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VICTUALLING•OFFICE, F:bruary ♦, ISC7. rrHE CO 41.11155.10 NE RS fcr viGrudahvG HIS M47.6. , '•irs NAVY, do hereby gins Nc:ice, That on Friday the acth infant, they will be ready to re naive Tenders in writing (fealed up) and treat for what RIVETS, COOPER's TOOLS, and COOPERAGE STORES. the fervice of this Department may require for the fpnee of One Year, from the dates of the Contraißs ; to he delivered into the Vidtualling Stores at Deptford ; and to be paid for by Bills payable with in tereft ninety days after date. The Conditions of the Contra is may be teen at the Secretary's Office. No regard wilt be bad to noy 'nyder in wbicb the price flail rot be inferted in word, at length, or that fb3ll not le delivered to the Board before one °Wool on tie _laid Frithy the zctb iviant, nor solefi the Perfio who ootsier tie Tender, or Awe P‘rfon on bit behalf, attends to anferer who &died for. TW HE Creditors of Co!rmel m. CoLczyttrlutr, late of Fitton Lodge, in the County of Bedford, dcerafed, are rcquefted to fend particulars of their Claims, with affidavits of the vtrity thereof, to ALEXANDER MUNDELL, N 0.45, Parliament Stre t. and to take Notice, that if they neglenft to do fo on or be- fore the tft day of May next, they will be excluded from the pay ment to be made loon thereafter. NEW ANNUAL REMSTFR for 1805. This day was publifhed, Tn One large Volume Odiavo, price i6s. in boards, THE NEW ANNUAL REGISTER ; or, Re pof,tory of Politics, and Literature, for the Year 18os. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. Of win m may be had, complete fcts of the above Work, in Twenty•fi Volumes, price 221.25. half bound, or any fcparate Volume. AMER,CA. CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 3T. Captain PEARCE, of the brig Hannah, arrived at Bolton on the Bth inflant, from St.Ube's; on the z9th 01 October, in lat. 36. 58. long. 15. 44. was brought to and ?•oarcled by the Britith LEANDFR, and Treated politely ; informed them, that the day before The had parted company with a fleet of traniports, having feven thoufand troops on bear?., bound to Buenos Ayre. Cn. H BBE zt., arrived on Saturday from Lagui: a, inform., that two days before he failed, a fchooner, with difpatelleF, arrived from Vera Cruz, and brought information :hat the Capital of Mexico had been nearly dettroyed by an inundation. When the haft accounts were received, the City had been overflowesi. for ten days. the water being four feet -deep. Extract of a letter, dited Havannah, Dec. t t : " We have no news here, except that of the Bti tifh forces having been defeated at Buenos Ayres, and the place re taken. This news is corfitmcd by the way of Panama. It is alfo added, that a fec3nd attack was math at Montevideo, and that Sir Horan POPHAM 10a two (.f Lis Chips; one funk under a turf, and another was loft in a fevere gale of wind." P.4R_:.l/ A rENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, FEB. 6. Mr. HOBHOUS F. M. LYGON, and feveral other Members of the I Inife of Commons brought up the Seamen's and Soldiers' Secluttian Bib, the Irith Gunpowder Importation Pill, the Canada Yarn Bill, and a private Bill, which were read a firft ime. The Grain liatrcourfe Bill paired through a Committee and was reported . On the motion of the Archbifhop of CANTERBURY, the Mop c,f rxeter was &fired to preach before their l.ordfhips in Wattninfter Abbey. on Wtdr.efday, the 25th initant, being the dry appointed for a General Faft. SLAVE TRADE. The Houfe refolved itielf into a Committee on the Bill for abolifhing the Slave Trade. The preamble having been poflponed, Lord GRENVILLE faid, with refpeel to filling up the blanks in the Bill, that the time which he in tended to propofe as the period for the Abolition of this Trade, might, perhaps, appear fomewhat at va riance with that eager defile which the Houle had expieffed for the Abolition, but the gratification ari ling from the near profpat of at length carrying into eflea this great meafure, would, perhaps, induce Them to give way, in a fmall degree, to circum (lances, and not to in(iit upon an Abolition to take place immediately. He propofed that the time to he fixed for the Abolition of the Trade to the Weft Indies ;Mould be the ifl of January, 1808, but that the period after which no (hips engaged in the trade, fhould clear nut from the ports of this country, thould be the 1 fl of M - ;y in the prefent year. His ob]e6l in propoilrg thefe periods was, that the veffels at prefent cnga z eed in the Trade thould have a fair epportanity of clearing not from the putts of this country, previous to the tit of May next, and after. ward, of taking in their lading in the ports of Africa, and of carrying their cargoes to Coe Well Indies, previous to the at of January, 8c).1. A 3 it might happen, however, that from nnavuidr.ble circum (lances Come .vetris might nrt be ;:ble to complete their cargoes on the Coafi of Africa, fo as to carry them to the Welt Ihdies previous to that peri.al, he itotnAPO to fUhnint to the Committee a roviro for the purprfe ot :a - dotting veifels under.foch circum fiances, to trade to the Weil Indies a itlotheir carnoes. The blauks were up in cc:lto:Liu with hishis Lot-Olio's opoiltions. The Earl of HA RLWICK doubted whether the Provifions Of the Lill would net interfe , e with the teeruitieg f,:r his Ma; : tely's fervice in the Vs'ett Indies. I Lord U RENV I LLi:: was ot obi irnt ti e Tee; •i.tg would not he atlected by the Bill, as Fie:men, and not SlaTeF, were the ohjeas of recrol:ing. Lrrd REDE.SI)ALE. trineited, that as the Bill was at pi efent win Lied, it might he conariurd to ex tend to prevent tile. Trade on the C.Daii of Africa from being carried on after ere ill of May next, which was evidently not the chjed el the framer. of the 1311. Lord GRENVILLE faid, a doubt of that nature h jui been loggtlied to him, and he though: it di erve d o tlidct.ttisism, as the timitati.n of t!:e in of Nlay was certainly erly intruded to apply to the clearing cut from the ports of :his country. It it was fund to he uecaiilny, an explana“ t y claufe m i g ht be in•rodUcc. l in a future Ilage of the Bill. (hurt cons/cif:6,J , alfo trek place bet waen Lord Redeldale aid Lr:rd Gr mei:le, the firmer Noble Lord c nzeivitig that the Bill night he ermilr u ed extend to our poil . .ilions in the Fait Ird:es, and to our faflories in .ilia Minor, Lotd Grenviiie ol,ferv e-.4, that nu Slaves had been imported to either forne tints. Ile wa , aware, however; *thet both in the Eall and in A fia Minor, there were n any Chriiiiitos who kept a :lumber cf . S:Avcs, but bc..t!id, not conceive that this Bill; iuld be eonflrned to ex t.nd fo'sas . tn. ittjure them in their property. kit would;.hovevcr; tain confider the Itabjeft, and, it neceffary, , a.claufe- to prevent the erica of any fuch con itruelioh might be prupore . d. The blanks having been filled np, Lord GRENVILLE pi °poled a provifu, allowing fuch velrels as fhould have cleared out from the ports of this country for Africa, previor.s to the ttt of May next, and fhould nut have been able to complete their lading in Africa, fo as to carry their car re, to the Well Indies, previous to the eft of January, a:8, to trade neverthelefs to the Weft Indies With loch cargoes. Lord GRENVILLE alfu hated, that as fome per lons might take advantage of the interval allowed, to make two voyages with the fame vehel, he intend ed, therefore, to propofe a claufc to prevent that ad• vantage from being taken. In the cootie of converfation in the Corninittet, the Earl of WESTMORLAND fuggefled, that the time fixed for the abolition ought to be extended, Parliament having, by the A 8 of fah ferfion, pledged itfelf that the trade Ihould continue for two years. Lord GRENVILLE denied that any filch pledge had been given by Parliament, as the objea of the Bill paired laft feffion was to prohibit any more veal, from being engaged in the trade, but there — was no. thing in it from which it could be inferred, that the veffels already engaged in the trade were to be al lowed to continue it for my certain time. The provilions of theßill having been gone through, the preamble was again taken into contiderarion. Lord HA VKESPURY objefted to the words in the preamble, which declared the Slave Trade to be contrary to juflice, humanity and found policy. Up' n the principles which were thus hated as the grounds of the abolition, he could not underhand the diltinc tion made between the abolition of the trade, and the emancipation of the (laves already in the Wands.— Admitting, ho the fake of argument, the affertion in the preamble to be true, the fame principle would equally apply to the exiling hate of flavery in the Weft India itlands, as to the abolition of the trade in flovei. It was per-leafy clear, that if the ground of expediency was taken as the foundation of this mea 1-ore, that then there would be a marked diftinflion between abolition and emancipation, the former would he expedient, while the latter would be clearly inexpedient. He thought it would have been v ifer to have worded the Refolution of latt fellion, fo as to place the abolition on the ground of expediency, than tu have agreed to it in the form in which it patted, hut at any rate that refulution was not binding in the Houle with refpedt to the wording of this Bill. He would not now argue over again the meafure of the abolition, but whatever good the ad. vocates of that meafure carded to derive from it, no benefit could, in his opinion, be derived from retain. jog thefe words in the preathble ; on the contrary, he thought that much danger was to be apprehended from holding out to the negroes in the Weft Indies, the principle, that the Slave Trade, by which they were originally brought thither, was contrary to juf lice and humanity. The Earl of CARNARVON contended that the Slave Trade, by tearing men from their families and their country, in order to place them in a (late of flavery for the purpofe of producing profit to the planters, was in i:felf unjuli, and inhuman, and there fore that the word, which fo chataaerifedit ought to be retained. The LORD CHANCELLOR übferved, that the exprelli:in in the preamble having been admitted by the Noble Lord (Hawktfoury) to be true, it fol lowed that it ought to be re►ained. What was the objeetion of the Noble Lord laR night ? It was, that this trade ought not to be abolithed, except in con jundion with foreign powers, and now the Noble Lord by his motion would take away the only ground upon which we could afic other posers to co-operate in the abolition of the Slave Trade. If we declared that we abolithed the trade on the ground of expe di:my alone, then it might be fairly fuppofed that we fo for reafons applicable to ourfelves alone, or to our own Colonies, but by Dating broadly and clif tinaly that the trade was contrary to juflice and hu manity, there we took a ground upon which we might fairly call upon other powers to cu•operate with us in abolifhing the trade. He could not dilcover any reafon fr,r apprehending danger from thus exprefling, in a Legiflative Aft, their opinion cf the trade,whilft the retaining the words objeCted to, was the bell mode they could at prefent adopt of leading to a ge neral abolition. The Earl of MORTON thought the adoption 'of abflraft principles in a Legiflative Act, was inconfif tent wirh the wife and wary language which our an. celiors had nfed on luch occalions, and feemed rather like an adoptiqn cf that mode of espreflion which had been fo repeatedly ufed in modern France. Earl STANHOPE approved highly of the ex• orefflons in the preamble which had been nhjeeled to. ' fie thought, however, that this Bill would not do much tcwat cis tie abolition of the Slave Trade with not the adoption of adequate regulations in the Co lonies. It might, perhaps, be proper to enact, that every have imported into the iflands contrary to law, after the time limited for the abolition of the trade, (hould fa7o be free. If the local Legiflatutcs would not adopt regulations fufficient to carry the a:rlttion into complete effect, we had the means c,f compelling then, by impofing additional duties, and in °the; ways. It we could Hot fpeak to their hearts we might to their pockets, and by the latter mode produce a greater effe,9 than could poifibly be pro duced by Demonhenian or Ciceronian eloquence. Lord REDESDJLE exprelTed irprehenfions that danger would ante from retaining theft exprel lions in the preamble, and called the attention of the Honk to the dangerous confevence which te (tilted in France from the adoption of abflraet prin. cif les in leg flation, which, however true in them felvci, were applied in a manner that produced con fol.; m and anarchy in that courCy. _ _ The Earl cf LAUDERDALE maintained that the words which it was propofed to leave out, were the lima effential words in the Bill. How was the great objed of general Ab. litinn to be attained, if it appeared upon the face of our own proceedings that we wete only aCtuated Ly confide•ations of es pediency, and that in calking upon other Powers io abulifh the trade, we made no facrifice onifelves ? This he could illultrate by communications, which he had whilft at Paris, with one of the 'French Mi nitter on this f,bje:t. On his urging to th. aers the- .11 of this Tr Ade; he wns anfwcred I that it could not be exFeEled that the French Govern ment, irritated as it bad been by the conduet of the Negvra On St. Domingo, would readily agree to the Abolition of the Trade. He replied that the Aboli tion would have been the only effectual means of pre venting the horrors which had occurred in this ifland. Then the truth came out : lie was told by this Mi nitter, that England, with her colonies well flocked wilh Negroes, and affording a large produce, might abolifh the trade without inconvenience ; but that France, with colonies ill (locked and deficient in pro duce, could not abolith it without conceding to us the greatelt advantages and fultaining a propor• titillate infs. Thus then, if we were to declare the ground of our aholilhing the Trade to be expediency alone, we Ihould he declaring that we were aettiated by the very policy imputed to us by the French Mil - Alter ; and how, in thus being fuppofed to make no facrifice ourfelves, could we call with any effea upon foreign powers to cooperate in the abolition. The Duke of MONTROSE declared himfelf to be a friend to the Abolition, but thought at the fame time, that it would be better to leave out the words' objeEled to. Lord HOLLAND kid he could not clearly un• derftand the diflinetions which had been attempted to be drawn betweeft juftice and expediency. He was of opinion, that if the fubjeCt was fully conlidered, thole dittinetions would be found to center in the fame p tint. It was not a t iflinFlion between juflice and expediency, with refpcd to abolition and emancipa • ti .n ; on the contrary, whili4 on the cue hand it was effentially juff that the Trade Ihould be abrilifhed, it would on the other be injultice to the . Slaves in the Hands to give them emancipation, becaufe it could only tend to their own injury. He was furprifed to hear the Noble and Learned Lord (Redefdale) con• demning the Faroduetion of abilr46l principles into legiflaiiiin What did our Bill of Rights contain but abtlraet principles ? He was decidedly of opinion that the words ought to be retained. No damper what ever had refulted from (Malin ennduCl in feveral of the provinces in America, where the Trade had been abolifbed, and flavery dill continued. The Duke of CLARENCE urged the danger which might refult from retaining there expretlions. When the negroes in the illznd • found that no (refit importations took place, they would natur illy en quire the cattle, and when they found that the trade was abolifited, arid declared to be contrary to joilice, humanity, and found policy, would it not have a material effeCt in their minds with refgefl to their own fituation, and the means by which they were brought there ? • The Committee divided on the quenion, that the words objefted to (land part of the preamble, Contents 33 ; Non Contents to—Majority 23. The Houfe refumed, and the Report was ordered to be received ort Monday. ADMINISTRATION OF JVITICS IN SCOTLAND. Lord OR ENVILLE, in eonfequtnce of the Report of the Stave Trade Bill Banding for dilcullion on Monday, begged leave to pun pone bringing forward the Bill refpeding the Adminiftration of „Mike in Scotland till I'hurfday. CHINESE IN TRINIDAD. The Duke of CLARENCE Paid he had intended to Fring for ward a motion rerpeding the Chinefc imported into Trinidad, but after communicating with feveral Planters upon the fubjcdt, Ls thought it advifable not to bring it forward. Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Kentifh Diitridt Small Debt Recovery Bill was, nn the motion of Lord WM. etUda2LL, read the fecond time, and com mitted for to morrow. Several Petitions were prefented by I ord WM. RUSSELL, Mr, WILBERFORCE, and other Members, from the Tanners of Surrey, Chelter, Neweaftle under-line, and other places, againft the Oak Bark Regulaion Bill, now pending. Ordered to lie on the able. Ordered, on the motion of Mr. BATHURST, that the Corn• mittee appointed to feareh for Precedents of Expulfion, have li• berty to fend for perfom, papers, and records. Sir RALPH MILBANXE reported from the Sa7tafla Commit tee that George Grams:lla Venable% Vrrnon,E:q. a 'lember of the fad Committee, had not attended in place; aid that the Com mittee, having wait, d an hour without procecein; tu Mainers, ad journed 00 account of his abince. Ordered, that Mr. Vernon do atteml in his place on Monday neat. A new Writ was ordered for the EledUon of a Member for Wm.- cettcr, in the room of Brom I,y, ki s w h o f i , ;ce his dedion had accepted the Chiltern Hundrtd3. Lord TEMPLE prtfentrd the Bill for regulating the Trade to and horn the Cape of Good Hope. Read the fiat time, and or dered for the fecend reading on Monday. D.ferred till Motolay the committal of the Turkillx Tobacco Import Regulathn Bill. The Houfc went into a Committee of Supply. • Mr. Vi NSITTART moved for a Grant of 1,200,cr0l to defray the tr i ter. 4 on kith I: :chequer Bills as may have been paid off in sge6.—Motion adopted, and ordered to be reported on Monday. FREEDOM °F ELECTION. Mr. ASHTON SMITH role, and, in a low tone c.f voice, obferved, that he held in his hand a Peti tion on the pa!, t:f cettain Eleftors of the County of Hants, complair.ing of an unconltitutional violation of their EieCtive Ftanchife. Mr. SPEAKER. repeatedly defired the Honottra- Isle Member to proceed to hate the fubttance of the Petition. lc, in his own judgment, he thought he had already Hated fufficitnt, it was well ; if not, it was his duty to go on.—(Here was an unufual clamour of Bear ! Hear ! Hear I—Mr. 7 ierriey exclaimed, " Let the iJon. Alen:Ler 'peak out, that he may It heard)." Mr. ABIIION SMITH.—" The Petition com plains of the tarjatifiabie and uncontlitutional inter ference of the Officers (4 . the Crown at the late Elec tion for the (;:ttoty of Hants."—(7 he acclamation: of Hear ! became ger.eral throughout the Honfe )._ Mr. IV IL CI AMS W Y - NN E.— " The Honourable Member Ihould (late the player (1 the Petition." Mr. CANNING.—" A Petition may be received by the H , use, which does not contain any chilind prayer. It is enough to induce the Houfe to enter tain it, if it contains an Allegation of a grievance." Mr. SPEAKER.—" Every Paper prefented is a Petition to this Honk, mutt contain fornething of a prayer. It is not every toile Itatenlent thumb into the Honle, that can he received and read." • Mi. BRDERICK.—" It is a question of privi. lege. Tim Petition complains of the undue, improper, and ttncontlitutiunal interference of the Officeri of the Crown in an Eleftion, and therefore it i;ught to be received."— jenerd cly of Redd, iread I Mr. SPEAKER. ' flue Honour.ole Member mull (late, that the Petition contains a prayer which calls for the interference of the Houle. II he thi.iks it does contain Inch a prayer, 1 t (Tear that it is . 4is duty to Itate,it." . . . Mr. A. SMITH.—" I move that the Petition brought up." The quellion was put and carried. " That the Petition be now reed." This was al:u put and agreed to. The Petition was :4 ddreffed to the Tioncturabk the Comm ons ci Great Britain, &c. and was to this effi.,9 : " 'I hat the underfigred Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freda*, et the County of Hants thoug!,t it their duty to reprefent to th e Honourable the Houfe of Commons, that,previoue to the eletSti be of two Knights for the County, rocatures of a moll tu t e eti ft it ; tional nature had' been retorted to by perfons in different oseee• under the Crown. for the purpofe of promoting by undue me the return of Mr. Thitllewzire and the Hon. William her.ans , bert, whole elcdion was favoured 1y bit Majefty's Minder e , violation of the rights of the tied Jrs. That W. H. Fremantl e , • Efq. one of the Secretaries of the Treafitry, a perfoo w h o had ec, property in the County, apilied to the Barrack Mailer at South, ampton, recomm ading the above Candidates, and defiring hi m to mention him to other Gentlemen in the Barrack Departm ent , That means were ufed, under pretence of carrying on his Majeki fcrvice, to promote the elenion of the Ministerial Candidates.. The Petitioners then Rated, that thcfe allegauons they wer e p „. pared to prove, and they hoped that means w,uld be taken to prevent the recurrence of pradlices, which. with tnbmilfiontothe Houle, they ventured to dcicri!.ie arc alculated . to bring the Govern. went into difcredit with the country, and to (hake the confidence of the ,people in the lwaour and intlependence of the Mule of Commons : That the Petitioners therefore had deemed it the e duty to bring under the notice of the Houfe thole outraiges agai t e the liberty of the country ; and they were the more eitouragech e do fo, by obferving the Refolution on the Journals of the Hock. which declared, that it was highly criminal in any Minifter, orate Servant of the Crown. to ufc the power of his office in the detain of any Member of the Houle ; and that Inch an attempt would*: all times be relented, as aimed at the honour, dignity, and inde pendence of the Commons, and an infringement of the rights es every Su‘yet in the Empire, and as calculated to lap the lolanda. tion of our happy Conffitution." Lord 'TEMPL E Let the names of the Peti. ticners be read." The Clerk r -ad. • William Chute,Thomas Mather, lion St John Mildmay,jd e Dent (a load/alight Nathaniel Atchefon Geo.ge Ward, Chan* Jenkinfon, H. I) Eitsharris, with about thirty other names. Mr. A. SMITH....- 0 I mov e th a t t h e p et i t i on do lie upon the table, and I give notice that I (hall mal t a motion trpOn the firbjeet this day fe'onight." Lord TEMPLE—" I rife to give my fulleft con. fent, as far as my vote can Rive it, to the petition lying on the table. I have only to beg leave to call to the recolledion of the Houfe, that previous to the Meeting of Parliament, a petition, I know not wire. then this petition, was dire led to be laid before tht Houfe. Now, ek.is.is a quellion of privilege, and of the fir a importance. Ir remains, therefore to be accounted for, how a quellion .of privilege (Hear, bear, hear,) Ihottid have been delayed till this day." Mr. CANNING—" There was an obje&ion to any petition at all." (ho, ho, No, exc!aimed many.) Mr. TIERNEY—" It the Gentlemen on the other fide mean to make this a party quellion, they have done very right in exciting public attention, by keep. log back the petition ; but if they mean to treat kat a quellion of privilege, then the perfons who have figntdhave placedthemfelvesin an tinple-tfant Iltuation. What niuil thole Members of Parliament, who hare ligned the petition, C.ink of themfelves ? (A wis. went cry of Bear, Bear.) What mutt they thick of themtelve4. for having allowed thefe unworthy Mi. fitters to fit fa long oppofite them, withcut their con fidering it right, knowing what they did, to complain of their conditet ? They cannot view it as a breach of privilege r‘f a very alarming nature, when they have kept the petition back upwards of two attohihs. The Houfe ought to know the teafou why they have done fo." Mr. PERCEVAL-.- 4 t I have no doubt the Gen. tleman who fpoke lan has a good motive for what he ha,faid, and I dare fay not a party one (a laugh).— Thofe who bring forward a matter of great public importance, do not, I think, deferve to have it aged as a matter of cenfure, that they Idea what appears to them the mon proper time for bringing it forward. , The Honourable Gentleman might have preferred the Petition on the fit ft day rf the Seffion. If he had done In, or even before the time limited for petitioning aipCnlt the return, it might have been a ground of eljeftion. The Houle will confider, if any one of the falls hated in the petition is capable of p roof, that it is a matter of comparative infignificance whether the fubjea is brought forward on one day or another. —The Hon. Gentlemen oppofite may endeavour to excite what degree of prejudice they pleafe as to the manner of prefenting a Petition, or the matter (lit ; ' but if there is truth in the petition, they may exereife their wit or their talents, if they choofe, but I am lure they never will prevail upon this Houle or the country to think lightly of the conduit it difclofes.' Mr. W. WYNNE—" It is impoffible for any man to rife and hate, that on this tide of the Houfe the petition has been treated as irlight import. I appeal to the Houle, whether it was not treated by tbo Noble Lord as of the first importance, and that the only thing that recurred to him was to exprefs his annnithment at the long delay upon a fubjea, that ought to have been brought forward the very fiat moment it could. That it is a cafe of great import. ante there can be no doubt. The charges are certainly important—important if they are proved— important if they are difprnved ; for if they are dif• proved, they will unqiiettionably fall hack on the heads of thole who preferred them."—( Violent aakk mations andl27outs of Bear, hear, hear . 1 ) Mr. HURST — " I do not think it material what the motives of the Petitioners are. I am glad that the Petition has found its way to this Howe. Rto mours upon rumours have been whifpered. Some- times at one door, fometimes at another ; they ought to be enquired into. The charge is, that there has been a breach of the privileges of the Houfe by thole who thould be the fir it to protea the privileges of the Honfe. (Lxtreme agitation and much clamour.) I have the molt per fea confidence that every .:Ilufion in Ile Petition will be found not to bear, whether with mil foe& to the Hoo. Gentleman who is particularly. , • named in the Petition, or any other. I am perfuaded it will end in loch a way as to reflea honour on the parties concerned." Mr. ROSE.—I have no doubt of the partiality of the Honourable Gentleman who fpoke lali, and on not furprited at his being an advocate fur every put of the condo& of which the Petition complains. As to the time of prefenting the Petition, 1 conceive that when a Petition is put into the hands of a Member, the diforetion as to the time of prefenting it is left with him. It is not very difficult to find a rational motive for the delay. The Parliament met at an. unufnattime of the year, and the attendance of the Country Gentlemen has till now been extremely th in. This I confider a fuflicient realm)." Mr. STURGE'S BOURN .—c It was the With, of the Petitioners that this Petition fhould be p lc : fenced when there wm the fullet attcoclani;iii