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INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. 36 men, by the Pandora Sloop, Capt. Ferguson.

Downing-street, December 31. Extract of a Dispatch, from Lieut.-gen. Visc. Wellington, dated Cartaxo, Dec. 15.

No alteration has been made in the Enemy's position in front of this army since I had the honour of addressing you on the 8th inst. and all the deserters and prisoners continue to report the distress which the troops suffer. The Enemy detached a body of cavalry, consisting of four regiments, towards Coimbra; but, finding that town occupied by Gen. Bacellar, they have returned again to their station in the rear of the right of their army. I am concerned to forward the inclosed report from Marshal Sir Wm. Beresford, of the death of Cap. Fenwick, the late Commandant of Obidos. During the last two months he had been engaged more than twenty times with the Enemy's foraging parties, and I have had several opportunities of reporting his success. Upon this last occasion he had made an attack upon, and had driven in, a party, consisting of 80 grenadiers, in the neighbourhood of Evora, near Alcobaca, which had come there in search of provisions, having under his command a detachment of the same number of the militia of the garrison of Obidos, and was pursuing them, when he was mortally wounded, and he died on the 10th; we have thus sustained a great loss, and he is lamented by all who had any knowledge of his gallantry and exertions. It is generally reported that the battalions composing the 9th corps have marched towards Madrid, where preparations were making for the assembly of a large body of troops. It is certain that all these troops, as well as Gardanne's detachment, have retired from the frontiers of Portugal.

Cartaxo, Dec. 11. My Lord, It is with much regret that I communicate to you the loss of Capt. Fenwick (Lieutenant in the Buffs), who died the following day of the wounds be received in the attack he made upon the Enemy at Evora, on the 8th inst. Your Lordship will equally feel with me the loss of this enterprizing gallant young Officer, who since the Enemy's being in their late and present position, has been of so much service, and who has in such various instances given proofs of his talents and undaunted courage. W. G. BEeresford.

Admiralty-office, Jan. 5. This Gazette announces the capture of the Chasseur French privateer cutter of 16 guns and GENT. MAG. January, 1811.

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Downing-street, Jan. 14. The following Dispatch was yesterday received from Lieut.-gen. Viscount Wellington, dated Cartaxo, Dec. 22.

My Lord, The Enemy still continue in their position at Santarem, in which no alteration of consequence has been made since I addressed your Lordship on the 15th instant. They continue to collect boats on the Zezere, over which river they have now two or three bridges.— The Enemy have shewn themselves on the Lower Coa, according to the last accounts from General Silviera, but not, in his opinion, in such force as to pass that river. The reports which I had received of the march of the troops of the 9th corps towards Madrid have not been confirmed. The last accounts which I have received from Cadiz are of the 8th inst. WELLINGTON.

The following Extract of a Dispatch is dated Cartaxo, Dec. 29. Since I addressed you on the 22d inst. I have received reports that the Enemy's troops which had retired from Lower Beira, in the end of last and the beginning of this month, had crossed the Coa at Almeida, on the 15th and 16th inst. and had moved into Upper Beira, by the roads of Pinhel and Trancoso, and of Alverea and Celerico.-I have not been able to ascertain exactly the strength of the body of troops which have entered by this frontier; but it is stated to be 16 or 17,000 men, and consists, I should imagine, not only of Gardanne's division, but of some, if not the whole of the troops of the 9th corps.-By the last accounts I have of these troops, the advanced guard had arrived at Maceira, in the valley of the Mondego, on the 22d, and their progress has not been rapid. But if they have continued their march, they ought by this time to be in conînunication with the Enemy's post in the neighbourhood of Thomar. - General Silviera had retired with his division of troops to Moimento de Beira; but he and General Miller and Colonel Wilson were prepared to act across the Mondego upon the flanks and rear of the Enemy's troops, the whole of which, it appears, were marching on the left of that river.No alteration has been made in the position of the Enemy's troops in front of this army, excepting that a detachment of between 2 or 3000 cavalry and infantry had moved into Lower Beira, across the Zezere, towards Castello Branco, probably with a view to gain intelli

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gence. By accounts from Estremadura,
it appears that Generals Mendizabal
and Ballasteros have had some success
in their operations against a French di-
vision belonging to Mortier's corps,
which had been stationed in Lierena.
They have obliged this division to retire
from Guadaleanal, with some loss.
· Admiralty-office, Jan. 15. Admiral
Sir C. Cotton has transmitted a letter
from Capt. Stewart, giving an account of
the capture of a French privateer, the
Cæsar, of four guns and 59 men, by the
boats of the Blossom sloop under the di-
rections of Lieut. S. Davies and Messrs.
Hambly and Marshall, midshipmen. She
was carried in a gallant manner by
boarding, in which, and in the chace,
the Lieutenant and three men were
killed, and Mr. Hambly and nine others
wounded; the Enemy had four killed

and nine wounded.-A letter from Capt. Ayscough, of the Success, stating the destruction, on the 4th and 6th Octof two of the Enemy's gun-boats, and 34 troop-vessels, on the coast of Naples, by the boats of the Success and other vessels, under Capt. Ayscough's orders.

And a letter from the Hon. Capt. Waldegrave, of the Thames frigate, giving an account of the boats of that ship, and the Eclair sloop, having, on the 5th Oct. brought out ten of the Enemy's empty transports collected near Agripoli, in the Gulf of Salerno. Capt. Tobin, of the Princess Charlotte, has, in his letter to J. W. Croker, Esq. of the 11th inst. given an account of his having, on the 9th, captured at sea the French privateer L'Aimable Flore, of Granville, mounting 14 six-pounders (pierced for 20), with 91 men on board.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE FIFTH Session of the FOURTH PARLIAMENT
OF THE UNITed Kingdom OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jan. 1.
The House having resolved itself into
a Committee, Mr. Perceval, after a
few preliminary observations, in which
he dwelt upon the shock bis Majesty's
feelings would sustain upon recovery, if
he found any material alteration in his
Household, and declared, that, if a sepa
rate establishment for the Regent was
thought absolutely necessary, the ex-
pence would not exceed 15,000l. sub-
mitted the following Resolution: "That
it appears to this Committee, that the
care of his Majesty's Royal Person, du-
ring the continuance of his Majesty's
illness, should be committed to the
Queen's Most Excellent Majesty; and
that her Majesty should have power to
remove from and to nominate and ap-
point such persons as she shall think
proper, to the several Offices in his
Majesty's Household, and to dispose,
order, and manage, all other matters
and things relating to the care of his
Majesty's Royal Person, during the time
aforesaid; and that, for the better ena-
bling her Majesty to discharge this im-
portant trust, it is also expedient that a
Council should be appointed, to advise
and assist her Majesty in the several
matters aforesaid, and with power from
time to time, as they may see cause, to
examine upon oath the Physicians and
others attending his Majesty's Person,
touching the state of his Majesty's health,
and all matters relative thereto."

Lord Gower considered the expence of the two separate establishments as highly unnecessary: during his Majesty's retirement he would have no occasion for his present Household; and it was

besides dangerous, as tending to form a party in the country, which might weaken and impede the powers of Government. He should therefore propose, as an amendment, that that part of the motion from the words "Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" should be omitted, and to insert in its place, " together with such direction of his Household as may be suitable for the care of his Majesty's Royal Person, and the maintenance of the Royal Dignity."

An animated discussion ensued; the arguments urged turning on the danger of crippling the Executive Government, by restricting the powers of the Regent, and endeavouring, by the above Resolution, to embody an influence, under the pretext of being necessary for the protection of the reigning King, but with the view of serving the purposes of Ministers against the Government of his Representative.

Messrs. Canning, Stephen, and Wib berforce, spoke with much eloquence in favour of the Resolution; Lord Dysart, and Messrs. H. Addington and Fuller, also supported it: Sir S. Romilly, Lord Milton, and Mr. Whitbread, opposed it at great length; Lord Castlereagh, Messrs. Johnstone, H. Martin, and Bathurst, were against it.

The House divided on Lord Gower's Amendment, Ayes 226, Noes 213– Majority against Ministers 13,

Jan. 2.

The Report of the Committee on the State of the Nation was presented by Mr. Lushington. The Resolutions being read, the question was put, that the Report be

received,

received; when a long and animated discussion arose, in which Lord Porchester, Sirs S. Romilly and 7. Turton, Messrs. Whitbread, Canning, Sheridan, Wynne, Morris, Mr. Secretary Ryder, and the Master of the Rolls, participated. Lord Porchester proposed, as an Amendment to the first Resolution, that the conclud ing words" subject to such limitations and exceptions as shall hereafter be provided," be left out; but no division took place on it: and the Chancellor of the Exchequer having moved an Amendmeut to the same Resolution, which went to restore it to its original state, it was lost by a Majority of 3.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Jan. 4.

In a Committee on the State of the Nation, the Earl of Liverpool moved the reading of the Resolutions which had been brought up from the Commons. He disclaimed being actuated by any thing like personal disrespect towards the Personage to whom the Resolutions most materially referred; but it could not be denied that he was liable to the bias and impression of wrong advice. That great maxim of the Constitution, "the King can do no wrong," ought always to be kept in view; and applying it to the Prince of Wales, should he, in the capacity of Regent, become possessed of regal power, care should be taken that he should be made incapable of doing wrong. His Lordship, after dwelling upon the Resolutions, declared that the first four had his perfect concurrence, but it would be necessary to amend the fifth. He concluded by moving the ques tion upon the first Resolution.

The Earl of Carlisle decidedly opposed the Resolutions, and questioned the merits of Mr. Pitt's administration, alleging that it was one tissue of errors.

- The Marquis of Lansdowne could not assent even to the first of the five Reso Jutions, without detaching from the concluding words. After censuring the Restrictions upon the Regent, he asked, Was it constitutional thus to make Parliament judges of the exercise of the prerogative? The power of rewarding merit was to be withheld from the Regent; while punishment, the most ungracious attribute of the State, was to be allowed him. He should move that all that part of the first Resolution, connected with and following the words "subject to such limitations and restrictions, as shall be provided," &c. be omitted.

Viscount Sidmouth, Lords Eldon, Grenville, and Harrowby, and Earl Clancarty, supported the Resolutions, which were opposed by Lords Erskine, Holland, Selbirk, and the Duke of Norfolk.-A divi

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sion taking place on the Marquis Lansdowne's Amendment to the first Resolution, there appeared for it. 105, against it 102; Majority against Ministers 3.

The Earl of Liverpool then proposed an Amendment to the second Resolution, by omitting the power given to the Regent to appoint Peers in cases of naval or military achievements; and extending the restrictions generally to the grant of peerages, by which he met the wishes of Lord Grenville: for the Amendment 106, against it 100; Majority in favour of Ministers 6.

The third and fourth Resolutions were carried without a division.

An Amendment being proposed by Lord Liverpool to the fifth Resolution, respecting the Household, restoring it to its original state as proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Lower House, the numbers were, Ayes 97, Noes 110; Majority against Minis

ters 13.

A discussion then ensued on a proposition, from the Ministerial side, to admit the votes of proxies; and after considerable argument, a division was called for: in favour of the respective votes by proxy 99, against them 102; Majority against Ministers 3.

In the Commons, the same day, Copies of the Correspondence between the Treasury and Lord Grenville, Auditor of the Exchequer, with respect to the issues of public money, were laid upon the table. The facts stated are briefly these:

The Lords of the Treasury requiring the sum of 500,000l. to be applied to the service of the Navy, and unable to obtain it out of the Exchequer, during the present indisposition of his Majesty, transmitted a warrant requiring the Auditor to draw upon the Bank of England for that sum. Lord Grenville declined; and a case having been submitted to the Attorney and Solicitor General, they declared the warrant of the Treasury, which took all responsibility upon itself, not imperative upon the Auditor, and decided that he had no discretion. Subsequently Messrs. John and James Larpent, Clerks of the Privy Seal, refused to sign the warrant, as the necessary and accompanying docket had not been returned to their office. The House having resolved itself into a Committee, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, that three or four of the Lords of the Treasury be authorised and required to issue their warrants to the Auditor of the Exchequer for drawing the public money, and that the different officers of the Exchequer be requested to pay obedience to

their warrants, during his Majesty's indisposition. After a discussion, in which Lord Temple, Sir J. Sebright, Messrs. Rose, Ponsonby, Whitbread, Dundas, Tierney, Wynne, Horner, Yorke, and W. Smith, took a part, the motion was agreed to; with an Amendment, that the issues of public money should be confined to the Army and Navy, and to no other branch of the Government service,

HOUSE OF LORDS, Jan. 8. The Lord President and the Lord Privy Seal were appointed to attend the Prince of Wales with the Address, requesting his Royal Highness to take upon himself the Regency, in conformity with the terms of the Resolution; and Earls Harcourt and Morton to attend the Queen.

In the Commons, the same day, Messrs. Perceval, Ryder, R. Dundas, and the Master of the Rolls, were appointed to accompany the Lords President and Privy Seal with the Address to the Prince of Wales; and Lords J. Thynne, Clive, Palmerston, and Col. Disbrowe, to attend her Majesty.

Jan. 9.

Mr. Howard moved that the Speaker do issue his warrant for a new writ for the election of a Knight of the Shire for the County of Gloucester, in the room of Lord Dursley, now Earl Berkeley,

The Speaker asked the Hon. Member whether he was prepared to add to his motion, the usual words used on such occasions, called up by writ of summons to the House of Peers ?"

Mr. Howard replied, that he was not, because, in point of fact, no such writ of summons had been issued. He imagined, however, that no objection would be made to his motion, as it was an established fact that the representation for the County of Gloucester was defective. That House, he was persuaded, would not consider itself bound to wait the forms of the other House respecting the issuing of such writ of summons, nor keep the County of Gloucester without a representative pending the suspension of such summons. But, if a doubt could be entertained upon the subject, that doubt would be removed by the reference to the authority of a great man, who had filled the chair of that House (he meant Mr. Speaker Onslow), as it was to be collected from a note in Mr. Hatsell's valuable book of Precedents,

The Speaker professed great deference to the authority of Mr. Speaker Onslow, but stated, that upon reference to the Journals it would be found to have been

the invariable practice to require the ad dition of the words "called up to the House of Peers."-He then put the question on Mr. Howard's motion, which, after a short discussion between the Chancellor of the Exchequer, against it, and Sir S. Romilly, Messrs. Whitbread, Hørner, &c. in its favour, was negatived on a division, by six.

Jan. 10.

The Deputation appointed to wait on her Majesty, proceeded to Windsor, with the Address of the Two Houses,expressing a hope that her Majesty would be graciously pleased to undertake the important duties proposed to be invested in her Majesty, as soon as an Act of Parliament should have passed for carrying the said Resolution into effect. Her Majesty graciously replied:

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My Lords and Gentlemen - That sense of duty and gratitude to the King, and of obligation to this Country, which induced me in the year 1789 readily to promise my most earnest attention to the anxious and momentous trust at that time intended to be reposed in me by Parliament, is strengthened, if possible, by the uninterrupted enjoyment of those blessings which I have continued to experience under the protection of His Majesty since that period: and I should be wanting to all my duties if I hesitated to accept the sacred trust which is now offered to me. The assistance in point of counsel and advice, which the wisdom of Parliament proposes to provide for me, will make me undertake the charge with greater hopes that I may be able satisfactorily to fulfil the important duties which it must impose upon me.→→→Of the nature and importance of that charge, I cannot but be duly sensible, involving, as it does, every thing which is valuable to myself, as well as the highest interests of a people endeared to me by so many ties and considerations, but by nothing so strongly as by their steady, loyal, and affectionate attachment to the best of Kings."

Jan. 11.

At two o'clock the Deputation from the Two Houses went up to Carleton House, to present to his Royal Highness the Resolutions to which the two Houses, after long discussion, had agreed to. The Lords and Gentlemen, all in full dress, were ushered through the superb suite of rooms to the Drawing-room, where his Royal Highness stood. His Chancellor, Wm. Adam, esq. and Earl Moira on his right hand; the Duke of Cumberland and Mr. Sheridan on his left; behind him four Officers of bis household,

Mr.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, Col. Macmahon, Col. Bloomfield, and Gen. Turner. The deputation advanced according to their order of precedency. The Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Ryder, the President of the Board of Controul, and the Master of the Rolls; and they made the usual reverences, The Lord President then read from a paper in his hand That they were a Committee appointed to attend his Royal Highness with the Resolutions which had been agreed to by the Lords and Commons, for the purpose of supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the Royal Authority, during his Majesty's illness, by empowering his Royal Highhess to exercise that authority in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be provided. And that they were directed to express the hope which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons entertain, that his Royal Highness, from his regard to the interests of his Majesty, will be ready to undertake the weighty and important trust proposed to be invested in his Royal Highness, as soon as an Act of Parliament shall have been passed for carrying the said Resolutions into effect."

To which his Royal Highness made the following gracious reply:

TM“My Lords, and Gentlemen-I receive the communication which the Two Houses have directed you to make to me, of their joint Resolutions, on the subject of providing for the exercise of the Royal Authority during his Majesty's illness, with those sentiments of regard which I must ever entertain for the united desires of the Two Houses.With the same sentiments I receive the expressed hopes of the Lords and Commons, 'that, from my regard for the interest of His Majesty and the Nation, I should be ready to undertake the weighty and important trust proposed to be invested in me,' under the restrictions and limitations stated in those Resolutions. -Conscious that every feeling of my heart would have prompted me, from dutiful affection to my beloved Father and Sovereign, to have shewn all the reverential delicacy towards him inculcated in those Resolutions, I cannot refrain from expressing my regret, that I should not have been allowed the opportunity of manifesting to his afflicted and loyal subjects that such would have been my conduct.-Deeply impressed, however, with the necessity of tranquillizing the public mind, and determined to submit to évery personal sacrifice consistent with the regard I owe to the security of my

Father's Crown, and the equal regard I owe to the welfare of his people, I do not hesitate to accept the office and situation proposed to me, restricted as they are, still retaining every opinion express ed by me upon a former and similar distressing occasion. In undertaking the trust proposed to me, I am well aware of the difficulties of the situation in which I shall be placed; but I shall rely with confidence upon the Constitutional advice of an enlightened Parliament, and the zealous support of a generous and loyal People. I will use all the means left to me to merit both.

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"My Lords and Gentlemen-You will communicate this my answer to the two Houses, accompanied by my most fervent wishes and prayers, that the Divine Will may extricate us and the Nation from the grievous embarrassments of our present condition, by the speedy restoras tion of his Majesty's health."

In the House of Lords, the same day, the Earl of Liverpool, after an explana tion stating that the names of the Duke of York and one of his Royal Brothers had been omitted at their request, moved the issuing of Letters Patent under the Great Seal for opening Parliament by Commission.

Earl Grey would not, at this advanced stage of the business, cause any additional delay; but rose to state his entire concurrence in the opinions of those noble Lords who had so ably and eloquently opposed the proceedings, and to enter his protest against them, as justified by no constitutional precedent, and furnishing an example of the most perilous im port on future emergencies.

The House then divided on the motion
Contents, 51; Non-contents, 33.

In the Commons the Sheriffs of London presented the Petition of the Common Council against restrictions on the Regent.

The Committees appointed to wait on the Prince of Wales and her Majesty, reported their answers.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jan. 14. Mr Ald. Combe presented a Petition from the Livery, praying the appointment of the Prince of Wales as Regent, without any limitation or restriction,

The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the State of the Nation, Mr. Perceval, after alluding to the Re solution agreed to and transmitted by the Lords on the expediency of Letters Patent passing under the Great Seal for assembling Parliament, moved the concurrence of that House in the Resolu tion

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