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had the We Unifier riot broken the Treaty of El Arifch, but permitted the French to evacuate Egypt. (As the Hon. Member waspro ceeding on this fubjea he was caUed to order by she SrsallEs, who Paid, that his obfersations had nothing to do with the queßion before the Houfe, which was " That the Refolution be read a fecond time.") Mr. SIESEON defended the Refolution I which was read a fecond time and agreed to. The Houk having refolved itfelf into a Commit tee of Ways and Means, The CHANCELLO R Or the Excosquart Rated, that previous to railing the Ranh necefrary for the Supplies of the year, It was necelrary to vote a furn for the purpofe of fatisfying the immediate demands of the public •Ser vice. He therefore ,novcd, " That the furn of a,r00,0001. be railed by way of Loan or Exchequer Bills." Mr. ROBSON thought it would be necefTary to lay before the Houk an account of the lofles fuf tained upon Exchequer Bills already ilTued. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQSTER laid there could be no objection to layfuch an account before the Houfe. The Refolution was then agreed to, and the Report ordered to be received to-morrow. KELM OF CILIDITOILS. Mr. C. Wvatta, purfuant to a notice he had given, rofe to call the attention of the Houle to the fubjeft of a Bill which he meant to move for leave to bring in, and to the Rate of the Laws for obliging Debtors to Amender their Effefts for the Benefit of their Creditors. By an Mt of the 3zd of the late King, debtors confined in prifon, but having effeits and refuting to pay their creditors, .were liable to he brought before the King's Bench, and make difclofure of their effeEts, and affign the fame for the payment of their creditors. and in cafe of refufal were liable to tranfportation. By that ad the obligation extended only to debtors in the fum of one hundred pounds, but by two fub fequent and fucceffive was it was extended to debt ors for two hui&Jrcd pounds and three hundred pounds. If the principle was jug, he raw no rea fon why it thould not be extended to debts of any extent. For if debtors polfelfed of ample means chofe rather to remain in prifon and fpend their effefts in luxury than pay their honeft creditors, he Caw no reafon why they might not as well fpend their fortunes in Botany Say. He propofed to have gone much more at length on the Cubic& but at fo late an hour, and after fo long a debate, he did not now with to detain th e attention of the Houk beyond the mere outline of his propofil— He concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill for extending and rend er i ng more e ffeftual tlie Mt of the 32d of Geo. 11. for the Relief of Creditors. Mr. NicHou.s rote, not to oppofe the motion, but to obferve that it was extremely hazardous to alter the eitablithed laws of the land upon a lubjed of fo much delicacy. Alterations had been fre quently made by our Courts of Judice in the laws of the land with refped to debtors, but they had been there the gradual refult of great experience, and cautious regard to the liberty as well as the pr . operty of the fubjeß. He was extremely un willing to fee the feverity of our laws againft Debtors increafed. If Debtors were to be obliged to give up their effeCts to their Creditors; a dif charge from confinement mud in judice be expell ed to follow, and this wo u ld i n effeet be to ellablith an univerfal 13ankrupt Law in the country. He felt the ftrongell Mu/lance to any alteration for Increaiing the feveritiel of our laws "n this fuhjesl, but hoped the Honourable Member in urging for ward his Bill would give time fur full consideration and ample difcuilion. Mr. WYNNE laid he fully coincided in every feeling of humanity expretfed or felt by the Hon. Member towards the dillreffed and really infolvent prifoner for debt, and -Mould always be found ready to concur in any reafonable meafure for his relief. With this feeling be had voted for the In folvent Bill laft Sefton, and he heard with much fatisfaltion that a Bill was intended to be brought forward in another Houfe of Parliament, to ren der the provifions of that Bill . permanent. But he had no notion of a debtor going into the King's Bench Prifon with 2or 3 000 1 . a year , living in fumptuous apartments, rioting in expenfive luxu ry, yet pertinacionfly refufing to pay his honed creditors, who were often configned to rot in the dungeons of other gaols for infolvency, created by the want of th o l e very d e b ts wantonly and cfifhoneftly withheld from them. Indances of this fort were numerous and notorious. In a very ingenious report upon this fubjed laid before the Houfe force years back, it appeared that a man named Pope, poffeffed of 'fey, or, as was confi dently faid, an hundred thou and pounds, fuffered himfelf to be committed to t h e King's Bench, and confined there ten years for a debt of t 0,0001.— TuftuuLeb of this fort were furely not to In tole rated under any principle of juftice, and while laws were made every year for the relief of the infolvent debtor, it was defirable that tome atten tion ihould be had for the fufferings of the cre ditor. Mr. I..twis fupported the Motion. Mr. Stele tow alkcd if the Hon. Gentleman meant in his Bill to provide that all the future diets ' and the new property which men mi g h t acqu i re after being let out of prifon, fhould be fubjeft to the payment of the old debts or not ? He difapproved of the Honourable Gentleman's plan for extend 7ng the allowances to Debtors of all kinds. The Legillature was wife in •confining them to thofe who owed (mall (urns. --- Mr. %/haat explained; and the Motion was Agreed to. Sir H. MILDMAY, in purfuance of the notice he had given to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the ad of the 22d of Geo. 11. for the Relief of Debtors, thought it would equally well anfwer his purpofe, if it was incorporated with the Bill jult propofed by the Hon. Gentleman. By the above aft prifoners confined for debt had a privi• lege of caufing themfelves by petition to be brought before a judge at the then next term, and, on furren dering their effeEts upon oath to their creditors, to be ordered by the Court fix-pence per day rubfif tellee, to be paid them daily by fuch creditors,, en Wart of which all owanee any cute debtor would be entitled to hls immediate libera tion. But prifoners confined for debt in the pro• vidcial prifons, and in the diflaat parts of the kingdom, having only the opportunity of claim ing this indulgence at the next affixes, which in fome places occurred but twice a year, and in others not more than once, the unfortunate debtor, as he muft give to his creditors fourteen clear days notice of fuch his petition, after having loft the opportunity of obtaining relief owing to the short flay of the Judges in the town, bad frequently languiflied fix months ors whole year in prifon, without any opportunity of advantage from that humane law. His (Nee was then to refi the power of granting fuch relief in thefe Magiftrates at feffions. Mr. SPRAKER obferved that there was full op portunity open in the Bill, for which leave was juft given, to carry the Honourable Member's purpofe into effeft.—Houfe adjourned. LONDON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per C. Codas, money, 691—Ditto, for account, 604- 4 per C. Efri 4—Olds per Cent, too--News per C. EMU. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock India Bonds tae. prem. 3 per Ct. Red. 69 Insp. 3 per Ccrit. 681 I 3 per CL Conf. 64 1 69 Imp. Ann. to 5.46 4 Pa Cent 1161 # frills s per Cents. 99; too 5 pen Cent. Ann. 994 too 944 Exciseq. Bills Ss. prem. s per C. Ann. 1797 toot 1 Englilh Tickets r6l. 14s. Long Ann. 20 3 .16 i Conf. for Acc. 69 Some of the morning papers of this day affect to difcredit, in fome meafure, the ftatcment we gave yefterday refpeeting the terms of the Defini tive Treaty being completely fettled, fo far as re lates to this Country and France. We again art *befall, and, in anfwer to their reafortinp, have only to fay, that truth cannot be converted into falfehood to accommodate itfelf to their want of information, however definable this may be to fome of them. Our authority is infinitely fuperior to any pre. tended letters which they may boalt to L . be teen from" Amiens, and to any unofficial ftateasents in the Paris Journals. By the Mail of yetterday the following commu nications were received through private channels, Tome of which may prove amufing to our Readers: PETBRSBUROII, JAN. I.—The Eussitoa has been pleated to order mourning for three months, to be reckoned from the t 7th of December Taft, for his Serene Highnefs the Hereditary Prince of Baden, Cummas Lewis, the father of her Malay the Emprefs, ELIZABETH ALIIIIIVNA. The work of KOTZEBUE, intitled, " The molt remarkable year of my Life," is by his IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S command, permitted to be in►roduced in to Ruffia. As a proof that the new Imperial Univerfity at Dorpat, in Livonia, will be effeelually of which many have hitheto doubted, we now learn, that his MAJESTY has invited Profeffor WILLIAM FREDERICK HELEL at Giefien, to be PECl fefror of the Oriental Languages ; and that this diflinguilhed literary charater will aCtually accept this advantageops invitation. To conjeaure from this beginning, it feems to be the En P ILOR 'S plan, to rail:: the Univerfity to eminence immediately, and for that purpofe to fill it with men of ability and merit. His IMPERIAL MAJFsry has undertaken a reform in the Rate of the Court. Several of the higher Court Offices, viz. that of Court Martha], are Altogether abolifhed. The number of attendants is much diminithed, and thole difmiffed, retain their wages : by this reform a very confiderable fum will be annually laved. JAN. 5. —Mr. ANGERSTSIN, of Lincolnthire, who has gained the refped and gratitude of his coun tryr.►en, by his great benevolence and humanity, has fent 4000 rubles as a contribution towards the eltablifhment of fchools or hofpitals in Mofcow, with a requeft that he may be permitted, in cafe any new inflitution fhould be eftablifhed in Peterf burgh ufeful to mankind, to contribute a like funs thereto.—The Ellraacsa has fent an Ukafe to the Senate, by which a particular uniform is prefcribed to them : thole Senators, however, who have the right to wear a military uniform, are permitted to retain it. Jaw. B.—The EMprefs Dowager having refolved to introduce the cowpox inoculation into the Foundling Hofpital here, Dr. ScH uLTZ, lately ar rived from Berlin, bas offered his Cervices for that purpofe. Our College of Phyficians has received from the Emperor a commiffion to examine Dr. Sc H uLrz in this refped. —Prnfeifor Sof RADER from Kiel, who has rendered himfelf celebrated by his refleaing Telefcopes, has 'quitted the Academy of Sciences here, in whore fervice he has been for three years as a conitruaor of optical inftruments, and has communicated to his IMPERIAL MAJESTY a plan for the eflablithment of a manufaiture of Sal-Amoniae, which after proper examination, has met with the the approbation this MAJZSTY. The latter has caufed 4000 rubles to be paid to the Pro feller for the execution of this plain ; in return for which he has engaged to deliver the Sal.Amoniac at a limited reafonable price. His ISU&&IAL MajiiTY has refolved to requite rim each Government of Ruffia, a full toliogra; phical chart of the country, by the means of the Officers of the General Staff, and the commence ment is to be made with the Governments of Efilionia, Volhinis, and Podolia. This great and ufeful undertaking will be fet on foot early next fpring.--His MAJESTY has publilhed a proclama tion for the confirmation and renewed cilablifh ments of the Order of St. George and Vladimir. AMSTERDAM, JAN . . v.—The finances of this city beiog in a moft deplorable fitualion, a plan for ncgociating a loan for its relief has been fob mitted to the Government of the State, which, however, as yet, has been attended with no fuc ccfs. A commiffion from the interrnedial common Government, lately difpatched to the Hague for urging this harmers, has returned with the Pimple promifc of the Treafurer-General, that confider ing the preffing neceflity of our city, he would lay the matter before the boverntnent of State without delay. HAGUE, Fes. i.—The following is a lift of the !hips under the command of Admiral HARTSINK, which, except one, are arr - ived at Breft, and bound for St. Domingo, having French troops on board: the Brutus, of 74 guns; the Neptune and John de Witt, both of 68; the Ajax of 16; and the Flying Fifh of 14, 'with the French frigate the Pourfui vante. The Flying-Fifh having received fome damage, was compelled to return to Flufbing. —The Atalanta, which failed the 17th from Flufh ing, and defined for the coaft of Guinea, has long fince paired the Channel.—Laftly, en the I 3th ult. failed from the Texel, the Seahorfe and the Eagle, defined for Smyrna and the Mediterranean ; and the corvet the Daphne, defined to Lifbon, and afterwards to the Barbary Potentates. On board of the latter is Citizen Vat. GRAM LD, Minifer from this Republic to the Court of Portugal: the three latter have been obliged to put into Cowes, through contrary wind. Thus it appears from the preceding detail, which may be confidered as genuine, that a part rf the flips have fafely reached their provifional places of deflination, and that the reft are proceeding on their refpeaive voyages, without having fuffered any damage of importance. Moft of the large (hips and frigates, built within theft three or four years' and now for the firft time at fca, are found to bt excellent afters, according to the teftimony of all the Commanders and Officers. It is impoflible to defcribe the harmony which fubQfts between the French Ind Dutch Tailors and Officers, nor the zeal and alacrity with which the Dutch fqua dron at Brett has been (applied with every necelTary. On the requen of the FIRST CONSUL to Admiral HARTSINIC, the latter has received on board his fhip five Aid de Camps for the General in Chief, ROCHANIIII• U 9 at St. Domingo. Yellerday Lord CHESTERFIELD had a convi. vial dinner party at his honfe in Stanhope flreet, at which were prefent the Prince of WALES, and feveral of the moll ditlinguithed amateurs. Yefterday M.arro gave a grand dinner to Lord HAWKESsIJP.Y and feveral other of the Cabinet It is at length finally arranged that Sir Jour/ MITroaD fhould go to Ireland as Chancellor; pre vious to which, we underftand, he will be honoured with a Peerage. Mr. Arosovv is certainly to be propofed as the new Speaker. Sir Joint MITWORD has been Speaker exadly one year. Wedncfday the Right Hon. HENRY DUNDAS paid a vifit to the Lord Provoft and Magifirates of Edinburgh, at the Council Chamber there. Friday night her Grace the Duchefs of GORDON and Lady GEORGIANA, arrived in Edinburgh, from the North, on their way to London. On Saturday the la Battalion of the Third Re. giment of Guards came on duty at St. James's, for the firft time fince their return from Egypt. Sir SIDNEY SMITH, General CoorE, and other diftinguifhed Officers, dined with Colonel JOHN. STOKE upon the occafion. Orders were on Saturday received at Portfmnuth from the Admiralty, to pay off feveral more (hips of war. Among the number are twelve frigates and !loops. The Right Honourable the Lords Commif fioners of his Majefly's Treafury have ordered toool. fterling to bf granted to the Lord Provo% Magillrates, and Council of Edinburgh, to be given in premiums for the encouragement of the White Fdhery on the Coati of Scotland. Laft week a Committee of four Gentlemen con neded with the Brewery, had an audience of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who informed them it was his intention to levy a tax, not only on Beer .but on Malt, as a part of the Ways and Means Of the prefent year. General Manou's trophies appear to be an Ego time Wife, and a Cives Cat, and the curious Parifians follow them in crowds, afking tobith it which P. It is perhaps not generally known, that when it can be proved that fires are occafioned by the ne gligence of fervants, fuch fervants are punifhable by a fine of tool. —or, in cafe of inability to pay it by eighteen months imprifonment, and hard la bour, in the houfe of corredion. Turfday fe'nnight, as two Officers of Excife, at Norwich, affifted by two private foldiers belonging to the 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards, were conveying to that city fix honks and five carts, whir a large quantity of fmuggled geneva and to bacco, which they had feized on Cawlion Heath, they were afautted near the village of Orsford, by thirty men, armed with blunderbuires and guns, who immediately fired upon them, beat and much bruifed one of the officers, wounded a foldier, and rafcned two bodes and carts and part of the geneva. NAUTICAL. INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. B.—Sailed the DOLPHIN frigate, Capt. DALRYMPLE, to the eaftward.—Se veral chips are coming up to St. Helen's, luppored to be the Weft India fleet which (;tiled yetterday, as the wind is now right againit them.—Lafi night arrived the tilip Rat, from London, Con- INCS, bound to Cork, to take on board Convi.as and proceed with them to Botany Bay.—This day arrived his Maj My's (hip AJAX, of 74 gunc, Hop. Capt. COCHRANE I and CARYSFORT, with fundry other flips, &c. from the Downs, part of them Are as tolluw : A LNWICK CASTLE, PRESCOTT, for India ; Ann, air K INS, for Jamaica; 'Regard, Ey musn, with naval Rorer; as alio the Plymouth, LEE, with ditto; Abigal, _IONE% for Ferrol; Ea le, SILVER, from Arundel for Liverpool • Profpeft, New Concord, an d B o lt on , n coals, Sun derland.—Capt. Davisom of the flip PERSEUS, is put back, and left the Eall India (hips and men of war at ten o'clock this morning, off Portland ; Capt. FOT HERING, of the armed fhip has not failed, but is delivering ordnance flares, and is ordered round to Shields to be paid off.—Wind S. S. W. SHEERNESS, FEB. B.—Sailed the Wootwicu and CHICHESTER flore.fhips, for Deptford ; the BEAULIEU frigate, for Plymouth ; and GANNETT floop, for the Downs. Arrived the ST. TERESA, RESOURCE, and la MINERVE frigates, from Portf motliN ; the CRASH gun-brig, from Yarmouth ; and the CONSTANT, from the River. Came in from the Nore and failed for Chatham, the MINO TAUR, of 74 guns, to be paid off. Went out of harbour the Isis, of so guns, and the A'APHION frigate, for the Nore. Paired by the Nore for the. rivcrl'ArE:cs tr4E andI'EcvPT ILN NE frigates,from Portfmouth, to be paid off. YARMOUTH, Fr n. crday P.M. the Royal Sovereign, Cart. G.tynoN, about 400 tons burtben, with coals, from Sunderland be..ocl to G7zernley, liruck on the Scroby, and though the got of again, by beating-on the fand had iix feet water in her hold ; and, as the water gained very rArt, the crew were obliged to run her afhore on the South Ham; it is however hoped the will be raved. The Syren of and from Sunderland, AwrHoNv REVEL mailer, ftrnek on the fame Sand and is wrecked, bnt the crew are !lived. A veffel was this mot-pint): teen on the Cockle Sand, but the lea running high no boats could get otf to her aft fiance, and it is fcared that the crew and fhip mutt be ioa. Pat in here, with the lofs of her anchors, the Ann, Capt.CLosF. from Blyth for London.—Sailed the Jane, Capt. HARRIS, for Oporto, with bale goods.—Put in here, wind bound, the William and Mary, Cot.- LiNowoon, from Gainfborough, bound to Lon don, with goods.—No Packets arrived from Cux haven. CowLs, FEB. 7.—The price of provifions, which for theft hit two months had experienced a con. fiderable reduCtion in the wellern ports of Eng- , land, from the re.admillion of live flock, pork, poultry, &c. from various ports of France, within this week pal., get up to its old flandard, viz. beef and mutton to 9d: per lb. and ether ar ticles in proportion. The French, it appears, have Hilted a decree, prohibiting the cxport..:tion of ar:r more provitions, on account of the high price cf corn, and a probable defalcation in this year's crop from the exceffive heavy rairr, w!iich have almost inundated different parts of the R...ptihlic. POOLE, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Dart, BF 'ty, from Cherburgh. The freighters of thi3 had purchaled for her 1-.. ling upwards of a hun dred hogs, betides other articles, the r,-r: '.ter pin of which was 114;:ed, when a mob :Ifferlbi..d, and in the mofl ontre::-,eous manner t(.ok the whcle cargo away from them, except eight dead hogs. A party of Colliers interpofed, and• faved thus much for them ; and but far their interference, they conceive their lives would have been endau gered. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, FEB. B.—Sailed through the Downs the Perfeverance, for the Eta Indies.—Sailed the SANTA TkRESA and RESOURCE frigates for Sheerners.—Came down the MARQyts or WEL LESLEY for the Eaft Indies, and remains.—Wind S. W. GRAVESEND, FEB. B.—Sailed the John, STU K L E, for Demerara ; Four Friends, BIC KE R TON, for Cork ; and Union, BROWN, for Guernfey ani Jerfey. Captain CUMBERLAND is appointed to the Do lts frigate, vice BRISBANE, who is appointed to the TRENT ; and Captain BAKES, of the THETIS, armed en jute, is prorhoted to the rank of Polk Captain, and appointed to the WASSENAIR, of 54. guns. Yeflerday the purfer of the Honourable Eaa India Company's flip the A LtiWICK CASTLE, Capt. PRESCOTT, attended at the India Houfe, and re ceived his final difpatches for Coal} and China, with which he immediately proceeded to Portf mouth, to wait for that !hip's arrival there. The ALNWICK takes to Madras four Officers belonging to his Majelly, and ma non-commiflioned and privates. The Eliza Ann, arrived at Pnrtfmouth, is laden wholly with rice. The following Mips were to fail, freighted with rice, the latter end of the month of November, viz. the GANGE3, Capt. FORSTFR BROWN ; the YOUNG NICHOLAS, Capt. RICHARD SILBY ; the MINERVA, Capt. RICHARDSON ; and the SIR EDWARD HAMILTON, Capt. A. ROBERTSON. The HINDE, Capt. CATLINE, is expetied from the Coromandel wall. It is faid that the WI ctiari Prrr, Capt. Kirss ER, a ricc fhip, has arrived at Madras. The French parfage yea - el, which brought the Paris journals, on entering the port of I/over at midnight on Sazurday, accidentally flruck againtt the Pier Head, immediately filled with weer, and funk in the harbour. The palfengers were all, landed in fafety. The Nancy, Bowmax, laden with wheat, from Lynn to Leith, got upon a rock in entering the harbour of Eyemoutb, but is got off with very littlt dainag:.