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TO BE SOLD A VERY GREAT BARGAIN. MOST Excellent Grand Horizontal PIANO FOR•I , almost new, he the Prince of Wales's Maker, for f~ ; • t ~.'t-e guineas only, cost eighty pounds. • It would suit a con • cer:-room or a theatre, as it stands remarkably well in ume, and has an uncommonly fine tone.—May be seen from ten to four o'clock, at No. 5, Leicester-place, Leicester-squire.—The person to when it belongs has no objection to take a small instrument in exchange, as he has no room for the above. Ttis day were published, in one volume octavo, price s s. OBSERVATION'S on the Impolicy of encourag ing SHIP BUILDING IN INDIA., with Remarks on its ri.inous consequences to tl.a Landed, Shipping, and Manufactur ing Interests of Great Britain. 'Sold by Messrs. Black ar.d Parry, Lcadenhall-street, and Mr. James Richardson, Coruhill. This day was published, In Three Volumes 11rto. price 1s boards, THE DOMINICAN, a Romance, of which the principal Traits are taken from Events relating to a Family of Distinction, whr h emigrated from Pratte during the Revolu tion. By CAPTAIN T. WILLIAMSON, Author of " The Wtid Sports of the East." Frinted fur Longman, Hurst, Rees ar.d Orate, Paternoster-row. This day was pubh,hed, price 4s. bout,d, The Sixth Edition, with great Improvomentt, GRAMMATICAL EXERCISES UPON THE FRENCH LANGUAGE, compared with the English, By NICOLAS HAMEL. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rces and Orme, Puttrnost er-row. Of whom may be had, by the same Author, price is. bound, The Fifth Edition, of 1. An UNIVIRSAL FRENCH GRAMMAR, beirg an accurate System of French Accidence and Syntax, on an improved Plan. 2. Woßl.o in M I NIATVRE, Sceond Edition, price 4s. bound. RUSSIA AND SWEDEN. This day was published, in two splendid volumes, royal quarto, illustrated by FORTY ONE ENGRAVINGS, many of them coloured after original drawings by the Author, price Five Guineas in boards, TRAVELLING SKETCHES in RUSSIA and SWEDEN, made DURING a RE..!DENCE in those COUNTRIES in the Years 1805, 1506, 1807, mm 11306. By ROBERT KER PORTER, K. S. 3. 8:c. &c. Printed for RICHARD Putr.Li rs, Ni. 6, Bridge street, London, and to be had of Bryce and Co Edinburgh, and of all Booksellers. ••• The above-mentioned Work claims a strong interest with the Public from the circumstance of the Author's accredited re ception at the Courts of the respective Countries, and in the first circles of Rank and Wealth, and by his known powers of illus trating by the pencil the objects which claimed his attention. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. VIENNA, MARCH 8, This day the fitie regiment of Hohenzollern cui. rassiers made its entry into this city ; at the head of it were the Archduke Charles and Duke Albert. Long live the Archduke Charles !" was the con-. stint cry of the people. The above-mentioned re giment is the oldest in the present Austrian army. "It was raised in MIS, and in the Year following it signalized its career by saving the Emperor. This day the Archbishop consecrated, in St. Ste phen's Church, the colours of the 6th battalion of mi litia in this place, who will march the day after to morrow. Our prospects continue to become more warlike.—( Corretpon4nr. ) HANOVER, MARCH il. This morning a courier brought orders for tlyj troops in this country to break up. In consequence, the 2.5 th of the line breicks up to-morrow, and the 85th on the 15th, by Hameln, Pyrmont, &c. along the Wesel to Cassel. This evening the citizens are to mount guard.—(C;p4c:/:lnde.i!.) FROM THE MAINE, MARCH 7. The corps of the Grand Duke of Darmstadt has received orders to much. It goes in columns, to morrow, to Augsburg. In the course of the present month, a great num ber of French troops are expected in Suabia from France. Yesterday a large quantity of uniforms for the we of the French army, cc mint' fr-m Mentz, passed through Frankfort. The hurth:m of having soldiers billetted cn them is now m.Lde geed to the villages in Bavaria, by the Circle collectively. ANISTERDANI, MARCH it Messrs. Goll and Co. bankers of the Emperor of Austr:a, have published in the papers of this day, that owing to the low course of Exchange at Amsterdam and Vienna, whirl: is continually dwindling still lower, the Austrian treasury bills, now due, shall not be paid at pre.ent ; and the public shall be apprized when their payments shall be made, This intelligence was already known oil our Exchange yesterday, and occasioned a considerable depression of the Austrian funds. After this, the breaking out of a new war is still more dreaded. HAMBURGH, MARCH 14. On the 9th inst. there were to be burnt at Magde. burgh, in the Department of the Elbe, forty-three intercepted and confiscated copies of the work en titled, " Proceedings in Spain, trom the breaking nut of the troubles of Aranjuez till the breaking up of the Junta at Bayonne, by Don Pedro Cevallos, SeCretary of State to his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII." . ST. PETERSBURGH, FEBRUARY 18. In Fialand, we learn, a Diet will he held next month, where his Imperial Majesty will he present in person. M. Alcipens will, it is said, be the Chancel. for of this Diet—the same who was lately Russian Ambas,,ador in Stockholm. The Government and Administration of Finland is to remain as it has been under the Swedish Government. The Emperor's• Adjutant Scheuvalsro is already gone to Finland, and M. Alopens will set out in a short time. MA RCII I.—Count Von Buxhovilen, General of Infantry, is arrived here from Finland, with Adju tant Count Buzhovilen, and Chamberlain Count Burthovden. The Minister of War, Count A. Vatscere, is gone with General Buck rneyer. A Tribunal of COITITTICT CC 11AS be 2.11 established. The exports for Cronstadt and St. Petersbargh, last year, amounted to 1,452,953 rubles, the imports t. 4) 5,273,891. VENICE, FEBRUARY 21. The Russian Fleet in our Port is preparing to set sal ; the Venetians are not pleased on this account, for the Officers and seamen, who are well and punc tually paid, cause the•circulatioa ot much ready cash. The officers, owing to their genteel deportment, have free admission to tie best houses, and are welcomed with pleasure. Never a week passes without their giving balls or suppers on board their ships, to the Venetians, iillMilom : char that may he made of emir= againd • et any or more of the Court of • HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY; MARCH SO, The above amendment passed in the Negative. Tbe Royal Assent was given with the usual formalities, by .1 Whet: ballot was demanded on the original ques. Commission, to Woe Public and Private Rills. Among the for- L i m; i t was , sd F e t a . 1801, lost by a majority mer tvere, the Tobacco Importation, the Newfoun dland l udica. : of 13 — Y ; Lure, British American Fisheries, Crown Office Clerks, C 411 voting fo r question, ag.ainst it S.W. Impdrt Regulation, and the Spirits Wash Duty Bills.. • .. orn i. The opinion of Counsel, declaring that it was illegal The Lords Commissioners were, the Aecnotstior of CO. to exact an oath from the patties, was given to the IL TE DUIY, the LORD CHANOtGLOk, and Lord WAusitacatAii. The Flag Seed Growth Bounty, and theDever and Portsmouth , Court of Directors, preeious to the ballot being taken. - - THE REPORT TIIEN PROCE E DS. Wor'lcs; Bills, passed through Committees of the whole Rouse, and wets reported witliput any amendment. The (rib Corn and Provision, the Irish Sugar Duties, the If this House should in its wisdom adopt any le giskitive measures for the purpose of preventing a ll . Naval O ffi cers Widows' Pen ions, and the Eighteen-penny Official Duty, Bills, were severally read a second time, and ordered to traffic in the disposal of o ffi ces under Government, it will, in:the opinion of your Committee, be proper to be committed. extend the same protection to patronage held under The Private Bills upon the table were forwarded. It was ordered, on the motion of the Logo Cu* notttog, the East India Company ; -but they, see no reason to that the further consideration of the Roxburgh Peerag e be re- r e c ommend any special or separate provisions a s ap sumed, in the Conuui:tee of Privileges, on the first Tuesday after plicable to their case, judging that the East India the Easter Recess. • Company. has within its own power the most effectual Tistir Lordships then adjourned (for the Faster Rccess) until Friday the 14th of April , means for accomplishing that end. It can neve r be adviseable, without absolute necessity, to add new offer.ces to-the long catalogue already enumerated in the penal statutes ; nor is it wise to diminish the sanctity of oaths by resorting to them upon all occa cions. Where solemn declarations have been habi tually disregarded, lade reliance can be placed upon the sanction of any other species of asseveration. In. stances occur but too frequently, where an oath comes to be considered merely as part of the official form by:which an appointment is conferred ; and the human mind, fertile in self-deception, accommodates itself ItAth wonderful facility to overcoming all scruples, or applies a perv9rse ingenuity to evading all restrictions which stand in the way of present in terest. Little fear of detection is entertained, where transactions are in their nature private and confiden tial ; end the appellation of honour, most improperly applied to negociations of this clandestine kind, at- The Committee then proceeded to consider the drafts of the letter to the parents, &c. a draft of a caches, by a singular perverseness, a stronger degre e of obligation to the performance of sech engage- Report to the Court,, stating their reasons for recments, upon the very ground that they arc illegal. mending this mode of investigation, as also the form With a view to prevent all dealings in patronage, of a declaration for the persons who have received such the obvious and natural mode will be to take a wa y appointments. The consideration was adjourn - all inducement to traffic in it ; and this can only be ed to the 24th January : when a discussion ensuing atten d e d b y thereon, and on the necessity and expediency of the making the hazard of such speculations greater than the temptation. mode of public investigation therein proposed ;—it The regulations of the Company are founded upon was agreed to postpone the said Report, and to pro- this true and efficacious principle. But examples have teed to act agreeably to the anthoiity and instruc- hitherto been wanting to demonstrate the determina tions already received from the Court. The Commit tion of the Court of Directors to enforce their orders ; tee resolved, that, in their opinion, the parties to no instance of purchasing or procuring by undue whom each Director had given nominations, should means, an appointment in the civil or military service 'be called upon to state on what grounds they had re- of the East India Company, after such appointment , ceived the same, in every case tint the Committee had actually taken place, and since -the Court's Re may deem it expedient so to do. solution, of the 28th of February, 1799, having been The Committee then examined, V;174 voce, its dif- so far. established, as to enable-- the Court tp dismiss ferent Members, as a preliminary to the proposed the party appointed. . measure ; each Member declared upon his honour The immediate contequencb of the information con 'that what he had stated in regard to his appointments tained in this Report must be, that a certain number Was strictly true, and expressed - his readiness to con- of persons in the service of the Company will be in firm the same by his oath. scantly deprived of their employments, recalled from 2Sch January, 1800.—The Committee met to con•• India, and declared incapable of,again receiving any skier a draft of a Report to the Court, communicat- appointment under the Company. The money ing their proceedings, and proposing farther roeasares i m p r operly given for procuring these situations, will for the Court's 'adopion, as also a draft of a letter -be absolutely lost, without any possibility of recovery; referred to in the said Report. and those who have either imprudently or corruptly 31st Janu try.—The Report of this day's date, with been concerned in obtaining what they conceived to the letters to the parents, &c. and the declaration to be benefits for their relatives or friends, will find that be made by them, was approvod. they have done the greatest injury to-those whom they sth February. —The Court, after considerable dis- desired to serve, by inducing them to dedicate some ctision of the above, confirm the same ; but resolve of the best years of their lives to an employment, that the consideration of w h a t i s f urt h er t o be done which the original defect, and corrupt practices. on the said Report be adjourned to the 11th of Fe-1 through which it was obtained, must disqualify them bruary ; when it was resolved, that the Committee oft from prosecuting.. Patronage be instructed to proceed-in the examina- 1 Hard as some of these easel must be, and innocent , tion of the other Members of the Court, as they did and ignorant as many of the young men nominated , with themselves. It was then moved, that the de- under these circumstances probably are, of the unduel claration proposed in the Report be upon oath :—on means by which their appointments were acquired, ; this, the motion bf adjournment was carried. your Committee are of opinion, that nothing but a i 25th February.--A Report, signed by fifteen Di- strict adherence to the rule laid down by the Court of rectors, approves the declaration, and recommends I Directors, can put a stop to the continuance of Thesel that the several persons to whom the same is sent be I abuses, and prevent the chance of their recurring. requested to confirm such declaration upon oath. In the year 1779, when, in the course of 1h : inves-1 Another Report, on the sa me day, signed by 12 tigation already mentioned, indemi i y was offered Directors, recommends that no further proceedings be I to all those who would make a fair and candid had in this business, till the Ist of May. Both the disclosure of all the circumstances. through which above Reports are approved by the Court. . their situations had been procured, .though informa 2fith Febrnary, 1800.— I'he Right Hon. Henry tion was gained with regard to facts, no example Dundas addressed the Cour, acknowledging the re- I could be made, in consequence of such disclosure, of ceipt of their minute ; and stating, that he feels it a those who were found offending ; and it may be duty that he owes both to himself and the Court, to doubted whether such practices have been less preva omit no means in his power for ascertaining whether I lent since that inquiry, than before. The'deficiency any person whom he has obliged through the favour I of their power to compel persons to answer, precluded of the Court, has pi esumed to abuse his kindness in the Court of Directors from discovering, if they pu so sordicrand unwarrantable a manner. nished, or from punishing, if they discovered, the Sir Francis Baring dissents from the Resolutions to' traffic which was the subject of complaint. call for the declaration on oath. I The oath taken by the Directors seems as effectual The Committee of Patronage ceasing with the Di- as any thing which can be devised fur the purpos9 of reetion in April, on the 18th ofJune, 1800, , the Court guarding against corruption, so far as the Directors rook into consideration the propriety of re•appointing themselves are immediately concerned ; and your the said Committee. Committee have already remarked, that no one case It being moved, g , That a Committee of Patro- of corruption or abuse, which has been before them, . nage be re-appointed ;" an amendment was moved, affects any Member of that Court. It is, in the pass to leave out all the words after the word " that," and ing through several hands, which happens ,very fre-, to insert in their room the following, " it does-not quecstly Kith regard to the more numerous and less appear to this Court, that any circumstance has been - valuable appointments of Cadets, that opportunities stated to the Court, by the Committee lately appoint- • for this sort of negociation are presented, which, with ed for an in q uiry into the disposal of Patronage, that ! out a greater degree of vigilance and strictness on the can induce or would justify the Court in adopting the part of each Director, at the time of making such no illegal and novel administration ofextra-judicial oaths mination, it will be impracticable to prevent in to a variety of persons, not directly connected with future. the East India Company or the management of its i Your Committee may perhaps be exceeding the affairs, and which, though it would tend to throw a limits of their province, in the further considerations suspicion upon the Court at large, which no circum- I to which this subject leads : but as they decline re stances that have hitherto come to the knowledge of commending any special legislative enactment, their the Court can induce them to suppose the Members view of the proper remedy for these abuses may be thereof merit, would not, they conceive; be an effiec- , incomplete, unless they proceed to suggest some other tual mode of bringing to light any such practices, observations. even if such in any partial instance should have The unpleasant duty of increased vigilance is not ' existed." • ! likely to be performed without some incitement of On the qudstion for the Amendment being put, the benefit or disadvantage, attendant upon the exercise votes for and against were equal ; when the lot de- or neglect of it ; and it is equally conformable to ex . cidcd for the Amendment. perience to presume, that patronage will continue to 25th June—The Chairman, Deputy Chairman, be abused, so long as no inconvenience is felt by the and eight other Directors, • dissent from the Resolu- person primarily giving, or by the person ultimately lion not to re-appoint the Committes of' Patronage. receiving it. 24th September—A motion was made in the Court Where strict examination is a duty, any species of Proprietors, that the above proceedings be read ; of' negligence cannot be wholly blameless ; and it app they were read accordingly, and notice given by the pears not unreasonable to curtail, in some degree, the mover, of his intention of bringing the subject for- patronage of those who trave either not been suffici ward at a future Court. ently watchful in the disposal of it, or whose diligence 20th January, 1801-=-It was moved, That it is the has been unsuccessful in preventing the abuses which opinion of this Court, that the Inquiry into the alledg- are complained of. As an additional check against ed abuse of Patronage, ought to be continued." , those who are inclined to purchase such appointments, It was moved to amend the said motion, by adding it may be expedient that a bond should be given by thereto the following words, ~ to investigate any the parent, guardian, or friend of every person recsiv- PA RL IA MENTIRr ..PROCEIDIVOI - HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPLAKER took the Chair soon after two o'clock. imme diately afterwards the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the Bar, and informed-the House their attendance was required in the House of Peers. On their return, the SPRAKER stated, that the Reyal Assent had been given, by Commission, to several Public and Private Bills--(for which see the Lords.) The CIIANCELLOR of the Excel writ then moved, that the House do at its rising adjourn to Tuesday se'nnlght; which was agieetl to.—Adjourned. REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO TILE EXISTENCE OF ANY ABUSES IN THE DISPOSAL OF TIM PATRONAGE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. (Concluded from the S rn it of yesterday.) ing a nomination, stintainlng a penalty to b^ pa;,l to the East India Company, upon proof being mAde, :it any subsequent period, that any valuable con , idera. don was given for such appointment ; that specie s of proof being deemed sufficient to levy the penalty, upon which the Court of Directors may think them. selves authorised to vacate the appointment. The practices which are developed in the present Report, and other transactions which this House I , as recently had under its cognizance, are sufficient b; demonstrate, that patronage of various descripti ons has, in several instances, become an article of tragic; that an opinion of the generality of such practices has been prev,tlent to a still greher extent ; and that frail. dulent agents have availed themselves of this belief, to the injury of the credulous and unwary, and to tl:e discredit of those in whose hands the disposition Gf offices is lodged. It will depend upon the steps which may be taken in consequence of these inquiries, wile. they such abuses shall receive a permanent check, a virtual encouragement. THE EVENING S'I'AR. LONDON. ' " FRIDAY, MARCH 31. Goes •Panawy.—/rioliday at all the Public OElc% • PRICE OFSTOCXS VESTERbAY. 3 per Cent.RalL Anti that ' India 8end4,•76. 95. pre?. . 3 per Cent. Cops, 67iii •... - 4 pet Cent. shut • Etcheq.Eillc, ss. Ka. prLln, S pet Cent. Navy 9sill Lottery Tickets J'te. 43 Lung Ann. that .. _ Consols fur auc. 6111 Journals and letters ftdin Serille and t'agz to 10th, and frcim*Gijon to the.22d init. 11.t .. e been ceived. A report had got into circulation at - Cadiz that powerful French force was - approaching that city, b r it was unfounded, and probably arose from the ci cumstance of the French and Spanish ships Davin; been removed into the outer bay, as a measure precaution, conformably to the first additional articl in the late tre.tty. A very different account is no. given of the late corommotion in Cadix, from thai which was at first communicated. is now di- scribed not as a proper interference on the part the people, in consequence of rational suspicions of the fidelity of their Rulers, but as an insurrec, tion of the lowest orders of the community, for the . purposes of lawless violence and phinder ; and consistently with this character of the parties, seventy of the ringleaders have been confined in the Castle, and with them a great number of disorderly women, who were very active during the disturbance., According to the particulars we have received of the affair, we cannot avoid thinking, that the populace had serious grounds of alarm on the introduction of foreign prisoners, deserters, and mercenaries into the garrison of Cadiz ; especially after the repeated ex amples of perfidy is; their Chiefs, to which, perhar, all their misfortunes. are to be attributed, We are informed that extraordinary tribunals are to be form. ed for the trial of these persons selected as the princi pal delinquents ; but we hope that we shell not, at Cadiz, under FERDINAND VI!, have to deplore the repetition of the same scenes which have RO lately die. graced the capital under JOSEPH I, The letters from Gijon state, that in the kingdom of Asturias the spirit of patriotism,is in great vigour, The regular force of the Asturians is stated at 50,000 men, but they are much in want of muskets. Two. thirds of that number were, however, well armed, and clothed in uniforms : the rest have also muskets, but are dressed in the common raiment of the ceun •try. About 40,000 pikes had also been delivered out to the peasantry, who arc all zealous to resist the enemy. The Asturians not content with arming to defend their own province, have entered Gallicia from the side of Ribadeo, and penetrated to Mendonedc• The presence of the enemy in Gallicia has, c(eourse, checked a like display of patriotism is that less fortu. nate kingdom. Nevertheless, 6000 Gallicians have • united, and the spirit of revolt is widely and generally spread in the North West corner of Spain, We have already alluded to the Order of the Su preme Junta at Seville, directing the Spanish armies to give no quarter to French troops, in certain cases. The following is a copy Of the Decree, containing the grounds on which this extraordinary measure is resorted to : • e f , r • t )11t ng of of cle ow hat de: - of ons rcc the . and. nty ;tic, the' lace a of the I ex- am are )rm. t, at r we- .dom >our, ~000 Two. .med, skets, :Tun. d out it the ng to DECREE. " His Majesty, considering that the)trench, in the unjust and barbarous war which they wage against Spain, pay no regard to any principle of the laws of natiwis—that they shamelessly vio late the most solemn treaties, as has been verified with respect to the capitulation of Madrid, since, contrary to the stipulations therein made, they imprison, prosecute, and banish peaceable Citizens and respectable Magistrates, imposing, at the same time, the most disgraceful punishments on other unfortunate persons on the slightest suspicions and most frivolous pretexts. —Seeing that they continue every where to defile the sanctity of temples, the purity of domestic honour, and to trample on the rights of humanity—that acts of the most atrocious kind, and which make human nature shudder, are daily heard of, such as the death of a nun, who threw hereelf into a well, to avoid the brutality of a Frenchman ; the cruel murder of a mother, whose ' breasts were cut ofi in the act of giving suck to her son, by chow monsters, who afterwards sabred her infant; and a number ef other cases equally horrible,-atrocities painful to write, dreadful Ito read, and degrading to endure. Finally, his I.l4;rs•rt being , convinced, that still to observe the laws of natural equity with those whp respect no law whatever, would no: be mo:leration i.nd justice, but the most culpable indiference and the basest meanneb , , has resolved to repress and punish those crimes. Calling thereec:c all Europe to witness the awful necessity which has compel!. d hitii to resort to the mean of retaliation, by returning on a sat:- \guinary banditti violence for violence, he hereby decrees : I. That no quarter shall be given to any French soldier, office r, l or General, who may be made prisoner in any town or dis!rict , In which acts ;ontrary to the laws of war have been commit:cd by the enemy, but that such persons :hall be immediately p. t