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ply 70,000 hogsheads of sugar in the year, now ex:
Kted %20,000. He would not vote for the Cone-
..tee, because he thought it unnecessary; but he
{bided a strict adherence to the Orders in Council,
ithout any relaxation whatever.
Mr. G. JOHNS roNE' oh the contrary, defend-
-1 tee licences as indispensable, but would vote fur
nquiry.
Sir CHARLES PRICE opposed the motion.
Mr. WILBERFORCE said, be considered it to
be the duty of every Member of the Houee .to en-
quire whether the Orders in Council were beneficial
to thicountry.or not. All that was asked by the
_Motion. was, to enquire into the fact ; and, when
otenion appeared so divided, he thought a Committee
shostdbe uppointed to make a deliberate investiga-
tion of the subject, and report their opinion for the,
satisfaction of the country. The Orders in Council
Lad beet. originally issued for the purpose of subject-
ing the commerce of the enemy to the evils their De.,
cries sehjeeted our commerce ; but it was now:plain.
ly asserted by our manufacturers, that we became
the-greatest sniforers, from our own regulations
beteg incousistent in themselves. [Hear, hede,!)77
To enquire into the present evils of- whiclithei.cottn..
try complained was his only object; and,. to .effeet,.
that enquiry, he should support the Motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
opposed the Motion, but not, as he woeldr,seeture
his Hon. Friend who spoke Last, from any apprehen-
sion that the result of enquiry would be against the
wfsdeni of the system. He opposed it lest those who'
seller might be led for tut iustant into the mistake that
their distresses were to be attributed to this system.
He could prove to demonstration, from incontro-
vertibledocaments, that the Orders, instead of pro-
ducing their distresses, had been the very means
of hitherto staving them of. Uleur, hear!]
lie
was not surprised, however, at the reasons given by
his Hoe. Friend ; for so great, was his desire for,
and dispositihn to enquiry, that he never recollected
a motion of this sort which was not aimed at him, by
the Gentleman opposite,which was not framed so con-
cougeniall st to his general wishes as to be calculated
to catch hint. But it was strange enough that his
Hon. Friend and his Right Hon. Friend also (Mr.
Canning) should vote for enquiry, on the particular
ground of desiring to he satisfied that in fact there
existed no ground for enquiry. This, however,
must be their reason, since they appeared satisfied
that the present distresses were not to be attributed
to -the Orders. lie was glad of one circumstance,
which never occurred on st debate on the subject;.
that therewas not the least intimation of the injus-
tice of the system, the more so, then, as it was
not so formerly ; for he well recollected how
often the House was told of their iujuetice,
and in what terms they were reprobated. The
Right lieeourable Gentleman declared, in answer to what had
fallen from his Right lion. Friend, that he never looked on the
Orders is Council in any 'other light than as measures of reta-
liatii.g, warranted by the law of cations ; on the principle, that
if France chow to depart frees the law of nations, and to assert
rights incompatible with the acknowledged rights of others,
such native must be opposed, by retaliating her monstrous sys-
tem up.in herself, otherwise she could est her • violation as a
sword again.t 0. hers' rights, and at the same time make it as a
shield in ser defence. As to his Right Hon. Friend's argansent
on the blockade of 1807, be insistesithat be never spoke in that
lipase on the point, without distinctly saying, that retalialon
noinst Frames was uwaut in the following way :—That as France
bad said by her blockade, that we shoed not trade with any
part of ;he world, Ave said that .to other part should trade with
13.. r. If this had not ilea, its raeabing, it would have been no
rmaliation mall. If we bad abided by th, law of actual block.
ade, them the system would have been the annihilation of trade
and uaerelative commercial titillation by which we alone would
mister. After the full statement of his Right lionaurable Friend,
(Mr: Rose), sad the able speech of bit lion. and Learned Friend,
it was sot neeesaanty to trouble ihe House with many ronarks.
It was unfair to attribute the distresses existili,e to the Orders,
when a more rational source was before the eyes of the country,
tronely, the losses iu the Baltic. Did not those losses check spe-
culation, Led thereby affect the manufacturing classes. They
bad :soother source in the te.tural temporary stagnation after the
exam, of ItiO9 and 1810. Re then read licences granted by the
late Administratioa, and argued, from the Customs of France,
the serious effect which the Orders bad produced on French
trade, and chewed from the Expo' of the lqench Minister, and
the address of the Senate, the vast expenee which would he In-
curred to fill the arsenals of the Empire. The repeal would take
our all the manufactures of France, and open to her the Eastern
end Western World. After a variety of other observations, he
protested strongly against a Committee, as calculated to lc: loule
all those subjects Connected with America which it was now ex-
pedient to smother.
Mr. WHITBREAD maintained, that the ques-
tion any not as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had
ingeniously endeavoured to lead the House to ima-
gine, a Nether the Orders in Council should be re-
periled, whether the licensing system should he sup-
ported, or war against America declared ; but whe-
ther, by timely investigation, we should endeavour
to maintain peace at home. That unparalleled dis-
tress prevailed in the country, was not denied, but it
nas insisted that it was not attributable to the Or-
dere iu Council, and fora proof of it, as usual, the
aecouats of Exports and Imports had been appealed
to, and a splendid description was given of the flou-
rishing state of our custom duties. While the peo-
ple were uttering cries of distress, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, turning to the Exports and Imports,
-and absorbed lit the contemplation of imaginary
gond, fetiches only that -the sounds that reach him
are acclamations of joy athour prosperous.conalition.
Ina foetheryear relief had been given by *Exchequer,
iiiNee,e essowee it was made a -politkeel qgheir
•tlon, Right Honourable Gentlemau . retested:,
relief, which he acknowledged to be rettien4f.phte,
and if the .rote of to-night should Ise utsfevette.
able to 'his views, he could no longer cautivae. at
Minister to the Regent—at least ho ought not to.
continue. [Hear, hear!) He(Mr. I'.) hadeikunlll:
rated all the powers that were subject to France, And
united against Great Britain; he had talked with in-,
tlitferettm of America, who might be forced into the
arms of the enemy, and with his universe( panacea
of Orders in Council neat Licensed 'fettle he felt
himself equal to contend with all the world in arms
against him, although, in truth, the enemy .knowiug
• their ruinous consequences to us,, had done more
than England for their presereation and enforcement:
What, he begged to be informed, had become of alll
the Petitiags that had been transmitted to the Secre,
tary o(- date, from the country Y Why were the,
not )10: laid before the F" 2 Why was not his
Royal:" Iflghness
.eubjectiltet a fleeted
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.iuto a.statement of
.ceval'e speech, in.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, ISI2.
The Orders in Council, or rather the commorcial
embarrassments into which this country has been in-
volved by the existence of these impolitic decrees,
was the subject of debate last night in the House of
Commons. The discussion was opened by Mr.
Baououfrot, in a !nest eloquent and manly speech;
replete with sound aryl incentroiertable argumeut,
which the Mioistetial Bench found it impossible to
refute. By the aid, however, of Itotten-Borough
Members, and those who are always ready to bow
to the nod of. the Premier, be who he. may, the mo-
tion for the appointment of a Committee was lost by
a majority of 7'2—there being 141 who voted for the
imeasore, and '2IG against it. Take from this last
number the Placemen, the Pensioners, and the Expect-
: ants, and it will be found, that the Majority of hide-
' pendent Members, and those who really speak the voice
of the Nation, supported Mr. BnocurtAm's proposi-
tion for a Committee. A curious fact was men-
tioned towards the dose of the delvate :—Lord
I GR kNVILLE LEVIAON GOWER stated, that he bad in
" his custody a Petition, signed by many thousands of
the manufacturing population. of Staffordshire, ad-
! dressed to the PaiNcl REGENT, complairring of
deep distress, and praying for relief, and that
he had informed the Secretary of State for the
Horne Department, Mr. RYDER, who had offered to
[take the Petition froni the Noble Lord, and present
it himself to the REGENT. This Lord GRANVILLE
LcvlsoN refused. -lie caustfiled the Petitioners there-
upon, and received.theirdirections to present the Pe-
tition in person, which iteintended to do at the first
Levee, but that revee had not yet 'taken place, al-
though three weeki have elapsed! . Lord MILTON is
in the same predicament!! The age apd.itifirmities-
of the good old lit xe prevented the access of the sub-
ject to .the Thronol Uow is it now /to. State
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An embargo, It is gala, has been laid upon the
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vs.) sh` Ports,. preparatory to the sailing of an Ex-
pedition against Anholt..
LettersfrotaCadiz inform us that the new Regency
of.:+paia have, for his services, created Mr..Tuercrt,l
his 'Majesty's Consul at _Valencia, a 411'011 of Old
Castile, with an estate of 8000 dollars per annum.,
Yesterday BEN.' t. t TUCKER, Esq. Surveyor-
General of the Duchy of Cornwall, had an•autlience
of his lborit Highness" the PRI 740 E Runtee,stwille
was• graciously pleased to receive an elegant sent-
bur, -made of the silver which had been extracted'
from Wheal Duchy- silver-mine, in the manor of l
Calstock, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, now I
work ir.g under the auspices of his Royal+ lligi asses.
The volunteering of the Militia into 'the Line,.for
the year.lBl2, is tojake pla&; aboitt the With inst.

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Mr. Ramses) Wceeisetsr, son to the . Marquis
WRLLESLEY, has resigned his seat at the Treasury
Board, and vacated his seat in Parliameut.
Lord BYRON, who spoke on the Nottingham Fe-
lony Bill, evinced considerable eloquence. His ta.
leuts have been already established by his Literary Pro-
ductions; but it does not always happen that able
writers are gifted with the power of elocution. We
cannot but congratulate the country on the rising
merits of this young Nobleman, and certainly to the
party whose tenets he has espoused on his political
entre, he cannot fail to be a powerful acquisition.
Four Spanish sailors have arrived in the Downs in
a man of war's boat, in which trey effected their
escape from France with only a blanket for a sail.
It appears that they belonged to some corps which
had been sent to Boulogne to fit out the flotilla, for
for the purpose of enabling it to form a junction
with the ships itethe Scheldt.
THE EARL or ST. ViNCENT.--ThIS great and gal-
lant Nobleman, we regret to state, met with an ac-
cident on Friday last, that was in itself sufficiently
painful, and might have been attended with the most f
dreadful consequences. His Lordship was sitting by im.....—...,--
himself in his room, and having occasion to reach for- On the 20th of January last, two countrymen,
ward, unfortunately fell upon the grate. His head one a Catholic, the other a P rotestant, met near the
town of liillisandra, in the county of Cavan, in or-
coming in contact with one of the spikes which were
ider to settle, by the science of th?. stick, a private
placed on the top of the grate for the security of the
wood, he was with some difficulty able to force him- I quarrel which had occurred between them, at a
companied by twenty or thirty relatives and friends
self back from the fire before he sustained any injury ! dance, a few nights before. , The Catholic was as
by the heat, though his servants on entering found
of his own religion, each having his usualappendage'
him covered with blood, from a severe laceration oc-
of an Irish Oak stick. The Protestant way attend.
casioned by the spike. His Lordship is, however, '
nearly recovered from the effects of this untoward ac-
ed by Orangeuien in considerable numbers, armed
cident,
l with yeomen Cavalry swotds, bayonets, &c. A ere.
! vial dispnte arose between the seconds, when, shook.
' Mr. A LLINGUANI, whose -death we noticed yester-
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ling to relate, the Orangemen rushed in amongst the
his d
da,
ramatic talents, which received the test of was a Gentleman well known to the üblicongy
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I Catholics, stabbing and mangling these unfortunate,
continued approbation in the Marriage Promise., -
, unarmed men. One man died in two hours after the
'commencement of thisothe mrs were so dd-
in
dreadfully_ wo another expire
un and many other theatrical productions. His loss,
however, will be more sensibly felt by the domestic i fendays,
and ten
others
ed that their lives were despaired of.—Yet, not.
and.social circle of which he made so distinguished a
1 withstandingthe evidently atrocious nature of this
part. It may be truly said that benevolence formed
the basis of his actions, and his manners bore the ".("41'1101so heert-broken and oppressed were the
plain impression of this principle.
Catholics, that they dreaded even to appeal to
However ho j
avoided ostentation ; not only his occasional acts of i justice for redress, and these murders might have
been Suffered to sink into oblivion, were it not for
pecuniary kindness to those whose necessities Caniel
h the humane Interference of John Mildly; John Faris,
within his knowledge, but the lively interest which
and Edmond Anderson, Esqrs. who stepped forward
he took, and the persevering exertions which he
to investigate the business, and-who, after much so.
successfully used, for the welfare of particular friends,
Beau& and trouble, succeeded in obtaining•examina-
were at all times and under all circumstances unequi- tions against several of the principals concerned in
vocal and truly distinguished.
this horrid outrage. However, we are grieved to
The Marquis of Seteo's horse Pope, ftst. 71b. is
add, that the laudable exertions of these Gentlemen
matched against Mr. JOHN Reece's Hollyhock. Sst.
51b. four miles over the Curragh, in October nest, to arrest the MURDERERS, who are still AT LARGE IN
for 5,000 guineas, half forfeit. TUE COURT; have failed.—(Dublin Evening Post.)
The famous mare, which had once done on a trot Mr. Rawline, of Chapel-hill, in the parish of
19 miles in one hour, lost the match for 300 guineas, Carlaverock, Dumfriesshire, on his return with his
wife and daughter, from a visit in the neighbour.
on Friday last ; she was to trot 16 miles within an
hood, was, on Monday evening the 17th ult. killed
hour. The animal is more than twenty-six years of
bzr the overturning of the cart in which-they rode.—
age. She lost the match by four minutes.
'the other two members of the family escaped with
We are extremely, concerned to state, that the
little personal injury. It is remarkable, that about
" Fund for the Relief of the Poor," which has of
late enabled them to endure the unprecented hard-
eight months ago, this Gentleman was deprived of an
ships of the times, is at length completely exhausted. only son, by an accident equally 'fatal.
In the course of the ensuing week, fifteen or six- ROYALTY Tif EAT RE.--MeS3ll. DITCHER, ITAIR-;
teen thousand of our poor neighbours will have tie GR AVE, and GILBERT, beg leave to inform their
experience a sudden privation of that scanty pit- friends, who have not already taken places for their'
tance, to which they have looted eagerly from week Benefit (which Is fixed for Thursday next, the. sth of
to week as their only resource against, absolute fa- March), that an early application Is necessary, as
mine ?—What steps will be adopted in this crisis we the demand for places is very great. —Particulariewill
shall not presume to conjecture, as the aspect of the be expressed in the bills of the day. • .
times is in no respect more favourable than when this! Yesterday, about one o'clock, •a well-dressed Man.
fund was first projected. It is probable, that the ' had the asserance to walk up stairs 'cleliberetely, in
greater portion of these poor people must become Ii the house of Mr. Buckland, the sign of the Red-
chargeable to their parish; and that all straugers, ,v en ' Old Cavendish-street, who Was met by the
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comprehending that numerous class of Irish and 1 servant maid, of whom he enquired for a lodger in
tother labourers, whom the hitherto prosperous state' the second floor, whom he pretended to know.
of the town has induced to seek employment here, • Soon after the- fellow came downstairs with a bundle,
we suppose, be removed to their own townships I— and walked out of the house, when it was after.
It is certainly a lamentable fact, that the fund has wards discovered that the sheets had Leon taken from
been found so incompetent to its benevolent purpose; !the garret, a pair of boots, and a new nand oitt hat,
though it can excite no surprise, when we consider 1 With which he got clear olf. ._ .
that the middle classes of society, who are generally A single copy of a book, printed under Mr. Pen.
the most active and liberal inrelieving their fellow-
CEVAL% eye four year 4 ago, containing the Report of
creatures, now find the time,: press heavily
upon ; the Commissioners who enquired into the conduct oT
themselves. But another cause has also operated
I the Pntecess of Weets, has lately 17:en purchased,
against ,this fund ;—many persons were disgusted
1 with the official opposition shown to the projected !it is said for 20001. Several copies had been before
, bought up at 5001. each; and it is not at all unlike y,
meeting for repealing the Orders in Council : mea-
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; that, since the destruction of the 'wnik by Mr. Pea.
sures which more than any others tend to produce a i cevet.'s desire (a few copies having escaped the
state of things, which we cannot contemplate with-. games)
out the most melancholy anticipations.—Liverpool! reaping an enormous
some argot person has reprinted it, midi.;
. Mcreurbo. , profit liy producing bow anti
and
I then a copy.—What can be the contents of a book,
The late Dr. GARTIISIIORE is reported to have died !which it was once the design of Mr. P I i:CEVAL to
worth near 200,0001. He had not made his will till publish, but which be is now so anxious to annihi.
within three or four days- of his death, and has left ' late ?
the whole of his fortune to a very distant relation. ' COURT Wyrencrtarr.—King J 131E,-; I. wrote a
Many or-his friends in London, it is said, bail reason . book on the agency of evil spirits, called 64 De-
to expect to be remembered in his will; but it appears , snonologie," an extract from n 'licit we give with.
, that they have been wholly forgotten. It is stated, : out any comment, leaving it to the pn:c.ption of our
with some-confidence, that he had, in his life-time, 1 Readers to discover any coincidence in it with r'•
given a very considerable property to Mr. Teems'', itent occurrences. " Quit' ye do hoide yourself,'
of the Opera House, with whom he had formerly, !bounden to any themott or othere evil spieighte,
for a great-number of years, lived in the closest ha- talse, for the tofalle Orme 'of aue years and nue
-bits off} ittennacy and friendship. -• [date, le nevereigentse eantrelitiilvee t. butt ye quiff!!
A ESSON 4.0 a itEvEastosAair ItaTs.—(4 When .be to doe screilia evermore to that dmmou : nod ally
Judge Mega !MATH began to decline, he solicited youre power, gud elle your spelles, that ye may hare
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his discharge, but *could not obtain it for some time. lerned in ,the utlem Inujorena of =girlie quhi
At last the Kilee grante I his request, and, at part- tro more serve
.- you or yours, butt quhill be en.
big with him, with great regfet he assured him, that crease suet p'ermatiencie to the thraldome in quhL
be still looked upon him as one of his Judges, and you must be to that dtemon to quliom ye male halt:
would have recourse to his advice when his .-health. been bounden for that yeare and daie."
would permit, and
's pension for life. The good man thought the pen- '
ed to preach the Spital Sermons on Easter Monday and Tue-L!,.
Lord Bishop of Carlisle, and the tics. Mr. Ilartatiorcre reetTst-
On too great, and a bad precedent ; he therefore
siring
a letter to the Conn THE tsuitert, earnestly Kirby, and IN via, w
and
admitteCt coal-meters, and Mr. Richard
b' ' only dewier;
is pension might be pleasure ; 1 into the office of corn-tarter, in.
nest, at Christ Lurch, Newgate-ttreet. Mesa: La, c 0,.,
Abbey it as admitted .sworn
st for the city, farinal. years. Upwards of %NO ounces ut
but the KING would grant it for life. Yet, for a : 'gold was sworn to as foreign, pre'. ions to exportation.
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whole month he would not suffer his servant to sue • • CORN Escostrne, Malmo 4.—This day We have not many
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out the patent for the
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'pension ;. and when his first . . fresh arrivals of Vs heat. but tolerable quantities remaining
the late arrivals from the meth country, mostly second gnat). 01.
payment was received- he ordered -a great part of it : Saks heavy, Dearly last prices quoted ; Rye rather dearer;
to be given 1 way in charity,—seying, it should be 4 Barley :4,'a ' AIs2IYI 1154" e heavy la gale' and soar'
Peas vary bet littleuTla;
so as long as he received it."—(Vide frlsrssre s
Beaus at less; there abreact iutossidetable supplies of oalls
what duo ers is
'sines dofes.) . .z. this article reallilyobbairts last prices; Flonr without Yates..
It .is •reported ' world, that Mr. Wheat
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PO ItTSMOUT 11, M.tßcjl 1.

Arrived the Naiad frigate, Captain Philip Carte-
ret, from off Boulogne; and the Royalist sloop,
Capt. Danie, with a convoy from the Down's.
PLYMOUTH, M %RCS Y.

Arrived the Semiramis frigate, of 36 guns, Cap.
tain Richardson, from a cruise to the Westward, and
has captured and brought in with her a beautiful
French brig privateer, pierced for 18 guns.

Lord SOMER VILLE'S Spring Show of
CATTLE.

Fturr DaT,—On Monday Mr. Sadler's yard, in Gowen-
tgiurr and others,
street, was
vehrs, wryecrowdedcuriosity dafingmrttaled to see
octth''daY with Agricul-
iststhe very tine
show of ca tic, sheep, and pigs, and the new implements exhi-
bited.
sLenND Diw,Lord Somerville yesterday caused copies of
his instructions to the Judges of his Show to be stuck up in the
yard, the subsaance of which was, drat for awarding his preen.
urns, they are not to consider fattifts atone, but work, and the
store state of oxen ; and the keep and quantity of the wool, as
well as state of flosh, in sheep.

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allowed to form an opinion on a i When all soldiers on furlOvigh are Orderedlikrepairto It is reported in the Thetertcal world, that Mr. Wheat ' 7-4, MN 1169! Tick se. tame, .i
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.41 even the stability of his Thvone. 1, their respective head-qiiaitensi' _The new: regulations &Mitt quits Covent-gartletrateatre, as an actor, Rye
rti. li Mr. Whitbread then went for, °liken) wenring caps 'aaifivicVti, !lamina of' at the close of the present season—if New Drury Bil,1„, 46 96 Poland do.
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len) /9 81 Rape Seed * 461
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