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London, England, 1811-02-21 00:00:00

rifi LIAIMENTARr P.ROCEIDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY so.
One Private Bill was brought up front the Commons and read
a Br.t time. •
Mr. MITTORD, from the Treasury, prewnted certain Accounts
relative to the Bounties paid on the Whale Fisheries, directed to
be laid annually before Parliament, which were ordered to lie ou
the Table.
SCOTS APPEAL.
This was an appeal from the Court of Session in
Scotland, respecting the devise of real property;
Johnstone, widow, v. Earl of Hopetoun.
The LORD ADVOCATE and Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY
were heard for the Appellant, and Mr. ADAM was
partly heard for the Respondent. Further proceedings
on Friday.
MADDOX N. EURNE AND tYYRIENS.
This was a Writ of Error from the Court of King's
Bench. Mr. HEATH appeared as Counsel for the
Defendants in Error, and no person appearing for the
Plaintiff, the LORD CHANCELLOR confirmed the judg-
ment of the King's Bench, to the amount of 4150
damages and costs.
TAUNTON'S DIVORCE BILL.
The order for the further consideration of Taunten's
Divorce Bill being read,
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the
House, it was his intention to Move still further to
postpone the consideration of this Bill, in order to
afford the petitioner time to adduce fuller and more
satisfactory evidence as to the fact of the adultery.—
Their Lordships were aware, that though a verdict
was obtained, and considerable damageswere awarded
in the Courts below, that House was in the habit of
having that degree of evidence which should prove
satisfactory to their Lordships' mind, as to the impor.
tant points in the case. He thought further evidence
than was proposed the day on which the Bill was last
tinder consideration might be necessary; and some of
the witnesses who were examined before the Ecclesi-
astical Courts, and whose written testimony was before
their" Lordships, might he examined viva tote at the
Bar. He added that the clan* required by a recent
Standing Order of the House, for prohibiting the mar-
riage of the Lady divorced, with the paramour on
whose account the proceeding kook place, was duly
included in the Bill. For thetturposes he had men.
timed, his JArdsbip moped, tat the further consi•
*ration of the Bill be deferred till Friday se'nnight.
Pe 44 of gOligT°Wli repolg4 140 Royal

Hig'pness the Prince Regent's Answer to their Lord-
ships' Address of Monday last, importing that direc-
tions should be given 'accordingly.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL. by command of his
Royal Highness, then ?resented copies of the circular
letter of the Chief Secretary for Ireland to the. siffer-
ent Sheriffs, &c. in that part of the United Kingdom,
and also a copy of the circular letter of the Secretary
of the Catholic Committee in Dublin to the different
Counties in Ireland ; which, after a word or two across,
the table from the Earl of Rosslyn, were ordered to
be printed.—Adjourned till Friday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Leave was ;leen to bring in a Bill to erect Docks and to =skip

Imprevementi upon the Harbour of Shoreham.
Mr. Howorth, from the Exchequer, presented certain Ac-
counts of the Consolidated Fund and outstandiug Exchequer
Bills, up to the sth of January 1811.
Mr. Mitford, from the Treasury, presented certain Accounts
and I'apers relative to Premiums and Bounties, pur,sant to order.
Sir JOHN SINCLAIR presented a Petition from the Board of
Agriculture, praying for public aid.
Upon the motion of Mr. KENRICK, leave was riven to bring
in a Bill for the better regulating the Officesof the Justices of the
Peace within the Cinque Ports.
The Bill was accordingly broiled up, and ordered to he printed.
The Scotch Creditors' Bill was read a first and second time,
odd ordered to be committed to-morrow.
Leave was given to bring in a Bill for erecting Dock* end
Warehouses in Rotherhithe,
IRELAND.
Mr. couLustratea presented a copy of the Circular Letter
addressed by the Chief Secretary of State for Ireland to the Me.
gistrates of that country, dated the 14th instant; and also a cap,
of the said Secretary's Letter, addressed to the Secretary et
Catholic Committee; pursuant to the order of the Hotssai.•
These were ordered to be printed.
CHANCERY SUITS AND APPEALS.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR stated, it was his intention, upon
Thursday the Ttb of March, to renew .the notice of a motion
given by him last yen.r, as to the Suitors in Clause', and also as
to Appeals in the House of Lords.
AULLUYS.
Mr. VANSITTART wished to inquire of his
Hon. Friend (Mr. Horner) when it was his intention
to submit a motion on the subject to which the various
papers for which he had moved upon a former night
referred ?
Mr. HORNER said, that it certainly was his in-
tention to move for a legislative measure on the Re-
port presented to the House by the Bullion Commit-
tee ; if that Report did not appear to his Right Hon.
Friend to justify the motion he would no doubt act
up to that conviction, hut as he (Mr. Horner) was
satisfied in his own mind that it furnished ample
ground, he should persevere in his intention. As to
the particular day upon which he should bring the
question before the House, he was not at present pre-.
pared to state it. The accounts for which he had
moved would not, he understood, be muff for home
time; and those for which another Right Hon. Gen-
tleman had moved, were likely to create additional
delay. For these reasons, he was apprehensive that
he would not be able to bring forward his motion be.
fore he returned from circuit; but certainly, if not,
sooner, he would in the second week in April move,
for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the restrictions
upon the Bank.
Mr. ROSE expressed his regret that there should
be any delay in so important a case, where it was of
the utmost consequence that the decision of the House,
be it what it might, should be come to as soon as
possible: He would undertake that the Papers for
which he had moved should be on the table in a

few days.
Mr. HORNER said he was perfectly aware of th
propriety of coming to a prompt decision, and assured
the House that there was no wish upon his part to
postpone the discussion; no other delay would take
place, they might depend, than was necessary to bring
the subject fully before them.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, the Estimates of the Army and.
Navy were referred to the Committee of Supply.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the Order of the Day for the House to resolve
itself into a Committee of Supply.
Lord FOLKSTONE wished to put a question be.
fore the Speaker left the Chair, as to the state in which
a certain prosecution then stood. He alluded to the,
case of De Yonge, who was convicted some time ago
of sending coin out of the country ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCI-ItQUER
said,•that he could not give the Noble Lord any infnr-
rnation upon that subject; but there were some of his
Colleagues who were present would probably be Al*
to give him an answer.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee
of Supply.
COMMITTEI OF SUPPLY.
Mr. YORKE lose to move the usual vote of sea-
men the same in number as that of the last year.—
The vote of last year granted 145,000 seamen, in-
cluding 31,400 marines; and it appeared to him that
as many would be required now, for though our suc-
cesses in the Indian sea might seem to make a,smaller
force necessary, the situation of the North and East
of Europe must prevent, for the present, any consi-
derable reduction in that establishment. It should alo
be recollected, that a long time must elapse before the
return of the :hips from India, even if it were thought
expedient to make any alteration in that respect. A
change.had taken place last year in the manner of
voting seamen. It was then conceived right to pro.
vide for the victualling separately instead of includ-
ing it, as was formerly the practice, under the general
head of wear and tear, and he should now propose
the vote of supply upon the same principle. The ac-
tual number of marines for the present year surpassed
the estimate in consequence of the volunteers who
went out on the expedition to the Scheldt, but he
should only require a vote of 145,000 for the sea ser-
vice altogether.
- Mr. WHITBREAD said, be did not mean to op-
pose the vote, but could not help observing, that the
estimates of the last year were printed ; he was sorry
that was not the case in the present. As to the ne-
cessity contended for by the Right Hon. Gentleman,
of maintaining so great a number of seamed, he was
the more inclined to be dissatisfied with it, as so much
.was stated in the course of last Session, particularly
by one eight Hon. Gentleman, upon the propriety
of looking to the naval establishment as one great
source of public retrenchment. The eight Hon,
Gentleman had mintioned our great successes in the
Indian seas, but turning his attention from thence to
the north of Europe, he had represented the force of i
the enemy to be increasing M the Scheldt. On hear-,
ing this declaration it was impossible to ayoid regret-
ting the ill success which attended all our attempts.
It bord 4tatea in rtideqee last year that the Bason

of Flushing was destroyed, and now it was to be ap-
prehended that the enemy was collecting his force
there. He should make no other remark upon those
points for the present, but reserve himself for future
opportunities.
Mr. YORKE said, that the vote of this day refer.
red merely to the wear and tear, and that the other
parts would be brought forward as soon as possible.
As to looking for any great or material retrenchment
in the number of seamen, he was not one of those who
reckoned on it with much assurance in the present si.
Illation of Europe and of the war ; and as to the ope.
Cations in the Scheldt, he still thought that great ad-
vantage was derived from them. The destruction of
the Baum of Flushing enabled us to relieve our fleet
from watching continually: and the Rason of Ant.
werp had received great injury, which also contribut-
ed greatly to obstruct the enemy's designs.
Mr. WHITBREAD wished to know, as the Right
Honourable Gentleman said that the Bason of Flush..
ing was in the same state now as when the army left
it, whether he intended to be understood as meaning
that it was not practicable to French ships ? The
Right Honourable Gentleman had observed that
there was not now so much necessity for keeping the
navy on the alert; surely, he thought, that was tan.
tamount to saying, that a smaller number of ships
would do. It was true Commodore Owen had said,
that the operation in the Scheldt would not enable us
to dispense with one single ship, or one single sea-
man ; but this perhaps was not the time for insisting
upon those points, and therefore he should reserve
himself for another.
Mr. YORKE said, in answer to the Hon. Mem-
ber's question, that the Bason of Flushing was not
practicable to ships of the line • he did not know
whether the smaller vessels of di; enemy might, or
might not, make any use of it.
After a few words from Mr. WARD, the motion
was agreed to ; and the following sums voted on the
motion of Mr. YORKE:
For wear and tear of the Noxy - 13,345,730
Fnr Victualling - • 4,000,000
For Ordnance 555,759
Lord PALMERSTONE rrove4 for the suet ef —3,000,000,
fru. bis Majesty's Land Forces; and £4,000,000 for the MilitiA
of Gam Britain and !rebind.
Mr. WHITBREAD wished to know whether it
was the intention of the Noble Lord to recommend
any alteration in the system of the Local Militia ?
Lord PALMERSTONE said it was the intention
,of Government to diminish the number of days of at-
tendance from three weeks to a fortnight, except in
the case of those who had not served last year.
Mr. WHITBREAD inquired whether any distinc-
tion was to be made between the trained and the un-
'trained in the same corps ?--We understood his Lord.
,ship to have said that there was.
Mr. WHITBREAD then called the attention of
the Committee to the discipline of the Staff. A doubt
he said existed in the minds of some, whether under
the Militia Bill they had power to try by Court Mar-
tial, and that doubt produced bad effects upon the
discipline of different regiments ; but the point to
which he wished principally to advert, was the inflic.
Lion of corporeal punishment in those cases. He
thought imprisonment a much more eligible course,
and Jolly as conducive to promote the discipline of
the corps.
Lord PALMERSTONE said it was competent to
the Courts Martial at present to recommend imprison-
- tnent in the place of corporeal punishment.
Mr. WHARTON moved the usual annual Exche-
quer Bill, the first of £10,500,000, the second of
£1,500,000, a third of £8,000,000, for the bills out.
standing and unprovided for, and a fourth of 8107,690
to pay off the annuities.
The House then resumed, and the Report was or.
dered to be received to-morrow.
SZLLINO OT OVINIAII.
-Lord FOLKSTONE, seeing the Attorney-Gene.
ral in his place, wished to repeat the question he had
put in his (the Attorney-General's) absence upon a
fdrmer night. The question was, whether it was the
ipaintion of the Right Honourable and LearnedGen-
tlernah to re-argue the case of De Yonge, who walk
convicted in July last of illegally selling guineas ?
The ATtORNEY-GENERAL.-.-" I beliele it
lies among other cases for argument, or rather for re.
argument."
Lord FOLKSTONE repeated that he would wish
to know whether it was his (the Attorney-General's)
intention to re-argue it or not ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—" It remains
for the Judges to determine that point, and when they
named a day for its being re-argued, the Counsel for
the C.rsiwn would be ready to do so. Perhaps the
Noble Lord may not be informed that it was lying
over on account of another case still depending of a
similar nuture. I suppose that those who gave the
cNactbedie
toL ordhimhpeisrfecinfortiymwateimsll
im,atigthht have co
. state dthmemeuanise.
was.''—Adjourned till to-morrow.
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TliE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21.
PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
S per Cent. Cons. money, 66}—for amount. Ilest
Deduced e6{.-4 per Ceat. 83+-5 per Gent. 981 a.
Each. Rills Se. Ds. prem.—Bonds, c6s. rs. prem.

THE KING. .
" WINDSOR-CASTESI, FEBRUARY 20.
" His MAJESTY is going on very favourably, though
his indisposition admits of a little ation Prom day
to day," (Sled as usual.)
_
14 WINDSOR CASTLIL, Mitt: A TIY 21.
" His MAJESTY'S progress confirms our opiniou of
his recovery. (signed)
"H. REYNOLDS, H. HALFWIT),
" "
W. HEBERDEN, R. WILLIS.

At 4 late hour last night Dutch papers to the 17th
instant arrived, from which we have given some ex-
tracts ; those which relate to the affairs of Turkey are
rather interesting.
i •
t appears by private letters brought by the Anholt
Mail of yesterday, and by a foreign lessel which l'As
arrived with dispatches from the Baltic, that the Nor
there Powers are beginning to manifest a disposition
more favourable to the interests of this country.
A levy is ordered in Russia of 1(4000 men. BER.
NADOTTB.Wnan U;44 kle Oarriarid. chat ht wilt 'lei-

tiler, from trench Influence, injure the trade, nor
obstruct the prosperity of the nation by which he has
been adopted. It is certain that neither letters of
marque, nor reprisals, have yet been issued in pursu-
ance of the declaration of war against Great Britain.
It may be considered that the professions of the Crown
Prince are hypocritical, and intended to delude, until
he can obtain the support of the French army t• but,
if we are correctly inforMed, by a de
tot
who
left Sweden within diese 10 slays, not a rrench sol-
dier has entered that territoi7 ; and the jealousy and
enmity of the natives towards France is such, that the
attempt, at present, to introduce the armed bands of
BONAPARTE, would b 4 lath to his designc.
Another Pourer_ in. the Baltic, after a persevering
system of determined hostility, has shewn a temper
that may be deemed conciliatory to us. A Decree
irons Copenhagen is in town, which states, among
other arrangements, that ships with English Licences
shall not, on account of being provided with such licence:,
be liable to confiscation. In consequence of this Edict,
a great number of vessels, which were detained in the
ports of that kingdom, will, it is understood, be im-
mediately set at liberty.
The article most deserving attention is, the Ordi-
nance of the Duke of RAousA, sequertrating the pro.
pert" of all Austrian subjects in the Illyrian Province:.

At the Council held on Monday se'nnight the np-.
nual Order in Council, usually issued in December,
was agreed to for authorising the Lords of the Ad.
miralty to istte press warrants.
IRISH CATHOLICS.—The following is. a copy of-the'
Circular Letter of the Committee of the Catholics. of
Ireland, which the Earl of LIVERPOOL has moved; to
be laid before the House of Lords : -
Sts-1 am directed by the General Committee of the Catho-
lics of Ireland to solicit your particular attention on the present
occasion.
" The Committee 'ming entrusted with the Petition of the Ca-
tholic Body, feel it incur. bent on them to state to you their con •
%Jetfoil of the imperative necessity of an increase of their numbers,
so that there may he managers of the petition connected. with
every part of Ireland. It is highly desirable that the Committee
should become the depository of the collective wisdom of the Ca-
tholic Body, that it should be able to asco 'tali, in order to obty,
the wishes, and clearly understand the wants of 41 their Catho-
lic feliew-subjects. 'I his is the more requisite at the present mo-
ment, when there appears to be so sear aprospeet of complete
emancipation; and the Committee arc convinced that their eman-
cipation can now be retarded only by criminal apathy er neglect
amongst the Catholics themselves.
" They beg leave to suggest to you the propriety of appointing
ten 'Managers of the Petition in your county. There are now
three survivors of the persons who were Delegates is the year
379 E. These persons are already constituent Members of the
Committee, and as such Managers of the Petition; so that you
have to appoint only seven additional Managers.

" The Committee desire to add, that by law, as it now stands,
to species of delegation or representation On be suffered to take
place; nor can any person, without a gross violatioo of the law,
be a representative or delegate, or zct under any name as a repre
sentative or Delegate. Engaged as we are, in a struggle fur
Legal and Constinitional Rights, it is our duty, as well as our in-
caution and.decided determination, not to violate the spirit, nor
even the letter of the law. It is, at the same time, to be observed,
that the law to whek we allude dues not interfere with the sub-
ject's undoubted right to petition Parlianenti—nor, of course,
with the only method by which so large a body as the Catholics
of Ireland could concur in forwarding a Petition; nantelt, by
leavieg the mailagentent of it in the hands of a few persons, who
deserve and possess their confidence.
- - - -

" And the Committee cannot refrain, on this occasion, from
calling to your recollection the words of that celebrated champion
of loyalty and reliiion, Edmund Burke, relative to the Irish Ca-
tholics—" Your enemies are embodied: what becomes of you,
if you are only individials ?"
" The Committee does not presume to interfere with the mode
in which you shall think fit to nominate those managers of the
PetitiOS, save that it writ net be by any eleetion or appointswent to
represent any person or persons, or any district or place whatsoever.
They moreover beg leave to suggest the propriety of erpedition,
and request that you will have the goodness to reply to this letter,
and to state your sentiments on this subject; adding, if it shall so
pleae ycu, the names of seven persons whom you CINICafe most ,
fit to manage the petition in your county.
" In appoisting those Managers, the Committee respectfully
solicit your particular attention to the many advantages to be de-
rived from naming Managers whose avocations require, or leisure
permits their permanent or occasional residence in Dublin, where
the ultimate arrangements, as to the Petition, can best be made.
I have further to observelo you, that all the Noble Lords who
constitute he Catholic Peerage are already Managers of the Pe-
tition "

Letters received yesterday from Dublin assert, that
the measures taken bythe Lord Lieutenat, to prevent
the assembling of a General Convention of the Ca-
tholics, has met with the approbation of several of
the leading men of that persuasion. are said,
however,to be hostile to the dissoltprotiliolfle existing
Committee. This body consists of only 38 wesubers
•—the propi,sed Convention was to consist cilia.
A letter from Plymouth states, that the TIORITINT
gun brig has brought an account from ,Lisbon of
MsssEwA having broken up from Santarem, and com-
menced his retreat to Spain.—We deem it necessary,
however, to observe,-that the Fravax-r arrived at
Torbay m days ago, where she landed her dis-
patches,aol these, we understand, contain no such
aecnunt dureponetat Slpasouth to have been
_Lraught by he . ''-• •

•
Th*letters from Itimbinh are to the sth instant.
They state that many counting-houses of 'the princi-
pal merchants were shut up, money extremely scarce,
and trade in a condition of total stagnation. It is sar-
castically observed, that the paternal solicitude of NA-
POLEON inclines him to relieve his new subjects from
the vici ssit u des and anxieties ofcotnmerc i al speculation.
General Wearusaau. and family, some time since
bald prisoners by the French in the Mauritius, were
permitted to proceed on their vnyap to India three
weeks before the Isle of France fell into our hands—
a pretty clear proof of the good understanding be-
tween the General and the French Governor, or of
the improbability of his being long able to maintain
it against the attacks of British perseverance and
bravery.

His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, 011 a re-
presentation made in favour of a man confined in
Coldbath.fields prison, for a riot during a late poli-
tical ferment, has been pleased to sign an order for
his liberation. •
At the Leicester Sessions a man was sentenced to
I-. transported for 7 years, ibr haying two wives, and
Lis Wife at the same time was sentenced to be impri-
•nred for one year, for having two husbands ; and at
.
icent Sessions a man was sentenced to be impri-
soned two yeais, for having three wives.