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A ►e d Mr. R. Ward—Sir C. POLE agreed to It had cruized some days off Madeira, anti then put about for the Eastward. Calttattilons proposed by the Chancellor of the Ex. Ito e ,,, r x—r as limited, after the remarks of Mr. Whit-1 The Carthagena fleet is also cut, and it is believed passed accordingly. i ck 4—; ' d the motions were ' l ' an gsyNoorn COLLEGE. that the Brest fleet wished to put out to join them. ma a Mr. FOSTER, there were ordered .to be laid 1 Accounts had been received at Gibraltar which in pa tbe- -- ths ., c o pies of the Let ters fro m the Chie f Secretary some particulars agree with the statements in' the Po`—..itbe.:th Trustees of the Collese o Maynooth of date -- f e j o uiry last ; with the Answers thereto of Dr. French papers. The French have taken Rhegio in sk o d sa ° b Calabria by storm, and were bombarding the castle of .--"refiNtbeNinci°lEWPOurelZT asked , . if the statement of the Irish Ca. -- • est, for cler ical Eddieicltavtelon, red toonmthre Fulham o r Scilla. We regret to state the death of two valuable o ious ... ~ ,,,to the Fien by t i r ß pu eic' o ll ; in n l797, was to be produced ? , Officers of the Navy, Captains STANDPIELD and Sw ord ussu.” - . - Fi is ji.EY did not believe there was any such pa- stoma, who fell at the taking of Rhegio. gri . ." fr ii i ,7, 0 414aw PORT had himself a copy of it, and he should We shall subjoin some of the letters that have f_ ... , - -- for v ing it laid before the House. His object was to reached us. We have received others Which we sup *PP— - i t ' , al ba evident from this paper was the case, that the I press. 1100 0 1 - , • hment on the Continent, was greater then They complain grievously of our, trade in 010..0ag httt , be la . de by the addition to the establish- that quarter being still extremely injured by, what at* Isla` " 7.31,E e 1l had no objection to the production o f the Merchants consider as a mistaken and erroneous SIX SVILL ;f i t weld be had. — O rdered. construction put upon the Orders in Council. Pro tior_, .., 0 0 of Mr. FOSTER, there was ordered to be laid . tests f or damages to the amount of 1'.70,000 have 0 1, 17,b,5e a Report of the Chief Secretary in Ireland, re bZbephia of the Harbour of Holyhead. clime home by the packet, and, if there be no mistake ir' ^ , gnsTEßgave notice, that be should to-marrow move for inBhe statements we have seen, either the Comman is"--„,kes a Bill to abolish certain Fees in the Customs in bore regulation of the hours of attendance. der or the Government will ultimately have to pay. P.-- or os WOOL AND BARK.—IRELAND. At all events ambiguity of every kind should be it was resolved, that the Exportation of Co:- b o .d w il kirk from Ireland should be prohibited. removed, and we hope the receipt of these protests utygg WPORTiotimatedbis dissmt from the measure. will be the means of causing explicit instructions to , , n .'" -- for ee la was brought up and agreed to, and Bills ordered be sent to that quarter. A single moment ought not r e lpheitt in accordingly. It taag fa" TILE EAST INDIES WITII IRELAND. t o be lost. • asignittee on this subject, it as resolved, i that it was ex. i dis an Act of the Irish Parliam ent, passed n the ssd of eilli ino. h e reiting all East India Goods arriving in Ireland from jra4 Port, except the Port of London, be revived and t ad. 1•7 0 - ,,, i v N EWPORT hoped It would, be so amended that tr i o - d i eeold receive something in return fur the advantages she Wells tuthe East India Company. The Report was received, agreed to, and a Bill ordered accor. The Report of the Committee of Supply of. last night was ap, agreed to, and a Bill ordered accordingly. Tbe Report of the Exchequer Bills Funding Bill was agreed to, o: jibe Rill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. m r , FOSTER brought in the Irish Warehousing Bill, which ' , s oda first time, and ordered to be read a second time on PO. Tie House resolved itself into a Committee on the Malt Duty Wad the Report was ordered to be received to , morrow. The Annual Indemnity Bill was read a third time and passel. the Irish Silver Token bill was read a second time, and ordered tobeemumitted to-morrow. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. The Order of the Day being read for taking into farther consi elation the Petitions against the Orders in Council, Mr. PERCEVAL moved, that they should be referred to a Committee of the whole House. The House having resolved itself into this Committee, and Camel being ordered to be called in, Mr. Brough:m, the Coun d for the Petitioners, called Mr. Thomas Martin, Mr. Robert *tin, Mr. Alexander Forrester, and Mr. Abraham Mann. k being nearly twelve o'clock when some discussion arose about deropriety of a question that was put to the witness, and it be ;found that five others were yet to be examined, the House aimed, the further consic,:r Allan was then postpoaed to to-mon or, when the last witness is to be again called in.—Adjourned. TIIE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23. . _ PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Cools, money, 64F—for April acc. ati—omnium si pre. Nary 5 per Cent. 961 97—Exchequer Bills, 4s. pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. ipxCent. Red. Ann. shut India Bonds, eq. le. dis. Spet Cent. Cons. 64iii Imperial Ann. Ti 13-16ths 4pa Cat. shut Ex. Bills, Ss. 6s. pr. S per Cent. Nary 915/ 97 961 English Tickets, 911. Long Ax. skit Cons. for arc. 640 " MALTA, FEB. 1. " His Majesty's ship Sirius, with a fleetfor England, sailed from hence on the 10th ult.—pait of them re_ turned in consequence of heavy gales from the west ward, but sailed again when the body of the fleet were in sight of Valetta : they were seen to the eastward of Sardinia, three days since, by his 'Ma. jesty's ship Vizard." " GIBRALTAR, FEB. 23. " The Imperieuse, Lord COCHRANE, arrived last night from the Eastward, with the intelligence of the Carthagena fleet having sailed on the 10th of this month. The Imperieuse brought in with her a French corvette, of 10 guns, and four Spanish Merchant vessels, which she cut out of Almeria a few days ago, after a gallant action, in which Lieutenant Caulfield, her Ist Lieutenant, and one man, were killed, with seven wounded. The Imperieuse saw five sail of the line three days ago, off Cape de Gatt, steering this way, supposed to be the Carthagena squadron : the Windsor Castle, Nymphe, Leonidas, with the Mi norca and Redwing, put to sea this rnoraing in con sequence of the above intelligence. " FEB. 26.—Last night the Foudroyant, with Rear-Admiral Sir SIDNEY SMITH, and the Agamem non, came in from the squadron off Lisbon ; the Fou droyant has sprung her foremast, and has put in here to refit. The Sirius, with the convoy from Malta, and this place for England,is now getting under weigh. " FEBRUARY 29. " The Surinam sloop of war has just come in from Sicily, and last from Malta, in 13 days passage. She brings accounts of the French having taken Rheggie, in Calabria, by storm ; and that they were bombard ing the Castle of Scilla. Captains STANDFIELD and SECKONIBE, (If the Navy, were unfortunately killed at French Papers to a late date reached us last night. —By accounts in these journals it appears that the French have got possession of Fort Scylla after a iombardment of six days. They even talk of having made a lodgment in a peninsula to the north-west of Messina in Sicily. The Paris papers are principally filled with details !trisecting the creation of an hereditary nobility in that empire. The Empercr, as in all other states, reserves to himself and his successors the right of making fresh Dakes, Counts, and Barons ; but, in some instances, a certain term of public service is necessary, and in etc case a stipulated income of 15,000 franks is a requisite. The private letters from Paris state, that several Merchants have been arrested at Brussels and Ant werp, in consequence of an order from Paris, whither they have been conveyed for examination on charges of having infringed the laws, by transmitting goods and merchandise to England. Amongst the arretit of the former place is a Mr. VAN DEN' ELD, an eminent calico-printer. the taking of Rheggio. Great apprehensions were entet t aned at Sicily of an immediate descent of the French, as the Rochefort Squadron had effected a junction with the Toulon Fleet. The Carthagena Squadron have put into the bay of Palma, in the Island of Majorca, where the Hydra frigate left them three days ago, after having watched them from their sailing on the 10th inst. They are supposed to be bound to Minorca, with troops, to re inforce that Island. _ 6 4 The Surinam met the Phcebe and Renonunee with the troops under their convoy for Sicily, but saw no thing of Sir RICHARD STRACHAN'S Squadron. “ Lord CoLumswoon was at Syracuse with his fleet when the Surinam left Sicily." Detained on the lath, the American ship Albula, eight days from Barcelona, with wine and brandy, for New York, by his Majesty's ship Magnificent. Captured and brought in co the 14th, the Spanish felucho San 1 Antonio, five weeks front Barcelona, with brandy, for Cadiz, by I his Majesty's ship Redwing. 1 Arrivals from the 13th t 6 the 19th instant. The brig Minorca, from a cruize to the Eastward. The sloop Sabrina, 2 days from the Beet off Cadiz. The WaLingham packet, 8 days from Falmouth, with mails. The Engliqt ship George, 40 days from Malta, with fruit, ba villa, &c. for London. The English brig Josephina, 40 days from Malta, with biscuit, i silk, vermicelli, &c. THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Auckland Packet has reached Falmouth with mails from Malta, Sicily and Gibraltar. She left Malta on the 2d ult. and Gibraltar on the Ist. The Carteret Packet had sailed from Gibraltar for England ten days before the Auckland. Not loin yet arrived it is supposed to have been driven far to the westward by the late strong easterly gales. The Walsingham Packet, we are happy to say, had snived safe, and sailed again from Gibraltar for Malta en the 24th ultimo. _ _ _ A Gentleman who came passenger in the vessel from Holland, which a few days since arrived at Harwich, states that General ARMSTRONG had in formed him at Paris, that he had recently received the personal assurances of BONAPARTE, that none of his Decrees relative to Commerce were intended to operate against America ; but, yet we have seen a f letter received yesterday from Spain via Holland, which states, that an American vessel had just been condemned at Alicant, in consequence of her having been found to come from an English port. It is, however, known that this vessel had English goods on board, and may have been condemned on othcr grounds than those stated in any of BONAPARTE'S late I decrees. The Auckland sailed in company- with his Majes trs ship Surir.arn, and about 40 sail of merchant rees, bound for England, under convoy of the Si rius, cf 86 gins, Captain Kmo. The Surinam brings dispatches from Rear-Admiral Sir SIDNEY &urn, containing an account of six sail of Spanish rine-of-battle ships having been seen off Minorca. The Auckland parted from these ships, on bearing up for our Cadiz fleet, of eleven sail, under Admiral I Pusvis--wa s informed by this fleet, that the Spanish We understand that accounts were received yes- thiPs, about nine sail, had manifested a disposition to terday at the Admiralty, of a most gallant exploit pit to sea—left our fleet all well, and expressing performed on the coast of France by the boats of the Strung wishes t h a t t h e enemy might give them an Emerald, Captain MArrttan. They cut out and de_ opportunity to have a brush with them. I stroyed several vessels under a very heavy fire, an d The Rochefort squadron is in the Mediterranean. returned in safety to their ship. THE ARMY: The Members of the Court Martial upon General WHITZLOCKE, met again at the Boardroom, Chelsea College, yetterday, and were hi deliberation, with closed doors, upwards of an hour. The General Court Martial at Chelsea, will ndt be dissolved, when the sentence on Lieutenant General WHintocica is announced. We hear that several ---------- - other Officers will be brought to trial, among them some General Officers. We believe the Brevet will certainly appear in nen Saturday's Gazette : it goes a good way down : it will occasion vacancies in the chief command of the following districts, besides leaving room for vacan- cies in Majors General : The York District—The Severnz—The Northern—The Eastern. We are glad to hear, that through the skill and at tention of Dr. GRANT, the fever which has prevailed among the garrison at Plymouth, is.giving way. The Cardigan and North Hants Militia have, however, lost many men by it. Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN CRADDOCK is hourly expected from Madras, where General M'DowALL has succeeded him in the command. The army will learn with joy, that there is now but little doubt that that excellent, active, and enterpris ing Officer, Sir ARTHUR WULLESLEY, succeeds to the Chief Command of the Army in India. Among the Regiments sending out recruits and reinforcements to the West Indies, the 96th are now sending out 200 very fine lads. The ever memorable 21st of March, when the im mortal ABERCROMBIE fell, was celebrated by parties of the military in different quarters of the kingdom. The 2d Regiment of Life Guards, commanded by Colonel Lord CATHCART, had yesterday a field-day, in the Five-fields, Chelsea. Last week there was a grand review of the troops at Weymouth, by the Earl of CAVAN, Commander in Chief of the South West District. He first reviewed the second battalion of the 53d, eight hundred fine fellows, and then the Ist and 2d Regiments of the German Light Dragoons. Lord CAVAN was atten ded by General LINSENGEN, and a numerous Staff. We understand that in Yorkshire, in Kent, and throughout the Kingdom, orders have been given to pull down unhealthy barracks, and supply what is wanted in others. ' Why were barracks ever built in unhealthy situations, or improperly constructed ? Ought it not to have been part of the duty of our Me dical Board, particularly the Physician General, to have attended to this ? When we have finished our extracts from the Fifth Report, we will be enabled to present our Readers with the Report on the War Office, and the office of the Commander in Chief, which, we hear, will be fully as interesting as any which have come from the Mili tary Commissioners, and which they have nearly finished. The following Gentlemen, who usually divide with Opposition, voted on Monday night with Ministers, upon the two Copenhagen questions, viz. Mr. Banbury Tracy lion. Mr. Brand Lord Folkestone. Mr. Greenfell Hon. Mr. Lyttleton And the following Gentlemen, who are supposed to be of the same party, did not vote at all, viz. Mr. Granville Mr. C. Wynne Mr. 0. Williams Lord Temple Mr. Smith (Norwich) Sir R. Milbanke Sir W. W. Wynne Col. Hughes &c. Ste. The Westminster Petition has been given up. Mr. SHERIDAN'S Committee found the charge of bribery against Lord COCHRANE not supported by witnesses of due credit; and on the Treating Act, that is, on the charge of giving a little beer and meat to voters, on their passage to the poll, Mr. SHERIDAN would not allow them to proceed. Lord HAREWOOD is to be elevated to an Earldom, by the title of Earl of NORTHALLERTON. At yesterday's Board of Agriculture, Sir J. Slu m/tut, Bart. was re-elected President, GEORGE SMITH, Esq. Treasurer, and ARTHUR YOUNG, Esq. Secretary; after which, the Earl of MACCLESFIELD, the Earl of EonrsxoNT, Sir CHARLES MORGAN, Bart . S. STAN. HOPE, and BENJAMIN Hosuouss, Esqrs. were elected ordinary Members of this Institution. CITY BUSINESS.—The LORD MAYOR held a Court of Common Council yesterday. After hearing va rious petitions and reports, Mr. Jam moved a reso lution relative to the military force of the City, and for referring it to a Committee to consider the best means of increasing the same,upon which Mr. WAITH. MAN, after several appropriate observations, moved an amendment of considerable length, asserting the rights and privileges of the City of London, and chewing that they had, on all occasions, contributed in an equal and larger proportion towards the ex peaces of the State, than any other part of the king dom, which amendment was supported by Mr. QUIN and Mr. Deputy GOODBEIIERE, and, after a long dis cussion, agreed to. The Thanks and the Freedom of the City were voted to Captain ROGERS.—(See Advertisement in the preceding page.) 11w: Navigation Committee presented a Repert relative to the Bill before Parliament for erecting a Bridge over the River Thames, which being read, a petition was prepared, r a 1, agreed to, and ordered to be fairly transcribed, and signed by the Town Clerk, and presented to the House of Commons by the Sheriffs, attended by the Remembrancer. Daustv-LANE—Was crowded last night to witness the Performance of the Haunted Tower, in which BRAHAM, BANNISTER, and STORAGE, were the chief objects of attraction. COVENT-GARDEN--Had last night also a very nu merous and fashionable audience. The Comic Opera of The Travellerz in Su itzerland, written by Mr. BATE DUDLEY, was revived with the whole strength of the Company. It was very judiciously cast, and pro duced an admirable effect. The scenery is admira bly picturesque and beautiful ; and the introducticn of an incidental dance by the Misses ADAMS, Br.c. pro duced a very pleasing effect. k.41171C4i , The Duie of York, Captain DUNN, from o- Mingo for Liverpool, is arrived at the Isle of Isla— she sailed from Gonaives on the 2d ult. and left there the Hellen, ISaait, of Liverpool ; Elizabeth, of Lon don ; Ann, PRESCOTT, and the AleTaßil, WATT'. FALMOUTH, MARCH so. Arrived this day (10 o'clock) the Auckland packet; SCHUYLEIt, with mails from Malta and Sicily, 20 days passage from Gibraltar ; also arrived his Majesty's Schooner Pilchard, 10 days from off Ferrol,_ having left our small squadron under Sir RICHARD KING all well. General Prince PIGNATELLI and a Sicilian Messenger came over in the Auckland.—Wind S.W. I•LYMOUTH, MARCH 21. _ Came in the Hetty, Captain Mooationsa,. from Lisbon, with salt and fruit, for New York, detained • by the fleet under Admiral COTTON ; St. Anna French chasse maree, laden with wheat and rye, cap tured by i'Aigle, of 36 guns; American ship Gos port, - Captain DUFFMAN, from Glasgow, in ballast ; Bremen galliot Vrow Riskina, Captain HENDRIKE, from Bourdeaux, with wine, detained by the Snap Dragon privateer ; Defiance, of 74 guns, from the Channel Fleet, and gone up Hamoaze to refit ; The seus, 74, Audacious, 74, and Achille, of 74 guns, from the fleet off Ferrol ; Growler,of 14 guns, from a cruize, having been ashore on the coast of France in chace of a French corvette ; Alcmene, of 36 guns, with victuallers from the cruizing squadron ; Entre. penante cutter, from the Westward. Sailed for Portsmouth, being about to join the North Sea Expedition, Centaur, of 74 guns, Admiral Sir SAMUEL HOOD ; Tribune, 36, Racehorse, 18, Eu ryalus, 36, Fleche, 18, and President, of 36 guns. The Edgar and Implacable, of 74 guns each, came from Hamoaze this morning to Cawsand Bay. This afternoon arrived the Spanish ship Vigilantia, of 200 tons burthen, from Lima, laden with cocoa, bark, and tin, bound to Corunna : she was taken the 18th instant, in lat. 40. 0. long. 10. 0. by the Ame thyst, of 36 guns, after a long chace, in which she threw her guns overboard. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH'22. Arrived bis Majesty's ships Coquette, Ant, and Rebuff, from a cruize ' • and the Roebuck, Capt. MAT THEWS, from London for Africa ; who got on Ram say Flatts on Sunday last, lost her rudder, and was obliged to throw part of her cargo overboard. Put back his Majesty's ship Daphne. Sailed the Boadicea and Hearty on a cruize. The Bold gun brig is ap pointed convoy for the Downs.—Wind E. DEAL, MARCH 22. Sailed his Majesty's ship Oberon on a cruize. Ar rived his Majesty's ships Mutine and Royalist, from a cruize, and remain in the Downs with the rest of the I ships as per last.—Wind N.E. ABERDEEN, MARCH 19. Tuesday evening last, the William, JOHN Low mas ter, a schooner belonging to this port, having, on her passage from Sunderland that day, during a brisk gale, sprung a leak, owing to which she was oblige/1 to attempt this harbour after the tide was far back, struck and lay on the bar, and next flood was forced in at the back of the north pier. The crew were . • brought on shore by the life boat, very much ekhatts... ted by labour at the pumps and by the severity of the , weather. The vessl still lies on the beach, and it is• feared, if the weather does not soon moderate, will become a total wreck. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH 22. EX PARTE PARQUEZ, About a fortnight since, Mr. Parquet Vt.titioned the Chancel lor to be discharged out of custody, upon the ground that he had made a full ana faia disclosure of his effects under a commission of bankruptcy awarded against him. He complained of the great length of time be had been imprisoned, and the inn:natality of his creditor, tendering, at the same time, the affidavits of two medical men, who stated, that if the petitioner was not speedil : removed out of prison, his life would fall a sacrifice. Sir Samuel. ROMILLY supported the prayer of the petition. Mr. HART, on the other side, insisted that the petitioner had not made a full and fair disclosure of his effects ; but if he would find security In 20001. for his not quitting the kingdom, the credi tors would consent to his liberation. Upon this offer the case stood over till this day ; and, on being called on, Mr. Parquet's Solicitor informed his Lordship, that death had relieved his client from his suffering-, and hoped the Counsel employed against him would intercede with their clients to pay the expences of bis funeral. The CatattceLiost enforced the propriety of this recommen dation. Mr. HART said, he did not know how he could interfere per sonally ; but he trusted, after his Lordship's recommendation, that his clients would do what was proper. INQUESTS.—An Inquisition was taken yesterday at Tordsgate, Islington-road, on the body of Mrs. Esther Astel, who on Sunday night, while sitting alone in her parlour, waiting for some inmates, alarmed her servant in the kitchen, by shrieks, and who, on going to her apartment, found Mrs. Astel at the door, enveloped in flames. Her dress, which it is supposed had caught fire while she was dosing in her chair, was reduced to tinder, and the servant, in her fright, was unable for some time to afford as sistance, and the unfortunate woman, who was 60 years of age, expired the next morning.—Verdict— Accidental Death. CORN EXCHANGE, MARL -LANE, MARCH 23.—The supply of Wheat to-day is again short, htit fully equal to the demand, and dull in sale ; Fine nearly equal to our last quotation ; Ordinary • rather cheaper— Barley and Malt keep their price—Grey Peas, and Beans of both sorts this week are heavy sale,• and rather lower—Rape Seed higher—Oats are likewise in short supply, and this trade supports the prices quoted—Flour continues without variation. GENERAL CURRENCY AS ORDER: Wlseat, 4S$. 565. 725. Beans (old) 525. sr.. od. Fir.e ditto, 745. 765. Tick ditto (old) 59. . 55.. cd. Rye, 455. 50s. Oats, sss. as.. Ms. Barley, 40s. 455. od. Poland ditto, 89s. 40e. of Malt 643. 74s Potatoe ditto 00s. ess Od. White Peas (bollers)l62s. 1725. Rape Seed, SOL 541 OL Grey ditto 50s. 56s Fine Flour 555. 604.—Seccests 50s. 55i. I i