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sT. ANNE'S HILL. 'Phi. , day was pliblithed, price ,ss. Dedicated to the Honourable C. J. Fox, illuttrated by a 'kV/ of St. Anne's Hill, elegantly engraved by Powsui, ST. ANNE'S HILL. A POEM. 1 .-/ Primed for the Author, and fold by J. Driven, oppofite Burl:raw Heade, Piccadilly; and P.. Winton, Chertfey. Of whom may be had, Mr. F 0 2 ./ Letter to the worthy and independent Electors of Nif.ntminlia, 16th Edition, price Is. " Of the contacts of a lettet which has commanded fuels ge alma attention, 'as to have arrived at the eighth edition before we could have an opportunity of pervflug it, few of our readers can need to be informed. On the glutinous author, whole name will be dear to Britons as long as the true principles of their con stitution ire nude:Rood, and their moft important rights eond tine to be valued, it is wholly unnecelTary for us to attempt a rallegrr:C."--Mmthl.yßroiry, Feb. 5799- PIHKERTON's HISTORY OF SCOTI.AND UNDER THE HOUSE OF STUART. This da ( T i v . tas publifhed, In Two Volumes. uarto , Price T wo Guineas, r rHE HISTORY O SCOTLAND , from the -a- Acceillon orate Houle of STUART to that of MARY. With Appendixes of Original Papdrs. By JOHN PINICERTON. Printed Ibr J. Mawniah, fueceffor to Mr. Dilly, Poultry. ••• This Work comprifesa period of one hundred and fevcnty scan, from A. D. 1311 to 1542. From original papers and records, innumerable fads have been introduced unknown to all former writers; and the reign of f ames V . is almo ft wholly compofed from the letters of the chief adtcm. The Author's Enquiry into Scottillt Hi story preceding the year loth—The Annals of &Miami by . Sir David Dalrymple, Lord lialles,l9o4l7i.—The prefeht Work—Dr. Robertfon's iviary and pun.- ./..3--cotnpiete she au thenticated Hiftory of Scotland vitinica feparate Kingdom. • A skilful judge has allured me, after a perufal of the manna feript, that it contains mare new and authentlek information, than could be fairly expeded from a Writer of the eighteenth century." Gibbon, Mile. Works, Vol. ii. p. mt. RIVER POLICE. Tills day was publiihed, In One Viume (Mau°, price cos. 6d. in boards, with an co:raved CHART of the RIVER THAMES, jOk TREATISE on the COMMERCE and POLICE of the RIVER THAMES: Containing an Hillorical View of the TRADE of the PORT of LONDON; the Depredations committed on all Property imported and exported there ; the Remedies hitherto applied; and the means of future Prevention, by a complete Syltem of RIVER POLICE. With in Account of the Jurifdidtion of the various Corporations and Magiltrates on and near the River: and a general Abftrait of the Penal and Remedial Statutes conceited with the Subject. By P. COLONHOUN, LL.D. ler The above Volume is a Second Part or Conclufton of the TrQuife on the Police of the Metropolis : it contains a Detail of the Depredations of all kinds committed on the River • and of the Rik and Eftablifhment of the Marine Potice-Ofie ; an !Abadan which has been found highly beneficial in detecting and preventing thole Depredations. The Nature of the Jarff didion of his Majefty ;--cd the Corporation of London, the iliity-xoure, the Weft-India Dock Company, the Boards of Cultoms and Excife, and of Jolliet, of Peace for the Counties and Places adjoining the River, in refttaining and puniking Offences, is fully detailed and explained. The Wet Dock Ad, and a great number of other Statutes, eltablifhing internal Re gulations on the River, as well to the Welt as to the Eaft of London Bridge: as alto fuch Ails as regard Seamen, Ship 111altc..s, and Ship-Owners in general, will be here found ab.,4ed and arranged; for the purpok of conveying the waft ic information, not only refpedting the Rules of the Port of London, but fuch as mull prove barrelling to nautical Per font in every Part of the Kingdom. Printi.id for J. Mawman, (Sweeter to Mr. Dilly) in the Pantry. Of whom may he had, The Sixth Edition, in One large Volume, Odavo, Price cos. id. in Boards, of • Mr. COLQIIHOUN's TREATISE on the POLICE of the METROPOLIS. FRANuE. ARMY OF OBSERVATION OF THE SOUTH• JOACHIM MURAT, LIEUTENANT-GENTRAL, AND COMMANDER IN CHIRP OF THE ARMY OF OB SERVATION. _ • HeaclAbarten as Legborn, Jan. 30. " On the return of the French to Leghorn, they found in the warehoufes of that city Legh orn, and Imperial property to a very great amount. The Minifter Psrisr, by his decree of Nov. 14, confirmed the fequeftration laid upon this property, which had become effentially French property by the laws of W3T, and the renewal of hoftilities between the armies of the French Re- I public and thole of the Emperor. one had I authority to releafe or alienate this property ; and if any part of it has been rearmed, without ac countingto the French Agents, it mull have been through negligence. - It is of the greateft importance, that the or ders I have received on this fubjeft fhould be car ried into execution, •as the produce of the effells taken from the enemy, will ferve to relieve the Tufcan people from the extraordinary expenses wl.ieh the French Government never had any in tention of making them defray, and to pay the price of the Corn furnifhed by the friends of France. " Cio/en B ILLS, Comm i irary-General of the Commercial Relations of the French Republic In Tufcany, is therefore authorized to adopt what means he may think fit in execution of there mei fares, and to call in the Alliance of the armed form whenever it may be neceffiry. The General commanding the French troops at Leghorn, will hold at the difFofal of the faid Commdfary. fuch Detachments and Officers as he may require, in order to lay on fequellratinns, place teals, feize effeas, rad AM at the public Sales which fhaU be made, according to the legal forms. a All natives of England, without exception, now in Leghorn ' ( hall leave it in fi x hours after the publication of this order, and the 'Paean ter ritory in ten days, under the pain of being con duited beyond the Frontiers by the armed force. Paffports Platt be delivered to them to fecure their perfonal Cafety. Their families than enjoy the j Fame adtantages, and be treated with all the at tention prectibed by humanity. a All letters and parcels from England, Ire. land, Hamburgh, or ony other Country, addref fed to the Merchants on whole vrarehoufes teal, may have been placed, as well as on the Englifh commodities found at Le ghorn , . !hall be delivered to Citizen fist.t.zrtezz. The Poe-maller (hall be perfonxily rcfponfible fir the execution of this order. Tufcans, Ligurians, Frenchmen, and Cor. refpondents of the Powers of Algiers, Tunis, and TripoN, ellablithed at Leghorn, regard this mea furc as refulting only from the bad faith of our common crixmles, and as diaated by your own in. terea, and the defire of preventing the Englifh from luring yen, by blocking up this port, and from any long& progsistg by the means they em ploy, not only to recover their property, but. alto to relieve themfelves and their friends from the burdens which they have entirely thrown upon you. Unite then to fecond the intentions of the French and Tufcan. Governments. Furni(h Citi zen BELLEVILLE, and the Deputies at Leghorn, with declarations which will ferve to difcov..r ene my's property. Do not incur the penalties to which thofe will fubjed themfelves who refute to com ply with this :mature, or who Ilan deliver in falfe declarations. The greater the produce of the ar ticles fold, the more will your own burthens he diminifhed, and the great price you will receive for the fupplies of corn demanded from you. Thus your perfonal interell is necelFarily confolidated with that tit the army which defends your territory, and will feenre your tranquility. (Signed) "P 4 RAT." The above Proclamation was accompanied by two others ; the firft on the part of General Mt/- RAT and the Tufcan Government, prohibiting the exportation from Leghorn by fea or land, or the removal from one houfe to another, of any other mercantile articles than Corn, until the 4th of February, under the penalty f feizure and con fifcation : the fecond on the part of Citizen Br tz- VILLE,• ordering declarations refpefting Englifh and Imperial property to be delivered in within twenty-four hours, under a penalty, 'Should the declarations be in any refpc'l falfc, of ten times the value of the article omitted.. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. CoNsTAN TIEDE LIJA No I 604 . 11 e SEll, about mid night, a Have contrived to enter the French prifon, and tabbed three Frenchmen as they lay ahleep, two of whom died on the fpot ; he then plunged a dagger into his own bread, bnt without confldera ble etc& ; he was executed next morning. The fubjedl of converfation here, for there feve ral days pail, has been A quarrel, which is Paid to have broken out in the army of the GRAND VIZ E a, between the Janiifaries and Alhanians,and is which this Commander is Rated to have been in the ut molt danger. It was even reported that he had actually been affaffinated. The averfion of die troops of Tripoli, in Syria, to their PACK*, like wife proceeded to fuch a height that they refuted to obey his orders. The GRAND VIZIER, on in veliigating the caufes of this infubordination, cafhiered the PAC HA. Txousa Pacma, charged with the purfuit of the brigands in European, Turkey, has fucceeded in taking fome of them, who were instantly be- headed. The head of cne of the fame band was lately lent to this city, and immediately exhibited on'the gate of the Seraglio. Timm, Fee. 7.—ln virtue of a decree of the French Confuls, the almoft impregnable fortrcfs of Tortona is to be demolilled. Gs mos, Ft a. 4.—General MURAT is at Leghorn, and has ordered all the natives of England to quit the. place in two hours, and the Tufcan territory in three days; he has fequefterated all Britilh and Imperial property : it is rumoured at Florence that the 4000 Ruffians, who are at Naples, have taken polka - ion of the principal parts of that capital, alledr,ing, that their Sovereign being at war with the Englith, his enemies ought not to be admitted into any of the ports of his Sicilian Majcay. BERLIN, Fes. 4.—The King is alrooll always fhut up in his clofet ; he feldont goes to the play or to the concert. It is faid there is a quellion of driving the Turks back into theirAfiatic Provinces, but it is generally undertlood here, that our Go. vernment will itrenuoully oppofe the projeft ; Come, who have a right to be well informed, pre tend, that if Auflria and Rana coalefce for that purpofc with France and Sweden Pruffia will' , form 4 counter-alliance with England and the Porte. Brant, Jar. 3o. —In confequence of an edi& of the Government, all the decayed trees of liber ty were rooted up on the 26th inllant. There is only one now Rending. During this operation feveral groupes of people affembled in different quarters of the city. and paraded the ftreets, ex prefling the fatisf a with which they viewed the fcene. This circumflance fomewhat alarmed the Government, and all the military ports were immediately reinforced. In the prefent Date of affairs, the petition of General Weiss could not but confiderably increafe the boldnefs of the mal contents. The Municipality of this city likcwite (hew tome lymptoms of a refraaory difpofitioi.. They lately railed a finall corps at their own expence, which they Rationed at the different points where the troops of the line were formerly accullomed to mount guard. This proceeding, with tome others of the fame nature, have at laft attrated the at tention of the Executive Council. Troops have been marching from feveral points for Berne. Since the 27th, four Pundned infantry and two ,hundred cavalry have already arrived, in addition to which we expert a battalion of Frenchmen, and tome Helvetic corps. The Municipal guard will be immediately difhanded. VIENNA, Fe a. IMPFRIAL MAJESTY 1155 appointed the Majors General Harromcouar, Lusectiss, and O'BRADY, a celebrated foreigner, to be Field Marfltals. It is confideresl here as certain, that a firong French Army will loon I make its appearance in this neighbourhood, on its march v•svards Turkey, through Hungary, for the purpofc of forming a junftion with the Ruffians land the troops of PAS SWAN OG LOU. AWCICTORT, Fro. I3.—A Deputation of the Empire for attling the affairs of Germany, to be nominated by the Diet of Ratifbon, has been for Come time the fubjea of debate ; hut, according to the most recent intelligence, it has been flipu lated between France. Pruftia, and Aultria, that there &all be no deputation ; that the conditions of Peace (hall be ftipulated by theft Powers, af terwards propofed by the Eversion to the Ger manic Diet, and fupported by the K eve of PiVs. ,a, and the Treaty of Peace figned when the votes of the different States (hall be given at Ra tilbon. This manner of treating will abridge very much the negot;ation, and avoid the trdivul nets of a Congrefs. PARLIAMEIVT4Rr PROCEEDINGS. HOME OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. as. The Loan 818, and Bei Sidney Smith's Patton Bill were read athird time, and pallid. A Writ was ordered ha the eleCtion of a Reprtfentative for the Borough of Downpatriek, in Ireland, in the room of the Honourable Ckstworthy Rowley, who has accepted the office of CoourtilTioner fur Computations. Sir Wre. ELLIOT prefented, purfuant to order, few- ral ac counts relative to the hipences of the Navy, Sal.,;:es of Offi cers. &e.--Ordered to lie on the table. Sir Wm. Etr.ior tarn moved roe leave to bring in a Bill for the refutation of the Marine Forces when on lbore..--Leave granted. The Committee of Supply and Ways and Means were de ferred to Friday—the other orders of the day till to-morrow. leave of abfence was granted to the following Members : Sir Wharton Amretts, on account of indifpolition, for lix weeks ; Sir James St. Clair Erfkine. for Le weeks ; Lord Gal way, for three weeks; Sir Michael le I'leming,fur three weekk; and Marrs. Jekyll, Sturgefs, and Newbolt, to go the Wellern Circuit. Mr. Astor? gave notice, that he Sauk! to-morrow move for the appointment of a Rending Conuoittec, to confider of the belt means of promulgating the &slut" throughout all parts of the United kingdom. Mr. Bit AGGE brought op the Report of the Committee on the Exchequer Ellis Bill, which was agreed to, and the lilt ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. . - Ordered on the motion of Mn ALLARDVCC,that there ihould be laid before the Knife an account of the grafi amount of the Receipts of the Poft-othcc of Scodand in the years 1798, 5799, and z Soo, dißinguidting each ?car. Mr. BRAGoE brought up the Report of the Com mittee out the Bill for increafing the Field Officers of the Irith Militia. _ Lord BEL as AV a laid, that underflanding an Ho nourable Baronet intended, in the progrels of the Bill before the tioufe, to fuggeft .the propriety of introducing fome provilion to fecure half-pay to the Surgeons of the Militia, he rofe to Rate, that when ever the Hon. Baronet fhould think proper to bring forward any meafare to that purpofe it fhould haVe his hearty fupport. According to the exifting law, Majors and Adjntants only, on that eitabliflunent, were entitled to half-pay, and he thought the abi lity, and the laborious attention fo necefrary in Surgeons to preferve the health of the men, had the flrongeß claim to the confideration propofed. He conceived it advifable, . however, that fuch Surgeons only fbould be granted half-pay as fhould be recommended by the Lord Lieutenant of the county to which the regiment might belong. That waa proper, in order to prevent undeferving per fons from obtaining it—The. Report was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third tune to-morrow. POOR RIILIEF SILL. Lord Was. RUSSELL rofe to bring forward his promifed motion. The neceffity of a meafure to releafe a certain clefs of perfons from the Poor's Rates was, he Paid, in the precut erifis, very well known. To procure that relief was his objea. He faw no neceffity for dwelling on the obvious policy of affilling the induitrious Poor, whole laudable and honeft pride urged them rather to earn their bread by the fweat of their brow, than depend on the contributions of public charity. Should the Honk agree to his motion, his with was, that the Bill be read a firft time, and on the fecond read ing Gentlemen might difcufs its merits, and if no thing inconfiftent with found policy or fubftantial .jultice fhould appear in the principle of the Bill, it might be committed, and undergo fuch modifica tions as fhould be confidered aeceffary. The ob- Met of the Bill he meant to propofe was, to invert agiftrates with a power to relieve fuch perfons from paying the rates as fhould appear to them deferring of fuch exemption, but to guard againft the alsufe of that difcretionary power, that fuch relief fhould be confined to thole who paid under a certain rent, not over Sl. or thereabouts, and that they fhould make affidavit of their incapacity to pay the Poor's-rates, in order to obtain relief. He concluded with moving for leave to bring in a Bill accordingly. • Sir Criaatts BUNIURY feconded the motion. Mr. Ross faid he would be extremely lorry to objed to any meafure calculated for the relief of the Poor, whole fufferings he fincerely lamented ; but was much afraid the Bill propofed by the No ble Lord would; if adopted, be attended with dif ficulties in the execution which would more than counterbalance any advantages that were likely to accrue from it. It would inflid a grievous burthen on the Magiftrates, and arm them with a power inconfiftent with the fpirit of the Poor Laws ; and would hold out an invitation to the Poor to come forward with their affidavits. He wifhed much for fome pradicable meafure to attain the end pro poled by the Noble Lord. Mr. JOLLIFFE walled the Bill fhould, after its firft reading, be printed, in order that the Houle might have an opportunity of examining its merits. Mr. PERCIVAL objetted to the meafure in the Rate in which it was prefented. The Committee on the High Price of Provifions was particularly engaged in examining the fubjet, and he thought it would be better if the Noble Lord would attend that Committee and Rate his plan, it might be made the ground-work of fome provifion complete ly calculated to meet the evil complained of. Such a proceeding would be likely to produce a more comprehenfive and Metter digeftcd projed. At all events, the Hoare fhould wait the events of the in quiries which occupied the Committee, before they eonfented to enad the law propofed by the Noble Lord. Lord Wm. Russets. explained, that the effect apprehended by the Hon. Gentleman could not well be produced, as all the circumllances of every cafe would be confidered by the Magidrates. Mr. thought the Bill nnnecelTary, as in fad the with officers already exercifed the' very difcretion which the Noble Lord's Bill pro pored to place in the hands of the magifirates, and which he thought would place in their hands a very dangerous. power, (however highly he re (petted them). and change the very nature and operation of the poor laws; betides in many pa fifties of the metropolis the number of perfons un able to pay the poor's rates, at prefent was fo .great ; for inilance, 4. 5,6, 7, and 800, that the hearing of appeals would be impradicable in the way proposed. But the parith officers themfelves did, in Inch cafes. exempt thofe unable to pay, by returning to them with one hand what they re ceived with the other. Mr. HOSHOUSE raid, it was a id iff of the Houfe that the diftrefs did calf{ 't9 alarming degree, which the Bill of tbi: Noble Lord was intended to relieve; and if any evidenee was wanting to the fa/I, the declaration of rile worthy magiltrate was in proof. The neceffity of the was therefore obvious ; and he had heard no reafous which could diffuade him horn fupport. ing it. There was no reafon, in fiis mind, for appealing from the interells of this Houle to the wifdom of a Committee above. Baits, upon to preffing a fubjeet. Sir W. ELFORD faid, there was no doubt but the diflrefs csifted, and the quellion was, whethe.r it ought to be made a fubj:it of legiflatire provi. lion, when the fame relief was now afforded fib F. Indio? He would not, however, oppofe the firfl Rage of the Bill brought forward by the Nobk Lord in fo commendable a manner. Mr. SRAW LEYRYRR objected to the power which would bi given to magiftrates of ;itterfer ing, inftead of ailing conjointly with the Oyu-- feers of the Poor upon fuch occalions. He admit. ted that the poorer defies of houfekecpers were in a very lamentable (tate ; but the pratlite now w.,1 to relieve fuch indigent perfons on the recommen dation of the Veftry. The confequence of fuel, vet mmendations was, that either no demand was made, or, if made, the money was afterwards re turned. Another thing that would imp e de :he praCticability of the Bill - was, that in Come placei the rates were impofed upon the whole, and in others upon rack-rents. Mr. Et tisom declared that he felt difpofed to concur in any prudent and praCticable mode ofre lief ; but the country had already fuffered fo much by precipitate meafures, that he thought the pre fent thould at leap be deferred until there was a more accurate enquiry. In the firft place, he'ap prehended no Magiftrate would with to undertake fo fufpicious a duty as that of deciding on the per- Cons who were to be the objetts of relief, which would expofe them to the odium of all the other poor who may be difappointed by the telethon of their applications; and, at the fame time, it would - be arming them with a power which the Legilla tore was always ftudious to withhold from them. The objed of the Bill was undoubtedly good, lour its principle was vicious, as the different orders of the poor were fo blended, that it was matter of ex treme difficulty to relieve one without at the fame time finking another. He therefore was for refer. ring the fubjed for further confide:shin. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR contended that this Bill would rather cafe the Magiftrates than load them with additional trouble. If a perfon was now fummoned as a defaulter to the poor rates, heap. plies firft to the Magiftrates, and afterwards ap peals, Qsould he be diffatisfied with the firft deci fion. The neceffity of the cafe was fo urgent, that the Houfe could not wait for the Report of its Committee; and the more, as he could prove that the evil was every week increafing. As to the expediency of the meafure, therefore, there could be no difference of opinion, though the ex. tent of the Bill; and the time of its duration, may afford matter for difcuffion. Sir Rossar BUXTON was of opinion that lime meafure, fuch as that propofed, was ncceffitry, although he thought, at the fame time, that it would better to refer it to the Committee abo e hairs. Lord WILLIAM Russsia. had no objeCtion to referring it any where, if the meafure was adopt ed. He objeCted to delay; the meafure would lofe its efficacy, if it was not adopted before Fal ter ; for at that time applications are made by the Overfeers to the Jullices for warrants to diftrefs the goods of thofe perfons who. are in arrears. He had no objeCtion to refer it to the Committee above Rainy, if they would make a fpeedy Report - on it. The StrAlttll recommended force farther in. ftnietion to the Committee than merely the words of the Motion. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR requelled his Noble Friend not to withdraw his Motion. He advifed the Houfe to permit the Bill to be read a firil and fecond time, and to be printed for the information of Members, who would then judge whether it was expedient to pats it, or to refer it to the Com mittee. Mr. BAKER wifhed the Motion to be withdrawn. He did not think there was any neceffity for the Bill, for the Magiftrates had already fufficient powers to remedy the evil complained of, and Magiftrates do now acl fo as to anfwer every requi. iite end of the propofed mcafure. If an Ovcrfeer infifts upon a Magiftrate to grant a warrant of diftrefs, it was true that he could not refufe it, although he was certain of the perfon's inability to pay. But how was this to be reclined I He had done feveral times, what he 'should now recom mend to other Magiftrates—allow the Overfeers to take the goods, but when the poor perfon comes to him for relief, he would order him in return three times what' was taken from him, if the urgency of the fituation required it. He fa* no reafon for fuch Bill, therefore, unlefs Magilhates did not mean to do their duty. Mr. Roasox Caw the utmoft neceffity for the Bill, and urged the Noble Lord to perfevere in his Motion. Mr. SHAW Ls RRRRR thought that it would be very proper to follow the recommendation of the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Taylor) to have the Bill read and printed. Lord WILLIAM Russet'. denied an affertion advanced by Mr. Lefevre, that Magiftrates had at prefent the power of exempting poor houfe keepers from the poor rates. He mentioned that a Magiftrate could not under the exifting law re fute a warrant of diftrefs if the Overfeer peremp- torily demanded it. He had no objeclion to refer the Inkjet to the confideration of the Committee alluded to in the debate, provided they made their report fpeedily upon it, as it was neceffary, in or. der to anfwer the purpofe, that the Bill thould pats before Eager, as that was the time the Overfeers made up their accounts. Mr. BRAGG' approved of the idea of referring the bufirtefe to cbaltderation of the Committee. iz The Satal to the Noble Lord the propriety of hail e g g re le ptpofed inftruCtiou to the I •