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' 0 FRANCE. PARIS, FEBRU.kRY is We le...rn by a veff.tl which arrived in Bout-- &aux liver en the 3d inil. in thirty days from C , pe Frunct;is, that fiance the esccution of General •Y!F the author of the infurreetion which broke on: at Li i.the,and where a hundred blacks perithed, tranquillity has every where prevailed. The in habitanzi were ansious to hear from France; and it was hdicred that the French lquadron would meet with no oppotition.-2/f.nireur. Frt. t I.—Letters from Rome, dated Jan. i 6, Rate, that the ho.ly of hos VI. had not then ar rised in that city ; it will be depofited in the ba. filica of the Vatican. It is faid that, on this occa non, the aflte, of CLEMENT XIV. will be removed from that bafilica to that of the Twelve Apoales, to he &poked in a fepulchre, crnflruCted by the celebrated fculptor CANOVA, above the door of the Sacrifly Qt . that Church. Letters from Breit, dated the 6th intl. Rate that intelligence had been received there, that the di vition of Rear-Admiral Limo's, on the t tth, was only waiting for a fair wind to fail ; that the Gau lois, Capt.Su M EON, had touched at Ferrol, but that the relt of the fleet had continued their voyage. Tier, Colydide, 56 f. 75 c. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. ROUEN, FEB. 19.—Our port exhibits at prefent the moll animated Spectacle ; more than 6o veifels are lying at zlic , north quay, and feveral others are lying at the fouth quay. We do not include in the above number fevcral veirels laden with hticks, timber, hay, and other articles, becatif.: theft velfels were the only ones that gave a fhadow of life to our port before the Peace. COPENHAGEN, JIM 24 -A thaw begun about eight days ago, accompanied with a thong wind. Several merchant vac's have been carried away by the ice, and have not (ince been heard of.— Others which were anchored between Copenhagen and Elfancur have been driven to the coaft of Mal rnoe. The Kitty, an Englifh velrel, has been loft mar Fallierboc. The Chancery having been informed that the v:Ilow fever has again made its appearance is North America, has given the neceifary orders to pr e v en t cortmunication with the crews of fuch velkls as may arrive from that country with out hips of hcalth. MI I. A JAN. 3c.—A courier extraordinary ar rivi'd this morning from Lyons, brought to our Government Official intelligence, that the new Conflitution of the Cifalpine Republic, which is to he called in futtni. the Italian Republic, was pub litlicd the 26th, and that the fame day NAPOLEONE BONAPARIE was proclaimed Prefident of the Re public, and CitizenMELZl Vice Prefidenr. Fab. r.—A courier extraordinary, who arrived here on tho 29th ult. in the morning, brought to our Government the happy intelligence that the Confulta Extraordinary had proclaimed. the 26th ult. the new Contlitution of our Republic, which in future will be called the Italian Republic. It is reported that the new Government will be inflalled with the greateft magnificence on the 9th of February. We learn from Calabria that the Biflrop of Cat tazaro was killed by a shot as he was returning to the convent where he lodged : the author of this horrid affaffination is not known. This refpeetable Prelate was a particular friend of Cardinal Ru FFO. The body of Pius VI. arrived on the evening of the 24th ult. at Genoa; next morning it was landed, and condutted by the light of flambeaux, and under the efcort of Grenadiers, to the church of the Dominicans, where Divine worfhip was per formed in honour of the dcceafed Pontiff, which will be continued till the departure of Monfignior SPIN* for Rome. PARLIAMENT ART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OP LORDS, TUESDAY, FEB. i 6. HOAR D S DIVORCE HILL. After fome routine and private bufinefs was tranfaaed, their Lot dfhips proceeded to the Order of the Day for the fecond reading of the Bill to diffolve the marriage of George Hoar, the younger, Efq. with Elizabeth Cooke, his mw wife. Counfel were accordingly called in, and Mr. Dallas, in fupport of the Bill, Rated the cafe to their Lordlitips. The circundiances of this cafe, which was the fubjed of two different trials in Wellminiler Hall, being already fully before our Readers, through the medium of our Law Reports, we deem it un. nceelfary to recite them. It appeared, generally, however, that the Peti tioner, George Hoar, the Younger, Efq. of Twy ford, in Hampfhire, was married in A?ril, 1787, to Nlif, Elizabeth Cooke ; that they lived and co habited together until fome time in Oficber, !goo: they had no Ate : that at the period lag mention. ed, the Lady left her hulband's houfe, and was al leded to have carried on an adulterous interconrie with Alexander Allan, Efq. of Sornerfet-fireet, Portman-Nu:lre ; that in confequence Mr. Hoar brought his action, in the ufual way, again(' Ma jor Allan, for damages, in the Courts below, but tailed in obtaining damages, a verdict being given for the Defendant ; and that a fecond trial, leave being granted for a new one, had a like refult. The ufual proceedings were then in llituted by Mr. Hoar, in the Confiaory Court of the Bifhop of London, in which, in July lad, he obtained a fentence of divorce, artierfa et Moro. from his wife. 0.1 the above appearing, from what tranfpired • at the Bar, it cone regularly to the knowledge of their Lordfhips, that Mr. Hoar had brought his Ittion for damps in the Courts below, where he (,f a verchft. And this, in the opinion of tt,n Noble and Learned Lords prefent (the Chan cellor and Lord Thurlow), made a molt mate rial di: Terence with refpea to the cafe under she rwifi.leration of the Houk. It neediatily gave to fome dilcullion, principally between the tit.!';.: Lords above mentioned, and the Connie', Mt Dallas, in the way of converfation. The —a. „a the regular progrets of the Bill, noteritkftaiding the omiffion above fpecified. He argued, that the parties flood in an importantly different light at the Bar of their Lordfhips' Houle, from what they did before a Jury. In the former inftance, the quellion was between the hufband and wife, and the ohjeft was teparation ; in the latter, it was between the hufband and the adulterer, and the objeft was pecuniary compenfation. The legifla tive proceeding, therefore, would be on different grounds from that on which the juridical flood.— 'They were prepared to prove the fait of the Adul tery at their Lordfhips' Bar in the moll incontro vertible manner, even through the medium of the Lady liertilf. This, on being aiked by one of their Lordfhips, the Learned Counfel explained, was by means of letters addreffed by the Lady to her hufband, in which a confeffion of her adulterous intereourte with Major Allan was made, and there documents, he emphatically ob ferved, were competent evidence atitheir Lord. (hips' Bar on the part of Mr. Hoar againft his wife, though they could not be received as evidence in his favour againft Major Allan in the Court of King's Bench. This communication gave rife to tome explana tory converfation, chiefly between the Lord Chan cellor and the Learned Couniel, refpeding the peculiar circumftances in which loch a confeffion was required to be made, in order to render it competent evidence as to the fait of adultery ; and after fume converfation acrors the table, between the Law Lords above mentioned, it appeared to be their opinion, that, under the cjrcumftances of the cafe, the ontiffion of the proceedings in the Courts of La* fo far vitiated the bill as to render it improper to proceed with it in the prefent in. fiance, and accordingly the Counfel were ordered from the Bar. The LORDCHANCELLOg then rote and delivered his fentiments upon the fubjeet at tome length.— He thought it his duty, he faid, to call their at tention to the Bill then before them: it was ground ed upon the petition of Mr. Hoar, in which fuck circumftances were Rated, as poilibly he, the Pe titioner, might think himfelf founded in calling for the interpolition of the Legiflature in his fa- Your. In the petition. the ufual Ratements of the alledged Adultery, the proceedings in .21e Eccle fiallical Courts, &c. were let loath : but the very important circumftances of what took plate in the Courts of Welitrinfler-Hall, were omitted : with refpeft to there, it had recently come to the regu lar knowledge of their Lordfhips, that the Peti tioner had brought his aftion for damages for the alledged Adultery, in the Courts below,but where a verdift for the defendant was given by a Jury of the country, not confidering him entitled to damages. Not Co/11y that, but a new trial was granted, which had a similar rcfult—the Jury not thinking the petitioner could fuflain his right to damages. He was aware that no tianding order of the Houle citified againft the entertaining bills, in which :he proceedings of the Courts below were not fpecified, or the verdift of the Jury obtained by the party. He knew there were tome cafes, in which it was imporfible to obtain fuch a verdift, impohlible from various circumftances which were not connected with the conduet of the plaintiff— but the ordinary ufage, and general praftice of the Houfe 'was adverfe to entertaining fuch Bills. With retpeft to the aftual knowledge which their Lordfhips might have of the proceedings alluded to, having occurred in any cafe, his LOrdfhip teemed to think, that unlefs they were regularly', brought within the view of the Houfe in the fhape of a document, they were not bound to take notice of them. He did not think that no toriety, however public, was a fuflicient ground for their Lordfhips to ad upon in fuch a cafe; and , he alto teemed to think that no individual Peer, not even the perfon who had the honour to fit on the Woolfack, could regularly Rate such fads to the Houfe fo as to form an adequate ground for their Legiflative proceedings upon the particular cafe. He thought himfelf forcibly called upon to draw their Lordfhips attention to the Bill in quef tion ; he thought they fhould deliberately confider before they entertained a Bill, refpefting which the petitioner had not prefented a real Rate of the cafe. What he meant to propofe in the prefent , inflance was, that the further confideratien'of the cafe be deferred for a week, which would give the Petitioner an opportunity, fhould he be fo in clined, of withdrawing the prefent Petition and Bill, and fubmit new ones to the "conlideration of the Houfe. As the cafe Rood, their Lordfhips ought at leaft to hefitate befbre they proceeded farther to entertain fuch a Bill ; as that before them would, he agreed with his Noble and Learn ed Friend, be letting a very dangerous precedent.' The Cub ed to which it related was one, he teemed to lay,that notwithflanding every precaution their Lordfhips could poffibly ufe, improper practices may creep in ; nothing like relaxation of thofe al ready adopted, ought therefore to be fuffered.— Billls in general of that nature ought to be eau tioufly received, particularly thofe in which ver dicts were unfatisfailloi ily obtained, as in thole cafes where judgment was fuffered to go by default ; and there obfervations applied obvroufly with in created force to fuch a Bill as that in queflior..— His Lordlhip made fume ohfervations on the 'ge neral tubjeft of Divorce, and an the nature and 1 tendency of fmne of the proceedings which need* fatily obtained in filch cafes; and alfo animadvert ed upon forme points tvhich had been urged in ar gument at the Bar, and in which he difplayed his Mimi ability. He repeated that his idea was, by deferring the farther conlideration of the tubjeft, to give the parties an opportunity of withdrawing the prefent Bill, and if inclined, to bring the tub jet fully and regularly before the Houfe by means of a new and proper Bill, refpcding whicli their Lordfhips could proceed in the way, which to their wifdoms feuded molt meet.-1 - le then moved that• the farther confideration of the care bi defer red till this day fc'nnight. Lord Tatratow observed, that he could not add to the force of what had been Rated by the Noble and Learned Lord: he however raid, that with yelped to what had been anted of a Standing Oriers...that wasAot fo.YeTY Matrial, as it WAS cifive or focontrouling, with repeats" their Lord thips proceedings, as the effablifhed ufar and ge neral praaice of the Houfe—A Standing Order could be fufpended any time, upon motion. He agreed with the Noble and Learned Lord in what he had laid refpeaing the effea of evidence as ad verted to at the Bar, and, above all, that the en tertaining of Bills, proceeding under fuck circum fiances as the prefent, and in cafes where a ‘,:r did in the Coarts below had not been obtained, would be to open the door to a great deal of fraud and collufion. • The Q2eftion was then put, upon the Loan CHANCEtLOiII'S Motion, which was ordered ac cordingly. Two private Bills were brought up from the Commons by Mr. ASTLEY and Colonel MoRcAN, and read a firft time ; after which their Lurcithily adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Lord RctcatNG . ron took the Oaths and his Seat. Mr. ALEXANDER prefental a Petition from the County of Galway, In Ireland, rcfpcaing the building of a new County Gaol; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in, in purfu.ince with the prayer of the Paid Petition. Mr. Manning pi-dented a Petition from the London Dock Company, the objeet of which was, to enlarge and amend the Bill paired Taft Scifions.—Referred to a Committee. _ _ General GASCUYN•: prcfctited a Petition from the Inhabi tants of Liverpool, (Laing the nec,.ffity of the ercdion of a new Town Nall.—Ordered to lie on the Table Mr. MAI NWA IMO brought in a 13ill for improving thc Road frpm Shoreditch Church to Stepney, Mile-end, &c. Read a firlt and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. The Bill for making a more convenient Carriage Road to the Ilk of . Dogs was read a fecond tinicould committed to a private Com mittee. Sir W. ELTON!) brom Lt in, purfuant to leave given, the Ply mouth Dock Banking Bill Read a frit., and ordered to be read a fecond time. Sir Wst. You sel prefente4 a Petition from the Merchants of Grenada and St. Vincent's, Rating their incapacity to pay the inflalments of the Loan, which they fome time lince had ob tained from Government, and praying fticth,r time to dif charge the fame. The CHANCALLOR of the Elea count ClprC:red a hope, that this Petition would be referred to a Committee to elan:int the matters contained therein, and to report their opinion there on to the Houle, as it was his wifh that the fubjed might be fully coufidered, before the Houfe ihould conic to any decifion upon it. Sir We.. Yousto f4d, there was another Gentleman who bad on former maws taken up this bufinefs, whom he waited to confult before be ihould make any other motion than that this Petition Ihoald lie on the table. This motion wan agreed to. Sir Jon N SINCLAIR prelented a Petition from the Pre:lent and Members of the Board of Agriculture, Bating that they had had confulerable Inertia in the oiled: they had undertaken, and praying farther fuppoit front Parliament—Ordered to lie on the tabie. Sir John alfo prelented a Petition from the Town Council of Thud°, praying ald, to enable them to build a Has hour in that town.—Referred to a &left Committee. PETITIONS FROM THE CITY OF LONDOS• The Sheriffs of London appeared at the Bar, and prefented a Petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the faid City—ftating that the mood. which had been granted by Par liament for the improvement of the Port of Lon don, was expended in the conftruetion of certain docks, in confequence of the Commiffioners being obliged, from the nature and fituation of their works, to purchafe more ground and houfel. than were adually necelfary. The Petitioners therefore prayed a further grant of go,oool. to enable them to complete their objc& The Sheriffs alfo pre rented a Petition from the faid Mayor, praying that leave might be given to bring in a Bill, to en able the Petitioners to purchafe certain grounds, in order to enlarge Smithfield Market, and to au• thorize them to raife money for that pnrpofe. The Sheriffs alfo prefented a Petition, &c. flitting, that purfuant to two Aas for that purpofe, contiderable progrefs had been made in widening the Ilreet at Temple Bar, and praying that leave might be given to bring in a Bill to extend the time, and to ena ble the / 2 .etitioners to !lac Money to complete the fame. On the lira-Petition being read, Alderman AN. DE a sow moved that it ilhould be referred to a Selcet Committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHECILTER (aid, that as the works alluded to in this Petition were un dertaken with the approbation of Parliament, as the fum applied for was alledged to he necerfary for the profecution of a purpofe which had already had the fanaion of that Houfe, and as the Peti tioners requefted this fum only as a temporary ad vance, the greater part of which they hoped to be able to repay, as loon as they thould difpofe of the lands they had beep under the neceffity of pur chafurg, he was authorized to give the .Petition his Majefirs recommendation, at the fame time he wifhed t►. to be underilood, that he did not hold himfelf pledged to accede to the demand of the Petitioners, unlefs from the Report of the Commit tee to whom the Petition was to be referred, fuifi dent grounds thould appear to jellify the expen diture of the fum already laid out by the Cornmif fioners, and to entitle them to a farther grant. Alderman ANDERSON Paid he had little doubt that the Pale of the lands, which, as the Petition Rated, the Commitl h sners were obliged to buy, would enable the Petitioners to refund the whole fum they applied for. ' , The Petition was referred to a Seidl Commit tee, which was appointed. The other Petitions were alto referred to Selea Committees. INDIA. Mr. W. DUNDAS gave notice, that he ifhonld on Friday next move for leave to bring in a Bill to en able the Direttors of the Ea(l India Company to transfer their Settlement from Bencoolen to any other Settlement in India. CIVIL LIST. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER appeared at the Bar, and laid, that in purfuance of his Ma jefty's commands, he had the honour to prefent to the Houfe certain Accounts refpeEting the Debt of the Civil Lift. Thefe Accounts were read by the Clerk. Their titles were, an Account of the Debt of the Civil Lift on the sth of January, tflos ; an Account of the Debt of the Civil Lift for the year ending the szh of January, tfloo ; an Account of the Debt, &c. for the year ending the sth of January, tBol ; an Account, &c. for the year ending the sth of l a MIN ry, 1802. The CHANCELLOR of the PVHEQSJER obferved, that the Accounts now prelented, together with [cries of the Debts of the Civil Lift, from the year 1786, up to the end of the lad year. At Felon he fhould only move that thole Accounts fliould lie on the table ; to-morrow he would more for the appointment of a Sled Committee, to take them into confideration, and to report their opinion to the Houle. Mr. SH RIDAN (aid it w.is not his with to pl o yoke any difentlion at pref . :air on the lubjedolth.,fr Accounts; he rofe only tOr information fake, t.o alit the Right lion. G.:nth:man, whether he Inql it in command from Lis Majelty to make any corn. mitnication to the Houfe refine - king the rights ar.3 claims of Ins Royal Highnefs Cne Prince or . Wales ? He added, that he thought it his duty to flatr, that he had had nu communication upon the ful,- jea with any perfon nhatever. The CIIANZELLOR of the EXCHECky FR replied, that he had no commands from his Majeft.y to make any communication to the Houfe upon the fubjeft alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman, nor had he any reafon to think that he fhould. Mr. NICHOLLs gave notice, that as foon as the Committee thouU be appointed to examine this fubje4l, he would feel it his duty to move an in tirtietion to them, to enquire what rums have been received for g •ranting Leaks of Crown Lands, un der the at of the Bth of his prefent Majelly: The Accounts were ordered to lie on the table. The Sgsaasu repeated his requell to the Mem. hers to attend by three o'clock, to-morrow, when he would be ready to take the Chair, in order to dilpofe of the private bulinefs, a great quantity' of whiy.:la was 1411 in atrear.—Adjourned. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY z 7. PKICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per C. Coutols, money, 69 Ditto , foracconnt, 69*. stcduced 70-4 per C. 86 -0141 5 per Cent. 3001-.. Nevi S per C. tot i—Long Ann. 20 7-t6i. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 13,40 k Stock t ti; India Stock 2141 3 per Ct. Red. 7i3}4 1 India funds t rot. prent. 3 per Ct. Conf. 69i t Imp. 3 per Cent. 69if 4 per Cent. 8; I i Imp. Ann. 22 7-16 i kith .5 per Oent tot 5 pet Cent. Ann. zoo S per C. Ann. 1797 to; tor ExCheq. Bills. 7s. to Ss. prem. Long Ann. 20 12-16 t Englith Tickets 16. tss. Short Ann. si. CoaL for Acc. 691 This moraing we received French Journals to the Isth infan t , idclufive, from which we have made a f-w ezt rads. His MAJESTY'S arrangements for reading in town during the winter feafon are as follow ;—the ROYAL FAMILY will come to town every Tuef. day, and remain at the Queen's Houfe till Friday. Every fortnight the room ; and on the alternate Thurfday their MA. JEST I ES will honour unc of the Theatres with their pretence. _ _ _ According to the papers laid before the Houfes of Commons, the Civil Lift debts amount to 4164,c001, sou 4d.—a tolerable, fum this for Mr. ?ivy to have left behind unpaid. His Royal Htglincls the Prince of WALES'S an nual donation of 501. haS been lately diftributecl to the poor of Brighton. The Crown Officers have at length made their report upon the cafe of the Globe charter, which is referred to the Privy Council. Earl Coorsa leaves town to-morrow, on a trip to PAris. Lady ANNE Caorrost, and her daughters, failed in the 14 Packet for France. Sir JOHN and Lady SMITH BURGESS, fet off for Bath on Saturday. Sir JOHN'S health has been for fume time in a very indifferent hate. Lord FOLKSTONE has taken a neat houfe in Argyle-B=4 for the winter refidence of his fa mily. Mrs. Roan:ism , ' has quitted her houfe in Con duit-ilrect, and returned to Albemarle-areet, where that Lady in future means to give her fa (llion hle parties. Lord and Lady MELBOURNE have returned to Whitehall from Brocket-hall, for the fafhionable feafon. The Earl of CHICHESTER has ere/led a mill at his own expence at Plumpton. It has an extra ordinary fingularity attached to it. The miller is not allowed to take toll: 'lhere is fo much good nature in the following paragraph that we cannot refrain from inferting it. We aifure our brother Editor, howek , er, that the fael is as we have Rated : the terms of the De finitive Treaty, fo far as relates to this country and France, were completely agreed upon more than a week before we announced it ; but Spain and Holland move more !lowly : Definitive Treaty.—" Again a great number of I people were antufed yeaerday by the accounts given , in the Star of Monday, " that the Terms of the-Dffi nitive Treaty between this Country and France were at lergtb Pally agreed upon and concluded ;" and placing confidence that its confirmation would be received by yellerday's poll, the ftreets to the en trance of the town on the Coventry road were lined at an early hour,and continued to irt•creafe till after twelve at noon, when they were completely Uiftppointed by the 4rrival of the mail coach with out either flag or other teftimonial of bridging the withed fur glad tidings. The London papers, how ever, are Rill big with expeslation, and give us a number of pr.found reatons to prove that it Jill/ mull comefoon. The public, however, have not for got with what fagacity the "leading prints" prog nofticated the r ptureofthe preliminarynegociation. even on the very day the treaty was tip ed. And being (like the liifhman) " behind before ;" they teem &retrained to be " tint at latt," Some of Lord Coati WA LLI esi honks are returned; and from this it is inferred that the hornier. is thawing to a clore. Perhaps it is foe Whether the he.. rfes have be - :n confulted upon the biiiinels or nnt, we are not informed; but as to any real knowledge of the actual ltate of the negotiation, we are frt:e to con fers that we believe the faid horfes are as deep in the fecret as the moft fagacious editor opus • `"