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NOTICE TO CREDITORS. 'HE Creditors (if any) of ELIZABETH MIDGELEY, late of Leeds, Milliner, who have not proved their Debts ander the Commilßoo of Bankrupt Breed what her sit the sob day of June &gni , are requefted to fend an account of the faint and the Se:quints they hold, to my Mae, within lienCtil days from the date hereof, in order that they may derive tier Ilweeet of her Efts in commix' with her other Creams, as OD fold Qommilion will he forthwith loperfeda& and her Pro perty divided amoogft fin+ of her Creditors only as !hall have wade known their Debts within the time above Lathed, dated the nsth day of February. do& • Not so, Wallbrook. Landon. R. C. BERRY,Sollettor. "RUCH 4ND DUTCH PAPERS. EtAIRPORT, FIB. t4.—Betides the Imperial Life Guard, only a few detticliments of the French s rand army have paged the Rhine, and regained the 'trench territory— oo the other hand, leveral:other corpt have palled over to the right bank from Muds. A num. her of confcripts alto continue to arrive in Germany, for inflance, nine hundred of this defcription arrived left week at Auglburg. Auntie and Bavaria may' at prefent be completely evacuated, but our neigh. i bourhood and Ftanconia are overwhelmed with ' French troops. In the dierie of Eichthdt alone, there are so,ooo, and es maintenance cannot there be had for them, we learn that Nuremberg. as well as Franckfort, will be called upon, for an unlimited ; time, to receive a notnereut French garrifon. For what purpofe fuch an affemblage of troops is intend. ed, at a period when Pruffia, Saxony, and Hetle Cafe] are reducing their's to the peace eflablifhenent,tis end yet known. To hazard any premature conjetftore, we think, would not be prudent. Eight hundred and fifty Dalmatians, who came over from the Auffrialt ter the French ferrite, entered Mantua on the sill ni January. . - Fs aa WAIT t6.—The two millions of francs are paid to the Geiteral Calltier of the French army ; the talk inhalant of aoo,coo ;lures was carried in this morn lag. Bayne two and thine thoufand French-troops marched from hence to Willoaden, the day before ye terday I but in the afternoon, others arrived final Danufladt, fo that our garrifon is notated' reduced. We, however, fl litter ourfelves,, that'we thall obtain fosse redrefs at Paris. St. Catherine's cloifter is now Sued op for an hofpital ; the fiek, at prefent, amount Was more thin one hundred and fifty. Gen. Dupont's diailloit is in our neighbourhood upon the Maio; other troops belonging to Marital Bernadotte's Wri t/nes, we learn, Aft on their march ; fo that Anat. reau's army will very (hardy amount to 50,0ct0 men, nod will remain in Germany till every thing is fettled. The tea of the French ,corperljarch towards Straf berg, excepting thoholituareftationed in Eichtiadt; Ibut.for what period of time we know not. For the attiring IN* we fee no preparations, and we fear , ,that tinier+ ttie French troops are withdrawn, the raw will be• of very little confequence. The Balavian troops began .their march homewards on the tub. Scooter or rue IMIATIII, was. it—lt is not be lies/ell, that the approaching Fair at Frankfort will be very brilliant, or that any EDO& merchandise • will be admitted. It is (aid, that racehorse are taken to exclude the adoilffiort ,of F r risith geode into Ger tipsy. A report is iii circulatioo that the city 6C Frankfort, and all that pert of th e Landgraviate of Darm&adt upon the left bank of. the Mayne, me to be made over to the Fleeter of Baden; that th e Land grave of Darenfladt is to be indemnified in Well. Ostia ; that the Eleanral Prince of Baden will efpoufe a French Piircefs, and take the title of Ring when he enters Upon his new government and. in fins, that Madame, his mother, is in future to refide with her Court at Ftiburg, in the Brifgan.—(owasau if &woo.) IBTOTOARD, was. I T.—Private letters from Anfpach inform us, that very unpleafsnt apprehenfions prevail bp the Proton provinces in Vranconia, refpetting the future fate of thefe countries. It is known, that ProlPao flatelmen, of great credit, have adopted it sea principle, that the intereft of the Cabinet of Ber.l lio badly calls for the facrifice of the didant pro - for the purport' of arengtheniag the heart of gdom, as in every future war M Germany, the ,y of retaining and defending the former mutt increafed. Even the King's predileßinn for the country of Bayreuth, Ste. it is raid, has given thefe confiderations.—Gasette de Fraser. I area. the kissdom. difficult r - be i waY P4RLIAMENT4RT PROCALDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, FEB. ay. Th. Five Millions Exchequer Loan Bili was rend a third time fad AR pared. The CHBISHOP of CANTERBURY movAl, that the *asks of the Haute he given to the Billop of &Mal, for the ex allent Sermon preached before their Lordikins on the Fall Day, be the Coalesce Church of Se. Peter and that his Lordthip be reeptelted to mat the fame to be printed. Theft actions were tinned to- Eitel SPENCER, as Secretary of State, prefentel a Petition, sobleb bad been put into the hands of the Sovereign—it was a Peridon from Brigadier-General Cur, claiming the tile of Duke of Roxburgh. The fame was referred to a Committee of Pri vileges- The fecond reading of the Impeachment Indemnity Bill was poitponcd to Tuctday, and the Lord, ordered to be kumnoned for that day. isirr•curarwr 111131iDINITY BILL. On the order of the day being read for the Judges to attend for the plirpule of giving their opinion on certain quefli , os referred to them relative to evi dence, feveral of the Judges attended accordingly, when Lord Chief Jullice MANSFIELD role, and in the name of the other Judges Rated to the Houle what the refult of their deliberations was rcfpeEliog the queltions referred to them. On the two firfi questions whether witneffes could be required to give evidence when that evidence had a tendency to acknowledge that they owed a debt, and might fubjell them to a civil fait, there was a difference of opinion among the Judges. ,Sonic or them thought that they thould be required to anfwer fuch queflions—others thought generally that witnefres might demur to fuch quer wins t but as thole of the Judges who thought fn, held that there were feveral exceptions to that rule, ;bey could not give a decifive opinion on the fubjelt, unlefs a particular cafe was laid before them. With refpeet to the third queflion, whether a witnefs was to obje6ed to on the ground of interea, in cafe he acknowledged in his evidence that he owed debts from Which he was to be indemnified, the Lord Chief Jai me Paid, the judges all agreed in the opinion, that 14e evidence of fuch a perion could not be objetled to on the ground of interen. beeaufe every whose& was by his oath bound to (peak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing hut the truth. Lord AUCKLAND laid, that as the opinion of the Judges on the two &It quellions thAr had been referred to them, was not fufficiently fatisfaaory to form any guide to the Houfe. it would be neceffary to put a queftion to them in that form, in which they I (*aid they could give a decifive anfwer. His Lord (hip then put a particular question applicable Mime• diatcly to the cafe of Trotter, and moved that it be referred to the Judges for their opinion. Lord ELDON expreffed his regret that the Learn ed Judges had not given a more specific opinion, on points which had been decided before. Lord HOLLAND thought it neceffary to obferve that the anfwer given by the Judges to the two firft queftions, contained ftatements which income degree *Hefted their Lordthipe privileges. acid which involv ed the higheß interefts of the Houk. They Paid, that they could not decide upon the general quettion which was put to them ; but that they could give an opinion on any particular cafe that mould be laid before them. Now he mon fay, that this was an idea which the Houk Ilsould never for a moment en tertain. If they did, the confequence might be, that on every queftien concerning which difference of opinion might arife inthat Roufe, the Judges would be applied to; and at lan the Judges would diaate to the Houfe, and become the makers of laws. He did not mean in the (lighten degree to throw any re flation on the condo s% or decilion of thofe refpeaable and venerable perfous. But what he contended for was, that no particular quations, nor any except general quellions fhould ever be put to the Judges. The objea in putting queßions to the Judges was, that the Houfe might merely receive information on 'difficult points of law, concerning which they might have entertained doubts. They were not bound, and it was not proper to fubmit ;my quellions except (loch as merely related to points of law ; and even after the opinion of the Judges fhould be fo given, the Houk was not bound to follow it. With refpat to the Bill then before the Houfe. fo convinced was he of its jußice and neceffity, that he thought there was qo (*canon whatever to call upon the Judges to give any opinion upon points of law wiling out of it, The Bill in his opinion. ought to be paired without delay in the form in which &flood. It was neceffary for the ends of public jade., and there was nothing in it that violated any one principle of jurifprudence.— But when a motion had been mace to refer certain points to the Judges, he did not objea to that motion. He would not oppofe the motion that was now made by a Noble Lord ; at the fame time he malt fay, that he thought it objettionable on the ground of its being too particular. Bad STANHOPE raid. that if the Noble Lord who (poke lag, had devoted the time which he him felf had &he, in a painful attendance at the trial 9f Mr. Ratings, he would know that it was the prac tice to fubmit many particular questions to the judges, aberwife how would it be polEble for the Judges to give a negative or a pofitive anfwer on the points laid - before them ? On that trial; he remem bered Sir Elijah Impey having declined to anfwer a (maim put to him, until he (hould confider what -the eonfequences of his anfwer were likely to be.— Thus the'Weit could not be obtained, and it was evi dont that there exitted foam great defeß in the laws. The LORD CHANCEL LOR - Paid, he did not think there was any thing improper in putting the queliion that had been moved by a Noble Lord to the Judges for their opinion, becaufe whatever their opinion might be, it was for the Honfe to jud and decide upon the general queltion. If the Ju dges thought that the quenion already put to them was too general, the Houle might very properly fubmit to them one that was lets general. According to the law of the country, no man was bound to give evidence that went to criminate himfelf. It was upon this principle that his Noble and Learned Friend bad moved the queflion which had been re ferred to the Judges. But the Houle was not in poi feffion of the information it required, becanfe, upon two of the queftions the Judges came to no opinion, aid differed with each other. His Lordthip fad, that as for hinsfelf, he would not prefume to give any opinion with refpedl to the law upon this (übjed, beeaufe upon that point, he would be guided by the opinion of thofe learned and venerable perfons whom he had long looked op to with the utmoft deference Rod refpea. Lord GRENVILLE Paid it now appeared that the anfwer of the Judges was this, that the goalie's put to them was too general to adhoit of any Specific anfwer, that there were many exceptions to a general principle. and they were not required to enter into all pnffible cafes. They were betides divided in the opinion which they gave. And he thought it were impoffible for the Houfe to receive as an anfwer that the ciliation was too general. The praaice conftantly observed was that of the Judges giving their opinion finalise. He wifhed the practice might be followed on the prefent occafion. The prefent was a question to be anfwered negatively or affirmatively, and Item wished the Judges would once more apply thernfelves to it. and give a (pecific anfwer. He was lure the anfwer already given by thole learned perfons was from an over anxiety that they might embrace the whole of the question, and that they might avoid making any allaion to the circumftance which gave rife to the quellions put to them. With refpea to the ciliation which was moved that day he withed it might be withdrawn. The Houfe ought to avoid any thing that was likely to bear on the particular caufe that was coming on for trial before them ; and for that reafon he walled the motion to be with drawn. Lord HAWKESBURY obferverl, that the molt deferable mode of proceeding on this occahon would be, that the judges might take the fubjth again into confederation, and by a general agreement amorg themfelves, underhand what fort of anfwer the Houle expetled they fhould giar. The Houle was not bound to follow their opinion. In the cafe of Dr. Sacheverel the Houle acted in direa oppofition to an opinion given by the Judges. Lord AUCKLAND and the Earl of RADNOR wifhed the debate might be adjourned. From what had already pallid, the Judges tnia;ht form a better idea as to the objeft for which the quellions had becn referred to them. Lord ELDON laid, whatever the opinion of the judges might be, he Hill retained his oblations to the Bill. But at the fame time it would 111 become him to difapproverof any decifios which fuch high and rapeeable authorities might tome to. Ha wilh ed the debate might be adjourned, and with that view he fhould move that the Judges be disefted to re nfider the queftions put to them, and attend in the Houle tomorrow, in order to deliver their opinions frisks' on the fame. This motion was pot and agreed to.—Adjourned. MUIR OF COMMONS. A Melly was meahod from dut Lords, ac queindos the Hoerr that their Lorailp• bail area to Fitts Miami Blehraitter Bilk an. Oa the motion of Mr. FOSTER, the Thanks of the Hook were voted to the Reverend Dr. leinharal Allot, Dean of Ito- Om for his modient Serowe yefterilay; sod Mr. Falter and Sir IL &rano ordered to squab* that ilevoreod Gentian's wkb the tame. Dr. DUIOBNAN brought op the lAA !IA Fruits Bill, width I wan nod a Ark dose and anisrott to Os read a fecund time so Waal neat. Lad moirrm awed. dot that be hid before the Kook as Amen of the Adios' Lavesse of India for thes r t e los. sks. tlO3, and ski s sopodser with the Aloud fer the NI 41111$0011ai th e Mom pesidaseie other deameare Welke to the hos Ilabladi...oelersol. Aldssema 'Kumar pre mils% dim sossearow as wadi rows kr Oa mod skimas et lan aillakksosa.kgp.ied so kdk lbesaat es = ir kb ei elts estradkors standby fr i ed Ms Mak The Mk Lod Podia* 11l was teed a bald time, and or. dared tabs read a thled = B 44assnw. hfs•ALEXANDUL asp to Repro of Ispirlag Gum esoMies et 4 isieklissa were cried seafroak to SW ILIA. sod as* e sod di Ikea POPP* ea e Omookses st the whole Hook tosservew. TM bdemity 1111 weeosondaud, and enigma to be *Pena ter-assivow: The Amen of to Retakes amp were ordered to be wade tombola. strZts emako of Mr.VANSITTART, Cootridtteee were ap es mks est the Milkla Mama for Great Britain sod Momeralrit Om be laid before the Hotta an ?Montt et all Osakolisi Duties, from Jamas" 3. tilos, till January, do& dlikeldsiog the tensporay from the 9r duel INDIA. - - Mr. FRANCIS moved for Extratts of any Let. tern or Accounts received from the Prefidency of Bombay, relative to the Sum of 32,25,944 Bombay rupees, alerted in the Account of their Dill:wife meats, from the year ending the loth of Apill and Paid to be money lent to Gwicowar. Lord MO RPETH Rating that there was no objet. tion to the motion, the fame was agreed to. Lord FOLKSTONE Paid, that though there had been tome difference of opinion as to the propriety of inveßications into the expenditure of the 11301)iti of the Company, be prefumed to think there could be no objeainn to the motion he had now to make— which was, For a Litt of all Penlioss, and a Return of all funs of Money granted by the Left India Company, as gratuities to perfons who bad done Cer vices to the Company, from the year inis to this time, fpecifying the fervioe for which they were granted refpatively. The SPEAKER begged to remind the Noble Lord of the praaice which bad prevailed, of giving notice of any motion to which any oppofition was to be expeeed. Lord FOLRSTONE was not aware that there was any pet fon who would require notice robe given of the motion t if, however, he was made to under- Rand that there was an *bane role of the Hoofs to give notice of fuch a motion, be mutt beg it, anderflood as a rule that applied generally to all; for he could not fee where the line was to be drawn. The SPEAKER hoped the Houfe would do him the lattice to think that be could have no motive in calling the attention of the Noble Lord to what bad of late years been fo much the pratice of the Houfe, to give notice of any motion not connected with the annual and expeaed bufinefs. The reafon, he pre heated, was obvious, and it was one much calculated to preferve confillency in their proceedinge—left what puffed one day fhopld be refunded the next. — At the fame time, wheneverit was the pleafure of the Houfe to determine °therein, he could have no ob lation. Lord FOLKSTONE explained, that he had on. derftood it to be the prat:lice to give octice only where the motion was °Nand to. Mr. FRANCIS, as an old Member of the both, Paid' that during the two firft years be had been in Parliansent, the pratice here contended for had been by no means common. &nee that time, no motion of general political importance, or likely to be deba. ted, had been brought forward but on notice. The Motion propofed by the Noble Lord did not neat to him to be either of a political nature, or which could well be debated, but to be a queßion on a matter of pecuniary truti, in which the Public had a right to every necetary information, as the public porn was concerned : for when the Indian refources thould be exhaußed, there was no doubt but they would come here for relief. Mr. PERCIVAL faw no reafon for willing to waive the previous notice, wiles it were with a de fir to take the Houfe by forprize, and to carry a point that might otherwife meet with oppofition.— Were it left to the difcretion of Members to confider when, and when not, a notice was to be made, cafes might occur in which, it would be difficult for indi viduah to come to any determination. It was cer tainly better therefore to have a fixed rule, efpecially when that was accompanied by no inconvenience Thete might be cafes alto in which Gentlemen were abfent who were more materially concerned, and might not thus have it in their power either to Rate objeaions or to give fuch information to the Houfe as might be highly neceffary to the point in quellion. General TARLETON was alto of opinion that ; a notice was neceffary, conformably to the ufage of the Houfe. Lord MORPETH had no oblation to the mo tion made by the Noble Lord, and did not think it material that no notice had been given. Mr. Secretary FOX Paid, his Honourable Friend near him (Mr. Francis) had unquellionably Rated what had been the praitice, though that depended much on the Rate of Parliament at the time. It had undoubtedly been the general pratice of late years, when any per fon interelled in a motion defired that it might be put off, fur the Member who prupofed it to give notice for next day ; and, he was convinced, no perfon would be more ready to do fo than the No ble Lord. This, however, was an inflance of the great relaxation in the attendance of Gentlemen to their duty in Parliament which had crept in. When he bill came into Parliament, Gentlemen d.d their duty by regularly attending in the Committees of Ways and Means, objceling to or acquiefcing in the meafdres which were proprifed, hor did they think that there was a better time for flitting their own willies than when the Crown was cans on them for fupplies. That was always his optnion, and al though it was not fo very convenient fur the place which he now held, he did not yet feel himrelf fo much wearied from thole feelings and principles by which he had for fo many years been fwayed, as to have forgotten or abandoned it. After Come farther obfervatioes, the motion of the Noble Lord was agreed to. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, there was ordered to be laid be fore the Houk an Account of any Offices in Ire- Lind which may have been granted to two or more perfons fur concurrent lives for the benefit of the Survivor. Mr. ROSE obferved, that the Honourable Gen tleman near the Right Honourable Mover (Mr. Van. 6'*rt), could give him the information he required without troubling the Honk. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the ENCFIEWER, there was alto ordered an Account of all the Ditties and Drawbacks on Goods imported from our Colonies abroad to Great Britain, and ;af terwards exported to Ireland in the years teot-s-34 and 5, and awe tverfa WHALI IMINSRY. Lord TEMPLE moved, that the Honfe &mad refolve itfelf into a Committee on the GreenlandWhilla Fikety Bill. Mr. LEE then obferved, that of late years the bounty on the importation of this article *as inereafed. from tool. co 600 L upon eackaip, in proportion to the tonnage c but what he wi.• to prefs upon the ' confideration of the Hoak was, that the whole be :refit of theta bounties was exclufively confined to the parts of England. By'the operation of this meafore, the Greenland Whale Coppany was confiderable bet. as the law Seed, If fuels a Company Should be Atilablifbed in Waterford, in Ireland, which was very convenient for the email it could receive no 'neap from the bounties, which be held to be contrary to the Ael of Union, by which it was provided that in all commerce of this bind. there ikoeld he no nor exclufive advantage in Enactor of any of the fisbjefls of the United Xingdom.... It was, he (aid, his intention to him prupoled a fpe cific mea(ure to ralscdf this dilliudien I but he wag willipg to forego it, if k were the intention of his Majefty's Miniaers to (übmit a geueralootion to ex tend the benefits of the bounties to a 8 part. of his Majefic's dominions. LordTEMPLE replied, that the flibjefl allpdad to formed no part of the _proCent bill, which had only far its objea to enable Ships in the Greenland trade, to to their cargoes and complements of meta I st and other ports. However, when the unties was under ponfideration, he N eap. 'be pay to receive every adages the Ho n . kfesp. her coult_afford. him. Mr. LEE rejoined, ;bat he was confident the Out* were included in the bill of 14 yeer, whieb • *hitt under the fame title as the prefect. Mr. l{. VANSITTART Paid, he beHeved the Has. Cleadsotaa who (poke fall was miaalten in hi, lialetnent. Mr. LEE per Med in contending the matter • 1 " . /Alert, "as they given to bring to the bi 4. • • yotamme Rll7l/111.. • Mr. WHITRARAD, In porfilanes et a teehe nooks. refs le tribe his would voodoo ea the YOU. He ended. that it wee me. whets oda net susellts he the Haab. the mew'mere lis i et ahr r e so du meat at. thee the MA etheaddelly e/Me tbe at. sieges al aka erang. 'When usetlesomilitula the *hid hopes has the Vdestoer glints i bun be tee* walleyed who. Oar ea the day et 10411=he bud soluddlysier avasertatioa. Thole adala be elide het reithea a ht is hate at assittles. halt =he esetwleolhee et dente was le be glued wife Volumes, a body. she SO ten wee eestti4l wihl as age.Nyeit It sus df heollpaiss to Issaw. UMW the awe papidsteMobaseet aid bang I wind he bed tareate tied eviler at INI to W *sp . asedes,he had aif hesetel Mos iturea sys Z erods , does tweept se dos PANNIN that vsli= tilt he saw eilipesd with ANON wide Visa Met thy; wtipM afro • etch wee dee to Ise buiparump. Me dip elm* tint *re he hid Wl* the Hat" Valuteset OelPsant Voltam c 4 lei• et Cavalry and leawery. t h a eusuat ihe MOW eteMp, era aro mat tbieriblag their ate ei Mir Woe tee Otatte ft! ▪ fi:vice. , Meant TARLITON prolefeit MEN( highly yelled by the webs whets ha Um made. Taw Velemeses la osesal pswo maim Itt haws ihe were of the wean be &gaped with Omit us dim by the new Adiebillaidyno.Medien to agreed 10111101 TROOPS. The 111113ULTAILY w WAR. Moved ter bye a being r e Hit tar esemelleg the predates N an Adt fqc Wawa/ie. tide pedant who tag laws hrevollt Amigo troops Into the • tut aver ariflull, pude* for by that Ad was only tom., but *Mind hese leorvilist recruiting to ts,ceo, who b 4• ready lamied, or was empetbal to land in the country. In order, dmrdore, so prevent owe of the law, be had thought thee ne don Laski be lo ft is the prof theas at the above? Illintleasd Ad —4.4aU gime. Mr P. erg PH Eh% bangle iv the Marine Mutiny DM, whk/g we. Seed a Skit time, and ordoped to be lead a booed Wei to illarrete. LORD IT. VINCINT'S aseetry. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, In mule( eh* Older of the Day as Lord St Vincent's Annuity, thought it neat• fare to Rate the redone an which the propakd alterations were founded. The Annuity wu originally conferred.* the two Deat heirs of Lord St. Vincent,but it wunow propcied to mod it so the two next heirs of the peerage. This had been the original In. tention of thole who brosight fdrward the meafure, but It happen. ed to have been overlooked. No additional favour war conferred by the prefect Hiti ; but even if it was, he was confident the Hoofs would not think that Noble Lord undeferving of it, who, at the call of his country, had chearfelly factificed his cafe, and taken upon himfelf the duties of a molt arduous Ration, at a poi.; when others leek repofe and retirement. He then moved, ' the the Houk do refolve itfelf into a Committee to winder of Iss. Majefty's Mane on Lord St. Vincent's Annuity." The Houk baying refolved Well into a Committee, the Report wu ordered to be receivecito•merrcrw. Tts•flUtgt OF THB OtDN•NCI. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for le lye to bring Ina Bill for better Regulathig the leace of Treafurer .f the Ordnance. 1 be principal objet, the Noble Lord Rated, in introducing the prefect Bill, was to afford the public that (murky which they bad a right to taped in the adminiltraiou of the late public mooirs+ not that any thing improper could be attached to the late Board of 1 Ordnance, under whole conduct every thing that could be &tired had been attended to, but becaufe Parliamentary refponability preferable to private and individual feturity. Similar Bills o ere intended to be brought in for the Poft Ogee, Cu(toms, and matt Boards. Mr. LONO Rated, that the only reafon why Puliarnentary interference fur the regulation of this Mike had not been applie‘l for by the late Board, was a wilt un the put of Lord Chatham to wait till the Military Commtifiun 'lipoid have made their report as to his office. Leave was given to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Se cretary foe, Mr. Secretary at War, dm. to prepare and bring in the BilL,...Adjunrned. ,