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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. • HAGUE, JULY 54. M. Van Hooft, CommiffAry General of the King of Holland, arrived on the sd infant at Frielland and Jevern, and held his folemn entry in that city. On that day the Dutch colours were hoified for the firft time on all the fleeples and public buildings, and the whole town refounded with acclamations of " Long live the King of Holland." TILSIT, JULY 6. The Emperor Alexander, the King of Pruflia, the Queen, OF Grand Duke Conftantine, Prince Henry of - Pruflia, the Prince Royal of Bavaria, and the Grand Duke of Berg, dined together on the 6th intl. at the Emperor Napoleon's refidence in Tilfit. WARSAW, JULY 7. It is already known that by virtue of one of the articles of the treaty of peace, concluded between France and Ruffia, the late Polifh provinces that have been conquered by the vielotious arms of Na poleon the Great, will not again fall tinder the do minion of his MajeQy the King of Pruflia. It is raid their Imperial Majefties will go from Tilfit to Konigfberg. The Polifh fquadron of Guar3s, under the command of Colonel Krafinfki, have already ar rived in the latter city, to wait the orders of the Monarch, who has permitted him to ferve near his perfon. The Emperor Napoleon has iffued the following decree : " Camp at Finkenftein. July 4. " Napoleon. Emperor of the French and King of Italy, " Au we with to reward the Cervices which have been afforded us by many Polith Officers, we have, and do decree as follows : " I. The Polith Government Commiffioners fhall appropriate domains to the value of twenty millions Tournoii, to he at our difpofal for the benefit of the individuals of the Polith army, and as property to be bellowed upon thofe who have rendered us the molt fervlcc. " 11. The Rate of thefe domains &all be communicated by the Polith Minifter of the Interior, to M. Vincent, our Commiffioner with the Government, within the courfe of five days, in order that we may proceed further in the bufinefs. " 111. The Commiffioners of the Eolith Government, and our Cornmiffioner who ads with them, are charged with the execu don of this decree. (Signed) " NAPOLEON." HAMBURGH, JULY t 6. An Eflafette, difpatched by General Clark, arrived here at two o'clock yeflerday afternoon, and has brought to M. Bourienne, the French Milliner Pleni potentiary, the important news that Peace between prufliA and France was (igned at Tilfit, the 9th of this month, and ratified on the following day. STATE PAPERS. CIRCULAR TO NOTE FRO IHE BELMIUE.RENT THE COURT POWERS. •OF VIENNA, L Vicuna, April 3, iBo7. " The Emperor Francis T. e-_ , uld not fee, without the greateft regret, the revival of war left Autumn, between his Majefty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, and his Majefty the King of Pruffia—and he was loon after more deeply affeded, to fee hoftilities extend, and fall upon a great part of Europe.— If guided by a principle of Midi and rigorous impartiality from the bra, his imperial, Royal, and Apoftolie Majefty has had the good fortune to maintain in thefe !tansy periods his fyftem of neutrality, and to preferve his people from the misfortunes of war, he has not the leis lamented the calamities which were niul tiplied around his dominions--and in his juft fear for the tranquil lity and feeurity of his kingdom, he could not conceal from him. Pelf, either the perpetually recurring alarms on his frontiers, or tke finift r effsdts experienced by feveral branches of its internal Ad aainiftration• The Emperor invariably animated by thc fame difpo fitions, bad no other view from the commencement, and during the courfe of hoftilitles, than to labour to bring about a reconciliation, to avail himfelf of every favourable opportunity to put an end to the misfortunes of war. He conceived that the heft mode of at- Virg this falutary objedt, was conftantly to imprefs upon the Bel igerent Powers his fentiments of moderation and conciliation, and ftudioufly to endeavour to excite iu them correfpondent dif potations. " The confidence which a profped fo consoling infpires, the general wellat e and the interefts of his own States, make it the duty of his Majefty to preterit to the Belligerent Powers his friendly in is and, in confequenee, he does not hefitate eoninsunicate to the offer of his mediation and good offices. g' But, confidering the extended and complicated nature of the prefent war, the Emperor would feel that he had but imperfedly exprrffed his ardent wilhts for peace, and his hopes of its (peed) , and complete re eftablifhment, if he did pot declare, at the fame time his firm convidion, that it can be only by the united atten tion of all the Fowers concerned in the war, and by a general ne gotiation which fhould comprehend their rtfpeetive intertfts, that permanent tranquillity, and fuch a folid and durable pale,: as may for the future, confirm the political relations of Europe, can be ettabliftted. " Front this ftrnng imprtffion, which the franknefs of his Ma Jelly's charader will not allow him to conceal, his Imperial Majefty feels it to he his duty to communicate this pacific overture to thofe Cabinets who are to take a part in the conferences—and, in confe quence, he Imams equally to invite the Courts of St. Peterfburgh, London, and the Thuilleries, to adopt the fame views of concilia don; and to enter into negotiations for peace, in which the molt important concerns of all the parties intertfted may be combined, as far as it is pollible. " The Emperor has ezprefted his cornett with to fee peace Te en:bitched. He will not allow himfelf to fugeeft the particular form of the negotiations, ftill lefs to anticipate the intentions of other Powers, or to carers any opinion refpeding the prelimina ries which it may be neceffary to lay down, in order to eitablith the principles of the firft approzimation between the Belligerents. " His imperial Majefty, notwithitanding, in the hope that the friendly diet . of his interpofition will be regarded in the manner that the rectitude of his intentions inclines him to think it will, battens to propofe, for the purpofe of facilitating by his interpo fition the opening of the negotiations, fuels place in his dumini one as, from its fituation and locality, may he convenient to all parties, and which, on this account, Mould not be too contiguous to the theatre of war—and in this, as well as in all other points, the Emperor will feel the greateft pleafure in contributing to acre taste the period of fo definable an union." ANSWER OF THE COURT OF FRANCE. Warfaw, April 19, 1807. " The Underfigned Minilter for Foreign Affairs has loft no time In laying before his Majefty the Emperor and Ring, the Note which his f s ellency General Baron de Vincent did him the ho nour of addreffiog to him on the 7th of this month. " His Majefty the Emperor Napoleon accepts for himfeif and his Allies the friendly interpofition of his Majefty the Emperor of Maria, to iffeCt the re-eftabilihment of peace, fo need:Cary to all nations. a ills Majefty has only one fear : it is, that the power who hi therto feems to have laid it down as a plan to found its elevation and greatnefs upon the divifions of the Continent, will endeavour to extradt from the Corgrefs which may be formed new fulled* of irrita•ion, and new pretexts for difagreement However, a mode which holds out a hope of (topping the further autism of blood, and of affording conflation to the bofoms of In many fami lies, ought not to be rejeaed by France. who, as all Europe knows, was forced againft her inclination into the prefent war. " His Majefty the Emperor Napoleon finds, moreover, in this circumflance, a favourable opportunity of ftrongly exprclEng the • e nfidenee with which his Majefty the Enweror of Aulitia has ir4tred him, and the defire hr has to fee Mote conneetious re trio blithed between the two nations, which in ether times produced their mutual profperity, a•-d which, at this day, could more than any thing rife ronfulidate their trar.quillity and happinefs. a The Underfigned happy in the opportunity of expreffirg thefe fentiments in the name of his Moat Sovereign. renews to his Ex • cellency General Baron de Viocert the affurances of his enoft high confederation. (signed) a C. M. TALLEYAMIDI Prince of Benevento." PARLIAMENTARI• PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, ICILY 24 Counfel were heard in the cafe of May v. Wharton. The Militia Pay. Adjutant. and Subaltern Bills. Naval Stores Bill, lei& Sugar Bounty Bill, and Compaftionate Lift Bill, wire received from the Commons,and read a Brit time- The Ina Glebe Honfe Ilia went through a Committee. The kith Affeffed Tans Penalties Bill was read a third time, and paired. Oa the motion of Lord Lauderdale, the fecond reading of the Office Reverfion Bill was ordered to be poftponed from Monday to Wednefday next...-Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER acquainted the Houfe, that the petitioners complaining of an undue Eleetion for the County of Kinrofa, had neglected to ewer into the reeognizanees required by the Ad, and therefore the order for the ballot was difcharged. The Stoke Rcdory Bill was read a third time and paired. Mr. JENKINSON moved, that the Committee on the Dove► 1 Pilot Bill do make their report on or before Wcdnefday nest. The delay which had taken place, he Laid, had not been owing to the witneffes nor to the Committee, but from the inilifpenfthle abfence of witneffes. An order was made for the Report to be made on or before Wednefday nest; and silo that the Committee do lit, not withftanding any adjournment of the Houk. The Report of the ctalification Indemnity Bill, and the Exche quer Bills' Bill were feverally brought up and agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time to morrow. The Naval Stores Importation Bill, the kith Spirit Regulation Bill, the !rifts Sugar Bill, and the hies Plate Bill, were feverally read a third time, and paired. Ordered, that the Committee on the Weft India Colonial Trade do report the minutes of evidence taken before them from time to time. Mr.ELLIS brought up the Repart from the Weft India Com• mittee.—.Ordered to be printed POOLE ELICTION. Mr. JEFFERY moved, that the Deputy Clerk of the Crswn do i attend the Houfe on Tuefday next, with the Writ for the late Eledion for the Town and County of Poole; and alfo that the Sheriff of Poole do attend on the fame day.—Ordered. 'I he CofLe Warehoufing Bill was ordered to be recommitted to- morrow. The Curacoa Free Port Bill went through a Committee, and the report was ordered to be received tomorrow. EXPIRING LAWS. The Expiring Laws Bill was committed ; the Chairman ordered to report progrefs, and to alt leave to fit agaitt on Monday. AMaIICAK PRODUCE. Mr. ROSE moved.that on Monday the Houle would go into a Committee of the whole Houle, to confider of the propriety of per mitting the importation of certain articles, the produce of the Co• lonics of North America, to the Welt India Wands, and vice verfa PETITIONS OF PUBLICANS, &e. Mr. SHERIDAN brought up lowa' petitions from the Publi cans, Licenfed PR:Wailers, Sec. of the City of Weft minfter, Ggned by po perfons, but which might have been fignei by to,ooo, if thought neceffary, complaining of the powers enjoyed by Magi ftratis, relative to lieeniing and withholding licences; which being feverally read, the Hon. Member moved, that for the prefent they should lie on the table, and that early in the next week he would announce to the Houfe the propofition he meant to found on them. —Ordered to lie on the table. The Compatlionate Lift Bill was read a third time, and palled. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. Mr. HUSRISSON gave notice, that he would, on Monday, move for leave to bring in a Bill for the compelling Public Ac countants to pay intcrcft for their balances, and for further regu lation of the public accounts. He alfc moved that the Houk would to-morrow refoive Welt' into a Committee of the whole Hoare, to confider the propriety of allowing a bounty on cottons, printed, [tallied, or dyed, exported from this Country to Malta.— Ordered. Mr. HOBHOUSE obtained leave to bring in a Bill gratting feveral duties on cotton yarn and twilt, imported into, or exported from Great Britain and Ireland. The Houfe went into a further confidetation of the report on the Excife Duty Regulation Bill. The Amendments were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday. The Efeheat BiU went through a Committee—the report to• morrow. Mr. HUSK ISSON moved an Addrefs to his Majesty, for an Account of all Sums iffued from the Civil Lift, in eonfequenee of the Addreffts of that Houfe, and not made good by Parliament.— Ordered. The kith Expiring Laws Bill, the Milt Revenue Collettion Bill, and the Malt Duty Regulation Bill fcverally went through a Com mittee, and the reports were ordered to he received to morrow. 'I he Committees of Supply and Ways and Means were poltpo. tied to Monday. ---- - - - - IRISH INSURRECTION SILL. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY moved the com mittal of the Irifh Informs'.lion Bill. Sir JOHN NEWPORT propofed an amendment in the claufe enat9ing that a ferjeant or barriller at law fhould prefide at each of the county meetings for trying offenders under the Bill. The Houfe divided —For the amendment 29—Againtl it 53. Sir JOHN NEWPORT (fated, that grofs abofes, as he knew from local information, had prevailed in the fearching of houfes, particularly with refpelt to females, who had in fome cafes been indecently out raged. He walled, therefore, for an amendment in the claufe refpeding the fearching of houfes after gim let. The amendment which he would propofe was, That the magiftrate thould make out a lift of proper perfons to be employed for this purpofe , for the ap probation of the quarter talons, and that he fhould he refponAble fcr the good behaviour of fuch perfons in the difcharge of their duty. If this could not be adopted, and he forefaw an oblation to it from the 1 chance that perfons fo approved of might not be pre.l fent at the time they might be wanted—he would then propofe that the magiffrates fhould be bound in tht penalty of tool. to fend in the names of the per lons employed to the quarter feffions within 48 hours after they fhould have been engaged in fuch fearch, that he might, in this way, become in fome refped refponfible. A flrong check was necefrary on loch a power as this, and unlefs this amendment, oe fome thing equivzlent to it, was adopted, he woulchoppore the claufe altogether, and divide the Houfe on it. Sir A. WELLESLEY and the CHANCELLOR ( cf the EXCHEQUER had no objedion to the prin ciple of the latter amendment, but waited it lhould be delayed till the report of the Bill, that they might have time to confider whether it could be adopted in confiftency with other necefrary objects. Mr. CROKER propofed an amendment to the claufe, fubftituting inftead cf the words " and in cafe of refufal to enter by force," the following words, 46 and in cafe admittance (hall be refaced ten minutes after being demanded, then fuch magiftrates and their officers, bailiffs, &c. (hall be allowed to break into Paid dwelling by force." Colonel VEREKER difapproved of the words, " ten minutes;" he thought fuch amendments would would go to flitter away the Bill altogether. ' Sir S. ROMILLY was allonilhed, that in the cafe of In ferious a nature as forcible entry into the houfe of the King's fubjeds, a provifion to give that fubjed a realonable time to provide apinft that forcible entry ' I by voluntarily admitting the officer, thould be termed I by any Gentleman in thatHoufe an aticinpt to fritter away the Bill. It was a claufe not fo' much of re .' laxation as of common juflice. Colonel VEREKER explained,. and raid, that there was another oblation to fuch pletille mention i of the time, that uolefs there was moonlight, or that " Provided y r al . way o :, Ibe it further enafted, That w h e n a e dift , tsre baili ff s had lights and watches, it could not be On the following afcertained. the plai.t t i ff in any ration to be bro Colonel BARRY faid, that another objeainn war t gives for_ caufe, juice of the peace, peace officer, that' the majority of Inch officers were not individne egainfl any . . ._ . other pet fun , for taking or imprifoning, or detail ally worth a watch. . on or for feizing arms, or entering h ' • Dr. LAWRENCE ridiculed fuch objeatens. and. any Pell r under colour of any authori t y g iven b y this At con t e nded that the "tea minutes" Ihould be diftinelly lit fh ill appear to the jadge or Judges before fpecified. , The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER i the fame Iliale be tried, that there was a pr doing the aft complained of in fuch had no objedion to the Amendment, provided the I cattle for words " a reafonable time" were put for the words and the C *hall e th f Judge or (hur pla y the th eme all 1 "hen minutes," for if an entire village was to be I cord, then and in that ceheunt fearched, ten minutes waiting at the door of every entitled to more than 6.1. Demages, nor to an; houfe in thatvillage would be an uneonfcionablelength of fuit." of time; he propofed , therefore. the fuleftitution of Mr. BRAND mov ed that the whole Ciao the words " a reafonable time." omitted, as grofsly uniun and unconftitution, Mr. CROKER acquiefced in the fubtlitution pro- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEt admitted that the Classic was not one which le poled by the Right Honourable Ge ntleman. Mr. WH I'l-BREAD and Sir JOHN NEWPORT have wiffied to fee introduced, but when the c ommented forcibly on the vaguenefs of the terms fay of the cafe was confidered—When it we fugge lied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and ex- i lofted that the (late of Ireland required th, preffed their Cuprite that the Honourable Gentleman 1 ultfome and difagreeable duties fhould be inpot with whom the amendment had originated, could I the Magiftrates, which they would be ur.wi be Co readily induced to give up the princip al point Perform, and which, in fee, it would be dal in it. I for them to perform with the zeal and fidelity Mr. LAING inflanced the definite time exprefslyled, unlefs they were protefted from the effeCt limited in the riot aft, and thought the prefent cafe I intention, errors into which, from appearant as more deeply involving the rights of the fubjea, I might be led -= when, in fhort it was confider the difperfion of a lawlefe mob by force of the very Jurors in fuch aCtions of damages might be arms ; he thought the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. I perform ageinft whom it had been neceffat a fur them . Croker) had been indeed hafty in giving way to cer- i to exercife the Enaaments of this Aft, and whole rain authority. 1 minds might, on that account, be inflamed againft Mr. CROKER faidin juftification of himfelf, that ! them ; when all thefe things were confideted, it was he was but a young Member of Parliament, and that I the opinion of thofe bell acquainted with the (late of it was natural for him to bow to authority ; befides, i Ireland, that the Ad mull he imperfealy executed, he thought that the Right Hon. Baronet over the unlefs the Magiftratea were fecured by a Claufe like way approved of the words " a reafonable time.o— the prefent. [Here Sir J. Newport exprefsly fignified his difTent] Sir A. PICOT was decidedly of opinion, that the —However, he was himfelf inclined to think the final Provifinn now objefted to, would be a difgrace to words" ten minutes," better than thofe lag propofed, the flatute book. Were they, by this moll extraor. though he fltould not with to divide the Committee dinary bill, to give extraordinary powers to Magil -1 upon them. crates, and then, after they had exceeded even the Mr. GRATTAN laid, that the Committee were Poweregiven them, to ponce them from the vetclia ;bout to Wren an extraordinary power fomewhere. of a Jury ? If the Right Hon. Gentleman was afraid It ought therefore to be done with caution, but who that the perfons aggrieved might obtain a verdift were the perfons to be invefted with the power ? per- while the country was in a (late of irritation, why haps Come lawlefs mifereant, Come vagabond, or pet- limit the time for feeking redrefe to fix months ? If haps the difcretion of their so reafonable time," was again he was afraid of the infl immable (late of the to be lodged in the bofom of any convenient menial, Jinn& minds, and that they might even have been fume pstillion, coachman, ho her, or ploughboy , parties in the fupp o fed tranfgreffion, the remedy was who under the fanaion of the law was to judge ;gain and eary—to change the venue to a more dillant when it would be a reafonahle time for him to rufb county, where no diffatisfaCtion or irritation of feel. into the apartment of a female, while the was hal- inns had prevailed. It had been raid, that a fimilar tilt' throwing on.her clother, to open the door to this Aft had been intended to be propofed by the late midnight editor ; this would give a wound that Miniftry. He would onl y fa y for one, that be had would be felt long ; it would throw a general odium never been confulted on, nor heard of fuch an inten. about the Bill. If the charafter of the Bill would be lion, nor had he ever feen the prefent bill till yeller. faved, any thing admitting the potlibility of fuch day. If the (fate of Ireland was loch as the Right abufe fhould be facrificed to it. Honourable Gentleman reprefeuted, and that a Jury Mr. JOHN CLAUDIUS BERESFORD faid, could not be lied there whole minds were not in an that a lit-anger who had heard the tall twenty mi- inflammatory Rate, why not take away the Trial by flutes converfation would be apt to fuppofe that the Jury entirely, at lean fulpend it, till the feelings of Irith Magiftrates had a general propenfity to break the people were reitored to a greater degree of calm. open doors and hurt into ladies' bed chambers.— nets and compofurc ? It was a mockery to continue He vindicated the frith Magiftracy, and faid that he the Taal by Jury, and yet to deprive an injured per. did not (peak there as a party man, but as an Irith- fon of the effect of a verdie after it had been given man. in his favour. It was laid, that the Judges of Ireland Mr. ABERCROMBIE was convinced from what were fair, impartial, and upright. He fhould be came within his own knowledge of the neceflity of lorry to doubt it. He believed, that they in common great caution in the cafe row before the Committee. with Judges of this part of the kingdom, with whom He thought it much better to have the time after- he was more intimately acquainted, poffeffed every tained by law. honoutable and upright feeling and quality. But . The SOLICITOR GENERAL thought that the this was a power not to be eintrilled to any man. It Committee was arguing wide of the cafe in point.— was filch a power as the law had teltifed to any Judge The quettion was not about the principle of forcible or any let of Judges whatever. entry, thet was agreed to ; the right ef the domi- The ATTORNEY GENERAL contended, that ciliary vifit was admitted upon all power, and the the enactment now objefted to, was not fo novel as quettion limply was, whether " a reafonable time" the Honourable and Le trued Baronet had fuppofed. were words better fitted for the purpnfe bed in view He confeffed that Plaintiffs in the fituation alluded than the wards "ten minutes"—he for his par; to were to be deprived of the benefit of the Common thought they were, and put different cafes, each of Law—but was not this already the cafe in all rave which he theught bore him out in his opinion ; borne flue queltions ? Where an officer of the revenue was of thofe cafes might not be thought very probable— Cued, nothing but the dry damage fuftained by the bur, finely, any of them were more probable than injured party was awarded againft him. Where it that put by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gran was a queftion of' intention in revenue cafes, and no tan), of the lady or the female in her bed chamber. intention could be (hewn, the Plaintiff could not re. He did not, he conleffed, feel Co nicely on the fubjea cover—and it had been determined, in the cafe of as that Right Hon. Gentleman. Sutton and Jehnflon, that the queltion of " probe. Mr. GRATTAN faid, that the Learned Gentle- We caufe" was a queltion for the Judge. There the man had told the Committee what it ought to argue Defendant would have an acquittal, and of comic 1 upon, and what it ought not to argue upon. It was his cons from the Plaintiff ; here the Plaintiff was good in that Learned Gentleman to give the Com. to have a nominal verdia, even although the Judge I mittee the aid of his infiruaion ; but is the Gentle- was c f opinion that the probable c aufe was with the ' man (faid Mr. Grattan) quite lure of being Wrath. Defendant. The duties which Magifirates would altogether right ? In the firs place, all the other have to perform in the prefent (fate of Ireland, were quettions are not wholly gone by ; for I may agree of a molt invidious nature, and he thought that this to the claufe or its modification, or rejea both, and was not too great an indemnity to allow them in the afterwards agree to or diffent from the principle of difcharge of (itch dutier. the 13111 itfelf. Again, has the learned Gentleman Mr. BOYLE (Solicitor General for Scotland) been right in his Ilatement of the quettion ? He has contended, that the Honourable and Learned Baronet argued on the propriety of veiling the Magiftrate (Sir A. Pigot) had gone too far in treating the pro. with the difcretion of judging of the as t i me reafon. poled refolution as In great a nr,velty, and as fo able ;" but this is not the queltion. It is, whether grievous an infringement of the law and Conairution you veil any commiffioned ruffian with that difcre- of this country. If the Hon. urable and Learned tinn ? Here then the Learned Gentleman initiated Baronet had confulted the Ste u e Bank, he wr old what he was to argue upon ; and then did he even have found that fimilar refolutious as to Ireland had argue fairly on that millatement ?—No ; for he takes been pafl'ed repeatedly before this time, nay that at that as impoffible which I myfelf have known to have this moment fuch formed a part of the law of the taken place—(Hear, bear !)—He fays, fuch ruffians land. If the Honourable and Learned Baronet had as I defcribe could never have been officially em• found the enaftment in queltion Co very obnexieus, ployed; and have made their office the pretence of why did he not come for ward in his official lima i n, wanton outrage—but I have known fuch ruffians to when he was Attorney General, and move that it have been employed, and (Itch outrages to have been be expunged from the Statute Book. He bed no committed—(H ear, other fez has been grofsly obtruded on and wantonly office, agreed with his filen& in ore Minillty . 0 infulted : this was no light matter—there was more thinking the claufe in dif use err enter • ! to the well He ( in that fentiment than a joke could do away—the being of Ireland. VI P rr. Boyle) rerolleeted bin honour of a female in any clefs—it was wrong to in the Houk on the evening when the preterit Bill make it the (*Ojai of • parliamentary jocularity. was introduced, and he remembered perfectly well, Dr. LAWRENCE and Sir S. RQMILLY fol. that Gentlemen on every fide agreed in the nereflity lowed on the fame fide, both Gentlemen Rating that of the meafure, except one i lenoitrable Gentleman, their Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Grattan) had put the whom he now taw in ' his place, (Mr. Sher idan). who quettion in its true light. It was not *livening the declared, h e had no doubt molt v•nfcienciouily Isis blia •1 gi trate, but h y rteye.is menial Bailiff, with a dangerous refolution to oppole the Bill in ever ' difcretion. Mr. WHI MEAD declared. that he had not turd a legal a The ATTORNEY GENERAL replied to Dr. rilftitutional fentiment uttered on the luhjedt. e xcept w ,at had having propofed the all A l augh from Wn M s Hoourable end b• hind bin' (Sir 9 Hrtt) .- Lawrence, and Mr. Lain Amendment in its original orm, Mr. Croker f a id, Lan a:a gl:oo the M inifterial file of the Houle ] 11 , Aire 1 Arm bra opinion. He had indeed heard f,mething like an a dmit as he had not withdrawn his Amendment, t h e , mix at a legal defence of the meafur -, 11 fhtwing that limb fhould not give 'it up. ' . makes alfo prevail-d in revenue queninno But would chat au- The Committee then divided. For the "ten mi- der the power more agreeable to law or to the c. ottotutioo ? Was flutes," 30 ;for " a reafonatele time," —M ii not known and acknowledged, that our Revenue Laws were 71. ejoe Infradtions or our econftitiatbeaai fiber( s ' r " rity, 4 r . , eo, ree wre only tole , a as Rao of Isemffit Alit* ,e. .Indeed, was the o ly llteitipt a Many other dances were gone through, and after ' lndic I° of at n the prefent mr lure. Ihe nett airy of t h e He each undergoing a prettj lon cll . ffi g icu on, leveret venue Laws weinult all be aware of as a g reatr,ve..u , could not Amendments were made. otherwife be expedled to b e levied, but of the ma ffiry of the P" , lent proviGon, be con i c /f e d he wax ' by no areas Cunviaiec.l. :111 i It 212 • ball he p t rough t :et-, 34 aition, I not be raini fa c it cols n ik h rae°h : e unb l t:h c . faaue , R°4eni d of ii :gyElt .41 nllin Is ae necet as recol. ti hat very J pored on v t, a angerous a y requir. Els of un• ices, they ered that to