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•••••-••••••••••-•. ITAL r. MILAN, JUNE 4. A Courier who arrived at Genoa, on the 26th of May, from the Ligurian Miniiker at Paris, has brought difpatches, the contents of which relate to the propofed aggrandizement of the Ligurian Re public. On the Riviera 41 layette, the limits will be extended to the Serchio and the foot of the Apennines, and on the Riviera A Posesk, Oneg- Da. Loano, and Calvin), Will be added to the Re public. Ligurian troops had already advanced on the 26th to take po 4 fetlion of thefe points. It is Paid the Rull?an troops are gone from Na ples to Corfu. SPAIN. MADRID, MAY 30. ------- - The march of our troops into Portugal was battened by a peremptory note from the French Envoy, LUCIEN BON•PARTE. The PRINCE of PEACE immediately repaired in perfon to the army, and the French Ambaffador accompanied him to Talavera, a town fituated between Madrid and Ba dajoe, in order to be nearer the army. The united French and Spanifh corps has marched from Val ladolid to the river Duero; a part of it will block ade Almeida, which fortrefs is Rill ffronger than Elvas. The main body, however, will proceed along the Duero to the important harbour of °Porto, to carry into effed the main objed, the prohibition of trade with England. The projed to penetrate with a third corps from Galliciapeets with difficulties. GERMAN r. HAMEURGH, JUNE 20. If very refpeetable letters from Drefden and Brunfwick can be relied on, the Kis° of Patissia has alreadyfuggelled by his Minillers that to de fend the North of Germany in cafe of a rupture with the French Republic, contingents or auxiliary forces thould be kept in readinefs by the Allied States in the following ratio : Sauey Hanover Heffe Caffel - - lISPOO MCD. - SS P/J0 •••••• ISPOO • Bruntaick - zspoo The Affembly of the Circle of Franconia has re ceived from Berlin a very remarkable note ; it en joins the civil and military authorities, dependent upon the KING of Pao ssi s, not to permit the paf fage of any troops without his exprefs permiMon. The Diet of the Empire is not idle in its fecret deliberations upon changing the Germanic Confti tution in fuch a manner as to give it a quite difr ferent but more folid and lading form. Moft of the States confider the fecularizations as abfolutdy =airy, and are for granting confiderable in demnities to the Eledor of Bavaria. But in future the furnifhing of the Roman months is to be totally fuppreffed, and the Houfes of Auftria, Pruffia, Saxony, Bavaria, and Hanover, are.alone to fur s pith the necegary contingents for forming an army of the Empire. By letters from Petertburgh , we ha v e rec eived confident afurances that the negotiations between Lord St. Hetaa's and the Ruffian Miniftry, are attended with the belt fsccefs. The French Ara, Safrador Dosoc, who arrived there before his Lord fhip, was not admitted to the conferences with `the Miniftry till five days afterwards. He brought with him Tome very valuable jewels, which he pre tented to the Emperor and Emprefs, in I3osa- TARTS% name; but this will not, by any means, make any alteration in the firm refolution of the new Sovereign to procure redrefs to thofe Princes who have been Dripped and otherwife aggrieved by the treaty of Luneville, efpecially tote Kings of Sardinia and Naples. the Grand Duke of Tst 1 eany, and the Eleaor of Bavaria. Otisen Doloe r whom the Emperor was not very anxious to fee. nfed all the affidoity and finefe of a Frenchman to throw himfelf in the Monarch's way, either on the parade, or in thofe walks pf the Imperial rum mer gardens, where he knew his Majefty was in the habit of wklking with the Emprefs, attended pnly by a fingle fervant. Dvaoc has, at the fame time, found means to infinuate himfelf into the Food graces of the Grand Duke Coa rrairrial, who has of late frequently invited him to dinner. There are very favourable accounts from the Pi-kith army in Egypt from Corftantinople, down to the 246 ult. An engagement had, it is laid, • taken place on the 9th of May, between the com bined Angio-titrkith forces, and the French force. lotreached, to•the number of ebree thoufand men, pear Rabmanie. The combhted army attacked the French, who were forced back into the town, which was to be takep by aff...alt on the next day; but favoured by the darknefs of the night, the gar rifon got out and efeaped to Cairo ' and eon men who remained, hoifted the wkite fla g at day-break, and furrendered at difcretion to the Britifis. The Captain Pacha is raid to have performed prodigies pf valour in that Cllgaoenteat, and fhot a French General Officer with his ows band. The number of the killed and wounded on both fides has not yet beset afcertained, but it is fuppofed to be rather confiderable, the French having made a very ob ftinate refillasee. The Eaglifh force, with the Captain Pacha, after leaving a fuffteient garrifon at -Rharnanie, marched immediately againft Cairo, and the Grand Vizier has alto penetrated as far as flank.* with his army on die fame deftination. Te fecund the combined operations, Admiral Lord Karroo was to fail up the Nile with NI gun boats. His Lordfbip had font a divifion of his *et to the Adriatic to (coin it of the pirates, and to watch the French movements from the fide of A multitude of letters from Smyrna and other parts of Turkey confirm the delperate fitnaticm of the French in Egypt,•and a battle at Cairo wa , impeded to deddc the fate of. that country.— Ws no sells ip this latter city, and endeavoured to orgpsise .chip inhabitants to rife in a mars, but they were generally difareded to the French party, k caulk number iiLonta and Grcelia. - WRLIAMENT,Rr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. Among the Bills which received the Royal Al fent Taft week were—Molfcroft, North Froding ham, Hornfea, Stanton,' and the Little Weeton, and Riplingham Inclofure Bills. ' MONDAY, JUNE Lord ROMNIT and Lord Gary Dt WILTON were introtlue ed, and took their feats , on their la t e promotions as Earls. An Enclafure Bill being in a Committee of the whole Houk, the Duke of Bei:frosts in the Ountnittee,made & variety of oh fervatioos on the Refolutions to winch the Houfe had come re- Wive to Enclof re Bills, and pointed out in what manner a chute in the Bill appeared to him to bear upon one dans& Re folu.ions. He laid he would content himfelf with having called the &vendors of their Lordlitips to the fael, butte d make oo motion upon it, though perhaps he might t w, when the Committee above Mrs, 4/ whom the fubjed of divorce had been referred, would put their Report on the table. Counfel was again beard in the Appeal—the Earl of Strathmore v. A. R. Bowes, Erg. Al mod all the Judges affifted on this occafion, and upon the queftion being put to them—" Whether the Codicil to a Will, 'which Codicil related to a certain eftate, was a republication of a former will made previoufly to the pnrchafe of that eftate"— they all gave their opinion in the negative. Lord Teuatow (poke for Come time in favour of the Appellant's claim. Lord ROSELYN fupported the judgment which had been made in the Court of Clq.ncery in &Aar of the Refpondent, as well as the opinion given by the Judges of the Court of King's Bench. He was foliowedby.the Loan CHANCELLOR, who alto (poke on the fame. fide of the queftion. After which, Lord THOILOW withdrew his oppofition, which, after the refpe&able authorities who bad differed with him in opinion, he would no longer perfift in. Their Lorain: then affirmed the judgment of the Court of Chancery. or THE CLERGY. On the queftion for the third reading of the Clergy Refidence Bill. The Duke of Noarocc rote, and made Tome obfervations on the general fubjed. His Grace did not Seem hoftile to the meafure as far as it went, but ftrongly erpreffed his opinion, that the ell& ing Laws relative to the Refidenee of the Clergy were highly defeftive, and called much for rev,. fion. He had hoped that ere now Tome regular and comprehenfive plan would have been brought forward on the fubjed, and which he thought par ticularly Should Originate with thofe Members of their Lordfhipa Houfe, who filled the Reverend Bench. He meant n thing difrefpedful to the Re verend Prelates : he hoped they would take what he obferved in good part, but he conceived it was their duty to fuperintend the regulation of fuch matters. The Noble Duke then expatiated upon the great importance of the Clerical Fundion in a political as well as a religious view, and particu larly with reined to the confideration of Refidenee. Hit obfervations, be was lorry to fay, applied too much to this Country; but with regard to Ireland they applied in a far greater degree where, it was in a great meafure owing to the remiffnefs and inatten tion of numbers of the Clergy, to the Superior Or. ders • and particularly with reined to refidence. that theu ' nfortunate troubles which agitated that part Ofj the United Kingdom had arifen : had that part of the community afted in a manner more confident with their facred fundims, Ireland would now be in a very different fituation from its prefent, and even it might have been a Proteftant Country.— He threw out thefe hints in the hope that when a regular opportunity &out& offer, fume Reps would be taken to remedy the evils in queftion. The Anchbilhnp of Casa It laid, he Should not have troubled their Lordthips, were it not for the afertion juft made by the Noble Duke, who ap peared to fpeak with as much confidence as if he had lived in Ireland all his life. He would, how ever, do the Noble Duke the juftice to believe that he fpoke from mifinformation ; and with that im preffion, he would declare, that the charge againft the Billions of Ireland was the mod unfounded that ever had been made. There was not a Clergymen in Ireland of whole refidence and general conduit a return was not made once a year nor a Bifhop is Ireland who did not regularly vifit his diocefe once a year and the Archbifhop vifited the province. once in three years. He had himfelf vifited the province over which he ptefided five times, and he never had any reafon to charge the fuperior Clergy with want of attention to their duty. He could allure the Houfe mod folannly that, in his opinion, there were not to be found in his Majefly's domi nions, nor in any other part of the world, a let of men more attentive to their duty, more orderly, or correct in their cooduet, than the Clergy of the diocefe of Caffiel. Aker; having thus anfwered the unjuft charge that had been made wind the Irifb Bilhops, he would next fay a word or two on the prefent Bill. It was a meafure which met with his approbation, becaufe its objeft was to relieve a large body of men from perfecution ; for he would call the proceedings againft thole perfons who were defendants in penal aftions by no other name. The object of this peife'cution was not to reform the Church, but the members of the Church were per fecnted becaufe t were Clergymen. He was lorry that the'Honfe was allowed fol Short a time to difcufs a meafure of this importance, becaufe, if the bufinefs had been taken up fooner in the Houfe of Common., a more effeftual remedy might have been devifed : but fuch as it was, he confidered it better than no remedy at all. ' The Billion of ROCHISTER Wined that the Com mons had fent this Bill fooner to that Houfe, in or der that more time might have been afforded for the difcuflion : but he hoped that before the asth of next March, when the Bill would expire, Tome more effedual plan might be adopted, not only to relieve thofe who Coffered harelips from vexatious pinfecutions, but alfo to compel thole *ho abfent ed themfelves from their parither to do their duty. A plan of this kind could not be adopted by the Billsope, as the Noble Duke had oveoroznended ; if a meafure which was to he . followed by peonsiary penalties was to originate in that Houle, ft would be loft in the other Houle of Parliament. The Lc:4w Ca c tom* wept over rewind of the obfervations which be had made an friday hit. wilted as much as an man to compel the rc '-• - fiance of the Clergy t bvt k was abfolutely neeef fary to peavent the hardthips atifmg from the Sta tute of Henry VIII. which in fome cafes had led to great oppreffion, and in others was totally in fufficient to cornea the evil it was intended to re medy. For inftance, an unmarried Clergyman might have a living of the value of c tool. a year ; the penalty for not raiding in his parifh would amount to t 201. a year: if, therefore, he was fa tisfied to live upon I °Sol. he had nothing to do but give up fo much of his income, live where he chofe, and negled the duties of his parifli. Bnt, on the other hand, fuppofe a Clergyman with a large fa mily, having a living of tool. a year, and for want of proper accommodation unable to refide within his parifh, the duties of which, however, he molt diligently attended, he was equally liable to be protecuted for non-refidence, add he muff lofe the whole of his well-earned income. Was fuch a law therefore equal ?--No--it was abfurd and unjuft, and loudly called for amendment. Among feveral cafes which occurred in the Court where he had 'prefided, the Learned Lord Paid he would mention two, an aftion was brought againft a Clergyman for non-refidence who was punted to have been un remittingly attentive to his duty. His parifh was in London : the parfonage houfe had been let by the former incumbent , and he could not by la w eject the tenant, and if he did, the houfe was not fit for him to live in. He could not get a conve nient refidence in the parifh, and ,therefore lived as near it as potlible ; he had a houfe in Ely-place, Holborn. Yet after all thefe and many more fads had been Rated on the trial, he as Judge was obliged to declare, that by law, the defendant wasliable to the penalty. But another cafe occur red shortly after, of a very different nature. The Incumbent of a living in London was profecuted for non-refidcnce, and was _proved not to have vifited his parith for feveral years, during the whole of which time be lived in Somerfetfhirc, wherein amufed himfelf by following the trade of a fox-hun. ter. His Lordthip alfo mentionod the cafe of another Clergyman' who found the glebe honfe much too large for him, as he had either no fa.. l mily, or a very (mall one. There happened to live in the parifh an Attorney with a very large family: the Attorney propofed that the Clergy man thould refide in his houfe, and he would re ticle in the Clergyman's. At the end of the year the latter called for his rent--A 4 No, (fays the At torney) I'll pay no rent to you ; and if you infift upon it, I'll bring an anion of Ryi Tam againft you for the penalty of non-refidence," A Reverend Prelate had laid, that all thole penal a& ions were brought for the purpofe of perfecuting the Clergy ; he mutt, in oppofition to that opinion, declare that no fuch motive could be jottly imput ed to any of the perfons bringing fuch attions ; and he could affure the Houfe that many of them had been brought from the pureß and molt confcien tious motives,and with a view to corre& the abaci that prevailed in the Eftablifhed Church. And if Tome of thefe aftions bad been brought even for the foie purpofe of recovering a penalty, he did not think it proper that the Houle, or any Member of ' it, fhould brand the profecutors with the name of informers, after Parliament had encouraged them . , to do what they had done. The Bill before the Route was a temporary expedient which was ab folutely neceffary until Come better one could be adopted. The Duke of Noarote rote to explain what he had Paid with regard to the Irith Bifhops.• When he was in Ireland, he had heard complaints which juttified him in what fell from him. In many pa rifhes of Ireland there was not a church to be met with ; no (cry ice was ever performed; and the people knew nothing of the Minifter except what they heard from the Proftor, who came every year to collet the tythes. With refpeft to what had fallen from the Rev. Prelate oppofite to him, about the claim of the other Houle to originate money Bills, it was in fa& the cafe ; but had the Rev. Prelate never heard of fuch a thing as a Bill framed by the Rev. Bench, or under their aufpices, being introduced into the other Houk, paled, and fent up to their Uri:fillips' Houle ? To his for mer admonition to the Rev. Bench, which he had been glad to fee was taken in good part, he would, add, by hinting to the Rev. Prelate, that the other Houfe bad already fent up a Bill difabling Clergy men from- fitting in their Houfe, and perhaps i t fome effe&ual nieafure was not taken by the Rev. Bench in regard to the concerns of the Church, a Bill might find its way into that Houfe, extending the difibility of the clergy having feats among their Lordfhips. The Marquis of Buczniona se approved of the prefent Bill, although he could have wifhed for a I better one. When he had the honour of prefisfing over the Government of Ireland, be frequently turned his attention to the Rate of the Church he, that country, and he could fay, that no men could perform their duty with more care and attention than the Bithops of Ireland. The Duke of CLaainoca expreffed his approba tion of this Bill, and perfealy coincided in the opi nions of the Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool fack.—The Bill was then pallid. The Earl of Lamont Paid, the Hull River Navigation Bill was of great importance, not only to chore locally interefted, but to the public in general ; he hoped therefore their Lordships would agree to fufpend the (tending order, No. a 6, which Rated that no bill thould pars two Rages in one day if that were not agreed to be fufpended, the Bill could not pats this fetfion. His Lordfhip ac cordingly moved the fufpenfion of the order. The Earl of RADMOR concurred. The Lost' CHANCELLOR Paid a few.words to re mind their Lordthips that if the Order were fut pended, he was not to be blamed for putting the quiftion for commitment after the Bill had been read a fecond time. The Earl of RADNOR thanked the noble and learned Lord for his delicacy and attention to the Standing Orders of the Houfe. The Standing Order was, on Motion, agreed to be fufpcnded. The Bill was then read a fecond time, went thraugh the Committee, and was reported. calms!, DIVOIICS The Houk having prococdecl to the furt h er con. fideration of this Bill, the waiting-maid belonging to Mrs. Crewe, who gave evidence on Fridayhi, was called in and examined by his Royal High nefs the Duke of Clarence. - Sbe natal that Mrs. C re we had frequently been ill, .or affeeted to be ill, and that was the esnde of heenot fleeping with her hutband that Mr. Crewe ufed to come into her chamber of a. morning, and pay her the ut moll attention ; that he did to during the time when he was (Fated to bare been out of an evening: that when Mrs. Crewe wanted to go to Bath, he pofi tively objeCted to her going, and did nut content until the made it appear to him that the ftate of her health required fuch a joqrnoy that Mr. Crewe pai . ei the utrnoft attention to the education of his daughter) and that on thole Sundays when th e and his wife happened not to go to church, he would read prayers for them at home. When the Witnetk withdrew, the further pro. eeedings on the Bill were potiponed ttll to.morrow. Adjourned. —. . HOUSE OF bOVIMONS. Hayes's Divorce Bill was read a fecond time, and committed for to-morrow. Mr. VAWIITTART prefented the Accounts ordered by the Houle on the motion of Mr. Robfon, refpeeting the Notion Lilt, and the Subfidies panted during the prefent War to Fo reign Powers. An Malin& was prefented from the Secretary of State's Of fice of the Anfwers and Returns mide under the Population Bill, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. RossoN Moved the printing ache Penal* W• 3 and the Account of Loans and SubGdies, which was ad The Bill for removing the &he of Downing College wee read a fecond time. Mr. Alderman Cuar is moved that Connie] tumid be called in upon a Petition which hail been printioutly prefented apinft the Bill. Some onverfation meted between Mr. Alderman Curds, Mr, Charles Dundee, the Attorney General, and Mfr. Beane. when the Motion was negatived, and the Bill committed to a private Committee to meet to-moyrow morning. The kith Indemnity Bill was read a third time and pdlltd. The Alien's Smutty Bill went through a Conisialttee, and was afterwards mad a third time and pared. • • ' A 'name from the Lords informed the Houle, that their Lordfhips had agreed to the Clergy's Refacnce Bill, to the Malta Trade, and American lateroaurfit Bill, and to feveral other public and private Bills. - - . FINANCE. .7 - The Order of the Day to refurne the adjourned debate on the Financial Refolutions being read, The CHANCELLOR of the Eaten toy sa rote and Paid, he had forborne to make any obfcrvations upon thefe till they fhould have been loins time before the Houfe. Even now he Mould occupy the attention of the Houfe for a very few minutes, He allowed that the Refolutions of the Hon. Gen tleman were in general accurate, and fairly drawn from the papers on the table. There were lonic points on which he conceived him to be wron g ; but thefe were in general very trifling, and he thought it would be wafting the time of the Houfe to point them out and enlarge upon them, His 41aal objefiion to the Hon. Gentleman's ilatement was, that it did not go far enough. The public were entitled to a more comprehenfive and fads faftory view of the finances than this prefented to them. The Right Hon. Gentleman then proceed ed tp fitgply thefe deficiencies by comparing, in the firft place, our fituation in 1786. with oar fitua lion now. The finking fund he calculated was then eftablithed, and was as one to 338 . 0 f the national debt. The finking fund was making fuch rapid propels that it was now fully as one to 73 of the national debt. He congratulated the country very warmly upon this favourable (late of things, and proceeded to (fate other circumifances not lefs fads faaory, which he contended to be a proof that though our burdens have increafed, our npulence has increafed in a Rill greater proportion. He dwelt chiefly upon the increafed produce of the permanent taxes, and the immenfe amount of im ports and exports. Agriculture, he laid, was slikewife rapidly improving, and every thing af forded lymptoms of growing profperity. He felt for the harelfhips ofindividuals, but he rejoiced to think of the great refources of the public. He al leered the expenditures this year would amount to very searixtraine millions, But he reminded the Houfe that a very confiderable part of it did not come from the pockets of the people, but was railed in the way of a loan. The peace eftablifh ment he calculated at twenty-eight millions, and beyond this the permanent taxes would yearly produce 600,0001. He next touched upon the in come tax, which he took at five millions. The pro duce was (mailer than wes expelled; but he never looked to the tax but with pleafure. He thuddeied to think what might have been the confequencehad it not been impaled. Government might not have been able to borrow money on terms Iliort of ruin ous. At all events the expence prevented had been immenfe. The interefts upon theloans made would have been above the prefent amount of the and this load would have been perpetual. Whit ther the commercial interef . contributed their fair proportion he would not take upoti.him to fay; but of this he would athire the Houle, that if any one fhould davit; a mode in which the tax might be levied more equally, the plan fhould have firmeit fupport, and he &mild look upon the pro- pofer of it as a public benefatlor entitled to hie gratitude. But no tax had beenfuggefted by Which commercial men would lie obliged to contribute more liberally ; no tax ever elated which drew lo Much from them as the prefent. He could not think of ra(hly renouncing a tax which had pro duced fueh beneficial ereas. It had railed the ,rocks from -47 to 60, and thus bad rendered ler vice to every order in the community. The landed intereft came in for their (hare of its advantages from, the facility with which it enabled them to borrow money on mortgar, oats want to do although t eircircumitances were balm degree deranged. To the operation of the which they might meafure the whole nation was greatly indebted. He Paid that he had been lately obliged to loot more narrowly into the finances of the country than he had ever done before, a nd the inveftiga don had turned out very much to his fatisfaelion. Rigid °economy would be neceffary, botthat would be fuffieient, and there was not the leaft room for defpondence. With prudence, fteadinefs and te folution, we would rainy overronse all our difficul ties. Betides the fecurity of this country in the ' excellence of its Connitution, its local fituation• and tit; f?irit of its ialtabitasta, it had fits • . . t.l