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matter alighting amongst shavings in the churchyard. The Parsonage-house providentially escaped. From the chapel the fire was carried half a mile further, and destroyed a house inhabited by Thomas Clark, at Crocker's Cove. In the mean time fifteen houses in town were totally destroyed.

Accounts from Quebec, of the 1st August, mentions, that nineteen vessels had arrived from the United Kingdom, having on board 1267 settlers, besides other passengers. This number, it was said, will nearly complete 3000, received at this fortress in the course of the season. It is the project to settle the Eastern townships in preference to any other part of the two provinces.

A Halifax paper observes, there are advertisements in the Irish and Scotch papers stating, that vessels for the islands in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Nova Scotia, and Halifax, would convey passengers to Canada; that the ports such vessels are bound to are on the high road to the place they wish to arrive at; while every well-informed person knows, that to come from Halifax, St John's, Pictou, Prince Edward's Island, &c. to Quebec, will cost as much as to come from Britain or Ireland direct.

PORTUGUESE AMERICA.

Accounts from the Brazils, to the end of June, mention the death of the Count de Barca, and the appointment of the following new administration :-Thomas Anthonio de Villa Nova, Prime Minister; Count Palmella, now Ambassador at the Court of London, Minister for the Foreign and War Department; Count Dos Arcos (Governor of Bahia), Minister of Marine; M. Bezerro, the Department of the Treasury. It is reported that the new ministry are to push the operations on the Rio la Plata with more vigour than was at any time displayed by their predecessors; and there are sufficient grounds for believing, to make their operations successful, that vigour cannot be exerted too soon.

The letters from Pernambuco are to the 26th June, and state, that although every thing continued tranquil, trade was still in a deranged state. The property of those engaged in the late insurrection has been confiscated.

SPANISH AMERICA.

02 The latest advices which the American papers contain respecting General M'Gregor's expedition, are of the 24th of July, from Amelia Island. At that period his force amounted to only 300 men, and he was strengthening himself in expectation of further reinforcements. It is supposed that he would meet with considerable opposition in East Florida, and particularly at St Augustine. Advices

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a garrison of 150 men, he marched for New St Andero, where he established his headquarters, and collected a force of 2000 rank and file. The inhabitants received him with acclamations and ringing of bells. Six thousand horses had been brought in. He mustered the whole of his force, and on the 24th and 26th May marched in two divisions to attack a body of royalists posted in the vicinity of St Andero. The battle was expected to take place on the 28th, and victory was confidently anticipated. Two companies of the royal army are said to have deserted, and to have joined Mina, with their arms and accoutrements.

On the other hand, it is stated from New York, that a General Ferrand had gone over to the army of the royalists with 2000 men, having first obtained the king's pardon; and the Madrid papers boast, that Mina is reduced to the greatest extremities, his troops deserting him daily, and his retreat by sea cut off. In short, that the flame of insurrection in Mexico is just on the point of being finally extinguished.

The Intelligence from Chili is important. It is confidently asserted that the royalists retain no place in that province, and that the patriot forces were pressing forward to Peru. A letter from Madrid, published in the Dutch papers, states that the city of Cusco, in Peru, is already in their hands, and that they were threatening Lima. A military academy for fifty cadets (patriots) had been established at Chili; and many of the Chilian patriots, who were banished by the royalists to Juan Fernandez, had been brought back in triumph by the insurgent troops to St Jago.

In the beginning of August, a vessel sailed from Portsmouth for St Thomas's, with 10,000 stand of arms, 10,000 muskets, and 10,000 cutlasses on board; and also about 100 British officers, volunteers, to join the independent cause in South America. The Spanish Minister in London complained of this to Lord Castlereagh, who told him that no law existed for preventing British officers on half-pay, from leaving the kingdom, or throwing up their commissions. The Ambassador replied, that if they were taken in company with the rebels, they must expect to meet with their fate To this observation Lord Castlereagh had nothing to reply, except that the British efficers so circumstanced must abide by the consequences.

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-T6 Bermuda gazettes, of the 25th June, testate, that an infectious disease, which had made its appearance at Antigua and Grenada, had entirely subsided; and the intercourse between these islands and Bermuda was Consequently restored.

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ST HELENA.

The Caesar, which lately brought home Lord Amherst and his suite from Batavia, in consequence of the loss of the Alceste frigate, is the bearer of the latest, intelligence from St Helena, relative to the health and manner of living of the Ex-Emperor of France. The Cæsar having occasion to touch at St Helena, Lord Amherst expressed a desire to be introduced to Bonaparte, and, together with Captain Maxwell and Mr Lynn, surgeon of the Alceste, was allowed to wait upon him. On the 3d July Lord Amherst was ushered into his presence at Longwood, whilst Captain Maxwell and the surgeon waited in an antichamber. It was not long before those officers were desired to There was nothing in the appeara appearance of Bonaparte which in the least indicate

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health; on the contrary, he looked well, and less bloated than ordinary. With his general precision. Bonaparte inquired of the officers what stations they filled on board of ship. On learning Mr Lynn was the surgeon, he inquired what system of pharmacy he pursued? "That depends upon circumstances," replied the surgeon. "I hope," rejoined the General," it is any other than that practised on this island; for here we have the same thing over and over again bleeding and calomel for ever."

The conversation taking a turn on the mission of Lord Amherst to China, his Lordship related the cause of its failure, which he ascribed to the necessity imposed upon him by the Emperor of smiting the ground nine times with his forehead; an indignity which his Lordship intimated could not be submitted to. Bonaparte immediately replied, "Indeed! now had it suited my policy to send an ambassador all the way to the Emperor of China, I would have instructed him to kiss his great toe, and if that would not do, he might, if required, have saluted a more offensive part, provided my object was attained." Bonaparte protested strongly against his imprisonment. He said he knew of no law in ex

istence which gave the powers of Europe the right of detaining him a prisoner on the island of St Helena, or elsewhere, and strongly urged the propriety of his present situation being taken into consideration by the crowned heads of Europe.

Bonaparte expressed an anxious wish that Lord Amherst would be the bearer of a letter from him to the Prince Regent, which had been prepared for some time. His Lordship undertook the trust, which we believe he has faithfully executed; but it is understood no answer will be returned to it.

The Ex-Emperor had lately received a bust of his son, which afforded him much evident satisfaction. It was given in charge to a sailor of the ship Baring (it is believed), who, upon his arrival at the island, was to concert the most prudent means of conveying it to its destination. The man became dangerously ill before the opportunity of executing his secret commission presented itself; and sending for his commanding officer, he revealed the circumstance to him. The bust was thereupon sent to Sir Hudson Lowe, who, though Bonaparte had long refused to be on terms of even courteous civility with him, instantly caused it to be conveyed to him.

PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Tuesday, June 3.-The Commons came up at half-past three o'clock, with the Right

Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, the Speaker, to be presented for the Royal approbation.

The new Speaker advanced close to the bar, when the Lord CHANCELLOR delared his Royal Highness's approbation in the usual form.

THE LATE SPEAKER.-ROYAL MESSAGE.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented a Message from his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, which was read by the Lord CHANCELLOR, and was as follows:

"G. P. R.

"His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, thinks it proper to inform the House of Lords, that having taken into his consideration the circumstances under which the Right Hon. Charles Abbot has retired from the situation of Speaker of the House of Commons, and the arduous and eventful period during which he has performed the duties of Speaker, has conferred upon him the dignity of a Baron, by the style and dignity of Lord Colchester of Colchester, in the county of Essex; and his Royal Highness recommends to the House of Lords to concur in making such provision for the said Lord Colchester, and the heir male succeeding him in the title, as under all the circumstances may appear just and reasonable."

On the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL,

the Message was ordered to be taken inte consideration on Thursday.

Lord SIDMOUTH delivered the following Message from the Prince Regent :--

"G. P. R.

"His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, has given orders to lay before the House of Lords, papers containing information of the continuance of those practices, meetings, and combinations, to which his Royal Highness thought it proper to call the attention of the House of Lords at the commencement of the present Session of Parliament, and shewing that these practices are still carried on in different parts of the country, in a manner and to an extent calculated to disturb the public tranquillity, and to endanger the security of the consti tutional establishments of the empire. His Royal Highness recommends to the House of Lords to take this Message into its immediate and serious consideration."

The Message produced a long debate, at the conclusion of which, the motion for the Committee, as proposed by Ministers, con sisting of the Members who composed the first Committee (with the exception of the Duke of Bedford, for whom was substituted Earl Talbot) was agreed to.

June 5.-The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a petition from the Lord Mayor and Livery of London, in Common Hall assembled, against the continuance of the Sus

pension of the Habeas Corpus Act.-Laid on the table.

June 6.-Lord HOLLAND presented the petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of London, against the further continuation of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.

TRAITOROUS PRACTICES.

Thursday, June 12.-The Earl of LIVERPOOL laid on the table a green bag, containing farther information on the subject of traitorous practices. The papers were referred to the Secret Committee.

REPORT OF THE SECRET COMMITTEE.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented the report.

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By the Lords' Committee appointed to take into consideration several papers, sealed up in a bag, &c. and to report to the House, &c.

The report begins by stating, that the Committee, after an examination of the papers referred to them, feel it their painful duty to declare, that they see but too many proofs of a traitorous conspiracy to overthrow the Government and the Constitution, and to subvert the existing order of society.

"The report then praises the active exertions of the Government, and particularly of the Magistrates in the execution of the general laws, and of the special powers entrusted to them by the new Acts of Parliament; but the Committee assert, that though the plans of the conspirators have been thus frustrated, yet in spite of all this, the same wicked and desperate designs are still pursued.

"The Committee then observe, that their intelligence rests, in many of its parts, upon the testimony of persons who are either themselves implicated in these criminal transactions, or who have apparently engaged in them for the purpose of obtaining information, and imparting it to the Magistrates or the Secretary of State.

"The Committee allow, that such testimony must be very questionable; and state, that they have reason to apprehend, that the language and conduct of some of the latter description of witnesses has had the effect of encouraging those designs, which it was intended they should only be the means of detecting. But allowing for these circumstances, the Committee are still of opinion, that the statement which they proceed to give is by no means exaggerated, but perfectly warranted by the papers submitted to their inspection.

"It proceeds to state, that the papers relate, almost without exception, to the manufacturing districts in the midland and northern counties; and although the disaffected still look to the metropolis with the hope of assistance and direction, yet to the districts thus referred to the more recent projects of insurrection were to have been confined

"The Committee then state, that al. though in many of these districts distress has

operated to expose the minds of the labour ing classes to irritation and perversion, yet. this distress, in their opinion, has been ra ther the instrument than the cause of the disaffection. In some of the disaffected dis tricts, they believed that distress had been less felt than in many other parts of the kingdom; while in other places, where the distress has been most grievous, it has been sustained with such patience, loyalty, and good conduct, as cannot be too highly com mended; and the Committee think, that it is chiefly by the means mentioned in the report of the former Committee, namely, by the extensive circulation of seditious and blasphemous publications, and by the continual repetition of inflammatory discourses, that this spirit of disaffection has been excited and diffused. These have gradually weakened, among the lower orders, the attachment to our Government and Constitution, and the respect for law, morality, and religion; and their minds have thus been prepared for the adoption of measures no less injurious to their interests and happiness, than to those of every other class of his Majesty's subjects."

The report then proceeds to detail the circumstances relating to Manchester, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, and includes the tumultuary transactions of Nottingham, Sheffield, and Birmingham; stating, however, that the assemblies have been dispersed, the mischief prevented, conspiracies detected, and disaffection defeated. The report concludes with observing, that the time is not yet arrived when the maintenance of public tranquillity, and the protection of the lives and property of his Majesty's subjects, can be allowed to depend upon the ordinary powers of the law."

On the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the report was ordered to be printed.

HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION. June 13.-Lord SIDMOUTH.-The re port of the Secret Committee being now on your Lordships' table, I present to your Lordships a bill for the continuation of the measure called the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act; and in presenting this Bill, I beg leave to assure your Lordships, that I do it under the fullest and deepest conviction of the urgent necessity that it should pass into a law.

Earl GREY could not suffer this occasion to pass, without declaring, that from all he had heard, and all he had seen, he enter tained the strongest conviction that there was no necessity for this measure.

The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed.

Monday, June 16.-The order of the day being read for the second reading of the Bill for continuing the Suspension of the, Habeas Corpus Act, a very long and interesting debate ensued, at the close of which the House divided. Content 109-Proxies, 81-190-Non-content 27-Proxies 23— 50;-Majority. 140. ale iden

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June 17.The Edinburgh Canal Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed.

↑ June 18.—On the motion of Lord SIDMOUTH, the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill was reported, ordered to be engrossed, and to be read a third time to-morrow, and the Lords to be summoned.

HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION.

June 19.-Lord SIDMOUTH having moved the third reading of this Bill, the

Duke of BEDFORD said, he could not suffer the bill to proceed, without doing all in his humble power to prevent its passing. Our room will not permit us to name the heads even of his Grace's arguments, or of those Noble Lords who succeeded him; but in animadverting on the manner in which Government spies had driven many misguided persons into treasonable acts, the Duke stated it as a fact, that a quondam jacobin at Norwich, who had published a blasphemous parody twenty-five years ago, having now turned spy, and being in the pay of Government, has secretly republished his own work, and sent it to his employ. ers, as a testimony of the irreligious habits of those among whom he lives!

The Earls of Donoughmore and Essex, Lord St John, the Marquis of Wellesley, and Lord Holland, also opposed the third reading of the bill, grounding their objecttions to it on the conviction that the laws were sufficiently strong to repel disaffection without so arbitrary a measure that so frequent a suspension of the liberties of the people would end in despotism that although they knew seditious and designing men had endeavoured to draw many of the lower classes from their allegiance, yet they had only succeeded through the poverty and distress of their victims and that a mild and conciliatory policy ought to be adopted by Ministers, instead of despatching spies through the country, not to check but to promote-not to control but to instigate and inflame-not to diminish the growth of crime, but to cultivate and cherish it; to bring it to its utmost height and perfection, and to afford Ministers an abundant crop of justice and punishment.

The Earls of Westmoreland, Limerick, and Harrowby, Marquis Camden, and Lord Somers, defended the conduct of Ministers, and the measure in question, declaring their solemn conviction of its necessity, as a measure of preventive justice-they disavowed any improper tampering with spies, denied the truth of the imputations against Oliver, and requested the House to suspend its judgment on his case. After continuing in debate till half-past two, a division took place, and the bill passed, by 141 against

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The Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Bill was read a third time, and passed. S' The House resolved into a Committee on --the Saving Banks Bill og

clauses of the bill, and pointed out various parts which required amendments, in order to render more clear what he supposed to have been the intention of the framers of the measure. He also stated, that he meant to propose some new clauses. One clause in the bill he particularly objected to, namely, that which authorises persons to receive allowances from their parishes, notwithstanding they may have money to a certain amount in their saving banks. This was to encourage that sort of spirit which induced beggars to sew up money in their old clothes, where it was found after their deaths, but from which they never derived any benefit during their lives. This clause he thought ought to be expunged. The amendments were then moved and agreed to pro forma.

Monday, June 30. The amendment made in the House of Commons to the Habeas Corpus Act Suspension Bill, limiting its duration to the first of March, was agreed to without a division.

July 2-Lord ERSKINE presented a petition from certain persons, whose names were signed to it, praying the abolition of the practice of chimney-sweeping by means of climbing-boys. The petition was laid on the table.

July 3.Lord Colchester was introduced by Lords Redesdale and Dynevor, and took the oaths and his seat.

In answer to a question from Lord MONTFORD relative to the conspiracy of Brock, Pelham, &c. (who observed it was understood that the Royal pardon had been extended to them), Lord SIDMOUTH said, the state of the case was this, that these persons were still under sentence of death, but that the execution had been respited. If it should turn out that these persons could not, from a defect in the law, be brought to punishment, care would be taken that the law should be mended in that respect. He did not mean by any means to say, however, that these persons might not still be punished; but at present the state of the case was as he had mentioned that they were still under sentence of death, but that the execution had been respited.

POOR LAWS.

July 11The Earl of HARDWICKE presented a Report from the Committee which had been appointed to consider the state of the Poor Laws. The report, his Lordship said, would soon be printed; and he hoped that their Lordships would maturely consider it, and endeavour to procure as much additional information as possible on the subject of the Poor Laws during the recess.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT,'

Saturday, July 12.-This being the day appointed for the prorogation of Parliament, this House, as is usual on such occasions, was crowded to excess at an early hour, both within and without the bar.

At two o'clock the Lord Chancellor took VoLord REDESDALE went over the different his seat on the woolsack, and in half an

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