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This day was publithed, price 2s. Number 82, of THY REPERTORY a ART:: and MA .I. NiIFACTURi S, con icing—Tlo: Specifications of Mr. CZ3:0:1 . ) Patent fo ,!us :or raifini; X for retaf , r,..,tir Pape t—Mr. Sat :or . fro. s in the tar:l:lg and mat...faa..:1,11,, of C...r.17.7e—.'• ceni.nt of a new method of for w.erding Vege;..tion, by means of Steam, by Thomas Wake- P.ed, I.l.4.—Defoiptinn of an manner of turning ~ , ,ber!ca• forms in Woo.l, by Mr. T. Conk—Aneniint of the peo:efT.r employed in eh., Vanuf.clure of flrafs Plates, at Stol. !..1 5 , Accouni t TIC Manor: .clu re of Soap—A new 1-ei Icid .7i p7,pat:ng the A;e c Acid, by Citiz.n Badollier— Nowt., of new 1'... ms obtained; with dove Copp 7-plates. London Sold at the Repettn:y Office, No. 182, Flea fireet ; B. Ditkdalc,thibi:n ; W. Remnant, Hemburgh; and 1:y a!! other Baokf. Ikrs. 0: whom may he had, Complete St:s of this Work, containing upwards of 300 Spe cifications, and as marry Plates, hanks a great variety of other matter, felee'led from the Tranfaelions of the Philorophical So. ueties of all Nations. PARLIMILENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH S. Tic Marquiires of Waterford and Bute, Vifcount Downe, and Lord Erwinlow, were. Pa oin and took their feats. The pubhcßilli before theHoufe,among which were the Loan Bill, the Exelequer Bills Bill, and the Ink Militia Field Of ficers Bill, w rre fiverally referred to a Committee of the whole Honk. Lord WA is' NG aria in the Chair; agreed to, and the Reports ordered to be received to-marrow. The private Bills were forwarded in due courfe. An Officer from the Commiffioners of the Cufbanis prefented feveral papers and accounts relative thereto, purfuant to a re cent Order of the Houk. The Earl of MOIRA rofe to call their Lordthips attention to a political confideration, which, at prefent molt ftrongly prelfed upon his mind. He felt, he find, the extreme aukwardnefs of advert ing, in fuch a moment as the prefent, to public affairs—yet the confideration he alluded to gave him that degree of unealincfs, that he could not refrain from thus adverting to it. At prefent it was not his intention to make a motion upon that fubjeft, nor even to give notice of a motion, but merely, in calling their Lordthips' attention to it, to exprefs his ardent hope, that in the prefent fituation and circumftances of the country, par ticularly the circumftances and relations in which the Rood with refpea to Foreign Powers, no mea tures could• be adopted, nor the more efpecially with a reference to the circumftances of the moment, which prefented no perfon to whom, perhaps, refponfibility could regularly be attached, or any proceedings authorized, which may tend to °barn& the very defirable end of Pacification. No reply being made to this obiervation, and no farther bufinet's being before the Houfe, their Lordthips adjourned till To-morrow, when at half-paR three o'clock the Lord Chancellor comes down to the Houfe. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The PoR-Office Bill and the Horfe Duty-Bill were ordered to be reported to-morrow. On the Motion of Mr. Ross, it was agreed, That the Houfe fhould to-morrow refolre itfelf in to a Committee of the whole Houfe to take into tonfideration the 39th and 4oth of the King, cap. 17. with regard to the duties on Spirits made in England, and imported into Scotland. A Bill was brought in to continue feveral Expir ing Laws. Read a fir!! time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to morrow. Tile Bill to explain and amend the 36th of the King, with regard to the manufaCturing of Bread, was read a thiid time, and paired. • Mr. PIIRREPOIWT role to call the attention of the Houfe to the manner in which the Houk was hit night counted out. A Bill of the greateft im portance to the comfort of the people then re mained to be read. It was indeed (hocking that forty Members Ibould not be prefent, although there was an order prohibiting any one from leay. in g London. As a hundred Members had been added to their number, he intended that day fen night to move, That a confiderable addition be made to the number now necefrary to the Speaker's taking the Chair.—[A loud laugh, and a cry of :fear! Bear! from every part of the Houfe.] Mr. Joists rote to applaud the intentions of the Hon. Gentleman, when he was accufed of being out of order, and obliged to fit down. The Tea Bill, and the Cuftoms Bill were order ed to be committed to-morrow. It was likewife ordered that a Committee of Supply, and a Com mittee of Ways and Means, (hould lit to-morrow. The Bill to regulate the Office of Mailer of the Rolls in Ireland, was read a feccmd time, and or dered to be committed to-morrow. ►OOR RILIEF RILL. Lord WILLIAM Rossatt. faid, that from the Mite having been counted out lar, night, the Or der had dropped for the fecond reading of the nu which he had had the honour to introduce for the Relief of the Poor. He did not fuppofe, however, that it was neceffary that the Order fliould be re newed—he then-foie moved, That the laid Bill be now read a ferond time. After fome oppofition from the Speaker, the motina was put, when Mr. Jot :IF, s role to oppofe i:. He allowed that the objeil of the Bill was excellent, and show.:ht the Noble Lord defervcd great praife for Laving introduced it. His opinion was very dif ferent, however, with regard to the means pro paf.td. The Honourable Gentleman then pro ceeded to canvals at fonne length the different elaufes of the Bill, :Ind concluded by declaring himftlf decidedly battik to the fccond reading. Mr. Rolf laid, he differed crailiderably from the llonourable Gentleman who had 'pit fat clown. He, on the contray, was very friendly to the prin ciple of the Lill, and thought that it ought, by all means, tog., into a Committee. He knew that ;hare were many quite unable to pay the additional rater, and who, without relit r, waft loon apply fOr aims themfelves. He had come deuhts as to &e pra rficability of the meafures propofed, but 11•:J their end was fo deflrabk, they certainly utould not be halfily rejecfed. P•Tt raid, the laws as they flood were fuSe•e:tt to af.,.er every ufeful purpofc. Magif trate ~ad how a power to withheld warrants el *ltrret•er, t:•ey it erpedtent. Sir W. atolls eoneeided the Bill to be aimed"- fan', and that it would defeat its profeffed objeft. • the. SOLICITOR GCNSRAL alfu objefted to the Bill In many cafes the Relief propofed by it w a s :1 7 7e: -,dy obtained. He alto doubted the p. al,ility of it, cr.fifient with any legal re,lulatic.us that could be introduced ; he walled, therefore, that the fuhjed might not be pufhed forward any farther. Mr. Ait I:WRIGHT. laid, he w:flied to propofe a Claule enabling ()veneers to grant Relief to per fons refiding in certain extra-parochial places; and where Magiftiates at prefent had no authority. Mr. Pier FIVAL thought that if the Noble Lord had propofed his Bill to the Committee above. Stairs, he would have heard fuch unanfwerable arguments urged againft it, as would have pre v,mtzd him from ever bringing it in. He was as anxious as the Noble Lord that the poor fhould live comfortably ; but it was becaufe he had this anxious with that he oppofed the prefent He then explained with fume minutenefs the law as it now (lands, and pointed out the bad effei!ts which muff fallow from any alteration being made in it. Mr. WiLstßroacE raid, whatever might be the final refult of the Bill, the public, and in a parti cular nianner the lower claffes of the people, were extrem,:ly indebted to the Noble Lord who had brought it in. The law at leaft would now be accurately known, and paupers would know what they have a right to expeNt. He thought that the Bill ouht by all means to go into a Committee. Sir C. BUNBUIY wifhed to know whether the overfeers can now difobey the order of a Magi (irate ? Mr. PERCEVAL replied, it might not be eafy to anfwer a queflion fo pointedly put, but he did not hefitate to declare it to be his opinion, that an overfeer is bound to obey the order of a Magi ftrate in the moft unqualified and unconditional manner. Sir C. BuNDURy Paid he knew many inftances in which fuch orders had been difobeyed, and as it was the object of the Bill to enforce them, it ought certainly to be fiipported. Mr. Burma raid he had aged as a magiftrate for upwards of twenty years, and he never had known an inflance of an overfeer daring to feize the goods of a pauper, to whom a magiltrate had ordered relief; and he was convinced that if any overfeer fhould do fo, the pauper would have a good ailion of damages againft him. Mr. How Tooss laid, he was perfedly fen fible of the fituation in which he flood in that Honk; but he fhould not be prevented by it from delivering his opinion upon the fubjed now before the Houle. After obferving upon fome things that had fallen from Mr. Perccval and other Gentle men who had taken a (hare in the converfation, he proceeded to urge feveral new objections to the Bill. He Paid it would make the moll alarming• alteration in our laws. It would create a rank of paupers who had been hitherto unknown. There would now be two forts, thole who received alms, and thole who did not pay any. A molt fatal blow would thus be (truck at the rights of the petty free holders. He believed it had been frequently de cided that any one who was excufed from paying the poors' rates was to be confidered as a pauper, and incapable of voting. Lord Wm. Roust laid, he was lorry to inter rupt the Honourable Gentleman, but it was to re lieve him from a perplexity. Upon reading the Bill, he would find a claufe providing that the rights of electors dial not in any way be affeited by it. Mr. Flom Tooza raid, he would then advert to another topic, to call the attention of the Houle to which was his principal objed in riling. If he was allowed to fi t in the Hou le long, he was afraid he fhould be obliged to advert to it again. The ' fituation in which he flood was indeed particular. One half thought he fhould be turned out of the Houk, and there were the kindeß to him. There were others who mirreprefented what he had raid, and imputed to him fentiments which he never uttered, and which he was incapable of uttering. He fhould pars the matter over for the prefent, as it was impoffible to fay whether a difporition to rnif-Rate his fpeeches would be greatly prejudicial to him. He entertained a fanguine hope, however, of being able to convince the Noble Lord (Earl Temple, with whom he had been for fome time in dole converfation ),that he had a right to fit there; and he trufted when his rights were at laft con firmed and recognifed, that he fhould be protected by the Houle, if at any time he fhould call upon it for proteCtion. Returning from this digrefrion, the Honourable Gentlethan proceeded to adduce additional arguments againft the Bill. He laid, it was one of thole which palled from day to day, reeking to keep down the price of provifions by raifing a tax upon the higher orders of the com munity. This befides being a levelling principle, was very pernicious in other refpcds. It prevent ed the falvation of the country, although it is in our hands. That the country may be laved, the price of provifions fliould be railed. The flock holder would Puffer to be lure, but the nation would ,n-ain. He had formerly mentioned, that you had leaned your debt by two-thirds. From the late rik ix the price of the quartern loaf, we had alnio:l diminiflied it by three-fourths. If the quartern loaf were three-halfpence dearer, this would certainly be the cafe.—Gentlemen might be furprifed, but he was mad, or he had laid no thing which was not literally true. Money was nothing—its value depended only upon what it would purch:ife. Utile creditors to the nation can buy only one half with the money you give them of what they could have bought ten years ago, you pay them only half chi fun you did then. When the cpurterii loaf IVA 3 at as. siliich it probably would be in a Ihort time, then we 'would give every lioldv. of locl. 3 per cents. only ao loaves inltead of iao, which se gave him firft when the fund WAS ellablilhel Thus had the country thriven by its misfortune, and now It owed its falvation to what all prophefied would prove its ruin. If the stockholder got much ler., he was at much leis expence to the nation. Where then would be the policy or the jußice of trying to keep down the price of protitions at the expence if particular or ders of racier' . If he vas futtudiul its what be had said, we should Attain from any fuel' attempts.. We Mould not mile up another race of paupers, but enable all to fupport thernfelves by the fruits of their labour,and obtain the fubfillence al a right, instead of begging it as an alms. The yrice of la bour fhould be railed in proportion to the rife in the price ()idle neceffaries of life. By pu rfuing loch a fyflem the country would flourifh, ;lad no ma terial alteration would take place in the circum (lances of the different orders of fociety. We often feem to be at reit, not becaufe we do not move, but becaufe we do not change our relative fituation. The Houfc then divided—For the fecond read ing, SS—Againfl it, 29—Majority z 6. 4 After fonie converfation between Lord William Ruffen, Mr. Martin, Mr. Buxton., Mr. Johuflone, Mr. Hobhoufe, and the Speaker, it was agreed that the Bill fhould be committed on Monday. Mr. SHERIDAN faid,feveral motions of very great importance had been poflpnncd, and he believed on very good grounds. A Nobk Lord (Lord Caltlereagli) had given notice of a motion (ahout the continuance of military law in Ireland )Iwhich, on thefe grounds, ought above all others to be poftponed. He did not then fee the Noble Lord in his place, but he hoped he would of himfelf fee the propriety of deferring his motion. Mr. Rosa laid, that owinz to the Houle hav ing been laft night counted out, it was neceffary to renew the Order for taking into eraifideration the fecond Report of the Committee on, the High Price of Provifions. He therefore moved, that the Paid Report be taken into con fideration to-morrow. Mr. Jos Es objeded to the motion in Ilrcng terms, and (aid he was determined to take the fenfe of the Houfe upon it. Mr. JottiFFl entirely coincided with him, and expreffed confiderable indignation at the manner in which the Houfe bad been counted out. Juft when the quellion was going to be put, feven or eight Members, after converfing with the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Ryder), rallied out of the Houfe, and the Right Honourable Gentle man proceeded to enforce the Standing Order. Had the fenfe of the Houfe then been taken, there was not a doubt that the Refolutions would have been rejefted by a very great majority, and he was not Pure how far it was decent to take this flep, after the opinion of the Houfe bad been fo dcci liively Several Members were riling to (peak, when Mr. Pierrepont defired that the Houfe might be counted. The Gallery was immediately cleared, and as only 3s Members appeared, the Houle was ad journed. LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 6. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY 3 per Cent. Rod. lbut I Imp. 3 pa- C. 55i 3 PaC CoDE 5541. Imp. Ann. to/ '3.46 4 Per Coot. Cool 7.5 t 75 kink 5 per Cent Ulf t or C. Nan , golf Id& Dalmatians Loyalty stzti I Cranium for Rcc. i ti Confols 551--for Acc. 55{. 3 PQ Cent . 9off—Oronium 1i i Fero. BULLETIN OF HIS MAJESTY'. HEALTH: " gpszles HOUSE, MARCH 6. " MIS MAJESTY'S fever, though not quite rub. tided, kill continues to abate. (Signed) "T. GISIORNE. .- " T. It. ItIYNOLDS." We flopped the Prefs yeiterday to announce a Report circulated in the City, and generally credited, of Batavia being taken by the Britifh Forces in the EaR Indies. The information which gave rife to this report was received by a refpec table Houk in the City, that of Bt RD, SAVAGE, and 131 an, in a letter from New-York, dated the 4th of February, which, after Rating the lofs of the KINT Indiaman, and other events, concludes with the following paragraph : " But, perhaps, though in pofeffion of thefe faits, you may not haze heard that the Englifh colours are now flying on the Forts of Batavia." This account is Paid to be corroborated by a let ter lately received over-land from Fort St. George, which mentions a report prevalent there, of Ba tavia being taken. Batavia was the chief Colony which the Dutch poffeffed in the Indian feas, and almoft the only one left to them. The acquifition of it muff be valuable to this Country at prefent, and will be come Rill more fo whet the queflion of Peace !hall come to be difeuffed. It appears that great con fufion prevailed in the AdminiftrAtion of it for Tome time pal,. and that the troops by which it was occupied had thrown off the authority of Government. This circumilance, and tome others of 1. fimilar nature, may have rendered the re dultion of Batavia a matter of po great difficulty or espence. We confider it, however, our duty to Rate, that no authentic information on this fub. jet has been received at the India Houfe. Yefterday morning the 4::/!!s Is, accompanied by the Princefes ELIZAIITM and Maar, and Lady Cuaatorra Falco+, took an airing in a coach and four with their ufual efcort along Waroinfter bridge, and returned home through Batterfea. Earl Sr. VlMcasr, it is Paid, does not mean to make a fingle addition to the Lill either of Poll Captains or Commanders, till all on either Lilt, who arc capable of it, are brought into ferrite. Lord Mims yefterday joined Mr. Tools on the feat which the latter ufually occupies in the Houle of Commons, and remained in conrerfation with him for a confiderable time. The TRITON frigate is appointed to take over the OW/AUER drALseaum and his fuite to Por tugal, the Miniltes frau that Court. NAUTICAL LVTZILICENCE MAILS THIS DAY,-Wiud W. ARTUrk, o HamStrgh D.,l)lin, Feb. 29, o WALrbrd, o amoaglia2oc PLYMOUTH, MARCH 4. Came in the Betfey, of Jerfcy, from hound to Jerf.r7, laden with wine ; flit was taker by the Grande Decide, French privateer, on th: , 23c1 ult. retaken by the DORIS, of 36 guns, Cap!, LORIN, on the 27th following. The Grande Decide is a very large (hip privateer, belonging te Bourdeaux, has had a very long reign, and beta. very injurious to the trade of this country, and U. the prcfent instance particularly fo, as, in addl. tion to the Betfey, fhe captured, the fame jay, nine more of the Lithon and Oporto (lett, which it fcems are much difperfed, and it is fear ‘:,! many others of them will fall into the hands of tits my, whole privateers are pretty numerous. — : l veffel put in here the day before yelle:day, from Falmouth, which had been chaced three hours the courfe of the day, by a French lugger pr:va. Leer, but, being near the land, escaped.—Came in the Swedifl; Blip, Dolphin, of Wolgart, Capt. MARSTON, from Alicant, bound to Swel ! sn, den with fait, detained by the New, uf 3R gt:ns, Capt. BICILETE ; this is the veifcl which was yeller day Paid to be taken by the Norfolk privateer. — The Maria, (Dana) Capt. OHLsow, from Sal t ., .was detained by the Norfolk privateer, and not the Earl st. Vincent, as Rated yeilerday.--Cam; in the Earl St. Vincent, and Ferret, privateers, from a cruize.—Sailed the CHAPMAN, of a 4 guns, Capt. BROWN, with a fleet under convoy to the wcitward ; the LEDA, of 3o guns, Capt. Ho►F, with Vi(luallers, for Torbay; the HELDER, of:A guns, Capt. PHILLIPS, and the Scour, of a guns, Capt. DUNCAN, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH s. Arrived the ELI? ihtiiv, man of war, from the Channel Fleet. This day Admiral GRAVLS hoift ed his flag on board the DEFIA/!CE man of war. SHEERHE4, MARCH s. Sailed, yeflerday, his Majefly's fhip HYiENS, of 34 guns, Capt. GRANOLA, for Yarmouth : tbs; HYDRA, of 36 guns, Sir FRANCIS LAFORIY, was taken into deck.—This day the EXPLOSION bODIN, Capt. MeartN, failed for Yarmouth ; and the MANLY gun brig arrived from Leith. DEAL, MARCH 5. This day failed his Majcity's (hip RANILIEN, of 74 guns ; SAT otta,of 74.; Bsstosa,of 74; GA was, of 74; ALICTO, fife (hip; Discovsay, bomb; and DAILT 1100 p, for Yarmouth ; the ANACReON brig on a cruise; and the RACOON (loop, with Eaft Indiamen, and the raft of the outward bound for Portfmauth. Wind S. S. E. YARMOUTH, MARCH $. Tuefday evening arrived the VETERAN man of war, from the Note. in confequence of two pri vateers being in the North Sea, which have made Tome captures, the ABLIZON frigate, BITTERN (loop and tome cutters, were on Tuefday ordered out in purfuit of them. Wednefday evening arrived the Aotmcourr and Danisici men of war, and the VOLCANO bomb. Sailed the Kino Gaol or packet, Captain new, with the mails of the 3d init. and Mali. WATSON. Hoy, and a great number of pafTengers. Lord NsLaois is hourly expeaed at this place. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVISIND; MARCO( 5.--.Paffed by, the Euri. dyce, Cow VTOM, from Martinique.—Sailed thc Nancy, —, for Cork; William, —, for W WI; and Virginia, Cut.Lan, for New York.' ARRIVED. At Dover--the Hamer, Ana.= ; and Birmingham Packet, from Charidtown. ' At Clyde—eke Clyde, FM, from Savannah ; Cicero. Marini. front Charldlown ; Pktmoix, Bray r Favodrite. Walker; Mary. Perklni • Nancy, —, from New York ; and Willkon,Conal bridge. from Halibut. At St. Ikrtbolonanio—the Pomona. Atklnka, from Lan. colter. At Poole—the Alice, Williams, from Litbom At Briitol—tbe Argii, Sealy, from Ulm. • At Cowes—the Centaur, —, from Charleflown ; Hughes; and Fabius French, from Virginia; Columbia, —. from lioßon • and Rebecca, Raylon, from Savannah. At Muti;neo—the Moles, Meyers, from Virgin* re caPtw.el: - -- At Limerick—James. —, from New York. At Dartmouth—as Hannah (a Dane) feat In by the Dart privateer. At Looloolt:rry—Erotrprise, —, from New York : . At Cork—Harkott, Halekin, from . Virginia; Hon Jdus. from St. Übe'.; and Jolly Tar, —, from Wren. At Belfait--E,agie, Morrifon, from Virginia; Obki, Hall, from New York ; and Eliza, from London. At Newry—Pelican, Darby, from London. At Demarara—Breton, Sands, from Briftal. At Dublin—Charlotte, Stanton; John, Phillips, from Lon don; and Betfey, Knot. from Botton. At Falmouth—Fort, Kanbie ; and Truston, from Baltimore. In the Riva—Ceres, Peters, from New York. At Boltoo—Traveller, Mien. from London. At Sliso—Delawall, Mean, from London. At Pldladelphia—William Noe, , from Calcutta. At New York—Pomona, Maritsa, from Liverpool. In the Dewey.-abilliclagb. —; St. Patrick, Campbell; and Adive, Mafors, from Cork. At Cape Pre:kola...Maria, Morrifee ; and William and Sarah, Collin, from Charleitown. At St. Helena—the (teem, Timmer, from Madras. At Illarbadow.-ths Thames, Moat, from Landes. At Sierra Leams..emsger, h em London. At Cliarlelan..-Sieen, Stokes; anti Maim, Whitearten ,Loadote. • At likagd.•fritailaity Rad, from Leo*" es r p r