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ini HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MARCH 24. PARLIAMENTifRr PROCEEDINGS. The Fluy_l Agent was given, by Comini:Tion, to Eighteen nl .'.g c , Six Private Bills; among the former were the i.,,tt-Offir , DIId:4 Bill, the Stamp Dudes, the Horfe Duty, Dory, Sir tlintegy SNIT it's Annuity, and the Ira al Law 1!:11s, together with two other Bills relative to the meat of Ireland. The Lords Commiflioners were, int LORD CRANCELLOR, the Duke of ROIRVI:611, and Lord Cet NGIIA N. Ir: Earl of WARWICK gave notice that on Monday next his se , •uld bring forward a motion refpedting the High prices et Provilions ; and for which day he moved that their Lordihips fummoned, which was ordered accordingly. bufinefs was difpofrd of, and Annual Prlia re! %irt• Accounts laid bcf.ice the Haute by the proper Officers Sir 1/i.% AC HEARD, &c. attended for the purpofe of Intro -o,,,jag in form Lord Wm.rot.E, of Woolterton, as Baron At'Atrol.e, of Walpole; but his Lordibip not attending in due time, the Ceremony did not take place. Adjourned till to-morrow, when the Lords Committees met at half pail two o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A htelfazte was rectived from the Lords, fining that their Lcdtliips had agreed to the frith Habeas Corpas Sufpenfion 131.1, and to the Bill for continuing Martial Law in Ireland for li...i:cd time. :s'r. ELLiuT and R. S. Mt elms, EN. were sworn, and took wiir (eats. . 1 h. Ufhtr of the Black Rod came to defire the immediate Int:dance of the Commons in the Houfe of Lords, to hear his Commlflion read, for the palling of Bills. The Srrsxea, upon his return,informcd the Houfe that the 'Ards Cunirnifliortn had declared the Royal Anent to the Aduitional Pottage Dut7, Stamp, Paper, and Honk Duty 84:4, Sir SIDNEY SMITH I Pention Bill, the MIL Duties Bill, th, I ritli Prohibitory Corn Diftillery Bill, the Bakers' Amended Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Marine Forces Regulation Bill, the Antrican Flour Bounty Importation Bill, the frith Martial Lst, and the frith H.;beas Corpus Sufpenfion Bills, and the (Jet Militia Field Officers' Augmentation Bill, together with ft feral Private Bills. Various Accounts were preftnted from the Mercers' Corn } icy. and the Tax-Office, which were ordered to be laid upon nice Tsble. 01 the motion of Sir W. GLARY, it was ordered that there Ce laid before the Haute, an Account of the Income and Expen diture of the Board of Apricuiture for the year ilk°. Alto an Account of the Parliamentary Grants to, and of the Income and Expenditure of the Veterinary College,for the year coding rill February t Sort The ATTORNEY GENERAL brought up a Bill for the more effidual prevention of the forgery of Bank Notes, &e. Alf o a Pill for toter regulating the Rates for granting R, lief to the Poor; after a converfation refpeding the latter Bill, between Mr. lotus - v E, Sir W. You NO, Mr. CUR WEN, and Mr. ELL'. ton, both Bills were read a fit* time, and ordered to be printed, and to be read a fecond time on Thurfday next. Mr. Batson: brought up the Report of the Committee on the Eaft-India Judicature Bill,whrn the names of Members nomi nated for trying offences committed in India, were read over, &Trembly to the Adt. The Houle refolved itfeif into a Committee on the Scotch Aloliffes Dinah ry Bill. Mr. Lona moved a Refolution for continuing the Duties im plied bit Year; which being agreed to, and the Houfe returned, the Report was ordered tobe reeds% d to-morrow. The Houfe wean into a Committee on the Bill for the better Cultivation of Common Arable Fields, Waftes, dec. and for en couraging the Growth of Potatoes on laid ground. The Houk Ling refuneid, the Report was ordered to be received to morrow. Sir W. Pu LTZN T raid, he role agreeably to notice, to move fur leave to bring in a Bill for promoting the Cultivation of Potatoes, a meafure by which he apprehended the Poor-rata would be much diminithed. He raid it was not his intention to repair a mature flmilar to what had bees already rejeeted, of breaking up of Grafs lands for this purpofe ; it was iodide:it to allow the Cultivators of Lands to remove difficultiesin their own way.—At the fame time, there was evidently a great deal of unproductive Land which might be irnprovedby railing Pota toes in Autumn, which would prove of particular fervice at a time before the new Corn could be threthed out and brought to market. The Bill was not meant to interfere with the other Bill for eticouraging the Growth of Potatoes in Common Fields. He then moved for leave to bring in a Bill for kirening the btu den of the Poor-Rates, by encoaragiag the Growth of Pota toes, &e. during the peek nt Scarcity. COkldli ADDING mOet feconded the motion, which, after a few words from Mr. NICPULLI, %a agreed to. Mr. Arnett moved. that the Fourth Report of the Weft Committee on the prefent High Price of Proviflona, be referred to the Committee of Supply on Friday. The Eat-India Goods Land-Carriage Bill was read a feeoad time. The Expiting Laws Bill was committed; when the Bill for continuing the Itnportation of Goods in Neutral Ships went through the Committee, and was reported. The other Orders of the Day were defined...4le Houk lat/jooroed ht Bs o'clock till to-morrow. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 63. Laax-DA?..—Holiday at the Batik and Public OMcei Private bargaino at eh% Stock Exchange: Confide A i—Oranium sif ;mica Of ITOCKS YtiTtlbAf Lek Stock dot tong Ann. Sint 3 per Cent. Red. (hut Imp. 3 per Cent. 57 3 per C. Conf. 37/1 Imp. Ann. is 3-16 4 per Cent. shut India Stock LIZC. NM 93H Otrudom ! I t t Loyalty hot Cool for sliti The Recount we gave jeflerday, of the capture of fifteen French 'Weis, laden with wine, brandy, itc. and of a French corvette with arms and am munition on board for Egypt, is confirmed by the Gazette of latt night.—See the laR page. At a late hour 411 night we received Paris Jour tali to the 2tlt inclufive. By there it appears that the Treaty of Luneville, the ratifications of wl.'eti had been mutually exchanged between the Emperor and the French Government, was rati fied on the rnth at Paris, by the Legiflative Body, and that great rejoicings were to take place on the 31111 in cdnfcquence of this event. An Armitlice has been concluded between the l'itri.cu and the Kis° of Mutts, under the me ditatint. of the Emrxxot of Russin. The firft cffo of this Convention was to order the depar ture of all the Englifh !hipping in the Flits of his StLtcuN MAJISTT, and that no Englifh rails Lail in future be admitted into them. The fame order extends to Turkilh thips. The Englith Merchants at Naples have requelled pairports to _ ri torn home. An official copy of the articles of this armillice 1 611 be found in the preceding columns. • The only altufsosi we can find is thy& pipers to the reported change in the Dutch Government, is an article from the Hague, dated rgth March, which Rates that an agent is going to Berlin to treat of the indemnification the PRINCE of ORANGE demands for the lots of the cßates he had in the Republic. Preparations continue to be carried on with the greateft aetivity by the Spanifh Government, for the invafion of Portugal. Twenty-nine battalions of infantry, and eight fquadrons of cavalry, are ordered to march into the Province of Gallicia, where there are at prefent nolefs than ig,ooo troops. The Spaniards expert to be joined by a large body of French troops. The French frigate, the Africain, has been cap tured in the Mediterranean, after an obflinate en gagement of four hours, during which fhe loft her Captain, two Lieutenants, and 127 men killed, and 176 wounded. The Englith fhip that took her is not mentioned in the Moniteur. There is no intelligence from Egypt. The Mo tikeur copies from the journal du Dcfayiva what is filed a confirmation of the mutiny in the Turki(h army at Jaffa. The letters from Conflantinople are not of a late date. The French Tiers Confolides had fallen to 53, but they have again rifen to 55• The MEN will have a Drawing-Room to-mor row at St. James's Palace. The KING has been pleafed to appoint WILLIAM Lord AUCKLAND, and CHARLES SPENCER, Efq. commonly called Lord CHAP.LEN SPENCER, to the office of his Majefty's Poltmaller-General. A Board of the Treafury was irAd yellerday, at which Mr. ADDINGTON for the fink time prefided, and at which Mr. J. H. ADDINGTON took his feat as Secretary to the Board. On Monday came on at Oxford, the elation of a Reprefentative in Parliament for the Univerfity, in the room of FRANC!! PAGE, Eq. when the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM Scorr was unanimoully elated. The number of the troops under Sir RtLPH ASERCROMBY was, at the date of hi tail letter, t 6,000. It was then expelled he would loon he joined by a regiment of Dragoons and a regiment of Infantry. The force of the French in Egypt, according to the heft information in our roffeffion, is about 16,000 men, including the Native troops. Laft week a meeting took place at Youghall, Ireland, between Mr. JOHNSON, of the Leitrim Militia, and Mr. BARRY, of Cattle-Lyons, when the former received a ball which killed him on the fpot. The Loan MAYOR yellerday ordered the price of Bread to be reduced two affixes, or 4 d. in the peck loaf, to take place to-morrow. The quartern loaf will then be is. 94d. The LADY MAYORESS had a grand route laft night, at the Manton-houfe, at which above isoo perfons of both fexes were prefitnt. Vifcount and Vifeountefs Tat MLESTON, Lord W. RUSSELL, -the Members of Parliament for the City of London, and the Counties of Middlefex, Surry, and Kent, the Officers of the Eaa India Company Volunteers, the Officers of tle City Affociations, the Officers of the Honourable Artillery Company, and moil of the Aldermen and Common Council of the City, and their Ladies, were prelent. The LADY MAYOASSII had provided every thing fuitable to the entertainment of her company. Hit LORDSHIP, with a Idea party of his ft cods, regaled themfelves lin an adjoining apartment. The company did not break up till an early hour this morning. We hear the extenfive China Warehoufe in Por. tugal-itreet, together with the dwelling-houfe in Lincoln's-Inn-fields, was fold the other day by private contra& to the occupier, Mr. SPODE, of Stoke Pottery, Stafforelibite. ENGLISH STATI•LOTTERY.-Nineltendlday. No. 21,277, a prize of toool.—No. 38,217, a prize of vol.—Nos 54,102, 12,184, 10,024. 38,039, and 2,031, prizes of sol.—Twentieth day.— No. 44,718,a prize of 50001.—N0. 36,852, a prize, of cool.—Nos. 42,343, 36,615, prizes of tool.— . Nos. 47,681, to,oos, and 5,253, prizes of 501. Letters from Manchefter mention, that a meet ing of upwards of aoo perfons had been difcover ed in the night, between Monday and Tuefday week, at the Britannia Inn; and between so and 6o were conveyed to prifon by the conflables and mi litary. Various reports were in circulation as to the objee of their meeting ; the moll probable was, that they *et in confequence of the high price of pecrrifions. The Captain of the revenue cutter, which re. fufed lending affiflance to the crew of the berme:- IL!, has undergone an examination. Lail week the temporary bridge crated acrofs the Avon, between the old and new town of Bath, was opened. Its fpan is 'l6 feet, and was finiflt-i ed in three months from theme it was commenced. Much damage. was c..ccaGoned in I.incolnfliire by the late floods. The Welland, and other ri vers, oferflowed their banks, and carried away great numbers of filmy>, &e. In confequence of the heavy fall of rain Sa turday laf, in the neighbourhood of Lough borough, the waters rde fo rapidly, that Mr. Draper had as (beep drowned in his meadows be fore affinance could be given them. Several other Gentlemen had (beep drowned at the fame time. _ _ ..... At the Lite Maidßonelres, Mom:: Hut/4 was tried, before Baron Hort+ 14 and a refpeßable Jury of the County of Kent, for fraudulently ob taining tiorn Peter Smit, a Serjeant in the Chat ham Dirifion of Marines, the funs of 71. 12 L bounty-money, for inlitling as a marine giddier, knowing himfelf at the fame time to be ineligible, by reafoa his being then the lawful apprentice of Robert Noakes, of Yalding, in the Paid County, Blackfmith ; and being found guilty of the offence, he was fentenced to be imprifoned in the Houfe of Correilion for twelve months, and during that 1 time to be twice publicly whipped. NAUTICAL INIELLIGENCR. MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind S. W. ARRIVED o tlaniburgli • Dul , lit., Niar,h 2:, O WatLrforcl ✓ Dm: ighldee, March I Jamaica, Feb. 9, DU E. FALMOUTH, MARCH 22. Arrived the PRINCESS AMELIA packet, Captzm BRYANT, with the mails from Jamaica : 'failed from this port on the t7th December, with the mails of that month, and arrived at Barbadoes on the r 7th of January, where fhe found dm: of the outward bound Welt India fleet, one with troops on board, the others for Jamaica ; touched at St. Lucie and Martinique, and arrived at Jamaica on the 29th ; having fpoke his Majelly's (loop DRAKE on a croiae on the zcth—At Jamaica the found his Majelly's Chips Sass PAREIL, CARNATIC, Q II EE nc, la Yawata- E, Antru los, and le Vengeance French frigate, which had been captured by his Majefty's fhip la SEINE ; as Alb the AMERICA and ADMIRAL DE VRIEZ prifon (hips : while (he remain ed at Jamaica, his Majelly's (hips SURPRI7r, 12 DECADE, TISIPHONE, and SY.'ALLOW,arrived from different critizes ; and the MELAMEVS, with two valuable Spanifh prizes. The (hip CAROLINE, with the mails for England, failed on the 2d February, but unfortunately fprung a leak the fame day, which gained fo much on the pumps, that the crew were obliged to abandon her, and foon after the funk. The mails as well as all the crew and paffengers were faved.—Tl e PRINCESS AMELIA received her mails on board, and failed from Jamaica on the Bth of February, under convoy of the TISIPHONE and la VOLAGE !loop of war.—She fpoke the Polly and James from Jamaica to Liverpool, on the 15th of February, in lat. 19, long. 50, all well, out 15 days.—The TI• stzHONE convoyed her as far as lat. 24. 37. long. 73. 49• and then parted on the 19th of February. —The packet alfo fpoke the American flip Hunter, bound to Carolina from London, it days at felt, all well, its lat. 45. 29. long. 18. 52. and arrived here this day. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24. The TRENT frignc, Sir E. HAMILTON, and AN sow, of 44 guns, failed this morning on a cruize ; alto the Fortune, for Cork, and ERDYMION, Capt. DURHAM, for Lifbon. • DOVER, MARCH 23. A Flag of Truce failed from hence this morn ing fur Calais, with a German Melfenger, who had been waiting here fome days, and difpatches from M. 0 rro.—The heavy gales of wind we have had for fome days pot, have prevented arrivals from France; but the weather being now moderate, a veifel is expected from Calais nett tide. FROM LLOYD'S LIST: - . DEAL, MARCH 24..—Sailed the NEMESIS frigate, RESOLUTION, CYON ETT, SAVAGE, and KENT, cutters, on a cruife.—Came down the EA EL How 2, for India, and remains. Wind S. W. GRAVESEND, MARCH 24.—Paired by, the Hope, Fay, from Waterford.—Sailed, the Sufannah, HFWSON, for Dominica; Providence, —, for St. Vincents; Henrietta, —, for Hamburgh ; Nel fon, SMITH. for Trinidad LRaikes, —; Augnf tus Cear a FowLaa, and Harriott, STAMPER, for Jamaica. HULL, MARCH 23. On Monday laft, the fleet under the command of Sir Flynt PARKER, and Lord NELSON, with a great numher of viaualler s and - tranfports, fleet mg Northward, with a f.t:r wind, palled the Yotk thire coati. As they wen: not tar diflant from the ihore, and the fun (hone upon them, they afforded a very fine fight. On Tuefday morning laft, the SQ , welt. (loop of war, with twenty fail of Chips for Greenland and Davis's Strcights, from Yarmouth, called off Tyttemouth, and added the (hips from that port for thole fisheries to the convoy. The Jenny, BLAC N BIRD, failed from Shields the 25th of December, with coals for Harwich, but by contrary winds was driven on the coif! of Nor way, and put into Arendahl, where the I.ld her coals, and took in a cargo of deals for Whitby, at which place fhe arrived the I,:h ;nil. She failed from Arendahl the 25th of February, when the Danes wore ditinantling their (hips, for fear of the Englith taking them out of their harbours. The following is an accurate ftatement of th; ' qnantity of oil in tons weight, obtained by the vcf fels belonging to this Tort, employed hit feafon in the Greenland and Davis's Straits Filheries dif tingnifhity the quantity taken by each relpeetive veftel :—Brothers 219 ; Ellifon [99; Molly 135; Egginton ii; Elizabeth 1 to ; Maria 98 ; Man- chetter 92; Lynx 9o; Samuel 9c; John 87; Ad venture 83; Traveller 8o; Fanny i 9; Truelove 65; Ariel 64 ; Ewe: prize 61; Lottery 46 ; Hun ter 4o; North Britain 3o ; Vrftal tti ; Oakhall t a ; Symmetry a; Sarah and Elizabeth o. Tons of Whale Oil 1738.—Twenty-thrzc (hips--ave rage 75 tons. The experiment, Barry', of Lynn for Green land, is arrived in the Humber to refit, having carried away her bowfptit, and received other da mage. The Sound Ibis, the laft of which is dated March 3, contain no Englifis ve(fds, and , snly two foreigners bound to England ( London) with corn. The Sound was clear of ice on the 2`411 of Feb. Enna of a letter from Captain CON, (detained in RulLa) to his wife in this town, dated !Amid, Feb. 3d, tilot.—“ From the time the embargo took place at Rip, to the time I was taken Irmo my fhip, whid. WAS tilt! 91ii . 137 I WI - AL yen four lettet s, and he bane to r., ..sv n et; ; but have not -is yet reci ;veil vny from you or them, and Curti: mull lis ha.ve now shipted. Ih_day I taken from n:y Ihip , v:ts a fi,rtotv.. till on.! ; it framed as if I was g.,i/lg to he ,be tea of aii that w:ii dcat to me in this v..orld: but it plealed GO7) that I w a ti,nn enabled to trill iA him. We have been here nearly ei;lft weeks, that is 20 mailers and our pcople ; and, all things con lidered, live comfortably, althouLh the all,wance we have is no more than Ss. 6d. per mot:th, and every thing very dear. Our mete:Lints 7t Psi,;a have been fo kind as to confider our fa dor..and re mit to us 75. 6d. per month fur each man in addi tion, fo that they live tolerably well (ince this took The inhab:tants arc very !rind to us ; but of a war fuould be the event, it is very uncertain whether we (hall Ray at this plac:!, nr ue removed elfewhere. This town is about 6ontilesfromßiLa." PARIS, MARCH tg. REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE STAFF, OFF!. CMS NVHO ISERL PASSENGERS, •ND THE PRI,:Cf. PAL OFFICERS OF THE FRIGATE L'AI:“LAINE. The frigate I'Africaine failed front Rochfut t en the iith of February ; flee was chafed without intermitlion by a frigate and a brig, and the com mandant, fo deceive the enemy be changing his comfy, fic;_red into the Gut, of Gibraltar: tt!c isith we there f e ll in w ith two more of cite enerriv't: velfels, wi.ich, by their fupcaior failing, were able to come up with the Irigate l'Africaine. The en gagemt.nt commenced at fix in in the evening.— At eight Captain SAUNTER, the Commander in Chief, ordered every thing to be got ready for hoarding; but the enemy, favoured by their po fition,fileceeded in avoiding it. The battle continued with the greaten vigour, and the AFRICAINt heed already fullained a great lofs inmen, betides receiving conftderable damage. Captain SAUNTER, conceiving the poilibility of boarding, which would hive fecured him vic tory, gave orders for a fecond attempt, but it was Rill eluded by the enemy's chips. A tire which broke out three time!, Rill added Id the embarraffment of the combat, and this cir cumaance gave the enemy tinerpeftcd advantage:, feveral of the guns on the main and quarter deck were entirely difmcunted, and the Avatcaboi having 101 l many effential parts of her rigging, could no longer be worked. Captain SAUNTER having been fevetely wound ' ed died foon after ; the command then devolved on the Captain of the frigate MAG EN DI E, who be ing alfo wounded was obliged to be carried to the Surgeon's birth. Lieutenant Lan - lira having then taken charge 'of the frigate, in conkquence of theie events, I found that the fails and rig;;ing were rendered ett4 tirely ufelefs ; that the frigate confequently could not be matneuvred, and remained expofed to 'the tire of the enemy : molt of the officers were wounded ; a fire alfo broke out between decks, and there were font feet water in the hold. Farther refinance being ufeTefs, the Afrieaine ftruck her colours at three quarters after nine at night, that is to fay, after an obltinate engage ment of about four hours: We had Ist meri killed, and 176 wounded. The Well-India fleet, under convoy of the SYR EN, from Cork, were left by the DRYADE, r2t4 February, in lat. 29. 26. lon . s. 31. with a fair wind, blowing fretia ; 13.} fan in company. The Columbus, Cams ARTY ; and Ann, Rinot i; from Liverpool for Africa, were well and in cam' pane on the !ph of Dec. in lat. 7. 30. long. 16. to. The Morn traniport, reported to have found ered, arrived at Gibraltar t9th February. A Danifh brig of war, and a cutter, are de; tained at Minorca. The Englifh Hoop of war Br u. Doc, of 20 guns, entered the harbour of Ancona on the s 7th of Fe bruary, not knowing of its furrender, and was taken. In confequence of the late depredations corn. mined in Kensington-Gardens, Mr. FORD has or dered ~me of the Bow-free: pattole to attend there confiantly, who are to tit!se up every fulisi cious perfon they find, fo that the frequenters of this beautiful retreat need no longer be under the apprehenfion of being attacked by footpads, or "Ifulted by prollitutes, and another fet of perfons of a worfe defcription. Yellerday upwards of one hundred prifoners, charged with felonies, were removed from the New Gaol in the Borough, in order for their trials at the allizes for the county of Surry, held at Kingston, before Baron Hornata and Mr. Jul . - tke HEATH, which opened this day. About fix o'clock on Friday morning Taft, the new Dryinit-houfe belonging to the powder-wo r k s of Meas. HARVEY, of Battle, in Suffix, contain ing about eight cwt. of gunpowder, Mew up with a ten-iblz explofion ; and fuch was the force of the powder, that the building, though of brick, was fluttered to atoms. One poor man, who happen ed to he , *ji the houfe at the time, was unfortu nately killed. His fc.tttered remains were after wards found among the ruins, and exhibited a (hocking fpeilacic. How the accident happened, as there were no tires in the (loves, no one can tell. The melancholy event which took place at Inverners on the 12th inftant, by the exploti(m of feveial barrels of gunpowder helm:sing to Marrs. M.ltyrosn. Itiousa, and Wicsoa, which had been lodged in a cellar, in a lane in the centre of the town, has occalioned great damage 'o the houfes, few of them havin: , eicoped its LircEls in a greater or leis degree. The hnufes immediately adjoining have been razed to the foundation. others arc unroofed, and the windows of hundreds have been (battered to pieces. Betides bids FRASER of Fintllan, and her filler Mils Wixesr Ft Ana, the latter of whom was killed on the fpot and the tOrmer (ince dead, three women and two children were buried in the ruins: a great many people are wounded, but few dangeronfly. The hunt. Louie is fo much injured, that one of the wings mull be taken dowa. Th e S oc k w fah for raw . milts