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Their perfons arc different, but their principles and their views are the fame. The principal actor has with drawn behind the Rage, but he now plays the part of prompter, and thole he has fribtlituted in his Read (peak and ai as he dire&s. To the general charaaer of the late appointments, their certainly are a few exceptions. No one has a higher opinion than I have of the noble Lord over againft me (Lord Spencer). His charader is defervedly high. Under his atitpices we have triumphed in every part of the Wcrld, and the Britith flag has been railed to a pitch of unexampled glory. He will not then think that I mean to undervalue his me rits, or to tarali his fame, when I fay that his fuccell4r is, in my opinion, Rill better qualified to prefide over the Admiralty than himfelf. With equal diligence, affluity, and zeal, he mull en joy many advantages from his acquaintance with maritime affairs. He mull be able Rill hettet to judge of the manner in which fleets fhould be equipped, of the quarter to which they flionld be fent, and of the perfun who thould be cliolen to command there. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20. After the Bills on the table had been forwarded in their feveral Rages, Lord SUFFOLK rote to call the attention of the Houfe to the caufes of the high price of prcryilions. One of the moll confiderahlc of there he took to be the very great circulation of paper money. The number of notes in 'circulation belonging to the Bank of England had now been afcertained, but of the amount of tholi; iffued by country bankers, the molt complete ignorance fublilted. lie there fore wifind to know whether the Committee wcrc taking any Reps to gain this information ? The Duke of MosmosE replied, that the firft object of the Committee was to device means of fupplying the deficiency, and for lowering the pnce. When this had been obtained, they would probably proceed to enquire into the caufes which had railed the rite fo high, but till it had been obtained it would be extremely improper to enter upon fuch a tedious and complicated inyeltiga tion: • The Lords Committees therefore were now, and probably would continue for fome, time, confidering the molt effedual means to promote the inclofure of wafte and common lands. THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. ON MONDAY NEXT, March 23, 2801, will be prefrnted the Tragedy of SING RICHARD THE THIRD. King Richard, Mr. COOKE. T o whieb will be added the new PEROUSE ,• Hanric Pantomime Drama of Or, THE. DESOLATE ISLAND. Thi s r e ining—The Tragedy of Macbeth ; with Peroufe. EAST-INDIA HOUSE, March 18, 18or. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG ZA ND, tratiatto the BAST INDIES, olt hereby riv e ..ok r , That 7ifil4iii he ready to rcreivetvofefair, is writing, ea or ie fire The y frost say Feria who way have ex :aged to oret the Costmetffixoerr efhis MIN/it Tranfport Service ea tb Towage for New Stroh Wafer, ex vet4t 1117117 th..y are wake: to he t the Company red Cettersiotkotetabips, to bring. harm Teas ad ether Gosh frost alma ; loch Ship to he attrrved Sy Me Coot atoxy's Ojicerr, ea tote massed mad (pipped he every ripen arm• ably to the goal replatiou f the Cwojoaay. The Trader, to exprefi the rate fleet,* for losilder's atealitreorent, awl agiforfartlas tor. Now, eatdilatiog the fame mm the lowe term, at there will ad he ma ottertaitit , e aresiirt g arty Armrest. The Texan, with the worth " Sbip Trader" oft the cover, to he feverelly AO with the Secretary at me blare Twelve 'Cloth at Axon, ow the fail 241 of April, leywd which bar not say tender cam iv re erived. WILLIAM RA INSAY, Secretary. Lord Su ['FOLK Paid, the operation of fuch a mea fure as this mull be extremely flow. Something more efficacious muff be done. The People were flan ing, and if-- Thel)uke of ATHOL here fpoke to order. He contended that the Noble Lord had no right to make fuch remarks when there was no motion be fore the Houfe, and when the fubjed on which the Houfe had been fummoncd, remained undifcuffed. There was a regular mode of bringing the quef tion :before the Houfe, but it was too much at once to tranfgrefs the rules of the Houfe, and to throw out infinuations which mutt have fuch a mifchievous effe& _ SOCIETY for the ENCOURAGEMENT of ARTS, MANU FACTURES and COMMERCE, ADELPIII, March ra. ON MONDAY, the 23d March, ink. the An nual Meeting of this Society for the Eledlon of Officers, for the year enfuing, will he held at their houfc In the Adolph'. The ballot to begin at x i o'clock in the forenoon, and elate at two in the afternoon, precifely. The Anniverfary Dinner of Society will be on Wodnefday, the tad of April, at the an and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. ra mar .--CHARiES, DUKE of NORFOLK.. Charles, Duke of Richmond, Honourable R. Clifford, Wm. Henry, Doke of Portland, Sir Wrn. Dolton, Bart. Hugh, Duke of Northumber- Sir Watkin Lewes, Knight, land, Thomas Pitt, Efq. /amt., Earl of Radnor, Caleb Whitefoord, Ffq. • Charles, Earl of Liverpool, Thomas Skip Dyot Ductile], Charles, Lord Romney, M. P. ST IWAV DS. R. Clarke, Efg. Chamberlailh George Meredith, Efq. John Dorrett, Efq. - ohn Nichols. Efq. Dmiel Beak, Efq. ohn Page, Efq. Charles Hamerton, Efq. amts Atlee, Efq. Thomas Roberts, Efq. Cozwcll, Etc William Crifwell, Efq. M e t7ohn Mofer. N. B. Dinner at Half-paft our &Clock. By Order of the Stewards. CHARLES TAYLOR, See. NEW MANUFACTORY. D OBARTS and PLOWMAN moil retpeafully 4- %.- inform the N qq and Gentry, who have not feat their 'New and Elegant Ma an nu6Roey of Chamberry and Italian Muf has, that their Warelsonfe is the only place in this Country What they can. be had gentdlto--No. t, Chandoritrect, Cr vent-Garden. K - 13. A great variety of Fancy Silks, by the Manufacturers. STATE OF THE NATION. Oft Tuefday nest will be A CANDID APPEAL cbcr4dififeulT,ON, eiu the prefent Crlhs of Affairs, and mem Change of &Shifters. Printed for Licht:Won, Anal and Co. Temple of the Mures, rinfbar ' , Awn ; and C. Chapple, No. 66, Pan-MalL This day were publifhed, in One large Volume, Duodecimo, price 6s. in Boards, TRAVELS in FRANCE : containing a cir cut:ills:ldol View of the T ITATIL 07 LICARN. two, the Arts, Manufaftures, learned Soeledes, Manners, Ike. By THOMAS BYGOE. frofefrot of Agronomy in the Univerfity of Copenhagen, and late Envoy from the Duda Government for eonfuhing with the Commiffioners for the National Infthute, relative to the uoiverfal Baas of Weights and Maki:vs. Tranfiated by JOHN JONES, 1.. 1.. D. London : Printed for R. Phillips, No. 71, St. Paul's Church- yard ; and Paid by all Booldellers. This day were publilhed, In One Volume 12M0. price 6 s in boards, REPORTS nn the DIS EASES in LONDON, &trig the Y 0.27 1796, 1797, 1793,1797, and 13oo; with Practical Obfcrrat ions, &c. &e. By ROBERT WILLAN, M. D. F. A. S. Loudon Printed far R. Phillips, No. 71. St. Paul's Church yard; and fold by E. Balfour, Edinburgh ; and by all Bookfellers. Of whom may be had, price as. 6d. breed, Tsc SOLDIER'S FRIEND ; or, the Means of prchsving the Prthh of Military Men; addreffial to the Deicers of the Navy. By WILLIAM BLAIR, A. M. bweeon to the I.oek Hofpital and A((•Ium, and of the Old rdbu ry nifpen Cary. DR. RITSBY's MUSICAL. JOURNAL, FOk THE VOICE, PIANO toRTF, &c. THE SECOND NUMBEII of thi,, riteemed Work, containing twelve new and original pieces, vocal and in. trumental, was pubilitivel nor the Sett day of March, and is now to he had at the lbnps of all the refpeiftable linolifellers and Mu haellers,—Tbe Compoktions ill thin Number are all of them hyClitivarar, Piceivt, 114,PIUL, TAkCHI, DT- I Vr *AC, HAIBZL, ARNOLD, Bossy, and totheremiry nt Mal ; and by the,roetry, which is allot it written purpohly for the Work, is Dr. Wo Leer, Mr. Pvt, Captain JAYts, Mr. a, and other writers of diltindtion. The E'rft and Second Number, which are fold for Si, SW- Lois each, contain as much Marie u would be fold feparatcly lu edit ilkopf fat Thirty Shillinp; but conformably to the wifbes of many of the Patrons of the Work, it is propofed in future to lower the inuothly expeoce to Foua SIIILLINGS eadi Number, and the third, and every future Number, will irsfeiluentlY be LAI .it the price of Fault Suatattios eacA. The publk will thus at the et ry trifling men= of Fooa SMILLINGI per month II nit in poiLeirean of all tbe exprifite pieces of Facer% Mote, haul Arly as Imo as tbey Amos upon the Continent, with a P"Portionate quantity of lute:citing Novoltha, by the molt chimed Commders radon br Great Mutts. A Number, containing from Fret to twelve Pieces, according of % their length, will continue to be puhli%ed on the kilt day r•cry mood', mad may be had of Man. °Gadding and Co. 411 nail of Mr. llumpton, Se Paul's Chureh-yard; of ker "trisi Allot and Co. C e enhilli and all mkt Main and Boa- Lord HOLLAND. My Lords, it has of late been very much the habit for Noble Lords to (peak to Order whenever they hear any thing they difhke ; but, my Lords, it will generally be found that thefe Noble Lords are themfelves the molt diforderly.— The Noble Duke who has juft fat down, I main tain, has been guilty at once of a violation of order and a breach of good breeding. He would do well to confider more attentively the rules of this Houfe before he pretends to teach them to others. Before the Order of the Day was read, it was com pletely competent to my Noble Friend to fubmit to the Houfe what .bfervations he thought pro per. Can the Noble Duke point out the rule which prevents him ? The Noble Duke would, in my opinion, have aged with much greater propri ety had he moved that my Noble Friend's words fhould be taken down, that it might have proved that he was diforderly, and that he might have received the cenfure which his temerity deferved. My Lords, while I fit in this Houfe, I will not fi lently witnefs fuch proceedings ; I will fee jullice dealt out equally to all. I will exprefs my indig nation when I fee, as I have feen in the prefent inflame, the fpeecit of a Noble Lord rudely inter rupted, not on account of the fpeech itlell, but on account of the perfon who delivers it. The Duke of Armin maintained, that the No ble Lord had no right to make thofe obfcrvations before the Order of the Day was difpofed of. . . Lord Su FFOLII raid, he would tide an early op portunity to move for a fpecific rcturn from all the country banks of the number and amount of the bank notes iffued by them refpeCtively. Lord HOSART Paid, he would abitain from giving any opinion upon the motion, but as it was of Come importance, he hoped the Noble Lord would not bring it forward without giving due no tice of his intentions. STATE OF THE NATION. The order of the day being then moved and read, The Earl of Da RNLET laid, "My Lords, I am at lift permitted to fubmit to you the important mo tion of which I have fo often given notice. B:- fore I proceed to Rate the realous I hope will in duce you to accede, I hope you will tOrgive me if I fliortly allude to the manner in which it has been delayed. Your Lon:fillips will recoiled that 1 once deferred the moron myfelf without folici tation or advice. I thought then, and I Rill think, that at that period fuch a difeullion would be highly unfeafonable, and produaive of no pollible advantage. I am Pure you will allow me to con gratulate you that that objedion is now happily removed. Never had your Lordfliips or the coun try more fubitantial ground to rejoice, and never did any event occafion more general joy. If ever there was a fcntiment which was univerfal :rough out a nation, it was grief throughout the Britifh nation at the indifpofition of their Sovereign, and joy at his recovery. It has been completely proved that he is confidered as the father of his people; that he reigns in the hearts of his fubjeas. Whatever difference of opinion there may prevail upon political fubjeas, all are unani mous in admiring his charaaer, and returning thanks to firavax that he is fill preferved to let them an example of every virtue. It were fuper florins to enlarge upon fuch a fubjea ; but thus much I could not refrain from laying in jultice to my own feelings. The other grounds on which I deferred my motion were of a very different kind. I yielded to the folicitations of Minißers, and to the fence of your Lordlhips unequivocally declar ed ; but I faw no reafon myfelf why the enquiry might not have been immediately ;Minuted. A change had taken place in his Majefty's Councils ; ' but the objeas of my motion were filch that the complete formation of the new Miniary was not nectar,' to the difeuffion of it. I withal that an In Rating the reafons which in my minte, evince the neceflity of this folenin enquiry, the brit ohjed which prefents itial is the condud of the war, this is a wide field, nod it would be impollible fur me to think of travelling through it ; fortunately, this is unnecdrary. The events of the war arc tielh in the recollection of your Lordthips, and I niyfell more than once have had occafion to draw your attention to them. Though I approved of the 1 principles on which the war was undertaken, and long thought it was necellary to perllll in it, yet I often difapproved of the manner in which it was conduded, and thought it my duty to exprcfs that difapprobation in this Houfc. I have had the honour of fluting my fentiments to your Lordthips on the expedition to the Weft-Indies,and more par ticularly upon the unfortunate attempt made upon St. Domingo ; an attempt which colt millions of money, and proved deftruftion to the flower of the Britith army. Forbearing then to enter upon theft details, I (hall confine myfelf to the manner in which the war has been concluded for the lull two or three years. The period which appears moil proper feems that when we were told it was ne cetrary to break down the old eftablithed contlitu tional force of the kingdom ; by a meafure thus violent and unprecedented, a great difpotable ar my was created, and it was hoped that tome great achievement would be performed. The tirft thing attempted was the expedition to Holland, the fate of which is too well known to render it necelfary for me to go through the painful talk of recount ing it. It may be recolleded that I refilled a motion loran inquiry into the cattfts of its failure. I beg, my Lords. that my motives for doing lo may not be miltinderllood, or that it may be though that my oppolition to that motion WAS incontillent with my propofal of this.—( thought from the argu ments that were adduced in favour of this enquiry that it would have been difereditable to the troops that were employed, and that it was meant by it to throw a liar upon their conduit; but at no pe riod, my Lords, I will maintain, that the Britilh troops, or the troops of any other nation, behaved in a more gallant and fpirited manner ; at no pe riod did the charade: of the Brie:,ll arms appear more reipedable in the eyes of our enemies. I likewife give credit to the protellations of Minifters. They fluted that the thiclofure that would thus be occaltoncd would fruflrate other grand expeditions which were in contetnplation, and which would othcrwile certainly lucceed ; I hoped that the ' troops in future would be better equipped and bet ter appointed, and that ample amends would be made for all oar former reveries ; ashen I mention my hopes need I fay how deeply I was difappoint ed ? a long train of diaßer and clifgrace has inc. ceeded, which exceeds all that the molt diffident and defponding could poiiibly have apprehended. I (hall not recount thele fags, thcy are well', known to all who hear me, and the melancholy imprellion which they have made will not be loon effaced. Our forces were not defending our pof fefflons, ail - tiling our allies, or annoying our enc. ' mies, but cooped up in trateports, and tranfport ed from place to place without any rational °hied. Such a cloud hangs over the tranfations at Fer ml, and fo much doubt Rill remains with regard to the manner in which the enterpriii was conduc ;•...l, that I am liirprifed the Hon. General did not ' himfell infill upon a Court of Enquiry ; I am mor tified, my Lords, that he has not. I hoped that , though appearances were very much againft us, • fuch explanations would take place as would prove to the World that our condnd had been unexcep tionable, and that the Britilb name had fuff4red undefervedly. Part of our troops it was meant to fend to Italy, and there they might have been of , the moil eifential fervice, but they were ton late ; in being difpatched, and had almoft been taken by ; the enemy; thus there was nothing like promp- , titude in our meafures, and our plans were ill conceived or ill-executed. The two armies were afterwards joined, and made an attempt which met with the fuccefs it deferved. If I felt deep grief and ftronF indignation at the refult of our expedition to lerrol, what mull my feelings be when I think upon the difgraceful attempt upon Cadiz?? It affixed an indelible diffiononr upon our name, and madc us at once the deteltation and l aughing Rock of Europe; yet the authors of dude trinfaaions . remain unpunifhcd and unknown.— [Here the Noble Lord referred to fume accounts of this expedition given by a French General ? he laid it was painful for him to read them, bui. if they were true, their contents fhould be known, and if they were Ellie they ought to be difproved. He then procedcd to read them; the accounts contained fome very revere ttrietures upon the conditet of our Government, and affirm that our arms were fi;nt every where except where they could be ufeffil to our allies. Lord Darnley con tinued]—l again repeat, my Lords, it is with grief and fhame I quote fuch documents in a Bri tilh Houfc of Lords, but I with they fhould be thoroughly fcrutinized; if they are not thewn to be groundlefs, indelible difgrace is intailed upon our name. It is faid, that our forces are now en deavouring to wren Egypt from the French.-- This would be an important conqueft; but, my Lords, it is impoilible to forget that it might now have been in our poireflion, if we had not inh inged a folcmn convention. It is to the immortal ho. nnur of our commander in thole teas, that he is the only man that lvis been able for an ioltant to check the viaorious career of Bonaparte ; but for the defence of Acre, perhaps, he deferves lefs praife than for the treaty of El-Arifch; by that, without farther bloodlliA or expence, the French would have been deprived of Egypt, and our Ealtein poireffions would have been placed in fecurity....- I molt lincerely hope that vitiory will at length crown our arms, and that with the lofs but of tew lives this grand objeet will be attained, but when I look to the means of defence which the French pof fen, and the many difulvantages under which we labour, my hopes are mixed with molt painful anxieties. Thefe are fome of the prominent Ga. tures of the condua of the war. A Noble Lord, whom I now fee in his place, expofed it on a former occafion, with a force of reafoning, and a brillian cy of argument which indignation for the ditraco of his fellow-foldiers could alone have produced. But though I do not belong to that refpeetable profeflion, and cannot hope fo ably to vindicate its honour, yet I am alive to its interett, and will exert myfelf to the utmoft to fupport them. I (hall next confider what hopes this Govern ment or the lag, for I muff always confider them as the fame, holds out to us of a fafe and honour able peace.—That the overtures ofßonaparte Were not hftened to, 1 am not, perhaps, much difpofed to complain. He was fcarcely warm in his feat when he made them, and it was highly probable that he might thare the fate of his predecelfor ; but, my Lords, Igo no farther. If I were to fay that I was not furprized at the manner in which his overtures were related ; that I was not alto nifhed at the fpeech of the Noble Secretary of State, 1 thould utter tentiments completely foreign to my heart.—Thefe philippics, that grofs and un mannerly Aburc, I thought both impolitic and un. manly. Minifiers (hewed a littlenenefs of mind, as well as a want of forefight. Becaufe Bonaparte was fuperior to them, becaufe he had railed him. fell to an elevated fituation, and undermined all their fchemes, they commenced againft him a war of words. In oratory they may have the advantage; but in fagacity, vigour. and political ability they arc certainly tar his inferior. From their indif. cretc behaviour they may have ntailed many mif. fortunes on their country. Bonaparte, my Lords. mug polfefs conliderable elevation of mind, if, when be has it in his power, he does not relent there infults, and make us repent of the injurious manner in which we have treated him. Think next, my Lords, on the manner in which our refourccs have been lavilhed, and lavithed to reduce the Emperor to a much more deplorable fituation than he would have been without our attflance. I Alert it as a fad, that our fubfidies have been ruinous to him ; and let any one dif. prove it if he can. The folly of making hint recommence hollilities it is not cafy to conceive. My Lords, I alk any one of common underftand ing, if, taking into confideration the fuperior num bers of the l'rench, that they were flufhed with viaory, and that they were guided by the coun fels of Bonaparte, and dire confidered the broken and difhcartcncd 'late of the Auflrian army, the diftraßed Rate of the Auftrian Cabinet, and the e Aran fled Rate of the Au ft ri an Monarchy, he would not have raid that it was madnefs in the Emperor again to try the fate of war ? Yet we are told that he received this advice from the Brian; Minifters ; and we know that he was encouraged to this at tempt by Britifh gold. h there not here, my Lords, a ferrous fubjea of enquiry, and to inveftigate this matter alone, are you not bound to go into a Committee ? I now come to the important point, the conduci of Government to the Powers of the North. I (hall not, my Lords, difcufs the matter of right—what the nature of that right is, whe ther it be divine and inherent, or conferred by pofitive inftitution ? For the fake of argument I shall admit that all our claims are well founded, and that the privileges now in difpute certainly belong to us. How, my Lords, have there our rights been ezercifed ? in a mild and lenient man ner, or rigoroully, haughtily, and opprefflvely ? It is impogible not to obferve the different methods in which the Governments of the North have been , treated according to their refpeetive power. W e continued long to bear the infults of Rullia with . tamenefs. She indignantly difmi ff ed our Ambat fador—fhe feized on our (hips, contifcated our pp• petty, and infolently raided ;n make us fatistac tion for theft aggravated injuries ; but we tamper ed with her, and our behaviour was mean, fub mare, and daftar d ly. Had we behaved in a fpirited and manly manner—hadwe fent a fquadron to the Baltic, we not only would have faved our rpotation, but might have revolted all the ca O