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ALL PERSONS having Cl A im: up on t h e Dime of THOMAS JARVIS, formerly of the Mold of Antigua, old late of Laveritokr. in the Oitiiity of Southampton, F.fq. de • lie a Ire , are hrr,li• required limbs% th to fend in their Accounts to Mr. Alerind• r Cordon. Solicitor to the Executors at his Other, No. 57. Ohl fir3ad.rtreet, London, in older that the fame may be examined. PARLIiI.VENT.ARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. Their 1 ordlitips proceeded furour in the Appeal Diane, Efq. Trultec I.r Sir Andrew Ca:heart, kt: til:ft the Earl of Carl Win Adam was tusard ia c..nrini.ation on behalf of the Itcfpon dens. after ?Mica the furthsr confideration WA puftponed till to itnorrow. The Eacire Dutirs Bill, the Cuiaim Duty Bill, the Ncutr 1 Ship Bill, the American Treaty Bill, the I size Sh,ps Bill, an,: the Bengal . :uprenir. Council Bill, were read a fecund time, and cum. spitted for to-morrow. The S "CR ETA R .t WAR. Mr. P FR EON, Colo7lel HUG/IF s, and feveral other Menthers of the I lonic of Comttnit,.:. brought tap the Innkeepers Atow4nee Bill, and two private Eiils, which were feverally read a belt time. Mr. STAvetir, from the Prift Office, Framed an account of the Net Revenue of that Office for 20 years, ending the sth 4)1 January. tlks, which was ordered to lie on the table. Adjourned t Um-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. The kith Spirit Permit Bill was reported; the Refolutions were re..d and speed to. The Bill was afterwards read a third time and paired. _ _ Mr. Bactwat.i, brought in a Bill to amend the 35th of the King, which relates to the Regulation of Elea:oils In Ireland. —Read a brit time, and ordered to be printed, and to be read a (mond time on the 7th of May. The innkeeper:" Allowance Bill wag read a third time and pallid. The Committces a Supply anti ways and Means, were put off • till Friday. Mr. rOSTEII pr, rented certain aeccunta relative to the Excite of Ireland, purfuant to an order of the Houfe.—Ordered to be laid OD the tabk. l'he Bill for eroding a Chapel of Eafe in the Parini of Whit ten, in the County of Middtelex, au read a fecond time. The CUANCELLOR of the EXCIIC(111 ER gave notice, that he fhould on Friday move for leave to bring in a Bill for making fome alterations in the Property Mr. S rua °es Bot• It NE brought up the Report of the Irith Mill. tia Reduction Bill.—Read, agreed t., and Bill, with Amendments, ordered to be real a third time to-morrow, if then engroffed. On the motion of Mr. MANNING, leave was given to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Weft India Dock Ad, of the 3d of his Majcfty; and for extending the power of the Comm/Moneta under that Act Dr. Dino ItN A N obtained leave to bring in a Bill to ant end an Ad of the 43d of hi 4 Majefty, entitled, an Adt for granting to his Majelty swaool. for building Glebe Houk' in Ireland. ADMIRAL RIBITH STEWART. Mr. CREEVEY role, purfuant to notice, to bring forward certain motions relative to the balances due to the public from the late Admiral Keith Stewart. Since he lately fubmitted Come motions to the Houfe on thib fubjeil, he underflood that the Lords of the Treafury had delegated to the Lord Chief Ju ttice Clerk of Scotland (who was then Lord Advocate) a power to recover thole balances. Now, the objeß of Come of his motions was to afcertain the nature of this power ; alfo what funs the Lord Advocate had recovered from the reprefentatives of Admiral Keith Stewart ; and if any, what Corns he had paid to the Treafury; alfo, what time fuch turns remained in his hands before the payments were made. Another motion, the Honourable Member Rated, would refer to an application made to the Lords of the Treafury from the Corporation of Edinburgh for the ufe of 2 hoool. the remaining balance, to be applied w cer tain purpofes of fuppofed public utility in that city ; together with a copy of the petition from the Corpo ration of Edinburgh ; and of the order from the Treafury for referring the Paid petition to the con fideration of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. The feveral motions correfponding with the fate ment of the Honourable Member were put and agreed to after a converfation between Mr. Creevey, Mr. R. Dundas, and Mr. Sturges Bourne, who, in the courfe of his remarks, begged it to be underfood, that it was not the intention of the Lords of the Trea fury to comply with the requell contained in the Pe tition from the City of Edinburgh. Ordered, on the motion of Mr. S. Boom, that an account lhould be laid before the Houfe of fuch further proceedings as the Lords of the Treafury may have taken for recovering the (urns due to the public , from the Reprefeiitatives of Admiral Keith Stewart. IRISH UNION COMMISSIONERS. Sir JOHN NEWPORT role to mare his promifed motion for the produaion of a copy of tile cafe laid before the Attorney and Solicitor General of England on the 16th of May, 11301, by direction of the Corn miffioners for awarding compenfation in Ireland in oonfequence of the Union, relative to the claim for conspenfation from the Attorney and Solicitor Gene ral of Ireland ; together with a copy of the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor General of England upon this cafe. The reafon which induced him to bring for ward this motion, the Hon. Baronet dated to be this, that the Houfe fhould be put in polrcinon of the na tive and conduit of this fingular Commiffion.—lt ap peered, that not withflanding their appeal to the judg ment of the Attorney and Solicitor General of Eng land, they acted in dime contradiCtion to the opinion delivered by thofe Learned Gentlemen. But Rill more, and it was particularly neceffary to call the at- tention of Parliament to the &Net% this Commiffion bad now been eliding for feveral years, without really having any thing to do, and teemed Rill de. termined to go on. The Commiffion confided of four perfons, each of whom received a falary of 12°01. a year, and it was now above three years fince the Commillieners wrote a letter to the Lord Lieutenant, Rating, that their bufinefs was fo much diminifhed that they had no occafion .0 meet every day, as they had previnufly done, and rcqueQing that they might he called on to nwet only every Monday. In order to contrive Come appearance of employment, lie un derttond that thnfe Commiffioners prolonged an en quiry upon a particular claim for Cenral months, di viding the enquiry between them two and two alter aately, Monday af•er ianday. It really druck 11;m as matter of furprize and fhame that fuch a Commit: fion fhould have been fo long tolerated—and there appeared no difpt f ir% whatever to put an end to it. Indeed, according a. it went on it was likely to con tinue for ever, unlefs fornething was done to termi nate its exidence. Feeling that any expenditure of the public money that could be avoided under the pre fent circumftances of the country ought to he pre vented, and that this Commiffion was now become tinneceffary, he fhoulo take occafion very foon to call the attention of the !inure to the fubjea. Dr. DUIGENAN laid, that he was a Member of the Commiffion alluded to at the time Rated in the motion, and that he did not recoiled any fuch cafe ac the Honourable Baronet alluded to. As three of the Commiffinnert were lawyers, he did not think they required any advice fri.m the Law Officers mentioned in the motion,•or from any other perfons as to the mode of performing th's, duty. The learn ed Doetor added, that he had long fir.ce refigned his place in the Commiffion. Sir JOHN NEWPORT 1'441, that it had been al ready (hied by the Commiflioners themfelves, that fuch cafe had been laid before the Attorney and So licitor General of England, .and all he wi(hcd was, to fee the opinion which had been given upon the cafe fo hated. Mr. SPURGES BOURNE was ready to pay at tention to the opinions of eminent gentlemen at the bar, on cafes fairly ftated to them, and efpecially thole who were fu eminent in their pi ofellion as the i i entlemen alluded to ; but as this was a quellion con cerning the affairs of Ireland, he thought the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor General of that part of the United I•:ing3r.in ought to be t tken alto. Mr. KINN:AIRY) thought the Honourable Gen• tlemsn who fprke lag had made an extraordinary pro polition by detiriaf* to hare the opinion of the only two Gentlemen ii; toe kingdom, who, by the rules of law and common fenle, were necellarily excluded from giving it, becaufe it was a cafe upon their own After a few wards from Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the motion was put and carried. LOUit mFLvitLi. Mr. Wittiams, from the Board of Naval Inquiry, appeared at the Bar with certain Papers, which con- fitted of a Letter from Lord Vircount Melville to the Commiffioners of Naval Intioiry, appointed under the AEI of the 43d of Geo. 111. dated aBth March, 1803 ; together with the Anfw•er of the Commillioners thereto. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, That thefe Papers do lie upon the table to be pernfed by the Members of the Houfe ; and he Paid he timid immediately afterwards move that they be printed. Mr. FRANCIS withed to know whether a Motion could not be made to print them immediately, Co that there fl►ould be no delay in making them known to Members. The SPEAKER obferved that the Motion, that thefe papers do lie upon the Table to be perufed by the Members of the Houfe, mull be difpofed of betore any thing cite could regularly be done. The CFIANCELLO It of the EXCHEQUER Paid they could be printed without difficulty by to-morrow. Mr. Alderman COMBE, by way of giving to the Houfe the contents immediately, moved an Amend ment —lnfiead of laying them upon the Table, that thefe Papers be now read— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no objeßion, and therefore confented to withdraw his Motion for the prefent to make way for that of the worthy Alderman. The Clerk at the Table then read as f0110w5.... COPY OF A LITTER FROM LORD IRELTILLE TO TMS COMMISSIONERS OF RAVEL IKOJIRY, DATED TME 28TH OF MARC H, GINTLEARN—Having read your Tenth Report, and obferving particularly the following paragraph in the t4ift page However the apprehenfion of difclofing delicate and confidential tranfaßions of Government might operate with Lord Melville in withholding information refpeßing advances to other departments, we do not perceive how that apprehen lion can at all account for his refuting to (late, whe. ther he derived any profit or advantage from the ufe or employment of money iffued for the fervices oil the navy. If his Lordlhip had received into his hands fuch monies as were advanced by him to other Departments, and had replaced them as they were repaid, he could not have derived any profit or ad• vantage from filch tranfaßions, however repugnant they might be to the provifions of the Legifiatore for the fife cuftody of public money.' " I think it neceffary to Rate the following obfer. vations, in order to place in their jolt view the grounds on which I declined anfwering your onef lion, and which you appear not to have accurately underflood: " When you &ft called upon me for information, I Rated to you that I had not materials on which I could frame fuch an account as you required me at that time to prepare ; and, in a communication with Mr. Trotter, before my examination on the Sth of November lad, I learnt, for the firs time, that in the accounts he had kept refpelting my private concerns he had fo blended his own private monies with what he had in his hands of public money, that it was urn poffible for him to afcertain with precifion whether the advances he had occa firm to make to me in the courfe of his running private account with me, were made from the one or from the other aggregate films which conftituted his balance with MetTrs. Coutts.— This circumftance, which I undertiood Mr. Trotter had diftinaly communicated to you, made it impofli ble for me to return any other anfwer than I did to the general queftion which you put to me— , Whether Mr. Trotter had applied any of the money iffued for carrying on the current Service of the Navy for my benefit or advantage ?' and to 'this circumfiance I uniformly referred in my anfwer to other queftions refpaling the manner in which Mr. Trotter applied the money in his hands. When you put the queftion to me, ' Whether I did ditett or authorize Mr. Trotter to lay out or ap ply, or caufe to be laid out or applied, any of the money ilfued for carrying on the current Service of the Navy to my benefit or advantage ?' My anfwer was, I To the heft of my recollation I never did.'— This ar,fwer I now repeat. Had you proceeded to inquire whether I had everany underftanding expreff ed or implied with Mr. Trotter refpetting any parti• cipation of advantages derived from the cultody of the public money, or whether I at any time know. ingly derived any advantages to myfelf from any ad vances of the public money, I Should have no hefita tion in declaring, as I now declare, that there never was any Such undernanding nor any thing like it, between Mr. Trotter and myfelf; that I never know ingly derived any Such advantages; and that what ever emolument accrued to Mr. Trotter in the con duCt of the pecuniary concerns of the office was, Cu far as I am informed, exclufively his own. 44 With refpeB to any advances which Mr. Trotter might make on my private account, I confidered mytelf as debtor to him alone, and as (landing with regard to him in no other predicament than I fhould have done with any other man of kulfinefs who might , be in occafional advance to me in the general Mk nagement of my concerns entrufted to him. It is impoffible fur me to afcer lain, front any documents' or vouchers in my hands or now esifling, what the extent of thole advances might have hcen at any particular period. The accounts wl ich you have inferted in your Report I never law till I law in the Report Will. They are no :iccnonts cf mine, nor am I a party to them. They contain a variety of turns iffired nominally to me, which never came into my hands, and they give no credit for various fums received by Mr. Trotter on my private account from my Mary as Treafurer of the Navy, a;ld ot!ler fources of income, of which lie was in the receipt, nor do they take any notice of the km ity of ‘vhich he was in poll'eflion, for the repayment of any ba• lance, at any time, due to him from pi ivaie funds. al With ref Fen to the fums of naval money ad vanced to me, and applied to other fet vices, I do not feel it neceflary to make any additional obfervaiions, except to declare that all thole firms were returned to the funds from which they were taken, having in no in:lance been withdrawn from it for any pupof of private emolument or advantage. Before I con clude, I with to corral an inaccuracy which I ob• knit in one part of the evidence in appendix No. 7, page 192. The queQion is put to me, Did you de rive any profit or advantage from the ufe or employ ment of money iffued for carrying on the current fervice of the Navy, between the isith Auguft ISox, and 3oth April t8o3; or between the trt February 1784, and 31ft December 1785, during which peri ods you held the office of Treafurer of the Navy r Which queftion I there anfwer by a reference to the anfwer given to a fimilar queftion put to me before. This anfwer is inaccurate fo far as it contains a re ference to Mr. T.'s mode of blending his funds in his private account with Mars. Coutts. Mr. Trotter was not Paymaller till the year 1786. The circum (lances, therefore, relative to Mr. Trotter's account, which precluded my returning an anfwer to your former queftions, do not apply to the periods fpeci fied in that mentioned, and I cin therefore have no difficulty in declaring that during thole periods I did nut derive any advantage fri , m the ufe or employ ment of public money itfued for carrying on the fer vice of the Navy. Having Rated thefe facts, it is al molt unneceffary to add, that I am at any time ready to verify them upon my oath. a I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 4 , mu.vtics." ANSWER OF THE COMMISSIONERS. " Office of Naval Enquiry, Great George-itreet, April 2, 2 ! O S. " My Lord—We have received your Lordlhip's letter of the 28th of lall mouth, by which you sots. mate that we appear not to have accurately under- Rood the grounds on which you declined anfwering our queßions, and fubmit to us Come obfervations, in order to place there grounds in their kill view ; and alfo exprefs a with, before you conclude, to cone& an inaccuracy in one part of your evidence, and a readinefs to verify, by your oath, the fads Rated in that letter. If it be the ()hie& of this communication that we fhould again require your Lordihip's atten dance, for the purpofe of being examined touching thefe matters, and that we lhould make a fupplemen tal report upon the refult of that examination, and Rich other examinations as we might thereupon judge necell'ary, there can be 110 difinclination on our part (as far as we are concerned in the proceeding) to meeting your Lordlhip's willies. But it appears to us, that the inquiry which is the fubje& of the Tenth Report has strained that period when it would not become us to adopt filch a meafure, merely upon the fuggeflihn of any of the parties to whofc conduit that Report relates. " We were occupied feveral months in invelligat ing the mode of condofting the bufmefs of the office orTreafurer of the Navy. Thole who were examin ed by us had the fullea opportunity of Rating and explaining all things which related to the manage. ment of that department, or to the (hare which they refpeeively had in it, and of correaing, at any time, during the progrefs of the enquiry, any millake which might inadvertently have been made. Our opinions and obfervations upon the irregularities and abufes which we difcovered, were formed and drawn up with the utmoß care and deliberation ; and they are now fubmitted to the three branches of the Le giflature, as the Ae by which we are appointed re quires. If it could be made to appear, upon a re• prefentation to them, that any thing has been omit ted on our part, that any mifundernanding or error had occurred, and that a farther enquiry is advifahle upon thefe or any other grounds, it would be for them to direr loch further inquiry, and to decide by whom, and in what manner it fhould be profecuted ; but in the prefent circumfiances it appears to us that we canuot with propriety refume it. " We have the honour to be, &c. &c. " CH. M. POLE, " EWAN LAW, 41 JOHN FORD, " HENRY NICHOLAS, " WM. MACKWORTH PRAM " The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved that thefe papers do lie upon the fable for the ufe of the Members of this Houfe.—Ordered; and that they be printed.—Ordered. qta HOME POPHAM. Mr. W. DICKENSON moved, that there be laid before the Houle a Copy of the Letter from Sir Home Popham to the Secretary of the Admiralty on the asth February, t Bos, with its inclofure. Alto a Copy of the Letter the Navy Board to the Admiralty, dated April aft, igos, in anfwer to Sir Home Popham 's Letter to the Secretary of the Admiralty on the tsth February, Alfo a Copy of a Letter from Sir Hone Popham to the Navy Board, dated March a 6, 1805, with the atifw:r ofthe Navy Board hereto. Alfo a Copy of a Letter from Sir Home Popham to the Navy Board, dated February 28, 1805. Which, after a few words from Mr. Kt trtt A IND and Mr. GRET on the one fide, and the Cult trew.ort of the Elmo moat! in an fwer,' were all ordered to be laid before the Houle. After which Mr. KINNAIRD g Ave notice of his motion on the cafe of Sir Home Popham, on the 7th of May next. DEFENCE ACT. Mr. GILES moved, that there be laid before the Houfe a return of the number'ofeffeEtive men raifed under the Aet of the lati Seffion of Parliament, for Additional Force, Stc. from the ift of February to the period of the lail return; Rating the number of effalive men raifed per week ; diltinguiffiing the number of thofe raifed by the Parini Officers, from thofe by Officers in his Maje ay's Regular Service; and alfo the number Orptrfonsenlifled in the like period in his bluiefty'e Regular Service.—Ordered. Adjourned. LOND ON. THURSDA' Y, APRIL 4. Piticr OF STOCKS THIS DAY A eNE cycLoc T. CoLfoN, for nimiey, 3 7 7 —for lcr. 37:1—for 1\1.1 ) • Oin.lioni 2; 3..-I.2c:lonet Lillis le. to :to. /ir,in. PRICE Or' STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bark Sfocli fhut I India Bondi s. 3 per Cert. Red. (hut 3 per C:•nt. Conf. 5-e; rr Ccnt ihz:t 5 per Cent. Davy. $9! c per Cent. x 797 thut that Imp.; per Imp. Ann..; -•r6; ilia 7 per Excheq. u. z... Onrium, 3 2; prem. LnplithTickevi g S.,ort Atm Ihut 11,,1ht Stuck thut, IS for opg. Coif. for acc. Lord ME t.I.ALLL's 'letter to the CommiiTiorcrs of Naval Inquiry ryas prefented to the I-lowf, Com mons laft Light, and ordered to be printed 1.,1 th. of the Membets- Mr. ADAM is tke Conflict employed by I.lrd I'4; • vit LE, to przpar,: and condat his Lordihip'b A finall part of mu- Myren - ton was worked off yef terday before the following reached us, which is dm only official account that has heen received of the proceedings of the French at Dominica : COPY OF A LETTER FROM GIDIERAL MVOS r, DATELo MEAD-Q,yARTERS, PRIMUS RUPERT, DOM ttilCA. 811 t, FEBRUARY 24, " You will inform the Commander in Chief of the Naval and Land Forces, that a force from Fiance, confining of one three•decker, two 7,4'5, fi igates with troops on board, invefted this ifland on the zotli, and made good their landing on the following clay. They ' were fuecefsfully refined by the gallant tioops under my command, and were repeatedly driven back.— The hips of the line in vain attempted to filence the batteries, but unfortunately the town being on fire, land the Militia on the right, notwithnanding their fpirited eonduel, being completely driven hack, I I deemed it prudent to allow the Council to capitulate for the town of Rofeau and its dependencies, whi.e II attempted, by forced marches, to get into Prince Rupert's with what force I could collea, in which I fucceeded. I now wait their attack on this poll with a well-grounded expeaation that his Majeny's regu lar and Militia forces will again dininguifh them (elves. " I retreated from Rofeau on the 2;9, at 4 P.M. and I underfignd the terms I prefented were acced ed to. I ordered none to be accepted that were not honourable, and delired the French Commander not to allow his troops to difgrace themfelves by plun dering, or any other wantonnefs. 44 You are Lercby ordered to fail immediately, and maks the firfi ifland you can; if the privateer:. in the Guadalupe Channel (haul) prevent you from turn. ing to windward, make Montferratt Gr Antigua. (Signed) 4 , PRF VOSS. " To Ike Matter of the Loop Eti4cavour., to be deli- vcred to the Commander in Chief of all land and Naval Furcts, or to dm Pr;:fident or Governor of the &it ifland you make." [T be above Copy tranfmived to Meffr* BENDI Et and Warr Lloyd'', from St. 'Cita] The following private letter alfo contains fome important particulars : Tortola, March z, 8o; " I had begun a long letter to you, u hen accounts reached us of the artival of a French fquadron at Martinique of two three deckers and three 74's, to o frigates, and two brigs. This force arrived at Mar tinique on the morning of the 18th February ; they were fired at by the Diamond Rock, but 'hewed no colours, and went into Putt Royal. An exprefs was fent by a row boat to give information so St. Lu cia A it reached that place the fame evening, and that night an expre4 went from St. Lucia to the Commodore at Barbadoes ; the ALL:oar:A failed from St. Lucia the nest morning for Barbadoes. S. Horan, by the UR accounts, had only got his flag on board the BERSICE schooner. The CENTAUR was .tt Antigua with her main mall out. The naval force is fo decidedly fuperior to us, that inlets one arrives from England much mifchief may be done. The at tack on Dominica you will find from General PRE. vow's letter. General PREVOST feels confident. I think the enemy might have commenced their attack. more advantageoutly—Antigua might hare fallen— whereas it appears that they v6;l meet lfrong refit. ranee at Prince Rupert's. We are anzious toknow what is become of the Tea of their force. It is not improbable that we come in for a conflagration, fhould the enemy's fquadron proceed on to St. Do mingo. The Cork fleet has arrived, and part of them are now failing to . the Leeward Iflands." Other private letters bring the fame intelligcncc, without adding any farther information. arc .e., that the force under General PREVOST is very f.'. in point of regulars, though there can be no dub. that fo excellent an officer as Gene:al Pat IMS7 I make every effort which can be czpated from 1k.:1 and courage. The report that he had been reinforc , with goo men from Barbadoes is, we fear, unfounde, ; and the report, by the Nelly, arrived at Portfmoutli. that the French had been repotted from Dominica, probably alludes to the fira attacks. If the enemy mean to retain Dominica, they would lofe no time ;is attacking Fort Rupert. The French Naval Force i, laid to be commanded by Admiral Miss' essi (an Admiral of the old fchool, the fame that blocked up Sir Roosa CURTIS, at Port Mahon, during the Ame rican war), and the troops by General LAGRANGF The number of the French landed at Dominica cs Rated to have been abOut lgoo or zOOO. An important fait is, that the French mull cc: