Star.
London, England, 1813-04-10 00:00:00

CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.

Mr. W. SMITH said, he held in his hand a Pe-
tition from certain persons, Dissenters, residing in
London at.d its vicinity. This Petition was signed
by only 100 persons, but it expressed the sentiments
of upwards of 10,000; its prayer was, that measures
might he taken in the granting the New Charter to
the E:ist India Company, to forward the spreading of
Chr:s:i.inity in India. In presenting this Petition,
the Petitioners did not pray for any dangerous inno-
vations, but merely that no impediment might bit
thrown in the way of such persons as might wish to
`devote themselves to the forwarding this great object.
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving,that the
Petition should be read, which was accordingly done,
and it was referred to the consideration of the Com-
i mittee on the Bill for East India Affairs.

PUNISHMENT FOR HIGH TREASOg.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved the Order of
the Day for the House going into a Committee on
the Bill for the punishment of High Treason.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL declared his in-
tention of opposing the Bill in some future stage.
After some further observations from Sir Sauttets4
ROMILLY, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr FRANICLAND,
Sir J. NEWPORT, Mr. CHOKER, Etc. the Bill passed
through the Committee ; and on the question for the
report being received on Monday,
Mr. FRANKLAND objected generally to the
Bill, and moved as an amendment, that the repast
should be received this day six months.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT supported the Bill, and
contended that the disgraceful barbarities directed to
be inflicted in the punishment of high treason, by the
law as it at present stood, but which were never cm-a
ried into effect, ought to be el ased, even in name,
from our statute book.
Mr. W. FITZGERALD was of opinion the law
should be preserved as it at present stood, as tending
to prevent crime, and therefore he supported the
!amendment.

Mr. COURTNEY supported the Bill. He though;
it was disgraceful to our Statute•llnok, that a punish.
ment should remain on it so dreadful and so barbs.
rous that 'the general feeling of the country would
never suffer it to be carried into execution. He
thought some alteration in the law should take
place, though he did not go the whole length of do
present Bill.
Sir W. GARROW supported the law as it at pre.
sent stood ; the severity of punishtnent was intended
to prevent the commission of crimes by those %AG
saw that punishmcnt inflicted. He considered the
law as it at present stood as one of the safeguards of
the Constitution, and therefore he should support it,
and oppose the piesent measure.
Mr. PONSONBY supported the Bill: he was
ar:onished, indeed, at the Assertion of the Hon. Gen.
tkman, that this barbarous punishment was one of
the safe-guaids of our Constitution. On the contrary,
he was persuaded that the exhibition of such punish.
ments only tended to render depraved those who wit.
nessed them.

- Mr. BATHURST supported the amendment, on
the grounds, that it was necessary to distinguish
Treason from other crimes, as being of a more atro.
cious nature. The punishment directed by the Sta.
tote was ri.lver carried into full effect ; yet, he was
persuaded, its standing on the Statute Book, tended
to prevent the commission of crimes.
Sir S. ROMILLY replied, and expressed his de,
termination, if his Bill did not now pass, to brkg it in
again next Session ; also a,lother tor t iking way
the corruption of Woo.l in cases ot High TreAson.
The House then divided—For the Report being re.
ceived on Monday, 60—For the Amendment,
The Bill was consequently los!.
The other Orders were then disposed of, and t
1 House adjourned at Ono o'Clock to Monday.

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LONDON.

SATURDAY, A.i'ltlL. 10, 1813.

Intier sTocKs THIS DAY !-T ONE O'CLOCK,
'Reduced ,lll—Cons. 54 59—for ac. 581 59-4 per Ct.73ii
per Cent. 883.1—Bond• is. 2a. dis.—Lsch. Bills Si. 4s pre.
Bank Long Annuities 14 II- itiths

I,.ast .fight we received Paris Papers to the 6th

instant. They announce several most important, but
not unexpected. events. BONAPARTE is about to set
out for the army, and has appointed the EMPRESS to
preside over the falling destinies of the French Empire

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during his absence. A new Puppet is thus produced
upon the Imperial stage. The Senate address the
mawkish upstart with some tawdry commonplaces,
and her Imperial Majesty replies in words set down
for her by her Consort. She is reminded that she is

the daughter of MARIA THIRESA. Alas I that a de-
scendant of the great and good THERESA—the vir-
tuous champion of the independence and liberties of
her people—should describe the efforts of other na.

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'ions to shake off their chains as- 4, civil war, treason,
and disobedience!"—that a Grand-daughter of the
fieroic TuttanA should be the practised organ of the
'fbulest murderer that ever disgraced the human form!
tut she is'the Mother of the King of Roux—the au-
past .Sconseof NAPOLVAN!
r But we turn from this humiliating picture to
!soniething more pleasing. The French Journalists
cannoronreal the ruinous state of their affairs.
The defe.ction of the King of Pnusena has excited a.
:";great seasatiou in Paris. It has had a remarkable
•-effect upon the fuhds, which even the Duke of BAS-
SANO'S Report to the Senate cannot counteract. In
this curious document there is an insolent affectation
of forbearance, on former occasions, when Prussia
was prostrate at the feet of the Patifrator of Europe.
Threats of venzeance are, of course, implied in the
bevent of another overthrow of the Prussian Monne/.
Nothing we apt ehend can tend more strongly to ce.
ment the affections of the King of Paussta to his
,subjects, anti to encrease their enthusiasm against the
;'Tyrant than this document.. The war waged by the
Pruss'ans against the. French must nbw be a war of
oxtermination. ~ Death or Victory" must be the
motto davery noted Prussian I

We have neither time nor room to tornment on
the detailed accounts of the positions occupied by the
}Trench armies. A reference to the Map will shew
that they are every where in the extresuities of ruin.
The Prince 'Viceroy is said to have one hundred thou-,
sand figh:ing men under bins at Magdeburgii—it is
impossible. •

We have received Cadit Papers to the 27th March,
by a Mail which arrived this morning. The rI.ANTA-
,*ENET'rytati of war has arrived at Cadiz from Ports-•
mooth, pith the 29th regiment on board.
We are glad to fillet that the Decree for abolishing,
the luquisition has been carried into full effect.
From Alicaiit we learn, that Sucnrr is making de-
monstrations as if he intended to evacuate Valencia.
King Jo.serir L.; uk,on the wing for France. He
seems to have adopted this resolution after receiving
dispatches 1: cm his Brother at Paris. All his va.
I,uables have been previously sent off. The aban.l
donment of Spain by the French troops is agairr con-
firmed by the above papers.
A letter from a British Officer, dated Coria, 22a
March, says, 4, The French are leaving Madrid.—
Yosvit halted at Valladolid for as long a rest as,
lie Pill be permitted to take. Twenty men from
each company have marched from Spain for the Im-
Guard, which has very much reduced the ace-
:lye force of the enemy in the Peqinsula."

We arc happy .to find, that it is not in the contem-
plation of Government to fritter away the British
.roops in a mililary expedition to the North, at a time
When the Peninsula and Canada afford at least a suf-
icient scope for its operations. The population of
he Nerd: can furnish men : money, arms, ammuni-
kin, clothing, and warlike appointments, are the find
which Great Britain is called upon to furnish to the
;teat and glorious flame now kindled, and rapidly
preading over Europe. Of such supplies let not
F.ngland be niggardly ; but is the title of men, let
ter aid the general cause by the reinforcement of the
llustrious WELLINCION : to hit hands Europe confi-
lently commits the destiny of her southern extremity.
Ile troops of the German Legion, now under orders
or the Continent, consist of artillerymen, dismounted
avalry, and infantry, selected, on account of their
:•ied military conduct and fidelity, for distribution
mong emir countrymen in arms. About 400 have
heady embarked at Sheerness, and a further detach-
sent is instantly o: delve! from Plymouth. Though
mall, yct truly valuable will be such a Sid- to the
ising levies. It will give unity of action to an army
50,000.—Frem the preceding it will be seen, that
Jere is no real funudation in the report of a British
'rince Proceeding to the Continent at the head of an
?xpee/iiion; but we have reason to believe, that ere
!;ng ihe Duke of Camenince, trusting solely to the
attachment cf the lianoverians, will, merely as a
felaer of the Horse of BRUN.SIPICK, halt in Hanover
ae Standard of his venerable Father.

The Foreigner, v..hose arrival at Deal has hem
•nri:ntloried in :this Paper, has had a.O inter-
' Cs.srLt,e4Autf, but nothing has tran-
- ,J 1 hi. ountruunicatinhs.

rAtiviotrni, APRIL 7.
igrived the Duke of Kent, with a mail from Lis-
bon in eleven days; the Montague packet, with a
mail from Gibraltar and Malta in the roads wind.
bound. The-Ann packet, with a mail from Cadiz
in ten days, is this moment arrived. The Walsing-
ham packet, with-16 passengers, sailed eleven days
before her, and is supposed to have gone to the West-
ward with a more northerly wind.—Wind S. E.

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