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TO Blt SOLD BY ATAI I O I II-.By Mr. WELLilit, On Tburfday, the 9th inftant, betvrecn the Hours of Four and live ht the Afternoon, at the Norfolk Arms, Arundel, .1 1. TRULY DESIRABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, comprifieg a fubftantial modern-built Houfe, tommedions and well fitted up, bop and warehoufes; a feparate ihop, which was originally conftrutted as a banking-offtee; a 1144 good parlour in the bafement,hitchen, fcullery, brew and walk-books, cellars, spacious arched wine vault; an area and wed yard, with iron railing, a two-ftalled liable ; firft floor, a an bandfomc drawing and eating rocs,two bed-chambers, prin _ . eipal and back ftaii.-cafes; fee - ond floor, one large and foiai Ids chambers, and two garrets, fituate in the centre of the Town of Arundel, and very lately in the occupation of Mr. Jackfon, Draper. Immediate poffclhon may be had. There Premifes are molt pre-eminently placed, and admira bly conttruetcd for the cenduet of an extenfire bufinefe in the woollen and linen drapery branches,in which it has been long eftabliihed. A very old and refpeetable connexion in the dra pery line has recently retired from Oufinefs, and it is generally prefumed a fairer profpedt of (needs is rarely to be found. The commerce of the river will be very much enereafed by the new navigation l • a very good weekly corn-market furrounded by Noblemen and Gentlemen's feats, an opulent Yeomanry, near to two falhionablc watering-places, and the thoroughfare from Haft to Weft is very great during the fummer feafon. Further Particulars may be k Down by applying .0 Mr. George Mant, Arundel; or of Mr. Weller, at his General Agency- Office, Chichelter. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY. DEC. 3. Mr. Rossi 1. LY was heard for the Appellants in the Caufe, Graham v. Henderfon. and the Avro a nay GIINCRAL in part, on behalf of the Refpoodan ; after which the farther bearing was adjourned to Monday next. Lord CAIIIII.IIIILD took the oaths. The Engtilb Small Notes Bill was brought up from the Commons, and prefent•d by Mr. Burdon and others, and read • Brit time. _ _ _ tsinonam moved, thatthe Order that Petitioners for Naturalisation Bills monad always accompany their Peti tions with a certificate of their life and conduct, teftified by one of His Majefty's Secretaries of State, should be made i ftand bg order..—Ordered, VEXATIOUS ARRESTS. Lord MOIR♦ reminded the Houfe, that he had in the courfe of the fait feffion introduced a bill for the prevention of frivolous and vexatious arras. The fubjeE was, unfortunately, not novel in that Houfe, for which reafon he should not think it necefrary to go into any detail upon it at that time, and the more efpecially as he meant to move that the bill be read a firft time, and then be printed, fo that every objeaion and obfervvion that might arife upon it might more properly come under dif .cuffion on the fecond reading, which he fhould allow due time fir. His Lordfhip prefented the bill, which was read a firft time, and ordered to be printed. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Lord Monts faid, the bill he had jail introduced would be a very incomplete meafure, if not accom panied with another bill, viz. a Bill for the relief of certain Infolvent Debtors, which he held in his band, and which was a copy of a bill introduced laR feffion. He meant in this cafe, as in the for mer, to move that the bill be read a firs time and printed—The bill was read a &it time,and ordered to be printed. BANKRUPT LAWS. Lord MOIRA. laid, a report had gone .abroad, and made fufficient impreffion without doors to load him with a voluminous correfpondence, that he had it in his intention to bring in a bill for the regulation and amendment of the Bankrupt Laws; he took that public opportunity of declaring that he never had it in his intention to interfere with 'the fubjed. NABOB or •scoT. Lord Mora* rote once more, in conformity to the notice he had given on rednefday, that he would this day move for a copy of the inftruc tions tent out by the Court of Directors to the Governor General of Bengal and the Governor of Madras, refpeaing the depofition of the infant heir of the late Nabob of Arcot. The caufe which he had at heart, when he fiat gave notice of bis intention in the courfe of the Taft feffion was, he was lorry to fay, now paired by. It had been with a view to obtain relief for an injured Prince, but that Prince now was beyond the reach of redrefs ! Altar We's Atha fever, he Deeps well: ?rearm Iwo done Its woclt : nor fled, nor piton, Malice &milk., foreign levy, nothing Could touch him farther! Fate had In ordered it, that no claim with a view to relieve him from injury to his perfonal rights, could now be made a queftion of with any fort of advantage. He begged leave again to repeat what he had declared when be gave notice of his inten tion to make the Motion, with which he meant to conclude, that he hat not the lean intention to im: pute blame to the two Noble Lords who prelided at Calcutta and Madras; he was aware that the tranfaaions which had taken place in the Carnatic, aad which bad challenged the attention of all Eu rope, originated with the Court of Direaors, and were part of a fyftem determined upon, before either of the Noble Lords, to whom he had juft alluded, went to India. They therefore had no &are in the &Ands to which he meant to call the attention of their Lerdfhips, although he had ob ferved in a recent difpatch from the Governor Ge neral to the Secret Committee of Diredlors, that the Governor General congratulates the Dire!tors on the fuccefs of their enterprife in the Caraatic, meaning the affair of the depofition of the nomi nal heir of the late Nabob, and the (eating ano ther Prince on tie Mufnitd. In order, however, to jutlify himfelf for prcfuming to bring the cub jea under their Lordfh ps' attention, Lord Moira (aid, it was necefrary for him to remind them that many years fince it was felt that the intereas of the Etat India Company were fo intimately in ♦olved with thofe of this country, that Parliament found it necefrary to interfere, and pals occafional bills of regulation on leveret important points that Wetted the concerns of the Company ; but at kingth, in confequence of the great acquifition of territory, and the inveßment of Sovereign Power by the Company. Parliament had difcovered that an adventitious and occafional interference of the Legigatnre was not adequate to a due correction of the growing evils that arofe In confequence of the eztended authority of the Eaft India Company. The evil mon dangerous to the public, and likely to be jwoduaiva of im of, mofehiefsi was uni 'aerially a itypitory, with a view to aggrandisement, and the grasifica. tion of falfe ambition. In order, therefore, to check and corral this evil, the Board of Controul was irdlituted, in order to retrain the Court of Di. reftors from purfuing fuch an unwire object Since the inftitution of that Board, the inftruaions rela tive to the Carnatic, to which he had alluded, hat( been fent out, and therefore, however wife he might think the giving to that Board the power of the Directors, he did not with to make the Board of Controul tharers in the vices of the Directors. It became, on thee confiderations, the duty of their Lordfhips, to have the papers he meant to move for before them, in order to fee whether the principal caufe for inilituting the Board of Con troul, had not been in the inftance of the Carnatic wholly departed from, and whether the Court of Directors had not been permitted to achieve an acqnifition of territory, contrary to the declared with and intention of the Legiflature. His Lord-1 (hip took occafion to refer to the main caufe of complaint againft the French Republic, viz. that it was the practice of that power to invade and opprefs all the feeble States about her. This had been a conftant theme of reprobation in Parlia ment, and now, in confequence of the condo& of the Eaft Jnda Company in refpea to the Carnatic, the opprobrium was retorted upon us, and, it was pleaded to the whole Continent, that we had fuf- fired that to be done in India, which we had been fo loud in complaint about in Europe. Was it wife, he afked, in us to (hake the public opinion, as to the necciFary equity of nations, and to take the lead in violating that principle, which was wifely and humanely calculated to (hackle the hands of the powerful, and protect the weak from the en croachments of power and ambition ? His Lord (hip, after further oblervation, moved for a copy of all the inftruaions fent out by the Court of Di rectors, to the Governor General of India, and the Governor of Madras. Lord HOBART faid, he would trouble their Lordfhips only with a very few words. As the Noble Lord had prefaced his motion with a full explanation of his objeft, and a declaration that he meant not to impute any blame to the Noble Lords who prefided in Calcutta and Madras, he taw no rcafon to objea to it; he would, therefore, merely fay, that whenever the tranfaEtions of the Carna tic alluded to, fhould be fully inveftigated, he was perfuaded that it would be found that the meafure in quellion was founded in a due fenfe of policy, and an ample attention to the interefts of the Com pany and the country. Lord GLEN viLLs raid, that from the manner in which the Noble Lord had opened his motion, there appeared to him no neceffity to object to it, he would, therefore, only declare his thorough crinNietion that the Noble Lord, who had jut fat down, was perfectly warranted in his opinion— that when the meafures in queflion came to be properly underftood, they would be found to have originated, in what the Noble Lord rightly termed a due fenfe of policy, and a jult regard to the na tional interells., The motion was agreed to. Several cattle: of Appeal were fet down for hearing on dated days.—Adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OP COMMONS. Mr. Dawr prefented a petition from the Debtors ednfined in the County Gaol of Laneafter, praying relief.—Ordered to Ile on the Table. A Petition from Neweaftle-under-Lyne was prefented, and ordered to be confidered on the day appointed for confidering a former Petition from the fame place. Mr. Alderman Come pre fented a Petition from the Malt- Reel of Woreefter, praying for a Repeal of the Malting Mt, gaffed in the laft Sam of Parliament. Ordered to lie on the Table. A Petition was prefented from John Macnamara, Efq. againft the Return for Radnorflike.—lit was ordered to be taken into confideration on the 19th of March. A Petition from Kingfton-upon Hull, from certain Electors, was prefented againft the Return for that place. and ordered to be confidered on the gift of March. Mr. Cotta, brow ht in the New kith Militia Bill, which was read a firft time. M propofed that it fhould in the n time be "printed, and read a fecond time on Monday, wlft Mem bers would have an opportunity of informing themfelves of its nature—Agreed to. The Right Honourable Gentleman took occafion before be fat d.wn to intimate his intention to introduce a Militia Bill of a very different nature front that now before the Hour& The Bill he &add have the honour of propofing would be perfectly conformable to that which a Right Hon. Friend of his (the Secretary at War) had introchieed in the courfe of the laft Sef flon of Parliament. With the persniffion of the Houle he would bring in a Bill of this nature, au..au.. hoped that it would be al lowed to go through a tint and feeond reading. He would then move that it lhould Rand over till after the Holidays, that the Gentkm-n of Ireland, felt of whom he now raw in their places, and more efpecially the Colonels of Militia Regiments, might have a full and fair opportunity to form an accurate opi nion on its obit& and tendency. Mr. Poona brought up the Minutes of the Ordnance for Great Britain and Ireland, and at the fame time gave notice, that it was propofed to vote th e M o n e y f or t h e O r d nance De partment on Wednefday, which was the day fixed for voting the Army Minutes. Mr. Vattstv - rAar ootalned leave to bring in the Annual In demnity Bill for Perkins who have negleat.d to take the Qua lification, required by Law. Mr. Jerre ars Paid, that having prefented to tLe Houfe a few days fince a Petition from the Mahan.. of the Ci y of Coventry, praying relief trap the penalties of certain claufes in a Bill. laying great reftriaions on their trade, he wifhcd to be informed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if it was his intention to fix an early day for the confidt wino of the Petition? He Paid his motive for prefling the fulled arofe from information he had received of legal proceedings for the penalties being commenced againft many of his conftituents. Mr. Jefferys added. th .t he did not entertain a doubt that every degree of attention and redrefa would be afforded to the cafe of the Petitioners which it would be round to merit. The CHANCELLOR or Tin Exc eku a a replied, that he was the next day to have a meeting upon the fubje&t with feveral perfons in the malt trade, and every attention would be given to the willies of the Peti tioners. ORDER OF THR DAY. The Houfe refolved into a Committee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR of-the EXCHEQUER, purfuant to the notice he had given yefferday, rote to bring forward his motion for a vote of five millions, to be railed by Exchequer Bills; but before he made that motion, he would precede it by moving the ufual Duties fur the year on Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry ; on Penfions and Perfonal Effaces in Great Britain ; and on Rum, Sugar, Tobacco, Starch, icc. There being agreed to, • The CHANCELLOR of the Excit tosla again rote, and obferved, that in moving for the Loan by Exchequer Bills, it was feared,' neceifary for him • to pas any comment on the advantages which had been fo Arial y experienced, I;lthexto, from the iftte of Exchequer Bills. Thofe advantages were in fad, iuo well known in the finances of the coun try, to require fuch comment. The only thing to be attended to, in rendering thole Bills of perma nent advantage,amongft the refources of the year, was, to guard againft any excels of the neceffary quantum ; and to regulate the Me always by the ilite of the Money Market. It would not be unin• terefting to Rate the fituatinn of this branch of our refources, for a few years back, in order to prove its advantages, by a compariion v it't its fituatiou at this day : _ _ Immediately previous to the commencement of the late War, th.; amount of outftanding Exchequer L. Bills was 9.478.000 In November tBor,theamountwas a‘ove 29,c00,000 In which was included a fum funded laft Sefton, of 8,500,00 e Which, deduCted from the whole, left the fum out ftanding on the sib of January laft 20,500,CC0 But, from the redation which time took place, the whole outftanding debt now amounted to 15,080,0001. being a reflation of one half of the whole debt. Immediately previous to the commencement of the L. War, the Debt of the Navy was 3,344,cc0 On the beginning of November in Taff Year it amounted to about - - 9,000,000 But by the reduction which here took place, it Rood on the sib of Odtober laft at 4.500,000 Being a reduction alfo of one half, and making the total reflation of the unfunded debt above eighteen millions. In riming the reduced out nanding debt for Exchequer Bills at 15,080,0001. he included one million in the hands of the Bank of England, which were to be paid off as the Malt, and oth er 'faxes approcriated for that puipofe, were paid in. Thole Bills, therefore, were not liable to come into the market, to create any de preciation of Exchequer Bills there, which reduces the floating debt to 4,080,0001. in which hum are, to be comprifed the Exchequer Bilk not in circu lation. He now, therefore, propofed to Mite 5,000,0001. more of Exchequer Bills, to fill up the chafm which had been created in the Stock Mar ket, by the payment of others. There were to bear an intereft of 2.1 d. per erntum, per diem; and fo little fear was there of fuch an Ate prejudicing thofe funds, that they were always in demand, and now at a premium. In order to fupport and facilitate the circulation of thole bills heretofore, a regulation had been made in the revenue, whaeby they were rendered receivable in payment of taxes or duties ; but the very (mall portion of them that had been tendered in fuch payments, was in further proof that they wete in high favour with the public, who evinced no with to avail themfelves of fuch an opportunity to get rid of them. It alfo appeared, that fo great was the recent den:and for them at market, that the refi due on hand would not fupply it., For the prefent, therefore, he fhould move for the iffue of five mil. lions of Exchequer Bills ' • and on this day fe'n night he fhould move for four millions more, upon the growing produce of the Confolidated Fund ; at which time he fhould alfo lay before the Houfe a flatement of the fituation of the Public Finances of the Country, fo far as the fame could be made up to the prefent time. His motion was agreed to, and the Committee ordered to report and fit again on Monday. TONNAGE DUTIES. General Gascotca prefented to the Monte a Petition, figned, as he faid, by two hundred of the moll refpedable merchants and (hip owners of Liverpool, complaining of the fevere injuries fur tained by their trade, under the operation of the Tonnage Duty A 9; and praying for a repeal of the fame. The Petition was received ; and the Hon. Member faid, that for the prefent he fhould only move that it do lie on the Table, for the per ufal of Members, as he well underftood that other Petitions were coming forward from all the prin cipal merchants and (hip owners in Great Britain, to the fame purport, and might, when received, be altogether referred to a Committee. General TARLITON faid, he had read many, though not all of the names, figned to the Petition juft prefented by his Hon. Colleague : and fo far as he had read, he knew the names to be certainly thofe of tome of the moll refpeaable merchants and !hip owners in the town, whole reprefentation he had the honour to participate. Any Petition coming from a body of traders fo truly refpeaable, was certainly entitled to confederation ; and he doubted not that his Majefty's prefent Minifters, who certainly had his confidence and fupport, would pay to the firbjea of the Petition every at tention it fhould appear to deferve. The CHANCRLLOR of the Excl.+ EQyER role and obferved, that it would be premature to difcufs at this moment the fubjea of the petition ; at the fame time he could folernnly allure the HoUfe, that there was no man within or without its walls, who had more fincerely at heart the intereft and prof pqjty of that valuable and refpeaable defcription oMen from whom the prefent Petition proceeded. They had truly ftated themfelves the Manufaau rers of Britifh leamen—a manufaaure which mull ever Rand high in the eftimation of every man who valued the honours, the glory, and the fecu rity of the Britifh Empire. If any proof was likely to come forward in fupport of the allega , dons made in this, or any other Petition, afrerting the decay of the Britifh Shipping Trade, inward and outward, fence the conclulion of the war, there was not an individual in the Houle, who would more readily acknowledge, that fuck proofs ought to operate for the repeal of the Duties alluded to. But though he would not deny the poMbility that a material change might be felt in fome ports, in confequence of the Peace; though the entries in ward at fome, and outward at others, might have, in a confiderable degree,.fallen off; (and that this may have been, in tome degree, the cafe with that reputable port from whence this Petition came, he would not alTurne to deny) but, taking the Britifh Import and Export Trade generally, and together, he would affert that no reprefentation was ever more unfounded than that of afferting its decay, when, in fat, its rapid imprtbvemett and increafe was every where felt through the Country. For he could confidently aftert, and he hoped he fhould not be mifconceived or mifreprefented, that the capon of Britifh Manufaltures had increafed to a very important degree j awl that from tin fat of London, inftrdartil outward, fince the tertit tion of I the War, th e T onnage of Brida l fin pp : had moll confider:tidy increafed, and that o f reign (hipping has confiderably tlitninifhed: therefore, for him to content to abandon fog portant a part of the resources for the year as e i mfe Duties, before th e Houle had an opportunity cf fteing the ir re f raga bl e proofs of what he now at f. rted, fo loon as the returns of the year could h e made up, was not to be expated.—Adjourned to Monday. L 0 ' DON. lCiavripta in CANDI/MI6'S Second Utter, in the STAR of the id—for orders, read order. H.s Third Letter will ap. pear the firft oppomnity. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, PRICE o:p3eSTrpf:reCncltie:n. 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Our letters from the Hague confirm accounts before received, fiat. ing, that Sevenaar, Huyfen, and Malburg, are to be given up to the Batavian Republic. A Conven. tion to that effeEt was figned on the 24th oh. by Citizen HULTMAN, on the part of the Dutch Go. vernment,and Count Vox HAUCWITZ, the Prof. fian Minifter, founded on the previous Convention between France and Praia of the 23d of tail May. The Batavian Government will take poffeffion of them after the boundaries fhall have been fettled by Pruffian and Batavian Commiffioners, appoint. ed for that purpofe. General VICTOR, appointed Captain General of Louifiana, is daily expeaed at the Hague to fu. perintend the embarkation of the French troops now at Helvoetfluys, and the civil and military officers who are deftined for that Colony, who will fail the firft opportunity in a Batavian fqua. dron, and 42 tranfpotts. While no inconfiderable degree of uncertainty prevails with refpea to the new indemnities to be granted by the interpofition of France to theGaallo DUKE of TUSCANY, a new fubjea of remonftratice and complaint, on the part of Auftria, appears to have arifen, by the annexation of the Duchies of Parma and Placentia to the territory of the French Republic. It is even confidently Rated, that the Imperial Ambaffador at Paris has already made very ferious reprefentations to the Flasr CossuL, on the annexation of the Sovereignties in queflion. From a reference to the Treaty of Aix-la•Chatelk in the year 1748, we find that they were compre hended in a principal condition of the Peace then made, and it is undeniable that the Houfe of Auf tria poirefFes an eventual interefl in them,ellablifh• ed and recognized in the clear& and moil fatif. faaory manner. The a-ticle relative to them de clares, " that the Duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Gnaßalla, (hall be ceded as a fovereignty to the Infant Dote PHILIP, and the heirs male of his body ; but that in cafe he or his defcendants than fucceed to the Crown of Spain, or to that of the Two Sicilies, or die without male ifFue, thofe ter ritories shall return to the prefent pofFeffors, the EMPRESS QUEEN of HUNGARY and the KING of SARDINIA, or their defcendants." Here then is a reverfionary right of fovereignty to the very territories of which the FIRST CONSUL has taken poffeffion, by virtue of a ceffion made by a fecret Treaty with Spain. Aufiria contends, and certainly with the greateft jufticc, that the Court of Madrid had no right whatever to make conditions, which fhould preclude it from all Did• mate claim. The eventual fuccefrion of Auftria to Parma and Placentia, fecured by the faith of a folemn Treaty, it certainly was not in the power of Spain to annul by any fubfequent convention, more particularly as it was in conformity to al l the conditions of the treaty, that Don PHILIP acquire(' the right and exercife of his Sovereingty over them. We are, however, far from thinking that the re• monftrances which may have been made upon this fubjed, by the Cabinet of Vienna, will be fire' nuoufly and decidedly fupported, yet fome cont. penfations may be required and obtained. The Etas? Cossui. may find it expedient to yield a little to the eftablithed rules of Courts ; and ip the additional indemnities which arc to be made, either the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, or the EM' mot himfelf, may find fome beneficial refults, calculated to counterbalance the claim fo indifpu* tably vetted in Aufiria to the racrtionary Foal; ficon Of Parma and Placentia, ri To 1 Hovi Nov. 2 An penes prur field, T 1. 1 KV difcri Mr.. the 1 perk Tt Fran . , T 1 on 'V Y 4 and (qua and subi STA fro'