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AN ABRIDGMENT of UNIVERSAL HIS- 1
TORY, adapted to the use of Families and Schools; bring
divided into portions calculated for each day's learning ; to which
are annexed sr. propriate questions for the Instructor. .
By the Rev. H. J. KNAPP.
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FOREIGN INPELLIGENCE.

BAYONNE, JAN. IL

Accounts have been received, that the corps.of Ge-
neral Suchet his advaneed, into the kingdom. of Va-
lencia; and taken a position at Stigerbei, eight leagues
from the capital of that kingdom. It is added, that
there had been some disturbances in the city of Va-
lencia ; the issue of which was not known.

Troops of every description continue to pasithrcmgli
without intermission, for Spain. This morning the
26th regiment of the line, 3600 strong, eontinuedtheir
march, after being inspected by Generat Heiiouville.
The utmost dispatch is used in completing the ma-
gazines of provisions for the reserve. Great quanti-
tities of ball, howitzers, forges, and "military stores of
every kind, continue to pass in this direction. Letters
from Bourdeauz mentidn the arrival there of several
battalions of fuzileers of the imperial Guard. It is
supposed they will remain in the environs of that city,
until after the passage of the Bth corps.
Between 6 and 800 dragoons have arrived here to by
rem° lilted. They escorted a great number of prisoners.
PAR!, JANUARY 24.
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P4RLI.4II4EIVr4Itr .PROCZEDINGS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 2.
- INprA AFFAIRS.
'Mr;PETIR MOORE observed, that be had waited sr-
days in unclean; expectation that sort* otVc ial coman,-' -
have been made to the House. the

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*4.the. CHANCELLOR of the ExcuMusit, ,rind-Sirs
'AWN TGOAtEitY, spoke in favour of the nomi-
Vready made,
:-1 . LUSHINGTON rose and said, it would ill
afkome him-to speak of his own qualifications for the
arduous office to which he had the honour of being

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critical and

.ave beeu ~ upon very ,
ing rate of India affairs : and seam now in his place an Honour-
able Gentleman ivlio was a Member of the Board of Controul, he
desired to be informed whether it was intended to revive in this
Session the Committee up stairs upon India affairs ?
Mr. WM.LACE answered in the affirmative.
Mr. 13ANKS presented his Bill for perpetuating the Act of the
48th of the King, for restraining the Crown from granting places
in Reversion--Read the first time, and ordered for the second
reading on Monday.
Lard COCHRANE gave notice of a motion, on Monday, for
a Copy of the Oath administered to the Members of Courts Mar-
tial, by the Judge Advocate.
Mr. WHAR I'ON moved for a return of the Exchequer tills
issued last year, and now outstanding and unprovided for ; atm)
the debentures on 3 per cent. annuities ; together with an 'Ac-
count of the Surplus of the Consolidated Fund for the last year.
Ordered.
The Committee of Supply was further deferred
until Wednesday, and the Order of the Day read for
the House to resolve into a Committee of Ways and
Means.
The SPEAKER having left the Chair,
Mr. W.: SMITH rose, and addressing himself to
Mr. Lee; the Clerk, said, he wished before the House
should resolve into the Committee, to call its atten-
tion to a proposition which he felt it necessary to offer
for its consideration.
• The SPEAKER said, that although he had left
the Chair in order to the House resolving into the
Committee, it was not regular in this case to address
the Clerk upon any subject which the Hon. Member
might-wish to submit to the House. The regular
mode would be for the Speaker to resume the Chair,
to receive his proposition.
Mr. SMITH thanked the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman for setting him right, as to the point of order;
but he felt it necessary to rise, as the object he had in
view was, to propose that a different Geatleman
should fill the Chair of the Ways and Means, from
the one who had recently acted in that capacity.
The SPEAKER then took the Chair, and said it
would be for the Honourable Member to call upon
the Gentleman whom he meant to propose, by name,
and move that he take the Chair ; and then the ques-
tion might be put, and the House might decide in
favour of the Member it should deem most eligible.
Mr. SMITH then moved that Mr. Davies Giddy
be called to the Chair.

The following is an extract of a letter from Brest,
of the 19th On the 10th, at ten o'clock in the
morning, eight boats belonging to the enemy's squa-
dron in the outer road, gave chace to several vessels
coming from the southward. Seven were forced to
run ashore near Pointe du Chai. The enemy got one
of them off, and set fire to the other six. The mas-
ters of two, however, succeed:rd in extinguishing the
flames, and having got their vessels afloat again,
brought them into this port. These were Captains
Duvaux of the chasse-maree la. Marthe, and Drouil-
lad, of la Catherine, from Bourdeaux, with a cargo
for Manus. The vessel captured is la Felicite de
Blare, freighted also for account of Marans. The
vessels ht.rnt were the Bougainville sloop of 80 tons,
the .leune Emilie of 95 tons, both bound. from Leg-
horn with cargoes for this port; the galliot Marl-
Lorougof 40 tons, bound from LeghorntoNantes; and
the Chasse-maree the Passe-partout, from Bourdeaux
for ltedon. All the crews escaped in their boats."
Iris Imperi.,l Majesty has conferred the title of
Baron upon M. de Bo3sy, Prefect of the Department
of L'Ain, with an income of 4000 francs, settled up-
on estates in Hanover.

Count Mongelas, Minister of his Bavarian Majesty,
has arrived in Paris.

Letters from Agen of the 17th inst. mention, that
since the Ist of the present month, a great number of
Spanish prisoners had passed through Tarbes, Auch,
and Montauban, for Autun. There were, in all,
14,000 prisoners expected to march in that direction.
Positive orders had been given to prevent any of them
from straggling from their respective detachments,
and that diey should be quartered in one place, so as
to avoid all condtminication with the inhabitants of
the towns where they halt, and consequendy-to pre-
vent the diseases which might result from such inter..
course. At every place on their route, the utmost
promptitude is shewn in administering, to them that
assistance which is claimed by thei. fatigues and dis-

lat on the sth
►f the Natinnal
Ind Monte Croce
!d.and dispersed
endeavouring to

Majesty held a

The CHANCELLOR of the .ACHEQUER
on the other hand, slid he was .not aware until this
moment of any objection on the part of the Honour.
able Gentleman, or of the House, to the Honourable
Member who was already nominated to that situa-
tion. Besides, this was not the regular stage to make
such a motion consistently with the uniform usage of
the House. The motion, if inte,nded, ought to have
been made upon the question for going into the Corn.
mittee of Supply on a former night.
Mr. W. SMITH disclaimed any opposition of a
personal nature to the Hon. Gentleman whom it had

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pleased his bfaitty's•Chancellor of the Exchequer to
nominate to department. But he thought at
least, that, in naming to such a situation, some de-
ferense was due to the opinion of the House, and that ,
some previous intimation ought to have been given of
thename of the Gentleman whom it was in contempla- 1
tion to nominate. Besides, it was at least to be expected,
that the Right Hon. Gentleman, in naming a Mem-
ber to fill a situation of so much importance, should
pay particular attention to the qualifications indispen-
sably necessary to the person who fills such a depart-
ment It was a situation that did not require a Mem-
ber skilled in the quickness and volubility of debate ;
but it required one who, from long observation and
habitual experience in Parliamentary proceedings, as
well as matured age and sound judgment, would be
competent to impress the Meuse with a confidence in
his ability, and a deference for his decisions. But
was this, he would ask, likely to be the case with the
Gentleman at present nominated ? He meant not to
depreciate the . Honourable Member's talents or na-
tural abilities, but he begged to observe, that a young
Gentleman, whose Parliamentary experience scarcely
exceeded three. years, if any point of order in pro-
ceedings should call for his decision from the Chair,
was but ill calculated to impress Members of 20 or
30 years standing in that House with a very profound
deference for.his authority. During the period which
he himself had the honour of a seat in that House,
he always understood the principle he had laid down
to be the one which guided the House in the choice
of a Chairman of the Ways and Means. It had in-
fluenced the House in that of Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Hob-
house, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Whar-
ton. This was the first instance in which the prin.,
ciple seemed not to have operated. The House had
an undoubted right to exercise its own judgment and
discretion in the choice ; and for the dignity and re-
gularity
of its own proceedings, ought to choose k
Member every way qualified for the purpose, and
likely to attach respect and deference to his opinion.
It was by this principle the House had been guided
in the choice of the Right Honourable Member who
now filled the Chair. He was not chosen at random,
or merely because he had been a supporter of Mini-
sters ; but because his long experience, eminent abili-
ties, and well known application to the knowledge of
Ali -*der- proccedinf

wen on Sunday
and Wagram ;
Issano ; on Friday
; and on Sun-
ellor of the Em-
and King, ho-
NeufchateF, with
uncut at the hotel
me of hisstables
tiling upon some
; and before it
e burnt to death.
speak in confi.
inn of the whole
Westphalia.
2.th, state, that the
submissive and
td resolved not to
:r way along the
; but in the Pus-
almost annihi-
ips. It was ru.
Fected his escape,
Vienna ; where,
•mitted to remain.
ipers, under the
rations a report of
)osed to make an
the new Prince
istenburg. The
late Vice Presi-
Ni at Franckfort,

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. Moscow, on the
e and Princess of
:urn to his capital

,of the Dutch Lc-
'sequence of a mes-
Session Ex tt aordi-
obedienco to the

the supeefor in
daily orders the
every description,
igen, for the !mir-
th, Iznperial De-

tng the an ears of
iniind, Danish
passports from. the
1941 with corn.

Member, by saying, .alat u.ts cc. not come ;ore
them in any form of debate—that it was an ch der
which must be complied with, if required to be en.
forced.
Mr. CROKER gave notice, that on Monday he
would move for certain letters, which passed between
Sir Richard Strachan and Lord Gardner.
Mr, ROSE wished to correct some misrepresenta-
tions which had been suffered to go abroad respect-
ing the trade of the country. It had been said that
we paid for our trade in bullion ; but nothing could
be more unfounded. The rate of our expot ts exceed-

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before the House hi an embodied form. rim verz
many documents, however, which still migl:t 14,,
duced. For instance, the original plan ; the
measures preparator( to the service : the t-:idtlr:
connected with its origin and performance. lie
anxious to give all the information which cnuld
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nominated; but although he had not the good for-1 furnished relative to his connection with the matter
tune to possess the mature age and long parliamen- Inquiry. There were two branches of that lanuirt.
tary experience which the Honourable Member who first, the policy of the Expedition, and next the ‘•(::
introduced this subject thought so indispensable, yet ; formance. The House of course would not exp.t,
his life, so far as it had gone, had been devoted to to receive any of those peculiar details which
situations calculated to proniote experience in public ! involve the Foreign Powers with whom we hi.d
business, and qualify him for the duties of an office ;in alliance ; but much might still be given. la.:
which, with the indulgence and support of the House, ! House might require every thing connected iy;tll
the
be hoped to be able to discharge to their satisfaction. I state of the army, its power of acting with cifecz
• Mr. WHARTON spoke in favour of Mr. Lush-; the particular points referred to, ancithe
ington's nomination. ! of our plan for the general benefit of the Empire attt
I Mr. SMITH rose to explain. He conceived that the Continent. The Noble Mover had noticed, ii,,
the qualifications of the Gentlemen who had been ! dry digest of orders, as he conceived it, transmittti
mentioned might adapt them severally for the office: !to the Commander in Chief. • But, it should be re.
but there was one paramount to all others, which, if collected, that the instructions under the Sign Marra
not found, the Candidate was decidedly unfitted— , al were always as brief as Untechnical, and as gi
that one was, pure impartiality. It was necessary, ' ral as possible. The Admiralty instructions lind grre
of course, that there should be a certain correspon- more into detail : but. the Admiralty wete a pros -.
deuce with Ministers, but no connection, in the man sional Board—a number of men acquainted with tt,,
who was fitted for the duties of a.situation attended peculiar practice of the service. His Wiest\ 's
with much weight, increasing in importance, and in- nisters were, as it was to be expected, but genera&
fluencing some of the most valuable interests of the , informed on matters of a military nature; and teear
country. nical points would not, of course, be found in thetrH
The SPEAKER put the .question, that Mr. Lush- instructions. But still there' was Much valuable
ington do now take the Chair of the Committee ; formation to be required—.much was contained in the
when it was carried in the affirmative, without a di- i different dispatches -froth- Wakheren and South Be.
vision. veland, and much relative to the attack on Arymerp,
The House resolved itself into a Committee of which he did not hesitate to admit as the first and
Ways and Means, Mr. LUsniNcrrox in the Chair. prominent object of the Expedition. Before he sat
Mr. WHARTON rose to move several Resolu- down, he begged to know of the Noble Lord to
dons relative to the Supplies. The Resolutions were which of the divisions of Inquiry he proposed fir a at.
received, and ordered to lie on the Table. The tending—whether to the policy of the Expedi:ion,
House resumed, and the Committee were ordered to ; its execution ?
report on Monday. I Lord PORCHESTER conceived, that the polity
A desultory conversation took place between Ge- could not properly be disjoined from the melanin:
neral GASCOIGNE, Mr. MARTIN, and Mr. PONSONST, they were connected with each other, and might to
on the propriety of deferring the Resolutions of the ;ether be considered. In the conduct of the Incirirt,
Finance Committee, pe;iding the Inquiry into the. Ex- 4 proposed to follow the order of time, and first to
pedition. i examine all the proceedings that occurred previously
Mr. WHITBREAD hoped that no business would to the embarkation ; then the amount and nature of
be suffered to interfere with the great business which ; the force prepared ; then the conduct of the Expedi.
they were then about to commence. He also hoped, ; tion, when on service ; and finally all that occurred
that there would be no attempt to enforce the stand- , from the capture of Flushing, to the evacuation
ing order which had been noticed on a former night. Walcheren. The consideration of policy went
The SPEAKER interrupted the Honourable :by side, with every question of the Jntpirv, and la
that thi, could befc - them.

should not separate t..
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT thought the papers on
the Table' altogether insufficient to the purpose of a:.
riving at the only object worthy the feeling, or lahoi;
or mind of the House. The printed papers were mi.
serably deficient. Where were the letters that passed
between the Naval and Military Commanders, and
their subordinate Officers? Where were the Jcpcns
of those detached Officers to their superiors ? A nar.
rative of the general proceedings, a military journal
was always kept. Where was that narrative? Why
was it not to be found on their Table ?

:pot
ed that of imports nearly by sixteen millions. The Mr. CROKER wished to know whether it teem
export of British manufactures had amounted to :28 the intention to move for any additional Papers from
millions ; and when the returns from the Baltic trade the Admiralty Department.
could be produced, the balance would be found to Mr. TIERNEY said, he did not conceive that it
reach to 20 millions. The loss of trade with the i was at all incumbent on his Noble Friend to move kr
United States would be more than compensated by them, or any other papers*. The House had deter-
its increase with other parts of America. The trade j mined to go into an Inquiry ; and he appreherakel it
with the United States fell since 1808, from eleven i would be competent to the Committee, from time to
millions to seven ; that with the. other parts of Ame- time, to instruct the Chairman to move far all such
rica had increased from five to sixteen. j papers as might be found necessary in the course c:
Mr. HORNER expected, when there was such a the investigation.
tribe of officers connected with tfp_t. public disburse- The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
ments, to have obtained somethipg in the shape of a thought the Right Hon. Gentleman perfectly canct
regular statement of the prices/ of bullion. It was in his latter statement, and that the Chairman m:glit
undeniable, that to a certaiff "extent bullion had en- . unquestionably be ordered to move for any papers,
tered into our system of trade in a manlier unusual to especially if the course pointed out by his Noble
all commercial transactions. He had no doubt that I Friend behind him should be adopted, viz. that of
there was still a vigorous spirit—a spirit of strength, • appointing a Secret Committee to consider of such
and even of superabundance, in the internal commerce papers as could not without prejudice to the public
of the country. No man who had passed through' interests be promulgated, in a Committee of the
the interior could doubt it, or avoid admiring the I whole House. He thought such Secret Committc7
nerve with which that most important species of trade . would be very proper, and it was his intention, if the
rose up against the idle, meddling, and wasteful folly I House would give him leave, to move himself, ca
and narrow expedients of public men. But to think I Monday, for its appointment.
that the excess of exports above imports could be per- I Mr. TIERNEY said, considering that the Corn.
manent, was childish ; and to assert it, was an impo- mittee for the purpose of inquiry, was voted by the
sition on the cdmmon sense of the people. There House against the sense of the Right Hon. Gentle-
must always be a final equality. The present differ- : man, he was somewhat surprised he should now at-
ence appeared to him resolvable into the encreased ; tempt to interfere in any of the particular mock; to lx
foreign expenditure of Government. But it was of adopted for carrying the wishes of the House into ere-
peculiar importance that all possible light should be cution. He thought that, on consideration, the Right
afforded to the House on such a subject. It was a ; Hon. Gentleman would not be too prompt in comrg
time that called for sacrifice ; it was a time that forward in the appointment of Committees. Instead,
promised struggle, and neither could be met with of-- ! therefore, of waiting till Monday, he would ode se
feet by the nation until all fallacy was taken away in his Noble Friend to move this very night, befcre
the statement of their financial concerns. separated, for a Secret Committee, to exam P.a.
Mr. ROSE observed, that in the account of exports titular papers ; on which they should make their Re.
1 he had not reckoned any part of the foreign expendi-
port to the House.
turn. He had restricted himself to the returns of Bri.
Mr. CANNING said it was not his intention to
tish manufacture. , detain the House more than a few minutes. Fe
• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was desirous of preventing any misunderstanding or
wished it to be understood, that the Government nee misrepresentation of what he had said on a former.
...ter pretended to be the sole authors of the commercial night on the subject of the Inquiry, by then stat'"g
prosperity of the country. They had merely desired what he really thought respecting it. He had heard
to prove that the measures which they had adopted it was by some understood, that he had intvnitted,
did not thwart the course of that commerce. He that let the Inquiry turn out as it might, it was
concluded by moving, that several papers relative to intention to move for another Tribunal, before whit
the iblit is should be laid r the Table. r -thin; haly•

I

Parliamentary orders and pry,. iings, so eminently ie public account _on , •it might be investigted, There was not,. Ig, ,
fitted him for that high and arduous situation, and EXPEDITION TO WALCIIELLEN. ! ever, farther from his, thoughts. What he had said v.— %
the House was not disappointed in its choice. But if Lord PORCHESTER said, before he moved that that he was only sorry the subject had not been r; tell"
such attention was necessary in former days for the Order of the Day should be read, he thought it to another Tribunal before the meeting of Parli.:mer..
the qualification of a Chairman for the Ways and necessary to call for certain papers, which had not , With respect to the Inquiry into which the Cot'
Means in that House, how much more necessary was yet been submitted to the Committee. He could not mittee was now going to enter, he considered it t)
it now, when the business of the House was so much conceive that the entire of the papers important to the embrace four points. With regard to the first, t
increased since the Union ; and when the duties had investigation into the conduct of the Expedition had policy of the Expedition, as comprehending this.!
become so arduous as to call for additional remune- been printed. He found among them, in the first in- Country, as to her relations with other Powers ont.ie
ration. For these reasons it was, that he proposed his stance, a short form of instructions for the Comman- Continent, he considered himself equally resPeasibe
l
Hon. Friend, Mr. Giddy, who had, on many occasions, der in Chief. Was there no more detailed one ? with all the other Ministers. With respect to the tir:'e
,
acted in the capacity, during the absence of the re. ! Was he left to this dry digest of his orders ? Was of its departure from our ports, he also ccnsideteti
6 crular Chairman, and amply evinced his competence there no plan, no succession of objects proposed to himself fully and completely responsible.
to the duties. the Noble Lord at the head of the Expedition ? Were . As to the execution of the naval and military Flrts
Mr. GIDDY rose, and expressed his thanks to his there no explanatory communications ? He should of the Expedition, though he was r.ot actually resP.°-
Honourable Friend, as well for the favourable opi- on Monday move for those papers.
isti.ble,Wheithdiretl
nion he was pleased to express, as for his good inten.- . Lord CASTLEREAGH was pecularly solicitous not mean
mteoanth
et o policyu in
ofa dtihs cel :ct iynaict:Lai. cft
tions on his behalf. Of those intentions, however, he that all information should be collected. The infor- Walcheren, he could not be considered le.. at 411 I.c.
declared that he knew not a word until he came into oration on the table was decidedly imperfect. But sponsible.
the House this day. He was not at all privy to the the deficiencies were not to he filled up by any_ thing The question was then put and agreed to.
,;,,
purpose of his Honourable Friend ; and though he that was to be found in the Office of the War De- ( Lord PORCHESTER then moved the mderof •-•
should be ready at all times to discharge any duty partment. Much of die information on which such' day for the House to resolve itself into a Comm:
'the House should be pleased to impose on him, to the Expeditions were unckrtftken, was not of that species' of the whole House, to enquire into the W.114-11t•
best of his ability, he had yet no wish nor intention which -could easily be reduced into official forms.—.' Expedition.
to have offered himself on the present occasion. i Much gf it was oral ; much connected with things 1 On the question that the SmArit should leave'
After some further coaversationa in which Mf. and persons that could not, with propriety, he brought chair being put)

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every phlah might resu
ce on lt Itr
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promptitude is shewn in administering
assistance which is claimed by thei. far
tresses. •
We learn from Pieve di Cadoie, th;
December, a body of 600 men of
Guards penetrated into Ampezzo.ani
in the night time, where they surprised
a pant of Tyrolese rebels wbo were et
excite insurrection in those quarters.
Yesterday, at three o'clock, his b
Cabinet Council.
A ball and masquerade were give
se'nnight by the Prince of Neufchatel ;
on Wednesday by the Duke of Bassar
by ire Minister a Foreign Relations
day last by the Prince Arch Chancel
pire. His Majesty, the Emperor a
*loured that given by the Prince of ikit
his presence, During the entertainrn
of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, oni
caught fire, owing to a lanthorn fall
turaw, in the absence of the groom ;
was extinguished. thirteen horses were 1
Letters from Hanover of the 14th,
dent terms of the speedy incorporatin
of that country with the kingdom of N
Advices from Lindau, of the 12th,
interior of the Tyrol is completely s
tranquil. A band of rebels, who had
surrender, endeavoured to make ther
mountains, to the Austrian territory ;
tenthal they were encountered, and
lated, by the Franco-Bavarian- troop
moored that the noted Hoffer had effei
and that he was, at the above date, in 1
doubtless, he would not long be permi
An article in the German pap
head of Franckfort the 9th inst. ment
Charles XIII. of Sweden being dispol
immediate transfer of the Crown to t
Royal, the Duke of Ho's! ein Angus
same article says, that Colonel Burr,l
dent of the United States; had arrived
.on his way to Paris.
• The Emperor of Russia arrived at I
18th ult. accompanied by the Prince
,Oldenburgh. He was expected to retu
by the 27th.
On the 17th the ordinary Session of
Igislative Body was closed, in consegt
sage from their Sovereign ; and a Sel
nary was immedi4tely opened in of
.same authority.
On the 6th inst. Baron Candras,
'command in Pomerania, notified in c
prohibition of the export of grain of et
•trom that country, or the isle of Rug
:pose of .facilitating the execution of tl
Free of the I;th of October, dirktini
the war contributions to be levied in
yessels, h9yevcr, provided with pas
IS/eitch cainsgli ant permit;e4 4419;0