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to the Place Bill, vacated his feat. As that was contrary to his opinion, he gave notice that he thonld, on Monday neat, bring forward a motion to afcertain the fenfe of the Houfe on that fubjett. Lord TEMPLE fait, that preparatory to the slit: cuffion of which he had given notice for Tnefday next, it was proper for him to move, that W. Boucher, Notary Public, and Deputy Regifler of Sarum, be directed to attend this Houle en Tuef. day the sods of March next, with the Regifter Book of Orders, celebrated by the Lord Bithop of Sarum—And alto, that the Reverend Clerk of Parifh Church of Brcntford, in the county of Mid. dicta, do attend the Houfe on the fame day, with certain Records, &c.—This the Noble Lord Paid, was for the purpofe of afcertaining the fad of the Rev. Gentleman oppofite to him, having, or not having, taken upon him the order of Prieß. The firft motion being put, Mr. HORNE TOOKE.-.-" I am not a little fur. pritid at the motion now fubmitted, after the con verfation I had with the Noble Lord yelierday, the fuldianre of which I fhall Rate to the Houk ; and if, through mittake, L mifreprefent any thing, the Noble Lord, I am Cure, will have the good nefs to corral me. The Noble Lord told me vellerday, that if I attended in my place this day, I thould hear him flaw the nature and objed of the motion he intended to bring forward, with out at all intimating that it would be what he now calls a preparatory motion. He at the fame time added, that he was not actuated by any fen timent of perfonal difrefped towards me, but would think it his duty to do the fame, were his neareß friend placed in the rime circumftances.' The Noble Lord knows whether 1 reprefent him rightly—[Lord Temple, by a cry of dear I Hear! fignified his acquielcence]--Common decency compelled me to reply, that I believed he thought as he had fpoken, but that experience had fhewn inc it was not very uncommon for men to ad upon one motive, while they thought they afted upon another.'—[A From this I had reafon to aped that he would have confented to make me and the Haute acquainted with his °hied before hand, and I now qply know that a part of his motion will be, bilinquire whether that title of lisuertod Gentleintn, which he has twice bellowed oh ni in an honarat7 manner, belongs to me or not ? lam certainly in a great meafure unac: quaintsd with the rules and orders of Parliament; but in any other place I fhould not think the mo tinit now before me quite confiftent with candour. I have, on more oceafions than one, already ex petineed the kindnefs, indulgence, and jullice of this Houle, independently of thofe private fielligs sy_which fame Gentlemen were dsfpofed to regard Me with fame attention ; and I therefore hhpe, that, in conformity with the handfome, manly; and candid manner which the Honfe ulna* adopts, the Noble Lord will abide by the intimation he gave of his intention to explain the objet of his motion." Lord TEMPLE, in explanation,prAffed that he had no intention, by the expreffion he had em ployed, to giie the flighteft offence, and if the tide of Reverend Gentleman, which he had ap plied, was difagreeable, he was willing to add Honourable, whieh he apprehended would be per kily unetceptionable. He had been induced to make the prefent Motion merely for the purpofe of arriving at a certain conciulion with regard to a particular fad, and when once the firft queltion vas clifpofed of, he would then be prepared to fol low it yp With an appropriate Motion. Mr. HORNS TOORE•.•." The Noble Lord has now given us no better explanation than before, and never did I hear of a more naked notice of a motion. The attendance of a parith.ckrk, pnd tome other perfon, a notary public, is demanded without any reafon given why they fhould be font for. In my opinion, fome reafon fhould be given to point out the objet ; but as it alludes perfonally to myfelf, I fhall not oppofe the motion." Mr. Psecivat. Paid, the Noble Lord had Rated facient grounds for the motions before the Houfe. lie conceived that it was contrary) to law and the conftitution to admit any perfon who had officiated as a Prieß to fit in that Houfe; and as a prelimi nary to the difeuffion of that qucftion, into which it would be premature then to enter, he thought it right to adduce evidence as to the fad that a Prielt was become a Member—lt would be ex tremely improper to anticipate the opinion of the Houfe tin the f ubjea, but it was very proper die fad fhould be brought before them. Mr. HORN!' Tootte.--so After all that has been hitherto Paid, I cannot think but, in the prefent mode of proceeding, both the Honourable Gen tlemen are putting the cart kfoty the hotA when they with to eftablifts the fad iirft, and afterwards mean to apply for the advice of Parliament. On the contrary, it feems to me, that the more proper mode would be, firft to eftablith the principle, and then to inquire how the faits applied to it ? I make no doubt 'but the Noble Lord has been rz.db, the advice of the Honourable and Gendensames---(Ne! No 1)—Well, fo lintel the better; but, at all events, I am willing to fare both of them a deal of unneceffary trou bles by acknowledging that I did receive Prieß's Orders.--1 am not afraid of, but am fully pre pared to meet that objedion ; and. I can a llure them, that they get more by this adniitlion than lacy Can poffibly prove by the motion now under your contideratign. I will add, that if either or both of than with for any further information with regard to me, they will always find 31)C wil. Lotto meet them two-thirds of the way." The Stamm doubted whether, according to the form s of the Houfe, this admiffion could be received as evidence. He-flared the cafe of a dif- Pute ahent As right of the Odell fon of a Peer to itt in the Houfe, when the Honfe were of (Onion !hat an admithon of the fae in difpute could not recci%ed as e vid ence , and j u d g ed it necelfart to .ppuunt a Committee to examine the affair.—The -notion was then put and carried without a divifion. MARTIAL LAW IN lILLANIL L^►d Carrt.toloon, after a few &remotions in the ;mat importance of his prophred motion for the continuance of the Bill for the exillence of laßial Law is Ireland, agreed to Foitpone it till tr.: 11 247 nest, aa coafid c setion ul the prrSat Rate of public affairs. As he Was anxious, how ever, that the meafure fhould be gone through as loon as pollibleafter that time, he hoped the Houle would fit on Saturday to expedite the Bill in one of its Rages. Sir LAWRENCE PARSONS thought that a mea lure of this importance called for the moll ferious conlideration. It was of the greatelt confecpsence that every Member of the Houfe fhould be fully apprifed of the feveral claufes of the Bill for the continuance of which the motion was intended. The Members of that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain were at prefent unacquainted with the particular nature of the Bill, and were, confequently unprepared to give a jut opinion relpefting the expediency of prolonging its opera tion. This information, he conceived, would bell be obtained by printing the two Bills as they pal. ted in different years. The firfl was an Aft paf fed at the end of the Rebellion in 1799, and the other was an Alf to explain and amend the claufes' of the former, which was brought in and palled in the following Salon of Parliament. By the circulation of tilde Bills among the Members of the HOufe, a corral and diftinft knowledge of their nature and tendency would he obtained, and every Gentleman would be in a lunation to determine on thc expediency of their continuance. Without this, their information would be necefra rily partial, and their judgment,of neceflity, would not be aided by any fuitahlc degree of evidence. Lord CASTLEREAGH entered into a fhort expla nation, and contended, that as the meafure was merely one of continuance, it WAS not neceffary to enter into any minutenefs of detail on the fuh jeft, or to prefent before the Houfe all the infor mation which might be requilite in cafe of the pro dation of a new meafure. Mr. SHPRIDAT4 could not agree with the Noble Lord in his views of the meafure, or in the pro ' priety of putting off all difcufllon till the Bill had advanced in its Rages. The Noble Lord had laid, that the Bill to be propofed was one merely of continuance, dependent on previous knowledge t' one whiCh did not require any new documents to I be prefented to the Houfe to guide their determi nation. But what did the Houfe know of the grounds on which the mcafure had formerly been propofed? They knew abfolutely nothing of the circumftances arifing from the (tate of Ireland, which could itiftify their adoption ofa meafure, of a nature fo violent, as that which it was the objetft I of the motion to continue. They could not, there ' fore, in confiftency with their duty, accede to the prolongation of any meafure, of the merits of which they had no proofs laid before them. They owed it to their duty to the crown, and the prefer ratios of their own dignity, that no meafure thould be adopted without the neceffary information of its neceffity as well as its expediency. Under the prefent circumftances of the country, dikullion on fubjeas of the molt important nature had been de- I layed, and enquiries into she general conduet of Adminiftration had been ftifpended, and it there fore became the Holife to take care that this mea- Cure, though ftyled merely one of continuance, (bould not be hurried through the Houfe without examination. It had been raid, indeed, that if the meafure Were delayed, the Bill might expire in Ireland before the forms of the Houfe admitted of its being renewed. This, to be (Ore, might be attended with partial inconvenience, though the word that could ever happen from it was, that the inhabitants of Ireland would for a fhort period be deprived of the advantages of martial law ! But what was this compared with other motions much more important in themfelves, much more deeply involving the interefts of the whole Em pitt, which had been delayed from the prefent Rate of public affairs ? On thefe grounds, he lhould certainly expea information fufficient to fa tisfy his mind of the expediency of the meafure, before he could give his affent to the propofed con tinuance of the Bill. Lord CASTLEREAGH conceived that if the Houfe were to go into any detailed evidence of the ne ceflity or the meaftire, they would throw fuck oh flacles in the way of the motion as would defeat its intention. If they followed the precedent of the Irilh Parliament, there would then he no ne celEty for cntcring into this detail, fince at the time the meafure was brought forward for the fecond time, no circumliantial evidence was judged to be neceffary. Whether the Houfe would now think it expedient to continue the aft, would depend entirely in that cafe on the argu ments of dude by whom it was propofed. 'I he only queftion before the Ho& now was, however, not whether detailed information of the circum fiances calling for the continuance of the aft thould be Lid before them, but whether the efts fopner ly patied-thould be re-printed for the information of Members If any Parliamentary mode of doing this could be effeeted, he was fo fir (tom having any with to oppofe this, that it should meet with his hearty concurrence. The &cam was of opinion that there was no inftance on record of Ads paired in a former fdlion being ordered to be re-printed by the Houle. They were already fuppoted to be in the hands of Members, and they could only be re-printed by re coating their feveral chafes. This was a very common mode of procedure, but any other he conceived to be altogether irregular. Sir Lawestics Paxson' was convinced that this was an extraordinary cafe, which might juilify an extraordinary procedure. The former forms of the Houfe with regard to the • printing of A.!ts re ferred only to the Parliament of Great Britain, and fo far they were evidently founded in pro priety, but they were not applicable to the (Lames of Ireland, of which the Englith Members could have no previous information. There was indeed one copy of them contained in a box, to which Gentlemen might refer, but this mode of refer ence would be tedious and ineffedual. He could not conceive then that it could he far out of order in the Houle to determine that a particular Aft, paled in the filler kingdom, lbould be printed for the life of Members. If the noble Lord had therefore no objeaioa, he Mould conclude with moving, that the two Alts to which he had alluded, thoold be printed, and laid before the Houle. Sir nil' hatiaterfcrsd au l laid, that-this mot;on teas gtuu irr, A ulat, fince, ley t 1 c firms th,: all ilat!ttec t crc ;*oppolcd already to tbe tablt of the Hritif-_!. Sir JMIN Sr:CIATR thom A ht the appniat ment of a Committee woulfl34,4fver all the purpofes pro poled, and svoit.d o the objefaions againli the tw)tiim in it . pre lent fornt. ItypEß a g reed as to the propriety of oh twining the greatell pi:Oilfic information on the fibjea, bat apprehended the motion would p r o. duce dangerotrt mconveuience. fie illtiftrated hill Itrtlier the idea fyggetled by ttie Speaker, that all acts were fuppnled to he in the hands of Menthe: s. and concluded by hating that, though the l bad, : could not order the priming of the AR., tll t 1.4 • might be priv:ttely printed, and fold lot the mi. of Manlius. This hint being approved fd by the the motion vats demo le withdrawn. The report of• the Mule Duty Bill wa, and ordered to he read a third time on Monday. The report of the Coniniitt;c on the P r o w illi w y Note Bill was received, the refiduti'n•.:r;recd to, and the Bill ordered to be read a ail,' rime on Monday next. On the report of the Committee on the Poll Office Bill, Mr. Jos ss moved, as a claufe, that the weight allowed to Members franks be increared to three ounces. He laid the great demand for fine linen for wounded foldiers occafioned paper to be made of coarfer rags, and confcry neatly it weighed more. and members had not the fall advantage propofed. Mr. Rosa and Mr. Bo irroti oppofed the clank; Mr. ROBINSON and Mr. PIERRE rotwr fupportcd it. Mr. W. DUNDA S laid, he had heard nothing in its behalf, but that the wounded foldiers conlitmed too many fine linen rags, which was a wretched and mifcrable argument. Mr. JONES raid, he did not think there were five Members of the Ho. Gentleman's opinion ; nor five that did not reprobate the occafion of the fol. diem being wounded in this dreadful and terrible war. The Houle divided on receiving the claun— Ayes 2 t--Noes 93--Majority 72. A long converfation took plact on a motion to take into cow - itration the fecond Report of the Committee on the high Price of Provifiens. Mr. SHERIDAN did not think it conformable to-the ufage of the Houle, to defeat a motion by counting out the Heufe. He wifhed this meafttre to be difcitifed. That part, at leall. that :elated to cottagers, he entirely adopted ; if it were only to induce great landlioldcrs to grant the poor (mall portions of land to increafe their comforts in fome degree. Mr. Ryon' and Mr. WILDFRFORCE were for the motion; Mr. HOBHOUSE and the SOLICITOR GENERAL againfi it. The Houfe divided on the quellion—Ayes 3o—?does 37.1 —Majority 7. Shortly after the Houfe was counted out.—Ad journed to Monday. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH 7. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DkY AT ONE O'CLOCK : - -- -- _ Confab sst f —for Acc..rt 7 ,. 5 per Cent. oti—Omnium 1 i prim. PRICE OF 31 OCKS YES fIRDAY : 3 per Cert. Red. fltut lrip. 3 per C. tsif 3 per C. Conf. y 3.11 1 I Imp. Ann. so 13-04 4 per et nt. Coal: MA ludic Bonds as. dif. 1 per C. Navy9ol 911 Exchequer bills ts. a. Loyalty Out Cunf. for April 534 i 4 I Omni= fur Km 1; i } We are exceedingly happy to announce, and we have no doubt that all our Readers will cor dially participate in our feelings, that his NIA) lyres indifpofition is now fo far abated, as to give great reafon to hope that he will loon be rcitored to per felt health. The following is the Phylicians re port of this day : " %nut's noon, 'MARCH 7. " His MAJESTY'S fever is fo much abated as " to give the fairea profped of his fpeedy re " covery. (Signed) "T.O I S DORN E. " T. R. ar.vmosos." In addition to the information which we gave yeßerday refpeeling the taking of Batavia, we lay before our Readers the following article copied from the Dud& Evening Ni of the 3d infant, re ceived this morning : Extratt of a letter from New York, dated Jan. 3r,t Ro t We have juft received intelligence, in about three months from Calcutta, that the Bri tifh fquadron, with the aid of the I 2th regiinent, had captured the Dutch fettlement of Batavia, in the island of Java." Yelicrday we flopped the profs to give a few extrats from the French Journals, a reties of which, up to the 3d inclulive, we received at a late hour in the afternoon. The dcflination of Ad mind Gat: T HIACIPIR'S fquadron is now no longer a fecret. He has entered the Mediterranean; and, as he palled Gibraltar in the day time, Sir ROBERT CALDER was no doubt Coon apprifed of his definition ; and timilar intelligence would be fpeedify tranfmitted to the different Rations of the Britifh fhips of war. An official letter of Gas. inlays% to the Minifter of the Marine, dated i February to, off Cape de Gatti, on the coaft of Spain between Malaga and Carthagena, the prin. cipal heads of which we gave yefterday, and whi c h will he found at full length in this day's pa per, contains a circumstantial narrative of the progrefs of the fleet front the time of its failing up to the above date ; but the French government mutt have received difpatches three days later, as two paragraphs in the ilesiteir, which follow GAISTMSRUMeS letter, bring the egOCeCdingi aid the Beet dowa to the isth. Admiral GANT r - , :7ftzr ftraaining a nieff levcre !form, which 2.11-t..*: 4.Cperfed his feet, had found ; then r gain. He even experienccd faficefs, for he has captured r f war—the Is- C}YDIIKY, el I L Lid t...y G2.I.THE iUME 10 have lwen Sir J. WARE FN to dog them— the SPR IC:I i'LN 1:!* 12 guns, coming home wi7h difp.neh,:s fiiirn Lord KIIT3--and the St c ci se ig.,te i , f 32 guns, which was in the Medi. iertiirean. '1 I:rench exaggerate the force of thefe different It is not (latc.'. whctlic r ary anion had taken previous to the capture of' GAN rtil'At'Mr mentions, in his (r.7n way, the anion between , he Com coenr, Eng:ifh fr:ritc, And the Britvolirc, Frehch, in which the later hill 1,2 men killed, and 24 wounded. There ;; a re port in the jin.2np! ,P 2 Commorr of :he 27th, that GAN't if I.AUPI E had been chafed into Toulon, but this is cxprefsly contradieted by 0:2'7 , 41)7ra! de De .filfirtrs, and appeared previous to the publication of the official difpatch. There feems no doubt that Egypt is the place of GaNTHEAUML's deftination. The French Govern ment, however the.: may afk& fecurity, are not quite at cafe refpceting the army there. They are particularly ansiousleft,on thearrival of our forces. divifion fhould arife, and the troops Ilipulate the evacuation of the country for leave to return to their homes, for which they figh. A curious letter on• this fobjca, dated Conilantimple, the loth of - February, we have extraded from the Moniteur. ' There arc feyeral letters from Spain refpeeng the deigns of the Fre:kch Government aglinft Por tugal. Every effort is employed to bring the Court of Madrid to confent to the meafures of the Con fulate. Some accounts fate that a Refolution to declare war has actually been adopted: The French army in the neighbourhood of Bourdeaux conti nuer to :amble. General Sr. CYR, by whom it is to be commanded, has arrived there, with a number of Officers. Count CC ,EI T7E I. has arrived at Paris, but without any diplomatic charaaer, whi h, indeed, he could not have till the ratification of the Treaty. Letters from Vienna of the 16th February, leave no doubt that Tx v our is at 'aft wholly removed from confid2nce as well as from place. He is go. ing to live at Cracow. The French Government has come to a refolm tion to fund fume uutftanding debts of the years 5,6, and 7, amounting to about four millions fte ding, at the rate of 3f per cent. A million of livres of perpetual Annuities, at the rate of 5 per cent. is to be created in exchange for what is called the Deux Tifr: Mil:lips of the public Debt. Thirty millions (of livres) of the tiers provilidra is to be addA to the public debt idthe,fourfe of the prefent year, at the rate of 5 per cent. To the value of ISo millions (of lirres) of national property, is to he difpofed of for the expence of public instruction, and the fupport of invalids. There is to he mired tao millions (livres) by the falc of national property ; of this 20 millions for the !aft to for the prefcnt year, the rest to go to the finking fund for extingnifhing the national debt, There financial operations, by throwing a new weight on the funds, seem to have occafioned that deprellion which has taken place. The litre cosi. feßdis on the 2d March left off at s 6. They had been 54 and 55. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. This evening an ettra Li&on Mall will be trade up at the Pat Office, for the con veyarte of which a packet is n ow at Fai• mouth, with ceders to fail as tom as the nun arrives there. DARTMOUTH, MARCH s.—Arrived le Vengeur, French lugger privateer, of St. Maloes, of 2 fwi. yds, t 6 =Acts, and fcven men, taken off the Start, by the SWAN cutter. TORBAY, MARCH s.—Sailed the VILLA Da PARIS, SAN Jour, WINDSOR CASTLE, and CMSARp with the MEGXRA fire.lhip, to join the Channel Fleet; alfo the AUTON! I lA, Capt. Currts, for the Ead-Indies.--Wind S. E. PLYMOUTH, MARCH s.—Came in the Anna Catherina, of Stockholm, Capt. W. LAVREL. from St. Michael's, bound to London, laden with oranges; detained, on the Id infant, by the JOSEPH, hirecLcutter, of t 2 guns, near the Lizard; alfo the VALIANT logger, of 14 gun% Lieutenant MAIN/ILL, from a cruise.—Sailed the Lord Net. fon privateer, of to guns, Capt. Geasom, on a cruizc; and the Istraruruz, of 78 guns, Captain Sir E. PILL TW, to join the Fleet. PORTSMOUTH, Matto' 6.—.. Arrived laft evening the ELL NAN T, of 7 guns, Captain Fog, sr, from a cruise.—TMs day arrived la Loma, Captain Naw st AN , and the Jasox, Captain YortlCs.—Bailed the HAZARD Coop, with a convoy for 'rebind. The Ticket No. t 9,060, drawn yellerday a Pritc of soool. was fold in one Half, one waiter, and fuur Sixteenth Shares, by Hoboes and Co. No. 149, Oxford-kree•, and No. 44, St. James's. fireet i where 'rickets And Shams (warranted un. drawn) will continue on Sale every Morning and Evening during the Drawing. The Ticket No. 35,443, drawn this day a prize of wool. was fold by J. BRANSCo>,e, Propriety, of the Lucky Lottery Office, No. is, Holborn, in one Eighth, and fourteen Sixteenths, where rockets and Shares of Tickets are now felling in great va. riety of numbers, warranted =drawn, and aa cheap as at any Litenced Witt in Laotians