Star. — London, England, 1806-07-22 00:00:00

/NDAY. JULY at. Commilbon to the Sugar Bill noes Bill, the American Inter- Bill, the Volunteer Officert. ion Bill, the Chancery the London Quay Bill, the Ligothoufe Bill, the Infolveut is and private Bill., to the Chaacellor, Lord Walling- Chamley v. Lord Miami). .it Ster. In the Appe - iil, - ill Rennie v. Tod, and Others, the LORD CHANCELLOR moved to reverie the Dtcrce of the urt of Sefton, which motion was fupported by Lord ELDON, and agreSir ed to. WILLIAM SCOTT, Mr. HOLFORD, and feveral other Members of the Houle of Commons, brought up the 11,.nitrupt 1-swa Bill and flame mho. Bills, the amendments made in 'which by ,he Lords had been agreed to by the Co:nmons. I b.: Confolidatcd Fund Bill. the Royal Annuities Bill, the high Pottage Bill. the Lottery Bill, the Malt Ezetfe Bill the London Additional Force Repeal Bill, Earl Nelfou's Annuity Bill, and Lord Rodney's Anauity Bill, were read a third time, and pelted. flee Secta Forfeited nate' Bills were read a fccood time, paired through Committees sod were reported. The Cuftoms Regulation Bill, the Oak Bark nin, and the other Hills on the table ureic ordered for committal, palled through Committees, and were rep, , rted. MILITIA. On the third reading of the Militia Officers' Pay Bill, The Earl of RADNOR proteded againtl it as a Bill that offered an intuit and injury to the Militia, whilst it was at the fame time a breach of faith to ward: that valuable b. ty of men, it having been clearly declared by Parliament that the pay of the Militia Officers thould be equal to that of the Officers of the Line. He lamented that every party who came into power teemed inclined togive a blow to the Militia. The engagements that had been entered into with the Militia had now nearly all been broken ; the men had been taken out of the regiments to feive in the line ; officers had been appointed without the requiftte landed qualifications ; now the pay of the Officers was to be rendered lets than that of the line, and he fuppofed their rank would next be affeded. He wait ed to fpeak againll this meafure in the droned terms which his liberty of Ipeech in Parliament would al low ; and viewing it in the light he did, he felt it his rimy to move, that the Bill be read a fecond time this day three wraith., The Earl of WESTMORELAND alto thought the Bill a breach of faith towards the Militia, and was at a loft to ..-on.,eive on what grounds it could be fuppor:ed. On a former occation, when dilcuding tine of the military nicafures of his Majefly's Mini tiers, it had been fail, do not take a meature tingly, tot look it the .shale plan, and with this licence, lie would fake the liberty of adverting to a bill for re• gulating the r a ck of Volunteer O ffi cers, which, either through hit midake, or the mitlake of other:, had paled through the Houle without his having an opportunity of making any remark on it ;—a Bill which he concciv:d calculated to give offence to the Voltinteers, without any benefit being likely to be de rived from it. Lord GRENVILLE declared hitntelf a warm friend to the Miliia, which he confidered a very va luable part of our military force, not only as af fording a l•ree for the defence of the Country in the hour of danger, but alto as giving an opportunity to Gentlemen of landed property. not chufing . to enter Into the regular military profelli3ll, of evincing their real and fmril, and of obtaining that degree of mill. tary knowledge which would render them effentially ufeful in the crifis of public danger. There was not the ' flighted intelevirt on the part of his Majetty's Minitlers to give a blow, or offer any intuit to the Militia; nor, could he conceive bow this Bill could be fo CCM' *trued. He denied that there was any breach of faith! —all that had formerly been declared by Parliament. was, that the Officers of the Militia thould receive' the fame pay as the Officers of the Line, that is to, ray, the pay which the latter then received ; but it never could be contended, that from thence a prin-I ciple was to mite, that the pay of the Officers of the Line was never to be augmented without, at the fame time, augmenting to an equal amount the pay of the Officers of the Militia. It fhould be recoled t h a t the Officers of the Line made the military profeffion ' the bufinef; of their lives, and were liable to many duties of fervice to which the Militia Officers were not ? the latter, blides, might purfue other avoca tions, at the fame time continuing the exercife of their duties as military Officers. He could not, thireftire, conceive in what way the Bill could operate as a hat dthip upon the latter. • Lord ELDON objeded that the Bill was incon fiflent with Well, inatmoch as it merely profeffed in its title to be a Bi'l for regclating the pay of Militia Officers, in England and Scotland, whilst in the body Of the Bill there were enadments applying to the Yeomanry and Vithinteers of Ireland. - The Eat! of MOJRA (Nerved, that a triflingamend , mint would obviate the incnnfidency of which the Noble and Learned Lord complained. He profeffed Huse& a warm tiiend to the Militia, and, coinciding completely wish the argtiments urged by his Noble trend (Lor.; Grenville), he could not conceive in v liat way tLe Bill could be confidered as offering any itiOdr to tlo-r valuable part of our military force.- 14 e thought tlie lamentation of the Noble Earl(Wett in, telari3), that Inc had m;iTed an opportunity of de- Is ding the Btil for reguloing the rank of Volunteer elicers, wis rier•tlef:, as every part of the plans of ''..i..i•tete as embodied in the different 'natures hr .- tile , t up to that Knife, had been moll amply dif. .c-',, e,! by Noble Lords on the other fide who had Puede' omitted any opportunity of attacking them. t w he o r uld m o u bfe it r f r e e el , ,:ienth by the ;hat not only nu offence was intended to the Volun teers, but he was convinced that ors offeom could be t V o o: h lu a n t te ß e i r il, Q h :e e r v e, er :s e ati from want or experience is salmi ferric', they i , • e got Competent to take the command of Field °M At eer, of the line and of large bodiei of troop's, in the event ed their being 'dually called oat for the ,t e rphe e of the captor). . fa I FrI7.WILLIAM laetrile defended the Bill, rn, V..unds fimilar in dioce urged by Lord Coreovllle 'um/ the Earl of Moira. . ' The Earl i f RADNOR repeated his former difap i:obatiOn of tire Bill. Ti)e Earl cf HA RDWICKE objerffed to the Bill, .... ri . e . griroad'of the inereafe of pay not being ex. I '. 'Mt: .1 to Cattalos in the Militia, toms, of whom, he raid, from having been appointed without the quali• fication previonfly required, flood as much in need of an increafe as any of the others to whom it had been extended. Earl SPENCER thought if the not extending the inereafe to captains had the ate& of bringing back the Militia, in that refpea, to its Icirtna principle, that of only having Captains poffeffed of the landed qualifications before required, it would produce a good effedi.—He defended the Bill on the grounds before urged, and as to the rank of Volunteer Offi cers, he, as a Volunteer Fie!d Officer himfelf, con (idered that Bill as a boon, and he had no doubt it would be generally confiderel by Volunteer Officers as a favour, as, with all that zeal and fpirit which ' they would doubtlefs evince in the hour of danger, they could not, from wag , of exp-riencc, feel them• Mires adequate to the command of large bodies of troops. The Duke of RUTLAND expreffed his entire dif approbation of the Dill, which he conceived to be fub verfise of the Contiiiu:ion of the Militia. The LORD CHANCELLOR contended that the former declaration of the Legiflature, that the pay of the Militia Of fhnuld be the f,,me as that of the Line, could only apply to the then pay of the Regular Army, and nut to any (inure augmentation. Thole Noble Lords who conceived that this augmen tation ought to be extended equally to the Militia, might ale that as an argument againtl the Bill, but it never could be maintained that the not extending to t:tat force an increafe of pay, granted under fpccial circumflances to the Regular Army, was fubverfive of the conititatinn of the Militia. _ _ . Lord ELDON raid a few words in explanation. Earl CAMDEN oppofcd the Bill. He thought the meafurrs brought forward by Minillets were not exally in unifon with their profeffions of regard for the Militia and Volunteers. . . The Houle then divided on the quellion, that the word a nov " fiend part of the motion tor reading the Bill a third time.—Contents 13—Non-Contents 8 —Majority S. On our readmiffion we Emma the Earl of WEST. MORELAND on his legs, fpeaking on the queflion for reading the fame Bill a third time. Hit Lordthip expreffed his difapprobation generally of the meafures which had been brolght forward by Minifters, and confidered his own honour and char.s.ler, as well as that of thofe with whom he had recently alted, in volved in his oppofition to them. The Bill was then read a third time and paid. PUBLIC HAIBOURS. On the queflinn for going into a Committee on the Public Harbours Bill, The Earl of LIMERICK complained that a Bill of this importance had been brought forward at fo late a per iod of the Salon. It appear ed to him likely to be mifchievons in its operation, as it tended to prevent perfons having property on the banks of the navigable rivers, as far as the tide flowed, from mak ing.' he Zeal improvement on their eflates without giving notice to the Secretary orthe Admiralty.— The penalty for not giving this notice was 2001. and many perfons might thus be entrapped without being at all aware of the nature of the law. He thought it would, in many cafes, be Wiles as to the interefts of the public, and hillanced the river Shannon, in Ire land, where the tide flowed a mile higher than vef• kis of any burthen could come up, yet this Bill would equally operate in that part of the liver where it could not be of the teal! ufe. Lord GRENVILLE fail the bill had been brought for ward as form as the grievance to which it applied was known ; and it was a meafure which he contend ed was highly neceffary in order to preferve our pub• lit harbours and navigable rivers from oblituflions. It was merely required of the perfon mating any em• bankment or other work in the flirtations mentioned Ito fend notice to the Secretary of the Admiralty, which could be but a very trivial hardfhip. Many other rivers might be in the familiar) of the Shannon, where the tide flowed higher than velfels of any bur den could navigate, but it was, notwithaandirg, im portant to prevent oblirtiftions ire thole parts of loch rivers, in order to prevent the navigable parts of chore rivers from being ultimately injured. The Earl of LIMERICK Paid a few words in Cup port of his former objeltions. The Bill then palled through the Committee, and was reported.—Adjourned rid tomorrow (tkis clay.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Houk was funsmoned, In the 'Waal form, to the Houk of Peen.. _ The SPEAKER, on his return, declared that the Royal Agent had been given by Commiffiou to feverat Bills.—(See the Report of the Lords.) New Write were ordered to be made nut for Members to ferve for Seaford in Suffer, In the room of Sir R. Sullivan, deceafed ; for Buckingham, in the room of Vilcount Proby, who has accepted the Steward,hip of the Chiltern Hundreds ; and for Ennlikilline. is the room of John King, Efq. who has accepted the Stewardship of the Hundred of Defbotough. The Lords amendments to the Philantrophic Society and Bank rupt Laws Bills were taken I. to confideratlon, and agreed to. The Report of the Committee ou the EAR India Accounts was received, and the Refolotions read. Mr. PAULL did not ohjedt to any of them, but wand to mark this eircumitance, that there was a drf.dcation in the revew.te of Oude alone to the amount of 450,0001. and other defalcations, in all abort three millions Reding. Lord MORPETH faid that the proper time to confider that point would be when the accounts came over. Mr. PAULL laid aI, w words in explanation. After which the Refutations wet; agreed to. A e fr,mi the Lords announced th, ir having agreed to the Scotch Nlilida ()dicers jitll, and the lei& Pon Road Bill. A Petfon from the Excite O ce, prcfented an Account of the Profeeutions tor violations of the Malt Ad for the fait ten years. Ordered to lie on the tahk. Mr. JOHNSTONE, from the Office of Chief Secretary in Ire. had. prefentedian Account of Irifli Linen, of a certain breadth, exported to the Weft Indica wit Lin a given time—Ordered to lie a the tank. A Perron from the Weft Wit Oak Company premed a State meet of the pruereti of the Viotti in the Ilk of Doge, purfuant to Ad of Parliament —Ordered to lie on the table. A Aldine from the Lords acquainted the lioufr, that the Lords bad agreed to the Wareboufing Bill, the Auditors' Bill, Lord Rod ney's Annuity Bill, the Royal Fsinilfs Annuity Bill, the Stage Coach Bill, the Irllb Countervailing Duties Bill, the Land Tax Confoitdation Bill, the Windfor Fmcß Bill, t►e Woods and Foret Surveyors' Bill, the City of London Additional Form Repeal Rill, the Malt Facile am, and the l.otury Bill. The Lords alto delired the Houfe to continue &tine for Come time, which, ea the motion of Lord 14. 1 , 11"IrTY, was agreed to, sad dire idaffengeta were acquainted therewith. Lord OSSDLSTON acquainted the Howe, that his MaJetty bad bona waited on with legend AddrelTes puritanic to order. jimumems , . PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDh HOUSE or LORDS, MONDAY, JULY The Royal Alicia was even by CommilEon to tb the Silk Bounty bill. the kith Revenues Bill, the Am crude bill, the lrilk Militia 9ervlcc Bill, the Volut Rink Bill. the Slave Ship Reftriaion Bill, the Chal Bill, the Malta Bill, the Bailing Bill, the London Port of London Bill, the Bell Rock I.igothoufe Bill, Drbtors Bill. and fevcral other public and private amount of 98. The Commillioners ware, the Lord Chaucellor, L hum, and 1 ord Eldon. 'The furea !scaring of the Appeal, Ch'amley v.l and others, was poßponed until mat Saler. In A nnosal laenr.l, w_ TM_ end Other.. 1". 4 114PV4CNI(ENT. Mr. PERCIVAL rofe,and adverted to the notice which he had CiefOrre time Va, of his intention to (ohmic a motion to the relative to the profile of thanking the Managers of Im pessbibeats, bdcre Lords had eyed their &ensue. The j. or Ills riling at prelent Wan ro remove the loped/ion, If any' Inch canted, of hi. hiving abandoned t?tt intention. lie kid by no'mcans abandoned it; but from conliderations, of which thi; Houk he hoped, would perceive the propriety, he bad dropped any delgu of brirgieg forward the fubjed this hellion He Ma • ad that every feeling conneded with any particular Impeachment fhould have no place in the coofideration. and was rather afraid that if he bad hroo;ht It forward this hellion, even the Mariners of the time that Mull have intervened between that and the late Impeachment, might have prevented the matter from being &U -cuffed with that Impartiality which was defirable. He now, there fore, gave notice, that it was his intention to bring the [tabled be fore the Hoak in the next SCMOII. • • CRAWN ISTATES IN WISTMINSTEN. • Mr. SHERIDAN exprelTed his hope that the Moire would re eolkdt that, when he had given notice of hie Intention to make a motion rebtive to the Crown Eftatcs In Writminlterowlth a view to the Improvement of the Capital, that motion wa► only condi• tional, as he was then awue that others whole judgment he was ' difpofed to rely on might prefer another mode for accomplilling hie ale& He had cow the fatisfadilon to Rate, that col- ', lemurs in office. efpeetally the Noble Baron at the head of the Treaftiry, and hie Right Honourable Friend (Mr Fox) who had been prevented by lodifrofition from attending here fur fome time, were anxious to forward the purpofe which be had In view, and they having ehofrn another mode, which be DMA& thought pre ferable, be begged leave to wave his motion. AAAAA CR DEPARTMENT. Mr. ROBSONbf.med the abfence of his Male'. I ty's Minißers ; but when they did not deign to give their attendance on any of the late important diktat ; lions relative to the Bate of India, he could not ex- pet that they flmuld do him the honour to come down for any thing to which he called their attention. He fhould, however, hold himfelf at liberty to pro.; ceed as freely as if they were relent. He pledged himfelf to prove that the rent of the canteens, and ; the fate of the manure, would pay the whole expenfe of the temporary Barracks. If the fuggeilions he' had offered fhould not he acceded to by hn Majef ty's Minikes, a great laving to the public would be neglefted, and thrown away by them. If the Mini• Item were guilty of this criminal negltt, and the Parliament fhnuld 1411 another lemon, and he flinuld have'a feat in it, he would call them to account. — The Accounts prefented of the rent t:f canteens, and of the tams received for dung (a laugh), were not fufficiently particular at. to dates. lit begged leave to fubmit a motion for Accounts of a more particu lar nature, which was the fame in fubflatice, and al molt in the words, at that which had been before fob. mitted by him and ne;arived. The SPEAKER laid, the forms of the Houle did not permit a motion, fubmitted and I.egatived, to be brought forward again in the Lime Cul:Mance and form, in the fame feffinn. After come nbrervations from Mr. CA LCRAFT and Mr. WHITBREAD, in Copt:ma the point of order, as laid down by the SPEAKER, Mr. ROBSON fubmitted another motion, which differed from the former, by extending the account to permanent as well as temporary barracks. Mr. CALCR AFT faw no objeftien to the pro duBion of this account. The SECRETARY at WAR raid, the accounts he had prefented on the fubjeft were given to him by the late Barrack Mailer General, to be laid be fore the Houle, for the vindication of his charadler, which ke fuppofed to be refletted on by the °brava tions of the Hon. Gentleman on the fubjett of the Canteens, and the fele of Dung from the Barracks. He had no objeeion to give all poffible information with repett to the Barracks ; but a number of addi tional Clerks would be neceffiry to fupply the Hon. Gentleman's demand for papers ; and it was not clear that the Ron. Gentleman meant to inflitute any proceeding on the papers. Indeed, he conlidered an Inquiry by the Houfe into the abufes of the Barrack Department endlefs and impratlicable. It was much better to leave the inveltigation in the hands of the Military Commiffioners, where the Legiflature had thought proper to place it. Neither was it right to prefume that the Comnsiffioners did nut proceed with all pnilible difpatch. Certainly his Majefty's Miniffers were bound not to Coffer fuch abufes as thole pointed out by the Hon. Gentleman to be con tinued, if in stalky they citified ; but he was fore the Hon. Gentleman very much overrated them. Mr. PAULL laid, it was not his Majelly's Mini. tiers that negatived the Hon. Gentleman's motion on a former night, but the Gentlemen who ufuaUy fat oppofite. Mr. ROBSON blamed the manner in which the Commiffinners of Military Inquiry had proceeded. They had begun at the wrong end. It would take years before the abufes which it was moil material to the public to corresa would be reformed by their means. The public would not give credit to the rs• lents to which Miniflcrs laid claim ; all they pin• duced were talents of gold and lilvtr, by ravings and retrcnchmentc (a laugh). If Minillers did not eco• nomize they had not a ltg to !land upon ; their admi• niilration could not lan. —nit motion was agreed to. BALE OE BARRACKS. Mr. ROBSON then ovcd— " '1 hat there be laid before this Houk, a return of al' the fate whieh have taken place at the fevers! 'Temporary Barracks, or Buildings rented or hired by Government, and uled as Barracks, or as Bartsch Store-honks. in the whole of Great Britain. That the laid return do embrace all Inch fates bs tween the alt day of Ja nuary t 793, and the 24th slay of lune 0106 ; and that it be cab!. bled in nine columns, In the order and with the titles here following, viz. -111, 1 he name of the pries (or Ration) and the county, where cacti tale refpedtive!y was made; the (aid names of the parifbes (or nations) follo A lag each other in alpha. betical order. id, I he date of the (dc. 3J, The name of the auCtioneer or perfon by whom the fate was made, and if the fate was a private one, Rating that dreumliante. 4th, _The names of the purchafers, if left than Etc ln number. sth, A general Jeferip. dor. of the things (old. 6th, The name of the barrack Matter or other perfon under whole Inuncallatc &mato') and fupetinten. dance the late took place. 7th The grofs amount of the Pale. a. credited to Government. Bth, The total amount of all the rums expended by Government in fitting up each Building refpedively. gth, The number of man or horks ulually quartered in each Its. tion refpcdtively." Mr. Secretary WINDHAM faid, the Hon Gen• tleman placed his Majeßy's Minifters in a very invi• dious fituation, when their refufal to grant any pa. pets he moved for might be imputed to a difpofition to fcreen abufes. But the abaci of the laR war were not theirs, unlefs with the exception of the (hare he himfelf might have had in them. The ac count now moved for was of fuck a comprelienfire defcription, all the pots and kettles, and pans, and utenfils of all forts, that had been fold in barracks, that if it could be produced at all it could not be without much time and trouble, and a great expenfc of additional clerks. He did not know what objeft the Hon. Gentleman had in view. It feemed as if he thought he could difcover a fort of noltrum for all abufes in every branch of the extenfive department of the Barrack fervice. If be did, he w( old confer a very great benefit on the country. Bit be, for one, bad no confidence in hin t and be had the I,fs cong. .., . . dace from the manner in which libel! dotted himfelf with retped to this bufineti. Seeing no pradical gond from producing heaps of papers at an enormous expenfe, he fhould in future give his no. gative to motions of this nature. He agreed to the prefent motion, that the trouble and expenfe, and in utility which he forefaw would attend it, may operate ' as a warning in future. Mr. JONES Wilted on the neceffity of eorretling - abufes, and economizing in a war of finance, and a war of great expenfe. There was no fo much dreaded by Bonaparte as that of economy ; let us be economical,and a fig for Bonaparte (a laugh). Mr. PAULL maintained. that his Majefty's Mi. • Milers had (hewn themfelves favourable to inquiry. Sir W. ELFORI) contended, that tbnfe ioquiries• ought to be left to the Military Cnmmiffloners„ whom the Legiflature hadintrufled it; and he thought the Hon. Gentleman took an unfair method of court ing popularity, by taking their bulimic out of diem hands. Mr. ROBSON raid, this account was abfahrtely nereffary for the Commit:Boners themfelves. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHETIER. fiid, his Majelly's Minifiers wifhed to facilitate in-' quiry, and to promote economy. It was the very heft mode of promoting economy, to refute to affent I to a motion that would involve great expeofe, unlefr time pradical benefit teemed likely to retain If the Hon. Gentleman had any objedion to the Commit lion of Military Inquiry, he lhnuld move for a Bill to repeal it, and take the fenfe of the Houle upon it. In figure he mould vote &gait& motions of this nature. The account was ordered. After a few more words from Mr. ROBSON and Mr. JONES, the motion was agreed to. The Order of the Day being read for returning the debate upon the fubjed of the Public Debt. it was 'eturned accordingly ; and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved a lift of Refutations upon the fubjed of the Debt, Finance, and Commerce of the Country, which were carried without oppofition. Adjourned. TUESDAY, IDLY 12. ' , RICE OF STOCEs THIS DAY AT ONE O'OLOCE Conlots, for money, 64 641g..—Re4tmod Osmium, money 7 roust 7ff. PRICE OF STOC.ES YESTERDAY. Bank Stock Its it ti 14dia Dods a 46. ct.f. 3 per C. R. An. 6ai 63 lap. g per C. 6s S penC Cord: 641 i Dim Ass. 4 per Cent. Sarg in& Deb, te. dif. par long Cen t 94 cosf Oindirs 7 Eel 7f Arm 17 ss-a6 DAC kr sec. 631} 64 IMPORTANT INQUIRY. We have hitherto cautioufly avoided referring prematurely to the inveiligation, direeted by the King's (pedal command, to the LORD CIIIIIaLLOR, Lord Gassvit.‘c, and Earl SRI nom, on the fubjea of certain rumours refpeBing her Royal Highnefs the Princefs of Warm. Thofe rumours, and coda. quently the examinations founded upon them, have been reduced under me interelling heads: Theft., relpeaed the Birth and Parentage of a Child of jot► years old, educated under the immediate eye of her Royal Highnefs. This child, as was indeed well known to almoll all the world, is afcertained, by re ference to the Reglllry, and to its Parents, as well as by the concurrent teftimony of every perfon examined on the occaf:on, to be the child of perfons in a very Nimble rank of life at Deptford, and to have been maintained and educated by the Princefs 'on the pure and moll arrsiatle principles of Charity and Be nevolence : And there is every reafon for believing, that the three Noble Comrnitlloners have reported on this matter—(on which no doubt ought to exiik)—• in terms the molt diflinet and the molt expreffive of their fenfe of the motives that ftiggeited this amiable at of Charity I The fecond general head of examination is Paid to refer to rumours of very indifireet and geelienahle con dua ; and on thefe points a very large mars of evi- t fence has been brought for ward by the depofitiont of the Ladies of the Patacsss's Houfehold, and of al moll all the perfous of all ranks in her immediate fer vice. The Noble Commiflioners are Paid to have figned a very istereiling opinion on the points Rated in thefe depofitions ; and the whole of the Report has been prefented to his MAJISTY. It is (aid, that he hat been pleated to direa, that copies of all the delta- Gaon', and of the report, &mild be tranfmitted to their Royal Highneffes the Pumice and Pawns* of WALES. In this Rage of the bufinefs, it would be prema ture to fay one word farther. From the confidence which may be repofed in the CharaEler, Temper, and Juftice. of the three Noble Commiffionerr, it is moR clear, that the benevolent and excellent Intentions of our beloved &WEIGH, in the inflituting this 111- quiry, will be fatisfaftorily anfwered s—more efpeci ally as the fulleß opportunity is afforded, by this mode of proceeding, to the produdion of any Sup- • plementary Evidence that may be wifhed to be of fered by the Penmen of Waxes, on any part of the Depolitions already taken by the Ktuo's commands. Our Readers will have Peen from the foregoing Ratement, that there have been but three Noble Per lons employed in this invefligation ; and that Lord ELLEusottouom never was included in this Special and moR important Commiftion. The report of the capture of fo many Greenland men, about which fo much clamour againtl the Ad• miralty was railed, turns out to be a falfe alarm, as the following letter from Hull, dated the tath intl. fhows: " The report of two enemies frigates being in the " .Greenland Seas is now proved to be erroneous. o The (hip which castled the alarm proves to be a Ruffian, with a figure head, yellow fides, fpardeek, 4s wish a wimber of portholes, bat without guns."