rolina, £.20 to £.25; to Savannah, £.22 to £.25.-From Boston to England and dependencies; to the Baltic; to the Mediterranean; and to the East Indies, no trade. From the manifest of the Palermo, Smith, cleared out from the Clyde for Gibraltar, it appears she has on board upwards of half a million yards of cotton goods, besides a variety of other articles. The total value at the average market prices of the corn and grain of all sorts, meal, flour, and rice, imported into Great Britain in 1812, amounts to £.2,855,433, of which £.1,641,583 is for corn, &c. from Ireland; the remainder, £.1,213,850 from foreign parts. A respectable meeting of the gentlemen interested in the timber trade from Norway and the Baltic, was held in consequence of the intention of the minister to increase the consolidated duties 25 per cent. when a committee of five was appointed to represent to government the mischiefs that would arise from such an augmentation as applied to the wood trade. Mr Vansittart objected to obstruct the bill in its progress, but agreed, that the gentlemen interested should address by memorial the Board of Trade, by which means the subject would come regularly before mi nisters. Copy of a bill to repeal so much of several acts, passed in England and Scotland respectively, as empowers justices of the peace to rate wages, or set prices of work, for artificers, labourers, and craftsmen.-After enumerating the various acts to be repealed, the act proceeds thus : "And whereas, the fixing of wages or prices of work, is productive of great mischief, and it is therefore expedient that the same should be repealed; and be it enacted, that so much of the said recited acts, one or each of them, as authorizes and empowers any justices of the peace to rate any wages, or fix or set prices upon work to be performed or done, or in any manner to settle any rates of wages or prices of work to be done or performed, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed; and all orders heretofore made by any justice or justices of the peace, in England or Scotland respectively, under the authority of the said recited acts, or any or either of them, for or in relation to the rating any wages, or settling or fixing any prices of work to be done or performed by any artificers, labourers, or craftsmen, or servants, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be void and of none effect: any thing in the said recited acts, or any or either of them, or by any law or laws of England or Scotland, respectively, to the contrary notwithstanding," The following are the resolutions moved by Lord Castlereagh, on the subject of the East India Company's charter, so far as they relate to commercial arrangements: I. That it is expedient that all the privileges, authorities, and immunities, granted to the united company of merchants trading to the East Indies, by virtue of any act or acts of parliament now in force, and all rules, regulations, and clauses affecting the same, shall continue and be in force for the farther term of 20 years, except as far as the same may hereinafter be modified and repealed. II. That the existing restraints respecting the commercial intercourse with China, shall be continued, and that the exclusive trade in tea shall be preserved to the said company during the period aforesaid. III. That, subject to the provisions contained in the preceding resolution, it shall be lawful for any of his Majesty's subjects to export any goods, wares, or merchandize, which can now or may hereafter be legally exported from any port in the united kingdom, to any port within the lim its of the charter of the said company; and that all ships navigated according to law, proceeding from any port within the limits of the company's charter, and being provided with regular manifests from the last port of clearance, shall respectively be permitted to import any goods, wares, and merchandize, the product and manufacture of any countries within the said limits, into any ports in the united kingdom which may be provided with warehouses, together with wet docks or basins, or such other securities as shall, in the judgement of the commissioners of the treasury in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, be fit and proper for the deposit and safe custody of all such goods, wares, and merchandize, as well as for the collection of all duties payable thereon, and shall have been so declared by the orders of his Majesty in council in Great Britain, or by the order of the lord lieutenant in' council in Ireland, provided always that copies of all such orders in council shall be laid before both houses of parliament in the session next ensuing. Provided also, that no ship or vessel of less than 350 tons registered measurement, shall be permitted to clear out from any port in the united kingdom, for any port or place within the limits aforesaid, or be admitted to entry in any port of the united kingdom, from any place within those limits. Provided also, that no such ship which shall have so navigated, shall be admitted to entry in any port of the united kingdom, without a regu lar manifest, duly certified, according to such regulations as may hereafter be enacted. Provided also, that no article manufactured of silk, hair, or wool, or any mixture thereof, shall be entered or taken out of any warehouses except for exportation, unless the same shall have been brought into the port of Barley, Russian, Beans, Tick, Old, Russia, Riga Rockitzar, Hair, Horse, in tails. Half-clean, Archangel, Iron, per ton. c. c. n. d. 65 a 70 14s Od as Od 15 0 as Od pears that cultivation has been extending, though many circumstances still retard it. The land in tillage amounts now to 448 acres, of which about half has been cleared in the course of the last thirteen months. The town and public buildings are 95 a 100 assuming a assuming a more permanent form. A stone barrack has been erecting on a large scale. In the last twelve months the roofs of no less than 26 houses have been changed from thatch to shingle. Within the walls of Sierra Leone, April 1811, the number of houses and their description were as follows: 14 a 16 64 14 6 66 a 72 Petersburg, Archangel, Steel. Tallow, per cwt. Yellow, 88 a 85 a 90 a 91 30 a Dantzic crown pipe, 172 180 not above hhd. £.120 Population. European Men,....... Women, Children,... 22 4 2 Nova Scotians, Men.. 188 Children,......... 37 The expence attending the British settlements on the coast of Africa is understood to be about £.24,000 or £.25,000 annually. A new island has been discovered in the latitude of about 54 south. It has been called Macquarrie island, in compliment to the present governor of New South Wales. It has opened an additional and fruitful field to adventurers in the Seal fishery. Upwards of eighty thousand seals have been caught there in the course of a few months. A destructive avalanche occurred lately in the neighbourhood of Villeneuve in Switzerland. A part of the extensive chain of the Furca, which had been sapped by a stream that ran at its base, suddenly fell with a terrific noise. About thirty About thirty cottages were buried beneath the ruins, and twelve of their inmates killed. The noise of the avalanche was heard at the distance of six miles. The Cortes have made the following regulations for the government of Spanish America. I. That the mitas should be for ever abolished. (The mitas are a certain contribution of men, which the people were obliged to give for the cultivation of the land, and working the mines.) II. That the Indians should be ex empted from the personal service they gave the clergy, or any other public functionary whatever; obliging them, nevertheless, to satisfy the parochial rights, the same as the other classes. III. That the public charges, such as the rebuilding of churches, and making of roads, should be equally borne by all the inhabitants indiscriminately. IV. That divisions of land should be made to the Indians, leaving to the Provincial Deputies the power of assigning the quotas, &c. V. That in all the territories of America, some of the dignities should necessarily remain with the Indians. Poetry. ODE, Written in the prospect of returning to the Country. YE fountains, and ye mossy shades, High o'er-arched with branching pine, And solemn walks in moonlight glades, When Hesper's sapphire armics shine : Receive once more a votary true, Who never strayed in heart from you; But when pent in cloistered gloom, Sighed for Nature's cheerful bloom. Crocus, sober-liveried flower, In the lawn's exuberant spring; And the musk-rose deck the bower, Where Phobus and his daughters sing; While the Graces, in a band, Dancing round with hand in hand; Move in order to the lyre, And the song of heavenly quire. Streams in murmuring softness glide, Listen to the charming strain. To hear the dulcet airs that rise And notes that float on Zephyr's wing, Let those who will to Courts repair, And, eager chase fantastic joys. The music of the grove more sweet Than crowded Theatre's artful trills; The umbrageous shelter from the heat Of woods, that skirt the hills. More sweet than all the joys of art, Which only flutter round the heart; But Nature's beauties were designed To sooth, and to enchant the mind. PRO 297 Proceedings of Parliament. HOUSE OF LORDS. Tuesday, Feb. 23. 1813. VARIOUS petitions were presented against the Catholic claims; particularly one from Billingsgate Ward, which the Duke of Norfolk urged should be read, lest it might contain inflammatory matter: he observed that a petition of inflamed Protestants now, might be like the petitions of inflamed Protestants in 1780, when 40,000 of them signed a paper to keep the Catholics from doing mischief, and shewed their own moderation by setting fire to London that night. The petition being read, the Duke acknowledged that the language was mild. Tuesday, March 9. Marquis Wellesley complained, in a very long and animated speech, of the little advantages which had resulted from the victory of Salamanca, and contended that a reinforcement of 15,000 men, including 3000 cavalry, which it was practicable to send out, would have brought the contest to a favourable close--and concluded by moving for a Committee of Inquiry. Earl Grey supported the motion, though he was not very sanguine in his expectations respecting the war in Spain. Lords Bathurst and Liverpool replied. Lords Aberdeen and Darnley said a few words. On a division, the motion was negatived by 145 to 39.-Adjourned. Monday, March 22. PRINCESS OF WALES. Lord Ellenborough, alluding to the evidence of Mrs Lisle, read by Mr Whitbread in the House of Commons, and commented on by that gentleman, said, that his name had been inserted in the Commission of Inquiry without any previous intimation.That regarding it as a proof of his Majesty's opinion of his zeal and integrity, he did his duty to the best of his power. But it was April 1813. in the performance of that duty that some person, with the most abandoned and detestable slander, had dared to charge him with a gross act of dishonesty; him, on whose character for integrity, diligence, and care, depended more of the property and interests of the people than on those of any other man in the country; yet of him it was foully and slanderously alleged, that he had falsified the evidence given before the Commission, giving in as a document evidence that was not received, and suppressing that which was actually given. This was all a lie, a vile slander,-all false as hell. He would not violate the propriety of that House; he knew the respect and decency which it required; but he must give the lie to falsehood. The Noble Lord then explained, that one night when the Commissioners had met to examine witnesses, the SolicitorGeneral (Sir S. Romilly) who had been appointed to arrange and take down evidence, was absent from home, and could not be found. The examination proceeded, and the Commissioners requested that he would take down the evidence of the witnesses in attendance. He declared upon the most sacred asseveration that could be made,→→ the most solemn sanction of an oath,-that every word of that deposition came from the lips of the witness in question,-that every word of it was read over to her,—if not paragraph by paragraph, as it was taken down, certainly all after it was taken,-and every sheet signed with her name. Lord Erskine deemed it scarcely necessary to vindicate himself from such an imputation as falsifying evidence. He should have thought that his professional character, -his situation in life,-the rank he had held, might have been enough to wipe away every stigma. If magistrates were not permitted to put leading questions to witnesses, the most fatal consequences might follow. Lords Grenville and Spencer expressed themselves in milder terms than the Lord Chief Justice, but to the same effect. Lord Moira denied that he had covertly sought evidence on the subject alluded to. He not only never spontaneously sought information, but he had never been instigated ՏՈ |