n of the Habeas Corpus Act, both in Great Britain and Ireland,
from the period when that suspension took place in the respective
countries. Various motions to the miscarriage of expeditions--to the
conduct of Admiral Lord Keith in breaking the convention of El Arish,
&c.--were made during the session, but were all negatived. Additional
supplies were demanded by Mr. Addington, and sanctioned by the house.
The session was prorogued by commission on the 3rd of July.

WAR WITH THE NORTHERN POWERS.

The late ministry had issued an order in council, dated the 14th of
January, imposing an embargo on all Russian, Swedish, and Danish vessels
in the ports of Great Britain; and preparations were also made to send a
fleet into the Sound, and to hazard all the evils likely to result from
a war, which threatened to exclude the British flag from the navigation
of the Baltic, and her commerce from the shores of the Elbe, the Embs,
the Vistula, and the Weser. On the other band, preparations were also
made by the governments of Russia, Denmark, and Sweden for the coming
strife. In the course of the spring the Danes took possession of
Hamburgh, for the alleged purpose of stopping the British trade to
that port. The King of Denmark was now likewise joined by the King of
Prussia, who seized this occasion to invade Hanover, and to reduce it
to his own dominion. As no hopes, therefore, could be entertained of the
pacification of Europe on terms honourable to Great Britain, a British
fleet, consisting of eighteen ships of the line, and four frigates,
with a number of gun-boats and bomb-vessels, were dispatched against her
enemies. This fleet proceeded from Yarmouth Roads for the Baltic, under
the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, assisted by Vice-admiral Lord
Nelson and Rear-admiral Tolly. It sailed on the 12th of March, and as it
was supposed that Denmark, whose prosperity had increased considerably
during the war, might be prevailed upon to sue for forbearance; the
first efforts of the armament were directed against her capital. On
board was Mr. Vansittart, who, as minister plenipotentiary, was to seek
to detach the court of Copenhagen from the northern alliance before
proceeding to extremities. His mission, however, failed; he returned
with a report that he had left the Danish government hostile in
the highest degree to the court of Great Britain, and in a state of
preparation far exceeding what our cabinet had considered possible.