Star.
London, England, 1810-06-11 00:00:00

HOUSE •OF COMMONS.

Lord Ormond's Contract Bill, the Irish Treas•ary Bills Bill,
the Irish Still Fines Bill, the Inland Coals Bill, arad the Army
Cloathing Bill, were severally read a third time ar,d passed.
The Fisheries Bill was reported and ordered to be read a third
time on Weduesday.
The Offices in Reversion Bill from the Lor./s. went through
a Committee without any amendment, was reported, read a
third time and passed.
A Message was received from the I.orda stating, that agree-
ably to the request of the House of Commons, they had granted
liberty to Lords Wellesley and Arden, to attend the Committee,
on Public Expenditure, if they so inclined. Also that the Lords
had agreed to the Newfoundland Fishery Bill, to the Bethlan
Hospital Bill, &c.
Mr. CR EEVk:Y gave notice that he should, on Thursday, call
the attention of the House to the present situation of the East
ln.lia Company's Affairs.
The Seamen s Bill went through a Committee, and was or-
dered to be reported on Wednesday.
Mr. PETER MOORE brought up the Report of the Drury.
lane Theatre Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to
be read a third tittle.

CRIMINAL LAW.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, in rising to move that
the third rending of the bill for the bettcr preventing
of robbery in navigable livers, shotild stnnd for Wed-
nesday, had no intention of pressing the third read-
ing on that day, should there then be a great deal of
other business before the House. 1-4 e begged to
avail himself of the present opportunity, however, to
say a few words on the nature of the present bill. It
stood on totally different grounds from the other two
bills which had been introduced by him, one of which i
had passed that House. The Act which he now I This day arrived a Mail from Lisbon, .
-sought to have repealed, was an Act of the other
day. It had not antiquity to iupport it, but was . .
pissed at the end of the last reign, previous to which, I Falmouth by the WAlsingham pack*, which
Tagus on the 12st ult. in company with his
.the offence was not esteemed as of a capital nature, ! ship Us.vsses and a convoy of transports ,
and even since the passing of the statute in question, ehantmen ; the latter bound for different arts,
it had never been acted on, so far as he Sir Samuel ' fir lisisbes.
Romilly) had been able to discover. He could not ci'Vg
The SgillItAMIS also sailed from Lisbon
forbear noticing what he understood had been stated i transports for Falmouth to take in troops .
in anotber place, on the subject of the bill which had
21st nit.
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.;Passed that House for preventing privately stealing I, On the same day a convoy of transports
the
..6. shops. It had been urged as an argument attainst ! chantmen arrived in the Tagus.
that bill, that the effect of a similar bill, introduced The Walsingham left at Lisbon his
by him two Sessions ago, to prevent privately stealing ,-
BARILEUI.
from the person, had been to occasion an enormous OMAR, lISPETIIeee•M
KENT,
Racket.
increase of that offence. In this statement he con•ld ' TERRI., JASPER. and Prince of Wales
ed
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by no means agree. It would, indeed„beestraordinar Ts Accounts of a recent date had leached
that so sudden an effect should be produced by tiV,e.
repeal of an Act, which, for many years, might ha 4
I.' safe, the enemy having made little progress in
been considered as almost a dead letter. • But it h
frern Cadiz, where every thing
also been stated, from the same high authority, that Ma •
. way since the capture of port tagorda.
privately stealing in the shop had also greatly in: Two Spanish frigates, the As and
creased of_late. Might not the same cause, theti, ! have arrived at Cadiz from South America.
have operated to occasion the increase in both'? Or • millions of hard dollars sad
1 wing seven remained quiet
was it fair to attribute the increase in the offence of
stealing from the person, to the repeal of the Act .•
punishing that crime capitally, while it was seen, that kiil‘ South Ameri"" liAde anrl,
ets, for the use of the Patriots, from
the offence of stealing, in the shop had increased in an 1 Lori! WELLINGTOh Vida' the Vs'

MONDAY. JUNE 11.
W all•lVlospnr.--Holiday at the Bank, Ischeßter,
Stamp-Office.
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4 per Cents. 85+ Esc. Bills, ie. to Ss. pt.
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Marty in the same position, 23 when our last account
left Portugal. The French troops sometimes made
their appearance, and disappeared again, without
inakmg any attack. The rumour so often renewed;
that preparations are making for the British army to
embark, are owing to the circumstance of such of the
stores and baggage as are not wanted being shipped
on board the transports, of which a considerable num-
ber is always kept in the Tagus.
piling to the impoverished state of Spain, the ac.
five desultory warfare kept up by the innumerable
small parties of Spaniards, who annoy them and cut
of their supplies, and the immense numbers of ha.
Poles,. and Germans, who daily desert
bans, Swiss,
from the French armies in a state of starvation, the
enemy's strength is greatly reduced, and his opera-
tionsembarrassed. While this is the state of theenemy,
the Portuguese troops were never better clothed, fed,
and disciplined ; our own army is strengthened in
health, number, and appointments ; and all the na-
turally strong points from the Portuguese frontiet to
Lisbon have been rendered as much stronger as art
can make them.
On the 4th instant, lat. 49. 21. long. 8. 58. the
Stralsingham spoke the brig Betsey and Sophia, from
Lisbon to London, out 25 days.
By advises from Gallicia, we learn, that Church.
plate, to the quantity of .50 tons, is on its way from
Corunna, in order to be converted into money, to
enable the inhabitants of that province to maintain
the contest with France.