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S I FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 7. His Majefly the King of ETRURIA died of the et fees of a dictate, by which he has been long airlifted. The QUEEN has been declared Regent.—llioniteur. The fquadron of Admiral Ltwots has been met on the other fide of the line. It was fallen in with by the advice boat, which took out the Sat account of the Menage of the KING of ENGLAND. Captain-General DECAEN, and all the foldiers on board the fquadron, were in the bell ['Male (late of health. They mull already have arrived at the Me of Fr . ance.—Moniteur. HAMIWACH, MAY a9.—A levy of all males from the age of ; 6 to the age of 50, has been ordered in Hanover, but has been attended with fcarce any ef feel. Whole villages refute to fubmit to it, while others take refuge in the territories of Denmark or Hamburgh ; and it is computed that within the laft four days 600Hanoverians had arrived at Hamburgh or Altona. The Duke of CAMBRIDGF, who dire& there pre parations, wifhing, under the etifling circumflances, that the oath of fidelity to his Father fhould be taken, found but five perfons in the city of Zell, who had taken that oath, and thefe were even in the fervice of Government. Five Frenchmen have been arrelled g three at Ha• rover, and two at Zell. The greaten fermentation betides prevails in the Elatorate of Hanover; archives, jewels, plate, all are packed up, and ready to be removed. The Re gency of Hanover had wilhed to dd . /latch its Archives by Hildcfheim, but the Count Da SCNUI : LIMBOURG objeded to receiving them. It is certain that the orders of the Regency with refpeel to the enrolment and the oath meet with much opporition, particularly in the Cities. It has been In violent in the city of Luneburg, that the Magillrates have been obliged to (hut the gates of the city.— Reports are alfo in circulation refpeeling the diftur• bances that have taken place at Hanover from the fame caufe. What, fay the Hapoverians, is it the will of the Engli(h Government, after ten sears Of war, when the whose Continent is tranqnilliaed, to declare a new war to obtain for itfelf the Mind of Malta? What interefls could we defend by arming What fuecefs could we hope for in a conceit with the power of France ? This manner of thinking and fpeaking appears fo general in the Electorate, that it is almoll certain that the Regency, or, the Prince Royal, who brings it forward, will derive from his plans of a levy ar wirrA but fhame and confulion. How unfortunate are the inhabitants of the Con tinent, who are under the authority or the influence of a Prince inhabiting an Wand t,-,--Mouirear. FARLIAMENTART PRUCZEDINGS HOUSE OP LORDS, FRIDAY, JUNE so. Thar Lordthipa rebutted the cosfitlerstion of Foote s Dlvorec Itift,on which oanftgo farther evident:owns Mewed; this chiefly efpedted the elopement. fte. of the Lady ; wed after hone abler oatiana urn the cafe had been interchanged between the Lotto Crane LLLLL arid other Peon, the bfb was teed a faced time, and committed tor Monday. CLUGY SILL. The Order of the Day being read for the Saute to refolve into a Committee on this Bill, The Bifhop of Sr. Asern role, in confequence of the declaration he had made upon a former evening, that he liked the principle of the bill, but difliked its fabric. To Rate now wbat his objeaions were, ha repeated his • former declaration, and laid, that al though many of the Claufes were objcaionable to him, as well in their refpeaive tenour as in their beating upon each other, yet he thought it was not impoffbie to give them fuels a fitape, by amend. ments, in the Committee. and to render the Bill eli gible for adoption. This Bill, he Lid, had two great *Netts, which he thought hihly de ferable and ne celfary the one, to oblige t h e Beneficed Clergy to refidence upon their benefices, the other to take them out of the hands of Juries under the Civil law, and place them entirely under the hands of the churCh..... To the former principle he folly acceded, as indif penfably neceff.try for the maintenance. of public morals and religion; but for the latter he owned he was not anxious ; and much condemned as the Statute of Henry the Eighth had been for its (*verity agaiall the non-refident Clergy, and oppreflively as it might .have operated. in comparatively a few inftances, yet foaled he was that, upon the whole, it did much snore good than harm. The chief objeftion which he entertained againft that Bill was. that it went to im. pee a general and indiferiminate meafure of punifh anent upon all defaulters, without regard to the mca fore of delinquency, or the means of (Whining the penalty; on this account it would, and often happen ed, that punifbment fell the aloft light where it was molt deferved ; but in the relent Bill, be obferved that defect was remedied, and the meafure of punifh mint apportioned upon tome reale adequate to the means of the delinquent, and the meafure of his de. linquency ; and fo far he approved this Bill: but he difapproved that part which, though it enabled the Whop to deprive the contumacious Non•refident of his living. yet left the procefs open to fuch great ex pence, as would in a great meafure render the claufe nugatory; betide, it would export Clergymen, againit whom fuch proceffes should he inllituted in the pro. eincial Courts. to very confiderable inconveniencies; for although juflice was adminißered in the metropo litan Courts with as much impartiality as in Weßmin- Rer Hall, yet in the provincial Courts the partieshad not the advantage of Advocates, the Judges in thole Courts for the moll part sifting themfelves a*Counfel. He inflanced a cafe %herein he bimfelf. when Bilop of Sr. David's, had prefented a living to a Clergy man. upon the exiled . , condition and &learn promote of rending; yet, having been tome time abfent from Diocefe, when he returned again, he found this Clergyman non-refident be iolbtutcd a pacers :spina bir. in his own Diocefan Court but th rough dig connivance of Prott.r. he flipped through his snsers, and continues non-reorient till this day. A prencipal nbjeft of the Bill Gr Henry Vhlf, was not only that the Cl•rvy Itumlif be refident, but, in de. bat them frrm fooling and tra ftiek that they boold be kept from low and grovellir ! : prtrfuits,and dernding attaftivest , , Ote faliation t :1)e lower at. doosai ihr people. But though he pcactily agreed in this putpofe of that tit, yet he by kb means acce ded to that defpicable Ind puritanical idea avowed by fo'me, that a Clergynnn fhould be totally abftraCteet from all purfuits or attettions whatfoever, Pave thofe of his immediate calling; for convinced he was, that the 'lndy of the liberalfciences and arts was mate rially important to quality thofe who could bell ex pound that book which formed the foundations of re ligion, and that it was neecifary for a Clergyman to mix with the world, and fee what was doing in it, the better to qualify him for ditcharging the important duties of his calling. But though he avowed this prin ciple, Rill he thought the Clergy fhould be kept from low employments. The prefent Bill allowed them to occupy farms in con fidcrable extent ; but though it might be afked if agriculture, of old laid to be the emloyment of heroes and gods, might be difgraceful to a Country Curate, yet he could by no means allow of the profeffion of a farmer as compatible with the grave dignity of the clerical charaCter : it mull lead the farming Clergyman to alfociate with the labourer in the field, to wield the fickle and fcythe, to carry his famples to market, and to chaffer and drive bar gains about his commodities, incompatible with his charafter, and degrading to his Ration. Hence the claufe on this fubjea would require very material modification, in this as well as leveret other points. He next adverted to the claufe which fubjeas the non refident to the forfeiture of one.third the income of his living, if abfent more than three months ; and fo on in a proportionate fcale of forfeiture to the degree of delinquency. But he thought the time ought not to he fo long as three months, as, with a very little degree of ingenuity, the nourefident might extend the time of his abfence to fix months, without incur ring any farther penalty. Another principle to which he objeaed in the Bill was, that it enabled the Bi (hops stir fails to grant licences for non.refidence at difcretion s without fpecifying any ground ; a eircum fiance which mull ftrike the public eye,as if the objea of the Bill ws to make loop-holes through which the Beneficed Clergy might elude their duty: but this dif cretion he wifhed not to be given, but under the moll decided reltrietion and refponfibility. That no fuch licence Ihould be given, but upon a cafe made out of the afloat neceffity, which neceflity fhould be fpe cified in the body of the licence itfelf, as the ground only upon which the abfent Clergyman could jultify himfelf, in cafe of profecution for non-relidence.— His Lordlhip made feveral other objeetions to points of lets importance, and concluded by agreeing that the Bill fhould go into a Committee, in order to its amendment. The Bifhop of OXFORD rote to enter his protelt againli one principle avowed by the Learned Prelate, refpeft to the Right of Appeal from the decifion of the Diocefan to the Archbilhop. His Lordlhip argued it as a found principle of the contlitutional law of the realm, Ecclefiaftical as well as Civil ; and as a principle tecognized bg the bell writers upon the ancient polity of the Catholic church, that the Right of Appeal fhould exift throughout, from the lower to the higher authority, and that perfeft fubordina tion (hoard exift throughout the whole, without which confufion mull neceffarily arife: for his own part, he mould feel no degradation in an appeal from his judgment to that of his Archbilhop, even though his fentence &mild be reverted ; neither, he was lure, would the Noble Lord on the woolfack feel degraded by an appeal from the decifious of his Court to this Houfe as his proper fuperior. Lord Aucatanio profited the defire'he had al ready exprefed, and Rill Gncerely wilhed that a Bill for fectuing the refidence of the Clergy, and fecuring them againft the perfecutions of an oppreffive law, fhould pats in the condi of this action. So far as this Bill had thofe objects in view, it Ihould have his fupport ; but there were other points introduced into the Bill which he thought highly obeltionable, and others again which he thought highly tweeter,. ; and nnlefs thofe defer were remedied, he had rather the Bill fhould not pats at all. One of the points to which he objefted was, the extent to which the Bill allowed Clergymen to farm, and which he feared would hive the direLt tendency to evil, Rated by the Learned Prelate who (poke laft but one. The next point to which he °Netted was, the number of ex ceptions, free from all coat:out, in favour of Clergy men, in particular cafes ; fo many, indeed, as to render the Bill, in a very great degree. nugatory. The next point to which he objeftedwas,that through out the whole Bill there was no claufe whatever which required a Clergyman. non-refident by leave for any length of time, to provide a refident Curate to do the duty of his part& in his abfence. This the Noble Lord confidered a very grievous evil, and eine utterly inadmiffible ; the claufes alto, in many places, were fo loofely worded, that any Clergyman who chofe to avail himfelf of the Bill, as it now Rood. might be abfent with impunity fifteen months out of two years. For it was emitted, that no procefs fhould be inftitut ed under this Bill until near a year after it Ihould pars into a law. If he could not receive tome affur ance from Noble Lords. that thofe objeflicrns would be remedied, he fhould vote againft the Bill. He was proceeding, when Lord CARNARIFON rote to Order, and Paid that the queftion before the Houfe w as , that the Honfe do now refolve into Committee on the Bill ; that the Noble L i ord and the Learned Prelate had declared their accedence to the principle of the Bill, and only exprefkd their wifhes for amendments. That was the very purpofe for which it was deferable to go into Committee. Neither the Noble Lord nor the Rev. Prelate had Paid one word againft going into the Committee; aU they did fay, was in fupport of the Committee, and therefore they only retarded the bulinefs by previous and diforderly Lord AUCKLAND rICSILIDtIy obkrved. he amid no longer refill the willies of the Noble Lord, whole patience and love of order were upon all oceafions fo remarkable, and which he had no doubt would ap pear equally dillinguifhable in the remaining difeuf fions on this &Nat. The Loan CH•NCIILLOR (laid. that although there certainly had been fomething diforderly is the difcuf. lion which had taken place, yet foam raddled arifen out of it. He moved. that inflead of they word now in the queftion, the words Node and be infected, obkrving, that the refult of adopting the Amend ment would be, that if the Hoak went now into the bufinels, it would occupy a difcaffion of perhaps ten hours. whereas if it was adjourned till MoOdaY•pito bably four hours would finith it. The quettion icing put, the Aahladrnent eat i4).-.AtijowaciL HOUSE OF COMMONS. A peon filen the Office of the Chief Secretary in Ireland brought up aft account of the member of uirunerios io Ireland, the number of Rilla employed in each of there, and the number of gal ' lons etch Rill contains ; with the numbe r of gallons annually ex ported from Ireland. Sir J. S. Easatwt brought up a Report of the Committee ap pointed to confider the means of providing for the Families of Scotch Militiamen ; which expences, he laid, the Committee had deter mined ought to be defrayed by an affeffment on lands and houfes. The laid Report was ordered to be referred to a Committee of the whole Houle on Monday next. Lord GLENSERTIL moved for an account of the ftatements,made out to the lateft periods, of the proceedings made by the Commit- Goners from Sales of the Land Tax on the property of Bodies Cor porate and Politic; the quantum of Stock purchafed, and the gain to the PubUe.—Ordered. . Mr. it/ z a IRALD brought up a Petition , from the Debtors coo fined its the Prifon of the Four Courts Marital, praying relief.— Ordered to lie on the table. The report on the Lzetteiner Bills &feet Bill was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Affiffed tarn Confolidation Bill, and the Confolidation Colledion Bill of the Affilfed Tare., were feverally committed, and the report ordered to be reedvecto-morrow. The Militia Transfer Bill was read a fecond time, and ordered to b 4 committed on Monday. Mr. I. H. BROWNS gave notice,that he would on Monday move the Howie to grant a fum of Money for making Roads in the High land. of Scotland. _ _ . Mr. Wreom se brought In a Bill to enable the Cornmiiiioners of the Firft Fruits in Ireland to lead certain runts for building par fonage houfcs in certain paddies in that country, which was read a 6th time. Mr BAGWELL fuggefted the propriety of alto enabling 'hors Coromiiliciners to lend money for the parade of grounds to build fuel Konica upon, as there were very many paddies in Ireland to which no &Les were annexed.—The Bill was read a heft time, and ordered to be read a ad time on Monday neat, and to be printed. The kith Ships Burning Bill was read a firft time, and ordered to be read a famed time to-morrow. _ _ The Bribery Oath Bill was ordered to be read a third time or; Tuefday nest. The Committee of Ways and Means wu poftponed to Monday. Refolved, That the Houfe refoive Itklf into a Committee of the whole Honfe on the Balt India Ships Bill to-morrow." ___ Ordered, on the motion of Mr. eel% It r, that proinflon Otould be madc for the pay and clothing of the frith Militia. COMMITTII OF SUPPLY. The Order of the Day for the Houfe to refolve into a Committee of Supply being moved, it was or dered that the account of the farther rum neceffary for the Barrackdepartment in Ireland--the eflimates relative to the pay and clothing of the frith Militia, and the charges neceffary for the Tranfport Service, thould be referred to the laid Committee. The Mute having refolved into the Committee, Sir PHILIP STIPHENS, after fome prefatory re marks, moved, that it be the opinion of the Com mittee that 4.0,000 feamen, including 8000 marines, be granted his Majetty for (even months, from the Isth inftant. Colonel Woos thought ken Marines not a fulE. eient number; it was his with that the increafed number of Marines thould amount to 20,900. Sir P. STEPHENS Rated, that we had already 4.,000 marines in the fervice. to which, when the Roc* now propofed were added, we thould have a larger number of that defeription of force, than bad been ufual heretofore. Mr. BASTARD obferved, that the marine was a very favourite fervice, and that, in his opinion, it would therefore be a better mode of railing men for the public defence, than to have recourfe to the plan of forced levies, which had been hinted at the other night. It was, on that account, he regretted that more marines were not propofed, as men could be had fo eafily for that fervice. The Szearraav at WAR concurred in the compli ments paid to the marines, and in the propriety of augmenting that force as far u was pratticable; but fuggefted that the prefent motion would not preclude Gentlemen from propofing that increafe, if it lhould appear neceffary. Lord Tll4 rs.s put a queltion referring to the Itatements of the Hon. Mover—whether it was to be underftood that the number of feamen to which the Hon. Baronet alluded, was now aaually on board t Sir Planar STIPHIIIIS replied, that Bo,ooofeamen, including marines, were neceffarily forthcoming for the Blips now in conunifion. The Hon. Baronet moved, on the firft motion being agreed to—that 5 tB,oool. be granted for the payment of this force. The CHANCILLOR oT the EXCNIIO.2IIt IrOfe to COl%. telt a naconception which might arife from the flatement of his Hon. Friend (Sir Philip Stephens). When he mentioned 80,000 (cameo, he did not mean that that number was at prefent on board, but that it was neceffary to man the number of (hips now in commifGon. The Houfe had already voted 60,000 (cameo, and 70,000 were *dually raife4 ; but to (up. ply the Blipping he alluded to, there was am a deficit of to,ooo men. The motion was agreed to, as were the following: 53sPoof. for vicuanivs this farce. Lispool. for wear aad taw of Gips. 'coma for Ordnance. teiewecil. for hire, ke. of Tranfports. Eisoccd. for charge of Paeans for the year 403. sopool. for funkr drage of ditto for ditto. The SIICR !TA It I" it WA It moved fill' 24,5m01.75.g. towarls defraying the expences of the Barrack -partment in Ireland.—Agreed to. The Houle refumed. and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. CONSIILIDATION OF The CUSTOM DUTIES. On the Order of the Day for the Houle to go into a Committee on the Bill for Coofolidating the Duties on Cufloms, r The Cot•scit Loa of the Excueor ea rote and raid, I that before the motion for the Speaker to leave the 3 Chair, he begged leave to make a few obfervations, which he doubted not would confiderably fare the time of the Houfe, as he would Ihortly Bate to the Houfe the feveral alterations propofed to be made in the Bill.—Several Petitions, he (aid, had been pre. rented from the Thread La ce blinufallurers of the counties of Buckingham, Bedford, Northampton, tire. &c. complaining of the duties intended zo be laid on goods of this defcription propofed to be allowed to be imported The intention of this was as much as poifible to afGB the fair trader, and to counters°, as far as could be done, the defigns and fchemes of the fmuggler. He imagined that 3n this article them was to the amount of 400,0001. brought into the country, of which not more than so,oool. paid duty. Some alteration. therefore, was abfolutely necelTary. The attempt to prObibit it entirely would pofitively be nugatory and inefedual, the article being to bo brought into the country in fo full a cornea& It was propofed k on this account, to lay a duty some. brew j wad st had been determined to fix on a rum that Sonia difcountenance the (muggier, and give every poirsbk advantage to the fair trader. He had found, Emma the heft information be had beta able to procure, that the fmnggler could enfure his profits in time of peace at to per cent. and in time of w.tr at is per cent. He, therefore, prepaid, the ad valorem duty Ibould be fixed at 20 per cent. which he thought would be fuch a medium or average, as would not fail to fecure the fair trader. The only difficulty he thought would be to (leer clear of fixing the duty fo high, as to endanger the intereß of the manufadurer, or fo low as to injure competition at home. Under the prefent circumftances of the country, he thonght there was no rear on to fear for our home roanatc tures, as, during the continuance of the war, our thread lace manufadures had greatly flouri(hed, and fince the peace it had confiderably fallen off. In general it had been found that immediately after, and, indeed, for Come confiderable time lubfequent to the making. of peace, contraband trade was brit and moft effectually fuppreffed by fixing a low duty, which took away the inducement-the (muggier had to make exertions and run rides, when his profits would be little or nothing ; and if at any time at. terwards it fhould be found neeefrary, a higher duty may be laid on : but there was no principle more clear than this, that a contraband trade cannot be demolithed all at once. It had been the (ludy, and was the continual with of his Majefty's li nifters, to ufe every means in their power to pm. tea the manufaaures of the country, and they were very glad to receive every degree of information which fhould enable them to . allay any alarm's that might take place in the minds of our own manufac turers, Another refpeaable defcription of perfons he (aid, had been confiderably alarmed at the per miffion that was to be given to the impartation of fo reign porcelain. The duty on this had been ins per cent. and it was propofed to reduce it to so per cent. which he thought would have been a complete pro. teaing duty. It was not, however. ennfidered to be fo by the manufadurers of this article in this country, who have urged, in the tirongeill terms, their appre. henfion that this manufadure would be greatly in jured, if this alteration in the duty was to take place. Under there eireumflances, he had under. taken to recommend it to the Houfe to increafe the duty from sol. to gOl . per cent. and if that fhould not be found fufficient. to inereafe the duty Rdl more, and make it higher, as the nature of the cafe might be found to require. The third point be had to notice, he faid, was the petitions from perfons in the filk trade. It was well known, that the importation of manufadured Mk from Bengal, was altogether pro. hibited. All precautions to prohibit it entirely had been found ineffeaual t bat he thought that by a duty of 2s per cent. on that article, the trade of the (muggier would town be entirely demolithed. He bad propoled that the importation of filk handkerchiefs Ihould be confined to the average on the fates of the EMI India Company for the lali (even years, but he now recommended that the prohibition fhould be re newed during the war, with the power of fufpending it afterwards, as the Houfe may think proper. lie Paid, he thought he &cold not be doing juftice to thofe refuel:table perfoas who had pretested petitions, as well as thole who bad waited on him on the mess. Pion, if he did not fay that he believed they had not the (=Heft with or intention in what they had done, or in the further Reps they intended to purfue, to embarrafs his Majefty's Minifters in the execution of the patent mature, but that they had ailed purely from the juft eaufe of alarm they thought they were bound to maintain for the intsreft of different important maaufadtures in which they were (evenly engaged. He believed, however, they were ell Co pettedly fatis fi ed with the modifi cations anti altera tions propofed to be made in the bill, that they would decline giving the Houle the trouble of hearing Coon fel on their behalf. lie begged pardon for having to long detained the Hoare front going into the Coin, mittee, but he had been induced to fay Ce much, in hopes of Caving their time after the Speaker fhould leave the Chit,. Lord Tam PLR thanked the Chancellor of the En. chequer for the very candid manner in which he had made known the modifications, and Acid be fhoold withhold all further oppofition to the Bill, on the part of thofe from whom he had prefented petitions again(! Lord G. L. Gowta alto thanked the Right Ho. nonrable Gentleman for his candour in explaining his motives, as well u for the feveral *modifications and alterations be propofed to make in the He had in his head, he faid, a petition from the lace manufaiturers, which, after what had }nil fallen from the Right. Hon. Gentleman, he &add not preft any farther. Mr. Macram***, in behalf of the Silk ?danufae turers, expreffed himfelf highly. fatisfied with what the Chancellor of the Exchequer had fo candidly Rifted. Mr. Alderman Comas returned the Right Hon. Gentleman his warmeß acknowledgments, not only for his candour on the prefent. but for his general candour on all occafions in which he bad an upper. 6;114 of (hewing it. Hi Paid, that at any &tun time he mould be happy to give every ;Aflame and facility to fuch further modifications or alterations as might be deemed neceffary. Gen. GASCOYM (aid, he was lorry he was obliged to objea at prefent to the Speaker's leaving the Chair t but a. he had no thanks to return to the Right Hon. Gentleman for any candour be bad fhewn, as to that part of the Bill which he bad the remelt °Nation to, he hoped he thould be excufed if he made a few obfervations on the fubjea. He objelted to this Bill in In far as it limed to introduce w new principle la making a dillinaion on the taxes to be charged in non part of the empire more than another. He was well aware that what might be oppreffive to Ireland might not be fo to England ; and he was impreffed with the idea that there ought to be no difference fubfilling be twixt thefe two parts of the Britiflt dominions, in re ttiell to trade and navigation. The laying taxes on one part, and leaving the other exempted. was oh. vioufly prejudicial to that equality in trade which ought to AMR, according to the articles of the Union. He was far from willing to extend a tax to Ireland, which night be reckoned in any degree op preffive ; but he willsed that the trade of the country ihould be put upon an equal footing. If, however, it be Lid that the trade of Ireland requires tome ea couragement which this country does not, he thorld not be againit allowing it t though he could not think that loch could potfibly follow as a matter of ri g ht. He would alit. %hat advantage has the trade of Eng' land received from the Union with Ireland he begged leave to read past of the Ail of nig"! 'did"! to the geniality in point of aariantooo al;i