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FRANCE. PARis, MAY 7. - . The Duke of BEDFORD dined Taft Saturday with the Minitler of Foreign Affairs. The Duchefs of Gotztoto, Lady GSORGIAN A, her daughter, and .1 great many Englifh of difliattion, dined alfo with the Minifier. They (peak of the return of General Roc RAM SCA u from Saint Domingo, and of his being foe ceeded by General LAPOY rt. Government has naffed a decree for the execu tion of the Will of Major General CLauns MA It stx, a native of Lynns, who died in India, in the fervice of the Englillt Eafi India Company. He Das left a confiderable legacy to his native city. The Wand of Goree, at the mouth of the Meufe, is now put into a moll refpeetable (late of defence. Fire per Cents. 54 I. 75 c. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. 1 MILAN, A►RIL 25.—Letters from Naples Rate, that the Englab few: as if defirous to occupy the Mild of Sicily, in or. :r to prevent the French from feiaing it, in cafe war Ihould break out.— Several light flotillas are to be Rationed near Mel- Ana and Catania, in the (trait which feparates Si cily from the kingdom of Naples. HAMIURGH,APRIL 29.—1 t is generally afferted ip Ruffin, that a camp will be eltablilbed on the frontiers of Gallicia : it is to confill of 80,000 men, rommanded by the EMPEROR in perfon. It is there that ALEXANDER I. it is Paid, will have an interview with the EMPEROR of GRRMANT and the KING 01PRIESSIA. Prince WILLIAM of CLOUCISTaI has arrived at Hanover: he is ex pefted at Berlin on the 6th of next month. The intended journey of his Palls. SIAM MAJESTY will not take place till after the re. views: the King's brothers will accompany him. Bourses LS, MAY s.—Letters from head-quat tens at Bruffels Rate, that the French troops, which continue to proceed towards Nimeguen, will fuon occupy a camp traced out between that city and Arnheim. The number of men affembled in that quarter, were firh ellimated at fix thottfand, but new advices fay, that this corps will be augmented. We learn by the way of Holland, that there mili tary difpolitions have fpread great &alternation throughout the Elefturate of Hanover. The Re. gene! has difpatched couriers to Vienna, Berlin, and London : it has requeßed inftruCtions front the Britilb Government how to aft under cit cumltances of fo critical a nAttire. rim LIA MBA' T.4ltr PRUCE Di iv GS. HOUSE OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY, MAY I t. Catinfel were heard relative to the Scotch Appeal, the Car ron Company .. Ogilvie. namely, Mr. Clarke, in combination, on the part of the Appellants, and Mr Adam. u leading Coun. fel for the Refpondent. After which the further bearing was adjourned till Friday. On the motion of the Earl of RADNOR, the Committee of Privileges was ordered ttifit to-morrow. Lord AUCKLAND built/ moved for the produdtion of an account of the oat permanent RCIICINIC, as far as it had been made op, the tune was acenolingly prefented by Mr. FICTION Iran the Treafury; and certain accounts, relative to the E:• elk, were ordered to be laid before the Houfe ni. the motion of Lerdihip. Lord Ho BAIT prefeete4 the Order of Craned prohibitory of the etportadon of Pig-Iroo and die Stores, 'or the molt of Atria. except fuel as might be regulate (or the fervire of the bold& 'arnica , lee. in tliofe parts.... Ordered to lie er. the Table. Dills upon the Table were forwarded in their (corral la rd CARRINGTON ob'erv.ll. that being of opinion the Not riosboto Piedtkro Bill Oa .uld pafs with all convenient expedi tion, k awe his intuition to have moved for its fecond reading. had he fan a Noble Lord, w'..ta zprcared tclintereft himfelf on the esemlion, in his place. Hz than gave antler, that be Mould lawn for its &coed reading on Friday. After tradaang Come private bufasers, their Lordfisipe ad jaunted till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Montgomery Stewart took the oaths and his feat for Kirkeedlsright. An Order was made that the Committee appointed to take bee emilderatioo the Petition prifented by the Cotton Menu ladefele, et - ohl ham lease to report from time to time. Oa the motion of Colonel 11.aent Lt. the Clerk read the Order or the Houk. made in March Lift, by which the Clerks or the Peace belonging to the direr( ot counties In Ireland, were to make out Mona of all the actinides.; in each county. The Han. Member then moved, that ticy do make returns forth with eciittorn.:hly to the laid Order. This motion, after a t moverf..tion rlt o importanee, was agree? to. N.Y.ke was given of a motion for Monday nest, to bring joie Senipfon, the Mayor of Omit Grinalby, to the bar, In order to b: tlifehatged. The Secitc. Schoclmalt , Ts* BM was read a famed Um:, and referred to a a. I,:t Committee. 9 9 lb.: :Action of Lard CAST Lame AC ti, the Fart India Com pany% Voloetter Corps Bin was read a third time, and paged. Me Lora* thwe bod e=eill Monday his intended motion relative he Mr. Ifeeetettreew 1110•14 to difebarge the Ordn of the Day, der the Hods to midge kfelf vie a Committee on the Medi ci.' Dor A& whit& was alone. He then moved, that the Meek de eekkeideltinte the laid Committee on Friday neat, tar the Rorie edgiving time to palate to Rate their uhjec- The 'Moltke Metes Bill was read a third time, palled, and mama/ to the Lank. Iso Expoetatioa Bill was read a (mood time, and kr Friday. AltatlT OP DEBTORS. Mr. TiT (aid, he waited to extend to Ireland, the a Bill which had been bro• ght down from the Dada foe the better prevention of VellatlOUS anvils; and he tattled, he Sould not he guilty of a breach of parliamentary &curium In musirg, that the Bid mould he read a Silt time, SO miter that he Might afterwards move for its heir; extended to !reload. The S raid, It was anquellinnably in the power of any Member to move the Silt reading of a Bill on the fame day k was fent down from t`e Lords. The HZ was read a Grit time; and, upon the motion that it Mudd be read a feond time, Mr. Ferro waked to proprife a motion with a view to extending th r wifions of the Bill to Inland. The S übferved, that it was Dot competent In the Ham Meriber to make loch a motion. He might bring it foes ward to a alifequent Rage of 'he BilL Mr. Fii to iirdrei a %rah, that the Bill Mould be rimed, wheels was rotred accordingly. 1111111 CC/VATS Of LAW. Mr Lai mr;;;;ltite Order of the Day fnr thr fioufe to refolve itfelf into a Committee on the Irdb Courts of Law Bill. The Houfe ref, lved itfelf into the Paid Committee, Mr. Jolts Sl4 I I H in the Chair. Mr. Lee faid, he meant to papone the conr.- derail:o of the rergt of the Bill tdl fait day of next Mlehaelma, term, in order that the judges might in the mean titiy= h.. c oabled to form an 1 opinion nn the fulijeet of ;he cla ufes introduced in the Committee. rrir affording a Mr. Ll e next prop-Ad a (Lure • remedy, where personal fervice COJ Id not be ob tained, by fubftituting other modes ,of fervice in lien thereof. Mr. La s ohferved, that there were r, uly certain parts of the Bill with regard to which tt tere could be any difference of opinion in the Hou.re ; as to the Bill itfelf, it came recommended by the Judges of Ireland. By the operation of the Bit' certain offices in the Exchequer of Ireland world be de : dared ufelefs. It was his int ention to propote certain compenfations upon the prin ci p le ire had Rated on a former evening, namely, that the ave rage fhould be taken of the value of the o (ices for the Taft three years ; that then Commiffioners fhould examine the accounts of fuch Officers evstry year, and that the deficiency fh - iuld be made a charge on the confolidated fund. He thought fuch Officers had a claim on the generofity of she public ; he fhould propofe that a compenfation I thould be made where it was requiiite, and that a fum not exceeding 30001. fhould be at the difpolal of the Commiffioners for that purpofe. The lion. Member brought up the claufe to which he had referred. Lord Dom t.ow fuggefted, that the compenfation ought to be extended to all perfons as long only as they held their places. Mr. FITZGERALD laid, the Bill provided a full compenfation for all who were entitled to it. Mr. LEE obferved, that thofe who took offices with a view to the a& were not entitled to corn penfation. Perfuns who held offices during their natural life certainly ought not to be divetted.— Goo forbid the right of the King to grant patent offices fur life fhould be violated. It was impoflible to call upon the Houk to defeat a tight granted by patent. Thnfe who held offices during plea. fore, might come to the Houle, it was true, but all they could do was to throw themfelves on the mercy of the Houle, but Officers holding places for life had a right to queftion the power of Par liament to divelt them of their right. Mr. GREY faid, that with regard to perfons holding offices during pleafure, be was altogether againft the principle of granting compenfations. It was right that compenfations ihould be granted to perfons holding places for life. He faid a few words, and the claufe for granting compenfations to perfons holding patent places for life was agreed to. Mr. LEE next moved to grant the fum of 30001. annually, as a compenfation to the fecond dais of Officers. _ _ _ Mr. GREY ftrongly oppofed this pmpofition:— Of all compenfations that ever were made, he laid this flood on grounds the lead juttifia'ale. A Bill was now before the Houfe, which propofed that certain regulations fhould be adopted for the pub lic convenience; the manner they were to operate was that of placing the Courts of Lisv in Ireland more on a footing with each other, by taking away fome undue advantages which one Court enjoyed over another, and the drat would be that of transferring from the Court of Exchequer Come of its redundant bulinefs to the other com mon Law Courts. On what principle then could thofe Officers of the Court of Exchequer expect that Parliament fhould make good to them the diminution that mutt take place in their fees, in confequence of fuch a regulation ? He would (late a cafe exactly firnilar Suppofe a Chief Judge fhould be appointed to the Court of King's ench or Common Pleas, poffiffing left popularity, and with manners let's conciliating than thofe which dittinguithed the excellent charatters by whom thofe fituations were now filled ; and fuppofe a number of fuitors fhould think proper to bring their mires into a different Court, the confequence mull be a diminution of bufinefi and of emolu ments to the Officers of it. In fuch a cafe, he would afk on what ground there Officers could call on Parliament to grant them a compenfation? and that cafe was fimilar to the prefent Mr. BRAGG/ Rated, that an aft had been palled zo years ago by ti.e Lil 6 Parliament, which had the effeEt of throwing an extraordinary quan tity of bufinefs into the Court of Eschew:a., and the Officers of that Court now held their emolu ments on the faith of Parliament. If therefore the Britifh Pathan:lnt, aßing on principles diffe rent from thole of the Parliament of Ireland, fhould think proper to change that aft, it was but jullice to indemnify thole who Mould Coffer by the prefent regulation. 'lle cafe of the appointment of a Judge gated by the Hon. Gentleman was quite different; for here the alteration was to take place, nut from the chance of one Judge attract ing l ". buinA to the Court than another, but fr the direCt interference of Parliament. _ Mr. For condemned the grounds of the propofed compenfation to thofe officers, as calculated, in fart, to put a (lop to reform altogether. It feemed to him to imply this, that if abufes were to be re moved, that thole who had heretofore fubfilled up. on them, mull be indemnified from the public purfe. What, he would afic, would this conchs (ion lead to? Suits were in general evils, and if any man fhould be able to propofe a meafute to diminifb their number, what then ? Why, the Lawy rs and Law officers would, upon the prin. ciple of the clank now before the Committee, be I juftified in applying to Parliament for a compenla tion—(a latish.) lf, for the happinefs of mankind, any plan (huuld be deviled to diminith the number of crimes, perhaps the Hangman would addrefs the linufe for an indeMnity—(a geatral laksh.)— The Hon. Member contended, that the compen fatinn called for by the Hon. Mayer was, in its nature, quite without precedent. It appeared that even when the frith Parliament made the regula tion, which it was the objed of this Bill to renew.' and, which gave fuch an increafe of bufincfs to the Coon of Excheqder. no compenfation whatever was granted, or eked for. to the Officers of the other Courts—a meafure that certainly would have been more actsfable than that now before the Committee. AO to the allufinns made to the cafe cited by his Han. Friend, ref - peeling the com `parative faculties of the Judges, be maintained, that k was quite applicable, for as the officers were only to be compenfated for fuch loins as they Soak' fullain in confequence of the diminution of bufinefs in their Court. the queflion miht entire ly depend on the fuperior ability of the Judge who prefided. The Crtasetccoa of the ERCHEUER admitted the prefent was not a claim of right, but an appeal to the liberality of Parliament. The Officers in tended to be relieved by this Bill had enjoyed their emoluments, not on account of the fuperior at traCtion enjoyed by one Judge over another, but in confequcnce of regulations adopted by the Par. liament. The claim of patentee Officers was not difputed 1 and they were to have a full compenfa tion. The other Officers equally reckoned en hold ing their fituations for life, and had been continued in them as long as they did their duty. He would, therefore, put it to the Houle, whether a number of meritorious perfons, who had calculated on holding their fituationsfor life, thould now be placed in fituations of dißrefs Mr. KINNARD wifhed to know in what manner the money intended for there Officers was to be given to them ; whether it was to be at the arbitra ry diftribution of the Lord Lieutenant's Govern ment, or not The CIUNCELLOR of the EICHEURR laid, on the report of the Bill, he meant to propofe a claufe, by which the dißribution of the money fhould be rateable, according to the defalcation that fhould appear to have taken place in the income of each Officer. The Claufe was at length agreed to ; and the Bill having gone through the Committee, the Re port was ordered to be received to-morrow. NAVAL AND MILITARY STORE}. The CHANCILLOR of the Eros soy sit laid before the Houk, Copies of the Orders of the Privy Council iffued to prevent the Exportation of all Naval and Military Stores, Arum, and Ammuni tion, out of this Country.—Orated to lie on the Table. Lord M.'s's' °Versed, that a notice bad been given by a Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman of his intention to bring forward a motion for leave to bring in a Bill to indemnity certain perfons. If that Bill lhould turn out to be what he expeCted, it was very poffible he might think it necelfary to move for the produltion of official documents re fpeaing the orders relative to the Exportation of Naval and Military Stores. The AYTORNIY G faid, he thould bring on the motion alluded to by the Noble Lord, to morrow. CIARGY RISIDINCI BILL. On the motion of Sir Wm. SCOTT, the Houle refolved it fell into a Committee of the whole Houle on the further confideration of the Clergy Refi dence Bill. On the motion for adopting the elm& for granting licences of abrence, Mr. Ratan raid, the documents on which fuch licences were granted, fhotild be depofited in fume public placelor general infpeßion, to avoid any imputation of partiality. Mr.DIODLIY Rios* did not with to obarnil the adoption of the clank, fo far as it yelled difcre tionary power in the Bifhops ; but to affift that difcretion, he walled that the grounds for granting licences, fhould remain as a tecord in the miller of the dinceies. Sir WM. Scorr raid, the condition which the Hon. Gentleman called for, was to be found in the next claufe in the Bill. Mr. Ratites Paid, if fuch a fiatement was to be annexed to the licence. it would obviate every difficulty in his mind; it was not throngh any dif troll of the Bifhops that he made the luggeilioa, but to relieve him by removing the pot:flighty of an idea of partiality in the public mind. Sir WM. SCOTT agreed to the propofition niche Hon. Gentleman, and amended the claufe ac cordingly ; which, after a few words from Mr. Baacos, was agreed to. On that part of the fecond claufe, which . gives a difpenfation to clerical perfons from living in the parfonage-houle, when inch houfc fhould be unfit for refidence. Mr. RAIN is objeeed to that part of the clanfe, as it gave a liberty of neglefting parfonage-hnufes. Sir Wm. Scorr laid, chi, Aet would not alter the law refpefling dilapidation% and the fuperin tending care of the Billows fill remained the fame. It only went to protect clergymen from :idiom at law, in cafes where the paifonage-hotite was not a fit place for refidence ; many inflances of which the Learned Member enumerated. After fotne converfation between Mr. DICRINS, MI. BIAGGI, and Mr. BURTON, the latter Gentle man moved as an amendment. that when a Cler. gyman obtained leave to retitle out of the parfun. age.houfe, he fhould pay to the Commiffioners of qacen Anne's bounty the ore-twentieth part of the income of his benefice, to accumulate and be laid up foi the future repair or rebuilding of the parfimage houfe. Sir JoHli NICHOLL fpoke againft the amendment. The Cnaiscaccoa of the Exclaso,yta obferved, that the Clergyman thus fituated WAS an aggtiev. ed man already. He had a parfonage-houfe unfit for his refidence, in confequence of which he was pot to the expence of hiring a honfe—and then you wills to lay a tax on him in confequence of the inconvenience he already fulrered; he thought this would be a hard cafe, and was aguiult the amendment. Drift/ LAWRENCI and Sir WILLIAM DOVISH were for the amendment. Mr. Ross wilhed to have a Surveyor appointed in each diocefe, to report annually to the BiRSOEM on the fate of Inch bottles. Mr. Dit. KEN' thot - .ght the word, Unfit-refidence, too indefinite. Mr. Bottom laid, there were a thoufand in. (lances in which the Parfonage houfes were many unfit for the refidence of a Clergyman. The Bi (hop might have authority to order, but he could not have a moral power to enforce the improve. ment of the PariOnage Houle ; many of the de lefts might have beets from the negligence of the late incumbent. and by his death there might be no remedy, and Come of the Parfonage HOUfCS might be in fo ruinous a fate, that no repair would do, and it ;night be abfulotely neccfraty t.l rebuild. He had endeavoured, as much as pot to provide foam remedy againft thefc honks that wanted repair from becoming worfe, by allot. tiag a (mall p.trt of the income of the incumbent to repair them. It was true that this might, in many cafes, be inconvenient to Clergymen, for the incomes of many of them were very fmall ; and nothing would be more creditable to the Public than to provide fome remedy to this inconvenience : but that was not the quettion now before the Com. mittee. He did not propofe this amendment by way of a pofitive good, but as the leffer of two evils. The taking any part of a fmall income from a Clergyman was an evil, but the fuffering dila. pidations in the Paribnage Houfes was a greater evil. _ _ _ Mr. WINDHAM raid, he would be unwilling to prefs any thing that may be conceived an hardlhip ; but he thought the only way to keep the paefo nage !inure in repair, is to have it inhabited, as the ot copier would have an immediate intereft iu th repair. They &mild avoid giving a facility to non-refidence in parfonage-houfes. Mr. HAWKINS BROVINIL Paid, that though he concurred in the principle of the amendment pro poled by his Hon. and Learr.ed Friend, he was more inclined to leave the funs to be fubfcribed to the difcretion of the Bilhops. The ATTORNEY-GCNSRAL thought fome words may be introduced to meet the opinions of mutt Gentlemen. He thought no particular rum should be fpecified, but that it be left to the difcretion of the Bilhops. He therefore propofed, that thele words thould liand as a part of the claufe. 4' Tl.at Bithops, en granting a licence, should do it on terms and conditions with refpea to the repair of filch buildings as the Billiops may think proper." After a converfation, which lafted nearly for three hours, fupported principally by the replies m tde to each other from the fore-mentioned fpeak ers, and in which the original claufe was firongly fupported by the MASTER of the ROLLS, Mr. BOSTON thought that we ought to legiflate fur futurity, as well as the prefent moment. and hoped that means would be taken to repair dilapi detains, and, in the courfe of time, oar induce ments to refidence, inftead of non-readence. Dr. Lima s ca was for the original clank. Mr. Sperm STANNOPI raid, he happened to be in the tituation of creditor to a Clergyman, to whom he lent money at five per cent. but was to have ten per cent. if debtor did not refide upon his living, but (if we underftand him right) he added, that the Clergyman was not enabled to comply with the condition. The converfation then became more general and defultory than before, and at length the Commit. tee divided on Mr. Burton's amendment, when the numbers were—Foe the Amendment sk r -Againti it 42—Majority 27. The original claufe was of courfe carried. Strangers were, as ufual, minded from the gala lery on the divifion, and were_noe re-admitted dur ing the remainder of the direulion upon various claufts, which lafted till a very late hour t aftet which the Chan man was direaed to report pro' grefir and a& leave to fit again...--A.djotirned. LONDON. -...”... THURSDAY. MAY 'A.. PRICK OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT this O'CLOCK s 3 PCT C. Couloir 6.4 6411-4 or ace. 64 Old 5 per Cent. New dim 94. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Dank Stock t 67 for aCC. I Short AIM 3 z 146 4 3 per Cent. Red. 63 6440 India Stock not} 3 Per C Cvnf. 651 64f India Ronde 3s. to 10. pre& Ncw 4 per Cam Sof Imp 3 per Cent. 64 5 per Ct. Ann. 99 954 Encheti. Ellie, per 14 di. Dina :797. 974 i C. 04 see. 64 63164 Long Ann. Ai t 3-16, Yeßerday afternoon a number of falfe rumeilat were circulated in confequence of the arrival of Mr. Huersa, the Mellinger, who was laid to be the precurfor of Lord War-moire. He came, however, not from Paris, but from Peterfbargh. Another repc,rt Rated intelligence to have been received by the Telegraph, that his Lorcllhip was on the way. If this be repeated every day, it will at lan furnith an opportunity to the dealers in conjeaure to boat} of the accuracy and priority of their intelligence. His Lordfhip may be loon ex. peeked. It is certainly not impoflble that he may arrive this evening or tomorrow.—On an event fo near at band, it would be fully to anticipate any thing. Orders have been fent to our feveral Naval Commanders to be ready to commence hoßilities at the fhortell notice, and the Channel Fleet, tin der the command r,f Admiral CoaswatArs, will certainly put to lea in the courfe of a few days.— Lord Kamm is appointed to the chief command of the fquadron declined for the North Seat and Lord Nsr.soli. as we Rated Tome days fince, goes to the Mediterranean. His MAJISTY held a Privy Council yefterday at the (teen's Houfe, which was attended by the CMANCILLOR of the Excntuysa, the Duke of Pe , and Lord HOSAILT. We undernand that an order was made far prohibiting the expor tation of faltpetre, and fame other articles. This morning we received Paris Journals of the 9 11 inflant ( kfcriday ). The Metiterr is (Merit 1 .. fpeding the negociation. Some of the (mall Papers augur a continuants of peace from Lord Warr• woerit not having left Paris at the time firli an• flounced for his departure. Even the departure of the Duchefs, who kerns to have fet out for England before the date of theft Papers, is not cor.fidered as indicating the pollible fpeedy departure of oar Ambafrador—fhe only comes to England to lie in! I Thefe Papers, however. announce, that a great Dumber of the Ertglilh have quitted Paris VI TI