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CiIIVDIDUS TO THE EDITOR LETTER HI. Ste—Candor is of no party. In conformity to this charafter, I mean to applaud, but I may oc cationally cenfure. I thall blame when I 'mg, and be candid when I can. By way of digreflion, let me be permitted to fay a few words on Mr. COBBETT'S s letter to Mr. Fox. To his itridures on the humiliating proftra tions of that Statefman at the thrine of Signor Buox APARTE I give an unqualified affent. So thong is my antipathy to the unprincipled invader of Egypt and Syria, that I charged a near relation of mine, who was going to Paris, as he valued my good opinion, not to be prefented to him. — My indignation riles to an unprecedented height, when I behold the lift of prefentations at the levee of our beloved, of our augufi, of our lawful, he reditary Monarch fwelled by numbers, who ufe that ceremony merely as an introdatory ftep to the prefence of NAPOLEONF, by Divine forbearance, Fiat Confnl of the liVern Nation. That Mr. Fox thould bend the knee at the altar of this Ruler is a political folecifm, is a moral phenome non : but " There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, . " Than are dreamt of in our Philofophy." Not lets aftonifhing is that great Orator's appro bation of the terms of Peace. He applauded :fo perhaps did a Carthaginian Orator, who had op. poled the war with Rome, at the news of the ter mination of the Firft Punic war, when his country was obliged, like ours, to abandon all the islands of the Mediterranean. Such are the effefts of mitlaken continency ! But furely Mr. Cos BM cannot be ferious when he aliens that the objed of Mr. Fox's journey to Paris was to make binilqf Minder of this Country by swans of BaosurAstrs. Degraded as we are from the exalted fituation which we held in September, 1801, we are notyet funk to fuch an " extremity of wretchednefs" as to fuffer France to impofe a Minifter on this country. Dtit had the Cunful the power, he has too muchfaacity to . exercife it in the perfon of Mr. Fox. Ihe world has given him credit for difcernment which he does not poi . - lets, if he thiliks he can thus command Mr. Fox. He knows too well the vigour of that Statefman's mind, and the extent of his refources. He re coiled: the change that took place in the warlike attitude of this country, when Mr. Fox fucceeded Lord NORTH in 1782. He knows that England , then only began to aft on the offen fi ve. He knows that the Definitive Treaty made by Mr,. Fox was more advantageous and honourable than the Pre liminary articles of Lord Suttatiews. He recoi led: the Anti-gallican fpirit of the Ex-Minifter on the Commercial Treaty, and the fuperior terms which his wifdom fuggetted. Let me quote an anecdote in point—When I was at Verfailles, at the dote of '7BB, chance threw me into the company of M. V , who had been con fatted and employed in fome negociatiens with this country. The converfation turned on the ceffion which Mr. PITT had juft made to the French, of the whole Weftern coaft of Newfound. land, from the Straights of Belle Ifte to Cape Raye, by which France derived immenfe advan• Cages 4 *. I alked him on what grounds the French could make a demand fo contrary to the Treaty of 1783 ? His words were ftriking :" We knew with whom we had to treat ; had Mr. Fox been Mininer, we durit not have made the demand." Such was the firmnefs of Mr. Fox. - Whether he has now gg yielded up the circle of his glory into the hands" of BUON APAR TR, a short time, per haps the firti debate in the Houfe of Commons, will determine. I should now proceed to the primary objeft of thefe letters, bat not to encroach on your impor tant materials of information, I now matte a paufe. November 23. Your's, &c. CANDIDUS. • It is remarkable, that this conceffion continued and fe eured by the Treaty of Amiens, has not ;seen mentioned by Lord GRINTILLI, Mr. WINDHAM, or Ms.COBEETT. It IS not equalled by the late cellos of Tobago, an Engliih poffef- Lon, wrefted from us by the unfortunate iffue of the Ameri cas:lMM'. FRANCE. MINISTRY OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES. R. LACROSSI, REAR-ADMIRAL, CAPTAIN•GINERAL OF GUADALOUTS AND ITS =TENDENCIES, TO . LIAR-ADMIRAL DECRI.S I MINISTER OF THE' MIL RINE AND COLONIES. 44 Grand Terre, Gnadaloupe, 042. 24, ika. " omen MINISTER, " On the 7th MIL I announced to you that tranquillity pre veiled in the Colony, and that I only knew of two affemblits in the woods. Oo that day, one of thole affemblies deceiving thofe who were in purfuit of them, dared to appear in the en virons of St. Arnie, in Grand Terre. As foon as I was in formed of this, I battened to the place, and found that a band of Be - fiends, led on by two White Chiefs, Barfe, formerly Commilfary of Government, and Millet de la Girardiere, for merly 'an Officer decorated with the Order of St. Louis, had attacked (even' habitations, and affeffinated their proprietors. The greateit exertions have been made to faze there Robbers, a great number of whom have been arrefted, and base met with that punifkment which their crimes merited; amongft others, one of the Chiefs, Millet de la Girardiere. Grand Terre now enjwys its former tranquillity, and meafures have been taken to infuse its continuance. As to the Brigands in the woods, they are cut off from any communication with the other parts of the Wand, and deprived of the means of procuring proviQons and ammunition. I have the fatisfadtion to announce to you that the Miners is ahnoft entirely at an end in this Bland. The 480 men which you expedited by la Foudroyante and l'Etonnante, have arrived 'in the belt Rate. This reinforcement will infure, In a great degree, the fee unty of the Colony. " A: cording to the intelligence received fr , in St. Thomas Eli St. Bartholomew, an affembly of Mrn of Colour, with the addition even o; fume Whites, exiled from Guadaloupe, has been formed in thofe ifics, to the number of two hundred and fifty or three hundred. Their projedt is to difembark upon this 111 ,to join the w reek sof the Brigands whom we have purfued, and to bring them arms. They are faid to be provided with !mall veffels for that purpufe. There is little probability that the Governors of Saint 'Thomas and Saint Bartholomew would fandlion affemblies of this nature. I have, therefore, thought It fuelcient to tranfmlt to them the detail, which I have re ceived upon the fulaket, with a requeft that they will arreft the Chiefs and Accomplices in thefe plots sgainft the tranquillity of this colony. I expect their anjwcr by the frigate la Didon, which 1 have expedited with The 1 rre fet GENERAL SAHVGVET, CAPTAIN GENERAL 07 TO BAGO, TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES. • " CITIZEN MrlrjsTLß, Scarborough, 064. " I 'arrived on the 29th ult. in the Bay of Courland, in the Ifland of Tobago, with a part of the troops defined to com port the Garrifon. They difembarked at Courland on the 2d in IL and this day they occupied the Fort King George, which has been delivered up to me by Brigadier General Carm ichael,l Lieutenant Governor of the Ifland. I fend you Welded the act of taking polfefffon, with the Rate of the hooks, which were occcupied by about Soo men of the Englilh Garrifon, and alfo an Inventory of the Artillery and Ammunition which has , been delivered to me. AU the intercourfe which I have bad with General Carmichael has been that of reciprocal fatisfse don. The Planters are highly grateful for the favour they have received from the Confuls, in the maintenance of their interior Laws. All that part of the Illand which I have traverfed is cultivated with fugar canes, which have almoft every where replaced the cotton, which was formerly the principal produce of the Mend. The produce promifes to be very abundant. It will be neceffary that the Merchants of France fhould eftablifh with Tobago, relations of Commerce and Credit, in order the more effectually to enfure the tranfport of the produce of the Ifland, and to fupport the Trade between it and the Mother Country. I than have the honour of tranfmitting to yo . o more minute details the firft opportunity. I falutc you with refpeet, " SAIIIIGULT:i PARIS, 20 FRIMAIRE, DECEMBER We.are affured that the duchies of Parma and Placentia will be united to the kingdom of Etruria, if Spain will confent to cede Florida to France.— Should this not take place, they will be given to the Italian Republic. 'Letters from Nancy Rate, that the Cure of Saint Remi 41e Luneville performed a folemn fervice for the repofe of the foul of Mademoifelle BEXFORT, an aftrefs, aged eighteen. All the dramatic per formers were prefent, and were convinced that the fpirit of the Concordat has banifhed the remains of a prejudice which difgraced talents and religion. The following pa&ge from the fpeech of Lord GRENVILLE, in the debate which took place on the 2d of December, appears very remarkable. " I cannot refrain from faying a word or two upon the conduit of Miniffers, with regard to Switzerland. Their ftrange and contradictory language, their affectation of dignity, the decla ration which they make, that they have not compro mifed the honour of the country, every thing excites mylaftonifhment. I was informed two days ago that a perfon who holds a high fituation in the Secre tary of State's Office, refided a long time at Con- Rance before the troubles broke out in Switzer land, and that he there held frequent conferences with the principal direftors of the infurreetion of the Swifs. If this affertion be true, it by no means agrees with what Minifters fay, when they boaß that theyhave not compromifed the honour of their country." Lord GRENVILLE muff be well acquainted with the band of agents which the former Miniffry were accuftomed to fpread over the Continent, for the purpofe of hatching and fomenting plots ; who in ftigated the maffacre at Ratiadt, and were the caufe of the French Ambaffadors being infulted at Rome and Vienna. According to him, one of there Agents likewife inftigated the infurreftion in Switzerland. For our own parts, we have too good an opinion of the prefent Miniftry to believe that they have continued to follow this abominable fyffem, prac tired with fo much aftivity by Lord GasmviLLa and his colleagues.—Moniteur. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. Rwrissom, Dsc. I.—The Imperial Plenipoten tiary yefterday tranfmitted the refult of the pro ceedings of the Deputation to the Minifters of the Mediating Powers. He accompinied it with the following Note : Ratilbon, z9th November. The Underfigned Imperial Plenipotentiary had the honour to declare, the a6th of laft month, to the Minifters of the Me diatingillowers, that his Imperial Majefty, always guided by the mo* lively folicitude for the maintenance of the public tranquillity, bad removed the obftaeles Which obftrudted at Paris the progrefs of the negociations; that he had agreed that the propofidons made by the French Government for the aug mentation of the indemnities of his Royal Highnefs the Arch duke of Tufcany mould ferve as the bails of an arrangement, and that in confequence his Majefty expelled to witnds im immediately the eftabliffiment of a friendly underitanding. The Underfigned has likewife Peen with pleafure in the fub fequent Note of the Minifters of the Mediating Powers, dated the 16th of this month, that in praying the Deputation to re fer themfelves with confidence to the cares of thcfe powers, they have publicly confirmed the hope that the juft and equi table demand of his Imperial Majeftv will fpeedily be fatisfied. Tranquillized by this affurance, the Deputation of the Empire confidered it their duty to employ the time which muff &pie before the conclufion of an arrangement with his Imperial Ma jefty, by uniting in a general Conclufum the plans of indem nity tranfmitted by the Minifters of the Mediating Powers, the more precife modifications and determinations which have been facceffieely put upon them, together with the different particular refolutions to which they have given rife on the part of the Deputation. The Deputation then fubmitted this ge neral Conclufum to the Underfigned, requeftlat him to accede to it, and to communicate it to the Minikes* of the Mediating Powers. In tranfmitting the whole body of the refolutioni up to this time adopted by the Deputation, the Underfigned confiders it ufelefs to obferve, that the Imperial Commi ffi on is yet by no means in a fituadOn to give its fandion to all their contents. — Although the Underfigned Rill referent° himfelf the right of explaining the rufous which oppofe fuch a ftcp, he ent,rtains the tweet hope that by means of the negotiation now opened at Paris, the principal °haute which now milts to the adoption i of the propoied plans of indemnity will be removed, and that a partition will be obtained, correfpondent to the wines of his Imperial Majefty, who in fatisfying the intereits of al? par ties, will fupply any de fect in the neceffary full powers of the Empire, and will place it in a fituation to manifeft, by its ad hefion to the .Preti of Indemnidee its confideratlon for the Mediating Powers , and the inter& ;vhich it takes in the tran quillization of its co-eftates. Until the refult of this approach ing arrangement than be made known to sbe Extraor,dinary Deputation of the Empire, the Undedgned referees to himfelf the right to make all poffible obfervations upon the Prelimi nary Pnyet fubjoined of the general Conclufum, which, even after the Refolutions of the Deputation and tome Votes emitted in the fitting before laft, to he complete and conformable to the Treaties of Peace, still Rao& in want of various additions and determinations. 'llc Underfigned repeats on this °carton, always with the fame pleafure, th. affurance of his high tonfideration. At.Gis is, Nov. B.—lt will be recollefted that, on the Bth •of May, the Algerines took a Portu gtiefe frigate. The Officer', who were received into the houfes of the different Confuls, have been taken from thence within a month, and compelled to labour in the anoft fevere manner. The Gran dees of the Regency, and the Corps of Rais, had made reprefentations to the Dey without fuccefs. The French Commiffary at length complained in favour of the Portuguefe Officers. He reprefent [l4,that all the ufual laws were violated with re- plained, that at Naples his Rais were obliged to work. The Dey replied, that he would always be happy to do any thing that lhould be agreeable to the Purr Comsues Agent; but that in the pre , fent cafe he had ftrong reafons, known only to himfelf, for treating the Portuguefe as be had done. BRUSSELS, Dsc:6.—The letters from Paris con tinue to affure us that the journey of the FIRST CONSUL to the ci-devant Belgium, will take place in the courfe of the month of January next ; and that after paying a vifit to this city, Antwerp, and 'Ghent, and having examined and given the ne ceffary orders for the works to be executed previous to opening the canal between Charleroy and Bruf fels, to join the Sambre and the Scheldt, he will then proceed directly to Mentz. It is added that the Minifler at War will join BONAPARTE on the Banks of the Rhine, to examine the plan for railing a military line on the Left Bank of that river be tween Frankenthal and the frontiers of the Bata- . vian Republic. VIENNA, Nov. a6.—We learn from Moldavia, that the Firman of the Porte, in regard to the nomination of the new Hofpodar, was publifhed qn the 23d, in the prefence of the boyards and the clergy. This nomination is not for life, as an nounced, but only for (even years. This Firman fixes alfo in a more precife manner the contributions of the country, and unites to Moldavia the diftria of Rotin. To fhelter the people from oppreffion, this Act authorifes the Ruffian Cohful to remon ftrate againft every infringement that may be made on his rights. According to the fame let ters, the earthquake of the 26th of 06tober Teems to have extended from Gallicia as far as the Jo ' nian fea. The Wand of Ithaca mull have greatly fuffered. NOVEMBER 17.—The obje& of the journey of the ARCHDUKE PALATINE, to Peterfburgh, pro bably is to aik in marriage a Ruffian Princefs, and thus to draw clofer the bonds which unite the two Courts. Letters from Italy (late, that C. Metz!, Vice- Prefident of the Italian Republic,is about to under take a journey to his etlates, which are in Spain, and that General Mu RAT will be charged, per in terim, with the fundlions of Vice-Prefident. PAR lAMENTARr PROCE!WIIVGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, DEC. z 6. The Malt Duty Bill, the Qualification Indemnity Bill, the P.xehequerso,oool. Bill, and fuch other Bills as bad paired the Committee, and bad been reported, were read a third time. The other Bills on the Table palled a Rage each.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. ALIMANDIR brought in a Bill to explain and amend certain Claufes of an Adt paffed in the laft Seffion of Parliament, relative to the Exemption of Diffenting Clergymen in Ireland from ferving in the Militia. The Bill was read a firft time, and ordered for the fecund reading to-morrow. Mr. VA NSITTART moved the fecond reading of the Sugar Bounty Drawback BM. It was read a fecond time accordingly, and committed for to-morrow. A Meffage from the Lords informed the Heafe that their Lordlhfps had agreed to the Cyder, Perry, Mum, and Penton Bills, to the Five Million Exchequer Bills' Bill, and to the Annul (2alification Indemnity Bill, v►irhout any Amend ments. The Bill for fufpendlng certain penalties now attaching on Woollen Manuf eturers was committed, and the Report or dered for to-morrow. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, the Refolotions were agreed to, and a Bill was ordered ac cordingly. The Irilh Corn Intercourfe Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. • _ _ _ The kith Militia Pay Bill was introduced, read a first time, and ordered to be read a feeond time to-morrow. _ _ The Report of the Committee on Expiring Laws was brought up, itatim, that the Mt for granting Relief t..• Captors of ships of war, and the Ad for regulating the Trade bctwiXt this Country and Malta, were about to expire. After thefe Refolutions had been read, and a motion made that the Houfe fhould confider them in a Committee, General Gascotons exprefred a with to know whether the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer was now difpofed to give him the an fwer to a queflion which he had put yefterday, as he had given reafon to the Houfe to expeet ? The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHeozrez, in reply, remarked that the anfwer which he meant to give was contained in the Refolutions now read to the Houfe. He had yetterday (bated hisignorance that the At regulating the trade betwixt this Country and Malta was fo nearly on the point of expiring, but he had full confidence in the diligence and a.ftivity of the Committee annually appointed to draw up a Report to the Houfe on the fubjed of expiring laws generally, that they would not omit the confederation of a fubjed of fuch material im pottance. The Committee had given in one Re port, (lasing that the Al was on the eve of ex piring, though in another Report they had not thought it necefrary to take any notice of this fub jeCt. Without inquiring at prefent into the caufes which led to a notice of the At in the one care, and an omiflion of it in the other, he should certainly fupport the motion for the Houfe to go into a Committee on the Report now laid on the Table. The Houfe, after this, rerolved into the Corn. mittee, and a Refolution was agreed to, Liming it to be the opinion of the Committee that the two Afts mentioned in the Report flould be continued. The Houfe refumed, the Report was agreed to, andleave was granted to bring in Bills accordingly. In a short time after, the Bill for regulating the trade betwixt ibis country and Malta was brought in, read a firft and fecond time, and committed for to-morrow. Mr. 'SMITH appeared at the Bar, and intimatcd that his Majelly had been waited upon with the Addrefs of the Houfe of yeflerday, praying that Copies of the Patents of the Admiralty and Navy Boards might be. laid before the Idoure, and that his Majefty had been gracioufly pleated to give orders accordingly. There papers were foon after prefented by Mr. Garthfhore, and ordered to lie on the Table. INDIA. Mr. SW•RIDAW, agreeably to his notice of yef terdiy, role to move for a variety of papers rela tive ito the late tranfaaions in the Carnatic.--0 Though the papers he thould now move for twere not of •a nature from• which he could expect very were produai on o f which there could be a. be n k o in po d ffi th bl lth4 e objelli on. After fame obfervations f rom M r. W ALLACE and Sir THEOPHILUS METCA LF , who th oug h t the papers to be moved for might be granted without oppofition, the following documents were moved and ordered to be laid on the T a bl e . , A Copy of the Inftrudlions fent from the GoVernor Genersl in Council to the Governor of Fort St. George on the 26th day of March, sBOO, together. with Copier of all the Letters Minutes and Proceedings which g i ve r if e to t h e f e inftr udions! A Copy of all the Letters, Minutes, and Inftrudion s of the Governor General in Council fa far as they rapt-died d o , father of the late Nabob of the Carnatic. A Copy of all the Correpondence which pared betwi xt m y hommcd Aly and Omdut Ul Omrah. Nabob of the Carnatic. On the moti.2l of Mr. SHER3bAN, an Addrefs was alto or dered to be prefented to his Majefty, praqng that his Mien,. would be gr.iciou fl y pleafed to give orders f o r l a yi ng b efore the Houle a Copy of the Will of 0 • dut Ul Omrah. ABUSES IN THE NAVY. Capt. MARKHAM moved the Committee on the Naval Commflioners' Bill. The Houfe accordingly refolved into the Com. mitteee.—Several Amendments of confiderable moment were propofed. Mr. STORGEs rofe,and fuggefted that as he un- , derilood the Amendments propofed to be intro. duced were very material, it would be better to allow them to be introduced at prefent pro forma, without any animadverfion. The Bill might then be printed, and afterwards re-committed. By this means Gentlemen wifhing to deliver their fen. timents on the Bill might do it with more a d van . tage than in the prefent impeded flate in which the Bill appeared. Some little paufe enfuing,the Honourable Gen. 4eman again rofe, and walled to know whether it was meant that his faggeftion (hould be adopt. ed ? If it was adopted, he fhould now fuller the different dudes to pats, without obfervation, but if a contrary mode was to be adopted, he fhould then feel it necefFary to trouble the Committee at fome 'length on feveral claufes which the Bill now contained. htb : T mem h ne e nee vmt C i eiiagtrhanwc the tEahot approbation CHANCELLOR er o afo f tub t gra h o f ri eot t E nwi n x hno c i cfnoht the c w hwt eha E esc a vHoe e mrn r ymn p c if ter i a d y.. o FOr himfelf he was perfealy ready to agree to it, if it dwpaal place, re aeunderftoodn ,arrangement. enm that eennntf.e iul ne n no long iesonpfinaido nn i p n ttthiener adopting B o l ih itlhl em oud .p, grh l n.t take pofe prr Ibtmb reading anearf p nodr rnt r ri ;10e i oou n gwnt ae e hg,m, d rehadl tnyrag t n deythi contif induced remember sueiat time g,hmck esed for moving its re committal to. t h lboa o ee u rme l det that mention tos d nat o ht n ue e t this, r, delay ea h ly e a n the thirds ht foreem nwot lraee and pre th ve e n re t b t y he m pa a ffi ter n i g al o ly f the in ju b r il e l the public fervice. Mr. STURGES Rated, that it was very far from his.intention to throw any unneceirary obliacles in the way of thy progrefs of the Bill, and had no objedion . that the re-committal should take place to-morrow, as the Night Honourable Gentleman had propofed. Admiral BERKELEY fuggefted that the names of thelCommiffioners thould be inferted in the firft claufe of the Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcatopEt,inanfwer to thisp remarked, that the names of Commiffion ers appointed by an Ad might be inferted in whatever part of the Bill the Houle should think proper. The SOLICITOR GENERAL then read the names of the Gentlemen propofed to be Commiffioners. They were—Vice Admiral Sir Charles Maurice Pole, and Hugh Leycefter, Efq. Mr. DENT threw out fome hints about the propriety of fixing the falaries of the Comruiffioners appointed by the Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQFER ObferVed : that the ufual plan of proceeding in thefe cafe s was, not to introduce any claufe into the Bill, ba to award a falary to the Commiffioners by a tub. fequent Refolution of the Houfe The other Gentlemen were—Ewan Law, Efq. John Ford, Efq. and Henry Hunter, Efq. • After the Report was brought up, and a Refo lution for its being printed agreed to, M. DENT, though he adinitted that the names of the Gentlemen propofed to be Commiffioners were highly refpeetable, confeffed he rather was furprized not to find in the lift the names of Lord Keith, Lord Gardner, and other gallant Officers who had diftinguifhed themfelves during the late war. It was underftood that the Bill flinuld be recom mitted to-morrow.—The following is a copy of it : Whereas it is highly expedient for the public fervice that an inquiry mould be made refpeding the abufes which may have ezifted and been pradifed by perfons employed in the feveral I naval departments hereinafter-mentioned, and in the bufincfs of prize agents, the modes of concluding and carrying on the I public fervice, and the fees, gratuities, perquifites, and emolu ments received and taken therein, with a vtew to fuch regula i tions as mall be judged expedient and propkr for the corm ion of abufes which may have arifen; for the better managing and concluding the bulinefs thereof, and to effed fuch ravings as may be•made in each; that is to fay, the office of the Commif fioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kindom of Great Britain and Ireland, the office and de partment of the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Navy, the Trea furer of his Majefty's Navy, the Commiffioners for viduallittg his Majefty's Navy, the Commiffioners fur taking care of lick j and wounded feamen, the Commiffioners for tra L orts and prifoners of war, the Commiffioners for the receipt of lix pence a mouth paid by all feamen in the merchant fervice for the ufe of Greenwich Holpital, Agents for prizes, and all perlims con , cerned in the diftribution of prize money, and it the reccipt and management of the monies paid on account of the Cht ft at Chatham, his Majefty's feveral dock-yards and " naval-yu the counties of Kent, Hants, and Devon refpedtively, or elfc where within his Majefty's dominions, the royal holpitals a 1 , 1 naval hofpkals for fcamcn at Hailar and EA Stone Houle,. and elfewbere within hiA Majefty's dominions, and t he late pi tfors for prifoners of war, prifon-fhips, prifon-hofpitals, and prifon fhip hofpitals in the laid counties of Kent, H. ors, and Devon refped vely, or elfewhere within his Majefty's dominions; _ Be it therefore enaded, by the King's moil • xce lletit Ma ci ty, by anti with the advice and content of the Lords fpiritu ,l and temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliamen• 07' bled, and by the Authority of the fame. That the Comm '- Boners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irela nd :hall, with all convenient fpeed, lay all fuch information and documents as may in any way tend to the difclofure or difeovery of the irre gularities, frauds, and abufes whit h have exifted or may ex ist , in any of the before-mentioned offices or departments refpec tively, at home or abroad, or true copies of fuch docunrasi, or in the bufinefs of prize agents, together with copies of be fuch letters or any other papers as may from ;low to t im e . who are hereby conftouted requircd' before intended by tiAl aft . t r