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AFFAIRS OF TURKEY. OFFICIAI. ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The Porte wiflied fbr Peace.—ln purfuance of this dipottion (perhaps carried too far) (be contented to the reinttatement of two of her difrniffed Hofpo dars. She had not yielded to the threats of Ruffia ; the knew that Ruffle was her implacable enemy ; but the yielded to the notes and the threats of England. England teemed fatisfied, and every t thing tcontinu a eemed to give reafon to the Porte for expeEling he tinn of a Peace (he h,tifo dearly purchafed ; when, all at 'once. Miehelfon advanced into Moldavia, fur rounded Cbacgim and took it io c onfequence of a ftratagem-afier a few (hots had been fired. Michelfon thereupon Mita' the:pr6clamation narked No. I. and it was followed by: ne tification No. 11. 011 the part of the Anthit Sfinifter, whom the Porte had invited to . Cenftantitibple. The Poi•te was deeply fenfible of this accumula tion of idfoltriO' treachery, and hypocrity. T he Ruffian `ikrittrw;ilnot ramified with attacking Mol. da via, feizing upon, arcsim, furrounding Bender, and marching towards the Vanube , the Court of St. Peterfburgh ditclefed it! intentions hill farther by commanding the Tut i killt inhalSints of the provin d'es the had attacked to tell-thele geods and to quit -the difiria occupied by the army. The peafanta were known to fell an ox for a dollar, and to give up their moveables and other effeas for fill fmaller confederations. Already reinforced by Effen, Mi chelfon's army was alto further ftrengthened by the troops which were on their march towards the Da. Dube. The 'Ottoman Empire was in danger; but the French army appeared on the Vifula, took pot teffion of Warfaw, and Ruffia,thus threatened on her own frontiers, haftily recalled Effen and the troops of the Don. Michelfou colle•Sed his troops into Bachareft, but he could not advance farther. The Torkilh army formed, and their advanced guard was Sufficient to keep the Ruffians in the neighbourhOcd of that place. The Englifh Ambaffador at firft interfered—He could make no anfwer to the firong grounds on which the Divan anted. The Porte was attacked in its ter ritories, without any declaration of war ; the alts of' her internal adminiliration were criticiled in the pro clamation of the enemy's General; not a fingle di . plomatie note preceded the holtile operations, and no way was left open for a recr,nciliation. The Englifh Ambaffador alto anted in the fame fpirit ; he Caw the Ruffian Minifter depart, and he remained tranquil. A few weeks afterwards he appeared at a conference which took place on the 25th of January with the Sublime Porte. He handed in the Declaration (No. III.) and then went on board a frigate, ordered the cables to be cut, and difappeared ; and on the 29th he fent from on board the frigate Endrnion, the Note (No. IV.) to the Porte. It was plain at this crifis that it was intended to impofe upon the Porte by a fudden blow; for fcarcely had the Am baffador arrived at Tenedos, when the fquadron of Admiral Duckworth appeared there alto. After the Englifh Admiral had waited tome time at Tenedos, he appeared with two three deckers, three 8o gun (hips, two 74's and a few-bomb ve(fds, before the Dardanelles. Favoured by a fouth wind, the enemy's fqoadron arrived at tighi u'Lluck in the morning of the isith of February, before the batteries of the two firft towers: the latter began a bra and well-direited fire, which the Englifh did not anfwer. When they arrived off the heights of the two other forts, the batteries began to play upon the flips.— The wind drove the flips forward, and the batteries of the forts were badly manned. Off the heights of Gallipoli, the Englifh fquadron encountered a Turk ifh (rip of the line and five frigates. The crews of theft ' , ads were in the mot:lnes ; betties, what could this divifion do againft fo fuperior a force ? The Englifh attacked them, and were once more guilty of a tranfgreffion which is peculiar to this nation, and with which they had already ctifgraced themfelves by the burning of four Spanifh frigates. The Englifh Admiral, in fhort, burned the fix Turki(h (hips of war, and yet war was not declared ; negeciations were (ill going on, and the Minitter of the Porte was flill in London ! _ _ _ Conftantirsople warily an uproar; in place of des pondency being produced, all the inhabitants were inflamed. On the xoth, at five o'clock in the evening, the Englifh fquadron appeared before the Seraglio. Nothing was prepared to receive them ; not a finale point was in a (late of defence ; but every one ran to arms. The Grand Sultan was the firft to proceed to the pofitions which were thought moli advifeable for the batteries to be conftrueted. Tutleifh men, women, children, Armenians, Greeks, therms, Sheiks. Der vifes—afl Ceisted upon fpades and (hovels. Ten French engineers, artillery and artillery officers, arrived from Dalmatia in the night time. • In five days, • 500 cannon, and roo mortars were planted on she batteries, and the Torkith empire was dot only feenred againft the dearneion of a few houfes anti Nuildings,.bn! Afp ‘ ma.in.ll the lofs of its honour and dignity' t.fge kigith of property which na bony can neieiregiin when they have once 101 l them. • In the vim fakei the* Erigliffi 'Mil ifter had the ireparkilet to four.; 'bolt on fhore to demand a t r uce. Their* the inhabitants was conceal. ed•ltitd the Kiiya Bey event on board of the Admiral's thip,stri bear thepropofels that might be made to him. • Thefellowing were thofe propofed Tbi Dardanelles to be given to the Englith. • a.• Fifteen fhipa of war. fully equipped, to be taken to Malta. 3. The Porte to declare war againft France, and fend away the Anahadador. 4. Ruffle to keep Moldavia and Wallachia ;IGnai, and the other fortrefits on the Danube, to be delivered up to the Ruffians. Such propOfals deceived no anfwer. The next day the Dragoman of the Porte was difpatched, but in vain. Either the acceptance of the conditions, or bombardment, was the language of the Englifh Ad miral. He did not think that mortars were rn readi nefs, and that bomf.s would anfwer bombs. There was Comething fublime in the countenances of the people. The zeal they difplayed in their la bours, their obedience to the direelions which were given them, and their loud exclamations of devotion and attachment to their Sovereign, aftonifbed every &anger. On the 25th of February, the Englifh Arnbairador required that a place should be ap. *tinted where he could land, in order to confer with the Minifter of the Porte. The Divan anfwered, that in future there was no place, no foot of ground in the whole Ottoman Empire, where an Engl could land without tsetse . Capita g ' q t i jug ;dig. nation of the people, that even in the Seraglio of the Sultan biatfelf, there was not fufficient power to ' protea an Eng Ullman againft the cxafperauon of the Moiralmen. The Engla fquadron now taw that they could obtain nothing—that the Porte was not to be tetri fied—and that their plot con d iti ons , They S ul tan from the fira propofed but the replied he would not negociate, as long as the Eng lifh fleet was on this fide cf the Dardanelles; a fob lime anfwer—to be compared to that of the Roman Senate to Pyrthus. The Englifh now proceeded to rife intrigue, corruption and meannefs—the ufual arts reforted to by injtiftice and prefumption. On the 26th of February, Admiral Duckworth fent the Note, No. V. along with the inftruaions, to the Reis Effendi, whom he expelled to induce to refeme the negociations. We fee from this, that there is no longer any mention made of delivering up the Dardanelles or the is (hips of war. The Grand Sultan was inflexible; his condo& was energetic and decided. Although educated in the Seraglio, he be hived himfelf as a Prince who had (pent all his life in camps. He was night and day with his troops, or upon the batteries. On the ad of March,. General Sebaaiani was per mitted to approach him. The former found him on horfebaCk in the mirlft of his foldiers. The Grand Seignior raid to him, " The Englifh with that I fhould remove the French Ambaffador, and commence war againft my belt friend. Write to the Emperor that I received a letter from him yeiterday, that I (hall (land by my engagements, that he may depend upon me as truly as I depend upon him." The Seraglio and the European and Afiatic (bores were covered with batteries ; every defcription o f for tifications were erefted towards the Dardanelles,which I were planted every where with cannon, and provided with camps. In there circumflatteei the Englifh fleet thought it advifable to withdraw. It has repaired the Darda nelles. In a moment there were to firips.of war, two of which were three deckers, in readittefs, and pro vided with their Flores and feamen: Officers, janif faries, failors, all (trove for the honour of going on board the fleet, and in fpite of the advice of the molt prudent people, the impatience of the crews who weighed their anchors oveicame every obflacle.— The fleet has advanced ti the Dardanelles. The Englifh came to an anchor on the 3d, two leagues on the other fide of the Streights, on the fide of the 1 old Cafile of Afia. The Emperor Napoleon, at the &it declaration of war, offered the Sultan an army cp cover the Dardanelles and the Danube. The Porte would at fira accept only Engineers and Artillery Officers: it has now required other aid, which is advancing with all (peed. Na DrCLARATION OT Till INGLIS!! AMBASSADOR, Mt. AIRUTII , NOT, IN IRE COS/PLIZNCI AT CONSTANTINO.ILLTILIIIU ARY " The Sublime Porte, which has never ceafed to atanifeft tiality for the French, has, more particularly lince the arrival of the French Asuba &dor, General Sebaltiani, in this capital, changed its principles and fyftem towardaits own allies. " The raid Ambaffador, Come days after his arrival, having given in a Note containing certain threats, the Sublime Porte ought to have returned the Notc, and fent away the author; the Sublime Porte, on the contrary, received the Note favourably, and fignified to Ruffia, that her Mips of war would not be fuffered to pars the• Canal of tbc Blatt sea. " On the occafion of the eitablifhment of the liapodars of Moldavia and Wallachia, which took place in confequence of pre ceding circumflanccs, the Porte ought immediately to have con- Canted, but the delay of *Alt content, which was not given till three weeks afterwards, when the Ruffian Ambaffador had formally de• manded it, was a proof of the overbearing influence which the French Court had acquired. The Ruffian and Engli(h Courts therefore agreed that the former should fend land forces into the Turkilh territory, and the latter a fleet to the capital of the Otto • man Empire. " Should the Porte proceed to renew its alliance with Ruffle and England, on the antient footing, and difmifs the Paid French Amballador from the Capital, the war will immediately eeafe; but if this be not done, a breach of the friendthip with England will be unavoidable. " To carry this plan into execution, England will fend a well appointed fleet, bellies the fquadron now Rationed off the Mend of Tenedos. The Ruffian fleet will join it in the fame Seas, in or der to pat. together the Strait of the Dardanellre. " Should the Porte be inclined to give a negative anfwer to the indent propofal, the Ambaffador will fend back to their country all the Englifh Merchants in the Ottoman States, and remain himfclf here to renew the fame propoCal, and enter into conferences on the ((died, when the Paid combint d maritime force (ball have formed a jundlion in the vicinity of this Capital" No. IV. " On board of the Endytnion, Jan. 29. As the underfigned, the Ambaffador Exttairdinary and Pie nipotcntury from his Britannic Majefty, has received a refufal to the requeft he made for a paffort to a Melfenger to his Majelly's Government, and as this mistral has been repeated to-day, it is int pollible lot him any longer to think hintfelf in a country which is willing to keep up ita friendly relations with his Majefty. It is alto, for the very fame reafons, impolible for the underfigned, while be remains in this place, to proceed with the negoelation now emu mowed with that fecurity without which there can be no freedom of difeuffion. He has, therefore, been compelled to adoilt the re• folutioo of going on board of the Britifh fleet lying off the heights of Tesedos, where be may enjoy that recut ity which has been de niedhim here. It will give him the greateft pleafure if the Porte fhould tratilmit him an anfwer to the requilli ions which be made at the conference of the asth inftant, and which were to the pur port of enabling hint again tc rerun* his port. The underfigned will wait a certain time before energetic meafures are reforted to,' iu order to obtain fatisfadtion for the injuries done to his Majetty and his alifthe Emperor of Ruffia. The Porte muff perceive that the anfwer can be eafily given without the Daft delay. To the requifition of the underfigned a fimple Yes or No only Is neceffary. The under figncd has confidered it his duty to take along with him tM Britifh fuhiedli refident here. Their property, at well as the property of the underfigned, and the effeets belonging to the Hotel of his Britannic Majetty, are left behind. All this progeny has been placed under the fafeguard of the Porte, and it is hereby de clared refponfible for the fame. While the underfigned affair,' the Sublime Porte of his high confideration, he expreffes a molt anxious with that the Porte will have thy wiftiom of placing his Majetty sad his ally, the Emperor of Ruffle, in a fituation to produce a re- Weal of their frieodfhip with the Porte. (Signed) " C i pAItLES ARBUTIINOT: . -r; No. V. MOTS OF VIDE ADMIRAL DUCRWORTII TO Tam all! EFFENDI " Vice Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth bad the lionour to receive the note of this date, tmnfmitted by his Excellency Said Halet Effendi Bcibkie, with the propofids annexed. In conk quence of what his Excellency Said Haict Effendi fays, the Vice Admiral cannot but perceive plainly that the Porte, from want of authority over its lubjeds, has not the power of appointing a ft cure place for holding a conference. As the Vice Admiral knows the fincere rcfped which his Britannic Majefly feels towards bis Imperial Highorfs, the Sultan, he regrets from the bottom of his heart that the influence of a Foreign Mioifter has extended Well in fuels a baneful manner. " Even to this inflame* Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Duckworth Inclined to afcribe the contents of the propofal which the Porte has offered sidle bafis of a peace. If he had not been aware of this influence, the Vice Admiralyrould have been led to believe that there was a ftudied intend= to infult him When a barn for pi:io dations was propofeJ, which would have only been deferving of notice if Great Britain and her Ally, the Court of St Peterfburgli, had fuffered a defeat front the arms of tbe Sublime Porte, and bad eonfcquently begged a peace. The I/caporals of ;the Britgh PiIRLIAMENTABr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL so. The Houfe proceeded to the hearing of the Appeal Cade, the Earl of Galloway o. M`Hutchinfon, Mr. Adam and the lion. Mr. Erfkine were heard in behalf of the Appellants. Further confederation was fixed for to-morrow. The Loan intereft Bill was read a (mond time, and the Com mittee appointed for Thurfday next. Lord AUCKLAND fignified his intention of Rating the prin ciple of the Bill in that Rage of its progrefs. The iriih Loan Bill went through a Committee, and was agreed to without amendments. SCOTS jolliCATlltE Lord AUCKLAND fuggefted to the Hnofe, whether it was really fair in the Noble Lords oppofite to ingraft upon a Bill, whlfh had undergone the molt mature conlideration, both in the Houk and in the country, a new Bill. extremely varying, and altogether different in int principle ? If the Noble Lords difapproved of the meafure, would it not be more confiftent with their duties to re- Jed it at once, and then to Collie before the Legiflature with their own propofition, having given that proper Parliamentary notice which the ufage of the' Houle bad heretofore fandioned, and which was peculiarly incumbent on the propofal of loch an im portant tpeafure, affecting as it did To great and refpedable a part I of the empire. But if it was the intention of the Houfe to go into a Committee, be was anxious to knew from the N oble and I-earn est Lord (Eldon) in what way the neceffary queftions should be put to the Scots Judges? and whether they were to be examin ed upon oath or no t The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the Noble Baron fully competent to decide, both on the manner and the matter of exa mining the Scots judges. With refped to the inconfiftency and want of fakeers attributed to chore who fupported the propofed Amendments, he (tumid only for himfelf fay, that he never pledg ed himfelf to any further fupport, than a bare admillion that fame alteration was neceffary, in the manner of adminiftering Civil Jul. tics (ft'Seothad. Whether the prefent Bill was rcjedted or not, he wss not prepared to fay what line of conduct be would palm ; whettier, in tbc firft cafe, he would propofe any new Meifure ; but Mb would certainly, if the Houfe went into a Committee, fol. low up his own opinion, by propofing and fupoorting fuels amends smuts as to him appeared corral and advantageous. _ Lord GRENVILLE would not defart his duty and opinions. al-I though other Noble Lords were carders in the perform a nce of I the one, and the recollection of the other. Whatever might be the fate of the Bill which he had the honour to prepare, he would continue to fupport its principle and proVifion, and he mined, for the credit of the Houle, that it would not buffer a meafure to drop to which, fcaree a month ago, it gave the molt unanimous fup port. Lord HAWKESBURY denied that the propofal for dividing the Court of Seffion into two chambers, inftead of three, as ori ginally propofed, was any violation of the principle of the BUl,and therefore was a jet and coma object for amendment. I.ords KINNAIRD, LAUDERDALE, and HOLLAND con tended, that the amendment, as propoTed by the Noble Baron, (Hawkefloury) was a complete alteration of the principle of the Bill. which, after fuch uncommon induftry, their Ski Mud bad fubmittcd to the confideration of their Lordihips. The LORD CHANCELLOR Ore notice, that he would, ma Tharfday next, ask for leave to bring in a Bill for the better rege. lation of the Court of Seffion in Scotland, founded on the fame principle as the amendment of the Noble Baron (Hawkefbury) ; and declared his intention of moving to poftpone the /lather com mittal for three weeks. After borne obfervations from Lord AUCKLAND, the Honk refolved ftfclf into a Connittie, profirwa. When the Houk returned, Lord MELVILLE gave notice of bh intention of moving, on .Thurfday next, for the difeharge of the order which rendered the attendance of the Scots judges ne eeffary. The Earl of LAUDERDALE expreffed his determination to oppofe that motion, upon the plain ground, that if the Houfe thought their attendance neceffary, on the dee.lion o f a Bill to ge nerally circulated and known, it was, a fortiori, neceffary upon a Bill totally new in its principle, and with which the Houfc and country was unacquainted—Adjourned until to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Upon the third reading of the Sat London Water Works Bill, a new claufe was propcfed by Mr. MANNING. which ',eat to reltriet the Company from fuppiying feveral Plaen with water Which are already fopplied from the London Docks. Upon this the Houle divided, and the claufe was loft by a majority of 7s to . belfatior, &fr. Arbuthoot, Were delivered% t? the Dr ag om an at • sea. V/Itllft ftrangettirere attested framthe fernery, &• . the ssd of FehrearY. vifion took place :we under ft and it was upon a cheek purportiog " Titers is no.inelinatims whatever to depart from theft roma- to rettrig the Company from levying with water fewral places his t h is d, in order to give the Porte the &Inca paffible evidence that are contiguous to, or may be keyed by the New River elan. that ban unalterable refolution, the Vice Admiral his the ha many. For this clank there were t9,againft it 76. The Bill was Om to tranfmit to his Excellency Said Hetet Effendi an abftratft of I then paired' and ordered to the Lords. the Inftrudlions which were prepared for Rear Admiral Sir Tho- Mr. Whit I'BREAD prefented a petition from a Gentleman mu Louis, and to which that of will ftridtly . adhere, if the' (Mr. W. C . Lindley ), of the county of Tyrone, in Ireland, of Ottoman Empire, in confequence of the iotrigues of the French whom he had not the kaft knowledge ; but it was a Petition Ambaffador, has been unfortunately fo diforganifed. that his Es- cornp'aining of a grievance which was alledged to edit, and-pray (as be himfelf declares) is compelled to tog for relief : he therefore thought it his duty to prefent it to the ce ad l in lc a nc h y is Sa ta it is Hal faajon et E , ffendi to come on (borea l o hitbma.t no Euglith Plenipotentiary has ventured Houfe. 'The petition being read at the table, appeared te Rate a number 6 ' Vice Admira Sir Thomas Deckworth has only to add, that of loyal adions performed by the petitioner in Ireland, which the Width Ambalfador, Mr. Arbuthnot, has authorized him to de- brought on the total ruin of his family, and intolved hitofelf its dare officially to the Porte, that his etiffion is at an end. - - the greateit deuky. 'caution prayed the interpoildoe ef dirt " In the event that the Sublime Porte, through the inllidtion ol lee , laid on Honourthe tableable Houfe in behalf of the Petitioner.—OrderedNbe the occurrences of warlike operation s, or from flaking off the r I . . of the foreign influence, by means of which the has been brbught Mr. HUSKISSOK prefented the Treafory Minute refpcdthig at prefent to the Lrink of dettrudtion,4sall evince a with to accede the appointment ora- Buys& goard..-Ordered to lie on the ta to the fair and friendly propofals which Great Britain, in her own ble, and to be printed. . name, and in that of her ally, has made, in that cafe the Porte has The Traders' Mkt. Bill,the Innkeepers Allowance Bill, a t e only to fend off a flag of truce. Such a hgnificatiert will be attended the Oak Bark Bill, were read added time and palled. to even in the heat of battle. The Refolotions of the committee of Supply were repotted, read " The. Vice Admiral cannot fufently exprefs how warmly his and agreed to.• Sovereign is batereited in the welfare of the Sultan, and how pain. • The Loroloa Port Petition was referred to a Committee. fulit will be for his Majefty to learn, in what an unfortunate fitn-Returns terrain Id& Glebe Hooke were referred to tte ation his Imperial Highnefs his been placed by the condudt of tante Glebe Houfe-Committee.. -• of his Counkllors: I , The PAHA Apprentices Bill was committed and paired the Com • • . " The Vice Admiral allures his Excellency Said Halt Effendi .mktee,with fevail amendments. ,- • - • pinta ditntaS - • : • of his high confideration. ' - Mr i itOWCiRTH rote to put a queflion to az a On board of the Royal George, Feb 4 24 1. 9 1 : 1 0 / . a • u • cimoillt. „ • (silint4) . - Hon. Member on the other fide of the Houfe. It . • Insraecriosts TO /MAI eletital. SI! TII9MAS LOVII, WITY l ea d . stassaci Iv arailatiocitita*l4ll Till UTTOlgiat'lLatit. Frfereace triaitieafOre which. had been the tub- " rovaiiiiaaiza. -..- . . • - ~, _ s • , jeet o extreme diffatilfaftion, and might' . hiie ' (After recapitulating the caulks 'mite' ininnoleritaridtne be- been . ptodudive of Ciinfequerices the Mat' fatal to • • sir Tha nt " 14°14 " de " • eine poffeffions in India. tween the Porte and Great Britain, ( licit the Heti: . Mahler to iodinate to the Turkith Miniltry, how eafy It would be for the . ~ . Brides (hips to make ttati.fclw.s matters of Conftiottoopte aim was procee di ng to Rate his fentiments more at large • Puffing the Da rdsoeUes, fo vainly wondered as Imptignable•-•-. when fie was called to order by the Right Hon. Robert ' The inftrudtions then proceed :) Saunders Dunaas: The Right Hon. the Speaker ob. • le . r was a And now to come to the prefent potture of the negociatioe, ferved alto, that notwithflanding any Me mber' by 'cOu - aefy•illowed to afk loch quellierneis might be ek hu Toom reg a c s iv Lo s zi wi s w il ltt not be pe plt;a n fe i d t h to hn dec to lar dep e, a t rt ha f t roal the a in a llzu ngl aions e jots t a it n e e d e e O w f il p ie n h bl w ie lis bofine r ti--: a0 be yet r it q Wa llifi i t b e u f t °ll' wi li tb e in fil th ith el e a r "Mat to the Dragoman in goman tbe P o r°Ptif f the a P it o t rt raaf e. al lf ttea the b P y o h n im e w m illi t es ha t i oretai infian n th t e granted on' fuch occalions to enter into almicarra y - ' frisodthip of Great Britain and Rulfia, the mutt accede to there tion of farts, a defcription of circumftances, or a [late prapeCals in Ago. When there inftruetions were fent from England, la aakqueoce of which Mr. Arbuthnot made theft requifitions, : M ember inion or cottrfe it was very far from being furpeeted that the French Ambaffador meet of the Hon's own op had been chofen as Diredtor in Chief of the Turkilb military ope- of reafoning on the fubjal.). rations. Since the arrival of the Width fleet before Conttantino • bri M ifty . t H o O le W arn O w ß lt l e sri the t i h 'aty it , a a t n ea d .t w h- ha t t h ro is. e: b fet a es w ho a ; rte. this Ambaffador has bee n Peen on the Mores, as it he was been take!! to afeertain what were the caulks of difafl employed in eredling batteries, and t hough t it ail the Inca ! hares which the Turkith Government thought it expedient to take. It is, therefore, not only inspollible, in the prefent circum- fediOn, and Whether any Reps had been taken to ftances, to depart from any thing that has been already propofed, wards removing thole perfons who bad rendered but it is alfo likewife i n f u fferable, that the French Ambaffidor and theMfelves particularly obnoxious to the natives ia an Eogli(h Ambaffador Mould in future refide, at the fame time, in this capital. our fettlements in India ? "In order,however,to give a pr oof of the fineere & fi re which Mr: R. S. DUNDAS Rated, that this was a fob adtuato the Beni& Government, and thole who are entrufted with jet which had engaged the molt ferious attention of the late India Board : it had been returned alto with its commands, not to place the Porte again under the difagreeable zealous aelivity by the prefent Board ; but as yet ' necetfity which !be was once before compelled to lubmit to, Of re • • moving a Foreign Minifter ; Mr. Arbuthnot cheerfully contents (although it is contrary to his inttrudtions) that the departure of they had hot been able to obtain fufficient inforina! M. Sebaftiani (hall form no part of the public documents to be lion on the fubjetl. When they should have a corn• concluded upon; but only that the Turkith Ml:lifter Bull take all plate underftanding as to all the circumflance s to which the neccffary matures to produce the accompliihment of this objea, Honourabl e Member alluded, he fhould be by communicating to that Ambaffador his determination upon the fubjedt. very happy to give that Gentleman and the Houfe 66 If the Porte will inftantly figs an MI, containing the Ar- every fatisfattory information which it was in his ticks tranfmitted through the Dragoma n, on the aid sock. and in power to communicate. addition to this, a confidential and fecret article, which has for its Mr. CORRY deprecated a' l idea of coming to a objeet the removal of M. Sebaftia ni, then every batik conclafion on this head until a Gallant Offi c e r and meafure on • the part of Great Britain (hall be immediately abandoned, and the Sultan will enjoy the friendfdp of his Majefty,in the fame man- Hon. Friend of his (Sir. John Craddock) fbould have ner as if t h ere b a d been no mifunderftanding at all between the had an opportunity of giving his official RateMente two nations!' which might probably be very different fro m t he un -- authenticated rumours which as yet we have bad' upon this fubjed. I NATIONAL. Darr. On the motion of Lord HENRY PETTY, the fecund reading of the National Debt Redemption Bill wail pottponed till this day lennight, in order, that it may be firit afcertained what will be the deci lion of the Legiflature on a Bill now pending in the Upper Chamber of Parliament, generally caMed the Loan Intcreft Bill. CHURCHES IN IRELAND. Mr. WICKHAM Rated at tome confiderable length a variety of inftances of the dilapidation of Churches and union of Par - inns in Ireland. He re• ferred parti4ularly to the diftrift of Leighlin and Ferns, in the county of Wexford, where 178 . pa• rinses had been added to others fine the year 1791. and it was in that quarter that rebellion was know; to have raged molt fuccefsfully. He concluded with moving, that a Select Committee •be appointed for the purpofe of taking into its confederation the feve ral Ails of Parliament, relative to the building, re buildingiand keeping in repair of the Parilh Churches in Ireland ; and alfo to examine into the different Grants and Appropriations of money for the eration of Glebe Houfes ; and to find out and (late to the Houle what Parithes, Vicarages,Sec. have been united together from the year 1791 to t Efos inclufive. Dr. P. DUIGENAN would .not oppofe the mo• tit.n of the .Hon. Gentleman, but he contended that the poverty of the people was 10 great in many places, that if it were not for the union of the parifhes, the Clergy would have devoured the people. Betides this, there was an old A6t, paired in the reign of (tleen Elizabeth, he believed, which authorized the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council to divide or cow fulidate parifhes according to the neceflity of the cafe, and it fo happened that where the patronage of the Crown was molt extenfive, there the union of parifhes was molt frequently apt to take place ; for inftance, if a Gentleman had good intereft and conflation: of .any weight, a tingle parifh might be in fo low a (late, that• it would not be worth his acceptance. He then would perhaps give the real ftatement of the cafe to his friend or patron, and afterwards a recommends lion would come from the Crown, that two adjoining parithes fhould be. confolidated into one, which the Bithop in fuch cafe moftly agreed to. He did not enimate the population of Ireland at much more than two millions, and the Proteltant Clergy would be ver y much oppreired and unable to maintain the refpeEll bility of their lituatiun if the union of parallel were not in many inftances allowed. Sir JOHN NEWPORT übferved, that notwith• (landing the power which the Learned Dottor (fated to be vetted in the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Coup cil, he defied that Learned Gentleman to point out as inftance of pariihes being divided within thefe few years pan, though there were many of their confoli dations. He knew of one inllance, in the county of Kilkenny, where there were no left than nine reCtories and vicarages united in one. Mr. PARNELL obferved, that as to the popallo lion of Ireland, Mr. Blithe, who took a molt accurate view of that firbjeft, Rated, that in the year 1788, I,l * population amounted to 4,080,000. After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. FELLOWES, and Mt' M. FITZGERALD, the motion for the Committee was put, and carried nein. con.