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PARLIdatENTARr PROCZEDINOS, PARIS, JULY 8. Lail week arrived at Fluthing, with the mail from Rotterdam, a letter, di, efted to Sir Sidney Smith, the Englah commander on that part of the Dutch coati. The Batavian Pretident delivered it, unopened, to the French comma nder, Gen. Monnet, who con voked a council of Generals, and in their prefence, broke it open. It was from a fanatical young woman, who offers the Bs hitt' knight her heart, her hand, and her fortune, and calls upon him, in return, to deliver her country from what the called the French yoke.— She has been arreited, and is yet in confinement. At Breft; are twenty-three Chip of the line ; at Rochfort, four ; and at Toulon, nine ; all fully man ned and equipped, and ready to put to lea. It is laid, bat not credited, that the Emperor has Invited the Kings cf Pruffia, Spain, Naples, Sardinia and Denmark, to be prefent at his coronation are 'stony. Several Eleaors, and other fovereign Princes, have received the fable invitation. Report lays, the cor onation has been deferred until their anfwersffiall have been received. Madame as VA o op moat is, according to report, to be de Lady at the head of the Emprefs's houfehold. .COnnt ma Reuse, the Minnier of the Eleaor. Arch c,atteellor e i-d evan t Eleaor of Mentz , was t he firft tbe diplomatic agents here who received his cre dential' and 'orders to acknowledge our Errraof in bet weer dignity. The new credentials of the Spanith Ambaffador, Gaavtre, are dated June the 3d • the fame day, the Ling of Spain received the officia% information of the Emperor's new dignity. It is Paid, that the Court of Copenhagen. on the 85th ult. fent to. Chevalier Dreyer, the Dania, Mini fler at Paris, sew credentials, in which Bonaparte is acknowledged EMperor of the French. Poavacts has laid before the EAS e a Loa a long re pat ermeerning new religious orders, which are to be ;militated every (where. for both fetes. Befsdes the Saks, its odrev-religious orders are propoied. sad are bid to have obtained the Ear saoa s appro betko. At Lyons, the Jefuits have already opened a coats& The ew Imperial coins are already in circulation. TheThave ea one fide the Emperor's bead. with this infersptir : " Napoleon the Firil, Emperor of the Ficmck On the other Ode is a golden lino in an metre WA, with a crows colliers over it. The Ina per6l mantle is of potpie colour, lined with ermine. Is has fevevaleagles embroidered on it.orith diamonds sad pawls, to dor value of four millions (s6o,000l.) Some few days ago, a Ruf f ian Cattier arrived at Calais wit 4 petmiffion from the Emperor to embark for Eng4d. iPithin fix hours he failed with a new vat y• His difpatches are Paid to be of the tea comfetiaerice. sad have ceded feveral con- Tresfavourable to peace. alba night of the sad ult. General Mamma t lef the Temple. under an e feort of fifty gals d'aroses srlEßut. His firff deßination was Pettognan, from which plate he is to go to Spain, and embark there om board a neutral veffel for North America. Ma dame Moaaau followed her hufband the nest day. He is only to travels d the night, and to reit demios the day.: His brother is gone before him to lipiths, acco,Mpanied by an officer of the gets d'arnies. a obje is wines and fit out a proper velTel for his brother and family. All their property in Fra nce is , difpofed of, and they intend to fettle at Philadelphia. General Lenoir sm. formerly at the bead of the 6taff of General Houma': army. but now accufed eking implicated in the late confpiracy. has been arrefted in G e rmany, and is now that up in the Tem ple. He is to be tried by the fame Tribunal, which condemned MOIL l AU. It is fpoken of as a fill, that a new trial of many perlbns (hut up for there feveral years in the Temple, and in other State Yarns, is to take place before the fame Tribunal which tried the late confpirators.— Among the perfoas mentioned who (ball appear are Count de Bourdon; La Rochefoneault ; Fauche Ba sal, from Neufchatel, with fume other.. A neutral (tip was lately prevented by an Englllh 1 frigate from entering Offend, becaufe, as the Brifillt officer Paid, be had orders to bombard that town, and therefore could not admit any neutrals. Three Engin bomb-reffels were not very diltant. At Zouteland. not far from IFlothing, feveral dead bodies were lately left by the tide : amo dr ng othcrs was that of an Englifla officer of the navy, effed in full uniform. An official eorrefpondence is opened by the Pruf flan Commercial Agent at Rotterdam, with the Commander of the Englith fquadron on the cosit ; concerning the feveral Dutch venal and Ming boats captured by the Engliffi cruisers, notwithaand int the protcaion of a Pruffia n fla g . Had Pruffia Inch a navy as Ruffia, we fhould foon ceafe to hear • of thefe piracies. Befides the National Guards in the Ile of Prance, amounting to 8000 men, there are 4000 regular troops- The sseen Dowager of Pits(Ga. mother to the prefent King, has arrived at Leipzig, ineepeito, under the name of a Countefs of Hohendein. Her Mikity was to continue her journey to Hanau, where, after paffing fome time with her daughter, the eonfort of the Herpditary Prince of Britt, repent lays, the in tends to vita this capital, defiringfo much to fee and admire the great man who occupies the throne of the French Empire Baron Ehrenfword. the late AmbafTador of the King of Sweden in France , h as been p romoted, by his Swedills Majeay. to the rank of a Lieutenant Cc neral, as a reward for his conduit in his diplomatic Pft. The famous Spanifh finger, Donna !labella Col bran, is on her way from Italy to Paris. This virtrofir, who is not yet so years old, is already confidered as the firil finger of our times. At three years of age, the fung very well, and at fix the was regarded as a wonder. The tall concert (he gave at Madrid before her departure, brought her in 40,000 reels (6,0001.) She has, at the requisition of the Empe ror Napoleon, obtained permitlion to travel for is months, eight of which the will pats at Paris. On the day of the Emperor's Coronation, the is to flog for the firs! time. From the Emperor's private purfe too.oco livres (4.0001.) are aligned for her expences during her refidence in France. not including prefents and what the will gain if permitted to Eng beton the public. HOUSE OF LORDS, THOR SDAY, JULY ap The Corn Bill was read the third time, and pafßiL The Chimney Sweepers Reyul.ition Bill was, on the IMAM of Lord W A LSINGHAM, horn,,L a variety of otafervationa upon the tintabse, ordered to hints& a third time this day throe mixiths. LotiDON CLERGY it The Order (if the Day for the third reading of this Bill, beiirg read, The Duke of NORFOLK faid, he fhould move that the Bill be read t his day three natrths. His objeBion was to the principle of the Bill. It was this s he moll anx ious with that the Clergy, not only of t metropolis, but of the whole kingdom, fhould re ceive that maintenance to which they woe entitled, as well by their exemplary condud, as their tank and nation in fuciety. But the mode in which this was to be done, in the prefent inflance, was incontin ent with the principle of legination, which had the moil rigid regard to the s ights of private property. He was willing and anxious, that the objet of the Bill thould be attained ; but it thould be at the pub lic expense, and not by a violation of private pro pert,- i a parochial tax, a dedudion from the elates I I of individuals. Before the reign of Charles 11. the Clergy of London received a (U pend o tsfes f a cer That tain furn in the pound, upon the rate of ho. was a mode that kept the income of the Clergy pro portioned to the value of eltates, and the,rife in the price of articles of confumption. and other variation of circumnances. He witted it had continued fa.— But in the reign of Charles 11. the fixed dtpend, fuch s it now is, was commuted fur the former increaf hog revenue. He luppofed.that it was an advantage 1 1 to the Clergy of that time - ; the fum fixed he fuppof -led to be larger than the former revenues. But, how iiever that Was, the fixed nipend was adopted. From that time to this, enstes have been bought and fold 1 in the city of London, fubjeft to this fixed impofi lion ; and every new purchafer relies on the princi ple of our Legifiation, on the faith of Parliament, that no partial change (hall be made in iris property. He finds a patticular charge for the Clergy, fixed by law, and he espeas that it thall remain the fame, ex cept as altered by general univerfal laws. He would recommend to their Lortlihips to yelled what they were doing, in touching this principle of Engin); le 'illation. If the prefent Bill is pared, will tiot e v e ry parochial Clergyman, whofe modus, or real. conspolition, isinadequate to a decent livelihood, will net he alto come to their Lordlhips for a new in eagle, levied as a parochial tax, and not as a gene ral tax upon the whole public ? He would put this cafe, and one within h is knowledge. Abbey finds were granted by Henry VIII. to a family, with the charge of mi. per annum for the clergyman who did the duty of the cure, The elate is now worth tool. per annum—the clergyman, it is plain, has not a competency in roll- per annum. Shall he come to the proprietor of the caste, and silk for a competency t that is, for the whole tool. per annum —and yet, on the principle of this Bill he may do fo—he has their Lordiltips' Elation to make this de mand. For theft reafons, the Bill, affeaing the • rinciples by which the Houle had ever been govern ed as to private praperty. be oppoted the Bill. He Wrought the learned Prelates net to (hew any eager nets to violas the principles of private property—he attributed no tech defign to them r but he would re! call to their minds the former fate of prelates, who, governed by their rapacity and antbiLion, had involv ed their order in ruin. Lord GRANTLEY faid, he imagined the houfes and effetes charged with the dues to the clergy of the city of London had rifen in value ; and he thought it only equitable That the charge mould keep pace with that advance. The Bilbop of LONDON rofe to fupport the Bill. He began with a molt eloquent defcription of the worth and merits of the clergy of the city of Lon don. He maintained, that their incomes were not fufficient to fupport them with that decency that be came their fituation ; there were fifty livings, the higheß of which was soot. per annum ; others Were of 1501. and many only of tool. per annum. An At had ired their Lortilhips' Houfe to inforcithe re- fidence pa of the clergy. Many of the London clergy had no boufe on their livings; others had honks not ioludaitable, fit only for green grocers and coblers. It was his duty to enforce re fi dence within the City. From the population and the value of houfes, a clergyman could not get a houfe for let's than I Rol. or tsol. per annum. How was this to be done with their incomes ?It was - all that molt of them hat. He could not enforce refidence. It would be ruin to the clergy of London while their incomes remained as at prefent. They were, therefore, pLceti in a &station of peculiar hatdthip. In feventeett years that he had the honour of preliding over, the dtocefe, he had Peen that no men's condud could he more exemplary than that of there clergymen. He could not, the, clot e, affent to the ptopolition of the Noble Puke. The Duke of NORFOLK begged leave to affure the Rev. Prelate, that he never entertaired the idea of refining the allowance of an honourable provifion for the Clergy. On the wit ary, he would give fuch a propofition his mull cordial fupport, whenever it flrould be brought forward on the principles that pri vate property was not to be invaded, but that the fund for maintaining it thould be created by Parlia ment from national taxation , The LORD CHANCELLOR repeated the obfer vations which he had made when the Report of the Committee on the Bill was received. His Lordfilip went into ao hiliorical examination. replete with great learning and coriofity. as to the mode in which the Clergranere maintained antecedent to the reign of Henry VIII. He Rated it to be by the produce of certain offerings, on certain Saints days, the total average of which was about xs. nd. in the pound.— For the purpofe oh increaling the revenues of the Clergy. the Pope, at one time, thought proper to create twenty•two Saints, whole feilivals were to be kept as ufual,catainly much to the fathfatlion of the Clergy, but not with the entire concurrence of the Englith people, who did not much Milli fuch a mode of taxation. His Lordlllin, with every difpofition to fupport the 811, was fearful he could not allow it to pals in its prefent fhape, unlefs the content of thofe whole Intereas were likely to be affected by it, fhould be Gal obtair.ed. Were that crest the cafe, there was tqle claufe in the Bill which would mini e its rejcSion; he alluded to that clan& which propt.frti that th.!111- 4..mics fu it Weil to the Lond,ai Clergy lhould not be FRANCE, liable to parliamentary or parochial tasation, • He ' never knew In abfurd a propofition fubmitted to Parlia ment, and was furprifed how it could have crept into i fo•important a Bill. He withed for time for further confideration, for he was really friendly to the prin ciples of the Bill, as far as it propofed to make a more equitable provition for the Clergy, and would there fore prefer that the Bill be read a thir d time un Mon day, to the Noble Duke's amendment. The Duke of NORFOLK profeffed his readinefs to withdraw his amendment, and fuggelled whether it would not be better to move that the debate thould be paponed until Monday; Lord GRANTLEY maintained that it was but equitable that the incomes of the Clergy fhould bear a reafonable proportion to the inereafed value of that property upon which they were originally chargeable. The Bithop of ST. ASAPH fupported the argu ments of the Bithop of London, and contended th a t the Bill was not liable to the objeaion, that it war a violation of private property. It was but fair, be al iened, that the Clergy &old derive a reafonable compenfation from the proprietors of property, the value of which bad been increafed a hundred fold, in' many indaacar• fine the period at which their falaries had been eftablitbed. After Come 'further obfervations from the Reverend Prelate, the mo tion for pollponing the debate until Monday was agreed to. IMfOLYEWT DIRTO4I The order of the day for going into a Committee on this Bill, was, on the motion of his Royal I-fishnets the Duke of CLARENCE, dircharged, and the fame was ordered to be taken into eonlidcration on Mon day.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A perfea from the Tax-Oflce indented au Account alto Sale of the Land Tax. from nth Aped tin. to sth April 1114 c viiill certain other Accounts, which were aderol tope on the table. A perfara frees the Ofßee of the Chief Secretor/La Ireland pro tected the Report of the peoccalings of the COluntiffieoers of the Tresfury and Eacife in Ireland, Bowing the balances to the hands et the Collators. Ordered to be printed. The Habeas Corpus ad Teßifirandata Bill was read a third One. mad pared. The SECRETARY at WAR relented a Lift of ate Olken of thit IMO Land Forces upon half pay. , On the notion foe the third reading of the Bill for ap p oodri Diners to Inquire into the Fees, Oestadee, tadWadll‘ 1 nsantstaf Ofikers is Ireland, . 1 Mr. CILES laid, that lane clank ought to belntrodneed Into it. I 11l IS windfall not tentinating thentleives in their depelidens bet I fore the laid Cornmillieners, in the fame mama as bad been data the proceedings talon the C.ommitßotsess of Naval Engel* He thought that fads a deltic was fully fp neeellary is We gni cafe as in the ether. Mr. ALEXANDER and Mr. DICKENSON *and to kith a dude being introduced, as they law no =aka he R. The Cliallllol l law was Isfidently esplkit upon that %idea. Mr. JOHNSTONE laid, he would with the con fidential or the Bill lobe poftponcti, fo that a elaufe to the porpole, feudal in the Honourable Gentleman, might be prepared. it win paw thirty neceffary to guard the &W by et a [Patel clank, I. there- 1 feet inflame, in order to defeat the arca that might rekki tem 1 -tbe extraordinary powers of the Ceenndirtoaers. ' I On the queltion being put as to the propriety of intraataing ' I loch a dank. tt was negatived; dux which the MI waned a 1 1 third time rod pared. 1 A McKay from the Lords anacencal their Lordlhipe area In rties Ifie of Man FisheryßA the Leather Mfanufaturers SE, tin Tax Commiffiraers Bill, the Accountant-Gmerars Bill. the Mery Bill, the a slo,oxil. Vote of Credit IRK the Cotten Mainesaurire Bill, the Corn Regulation Bill, and the Weeded& [ sad Charteton Ordnance Lando Bill. The trim itcvenue Bill, the Ira Revenue Repletion BM, and the Iriai Warebtwfing Bill, were learall, read a third time, had pliffed. COIN BIGUIATION BILL. On the motion to take into confideration the amendments made by the Lords in this Bill; The SPEAKER laid. he thought it neceffary to call the attention of the Houfe to the nature of thofe Amendments, in order to (hew that the Upper Hoare had infringed upon the privileges of the Commons. In the Schedule D. of the Bill, which hated the high and low duties to be impofed upon cord imported into Ireland, it was declared, that if wheat be under 325. 7d. the high duties Stouts' be paid. The Lrifh criterion was appointed, by the Commons, to be 355. 3d. The Lords had, however, thought proper to leave out the Irifh criterion altogether, which was laying, that the Itifh criterion Should not be the one adopted ; a propofal which it was tit tet ly inconfifient with the cuttom of ;be Houfe to agree to. It was then moved, that the further confideration of there Amendments be ponponed to ;his day three months, which was carried new. :on. Mr. WESTERN moved, that the revels' Reports of the Committees appointed by the Houfe in the prefent Sedion of Parliament, to confider of the Corn Trade, be referred to a Committee of the whole Hatv . e. Mr. Alderman COMBE objected to the motion, on account of the extraordinary aka the difenfon of that matter had already had on the price of Corn ,hioughout the whole country. The motion was, however, agreed to without a divifion. PUBLIC DEBT., The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day, for riiturvitoge law ad journed Debate on the motion as to the Public Debt ; which having been read, he Paid, that there were ter. tain points which he wifhed to bring into the confider. ation of the Houle, and on which there would not probably be any difference of opinion, though con fiderable minutenels of detail might be neceffary. He therefore rather wit'aed to defer the further confider ation of t'e queftion till Saturday next, in order that fame Satements might be printed previous to that day. Agreed to. •VVAIRS Of INDIA. Lord CASTLEREAGH Paid, that before he Ihould proceed to move for the prndutlion of certain papers connected with the affairs of India, of which he had formerly given notice, he Mould Rate fhortly the objets of and conclufions that might be drawn from them. In the various difeuffions that had taken place upon this fobjeft, there appeared to him to be no difference of opinion. which thefe papers would not tend to filence. His objea was, to bring into one precife account. all the leading featnres of ante cedent Budgets, during no leis a period that ten years, in order that Gentlemen might have an opportunity of comparing the eflimate of each year with the Te• fult of the tublequent year, and detect any miftate ment that may have been introduced. The objec tions which had been Hated by Come Hon. Gentlemen oppofite, had made him the more inclined to bring luck Rat:ments forward, that he might flew he did not willingly intend to deceive. It had been *Hedged, that former Itaternents had• been falfilled by fulttft- Tient faults. No branch of the Adminikration had a better opportunity of contradieing fuch allege tlons. than what lie had from the resords. He hoped, from the cdimates and comparative refults which he wiffied laid before the Houfe, , that the affairs of India would be proved to have been profperous, and that India contributed confiderably towards the refources of the empire. Although India had been engaged for tea years in itimoft conflant war, yet in no degree had it become a charge upon the mother country. It had never been alledged, however, that the accuracy of Inch prediftions as form of thole eftimates contained. would not be difterbed by a continual gate of war fare. In the year syoj, the furplus revenie was of a defcription which gave a jolt idea of the participa tion, but'the refources - had been injured by the My fore war. The affluence' which had been given by his Noble predeceffor (Lord Melville), as to a parti cipation, were referable as to peace; but the effeas of fuch predißions were uncertain as to war. The Noble Lord then entered into a comparifon Of the Revenue and Charges of India for the ten years he alluded to, during all which period there had only been an *defiant to thefe climates of 3,300,0001. - owinto various events which could not be f or efeen. The Mabratta war had added an expence of half a million, which was wholly oat of view ;and the My ro re war had (welled the expeacies above a million more, 'A part of the army tinder Gene* fWellefley had been &bled to keep the Odd much Inuger that what had been expeeted. In fhort, no eßimates could come nearer to the grofs amount p and DO blameable !TUC- Curacy could poffibly be imputed. The Noble Lord .concluded a rather long fpgech, the whole tendency of which was to demontirate the profperity of India. and the accuracy of former Ratemenu, by moving— , net there be lad before the Houle, an Account thriving the Mouse at use abut tummies ma cameo of India for ten = d fm m es syt ; wattle causes incurred, as to fte each year. Mr. JOHNS NE raid, that notwithßanding all the Raternents made by the Noble Lord, he could due but contend, that the whole (hewed every thing he bad advanced on the fubjeit was ariftly true. — After the Noble Lord bad' Made his annual Rate. 111 bent in the form' elan Indian Budget, he now came forward with anew (et of accounts unknown to any ins but himfelf, wish which he usoß ingeniesufly pre leaded to coinbat ar*Ornents urged againit the old ones. He itionOt MO a mode, of proceeding was =fiaineniary and %%candid. It was Ali unpre ted, except in one inaanee. and that was of his predeceffor, who name to the Houle and argued itteautinflyftom a letter of the'Duke of York, which be had in his picket, and which nobody had fees but hinsfalE ; Ha infiaed that. Maud of having dic. charged fix million , as bad been pretendedc the Company bad incurred (debt of twenty millions. — The 14oble - Lord had rotated that, in cafe of a war, be would difcbarge one million of the Company's debt, and in cife of Peace two millions; inflead of which, he has incurred a debt of 1,60ch0001. Front the paper of the Noble Lord. it would (min as if he had charged him. and his Noble predeceffor, with having embezzled the money, but be had never even dreamt of fuel a thing. He bad only charged them with hating.llated but.A.eltimates and refults higher. and more fitvourably than they really were. He thought that after the Noble Lord had brought for ward his accounts, and then found that they did not anfwer the argonaut of his opponents, it was uncap did to bring . out a new let; however, he inußed was a clear and firiking proof of the truth of his ar gument. The Noble Lord now talked of the diffi culty of obtaining bullion, the difficulty of getting bills, and many difficulties which he ought to hale forefeen. So it was. that a twelee-month ago he awed the Houfc be lhould be able to dinainifh the debt one million ; inftead of which there was upwards of a million of debt, and a deficiency in the revenues of two millions three hundred thoufand poitods. Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. JOHNSTONE mutually explained. Mr. WALLACE fopported the opinions of his Noble Friend and his predeeetfor in office, and refer ring to a fpeech made by Mr. Dundas (Lord Mel. vine) in 1793, declared that all th e inferences which had been drawn 'from a Ratement of the Company's affairs, were like thofe which he then read. condi tional, 'on a fuppofition of peace, if not in Europe, at leaß in Iniha. Mr. JOHNSTONE infifted, that the fpeech being fo worded, " ostlers a war (ball pervade the continent of India," he was warranted in what he had laid, as there were not three years of war in India during the halt eleven. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQyER. expreffed tome degree of furprife at bearing that the Honourable Gentleman who (poke laft could fuppofe that the quellioo made by his Honourable Friend, FMr. Wallace) was a refutation of his H onourable riend's own arguments, or thofe which had been urged by the Noble Lord who opened the debate.— Taefalt was undoubtedly that his Honourable Friend, (now the Noble Lord), in the fpeech to which he al. hided. had given his opinion„thaa " uiplefs a war oar raided the continent ot India within the courfe of the Year; for' which he was then giving in the eaimate, he did not think that there would be any ma terial deviation from the calculations which he had made on the probable Rate of the Company's affairs .." 1 but he had afterwards obferved in the fame fpeech, that " if the war Ibould extend itfelf to India, it cer tainly would make a material alteration." This al teration in the finance or commerce of the Company mutt naturally, and of courfe, be governed by the cir cumilances of the war which was afterwards found to have broken out in India. There circumßances be ing of a molt extraordinaty nature with regard to the expences which they created. he concluded with his Noble Friend who this night opened the debate, that it was a matter of furprife as well as exultation, that the Company's expences had exceeded the eßimate given in, in fo (mall a Turn as that which had been mentioned. As to another point on which the Hc nourable Gentleman had touched, the introdutlion of new accounts, as he had called them, he mutt beg to inform the Honourable Gentleman that there was nothing new to be contained in any of the ac counts for which his Noble Friend moved. They were each preeifely the fame as had been read to the Houfe each of the lalt ten years, and this was done in one general vicar, on purpofe that it might meet the willies of Gentlemen on the oppofite fide of the Houfe, as they teemed on a former meet= to be par ticulat ly anxious to make reference to fuch a general comparative anemic of the Rats of the Company's affairs within that period. I detail Gbh the N s NA