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w-- -- . FOR SALE, DT PUBLIC AUCTION, At the Laudon Tavern, FosholoArlsr, Plymouth, on Wed ssefday, the asth of February, zSor, at Ten o'clock in the F, T H E orenoon GOOD BRIG MORGEN STERN. DibiLpi.w.,:4: Feet. inches. Length - - . 8 5 3 Breadth - - - 35 21 Heighth between Desks • 5 so Acimeafures, 255 37-94 Tons. Depth of Hull (including the Keelfon) is o Mt:Lined on her voyaze from Andterdam to Lifbon, by his hiajaty's dips Ib es - A roe, and others, and Sam condemned as prize. She is fetuare-R , nied, Dutch built,.and Incomplete condition : her Materials are abundant. She appears a fultable Veffid for any employ, and may be fent to fea with very little eapence. For Catalogues, viewing, &c. apply to Mr. John Hawker, Merchant, Plymouth. Plymouth, stlt February, aut. FOR SALE, BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At the London Tavern. Foshole-Rreet Ply.nouih, Zit Wedueds; , Feb. as, ;Sol, at ten tit:led:in' the forenoon. BOUT One Hundred Tons of FRENCH A .SALT; be;a,g the Cargo of the Prollian JUF FROUW MODE, detained ca ber from France by hts Malcit)es hired armed Brig FAMWT. t. Wa Commander, and Snake private &fp of Par; and once con demned as prite,—Tbis Salt is of gual quality, and will be put up in Imitable lots for the convenlency of purcbafers. Poe viewing, Samples, Catalogues, &c. apply to Mr. John Hawker, Merchant, Plymouth. FOR SALE, BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At the Loudon Tavern, Votbok-ftreet, Plymouth, On Wcduefday, Feb. as, thin, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, TOIL 'IMITATION. THIRTY-THREE CHESTS WHITE HA VANNAH SUGAR; Seventeen Ditto Brown. Part of the cargo of the Death alp DA MAIAA K, condemned runize to his 16 1 1aletty's Aired armed cutter. COM VrITUTION and SWAM. For viewing. Catalogues, 1 1 / 4 c. apply to Mr. John Hawker, merchant, Plymouth. FOB. SALE, BY PUBLIC AUCTION. At the Lindon Tavern, Fothole-ltrect. Plymouth, On Wednefday, Feb. as, itol, at ten o'clock In the forenoon, 'THE Galliot FRANCES, Foreign built ; has a NUM 111.cglfter.--Dlmcnfinns Length - - - is feet si Inches. Breadth - - - 17 a Depth - - - ,oft Admearures tot 55-9 g Tens. 55 - 93 She has lately had a good repair, is an exceeding (hong Veirel, and well found in all her Materials ; her Sails molUy new.... For Viewing, Ike. apply to Mr. John Hawker, Merchant, sth february, PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ss. Earl FORTESCUE, Lord DORCHESTER, and the Bi!hop of WINCHESTER (who preaches by order before their Lordfhips to-morrow), were fworn, and took their feats. The Lords Commit:Goners prefent, namely, the LORDCHANCELLOR,DUICe of PORTLAND, and Lord AUCKLAND, retired to robe, and on their return took their feats upon the Bench, when Mr. QuasslE, Deputy Uther of the Black Rod, was dWpatched to order the attendance of the Corn. mons, who forthwith appeared at the Bar, with their newly.eletted Speaker, Sir JOHN MITFORD. His Majefty's Commiffion was then read, em powering the Peers therein mentioned, or any three of them, to declare and announce his Royal pleafirre to allow, approve of, and confirm the Eleaion of Sir JOHN MITFORD, Knt. whom his Majefly tinder-Rands his faithful Commons had chofen for their Sr z• R ER. The names of feveral additional Peers were inferted in the Commiffion, and among them thofe of Lords MACARTNET, MENDIP, and HOBART. The new Srsanua Sir JoHN MITFORD, then addreffed their Lordthips, and (bated, that he was commanded by the Commons humbly to notify that, in obedience to his Majelty's Commands, his faithful Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had proceeded to the eletion of a new Speaker, and that their choice bad fallen upon him. The LORD CHANOILLOR then flitted, in effect, that the Lords Commiffioners had it in command from his Majetty, to declare and announce that his Majefty's opinion of the eminent abilities dif played by his faithful Servant Sir JOHN MITFORD, an a fituation of high importance and truft in the Adminiftration of ihe Law of England, and the zeal which he manifefted for the due maintenance of the happy and ineftimable Conftitution of thefe Kingdoms, and his profound knowledge in the Laws thereof, induced his Majefly fully to ap prove, allow, and confirm the choke which his faithful Commons had made of Sir Jona Mirroto for their SPEAKER. The SPEAKER then made a concife and appro priate reply, cipreilive of his grateful thanks for his Majelly's royal approbation, and particularly for the very gracious terms in which he was pleated to order the fame to be expreffed; and that be (hoold endeavour, by a aid dili gent difcbarge of the duty he was about to cuter upon, to convent:ate for thole errors to which he was unavoidably liablc. The Commons, who had attended in a greater number than we ever witnelfed on a like occafion, then withdrew. 1111101.V/14T DEBTORS. The Eatl of Moms called the attention of the Inoufe to the circumflances of the number of favent Debtors confined in different parts of the kingdom, and in whole behalf their Lordthips I bad received many petitions during the left Se lion of Parliament. It was not his intention at that time to propofe any fpeciiic meafure upon the fable& but tb call the attention of their Lord (hips to the fituation of thefe perfons, and to be informed whether it was in the contemplation of any of his Majefty's briniftirs to introduce a Bill during the prefent Satin relative to Infolvent Debtors ? The !AID CPIANCIILLOIL quitted the Woolfack, and took occafion to obferve, that the general fyf. tem of the Law of Debtor and Creditor to this country greatly required amendment. Towards that point he had for fome time poll turned his anxious attention, and had confulted feverak who, from their habits and praßice, were mach more einiverfant in that fpecics of legal MOMS that. Limfelf. He therefore 'had a Bill drawn up, the particular provilions of which be amid sot anti detail, but he propcd'ed to prefent it on Monday, or to move for its immediate printing, with a view to circulate it a widely aspoffible, and to which be fhould big their Lordthips'rnollearnell attention. SrATS Oi Tiii LITION. Lord GRENVILLE, on teeing the Earl of DARN - Lev in his place, obferved that it was proper, on precifely the fame grounds the Houfe had judged it neceffary, on a former evening, namely, on confederations of Public Service, that the Noble Earl's intended Motion fhould be further deferred. He would therefore propofe, that the Order for taking it into confideration on Friday fe'unight be ditcharged, and renewed for the following • Monday. The Earl of DARNLEY laid, that having come forward, as he trufted it was obvious he did, foie ly upon public grounds, it was with great reluc tance he agree to poftpone a difcutlion involving points of the lall importance, which he thought could not be brought forward too early. He re mained precifely in the fame opinion he did on a former night ; indeed the events of the interval only ferved to fortify him in it. However, be would now fay, as he had then, that did the ge neral fenfe of the Houfe appear in favour of pott poning it, agreeably to the with of the Noble Lord, he had no objection to the Order being dlf charged in the way propofed. Lord HOLLAND rote, and with a confiderable degree of warmth, contended for the neceflity bf going into the propofed Inquiry on as early a day as poffible. He fcrioufly recommended his Noble Friend, not to agree to the propofed delay. He infifted, that the Country had been brought into circumßances of unprecedeited calamity and pe ril ; it was obvioully neceffary, therefore, that a folemn and carnet inveßigation fhould be inflittit ed into the caufes of thefe dangers and difireffes, and to afcertain the authors of them—The ru mours of important changes in the Adminiftration, or the Councils of his Majefty, Mould be an additional incitement to that Houfe to imitate the Inquiry, and Rill more, if thefe changes were about to take place on the grounds ;aligned to them by report. —lt was full time that the Houfe fhould Rep forward, or, as may be, in con. junftion with the other Houle of Parliament, to the Inquiry, to lift the fubjesl to the bottom—to difeufs boldly and manfully, the interefting topics that prefented themfelves—,-to confider the fatal confequences which may ante from an inefficient Adminiaration, and above all, if the divifions and changes in the Councils of Adminiftration preced ed the agitation of the Catholic queßion, the con duet of Minifters refpeeing which, on a former occafion, canted, or at leaft was one of the caufes, of all the devaltation and bloodthed which had taken place in the Sifter Kingdom. While the meafure of the Union was on its progrefs through Parliament, he had repeatedly pre ff ed Minifters in that Houfe, relative to the great queftion of the Catholics. He had called upon them explicitly to Rate what thefe People had to expert in the event of a Union ; he had repeatedly expatiated upon the importance of that point, and had (hewn that the caufe of calamity in one inflance might produce it on a future occafion.—About this part of the obfervations delivered by the Noble Lord to the above efeft, His Royal Hiihnefs the Duke of Cssatera rote to order. He fubmitted it with deference to the Houk, whether the propofal of the Noble Lord near him, for the difcharge of an order, and to poftpone it for two or three days, would bear out the Noble Lord in the line of obfervation in which he was proceeding ? Lord HOLLAND faid, that no Peer could more cheerfully fubmit to the Orders of the Houfe on all due occasions than himfelf ; but he would beg leave to obferve, with all poffible deference to the llluftrious Perfonage who had deemed it proper to call him to order, that he conceived himfclf peril-dig in order. He was about to give an idea of the awful fituation in which the country was{ placed, and the neceffity of immediate inquiry into the caufes of it. He was proceeding to illuftrate the relation which the circumaances of Ireland, with refpeft to the Catholic Q . yeftion, bore to the precife point then under the confideratioa of the Houfe,when___ His Royal Highnefs rote again, and moved the Order for the exclufion of Strangers; which was of courfe enforced, and which neceffarily precludes us from detailing the remainder of the converfa tion. As we could the affair terminated in a slit/aloe the numbers of which were—For pofl clot the Order for furamoning the Peers upon DARMLIT'A intended Motion, 35.--Againft it, S.—Majority, ay. Lord Gaisvei.t.a then moved for the revival of the Committee to inquire into the Dearth of Pro. vifions, which was agreed to, with the alteration only of the Duke of Athol, in the room of the Duke of Bedford. • WASTE LANDS. The Duke of Bit:WOAD then moved— That this Houfe, having taken Into their confideration the Report of the Committee of the Lan Seffiens of Palbarman, • to take into confide:talon fo much of kis IViajefty's Speech as related to the Dearth of Prowllions," are of opinlc.n with the Committee, that one of the molt effeetual mesterei to pre vent a recurrence of a Deficiency of Grain will be, by giving &Mei encouragement to inclolbres in general, and particularly of Waite and Uncultivated Lands. • That this Refolution be referred to the Paid Connyttee ; and that they be latituded to take into their carbcft confide , ration, and report to the Houle, the belt means of carrying the fame into &at. The Motion was feconded by Lord CARRIMC. rox, and agreed tn, ,tem. aJ The Duke of BEDFORD next moved, " That the Bill he had introduced for the relief of a cer tain defcription of Poor," be read a fecond time. The fame was read accordingly, and committed for Monday nest.—Adjourns& • HOUSE OF COMMONS• The Ufher of the Etlack Rod fummoned the Houk to attend the ROyal Commiffion in the Houk of Peen. The S , on his return, informed the Houk his Majefty had been Fr.teioufly ',leafed to confer the Royal Approbaucn upon their chOice of him to be their Speaker. He then •err briefly addretred the Houle. The huiicur conferred itp. on him by their vote wohld, he faid, he ever held by him in grateful remembrance ; and it fhould be his confiant and lir remitting endeavour to dif char.ge the dnties of the o ffi ce with attention, af &luny, and fidelity. Mr. Ross moved for an Account of the Amount of the Duties of Cuiloms and Excite, in the years 1793, 9.44 95 , 96, 97, 98, and t 799, and from the sth of January tBOO, to the sth of January 'Sat.—An Account of the Payments made into the Exchequer of :he Duties upon Beer and Malt, from the sth of January itioo, to the sth of Janu ary 180 I.—And an Account of the Payments made into the Exchequer, of the Duties upon Diftilleries and Foreign Spirits, from the sth of January tfioo, to the sth of January hich were fevertily ordered, and prcfented hardy afterwards at the Bar, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed for the ufe of the Mem bers. A new Writ was ordered for the borough of Carlow, in Ireland, in the room of Henry Prettie, Efq. now Lord Donnelly ; and alto for the bo rough of Port Arlington, in the room of Frede rick Trench; Efq. now Lord Affitown. Sir WILLIAM GRANT moved for Accounts of Velibia and Property claimed by Neutral Nations in the Courts of Admiralty, or Vice-Admiralty of Great-Britain, with the final Decrees or Condem nations thereon.--Ordercd. Mr. RYDER prcfented an Account of the Fo reign Corpp in the fervice of Great-Britain.—Or dered to He on the table, and to be printed for the ufe of the Members. ►LOUR. Mr. RvnHt brought up a Report from the Committee appointed to confider the prefent High Price of Provilions, which was read, recommend. ing the repeal of the Aft paired lall Sefflon, to prevent the manufthure of Fine Flour. The further confederation of the Report was poliponed to Monday, on which day Mr. Ryder gave notice he lhould move for the repeal of the above Bill. IRELAND. Mr. Armor, after:aferving upon the enlarged duties of Legiflation, which now devolved upon the Houfe, in confequence of the Union with Ire land, moved that an humble Addrefs be prefent ed to his Majay, praying he would be gracioufly pleated to order printed Copies of the Statutes of Ireland to be laid before the Houfe ; and that the Paid Addrefs be prefented by filch Members as are of his Majefly's Privy Council.—Ordered. Mr. Ansor then gave notice, he fltould take 2r. early opportunity of moving to extend the mode of promulgating the Laws, as adopted in Eng land, to Ireland. RUSSIA. Mr. HOIINOUSI rof,..:nd adverted to the dif pure between Great-Britain and Ruffia, obferving, it was of importance to know whether any Con vention exifted which could jultify Ruffin in making any claim to Malta? he therefore gave notice, he fhould, on Tuefday fe'nnight, move for a Copy of that Convention, if any fuch IMDITION TO ETRIOL. Lord HAWRESIURY wilbed to know whether the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Stun) who had given notice of a motion relative to the Expedition to Ferrol, for this day, had any objeetion to Rpone it to next Thurfday, as a Right Hon. Friend (.1 his was unable to attend ? Mr. &roar confented to poilpone it to the day mentioned by the Noble Lord : but declared he could not again put it off for any reafonwhatever. IGYPT. Mr. Jour, poltponed his motion relative to Egypt, which flood for Tucfday next, until this day fortnight. STATE OT THE NATION. Mr. 'Filial' ZY inforned the Houle, that his Hon. Friend, whofe motion relative to the State of the Nation Rood for Monday next, would not bring it forward till Monday fe'nnight. COLD-LATH-FIELDS Colonel ELPOSD was proceeding to comment upon the Ratement given by an Hon. Baronet (Sir F. B. Jones) on a preceding evening, relative to the harnt treatment of a pri(oner in the above prifon, when he was interrupted by The Sr EAR ta, who wifbed to know if the Hon. Member intended to make any motion upon the fubjee, as his obfervations would be otherwife ir regular. Colonel ELroao faid, if it was confidereil irre gular for him to adduce any remarks upon the Statement of the Hon. Baronet, without making a motion, he would make a motion, in order that he might comment as he wifhed, upon what he conceived to be a mifreprefentation. The S re A K ra obferved, that if the Hon. Mem ber meant to make a motion, he had undoubtedly a right to be heard; but he would put it to, the candour of the Hon. Gentleman, whether it was pea-sally fah w malt mention merely for the purpofe of giving his remarks to the Houfe ? Colonel Exroari then proceeded to comment upon what had been Rated by the Hon. Baronet (Sir F. B. Jones) on a former evening, relative to the fuppofed cruel treatment of one Hudfon, a prifoner in Cold-bath- fi elds Prifon. He Paid, that in confequence of what the Hon. Baronet had Rated to the Houle, he went himfelf on the follow ing day to the Prifon, and made a minute inquiry into the particulars contained in the Ratement of the Hon. Baronet. He then entered into a detailed account of the circumfiances be had colleficd, re lative to the reported ill-treatment of Hudfon, Rat ing, he had examined the Governor, the two per- Cons whom the Hon. Baronet had mentioned as bis allMants, Hudfon himfelf, and the Surgeon who attended him—from the latter of whom, whore Ratement, as Hudfon admitted him to be a kind and good-natured man, he particularly attended to—he colleacd that the il lnefs of Hndfon proceed ed merely from a cold, attended with a flight le% er, and did not by any means originate from the wound in his head, which he (Colonel Elford) examined, and found to be very flight. It alto appeared that the kale. which the Hon. Baronet alledged to have occurred on Sunday lag, had taken place above a fortnight ago, and that Hudfon had con tinued for &mil days afterwards regularly to eat bis allowance ; and when be complained of foam flight ;finer*, the Keeper propofed to bring the Surgeon, which he rcfufed, Rating' that he had no occalion for him. He alfo found that the blow the Governor gave Hudfon was provoked by Com , cruel treatment he with others had given to t of his fellow prifoners, which, when the Govet nor p er . ceived, he ordered him to be locked up. Hudfon re filled the order, and from that the feu file arofe. He (Sir W. Elford) few the mark ou the Prifoner, a mere pimple, whkh, ofeourfe. had been cansid his own bad condud. From there fads he drew a coneltdion directly oppofite to that of the Hon. Ba. meet, contending that Hudfon alone was to blame, and that the Governor exereifed only a neceflitry feverity. He did not, he faid, in the moll dillatit manner, charge the Hon. Baronet with wilfiillv inifreprefeating the cireumftances of the cafe tn . the Houfe, bat he was of opii.ion the Hon. Bans. net had haired his humanity to get the better of his judgment, that he had too ealily believed the factious and interefted affertions of Ruction, aunt had thus come down to the Houfe with an ex pert, flatement, which could only ferve to miflead and deceive. Influenced by thefe confideratimu, and walling that the public might be thoroughly fatic. fied as to the truth or fallAood of what had been publicly Rated relative to the Prifon in queftion, he thought it neceffary to move, “ that the Governor of the Cold-bath-fields Peifon be called before the HonlN" Mr. Wp. Pusoss feconded the motion, Lord Haver ssuav complained of the motion being !nought forward without any previous no tice, contending it sac the invariable pradiee of 'ha Houlb to gay!) a previous notice of any motion which, like the prefent, required mature confidei ation and difcuffion. Mr. WM. Du NRA s raid, he was convinced, from what had fallen' from the Noble Lord, that the mo tion was not perfectly regular, and he would there tore withdraw his feconding. The SPEAKES. obferved, It was the pradice of the Houle for Members to give previous notice of' any motion requiring elifeuffion ; but if the prefent was fecouded, it mutt of courfe be difpofed of. Sir FKANCIS BVitraTT begged leave to fecund the Motion, for it was gaining a Rep towards that inveftigation which he had diligently prole cnted for two years pall. He thanked the Hon. Mover for his fpeech, and the fads he had pro duced, although they did not in the flighted man ner touch upon the cafe he had brought fens-arch Who were the perfons who had give n the Hon. Mem ber all his information refpeihng the tranfadion Were they not the very perfons ace aced of the fhock ing barbarity which he offered to prove had been pradifed ? Was this infamous Governor, who war a difgrace to thofe who held him in office, fufficicnt evidence in his own caufe, and who had found rheto. ric enough to convince the Hon. Gentleman that he was not guilty f The other two perfons named as authorities,likewife,are two wretches, who are kept in boarded rooms with fires, faring fumptuoufly, is comparifon to their fellow prifoners, who in this inclement feafon are lodged in damp none cells, and fed on bread and water; and for what ? That they may be fpies on the others,and who find it their interell to cringe to, and fupport the affertions of their gaoler, at the expence of thole unhappy mot who Ell underhis difpleafure,andfeelthe oppreun of his tyranny. An Honourable Magiftrate, and a Member of this Houk, had with lumfelf vifited this abode of wretchednefs, mifery, and cruelty, and they were )hewn into a clean room with 4 fire in it; and the Governor came to them with great readinefs to give every information, of fered his book for istrpe6tion, and gave them pens and ink ; but he (Sir F. B.) was not fatisfied with filch information. But to return to the Rory—it did not differ in any effintial part from that which he had delivered formerly to the Houfe. The Gover nor had acknowledged his own barbarity ; he had confeffed that he had beat this man; and could it be allowed in a country in which a fpxk of huma manity or juftice remains, that a Gaoler (hall be allowed thus to maltreat, beat, or murder 1....f0r he fhould on a future day prove that murders had been committed on the perfons in his cullody. Even allowing that the prifoner had really (truck the Governor, what dreadful ufage mull he have received, before he could be. come defperate enough to commit fuch a rails Rep Infanity alone, produced by the molt barbarous ufage, could have prompted him to ffrike fuch a Gaole ras Aris l He (Sir Francis Burdett) had yeaerday examined Thomas Han. bury, the Governor's fpy, whom he found to be an ignorant man, neceffstated to ad as the Governor prefcribes ; but he got from him the real matter of fad. An Honourable Member had been the preceding day examining him like : wife, but had not received the fame information. " I afked (faid Sir F. B.) the reafon why he had not told the Gentleman who was there the pre ceding day the fame (tory as he now told nu ?" He anfwcred, ; don't know—l told him all I was allied—he did not wait long—he foon went away." If fuch was the manner that Gentlemen meant to acquire information into fads, they might as well Cave themfelves the trouble of going about the bufinefs at all. It was not by warming their fingers at Governor Aris's fire, and Acing a few flight quellions of ignorant men, and thole in termed in hiding fads, that Gentlemen were to learn the barbarities pradifed in Cold-Bath-Fields. I would, and I have propofed, and am now ready' (faid Sir F. B.) to give up my time to the inveffiga tion of this bufinefs. The Secretary of Sate libelled mycharacter throughout the country—the pri e of a Member of Parliament was attacked in my perfon—orders were given not to admit my vifiu to that goal ; and for what ? Becaufe, as an independent Member of Parliament, I ftepped forward to perform my duty, to refeue the wretch ed from misfortuhe, and my country from the famyever attendant on the practice of national inhu manity."—(4 cry sf beer Ivor I) It was not, how ever, the obloquy call upon him by men in power, it was not the orders of the Lord Lieutenant, that fhould deter him from hisduty cry olives! hear!): He had perfifted, fruidefsly indeed hitherto, io his endeavours to drag this Golder to jullice, and • to render the Ricans not the difgrace of the coun try ; but uo threats, no [Under, thould compel