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~, :~ DE 7 . 4 j - READING, BERKS. T'" , FE Lrr, AT LADY DAY NFXT, AHANDSOME and CONVENIENT HOUSE. Mound in the Feeney, Reading. confining of a Ettaidaft room. Dining and Drowler , roorn, with (likable Bcd-roome, a gond w..ned Carden, Ste. For particulars apply to Mr. Mandy, Solicitor. Reading. G.RECOIIr, CYCLOPEDIA!. T• Pt COMPLITIM t' TWZ EVE MONTHS. ri l l - 1E PUBLIC are reffrafally informed, that the MST PART of Ow ai•er ealweride Wori was fralifred Seturby, 11fIrclo dell. price Mot Sbill:mga. ad Mat imayi e fan at iloefrof #* nejbaaile tbron4m tit Empire. P. "ART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OP LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 7. In the Scots Appeal Caufe, Ogilvie v the Carron Company. their Lordatips decided, with reftwO to judgment, to effeit, and partly affirming. the decifion of the Scots Court. and partly remit ting the cafe back for farther eonfideration. With refreet to the Appeal, Mudic o Comte. Lord ELDON addreffed the Houfe at tome length; he did not then propcife any thing for the final declbun of their Lordfhips ; hit with reference to that,lte mooed, That the farther confider. ation of the cafe, be idjourned till Tuefday next." This meeting the concurrence of ttuir Lordfhips, was ordered accordingly. The Annual CvalUlcation Indemnity Bill was read a third ticue, palled, and ordered to be fast to the (.011)11)0118. DaCLARATORY BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, emitting the Woolfack, obferved to their Lordlhips, that in con fequence of the -opinions lately delivered in that Yiioufe by the Judges, upon the quellions referred to ititgm ' he had, upon confithation with other Noble e latietla, who had great experience in the law, thought it his duty to introduce a Bill declaratory of the law -Tefpefting the compelling of witneffes to give evi ' dance. A difference of 4:pinion certainly prevailed 'among the Judges, but the majority was Co great in favour of the aßirmative of the propofitiun that evi . .miences were compellable, that he took that to be now -the recognized principle of the law. Of the eleven Judges who gave their opinion in the Houle, (even *era for the affirmative,' and four for the negative. When the Judges had retired, he had fome commu nication with a Noble and Learned Lord who bad n lately occupied the bench he now filled, and alfo with another Learned Lord (Lord Ellenborough), and he foond that they concurred in opinion with the ms jority of the Judges. Such was alto his own opinion. Upon thefe authorities, therefore, he had framed &I BM, .which be would now prefent to the Houle foe, the purpofe of having it read a firfl time. The prin. - slate of fr, 'sleet as the neceffiry ivhkh (mentioned It; would 4s l ne under &fruition on the fecond urea*, whenunderßood a Noble and Learned Lord I intended to propofe introducing a provifo into it.—. For the purpofe of removing all objeftions to the • BiH,- be had framed it as nearly as poilible in the word's of the opinion of the Majority of the Judges. The Bill was then read a fiat time ; and, an the station of Lord Eldon, ordered to be. printed. Lord ELDON Rated, that he had prepared a elaufe to fare the law upon the quellion. He had no doubts himfelf upon the point ; but four of the Judges having Rated that both the negative and affirmative of the general propo6tinn admitted of many exceptions, he though! it advifeable to engraft a provifo upon the Bill. When he had rendeted it as perfell as he was capable of making it. would fubmit it to the Houfe. wtTatff IMPFACHNIIIT 11101MNITT WILL. Lord HOLLAND next role, he (aid, for the pur ' pore Of difcharging the order for the reading of the Ir.demnity BuU, which Rood fir that day ; but he fhould firß beg leave to make a few obfervations up- on it. His Lordfhip then defended at Come length the principle,aod probable effeet of that Bill. He Paid it had been framed by the Chief Manager cf the Im. •:peeeitment, from a conviction that it was ab(olutely ...smeltery towards obtaining the ends afjußice. And be could not help faying, that in its effects it would, - if paired into a law, anfwer all the ends propofed by it much better than the meafure jug propofed by his :Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolfack. For by the latter meafure, although witneffes might be . compelled to give their evidence, Rill it would be their inte.eft to conceal many falls highly material to the queßion at iffue. But according to the Bill that had come up from the Commons, they could • have no temptation to keep back any thing, as they • were tobe indemnified from all the confequences.— ffhwever, as the Houle Bill had been introduced, he was ready to acquiefce in the provifions of it;—and if that Bill fhould be palled into a law, he would not prefs the fecond reading of the former Bill any more. He then moved to discharge the order for the (wind reading. Lord ELDON thought it neceffary to repeat the -ph:inn he had already given on that Bill, and to declare that he thought it fulmerlive of the ends of joitice. The motion of Lord Holland was them agreed to. —Adjourned to Monday. -•••••-• HOLPSE OP COMMONS. The Sheriffs of Loudon weft:cited a Petition from the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, arc. of the City of London, Rating, that i.e Aid for eltablialing • Coal Market had failed In its objeet,and praying that leave he given for altering and further regulating the I,,..eittans of that Bill—Rclerred to • Committee. JACOB AS MEV relented a Petition from the M-Itßers of the ;:ity of Norwich. which was ordered to lie an the table. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER prefeutcd the aneuzl Pei:ions for the relief and alli.tance tat the Irith Charities, v.hich he Itated to have the recurnmcudadon of his Majefty.— Litd,red to tic on the table. M.. WHITBREAD moved, that the Order of the Houfc of Taft month for the Returns relative to the Volunteers he read ; which having been dooe accordingly. he moved ha ditcharge, and tri the room of this Order moved, 'That there be laid before the Houfe a return, or copies of a return of the numbers of Volunteers In lafatitry, cavalry, and ar flurry, diftingulthing the elfcdtive ftwngth of each corps, and the degree oftlifcipliue they Mee acquired; as alto the name of the Clews —Ordered. Me. FIULLL moved the difcharge of the Order of Monday relat:ve to the Imports of %soul. and In Its room moved, that t:.cre be laid bet= the Hour: •an account of the quantity of wool mporTed tutu thlh country for the halt ten years. ditlinguifking t.ar rtiattilh Irma other wools, and the quamities Imported each It.e• Mr Alderman PRINSF.P gave notice, that on Monday neat he would move that tilt re be bid before the Houfe the Port Lifts • of the Lalt India Company, as far as rcfpcdla the trade of that Com ;Lug In tome and Aniorka. Iltdt4E gave notice alto, that on an early d. y he would move they there he laid before the Houfe copies of the Covenant ewer"' hue by the Ealt Nadia Company relatbre to the loans made nadre Princes. Lord 05..-;ULSTON poßponed 61. promife.l notice. fr.t4e from the Lords Inform"! the I I..ute of then Lord- Item emeirec.oce to the Annual inthir.;:irr OX ',imitated a Petition tro:n hs lahabitaats of Weft • Oe miller. praying for pikf from the Pail& Bill—Referred to the fame Stied Committee as the former Petitiolls nn the fatfte fuhjedt. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the P.XCHEQIIER, the OfEee of Treafiwer of Ordnance Regulation Bill was read a teemed time, and ordered to be committed on Thurfikty. On the motion of Lord TEMPLE, the Greenland Whale Meer Bill was read a third time and pad. The Carillon Corn Exportation Bill was read a fecond time.— Ordered to be committed on Monday The Foreign Force Bill was read a third time. and patted. The Tortola Free Port Bill was read a Brit, anti ordered to be read a feemid time on Monday. Lord TEJAPLE brought in a Bill for continuing an At for fufpending certain Adts relating to the Woollen Manufafture.— Read a Grit, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Monday. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up a Report on the kids Sugar Drawback, and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly. Mr. HOLDSWORTH perfected a Petition front the Philan • tbropk Society.—Ordered to a Committee. In the Committee of Ways and Means,feveralßefolutlons were agreed to. anti a Report ordered on Monday. The Houfe refolved kfelf Into a Committee on the frith Duties Continuation Bill, and the Report to be received on Monday. MAROS OF ARCOT. Mr. HOBHOUSE prelented a Petition from the creditors of the late Nabob of .Arcot, Rating that, whereat the Commiffioners appointed for the adjufl meat and liquidation of their claims, have pot at prefent the power of examining witneffes on oath, it would be highly expedient to inveß them with fuch powers, and praying the Houk to take the fame un- der their confederation. Mr. KEENE profeifed hirofelf haile to the °Neil _ . of the Petition. Mr. GRANT thought the °lie& of the Petition highly expedient. The Company, he Paid, had no ohjedion to the prayer of the Petition, and the invelt ment of the Commiffioners with more emeriti ve powers would be for the interell, be thought, of all panics concerned. On the motion of Mr. HOBHOUSE, the Petition was referred to a Committee. ADDITIONAL TOROK. Lord CASTLEREAGH, without making any preliminary remarks, which he thought unneceffaryi ashe apprehended no objections could be offered tp his motion, then proceeded, putfuant to. his notice of Wednefday lei, to move for the following pallets re. fpeeting the operation of the Additional Force Bill : An account of the number of men railed in each week One; the enadtment of the Additional Force Balt dlitingullhing fuch as have been railed by the parlor dicers, from thole who have bees enlifted by military OfileCTl altlagthfelog alb thole that have been mired weekly in Scotland; Idoglead. Weldellent • An abltrad of the *Naha aged la and away as oath week. and the deficiencies of each aothep with t e }wails they may have incurred. A Copy of a letter from the Secretary of State. of the tfith Sep. Masher, albs, addreffed to the Lord Lieutenants of the did. rent counties t with the repot of their proceedings relative to the im firuetiors contained to the raid letters. Copy of a letter from the Secretary of State, of the Gift Deem ber, tilos, to the Lord Lieutenants of the counties, with a view to render moreeffedtual the execution of the duties ottrutteCto them by albs fealielL Caplets of letter, Win is dilisreat oaken, rebate Model/ ex• mom alas ptemilleasesetalsed IN the bid W . • An account Of the totat number of uten raged lime ski, dif• tiogailbing the men raged Is ascii year. An account at the number of men tailed foriefteral fervtee,rros January, a Sot. A Itatement of the effe'.ive ftrength of eaelt (peeks of form, dl tlnguilbing fuel% as hate been railed for kcal, from theta raged for general fervice. • A limllat hutment refpedtlng drivers. A return of the men minted for the artllkry, time z got. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no objedions to the leveret papers moved tor by the Noble Lord, and begged leave to move for ano ther, which he believed would be equally onobjec. tionable. The Noble Lord then moved, that there !We be laid before the Houle an account of all pe• .nalties incurred by parifhes in confequence of the ad *diticnal force aff. eliainguithing the amount of the ;' ices, and how much remains due, diftinguithing the ,counties.—(Near ! bee! bear 1) • Lord CASTLEREAGH objeaed to this motion sts unneceffary, that account being neceffarily incor• porated with one of thofe juft moved fnr. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (aid, in reply, that this account, in the Shape he had moved it, would come out more diffintlly—whereas, in the manner it had been moved for by the Noble Lord, it was more likely to pats unnoticed amid the naafi of other information—( Hear ! bear 1 beer !). All theta papers were accordingly ordered. .1111 W ALTICI.! OF IMPFACHNINT. Mr. WHITBREAD moved the order cf the day 41,the Houfe taking into confideration the Report Aom the Committee appointed to draw up Articles of Impeachment againft Lord Melville. He then raid, that he was unwilling to take up the time of the Hpile, by entering much at length irgo the details of the Report, which were already before them and, indeed, it would be unneceffary to do fo, as he trolled, that the Houle, from what had been Cub- 1 to them, would find no difficulty in fanttion ing the new article of impeachment which he was' empowered by the Committee to propofe. Brit not. withflanding the clearnefs and accuracy of the re port, which had been drawn up by an able and Learned Friend, now in the Houfe, it might not be improper to fay a few words as to its fubftance, and the form in which the Committee had brought it be fore the Houfe. They had thought that the new information which it contained was fo important, that it could not with propriety be withheld from the Houle and from the Country. The grounds of eli mination appeared fo new and material, as to call for the addition of another article of impeachment. It now appeared, that not only the turn of so,oool. had been mifapplied by Lord Melville,. as admitted by his own eonfeffion, but that he had poffeffed him. Pelf at an early period, of very confiderable films, to the grofi amount of about 27,0001. This money had not been applied to the public Service, but for his own private purpofes, and for the accommoda tion of certain traders with whom he was conneiled. Whets he retired from the office of Treafurer of the Navy, he went out a debtor to the public ; he re mained a debtor during the Short period of his retire ment ; and he was equally a debtor to the public when he refumed that Situation; when he propofed the very Bill for preventing the mifapplication of the public money, he was a debtor to the public, and he I continued afterwards to violate the very law which he himfelf had procured. Such are the faits which the Report difclofed. They might, indeed, have been brought forward by the Committee, to futaftan tiate the firft article of impeachment ; but they con. fideted that, by being mixed with other matter, they were in danger of being confounded or overlooked, and that, by being ufed in fupport of a new article, the evidence would be more dired aril fatisfaetory. Betides, it might teem unfair to the petfon accsfed, were charges not ender the confideration of the Houle,`it the time when the articles were firft pro poled. adduced in fupport of any of thole articles.— An Honourable Friend (Mr. Speaker) who was 101 l mately verfant in the forms and ufages of the Houle, had, indeed, informed him, that there was no pre. cedent fur bringing frefh articles of impeachment. after an anfwer had been delivered in by the perfon accufed. But though the Committee were not fop ported by precedent, yet they were jultified by reafon and expedience. Were the general anfwer of the delinquent to preclude every future charge, thii would direffly tend to prevent invefligation, and fruftrate the ends of public juflice. The Committee were not chargeable with any want of diligence in ?he performance of their duty. During the lea SA lion, they had fat every day, from the period of their appointment, till the proprogation of Parliament ; rally two days before which, the papere ,on which thin new article was founded, came into their PofTertom The Honourable Member added. that he did not ez , peft any oppofition would be made to his motion ; and concluded with laying. that, whenever Lord Melville &auk, have given in his anfwer to this ad ditional article, the Committee would be prepared to proceed to elablifh their charges againft him. He this moved, that the Committee be empowered to mei. pare, and bring in, an additional Article of Impeach'. ment ag_a_intl Lord Melville. Agreid nen:. ton. Mr. WHITIIRIAD brought op a Report, which was read, and which was nearly as foliows— "The Committee appointed to dm* up the Articles of Impeach. meat tasted Henry Lord Vikeunt Melville, and whewere gar. dered to prepare a new Article, have, In parttime tobie aid order, prepared the following, to be added to the others, accebng the fold Henry herd Vifcouot Melville of high Cliffltl end made aeaara r.. Aida l la.lllollollllHeuerrialvd Vahan Melville, fitter his ~Y. by Ws Laws lihava t dated Aug rrth, lad allhaated Idea Triaging& It desks", did at diversdaysand'rintes ahhallft hash, has the sada delivered to hat as Truant of es Navy. dismailahlearat INlMmaleg to sun& or thew Oa*, aid dliaraftantraad Illailftrdtven the hem MOWN pespedge than sr the Thal finitm (*gnat Maio. to wash Now =g i rt to Iwo his appal aidellat the raid Henry Lord Mehdbelld atrial thefsaftemsaillat sod illegal prat.. dea f after thesetabas of the Adt for the honer regulation of the Alas( Trealatiseof the Navy." • - I This articte being read, Mr. WHITBREAD moved, that it be taken into further confidenttion on Monday next. Mr. PERCIVAL then rote, not, he Gid, to oppofe the motion of the Hnnnurahle Gentleman, but tb recommend it to the Committee to confider, how far this new article might meet with obitruttion in ano ther place. If Inch article fhould appear contrary to precedent, the Upper Houfe might objett to it, and delay and altercation might enfue. Mr. WHITBREAD replied, that the want of precedent in fupport of the prefect meafure had been the fuhje& of ferious attention to the Committee ; but They did not think it authorized them to decline a proceeding jullified by reafon and public expedi. ence. If the Lords !tumid think proper to rejeti this article, it would then be competent for the Houle to prefent a frefh lift of articles, in which the prefent might be included. Mr. Whitbread's motion war then agreed to. DEFENCE Or TN! COUNTRY. On the motion of the SECRETARY at WAR, the eitimates prefented by him on Wednefday, were ordered to be referred to the confideration of the Icommittee of Supply. The Secretary at War then moved, that the Houle refolve itfelf into the raid Committee. On the quellion being put, General TARLETON embraced the opportnnity of laying a few words on the prefent Hate of the country, when beheld in a military point of view.— He adverted to what had fallen the other evening from the Right Honourable the Secretary for the War Department, and animadverted on two parts of his conduft. When called on to Hate his fetniments and determination, relative to what had been termed the Para Bill, that Right Honourable Gentleman had declared that it occupied no place in the means which he had in contemplation for increafing the mi litary force of the country. For his part, he had al ways confidered that Bill as it was, a perfpeftive meafure, and although he was averfe to its introduc. don, and had voted againft it, yet now when it be gan to operate, and that in a powerful manner— when he faw it produced two or three hundred men per week, and during the laft week above two hun dred and fifty, and thole of an age and defcription the belt calculated for fervice, he (hould be very loth to repeal it, until tome very efficient fubffitute had been proiided. Thefe fentiments were firengthened by the confideration, that the declarations made by Government of their intention to repeal the Al,f had ended it to operate under a very great difadvantage. The other part of the Right Honourable Secretary's conchs& on which he commented, was the hotlility which he had fo frequently, and fo firongly manifeit ed to the Volunteer Syftem. This certainly was not the precife time at which it was expedient to damp the high fpirit of thole Corps, and the Officers by whom they were commanded. The obfervationt of that Right Honourable Gentleman were not at all calculated to increafe that ardour and eathutiarm which in military men was fo indifpenfable. We had' now arrived at the 7th of March, and we had heard nothing from the Right Honourable Gentleman hot what had bcen wrung from him by neceffity. When he was on the Oppofition Bench, he was always pregnant with new plans and fyfiems. The SPEAKER called the Honourable Gentle man to order. General TARLETON obferved, that at leaft the Right Honourable Gentleman had, in other places, fuggefted a variety of fchemes, but fince his admit. film into power, nothing had proceeded from him. Thefe were not times, however, for mere (peculation •—the country did not want theoritts, orators, or me taphyficians, but practical men, who were able to ferve her, and who were willing to exhaull their ta lents, and fbed their blood in that fervice. One of two things mutt be done—either another continental coalition mull he formed to divert the efforts of the common enemy, or this country mutt be quickly pre pared to make a formidable refinance to the danger by which file was threatened. Mr. Secretary WINDHAM, in reply to the gene ral charge which the Hunou•able Gentleman had brought againft him, of holtility to the Volunteer Syftem, obferved that he wa. not at liberty to enter into any juflification of himfclf on that point. It ap peared hardly fair to bring charges againft any one witofc fituation was fuch as to preclude hint from an fwerir,g nr repelling them. Another acr n fat ion a Welt he Honourable Gentleman preferred againd him was, that he had been guilty of delay. Delay was a relative term. What might appear to be delay when confidered in one point of view, might affume the femblance of precipitation when beheld in another. The gallant General teemed defiroth of carrying the ardour and quicknefs of decifion necelfary in the field into the Cabinet. But for himfelf, he could not confider that time mifempluyed. which was devoted to the ferious confideration of the important fubjeds alluded tn, cconfideration, salted by the opinion of all tltofe who were molt competent to judge.of the etinsparative excellence of different:meafares, fup poling that there meafures did not go fo far as was reported out of doors, namely, to the means by which the enemy would probably be induced to come out of his entrenchments before he had prepared for the combat (a !mei). As to the effect that his fentiments might have on the country, the Honoura ble Gentleman himfelf confeffed, that they were ex torted from him. Hotel then was he culpable He was in a enunner compelled to declare his opinion of the General Defence Ad. Did the Honourable Gentleman will' him to utter a falfe declaration ? His opinion of its merits, or rather of its demerits, wallet the' fame as it had ever been, and he was therefore bonnd Co fay fn. General TARLETON, in explanaticn, Maid, that his queflion was principally directed to the degree tion of our military fyftem, yet, if they Widbt to make a material alteration lo a fyfiem more complicated that which belonged to any other State of Eu. rope, flack marines would require the utneolLadeli beration. , Mr. WINDHAM obferved, there feented..4 be a generarvoeiferation on this fubjedt. fusible •ese that which frequently took place at a Theatre, whim the fpedators were anxious that the canny. herald be drawn up, and the entertaiament begin (a laugh). Such manifeftations of impatience &mild never pro- voke him to unfold the plans which Government were cheating, until they had arrived to rnatnrity. Perhaps tke gallant General might mean his fpeech A as a Itratagem of war, by which the Righ: Honour able Gentleman expiated to be able to peodues Ms meafures. Mr. CANNING aficed, whether all that had been Paid in depreciation of the Additional Force Ad had not been extorted frog the fpeakers ? Had not a no tice been given early in the next feffion, under the impreffion of which it was obvious that that Bill, which depended for its (needs on great. conttaot, and local exertions, could not operate withoin ef fed ? It was certainly expedient that the country fhould know what plans were in agitation bee he difclaimed all idea of preffing for an explanation, which it would be imprudent or inconvenient ,to give. Mr. WINDHAM deprecated the content *lk of the term plan, as if a man could have a plan always ready cut and dried for changing the whole Britith army. He begged not to be confidered a dealer in plans. Mr. CANNING remarked, that in fpeakin; then of that Right Honourable Gentleman's military ideas, it would not be erred to charaderize them In the words of a line of Pope's, in his Eirai ma Man, as " A mighty maze, bat we without a pima" They Ihould rather be termed, 6 A mighty we, and quite whim, a pima" (.4 load laugh.) The quellion for the Speaker's leaving the Chair was then put and carried, and the Houfe wept use a Commbtee of Supply. . . The SECRETARY at WAR repeated the olltervatlea *Welt he made on prefentlng the Army ER /mates, and concluded with moving the following Refolutions, which were agreed to That the number of 134,473 effeeire men be granted fir the fervice of His Majcfty, from the syth of March to the }4th of May locluftve. That a fum not exceeding 7p5,46c4. be granted to His Majdty, for Guards sod Garrifoos for that period. That a &Maw exceeding 336,0931. be granted to Hi. Welty. for Forden Gartifoss for the fame period. The Houfe having bees returned, the Report was ordered to be received on Mooday.—Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. • • SATURDAY, MARCH E. PRICE OP swam THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I ConfolsAissay *lrks 71.1416oas;041:. iilts is to es rem. PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY! 3 per Cent. COlar.6o 4 9{ 6o jpf Ea. Bilk. per so pr. prz Cent. Nary pit cps Lottery Tickets 10. India Stock for optr. a-pi CooG for April 6of sq. So _ _ DURUM MARCH 3 *3 per C. Coy . Deb. 94. ExcLpge—Dublln op London, Li c. A letter from our Correfpnndent in the Leeward Mods has juft come to hand, dated Barbadoes, Bth January:—At that time no French force had arrived in the Weft Indies, but in all the Mande they ' WV in expectation of fuch a force, and prepared to weer it. They are eagerly looking out for a fupply of General Officer, and a Staff, of which they are much in want. barbadoes, at the date of our letter, was very healthy ; neither the Artillery nor the tsth Regiment had far fame time lo ft any men, but both art very weak, and exped recruits from England. Gineral A ICH tit was about to leave Barbadoes for Surlnkm, where, however, the rebellion has been completely put down. They Rill continue rather unhealthy at Grenada ; they are better at Dominic, ; but the mortaliti has been of late very great in St. Vincent's. The gotp, or Perthfhire Highlanders, at St. Vincent's, with fn the laR three months, has 101 l one Major, three Captains, two Lieutenant!, the (t2arter•Maller and Adjutant, and one hundred and fifty men. At Antigua the mortality is now at a Rand in the 96th Regiment, but the yellow fever daily carries off numbers of the loth Regiment. The infurretlion at Trinidad was headed by a black who had been a fervant to General Ptcrow. Some thing of the fame kind was to have been acted at Whig° on the fame d-ty. r "