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' PATRIOTTC FUND. Thia day waa puhliNed. ye. in boards, TilE FOURTH REPORT of the proceedings 4 tbe Committee for matitaging the P,VTItIOTIC FUND, from the eft of March, tgo6. to the seth of February laft. V/Ith Alphabetical Lifts of Now Sahfcriptions for the general ttrpofes nt the fund, and of the Sutus contributed en the Day of thaniagiviog, anal other Dosati-o.,exclußesly appropriated to the Relief of the :-eameti, Soldiers, Marino.. and Volunteer. wounded, and to the Widows, Orphans, and Relations of thole killed in his Majefty's ft mice. London; Printed and fold by W. Philips, George-yard, Lam. hard•ftreet. PARuaimENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OP LORD.% THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. The forth. r en it of the Appeal—Wilfoo v. Alepunder v—wve deferred till to morrow. Mr. Hobboufe, Mr. Charles Dutulns, Mr. StaniforlD, and Re venal 'other Members of the Houle of Commons brought up the Militia Trantrrr Bill the Militia Completion Bill, the IriA Mi litia I ranskr Bill, the Spirits Drawback Bill, the Swedieb Herrings Bill, and fume privets bills, which were read a But tints. MILITIA TIANSTAIL BILL, dtC, On moving the brit reading of the tht ce Bills relatilte to the Mi. j mn i HAwgauvar or, moved t►at they lbould be rioted, and gave notice that ht Bould move theft fecund reading on Mop day, if the prints were then on the taWe. A PT SA LS. On the Order of the Day bring read for tilting into cmnideration the Standing Order relative to recognizances entered Into by Ap. penance. 'I he LORD CHANCEI.LOR reftated his former reafons for pwilinfing an increafe in the amount of the recognizance, and con cluded by moving to inkrt the fum of 4001. Inltrad of Ica as the amount of the reeogritanee to be entered into by paions appeal. ing to that Houle —Ordered. 'fhe Fort St George Dill was read a third time and paired. The Linen Drawback hill pallid through a Committee and was reported. s►djouniel till to-morrow (thi► day.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Merge from the Lords Rated their Lordfidpi concurrence In the Fait India Honda Bill, Calker BiII, Dover Harbour Bill, Hamburgh 1 esters Return Bill, United Staten Intereourfe Bill, Trim Ezeife Bill, and kith Infirmari.n Bill, without any amend merits—and to the Fort St. Gtorge and Bombay Regulation Bill, with certain amendments, to wtieb they respelled the Concur rence of the Heufe On the motion of the ATTORNEY GENERAL, Gen. Delancey's nate Pill was recd a fecund time, committed, reported, and or• derrd to he read a third time to wtt•rrow. Mr. W. SMITH brought up the third Report of the Comm& amen fur Roads and Bridges in the Highlands of Seotland.-..or c red to lie on the Faille. The Poll Office Receiver General's Bill went therugh a Com mittee was reported without amendments, and ordered to be read a third time to morrow. 7 he Legal Quays Bill went through a Committee, and was or erred to be ►eported to morrow. Flties Divorce Bill went through a Committee, In which Mr 7. ntlanque was heard, and evidence adduced in fupport of the Till.. he Report WAS agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time. The Irifh Raft Duty Dill went through a Committee, and was ordered to he rcpott,d ro morrow. • he Fzeheq , er Bilk bill, the Irish Treafury Bills Bill to cover the vote of credit, and the Barrack Matter's Bill, were severally re ser a fecund time, and ordered to he committed to-morrow. The Mal.a I rade Bid and the Andlton Duty Bill were read a third time and paired . A perfon from the India Houfe prefented a copy of the India Acciviits for in Britilk currency —Ordered to lie on the Table. Aar. C. C . :RANT took that opportunity of denying the t he bad ever laid th..•re would he an excel'. of a million on there Account.. He had Paid' in another place, that there would be no deficiency. There was a deficiency but be bad fpoken from gaud authority, being no other than that of Sir G. Barlow himklf. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS BILL. On the melon of Mr. WntTam awn the Parochial Schools Pill was read a third time and paired. NEW wall'. On the motinn of Mr. Rosa a new writ was ordered for Yar mouth. in room of Mr. Paullet, now Lord Bolton, a Pcer of the United Kingdom. COLLECTInN nT TAXI'S. Mr. PF RCRVAL. gave notice. t►at he (tumid to morrow move few leav► to bring in a till for the better Regulation and Colledlion of the .tffrfred Taxes. He di4 not mean the Bill to he carried through during the prefent &Mon. but that It 60014 lie over for further sonbderatiou. PUBLICAN". Mr SHI , RID prefented his Bill, for the better Regulation of I It. tires to keep rllehoufes. in the Counties of kliddkree and Surrey. which way read the 6rft time. The Bill enicis—..“ flat all Publicans, whore &Imre, (ball be wi.o.lrawn lh Il receive from the Magiftrates withdrawing (ugh l.icrt,cr, a (torment in writing, of the eaufc for which the ldp cenee i t fo withdrawn, and (ball have the privilege of an Appeal to the Quarter Selßoos. Ordered for the fecood reading on Saturday. EAST INDIES. Mr. DUNDAS gave notice. that the advanced period nt ;be Seam making it iccontertient fur him to fubmit his view of the Hate of the Eall India Ac counts :tr prefent, it was his with to polipone that Isurioefs till an early day next Set Eon ; he fhould, therefore, to-morrow, move for the poftponement of that bufinef,. He nuld air() take that opportunity of m .vilig for certain papers relative to the Polygars. in addition to th • already ordered, on the logger lion of 311 H.'n. Baronet. Mr. CR ELVEY Rated, that he (Mould embrace the fame opiyietunity of, moving for certain docu ment• relative to one of the regiments at Venom. ILICTION RECOGNIZA.I4CIII. _ _ Mr. DE - NT, pnrivanfto notice, role to bring for. ward his pramited motion, for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of Recogniaances upon pre testing Petitions on controverted Elation.. He Paid thaa, by an Ad of the 28th of the King, forna rep. lations were made, which it was then thought would be fufficient ; but fince then, by the growing inge nuity of the times, th‘e regulations became nuga tory, and called for &me additional proviti .ns, to check the further, provers of growing abufes. By th e former Bill it was required, that the principal, on lodging a petition, eomplsining of the return of any elation, mutt give a recognizance for himfelf in zool. and two fureties in tool. each, to profecute fuch pe-. tition, which, if he declined, though he himfelf be tame liable to the forfeiture, it was matter of doubt whesher the fureties were liable alto ; particularly as they were, in many inflances, obfcure perfons, And were not obliged to give in their places of readence ; it was of courfe impollible to come at them : now the objee of his Bill would be to oblige the party petitioning to depoOt the whole amount of die recogrizance in the Court of Excite quer, to be retorned again at loon as he fbould have fulqlleatis enga:ement,.or to be for fe iied in cafe of fai- Ime It mutt be admitted as a circumflance extremely vexatious that Menthe! s dui" warned, nay fonsetitnes withootimy oppefetion, upon an elation, wets yet liable to be put to trouble and .experce, and expofed try libetlau, imputations from per inns prefenting pe ti jos to that Houle, that ging them with bribery, 'corruption, and all manner of illegal and improper p.ctdAut with: ut Alien F Mowing up that petitions Ao jt l irefote a connittee, sar giving the ba!Jvced - . . . IMetnber an oppottnnity Of vindicating his eonduB., This was the cafe wi.h himfelf , in his elation fo rt Lancaner, for which he had the honour to be rsturt4 ed without any oppefition; and yet a petition was pre- rented to that Houle again(' his return, ligned by five perfons,ltatiog thetnfelves to be Eleftors of Lane a lley, although they never lived within :co miles of the place, but were induced by bribery to give their lignatures to the petition, at the initigat . rn of a pia ion, not now a Member of that Honk. and his agent. Of thole five perfons figning the petition, it was found upon enquiry that one was a barber, another the porter to a cabinet-maker in Southwark, a third was a labourer.l fourth a jack afs driver, and the fifth a nightraan ; and the Petititm was, of courfe, never profecuted. In the Taft Parliament, nut of g 4 peti tions prefented, there were *8 for which no recogni zance was entered. In the prefect Parliament, out of 31 Petitions, (even were fuperfeded for want of recognizance : and he believed every gentleman who heard him would readily admit the neceflity of foam meafure to put an end to filch pralices.- He did not mean the Bill fhould pars this Salon, but merely that it fhould be read and ;minted, in order to be confidered again(' the commencement of the next Seffinn. He concluded by moving for leave to bring it in. Mr. ROSE highly approved of the Bill I faid it was a fcandalous circumftance that Members, duly returned to that Houle, fhould be expoled to the rink of having regifiered, upon the Journals of that Houfe, libellous Petitions, charging them with the groffell violation of law, by any Petitioner, however obfcure, and without any chance of an opportunity to vindicate their charafter before a Committee ofl rarliament. He promifed to give the Bill his warm.' eft fupport.—Leave given to bring in the Bill. It (vas prefented, read the fell time, and otdcred for the fecond reading on Saturday. CURATVII * PIOVIIIIOIII BILL. Mr.LOCK H A RT, purfuant to notice,rofe to move for leave to bring in a Bill for fufpending the ail ef the 36th of the King, comm nly called the Curates' Provifion Bill, fo far as the fame relates to the for feiture of benefices, in cafe of accepting additional livings. The Aft to which he alluded was molt ge nerally under flood to be a Bill merely to make bet ter provifion for Curates of the Church of England, but contained alfo a claufe which fubjefted any be. neficed Clergyman to forfei t ure of fuch benefice, whenever he accepted of another. Now there were certain pet petual curacies in this country, the emo luments of which were conliderably increafed by Qt . ieen Anne's bounty : but it was a matter of doubt whether thole curacies came within the meaning of the term " 13rnsriess." which doubt was not ex plained under the Bit/. Now fence the Bill had palled, it fo happened that feveral Clergymm, al ready holding benefices, had accepted of fuch curacies in addition, by which they now undernond, that un der the letter of the Aft, t'.tey had incurred the rot - Faure of their benefice , ; and feveral of them had been aftually threatened by their patrons, to have their prefentations withdrawn. In this manner, thole Cler. oymen had anted in ignorance of the law, and were innocent of any thing like wilful tranfgreflion ; for it cool .1 not be luppnfed 'hat any Clergyman, already putrefied of a living of 7 or Soo!. a year would wil- I fully fubjett himfelf to the forfeiture of that living, by accepting a minw appointment, not worth above tool. or 1501. if he was aware of the law. Clergy. men were not iii the habit of looking into :Nits of Parliament ; and thi, Bill wa. almnft univerfally um., derltood, out of doors, to he merely for the better, provifi 'n of curates ; and the objeft of his motion was, not to alter or relax the law in this yelped, hut merely to (affirmd the operation of the particular claufe until an early period of the next Sellion, in or.. der to proteft thole Clergymen who had innocently. and inadvertently - ncurred a liability so its operation, and to the embarrafrment and min cnnfecinent upon fuch operation, until the Legator!, could have an opportunity of mere deliberately confidering the tub jai, and for deviling fuch relief In the parties as to its wildnm fhould teem meet. It might be anted why the Winds had not been taken up by his Majelly's Minifters, and particularly by a Right Honorable Gentleman oppofite to him (Mr. Perceval) who hid on every occaforn paid fn laudable an attention to the maintenance of the Church, and was vigilant alto to fee the Afts of Parliament carried into esecittion.— The anfwer w. -t, that all perfnns conflated with the . bufinefs of Gov‹rnment had of late In much impor t tant bufinefs on their minds, that it was deemed right not to trefpafs i n their time, and hence the duty de volved upon hitt - dill. The fajta, hcwever, had the confideratien of perfnns of high charaBer and authority • and he hoped when it was rem e mb ere d that the Houfe had on a former occafion, in the year 1796, thought it wife to pars a law for the fulpend: ing the operation of the Aft then in exigence for en forcing by penalty the refidence of the Clergy, until tome more eligible law could be deviled, that it would not be thought nnreafonable in this cafe to Irequeft a fimilar indulgence nn the part 4.1' thole clergymen wbo had tranfgrefred the law through mere ignorance. He concluded by moving for leave to bring in the Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER i did not fcel difpoied to refill the introduftion tit fuch a Bill, as it was merely to fiifpend only till the near Senior'', a particular claufe in the aft alluded to; if it was intended to repeal or alter that law, which had undergone fro recent and deliberLe i difenffion in Parliament, and been adopted after the fulleß Jar liberation, he Mould certainly confider it his duff: land the duty of the Houk to refill it. Neither twat he very fond of the frequency of fnfpending the ape. ration of laws enalled by Parliament, but upon' the very clearell and Amiga ground to juftily fueh fufpenfinn. It was true that in the year 1796 a Bill was palled to fufpend the operation of the pens; law For enforcing the refiderwe of the Clergy; but if Bills were to be brought in frequently to ailed fifth fur penfion, it would tend to render nugatory the laboorti. of the Legrflature in palling thole laws: and even though he did not oppofe this motion, yet he was Iperfueded that Parliament, in the neat feffion, would panic very deliberately before they coated AnY Bill, which, by indemnifying thole who had tranfgreffed the law of the 36th of the King, would Olio materi ally afferft the rights yelled in others, by fuch trent . - greSon. At Jena, he thought the patrons on thole cafes Amid be allowed Inn time to petition, and to (tate their Adept th.e cals. . • - Lean was pen to being in the Ailj.,!-Adioneeit. _ THE EVENING STAR. "r 7 • -Ix LONDON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7. ' PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: ConG nsoaey 6111....forlAugeft 63I—Red. 611•61•—On2. 1i dif. Red BIN par. as. pr. . _ _ _ PRIOR OF STOCES YESTERDAY t 3 per C. Red..inn 644 imperial 3 per Cent. 6:4 3 per Cent. Con( Ann. I Imperial Annuities 79-16 the 4 per Cent. kill Excise. BIN par is rrem. 5 per Cent. Navy 95* Omnium a dif. Lon An t 7 t-i6thsit3-t6tbe Enid& Ticket. atl. tss. India Stock 573$ 5 74 ConG for ace. 63-} India Bends, .es Is. prem. A Monitor of a late da►e is faid to have reached town, which leaves no doubt of the terms of the treaty between Rdlia and France being unfavourable to the interens of this country. The credit attached to this Ilatement effeded a material deprefflon in the Funds, °minas having yeßerday fAllen from to ti difcount. The following statement, containing Tome parti culars refpe6ing the prefent Rate of France, will prove intereßing to many of our Readers. It was communicated to us bye perfon who left France ouly a few days ago ; t Bolougne there are at this time four thoufand remelt, who are trained to military manteuvres and exercifed three times a day. In addition to thefe there are 6000 foreign troops, on whom but a feeble de pendence could be placed in the cafe of an attack.— This conaitutes the whole of the prefent defence. In France the male population is fubjesled to four kinds of military Cervices: ill, that of the confcripts, who are fent abroad in pr 0.... tion as they are affem bled. Next that of the veterans, who have the charge of the garrifons. Next that of the colonise mobile, which is every where conflantly nn foot, to reprefs infurrec tion, and aid the colleßion of the taxes. And laitly, that of the guards for the protatior. of the coats, into which fervice all perfons refi ling in the vicinity of the coatis are obliged to enrol thernfelves. AU the taxes which fublifled-under the ancient re gime have been revived, and augmented to a degree almod intolerable to the Wet. The new impoQ on fah (gabelle) has railed the value of that luta fart' commodity to five pence halfpenny Englifh per pound, an immenfe price, when the fcarcity of money crmlidered : the profs annual amount of revenue cAlated is eight hundred millions of francs, upwards of thirty aree millions flerling. Tobacco is propor tionally dear. All the frecie is abforbed by the Go. vernment ; and it is of little importance to the diftrelfed and half-famifhed individual, that bread and wine can be had at a very cheap rate, when his pocket has been drained. In the mean time; the condition of the agriculturift may be conceived, who is forced to con tribute his quota of the impolitions, however tittle he may be enabled to raife by his produce. Gras . at three farthings Englifh per pound ; and in the fouthern provinces the wine is at a halfpenny per quart. Such, however, is the difficulty of procuring tan exillence out of the army, that many an indivi dual, who formerly fupported his family by his labour, • is now obliged to abandon his wife and infant pledges to their hard lot, and to Peek refuge in the moving "column, where he is fare of obtaining his ration for a fobailence. On the vreftern coatis of France, flip timber is fo fcarce, that at Breit they have lately been under the nrcelE:y of breaking upon the Rocks a flip of the line and a frigate, nearly completed, to be enabled to &lint the repairs of the (hips needed for immediate fervice. On the other hand, at Antwerp, bordering on the immenfe newly acquired fora:, three (hips of the line have been recently launc4d, and fix others are in a Rate of great forwardnefs. Thirty thonfand prifoners, taken in the fervice of PrufGa, but confin ing s.f individuals of almoft all the nations of Europe, have been marched into Spain, and will be fent to the Spanint colonies in South America, to work the mines. The frecie collened in the Pruffian territories has been tranftnitted to Paris: it filled fixty-fix waggons. STRALSUND. We have been favoured by a Correfpnndent at' Stralfund, with the following journal of the events. which have taken place before that town, &ice the Swedes were compelled to Slut themfelves up in the fortreil . • sTRALstme., grLY-Is. •s• On Monday holtilities commenced,and vette:day the Fronds :were only two miles outride our gates. I with a galltboiss en the ramparts near two hours. looking we, for we Meld fee every movement quite diftindly. The French drove on ; and at length all the Swedes (no Britlils troops were out), pima Iwo. returned, u bard as they could drive, into the gartifos, mid we commenced a fire from the town on the French Noe I 30 were wounded out of the town, two killed, and one °F l ee, ; tie fans of buftle and dittrefs was horrible. We are now &it up in the garrifon ; there is but little thing today. The French ere .bow gegularly attacking the town, by conftrueting approaches. Tito Vag 1.211 out a great deal. I faw him yciterday I fait ail the troops come in, the wounded, &e. Our friend IL wan oat, tad lays the derides were panic buck. The traorporte are detained, I and probably the troops will be hot home again ; at protest they are pulhing them en to this place, le fa& as g06b14 la about a week I Clap p& we ihall be bombarded, if the troops don't make a folly ;and people here kern to fear if they d. that the Freisab will get is with them, as they have done before at Bois.le-duc, due Three regiments of German Legion Infantry, and one of cavalry, are bete now, about : l oco moo ; the reft in full march through Rage*. and about loco Swedes; it will take t 8 or ao,ocra men to garrifon thefe works, I find. The cavalry with the enemy are Spoilt, the other troops Italians and Dotal. A village was blrat . yellerday,jui/ outCule the walls,by lightoipri we harp bad agreat deal lately. Istf.v Cathcart antra; 114 night at rem o'clock, I and is much difapptitrted at onr cooped up eondltlon. Nothing new finee yelterday. I have not been able to walk to the ramparts to get a look at the French, all yefterday or to day. Lord Cath• cart will now, I think, decide whether we are to return or attack; we expect rather to return. JVLY i9.—Stralfund is as full u R can cram, and we can p but a quarter of a mile out of town, our friends the French ft kbi ng fo clofe as one and a half &till& miles IA This is Sunday, bit *i the churches are full of horks, and the pews are filkd with diets, bread, chesfe,dtc. a jute 10 ....The French are working at their batteries as hit as they can t a trifling Bring is going on to-day. The Pant. lin t told, waits the arrival of a Meffenger from the Emperorof ►efon be dots any thing. The piquet* of the army are dare top. they. The French are quite rntmd the teem " JOLT SO, five o'clock in the Afterrsoon.....l itavejett learned that Lprd Cathcart to-morrow removes his Mod quarters to Do. gen, the capital of the loe of Rum ; in an probabSity wettallgo with hims it is faid the three regiments of the Gerson Leo * now berg are alto to return co Bergen. The King alto haft s Stralfund to day. To-morrow it is isnagired the town MR be .114h1nbarded,cr perhaps to-night. They have been fparring at girth other all thy. Imagine how full tide place is, when all the too k . try people, their carts, bodes t s t e. are driven in from before the I may, with all the furniture and every thing they could get away." We flop the Preis to fay, that there is a report in circulation,of the Swedes, all led by the Perm" 4.egion, commanded by Lord. CAIlit4ATi Jutting made a moft Ilicccfsfirt Sortie, in which Viva THOU. sawn Dutch and Spaniards are fajd to have bees killcd t wounded, or made prifoners....-Government have not, we believe, received any information op this important fubjeit. ••••••=...• Orders have been iffued to Liverpool and other ports, from the Alien Office, defiring that all pelt: ports granted before and lance the Embargo be con. lidered as null ; and that no Foreigners be permitted to lenve the country. Various rumours were in circulation yelterday ternoon.—An immediate war with Ruffia-,a revo, Intim at St. reterfburgh.—The capture of 13 fail o y Danifh (hips of the ling. There is no real authority for any of there reports. It is alio reported, but we know not with what truth, ' that our troops art to by withdrawn (tom tha River Plata. We hive already announced that Government re, ceived difpatches from Liftton by the Mail of Wed. nefclay. Thefe difpatches were from Lord ;Timm. roan, the Nita Charge d'A ff +ire. at that Court, mad report Pays they announce a propofition wads to Portugal, by or through Spain, to fufpend all nter• cantile intercourfe with this country. The p r i vate letters received by this Mail do not, h owersr , cr prefs any alarm refpetting the (hutting of the Pato guefe ports againft us ; from which we may infer :::At it :oat a demand his Lc= made, the news hact . not been allowed to tranfpire.. No accounts have yet been revived of the WO of the Expeditions. The lall ditpatares Isom Admitai GAillitit t as we have already liated, were' of the sgth ult. It is 11(Air anted that whatever might have been primarily the objefts of the three 41: 4 • ditions, they have now but one objeays—A 0.1 dR two will decide this point. Yellerday morning General Maritsa If sot sr. rived at Wincribr, on a 'Mt to their Wpm's. The 13th Light Dragnons will be reviewed to. mor-ow, on Hountlow Heath. After the review, they will relieve the 12th Dragoons, and take the King's duty. Colonel -- STswear. of the 434 Regiment, is made a Brigadier General. The following letter was yellerday potted up at LLOYD'S 11 ADMIRALTY Or►lct. A DMIT S. " anfwer to your letter d yefterday's date, relative tO a Convoy for the trade on the Coal! of Africa, I am commanded by the Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty to inform yoc.thu; a Convoy S Welt has already been provided for the tips bound to the We India , in Odtober, and that another will he ordered to proceed frosts the Cad in the month of December. I am, ate, J.O. PAIR, Erg. Africa OSee. (Signed) 01 W. W. Pave The following Letter has been tranfmitted to Iry land, and circulated there. Whkehall, July 13, dol. MT L0tt0...4 have the honour to tranfosit to your Grace, the copy of a notice given by the Commlillocers of the Caftednefn doerehants concerned in the trade whit the United States of Arise• rice, sad to the pairs of all American veffels, informing thesis That according to a determination of the Lords of his Mi4efigis swift Honourable Privy Coundl, drips bring American property but not the bulk of America, or condemned as prise within the United States, failing under lea letters, cannot be confplered an American wick, and coesfeoutotly entitled to Import into die kingdom, under the 37th Ow. W. Cap. 97, which Adt wee continued until the aft of June, tier), by the 46th.of his Maldift Cap. t 6, nod the regulation contained therein, dilated by his Mr Jetty's Order in Connell, dated the s7th of May, ;So', vibe doily obferred untU other provifion mould be made ; and diregilet the Moors of that revenue to conform to the above determination ef their Lord/Alpe, fo far as they were or might be refpcetively ear earned; and I have to requrit that your Once would give direc tion' for protnalgating the fame among the merchants In Ireland, concerned in the trade with the United States. At the fame time, in order to prevent incofivenienoe to the me chants from the raid determination nut having been fowler made known to them, !beg leave to recommend to your Greet to sire direalone for admitting to entry filch American Snips of the above defeription, assay arrive is the ports of Ireland. prior to the 312 o f Otlober ; after which day, die rule that alp* being American property, but not of the built of America, and (API ender fes fetters, Should not be confidere4 as entitled to import under the AQ, 37th Gee. 111. Cap. 97. mould be Invariably adhered to. I have the honour to be, dec. ice. 4,,,wffESBUIW. I"