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medics for dangers with which it might happen to his Maje ft y's late Minifiers ;be thought they were de threatened, it Mould certainly have had his moll entitled to the thanks of the country for that re cordial fupport. He could never conceive a time tkement. Their eondua while in Adminittration when it was not the foletun duty of the Houfe to had certainly been marked with vigour and ener know what was the true (late of the nation, audit gy, but whether alto with wifdom and propriety, this was at all times their dety, it was peculiarly fo was another queftion which enquiry omit decide. at a period fo alarming and to critical as the pre- They had begun and concluded the war in which fent. He could not conceive, however , that the we were alien unhappily engaged, and what had' determination of the Houle not to agree to a nue- been the confequence? The People had nothing tion for a General Committee of Enquiry, at all left to ferve as the means of their fubfiftence but involved any portion of negleft of its true interetts, paper—paper which could not be converted into any refolution to (hut their eyes to its real fituation. gold or Myer. Our Traders and Manufeaurers The queffien was not, whether at a moment fo were ruined, wbilft the enormous rife in the price important and critical for the Empire, the Houfe of prOvifions rendered it impoffible for our menu ought not to make every enquiry into its circum- faeturers to rival thole of other countries in foreign fiances, but whether they ought not to reckon a markets. He did not with, at that late hour to general Committee for this purpofe unneceffary enter much into detail, but lie mull take up a and inexpedient? If the Country was now labour- (mall portion of the time of the Houk, for the lag under peculiar difficulties--Uit was threatened purpofe'of animadverting upon the quelliose ari by unprecedented dangers, he trufted the Houk ling out of the Neutral code. would be fully alive to every thing conneatd with However it might be contended by Noble that public duty which might be exerted with ef- Lords, that the principle now grinned by the fed in delivering it from its embarraffinents. The Northern Nations was new in the Public Law of appointment of - a Committee, be conceived, could Europe, and an ufurpation upon the hitherto ac he attended with no one beneficial contiquence, knowledged and eftablilbed rights of European while, from its extraordinary nature, it might ex- Nations, it was an iudifputabk Taft, and hefpoke cite an unneceffary degree of terror and alarm. to it particularly, becaufe he himfelf was concern- He wifned to lay out of the prefent difcnffiun the cd in the trenfaaion, that this country did, in the condua of fevered Expeditions which had taken year r 782, acknowledge, in the treaty with France, place during the war, not becaufe either he or any this very principle which it was now maintained of his Friends who had retired from office willed' was illegimate and fpuriotts. . This principle, that ,1 them to undergo no difeuffion e not becaufe they neutral bottoms make neutral goods, having been were convinced' that either in their plan or their thusexprefslyacknowledgedbythiscountry,bennift execution they were liable to any well-grounded deeply lament that unfortunate expedition; for he cenfure, but becaufe he conceived they did not par- muftcallitan unfortunate expeditionwhichwasnow tic ularly leen) to relate to the precept Motion. When fent againft our natural anies, Denmark and Sweden, any of theft meafures, or indeed, any other parts whom the more we injured, he mutt contend we of their Adminittretion came by a fpecific motion thereby injured ourfelves. Ruffle he would not before the Houte,they would ever be ready to come clefs with Denmark and Sweden and lie was of forward boldly to vindicate their condua, and to opinion that this country had been in * much anfwer to anycharges of criminality which might be greater degree injured than benefited by any coa propofed againft them. Having raid this, he would tion or alliance with that empire. But the prin. come to the queffion more immediately before the ciple maintained by the Northern Powers was not •Houfe. His curiofity had been confiderably ex- only, he contended, acknowledged in the manner cited when the Noble Lord who (poke fall had de- he had before alluded to, but had alto been ad dared that he would point out the objeas to be Initted and aged upon more than a century ago, effeaed by the motion, bat never had cnnofity been when, in t 67 it was acknowledged in a Treaty more fully dicappointed. When the Noble Lord with Hollan d If, therefore, the principle had was able to give no more precife idea of the ma been admitted and acknowledged by this coup. tion than that which he had now brought for- try for a century pall, ought the attempt to ward, he could not helpehinking that it was cepa- enforce it to have been now treated as an ble only of a vague undefined application. Its firft as of hoftility and a declaration of war? Was objeft was to afiertain the (late of the finances of it juft or politic in Minifters to treat the at the country. But from the excellent regulations tempt as an hoftile aggreflion, for was it not adopted on this &Neel, nothing could be a plainer their duty rather to aa upon principles acknow. or more fimple operation. It was faid, indeed, that ledged in the country, than upon fpcculative the finances, as tar as refpcaed the cuttoms and ideas of their awn? To attempt to prevent the en excite, had failed. Yet what was a more fallacious forcement of the principle was abfurd :-it might mode of calculating the general refources of a have been done before the difcovery of America ; country, than to lay hold of a deficiency in para. but how, he would alit, was it to be prevented cular cafes, when this deficiency naturally arofe, as with refpea to the latter country ? Would any Mi in the cafes alluded to, from temporary cireum- nifter be fo abfurd as to attempt the impoffibility fiances? The fecond objeft of the Committee was of curbing the trade from the vett and extenfive to be the recommendaticht of an addrcfs to his Ma- country of America. If then the principle could jelly, that he would be pleated to hold out fome. not be generally beat down, why should gurope thing immediately confolatory to his people in the alone be denied the benefit arifing from it, and the hope of the reftoration of peace. For his part, he Northern Powers refuted the exercife of what mitt welled to go much farther, arid to arrive at fome. be acceded to other States ? At the fame time, he thing more fpecific than the motion involved. He knew not that any good could refult from an en. fhould with it to be afcertained in what manner this quiry into the reafons upon which this principle defign was to be executed. The fubjeet was a de- was founded. It had been acknowledged in praaice, licate one, and he fhould be anxious to enter as but he knew of no ettabliffied theoretical rules by little as Fallible into its difeuffion. But the Noble which it was to be tried. If it was tried by the Lord had (aid, that a myllery hung over the no- telt of inveltigation, nothing hut fpcculative opi. mination of the new Minitlry. There was always Mons would be the refult, without arriving at any fomething more or lefs extraordinary in the ap- precife decifion. It teemed to be rather a matter pointment of new blinilters but he witted to of praaice than theory, and mull be rather tried know in what refpea the late nomination was by eltabliThed cullom and well known precedents myfterious ? Some Noble Lords had indeed than logical reafoniug or theoretical definition. He chofea to throw out Come very injurious after. thought the Committee moved for by the Noble lions on his Majefty's late labellers, as if they bad Earl, unimettionably tit-cell:try, and (hould moll been now endeavouring to throw attacks in the cordially. agree to the propofition. •As to the way of the public fervice. If they had a pleafure objeftion of its giving information to the enemy, in thus impeding the public good, and in en- he would Rawer that they knew enough already creafing public difficulties, they teemed, however, of our proceedings and our fituation, and that na too late in beginning to aft on this (them, after thing dangerous to the country could ante out of eight years, during which they bad lifted on prin- the propoied inveffigation. What the Noble Lord ciples and views far different from thofc now meant by difagreeable principles, he was at a lots imputed to them. It was ftrange, betides, that to know—He had heard of good and of bad prim a-all fuch views they fliould be going out of office ciples, but of tifagrecable principles he knew no with a pledge to fupport their fucceifors in purfu- thing: but it teemed as if they were to bethe caufe ins the fame meafures which they themfelves had of war. We owed it, however, to our navy, to our adopted and purfued. For bitnfelf, indeed, he officers, and to our Tailors, to arrange our conduit abjured as utterly abhorrent to the principles of the upon fome ftxcd plan, either finally to admit, or fi- Britifh Cotalitution the guidance of public affairs nally to rejeft the principle, that they might know after his refponfibility had ceded. With fafety he decifively how to aft. It was due to them that might add, that Inch were the principles of all the their conduit fliould be marked out by a precife Noble and Honourable Friends who had afted with line, and that they fhould not be left unknowing him in office. Having Paid this in juftification of what to do, and ignorant how to proceed relative his own conduit, be was bound, however, to fay, to the (hipping and the trade of neutral na that from his heart he believed that the new Mini- tions. There appeared to want Come fettled Law fterohad accepted of their offices from a finfe of of Nations, both by tea and land, that might be ate public duty, and that they would continue to ex. pealed to on all occafions to fettle every difputed ercife them under a full impreffion of public ref point that occurred, fome precise code that might ponfibility. On a former occafion be had thought define the terms of the mutual intercourfe of Ne tt his duty to (late to the Houfe the grounds on tions, and not leave it wavering between fpecula. which he had judged it proper to retire from his tive opinions and difputed precedents, unfitted Majefty's councils. He was lorry to be again un- and undetermined. Aniongft other topics requite der the neceffity of recurring to this fubjeft, and ing to be fettled by Come fuch code, was that re. he could allure the Houle he had not come to the lative to Cartels, where frequently a number of determination he had adopted till after the moll unfortunate tailors were detained, to the injury of mature deliberation. The Noble Lord then pro- their health, and the abridgement of their hap ceeded to enlarge on this topic, and argued that pinefs, before two countries can fettle the terms ' • though .bc confidered it to be confiftent with the of exchange. In them we teemed in s his opine principles of liberal policy, that the Catholics of on to be retrog rading in our .manners—to be Ireland •thould be freed from the reftraints they becoming more barbarous inftead of more civi. were now under, he was ter from wilhing that by heed ; and he fhould not wonder to hear Coon this means the fafetyeither of church or Rate fhould of a repetition of the propofal made in the Ame be endangered. Though he thought the ancient rican War for a mutual fele of Prifoners. The other objeft of the Committee was, to advife the reftraints were removed, other regulations might Kin and he wished that the Privy Council and be adopted'confiftent with a more refined and li. beral Feeley. He vindicated with much force, the the Grand Council of the Nation would unitedly advife his Majefty—let the general voice be for - fincerity.of the Government in cefierent negoti ations, and eoncludea by enlarging on the right Peace, and be cared not who was Minifter. He DOW difputed by the Northern Powers as effendi.] concluded with warmly fupporting the motion. to a ll our tights and privileges as a commerc i a l The LORD COUNCILLOR left the Woolfack, and tuition. began with obferving that he had long found by The Earl of C m defended the nio. his Parliamentary experience, and that thole (who tion as neve(tiny to come to a full and fair deter- fortunately for themfelves had not bad fo much), might Lave found by books, that a motion for a mination on l e fubjeet of the right now difputed by the Northea'a Nations, and to prevent the far- Committee to enquire into the State of the Nation that enormous waste of the public money. was only drawing up the curtain of a theatre 'The Marquis of Lessoower oblerved, that for an exhibition of lonfe defultory obfervation on 'much had beta fait! relative to the thairemect of any number of futeieas that might cafuelly fuggett itfelf to the mind of any Noble Lord, without ,pointing any one of the numerous topics dilated upon, to an immediate, dininit, and dire& ob jet. That day they sad heard of many different matters reccirum.ended as fit fnbje&spf enquiry into ' , the conduit% of the war • the events of that war, eves; fo far back as the affair of St. Domingo, the , more recent ones of the condition againit H01..1 laud, Ferrol, and Cadiz ; e Rate of the finances of the country; the dithuffion of another import ant liibjed into which he would go no farther than to i.ty, that it comprehended the intereftsolChurch and State, not only in Ireland but of the United Kingdom, for now the Churches of both WON united, and mull Rand or fall together, and the reafuns upon which tome of his Majefty's late Mini ftershad thought it incumbenton them to refign their offices. All thefe objects, his Lordflip laid, would admit of feparate difcuflion, and could with as hutch advantage be deliberated upon and debated in tingle Motions, as in a Committee on the State of the Nation. His Lordthip combated Lord MOirl% Ratement of the defalcation of the Revenue from the contents of two accounts only, namely, the amount of the Receipt of the Cili ums and the Excite for two years. if the Noble Lord had craned for, or had before /Om ' the fuU ftatement of the amount of the recei sof all the branches of the ReVenne, he would ve fowl(' a fatisfadory anfwer, and defeat of own Rate ment of the diminution of the receipts, and ample proof that the receipt Was no otherwife diminifhed but by &much as might be imputed to the decreafe of duty on malt, barley, malt (pinks, &c. He challenged the Noble Lord, and all who thought I with him, to a full dikuflion of this fubjed, and declared he would vote againft a general and vague enquiry as unneceffary and nugatory. Lord Mow, role to explain, and to reftate his obfervations on the receipt of the Revenue. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM laid, he had all along approved of the war in its origin, and of Minik•rs in every:part of their conduct of it, but he neverthelefs thought an enquiry abfolutely ne celfary into two matters of fad--the neutral code, which ought to be defined, and the grounds on which foram of his Majefly's Minifters refigned their official fituations, and the new Minifters came in. Thefe were important, as the new Minifters had not yet obtained the confidence of the country, a circumftance which had alarmed the whole coun try, and added confiderably to the danger and difficulty in which it Rood; for thefe reafons•he fhould vote for the enquiry. I,ord ELDON defended the manner in which on the firft day of the talon he had explained the law of nations, or, as it was termed, the neutral code, on which all the marine rights of the European and other maritime Elates Rood. A treaty upon certain conditions and confederations of that neu tral code might fufpend it for the time of the treaty between the Contrading Powers, but it could not affed any other Power whatever. In like manner Great Britain, not being the contrading party, could not be deprived of the jut right the enjoyed under the law of nations by any treaty be tween other powers. His Lordfhip laid, he would be bound to fatisfy the Honk on this poil l t when ever it came regularly under ciifcuffion, but he would not fupport the motion for a general en quiry. Lord AUCKLAND denied there was fuch a defi ciency in the cuftoms and excite as Rated by the Noble Lord (Moira), and that the War had not coil more than half the turn mentioned by another Lord (Carnarvon), when the dcduttions were made.—He thought there was tome myftery in the circumftance of perfons retiring from refpon fible fituations in fuch a critical moment, but which it was time alone, and not a committee of enquiry could devolope. Lord Sessicsa replied they had been aduatcd by no other motive than that repeatedly Rated by his Noble Friend. Lord FITZWILLIAM was for the Enquiry, and , explained what he had Paid upon the qq,eltion of neutral veffels on a former night. Lords 11/foiaa, Gatimitxt, and DARNLEY ft. verally explained, after which the Houfe divided, when the numbers appeared, for the Committee of Enquiry—Contents 25—Non-contents 107. Adjourned at Half pal Two this morning. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH u. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Cafoh S6l.—for 34...0mnium 34. 'RICE 01 STOCCI YESTERDAY I Book Steak (but Imp. Ann. it m 44 3 per Cent. Red. flint OmMuso 3 al 3 per C. Conf. o+4 Irf~ Deb 4 Per Cent. Conf. (but /tank for Acc. per C. Navy oat ori kulia for Ace. Imp. 3 per C. 36 334 COOL for arc. 36414 w In the Houfe of Commons, laft night, Mr. Joves gave notice of his intention to bring forward ibme obfervations in regard to the tax upon hair powder and armorial bearings, fo far as they related to the condua of Informers, Tome of whom, be faid, got tOOOL a year by their practices. Some further debate took place on the Irifh Martial Law Bill, to which Mr. WHITBREAD pro pored Tome Amendments, but they were negatived without a divifion. Mr. Isaac Coats , save notice that he fhould bring forward on Friday next, certain Refolu tions on the Ways and Means in Ireland. The ample account we have given of the important debate which took place kit night in the Houle of Lords, prevents us at prefent from entering into farther details refpefting the proceedings of the Houle of Commons., Yefierday Lord Loucasoaouaa took leave of the Court of Chancery, and this day he refigned his Gtoation as Chancellor. EIICILISH STATE Leer le v.—Seventeenth DIV. No. 43,601, a Prize of Soot—Nos. 44464, t 3449, and 1465, Prizes of tool.—Nos, 58,994, 37,635, and 17,857, Prizes of soL IIdfIITICAL INTELLIGENCE. This morning we were favoured with the fol lowing very intereftiag intelligence from the Medi terranean, which is the luta received from thence t The Princeira, Capt. Lae, arrived in the Downs the t 9th of March from Smyrna.failed from thence the 29th of January. By the laft accounts at that place from Macri, oppofite Rhodes, Lord KEITH and the troops un. der General ABERCROMBIE were to fail for Alex. andria the 28th of January; the force confifted of about .17,000 men all in good health an d f p i. rite. Lord KEITH h ad (even fail of the line, b e . fides frigates. The fall divilign of tranfport,, confilling of about twenty fail, left Smyrna nn the 28th of January, under convoy of the VIC. TORIEUSE brig. It is fuppofed they put into Mi furnife, near Metelyn, as the wind cor.t!nued for three or four days to the Southward. The tranfports left at Smyrna, were expeacd to be ready the firit week in February, and then to fa l l under convoy of the GREYHOUND frigate I they were part loaded with forage, and the rill fitted up as horfe and mule !hips. A report was circulated at Smyrna, that goon French troops had reached Alexandria, and landed, ' but this was not credited • . others f a id, with as little foundation, they had landed at Bergazzi. The plague had broke out in the Vizier's Army (already much reduced by defertion) at Jaffa, a nd General KOEHLER and his wife had fallen victims to it. The French in Egypt had declared that they would withiland every attack the Englifit might make. _ Capt. Lee faw nothing on his way to Mahon; except a Greek brig from Malta to Patrafs, who informed hint the ALEXANDE.R man of war and PENELOPE frigate were at Malta. On the 16th of February, at four P, M. Knorca bearing Weil la leagues, faw three frigates to windward, who made fait after the Princefa, the wind then at Weft, though nearly calm ; at AM let the breeze freflieneci, and Captain lAA , elide*. voured to get away by varying his courfe from S. to N. N. E. and N. ; but the moon fhining thry kept fight of him, and, from their appearance in the day, judging them to be Englilh, he prefiared hauling his wind to the N. W. than to run longer towards Toulon, at,the rate of nine knots, by which means, at midnight, the hindermoft frigate came alongfide, and proved to be the Marva ; tha other two were the PEARL and SANrA Teresa, bound off Toulon. They told Capt.L ES to look out for the French fleet arrived in the Mediterranean. The wind continued to the W. S. W. till the 18th at qight. The PaiNcessa arrived at five P. M. that ca at Port Mahon. A few hours after, Sit J. B. WaireEN, in the RENOWN, with the Gram, TAR, DRAGON, and Pszleatt, arrived from the Weft ; the next morning Capt. Lee was informed that an embargo was laid on all veffels, upon which he applied to Sir J. B. WARREN, who affured him he would (peak to the Governor to permit him to fail, and that he would put his letters on board the next morning, which he did. The Gs NEREAUX was manned by the keople of the tranfpnrts, apd Crew 'of the SANTA DOROTHEA, and formed one of Sir Joat's fquadron. The HAARLEM arrived on the 19th from Mika, but having been afhore there, the was going to heave down at Mahon, and afterwards to take in her lower deck guns from the garrifon (tares. Captain La a faired in the evening, and juti a be patted Fort St. Philip, the LONDON, Captain Sitar, from Smyrna, anchored, having come from Maha with the HAAILLFM--• neither he or Captain BURITON had teen the Tat- User face they left &in, notrithflanding they were three weeks at Malta ; but the pilots at Milo informed Captain Lea they faw her pals the fame day a the I.oNnow. :Captain Shaw told him,that on the t Rth lie wat on board the Cybelle tratifport, Captain GREY, from Malta to Mahon. She was captured on the tfith,by the French fleet of eight fail of the line, two deckers, two frigates, the SUCCESS frigate, and a cutter, captured from the Englifh ; but finding the Cybelle had nothing but women on board, they releafed her.—The fleet afterwards (leered N. N. E. The evening he failed from Mahon, a frigate, fuppofed to be the PEARL, was beating off thehaf boor; left at Mahon a Dana brig and a cutter detained. At eight P. M..of the a ift, fell in with a convoy, apparently ten or twelve fail, under convoy of two frigates, who made many fi and fired blue lights and rockets,byt did not rp: ls. ak them, having a &eat gale at Well, they (leering N. E. by N. fuppofed for Mahon. On the atith of February, in lat. 37. s3.long. a. E. faw two flips, one a frigate, the other a two decker : the latter hoilted French colours, and had the appearance of a French (hip, but the fri gate,'which made private fignals, was certainly Englifh. Captain LEE heard a report at Gibrl tar of three Spruill line of battle limps being cruis• 'ing_off Cape St. Vincent's. FALMOUTH, MARCH tB.—Yeiterday put back by contrary wind the Lam; HOBART Packet. Ca pt. F.t.zowss. with the Mails of this Month for Hall. tax and New York; Ow is now waiting a wind to fail: the AUCKLAND Packet, for the Leeward Iflands Mail of this month, is ready for lea. SHEERNESS, MARCH so.--This day his Najd. ty's fhip his, of 32 guns, Captain &MAC, went out of harbour m the Nom. being repaired and fitted for lea. The Maar hired cutter, Lieutenant MORGAN, came into harbour; and the MANLT gun brig, Lieutenant Mama., failed with tome merchantmen under convoy, for Leith.—The AD. MIRAL MICHELL cutter was this day recommit &med. MARRIED. Tisk Morning, William Mini4h, Efq. Mile End Rome o 0 . 0 Mn.s Wood, of Great Roar Bedforti-fquare. - On Therfday morning, in Dean'alird,We (balsam, Lob Cope, wife of the Rev. Sir Miami Cape, Dies. LONDON • Printed for the Prnprietoes. by JOHN "DANIEL, tilar t e.artaaby-itroet) at the STAIR PRINTIIIIO4/11/ICC. No. a, -Itreet ; aad poblifbed by LEVEL LENT, (A C. terborrigies, LaesibetN), at No 1. Carey-ftroet. Nad at die STA ti•Ornea. Tempit-Bar ; to wbl6 Mc NI COMM.& -..ationi for tk 2911Te1l art regotitod to St Write& ' ....4 A