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FRANCE. r.vt:s. N;2•.'; 29. 11:e Cnnfuls 1 , a ,, c a tiecree refpeaing Covcrntm.-nt c the IVea India Colon :e5. This fel tl!e ania St. t:cia are t• be ticri c 'uy t Sti r me j'iic;c. 'll Capt,in C-encr. is to trtve .; ,- .ltr hi> a . . 1 the 1 1.:r.d and 11 tlyz natioLal ai mei if . I.'. a decree of t!-.t FiktCT Co' SVL,CiLI7 , ":' z.l.er.t tor the kept:. tt ay_pc,:nteil to till the canoe Lc;-..10r. B.tcii As -1 ' (Culat::C.llV: ti. .e Ple -11;;Iotclitiary r.c! Liivoy Extracrdinary itrr:.• Poi to to the Governmcn: of the Reptzblic, LC: V:.trula the beo:inning cf Frairial, ah...ut the : May..tml is :t . rive4 at Str.it'a2cc-,. The Chief' ::ad 10:: to the fronti:::- to receive him, Ci t Superior A‘iutailt of the Palace of G:wer.menz, and Citizen bANTAN, Chief Inter cro er c.f . the French Legatien at Comi.tutiaople., The G-.-and Diet of Hungary was opened at Pallour:z on the 13th ult. by the Emperor in periOn. His 1:n1•eral nil:fly delivered a Latin . fivaticni en the occailon, which was received. by the t;:tes with acclamations of " Viva! Rex!" He then withdrew, after giving in writing to the Diet t::: proplcitions that were to form the fubjed of their deliberations. FROM THE PARTS PAPERS. 13OURDSAUX, MAY 24.—The American brig Eliza, of 7o tons, Capt. DAVID LAW, arrived here yeflerday from Aquin, a port in the fouthern part of St. Domingo. The Captain lays, that lie left the colony in the bell Rate poGible ; that the French armies were every where well received and entertained; that TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE was hemmed in among the Mm nes ; that one of his Lieutenant Generals had been taken and fent aboard one of the (hips of the fleet, and that Tous r of:;:cd five millions (above 2c , .7 , ,0001. fler to he admitted to capitulate. 'I his vclkl, laden with coffee and cotton, was configned to M. JOHN BF RN ARM NAP e.r !, MAY t 7.—The ga7etteof this city,under the head MaJ rid, April 27, tlates---" The King of Spain has cauf7d a decree to be porblithed,by wit h he unites in perpetuity to his royal domain, the Langtres and property of the Order of Malta in Spain, and declares himfelf ?whaler of that Order in his dominiers, preferving the direaion of exeric,r objefts, and leaving the direStion of Ipi• ritual concerns to the authority of tt:e °niter and of the 1-h.ly See, which has not ditapprovel this ge at tart." ti‘A., MAY Is.—The principal propofals to fobraimi to the Diet of Hurgary, are—l (I, T.) revulate the arm - y of inlets - ration (.t fort of The levy a recruits, that in future it m be c.:rrizd into effe& by order cf the King a:o: e, and not by that hlt%e Provirci.tl Meetings. —;d, The eilat,lithment of a heavy duty on falt. The Union n' Dalmatia to Hungary; and of the three counties of Littenfladt, Oldem b9u: g, and Watielburgli to Anftria : the river Raal to terve as boundary to the two kingdoms. —Or, The augmentation of the revenues of the crown by two millions (about gc,cccl.) RNF, MAY 2C.—Yeilerday the Coitimittee of Car:hit:l6;ll prefenzed its projea to the Atfembly of Not.ans, who fully approved of it, fo that we hope it will be put in a Hate of anivity within a few days. This day a new fining was held to hear" tar :mended copy of it read ; after which the Al terably of Notables unanimoutly advifed the ado!). lion of the new Coniiitution, which contains re fpecling tithes and other taxes difpofitions highly equitable, and which leaves to each adminidration the means of aelc:ptitz, in the redeeming of them, regulations advantageous to agriculture, and fuch as juitice requires should be made in favour of pr,,prittors. LV'THTJAKL BERNE, MAY 2 , 1,—T0 the political commotions to which this unfortunate country is abandoned are added earthquates, which for fome time have *read a new hind of terror. A part of Rcebland, in the canton of Backn, funk down, on the . 19th roil.—At four in the afternoon, of the fame day, !here was heard in the environs of Wendifch, lii. Razrnigcn, Ceifberg, and Kocnigsfelden, a fubterranean noife fimilar to that of a waggon iolfi,ts, or cannon fired at a diflance. °lithe azd there was felt here, at Zurich, and other places, a very violent (Lock. ln our city feveral old men while walking were thrown down. The town houfe and the roofs of feveral others svere . trrkeri. At Zurich the (hock was general; and ;n the tvening a fire which confirmed (even hoti! encrealed our fear and confrifinn. After rhefe thocks a very fevere cold took place on the zeth and 2.7 th. Or the tail mentioned day the :rod was to tirong as to injare the trees and fruits in our gardiars. %Ve are much• afraid that this icourge has been extended to the rye in feveral of the cantons of Switzer land. lull Laa, MAr ;s.—We hair received from f.- veral neighbouring provinces the news that fne earthqua,:e, which we lately experienced, has caiired conflierable damage. Crema and Soncino have particularly MI - el-ed. The details we have received from Orzinovi are very afllielinz. The Govcrnment immediately fent thither relief. At Cremona the lima was more fenr:ble than here.— It does not appear to have been felt at Venice. Pa MA, May a.—This morning, at 35 mi• notes pall ten, the Iky being exceedingly ferene, and no clouds, with a gentle Weft wind, the ther mometer at degrees, and the barometer 28 inches, there was an earthquake. There were three increafing (hocks, very dittittct, confecutive, and flrong, with an undulatory movement, very perceptible in a direiclion from Weft to Ealt. After an interval of about five feconds there wa.s anoth.A. (hock, but rather like a vatle item- bllng, et likit !ailed three or fonr &conch, and al ways in a dired;iln frnm WO tr. Eta. _ _ _ The l't.ire fulpencied is tl:e Middle of the faloon of the Hotel of ihe F:sticii legation, ofcillated alto from Weft to Eaft for four or five minutes, form. ing at fief with its vertical line an aperture of about eight inches. The barometer was not af feEted by this earthrptake, and the Rate of the heavens remained esaCtly the fame. A chimney fell Joan from a bottle near the clthedral ; v.:hits were injured in different :tram:lents ; a par: ..f the wall of the college of Lalatta fell down ; the clock of the palace of the Ducal Garden, wh:ch itruck half after ten at the time of the earthquake, gave fome firokes more ; a watch placed on the bolßer of a bed, with the glacs turned cicy.vnwards, was fo much agitated that the 71..fs For about three weeks paR earthquakes fuffici eutly ftrorg to fpread alarm among the people, hare been frequently felt in the Canton of Bardi, fituated fifteen leagues eatt of this city. PiIRLIAiIENTitia - PROCEEDINGS. IiOUS2 OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2. . - Cour.fci was again Seard on the claim of Mr. Brydges to the U..rony of Chandos. The further hearing put off to Meaday . 1 . 13 e Franking Bill, and four private Bills were brou;ht up from the Commons. The Order for the Committee on the Stafford County Bridge SW. was put off to Wednefday, on the motion of Lord Syr ror.PC, ho olifervcd, that it was a fubjedt of too much importance to be fmtig:led through the Hours in the manner that private Billa Intuct;e: !s , unfortunately wt./. His Lordfhip, at the Lime time obforv:l, that he had fome obfervations to offer on this Eill ; it was one which went to abed private property, and as fuck he would oppofe it. Lord WCSTntor.ctAND raid, there was no intention what ever of fmuggling this Bill; and that its fupporters were as anvicas as any perfons could be to have its principle fairly dii. cull; d. The Houfe was then ordered to be f;anmoned for Wednefday rest. Ler(' SUVFOLK then faid, he would on that day call their Lonifhips' Atte tion to Come other topic•. In Use firft place be would recommend that tome meafora might be adopted to wards r:lieving the diftreffts which the country laboured un der from the Poor Rates, which it was abfolutely neceffary to do before the prcfent Seifion pafilll away. In the next place, he would allude to the late proccsdings which took place in India, chiefly for the purple: of exciting the attention of a Noble Lord thou in his eye (Lord Moira), who had intimated his intention of bringing forward a motion on that fubjedt; but which mo tion If the Noble lord did nut bring forward, he would him fell, before the elore of the Seam', (Omit a limilzr one to the Houk. Lord MOTRA Paid, he was a. anxious as ever he ha.l been to have a full Invelligation entered into relative to the pr0c...431- :lig. that lately took pl.cc in the Carnatic. But he did not think an enquiry could with at:7 propriety he gone into. until certain Papers neceiTary to throw a confiderable degree of light on :his fubiedl. and which were :lot uow in this country, Ihuuld be forwarded from India. Lord Surto LK thought there were already fulficient docu ment; in the poffelton of the public to warrant the Houfe to enter into the enquiry he propcifed. He was lorry to find the Nobk I.ord meant to deli:) , motion to another SeMon, for he war fore that our 1 7 mpire in India would in a fbort time he totally fubvetted, if the fame ()Item now aded upon was con ti:.tted in that country. Lord Mutt* thought, that on account of the importance of the fabled, the butane& ought to be delayed till the arrival of papers from India. Lord CIF xviLLt affur,J the Houfe that it was the particu lar wit of the Marquis Wellefley, and Lord Clive, who go verned Dci, al and Madras, that this fubje.2 (honld be fully in • The Bills on the table were then read in their Rages. THE CLLEGY. . Lord GRENVILLE rofe to claim the indulgence of the Houfe for a fhort time, while he made a few obrerVations on a fubjelt in which the interelt of Parliament, and of the country at large, were deeply involved. Hel‘opecl it would not be deemed irregular in him to allade to a Bill which was then before the other Houle of Parliament, and which might lhortly be brought before that Houle.— This - was a Bill for regulating the relidence of the Clergy in their rerpeetiveparilhes—a mealure which it was nece(fary for their Lordfhips maturely to confider before they gave it their 1 . 4101011. In fad it was imporlible, that daring the prefent Scffion it could receive that due confideration—that full invettigation, which it ought to have, before it was paired into a law. It was impcflible this could be done, for two reafons; firft, the Seflion was fo near its dole that there would not be fufficient time to ditburs a fubjed of fuel) importance ; and in the next place, the Howe was deprived of the atralance of a molt rerpeetable body of men, who were Members of that Houfe, and without whom it would not he poflible to give the fubjea that con. fideration it deferved. The Right Rev. Prelates were now obliged to attend their rerpeftive ; and it would be highly improper in that Houfe to pars the Bill he alluded to, unlcfs they were prefent to give it the relation of their appro bation. The Bill in go Rion was introduced into the other Houle of Patrament by a Member, cer tainly of great rcfpeaability ; and any meartne originating from hint, or having the fantlion of his name, was entitled to the highelt degree of refpat and confederation ; but it would have been much more proper and rat; f iaory to the Public ; and it would much more effeEtually anfwer the pm-po res intended by it, if that Bill had been introduced by the Members of the Executive Government.— Befides, the provilions of the Bill, fuch as he underllood them to tat, were in no relpea fur ficient to anfwer any purpofe whatever. The IBM was in fad nollting more than a meafure Ito prevent thofe vexatious aftions which had been brought by informers againft the Clergy for non. retidence, which in many relpeas was unavoid- ALL. But it omitted to introduce a variety of re b ottl ttions that were Rill more neceffary for the ' benefit oc this molt refpeilable body of men.— The eftablithed Clergy of the Country conftituted its greatelt fupport, and without them our fleets and armies would not long be able to protect us ; they were the great fupporters of the religion and morality of the State—the virtue of the people, which was effential to their happinefs,and to their very exigence, depended on the conduit of the members of the eftablifhed Church ; and it was therefore of the utmoft importance that there fhould co far enjoy the protection of the Govern ment as to be free not only front vexatious prole cutions, but that they fhould befupported in that (tile of competence and independence to which, from their rank and fituation in life, they were en titled. It was not regular for him to allude to any molt of a fpeech blade by the Right Hoe. and learned Gentleman who introduced the Bill he alluded to into the other Houfe of Parliament; but he had read an admirable pamphlet, purport. ing to be the fpecch of that Learned Gentleman in the Houfe of Commons; and in that pamphlet it was Rated that the incomes of more than one half of the Clergy 'of England,which they derived from their clerical fituattons, were lets than forty pounds a-year, and that the majority of thefe were incomes of between twenty and thirty pounds a year. Would any man fay it was poilible for men, on filch fmall incomes, to fupport themfelves in a manner in which a Clergyman ought to be maintained ? Certainly not ; and therefore it was abfolutely neceffary for the Government, Nthofc care it thould be to protect the morals and religion of the people, to interfere, and make an adequate provition for the Clergy of the country. He did not with to fee new burthens laid on the public, but if ever there was a tax which the public ought to pay,it was that which went to the maintenance of their Clergy. He therefore objeded to the Bill before the Commons, becaufe it had no fuel ob jed as this in view. He thought it neceffary then to Rate to the Houfe, that while he was one of the Members of Adminißration a plan had been deviled for bettering the fituation of the poorer Clergy by laying an additional tax on the public, and that feveral other regulations for the due ob fervance of religion had alto been intended to be introduced into the Bill for that purpofe. It now remained with the prefent Adrninifiration to fol low up that plan, and he hoped it would be foon adopted. He did not expel, however, that it could be done in the prefent Sefton of Parliament, any more than that the Bill then before the other Houfe could be paired into a law. He thought it neceffary even at that time, to throw out thefe hints, in order to guide their Lordfhips' judgment whenever the Bill in queftion thould come before them ; and to prepare their minds for the due con. federation of the fubjed, fhould the Bill be put off to another Sefton. He withed to fee one general Bill, embraci;;g all the objeds he alluded to ; he withed it to contain an ample provition for the maintenance of the Clergy ; and that fttch a mea fure might be introduced by one of his Majefty's Miniflers. If they did not do to, he thould con fider of the propriety of fubmitting tome propoli tion of the kind to that Houfe, although it might be contrary to the forms of Parliament to do fo. Lord SUFFOLK role to exprefs his carnet with, that whenever the Noble Lord made firth a propo fition,he would confider the fituation of the Clergy of Ireland. Lord GRENVILLE replied, that he had not given any no:ice, nor pledged himfelf to brine; for ward the mcafure he alluded to: but when the Admi niftration, of which he formed a part, had agreed upon a plan of this kind, it was intended to em. brace in it the Clergy of Ireland, as well as thole of England. Lord ROLLE faid, the fituation of the Church of Ireland Rood in great need of fome fuch regu lation. In many parifhes there was no fuch thing to be teen as a place for Proteftant worfhip. The Noble Lord was called to order by Lord ALVANLEY, who laid there was no queftion what ever before the Houfe, and that the Honfe was in fel debating on nothing at all. The queftion of adjournment was then put and carried. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Menge from the Lords Bated their Lordihips' anent to the Irith Loan and kith National Debt Bills • the Refined Sugar Bounty Bill, the Medicine Duty Bill, an d the frith Ma riners Bill; the Lords alto fent down a Bill to regulate the con veyance of Letters and Packets, to which they required the concurrence of the Houfc. b:r HENRY MILDWAr give notice that he would, to-mor row, move for leave to bring in a Dill to prevent the Shooting of Groufc in the New Foreft until the aft of September. The Houfe went into a Committee eiA the Weft India Dock Bill. Mr. BIAGOE moved a clank for granting cnnipenfation to the Sugar Coopers, which was agreed to. The Report was or dtred to he received to-morrow. The Southern Whale Fiihery Bill was read a third time, pair ed, and ordered to the Lords. hc Scot:h Militia Bill was, after feverol Amendnients, adopted on the motion of the Secretary at War; among which was one, authorizing she appointment of Deputy Lieu tenants for the Royal Boroughs, and another to empower his Majefty to reduce the Supplementary Militia. Reai a third time and paired. The Thanks of the Houfe were, on the motion of Lord Gt ant., voted RCM CO& to the Rev. Dr. Vincent, for the Sermon he yefterday preached before the Houfe at St. Marga ret's Church, Weltmintler. The co.nmittal of the Miners Militia Bill was poftponed till to-morrow. The Report of the Yeomanry Carps Service Bill was, on further coil fideration, agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Houle refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Dutch Property Ads, and, on the motion of Lord Clenberrie, the Chairman was inftrudted to move for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the faid Ads, and to make other provifions in lieu there of. The Noble Lord Rated, that it was intended to extend the provifions of the faid Bill to Ireland. The Houfe refumed, the report was received, and the Bill ordered accordingly. The Clergymen's R.:fidenee Bill was poftponed till to morrow. _ _ '1 lie Report of the Alien Regulation Bill was received, and ordered to be taken into further consideration to-morrow. _ A Report of the Committee of Supply was ree.:ived, and the Ittfulur.on fut redueir.g the payment of the Stamp Du tics was agreed to, and an Initrudtion was moved to the Com mittee on the Legacy Duties, to make provifion to that etre& The Report of thr Police Bin was received, and ordered to be further coofidcred to-morrow. .-...._. .... _ A Report of the Committee of Supply was received, and a Refolotion for licenfing too Hackney Coaches, and granting to his Mikity a rent of tos. per week for each Licence. Agreed to, and a ICI ordered to he brought in. . Mr. Oit MUT moved fur feveral Accounts relative to Ireland, which were ordered. Mr. VANSI IrTAR r moved for an account of the Salary and Fees of the Lord Chancelkor of Ireland. iOSTAGII. Mr. VANS ITTA RT moved,that the Honfe should refolve itfelf into a Committee, to take into con• lideration certain charges relative to the Pottage of Letters between this Country, France, and Holland. The Houfe having refolved itfelf into a COM. mittee Ivir. ' VANSITTART faid, he wilted to propofe certain Refolutions to the Committee relative to the Poftage of Letters between this Country and France and Holland. At prefent Letters going from this Country to France paid only iod. polll 4 .ge and Letters coming here paid i4d.—lt was now apeul that the Pc.)flage in either cafe should be the fame, vit. tad. In confequenee• of a ver) beneficial arrangement between the two Countries. our Letters to foreign countries were to pars through France at the fame rate of Poi}age as be fore the war, though the rate of Foliage had confiderably increafed in France fence that period. With retped to the arrangement between this country and Holland, Letters going from this country paid tod. and Letters coming to this country paid 14. d. It was propoted to equalize the pollage by making it is. in both cafes. He thould alio propofe, that inllead of two poll dais in the wick, that a mail should go to thofe coun tries four days each week: TIM laft refolution he had to propofe was to take off the duty ttpon the tonnage of the Packets employed be. tween Dover and Calais. The French Govern. ment had contented, in confequence of tbc;r Packets being exempted from the tonnage duty, to exienpt our packets from a much larger ton nage duty in France. He then proceeded to move fevertl Refolutions, which were agreed to, and the Hottfe being reltuned, the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. ARMY ESTIMATES. The SECRETARY at WAR prefented the Army Eftimates for the remainder of the year. The Right Hon. Gentleman Rated, that he prepokd on Monday next, to move Refolutions founded on there eflimates in the Committee of Supply. ME. BANKS w•ifhed to know whether 'theft: were to be confidered the Eilimares of the pemanent peace eflablithment ? if fo, he thought it defirable that the Houk (hould be informed of the cud number of the forces meant to be retained in pay, either by printing the eftimates, or by laying Come abflralt before the Houfe, which might be calcu lated to convey the information he alluded to. The SECRETARY at WAR replied, that the ECG. mates prefented, were thofe for the remainder of the year, and he was not authorized to fay they were on the fcale of a permanent peace eftablifhment. Mr. BANKS explained his defire to be, that the Houle fhould have fuch a flatement laid before it as thould enable Gentlemen to compare the amount of the force during war, with that of the future peace eftablilhment, and with that which exitled previous to the latl war. The SECRETARY at WAR thought it would be impoffible to have the Eftimates printed in due time before Monday, and that no fuch abthaa as the Hon. Gentleman demanded, could be laid be. fors the Houfe confluent with its forms. How. ever, the information, with a view to the compari fon referred Co, might be obtained without much difficulty, by a very curfory review of the Eli - mates jull prefented. The Eftimatcs were ordered to lie on the table. APPKENTICES BILL. Sir Roam . PEELS moved the third reading of the Apprentices Regulation Bill. Mr. H. Last ELLE s was of opinion, that previous to the final adoption of this Bill, a Committee lhould be appointed to afcertain, by examination of evidence, how far the perfons coned ned in mills or factories might deem it expedient or necefiary. Mr. S. LE FEVR E was forry the Hon. Gentleman who had jail fpoken did not move the third read ing of the Bill this day three months, for he was very apprehenfive that it would tend only to tranl fer revere labour from one clafs of children to an other. Apprentices alone being protated by it from night-work, there was too much reafon to fear, that avaricious parents and rnercilefs Over leers might be induced to let out what are called children of free labour, to do the work from which the Apprentices were by this Bill relieved. As the Proprietors of Faftories were by the Bill liable to a penalty of fol. at the difcretion of two Magic= traces, he thought a claufe of Appeal to the car ter Seffions ought to be inferted. Sir ROBERT PEELE, in anfwer to the oblations of the laft fpeaker, laid, that this Bill was intend ed to relieve poor children who had no parents, and were at the mercy of thofe to whom they were apprenticed. If experience of its operation thould jutlify the extenfion of its principles to the perfoir; delcribed by the Hon. Gentleman, he would have no obje&ioa at prefent ; however, he thought it would be injudicious. On the motion of Mr. BURTON a claufe was ad ded, by way of Rider, that a Regifter lhottld be kept of all mills and ilitiories, in which three or more Apprentices than be employed. And ano ther claufe was adopted, on the motion of Mr. Wilberforce, that night-work Ihould be allowed in any fadory, where not lefs than moo, or more than rsco fpindles thatl be employed until the 25th of December, 1803 ; and in any &dory, where more than tsoo spindles than be employed, until June 1, 1804, any thing in the Bill to the contrary notwithllanding.—The Bill was paired. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS. —.....-. _ The Houfe refolved into a Committee on the Controverted Elellion Bill. Mr. Bert K srepeated his former argumentsagainft the appointment of Nominees on Eletelion Commit tees. The incompatibility of ads ocate and judge appeared to him lo clear, and it mull in this in- Rance be fo fevete on the Irith Members to bring them on Eleltion Committees before a Tribunal different from that they conftitutcd in their own Parliament, that he felt himfelf juftified in pro poling a dance that the appointment of Nominees Ihould be abolhed. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR oppofea this clank. He re marked, that parties concerned in the choice of Nominees, ral her fcleClecl potions converfant with the bufinefs of Elel - tions than their own particular friends. He nulled that the arguments mad rattan duns, which the Hon. Gentleman had addrelfed to the hills Members, would have little weight, par ticularly when they confidcred the nature and ob jell of this Bill, which was to procure expedition in thole Committees and how, he would alit, was that to be attained, if they were to be compled thirteen Gentlemen, perhaps totally unacquainted with filch bufinefs, and Nominees, capable of Ail ing them, were to be excluded ? Mr. Put.tee fuggelted, in order to remove all objellions, that Nominees lhould not be allowed to vote. Mr. TArtoit refifted that idca.—The Houfe hided on tho cLtufc—Ayes 257—Noes 77...abiu!