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RUSSIAN PAPERS. Mr. CANNING laid on the table Copies of the Correspon dence between Lord G. L. Gower and his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. BANKES moved for an account of the increase of expen diture in public offices since the last return. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The House, on the motion of the CHANCEL.- LOR of :he EXCHEQUER, having resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. WIIARTON in the' Chair ; Mr. FOSTER rose for the purpose of moving the Annual Grants for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES IN IRELAND. He said that as the House was so well acquainted with the nature of the different items he intended to move, it would not be necessary for him to offer any observations. He would be glad in the opportunity of offering any explanations that were required, and if there was any head of expence which appeared to be objectionable, there would be no reluctance, on his part, to postpone it to another day. He then moved the following items : Irish Currency. Civil Buildings - - £25,000 0 0 Printing of Statutes - . 1,200 0 0 Stationary, &c. for Secretary of State's Office £2,018 0 0 1 For apprehending public Offenders - 2,500 0 0 For supporting Nun-conforming Ministers 9,429 18 0 Certain Expences in the Port of Dublin • 1,047 10 2 Stephen Moore, Esq. Accountant General 940 0 0 John Smart, Esq. Dep. ditto - - 140 0 0 Paul Le I3as, Esq. - • - - - 200 0 0 --. Fontemay, Esq. Chief Clerk of Exports andlmports 400 0 0 Marshall, Esq. Dep. ditto - 200 0 0 George Hatton, Esq. Examinator of Excise - 200 0 0 Samuel Hood - - - 150 0 0 T. Hatton, of the Exchequer Office - - 200 0 0 eloatlabig of Battle-axe Guards - - 740 0 0 Building a Pier at Howth - . - 10,000 00 . Trustees of Linen Manufactures - 21,1100 0 0 Farming Society - - 5,000 0 0 Dublin Society - - - 10,000 0 0 Commissioners for Widening Streets - 10,500 0 o Protestant Charter Schools .. 23,103 0 0 Foundlin Hospital - - 22,500 0 0 Hibernian Maxine School - - 2.896 0 0 Ditto Military School . - - 4,05; 0 0 Female Orphan and Penitentiary House - 3,758 0 0 Society for Prevention of Crimes - - 1,026 0 0 Westmorland and Lock Hospitals - 11,75$ n 0 House of Industry - 28,797 0 0 Fever Hospital - - - 4,122 .0 0 • Lying-in Hospital - 2,13613 0 0 to the Royal College of Surgeons for completing Buildings - - - 5,100 0 0 Licences on the Exportation of Wool - 1,750 13 70 Various other grants, among which were, the Mayno , ol Col lege, building and re-building of Churches, expences of working Royal Gold Mines, &c. were poetpsned. The Resolutions voting the foregoing sums were severally agreed to in the Committee; and on the Speaker's taking the. Chair, ordered to b reported to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Scotch Reads' Bill was read the first time. The Newry Election Committee were ordered to discontinue their sit:ings, until again convened by the Speaker's warrant. The Notary's Rigulation Bill was read the first time. The second reading of tile Vauxhall Thames Bridge Bill was de- WAYS AND MRANS. ferred to Wednesday. The Irish forfeited Recognizance Bill was committed for to- The House resolved itself into a Committee of morrow. :Ways and Means. Mr. Alderman COMBE obialced leave to bring it a Bill to The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER render Cbild Stealing a copital felony. rose for the purpose of laying before the Committee The Iri.h Promissory Note Bill, and the Irish Customs Place , Abolition Bill, were read in Committee, and ordered to be re - the Ili ays and Means which would be required to 1 ported to-morrow. meet the expences of the year. He should first be- Mr. HORNER moved an Address to his Majesty, for an ac- gin by recapitulating the supplies which had been al count of the proceedings for regulating fees at the Council Office ready voted, and then he should enumerate the va for Commercial Licences.—Ordered. Mr. ROSE moved for the Naval Asylum Estimates, which were rious heads, of the Ways and Means that would o g ordered, and immediately presented, by the Rev. Mr. Morgan, to make up that supply. The Right Honourable Secretary to the Institution. , Gentleman here stated the various heads of the navy, Major PALMER moved that the Petition of Mr. Palmer, late the army, the ordnance, Swedish subsidy, miscella- Member for Bath, be referred to a Committee of the whole House on Thursday the 12th of May.—Ordered nexus services, and other objects for which the sup- Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY obtained leave to bring in a Bill ply had been voted, the total of which amounted to for enforcing the residence of Clergymen and Spiritual Persons £48,653,170, but from which was to be deducted upon their benefices in Ireland. Leave given:. £5,713,566, being the proportion for Ireland. The Mill was then read a first time—and, on the motion of Sir The Ways and Means, which were to be proposed. A. WELLESLEY. that it be read a second time before the holidays, a short discussion arose between Sir A. Wellesley, the Chancellor in order to cover this supply was, Ist, the alt and of the Exchequer, and Colonel Barry, on one side; and Mr. Mau- Pension Duties, which he would take in round num rice Fitzgerald, and Mr. Perna, on the other—which ending in bens, at three millions. This was about R 2.50,000 Sir A. Wellesley's conceding that the second reading of the Bill more than it had produced last year, but he should should be deferred to the first Tuesday after the recess, in order that it might undergo inspection in Ireland, provided that no take the surplus of the Consolidated Fund at so much interval was required between the second reading and the core- lower than its actual produce. The advances from mitment.—Ordered to be read a second time to-morrow fortnight. the Bank amounted to three millions and a half ; the ' Sir A. WELLESLEY moved for leave to bring in aßill to ena- unappropriated surplus of the Consolidated Fund up bls the Board of First Fruits in Ireland more effectually to eed for the building of churches and glebe.houses, and pur - to the sth of A p ril was £726,870. The W Pnicar Taxes chase glebe-lands in Ireland.—Read a first time, and ordered to be he should reckon at a rough guess at twenty-one mil re al a second time to-morrow. lions, and he thought himself the more warranted in Mr. ROBERT WARD brought up a List of all Ships and Car- ta k ing i them at that sum, when it was recollected, goes proceeded against as prizes, since the month of January, i 1802.—Ordered to be priated. that t e duties to be levied in consequence of the Or- Mr. R. WARD gave notice, that he should, after the recess, deis in Council were to be added to the produce of the mire for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the living of Lymon ' war taxes. Barahant. The Lottery he should reckon at 3.50,0001. which Mr. CREEVEY gave notice, that after the recess' he would I move for a more cornet account of the Droits of Admiralty,than 'was somewhat less than it had produced in the last that heretofore presented. I year, but still as much as he conceived himself en- Mr. DENT moved for copies of the cases of the appellant and ; titled to take credit for. It would be recollected that respondent in the cause relative to the ship Etrusce. i tour millions of Exchequer Bills had been funded in ROYAL NAVAL ASYLUM. " • the e course of the present year : instead of those, he Sir C. POLE, in a speech of some length on the I proposed to issue four millions of other Exchequer subject of the Royal Naval Asylum, stated various Bills, towards the Ways and Means of the year. In abuses which had crept into the appointment of of- addition to this, he should say about eight millions, ficers, and moved a resolution, that it was the opt , which he would propose as the Loan, and which was nion of the House that fit and qualified persons only, as much as he appraended would be necessary for such as had served in the Royal Navy, or in the Ma the service of the present year. When to these sums rines, should be appointed to offices in that Asylum. i A I was added the surplus of the Consolidated Fund, The motion was resisted hy Mr. ROSE,. who . Tr ' 9ll "! which he would take at 3,750,0001. it would give a the previous question. total of 43,676,0001. for the Ways and Means for the After a debate of some length the House divided, service of the ye'ar, which gave an excess of 187,0001- when Mr. Rose's amendment was carried. Ayes 71 . - • . . above the supplies.' Although the surplus of the -:-Noes 46. consolidated Aind had been taken at 3,750,0001. yet On our re-admission , we found Mr. LUSHING- r'4 fact it had 'e OdeJ ' no that sum in the course of the TON moving for certain additional papers ranting I la st year b y • no less a sum than 726,8701. By the to the Etrusco. These were' for copies of aft comes- ' i landing the foni millions of Exchequer Bills, the loan , pondence between Sir Home Popham and the Admi- i rally, from January i, t 787, to Dee: 31, 17W, rat. ! could be raised on 'shore advantageous terms to the ' * ublic, than - if they ' had been: left outstanding at an tive tosleave of absence, or to the ship Etrusco. He i i nterest of 51. per cent. ' The interest of the four mll also moved fora eopy of a record from the Court of lions of Exchequer Bills, and of the loan for the -year, King ; 's Bench, in an action Paxton aid. otters v. , would amount to 750,6001. 'This would be provided Popham. - , for in the fallowing manner :In the first p l a ce, short This latter motion was objected to by Mr. DE NT, 1 annuities had fallen in to the amount of 380,0001. and it was consented to by Mr. Lushifigton, to let it 1 ;which he would propose to be applied to Ways 'and hand over until the gallant Captain should be able to • attend his duty in the House. • •' ' ' ' means ;o, .had annually been saved 6 - 0001 • veil - by inl et* i rovemetits in the'management . of the revenue ; ' Another 'paper was ordered, namely, a copy 25,00 - 01. had been already gained by the anange log of the Etrusco on her voyage from Calcutta to ment which had taken place with iespect to the col: lection of the Assessed Taxes, and he thought that by a similar arrangement in the collection of the stamp deities, a further sum of 20,0001. might be fined: These sums taken together would make a "cal 0f 7:0,0001 . which exceeds by 2 0 , 0001 , the sum t w ould be necessary to cover the interest of the Iban, and of the four millions of Exchequer Bills. — He proposed in some respects to make additions to the Stamp Duties, but in so doing, he by no means in tended to abandon altogether that principle which had been adopted in the last Session, of suspending the course of taxation for two or three years, and look ing principally to the war taxes. The additional Stamp Deities which he should propose would, he trusted, not be considered as burdensome, and would rather be considered as a regulation and an arrange ment than an increase of duties. He should propose an equalization of the stamp duties on deeds in Scot land, by adopting somewhat of the ad valorem prin ciple. He wished also to alter the duties now paid on admission into offices. The present duty was 201. without regard to the value or amount of the office. He wished that every office under 601. annually should be entirely exempted, those from 601. to 1501. to pay SI. those from 1501. to 3001. to pay 201. and a higher duty for the admission into offices of greater value. — He proposed that the duty on indentures of Attornies and Solicitors, who were to practice in the sup!rior Courts, should be 1101. and the duties on those in the inferior Courts, as well as the writers of the sig net in Scotland, should be 551. He proposed that the duty on feoffments should be raised from 11. 10s. to 31. which was the same as deeds of lease and re lease are now liable to. The next duty which he should propose was, a small duty on those Promissory Notes which were re-issued. This duty would prin cipally affect country bank notes ; and it was not un reasonable that the public should in some degree par ticipate in the profits which were made by the coun try banks. There were many of those notes which were not payable in London, or in any other place but that where they were issued, which occasioned a great deal of inconvenience. He meant therefore to propose a higher rate of duty on those notes which were only payable at the place where they were issu ed, than upon those which were made payable in London. He should propose four-pence on a pound note of the former description, and three pence on that of the latter. He thought there might also be a small additional duty on the transfer of Stock Shares, which were now made according to the nominal value. As to law proceedings, they were , at present burdened with such high taxes, that he was ' unwilling to charge them with any additional duties; there were, however, one or two slight additional duties which he thought they - might bear. He should propose therefore a duty of one shilling on every , summons before a Master in Chancery. As to con veyance of - land, which now bore a duty of thirty shillings generally, he should propose a duty of ' twenty shillings on every conveyance of land, the value of which did not exceed 1501. From 1501. to f',i)ol. he should propose thirty shillings ; from 3001. to 5001. fifty shillings : and from that upwards, at a rate not exceeding twenty shillings for every 1001. After a few general observations, he concluded by moving his first resolution. Mr. BIDDULPH rose, not to examine in detail the new duties mentioned by the Right Honourable Gentleman, but to throw out his ideas generally, that it was not necessary for the service of the present year to impose any new burdens. The surplus of the con solidated fund had most considerably increased in the course of the last year, and even of the last quarter. It appeared to him that this increase was in no small degree owing to the manner in which the property tax upon lands was levied. When the landlord paid 101. per cent, and the tenant seven and a half, it was not wonderfnl that the revenues of the country should be very considerable, and the surplus of the consoli dated fund constantly increasing. He considged that a contingent fund might be provided, equal to 'two years interest of the loan, by the sale of certain parts of the crown lands, and what was called the hereditary revenues, as well as by better management of the timber growing on these crown lands, of which he conceived that near a third was wasted at present. After a few observation:, from Mr. Davies Giddy, Mr. Vansittart, and Mr. Huskisson, the first resolu lution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was put and carried. PIRLI4M.EIFIZ4r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LOADS, APRIL 11. After further proceedings in the Scots Appes! Cause respecting the Roxburgh Estates, and the dispatch of private business, the Orders in Council Indemnity Bill was read a third time, andpassed. Lord MOIRA presented a Petition from certain Ininlvent Debtors, which was ordered to lie on the table ;'and hts Lord ship gave notice, that on a future day he should move that this, and other similar Petitions before the house, should be referred to a Committee. CATIVIL4C PETITION. Lord GRENVII.LE presented a Petition from a large body of Irish Catholics, for the repeal of the various disqnalifying statutes to which they are still subject. His Lordship stated, that there was some informality in the mode of annexir.g several of the names to the Petition. Many thousands of them were the actual signa tures of the persons petitioning, but others, undoubtedly from ig norance of the forms necessary to be observed in such matters, purported to have been subscribed by the authority of the indivi 4uals whose names were subjoined. The result of his inquiry into the usage of the House on similar occasions, was, that the Petition might he received, as that of the persons whose names were regularly subscribed, without paying any attention to the i ether signatures. Uatler this impression, therefore, he should move that it lie upon the table, ireending, should this proposition be acceded to, to follow it tap by another, for taking the Petition into consideration on the 12th of May. Lord 'MOIR A said, no man could be a more sealous supporter of the cane of the Petitioners than himself. This he had evinced, and should continue to evince, without regard to any inconveni encies rtsulting from that line of conduct to his personal interests. But the more friendly he was to the object of the Petition, the more did he regret to hear the second motion which his Noble Friend announced his intention of submitting on a future day.— He was always Inclined to call in question his own judgment, when he happened to differ from his Noble Friend; but he could not help thinking the present an unfavourable period to any spe cific motion on the subject. He was convinced that the justice, the wisdom, and the necessity of granting Its request would be speedily acknowledged by all descriptions of persons; but after the recent adverse decision of that House, and while there were so considerable a number who might take a degree of interest in maintaining the opinions they had so lately expressed, he concei ved, that to press the claims of the Petitioners upon the attention of Parliament, under such circumstances, might tend rather to retard than accelerate the period of their ultimate success. I.ord GRENVILLE said, it would be in their Lordships' re collection, that he had last year distinctly stated, that if his advice could have any irfiuence with the Catholic body of Ireland, that advi-e would be, to induce them to exercise every degree of mo derating ani forbearance in the prosecution of their claims. He could, however, assure his Noble Friend and the House, that he bad not been consulted on the propriety of again submitting the subject for discussion. On the other hand, he begged it to be understood, that he would not say that, had he been so consulted, he should have dissuaded the Petitioners from the course which they had punned. 1 he LORD CHANCELLOR had no objection to the Peti tion lying on the table ; but wished this to be considered in the present, and in every case where an informality occurred in peti tions, as resulting from their Lordships' indulgence, rather than any rule of proceeding generally binding upon the House. Lord GRENVILLE acquiesced in the propriety of the distinc tion taken by the Noble and Learned Lord. The Petition was then ordered to lie on the table, and their Lordships were ordered to be summoned for the 13th, instead of the 12th of May, previously mentioned. Lord SIDMOUTH stated, that there had been only a partial return made to the Address and Order, which their Lordships had agreed to about three weeks ago, for further information re• spectirg the seizure of the Danish vessels previous to the declara tion of hostilities. No return was yet on the table of the num ber of vessels, prisoners, ie.:. Lord HAWKE.SBURY suggested, that the delay might have arisen from the return from the cutports not having yet been re ceived. Prince of Wales's Island, she having been driven thi, ther instead of proceeding, as she ought, to Bombay. ORDERS IN COiIiCIL. A short conversation took place between Mr. TIERNEY and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER relative to the fur ther examination of witnesses against the Orders in Council, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer intimated his intentionto proceed in the examination of the witnesses to-morrow, and to close on '.Vednesday. Mr. CAI.CRAFr gave notice that he would, on Tuesday the 3d of May next, make a motion relative to the Papers concern ing the Rochefort Squadron which lay on the table. Mr. TIERNEY moved, that an account be made forthwith of the value of the stores taken at Copenhagen. Mr. D. GIDDY gave notice that he would to-morrow move for the postponement of the proceedings on the Grampound pe tition. REVERSION BILL. Mr. WHITBREAD took a view of the whole of the proceed irgs with respect to this Bill, and expressed his fears that the House would have to regret the sacrifice of its consistency without the assent of the other House. In consideration of the wishes of some of his friends, he would not oppose the third reading. He understood that a Noble Friend of his (Lord Porcbetter) meant to propose, after that stage, some amendments, calculated to bring back the Bill to its original form, and with these he would coincide. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained his conduct, in concerting with his Noble Colleague (Lord Hawke:- bury) in the limitation proposed by him in the other House. He thought it no dereliction of the unqualified assent he gave to the original Bill in thii House, to agree afterwards to a modification, tending to dilarsn the opposition be found made to it in the Lords. MCM. A. TAYLOR was very severe on " the dark party behind the 'Throne," and thought the Bill would not satisfy the People. A desultory conversation then ensued between Mr. Fuller, the Secretary at War, Mr. Littleton, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Vyse, and Lord Porchcster. The SPEAKER then put the question, that the Bill be read a third time, when Lord PORCHESTER rose, and, with a considerable degree of animated argument, proposed an amendment, which went to alter the preamble of the Bill, and make it more agreeable to the feelings of the Public. The Bill was then read a third time. Lord PORCHF-STER expatiated at sane length on the impor tance of passing the broad principle of the Mil, without limitation, which the House owed to its own dignity, ass 4 to the feelings of the country, and concluded by proposing to omit the words— " during the inquiry now pendingin the Hesse of Commons," — and also the word " suspend," in order to insert the word "p►o- Aii:l.' Mr. BANK' S again explained the principles by which he had been actuated in this proceeding, which was, that since he could not do all he wished, he wished to do all he could. While he de scribed this as the course that his judgment prescribed to him, he by no means presumed to dictate to others. lf, contrary to his expectation, this Bill should meet in the other House with the fate of its redecessor, it would then be for the House of Com mons to avail themselves el the eoestitutional means in their power for remedying the evil. Mr. ROBINSON supported the Bill In its existing shape, and opposed the Noble Lord's amendment. Mr. TIERNEY supported the amendment. Mr. STEPHEN opposed the amendment of the Noble Lord. It baki a n n o means been yet proved that the abolition of the prac tiee tins offices in reversion wai injurious to the country, and it appeared to him, at least a very questionable assertion, to Contend that it was so. He deprecated the disunion between the co-ordinate branehts of the Legbdature; and condemned la warm terms the attempts that were making at sub a critical period as thepresent, wises the Executive Government had but too no n , difficulties to contend with, to impels upon the prerogatives Crown, and by that means to increase those difficulties in a t ts . fold degrce. sir FRANCIS BURDETT sad Mr. WINDHAM now ob . peered upon theirlegs, but the cry of Burdett Burdett ! 121, 1 4 drowned every other, the worthy Baronet addressed the Hou 46 follows : " Me. Speaker—lf ever I heard an outrage upon this H ots , t arising from want of temper in any Honourable Meister, I hate t now beard it from the Honourable ..;entlemart who has jaw Il i I down. I shall follow him through his arguments, however,wwe out criticising his language—the irregularities in the latter I a s , scribe to the defect of his temper. The Honourable G ea l met; has 11141110 himself in vapid declamation about th e f e ,,k h ,, likely to be produced in the country by the language bee r I A by Gentlemen on this side of the House ; but I m u se te n t e, H es nourable Gentleman, that this has as much to do with the g ee► lion before the House as it has with tho system of Lopridura other abstract branches of science —IA t.e Hoe twi ,_ able Member calls himself a Learned Gentleman because he a & lawyer, yet he tells us that the Constitution is not to be Im m o from books. Ido consider then that he has forgotten, w pm baps has never read, that Sir Hem y pine's, that h gh po odle lawyer, in the reign of Charles the Firs, exprers'y gave it as hi, opinion, that the King can have no prerogative which CU totem to the mischief of hi' people, or to the continuance of an s loe although the prerogative might, extend to every thing s& &&: pressly prohibited by law. Now, if has bets sheen, bi e; b r&he Commime of Pittance, that Reversionary Grants are a gr e w && e , and entail much mischief upon the people.—that they are contour to every principle of the Con . stitution,and even t o common sense is the House to be deterred from enforcing th e etax ,,,, m4heies ; of its Committee, or from executing the sacred trust repcmg && by the People ? 1 know, Sir, that in this, as in Meer n i ps. there may exit a inalige Ant 'power behind the 'I bronea—sti men hest that has stakbed the Constitution to the heart ; and will the Honourable Gentleman still hare the perenatoptice to ta n bp , / a British House of Commons to extend the prertgatives of the Throne ? Sir, we have seen all the nations of Purer s l eg ue d atie, by ore ! Their melancholy examples ought totted us, that fitr pottum and mercenary armies will not uphold the These— ( Bear ! hear ! lure !)—The experience of menth e , sight to tcaett ui, that nothing but an armed arid satisfied People, ea u ing in the integrity of their Government, cm defend lingbeg shall never cease in professing that my wish for Referta is i e , creased by the dangers of the country. Is this a time to tee &, of the pride and privileges of the House of Lords, and shall we not tell them uf the insulted privileges of the Houseof Commit ( Hear hear !/—L agree with Ministers and their adherents, in thinking this a futile and inefficient part of the great system of Reform that ought to be pursued ; but though trifling, it I s & commence. As to accommodating the words of the Bell to the taste of the Lords, it reminds me of the story of Bottoms the weaver, in one of Shakespeare's Comedies ; Bully Bottom waste act the part of the Lion, and after having put on the Lioe's sake he said, " Ladles and Geiitlemen, be not afraid, I'm no lion, but only Bully Bottom ; and as for my roaring, I shall roar like any Nightingale, that you may not be alarmed: . This is preciely the shape in which this measure is to be accommodated to the House of Lords—it affects to look big in their eyes, but is a mere hs!f measure in the end. I shall therefore not vote for the Bill as w o w altered, because it compromises the dignity of the House. Bekre I sit down I have.a word to say on the subject of the opposition this Bill has met with in a certain quarter(Heor ! Le o r !) Sir, the people are sorely grieved—they are tossing and tumbling on a bed of sickness, and, unfortunately for us, they look to this House for some relief. The opposition to this measure foe their relief has come from persons who are largely paid for doiog oo thing—(Hear ! hear !)—I would have them recollect, Sir, ths the day may come, when, instead of Bills of Reversion, they sig hear of Bills of Resumption—(Hear! hear.' Ater !/—Yes, although we rnay despise the wisdom of our ancestors, it wits at unusual to hear of such Bills in their times. A repetition of this cry of Parliament would indeed be an unpleasant sound to the . ears of those to whom I address this discourse—(lfeer Li f/ Once for all, Sir, 1 would have them to recollect that the nous sound of Refund! Refund ! may yet prevail throughcetthe Land—( Hear ! hear ! hear ! ) Mr. WINDHAM did not think that the meuureafabolhhisg Reversio:ss would be so productive of advantage to the people se some of its warmest advocates seemed to suppose. The assertion of the Hon. Baronet, that it would be the commencement of sr fortn,was to him no recommendation of it, knowing, as be did, the dreadful dangers which might ensue from misguided attempts at reformation, of which we bad had eullitient examples in a neighbouring country. A 3 to the corruption that was so generally asserted to exist among the higher orders, he contended that that corruption existed in an eqnal degree In the lower, and that the tree struckits roots as deep into the euthas it elevated iu branch" into the air. Mr. SHERIDAN could not be provoked to ray a word at m late an hour, by any thing but the extraordinary positions whi. he had just heard from his Hon. Friend. What! all corruption.' the State was to be found only at the root I The people were the root, and from the people then sprang up all corrupdon. He must beg his Honourable Friend to recollect that he had mow. sively represented such a variety of places. Whether the Count/ of Norfolk, Norwich, St. Mawe's, or High= Ferren,that even a memory like his, and such a known acqoaintmee with the Constitution of Parliament, could not well enable him to say it what place he was really the Representative. His Right Hr.. Friend had chiefly insisted, that the root of catnip*. mato be traced only to the people. He would contena k l the ray mars* It was Government that was the seducer; the People the so. duce& The present question would put it to the test; aid his Hon. Friend's principles were to be adhered to, it wadi only prove, that the drippings of the top of the tree were Out the real cause of the blighting of the branches and the corrupt.a of the root. Where root, branches, &c. were undermined, call any fair fruit be after expected to blossom from such a meal The notion was absurd. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH wished to speak ; but the cry ci question, question, rather overpowered him, and the Howells. mediately proceeded to divide on the amendment--Ayes Noes usu.—Adjourned at Half-past Four o'Clock. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. NAPLES, MARCH Is. We learn from Tarento, that several small ships of the line and frigates have appeared before that port. They are supposed to be part , of the French and Spanish squadrons which are cruising in these seas, and which, we understand, sailed from Carthagena. Ad. MILAN, MARCH 17. Mr. Ad. ••r, the late English Ambassador at Vietuia. arrived at riesto on the Bth instant. Two English frigates u ere expected in that port, destined to eon. vey to Malta the Ambassador and the other English in the Austrian Straits. An English squadron of IS sail continued to cruize in the Adriatic, and pre. vented vessels from either going out or coming into Trieste. It was feared that the English would seise the first favourable opportunity of attacking the five Russian ships of the line and frigates which were ill that port.—According to the last intelligence fsre Dalmatia, the English have occ}lpied the Isle of Le. sins, on the coast of that province, in order to eb' tain, as is supposed, the more easily, water and pgio visions, and also a shelter in bad weather. VIENNA, MARCH 12. Two Couriers arrived here in the night between ds 7th and Bth instant, from Constantinople ; one WI the Imperial Internancio, and the other from Gesp. ral Sebastiani. 'l'be latter continued his route for Paris.. It appears from the reports brought by tbese Couriers, as well as from private letters, that the Turks are preparin s g for war with extraordin ar y zed ' vity, and that the Porte seems to wish to ente r into negociation with England. The Austrian troops continue to advance towards the frontiers of Croatia and Sclavonia, in order to draw a cordon along the frontiers of European Turkey ; that is to say, on thou of Austrian Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, the Sas nat of Temeswar and Transylva nia. General Due will, it is said, command under the Count de Bel' legarde. Pr • i ac e Su f ah - . ea Thy manner ended g va hirn bel K thing, tl The me ? That drew k