Star.
London, England, 1814-11-29 00:00:00

MILITIA.

Sir S. ROMILLY rose, pursuant to his notice,
and requested the 48th and 49th of his present Ma-
jesty to be read, relating to the calling out of the
Militia, and the providing for their continuance in an
embodied state. He considered that no apology was
required for his endeavouring to draw the attention
of the House to the subject of the Militia still conti-
nuing embodied, in the apparent circumstances of
the country. Before he had presumed to submit the
motion he was about to make, he had reflected, again
and again, on the law which was the object of it;—
he had listened to different opinions on the subject ;
and being at leri?th fully satisfied in his own mind
that his Majesty 's Ministers had acted unconstitu-
tionally, he resolved to bring the question under the
consideration of that House. While he made these
observations, however, he desired rot to be misun-
derstood as implying that the Militia were released
from those duties which, originally, they engaged to
fulfill ; that the persons so engaged were not bound
to obey their superiors, or were not subject to mili-
tary law. He admitted, also, that it rested with his
Majesty to say what militia regiments should be dis-
embodied, and what retained ; the oily grcund of
censure being on the part of those persons who had
not advised the Crown to disband the Militia long
before the present time. Respecting the jet of the
question, this was extremely plain, the occasions on
which the militia were to be called out having been'
particularised in the Acts already read—as in case of,
invasion, ( f imminent danger, of rebellion, or of in-
surrection. These were the four cases which autho- I
rised the calling out of the militia ; and by which
the neceEsty for their services ought to be limited..—
Now, he would ask, was this country at present in
one of the four given cases ? He regarded the mi-1
litia, in its just state, as a most excellent institution,
to which this country had trusted in the most trying
times ; it had manifested a just jealousy of a stand-
ing army, while it looked to the Militia as its great
constitutional defence ; and, therefore, the assimila-
tion of the militia to any thing like the character of
a standing army, as the practice of the present day
tended to make it, could not be contemplated with-
out deep distrust. The militia was a force composed
of armed citizens, to be trained in certain habits of
war, but still referring to the hour when the soldier
should again become the citizen, and in the mean
time, be never wholly as it were separated from the
tenderer affinities of life. Hence, indeed, the militia
still enjoyed the benefit of Habeas Corpus, a privi-
lege nut bestowed on the regular soldier; and hence,
also, the extent of the militia service was never left
to an indefinite period. So convinced was he of the
excellence of this peculiar feature in the militia sys-
tem, that, however he might applaud the spirit of
numbers who had volunteered their services to go
abroad, he could not altogether approve of that
ardour,_ in such instances, which it was impossible
not to admire. By the Act of Edward I. the cha-
racter sf citizen was so attended to, respecting the
Militia, that the militia-man was protected from
serving out of his own country ; even by the 4th of
Henry IV. he was not expected to serve otherwise
but on extraordinary emergencies ; and though this
regulation was brokep through during the unhappy
reign of Charles I. it was restored in the reign of
Charles 11. and finally put cAt its existing footing by
an Act passed in the second year of George ll.
Never had the Crown called out the Militia without
a Proclamation, or by consent of Parliament; nor
hod itfernierly been customary to continue them in
an ernboi.tiO state witlyout some communication from
the Throne to the Legislature. It was during the
year 1776, on the breaking out of the insurrection in

our American Colonies, that the first deviation took
place in the manner of calling nut the militia of this
country ; but even then the Ministers came down to
Parliament for an Indemnity Act, which was not
passed without great opposition to it, and was re-
stricted in its duration to seven years, when hostilities
ceased, and with the measure to which those hostili.
ties gave rise. Ministers had not then attained to
the presumption of making these large and liberal
constructions of Acts of Parliament now ventured on
and justified.—( Hear, hear.)—We had eXperienced,
in the preaeist case, nearly si; months ot peace, accom-
panied likewise with internal tranquillity, yet the
I Militia was for the greater part. embodied ; and if
they were to remain embodied in such a state of',
things, it was quite impossible to assert when they
might expect to be disbanded, or whether they might
not continue embodied for the remainder of his Ma-
jesty's reign, and the reign ensuing.—(f/ear, Hear.)
He certainly had heard one excuse on this head, and
mnly one, on the nature of the war with America;
but would any Gentleman say that cur situation in
this respect was not extremely different to the predi-
cament in which this country stood with regard to
France, who threatened to invade us during any four
hours ?—( Hear.) The most pervetted interpretation
of the Act would not authorize the late application
of it ; as well might it be contended that the exis-
tence of differences with the lley of Algiers furnished
a suAicient ground for continuing the militia in force.
Scarcely could he bring himself to believe what he
had heard, that the Crown had the power to continue
the Militia as long as it pleased. Though there hap-
pened to occur a want of forces in distant parts, also,
yet seeing we had no invasion to encounter, no rebel-
lion to subdue, he hardly could conceive that such an
argument would be urged ; nor could be believe that
the House would assent to the propriety of Ministers
still continuing the Militia in their present state,
merely because they had already boen called out.
He understood that the Militia were continued em-
bodied in consequence of the opinion of his Majesty's
Law Officers ; yet as this opinion had been asked con-
trary to the usual way of taking such an opinion, npt
before, but after the step had been taken by those Mi-
nisters, he must be excused if he suspected that the
opinion might, in such circumstances, have been de-
livered with a view to accommodate those who re-
quested it— [Laugh:, and cries Of " Hear, hear 1"]—
Why was the Militia embodied, however, while the re•
gnlars had been disbanded ? A week ago he moved
for such returns as would have evinced the situation
of our armed force, which motion he considered as
having been treated with contempt, since no papers
were produced by it. The Militia were kept up, as
if Government was anxious to display its authority
on this subject, and to defy its antagonists. In what-
ever way he considered the act of continuing the mi-
litia, he viewed it as illegal and unconstitutional, and
be the result what it might, he was glad he had
brought the subject before the House. He should,
therefore, move a Resolution—
That the continuing of the Militia embodied, when the country
had been upwards of five months at peace, aitended by an und;,_
turbed internal state of tranquillity, was manifestly contrary to
the Chi of his present Majesty, and a manifest vaolatio., of the
Constitution.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, heremained
still of an opinion quite contrary to that delivered by
the Honourable and Learned Gentleman sat
down, by whom his Majesty's Law Officers were re-
presented as having acted illegally in not advising tl.e
disembodying of the Militia. Setting aside the ques-
tion of expediency, the right of keeping up the
litia when fairly called out, was clearly. a distinct
branch of the Prerogative ; for there was an essential
differencx, as the Act stood, between the calling out
and keeping up the Militia—(Hear, hear, hear.)—
That his Majesty could not call out the Militia, except
in the cases specified in the Act for that purpose, he
was ready to grant ; buf when the same Legislative
deed provided no time for limiting the continuance
of the Militia in their embodied state, he considcrod
it quite legal, on the part of.the Crown, to retain and
continue them. Certainly there were circumstances
which were necessary, to the Militia being called out
—invasion, insurrection, rebellion, yet no proyision
was enacted with the prospect of their disembodying.
It appeared to him a mistake to suppose, that, after
this statement, the House possessed no remedy in the
case before them. Besides the responsibility of Mini-
sters, as to the advice they gave the Crown, those
Ministers were obliged to come to the House to ask
for annual supplies for the Militia, and renewals of
the Mutiny Bill : and the withholding of either would
render it impossible for his Majesty to continue the
Militia. He still meant to defend the opinion he
gave, that there was nothing at all illegal in conti-
nuing the Militia in their embodied state, since there
was nothing imperative on his Majesty to disband
them. Expediency was another point, though here
he was inclined to think that if the Act bore a parti-
cular construction, it seemed to have been framed with
the prospect of enabling the Crown to continue the
Militia : of this he felt assured, at any rate, that, how-
ever it might be commented on as an act of preroga-
tive, it offered no violation of the Constitution. (Mar.)
What the Honourable Gentleman on the other side
meant by his opinion being in contradiction to the
spirit of the Act, he pretended not to know, since
those Gentlemen were in the habit of letting in new
lights on subjects of every kind. Unless it could be
made out, that not disembodying the militia was ille-
gal, it never could be inferred that it was unciansti-
tuitional. He could most conscientiously say, if he
knew any thing of his own mind, that none had less
confidence in his own opinion, nor was any more wil-
ling to confess he had been in an error, t+ hen con-
vinced of the truth; yet, having read the Act
circumspectly, he was convinced- that the proceedieg
was not contrary to the spirit of the Act, and most
assuredly it was no violation of the Constitution. On
these grounds he should resist the motion.
Lord MILTON observed, that the Learned Gen-
tleman, instead of looking at its spirit, stuck too much
to the letter of the Act. While he agreed with him
that it contained no provision for disembodying the
militia, yet the causes there specified for caging them
out could alone justify the keeping them together.—
He suspected there was sonic plan for converting the
militia into a' regular army ; and considered the mi-
litia as placed in an unexpected and cruel situation.
Sir A It THUR picur said, he saw no cause ex-
istieg in the country for keeping up the militia, which
a body of constables could not remove. He would
therefore give his most cordial •concurrence to the
motion.

Mr. Serjeant BEST defended the statement of the
Solicitor-General respecting the la?, on the subject of
the Militia. If there was no positive law that fixed
the time when the Militia should be disembodied,
then it must renninin the discretion of the Crown
to keep it up so Wag as should appear expedient.
Mr. I'ONSON3Y was surprised at the docti int%
he heard advanced that night by an Honourable and
Learned Member high in otfice. There was nothing
more common in that House than to regulate all its
proceeding.; by the spirit of the law ; therefore the
Learned Gentleman was not correct in putting
construction on the law according to its strict letter,
No Judge was ever bound to construe the law ac-
cording to the technicality by which it was worded.
He was also alarmed by what the Learned Gentle.
man said, of the Crown having aright to keep up a
force which it had once got into its possession. He
never heard any prerogative doctrine more unconsti.
tutional or dangerous than this. The force in ques.
tion could not be kept up when all the causes for it
had ceaicd. There was now no fear of invasion from
America—there was no reason to apprehend that
Mr. Macdonough's fleet would come and mike a
descent upon England ; and why keep up this force /
There was no insurrection—no rebellion—no, rtOr
danger thereof. As to the recommendation to keep
up a standing army, it only meant that such a force
might be maintained which the Crown could keep
up, and not that. the King should uphold a force
which the law forbad, unless under circumstances
which did not now exist. Therefore it became the
duty of that House to exert its constitutional jealous?
on this occasion. 1... .

Mr. CHARLES GRANT contended, that it did
not follow, that the Militia ought to be disembodied,
merely on account of the causes having ceased. The
momentary cessation of the causer did not make it
obligatory on the King to do so; nor did the Act
require that of the. King. The Legislature had not
even such a construction of the Act in contemplation.
It was not intended that the force should be at the
controul of Parjiament. Tice Honoprable Gen,
demon entered into a history of the Militia, and
sbewed that the Militia, had been kept emhodled
at times when the army was wanted for other
purposes, and when none of tte tour causes in
question existed. It had been kept up as auxiliaiy
to foreign objects. Whenever the Militia had berm
employed to fill up the gap made by keeping the
army in foreign countries, no objection was ever made
to that. Although he did not consider 'Europe as
being in a distracted state, yet he saw many and suf.
ficient grounds for employing an army on the Coo,
tinent. There were many and great objects to Aga
attained ; every Power on the Continent found it fie•.
cessary to keep up great standing armies ; and it wait'
highly proper for this country to keep up a regal rr
force there, in order that they might be diposahle let •
any great object that might arise out of the prtsent
state of affairs. Therefore the Militia ought to Wimp:
at home to serve as a substitute for the standing army.
Mr. P. MOORE contended. that to Ic..ep op the
Militia, when there was no necessity for so doirg, Was
a gross breach of faith to the country, besid:s being a
violation of tie Constitu.ion.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY spoke in reply, and
strongly combated the argument of the Solicirlr-Ge.
neral, that the King Lad the right to keep tbe Militia
embodied as long as he conceived it expedient.
Alter an explanation fr. in Lnrd PaLaseurrow, the
House divided.—For the motion, 32—Against it, 97,
ARMY TSTIMATES.
The House resolved itself tato a Committee on the
Army Estimates._

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
stated, that at the present time it WAS 11CCesamy to
keep up a large force, in consequence of the war wittt
America, and other causes. Considerable reductions
however, had taken place in the army. Twenty t!d
battalions had been reduced ; there was also a reduc,
tion in cavalry and artillery.
Lord PALM2RSTON moved to grant the suns
of £135,000 for the service of the Militia remaining
embodied from December, 1814, to Julie, 1815.
Mr. WHITBREAD declared, that the whole sys-
tem and spirit of the Militia had been long since
broken down by the Government.
Mr. BATHURST replied, that it was by this sys.
tern the country had recruited her armies, and was
enabled to make such great exertion.
The motion was agreed to.
It was next moved to grant the sum of £55,000 for
defraying the charges attending volunteer corps.
Mr. J. P. GRANT asked, if it had not been re-
solved on a former!day, to give up the volunteer corps,
and why should the present vote be required
Lord PALMERS CON said, the vote had been
withdrawn not with a view to drop it, but to recon-
sider it, as the returns had nct been received from
Ireland. A reduction had taken place in Ireland in
the volunteers to the amount of 02120,000, and this
was only the estimate of the permanent Staff, after
such a reduction was made. About 858,000 would
be now the whole annual charge for Ireland, and
*35,000 for Great Britain. Every Gentleman would
acknowledgethat this force was the most constitutional
and the best calculated for internal defence, while at
the same time it was the most economical; it zliiefly
consisted of the landed property of the country, and
would answer all the purposes of preserving tranquil-
lity much better than any standing army could. It
was only proposed to keep it up till next summer.
Mr. P. GRANT said, his ohjection went not to the
force in question, but to the profuse administration of
the country, than which there could not be a greater
cline. •

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
supported the vote.

Mr. PELE thought the vote highly necessary Si
far as Ireland was concerned ; anti he :assured the
House, there was no ground to charge the Irish Go-
vernment with a profuse expenditure in keeping up
the volunteer force of Ireland, where, since, lb I'l, the
expenses were reduced from se$:)0,000 to itss,outh
Mr. WHITBREAD expressed his surprise that the
Noble Lord had given no explanation for the cote.
He would ask, why in time of peace an armed poke
was to be kept on foot ? What itad the YeotamiTY
done latterly ? The war was at an end, and there wis
no necessity for them. For his part, he had tic dispo-
sition to keep up the volunteer to: ce at all, and thane-
hire be would appose the vote.
Lord PALMERSTON said, he had that day re-
ceived a letter from a very respectable Gent! man at
the head of a volunteer corps, expressing the greatest
concern at the report, that the corps was to be broke

THE EVENING STAR.

LON DON.

elt-MORIZON'T THE STATE LOTTERY BEGINS DRAW-
DIG—THE WHOLE IS TO BE DRAWN ON THAT
IDAY.
.1 lruEsbAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1814.
Mei oar.”'OCltc THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Redubed'6.s*-4'per Cent; 11-5 per Cenr. Navy Kt
Consols deft—lbr account, 66 .67—Oirinium disc,
Ball Long Anus. 16 1-16th—lndia Bonds 171. 181..pre. .
Kacheipier Bills Is. w Ss. prem.

UNITED STATES.

-Today the ertmets from our American Papers
Will be found highly interesting. They refer to the
procee4ifigs in several States for calling together a
separate Congress. The State of Massachusetts met
on. the sth of October, when a Message from the
Governor was delivered, informing them of the mea.
sure he had adopted for the general safety, and point-
ing out the necessity of tardier exertions for their
own defence. His speech concluded with the fol-
lowing remaiks :
By a law of Congress, passed at its last Session,
it is enacted, that in addition to the Officers of the
Militia which had before been provided for, there
shall be to each Division, one Division Inspector, and
one Division Quarter Master, and to each Brigade,
one Aid-de-Camp. But no provision has bcen made
directing the Manner in which those Officers shall be
appointed.

GI The situation of this State is peculiarly clan-
getout and perplexing. We have been led by the
terms of the Constitution, to rely on the Government
of the Union to provide for our defence. We have
resigned to that Government the revenues of the
State, with the expectation that this object would not
be neglected. But the Government has declared
war against the most powerful maritime nation,
whose fleets can approach every section of our ex-
tended sea coast, and we are disappointed in our ex-
pectations of national defence. But though we may
be convinced that the war in its commencement was
unnecessary and unjust, and has been prosecuted
without any useful or practicable objects against the
inhabitants of Canada, while our sea coast has been
left almost defenceless ; and although, in a war
thus commenced, we may have declined to affor,i
our voluntary aid to any offensive operations—yet I
presume there will be no_doubt of our rights to defend
our dwellings and our possessions against any hostile
attack by which their destruction is menaced. Let
us then, relying on the support and direction of Pao-
YIDENCEI Unite k such measures for oar safety as the
times demand, and.tbe principles' of justice and the
laws of self-preservation will justify. To your wis.
dom and patriotism the interests of the State are con-
fided, and the more valuable those interests are, the
Store solicitous you will be• to guard and preserve
them. (Signed) 04 eALES MON%
October 5, 1814."

Soon after the House of Representatives was called
to order, Mr. Low, of Leyman, laid the followinz,
Motion on the table, viz.

•` Moved, That a Committee be appointed to 'confer with all
the New England States, and see If they will atree to appoint a
Committee to juin them and repair to the City of Washington
immediately and without delay, then and there personally to
make known to the President the general opinion of all the New
England States in retard to the present war, and the manner in
'Which it has been conducted; and inform him, that Lc mutt
either resign his office as President, or remove those of his Mi-
ai•ters or other Officers of the General Government who have
by their nefarious plans ruined the nation, with leave to report
?Ny Bill or otherwise."

some other business of a local nature w•as pans-
actcd.—Adjourned at nine o'clock.

IN SENA rl.—Ordered, That the Honourable Messrs. Lewis,
Blake, ►rd Moody, be a committee to enquire and report whe-
ther nay Member or Members of the Senate have voluntarily
assumed upon themselves any obligation to the King or Govern-
ment of Great Britain incompatible with their duty as members
the Legislature of this Commonwealth, or their oath to sup-
port the Constitution of the United States, with power to send fur
persons and papers.
IN SENATE OCTOBER I.

The Committee to whom was referred the Message
of his Excellency the Governor, reported, " That the
suiaoils war, declared against Great Britain, has as-
ratited an aspect of great and immediate danger to

I this Common/Rubin the persevering invasion of
Canada has at length produced, as br natural conse-
quence, the invasion of our Atlintic, tender, and
River towns. A portion of the territory of this State
is already in the actual occupation of the enemy; and
the sea coast, in all such parts as may be deemed as-'
sailable, is openly menaced with desolation. To de-
fend our soil, and to repel the invader, no fcrce er
means, bearing any proportion to the emergency, crave
been provided by the National Government. It was
justly to have been expected, that, before hostilities
were provoked from a formidable enemy, or, at least
that, at some period subsequent to their commence-
ment, means of defence and protection would have
been afforded to a sea coast so extended, and so ex-
posed to the ravages of an enemy, as that of Mas-
sachusetts. But events forbid a reliance on any such
expectation."

[The Report goes on to mention, that the prin:i-
'pal part of the regular force of the State had been
withdrawn for the war on the Canada bcrJer ; that
the Government had wasted their revenues ; and left
them without defence :—and then proceeds thus] :

But while your Committee think that the people
of this Commonwealth ought to unite, and that they
will unite, under any circumstances, at the hazard of
all that is dear, in repelling an invading foe, it is not
believed that this solemn obligation imposes silence
upon their just complaints against the authors of the
national misfortunes. It is, on the contrary, a sacred
duty to, hold up to view, on all occasions, the de-
structive policy by which a state of unparalleled na-
tional felicity, has been converted into one of humi-
liation and danger ; believing that, unless an almost
ruined people will discard the men, and change the
measures, which have induced this state of peril and
suffering, the day of their political salvation is past.
u It should never be forgotten, that this disastrous
condition of public affairs has been forced upon Mas-
sachusetts, not merely against her consent, but in op-
position to her most earnest protestations. From the
moment that the Administration, yielding to its own
passions and calculations of party power, commenced
its system of commercial hostility to Great Britain,
and of conformity to the views of the late tyrant of
France, its tendency to involve the nation in the most
needless and cruel embarrassments, was distinctly
foreseen, and declared by former Legislatures. The
insufficiency of our youthful, though flourishing com-
merce, to cope with that of Great Britain in a struggle
of restrictions, was announced by the united warning
of those best versed in a knowledge of this subject.
66 It was never doubted by those persons, that a
war with Great Britain would be accompanied by an
extinction of commerce by the banishment of our
sailors ; the desolation of our coast ; the blockade
and invasion of our seaports; the failure of national
credit ; the necessity of oppressive taxes ; and the con.
summation of national ruins by an alliance with the
late Despot of Europe, from which greatest of all ca-
lamities, we have been preserved only by his fall. Of
all these evils, were our rulers forewarned by Massa-
chusetts whose vital interests were thus put in jeo.
pardy ; and they were implored by every considera.
tion of policy and humanity, to stay their hands from
the cruel and wanton sacrifice of the interests of those,
who asked from them, nothing but the privilege of
pursuing their own industrious callings.
66 But Government, deaf to this voice, and listen.
ing to men distinguished in their native State only
by their disloyalty to its interest, and the enjoyment
of a patronage bestowed upon them as its price, have
affected to consider the patriotic citizens of this great
State as tainted with disaffection to the Union and
with predeliction for Great Britain, and have lavish-
ed the public treasure in vain attempts to fix by evi-
dence this odious imputation. Thus dishonoured
and deprived of all influence in the national Council,
this State has been dragged into an unnatural and
distressing war, and its safety, perhaps its liberties,
endangered.
44 It is therefore with great concern, that your
committee are obliged to declare their conviction,
.that the Constitution of the United States, under the
administration of the persons in power, has failed to
secure to this Commonweath, and as they believe, to
the Eastern Section of the Union, those equal rights
and benefits, which were the great objects of its for.
/nation, and which they cannot relinquish without
ruin to themselves and posterity. These grievances
justify and require vigorous, persevering and peace-
able exertions to unite those who realize the sufferings
and foresee the dangers of the country, in some sys-1
tem of measures, to obtain relief, for which the ordi-
nary
mode of procuring amendments to the Consti-
tution affords no reasonable expectation, in season to
prevent the completion of its ruin.
66 The people, however, possess the means of cer-
tain redress ; and when their safety, which is the su-
preme law, is in question, these means should be
promptly applied. The framers of the Constitution
made provisinns to amend defects which were known
to be incident to every human institution; and the
provision itself was not less liable to be found defec-
tive upon experiment, than other parts of the instru-
ment. When this deficiency becomes apparent, no
reason can preclude the right of the whole people,
who were parties to it, to adopt another; and it is
not a presumptuous expectation, that a spirit of
equity and justice, enlighted by experience, would
enable them to reconcile conflicting interests, and
•bviate the principal causes of those dissentions,
which unfit Government tor a state of peace and of

war, and so to amend the constitution, as to giVe
vigour and durationfrto the union of the States.

" nut as a proposition for such a convention from
a single State would probably be unsuccessful, and
our danger admits not of delay, it is recommended
by the 'Committee, that in the first instance a conies
retire should be invited between those States, the af-
finity of whose interests is closest, and whose habits
of intercourse, from their local situation and other
causes, are most frequent, to the end that, by a com-
parison of their sentiments and views, some mode of
defence, suited to the circumstances and exigencies of
thos: States, and measures for accelerating the return
of public prosperity, may be devised ; and also to en-
able the delegates from those States, should they
deem it expedient, to lay the foundation for a radical
reform in the national compact, by inviting to a fu-
ture convention a deputation from all the States in
the union. They therefore report the following Re-
solves, which are submitted.—By order,
(Signed) 64 G. H. OTIS.
44 Resolved—That the calamities of war being
now brought home to the territory of this common-
wealth—a portion of it being in the occupation of
the enemy, our sea coast and rivers being invaded in
several places, and in all exposed to immediate dan-
ger—the people of Massachusetts are impelled, by
the duty of self defence, and by all the feelings and
attachments which bind good citizens to their coun-
try, to unite in the most vigorous measures for de-
fending the State and expelling the invader; and no
party feelings or political dissentions can ever inter-
fere with the discharge of this exalted duty.

[" Resolved—That the Governor be authorised
to organise a force for the defence of the State—to
borrow one million of dollars, Etc.]
44 Resolved—That persons be appointed as Dele-
gates from the Legislature, to meet and confer with
Delegates from the States of New England, or any
of them, upon the subjects of their public grievances
and concerns, and upon the best means of preserving
our resources, and of defence against the enemy, and
to devise and suggest, for adoption, by those respec-
tive States, such measures as they may deem expe-
dient : and also to take measures, if they shall think
proper, for procuring a Convention of Delegates from
all the United States, in order to revise the Constitu-
tion thereof, and more effectually to secure the sup-
port and attachment of all the people, by placing all
upon the basis of fair representation.
" Resolved—That a circular letter, from this Le-
gislature, signed by the President of the Senate, and
Speaker of the House of Representatives, be addressed
io the Executive Government of each of said St ires, to
be communicated to their Legislatures, exi)l iining the I
objects of the proposed conference, and inviting them
to concur in sending Delegates thereto.
" Resolved—That, on the .!!iy of -- instant-
this Legislature will, by joint ballot, elect -- per-
son, to meet such delegate as may be appointed by the
said States, or either of them, at the Suite of —."
At a subsequent sitting it was resolved that the
legates from the different States should as;crnble on
the 12th of December.

Five Gottenburgh Mails arrived to-day. The only
intelligence of a public nature refers to the Proclama-
tion of the King of SWEDEN, as Sovereign of Nor-
way. This event took place on the 4th instant.
We also received Brussels and Frankfort Papers
this morning, but their contents are unimportant.

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday. Their
contents, so far as regards the proceedings of Con-
gress, are important. It is given out by the Russian
Ministry, that the sudden departure of CONSTANTINE
for Warsaw is merely to take the command of some
Russian regiments now on their way home. It is
also stated at Vienna, that the Court of London is
decidedly hostile to the claims of MURAT to the
Crown of. Naples, and has sent dispatches to Vienna
to this effect.

From Elba we are informed, that BONAPARTE's
residence there will be very short : several packages
which had arrived from the Continent, had not even
been opened. AU article from Vienna (but probably,
Paris manufacture), after complimenting Prince
TALLEYRAND highly for his remonstrance on the sub-
ject of the independence of Saxony and Poland, states,
and, we apprehend, with perfect truth, that he was
warmly seconded by Lord CASTLEREAGH as Mi:tister
from England and Hanover.
The following communication respecting the fate
of some of the Spanish Patriots, victims of the rigr)ut
of their own Government, has been received :
" PARIS, Nov. 20.—We have received from Spain particulars
of the barbarous eentetices pronounced against the f riends of the
Constitution (and those of inferior rank) by the Tribunal of
Madrid, composed of Captain General ANTEAGO, the Count of
PINAR, LASANSA, IVIONCEERA, and GALIANO. Those who
are exposed to the least punishment are deprived of their em-
ployments, subjected to tine, banished from Madrid and the
other Royal residences, and arc treated like the meanest culprits.
" The Members of the Junta, ANSORIA of Madrid are ba-
nished, and GAMMA Is erased from the list of Academicians,
and fined 4000 dollars. To these add TAPIA, formerly Editor of i
the Sastaisarie Patriaice, and lately of the Gazette of the Regency :
Baia*, Editor of ' The Friend of the Laws,' a work in high es.
timation SAVINOm, translator of the Tragedy, Rome restored
to Liberty ; Dossawica, Magistrate of Madrid, condemned for
seven years to the Castillo de lad Galeras, and for eight years
GALLARDO, brother of the celebrated GALLASDO, who has
sought an asylum in London, and to Lis st ntence is added the fol•
lowing clause,' with the power of increwing the punishment
when the trial shall be concluded which is now in vrogre .; test
his brother, the Librarian of the Cones, who has lied irons
justice: "

14birAL lIVTBLLIGENCR.

The Betsey and Pergy, WI tune, m, arrived in ti:,! Creek
from Malaga, was taken and plundered bi tie I.llwrenf:e p!iv..-
seer.

The Fortuna, GUM, from Petersburgh to C.t as b.en
driven ort shore at Shetland In a gale.
The Abweil, CALLowov, from lAntlin, 13 arrived at N•tw-
foundland, with loss of topsatli, bound to Hallfte.
The Charlew, louts, from Drogheda to Liverpool, Is lost near
Holyhead, with all the crew.
The Equator, Jacossou, from Oporto, Is totally last bctwce:a
the Tce:land AtitstertlAm.

The Provideno., Owe`:., from Waterford to Liverpool, is
wrecked near Holyhead : crew and part of the cargo saved.

PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 28.

Sailed his Majesty's ship PICKLE, for Guernsey,
having in charge a few transport. among which tne
the Rose and the Duchess of 11,,,Aford. Went cut or
harbour his Majesty's ship T.hs•. The \Veit
fleet are still at St. Helen's.—Wind W.N.W.

RAMSGATE, NOVEMBER 29.
The French brig la Commune de B utrdzinx, men-
tioned yesterday to be on the Gool.lwin Sand_, has
been breught in by the crew of the Galloper light--
she was picked up by themen Saturday mornin.:.; last,
with between four and five feet water in her hold.—
A few vessels have put in for shelter.

DEAL NOVEMnEit 24.
Arrived. the French frigite Panther, Capt. ORLEY.
AtAN, from Antwerp for Dunkin:.—Sailed the CLO-
RINDE frigate, for Portsmouth.—Carne down from
the River, and sailed with the whole of the outward-
bound, the ORPHEUS, for the Cape; Welding, for
Sierra Leone; Sydney Cove, for Rio Janeiro; Mcr-
land, for Jamaica ; and the Henry Dundas, for St.
Michael's.—Wind North. •

GRAVESEND, NOVEMBER 28.
Arrived the Leshant, Earths, front Bilboa ; Henry Addington,
from Leghorn : Fearless, Thompson; Progress, Crozier; Deda-
lus, Herman, and &Ilona, Rilt, from Gibraltar; Gurnera,Jack•
son, and Diadem, Buck, from the Mediterranean ; his Majesty's
ship Nereus from the River Plata ; Eclipse' Connell, and Lord
Cochrane, Jackson, from Halifax; Duke deAngouleme, and An-
dream Merrile, from France; Agenoria, Capps, front Dunkirk;
Prince of Orange, De Bath, from Catwick; Eliza, Owen, and
Fame, Williams, from Antwerp.
Sailed the Rebecca, Wons, for Naples; Comet, Harrison, for
St. Michael's ; Thetis, Lanchis; fir Santander; Hibernia, Tho-
mas, for liourdeaux ; Aurora, Nichol., for Cork; Victor:.:,
Perre, for Calais; Alexandrine, lionionte, for liouen ; Loyisr,
Riveire, for Caen ; le Darns Gatheri..e, Boree, for Havre; the
Jj!in and :araii, fnr Haciburt;ii ; Louisa, Dubbebire,
for ArnicerdAni; Vraa• ollanni, De Vries, for ditto; and long.
Cornelius, Jange, for Rwt.:rdatn.

PAI). I'oW, NOVEMBER el
The schooner Faroe, Runmrs mister, from Yon-
hall for Southampton, Went on shore this evening near
this place, and it is feared she will go to pieces—crew
saved. Tile ship Commune, of Arunal, Kixo mas-
ter, also came on share at Morgan Forth ; she is
bilged, an,l in a very bad state—crew saveJ.

COVE OF CORK, NOVEMBER 24.

Came in his Majesty's ship TANAIS from a ervize.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

Rear-Admiral itolles, to command an the Jamaica station
the rooto Re:it-Admit al Brown, lately deceased.
Captain Lord John iiay, to the Minorca, for rank; H,n.
Captain l'robr, to the Asucha; Captains Chicl' t4eward to lii
Antutun, for rank ; lime:: to the Rover, King to the Snap, Jatu.:4
H. Pluntridge to the Pitilerael. _ _

12.eutertants John Newton to the Bayne. Enna to the liaroek.
George Sviby to bo Flig Lieutenant to Rear-Adlnfral Burhon;
!Joeoh Crouch to the rank of a retired Coatinander ; Hopkins to
:he Prince. Blake to the Purlpee. Connolly to the Akbar.

Bnzan.----This day the LoarrlvlAyou ordered the
pric., to be reduced one penny in the peck loaf.
Upon the bringing up the Report of the Committee
of Supply, a most interesting discussion occurred last
night in the House of Commons, with respect to thu
policy of this country on the subject of Sicily, Saxony,
and Poland. 'rile sentiments delivered by Ministers
on these subjects, particularly relative to the fate of
Saxony, will be read with much satisfaction. The
ment for the recess to the 9th of February,
wid take pl ace next Thursday..

The :olloWing is a copy of the Instructions given
by 11:e Emperor ALEXANDER, in the month of July
last, to a Committee appointed by his Majesty an
Warsaw, to prepare a Constitution f it New Poland, it
the idea of the Crown coming to him or his dynasty :

I' OJE TS.
W :tic 1t THE COMMITTEE ouc:lT TO CONSIDCR.

4' I. The catalog system of the interior ailministration of the
Duchy Is oitpressive and burthen It would be tvit,e to re-
place it by another hotter attired to the sta7trutal character, to
the habits, and to the pecuniary means the couittry. It ap-
pears that ' the ancient Cauunissions ut Gond Order,' (e-tablished
by the Constitution of the 2d May), the Civil and NV!: try Coin-
ntissions, as well as the Administrative Citamber, et:otiised i 3
1807, In Grand Poland, and in 1809 In the wmt %V cf..:
would answer better to this end, and with in.tre of that simplicity
which ought to characterise the laws of an a,,ricultural country.
" 2. The Code Napoleon, of civil and judicial procedure ought
to be abolished as quickly as possible. There mcy be mediately
substituted in its room the Pelonese Laws, end the Statutes of
Lithuania, togetha• with the judlcial forms in use before the in-
troduction of the Frerica procAure. The Committee will eln-
alder %slit:lex the Codex should be entirely abolished, or only
In parr, and at what time the abolition should take place. They
will also prepare the plan, and the composition of a Comtni%si on
separate irons that which-shall have the charge of digesting anew
code of civil and criminal judicature, as well as of the definitive
organ' zadoa of the judicial
" a. The reform ant reduction of the Civil accorllng to
the yew changes that have taken place in the Adatiaistraiot of
the country. . .

" ♦. Measures to be taken for the rt.:ma:ion of the publi:
welfare and public spirit of the towns. `i he re-establithinet.t of
their aUc en t Tribunals, in thi:ir judicial ?Magistracy and Nivaiet-
pa'ities, joined with the resti-ution of the funds that !•.lots; to
them, m.l e,s,.may contri'aute to this a. well as the estabtisla-
ment in the Capital of the National Theatre.

" S. Mt:2.o.ires to ba tAkcti to hater the condition of the Pea-
sants, and to poim lAA to tht m the zUeartS at act progren•
sively an independent exi-aence,
" 6. The Prtiect cf a new System of Finance, calculated tore.
vive agriculture aati commerce.
" 7. Measures fur the revival of letter!, of the public Maim.
eons, and the dili..rent establishments devoted to educatuon,par-
ticularly the ancient Academy W Cracovia.
" 8. Measures to restore to the Clergy the amulleration and
the property that justly belong to the order, and to waging:it then
hinds to a polo' that Mali make them truly useful
" 9. To guarantee the sacred right of property anainst all r.t•
tack by arbitrary requisitious of every kind wbatsoer.r.
io. The wish MIAs iniperitd Majesty is, that in gtneral all
the cliait3es and all the raurnu In the actual system of the Co.
vernment of the Duchy :IA be made with die lead precipitatiun
I,usthlit,in order to avoid the consequences of sodden
This is the Lest day for purchasing--the whPle of
the State Lottery will be drawn To-morrow, a n.l
'l'hirty.twu grand Capitals must be distributed atno4lg
the Public!
Buttes. The match between Lancaster and Eatis Lie been
renewed, and they will contend in the same nag after Putcla
Sant and ICoovrimeattliy, un the Bth Decerntur. Even betting.
PADAITIIIaIIi•AL—A groom to Mejo• MAR It, of the name of
Caunies, completed ajouruey of 60 miles for four days, nit
Saturday, for a wagerwagerot 100 ruitivaL He Stilted at the Mani,.
gre Lambeth,
_at an tangit..ur on Wednesd ty mornirg, ae
halted at Warminster, Wilts, after a citcultuus route tbrorgh
Se. vs 304 Hants.