Star. — London, England, 1806-03-25 00:00:00

ri • WHITBREAD then gave notice, that at a proper tim: he fhould move, that the Houfe do attend the trial as a Committee of the whole Houfe. WAYS •ND MkANS. • • Mr. ROSE, in allurin to lonic obfervations he had made on a former night, refpeaing the intention announced by the Noble Lord oppofite to him (Lord Henry Petty), for bringing forward the Ways and Meanson Friday next, and before the Military DN. butes for the year were before the Haute, rote now again to Rate, as the more mature refult of a fuller coaftderation of the fubjed, that upon the deepeft yefesteches he had been fince able to make, he found there was no Matinee fince the Revolution of bring ing forward the Ways and Means for the year, be fore all the Eftimates of the Public Services of the year one fairly before the Houle. This, therefore, mutt afford a very (hong ground of objettion to the Noble Lord's proceeding in the manner be propofed. v.—He was aware, that the Supply wanted was 114,415,c001. toward: which the War Taxes would amount to fourteen millions ; a great part he was alto aware was covered by Loans already voted, which, together with thofe propofed to be railed, would amount to eighteen millions, and this fury, would very greatly exceed the Supply. Therefore, until the Haute fhould be in pc &Two of the military and other eftimates crmrletely for the year, they could not know for what r tarok fn large an exceed. ling was intended. An Honnisrable Gentleman upon the former occaficin when he (Mr Role) had men tioned this fubjea (Mr. Vanfittart). had raid, that the Noble Lord might propefe only a part of his Ways and Means, and leave the reit for a future op portunity, as had been done before ; but this Mr. Role denied to have occurred in the inflance flitted ; and the difficulty was Inch an one as he could not fee kb* the Houle was to get over, without refitting the Ciopofition of the Noble Lord, until all the eflimates ould be produced. •. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'lsufwerech, it was his only with to put the Houle fully in poffeffion of the objeas of public expenee, and the Ways and Means Ly which he prirofed to them ; and to give the Houfe an opportunity of fully confidering them before he fhould call for their final deciflon, that he thould propose only a part of the Ways and Means in the &It intianee. Mr. HUSKISSON thought it was highly necef fary the public dmuld be apprifed by the Noble Lord, as to the manner in which he meant to bring forward his Loans as k was an objc& of molt material intereft to thofe who thotild become purchafers to be after- gaited upon that point. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER anfwered, that if the Contradicts themfclves were perfedly fatisfied upon this head, it was matter of not very prefling importance whether or not the Ho atturable Gentleman's cur Milt/ was to be fatisfied at this moment. There being no motion before the Houfe, the Speaker put an end to Nit converfation. ORDNANCE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the order of the day for the Houle to resolve into a Committee on the Bill for the better regulation' of the office of Treafurer bf the Ordnance. The order being read, 1 The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER **Wised the objals cf this Bill ; fiat, that the Hoare might have under its view a corrat re gulation, its the mode of expenditure for facts fums of the public money as it &mild think proper , to vote for this branch of the public fervice : and, fecondly, for ((curing the refponfibility of the public offices charged with the difburfement of fuch expenditure ; and to prevent, as far as poffible, the 32fifapplication of money entrulled to his charge.-.lf the Bill, in its prefent form, thould .be liable to any oblations, he was ready to attend to the fuggefiions of Gentlemen, and to avail himfelf of their aflill. since, fo far as he thought really conducive to the objelts of the Bill; and ha fhould have no objalion, if neceffary, to recommit the bill for a future day. The Hoofe having refolved into a Committee, Mr. POLE Paid, he bad a number of fuggeltions to propofe for the adoption of the Committee in amendment of this Bill, which was utterly inade quate to the porpofes for which it was avowed.— Molt of thole fuggeltioas had the approbation of the Noble Lord himfelf, upon whom he had felt it his duty to wait, and to mention his objettions to the Bill ; for it was his objeft, really and lincerely, to communicate fuels fuggellioos to the Noble Lord as had appeared to him from experience abfolutely ne ceffary to give died to the objeds of a Bill, the principle of which he very much approved. Mr. Pole now entered into a long and technical detail of the official routine in the department cf the Tree finer of the Ordnance, through which monies had hitherto been iffued, and under which the Treafurer mot only was enabled, but ufnally, and he believed uniformly, did make ufe of large balances of the public money remaining at his difpofal, owing to his being enabled to draw for a full quarter's. amount of the Chief expenditure, a quarter of a year before it was ultimately payable to the claimants. Having fuggetled an arrangement by which this application) might in future be completely prevented, he &cued ' • the impoilihility of difburfing, by charts on the Bank,' ' very large fums of money which were payable weekly and individually to working gunfmilh,, armourers, and other labourers io the Tower, fur which purpofe l it would be abfolutely neceffary that fume balance tans) remain in the Treafurer's hands But one very principal omiffion he remarked in the Bill was, that, I although Soo,oool. were voted for Ordnance Services io Ireland, the word Ireland never to much as once' appeared in the Bill. To remove these leveret de- Oats, he read the amendment which he propofed, and *rongly recommended that no alteration with refpal to Ireland might take place, as he underflood was I intended, in the Ordnance klaablifhment of that coon-' try, which he could affurc the Committee, and the Noble Lor4, was eftablilhed on a molt corral and iffatual fyllens 0; economy, for the advantage of the public fervice : he laid, that a plan of regulation, Imilar to the prefent Bill, was in the contemplation 011ie Noble Lord late at the head of the Ordnance. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ac knowledged the attention paid by the Hon. Gentle -111.0 upon a fubjed to which he was fo eminently competent, and approved the amendment he lug gefted. But with refpat to Ireland, the only reafon why nothing was mentioned in the Bill with regard to it was, that aa ausagdiscat was is cumulation, calculated to Ore tie Noble bake who, happily for that country, now prattles over its Government, a more effeCtual controul over the expenditure of the Ordnance Department there. Mr. HIJSKIBSON Paid, that for a contiderable time before the deceafe of his late Right Hon. Friend, a projett wal not only in contemplation for the eflab• Misr:lent of effeaual checks, fuch as now propofed, nn the expenditure of public money in the Ordnance Department, and in every other public office, as po• feffedly intended by the Noble Lord, but that the plan had really been long aged upon, and only awaited an opportunity of parliamentary regulation, under a Bill in the contemplation of his Right Ho nourable Friend. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in fwered, that fuch a plan bad only been thought of by the late..Adminiaration. in confequence of the Reports publiihed by the Commiffioners of Natal Enquiry. Mr. Poxa's terml atnendrhents were then put and carried, all but that relpeaing Ireland, which was deferred for the prefent, at the rLquell of the Chan cellos of the Exchequer, and the bill was further committed,for this day fe'nnight. COMNITTES OP SUPPLY'. The Hottfe then refolved itfelf into a Committee of Supply. In the Committee it was refolved, that a grant of so,coot Mould be given for eurrlng on the Caledonian Canal; zo,ood. for Roads in the Highland.; spccd for Military Roads in heotlaod; 484ctiol. for Coo•kftr ; 19PC01. foi Stationery ; topocL lo* reprinting the journals of the Houk ; 44,00 ct. for French Emigrant,. Varions fume were alfu granted for other inifcella ttenus fervices. Report of the Committee ordered to be received o-tn on ow. On the motion of Mr. VANSITTART, an humble Addreft was ordered to be prefented to his Majefty, praying him to give dilations that there be laid before the Houfe an Account of all the fums of Monty ittued in confequence of adds cites by the Houle, and not yet provided for. Mr. HAWTHORNE brought up the Report on the Dublin Paving Bill.—Ordered to be received to morrow.—Adjourned. THIs AVRIvIRG STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH as. MIME Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK r Cacrob for money, 604f0r Ace.6l. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Sank Stock Otut Imp-Ann. 9 i-t 6 3 per Cent. Coof. 601 Each. Bills, par;as. a is dit 5 per Cent. Navy ;9211} Friglidt Tkkets .91. tn. lmp.3 per Cent. 593 Conf. for ace. 6co 64 64 Toe LOA I/ .—The lilibßog for the Loan did. not tar place to• day, the Bidders only went up to day to know,what bum is wait ed, and on Friday the bidding will take place. The Lifts formed for the purport of biOding are— Sir Frain!' Baring, Mr. Angeritein, Mr. Etattyc and Co. Mark B. and A Goldfmid and Co. Mears. Roberts, Curtis and Co. Marra Thcllaffbn, Ste. Meffrs. John Berries, D. Ricardo, and Co. There will therefore be an open and fair The promifed Supplement to the Gazette Extra. ordinary was not publifbed till late let night. With. the refolt of Sit J. Duc MOLT lef aElion, the Public are already acquainted; bat the details given in the Supplement alluded to t will be read with much terell. The time of the enemy's arrival at St. Domingo is pot mentioned. The intelligence, obtained by neutrals, of tenfail of the line being in that fea, we mull prefume to be incorred ; for Sir Jona DUCIEWOLTM would !candy have fent away two of his (hips, and rdin quiffied, by loch a ineafure, that fuperiority which enabled him to obtain In fpeedy and decitive a v'c• tory. The French Officers, we landerflind, ha►e Rated, that they came out of Bret with eleven fail of the line and frigates, and that they afterwards Cepa-, rated into two fquadrons, one of which is Paid to be commanded by Jstost■ Bo AAAAA rt. Of thefe, live have been taken and dcllroyed by Sir J. Duca- WORTH ; one line of-battle-(hip and two ftigates are known to have got into Martinique, and the remain ing five, have proceeded to force fecret dellination. We have little doubt that the enemy meditated a junaion of the different fcattered fquadrons which they are underilood to have at fea, and that the Rochefort fqnadron continued huking fo long about the Cape de Verd Illands for that purpofe. Hap pily their combinations have been fruflrated, and, inllead of a fo , midaSle fleet, they can now prefent nothing but paltry detachments, unequal to any en terptize of importance or glory. FRENCH AND DUTCH JOURNALS. The rJrnier to the 16th, and the latter to the 223 init. have come to hand this day. The AddrelLs of the Legiflative Body and the Tribunate to NAPO*, LION, fubfequently to the reading of the Expo% of the State of the Empire, with the anfwer, are the only articles defusing of particular notice is there papers. Loci:Resin returned to Paris on the tith initant, with the treaty which he had ,tarried to Berlin for ratification, and refumed his funflion as Ambalfadcr PARIS, Maio., 16.—The Sittings of the Legif lative Body, although occupied with various mat ters, have not as yet excited much intere* to *rangers. Two Addreffes have been prefented to his Ma jelly the Emperor at the Palace of the 'Nineties, by the Legitlative Body and the Tribunate. That from the Legiflative Body was delivered by- M. s their Prefident, and is as fellows : " Sta it—The addrefs of thanks and congratulation which the Members of the Legiflative Body n ow l a y at the foot of your Throne, is an unanimous tiibute of the admiration and gratitude to which your great actions give birth. The years of your reign are more fruitful in glorious volt than whole ages under otheri )ugh occupied with various niat. ment, placed. as it is, in new eircumflantes, reeks no Med iterranean Lus. ; and C nsaestis, arm VILIGINCI wan a convorf, r t h e i rs and Nueva, with a excited much intere* to (rangers. I rule of condua but the true interefts of Great Britain, convoy for the Wet Indies. Remain the Nemesis have been prefented to his Ma- the with of your Mojefty will be underflond and ' and Hs a ors, with the Newfound! sod Meet. at the Palace of the Tuilleties, by fulfilled with fentiments worthy of that nation. i ody and the Tribunate. That .1 Europe will owe to you the return of a peace Puarsiloorm, &Luca la —mired ette 'attentive* bomb. from ° the , Dow ti rz n : it , If n r d ed ,n , , R b o=o ,3 ,.. it a m ad aic rh o , : , ;ire Body was delivered by M. Nfelnl to the world ; and if her hopes are Mill to be i Favourite,,p F . a : : 1 g m u n brig i. expelled !0 Ail to.m . orro: cadent, and is as fdlows : dectoreJ, fbe will at leaft know what you have done i morning for Otternfe7, wilt A et .^ C ni tralliprrth . • . . n .,„, g w hi c h are the t tllnvti•tg, viz. niendt h , Jones, i Stets of thanks and congratulation to put an cud to the inifiries of war. She will never ; 1 sof the Legiflative Body now lay forget that in the midi/ of your brilliant viaori..s. : C A°!": l e .' . ",, d ., D;alla ( 2d). 7 A fie " f l. tr'fPwls fur .. • k ti, ,A., httt trou,:nt to agall on account 011 r Throne. is an unanimous tribute Peace was always to you. as you l'a i d on a meal° i the Ught wind. Ad • 1 H vvvvv liniaed his apt ; 1 Ind gratitude to which your great table occafion. :kV If yetis/is. and bl'eff:fi ofg:Grisr' 1 about three o'clock this afternoon o n w an t hi s ia, • The years of your reign are more The addrefir then proceeds to thank his Majelty fir 1 jetty's Ihip Ton a sier, and was fasted by do its* ' vents than whole ages under other' the propofed changes in the department of Taxation, i Admiral.—Wind&LE; . • • • r * - I A; - . ---- .1111141116r. •"- . _, - ' r dynaflies. A few days only are requifite for a cam paign : one campaign alone has rendered you mailer of the provinces of A great empire, which could not have been fecured, unlefs by your moderation. The world will believe that it has returned to thofe times, when, to ufe the language of one of the molt brilliant and profound politie;ana. "the march of the Con .' queror was fo rapid, that she Ursivety:, itfelffeervii ete " prize he eositelyied for, rather thaw riaory P' "The Legillative Body leaves to others the care of following you into the field ofbattle, and of retracing In many illullrious deeds of arms. It ought to en deavour, above all, in there memorable events, to ameliorate the condition of the people, by preventing new wars. It haflen,, with all its favour, the ac complidiment of there magnanimous ideas, which the difcourfe of yotr Majtfly embraces. Every thing which your Mojefty has done, is grand— every thing which you have left to be done, is hill grander.l Already done moll ancient Sovereign houfes thine with new luflre, by approaching the rays of your Crown. The repofe of the Continent will be the fruit of your labours. The Legillative Body will then applaud military glory without re gret ; above all it rejoices in railing the defire of fparing human blood, fo often manifelled by your &Weft,' even in the intoxicating moment of triumph. It is the bloodlers vidory alone which is molt ho nourable In our eyes.. he hoe of my People u m y Glory."—Sire! Th efe are the words of your dircourfe which penetrate our hearts. The greaten anions have fornetinses equivo- cal motives, but the fentimcuts of a great foul can never deceive. It is there thit we recognize the Monarch worthy of reigning over the French people. It was not fufficient for your Majelly to make them the molt powerful, but you have alto made them the hapttiell. Upon the whole we may repeat, that this noble ambition occupies you inceftently, both in your palaces and ycur camps, all your thoughts are preired with that charaFler which alone attracts ve• neration and love. " After having made and unmade Kings, you have avenged their tombs. The place which was the vault of Cluitiian France, fees itfelf crated into a celebrated temple, where, for there twelve centuries, death had confounded the allies of three Royal Races, all whole grandeur put together fcareely equalled yours. Sire, fimilar alts of your power are the firl: of your benefaßions. They have reftered to honour every principle ufcful to fociety, every fentiment dear to the heart of man ; they promife to France that a Sovereign who thus avenges public morals and tell• Rion when profaned, will continually refpet what bith the one and the other command in the name of GOD and of the human race. "The Legiflativeßody is not the theatre of flattery: the homage which it pays is as free as it is fincere ; permit it again to thank you for the prefent of Co lours which you have pronifed, and which fball be (4:ended around your Statuc, as the only ornaments worthy of it. It will give your Majelly, in the re lent as well as in every other Seffion, the alliflance you require. You will always fin dit that which hould give the greater} pleafure—the faithful Friend of the Throne and of the French People." To this Addrefs his Majeliy, feated on the Throne, returned the following Anfwer : " I agree with the fcntiments of the Legiflative Body. I rely on their affitlance for all the intereds of the Throne and of the Country. In return you may depend upon every fenument of confidence and affection for the Legiflative Body, and in parti cular for each of the Members which compote it." ♦DDREEE OT THE WEL/NAM REAP IT M. L'ATIDS, THEIR PRISIDISIT. " Sire ! A Taft coalition threatened France, but your genius watched over her deßinies. You appear ed at the head of your invincible cohorts ; in one mo ment from the Banks of the Danube to the extremity of the Appenines, this league of furious paffions was annihilated, and the power of the Empire has been eflabliflled upon immoveable foundations. to When fudden aggretlion forced you to Ay to the rumors of one of your allies, you declared that it was not your °Ned to increafe the territory of France. The fcccefs of your arms rendered you mailer of a great part of the States of your enemies; you atked no recompence for the viEtory but what was due to the fecurity of your allies and the honour of France, their defender. You were anxious to move to Europe that France was already powerful enough from her vaa and fertile territory and from bee naive and numerous population, rich enough to confideration and glory, to have nothing more to defire than faithful allies and peaceable neighbours. " Your Majelly has esprefred your defire of peace with England, in taking for its balls the aipulations of the treaty of Amiens. Sire, if the Bridal Govern ment, placed. as it is, in new eircumftanees, reeks no rule of condud but the true intereits of Great Britain, the wins of your Majefty will be underflond and fulfilled with fentiments worthy of that nation. *t Europe will owe to you the return of a peace yfeful to the world ; and if her hopes are 11111 to be deceived. the will at leaft know what you have done to put an end to the mifiries of war. She will never forget that in the midi' of your brilliant vi tarns. ; Peace was always to you, as you raid on a memo rable occafion. tbeirfl e fruer r, and tbeffyl ofg:Griart The addreil then proceeds to thank hi, Majelty f ar the prepofed chenges in the depart= 4A ' '1 ti f. fs r i r • , i' 1 and contludes atTuringhisMajetly attic derotirl of the Tribunate.:(o his interefts. His ft;itjeily s'en returned a fimilar Anfwer to that gß•en to the ,Legiaative Body. . Nn Liter aecoutts have t e.:l yet received ac Pelf is cf the Army of Naples, and is as yet known cf ihe vario+ll eh:A.lre% proj-Fled n 'he Continent. Ct,sv ss, Nlitacß no linger doubted tha t the Ducres of Cleves 1-..nd 17!crg ara to be ceded to France. We had en;n7ed inch a ~, entle exiftenci under the Adminidration of Pr ail, that every change in our dellinies is painful. It is faid, how ever, that the charge ss ill he for ; the better, sad that a near relation of the French Empiror ie to reign over ns. From Neufchatel we have received (smilax intelligence. LEYDEN, MARCH 20.—Prince Muter has already arrived in the Capital of the Duchy of Berg;-111:.t Duchy and the County ~luck cnntigtr,us, is to be under his Adminiflration, under the title of a Principality: he will co-fequently take rank among the Princes of the Roman EmLite. French funds, March 22-61 i francs. HAMBURGH. MAIL. The Mail due on Sunday has arrived. It was not Martha! BIitTNIVR, bat hi. nephew, who had been to Vienna, and whole pretence occationeJ vtral • Meetings of the Aulltian Cabinet. The City of Nuremberg has been orde-T ! ror nith to the French a contribution of three n livres ! Among the following will be found ium •r;r articles worthy of notice : MARCH B.—Our late Cabinet Miil.o -r, Count Coßored°, is very ill. Count Wtirmorai , an old friend of Count Colloredo's, has received ex trems utalion.—The dliletispers that prevail here at prefent are very fatal. HADIRUICH, MARCH 'H.—lntelligence has boas received here from Paris, that an alteration is kites& ed with refpeft to three Hans Towns; it is alto ported, that the Courts of London and St. Peter& burgh have notified to the Court of Berlin, that any infringement of the territory of thole cities, or of Meeklenberg or Pomerania, would be confidered as a declaration of war againiL Ruffia and England. II it feared that Holland will be obliged to cede Zealand and Come other territories to France. Private letters from ErtaggClll afTert pofitively, that the French have impofed on Nuremberg a contribu. s tion of three millions of livrcr. HAGUI, MARCH (I.—Two impnttant objetis have for fame days pad engaged the public attention : One of thefe is the enlargement of territory, which our Republic will receive by the union of all the countries that lie between the Lippe and the Ems, to which others add a neighbouring principality.—. The French and Bavarian troops are preparing to take pa:ruffian, on the igth indant, of that wedern country which the Prufrians are evacuating. General Collaud has, on this account, removed his Head. quarters fr6m Utrecht to Arnhcim. The other ob. jeul is the change which awaits our country in the ' Canditution of its Government. The pafrage in the' Aspoji of the date ofthe Empire, delivered to the Le- . giflative Body at Paris, bylthe Miniller of the Interior s in which Holland is enumerated among the Fede. rative States of France. has occafioned here a great fenfation. It is now laid that we than cede to France Bat avian Brabant, and a part of Zealand, and we Chan be indemnified by Cleves, Weft!, and the coon; tries fituate on the right bank of the Lippe. It is Paid that Prince Murat will be inveisd with a great dignity here. What is certain is, that Prince Louis will not be at the head of our Government. for he is to reign over Piedmont, and will rade at 1 1 Turin. BERLIN, MARCH Tg.—Their Majeties and all the Royal Family, &c. are returned from Stettin. The Officers of our and the Potfdam garrifon, many of whom were at Stettin, are agreed, that they never law finer troops than the Ruffians. His Ma ied y was highly pleafed with their manoeuvres, which are an exaFt imitation of the Prnffiao, and conferred on the Grocrals Sedrnora(ky, Oftermann. and Voss :r.ogin, the Order of the Red Eagle, and that of the 13!ack Eagle on the Commander in Chief, Count Tolttoy. According to the account of the battle of /Wier. Litz, publifhe4.l by General Kutufow, the lof of the Ruffians was under t2,CCC men. LtOHORN, FISRUALY 2 Spanith General O'Faart., is arrived in this City, where we (hall have a girrifon of ;goo ni,n, which will be under his com. TOISILT, MARCOS s3.—Laii evening after poR, arrived from Peril - mouth his Majeg y'a !hips E r.s." Lys. Semis. and DiuWWI with 4 convoy - fir the Mediterranean ; and C , s and Wilma, with a convoy for the Wed Indies. Remain the Nimssis and Hun's, with the Newfound! ithf Meet. Poarsmoorm, &Luca az —Art ived the Paorrsito bomb. from the Downs ::Alfred. Rossasoa. and the Favourite, OR he nun, from London, •nna t , Jamaica. The Ds Frau toi gun brig i•expated !o fail to•morrow morning for Otternfe7, W.l et.^C nJ trartfprer,, arnorg which are the t .110% log, viz. nient.h., Jones, AFTenn, and MUM (Id ).—A Aect el tranfports fur Cork weig' , ed, hat trou,:ht to agah on account stj the light wind. Ad • 1 H vvvvv hoiasd his apt about three o'clock this alterative on ions& b • jetty'. Ihip Toxically, and was fainted by the its* AJr"-al. Wind S.B.E,