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For the Et Fence oft So.lrd of Agricul ture, for 18cz, 3003 0 0 For tl., fupport of the Veterinary Colgo, tnr zgos, For the fupport of the Britith Mutton+, for 1801, 3000 0 0 For tht fupport of the Levant Trade, for praz. 0 0 To pay Mr. Edwards money minima by him on the Loan oftnks, and forfeited for want of future payments - Thefe Refolutions being carried, SIIIIILA LIONS COMPANY The CHANCILLOIL of the Excnsky 11l made a motion for granting to,oool. for one year, from Dec. 1, r Sea, to the Sierra Leone Company. Lord Cassts exacta fupported the refolutrnn, on the ground, that the views of the Company were to extend civilisation, and to difeouragae the flave trade. He rtprefented the proficiency of the boys brought over by the Company to be educated, as affording the molt flattering hopes. In a word, there was now no medium between voting the fun which he fhould propofe, to put the Company in a proper fituation to go on, or in giving the co lony entirely up ; there was no middle courfe, nor was there any laving to be expeaed by giving up the colony ; and, therefore, as a queftion of (eco nomy, fuppofing future policy to be out of the queflion, he heartily approved of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion. General Gascoron ' without any view of op pofing the Refolution, doubted of the advantages which the ellablifhment of Sierra Leone watlikely to afford. Thefe doubts were founded on the flow pwgrcfs which the colony had hitherto made. He looked upon the progrds made in trade, and know ledge of the interior, as inconfiderable, when only one nation was known (the Timmaneys) ; and even the fecond town belonging to that nation was not known by name. He thought it extraordi nary that, when only thirty Europeans were repro. tented as living in the colony in syn., the Hoofs was called upon to vote for places for forty-four at prefent : it was neceffary, in order to reconcile this augmentation, to fuppofe an increafe much b.. yond the natural mode. The Members of the Company profefed themfelvesdefirous of civilizing and educating the inhabitants ; but as brandy was the fpecie which they paid for elephants' teeth, and all other commodities, they only ferved to make the peopleof the country moredrunken. They fpeak of the healthinefs of the climate, and ailedge, that two years will be fufficient to finilh their work, and ellablifh the colony; yet, in this healthy climate, ten out of fifty foldiers, which they called in, had perifhed within fix months, and that perhaps was owing to their having no other means of paying them but in brandy. There was amongft the items 70001. for a fort, but it was not Rated what pro grefs it was in, and it fecund to be commanded by a hill in the vicinity. To render it fecure, the adjacent hill tuna alfo be fortified. It was in faa merely defigned for the impnnation of piety and Britifh fpirits, fur to the MiUionaries who were em. tearable to introduce the former, it fared as a co. tearable pretext for difpofing of the latter, and of rings and other toys; and it appeared they were sot inattentive to other purfwts, for to the com merce of lank-haired Metbodifis andwoolly.headed Blacks, might be attributed the fpecinsens of chil dren who were to be fees in this country, under the ”roteaion of the Sierra Leone Company ; in fine,. he thought the only advantage the country derived from this colony was, that it ferved as a receptacle fur many people who were a nuifance at borne. 1500 0 0 1101 o o Mr. Dtxr did not fimpore the natives of Africa would be much benefited by the introduaion of the fpecies of civilization and religion which the colony queftion was in(htuted to produce. Why fhould they not be allowed to go to Heaven their own way ? They had their whims. to he Pure--among which was witchcraft. The belief of which was bat a century ago exploded in this country. The truth he apprehended was, that fuch of thofe civi. bud Blacks as Mould venture to return among their countrymen, would be liable to fuch treat ment as birds efcaping from their cages were ex pofed to from their own fpecies. He hoped the Mi. flitter would refute to give the Galion of his eco nomic charaaer to the propokd grant. Mr. Law thought it would be unpolllble to al low any other conclufion from the Report on the Table,th an that this Colony ought to be withdrawr. Mr. R. THORNTON defended the Report, and vindicated the proceedings of the Sierra Leone Company, a Company elLblithed for the benevo. lent purpofe of communicating civilization to a quarter of the world which :soft unfortunately continued in a (late of barbarifm,while the human mind was in every.other quarter progreffively im proving. The ill fuccefs of this colony heretofore mi7ht be attributed to this, that it was commenced oily fix months before the war, and that the war nitrated to impede its advancement. It was a ma rim of Lord Bacon, that thofe who founded colonies malt be endowed with patience, and under thefe circurnitances he (Mr. T.) did not think the patience of the country was as yet very feverely turd with refpea to this colony. As Tome allufion had been made to the Maroons at Sierra Leone, fie obfervcd, that they were received there, from fOliCkilde for the Government, and becaufe no other convenient place could be fonnd for them. He condemned the idea, that the Chrillian Reli gion would not b ene fi t the Africans, and denied that Sierra Leone was fo injurious to Europeans as defcril,ed, for of the t too Nova Scotian' who landed there originally, 99 1 now remained in good health. Mr. DI NT explained. Mr. Law atked, whether from the fun now pro/ailed, the European foldicry in the Colony Were to be maintained Mr. THORNTON replied, that this km was meant only as an auxiliary fupply to the Company. Mr. By ITON was of opinion that Um Colony had not had a fair trial. As to the children alluded rob ) . an Hon. Member, who were under the pro r:si•ni of the Si er r a Leone Company, he could af furei the Commiuee that they evinced as much saleuts as could be expo:tea in the children of any nation or colour c and why were they not, he leuuld elk, as much entitled to pity, juice, and education? It was not Inuuane to fuppok the *contrary, The CHAKCIIILLOR of tke EiCHEOSTI faid. that whatever might hare been his opinion as to the original inftrtution of this Colony, be thought I that a Company of Gentlemen embarking their capital in fuch an ellablifhment, from motives fo laudable, were entitled to the patronage and bounty f Parliament, and he would ever with (tic cefs to every fimilar undertaking.—The motion was agreed to. Mr. ELtor poftgoned till Monday certain ma tions he meant to fubmit to the Committee rela tive to the expences of the Admiralty. The Houle refumed, and the Report was or dered to be received tomorrow. The Commit. tee to fit again on Monday. FINANCI. The Cuascita.oa of the Excusivesi gave no tice that he would on Monday, in the Committee of Supply, move the Army Extraordinaries, and alto certain Refolntions founded upon the Mi. mates on the Table ; and in the Committee of Ways and Means would propofe the iffue of five millions of Exchequer Bills. He added, that he would, at the fame time, take the opportunity of fubmitting a conneaed view of the whole finances of the country for the prefcnt year. Mr. TIIII.IIIIT pollponed from Wednefday till Thurfday next his intended motion refpetling Fi nance. IRISH ZUDGIT. • Mr. Forrsz exprefred a with, as it was not in. tended to bring forward the EngMb Budget until Monday, that that with refpea to Ireland_ be deferred till the fame day; as both were fo in timately conflated, he thought it .defirable ; and as fame of the Papers he had long glace moved for were not yet prefented. Mr. Coaav kid, that he had very frequently deferred his propofed Ratement of the hint Ways and Means; yet unwilling to refute any accom modation, particularly to a perfon fo converts= with, and fo interefted in the affairs of Ireland, as the Right Hon. Gentleman, he would comply with his requell As to the account alluded to by the Right Hon. Gentleman, he hoped he ( Mr.C. ) would nand acquitted of any difpofition to withhold the moR &till:glory information from the Houle. WAYS AND SIAM& On the motion of the CHANCELLOR. Of the Ex. CHEELVER, the Hoyfe was ordered to refolve Weir into a Committee of Ways and Means, and that the Difpofition-paper on the table lhould be refer red to the Paid Committee. _ The lionfe having gone into the Committee, The Cusacsstoa of the Excnsoysa rote to move certain Refolutions. The firfl objea to which he called the attention of the Committee was the furplus produce of the Confolidated Fund, which for the year ending the sth of April, tBo3, he calculated at 4,500.000 L and the grounds of his calculation were thefe— Produce of permanent Taxes in the year ended the 3th April, tfioa, as per printed Account. - ,C.22,596,0c0 Deduct to pay Lich:quer Bills un Peados', Of fices, he. - - 2P3 0 .0 00 50,566,0cti Odd Stains paid far Bounties no Corn, and defici ency on Dißdkries - Eftimatid Pri duce of Detlin 1802 - - Eitlutated to be received from Income Duties ImpreA and other Monies - 1.500,000 1.400.000 %%0,030 - - pOOOO locate sfieb4Pao 'One Itcaes Produze of Land-Tax unredeemed zjoapoo 29.566P00 ESTIMATED CHARGE : Charge for Fended Delof of Great Ed- L twin as per account. No. 6, - 12,446564 Charge of Interdt and Management for Loan, tBoa, OD 28,730,000/ 3 . per Cent. - - 873,437 Add Civil Lift and other Charges, as - per Account, No.s, 1,2109751 Imperial Annuities as per Ace. No. 6, 197.196 C. 25p 3 8,34 Surplus 4,527,65% With refpee to the Imperial Annuities, he had the fatisfation of being able to inform the Com. mittee, that in confeqnence of a ftrong reprefenta tion recently made to the Auftrian Ambalrador on the fobjett of there Annuities, an anfwer was received, which the Right Honourable Gentleman read. It contained the mot folemn affurances that this debt would be difcharged as loon as cir cinnftances fhould permit. An opinion which the Right Honourable Gentleman hoped would receive full credit from the Committee,and would excite a confidence in the fpeedy difcharge of this debt, particularly when the wife arrrange. ments now making to regulate and ream the fi nance of the Auftrian Government were taken in. to confideration ; the embarralred Rate of which arofe out of the great exertions of the'Coort of enna, during the late war, and its endeavours to preferve a Ready attachment to this country, He trolled, therefore, that the Committee would feel that that Court had Tome claim to indulgence, and to confidence alfo, that it would not unno cefrarily delay to fatisfy the demands of this coun try. The Right Hon. Gentleman defcribed the re folution he meant to fubmit. The next to that' already mentioned, he Rated to be for 5,500,0001. in 'Exchequer Bills, to be ;Cued to the Bank in pan of payment of the film of 3,0c0,0001. advanced by that body for the public fervice, in the year I 1798. As the amount of this vote was to be pro- vided for out of the firft aids to be granted for the year 1803, and as theft Exchequer Bills were not to be put into immediate circulation, he had no doubt of the concurrence of the Committee in this prepolition ; till left did he apprehend any &fit rcnce of opinion on another motion, for the pay ment of a balance of 99,8861. due on the Porto goefe fubfidy, of 300,0001. voted in the csnrfe of the laft year. The Lift vote he had to propofe, was for the (urn of 114,0001. the appropriation of which was fully explained in the Difpofition Paper on the table. The Right Hon. Gentleman con cluded with laying, that he fhould not then detain the Committee longer, as he propofed on Monday, to lay fuch a Itatement before the Houle, as he trolled would fully fatisfy Parliament and the public of the fufliciency of our refources, and the political advantages that were to be e peeled from the arrangements which were making to retort and to reinforce our finances. He then moved refolutions purfuant to his flatenvent, which wave agreed to, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. Adjourned at ten o'clock, till tomorrow. • LONDON. SATURDAY, JUNE 17. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Coa( 014 , for op& :411-4 pte Ceut. 8;4 — New s per Cent to3-1-onuti.un t dif. Duaus,picall.-4 per Cent Co,. Def► 99ii. Ezteaaiv 7 —Dublb on London at a sta. Lail night we received Paris journals of the Bth infant. They contain an account of tome recent proceedings of the Government of the Italian Re public, which to fume of our Readers will prove interefting. The fpeech of the Pon at the Secret Confiftory, refpeaing the Costadat, will alto be thought curious. . Private letters from Paris !late that the Kelso of Emma has Am deporsd ad ceifiged, by order if the Itytessy sf Alma, asiacopabk of:eventing ; and that this revolution is fuppofed to have been phoned in the ThuMeries. We know not bat degree of credit is due to this intelligence. Some time ago it wqr j be e remembered that the Mistimesr inferted an strode of thong cenfure onthe Kim° of Erau eta, for being fo Prieft-ridden. No doubt the French rulers will endeavour to direst his ETILV tan BICIPTT to more liberal fentiments and mea- forest but, tall we have further accounts, we can ' hardly believe they will (*end or depofe him. M. Moursaar, the CoMmercial Commiffioner from the French Republic to our Government, ar• rived hit Wednefday in London. We underfland that he is charged with fpecial powers to bring to a fatisfadory adjuliment fome points of mutual traffic between the two countries, which have been the fubjea of difcuffion. French Five per Cents.- 55 f. Rous May aB . — The Po - ra.held an extraordi. nary COnlitiory on the 24th of this month, in which he made public all the objets relating to the Church of France, as well as the nomination ' of all the bithops. On Afcenfion day he pronounced a fpeech, and he himfelf celebrated Mafs in the church of the Grand Bafilica of St. John, gave a benediftion to the people, and ckanted a Ts Dom, to return thanks for the re-eftablifhment of religion in France. After alluding to the Concordat, and Rat ing what had been lone by NAPOLLONIBONAPARTIII for the re-eftablifkment of the Catholic Religion in France, he adverted to the good which had thence refulted to the Church, and Paid, _ s " Our joy, however, venerable brethren, is not of fuck a nature that no objea occurs to excite our folicitude and our care, as our duty requires. 64 We, however, flatter ourfelves that we are freed from our folicitude by the wifdom and the mislay of dm Fsof amid, and of the Freath Naive, which has dekrved fo will of our religion for fo many centuries, and which again embraces is with fo much eagernefs. We °Verve that, along with the Concordat, there have been publifhed other articles of which we had no knowledge, and which, according to the trace of oar predecfbrs we :anon' but fakir that they may receive modifica tions, and the proper and necefrary changes. se We (hall earnefily addrefs ourfelves to the FIRST CONSUL to obtain it of hit refigios. We have a reafonable ground of hope for it both from him and from the wifdom of the French nation, for the French government in re.eftablithing the Catholic religion in the bofom of France, and in acknow ledging the holinefs and advantage of it, cannot refute that every thing which the holy conflitution of the re-4.11)111W religion requires (hould be can ied into execution,ana that ;very thing fhould er.aElly agree with that falntary difcipline which has been fixed by the Laws of the Church. 44 May GOD remove from us, and never permit that any view of temporal advantage or define of poffering what does not belong to the Church, fhould occupy us, or the Patton whom JESUS CHRIST has fubjeaed to our authority. Let us al ways have before our eyes thefe divine words : Gem to &VAR lAD MOW to GAM, and to GOD what Idea's to Cioo. In this we (hall alwas ferve as an example to others, and we ( hall ta ke care that the Bithops and all thole who labour in the vineyard of the Loan, agreeably to the vocation with which they are called, &all attach themfelves, in their convafation and behaviour, to the duties of religion." His liolinefs received the congratulations of the Cardinals, who were pleated on this occafion to proclaim him the Rellorer of the Church, and who confider what has been done as the greaten ye nt that ever took place in modern times. ITALIAN REPUBLIC Jens 3.—The College of the Pedenti has trembled at Milan ; that. of the Cottarierciaati at Brefcia ; and that of the Doti at Bologna.— After being organifed, and when the Mefl'age of the 'Vice Prefident, announcing the vacant ;gates in the Legillative body, bad been read, they pro ceeded to a ballot, and nominated the Members wh9 are to coaspofe the Cenfurate, viz. the Peff- Asti nine Members, and each of the other Colleges fix Members. The Cenfurate affembled at Cremona, nominat ed as Prefident, Citizen BASSI ; and for fecretaries, Citizens Lannert*: and BOVARA. On the 3oth of May they nominated Go reclaim* Drsoo Secre tary of State to the vacant place of Gonfultore of State, vacant by the death of Citizen Stunt- Loa). [Here follows a lift 9f nine Members no minated to the Legillative Body.] In an Addrefs from the Cenftware of the Italian Republic to the Ft asrCotts tit, after informing him that die Elate:al College had terminated their ftrnaions, they fay, 4 , rat Arcsee)4llllla !evil Akre" er o 6yii get caw e /oaken! You have carried civilifatkoo, agriculture, and commerce, to the ut aloft degree of perfeaion. A.time will come, Ci time Prefatient, whet the gratitnde of pofterity, correrpowirmg to ours, will attach to our age your igitaartal woe! The FAST °WWI., in his anfwer, fags, eg The epoch of the Union of the Colkges, the fiat organ• of the fovereignty of the Itali a n Pcopll 6 . will ode day be celebrated in the LidoTy of hal. The choke .yon have made feems, to me, to fulfil the hopes conceived of yon—your condition has been fenlibly ameliorated in titc cotitfc of the latt months. It will be ameliorated it;11 mole at thu approaching union of the Colleges. I can then, I hope, fpend a month among You." The Fi S CONS U L - decreed, that a- Mrdai than be 'truck in commemoration of •.h meeting of the Lleat.ral Colleges di the Italian Repittglic, and of the fird net of Sorereigntv exereifed 'by int , Italian people aice the deitrigaigri of the Repub tics of the middle ages. The Fiarr CONSUL has decreed alfb, that two Commillioners, nominated by the Mittittcr of Interior of the Italian Republic, ?tall be ii.ined to the French Co:nmiffioners for fettling the plans. directing the labours, and regulating the enIGUCCS of that part of the road of the Simplon whktipal:s through the territory of the Italian Repining:. SWISS CONSTITUTION. The Chriltian religion, in the Catholic and Proteitant Continuance, is the religion of the State. '/The tonna divillon of the RepnWlc into eighteen Cantons ▪ peterved. "e Public Powers arc competed of a Diet,..a Senate. and an Executive Council. The Diet eonfifts of Reprefentatives frog each Canton, in the proportion of one to twenty-five tbonfarui fouls. la functions are to dikefs, and to adopt or hie* At plums of lams fubmitted to it by the St. nate. it me.-ti Cary firft of May, and coottnuca fitting for onemootb ; but on the fummons of the Senate it may hold an extraordinary irf Qom. It le renewed yearly in the proportion of a fifth It a; - points the Senate, and its Members are indemnified for tit is attendance by their refpeetive Cantons. " The Senate conlifts of a Laodamnaan, two Statthalter. and twenty-four other Members ; one Senator, at lean, and not more than three, ffiall be nominated from owe Canton. It is renewable by a fifth yearly; and the vacating members are re-eligible. The Senate propofes haws, and may depute to the Diet one or more of its own body to explain and defend thtm It has power to withdraw the plans of laws vitich it may pre fent. It provoke war, and concludes treaties of pence, com merce, and aniance ; but there mutt be fubmitted for the. ap probatiOn of the Diet. It appropriates the fume ratted to the Government foe the general expenditure; has power to midgue or remit fentenceit; may adjourn from time to time, but not longer than three months ; and appoints front its own members the Landiunman and Statthalters. Each Senator Ina an annual allowance of ono franks of Swifs currency. The Executive Council, comport:Jut the !At:darning% and the two Stattbalters, has under its orders fire Secretaries of State, who are appointed on the prefentatinn of the Senate— The Members of the Council execute the fenetions of I.andatn man, alternately, for the (pace of one year each ; and the Lan damman who goes out affumes the tide and office of Statthalter. The Members of the Executive Council arc appointed for nine years ; but every three yeas one goes out, who is re-eligiblee The Connell fupaintaids the execution of the laws; d'irec'ts the public force, and appoints the officers who command it ; regulates the affairs of the interior; and appoints the diplomatic agents, and alto the public officers who are to carry the laws into execution. 'lnc falary of the Laudanum= is rs,oco francs ; , of the Statthalter boon. " Each Canton regulates its internal Government and mien diture, and provides for the mode in which its contingent to the general contributions all be levied. " All permanent renu and fervices, and particularly tythes and ground tans, are redeemable ; the mode of redemption to be determined, at Lutliell, before the ttt of January, 1403." The choice made by the Lefler Council of the, a 7 Members, who are to compote the Conibtu tional Senate, is calculated to fatisfy all parties. Of the new Senators, 16 were Members of t 11:: old Governments. The decree which determines the mode of voting upon the new Conaitution, orders that regiiter, Mall be opened is each Commune, and that Ci tizens, not incapacitated by law, o f ? the age of 2r:,, (hall infcribe their names, with the addition of ay,: or no, but without any explanation of the motive of their vote. From the declaration of the CHANCELLOR of the ExcHim= in the Houfe of Commons laft nien, the pleafing hope is reafonably to be entertained of the debts due to this country by the isrs F<PS of GERMANY being fpeedily put into a train of liquidation. In our account of the prcceeiings of the }loaf , : of Commons yelterday may be feen the CHEscit - tort of the Exc ER'S Statement of the Supply, &c. &c. as part of or intrqudory to the Budget, The PRINCE of Wetss's'petition of right is iti fuch forwardnefs, that in all probability it will be determined in the courfe of the enluing Term. The Bithop of ROCHESTER and Dr. Dame ta. Dean of ROCHESTER, kits his MAJESTY'S band c.! Wednefday next, on their promotions, the ft ti to the See of ST. ASAPH, and the latter to the Sec: Of ROCHESTER. Dr. VINCENT fucceeds the Bi !hop of ROCHESTER in the Deanery. A /harp 'coma is erpeiled at Briflo4 for a mem ber in the place of Lord SHEFFIELD, who is to he called up to the Houfe of Peers. Sir FR EDE k EDEN has commenced a canvafs, and Mr. lic HODS I is to follow him., r. Accounts arrived at Greenock from Grena.l.t (fee our laft page) give a moll melancholy account of the mutiny in Dominica; but we conceive it is an exaggeration of the circumflances already detailed in this Piper. A letter from Bombay mentions the death of HEIIILY FORRESTER CONSTABLE, the Hon. Eaft India Company's Solicitor at that Pm fichne . PHIN RAS Hatt, yA q . has fucceeded to the (Ace. Gentlemen who amufe themfelves in writing an nonymous letters to vex their acquaintance, Teel/4 to play the trick very elumfilr. They should the good old advice, and " mind their,: and ea. ' The folloying . is Paid to be.a fart t—At the gre.st dinner lately iciven at the Man ion Houle, IL- Loco MILTON rn compliment to M. OTTO, WI f' was prefent, gave, as a tox4l, " The Three Cinsfsh ;': but the Crier, in repeating the to4(1 aloud to , company, threw the whore room into conviiiii. , l of laughter, for he bawled out—" Gentlemen-- The Three per Cent. Confolt." Sittifor n e g the s pointed in hliddlefex and London he appointed Right Hon. EDWAIL. Lord ELt.ss Rouen, Lord Chief lattice, Ste. in and sager Trinity Term, 18e2. IN tsssl. WIODGESII. LONIKIN. . Tinnfday June u Weduiddiy juin xi M oo Mond da ay jar SS . NY 6 a! y • mart Jig? 9' • 1 I "MI .~ 'S