Star.
London, England, 1812-06-23 00:00:00

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• (I,itbFlierst °MCI, Jos.. 3, 1812.
• 1-411 E PANC/PAL OFFICERS; of HIS Mal-
s.t JISTrs aRD-KANCIs si he* ow mike,
proposals will be received at their Oniee ba Pall. Mail
•
coostore Friday, the 26th day of Juneneat, from such Persons
1:401,17 be willing to undertakk.abc performance of the CAR-
, -jogyillit'S WORK lm the Medway Ilivision, for service of this
Opannient, for a period of One Year.
pother particulars, together with the Terms and Conditions
lettims Contract, nspy be known upon application atthe Secretary's
WWI P°ll4llll akreligs any day between the hours of 10 and
401*, where the Proposals must be delivered, sealed up, and
" Proposals for the Carpenter's Work in the Medway
.4901 es ;" but no proposal can be admitted after the said 26th
woos twelve o'clock at noon of the same day; neither will
egg Tim be notked unleis the party making it, or an agent
bablOplf, shall attend.
~/ * Order of the Board,

R. H. CREW, Secretary.

E4if7414,14 NOMA, Atril 18, 1812.
-'T `HE COURTIft•DI,kieIOI_Of the UNITED
11 cOMPANTy if.o6l.llNi'S f ENGLAND, *Padang
:tithe EAST INDIES, de ksvki eve
. That a Quarterly General Court of the said Company will be
lidd at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on Wednesday, the
intb June next, at Eleven o'Cloek ie the Forenoon, .for the pur-
rs, of declaring a Dividend from Christmas last to Midsummer
That the Transfer /looks of the said Company's Stock will be
• ;I' p Tuesday, the 24 June neat, at .two o'clock, and opened
, 410 et Tuesday, the dist July following.
iedind that the phridiPulNatranteen the said Company's Stock
*oh the sth Jobs 1111 Pet ready te.ba delivered on Friday, the
-10411 Y neat. : . .-irgArdm BAntser, Setreari.

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names inconsiderable—(Hear.)—besides, majorities
of that House had recognized the agteernent.—
(fitar.}.—He hoped that the measure would be
pressed till. justice ehould triumph ; and he would
maintain, the honour, character, and consistency of
the House required such a measure as the one now.
before therm
Colonel BASTARD supported the claims.
Sir MARK WOOD opposed the measure.
Mr. ROSE resisted the claims, maintaining that
they were founded neither on right nor on agreement.
The CHANCELLOR of the
.EXCHEQUER
did not a ish to press the Houk to a division.
Mr. FULLER said, Oh yes, Mr. Speaker, as
Mr. Palmer's fiends are all here, we had best take
the sense of the House -now ; though 1 confess that
they appear to be very obstinate in their desire to ese,
press that sense at this particular instant. But they'
say the sense of the House is with them, and tier,
sense of the Country is with them I Well then, Sal
us take that sense now, for I see it is all round about i
the Hon. fdtver at this moment !"•-•(.1 lough.
The Bill was then read a second time uitistilit e•
division, and erslered to be committed tomorrow.
CATHOLIC CONCILIATION.
Mr. CANNING rose and said, that when theil
House reflected upon the extent and magnitude at
'the subject which he had undertaken th it day i
press upon its attention—when it bore in mind the
hopes which had been excited that he might succeed '
in recommending this important question to its early
and favourable consideration—when 'it recollected.
the various and anxious discussions and dthattl"
which it had undergone, as well within the, wails of
that House as in other places—when it regarded the
anxiety prevalent through, ut the empire upon this
subject, butmore particularly in another part of the
United Kingdom (Ireland}, an anxiety heightened,
if possible, by the intelligence which, he ts as sot ry to
say, had been that day received from that coentry—
the House May, perhaps, suppoie that he should cc-
cupy a considerable portion of its time and attention
ail the see.ch with which he meant to introduce his
motion. But if any such expectation existed, he
could assure the House that he should disappoint it.
For however comelicated the question may be in its
details, the view which he tail of it, was founded
upon a few, fair, simple, and just, principles, whit
respired no elaborate argument to establish, becans
they were not liable to any solid'or serious objection,
It he were to have brought fot ward this question as
a partisan, or had taken it up with reference to any
narrow consideration of its nature or bearings, he
should indeed, in dischiegnig the task which he had
that .ray undertaken, feel all the diffitultie, the in-
telligence received in the course c f the morning from
another part of the kingdom, must necessarily have
created ; but in the view ahich he had of the sub-
ject, he couldatou feel any embarrassment in the per-
totinancc of his duty on that occasion. He came to
his task with a full sense of every difficulty attending
it—with a fixed determination to perform it netwith-
standing any difficulties which the intelligence to
which he had alluded might attach to it. So far
from bring discouraged horn persevering, he looked
upon the circumstance to which he referred, as one of
those considerations, which, in the piesent state of
the Empire, ought to' weigh most in iefluencing fvm
to press ate subject upon the attention of Parliament,
akthe only way to secure the conciliation of all clas.
ses in the estate. So far was he, therefore, from. re-
!ening as e partisan to the past, that he was deter-
mined-, note Us:ending. what had . transpired that
morning, to keip alt inflammatory topics wholly out
of the question. In the discussions which had al-
ready taken place, too much matter of that desciip.
tion had been introduced. He had therefore thought
it possible to state the question, encompassed as it
WAS with difficulties, coolly and dispassionately, with-
out reference to the ninisure of increase or diminu-
tion, which these diffiLulties may undergo. For whe.
, the the difß.ulties were, or were not, actually in-
creased
,or diminished, that circumstance in itself
could fin m no reason for the rejection et the ques-
tion—conid be no ground for that House so
turn aside from entertaming it—but on -this,
contrary, would hold out an additional incite-
ment to Parliament to take into its early consideni;
Lion a subject of such vast importance, in every poiet
of view, in order finally to settle it, so as to ensure the
peace and traequillity, and happiness of the United
Empire. Under this feeling and conviction, it was
his wish to steer clear of all the adverse matter which
had been introduced into former discussions. The
House, ton, he hoped, would lay out of its considera-
tion all the debates to which this question had here-
tohre given rise—he only besought Gentlemen to
, coisider it impartially, and to look upon it, as it
were, with a fresh eye, and in that case, he was not
without a confident expectation that he should offer
such arguments to the House, as would induce it to
acquiesce is the motion he had to propose. 'the pro-
position he had to submit, rested upon a few great
principles, which, as it seemed to him, were such as
would not admit of dispute. He_apprehendedahat,
ein that occasion, in urging those principles, he should
not incur any suspicion of having been a convert top
or becoming an advocate for, those wild notions of
Tights, which, under the name of the geßights of
- years occupied so 7

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a Gniernment to unite thelesirta, to combine the file
cabin, and to coneeetrate and crnsolidete the area-
tines and energies of all descriptions of its subjects,-s
so it was more especially its pecu ex and paramount
duty, under the et istine circumstances of the country,
when a force, greater than any which, in the history
of the world, had been marshalled against any na-
tion, was collected and arrayed for its. destruction,
Under that great conqueror, who had already. Fe'
ceesied so far in the subjugation of Elio pe—to take
measures for the establishment of a firm and cordial
union of all classes—to eradicate every germ of digs
mention and discortent—to leave no crack or gam
thrnngh which disunion or dissatisfaction couldallia
admission ; and to connect, in one indissoluble
of union and common feeling, the whole population
of
of the kingdom. This principle he laid dowe
,as •
fixed and immutable; thoveh he WAS perfectly aware
that objection may be made to it, on the ground. of
its practicability. All be should SAT was, that the
principle appeared to him to be sound and tinexcetp,
tionable, and that the burden of proof most neepsit. .
rily lie upon those who May contend That it was 41.'4'
practicable. The third principle he should lay donne,
was one, which equally with the two former, he was ,
convinced would be concurred in by the HOuse—that
,whenever, by chance, or the force of events beyond
I human controul, a great question had, in any country,
been a long time agitated, without possessing within
itself any tendency to a settlement by mutual cetwes-
sion or compromise, it became the duty of the supreme
power of the state to take up the coesideration of it=--
that it could not, with sAfety, be left 41. at—it was in•
cumbent upon the Government teenier upon the in-
vestige t ionof it in all its bearings, with a viewste a ftql,
I satisfactere, and final settlement of it, by the wisdom
and providence of thelegislative authority i.f the state.
--He was not aware of any objecion that could Ue
made to this position and principle, le cause he was
persuaded that it must be .he wish of every one wko -
heard him, as well as the great Interest of the State,
that such a question should
.be so settled. These prin.
.ciples, then, *stir the grounds upon which he brought
forward his motion; sodas to these lie could amid.
pate no solid objection, be 'licked forward with coop.
dente to the concurrence of the House. But looking
to this, as he should to all other political questioes
which had a tendency to operate a change, lie could
easily conceive that two considerations would netts-
rally present themselves to the mind on the first sug-
gestion of such a proposition : the first, the dread of
all innovation and change ; the other, the jtecessity hf
timely and seasonable concession. Tilde carte the
considerations which a ould, on either side, erotni-
trendy present themselves ; and it was in reconciling
these retreiries that political wisdom consisted. Tile
great question, then, to be, in the first place, ynsl-
*Am ed, was, what was the concession deinanded,-alid
whether the Legislature could or colild not grass,
ought or ought not arithhohl, what was so dennufdetf?
When they should have Oren this question inter/4r
most serilos and matured delibeiatione—when they
had, if they should have, made up their minds to con-
cede, then it would be their duty to consider how the
concession should be regulated so as they should reap
most of the fruiti expected from the grant, and incur
the smallest portion of the, danger apprehended front
the change. Those who argued ag unst-concession
on the ground of the danger of innoiation, appeartq
to him to labeur under greater difficulties than they
seems d tlictuselees to be aware cf. This argumtett,
founded upon the dangers of innovation, pi oceeded
upon a supposition that the state of things ought,*
be altered, rested upon certain fixed, permanent, and
settled principles, immutably co al•lisLed, and else*.
tial ft...the British Constittitien—sanctioned by lorfg
experience— sealed by the ulschan et successive gene-
rations—and uniformly and cheerfully acquiesced visa
by those whose interests and rightewere or tray have
been affecaid .by it. But he ihotact. be gied to srik
any refs these who entertained such opiniont, -what
weft thcfsectinciples which had -beets-to -firmly edit.
blithest at .any time, as that experiments respecting
them were unknown ? He should be glad to know
from them at what period of our history it was when
thisboasted system of perfection, that could admit no
.improvement, and endure no change, had bee* com-
pleted—when it WAS that th-s great consummation
bad taken place—when the finishing hand had been
put to this system, which was now held to be so in-
corporated with our Civil and Political Institutions,
as not to admit of modification, and by virtue of its
unchangeable nature, made a part of a blameless,
perfect, andpermanentestablishment ? Would these
Gentlemen look back for the origin of this systems to
that period when the- corruptions and disordered
the Church provoked those dissentious and religious
divisions, which split • the Christian world into •so
many contending sects? Would they trace it beck
to the period of the Reformation, which, whiney*
may be the blessings it had conferred upon masksud,
by bestowiag upon us a pure and perfect religion,
instead of the corruption of faith, and the supersti-
tion which it superseded and succeeded, could etre
mainly not be said to present ally 'ample of Legisla-
tion to which *ode could rook for the origin of
tem of boasted perfection ? He was not disposed
-to undervalue the blpssings of the Reformation, bet
-when be reflected upon-the tumultuous and violent