Star. — London, England, 1808-02-23 00:00:00

PORTUGAL. LISEON, JANUARY IS. On the 19th of December the French flag was hoisted on all the fortresses, under a discharge of a g reat many guns. The Marquis of Lorna is appoin ted by Junot, Commander in Chief of all the Portu guese forces, on the North side of the Tagus, and Gomez Freire is appointed by the Spanish Gene to ral, ihe. same command on the opposite side. The French on their march through the country killed all the bullocks the farmers had for workingontheirlands , in consequence of which they cannot be cultivated ; a glorious proof this of the humanity of these self named protectors. It is said the French army has lost no less than 6000 men since they passed the frontiers; tic peasantry have killed an immense number ; and it is thought the people would have risen in a -mass upon them, but for the exhortation of the Heads of the Church, who are suborned by Junot. The army is reviewed every Sunday by Junot, who is then mounted on the horse, which was only destined for tic image of St. George, on the day of the grand pro cession of Corpus de Deos. The Hanoverian troops attached to the army,areon board the hulks, in the river. Many naval officers ar rived here with the army, and the works in the dock yard go on briskly. The Russian ships have drop- Fed down to Belem, in a line of battle, the English officers in their fleet have not as yet given up their commissions. The Russians are never seen to asso ciate with the French. No neutral vessel is permit ted to sail without paying the exorbitant price of a hundred pounds sterling for a pass. The French are going to enforce another contribution on the inhabi- Lints of this devoted city ; of the first contribution of about two hundrel thousand pounds, one of the prin cipal Portugueze merchants was compelled to pay near ten thousand : at the house of this person Junot has fixed his head quarters ; the expenditure of Ju not's table amounts daily to about a hundred pounds, which this Merchant has also to pay. One hundred and twenty of the clerks of the Treasury have been dismissed. As yet the Spaniards have not hoisted any colours, nor taken any steps to oppress these mi people, for such they m ay p truly be called.serable PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FE B. 22. Counsel was heard in the Case of Sheddon v. Patrick, which involved a question of legitimacy ; and on the part of the Appel lant, it was contended, that bastardy in Scotland did not necessa rily imply bastardy in England, so as to disinherit the party claim ing landed property. The farther bearing was deferred until Wednesday m at. A petition was presented on behalf oldie prisoners in Abingdon j ail, and it was ordered that it do lie on the table of the House. A person from the Office of the Chamberlain of the City of London presented certain accounts relative to the said City, re specting which, tt was ordered to the like effect. The House went into a Committee on the Malt Duty Bill, af ter which, the Chairman of the Committee, Lord Walsingham, reported progress. Lord AUCKLAND prop osed the second reading of the Act for continuing certain statutes respecting commerce and naviga tion tomorrow, which WAS agreed to.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, ELECTION COMMITTEE. On the application of Mr. VILLIERS, Chairman of the Com mittee, upon the Dublin University Election petition, stating same temporary defect of evidence , le ave was g iven to that Com mittee to adjourn until the Speaker should issue Lis warrant, giv ing them leave to re-assemble. Colonel STANLEY reported from the Committee on the Eve sham election petition, that Humphrey Howard, Esq. the peti tioner, was duly elected, and ought to have been returned ; but that the opposition of Sir Manasseh Lopez, the returned Mem ber, was not frivolous or vexatious ; the engrossing Clerk was ordered to amend the return accordingly. Mr. WHARTON rer •-tetl from the Committee en the Saltash petition of right, the decision of that Committee, that the right of election existed in the Burgage-tenure, and not solely in the Cor- por.►tion. An Officer from the Office of the Chamberlain of London. pre sented an account of the sums paid thcreout for paving, cleansing, and lighting the City for the List year.—Ordered to lie en the Table. NOTICES. Mr. SHARP called to the recollection of the House an intima tion he had formerly given, of a motion respecting the affairs of Copenhagen. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer bad before called on him to name a day ; but as the Papers on the subject were not then twfore the House, and some uncertainty prevailed as to the extent to which documents would be produced, be could not then name a day. He rose now, however, to appoint Wednesday, the 2d of March. Lord FOLKSTONE gave notice of a motion for Monday next, relative to the restoration of the Danish ships of war. - - TRADE AND NAVIGATION. TIERNF.Y gave notice, that he would on Wednesday move for a Committee of the whole House, to take into conside• ration the better protection of Trade and Navigation. AMERICA. Mr. Secretary CANNING presented, pursuant to order, a series of papers on the Negociation between this Country and the United Stag of America. Ordered to lie nn the table. Mr. PONSONBY, pursuant to his notice of Friday last, moved for the production of the substance of all Accounts received by his Majesty's Ministers, relative to the acquiescence of Ame rica in the decree* of the French Government respecting neutral ships, and the blockade of British ports, with the dates when filch accounts were received. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped the Hous- would not accedoco the motion of Ministers had received no precise official documents upon this.pnint. The notoriety of the fact that the Decree included America as well as every ot her , neutral nation, and that America never had,either by her Antbas-• ,odor or otherwise, demanded a revocation of that Decree, which bad been rigorously executed, made it obvious that she ad ac quiesced under its operation. The disbelief of such acquieuxonce might be matter of argument for the Right Honourable Grade man ; but the contrary inf.. rence as clear to his Majesty's Mi niftert, who, though they had received nothing in the shape of do contents to prove it, had felt it their duty to act upon that inference. Mr. VONSONBY said, this Answer for the present satisfied his curiosity. An Officer presented, pursuant to order, a series of Documents relative so Sir Houle Poph.an.—Ordered to lie on the table. WANG ANO MEANS. Mr. \t HA RTON brought up the Report of the c om mittee of Ways and Means, containing the Reso. lltions for imposing an Export duty on. Salt. The ,t r esolution,. imposing a duty of ninepencc per biishel upon all salt exported to the Continent of Eu r , pc, was read and agreed to; and, on the second tae-, solution being rea. l . for imposing a duty a threepence per bushel, upon ail salt exported to more distant countries, - The CFiANCELIOR of the EXCHEQUER sa id, he w as so anitiOus that the character of any measure adopted in furtherance of the principle of the late ()satin in Council, should not go forth under any liability to misrepresentation or misconception, towards neutral nations in amity which those measures might in an he had, upon full consideration thrown out by an Honourable N wren this subject was in the night, determined to forego the on Salt exported to America, _ Duty on Salt sent to other nations country. The Honourable Gentleman, upon a fir mer night, expressed an opinion that revenue was the object of this tax, and that, in this view, it would be the more obnoxious to America, as it would savour, in a strong d ,of the same inimical principle a vowed towarnstile nations ; but when the Ho nourable Member considered that the whole average quantity of salt annually exported from this country to America, did not exceed 1'200,000 bushels, and that at &1. per bushel, this would produce only about 15,0001. he must feel, that if revenue were the pur pose, he would have chosen some more solid and pro ductive object, and his design would have been mani fested in some other shape. But, however, lest the duty should produce any feeling of jealousy to Ame rica. or any country in the world in amity with Great Britain, he was desirous to withdraw every part of the proposed duties on salt exported to such countries, and he therefore hoped the House would dissent from this Resolution. Mr. BARING said, that as the Right Hon. Gent tleman had agreed to withdraw the duty, he had no Occasion to trouble the House farther. Mr. PONSONBY said, that any disposition of receding from the principle of the Orders in Council, in any instance evinced by the Right Honourable Gentleman, was to him satisfactory. He ho p ed this i ns tance wo uld ' be followed up by a recedence from all the other parts of the system, one after another. 1 , It would then wear its true character ; that of an ideot's tale, full of sound and fury and meaning no.l thig . te question was then put, and the clause reject- 1 ed ; and the duty of 9d. per pound on the export of Cotton was also agreed to, and leave given to bring in a Bill upon the remaining clauses. Mr. EDEN wished to ask the Right Honourable Gentleman, as he expressed a desire to avoid exciting arty harsh feelings with neutral powers, whether it was his intention to prohibit the importation of cot ton direct from America to any of his Majesty's Islands, or to permit neutrals to import cotton the produce bf French colonies, to neutral ports in ai with this country ; for instance, to Gottenburghnaintl Messina ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER an swered, that so many questions might be asked almost upon every clause of the bill, that he must defer giv ing the Honourable Gentleman a full answer until' to-morrow, when the Bill would again come under discussion, and when he should be ready to give the fullest ex planation in his power upon all its parts. — He had no objection for the present to say, that all commerce in the produce of the French colonies must be considered as in prohibition, so long as it was found necessary to continue in force the Orders of Council. PETITION FOR PEACE: Colonel STANLEY presented 3 Petition, signed by certain residents of the town of Bolton, Lanca shire, praying— - " The House to address his Majesty, Mustily beseeching him to leave no moans untried, consistent withqbe honour and d' it of his crown, and the welfa re of his kingdiun, to restore to faithful subjects the blessings of Peace. The Petitioners added, that they were urged to this Petition by the consequences a war Twhich has shut out their manufactures from the Continent of Eu pe, whereby thousands of t he Petitioners, ingenious and indus trious artisans, are deprived of employment, and the wages of others so lessened, as to bring the greatest distress upon themselves and their families, numbers of whom were thereby rendered desti tute of the necessaries of life. They farther state, that their dis tresses only, and not any dread of the enemy, had induced them to petition for Peace; for , hirl s hould the enemy persist in demand. i ng unreasonable terms, t here were no privations w they were n:t ready to suffer, rather than urge the conclusion of mg Peace derogatory to the onour and happiness of their King and Country." The Petition having been read, Colonel Stanley moved that it do lie on the table. Mr. Secretary CANNING immediately rose and said, that so far was he from giving any opposition to the motion for this petition to lie on the table, that he wished it to remain there in the continual view and. contemplation of the House. Standing in the situa tion he had the honour to fill, he trusted that the House would do him the justice to believe, he felt as sincerely for the distresses of which that Petition com plained, as any of the Petitioners who had signed it ; and if such a measure as that which the Petitioners sought could of itself abstractedly produce permanently and securely, the remedy desired, there could be but one opinion on the propriety of seeking it, as the greatest blessing. He would say for himself and his colleagues, that as it would be their first chty, so it would be their highest satisfaction to promote an object so truly desirable. But although he was ready to concede to the friends of the petition that war must unavoidably, in its consequences, occasion - distress and embarrassments to various classes of industrious persons, and that peace must be extremely * desirable to every friend of humanity—yet he felt, th'it to sue for that peace to the enemy with wham we were now eng:;ged, feunded upon petitions like this, and fet tered with such terms as he was disposed to,demand, would not be the way to obtain the obje& of the pe titioners, namely, a secure, permanent, and honourable peace, such only as could be consistent with the cha racter, the prosperity, and the lasting happiness of this country. He hoped the House and the country would give to his Majesty's Ministers the credit to which they were fully enitled for an earnest and anxi ous svikh at ill times to restore peace to the country, upon such terms only as it would be desirable or could be permanent. For this object, they had never ceased to wish as , :arnestly as any class - of his Majesty's sub jects—for this, they were always cli.-sed and ready to treat upon fair and honourable grounds—for this, they had left no means unattended to, nor would they fail to embrace any opportunity that could lead to a conciimmation so truly to be desired. But, however painful the task of prolonging the war, the highly responsible situation in which they stood, bound them to act to the best of their judgment for the honour and the permanent happiness of the country at large, and not precipitately to sacrifice both to the pressure of temporary disadvantages and local e mbarrassment-- This would not be the way to realize the objects prayed by the . lition, but to disappoint, in the worst possi ble mode, the prayer of the Petitioners. The petition was ordercd to lie on the table. rime= strisiell ip reference to son* . olfseiv.a. the first night of the session, te ' Treaty then ne..otiating with Right Honouralle Gentientari . secretary Canning) having then have very shorty his Majesty's , that subject lefert-raruari.....-- n ot hi ng more having since transpired - upon the sub h t, e wished now to know from the Right h onour able Secretary, of the rumour, whether it was true, that money had since been sent to he Svedish Government ; and if so, whether it was sent under any treaty already subsisting, or any new one more recently concluded, as some information was certainly dui to die House ? Mr. Seettuiry CANNING said, the reason why he had not sooner said any thing on the subject was, that no accounts frdm Sweden had for some time arrived, there being eight Gottenburgh Mails d at once is . He had, however , within a day or two uc received d patches from the King's Minister at the Court of Stockholm, stating, that a treaty had been concluded with Sweden, and so soon as he should receive a copy he should lay it before Parliament. Certainly some money had been sent to Swedenon account of subsidy. COTTON AND BARE EXPORT PROHIBITION'. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in pursuance of the intimation he had given on Friday, moved, that the House do resolve itself into a Com mittee, to consider the expediency of prohibiting al together the exportation of cotton wool, the produce urueutral nations, and Peruvian bark, from this court.. WT. With respect to the first, he had explained to the House fully his object, when moving the duty of 9d. per pound on all cotton wool exported from this country, which would amount nearly to priihibition. This duty included all cotton wool, both British, Co. ianial, and neutral produce. But as he understood from those best informed upon the sub j ect, that a re-1 gulation more agreeable to the feelings of America especially, would be to prohibit altogether the export of cotton the produce of neutral nations, than affect I it in the way of impost, his object now was to move a resolution in the Committee to that effect, with a view hOwever, to reserve to his Majesty, in any Bill for the Furpose, a pow& of granting licences for such export, m certain cases. And with respect to the article of bark, it was one of the utmost importance to the ene• my for the use of his armies, and for which at present the want was extreme and the demand excessive, inso much that although the market price in this country was but 10s. per pound, the present price in Paris was 70s. Every possible attempt had been made to export it from this country, notwithstanding all pro hibitions. Now he conceived one of the best modes of forcing the enemy to abandon the rigour of his decrees, was to increase his distress for an article we possessed in plenty, but which to him was so essential; thereby forcing the admission of other articles of Bri tish manufacture along with it, as the condition of its attainment. He accordingly moved, and the House went into the Committee. Resolved that the measures were ex pedient, and leave was given to bring in a Bill. COPENHAGEN PAPERS. In answer to'a question from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, respecting the day proposed by Mr. She. ridan for his question on this subject, the latter Right Hon. Gentleman appointed next Thursday : and while oh- his legs he gave notice of his intention to re vive speedily a subject which he had by no means abandoned, namely, the regulation of publicans' licen ces in Westminster. • DROITS OF ADMIRALTY. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT wished to know from the Right Honourable Chancellor of the Exchequer, how soon the Papers for which he had moved respec ting the Droits of Admiralty, would be laid before the House? The CHANCELLOR .of the EXCHEQUER answered the Honourable Baronet, that the Papers were so voluminous, it would be some considerable, time before they could• be in readiness ; and as to the amount of such prizes adjudged to his Majesty, there were so many claimants upon those funds after adju dication, that although he himself had lo n g wished for a si milar account, he had not been able to attain it, so difficult was it tomake such a return with accuracy. ORDERS OF COUNCIL SILL. Mr. WHARTON brought up the report of the Committee on the Bill. Mr. TIERNEY opposed the Bill upon the ground of the total irregularity in its origination, and conse qnently in all the subsequent proceedings upon it.— He contended, that as it was a Bill of Supply, impo sing taxes, and at the same time professing to regu late trade, the two objects ought not to have been con founded in one and the same Bill. The former ought to have originated in a Committee of Ways and Means ; and the latter in a Committee of Trade ; and in defect of those modes, the Bill ought to commence by delivering it to the MOUS." Mr. Horneg f presenting the Petition, . the notice, and he propOsed called upon, to know been delivered in to hi the Standing Order. 1, -- The SPEAKER , Which was partly bew 4ble alteratir had taken EuHouse since the -. ~ uence of , the Act . .ght the best way ' Proceed would to i Wise Could embrace ._ come to a direct decision be pleased to state his cg then be able to determine course to pursue. Mr. HORNER that the Hon. C. An, ber, on the ‘l7th of J , required, give notice . to produce his qualifical hal not produced the ;a . eil m, and that the lits having complied bad, however, renewed the commencement ,' deliiered in what he lification ; but it was cient ; and that by - o , tier in the last session, benefit under it in -- constitution of the . by the passing of Mr since the Standing thought the petitioner forfeited the right had looked for precedents found none which f , three or four, and Chester, in which for his qualification within the 15 dav- Standing Order, _ of his seat. He was were extremely taut degree, infringed - them for redress, specting elections . stances of the presem had, by his own • Cher heard on the tion to move thy:. the petition into ratory to which he Hon. C. Anderson his qualification, The SOLICITO , don, on the ground, called Mr. Gnat , only one branch tent to discharge suance of the direction Act of the whole made to take thq was then moved Gentleman, that House, ho cont' in the teeth of an Learned Gentleman in which the sitting for not having '- time prescribed and the case of t from that of the to be a case in • the same point tioner. It was, Affleck, who tain electors failed to give __ ing it was proved Committee thor tive in all cases, ed in the Ho• Commodore': was, his having out of the count was no proof try, nor was plying with the tleman was • pliance with terests of the before the passing ground on whist' was, that the " der for a. Comm any but such - and that this he need not which the might draw burial which and so bring the House. 'vote against and negativ de novo. This produced a conversation of considerable length. in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Huskisson, supported the Bill in its present form; as did the Speaker, in his opinion from the chair. Mr. TIERNEY defended his original idea, and the result was, that the Bill was ordered to be recommit ted on Wednesday, with an instruction to the Corn- I m i t tee, empowering them to divide the Bill into two , The Order if they should thinlc fit. Oude Papers COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS. Lord Fl The House having resolved into a Committee of now taken . Ways and Means, Mr. C RE. Mr. FOSTER moved several resolutions similar Proposition, to those voted here, imposing duties on the same anti- cause it was des in Ireland, with the exception of the difference in decision ui the quantum in sum and in the drawbacks, which were without at agreed to. • question of The House resumed, and the report was ordered to because it be received to -morrow. so have digested GREAT GRIMSBY ELECTION. lumes, and Mr. HORNER rose to make the motion of which nistration he had given notice, relative to the Petition of Mr. teen years, Loft, complaining of an undue election fur the 80. persons, and rough of (",neat Grimsby, in Lincolnshire. He first into comparison moved, that the standing, order, relative to the de- mouth and mand of the qualification of the Petitioner, should be Marquis 1 'read, and was read accordingly, and was to the fol- merits of lowing purport : " That the sitting Member, wishing conduct to have the qualification of the Petitioner produced, man were gave notice of his intention within 15 days of present- in such ing the Petition, and that in 15 days after receiving should be such notice, the Petitioner should produce -the same, as to con' \ dons c ity with this M' , . tiwEr any degree a.l that Mr. -. PoNSONBY, FT; on of the sng • be tad made on 1 Member ( Mr. •ii speteitta Subsidiary Committee on riday" , swedgy►$ wedgy ► said► that a Le tax of 3d. per bushet opposite to him (Mr. , and also the Export said, he expected to dons in amity with this woman& to lay that __ ..s..:— ...sear, halikle Clerk io r is:anniseat i within,that thatf t Within 15 dthtedaays7Tisetisoaitictirc44‘.lo,o... 1e1a"a11...1 e, the sittinghuithetlee e tc H in m l t:ber: s e psh h eciati of a u d -c uri tel! ' 0 : , ' :: : ' he nifir .faril -"H " 1 ..• • ot whether the qualification b,,s - 0 '' l ' rec-- , eras o. said; that as this S eas 3 , ~_ o Ineothe ll wto the House, and a anti r o . .s . a l an' aken place in the con st i tut i on ": ~ firdiioura l standing order was made, i - 0 ,,,:, 1 il atters tosi ." :t called. Mr. Grenville's Ac t, i,. -- ' :- c y for the Honourable Memb er P' a variet CI take the . first *A n t •.7 4 . ..- o on w hich ce the subject with tropi sm L he 40-f .i. f n cision on it. He would thi l 'o• -- Vit 'a ctur°- liii case, and the fr ol i se „ mil l i pe ss not a 5 , car ertnina what would beab e fi --..' SS DW I `-- ti L jh t ll h iue d i Ca n a e cse rS aamit U P : n em 7 : : i ee d i tb h ih d du a l e :t tn thwth , i f t a, l:: inith l si er ttin t t ° hi s - o it s ta 1 111: : ac t; cullae: wwil , e to the Petitioner, calling ai ai n t d ke wi se th sc t i h7 i e i b io a t d ice c( . 'm 'l l l ti tt ed Pe lt ti l ti on % 64 .' r .llll6:'ce:4ll:elehanieer-11 owed his petition within 15 o eTsa i iificastinn wi' ,' it of the present session, and prince he dared to say was a regul aron. that a ll 11 was his opinion, that Wa s nut stl i . ou licy W I session, he stood materially d iall e rey y e y not complying with the Standen -;ocae.kras alter an. Strapcgti li wtesa , : the present. He alloyed tb att h t 'the. Ho n House was very vli. Grenville's Act, which wesk it) . Ira s ..mw ,% ll) ag Order was made ; but still he t.:,..-----n, inerhadby the ornission4last • dot Lt which he before possessed. H e . cn il ; oecedents on the subject, bat had 4hig a ' I applied to the petitioner. He cited Is oos an ., oV d particularly dwelt vii that of Cut. ;„--: the sitting member w•as called c e "'",,,.. - i l Lion 1 and not having produced it ''"' - ", a -;`, Lys, according to the terms of tle .... ..,'” -- " o ' 2 - he was by the Committee deprival .15 r - o .„ oo ." . , -- was aware, he said, that the Hea t cautious how they, lit the smalies " II " - lon the right of any person to petition Here , and how important all petitions* Cretve is were ; yet, under all the o nto lako f resent case, he thought the petition of tact neglect, forfeited his ri ato k fur. who w e subject. It was thereiore his inteo Dr. it the order for a Committee to that h bean consideration be discharged, m a . '' he moved that the notice given by the tea:s c eon Pelham to Mr. Loft to prod= 10 °11 4 be read. think; ITOR GENERAL opposed the ma' Th Was i mad, that since the passing of the Ac ville's Act, the House; as furmirg kite 1 m .. T 1 h of the Legislature, was not camp ge an order which it had made in po Peter Erection and enactment of a positive Sy ne ,ole Legislature. An order had beet Imo* the petition into consideration, and it, 'ed by the Honourable and -, . Was tat'-the order be discharged; but . itended, had no power to do it directly 11.1 c tax an Act of Parliament. The Hon. and l :Leman had stated the case of Colchester,' • lei itting member was deprived of his sat, th ; delivered in his qualification within& ; al • but that was done by a Committee , i the sitting member was very differH he petitioner. There happened s that very borough of Cokhester,whete • st it was determined in favour of the peti: be s, he believed, in the case of Commodon was not the petitioner himself, but re , °I on his behalf.. Commodore Aged- PI in his qualification, and notwitbstani el roved that notice had been given, ti Nought the standing order not so impel c Lses, and Commodore Afßeck Was set -louse. He believed the reason of d . 2 i 's not having complied with the nod c ing - been obliged to go to sea, and be 1 country. In the present case, .: ,f that aatpthp:repnetthitoiownehrewcaames out to of e t i h: it .., ..„4 ...; 1 ; the notice. Tho Hon. and Learned • .! also mistaken in his idea, that wino ~ o i i the Standing Order was fatal to the .e petitioner. That order was made . , •` Dossing of Mr. Grenville's Act, and . which he (the Solicitor General) • ...: • he House had no power to discharge nor Committee which they had once madei ch cases as were provided for by the Ac is was not one of those cases. He as It say a word on the extreme caution si House should avoid any thing vii r these subjects out of the hands of theta ch had been instituted to determine dies rig them again under the consideration' • He should, therefore, give his Acrid st the motion, which was immediately r ived. . MARQUIS WFI.LESLEY. W ci rs er in of to th co e nsi D d a eraq e c i mi ng , 'OLKSTONE moved that these payer , t into consideration. read fort aking : .. kEEVEY rose to give his negative too. an, for two reasons t—ln the first plat,' . • was impossible fur the House to come 0 1 ipon the conduct of the Marquis W aled ' Lt the same time deciding upon the go of Indian policy ; and in the second plli _ t was quite impossible that Gentlemeaca" ligested materials which would till eevre „, ad which had been collected from the A. , t of that country, Oaring a period of rs, which had been moved for by •%. and with different views, and which ' nipad the risori m th ag erAuicins iitiistratis Wellesley, as to be able to decicidecide. of that complicated system with and character of the last m entioned e inseparably interwoven. T he Pa p e* Cornwallisn s with ofLo th d Lord T a : confusion that it was indispensible . . he arranged before they could be pe • . t nvey the infarmatiee necessary to • ~, ,-„