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k ° .'e COUNTY OF SOMERSET. TO et SOLD IN FEE, AV PRIVATE CONTRACT. AMOST ELIGIBLE ESTATE, fittiate near a good Turnpike. Rout, at the dlftanee of a te4 MUSS from the Cly of Dint!. The F..: n: eont.iins about Ninety Acres, and has a fubftan tl2l Houfe. with faitable Offices, w:tich at a fmall Expcnee may be corn:fed into a molt comb:rt.:hie Manfion; on the Eitate is Coma an extremely valuable and inexhauftible Article, peculi.ir to the Spot, from the Sale of which a eonfider.ible Fortune may be acquired. For further Particui-rs apply, if by Letter, Poft paid, to Mars. BLlkr. dolickura, Cook's Court, Carey-ttreet, Lotieon. This day was pubillited, rI'HE VETERAN TAR, a Comic Opera, in Two Ads, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury ', me.-13, S. J. ARNOLD, Jun. Tbe Mule emnpofed by Dr. Alum°. London : Printed and publilbed by J. Bake; Dramatii Re pofitory, Great Ruffell-ftreet, Covent-Garden. Alfo, VIRGINIA, a Comic Opera, as performed at • t►e Theatre Royal, Drury -lane; by Mrs. P. Plowden. Thu Day yas r lguked, Price as. MORE WON D ER - 13 lAn Heroic Epiftle M.O. Learls.Efq. M. P. Editor of " Tales of Wonder,* Author of " The Mont,"'" Celtic Sy .e&x," Ate dce .—{ Vita a Prnfcript EStraordinarY, and an Ode on the Union. By MAUAMUS MOONSHINE, PR. S. Ox. Cant. DubL & Edin. Soc. A. B.C. and D. &c. Sec. Author of "The Battle of the Bards," &c. &c. The ',aye been, That, when the brains We:, out, the man would die, And there an end; Ir dr new they rife again, With twenty nun cal murders on their crowns, To pulls tl5 fro:„ our /t oo l s u A WrZAIIL London P . ....nted for J. Barker, Dramatic Repoiltory, Rut •••"'''""i 'Z-csent•garden ; Kerby, Paternoitcr-row; and C. C' Pall-tnalL A LETTER on the MEDICAL PROPER TIES of FLEECY HOSIERY. By iiIIIIAM BUCHAN, M. D. Autboi of " Dorneltic Medicine." The SIXTH EDITION. .. . In the Monthly Review for April, 1791, this Letter is no- Heed in the following words : FDr. Buchan here enumerates the (event Dire des which are either caufed or Wanted by the va riations of Climate in this Country, and which arc likely to be obviated or relieved by attention to proper cloathiug. He re commend% and we think juitly, the ManufaCture, called FLEECY HoGery, In preference to Flannel; indeed, the &b -ear y and utility of this article fully &ferns the praife which is here bellow, ti upon it To be had at the Manufwitory, No 99, High Holborn ; and of the different bookfellen. 7La Lune de Mr. Le Doecur Bur lAN via* dr paroitre suincois. This day were publiled, ECRET MEMOIRS of the COURT of l'E• I'ERSBURGH under the Taft years of CATHERINE H. and the Commencement of the-Reign of PAUL-I. This extraorehaary publication is replete with political infor mation, tad enlivened v,iels anecdotes to gratify euriofity and to entertain the generality of readers. In many refpedts it may be confidered as a fupplsmeot to Tooke's Life of Catarine. European Magazine. Jan. a.m. Printed for T. 14. Longman and 0. Rees, No. 39, Pater softer-row. Of whom may he bad, lately puhlithed, Written by W. TOOKE, F. R. S. I. Life of Catharine 11. Emprefs of Ruffia ; with eleven Por traits and a Map; 3 'MIL price tL as. boards. s. Hillery of Ruffin, from the Eftablilhmcnt of Mwrarchy, by Rorie to the Acetifies of Catharine IL; with 6o Portraits; s vols. price sss. boards. 3. View at dae Ruffian Empire during the Reign of Catha rine 11, ,3 vol 3 price ni. 71. boards. PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 9. The Bifliops of DURHAM, ROCHISTEIt, and LINCOLN, Lord KING, and other Peers, were from, and took their feat;,—after which The Earl of SUFFOLK called the attention of the Houfe to the eircurnftances of what he had Paid in the debate of the firft night of the Sec- Bon, being in a great degree mitreprefented, or given in Inch a way, in one of the Public Print!, as that inferences, widely different from any he could have in contemplation, might be drawn from it—namely, that what he laid tended to re flea upon the profefiional charaChr of his Royal Iliglinefs the Commander in Chief, as the moft remote idea of any thing of the kind never oc curred to him.—He felt a confiderable degree of anxiety and impatience, until the opportunity ar- rived when he could regularly make this declarap tion in his place in thelloufe. The Noble Earl did not, as we could trolled, fpecify the Print in which the account alluded to, of his fpeech, had been given t but he fecitibd to feel coufiderably bum that his obfervatioas therein fhould bear such a complexion.—His Lordflip Rated the Reps I which he felt it incumbent on him to take, in con- , fequence of the mifreprefentation, on his being apprised of it, particularly, as we underflood has Lordship, on application to an Muth-ions Perron age who was prefent at the time. His Lordfhip !poke in &rains of approbation of the Proteffional Charater of his Royal Hightsek and particularly adverted to the afability and gentlemanly de meanour with which be uniformly concluded him fell as Coniinander in Chief. He e sprefled no in tention of propofing to ground any proceeding upon it, as we could colleet, but concluded by expreffing himfelf with a degree of afperity, on account of his fpecch being Id Rated, in the Print which he alluded to. Several arrangements were made !with refpec to the hea:ing of Appeals .-- . -Some Petitions were received, among which was one, though, at lo early a period atter the Union Al becoming un operative Law, refpetting an appeal frcim Ireland, relative tcrosehich Mr. Warbucton, an Officer of the Count of King's Bench, in Ireland, brought up a Writ of Error from ;hat Court, and made the neceirary depofitioas thereon, as that he had it iu.der the authority of Lord Kilwarden, the Chietlittice, that the papers were now in the fame Rite in which he received them, &c. - Mr. Bea Oa I, attended by feveral Members,' brought up from the Commons a Bill to fufpend =tit the asth of March next, the operations of the late a'cad Bill, as tar as the fame related to the Mixture, with illiraten Flour, of Oars, Bailey, &c. The Bill was forthwith read a firft and fecond time, the Commitment of it negatived,' and [holt 4/4,ter read a third time and paired. It being the intention that the Bill Ihould an rnc•liately receive. the /toyel Arent, the Corn- I sigioncle prdent, vt:nl were the Archhilhnp of Ceara - burp Ole -d Chancellor, and Lord Wulfingham, retired to rebe, when they toot their Seats on the Bench • the Commons were fent for, and that Houfe, wit h the Speaker, Mr. Ad dington, at their head, appearing at the bar, his Majefty's Royal Affent was announced to the Bill in the ufualiorm. _ _ In the condi of the private bufmefs, a great deal of which \VHS tran:aaed in the courfe or the evening, a Petition WAS received from .a Mrs. Janc Addifon, of Argyleiliire, in North-Britain, praying to be divorced from her hulband Mr. Ed ward Addifon, &c. • Refpeeling this, the Loan CHMICELLOR made a few obfervations, laying, that in confequenee of the fingularity of the cafe, he propofed that the Petition should lie two or three days upon the Table, for the confideration of their Lordtbips. The Earl of SUFFOLK, after adverting to the prefent very High Prices of molt articles of Pro vifion, and the hardfhips which the middle and lower aegis of the People mull necelfarily fuffer therefrom, expreffed his with to know front Mini fiers, whether, Government intended to propofe the revival of the Committee of their Lordfhips, to confider of the High Price of Provifions, or the appointment of any other to the fame end ? He thought it highly material that a Committee of, Inquiry into the Caufes of the High Prices (honk! be inflituted ; and the proceedings (hould take place with as little delay as potlible. He ac. quainted the Houfe, that in the courfe of an In- 1 veßigation of that kind, he had to propofe the adoptlon of a meafure which, he entertained no doubt, would greatly conduce to lower the Prices of Provillons. After continuing to commeat up on the neeeifity of adopting .Legillative rneaftwes to remedy the evils he alluded to, he again ex- pretred his will' to learn what was intended on that head by Adminittration. None of his Ma jelly's Minifters being prefent, no reply was made to the query of the Noble Earl. The Duke of BEDFORD addreffed the Houfe on a fubjed rather of a fimilar complexion with that touched upon by the Peer who had lag fpoken. His Grace re-called to the attention of their Lord (hips, what he had thrown out in the late Seffion relpeeing the adminiaration of the Poor Laws, and the defies, in fome points of view, in that fyftem. Of the latter, he principally felt himfelf called upon, to call the attention of the I.egifla ture to the fituation of a certain defcription and dais of perfons, who, by the culling Laws, were liable to Lthe parochial affeffment, but whole in comes, in general, did not exceed thole of an or dinary labourer.—Such perfons, their Lordfhips would feel, were fitter °hied' to receive charity, than to be compelled to bellow it, and under that impreffion, he threw out hints for the adoption of Minillers hall year, thinking that meafures of the kind would bell originate from them ; and he ob ferved, it could not be Paid that they had not fuf ficient time to have come forward fince. With relpe& to himfelf, another reafon for his not pro poling any thing in the fliape of a Legiflative pro vilion, was, that in addition to the confideration he had iu ft Ilated, he thought fuels a meallire would preferably originate in the other Houfe, as by bringing it forward here, in the firß inflance, their Lordfhips might poffibly be led into a• contention, as to what were and what were not their rights. Under all tilde difadvantages, however, fo Rrong were his feelings upon the fubjea, he had himfelf framed a Bill in the endeavour to meet the evil he bad complained of; and he fisted, as he had for merly done in detail, the leading provifion of the Bill to be, to empower the Jitßices, for a limited time, to exonerate the defcription of perfons to whom he alluded, from the payment of Afreff meats to the Poor Rate. He lhould, in the fira inflance, move, that the Bill be read a firft time, and be printed for the perufal and confideration of their Lordfhips. - His Grace then prefented the Bill, the breviate of Which was read to the abose effeel, by the Clerk, from ail the which it t wasWoolfack , read , fd anda thegurfeueaalb agreeable t way, o th a e m fi r o il . tr the Noble Duke, ordered to be printed. e, Officer from the Bank of England laid be the Houk, the annual accounts of the farther progrefs made by the Commifiioners for reducing the National Debt, in the liquidation thereof. The Duke of Bioroao aglin called the atten tion of the Houle, to a fubjea conflated with the prefent Scarcity and High Price of Provifions.— After making fome obfervation refpeaing the appointment of a Committee to ccinfider Further of the above important fubjea, he adverted to that part of the lalt Report of their Lordfhipl' Com mittee, which related to a fyilem of General In cloture, which he read, and called, in forcible terms, the attention of the Peers to it. He expa tiated upon the beneficial tendency which he Paid would Teti& from carrying into etre& as far as praCticable, the recommendations of the Commit tee, and pointed out the propriety of, and probable good confequences of their Lordfhlps coming to refplutions in approbation of that part of the Re pin of the Committee. So fully was he imprefled with the importance of the fubjea, and convinced bf the expediency of fpeedily adopting fome mea lures thereon, that he thould, on Thurfday next, fubmit tome propolitions relative to it, for the con federation of which, he moved, 44 that their Lord (hips be fumnioned." The qucftion being put, the pmeielling was or dered accordingly ; and the Houle, at five o'clock, adjourned Ell a quarter before four to-morrow% the ganlit had retUrncal to his former praltices, and the prifon was daily the fcene of the moll difgrace fit! tranfaaions. Hb hoped the Houle would in , ftamtly interfere;; before the common methods of proceeding could be had recourfe to, the prifoners might be murdered. The Honourable Baronet then read a paper which contained a liatement of the Mocking Rory he alluded to. In this it was affirmed, that a man of the name of Hudfon hay , ing on Sunday morning, without the leaft provo. cation, incurred the ddpleafure of the Governor, he gave' him a dreadful kick in the belly, and ordered him to be locked up. Some time after, feveral* then armed with naked cutlaffes, rated into his cell and dragged him out into the yard.. There they pulled him about, and as Airis imagin ed that he made refinance, he ftruck the unhappy man again and again with a large flick. Hudfon called out murder, but no one ventured to come to his alliance. When he returned to his cell he was taken violently ill, and though now in a high fever, he is denied medical aid, and every thing neeekary to area his recovery. Having finifhed the narrative, Sir Francis lard, he had no doubt the Honfe would take foam fiep promptly to re medy Rich abufes, and above all to procure relief to this unhappy wretch. It would be paying a poor compliment to their humanity and their juf lice, were he to ufe arguments to thew the propri ety of their immediate interference. To apply to the magiftrates would be nugatory, as their con. dal had ever been more reprelaenfible than that of the gaoler hintfelf. A smell - age from the Lords informed the Honfe that their Lordlhips had agreed to the bill with re gard to the manufacturing of meal from barley, oats, and rye, without any amendment. Mr. Assor moved, That there be laid before the Honk an Account of the Proceedings of the Board of Admiralty, concerning his Majelly's Dock-yards, &c. fubfequent to their laft Report. —Ordered. Mr. JosLirrs raid, that as he had affirmed the expence of this war to have been much greater than that of any former war, he was determined to prove it ; and for that purpofe he moved, That there be laid before the Houfe an Account of the Expence of the Army, Militia, &c. during the years 1793, 1794, 1795, and 1796, and the years 11779, 1780, 1781, and 1782, together with the number of troops employed during there two pe riods. The Report of the Committee app ointed to re port what changes would be neceffary in the Stand ing Orders of the Houfe, in confequence,of the Union between Gnat Britain and 4cland, was read and agreed to. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Several Aceounts from the office of the Com• miffioners of the National Debt were prefented, and ordered to lie tin the Table. Lord STorroen appeared at the bar, and in formed the Houfe that his Majefty had been wait ed upon with their AdJrcfs of Weducfday laft; to which he had been pleated to return a grtcioua anfwer. COLT) •ATM fiIiLDL Sir F. BURDETT laid, a fad with regard to the treatment of the prifoners confined in Cold Bath Fields had jail come to his knowledge, and it was of fuch an atrocious nature that he fhould not think he did his duty wore be not immediately to lay i! the the C•LL Or THI HOUSI. Colonel Gascoic of a then rofe with an intention, be Paid, to move for a Call of the Houfe. He Was not litre whether it was quite continent with the common forms of proceeding, to make a mo tion of this kind without having . given any pre vious notice, but in the prefent critical (late of the country he thought there forms were not to be too rigoroufly adhered tn. Every fucceeding day events of tke molt alarming nature were taking place, both abroad and at home, and the attend ance of every Member of the Legidative Body ought to be rigoroufly enforced. It had been laid, that it was impoffible to compel the attendance of thofe who wilhed to be abfent ; but he could fee no rcafon why the abufe of a meafure fhould be urged as an argument againft it. If the Repre. fentatives of the People would not be forced to do their duty, it was full time for the Legiflature to think of deviling means to fiipply fuch a defect. Out of 655 Members, it appeared by the book that not more than 410 had yet taken their feats. Not one half of the Irifh Members had yet been (worn in, though the intere its of that country were fo much at nape in the difeuffions about to com mence. If it was inclilPenlibly necelfary that no tice Mould be given, he fhould defer his motion till to-morrow. In the mean time he fhould con clude by moving, " That the Houle be called over this day three weeks." The Motion being feconded, the Speaker im mediately put it from the Chair, and it was car ried without a divilion. It was afterwards ordered, That every Member who was abfent after that day without a fufficient mute, lhould be taken into cuflody. SIPIDITION TO PERIM!. Lord HAWKIIIVILY raid, He hoped the Honour able Gentleman who had given notice of a Motion with regard to the Expedition to Ferrol, would confent to put it off for a day or two. Two Right Hon. Friends of his (Meas. Pitt and Dun das-) were necelFarily abfent ; and it was of great confequence that they Should be in their places when this difcuffinn took place. • Mr. STORY Lid, His Motion was of fuch a °a. cure that it ought not to be delayed for a Tingle hour. He lamented the caufe of the abfcnce of the two Right Hon.. Gentlemen alluded to, hut he did 'not feel thitt their prefence was necelfary. There was one of 'his Majefly's Miniflers prefent, and he obferved feveral Officers who had a confi derable lharc in the tranfaetion. There would give fatisfaeory information tipoit the"fuhjed, and that was all that lie required. However, if it i was the fenfe of the Houle that he Should pollpone his Motion, he was ready to de fo, though he ca.. taint y could not without great inconvenience to bimfelf. Sir Jamts PULTEMET fold, He no doubt felt eonfiderably intenefted in this butinefs. He anti oully wifhed that an inquiry Should be inffituted. A day or two however would not make much dif ference to him, provided he were certain that the Motion would be made. He would much rather that the difcuffion Should come on now, but he Should facri6ce his perfonal feelings to the conve nience oldie Houle. Mr. DVDLIY RYDER laid, As it teemed to be the with of the Houle that the difeuffion Should not then come on, he hoped the Him: Gentleman would defer his Motion to a future day. The ab. fence of his two Right Hon. Friends was not acci dental or voluntary ; all knew that they willed their condiu% to be canvaffed, and that for many years they had never once Shrunk from difetiffion: It the intervention of a f,civ days could give any advantage to them, or place the Hon. Moyer 'in a more unfavourable fituation, then for fuch an infinuation there might be fume ground. In Co, their abfence was occalioned by other cireum. fiances, which it was impollible for him to freely, but which were notorious to the whole Houfe. The prefent queftion was by no means preding, and no harm could arife from the difettffion of it being a short time deferred. H e then moved, a That the Houfe Ihoold then adjourn." At that moment the Gentleman tither of the Black Rod entered, and fummoned the Houfe to attend in the Houfe of Peers. The Srsaise, attended by feveral Members, accordingly went up and remained there for abrivt ten minutes. Upon his return he laid he Nara the Royal Arent given by commiffion to the Bill for regulating the manner of making meal from barley, oats, and rye. Mr. STURT, who in the mean time had beer engaged in converfation with Lord Hawkdbury, then faid that he tbould yield to the withes of the Gentlemen on the other fide of the Houfe. H ow . ever, he was anxious that the difcitlEon fhottld come on the very firft open day, Thurfday being mentioned to him, he Paid he fhould certainly make his Motion on that day, and he trolled that no fimilar application would a fecond time be made to him. Mr. GREY raid, be hoped it was underftood that on Thttrfday the Houfe would certainly ref ujne its deliberations, which had been thus ilrangely forpended. He hoped the Houk wonid then emu. into u difcuffion of the paft meafures of Govern. meat, and that the enquiry would be carlied on with difpatch. No time was to be loft; perfese. ranee in fuch meafures but for a fhort time longer would inevitably prove our ruin, and an expolure of paft errors could alone prevent the repetition of them. No farther delay, he theretwu traffic:, would be Milted from any motive, o. under any pretext. The Houfe had been called upon to re. frain from difcuffion tii-day rather in an extraor dinary manner. There had been a rumour fome days of a great and important change in his Majefty's Cabinet; but it was but a rumour, and for the change no adequate reafon had been aligned. After complimenting Mr. Start fur his candour and politenefs, Mr. Grey concluded by ' raying, he felt the difficulties of the country to firongly, and be was fo much alarmed at the in creating dangers which threatened us, that on Monday next, he 'honk move for a Committee to enquire into the State of the Nation. The SICRRTARY at WAR prefented the Army Eftimates which were ordered to be printed. Several from the Board of Ordnance were laid on the Table. Mr. Rosa Paid, he wished the Honourable Gen tleman who had given notice of a Minion for Mor day, to obferve that on that day the Army and Navy Eftimates mull be voted, as on the 18th, his Right Honourable Friend was to open !h , _. Mfr. Gass , fad, that fubjea probably v oild not occafiori much difenfflon find he w 11 ould ,7s an opportunity to make his Motion after the liar: ners was over. At any rate he Milted his notice en Rand for the day he had mentioned. The Rev. Dr. Paossre was appointed topresa before the flour; on Friday.-rAdjetutted. 4 , QVDON. r"7"7 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY io. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLCCri . C5 . 7.if 57—Reduced 53 54'- 4 per Ca oa n. 701--riew 5 Per Pelt-,SW—Old ditto 9: ,41Cit OD STOCKS YESTERDAY; . Bank Stock 3 per COIL aca. s 7 Pcf Coa 5 6, 47 if 4 pa Cent. Cala 70 Pet C. Nan 90} qt}}f per Cont. Loy. sot., t B Lang Am... Imp. 3 per C. 3 6 1 Imp. Ash. rod • frith 3 Per C. India Stock Conf. for Feb 564 I 157 9 The changes in the Cabinet are the fubjen of general converfation; but already it has 101 l much of its intereil with many. 'llo' Compare it to a few paltry arrangements in a Cismrnercial cem, where the managing partner, for the fake of country air, turns ont-door rider for a time, acid another partner takes the lead, without the Public feeling the bufinefs of the houfe go on either better or worfe as to their accommodation. Yefierday Mr. AIIII•IIAM NIPLAND, from the Bank of England, read the following Paper at the Stock Exchange . : The Governor of the Bank is dented to give public notice, that, although the prefent Cmaxcri. Loa of the Excieso,pla is about to retire tom office, it is not his intention to refign until the new Adminiftration is formed, and qualified to execute its public duties ; and that he will raife the Sup plies for the current year at the time he intenekci, as if fuch event had not taken place." The . Candidates for the Loan are to wait upon Mr. PITT on Thurfday 'nest, to know the amount that he intends to fund for the fervice of the cur rent year, and to converk on the preliminaries ( the contract. It Appeari therefore that Mr. PITT is to con tinue in his place till after the it Sth infant, as ee yefterday Rated, to open his Bueiget, and pro cure the Supplies' for the new 4thiggittraticw. Mr. ADDIIIIOTOW in the mean time may be rum mooed to attend the Cabinet as a''rivy Council lor (the Cabinet being no more than a Committee of the Privy Council), without vacating his feat; or a writ may be moved for him ori the nominal place of the Chiltern Hundreds; in which cafe it will be only asecifiry that be should receive bis appointment as Cteamcat.t.oit of the Excietvea, and kifs bands oo the day of