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GERAIAA r. HAMSCRGH, MARCH R e z-. ll blic cf Stvcri United Iflands 11.1 s I.r.t. ;oli,itr y to it. Peeilbulgh, who has a:re:.uy tivrd at Vienna. deuryinds which, accor:.:ag to come arcrinits, the new Frcncli Litt:%F., is charged to will, it k I.ni, occ.flior, firongeft of G:.tat lirit.aiL Ituair, and Aattria,*v+o!ii teten it is to prevent I:seir 1),..ng granted. ei ag.Unti thele new deflgik of acquit:::!.;:iddi tii-r.al in9.uenca h.uve be,:a made to the French Embairy at Peteilb,ii;ll, on w'lich account Capt. Nicw,ttin arrived on the Bth intl. from Rufria at Berlin, and continued h 6 route to Paris with the gre.t tell eSpedition. The difpatches he beings to Government are reported to be of the highea importance. It Items now evident to the t:warts interefted in faw:lr of the Porte, that the 1 7 :c:eh meditate the defign to form a military de pot in European Turkey and the Levant, iutl as they did in Ho:land and Switzerland, and For the tame ambitious purpofes. RUSSIA. Sr. PMRSEURGH, Fes. I.—The Court Ga zette of to-day. announces the appointment of Ge peril BUDDERG to the office of Military Governor of Peter'burgh ; alfo, that Admiral Moonwisow, Mirifter of the Marine, is difmiffed, at his requeft, from all his employments. The Estraess's birth day was to have been ce lebrated on the a;th January by a public Marque rade in the Winter Palace; but the exceffive cold having prevented its taking place, it was deferred to the day before yefterday, when more than to,ooo marks were prefent. Vice. Admiral TSCHITSCHAGOT, who is named Colleague of the Minifter of the Marine, now per forms alone all the bufinefs of that office, which probably will nqt be immediately filled again. Fes. 4.—Our Monarch, convinced of the juflice of the pretentious of his brother-in-law the Eleftor Palatine of BAVARIA, has again difpatchcd expref fes to Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Ratilbon, and Mu. nich, to fupport them. The price of houfes, which had fallen very con fiderably under the laft reign, are now, as well as boufe rent, rifen in a molt furprifing manner.— New buildings are every where erecting : many with to purcaafe houfes, and thofe who have them will not fell. The house now inhabited by the Pages being in a ruinous (late, the EMPEROR de termined to put chafe a fuitable building for this citabliffiment, now lo much increafed ; but the prices are fo exorbitant, that his Majefty has or dered for the pick:lt a bode to be hired. Fes. ig.—An important office, called Count - el- ' lora of the Empire, is now ettablithed : the per lons holding it are to be learned Jurifts, and to affilt the Minifter of Jake. They will be three or four in number, viz.--One or two for the Ruffian, one for the German, and one for the Polifh Provinces; thefe Provinces having all their peculiar laws and rights. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, MARCH 12,..-011E loan, which Ras fcarcely opened, is already filled, though on the whole it is not fo advantageous as that of laR year. More has been fubfcrihed than was wanted, that is, than twenty-three millions of florins, for In mach was th;:zkfi:it. The Landgrave of Heire C alone fubfcribed a million. Many other le. cfpccial'::• from Germany, likewife fub f.:nbed c0::11.!era . ..:.: (urns. M.,acu !S.—A Courier from the FIRST CON cut., uhn is arrived at the French Ambairador's, Las br•Aight difpatehes, upon the receipt of which The fa!ling r t th- expeiltion fnr Louifiana was c °ante file troops had already left their recralive quarters t r be eruharked ; they are now returning t.. ihe's. Several battalions will be can toned at Hei voet, arid in the environs, where they will wait the ulterior dirpfiticns of the French Cc,veridnent. ..... Frequent (late conferences are held ; feveral c(airiers have been difpltehed to different deflina tiuns ; and orders have been fent to the Marine Cotinc,l, and the War and Finance Departments. We hear that Admiral Havvsiack, who was to have relieved Admiral Da WINTLIt. in the Medi terranedn, will not fail with his fquadron from our potts till ir be decided whether peace will be pre fer ved nr not. _ _ f;,n Englifh meirenger has brought difpatchesfor Mr. LIiTON, the Briti(h Minifier, and is gone with impnetant difpatehes to the Northern Cuurts. Our Funds fall more and more every day ; yet a f.jfe repoit circulated at Amilerdam, that the difratec between England and France had beer. ned, the day befcre yellerday, tile f fittween tan and three per cent. but yeller day, when the tumour was proved to be unfound ed, they fell to the price at which they were before it was in eirctdatinn. _ Authentic letters from Dunkirk. Rate, that these were a few days ago dilturbances among the per. funs employed in the Dock Yards of the Republic, who withed to regulate their pay according to the price elproyifions. Several of the rioters were taken up, but the armed force WAS under the neceffity of being call. ed in. Tranquillity teemed to be reftored after the apprehenfion of the ringleaders—but a great de gree of fermentation Rill CliaS. ROTTERDAM. MARCH i9.—The grand queßion of Peace or War is fufpended on the will of Ilms A PARTE. There is no aLfolute hnftility pre-detcr• mined by the Englifn Minifiry ; the limits of con ffir.n, on their part, are chalked out; and as may approach that point without in;tiry to lief (.stet .• n: her honour, it is hoped the will neigh ei oulroisnres, and fuller the fealr to prepon e4t t•• • a IL.: of liumar.ity, of reg trd for i.,tersaii. of this country, v.hich Art iM EDC..I4.4ICir at flake ; thus coutriaciog us cl this im• portet.ce cf Ler amity. PARLIAMENTiIItr PROCIEDIICGS. lIOL'SF OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13. Connie; we-e f....tner heard relative to the Scotch Appeal, Crast !uri viz ;he Ham Mr. H. rliae at eur.fider sth in tor:ir uat'.on, ac lea:!ing for t:.c Fterpori dert. Tl•e Carthe: ht trinz WAS 2..)Ju11,ed Friday. The Earls of Rodin and Aboyne were fwora and took their _ . vAtiou.; be;oce the Houfe were forwarded in their rt!;-t - ; among thefe the Paddington Canal Comps -I.', was t tad a third time and palled. \ ZNDEIt brought up a Metrage from the Commons r, cni;,g the lieft , lutiens of the Houle relative to the printing an,.; p ,cr'g,•inn rf certain Statutes, &e. and Rating that the c0n0n,, , ,s /Ltd s7ce,l to the amend nests made by their Lord thips ice raid Rlfolutions. Several return Lills, chiefly Naturalizations, were brought up :rani the Commons by Mr. GrAham, and laid upon the table. Mr. A u XANDER a:,l others brought up the Bank of Ireland Bell riaion Bill. .... private Bill, which was read Mr. W. M. PITT brought up a p a first time. _ _ _ .... On the queftiou Fcii; put for the frft readiug of the Bank of Irctand Ike/41610n bill, Lord KING rote to exprefe a with that this Bill &fluid not pafi through the Houfe without due ern airy into its necaty. In order that th' it I rrdthipsmi?lst be fully acquainted with the grounds upon which It Will brought in, he thought it would be proper that the Bill be printed. When it came to be read a (econd time, his Lordship faid that he Mould trouble the Houfe with a few obfervations upon it. Lord Lill& RICK was exceedingly fatiqled at finding that it was the Noble Lord's intention to bring the Bill under difeuf- Con ; and the more fo as no inquiry had been Inftituted in the las Parliament to ground its neceffity. The WAS then ordered to be printed. The (new) Iritb Poltagu Rates Bill was read a (amid time, the commitment thereof negatived, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. \Ytceuast brought up the Iriits Militia Amended Bill from the Commons, which was read a kill time. . . . . Some routine bufinefs was then difpured of; after which their Lordfhipa adjourned till two o'clock to-morrow, when the Committee of Privileges fi t, relative to the ChandOs Peerage. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A new Writ was ordered for a Member to ferve for the Bo rough of Brachia!, in the room of General Egerton, now Earl of Brackley. The Greenland Whale Flfhery Seamen Bill was read a zdthne. General Gascoin us gave notice, that on Monday he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to equalize the mature by the barbel of all Salt imported into Ireland. He was then proceed. ing to make tome obfervations, when he was interrupted by SPtAK.F.a, who laid he could not luffer any Gentleman barely giving notice of a motion, to enter into Itatements which might prepoit fs the minds of other gentlemen on that fubje& Mr. W. W. POLE brought up a Bill for invelling in the Board of Ordnance certain Lands at Vi'oolwich, for the accommoda tion of his Majcily's Ordnance. The BM was read a Brit, and ordered to be read a feeond time to-morrow. The ATTORNEY GPNIULAL obtained kite to bring in I MU for appointing Commifiloners to diftfibute certain (inns of mo ney to be paid by the United Staten of America, to perfons in thin country having Chii®a of Compost:lnca under the Con vention of 1800. ST. GILIS'S BURIAL GROUND. Sir J. An DIRSON moved for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Parifh of St. Giles to make a new Burial Ground. The S - obferred, that a Bill to this effetl had already paired that Houk, and was loft in confequence of fome Amendments made in it by the Lords. This was a pradice frequently followed in the other Houle, with regard to Bills that went to lay a tax on the public ; and he was aftoniflied it fhould be done, after the Hoare of Commons had, on every occafion of the kind, afferted its privileges by rejeding the Bill. If another' Bill fhould be brought into the Houle, be could not ad mit (in terms) the Amendment made by the Lords in the lad. Sir Roster Burrow highly approved of the fentiments which fell from file Speaker. and hoped the Houfe would, in cafes like the prefent. always maintain its privileges.—Leave was then given. CALL OF TIER HOUSE. The SPEAKER gave notice that he would to• morrow call over the Lilt of thole Members who had been abfcnt on a former Ballot, and who fhould be then abfent ; and that he would count the Honk at half pall three o'clock. The SECRETARY at WAR oblerving that feveral Motions were made for granting leave of abfence to Members, laid, that if this practice was purfued much farther, it ought to be pin a flop to, and no more indulgences of this kind (hould be granted, without fome fubftantial cattle being given, fuch as ill health, or having flayed on foam Elation Committee. SUPPLY. The Criancrt.Loa of the Excnit`Cia moved, that the Honk fhould refolve into Committee of Supply ; and that the dirpolition Account of Grants for Great Britain, which had been prelent• ed to the Houle by Mr. Alcock, on the 23d of February laft, lbould be referred to the laid Com mittee.—Ordered. The Houfe having gone into the Committee, The CHANCELLOR of the Exc or rci,t , CR 11.ited, that the fnms which he prupoled to move Mould be granted to 1,4 Nl.iicity, would amount, altogether, to 9:c,000l. of which 868,0cc1. would be for the discharge of Exchequer Bills, iffued in purfuance of the Ails of the 39th, 4oth, on, and od, of his prefect 111.1jcily. It would be reconciled, he nbferved, that upun the tall Loan, prompt pay ment had been made on but a fITIAII part of the in ilalmems ; and tkit of conrfe IFrved to increafe the interen of the outilAnding Exchequer Bills. The following Refolutions were then moved and agreed to :- 868,90. Rt. td. for tilt dif . ..harge of the Exchequer Bill, d.ftribed by , he Chancellor of the Exchr t cool. lc*. eo make rood adv..need to the Commit. ft:tiers fur rcjvcing t:le National Debt, for the payment of fa larks to their ulcers, and other nicidental expences. scil. for el!ra trouble to the officers employed in making out 1 cchc,:uer Bills. 25,5641. 6d. to the Bank of F.n7,l,:nd, for difrount mike Loan of tScs ; and 52,5581. as. :d. to ditto, for mete ins the eontrii:ution to ditto. • 37:1. Iv'. to John Wilmott, N. for the cxaminatiou of ea taiu Claims. .thcc.l. f o r certain Incidental expenees for the laft year. 'flit Houfe refumed, zt.d the Report was order ed to be received tomorrow, and the Committee to fit again on Friday. CATHOLICS. The MASTER of the ROLLS rote, porfuant to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to re move certaia inconveniencies and difabilities to whiA the Catholics of Great Britain are at pre fect 1 , 11..ic0, in corifequence of two oaths prefcrib ed /lets of the iftlyt and 311! of hi, preterit Majtfl:•, hoth r:f which were intended for their relief. The as of the :ith tbt. lion. Cca tieman obarved, was introduced by Sir Georget Savile, and that of the 3111 by the prefent Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The former was dcfigned to releafe the Catholics from the penalties to which they were liable by the ails of the 1 ith and 12th of William 111. and the latter from them which had been impofed by any ftatutes from the reign of William tip to the period at which it had been enafted ; but by neither the 18th nor the 3111 were the llatutes to which they referred aftually repealed. The benefits they allowed were only conditional. They were not communicac,d to all Catholics in diferiminately, but to fuch only as difclaimed cer tain opinions, and as took and fillifcri bed the oaths which were f pecified in thofe two ads. From thefc oaths arofe the confution which it was his objelt to remedy ; for, according to the aria letter of the law, no one was entitled to the combined benefits of thofe efts, who had sot taken both the tells they preferibed, and it fo happened that the greater number of Catholics only took the oath mentioned in the 3111 of the King, not conceiving the other neceffary. Their furprife, of courfe, was great when, on inftances occurring to inveftigate the tenure of their eftates, they found they poll - died no legal claim ; for, though they might conform to the Aft of the 3 111, yet in omitting to take the oath which the Aft of the 18th direfted, they re mained fubjet to all the difabilities impored by the t ith and 1 ath of William 111. among which was a difqualification to hold lands by defient, devife, or purchafe. The Houfe, he apprehended, would not Coffer the Catholics to continue thus circum flaneed, merely in conrequence of there two oaths, to retain both of which was sot by any means ne• ceffary, as the diftinaion between them was quite immaterial, amounting only to an omillion in that part of the firft which related to the renunciation of allegiance to Charles the Pretender, who was not in exiftente when the laft tell was enafted. Yet the effea of this difference was fuch, that a Ca tholic, who, by taking the tea prefcribcd by the 3111 of the King, was a good fulajea under that Aft, might fill be a bad fubjea according to the Aa of the 18th. Thus, through neglect, inadver tence, or ignorance, a Catholic might he fubjefted to confiderable inconvenierroies. From a full per fualion, therefore, that the requilition of there tells was quite unneceffary, and that it involved a legiflative incongruity which ought not to exift, the Learned Member concluded with moving for leave to bring in a Bill to entitle fuch Catholics as have taken, or may hereafter take, the oath pre- Icribed by the Aft of the 3t t 1 of his prefent Ma. , jelly,to all the benefits given by the Aft of the 18th. The Motion was referred to a Committee, and on the Houfe refuming leave was given to bring in the Bill, which was brought in accordingly.— Read a firft, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Monday next. 1 MILITIA OFFICERS RILL. Mr. WINDNAM laid, it was not his intention to oppefe this Bill, although it was in his mind highly objeftionable ; but he would confent to it, becaufe of two evils it was the feller. It certainly would be a greater evil, that the Militia fhould be with. out any Officers at all, than have the unqualified perfons [fated in the Bill. The word Militia was now a mere term, which had in it nothing of its original fignification. The Officers were to be wanout qualification in point of property, the men were raifed without ballot. The idea of excluding from it all property, and putting military experi ence in its (lead, took away from it every thing like a confiitutional force. This only ferved to confirm the opinion he gave on a former evening, that it would be better to have an effeCtive Itand ing army at once, than a force which could not be cunfidered as a Conftitutional Militia, and which wanted the benefit of experience ; but inllead of that, the country was now otvr. ntilitia'd. While he protected againft the principle of bringing the mi litia to a fimilarity with the army, he would be glad if, in Come ref - peas, the army could be brought to a fimilarity with the militia. The grand objec tion to the prefent conftitntion of the army was, that it could not be raifed with the fame facility as the militia, which even robbed the A 711 1 ,/ of meg. —Nine guineas were now given for lubilitutes to ferve in the militia. The plan be would recom mend with refpet to the army was, that men thould be entitled for a term of years, which was done in every other coinery but this, and that the praetice of drafting Ihould be wholly abolillsed. Every military man he ever converted ' with AEI eed o.ith him in this. The very regula tions in the prefent Bill, for Coffering unqualified perfons to come into the Militia, in cafe others did ' not offer, would make the evil fill greater, and more officers from the army would be dill wanted. Thus would the army be robbed of its oleers as I well as its men. The SICRET•RY AT WAR laid, that this was not the time for confidering the queftion whether there ought to be a militia or no militia at all ; or for propofing changes in the mode of recruiting the army ? the only qitellion at this time was, How were we to make the belt of the force we had ? He admitted, that in all the armies on the Continent the men were entitled for a term of years, but there was a material difference between thofe countries and Great Britain. There the troops hardly ever went beyond the frontiers of the State they belonged to ; but a great part of the Britifh army was fent on Colonial fervice ; fo that great inconvenience would arife if the men were enlisted only for a term of years; as to draft-' ing, it was totally abolithed. The Hon. Gentle man had arued as if the prefent Bill laid a fi de every quali fication ; it did no fuch thing ; it only gave the Lord Lieutenant a power, in cafe of his not being Ale to procure quali fi ed Officers, to fill up the places with Officers from the army, &e. In order to do away every kind of jealoufy on this fnbjet, he thould move a claufe, by which the Lords Lieutenants fhould not have power to ap point unqualified perfons to any rank higher than that of Captain. This claufe was adopted, but it is not to extend to Scotland. L rd STANI.II* foggefted. whether it would not ! be ad vilahle to adopt tome emote relative to Ro• t man Catholics, who might be Officers in the Mi- lit;4 ; .i. great part of the landed property of the county he came from belunr l c...l to men o' t , petluafion. The SECRETARY AT WAR Lid, he had It, Amendments topropore to the Committee to . . „ added to the Bill:—the one afrer the word " "... lath," to infert " or in any other corp.; ferving ;" and the other, " that the p.m :r to Lords Lieutenants (hall not extend beyond t} - rank of Captain," to be added as the conel.ll,..it of the claufe which !lutes that power. further add, that he did not v..:fir this amended part of the clatife, to ever;,i t.r Sec: 11:,d Mr. KINN•IRD laid, he was not prepared ..tt preterit to (late which way the dirpatitions people in that part of the Empire might in,line ; but he fhould be glad to know of the Right Ho nourable Secretary, if a with should be expreti:2d to a contrary etre& by the inhabitants of the part alluded to, whether they would be allowed the gratification of that fentiment ' The SRCRITARY AT WAR laid, that the body • is the claufe already extended equally to Enght;tc and Scotland ; but if they withed that the provifo thould be extended there alfo, it could be done on the third readiqg of the Bill. The AMendments were then agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Mon day next. The Committee of Ways and Means was then pollponed to Friday.—Adjourned. LONDON. The rank of Sir Jac°, Arnett st. (Mond Ittawoon, fe defamation, which is inferted in this day's Paper, was tried on Tuefday at Thetford. Belng a califs of great mediation, we have procured an early and faithful report of it. THURSDAY, MARCH 14 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS ghtY AT ONE O'CLOCK x 3 per C. Coa atone!, 64i t# t Ditto, for April ace. 64, . Otanittm it/ dit PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: 3 Per C. Conf. 6 40 it. I Ezchcq. BUM, 4s.to ss.diL, per C. Ann. pat 9 8 44 011111tOM ni Imp. 3 per Cent 634 Englitk Tickets t3l. TB4. Imp. Ana. sr 1-16 ConEfor Ap. sec. 644 ii 61 Major• General STV ALT, who fucceeded Lod CAVAN in the command of the Britiflt troops a Alexandria, arrived in town yeßerday, and im mediately waited on Lord HAWKSSIOItY and his Royal Highnefs the Duke of YORK. He came through France, and his reception at Par:: was by no means fo favourable as he had reafon to expo% The arrival of this Officer renders it highly pro. .bable that Egypt has at length been evacuated by our troops ; an event for which, indeed, the laR difpatch of Lord Esc ix, infered in the Gazette of Tuefday, muR in a great meafure have prepared the public mind. LA night pother Mail arrived from Ham. burgh. The only thing worthy of notice which it brings is a repetition of the intelligence we laid before our Readers Come days ago, of the French meditating a defign to form a militiry depot in European Turkey and the Levant. The affair feems now to engrofs Come attention fron; the Courts of St. Peterfburgh and Berlin ; and it is extremely probable that there Powers, as our own Government has dose, will refufe to accede to the do trine that " Great Britain has nothing to do with the affairs of the Continent." Is France to interfere without refervc in the affairs of Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and Turkey, and the only country which can effenually oppofe her in mea.. Cures, which require maritime exertions, to be cut off from interference ? Other powers, it would feem, begin to have their eyes opened to the conic. cinenc;s that would refu:t to the European States fuch pretenfions were tamely aequiefced in. We have taken the more particular notice of this French meafure at the prefent moment, from finding by acounts received by the Lithon mail of this morning, that every meafure of that Govern. meat feems direifted to the fame fyflem. Previous to the failing of the packet, accounts had been re ceived at Lifbon from Spain, that BONAPAILTS had iniißed on the Spaniards immediately fending 7.::c0 troops to garrifon the Mend of Minorca: alio , th.d a number of Britilh troops had landed on the 11).and of Sardinia. That the Spaniards have a right to fend what force they will to Minorca no one will deny. It has been given As to them, and they have a right to occupy it as they pleafe ; but that BOIN•PAIVell lhould i ffuc his fisend.or for the meafure is the higheit prefumption I To the intelligence, relative to a number of Britifh troops having occupied the ifland of srdinia, we cannot give implicit belief till it (hall receive farther confirmation. Oor Readers' however, will recoiled, that a rumour was fome time ago circulated, that this country h.i purclialeJ from the KING of SAaDIIIA the 14 vereignty of that Itind. A confufed account was at the fame time circulated of a naval battle between a French and Britifh fquadron near that quarter, and which has fine been entirely difcre• diced. It is poflible the report, though unfounded. originated on the Continent, from a knowledge that fome arrangement of the kind alluded to was aaually intended, and from a belief that the French `would refill it. If, however, this country has aftually purchafed 'the fo%ertignty of Sardinia, can France offer any argument againß the meafure that does not apply with equal force, at lean apiall every thing vr P Ti th Pr fic troy bay thai nal crir GI, tam •:i i R at ii; risl fore t;i11 Cha eAry ti9n iroi te:n cnr real To' c.vc th.:l nzw the of