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THE Committee aptsniated to erea a Mainmast bits City of Thalia w the Meanly of the Eats Lod Addis if the Milked Lydia that tbq few sod Masten Ise tech a we& Mat they he ollteel so or Mier tits Mei Meth next It bee bete heves& Mat the melket et. iseledlle4lreet. where Abbey end Imorleas k vieeldbe at teed peeper Ilassekei for the Id sit dim WirmimpAr ail temoilla haw apt cam te any dr toddessise es Sot tided it try othresdon or Net diet wag stieme *sot t wed day wed assldefaes book to the gowns mei pistoleadeese of da Aisles of diet/mead Xis" Mditoeseamt - r beiteledra scud wet be &ea by tie Comedetee deo* Ode Reepassy. et Ids 011tes. Commeedal isildm Deb. Ils, es* sear ap asy Lour ailmesi ham.lft Mkt. DaMse. • re WORTHY mod 11113111 6 ENT FRE EHOLDER3 of the COUNTY et W O RCESTER oIIITLILIMI Y wawa efforts forts to make head :OM! Mr. Li w - • men's alejesety, nerve waded re maim after an make Lel two dam and the retold of rewrote, ear affairs appear ekeisetter nerafft. 1 dad Wolf aerodlol. foremn, ern. .so dradaa dr eareld. lt wee leare. awl ka Mel bm . wider Iheader ad aver dlforanme white the In lareekera toireeralleamil me hew so esemester. IggVat holltro.deat *omit; bar had the heeler to &poor, will erre nod Wham* ft the oat dation. whoa the aerety, weaved of tho ram. awl kilgawit at the dlfitreedid fords of t5:1074161,116 Willagdt 6 1. 1 si dtre. h 1 'batty earthy, her sod le 111111Sintpreent than &- WWI freode — lof adravee a will slew" ANC that hi. party bee porkehd a temperary ad viarim at dr (MOM of prelan. Wing brae. wed torn inevitable Mot. llama rea.taird.wlediar tyre re. or ipia rime will fell dr &kw Wow of martelabi windy= does. hot of thk. I Ark I nay yell be efeabier , than whin c i . a ...., war kW lam* emelt is allonotket (et 1 liner le kerne) of ear ieries` Mader. La r irody la sad aebk osiodere blabs Cralluakto.and we lballodlkeirte; the cartirolere ofaireekta. dr mesa ladeenee et weal. end the termed ireoltrobedr. k eekieellijildree ee thane. to the name of the County. that Ilkk lOW head of Fredwiders whe have elided me in the beaerable war I ham wags/ I ream dolated.kb woe bran brake blinnerat erg farm* &girlishly* *WWI. • l i pliwill of ore dr laiireelar Imre& kr albleved le die of workielefe darimmlrone of pot Irving dlr. ear ordeby rap birder at In head. Eel MI of the lir. beam der k wit or. raw* he hug. en I he k We op its hoed eida. sod auras mile foot Ito rade. 1 am, Oaaaltasm. with mash irked sod gretteade. Tart *idlest boat* fervent. Wasaltes, March to. W. H LYTT ELTON. ~- ~ PATENT WHEELS tot WAGGONS, CARTS, Ste. "'HOSE WHEELS are equal to any weight ' the Iholtrbolos Mond to as We. boa Is faith a way, that it Is We for the fpoitio to work or to amy way got sr priNlw the orattri rot= ',te e !ba;lten boat ns t i ettlare wore oor.imfloom on be offish to other whorls, for they (apply the aeehhe rephoi mad thy*. to that no wood Dave is of• 41 la moos thaw oftedo, which gins thaws law Roam , adlootoos of Itsai r oopski to toy weather without lojury. When way Ito Mimed of the sere. who with to boom Avow for dot attows,byspoltipoilL T. J=Mowing tad R aloodooory, fad. No 179 Cowwswoweow. _ . lMb. I • A HINT TO HUSBANDS!!! This day was publiOsed, price IR 6d. MR. CUMBERLAND'. POPULAR NEW Ax- 11 COMEDY, as periormies at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. London t Printed for Lackluster, Allen, and C. Temple of the Mafia, Finiburr fquare • and fold by Symonds, Paternofter. tow, =dell other Book klles. Of whom may he bad,juft publithed." I. 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HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 14. • The /Whop of OSSORY took the oaths and his fat, u one of The Infia Reprefentative Prelate.. Counted were finally heard refpedling the Scots Appeal eagle Howie .. Merry, paupers. viz. the Hon. Mr. Abercr.imby, as fecund Connie.' for the Appellant; and Melina Adam and Heiner for the Rafpondent. Mr. Noland was thortly bard in reply. After which...— The LORD CHANCELLOR moved to adjourn the farther onnideration of the cafe till Monday.—Ordered accordingly. Crawfurd ...Coutes refpcet to this Appeal Cade, the farther confideration of it being refunied— Lord ELDON role, and delivered tome farther 'era' opinions noon the cafe and concluded by moving. as the elceilion of their Lordthips, a refulution of lame Icrph. the purport of which was of • mixed nature, tending panty to affirm, panty to reverfe, and partly to remit, the decree of the Seats Court, for limber coon &ration. Mr. Atcoci, from the Trcafury, precnted an Account of the Diftritution of the Public Monica, lot the year ending sth of la. Pussy laft, which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up from the Commons the Eng. Lib and kith Supr Drawback Eats, sad the Woollen Manufac tures anipenfion Bill. Several private Bills were elf.) brought up, and all read a Ortt time. Lord STANHOPE (aid. that in confrquence of the abfenre of the Lord Chief joßke of the Court of King's Bench. he Thould move to poltpone the Committee on his Bill fur the ilikovery of truth, until Monday —The motion was put and agreed to. Lord HOLLAND moved, that the Declaratory Bill be printed. Ordered-71s Houle at fix o'clock adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. --- - The Hon. Mr DONDAS (fecund fon of Lord Dundee), took the oaths and Ms feat. Lord STANLEY prefented • Petition front the Efabeer, of the borough of Prefton,complainhig of the regulttiont i t into that trade by the Aft of the Ofd of bit prelert Majeffy. Another Petition of a Smiler nature was relented from the Manages of the city of Carllfle. Both ordered to he on the table. Mr. A LCOCK. from the Treafury. prefented an Aecout.t of the Difbarfement of at Mettles railed lur the retake of the year atot, as 1r as relates to Great Brita n. Mr GREY. from the beitilh ltAuf. um, pecfen.ed an Account nf tbe I.spenditure 4 4 the year s B os. and hairnet es for the inc line year that..—Ordered tulle on the taste. Mr. CAL:KA rrektte.t frczn the Board of Ordnance an Amami of the number of Drivers, AniSeem Ste. employed in the Cornet of the Artillery, boat the sit of July, dos, ea the had period of nears. dlitirttng osek year rdpedively. throe se meth= of r. DU NDAS, the Scats Bankrupt SW wont a Committee, sad was ordered to be reported as Mooday east. On the motion of Mr. VANSITTART, the Sugar Drawback HW wee reed a third time. sad palled. The Iris Sugar Drawback Bill was silo read a third time, and On dm mates eIIAMITEM PLR, the Woollen Mapufaduras Sarpedon BM we read a third time, and palled '1 be Awmierns Weal impottetton Bill went through a Commit tee, lad um wedded to be Witted on &landsmen. Mr. ALLICASSIIIILbeete& op the Report of the Mutiny and Derertion Bd. TM OM no be read a third rifle on Monday neat. Mr. ALEXANDER Monght np the Reports on the Militia l'ay Bilk the Maks Iliebilsorn BSI, the Militia Adjutant Bill.and the Ilia Maki* Mi. idiot wane Sererally agreed to, and ordered to be read a shied gaAw Meneof MIL Mr. ROM t to a honer make, moved that there be kid berme@ as Mown QOM value of the exports to the Mend of Tortola, kw the kit Iltaintoom, dikiagoliblug there of foreign mein the & at Mae mina AYo acomote of the qmodise of kw. Cog" sad Rum, ins =lkom An to dog. Marine, dHl ingollkYg ad year.— Mr. WHTTMLIAII) pot nadorof a nesinons Mosby amt, on the fabled of nis ellelbudio of soma MINA by tne Tar fern of the Navy, for the potpie of poplar wain apeneen General TARLSTON pos Nodes, that on Mew* bit Will have low ohforvesions w ado is the petted theempike Wore rho Hoak. w tbs Medd Obiegbellet 011iniannekL Mr. C. W YNNtipw ado that k ono hie Insitimato Mao. day neat te novo lerkom midi. Is • MS, ined dot Adt of Id Saone, appolidis Conittilesere so logolortmo Abuks be Ine Navy. wooccen manutacruaeas. • Lord TEMPLE rofe, purfuant to notice, and moved for the appointment of a Committee to confider of the Rate of the woollen manufalturers of England. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEIVER took cccafion to remark on the necellity whie.h.exill ed fox loch a Committee as that propofed. For three years the fufpenfion law had been ens led without in any degree tending to remove or abate the evil com plained of. A furpenfion law buck him to be ge nerally exceptionable, but when applied to evils which it held ont no profped of curing it was peat. liarly unconflitutional and mifchievous t nails of tech a return as thefe to which the propofed Committee was to dited its enquiry ought not to be temparis ed with. They lhoulelbe met boldly ; and when the Committee (Mould brfbg up its Report, he nutted that the Houle would determine to face it with firm nefi, and refolve to put an end to an evil which had Co long kept the country in a Rate of irritation—the iotereft of the employers, the employed, and the country. Bearing that confideration confiantly in mind, he had no doubt the Committee would, he hoped they would, make fuch a report as would am. ble the Houle to take a full view of the queltion, and to come to a fatisfaeory decifion. Mr. LASCELLES Rated the evil alluded to by the Noble Lord, and which it was the objed of the propofed Committee to come, did not originate in the fisfpenbon law ; bin that, on_the contrary. this law was rendered Decd . :try by the ezißence, and cal. etilated to refrain the operation of this evil. The fad was, that a number of Rat u tes alined which were quite inapplicable to the prefeat Rate of the woollen mannfadures. Yet upon thefts oblolete Ra. Lutes feveral profecutions had been commenced ; and to guard againd the effeOs of loch profecutions the fufpenfion law was introduced. Such was the oh. jcO of this law, and it bad aofwered the end in view. Bot Bill be felt that it could ferve only as a tempo rary expeient, until, as in this inftance, it was de termined fully to inveftigate the fubjed, and to de cide what laws mould continue in force, or whether any new laws fboold be enaded with regard to the date of the woollen manufadore. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in explanation obferved, that delufive hopes had been excited by the frequency of Sufpenfion Ads, which hopes had been throughout the country fedolonfly encouraged by mifchievous perfons. The Committee was appointed, and the feveral petition: from the manufafturers of Gloucefterthire. Yor kffiire, Lancalhire, dtc. with refpeO to this qua tion, were referred to the laid Committee. Mr. LASCELLES recommended, that the Com mittee thould be invelled with a power to report their opinion as to what Ratutes ought to be repealed, con tinued, or enafted, upon the fubjed referred to their conGderation. With this recommendation Lord Temple concur red ; and accordingly, upon the fuggeilion of the Speaker it was ordered, that the Committee "fhould have power to report their obfervations and opinions thereupon." 0 lUDS Or 1110fRALS WITH INDIA. Alderman PRINBEP laid, that the object of his prefent motion was, to enable the Houfe to perceive that proportion which the commerce of neutrals with India bore to our own: Our fettlements in the Eall had been purchafed, and were held, at a great ex ' pence of blood and tteaftwe ; it was therefore of inv. penance to know what proportion of their commerce was diverted into other cnannels. and contributed little or nothing to the profperity of.this country.--. The document for which he fhould move. difclofed the alarming fad, that the commerce of neutrals was to that of the Eall India Company in tde proportion of three to one. He was far from wifhing foreigners to be excluded from the trade of India; filch a meafure would be highly impolitic ; fince, without the en couragement afforded by the neutral trade. the ma nufaftures of India would languifh. and our tertito r;al revenues be chntinifhed. The rums fent out from neutral nations were great, and, without the encou ' ragement given by their commerce to the manufac tures of India, great part of the raw materials would be 1011. Thus the tot titorial revenues of the Com pany were, in a great degree, fupported by the fo reign trade, and this country is eventually benefited Still, however, it was to be lamented, that while neutrals were allowed a flee retort to our ports in India. our own co irate merchants were In much excluded ; and thus a great part of the trade with lotlia diverted to a fOttign channel, from the want of a free competiti.m. The neutral trade, from one port alone, employed treble the number 14 (hips to thof: of the Eati India Company, and much ex ceeded the trade of the latter. In ISo', twenty-fix American Mips cleared out from the port of Calcutta alone In iSoc, twenty-nine American, ten Porte guele, and two Danifh (hips, cleared out from the fame port. This would give tome idea of the magni tude of the foreign trade. It would alto appear from the document for which he fhould move, that on fix articles alone, there was exported from Calcutta to the value of nearly three millions, esclufive of what was exported by the Company. it would alto apps that the bullion impot ted by neutrals for four years 4 amounted, on an average, to nineteen millions of dollars. But the paper for which he &mild move, fully expofed the extent of this traffic, and he walled it to he laid on the table, that it might draw the at tention of the Houfe, and of Government, which alone could interfere with rife& in applying a re. tuedy. In bringing forward this motion, the Hon. Member profeffed that he had no concert with any individual, nor any connedion with thofe engaged in the private trade with India. The only objeftion which he could conceive to his motion, arofe from this, that it might be fuppofed to reveal the eircunsflance. of the private trade with India. But this was already done in the monthly journals of that country, in which all the departures and arrivals of flips were noticed. He then moved, that there be prefented to the Houfe, lifts of Chips under neutral flags which have cleared out from Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Swat, and Columba, fince the year tfloo, together with an account of their tonnage and cargoes, asfar as can be aCcertained ; and alto lifts of all Britilh (hips not chartered, which have cleared oat from the fame ports for London, during the linnet WAIN'. • Mr. FRANCIS role to fay, that he had no previ ous knowledge of the prefent motion—but he begged i to Rate fume remacks which had occurred to him from the ob(ervations he had heard. It appeared that the quantity of fpecie annually imported into India was immenfe, and yet he was informed that there was no (peck in circulation in Bengal. Every payment of the Government was made in paper.— , This was a problem wftch it teemed difficult to ex plain, and he hoped that an Honourable DireOor, wirons be few in his place, would favoUr the 'Houk with fume realm for it. He would alto Mk, from what countries does this fpecie come ? Is it not in great part fupplied by Britifts traders, nnder foreign Rags ? Betides, on what principle were private traders In this country excluded from a traffic which the merchants of Europe and America enjoy to fuch an extent ? Where alto, he would aftc, were the cargoes of there neutrals for the moll part fold ? He Mk& ed that they were moftly difpofed of, ice the Britifis dominions and dependencies. Mr. CHARLES GRANT entered into an expla• nation of the trade which was carried on by foreign. ere with India. This trade it was neither our inure& nor in oar power to put an end to. From the Ire. quent viers in which we were engaged, neutrals were enabled to carry on this commerce at lefs expence, and with more (ecurity than we can do. Hence, it was not difficult to account for the faeces with which they conduit it. With regard to the queftion, what became of the bullion exported to India, it was to be obferved, that there was no great circulation of fpe• cie in the principal towns on the ; but in the in terior of the waft regions which were under our con trail, all commercial intercourfe was ,carried on its fpecie. With regard to the countries where the neu tral cargoes were difpofed of, it was too certain that our Weft India Colonies were fupplied by the Arne-. ricans—but no blame could attach to the EaR India Company on this account. He objefted to the pro dultiou of the papers moved for by the Honourable Alderman, as containing infulated and untonneeed ftatements. There weresnow only (even years to run of the Company's charter, and before that period (hould elapfe, the important queftion, whether the trade of India &meld be laid open ? mull be directed. Every important document would then be laid before the Hook. and the matter would not be decided on partial evidence. Mr. FRANCIS explained. Mr. BROGDEN fupported the motion, and pro poled that fuch additional accounts (hoot" be order ed, as might give a complete view of all the exports from our poffeffions in the EaR, whether by our (elves, or by neutrals. Mr. Secretary FOX Paid, that he felt very confider able doubts whether it would be proper to produce papers which would only give a partial view of the fubje6, and which might lead the Houfe to a prema. to e and ill founded determination.. To form a complete judgment of the queftion to which the Ho nourable Gentleman wined to dire& their attention, it would certainly be neceffary to move for the pro duftion of friend other papers. He (hould with to give every confidence to the ftatements of the Esti India Direaors, but from the (mall information he had himfelf upon thofe fobjees, he could not fee that any good could refult from the produflion of thole papers which were moved for, nor any immediate remedy which could be propofed in confequence of any information which they might contain. There was another coofideratinn of great importance which fuch a queftion would involve ; namely, the Carry ing Trade. and the intercourfe between the United States of America, and the EMI- and Well Indies.— Every body knew that this was a fub)ea of a very delicate nature, and that reprefentations had been made from the United States of America, with re. fpeft to thefe topics. Thole reprefentatinns were now under the moll ferious confideration of his Ma jelly's Government. It was the duty of thole who condueled thefe negociations, to colleft the billet information on the fubjetl. and he &mild fubmit it to the Houk, whether it might nut be 'roiled to Minifters, both on the part of the country and the EaR India Company, to cone& all the information that was neceffary on thofe points. For thole rea lons, although no man could feel more difpofed, in general, to grant every information which any confi derable number of Members of that Houk Ibould defire, yet he thought that, in the prefent intlance, the produflion of the papers moved for, would nut be of any fervice, and might be injurious. • Mr. PRINSEP, in explanation, Paid, that what he had writhed was, that confiderable importations might be made of raw materials from India, in (hips cheaply built; he thought we thould fend them back their materials in a manufattured Rate. He had not meant to follow up hie motion with any refulutinty hut had only wifhed to put the Houk in poffeffion of what he thought important information. He, however, bowed to the high authority of the Hon. Secretary, and ()mold withdraw hi. motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day. It was always the with of his Majefly's Ministers to give every fpecies of information which could lead to any objeCt• or practical conclulion. • It would, however, evidently appear impropir, that there fh ,old be any dikuffion in that Hook, upon points of fo much delicacy, and which were now the objcas of important difcuffions 7 'I Nowhere. But as there could not, with proptiety, be Any difctiffion in that Houfe upon thole points. he thought it would be the bell way of getting rid of the motion by proceeding to the other Orders of the Day. Lord CASTLEREAGH was of opinion, that a commercial quellion of fuch magnitude and impor tance to the interefts of India, and of this Country, Ihould not be brought before the Houle on any par tial flatement. If the quellion were to be examined by the Houle, it thould be on much more general grounds. The principal reafun. however, which made him concur with the Noble Lord who moved the Order of the Day was, that he. mull molt feri. ' puny deprecate any difeufGoas in this Houfe, which might at all influence, or prejudice, the difeuffien upon thole points which were now the fubjed of ne• Fociations carrying on by his Majeay's Mininers.— rhere would be no rife in the produdion of thufe papers if no difeufGon was intended, as it was in the power of any individual Member to get the informa tion that thole papers would convey, either from one of the Dircdors, or any perfon connected with the Eaft India Company. 'frk hopeethis Majefly's Mi nifters would proceed in thole important segociations with all that temper and forbearasice which was due tet a meow/ whole intends bad, been Co long too: aided with ours—( Hear I Neer Veles the aheiteeeiti Biddy) t .end at the fame time with. that fires and decinon which)eare ue to the rights and lute refs of Oil C.Oititil 11 • 04 hive / )sad without 1 which oar camaractiat r tions could eat lOW, ti ther with America. or any other country. He !Would with this fubjed to be lett to his hialty's Mailers in the molt comprebenGve mapper. There web eye idea, however, he Osould venture to fuggeft,Which if he had cominued longer is• ollks, he intended to have carried into ere& He thought there might be an account of the Indian Export ImPrus itillibe amount o f the cattyipg Trade . id before meni annually, m the &me way that the aeons* of the Exports and Imports of Great Britain loom—. Such an annual ocean... I give to the Hoof. in with ' - 'o t+ a. . . formation of great import.* :e w.— nfpoifta . He concluded - by (eying, that he- &pad agree with the motion of the Noble Lord (Lord Henry Petty), for reading the other Orden of the Day. • Alderman E'RINSEP faid a' few words in expla nation, and agreed to withdraw his motion. The motion was them with least of the Hoofs withdrawn. . .. .. CAPS OP 900 g! Mors. ' Mr. WINDHAM rofe to give notice, (eer I kir ! front the Oppyrdioos .Bisc4). not the notice the Homes. able Gentlemen oppofite were fa anxious to bear (a laugh). He meant to give notice of his intention to move on Monday for leave to bring in a Bill, to en able his Majeay to make certain regulations for trade and commerce with the Cape of Good Hopi. sweats OF TN' COUNTRY. Mr. WINDHAM Paid, be would, however, take this opportunity of Rating, that he hoped in the mark of the next week, to be enabled to fix a day for brie ing forward the (objet, fur which the H onourab le Gentlemen were fo impatient, and about which the country at large was naturally very anxious. He fur. owed that on Monday fe'nnight he would be able is fubmit to the Boofe the meafurea his Majefly's Mi llilitre meant to propofe for the defence of the coma try ; but this he did not wan cohere now entered on the Journals as a formal notice. gi t Mr. CANNING willed to know whether of dto e Additional Defence Ad was be meafures to be propofed !—No rawer was 'Ag . this queftion. 4,1 clanaance. ' -• 't Mr. CALCRAFT moved, in the Committeifillf Supply, f 1 Refoletions ?eft:4lring the Ordnasee. . gft. That the feat of a 9 th:loci Shahid be anDesi to his hiajeity, for defraying ilia Napalm of the Ordnance of this Loud Service of Great Britain, tar the year 1106. •• ad, That a Soot of tacnocL Otocid be ranted tope. Ma. Jefty, for the Ordnance for the ilea Service, for the year Md. " 3d. That the rum of 13chocot thoule be granted to Mb Ma. jay, to make good the (aid rem advanced for the Ordnance, in exchequer Bills. 4.1 e, That the rum of dyy,onoL amid be granted to hie Ma- Jefty, for defraying the urea of the ordnasee.la Ireland" The Honourable Gentleman mentioned, that, in the cnurfe of the prefent year, there would be a dimi. notion of expence in this department, to the amount of t 30,0001. Mr. POLE thought it necelfary for him to make a ftwobfervat ions,in confequence of the enimates which bad been prefen• ed. Th. Houfe•would perceive, that there was only a d fference of yoool. between chore eftirnates (which he entirely approved of), and the climate which 'had been • propoled by the former B 'ard. The arrangements and reduitions which had been propofed, were owing to the great vigilance and attention of Lotd Chatham's Atiminittrag ion of that department. He thought, that the prefent Board fhould, in jutlice to the late Board, confirm the Site. saint he then mach. Mr. CALCRAFr Paid, that as it was on Monday th .t he intended to prefe,nt the eftimates to the Hnufe, he had referred, until that day, the obfee. vations that he thought necelTary on the fubjed. As to the eflimate being neatly the fame as what was prepared by the late board, there was nothing flit. prifing in that. They ould not pretend to &lion- Colic the works carrying on for the public defence, or to make any material reduCtion or change in the fyllem of the Ordnance, at leaft without the fallen and molt mature conlideration. At the fame time that he was called upon for this explanation, he did not mean to (peak at all flightingly of the late Board, or to deny that (as far as he could then judge) they were entitled to credit for their vigilance or attention to that department. The feveral refolutions were then put and agreed to. axca.qust DILLS. Mr. VANSITTART, in a Committee of Supply, prnpofed refolutions tor the payment of certain Ex chequer Bills now outßending, without meaning then to point out the particular mode by.which they ware to be difeharged. The Exchequer Bills to be paid off were, fira, Exchequer Bills for the fum of 8,000,0001. which had been for feveral years part annually replaced by the iffue of frail Exchequer Bills. The fecond clefs which he propofed to pay, were to the amount of two millions and a half voted for the fervice of the year 1804. The third daft was for a million and a half, which were iffued in t 798, and renewed annually fince that time. He concluded by propofing refolutions for the payment of thole Exchequer Bills. The refolutions were agreed to. Adjourned. .