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FRANCE. FARM APRIL 26. One hundred and forty-five tranfports, with pro ♦iftons and ammunition fur the fleet at Toulon, are arrived at MArfeilles, under the efcort of two (mall armed veffels, from Agde, in the department of Herault. FAUCHI Boast., printer, from Geneva, lapelled of having tormerly been an agent for the French Princes, is now among the prifoners in the Temple, scoured of being an accomplice in the late confpiracy. The new corps of Ire/4mm (tumblers), which the FIRST Consul. has eftablifhed, are defined to as with the cavalry, and to he able to run as fait as the horfes. They will be accuftomed with one jump to leap on the back of a horfe, even when in tull gal -1. -1, and to difmoant its rid:r, &c. They are to be good 6a (hooters, and lightly armed. The com panies of Voltigeurs, inftead of drums, will have each four bunting horns. (your/la/der Lefeaftwv.) In the Great Mall of Audience of the Criminal Tribunal, great preparations are made to accommo date as many fpellators as pollible during the ttials of MOIL KAU, Gsoac as, and the other prifoners, ac eufed of having coofpired againft the Four CONSUL. It is reported, that to prevent all confufion, the Grand Judge will diaribute tickets of admittance, and that no one can enter without fuch a ticket. ' The difagreement between the Duke of OLDEN suaau and the city of Lubeck has been fettled by the interference of the Flair Consul.. In our principal towns, Chambers of Confultation are to be intlituted, where merchants, manufaeturers, and wilts, may confult, without elltence, able men, concerning their affairs or fpeculations. PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. The facral Bills on the table was pared In their retpathe The MR Loan Bill, for two Mi Ekes and a (tarter ; the Eng- RR Loan Bill for Is Millions and a Half; the additional Wine Doty ; the Militia Officers Allowance, and two private Bills, were brought up from the Commons. and read a Grit time. la the appeal from the Court of $c on In Scotland, brought by Heater v. the Earl of Eamon, and othets,the LORD CHANCEL LOR pronounced the Judgment of their Lardlkips, by which the deeibon ot the inferior Court was alma Lord AUCKLAND moved, that a Merge Mould be Cent to the Cameos, debris's a copy of the Report node by their Commit tee relating to the Rate of Ireland. as to its drodating paper and Mtthe murk of exchange between that part of the United and Great Oriole. 06 dittoed= of the Duke of NORFOLK, the proceedings be. lore tilt Committee of Privileges, as to the claim to theatres, o Zona d klanngworth, were deferred to Thurfday the grit WV Adjourned to three o'clock on Friday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. sitArroa took the oatbs and his feat for Durban,. Oa He webs far die tbi!d trading of die Bill for encouraging She Salmon FUbery to the Solway Fria, General OASCOYNE moved, es an amendment. that the Mods loth day of March be left out, and that the a day of Fe • brohi see labitksted in rime thereof, as the time for allowing the sto ftid commonon Aker wervabdon relative to this amendment, Orange,' • were ordered to withdraw. It was afterwards undestood, that the asomboont was net agreed to, and that the Bill was read a WWI does and paffed. A Maass from the Lords snoomeed their Lordbirs' agree ment to the &kith Militia Olken' Bill, and the Englilh Statute Duty Compottion Bill. On the motion of Mr SHERIDAN, the eminderation of the two Mdses rdetive to the Llama Iftedtices, which flood ler to toarrow, was poftpooed to Friday neat. The CoOssittee of Ways and MOLDS was retrained to Friday Mat. Mr. WILBERFORCE retraced his promikd inotko relative to the Slave Trade to Friday fennight. Mr. Secretary YORKE retread the confideratko of the Lords' Amendments on the Yahwism BM till Monday neat ; on which day alto the Army of Rekrve &imams; Bill was appointed to be road a faced time. The ATTORNEY GENERAL, he confemenee of the notice he had given yeterdsy, moved for leave to bring In a Bill for the porpok of renderhy the apprehenflon of offenders clearing from this part of the United Kingdom tom Irdand,and from one coun ty of Ireland into another wore wr y; and the protamion of them some 4: c r edit/one Grant ed. LOID ICILWA R DEN'S FAMILY. " - - 'General LOFTUS took this opportunity of put ting a queffion to a Right Hon. Gentleman oppofite (Mr. Yorke) which he fuppofed be would feel no difficulty in anfwering. His Majefty's Secretary of State had on a former occafinn intimated to the Monti, that it was in contemplation to bring down a Meffage from his Majelly, relative to a provifion for the family of the late unfortunate Lord Kilwar. den. As no fuch meffage had yet been brought down, be withed to be informed of the caufe of the delay. Mr. Secretary YORKE replied, that a meliage on that fubjeft would have been communicated fooner to the Houk, if a fatting had not been expeaed in the Sinking Fund of Ireland, from which the provifion might be made without any dirctl application for the interference of the Hottfe. M•NOVIRIAN TROOPS. Mr. FOX rnfe in purfuance of the notice he had formerly given to the Houfe, to make his motion upon this fubjea. He Paid that what had paled tall year relative to Hanover, would firike the attention of the Houfe in confidering of the propriety of what he was about to fubmit to them. There had been a difference of opinion entertained upon that fubjea, but for his part he viewed the poffeffion of Hanover as a matter of importance andconcerntothecountry ; that the h.fs of it mull therefor! be conlidered as a very confiderable national calamity, was a truth which lie thought could not now be difputed, and he would not take op the time of the Route in difeutfing it. He would content himfelf at the prefent miment by adverting to the circumflance of how far that calamity might have been lamed, by Come further exertions having been tiled, in order to Cave a confiderable part of the army in thole polfelLons on the Continent, from the fituation to which they were reduced, fo as to have enabled his Majefly to have the advantages of their Cervices during the continuance of the war. Under all the circumftances of the cafe, therefote.and fOr tilde beneficial purpofcs,it was molt important that fume meafures fhould have been adopted on the Continent, either to preferve Hanover itfelf from falling ;ow the hands of the enemy, or to preferve the army fir the future fervice of his Majefly. Val ious reports had been circulated upon this fobjea, ar d it was the truth of thole common reports that he winged now ,u afcertain, fo as jo thew to the Houle whether or not the attention of Government had been fulE:iently directed to that important objea. He 11. d, heard, that tranfports had been actually r• k . a t to • VIIVICy over the Hanoverian Army = but he had alto heard, that they bad been 1 much too late in failing for the purpofe of accom• phasing the end propofed. He concluded with making the following motion : " That there be laid before the Houfe an Account of the num ber and Tonnage of the Tranfports prepared by Government for rakini on board the Hanoverian Army; alto an Account of the expellees attending the fame. with a Ratement of the Dates of the firft Orders lent from the Ttanfport Office, for their failing upon that ocsaflpei; and laßly, for Copies of the Orders (if any) Which had been fort by Government for the purpok of countermanding the fading thereof." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER fid he concurred with the Hon. Gentleman who had made this motion, in thinking that the occupa tion of Hanover by the French troops was a great public calamity, and if it had been poffible to have averted that evil, it was, no doubt, incumbent on his Majeßy's Government to have ufed every means for that definable end ; that was a point, therefore, on which he was not at all inclined to detain the Houle ; all he fhould Mk of them was, that they would look back to the Rats of the country at the period alluded to, and that Gentlemen would recol lea the nature of the Treaty of Luneville, and the Convention at Ratifbon. They would find that the war was renewed at a time when no part of the dif pofable force could aOnally have been fent to Han. over, for the purpofe of proteting it. The Conven tion he had alluded to, had been entered into between the powers of Enrope, for the purpofe of guaran teeing the neutrality of the North of Germany.— There could, indeed, have been nothing more bind. ing upon theft powers to refill the incurfions of the French upon that country, and therefore Govern ment had every reafon to rely upon its affording fut. ficient fecurity to his Majelty's poffedions. With re gard to the propriety of bringing thole troops home, he had no objection whatever to epee to the motion in the manner in which it was worded. He was glad to fee the ltyle in which it was conceived, and he looked forward to the produaion of thefe papers ; with the utmott fatisfaaion. Within two days after the commencement of hollilities, • communication had been made with the Eleaoral Minifier, which led to a recommendation on his part, that meafures thould be taken to provide (hipping for the convey- ; ante of his Majelly's troops from Hanover to this country. This recommendation had been made on the 18th of May, and was inßantly ailed upon. In a week from that day an agent had been fent to the Continent for the purpofe of bringing the troops to their Rations. The (hipping was completely in rea diners previous to the time when the older was given for their deftination.. Another perfon had been fent to the Continent for the purpofe of preparing (mall craft to convey the troops to the tranfports ; and be might Rate, that in point of fat, there had been no lets than 36 tranfports prepared. Owing, however, to various circumliances, the Expedition had been hindered from taking place in the manner at firft in. tended. *Thefe circumnances, he hoped, would 0(14 Government in their condia upon that occa. Eton, and on that account he felt no hefitation in agreeing with the motion. On the quellion being put, the motion was ac cordingly carried. _ taus ACIIISCY. Mr. JERVIS obferved, that the 4th Report of the Commiffioners of Naval Inquiry had Rated that there was great impropriety in the condo& of certain Prize Agents in tome inflames. To remedy this evil as much as poffible, by preventing the extenfion of loch praftices, was the objeet of the motion of which he had given notice to the Houfe. When Money lay unclaimed in the hands of thefe Gentle men for any confiderable length of time, there might poffibly be a temptation to them to aft apingt their duty. He thought, therefore, that it would be ad. vifable to eltablifts one General Office where the mo ney should be depofited; that the profits of s per cent. upon the net proceeds lhould be divided be tween that office and their Agents in a given pro portion ; and that the intereft for the ufe of the large (urns which were known to be fo frequently in the hands of Prize Agents fhould not be Coffered to go into their pockets, but should be accounted for to the Captors, in order that they might be benefited as much as poffible in the receipt of the well-earned re ward of their gallant exploits. He should alfo with that the time of payment fhould be made an objeß of more gineral notoriety than it at prefent is. He then moved that leave be giv.en to bring in a Bill to fecore the (peed) , iliflribution of Prize Money, and to regulate the praftice of Prize Agents. Mr. DENT Rated, that the irregularities to which the Honourable Member alluded were only the prac tice of certain Weft India Agents. If the operation of the Bill was confined to them only, he should give it his fupport, but he few no neceflity for the in. troduttion of any general meafure on the fithjea. Dr. LAWRENCE (poke nearly to the fame died. Mr. FRANCIS approved very much of the inten tion of the Honourable Member to expedite the pay ment of Prizes, and to give the net proceeds to the Captors, only dedtifting a regular pet centage. He alto thought it was extremely proper that the Prize Agents lhould not have the ufe of money, which might encourage them w protraft the time of pay ment beyond what was abfolurely neceffary. Bur he thought it fit that the Houle fliould underhand whether any additional expence was to be created to the public by the regulation which the Honourable Member propofed. Mr. JERVIS explained. by declaring that it was not only his own opinion, but was alto that of (eve. ral Gentlemen who had been engaged in the inquiry, that the funds &riling from the net proceeds of the fate of prizes, under the propofed regulations, would be amply fufficient, and that it would not be necef fary to throw any burden upon the State, to defray the expences of carrying the plan into execution. After loom further converfation, leave was given to bring in the Bill. •YLIIRUIT BLICTION. Mr. ROSE raid, he conceived it his duty to fubmit to the contideration of the Houfe,the motion of which lie had given notice, for the purpofe of ordering the Attoiney General to profecute Mr. Bent, on account of the (Otero of bribery at Aylelbury. in which Ile appeared to be deeply implicated. He had heard. that in other refpeßs, Mr. Bent was a merchant of irreproachable charafter and the higheß relpeetability; he thought, however, that in the pretent cafe, it was the duty of the Houfe to order a profecution ; if the fenfe of the Houle however, appear to be agaiull his motion, he had no particel4: with En preffing it. He then referred to the minutes which were on the Table, of the evidence that had been given before the Committee, and particularly to the conduit of Mr. Bent's Agents, among whom be men tioned the landlord of the Crown Inn, Mr. Cole, Mr. Creed. Mr. Wilion. and others. He faid the Aft of the 2d of George 11. notwithilanding its high penal ties, had been found inefficient to prevent the prac tife of bribery at Eleftions, as many Gentlemen bf opulence appeared to be indifferent to the payment of a fingle penalty, and they know how, by friendly pro fecutsons, to avoid any more. If, therefore, that All had been found inefficient, he thought it neceffary to refer to the Standing Order of the Houfe,which Rated. that " perfons guilty of bribery in the Elation of Members of Parliament thould be punifhed with the utmott feverity." As he confidered the penal anions not to be fufficiently revere, he concluded by moving, I that the Attorney General thould be ordered to profecute Robert Bent, Efq. for bribery at the fait Elation for Aylefbury." Mr. CALVERT did not confider the cafe fuffici only aggravated to call for fo revere a meafure. Mr. FOX hoped, from the obfervations with which the Right Honourable Gentleman prefaced his Motion, that he would withdraw it ; this was really a cafe of no peculiar circum (lances of aggravation. It did net appear that Mr. Bent had been guilty fo much of corrupting the Electors, as of having lit: tined to the offers of stet of Eleftors who were pre. vioufly corrupted, and who withed to fell their votes. He remembered, in the courfe of the prefent feffion in the Grimfby Cafe, in which he was a Member of the Cpmmittee, the Committee reported that there laid been bribery and corruption, and yet the indi vidual againft whom they made this report was now fitting in the Houfe as a Member for another Borough, and no profecution was inftituted againft him : he therefore thought it 'would appear mat unfair if one perfon, not a Member of the Houfe, was now to be profecuted by the Attorney General for a condo& cagily fimilar to that which had not been confidered to dekrve fuch notice from a Gentleman who was a Member. He alto thought the Debater Cafe was a much ftronger cafe of bribefy than the prefent. He concluded by expreffing a with that, the Honourable Gentleman would withdraw his motion. Mr. WYNNE repeated thole obfervations which he had before urged in the other Rages of the pro- ceedings refpeaing the Borough of Aylefbury. The MASTER of the ROLLS compared the pre fent cafe with that of the other cafes, where the CO* mime had reported Bribery ; and contended that if this cafe, which was by no means in aggravated I owe, timid be felefted for the fevered example, it would appear that there was no fixed rule which go- verned the condo& of the Houfe on thole occafions, but that the decifion of them would depend on ac cident or caprice, the prefence of this Member, or the ahrence of another, or what Intereft was likely I to be increafed or diminilhed by letting in the neigh bouring Hundreds to (hare with the Burgeffes in the Elettive Fr anchife : he therefore oppofed the motion. Sir JOHN NEWPORT (Chairman of the A:def. bury Committee) alfo oppoled the profecution. Mr. BANKS was for the profeeution. Mr. SHERIDAN, coafidering the cafe to be at- 1 tended with no aggravated circumfiances, withed the Honourable Member to withdraw his motion.—(This not being acceded to.) —He concluded by moving the 'Order of the Day. Mr. ROSE faid,he fhould vote again& this motion, and would fubmit to the confideratton of the Houfe the original motion. Mr. WYNNE again (poke at confiderable length. After fume further converfation Mr. Sheridan's notion was put and carried without a divifion. The other Older' of the Day were then difpofed of. Adjourned. LONDON. THUESDA' MCIII4IOII DAT.44r14111 PRICE OF SIOCI Bask Stock tsti 3 per Celt. Red. 3 'MI' C• Conf. 5 triii 4 per Cent. 72tit 3 per Cent. Navy asit J par Cllll. 179 1 951 S Wag Ants.lol 7-tb DUILIM, MAT 4.: Courk ut ', MAY to ty at the Public Oates. (YESTERDAY: India Bonds, par is. dif. Imp. 3 per Cent 34i India Stock i7t 1724 Ezchcq. Bills, pu u. dif. Omnium 44 44 4 Pron• Eitel& 'rkkcts, aBL I. Conl for act. 368441 per Cents. 894. lublin on London 138. Yeßerday, about twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY took an airing in a carriage for . the &ft time fince his in difpofition. His MAJESTY looked extremely well ; he wore.a plain blue coat, and his riding-wig with. nut powder. His MAJESTY very condefcendingly looked out of the carriage, to gratify the anxious curiolity of his People. His MAJESTY was accets panied by her MAJFSTY and the PRINCISSES Au- GUSTA and ELIZABRIN ; they were followed by another carriage in which were the PRINCF.SSIS MARY, SoPNIA, and AMELIA, CCCOTted by a party of Light Hook. The Royal Cavalcade paired through the principal Rreets and fquares at the Weft end of the roan, then to Hampilead and Highgate, and re ruined by the Duke of BEDFORD'S new buildings, thence through Covent Garden and the Strand, and arrived at the ren's Houle at three o'clock. Yeßerday after the liihG returned from his airing, Mr. Purr had an interview with him at the Queen's Houle, which ]aired for two hours, at which he Rated to his MAJESTY the difficulties that had arifen, and the prcgreft he Lad made in arranging the new Admini ltration. Till the new appointments be officiAlly announced, they will not be completely known. We can, how • ever, Rate Come parts of the arrangement with a eon fiderable degree of oonfidence. This morning, at ten o'clock, and not before, Mr. Anotacroa delivered up the Seals of Office to his Mar ray, at the Q.;tsri's Houle, when we under nand the Kinn was pleated to expels his high ap. probation of every part of his condo& . . . Mr. Atm a .: r oa's admini(►ration is, therefore, now coeutletaly at as each but the awe may eons •bca thole who have been the moll salve in driving this faithful, ceconomical, and upright fervent of the pub. lic from his Majefty's Councils, may forely repent of their conduel— Turno tempos tit, map° quum optaverit came= Intaawn Pallants.--.• The Members of Mr. ADDINGTON'S Government who are about to retire with him, we underiland, are the following : ___. EARL ST. VINCENT, LORD HOBART, MR. YORKE, MR. STEEI.E, MR. BRAGGE, MR. TIERNEY, MR. MAITLAND, Mr. H. ADDINGTON, MR. HOBHOUSE, LORD G. TiIYNNE, , &c. &c. &c. The new Members of the Government confidently fp)ken of arc, - - - - - - - Lord MELVILLE, Ft& Lord of the Adadraltr. Lord HAWKESBURY, I • Lord MULORAVE, Secretaries of State. Lord HARROWBY, Lord CASTLEREAGH, DUKE of PORTLAND , Romda laOiee. Lord CHATHAM, Lord ELDON, Lord WESTMORELAND goes out. Mr. Purr will fet out with a formidable and bitter oppofition, for many conceive themfelves to have been made tool: of on the preknt occafion—mere ladders for others to mount by I I We are confident, however, that Mr.liontworon will take no part in it. The Marquis of STATIFOLD, Lord GaswvlLLl Li. visor and alfoMr. CANNING', friends, Sir Jo WM/T. rascur and Sir Rosser Lawt.r, have already de. dared againn the new Minihry, and have joined themfelves to the Gasavit Les and FOIITES. 'What part Mr. CANNING himfelf will take is doubtful, nor is it material. The new Oppofition already counts upon being able to moiler at lead too in the Houfe of Commons.. What they reckon upon in the Upper Houfe we have not learnt, but from the particulars we have already Rated, thofe who have marked the date and con• duet of parties will be at no lofa to form a pretty correEt opinion. May we not now alk, What has the Country gain ed ? Will the eyes of mankind never be opened ? Where are we to look for that concentration of all the taketie .f the eiwatry, that jrnoule, that unanimity, and energy, with which molt of our contemporaries have been deceiving themfelves and their readers. For our• (elves we can aver, we have not been impofed upon— We expelled what has happened, nor have we de ceived our Readers with the idle (peculation, of party men. We cannel but regret. however, that the Councils of the nation. are Rill doomed to be diftralted and public buffisefs impededs;-and for what? Becaufe every one who eapeaed a large thee of the State Pye has not come in for the there be thought hinnell ens titled to. From the conduit of Tome men one would be al• molt inclined to believe that they count thenuelvto no way bound to ferve that public which tends them to Parliament, unlefs they can alto be admitted into the Cabinet; or, at any rate, to a few of the cbeefe pairings and candle ends of Office. The Vas us lugger arrived at Yarmouth on Tue. day evening with difpatches from Admiral Times soaouom, who commands the North Sea fquadcon. Since the arrival of there difpatehes, the report has been very current that the Dutch Armament was at Tingle anchor on Saturday lal, ready to put to Pea s with a force of 30,000 troops on board. We are, we believe, well founded, in Rating that Mr. Fasts has left Madrid, and is returning to this country as rapidly as aircumitances will permit. The Mefferiger who left the capital of Spain at the fame time with that Gentleman is arrived in London, and has brought the above intelligence, which we again repeat may be relied upon. Letters reached town yeflerday, from the Medi terranean, which mention, that the plague has brokcn out at Madrid, and that numbers were carried off daily. We have Peen letters dated the latter end of March, from Barcelona and other Spa. nub ports, which are Client on the fubjeft I but they all appear to have been immerfed in vinegar. Yefterday the Duke of Volta held a Military Council at his Qthce in the Horfe Guards, which was attended by the Earl of CHATHAM and moil of the General Officers in town. Baron HoM►ssCM was of the number. The Houfe of Altembly of Jamaica have voted to the Duke of C AAAAA ce a friperb tervice of plate, value 3000 guineas, for his Royal Highnefes atten• Lion to the commercial intereflb of that Wand. Mr. Lisvom, our late Ambafrador in Holland, and more recently employed on an extraordinary Macs at the Court of Denmark, arrived yeflerd.ty at the Royal Hotel. Pall mall. He came hume by way of Norway, and landed at Leith. Macaws DORRIIN Mat - Jews, of Cavendifh fivare, in the county of Midditfex, Etq. is chosen Member for the Borough of Lugget null, in the room of the Earl of DALILLITII, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Monday fennight. the Carlifle Loyal Volunteers conliaing of about 400 men, marched for Yenrith, on permanent duty for ten days. Dublin Watal PE NZ radflov pleat hi Flora a Dena bit fro FY1114,1 convoy Tonnin FA L' HAZA■ lowing CANTS fr WHINV M'MIL WALICI in Rol ear. 4 juR la up thi ',mop lying 30,c,c Cal% burg] yard conv4 on a noon pack and cacti C■ Marti Hann Hann r., 61 Vnlw A a Cara. ciedal Poole :on, AR land. In to pncl. Micb A: G