Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-05-03
NEW.YORK, April IS. q
CONTRIBUTIONS Or
Late foreign Intelligence.
Received at .Nsac-K York By the Sine-Qua-
Non, Capt. Pond IN "a days jti0n'
Rochelle, France.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.

The adjourned debate on the Corn
Laws was resumed last night in the Ill.
of Commons, and did not terminate till
near fouro'clock this morning. MI. Bar
ing's proposition for " a limited 'nea-
sai." was negatired withouta division.
Mr.. Protheroe moved to. substitute Sc
yenty six shilhngs instead of eighty shil-
lings, as the protecting price-which a
mendment was negatiyed as was also
that Of Mr.. Barring (made while the doors
were closed TO reduce it to z2s. The
main question, that the marimum price
should be SOS. per quarter, was carried
on division--2O9 for it-65 against it.
| While strangers were excluded, between
three and four o'clock, this morning, we
understand Mr.. Whitbread remarked to
the Committee, the inutiIity Of the dis
cussion thes began, relative to the stan
da,d price, and {upon which Mr.. Barring
was delivering his opinion as there was
no channel through which the public were
likely to obtain information on this i'm
portant question.
1t is still confidently reported that the
Princess of Wales has asked for a ship
to carry her home from Naples to Great
Britain, and has been Informed, that no
vessel could be conveniently spared at
this time from the Mediterranean. to ac-
commodate her Royal HighnG this
he true it is most strange. WEI one
day that several ships are paid of and
laid up in harbor, and the next that a fri
gate cannot be spared to accommodate
the wife of the Prince Regent Of En-
gland. Surely the Americans must smile
at this--that of the immense navy sup
ported by England, not ship either can
be, or is, permitted to be spared for such
service. We recollect with what tacility
certain fligate was ordered round the
coast to attend the same parsonage some
months back, and which we well know
could be then less conveniently spared.
The Hoard Of Trade are sedulously
employed in arranging all the essential
documents respecting the various local
price of wheat, to lay before Parliament
to form an average price by which to re-
gulate the restriction on foreign imports;
considerable difficulty, it is feared, may
arise Oh this poiiit, as there IS at this
time an average and complex difference
amounting to l0s. 6s. a quarter between
the eight principal corn counties on the
coast, and seusateen others in the interior
of the kingdom.
IRE Barbary States, it is said, have
commenced war against Spain.
TIE Prince iR2sgant's Court and Leree.
Yesterday his Royal Highness the
Prince Resenthe.d a Levee. for the first
time this ,yesr, at Carlton House, pre-
yious to which bis Royal Hishness held
an fnvestiture Of the Order CT the This
tie, at which the Prince Regent presided
as Sovereign, attended by the officers of
the Order.-The Knights of the Order
present to. attend his Royal Highnes-
were, his ROYAL Highness the Duke OF
Clarence, Earl poulett, Earl of Morton,
Earl of Aberdeen. The death oftlie Mar
auis of Lothian, onseof the Knights of the
Order. being formerly announced, the
commands of the Prince Regent and the
Knights present were given, as to the e
lection of the Knight in his room, when
the Right Hon. Lord Frsaine was chosen
and the Prince Regents signature atlix-
ed. as Sovereign Of the Order.-Robert
Quarmc, ESQ. Gentleman Usher of the
Green Rod. retired from thelRoyal Pre-
sencs, with bis staff of Office, and IN
troddced Lord Erskine in the following
order:
Mr.. Cheste. as gentleman usher in
waiting, carrying the sword OF state.
Mr.. Marshall, another gentleman us'l-
er in waiting, carrying the green ribbon,
etc. of the Order, onla velvet cushion.
Lord Erskine followed, introduced to
the Prince by the Earls of Morton and
therdeen, the two Junior KNIGHTS pre-
sent, when Lord Erskine received the ho-
| nor of knighthood from the Prince, and
His Royal Highness afterwards invest
ed His Lordship with the Order OF the
Thistle.
! HissRoyal Highness the Prince regent
held a Levee, which was very numerous
" attended.
The Earl of Oxford has recently pos
sessed himself of loo,O0ol. by the dispo-
4 sal of his Herefordshire estates.
| Our ports are no sooner shut against
the importation of grain, than they were
| thrown widely open for the expectation
| Of bachelors, who, to avoid the pressure