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TL! «•a‘ pubiithed, pricc :s. ABRIE I: It EV I EVir of the t7:tufes which have pi r re r.!ter.l to e nh.infr thc Pi ice of Prcrrifions, ; with Stineftions as to the tcft ea:‘ .1 411. v:a.ing the prefe'ret Diftrefb, and preventing the r.ce ftrriilar r,•Snc I rmtid for Vt mor a..d Hood, No. IT, Pnultry. phis day a:0 puhlithed, In two Volume - Oaayn. price DS,. in board...the fecond Part of 1 HE his WRY of the ANGLO-SAXONS. One Volume eon. aining a View of the Kingdoms and Pi racy of the North, :he Expeditions of itagnar I.rahr.,g, and the Lif,. of Ai:rel the C. tat —The othi r en.ainuing the Hiftory to its 4:011dUr10:$ at th. CCAIIII. By Si '1111: SER. F. .\.S. _ . _ Printed for T. C.:den, jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand. tit whom may had. by Ow fame author, the ilittory of the Anglo• Saxons, from the it la ft appcat ante above the Ell.e, to the Death of t, . Mar ef their awl, nt Territory, Bvo. 75. This slay w> > publifht 1, Elcytntly printed h Fehr locket Volumes, and adorned w ith a new fet of PLies, trom defigns by Mr. S. Wpm', pike one yilioca in board.., A new Edition of THE POETICAL, WORKS of JOHN MIL - TON,from the Text ot Dr. NEWTON. With a Cri:ical Effay by J. Ai K IN, M. D. Printed for J. johlif,n, C. G. and J. Robinfon, W. J. and 3. Riehardin:,, R. Baldwin, Otridge an Son, J. Sewell, J. Nicols, Y. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, J. \Volker, W. Lowndes, J. Scatchoril, Wilkie, Clarke and Sou, Lunrnan and kccs, Cadell, jan. and Dairies, Vernor and Hood, J. Deighton, J. Taylor, (k. , ilvy and Son, J. Nunn, E. Jeffery, J. hlawnsan, Car renter and Co. and L. Newhery. RADLLY—BERKS. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, (Lly order of the Executor-) On Tut fday and Wi.diofiLiy,tl:v t 7th and i Bth of March, t $o t, at the Manual and Park of the late Sir Gr °mar BowTr.s, Baronet, &ceded, fituated at Radky, near Abingdon and Oxford, by CRIPPS and COLE, 'THE VALUABLE GRAZING and HUS BANDRY STOCK, and FARMING UTENSILS. Ow, fitting of 22 Fat Oxen, 24 Wailer Sheep, and 63 W4lcls Sheep, rnottly fit for the Butcher ; z s Cows and 2 Heifers, fonrc with Calves, lonic in Calf, and others empty ; 6o Ewes and Lambs •, 3 Horfcs ; Pigs ; 3 good 'Waggons ; 3 good Dung Carts ; 4 Dutch Carts; a Phaeton am pair of liandfume Von. yt, with Harriet's, complete ' • about Sr, tuns of excellent Hay ; a large quantity of Eire Wood ; and other uft-ful articks in Hulbandry. _ _ The Sale to begin each day at Lleven o'Clock. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be bad of the Auc tioneers in Abingdon; at the Angel and Vs*heattheaf Inns Oxford; the L.ants Inn, Wallingnied; the Alfred's Head Inn, Wastage; the Bell Inn, rarringclim the Hind's Head, King- Bon Inn ; the Angel Inn, EL.tding ; 12.,4 Lion Inn, tic Wel*: the Crown, at ; the Rine and Crown, at Houtiflow ; and the New Inn, (Id Bailey, London. • • The Fat and Fatting stock is well worthy the attention of Blathers and Graziers who want a ready (apply. ReIRLLIMEN 4R2" PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 9. The Biatop of Peterborough, Lords Grey de Wilton, and Roue, were 'worn and took their feats. The fevers! Bias bef.re the Hoak were forwarded in their refpedtive Rages. • One Private Bill was brought up by Lord George CavendilK Ste. from the Commoni, and forthwith read a tuft time. Some private bufinefs was tranfadted I after which their Lordfitips adiourned till to-morrow. • HOUSE OF COMMONS. Several Members were fwoni in, among whom wee Mi . Yorke, and Lord De Blaquiere. Mr. Lowe prefem..4l PuLlie Account', wLieh were ordered to lk on at Table. Lord l'fr.r.tri.L moved, " That Mr. Clitheroe be dinged to attend at the Bar of the Houfe to morrow, in order to be examined respecting the cafe of Mr. Horne Tooke." STATE OF TN/ NATION. Mr. GREY faid he had given notice of a Motion for Wednefday next, and it was extremely unplea- Cant to him to be under the necellity of pollponing it fo frequently ; but it would be attended with confiderable embarraiTment if he were to bring it on on the day for which he had given notice. lie would therefore, with the permiflion of the Houfe, pnftpone it to a future flay, when he milled there would be no occafian for putting it off again. lie Ivillied to he informed from fame Gentleman on the other tide, when the arrangements wet likely to take place, as lie wifhed the Minillers to he pre ient when the Motion came on. He contim!cd with giving notice that he would bring oil tl.c Motion on Friday fe'nnight. MARTIAL LAW IN IRELARD. Mr. Fo4t KIDAN laid, he hoped the fame grounds which had induced his Hoa. Ptiend to put off his Motion (and thole grounds mua he obvious to every body) would induce a Noble I.nrJ oppofite to him (Lord Cafticreagh), to poßpon.: his Mo tion, for thotTlt it might he laid, that the con tinuance of Martial Law in Ireland was an object of the greatell importance, yet he was nor aware of any material inconvenience that could relialt from a than delay. Lord CASTLEKI,AGH raid, he fliould be hippy if he could comply with the application of the Hon. Gentleman ; hut he did entertain a firong hope that there would be no greater difference of opinion upon the fobjca, and in the preicnt Rate of Ireland, he 'could not content to poilpone his Motion. THSRD SECRETARY or STATE._ Mr. !tiros; advert,:d to the notice he had given of a motion relative to the appointment of a Noble ,Friend of his (Lord Hawkefbury) to an Office, upon which it WAS milked to take the fenfe of the Houle, %% ',ether it Wel S the 011ie.: of the Third Se. crctary of State ? and oblervesl, he was not aware that no returt. of his Noble Fri,:nd's Eleaion had at the period of his notice been made into the Crown Office, a circumllanee which rendered ihat aloticc fomewhat irreguttr. lie therefore pollpon cd his motion to Monday 'nest. PVTIES VP(l , 4_ MUSES. Mr. Rose mo v ed, that die Houle fhould rc. Coln 411e11 into a Committee, to take into confi• del-airy: the At of the 38th Geo. 111. cap. 4t, refitcermg the Duties upon 'lurks engaged in I~u!b.t:ntry.; Tivz 't having refolved itfcif into a Com. mittcc, Mr. the Mr. Itn moved, w. a Reii.hition, "That any perfr 'tolitir- a tarn of lel; thin :rd. a year, makatig his IR-about! by the fame, and nrrt keep. tag more th two I-frrft (honk! I.e exempted front the ittnies iinpufed Ply Aft." The Re folutiou tir.ts .t ? si.,•o to. tic Itcport was order ed to rceeivi - d io oirirreew. Horfe Dirty t third tie MAMA Of TNt ROLLS TN !MILANO._ Lcrd CASTI•EREAGH moved, "That the Houfe thould refolve itfelf into a Committee on the hill Mailer of the Rolls Bill." The Houfe having re folved itfill into a Committee, Mr. FRENCH in the Chair, Mr. SHERIDAN faid, that this Bill was of much more importance than it feemed in general to be thought to be. In the &It place, he did not ap prove of a meafure which would enable the N:-.1-,!e Lord who fo much to his own honour, and to the !)cnt:fit of the Country, filled the Office of Chan ccllor, in Ireland, to ba abfent for any confidera- Me length of tune. With refpeil to the falary which it was propofed to give to the Mailer of the Rolls, he certainly did not objeft to it, but he thought, under the prefent circumilances, it ought not to be borne by the Public. At prefent there were two Noblemen who held the Office of Keepers of the Rolls, whole Places he under flood to be finecures ; now it appeared to him but fair, that the Salary to be paid to the Mailer of the Rolls, should rather be made up out of thefe finecure Places, than out of the Public Purfe. Lord CssrLrisritc H fluted that the objea of this Bill was to make the Office of Mailer at the Rolls in Ireland, an efficient Legal Office, with a Salary of 3,5c:01.—8ut as the regular fees of that Offce were not fafficient to make up that turn, it was propofed that the remainder fhould be made good out of the Confolidated Fund : therefore, all that the Public would be called upon to make good would be the difference between the propored Sa lary, and the Fees of the Office. As to what the Hon. Gentleman laid, refpe,fting the two Noble Lords who were at prefent Keepers of the Rolls,. it was neceffary to inform the Hcn. Gentleman, that a Bill paired is the laft SelTion of the frith Parliament fimilar to one which palled in England, for allowing the Judges to be fuperannuated on Penfions.—ln that Bill a Provifion was made, al lowing the Keepers of the Rolls to claim an in demnification, it being then forefeen that it Would be necefftry to make the Mailer of the Rolls an efficient Legal Officer. As this went to estinguifh the Office of Commiffioners or Keepers of the Rolls, it was thought fair, that perfons who had not been guilty of any delinquency, fbould not be deprived of their offices without a compenfa tion. Mr. SHERIDAN laid, he was not aware of the Bill having been palled in Ireland, but in his opi nion it made the ntcafure worfe. As to allowing the Judges to be fuperannoated on a Petition, no man could °Nee to it. Nothing could I:4 snore proper than that a perfon who had devoted feve ml years of his life to the fervice of the Public, in an arduous and laborious fituatinn, fliouici have a Provifion made for him in his old age; but this bore no refemhlance to the fuperannuation of two non-entities, who could always do their duty, for the heft poffible re4fon, becaufe they had nothing to do. Lord CASTLEETAGH laid, that upon this occa lion the Parliament of Ireland had aged upon thole principles which he believed always govern ed the Parliament of both Countries, viz. that thole who were deprived of their Offices without any milconduet of their own, ()mold receive' a compenfation. The Parliament of Ireland, who certainly were the belt judges upon the fubjea, had confsdered it, and had given their fanaion to the principle for which be wia now contending,by providing the means for thole who now held the Office (and who were now to be deprived of it, not in cnnfequence of their having done any thing wrong, but bccaufe the Public fervice required a different arrangement) of retiring with compen fai ion for their Infs. Mr. SHERIDAN decidedly refitted the principle of compenfation laid down by the Noble Lord. He was ready to admit, indeed, that it was cur tomary and jolt, that where a public officer held a place for life, qualm Atte kneglirit—if the public arrangement of the country called for the diffolu tion of his office, or where his long Cervices called upon his country, M his old age, to fupetannuate him, upon the continuation of his falary. But he could admit no parity in principle or propriety between fuch a cafe and that of public officers holding their places merely at the will of the crown and those too places in which they did nothing, nor could they be competent to do any thing efficient ; and in which, as no duty what ever was required of them but to fign the receipt for their !Marie:, confequently they would be guilty of nn delinquency that could fubjea them to the rifle of (lit - miff:ll, except at the mere plea titre of the crown. But to continue to men their fidaries, under the pretence of fuperannuation, and reward for putt Services, w hen in fail they did no ferrice at all, but were a dead burthen on the country, and this at a tinte, ton, when it became ahfolutely neceffat y to appoint at a much higher salary, a new officer to do that ditty in which the prefent incumbents were totally inefficient—to burthen the country with continual petitions to men, under the pretence of fuperannuation, who were about to be appointed to new places, perhaps, equally inefficient, was a thing, in his mind, wholly inachniffible, and to which, he truited, the Houft would not ..-onfent. Mr. Gaye fully coincided with the arguments jult urged by his Honourable Friend ; and he begged to know, upon what principle or prece dent it Vils, that the Noble Lord contended for the propriety of continuing to men removed from offices held inereiy during pleafure, at the will of the crown, their ofhcial falaries for life, and more efpecially in offices, fuch as their Bill alluded to, offices of mere finectire ? The Noble Lord talked of ft..-11 a principle admitted and underitood by the Parliamer.t of Ireland prcvinufly to the Union. lint he would alit the Noble Lord, was this the principle he himfelf had obferved towards Gen tlemen holding offices in that country, and who were difroilfecl front thole offices at the will of the crown ? Was this the piineiple the N.ffile Lord had maintained tirtiards a Right Hon- . Baronet ilea:. him, who many yiiN pitenlcd with indefa tigable exertion and ditintguilhod charefier and ability over the finances of that country, but who was difniiffed from than ntfice - hc co long held with fi-ni..ur to if and ad..anayc t.c: the ni:ivein, ment, for prefuming to vote againft that Union brought forward by the Noble Lord ? Were the long and arduous fervices of that Right Hon. Ba ronet, or thole of Several other old and faitl.ful fervants of the crown in Ireland. contidered as any ground of claims to compenfation wizen they were dill:life(' from oilier for no other delinquency than voting under the diaates of honour and o f confcience again:! the Union brought forward by the Noble Lord, but which they conci.ived equally ruinous to their country and to the interefts of the empire. With theli precedents, in dire& con tradittion to the doarine laid down by the Noble Lord, he called on him to thew, by any jolt nfage, precedent, or in inciple, how any claim to corn pentation was founded, for men enjoying for a teries of years a Sinecure falary for doing nothing; the duties of which they were utterly incompe tent, and to render whole office efficient, it became neerilary to appoint a new officer, with a very high additional falary ? So far from contidering it a meafure of either principle or juitiee he could view it in no other hi l l it than as a molt flagrant job. Mr. RYOUL coniidered the oblations offered I from Honourable Members on the other tide of the Houfr, as wholly irrelevant to the Bill now before the Committe.:, and 'which was merely a Bill for regulating and rendering more efficient the duties of the office ; but having nothing whatever to do is.ith the hi:fillets of compenfatron, which had been already fettled by the frill: Parliament previous to the Union. Mr. ALEXANDER WI tly replied to the argument of Lord Caftlereagh and Mr. Rydn,.. Mr. M. A 'far LOR obferved,that what had fallen from the hail Him. Gentleman ferved to convince him that all the advantage gained by the Union was a fet of jobs. He was as detirous as any one that the office of Matter of the Rolls in Ireland should be properly filled, but he did not confider himfelf precluded from difeurfing the queltion relative to any compenfation to be made to the two noble per fons who held the office of Commitlioners of the Rolls in Ireland by an Ad of thg Irith Parlia ment. A claufe might be added to the prefent Bill, for the purpole of repealing that Aft of the .Parliament of Ireland. Were the Commiffioners of the• Rolls appointed gram iliufe kir IT:Print ? No: why then could not the Crown difmifs them, and appoint other perfons more proper and more effi cient in their room ? He defied the Noble Lord to produce a precedent' of ant compenfation being granted for- the lots of an office which was held ; during the pleafure of the Crown : and why fhould thefe noble perfons receive a compentation for never having done any thing ? One of them was at Ber lin, and flill in the receipt of his Wary as Com miffioner of the Rolls in Ireland. It Teemed to him to be a mere job ; and he did not even think him felt juflified in giving his cOnfent td do that by an Aet of Parliament, which it was always in the power of the Crown to do, render the office of Mailer of the Rolls in Ireland an efficient office. Lord CASTLERNAGI4 contended that the elude mentioned by the Hon. Gentle Man Would be nei• they more nor lefs than a breach of faith with the Parliament of Ireland. It never was in the con templation of that body, that a Mailer of the Rolls fhould be appointed at the expence of the Comtnif fioners of the Rolls; it was wholly foreign to their intention, and he hoped the United Parliament would not commence their proceedings by a breach of faith towards Ireland. As to the propriety of appointing an efficient Mater of the Rolls in Ire land, he had heard but one opinion, nor could he conceive the Houfe would difent from a meafure fo evidently beneficial to Ireland, for the fake of any conlideration of expence. Mr. M. Al TAYLOR raid, he wiflied the Houfe to paufe a little, that they might con fi der more clofely the A& which the Noble Lord called faith, but which be called fraud. He thought it impof fible any evil could arife from a little delay, and he mutt have more timito confider before he could content to impofe an additional burden upon his conaituents. He therefore Mond, that the Chair man fhould report progrefs, and 'a& leave to fit again. Mr. Joxes laid he had heard the Bill called by an Hon. Gentleman a flagrant job, and he did not hear the Noble Lord over the way deny it. He thought the Houfe ought to take time to confider. The Committee then divided—For Mr. M. A. Taylor's motion 46—AgainR it tog. When we re-entered the Gallery, the Haute was Rill in a Committee. _ _ Mr. SHE' IDA ti was upon his legs, obferving that the Chancellor of Ireland could better do his duty in that country than in this. He then made fome obfervations upon a claufe juil brought up by Lord Caftlereagh relative to the apOntment of a De puty to the Mailer of the Rolls, which he con- 1 demned. conceiving it would tend to render the office of Mailer of — the Rolls in a great meafure a finecu re. Lord CA s rs. tat &am defended the claufe,obferv ing, it would not enable the Mailer of the Rolls to appoint a Deputy to perform the judicial part of lus office.—The claufe was then agreed to. The Houle being refumed, the Report was or dered to be received to-morrow. PAPER DUTY. After a thort converfation between Lord WPI. ss sta. on the one fide, who wilbed the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee upon the Poor Hpufeholders Relief Bill, and who urged the ne ceffity of carrying this Bill into esecuunn before Eafier for it to have any beneficial effee, in which he was fupported by Mr. Sheridan, and Mr. Role on the other, who withed for a Committee of the whole Houfe upon the Paper Duty Bill, and who urgcd he fuperior neceffity of providing for the public fervice, in which he was fupported by Mr. Johnfon ; the latter at length gained the priority. and the Houfe rcfolvcd itfelf into a Committee on the Paper Duty Bill, which was ordered to be re ported to-morrow. PORT OP LONDON. Mr. MANNING gave notice he amid, on Wed nefilAy next, move for leave to bring in a Bill fix the bctc R. , of the Port orLondon. the better RegAttion POOR mbusamoLDrits' RILItt BILL. Lord Wm. Ro ssa Lt. moved fora Committee cf the whole Hours od the above lal. Mr. TiMir faW, he held in his hand a p, tion againft the Bill, from the Parifh of St. G eo , the Martyr, in Southwark. The reafon that few fignatures were affixed to it was, its toeing t Petition of the Veliry on behalf of the irdiabit4ll The Petition being brought up and read, Mr. TIERNLY filial, he was only inartieled move that the Petition mould lie on the table, on the manner in which the blanks were tilled in the Committee depended the oppofitiou of Petitioners. _ _ The Petition being ordered to 1k on the tab) The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obferved, that Houk having decided the Bili Arnold go to Committee, he would not I:0w oppo,fe it, trullit when it came out of the Committee, it; imp' ticabtlity would only be rendered more comp and apparent. Mr: JOHNSON oppofed the Bill going to a COMIDItIee, COLCCIVIn g it could only be rendered more objectionable. He thought thole houfe. keepers who were unable to difcharge their alr e :f. ments might be fufficiently relieved by the law as it now flood. If the Bill pallid into a law, i t would, he conttuded, be produ&ive of an inju. rious rather than a beneficial effed. Perfons who now know that payment of the poor's rates can ht enforced, and that they can only obtain exemp. tion as a favour, would then confider that ex en: tion as a legal right ; they would i n t ent i o n a ll y withhold payment ; :tort put in a legal claim to exemption. By this means a very confiderablo additional burden would be thrown upon the higher clafres. It might not be poffiblx to fay how much their burdens would he increafed, but he thought they would be at leaf} doubled by the operation of the prefent Bill. It would, he ap prehended, (land in the way of indultry and eco nomy, and he thought the prefent fyflem belt, by which the judgment and humanity of the Magi (}rate was left to grant relief where relief was ne. ceiary. Upon the whole, therefore, he thought the difcuffion of the Bill ought not to be further Continued, fince it only tended to excite hopes which =mid not be realized. _ _ Mi. CVRWEM confidere d the exiling laws fa& dent to ar.fwer the purpofe of the Bill bcfcre the Houk. fie wiled, however, that ik thould be fuffered to go to a Committee, in order to examine how far it might be fo modelled as to gratify i the lendable views of the Noble Lord by whomitliss pro fed. Kr. Rose expreffed his hope that the lionota• able Gentleman behind him (Mr. johnfon) would not preys his oppofition, as it was certainly defira ble that Come means Mould be devifed to relieve the cles of perfons defcribed by the Noble Lord. Mr. Cotten* explained. Lord WILLIAM Itussrt faid that the merits orate motion before the Houle did not teem t, be fully underftood. In a Committee it might be more fatisfaetorily invefligated. There he meant to propofe tome dallies, which he flattered hirii felf would remove the objeftions offered to the Bill. A divilion being called for, on the queftion for the Speaker's leaving the Chair, there appeared for the Motion •25—Againft it. 3. But there not being forty Members prefatt, tl.e divilion was ineffective, and the Houk adjourne.i. LqmpqN. TUESDAY, MARCH to. !RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Coafols s=r a :re. 5 51. •• • 3 per Cent. tot am 'Orem. mulct 0? STOCKS TCSTIRDAY Bank Stock Slut Loyalty Rut 3 pa. Cent. Red. thus Long. Ann. }but 3 per C. Cant. 33 &bort Ann. Stet 4 per Cent. ConL L Cote for April s 3 f 6 pa C. Navy Omniurn ti - Dom.: et, MARCII Sow. of Stocks this day : Bank t3V—,9 per Cent. Gov.Dcb. 844-- 6 pet C. TreaC BM, (1803) 9 . ' The Rate of his MAJIISTTia health continues IA• pidly to improve. The Bulletin of this morning is fo favourable that there can be no doubt drat his Mayssvr will fpetdily return' to the difcharge of the royal funilions ; a circumflance highly con• folatory, but more particularly fo at the pretc.: important conjuniture. " eysim's HOD/E, MARCH 10. " His MAJESTY has had a very good night, auc continues to make progrets to recovery. (Signed) 4 ' T. 0131101Nf. 44 T. R. REYNOLDS." The Qv,rtw and Princeffes AUGUSTA, Ettzr.- 11111, and Maar, took an excurfion yeiterday to Fulham. MonC de Cat.osue was among the numerous insirers yellerday al the Queen's Houle. The LORD LI, UT RANT &kid a Privy CDUDCII. Dublin Cale, on Tuefday. The permitting ref• Eels to clear out of that port, under certain legal rearidicms, was chiefly the bufinefs of the Council. Lady Faaw ccs BaatSFORD arrived yetterday ia town, from Ireland. Earl FrrzwieLlitss gave a grand dinner yeftet day to the leading Members of the Oppofition. A grand ball and flapper were let night given bord and Lady Caleinerou, at their houfe in Sit. James's Place, to a numerous company of No bility and their children. The beautiful Cottage of Houghton, near Stock bridge, Hants, the feat of JAMAS ELIJAH Cagy. Efq. has been lately purchafed by Mr TRAIL. The Marchionefs of SALISBURY, in htutt.np, On Friday let, in the vicinity of Hatfield, got a till from her bode, which brnifed her arm f; g nat's that her Ladyfhip wears it in a fling. Her Ludy thip was fo much better yeiterday as to have a Card Party in the evening. Four drunken men, who from their intolics• tion created a crowd in St. James's Park, and other places about the Palace, were yeffera taken into enfiody by the Keeper of the Gate lead big to the Stable Yard. nSc the uts. to , as !up Ike :o a ir.g. ;cte ^ I IA• ling that irge COD. o. anc 1" LO rout Ii a' vet: eta) het yen i n No xk r • Mr. 7 on till VC ica • arid day 'ad• I' ii