Star. — London, England, 1806-02-05 00:00:00

. - • on which Lord did hfintediately !trader the former office to his brother, and futdequently in the cafe of Mr. Pelham. If fuch transfer was in itfelf legal, how much more fo was it legal to make the transfer by a bill introduced into Parliament, Rating the doubts that trifled, and openly Rating the man ner in which thofe doubts were propofed to be done away ? If the transfer was not fully authorifeth in what manner could it acquire an additional fanaion n(legality . better than by a fair and can did exam i na . don in that Houfe ? If the title or preamble of the bill, in which is Rated that doubts exifted, lhould •he t eemed inaccurate, there e sold be eaftly amended al' the bill went into the Committee. Mr. ROSE declared that no man in that Houfe was more defirous that the Noble Lord (Grenville) thould have the place alluded to than be was. He heartily and fincerely eriffied the nomination to take place, but he willed at the fame time that it fhould `.e without violating the principles of the ettabliffied wof the country. He entertained nn doubt, and was convinced there was not a Member of the Houle, who had weigher:l'th( queßlon, of a contrary opinion, that the two offices alluded to were as in compatible with each other as any two offices could poffibly be. The Honourable Member then proceeded to examine the Aet of King William, fettling the office of Auditor of Exchequer, and from thence in ferred the abfurdity of one palm having both the authority to order mottles to be paid, and being at the feme time the check on hintfelf. The very pre. cedent Mt referred to by the Honourabk Mover was, b e apprehended, a complete anfwer to the applies. Lion. Lord Halifax did not ' give the office to bins felf, but to his brother. Ne ither, however , did he allow his brother to retain the fituation after he himfelf ceafed to be firft Lord of the Treafury; but again fat down bimfelf as Auditor of the Exchequer. 1 .1 the Auditor of Exchequer, who at the fame time was Pirit Lord of the Treafury, was to appoint his own Deputy, as 'lmpaled by the prefent bill, the Hon. Member maintained that Poch Deputy, no more than 9.e Auditor of Exchequer hirofelf, could be a proper check on the Firit Lord of the Treafury. The pre- C. bill he fubmitted, inked of being a bill to remove doubts As to the law, ought to be a bill at once to alter the law in this particular. He moil unaffeaedly toncorred in wilting the Noble Lord fhould hold the office of Flrft Lord of the Treafury ; but he hoped the Houfe would not allow him to hold two offices which were incompatible in their duties with each other, without proceeding legally in conferring fuch permit:Goo. Mr. C. W. WYNNE combated the arguments of the left Speaker, from a eomparifon of the different Claufos of the AR of Parliament, and maintained that ihe Auditor of the Exchequer was not meant to be a kheck on the via Lord of the Treafury, but to fee that the feveral films granted were applied to the particular ferviees for which they were voted. As to the idea, that the Auditor oldie Exchequer could never be a proper check on the Firß Lord of the 'freafury, if the Fir ft Lord of the Treafury were alto to hold the office of Auditor, and to be allowed, as propofed by the prefent Bill, to difcharge the duties of it by deputy, be declared that he could fee no more ground for that fuppofition in the cafe of a deputy, than where. as in the precedents alluded to, the per fon to ail asAttditor was appointed by the Firft Lord of the Treafury. Whatever evils could be fuppofed to arife out of the mode now propofed, look ha Me fumed to think, have been far greater wider the for am pradice. At all'events, if was any thing wrong in the two offices remaining really though not ollenfilalf in the fame perfoo, no man, he hoped. would difpute that it wis better, sad more honourable, that fuel' arrangement fhould take place openly and fairly, and with the approbation of Parliament, than that it fhould be effeded by a mere trick. The Conffitution of the Exchequer, too, be begged it to be obferved, had undergone a confiderable alteration fince the time of its lirft eßabliffiment. The Auditor at that time derived a principal part, if not the whole, of the emoluments of his office from a per tentage on the Ales from the Exchequer, thereby giving him an interell in the amount of fuch Mies. Now, be was temunerated by a falary. Mr. ROSE explained. The ATTORNEY GENERAL declared that nothing could be farther from his with than to throw unneeeffiry impediments in the way of the prefent BilU Of all the propofed appointments of which he bad heard, the one aggLalluded to, was that which gave him moil pleafure t and if what he bad to fay on the fubjeet fhould induce the Noble Lord to take another rffice, he fhould feel very ferious concern from the citcumßance. He witted that inch Reps fhould be taken in the matter as amid forward it as far as the Honourable Mover could exped the Wroth to pro ceed this night, and that Gentlemen fhould take till tomorrow to confider what would be the moil effec tual mode of proceeding afterwards. He agreed entirely with the Honourable Gentleman oppofite, that it was far better to proceed openly, under the fanaion of an Aet of Parliament. than in a clande- Rine manner, and by an artificial transfer of the office. But he fubmitted that, in place of a Deputy to be named by the Auditor hirnfelf, the preferable mode • of proceeding would be that Parliament timid, maxim, appoint a legal Trace to aft for the Noble Lord, who, of courfe, would be refponfible for the ithful difcharge of his Office. Mr. ROSE declared that this would fati.fy hi► fcru- Iles on the bands. Mr. FOX felt the force of what had fallen from Learned Gentleman (woke to him on the point • f form, which was to himfelf perfedly indifferent. : was aware that it was not orderly in him to fay • hat he withed to confult another perfon out of the IFtrfe on what paffed in that Houfe. He trolled, 'u wever, to be excufed for expreffing a defire to Xabmit the fuggettion of the Learned Gentleman to his Noble Friend before be entirely acquiefced in it. He at the lame time fubmitted, as it would be corn. pletely competent to alter the Bill in the Committee, agreeably to the iriggettion of the Learned Gentle .:tan, if his idea lhouid be approved of, that, to lave time, the Bill thould be read a firil and fecond time rat night. This being agreed to, the Bill was brought up, -rot read a firth and fecund rime, and was ordered he commit cd for tomorrow. he Report. of the Committee of the Houfe on )e Annuities to Lady Nellon, Lord Colltogwood, . 0 ,,1 Sir J. R. Strachan, were brought up and agreed and Bills emitted to to brought in accordingly. L0'415013, - WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 3. PRICE Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONSO'CLOCK Cenfola mangy 611—for bamint 61H—Redbend 614 Ezebeq. BEN 41.4 54 prom. PRICE OF 6'IOCKS YESTERDAY, Bank Stoek 197 1961 India Benda. 3s 9s. peal. 3 per C. Red. An 61111 Imperial 3 per Me m 6ot 3 per Can. Con[ 6t f 6of Imp. Ann. 4 Per Cent 1 4 791 Ezebeq. Bilk 3s. 31. prtm. s per Cent. Navy 9211 921 Erighth Tickets 1/11 Lung Ann.t7 3.26 e t -4 Comfier ace. nil Wiz ek Mr. Fox is prevented from vacating his feat by the Auditor's Bill, which requires his attendance in the Houfe of Commons. The Bill will probably pats this day, and if in time for Mr. Fox to receive the Seals, they will probably be delivered to him, and the aew Writ for Wellminfler be moved for to-morrow. In part of our imprefEon yefterday, Mr. Camay was mentioned as Secretary to Mr. WINDHAM ; but the error was afterwards correEted. He is to be one of the Lords of the Admiralty. In confequence of Earl Mosaa not going to Ireland. Mr. Et.uov has been appointed Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant (the Duke of Bemoan), in place of Mr. Tina ex. who, it is believed, will receive fome other appoint ment. Lord MINT°, who had been named to the Board of Controul, is to be Governor-General of Bengal. The Prefidency of that Board, in eonfequence, Rill remains to be filled up. Lord Roaaar Smote is to be Surveyor General of the Woods and Foreßs. Lord CAaysroaT or Lord FOITISCUI Will have the Mint. Lord OSSULSTON and Mr.CaLcaa FT are mentioned as likely to fill the two remaining Seats at the Ten fury Board. We have before Rated, that Lord A. Has fills the other. At the Admiralty Board, will be Sr P. STErmiss, Admiral MARKHAM, Sir H. B. Name, Sir SAMUIL Hoot), and Mr. Omen. Who is to be Mr. %SODIUM'S Under Secretary, we have not yet heard. Lord E LLLLL oaoucn, as we Rated on Saturday, is to be Speaker of the Houfe of Lords, with a feat in the Cabinet. All the appointments will be . in the Gazette on Saturday. From a well informed individual taken on board the Impromtu French privateer, lately captured by the Bout sa Ron brig, information has been obtained that there are *ow :boo° men encamped in the ►i cinity of Boulogne. That the gun boats in Boulogne harbour ate as completely manned now, as they were when the Grand Army wagon the coati—that there are is lugger privateer• belonging to Calais and Boulogne which put to sa every favourable oppor tunity, and within there three lan months have taken and carried hi fifty veffels Englifh and Swedith. The Inman of the tatter vegels are all taken out and fent into the interior, where they are treated in the fame manner as the Englifli, and their cargoes are fold as well as the [hips. The Naiad, OSTIA, one of the outward bound Well-India Fleet, which has put back to Falmouth with a damaged rudder, reports that the lek the convoy under his Majeny's (hip CANADA, Sir J. B. Waite se, in lat. 49. 30. N. long. 6. o. W. and that the fquadton was preparing for anion, when the Captain of she Naiad was on board the CANADA to obtain lea's to quit the fleet. Sir R. STIACHAN'S fleet was then in Sight and in chafe of a French km dron of men of war. We believe Admiral Sraric ail% fleet confined alto of about nine (hips, fo that we may aped Coon to hear a good account of the refult of this chace. It was on Saturday tan that Captain Ogres left the fleet, end he came into port next day. The intelligence of the capture of the BILLS packet in the Bay of Bifcay, by the Rochefort Squadron, was received by the houfe of Mars. D. Scorn and Co. She was taken five days after leaving Portfinouth. The prifoners, w•e underfland, have been treated well ; they were carried into Ro chelle. A report has prevailed, which we hope is unfounded, that all the Eafl•lndia Company's dif. pitches for their feveral Prefidencies in India and St. Helena, have fallen into the hands of the enemy, with the private letters, which are contained in tin boxes of a very large fize. FRENCH AND DUTCH JOURNALS. We have received the former to the 29th ult. and the latter to the 2d init. from which we have given, in the preceding columns, every thing worthy of notice. NAPOLBOII returned to Paris, accompanied by the French Emprefs, on the evening of the 26th ultimo. The French troops continue to march towards the coal; and great naval preparations have been order ed in all the Spanifb ports. Forty lad of the line are to be fitted for fen with all poffible expedition, twenty five of which are to be ready by March next. BONA raitra evidently means to carry his deigns on the fide of Italy into immediate execution. The number of French troops 4licAdy in that country, and on their match thither, arnmint, to upwards of t so,ooo. In a (bort time, therefore, we may exped to hear of tome further unprincipled aggreflions being committed by dig enemy in that dice lion. The Neapolitan tei ri., 'toy has h 4 Catered by i ' , fetich cliAdoa, and we may &only expeet to hear. a formidable force being on its march againd the frontier provinces of Turkey.' Bovasaata has canted to be announced to the Se nate, that he has adopted Prince Evolve, his ton-in law, as his fuccelfor to the Crown of Italy. THE HAMBURGH MA.U. Which became due, armed this day. The Letters and Journals were cnly delivered froth the Pott•Office about the time this paper was going to prefs. The following are, therefore, only a) few of the Articles of Intelligence brought by this conveyance VIENNA, JAN. za. Our Minifiers have daily conferences with the itufliarl and EngUth Ambsfradors : they are relative to peaet. It is believed that the Archduke FIRDISAND will receive the principality of Afchaffenburg as an in demnity for the Inca of the Brifgau, as foon as it Bull be pable to find an indemnification for the sk@or- Arch• Chancellor. General Marmon Dimas has been fent on the part of the French tarperor to take poffeigon of Venetian Dalmatia. Several foreigners arretled here ty tie French have been fent to France. LEIPSIC, JAN.S7. It Is underflood tbat the territory of Hawser Will Pruffran be occupied by a contiderable _ army. On the arrival of the Prnffian troops, It will be evacuated by the French. This country, it is added, will be held by Pruffia in &pea and adminiftration till the con clurion of a general peace. A convention to this purport has been entered into between Pruffia and France, in.order to preferve the tranquillity of the l4orth of Germany. BARKS OF THE IN JAN. r 6. Some columns of French troops, which were on their March back, received orders the day before yenerday to halt. The bad weather, and ill condition of the roads, which render the march of the troops, and efpecially the conveyance of the heavy artillery, extremely difficult, have occafioned this order. Other inferences which have been drawn from it appear Atnfoundtd. HANOVER, jAN. The Englifb troops is the Hanoverian territory have received orders to march to the months of the Elbe and the Wefer, that they may immediately be embarked for England. All the officers of the Eng lull Getman Legion, who were abfent on leave in the i nountry, will therefore join their corps sa loon as OsiEble. 11012EN8TIR0, JAN. 30. To•morrnw the Swedith head-quarters will bteelfF up from hence, and be removed to Roßock I his Swedifh Majelly is Rill here, and the time of his de parture is not known. PRIVATE LETTERS. " szaLts, lE. " Our Court does not go to wart the Rations re tire home from all quarters; Hanover will be prod• lionally occupied by our troops, with the confent of Bonaparte. Haugwitz is gone to Pais; the Duke of Brunfwick goes to Peteriburgh, to fix the final at. rangement of Germany. The Auilrian Emperor (of Germany he is no more fo) has figned and rati fied the peace. This general peace, or rather general furrender of all of or, to the proud Conqueror, is de. cided ; but will it IA long ?No ! More of it another time." " *ULM, Part. 25. 66 Whenever the King of Pruffia is in a fituation to demand and infift that the French shall not again advance into Weftphalia and Lower Saxony, be will fend Count Schulenburgh to Hanover, to take poll teflon of that country in the Pruffian name, till a Pease Shall decide to whom it is to belong. 66 The friendfhip of the Emperor of Ruffle and oar ICI% remains unaltered. Neither of them will un dertake any thing of importance without communi cating with the other, and alto with the Eleltor of Saxony. It is thought, toe, that the Emperor Alexander will be invited to go to the affiance of the Turks, whore empire in Europe is threatened by the fchemes of Napoleon. He has it in contemplation to give part of their territory to Auftria. He likewife offered a confiderable part to Raffia but the Em peror of Ruffle is not a perfon to be fo gained. " Napoleon, likewife, has it in contemplation to give the Hanfe Towns to Pruflia, hoping that the trade of England would thereby be affeeed ; but fuch propnfals find no more countenance from the King of Praia than the Emperor of Ruffia. He propofes, likewife, to give the Duchies of Mecklen. burgh to Pruffia, and to give to the Duke of Meck lenburgh Strelitz the Pruffian Margraviates in Fran conia ; and on this fubjefl he is Paid to have founded the Court of St. Petedburgh. " The Royal Dignity will not be recognized in the North till the Sovereigns of Ruffle, Pruffia, and Saxony, have decided upon the fubjeft. It is the in tention of Napoleon, 2110, to fubjeft all the Lefler States and Powers of Germany to the Greater, leaving only Anfiria, Pruffia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wir temberg, Heffe, and Baden. He propofes, likewife, to abolifh the two Imperial Tribunals. At Schoenbrurin, Napoleon (hewed to Count Hangvitz 4 Copy of the Treaty or Plefburgh, adding, • You fee what your friends the Auftrians have given me. Minus mute Fueh things." N4U7164 baltlin Waterford MAILS THIS DAY.—WIad 3 W. Dail. DUD. AID. Dol. 0 1 Gottenburgh o 0 s Hambutgh t 41 Fatuottit, Fos. s.—Arrived the Naiad, Chrrta, from London to Jamaica, with plantation Bores I was in company with the outward bound Weft India fleet, under convoy of his Majelly's chip CANADA. Sir J. B. Warms«, in lat. 49. 30. long. 6. Weft k but in confequenee of finding her rudder much da maged, was obliged to get liberty to return to Eng land to repair ; the Neptune, Fisitsa, from Chep. flow for Portfmouth, put in here by contrary winds. —Sailed the Prin,ce of Wales packet, Haute, for Lifbon, with a mail. PLYMOUTH, FIB. 3:—Came in the Azores, CAW. GILL, from St. Michael, with Oranges; &meets, Captain Bum wiesor, from Lifbon ; Berry, Captain STOICS, from Dublin. Sailed the KANT, 0E74 guns, Rear Admiral TNORSIOROUGM, to the weßward, fuppofed to be for the Mediterranean. POITSMOUTH. Faa. 4.—Arrived his Majetly's Chip AbA MIAMI', of so guns; AUTOMII and FALCON 000,11 from the Downs : the latter is appointed convoy for Plymouth. Sailed la FLscaa sloop, on a cruise off Havre. The Tatausa and JAMAICA came into har bour to•day. The fhip Ifabella, upwards of soo tons burtben, WITNIILWIAD, from Grenada. bound to London, got oa &Oft on the Horfe Sand tail night, in a heavy fqt:all, and is full of water. Her eargo, contifling otrum, coffee, and fugar, will, it is feared, be nearly all 101 l ; one man was drowned, and but for the extraordinary courage of the Captain, the whole crew would, probably, have thared the fame fate. The ikiff was the lift boat left, and Ate drifted from the ()tip, which being clikovercd by the C#p tain, be jumped over board, fwam to her, and brought her back; Come of the crew pulled ifUloe diately to the (bore, and got Come vefels off; by which means the remainder were Caved t vetfels are gone off to try to Cave part of the cargo. Dolma, Fes. ¢.—Arrived the Ceres, of Stutdesimed, 4 (Captain Holy, from Oporto, with wine for thrill" Put in here with damage the ketch Freundfchak of Tonningen, in ballaft from Embden, bound to Bar. ctlona.—Wind E.S.E. and moderate. DIAL, Fla. 4..—Sailed the Vawus frigate, width. An AAAAAA I hoop of war, on a cruise. Arrived the Coulon !loop of war, from Yarmouth. and re. mains in the Downs with the Edgar, Utrecht, aria the Trolly; Pallas and Thames frigates; rue, and the Molquito Soaps of war; Devaitation bomb, and a *NW of gnn brigs and trancports.—Wind S. E. 46,• FROM LLOYD'S MST. Per. 3.—PaSag by the Pone, Hewlett, Nee itbe; ANN Pluck ; Eric:Whip, Melts_ ;Teems N., Wadi= ; smada leleadkbap, Dc Jiang; from Imbdo,-3aWltis Mazy, Heat. he Waterford. _ Paw by the Rau. Hutu* heel the Rlrse Pismo /Alm Derrell. frees Maks; Quake. Peel. trerielPealhergh; SOT. Doesdiery hem tteende ; leeinenlo w w He Selbery, hose i IrOpr Helene,Roth; and Conde Mom the Prince of Orange, Findlay, for the of *hag awl It. Geary, Fakeer, for Jamaica. Monday morning we received American Papers to the Eth uh, One of them contains a (trees Me morial of the Merchants of the City of New York to the Prefident and Congrers of the United States,eoM. plaining of the obhru&ions thrown by thiaconstry in the way of their carrying trade between the Colonies of our enemies and the Mother Country. whleb they aftert to be jult and legal, and to prote& whict pray for the aillitance of a permanent Navy._ The only other article of importance in theant. pers is the following, which is extrafted froglitie . New York Advertifer of the 6th ult. ' 44 Captain WELL, ' from Comma, informs, :that the Ifland of Aruba, about 36 miles to leeward of Curracon, had been taken from the EngliUf by.a Dutch,floop of war; there were eight Spina prizes at the Ifland. A Britilh tender, of t guns, engaged the (loop of war two hours, put feveral (hot through her quarters, and fucceeded in getting off a Spanak prize, worth 2 e,OOO dollars: fhe got fate into Jamaica. " 230,000 dollars have been appropriated so the building of gun boats, and 660,000 dollars to build ing fix line of battle fhips." No. 8839 drawn the fira day of drawing a Prize of Ten Thonfand and Twenty-two Pounds, was fold by HORNsir and Co. in the following Shares : two Qu arters , one Eighth, and fix Sixteenths. The importance of the prefent Lottery is manifeft by the firft day's drawing. The chance of the Capital Prizes was obtained without rifk. Every holder of a Ticket or Share drawn on the fiat day, will re ceive more than the prime colt ; and may renew the fame chance for the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth days of drawing with advantage. Hoamsar and Co. 26, Cornhill, p, Charing Crofs, and St. Margaret's Hill, Borough, will continue to fell on drawn Tickets aad Shares fo long as they can be procured, in great variety, and at the lowa prices. CORN EXCHANGI, MALK•LAISI, FRC 3.—There is is (till a continuance of few arrival, of Wheat, and fo little fine of late, caufes thofe (ample. readily to obtain loft price—other qualities are dull fale.—Rye is lower.—Barley in good fupply, and holds its price. Malt hill with few buyers, and at lefs--White Peas and Old Beans in fhort fupply, and full as dear— new Ticks 26.. to 32*. per quarter—Oats are in middling quantity, but few prime here, tor which higher prices are Aced—Web of Flour nearly at fait quotation. olvrßA I. CURISNCV AS omati Wheat, 464 60, 7r • por (In F.nelhtto, 7z. 736 Ryr, 38. Os Barlcy, atis 336 Malt. 6is 664 od W tete Ptafe,336 42$ Grey Peak 30, 34s Wass, (old) scs Tick Ditto, 44s sos Oats, sss 26s ssa o pond ditto has ass cd Seed. 311 4%1 per lait. 'RIC& OW ILOUIt. blot noir 6os tv trss S.:Quads sss talkie per task. il