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BUSSI.4. PETiRSIMIGH, FRI. y.—By an ukafe from the Emperor to the Senate, the College of the Exche quer, with its departments, has been altogether fuppreffed, as it has been fhewn, that with refpeEt to the farming of the diftillery, which hitherto has been one of the principal bufineffes of the College of Exchequer, and which, for better regulation, and for the benefit of the Crown and individuals, has been committed to the Court of the Exche quer, the exigence of the College has not only been ufelefs, but prejudicial to the courfe of thefe things, as it has only delayed them between the Court and the Senate. Orders have, therefore, been given to promote the Vice-Prefidefit, the Members, and the Agent of this College, as well as the perfons belonging to the Chancery, to other Offices in preference, according to their rank, and to pay them once for all a year's falary, that they may not, in the mean time, fuller any diftrefs. FI.BRUARY9.—In the new houfehold,cftablillted the ill of January (old (Lyle), there are now of the firft rank, a Lord Chamberlain, a Lord Stew aid, a Lord Martha], a Grand Almoner, a Chief Matter of the Bode, a Mailer of the Pages, and a Lady Chamberlain—of the fccond rank, a Stew ard, a Marlhal, a Surveyor of the Stables, a Maf ter of the Huntfmen, and a Houfekeeper: to thefe are added a Mailer and a Miftrefs of the Ceremo nies : to the Lord Chamberlain belong :2 Cham berlains, t 2 Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, a Di- reaor of the Corps of Pages, a Governor the Pages, with an affiftant, 12 Pages of the Chamber, and 48 Pages. To the Medical Ettablifliment of the Court belong four Phyficians in Ordinary, four Surgeons in Ordinary, an Accoucheur, Dentift, an Affillant to the latter, four Dators of the Court, four Surgeons of the Court, three Sur geons of the Staff, and three Surgeon Pupils. FLISRUARY t I.—By a moll gracious nkare of the Emperor, the Pallor Selma of Rannen, in Livonia, who had been, under the late Govern ment, unjuftly punifhed and baniffied to Siberia, to hard labour, has been reflored to his prieftly office, and on the Bth he was formally confecrated in St. Ann's church here, by the Provoft Ram soTr, who, on the command of the College of Juftice, had been obliged to degrade him. He receives a petition of 750 rubles, as the half of the rum of his receipts in his former office. This peti tion he holds till he receive another living, becaufe that of Ranncn, from which be was dragged, is already full. By the affembly lately held of the nobility here, in which, in conformity to their reftored privileges, new Judges were chofen. the formerly Aro. juted Court of Confcience is again efiablifited, and dges appointed to it. PRUSSIA. Bettis, Fee. 17.—At Breflau, on the t tth Lost LUTZ, Profeffor in Williams-fchool, who had deferved much praife for his attention to the Jewilh youth, died at the age of 41. The Kim° has nominated the ProfelTor Extra ordinary at Leipzic, Mr. F. B. We s R on account of his profound learning, to be Profe for in Ordi nary of CEconomy in the Philofophical Faculty of the Univerfity of Frankfort on the Oder. FIRM.' ART so. — Some wealthy families here have entered into an engagement to fupport the poor by preparing Rumford foup for diltribution. For the furtherance of this benevolent undertak ing, so rizdollars have, within thefe few days, been prefented by the Canino : the fame fociety has, for the further fupport of the poor, fent a prefent of soo rizdollars. The French AmbatTador, General Bautecon rms.', has this day fet out with Colonel Bettaie and the Secretary of Legation Ros s iv, for Pettis. The Secretary of Legation Bic NON, who remains here, will, till the arrival of another Ambaffador, concluet the bufinefs of the French Embaffy. Ac cording to report, either Louts Bo` ararrr, or General Leci.llllC, is appointed fucceffor to Gene. ral BIVRIIONVILLB. His Majelly has been pleated to appoint Mr. PAUL Hasse, banker here, and undertaker of an eminent woollen-manufaeory, as Privy Connfellor of Commerce, on account of a manufatiory of cloth eflablillted at Potfdam, in which very excel lent cloths are worked. Plummer : .— The Hereditary P R I N CI of OR *mos has fettled in his South PruEtn poffetlions many colonifts from the territory of IslAtTan, who give an example worthy of imitation, not only with refpea to agriculture, but Alfia ufcful occupa. tions. In particular, a inannfaflory of wcollen gloves and flocking', of almoft zoo perfons, is car ried on in the little town of Stenkzewo, three miles from Pofen, and in the furronnding diftrift. As they work principally for exportation, failors' caps, as they are called, will alto be manufalured. The Privy Counfellor TocLI as has the fuperintendance of there inftitutions, and all the finance concerns of the Prince in South Prufria.4 At Fraufladt,inflead of 252 lionfes,which have been burnt down, there will be built, within fix years, too (mall, and 6o large, each two florics, and for two families : for this purpofe 230,000 dollars have been advanced by the Kitio. FEBRUARY 27.—The day before yeflerday, the baptifm of the newly born Princefs took place in the palace Radzivill. The King, both (lirscas, and all the Royal Princes and Princeffes, were the fponfors prefent. Of thole, who were abfent, the heredirary Princefi of MICKLENDI/R0 SCHWERIN was one, and the young Princefs HILENA aged as her proxy. The Emprefs Dowager of Ruffla has fcnt the Privy Connienor EaMANN, a very gracious letter, under her own hand, and a ring. with brilliants, as a te ft imony of her high fatisfaeion on occafion of the memoirs publifhed, fur la Vie de /a Rave So pl:e (Marlow , . The Royal Aftronomical Obfcrvatory here has received, as a prefent from Drefilen, from 'the worthy Members of the Academy of :es, an aftronomical pervlnhtin clock, of the invention, and prothmed by the induflry of .nitts Mr. 6xvi FEL ;otely mane of 1 ' ficlomci newel' the SAIDEN. STOC [SALM, hi. 9.—A pennon for life has been granted by his Majeily to the widow of Mr. Ha LA tio,lately deeeafed, whn had been for twenty years Swedilh Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Drefden. The propofition of an exchange of fomc of the territories of Mechlenburgh for Tome of thole of Pruflia, in orderthereby to facilitate thc hulinefs of the indemnities,has received aslitt le countenance at Peterfburgh as at Berlin. FEB. I2.—For the purpofe of extending the plantation of potatoes in Finland, his Majelly has not only given to the difpofition of the Finland Agricultural Society ro,ooo rix dollars, but by a proclamation declared his will, that every Fin land hufbandman mull plant yearly a certain por tion of land, according to the extent of his occupa tion, with this root. The defaulters are, as a pu nifhment, to exped no rapport in corn from the Royal magazines in any year of fcarcity. In connthion with the well known canal ellab lifhment at Trolihattan, a large (hip dock has been formed there with great cxpence, wh,:re great and large (hips may be repaired to the bell advantage. P4RLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUVDAY, MARCH 9. The vartoes Bills before the Houfe were fonvarded in their refpeetive fines. ... The Greenland Whale Fifhery Bounty Bill was brought up from the Commons by Lord G se, and read a firtt time. • Sir W. LEMON. Mr. ASTLICT, and other Gentlemen, brouz,ht up priv.dc Bills. which were alfo fercrally rcad a Eat time. Their Lordiliips poftposed giving judgment relative to the Scotch Appeal Sent v. Brodie. The Order of the pay was read for the hearing of Counfel and evidence on Crewe's Divorce Bill, which florid for a fecond reading this day ; and accordingly, Mr. Adam, as Counfel for the Peti tioner, was called to the Bar. This cafe was before their Lord Chips LIR Sef lion, when no decifion upon the Bill was made.— Connie' and evidence were then regularly heard, and at confiderible length. There proceedings were duly reported by us, which, in the prefent inßance, precludes the neceffity of a detailed Rate tnent. However, for the information of fuch of our Readers as may not then have had an oppor tunity of pending our accounts, or of thofe who may pollibly have forgot the circumnances, we Rate very briefly the following &etch : The petitioner, Richard Crewe, of Cheltenham, Efquire, (a younger brother of John Crewe, of Crewehall, Cheflare, Efquire,) it appeared, was married in November, 1780, at Kingllon, in Ja maica, to Millborough Allprefs, a daughter of Samuel Allprefs, Efquire, of Spanilli Town • that the Petitioner lived with his Lady un til March, 1799, when he ciifcovered that an unlawful inter courfe had taken place between Mrs. Crewe and Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Baronet ; that in confequence the Petitioner brought his aftion in the Court of Ring's Bench again[ Sir Henry, who fuffered judgment to go by def a ult ; but on a ' Writ of Inquiry taking place, he was awarded 30001. damages and colts; and, in July, ;Roo, he obtained a fentence of divorce a menja et •iboro in the Eccleflaßical Courts. There general faits tranfpired from the Counfel's ftatement, who argued with his ufual ability in favour oldie Petitioner's claim to the interpofition of the Legiflature, and tiated, that as no decifion had taken place lan Seflion refpeting a timilar bill brought in on behalf of the Petitioner, the rule of their Lordfhips' proceedings required, that the cafe ibould begin anew, and the neceffary fats above fet forth, should be regularly fulallantiated again in evidence. On this latter point there appeared to prevail a degree of difficulty, namely, the neeeffity of de tailing the evidence viva voce at the Bar ' • that given in the lafk S:tlien having been printed, and for tome time before the lloufe. Some explana tory converfation took place between the Learn ed Counfel, and the Lord Chancellor upon the point. The latter, in concluding, obferved, that though the regularity of their Lordfhips' pro ceedings required the prodation of a new Bill, in confequence of a prorogation of Parliament inter vening, yet that did not apply to the evidence, which till remained good, as a record, before the Houk Lord CATHCART teeming to entertain doubts as to this point, the Counter was ordered to with draw, and his Lordll4 proceeded to Rate his fen timents upon the fubjed. He deprecated at the fame time every nnnecefrary degree of publicity on loch occafions, and adverted to the numerous publications of detailed evidence in pamphlets, &c. which were often illuarated with indecent copper. plates, and circulated, with great indultry, to the great injury of public morals, and the general corruption of the youth of both fens. He ap prehended it was to avoid publicity as much as poffible that parties were induced often to let judg ment go by default, which precluded the need fity of detailed evidence. However, in fuch a cafe as the prefent, he thought the proceedings thould commence Is novo, though on the grounds he bad Rated, he teemed to think that printing the evidence anew might be difpenfed with. The LORD CHANCELLOR obferved, that the mil: underaanding had arifen from what had paled, perhaps rather irregularly, in the way of conver fation between him and the Learned Counfel.— Whatever may be rcquifite as to the Bill, (till the evidence given haft &Ilion remained in the nature of a record; it was not only printed and before the Houfe, but on their Lordfltips' journals, and that it exifted as a record, nothing could more clearly prove, than that the parties were liable to be indicted for perjury if they had fwore falfely therein. With refpe& to the printing of the evi dence, it was like every other proceeding of that Houfe, a queftion for the difcretion ofiheir Lord (hips, when they fhould authorize, or when re (train ; in di& views, the danger of ahufe fhould he ferionfly confidcred, and in the ilia:owes where that Bionic, take place. their Lordthips ought not to content themfelves with talking about it. He agreed with the Noble Lord, that trials and cafes of that nature were too frequently publifhed and circulated, not with a view to convey legal infor mation or datrine to the public, but chiefly for the purpofes adverted to by the Noble Lord. He did not mean then to allude, in the leaft, to the right or propriety of publifhing the proceedings in the Courts below, but with that Houle the cafe was clearly different, their Lordfhips were the confervators of their own privileges. With refpedl to the printing of the evidence in quellion, it did not ftrike him, that any thing of an indecent na. ture had tranfpired, as he (hould have held it in cumbent on him to have fuggefted to their Lord. (hips, the poillbility of abufe in the way he had hated. There was one point, however, which fell from the Noble Lord, in which he differed moft materially from him ; and that was his obferva lion, that in many cafes, the motives for letting judgment go by default, was to preclude an unne ceff.try publicity of evidence : On the contrary, it was his moft decided opinion, that in nine cafes out of ten, judgment was fuffered to go by default from motives of Collusion. It was then allow :d Mr. Adam to proceed, and call the witnelfes, beginning with Dr. Mofely, who was prefent at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Crewe, at his own houfe, in Kingtion, in Jamaica, and proceeding regularly to Mary Hawkins, now Ma ry Cooper (by marriage). who lived sac a fervent with Mrs. Crewe. Mt. Cowper, Clerk of the Route, read the evi dence minutely and di flintily to each witnefs ; and Mr. Adam, at the end of the evidence of each, put the queftion, " Was that a true ftatement of their evidence P' To which they feverally replied, " It wis." Mr. Adam then proceeded to put a fcw addi tional gneflions to Mary Hawkins, and having finiflied with hcr, informed the Honfe, that Wil liam Shepherd, the fcrvant of Mr. Crewe, had been ferved with a notice to attend the Houfe, and give his evidence, but that he did not attend. Some little converfation then took place in the Houfc, as to the day on which the further proceed ing on that Divorce Bill (hould be adjourned, but the Loan CHANCELLO R recommended Monday next, on which day, if it appeared to be advifeable, it would be open to any Noble Lord to move a fur• ther adjournment of it.—His Lordfhip hinted that the prefent inclination of his mind was againfi the Houfe proceeding with the Bill, but that on Mon day next, or whenever they thought proper, they might examine Mr. Crewe or not as their dif cretion might incline them. It (lands, therefore, for next Monday.—The Honfe immediately Ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Colonel LONO►etLD prefer ted a Peddon from the Debton confined hi the Gaol of the City of Cork, praying relief.—Or dered to lie on the table. Mr. Stamm gave notice that he Wald, on Thurfday next, move for leave to bring in a Bill for diftinguilling the induf trims from other Poor, and hie more Weaselly c on t ro lli ng the powers and examinin g the accounts of with Overfeers, ace. The Hook in a Committee went through the One Mika Exchequer Bills Bill, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Report of the t',lnlilicatlon Indemnity Bill was received, the Claufe for the Relief of Printers was agreed to, and he Bill ordered to be read a third time tomorrow. The Report of the Cinnamon Duty Bill was received, agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time tomorrow. An Account was prefented from the India-Houle of the co venanted Servants of the EA-India Company, with the dates of their appointments, and the amount of their Salaries. GOVIWIENT ACCIPTANCEII. Mr. Ronson rote, purfuant to notice, to move for the produaion of an account from the Sick and Hurt Office, which was, he faid, of the ut molt importance, and which, from what had pat ted on the fubj ea of a bill refuted to be p a id at that o ffi ce, he thought it peculiarly his duty to bring forward. Should the Houfe think proper to accede to his Motion, he hoped to be able to follow it up with the propofition of a meafure which would be calculated to prevent the repeti tion of an event fuch as bad been to often alluded to. It was not his will to perfift in the difcuffion of this bufinefs, but he was goaded into it; for words bad been put into his mouth which he had nevei uttered, and his expreflions had been grofsly mifreprefentcd. When he Rated the fan which teemed to give fo much offence to the other fide of the Houle, it was at firft doubted, then abfo lutely contradkled, and afterwards it was attempt ed to be evaded; it was alto threatened to have his words taken down. This made it neceffary for him to go farther. The Right Hon. Gentle. man on the Treafury Bench appeared to be much alarmed at the novelty of the incident relpeaing the refufal of this bill, after having been twelve months in office, and after four days enquiry.— The Minifter will, bad the management of feventy millions of the public money annually, came for ward and declared that the fiatement he had made on this, queftion was corral, and that he, the Mi. oilier, was ignorant that fuch things frequently occurred at the Government Offices—a ftrong proof, no doubt, of his vigilance and attention to official duty. But if the Houfe would order the produaion of the account he moved for, he pledg ed himfelf to prove a number of fuch - events at the public offices, though what he on a former night i defcribed was called a " folitary inftance" ; and though he was treated by the oppofite fide of the Houfe as if he had aliened a grofs falfehood, he would prove that this prat:Hee of poftponing the payment of bills goes to an extent that demands the interference of Parliament. He fhould (hew, that although the Chancellor of the Exchequer had need that only one bill had been refuted, that bills to the amount of feveral thoufand pounds had experienced a fimilar fate. If fo, it timely deferred the mot ferious enquiry, and he could affure the Houfe, that fuch was the general ru mour, confirmed by letters which he had revived from feveral refpeetable merchants in the city. He would therefore appeal to the city Members, whe ther Government bills were as well regarded as to punauality, as thofe of private Merchants ? He had no doubt if he were to be guided by the fend ments of the City Merchants, they would join with him in his endeavours to correa the evil com plained of. He hoped alto that Minifters would fur once take his advice, (a laugh) and adopt a Motion that mightlerve to prate& their cbarVler. He then moved, "That there be laid before the Houle an account of all bills drawn on the Sick and Hurt Office, with the dates when drawn, when accepted, when due, and when paid, from the t a of December, tBoz, up to the latell period at which the fame could be made out." Mr. JONES fecoadeal the Motion. Mr. DICKER sox, jun. difapproved of the condit4 of both parties engaged in the difcullion of this bufinefs. He thought Adminiflration wrong in feeling fo much alarm, and the Hon. Gentleman on the oppofite fide not lefs wrong in perfiding in a point certainly untenable as to the application he feemed to make of it; for obvioully, the event he alluded to regarding the bill at the Sick and l!tn Office, had no more to do with the infolvency Government than it could have with the payinc:.: of the national debt—and he could not fee that ic was material to the honour or charther of tl.i: Hon. Gentleman to obtain the invelligation propofed, or to perfevere in a difctillion of this na ture : and as the fentiments likely to be delivered in the courfe of it might make an injurious im preffion on the Continent, where Newfpaper re ports had more influence than, from the g0,.,t fenfe of the people, they could obtain in this country—he ffiould oppofe the Motion. The CHANCELLOR of the Excamyea agreed, that too much importance had been attached to this matter ; yet, as the Hon. Gentleman had de clared fo explicitly, at leaft in his conception, that the Government was infolvent, he thought it his duty, in jullice to the Country, the Government, and that Houfe, to make the fulleft enquiry. .The affertion of the Hon. Gentleman demanded that attention. As to the obfervations of the I ion. Gen tleman this day, they were not more didingtiiffied for accuracy than his obfervations ufually were. It was not the fad that his flatements on a former day refpeding the bill fo often alluded to, were pofitively contradicted—the truth was, a. to him felf, that he then faid lie would enquire, and hate the refult of his enquiry to the Houfe, but that did not pre-fuppofe that fuch refult would be incon. Rent with the flatement of the Hon. Centkman. He was aware that it was not regular to refer to former debates, but on this occation it was nee:A . - fary, and he would obferve, that if he underfloor! the Hon. Gentleman correctly, his remarks applied to a fingle bill for 191. 1 3 5. 41 to that alone the complaint was confined. Every particular, the, e fore, refpeding that bill, he bad endeavoured to learn, and intlead of being four days engaged in his fearch, as the Hon. Gentleman had mentioned, he came down on Friday laft to report all the cir cumftances to the Houfe, but a debate going for ward on the American Treaty, after that had con cluded he intended to explain the fubjed if the Hon. Gentleman had not previoufly left the Houfi:. The Hon. Gentleman, in the outfet of his fpeec:., promifed to repeat the words he delivered on a foi mer evening, but he forgot that. He reeretttd that the Hon. Gentleman had happened to be .tb. feat yefterday when lie addreffed the Houfe on this fubjed, for he feemed to have got a very inaccu rate account of what he' raid. The Chancel. for of the Exchequer then repeated the fentiments he delivered yefterday, refpeding the fyftem long ailed upon by Government,okireventing any large funss of money from accumulating in its inferior offices—adding, that by rules eftabliffied for the re gulation of thofe offices, no department was al. lowed to affift the other, if it happened to have more than might be neceffary to fatisfy its own wants. This arrangement was found to be advan• tageous, with a view to order and to prevent con fufion ; but he challenged the Hon. Gentleman to produce a fingle inftance of a Bill prefented to the Treafury, where the credit of Government relides, that immediate Reps were not taken to difcharge it. In his invelligation of this occurrence at the Sick and Hurt Office, he underftood from the Clerks, Tome time in t he office that the payment of bills was, in many inliances;delayed for the lad ro or 3o years, and that the practice was by no means peculiar to a late period, as the Hon. Gen tleman would infinuate. The Hon. Gentleman in. timated that he (Mr. A.) was alarmed at his afro , don refpeding this bill; but he would affure him, that he felt no fenfation of alarm—however fur. prized he might be, that any Gentleman could make a general affertion that "Government Ac ceptances were refufed at Public Oflices"—:era founding that general affertion upon a folitary fad, nothing firnilar to which he hoped would again occur. With refped to the Motion before the Houle, he did not fee that any pradical utility could wife from it. The Hon. Gentleman sea; confeffedly in poffeffion of but one fait, when he made ufe of the extraordinary declaration as to the infolvency of Government • and if he fhould now be at liberty to bolter up that declaration by other fads—even though he Ihould be able to collect them—they could not go to juffify his charge in the firft inftance. He would therefore oppofe the Motion, becaufe he law no good it could produce, unlefs it might ferve merely to put a record on their Journals of the neglect of Tome inferior Go vernment Clerks. The Chancellor of the Exche quer concluded with moving, " That the other Orders of the Day be now read." Mr. COURTENAY was forry the difcuffion had arifen on this bufinefs, but was of opinion that the Hon. Gentleman on the floor had been forced to it by the conduit of the Gentlemen on the other tide. It would have been rather snore difcreet iii the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Addington) to have come forward with his ufual candour, and ac knowledged that delay did take place in feveral of the public offices in the payment of bills—for he could not be fo ignorant of them as not to know it—that would have been more becoming than the zeal which precipitately denied th.,: which it was afterwards neceffary to admit. Wiser. he (Mr. Courtenay) was in the Office of Ordna nce, he knew many bills to be poliponed becaute r..) money was in the Office ; and when applicati, was made at the Treafury, he knew a limilar es• cufe to be offered. The people who held th.fe bills to be Pure did not complain, for they 't: re aware it would be ufelefs ; that, he admitted, 11.. i nothing to do with the infolvency of Oovernmcia. He commented on what he termed the !limit: