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HIS MAYSTY's NAVY, ;19 hereby dive - - That on Tocfday the sift inflaut, theywill be ready to receive tenden in writing, (fettled up,) and treat with furl perfons as will undertake the fupply of SEA PROVISIONS and FRA6H BEEF to his Malady's Ships and Veffels at the Idand of Bermuda, for twelve months certain, and further until fig months warning dull given, to t'c paid for by Bills payable with Intereft, ninety days -fief. date. • •-• The Conditions of the Contracts may be feen at the Secretary's Office. No regard trill be bad to soy Tender is which the ' , rialto!! soot k ieferted is awds at leitith,or that Aril apt k dellemed to to Road he jere Ost °Wed ow the _Ail 'ruffle, the 11P ia j fent, Rtr rhlt tie Perlin robe sales the Tender, or lose Perfoa ea bin behalf, ahead,, to asfwer when candler. Nor oda my Tender that etataim extreme. rat Prins afore fore articles, awl firkez such irlerior to Om real mare wpm ober', be moldered ar#reter to be admitted. WEYMOUTH.—FOR SALE BY AUCTION, At the CUSTOM-HOUSE, io this Port. • On 'Midday next, the 7th of Maly, dos, at Jo o'Cloeit in the Forencmoo, THE FOLLOWING:AI-DODS, viz. For Private Families - onry, 4429 Gallons Brandy, • 847 Ditto Rum. , 131 Ditto Geneva. 8 Ditto Wine. 7541bs Tea; 6 Boatels Salt. -- ..•. • Tots! Value. is k 60,0p0 40,000 30,000 15,000 10.000 8,000 1,000 'SA O O s+ ooo no,cco No. of Prizcs. GRAND SPRING LOTTERY. SCHEME. Value of each. 3 0 1 000 10,000 10,000 s,OOO 1,000 1000 .9 00 100 3 0 10 3 14 30 :too 6,000 3opoo Tickets. £ 3 00 :c 0 0 Capitals determinable: Firft-drawn, rR Day £ io,ooo Firft-drawn, 6t5 DayL 10,000 Ditto ad Day aOOO Ditto 7th Dav 20:0 Dftto 3d Day 1000 Ditto Bth Dsy 30 r 000 Ditto 4th Day Joao Ditto 9tb Day 1,000 Ditto sth Day tooo Ditto loth 11., apoo Tickets and shares are felling at every Dike. PRESENT PRICE : Ito 0 0 Is 9 6 3 0 Ticket . - - Half - L 9 15 o Eighth - Quarter - 4 til o I Sixteenth BEGINS DRAWING t3th MAY, tgos. RICHARDSON, GOODLUCR, and Co. refpeet. fully acquaint the Public, that the STATE LOTTERY commences Drawing on Monday week the nth instant. The Tickets and Shares continue on Sale at their Licenced Offices, Bank Buildi4,3,Cornhill, and facing the Gate of the King's Mews, Charing Crots. TEN THOUSAND POUNDS FOR THE FIRST DRAWN TICKET. r i" BISH, Contra Inv for the prefent Lottery, re . (pee - tinily acquaints the Mobility, Gentry, and the public in general, that the Drawing of th • Lottery will begin the t3th of this Month, and 'front the extraordinary Sale that has taken place he Is warranted in ie.ging that •Tickets will be extremely fcarce, and confequently dear, he therefore entreats bis friends to be as early as poffible in their purchafe. Tickets and Shares are felling in great variety at both his old efkablifheii Offices, No. 4. Cornbill and Nok 9, Charing-Crofs, where 6,431, the !aft 20,00 a. ever drawn, was fold in flares, and where all Prizes of the left and former Lotteries are paying in full without any deduetion whatever. TWO THIRTY THOUSANDS, TWO *1 WENTY THOUSANDS. MAY 13, rBO5, FIRST-DRAWN TICKET, TEN THOUSAND POUNDS. TICKETS and SHARES are felling at DRUM. MO 41YS OFFICE, Nn. 63, Fleet-tract, who has paid Half a Million of Money in Pri=es. The Scheme of the prefent Grand Lottery is fuperlatively Rich—more Capitals than former. ly with Twice the Number of Tickets. The laft Lottery, every Ticket was fold before the Drawing was half over, and from the prefent unequalled Demand, It is likely they will be Six or Seven Pounds dearer befcre the Drawing begins, therefore an early put chafe is recommended. ..... •••• Prizes fold at this Office cre now paying in full. STA IT LOT 'TRY CONTAINS 2 Prizes of £30,000 I 3 Prizes of ‘50200 20,0n0 5 2poo 3 moor) , 8 2,000 14 of sect. and others of tool. &c. &e. S WIFT and Co. No. I's, Poul tr y, are f e lli ng the Tickets and Shares of the above Lottery, to begin Drawing the 13th of May. In the hft Lottery, the Ticket No 20,932, a Prize of to.oool. No. 8240, a Prize of tom/ and Nos. 9802 and 16,268, Prizes of !col. were !hared and fold at Swift and Co.'s Office—where No. i 79r, a PliZe of 20,c001. No. 9362, a Prize of 10,C00i. and No. 79pa, a Prize of isool. in the preceding Lottery, were alfo fold in Shares. AT No. 44, ST. JAMES-8 TR E ET, AND z4y, OXFORD STREET. 'HODGES and CO. Stock Brokerr, are felling the Ticket, and Shares of the prefect Grand Lottery (to begin drawing the ,th of next Month) in goat variety, at the lowett Rrices, and they talc :he liberty to remark that the Scheme is much Riche• in Capital Prizes, than in any former Lottery of fo few Tickets," eiremn'tariee that has already canted fo great a de mand for Tickets and Shares, that it is highly probable they will he all fold before the Drawing commences, confequently the price will be much advanced, they therefore recommend an early At the above Oki:e.4 within the laft three Years,Capital Prizes •s'nonnting to upvrards of t to,nnol. have been fold and lhared. ',• Prizes to any Amount paid on Demand, and Government •ecurties bought and fold. STATE LOTTERY, BEGINS DRAWING MONDAY t3th MAY. ['HE Tickets are fold and divided into Halves, Qya.ters, Eighths, and Sixteenth., by HAZARD, BORNE, and Co. ?'oils-broken, at their State-Lottery Office, No. 93, under the Royal Exchange. Loodon, and no where clic On their account. Letters, part Nit!. (liar anfwered , and Sehants gratis. THl' OCHEME CONTAINS Two Hies of goocol— i'wo of schocol —Three of 10,0001. Three of s,oool—Five of zoo:A—Fight of zpool— Foetrteen of sod. &c. Eta. and the lowtit Prise zoL In the Lae LOUCTV, No. 8 ols, a Prize of zt,osol. was fold and - rxiftered at the aitove Ofrice, where No. 19,333. scoot. and z 0.747. anl at0,7 1 :7. Prizes of wool. were fold In Shares. . • • Country Order., accompanied with !bort dated Bills on London, Polt-Olike Orden., or Cads, M Parcel by Coach or Car pundoally a•moded to; and Corr , fror.dcnts may dcpcnd pn Wag treated azzetly on the fame corms as if perfetially patent. . FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTiON, • ,At tke London Tavern, Fotbole.ftreet, Plymouth, •-••• ' On Friday next, the loth of May, at ten o'clock In the forenoon * (Purfuant to die direetions of the Commifflooers for SONO Prizes), THU FOLLOWING GOODS, viz. /1,020 OX and COW HIDES, in the Hair; 40 Bala, containing aOOO DRY HORSE HIDES; And 464 TANNED HIDES. Part of the Cargo uf theSpanills /sip NOSTRA SENORA JOE LA REGLA, alias EL MERCURIO, (detained on her voyage from Montevidea to Cadiz, by His Majefty's Ship PHOINIX, THOMAS BA I ER, Efq. Captain).. •They are of a remarkable good quality; and being the only remaining likies in this port for fele, arc parti cularly recommended to Tanners and others. Alfa, the beautiful frigate-built Ship NOSTRA SENORA DE LA REGLA, alias EL MERCURIO. • . • AChittafuring 242 Tons. She is American ' Tuppofed . Philadelphia-built; has a Figure-brad, , and is copper-fheathed ;. fie flows a very large cargo, and fails uncommonly Taft—fs particularly calculated for a letter of marque or running dip in the Streights,Weft India, or African Trades, and will rreeqquire no more than a COSMOS Outfit. For Catilagues. Inventories, an/ further information, apply to Peter Tonkin, Erg.. or Mr..roHN HAWKER., Merchant in Plyinouth. A Depolt of 25 per Cent. will be requift4 at the timeof Sale, (In Cad or Bank of • England Notes,) and the remainder before the delivery of the Hides or Ship. Plymouth, April 16, dos. , • . ' .• . • t. SUSSEX Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES, extrmfive MANORS,elegant Mention, Park, and ((went eligible Farms, at Stanfted. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION—By MR. WELLER, At Garraway's Coffee.houte. on Tuefday, the 1I ft of May, 180 S, at Twelve .o'Clotit, • -- THE Magnificent MANSION of STANSTED. -a- with appropriate Offices, very owners= Gardens, .extenfive Walls ' covered with fruit trees ,. Confervatorles, Hot•houte, Pi nery, Suceeffion, Forcing, and Green honks, with the Manor and Park of Stanfted, containing zOOO Acres, fifthly dillinguithed for irs beautiful Scenery, extenfive and diverfified Profpeds, both of Sea and Land—the Park embellifited with oruerneutalTimber, Temples, Lodges, and charming Cottages Ornee, together with the feveral Farms of Lodge, Broad Read, Woodlands, Pond and Grounds,the Canal and Meadow, horfe pafture, and Sindall's Farms, with- the bold and Whitt-Nue Foreft of Stanited, far rounding the Park, amounting •in the whole to upward. of 4754 urns, in an eicellent Rate of cultivation, of which poffeffion may be had inunediately. • • Jn point of fituatfon It appears to embrace every objes that Is defirable—retnarisibly healthy, amply fuppfted with the fineft fpring water, in a neighbourhood highly refpedable, of eafy com munication with the metropolis, at a good diftance from a port town, where feveral coaches paft daily, the roads good. The Eftate and Manors abound with Game, near two capital Packs of Fox Hounds. and in a Country much retorted to for Field Sports. • Defcriptive particulars *ray be bad after the a4th of April, at the Principal Inns of the Adjacent Market Towns, of Mr. Bain bridge, No. 65, Guildford-ftivet; Meffre Bromley, and Bell, Gray's Inn, and Chapter Coffee-I-route, London ; Edward Dawn, Efq. Stanfted; Meffrs. Butler, Havant; and ef Mr. Weller, at his Genual Agency Office, Chieheller. MR. CHRISTIE" has the honour refpeftfully to inform the Nobility and Public, and the Lovers of the Fine Arts in particular, That on Friday May t 7, and a following days (Sundays excepted) he will SELL. by AVCTION, on the Premifes, by Order of the Proprietor, without referee, the mag nificent and truly . vaitiable Colledion of PICTURES, 'the pro. duCtions of the great Artifts of the Britith School, known as the Cole Sion of the SHAKSPEARE GALLERY, for Med under the fpirited direCtions, and with unbounded capenee, by thole promoters of the Fine Arts, the Mars. Boydells.. Bird jultly admired Piet urea, in which the Poetry of our great Bird bas hit-Milted occafinn for a proud difplay of national talent, comprife many of the happieft efforts of fuch deceafed artiits as the immor tal Sir Jofbua Reynolds, Wright of Derby, Hodges, Romney, Ha milton, Wheatley, Kirk, Ramberg,and others—the rarity, as weU as the excellence of works, mutt infure thcM a diftinguifbed place in the collcd'tion of the connoiffeur. Among the fpirited per formances of living genius are the King Lear by Mr. Weft, and various by Barry, Northeote, Opie, Treiham, Fula, Hoppner, Smirk, Stothard, Peters, Rigand, Weftall, Boydell, and A. Kauff man, and that admirable let of Cabinet Pidures, the Seven Ages, by Mr Smirke; • bail . ° renew°, by the Hon. Mrs. Darner, aod the grand Intro rclievo, the Apothcofis of Shakfpeare, by the late Thor. Banks, Efq. R. A. Many of the above Pidores are of the Cabi net Gee, and the remainder will be found worthy *teas for the large faloons of the Nobility and Gentry, or the halls of Incorpo rate B or for exhibitions in dlftant parts of the kingdom.— The Gallery is open till the rtth of May, ft being the lath time 'the public will have an opportunity of viewing it as an entire col- Seaton. Catalogues may be hid u above. SHAKSPF.ART. GALLERY, PALL-MALL. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION—By Mr. CHRISTIE, On the Primifes, on Monday, May 2S, at one o'clock, by order of the Proprietor, without referve, rriOtE capital, fpacions, well•known, and moll defirable LEASEHOLD PREMISES, the SHAESPEARE GALLERY. Pall Mall—being a fubltantial and elegant :tone fronted building, eredled upon a peculiar conftrudtion, and fine proof—comprifing a (parlous Bore room on the ground floor, and a capita! range or three grand exhibition rooms over the fame, 122 feet long by 25 feet wide, with lanthom lky.llghts ; admirably fuited for the purpofe or exhibition or nuEtion rooms, or for any bufincfs where prernifes on an ex:et:dive fcale are req uired. Held for 64 years unexpired, at an cafy ground rent. Particulate may be hod oat the premifes ; at the Rainbow, Combat; and of Mr.' Cl:riffle, in Pall •MaIL STA FPORDSHIRE. FOR POST FIVE and PEREMPTORY SALE BY AUCTION, By Mr. CHRISTIE, At the Great Roca's, in Pall Mall, on Thurfday, May asd, at one o'Clock, ACAPITAL FREEHOLD ESTATE, called SUONAI.L HALL, confining of a Stone built Modern Man Gen, with numerous attached and detached Offices adapted to the Villa and elegant Fcrme Ornee, capital Walled Kitchen Gar den, Hot-hotife. Green-houfe, &c. &c. and Two Hundred and Three Acres of Land of the firit quality in a Ring Pence. diverli fled with Hill, Dale, Wood, and Water, in the happieft Style of Nature. The Manfion is (rated on a bold eminence backed and (bettered by full grown Plantations and riling Grounds from the North, and commanding Profpeets over the Park-like Home Grounds, and so Mite,, in extent over a Fertile, Populous, Healthy, and finely Broken Woody Country,abonnding with Game, fine Roads, Field Sports, and Oentleineb's Seats. The Eftate is fubdi aided by Sunken Fences into convenient Inclofures, and inter. iperfed with luxuriant Clumps and Plantations of large Spreading Fnreft Trees. The Plcafurc Grounds continued through the de- melne WWII, in all the variety of Engin!' Landfcap• Gardening, and terminated by CApmeer, a natural Lake fed by an abundant Stream, and Cgirted by Hanging Oak Woods which are refleeted on it. pellucid furiace of coo Acres, and contranol by the molt en chanting open Views. Taftc, Genius, and Mechanifm, have been molt happily exerted in decorating this charming (pot. Situate two miles from the Market Town of Ecelelliall, adjoin ing to the Cbefter and Mail Coach road from London; nine miles From Stafford, eight from Stone, (and a navization), nine froth Newport and Market Drayton, 31 from Neweaftle, a; from Shrewfbury, 38 from Chcfter, and 140 from London. The Houfehold Furniture, Live and Dead Stock, may be taken at a valuation, and poffeffion of the Pilate may be had imme diately, or in four or fix months, at the option of the purchafer. May be viewed on application at the Manfinn, and printed par tieuhrs to be had of the Printers of the Stafford, Birmingham, Shrcwfbury; Manchefter, Gore's Liverpool, and Wool mer's Exe ter P.,pera ; at the Rainbow. Cornhill; and a Map of the Eftate may he lien at Mr. Crt.twell's, Printer, Bath; Mr. Jolla Futter Arehltal,Livti pool ; and in Pall-MalL PARLIAMENTARr PROCURING& • • HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY,. MAY e I Counfel were further heard relative to tlie Seas Afigal. Cathcart, Bart. u. the Earl if Caltdis, viz. Mr. Clarke as mad deratole length in reply, on the part of the Appellant. Ms fur ther eonfideratiou of. the cafe was adjourned till toinerrow. ' . Several Private aid Return Bills were brought tap faun are Cdmmons, by Mr. Baldwin, the Lord Advocate of Scotland. Ge neral Morgan, and 'other gentlemen, the former of which were feutrally read a firihtime, The further confideradon of Moore's Divorce Cafe was port poned. Tke hills upon the Table, all hf a private or local defcription, were forwarded ,In their refpative Rages ; there were moftly third readings.—After which their Lordarips adjourned till to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, MAY 1. The Bill for the incorporation of Officers of Excite in Scotland, *as read a third time, and paired. Mr. ORATTAN was fworn in, and took his feat. A new Writ was ordered to be nude out for Heiftone, for the e)edlicet of a Member, in the room of John Penn, Efq. who bad accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. • . mem nutmegs. On the motion of Mr. FOSTER, the lriib Loan Bill, the frith Pon Doty Bill, and the BiH to prevent the Counterfeit of Sliver Cain were road a firft and (mad time, and ordered to be com mitted to morrow. The frith Bank Note Bill was withdrawn, and, on the motion of Mr. FOSTER, the Ira Promlffory Note 818 was ordered to be committed to-morrow. Mr. PARNELL, from the Office of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer of Ireland, brought up various accounts, which were or dered to lie ou the table. Ponst LAWS, , Mr. BAKER moved that leave he given to amend an Ad of the crh Geo.!. refpedting tlt• employment of the poor, fo far is regards their lodging and maintenmee by cornered. After a few words from Mr. SHA W LEFEVRE,Sir ROBERT BUXTON, Mr. ROSE, and Mr. WHIT BREAD,leave was given to bring in the fsme. LORD MELVILLI. , On ;he motion of Mr. LF.S rocK, it was agreed, that he carry a Metrage to the Lords dettring their Lordfhips to site leave that Lord Vircount Melville do come to be moaned before the Com mittee of this Houk. The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved, that the Bill for' the Encouragement of Stipendiary Curates be read a fceond time on Monday next, which was agreed to. MR. WHITBASAD'S MOTION. • .Mr. WHITBREAD fignilied, that u use Houk dtd not meet Taco:lay, he ihould poßpone the fubjed of his notice until Mon day wit. in order to give his Honourable Friend (Mr. Sheridan) an opperlonity of introducing to the Houfe the bands which had been let down for yelterday. Mr. LEE.brought up a Bill for the fupply of the market towns of Ireland more effectually with water, which was read a Brit time, ordered to be ptinted, and to be read a fecond time on Mon day next. l, . aaysevE ACCOUNTS rat:' SCOTLAND. Lord HENRY PETTY faid, he bad yelterday given notice of moving for certain papers, relative to the Revenue of Scotland, and as the Houle had not met, be prefumed he mi t,.withotit any in fringement of iegularify,i in s e ' no tion now. fame now. At the time when there aid fo Misty power s ful motives, when fo loud a MT was vocifetited throughout the country to enquire into every abufe, and the foist - cis in whiCh the abufes originated, he believed the papers for which he (hould now apply would be found peculiarly deferving the attention of Parliament. They were immediately connected with the pradice of drawing money by warrants, in anticipation. out of the hands of the Receiver Ge neral: a cuftom, it would be admitted, that was remarkably expofed to abide, and which had Conti nued without interruption to the prefent time- In the Course of eight years, from 1783 to 1790, there had been paid out in this way 186,5091. ; the fame method was continued to a fimilar extent from 1790 to x 797• Thii did not efcape the vigilance of the Committee, in which the Right Hon. the Speaker of the' Houfe of Commons prelided, and therefore they concluded their duties with this important fuggeftinn : that it appeared to the Committee to demand farther regu lations, as there was no limitation in the at of the Civil Lilt or of Privy Seal, with regard to the extent of there warrants ; and they added, that there was no fecurity to the ptiblic how long the pradice might be continued. This cuftom had led to the violation of the Ails concerping the expenditure in Scotland, and of the Statute 22d Geo. 111. commonly called . Mr. Borke's Act, limiting the ceftion of penfinns, in certain cafes, to no& per annum. He in this part of the fubjee, tefetred.to the grant of a penfion to Lord Melville; of 13061. per annum, and to the pay ment of this" annuity the Barons of the Exchequer had been directed to iffue their warrants. If this were in tended to be a donation for lift, the proper mode was to fubmit the affair to the decifion•of Parliament, where the merits of the perfon appointed to enjoy this extraordinary exercife of munificence, might be fully and fairly examined. For the reafons to which he had adverted, and many others too obvious to re quire to be detailed, he lbould move for a variety of papers, with the defign to corred this pradice, and to aflimilate the mode of payment in fuch cafes, to that adopted with the Civil Lilt ; r. " An Account of all Monies paid by Warrants of the Barons of the Exchequer of Scotland, from the 24th December, 1797, to the lateft time to which fuck Account can be made op, fpeeifying the date of each Warrant, the atithority under which it was iffued, the purpofe to which it was applied, the perfon or perform on whofe account it was paid, and whether the money to defray it were from his Majelty's Royal Revenue, or from the Public Re venue." 1. " An Account of his Majefty's Refereed Revenues, from the fame period to the prefent time, Rating the annual r eceipts, and fpecifying the arrears of land-rents, which ars fettled or dif charged, othcrwife than by actual payment." 3. " An Account of all Grants made to Subjedls of this Realm, from the Refereed Revenues in Scotland." 4. " An Account of the Expenditure upon the Civil Lift of Scotland, Grace the left order of the Mollie, fpecifying both the perfons to whom granted, and the perfnns to whom payable." S. a Accounts of all Monies palling through the hands of the Receiver General in Scotland, to the lateß period (from 1797) to which inch accounts can be made up, whether fuck monies were Hilted purfotaht to orders from the Treafury, or under any other authority." The motion for the prodalion of thefe levet al ac. ' counts having been read from the Chair, Lord HENRY PETTY again rofe, anal - Aid, there was another Rutter in athich he thought it behoved , the Houfe to make tome engniry, he'meant, an affign ment to Lady Melville. Perhaps it might not be sm- rtialinde.to a rumour which hid very general• p P r e e r vailed, that this was acquired in a forreptitious manner, and was not conceded with the full under (landing and clear intention of the Lords of the Trea fury, whofe fignatures were required to the tranfac• tion. As be faw one of there, by whom it had been authotifed, in his place, he fhould requeft that the 'Houle might receive from him fome explanation of the affair. Mr. BOND—" It is true my name appears upon the warrant ; and I fubfcribed it without any helita- Lion, upon the authority of what appears at the be ginning of that document, that the bit tines was done with the concurrence of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland. I certainly take no blame to myfeif in the affair, fince it was done with their acknowledged advice and approbation. ,But I think it due to this Houfe, and to the public, on the prefent occafion, so advance one ftep farther. It was not known to me,nor, I believe, to any of my colleagues who figneclthe in ftrumeja, that it had reference to arrears to an amount of any confideratioo. Some frnaU rums, we thought. might be comprifed under that head, but that it fhould cover an item exceeding 10001. I believe none of us entertained the mott remote idea." LISIL ON THE HOUSS. Sir HENRY MILDMAY prefented to the Houfe the following Petition, from the perfon who has Come days (ince incurred the difpleafore of the Houfe in con fequence of the warmth ofhis defence of Lord Melville: To the Honourable the Houfe of Commons in Parliament af• fcmbled.--The Petition of Peter Stuart, Printer and Publiffier of a Morning Newfpaper, ivtituled " The Daily Advertifer, 'Oracle, and True Briton," " Molt humbly iheweth—That for the publication of that part of his Paper of Thurfday left, deemed highly ofenfice to th:s Ho• 'adorable Houfe, he feels the derpeft regret; and that al•hough Certain expreffions in that Paragraph be indiferect and unguarded, and fuel as have incurred the difpleafure of fo important a branch of the Bridal Conftitution, yet your Petitioner humbly hopes, on this acknowledgm. nt of his firfeere forrow, that this Honours. ble Houle, in the plentitude of its condefeeifion and liberality, will be pleated to pardon him for a treagreffion folely attributable to the hefty companion of a Newfpaper, and not to any deliberate ' deign of offending this Honourable Houle. " That your Petitioner is emboldened to folicit your indulgence and forgivenefs on his well-founded enrollee, that during the re veal years in which he has concluded a Newfpaper, It has uni formly been his principle and pride zealoullyto furport the charam wand diinity of the Houfe of Commons; anti that it has frequently fallen to his lot to have vindicated both from the charges ot Socie ties exprefsly inftituted to bring them into public difrepute and contempt. " In any obfervatioes which your Petitioner may have publilbed on the conduet of Lord Melville, he could not but bear ,in that the views of thole Societies, abetting domeftic treafon, affifted by the co-operation of the Revolutionary Power of France, would, be verily believes, have ended the deftrudion of the Bri- Wit Conititutlon, had not the wife and efficient meafores brought fbrward by that Adminiftradon ' in which Lord Melville held fo confpicumas a fituation,been ado pted; and this Honourable Hunk would not, in that cafe, perhaps, have been now in exiftence, either to cenfure Lord Melville, or to pardon your Petitioner. " That if any thing could incmfe your Petitioner's regret, it would be its being fuppofed that the objeetionable paragraph was dim:LA alto againft the Right Hon. the Speaker of the Houle of Commons; that your Petitioner has no hehtation to declare, that no Idea was ever more remote from his mind; and that your Peti tioner would be the very loft perfon to in finuate arty thing difrefped. NI of a character whom be, in conjundion with the whole nation, highly eiteemed as a private Gentleman, and molt profoundly ve nerates as the head and public organ *Edits Honourable Houfe. ' "rnat your PetitiOner therefore moft humbly hopes this Ho. nGurable Houle will content to his relcafe; and your Peti. timer will mer pray, &c. (Signed) May a, 5805. " P. STUAJT.' As foon as the Petition was read by the Clerk. Sir HENRY MILDMAY moved, that the Peti• tioner be then brought to the tar, in order to be dif charged. . Mr. WINDHAM was utterly aftonifhed at fuch a petition ; if, indeed, fuch an application was receiv ed, he fh ould lament that the fubjeel hal ever been brought before the Houfe. The prefs, it was true, had treated with dificfpeet, whatever was honour. able, whatever was facred in fociety ; it was *b lued to fuppofe that to grant the prefent petition would tend to diminifh its licentinufnefs. The 'nitro- MenrWas framed to acctife the Houfc, not to creole the fuppliant. , It implied that the Common, of England were concerned with perfons difaffeeted to regular government. • Sir HENRY MILDMAY was at a lots to can. ceive what part of the petition could fo flrongly ex cite the indignation of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and by what ingenuity he could apply the contfruc tion lie had ,impofed. Mr. FOX thought the petitiorthighly indecent and improper. The tenor of that part of it which re ferred to Lord Melville, implied a cenfore upon the Houle. The petitioner intimated, he had condoled pape:s which contained lavifh panegyriCs upon for. mer Adminiflratinns. He could not tell the hearing of this remark, nnlefs it was to (hew that the fopport of Minifters - was a ground of favour with that Houle, and with fuch a propofition lie could by no means concur. The 4HANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought there were no fuch ferions objeetions to the petition as feemed to be entertained. There did cer , tainly appear to be a nyle adopted, which indi cated a degree of Pelf importance not correaly rutt ed to the fituation and circumllances of this perfon ; but it was to be confidered it was a deicer very ufual with thole in the fame occupation of life.— With this exception, he thought there was nothing improper in the petition, and he had a right to ap• peal to his pall condua as an indication of the purity of his motives. Mr. WINDHAM had heard a man (peaking of the profpe& of Richmond Hill, and afferting, " it would he nothing if the River were away." The Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) would de prive the petition of its prominent feature and then declare it was decent and correa. This was not the place for the topics the petitioner introduced. /vox crag hie hew. The objeet he fhould have in view, was to make a fit apology, and obtain his rtleafe, not to revive controverfy, and excite intemperate dif cuffion. Sir WILLI P. M BURROUGHS (poke to order. Mr. WINDHAM laid he meant to move an amendment.