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'Won, he felt it his duty to give it the moll de cided oppolition. It was Rated, that as loon as the enemy (hewed a difpofition to enter on terms of negociation, there would not be wanting, on the part of this Country, a defire to meet them with a fuitable fpirit of pacification.—But when the former temperate overtures of the nit Conful of France were confidered, when it was refleCted bow contemptuoufly they were rejefted, and when to this, it was farther added, that this rejection was accompanied by the molt intuiting and molt petulant *butt, it was hardly to be expected from human nature, that new overtures fhould come from the fide of one fo grotsly abided. The Ad drefs then, which as it were pledged the Houfe to wait till fuch overtures were produced, could only be confidered as hoßile, and therefore meet with his unequivocal difitpprobation. Mr. WINDHAM explained. blr.WiLuaroaca fupported the Adeirets, which was read a fecond time, and ordered to be pre tented to his Majelty. Such Members as were of the Privy douncil were then ordered to wait upon his Majeßy, to know when he fhould be pleated to receive it. His Majeity's Speech was ordered to be taken into cotifideration to-morrow. On the motion of Mr. RYDEN, a Committee was appointed to take into confideration the high price of Provifions. In addition to the linglifh Members who principally compofed a fimilar Committee laft S'effion, the following Irifit Mem. hers were nominated :.-.-Lord Caillereagh, Sir L. Parfons, Mr. Bagwell, Sir Thomas Fetherßohls Mr. Ro cheford, Mr. Martin, Mr. Beresford, Sir George Daly, Mr. Alexander, &c. It was then moved, that the Reports and Papers of the Committee of lalt Seffion be referred to the potent Committee ; and that it (hall have liberty to report from time to time.—Adjourned. 1.111, OF THE MINORITY DR MR. GREY'S AMENDMENT, ON MONDAY NIGHT. ry fr , k T. it lefferya, N. ekyll, J . St. John , Hon. St. A. Sbakefpeare, A. Anton, J. olliffe, W. Sheridan, R. B. Aubrey,Sir J. ones, J. J. Shum, G. Dareby, G. emp, S. Simplon, J. Boring, Sir Y. Ledght, R. P. Sinclair, Sir John liddulpb, R. Langfton, J. Snit* W. Bird, W. W. Langton, W. G. Somerville, Sir M. Bouverie,Hog. S. Lawrence, Dr. Stanley, Lord Brescia), J. Leafier, Sir J. Sturt, C. BPI , G. Lanai, Colonel Symmons, J. P. Catwalk Lord a Lloyd, J. M. Taylor, M. A. Canbe,.H. C. Martin, J. Taylor J. Cooke, B. Milner, Sir W. Thompfam, J. Copley, Sir L. Medlin, Sir J. Tierney, G. Courtenay„. J. Nkhollt, J. Tufton, Hama Deacon, W. J. North, D. Walpole, Hen. G. Nadas, Hon. C. Northey, W. Valero, C. C. Grey, C. Porter, G. Wilkins, W. Ham J. Riclantron, J. . T LLLLL S. YlArrifon, J. Ruffen, Lord J. Whitbread,!. Howard, H. RuScU, Lord W. Hobboafe, B. mutAxcateskr OF NOSINESS FOR THIN MONTH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. To.rnatrow, February 5. Mr. Fitaidati, on the lait MyO• Cation for Peace. 9. Mr. Stunt, on tke failure of the Ives Lion tO Petra 7. Mr. Jones on the Evacuation of Egypt. IS. Mr. Vitt's Budget. 30. Mr. Nicholls, on the State et the Nation. LONIDON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. bask such 3 per C. Loyaky 9411 3 per C god. 57 9 1 1 Len afinu. 17H 4 per Co*. 'A Sh or t A 1111.515-26 per C. Coot. 4„ bop. 3 per Cent. ;61 pis C_Navy 1 Coed. for Feb. 561456 Trite of &oda eds day at ale edock: Natoli for saw, ybararat let 51tta Per C 151=44ew .1 per 13 .9 1 1 — i Ma. goi=king Mn. 161: JA 31;44in ef Seeds tits de/ 3 per Ont. Ow. Deb. 77-4 per C. Mod Can. Deb. IP. When (hungers were excluded from the Gal kry of the Houle of Commons, on Monday night. Mr. PATT gave notice, that he would bring for ward the Budget on the ath. It is underilood, that a Loan of twenty-one, Tome fay thirty mil lions, will be wanted. Report Rates, that the following will be among the taxes levied to pay the intersii of the new Loan, viz. A tax on Horfcs kept for pluton ; on Ser vants, beyond a certain number ; =Carriages, and additional duties on Wine and Tea. A reduition of the drawback allowed on the Exportation of Sugar is alto fpoken of, as likely to be propofed. In the Houfe of Peers, on Monday night, the Earl of Fare declared, that he could no longer give his fupport to the bEnitlers. He thought they had abided the confidence they had received. They had well-nigh ruined the Continent of Eu rope by their advice, and they would infallibly min the &WS empire, if they perfevered in their fYikeru. He deplored the Rate of fcareivf to which ve were reduced, and thought it was lets to be iferibed to the difpenfations of Providence than to the coarequences of the war. He had rifen to vraba.-ge his conkience, by thus declaring his fen tients of the men whom he had, in common with other Peers, fo long and Co improvidently fuPported. By the proceedings ;n the Houle of Commons Id night, it appears that fome of the warmer! fiirriels of lirmitters dilapprove their not taking ieps for negotiating with France. A letter iron Owes, of the chute of yefierdaYs ircs the arrival at that port of the Sarah, White, and 11)ef.eld, from Bolton; the mailer ^f one of which veffcls reports, that upwards of scfrcls laden with corn and flour from Ame rica, are now on their pelage to this country. 8121775 H ARMY. Mistral diftribution of the Briti(h Army, Feb: 1. Jet:Warr. Fentible. Mit TN. Inv. c.v. by: Inpffltry. Bet C. "" England a,,el Wales as 1 9 4 74 122 3 1 North Britain 1 I 2 14 4 Ireland 7 I I 3a 30 6 Jerfey.Gaernfey, &e. 9 2 11 20 In the Garrifons of Gib-. ralur , Minorca. and Malta. and on Secret 2 . 19 4 45 ••••• Service. in the Mein. North America - S 2. •-• 7 Weft Indies - 1 4 35 3 6 Cape of Good Hope I 6 7 Eaft Indies •4 6iB 21 On PaC from Abroad Totalv 1 44 45 86 gt 6. 61 (e) Including the 68th Foot, two Battalions. (i) The Company's Troops czclufive. 5 Exclufive of Artillery and Engineers at home and abroad, Independ , nt Companie., Additional Companies of Rqamana sta Foreign Statiom, Recruiting Carps, Volunteers. art. Their MAJEsTirs and the PRINCESSES yeller-1 day mut Mug took an excurfion to Kew. The ROYAL FAMILY honoured the Concert of Ancient Mufic this evening with their pretence, be in4 the firft this featon. Thee HAN CEL LOR Of the Excneoy aPt was yeller day indifpoled with the gout. The KING has been pleated to grant unto Sir THOMAS TROVIIIIOO E., Bar:. Captain of the Royal Navy and Colonel of hit Majeßy's Marine Forces, Captain ALE:. 13 4 Lt., Captain SAM. Hoon, and Captain B. Hassowess, of the Royal Navy, his Royal Licence and Permit ion to accept the rank of Comma' ,der of the Order of St, Ferdinand, and .of Merit, u hich it is the intention of Ferdinand the" Fourth, King of the Two Sicilies. to confer upon them ; and to bear the infignia of Commander of the Paid Order. At the clofe of the Poll on Tuefday fe'nnight, for the county Wicklow, the numbers flood thus : for GEORGE Porno:tar, Efq. 666, for Lord Paosv, 604.—Majority fqr Mr. Poi:sot:iv, 6a. At the final clofe of the Poll on Wednefday, the numbers were as follow: for Gsoaos PON sOK AY, Efq. 695; for Lord Paolv, 622.—Majo rity for Mr. PONSONIy, 73, and not 47, as erro- 1 neoufly Rated yefterday. • At Bradford, in Yorkfhire, a Petition for Peace, Rating the War to be the caufe of the prefent dif treffes of the Country, was refolved to be prefented to his MAJESTY by a numerous and refpettable Meeting. On Friday laft, at twelve o'clock, a meeting was held at the Moot-Hall in Wakefield, of the mer chants; weol-ftaplers, manufacturers, and others connected With the Woollen Trade in that town and neighbourhood, at which it was refolved to prefent a Petition to the King for a fpeedy peace. The Whig Club yeflerday dined at the London Tavern, when his Grace the Duke of NORFOLK was in the Chair, and he m•rintained the convivi aliw of the day with all his ufual fpirit. The noble Duke gave " Mr. Fox," and added, " May his King and Country fee their error before it be too late, and call forth his virtues and talents to refcue them from the dangers with which they are furroundcd !" A number of rlentlemen were ad mitred Members of the CI , Co, and feveral Candi dates were propofcd to . ballotted for at the nett meeting, when Ear' l'Hassr is to be in the Chair. Yefterday thr cord Mayor ordered the price of ' Bread to be ralied one affize, or two-pence in the peck loaf; o take place to-morrow. The price of the c • ,:-• ern loaf will then be one Shilling and fro% - ..2zoce three farthings. Y::fierday a General Court of Proprietors of Eaft India Stock allembled at the India Houk purfitant to adjournment, for the purpofe of de termining by ball.n the following queftion, viz. " That it is the opinion of this Court, that the Enquiry into the alledged Abufe of Patronage ought to be continued." At fix o'clock in the evening, the glans being finally doled, were de livered to the lcrutineers appointed by the General Court to examine the number of votes for and againft the Paid queftion, who made their report as follows, viz. 550 votes againft the queftion, 415 votes for the qadtion ; 139 majority againft the queftion. The Court then adjourned/at As. Married at Aberdeen, on Thurfday the soh of laft Month, THOMAS Cacti. Gaatnosa, Efq. of BridgehOufe, Sures, to Mifs Et:russet* Banns'. 01• N, eldefticlaughter of THOMAS BANN im•st,Efq. A letter from Manchefler, dated 31 ft Jan. sBo t, lays, " On Tuefday night, an alarm of fire was given from a fattory near Oxford Road, belonging to Mars. LITTLIMOOD and KIRBY, which, in a few minutes fpread with Such fatal rapidity, that the infide of the building was in a blaze. Unhap pily, we have to Rate that the people were at work in it ; and from the fire beginning in the lower part of the building, thole in the upper parts were cut off from the means of efcaping. In this dread ful fituation, feveral of the work people threw thernfelves from the windows, with a hope of fay. ing life, and every poffible afliftance was rendered. Eleven lives were loft in the building, and (even perfons were taken to our Infirmary feverely burnt and wounded : fix of them are in a fair way of re covery. The diftrefs that this calamity occafioned may be better conceived than defcribcd. All the property in the factory was deftroyed, but it is nearly covered by infurance. On Thurfday evening, about feven o'clock, we are lorry to add, a fire broke out in the fattory of Mr. SALSSORT, in Alport town, Deilagate ; which Spreading with the utriroft v,:locity, in a Short time totally confumed the infide of the building, and left merely the walls, which hay farce fallen down. The people were at work, but providentially eicaped, except, as far as we learn, oue woman, who going back for Something the had kft, could not return. Great exertions were made, we anderftand, by two men, to take her nut of a window in the roof, but ineffeflually. The property is infured. " At the Quarter-Seffions held on Thurfday laft, Francis Har, a whitefmith, WAS tried on a change of having uttered (editions words, and acputteiV Lt IV %NTZLLICsNCL COURT OF IUNG's MINCH, FEBRUARY j. „ . This mo-ning the two Grand juries for the County of Midafeces were (worn in before Mr. Jullicc Gaosr, after which his Lordfhip delivered to them a very excellent Charge, previous to their entering on their public duty. John Dutton, a Shoemaker, who has been in Newgate fence May for tiling difrefpeftful lan guage of his Majefiy, was this day, in confcquence of the motion of the Attorney General, difcharged on his entering into his own re cogni z ance for col. to come up whenever he (hall be called upon to re ceive the judgment of the Court. ♦ANDYKE V. WNITMCit.'. This was an Adion on two Policies of Info ranee, both dated the 17th of March r 798, at and from London to Rotterdam, or Arnfterdion, &c. One of thefe Policies was on one hundred and thirty-(even boxes of fitgar, that were put on board a Pruflian (hip, and which arrived tale at the port of her declination, and therefore there was no dif pate as to her cargo. The other Policy was on a quantity of La gar, a large quantity of coffee, and t 1 calks of - tobacco, which were put on board another Pruillan (hip, called the Lydia, and which, in the courfe of her voyage, was captured by a French privateer; and the queftion was, Whether the Plaintiffs were, under the circumftances of the prefent cafe, entitled to recover? The Jury found a Verdi& for the Plaintiff, fulled to the opinion of the Court on the following cafe:-+" The fhip Lydia intending to fail for Calais, the Plaintiffs obtained an order of Council to (hip on board thirty calks of tobacco for that Port, in the month of , December, 1797. On the 23d of December, an entry was made at the Cuftom-Honfe, an oath taken, and a bond entered into, agreeably to the At of the prefent King, that the tobacco fhould he exported to the ports or places therein fpecifieJ, and to no other. That after thefe goods were put on board the (hip, the parties concerned learning, (though this was not Rated in the cafe) that the tobacco could not be carried direftly from London to Calais without confifcation, ordered the (hip to fail for the United Provinces, and The was captured in the courfe of her voyage." This cafe was argued (the fecond time) with very great abilities, by Mr. Glass, for the Plain tiffs, and by Mr. Rous, for the Defendants. Mr: Gnms obferved, that there were three ob. jedions which his learned Friend Mr. Ker (who argued this cafe the fint time with great ingenuity, on the part of the Defendants, as Mr. Giles did on the part of the Plaintiffs) took to the Plaintiffs recovenng. ift. That by the Common Law of ' this land, the Plaintiffs being fubjefts of this Country, could not trade with the fubjefts of Hol ' land, who were then at war with us. That was admitted by the Counfel; but he Paid that objec tion was no former Rated than it was anfwered from the fads of this cafe, namely, that this trading had taken place under a licence from the King, which, in confequence of his prerogative, he was able to grant to any of his fubje&s . An other ob ' jedion Itated by his ingenious Friend on the firft argument was, that that licence, whatever dice it might have bail when it was granted, ceafed to have any effed by the 38th Geo. 111. c. 28, which had palled fome days before thefe goods were (hipped. In anfwer to that, the -Counfel directed the attention of the Court to the sth Sedion of that Ad, to flew that the provifions of it were not to extend to any goods exported in conic quence of a licence from the King. The next ob jeftion was, on the thirty calks of tobacco. His learned Friend had contended, that after the par. ties had Contrafted agreeably to the Aft of Parlia ment, that this tobacco fhould be exported to Calais—after they bad taken an oath, and given a bond in double the fun, that it fhould be exported to that place, and no where elk, the (hip after wards failed with it for the United Provinces.-- This was an illegal voyage, and therefore no valid infurance could be effefted upon it; and the ground on which his Friend fupported that argument arofe on the 29th of Geo. 111. c. 68, rec. 40. In anfwer to that objedion, the Counfel contended, that the only eft& of not failing to Calais, as was certainly originally intended, was the forfeiture of the bond. That was the extreme effed of not go- ing to that port, and it by no means rendered the voyage illegal, or the infurance invalid. Notwith- Rending, therefore, there objeftions, he contended, 111, the Plaintiffs were entitled to recover the value of the whole cargo; or, sdly, if the objections had any weight, they could only extend to the tobacco. Mr. Roos Gid, his objections to the Plaintiffs re covering he hoped would appear to the Court to be very futhcient. It had been admitted to him by his learned Friend that if the voyage was illegal the Plaintiffs could not recover. The principle on which that relied was univerfal, and founded on the nature and charafter of Courts of Jultiee, whek province it was to enforce the ohfervance of the Laws, and not that which was in contravention it. His objection was this, that by the Common Law stud feveral Ratutes, trading with an enemy was illegal, fubjed to the power Of the Crown to licence that trade. He Paid the party muff bring himfelf within that licence, and he contende4 that in this cafe the party had not obferved the terms and conditions of that licence, and therefore could derive no benefit from it. He was authorifed by a claufe in the 34th Geo. 111. e. 79. fec . 30, to fay that the Plaintiffs muff not only obferve the terms and conditions under which that licence was granted; but if any proceeding, civil or criminal, were inflitut e d i n a Court of jtiftice, it was incumbent upon them to prove that compliance. He contended, they had done neither the one or the other, and therefore could derive no benefit from the licence, and of courfe the voyage mutt be illegal. 'the learned Counfel illußrated and enforced thin argument wilt great abilities. After an able reply from Mr. Gs vas, the Loan Cour Jusrica obferved, among other things, that he could not fay lefs of the Cotutfel On both fides, than that they had done great jut*. tice to their Clients. The argument teemed now , to be delivered from all the points except this.— • Every body now teemed to acquierce in the pro. potation, that trading with an enemy wa illegal, and the qneftion. therefore was very properly uar: rowed. It was admitted alto, and, it had been molt ably argued by : Sir Jona Nicircit.! in his ar gument of BELL, v. Po - rrs, that trade might be carried on with an enemy in ,confequence of a li cence from the King—that it was one of the Royal Prerogatives to make Peace or War, and if his Ma jelly could snake Peace between an hollile. nation and the community, he could make peace between that nation and a tangle individual, fo as to enable him to carry on trade with that ho ile nation, though not to depart from his general allegiance. But fince the difpeniing power (as it is called) was put an end to at the Revolution, every liCence of the King was limited by this, that it mutt not interfere with any. pontave law. What the Court therefore had to do in this cafe, was to fee to what extent the licence went, whether the terms and conditions of it had been complied with, and whe ther there had been the breach of any politive law, which the King's licence could not difpenfe with. The cafe feemed to be overwhelmed with fame confufion at prefent, which the Court mutt endea vour to get rid of by a little attention. The Court will take time to confider of that judgment. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY—Wind( t ARRIVED I Dub,ln, Jam 31, o Wattrford, Donnaghadee, Jan. 31, see. This evening mail vein be made op at the General Pelt Of fice for Barbadues, Martinique, and Jamaica; and for New York Sired, which will be conveyed to the Weft Indies, in the LA IIT FRANCES hired packet, mounting t 4 guns; and to America, in the Mesas packet, Captain THOMPSON. PLYMOUTH, EhBRUARY 3. Came In the Swedifh !hip Maria Elizabeth, Capt. C. H. Lrcisraoyi, from Malaga, bound to Al tona, laden with wine, foap, and fruit; detained and tent in by the SurflIANT6, of 14 guns, Capt. A r t TNA N.—Came in the SwedilhveffelWilhelmina, of Gottenburgh, Capt. MATTOAN, from Alicant, bound to Hambro', laden with Barilla ; detained by the EXPEDITION Cutter, of to guns, Lieut. BOYF.R ; the Cutter is likewife arrived having on board Volunteer Seamen from Cork and Water ford.—Arriied alai the CANADA, of 74 guns, Capt. STRACHAN, from the Channel Fleet.—Sailed the DASHXR, of i 8 guns, Capt. ToSIN, on a cruise.—The Farev, of t 6 guns is about to fail for the Mediterranean with dlfpat ches: the is now warping down from Hamoafe. PORTSMOUTH. FEBRUARY 3. Arrived the TRENT, of 36 guns, Sir E. HAMta• TON, and the Dtscorzar bomb, of t 6 guns, Capt. Conn. SHEERNESS, FEBRUARY 2. Yclterday came into harbour the (4JEEN. 11011011 GM, hired cutter, Lieut. FABIAN.—This day his Majefty's fhip AGAM am mog, of 64 guns, Capt. FANCOURT, arrived from Yarmouth, and the Forrumsz, of 40 guns, from the River Thames. PROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, FEBRUARY 2. Arrived and failed for the River, the Linen hall, LIWINGTON, and feveral other Blips, froze Dublin. Wind S. S. W. GRAVISEND, FERRIJARY 2. Paled by, die Ann, THOMAS, from London derry; Ann Eliza, —, from Tortola; Fides, LixissAv, from Martinique; Union. MUR►NY, from Cork ; Mehitoble, —, from Virginia; Juno, STEPHENS, from New York; Stephens, from Jamaica; Caledonia, PAol,tiom South Seas; Lord Hood, Corr; Flora, —; Ifabeila , —; and Richard, from Li lbon.—Sailed the Beckford, BARGE. and Wm. Manning, Drzon, for St. Kitt's ; Rofe, BARROW, and Countefs of Cardigan, HILL, for Demerara ; Brilliant, Wvars, and Favourite, for Tobago ; Nais , Sown EN ; Dale, ATRINI ; Sarah Ann, HUNTER ; and Ac teon, —, for Jamaica. FEBRUARY 3. Paired by, the Providence, Rif I.LEr, from Dub lin ; Lady Ire, 4—, from Lifbon ; Hazen, AL LAN, and Miffifippi, COLLANAN ; from Virginia; Caine, Amnaason, from Surinam; Linnenhall. Lawinorom, from Dublin ; Cerec, Rms.( A R ns, from Rofs ; and Oneida, Pi AA som, from Charlefton.— Sailed the Admind Gardner, &Ammo'', for In dia ; Adriatic, Fool", and Lady Mackv:orth, for Jamaica ; Adventure, BOV. rR, for St. Vin cent's ; Strenthall, COOL, for Antigua ; and Mary Ann, Fuss, for Dublin. HULL, FEBRUARY 2, Citizen BLacaNAN arrived off the Spurn on Tuefday night the aoth infant, and on the two fucceeding days captured as many loaded vcfrels as he toad conveniently man, a►,d fent thcm for Holland and France. Several of them are recap tured, amongfl which is the Friends, Hope, (sf* North Shields, fince arrived in Yarmouth Roads. This collier failed from Shields on the 2 ill inflant. and was taken the next day, but retaken off the Tezel by the Ramon flonp of war, with only two little boys on board ; the Frenchmen on feeinz the 1 Ramove, quitted the fhip, and efcaped on fl qre in their boat. We have not }• heard of BLACK NI At 4 himfelf being taken ; he is the molt deflrutlive rover that ever carne upon this coati. The Swedilh fh:p Sophia Chritliana,WALLAC F. from Dort to Gottenburg, captured near the Dog. ger Bank, by the LADY Avis, armed brig, I,:eur. LIMP, and brought into this port on FrA l y„ The Swedith Chip Kapparen, Feateearracne, f rom thi s port, with goods for Lilbon, is detained at Falmouth. The Venus, Sill trm, from Lcmdrm to Shields, it taken ; the Captain is arrived at Calais. Ad con-