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I AYLESBURY, BUCKS. TO BE SOLD, FRAA'GE. PARTS, FFBRtTARY 23. HOUSE OF CON:MON3. nsi .11 ...Tot.. I A MOST DESIRABLE FREEHOLD •L ESTA (T, Tit.te free, either together or in Parcels, fitu:te in, and adi,ining the Town of Ayleibury. The F.ltate poffeties fotr peauliar Privil,:gea and Advantages. The ?!.anors are extenfive. Partimlars will !hardy be ready for delivery, and informs:4 , n rel..tive :n the Pilate may in the mean time be had, on appli eeinn to *.leffrs. loater, Co k, and Frvre, of I.incolies-han ar::, to Mr. Davis, Ltwkner, near Tetfworth, Onford.--If the I:*l..atc is fbld together, a eonfidcrable P.lll of the Purchafe- Money may remain on Mortgage. Letters from Bayonne, of the 16th• February, announce the certain intelligence of the declaration of war by Spain againfl Portugal. It was not Monneur SPINA, the Pope's Envoy, but an frith Bilhop, (of Waterford), attached to the legation of Spain, who was preftuted the day before yeaerday to the Firtt Conful. M. de Kaci.-rscum, the Ruffian Ambaffador, arrived this day at Paris. Letters from Vicnna Rate, that Count Cdasirr. ZE L is appointed AmbaffAdor, on the part of the Emperor. to the French Republic. There is no doubt but that the new Englith Minifler will immediately make overtures of peace, but it is falfe that he has done lo already, as re ported at London and Paris.—Pablicifie. A private letter from Berlin, of the 12th Fe bruary lays, that the Englith Government has tent an agent to Rullia oilenfibly to funtilh fuc cour to its prifoners, but really with intent to pro. pole terms of accommodation; but that he was obliged to return to England. It is faid, that all differences between the Em peror of Ruffia and the King c,f Denmark have been fettled. The Fren.:h - Tiers Conf . °lidc: arc at g 9 francs, 88 cents. FE 9. 26.—Two days after the intelligence of the figning of the Treaty of Peace was received at Pa ris, the Minifier of the Interior prefented to the Firft Conful a Geographical Plan of France, in marble, with the limits fixed upon by the Treaty of Luneville. An immenfe quan:ity of artillery, warlike fibres, and provifiltis, have been 'blind in Mantua, which became the prcperty of the French army. Letters from Gerile.ay announce the entrance of the Ruffian army into Moldavia, on its march againft Conflantinoplc, to revenge the allaifination of the two Roffian officers. L'Abbe ittrce, one of the a:complices in the plot againtt the life of the Fr. "r Cossue, has been apprehended in the Commune of Mont:, with feveral important papers in his poircftion. A letter from Manta, dated the acth, notices the arrival and departure of 71 of the perfons who are to be tranfported-39 were fent or. board the corvette la Fleche, and the remaining 32 on hot d la Chifonne, a new frigate of 5o guns. Sixty nine more are expue:ed ; one of the tirft party has been fet at liberty. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEPLYCS. HOUSE OF 4..01LLV, 7410;4134k1r. The Bi&or of Sr. DAVID'S (Lord George blurtiq) was in troduced in tilt mina! form, between the lbStops of Gt.otress • TBS. alld (worn ard took his fen. The Marquis of Larsoownr, Earl 4 1, 1E1156Y. 11113 Ififeount W/LWARIL were (worn and took Our cars. . Some private bufitcfs was difpofed of,as arrangements with refped to Appeals., the reading of one Naturalization Bill, and aleninincrirr the eufkunary oaths to three perfons'whofe Naturalization Las arc before the liouka--Thcir Lordthips, who attended rather numcroufly, adjourned till to-morrow, When at half pat three o'clock the Lo:oa CHANC utast um* down to the Houk. Mr. Foy, Mr. Ponfonby, Mr. Law, Mr. Corwin, Lord Jahn Townfepd, Mr. Huifey, and near forty other Members tick the oaths and their kats. Mr. Ross moved, "That on Wednrfday the Houk fhould rcfolve itfelf into a Cot:mitts:, t., confpler of the DUtLf upon Tea, and othsr articles of Ex rife." Lord CAV:LtREAGU gave notice, that under the prefent cireumPanees, be wiled to poilrone the motion of which he bad given r.ctire lc: Thurfday wit, for the continuation of Mantel I.aw in Irciand ; with the pertni(!im of the Houk he would bring it forward on iviondly next. kir. itveit a, laid, that an Hon. Gentleman ?McGarr) bad given notice of a Motion for Wednefday mat, Lc bored as it was not onc that puffed very muck in punt of time, that the Non. Comtletnan would ecnfent to put it eft for a few days. Mr. Gary :ourcnt Al to rut off his Motion till Weitnefilay Erinight. The Committee of %Vats and Means was rut off tilt it The Cotnmitte, of 3:1111iy was deferred to Wedneldar. I.eave of aLfenre sent gyato , d to Str Charles ::tuart, alto to Mr. Johi Lux ' to Mr. Wiley, and to 1:010nel Nowell. . ThTh.:Marine Mutiny Bill, at,d the Nil for regulating the Ma rir, Forces whit, .n were r real a lint I.ord (% , il. .0 purfuro.t to order, of rec:ipts 4 . ...:1ti. - fonatits net Ow kiCi EftAblifhnterit. Mr. ria.s,ltif bre.4;:it up the Repot t cu the ItittiUcry Pro hibi' ion Biz. and aftcrwsrdi Lioe.rd. " that it be an initnidtt to the Committee n. the Expiring, Lsws Bill, to make prowl rurfuar r to Lad :t-f , .:ut tot." Mr. Brunt broc.f it up the Arnett( an Corn Bounty Impor tation Lill, which was re:d a Brit. rime._ A perban tr it Treartiry preferteil 30 xcnnM of th. I)if ttitn.tinn of Wit t. An acc..unt trom the Commit. liiintra of the (7uftoms in neotland wa , prtfented, of tn.: quan tity of rio . ihirpe the pent. nf i:entlAnd. A1( 0 An count 'Se Piirt-(;if:c In • .t.l,ofrhrßrofs am! act to duce oc Uc:L ter tB. titt ycnei. Mr. R...itstv. th.:it arr.. -g i.e Orders which rr confequ. - r.:^ of the :Hutton of wiiich w.O carried on Friday, was relieving ti:c Bounties %di:it it was propofed to rata upon tl:e Ct.lt :Ire of P:.tatocs. 11e knew wai to renew an Order after it had teithout ttiritlg frefil notice; but a s thi s w.t - > a faliji.et to st the attention of the Ho u f e I. id called, and as the Report of the Corn. Mitt.--; war,. is the hands of every Geialeman, he hoped tt...re ..id oti:c;tioi: to takt: the Re. fult i.f tile C..iariiittL , .; then into .coni:diaation. If the I hid.: di.l it( t approve of tajting up the fur ) , tt immediateiy, l.c fitnuld propore to-morrow fon.th.it ourptifc ; ..iicre WAS 410 Objeainn. flnUpl 11701%:. t h at • .l: Houk annoy refill/ire C.Attniitt t: to cun"..l-tr of the t • tett of the Conithittee ott the High Price of rrewifions. The Houle refolved itfelf into a Committee, Mr. Rost in the Chair. Mr. Rvovat laid, it would be ufelefs for him to trefpafs upon the attention of the Committee, as he could only repeat the arguments contained in the Report, he fhould therefore only move the fir( Refolution, viz, ‘, That that part of the Unit ed Kingdom, called Great Britain, be divided into twelve Dint-ids, and that Premiums, not exceed ing in the whole the funs of .12,0001. be of feted for the Cultivation of Potatoes, by Pro prietors and Occupiers of Land, not being Cottagers." Mr. Btarom role to oppofe the Motion, as he did not approve of experiments of this kind ; he belt thought it the be way to let theft things find their level, as they always would do. He wifhed to call the attention of the Landed Gentlemen in particular to this fl-bj.:o, as it would materially affect their interefr ; tor if fuch Bounties were to be given, there might not be in time an acre of Palture Land in the Kingdom. He fhould ther• ' - fore, upon all occalions, oppofe interfering with the tillage of the Country. Mr. Wit,ess Foster Paid, if the Honourable Gentleman had read the Report, he certainly would nut have Darted fuchobjcelions. There was a-s expref, provifion that no leafe Whatever fhould be in any degree interfered with. This was a meafure of the greaten confequence, and which would be produetive Of the molt beneficial effects. All mull with to reduce the prefent high price of provifions—the landed intereft, as well as every other defcription of men. The high price render ed a bounty the more necollary, as the expellee of feed and cultivation was fo great, that many were, without afliftance, unable to fupport it.— The authority of the Committee ought of itfelf to have great weight, but it was inforced by that of the Board of Agriculture. The total expence would not exceed 30,0001. For this (mall turn an additional quantity of food would be produced, the price of provifion would be materially re duced, the cottager would acquire habits of in duftry, and large tracks of wafte lands would be brought into cultivation. Mr. BUICTI'M laid, there was no one more anxi ous than himfelf to increafe the comforts of the poor • but as this meafure had not, in his opinion, ! any foci: tendency, he confidered himfelf bound to oppoi;:. it. Mr. J. H9RiIE Too II E.-- a Sir, I am poorly qua lified, and I can be little expeeted, to deliver an opinion upon any agricultural fulajed. In a Com mittee, however, it is not necelfary to deliver a &tidied harangue, and I (hall now fay a few words without fear of expofing myfelf. It appears to me, Sir, that your Committees, with very intentions, do a very great deal of mifehief. re d ; want information, they want fagacity, they want forefight. Had I had the honour to have been a Member of the left Parliament, the palming' Bill (I cannot call it the Brown Bread Bill), the po;fon.' egg .Bill fhould have had my molt ftrenuous oppo. fition. This firft Parliament of the United King. donl have given a favourable fpeeimen of their ta lents for legillating, by making the repeal of it the firft of their Ads. Under the names of charity, humanity, and benevolence, it was calculated to prove the ruin of thoufands. All your meafures ' have been of; fimilar Ramp—far from producing any beneficial effeds, they are fruitful fources of mifchieS Sir, it is idle now to think of keeping down the price of provifions : you cannot keep it down, and your aukward attempts will only make it rife the faller. Look back to the earliett and you fee it conflantly riling, and this caufe continues to operate with incrcafed force. It is in vain then to Rruggle with inevitable neceffity. You will only heap abufc upon abufe.—Remove the National Debt, repeal the Taxes, and then you may hope to fee things at a moderate price ; but while you daily add to the amount of thefe, to entertain fuch a hope is madnefs. By this ab furd and ineffectual attempt the public difireffes arc rendered far more fevere. The true friends to their country will allow things to rife in' their na tural courfe. By thus doing nothing they will do every thing. They will avoid a thoufand errors, they will rave millions of lives. Sir, in my humble opinion, however paradoxical it may appear, you ought to try to raife the price of every thirg.— This doetrifie may Teem extraordinary, but it may be right for'all that ; and I fhall at all times be rcakiy to defend it. Sir, notwithaanding all that has been raid, I am a great enemy to innovation. I hate innovations in all things, in church, in Rate, and in agriculture. ify viral Chrifiaaity teaches me to love every thing that is eftablifhed. Do I examine the attachment I ought to have to any fyllem or praSice, I sin not examine its intrinfic merits, but I fay to mylelf—le it flabryLvd?— Though a mr,ch better might be pointed out to me, Dill I think it ought to he adhered to, and that no rafh experiment timid be hazarded. Tliefe are my opinions--thefe ever been my opinions. I have 'been long in public life, I have fpoken a good deal, and written (till more. But let any one examine my fpecches and my publications with the greaten minutenefs, and I defy him to (hew that I ever exprelTed a fertiment contrary to there I now utter. Thofe principles. Si:, compel me to dilapprove of this meafure. I cannot can lent to fee the (yam of agr;cultore changed ; I cannot,confent to fee a man obliged to pay a pre mium againl himfelf. It makes ILO(: etre:l-mice whether the people pay more ;or the potatoes, or pay a.l additional tax for a bounty to produce them. But it is idle thus to thi'k or !owcrb g the price.. If you with to promote the s seat of the p.,.,r, mile, as fpcedily as poilible, ritiCr . the price of lobr..lr. his fir too low, and mull fi,on rife in fpite of you. Thengli not very yieing, I am not vary oil, and within my recolleetion the pii- of littu•irr iris been trelli.:d. }Seem will Rill tollov. caufe, a..J it notil limn advance much furti.::.— - Why then Itruggle againll a nereffity no human power can controu!, and no human inge nuity elude ? Where will the Dorm fall I allow it mtie at IA fall fornewherc, and I fay i; moat fill upon the public creditor. A man lends icvd. to Ger:ern:nem, and gets three p-r cent. fir it.-- if the quart'rn loaf is at 6d. he gets t 2.) loaves a ' year, but now he gets only forty or fifty, a3sd in a lhort time he may not get twenty. Thus, in the cootie of things, he miy be altogether ruined. — The poor will not fuffer; for their wages v.-ill be increafed in proportion. The landi.d intei eft will not fuffer, for their rents will be increaled in pro portion. The revenue will not thffer, for in pro portion the ability of the People to contribute will be increalcd. The mifehiel will only fall upon the holders of Rock, and as they are not a very nu merous fet of men, it will not be difficult to relieve them. Thele Reps feern to be taken to prevent the monied interett from being alarmed.' They certainly would be lel; willing to advance their money, but it is unfair thus to try to deceive them." Tooke then entered into fome calculations to Phew the propriety of railing all the fupplies with in the year, and the dreadful confequences which mutt follow from the annual augmentations made to the National Debt. He concluded by muddi ly apologizing for fo long occupying the time of the Committee, and exprelling a hope that his er. rors might Icad fume one to the difcovery of truth. Mr. RYDER recapitulated, and enforced the ar guments of Mr. Wilberforce. Mr. liciamovsa oppofed the bounties allo t and every interference with the voluntary and fponta neous proceedings of the farmer, who certainly was the only pra:lical and the bell judge of what fpeciec of feed was bell adapted to particular foils. Whole profeffion was the cultivation of the foil, and whole objet milli he the attainment of the largeß poffible produce ; 'and, confequently whole experience and perfonal inter& were better friends, and itiongerfiimufi to his itidußry than the bounty propofed, or any other inducement which Parlia ment could offer for the appropriation of his land, or his labour, to purpofes different fioin the diZtates of hi,, own judgment.—it was bafide well known , that landlords•were already under the nrceffity of debarring the farmers from breaking up too much of their pafture lands by a penal rent of tol. per acre. But the bounty propofed would operate di redly as a premium on the general vi ola tion Of covenant, 'and effed that deftruaion of paliure lands, which the proprietors of the foil throughout , the kingdom had found it neceli:ary 'to guard againff by penal rents': and he hegged Gentlemen to be certain, that land once to broke up, would ' not recover its fituation in lefs than hallo century. %Read, therefore, of oppofing the refolutions ire detail, he Mould Move, !, that the Chairman el* leave the Chair." • Mr. RIDER laid, that would defeat a part of the plan to which nobody ohjefted; viz. that of en couraging the planting of Potatoes by Cottigets. The Committee then divided—For Mr. Hob houfe's motion 39—Again it it 43—Majority The Houle being returned, the Chairman re. ported that the Committee had come to feveral Refolutions, which were ordered to be taken into confideration to-morrow. IRISH PLACIMIN &C . General WALPOLE faid, he rote for ;he purpore of moving that the Order of the Day be difeharged for the appointment of a Committee to inquire and report what offices and places of profit, upon the Irith Efiablithment, were held by Members of the United Parliament. Lord CASTLEREAGH Willed the Hon. Gentle man had aligned his reafon for moving the dif. i charge of this order. He apprehended t might be owing to the difficulty which that Hon. Mein her found there would be in his attaining the ob. jea he had in view, by the appointment of a Com mittee. His Lordibip fai4 he would take that occafion to notice the inconveniency which the Ex ecutive Govertunent fomeomes felt in making fuch returns as were tailed for 67-Parliament, 'without having the means of requiring the_fpecific official information which was wanted. He had found himfelf called upon (as would be the cafe in the prefent initance) in his official capicity, to apply to Officers over whom be had no controul; and he thought it would be advifable to have a pro.. per Officer appointed, to whom it Ibould properly belong to require fuch returns for Ireland as Par- Lament might call for. ' General - WALPOLE, in reply, raid, his reafon for moving the difcharge of this order was fOr the p.irpofe of afterman-ds moving an Addrefs to his Majelly, which he learnt would be a more proper way of obtaining the information defied, than by means of a Committee. He taw no force is; the objeition (fated, nor could he ever accede to the doarine, that the Houle, after haviiiTed a law, flould have no controul to fee w hether that law was regarded or not. This was an anfwer which he would never receive from any Minitter. Lord Carnsaraon faid, he ;lad not oppofed the Hon. Gentleman's intention" any farther thah by pointing out the impropriety of the Executive Government beingexpeaed to require returns from thefe Officers, over whom they had properly no controul. • • • General WALPOLZ then moved. u that an hum. ble A.ddrefs be prefented to his Majefty. praying that his Majefty would be gracioufly pleafed to give direiftions that there belaid before the Houfe an account of inch offices and places of profit no. der the Crown in Ireland. as sere aa'lly held by Members of thatHoufe."_ _ _• _ __ • Mr. RYDIR raid, he apprehended the Hopopr-t able Member's motion was with a view to afentain whether a greater number of places of profit was held by Members reprefenuug places 40 Ireland than was limited by the articles of Union. General Wairoi.a &it'd, that by the ankles of Union, the number of places of profit, &c. in Ire land was limited, that ao eli be held by 4+ Mem bers of the United Parliament." • After a few words from Mr. Hobhonfe the mo tin was agreed to, and the Addrefs was ordered to be prdented to his Majetly by Each Members as were of his Majelly's molt Hotkonrable Privy Mr. Blt AGI G s brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Rill for Regulating the Office and Eilsrging the Salary cif the Maker of the !t olls in Ireland, when leave was given id bring in a Bill 1 t.rfoant to the Refolations of the Committee. At half pall fut o'clock, the Halt ittljamied till ro-morrsw. I I LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 3. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ()NE O'CLOCK Conrail ssi—fne Reduced 51511-4 per Cent. 75, 1 0,-,New t pet Cent. I ; Olds per C.. 901-I.ang Ann. t 71--thuniuna ti 1.- a PRICE or STOCKS YESTERDA ; 3 per C. Red. s6le 1.. ALA. a3t 7-a6 3 per C. Conf. ssi s6ssi Short A:m.37-th per C. C. 73t Imp. 3 per Cent. t6l 53; 5 par C. Navy 9014 Cool. for ace. 564 Ditto Loyalty Onsnium for Rec. ♦MERICAN STOCES, JAIII/ARY 27, 1801. /UNDID DEBT to THY. I; NITED s rars: s. 8 per Cent. Stock tO6 pa C. I Si per C. None at Martei. 6 per Cent. 80 41 per C. Ditto Navy 6 per Casts 90 3 per C. rs Price of EL fine flour, 9 dollars, so cents. BPJ.j,ETIN OF THE KING'S HEALTH : `. • i f 4 kyi:ra's HOUSE, MARCH 3, ISOr. " Nis MAJESTY had a very good night, and his fever is much allated to-day. (Signed) " GINBOANk, " REYNOLDS." In addition to the above, We hare the pleafure to flute, that his Mairssr figpt 101 night corn pofettly for eight hours, and the Phyficians think there is realm; tp expel that his difordcr has taken a favourable turn. Lail night arrived another Hamburgh mail, by which we reeeiv4 a t opy of the lan Note tranf: mitted to Lord cativsspar, the Britifb Anthaira der at Berlin, by Count HAuswivz the Pruffian Ifinilier, This important paper, in which the fentiments and views of his Pruilian Majcay, in regard to the Northern Convention, are explained, re have this day given at full length, as follows : STATE PAPER. TIM FOLL•WING 11 A COPY OF THE NOTE TRANS, /PITTED ON THE jEtill OF FEIRUARY, BY THE PEIHIStEIt CoUNT miarowirz, TO LOAD CARYITORT, THE ENGEM MINAS ADOE AT itassx. The urderfigned, State and Cabinet Minificr, has laid before his Pruffian Majelly the two Notts which Lord Ciersroar, Envoy Extraordinary, and Willer Plenipotentiary from his Mojtily 'King of Great Britain and Ir;land, has dope h*.n, the honour to tradmit to him 'on the 27th of ja nuaryt and tit of February lalL ' The Underfigned having it in commidion to re turn an explleit and circumffantial anfwer, is cur. der the neceffity . of informing Lord Cairsrozr„ that 'his Majefty cannot fee without the titmoik grief and concern, the violent and haffy meafurei to which the Court of London hat proceeded againft the Northern Naval PoWers. Error alone can have given Occa6oti to there *afore', as the actions in the Note of the syth fufficiently In that it is (aid, that the hfaritinie Alliance ethos for its objet, to 'annul the treaties formerly cop. eluded with England; and to lieferibe laws to her, with refperft to the principles of them; that the peut:ality ii only apretext to imp& thee Jaws on her by force, and to eftablith a haat 'Mina; a4ainft her." Nothing; however, is farther from the above. mentioned negOciarion, than - the 'principles pe.i ruppori4. It is founded 'in Inftice and modern- tion, and the cornmonication of a *copy of die convention to fueh of 'the' Belligerent POweis as had the junk, ind patience to wait for the fame, will prove thii beyOnd the poiffbility of a dental. When in the beginning of January the Water of his Britanide Majefty officiallrpropored to the under.figned the queltion, whether the Northern Courts had aaually cone hided the confederation which had been reported i and 'whether Pruffia bad 'acceded to it?'-the Kinn conceived that the re(pidf' which Sovereigns dire to each other:, and the kffwaty'podifild by every indepcnden: State to confidt its own ;minas, without render. ing an oceanic to any other Power, authorized him to Withhold any communications relative to hingelf aid his allies'; and contented'himfelf with infwering,*that sii he tad feen without interfering, the cannelloni which England had entered inui without coolidting him ; he 'confidsred hirnfelfen. titled to the fame confidence; and that if the Kurd of Great-Britain thought it his duty to fupport the rights'and intereffi of his kingdom, ' his NOM= Majefty conlidered it as not lets his duty to emplOi every means in the defence of the rights and in. tenth of his &Wets. • This anfwer might have fofficed a few weeks fume, but in the fitnaticni in which affairs now are thl King thinks Irina( called upon to make an explicit declaration to the Court of London, 'rela tive to the Spirit of the Treaty, which has probably been attacked becaufe it was not lalown; and which is far frOm haying the offenfive viewi of which the contrading pciwrs have been arbitrarily Waled. They have exprefsly agreed, that their theafnres (hall be neither hoftile dor tend to the detriment of any country, but Only 'have for their objet the fecurityof the trade and navigation of their (objets. They Lave been attentive to adapt their new con= nerions to prefent circumflances. ' The an& jullice of his Majeffy the Emperor of Built has even in the detail, propofed modifications, which alone might be (Acing to indicate the fpirit of the whole.— It has luxe been determined, that the treaty (hall not be prejudicial to thofe which had before been