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Sz e seeuict be productivE of great Con•Ve ....owe. en ac count of the facility which it would atord , d t posed to secure a provision for those they Or r GIDDY th ought the plan was on the whole -- and did not apprehend that it would prejudice to morality. 54 .1 NEWPORT observed, that, as long as the -n of trafficking in annuities was confined to bl and even to established companies, no great could arise from it ; but when the State the evil and made vice a source of revenue, to the public morals was great indeed.— pernicious practice contributed not a little to eerthrow of the French Constitution. Thousands I;ance were in the habit of sacrificing the interests o f t bcir children, to secure a large present income for themselves. The same pernicious practice Heideprevaled co d s t he decay of the Roman Empire. - precated most strongly any attempt to assimilate the aoralitv of this country to that of France. He would se at that time go into any ei t escussion of the financial It o f t he plan ; but the objections to it, upon the of its immorality, and as to the injury which the ate of society in this country appeared likely to de. I i se from it, were in his opinion, insurmountable. m e ROSE explained the nature of the Short An oties, and sheaved 'that the arguments drawn from e a t particular fund could not apply to the present m, and did not conse q uentl y affect it. • ri . a e A. BARING was persuaded the plan would • see , be successful to any great extent; and he hoped jot the l a nai!: and general character of the country, i t wou ld not. Much had been said Of the faci that ley which it would afford ; but this facility, he feared, we ld only prove a temptation to parents to defraud their children, and to squander in momentary splen- , d o ur, that property, which, if properly disposed of, might be the means of educating and providing for t heir offspring. The Honourable Member next ad flirted to the great rise in the funds, which, he con. !add, was so far from being a proof of the prospe r:4of the country, that it was a sign of its deca y . Ole the whole commerce of the country was arres ed and stagnated, it was natural that capital should leek a new direction and vent for itself. That stagna tion, however, he would frankly confess, was not ,holly to be attributed to the Orders in Council ; v at part of it was owing to circumstances beyond e controul of Government. W. SMITH lamented, that the moment Go. ,ointment found that any vice was likely to become a source of revenue, they should betray the strongest reluctance to repress it ; this was the case in their licences to gambling houses, their duties upon quack oedicines, and their four lotteries in a year, with all the disgraceful tricks and mummery which were employ edto dispose of the chances. The plan, in his view of it, was little else than to open a great wholesale warehouse for vending a moral poison to an Intent that individuals could never do. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied at considerable length to the objections which ad been urged against the plan. He felt much o bliged for the manner in whichthe proposition he had the honour of making, was received by the House, and for the candour with which it was disc eset After some further observations from Mr. TIERNEY and Mr. BARING, the Resolution was agreed to, and the Committee ordered to sit again on Thursday next. PRIVATE PETII IONS. The licese being resumed, the . iPEAKER observed, that Men -k bang the last day for receiving private petitions, and tterc being a great number, as ne untie rstood, to be ?moulted, he otottki take the Chair at three o'clock on that day. SIR HUME POPIIANI. • Lord CASTLEREAGH expressed a vish that an Hon. Gentleman opposite would pospone his motion on the subject of an *Hon. Baronet (Sir }lonic Pop ham) in order that the House might be able to take into censideratich the Report of the Local Militia Bib. Mr. LUSHINGTQN cc nsentcd, as he understood that the Hon. Captain, from late indisposition, and from the long con tinuance cf the pr svious debate , was not in such a state as to be able to enter on the subject with the advantages he ought to posses. Sir HOME POPHAM said, he had come down to the Hoesi this night, expecting the debate to come on; and after sitting near five hours, he certainly fidt himself less able to rebut the charges that might be brought against him. The motion was then post poned to Monday ee'nnight. LOCAL MILITIA BILL. The House then went into a Committee on the Bi'd, and Mr. WHARTON took the Cha'r. The different clauses of the Bill were discussed suc cessively, when a long conversation ensued between ne leading Members on the side of Administration and of Oppesitien, during which Mr. Wieoireet said that if he ~ were to entertain any hostility against the Ger-Cemen who were instrumental in bringing this measure forward, he should deem it the severest pu eeement they could eodure, to be cendeinned to all ka benefits. Mr. VANSITTART suggested the adoption of a clease, meking it a matter of discretion with his Ma esty's Ministers to carry the Bill into execution, on account cf the great inconveaience that must result to else ceuntry, by raising the men, perhaps , a t a. season when their serviees can be least dispensed ovith e • Sir JAMES MONTGOMERY said, that one mreath in the year was a very inadequate period for a man accustomed to manual labour to accpuee the ex ercise and habits of a soldier. lie suggested a plan, triiih should raise all the men in the kingdom between die ages of eighteen and twenty - f our, whereby the Ration would become possessed of a very numerous force, and whose families were not likely to be of any considerable barllien to the country. Such a class of men would acquire military discipline in much less time than those of more "mature age. Lord CASTLEREAGH opposed this amendment, as oppresiee upon the community. Colonel IOLLEY also opposed Sir James Isfont golocry's proposed amendment. Mr. WILBERFORCE spoke at some length in favour of Lord Caetlereagles plan, as the most likely to procure a restoration of peace to Qie.country. He disapproved of an alteration so material as that pro posed by Sir James lelontgoniery, as, if it were ac ceded to, it would in effect overturn Lord Castle reagh's e hole plan. A divisi o n to o k place on the Amendment, when there were—For it -el ; Against it 14.6—Majority 105- long conversation occurred on several of :he Iv o:living Clauses. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and ot laihed leave to sit again oil Monday. LOI4IJON. SATURDAY, MAY 14. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : Consols, for money, 681—DItto for account 6811. Reduced 6711—Extheq. Bills ss. prem.—lndia Bduds 4s. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 2381 239 India Bonds, 3s. ls. pre. 3 per Cent. Red. 6711 Imp. 3 per C. 66i1 per Cent. Cons. 68;11 681 Ditto Ann. 7} 4 per Cent. 85 Exche. Bills 6s. 3s. to 5s pre.' 3 per Cent. 100 991 English Tickets, 9.01.193. Ann. 18 13-16ths 11-16ths: Cons. for acc. ' lndia Stock 180 1791 His Majesty's ship FnAxcinsF., with part of the fleet under her convoy for the West Indies, which sailed from Portsmouth on the 21st February, arrived at Barbadoes on the 31st March. The ships Mag dalen, London, Jupiter, Trafalgar, and Richmond, part of the above fleet, parted convoy on the 2Gth February, and were captured on the 29th off Ma deira,, by the Penelope and Themise French frigates. They sunk the Magdalen, Jupiter, and Richmond, and burnt the London and Trafalgar. They also captured the ship Little Jane, RIDLY, from London for the Cape of Good Hope, and sent her for Marti nique, off which island she was recaptured by his Majesty's ship HIPPOMENES, and sent into Barbadoes. —The Robert, of Liverpool, from Africa, is taken and sent into Martinique. Government received intelligence this morning cf the capture of Deseada, a very small Carribbee Island, by some of Admiral COCHRAWS crtizers. We understand that accounts have been received, stating, that a Treaty has been signed at Bayonne, between BONAPARTE and the new KING of SPAIN. The following is the substance of it : By the first Article BONAPARTE recognises the new King of Spain, FERDINAND the V I hi , . By the second he confers upon him the Administra tion of Portugal in time of Peace. Another Article relates to the'PRINCE of the PEACE, who we hear had not been released from prison at the date of the Treaty, but who is to be sent into France. _ The Article contains an accusation against him. Another Article declares that Spain joins the Con federation of the Rhine, and that her contingent is to be 50,000 men. Another Article cedes to France a port in Spanish America. There are secret Articles which have not transpired. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived this morning. Be, fore the packet left that place the VICTORY had ar rived there, as had also several of the transports from this country, with warlike stores. The Russians who had invaded Gothland with 5000 men. (not 10,000 as reported by the last mail) have Since retired with their booty. But we do not ' perfectly understand the accounts ; for there seems to have been two invasions of that island, and this re treat may refer either to the first or second. In an attack made by the Russians on the fortress of Sweaberg, they are stated to have been repulsed with considerable loss. In Norway nothing further of importance has oc curred. The Norwegians have recovered a little from their panic, and face the Swedes with greater boldness.. On one occasion the Swedes lost about 60 men. Tuscany is now divided into three prefectures—not a vestige remains of the antient re fie. GOTTENBURGH, MAY 2. A fleet of seven transports, with arms and ammu nition, have arrived here from Plymouth, bound to Gefle. Last Thursday, the English frigates, Daphne and Tartarus, brought into Rifwefiord 10 Danish prizes, 9 of which were laden widi flour and provisions, and one in ballast, which were cut out of Fladstrand by five armed boats, under the command of Lieu tenant Elliot, notwithstanding a heavy fire from the batteries on the shore, with no other loss than having five men slightly wounded. Only an old man was found on board the Danish vessels, all the rest of the crews having got on shore and made their escape. The same day, two Danish ships, in ballast, were brought in prizes to the English ships of war Stately • I and Nassau. e i j meo 0 7 - 04 o n acco w Or r)" dipc a. Ovantage?t 037 Pr e,n Sir NE NV „ ea of trail as , and oisehief could opted the ev t he danger to This perniciot t he o verthrow France were o f their childrE themselves. towar d s d ate d most 0310 of thi ipt at that tin p a of the p pre of its it'll ote of societ: . 4e f ro nt it, Mr. ROSE t itits, and tat parti cult • , and did r ` n Ar. A. B! or b e socc for the / '• °t° '' that it wool , lity which it would only I • zdnY 6. The accounts by the post from Colmar and Canis crona on the 24 respecting the landing of the French and Russians in the island of Gothland, appear to have been exaggerated : by the last letters from thence we learn, that instead of 10,000 men, 3000 only were landed on the island, who were all Russians. They sailed from Libau on the 21st April in nine ships : of the truth of this, a Captain from Liebau has made oath before the Government of Stockholm. This morning an ived here the Euryalus frigate, the Hon. Captain Dundas, having on board his Royal High ness the Duke d'Angouleme. There is nothing new to-day. A report was current yesterday, that a con siderable body of Swedes (500) had been surrounded by 3000 Norwegians, and taken prisoners ; but this • is not yet confirmed. MAY 7. A Messenger, who has just arrived from Stock holm, brings the intelligence that the Russians have already retired from the Island of Gothland, after plundering it ; and, as the island was rich, taking a way a great booty. • STOCKHOLM, MAY. t By a report made by Lord-Lieutenant Klint, on the 23d of last stionth, his Royal 'Majesty wat in formed, that on the preceding day the Russians made good a landing on•the south-east toast of Gothlandi in the parish of Grottingbo. Their strength is esti mated at about 2000 men. According to intelligence from Oland, that island was taken possession of a month ago by some troops, who were however soon after recalled in the greatest hurry : but they have now landed there a second time. Reports are current in that island, uncontradicted by I the Russian officers, that their army iu Finland has sustained a very considerable loss, in an attack made on the fortress of Sweaberg. APna. 29. His Majesty received yesterday the following Re port from General Baron Armfeldt, dated the 23d April, 1808:- 1 By our last report I informed your Majesty that I bad passed the mountains and rendered myself master of the passes between Koningeswinger and Orlcbridge. The enemy, who made no con siderable resistance in the mountains, except at I.ier, seems now to have recovered from the first impression made by my operations in Norway, and begin to attack my troops as soon as they make their appearance. Count Morner, of the life Guards, was attacked near Taverucl, and owing to the enemy's vast superiority in number, surrounded and taken prisoner, with about 60 rank and file and some Officers. Although we have sustained this loss, and besides lost about 90 men in killed and wound►d, yet the state of our affairs in this country in a general point of view remains unaltered. (Signed) G. M. ARNIFELDT, General in Chief of the Western Army. Head Quarters Pramhers, April 23, 1809. APRIL SO. Letters from Rome state, that several Englishmen who resided in that'ci ty, have been arrested, and lodged in the Castle of St. Angelo. An American who, by mistake, had been confined with them, WAS soon after set at liberty. Tuscany is now divided into three Departments, :lamely, Florence, Siena, and Leghorn, which are sub divided into several Prefectures : the Privy Council is dissolved, with all other public boards of the former Government ; so that no traces are left of the ancient regime. ANOTHER EXPEDITION. Report is afloat in military circles, that a Grand Expedition will soon start, to consist of about 20,000 men. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY or General BERES• FORD to command it ; with a, brevet rank. Among the corps the following are to go•: 2d, or Queen's Regiment ; sd, or Buffs ; sth, 26th, or Canteronians; 40th, 45th, 71st, 88th, and 95th. Some Cavalry go in this expedition, and a very large Staff. Monday last the Royal College of Surgeons ad judged the Jacksonian prize for the best dissertation on ‘, Diseases of the Eye and its appendages, and the treatment of them," to Jona: HYstoe, Esq. Surgeon, Fenchurch:street. The same Gentleman ontan,ed the prize in 1805 fur the best dissertation on ~ Injuries of the Head." We stated some time ago that the smack Diamond, from London to Leith, had been wrecked in a heavy. gale on Twiningham Sands, near Dunbar, and that several of the passengers and two of the crew, were drowned. A young and amiable daughter of Mr. Jots BROWN, geneologist to his Royal Highness the I PRINCE of WAi.vs, was one of these unfortunate pas sengers. Her afflicted parents, however, have received great consolation from the care with which the Earl of HanniNcrow had her body buried in the church yard cf Whitekirk—his most amiable COUNTESS hav ing previously sent every article that was decent and necessary for the melancholy occasion. NAN-RESIDENT Ctracv.--By a Paper laid or the Table of the Home of Commons, it appears that the No -r• ident Clergy of fngland, in all the Dioceses and Classes, amounted fur the year, 1804-5 1805-6 180 C-7 In consequence of this apparent increase of Non-resident Clergy, the Lords of the Privy Council have made a Minute, directing that in the future Returns a distinction should be made between those who are non-resident without licence or exemption, and those who are reported as non-resident solely because they have not notified their exemption ; and also that a distinction should be made of those , who are non resident, merely on account of not having a fit house for their residence, but who nevertheless per form the duties of their cure. The Assessed Taxes are to be collected on two quarterly days, and the duty on Property on the other two quarterly days, so that the persons chargeable with these duties will be relieved from the inconve nience of being liable to be called upon to pay both on the same days. To prevent vexatious surcharges, the person injured by the surcharge is to have the power of suing the officer, and, in case of a verdict in his favour, of recovering either a penalty of 1001. or three times .the value of the sum surcharged, and costs, not only as between party and party, but the wkole costs out of pocket.—Besides this penalty and costs, the officer upon such conviction was to be, ipso facto, discharged from his office. The Bill is also to contain other regulations for an uniformity in the mode of collecting these taxes. SINGULAR CAPTURE.—Les Anis, announced in our Plymouth letter this day, as having been sent into that port by his Majesty's ship AmErftvsr, was cap tured in a singular manner. She sailed from Bour deaux with a crew, consisting of the Captain, four other Frenchmen, and one Russian. Soon after the vessel had cleared the harbour, the Russian sailor knocked down the Captain, drove the other four Frenchmen into the hold of the vessel, and secured the hatches. He then ran to the cabin, got possession of a pistol, and returned again to the Captain, who still lay stunned with the blow that had been given him. On his recovery the Russian forced him also ,to go below, and then stood out to sea. Whether the Russian had been ill-used by any of the French. men, or what other motive induced him to commence hostilities against the good ally of his Sovereign, we have not learnt ; but soon after, perceiving a ship 'with English colours, which proved to be the AMP.- , THYS r, he made towards her, and by her his capture was sent into Plymouth. sPOitiNV GOOMYGOES RACPS, MAY loud li. . Hunters Plate of 101. Ono Three-Mile Heat. Mt. Gage's Pic Nid - - • 1 Mr. Best's Tickle Toby, aged - - 2 Silver Cup. Three-Mile Heats; rode by Gentlefrieu; Mr. Trevanion's Buccphalns, 6 yrs old - - - 4 2 1 Cait. Hass:n*l'ler% Sir Launcelot, 6 yrs old .. 6 2 2 Sir H. Lipipacott's Ploughboy, 5 yrs old - 2 4 5 Mr. Rthh's Timekeeper, 6 yrs old - - 5 2 Mr: David's Prodigal, by Waxy - - 1 3dr D. of Richmond's Tetuan, 5 yrs old - - 30dr , Hunters Plate of 501, for all Ages. Two Mile Heats. Mr. Gage's Pic Nic - - - 1 1 Capt. Bridgewater's b, m. Little Polly - - 2dr Ladies Plate of Sixty Guineas, Two Mile Heats--b King's Plate Weights. I.d P.gremont's Election, 4 yrs old 1 1 , ' a 1 1 Mr. Butler's Epsom, 4 yrs old - a 2 2 NALTICZL iNTELLIGEIVCE, PLYMOUTH. MAY 12. Came in les Amis French schooner, laden with wine and rosin, from Bourdeaux to Quimptr, cap tured by his Majesty's ship AMETHYST, of 36 guns ; MEDIATOR, Of '24 guns, from off Lisbon ; and SCOR PION, of J guns, from a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 19. Sailed his Majesty's brig STRENUOUS, with five sail of transports, under convoy for Guernsey ; Medway, WATSON, for the Brazils; and Star, Wu.KINSON, Et New South Wales —Wind S. W. DEAL, MAY 13. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Portuguese ship la Princessa Brazils, Captain PERNAU, from Vera Cruz ; Phoenix, ; and Argus, FRAZER, from Jamaica.—Wind S. W. YARMOUTH, MAY Is. This morning arrived the LADY FRANCES packet, Captain Barns, with mails and passengers. The packet left Gottenburgh on Saturday last, on which day the VicTo►tr arrived. Sailed the ZrazomA sloop of war, on a cruize. Remain in the Roads, the MA JEsrtc, ROEBUCK, STATELY, NASSAU, VESTAL, PROsE LYTE, HOUND, ILIVOC, ZEBRA. and CLAUDIA. Ar rived the Badger revenue cutter, and has detained and brought in here 2 doggers,laden with butter and cheese KINGSTON (JAMAICA), MARCH 19. The French cartel schooner Union, from St. Do mingo, in ten days, arrived on Saturday, with Mr. and Mrs. HAMILTON, five children, and several slaves, and a Mr. M‘DcwAto, lately a mate of the schooner Polly. Mr. HAMILTON and his family quitted Nevis in the Polly, on the 20th of January, for this island ; but on the 24th, off Altavela, fell in with the French privateer schooner Tartar, which captured her by boarding, in a calm, after a considerable chace. She was then ordered for St. Domingo, where she arrived safely. The conduct of General FERRAND to Mr. HAMILTON and family demands the greatest praise. We lament to learn, by a schooner from Santa- Martha, that one of his Majesty's brigs, supposed to be la RAPOSA, Lieutenant ViotErr, was lately lost off Carthagena. It appears that she had engaged se veral. gun boats, and while in the act of tacking, got aground near that place. The crew made every ef fort to extricate her, but it proved fruitless, and they were all taken prisoners and carried into Carthagena. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESEND ' MAT El.—Passed by the Sally, Rowe ; and Rose, Leitch, from the South Seas; Vigilant, Cook ; and Metta Christian; Spikes, from St. Michael's. Saileci'the Lord Eldon, Young, for India; Weymouth, I lewyn, for Malta ; Anna, Sly ; and Mermaid, Symcs, for Waterford. The George, M‘TAGGART, of Greenock, from De merara for, Liverpool, with sugar, coffee, cotton, and rum, was captured on the 6th ult. in lat. 51. long. 27. by the French privateer Young Jerome, and re captured on the 14th off Cape Ortega], by his Majes. ty's ship HELENA, Capt, WOILTIL Capt. M'TAGOART had been taken on board the privateer, which vessel had also captured the Britannia, from St. Duminzo for Liverpool, after a hard fight. LAIV INTELLIGENSE. Yesterday, in the Court of King's Bench, in the case DONNELLY, Esq. against Sir How. POHL VM, the Judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, in fa vour of the Plaintiff, was affirmed without an argu, ment. ----- -- CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, MAY IS. BISHOP, THE KING'S PROCTOR, V. STONE. This was a prosecution instituted by his Majesty's Procurator General, on behalf of the State, against the Rev. H. Stone, Rector of Norton, in gssex, on the charges of having preached, on the Bth of July, 1806, a Visitation Sermon, in the church of Dan bury, before the Archdeacon of the Diocese, and af terwards printed and published the same, in which he denied the doctrine of the miraculous conception of the Virgin MARY, the Holy Trinity, the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour, and the atonement by the birth and death of CHRIST. In support of these charges the depositions of the Archdeacon and four other Clergymen were read. to the Court ; also the deposition of Mr. J. Johnson, of St. Paul's Church yard, and Mr. Stains, of Chelitsford, booksellers, to prove the printing and publication thereof. On the part of the prosecution, the Learned Doctor con tended that this doctrine was contrary to the esta blished law of the Church of England; for by a sta tute of the 13th Elizabeth it is enacted, that if any person shall advisably maintain or affirm, any doc trine directly contrary and repugnant to any of the articles of religion, and shall persist in the same, an 3 not revoke his error, he shall be deprived of his ec clesiastical preferments. Mr. Stone then read to the Court a wr.ten defence, which occupied nearly two hours, wherein he endeavoured to shew that he had done no more than ful illed his engagements with his ordaining bishop, that he had conformed,to the church of England, as by law established, and,. that he had not offended against the statute. Sir W. Scott, after making several pertinent observations, was of opinion that the charges were clearly established, and said he could not resist the Act of Parliament,' but deferred giving final judgment 11 the next court day, in order , to give the party an opportunity to revoke his error. Dil D. Yesterday at her husband'. house, Ear ave.place, Pimlico, the wife of Richard Hand, Log. paintrr on glass. litr long to 5, which she bore with ntuoh fort.aude and resignation, v. rr ug'.t on by the fright she received when part of her pretnisekin which she lived were destroyed by Ue in August last. 1 1 .. ! • • k ; I i I 1 1 t i • • i V : - e 3 e o d is h a