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bad by him been' applied to the Management of Scot. land? Another novelty was the explanation he had given to the. Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the caufe of his drai%ing money from the Bank. With refpea to the criminal proceeding recommended by a LearnedGemlernan he could not agree to that amend ment. There was no precedent for it, and he mutt pro tell againil the Houle giving up its own dignity, by banding over its power and its privileges to the Attor ney General. If ever there was a cafe in which that Bottle ought to take a criminal up to the bar of the- ether Hottfe of Parliament, it was that where a man bad pecul,tted the public money, of which that Honfe mull ever 'ue the guardian. The delay in thetrial of Hal. tings was no arr,timent againft an impeachment, the right of which he would never give up to any Attorney General. But pat ticularly he would not give up this accufing power to the prefent Attorney General, who had already expreffed his opinion as to the innocence of the N•ible Lord in quenion. The opinion of the public ought to have its proper weight on this occa lion ; and the Houre fhould come to no Galati: pro. needing, hit aft on the principles of cool and im partial jnitice. Mr. HAWKINS BROWNE obferved that one o f the ma i n que ni nns was .-46 Whether Lord Mel• •ille had or had not been already fufficiently pu nilhed ?" The • punilhment of the Noble Lord has been fevere, hut oat more than the indifcretion of the Noble Lord called for. He voted for the Rcfolutions becaufe tai. fettle of public duty overcame his attach ment, and he would add his gratitude to the Noble Lord, for his.% cry long an,l very able fervices to the Public. The other chief queftion was—" Whether there was any new matter brought forward in the Report of the Seidl Committee on this fubjea ?" To him it appeared there was not; and he mug add alfo, that the Speech of the Noble Vifcount this day contained much matter of extenuation, but none of aggravation of his original indifcre lion. The prefent cafe had been compared to that of indiftment before a Grand Jury, but the two pro ceedings were not to be governed by the fame rules. A Grand Jury are bound to find a bill, if the evi dence was plain, however excellent might be the cha, raCter of the accufed, and whatever might be the probable confequences. Not fo with the Houfe of Commons,for they had a difcretionary power to guide them under all the circumstances of a cafe, and that led him to be of opinion that this impeachment ought not to be voted. This he formed for the fol lowing reafons : That an impeachment is dilatory and expenfive, of which that of Mr. Halting: was a fpecimen ; not that it fhould put an end to impeach. ments altogether, but as a reafon for being cautious in affenting to it for any thing Ilion of abfnlute ne ceffity : That the Noble Vircount had been already punifhed fufficiently by the Refolotions carried to the Throne concerning him, and their confecotent pro mulgation :—That the Houfe of Common as the Grand Inqueft of the Nation, were not to be bound by the confideration of the patty, or of the accufa tion, without reference to other circumitances ; the whole Rate of the country ought to be confidered, and it molt not be forgotten that we were menaced with an invaion. For all thefe reafons it did not ap pear to him difcreet for the Houfe, at prefent to pro. teed further in this matter. Mr. H. ADDINGTON role with evident emotion, and Laid that his motive in offering himfelf to the Houfe. was to execute a fhort but a very diftreffing talk, by much the molt fo of any in his political life, that of Rating the grounds on which he felt himfelf bound to vote. It was diftrefling to him, becaufe he could not be unmindful of the eminent public fer• vices rendered to his country by the Noble Lord whom he had the pain of feeing at the Bar; and Rill more to, becank he could not diveß his mind of the reeolleaion of the long courfe of friendfhip and kindnefs which he had experienced from that No ble Lord, and which no recent circumftances could poflibly obliterate. Molt of his ground had been anticipated by his Right Honourable Friend be hind him, in an ample and able view that he had taken of the fubjeCt, in whole featiments he en. tirely concurred. lie (Mr. Bond,) had Rated the difficulties in which the Houfe had involved itfelf by the courfe of proceeding that it had adopted. All thole inconveniences, Mr. A. thought, would have been avoided, had the courfe been that fupported by him and thole with whom he ailed. Had it been the pleafure of the Houfe to have referred the whole charges in the firfi inllar,ce to a Selea Committee, what would have been the cafe ? In the firß place, there would have been no pretence for refraining its powers, as was never intended; and in the next, the LorJs would have had no grounds for refuting their content to Lord Melville's giving a free and unreferv ed evidence. The Houle mull neceffarily have had a full and complete report, much time would have been faved, and act iminal vote might have been paffed upon the whole. The charge, too, of perfecution, made by the Noble Lord, would thus have been precluded. He had paid all poffible attention to the fpcechof the Noble Lord from the bar, and to that of his Learned Friend who had defended him; bet he was compelled to declare that, perhaps for the firft time in his life, he was unconvinced by either. In one point indeed, he agreed with the Noble Lord, namely, that he had never till 'hit day been heard either by himfelf or iends. The queßion or its merits had not been dif cuffed on the Bth of April : it was not then whether the two charges brought by an Honourable Gentle man oppofite to him were true (about which he for one had never entertained a doubt), but whether that was a proper time for coming to a refolution on the guilt? He had always thought it premature, and he thought In Rill—But could it gravely be contended, that becaufe the Houfe had embarraffed itfelf by its proceedings, all chance of attaining the purpofes of jullice &mild be precluded?—Could it be argu • ed, that if rew matter, and that of a molt aggra vating natio e, had come out on the Report of the Sete& Committee, that no farther proceeding leas to be inflituted ? For what purpofe was that part of the fuhjeft referred to them ? If it was to re- port upon it, forely it would be difgraceful to the Houfe to fay, now we have got the Report we will do nothing at all upon it. He law but one of thole courfe: for the Houk to purfue. Either to continue the civil procels, which, after the Report of the Com mittee, it mull be evident to all could lead to no ufe. ful refult ; to proceed by information, as propofed by the amendment, or by impeachment: He de cidedly preferred the middle court, : it was diewsoft expeditious, the leaft expeufive, would give AO Inter ' tumion to public !saner , ' and would anfwer every purpofe Slinulu the amendment fail, he faw nn ahernative bd. to take the latter cootie, fa tisfied as he w as t h a t more mo lt Ll , ,ne. The doble Lord himfelf ought to have an opportunity of clear ii Ig his chart der—tht dignity of the Houfe was at (take. This declaration colt him (Mr. A.) a fevere (boggle ; but between ; eifonal feelings •nd public duty, he should be unworthy of a feat in that Houfe it he (offered a crmperition. Mr. ALEXANDER confidered the aliedged of of Lord Melville to partake much more of the charader of the aertawprehibiomr, than the sedum is fi, mid therefore that it was at the difcretion of the Houle to pronounce what degree of punifhment fhould attach to fuch an offence. Previous to the Ad of the 25th of the King, the practice with which Lord Melville was charged, was not either by com mon or ftatute law, deemed a crime—by that ftatuto even the pradice was merely prohibited, but no pe nalty was annexed to the continuance of it. It was therefore with the Houfe to determine the penalty, and under all the circumflanzes, he really thought that a penalty diffidently revere had already been in 'tided upon the Noble Lord. Mr. W/LBERFORCE. propofed, that from the latenefs of the hour, the debate ((mold be adjourned till to-morrow, brit "go on ! go en r being the general cry of the Houfe, Mr. PYTCHES then rote- —He faid that Vircount Melville would have done better if. inftead of affert ing his inncccnce, he had intimated to a friend that the purpofe of his coming was to confefs that he had ' done wrong. On the contrary, he had (hewn no re morfe of confcience, but had obftinately faid, come decision, come banifhment, come death and deftrue tion—(hers wrar Jo snub acetone' by letagbing, toughing, amicaling for the qi4ies, we could not bear may more of the Hoe. Member', fpecb. The Hon. J. S. COCKS thought the conduit of ' Lord Melville of filch a nature that however he might feel in feting a man of his ra n t placed in filch a fitu ation, he could not help voting for farther profegu lion. When he confidered all the circumftances of this extraordinary cafe, he was furpnfed that any doubt Arnold appear of the propriety of bringing the Noble Lord to trial. In the country nothing was to be heard in favour of the condo& of this delinquent, bat fence he came to town. and this was the firft time he appeared in this unhappy bufinefs, be had heard of many arguments ufed with a view to ferve the cattle of the Noble Lord. It was faid, that other Treafurers of the Navy had made life of the public balances remaining in their hands as well is Lord Melville ; but it was to be recollated that the Legis lature recorded their opinion of the impropriety of fuch condud by paling an Ad againft it, and at the inflance too of the Noble Lord himfelf. The e ra. ceedings on this occafion were called meafures of party and perfecut:on. But as to the latter charge, Gentlemen &mid bear in mind the difference be tween perfecution and profecution. The former is an attempt to overwhelm a man by force and poiver— the latter to bring a criminal to justice. Cifn'hith de fcription, be would elk any fair, candid min, Was the courfe purfued refpating Lord Melville i With-ref pat to the imputation of party, he believed the Honk would feel that if the members of that party, who ge nerally aced in oppofition to Minilters, were not to vote againft a Minifter charged with, or convicted of peculation, a corrupt Minifter would be tolerably fe- cure of impunity. The imputation of party, bowever, fhould not be exclufively applied to the Gentlemen who cppofed Loro*Melville. In point of fa& it'ap peared to be much more applicable to thole who de fended bins, and who nsuft be naturally influenced by feelings of party and private friendfhiP. The cry of party, therefore, fhould not be 'aired on that fide of the Houle. As to what was faid refpeding'popular clamour, it was imooffible that fuch delioquebty as that of Lord Melville ffiould not excite confiderable clamour; bat the exiftance of that clamour furnithed a ftrong reafon to thew that Lord Melville ought to be brought to trial, in order to Laid . ) , the people that Parliament was ready to do them jufilte, by punn ing the man who peculated their property. Mr. CARTWRIGHT thought the object of pub lic justice, whether for the purpofe of example or pu nilhment, already attained with refped to Lord Mel ville, and therefore would oppofe ant further pro- ceedings in this cafe. Lord HENRY PETTY entered at large into the whole cf the prefent cafe, and thought the defence let up by the Noble Vifcount and by others for hies very extraordinary. He contended that the mifccn dud of the Noble Vifenunt in the tranfadions referred to in the Report. was apparently fuch as to render a further enquiry, and that of the molt folemn na ture, abfolutely iodifpenfable. Nothing but hi peachment was fuitable to the magnitude of the of fence; and the dignity of the acculatiao. The fub fiance of the charge was, that the Public Money had been employed to the purpofes of private Emolu ment, for the trial of which Impeachment had a pas. liar and exclusive propriety, for by it the Commons of England were the profecutors ; who fo fit to pro- fecute an offence of miapplication of the public money, as the Guardians of the public putfe?—*Phe perfon accufed was a Par of the Realm; who to fit to judge of the Charge as the Guardians of the Honour of the Peerage, the Peers of the Realm ? tie difagrced from the Honourable Member who had fpoken - fume time . beftsre him (Mr. H. Brown) as to the circumstances of this Country rettuiiing that we Mould not entertain inquiries of this nature at the prefent time, and particularly' that we fhould now give up a pur , fuit of this kind on account of the menace of invafion. Hethought the'Honnurable Mem ber hinifelf who made tile of that obrervation, would be glad upon reflation to recall it ; for he mutt be aware whafa triumph it would be to France to have it pliblifhed in the Moniteur that Great Britain is fo much alarmed at the Menace of a French invasion, that it is obliged to forego the molt folemn forms of the administration of justice againtt an high State de linquent, that was to fay, that from alarm and ap prelienfion it was obliged to give up that cootie of proceeding which diffinguiffied it from all the other nations upon earth, and by which it was rendered fo formidable to its enemy, from the energy ofits people acting a conteiouthefs of petted protection to their freedom, a principle to which the whole of our greatnefa was owing, and the continuance of which could alone fecure us againft the attacks (of 'which the prefent was but the mere commencement) of the great military power of France: Such welcome in. - . . telligenee to France as that a Scpatnr ihnuTtl vitas. fwered fay that their menaces could make Great Britain abandon her principles of juftice, Monte never be conveyed. With regard to the influrree of the erinion of the Public having an influerce ihe pro ceedings of the Houfe, he admitted it was not la principle cf guidance to the Houfe ; bur he hoped it was not an unreafcnable pleafure to reflett that the filitiments of the Houle were in unifun with thole of its Conflituenta. The people of England had eerta'nly fhewn themfelves moll watchful, and eagerly inter tiled in the condita of their Reprefentatives on this fabjea—they had teen with joy and exultation a .great public delinquent detet9ed and expored in the fief inftance, and he confidently trufted he would be brought to a proper trial in the fecond, and what had been fo aufpiciouily commenced would not be dirgracefully concluded, and that their Re prefentatives would not now defert their duty. At all events, his Hoflonrable Friend (Mr. Whitbread) in bringing this fubjeEt forward had performed his duty, and he was fare to derive from it perfeet diem and honourable eonfideration with the public. He Ihould indeed potters the fame which he deferved ; but much as he honoured his Hon. Friend, and -efteemed his high charafter, he could not *itb, on fuck an occafion, to fee even his reputation feparated and dillingtabed from that of the Houfe of Com mons. His Hon. Friend had perfeveringly and con. Heady difchargesi his dory ; the Houfe had in a certain degree alCo performed theirs, and which they had now to finilh. In the hope that they would do fo, be Ilionld fupport the original motion of his Hon. Friend, as being the mof fuitable meafure that could adopted, either with reference Co the charaller and fitnation of the delinquent, the nature of the de linquency, to the dignity of the Houfe, and to the attention the public had beftowed on, and the intereft they had in it, as well asthe juftice which demanded the folemnity of this profccution. __The him's. of the ROLL: explained, as did alto Mr. H. Mr. WILUIERFORCE laid, the fubjed was of fo great and Important a nature, that he thought it mug be the with of the majority of the Houle to dileufs it at large--!a bed spy of ge v , aaj. He then Laid, be only wilhed to remind the Houfe, that lo deattnilances of the fame nature, it often happened, tha t two or three !scrims were allowed to (peak, and in the end, the debate was adjourned. He thereat, would move an adjournment The CIIANCELLOIL of the EICIMILIIR having had Does eon. verfation scrota the table with Mr. Wu t , Mr. Fox, and other', °Nerved there was no hope of being able to come to a condi/Gun this night in the, eshauftcd Rate of the Chrofe; it would be better to adjourn now than proceed any further at pre. fent, upon which the Houk, by common content, at 'Three o'Clock this Morning adjourned till this Afternoon. fro, LoNooN GAZB77II, Ylat BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Henry Werra, of Weymouth, Dorktilllte, BANKRUPTS. James Swann, of Hinkley,' Leiceiteritdre currier, to firrender June 20, at, at one, apd July 23, at eleyen, at the George, to kky. Attendee. Mr. Richard Waker Forbes, No. 8, Ely- Site, Holborn, London ; or Mr. Edward Thoanky, Hinkley. John Dutchman, the Elder. of Kingftoo-upon•Holt, fall-maker, dealer and chapman, July 2,3, and 23, at eleven, at tliehoufe 4( lames Jeffery% the Coffee-houfe, Scarbottnigh. Attorsies„ Mr. Hugel', Hull; or Mars. French and Williams, Gillig an:et, Holborn. Cluiftopher Janke, now or late of Great Strambridge, Mr, merchant, dealer and chapman. June so, u, arid lull 23, at ten, at the Angel Inn, Colchefk , r. Attornies, Mr. Frauds, Colchefter • or Mans Naylor, Great Newport-itreet, Landau. Richard Harrifon, of Hutton-Lane-Enda,parifb of Dean Lanes flake, innkeeper, dealer find chapman, June ay, 24, and July 23, at three, at the Pack Horfe..in the Apple Maria, Manchefter. Anomie*, Meffre Lindley and Caldwell, Manebefter ; or Mr. , Curfitor.ltreet, London. LONDON. • WEDNESDAY. JUNE &s. P a ICE OF STOCKS TENS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. • . Cookois,.for July, nig...Reduced 59f i—Ontniurn, Yefterday being the day fixed for the Motion for an Impeach ment egainft Lord Yin:aunt MELVILL It, a great crowd affanbled at an early hour, In the avenues of the Hook of Commons. At twelve the doors were opened, and a fnere preteure wined. The gallery, of courfe, was filled in s few minutes. In the early part of the dray AD opinion revailai, that Mr. WiiITSILIAD would open the debate; but about three o'clock it was known, that Lord Vll count Maavn.z.t would be previoufly heard in his defence. This excited a great degree of expediation, and a great number of per- Cons eriewded into the lower lobby, and ago lined the flair to the gallery of the Hodfe, which commands a view of the :Why, through which Lord Vire-owe M etas t. Le was to pals. About half part taut; his Lonifhip' entered the lobby, and paired Into the Secre tary's teem, on the left band. The Houk was at this time cit ric! in private bullnefs. Shortly after five, the SPEARS' read a letter fititn yifcount Mr Lantz, requefting to be admitted into the body of the Houle, to be beard in his defence. The Honatteable etoscalDn!!DA 3 SAUNDERS, his Loedihip's fan, then mared.that GL Lordatip t".. =fled in ; which being agreed to, the Seitowe'deated Mr. Cotieou, the Sajeant at Antis, to take the Map, and conduct Lord Vifcount MSLIIILLZ . into the In the new time, Mr. fleot.o wr,tt.e . prlncipal meaner, brought in a fquare arm-chair, and placed it 'within the body of the Hoare. within the bar, on the kft hand laic. The StitiZANT AT ARMS then took up the mace, and, having waved it thre . e times,went out of the Howie, and took, his Aetna outfidc, in the lobby, in front of the door of the Houk, and ago olpofite to the door of the Treafurr loom. Mr. }JCR an, one of the Meifengcnt,had prenoutly thrown Open the folding doors of the latter apartment, and Lord Vifiopat Maavitte being informed by hint, that the Houle requellethii attendance, his Lordfhip c;eitoot, and walked weave:cent° the Houk, attended by. the Siajeant and Mace. His Lordihip was dieffed in black, and wore* ckie buckled wig, powdered. He bowed throe Jima as be approached, and, on coming within the bar, the S rr . who wore hie bat on, all the time, aildrcf fink him, laid, " My Lard Meant t t, there it a chair for your Lordildp" His Lortillip then fat down, and put on his tat— There was a general bus in the Houle on hi, coming in. As loon as it' fubfided, which was in lets than two minutes, his Lordihip arafe, and taking off hie hot, be laid it upon the fat of the chair, and open the hat (crag papers. ni L t irdthip then, itanding at the back of the chair, cotnmenced his fpeech, in the courfe of which be fiequendy retreated his memory from the papers before him. Hiaiordaipfpoke for two hours and a quarter. His manner was fires. Asanly , and impreian ; and he did not, even in the part of itivheve be.appealed-to the feelings, appear the leaft Sakai, Thrtubment be bad concluded, be took up his papers deliberately, one by one, and baying put his bat under his arm, made a bow to the Serialist and withdrew, attended by the Serjeant, who, during the whole of the (perch, remained banding on the right band fide aide Lordhip. bat at the Mance of a few yards, with the mace realm( upon the ground, end his baud upon it. The Hnufe was siitorailody civwded; Not fewer this' Ave hundred Members irereprtfent: ford Mc trate, Snri moved the frodc ror Imre to be heard ; and his Lordihip was accompanied on :iis lords and cares by his Nephew, Mr. WILLIAM Dux D• The ELK brig of war, with the Beet under her convoy, from Cork, have arrived at Jamaica. A large copper bottomed (hip, detained under very fufpictous eircumfiances, has been fent intoYarnymth, by His Isiajefty's hired Brig Aux.—Admiral Vett own is (till at Dunkirk, and not in Holland a s has been reported. The frigates in Flu(hing will fail very loon, and another force is collecting at Ofiend. There are upwards of 200 valets of various defcriptions at Dunkirk, intended to join the Bou logne fquadron. 1n (port, from all rye have been able to learn refpaling the operations of the enemy on that waft, it appears that all is Wile and hurry, and fome important' movement intended probably loon to be attempted. The DEIPKILATB gun-brig was yefierday paid at Sheernefs, and proceeded immediately to the Downs. Great difpatch has been ufed lately at Chatham to fit out (hips of the line, in addition t the number fl:nt fleni that port already, to augment the North Sea and Channel Fleets; the Majss ric and Eta t Naar, of 74. guns, have been refitted, and will be ready for lea in a few days ; the former has chopped down as far as Long Reach, in the River Medway. —The Baltic and Tonringen convoys ate collating at the Norc two armed (hips, the Rofina and Lord Elton, are appointed for their protettion. This morning we received Parie Journals to the sth intl. The length of the debate in the Houfe of Commons UR night, obliges us to dive only sort estrads. The Coronation of BoNAPARTE. as King of Italy, which was to hate taken place on Thurfday April 23d, was put off in confequence of the badnefs of the weather, to Sunday the 26th. The Mortimer contains a long account of the ceremunial to be ob ferved on the relation. The Illoniinw announces officially the return otthe Rochefort fquadron. A circumflance wha has Oi• cafioned much exultation. A latter from General FINLAND, Rates that the Blacks have railed the liege of Sr. Domingo, and re tired to the French part of the Ifland. Two Englith (pies ate Rated, in the Paige, to have been Melted at Paris. A letter from St. Petettburgh, in the Alexi:tur f announce! that the Emperor Axtxmetfla his re. folved to take no part with either France or Eng. land, in the prefeot conteft —And in the fa me paper is inferted, a letter fron: Madrid, charging the Rut- Ilan Ammbaffodor there with a fpecies of fwindling. There' needs.no other circumftancr, to prove that both the letters areforgcries. If the French Go. vernment had grounds for believing they might count on the neutrality If ALE:alma, they would not have allowed him to be libelled iodic fame Mathew. The increafing milundernanding between the Coutts of Stockholm and Berlin, announced in tome of theca Journals, is a further proof of the falfity of there itatements. We infect there letters, that our readers may compare them : PIETERERVIRON, MAT the intrigues of Woitontoit at London have failed. The -Emperor ALEXANDER has de. chard that he will not depart from his fyftern of neutrality ; that by will out mate a common carafe either with England or with France but ibat be will not refufe his good offices for the emelt*. bliihment of Peace; that he cannot, however, grant his limn. (creme unlefs equal moderation be manifefted 6; both parties, and th at they. will reciprocally renounce all pretenfions to fupe riorityin a word, that the Peace of the Wqrld may be reftored, When the principle of the Sovereignty of Princes by lea and by find Emil have been confecrated. We are affixed that, in confer queues of there difimfitions, the Emperor ALEXANDER haswrit ten to the Emperor ft:Obtain, end M. Noyozitrzort 'hts kt put fur Milan. • • PdAPRID, MAT de MOURAWItr. the Ruffian MiniliA;r, has quitted this place precipitately, leaving in tears and diftrefs a great number of unfortunate Tradefmen whom he has not paid; among whom are (even German lockfmtths. and other mechani cians, fubjeels of Auftria, to whom he owed is or 20,000 rubles. One thee unfortunate perfons, ruined by his flight, has blown out his brain.. We have no doubt that the Emperor ALEXANDER, when informed of this adiou of the man by whom he is reprefcnt ed, will order M. de Moue/kw:et, to pay his debts, and his rub. jeds not to leave the capitals of Europe without paying the poor people whom they employ. - - - BIVASWICK, MAT 18.—Corot de SCRIIETT Atr, Lieutenant- General insthe ferrite of Pruffia, htiahid afide the Swedifh Order of the Sword which he wore, and his Pruffian Majefty has con. fequently decorated Mtn with that of the Red Eagle. The Profit= Minifter, at the Court of Stockholm, who u brother to M. Locer estut, has received orders from Ma Miler to quit that ca pital, without taking leave-of his Swedilk Majefty. The diplo matic relations of M. Bet , charged with the affairs of Swedcn-at the Court of tierfin, have entirely eared in confequence of a notification to that purpole, made by the Pruffian Minifter. Heis prt.paring to quit Berlin immediately. The Britith Goat:ta mest, it is raid, vrill not give op Malta urgers it receive Mine= in retorn. New York Papers to the.ith ultimo have arrived. The following part of their contents is molt im portant. Our limits do not permit us to offer any remarks upon them. "New Vont, Aram 30.—8 y the brig Ventre, in 21 days frtim St. Pierre's, Martinique, we arc informed, that on the 6th loft. the French Squadron, lately in the Weft Indies, were on their return to France. Having landed about aoo troops at Mar tinique, they went to the City tilk Domingo, where they left the remainder, and hmiediately proceeded on their return home. " We learn by the brig Vidonf, from Martinique, that a French frigate had Jult arrived there with dlipatches, and with advises of a Fleet of avian of men of war havim failed tram France for the Weft Indies, bat that molt of oast had put back in a gale. The deftination of the Toutort FLIRT WU not before known l but it now appears they were ?round to 'the Weft Indies. • New Nolte, MAY 3.-.-Captain Selmer,- from Quadaloupe, informs us, that in puffing Antigua, he raw 12 or sy. fail of the lips and frigates, which bad lately arrived from England, for the purpofe of intercepting the French Weft-India fquadron. Captain Etta, of the Ihip Two Brothers, arrived at Philadcl phi' on Tuefday morhing, in 16 days, from St. Kitt's, reports, that the Britith Squadrons under Admirals Coc KRANZ & Gaavas had arrived at Barbadoes- -and that the latter had left that place in 'lntroit Of the French. Thefe Seep united amounted to 14 fail of the line. • Naw You:, MAT 4.—An szpre ft has arrived at Martinique from Prance, which rays, that a war with that nation and America is inevitable, Be ttarAlTe having Acta) , demanded three mil lions of dollars, the amount of coffee, &c. carried front St. Dwain- L got° the Continent Ikea the ithard was in polTeflion of the Blacks I CORN EXCIIANGIC, MARX-LANZ, Juac 12.—We have to-day but few - frelh arrivals of Grain in general ; but the quantities of foreign are large,of fecond and ordinary quality, winch are diffi cult of fides at Ss. and 7s. per quarter lower than laft week; fine being exceeding (came, the little ford keeps its price, which is almolt ognilnat..—Malt is eheapar.—Barky. Beans, and Peas, very little. The Oat frade feis few buyers, nearly at lift price.... The high price of bet Wheat cadet Flour to keep up-much of Seconds on hand. • LONDON Printed and publllbed by LEVEL KENT. 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