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4 .• - 'J 7 11 r" i~ ~---.: ASIATIC ANNUAL St*OSTER. Bari, b Jawaar/ will be pubufbed. As Fourth WNW hr the Year :Soo. of THE ASIATIC ANNUAL REGISTER; or a View of the Ham of Hindokan, eaglet **Fades, Commerce. sad Literature of Arm Ptiotod sod T. CattelOost. sad W. Davies. Strand. c. I .° Tide Work wilt continue to be publiihed asodelly is the Month of January. t# As above may etre be hid. the firit aud &mod Volume. for the Years 1799 and leo°, price z3s. each in Boeteloomil the third Volume, fiir the Year am, price zos. 6d. to Beare ! I TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, On or before the tft day of Februnext, ALL that Valuable FREEHOL D ESTATE, in the Parini of Manfield, in the North Riding of the County of York, confifting of Istit Acres, or thereabouts, of excellent Arable, Meadow, and Failure Land, with the Great Tythes thereof, divi ed into five very convenient Farms, now bilhe occupation of Thomas Wright, joke Heart; Robert Sisith, John Wade, and Thomas Staintharp, as Maims who arc now under notices to quit at May Day ma. when Imme diate poffeffron may be had by the purchafer. Alto to be fold with the above, Fifteen Cottages, with convenient Land at- WSZ;noi of them Stunted upon the Town Green of 1146,ffagne gable of great bnproventent, being within a mile or Las eij 9 tbe belt quality. It is alfia Annie within a Ikon &Rams of excellent Coal. It is bounded on the North by the. Mar Tees, and by the Turnpike Road from Picric Fridge to ClatteckbeAse on the Welt. It Is Stunted four miles. from Dastingtom, eight miles from Richmond, and eleven milesfimit Barnard CAI; Market Towns where the greateit quantity of Corn may be fold to the belt advantage, and to each of width there are good Turnpike Roads. It is =mei ro obkrvation on the fertility and well known die kit or on the beauty of the furrounding Country. To be. viewed by appiying to Thomas Graham. of High Connifeliffe, who will thew the Farms, and a Survey and Plan of die whole is departed with Mr. Taylor, of F.lb, near Dur ham; and alto with Meffrs. Witham, No. 8, Gel y's koare. London; who, as alto Mr. Taylor, are arithoricod to receive propoisk for the perdu& of the kid Eitate, to be tranfmitted by them to the Traftees. N. It If the Etats is not fold by Private Cootradt before the day abeweinentionah the whole will be divided into Lots and fold by Auction 'arty in the Spring, at a place and day to be amotioned. FRANCE. PARIS, DECEMBER tit. Letters from Cairo Oate s that the Mamelake Beyssre in poffeffion of the whole of Upper Egypt, Payonn and the Province of Alfieli. Thefe letters hate, that the Englifh at Alexandria fupply the Marneluk•es with arms and ammunition. The Government has received official intelli gence that the Pope has fent to Switzerland a Legate, furnilhed with full powers to conclude a Concordat between his Hands and the Helvetic Republic. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. Rambo*, Dec. B.—The Imperial Plenipoten dary has addrefed a new Note to the Deputation, is whin it is Rated:— • iri s Ta i ft that the Makers Pladpecentiary have an nessitedilie vetslodes of• layisig before the general Diet the Reath of the Deputation, the lzslCommillioa fees kill mks the sma of rt no longer to make there valises which k had refereed to Wel upon the Racers. I entering Imo the nutter, the Imperial Plenipotentiary tbbbiar his duty lON to detail the mimes which mill not allow Mitts %modals the Rads of the+Dqmtation." This explanation is thus concluded : • The Impede Commillos, Wag the jai! intentions tilt sifefted by the High ?Acanthi( Poway, as well as she allins6 *nee width they have given of *Meg to faddy In a feat* manner the Grand Ache d Isfeawr, and width has beminsn , firmed by their beam Plenipotaidery, impute with miss Melee that that tuck win be foes done sway, it mai With the fame eutladeace, that until that epoch the (mast. Diet of the Pagan will recoiled the engagements and ob'lgae dimewhich the whole Empire has taken upon kW by the rep* Mallon of the Treaty of Luseville, and win fee the resift' allonnene If the Indeuuddes in the fame point of view es the Imperial Commilion; and that ii will regard as an eifential and needfary condition of its radamden, that the just and modea rate demands whidi have been made for the accomplinsmeat of the gth Arddie al Tiny of Luneville may be fiddled. , EasA, Pee...lL—lt is generally reported that the Auftriens were fome time face confiderably reinforced in the Voralberg ; the greateft part of the regiment of Bender }has taken cantonments in the environs of Bregenz. ,We are ignorant of the motive of there meafures. On the other fide, it is continued-to be afferted, that General BACIIIIAII has inrolled a corps in the Tyrol, and in 'Upper Suabia, in fpite of pofitive affurances which have been made to the contrary. It is even added, that this corps will enter publicly into the fervice of England, which however it is difficult to believe. The different Cantons continue to make reels- Stations to the Senate and the Executive Coun cil; againft the affeffrnent of the Extraordinary. War Tax. The Adminiftrative Chamber of Ar govia has folicited a diminution of the Contingent of that Canton, bat its folicitation has not met with any fuccefs. HAGUI, DICIAIIIIIIt 17....... The affair of General MMITILICHAILD remains as it was. The Courier" fent to Paris is not returned. It is certain that th e law of i 26d1 of February laft, ngainft the importation of woollen articles, will be carried ; into execution without any reftriaion or refervell from the ill of January next. The Government have peogetfed,to ";he Legiflative Body, to attach the contribniions npon revenue and property, to do inhabitants of the countries ceded to Holland blithe French Government , by the Convention of Ant ilk of ,lanuary tfloo, and to treat them as the other inha bitants of the Republic. The Militia of the Bintop of Fu i.DA has entered , into the ferviee of the Prince of Mayen who has • castled it to be declared to the Imperia l Dephtsp ties at latifbon That it is left to the Prince *vow* of FOLDA to chufe the moll pleafant and moll agreeable country feat and houfe, in the country of Fulda, for his refidence. 2. That fur niture, equipages, &c. are wholly left at his dif on the alTurancthat theft (hall hereafter be returned. 3. That his donieftics, to be paid by him during his life, tall, after his deceafe, en. joy appropriatepenfions; and 4. That his annual revenue (hall confift of 36,000 guilders. Letters from Vienna, of the 6th, inform ns, that - Great Britain and the plan of an alliance between Great &itain and ment might, ail le , • Auftria has entirely failed. The failure of it is fur foci) gnevance attributed to the Archduke CMARIAS. Every he bad taken the I th' • -,l 4 , „ 'ns in ; u quo on the banks of the Inn. baps he fhould ha 3- " ' evacuated Paffau nor taken better to have rem . pa ./. , . ; . urea, and th e ot her diftriels jet of a feparate c ~ . " Dube, rate Bill, but fi .. i .ta 4. , • , • ' . 1'.."1 DIM 7,—The Grand Duke 'Wd laa night 01 1 ' ~ i t, ,I to Perteriburgh oil the vlth watt beanll with _Ali • , ----- - Illgoote. A sew Allison is fpokagot bet twien *s h a d , Maria, Rufus, Delunark. and Sweden. EMPSILOIL of Rusin*, it is Paid, has applied to the Moe of ZooLMID 10 engage hits to affift his Iresipasallapart in procuring feme compedatiosior KOS af SA111)11114%. PdRLIAMENTARr PROCAIDINIM HOME OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY, DEC: The Engin!' Militia Bill, the IrMk Corn Intereourfe PK the kik Militia. the Sugar Drawback, and foam others. WS* through the Committee of the whole Honk and wen rignited. Four Bilk were r. ad a third time. The hint Province Importation Bin, and the bilk SIN* Drawbe i ck Bill were brought from the Commons, and pudisa ed by Mr. Alexander and others, and read a lkft time. NAVY COMMISSIONERS' ANUS* SILL. On the Order of the Day, that this Bill be read a fecond time, being moved, The Duke ofCLAlllic a rote, and arraigned the Bill in pointed terms, as nugatory and inefficient. He could not, he faid, but exprefs his furprife, that a Bill of that nature should be difcuffed with out the noble and illuftrious charader at the head of the Admiralty being prefent to explain his rea tons to the 'Houk, why he thought fuch a Bill at all necelfary. That there were abates pradifed in the different branches and Boards of the Admiralty and Navy, he, as a profeffional man, and every officer who had the honour to terve his Maljefty„ well knew; but the Noble Earl at the head of the Admiralty, whore high and eminent ferrices were well known, could not but be acquainted what thole abufes were; and he mull contend, that the Admiralty Boards already poffeffed ample_powers to correa the exifting abufes, and to punith Eery fraud that was fuppofed to be committedorsisent, any poffible affillance that could be ex to io be • • derived from the enaaments of the p t Bill. The perfon who drew the Bill appeared to have wilfully intended to milked the King's fervants, and to mifguide their judgment. It was evident to him that they had been grofsly milled, or they never could have perfuaded the Houle of Com mons to agree to and pats a Bill totally inefficient, and which could produce no effea, but to create new places, and to load the public with the ex pence of the Commiflioners appointed to ail under rt. He reprobated the title dthe Bill, and every claufe of it, and particularly found fault with the claufe for the corredion of abates praitifed by prize agents ; it was blended with the peculations on the King's arfenals, and frauds in retpeit to contrails ,with the Navy and Vidualling Boards. The con duit of the prize agents was injurious td the moll valuable defcription of men in the country, the common feamen, who were entitled to every pa fible encouragement from the Legiflature : their caufe, therefore, ought to be immediately attended to, and a feparate Bill gaffed to'regulate the future conduit of prize agents. Having laid great firth on this,. the Duke proceeded to thew, that thebet• fines of the Navy was tranfaited under feveral Boards : the Admiralty Board, the Navy Board, the Villa:tiling Board, the Tranfport Board, and the Sick and Hurt Board. He analyfed the fort of frauds that might he praEtifed tinder each ; frauds and peculation: from the King's arfenals were par ticularly to be guarded agatrift by the vigilance and proteaion of the Board of Admiralty; breaches of corttrait, and other Species of frauds, were to be deteaed and profecnted by the Navy and Vic tualling Offices. To the Tmnfport Board he knew of no Objeaion. That inftitution, though recently revived, is not a new inaitution, as it exited in the reign of William the Third. The prefent Board had faithfully performed its duty, and ren dered effential fervice during the late war. Cer tainly irrevlarities, and poffibly abufes, had been', 'praaifed fOrtherly, but they had been greatly cor reaed of late, and might be further checked. He few not, therefore, one good ground, the Duke fail, for authorifing the Commiffion to be appoint ed under the prefent Bill, nor could it be of the leap ufe.- The powers of the Admiralty Board were - al:ma unlimited. He did not mean to fay that they were greater than they ought to be, but to defcribe the tad as it was. The King had no the direition of the navy as he had of the army excepting only in refpcit to the powers of punifh merit and mercy—a branch of the prerogative which ought undoubtedly to be lodgedin the hands of the. Sovereign, and confequently all the other powers of managing the navy were enjoyed in a plenary manner by the Admiralty Board, and the execution of the duties to which thole powers ap plied, was directly under the fuperintendance of that Board. Upon the whole of thefe confidera dons, and frommany others that he was pen - tied• ed would offer theinfelves to his mind, if due time and opportunity were allowed him for that prepa ration, to put, his arguments into proper shape and form for more regular flatement, he was ready at that moment to declare, that he thought the Bill ought at leek to be delayed till the Noble Earl at the head' of the Admiralty either rectrereg better health, or the (knack to his appearing in his place was removal certain it was, it would be more decent and decorous for him not to pelt the palling of di Bill of that nature, without his being prefent to explain the rearms which induced him to think it was neceffary, or was likely to be ufeful. The Duke concluded with moving, 44 That the Bill be I read a fecond time this day three months." The Loan CHANCELLOR left the Wooltaelt, and ' faid, in the little be thought it unitary to Rate the preceding evening, he was afraid be had been roift., conceived, as it was fuppoted that he had aliened that great irregularitied, frauds, and abufes were aaually praaired by perfons employed in the fe veral Naval Departments mentioned in the Bill, 'He had only faid, that the Bill proceeded upop fuch an affertion, and, for a variety of rearm* it was in his mind extremely important to inflitate an inquiry whether filch irregularities, frauds, or *buses were pradiOd or not, in order that Parlia might, all legiflatively to provide a remedy gnevancis. With regard to Prize Agency, taken the liberty lift night to fay, that per - have thought i t might have been tendered that bead of abufe the ob. commiffion, anthorifed by a fe ,from what a Noble Vitcount had on the evil confequences of the from that meritorious rank • of tbi Witty; he meant the eoeimit feamen, confcioas as he was, that the clads of men in queftiou were entitled to as early attention as could be given them, he thould certainly, as the bufi of prize-agents already flood in the Bill, and ▪ tt a li ci ry into the abufes that might hive been pra • by prize-agents madepne of the objets of it, with that part of the Bill to thud ar it.did. His Lordfhip Paid, it had been in contemplation at the commencement of the lalk war, to make fome regulations legiflatively for prize•agents to be obliged to follow. His own idea was, that the tnoft ufeful regulation would be to put prize money upon fotnething like the footing on which fortunes of infants were put in Chancery, which were paid into the hands of the Accountant General, who ✓etted the amount in the Bank, where the divi dends were converted into flock, as fag as they ante, and there remained in a aite of accumula tion till the infants became of age; or any claims upon their property*ere fully heard and decided. In like manner he wffhed that limilar means were taken to fecure the amount of all prize money, and to render it accumulative r till it was decided to whom it was to be paid, if the prize was decid ed to be a lawful prize or not. If it be found a falfe captiee, in that cafe the money would be held fafe, to be reftored to the rightful owner of the veffel captured ; if the prize were deemed a lawful capture, it would be fecured for payment duly in its legal proportions to the commander, ofilcers, and feamen who took the prize. Having explained this defirable regulation, his Lordthip adverted to the powers delegated to the Admiralty Board, and the fubordinate Boards, which Were held generally to be equal for the neceffary purpo fes of a Winery adminiftration of all the neceffary purpofes of naval affairs. Where on particular exi gencies occafion arofe for the exercife of greater powers than were vetted err the Admiralty Board, according to the Confiitution the two Houk: of Parliament were confidered as the proper places of report for the application 'and exercife of fuch more extentive powers as the peculiar exigency of the cafe in queflion might require. Hence, upon jolt grounds, a conftitutional jealoufy was always entertained of parting with thofe parliamentary privileges, but the wifdom and experience of the Legillature bad found it highly beneficial and conducive to the attainment of many important objects, at different times, to afford the facilities of it veiligationtwhich refulted from the authoriz• ing the iffue of Commitfions by fpecial Ads of Parliament in various infiances, fuch as the mat verfations of the South Sea Directors, and others, in which Commiffioners were empowered to in quire and report, and by that means the ends of reform were fpeedily anfwered. On the prefent fubjee the Bill mutt be confidered as a molt im portant meafuee ; its objects of inquiry were not Of a nature to be paired over in filence, after what bad been Paid upon the fubjea. Men's attention, both within and without doors, had been anziotte ly roufed refpeaing it, and the mindt of the per font themfelves, who were to be the objects oldie propofed inquiry, had alfo been renderedextreme-. ly anxious that juttice should be done to their own charaaer, which could not be done, but by a full inveftigation of their conduct. Upon thefe eonfi derations his Lordfhip (aid he 'felt it to be of ferious importance to the public at large, that the Bill fhould go to a Committee, in which he hoped by the concurring endeavours of ill the Noble Lords prefent, the Bill might be fo amended, and the objectionable parts of it correited, that it might then be fuch a Bill as the nature of the cafe re- Cuired, and became that Houk to function ;he ould, therefore, hope their Lordthips would agree to negative the motion made by the illuf trious Duke near him, and,let the Bill be read a fecond time. The Cbeftion that the word " now" nand part of the motion, being put, it was carried in the affirmative ; and the Houfe refolved itfelf into. a Committee of the whole Houfe on the Bill. A variety of amendments and amiffions, and a new provifi were moved in the Committee, and agreed to. The fpeakers were, the Duke of CtA• MICE, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord ELLimao- ROVOH, Lord PELHAM, Lord NILSON, and Lord CARLISLE. The Duke of CLARENCE, who held and repeat- edly declared that the Bill was nugatory and ufelefs, propofed feveral amendments, upon every one of which the Lord Chancellor differed from the Duke. The molt effential amendments were propofed by the Loan CHANCIILLOR, one of which was, the omiffion of one chafe, and the 'infertion of a pre vifia in lieu of it, in order to fecure to the perfons called upon by the Commitfioners to anfwer, that principle of the common law, which gave every man a right to refufe to anfwer, hieaniwer would either criminate himlelf, or would have a tenden cy to criminate him. His Lord(hip faid, he was aware that Parliament had in cafes of aggravated abufe gone beyond this Bill, and in the cafe of the South Sea bufinefs thought it neeefikry to Compel the parties interrogated to confefs their guilt. His Lordthip enlarged confiderably on this and contended, that in the cafe of the pre cut Bill, which wa not intended to operate as a Bill of Punintment, but merely u a Bill of Enqui ry, there war no occafion fur departing from the (acre& principles of the common law of England. Lord, ELLENsoaovon faid, he thankfully re _ - calved - the Noble Lord's claure, becaufe he agreed completely with him as to the propriety of - its adoption in the prefent inftance ; but he trufted the Parliament would never think itfelf warranted 10 part with the right in flagrant Auks, to compel dis offender to reveal the guilty fecret that lay larking in the wretch's bofom ; he (poke this em iPbatically, and Paid the enormous frauds in re rpea to the Public and Government, which had aims to his knowledge, while he held the office of Attorney-General, made him feel it necefrary to ,Otake that declaration. At length, , after the Committee had fat nearly `three hours, they got through, the whole of the Bill, which Lord WALSINGUAIII reported as roan as the Hoare was reamed, and the Report was (ordered to be taken into confiderationeo-morrow,, 46Adjoutzed. " 4 - = 1 , 1 .7 1 7 1/11 . ' LONDON. . -.-~... Csl l / 1 /11vs% Fourth I. ‘ etter will appear th• Brit or; ortur.:ll-. • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK • 3 per Cent. Red. 701 IV per Cent. Conf. for °pg. 72 4 4 per Cent. Confols 8s New s per Cent. Ann. tot t Long Ann. 20 1-16-oinnitun s di f PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Dank Stock imp. 3 per C. 701 3pa Cent. Red. 7474 yti. Imp. Ann. ti-t 649-16 4 per Cent. /777 Excheq. Bills 3s. tot,.dif. S per a/U=4021103 - Omnium 4 5 41 5; dif. Long Ann. So s-26 /-16 ConL fur opg. 731 4 6 • ii This morning we received French Journals to the zoth. A letter from Dijon Rates, that tL Fins? Count. has ezercifed, for the firit ti me , i n legate to the department of la Cote.d'O r , the privilege of pardoning criminals. The letters of temifficin wore difpatched in favour of one Condert, a veteran corporal, condemned in the month of ' ?Adria hit to two years confinement in irons, by 'the Fiat Council of the 18th Divilion, for info ' lence to the Officers of the 23d derni-brigade.— Th e r nunifhutent of this unfortunate man, ii•h o ; s a father era family, has been. commuted into fix mouths insprifaainent s inckfding the time elapfed fume his riTe per Cents 54 fr. His MAJESTY yefterclay came to town and held a Levee at St. James's, after which he returned to Windfor. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of CARIBRIDOII arrived at Hamburgh on the gth Tuefday morning, Mr.Mooits,with Mrs. MOORE and fuite, arrived at Harwich, from Helvoetlluys, in the King George packet. Mr. !Amite, we un derftand, came direa from Switzerland to Hol• land. He reached town at an early hour yeflerday morning. The Commiffioners of the Culioms have con. demned the chaife and a few dozens of French wines, which were feiied from Captain 013 y RNE, at Dover. The Captain, however, intends apply. ing to the Lords of the Treafury for redrefs. Letters from Curacoa, dated Sept. 28, (tate, that the Englilb carrifon had left that Colony four days before. The trial of the fanataus robber Schinderannes is about to commence at Menu. Yefterdar Lord HAWKSSBURY gave a grand dinner at his honfe in St. James's.fquare. Among the Company were the following, viz. General MUMS! and fuite, Monf. SCIIIMMELPENNINeK t Baron de Jacos a, Lord HIRVEY, Sir EYRE COOT!, Sir GEOLtat Sees, Mr. VANSITTART, Mr. HAM. SOW), Mr.-STISLI t &C. &c. The firit and record cantles weft ferved upon tifver, and the deffert upon part of_pne of the four fervices of china fent *SA preen from BON APART* to his Lordfhip ; we underhand they are all of the Sive Manuilidory; the pattern of the fervice ufed yefterday is fimilar to -what has been made for many years; the dillies for the fruit are oval, and the plates round ; the ornaments of each, upon the edges, are of gold, upon a white ground, taken from Piranefi's views of the interior decorations of the Vatican, confining of hieroglyphic figures, conneded together by elegant fcrolls ; the colour of the interior of the diffies and plates are of Maffarene blue, with the letter H in the centre • nothing can excel the beauty of the tout enfetail;--.the tranfparency of the white is the moft clear ever feat. Yetlerday a 92arterly General Court of Pro. prietors of Eaft India Stock affembled at the India Houfe, in purfuance of the Company's Chatter. The Minutes of the lalL General Court being read, die Chairman acquainted the Court, that it is ap pointed at this Court to confider of a Dividend on the Capital Stock of the Company, from the sth of July laft to the sth of January next, and that the Court of Dilators had come t 6 a Refolution thereon. The raid Refolution having been read, the Chairman moved the Court that the Dividend On the Capital. Stock of this Company, for the half year, commencing the sth of July lail, and ending the sth of January next, be 5* per cent. which being agreed to, the Court adjourned. On Monday lag Profeffor ALDINI repeated, in two Courfes, at Mr. WI Lso a's Anatomical Theatre, Great Windmill.fireet, formerly that of the cele brated Dr. Hs/arse, the Galvanic experiments which he performed befo're the French National Inaitute ' and lately at Oxford. The firft Courfe, deftined for the Medical ftudents, was opened by Mr. WlLsom, who prefented Profeffor ALDINI to his pupils, with fome obfervations on his interaing difcoveries. The fecond Courfe, which commen ced immediately after, was honoured by the pre. fence of his Excellency General ANDalossi, Am• bafador of the French Republic, accompanied by feveral Gentlemen of his fuite, M. ARGYROPOLI. Charge d'Affaires of the Ottoman Porte, Sir Vim. HAMILTON, Dr. GIOILONPRARSON I Dt.LETTSOMEi and a great many other Gentlemen. Mr. CUTH• 1121111011 ARO the Profeffor in. arranging the apparatus, and Mr. Huzcio 'as, a Medical pupil, provided the anatomical preparations. The ex periments were performed with neatnefs and pre• cifion, and gave much fatisfadion to the fpata tors, who testified their apprpbation by loud and repeated applaufes. ,Lows Boa*Tarr' according to report, is to replace Mzt.zi•as Vice Prefident of the Italian Republic; fend in the fame capacity JosErn to Holland, and lA/cm to Switzerland ; and the family of the BONAPAILTIS will be greater than ever were the BOULIONL Sromvrno.—A great number of people diem• bled near Tw.--mile-bridge, in the neighbourhood of Dublin, on Monday left, to witnefs the decifion of a bet for fifty guineas, that a mare belonging to Capt. Romer**, of the 12th Light Dragoons Chola'', in a fpnrting marmer, clear a fix feet wall. She performed it evidently with cafe, carrying a . lad af fineua twelve Rope weight. r