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o: r: he be. ild ad ad he his he to de of Id ch were given to her Convoy to permit Engiifh Crui sers to fearch. He concluded with hating that he highly approved of this meafure, becaufe, if ultimately we were driven to appeal to the GOD o f Battles, in fupport of Right, it was proper ghat we lhould have the Goo of Ju flice on our fide. Lord HAWICESIVICY faid, he felt there was fume ground of complaint refpeEting the abides which ekilled, and that it was therefore neceffary to apply a remedy to them ; at the fame time be agreed with his Learned Friend, that the States snoft aggrieved were not thofe with whom we had been on the eve of a conteft ; and he be lieved in point of fact, that no perfons had been more aggrieved by the decisions of thole Courts than his Majefly's SubjeBs. The Honourable Gentleman however feemed to infer that the pre. fent difpute mull have originated in Come abufes of this kind, but he would pofitively alien, that whatever complaints were made, full and -ample fatisfaEtion was offered, and that Isis Majelly's Minitlers were ready to liften to every reprcfenta tion, and to give every redrefs. Even at the very time when they were exprefling their determina tion to fupport thofe principles which they con t ceived effential to the intereft and dignity of this country, they profeffed and declared their willing. ads to adopt any regulations which thole States might think Ids galling and inconvenient, provided they were not inconfiftent with the great princi ples for which they were contending. He thought it right to explain himfelf thus much, becaufe though the abufes might be exaggerated, there certainly was Tome ground of complaint. It was nothis intention now to go into the circumftanccs winch led to the prefent dfpute, but in answer to the obfervation that the Houle had been called won to fanCtion the conduEt of Minifters, without having fuflicient evidence before them, he begged to late that the Houle was not called upon to give any opinion upon the condutl of Minitlers; the only queftion which the Houfe was called up on to decide was, whether the principle for which they were contending was one which it was the duty and intereft of Parliament to maintain ? As to any communication upon this fubjeCt at the 'relent moment, be would nate his fentiments to the Houle. He fhould not have the fmalleft 0b..1 ttion to all the information being laid before PParliament, becaufe he was Cure it would be con vinced that no blame could be attached to the King's Minifters. His only reafon for oppofutg its produEtion now, was, that as a Negotiation of great importance was pending, and as there was great reafon to hope that it might put an end to the difpute between this Country and all thole Powers, he left it to the Houfe to confider, whe ther under thefe circumftances it would be right to bring forward thefe communications now, and to enter into all the neceffary difcuflions and explan ations ?—This was his only obje&ion to laying them before the Houfe ; the day would come when the conduit of Minifters might be examined into, and when it did come, it would, he was lure, appear that Minifters had faithfully performed their duty. - tdr.Nicitotts was of opinion, that the conduit dour Vice-Admiralty Courts abroad had conui butitimore than any thing befide to render the Maritime Right which we infifted on, odious to Foreign Nations. He believed that the Ameri cans had been difgulled on the fame account, for be had heard, that when their veffels were detain ed, during the early period of the War, that they rather chofe to abandon making any claims, than to fubmit to the delay, expence, and vexation of snaking them in our Courts. Now that the fub jell was brought forward, he hoped that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would confider the need. fity of reviling the whole fyftem of Prize Caufes, fo as to prevent Foreign Nations from having any core of complaint, and he would fuggell the neeeffity of determining that no Judge in any of the Vice-Admiralty Courts lhould derive any emolument from the condemnation of prize Teets, as well as that no one who had not taien a degree in our Courts of Civil Law, or been admitted - to the Bar in the Englith Courts, (hould prefide in thefe Courts. Mr. Hosmooss did not think that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had made the prefcnt Motion, had fatisfadorily accounted for the long delay of calling the attention of the Hoare, and of the Public, to a fiibjed of fo great importance ; it was not brought forward till after nine years of war.—lt was ufing too mild a term to call the grofs abufes which had been prodired in the Vice- Admiralty Courts, by the name of Errors. From the facility with which prizes had been con demned in the Weft India Iflands, he verily be lieved that the Judges there were corrupt, that they had !hares of property in the cruisers, and that when veffels were brought in, they were rather difpofed to condemn than to rellore them to the owners. This he inferred from the great number of [ententes which had been reverfed upon. appeals to this country. For one Caufe which bad been affirmed, twenty had been reverfed.— The wrong decifions in thefe Courts, together with the expence and delay attending caufes of ap. peal, he believed had had their (hare, along with other caufes, of producing the Northern Confedcr- Ey. Mr. Hobhoufe then proceeded to fpcak highly in praife of the talents, impartiality, and at liduity of the Learned Judge of Admiralty (Sir W. Scott). With regard to what the Noble Lord had faid as to the offers made to Foreign Powers, cfcorreding there decifions of the Vice-Admiralty Courts, he believed that fuch offers were not made till our fleet had proceeded to the attack of Co- Penhagen. Sir W. SCOTT fpoke in explanation. He raid he did not believe that abufes had exiftcd to the extent that was fuppofed. The number of [ententes reverfed, was by no means a kill criterion by which to judge of fuch abufes. With regard to the delay, he declared that it was the intention of his Majefty's former Minifters to bring the fubjed forward ; and fo far as it relied with him, Gentle men might not be aware how difficult a matter it was to bring forward fuch alterations as could be 1),!t into execution, and in a matter wherein the king's Prerogative was concerned. Wissiavonci vindicated the Admiralty. Court in this Countrf, with regard to the expenee and delay attending Caufes in that Court. The Learned Judge (Sir W. Scott) who prefided, had got through a great mail of bufinefs aftet entering into office, which fcarcely any other man could have done, and Which would fcrve to promote the fpeedicr decifion of eludes in future. Mr. MARTIN faid a few words, and Mr. WIL BERFORCE explained. Leave was then given to bring in a Bill. WAYS AND MEANS. The Houfe then went into a C'ontnnittee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EICCHEOSIER moved, that it was the opinion of the CoMmittee that the charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia for England, for one year, from the 25th March, r Bor, and alfo the Allowance to certain Subaltern Officers, and to the Adjutants, Serjeant-Majors, and Serjeants of Militia difbanded, be paid out of the Monies arifing from the Land• Tax granted for the fervice of iBot. Mr. CORRY obferved, that by the At of Union; a Countervailing Duty was to be put upon Spirits Milled in this country, and imported into Ire land ; it became nece ff ary, therefore, to put the Diflillers in this country upon an equal footing with the Dillillers in Ireland; he therefore moved, that it was the opinion of this Committee that an additional Countervailing Duty of as. per gallon be charged on every gallon of wine-meafure of Spirits Milled from Wall; in Ireland, and im-• ported into England. The Refolunons were agreed to, and the Houle being rcfumed, the Report was ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. The Committees on the IrifL Sugar Dillillery Bill, and the Committee of Supply, were deferred till Friday. The Elephant-oil Au&ion Duty Exemption Bill, was read a fecond time, and committed for to morrow. _ _ _ Mr. CORRY at the Bar Rated, that his Majelly had been waited upon with the Addrefs of the Houle, relative to the Account of Offices of Profit and Emolument in Ireland, as they are aftually holden by Members of the Houk of Commons, and that he had been gracioufly pleafed to , give di reaions that fuch Account be prepared accord. ingly. Mr. Corry afterwards brought up Paid Ac count, which was ordered to lie on the Table. The Foreign Hop Irifh Importation Bill was read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow. ..... _ _ Mr. VANSITTAILT brought up an Account rela tive to the Expenditure of Monies iffued from the Exchequer. The Committee of Supply was deferred till Friday. At half-pafk fix, the Houfe adjourned till to morrow. LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 33. PRICE 07 STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Confola 601 I — 4W. sg—New 5 per Cent. 93} 94 — Old 5 per C. 94 9s—Ornnium 8 If 4 f. PRICE Or STOCKS YESTERDAY_I_ _ Bank Stock 165 164 9 Cent. 1 - 0 1. 931.1 3 per Cent. Red.3l _ Long Ann. a z713-167S 1-76 3 per Cent. Co.. S 6off Short Ann. S r-16 4 Pee Cent. 771 1 Omntum 6/ 7 84 8 S per C Nan Conf. fur May r9f 601 Yeflerday, after our Paper was at Prefs, the Hamburgh mail, which was due in the morning, arrived, and brought intelligence that M. Le cAsEwITCH had received orders from the Court of Ruffia to acquaint Admiral PARAEIt that the Est- i tEllolt was difpofed to adjuff, in an amicable man ner, the differences between Ruffia and Great i Britain. A fwift ailing veffel had been difpatch ed after Admiral PARKIN. with this intelligence, to prevent the confequences of a meeting with the Ruffian fquadron, which was at fea, and had been feen off Deland. By the fame Packet a blefrenger arrived with moR important Government difpatchcs from Ber lin and Copenhagen. The fubilance of which was immediately notified to the Public by the follow. ing Letter addrelled to the LORD Maroa : " LOAM, "Downing- amt. April 29. tgot. " I have great fatiafatlion in informing you, that by letters received this day from Lord Came sro r and Sir James CRAWFORD, the Courts of Berlin and Copenhagen have de termined to re-open the rivers of the North of Germany, and that all 'tetra' whatever will be allowed to navigate thofe Rivers without moldtation. • I beg your Lordthip win tun the goodnefs to make this intelligence a+ public as poilltde In the City. • I have the Honour to be, &e. &c. &e. O " NAWRIUMM" Further difpatches hare, it is faid, been received from Egypt, and feveral reports are in confequence afloat refpeiting our lofs. One account Rates the total killed and wounded up to the 'aft date of Lord KEITH'S difpatches at 350 killed, and 750 wounded; another at 350 killed in landing, and 750 killed in the nest ation, which was on the 13th of March. Others give the whole killed and wounded, up to the 14th, at 1 too, being 350 killed and 750 wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Theism', of the 42d regiment, is killed; Ma- ijor OGLE, of the 58th, killed; Major Vtcoasuz, of the 9oth, killed; Lieutenant Walsall, of the Guards (only fon of Sir J. B. WARM), killed; Lieutenant-Colonel EasxlYP, of the 92d, has loft a leg. Government, we underhand, have received a lift of the killed and wounded, which they do not publith from etiquette, it having been tranfmitted by Lord Kama, and not by Sir R. Assacloseatr. The Gazette account mentions that Lord Kure fuppofed a general attack to have Likes place oa the 44th, but the French fay there wits nothing but demnnilrations, excepting die attack on Abou kir, the refult of which the enemy have tint Rated. It is alio reported that the difpatehei bring ac counts of otir army being in poffelnoil of Aboukir. Some reports even went to far as to Rate, that the whole of Mrnnv's army had capittilited; but we have not been able to trace them td any au thentic fource. • An overland difpatch from the Eait Indieihrings advice, that eleven thoufand European and Native troops failed from Bombal., on the 2 oth of Deccan the Red Sea, in order to cooperate .with Sir RALPH ASILICROMBir. They were efcorted by Admiral BLANKET'S fquadron. This morning we received Palls Journals of the 26th infant. Their contents which are not of much importance, will be found in a preceding column. Her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES took an air ing yefterday morning in their can•iages to Rich mond Park. ...-..- - The KING after being engaged in Lis library reading difpatches, walked in Kew Gardens till dinner time. Yellerday Sir WILLIAM COCKBURN had an in terview with the PRINCE of IVALi.s at Carlton- Haute, and delivered to his Royal Highncfs dif patches from the NABOB of Arcot, and the Car natic. _ _ _ Yeflerday the &II regiment of Royal EaR-India Volunteers had a grand field-day in the Company's ground at Iflington. The troops compofing the three regiments have been furnifhed with new caps , fimilar to thole worn by the Guards, with the dif ference of the Company's arms in the center. The recruits are expeaed lhortly to pratice firing with ball cartridge. It appears by the accounts on the table of the Houle of Commons, that the expence of colleding the Income Tax amounts to 152,0°01. per annum, fomething lets than 6-td. in the pound ; and that the Hop I)uty for lall year amounted to 73,0001. Sir HYDE PARKER, it is now confidently Rated, has been re-called from the command of the Baltic Fleet,- and Lord NELSON has been appointed to the Chief Command. His Lordihip had, we believe, entertained a wills to return to England; and ac counts from Copenhagen, received yefterday, !late, Ithat he had requefted Pakports from the Court of Denmark for Hamburgh, but we prcfume the new arrangement which has been made will change his Lordlhip's deft ination. The Sr. G °ROE, of 98 guns, his Lordlhip's Flag Ship, was the only Line of Battle flap remaining off Copenhagen, after the departure of Sir HYDE. PARKER for the Baltic, which took place on the evening of the 16th. Many circumftances are fpoken of refpeaing the condo& of the Baltic Fleet, which we deem of too delicate a nature to be publicly Rated at prefent. Private accounts from Paris Rate, that the ut moft difcontent prevailed there at the condud of Rear-Admiral GARTH E•UME, in confequence of his not having perfilled in his attempt to get to Egypt. Upon the intelligence being received of his having put into Toulon, Bow APAKTE tent off a courier im mediately, ordering him to put to lea the moment he received thefe orders. Gas THsAussa did not obey till come days afterwards (the 19th ult.) al ledging the bad condition of his !hips, and the da mage they had fullained in the voyage from Breft ; ancirequefted an examination into his condud.— It was reported at Paris, when the account was brought, that GAIITNEAUSIs had returned to Tou lon, which he did two or three days after his fail ing, that the CHIEF CONSUL had immediately fo perfeded him by the appointment of Admiral BRUI Xto the command. Sir JOHN WARREN had tailed from Naples on the 19th, the day Gas- TN EAU ME left Toulon, and was cruifing for him off Sardinia. The new Government of Turcany, finding it im poffible to make an adequate provifion for the Re publican army, have, with the permiffion of Ge neral MURAT, reigned their offices. A Letter from Hamburgh Rates the following circumßances ref ding the death of Palm I. : 44 A few days before his death, Pain I. tent to his Senate two Ukafes, &firing them to pals and in fen them in the Code of Laws. The object of thofe decrees was to banifh the now EM PILE Dowager and her Grand children to Siberia, with the exception „ OE Duke L.ONSTANTIN VAULOWITSCH, the EMPEROR'S favourite. Decrees to barbarous and unnatural revolted the feelings of the Senate to filch a degree, that it was refolved unanimoully to declare the EMPEROR HON comps Ntfltal, to com pel him to abdicate the throne, and to keep him in fate cuftody in tome fortrefs for the remainder of his life. At the fame time it was agreed upon to proclaim his eldeß fon ALEXANDER I. as his fuc ceffor, making him fign previoufly the Ukafes which have fince appeared, and' exacting a pro- mile that he fhould govern the Empire according to the spirit of the laws enacted by his grandmo ther, CATHERINE the Great. " PAUL appeared as 111421 in the Senate, in ex peaation of finding the ratification of his man dates ; but lnftead of that, the a& of abdication was propofed to him for his fignature. Inflamed with rage, he loaded the Senate with execrations, and was going to attack Come of the Members with favage ferocity, when he was forcibly re (trained, and fuffocated in the fcuffie. Some re ports fay, that one of the Senators, during the ftruggle, came from behind, and ftrangleci him with his own fcarf. 44 ALEXANDER, the new Emperor, was imme diately called, and acquainted with the caufe of his father's death, and his cruel decrees- againft himfelf, mother, and family. After fume hefita dOli ALEXANDER fined the inftruments and writ ings laid before him, and was proclaimed Em peror of all the Ruffias." Of the truth of fuck reports as thefe, it is im poffitilc to (peak with certainty ; but if the general fads be true, tome of the particulars are Dot ithrly • ever to be divulged. RorAi . AtAbimr. St. eta/M . .6'4 VV4l4.—.Not an unfuceefsful imitafloti of the lea Mer of bforland, but the Rik . of penciling is far inferior to that Of the mailer whom Mr. W. feems to have ftudied with tome advantage. ozi4. Mt. wed Mrs. IA YsZtYlou, as Ilmetlet aai .4a:—R. K. PORTER. —A better likenefs of the dy than of the Gentleman. The fpirit of the paffage of Shakefpear from which this pidurc is painted is not very corredly conceived, but this perhaps may be more the fault of the performers than of the artitl.--Hantlet's naked knee is made triappear as though he had fallen down and knock. ed all the &in off ? an idea not extremely poetical. 79. Portrait of the Dale of rod. Sir W. BEECHEY. —This is neither a g ood likcncfs of the face nor perfon of his Royal Highnefs : the former rather gives the idea of an officer ftepped out for an air ing from a debauch in a holiday camp, than of a warrior whofe brow is laden with the cares of an actual campaign, what the fcenery of the pilure would feem to intimate.—The mechanical execu tion of the whole is however good. 80. Vetch for a painted suintLeta.—B. WEST, R. A. —Confidered as a compofitioft, the Prefident never produced a finer pidure than this ; all its parts arc admirably balanced, and in different degrees fubor. dinate to the principal defign, which is that of the miraculous converfion of St. Paul ; the forms in troduced are, however, all familiar to us, as are the faces of the principal figures.—The colouring, like the general defign, is well harmonized. 83. Poetry.—G. EcxsTEIN.—A fanciful allego• ry, poffeffing much of the whim of Hogarth, but the drawing is not extremely correil, and the co louring is not clean. 86. Portrait of Mr. _7. Kembk.—M. A. SHEr, R. A.—A very good likenefs of this popular ador, of which, however, confidering the multiplicity of piCtures before the public, it is almoft impoffible for a painter of any talent to fail.—Mr. K. is nos here reprefented in any charader. 106. di La,/ r frape:, St. John preaching.—E. GAR. v Ey, R. A.— his is no more than a (ketch, but it is a very good one.—The defign is, however, all that recommends it. Mr. G. feems to have be flowed no confideration whatever upon the co louring. 114. The Call of Samuel.—Mrs. Cosway.—There is lefs affeEtation in this than in many of Mrs. C.'s former produCtions, but there is alfo a want of de ration in the charader of the juvenile prophet; it is however a well drawn figure, and the light and fhade are fo managed as to produce a rather bril liant effect. _. . The Portraits in this Exhibition are exceedingly numerous, and In many inflances of great merit; but it is impoflible not to difapprove that facility by which fo many of theft have been, on this oc. cation, received into the Exhibition Rooms. We obferve, with concern, that molt of theft portraits reprefent the perfons whole features they copy, with no particular exprcffion in the countenance but that of a perfortitting for bit paw?. Now, there is perhaps I no fituation in which any one can look more foolilh. It is unqueftionably injudicious in a very high de. tree, in our portrait painters, to draw thofe who it to them, either in this foolifh attitude, or in any of thofe romantic and affeEted lituations which people will fometimes eagerly chufe to thew them. felves in. _ _ ._..__ .... The Miniatures are numerous, and in not a few inltances excellent. The Brisham Corps of Volunteers, for not doing their duty in oppofing the rioters about prow icons, are to be difbanded. On Wednefday evening the sad init. the [table of Mr. MUAII AY, of New,Ladykirk, in Berwick (hire, was difcovered to be on fire, but not until it had got to fo great a height as to render all at• tempts to extinguifh it, and to lave the horfes, in effedual. The horfes were all, to the number of fourteen, burnt to death. On the morning of Friday the zyth inft. a Rack of wheat, value asol. the property of Mr. Esau sit of Dean Park, in the county of Salop, was dif: covered to be in flames, and there is reafon to be lieve the fame was wilfully and malicioufly fet on fire. Late in the night of the ryth inf. the dwelling houfe of Gsoaea BLitt s, Baker, in the town of Ply mouth-Dock, was wilfully and malicioullyfet on fire. Yefterday morning a fire fuddinly broke out in the (tables or barns of Mr. DOCK say, a farmer of Ultiag in Elia, which very foon confumed the fame ; the principal inhabitants of Malden fent down their parilh fire engines immediately on hear ing of the accident t and it is hoped that they ar rived in time to fave the houfe and corn-flacks. The apartments of Mrs. Follett, of Covent-Gap. den Theatre, were robbed on Friday evening, about ten o'clock, of her watch, with a white eor nelian feal, by a man whofe appearance was that of a Gentleman. He pretended urgent bufinefs, and requefted to write a letter that mutt have a dire& anfwer, which he would wait for while the letter was conveyed to the Theatre.—The fervant. knowing her miftrefs had fome law bufinefs to fet tle, did not (envie to admit him, and, though not abfcnt two minutes, the man had abfconded with the watch. The fame perfon called a fort night before, but hearing Mrs. Follett was foon expeßed home, Laid he would call again. On Tuefday fennight, a man named Donovan, was apprehended at Leith by two officers belong ing to Bow-ftreet, juft as he had landed from on board a vac' from Hamburgh. He was that evening examined by the Sheriff of Edinburgh, and fent off for London next morning. Foactar.—Yefterday Mk& Slower was brought before Ws cuall KIIIMAIRN Efq. at the Public Of fice, Bow-ftreet,charged by Thomas Boote,grocer. of Piccadilly, with uttering a Bill of Exchange for 401. purporting to be drawn by John Bond, Efq. of Change-alley, Cornhill, which proved to be a for gery. The prifoner, dreffed in a naval uniform, had paid this Bil! to the profeentor for goods to the amount of 181. The prifoner not being able to give a fatisfattory account how he became pof ,feffed of the note, was committed for further ex ' alination.