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PA.RLI.IMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MARCH 2. The Bills upon the table were forwarded is their refpedtive Rages. Throe prirs.:e Bills were brourht up from the Commons by Sir C. Banbury, M. Fa 61., ar..l Geta-lGa;zoyoe. Counfel were heart: in continuation relative to Cie Scotch Appeal, Walker v. Allan, namely, the Solicitor General and Mr. Alexander on the part of the Relpondent, and, finally, Mr. At torney General on behalf of the Appellant, in reply. The Loo CHANCELLOR then quitted the Wool tick, and delivered his fentinients upon the merits of the cafe at ccnfiderahle length. He concluded a vry7 able and argumentative fpeech, by moving a propofition for the adoption of their Lordlbips— the refult of which was, that the interlocutors in quettion be remitted back to the Court of Sef fion iit order to he reviewed throughout. This meeting the ferife of their Lordlhips, the Noble and Learned Lord moved to that diet, and the quedion being put, it was ordered accordingly. The Order being read for their Lordihip)giving judgment relative to the Appeal from the Court of Chancery of Ireland, M , Clure v. Echlin, The LORD CVANCELLOR quitted the Woollack, and, as in the former inftance, entered into the merits of the prefent Cafe at confiderable length, and with great ability difplayed a profundity of knowledge, and exhibiting the whole in a Liminons point of view. His Lordflip concluded with moving a propofition, the . general tire& of which was, to reverie the decree in queflion of the Ira Court of Chancery, and to difinifs the origi nal Bill, with the coils of the Court below. Lord REDISDALE (Ch incellor of Ireland) ex preffed his perfeel coincidence in what had fallen from his Noble and Learned Friend on the Wool tack, and expreited his decided opinion that the Decree in queflion fhould be reverted. The propolition of the Lord Chancellor being reduced to thc fhape of a motion, the fame was Fitt, and ordered accordingly. Some private bufinefs was difpoted of. Lord AucaLawo fhortly addrefted the Houfe on the fubjea of Woodcock's Divorce Bill, which Rood for a fecond reading that evening. His Lorefillip teemed to refer to the latenefs of the hour, and the important and laborious bufincts which had fo long occupied the attention of :heir Lord fhips, which naturally tended to unfit them for the difcuflion of a Bill to which he ihould have to call their particular attention, and to his reafons why it was incompatible that a Bill of that de fcription fhould be entertained. He therefore fub mitted the propriety of poflponing the confidera don of the Bill, and under that impreffion, he moved that the fecond reading thereof be defer red till Thurfday, which was ordered accordingly. Some routine bufinefs was then difpofed of, and the Bills recently brought up from the Commons being read a figk time, their Lcrellhips adjourned, On account of the intervention of Afh Wednefday, till Thurfday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Boa now pretested a Petition from the Debtors eonfined in the Gaol of Durham, praying relief; and a Petition of a &Misr nature was prefented from the Debtors confined in the Gaol of Carlille.—Ordered to lie on the table. The keond reading at the Greenland Whale Finney Bill was put off till to-morrow The Bill for continuing the Ad retpetting the Tranfporta tion of Felons was read a fecond time, and corranikod for to- MOM'S% The Indemnity Q u alification Bill was read a fira time, and ordaed to be read almond timc to-morrow. ARDOR AND NAVY ISTIMATIS. The Secarraer at Waft appeared at the Bar, and Rated that his Majefty had been waited on with the Addrefs of the Houfe voted yefterday, and had in confequence given the neceffary orders tint the papers required &mild be laid before the Houle. The Sacarrser at WAR then prefented the Army Eftimates for two months, from the 25th inflant, which he moved thould be laid on the table. He took this opportunity of correcting a mifap prehenfion which he underftood had gone abroad, In confequence of the motion of yefterday for an Addrefs to his Majelly, praying that the Army and Navy Eftimates up to the end of the year, lhould be laid before the Houle. That, in fad, arofe from this circumftance. It had been the uniform euflom heretofore, at the beginning of the Seffion, imme diately after the firtt report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, to move that an Addrefs thould be prefented to his Majefty, praying that the Army and Navy Eftimates for the whole year thould be laid before the Houfe ; and then Mu tters from time to time prefented thofe ettimates according as circumftances (liked. Such had been the pradice but by miftake at the beginning of this Sefton , the Addrefs was moved for three months only. This miftake was difcovered after he had prefented the. Eftimates on Friday, and of courfe it was found necefrary to withdraw thefe Eftimates, in order that they fliould be introduced in the regular way; for that purpofe the Addrefs was voted yefterday, which produced fo much mifunderftanding ; and which, in fad, ought to have been anticipated, as he had already explained, by the Addrefs at the beginning of the Seffion. As the Eftimates he now propofed to be laid on the Table were precifely the fame as thofe prefent. el on Friday !all, he hoped there would be no ob jedion to his moving to-morrow, in the Committee of Supply, the accunomed Refolutions founded upon them—expedition being neceffary on this oc cation, as otherwife the Mutiny Bill might be d:Layed in its progrefs. The Eftimates were ordered to lie on the table. CINNAMON, CASSIA, HIDES, NOR-WOOD, &c. The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Ads of the asth and 41ft of his prefent Majefi y, relative to the Duties on Cinnamon, Caffia, Hides, Skins, and Box-wood imported. Mr. VANSITTART obferved, that the duty on Cinnamon had been laid on when the Spice Trade was in the poffiffion of Holland, and that of eourfe it became expedient to reduce them now, .s the pi ineif+al fp;ct island, Ceylon, was secured to this Couiszry by the Prelimi•aries of Peace; while it became advifeable to tar ihe duty on Cala, hi order to difcourage the de of that ar ticle, as it was Rill in the hands of the Dutch. He alto conceived it politic for the encouragement of our inannfaeures. that the Duty on Raw Hides and Skins fhould ceafe altogether, and that the duty on Box-wood fhould be diminithed. He therefore moved a Refultstion, " nat it is the opinion of the Committee, that the duty payable on Cinnamon imported by the India Company, and on Carta, Ihould ceafe and &termitic; that the duty on Cin namon, (which had been heretofore 3s. per lb. Avoudupolfe) Chould be reduced to is. 6d.; and that the duty on C..lba be railed from ad. a lb. to is. " That the duty on all Hides and Skins imported raw and undreired in Britiih-built Clips ihould ccare. "That the duty on Box-wood imported in foreio-built (hips mould be charged at the rate of 404. per ton. it imported in Brit/Os-built hips at 19s. 63. prr tun." The Duty on the latter article, Mr. VANstr- TART obferved, had hitherto operated as a prohibi tion. Thefe motions were agreed to, the Houfc re fumed, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Bill for extending the provitions of the Lords' A& On the claufes being read a (Eft time, Mr. C. Wv tan, referring to the °Nation urged on a former day, that this Bill would ex pofe Debtors tJ have their landed property fold, at a time that an adequate value could not be obtained—laid, that though he was of opinion the creditors themfelves would be fufficicntly interefted to prevent filch an event, yet, in order to provide againft the pail:1114 of fuch an objeetion as that he alluded to, he would propofe a claufe that the debtor fhould be at liberty to petition the Chancel lor in a fummary way ; and that his Lordfhip fhould be authorifed to make fuch order, under fuch circumftances, as to his judgment might fcem meet. The claufe being read, Mr. NICHOLL Paid, that this claufs, though he approved of it, could not reconcile him to the principle of the Bill. If it was intended to make landed property fubjea to the bankrupt laws, it ought to be openly avowed, and the meafute ought to be extended to the property of Members of both Houfes of Parliament, for furely the dif tinßiun contained in this Bill mud appear odious and unjuilifiable to the country. Colonel ELFOILD requefled to know, whether it was intended to have the Bill printed after it thould come out of the Committee? Mr. C. Wynat replied to the arguments of Mr. Nicholl. He contended, that the Bill was not an innovation, but the extenfion of an old prin ciple, feveral times recognized by the Legi flature. With refpeCt to the apprehenfion that a debtor's eflate would be liable to he fold by a creditor to whom he owed not one-fourth of its value, he mull remark that the man who would remain twelve months in prifon fooner than pay a debt amounting only to one-fourth of his property, was not an object entitled to the mercy of that Houfe. In his view, he faw no reafon why the property of a debtor fhould not be made anfwerable for his debts, whether that property was in each, goods, the funds, or land. As to the property ofltlem bers of both Houfes of Parliament, that he thought to have no connexion with the objzlt of the pretent Bill, which only related to perfons in cuttody.— He had no objeaion to the principle of the mea fure propofed by the Hon. Gentleman, but from its importance he conceived it to deferve a feparate dircuffion. Colonel ELTOLD profeffed himfelf fatisfied with the Bill, in confequence of the claufe jdf piopofed by the Hon. Gentleman who introduced it. Mr.Ata wont did not think this Bill provided fufficient precautions to guard the property of the debtor againft the affignces, as in the cafe of bank ruptcy. Mr. NEWZOLT rofe to give notice, that if the firft claufe in the Bill thould not be related irefome future Rage, he would move to have it recommit ted, in order to propofe the relation of that claufe, becaufe he was of opinion that it was incontinent with the laR claufe. Mr. Bvitrom thought, that if this Bill way to take effeft, the principle of it fbould be extended to the property of the Members of both Hodes of Parliament ; for it would be unwire and unjuft to exempt them. It had been the policy o f the laft century to put their property on a footlng with the property of other perfons, and as this was a new principle, it ought to reach them if it was jnft and neceffary. Under thefe confiderations he moved a claufe :- 1 4 That if any Member of either Houk of Parliament, or other privileged perfon, Mould have an execution awarded against him, and executed upon him, which, after a certain time elapfing he (hall neglel to difeharge, the Creditor (ball be authorifed to demand from such privileged perfon an account of his effefts, in order to expofe them to tale, to fatisfy the raid execution." The Avvozmiv GENsam. conceived the terms of this claufe, thus unexpededly introduced, or vaftly too large a fcope to be ingrafted in the Bill before the Committee. It ought, in his opinion, to be the fubjed of a Specific Aft. He had his doubts, however, that in any fhape it would be admiflible, for it propofed a remedy which gi eatly I outrun the grievance complained of. It would. render a Member of either Honfe of Parliament liable to the dilemma, that if he should fuller an execution for 4 or poi. or perhaps a fmaller rum, to remaiir unfatisfied for a certain time, he might be called on to fubmit the (late of his property to the examination and mercy of his creditors. As to the idea of novelty—in the reign of Edward the Firft, it was a novelty to fubmtt landed property to the Statute of illegit ; and then it might have been urged, as he underflood it was now, that the creditor would obtain better terms than he had when he made his loan. Such an objedion would in fait always apply with full as much juftice againft any law to fccure the creditor until all debts fhonld be extinguilbed. No evils, as it ap peared to him, could arife from this Bill to either the creditor or tithwir, as it contained a elaufe which gave to all parties interefted a right of ap ply ing to a Court of Equity. Ile concluded with cap , .thing his itrongcft difiippiobation of the 1 clank jua propofed, as of too'wuch migititticle to be adopted without very fee ions deliberation. The Marras or THE ROLLS fully concurred in the fentiments of his Right Honourable Friend, who had jull fat cicwn. As to the claufe now un der consideration, he entertained Ilrong doubts as to its necefiity, and to entertain doubts was to queilion thelropricty of adopting it. However, it had no natural ccnneaion with the °bled of the Bill before the Committee—which was, when the debtor fhould appear to prefer imprifonment to the (ale of his properry and the paynient of his debts, to enable the creditor to do that which in juilice the debtor ought to do hisifelf. This Bill, therefore, which view out of a procefs already exiaing, could net ue allied with a claufe which was perfeCtly new ; and as none of its advocates were friendly to the ;'rinciple of the Bill, it was open to the fufpicion of being introduced, not fo much with a view of enlarging its operation, as of overthrowing italtoi,ether. It was but fair to let it Rand on its merits, and not to clog it with this dilute. Mr. BUKTON was indifferent what time his Claufe flould be adopted, or in what fhape ; but he thought it laerreftly con fi llent with the principle of the Bill before the Comnittce, which he contend ed ought not to pafs without is; for the principal objethon to it within and without doors, was the exception in favour of Members of Parliament, which. the Claufe he propofed was defigncd to re move. Mr. NICHOLL cnnGdcred this Claufe elTentislly neeeffary to the honour of the Ilottfe ; otherwife a new privilege %you'd be crated for Members of Parliament, whith it was Lot prudent in thefe times to attempt. Here the queflion being called for, the Gallery was elc-red, and there not being forty Members prtfent, the Houfe adjourned till to•mortow. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, NIA kCH 3. As it-Wep Scsoar.—liotiday at the Public Officer. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY ; 3 per C. Cenfols, for money, 681—for April ace. 69,i. TRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Ct. Red. 69 3 per Ct. Coni. 68i 4 Per Cent. SSiti s p 4.61 Cent. Ann. ppt t S per Cent. t 797 toll 1001 !mp• 3 per Cent. 67i Imp. Ann. is 5-i6 Conf. for April ace. 691 681 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Hamhurjh 3s 3 si U. Madrid 391 cffcc. I Venice 33.1 Ahona 32 4 2U. Bliboa Lilbon 68 Cuba 301 in paper Leghorn 3 4 21 I Oporto 69 Ditto 3 crfonive :1 .plea 44 Dublin as Madrid 3 4 in paper GCIIO.I Lail night and this morning we received Paris journals to the 27th ult. inclutive, Tier: Coxfotsdi 37 f. 3o c. Her MAJIITY and the Princeffes came to town yellerday from Windfor. The Klima alfo arrived at four hi the afternoon. We are happy to hear that Mifs ADDINGTON is much better. The Earl of COVENTRY lies dangeronfly ill at prefent, at his houfe in Piccadilly. An Account of the Duties paid for the laft two years on all Printed Books imported into this King dom. ditlinguifhing between thofe Bound, and thofe not Bound : 3001 ES POVIID. I NOT ROUND. Year doe, - - £B4l 6 11 1 £1,734 8 o Three Quarters, ending xcth Oaoher, 18oz, - 1,217 2 7 1,910 o Note...-This Account cannot yet be made up to a later pe riod than the loth of Oetobrr tliot ; the Infpeelor-General not being in pofieffion of all the necelTary Documents from the Out— Ports for the lad gi..arter of that year. Wit ttate IRVING, infpedor-General of the Imports and Exports of Great-Britain. Infizedor-General'.-Olnee, Cußom- Houk, London, Feb. 25, 1802. Lord MALMESBURY and Mr. Pawn have obtain ed a grant of the Crown of fo much of the ground as lies within the angle of the wall at Spnng-gar dens. The wall is to be firaightened, and the (pace within will give Mr. Pawn an agreeable area be fore his windows, and add to his Lordfhip's gar den. The work is already in hand. • _ l'uozzes planet was on Thurfday morninofeen by Dr. Mw a KLEHAM, from the Obfervatory in the College, Glafgow. It paired the meridian 14 mi nutes after two o'clock. Right afcenfion 187 deg. 27 min. Declination norch 14. deg. 52 min. A Dutchman teeing a fellow Real a fith at Bd. lingfgate, and put it under his jacket (too thort to conceal the tail), and not liking to interfere, whir- pered the fellow, in future either to wear a longer jacket, or Real a fierier 11th. At Loweftoft, on Monday fe'nnight, two chil drenl being left by their mother, whilft the went to I a neighbouring (hop, the poker fell out of the fire, land communicated to the youngeß child's cloatlis (about four years old) when her eldeft lifter en deavoured to blow out the flames with the bellows, which not anfwering the intended purpofe, the opened the door, and the burnt child ran into the ft eeet ; but before the flames could be extingui(hed, I was fo dreadfully fcorched, that the expired net day. The Berwickfhire Yeomanry Cavalry, under the command of Major Buc AN, of Kello, have volun• teered to continue their fervices during peace. One of the difaffeeed Poligars was in the begin ning of September on the point of joining the Cottioti Rajah's army in the Cantatic, when his troops mutinied on account of arrears of pay, and feizing him in the night, confined him in a (mall hill fort; and threatened to deliver him up to the Englifh Government. Twelve of the principal Sirdars, with their fa milies, have, in confequenee of a confpiracy among ft their followers, been obliged to crofs the Jumma, and to take refuge in the territory of the Wawaub Vizier. A corps of Seapoys was im mediately fent againft the confpirators, who, fly ing to the hill countries, have been purfued thither by our tt tops. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. Yefterday morning, at eleven o'clock, died, at his feat at Woburn Abbey, in Bedfordffiire, in tier 37th year of his age, FRANCIS Duke of BEDFORD, Marquis of TAVISTOCK, Earl of BEDFORD, Baron RUSSELL of Cheneys, Thornhaugh, and Howland of Streathem. his Grace was born, Auguß It, 1765, of ELIZABETH, daughter of the late WIL LIAM ANNE, Earl of AMIE melt LE, and filler of the late Admiral Vifcount KEPEr L. His father, the Marquis of TAVISTOCR, dying in 1767, in confe quence of a fall from his horfe, and leaving three Cons, he, as eldeß, on the death of his grandfather in 1771, fucceeded to the princely honours and for tunes of his family. His Grace, till about a fort night fince, had enjoyed an uninterrupted Rate of health, when on a fudden he became fo violently affefted with a diforder, termed by the Faculty, a firangulated hernia, that it was found expedient to call in the furgical afliftance of Sir POSES EARL, who, after a confultation with others of the pro feffion, performed a 11.-ilia operation upon his Grace a few days fince, but, unfortunately, with out the hope for fuccefs : other profeflional aid was then called in, but in vain ; for his Grace languithcd in great agony, till a mortification took place on :11Liday evgning, and the f.coni day af terwards he expired; after having made time im portant arrangements, with the gicateft fortitude, and prefence of mead. His Grace dying unmar ried, and without Hrue, is fucceedcd in titles, and eftatel, by his neat brother, Lord Joust Komi., a Repttitatative in the present Parliament for the Borough of Tavitiock, who was born July 6, 1766, and in 1786 married GI-ORMANA ELIZABETH BENG, fecond daughter of Lord Vircount TOR. itiscvoN, formerly Britifh Ambaffador to the Court of Bruffels ; Rte died laft year leavinr, iffue fcveral tons, and daughters. The firft accounts received from Woburn yet: terday morning, gave fome faint hopes of the Duke's recovery. Between twelve and one, how ever, a gloom arrived with the intelligence that the medical men had given up all hopes. His Grace was fenfible to the lall, and aware of the dangerous (late in which he was. He bore his fuffc: ings, which were moil acute, with exemplary qprefignation. His Solicitor, Mr. Gotobed, went down on Monday ; and the equanimity and forti tude of his Grace left him full paliffion of him fell, to make what arrangements of his property he deemed proper. A (port time before his death . he raw his brothers, Lord Jon a a nd L or d W IZ , LIAM : he likeviiti raw Lora HOLLAND: of all of them he took the moll affeaionate leave. The fcene was mat folemn and impreffive. -Such was the anxiety of all ranks refpeEting the Duke's situation, that on the arrival of the fire malinger, his Grace's houfe in Arlington-ftnet was furrounded by eager inquirers, and it was the topic which engrolfed the conyerfation of every one; filch too was the number of inquirers throughout the county, that the poft-horfes on all the roads leading to Woburn, were knocked up, and it was with difficulty that the groom could procure poll horfes to come to town. . As a man his Grace was univerfally refpe!ted and beloved. The ufe he made of a magnificent fortune was wifely benevolent. He was the leader in every beneficial inffitution for the encourage ment of dude arts which moll immediately conduce to the comfort of others. In the management of his vall property he gave an example in every be neficial improvement, and in carrying his plans in to effect, he fupplied employment to the induitty of many thoufands of the labouring clalres. His exertions for fpreading a fpirit of agricultural im, prove:nent will long be remembered, and its bene ' fits extenfively felt. The great and ufeful works which he himfelf planned difplayed the foundeß ! judgment, and he condueted them with a method, exaetnefs and propriety, that proved how well he was qualified for affairs. His eftates, both in the cottatry and in town, (hew how well he uaderflood beneficial improvement and the jolt application of great wealth. He was the beft friend of induftry, !.becaufe he gave employment to it. The example of a per'on of his rank thus applying his time and fortune was Of infinite advantage to the commu. nitv. • But the influence of his virtues will not die with him. The only conf(ilation that his friends, that his neighbours and tenants, that his country can indulge is, that the warm and affectionate intimacy in which he lived with his brother, Lord JoHN, makes him the full heir of his opinions, his purfuits, and his fricndltips, as wcll as of his fortunes. — Lord JOHN, with a congenial fpirit, and animated by that warm alfzaion which fn tenderly united all the brothers, entered into all his views fcr the promotion ()f agricultural knowledge and ex. petimental hufbandry. The magnificent plans which his Grace had deviled for the improve. meat of the country will, we are perfuaded, be the peculiar objeds of the precut Duke's folicitude. His Grace was tall, well formed, and uncom monly elegant in Lis perfon, and pelithed in his manners.