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CORN WA LL. AT a MEETING of the G entry , Cl ergy , F ree . holdrrs. ant/ Inhabitants of the County of COIINW4LL, betel at the Mize Hall in Bonatin this ayth day of May xBoj. Refolved Uminittioufly, Flrft. That this Muting highly approves of the Vote of the Houle of Commons un the Bth of April, refpcßillg Lord Melville. Secondly, That this 117eetIng returns their warmeft thanks to their Reprefentative- in P.rliament, the Members for this County, for their fupport of the ltefolutions ..f that day. Thinu f , That this Meeting is deeply impreffed with a grateful fenfe of the upright c • .dud of the Cornmiffioners of Naval En. quiry, and thavkf them for the indifputable proof they have alrea dy given of their intelligence, iitcgrity, and fortitude in inveili gating the fuhje c t fubmittedto the Houk of Commons in the Tenth Report. Fourthly, That the abufe in the expenditure of the public money, upon which the vote of the Bth of April Is founded. calls for a fpcedy rezmily ; and that the °fenders &Serve exemplary punifbmrnt. Fifthly, That abufes in the expenditure of the public money, (at all times matkr of grievance) are peculiarly felt at this time when fo great a weight of taxation fall. upon all ranks of peopl.% Sixthly, That the defence attempted of the guilt of the offen ders, that no &fleal mirchief has been fultaitied, isnot warranted in fad . , becaufe the great mifchief has enfued of the diredt violation of a Ratute framed by one of the offenders himfelf for the remedy of fuch abufes, who was in the enjoyment of an increafed Calary under that very Ad," in full fatisfadlion of all wages and fees and other profits and emoluments theretofore enjoyed by former Treafurers." Seventhly, That the people of England have long fubmitted to fevere privations in the pa-fa:Son that they were neoeary to the welfare and fafety of their Country, and that as it is their in eanteitible right through their reprefentatives to grznt ese public money, fo have they au undoubted right to demand that it be lc tally applied. Eighdy, That the Commiffioners of Naval Enquiry having brought to light a molt flagrant abufe in the expenditure of the public money in the Naval Department, there is great rmfon to fear that Ibnilar abufes exist in other departments; that therefore it is neceffary that the enquiry now begun should not ceafe until all abates in every publiclmard be remedied. Refolved Ninthly, That Lord Melville having been declared guilty of a high mifdemeanor by the aforefaid vote of the Bth of April, a civil adieu is inadequate to the end propofed and in itfdf incapable of fatisfying the demands of public juftice. Tenthly. That the following Petition be pretested to the Ho. nourahle the Houk of Commons. " To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affemblcd,the Humble Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the county of Cornwall, " Sheweth, _ _ " That the abufes In the expenditure of the public money, which have been lately brought to light by the Commilionera of Naval Enguiry, have filled the minds of your Pc o itionets with alarm and indignation. " 'That they call upon your Honourable Houfe for the fpeedy remedy of loch abates, and for she exemplary punithment of the offenders. " That Andes in the expenditure of the public money (at all tames matter of grievance) are peculiarly felt at this time wbm Cy great a weight of taxation falls upon all ranks of people. " That a defence has been attempted of the guilt of the offen ders by the affertion that no adual mifddef has been fultained by theft grufs breache . of trait, and offences againft law • as if the dims% violation of a Statute were not a high crime and ;nifdemea nor, without the aggravation that the violation of which your Pe titioners complain was iyftematie, and committed by a confiden tial fervent of the Crown, himfelf the framer of the Adt which he his broken, andenjoying an increafed falary under that very Adt, g n full fatisfadion of all wages and fees and other profits and csno- I enu theretofore enjoyed by former Treafurers." That fuck a defence naturally =creates the fear that pecula tion in the expenditure of the public money is Dot confined to the Naval department. " That your Petitioners have long robin itted to fevere privations in the perfualioo that they were neeeffary to the welfare and fafety of the country, and they claim as their Englifh right that the mo ney which is liberally granted than be legally applied. " That your Petitioners look with a confident hope to your Honourable Houle, after your votes of the Bth and loth days of April laft, that you the conftitudonal guardians of their liberty and property will neither be deterred nor diverted from a full and impartial enquiry Into all abufesin whatever department they nay exit—sad that the enquiry now begun will not ceafe u mitl all abn fes in every public board be remedied—.fence fo only will the minds of your Petitioners be fatisfied, the credit of the Government he embeld, and that free Conflitution be preferred inviolate, which is the leered birthright pf Englifhnien. " That Lord Vifeount Melville having been declared guilty of a high mifdemeanor by the rote of your Hooostratile Houle of the Sth of April, a civil action is inadequate to the aid propofed, and in itfelf incapable of fatisfying the demands of public jollier." • That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Undertheriff, or his Impartial condudt in the Chair, and that he be defired to Ego the RefulutMns and the Petition in behalf of the County, and to trent - mit the fame to the County Member,.--sad that the Ado lutions he printed in all the London and Pre :Tindal Papers. By Order of the Meeting. FRANCIS PAINTER, UuderfberitE I Oct Con I f " Tha , which ha Naval Fi alarm an " Tha . remedy I offender, " tames to; ertat a 41 Tba „ den by t bete gru direct vi. nor, wit! titioners i;' tial ferva his brolt g n fiat) fi ;..: I ents , • " Tha non in tl Naval dt " Tha in the pe of the ea ney whir " Tha lionoura April la( and prop ftmrartiai extit—act kb in eve of your tipbeld, is the fat " Tha a high m Stb of Ai in itfelf That t f or his In Egn the to crania, lutiona bs P. H • Lord I miralty, and took and Wod The R Comrniffi Naval Er Spirit Li • lion Dun The L. is WalSogh The El of which the State not, how ward, pr day he lb On th which pr voice by be Nauru The E Miniiteri tiun as he Indies. Lord I Noble L. had prep: with the count of dies, frog . I'he m • FOLK, On the tonfideral juurned t Tbe Et ward am witted fa lee a ter:: The Bi ,refpeetive The El the St. Pa: MOITOW, h h:i their Lore 1 I furward a k ' ht. had RA nett, ior Or.Lr.d. On tl.e ..or the etc [hut i . - ft 1 .n - Ahipa Lc C Yam), PARLIAMENT,IRr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE s. • Lord BARHAM (late Sir C. Middleton) &ft Lord of the Ad miralty, was introduced with the aceuttonsed formalities, (worn and took his feat. His ',wages fupportera were, Lords Bolton and Wodchonfe. The Royal Mein was siven by ConunilSon to the Land Tax Commiffioners Name Bill, the Property Tax Amendment, the Naval Enquiry Renewal, the Military CocnmilLoners, the irib Spirit Licence Bill, the Wine Duties Bill, and the Slate Exemp tion Linty Bill, and thirty-two A as of a private or local defeription. The Lords Commillioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Walflogkarn, and Lord Auckland. SUFFOLK raid, that with served to the motion, of which he had given notice, be believed for that day, relative to the State of Ireland, he Damild defer it for the prefent. He did not, however, relinquith his intention, but meant to bring ft for ward, probably in the euurfe of next week, but of the particular day he Mould take care to give due notice. On the motion of the Whop of LONDON, and relative to which proceedings a few words were raid in a very low tone of voice by the Earl of Bridgwater; their Lordihips were ordered to be funmoned for Monday next. The Earl of SUFFOLK wilbed to know whether his Majefty's Minifters were dirpored to allow a return to be made to fuch mo- tion as he intended to make refpafting Bills drawn fret the Weft ladies. Lord HAWKESBURY protelTed his intention to afford the Noble Load all the information potßble on that fubjud, and he had prepared a motion which he thought would perfettly coincide with the wither M the Noble Earl. He then moved for O An Ac count of all Bill, above a certain fun, drawn from the Weft In dies, from the tft of May, 1798, to the fame period in altos." The motion, after a Blurt obfervation from the Earl of SUF FOLK, was carried. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the farther 4.mifideration of 'lngham 's and Moore's Divorce Bills Wall ad journed till to-morrow. Tbc Earl of SUFFOLK expreffed his intention of bringing for ward a motion relative to the St. Pancras Bill, which flood com mitted for to-morrow, in tbecourfe of the evening, mould he not fee a certain Right Rev. Prelate in his place. The Bills on the Table, chiefly private, were forwarded in their refpeetive Raga. The Bifbop of ST. ASAPH moved that the order for referring the St. Pancras Poor Bill to a Committee of their Lordfhips to morrow, mould be difelarged, and aenewed for Tuefday nest ; which ordered accordingly, the Reverend Prelate aqualnted 'hair Lordfhips that be Rill peddled in his intention of bringing furw•at d a motion refpedling the meafure, of the nature and effect hi. bad Rated on a former evening; this he flould do on Monday 'telt, 10, which day be moved that the Lords be fummoncd— irdcr, at. On the motion of Lord A UCKLAND, the order was enforced ar tM staelufion of !hangers • and, in confequcuce,th e doors were "44 but for Anout half an b oor. :Oat - ft immediately after our re-admifiton into the Hoof; their .onfhipg relayed Into a COMiniii‘C (LON WALSINGHAM itt 14: Chair), on the cafe of—. jurnet T(T. The LORD CHANCELLOR. (fated, that from the ben attention he could give to the fubjed of dif tuition in the Committee, the laft evening of their Lordthips' meeting, he was led to conclude, that tt was impoffible, continently with the forms of the Hcufe, to give effed to the motion then made. This opinion of the Noble and Learned Lord's gave rife to a fhort debate, or rather converfation, an which Earls Spencer and Carline, Lords Auckland, Mel grave, and Harrowby, and the Marquiffes of Buck ingham and Abe corn, took a part. The Noble Earls above-mentioned expreired their regret, that it fbould be deemed preferable to adhere to form, in a cafe where the moll important interells ofjunice were at flake. The Earl of Carlifle, in patticular, ad verted to the advantage which he conceived the ac curing parties mull derive from the proceeding which took place in the former Committee, and obferved, that if thefe were not to be communicated to the ac cufed, their Lordlhips fhould be metamorphofed from their former capacity of grand Jury Ratting a bill, to a petit Jury, whole funetion it was to try the caufe. Lord AUCKLAND called to the recolleEtion of the Committee, his dtubts on a former evening, that the motion could not, confiftently, be rifted upon.— He regretted part of the proceedings which had taken place, as contrary to his fenfe of propriety, but had to exprefs his hope, that no copy of pi oceedings had been communicated. Lords MULGRAVE and HARROWBY con tended, that full and fubllantial jußice may be done to the parties, notwithfianding the proceedings that had hitherto taken plac e ; th e f e ma d e no di&rence, and could not a/Feft the proceedings now in train, in which the cafe would be openly and regularly can railed at the bar of the Houfe, and evidence beard on both fides. The Noble Secretary of State ob (erred, that if the officers of the Houfe had done their duty, no communication of the proceedings in quer tion could be made. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM made a few ob. fervations in fupport of what fell from Noble Lords at his Ade of the Houfe. He confidered, upon the whole, the Learned Judge, as being placed in a worfe Intuition, in confequence of the proceedings hitherto adopted. He then adverted to the died of certain proceedings which had taken place, which called up The Marquis of ABERCORN, and an explanatory converfation enfned upon that part of the cub jef After the LORD CHANCELLOR had ihortly explained, it was ordered, that Connie' and evidence lhoold be called in. Accordingly Mr. RoMILLY, for the Petitioners, in fupport of the accufation, and Mefrs. ADAM and NOWLIN; in behalf of Mr. Juflice Fox, appeared at the bar. The Learned judge himfelf took his feat below the centre of the bar. Mr. Romm.y immediately entered upon the fads of the cafe. He (laced he was Counfel for Mr. John Fawcett, and ten other •perfons, who prefented one of the petitions, complaining of certain tarts of the conduit of Mr. Jufiice Fox in his judicial capacity, while on the North Weftern Circuit, in the fummer of the year 1803, in Ireland. The fira witneft; brought forward was Mr. John Fawcett above-mentioned. He was very fhortly exa mined, when Mr. Johnfon, Clerk of the Crown, for the county of Fermanagh, &c. was brought forward : this Gentleman was examined in brief by Mr. Ro st ILLY, and afterwards at greater length crofs-examin ed by Mr. ADA M, on the part of Mr. Judice Fox. He was lhortly examined by Mr. Ron L LT, and was ail ed feveral queffions on the part of their Lordlhips. Mr. William Arm thong, another of the petitioners, was the third withers called. After Come arguments between the Counfel, and difcuffion amon g their Lordfhips, be was examined in pa►t ; when an ad journment of the proceedings, chiefly on account of the latenefs of the hour, was moved by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of CLasi; Nes. This, after a fhort converfation, was agreed to; and the Houfe refum ing, the Committee were ordeted to fit again at four o'clock tomorrow.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Houle having, purfuant to a Ammons by the Deputy Gen • damn tinier of the Black Rod, attended in the Houfe pf Peerp, the Speaker on its return announced that the RoYal 'Went had been given by Camonlffioa to feveral public Ade (for which Ike the Report of the Lords). A Petition was prefented front certain Woollen Manufaeterers of Yorkfhire, againft the Woollen Manufacture RegUlation BilL —Ordered to lie Polite table until the fecund reading of the Paid Bill. Ordered, on the motion of the Marquis of Douglas, that a new Writ &mild be Wood for the Medi= of a Commiffioner to fcrye for the County of Forfar, in the room of Sir David Carnegie. Bart. dectafod. Sir W. LEMON prefented a Petition from the Freels°!Semite. of the County of Cornwall, upon the fullea of the Tenth Report. Ordered to he on the table. The Report of the Committee to whom was referred the Peti tion refpetling the Improvement ut the Pan of London, was, on the motion of Sir William Curtis, taken into the eonfideration of a Committee of the whole Route, Sir Charles Price in the Chair.— The Report being gone through, the Houle refunted, and We Re port was ordered to be received to-nionrOw. Sir CHARLES PRICE prefented a Petition from certain Car men, hating the lots they were li to Cutler from a prooofed arrangement refpetrling the London kely Docks, and praying the Haute to confider the fame—Ordered to lie on the table, and to be refer red to the Committee on the London Dock Bill. Lord W. RUSSELL brought up the minutes of the evidence taken before the Committee on the South Lantbctit Water Works Dill, which was ordered to be printed; and the further confidera don of the Report was, on the motion of Mr. Tierney, poltpaned till Friday. _ _ _ The iapers ordered on the motions of Mr. Jefferies, were pre fence,' by Mr. Dickenfon, and ordered to be printed. • Mr. HUSKISSON gave notice of a motion for to-morrow, on the fuhjedt of the Quantity of Coals to be carried to London by the Grand Junction Canal. The frith Diltillery BiU was read a third time and paffcti. On the motion for the third reading of the Bill for Supplying the frith Cities and Towns with Water, Mr. FOSTER objeded to the Bill, as giving too great powers to grand juries, and moved, as an amendment, that it be read this day three months. Colonel BAGWELL did not think the objection of the Right Honourable Gentleman was well founded, and oppofed the amend ment. -- as - r 1; JOHN NEWPORT fupportal the amendment, arhaeli was - The Report of the Committee of Ways and Pagans was brought up. agreed to, and Bills ordered accordingly. The Receiver's General Amendment BM was rad the Belt time, and ordered to be read the fecond time to-morrow. The WeR India Free Ports Bill, the Public Auditor's Bill, and the Pa. Horfe Duty Farming Bill, were read the third time, and palled - The Bill for inquiring into the Fees and Gratuities of Pebik Offices In Ireland, was read the fccend time, and ordered to* eonunitted to morrow. The Expiring Laws Bill was committed, and the Report wise. ed to be received to morrow. Ordered, on the motion of Ilfr.lirlllllE.ll7l, that an Ac count mould be laid before the Iluefe of the balances of public mosey in the hands of the Renewer General of the Cu(toms sat the jth of January, jth of April, sth of July, and sth of OCtober, In each year, from the year a 793, Inclufive, up to the sth of April lA, with as account of the names of the perPos in whore hands Yuri batmen were at each of thufe periods refpedively ; alfo to whom and when paid. A Clerk from the office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland pre rented an Account of the expence of Criminal Profecutions In that Country from the year t7p s up to the fat& period at which the fame could be made out.—Ordered to lie on the table. MIDDLIMI SLICTION. Mr. CREEVEY prefented a petition from certain Freeholders of the County of Middlefez in the inte reß of Sir Francis Burdett, praying that they may be allowed to defend the feat of the Honourable Ba ronet, &c. The Petition being read— Mr. CREEVEY gave notice that it was his inten tion to move to-morrow, that the order which Rands for Friday, for the appointment of a ballot to try the merits of the Middiefex Elation fhall be dif• charged. The Honourable Member added, that he fhould move that order to be poßponed to a future day,. with a view to afford a fair time to the parties to prepare and exchange lifts. The SPEAKER Rated, in anfwer to a queltion which had been put to him, that, conformably to the terms of the Ad, the petitioners in this cafe were en titled to all the rights that belonged to the Candidate on whole fide they came forward. Mr. H. THORNTON wilted the Honourable Member who bad given notice of the motion upon this fubjea would date the time to which he propof ed to poftpone the Order that flood for Friday, as he apprehended it would be found to be the opinion of the Houle that the Petitioners were not entitled to the exchange of lifts. atir 1r SCULPTURE. The MASTEII:of the R01.1. 4 $ prefented a Peti tion from the Truftees of the Britilb Mufeum, pray ing the aid of Parliament to enable them to purchafe the colleaion of Antient Sculpture left by the late Mr. Charles Townley, of Park-ftreer, Wetiminfter. This colleaion was rot to be rivalled in this country. It was one which vied with, perhaps, any, private collation of fimilar works- to be met with in any part of Europe. Such an acquifition to our National Mufeum was much wanted. Foreigners had long ince remarked, that our country was the only great late of Europe where a public collation of the fa mous produaioas of the ancients, in the art of fculp lure, is not to be found. In the prefent fituation of Europe, and of this country, it was greatly to be wised that we might have within ourfelves fubjels in that branch of the Arts for the Qudy of our ar tifts ; and under thefe circumftances the Britifh Mu- 1 knob has racked the aid of Parliament. On the other hand, the palms who have the diration of the affairs of the late Mr. Townley have lignified their readioefs to difpofe of fo much of the collettion as the Truftees of the Mufeum with, on terms deemed very reafonable. Having raid this, there remained for him jolt to obferve, that all he meant 7.. t prcfent was to move, " That the petition thould be referred to a Committee, fo as to bring the whole fubjett before the Houfe." The petition Rates the price of the collation to be purchafed at moool. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, with evident fatisfadion, intimated the recommenda tion of the Crown to the prayer of the petition. Sir WILLIAM YOUNG bore dittioguithed timony to the excellence of the collation, and the great meta& of Mr. Townley, not as a coUeaor only, in which refpea his merits were undoubted, but like wife as a judge of the arts, and of the greateft cor reanefs of talk. The colleaion was worth four times zo,oool. He walled it to be recommended to the Committee, to grant fufficient to purchafe the whole collation, of which the articles of fculpture, though fo eminent, formed but a part. The collodion was fuperior to any private colleaion in this country, and even fuperlor to any private one, (excepting four or five) in Rome itfelf, the capital of the libe ral arts. If, therefore, the reprefentatives of Mr. Townley would be willing to part with it, he willed the Committee to extend the purchafe to the whole collation. The MASTER of the ROLLS obferred, that fuck a purchafe was no doubt defirable, but the ttoF tees of the Britilh Mufeum did not with to overarm the liberality of Parliament. A Committee of the Honfe was now appointed to confider of the Petition, and report to the Houfe. IRISH CLERGY. Sir JOHN NEWPORT rote to make his pro nailed motions ; the &It of which was, that an ac count fhould be prepared and laid before the Houle next fawns, of the Benefices, Dignities, Prebends, Dunatives, and Parochial Chapels belonging to the Ettablifhed Church, upon which the Clergymen have not been refident within the laft year, dittinguilhing fuch clergymen as may have received any licence or permiffion for non refidence from their Diocefans ; alto ftating the names of the feveral Clergymen who have been non-refident. The fecond motion was for an account of the names and numbers of loch' pa rifhes as have been united in Ireland ander one bead, flaring the time when fuch unions took place, and under what authority. Alto what diftance the feve ral pariates were afunder, what glebe land belonged to each, and whether there was a glebe boufe, what churches were fianding in the feveral parlfhes at pre fent, and what at the nme of the onion. The Honourable Baronet Rated the objeft of there motions to be, that the Houfe fhould be pot in full infurmation previous to the difcufrion of the meafure for enforcing the refidence of the kith Clergy, which a learned Gentleman (Dr. Duigenan) had given notice of his intention to bring forward next feflion • but the adoption of which be bad expeaed this lei lion. If the learned Gentleman fhould not bring foiward this meafure early in the next feifion, he felt it To material to the intereß of the Proteßant ERa blifbment, that he fhould himfelf conceive it his duty to bring it before the Houfe. The non-refidence of the itith Clergy was a great grievance, but the union of the parithes was Rill as mi(chievous. This pratlice of uniting parifhes, merely in order to increafe the revenues of individual clergymen, was fuch, that in tome cafes there were fourteen parifhes under one pallor; of courfe there was but one Proteftant church in that difiria, in which there were fourteen Catholic chapels. He fubmitted to the Houfe whether fuch a :tate of things was calculated to forward the inte telt and doarane of the Church Ellablifhment. Mr. J. FIT ZGERALD feConded the motion, _ 1 i, Tl:e CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEI Rated, that it was the full intention of Dr. nan to propofe the manneralluded by the Honc,l Mover for enforcing the refideoce of the frith r Mr. ALEXANDER laid, that Bifhops in often divided parifhes that were too extenfive attendance of one Reetory. Mr. VANSITTART wifhed the utmoft 411 tion might be had towards the end propofed Hon. Mover. The Right Hon. Gentleman obl that unlefs very llrong grounds exifled to call union of parithes dektibed by the Hon. Mover, was very reprehenfible. Sir GEORGE HILL bore teilimony to th, lar refidence and laudable demeanour of the I in three diocefes of the North of Ireland, with he was well acquainted. The motions were agreed to. tn.{ OF MAW. Col. STANLEY role to poftpone the motion which he had given notice for this day, to refer Report of the Committee on the Duke of Athol' petition, &c. refpetling the Ifle of Man, to the fideration of a Committee of the whole Honfe. underftood that many Gentlemen who did not pole it was fixed for this day were difpofed to deThr, their fentimerits upon it in order that thofe Gentle , men fhould attend, as he was deliroas to have the Wind's fully difeulfed, he was intinced to poilpone it till to.morrow. Mr. CREEVEY obferved, that as the object of his proceeding oo the part of the Petitioner waste is. validate an Adl of Parliamen; he walled the evidence takeo before the Committee to be pressemi before the Honfe thou go into the ma of Ike fubje&. In o de to aford time foe &Jo s hed's'. it defirable that the Honourable Geode:met moan lhould be vliponed till Friday. Mr. CU'KWEN had no doubt it would be found that many faßs alledged in the Report were in direft contradision to the evidence. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQIJEIt thought the remark of the Hon. Gentleman would apply better on Friday. PAM *CWT. _ _ The Report of the Prise Agency Bai was brought up, and feveral amendments, introduced by Sir W. Scott, were agreed to. Mr. JOHNSTONE adverted to the charge brought before the Honfe Ana former occa fion by Aden int I Cocb rane againft the King's Proaor, alledgiog that he per mitted bispartner, in many cafes, to aa for the adverfe party ; and animadverted in prong terms upon fuch a prat:bee, particularly in an officer who, according to the fiatement of the Hon. Mover of this Bill, re ceived not lets than 13,mA. a year net profit from his bufinefs. The Hon. Gentleman remarked that when the charge of grofs malverfation which he al luded to was made, the Learned Gentleman (Sir William Scott), did nut contradia it. He concluded with moving a claufe, that any Proaor who Mall allow his partner to take the adverfe fide, or who [hall realy or iodirealy receive any part of the profits from the Proaor on the other fide, or any other perfon, fitall, upon conviaion thereof, be utterly excluded from the proration, and any place whatever he may hold in the Admiralty or Vice-Admiralty cottrts.--.- And alfo that for every fuch offence the offal* mall forfeit soo) to be recovered on information, &c. Sir W. SCOTT did opt fee the neceffity for this clank, as the praaice it referred to was already pro nounced illegal and was punillsable on deteaion. He had no objeaion, however, to its import, and there fore timid not oppofe it. The claufe was adopted, the Bill was gone through and ordered to be read a third time to.morrow. Adjourned. LONDON. ....••••••••`.. THYJasp4ir, JUNE 6. Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT 01110ICLOCE. Coeds, SW-.oaudera, 3f—ltediseed iL PRICE OF STOOLS yurow4y.' 3 c. Red. An. si id hap. par Cam Mr Cant. Cat Asp. &at Eralbate. IW. to prtas. tt.ME ! 4PY Call 74171 4 1 7 : f Tlehrts c 9,! 1 ? 1111 3 Pfun• s par Can. Navy al. zss. L.Aaa. sktkis Cad. far Ace. not la la Basis, is.a as.* ' The eolleaing of o flyopg fleet in the Downs, which we mentioned ypfterday t is probably a conic quence of tome information received refpeding the movements of the enemy op the French coall ;—for eves the (hips which compofed the North Sea fqua ikon, which had come into Yarmouth a few days ago, have been ordered to the Downs ; and we find by our Port letters that fome of them bare actually failed for that !lotion. It is reporte4 that %Napalm has arrived at Bou logne, having reached that port on Sunday la. Ir is Paid he returned to Paris on the 3oth ult, where he only (laid the; and the following day. We know not on what authority this Ilatement rens, hilt certain it is that there has been a great hurtle at Boulogne for above a week pall, as if preparations were making for tome more than ordinary occafion ; and a firing was heard along the French coati, during a gm:: part of Sunday ; on which day fifty gun 1304: . twenty Infers, and feveral {loops, were obieryc. on the outfide of Boulogne Pier. The prevailing opinion, at the prefent mor.f refpeeling the Combined Fleets, is, that one par, them is deained to take poffeffion of the Cape c, Good Hope, and the other to fccure the Brazil. , the former having been ceded to France, and the lat• to promifed to Spain. Should they fucceed in tech a defign, and we fee nothing at prefent that can pu fibly prevent them, it will be produetive of incalcola. ble difallers to our India trade. The enemy fed of the Cape of Good Hope on one fide, o: the Brazils on the other, would form a chain %%ilia could not be broken through at any time but b.; a very flrong convoy, which ought to be employed on more aelive fervices. Deprived of the refources rf the Brazils, Portugal mutt fink by a natural &all into the devouring jaws of the King ?f Terrors, Boat. :Op TARTU alt;' the hi. lio. gt (late, wur a bi t Cler g y, lingd Iteletid But fur the anfwe n forma. of the I by the andrir ferved, latter for this • w ahir over, it to reg v . andia Clergy I'urk It which If the be tit ter, a a met Won of :fir the fear t Athol% We he Cog. the r re. H e comb et fop. deliver Pent c TI Span were the over env It ii tome encl.. T has' hc)n pc& Schc retui Sccr Port Eng and M iron fron 'T tend in h whit pie) chel pea bre, feet exte I 0, ( tom fror cull hay of a of I eigl qua hay