Star.
London, England, 1811-07-02 00:00:00

FROM THE BALTIMORE FEDERAL REPUBLICAN,
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JUNE 27.

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" Taking it for granted that Captain Rogers had 1
positive orders from the President to search for the
British frigate, to demand the impressed men, and
if refused to tgke them by force, we Offer the follow-
ing solution'of this extraordinary matter
44 First, therPresident derives no auth4ity from
the Constitution of the United States to give any
such instrwtion—he may resist hostilities, ,but can-
not order hostilities.
Second, there is no public act of Congress au-
horising the President, under any circumstance, to
*commence hostilities upon any toreign nation."

'pet,-
vere from the contrast which was exhibited by the
lenient manner in which the other was treated. It
was not denied that Mr. Finnerty had been sub.
jetted to solitary confinement, whereas it appeared
that Mr. Drakard's friends were not denied access
HOUSE OF LORDS.. to him. Now the sentences of the two prisoners
MONDAY, JULY 1. i were exactly the same; he had heard them both
At four o'clock their Iderdships met, and soon after, the pronounced. They were, moreover, for similar
Sprax ea, attended by several Members of the House of Corn- offences ; the punishments were intended to be the
mons, appearing at the Barin pursuance of the summons of same • and yet the one individual was deposited in
that House, the following Millsl received the Agri '
, Assent by
Commission, via. a felon's cell, while the other had all the comfort
The Militia Interchange Bill, the Police Regulation Bill, the which the Hon. Gentleman had just stated. He
Deer Stealing Prevention Bill, and one Bill of a private na- could not sufficiently condemn this, particularly as
;lire.
The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of 1,1. •this toleration of partiality in the execution of sen-
.
verpool, and Lord Wahine:am. maces passed in Courts of Law ; and his hoped it
Upon the question for agreeing to the amendments made by would receive due attention Itoin the House in the
the House of Commons on the Insolvent Debtors' Bill,
Lord REDESDALE rose to vppoae the amendment extend-
ingtout the provisions of thft Act to debtors in the Isle of Mart, his ' Mr. CHA PLIN said that the Hon. Gentleman
Lordship opposed this clause upon the principle that the linpe- laboured under a very great mistake in supposing
*MI Parliament had no right to interfere in the local legislation •
. that Mr. 'Finnerty was confined in a felon's cell ;
if that island.
Lord HOLLAND shortly supported the clause, which was ne- he was on. the contrary confined in the very apart-
.
. raved without a divisioo. ment with which Mr. brakard had expressed him-
Upon the third reading of the 1.64 Bog Drainage 13ill, a de-
r sultory conversation, took place bet Ween Earls Bathurst, Gros- self satisfied ; for in consequence of the jail being
venor, and Lauderdale, upon the application of the money ap- crowded it had been found necessary to place them
propriated by Partiiinent for this purpose, after which the Bill . together.
. - • leas read a third time and passed. •
Lord Lave tarlaxs gave notice, that be should, to-morrow,
. I Mr. BROUGHAM said that he bad had a letter
, . . move that there be Laid before the House an Account of an from MT. Drakard, in which that gentleman had
Bulk-notes above and below 51. width have been issued by the stated that he was-permitted exercise in the open
Bank cf England during the last alx months.
•' ' . . Earl STANHOPE po.tponed his motion relative to Bank air for two hours every day, or three if he wish-
' Tokens, Which stood for this di ,'until to-morrow, in come- ed it.
Spence ora later he bad recc:ved from:, Noble Lord to whom : Mr. RYDER said that it had not been alltted in
- - he had alluded on a former orNalbt. •
• Their Lordship having sent *Message to the House of Corn. - j Mr. Finnerty's petition that he had been subjected
mons demanding a conference ort. ahe 'lnsolvent Debtors' Bill, to solitary confinement, but merely that there had
and the Deputy Usher of 'the Nook, Rod having announcetidto been two or three, persons refused admission to him.
their Lordsnaps, that a deputation from the Commons awaited a
conference with their Lordships in the Painted Chamber, the The eon. Gentleman who had advocated his case,
following Lords were appointed, and Immediately weut-fortlkto had thought proper to make complaints which had
managed the said conference :the Doke of • Montrose, Earls Bat-
' burst and Grosvenor, the Bishop of Clonfert, and Lords Wak, :
I
.. 'lngham, Redesdale, art Arden.-
. On the return of their L irdshipt from the conference, most. probably
of the petitionern
himself.
rseeinctered into the contemplation
He had inquired particu-
-1 laxly into the circumstances of the case since the late
The Duke of
with reported, that their Lordships had -- discussion with 'respect to it, and he could confi.
'bad ~ conference with a deputation of the Commons, who per-
elated in a c, rtain. amendment to the said Bill, extending its pro..
cisious to the Isle of Man. v
The House then adjosigned to to-morrow kthis day). pen.tly assure the House that 'some part of what re-
mained was very much exaggerated. The room in
Y` the prisoner was lodged was noc4 as his Han.
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