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FRANCE. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. FLORENCE, MAY 31.—Their Majefties the King and Queen arrived is this capital on the 29th from Poggio Cafano, where they have remained for fome time. Yefterday, being St. Ferdinand's day, the feltival of the infanta Duchefa of Parma, of the father of our Monarch, of the King of Naples, and the Prince of Afturias, there was a grand levee at Court; in the evening their Majef ties were at the Theatre della Pergola. Her Ma jefty is far advanced in her pregnancy. [This in telligence, lays the Gazeue & France, extraaed from the Courier de Milan, makes no mention of the bad (late of health of his Majefty the King of Etruria. —See the article frcrn Vienna.] VIENNA, JUNE 4.—A1l the letters received here from Florence agree in ftating, that the health of the KING of ETRURIA is in a very alarming Rate. His Royal Highners the Duke of PARMA is expeaed in this city. We learn from Milan that orders have arrived there from the French Go. vernment for immediately fitting up the ancient refidence of the Archduke FERDINAND. BERLIN, JUNE 4—The new journey of the he reditary Prince of MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN, who is going to Memel, to be prefent at the interview between the KING of Pitossia and the EMPitROR Of RUSSIA, gives rife to many reflections. It is afferted that an exchange of the duchy of Meek lenbourg, lung ago folicited by Praia, but oppofed by Rufii.t, is in agitation. The conclution of this affair, it is laid, will tend greatly to accelerate that of the indemnities. The French Government, by fending to Memel difpatches, fuppofed to be of great importance, rznders it probable that France is not unacquainted with the motives of this inter view, which may be confidercd as a congrefs held in name of the Continental Powers, under the prefidency of tlicfe who during the late events 'leveed the moil pacific diTpofitions. JUNE s.—On the 27th ult. their Majefties, being at Stutgard to review the troops in Pomerania, ac cepted of an invitation to a fete given by the No bility of the province. Next day, without being invited or expected, they repaired on foot to the fame place, where the fame company were A . m. bled. The King and Q . 2een danced these a Sews reel, tellified their high fatisfaaion, and retired about i i o'clock at night, amidit the benecliaions and acclamations of the States and the people. Citizen DUMOUTIER, Aide-de-Camp of BONA. TARTE, paired through this city on his way to Memel. He is the bearer of letters to their Ma jetties the Emperor of Russia and the King of rzussia. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JUNE 21. Ceunfel were heard in continuation relative to the Scotch Appeal, Lathley v. Hogg. namely, Mr. Romilly, at fume length OD the part of the Refpondent ; after which their Lordfhips. en the fuggeftion of the Lord Chancellor, who adverted to the impradicahility of doing juftice to the cafe during the very lhort remaining period of the Sedion, deferred the further con. fideration of it until the next Macao of Parliament. Under which arrangement one Counfel remains to be heaved on earls fide, namely, Mr. Erfkine for the Relpondents, and the leading Counfel for the Appellants in reply. The Royal Affect was given by Commiffion to 8z Bills, pub lie and private ; among the former were the two Mutiny Bills, the Exchequer Bills, the Hackney Coaches, thc Smug ling Prevention, the Dublin Water Works, the Irilb Parlia ment Houle Sale, the Weftmintter Police Rill, the Coal Me ters. the Yeomanry, the National Veit Redudion, thc Corn wall Miners, the Sugar Bounty, the kith Volunteer Corp., the Lkdiion Oaths, aid the Poft Office Regulation Bills. The Lords Commillioners were, the LORD CUANCRLLOR, Lord WALSiNGUASI, and Lord ALVANLLY. A number of lials were brought up from the Commons, which were fever illy reid a firft time; among them were the Exchequer Loan Bill, the Poft Horfes Duty, the Paper Duty, and the London Port Bills, by hir.Alcsander. A few return and private Bills were brought up by Sirs William Hcathcote and Geary. IRISH UN"ERTITICATED BANKRUPTS BILL. Lord Vifeount LIMERICK rote to can the attention of the Houfe to the lriih Uncertificated Bankrupts Bill. He °Very ed the Noble and Learned Lord's very formidable and weighty objeCtions agaitift the meafure yet erday evening, had made a coeffidtrable imprcffion on his mind, and the more he refleCted upon them, the more he was convinced of thtir validity. He bad alto made tome inquiries upon the fubjci fincc, and the refult of there. joined to the objeCtions offered by the Nobic sad Learned Lord, induced him to think that the Bill was of too great magnitude to pals without further eonfideration He thould therefore move, that the Commitment of the pill be poilponed till that day three mouths, which, on the queftion bring put, was ordered accordingly. FOREIGN tOSTAGIF. On the queltion being put for the third reading of the Foreign Letters Pottage Bill, The Earl of Sucrose role, and repeated his obfervatlons of laft night relative to the injury which the Inhabitants of Doves would Italian by certain regulations in the Bill. He knew that their Reprefentative wiarld be inftruCted on the occafion, and he thought the Bill Ihould be deferred until the parties were heard on the fuhjedt. Lord HOBART, in cited, oblerved, that he entertained no doubt of his b. ing able to relieve the Noble Earl's an x icty upf n the point, as he held in his hand a letter written by the per fans principally intereded in the meafure at Dover, addrelTed to a Noble Lord not then in his place; the letter was of that nature, that he could not read it as part of his fpeech, but it W-4$ expreflive of the perfect feisfaaion of thole perfons at the regulations, in confequenee of the reafons affigned by the Noble Lord. Lord Hobart then , oent aerofs the Houle, flamed the Letter to the Noble F, rl, who was apparently fa tided. and made no further ohjraion to the Bill, which was then real a third time and paffrd. CoVikRFNCE. On the mltion of Lord Huss lit., a Meffage was difpatehed to the Commons to dare a conference on the fubjed of the Amendment to itie Militia Bill, irnifted upon by their Lord fhips, in cteffi rime of wh . ch it w..s thorny alter announced, that the Com.aons were in waiting for the fame; accordingly, ate Earls of Dartmouth at.d Ft. flin, Lords Hobart, Waltiog ham, Somers, and were depute I to manage the con ference on the part of their Lordfhips. After a (hurt interval, the above mentioned Peers rcturiml, and the Earl of Dart mouth reported the rtfu:t to the Hnufe, which, in a few mi nutes, regularly a; reared, by Lord Gletrbervie, attended by fever.! I‘l, wirers a , the Vat with the Militia Bill, and Met. lase, Rating th ,s the Cononon‘ did s'4 MGR upou their dita greentent to the Amendment In qi.eftion. Al.liN HILL• The Honfe having refolved itfelf into a Corn nsittee on the Bill for making regulations with 3e fpeet T.-) Aliens 'coming into this country, role, not, he Lid, for the pur pole of o.f.pi,ling the Bill altogether, but with a view to propote fuLlt modifications in it as might tend to promote the convenience and comfort of a large and refpedable clafs of people, by pre venting thole oppteffions to which, by the prefent Bill, they would be liable. At the fame time that he did not directly oppofe the Bill, it was one, the principle of which he never aid, nor never fhould concur in : it was a Bill which had thrown a great power into the hands of his Majefty's Mi. nillers ; a power that had often been exercised with extreme harffinefs and feverity. A Noble Duke, who, for fume years, had held the Office of Secretary of State, who, at the fame time, fu perintended the Police Department of the country, and who always appeared in fuel: a dubious cha ratter, that it was not even known whether he was or was not a Member of his Majcily's Cabi net—this Noble Duke had atfumed the power of fending perfons nut of the country, for reafons very different from thole intended by the framers of the law under which lie aEted. The object and policy of that law was clearly underftood to be, that no perfon fhould fuller any hardfhip under it, except on charges of a political nature; drat no foreigner fhould be liable to be fent out of the ; country, except for fome aa, which, in its politi cal tendency, was hottile to the Conflitution of this country. Such was the intent and meaning ; of the firft Alien Ad; but i: had been unjuftly and feverely exercifed towards perfons who had made no profeffion of political fentiments what ever. Many foreigners, from family pique only, had been fent out of the country, and fubjeaed to the greateft per fonal inconvenience and hardilips. While he was fpeaking on the principle of the Bill, there was another obfervation to which he mutt' call their Lordfhips' attention. He would main- I tain that there never was a time, in which it was I lefs necefftry to exercife fuch vigilance and feve-1 rity towards foreigners, than this moment. At the time when a Pretender was aiming at the throne of Great Britain, and when the greateft ; dangers were likely to be apprehended from the ; intrigues of foreigners in this country, no fuck ; Bill as the prefent was thought necetfary to be patf.:d against them ; and at this moment there could not, in his mind, exift the flighteft ground of apprehention from the defigns of any foreign State againft our Laws and Conftitution. His furprifc was, therefore, the greater when he faw this meafute thus continued in time of profound peace and tranquillity. He could with the mca fure to be done away altogether; but as he did not hope to be fuccefsful in oppofing it, he wifhed to off,r fuch amendments as might do away fome of the fevere parts of it. In one part of the Bill, Magiftrates had a power to keep in confinement thofe who fhould refute to comply with the terms of the Aa ; and the period to which this confine ment was to be limited, was not fpecified in the Bill, therefore a man might, at the difcrimination of a Magiftrate, be kept in a (late of imprifonmen: ever fo long. Thofe who might prefer a refidence in our free country, and with to efcape from that tyranny which a tingle perfon fhould think proper to exercife over them in their own, a regulation of this kind mutt infpire with very ftrange notions of our Conftitution. In order therefore to prevent them from fuffering the hard(hips he alluded to, he fhould move an amendment, providing that no perfon taken into cullody by virtue of this Bill, fhould be confined longer than two mouths; and that at the end of fuch period every perfon in eon finement should either be liberated, or fent out of the kingdom. His Lordfkip Paid he had feldom teen a Bill drawn up in a more bungling manner than the relent ; and it was abfolutely neceffary to make a number of amendments in it. It was his intention to propofe another amendment, to limit to the ("pace of one month, the period in which a man, about to be fent out of the kingdom, was to be kept in cuftody. Lord WALSING HAM, as Chairman of the Com mittee, wifhcd the Noble Lord might propofe his amendments. Lord HOLLAND replied, that he confidered it the bell mode, and one lealt likely to take up the time of the Houfc, to Mite the nature of all his amendments in the courfe of his obfervations on the Bill, and to propote them afterwards ; but if he was out of order in doing fo, he was ready to comply with the rules of the Floofe. The LORD CHANCFLLOR thought the old Oa tainted praftice was the bell, and tended molt to lave time. This practice was, to propofe amend. ments one by one, and debate them feparately. Lord HOLLAND, after fume further converfa tion, laid he would yield to the opinion of the Noble and Learned Lord, and then moved his firft amendment. I'he LARD CHANCELLOR raid, he did not rife to nppore the amendment, but to fuggefl fuch an al to ation as would make the meafure pra3icable, and at the fame time anfwer the objeift the Noble I Lord had in view. This was, that the parties kept in cuflody, if they ill - night themfelvts ag. grieved, fhould have the power of applying to any of the Judges, or of the Tribunals of the country ; and that ilon a proper enquiry being made, they were found to have been treated with hardfhip, they mould obtain redrefs. He did not then mean to reply to all the oblervations of the Noble Lord, but he mutt take notice of one atfertion, namely, that perfons had been unjuilly fent out of the country ; and that many of them had committed , no political offence whatever. He had that opt. nion of the juftice, integrity, and humanity of the I Noble Duke alludt.d to, as to believe that he had never improperly exercifed the power vetted in him ; and he did not think any had been fent out of the country but perfons whom, if Minifters had left in it, they would not have done their duty. Theae were various :embus betides political ones which rendered this exercife of their power neceffary. Supple there happened to be a coun. try, the people of which had (hook off all the wholefome rearaints of religion and morality— fuppofe Come of them to come and propagate their profligate principles, and carry thofe principles into prailice, he would alk if it would net he both juft and neceffary to fend fuch perfons out of the kingdom,to prevent the morals of our people front being corrupted? Such perfons did come here ; they were received ittto families, where they ailed with thebafell ptoffigacy and ingratitudc; andthey were very properly fent out of the kingdom, as I being 13114 L to live in it. Lord SUFFOLK Ciid, that in anfwer to the Noble Lord's declaration, he would Rate what might be relied on ; and which came within his own knowledge. There was a French Abbe who had taught tis children the French language, whom he had known for upwards of eighteen years, and who was a man of the ftritleft integrity and honour ; a man of great learning, of the purelt principles, and the molt correct conduct ; as a proof of his humanity, he had for a confider able time taken care of a near relation of his (Lord Suffolk's), an old Lady, who was blind and infirm ; and if that relation had been a male fhe would have had the title which he then bore, as the was of the elder branch of the family ; her name was Harvey, the Honourable Mrs. Harvey; the died about fottr yeat s ago. This Gentleman, who was 70 years of age, and againft whom no crime could be imputed, was by an order from the Noble Secretary of State alluded to, fent out of the kingdom at twenty-four hours notice. This tranfaCtion took place about four years ago ; and he ltimfelf was in Scotland at the time. The unfortunate old Gentleman, although he had been ' acquainted with Renbel, who was then in the Di reaory, was not flattered to go to Paris ; and the treatment he had received actually broke his heart, for he died in about a sear or two afterwards.— He thought it necelfary to relate the Rory, to thew the manner in which the power yelled in the Noble Duke by the Alien ACt had been exercifed. Lord PELHAM faid he could hardly exprefs the great anxiety he felt, at hearing fo grave and feri ons a charge made againit a Noble Duke who un fortnnately was not in his place, for if he was, be might probably do away the charge to the entire fattsfaCtion of the Houfe. For that Noble Duke he entertained the warmeß friendfhip ; and cer ! min he was that no man poffeffed a larger !hare of juftice and humanity ; and no man was lefs likely to do fuck an act as was now laid to his charge.— But it was necelfary to obferve, that the Noble Earl had laid this French Abbe was acquainted with Reubel ; and perhaps that circumltance be ing known, might have formed a very juttifiable ground for fending him out of the country. Lord Ross LYN bore teftimony to the great in tegrity and humanity of the Noble Duke in quef tion ; and laid he could not help remarking, as a circumftance rather extraordinary, that the Noble Earl who now made fuch a weighty charge againft him, had not called on the Noble Duke atehe time of this Gentleman's being ordered out of the coun try, and remonftrated with him on the fulled : inftead of which, he took occafion after an interval of luta ••tars, to make this charge againft him, when he was not prefent to defend himfelf. Lord SUFFOLK replied, that he was in Scotland when the event took place, and did not know of it for near three months after. He then Rated that the Abbe had been applying fome time before this to the Duke of Portland for a paffport to go to France. Lord HOBART Paid the whole of the hufinefs ap peared to be nothing more than this—that an old French Gentleman had applied to the Duke of Portland for leave to go to his own country, and that the Noble Duke facilitated his departure thither. The LORD CHANCELLOR fpoke in favour of the Duke of Portland. and obferved, that there had been many Foreigners in this country, the fending away of whom might be confidered a great hard. fhiV; but although their moral charadcr might have continued unimpeached, he was convinced it would have been dangerous to fuffer many of them to remain in the kingdom. Lord HOLLAND Paid he had heard a great deal about the integrity, the candour, and humanity of the Noble buke in quellion ; and if, after all thole great qualities, the man who poffeffed them was capable of exercifing with feverity and rigour the powers veiled in him by the Alien Ad, it fur nifhed an additional reafon why Minifters fhould not have fuch a power. Lord ELLEN VOROUCIH, in allufion to the Rory related by Lord Suffolk, laid, if he had been in the fartheß part of Scotland or Ireland, he might have written to the Duke of Portland concerning the unjiift hardthip inflided on his acquaintance. It was his duty to have done fo ; and as he had not, he ought not to have mentioned the circum- Rance afterv:aris. When he returned from Scot land, why did he not wait on the Noble Duke, and make fuch a reprefentation of this man as might be the means of bringing him back to Eng land again? Lord SUFFOLK Enid, he thought he had already fufficiently explained this fitbjed ; but inflead of his explanation being attended to, he law he was attacked by a poweiful phalanx, confilling of Se cretaries of State and Lawyers. Confcious as he was of the reditude of his own principles, and the propriety of his condud, he would meet thefc at tacks, and not be intimidated by thofe who made them. Once more he would nate, that he had never heard of the circumaance till near three months after it took place ; and when he did hear of it, he was overwhelmed by a domeilic calamity which deprived him of the power of attending to any thing. He had jua loft a Gm, the very recol ledion of whom at that moment drew tears into his eyes. Lord CARLISLE laid he had originally approied of the Alien Bill, and he was of opinion that a Se cretary of State was not bound to affign any rea fon for the exercife of that difcretion which the law gave him. Lord Hot.utato withdrew his firfl and fecond amendments, on account of the Lord Chancellor's declaring that, on the report of the Bill, he fhould propofe others which would anfwer the objet of them. His Lordfhip afterwards propofed an amendment for fending away dittrefred Aliens at the expence of Government.—This was withdrawn, the Chancellor obferving, that it IA as unneceffiry : fur if the perfon to be tent away was rich, he would not k+ut up with the accommodation afforded him by Crovernment ; and if he was poor Government mull of courfe bear the expence. His Lordfhip propofed a great number of other amendments, none of which were adopted. Lord Fir ZWILLIAM made a number of Werra tions on the Bill, and at length concluded by mov. ing a claufe, the object of which was, that the Bill, as far as rerpeeted the delivering up perfons ac. cufed of murder, forgery, and fraudulent bank. ruptcy, thould not extend to natural born fubjetts, ' denizens, or perfons naturalized. The LORD CHANCELLOR objated to the clauf t , and (fated the inconveniencies which would refult from the adoption of by violating one of the compaas upon which the Definitive Treaty was founded ; fecondly, by producing that delay which might be eventually fatal to the Bill.—The claufe was withdrawn. Lord HOLLAND moved that the clanfe allowing the Bill to be altered and amended during the Sef. lions (hould be omitted ; but the Lord Chancellor objeaing, he withdrew his motion. Lord FitzwiLi.tam obferved, that the hour of danger was pall—that there was no necellity for it even as a temporary meafore— and that he could not content to the Bill's being perpetual. He therefore moved its continuance Should be limited to the asth of March, 1803. The LORD CHANCFLLOR agreed that the hour of danger was pall, provided we (Lill preferved that Caution which had averted the danger. He pledg. ed himfelf in the mule of nett Seißon of Parlia• ment, to recommend its being made temporary. Lord FIrzWILLIAM expreffed his fatisfaelion at the pledge given by his Lordihip, and withdrew his motion. The Report was ordered to be received to-mor row. Lord HOLLAND gave notice he fhould oppofe the principle of the Bill upon the Report, and the Houle was ordered to be fnmmoned. INDIA AFFAIRS. Lord SUFFOLK obferved, that as the Honfe was fummoned for to-morrow, he would not at this late hour profs the motion of which he had given notice yellerday, relative to the Affairs of the Eall India Company, but would defer it till To• morrow. The Earl of Darr/awn, aid, if he only in tended to bring forward the Motion, of which he had given notice yefterday, as no oppofition would be made to it, he might as well Rate it now. Lord HOLLAND faid,his Noble Friend's intention was not merely to move for Papers, but he meant to comment at large on the affairs of India. Lord Sorroec Paid, he did mean to make thofe comments his Noble Friend had alluded to ; he lhould abßain from any oblervation on the politi cal part of the queltion, and confine himfclf to the debt of the India Company, and the general Rate of its finance, a fithjed which he thought highly important to be laid before their Lordthips and the public, in all its various details. DEER STEALING BILL. While the Deer Stealing Bill was in , the Com. mittee, Earl RADNOR moved an Amendment in the third Claufe, but the LORD CHANCELLOR beg. ged him to withdraw it, in order that he might move, That the Noble Lord do leave the Chair, and report progrefs—after which he raid he would move in the Houfe to re-commit the Bill on that day three months.—This was accordingly done. All the other Bills on the Table patFcd their re. fpedtive Rages, and at ten o'clock the Houle ad. journed. HOUSE OF COMMON& ALIZANDIR brought up the Report of the Esc& 2111. which was read and agreed to, and the Bill read a third time and Bonham's Divorce MU was read a third time and pared. l'be Lords' Amendments in the Weft India Dock Bills wee taken into confkleration, read, and agreed to. FINANCE. The CHANCILLOR of the Excoskysa faid, he rofe in purfuance of the notice he had given on a former day, to fubmit feveral Refolutions on thr fubjed of Finance ' on which it was his intention to move that the Debate (horrid be adjourned to Thurfday, with an underfianding that the Refolu tions fhould be printed and ready for delivery to morrow. He then fubmitted the following Refs). lutions : I. That the amount of the Public Funded Debt was, on the 5:15 of January, 1786, 238,a31,248L exelufive of Long and S:iort Annuities. and Annuities for Lives, to the amount of 1.373,5501. That on the DI of February 1793, Stock to the amount of 1044a,1001. had been purchafed by the Conunif fioners for redeeming the National Debt ; and Annuities to the amount of 79,8801. had fallen in, and had been carried to their account; reducing the adtual amount of the Debt, on the sth of January 1793, to 117,989,1 4EI. and the Annuities to 2.293,6701.: And that, on the tft of February 17.102, Stock to the amount of 36,885,3081. bad been purchafed by the Corn miffioaera for redeeming the National Debt, and Annuities to Ithe Amount of 2 25,7e7L had fallen in and b e e t rearried to their account; and Stock to the amount of 18,0011t481 had been transferred to them, on account of Lind 'fax redeemed ; ducing the actual amount of Debt exiting before the War, on the lit el' February tfioi, to 180,344,79 21 . and the Annuities to 1,247.8431. 2. That the Capital of the Public Funded Debt, created Once the tit of February 1793, as the fame Rood oil the lit of February 1802, together with the Cepital to be creat ed by tams borrowed in the prefent Sefton of Par:lament, and exclufive of 7,501,6531. Three per Cent. Stock created by Advances to tlac Emperor of Germany,is 351,1 25,731 1 . 7 pat the amount of Long Annuities treated during the fame pc. ri o d, is 220,4611. per annum, exclufive of 230,0001. Annuity, created by advances to the Emperor of Germany, which will expire in the year 1802 That of thee tuns 12,348,001. Cl - and 9,7911. Long Annuities. are on account of Ireland; rid leaving a Permanent Debt of 328,7; 7.7501. char Fed on Great Britain, and that on the tit of February thol, 9.703.i01• bad been purchafed by the Commilliubers for retie:. tko National Debt, reducing the [aid Permanent . ebt ma: ea 6::ee sth January 1793, to 0 09,074 13 J. per annum, ezelulnic of Long Annuities to the amount of 310,6701 3. That the Total amount of the Permanent Funded De` t charged on Great Britain, after dedvEting the fum of 59,588,9041. redeemed by, and the Atte uiiies fallen Into, the CommifLuners, and IBpnt,l4Bl. transit:mil to them, on 3 " count of Land 'l'ax redeemed, was, on the tt of February iBoa, 419 4 58,926!. together with Short Annuities, to og sinout.t of 543,1031 and Long Annuities to the a mount of 1 154101 after acduCting the Annuities provided for by Le.and. 4. That the turn annually applicable to the Redudion of the National Debt of Great Britain, in purfuance of the Act palled in 1786, was being I-238th part of the Ca pital of the Perntment Debt then exiting ; and tor 1;93, was 1,4 3 7,1431. king about z-thyth part of the Permanent Debt exiting in 1793, and may tor Oh year taus be Mb:titanic' at 5,8c0p001. being about 1-84th part of the Perm:went Debt exiting in tgoz, which Com of ,e:Jo• ooi. is appropriated by ACt of Parbanu lit to accumulate at Compound inteten, unal the whole of the exift:ng Debt is difeharged, which, loPPofil I all the Stacks to he mediated at Par, and no further tote transferred for the Redemption of the Land 'fax, caratit later than the clau of the year 1843.