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their relaxation.
Lord HOLLAND, in explanation, asserted, that
who supported the motion, objected both to
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,te orders in Council and to the mode in which they
orerelaied ; so that whether tht Petition was :Tama
At Orders, or their effects, was of no consequence.
The Earl of WESTMORELAND exp!aioed.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE contended, that
thowas no inconsistency in the Speech of his Noble
Riau!. It had been suggested. that his Noble Friend
ot ignorant of what was the Order in Council pro-
cd to be repealed. It was the Order of the 7th of
romp, 1807. The Noble Earl, who had taken a'
total view of the subject, had said, that the corn.'
:ferCC Of the country in 1809 and 1810, under the
eperations of the Orders in Council, had been in a
orithing state. Could it be called prosperous com-1
%Tee when bankruptcy burst so frequen ly among
ttetnerchanfs Could it be prosperous while the
onufacturers of the country were starving ? Had
tot a sudden alteration taken place in the wages of
poufacturers ? And ought not the phenomena,
produced by the. Orders in Council, to induce the
goose to go into a Committe to inquire into the sub-
'pre? Much had been said of speculative trade un-
klicenses. It was true, that speculations had ex-
tended to great length ; but it was a fact well known,
that goods had been sent to Heligoland on specula-1
tivond sent back again. He had himself seen pro.;
pricy .sold at half its price. It was not reasonable to
,oppose speculations would restore the commerce of
the country. The source of commerce was a foreign
otart and a consumption. He had not heard, on the
whole of the arguments, one observatioa that ought
to deter any Noble Lord from giving assent to the
Motion.
The Earl of ROSS defended the policy of retalia-
tion, and maintained an opinion, tit .t the Orders in
Council could not be repealed, while the Decrees of
Bonaparte were operative.
Viscount SIDMOUTH was an advocate for the
policy of the Orders in Council ; but he did not ap•
prove of the Order of 1807. That Order was not
retaliatory; but rather a branch of the Order of 1755,
which had been issued not to allow neutrals to carry
on trade in war, winch they did not carry on in peace.
Tue order which made every neutral subject to the
depredation of proceeding to a British port to pay
duts was unjust, but that had been done away. The
Noble Viscount denied that there ought to be any
connection between the Orders in Courcil and the
Licence system. The Blockading system might be
better carried on if the Licences were done away, as
far as the abolition was 'practicable. Great abuses
occurred in consequence of those licences. The Orders
is Council inflicted privations on the enemy, but the
licences went to relieve them. On the question
whether the negotiation with America would turn
on the issuing of the Orders in Council, the great
point would be, whether they would or would not
repeal those Orders ? He could only say, on that
aubject, that he would not be one to transfer to ether
branches of the Legislature what belonged to the
executive only. No one had more satisfaction than
himself, with respect to forbearance towards America;
but as this point had been intisted on, he was com-
pelled to declare against it. On the whole, the Noble
Viscount opposed the motion.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN rose to reply, and,
without taking up a great portion of their Lordships'
time, opposed the arguments against his Motion. A
Noble Earl had said, shall we, at a time like the pre-
sent, when complaints are so general in all parts of
the country, consent to go into a Committee to repeat
sfiteni of retaliation properly maintained against
the enemy ? Were their Lordships to be obstinate in'
their resolution not to go into inquiry respecting the
Ordets, because the people complained against'those
Orders? Such an argument could not be supported.
With respect to the necessity of going into inquiry,
it was well known, that the Orders were not generally
understood. Practitioners had been employed in
Inking 4nd publishing the, meaning of those Orders,
for the information of the Judges. In short, they
were so defective and difficult to be interpreted, that
they could not be mended. He remembered a story
told of Mr. Pope ; that author had a habit of saying,
"GOD mend me !" A Gentleman, displeased by the
expression, observed one day, "GOD mend you! he
bad bean make another !" The Orders in Council
stood in the same situation as Mr. Pope; and he ex-
pressed a hope, that, if the House did not amend those
Orders, they would abolish them altogether.
Earl FITZWILLIAM begged leave to remind
the House of the Petitions which lay upon their Lord- i
(hips table, from the town and county of York, as
veil as from many otter places, where the decay of 1
trade was principally felt, and the evil attributed
entirely to the Orders in Council. In the county of
Nottingham the evil was principally felt, but instead '
of adopting means for its removal, he was sorry to
know that a Bill was at present before the House, the
provisions of which would subject the sufferers to
death. These facts being before the House, he trust-
ed
the Motion would he acceded to.
Lord GRENVILLE . shortly stated, that sboold
not the present Motion meet the approbation of the
'loose, he trusted full attention would be given to a
Motion which a Noble Friend of his would found noon
the different petitions then upon their Lordships table
against the Orders in Council.
A division then took place, when the numbers ap-
Peued---Contents present 66—Proxies 69-135. H
Non-contents present 37—Proxies 37-74.—Majority
against the Motion 51.
Adjourned at Twelve o'Clock.

: that from Huh was against

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER and several Members attended in the Lords,
lo hear the Royal Acsent given to several Bills.
Mr. H. MARTIN postponed till Thursday his Motion far re-
Mating the Office of Registrar of the Court of Admiralty.
The Drury-lane Theatre Bill was lead a third time and passed.
Os the motion of Mr. WHARTON, a new Writ was ordered
L'lthe Borough of Plymouth, In the room of Lord Casilereadh,
:16 had accepted the office of Secretary of State for the War
mePartinent.
Mt. HUTCHINSON postponed, from the 3d of Mareh to the
nth if April, his motion fur the Repeal of the Union with Ife-
gm. on acroant of she absence of Irish Members on the Circuits.
!On the motion of Sir J. NEWPORT, an order was made for
mincing an account of the manner in which £.loo,tx:o, granted
"*Promodug Inland Navigation in Ireland, had been expended.
...I be House them went into a Committee on the Local Militia
*lmo Mr. RYDER moved Several amendments, which
wet adopted.
in‘a t 6 clause providing that the wives and finulies of balloted
ea should be relicted ou t of the parothial funds of the teepee-
polibhes to vilakh they belonged;

LONDON.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29.

PRICE Ul.• S COCKS DAY AT ()NE O'CLOCK
3 pa Ct. Reduced 61162-4 per Cent. ;61
3 per Ct. Cons. tor money 6141—D0. tar acc. 61, G 2
5 per Ct. 023—Bonds 15s. —s. l r.—Long Alllll. l 0 5-16ths
Exch. Bills I s. 4s. pre.--Ditto (311, d.) —s. pre.

The amount of Exchequer Bills funded up to last night, was
Four Millions Eighteen l'housand.--1 his is the last day of funding.
The Lottery was contracted for this morning by Rtru ax n .)N,
GOODLIICK, & Co. ..sd Sw err S.: Co. at .e. 16. per

We have this morning received C araccas Gazettes
to the IGth of November.

General MIRANDA, having been successful in est:-
Wishing his new system of Government in Valencia,
had returned to the Caraccas. The kingdoms of Car.
thagena and Truxillo have been added to the Confe-
deration, and S. Martha was expected also to join.
MIIIAtiDA is extremely popular.

By the American Papers received yesterday we
learn that the further consideration of the Commercial
Intercourse Bill has been postponed to the second of
March. A motion to postpone the subject to June
was negatived by a large majority.
In the House of Representativ..ts, on the 30th Ja.
nuary, a resolution was carried (ayes 101, noes 6),
callin& upon the President for correct information
relatiq to the capture and condemnation of American
property by the European Powers. The Mover, Mr.
BIGELOW, stated, that he understood that no less than
500 vessels had been condemned by France under
one Decree.

An amendment to the above Resolution was also
carried to bring before Congress, at the same time,
"The Regulations, Orders and Decrees under which
the captures took place, and how far these orders, &cc.
are persevered in by the Nations making such cap-
tures ; and when abandontd," &c.

A motion to postpone the production of these do-
cuments until the 2d of March was negatived, on the
ground that it was highly necessary to possess the in-
lot mation called for previous to discussing the Inter-
course Bill,. to enable the House. to decide whether
France or England were the greatest aggressor.
The linguage of Mr. Wit inn r, in opposing the re-
solution, deserves particular censure He did not
think it prudent to expose the wrongs done to Ame-
rica by France, at this time, when America Lad se•
lected her enemy, and it might probably operate
against her friend; and it was also possible that
her Minister might, at that very moment, be con-
; eluding an amicable arrangement on that subject."
On the expression used by the Committee of Fo-
reign Relations, that "Britain captures every Ame-
rican vessel bound to or from a port where her com-
merce is not &Toured," a Federal paper says " Take
the following proof :—British men of war conveyed
'4O American vessels from Russian ports, which as-
sembled at Hanno, and departed thence October 4,
under British protection, which they had sought, to
prevent t!,eir being taken by the privateers of the
warm fr;ends of America, the Danes and French."
" The Senate have appropriated one million, instead
of three millions of dollars, to carry the Volunteer
1 Bill into effect."

The Bill for arming the Merchantmen had been
taken Up again in Congress, but no discussion •had
taken places

The delay in the intended operations against Ba-
cialts was bceasioned by the unfavourable state of the
meather ; but when the last accounts came away, it
had become mere *Wed.

• JAMATCA:MATI.S.

The Princits Amelia Packet has arrived at Pal•
mouth from Jamaica, with Mails, in 39 days. By
this conveyance we have received letters and news-
papers to the 19.1 i ult.

The BART %DOES leg :te, which sailed from Portsmouth on
the 24th of November, with a convoy of 42 sal, had arrived at
Port Royal on the 15th January. On the 2d December they el-
perheiced a very tempestuous gale, which candied them to
bear up for Cork, alien twenty-three nil mutated; but the
wind coming fair again the same night, the convoy pro-
ceeded for Madeira, on their at r off which isfand the
trade for the Brazils parted, and the reina•nder arrived at Ba•-
batioes on the Sih inst. consisting cat one vessel for that island.
ten fur Jamaica, and his Majesty'. three-masted schooner Domi-
nica, of 12 guns. Lieutenant Hutchirbon, which likewise escor-
ted the fleet horn Portsmouth, and is to remaiii on the Wit.d.
ward stail n. '1 he ships Mint, Dry:dale ; 1-iawkeshary,
Itad-
Icy; Elizabeth, Stevenson; British Queen, C.coper ; Gyres, Wee.
ren ; Venelia, Sininiond, ; West Indian, Wel's ; Argo, Barclay;
and AI: Linder, Ford, ford !Ferenc out p en. parted from tik,:
convoy on the 13th. The Garland frigate, of fel guns, Calve
Hutkinoti, had sailed from Barbadoes, and was ro touch at some
of the Windward Islands on her passage to Jamaica. Off the
Navassa, the Nautilus was boarded by the Sapphire sloop of war,
of 1$ guns, on the i 1 th. The Helena sloop of war was to salt
for England in about a week, and to call at the Havannah In her
way. The Aralante sloop of war was to proceed to Bermuda
and Halifax on the 110th, taking the packet under her convoy.
—The ship Medway, Patterson, one of the London deer, (rein
which she separated off Madeira,passed!viorant Bay for Savannah-
b-Mar on the 11th inst. The ship Emerald, Wood, from London,
last Madeira, arrived at Port Mount oa the 11th inst. The
ship Alfred, Clarke, from Glasgow and Cork, entered at the Cus-
tom-house, Port Antonio, on the 10th; and the schooner Jane,
*Few, for St. Jago de Cuba, cleared at the same place on the I ilk
—The ships Apn, Wylie, and Mars, Alexander, from Greenock ;
and Volunteer, Barwise, from Whitehaven, part of the Cork Beet,
have at rived at Falmouth. sloop Kingston, Robertson, has
sailed from Falmouth fur Montego-Bay. The ship Columbus,
M'Kirdy, from Greenock and Cork, arrived at Montego-Bay on
the 10th. The ship Eliza, Dow (late Fergusson), anchered at
Green-i-land on the 6th. The ship Jane, Buret, from Greenock
and Cork, arrived at Lucia on the 10th. The ship Argo, Bar-
clay, one of the London Beet, has arrived at Old Harbour. She
separated from the Ann Mackenzie, Oxley, bound to Antigua,
off that is'and, from whence, after landing some naval stores, she
was to proceed to Jamaica.

His Majesty's frigate Alt F:TIWSA of 38 wins, Capt.
CoFFIN, sailed from Kingston the 19Lh Janu ivy, on
a cruize.

The VENtrs, on the Ist instant, spoke his Wij-sty's
ships INDIAN and RATTLER, cluizing of St. Mitt's,
all well.

Five leagues to windward of Jamaica, the John,
Ntcnott., spoke the brig Agnes, GORDON, from King-
ston, all well.

The whole of the ships for Jama;ra (17 in number)
had arrive l, except five, viz. the Union island, 1.. m.
SON ; Duke of Bedford, DROWN ; Maria, CAMPZELL
Sarah, GAusurr ; and the Nesbiv, BUCHANAN.

YesterJay, about two o'clock, Viscount CASTLE-
REAGH had an atdience of the PRINCE RFoFxT, at
Ca:lton-Honse, when his Royal Hi:thnes, t. rleased
to appoint hitif.ordship Secretary of-Stare f,.r eion
Affairs, and delivered to him the Seals ut OilLe ac-
cordingly.
Yesterday the Duke of Bruroan, the Earl of 14-
v Furoot, Lord Elisio r, and Mr. PIERCEVALI had au-
diences of the PRINCE Itlioawr at Carlton House.

The Duke of YORK'S Military Levee was put ;IT
again yesterday, owing to his Royal Highness not
being sufficiently recovered from his sprained ancle;
he was, however, we are happy to say, well enough
to go out in the afternoon, in his carriage, to Carlton
House, and had an audience of the PUINCi REGENT.

A Naval Officer of rank having animadverted,
perhaps incorrectly, on the late loss of one of his Ma'.
jesty':. ships, it is understood that her late Comman-
der, tenaciousof his hcnour and character as an officer,
demanded, and has obtained a misfactory apology.
A letter from Amsterdam, dated Jan. 3, says—
" The following people were saved out of the Flora
transport, lost off the Texel on the 24th of December,
and are prisoners of war :
B. Woodland, Salisbury-street, Bermondsey, Ma.; W. L'ne-
say, Gower-stunt, Bedford-square, Second Mate; A. Gardner,
King lare, Shadwell ; C. Carr, London, Carpenter; J.
Hutchinson, Sr. George's In the East; J. Ellwood, Yeek-bire; J.
Middlmtas, Bermondsey New-road; M. Byers, J. Roots, H.
Glyclen, J. Gibson, H. Walker, C. Chantey, and J. Wallin,
London ; J. Harper, Shields; J. Patterson, Berwick ; M. Erato(
ton, Robin Hood's Bay ; P. Wilson,!. Carroll, and .1. Moses.
" The Master left them at Amsterdam ; also
.Jt.hn
Brent, a boy, taken out of the Centurion in Wingo.
Only five people were saved from the-Rosina ; among
them is the Mate. The Centurion is lust, and all
hands, except E. Crow, of Whitby." .
INDIA HOUSE.—Yesterday a Court of Directors
was held, when Major-General THOM AS fits Lop was
appointed Commander in Chief, and second in Coun-
cil at Bombay ; and Captain GEORGE HOOPER was
sworn into the command of the ship Emu. Howe,
consigned to Bengal direct.
The Irish Catholic Board haie appointed a Com-
mittee of eleven to prepare an Address to the PRINCE
REGENT, in conformity with the resolution of the late
Aggregate Meeting. The Board met on Wednesday,
when Counsellor O'CONNELL submitted to them the
draft of the Petition to Parliament. With the excep-
tion of a few verbal corrections, the Melting were
unanimous in their approval. The Petition is short,
mild, firm, and respectful—lt prays Inquiry into the
late Judicial Proceedings—it grounds their claim to
Legislative relief on their Loyalty--4their Valour—
their Wealth, and their Numbers ; and prays that
those concessions, which they would concede to all
men, may, by the wisdom of Parliament, be conceiied
to themselves.

LYCEUM THEATRE. A new Play, entitled The
House of Norville, and professed to be written in
" humble imitation" of our older dramatic writers,
was on Thursday night produced here. A prejndlced
father, whose kindness is bestowed upon an unworthy
nephews to the injury of a deserving son, but who
afterwards sees his error, and is reconciled to his child,
is the substance of the story. The piece, on the whole,
was long and tedious,but it was given ont fora second
representation without much opposition.
The Oratorio last night was most brilliantly at-
tefidkds and the Selection gave universal satisfaction.

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MLLIGEAtC2.

FOWEY, FEB. ss.
Put into this port last night the Lion privateer, of
'Guernsey, leaky, having stove in her bulwarks, and
split her sails in a gale. Arrived to-day the Princess
Elizabeth paCket with a mail from Rio Julien), which
place she left the Ist December last.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 16.
Arrived the Princess Amelia packet from Jamaica,
with a mail, in 59 dAys. Sailed the Fartvirxr gun-
brig with a mail and dispatches far Lisbon.
'1 EN o'CLock P. 14.—The Amel a ;s not pt cam*
up the harbour, therefore c moot learn particulars..
The FErtvr_vr gun brig took nn board one of the
mails that was ro 1..0 by the Marlborou4h picket, and
was to sail at all events. It is ..u,spose'd her dispatclick
are of impor:atice.—Wind %Vest.

PLYMOUTH, FEE. se.
Arrived yesterday, during the storm. the schooner
Eleasiqr, helonging to this port. M.Doisaus Master,
from St. Michaees, with a cargo of it ult. In g. tting
into the harbour, she was drove en shore in Firestone
Bay ; but, oa the weather becoming more moderate,
she was fortunately got of, without sustaining much
injury.—To-day, arrived the Dutch schooner Snei-
heyt, R. H&APSEI Mare?. to 21 days from St. Mi.
awl's, with a cargo of fruit to this port for ord
Capt. HA AIFsPN states, that yesterday afternoon, dur-
ing the storm, when off tilt Lizard, he •ssw many
pa. is ut use wieck of a vessel, and a vast quantity of
lemons and oranges floating about.; by which it is
certain some vessel twist have been lost nest that '
place.—The Master of a vessel lying in the Sound
during the storm repreicnts, that he saw the light-
ning issue from the clouds, apparently over the R
head ; and, taking a-North direction, it struck the
masts of his Majesty's ship.Tcniniaxr. as she lay ht
Cawsand Bay, thence among the *faith at Mount
Edzcumbe, where it sep mated, nem part taking a
N.W. course. and Vie other E.N.E. the latter stri-
king the S.W. angle of the Citadel, whence it fell
into Dead man's sy, in C.ttwater. It appelif.. the
p-or fellows who were the sufferers on board the
ToNsiaur rere employed aloo, whence tiler Were
precipitated on the deck : out t'.. twenty four who
were injured, nineteen, it is said, were killed.. • The
ToXISANT is so much injured, th.tt is ii.said the must
come into liamoaze to repa r : DIANA is shoed.
petted to come up harbour.—Anived the HERNIA
22 guns, from a cruise, and anchored iagawsand
Bay.—Came up harbour the Hauttivt, tO-guns, to
refit : she had five nifn struck by lightningymerday,
fi.rtimately, how ev, T. none were killed..
FEBRUARY 27.—Arrived digraittigliztealtip Al.
mirante Nelson, Captain Peauzza, from Moranharn
(Brazils) in 58 days, w:th a cargo of cotton and
hides, lir I.,nndon ; nlso arr.veci from Mitha, last
tiorn Torls iy, And anchored in the.s,wind, his-Majes-
ts 's ship l'i.a KLEN. abith the. Big of Rea/Admiral
Liovi.vs tiled the Lowe, 38, with a. convoy, for
J'oromoinli ; the Lu.)Ninas, ty, and Httthrts, VI on
sepaiate cruizes ; and the WIIITINO scheiuttat, fcr
• Falmouth —Wind N. W. very fine.
PORTSMOUTH. Fr.Bßuitv.ir
Nothing arrived or sailed today. Sailed liis Ma-
jesty's ship Sr. DostiNno, tor the Downs: The Ow ,v
came up to Spithead from St. Helen's instead oft)*
VENZBABLE, as stall"•• 'esterdity. The FACIA line!
Do.tor.vez were this day released from quarantine.
FEBRUARY VA.--An-iyeti his MajLazy's ship Dan.
WEXT troth a Mize. Sailed his Majevy's ships run.
BAN, WoOLVIRIKE, and Virrena,:. On the '26th in.
stant, off Portland, the Rose, revenue-critter, retook
the brig Friends, of Sunderland, that had been cap-
tured but a few hours before by the Mercur..,Trencit
privateer, Captain Collo', of and from Cberburgh
but the day before. The Mercure had captured a
West Indianian, (the Mentor, QUBLISII master, from
St. Kitt's), who was then with **other privateer
in sight, and the Greyhound, revenue-ciitter, in chase
of them. The prisoners taken on board the Frierids
report that, the Guernsey packet Chesterfield!la.ey
taken from us, had beeii fitted out as a privates ,
and was to. sail in a few days to cruise off Po to
land and St. Albans. The Ctiesiernelo w ab at fikt .
tons, will have all new sails, and has been cutter rig-
ged by the French.—P.S. The Mentor has been re.
taken and brought into Portimotr.h, by the Grey.
hound Revenue curer.
DEAL, PERSUAitY 27.

The ROLLA sloop of war his detained an& sent
into the Downs the O*en Caro'in.i, ffnrn C.ritne, fur
London, with clover seed. C.tra.2 down from the
River, the Marquis of Huntley E Ist-IndTamtn.—
Arrived the NAIAD frigate from A Crli'LT ; and sailed
the Lady Carrington, to India.
Fa/SWART 28.—Came down from the River, his
Majesty's ship COSSORANT and several otbe:s. Ar-
rived the Sr. Domtwoo, from Portsmouth, and, with
the East and West-Indiameat and a large fleet of out-
ward.bound, are ail wind-bound. .The Lady Car-
rington East-Indiamaq is still at sea. —W;nd S.W.

RAM9GATE, FEBRUAR7 26.
Tie whole of yesterday it blew a he..vy gale froin
the Southward, which forced several vessels into this
harbour for shelter ; among which is one of the trench
frigates taken at the surrender ot the Isle of Frazier,
pierced for 44 uns, (she his since been sold, and is
bound for the it to be broken tip) called la Manche.
She grounded.' ming for the harbour, by *'hich
she lost her radidr ; she has also lost both anchor. and
( cables, and was brought in by the Ramsgate boatmen.
This is the largest vessel ever known to have been in
this harbour. A deep-loaded brig, from Great Yee.
"loath, was driven out of the Downs, and in coming
for the harbour got on shore on the,Theak, wnen thy
crew left her; she afterwards drove into Pe i Nell Bay,
and was boarded by the Ramsgate boats and brought
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in here, with the loss of rudder, &c. The brig DVa-
gon has also arrived, with the loss of forttop-mart a. .el
bowsprit; a transport from Li bun is just come in,
with baggage belonging to the lst Royal Dragoons,
which is atm landing; about fifty other vessels have
come in within these two days, which has increased
the number in the harbour to near 204 sail • 1
is also a verylarge fleet of merchantmen in the How
GREENOCK, lirilli. its.
The Lord Gardner, Covenans, from Malta and
Gibraltar, is put under qUarantiae. The Indastvie,
Mowrcounour, of this port, which was captured, e
the 21st oh. by l'Amelia French privatteri was •
into Blest an the 27th. . .