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JOHN OWEN PARR'S DIVIDEND. THE Creditors of Mr. JOHN OWEN PARR may rierive a further Dividend, by applying at the Office of Aleffrs. fknnetts and Graves, King's Arms Yard, Coleman Itrect , on Wcdnefday and Thurfday the 1 7th and at instant, between the hours of Twelve and Two o'elock, and on Wednefday and Thurfday the 24th and istla inftant, between the fame hours. July 12, 1805. PiIRI,MMENTARr PROCEEDINGS HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JULY is. About four o'clock, the LORD CHANCELLOR took his feat on the Woohlick ; and. after prayers were rea.l, the lodgment of their Lordfhips on the three Appe::l Caufes, delivered yetlerday in the fir!, inflance, were again read, poi loan' to the eflabliihed form, and ratified by the Houle. DUKE OF ATHOL'S CLAIM. The LORD CHANCELLOR 'hued the rcfult of !b.: deliberations of the Committee reipeding the Nltillige fent by the Commons, in anfwer to a Mel fage from their Lordfhips, of the sth intlant, defiring that they would communicate the evidence on which the faEls (hated in the Duke of AthoP.Compenfation Bill were founded, and which the Commons refilled. His Lordfhip moved, in confequence, that a Mel. Page lhonld be fent to the Commons, 11.1 7.1 g, that the MelTage fent by their Lordthips on the sth init. appeared to them to be conformable to the praSice of Parliament, Inch praaice having bt..;:n. fir the Commons to communicate to the Lords evidence touching! faas Rated in any Bill fent up from the Commons to their Lordlhips Houle. This mode of proceeding the Noble and Learned Lord conceived to be the belt, as it evidently appeared by a prece dent in 1786, that the Commons then cnnfidered that though they could not communicate information ! generally with refpea to the reafons on which they i had grounded a Bill, that they could cod d:d then communicate evidence relating to the faas Hated in filch Bill. He conceived therefore that the Melfage which he had moved to be fent to the Commons would be a latisfaaory explanation of the opinion of the Houle upon this fuhjea, whilst it would at the fame ti •ie five their Lordfhips p r ivil e ges. i The Meffage was immediately feat to the Houfe of Commons. ! The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the Houle, that his Majelly had been plealed to iffue his i Royal Commillion, authorifing his itoy.il Highnefs the Prince of \Vales and other Peers to declare and notify his Royal Alfent to certain Bilk therein men tioned ; and alio, a Special Cornmilllon anthorifing certain Lords in his Majefly's mime to prorogue the 1 Parliament. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. shortly after his Grace the Archbillop of CAN TIRRUIY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl ofCAZI• new, and Lord Hawaasatrav, took their feats in their robes, as his Majefly's Commilanners, on the Bench, in front of the Thro'ne., and Mr. gLIARAIR, Deputy tither of the Black Rod, was fent to order the attendance of the Commons, who, after a (port interval, appeared at t!;e Bar, with the SPEAKIR at their head. • • • • The otqlinary Commillion, authorifing the Lords therein mentioned, or any three of then. to declatc and notify the Royal Afient to certain Bills, was then read ; and the Royal Afrent was given in the ufual finals to the Confolidated Fund Bill, the Smuggling Prevention, the Impeachment Witnetres' Indemnity, the Duke of Athol's Compenfation, the Foreign Plate Glafs Ility, the Impeachment Continuation, the Bankrupt Members', the Townleian Colleaion, the Paddington Canal, and the Thames Archway Bills, and to fix Bills of a private dcfcription. The LORD CHANCELLOR then addretTed the following Speech to both Houfes of Patliament : " My lords and Gentlemen, We have it in command from his MAJEITT to exprefs the fatisfaCtion with which be has obferved the proofs you have given in the courfe of the prefent &Mon of your conitant regard for the honour of his Crown, and the interefts of his Dominions; and par ticularly the meafares which you have adopted for ftrengthening his Mi.teErv's hands at this important conjundure, by the aug mentation of the difporaLle Military Force of the Kingdom." " Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons, Ills MAJzsyr has direCted us particularly to thank you in Isis MAJESTY'S name, for the zeal and liberality with which you have granted the large Supplies which the NeetZty of the Public Service lass required." " My Lords and Gentlemen, " His MAJLSTY has not yet been cabled to communicate to you the refult of the Negotiations in which he engaged with Powers on the Continent; but you may reft airured that no Rep will be omitted on his MAJ ESTY's part, for promoting filth a con cert as mayefford the belt Kofpeet of rcfloring general and perma nent Tranquillity; or may, if neceffary, furnith the means of re pelling with vigour, the continued encroachments on the rrt of the French Government, which threaten, every day more and mere, the liberty and independence of all the nations of E3ropc." After the delivery of the Speech, the Special Com vtiffinn above mentioned was read. In this the names of all the Lords who are Members of His bfajelty's Privy Council were fpccified,and, after flat ing ;.he various prorogations of the prefent Parl4.- stent lime the end of the lafk Salon, concluded near ly as follows ? " Know ye, that for certain preffing carafes and conliderations ' we have thought fit fur ther to prorogue our laid Parliament :We therefore, confiding in your fidelity, prudence, and attention to our commands, vcit you with full power and autho rity, in our name, on this t 2th day of July, farther to prorogue our faid Parliament, in our city of Wee miniter aforefaid, to Thurfday, the 22d day of Au gull nest, to be then and there holden : We there-1 fore command you, and all of you, that you attend to the premifes, and faithfully follow the fame as aforefaid, and of this the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral, and the Knights, Citizens and Burgeffes of our faid Parliament, are to take notice, Btc." The LOR D CHANCELLOR thett laid, " My Lords and Gentlemeny virtue of his Moiety's Com miffion, under the Great Seal, to us, and ether Lords direetcd,and now read—We do, in his Majtity's :rale, and in ot•rdience to his commands, prorogue this Parliament to rho' (Jay, the sod day of Auguit next, to be then here holden ; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thurfday the 124 day of Aural. next." The Commons then withdrew to their own Floufe, and fhordy after their Lordfhips fcparated. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. WM. DICKINSON appeared at the Bar, and prefeuted, purfuant ttt order, a Copy of the Letter from the Commit!loners of the Navy to the Lords of the Admiralty, enclofng a meMorill from the Com tniffioners of the Navy on the fubjett of ,the Third Report from the Cw.imiflioners of Naval iegoiry, On the motion that this letter, &c. tbould be laid on the tible— Mr. KINNAIRI) role, and capered his furprife, that a document of this nature thould have been brought before the Houfe at this very late period of the Seifion, and his regret that he thould, from a retire of duty, fed himfelf obliged to interrupt the tranquillity of the 1 Joule by oppofing the prefent mo tion. It was, in his mind, and he believed in that of every difpaffionate man, a matter of alloniffiment, that this paper thoold have been brought forward to day, in precifely the fame nbjeaionahle form which urged Gentlemen.to rend the order for its prodation yefterday. After the obfervation which the Houfe had heard from the Chair, the eircumltance was re coliarly remarkable. But the Honourable Gentle. man who made the motion feemed to imagine that his ingenuity had contrived to evade the objeffinns of the Chair ;—that Honourable Gentleman probably fancied, that by encloling the Memorial of the Navy Board in a letter to the Lords of the Admiralty, every difficolty as to form was obviated. He, how ever, conceived that the lion. Gentleman was milk. ken, and that miflake, as it related to the proper form of prefenting papers to that Houfe, which was a cotllideration by no means unimportant, it was in his judgment fatal to this motion. It was infulting to the Houfe, to attempt to prefs the inundation of a paper in this lhape, and the attempt itfelf was un• der fah circumaances a moil unworthy expedient. What ! to make the Admiralty the channel of com munication with that Houfe-,-to make a correfpon dence with the one the mode of addreffing the other. —The thing was not to be allowed, and he trolled the fame objeSions to fuch a courfe which the" Houfe had heard yellerday from the Chair would be again preffe.d to-day. The mode of procedure re forted to on this occafion, the Honourable Gentleman was cleatly of opinion, betrayed a fear of enquiry on the part of the Navy Board—plead cry of Hear, Hear!]—He fincerely believed it wouid go forth to the country that fuch a fear was entertained—that the Navy Board, far from being anxious for enquiry into their conduct, fought the Ihelter of official au thority, and were forward to avail themfelves of ex pedients. Independently of the reafons offered yet terday againfi the produftion of there papers, the Hon. Gentleman ohferved, that an argument fuffi• ciently thong to juGify oppofit ion had frace occurred —The Houfe had heard a declaration from one of the refpeaable Commiffioners of Naval Enquiry (Sir C. Pole) which ferved to fhew how much the calumny ' of office was employed to depreciate that highly me. ritorious Commiffion. To refute, to expofe the in juftice of fuch calumny, nothing but inquiry was ne ceffary with refpeet to the Naval 0)1=4r - inert, and he challenged the Hon. Baronet (Sir A.S. Hamond) to enter into it, not in any irregular, clandefline man ner—not under the patronage of office, but in the face of day, and before a Committee of that Houfe. Before fuch a Committee—before any fair tribunal, the Commiffioners of Naval Inquiry were ready to fubmit their conduit to the fullell and clofeft invettigation. Thew withed for inquiry. in order to guard againfl mifreprefentation—in order to provide againtt the impreffion which the infintiations of Gentlemen on the Treafury Bench were calculated to produce. The nature, indeed, of loch infinuations was fuch, that combined with impediments thrown in the way of the Naval Commitlioners, and the oblo quy to which they were fuhjeaed through the atflivi ty of official {Lander. it peculiarly behoved the Houfe to take care that no document Ihouid go abroad, fuch probably as that to which the motion referred, which might in any degree tend to give the warrant or au thority of its name to any cenfure upon the Naval Commiffioners. If fuch cenfure were pronounced— if the prejudices of thofe who had fuch ample means of enforcing their flanders were fupported by the au thority of that Houfe, there was but too much rea fon to apprehend, that before next &intros the coun try might be deprived of the Cervices of thofe emi nently deferving men, who never could be deprived of the gratitude of their countrymen, and who pof read, he was fully fatisfied, the approbation of a de cided mejority of that Houfe, and the confidence of all the intelligent impartial men in the country.— This confideration would, he tattled, in addituns to the confcioufnefs of their own reelitude, induce the Gentlemen who compofe4 the Naval Commiflikn, to look down with Icons on their calumniators, and fpurning the efforts used to impede their efforts, to profecute the courfe in which they had been hereto fore engaged fo much to their honour and the public benefit. The Hon. Member alluded to force of the arguments tiled yefterday, when Mr. S. BOURN called him to order, for em ploying obtervatiuns At hich by no means bore upon the quetlion, that the papers already voted by the Houle thould be laid upon the table. The SPEAKER faid, it was certainly incorrect to apply to any arguments made Life of in a former de bate. • Mr. KINNAIRD proceeded to make feme fur• ther obfervations. He faid, that the prodation of fuch an ex par/c memorial was difgraceful (a toed cry of bear, hear!) to the Navy B ,, aid, which constantly evaded and oppoled enquiry, though the Commit Goners of Naval Enquiry folicitoufly courted it. If they were blameable, why were not their reports en quired into while the Parliament had time for the confederation ? Far different was the conduEt of the Commit Goners of Enquiry, who withed for further examination. Such a paper at fuch a moment ap peared to him a mollextraordinary proceeding, and the more fo, as it had been yefterday Rated from the Chair that this was not the regular mode of produc ing fuch a document. Sir A. S. HAMMOND (*poke to order, and con tended, that the produElion of the paper was declar ed by the Chair to be regular in the way in which it was prefented. The SPEAKER explained, that he had Rated the motion in the manner firfl propofed to be irregular, but that it was confillent with order to present it as a part of another correfpondence ; and that the or der was made, in purfuance of the precedent on their journals of the 3oth of April laa• Mr. KINNAIRD went on to fay, that the C an miflioners of she Navy Board had net lufficient con fidence itt their innocence to meet inquiry —when Mr. SHERIDAN role, expreffing his hope tha: . , his Hon. Friend ..setdd czenfe for interrupting the debate, in the relent nage of it. as be had a pe tition to prefent from Captain Wood, which would not be produdive of any difference of opinion. The Serjeant at Arms then announced a meffage from the Lords. Mr. SHERIDAN, however, teemed defirous of proceeding—when The SPEAKER faid that, conformably to the tifage of Parliament, when Mellinger% from the Lords demanded admittance, they &Add be called in even in the midil of a debate. The Meffage was, that the Lords had taken into confideration the anfwer of that Houfe, on the 3d of July laR, to their Meffage of the former day, dctiring that it would communicate the evidence on which a pallid a Bill for granting a compenfation to the Duke of Athol, and that the Lords had agreed that it was continent with the pradicc of Parliament to grant fuch information. Lord Guretssavis was then ordered to carry a Melfage to the Lords, informing them, that the re focal to grant fuch information appeared to the Houfe of Commons to be continent with their privi leges, which that Hoofe would never depart from. Mr. Guest; Deputy Unser of the Black Rod, theft Commoner( the Houk to attend in the Hcofe of Lords to hear the Commitlion read, of the Lords ap pointed by his Majelly to prorogue the prefent fefflon of Parliament; which was immediately Obeyed by the Speaker. who went up to the Lords, accompanied by moo of the Members then prefent. (By this interruption, Mr. Kimmel) obtained his oiled, in preventing the Navy Papers from being laid on the table; and Mr. SwnsDaM was prevented from prefenting Captain Wood's petition.) The SPEAKER, on his return, read the fpeech delivered from the bead of the CoMrniffioners attho rifed, in the name of his Majeßy. to prorogue the prefent feiGon of Parliament ; after v•hich, the bull nefs being at an end, the Members all, retired. Thus concluded the third Caron of the United Par liament of Great Britain and Ireland, which was prorogued to the 22d of Augna. LONDON. SATURDAY. JULY 13. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONB O'CLOCK: Confab, for money, 6oH—for July 6of 6 a—Reduced Mika. Uranium, 6.—kzchequer Bills, a• 3s. rem. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: _ Bank Stock tBs tB4 3 per Rod. Ann. 601 ca 3 per Cent. Conf. sof 4 per Cent. 784 77i 78 3 per Cent. 9cilt 5 Per Crnt. 1 797 99 Long Ann. 17 5- Oda Short Ann. 2 5-16th. Om-ium ; 6 51 preen Coat for ace. 61 601 The Speech of the Lord Chancellor, delivered yet. terday by command of His Majasrr on the proroga tion of Parliament (See ow Parfionsentary Proceedings) affords but little information to the public refpecSlins the prefent Rate of politics. We are briefly informed that His MAJISTY has not yet been enabled to communicate the refult of the Negotiations in which he is engaged with the Powers a.- ....a 1041 110 nein wilt be tbrnht•ei for eilablifhing fuch a concert as may be calculated to reftore peace, or to repel the encroachments of tbp French on the liberty and independence of Europe, A Hamburgh Mail arrived this day. M. Novo- SILTZOFF is ail! at Berlin. where there teems tube an urodual degree of aelivity among the Diplomatic Body—probably on the very Winch alluded to in the LORD CHANCELLOR'S Speech to Parliament. While there negotiations are pending, Br:mm.4%LT; and TALLITRAND will continue executing their own projefls. Nego..iations are to them matters of great moment—they tie up the hands of every power ex• cept thofe of France. Thofe who are duped by them deferve any fate that may befal them, and the only thing to be lamented is, that not blundering Retell men merely, but the people of Europe in general, be come the viltims. Does England prefume to refute to deliver up Malta, without the fulfilment of the conditions on which it was to be abandoned by her troops ? The whole world hears of her ambition, her perfidy, her injuaice, her ufurpations ! France thews her mag nanimity in proclaiming to Europe her with to give peace to England, notwithßanding the want of faith and the rapaci►y manifeßed by the latter ! France will have the Treaty of Amiens, the whole Treaty, nothing but that treaty France airas at nothing un reafonable t Has France ever refuted to negotiate No—for France in the mean time feizes on State after State, and Kingditm after Kingdom, and thole not yet (wallowed up Rill be,, me the dupes of the artifice. It will foon l,e teen that BONAPARTE aims at eflab- Using his Empire in Rome. The Port's refidence is to he removed to Avignon. There muft be no di vided fupremacy where the Corfican reigns. No official news has yet been received. at the Ad miralty, refpeding a Spanifh fbip of the line reported to have been captured. Letters of the 7th June from Cadiz, brought by this Mail, hold out a hope that this capture will be confirmed—one of them Rates as follows : " The Ihips*San Leandro and la Cortella " have returned to this port without the Gloriofo. It "is not known what is become of the latter. It is " added, that on the fame day - an Englith fquadron " of fix (hips of the line was Peen at a diftance." We fubjoin the principal articles received by the Mail— View's*, Just 26.—Tn-day a great Council of State. at which his Imperial Majeay preaded, was held here on affairs relative to the internal Admi niftration of the States. On the sift ult. his Imperial . Majelly reviewed the troops in the camp at Saumering, where the Minifter at War, the Archduke CuaaLas, and his uncle, the Duke of SAXE picas., woo relent. . -,~, ', . Sams, JULY 2.--A courier arrived from Ala. andErs-bade (near 13areuth) brings the agreeable in telligence that our beloved Monarch may be exptaed here on the Rth intl. M. NOVOSILTZIFF wilt then have an audience of his Majelly. ALIXANDUSSADP, JUNE 19. 1 fellerd.ly morning it Ruffian Courier arrived here from St. Peteriburg, who brought difpatches for M. d'Ar.ors us, the Ruf fian Minifter ; but his Excellency baring left this place, the Courier proceeded to Calk!, where he ex. pelted to find him. The fame day feveral Cabinet. Couriers arrived and were fent off, one of whom car ries an order to General Zasraow to repair hither, his Majefty propofing to continue here a fortnight longer. It appears in general as well by the daily ma. ferences between Baron Haarramplac and the Mar. (pis Lucca as an r, (conferences which are often bold in the King's Cabinet) as by the frequent arrivals of Couriers and ellafettes, that fume important nego ciations are carrying on. 81111FS Or visa MAINE, JOU 20.ThC Report is renewed that the refidenco of the Pope will Coon be removed to Avignon. ITALY, JUIIII . ;0.-There ill a report that the great Englint expedition under Genetal CRAIO has appear. ed before Naples. It may have paffed within fight, but it can fcarcely be fuppofeci that it is intended to attempt any thing there, The report that Prince MURAT is appointed Go. vernor of the Ligurian Department is not confirmed. Menai% Joel 13.—The Carthagena fquadron, after having been reinforced on the Bth inft. by feventh !hip, named the Guerno, has again left that port. We are affured that Admiral Swim), who commands this fqqadron, has orders to fail to Cadiz. MILAN, June t 7.—The refolution of the Emperor, with refpeft to the future fate of the little republic of Lucca, is as yet unknown t The Council of Ancients at Lucca, in the refolution in which they requelt of the Emperor a new Conftitntion, exprefsly flipulate that Lucca (ball remain independent, and not be united either to France or Italy, but that it then be a felf exident (We t with national reprefentation, equality of rights, and political and civil liberty; that all titles from birth (hall ceafe, though an ex• option in chit particular may be made in favuir of the late reigning family; that the National Debt be guaranteed, and all public offices, except thole which have relation to the adminiaration of jnake. be bellowed only on chi:meg of Lucca.--Altosa Mercury. PITIRSEURO, knit i 9 fleet at Cronflark is fitted out for its cuflomary ezercife and annual cruize in the Baltic. CDIVit VAN ota Parisx, who was falfely reported to be eked, h its good health. Mr. Ansey' YOUNG is arrived here ; he propores to make a Ratillical journey through Ruffia, in which he will employ a year. He has been received here with every mark of refine. THE NEGOCIATION. Extra& of a private letter from Berlin : "The efforts of the Pruffian Court to prevent the, breaking out of a Continental war, which was fo near at hand, will be entitled to the gratitude of pofterity. The Public is not yet acquainted by far with all the difficulties of this glorious undertak ing. When, in January aos. England communi cated the French overtures of peace to the Ruffian Court, the latter, that it might be enabled to come to a cleave conclufion on the fubjea, thought it necef fary to affure itfelf of the difpofition of the Courts of Vienna and Berlin, and to afccrtain whether there was any well-grounded expedlation of their ailing in concert. General WINZINGERODE was therefore fent on the t3th of February to Berlin. As be convinced bimfelf that the good underftanding be tween Pruffia and France was not likely to be inter rupted, and that Auftria was not difpofedto hoftili ties, the Ruffian Court agreed to the overtures of Peace tranfinitted by the Cabinet of Berlin. From Berlin reafonable propofals were now to be fumroitted to the French Emperor; Baron WINIZINGIRODI had his audience of leave, and had fixed on the loth of March for his departure. In the mean time NAPOLEON affumed the crown of Italy; this circumftance pro duced a new alteration in the (late of affairs. On this occafion Pruffia conduaed herfelf with great dignity and conciliatory firmer'. The anfwer to be returned to France was for Come time delayed, and M. de WIN z No RRODI received diredions eq await further orders at Berlin, to obferve whether the occurrences in Italy, combined with other internal relations at Vi enna, would produce any alteration of the Außrian fyftem. Should this have been the cafe, he wAs to have gone from Berlin to Vienna. But as the Court of Peteriburgh was convinced that Auftria would not change its pacific fyftem, that Envoy was diredled to return from Berlin to Peterfburgh, and conciliators mcafures with regard to France were adopted. In England itfelf, M. de Novostvrzosr had long been confidered the moll proper perfon for arranging pre liminaries of peace with France. The Ruffian Court, therefore, requefted that of Berlin• to procure pall . - ports for him, that he might repair either to Italy or Paris. For this purpofe, a courier was difpatched on the 7th of May, from Berlin to Milan, who returned on the 23d of the fame month, with five paffports.— May the united efforts of the Cabinets of St. Peterf burgh and Berlin be crowned with fuccefs! A year of warfare is now more pregnant of events thati whole century in former yes.