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Chancellor of the Exchequer, however, Rated that, is to this amendment, it was unnectffary, becaufe the propufed period of duration inferted in the Bill did not preclude the propofition of repeal within a year, if it fhouldappear.neceffary. Now if this argil. Ment were good for any thing , it would warrant !flaking the Bill perpetual, becaufe it would Rill be competent to any member to move fur its repeal.— To talk about periods of duration, therefore, with filch an argument in view, was quite unnecefrary.— But he ditcarded filch an argument ; for wi.ti thofe who brought forward the Bill, the onus of proving itsiteceffity lay, and the Bill thould not be decreed to continue for one moment beyond the probable ex ;Renee nf neceflity. With a view to impofe that onus tiponthem at lea annually, he would fupport the Amendment. Mr. El.lol' (late Secretary for Ireland) admitted the necessity of this meafure, but thought the period 'of duration quite another queftion, and that Parlia- Went ought to thew an anxiety to keep as much as l poffible within the limits of that neceffiry. He would therefore ftipport the amendment, and would ftrongly advife Gentlemen on the other foie, to accede to it. The Right Hon. Gentleman earneftly recommended the adoption of conciliatory meafures with regard to Ireland. He deprecated the language which he had heard from a high authority in that Houle. and in another alterably alto with refpea .to the Catholics. For he eonfidered fitch language extremely rath and imprudent, to fay the leaft of it, as it would go to clofe the expetiations—to put an end to the hopes of the Catholic body. When Gentlemen talked of fettling the queflion, what did they mean ? Did they mean to fay to a population growing in numbers, wealth, and confeqnence, We will never attend to roar wilhes— we will never comply with your defires ? But fume Gentlemen undertook to fay, that the Catholic !Fief tion was of no confequence to this population. The contrary, basever t was as true as nature was true to herfelf. What ! that the landed and commercial in terefts, which had fitch extentive and kin influence among the Catholic body—that the Gentlemen of the Bar did not afpire ro thofe privileges and dillinaions from which they are at prefent excluded—the idea was quite reprifterous. He could air e the Hnule that Gentlemen were miftaken who fuppofed all thofe feelings p revail among the Catholics, which tlrongly bind men to the State. Fa the defire of participa ting in thole privileges, which the State granted, was a Orong bond of concretion. He, of comae, difideed, and would wilh to difenuntenance the doc trine, that the profpea fhonld be removed, which (erved to keep alive that &fire. At lean allow the Catholics to hope—let them cheriffi expeaation, as one of the guarantees of their loyalty'. as one of the heft steans of preterving the tranquility of Ireland. With a view effectually to retort and to maintain that tranquillity, the Right Hon. Gentleman mentioned the different !matures which the late Minifiry had in contemplaticn—foft, the grant of privileges to the Catholics ; fecond, the modification of tythes ; third, a aria attention to the appropriation of the funds deftitted for education ; and fourth, the enforcement of the rtfidence of the Enabliffied Clergy.—Thefe were among the .benefits which the late Adminifira• tion meant to confer upon Ireland,,acd which he heartily wifhed to fee adopted. Mr. WILBERFORCE felt much fatisfaftion in hearing the objects which the Right Hon. Gentleman had pa Hated, and particularly with regard to tythes, in which if a change could be effettled without injury to the interefis of the ellahlithed clergy, it was on all bands admitted to be extremely defirable. The Ho nourable Member expreffed his with that the Gentle men of Ireland would themfelves devote their attention to a confideration of the means by which the date of the VIII people might be amended. For he could not help thinking that in that people,he meant the peafan• try pat denial ly, there was a differcnce not only in the civil condition, if he might foexprefs Matfett, but in the political charaaer, from that which appeared among the fame chines in this country, 'and the -Gentlemen of Iteland might b 7 mon competent to judge of the LEI, and to prepare the means of im proving their countrymen. Mr. ELIOT, referring to the language of Mr. Emmett, btfure the Committee of the Irifh Parlia ment, dated the admiffian of that Gentleman, that although Catholic emancipation was in his judgment of little confequence to the population of Ireland, yet that the refufal r f that meafure was a mot efficacious means of promfaing infurreaion. Mr. WINDH AM was glad to hear his Right Hon. Friend date the objects which the late Admi oiftration had in view, fir the benefit of Ireland; and to thufe objects he wifhed particularly to point the attention of the Houle. It was now obvious, that the late Milliners did nut mean to cor.fine themfelves to the queflion refpefling the Catholics. Mr. OSBORNE rote to order. He -did not con ceive the obfervations of the line cf argument purfued by the Riglo litmourable Gentlemen, or the two lag Cpeakers, at all relative to the quellian before the lioufe, as to the proper duration (lath Bill. The SPEAKER Paid, that he certainly amid not feel himfelt ju iified in interrupting the cootie which the gi r t,' Horourable Gentleman was taking. Mr. WIADHAM reformed t and remarked upon the arvirment of the Right Hon. Gentleman on the other ft tc (the Chancellor of the Exchequer )infavaur• of the Bill 3., far from crnfidc ing this Bill. and the Infuriation Aa as twin , which the Right Honour able Gentleman teemed to pronource them, he thought them materially different. With refpea to the c nfequer.ce to be apprehended from the frequent n of meafures of this nature, and which the Right Hon Gentleman on the oppolite fide wouldde precate, he for himfelf thought, that asmuch irritation might be produced by filence as by &reunion—nay, ov , re ; and fa he all); ehencled from the iiience of Mi. nifiers up( n this oceafion. The feelings of the people of Itch d n uft be grated to find it refiaaaa t o con tinue the dur ation o f Such a Bill as this beyond a seafonable lime, withour,ny ilatorent, and perhaps without the exidence t f rectffity. For whatever the to.eeffity might he now, that nect flity might be at an and alibi,. to else m. , t 11 s. At all events, the cafe was eloub.ful, and the liith people thould have the benefit of that douho Enacting the bill f a one year did not resin& jistevivAl,fh. , tild it a prea-necefiary,anymore than the rtarival of the Mutiny Bill, which, from the fame crinloiciatit ns eat ch actuated his mind on this or-canon, Parliament had takencare to pals annually, although its r ect Silty was undifpnred and its princi; le wiqucitionAtblcr The (late yt the cafe tiPon thil onellion was this : Gentlemen on his fide of the Houfe were alive to the danger of continuing the Bill too long, while the Gentlemen on the other were afraid of its being repealed too loon. But he fully concurred with the fentiment of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Sheridan) that more loft would accrue from the continuance of the Bill to the period propofed by Mini(l:rs, than could be expiated of benefit from the Bill itfelf. The Houfe divided upon Lord H. Petty's amend ment, and the numbers were Ayes 34 —Noes 79. Strangers were not readmitted, but we underilood that the Bill was read a third time and palled. The Irith Militia Conspl &.ion Bill was committed and ordered to be reported to morrow.—Adjourned. LONDON. SATURDAY, AUGUST L PRICE OF S COCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCKt Cosa. psoacy 6, Auguft 6:14-.0112. If d Aott. 6ii 6* Exch. Bills pat'. is. pr. AMERICA. We have this morning received New York Papers to the 12th ult. They were brought to Liverpool on Thurfday by the Swift, which left New York aa the 14 , h of July. Their contents are of extreme importance : They contain the Proclamation Wiled by the Prefident of the United States on the fubjea of the late fracas between the Leopard and Cho fapeak, TMs document is not couched in that via' lent fpirit of hoßility towards Great Britkin t which the American papers led us to expel k would. Negociations had commenced at Wallington be tween Commodore DougLae, of the Ulan*. and Mr. Eassixt, on the part of Great Britain, and the Secretaries of State for America. The rank of thefe negociations was underilood to he of a pacific ten dency, and a fpeciAl Envoy from the Ametican Col binet was immediately difpatehed to this ennatty OM board or the Revenge American fchonster, In the mean time the Plenipotentiaries had 'rod that no ad of retaliation whatever lbould be corn. mitted byAmerica, until an asfwer was received from London, to the above difpatcher. by multiplying , injuries and Irritations, to frig eta Aspire Moven the tow nation:. This agrees ,fore equally tweed so the ineerills of lath, Wit it togfurenten of the welfriesuPy efifixijiioen on the part of she Brisj, Go , vormitni, in the midtl of which this outrage has been committed. In this light the fubje& cannot but pre fent Nat' to that Government, and strengthen the motives to an honourable reparation of the wrong which has been done, and to that effeEtual controul of its naval commanders, which alone can justify the Government of the United States in the exercife of thofe hofpitalities it is now conßrained to difcon• tinue. On the other hand the American Papers a* fill filled with coarfe inveelives againtl this couritryi - and no exertions are wanting on the part of the French party in America to hLv► the coals of &fund between the two friendly nations. The American Government has ilrued orders for the immediate equipment of so gun boats, and the militia is to be augmented to too,ooo men, in cafe of any ultimate rupture with this country. All apprehentions of a rupture with America have for the prefent fubfided among the American mer chants in the City, and Infusances have been' this morning eff.Eled at LLOYD'S for American veirels on the ufual terms. The following is the In confideration of thefe eircumnances, and of she right of every nation to regulate its own police, to provide for its peace and for the fafety of its citizens, and confequently to refufethe admiffion of armed vef• fele into its harbours or waters, either in fuch num. bets or of fuch defcriptions, as are inconfifteik with thefe, or with the maintenance of the inthority of the laws, I have thought proper, in purfuance a the authorities fpecially given by law, to iffue this my Proclamation, hereby requiring all armed veffels bearing commiffions under the Government of Great Britain, now within the harbours or waters of the United States, immediately and without any delay to depart from the fame, intcrdiaing the entrance of all the raid harbours and waters to the Paid armed veffels, and to all others bearing commifflons under the authority of the Britini Government. _ _ _ And if the (aid vefiele, or any of them, (hall fail to depart u aforefaid, or if they or any others, fo in terdiaed, %hall hereafter enter the harbours or waters aforefaid, I do in that cafe forbid all intercourk with them or any of them, their officers or crews, aid do prohibit all fupplies and aid Rona being (woad to them or any of them. And I 'do declare and make knawn, that if any perfou from or within the jurifdiaional limits of the United States !hall afford any aid to any fuck veffel, contrary to the prhibition contained in this Procla• mati.n, either in repairing any filch veffel, or in fur nithing her, her Akers or crew, with fupplies of 'any kind, or in any manner whatfoever, or if any pilot (hall atilt in navigating any of the Paid armed unlefs it be for the purpofe of carrying them in the fiat intlance beyond the limits and jurifdiEtion of the United States, or ualefs it be in the cafe of a veffel forced by diarefs, or charged with public difpatches as hereinafter provided for, inch perfon or perfons Mall, on conviainn, !offer all the pains and penalties by the laws provided for fu,h offences. And I do hereby enjoin and requite all perfons, bearing office civil or military within or under the authority of the United States, and all others, citizen* or inhabitants thereof, or being within the fame, with vigilance and plowtitude to exert their refpetlive authorities, and to be aiding and affiaing to the car• vying this proclamation and every part thereof into full effeit. PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DNI TED STATES. Wallington City, July 2, dcy. _ _ _ During the was which, for tome time, have us happily prevailed among the powers of Europe, the Uuited States of America, film in their principles of peace, have endeavoured by juflice, by a regular dill charge of all their national and focial duties, and by every friendly office their fituation has admitted, to maintain, with all the belligerents % their accullomed relations of friendfhip, hofpitality, and commercial intercourfe. Taking no part ht the queftions which animate tilde powers againfl each other, nor permit, ting themfelves to entertain a with for the reßoration of general peace, they have obferved with good faith the neutrality they affumed, and they believe that no inflance of a departure from its duties can be julllT imputed to them by 4ny nation. A free life of their harbours and waters, the means of refitting and of refrellment, of fuccour to their lick and fuffering, have, at all times, and on equal principles, been ex• tended to all, and this too amid& a conflant recur. rence of aes of infubordination to the laws, of vio lence-to the perfuns, and of trefpaffes on the property of our citizens, committed by officers of one of the belligerent parties received among us. In troth there abufes of the laws of hofpitality have, with feiir exceptions, become habitual to the Commanders of the Britith armed velrels hovering on et•r coatis and frequenting our harbours. They have been the tub jeft of repeated reprefentations to their Goveinfnent. I .eljarances have been given that proper orders fhould reit rain them within the limit of the rights and of the refpea due to 4 friendly nation ; but thofe orders and afTurances have been without drat ; idler:cc of punithment for patt wrongs has taken place. - At length a deed, tranfoanding all we have hither to Peep or fuffered, brings the public fenfibility.to a ferious cars, and our forbearance to a neceffaryfaufe. A frigate of the United States, trolling to a Rate of peace, and leaving her harbour on a diflant fervice, has been furprifed and attacked by a Britith veal pf fuperior force ; one of a 'fquadron then lying in one waters, and covering the tranfaition ; and has been difabled from fervice, with the lots of a number of men killed and wounded. This enormity was not only withont provocation or jußifiable cattle, but was committed with the avowed purpnfe of taking by force, from a thip of war of the United States, a pan of her crew ; an?, that no circuntßance might be wauttaft to mark its charailer, it had been previtrue, afcertained that the &amen demanded were native citizens of the United States. Hawing effelted Ma purpofe, he returned to anchor with his Iquadron t within our jorifdittion. Hofoitality, under fach cumßances, ceafes to be a duty : and a caurivaquer of with loch nncontrouled 411ufes, wool/ tend onlh Provided neverthelefs that if any fuch veffels !hall be forced into the ha►bours or waters of the United States by chtlrefr, by the dangers of the fea, or by the purfuit of an enemy, or than enter them charged with difpatches or Wines from their government, or !hall be a public packet tor the conveyance of let ters and dirpatehes, the commanding officer imme. died, reporting his veffel to the colleßor of the dif Oating he object or caufes of entering the laid hal bnstrs or waters, and conforming himielf to the regulations in that cafe prefcrited under the an•ho• rity of the laws, (hall be allowed the benefi , of fuch regulations refpeCting repairs, fupplies, stay, inter. I l courfe and departure as (hall be permitted under the fame authority. _ _ _ _ _ In tellimony wherenf, I have caufed the real of the United States to be affixed to there prelims and• rigged the fame. Given at the city of Wafhington the feeond day of July, in the year of our Lord one thoufand (La ]eight hundred and feven, and of the ft , vereignt ty and independence of the United States the thirty fire. THOMAS jkFFEILSOR. *she PrOdera, JAMBS MADISON, Secreary par; FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS. A meeting has been conve•ted at Newark, July 8, very numeriufly attended, at which feveral very fpi. rited refolutions paired, we fele& thelollowing:— Refoloat, That it is the opinion of this meeting,. that the Government of the. United States hub the whole courfe of the unhar was plunge his conalry in a wicked and inlet war avid the will of the nation. Refolved. That although this meeting greatly de precate the calamities of war, yet lhould this become neceffary for the prefervation of the perfunat right, of their fellow citizens, the defence of their country, and the maintenance of the fovereigiuy and ;adepts. deuce of the Uoion, they will engage in it with ala crity, and (atm* pledge to our country and our Government, our lives and fortunes is defense of the rights of an independent nation. ' Similar refilutions have been palled at different meetings held at Philadelphia and other wens of the United States. log A it i m a o m ng ee o ti t n h g er h r e e l f d ol a u t t r on orf s, ra w lk e , re Ju a ne s 6, the follow piniongretofd t t o hls Cont. d m i t o t a e f t e d cb , l' a c e h il s a u t t o ganim th c e o p:r if il iii a fh t m a o s ilt ffi on t c h e:r, t o s w e h gr o dayt i h d i f s hc on b r r u o i o , g no les t having hoifted a flag before his approach to our har bour, was not afterwards entitled to be so:initiated as coming under the proteeion of a lag of trace ; and as Inch he Ihould not have been diaarged, bat fhould have been held in cufiedy until the pleafure of the government was known. RefAed sosaniaseafly, that it is the opinion of tibia Committee, that any Britillt officer coming to this place, Bull be confidered as a prifoner, natil the de ' Wl,* of the government be known. l i Frain the National IstehVeseer I yody s, A Pilot Boat yellerday arrived with as exprefs to the Secretary of the Nary, from Capt. Decatur, communicating the following insportaut intelligence; On the afternoon of the 3d init. the four Bri:ifh (hips of war came into Hampton Roado, and occur! pied a nation between Hampton and Norfolk. Ten, den were feen to leave the frigates, and to afcernin the founding, beyond the narrows, in the direction ' of Norfolk. This, with other circumftances , led Capt. D ecatur ; 41) believe that their objeEt was to take the Chefa. peak and a French frigate lying at Norfolk, if not to threaten the town, On the fueceeding morning a private wail patio; from Norfolk to Hampton, was flopped by the Il s I o ties (hips, and a demand made to carry a letter bact to Norfolk. This the captain at fiat refaced, Out on ' the Britifh commander threatening to fink him in cafe of non-compliance, he agreed to take the letter, Tbe Amer was addreffed to the people of Norfolk, and declared that tint& they refcioded their recitations there Oiould be a rigorous blockade, by which the i or departure of all velfcls would be pro, hibited. The exprefs left Norfolk en.the 4th late in the day, After the boat had palled the frigates, which was effcaed with to much fuccefs as altogether to creeps their notice, the Commander law a boat palling front Hampton. towards Norfolk, hailed by the BOO; r i and afterwards return back towards Hampton.-o . From this it is inferred that the blockade was then in actual force. Here then is a Rate of things well calculated to excite the highea folicitude. Orders have been iffued from the War*Office nth; Governors of the leveret Rated, making a requifition of One Hundred Thoufand Militia, to be ready to take the field at a moment'♦ warning, and atohoriffog the accep:ance of volunteers, • Wong men of 4 !A t ilea l rally round the flendard of tour country, ;44 prepare yourfelves, in cafe of neceffity, ro over whet . with irrefiftible energy, the vidaitors of your rights 121 In the corirfe of a very (Sort time between 6o an Ro gun boats, fully equipped, will he (tabooed at the molt ea pofed poiot s of the United States * to repel all aggrea ns that may be offered. .Fivers the Whin:tea Fears? of 74, 8. Mr. Erfkine, the Britith Minifter his arrived-or De. dares the late agoreffion , unauthorized. and i• about to forward an immediate difpetch to the Bririfis A i cer commanding at Hampton. The Pre6dent has required the crovernors of the different Suite; to have their refpettive quotas of Mi. lid, in readinefs to march at a moment's warning. The whole number required is loo s e= ThcqUlAll of this dirtriet i. Laid to be goon. • All the Lietoeo.ants in the miry, and Midthipmen, are ordered to repair immediately to N'of ilk: Thole ; who were in this neighbourhood have already lit cif• ' A fchooner freighted with arm; and ammunition" Wt the Navy-yard two days fence for Norfolk. A number of veffels_ s lisins Baltimore, which were on their way to fea. poi beck, the owners or macre . not confidering it fafe to proceed.—New York Mee eantik Advertifer, yid 9. The United States fchooner Revenge, now at Bal timore, is under orders to be in readinefs to ar i: to fea. Sheis to convey ;o our Minifter at difpatches inffrueing him to demand of the Bridal Government the explanation and fatisfaelon'whaft the late outrage on the frigate Chefapeak neceffaril, requires. Confidently with the ufage of civilized na. tions, the aet of its peaty officers cannot be considered as the ad of the Br itifh Government, until an oppor tunity be afforded them of avowing or difav ,wineit. The Melampus frigate has captured fix Anisocau veffels bound out of the Chefapeak..-..Phil. wagtte , ' Yefferday evening the Committee received info?: mation from Hampton, that an attempt to land at Brit' - - throughout ti _ .._ - - " a PPY -• that place would he tea' de from the itith (hips that has fo long dißurbed the repofe of Europe, con- below. Nearly goo citizens immediately volunteered dialed itfelf towards the nation of Great Britain, and their fcrvices t Than the gun boats, and proceed all the other belligerent powers with a fernpulous inftantly to Hampton, end they will go off this gap , noon, four in number. No place can b e better de! regard to the duty of a neutral and a friendly na tion, at the fame time obferving a cordial hofpitality fended by gun boats than Hampton, on account of accompanied with a Iltia and rigid impartiality to all the bar, which prevents the access of large retie's. , " AO/wed, That this meeting approve of the mea- There may be no foundation for this report, bur the fines purfued by the Executive of the Unions in this unprepared Rate in which theCherapedt was attacked. critical and important crifis of our political affairs, as infpires an uncommo n vigil ance an d tu f p i e i on .—isee far as they have been communicated, by the Prods .firti Paper, Jose a 6. minion a his Excellency the Pre fi dent of the United It Is reported that about zoo of the Englifb at. States, -of the ad inftant, in refufing further bor• tempted to go afhore at Lynnhaven B a y, . d o w o o pitality to Sips of war, the commanders of which fn oppoted by 400 Americans; aight ealued, .twu tw manifeßly- disregard the laws of decorum, and the three Americans were wounded, and four or five i plaineß principles of jultice, humanity, and the right ! Euglifit killed It is alfo raid that sue Brion' ripe of fovereignty ; and notwithßanding the indignto t it it , h ave cannonaded N rtolk, thr ea t en i ng d e i t iudi A i to feels it the rat ties, outrages, and intuits offered y he the town. utiles their refolations were reicinded, and country, yet it cannot but acknowledge the wifdurn ' the fuppties tninifited. The fleet; it is reported, bavs of the executive in leaving a door open to peace, by handed at Point Comfort, and dog well s i th e y have which useafure time will be given to the Brit 1T ' alfo carried off about so head of otitis nom OF nation to paufe a . .. nd reflect before it engages in a was as calamitous to Wel! . as unjult and oppreffive to us. thore near Hampton Roads. -. ------ - '--- _-_.__„- •-4 This meeting in this refne4 (peaks of the Brit . ith . na- I L ot4DON: penu . d and pobatied 6, tvci. irra. vitro. i lion becaufe it yet boats of its freedom, believing i century-Fume. lambed ) as th e ST4a-Or 7 ica. N. 4: POP . ...... . 1 that the executive of a free people will never dare to l - • area, ? u tata, c a f a as t h e 01 . a . 41/6 , cs, usbotho