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Mr. WILBERFORCE oppofed it on the ground that it was nnneeellary, no entry containing cenfirre on that Noble Lord had been entered on the journals. Mr. YORKE thouTlit the charge was frivolous, and declared that the Noble Lord was entitled to the Thanks of the Houfe and of the Country, for his en deavours to root up the abufes which had crept into our Navy, if his condua had not been as highly me ritorious in other refpeFts as he was convinced k was. Mr. CANNING opp'sfed the motion, and moved the previous quellion, taking his principal ground of oppofition on the foundation of the fhortnefs of the notice as to the prefent motion: Several references were made to precedents, as to the regularity of palling a vote of approbation in loch circumflances as thole of the prefent cafe. Mr. TIERNEY molt firmly defenJcd the charafler of the Noble Lord againft the imputations which had been too long thrown not *pion it, and maintained that where a moll illuartous and gallant officer was attempted to he thus ceniured, it became the Houfe to declare its opinion in Rrong and unequivocal terms on that nfficer's condua. Some allufion having been made in the courfe of the debate to the arra of Mr. Bartholomew, Sir CHARLES POLE declared that, generally fpeak ing, a Firft Lord of the Admiralty cot.ld not know, and in this initance he could, from his own know ledge aver, that the Noble Lord had not an opportu nity of being acquainted with it. Mr. PERCIVAL Paid, that the debate had taken fuch a turn as to leave him in great difficulty how to ad. There were no materials before the Houfe by which an opinion could be formed of the charges. The queflion was now loudly called for, and Bringers were excluded, but the original motion was carried without a divifion. The Houfe adjourned at Half pall Three o'Clock. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Honfe proceeded, artifual.ti;iietiminfter Had, and re torneu about tour, when an Order was made to proceed further on the Trial of LordVilcount Melville tomorrow, ands Maw feat to the Houfc of Commons to acquaint them therewith. LORD NILSON. On the Order of the Day for taking into confide. ration his Majeny's Metrage, Earl SPENCER laid, in the abfence of his Noble Friend, it fell to his lot to move an humble Addrefs to his Majelly, in anfwer to his Majelly's molt gra cions mettage. In doing fa, he thought it would _be walling their Lordthips' time to enumerate the fervices performed by the late Lord Nelfon; who fell glotioully in the moment of viaory ; upon thofe Cer vices becould expatiate with the greateft fatisfaftion, but their Lordfhips were as well convinced as himfelf df the importance of thofe fervices, and therefore it was unneceffary for him to take up their time. No provifion that could be made for the family of the deceafed Lord Nelfon would, he WAS fore, be con• fidered by that Houfe as too great, whiln at the fame time making fuch a provilion as that propofed, would terve as an example to thole who were now, or fhould be hereafter fighting in the caufe of their country. He would not detain their Lordfhips further, but merely move an Addrefs to his blojefty, expreffing their readinels to concur, Ike. The Addrefs was agreed to new. j: and ordered to be prefented by the Lords with white naves. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. On the Order of the Day being read for going into a Committee on the Infolvent Debtors Bill, Lord ELLENBOROUGH role to oppofe it. It war, he Paid, with reltiftance that he oppofed any meafure that purported to be a meafure of humanity, but a fenfe of duty operated in this inflame in a Cu perior degree on his .nind. He condemned the re• tent frequency of Infolvent Bills, which he thought tended to take from Creditors the means of recover ing their debts, whilft at the fame time they operated to the prejudice of the Debtors themfelves, by en couraging them to incur debts which they knew they were unable to pay, under the idea of being relieved by Infolvent Afts, thus, probably, ultimate ly tieing the means of their total ruin. It was his opinion that a great number of perfons threw therniclves into prawn in order to take the benefit of an Infolvent Act, and that, therefore, fuch an Aft produced, in relieving that defcription of per fons, great injutiice. He read, from the Hate merits on the table, an Account of the number of Pe►fons confined in the different Prifons of the Metropolis previous to and lince the fielt day of Mi chaelmas Term, in order to prove that a large pro portion of them had thrown themfelves in, in contem plation of anlnfolventArl.Hr thought this defeription of ABr had been of late much too frequent. In the reign of Q2een Anne there were only two Infolvent Bills patted, and the condition there was that the petfons difcharged fhould enter into her Majefly's fervice. In looking at this lubjett he thought it in cumbent on him to confider the intereft of the Cre ditor as well as thofe of Debtor, and he thought that if there Bills were Mitred to pats, as they had hitherto done, many Creditors, thus deprived of the means of recovering their debts, would be compelled to take the place of their Deb:ors in the different Prifons. The Doke of NORFOLK obferved that many tradefrnen were to blame for giving credit with too great facility. He was friendly to the Bill, which he thought ought at lealt to be Coffered to go to a Committee, where provifion might be added to fatisfy the objeftions of Noble Lords, and where a claufe might be added, if it was drought tit, to make the condition of the difcharge entrance into his Majeny's fervice. _ _ _ Lord HOLLAND admitted that there were many (Nations to the palling of Infolvent Ells, but he had brought in this bill in confequence of its being underftood that nn permanent meafure could be brought forward this SeiTion relative to this fubjeft, upon which it was admitted, by men of the utmoll eminence, that there were great deices in the law. It was his with, as well as that of the Noble and Learned Lords, to look to the interell of the Creditor, as well as Au of the Debtor, but in this Bill it was fpecially provided, that the fume property of the Debtor Should be fubjetit to 11:1 demands of the Creditor ; the Were& of the latter 'had not, therefore, been overlooked. Every conlideration of hirmaniry, be -thought, demanded fume Inch meafure as the prefent. It the principle of the Noble and Learned Lord were to be admitted, that there were tome, or even a large proportion of fraudulent Debtor., and 'bat there. fore the As ought not to pars, then the innocen; ?•1:11t toiler for the fake of die guilty. Taking, bow ever, the argument of the Noble and Learned Lord, that Infolvent Bills tended to put the Creditor in the place of the Debtor, it made for the prefent Bill, as relief might thereby be afforded to tome of thofe un fortunate Creditors. Under the Bankrupt Laws, a ' trader, on paying a certain turn in the pound, might, under certain modifications, be relieved from further moleflation, on account of his debts ; but a poor man, in a (fate of infolvency, could not be made a bankrupt, and mail remain in prifon, if his creditor pleated, unlefs relieved by an Infolvent Ad. Mice therefore. as well as humanity, required the palfiug of this Al. Lord ELDON Paid, he had been erroneoully re prefented as ass enemy to all Infolvent bills. On the contrary, he had fometimes fupported and fometimes op pote them, accorig to circumftancs, in both Hooks d of Parliament d ; n and had brought e in one In folvent Ad, while a Member of the Houfe of Com mons. He agreed in the neceflity of Come permanent meafure on the fubjed ; and he thought that Come Member of the legal profeffion, retired from alive hufinefs, could not better employ his attention, than in directing it to this fubjed. With refped to the Bankrupt Laws, mentioned by the Noble Lord, it fhould be recolleCted that a trader could not be made a bankrupt without the content of one or more of his creditors ; that, in the mean time, he might be kept in prifon at the fait of one of them, and even, if fuch creditor pleated, till a dividend was made of his pro perty. The whole property of a bankrupt in prifon was taken poffeffion of by a procets iffued for that purpole ; but, in the cafe of a debtor not fubjea to the Bankrupt Laws, he might go to the prifon, if be chore, with ioo , oo ol. in the funds, which his creditor could not touch. Some amendment of the law was therefore neceffary on this fubjed ; but wkether by an esten fi on of the Bankrupt Laws to thole debtors not now fubjed to them, or by any other mode, he could not now attempt to determine. He thought, however, that one hardlhip might be removed ;—a creditor, at prefent, if he let go his debtor, after tak • ing him in execution, difcharged the debt. This might be remedied by an Ad palled for that purpofe, allowing the contras between the creditor and debtor to remain untouched, notwithftanding the re- Irate of the latter, if the latter would fo confider it. He felt it his duty to join his Noble and Learned Ftiend in oppofing the prefent bill ; and he thought that, if it was rejeaed, many debtors now In prifon would find the means of difcharging many demands which their creditqp at prefent confidered as hopelefs. The Earl of MOIRA expreffed his fat ;station that the Noble and Learned Lord had done jullice to the nbjed which he had fo many years in view, namely, • tome permanent meafure with raped to imprifon ment for debt. He felt all the objeaions to Infolvent Bills, but at the fame time he was of opinion that jultice and humanity required the palling of the pre fent. The Noble and Learned Lord near him (Lord Ellenborough), had fisted that many peefons had thrown thetnfelves into prifon, to take the benefit of the aa, but in fo doing many of them might have had the mon honeft intentions,it being the only means they had of fettling with their creditors. He could not, betides, admit the inference of the Noble and Learned Lord, that many of thefe Debtors were fraudulent, he, on the contrary, had a right to fup pole that every one of them were aduated by the mon Konen intentions, on the principles adcd upon io the Court where the Noble and Learned Lord prefided, where every man was fuppofed to be inno cent until the contrary was proved. If the Noble and Learned Lord confidered imprifonment as a pa nilhment for an injury done to the creditor, be mould be glad to know to what term that punithment ought to extend ? He remembered reading in the Newfpa. pen two cafes of manQaughter, which had Bruck him very forcibly as approaching very clofely to murder. One was the cafe of a farmer in Wales ' who had kicked his fervent maid Co violently that the died of the bruifes the received. The other was the cafe of a deferter, killed by a blow which a Serjeant gave him on the head with his halbert. Hehad no doubt but that the Jury decided rightly in each of there cafes, though, in both,the Blade which divided them from the highen of all offences could only be diftinguithed by a very nice difcrimination. Yet what was the lenience in thefe innances ? Merely imprifonment for one year. If that was thought a fufficient punifhment for fuch aggra • vated manthughter, what imprifonment would the Noble Lord require to fatisfy a creditor? If fraud was proved, let fraud be punifhed: but he could not con , ceive that imprifonment for debt ought to be retorted to, except as the means of compelling payment, if that were neceffary, and to operate in a certain determi nate cootie. This certain cnurfe, however, being wanting, he thought it would be a denial of juftice not to pals the prefent Bill, as it would negative that inveffigation of the cafes of Debtors which could, alone diflingnith the honeft from the fraudulent. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, in explanation, oh fet ved, that the Bill relieved all prifoners in the gar, and that there was therefore no difcrimination. • The Houfe divided. Contents to—Non Contents s—Majority5—Majority g. The Houfe went into a Committee on the Bill, and agreed to report and fit again to morrow. Ordered. Adjourned (at 3 o'clock this morning till to-morrow.) LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY is. Ascxx SION DAY.—Holiday at the Stock Exchange. The Books of the Three per Cent. Confols will be Phut on the 23d inftant, In order to give time for the Clerks to dedua the amount of the lea from the Dividend Warrants. At the Council yenerday it was refolvcd to iffue letters of marque and reprifal againft Fru(Ban veirels, and the Order in Council will appear in Saturday night's Gazette. From this it may be inferred, that Mr. Jacitsou brings no Intelligence from Berlin of a pacific statute. Should the King of PRUSSIA attack the King of 'Swaney, the Emperor of Russia will be compelled to declare whether be is determined us resew the war or not. But this, indeed, may depend upon how far the King of Swan's, in bis late conduit and dedara asses, was warranted by the countenance and protec tion of ROSA. It is Paid, that Denmark has been induced to join the league of Raffia, Sweden, and England, and that a treaty of alliance bet weal die fear pilaf is lm great forvnudnefs. . Saturday lan the llevc H ry gun brig tut nut of a Bay near Breft harbour a Fteneh chafe !static. which arrived at Plymouth on Tuefday. By this veffel in telligence has been received, that ten fail of the line are now at anchor in Breft Road,and that the Topaze of 44 guns, which lately efcaped from the Tagus, has got into Breft. The SUPIRE of 74 guns, Admiral Sir J. T. Duck- WORTH, from the Welt Indies, but !all from the fleet off Caiiz, has arrived at Plymouth. She left the fleet all well. A Mail from Halifax and New York has arrived at Falmouth, after a !mirage of 23 days, bringing American Papers down to the 17th of April, but neither the letters nor papers were delivered out when this Paper was put to prefs. We underfland, however, that the American Jour. nah contain no intelligence of a very prominent na ture ; no idea whatever was entertained of the con tinuance of any mifunderfianding between this country and America. The Townfend packet arrived at Falmouth, from Lifbon, the 11th intl. On the preceding day, in lat. 47. 53. long. 6.45, at 4 P. M. lhe faw fix line of bat. tle (hips, and a fleet; at half pall five, fpoke his Ma jelly's brig DisrArcir,ivho informedhim thatthe men of war were under the command of Admiral STIR- Lino, and the (hips part of a Weft India fleet, which had loft the convoy, and that the Admiral had dif. patched the Saar• Maaoaasr♦ frigate with them, The Weft India fleet, we find, failed from Ford. mouth the 4tk inftant. Letters from Bombay, of the t Sth January, con firm the accounts of the conclufion of Peace with SCIVDIA. HOLX6II, with a body of his people, had gone into the Country of the Scheiks, but met with no encouragement ; and as his fol'owers were quit ting him in defpair, it was thought that he could give no farther trouble to the Britilb Government and its allies. He was defirous, en almoft any terms, to make his peace. Accounts bad been received at Bombay of an anion having taken place off Batavia, between an Englifb frigate and the Semillante French frigate. The latter would have been taken had the not taken fbelter under the batteries. We have received fume of the fmaller French Journals, but not of a later date than thole we noticed yellerday. The following is the only article in them worthy of any notice : • F AAAAA ORT, MAY I is mentioned Ina 0011111.11 Paper, that the Principality of Lubeck is about to be united to the king dom of Denmark. . . _ " The report of the Archduke Ferdinand's arrival at Ratifbon, I on bit way to Wurtsburgh, la premature. The French troop under the orders of Marthal Wry, which were eantoned in the neighbourhood of Memmlngen and Kemp tm, have begun to march towards the Rhine. " We learn, by the lateß letters from Pruffia, that the Royal Chamber of War and Marine, at Konniegfberg, gave notice on the 4th of April, that the magazines, including elk, o,coo bulhels of oats, would be fold In knell lots. Thla intelligence has re moved all apprebenfions of a rupture between Pruilla and Rallis, and created the greateß coolternatlon among the Jews, who, in the motemplation of a rupture, had collated raft quantities of merchandise, which they mutt now difpole of at a great lots." Yeflerday at two o'clock, his MAJesTY held a pri vate levee at the Queen's Palace, which was attended by the Secretaries of State, Earl Sriscia and Mr. Fox, the Firft Lord of the Admiralty, the Judge Advocate General, the King's Advocate, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Vilkonnts MPLITOWII and HOWICK ; Lords WILLOUGHBY Dt BROKE and H. FirzossAt.o ; Baron HART; Sir JOHN NICHOLS ; Generals Oasis and N yrs INT ; Admiral Bea /MIT; Captain STOPTORD, R. N. ; Meffrs. HIRBtRT, BOND, PARNELL, ADAIR, and Jacsicii. The following had the honour of being prefented to his MAJESTY : Mr. Parnell, on his being appointed a Lard of the Treafury in Ireland, on which occafion he had the honour of killing his Ma- Jelly's hard. Lord Henry Fitsgeraid,on his being appointed Joint Pelt Mar. tcr of Ireland, and had the honour to kits his Majtfty's hand. Baron Heart, the Mailer of the Hurfe to the late Prince of Orange, on his arrival from Germany. He delivered to bis Ma. jelly the Blue Ribband - Wons by the late Prince, likewife the whole of the Noble Order. General Oakes on his being appointed to the command of a regiment, had the honour to kilo his Maiefty's hand, as bad 'Vif count Templetowo, on his creation to that title. Admiral Berkeley had the like honour, on his being appointed to the command of the fleet on the North American Ration. General Nugint, on his return to England, from the Oman • meat of jamaica. Captain Stopford, of the Royal Navy (who w u feverely wound ed In Admiral DUckworth's engage , nent), by Lord Howlek, cm his return to England. The Hon. Henry ErStine, on his being appointed Lord Advo cate of Scotland. Mr. Robert Adair, by Mr. Fox, on his being appointed Envoy to the Court of Vienna, on which =anon he bad the honour to Lila his Majeftra hand, and afterwards took leave of his Malay previous to his departure. Mr. Jackßo, on his return front Berlin. After the levee his MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which Sir J. Nicttoas, the King's Advocate, at tended, and laid before his MAJESTY and the Council a Declaration of War, Letters of Reprifals and Marque, againft Prullia, which his MAJESTY and Council were pleafed to approve, and they will accor• dingly appear in Saturday night's Gazette. After the Co4incil his MAJESTY gave audiences to Mr. JAcsioN, Lord HENRY FITZGERALD, and Mr. BOND. The latter laid before his MAJESTY the pro ceedings of feveral Court Martials. TRIAL or LORD MRLVlLLR.—Yellerday the procef lion from the Lords Chamber did not take place till after eleven o'clock. When the Court was opened, and the Casacsi.Loa had taken his feat at the table, Mr. nom a proceeded in Lord Ms xv I Lt.s'a defence, and continued addreffing their Lordfkips till the Court broke up . Contrary to generxlexpeetation the Court met again this morning. The gym and Proe mial, according to the prefrnt arrangement, will attend the flittier provers of the trial to morrow. NAUTICAL IWTELLIGENCE. Dorn, MAT I3.—The BLAZIR gun brig arrivr' in the Roads this morning, and brought in with he: the fhip Induftry, Capt. MYERS, of and from New York, bound to Amfierdam, which (hip was liberated again this afternoon, and is gone for her deftination. Mar Lt.—Some very heavy firing was heard here from fix to (even this morning, in the direOion of Boulogne, but as the weather was thick, and no arrival from the French coati, I have not been able to learn the caufe of it. A convoy from Portfmouth naffed by here this morning for the River. Arrived off here the (hip Native from Charlefion, bound to London with rice, cotton, &c. Wind fouth and moderate. Faemoorm, MAY •I2.—Arrived the Princefs Mary packet, Captain Pococa, with a mail from lizr York and Halifax. in 23 days paffage from the law: place ; and the Hamburg'. (hip Drie Krone, Capt. BENDIR, from Bourdeaux for Hamburgh, der:tine.' " s • by the Fox cutter privateer of Weymouth. Sailed the Princefs Elizabeth packet, Capt. KIM, with a mail for Litbon ; Windfor Celle packet, Capt. Sor row, with a mail for Halifax and New York; and the Prince Emelt packet, Capt. PIM', with a mail for Barbadoes and Jamaica. Arrived the Townf bend packet, Coca, from Lilbon, with mails in (even days. The brig Jupiter, Grimm mailer. which left London the 3oth March, for Lifbon, fell, in with, on the 7th ult. in lat. 48.4. N. long. 9.49. W o a Spanifir lugger privateer, which, after exchanging a few (hot, &cued off. On the 9th wit. in lat. 43, 4. long. 9.49. W. fell in with and was captured by the Frank frigate Is Camilla, of 40 guns, from St. Domingo, bound to Brett, out two months, which, after taking out the crew and what valuable articles were on board, belittled her. The Matter of the veffel dater; his letter from Paffage in Spain, on the tsth ult. but does not fay how he got there. Wind E. PLYMOUTH, MAT 13.—Came in the Sutras man of war from Jamaica, lalt from the fleet off Cadiz; &Liaises man of war, returned to join the (qua. dron under Sir IL J. STRACIIAN VIROINI• frigat e from a cruize ; and the Issoeswr gun brig from Gibraltar, with difpatches ; French lugger la Glace , Dedanarnen, laden with (late, cut out of a Bay near Bret harbour, on the roth inft. by the Haucreirr gun brig ; Vriendfcbap, Captain F. Hriqears, from Bourdeaux for Hamburgh, detained by the SHARPSHOOTIR gun brig ; Juffrew Ann, Tsetse mar. from Bourdeaux, detained by the Lion priva teer; Dorothea Margaret ta, STSPHENS and the Vrow Maria, lesiva, from Bourdeaux , detained by the A (loop of war ; youn g Edward, MAISS * from New York, detained by the Gaowers gun brig; Ingolberg, MILLER, from Parrafs ; Diana, Roarr, from Cadiz; Fortuna, CORNELI us, from Malaga; Holftein, Jar r sa. and the Young Samuel, POSTER * from Cette, all detained by the Unity privateer— which veffel is arrived. Came in alto the Royal Charlote, of London, Capt. Browa, from this port, laden with naval (lore;; and the Papillon, Captain Ls MESURIII, from Jerfey. PoarswoUrn, Mar 4.---Arrived the CONSTANT and Quetta gun brigs, from a crifize ; sod the MET aria bomb, with the Ocean, Indus, anti Har riot Ealt Indiamen, and a fleet of outward bound veffels from the Downs.—Sailed his Majefty's thin; Lana, Howl, and MEDUSA, with the Eait Indiameu and tranfports under convoy for the Cape of Good Hope.—Wind S. W. DIAL, May 52,—Arrived the Divan-Arlo* bomb, from Plymouth ; and the Fuer bomb, with a convoy from Portfmouth, which are felled for the River. The FURY bomb remains in die Downs with the reit of the ihips as per left. This morning a very heavy firing was diflinaly heard at this place, from the direaion of Blulogne.—Sailed the Dssratiat gun brig for the Nore ; TUSSULSNT and BRUIZIL gun brigs oo a cruize off Boulogne, and the BLazs4 on a cruize off Dunkirk.—Wind S. g. YARI43OTH. May 11.—Tuefday, P. M. arrived a fleet of Merchantmen, under convoy of two (hips of war,for:the Baltic.—Wednefday morning the convoy being joined by feveral Ships belonging to this port got under weigh, with the wind at S. E. and were all out of fight by ten o'clock. The fleet under Ad miral Russizz have received orders to proceed to fca ; the whole it is ezpated will get wader weigh thit afternoon, and fail immediately for the Dutch coall. Several prizes have, Since my laft, been fent in by the North Sea cruizers. EAST INDIA SHIPPING INTELLI ;SINCE RECEIVE!) OVERLAND. The min. CHAR LTON.DRVONIIIIRE., and METCALIIR, were to be fent from Bengal to Madras (and were to touch at the Northern Ports, in their way for part of thdr cargoes), from whence they were to proceed to England. The ADMIRAL GARDNER bad arrived at Madras, and was to be difpatcbed with a cargo to England. The AARL CAMDEN armed fhip returned to Bombay from Ben. gal on the tBth January laft, with the Ytiorntx, CEYLON, and PataroN in company. The EARL CAMDRN was to proceed to the Cog! to load for Europe, with the CITY or LONDON, and the Bengal [hips, Puoe• tax, CITLQN, and PRISTON, were preparing to return to that French:lm.y. The Company's brig Wert was taken by the St. Henrietta French privateer on the 16th Serember, In lat. co. io. N. long. yy E. The LADY CAITLRIRAOII parted with the ADMIRAL GARD Nal on the syth Nov. The old adage—" If you will not when you may, &c." is likely to experience, at the prefent period, a (biking inilance in illuftration of its judnefs. Many have been very dilatory in adventuring in one of the molt advantageous Schemes for Fortune's votaries, which have been produced for many years ; but now finding after the confiderable drawing on Monday, that all the great capital,.-are yet in the Wheel, they appear anxious to poffefs chances. Efis true, they may purchafe them at prefent, but in another day or two they may oat. . r i MARRIED. Cn Monday tart, at the Parllh of St. Helen's, Woreefter, Mr. Conftable, of Woodford in Eget, to Mfrs Walhoufe, fccond daughter of the Iste Moreton Walhoufe, Lfq. of Hatherton, In Stafforddstre. 1,1k.D. On Saturday lan, aged 23 yam, after a ft.vere inners, Lieut. Edward White, of the Royal Nary. Lately, at his feat at Fern Hill, in the Ille of Wight, Samuel Stelae, Efq —mach refpedted by all who knew him. LONDON t Feared and publifbed by LEVEL.RFST (of Can. cerburpttste, Lambeth), at the STAR OttICR, No. r, Carer erect. rabirnicti ago at the STAR OTFICE 'Temple-Rim