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- This day was published, In Tno Volumes, Ilvo..price i 4. 12s. 6d. er on largi Priter.. Xs. sit with 3S coloured Plates and Maps, AVOYAGE ;o CADIZ. and GIBRALTAR., up the MEDITERRANEAN to MALTA mid EMUS, in 1 .luiand 18t 1, including a Descriptive Tour of Sicily aadths Lipari Islands, and an Excursion in Portugal. By Lieutenant-General G. COCKBURN. This Work con , ains an account of the Places described, 'writ ten a' a period of consideruble interest, and the Narrative is i 11,15- trat .. d by numerous well executed Plates, principally colt:tired; among ot!'eri ate Views of Gibraltar, Cape St. Vincent, Scy La, Messina, Murat's Camp and Tice lila In Calabria, Monte Pellegrino, t2.itaida. Lipari. Forts Gonsago, Scaletta, St. Meade, lionn Ira, l'aorminum. nergenti, Castiglione. the Convent of St. ar.lit's, and several Views of Etna and Stromboli. I on 'on: Prim. rd for 1. Hurling, sti, St. James's.atreet. PARLIAMENT.IR r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE. OF LORDS, JUNE i. The T.ocal lt.egolation, the Exchange BiUs Annuities, the Board ut Luntiaide, a.::d the Northern Light Houses &I.s, wet% t‘a.l the Oils' time •1 he Marquis 4.I4LICKINGITAM moved, that the Report of Ste C onmitsve in the House of Commons relative to the Fees tact, Ili the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshaisea Prisons, be ipt it ied. order( d. •1 he Vulo, , •1 SI JS% 4 EX presented a Petition froM the Roman Cathebrs ut %%roamed rdered to lie on the table. ' It.)ith3GN SLAVE TRADE. Ti.e Marquis ofLANSDOWNE, in moving for the second reading of the Foreign Slave Trade 13:11, S. id, it was well known that interested persons had availed themselves of the assistance afforded by the ships of Spain and Portugal, to employ British capi tal in the prosecu'ion of that odious traffic, whereby tbeir avarice was rewarded by a profit of forty per cent. more than had usually•been derived before the Trade became ille,al; for a Slave which was pro. curei for sly was atter:- ards sold in some of the for £EIOO. The object of the Bill was, first, to make the eawaging in the Trade felony; and, se condly, its extend the penalty to all those British sub jects who should be assisting, by lending money for such purpose. The Earl of WESTMORELAND agreed with the ..rinciple of the Bill, but thought it might operate inju.i. tisiv to the interest ot persons in the Colonies, who, by their a?ents, and perhaps without any know le.fge on their own parts of the transaction, would be Ii .he to be punished. Such, indeed, had been the cas.. at Sierra Leone. He therefore hoped that some ci use would be introduced to prevent such abuse ot it. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, if the No bl- E.trl should think proper to propose any new ciause, it might be offered in the Committee. As to the trial which took place on the coast of Africa, al luded to by the Noble Earl, the result proceeded znerely from the simission of a point of form, and could not Niel% I.e urged in objection to she Bill. The Earl of WESTMORELAND explained— when the Bid WAS read a second tithe, and ordered to lte committed on Monday. LORD ROSEBERR Y P S DI VO MCI: BILL. Upon the order of the day for bringing up the Re port on Lord Reseberry's Divorce Bill, The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved for the omission of the clause preventing the future marriage of the party .iivorctd. 1..:,rd GRENVILLE conjured the House to con ,sidcr the de lot ut effect upon the minds of the people which would Jesuit trom that House rejecting. the clause, in a case if such a nature as the present. Lord ELLEN3OROUGH said the Noble Earl seemed to 'urge( that an adultress was, by law, dives ted of her property, and stripped as naked as her ciinie hid kit her; and to dispense with the clause in the pi, sent instance would be to tear up the coat of domestic order, and to amindon even our sons 4nd daughttrs to mutual pollution. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY deemed the clause salutary, and without which much danger would be likely tol-esulr to public morals. The Earl of CARNARVON thought that the pa- 1 city of murals, as well as the ends of general justice,. would best be consulted by leaving out the clause. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE observed, that the Noble Earl in whose behalf ti , e 11,11 had been in troduced was ready to acquiesce in any measure which in ght be suggested for enlarging the Lady's allowance. The EATI of LAUDERDALE then withdrew his motiun, and the Report of the Bi was received. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. ABERCROMBIE !Nought up the Report oldie Caledo nian Asylum Bid, the amendments in which were agreed to. Sir H PARNhLI. brought up a Petition from the Grocers of Dub in, against the Hill for preventing them (ram vending bpi rit..—Or.lared to He on the table. Mr. D CKEN%ON troves for an account of the gross amount of t...r runs paid by the Irish Treasury.on the Tontine Annuities. Ordssai. 1 •if • A • A a a • . $ t HABEAS CORPUS. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW moved for the appoint mut of a Select Committee, to inquire into the law of Haws Coriuu ad lathfaciendum. He did this be le:Mt a Bill of his, to regulate the law on this subject, bad been ord. red by the other House to be read a se. ernid titne that they six months, although it had pissed the Commons almost scitheueoppositton. The Com.' maitre was necessary, to know whethir any :mien& meut in this pert of the law ought to be adilited or not. He in,tanced the case of a man named Hoff. man, who was Commander of a Hanoverian ship, which was captured by a privateer under Spanish co. lours, commanded by a man named Valanstein..— Hotiman was confined by Valanstein, and his life put in danger. Application was made to the Court of Common Pleas, bgt it was five weeks before it was possible, from the defect of the law, to bring up Hoff man. It •might be said, that an action for false im prisonment, to recover damages, might .be brought in such a case as this; but ng damages *could be a sufficient reparation for depriving a man so long of his liberty. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would not op. post this motion, 'if it only went to enquiry into this anilect. but he contended there was a remedy for all cases like those complained of ; although, in wine b o unces, the remedy might not bethought sufficient. coald'not give his consent • to such a Bill As that : iyhtch his Learned Friend had before brought. into ' the Howie ; but he would give every assistance in his puvr,r to ii,e proposed.enqiney. W. WYNNE. said, he. thodg! t that a mere sasoicion of violence • being done to the liberty of the subject Was ient to trate the audition and en gu:-/ fl - that - House. B , ippOse b ruin impressed b) Clio rship, w ho 'had a spite tow Ards him , lxe rilt•Vt) for &writ' of kiabeas Corpns, and the Captain refuses to make any return to the writ, and ...ids with the man to the East Indies. Paring), on his return to this country, .the man who had done hint this injury could not be found, if even redress could be- procured from him for so grievous an injury.—The Committee Was then appointed. BATHING IN TIIK THAMES. Mr. W. WYNNE objected to n clause in the Act for preventing depredations on the River Thames, and preventing bathing in the river. The clause went to prevent indecent bathing in the Thames, from tile entrance of the East India Docks, to Battersea-bridge.' This was said to be intended to prevent indecent ex posure of naked persons ; but there was a punishment at common law for such an offence. But were they to prevent the Westminster boys and labourers from bathing, for their health ? In other countries there . were schools for swimming: He then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal that part of the Thames Police Act which prevented bathing in the River Thames. Mr. H. ADDINGTON stated that various repre-1 sentations had been made to his office of the existence at this nuisance: The clause was introduced to give the Thames Police a discretionary power to punish those acts of bathing, which might be judged to amount to a nuisance. The Magistrates had con • fined these to parts of the river where they had placed cautionary notices against indecent bathing in such places, He would submit to the opinion of the House, although he retained his former opinion re specting this clause. - Mr.W.WY NNE said, the notices were so getterali that they certainly extended from Blackwell to Bat tersea-bridge. Sir J. NEWPORT objected to the discretionary power granted to the Magistrates, which allowed them to construe a certain act into a nuisance or not, as they pleased. Mr. HARVEY contended that there had been great nuisances committed by bathers in the Theme s was then given to bring in the Bill. The Downpatrick Election Bill was read a first and second time, and ordered for a third reading. Mr. GORDON moved for a Copy of a Procla mation issued by General Ainslie, while Governor of Dominica. Sir R. HERON said, this business had been kept hanging over General Ainslie for a long time. He wished to know when it was really to be brought forward ? • Mr. GORDON said, he was ready to bring it for ward to-morrow, if he had the Proclamation. Sir R. HERON promised to give the Hon. Gen tleman the Proclamation he wished for • and with that understanding the notice was allowed to stand for to-morrow. Mr. V. FITZGERALD obtained leave to bring in Bills for securing the Excise Duties on stained paper, hides and skins, malt, and spirit licenses. In answer to a question from Mr. FINLAY, Mr. -V. FITT : GINALD said, it was not his intention to pro. pose the repeal of the bounties on Irish Printed Cottons, as the sum paid in that way was under £lOOO a year. ENTRAPPING SLAVES. Mr. HORNER said, the; the House would recol lect, that during the progress of the itegociations at Ghent between this country and America, he put a question to a Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, as to the truth talsehood.of an assertion made by the American Government, that during the war a Proclamation was issued by one of our Commander, tempting away the slaves 'belonging to the United States. under a promise of freedom ; and that they were afterwards sold in our Colonies. This was a most.grievous,charge ! At the time, however, when he first put thii question, it was thought better to say nothing on the subject, as negociattous between the two countries were then pending. But now he was anxious for the sake of the character of the country, and of the gallant Officer alluded to, to know whether there was any the least foundation for this charge. Mr. GOULBOU RN was not then able to state any thing absolutely decisive on this subject. The charge was so very serious, that he and his colleagues. addie.sed a Note to the American Commissioners, trusting that they would . communicate to them the evidenCe on which it was founded, in order that our.; Officers might be brought to punishment if the charge I was found to be tr ue. The American Plenipoten tiaries did not think themselves justifiable in furnish ing them with the document respecting the charge, which they were possessed of, in a public form ; but they did give them to him as a private individual. Thu whole of it rested on the affidavit of an individual of the State of Virginia, who deposed, that being a pri. soar at Bahama he saw a slave sold out of an Eng. lish ship, the name of which he (Mr. Goulboume) did not now recollect: and which had then arrived from the coast of America. The affidavit also stated, that the deponent understood this to be a common practice. As he named the person to whom the slave Was sold, the Noble Lord at the head of the ColOnial Department directed him to enquire whether there was any such person at Bahama, and whether be had any slave? No answer bad yet been received, but he expected that a satisfactory one would arrive' before the close of this Session, which he would imme diately communicate to the louse. Mr. HORNER said, as far as this information went, it was satisfactory; and it gave him sincere pleasure to hear that there wasito little likelihood of bringing home a charge so heinous against the cha racter of a gallant officer. or that of this country. NEW POET-OFECR. On the motion that tie Report of the Committee on the New Post.olfice should be received. Mr. A. WRIGHT was convinced in his own mind that there was some necessity for a new Post-olfice,- but considering that the bpsmess was conducting upon the whole with very great celerity, and that' the money both of the pubau; and the Government was sufficiently employed, he could not consent to the measure. Mr. W. SMITH made some objections to the mea sure. He considered that the removal of the Post office to St. Martin's•lst-Grand would be an obstruc tion to the projected improvement in the streets, by making a free passage from Blackfriass-bridge tcs the ,forth road through Fleet-market. Besides, here was Someriet.place unfinished, for the completion of which he would rather see avotwoo employed, than for the building of a new Poet-office, for that would Afford situati, , us for numerous Wives, which ware at i'reloost w diierest_parts ot-tha *t, at•Wesciniaster. • Mr. IS ititCLAY wa, surprised at the mode of R :s mishit a fund for the building of the new Pita-office. Why could they not raise it from the public funds at once ? He wished the House not to concur with such an expensive undettaking at present, now that we wets entering upon such a war, and wee compelled to furnish such enormous supplies. Mr. Alderman ATKINS conceived, from the evidence that had been given, that a Post-office was indispensibly necessary—it was impossible to build one without expense. and as little money as possible would be laid out upon it. Mr. BANKES thought there was no real necessity for building the new Post-Office this year. In com mon with every Member, he had admired the celerity with which the business of the Post Office was con ducted, and if the officers did incur any inconveni ence, it was only for an hriur or an hour and a halt I each day. Every thing in the new building style ' was carried to an excess. A basement storey of Port land stone, and an lonic portico, were to adorn the Transport Office, which, perhaps, some gentlemen might happen to know, as situated in Cannon-row, fronting the Thames.—The same expensive plans were pursuing with regard to the new Custom-house and the new Mint. He trusted that no expenditure on public buildings would hereafter he suffered that was not controuled by a Board of Works. He should therefore move, as -an amendment, that, instead of being now received, the Report should be postponed to this day three months. Mr. GORDON objected to the removal of the Post-office at all, to the offices being built at present, and to the underhand way in which the business re specting the new Post-office had been conducted. Mr. PROTHEROE said he should vote for the measure. Mr. LOCKHA RT was opinion, that we ought not to undertake any new buildings that were not in dispensably necessary to us. With respect to the Fluent measure, in particular, be wished time to be given, in order that the City of London might thew their libetality by contributing towards the building in question, out of their proper funds.--Withoot thus trenching on the Orphans' Fund, he believed the City to posses wealth which bid been bequeathed to them for superstitious purposes, to whict► it had 'long since become quite impossible to apply it.— There was, in particular, a certain sum bequeathed for the express purpose of buying off Christians made captive by the 'Algerines, though he believed not one such Christina bad been ransomed for the last hundred years.—(4 hell.)—lt was from such sources as these that the City might reasonably be expected to contribute to an object in which the City was itself so much interested, and which it was de- signed to embellish. Strangers were here ordered to withdraw, expect ing a division. This did not now take place.—Re entering the Gallery, Mr. H. Susan= was on his legs. The Honourable Member said, that no tair and satisfactory examination had been allowed, and therefore there could be no just decision on the part of the House. If, however, the Post-Office wds to be removed at all, he should say that, consulting all interests, the site of Somerset House was the pro perest to be fixed upon. No argument had been c.- tablished on the health of the Other, when the ques tion was put respecting it. Why were the home districts to be liable to an aggravated I•tc.il tax, merely because the persons woo lived the nearest to it en joyed the satisfaction of contempliting the beauties of the new Office ? Would the Right Honourable Gentleman pretend to support so flimsy an argument As this ? Vie had voted five millions to our Allies, which he conceived to be proper, it war WAS to be wagel with effect; but, at the same time, it might be proper to reflect how far the sums we were lavish ing oti public buildings and new streets, without any necessity, might have assisted us in carrying on the war. There was to be £500,000 for a certain new street ; for the new Post-Office, et 500,000 ; for a Penitentiary ee250,000 ; the like sum for a New Mint; and i 8.30.000 for the new Transport• Office ; not to mention the new Custom House. Such were the immense sums thus about to be voted and ex pended on all sides, while at the same time the na tion was engaging in an extensive war. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if he could be convinced that the present Post Office could be rendered fit for public purposes In-1 stead of another, he should be the first co withdraw his support of the Bill. As to the scite he felt prin cipally for the convenience of those Gentlemen who were engaged in foreign correspondence ; while at the same time, the Public in general might be bene fitted by a more central spot. He understood that 40 or £.50,000 might annually be added to the busi ness of the Post Office, which could not at present be done. The building was to be conducted at the joint expense of the Government and the City of London, with, he must say, great liberality on their part.— 'Every stage of the delay bad a tendency to increase the expense, by enhancing the demands for indemni ties. The persons who resided in and about the Metropolis derived great gratification from the im proveinent of the leading avenues, and could not be, unwilling to contribute their proPorlion towards them. If such improvements were desirable, and he was called upon to propose a Tax for accomplishing them, be knew of no one less objectionable than six pence a chaldron on 'coals ; since he remembered that a more considerable duty had lately been taken off, yet nobody bad perceived the remission of it.— He did not think any reasons had been assigned for postponing the measure, when compared with those which were offered in its favour. It first had-been decided that another Office ought to be built ; and then, that the present plan was the more eligible one. It was 'calculated to improve the City ot London, who were as willing so contribute to It from their funds, as to participate in the advantages it held oat. Mr. ROSE observed, that he certainly did not give his vote from his own private examination of the details before the House, but from deference to the long end patient labours of the Committee, and glio from his finding it impossible to carry on the business of the Post Office where it stood now. Mr..BROWNE supported the Bill, from a con viction that it would be bad poly to delay the build. ing of an Office which already produced one million and a half yearly, sad which was calculated to pro. duce still more. He defedded the conduct of both . .he Committees; since he never knew a subject that was more diligently discussed in any Committee, so much so as 'veil to conediate•the blensuir,for Tann toe, who bad cooed entirely to oppose the measure. ...There being loud calls for the cieestion. the Moil* now divided. when the numbers were—Ayes, lb-- Noes. 56—Majority for the &cres o l°. The Report was then clacked be be recommitted on Monday next. GRANT FOR THE FOFF-OFFICR. On the motion of the CHANQSI.4.OII of the EXCUX (WWI. the Rouse now went into a Committee for the purpose of gr ir a t :ing a sum towards th e erection of a New Post- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, after the long and able arguments which had ' been advanced, he should decline troubling the House. He would simply tonne, therefore, that it was the opinion of the Committee, that the sum of £240,000 should be advanced, from time to time, oat of the revenues of the Post-Office, towards put.. chasing the ground, and clearing the avenues for the New Office about to be built. Mr. GORDON was astonished at the magnitude of the sum, when he considered it only as preparatory to other groins. Mr. H. SUMNER thought that £205,000 was to have been supplied from the Orphans' Fund, for the purpose of clearing the ground. He hoped the !tight Hon. Gentleman would yet consider all the different plans which had been submitted to him, And give an opportunity for deciding for the most eligible one. The building ought not to receive a final order lug execution till those plans had been examined by the Treasury Board, and submitted fur the sanction of the House. Mr. BANKES defended the prqposod pl an . Mr. Gordon, Mr. Wr.atesley, Mr. liatterwnrth, Mr. P. Carew, Mr. Sumner, and Mr. Gt.:well ; shortly spoke, alter which the first R_.s.)lution to t ei40,(00 from the Revenues of the P.st-ofiice, to wards the purchasing of ground and clearing tae avenues, was put and agreed to. It was then proposed, that compensation should be made from the funds of the Post• Office, to several parishes, inr the rates which they would lose by having several houses taken down for the new site at the intended building. After a few .words against this clause from Mr. H. SUMNER * Mr. MARTIN. and Mr. CALCRAFT, and in support of it by the CHANCLI.LOROf the EXCHEQUER and Mr. LUSHINGTON. the House divided.—Fur the Clause, 55—Against it, 21—Majority $4. The other clauses were then agreed to. Report on Monday. CUAPSL EILIMPTION DILL. The House went law 'a Committee on the Chapel Exemption Bill. General THORNTON: raid, he objected to the principle of this Bill, as, by the toleration which it allowed to Dissenters, it tended to injure the Church and State ; he therefore would move, as an amend. ment, that after the word " Chapels," in the Bill. the words ""'of the Church, as by law established," be ins ned. Though he iutended to oppose the Bill in all its stages, he thought it would be better with this amendment. Mr. MARTIN wished to know from the Honour. able General if it was his intention to exempt all the Chapels of the Church of England from the Poor. rates, and to have it fall on the Dissenting Chapels? General THORNTON said, that such was his ia• tention. _ _ Mr. MARTIN said, that if the House agreed to that clause, he would feel it his duty to move that the Bill be thrown out altogether. Serjean: ONSLOW said that the Honourable Ce nerd was consistent with himself : he professed him belt an enemy to the Bill, and he could not have taken a better method to have it rejected than that he had done, by proposing the present clause. He thought that the distinction proposed by the Honourable Ge neral was in itself unjust: he would therefore oppose the amendment. _ _ The CSANCELLOR of the EXCHCQI/141, Mr. PROTIII. ROE, and Mr. D. GIDDY, said each a few words in op position to the amendment. Mr. BANKES said, it would be doing no good to religion to exempt sume private Chapels, NS by this, money would be put into the pockets of indivi. do's who speculated in chapels as they %Quid in a theatre, for the purpose of emolument only. The amendment was dish put and negatived. Mr. WROTTESLEY then asered a clause, by which only such Chapels 'should be exempted ficoP the poor-rates as had a certain number of as teats ia pros=to its Axe, which was put and carried. 1 THORNTON then moved, as an amend. ment, that no place where instruction was given to the poor, distinct from a p 1 ice of religious won lip, 'should be exempt from the poor-rates. Atter a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, this was negatived, The other clauses were agreed to, and the Report then received, and ordered to be taken auto farther consideration on Monday. The Militia Embodying Bill was read a third time and raised. On the motion of Mr. V. FITZGERALD, the inch Non' paper Stamps 841, the. huh Law Stamps 0411, and the Ir bb Stamp Exchange Bill, went through a Committee severally, red the different Resolutions being weed to, the Reports were ere tiered to be received to-morrow. Mr. BILOODEN brought up the Report of the Irish Stanle Resoled.. Bin, which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered t° mail a third time ea Monday. The CHANCELLOR of the gXCHEQUER moved for the Committee on the India Ships *ill, which, after a few words from Mr. Douot.was, be consented m postpone to Mon :al . On the motion that the Report of the Foreign soldiers bast' mint Nil be brought. up— Lord FULKSIONE said. he thought this meaturc oug'.:;° be rejected. It had been hurried through In a very Ica , "t manna. Considering the frequency of wars, he moileib' it Would be a Bill for contigulng the same body of soldier. at first assembled. Many thrman Legion Dacus had tlt3 promoted over the head. of English 015raers. ibis, amoi.l 4 other things, was &ominous at well as unjust. He snood i :At l detain the House at present but should bubo* our or so amendments. He then mov ed, ;has the Report be taken n'' ° consideration this day three mouths. h• e Lard PfkUIdARISTON matte more observations agaum Motion. Mf- MARTIN spoke Ia favour of Lord Folkstooic air de mem The amendment wee then put, and negatived Withele 3 division. Lord FOLKSTONE then proposed as an amendment, tbit his Midesty should net give ma to any fettle Utpeer in British regiment. t his clause •was made a part of the Bill, dm Report b 0414 top, and** Mill ordered to be read a third time co-morrow. The second reading of the insolvent Debtors Ali posted till Tuesday. The Tebeau 'Drawback BM west tbrolieb a Comm"' Report ordered torawerow. Isise Report of the Oentmlum on the Irish Poem* Bill I v * brought up, and the Resolutions agreed to, r an d the he other Orden of the Day were °'' Home adjourned at Halt-past Ile's& • I