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LONDON, March If. Avery inf ere fling convcr- j sation took r,I-ice last night in the Iloufe o[ commons upon j the motion of Mr. Martin for an add refs to his Majedy, praying that he would not grant any office for life which had u IViaily been granted dur* ing pleafire. This morion was direfled again ft Mr. Per” civa ! , to whom it was in con templation t-o-grant the Chancel” lorfliit.) of the Duchy of Lan caster for life, as a c< ‘iper.fa tion to him forgiving up his profeffion on accepting the office of chancellor of the Ex chequer. Mr- Rercival took his feat on the Tieafuty Bench, and after having exprefll-d his fentirr.ents upon the motion he b (7n a dtvihon toe numbers were— For the Address, 2cß Again!) it, 115 Majority again!) the New Adtninillration 9^ The II oufe of Cotmnoiis was uncommonly crowded with members about 50 of whom were obliged to take their feats in the fide galleries for want of room in the Iloufe. All the members of the latte adminidration took their feats on the Opposition Benches as they came in ; fume, however, inadvertently fat down on the Trcafury Bench at fir ft, hut crossed the Wife or>- perceiv ing their mtftalte, which exei’- ed a confrderahle degree of merriment. Yesterday morning his mi jcfly’S late niinifters attend* at Buckingham hou-fe, and m conformity to the Royal conr mand resigned their seals of office. Lord Chancellor F.r- | fkine is not to surrender the Great Seal till Wsclnefday next as it is bis Majelfy’s pleafuie that he his high office till in order 1 to enable him to pronounce his j judgement upon several c uifes j in the court of chancery,upon ! which he was about to decide j Thfdu-ke of l’ortland killed his j majtfty’s hand onheing appoin j ti-d First Loul of the trcafury. | Mr. Canning went through the fame ceiemonv, as be* cret.ny of .Stale lor the foreign Department, and not as fuil Ford of the Admiralty, as ie poned. The latter lituation is, we find, to he- allotted 10 Ford Mulgrave ; Lord I law kef burv aifo killed bis Majefly’s hand on being appointed to the Home department; F.arl of Wclltnorelatid, Piivv Seal; Karl Cambtlen is to be Pre fident of the council. Ihe Lord Chancellor this morning took leave in a veiy pathetic f ptcch in which his feel ings leemed much overpowered by the fuhjerf. ‘l’he new miniftcrial arrange ment has already excited coir iiderabie anxiety and alarm. Mr. Bankes, in (he Houle of Commons la ft niv lit, moved— “ j hat there be a Refutation of the Flottfe, in conformity with tliat of the committee of Finances and Inquiry into the State of public offices, that no office, place, employment or fntar.vg in any part of his Ma” jolly’s dominions, ought hene alter to be granted in Revtv lioi!.” In tl-.e difcuflioti which followed, Mr. Plumer, Mem- i ber for Heiefoi dihire, dated a j report, that it was in contem* - . piation of ti e new ivliniiltr to : grant hc Duchy o! LaneaUer . -1 Aar? heretofore T..-’d during r. lea Aire to er: new C!;"it>cjeilqjfc of tjye Fxchequcr Mr. Per® rival for hfe > arid ibis induced Mr. I!. Martin to give notice of a motion this day for “ An humbleaddrefs to his Majesty, praying that he may be gra ciouflv plea-fed nor to grant a ny office not ;t piefent held for life, for any longer time than it is held at pre four. The Houfeof Lords met this morning at an early hour,when the Slave Trade Abolition Bill the Irifn I.icenfe Bill, the j Thames Police Bill, and two 1 private Bills, received the | Royal allent, bv commiffiou. j The Commissioners were — j the Lord Chancellor, and j Lords Holland and Vvalfing- I ham. Address to the trench Army, Pu Genera! Renninysen. I ~ 0 “ Sc Id if rs of France ! Former. j Iv when foreign armies meditat • td the conquest of your country, j and came even into the bosom of | vnur land to attack 5-011, vou re pelled them wiih a valor and pctSfcverance which the whole. I world admired. The report ol ! s our brilliant exploits readied e ven to us. Your courage, your | ioyaltv, was known to us ; and the scldieis of France became j the object of our esteem. But it j is no longer your country which 1 demands j our effort . A war, ; foreign to your interest, tears yen from your families, your | friends, your home. A tyrant, whose insatiable ambition knows ; , no bounds, drags you into dis- \ tain climates, 5k sheds the blood i j of Frenchmen, that he may be- | 1 stow crowns upon his relations. ! Jle forces you to combat with people who ai e ready to offer vou ! pledges c.f their ancient affection, j hut who will shed the last drop i °f their blood in the sacred cause J of their country. “ BENNINGSEN.” 1 ! Russian account of the Battle of 1 J'idau. ‘■ Ac. I —Extract from the dis patches ts pen. Essen, dated ?,lsl Jan. (It th Feb. 1807) Feceived 6lh (t 7th Feb.} “ I hast-n to communicate to your excellency the happy intelli gence w hich I have just received Irom gen. Benningsen; Bonaparte attacked lrim on the Bth inst. (N. S.) with all his forces, near Kv lui ; but he m f with soobstinßLr | a resistance, that he was obliged : J to renounce his purpose, with a 1 1 lots which is estimated at 25,000 i j men. General Benningsi n has • ! marched to W’tttemberg in order ! \ t 0 replenish himself with, ammu- i J nition. j ”On my part, I attacked on ‘ , the 5d inst. (N. S.) the corps op- ! posed ?o me. 1 hey were de, I i seated on the whole line. The i j enemy having iieeti re.nforccc! alter wauls b\ die army of re ; serve under .Oudinot, appeared J desirous to attack me ; blit I shall do this im self to-morrow, | and I hope tltat God will bless , our arms.” ! A 0 J ! — Extract! rom the report of pen. Benningsen, dated the 11 Hi Eeb. (N. S.) 1807, received mil Feb. [N. S.) WiTTKMBKRO, Feb. 11. “ Having been informed that i the enemy had collected all his 1 lorces at Allenstein, I advanced with all mine. Being arrived at jan k o vv, 1 was attacked there on ; *iy left wing, and drove the ene- | my back. The same was done afso u eveiy ditection by my i tight wing. However, the en. jp.gement was prevented from be- ‘ ecjtning gene nr! by the approach | •u night. { then resolved to change my direction, in order ; to cc.ver the ( itv ol Koningsberg, which was the point at which ail j the endeavors ol Bonaparte were j turned. I thus drew the enemy ; along by my side, and my tear j ! coßtinutd fighting si” davs S'.c | eessuely. At length being ur- I riven nn the “iFi in sr. (N. S.) a r j Prettssisch Milan, I halted anil waited his approach. lie attack l ed me, and entered into die town j which was in mv front. As our ! forces could no longer resist those I opposed to th-m, I dispatched a • part of my reserve against them, i and advanced myself to the at j tack. j ‘1 lie town was taken in an in stant, and two battalions of the j eni mv, which had not time to es cape, were in part cut to pieces or taken, together with two co lours. In the evening I evaruat’ ed the town secretly, in the ex pectation that the enetnv would send a body of troops on the o | tfer side of it, in order to attack ; n.y centre ; which in fact took | place during the night. At the i break of day 1 directed a part of 1 the artillery against the French i cofuinn ; it was thrown into dis } cider, and forced to draw back. | Bonaparte himself then attached ! me on all points, at the head of j four corps cf his army and of his ! guards. ! Me was eveiy where repulsed J and completely beaten. He re j tie wed hi ; attack with his guards tepcateoly ; but whole columns of iufaurrv and tegiments de cui rassiers and elite, were nearly anni hilated by the fire from our line, chniges from our cavalry, and at the points cf our bayonets. I es timated the loss of the enemy at more than 15,000 men. Wx: have captured SO stands of colors and made ‘2ooo prisoners. I shall ’ cause this preliminary report to be followed by a detailed relation of this battle, which I shall lay at tlie feet ofliio majesty the em peror.’’ NASSAU, May 14. Letters from Trinidad, received in Jamaica, mention that a petiti on had been presented to the Go vernor of that island, by the prin cipal inhabitants, prating that Ge neral Miranda might be ordered a way, to prevent the recurrence of the disagreements which arose on lur, former visit to that island. The Governor rejected the petition, on the ground of lus having n t > au thority to grant the prayer of it. NEW-YORK, May 11. ■Saturday last it was discover ed, that a 13rok.fr of this city, had made five with (hename* ! several of the most respectable citizens, to answer his pecunia ry ends. He had, it appears from investigation, issued notes to the amount of about 70,000 dollars, drawn by himself, and indorsed with such names as would he most likely to give currency’ to his paper. I liesc notes, it seems, have been sold to members of the Humane Society, as they are called, but more generally known as shavers- Ol course, the whole loss falls on this numerous, use ful, and respectable body of citi zens. Ihe broker is not to lie found/ and nothing is more like ly than that he has staggered otT under the weight, and at the lime of Seventy Thousand. In consequence of this circumstance it is said that the shaver. • have come to a determination, in lu ! lu! e, to charge /our, instead of I three per cent, per month for mo ney advanced, to repair the loss sustained !)v the unfaithfulness of the sard Broke l l 1 runslatcdj'rou > the Hayti Senti ncl of April 9. I he Senate decreed, on the 9!h of Match, that the follow mg territorial itnpods or du ties should be paid on produce, ; to take place from the oth of I April : I Vi Fee, lo dolls, pr. M. Cotton, K) dolls, ditto ’ oeoa, 5 dolls, per. M Sugar, 4 dolls, per. M Export duty on Coffee, 2 j dollars per. quintal. Sugar, Mold lies, Tasia and I Rum at e declared to be free of 1 t'xpot tation duty. Price, rj Preduce. Coffee, 17 sous pur. IS. Logwood, 10 to I 1 dolls, per. M Moiassi#fe 1 2 dolls. per ICO Cotton, 11 to 12 dodars per dc. Sugar, 5. dolb. per do. RALEICfI, (n. c.) May 21. A most severe, and extraordina ry S'orm of Thunder, Kail, ltain and Wind, was experienced in this vicinity on Friday evening last. — Over the citv, the peals of thunder were very loud, the lightning from which struck the. fence of an inclo sure in Cabarrus-streef, and the rain was pretty considerable- Hut two or three miles from town, in a northern tk eastern direction, there was a prodigious Hail Storm, the? Stones of which were said to be as large asbiiliartl balls, though ma ny of them were in pieccsot aniitclt square, which destroyed all the rye and injured other small grain beat down the garden vegetables, killed a number of young pigs, fowU,&e. and broke almost ever-’ pane of glass in its course. A tew miles west of the’ city, the most severe hurricane ot wind took place that was ever experienced in this part of the country, it levelled with the ground almost every chimney in irs course, blew down many buildings, fences, and tre es, parti cularly fruit trees. Soule orch ards were to’ally destroyed and the roads in the 1 egllborhood were covered with limbs of trees. Alter the storm subsided, the bail was lying under the fences a foot thick. Tits damage received by many fanners has been very con siderable, & i- particularly distres smg ui tite present season of scar city. I here is now living on St. James’-back, Bristol/ a woman named Alary George, who was born at Ludbury, Herefordshire, fith January, 1694. and vasbap tiztd 26\h of June, 1C97; her youngest child was born when site was 56 years of age, and she has walked from Gloucester to Bristol in one day, witfjin the last seven years. She was nine 5 ears old when King WTlliain dt cU, and says 3he remembers meat a- a penny a pound, cheese atßr. per cwr and that queen Ann was poisoned by a pair of stays. London paper. Commercial Inieliigencr. _ ls proposed, as an object highly important in a comiaerci al v 11* w, to make a small esta blishment on the now almost de populated island of Otahcite; & to render it-useful in tiieuavigati on to and from Botany Bay, as a place where ships may procure abundant supplies of pork and vegetables. The king of Owhy iiee. is making himself master of the o.ber Sandwich islands; is improving them to the greatest prosperity of agriculture and po pulation; is ambitious of making them seats ot manufactures and commerce—and even proposes to l T en a trade to Ncotka Sound and to Beng a i. Ine coiony of Botany Bay is advancing g adoallv into a great mart tor both British and East ttniia produce, it is expected l iiat the colonists of that settle’ ntiu may be shortly able to lur msh iron, hides and wool, hemp and flax, their share in the south ern whale fishery, and from the part they may take in the lur trade between India St the north vest coast oi America, exports sufficient tojepay lor all tha im ports which th progress ol the colony demand-. Th ere were imported into the port ol London, last week, from Canada, the tollowingskins, viz. 10(5,000 beaver, 125,000 ra coon Vi,ooo marten, 12,000 ot ter, 16,000 wolf, 2300 cat, 100 > bear, 15,000 minx, 10,o(X> fox, 2300 wolverine, 15,000 mus quash, 216,000 deer, JOO elk, and GOO pounds weight ot castor. The trade iur 1m s to the no th west coast ot America, is en tirely, or almost entirely, in the Hands of the dozens ot the U mted States, India and China are the places ot sale lor the lurs, and ic proves a lucrative branch of commerce. It thew ,y trade might be &'nar,-<| j 7 British subjects. () >r r'„ S S’ . ; va >tlV\'’ Jl iivr trade is pront -bl,-, .... , that of the Hudson’s lffi v pany. In the Island of Cuba th-re neither grown wheat, dives 0r vines. Every article cfc’od-M is brought from F.urene, 1!. f not being n single inanuUrui'i ol Bny kind in it. J n J7Q ’, thtvg were exported to S'nain TOO 0 cvvt. of tobacco, besides t|, u r/ ,. Burned in the country and in merica. Ihe export of waxtW year amounted to 50,00') cw;,_ Bees have only been introduce l into Cuba since the venr 1704—. Afier the peace of Versnii!?. when Florida wa s ceded to th- Knglish, some families cameu. ver from St. Augustin--, and brought some hives with then, and in a short time they ihcreas. ed so much that the sugar plant-.* tions became endangered. i litre were 4o sail ol Am*ri. can ships in whina iast year, win took from thence to America, from eiglit to ten thousand tun; of tea, a great part of whin iound its way to Europe. (Jir ton is full of American ru’.v.n turers, many of whom red.it large fortunes in a few year ;;- ; at eat least a dozen who have been residents for a year or two and have already realized a con siderable sum. There are 600 sugar-tr-ih in the island ol Cuba; from these, including what is consumed in the country, more than SCUOJOi cwt. of sugar was exported 10 Europe,. In this island there is not one navigable river, only small rivulets and streams;!ere are 148 lakes, which contain ii.h; there is abundance of turtle on the coast— lbid. prom the APithnal In the A 7 tm> Annual Be fur, for 1805. we find r*e following handsome attestation to the cor rectness of the policy which !-■ cured tons the important ace.ii snionof Louisiana; an l we lid likewise, a just appreciation sf the characteristic policy rich , has guided the adminCtrawi Irom its accession to poive? to the present day 7 ; a policy no itss ‘calculated to excite the admit** lion of unprejudiced mi rub on the other side of the Adamic, than to diiT.ise happiness on tliis. Let us return the comphie*:i and do justice to the liberal s-n ----timents of the enlightened edi tors of this deservedly celebraui work; “ The acquisition of Louisi ana isof importance ‘o America in a variety of respects. Asa ter ritorial enlargement, its value:* by tio means inconsidcrabk; : "4 as its possession by the In-nclt would almostininllitily ha v esc r ’" ?r or later disturbed the tracc'-i'l" 1 ! cf the United States, their rt elusion is of much greater quence to the progressive fjon purity of these peaceful reg><;ni than any- advantages resuijutg from a mere augmentation ol uio resources of the states. Ihe ‘[* tiion of Louisiana to tiie Atnc-i • can provinces, produced it - ‘ f ; some resistance on the put > the Spanish government. L “ however east to foresee,that resistance would be of shori oil ration. For as the Spanish g” vernment has long ceased to tX ” ercise the powers ot independent sovereignty, the imperious hit* tatea of the l-'rench governing would soon hate comuian u unconditional obedience. Jt was uot the least of tec vantages resulting irom the p ■ chase of Louisiana that the sijj luted sum of 3,758,000 and “‘l’ was paid to the citizens of the States fur claims upon the Henc-t government, for supplß* 10 1 West-India ilands, ikiuurmg's u-* vessels from France, vesse.s uKd*. and not restored agree. Aft 10 convention concluded France and the United Stales, for supplies tinder j. made by officers of the 17 jj government in the Unite l s ■>. “ The uaminillity and 1 ,1 '“’- IL ’_ • • r ♦* Til.’ i aive improveiuent u* m-