Star. — London, England, 1801-06-20 00:00:00

L - tomftaneer, sail* mime order of thins, Vette , taken into Confidaution. Waging war, as we pro felled to ttricnot merely for political purpofes, but in defence of religion and morality, it certainly was hi g hly prepofterous to underrnire the charafter of that very order and defcription of men, who , were, by the conft ituted authorities of the State, appointed the pillars and gdardi a ans of religious and moral fen timent. Nothing firely could be more impolitic, and even wanton, than any attempt to depreciate the charadter and principles of thofe who were bound to be at once the teachers and examples of virtue. Yet there men were now held up as perfoni who did their duty unwillingly: who %vele on the watch for every opportunity to negleft and.efcape from the obliga tions of their offices; forty was he to hear filth opi nions broached and let afloat: The Bill applared to him to embrace two different and dillind objets, which might be advantageoufly divided and fepa rately confidered. As far as the queftion of refi dence was concerned, he was free to Rate, that, in his opinion, the moil beneficial effeds would accrue from the parochial habitation of the Clergy. The State had a tight to expert every affillance from an eftablifhnsent, inflitnted, paid, and proteded by the Conflitution. If the penalties enaeted for non-refidence were rigoroufly enforced, the iota'- . lible confequence would be. that the Clergy would 'Tilde in their refpiflive parifhes, and the Pub lic would reap the molt elfential benefit with refped to moral improvement. The fecond objet of the Bill; which involved the queftion of farming, eonflithted a point of tnoft ferious in veffigation. It was not a queftion which ought to be cotnproinifed to popular prejudice and clamour. By virtue of the Statute of Henry VIII. a Clergy. man was liabltlo the fame penalties foi engaging in agricultural purfuits as attached to him for non readence. Was this founded upon juft, on wife, on equitable, and falutary. principles? In his opi nion, not. As the law at prefent flood, a Clergy man was authorized to cultivate his glebe, and to difpofe of the furplus produce. Gentlemen mull be aware that this Was a very vague and undefined privilege. The quantum of ditpofable produce depended on fortuitous circumftances. Not only the extent of the glebe, but the number of the Clergyman's family, came into the confideration. A Clergyman with a large family, and an ordinary portion of glebe, might have very little furplus pro duce to difpofe of. But how flood the cafe, fup poling him to have no children, or, what was equal ly probable, fuppofing him to be unmarried? Was itnothisright and molt undoubted privilege to turn his glebe to its full advantage? Could he do this, to its HI extent, without poffeffing agricultural know ledge e Again, the Houfe mull be aware, that, in th e cafe of Inclofure Bills, which of late had multiplied exceedingly, there was always a certain proportion of land allotted to the Clergyman.— Was the Clergym en to make ufe of his (hare ? Was he to ui the land to lie wage ? Was he tobeuetled it once .hiscism right, and the national ? Yet, as the law at prefent Rands, he was liable to penalties, if die dlfpofed of the produce. Was this confiftent with common fenfe--confillent with the national good? At a time when the neceraries of life were at loch an enormous price, when the produce of the country was (toted not to be adequate to its contumption, was this a time to pally the energies of mind, and to throw ob flacles in the way of improvement ? Were Aft, of Parliament to be rendered futile and nuga , and Bills introduced tothe avowed pur e, for e of turning land to its utmoft advantage, to defeated, by humouring a weak and bigoted prejudice, cat the facerdotal chancier could be degraded by alts of praftical good ? Was it difgraceful for a Clergyman to devote to in dultry and national improvement thofe leifure hours which may be devoted to dronith inaftion and Pelf-enjoyment? Whether was it better for a Clergyman to exert himfelf in benefiting his country by pradical e ff ort and well-direded fkal, or to contort merely his own arnnfement, his own benefit and gratification, in riding, fox-hunting, Ice.? Was it not rather meritorious and highly lau dable in a Clergyman, whole education and learn ing mutt natur4ly expand and cultivate his mental • energies and faculties in a more varied and fuperior degree than thofe whole lot was call in a more cir cumfcrftsed fphere of intelle&ual effort, inked of burying his talent in a napkin, to put it out to that ufiny which benefited the community and himfclf? He would not afk, whether there • could be any s but whether it was not prafi -wept in Clergyman to let the firft and belt eiamplet a i in duftry, of (kill, of utility? To bellow his attention on that °hied, which, in primeval ages, had oc cupied the care of Patriarchs and of Moparchs,lhe purfuits of agriculture, and the means OT-rendering his fellow creatures happy .and comfortable ? In the Church of Scotland, the Clergy were to a man farmers; and he felt bold to challenge the ecck fiallical eltablifiament of any country of Europe to , produce a clefs of men more zealous, and more ea. ficieat allies of the State? As reference had bona: made to an individual cafe, and that cafe hype, thetical and fuppofitious, he (hould take the ribesi l; ty of contralling it with one drawn from aft& life. Let the Houfe pidure to itfelf the cafe of * Clergyman coming into a wild and uncultivated diftrid, coming into a place deprived of all com fort, and prefenting nothing but caufe for difcon tent and alarm! a church in ruins, a parfonage houfe in a Rate of dilapidation and decay I the in habitants ru d e a nd uncultivated--the foil ittelf am biguous—and, from local circumftances, calcula ted folly for the rendezvous of fmugglers and plunderers. The roads, if roads they could be called, impalrable--the country at large wafte, defert, and negledcd. This one individual n this Clergyman, gifted with fuperior powe i rs a :i mind, with energies which defy even the cons• mon operations of human agency, reveries the whole face and complexion of things. Blet b / inftruOion wi t h examp l e , h e civilises the i tants ; forms their minds to virtuous purfuits ; builds at his own charge, a church, where he inculcate, by precept what he ilhillratei by example ; rev claimsthe foil, and forcesoccan to reftitution i emits and perfefts mods t plans, and carries into excite t Ina. meafures for public fecurity ; renders man dot friend of man; from aggreiTors converts them ill- u tolorethrett ; eunrrnstes tnem r tnit private goi ii coisfentaneous and dependant ow public ben efit ; that individual intereft mutt give place to general happinefs; and transforini The Whole charaCter and' fituationof theplace to which he is appointed. The fervices of this man are to important, Co . con fpicuous and exalted, and have fuch an imperious claim upon acknowledgment ) that the Lord Lieu; tenant of the county feels it his duty publicly and officially to thank him ; the Migiftrates fecond and echo back the vote of praik ; the Judges, in their official capacity, bear evidence to his worth and merit; the Board of Agriculture feel them felvei called upon to pay him homage ; in thort, eve ry conftituted Authority awards him the tribute of gratitude and applaufe. Is not, he begged leave to elk the Houfe, the cafe of a man like this more than a counterpoife, morethan a let-offagainft the 66fitious character of Parfon Trulfilotr ? But he was not now oppofing hypothefis to hypothefis; not contrafting one idle charafter with another. No l his defcription was given, not from the pages of a novel, but from hiltorical fad. He was (peaking of a man aaually ezifting, a man knoWn to the world, and efteerned by all the good, the virtuous, and the intelligent; a man nniverfally recognized as a Public Benefador, and whofe lots could not but be regarded as a national misfortune. The unroofing fuch a man from the place which he had cultivated, adorned, and almoft created, mull be a fubjeit of genetal regret. It was more a public than an indtvidualiofs. He was nerfuaded that the Houfe mull readily and at once perceive to whom he alluded. It • was invidious to men tion names; neither, indeed, was there occafion to name a man, fo well known,. ro much, and fo j u Illy e fteem ed, and recognized by public fuffra ge, as one of the brighteft ornaments both of the fpecific profeffion to which he belonged, and of fociety at large. Yet, however unneceffery it might be, per ft, to point out the individual ,, whom every Gen leman mull immediately recognizea man whofe merits were their own herald, and needed not pa negyric--it might be proper, in the prefent in fiance, to oppofe name to name, and, as a fictitious cleri cal charader had been introduced, he would meet and contraft it with a reality, by exhibiting Dud ley v. Trulliber. - Mr. WINDM•II rote, not to oppofe the Bill, but to Rate the grounds on which he fupported it. He looked upon it as merely a temporary meafure, a fufpenflon bill, a fubftitute till an enlightened and comprehenfive plan was matured. Provifions which he could not affent to in a permanent ad, in this, therefore, he fhoukl not oppofe. He re ferred particularly to the power vetted in the Bifhops to difpenfe with the refidence of their Cler gy. After entering into a vindication of common informers, he proceeded firongly to object to that part of the Bill which allows clergymen to take •farms. On thii point he did not with to Ice the law altered a jot. He cenfured in very revere terms the condo& of the Board of Agriculture, with re gard to tithes. Their t orrerpondence with the Grand Juries he declared to be highly indecorous. The Board itfelf he Riled a attar nature. Mroe Ls ( poke with great warmth againll the Bill. Having pointed out the importance of inforc ing the refidence of the clergy, and the melancholy confequences which mutt follow from its being dill penfed with in any degree, he concluded by giving his vote again) the Speaker's leaving the chair. Sir H. St. J. MILDISST was rather inclined to think that the Committee (hould be now gone into, in order tc fee what thape the Bill might airume ; it was his opinion that the purport might have been better anfwered by limply bringing in a Bill to determine what was meant 'by the words “ wil ful abfence" in the Ratite of Henry VIII. As to the obfervations of an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. She ridan) refpeaing what had befallen a Clergyman in the county. of Effer, he perfeCtly coincided its them—for no man was more deferring of enco rnium than the Reverend Gentleman (Mr. Dud ley), whole removal from his living was matter of equal furprifc and regret. He at lealt, for one, could alien, that by the exertions of that Reierend Gentleman, the foil had been reclaimed, the inha bitants civilized, and the general condition of the country was confiderably improved—a fad which was attefted by the Lord Lieutenant, the juftices, and Grand Juries of the county. Mr. &meow argued at great length again& the Bill, and contended, that the refidence of the Clergy was uniformly recommended, and ftrialy enforced throughout by the Canon Law. Colonel Stays's- rote only to obferie, that he joined molt cordially in what had fallen from an Honourable Baronet (Sir H. Mildmay) in praife of the Rev. Mr. Dudley whore agricultural labours in the county of Elks lead defervedly received the unanimous approbation of that county. The queftion was then loudly called for, and agreed to; and the Houk accordingly refolved itrelf into a Committee on the Bill, when a long converfation enfued on thearnendments: die Cha ncellor of the Exchequer,bowever,having fuggefted . that it would be more convenient to permit the amendments on both fides to be now received, that the Bill to amended might be printed, and be taken into further confiderauon on Monday next, the fuggeftion was agreed to, the Report received, and the Bill, as amended, ordered to be reported. —On the motion, that it be taken into further cow fideretion on Monday next, Mr. Roomy propofed Tuefday. On the motion that Monday be the day,the Hours divided—Ayes 33—Noes 7. IRISH SLICTIOW SILL. The Houk having refolved into a Committee on this Bill, Mr. A Boor rote to propote an Amendment, that in lieu of the Commiffion inferted in the Bill, confining of Affiftant Barrifters, that a Commit lion fhotild be appointed to examine the evidence on Controverted Eleftions from among men d property of not lefs than awl. a year. That each party lhould appoint fix Commiffioners. who ball not have voted at the eledion coutcfted--that the twelve perforu fo appointed, (ball, by ballot among thensfelves, be reduced to four, who (hall chock a Barriler of not lets than fix years Rending at the Bar, to be their Chairman; and that any evidence rejected by the Paid Commiffion, any of the parties FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE i 6. Letters from Genoa Rate that Admiral Gait- THEAVISI has received exprefs orders from Paris, to debark with all poffible (peed the troops on board his fleet on the Coal of Tripoli. From thence they are to attempt to penetrate to Egypt whatever difficulties they may encounter on their march.--- . 7evreal de Fraswkfort, quoted ly the Journal des De. s. The Eledors of Mentz, Treves,and feveral other Princes of the Empire, have followed the example of the Court of Vienna, in forbidding all fecret focieties in their - dominions, and all intercourfe with foreign focieties. A privateer from Boulogne, a few days fince, took poffeffion of an Engliffi reel laden with mar ble from Canara, two of which were of ;he fineft white, for flatuaries. As this kind of marble has become extremely rare fince the revolution, the minifter gave orders that the two blocks alludecl to ihould be taken polfeffion of, and they are ar rived at Paris. Letters from Bourdeauz, under date of the t ith June, Rate, that by intelligence received from Gnadaloupe, that Colony was under arms, as an attempt was ezpeeted to be made on it by the lisacsLons, MIT t7.—A detachment of the 47th Demi-Brigade, coming from Mont-Pellier, paired through here a few days ago on the road to Carthagena; another paired to-day for the fame place. Orders have been given to provide accom modation for 4000 more French troops, which are only two days journey from Barcelona. We have likewife been apprized that goo French tailors are coming here on their way to Carthagena. It ap pears that there troops are in the pay of Spain. Pau, (Lowsa 88888 11), JUN■ 7.—Citizen Fa Li DZIPORTIS, Chief Secretary of Legation in Spain,writes in the followingterms to theSub•Pre feft of Bayonne.-44 Peace will quickly be figned. The Ambaffador is gone to Badajos." LONDON. SATURDAY, JUNE so. PRICE 01 1 STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Cookll far opt. 61ii--Reducal 6oi--Omnium zo prcm. 4 Per Cent. 791—New 5 per Cent. 95. , PILICI Or STOCKS YISTIIDAY Bank Steak 16611571 5 per C. Le?. 95.1 3 per C. Red. 6 z3 64 a. 61 Long An z 8 7-169 3 per CCM CanL t Imp. 3 per Cent. 59 1-1 4 Per Cet. CeaL 791 i I Imp. Ann. t} 9 1-16 per C. Navy Mut Cant for Are. 64 Laft night we received another day's Paris journals, viz. thofe of the 16th, but they are as void of any thing important as thofe received the day before. The report of the concluficm of Peace between Spain and Portugal is not confirmed ; the official paper is fluent on the fubjeft ; but a letter from Pan, of the 7th June, reports that Peace will fpeedily be concluded. Thefe Journals were brought over in a flag of truce which arrived yeilerday morning with far ther difpatches to C. Ovro; between whom and our Miniflers the interviews are fo frequent, as to hold out a (irons hope that both parties are bent upon conciliation. Till tome farther progrefs, however, be made in this defirable work, we need hardly eve& our only Ally to be freed from dan ger and apprehenfion. The Moniteur has already announced. that the Provinces of Portugal are to be among the compenfations given up by France and Spain at the Peace.—Of amrfe, any thing that could cut off the power of bolding out this bonus will at ptvfent be avoided by the enemy. 1 We cannot learn from the Paris Papers what has become of GANTHSAuNI• The yeersa/ it Waiters quotes an article from the From-goes joansal, arming that he had received orders to land the troops on board his fleet at Tripoli, whence they were to make the bell of ►heir way to Egypt—A gory certainly very improbable. It feems fomewhat remarkable that we do not learn fometbing certain telpeEting this fqoadroo from Tome of our own Commanders. The whole affair begins to look of a piece with the Rorie. we have been bearing from time to time refpeding Admiral Bursar's ftplasiree—a thin to talk about) Letters icon Barcelona Emotion that numbers of French troops, and a body of agars, are marching to Carthage. This teems as if (me Expedition were to be had ea frost that port. Probably DewmlPrwwltilijr. clofely:blockisl4 to permit any . Elpesliiipsi So pit • - to tea vr,ithan?chincepf reaching its nail don; ald he niat..think . 4 Th is the torts ire lefs obfe?ved, ha May be, able to carry ant plan . of attackig foreign poßffions: of even aiding his army in Egypt, into ;flea better from them. Some people think that it is not imprObable that the French May fend troops to Spabs, in order to make an attempt on Minorca from fome of thi neighbouring port* of that kingdom, parti ! •tilarly as the garrifon of Minorca is known to lit con liderably weakened by the drafts fent on other far vices. -At all events troops that are going to Par- . celona, and from thence to Carthaiena, cannot be intended for the war in Portugal, and moil he Al: tined for fome maritime expedition. It will be n:. ceffary, therefore, to watch with additional vigi lance the motion's of the enemy in the Spanilh ports in the Mediterranean. The French Funds have again fallen a little.— They are 47i. On Saturday next his MAJFSIY will go in Rate to the Houfe of Peers, to put an cnd to the prefent Seffion of Parliament. In addition to the information we gave yefter 'day, refpeeing the Military College, at Chelfea, for which ufeful and benevolent InTiitution a new building is to be ereaed in White•Lion-hreet, Pim. lico, we have the pleafure of hating that the first hone was laid yelierday by his Royal Higlinefs the Dues of YORK. The infcription on the ye dellal was thus infcribed : This Stone was laid by F rce , Duce of Yoa a, Field Mardial of England, in the ai ft year of his IVlajelty's Two gold medals, and a number of coins r ein current year, were depofited in the urn under the intended noble edifice. His Royal Higbnefs the Duke of Yosk came on horfeback, after having attended at the field esti.. cife in Hyde Park. The Duke of YORE'S Chaplain (the Reverend Dr. GAMBLE), performed the ceremony. Mr. COPELAND is the Archited ; and Mr. MITCMILL the Mailer Mafon. Mr. Alderman WATSON, as Commiftul-G:ne ral, depofited in the urn the different coins of the realm. This Seminar/ is intended for the Education of the Orphan Children of thofe Soldiers who have loft, or may lofe, their Lives in, the Defence of their Country. Mr. ?limn, Sir CNRISTOPIIIIII HAWKINS ) and Sir GUAM! SHUCESURON, have formally joined in rapport of Mr. ADDINGTON'S Adminifiratton.— Believing as we do that nothin c , can rave the coun try but peace, they went to Mr. Aonimovoit and told him, they and others were detirous of giving him their fnpport, upon condition he would anfwer two queftions to their fatisfaaion; tit, Was there any political conneftion between him and Mr. PITT? ad, Was he lincere in hisovertures of peace? To the firft Mr. Aoutwovon anfwered, there was no other conneaion between him and Mr. .PITT than that of private friendthip ; to the fecond, that he was molt earneftly defirous, not only of mak ing peace, but that he would ultimately prove he had offered great facriaces to obtain it. Sir CHRIIITOPIINI HAWKINS fends fix Members to Par liament.. CANTISIURY.—A farther decline took place in the price of Flour this week, the proprietor of Barton Mill having fold his Flour at 8;s. a lack, which has enabled the Mayor to lower the price of Bread three farthings in the quartern loaf. LLOYD'S MONTHLY SHIPPING LIST as a com panion to the Counting-Houf e an d Ship's Cabin, has not been exceeded for completenefs and utility by any publication which we have feen announced during many years. Befides twelve interefling points relative to Ten Thoufand Merchant Arad*, it will contain the ufnal particulars relative to the whole ROYAL Navy, together with the Firft Lien tenant belonging to each (hip, and the Agent of every Captain. Such a comprehenfive Work re lative to the Ship ? ing and Commercial Interefls of Great Britain, has long been wanted, and we doubt not but it will meet with the prompt and extenfive • fupport to which it is entitled by its utility, and the great and fpirited exertions of its Condukors. v The following arc the only Nautical Articles, received by thejnland Mails this mornins : . Yaarouvw, Juni 19.—Yeflerdar evening arti. ved the Jai. frigate from a cruise. This morning failed the Fatima of Wa :As packet, Captain DAVID SUTTON, with the Mails, anti Merrs. Vassoa, SNIRLD , tic. for Cuxhaven. ' —The Kayo Gioia. packet, Captain Dsas, is hourly expelled to arrive from Cuxhaven. Ist• the Roads—the B IN, BRU/SSIVICE, STANDARD, Assternics, LIYDIN, and PRINCSSS Of ORANGE t SP*IDWILL, CONOVIO, and jas.ovsa brigs; Puosan and Ssscutaroa lugs!! ; TOS and NANCY, Ste. fire.fhips; Lt Decry, Masai*, Damts and DILIGINCI cutters. Sailed the &LURAY frigate, the Faroe's.' sop, and GtORGI cutter. Sm ttttt ss, Joys 19.—Arrived his .thijcay's brig Gut, Captain Russsi.s., from the Downs, . to refit; having experienced a dreadful gale of wind htft Saturday, when the was obliged to throw all her guns overboard to lighten her, as it was expefted that the would go down every minute.-- Remain at the Non his Majeßy's &A LAND, Vice-Admiral Gansu; Tmessus, Captain &tom ; BOWS. flop.lhip, Lieut. loittnin; &li ar, hired armed-fhip, Captain WILLIAMS; H ARPY . begs Capt. Bon; and JALQUSR. the Hon. Capt. LIST; with the PLLTII. BOLD, Mewl, CONPLKT, FR ttttt S, MALLARD. aid Jacext.t. gun.brigs. Dist, Joss 19.—Sailed the Locusr gun veal Wu a cruise.—Wind E. Gummy's. Juas ;9—Paffed by the Cambru cian, Sasses, from Charlellon: Venus, LARMILL; Salem, Pamtson; from Bourdexus: V and Endeavour, Catmint. from Sailed the Dreadnought. Jonsson. for rats: Bellifatius, Enna; and Martha. Peteriborgh. , m W t' i or c r' I 1 r Mont kr- Ciosa. fix • 1;j - e tranfmitted to the Committee of that Houle foe famination—provided, however, that if fuch evidence (hall appear on the Report of the Com mittee to be frivolous and vexatious, the expence incurredihall be paid by the party producing it. Mr. 'neat/ CY confidered the plan lefs liable to objection than any yet offered by the Right Hon. Gentleman; and as it was prof tied to be but a temporary Bill, he fhoul4l not oppofe the experiment. Doitor Lswitzxca fuggefted the propriety of having fuch evidence as the Commiffioners Mould refute to admit taken down and tranfmitted along with their Report. Mr. Assor faid, it was his intention to Make that a part of the amendment. The Srsassa recommended,as a very neceffarY meafure, that the CommilLoners fhould be obliged, to Bate their reafons for refuting to admit ant par. titular evidence. The Chide was received, and the Bill was or.' dered to be printed in itsamended form, and taken again into confideration on Monday next. Adjourned at 12 o'clock till to-morrow( this day).