. i
•• Let us arm for the defence of this city, its ma.
I!
=meats its toles—our wives, ow children, all that I •
—• • '
is dear to us. Let this vast tity.becorpe a camp for!
a flew moments? -mid let the cnemi had his disgrace
P, iJcr its wAlib, woieli they hope 0/ bteksk OHOPgill ip
)
L6hiL
triumph:
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The Eu)pezor is marching to our succour ; se-
elnd him air a short and powtrful. resistance, 3114 let
)4 1q W 1 Y f the Freud' kottuyr. .
*a-. ;. . AA•rris tfi. (Signed)
" JOSEPH."