Star. — London, England, 1801-02-11 00:00:00

" ' • be motion.—HiaLordlhip was enforcing his ma ons why it would be dangerous in the extreme to nterfere at prefent with the great queftion of Ca. olic Emancipation, and Rating that the agitation fit juft now would throw Ireland into much eater confurion than had as yet been witneffed, 'nil of which no adequate idea could be formed by o fe who were not intimately verfed in the nature d c hat-atter of the people— When he was called to Order by the Earl of St/trots, who faid the Noble Earl appeared to im to be hirafelf doing what he advifed others to a void, and lighting up the very flame he had fo r..ach deprecated. He therefore hoped the Noble znd Learned Lord on the Woolfack would con' fine the Noble Earl to the quellion. The Earl of CLARE fails, the fall was, almoft eve ry Noble Lord who had fpoken that day had been a little out of Order, as the queftion of Ca tholic Emancipation, though net before the Houfe, had been alluded to by moll of them, and by fome in very hong terms, which he meant to have ;hewn the danger of indulging at this awful crifis, before they were ripe for the difcuffion. He would, however, have done with the topic, which he was perfuaded was pregnant with infinite mifchief, and the agitation of which could alone prevent the derivation of thofc bleffings and advantages, which might otherwife be expetted from the great mea fare of the Union. His Lordfbip was proceeding to illuftrate {till further the manner in which the public difcuffion of the queftion of Catholic Eman cipation on the fudden would operate in Ireland, when he was again called to Order by the Earl of SUFFOLK , who raid, as the Noble Earl wa s agaM falling into the fame llrain of reafoning as bere he muff beg of the Noble and Learned Lord onlite Woolfack to keep him in Order, and confine him to the quettion before the Houfe. The Loa. CHANtILLOR then left the Woolfack, and faid, 'certainly mull beg his Noble Friend to abllain from all allufion to the topic that had been fo irregularly introduced in the ccurfe of the converfation, which was a meafure of too much delicacy, as well as of too great magnitude, to be iliiceffed partially, or by fhreds and patches; but when the proper time fhould be arrived for enter mining it in . that Houfe, it mull be confidered in all its bearings and relations, comprehenfively, fully, temperately, and difpaffionately, and in a Manner, and with a ferioufnefs proportioned to its great importance. He was lbrry therefore to hve,heard the Noble Earl near him (Lord Moira) threw out an idea, that the fenfe of the Houle could be colletted upon it from the impreffion that bad been obvion fl y given by their Lordfhips that day.. He ihotild be extremely concerned if it was to go forth to the world, and to get into Ire land, that any thing like the real fenfe of the Houfe was to be colletted from what had Old repelling fo great a matter, in the hafty and look converfation that had taken place that evening. It would not be any thing like doing ollies to a queftion of in fi nite delicacy , and of fo large a fize, , to let an idea prevail that it could ei•er be ditpofed of by fuch flight and carnal ob. fi.rvations. With regard to the critical fituation of the country, and the great lofs it had fultaiced, no than deplored it more deeply or more finceicly than he did. Connefted as be had long been by public duty, and private friendfhip and regard, with thole whofe fervices the Public were about to be deprived of, and knowing, as he did by ex perience, their great abilities, their (trill integrity, and their unremitted application to the important flthetions of the fituations they had long held with gteat credit to themfelves, and fingular advantage to their country, he muff extremely lament that an loccafion mould arife that Mould make them feel that they could no longer hold their employments.' There would however•arife fome queftions in all Goiernments, about which men of honourable mind's might fairly entertain a difference of fen timein and . opinion. Whatever his (Onion was, the goodnefs and partiality that he had ever expe nenced from that Houfe, afforded him a reafon• able affurance that.they gave him credit for alling to the bell of his judgment upon the genuine con• vii ion of his mind, no matter in what part of the Houfe he. flood, nor in what fituation he was Placed. Nicked he could do no good to the Pub lic were he to aift other rife, nor should be be qua lified to gnbetore that Tribunal, before which, at Dil time of life, he mull in a fhort time, by the (nude of nature, espett to have to resider up an account of all hit opinions, and all his actions in this fublunary Rate. Therefore, at all events, Ind under every. eonfideration of confequetwes, the Houfe might be affixed, that whenever he had formed an opinion, he &could have the firmneft to avow it. and the cons dence to fupport it. Lord MoriA faid, he thought it neceffary to explain a mirapprehenflon that the Noble and Learned Lord had fallen into.—He had not alluded, to the queftfon of Catholic Eman cipation, when he faid the impreffion upon the mind of the Houfe had that day Been fo ftrongly Maxiifelled that it snuff basic. at much cf fed, where it ought ko produce a dim effea, as could have been hoped for, if an Addrefs to his Majelly had been moved and voted. What he did allude to, was the apprehenforis fo clearly to be collelfed from the expreftion of the Houfe as to the fort of Miniftry that rumour faid *is likely to be formed, and which the Country naturally muff dread the having for their Executive Go. vernment in a time fo critical and full of danger as the prefent. After the manly fpeech of the Noble Lord on the opprifite Bench (,Lord Gren ville), he had deemed it right in the Noble Lord at Olofe instance they had been fummoned to the ;ionic that day, to withdraw his Motion, and he had urged him to move for the diicharge of the Order ; becaufe what the Noble Lord on the op. pofite Bench had Rated made his perfifting in his hlotion no longer nectff.iry at prefent. Fie aware that it was ufual when changes of Admint; oration were about to take place, to forbear from bringing forward Motions for an Enquiry in t o the State of the Nation, but he begged to remind their Lordfhips that the lituaties the Houfe flood to oa the oecaifion before chemists different from ant i former oas. He reasssioWed in the year that the that reflphis )11ailiar told the Houle of Commons, not that he was bine& fingly going out, but his declaration was, that the whole Adminiftration was at an end. Now the cafe is by, no means fimilar :—we are not about (if the rumour may be credited that has met every individual's ear) to have a new Miniftry atling upon new, and different principles; but the Noble Lord has himfelf told the Houfe that it is only a change of a few perfOns—that the old Minitkry is to be the root of the new one, and thofe princi ples which have brought the country into its pre fent alarming (late were Rill to be continued. He hoped that the fpirit of the Houfe would be rout ed; that they would aft like men, and exert them felves properly in defence of their fuffering coon. try- ; if ,they failed to do this, they could not pof fibly avert the form that was hanging over them, and was,ready to burft upon their heads. They would lofe all their weight and influence over the people ; a calamity, anxioufty to be avoided, be caufe while they retained their authority and im portance in the eyes of the public, they could ad with due effe&, and render effential fervice to the general interefts of the Empire; whereas, if they did not preferve their influence, they would , be come next to nothing. He could not compliment tbem, as being more than an indifferent battalion of grenadiers, and yet they would be little better, was their parliamentary weight and authority to be once loft. He therefOre returned his warm eft thanks to the Noble Earl near him for per filling in his Motion for a Call of the Houfe; it was efrentially neceffary, and mull tend to con vince the people, that that Houfe was not unmind ful of the critical fituation of their affairs; but that they were determined to do their duty, and look the danger that threatened the country in the f iee.—Nor was the Noble Lord, on the oppofita fide, near the bottom of the Houle (Lord Clare) by any means cornea in his declaration, that a Call of the Houfe was unprecedented, except only in the cafe of the trial of a Peer. There were fevertil . inflances on the Journals. Thank GOD, of late years, a Call of that Houle had not been necetrary ; but the prefent fituation of the country made it abfolutely necefary to look back to old times, and follow the precedents that they afforded in cafes of fimilar difficulty and danger. On that account he again thanked the Noble Easl fur perfifting in his Motion. The Earl of Vissymosixtatio wifhed the Noble Earl to withdraw his Motion. The Earl of Itunicia faid, he certainly did not rife to make motions that were unprecedented. He had referred to the Journals, and he prefently found four inliances of calls of that Houfe having been moved and enforced. His Lordfhip read them from a paper on which he had written them down ; three of them were about the years 1678, and the fourth was in the year 1704 His Lord- Ihip faid there was no oceafion for fending round circular letters, nor was it of any importance that feveral Peers were in diftant parts of the Unkas Kingdom, as had been Rated by a Noble EOM ,(Lord Clare), becaufe it was not ufual to tak Peens into cultody for not appearing, nor any fort of penalty, to enforce obedience to the Order. Lord STRANGE (the Duke of Athol) faid, he swat oppofe the Motion, in confequence of what bad kilt fallen from the Noble Earl, viz. that the Motion, if agreed to, would anfwer no end what ever, becaufe there was no means of enforcing obedience to it. If the faits were fo, it was sin ner...easy to make a call.—Befides, every Noble Lord, he had no doubt, would feel it to be his in difpenfable duty to attend in his place, if he poi ibly could, at a period of fuch alarm and danger. Lord B01[111101)011 faid a few words alto on the Moe fide of the queftion. At length when the Lord Chancellor put the wieftion, the Houfe divided—Contents s3 —Non- Contents 5+ IttLILI , Of THE POOL. The Duke of 13$10.011.1) then called the attention of the Houk to the Bill which he had introduced, and which was read a firil time the preceding day, for the relief of a particular defcription of poor, erhich his Grace faid was a Bill, that if it were to oafs, abfolutely required difpatch, as in all pro bability the Commons, who claim the right of ori ginating Money Bills, would throw the Bill oat. and if they approved the principle would inane. ..diately bring in a Bill fomewhat fimilar ; all of which would lofe time, and if the Bill did not pafs Coon, it would be defers, as more difireffes were ifrued by the Sheriff between this and Lifter, than in any other part of the year. The Earl of RADNOR remonftrattd spina going through more than one flage of die Bill in one day, and complained of the Houfe having palled' si Bill the preceding day through all its Ra es, though it had not been heard of for more than forty•eight hours before, and yet had received the Royal Affent by Cosomillion.—His Lordfhip fiticli they Rood in steed of an A& of Parliament to compel obedience co their own Standing larders. After fume further converfation, the Duke of Bedford shoved; That she Bill be read a fecund time on Thurfday.—Ordered. The Houle then adjourned to Thurfday. LIST Of rill PURI WHO VOTED FOR • CALL OE --- ?Ns itoutt. The Oiler d B Earl et COVINTIT Earl of Dust • ---- U*lllololl ...., FITRIIIILLIAII Firs .•-•- MOIRA STAIR ....-.-... BRIIIIIIIOOOII Lord Vilcoott SAt and SILL .........- RARPIOR Lord HOLLY NO -....-.... ALIBIRIARIt .-ROIIIII.IIIT ........=.. MAR sm Lo --- Kowa DA ..-.-, Li r VOID .......... SUITORS •••CAIRRI.TOIIS - CARUIIIII ..-•••••••• la ill 13. .._. NOUSE or COMMONS. A little before four o'clock Mr. Lee, the Clerk, Rated that it was his duty to inform the Hoeft, that he had this forenoon received a letter from t h e s pea k e r, which, by their leave, he woulj now read. Trie Houle having accordingly erre& wills that he timid do fo, be proceeded i the letter, which was dated PaLsceNard, ma, sad was ia ['Mama aa follows their read •. !`' Si sr—llls IVlijefty haring been, pleated to Intimate his in tention to appoint me, in the prcfrut conjundstre, to a .fitua tion incompatible with the difeharge of the dude's of that which I now huh, I am obliged to requeft of you to tender to the Houl my refignation of an office which has been repeatedly conferred upon me, in a manner the molt hor.ourable to me, and continued in a way the molt gratifying to my feelings. In quitting this office I am unable to exprefs the fentimenu of regret, refped, and gratitude which I feel. I am, however, (attained by the confuleration that I have ever been adtuated by principle of public duty, from which I trult I never deviate. As foon as the letter was read, • Mr. PITT and Sir W. PULTENEY rofe at the, fame time. (el cry for form rise prevailed that Sir. W. &homy lboold be beard.) At leng th Mr. Perri faid, 44 That he had it in 'command from his Ma-, jelly, to intimate that it was his Majefty's pleafure that the Houfe lhould proceed as foon as poffible to the choice of a new Speaker. He fhould therefore move that the Houfe do proceed to-morrow to make this choice, and that in the meantime they do adjourn." Sir W. Pu t,r sw sy rote to exprefs his regret that the Houfe was about to be deprived of the Cervices of the Right Honourable Gentleman ( the Speaker) in the difcharge of an office which he had fo long filled in a manner the moll honourable to himfelf, and the molt ufeful to the Houfe. He profeffed his unwillingnefs to enter into a long eulogium on the Merits of that Gentleman, becaufe it was con trary to his praftice to lavifh praifes, either on thofe who were about to enter upon, or on thofe preparing to retire from o ffi ce. e might fay, however, without being fuppofed to be influenced by adulation, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had executed the duties of his important Ration in the molt exemplary manner; in a manner which had procured him numerous friends, without begetting, h m a tingle enemy. In refleiting on this change, be had to regret that his Majefty's Councils were to be deprived of the advantage of confiderable t dents, while it gave him fatisfaftion that this ehange had not been brought about by faCtion. It appeared,on the contrary, that thofe who had retir ed from Adminiftration had done fo merely from difference of opinion with regard to a particular meafure. He confidered the prefent moment to be ill fitted for the difcuflion of long difputed points. In the alarming and dangerous fituation in which the co ntry is now placed—(A loud cry If bear, bear, f row eke MinOerial fide)—he thought it was the in. difpenfible duty of all to unite in advice and ex ertion, to refcue us from the evils with which we were threatened. The falvation of the country was the firit point to be attended to ; the point to which the wishes and talents of every public man ought to be direCted. After thofe dangers which hang over us were difpelled, and after public con fidence was reftored, the points of inferior moment would then more properly come to be confidered, and would be more coolly and advantageoufly dif cuffed. He had been long in Parliament, and du ring the time he had been a Member of the Houfe he had witnefled many changes. In none of chem. however, was he convinced, that attachment to principle was their caufe ; and he concluded by expreffing his hope that a time might at leng th come when public men would be guided by prin ciples of public duty ! The queflicn of Adjournment till to-morrow was immediately put, and carried. After the Adjournment a great many Mem bers remained and entered into a cenverfation of Come length acrofs the Table ; we particularly per ceived Meflrs. Pnr, Tr stagy, Hos House, &c. but its nature did not reach us. LONDON. . ' WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY tr. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Confab 57 3641—f0r matey 34—Reduced 3: 3744. 4 per C. st--5 per C. cit.—New ditto sosi—L. ARM 77 3.-Ho. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY n ikink Stork z 33 z 314 • Liug Ann. r 7 7-161 3 per C. Coo. slif 161 57 = ADD ' ... 141 -.6 3 per C Red. 38 6 17 t 5 Per C. 711 4 Per Con- 77 7 India Stock al z t per C. NIITy9I ; gI Cog forace. 04 5 7 3 pa C. Loyalty Ommiura DUBLIN, Fts. 4... Price of Stocks tbis day : • 5 pgr Ciat. Gm Deb. $044 --6 per Cent. Treater? BM 971. 6 per C. Onad Can. Deb, ci 90. r The converfation which took place lall night in the Houle of Peers is well worthy of the coat. aeration of the Public. What can we gather of their opinion refpefting the changes in the Cabinet, Inn that it agrees in every iota with the fentiments .we have erpreffed on it ? The oftenfible grounds ft which a parcel of the Minifters have retired from office, was avowed by Lord GRENVILLE DO be—a difference in opinion on the quellion of Ca: tholie e mancipation If we may judge froin the fentiments exprefied by their Lordthips, the new Minifters Will have but a cool reception. The poffeffion of Office, however, can work wonders ; and we (hall not yet form a decided opinion on the kr port they may receive in condufting the affairs of the Nation, upon the fame plan and principles which guided the conduft of their predeceftors, which has been avowed to be their intention. Yefterday evenink there was a general meeting of all the Leaders of the New Adminiftration, the principal departments of which were filled up ; but the arrangements will not be known till this after noon after the Levee, where moll of the new Members wal kifs hands. In the mean time, we learn that feveral other reagnations than thole we have already announced have taken place. Lord CAMDEN, who was call ed so a feat in the Cabinet on his return from A behead. retires at prefent from that fituation, la the fame grounds with Mr. PITT and On other Minifters. Lord GOwst has , alto feat is his refignation of the JoiiitY'ollmalkerfldP and we have heard from pretty good aaihority, that Lord MACARTNEY has declined accepting the office of Prefident of the Board of Controul, which he had been cry much preffed to fill. There is reafon to believe that the FUR Conunif fionerfhip of the . Admiralty has been offered to Earl Sr. yeeirev. It is reported that Sir CHARLES STUART IS to SO to Ireland, and to be made a Peer; Mr. CHARLES YORKE to be Seer:- tary at War; Mr. LAW to be Attorney-Genera, as Sir WILLIAM GRANT goes to the Rolls; ant Sir PEPPER ARDEN to be crested a Peer. Mr. RO3B and Mr. LONG both retire. The latter has fecund a penfion of isool. a year for • himfelf, and 7501. for his Wife. The former, in addition to a princely fortune, will fill retain fine cures to the amount of leveral thoufands a year. The new Minilhers have not yet been able to pro cure fucceffors for there two Gentlemen. According to Lord Garsvit.t.s, the rumour is falfe of the new Minifters having an intention to fend a Perfon to Paris; for she prime lifloo, be for, is to be iottlieitly purfird. Thus every idea of a negotiation Tannins. There is no truth in the Rory of the Duke of Ctrs ENCE and the Marquis of Buc 1110MAIll being, Candidates for the Admiralty. Since yeflerday two mails arrived from Ham. burgh. The foreign Journals are chiefly occaipied with rumours about an event, which we already know to have taken place—a peace between Auf tria and France. One of the reported conditions hasevident ailufiontoplans, which might be looked for from the moment our late magnanimous ally, PAUL, deferted the caufe of good government, order, and religion. Auftria is to grant a free paffage to French troops, to join a Ruffian army, and march againft Conftantinople. If this take place foon, the power of all the ref of Europe united will never drive the French from Egypt, and our poileffions in India will be erpofed to • much danger. We may, however, hope that there is fome miAalce in the report. The letters from Harnburgh Rate a circuit:. fiance, which, if well founded, will be equally einharraffing to thiskcountry, namely, that Ptuffia has ratified the Northern league in its full exteor. In our defence OT order, good government, and religion, what a mefs have we got into: What a wicked world we live in, to fee all the Powers of Europe one by one turning their backs on fo good a caufe ! 1 E ~' 1 .1 I. HAMBURGH MAILS. • VIENNA, jaituair *4. • ' 4d Difpatches have been received from Geneval BILLILOARDS, which contain advice of an armi- Rice having been concluded betsieen the armies in Italy. " The time of its Continuance is to be the fame with that concluded in Germany. The French line of demarcation is formed by the right bank of the river Livenza ; and the right bank of the • Tagliarncato is the boundary line of the Außrian pohtion. Both lines, therefore, urn interfed the mourn- 9 tains that feparate the Tyrol from the Venetian territory, and conned at Lienz in the valley of • Puller, with the lints of dcinarcation' for the ar mies in Germany. " Mantua and Venice contii..:e in pail:firm of the Anftrian troops; the former fortren is to be (offered to renew its provifions every ten days ; Pefchiera, Verona, Legnago, Ferrara, and Anco. na, are to be evacuated and given up to the French, on the Arne condition with the fortreffes forrendered in Germany; that is, till the conclu• fion of peace."—(Couin Genetic.) PRITATR LITTER, SANS DATE. As the Klee of Names is not included by name in the Italian anniftice, a corps of Cifalpine troops is on its way towards Naples, through the EccleGaftical State. NANSURON, JANUARY 3. According to accounts from Mittau, that may be relied on, Louts XVIII. and the Duchefs of ANOonLewl left that town oh the 23d of January. The place of their future reirdence is not known. Intelligence has been received here, by exprefs, this morning , that the King of PRUSSIA h;si alio ratified the Northern Convention, and lent it to Peterfbnrgh, by a fpecial meffenger, on the 24th. It is much feared by the nigh& Hill refident here, that the navigation of the Elbewill, under certain circumilanees, be flint againit England, and that a Danifh or Pruffian garrifon will be Rationed in this city. The politics of the King of PRUSSIA are diame trically hoftile to the intereft of Britain. A few days ago, the new Britifh Amball'ador, Lord CARYSFORT, made the molt urgent reprefentations to that Monarch to diffuade him from joining the Northern Coalition. In the note which he deli vered on this fubjed, in the name of his BRITAN NIC MAJESTY, he ezpretred bi, Betrammto re: frond evifice to ?main the memo friend of the Km: of Fiume, ae straw, prises iu and the hen of confan.cniney licund bine Jo to ku Ms, &ire* pejo*. But neither this note, nor that delivered from Lord Gat:gni:Les office to the Pruffian Minifter. Baron Von KLOST Jams', at London, has produced any alteration in the fentiments of PREDIRICR WILLIAMS. IRATISIION, JANUARY 29. One of the conditions of the Preliminaries of Peace is, that Aultria !hall grant a free paffage through Hungary to an army of 60,000 men ; • which will probably join the !tartan Army; and march in conjundion againft Conilantinople, ' whence the French will be able to attempt a n at tack on t h e poiceirious in die E 44 Indies • I ..