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HE COMM:SSIONtRS for VICTUALLING .1 HIS MAJESTY, NAVY, do !Intby give ratite, That on Friday the sth of July nest, they will be ready to r a elie Tenders in writing (toped up) and treat for the fupply of what: FRESH BEEF (hall be demanded for the ufe of His Ma ow, S4B and Ye&ls at Yarmouth, Lynn, and Wells, in the c ol ony of torfolk, from that day until the slit December follow. :a .; inclufire; and to be paid for by Bills payable with interca 90 liars after date. The Conditions 'of the Contrad may be feen at the Secretary's ai this Mice or by applying to the Cußeam' of the Ca wing at Yarmouth In the County of Norfolk. No regard Itill is bad to soy toter is width the trio all tot ho isfirki als words at ienztb, er Met flail not he de:ivered to the Rated ea , di41•41 on the frid FrWoy the 511, y ad j nest, aw =left the po-be tithe mein the tender, ir forte petfox on bit 6,6,af,aelessit, Over {t-ha atelier. EAST.INIJIAHOUSE, yam 28, rBO5. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED comm.vrg MERCHANTS' of ENGLAND truing bat EAST INDIES, do berg" give Notia, That a General Court of the laid Company will be held at their houfc in Leadenhall-area, on Friday the tath July next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpofe of laying before the Court further proceedings of the Court of Diredlova, refpcdfing 'the Plan for forming an E(iablifhinent at Home for the Education of Young Men intended for the Cotnpany's Civil Service in India. WILLIAM RAMSAY, &usury. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. Lames AND oeuTtatatan, YOUR Honourable Court having publicly de dared thdr with to Lave more Nautical Mcn in your Di. rcetion, I take the Liberty again to fnlicit clic honour of your fup port on the nest vacancy, and prefume to hope that twenty•five years salve iervict in t..e Company's Ship; rnty entitle me to your appr.hal.34. I have the honour to te, Your molt obedient humble Servant, Barnet, Herts, Jane 26. JAMES MONMO. THFATRE,BIRMINGHAM.—BY AUTHOR! Pi Fifth Night of the YOUNG ROSCiUS performing here. N MONDAY EVENING will be preCented the 0 Tragedy of DOUGLAS. Norval, by the YooNeßoscros, (th: laft time of his Fistiornii, 4! that Character here this Seafon) ; Charon, Mr. Barrymore ; Norval, Mr. Harley and Lady Rand":ph, Mrs. Jolmfon.—To which will be added the Farce of LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS.—On Wednefday, the Tragedy of the Diltrdt Mother. The part of Oreftes by the Young Rofcins.—On Thurfday the Tragedy of Tancred and Sigif rnanda. The put of Tancred by the Young Rofcius.—On Fd day will be prdcutect the Tragedy of the Revenge. The part of Zang& by the Young Rofcius, being the halt night of his =pie- Trent— ' Prices as ulhaL TO THE BENEVOLENT AND HUMANE. A PERSON of RESPECTABILITY, who has held a huail appointment und,: Government for there 16 years,wh., has a Wife and two final! Children depending folely on iris exertions for theirtupport, and whole ruin mutt be Inevitable. ' urtkG he (hook' be fo fortunate as to obtain a few pounds from a generous Public ; looks with a plcafin: and anxious hope to this \ Taft refource as the only means to enable him to retain his fitoa tion, prefervc his refpeciability, fupport his family, and (aye him from prifon. It would here take up too much (pace to detail his long futferings and exertions to keep his wants a fecret in his own bofom: hi, endeavours have failed, and he humbly begs to refer thole whom Novi pence has bleffed with a dicofition to relieve the wants of their fellow creatures, for a fuller accouct to Mars ihtd(ull and Stirling, Banker,, No. 345, Strand, and Meas. Bol dero Lulhington, and Co. No 30, Cornhill, where the (manta dcattiotts will be molt thankfully received-and gratefully acknow h. ;gni. He beg% to return his molt grateful thanks to, GH. (of Sundetland), Lx ooIX. Y. Z. • 4; 1 0 0 Anonymous - I t 0 I E. . o 0 K. F. Efq. aoofALady . o to 6 TO BE PUBLICLY SOLD, To the Highdt Bidder, At the Cullom Houle, Nevrcaftle, on Tu Allay the ad of July, tBos, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, THE SLOOP HOPE, burthen 42 60.94 Tons, with her Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture. The Brol.ms Parts of the and the Sails and other Materials of a Lurfail Boat, hurdler. shoot to Tons. Eiieot Oil Cloths, 2 Pi.ces of Linen, t 1.00k:og Olaf'. sco Gallo.,s r f Geneva, for private Ure. zap Gaitous of Erandy, for general Ufe. The Sloop (which is entitled to a Etritlfh Stegifter), may be feen on Mr. flowlt's Landing, in Gatefhead. Her Materials, and thole of the Boat, with the other Articles, at the Culionslaraufe. CAPITAL FREEHOLD ESTATES. TYTHE FREE, With 'Cluse feveral MANORS and TYTLIES, to a very great extent, &c. To be SO!.D by AUCTION, by THOMAS WETFNHALI., In I.nrs, at tae tioufe of James Hurry, known by the Name 6f the Falcolt, inn, in Whittlefey, within the Inc of fly, in the Cusnty of Canibtidge, on Monday next, the Tit day of July, between th Hours of Thtet and Six in the Afternoon, fulijea to fuch Conditions of Sale, as will be then and there produced, SUNDRY valuable ESTATES in WHITTLE SEY, aforefaid. confining of the Right and inter at of the Impropriators Li and to all and finguLtr the Tythes of the common open Fields, and other Lands and Hers:dna:meats within the feve ral extenfive P.:riles of Whittlefey Saint Mary and Whittlefey Saint Andrew; together with divers Freehold Menages or Tene ments, Farm,, and inclofed and open Field Lands, containing alto- gether upwards of Two Thoufand Acres of molt excellent Ara ble, Meadow. and Panure Grounds, in a very high State of Cols,- ostion, and Tythc free; now in the Occupation a very refpcdta. bl:lMants, at Will only, under low Rents. Alfo, the Three fevers! Manors of Whittlefey Saint Mary, Whit:lefty Saint Andrew, and the Redlory of Whittlefey Saint Mary. commonly called the Coquenary,with the Fines, Quit-rents, Filherie., and other Manurial Rights thereunto refpeaively be- Toning ; and alio the Right of Prefentation to the Vicarage or Perpetual Curacy of Whittlefey Saint Mary, afortfaid ; the prefeut incumbent whereof is aged about fifty five Years. The Paid Farms and Lands are extremely valuable, the low Grounds of which being molt excellently embanked and drained by isoper Wat•_r.mitts or Engines, and fituate near to or adjoining the Cetera! Navigations of Morton's Leans, the Nene, and Bevill's River, all extending to, or communicating as well with the leveret Corn.market Towns of Peterborough, Wilbech, and Cambridge, as alfo with the principal Sea pure Town of Lynn. The Soil porieires an inexhaullible degree of Fertility, and whether ufed as Arable or Failure, is equally luxuriant in Vegetation. • To view the Eitate, apply to Mr. John Boyce, of Whittlefey, atarefaidt f whom, and of Mr. Barley, Attorney at Law, at March, printed Particulars may be had; as alfo at Gray's Inn Coif, e-houfe, Holborn ; the Three Cups Inn, Aidesigate-d7cer, London; the Role Inn, Cambridge ; the Role Inn, Wilbeds; the 4 n3c l lea, Peterborough; and of the .06 ,1 goilcora Eli. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1805. ; PARLMMENTAIir pRocEEDINc..s. HOUSE OP LORDS, FRIDAY, JUNE a. Lord WALSINGHAM prefented a Petitiola on the part of cer tain Perfons, againit the Woollen Manuladure Penalty Sufpen- Gan Bill. It etneluded with requelting permifflon to be heard by Coward. The Dike of MONTROSE thought the prater of the Petition Mould not, under the prefent cireumitanees, be acceded to. The Ad paired laft Seillon would expire on the eft of July, and tal l& continued, as was propofed by the BBD now before the Houte, many of the Woollen Manufainrers would be fubjedt to tuition! fur very confiderabie penalties. The whole of the fubjeit wasnow under confideratiot ; and he hid no doubt that. in the courfe of next Stifion,a Bill would be brought in who& would fatlsfy all the parties interefted in the Winds. Under this imprellion, the fat penGon was only propofed to be continued until the Mot March. Lord HOLLAND Paid, he had had little opportunity of afeer ' taming the precife nature of the prefpt Bill; but, uolefr there were very cogent rorfuns to the contrary. he thought the ufual pradtiee of bearing Petitioners by Cowed, Ibould not be departed from in this infianee. Lord HAWKESBURY Rated the ground of difpute between the manufatturers and the workmen, to coefift in the introdudtion of machinery, which was prohibited by various old !Litotes that had long ended to be enforced. It was a veal= of eottilderable difficulty, whether chafe !tames &mkt bestially repealed, or hini they might be fo modified as to remove aft redouble grounds cif complaint, on either fide. Lord HOLI.AND profeffed hirofelf to be fatisfied with the ex planation juft given by his Noble Friend, and he Paid be only re gretted that the Bill did not go to the total repeal of the ftatdtes iti queftion. After a few word, from the LORD CHANCELLOR, the queftion for hearing Connie' was negatived, end the Bill was, mediate'', after, read A fecond time. Lord STANHOPE broughtin a Bill for the better fearing of Trutt Money. His Lordthip Rated that ferious incooveniencies had arifen, where truftecs had become infolvent, and that the ob jet tof the Bill now p-opcsfed was, to give the parties, for whore property the money was vetted in trult, a remedy by application to the Court of Chancety. The LORD CHANCELLOR expreffed his approbation of the principle of the ffill, and it we* read a Grit time. The fecond reading of the Irifh Revenue Regulation Bill was, on the motion nit Lord HAWKESBURY, poliported to this day [three months. The Bill to madam the proceedings in the cafe of Mr. jititiee Fox, went through a Committee. The StirotUary Curates' Bill was recommitted, and having undergone a variety of anwodments, it eras ordered to be reported HO4JSE OF COMMONS. The Paddington Caul Bill was read a fecond time, and corn mined far Monday. 1 The Report wit brought up from the Committee on the Hop Duty, and tido: Drawback Duties, and Bills ordered to be brought In puifliant to loch Reports. The Dublin Bakers Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time oo Monday. The Lath Harbour 818 was committed, and ordered to be re ported on Monday. The Report of the Corn Bill was brought up, a new clank was added, providing that the average price of Grain in the Twelve Maritime Counties of England and Wales, lboold be the standard for Great Britain. The Bill was then reported, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday. Mr. SHERIDAN moved the Committee on the Inc of Manßill. Mr. CURWEN declared that he was refolved to take the !ask of the Houle upon it. After a few obfervations from other Honourable Members, the Houle divided. For the Committee so—Againit it au—Majority 28. A Meffage was brought down from the Lords, Rating that their Lordthips had agmed to Mr. Pitt's Indemnity Bill, the Land Tax Redemption, Crinan Canal, and two or three other Bills of a more private nature. • _ _ Certain Accounts of Intereit on Exchequer Bills were prefented and ordered to be laid on the Table. The Order was rcad, That the Southern Whale Filbery Bill be referred to a Committee of the whole Houfe. Mr. BARHAM expreffed a with that fome delay might take place before any further progrcfs was made in this Sill, in ordy that the Petitioners might havean opportunity of being heard againft the Bill. They were Americana who hat been encouraged to fet tle in this country (or the purpofe of improving or extending that branch of commerce in this country. Now that they had accosts phased that objed, at leaft to a couliderable extent, and while they aught have flips upon their voyage borne, he thought it would be ungenerous to prefs any eking that might militate againft their intereft. Sir CHARLES PRICE laid that there was but one houfe which could be at all afftdted by /be Bill, and he thought it would be ailing very unfairly towards the London Merchants to give any Settlers an advantage over them. Mr. SHERIDAN obferved, That there perfons having been encouraged to fade at Milford, and having eitablilbcd a very great concern at that place, it was the duty of the Hnufe to a!ford Stem every poffible protedioa. It would be a cafe of extreme hardibip if the Petitioners were not to be heard in a cafe which ferioufly affeded their intcrefts. Mr. ROSE Rated, That the perfons alluded to had at lirit been authoticAl to Sib, but that they afterward► traded diredt to America. The queition was then put, and the Houfe went into a Com mittee. A New Claufe was brought up by Mr. BARRAN 113 EIMOUT of the Claims of the Petitioners. The Gallery was then clear ed. but we underhand that the chide WAS loft without a divitiou. SUPPLY. The Houfe in a Committee of Supply, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for one million on amount of the Eaft India Company ; " sopooL to purchafe ground for building a Marine Afylum $ " to,OOOL for work done about the two Hodes of Parliament ; " 6,c00L towards building a Bridge over the Wye ;" with a numlnr of minor fonts, which were ordered to be reported ma Monday. Mr. BANKES moved, that Mr. Payne Knight be added to the Committee foe purchafing the Townie:lan Antiquities tor the Evi -1 nib Mufeum.—Ordered. his imprifonment, all perfons to whom .he was in debted, have fince alfo laid detainers upon him; that he has repeatedly folicited to be brought to trial, upon any charge whatf oeve r t h at ma y b e aga i n ft hi m , in vain ; but that he was offered his liberation on condition of going to England ; that through the dampnefs of his prifon, and the clofenefs and long continuance of his imprifonment, he has contraded difeales which render him extremely feeble and infirm, and reduced to much diftrefs, and therefore he prays fuch relief as to the Houfe, in its juftice and lenity, (hall teem meet. The Petition being read by the Clerk, Mr. FOX Paid, that notwithfianding the high opi • nion he entertained of the Nobleman now at the head of the Irith Government, yet the Petition now on the table, if founded in tad, was one of the many exam ples to thew that the Chief Governor, however bene volent his own difpnfition, however eminent his cha rafter for mildnefs and humanity, ought not to be en trallad with fuck powers as thole vetted by the Al fee finfpending the Habeas Corpus. With refped to the circumflances aged by the Petitioner, he could not take upon him to anfwer for thofe allegations from any aaual knowledge of his own • but he had affurences from authority that h e cou ld not doubt, which he was convinced would not deceive him, that the Petition Rated nothing but the truth, and was even that of the extent of the mifery fuffered by the Petitioner. There was one part of the Ratement, at leaft, which, if corral, malt go to prove, that the imprifonment of this unfortunate Gentleman has been continued without ant fiundation of guilt, for other wife, was it probable, if lie was a guilty man, he would have been offered his liberation upon the condition of coming to England, for furely fuch an offer would not be mad:, if there was any evidence of guilt aga;nft him. For the prefent, he withed to found no motion upon this Petition, but merely that it do lie the table s—but he did recommend earnettly to his Majelly's Government, to make Tome enquiry into the cafe, and fee whether the many hard (hips this unfortunate Gentleman has fuffered, have not been much more than adequate to any charge againft him, and, to put at leatt an end to his confine ment. Mr. SHERIDAN fupported the Petition, and the objeEt of Mr. Fos, and raid, if ever there was a cafe of oppreffion that called more peculiarly than another fir Parliamentary' Enquiry, it was the pre. fent. He alto had affitrances Crams fuch authority as he could rely on, that the whole of the allegations as fet forth in this Petition were true. Mr. VANSITTART Paid, that if nothing more had been Paid on this fubjed than merely to move that the Petition do lie on the Table, be &mid- have remained ['dent ; but he was warranted to fay, from the authority of a Gentleman, the privation of whole Cervices had been a great Infs to that country, that the conciud of the lref6 Government in this affair would, upon the fulleft enquiry, Rand fairly ac quitted.—Petition ordered to lie on the Table. AFFAIRS OF INDIA. Mr. PAUL moved for a Cnpy of the Minute ap pointing Captain Malcolm to fucceed Colonel Wel lefley en India, and alfo a Copy of the Minute ap pointing Captain Stuart to fucceed Captain Malcolm. Alfo an Account of the Money received and expend ed by Colonel Wellefley for the public fervice, from the time of his departure from Calcutta, until the period of his prefent appoiatment. Mr. WELLESLEY POLE could afore the Ho nourable Gentleman, that Colonel Wellefley never drew one fixpence of the public money, from his departure from Calcutta to this moment, but his own ordinary allowances, and that he never difpofed of a I penny in fecret fervice, nor did any of the public money pafa throogh his hands, and as to his prefent appointment as Governor of the Oude territory, it was merely provifional ; until the pleafure of the Court of Diredors fhould be known. Mr. WALLACE fuggefted, that the return mov ed for mould diffinguifh falary from other monies,' which was ordered accordingly. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved for a Copy of the Letter written by the Secret Committee of the Court of Diredors, on the i9th of February, 1803, to the Bengal Government, refpelling the treaty with the Vizier of Oude. Mr. FRANCIS moved for an Account of the lateß dates of the Difpatches from the Bengal Go vernment ; and alfo of the lateft Difpatches from the Northern Provinces, refpeding the State of Reve nue; not, he Paid, with a view to ground any mo tion in the prefent Seflion, but to give the Houfe ne ceffary information upon important topics, that would hereafter form the fubjea of difcuffion : he alluded to the late difpatches from India, which had fallen into the hands of the enemy, and which we only knew of from a tranflation from the publication by the French Government. He thought there mutt have been extreme negligence fomewhere, in not forwarding duplicate difpatches, as none (itch ap. peered to have come to hand. It was now June 1803, and the date of the loft difpatches received from India, was in March tBo3. From that period to this, was this country in total ignorance on the fuhjed of Indian Affairs ? The debt of the Company at that time, was Rated at 2°,000,0001. Was it not fair to conclude, that through the various wars in which the Government of India have fence been en gaged, that the debt was now increafed to 40,000,0001.? —He thought it could not happen by accident, that for two whole years the accounts of the Bengal Government (hould be totally unknown to the Houfe: he thought they mutt withhold them. When upon a former occafion he moved for papers refpeding the Rate of the interior of that cotintry t he was anfwered that fuch accounts should be laid before the Houle as were continent with neceifary precautions for public fecurity. But the difpatchcs of the telt April, 1804., which were fuppreffed by the Court of Direaors, have fallen into the hands of the French, and by this means has this country the fire intimation on that head.— It was in vain to attempt concealing any longer from SIX-PESTCE. Parliament the true Rate of the Company's affairs. If they look again to the tessewal of ;heir Charter. a plain. candid and intelligible account thould be laid before Parliament ; and not an ahllrufe, compli cated, and unintelligible m-Ifs of figures, elucidated by xfpeech not lef, complex or much mote compre benfible. The Company had agreed to pay to the Government a compenfation of half a million per ann. in eonaderation of their Charter, and notwith fiandingrke numb= of years that have -elapfed (ince their Galt renewal, they have never yet paid but one year's c'onftdcration. - He begged leave to afk, then, when this defalcation was to be made good, if they were incapable of performing Their agreement, with a revenue of fifteen millions annually, and, by their own lift fiatements, a trade more flourifbiog than any they have ever before experienced, notwithilanding the many increafed imprint to which it has been fob jeifted He concluded by repeating his motion. Lord CASTLEREAGH anfwered, that the rea fon the Honourable Member had not before neck ed the papers he nosi wilhed to fee, was hecaufe he had not Ihaped his motion fo as intelligibly to defcribe them. The fa& was, that even from the Honoura ble Member's private application to him, he under-. flood that it was the treaty with the Mogul that he wifhed to fee. With refpe& to the other difpatches, the fa& was, as now generally known, that they had fallen into the hands of the enemy z no duplicate dif patches over hind had been received, nor was he yet enabled to fay whether there had been any forward. ed. The only rational conjecture he could at pre fent form on that part of the filbje& was, that a vei fel having been taken by the French of the latter end of the laR year, in the Gulph of Perfia, it was not impoffible that fuch difpatches might have been on board. With refpest to the itatements of the Com pany's affairs, they were annually laid before the Houfe in as clear a way as their complicated and ex tenfive nature would admit ; and if the Honourabie Member was fo extremely averfe to the invelligation of figures, be found it would be extremely difficult, if at all praelicable, to convey to his mind, etor ideas of voluminous accounts, ihdlfperifibly conftii ing, in In great a degree, of figures. With refpetk to the Company not having clewed off the half million a year for the renewal of their Charter, it mull be re colleCted, that the annual payment of that fum was upon the condition of a certain furplus of revenue over neceffary expenditure, but no Inch furplus bad yet occurred. Mr. FR. ANCIS's motion was then pnt and agreedto.' The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEWER. Rated, that on the laFk balance of accounts between Government and the India COmpany, it appeared that four millions were due to them. He fhould, in the Committee of Supply this evening, move for one million, to be paid them on account. GUIrftWIRT AND jeaser. The Order of the Day being read for refuming the debate on the Smuggling Bill, 'lb far as concern ed the iflands of Ouernfey and Jerfey, a debate of fome length occurred, the priricipal points of which we detailed in our Paper of yeller day, in the account of the difcirffion which took place on Thurfday night. The CHANCELLOR of .the EXCHEQU ER propofed an Amendment, which he hoped wd away the principal objeition offered to the Bill Taft night, by recognizing the internal jurifdidion of thole iflands, and clearly ena&ing, that crimes again& this Bill committed, within that jurifdillion i lhould be tried there ; referring, however, any decifion with refpeet to feizures of contraband goods, to the tribu nal in England, where all fuch queffions mutt be re ferred, namely, the Court of Exchequer. Still, how ever, he apprehended there were many precedents to uphold the right of trying perfons in England for crimes committed in thole countries. But without at all preffing that right now, he wifhed to coofult the feelings of the inhabitants of both iflands, and to urge nothing unnecefrarily ; but as to the :iglu of le giflation fur thofe iflands, the precedents he named lag night placed the queftion beyond all doubt. The Chancellor of the Exchequer concluded by moving his chide. Mr. GREY and Mr. WINDHAM re-urged the fentiments they profeffecl laft night, as to the impru dence of being over preffing for the fake of revenue, and rifking loffes, much more deprecable, in the pof &Ilion of thole iflands, which, in all wars, had maintained their attachments to this country, r..nd annoyed the enemy ; and thi, too, only for the fip preflion of a partial evil in a trade, that would UM be carried on to a much greater extent from the coatis of France, Holland, and the Low Countries. Mr. STURGES BOURNE was confident, that when Hon. Members talked of atrivial or partial es if, they could not be aware of the enormous extent to which the revehues of this country were injured by the fmnggling trade from thofe Mande. He was al ma afraid to Rate it with any hope of credibility. It was a lots to be Dated rather in millions than in thoufands ; eflimating it at the duties payable on Fo reign fpirits, it was at leaft fr'om fiue to fix millions ; and at the rate paid on Britifh fpirits, from three to four millions annually. Surely, then, this was an object of impoitance, as well with repot% to revenue, as to the prot4lion of the fair trader. Dr. LAURENCE, at confiderable length, expref fed his apprehenlions of the mischiefs to which this country would be expofed under the operations of this Ad, in the latitude it gave to our Commanders to vifit allyeffels,found cruizing out at fea,withintwo leagues of thole Hands, and feizing fuch as they fhould think lit to denominate hovering fmugglers. Was it not obvious that, in time of peace, number lets veli:rls, under neutral colours, would, in the courfe of their voyages to other ports, pals inadver• tently withie. the limited diflanee of thofe Wands ? Might they not be driven there inevitably by ltrefs of weather ? And would it be reafonable that every 'hip in loch circumilances, freighted in a manner not conformable to this Ad, with which they had nothing to dc, fhould be feiz:d as a lawful prize, and carried to the next port, and their owners involved TROTTER'S INDEMNITY. Mr. WHITBREAD moved for leave to bring In a Bill to in demnify Mr. Trotter and all other Perfons who were employed in any ()flee under Henry Lord Vifcount Melville, while be was Treafurer of the Navy, front any confequences that might other wife refult from their connection with the Tranfaelions for winch be Rands now inTeached, in order that they may be ena hkd to give evidence agat u ft the Paid Henry Lord Vitiator Mel. villa—Leave was then given, and Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and Mr. Grey, were ordered to prepare the fame. MR. TODD JON S. Mr. FOX pref . :wed a Petition from William Todd Jones, Efq. a prifoner, confined for the lalt two years in the gaol of Cork, in Iceland, by order of Govern ment, under the authority of the Ad fir Sufpending the Habeas Corpus in that country. The Petition fets forth, that Mr. Jones, the Peti. timer, was arrefled in Cork two years fence, upon the warrant of a Clergyman, who is a Magifirate of that County, upon a charge of fufpicion of feditions prat• tices, unfounded upon any evidence, on oath, of any perfon whofe name has ever been communicated to him; that this detention was afterwards fanetioned by a warrant of detainer from the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant; that he has been ever fince clofely imprifoned, and feclnded Iron; all communi. cation with his flicads and that, in conliqueace of