Star. — London, England, 1802-03-31 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY' PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MARCH 3a. }Lard Connie! in the Scotch Fithery Appeal Gillizs v. ficr , tt ; deferred further hearing ti:l ti, raorrow. Lord REDESDALP prefented the Report from the Corronittee appointed to confider the claufes of the Union AO, rrlpeaing the fuecellion to lrifh Peerages, and the qualineation of Irifh Peers to vote et eteainns for Pezrs to ferve in the Impe ril! Parlia:riznt. The 12e:01:aliens agreed to were as follow: 1. Rcrolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, Tn..t in all ealus sviitoe nor perfon, who did not fit and vote i:. the I ' , Ail:. :if Leitch; 01 liaLiod before the Union, or whore rieht to ii and vote theoin was not admitted by the fold Houk iscfore the liiitutt, or whore right to vote at etc....1100s of Ports of to It in the Parliament of the United Kin;dorn, Las at or filen not tine been admitted by this+loufe, Bien claim a right to vote fuels ales - dons, fuels ciaiinto be made by pe tition to the Hoof., li; s ned. by the rfrfori In claiming, or by fome perfon on his :Jell:tit; Paring the manner in which the chi :aunt derives t.th, to the Peerage in yuefflon, and prayin7 :t the right of the claimant to vote at ri:elions of Peers of i:tlrl to tit in the Parliament of the Coked iiisgdom may Lc ad Stated by thi look. S. Refolved. That it is the opinion of this Committee, That the Clerk of the Parliament. do tranfinit to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland a Copy of the. Refolution of this Houk, ad mitting the claim of a Peer M Ireland to vote at the eicaions of Pius of Ireland to fit in thz Pariiament of the United Kiaplont. 6. R. folvod, That it is the o:shine of this Committee. That in cafe any Peerage of Ireland now is, or henaft.,r (hall be in abeyance, the perfons chiming to he co-heirs thereto, or any of them, may, by petition to this I inure, flate fuch claim, and pray that the fame may be violative,' by the linufe. 7. Refolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, That no claim of any Pc-m 7 ,e alb-tiro' to he in abeyance ought to he prsceeded open, until the time Mall have been recommend ed by his Mayfly to the confideration of the Houfe, or until his 'Stolen! Dian hey elbetn informed of furl claim by the Houk. 8. ReOilved, that it is the opinion of this Committee: That every 1... ch claim he referred to the Committee of Privileges to es.orlie the inztter, and report the fame, as it mall appear to them. to the Houk. 9. Refolved, That it is the oplaion of this Committee, That in cafe it ftaU appear to the 'route that any fuels Peerage is in obey:wee the floufe do inf o rm hi s M a j es t y , t h at , i n the opi nion of the Houfe, fuck Peerage is In abeyance, and is there fore to be deemed and taken to be an esitting Peerage, ac cording to the fourth article of union. so R efolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, That every Pterefs of Ireland, in her own right, to whom any Peer age than hereafter decend or come, be at liberty in like man suer to claim fuch Peerage; and that fueh claim be proceeded upon, examined, reported, and allowed, in the tune manner, as is provided in the cafe of Peus claiming to vote as aforefaid. • The fecond, third, and fourth Refolutions, af ter lonic eonverLition between the Marquis of Sligo, Lord Redcfdale, Lord Thurlow, the Earl of lofslyn, the Duke of Norfolk, and Lord Al vanly, were rejeeled, and the remaining Refolu •tions were ordered to be taken into further confe deration on Friday next.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. 'Pte Hon. W. Bouvaare prat:owl a Petition from the Mayer and Corporation of the town of New Sarum, praying .that ionic regulations might be adopted refpealng the fate of Corn.—Orderel to lie on the Table. Mr. Htss•CT .prelented a Petition from the Mayor, Common Conneil, ae of the fame place, praying for a repeal of the In come Tax—Ordered to lie on the Table. The Grenada Loan Bill urn read a feeond time, and coin witted to: Friday. The Report of the Committee on the further uniroyenarnt of the Port of London was brought op, tie At:Wu:Lint agreed to, and a Bill oedema tab:: brought in purfuant in the faine. The frith Ammon Regulation Bill wai, read a third time, end pertd. Sir ko s FR T PEA Li Me notice that it was his intention to move for Itsvc to bring in r. Bill for batcritiz t:le condition of Apprentices the Cotton 'freer.. Mr. N•l'r IRT moved, T.:at a CCr.!rri!rfee he arpo:ut, ;( l to prepare an F.limate of the Charge aural:ling the Clutiiin6 and Pay of tic Militia for the year tke.--Ordtr.d. Alfo, That e Committee be appoint:l to prep:lre en rfli mate of thr Allowance to IR: given to crrt- in Subaltern Of f icers of the Militia in time of Peaet.--Orderel MIL LIST. Mr. ALEYANDEZ brought up tlie Report of the Committee cf Supply. Upon the queftion that the Houle fhould agree to the Ref - oh:firm of the Corn nit,ce fir granting 990,0521. to detiay the Arrears cf the Civil Lift, Mr. NICHOLLS (aid it was his intention to con . cur in the Vote, but he had rifen for the purpole . of obferving, that in his opinion a degree of de linquency attached it elf to the condo& of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, for fuifering the debt to be incurred. Whoever permitted an Aft to be done in violation of a Lcgitlative Provifion, was guilty of a mifdemeanor. An Aft of Parlia ment had been made in 1786, to prevent the ac cumulation of a debt on the Civil Litt, and to dif .tharge it within a given period, in cafe it fhould "be incurred—in both thefe objefts the law bad been violated. He trufted there would in future be an immediate difclofure to Parliament of any . debt that might be incurred, in order that its accumulation might be prevented. Mr. Rossoa withed a dittinZtion to be made be tween the debts fairly due from the Crown and the debts of the Minifler. He was furry to be per petually at war with the Crvrn ; but he feared his duty would compel him to be fo, if be was to be called upon to pay indifcrirninately all the debts with which the Civil Lift might be burth.:ned. He maintained that 900,0001. a-year was fufficient for every purpofe of Royalty, but that of corruption— it was the Petition Lift, amcunting to 271,0001. that was the cattle of the Arrears of the Civil Liit ; but for the Penfions, the Honk would not have been called upon to difcharge fo large an arrear. The CHascsccoa of the EXCHE(C.ISS (aid, he ronceirad the Hon. Member was not at liberty to comment on any other Pennons but Conk of the Civil Lill. Penfions to that amount were by Mr. Burke.; Dill, allowed to be granted on the Civil Li 3, and the Rcpo:t of the Committee Rated, that . they did not amount to fo large a fnm. Tie SPEAIt lilt raid, the Hon. Member was un doubtedly not at liberty to comment on thc Pen lion Lill, which had nothing to do with the debt of the Civil Lill. Mr. Rossox maintained that the petition LEI had to do with the Civil Lift. Surely, he had a tight as a Member of Parliament to advert t o i t . 1% ben he was called upon to rote away a trillion f the public motiey. the. four and s half pi.r tc.r. had iriett arpli.:.: iaii;lit to h.tvt ben ••••,, `hi no; ;.4 , 1 1.. baste vrq e.! ii t,!* mr,nrs-. 'h.. 1.:.• 11.). ' allow him in the prefent inflanct to refer to the Penfion (hould make a point of bringing it forward in another fhak, that the Sovereign might fee he did not confider him to blame for the grants of Parliament. [The Hon. Meatier was tailed to 0...1er Iy:be whole Huoili.] The SPEAKF.R laid, it was extremely difficult to know when to interfere, the obfervations of the Hon. Gentleman were fo very irregular and un parlianielitary. The CHANCELLOR of the Exciirozat faid, it was not from any with to avoid entering upon the difcullion of the Penfion Lill, he had called the Hon. Gentleman to order, when he was deviating, from the courfe of debate, but to prevent an un incefrary confumption of the time of the Houfe. lrt would be recolldied the amount of the Penfion Lift by Mr. Borke's bill, was 95,0001. and that not withilanding large payments had been made to Foreign Anibittradors who had cured to be refi dent, and large compenfations for lot* of offices. there had Leen a very contiderable raving. With regard to An obfet vation, that the late Chancellor of the Exchequer was to blame for having fuffer ed fuel* a debt to increase, he had only to fay the lubjed had been amply difentred within twenty four hours, and it was admitted that Mr. Bin ki's Bill was lo moldy worded that the meaning of it could not be diflinaly afcer tuned: Since 1785, there bad from time to time been laid before the Houle, flaternents of the Civil Lilt Debts, there fore the lion. Gentleman had no right to airtime, that Government had flown in the face of an im perative ika of Parliament. He concluded by ety Mg, it was his intention to lay before the Houfe a plan for the payment of the Penfion Lill. Mr. Mc noits withed the title and preamble of Mr. Burke's L il l to be read. Mr. BRAC GI laid, if the preamble was read, the whole Att mull be read—the preamble might re cite that it was necefttry the civil lilt debts thould not accumulate, and yet there might be no claufe in the body of the bill for carrying that recital in- to effeet. Mr. Ross obrcrved, that. the four and a half per cent. duties had Len paid into the Treafury, and at his Majelly's defire had been applied in aid of the Civil Lilt. He thought it would have been much more Parliamentary if the Hon. Member who had charged his Hon. Friend with a milde meanor, had ventured it when he was prefent. The ATTaittiElf-GENZR.AL raid the law never .confidered any one as falling within the fcnpe ola mifdemeanor, whole violation of an An was founded on a mifconftrunion of the meaning of that An. Mr. _Hiss faid, he fnould vote for the prefent fupply, under the faith that tome plan would be !eii, i ted to, to prevent the accumulation of the Civil Lill Debt. He could not avoid making an ob ' fervation with regard to one or two of the items. There was a charge of tBOOl. paid to George At wood, Efq. for making calculations for the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. He thought that Hon. Gentleman was too great an adept himfelf in making calculations to render it necciTary to put the country to expcnce for a deputy, There was alto 7501. for a Pidure of his Majelly, to prefent to General Pauli. Strange to tell I but he was in formed the General never had received that piattre. CIiANCELLOR of tilz Ex cittgys faid, he had not pkdgcd iiiinfLif to fubmit any plan which world preclude Coe probability of an accumulation of futurt debt. The refolution w•as agreed to, and the Houle ad ' jounlc:!. D.!-• FIN 17"1 VE TREATY OF PEACE, BETWEEN TIIN TRENCH MAJESTY THE KING OF SPAIN AND INDIES, AND THE BATAVIAN REPV3LIC, (ON Tat ONE PP.I.T); AND HIS MA• JESTT, THE KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, (04 THE OTHER PART.) The Firll Conful of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, and his 9L,itfty the King of the United Kingdom of Great 1, i un anJ Ireland, being equally animated with a dc e to put an end to the calamities of war, have laid rite foundation of peace, by the preliminary articles which were figned in London the 9th Vendemiaire, year ro (the tft of Oftober, rflot ). And as by the tsth article of the preliminaries it has been agreed on, " that Plenipotentiaries fhould be named on the part of each Government, who lhould repair to Amiens, and there proceed to arrange a Definitive Treaty, in concert with the Allies of the Contra:ling Powers"— The Fira Conful of the Fiencla,Rcpublic, in the name of the French people, has named as Plenipo tentiary the Citizen Joseph Bonaparte, Counfellor of State. His Majefly the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has named the Mar quis Cornwallis, Knight of the Moll Noble Order of :he Garter, one of his Majefly's Privy Council, General in his Majelly's army, &c. &c. llis Majefty the King of Spain and the Indies, ~ n d the Government of the Batavian Republic, have appointed the following Plenipotentiaries, to wit, his Catholic Majelly has named Don Jofeph NiColas d'Azara, his Councellor of Stare, Grand Crofs of the Order of Charles 111. Amhalrador Ex traordinary of his Majelly to the French Repub !ie, 8:c. &c. And the Government of the Mitavian Repnblic has named Roger Jean Schimmelpenninck its Am 4air.tdor Extraordinary to the French Republie,&c. Which laid Plenipotentiaries having duly com municated to each cater their rclimetive powers, hid: are tranferibed at the conchtflon of the prefent rreat 7, have nyreed upon the following Articles : • '!” 11,0 1 hr n, arc.. frirntinlirl. and good underianding between the French Republic, his Majefty the King of Spain, his heirs and file ceffors, and the Batavian Republic on the one part, and his Majefty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his heirs and fuc cetTors, on the other part. The Contraftiag Parties 11-..111 ufe their utmoft efforts to preferve a perfeel harmony between their refpedive countries, without permitting any aet of thoftility whatever, by fea or by land, for atty caufe, or under any pretext. They fhall carefully avoid As;ery thing which might for the future difturb the happy union now re•eflablifhed between them, and than not give any fuccour or protedion, diredly or indirectly, to thofe who would with to injure any one of them. H. All the prifoners made on one fide and the other, as well by land as by fea, and the hoftages cat tied ()Tor delivered op during the war, and up to the prefent day, than be reftored without ran. fom, in fix weeks at.the Well, to be reckoned from :the day when the Ratifications of the prefent Treaty arc exchanged, and on paying the debts which they (hall have contraded during their captivity. Each of the ContradirgParties (hall refpedively difcharge the advances which (hall have been made by any the Contrading Parties for the fupport and main tenance of prifoners in the countries where they have been detained. There (hall be appointed by mutual confent for this purpofe a commifGon, fpc cially empowered to afcertain and determine the compenfation which may be due to any one the Contracting Parties. The time and the place (hall likewife be fixed by mutual confent for the meeting of the Commitlioners, who Mall be entrufted with the execution of this Article, and who take into account, not only the expences incurred on account of the prifoners of the refpedive nations, but likewife on account of the foreign troops, who before being taken, were in the pay, and at the difpofal of one of the Contra ding Parties. 111. His Britannic Majefty reftores to the French Republic and its Allies, Ti.:. his Catholic Majefly and the Batavian Republic, all the poffeffions and colonies which refpeaively belonged to them, and which have been either occupied or conquered by the Britifh forces during the courfe of the prefent war, 'with the exception of the ifland of Trinidad and of the Dutch pqffeffions in the ifland of Ceylon. IV. His Catholic Majefty cedes and guarantees in full property and fovercipty the ifland of Tri nict.td to his Britannic Majefty. V. The Batavian Republic cedes anti guarantees in full property and fovereignty to his Britannic Majefty all the poffeffions and ellablifhments in the ifland of Ceylon, which previous to the war be. longed to the Republic of the United Provinces, or to the Dutch Eaft India Company. - - VI. The port of the Cape of Good Hope remains to the Batavian Republic in full fovereignty, in the fame manner as it did previous to the war. The Blips of every kind belonging to the other ContraEling Parties shall be allowed to enter the faid port, and there to purchafe what provifions they may (land in need of, as heretofore, without being liable to pay any other impofts than filch as the Batavian Republic compcls the !hips of its own nation to pay. VU. The territories and poffealons of her Molt Faithful Majefty are maintained in auk integrity, Inch as they were antecedent to the war. How ever, the boundaries of French and Portugneze Guiana are fixed by the River Arawari, which empties itfelf into the Ocean above Cape North, near the iflands Nuovo and Pcnetentia, about a degree and a third of north latitude. There boun daries fhall run along the river Arawari, from its mouth the molt diflant frcm Cape North to its Conroe, and afterwards on a right line, drawn from that fource, to the Rio-Brauto towards. the Weft. In confequence, the northern bank of the River . Arawari, from its diftant mouth to its fonsce, and the territories that lie to the north of tau line of the boundaries laid dowri a's above, (hall belong'in fall fovereignty to the French Republic. The fuuthern bank of the laid river, from the fame mouth, and all the territories to the fouth of the aid line, than belong to her Molt Faithful Majefty. The navigation of the River Arawari, along the whole of its courfe, than be common to both nations. The arrangements which have been agreed upon between the Courts of Madrid and Lifbon, refpea ing the fettlement of their boundaries in Europe, tball neverthelefs be adhered to, conformably to the hipulations of the Treaty of Badajos. VIII. The territories, poffellions, and rights of the Sublime Porte are maintained in their integri ty, as they were before the war. IX. The Republice of the Seven Iflands is re cognized. X. The Iflands of Malta, Gozo, and Camino, ihall be reamed to the Order of St. John of Jerufa: iem, to be held on the fame conditions on which it polkaed them before the war, and under the fol lowing Ripulations s. The Knights of the 0M,,, rho& teems Sall couleur to fublift, after the etelsamo of the Ratificadolt of the preint Treaty,ate invited to return to Malta, as foon as the eachlt ; mall have taken place. They will there form a general Ch ter, and proceed to the eketion of a Grand Mafter, chofen fr or among the natives of the nations which prcfervc their tong •; toilers that eledtion has been already made &ice the ezetang - of the Preliminaries. It is underftood that an eleetion made fubfetinent to Amok. epoch, th.lit alune L cc:At:emd valid, to the exclufion of at oti.:r that may have taken place at any period prior to than a. The Governments of the French Republic and of Greet Britain, dcfiring to place the Order and Bland of Malta in I , (Fate of ertire independence with refpcdt to them, agree th,.! there (hall not be in future either a French or Engliffi tongw.; and that no individual belonging to either the one or other .. 1 there powers fluff be admitted into the Or ter. r 3. There Cull be eftablilbed a Mattel: tongue, wtich C.AI h • fupported by the territorial revenues, and commercial dudes of the hand. This tongue &all have its peculiar dignities, eftablienreot and an hotel. Proofs of Nobility Chatl not be n ceffary for t►e admillion of Knights of this tongue; and they !hall be moreover admiffible to all offitei, and firill enjoy a'. prisilcgei in th:c fame canner as the Knights of the calm. tongues. At bait half of the municipal, adminiltrative, and other empl. yrnents depending on the Covers most, !.`all fiVed by ia.ibittots of the Ulan& of Malta, G. .zo, and Coming. 4. The forces of his Britannic Majeity than evacuate 1!..- Bland, and in dcpciLlc::cies, within t!trcc months from the ea.' charge r,l the Rat:5,7260%5, or fozincr If poffiblc. At that ep , ...1 it !^.'z.ll he given ty the r.n.2;: in it; prcf.:::t 11:e Fecr. , !%! the (tort ,'oily sutitu%2.:,l to thf: t:N'•/•,-; ni t1:r0r...-. fhs:l4 , ? :n Ij:}•td to bEt: r!!:on,an.l :,)!C ovi.'lll-: NT:le!‘;, as is licre.ii.cr Ligol.acl, Ltre aril tht-••. c. On, hsif of C.: prr::.sr, at fhall b= elsvisste , etrro' of native Makcfc ; for the remaim;er the Or!er !ry t..- eruits iu Lima: countries only where tongues contirase to lA' r. - caned. The Maltefe troops 1411 have Maltefe officers. I', Cotrimander in Chief of the garrifcn, as wiles the nominati of the officers, than pertain to the Grand Mailer, and this ris,ht he cannot resign even temporarily, except in favOur of a Knight, and in concurrene e v ith the advice of the Council of the Ordcr. 6. The independence of the Ifles of Malta, of Gozo and Ca mino, al well as the prefent arrangement, !hall be placed undo( the prortslion and guarantee of France, Great Pritain, Außria. Ruth:;, anti Pruifta. 7. The neutrality of the Order, and of the 10and of with !is dependencies, is proclaimed. 8. The ports of Malta mall be open 1 to the commerce atid the navigation of all maions, who fhall there pay equal and trip. derate duties : there dutie; Run be applied to the fupport of the Maltefe tongue, as fpeziEed in paragraph 3, to that of the Circ.! and Military Eftablilhments of the lilazd, as well as to that of a general Lazard, open to all Bags. 9. The Rates of Barbiry are excepted from the condition; of the two preceding paragraphs, until by means of an arrant. matt to b , procured by the Contradting Parties, the fyficm 0' hoiiilitics, which fubfills between the States of Babari• aWI the Order of St. Jelin, or the powers polrang tongue; cr Ln:.- cucrinc in the compofition of the Order, flail have ceafed. to The Order &all be governed, both with terped to 5p.:.- Mal and Temporal affairs, by the fame Statutes, which WCrf. In force when the Knights left the lile. except In Si far at they ;re ;brewed by the patent Treaty. The regulations contained in the paragraphs j, g, 7,8, and so. !hall be converted Into laws and perpetual ftatut:s of the Ordg, in the cuttomary manner; and the Grand Mager, or, if be fhall not be In the Mind at the time of its reftoration to the Order, hfa reprefentative, is well as his fuc:cgors, be bound to tstze an oath for the panaual than. His Sicilian Welty Iliall be invited to turn ith ace )arlero WAITS of his flaws, to garrifon thc cliffcrcr.t f:rtreffes of the Paid iliands. That for (hall remain one yc4:, to bear datl from their iv-Bandon to the Knights; and if, at ae eLpira-hrt of this term the Order facalc: of have railed a force in the judgment of the guarautccin; powers, to garriforr ti jOand and its dependencies, limb as is fpecificd in pampraph S. the Neapolitan troops [hall continue ti,cre until they fbail h: replaced by another force droned fuificlent by tlic raid t'osvnrr. isiThe different Powers deEgnated in the 6th r ara g uph, to wit, France, Great Britain, Aulitia, Spain, R.nfila, and Praia Sall be invited to accede to the prefent aipulationt. XI. The French troops (hall evacuate the I:in.,;- dom of Naples and the Roman States ; the Erg in]; forces fhall glib evacuate Porto Ferrajo, and generally all the ports and Wands that they occu py in the Mediterranean, or the Adriatic. XII. Tire evacuations, celEons, and rellitutic.r: ilipulated by the prcfent Treaty, shall be executed in Europe within a month ; un the Continent 214 Seas of America and Africa in three months; ca the Continent and Seas of Afia within fix moiiiiis after the ratification of the prefent Definitive Trc4ty. except in cafe of fpecial rcfervation. XIII. In all Cafes of reltitution agreed up.m the prefent Treaty, the fortifications be flored in the condition they were in at the time cf figning the Preliminariis; and all the works (hall have been conftrueted fine their occupation, remain untouched. It is agreed befides, that in all the ilipulatei cafes of ceffions, that &all be allowed to the in habitants, of whatever rank or nation, a tcrm cf three years, reckoning from the notification cf ti: prefent Treaty, to difpofe of all their property ag. I effefts, whether acquired or poffeired by them t: fore, or during the continuance of the prefer: war ; during which term of three years they fn:r I have free and entire liberty to curdle their re::- gion, and to enjoy their fortunes. The fame pri vileges are granted in the countries reflored, to :,11 perfons, whether inhabitants or not, who fn.ille ,; have formed any eftablithments there, during the ' time that thefe countries were in the polleffion of Great Britain. ' iAs to the inhabitants of the. countries reftored or, ceded it is hereby agreed, that no perfon fhal;f ST th *1 A fp ra bq th ni] in Di :el IIIniIIij.IIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIr ti to refer to the 1 good underlianding between the French Republic, 1 ea (abaft, after th e elehaege of the Rati6eadoa of th e mint 'int of bringing hi s M a j c it y t h e Ki ng o f Spain, his heirs and ilic- 1 Treamate limited to rctunt to M a lt a , as ( owl as the ezetnn, ..__ c• I