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already, whom they had direnifed from the charge? There were fome of the kali anomalies into which they would he plunged by a continuance of the prefent proceedings. Were their Lordfhips afraid to troll the ordinary tribdnals upon this occafirm, to let the guilt or innocence of the Honourable Judge be decided by a Jury upon a fiire foram to repeal the patent by Thigh he held his office ? The Commons have el& received petitions upon the fubjed, but they could do fo without any ineonfißeney, for it was not they who were to judge. There was alfo another objection, and in has mind a very great one, to pre. el seeding in that Hoak, and that was that no one could fay, when tie trio/ watlikely to terminate. He had likeed, with very great pleafure to the admirable of the Noble Memoir. with fo much indeed 17.1 Ihe had not dikovered, by looking at his watch, that he had fpoken. full three hours, he fhould have conceived, front the excellence of his fpeech r that he hoehaet occupied more than a quarter of an hour of elegioLordthips , time. If this.openieg fpeeeh was to eanfurrie fo much, time, what time would be fulicient frothe,;Counfel,.the examination and crofs.examina /Soo; of evidence...wok all the delays that neceffarily imam open, ludiciel proceedings ? Their Lordfhips jandeltesta jo fit delivered from the jaws of one impeach gempstrowere they to rue into the jaws of another ? If ltheytiwere,.in the some of GOD, let the proceedings SlMlSlnenos where they ought that is, in the Com mons; nod ler not their Lorifhips prejudge a cafe Itlikth they might probably be called upon, in their )114fteial capacity, to determine. Laird HAW e - KESBURY did not rife for the put. ge4e of going into the evidence, but meant to con. See himfelf to that, part of the queßion which had gelation to the jurifdirdion of their Lordfhips. It was Weileffary to come to a preeife knowledge of the prin. Mple.npon which they were fo proceed. One great Went appeared to him to pervade the argument of *le Noble Lord who made the motion, and it was, that he famed to confider their prefent proceeding NMI ezercik of the judicial power, when, in fad, *IT were only exercifing, that inquifitorial authority with which they were veiled by the Confirtution. No two powers could be more difiind ; they might etkercifed together without any violation of the equit. side principles of our code of judicature. If they were to be refirided from the exertion of the inquire. coda, power, becaufe it was poffible that the Com. mons might confider the offence which they were 'opquiring into as fit matter for impeachment. there i wssuld be an end at once to any practical employment of it. They oould neither addrefs for the removal of *Secretary of State r a Fir It Lord of the Admiralty, nr the Governor of a Colony. Their Lordthips, he thilloght, had placed thenefelves in that fituation that *bay could not recede. They had heard evidence ; they had paired a Bill to continue the proceedings in the prefent &Mon. He would enter his proteft *pica qoafhing the proceedings. He thought it he4orde the Houk to confider the fituation in which elsay had placed ihemfelves, as well •as the lituation in which they bad plated the Learned Judge alfo. . The Earl of MOIRA had been prevented by his occupations elfewheee from attending . the proceed. ings ; bct the firfl imprelifion on his mind was, that there would be no impropriety or inconvenience in entertaining, the fubjed. However. more mature reflection, as well as the arguments which he had beard offered that night, convinced him that his firfl opinion was erroneous. The Houfe were in a ftrange Stuation of hearing a trial, in which there was no oftenfible profecutor ; for the very perfons who ailed in that capacity, from very laudable motives he would admit,. fat amongft them as Judges. He was clearly of opiniOn that the proceedings-thould have originated in the other Houfe. His Lordfhip quoted the cafe of judge Cleland, who had been • guilty of 0 1 4 fame offence imputed to Mr. Juftice For, namely, impofing ate exorbitant fine on the county of Mex. Buthow did the county proceed ? Why they refilled the payment, and fo brought the conduit of the Judge to legal inveftigation. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE differed in opinion with the Noble Lord who had juli fpoken.— Be felt that the inquifitorial power had been properly placed in their bands, and be wifhed to fee it exercifed. 'Thee Commons were, in faa, privy to the proceed - Jo g , againft the Learned Jude, for they bad given their content to a Bill for continuing them. • Lord AUCKLAND repeated his former objections to proceeding. From the firft time the fubjed was introduced in the Houfe, he (trove, to the utmoft of his poor abilities, to, point out to their Lordfhips the 4nflics and inconfiftency in which they were about to involve themfelves. He thought, from the difcuf- Eon of that night, that he was likely to fee an end to the ramfure. The Earl of HARDWICKE confidered the ma AO **calculated to get rid of the proceeding alto 'tethers sod therefore, by no means likely to fatisfy the feelings of the people of Ireland. There, he was fearful, their Lordfhips' determination would be con. Meted as a denial of juflice. Earl SPENCER raid, nothing had been urged to I induce him to alter the opinion which he had to often taken the liberty of offering to their Lordfhips on Ode fabled. He contended, that the effect of the Motion would not be to get rid of the proceedings altogether. It was competent for the other Houfe to take it up, and fend it op before their Lordfhips, in a regular and connitutional manner. The Lid of WESTMORLAND thought it would be a great bardfhip on the Learned judge, if he were deprived of an opportunity of vindicating his conduit, and coming to Parliament for remuneration of his expenses, in cafe his innocence of the charges i p :muld be made manifeft. f,see takin g divided on Lord Grenville's mo tion, f o rg the charges into confideration on that day three months : Contents ac—Non.contents 16— m a j or i t y so ... Adjourned at One to (this day.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Areffed Tessa BBL the Thread Lace Bill, the Duke of Grafton 's Agreement Bill, the PruOao Yarn Bill, the Gibraltar s o M a tta Pottage Bill, and the frith Mine Bill were reported, and ordered to be read a third 31.7 time. INDIA Dber. that the Eaft India Budget Lord MORPETH g ave notice, would be laid before the Houk on Monday fe'unight. On the motion of Mr. VANSITTAR't, the Report on the Er fife Office Regulation Bill was taken into farther confideration, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday nem 'the Committees on the Scots Dlttillery B il l, the Cufbini•Houte Tees Bill, on the Sump-Office Regulation B and on the Po ft- Office Regulation Bill, were poftponed till to. n it J. NEW polo' brought op the frith Cu i ftom °rr s ° a w nd Excife Re gulation Bill, which was G ad a full time, and be mitred torea d A f. toad on Monday. • ' 11111! 'Lien.* mu.; Stir y.NEWP O itT moved the Orda of itHS Day fot Malt refolving Weil into a Committee on the Ira iledtion BM. Colonel VIREKER then rofe, and (poke with great wean* of the rapidity with which the Right Hon. Baronet had preffed the NI through the previous lieges, while he had declined doing any thing in the prefent Sefkon foe remedying thole evils which eaifted iu the piper circulation of Ireland. He had no Idea of the contents of this Bill till very lately, and its objeet appeared to br to ftrike a death blow at every Corporation Is Ireland. It arofe from the Right Hon. Baronet's own experience In a late eleetion • (Order! fireltr /) and was deftrudtve of the rights of the great , Corporeth.r.s. He wounded, that time mould be given them to patent petitions and proteits apinft It, and as that amid not be done In the prefent Sawn, be Ihould move that ft be poßponed to the next Sefton, Sir j. NEWPORT mislead tbe object of the mn. At preent petitioners claiming the tights of freemen in Corporations, pre fentsd their claims to the Mayor who 'mean annual elect, and it too often happened, front this and other tattles, that their claims were negleaed and millald for yetis, and then the freeman was deprived of his jolt rights, or forced to reclaim them at a greet ex petite. The prefent Bill provided that every claim fhould be de livered to the Town Clerk, who was to precut It to the Mayor Within forty eight hours; and thai tome dedSon &Cold be paired upon It within one month after it, precOttrent. It obliged the Corporation to proceed to tome deelitun, before they entered on any other elettion bonnets. Should the claim be rejefted by them, and afterward! brought into a Court of Ja 110. and decides in fa wner of the claimant, it provided that he Mould recover all thee eipences which ha had been put to, in parkin hie, juft rights. This was the more neceffery,. se individuals Et prefent found it ruinous to cope with the weight of s Cairporation purfe. He knew, that in one loftance, scoot had been mired on the revenues of a Corporation, for fupportiog thelaw expeotes oecafioned by theta appeals. The prefent Bill ealkd upon the Corporatist* to do no thing but juftiet, and whatever &Hullos the Hon. Member might make to his modem, he trotted the Houfe-would do him the jut. tlee to believe, that in the exerelfe of his official duty, he was cot actuated by any private or Snifter views. Mr. S. BOURNE nprefed a ftrang with that the mesfure (hoard he deferred for the prefent, till the fentiments of the people of Ireland thould be known. The bill might now pets through the Committee pre forma, and the blanks might be filkd up,that the nature of the Bill might be fully akettained, and in this flue it might lie over till neat &Mon. Mr. ALEXANDER contended, that the Bill, by holding out fo much ascotiregement to claimants, would be the means of intro doting endiefe Mr. FOSTER Paid, that the !scenes of the Seam. and the dif tance to theta who were interelted in it. made it impidEble for them to tranfmtt their fentiments ot it to the Houle in the pretent Set- Son. lie thould therefore oppote the Speaker's leaving the Chair. Mr. O'HARA conceived the beg way would be. for the Houk to go into the Comeniuce at preset, when the blanks might be filled up, and then the nature and object of the Bill would be ken. Lord TEMPLE trotted, that no °Nation would be made to this propeaL He believed that his Right l low Friend would not °hied to giving ten or fourteen days, in order that the link of the kith Gentlemen might be colleaed upon it. Sir J. NEWPORT espreffisi his aequiefeenee in this propotal; but he could not content to poftpone the confider-elan of the Sill beyond the prefect Sefton. by that means twelve months would e(capc, and in the mean time a very large body of defter' might be deprived of their rie:tte. Colonel BAGWELL °epees! the Bill; and Mr. PARNELL and Dr. LAWRENCE fupportsd it. Mr. H. BROW NE walled the Bill to he put of for the peeks*. He thought It liable to conaderable objeaions, and at lesft ample time thould be given for its full coonderation. He would alit the Right Hon. Baronet, whether be could poibly think fourteen days fullichout for congaing the folk of the people of Ireland spec It f The people of this country were juftly jealous of every thing that affected their elective rights, and nothing of that kind thould be hurried through the Houk. The qoeftion being then loudly called for, a divilloo tank place, and there appeared, for the Committee a)-s-Agelnit it ob.-Ma jority I. CMAILOIII•GAINST THe 14•R(22/t1 WILLEILIT. Mr. PAUL moved, " that a return be forthwith trade to the order of the sth of June, for Papers re lative to Oude." There Papers, he Paid, would be necelraryto the elucidation of the charge, and ought to be brought forward before he moved it. The motion was agreed tn. Mr. PAUL then moved the Order of the Day for taking into further confideration the charge againit the Marquis Wellefley, relative to the tranfaelions in Oude. Sir A. WELLESLEY afked, whether all the wit neffes need attend the whole of the prefent day ? Mr. PAUL replied, that the next witneffes he meant to examine were, Sir Alured Clarke, Major Oufeley, and Mr. Johnftone : after that, he meant to defer the further examination of evidence till Mon day, in order that the papers peremptorily moved for this day, fhould be on the table. The evidence of yefierday and this day might in the mean time be printed, and the examination on Monday. be fop `pofed, would not occupy more than two hours. The Houfe then refolved Welt* into a Committee, Lord FOLKSTONE in the Chair. Mr. JOHNS*TONE was then examined in his place by Mr. PAUL, who fira diced him whether he had not been for t s years in a high fituation, as Refident at Lucknow ? Mr. JOHNSTONE laid, that as his fituation in India was in many retinas a confidential one, he fek ' himfelf in an awkward and embarraffing predicament, upon which he walled to deliver an opinion now, as he might not afterwards have any opportunity of do ling fo. - Mr. PAUL acquainted him, that the queflion he meant to put to him related principally to finance, and would not therefore place him under the embar raffment he apprehended. He then repeated his former queflion, to which Mr. Johnflone replied, that while he remained at Lucknow, he was frequently AEling Refident ; that the fubfidy paid by the Nabob was at that time fifty-fix lacks of rupees; that the Nabob Vizier was very unwilling, and would not, without reflraint or fome degree of compolfion, cede any part of his territory ; that the late Nabob was Paid, by public report, to have be-n much additled to the ufe of opium, and intoxicating liquors. Mr. PAUL having put a queftion to Sir Attired Clarke, relative to the opinion he entertained, whe ther, if the Nabob of Oude had been obliged to pay 500,0001. in addition to the 70 lacks of rupees, it would not have been an infraaios of the Treaty ? Mr. WALLACE objefted to it, as the Treaty was on the table, and any Member could fee whether this was an infralion or not. A long eonverfation then took place between Mr. PAUL, Dolor LAWRENCE, Mr. MARTIN, and others, who were of opinion, that the quellion thould be put ; and Mr. WALLACE, Earl TEM PLE, Mr. S. BOURNE, and others, who objeded to it ; after which a dilution took place : The num bers were—For putting the queftion, 16—Againd it, 46 —Majority 20. When ltrangers were again admitted, we under- Rood, that Mr. PAUL had propored another (pet tion relative to the opinion entcrtained by Sir Alured Clarke on a different point. This was all. objeded to on the fame grounds by Mr. WALLACE. Mr. PAUL then Rated, that all the queflions he had prepared were of the fame nature ; he thcref(.ie moved, " that the Committee lhould to adj..orned until to-morrow, that he might have an opportunity of putting his quahogs into another thapc, or for the porpofe of taint the opinion of the Committee, when there, were more Members prefent." Earl TEMPLE oppofed the adjournment, and thought the fpeech of the Hon. Gentleman moll on parliamentary, when he propofed to take the feife of the Committee tomorrow on a queftion which had been already decided. The Noble Lord then made tome remarks on the propriety of taking the opinion of witnefles in the manner propored, which mode of proceeding he deprecated. Mr. HUTCHINSON thought the motion for an adjonrnment Mould he acceded to, as the Honourable Gentleman 'tithed to put the queftions in another Grape. Mr. Secretary FOX was of the fame opinion, and did not think much time would he 101 l by adjourning, as it was then near eleven o'clock, and it was ufiral, in fuch cafes, never to fit beyond that hour. With refire& to the propriety of afking . the opinion of wit neffes, he certainly did not think it improper; and it had been univerfally allowed in all proceedings of the fame nature, which had been heretofore before the Houle. The Honourable Gentleman who had undertaken the buftnefs, he conceived, had a very good right to believe that he would be allowed to put his quellions in their prefent form, as the matter was debated the night before ; and, though there had not been a divifion, yet, what might be confidered Rill Rronger, the oppofition was given up, and the q teftions were allowed to pals. The Right Hon. Gentleman then concluded by laying, that he thought the Committee might be allowed to adjourn until to-morrow; but if that was not agreed to, he would undoubtedly take the fenfe of the Committee on the propriety of putting the quellions in their prelim fhape. After fome further converfation, Sir Alured Clarke as, by agreement, called in, and a few quetlions put to him. His examination was then doled, and the Chairman reported progrefs, and obtained leave to fit again to-morrow. On the motion of Colonel WOOD, James Salmon, Efq. the Auditor General of Military Accounts in India, was ordered to attend to-morrow. MILITIA: Mr. WINDHAM brought in a Bill for fettling the return of proper perfons to ferve in the Militia, under the 41d of the King, and for fufpending the ballot for a time to be limited. It was read a firti, and ordered to be read a fecond time to. morrow, and to be printed.—The other Orders being difpoled of, the Houle adjourned at Twelve o'clock. Lan nigh! we Week! Path pipeii is the I jth, and Dutch to the iGth infl. Intelligence from Naples of the 23d ult. mentions the capture of the Nand of Capri, unaccompanied with any of thole circumitancei of atrocious cruelty contained in the preceding ac. count. The garrifon is faid to have capitulated to four fail of the line and fifteen hundred men. We believe the flrength of the naval and military force employed on this occafion to have been much ex*gge. rated, and that Capri has yielded to the enterprize and impetuofity of a few Britifh failors and marines. The return of Count HAVGWITZ to the favour of the King of PRUSSIA, is mentioned in the Moog :fur—lf this Statement be true, a Change of Coun• cils and Veafures may be expeaed itnineoiately to follow. There appears fomething of a pacific na ture on the part of Pruta to Sweden—for his Swe. dab Majetly has at laft fent a letter to the King of Pruffia demanding a Categorical Anfwer—" Whe ther cr not Pruffia would evacuate Lanenburg ?" If it be true that there is a difporition on the part of Prullla to content to loch a preliminary arrange ment, leaving the final adjament of differences to the friendly efforts of Fiance and Rata, a reconcili ation ma be the confequence. Such an arrange• ment would operate powerfully on the future con. dud of the Belligerent Powers. We have received Bolton Papers on the 2 t ft. and New York to the 24th nit. The American prefs dill labours to keep alive the excited againfi this country, and accounts, apparently defiitute of foun dation, are circulated againa our Naval Commanders on that Ration. Of this kind is a report of the Cis °mat. frigate having boarded an American trader, and carried off 54 perfons, parengers, with an Ame rican feaman.—On the other hand, ((vies arc fabr l ewd to keep up the fpirits and gratify the malignity of party. Of this kind is one of the Effex, American frigate, having funk an Englith (loop of war. There teems not the Clightelt foundation for the report. The intelligence with refpea to Mut* Wires ezpedi• Lion is contradictory. LONDOI. FRIDAY, PRICE OF S roc] Bank Etna, otoi 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 6titt 3 per Ct. Conf. Ann. Ann 4 per Cent. 74 83 5 per Cent. Navnlbut Long Ann. 15 7-tei JUNE a% CS YESTERDAY. hints per Cent. po Exch. kWh par 31. thnnium atl prem. Bank Stock for arc. 21Ii XII Conf. for acc. The report that a negotiation of fome kind is ac- tually on the tapir, flill maintains its ground. A pet fon with difpatches from Government is affcrted to have failed from the Downs in a cutter on Mon day, and to have been landed at Calais that night. Lord YARMOUTH has alto gone to France. He failed from Ramfgate in a cutter belonging to Lord KIIITH*I fquadron, and landed, we undcraand, on Monday night at Calais. We believe, however, that his Lorefillip's frith to France relates only to his own private affairs; but fo confident is the general opinion that a negotiation is now going on, that the fonds are even higher this day than they were yefterday. At one o'clock the Three per Cents were, for the opening 63d a I—Reduced 6td 4 f—Omnium 5d al money price—Exchequer Dills Par a is. a 25. dircount. The Houfe of Lords laft night, on the motion of Lord GRENYILEA. poftponed the farther confedera tion of Juftice Fox's cafe for three months. The Commons, in a committee of the whole Houfc, proceeded farther on the examination of evi• dence to fupport the Charges of Mr. PAVL againft the Marquis of WELLESLEY. The Report was wade, and the Committee are to refume their proceedings this afternoon. We yefterday mentioned the arrival of the Man chefter packet at Falmouth from the Leeward, Elands, in four weeks. A letter from Tortola, of the 18th ult. received by this conveyance, contains the following informa tion A Gentleman jua arrived from Ss. Tho mas's Rates, that a French fquadrt n of four fail of the line had arrived at St. Domingo, with Rotes and provifions; and alfo that four frigates from Cadiz, one Spann, and three French, had arrived at St. John's, Porto Rico, with Flores and provifions ; and alfo, that the four French frigates, fuppofed to be in the Weft Indies, had followed the convoy towards Bermuda." It is imagined, that the frigates arrived at Porto Rico are thofe which were lately at Cayenne ; and that the four fail of the line at St. Domingo are thofe which failed from Brea on the 13th December, and which were fo long unaccounted for. We have at prefent only two (hips of the line on the Jamaica nation, namely, PHtatcut.s and VAT 111/AN. of 74 guns each. The homeward bound merchant fleet foiled from Tortola on the toth, under convoy of the AMELIA, two other frigates, and a brig. The Hob/its, GEORG", from Grenada to Clyde, put back to Tortola the 18th of May. very leaky. The ANSO•4 (r gate, with the fleet tinder convoy from Curk ; and the Crease Us frigate, with the fleet from l'ortf.ii u:h, Live :mired at Barbadoes tFe e rtao rtes fliltd fROM the latter place on the 7 h - • May, with the Q,ips under convoy for Jamaica. A large party of the Officers of the Navy and Royal Marines, at Plymouth Dock, as a tellimony of refped to Lord Vircount Mt cvseLs, on his acquittal, met at the Prince William Henry Hotel in that town on Tuefday, where a very elegant dinner was pro vided. After dinner a number of loyal and patriotic toads were drank. The Marine Band attended, and the evening was concluded with the utmoll convi viality. Lord Metvietat's friends in Edinburgh, meant to have illuminated their houfes on his acquittal, but his Mijefly's SOLICITOR G for Scotland, ap prehentive of riot and confufion, applied to the Magilirates to prevent it, which they did by a Pro clamatinn. Howsvois ELecvnw.—The Poll finally doted on Tuefday, and the numbers were— For Mr. BRADSHAW , . 159 Lord Coc AAAAA 124 Lord Coc Hamra affured the Eleflors of his deter mination to offer himfelf again on the firft vacancy. PLYMOUTH, Juni tB.—Came in the American fhip Sophronia, Captain BIRD, from Bolton to Amfterd dam, laden with fugar, coffee, &c.: ATLAS, of 74 guns, from Jamaica ; the failed the tit of April tall; with a fleet of merchantmen, but parted from them in bad weather : Gimlet, Captain BERNHOFE, from Longfound, for this port, with timber and deals : Dansfh (hip Corned), Captain ANDERSeN, from Boor. deaux, for Chriftanlberg, laden with brandy and wine, detained by the Thomas and John privateer : Asr a- TRYST, of 36 guns, from a cruize : Danifh fhip Anna Chains, Captain AN LMAN, from Barcelona, for Lubec, laden with brandy and wine, detained by the General Doyle privateer, of Guernfey.—Sailed the EURT DICE, Of 24 guns, with a fleet of vifluallert, for the Chantel fleet ; and Ptovsa, of 18 guns, to the weftward. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 18.-- Arrived the Thalia, Capt. Tows, from London, bound to the Welt In dies ; alfo at the Motherbank, and is put under qua rantine, the fmack Rover, Capt. Fats wan, from Gibraltar.—Wind S. W. Joys i 9 —Sailed his Majefly'a (hip Ills, Admiral Sir E. GOWER, 2nd Jamaica frigate, with the fleet for Newfoundland; Vasuvlos bomb, with feveral (hips for the Downs, The Awr fchooner is appointed convoy for Guernfey, and will fail tomorrow morn• inv. 'YARMOUTH, JONE 19-••Arlived the STATES.? from the Downs ; and the AGINCOURT and NASSAU, 64 guns each, from a cruize ; and four (hips detained by the North Sea Fleet. Sailed the IMUGINt Hoop of war, and ESCORT gun brig on a cruize. The (hips of war in the Roads are the Roebuck, Stately, Naf fau, Agincourt, Flora, Quebec, Princes Augufla, Carrier, Hunter, and Badger cutters from a cruize. A fifhing veffel belonging to Loweftoff was upfet— the crew all faved, except a boy who was unfortu nately drowned. The STATELY will fail this after noon to join Admiral Russatt.. The PAULIN A Hoop of war, Captain Lu Lay, arrived here this day, with fix P. uffian and Pappenburgh veffels, which the boats of the (loop cut out, in a gallant flyle, from under the batteries at Norden, on the Continent. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JUNE 20 —To , day there are feveral further arrivals of Wheat, with confiderable quantities at hand, which is extremely heavy in fates, fine pimples at Aron 3s. per quarter reduction, and more on inferior which is almolt on faleable—Barley in confider able quantities, and with Malt keeps its price—Beans of both forts, with White and Grey Pvis are feverelly clearer, and few here— , Oats in (port fupplies, and are likewife higher—The Flour trade is very heavy, and fates at the late re. , dufti,nt of 55. per lack. o AAAAA L CI7IIIIPICT AS 0110111 Wheat. 561 63.8 w per qr. am Peak 378 :sod Floe Ditto, Sas od beans, 44 151 s od Rye, 4 04 44 • Od Tkk Ditto Os. 01.04 I flirter. 30e 3 I • 64 Oats, aits Malt, 645 701 Od Poland ditto 3as 3 4 104 Whim Pcze . c, sos 365 al Rspe Seed, °acct. ?MCI or VLOVII. Fine flour 6ss to 7ot. Sccoods 606 to 6si per rub. _ ; • 4 i i I is 1;1