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Jjec. _ to annex to the abaraet ff I oral proper levet extract.. of letters from our Confuls, and alto art extrad of a letter from the Prefident of the Chamber of Commerce at Philadelphia to the Secretary of the Navy. • I will alto take the liberty to obferve, that nei ther the eommunica tions from our Mini tiers at Lon- j don, nor my converfations with the Charge d'Af fairs of his Britannic Majeftyin the United States, would lead to an opinion that any additional or ders have been lately given by the Britith Go verqment, authorifing the fyftem of depredation alluded to in the letter from Mr. FITZSIMMONs. I am, Sir, with every fentiment of the molt en tire refped, your obedient fervent, j. Sia—ln my Report of this day to the Prefi dent on the fubjed of Britifh captures, and which he will have tranfmitted to the Congrefs, it was accidentally omitted to infert the cafe of the bri gantine Ruby, Captain WR:GLEY, belonging to Mr. Ambrofe Vane, of Philadelphia. This veffel proceeded to Port-au-Prince with a cargo, con fining of American produce and fome other goods, was lately captured by the Britifh fhip of war Tisiraons, and carried to Jamaica, where the owner informs me bath veil - eland cargo were con . demned as enemy's property. I therefore requeft that the Houfe will confideethis letter as an ap pendage to my report above alluded to. I have the honour to be, (Signed) j. MARSHALL. FRENCH dflofr .Thr EGTPT. ORDERS OF THE DAY OF MARCH 30, leaf. The army is to attack the Englifts tmmerrow the alit. All the troops will therefore beat three o'clock in the morning pre cifdy in order of battle without beat of drum, and without making any kind of oak, two hundred paces befere Me peck= camp, which is without the gate of Rosetta. The general attack is to begin preelfely.an hour and a hale before day-hreak, thotis to fay, at half raft four in the innruiell. The army is to be ranged in the following order :—The M illibars of Regnier, compered of the tsth and 83th demi-bri=. bap fupport its right towards the bridge whi c h l a on * neAktrandria, before the preterit camp. To the left of the distill= of Reeler, the divifioo of Freant. comparedßation. of the asth, 6t l , and ysth lani-brigadesOs to take its To the It* of the divifion of Fermat, and confequently in the centre, is to be the column commanded by General d'Earoallo, compofcd of the sal dent/-brigade, sod two companies of gre nadiers of the astb, and the Gr ee k grenadiers. This column la intended to form the advanced guard. • To the left atilt column of d'Eftaing is to be the divifion of Romper', compered of the Sad demi-brigade, and of three com panies of carabbsecn, of the ad light brigade. It will form the centre of the army embintly with the column of d'Eftaing. To the left of the divilion of Rampon is to he the dlvilion of Lanulfe, compered of the nth, 18th, 69th, sad 88th demi-bri gades. It is to fupport its left by the fea. It follows from. thk arrangement, that the divifions of Reg tiler and Freant will form the right wing; the divifions of d'Ef taing and Rampon , the centre; and the divifion of Lanufre, the left. A light Corps will advance on the left of the enemy, in order to make a Rife attack, which is to begin at the fame moment as the real one. This Corps will he compared of the Regiment of Dromedaries, and of so Cavalry. Three hundred Cavalry are to march againft the Right of the Army, on the other fide of the Canal, in order to annoy their Left,by conftantly pullti-g forward Riflemen. This mancemere L to begin at the fame time as the falfe attack made by the Dro medaries. They are to obey the orders of General gamma. The rcft of the Cavalry of the Army are to keep behind the Centre. The Artillery in nferve are to be placed behind the Catelry, and behind them are to be the Infantry mildew The main attack Is to be begun by theta Wing of the A rmy. order the command of General LAMM.; and by the Centre, commanded by Generals RAMFaIt and d'E‘r They are to march againft the Redoubts In front of their pp (Mon, and to take them with the bayonet. At the fame time the Right Wing of the army, commanded by Genera/ R 'orate la to velure a little until the engagement ball have been warmly begun by the Loft. The centre to to (mod the Left-Wing, and the Right Wing Is then to advance brittly forward, and to attack and pot to the route all that falls in their way. Worn the potatoes of the Right and of the Centre of the enemy Mall ti ate been carried, sad all their Brit line routed, the French army mat form meals with rapidit y], in order to march aphift the fecood Hoe of the enemy. The Riflemen only pre exempted from this mesfure. This movement againft the ad Line of the enemy is to be begun by the Left Wag, which is to refute a little, its Right endeavouring to out-flank the enemy. The Centre is to follow *billow:mast, and the Right Wing Is to keep in cheek all the Left of the enemy. The objeft of this movement is to endea vour to drive back the Faglith to the Lake of Maadie. General R oil r, who ammo& the Cavalry, will have en Cr! Il an the Movements of the enemy, and will take advantage of every fa vourable eireamftaoce, as well as of ground, in order to ad ranee and deftroy all that may have been thaken by the infantry. Central —will pay she fame attention to the advantageous employment of Ids Artillery. It is ova-Rory that be thouid have an eye to the Gan-boats which are cm the Flanks of the Pufitioa it will, perhaps, be neccffary to Silence them with arrive-pounders. 'rite Generals who command the Diviner's will employ their Artillery of whatever kind, in the manner which may appear M them met proper. The cafe mull be the fame with refped to the General cons ' the Cavalry. The Generals of Divifion mull alto f o rm • role Pram - of the Coloom of Attack as well as their Room! Rite it they judge it neceffary, In the naanstcr which they bail dem: waft advantageotts. The Commander us Chief will be in motion every what% to Mac the frcCa Orders which einurof.asors may natdrr nev(fory. (hissed) mg woo. • . r rmsnr4V7NAir7Rare7=nmr. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MAY 11. Four Bills were brought up from the Commons, and prefcnt. ed by Mr. GREY, Mr. As, LET, Mr. Joosaas.s., Mr. Pane rim and others, and read a Mt dine. The fcverat bills on the Table paffed their refpeetive Rages —there were fomc firs., fume (mond, and tome third readings. Mr. Moore was heard for the Refpondent in the Appeal Caufe, Stewart Menzies, an Infant, per Henry Erfkine, his guardian, v. Mrs. Beresford, formerly Menzies, and Mr. Adam shortly in reply for the Appellant. The Loan CHANCELLOR left the Woolfack, and Paid, that although as in his own opinion he had little doubts as to the way in which the appeal ought to be decided, yet as two Noble and Learn ed Lords were not prefent, one of whom had paid particular attention to a peculiar point in the cafe, he fhould think he acted rattily and imprudently if he pronounced Judgment in the abfence of thofe Noble and Learned Lords. His Lordfhip lightly touched on the merits of the mire, which turned upon two diftindt confiderations, and after faying a few words upon each, his Lordfhip moved that the further difcufflon oithis appeal be adjourned to Wednefday next. An amendment was made to the Irifh Spirit Duty Bill, in order to appropriate the furplus of, the produce of the Duty to the Confolidated Fund of Ireland, inflead of the Confolidated Fund of Great Britain, as it Rood at prefent in the Bill. Another amendment as a Revenue Regulation was moved. The Marquis of &too was for rejecting the Bill altogether, as a meafure which direelly trenched upon tLe Articles of Union with Ireland. He was of thofe who had voted for that union, upon a Firm convidlion that it was a meafure highly falu tary for the common good of the Empire. But having voted for it upon certain flipulated condi tions with relation to Ireland, he fhould feel it his duty, fo long as he fhould have the honour of a feat in that - Houle, to maintain, as far as in his . power lay, thole flipulattons inviolate. He was convinced, that any attempt to infringe thofe con ditions would have a dired tendency to excite jea louties and ill-blood with the People of Ireland ; and therefore, as a loyal fubjett, and an honeft man, waling well to this country, he felt it his bounden duty to refill this Bill. The Noble Lord mutt be aware, that as it wis a money bill, the very amendments he was about to move, if they fhould be carried, would enfure its rejeftion in the other Houfe of Parliament, from whence it came ; but he wAs for rejecting it now,on the very ground he had flitted. Lord Hosarr Paid, that no man could be more fcrupuloufly or zealoufly vigilant than he was to maintain inviolable the ltipulated conditions of the Union with Ireland ; and, perceiving, as he did, this Bill to trench in Tome degree upon thofe flipu lations, though, he was convinced, inadvertently, and with no other view than as a mere revenue re gulation —yet, fo decided was he againft any ad million of the principle, that, as the Noble Lord would perceive the amendments he had moved would have a direa tendency to procure the end the Noble Lord wifhed—with that view he moved the amendments as a mode, in' his mind, lets ex• ceptionable than a dire& rejeetion.of the Bill, and with a hope that any new Bill introd4ed upon this fubjeft would be kept clear of thofe exceptions. The Earl of CLARE Paid that certainly the Bill as it flood was an infringement upon the articles % of the Union; for as the duty payable in Ireland upon fpirlts dallied from malt was 4.5. 7d. the gallon, of which sod. per gallon was upon the ma terial, if, as by this Bill, only the net duty on the (pink of 35. sd. per gallon was allowed upon ex portation, a tax of sod. per gallon would be re tained, and fo much againft the Irifh diftiller in favour of the Engliffi one. Betide, in the fugar imported to fupply the Ira diftillery during the prefent fcarcity of corn, the whole duty paid on importation into this country was not drawn back. The Marquis of SLIGO obferved, that was not of fo much confequence as what related to corn— as from the prefent appearance of plentiful crops throughout both kingdoms, there was every rea fon to believe the dadleries would receive an am ple fupply from the produce of the approaching barren, in which cafe the Milling from fugar would ceafe.—The amendments were then put and agreed to, and the Bill paired, and ordered back to the Commons. The SECRETARY of STATE, (L ord Hobart) hated, that by a cl er i ca l error e name of a 411 ? - tinguiThed Officer, on fervice in the late battles fought in Egypt, had been accidentally omitted in the Vote of Thanks moved and agreed to the preceding day, his Lordfhip therefore moved, That leave be given to infert the name of Briga dier-General Rossav LAWSON, which was agreed to accordingly.—Adjourned. • • • . . DOUSE OP COMMONS. The Harbour of Rye Bill was read a feeood time. Campbell's Divorce Bill was read a feecod time, and eon. mined for Thurfelay fennight. The Bill for better fccuring to Conftaliks their Emmett In conveying Crimlnab to Gaol, was read a firft time. On the further confederation of the third reading of the Scots Militia Bill, Mr. W. Po N DAS pmpofed a Clank to permit Of ken of the Pella Militia quartsred in Scotland, to fit upon Courta-MartiaL This brought on a converfatiou between Mr. Voter, Mr. /o wes, Mr. W. DVNDAS, Mr. jOLLIT LL rIt. Sir - ' Ural ral WALrOta. a nd Mr. BAGWI, (who wined a fisn ilarClaitfi; to be extended to the Id* Militia Of- Seers,) after which the Claufe was agreed to, and the 11111 Leave was given to bring in a BiU for the better regulatima of the Prize Courts in the Weft Indies and America. The Bill was brought Ifs accordingly, read a firft time, and to be read a Second time oa Friday. Mr. Loire movpd, That an humble Addrefs be prefented to his MAitirt that be would 'melody he Sesta to te a t redtions, that ;here be bid before She Hawk Copies of of the Right Hon, th*IIT DOWDA• ' to the GOVIMiIf of Gets nada, and hers, relative to that IllandOrdered„ And th e Add;others, efs to be pretested by fuels Members as aft afhb Majefty's Molt Honourable Privy Council. Mr. Diet [moon Paid, it was his intestine° have moved for a Bill to explain and amend the AR 11 Hen VIII. fo far as re. I...tes to the Refkieace oldie Clergy : but, out of refiseet to fume tkrakinen, and in compliance with their wiaies, berm willing ropar off his Motion, oufting, however, that bone Rep would ta • -n to relieve /he haedihips which the Clergy Coffered Iran thr p.,ltvution of informer% Mt. Comr brought up the hWa Indemnity Bin. If Of OVNIKOT TO THE CINEve. — 1 101.1170 AL. Mr. &soot brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply, for the purpofe of granting a Subfidy of three hundred thoufaud pounds to the Qtreen of Portugal. idr. ROBSON objected to it ; he raid, from dear bought experience, he had reafon to be afraid of granting futificfies. He then took a review of alr the fubfidies which had been granted this war, be ginning with the king of Praia, who, lie faid, had taken our money without doing any thing for it, and ended with taking away from his Majerty his hereditary dominions, the Ele4torate of Hano ver. He infifted that the prefent invafion of Por tugal was owing to his Majeily's Minifters having fent away the Englifh army to Egypt—that Portu gal muft now fall a facrifice for want of that arm yto defend it, and that the prefent fubfidy as fait, was no more than that fum given to Bonaparte; for by the time it could get there, he would have poirefflon of that. He intifted that Ministers, in had of making peace, as every one expeCted they' would do when they firft came into office, were beginning the Continental war afre(b, and, as he thought, it would be the ruin of the country to perfitt in this deftrueive contest, he was detei mined to oppofe the report. Mr. NICHOLLS objected to the fubfidy, becaufe ineffeCtual to repel the French from invading Por tugal, and difgraceful to this country, if meant to buy her off, which would, in foe, be to pay tribute to France. He condemned the conduft of Go vernment in fending an army to Egypt, and ex pofing Portugal defencelefs to the attack of her enemies. The war was now carried on on account of Egypt, and this might have been avoided but for the, refufal of the late Adminiftration to tufty the French to evacuate that country. He knew the value of Egypt; it was, on account of its pro duCtions,. a Colony next valuable to Bengal ; and it was (till more valuable to France than it could be to England, but it was not a fufficient object for continuing the war. The country had been drained of her gold by the large remittances abroad for the purehafe of corn, and foreign fub tidies. France mutt exift either as the military enemy of this country, or as its commercial ri val. He wiffied the latter, and to fee France turn her attention to Commerce and Manufaeures, rather than to arms. Inducements ought to be held out to France to employ herfelf in there arts as the price of peace. Mr. GREY afked the queflion whether any part of the propofed fubfidy had been already fent to Portugal ? The CHANCILLON of the EXCHECLUSR. anfwered that nomoney had been fent within the prefent year. Mr. Rossow faid, that by the printed paper* on the table, a6z,0001 . appeared to have been fent to Portugal. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEVER replied, that this money was voted and paid to the Britifh troops ferving in Portugal. The Report was then brought up, and the refu lution of the Committee agreed to. CLERGY DISQS/ALIFICATION BILL. The Order of the-Day being lead for the third reading of the Bill fey removing doubts as to the eligibifity of perfons in Holy Orders fitting in the Houfe of Commons. Mr. Jottirra roil, and renewed his former jeaions to the BilL Sir F. Bocorrr alto objeCted to the Bill, and particularly to the argument made ufe of on a for mer night by a Learned Gentleman (SirW. Scott) refpeaing the indelibility of the Prieftly charafter, as if Holy Orders were of the nature of a Sacra ment. Such an idea he confidered as totally un. tenable, but there was no other argument to which this pip could apply. To exclude Clergymen from fitting nh Parliament, or from civil offices, on the fuppolition that Orders were of the nature of a Sacrament', 'was a Popilh idea, but he was :lire that no inch 'ffiperftition was maintained by the Church of England. In proof of this, Sir Francis referred to one orthe articles of the Church which Rated that the only two facraments were fiaptirm and the Loetes Supper. He thought it was a Itrong argument ad allitrefine; • that becaufe a Clergyman was not criminal, he iiii;ll be deemed ineligible, whereas, if by his criminal condua he was depored from the Minifiry, he would then be confidered as eligible to a feat.—There was po argument againa Clergymen fi tting in that Houfc,Outwhat might he applied with greater force againti Bithops fitting in the Houfe of Lords. Even in Popiffi times, he had traced one inflince that convinced gin that no fuchdoarine or fu perflition had then been entertain. ed. It had been Paid by Gentlemen on the tither fide of the queßion, that the word Ckricatt, which was found after the nam es o f f evera l w h o h a had feats' in that Houfe, formerly did not mean that they were Clergymen ; but the prefumption was that they were, and the proof of the contrar y relied with thole Gentlemen. If the inferior du ties of a Parifh Prieß were confidered as incompa tible with the duties of .a Member of Parliament, much more did this apply to the fuperior duties of 4ithops ;sand if it was'the duty of Clergymen to be refident in their Parifbes, much more ought Bifirops in their Diocefes ; befideiwhich, moft Bi flops had benefices in addition to their Bilhoprics ; and ought they to be excufed from attendance up on both ? He Madly believed, that no decent, re. fpeaable Clergyman of the Church, would make any filch pretenfion as to the facrednefs and inde libility of the Clerical charaher, as had been made for him. Was it lint hard that, whitß Prefbyte rians (not of the ellablifhed Church of Scotland), Diffenters, jumping Methodias, and Fanatics of all defcriptions, were nbt debarred, that Clergy =en of the Church flould b l e declared ineligible to It in Parliament ?—He believed, that if the objec tions which had been Rated againft the Clergy fit ting in that Houfe were put tingly, there would he a confiderable majority with him againtl the Bill. although taken colledtively there might be a majority for it; for he was perruaded, that every dittina part of the Bill, if put feparately, would be voted againk • There was another objeaion occurred to him againft patting the Bill at this time. Sir Francis then proceeded to make Come allutions to the effea which. it was fuppofed, the fuggellion of altering the Rats akin Church in a- other kingdom had pitiheed, which Inbred age- neral cry of Chair ! Chair ! Order ! Order ! Sir Francis faid, he meant nothing indelicate ; but he thought, that what he alluded to should be re. garded as a reafon against altering the condition cf the Clergy of the Clan ch of this -kingdom- He therefore, moved, " that the word now - be left out, aridtbat the words three months be fubftituted in its Acad." Mr. GREY faid, in his opinion every objed of the Bill would be obtained by difqualifying Clergy men holding holding feats in that Houfe from ever after. wards being eligible to hold any ecclefiaftical ap- I • pointment. Colonel Karts contended that the charader of a Clergyman was indelible. If a Colonel gave up his Commiffion, and chofe afterwards a military life, he mull begin de novo as an Enfign ; but if a Clergyman thonght fit to lay elide his Office, like the Gentleman whom he had in his eye (Mr. Tooke) although it might be for thirty years, and went into the wildernefs to perform quarantine for his fins, and to get rid of the pollutions of tha Prielthnod, would be, even in that cafe, Rand in need of a frefh ordination? He would afk, " that man," if after 3o years fince lie tali officiated, he could not now fay prayers, get up into a pulpit and preach, read the Abfolution, and adminilter the Sacraments, without wanting another ordina tion, or receiving another commit:6°n than what he had already received ? This Bill, in his opinion, introduced no innovation, but enacted that which he always thought was the law of Parliament.— The Houfe had nothing to do with the queitioty whether it would not be as proper to exclude Bi limps from the Houle of Peers, for this Bill pro ceeded on the preamble that Clergymen were in eligible to fit in the Commons Houfe of Parliament. He called upon, " that man" to fay whether, after having done all in his power to degrade that cha raderlie had received—( a cry to order)—he meant, after having done every thing in his power to pt rid of that charader, he could really do fo ? Mr. J. H. Tooxs Paid be was not inclined to trouble the Houfe any more upon this Bill, but rofe merely to reply to the queftions of the irreve. rend Gentleman [a laugh] Who bad juft fat down, He had no doubt of his honourably fulfilling his promife to refill the meafure, if his fcruples Should be removed. Though it was of little copfequence to him what vote the Hon. Gentleman gave on the fubjed, as he was perfedly indifferent to- the fate of the meafure before the Houfe, yet he would en ? deavour to anfwer him latisfaCtorily. The Honour ? able Gentleman Paid be was not a learned man—, and certainly his fpeeches did not enable him to judge whether he was or was not a man of learning —but in this . inftance he had repeatedfomething of the ftatement of the Learned Gentleman on the oppolite fide, and to that Learned Gentleman he would appeal. He would afi s him, ff a Pried would be any where fuffered to perform hi*fundions li s ith;! out a licence from the Bifhop ? And would he not be liable to punifliment if he attempted to do fo without fuch licence ? He would aft him, if a Prieft was prefcnted to a Benefice, would the Learped Gentleman, as Vicar General, indud him without a Tettimonial from. the Bifhop, founded on the conduct of the Pried for three years preceding fuch Prefentation ? And was it likely that fuch Teltimo nial could be obtained by a Prieß, who, during thole three years, had negleded to esercife his mt niflerial fundions ? The Learned Gentleman who fat near him, (the Attorney General), who was a bird of the fame nett, might affift him in the con fideration of that quellion. The Bithop . had the fame right to refute this Teßimonial of approhtt tion as he had to refut e to or d a i n a ny perfon he die: approved ofd In this flatement he was borne out by the practice of the Church and the Canon Law; and therefore lie trußed that the Hon. Member was fatisied of the incompetency of a perfon in his .cir cumflances to do the duties of the ecclellaitical character—(Mr.' Martin Paid Nol—Mr. Tooke then refumed—That' to "confitta his affertiotis, he ' would read the Canons which applied, Many of which he had never looked at until this butinefi came under difcuffion. Mr. Dunning had formerly read Come of them to him ; but as he never did the whole of the duty of the Priefihoed, having a Curate to officiate for him during the two year* he held a parifh, he did net feel the neceffity of con. fatting them. After giving up the parilh, he went to the Continent, and on his return he did not re. fume the clerical c,harader ' but interfered in thole politics, which h e believed at this day, rendered him more ineligible to Gt in that Houle than his connexions with the priefthood. He read an ex tract from the Canons, to !hew that no Pried could officiate without a licence from the Bifhop, and concluded with affuring the Honourable Member, ihat though lie had, above thirty years fince, roe finned the Priellly fundion; he Rill retained fit& cient of the feelings belonging to that cbarader to lillen with the molt paled calmnefs to any lan guage, however harfh, he might choofe to addrelk to him: he might call him "that man" as often as be would: he confidered it the molt refpedftil tern that could be applied to him, and it fhould ever be more grateful to him than any title he or any man alive could bellow. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT Rated the practice of the Eattern and Wefiern Churches, and the exiting Canon Law, which he raid was a part of the Com mon Law of England, in order to thew, that a man who took up the Ecclefiaftical charade? was not at liberty to dived himfelf of it at his own will : that though Holy Orders was not a Sacrament of the Protenant Church, it was not merely a civil tentrad, but a high and mylterious duty, itanding ea fomething of a fimilar footing with Marriage, fee Holy Orders and Holy Marriage was ever tbelangoage of Law and Religion, though both by the Reformation had ceafed to be confidered Sacraments. The indelibility of the one, refem bled the indifiblubility of the other; for it was not in the power of the parties, at their own caprice, to h et aide the obligatiihis which the law attached to either. The Hon. and Rev. Gentle man had confounded two things effentisdly dißina, in relation to the indelibility &the Prießhood and the prefentarion to a Benefice. Ia reply to his aattments on that fubjed ; he would tell the Ho now-able Gentleman, that if the Bifhop fhould AMERICA. WASHINGTON. 2,13 th of February, a Meffagewas fent to Congrefs from the Pre!ldent of the United States, tranfmitting the following Report from the Secre- tary of State with fund!) , documents : Ikpariment of State, Feb. s 7, 'Set. - Sir—The order of the Houfc of Reprefentatives of the 14th of this month, requefting an account of the depredations c uttmi tted on the Commerce of I the United States by veffels of Great Britain, of , which complaint has been made to.the Govern. ment, having been referred to this Department, I have the honour to tranfmit herewith an abftraft of fuch cafes that have been complained of line the comet cement of the year iBOO. The Order of the Houfe having fixed no period at which the account it requefts is to commence, I have from a confideration of the fhort (pace for which the prehnt Sefton can continue, thought it compatible with this view, to limit the abftrad to the time above mentioned. From various reafons, it is to be preftmed, that many captures have been made, of which no complaint has been for- warded to the Government : under this impref- lion, and for the purpofe of giving a comprehen- five view of the fubjed, I have thought it not im- 7