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TRIAL OF LORD merviLLt. This day was puttlifhed, neatly printed in one Volume, Odavo, with an engraved Portrait of his L,relthlp.priee toe. 6d. hoard', AFULL and CORRECT ACCOUNT of the 1 RlM—by I wp,achment, of HENRY LORD VISCOUNT MELVILLE. for High Crimes and Mifdemconate, before the Houle of Peers. io Weßminfter-Hall, between the 29th of April and the r 7th of Mry, rite& To which is prefixed, a Sketch of the LIFE. and POLITICAL CHARACTER of his LORD SHIP, and a complete Account of the Proceedings in Parliament, relative to the Charges on which the Impeachment was founded. Publithed by Langston, Huril. Rees, and Orme, Paternofter row, London. FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. PARPft. JUN? 4—His Maietly the Emperor and King will receive the Ambaffador from the Sublime Porte, at half paR eleven in the forenoon on Toef day nett, at the Palace of the Thuilleties ; and alto the Envoys Extraordinary from their High Mighti neffes the States Of Holland.—An ordinary audience will be given in the apartments. - - HAGUII, knot 9.—We have certain information, that Prince Louis, and his aulzuft fpoufe, will arrive at the Houfe in the Wood, on Wednefday next ; and it is added, that, after a (bort nay, their Highneffes will make a journey for the benefit of the waters ; that Prince Louis will vifit Paris, to be prefent at the Triumphal Fete, and finally fix his refidence in Holland. General Janfen, Governor of the Cape, arrived here yeflerday ; and we learn, that the remainder of that garrifon is landed upon fome part of our cnaft. The following is the anfwer of their High Mighti• nefTes to the le'ter of C. J. Schimmelpenninck on the fubjeft of his refignation :—Four of the eldeft Mem. mere of the A trembly, M. M. Weerts, Bufh, Van Hengft, and Twent Van Raaphorft, with the Re• corder, were commiffinned, in the name of the At fembly, 6 , to allure his Excellency, that they had been penetrated with real regret, on being informed of his retirement from public bufinefs ; and that their concern, upon this meal - ton, was fo much the more lively, at the unfeitled Rate of his Excellency's health, and the diminution of his fight, had been no inconli derable motives. _ _ _ " That the AfTembly, from feveral other rearing, befides the terms in which his Excellency's letter was expreffed, were fully convinced that his Excel lency's determination was immutably and irrevoca bly confirmed ; and, confequently, that nothing was left to them but to acquiefce in the fame, and to ex. prefs their regret for its neceffity. 41 That the AfTembly had, neverthelefs, witnefred with pleafure, thole feelings which animated his Ex cellency in this inflance ; and were happy in having teftified their confidence and efteem for him upon fir many occafinns ; that neither time nor circumliances would alter their fentiments ; that they were happy in the prefent opportunity of expreffing their elteem, and wpfhed for nothing more cordially, than that his Excellency (hoot] be reftored to his former health, and that, in its future permanence, he (hould be en. ablest to experience all the pleafures refulting from the confcioufnefs of having deferved well cf his coun try; a confcioufnefs which is the dwelt reward of an elevated and noble mind. (Signed) " C. DE VCS vats ITIENWYX." ITALY, MAY ts.—The Englifh now blockade the port of Civita Vecchia, in which is a (mall French fquadron. We learn that Mar(hal Bernadotte will fhortly be named Duke of Tarento. FLORINCI, MAY 16.—The little fortrefs of Civi• tella del Fronto, in the Abnzzo, furrendered on the 39th ult. to the French General Fregeville. The garrifon were made prifnners of war ; the infurgenti found have been put in irons ; and their Chief, Bofea, has been conclueled on an afs to the prifon at Naples. Tamara, MAY 17.—Two Ruffian (hips of the line are lying here, but they are both ready for failing, as loon as a fleet of forty-two fail of merchantmen (hall be ready to accompany them. The Ruffians appear to have plenty of money ; but very few of them come on (bore. The fquadron is under the command of Commodore Bailey, an Englifhman : the beauty and neatnefs of there (hips of war are allonifhing. N , Mar t9.—Every thing goes on well here; a number of Englilh veffels continue to land fome of the banditti, who are generally repulfed by the coon try people, now organized as a national guard. A better difpofition cannot be (hewn, than that which animates the people of this kingdom ; and it would be difficult to form an idea of the hatred they enter tain againft the Englifh : a fentiment in which they partake with all the people of Europe, who are con vinced, that, if it were Ant for Englifh politics, the relent generation miTht live in peace and ttanqttillity. Gl/10A, MA' x;.—Letters from Naples announce, that three Engl:lh (hips have feized upon the land of Capri ; that eighteen men, and two Hikers, belong. ing to the enemy, together with the French Com• mandant of the hal, had been killed in this affair. It is added, that, almoti as loon as the Englifb difem barked, they hung fix of the principal perfons in the ifland, including the Govet nor. Thefe atrocities are certainly chaatcd by the tpinit which facrificed the vietims at Naples in t 799. C'tsiT•VTINOPLE, APRIL 2.—We are allured that lalt Courier which let nut from hence for St. Pe terfburgh, was the bearer of a letter from the Grand Signor to the Emperor of Ruffle, in which he allures him that the Porte is perfally fatisfied with the ex• planations which Ruflia had given, and confidently reckoned upon her affiflance, in cafe the Ottoman Empire fhould be attacked or molefled by any power whatever. A fleet is «snipping (to be ready by the Summer) to ferve as a fquadron of obfervation in the Mediter• ranean; which will confift of (even or eight thips of the line, and in the whole, of more than thirty fail. ST. PaTaIISaURCH, MAT 21.—Our relations with the Sublime Porte are dole( and more friendly than ever : one Cabinet, betides, engages itfelf aBively in removing the difficulties which have arifen be tween Pruffla and Sweden. It is laid, that it has alfo entered into negociations with France. Our Chinefe Embaly having received favourable advice' from l'ekin, has again let nut for that capital ; and we lit•ve fhot fly to have news of its arrival. 11,./.1.1.4, JUMP Moretti, the itivirien En v v, has received a roorier from St. Peterfbankh, .i , ii•re Art 'he greatelf impo e tance. The -ssi A , •4 .liirsAildtr. it is laid, hat Appointed Count S.a.iis:Leig to nicdiate in behalf of Sweden. KOWMfOSIIIRO, MAY 26.—1 t has been officially' announced, upon the Exchange in this city, that the Britifh Government have declared, that not only the blockade of the trade is railed, but that it is alto determined, that no hottilities of any kind (hall be committed in the Cattegat, nor in the Baltic above Skagen. Mscimairstne, Jutir 3.—The difccflions between Sweden and Profile, it is thought, will terminate amicably, Since it is reported that the Emperor of Rut Tia has expreffed his with, that the commerce of the Baltic Should be continued without interruption. DEUTZ, May 24.—The Minifler of the Finances, and the Dirator of the Polls of Duke Joachim, are art ived here from Paris, and will proceed immedi ately to the organization of our country. The pofts will be eftablithed on the fame footing as thofe of France. The new Officers have taken the oath of fidelity from the hands of M. La Roche : thofe of the old Imperial Office have all demanded leave to refign. Wrrztaa, May 31. —The day before yefterday there were Several figns of a movement in the feventh corps of the army. Shoes were got in readi nefs for the men, and the furgeons collated in great hafte. The cavalry, it is Paid, has been ordered to join this corps. The next courier will decide whe ther thefe troops are to crofs the Rhine. FROM THR MAIN, MAT 3t.—The Paris Journals (peak" of a plan for a new Conftitution for Germany, the author of which is Paid to be a French Minifter, very much elleemed at one of the German Courts. The produiftion of this plan is expated very Shortly at Ratifbon. Marfbal Bernadotte has not yet evacu ated Anfpach, but be is very Shortly expated to do fo. VIIIINA. MAY 28.—1 t was on the 25th when the Imperial Counfellor of State, M. D.Oubril, ci-devant Envoy at Paris, arrived here with propofals from his Court. He has had a conference with Count Stadion. According to report, he has only brought the con. ditions upon which the Ruffians will evacuate Cat. taro. Orders have now been fent to Triefte to reopen the ports which had been Shut againft the Engin and Ruffians. _ _ _ _ _ -------- Our State paper has fuffered Come deprefGon. Coffee and fugar have rifen fo eonfiderably in price, that numbers of people have given up the ufe of thefe articles. -••• The &II divifion of the Auarian prifoners horn France entered this city on the 26th ult. PARLIAMENT4R r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, JUNE 15. In the appeal Seymour the Earl of Eufton and Lord Henry Seymour, Mr Richard was beard for the Refpondents, after which the further conlideration of it was poftponed till to-morrow. The Royal Agent was given by Commit!lon to the Property Tax Bill, the trim Sugar Bill, the trial Stamp Duties Bill, the Irini Additional Force Repeal Bill, and leveret Private Bill.. 1 he Commiffioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Walfing tam. and Lord Auckland The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and leveret other Members of the Houfe of Commons, brought up a Mcflage. Rating that the Houfe of Commons requefted a conference with their Lordthips, on a fubjedt in which the reputation of the country, and the intercits of jultice and found policy, were deeply concerned. The Houfe agreed to a conference prefently In the Painted Chamber, of which the Meffengers from the Commons being called in, were Informed. A Committee was appointed to ms• nage the conference. Mr. Alexander, Mr. Chewte Mr. Byng, Mr. Graham, Mr. Joddrell, Sir Martin Folkes, and leveret other Members of the Houle of Commons brought up the Chelfea Allowance Bill, the hint Malt Duty Bill, and feveral Private Bills. The Houle being informed that the Commons waited the con • ferenee in the Painted Chamber, the Committee appointed to ma nage it, confining of the Duke of Norfolk, Earls of Radnor, and Romney, Lord Vifcount Falmouth, the Billsop of It. Aleph, Lords Holland, Keith, Dundee, Ellcnborough, and Lauderdale, went forth to the Painted Chamber. Shortly afterwards they returned; when the Duke of Norfolk reported that the Commons had com municated to them a certain Refolution (the Refolution adopted by the Houle of Commons relative to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, on the motion of Mr. Fox, on Tuefday lan). Ibe Earl of A BOYNE prefented leveret Petitions from Peers of Scotland, Rating the vacancy which they conceived to have been ceded in the Reprefentative Peerage of that country, In con fequenee of the Earl of Eglintown, one of the Sateen Reprefenta. tine Peers of Scotland in the prefent Parliament, having been created a Peer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire• land, and praying fuch relief therein as to the Houfe mould feem meet.—Ordered to He on the table. Lord LAUDERDALE moved to fufpend one of the (Landing orders. We underhand it to have been the order which relates to the time for entering Protelts. After Come eonverfation between his Lordthip and Lord HAWKESBURY, an order was made for extending the time for entering Proteßa againft the aye of Lord kichille's trial to two o'clock on Tuelday next. • MUTIIIY ■ILL. The Houfe having refolred itfelf into a Committee upon the Mutiny Bill, and proceeded as far as the claufe containing the oath to be taken by perfons en lifting under the new pl.rn for limited fervice, Lord WESTMORELAND rote and argued at much length againft the principle and tendency of the fyfiern. He chiefly contended, that it was an in ration or infringement of the prerogative of the Crown ; that inflead of diminithing bounties, pre venting defertion, and improving the general charac ter of the foldier, it would be found to increafe bountier, to promote defertion, to deteriorate the charafter of the army by multiplying the opportuni ties of calling for the bounties, and all the diffolute practices which attended frequent recruiting. The times, it was Paid, were arduous, the difficulties of the country unprecedented ;but inflead of that being an argument in favour of a new and hazardous ex periment, it was with him the molt cogent reafon for adhering to the ufnal modes of recruiting the army, and not run the riffs under Inch circumftances of being without any army at all. Great expedations had been raifed that every difficulty would vanith be fore the phalanx of talents and abilities which now were fuppored combined in guiding the helm of af fairs; for the Noble Lord (Grenville) who prefided at their head, he entestained the high& refpeft, but for many of his alliaciates a very different opinion— (Mr. Fox at this moment happened to appear.behind the Throne, which created a general laugh ). They might have very powerful talents, but he would com pare them to Hercules with his club, their firength teemed rather calculated to fttbvert and dearoy, than to build or repair. Their attempts in the prefent cafe might be mifchierous in the extreme. He Gould therefore move to amend the claufe, by fink ing out from the form of the oath what related to li antedfervice. _ _ Lord SPENCER contended, that every feeling and principle of human nature afforded the fairelt promife of the fuccefs of the plan of limited fervice. —So far increaling bounties, it wat evident it, mutt diminifh them. Fot who would afk as great a bounty for enlitting for limited fervice, as if he were called to ferve for an indefinite period? As to its being an encroachment on the prerogative, nothing Purely was Iris founded. Many were the cafes he could cite, he Ihould content hinifed with referring to thole that occurred in the reign of George 11. when men were railed fora limited period, and that upon a bounty, .and then entitled to their difcharge, even during a war. For there cafes occurred about the beginning of the feven years war, and in the very bonen period of it they were entitled to their dd. charge. The plan, however, was never remonftrated againft as an infringement of the prerogative. He en tertained a far different view of the fynem from that in which the Noble Earl teemed to confider it, and as far as his humble abilities could go, he would en deavour to give it every poffible chance of fuccefs. Lord BORINGDON argued againft the claufe, on the ground of its being unneceffary, and not called for by the Rate of the army. At any rate, he thought that the fyftem of limited fervice should have been &ft tried on a limited fcale, in order to afcertain whether or not it poffeffed thole advantages that had been afcribed to it. He contended; that it would produce a relaxation of military difcipline i and that, when the period of fervice was about to expire, a kind of canvas would take place between the Officer and foldier, which would degrade the former, and prove highly pernicious to the difcipline of the army. Lord CAERNARVON fupported the Bill, and contended, that were the limitation of fervice con fined to the war, as had been propofed brf tome No ble Lords, the country at the return of peace would be placed in the moo defencelefs fituation. The Duke of MONTROSE oppofed the claufe, as limiting the exercife of the Royal prerogative. He conceived that it would operate as a bounty to in duce men to leave the regiment to which they be longed, at the expiration of their term of fervice, fince, by doing fo, they might be entitled to as large a bounty as they bad at firft received, by entering into another regiment. He contended that, in the prefent Rate of - fociety, a better defcription of men would not, in confequence of limited fervice, be in duced to enter the army. The Duke of GLOUCESTER, in a fhort but fpirited fpeech, fupported the meafure ; from which he felt confident of the molt beneficial refults. His Highnefs thought a military fpi, it at prefent reigned in the country, and wanted only the meafure of li mited fervice to be brought into complete anivity. Were it adopted, a father would rather encourage his fon to enter the army, than diffuade him from it, and confider him as loft, as was fo much the cafe at prefent. His Highnefs then expatiated on the inducements which the option of entitling for li mited fervice would hold forth to yonng men to enter into the army, and defcribed the pleating and atraetive fcenes, which might attend the return of the young foldier into the bofom of his family, in the prime of life, after having fought the battles rif his King and Country. His Highnefs was heard with the greaten attention, and louJly cheered. Lord GROSVENOR adopted the fentiments of his Highnefs, and enforced them by a great variety of arguments. It was well known, that en titling for an indefinite number of years, or for the whole of a man's life, was the great bar againft the increafe of our army. Remove that bar, and men will flock in crowds to your ftandard. Indeed, to think otherwife would be mifinterpreting the feelings of human nature. Lord CAMDEN thought the means the coun try were already in poffeffion of for recruiting the army fhould be rather retained and improved, than refort to any untried and hazardous experiment. The Earl of LIMERICK.—He contended, that our colonial fervice was peculiarly incompatible with limited fervice, fince before the foldier became fea foned to the climate, he might become entitled to his ditcharge, and thus our colonies might be perpetu ally fupplied with raw foldiers, to whom the climate was peculiarly fatal. From his own experience he had found, that were a higher defcription of perfons to enter the army, it would not contribute to its fob ordination and difcipline. He had found, that thole who could read and write were often the molt trou• blefonte, and molt inclined to faCtion. Betides, it was not to be fuppofed, that thole who had enjoyed the comforts of life would readily fubmit, without murmuring and difcontent, to thofe privations to which the foldier mull neceffarily be expofed. Lord KING oblerved, that it was not wifhed to introduce a higher dafs of men into the army, but only the more confiderate and refleEling of that clafs, who now entered it as foldiers. This would add both to the numbers and difcipline of the army. The Earl of HARDWICKE Rated, that during the Lord Lieutenancy of the Marquis Cornwallis in Ireland, he made the experiment of enlifting for a limited period, but it did not by any means equal the expeaations of thofe who had advifed the trial even as a temporary expedient. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE obferved, that fame Noble Lords feemed to imagine, that the interference of Parliament, in the enlilting of foldiers, was an encroachment on the Prerogative of the Crown. Did this trench more on the Royal Preroga tive, he would afk their Lordthips, than the Annual Mutiny Bill in time of peace did on the popular right ? Earl ROSSLYN thought, that the only way of rendering unneceffary the prefent high bounties, and of removing the odium under which the military life fo generally laboured was by ameliorating the con dition of the foldier, and this the pref,nt claufe was eminently calculated to promote. High bounties were one great caufe of the defertions which had fo much prevailed of late, and if the caufe were removed, which could only be done by fame meafure fi milar to the prefent, the effect would ceafe of courfe. At prefent, nothing but the event of his being difabled could give the foldier the hope of retirement ; and it was not to be expeaed, that confiderate men, or in deed any but the thoughtlefs, or thole driven by ne ceffity, would prefer being tied up for life, to limited fervice. As to canvaffing between the Officer and foldier, he was confident, that Britith Officers would never degrade themfelves by permitting any relaxa• tion of chicipline, to induce their men to continue in the fervice. They were convinced, that the attach went at the foldier could only be gained by fair and liberal conduit, and by the Mid and impartial exercife of difcipline. Lord HAWKESBURY declared, that notwith. I (landing all be had beard from the Noble Earl who i/ had Spoken lift, and the other Noble Lords who pre., ceded him, (and the opinions of tome of them he knew were entitled to confiderable weight.) yet. not withaanding all the arguments which he had heard fo ably advanced, in fupport of the fyftem which was to be fi unded on a :hole in the Bill now before their Lordfhips,he had not heard reafons ftaied,which were capable of effacing from his mind the impreffion which it had previoufly received, namely, that this was, in its very effence, a mop dangerous, and might poffibly be in its consequence, an almon ruinous fyf tem Artillery, cavalry, and infantry, foreigners and native fubjetls, white men and blacks, were all to be dilbanded at the expiration of the term of feven years. He was well aware that it a as utterly impoffible that any thing like a general difcharge could take place at any given time ; but then it was within the line of probability that great numbers would have completed their term of fervice nearly at the fame time, and muff neceffarily be difcharged jun at .the eve of the breaking out of a war. This would be fuch a cafe as would molt ferioufly affect the intereft (though be would always place the utmnft confidence in the loy alty and bravery of the nation), yet it was poffible that the occurrence of fuch an event might endanger the fafety of the country. It was wife and politic for (lettermen to be guarded at all times againft even a, diftant poffibility of fuch danger, and he conceived it to be unwife and impolitic in Mininers to make fuch an innovation on stile military fyftem as this was, during a period of war. The manner be thought peculiarly liable to cenfure, as by the fyftem being introduced in the form of a claufe in the Mutiny Bill, which was within ten days of expiring, their Lord- Ships mull either agree to this plan, or Subject them felves to the painful feeling that they had left the State without a Mutiny Bill at a period of war. Lord HOLLAND obferved, that after the able anJ elegant fpeech which had been made in favour of the meafure by the illuftrious perfon whom he had in his eye (the Duke of Gloucefter), a fpeech which mull have made an indelible impreffion on the minds of all who heard it, he was furptifed that the Noble Lords on the other fide Should have perfified in their objections. He then adverted to the necenity of in. creating our army, in oppofition to a Noble Lord who had Paid that our difpofable force was already great enough. In order to attain this objet we molt now have recourfe to a meafure fimple in itself, but likely to be mon powe-Sul in its effect*, after all the nylernu which had been tried and had failed. This country ought to have more than its money to depend upon in order to fecure it from danger, and to mails ! tain its refpenability. The effens of fubfidies had al• ready been Peen. It had been Paid that this country was now io the zenith of its glory. It might be fo, perhaps, for it was one of the effects of a burning fun to have no Shadow, and certainly our fun bad lately left no Shadow of glory to thole upon whom it had lately (hone. A Noble Lnrd had compared our Volun teers, for whom he certainly had the greaten refpen,to the Macedonian phalanx. The companion was cot a happy one, hut we had undoubtedly, lately, followed the fyftem of Phillip, and depended more on our gold than on the force of our arms. There was this differ ence however, that his gold led to viOory, ours to defeat. He denied that this was any inftingement of the prerogative, which no one could be more anxious to defend than he would be, beeaufe he thought that its fecurity was neceffary for the fafety of the liber tics of the people. It had been Paid by fume Noble Lords, that the prefent Minifters had got into the Elyfium, for which they had long been anxious, and that they could net concludt themfelves with modera tion. The Noble Lords on the other fide were in the feats of Sorrow and Suffering ; but they were not, it appeared, without fume confolation, for one of them had hinted a fort of hope that Minifters might do fornething which would refine him to his tilde again. When his friends therefore Should be difpof ed to folicit his favour, he might, perhaps, confole them as Fakiairdid Mier Shallow, when in great anxi ety shout his thotifand pound.—" Trull. me Meier Shallow, f (hall be fent fur anon." But as thole who were in Elyfium weN Paid to be employed in the fame purfuits which engaged their attention while - alive, fo Mininers followed the lame courfe which they had recommended when their recommendation had not fuch a good chan:e of being attended He defended the meafure on the grounds of its hu manity, as it would almon remove the temptation to defertion, and the punifhments eonfequent upon It would improve the charadler of the army, and fpread a great number of veterans over the country, who would be of the greaten Service in cafe of its being the feat of war, ft was not a mere fpeculative theory, for the thing had been tried and found effec tual in other countries. As to the colonial fervice, he mentioned that in the Spaniffi army, thofe only who entitled for a limited period were fent t 3 the colonies. He concluded by expreffing his conviniun that this meafure would produce the moll effential advantages. Lord MOIRA, in allufion to what had fallen from a Noble Earl (Wellmoreland) early in the debate, begged to exprefs his thanks to the Noble Earl for the fpeech he had been fo good as to make for him, as expreflive of the terrors he was fuppofed to feel for the ruin of the Artillery Corps from this meafure. He really did not recollect that he had ever enter tained any Such fentiments, and he trolled Noble Lords would do him the jutlice to believe the lan guage was not his. He really had no Such terrors ; and in far was he from having cattle to feel fuch asi prehenfions, that he was convinced nothing would be a greater punifhment to an artillery man, than to dif ' mils him from the Service, and deprive him of the 1 many advantageous profpens of preferment in his view. The boys now enlifted for the artillery Service were turned over to the battalions as they attained proper Size, and were of courfe edited for life. The term of twelve years limitation could only operate on thole who ehlift hereafter, and could have no effect for twelve years to come ; and with refpen to the general term of limited enliftment, he would read a letter to their Lordfhips from experienced and prac tical, not from fpeculative authority. from a Gene ral Officer, now in our fervice, but formerly, and for twenty years in the Service of the nation in Europe molt analagous to our own, namely, that of Holland —:his letter Dated, that during twenty years of that Officer's fervice, there were feventy-two battalions in the Dutch army, (crying both at home and in their diftant colonies, in which it was the uniform pranice to enlin the men for limited pet iods of three, fix, and nine }ears, without any other Ifipulatit,ns than that their difcharges Mould only be demanded in the ,~ I I