Star.
London, England, 1813-11-13 00:00:00

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•jetty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Bri.
tain and Ireland, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castle-
ADS, NOVEMBER te. reagh, a Privy Councillor, and one of his Majesty's
ten in the morning, 14d orde- Principal Secretaries of State ; and his Majesty the
:ice of the LORD CRAkcmcia Emperor of All the Russias the Count de Lieven,
judicial business of the day should Lieutenant General of Ms Armies, his Aide-de-Camp
ck. General, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plen-
Stewart v. Hall end another," potentiary to his Britannic Majesty, Knight of ilie
Ni
sit ' with some alteration. Order of Sr. Alexander Newsky, of St. Georre et
ta anl Appeal from Scotland, " the Lord Advo. the fd class, Grand Cross of Sr.. Vlodimir of the no
eitte v. Mackenzie and another," Mr. Adam and class, of St. Anne of the Ist class, Commander of St.
Me. Nolin were heard for the Appellant,. and Sir S. John of Jerusalem. Knight of the Prussian Orders of
Romilly for the Respondents.—Further hearing on the Black and Red Eagles, and Commander Grand
Monday. Cross of the Swedish Order of the Sword, who, at. r
At two o'clock, the House adjourned dusing plea- exchanging their respective full powers, ;,-otoid to
sure; and the Lord Chancellor went to the Court of in due and proper form, have agreed upon the fi !-
Exchequer, to attend the Council for the nomination lowing Ankles :
of Sheriffs. Art. I. His Britannic Majesty etlrges to propo.•
The *llse resumed at a quarter before four, and to his Parliament to authorise the issue of these bill:
there being no other business, adjourned ia a sew mi• of credit, for the benefit of their Majesties the Empe• ,
flutes till Monday. • ror of AU the Russias and the King of Prussia. for
HOUSE OF COMMONS. die sum of two millions and a . half sterling. or of lf.
millions
ofPrussia.n thalers, of the denomination. anu
•
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved for an Account of the 1 weight 1764., and of this sum there shall be furnish-
. effective Strength of the Military Force of this coun- led rob
one million of Prussian thalers, until
i try during. the last ten ynrs—diseioguishing British three months after the signature of a general peace,
from Foreign Troops, and Militia from Regulars. in case that it should take place before the whole of
Also, the Number of Troops raised for the British the said sum shall be put in circulation.
and Colonial Corps by the ordinary mode of recruit- The value of each bill shall be specified therein
ing, and by recruiting from the Militia, during the simultaneoully in Prussian dialers and in Spanish
samr period.--Qrdered.
On his motion there was els() ordered dollars, at the rate of one dollar for a chalet and a
, hall. The formula shall be the same as that ehich
to be laid before' the House, an Account of the Ca. is annexed to the present instrument. The manufac-
sualties for the last ten years. and an Account of the lure of these bills shall be executed exclusively by the
Recruits raised during the present year.
. British Goveinment as soon as possible; they shall
The Annual Indemnity illß was read a first time, beuaranteed by law, end reimbursement thereOf
and ordered to be read a second time on I.lnnday. •
,slim be made in specie, to take place place one month
- Mr. ARBUTHNOT moved, The. the-sum of ten mil.
i after the ratification of,a general peaty.
lions five hundred thousand pounds, and of five ntil• / I.Two.thirds pf the sum so issued each month
lions seven hundred thousand pounds, be granted to shall be furnished to his Majesty the Knipertir of All
his Majesty, to take up the Exchequer Bills outstan- the Russias, for the service of his aysny I and the
ding under the Acts of last Session.—Agreed to.
other third tu his Majesty the' King of liussia, for
. The House then resumed, and the Report was ors the service of his army. This issue dull be computed
tiered to be received to-morrow.
liorn the 3d ( isth) of Juge at the current year; so
WAYS AND MEANS,
that his Britannic 'Majesty eager% to place at the
The House then resolved itself into a Committee
disposal of their Majesties, the Emperor and Itiog,
of Ways and Means ; and the annual taxes on Malt, for the first instalment, as many millions of thalers la
Pensions, Land, Sugar, and Tobacco, were granted there shall have been months elapsed since the Sd
towards raising the supply.
( lath) of June last, and thereafter a millicn each
The CHANCELLOR of the Eactieoute said, that the month, until the issue of the )8 millions 'of dialers,
r consistingl tax on }agar at present of three distinct' in
—before -specified, shall be completed.
THE MUNICIPAL/TY OF VALENCIENNES, TO HER MA.
I duties, was productive of great inconvenience. aAt 111. These bills of credit shall be issued by ma.
present alwthe drawbacks on sugar exported Were
,lE4TY THE EMPRESS QUEEN AND REGENT. lions of thalers, separately classed and n
. aMbeget n'''
charged on the Consolidated Fund, which caused an
" MADAME—The City of Valenciennes, which has cording to the date of their isspet and each million
apparent diminution of that fund, and a correspon-
always manifested its zeal for the country, and itssell be divided into series subdivided ieto Hera
dent increase on the sugar duties. This, though of
love for its Sovereigns, cannot be deaf to the appeal .. in such inflater 01.4 the bius will exhibit the date of
no disadvantage to the Public, produced a prejuat-
of your Imperial and Royal Majesty. It has not yet the month ip which they shall have been issued, the
vial inaccuracy in. the accounts. He therefore gave
forgotten that it stopped the career of the coalesced
notice, that he should, during thepresent Session specification of the million of which they form a part,
armies during an entire campaign, and the efforts .
remedy
propose some measure to these defects.
that were then made will be again repeated. This . -as their numbers in that series.
MILITIA SERVICE BILL.
oath they take on the restored reachesb of their im- No bills shall be manufactured of a lower amount
I Sir EDWARD Ki:Arciformt., seeing a Noble Lord
pregnable ramparts. than 100 Prussian thalers.
.. I (Castlereagh) in the House,• wished to ask, What
66 May your Imperial and Royal Majesty monde- IV. Commissioners shall be named on the part of
Militia
of
the
scend to be persuaded of the profound devotion of the would be the date of the commission the High Contracting Parties urm the Continent.
Officers who were to be admitted iilto the
their I`
I who.
inhabitants of this city, and of the desire they feel to'shall be charged to direct dm err Ola. tion -pf-slle
1 Troops—whether the same as that of I itta :add son in conformity with the principles estab.
acquire a secure and honourable peace.
„ commissions, or -whether they were to commerce %she
by the resent Convention—these Com:W*o. (Signed) " Beskirr, Mayor, tee. 1 .
1 from the time of their joining the regular forces ? !
THE MUNICIPALITY Or SARLAT TO HER MASILSIIt OINS shall be chosen, is preference* from the PERMIT*
Lord CASTLEREAGH said this subject would not be . cis! class;
THE EMPRESS QUEEN AND REGENT.
when embodied in the Bill, as it came within the preroga.they shah be directed losoncert together
" Mamma—Frenchmen cannot be ipon all the Assorts which they may think useful
insensible w"a rive of the Crown. What the regulation on the sub.
their Prince, their country; and their h.nour calls .ect would be, he was nOt eared exacti for the creek of the paper in question ; and the
cheat. The The memorable sentiments Which your Ma. J .y to say ' sian and Prussian Commissioners to whom the above
this he could say, that the dates of these commissions mentioned bills shall be furnished, will be particelarli
jesty has expressed in the Senate have penetrated our in the Regulars would not be the acme -as those of
roams IsQ a,
hearts, and we desire to prostrate ourselves at the ,_ e---'--1 -
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foot of that throne which has been founded by your t' commissions or the "a. officers it} IIT MiliCia' to prevent their falling into 'discredit.
INSOLVENT DEBLOBS IN THE ISLE Of MAY.
:Mgt/St spouse, and on which your virtues reflect ad. V. These bills of credit shall not bear interest, but
Mr. HORNER said, he held in his band a fletitidn
ditional.lustre. a general office shall be opened in such towns of the
similar to four or five which he had before presented,
" France will never descend from the high state of , - . . . North of Germany, as the British Government, with
.. not only from the same boas! of persons. but from the
glory to which she has been elevated by the splendid . the concurrence of the Courts of Russia and Prussia,
i same individuals—the insolvent Debtors in the Ile
of her Emperor. She will never receive lawsshall point out for that purpose, where the holders of
of Man. The case of these persons was certainly
.omenfr stranaer • but if we should be threatened by ' each bill shllll be admitted to fund them at 'six r
:3 I hard, as they were excluded from the benefits which sent. • - __- dolga. Into stook. iorsa
such peril we are anxious to contribute with our lives . nt. ; that is to say, to convert
persons in a similar situation received under the In fortum s to her defence. fund of six per Cent.; the registry of which shall he
' solvent Acts in this country. It had been said, that
+' Such, Madame, are our sentiments and those of kept in the same manner .as' is that of the English
the. Instil .7
_Legislature was. the proper body to. apply
our feliow.subjects for whom we appear. We implorenational debt, in the books of the Bank of E!ifiland ;
~ relief to ....is case • and, in consequence a Bill had or,
your Majesty to condecend to receive this bumble 1 at the choke Of the holders of the said In
actually passed that body, and bad been traesmit- e.' Dlis,
declaration +f our hearts. • -- len - MfbeilitlM,
• - a- ' six - cent.

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Tlattsburg, kis !hulling- ton,
were advancing in the same direction; from the in-
telligence we received yesterday, the number of regu-
lars on this expedition is estimated at 6,000, and
that their movements strongly indicate an attack 011
our lines. If this divercion of the enemy is contem-
plated, as is supposed, to distract our attention ; and
by that means weaken our force in the. Upper Pro-
vince, so as to enable him to effect his object in that
quarter, we have every reason to hope he will be mis.
taken, and that with the force now on our lines, and
_with the militia, which may be immediately collected,
he- will have more cause to repent this second alarm
than he had be first which he occasioned us last fail,
and where he was satisfied with being frightened into
precipitate retreat.

SICILr.

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, Morn; of a letter from a Noblemakof high rank
in Sicily', `dated Palermo, September.. 14, 1813.
" The. Parliament proceeds vigorously. The Oppo-
sition. takes the lead. The Prince Belmonte and
Prince Villamosa, with all the Ministers, have been
displaced,- because they were favouring their own
views instead of those of the ration. The Prince St.
AntOnino, Duke of Anjou, Is at the head of the Op-
position in the House of Lords, to whose bar it is in-
tended to call the Prince Villamosa, late Minister of
Finances, to render his accountL The Commons
have decreed, that the nation cannot bear the weight
of the 60,0u0 dollars, which the Old Government as-
signed as ?n annual pension to the Duke of Orleans,
and therefore that the payment should be stopped,
and only the interest upon the Duchess's fortune at
seven per cent. per 'annum be given to him. This
has been a great Wow, because the Duke is of the
Prince. Belmonte's party. We have completely
triumphed, and the English Constitution, with some
modifications, will prevail in Sicily."

FRANCE.

(Signed)

" BOUITANUE."

ted to the Privy Count , here for the royal assent.—
He wished to ask his 'tight Hon. Friend oppoiite to
him (Mr. Vansittart) what was the reason that these
unfortunate persons had not received the benefit of
this Bill ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCUEQUER espres.sed hint.
self unable, at that time, to answer the question o(the
Hon. Gentleman.
The Petition was brought up,. and ordered to lie
on the table.
MILtTiA SERVICE BILL.
The Militia Service Bill was brought in, and read
a first time, and ordered to be read- a second time
to-morrow.
'Lord Carn.ruzacu said, that he should move qn
Monday that the Bill he citmmitted, in order to fill
up the blanks. To facilitate the progress of the Bill,
he should postpone the notice he had given respect.
ing the Subsidies from Monday to Wednesday.
The Local Token Bill wept through a commit-
tee.—Adjourned.

*Tips
English
interest, registered
and numbered. The English Commiesionets upon
the Continent shall be directed to keep this registry,
of which a duplicate shall be lett every month to
England, for the security of the parties interested.
VI, The interest of the bills funded and eouverted
into a six per cent. stock, or into Debentures, as stat-
ed in Article V. shall be payable every six months,
in whatever city of the North of Germany his 4hi-
tannic Majesty's Commiesiooers shall point ou4 for
that purpose, to commence from themonth following
that of their being deposited in the general office.—
The payment of this interest, as well as the rem-
Alinement of the capital, shell be made in one or
rather of the coins herein before specified in Art. I.
The bills which shall neither have been registered
1601` funded before the signature of the Preliminaries
of Peace, shall be entitled to an interest of half per
cent. per sepath, to commence from the period of the
said signatere, until that of their reimbursement.
VII. The reisnbureetnent of the whole of the fif-
teen millions thalen of bills of credit, which his Bri-
tannic Majesty takes upon himself, shall be made as
is specified in Article I. in specie, either in Prussian
'balers, according teitlie Tar? ff of 1764, or in Spanish
dollars, at the rate of one Prussian dialer and a half
for each dollar, at the proportion of cue milliOn of
thalers per month, to commence from the month fol-
lowing the ratifieation of a general peace.
The reimbursement of these bills shall be made in
the manner following t—First; the Funded Bills ac-
cording to the nrder of their subsceiption, and then
the monthly bills not funded, according to the date
of their issue, so that the reimbursement shall be
completed in fifteen months. This reimbursement,
as well as the payment of the interest, shall take place
in such cities on the Continent as shall be pointed out
for that purpose.
In the event, which Goo forbid, of the state of
peace, fixed for the period of reimbursement, being
disturbed'afresh before the entire completion of such
reimbursement, the payment Shall not thereby be in.
tempted.
VIII. His Britannic Majesty reserves to himself
the right of anticipating, as he may think proper, the
period of reimbursement, as well of the six per cent.
sock, ai of the bills not converted into that stock.
Done at London, this 18th (30th) of Septean,bch
in the year of our Lord, 1813. (Signed).
CASTLFAIZAGII. COMTZ DE LI.EVEN.

STATE PAPER.
SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION TO THE 71ir•ATT OF
CONCERT AND SUBSIDY OF THE 15TH OF JUNE; lBl3,
BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJNIITY AND HIE MAJESTY
THE EMPEROR OF ALL Till RUSSIAN SIGNED AT LOW'
boN, THE 90TH OF SEPT. 181 3.

In the Name of the Mon Holy and Undivided Trinity,
The scarcity of specie producing difficulties and
considerable loss in furnishing the pecuniary succours
which his Britannic Majesty is desirous of furnirkOing
to his Allies, to assist them in supporting the ex-
pences of the war with France, it has been agreed
between his Majesty the King of the United King.
dom of Great Britain and Ireland on the one hand,
and their Majesties the Emperor of All the Russia:,
and the King of Prussia on the other, that a part of
these succours shall be furnished by aid of the public
credit of Great Britain, and under the form of bills
of credit, exclusively applicalisle to the expences of
the war, and to be reimbursed in specie on the terms
•
and conditions hereinafter stipulated. •
In consequence and in execution of the fourth Ar-
ticle of the Convention, Concluded at Reichenbach,,
on the Sd (15th) June of the present year, his Ma-
jesty the King of the %.Inited Kingdom of Great Bn.,
taut and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of
All the Russias, have named their Plenipotentiaries,
to conclude the presiiit Convention, namely, his Ma-

fired on the patty which Was at that PAIRLIAMENTA
y the Militia. The porgepstla *la
d foot of the deserters,- ifialertauschd HOME OF LOR.
the :mailing three escaped. ) The House met at ten
14.—We understand that demon*. r d, pusuant to the notic
rt of the' enemy, on our own frontier& yesterday, that the judici
irpd within these few days past; sad terminate at two o'clock.
able body of his troops baa arrived at In the Appeal a Ste,
n Burlington, and that other divisions judgment was affirmed,