Mr. Brougham and Mr. F. Douglas vindicated the proceedings of the Committee. Lord Castlereagh argued in support of the exception of foundations having special visitors. The Bill was then read the third time.

On the motion of Mr. Brougham, two clauses were added by way of rider; the first to enable the Commissioners to get effect given to the intentions of founders where their instructions may have been deficient; the second exempting the Commissioners from making a report to either House of Parliament, that drawn up for the King in Council being deemed sufficient. He then proposed to amend the body of the Bill, by leaving out the clause of exception which he previously objected to. The amendment was, on a division, negatived by 107 to 75, and the Bill passed.

In a Committee of Ways and Means, a grant of 12,000,000/. by way of Loan from the Sinking Fund, was voted for the service of the year.

In the Commons, the same day, Sir James Montgomery gave a long detail of the quarrels and combats between the colonists on the Red River in North America and the servants of the Northwest Company. He justified the conduct of Lord Selkirk, and censured Government for not having taken adequate measures for the protection of his colony. He concluded with moving for papers on the subject.

Mr. Ellice contended, that the first act of violence was committed by the colonists on the servants of the North West Company, and hence had arisen all the subsequent outrages on both sides.

Mr. Scarlett, Mr. W. Smyth, and Mr. Bennet, defended the conduct of Lord Selkirk.

Mr. Goulburn stated the proceedings adopted by Government for bringing the delinquents on both sides to justice, and suggested some verbal amendments on the motion, which was then agreed to.

HOUSE OF HOUSE; June 25.: The Lord Chancellor brought in a Bill for the regulation of pauper lunatics, which was read the first time.

In the Commons, the same day, the Solicitor General brought in a Bill to amend the Acts 39th and 40th Geo. III. c. 88, and 47th Geo. III. c. 24, regarding the real and personal property of his Majesty. It was read the first time.

On the question for the third reading of the new Excise Duties Bill, Mr. Western opposed the measure, and moved that the Bill be read the third time that day six months. Mr. Ord, Mr. Farrand, Lord Ebrington, and Sir R. Wilson, also opposed the Bill. Mr. Long supported it. On a division, the amendment was negatived by 134 to 65, and the Bill was read the third time.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 28.

Earl Bathurst moved that the Foreign Enlistment Bill should be committed, and explained the policy of the measure.

Lord Holland opposed the Bill, except so far as it went to repeal certain Acts of Geo. II. and moved that the Bill be divided into two.

Lord Holland's amendment was supported by the Marquisses of Lansdown and Bute and Earl of Caernarvon, and opposed by the Earl of Harrowby; and finally negatived by 100 to 47.

In the Commons, the same day, on the motion of Mr. Wilberforce, the House, after a debate of some length, voted a sum of 6000l. to the American General Boyd, to remunerate him for the services performed to the British Government in In

dia during the administration of Marquis Wellesley, and by which, through French

intrigue, he had lost a situation under the

Nizam of 90007. a year.

The Report on the Irish Grants was agreed to; and the House, in a Committee of Ways and Means, agreed to three resolutious proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer : 1. "That the sum of 244,8927. 18s. 9d. being the surplus amount now remaining in the Exchequer of the Ways and Means voted for 1818, be applied to the service of the present year; 2. That the sum of 16,500,000. be raised by Exchequer bills, for the services of the present year, 1819; 3. That 2,000,000l. British currency, be raised by Exchequer bills, for the service of Ireland for the present year."

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Mr. Vansittart informed the Committee that there was an excess in the present of the increasing state of the revenue; and -quarter, over the corresponding one of the last year, of more than 300,000l. without taking into consideration the tea duties.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 29.

Lord Auckland moved the second reading of the Insolvent Debtors' Bill; expressing, however, his disapprobation of three of its clauses.

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without being entitled to any of their benefits.

The Lord Chancellor stated, that, it was quite impossible, with the other duties he had to perform, that he could give his assistance to the Bill.

Lord Lauderdale thought the best course would be, to leave the law in its present state for another year.

(To be continued.) ̄

FRANCE.

The Paris papers of the 2d inst. contain the termination of the trial of M. Bavoux, the law professor. M. Bavoux exculpated himself for the doctrines he had delivered in his lecture, on the ground that the code of law which he had attacked was exclusively the work of Buonaparte. The Jury, after half an hour's consultation, acquitted the accused, aud the verdict was received with the loudest applauses by the audience.

The notorious General Sarrazin, who, when in England, married a Miss Hutchinson, has been brought to trial by that lady at Paris for bigamy-he was found guilty, sentenced to ten years' hard labour, to be placed in the pillory, and to pay a fine of 40,000 francs :-he behaved with the most shameless impudence on the trial.

On the 12th July a terrible conflagration was caused by the negligence of an idiot, at Remy, in the Department of the Oise.

It consumed 325 farming and dwelling houses, and reduced to a state of indigence 260 individuals, who have now no other resource than public charity. This loss is estimated at 600,000 francs.

The Paris papers state, that ten communes in the arondissement of Montargis were desolated in the night of the 7th instant, by a tremendous hail-storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Every thing was destroyed for the space of twenty leagues. Sixty hours after the dreadful catastrophe, hail-stones were found of the size of an ordinary egg. The damage is estimated at four millions of francs (170,000l. sterling).

There have been dreadful storms, also, in several other quarters. In Deux Sevres, a space of seven leagues was desolated by hail, which lay on the ground to the depth of three or four inches: two of the hail-stones weighed 12 ounces.

Another dreadful example of the rage for fighting duels lately occurred at Paris. In consequence of an article inserted in one of the French journals, three of the body Guards, and three of the Editors GENT. MAG. August, 1819.

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connected with that Journal, proceeded on the 6th inst. to the field, for the purpose of fighting against each other. the first attack, M. David, one of the Editors, received a pistol-ball, which killed him in a moment. This fatal result put an end to the murderous encounter, and the combatants were separated.

The Duke de Feltre, late Minister at War, and often employed on missions by Napoleon, died so poor, that Louis XVIII. has settled 5251. pension on his widow. NETHERLANDS.

CARRIER PIGEONS.-A letter from Brussels, dated July 17, says, "Thirty-two pigeons, with the word Antwerp, marked on their wings, have been sent to London, where they were let loose on the 11th of this month, at seven o'clock in the morning, after having their wings countermarked London. The same day, towards noon, one of these faithful animals arrived at home, and obtained the first prize; a quarter of an hour later, a second arrived, and obtained the next prize. The following day, twelve others arrived, making fourteen in all. The prizes, which are very considerable, will be distributed to-morrow (Sunday) at Antwerp. It is not with any intention of establishing a correspondence between London and Antwerp (as the Paris journals pretend) that those pigeons were sent to London, but merely for the pleasure of seeing them

return."

SPAIN.

The hope of recovering her trans-Atlantic possessions seems now lost to Spain. The Cadiz expedition, so long in preparation, and upon which the Government had bestowed the whole remnant of its resources, has been dissipated by a mutiny. The small proportion of the army which continued to respect the orders of the Commander-in-chief, claimed an exemption from the expedition, as the price of their fidelity.

The estimated expense of the Cadiz Expedition, now rendered abortive, is not less than 30 millions of dollars; more than seven millions sterling. The whole

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of the disposable Royal Treasure was early bestowed upon this object; and it was subsequently found necessary to resort to a mortgage of the Royal quicksilver mines, and an almost compulsory loan from the Nobility and Clergy. The people were already taxed to the utmost.

Don Quis, the negociator of the Florida treaty, is under arrest in Spain. GERMANY.

The heat at Vienna and its neighbour. hood was greater between the 5th and 8th of June, than there has been experienced there since 1748: the thermometer of Reaumur was at 22 in the shade. Several men and horses at work in the fields fell dead.

We have news from Frankfort of outrages committed on the Jews in that and several other places-their supposed offence was, attempting the reinoval of certain humiliating distinctions, by which their race is oppressed in that quarter.

A Lancasterian school is now established at Hamburgh, where the children are instructed by an English and German master, at a penny an hour.

The Prussian Government is actively employed in pursuing the traces of "the great conspiracy;" the existence of which is as boldly affirmed, as positively denied. The Academical Senate of Berlin has commanded the students to attend a Court of Inquiry, precisely on the model of "the Holy Inquisition." But, it seems, the students have suddenly decamped. The accounts state, that all Germany is in a ferment, in consequence of the arrests at Jena, Berlin, Weimar, Heidelberg, Bonn, Cologne, the territory of Nassau, and other places. The papers of a Berlin bookseller, named Reimer, have been seized. He was himself absent in Switzerland.

An association is said to have been found to exist, having for its object to destroy the present confederation, and form the whole of Germany into one great republic, to be governed by a Senate and an elective Prince. In Wirtemberg, the popular opposition to the Government is very open and strong; whilst in Bavaria the designs of the King are directly thwarted by the Deputies. He wished to maintain a certain military establishment; but the Deputies cut it down to a small amount, and persist in that determination.

The King of Prussia has repealed all the legislative provisions which prohibited Catholics from holding public offices in his dominions.

DENMARK.

VACCINATION.-For the last eight years not a single case of Small Pox has occurred in the dominions of the King of Denmark. The whole inhabitants have been vaccinated. Here is one good effect

which has resulted from the arbitrary power of the King of Denmark. RUSSIA.

The Emperor of Russia has caught.the laudable impulse of scientific enterprize from this country, and has ordered four frigates to be fitted out for the purpose of exploring the Polar Regions. It is expected that they will arrive in England, and remain here till the proper period for proceeding on their expedition.

AFRICA.

Advices from the Cape of Good Hope, dated May 10, communicate information of another eruption of the Caffrees, who, by the last accounts, were supposed to be completely repulsed, to the number of 30,000 men. They had crossed the river which divides their territory from that of the Cape, and were committing the most extensive depredations. Orders had been issued to compel the military service of the inhabitants of the adjoining district; and all the horses had been put into requisition, in order to equip a portion of them as cavalry, the species of force best calculated to repel the attacks of these dastardly but mischievous invaders.

The Bey of Tunis has succeeded in reducing to submission the revolted Arabs, who have engaged to pay a contribution of 1500 camels, 500 horses, and 20,000 sheep.-After having carried off more than 30,000 persons, within the limits of the Tunisian Government, the plague has somewhat mitigated its ravages.

The Emperor of Morocco, Muley Soliman, gave out, in the beginning of June, that he should visit Tangiers. But, instead of repairing thither, he assembled a force behind the river Sebon, with the intention of imposing a tribute on the juhabitants of the mountains of Tedla, who had revolted against his authority. His troops were scarcely collected, when those Mountaineers, generally denominated Berberes, surprized the Emperor's camp under cloud of night. His Negro Guards were almost to a man cut to pieces; his treasure, estimated at 400 quintals of sitver, 12 of his wives, his.own tent, and his baggage, fell into the hands of the rebels.

The Governor of Tangier died of his wounds, and Muley Ibrahim, the Emperor's eldest son, was wounded in the head. This young Prince, it was reported, had arrived at Fez, under the protection of some Moors. A rumour had been current for ten days, that Muley Soliman himself had been killed: but it appears that he had been able to reach Mequinez in disguise, escorted by a single Moor, one of the rebels; who, having entered the Emperor's tent during the action, apprized him of his danger, and succeeded in conveying him to his capital amid the greatest perils,

AMERICA.

AMERICA.

The American papers continue to speak of the great extent of commercial distress and numerous failures in the United States. One house is stated to have failed in New York for 12 millions of dollars; and every thing like commercial confidence is almost annihilated throughout the United States.

It is stated in The National Intelligencer, that between 30, and 40 Newspaper establishments had lately been formed in different parts of the United States within eight months.

It is reported in the Canada papers, that the Missisagua Indians have ceded to the British Government a tract of 2,748,000 acres of land, equal in extent to forty-six townships. It is said that "this track embraces that elegant river the Mississippi, from its source to its entrance into the Lake Chandiere, or Ottawa river."

In the American papers appears the almost incredible confession of a malefactor, uamed Willherbarne, executed at Buffaloe, New York, on the 4th of April. This horrible monster, returning home, after spending the day in gaming and drunkenness, was met at the door by his wife who truck him a blow; which so enraged iim, that he afterwards went to her bedside, and with a wood axe murdered her and three of her children; his other three children, hearing their cries,

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.

went to ascertain the cause; when he butchered them in a like manner, and afterwards two servants; to escape, as he thought, detection. This horrid scene he closed by burning the bodies in the kitchen.

The Carthage Bridge, over the Genessee river (New York), is of one entire arch, 713 feet long, 30 wide, and 196 feet above the surface of the water! Loaded teams of more than 13 tons have passed over it.

Montezuma Bridge, between the vil lage of that name, and the town of Menz, over the Seneca river and marshes, Onoudago county, New York, extends about three miles. It is said to be the longest bridge in the world.

Newfoundland has been again visited by a dreadful conflagration. On the 18th of July, a fire broke out in a house in the upper part of the town of St. John's, which raged with unabated fury for three hours, and deprived 170 families of shelter.

Intelligence from Rio de Janeiro, aunounces the baptism of the Infant Princess, daughter of the Prince and Princess Royal of Portugal and the Brazils, who is to take the title of Princess of Beira, and who received at the font the following long list of names-Maria da Gloria Joauna Carlotta Leopoldina Isidora da Cruz Fraucisca Xavier de Paula Michaela Gabriella Raphaela Louisa Gonzaga.

MANCHESTER MEETING. On Monday, the 16th of August, a Meeting, pursuant to public notice, took place at Manchester, for the ostensible object of Parliamentary Reform. For some time previous, considerable auxiety had been excited in the public mind as to the result. To prevent the alarming consequences that were generally apprehended, the local authorities had taken every precaution that human foresight could devise. Notwithstanding, we lament to state, that some lives were lost in the affray that subsequently ensued; and we cannot reflect on the lamentable circumstance without expressing our strongest disapprobation of the conduct of those unprincipled individuals, whose only object, under the specious name of patriotism, is to effect a Revolution, and aggrandize themselves on the ruins of their Country.

The place appointed for the Meeting was a large vacant piece of ground on the North side of St. Peter's Church, which is well known in Manchester by the name of St. Peter's-place. At half-past 10 o'clock about 250 idle individuals might be col

lected within it. About half-past 11, the first body of radical Reformers arrived on the ground, bearing two banners, each of which was surmounted by a cap of Liberty. The first bore, upon a white ground, the inscription of "Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage ;" on the reverse side, "No Corn Laws." The other bore, upon a blue ground, the same inscription, with the addition of "Vote by Ballot."-After these flags had been paraded over the field for some time, it was thought fit, by the leaders of the party which had brought them, that they should remain stationary. A post was accordingly assigned to the bearers of them; to which, shortly afterwards, a cart was brought, upon which the standard-bearers were ordered to mount, and from which all the standards arriving afterwards were displayed. Numerous large bodies of Reformers continued to arrive, from this time to 1 o'clock, from the different towns in the neighbourhood of Manchester; all with flags, and many of them drawn up five deep, in regular marching order. A club of female Reformers, amounting in number, according to the calculation, to 156, came from Oldham; and another, not quite so numerous, from Royston. The first bure a white

silk banner, by far the most elegant displayed during the day, inscribed, "Major Cartwright's Bill, Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot." In one compartment of it was Justice, holding the scales in one hand, and a sword in the other; in another, a large eye, impiously intended to represent the eye of Providence. On the reverse of this flag was another inscription; there were upon it two hands, both decorated in shirtruffles, clasped in each other, and underneath them an inscription, "Oldham Uuion." The latter (i. e. the females of Royston) bore two red flags, the one inscribed, "Let us (i. e. women) die like men, and not be sold like slaves;" the other, "Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage." The Radicals of Saddleworth brought with them a black flag to the field; on one side of which was inscribed, "Taxation without Representation is unjust and tyrannical; equal representation or death;" on the other side, "Union is strength; Unite, and be free; Saddleworth and Moseley Union."-The Reformers from Rochdale and Middleton marched to the sound of the bugle, and in very regular time, closing and expanding their ranks, and marching in ordinary and double-quick time, according as it pleased the fancy of their leaders to direct them. They had two green banners; between which they had hoisted, on a red pole, a cap of liberty, crowned with leaves of laurel, and bearing the inscription, "Hunt and Liberty." Another band bore a banner, in which Britannia was represented with her trident, leaning on a shield, upon which was inscribed the motto borne by Sir William Wallace, "God armeth the Patriot."-In this manner the business of the day proceeded till one o'clock; by which time, about 80,000 people were assembled on the ground.

Between one and two, the Orator (Hunt) passed by the Exchange to the place of meeting; the people cheering most loudly, and Hunt and Johnson joining in the cheers. They were seated in an open landau, along with Carlile, Knight, and others, and had moved in grand procession from Smedley Cottage, past New Cross, and Shude Hill, preceded by a large body of male, and followed by a scarcely less numerous body of female, Manchester Reformers. Before them were carried two boards, on which were inscribed, "Order, Order ;" these were followed by two flags for Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage, and also by Hunt's old flag and cap of Liberty, of Westminster notoriety," Hunt, and Universal Suffrage." This latter was held by a female reformer, seated on the dickey of the landau, which had the honour of carrying the band of patriots whose names we have just mentioned,

After the different persons who intended to address the multitude had taken their position upon them, and silence had been obtained, Henry Hunt was declared Chairman, amid cheers of three times three. He commenced his address by calling the assembly "Gentlemen," but afterwards changed the term to "Fellow countrymen." At this stage of the business the Yeomanry Cavalry were seen advancing in a rapid trot to the area: their ranks were in disorder; and on arriving within it, they halted, to breathe their horses, and to recover their ranks. A paníck seemed to strike the persons at the outskirts of the meeting, who immediately began to scamper in every direction. After a moment's pause, the Cavalry drew their swords; upon which Hunt and Johnson desired the multitude to give three cheers. This they did; upon which Mr. Hunt again proceeded: "This was a mere trick, to interrupt the proceedings of the meeting; but he trusted that they all would stand firm." He had scarcely said these words, before the Manchester Yeomanry Cavalry rode into the mob, which gave way before them, and directed their course to the cart from which Hunt was speaking. A bugle-man went at their head, then an officer, and then came the whole troop. They wheeled round the waggons till they came in front of them; the people drawing back in every direction on their approach. After they had surrounded them in such a manner as to prevent all escape, the officer who commanded the detachment went up to Mr. Hunt, and said, "Sir, I have a warrant against you, and arrest you as my prisoner." Hunt, after exhorting the people to tranquillity in a few words, turned round to the officer, and said, "I will willingly surrender myself to any civil officer who will shew me his warrant." Mr. Nadin, the chief police-officer at Manchester, then came forward and said, "I will arrest you; I have informations upon oath against you," or something to that effect. The military officer then proceeded to say, that he had a warrant against Johnson. Johnson also asked for a civil officer; upon which a Mr. Andrew came forward, and Hunt and Johnson then leaped from off the waggon, and surrendered themselves to the civil power. They were taken to a house close by, where the Magistrates were assembled; shortly after this had occurred, a Magistrate came into the room, and bade the prisoners prepare to march off to the New Bailey. Hunt was consigned to the custody of Colonel l'Estrange, of the 31st foot, and a detachment of the 15th hussars; and under his care, he and all the other prisoners (who were each placed between two constables) reached the New Bailey in perfect safety. The staffs of two of Hunt's ban

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