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- to ennialet how f a r it was prudent to decide in this way as to v.itat. was the objet of an Aa of Par liament. The ATTORVI Y GTNERAL Elid, Dundas had never been the third Secretary of State within the meaning of the Aft, which was underllood to have beer. made for the purpofe of preventing thret Secretaries of State from 4ttin g in that }lout;. This Aft was, however, he conceived, wholly in tompets nt to the objea propofed by it's fray- According to the words of it, the office of third Mecretary c of State, or Secretary for the Colonies, was diltinftly pointed out. It wasimpofliole, tit...it:- fors, the cafe of the Noble Lord could militate againa the letter and fpirit of the Aft. The No. tut Lord was appointed to the office of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to which the Aft had no rela tion. If - the A& was to be interpreted to mean li terally the third Secretary of State, a molt abfurd confequence would follow, lince he who was the Jail appointed Secretary of State, and confequemly difqualified from a feat in that Houle, under this interpretation might, by the appointment of a file celibr to a Scerctaryfhip afterwards vacant, be come qualified withcia any change of office. He wasof opinion, if an aclion atlaw was commenced for penalties under this part of the Asa, it would only attach to a third Secretary of State bitting in that Houfc, which he was convinced was the ob .ica of the Aft, though from the wording it:, mean mg had become ambiguous. T:LRNEY explained. The motion was then put and carried in the af firmative. PRIVATE PETITIONS. Colonel ELTORD fuggefled the propriety of c.:tending, the time prelcribed for the reception of Private Petitions from to-morrow to-morrow fc'n nii,ht. This he thought necefrary from a confider aeon of the many Petitions which might be fimi larly circumflanced with one he held in his hand, which required the fpecial recommendation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer before it could be prefented to the Houfe.—He moved accordingly. The SPEAKER Paid the adoption of the motion', propoled by the Hon. Baronet would be attended with much inconvenience. As to Petitions of the nature defcribed by the Hon. Baronet, he had no doubt !that leave would be obtained to prefent them, upon application to the Houle. Such had been ever the praelice in fuch cafes. Mr. ROSE fupported the Speaker's opinion. Colonel Elford's motion not being feconded, was not put from the Chair. MILLS, ETC. The ATTORNEY GENERAL role, purfuant to no tice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to indem nify perfons who had been injured in their proper ty by the forcibly pulling town of mills and works adjoining thereto by riotous mobs, and for more effeEtually preventing fuch atrccitie4 in future.— He Paid, that ashy the Aft of the zoth of George 111. an aftion for damages might be brought a gainft any hundred for injury done to any chapels within its limits, and perfons concerned in fuch outrages were liable to profecution for felony, it was the objeEt of the Bill he propofed to extend the provifions of that At to the proteftion of Mills, Ike. He accordingly moved for leave to bring in a Bill, which was granted. PORT OP LONDON. Mr. MANNING moved that a Committee should be appointed to confider of further means for len. dering more commodious and for the better reoi lation of the Port of London, and that they (hould be at liberty to report their opinion to the Houle. He alt . ) moved, That die Report of the former Committee on that fithjeft Mould be referred to the faid Committee. There motions were agreed to. Adjourned till To-morrow. LisT OF TIC:. MINORITY. Adair, R. ' Hol.houte, B. Porter, G. Adey, S. T. : ‘J,linft..ol, -.- Plurner, A'. _. . . I_ Aubrey, Sir J. Jones, T. Robron, R. B. Babington, Ktaing, Colonel Ruffen, Lord J. Banks, H. Lau:iche, Savage, Ba.lard, J. P. Lawrence, Dr. Saville, rouverie, Hon. J. I.eraon, —.a Smith, G. Brook, Martin, J. Smith, W. Dallway, Nicholls, J. Taylor, M. A. Dare'', Sir L. North D. Tierney, G. Dawfon, l'arna, Sir J. Tooke, J. H. Dcnifon, J. (Wot- I'arfons, Sir L. Walpole, General ton BALA) Ponfonby, W. Whitbread, Sam. Grey, C. Ponfonhy, G. Wilberforce, W. I Lzrifon, I. Pier:o(point, lion. E. Winn, R. Total 44, including T.lltrs. LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 20. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCK Confole.s6ll--for April c6l-0115 per Cent. 92 Omi•ium 3 2 prem. PRICE 01' S'ICCXS I'U.TLIMAY : Batik Stria thut Long Ann. Glut 3 per Cm.t.Rcd. fkiit Lip. •; pi r Cent. 5611 5... r C. Conf. c 63 ;nip.Ai:n. 1 t 1-16. E 4 per Cent. fht t India Stock t per C. Nmiry 914÷1 Orni.it.in 31 21 3 /au. Loyalty iltm Cour. fo: April 3;; 56; ; The DUKE OF CLAP FtifF packet, arrived in 24 :lays horn New York, b irgc ici aecrEnt that Mr. jr.TFEILSON is elated lir,: n ic,,t of the United States ef America. His cleCticn appears to have been contefted w;tl, great a"ini•aity. The hilloting s renewed g► times du: ins tLrec fueccfilve iys, at the mei of which it was found that the ..andidates had an equal number of veres. The t:d time, however, decided the cornea in favour o: Mr. Ji rFr egos, fame of Mr. BURR'S friends been ret - fitadcd t give way, to prevent (.1 . a Pretlec.it fro tempere, which at ..ue time It was exptated would have taken flacc. The crow. wcrc ti follcnv :—For Mr. JE I' Frit. Ncw York, New ;err-y, Pennflilvania, Vir iiil, Kenteck , Geor -rc'rce ortl , Caro ••,. • • `' - • ling, and Maryland, 4 votes and 4 blanks; Ver mont 1, and i blank; Delaware blank ; and South Carolina no vote at all. Mr. BURR had only the four Eaftern States. After the Ele.aion was confirmed, a Salute of t 6 gums was fired on the occafion. We yeflerday announced the mclanchol/ intel ligence of the lots of his Majefly's fhip INVINCI BLE, which failed from Yarmouth on Monday laft to join the North Sea Fleet. The following are fame farther particulars refpeaing that lamentable catafirophe: The INVINCIBLE firfi flruck upon the fatal hank, between two and three in the afternoon. In this fituation the remained gear three hours, when the miaen•maft went by the board, and the main malt was immediately after cut away. The (hip, to the infinite joy of the crew, then drop ped from about 3 into 17 fathom water, where however, unfortunately lofing her rudder, (he loon became unmanageable, and was again driven upon the bank. A filling-fmack now approached the wreck ; on which two boats belonging to the INVINCIBLE were ordered out. On board one of thefc, the Admiral, the Purfer, four Midfhipmen, three of the Admiral's fervants, and fix or eight feamen, reached the fifhing fmack in fafety, as did alfo the other boat full of people. Both of them immediately returned to the !hip, but on re-approaching the linack, one was forced a way, and every perfon on board would inevitably have periffied, had not a collier which happened to be palling at this critical moment, happily picked them all up. This veal afterwards afforded every affiftance that humanity urged, or that (he was capable of giving, and was the means of Paving the lives of many of the crew.—The fifliing.fmack, with the Admiral on board, being unable to afford the leaf} Alliance to the (hip, remained at anchor during the whole of Monday night. On the approach of day, the Matler of this velfel expreffed an unwillingnefs to go any nearer the wreck; but Admiral Torrv, in dire& oppoll tion to him, caufed the cable to be cut, and imme. diatel y proceeded to the (hip. Melancholy,however, to relate, while he was doing every thing of which human exertion is capable, to airlift the unhappy people on board, the wreck once more got in to deep water, and gradually funk, to the infinite difirefs of the Admiral and the other fpeelators, who were nearly frantic with grief, at this tre mendous fcene of human rnifery and defiruetion. While the (hip was thus rapidly going down, the launch was hove out :—as many of the crew as the could poffibly hold, inftantly jumped on board, and had only time to clear the poop, when the veffel, with upwards of 400 fouls, entirely difap peared, and went to the bottom. A number of the unhappy loiterers attempted to get on board the already over-laden launch, but as no more could be permitted to enter, without the certain lois of the whole, they were (truck away with the oars, and in a fewrecands became wholly ingulph• ed in the pitilefs waters. Captain RENNIE, after the fhip had funk, at tempted to fwim to the launch, and after a revere exertion got within reach of the oars, when cx haufted with fatigue, and unable to make any farther effort, he calmly reigned himfelf to his fate. Lifting up his hands, as if to implore the biding of Heaven, and immediately after placing them upon his face, he went direaly down with out another aruggle. All the other commiffioned Officers of the fhip, except Lieutenants Toe ere and (112 a sit, together with all the Officers of Marines, ar.d moll of their men, likewife went to the bottom. About 7o or do of the crew were raved by means of the launch, the whole of whom had af fembled upon the forecaftle ; but all thole who remained in the poop were loft.—The total num ber of human beings who thus found a watery grave, amounts to upwards of 4oc, among whom were fever.!] paangcrs, on their way to join other !hips belonging to the North Sca Fleet. The number laved, including Officers, is dated at 19 s The INVINCIBLE was one the oldeft (hips in the Navy. She was bail; in 1766, and had not re turned many months from the Weft Indies, where the had been flationed under the command of Capt. CALFY fince 1795. This affl:Cting difafter is attributed folely to the ignorance of the Pilot. He belonged to Harwich, and was taken on board at Sheernefs. Inflead of taking the fhip through the ordinary channel from Yarmouth, be !leered her through the narrow paf lege of the Cockle, and when (he ran npon the Sands, he infiftel that the fatal fpot was not laid down in any Chart. In this point, however,lic was Coon confuted by the Gunner of one of the (hips of Admiral PARKFR'S fleet, who was only a pafrengcr on board the Imviscietr. This man loon convinced the Pilot of his error, by glinting him the exaet ipot diftinEtly marked. But the pilot is among the numerous fuf ferev, and, in c.,mmon charit), death mull lOW he cool:doted as having expiated all his laufts.= the rrsizen-maR went over board, he alfo fell from the deck, and was never after • NAIII'IM INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind W. DRIIIVtD Dvt• o Hamburgh • Louithn I Waterford o DonaLhadct FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY t 7. Arrived the Du RE of CLARENCE Packet, Capt. FAULKNER, from New York with mails, dated the 22d of February. She failed from hence on the sth of laft December, with the American mails of that month, and arrived at New York on the loth of January, where fhe remained until the 22d of February, when fhe failed again for England, and arrived here this day.—She has brought over no paffengers ; but we learn that Mr. JEFFERSON has been eluted, and that the Treaty between France and America has been ratified. ANOTHER LETTER OF THE SAME DATE. Arrived the American fhip Two Friends, Capt. M , NEIL, from London bound to Charletton ; alio the DUKE OF CLARENCE packet, Captain FAULK NER, from New York, after a pafrage of 12 days : by her we learn the elation of Mr. JErrrEsos to the feat of Prefident, and Mr. BURR to that of Vice- Prefident of the United States of America.—lt is laid they have ratified the Treaty with France.— The packet has not brought any pallingers.—Ar rived this evening, his Majefly's fhip EXCELLENT of 74 guns, the Honourable Captain STOPFORD, from (bilberon Bay.—Put back by contrary wind, the LADY lion Err packet, Captain FELLOW!, with the mails for America.—The American fhip Katy, Captain PHILLIPS, for New York. and the Pelican privateer, Captain GAGE, having fprung her mainmaft in chace of a dogger.—Wind S. S.W. Several American valets bound to the French Weft India Minds have been captured; there iflands bring declared in a (late of blockade by the Britith cruizers. The HARLseum packet, Capt. HARVEY, which failed from this place on the 17th December, with the mails for America, arrived at New York three days before the DUKE or CLA mcs PORTSMOUTH, MARCH :9. Arrived the SIR Sys, asw LUSHINGTON, ASIA, WALPOLE, WOODFORD, ALBION, WORCESTER, and FORT WILLIAM, Eak•lndiamen, from the Downs. —Sailed the Good Dcfign, armcd-chip, with a convoy for the Downs. SHEERNESS, MARCH 19. Yeaerday evening his Majelly's flre•veffel la VICTOIRE, Lieut. TILLAID, went out of harbour to the Nore : and this day the MARY hired cutter, Lieut. MORGAN, arrived from Yarmouth. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, MARCH lg.—Arrived and failed for the river, the Princeira, LEE, from Smyrna.—Wind W. S. W. GRAVESEND, MARCH 18.----Paffed by the Elty, Joazs, from Li(bon : Suffolk, —, from Vir ginia : Stallion, —, from Cork : Martha, LS W• INGTON •, Smallbridgc, —; Diana, —; and Elizabeth, SMITH, all from Dublin.—Sailed the EARL Howe, BURROWS, for India : Qeen, YOUNG, for New Providence: Alexander, HA LEY, for Martinique : Canto ' M'KENZIE, for Jamaica : and Mary, WORTH, for St. Vincent. MARCH 19.—Paffed by the Valentine, Cmyris, from Dublin; John M'Donald, HEAD, from Lif bon ; Maria, —, from Bilboa; Pigou ' GREEN, from Charldion; and Fair American, BOLTON, from New York.—Sailed the Mentor, TREVITT, for Baltimore ; Lott! Nclfon, HAREWOOD, for ' Antigua ; Earl St. Vincent, —, for Lifbon ; Anna Elizabeth, RENNING ; and Freyheid, i for Hamburgh. HULL. MARCH 17. The Lords of the Admiralty have promifed the appointment of a convoy for the fhips now ready to fail from this port for Hamburgh, Bremen, and Embdcn, within one hour from the arrival of the mails, if the fame can be done with propriety. The ALBION armed fhip of 22 guns, appointed to take charge of the Greenland and Davis's Streights (hips from this port, arrived ;aft week, and left the Humber this morning at fix o'clock ; with the (hips under convoy. The number of Ruffian, Danifh, and Swedifh chips detained at our ports by the embargo, and fence brought in by our ernizers, amounts at this time to about 450 fail ; of which very few are Ruffians. If we reckon only twelve men to each fhip, the number of failors, which by this flep we have de. tained from joining our new foes, is between 5 and 6000 men. The Ann, MATTHEWMAN, of this port, from New caflic, with coals, was captured off Flambo rough by a French privateer on the toth infant; and was re-captured by the EAGLE cutter, Capt. WHITEHEAD, and brought into Shields on tl,e t t th. Only the mate and a buy of her former crew re minted on board. The Everett:, BOSWELL ; Nara!). STSPHENSON ; Four Friends, Ns W 1 ; and Middleton, Jo m msow, have cleared from Newcaille for Davis's Streights. On the t 3:h in!l. failed from Whitby, for the Greenland Seas, the Volunteer, &Immo-rum ; the Lively, CASS ; anJ the Experiment, AGAR. The Henriett:•, Kk AR Si-EY, was ready and expeeted to proceed on the following day. I t IVERPOOI., MARCH 13. The John, '.•.te Mtmtar, Lid to be cut off on the windward coaCc, is fate arrived at Surinam. L t t nizht arrived here, the Dart, Captain Hem. sztit, front Detnerata, failed tht Oth Jan. in corn. pang with the Bolton, WATSON, and Union, NPGui E, for this port ; the Union foundered three days after failing from Deniarara, the crew all well on board the Bolton, who parted eight days ago in a gale of wind. The Sally, GALLUP, of New London, from Charleflon, bound for Greenock, with rugar, cot ton, and flaves, met with a gale of wind on the 4th Jan. in lat. 54. 4/.. long. I 2. 39. and went on ffiore on the itland of Kirbahoft, the 19th Jan. the crew with difficulty were favedeby the affiltance of rafts. Part of the cargo it is hoped will he 1:::•ed. On Sunday arrived here, the _lunge Petei,frenn St. Michael's, laden with oranges, fent i., by the Eliza, Captain H.:NDYSIDE. NENNinummig i i MARCH 16. The fleet which f:Likd from Coil. the zsd Jer. was on th:. i zth Feb. in lat. 20. long. 2 1. The A6tive, HORNSY, from hence (or Well f r . dies, left Studwell's road the 4th i:Ut. w.tl, a 1 - 4;r wind. The EMFRALD and CCRAFPT'S frigates, failed from Co; k for the Well ladies ra the 8111 with 6 Eul under convoy. A rrivcd-I....c.lNcifon, Sanderfoh from !lima at Simi... I; Fanny, Irvin, fmm Afnea at Ditto ; John, Par, fi om : • for London, of Exmouth; Sally, Murphy ; Bora Betty, Cile4; and Prinni of id'ales, Chadian; and Mar};•:.: and Jane, Brown, from hence at Dublin; S l ir,• ; t w a, and itacelifoh I.ee from hence at Cork; Cali or, M•Nliihut, from hence at Cork, in 48 hours, and joined the Welt India convoy. A Cabinet Council was yzderday held at Mr. ADDINGTON'S Honk, in Downing-tireet, at which were prefent the Duke af PORTLAND, Earls WEST MORELAND and ST. VINCENT, the LORD Oi4ANC IL. LOR, and Lords HAWKSSBIIRY and HOBART. Boards of Treafary full continue to be held daily, in order to get through all the bufineA of the Old Adminiaration, not yet csmplctcd. Mr. DUNDAS is alio Rill occupied in his oflice, finifhing what remained unfettled. This is the rcafon of his not having yet formally reigned. Lord Fliwit Emmy has adopted a different mode of communicating with M. Orro, than that which was praailed by his predeceffor. Mead of employing Mr. HAMMOND to write his notes, Lord HAWK ESBURY wrote a letter in his own hand to M. Orro, acquainting him of the furpenfion of the previous order for capturing• French tithing veirels. M. OTTO has mentioned this attention to his Court, and has declared his perfonal gratifizaa tion at this inflance of civility. Yetierday a Court of Proprietors was held at the Bank, for the purpofe of declaring the Half yearly Dividend. That being done, Mr. Tit:mares addreffed the Meeting, by obferving that there remained the futn of 582,0001. Navy 5 per cent. Stock, which had been funded in the hands of the Bank, which it was the intention of the Direelors, if agreeable to the Proprietors, to divide with the Halt-yearly Dividend on the Ift of May next ; this was tmani moully agreed to. The divifion will amount to 51. or 5 per cent. Stock en every hundred pounds Bank Stock. A defultory converfation enfued on the motion of Mr. HESSELTINE, that the Bank fhould pro duce the Statement of their Accounts, whenever called upon. He Paid he had the opinion of Mr. MANSFIELD of its being the right of every Proprie tor todemandthe prodation ()fatly paper he might call for. This motion was generally oppofed. Mr. Ptacr, Counfel for the Bank, Rated, that it was only a Court of Proprietors who could demand papers. Mr. HESSELTIN a's motion was rejeaccl, and the Court broke up. A letter received from an Officer of the in fhore fquadron, off Breit, dated the 13th inaant, at noon, Rates, that there were feven fail of the line, befides frigates, cruifing to watch the mo tions of the French fleet. On the t ath the guard. boat fell in with and captured a Spanifh boat be. longing to a frigate of that nation in Brea. They informed our people that there were now quite rea dylfor fea, in Brea, for a fecret expedition, on a plan of efcape fimilar to GANTHEAUSIS'S, fevee fail of the line and four frigates and corvettes; they were alfo to take in troops, and try to get out the fira N. E. wind. In confequence of this im portant intelligence, a very arid look-out is order. ed to be kept throughout the whole of the Britifh fquadron. The arrival of the !aft Hamburgh Mails has brought over a very large Order for the Purchafe of Englifh Lottery Tickets, from all parts of the Continent ; for whatever may be the general po licy of Foreigners, they feel it their particular intereft to look up to the long.tried faith of this Country, as the heft fccurity for their invellments either in Funds, or Lottery Tickets: this, with the great influx of Irifh Gentry at prefent in the Metropolis (who, by the bye, will have no Lottery of their own in future), mull confiderably increafe the demand, and of courfe. the price of Tickets. CAL/TIMIS S►ECVLATION.•- -Thofe Rho never fpeculate but on the greateft probable ground of fuccefs, are now induced to come forward in the pureiafe of Lottery Tickets. They argue thus : —lf Tickets were worth 171. los. on the com mencement of the drawing, when there were but feventeen large prizes in favour of the purchafer— what mutt they be worth now when there are four teen large Prizrt Rill left, (with a Thirty Thoufand frorndrr at their head), and with little more than about three weeks drawing in the wheel ? Why— That Tickets are worth, at lealt, one ti ird more than their prefent nominal value, and that by fol lowing this plain example of the Rule of ?Ira, they have- difcovered the rule of right. »ir• . n . At Pi Alin, on the 4th inftant, after a Mort illncfa, nntverfan, rtgre.ted, John lioward Kyan,ot thc County of Wickiow, Efq. on whore caatc thc immcnkly Copper hlinco of pallynturtare. MARILIETs. On the t ;eh ilia. at Liverpool, 1,4 r. 'thronas Roehefter, of London, fhip owner, to NUN M..r,', l ),tkenfon, of Sundertand. 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