Star. — London, England, 1807-04-10 00:00:00

dered to he the confeemence of the eonedlons inten- ' ded tq be made to them, by a Noble Lord, not in that , Houle, whole adminißration, he always thought, meant to fubvert the Protellant religion. Lord HOWICK role to order. He laid, tke Honourable and Learned Dolor had, if he under flood him right, Rated that there was a Noble Lord, not in that houfe, who had endeavoured to fubvert the Proteftant religion — a crime of the greateft mag nitude ; and he called on him, if he were a man, to name that Noble Lord, that he might be ordered to the Bar of the Houle, and brought to that punias ment which his crime deferved. Mr. PLUMER cleared. that if the Honourable Gentleman knew of any Noble Lord who had been guilty of Co great a crime, he would name him, as he thought it was his duty to do. The SPEAKER laid, he apprehended that every Member had a right, according to the order of that Houle, to deliver his fentiments in inch terms as he thould choofe, provided he did it with decency ; and that he was not bound to name whom he alluded to, per to make any excufe, but fuch as he might think proper to make. Mr. HORNER Paid, if it was not too late, be would with the words to be taken down. The SPEAKER faid, that in cafes when any thing had intervened before it was &fired to take down the words, it was ton late to make fuck a motion. Mr. SHERIDAN wilhed to know Whether he had rightly comprehended what the Hon. and Learned Do&or had (aid ? He underftood him to fay, that a Noble Lord, a Privy-Councillor to his Majefty, had attempted to .fubvert the Proteftant religion. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman ought, therefore, to name him, that he might be proceeded again as fuck a crime deferved. _ Lord HOWICK apprehended the order of the Houk was made for the purpole of conducing the de bates with decency and decorum ; and therefore, that the name of a Memberof that Houfe was not allowed to be mentioned in the difcullion of any fubjen under confideration. If that was the cafe, he looked upon it as much more diforderly to mention the name of a Member of the other Houle, as it might be the means of creating animofities between the two branches of the Leginature. He thought, therefore, he was Orinly jullified in calling upon the H u. and Learned Donor to name the Noble Lord he had alluded to; for fuch was his high refpen for that Noble Perron age, that he could not fit Hill, and hear fuch a charge made, without taking the notice of it he had done. Mr. CANNING laid, that whatever might be the intemperance of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman behind him, he did not think he had been fo diforderly as to be called upon to name the Noble Lord be :aided to. For his own part, he declared he had not an idea whom he meant : and he hoped the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would take notice of what had fallen from the Chair, that he was not obliged either to name the party, or to make any other cxcufe than he fhould choofe. Mr. GRENVILLE laid, it was impoffible for him to believe, till he heard it from the Speaker, that the Hon.and Learned Gentleman, after the charge he had made againft a Peer of the realm, fhould not be obliged to name that Noble Lord to whom he had alluded, that he might be proceeded againft as the nature of his offence required. The SPEAKER Paid, it then became his duty to difcharge the funitions of his office. As he7under flood the order cf that Houle, it was not allowable to mention the name of any Member, at that might tend to create altercation, and to interrupt the hat mony and decorum of debate. He always under flood, however, that it was competent to any Mem ber of that Houle, in the conrfe of his speech, to allude to the tranfaEtions and conduit of any public Minilter of this country, fo as be did it in decent terms ; and that in fo doing he was not obliged to name the party, nor did he thereby commit any tech nical violation of the orders of the Houle. Dr. DUIGENAN then exculed hir.sfelf, on the ground that men were often led by the heat of debate to fay things, which in the moment of cool reflation, they were lorry for having uttered. Sir S. ROMILLY Paid, it was not his intention to take up at any great length the time of the Houle, and be therefore wifhed to draw their attention to what was the real quettion before them, which he thought bad for fome time been loft fight of. It was in fat an abfirat propofition, involving in it a quef. tion of the higheft importance to the people, and to the Sovereign. He had heard fuch datrines deli vered that evening, in arguing the prefent question, as made him doubt whether he had not forgotten, or whether he had not miftaken all he had hitherto read, refpeiting the confiitution of this country. His Right Hon.aad learned Friend had allowed that his Majesty's late Minillers were difmilfed, becaufe they would not give a pledge not to bring under his Majelly't notice,in any way whatever, the claims or petitions of his Ma jefty's Roman Catholic fubjeas of Ireland. If he tin. dertiood the conftitution sightly, it would have been a high crime and mifdemeanour in any Milliners, to have given filch a pledge. He always underficiod. that one of the firtt and fundamental maxims of the fi contlitution was, " that the King can do no wrong." If Ministers, therefore, were to comply in giving filch a pledge, it would be a direct breach of the conftitu. lion, as it would be divesting themfelves of that re• fponfihility which forms the balls of the maxim, and devolving it on the King. His Right Honourable and Learned Friend had laid, that this was bringing the Sovereign to the Bar of the Houfc, for the purpolt of conveying an implied cenfure on his Ma jelly's ufe of his prerogative, in the undoubted right he had to difmifs fuch of his fervants asR he fhould think proper. He allowed his Majefty bad an un doubted right to exercise all his prerogatives, and the c vidlion only was as to ihofe who advifed the evelcife of that alludet to. His Right Honour able and Learned Friend, in fupporting the new do trines on the Conftitution, which be bad adopted, had undertaken to fay, the King bad no adrifers on this meafure ; but however great his refpeit was for his Right Honourable and Learned Friend, he could not well believe this was the cafe— for his blajefly mull have tome advifers, otherwife he had charged himfeif with a refponfibility which the Conftitution did not allow of. He acknowledged the King might by law call any man to his Councils, and ads ife with any man he might think proper. He might call to his Councils a man whom that Houk had not long fence declared had not their confidence [A waiter /al cry of Hear s haw !] His biaielly might caudally by law do this ; but thofe who advifed it were refpon(ble for it, and ought to be made fo. It might, perhaps, be faid that this cenfure of the Houle had been in Come degree mitigated, by the party alluded to having heen tried and acquitted ; yet, notwithtlanding this ac quittal, none of his noble or honourable friends had evinced fufficient courage to come forward and move that thole Refolutions be refcinded. However, though thofe circumftances might tend to mitigate the buff. nefs, he could not anfwer how that Noble Lord could enter another Honk, and fee the countenances of all around him, without reading the awful fentence of " Guilty soon my honour." Mr. S. STANHOPE here (poke to order, on the ground that Sir S. Rornilly was doing what had juR been cenfured in Dr. Duigenan. Mr. WARD reminded the Houfe that the SPEAKS& had determined that Dr. Duigenan was not out of order. Sir S. ROMII.LY proceeded with obferving, that if Minliten gave loch a pledge as that required, they might do fo in other cafes, and his Majefty might be left without any refponfible oilers. It was but too well known, he Paid, what had in former dmes been the dreadful effeeta produced by Democracy, in conk goatee of foch criminal conduct. He had not the fmalleft Inters tice even to infitmate, that his Majefty had not the higheft refpedt for the Conftitution •on the contrary, he believed it was the 'Aft neareft his bean to preferve it pure and untainted. He felt fig his Majefty all the gratitude and affetftion which his Majtity's confidence, lately placed in him, to naturally and fo line-etch , in fpired. It was his *dollen albne of whom he complained. After the documents rcatgby his Right Honourable and Learned friend, be hoped the Honourable Gentleman under the gallery would not ,is vote for the order of the day, as be had laid, he only did fo bacaufe be was not informed by the motion In what terms this was couched. If the late Miniftry were difmiffed becaufe they would not give a pledge, it remained for his Right Honourable and Learned Friend to explain hereafter - how the prefent Minlltry came into office without giving any Inch pledge. He was lorry an attempt had bees made to embitter the repore of the country by letting up the cry that the Church was in danger. His Right Honourable and Learned Friend had laid he would Rand bj his Sovereign at a time when the Eftablifbed Religion of this country was threatened by the attempts of the Roman Catholics. He bad the high& refped for his Right Honourable and Learned Friend ; he had long lived in habits of the ftrideft intimacy with him; welt knew his numerous private virtues; which he greatly revered, and he could not but caution his Right Honourable Friend to beware how he gave way to that argument. He would entreat him to re tied ferioufly on the fuhjed, not while smidft the fpkndid allure ments of a Court, but in the hours of toter meditation, and when furrounded by his numerous pledges of conjugal affection, to confi der what may be the future confequer,ces to them,amongft the reft of the people of this country, if, unfortunately for it. the kourge of religious animofities were again let afloat, and we fhould again be affiidted with all chafe evils, the bare idea of which was fufficient to make a thinking man (budder with horror. Mr. BRAOGE BATHURST Paid, this was the firft change of Miniftry, in his time, in which the particular conduct of the King was called in queftion. The fupporters of the motion difelaimed all idea of involving his Majefty in the difeuffion; but it had, not withftanding, that tendency; and it was to that effect he objeded. Sir P. MURRAY expreffed his entire concurrence in the fen. timents of the Honourable Gentleman who bad juft fat down. In anfwer to foot: obfervations which had fallen from the other fide of the Houle, be fbould only fay, that the Hon. Member (Sir Samuel Romilly), bad given vent to a fpirit not lets rancorous than that which he had condemned in another (Dr Duigenan.) The great and exalted friend (Mr. Pitt) of the Noble Vileount (Melville), thus bitterly attacked, had not exerted his great in fluence and power to protect his Lordftdp ; and, therefore, it was not furprifing that the aecufing party, aided by faction, and tak ing advantage of the falfe rufpicions fo milehievoufly circulated, mould have fucceedtel in their attempt. The Learned Member had laid, that the word guilty mutt echo in his Lordffiip's ears, but why not the word acquittal? How far. he alked, would that Oentlemars carry his paffion for blood and pundhotent ? Yes, it was the acquittal that tortured him, mesa alta sande rep/from He Could not forgive, even after a laple of fo much time, an ac quittal in fpite of all his exertions. The Gentlemen on the other fide lavilhed praifes upon his Majefty, and at the fame time would charge that he had fecret advifers ; thus infinuating that his Ma- Jay was not capable of exereifing his cookie:lce, or adting from the dietates of his own mind. He believed, however, that the ronduet and firmnefs aeon by his Majefty upon this occafion, would prove the contrary. Sir S. ROMILLY explained. Mr. WHITBREAD, in a long and argumentative fpeech, ob. ferved, that the dodtrinea inculcated by the other fide of the Houle, were a grofs mifreprefentatlon of the Conftitution, or that the Conititution was an empty name. There wassot one mo ment, he contended, from that on which the King puts the Crown upon his head, until his demife, in which tome perfon is not re fponfible for his Majefty. The prefent Minifters, under all the eireuzultances in which they came into power, were refpor.fible in the prefent quettion. The Conftitution held them liable, and if in anfwer to an Addrefs to his Majefty, requefting him to name his advifcr, he mould fay, he had none ; it would be the duty of the Hoare not to be fati'ficd with this anfwer, and to nettle the prefent Minifters. His Friends had been unfitted for introducing the King's name ; but who were the aggreffors ? ( Hear ! bear 1) little Champion of the Church of England (Mr. Perceval) had not made a cry of Popery, and the Church in danger ; if an alarm was not attempted to he excited of the repetition of the bloody leans that difgraced the age of bigotry ; and if garbled =trade from papers that ought to have been kept Cured, had not bees made public, it might have been avoided ; but the Champion of the Church having done this, and his (Mr. Whitbread's) Hon. Friends, having the King's cadent to vindicate their coodudt, it became peccary that they mould do fo ; and if the Champion of the Church, who Rands more in need of the Church's fupport, than the Church does of his ; if that Right Hon. Gcntlearan, now • no longer learned, finer he had facrificed his profeffion, and beczane a martyr to his duty to his Sovereign, Is afraid that the Catholics gill wam their hands in Protatant blood, he has none but Modell to blame for there confequences. After obferviog upon the em bamffment which the prefent Miniflars nauft feel, route of whom had formerly pledged themfelvcs to the Catholic queftion, be Hon. Member proceeded to Rate, that the meafore could not be a violation of the Coronation Oath; for, in that event, it malt haws been equally violated by former come/Bons tothat clafs of his Ma. jefty's I uhjeCts ; the difabilities of the Catholics having been inflic ted futifequent to the framing of that oath. With refped to the cafe of Vifcount Melville, he mould ever veiled upon it with pride; and be was furprifed to find, that his Lordetip bad been called to Mn 11/I.is4v's Counoll.. with th• Rofolutions a za lea _him feinded upon the journals. If loch were the tad, he amid ape hefitaie to fay, that Minifters had advlled the King to do that which was diftelpedful to the Houfe, and difpleafing to the coon. •try ; Mr. Pitt having allured the Houle, that while tefe to anyßcfolu- , dons Mould remain unrefeinded, Lord Melville's return office of trail, power, or emolument, was impolible. The prefect motion, be admitted, if carded, tuuft be followed by others. It is the right of the Crown, no doubt, to ehoofe its MinLftersAut Per. li moot have alfo a right to expzefs their opinion upon its elate& Mr. BATHURST, in explanation, laid that be did not idiot ' that•the Houfe might not interpole to advik the Crown in oho like the prelate. • Mr. ROSE contended. that there was no refpoofilde advffer of the Crown, when his Majcfty called for the pledge from the late Minifters. lord HOWICK Taid. he &add occupy but a (Mall portion of the time of the Houk; yet in a quenion perfonally affedling him felt fb nearly. It was impolAble for him to fair the Houk to fe parate without making a few obfervations The prefent debate had been concluded in a way extremely painful to him; he bad beard the moft uneoaltitutiontd dodtrines, and he had heard the King's name molt unconnitudonally employed. What had hap pened He bad Rated to the Houk the cafe of himfelf and his colleagues; that ihteMClt was not impeached, and there was not a word to It incontinent with what amid be capeaed from a dutiful fervent to an indulgent wafter. A pledge was required, and Minifters Could not to honour give that pledge. Mach bad been Paid of keret advice, and it was right to be plain in the mu tat eircumftances. He believed there bad been pains taken to poifon the Royal mind He knew nothing what advice was given ; but thus much he knew, that Lord Eldon had an audience on the Saturday preceding the day on which he fent down a difpatch, with the whole of the mature, regarding the Catholic DOL.— Afterwards, Lords Fitton and Hawkelbary were feat for by his bfakfty, and proceeded from the King to the Dam of Portland, to form the new Adminittratlon. Then there two Noblemen, aK felt, were refpcsfible for the proceeding. Lard Sown could not jultify bindelf by hying, • He did sot fign the partition treaty; that, on the contrary, he it: he put the feel to it, and was damedrefpon fi ble." -I t t i f ed ere were miens why no pledge could be gives. in juftles to the King and his empire. The dangers in Ireland bad bens molt ably Rated by a Right Honourable and Leased Gentleman, and it was not neceffary, therefore, to detail them. The Catholic Bill having been with • drawn, other matures weft be retorted to; and be bad no diffi culty in Rating, that It was propofed in the Cabinet to make Come new regulations regarding tither. It was well known that the tithes in that country was one Glebe molt fruitful fources of pub lic dircontent. An Hon. Gentleman bad argued, that it was Come what extraordinary that dikontents iheuld exift among the loweft orders of the fri th Catholics, end • yet the boon propoial was inn for the higher orders. But to this he would an(wer, that the realm why the great nub of the Catholic population in Ireland had not come forward of late years to fund& its vas totbe Mili tary fervice of the country, was becaufe the higher orders were not allowed their rank in the ferviee, and that, in confequence, their influence was withholder" from recruiting for that fervice.. A Learned Dodtor, under the Gallery, (Duigenan) dented the fad of any deficiency in the recruiting fervice being felt on this account ; for that 3 Aida of the army railed in Ireland were &dually Proteft ants. If this itatetnent were true, it was in fupport of the roes lure propofed; for if out'of the military raifed in Ireland 3.4ths were Proteftants, and i-4th only Catholies,where the proportion of po pulation was exadly the contrary way, it was proof irrefragable that the Catholic population of Ireland did not turnifh its propor tion to the public fervice. He was willingto give credit to eßfght Hoc. Gentleman, (Mr. Peaccvet.) when, for the part he had taken on this fubjedt, he difclaimed all illiberal motives; but yet ' from hie avowed jundtion with parties out of doors, end the lan guage of advertifemeuts and band bilis addreffed to his anat. tuents at Northampton, It would appear that bane little exertion bad been made by him to,ralfe a cry of religious rancourtn the i. country. Woman admired more than he did amen 'of trely religi ons principles. becaufe filch a man mutt be difpofed to inculcate 'menet his neighbours and fellow-fubjeds all the feelings of mu tat toleration charity, d benevolence ; but of all the -mil -1 chievom char a de which feft human fociety, that man was the molt tobe detefted, wh , with religion on his lips, and ran cour and intolerance in hi( heart, fought for the purpofes of per fonal advantage and temporal Jute-reit, to excite amongft his fellow-fubjedis fanatical hatred and bigoted difte.ntions. In the year dot, that Right Hon. Gentleman was Solicitor-General, under the Adosiniftration of Mr. Pitt, then in favour of a com plete emancipation to the Catholics; but he was totally at a las to reconcile his avowed principles on that day with his conduct at prefent. Upon the fame ground, be was at a Infs to account for the prefent principles Grebe Noble Lord oppofite toelins(Lord CAP TLlllt ZAGS) who had before quitted elite with Mr. Pitt, beaufe he could not carry the queftion of complete Catholic etaaaci pation. Lord Howica concluded by fupporting the motion. Mr. CANNING, in a. fpeech of coofiderable length, epporetU the motion, and denied that his Majefty's prefent Minifters, who were not more than a fortnight in power, could be juftly charged with refponfibility for the difiriffal of his Majefty's.Mlnifters, which had been a meafure refolved on Si weeks ago. He would not difavow that he joined with his late Friend (Mr. Pitt), fa the with of effedliag what was called Catholic Emancipation and be cordially approved the fubfequent conduit of that illulttiaus Pee.' fat: for though he bai quitted power, becaufe he could not carry that nicafure in the way he winked, yet fo far from feeling himfelf bound, as an individual Member of Parliament, to persevere in preffiog it, contrary to the with of his Sovereign, he bad pledged himfelf never to urge it more, Co long as he th ould conceive his Majefty's mind averfe to it. He declared that Co far was he from advifing the late difaiiffal of his Majefty's Mittifters, fo loon as be underftood fuck an intention was formed. be bad communicated his fentiments in writing,with a view to prevent, if poffihle, loch a cats, and to adelfe that the fubjcet Gould be fully confidered, and, if poffible, fuch a compronalfe formed as fhould obviate all neceffity for futh a change. He could anfwer for a finsilar endeavour en' the part of the Noble Duke now at the head of Adminiftration, and of a Noble Lord at the head of the law, and that it was not until the Royal Determination" as formed, and that he and many of his colleagues were called on to accept his Majefty's confidence, and they complied. He wadi:red the prefent queftiou net as one between the late and the relent Adminiftration, but as one between the late Minifters and their Sovereign, whom they now brought to be reponfible at the Bar of the Houle of Commons, and endeavoured to commit the King with the Parliament. For the advice of reftoring Lord Melville to his Majefty's Councils, he was ready to take his (hare of refponfibility : but he thought fuch a recommendatili would have come much better from the Hon Gentleman, and his friends, who had concluded a laze pro ft:anion spina. that Noble Lord to a fortunate acquittal. He would only trouble the Hook refpeding one point more, namely, the effedt which the fueeefs of this motion was likely to pt4duce..--. It was fuppored that it would lead direct ly or collaterally to the re moval of the prefent Adminiltration. Now this was a point upon which he could by no means agree with the Noble Lord. In his opinion, it would produce no fuels eget% Neither he nor his col leagues fought for office, but having accepted it, they did to with the mfolution of Rending firm to - their purpote. The mod= might be carried, and Minikes might be tormented by a ferias of vexatious motions. Parliament might be a .aloft them, but Rill there was the refouree of an appeal to the country, and perhaps he would fal it to be his duty to advife his Sovereign to make its Lord HENRY PETTY, in a fpeech of gnat warmth sod ani mation defended the conduit of the late Miniftry. He was alto. Mated that the merit of confiltency of coodudt had been claimed Irr the pretest Minifters. How could that claim be fupported w any grace by the Right Hon. Gentleman oppofitc an particular, (Mr. Perceval)—That Right Honourable Gentleman bad effaced, in his late circular addrefs to the Electors of Northampton, that be was called upon in confequence of the oath be bad taken at entering upon the legal part:eon. to Rand by and fupport the Church and State, which was bow in danger. Was it not in the recolledion of the Country, however, that in am. when Mr. Pitt's Cain& Bill was introduced, this champion for Church and State was mauling, or in fed, had not then discovered the nature of his moral duties 1 When he looked round, be was confident that the vote of this day would go forth to the country faudioned by a large majority, approving of the conduct of his Majefty's late farms while in office. _ Mr. CANNING explained, but we could not learn the nature of his explanation, in confequenet of the loud and Met Cant cries of (bullion I Ctiettion! which completely drowned his voice. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Hot& di vided. The Numbers were— For Mr. Ossoates Amendment, for palling to tbel ng Order of the Day, Againft It, and for Mr. BRAND'S . 226 Majority in favour of the New ?Vanillas, 32 While Lord Howicit's party were in the Lobby, his Lordfhip addreffed them nearly in the following manner 0 . 1 Gentlanav—Before we feparate this morning, I have a few words to fay: It is extremely probable that the Motion of my Honourable Friend (Mr. Brand) will be carried by a majority ; 11 ...• a-threat has been said out by his Majefty's Minifters, of a Diffolution of Parliament. In the event of furls s areas to"( at- tempted to be =mud, It will be expedient to max it the adoption of a refolution, or an addrefs to the Throne. (Near Hear I Hear !) Gentlemen, 1 have no hebtation ha !Tint, that fuck a threat is unparalleled in the annals of Parliament...(l/ra! Heal) After the divifion had been arintfunered, as above ' the Heide adjourned, at Seven o'Cloek this morning (Friday.) LONDON., FRIDAY, APRIL zo. PRICK OF STOCKA THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 pa Cent. Cased., 641—thuolubs 1 pr. 3pa Cent Reduced. 62f 63 The Hoare of Commons was uncommonly crowded during the Debate reported in our preceding coltunnr. Thole in the habit of. attending Parliament for thek 30 years path, never witueffed a greater number, ei• tfier of Members of Parliament in the Houfe, or firangers in the Galleries. The doors of the latter were thrown open fo early as Twelve o'Clock yeller day, at which time the crowd that rufhed into the Gallery was immenfe. • Many perfons were nearly pretred to death in 'the avenues, and obliged to be carried out, while many of thofe who had been Co fortunate to find their way into feats, being nearly tuffocated by bent and protium were obliged to givc up their places and lease the Honfe by pafGag through the Members' Gallet ies. At one time during !tie debate, there were upwards of 500 Members prefent, 484 of whom remained until the divifion at feven o'clt.ck this morning, when the New Adrniniftration had a majority of 32, an event which teemed not to have been at all antici pated by the late Miltifters. The great attention paid by the Members, to one of the molt animated debates we ever witneffed, was highly interelting. The principal new point advaLced refpeeing the pledge required from the late Minillers, wa s put in a pretty ftrong light by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who Rated, that no pledge-was required of the late.Adminiftration, till they had tlumfelves required from his Majefty implied pledges and fti p dations, that he would allow them to renew f im il ar roplfitions when they might think it neceff ry f , to do. We underflood him to mein, that h.) fuck ,pledge would have been required from them, if they had limply allowed the meafurs to dro.), withcut tbemfives talking of ftipulations. The Thetis. and Trafalgar, from Jamaica, are rived at Liverpool : they parted from the fleet, and afterwards fell in with the Saw rsow man of war from St. Helena with Twenty-feven fail of Eafi Indiamen, &c. under convoy—kept company with them fot 'Tome days, and parted from them in the Channel. The letter: by the MSRCURY packet from I ta li a were delivered out yeaerday afternoon. They coo. 6rm what we have already hated, that every thing remained quiet and no apprehenfions were entertained of a Blahratta or any new war. Before the Msactray failed a fhip had arrrived from Malacca, with afa account that on the aft of o:tober an Arab velel had arrived there in fourteen days from Batavia, and had communicated the intelligence of a very fetious infurreetion ha►ing takea place *mope the Javanefe at Cheribon ; that the Dutch Government had detached a large force (tom Batavia, conning of Javanefe and French tronpi s to the affiliance of the garrifon, and that of the former above woo had gone over to the harm-gents. / Letters of the 3d inR: were received from Holland yefierday afternoon, by a refpeEtable Houfe in this city. The report which we mentioned in our Paper of Saturday laft (the 4th inft.) is again mentioned in thefe letters; which Rate, that another defperate battle was fought in Poland on the 23d ult. which tetrninr ted in the complete defeat of the Ruffians. The fame intelligence, agrceing in date, having been Thus twice received from Holland, we begin to fear there may be fame foundation for the report ; and that, poilibly, the firing at Boulogne, on Tuefday laft, %vas to an. nounce the vidtory claimed by the enemy. We hope, however, that, fhould fuch an engagement have takes place, the Ruffian account of the refult will afford us ground to believe, that the enemy's viltory was one of that defcription, which, if repeated a few times more, will defray bis army. Her MAJESTY yeflerday held a Drawing Room which doled about five o'clock. It was more nu. meroufly attended than any this feafon. FALMOUTH, APRIL 7.—Sailed left evening, his Majefty's brig Columbine, of IS guns, with about thirty fail under convoy, for Quebec and Newfound. land ; the William Bore-Ship, TROUNCI, for Berma• da ; the America, Cousoari a, for New Brunfwick; and this day his Majefty's Chip HUMBER, Captain HILL, with the Mercury Eaft India Packet, under convoy, for the Downs ; the Walfingham Packet, Itosaats, with two Mails for Lifbon; and the Anse. rican (hip Parnafus, Captain HoLtsti co, for London; She arrived this day from New York, with flour-59 days paffage.—Arrived the Cyrus, from Bourdeaus, with brandy, bound to Bremen, detained by his ga. jetty's Slip DIANA, of 36 guns, Captain MILLING; the Weft India Blip Indefatigable, Captain °snow, from Jamaica, to wait convoy for London.—Paffen. Ers by the Walfingham Packet Meffrs. Yotrao, WAILD, LISTER, and Paulus ; Mrs. PAIMIR and Mifs Wane. PORTSMOUTH ) APRIL 9.—Nothing arrived or failed this day.—The outward-bound WeR India fleet re. mains at St. Helen's, waiting a fair wind. DIAL, Aram 9.--Sailed from the Downs IA night, the Par.vaa gun brig, with the Ranger, Navy teanfport ;the Lady Caftlereagh EaR Indiaman, and feveral other outward bound valets for Portfmouth: the Taunton Cattle and Surat Cattle Eaft Indiamtn, and the relt of the outward-bound Coafters and Col liers, failed from the Down. this morning, without convoy, for Portfmonth. Arrived from the weltward and failed for Sheernefs, the Bonarra Hoop of war. Came down from the River leveret outward bound veffels, and remain in the Downs with the reit of the !hips as per la& Wind S. W. Yeaerday Vice Admiral Rosner valved here from Sheemefs, and early this morning twitted his flag on board his Ma jetty's fh;p Palaces, or Oaamos, in the Downs. Salutes were fired, and Admiral HOLLOWAY (hilted his flag from the Parscsss or Oaamoa to the Isis, in which thip he proceeds to Newfoundland, to take the command of that Ration. I Arrived the Suasion* frigate from a crnize. YARMOUTH APRIL 9.—Arrived to join the North Sea Fleet the Assaussesom b and from a ensile the MALABAR and Roar men of war. Sailed on a cruize the Nassau. 64 guns, FORRISTIR Hoop, and Fiast gun.brig. Ships remaining MAJISTIC, MALA• BAR, MINOTAUR, NAMUII, ORION, RUST, Aoanas• non, AGINCOURT, Rosaucz, and CRISCINT, fri• gates ; CONSTANT gun-brig, and two Cutters..... Wind W. LONDON: Printed sad publiihed by LEVEL KENT, (olCsa. tetbury-Pbee, Lambeth) at the Seaa-Ortica, N& r, Cane/• firect. Pploo6ol ms at ifs STU-01M% Twirler. il