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•?. 7 r~ r!- , r .P.I.Iti.I.I.IIE.TJAT PROCEEDINGS. 1 ti , t . 0 , LORDS, TUESDAY, PIC. zo. Ti. ivy :1 was given by Coo:million to th : , !ntcer Co, p. and to the Hick _ i he ix) a uere, the LORD CHAN CILLOIt, !EsarrrotritiLordWALsiNchtAm. M f:.•at the Treafurv, pretented doeu rex:. i• !Le 1 - > ..f which the following were the • genetal bead, : An Account of the Expellees of maintaining the Northern Lights. .S.!enunt of the number, &c. of Ships employed in the Greenland alto ~ reights fillieries from Scotland. Nl,.nks expended in 6uun•les and Prerniunts for Gr, n Full to the Markets of London and Weaminiter. '!'lute J•.cumentF were ordered to he cn the Table. ....._ .. Couniel were finally heard relative to the Appeal from Chance. y, Keighley, v. the Earl India Compa. ny, viz Mr. Romizi.y at confiderable length on the part of the Appellant in reply. After the Learned Counfel had concluded, The LORD CHANCELLOR rote and adclteiTed the Houfe at fume length upon the fubjefl : was not his intention to conclude what he had to y by propoling an immediate decifion upon the c e, its peculiar nature and importance, which in lved, among other confederations , certain points con eitled with the ptaEtize and forms of the Cnurt of han cery, uotild p, cclitcle that, as alto would the propri ety of having a due underftanding of Come points arifing out of the cafe. In illuftration of there pro• politiom, the Noble ..nd Learned Lord entered into a review of the leading eircumftances of the cafe, as well as of vat ions important legal confiderations con. neacd with it ; and concluded by moving, that the farther confideration of the cafe be adjourned until the fecond cattle day after the cubing recefs, which, o.:1 the quellion being put, was ordered by their Lord flips accordingly. Orders were made for adjourning the farther con fideration of certain Appeals, which flood for fur ther hearing or judgment, until early periods after the recefs.—The Houfe then adjourned on the motion of Lord WAL:•INGHAM (for the Chriftmas reeds), until Friday the 3d of February. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Gentleman Miler of the Black Rod appeared within the Bar, and &fired the attendance of the Houk in the Houk rd Lords, to hear his Majelly% .Atrent given by Commiflion to certain Bills. The Speaker and Members accordingly attended it. On his return he informed the Houfe, that be had been in the *Honk of Lords, and had heard his Majeßy's Affent given by Cornmiffion to the Volunteer Ex emption Aft, and one Private Inclofure BilL A perfon from the Commiffioners of the Northern Light houfe, preiented an Abliraa of their Accounts, which was ordered to lie on the Table. • A perton front the Treafury prefented an ACCOIII3t of the number of Ships fitted out from Scotland, and employed in the Whale Fifkery iq Davis's Straits and on the Coaft of Greenland. Ordered to be printed for the ufe of the Members. The Speaker was authorifed to iffne his warrant for the election of a Member for the Borough of Dorcbef ter, in the room of the Hon. Cropley Athley, who has accepted of the Office-of Clerk of the Delivery ofhis 148 .ieilv's Ordnance. Mr. SHERIDAN prefcnted two Petitions againft the decifion of the Committee on the late Likard Eleftion; the one from certain inhabitants of that place, paying kot and lot, and the other from Tho mas Sheridan and William Ogilvie, Efqrs. They both ailedged that right of voting for Reprefentatives in Parliament was vetted in the inhabitants paying £cot and lot; of whom the majority were in favour of the Candidates, Melks. Sheridan and Ogilvie, not writhflarding which their opponents had been return ed; that the Paid Mars. Sheridan and Ogilvie had petitioned againft that cledion and return, the merits of which werc tried by a Committee, whole decifion was, that the rights of election were not in the inha. bitants paying fcot and lot, but in the Mayor and burgeffes. 1 hey, therefore, complained of that de termination as being contrary to law, and prayed for its reviiiun by the Houk. Mr. Sheridan then laid, that it was the with of the parties, that as early a day as poffible fhould be fired on after the :veers; but on account of the inconvenience of bringing op the wit neffies timing the time of the affixes, he fltould propofe that the petition be taken into confederation on Tuef day the loth of April, which was agreed to . The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHF(WER role, and moved, 1 ! that the Houk do, at tie riling, adjourn to Thurfday, the tft of February next." On the queftion being put, it was carried one. ten. The Houfe accordingly, without proceeding to fur- 1 cher hufinefs, adjourned to that day. LONDON. We are obliged to our Friend at Alderney for Ilds Letter of the etch ult. We requeft that any future communication may be fort by the recularpoft : it may then reach us in time to be ufeful. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER U. ST. TUOMAS'II T.-•-•l4olidiT at the Public Olices. PRICE. OF SI OCRS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. t4/14 Short Ann. 3 z.s6i 3 per C. Conf. Ano.lhut Imp. 3 pet CCRt.s3ift 4 per CM. (. Esc:seq. BIM, par is. prim. s per Cent. N.:vy (hut Omnium si per Cebt. : , 97. 9.44 Englith Tickets I 7L Bs. Long Ann ttls s Conf. for opk. b 56 Doacia, Diestasca :5 —34 rel . Cent. Goy. — 3 4"l. a* Cowie of Exchange—Dublin on London z 6,1. • • The Moniteur of the 4th contains a number of re. marks on His Majzsres fpeech at the opening of Parliament. They are written in the ufnalfcarrilous Rile of that Joianal, and, we think, unworthy of a place in ar.y refpalable Erglifh Paper. The only remarkable 'Wrap is an aff:rtion that the Frail. Cowsut. never has raid :hat he would fend an army to England. Ail he Paid was, that armies were to be enzartsped at the Tezel, Bref, St. Omer's, Bay onne, &c. h this meant to be the foundation of fame future apology for not aflually trying the at tempt of Invalion ? The Leydea Gazette, of the i3th, under d: to of P a ris, the sth inilant, Rates, that the neutrality of and Portuzalhrecurcd by a Coavcation, dated 3ctl: Ottober, fu far as depends upon France, and that the a trair is now in the I, ands of England. The fame a: tide admits, however, what has been flated in our own letters from Cadiz and Gibraltar, that Spain is at this moment fitting out a fl,:et ! 'For what purpofe we ale at no lots to guefs, nor have we any doubt as to the confequences that will refult from it. The following is the article alluded to PARIS, DEC. g.—The fate of Spain and Portugal in the prefent war may be confidered as now fixed as far as depends on France. The negotiations which have taken place on this fubjeft between the French Republ;c and the court of Madrid, feem however to have been only lately brought to a final termination. The convention for regulating the conditions of the confent of France to the neutrality of the two king doms, (according to letters from the Efcurial) was not concluded till the 3oth of Oelober. The news of this event were received in Spain with general joy; awl the public funds, and particularly the royal bills called vales immediately rote. The Spaniards are very glad to be able to free themfelves from a certain war by a pecuniary facrifice, and they hope that England will not take umbrage on account of aid of this kind. Time will (hew how far policy may in• duce the Englifh government to forbear noticing this circumftanee ; as well as the armaments lately or dered by his Catholic Majeity, and the conduet of the city of Barcelona, which it is laid refufed to fup ply Admiral Nst.sow's fleet with provifions. Faawarmer, torc. 7.—Letters from Vienna of the 3oth of Nov. nate, that a courier had arrived there from the Imperial Envoy at London, Cotint STAR RAMBERG, with difpatches, which gave rife to a con ference of the Minillers, and immediately after an an fwer was fent off by exprefs. The above courier brought intelligence of the fpeedy return of the Hon. Mr. PAGET to his port as Bridal Envoy at Vienna, which he quitted force time ago by the leave of his . , Court. The Duke of Yoga yeflerday held a Levee at the Horfe Guards; of er which, there was a Board of Ge neral Officers. The Ott micsisot of the Excusoirsa and Lord HOBART weie alfo prefent. • The Lords Commifficiner; of his Ma; F sry's ?tea fury have appointed jou N LANE, Efq. of Upper Ea. ton-ftreet, Grofvenor-place, to be Receiver General of the duty of is. in the pound on Salaries, Fees, and Wages, of any Office* and Employments payable by the Ciown in North Britain, in the room of the Earl of Lye's' and MaLvit.t.s, tefigned. Mr. GIATHENOILI quits the Board of Admiralty. We have heard two or three refpeetable individuals named as likely to fucceed him ; and amongft the reft Cal. LEMON, brother to Sir Wm. Lamm Mr. Huai- fucceeds me. Sutra as Paymaßer to the Ordnance, and thelion. Calmar Asui.sr fucceeds Mr. HUNT as Clerk of the Deliveries. The Middlcfex Etedors, in favour of Mr. MAIN. IVARING, met yefterday at Willis's Rooms, King- Rreet, St. James's, when all the votes objeded to by Sir F. Btlanavr, were fummoned, by circular let ters, to 'ittelid the' meeting of the Freeholders, who were both numerotia'and refpedable. Out of 130 examined regarding their rights as Fleeholders, only one was found objedionable. ' - All the London Volunteers ate to appear at their refpedive alarm polls on the 37th, fully accoutred. The Stranger was performed lafl night for the fill time this feafon at Drury-lane Theatre. Mrs. Pow au. made her firll appearance in the arduous cha rafter of Mrs. Haller, and gave fiat proofs of the wide range in which her powers are calculated to expatiate. Of all the various palßons which mark the charader, her delineation was forcible and judi. claws; but in the laft aft the was peculiarly happy, and her performance was greeted with univerfal ap plaufe. Pose was not lets fucceisful in The Stranger. At Covent Garden The Eisg* fleet continues to im prefs crowds into its fervice. Indeed both houfes were numeroufly and falhionably attended. Cola M , Maitic•L•wa, DEC. as.—There is not much further fupply of Grain arrived—Fine Wheat nearly keeps its price, 58s. 6d. but there are many famples of ordinary that fell but lowly, and at a rednftion— Barley and Malt have very little fate, and getting lower ; as are White Peas, top price sos.—Pearls 535. per quarter—.ln Beans but little variation—Oats are in middling quantity, and are alfo declining in price —Fine American Hour 3 4 to 351. per barrel, of s cwt. ;qrs. Asstz z or BREAD.—Yefterday the LORD MAYOR ordered the Price of Bread to be continued the fame as lafi week ; viz. the Qzarten Loaf of Wheaten 91d. and Hmifehold nd. On Sunday fennight fome foldiers took (better with fome girls under a hovel, near the Turnpike on the Oxford road. A quarrel enfuing they beat and nabbed the girls in a manner fo inhuman, that one is fince dead, slnd the other is thought to be pall re. covert'. Coroner's verdi/I—Wilful Murder. Two privates of the 44th are taken up, and have been once examined by the magillrates. Yelletday Ann Hurie and NMI Inert were re-exa mined at the Manfion-houfe. The female prifoner was charred with perfonating Elizabeth Husk, and• felling tool. Rock in the 3 per cents. as mentioned in this paper of Saturday lalt, and Innes, as being pre fent and acceffirry to the fain. The Solicitor for the Bank attended, as did moll of the witnefTes. It having hten Rated, that the infirm Rate of Mr. Al. len's health renekred him incapablz of appearing, it was agreed to put off the final examination until a future day, and that fhe timid be conveyed to Greenwich, for the purpofe beng examined in the pretence of Mr. Allen and Mrs. Hurle. One of the clerks from the 3 per cent. office, could not pofitively (wear to the prifoner being the perfon who drew the money. as the was drcft in a siding habit when (he fold out the Rod.. / nialier clerk produced her fig. nature, which agreed w ith the hand-writing of a prior rign.ture, Ike having fold 3oL of her own property, c:1 Oseilicann of age, in April Lea. NAUTICEIL INTELLICENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.--Wlnd L N. E. ARA. DUE ARR. DO& ThHin 3 x Hamhurgh o 2 Waterford 0 6 Gotteuburgh 0 0 DUBLIN, DECEMBER I6.—The tremendous form which we have recently experienced here, has done much damage, as far as its effects are afcertained.— One veffel on Thurfday night (truck on the Bull, and is now totally engulphed ; many of the crew climbed into the throuds, but no boat being able to venture out to their Alliance, they were at length forced to yield to their horrible definy : the Friends, Captain Boman:, (the elder) from Liverpool, firanded near Balbriggen, three of the crew know not if the will be got off : a veffel from Malaga, tiranded on the South fide of the Wall, on the White Sands; and another from Amlock (truck on the bate of the light houfe, and went to pieces in an infant; two of the crew only were faved.—We oval to hear of a great deal more mifohief. PLYMOUTH. Dac. 19.—Came in the fhip Flying Fills, of London, Captain PATTEISON, from the Coati of Africa, laden with a very valuable cargo of ivory, gum, lignin's) vita, bound to London the was captured by the Braave French privateer, and cut out of the Ifle de Dieu, by the boats of his Majelles (hips GOLIAM and Destaucs (he is fo deeply laden, that they were obliged to thiow part of the cargo overboard to lighten her. The Bayomaire Frenfh privateer, of 24 guns, has been driven alhore'on the coati of France, by his Majeßy's fhip Atoms-, of *4 guns, and jai as the boats put off to board her, the crew blew her up. The Raike, from the Bay of Honduras, which was recaptured, and fent in here by the GOLIAH and Dar:vice men of war, on Satur dry laR, was in the at of landing her cargo, at the time the was cut out of the river of Rochfort, and one of the Cullom Houfe Officers was brought away in her ; three others jumped overboard and got afiscre. Came in the Gorgus, of Stettin, Captain Sc atm. from Memel, laden with timber, for this port ; the Mineral Spring, of London, Captain Jacasos, from Quebec, bound to 1... ondon, laden with - oil, furs, Raves, &C.: Ilse failed after the fleet left Quebec ; the Pappenburgh galliot Johanna, Captain Vial-, from Penzance, for Embden, with coffee, fugar, and cot. ton ; and the Danifh brig Alvoen, Captain BRUM from Salo, laden with wine and cork. POITSUGUTH. DEC. 20.—Arrived the MELT°. ~. • :PlNEfrigate, Pig/MINT floop of war, and PaiNcess AUGUSTA cutter, from a cruize. Arrived the Tri nidad, NAYLOR, from the Downs. Came into harbour the Auftemt frigate. Wind S. asorosa LITTIR Of THa SAM DAVI. POIIMO!) T Dac. 20. —This day arrived his Majelly's chip Mits.rou so a, from a cruise off Havre; PH I•SMIT (loop of war, and the Pa:sects: Au- GUSTA cutter, from a cruize.—The Trinaclad, Nay- Loa, from London, boond to Barbadoes and Tobago. —Came into harbour his Majefty's fhip Atriums. Remain at St. Helen's the following men of war: BRITANNIA, PalNc EIS ROYAL, WINDSOI and' Panics GIORGE. Yeilerday arrived the following veffels from the Downs Lord Duncan, Gardiner, bound to Honduras ; Prince of Wales. True, bound to Antigua; Admiral Colpogs, New, bound to Demerara; Highland Grove, Smith, bound to Weft Indies ; and Riga Packet and Ceres, from Llama, bound to London. - - The Ceres (tranfport), having troops on hoard, Captain RICHARDSON, being fickly, two of which having died ; twenty, with three of the (hip's crew have been fent on ['lore to the hofpital, in of a fever —orders this day were received to take out lc° of them. Da4x, Dac. MD.—Arrived and failed for the River, the Friendtbip, SPELMAR, from Cork. Arrived the ADRIAPIA frigate from Sheernefs, and LARK !loop of war from a cruize, and remain with his Majefly's (hips as per lafk. Wind E. S. E. Doyle, Dac. ao.—The French gun boat, men tioned in my lift, as bring funk in our pier, has been got up on Pier bottom; (he appears to be one of the &ft clafs, lugger rigged, 68 feet long, 18 feet 8 in. ches wide, and 4 feet 8 inches deep; the is very flight built, her timbers being only four inches fquare, and plank bare if inch thick ; the thort brats gun abaft is a 32 -pound carronade; and the one loft in the Road, which has been got up, is a long 18-pounder ; the French mufkets on board arc longer than ours, and fmaller bored. A human fkull was found on board, which it is (aid they all have, and which is meant, when they come to be fixed on a pike, as a banner of death or vi&ory. One of the Frenchmen drowned was picked up this morning in the Bay ; the damage re ceived by the gun boat was in her bow, the anchor having made a hole quite through her. It does not ap pear °them& to be much damaged. It is the opinion of our tailors that the might anfwer very well for a rivet, but that the would founder if caught at tea in any bad weather, being In very low, having room on deck to hold thirty or forty tons of water, which there is no vent to difcharge, The is not new. The weathzr is very thick and foggy, extremely favourable to the enemy, if they mean to invade us, as they could not be fLen half a mile from theAore, and the fignal houfes could not work, but we have looked Co long for inert in vain, that we almoll defpair of be ing allowed to teach them, that England is more than a watch for them finglc•handcd. YARMOUTH, DEC. 20 —Arrived the Vrow Coyne. lia Frederick, Captain SCHOLT, from Embden, with butter and cheefe, bound to London, with the lots of an anchor; Johanna Elizabeth, AREND WICTING, from Bremen, with oats, put in with lofs of an an char; Froes Cornelia, SEAMAN ANDENs matter, bound to London, with oats, is on Chore on Baton Beach ; the cargo is loft, and it is feared the fhip will (hare the fame fate ; crew Paved. The Thomas, of London, It. Sgsvrox matter, from Newcallle, to London, with coals, is got on Loweßoffe Beach ; molt of her materials are fared, but the (hip is gone to pieces, and her cargo entirely loft.—Wind S. E. throng breeze. TENERIFFE, Ocr. 22.—The two Ruffian kigate; under the command of Captain Kit oil STEAU, vt,bich have been fent on a Voyage of Difcovery, arrived the day before yefterday at Santa Cruz, where they arc. taking in frefh provifions, and intend to Pet fail for St. Catharine in a few days. CALCUTTA, Aram aB.—Accounts have reached Btifhine of the 101 l of the Hon. Company's cruiser Aunt r, Lieut. BINNETT, on the ifland of Bulheeb, which, it is fuppofed, mull have happened about the rid) of February ; all the crew were laved. She had on board a quantity of treafure, hefides the Hon. Company's difpatclies. We learn, that the Bhowany Pattamar boat, mounting four carriage guns, lately arrived in the harbour, qn her page on the emit was attacked Off Severndroog t by fir large piratical boats. After a &oh, bUt fprited, well fought aEtion, The fuc ceeded in beating them off, without lots, when they hauled their wind and flood to the weftward, Out loon afterwards tacked and flood in, apparently for Severndroog. Thefe boats appeared to be from about fifty to firn tons burthen, and, betides (wive's and murquetry, carry each a heavy ;tow chace gun and all full of men. ARRIVED. At Leghorn, Fame, Nltherfon, from Batavia; Trent, Rine. mare; Equality, —, end Exchange, Onne, from Salem—At Mar:lnes, Olivia, Hutchins, from Sumatra; Apollo; Beard, front Batavia; Heart of o*, %faction ; Hibernia, and Bulab. Gaidner, from Bofton—At New Providence, Liberty,Sands, front Liverpool—At Bencoolen.lloyal George, Simmons, from Lando% =At' Porrfmouth, Braganza, Cole; Ceres, Bennet; Sportfman. Salmon; fitren, Albion, Ganimon; Svc - elation. Sider g and Union, Tracy, from Lifimn—At Falmouth, Hope, Bennet. from Honduras—At Cowes, Liberty, Leakiey, from Lifbott—At Dartmouth, Young Edwin, Wolger; from Gone; and Betfey. Cockery, from Newfoundland—At Briftol, Lime, Vitas * (min. Virginia; and Patriot, —, from GifilAt Ilfracombe, Bin. then, Mel% fronr Litton, after being on nor ~-M Honduras. Europa, Ruts, from Ballot. The litlp De Twe Gebroeders, P: Kerftetn, matter, beim, from Tonumgen to London, was lost es the Vygenplaat; fent moo/ the crew were Caved by an Heligoland Soap, . The !loop 'Swift., belonging to Peed*, was upfet in the late pi es , 0 2 Bognor rocks; thereafter, one man, and cvroboys vete drowned. The' former bas left a wife and Ave children colarneot . . his loft. Its the Baltic is loft the !hip Felicitf, , Nutter", miner, bound from Memel to London; and the whole new rallied. • The gym, I.GoOder, lam Newfoundlaild, arrived off Oporto,. fell in with three French privateers off that place, and narrspric cfcapoi being plundered by them. The Mcditirranean, from Newfoundland, Is eapturetj. The John, Hutton, from Leath to Lubec, arrived at Elfineur the gtis ult. all wdk The Mary, Cards. front Cott for Llibon, is loft m the cm* of Portugal—Pa:ref the cargo fared. • • ' • ' Mi Man% Whlteway; train Newfoundland foe Oporto, jaa captured and carried into Vigor • The William Bruce, Barker, from the South Sens far London ; is captured by the Valiant French privateer, and earri6d into Cadiz. The Diligent, Boffins, Intro Peteriburgh far Baredona, is loft on the coaft of Hollaisd. • • The Bachallae, Horfewell, from Newfoundland faajlarbation, has been taken, retaken, and carried into Antigua. The Sally and Reb: ma, front Africa, Is arrived at Barbed/me g during her parade die fell in with two large Mach privateers; which were upon the point of capturing the bo u nd is Elarbadoes, when after a revere engagempot the heat Than of: 1 1 The Swift,Captain Sinclair, from Africa, arrived at Barbadom a after a parade of five' weeks; on the tiStis of Odober, about go leagues to the windward of Ilarbadees, the fell in with two Freud) Privateers, which, after a dime of 26 hours, brought bet to an en - garment, that lafted for two boors and a half; the funk one of them mounting t 6 guns, and the other the b et e u m The Swift put into Barbados to milt, and get a [apply of anumnitim; dig was to fail on the al of Odtobtr for Jamaica: • ' The outward bound Welt India fleet, under convoy of the COURAQIUZ man of war, at Poramouth, con fins of ioB fail. No time Is mentioned for their failing. The gale of Saturday fe'nnight did much injury upon the French coat. We learn by aletter from on board a Briti(h cruizer, that the gun boats s wrecked between Gravelines and Blancnez, were fent out in the form purpofely to try whether they were not lea worthy for a patrage fo much in (bore. Be fides the nine driven on (bore, the crews of which for the molt part efcaped, ye foundered at fee, having on board iso perfons, eitherfeamen or foldiers. The Mailer of the Johanna cartel, arrived at Southampton, from Morlaix, having conveyed the aliens, mentions, that at Morlair, very indifferent Boor fold for two (billings a gallon, and common coarfe brown forger at one (pilling and' (even pence per pound; bad felt butter dearer than the trent butters in England, and no frefli butter to be pros cured at any price ; 6 babel of Coals, befides ing very (mall, and much dirt among them, coil the Captain of the Johanna equal to feventeen (killings Englifh money. lit a late Sunday Paper, it was Bated, that a rich merchantman. the Barbadoes Planter, of London. was captured, after a (harp engagement, by a French privateer off Tobago. The fad is, that the Barba does Planter was attacked at anchor in Mangrove Bay, in Tobago ; the Captain fired the few 'hot he had on board, then cut his cable, and run the (hip on (bore. In this fituation the crew of the privateer boarded the veffel, rifled the cabin, and then fet fire to the (hip, and did the fame by a dogger alongfide, with further cargo. HIGH COURT or ADMIRALTY.—YeRerday the Right Honourable Sir WILLI•bi Scott proceeded to the adjudicatitin of the following cafes of (hips and cargoes : The Hazard, ----- Clark, trailer. The Otip and cargo in this cafe were claimed as American property. The Court dirrifted farther proof to be produced The Coloenbur, Macey. matter. The Court direded ftill funk er proot to be produced as to the property. Nes. Senora &aim Dolores,— Monies mailer. This Wet • Spool& Chip and carge. The Court to skis cafe ft-Awed the pro• party as claimed awl deuced coils and dossiers spied the captors. San Damage ale. La Marta. nth was silo a flpantilt dtip and cargo. The Coast made the fame decree as in the tamer. Etichlris, Mew+, mailer. Ship and came neared Zbesag American pnreity); tin judlies d en& and donna Mara