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BRlTla'li IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OP LO.HDS.
Monday, Jane 22.
About two o'clock the lord chancellor and
9. irnrffber of peers came: down to the house.
Sooji after his-lordship entered the house,
be addressed the house present nearly as
follows :
My Lords-His majesty not thinking to
be personally present this day, has ordered a
commission to be issued,, under the peat
seal, authorising; certain lords therein named
to hold and open this parliament in his ma-
jjj-ty's name, and in his royal behalf."
The lord chancellor then, together with
the archbishop of Canterbury, the earl pf
A'iesTo.d (lord Stewart) and lord Hawkes
bury, being robed, took their seats on the
bench, in front of the throne.
Mr. GLnarme (acting usher of the black
rod) wa, deputed to order the attendance of
the commons,' whr,' shortly appeared at the
bar, preceded by the clerks of the house, :
the attendance of the members was very mi
merous, far beyond any thing we witnessed
of late years.
When the commons arrived at the bar,
his ipaje'Rty's commission (as adverted to by
the lord chancellor) was read by the clerk.
If comprehended the various new members
of t'iie privy council, and went to authorise
any three or more ofthein to open and hold
the' present parliament, on behalf of his ma-
¦;.¦.¦ y, and to declare his majesty's reasons
for opening the same.
After the commission was read, the lord
Chancellor addressed the commons to the
followinp; effect :
'- Gentlemen of the house of commons—
We have it in comma id from his majesty to
signify to you, that as soon as a sufficient
number of members of both houses of par-
liament shall be sworn, his majesty's reasons
for calling; this parliament shall be declared.
As'.it is necessary that a speaker of the com
roons should be first chosen, you are desired
to repair to your usual place of sitting, and
there to proceed to the choice of a fit and
proper person to be your speaker ; and that
yon present the person so chosen at the bar,
at three of the cl-ck."
On the house being resumed, and prayers
read by the junior bishop, the ceremony of
5 wearing the peers present commenced, which
continued without intermission from that
period, until four o'clock, after which hour
no peer can be sworn.
Between sixty and seventy peers were
sworn in, before four o'clock, among whom
were the following :
First, the lord chancellor, and afterwards
tlheir royal highnesses the duke of Glou-
cester and Cumberland, the dukes of Gordon,
Atliol. Montrose, and Buccleugh ; marquis
©f Headford, archbishop of Canterbury ;
bishops of Oxford, Bath, Winchester and
Dublin (eatl of Norirtantnn) ; earls of Mor
ton. Limerick, Uxbrid^e, Enniskillen, Hard-
wick, Westmorland. Lauderdale, St. Vin-
cent, Buckinghamshire. Erne, Albemarle,
Tankerville, Longford, Nelson, Suffolk, and
Dorchester ; viscounts Carleton, H.od, Fal
mouth, Courtenay, Longueville, and'Brid-
port ; lords Hawkesbury, Napier, Walsing-
JsBm, Arden, Eli -t, Forbes, Kelly, Mulgrave,
Eldon, Willoughby de Broke, Gardner, de
CiifTord, Klletiborough, &c.
Lord Gardner was intr- duCed, with the
accustomed ceremonies, by lords Mulgrave
and Arden, and took the usual oaths & his
seat.
At one o'clock the house adjourned until
three o'clock to-morrow (this day) when
the house of commons will come up with
their speaker.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
This day- at 12,o'clock, the lord high
Steward of Great Britain (the earl Ayles-
fordl with his white rod, attended at the
house of the clerk of parliament, in Palace-
Street.
His lordship, attended bjjiMessrs. Leys
and the other clerks of the house of com-
moits, then proceeded to the long gallery
of the house, where a considerable num-
ber of the new members waited to receive
them.
After having read his majesty's proclama-
tion for calling a new parliament, the busi-
ness of swearing in the members of the
house of commons commenced.
About 300 of the gentlemen returned to
serve in the third parliament of the united
kingdom, met in the house of commons, at
o, o'clock, most of whom had previously
taken the oaths in the long gallery. S,-on
afier their assembling, the deputy gentleman
usher of the black rod appeared at the table
of the house, and thus addressed those pre-
sent :
" Gentlemen—The lords, authorised by
virtue of his majesty's commission, desire
the immediate attendance of this honorable
house in the house of lords, to hear that
, commission read
Mr. Ley, the chief clerk of the house,
was-the-first, according to custom, to rise in
obedience to said summons, and accompani-
ed by all the members present, proceeded
to the house of lords. After a short ab-
sence, they returned, and took their seats.
A considerable while intervened btfore they
Jrocee led to business, at length.
Mr. C. Yorke rose, and addressing Mr.
Ley (chief clerk of the house) moved that
the right hon. Charles Abbot be called to
the cliair—Mr. Yorke » as followed & sup-
ported in hi.- motion by Mr. Messrs. Banks
and Cakr.ift ; after which Mr. Abbot was
unaniiuou-ly elected speaker. On taking
the chair, he addieesed the house as fol-
io" s :—'> Sir, the important remarks which
have been made upon this occasion, so far
as they concern the magnitude and impor-
tance of the situation, which the partiality
of the houce induces them to propose me to
oempy, and the variety of qualifications
which are necessary for the adequately fill-
ing; that chair, will, I am persuaded receive
the unqualified concmience of all, and par-
ticularly of those who have witnessed the
daties of it. At every period, it is a situap
ation which must be deemed important ;
bit those who entertain a just sense of the
lime? in which we live, and look forward
to trie dangers and difficulties which maybe
v-t to come, must be convinced that the
prospect renders it still more important than
uponsny former occasion. Much and high-
ly as I feel the honor yon propose to confer
upon me, I cannot avoid stating n.y a n
deficiency & in ability to justify your choice.
or answer the expectation which the house
may have formed. Although they have'
been pleased to suppose that my having
been in the chair upon former occasions
may afford arguments for ray re-election, a
very different impressio* is thereby created
iu my mind. I am persuaded that whoever
understands, and has already endeavored to
execute the duties of that digrtifed and res-
ponsible situation, must readily acknow-
ledge its various difficulties, and feel his
o vn inadequacy to do justice. If however,
it be your determination that 1 should again
resume that chair, and endeavor to fulfill
its numerous and important duties, 1 have
only to offer you my assurance of unalte-
rable zeal and determination to support its
dignity and diligently to persever the ut
most of my p wer, to justify your expecta-
tions; I therefore shall submit with deference
to your decision."
Mr. Abbot was then conducted to the
chair, by the mover and seconder of the
motion, and when seated therein for a short
interval of time, he again rose and address-
ed the following few additional words to
the house—" Since the house has been pleas-
ed to place me again in this chair, I desire
from this place to return you my humblest
thanks, and most grateful acknowledge-
ments, for this additional proof of your con-
fidence and esteem. I have now again to
assure you, that while 1 have the honor of
occupying it, I shall constantly labor to
deserve a continuance of your regard, by
maintaining the dignity and authority of
this house unimpaired, and by endeavoring
to do so with fidelity and strict impartiali-
ty."
The chancellor of the exchequer next
rose, and addressing the chair, spoke as fol-
lows ; '" Sir I rise to offer you not my con-
gratulations, I may say, of an unanimous
house of commons, and of an unanimous
public, I liust acknowledge, besides the
performance of my public duty, 1 am actu-
ated by feelings of a personal nature, arising
out 'f those habits of unirterupted friend-
ship, with which you have for a long period
of time condescended to honor me. These
feelings alone would of themselves afford
me the greatest satisfaction in seeing you
restored to a situation at which every one
seems to rejoice whether they enter into pri-
vate or public considerations. But the plea-
sure of seeing you in that high situation is
now to be ascribed to that description of
consideration which relates to the great im-
portance of the trust belonging to the office,
and the conviction of your adequacy to its
functions, arising from an experience of
your peculiar fitness for it. Although the
•usual form of our proceedings leads me to
address my congratulations to the chair, yet
I am disposed to think that the proper ob
jeet of congratulation, is the house itself. I
cannot forbear looking back to the first oc-
casion when you were called upon to fill this
most important < ffice, and in doing sol
shall venture to compare the feelings which
you then entertained, to what your leelings
must now be. You have stated, that you
are much impressed with the consideration
of your own insufficiency, when you com-
pare the nature and extent of the duties
with the quallifications which you possess ;
but, sir, I think all this dubity may be now
complettly done away, after the length of
trial, and the severity of the criticism to
which you have been exposed. Your pre-
decessor, who had for a long continuance
of years filled that chair in times of heat
ond party conflict in a manner which confer-
ed upon him the approbation and ap-
plause of this house, (1 allude to lord Sid-
mouth who is now in another) was consider-
ed by all as a perfect character to be in the
chair. This opinion of that noble lord was
formed of him after a very long trial.—You
too, have had your trial, and you have not
been found wanting. You, like my lord
Sidmouth, have filled the chair with dignity
of character, and utility to thepublic, so as a-
gaintoenlitle you t,ithecofidenceofthe house;
Sc whatever my have beenyour own apprehen-
sions upon your first appointment, after lord
Sidmou'h, the circumstance of that confi-
dence remaining still undiminished, must
convince you that the expectations original-
ly formed by the house have been justified.
I cannot conceive that there could be any
thing to increase the satisfaction I feel in
seeing you called upon by the unanimous
consent and approbation of the house, not
wholly expressed silence, but in a manner
that convinces me all parties unite in tiiink-
ing you the best adapted for such a situa-
tion. Although a silent election might
have been perfectly sufficient to have satis-
fied you, yet, as the choice has been ef-
fected b}' more than usual observations, the
consequence of them will be that you will
have the satisfaction to feel, that whatever
may be the opinion of same individuals as
to the fitness of public men to fill their re-
spective situations, no difference of opinion
as to you exists—[Hear, hear ! J Conscious
that 1 must fall infinitely short of giving
an adequate description either of my own
feelings, or those which the house enter-
tains upon this occasion, I shall therefore
conclude with moving, " That this house
do now adjourn."
This last motion was put from the chair,
and the house adjourned accordingly to 12
o'clock to-morrow (this day.)
During this debate, the four members for
the city sat in their robes as aldermen, at
the npper end of the treasury bench, taking
rank according to their station on the poll
at the late election. This it seems, is in
conformity with an ancient etiquette, and
is a point of privilege and rank in the re-
presentative? of the city.
The following places have returned, to
serve in parliament, members, who, on
Mr. Bland's or Mr. Lyttleton's motion, in
April last, voted against the present admi-
nistration : — [Here follow the wanes-of S50
members. ]
Mg^MrfllJX. Starrest H-
Arrived, shin llalcvon, Tew, 'Amster-
dam, ~o -day; ;•/Coarles, Burit'err, Hull,
6o ; brig Stephen, Skiddy,' Bordeaux, 4.3 ;
C.hSsrjotte, Jones, Turks-Island, 18 ; Eliza,.
Mason, P'-rt-Anlonia, 41 ; Regulator, Lo
vets, Bordeaux jp>; schr. Hope, Stanton,
Liverpool, 48 ; Hercules, Th mas, St.
Johns, 11 ; Hibernia, Holdsworth, St.
J-hns (N, P>) 13 : sloop Roxana, White,
New-Providence. t-4'i
Cleared, schr. Sally, Tyler, 'City St.
Domingo.
The brig Stephen, Skiddy, arrived at
thisport yesterdayfrom Bordeaux. She brings
a few irregular Paris papers as late as the
24th of June. At that date there had been
no engagement between the French and
Russians.
The fortress of Neis capitulated to the
French on the first of June, and pos-
session was to have been given on the l 5th.
The papers mention nothing of the king
of Holland having abdicated the throne.
London, June 9.
The expence of the late Yorkshire electi-
on is pretty accurately calculated at 1000I
an hour, during the P 11, for each of the
pnities, making the whole amount of ex-
penditure t> be 336,ooo(.—112,000? for
each candidate.
Warsaw. June 8.
Private letters were received yssterday
from head quarters announcing that the pre-
liminaries of peace bet cen Prussia and
France were singned at Oliva, near Dantz-
ic, the beginning of the month.
[Journal de Solr.
¦MplMMH
. -,., .',...
BY THIS D\Y's MAILS.
BOSTON, August 12.
LATH FROM FRANCE.
Great News!
By the Arab. West, arrived yesterday from
Nantz, we have received Bulletin No. 78,
and a Nantz paper to the 29th June. The
bulletin being very long, we have given a
faithful abstract from it.
The campaign opened the Sth June, and
was continued by a series of hard fighting
until the 14th, when the French gained a
a great and decisive victory at Fridland, about
20 miles S. of Konigsberg. The Prussians
lost from 25 to 30 000 men, 30 generals, an!
80 pieces of cannon ; and w re said to !«¦
overwhelmed and scattered; while the French
were in full inarch for Konigbeig, at which
place the last accounts stated them to have
arrived.
There were rumors of an expected peace,
at the last dates.
In the French army there are troop? of
not less than ten or twelve different nations,
who do not understand one another's lan-
guage ; but Bonaparte contrives to make
all understand him.
Paris, June 25.
GREAT RATTLE.
Y«Sterday his highness prince Porghese
arrived at the palace oi St- Cloud, It brought
from the, emperor to the "einpiess and queen,
the news of a victory which, on the 14th
of this month, was gained at Friedland (about
20 miles south of Konigsburg) by the grand
army, commanded by the emperor in person
The following particulars were given at head
quarters, and which we are authorised to
repeat, while we are wating tor the official
bulletin :
«' The French army has worthily celebrat
ed the 14th June, the anniversary of the
battle of Marengo. The battle of Friedland
will be celebrated m history. The Russian
army, out-iuanuuvred, its centre penetrated,
cut off from its magazines has been com
pletely beaten. Eighty pieces of cannon
taken, 95 to 30,000 Russians taken, killed
or drowned in the Alle, are the results of
this memorable day. Thirty Russian gene-
rals have been kdled, taken or severely
wounded. The bodies of several generals
were found dead on the field of battle, and
it is worthy of remark, that among them
were the bodies of Gens. Patilen & Marct.ff
two of the first instigators of the faction
devoted to England. The regularity of our
dispositions, the intrepidity of our troops,
have greatly diminished the loss of the
French army, which is not considerable.
[Motu'tcur.']
The Gazette de France says, (f In addition
to the 78t.h bulletin, we learn, that on the
13th June, the head quarters of the grand
army was at Prussian Eylatt; that the army,
in two columns, was marching to Konigs-
burg ; and that the advanced guards were at
the gates of that city ; that the Bussian army
could not sustain an attack in any part ;
in that it was overwhelmed and dispersed in
such a manner as to render it impossible for
them to reunite. According to other reports,
the French were already in Konigsburg,
where they entered pell-mell with the Rus-
sians. But this last news needs confhma
tion.
The Courier de f Europe says, " We an-
nounce this day (June 25) that Konigsburg
is in the power of the French.
FRENCH GRAND ARMY.
Seventy-eighth bulletin.
Hielsberg, June 12.
This bulletin gives an account of the
overtures of peace, made during the winter ;
and of their being interrupted by the attacks
of the Russians.
ACTION OF SPANDEN.
June 5th, the Russian army put several
of its divisions in motion. The right at-
tacked the bridge-head of Spandcn, which
gen. Frere defended with the 37th regt.
Twelve Russian regiments made vain efforts ;
they renewed them seven times, and seven
times were repulsed. In the mean time the
prince of Ponte-Corvo (Bcrnadotte) had as-
sembled his troops, but before they could
act, a charge of the I.-th dragoons forced
the enemy to retreat. Thus during a whole
day, two divisions made repeated unsuccess-
ful attacks on one regiment ; but it Wust
i be owned this regiment wf« entrenched
i In visiting the entrenchment between one
1 pf the attache nprshid Bernadotte was slight-
ly Wounded which will render hiijj unable
to resume his command for a -fortnight-.
Our 1 ss is trifling. The enemy's 1200,
and many wounded.
BATTLE OF LBMItTEN.
Two Russian divisions from the centre
aLo attacked the bridgehead of Lomilten.
Gen. Terry's brieade defended it. T o
regiments repulsed the enemy the whole day.
The abbatis and works were covered with
dead Russians. Their general was killed ;
and their loss n00 killed, 100 prisoners,
and great numbers wounded. We lost 120
men killed and wounded.
Meanwhile the Russian commander in
chief (Renninrrsen) with the Imperial guards
and three divisions, attacked Marshal Key's
position at Alikirkeen, Guttstadt & Wolfs-
d if; and >'.erfc renulsed in all quarters ; but
when marshal Ney discovered that bis as-
sailants exceeded 40.000 men, he obeyed
his instructions, and led his corps to Acken-
dorft.
BATTLE OF DEPPEN.
June 6th, the enemy attacked the 6th
corps at Deppen, on the Passage. They
Were overturned. The manoeuvres, talents,
and intrepidity of Marshal Ney, General
Marcbaud, and other officers, are worthy
of the preatest eluagium. The enemy con-
fess the less of 9000 killed, and 3000
wounded. We had 160 killed, 200 wound-
ed and 27c prisioners, made by the Cos-
sacks, who had posted themselves in the
rear ot the armv.
AFFAIR OF THE 8th.
On the 8th the emperor arrived a* Dep-
pen, and srave the necessary orders. The
4th corps moved to Wolfsdorff, where it
met a Russian division, about to join the
main army, attacked it, disabled |