the bona fide intention of America to preat her citizens from trading with France, d the powers adopting and acting under the ench Decrees, is to be considered as being liberty to capture all such American vessels may be found attempting to trade with the ts of any of those Powers; without which arity for the observance of the Embargo, raising it nominally with respect to Great Hain alone, would, in fact, raise it with pect to all the world. On these conditions his Majesty would sent to withdraw the Orders in Council of noary and November, 1807, so far as pects America. As the first and second of these conditions the suggestions of the persons in authority America to you, and as Mr. Pinkney has ently (but for the first time) expressed to his opinion, that there will be no inposition on the part of his Government to enforcement by the naval power of Great itain of the regulations of America with pect to France, and the countries to ich these regulations continue to apply, that his Government was itself aware, it without such enforcement those regulamust be altogether nugatory; I flatter self that there will be no difficulty in taining a distinct and official recognition these conditions from the American vernment. For this purpose you are at liberty to mmunicate this dispatch in extenso to the merican Government. Upon receiving through you, on the part the American Government, a distinct and icial recognition of the three abovementionconditions, his Majesty will lose no time sending to America a Minister fully powered to consign them to a formal and gular treaty. As however, it is possible that the delay hich must intervene before the actual conusion of a treaty may appear to the Amecan Government to deprive this arrangeent of part of its benefits, I am to authorize , if the American Government should be sirous of acting upon the agreement before is reduced into a regular form, (either by he immediate repeat of the Embargo, and be other Acts in question, or by engaging to peal them on a particular day) to assure the American Government of his Majesty's readiness to meet such a disposition in the manner best calculated to give it immediate ffect. Upon the receipt here of an official note, utaining an engagement for the adoption by the American Govenment of the three conditions above specified, his Majesty will be prepared, on the faith of such engagement, either immediately (if the repeal shall kave been immediate in America) or on any day specified by the American Government for that repeal, reciprocally to recal the Orders in Council, without waiting for the conclusion of the treaty; and you are author ized, in the circumstances herein described, to make such reciprocal engagement on his Majesty's behalf. I am, &c. (Signed) GEORGE CANNING, The correspondence of our Minister in America with the American Government has been published by authority-and the clear recognition of these principles does not appear in it. We conjecture, nevertheless, that it is understood, and practically exempli fied: so that, in fact, instead of Mr. Erskine's having exceeded his instructions, of which he is accused, he may with greater propriety be charged with having fallen short of theit import expressed as well as implied. The vessels (exceeding in number 100) which have entered our ports from America, have been bonded in four times the value of ship and cargo, not to enter other ports, or to deviate to those of our Continental ene mies. The affairs of the United Kingdom are, on evils of war. the whole, promising: our agriculture has proved its ability to support our population, in spite of all predictions to the contrary; our commerce has maintained a relative prosperity, though it has felt, as it ever did, the had opportunity of doing. Our Army is in Our Navy has done all it has what it can do. We hear great complaints daily expectation of being called to shew of the manner in which the Local Militia has been managed. We incline to refer the causes of these to the modes of conducting this business adopted by different officers: but we report with regret, that it has been the privates. This evil must be corrected. a considerable expence out of the pockets of June 21, to Thursday August 10, 1809,Parliament was prorogued on Wednesday, by the following speech, delivered by the lords commissioners to both houses of parliament: "My Lords, and Gentlemen, "We are commanded by His Majesty to acquaint you, that His Majesty has great Satisfaction in being enabled, by the State of the Public Business, to release you from your laborious Attendance in Parliament. "His Majesty doubts not that on your Return into your respective Counties, you will carry with you a Disposition to inculcate, both by Instruction and Example, a Spirit of Attachment to those established Laws and that happy Constitution, which it has ever been His Majesty's anxious Wish to support and to maintain, and upon which, under Providence, depend the Welfare and Prosperity of this Kingdom. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "We have it in Command from His Majesty to thank you for the liberal Provision which you have made for the Services of the present Year, and to express the Satisfaction which His Majesty derives from your having been enabled to provide for those Services without any great or immediate Addition to the Burthens upon His People. His Majesty particularly commands us to acknowledge your prompt Attention to His Wishes respecting an increased Provision for the poorer Clergy; an Object in the highest Degree interesting to His Majesty's Feelings, and deserving the favourable Consideration of Parliament. "My Lords, and Gentlemen, "The atrocious and unparalleled Act of Violence and Treachery by which the Ruler of France attempted to surprize and to enslave the Spanish Nation, while it has excited in Spain a determined and unconquerable Resistance against the Usurpation and Tyranny of the French Government, has, at the same time, awakened in other Nations of Europe a Determination to resist, by a new Effort, the continued and increasing Encroachments on their Safety and Independence. "Although the Uncertainty of all Human Events, and the Vicissitudes attendant upon War, forbid too confident an Expectation of a satisfactory Issue to the present Struggle against the Common Enemy of Europe, His Majesty commands us to congratulate you upon the splendid and important Success which has recently crowned the Arms of the Emperor of Austria, under the able and distinguished Conduct of His Imperial Highness the Archduke Charles. "To the Efforts of Europe for its own Deliverance, His Majesty has directed us to assure you, that He is determined to continue His most strenuous Assistance and Support, convinced that you will agree with Him in considering that every Exertion for the Reestablishment of the Independence and Security of other Nations, is no less conducive to the true Interests than it is becoming the Character and Honour of Great Britain. we beg leave to confirm this opinion by slight analysis of the labours of the repre sentative body. about one hundred; but, from the number The days of sitting appear to have been of hours included in each day, and from the quantity of business transacted in them, compared with what was a parliamentary day, for merly, we should not over-rate them at near ly double days. In this period, business of almost every possible description has been investigated, with some warmth and not a little freedom; whether relating to persons, places or events. Laws and regulations have been sanctioned, as well for internal as for external guidance; and, we trust, under the blessing of Providence, for the lasting benefit of the United Kingdom. We may arrange, for distinction sake, the departments of business into I. The improvement of the revenue, 130 V. Miscellaneous matters about...... 40 This list comprizes considerably above four hundred national statutes, the fruit of the labours of this single session. Not dismayed by the pressure of external circumstances, by the rage of war, and the almost incalculable expenditure of the nation at large, which Thus has closed a most eventful and busy known, and we must add, a variety of exsession. It reminds us of a conversation pences in the shape of demands, for local or which took place at our office with a diplo- distinct services; this disposition to improve matic (foreign) character, who spoke his sen- the face of our country, to add to the com timents freely when he said: "As to conti-veniencies demanded by social life, and to nental politics, the management of courts, and the mysteries of state abroad, you islanders are ignorant enough of them; but you are going on well, VERY WELL, at home; much better than you are aware of, if you did but know the REAL situation of other countries." The proceedings Parliament during this session may be adduced in proof of the accuracy of our friend's remark; and cultivate the principles of taste and elegance, in combination with convenience and economy, still persists without remission. We ought particularly to notice the Acts for building bridges across the Thames: one adjacent to Somerset-house, the other at Vauxhall, incurring great expences, and the labour of years, to ornament and accommodate the metropolis. Besides these subjects, that are finished and dismissed, there is a number of very curions and interesting Reports made on various others, and orders given for the forwarding of materials for further discussion in the ensuing Bession. We are so sensible of the advantages of these preparatory materials, that we shall endeavour to set them before our readers PROSPECTIVELY, whereby they will be informed not only of what has been done, but what, it may reasonably be expected, will be done, and will engage the attention of Parliament in its future consultations. We shall do no more on the present ocession, than hint at a single instance of these preparations. Surveys are now making, for establishing a more ready conveyance between the north of England, (and the south of Scotland of course) with our sister island. This plan will bring the north of Ireland nearer to the metropolis of the united kingdom by many miles, or rather by many hours' journey in respect of time: and thereby will greatly facilitate the exertions of commerce, as well as the purposes of government. By other exertions of a similar nature, the south of Ireland will also feel its connexion with Wales invigorated, and thereby more ready access to the metropolis. Mean while the Highland communications in Scotland are proceeding, but this, with other important NATIONAL ARTICLES, must be referred to our subsequent communicationsis we have only space to mention to those whom it may concern that Notice has been iven, that it will be proposed, in the next Session of Parliament, to limit the time, for presenting Petitions for Private Bills; to the first fourteen days next after the day of the commencement of the Session-allowing as usual, one month further, for presenting Private Bills; whereby the parties in the Country may have the printed bills in their hands at an earlier period of the Session.— Also, that some one of the Clerks attending the House of Commons, should be employed by the parties having business before the House, as a Parliamentary Agent or Solicitor; who may be ready to answer any questions, and give any explanations which may be required, in the course of the business depend ing. It would be presumptuous in us to refer in the most distant manner to that satisfaction which every individual of the empire must feel, at that freedom of discussion, which pervades the British Parliament; and at the promptitude with which advantages are taken of incidental events. To this, no less than to our insular situation, we may attribute the honour and prosperity of our naive land; and for this, in opposition to all the enunities of fureign despotism, we ardently breathe the patriotic aspiration:-ESTO PERPETUA! VOL. VI. [Lit. Pan. July, 1809.] MR. DAVISON'S STATEMENT, IN MITIGATION OF PUBLIC OPINION ON HIS CONDUCT. A Concise Statement of Mr. Alexander Davison's Case has been printed and circulated for the information of his friends, since his trial and sentence. What effect this might have had, had it appeared previous to that decision, we cannot tell but if we rightly appreciate his conduct, Mr. D. has made an unusual atonement to public justice; and this we readily state for public information. Mr. D. had long been a contractor in various departments when General Delancy (who then acted as Barrack-Master General), applied to him to undertake the furnishing of such stores as might be required for the use of the various barracks in the kingdom, as an agent upon commission : viz. at 24 per cent. The supply comprized about 200 articles, which he purchased gradually beforehand, at his own risk, and upon his own individual credit, to be prepared for any emergency, without the public having to encounter its usual attendant. But in the year 1797, he found even this mode unequal to meet the public wants, and experienced great difficulty in sufficiently providing beforehand a due proportion of sheets and paillasses, owing to a cotemporaneous demand from the other different departments of the state. He therefore took off the hands from his regular army cloathing concerns (for which he had carried on for several years a separate establishment) that he might manufacture a sufficient quantity. Nothing could be more open than the whole proceeding, which was subjected to the whole forms as if the articles had been bought of any other person; as appears from the affidavit of Mr. Shakspear annexed. On the articles so furnished by Mr. D. it is true that he charged his usual commission of 21 per cent. as agent, no objection having been offered to such a charge in settling this new mode of supply; but, this, he affirms, he afterwards relinquished, and though it was charged in his accounts, and these admitted, yet the "Supplemental Account" was not a final one; for the Barrack Department was indebted to Mr. Davison, at that time, upwards of £900, which he has not applied for payment of to this day. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. FROM THE 20TH OF MAY, TO THE 20TH OF JUNE, 1809. BIRTHS. Of Sons. At Howick, in Northumberland the Countess Grey.-At-Greenwich, the lady William Evans, Esq.-Lady Harriet Mitchell. At Cheltenham, Right Hon. Lady Chario Goold.-In Clifford-street, lady of Augustus Eli Fuller, Esq.-At Killerton, Devonshire, ladys Sir T. D. Acland.-Countess of AlbemarleWidcombe Crescent, Bath, lady of Thos. Prin Esq. Of Daughters.- -At Pimlico lodge, Mrs. liot.-At Colney-hatch, lady of Tho. Lodington Esq.-In Bruton-street, Lady Barrett Lennart Lady of the Rev. James Wm. Burford, of Sura ford-grove.-Lady of B. C. Stephenson, Esq. Hampstead.-Lady Caroline Stuart Wortley At Widcombe-house, Bath, the lady of T. Sca Esq.-At Berechurch-hall, near Colchester, lady of Capt. Massey. MARRIAGES. At South Dalton, Mr. Thos. Fisher, aged to Miss Granger, his housekeeper, aged 26.Rogers, of Broxburn, to Miss Laurie, of Flee street.-J. Stevens, Esq. of Green-street, Gros nor-square, to Miss Jenes, of Kingsland-place At Madras, Capt. P. B. Pellew, of the Cullode to Miss Eliza Barlow.-At Stoke Newington, W. Harvey, Esq. of Feering-house, to Miss Job ston, of the former place.-At the Duchesse Leinster's, in Grosvenor place, Viscount Cha In the hope of avoiding an evil of so to Lady Isabella Fitzgerald, sister to the Duke serious a nature as Imprisonment, and a con- Leinster.-Mr. Wm. Caslon, jun. of Salisha sequent separation from his family and con- square, to Miss Bonnor, of Fleet-street.-Li cerns, Mr. Davison did not allow himself to John Burke, of the Westmeath militia, to Fran calculate sparingly, but rather thought of daughter of Rear-admiral Sir Digby Dent, B what might put the measure of full and am-Henry Wilkinson, Esq. only son of Abra. W ple atonement beyond question. He there-kinson, M.D. of White Web Park, Enfiet, fore reckoned up the whole amount of Commission he had received upon ALL his transactions with the Barrack Department, from the commencement in 1794 to their conclusion, and finding it stood thus, viz. Commission on £745,000 at Two and a Half per Cent... 18,640 On another Transaction by Special Agreement, £4860 at £5 p. cent 253 Jane Shervin Cox, only daughter of Samue! Esq. of Lumbridge, near Bath.-At the Cape Good Hope, Thomas Charles Cadogan, Es Miss Constantia Bergh, daughter of Eg Bergh, Esq.-Mr. George Chapman, of St. M dred's-court, to Miss Cooke, of Paternoster-row Major Montalembert, to E. Rosee Forbes, o daughter of James Forbes, Esq. of Stanmore-h -Herbert Lloyd, Esq. of Hammersmith, to Ma daughter of Richard Redrick, Esq. of High Lave in Essex. At Mary-le-Bone church, Walter gent, Esq. of the county of Westmeath, to M Sayers, of York-place.-Sir Harry Verelst Date This Sum, which constituted the whole re- Bart. of Richmond-hill, Surrey, to Amelia Mari muneration for all Mr. Davison's risk, labours Anne, only daughter of the late William Beche responsibility and expense, during Ten Years Esq.-At St. James's, Westminster, by the Re which he had supplied the Barrack Depart- Dr. Andrews, Mr. Lane, of Martin's-lane, Can ment, without disappointment or complaint, non-street, to Miss Anne Maria Hewitt, of Gæs and which was £17,500 more than the dispu-Hammersmith, to Miss Lovegrove, of EtonMarlborough-street.-Charles Grover, Esq. ted item, he determined to sacrifice, in the hope Capt. Fred. G. Carmichael, of the 9th light dra and expectation of the remission alluded to. In the whole... £8,883 To this statement are annexed a letter from Gen. Delancey, in which he expresses his satisfaction with the measure; and affidavits from Messrs. Shakespear, Bowering, and Stanbank, in support of the truth of the principal facts. goons, to Sarah, eldest surviving daughter of th late Peter Mackenzie, Esq. of Twickenham.Russell, Esq. of Exeter, to Miss Green, of Galld ford-street.-J. Hartley Frere, Esq. to Miss M Martin, youngest daughter of Matthew Martin Esq. of Poet's Corner, Westminster.-E. Aguilar Esq. of Devonshire-square, to Sarah, third daughter of J. Dias Fermanes, Esq. of Russell-square. -Tho. Caw, Esq. of Great Coram-street, to Miss E. C. Young, daughter of J. Young, Esq. of Bellwood, near Perth.-At Yarmouth, J. Henderson, Esq. to Eliza, eldest daughter of Sir Edmond Laon-At Dover, Capt. Dick, of the 22d regiment of Light Dragoons, to Mary Sherson Boyce, second daughter of Capt. John Boyce, in the Hon. East-India Company's service. DEATHS. Deaths omitted last Number.May 7. At Birmingham, James Timmins, Esq.-May 8. At Birmingham, John Morfitt, Esq. in the 52d year of his age.-May 11. At Bromsgrove, Jeremiah Clark, B.M.-May 11. At Birmingham, George Croftt, D.D. in the 62d year of his age, formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford. UNIVERSITY PROCEEDINGS AND PROMOTIONS. Oxford. the purpose of granting graces, and conferring 27. The following gentlemen are admitted Bachelors and Doctors in Divinity, Rev. Rd. Griffith, of Jesus col.; Rev. John Taylor, of Baliol col. Bachelors in Divinity, Rev. F. Deacle, of Magdalen col.; Rev. W. Paget, of Christ church. Masters of Arts, Rev. S. Kentish, of Trinity col., and D. R. Currer, Esq. of Christ church; Rev. J. S. Jackson, of Queen's col.; Rev. T. Dyer, Rev. T. B. Paget, of Wadham; Rev. Ch. Lloyd, of Christ church; Rev. T. W. Simpson, Rev. W. B. Whiteliad, of Worcester; Rev. J. In Gloucester-place, G. Clark, Esq. banker, of Lombard street.-On board the Pompée, at Martinique, of the yellow fever, Mr. C. H. Hilliard, on of E. Hilliard, Esq. of Cowley-house, Middiesex.-At Canterbury, aged 90, Mrs. Royle, mother of Joseph Royle, Esq.-At Eastry, in Kent, in her 85th year, Catherine, relict of the Rev. Richard Harvey, formerly vicar of that panish-In Soho-square, General Rainsford, aged 1--Stephen Simson, Esq. of the Victuallingefice, Deptford.-At Chelsea, Sir Wm. Henry Douglas, Bart. Vice-admiral of the Blue.-Rev. Robert Purcell, Vicar of Meare and Coombe St. Nicholas, in Somerset.-In Devonshire-street, J. E. Bateman, Esq.-At Edinburgh, Mrs. Blair, wife of Alex. Blair, Esq.-At Southdean, Roxburghshire, Rev. Wm. Scott.-At Whitby, Yorkshire, Richard Moorsom, Esq. aged 87, father to Capt. Moorsom, one of the Lords of the Admiralty-Mrs. Knox, wife of Rev. Dr. Knox, of Tunbridge.-At Hackney, Mr. Samuel Laundy, of the Borough, in his 82d year.-At Waltham-Davies, of St. Mary hall; R... D. Hughes, of stow, Mr. David Barclay, in the 81st year of his age.-At Bound's Lodge, Kent, the Hon. Mrs. Bachelors of Arts, Messrs. G. Porter and J. Butler, mother to the late Countess of Darnley.Hampden, of Queen's; H. Fielding and W. At Sheerness, Mr. William Etty, of the royal Davies, of Worcester; W. Radford, of Trinity; J. F. Williams, C. Holdsworth, G, Gunning, and navy, aged 28: he was unfortunately drowned whilst bathing.-In Queen-square, Mrs. Blissett, H. Cripps, of Merton; S. Arnott and J. Shepaged 90, relict of J. Blissett, Esq. late of Kenil-pard, of St. John's; F. Ricketts, E. Brown, P. worth, in Warwickshire-At Cove Fort, the wife of Lieut. Col. Needham, of 3d garrison battalion, -In Charlotte-row, in Bermondsey, in his 83d year, Mr. John Dunkin-In Millman place, Mrs. Marg. Haswell, relict of Admira! Haswell, -At Paufield Parsonage, Rev. Thomas Stevens, rector of that parish, and vicar of Helions, Bumistead, in Essex.-In Jermyn-street, aged 86, Sir George Baker, Bart.-West George Wynyard, Esq. Lieut. Col. of 24th Light Dragoons.-Mr. Darley, formerly well known as a vocal performer at Covent Garden theatre and Vauxhall gardens. In his 86th year, John Stevens, Eq. of Keyford, Frome-John Herbert Foley, Esq. brother to Rear-admiral Foley.-At the Charter-house, aged 72, the Rev. Wm. Lloyd.-At Fort-place, Bermondsey, Martha, the wife of Joseph Watson, LL. D.-Mr. J. P. De la Grange, late bookseller in Greek-street, Soho.-On his way to England from India, Capt. George Bolton, of the 8th regiment of Light Dragoons, after a service of fourteen years in that country.-Filmer Honeywood, Esq. aged 65, of Mark's-hall, Essex.-Benjamin Shaw, Esq. of Upper Thames-street, many years one of the Common-council for the ward of Queenhithe.-In the 45th year of his age, Mr. Nath. Catherwood, letter-founder, of Charlessquare, Hoxton.-At St. Lucia, of the yellow fever, B.C. Walpole, Esq. on officer in the 6th West-India regiment, Jesus col. Gooch, C. Marsham, H. Bower, and J. B. Coley, of Christ church; B. Smith, of New col.; W. Morris, of All Souls; J. Symonds and H. Bent, of Exeter; R. Newnham and T. Prince, of Wadham; J. L. Mills, of Magdalen; and J. T. Baker, of Christ church. Mr. A. T. Gilbert, B. A. of Brasenose college, is elected a Fel. of that society. The Chancellor's prizes are adjudged to the following gentlemen: -The English essay on "The Love of our Country," to Mr. C. P. Burney, B. A. of Merton col.-The Latin verses "Corinthus," to Mr. Pet. Mayer Latham, of Brasenose col. The donation for English verse "John the Baptist," to Mr. Ch. H. Johnson, of Brasenose col. 30. Wm. Gill Paxton, Esq. gentleman commoner of Merton col., admitted to honorary degree of M. A. The following gentlemen were ad June 2. mitted Doctor in Civil Law, Rev. T. Wyndham, of Wadham col. Bachelor in Civil Law, Mr. G. W. Daubeny, of Oriel col. Masters of Arts, Mr. H. Jenkins, of Magdalen col.; Rev. Č. North, of Trinity col. Bachelor of Arts, Mr. A. S. Laing, of Trinity sol. 2 E 2 |