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PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Faa. s.—The Imperial Ambaffador Count STADION is gone to Vienna : he will be back in fome weeks, and will dim go immediately to Pcterfburgh. The carnival will be ended next week. To-day is a grand affembly at the Duke of 33a tioswicit Osi.s, for the Court and Nobility ; and next Tuefday is the laft ridotta. In the new Gazette of Mr. Korztsus is the following article :—Doftor Mtsart. has received from the EMPEROR of RUSSIA a prefent of a valu able ring, for his Livonian Story, Wow= nuinta. This prefent is particularly remarkable, as it thews the fentiments of his Marssry concerning the flavery of the peafantry in Livonia and Efthonia. (This work paints this flavery in very unalniable colours.) DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, JANUARY 25.—.-The KING has given to the Royal Inflitute of Mandatures and Commerce permi(lion, for four years. to eflablifh a packet between Copenhagen and the Dana EaR India Settlement. By this means a conßant corn asunication will be kept up, and two packets will fail from each fide every year, and convey as well difpatches as private !ewers and paffengers. They will fail op the firß of March and firß of Odober. It is intended to eßablifh in this city an Inßita. Con for the deaf and dumb, and Dr. Casrspec is to make a tour in foreign countries, to examine fimilar eßablilhintln& Fs*. I.—Between Zealand and Swedes the feu is now perfeftly frozen over. and fledges pats from one kingdom to the other. On Sunday more than 6000 petfogs paffed the Sound on foot and in carriages. Fes. e.—ln the Frederic Hofpital is a woman, who has been in a militant fleep for is weeks.— By violent !baking Ike can be made to wake, but Ae is then perfeslly without all confcionfnefs through ber drowfinefs ; and the moment the is left at reit immediatsly falls again into a profound flap. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, JANUARY to.—His Excellency the High Chamber lain Baron de Botme, who fet off the 13th ult. to Finnland, has been forced, by contrary winds and the advanced feafon, to land at Waxholas, &sir miles from hence. Laft Saturday a large company of the Nobility and foreign Minifters had a brilliant Bedge•party, at which their Royal Higneffes the Duke of Su. DERMAIMA and Prince WILL AM of GLOUCSITRI were prefent. januAlY 21.—The ceremony of churching her MAJESTY' is juff ended. It has been generally remarkable for Phew and elegance ; the fete of yef terdaYs which terminated the public rejoicings for the birth of his Royal Highnefs the Grand Duke of Ft , was diftinguilbed by the greatell magnificence It confilled of a ball, which took place in the great hall 4' des Gran." in the cattle : Alt bnilding, of an immenfe fine, and molt fuperb architecture, was illuminated with upwards of 3000 wax' lights. The laying out, embellifhments, order, and execution, defervedly conferred high encomiums on the manager, (M. le Compte de F , the Rspo's Grand Chamberlain.) Im mediately after the entrance of their Majtsrsis, with a numerous and brilliant retinue, the ball was opened by Madame the Dnchefs of SUDIRMANIA and the Prince WILLIAM of GLOUCSSYSI, who danced a minuet, which was followed by four other minuets. After there, there was a grand fohaarfi, or dance, after the Polifh fallion, per formed by the following perfonages : The King sod Queen, The Dubc of Sudermania, with Madame the Comte& dc The PIiTICC pf Gloueefter, with Madame the Duch& of ISoderrnania, and a great number of Lords and Ladies belong. ing to the Court. After this the ball becoming general, was kept up till ten o'clock, and ended with a fplentlid (upper, (erred up on (even large tables, including that at which his MAJIITT fat. Jaw. 28.—The refidence of the Prince of Gtou. curia here is a (cries of entertainments. To day the Lodge of Freernafons'gave a dinner in honour of the birth of the Duke of SUDIIILMANIA, who is Grand Mailer, at which the Prince and other great perfonages were prefent. On the 15th inflant,Chamberlain Count Bunts, the Dana Ambarlador, gave a grand Ball on oceafion of the Birth-day of the Englint Prince. FIBRVAIIt 1.-.-YnalTdat illayarrir, with, the Prince of G a • aas fake, went to Grip I ♦ ., eiraed to I return to-010 r. • ••• • 11 Islk ' .1 1-.7,-..siev PPARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS" --- HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, FEB. sp. 1 . ir , Mr. Wort:writ was heard on behalf of he ,e pellani. and Mr . Howl= on the part of the Refpondent, t in tt ,e Appeal Cade, Roderick Finlayfoo v. Hugh Inner and Jo hn ' ,sl,Kenzies after which the further hearing was adjounied to P. , . future day. The Bank Reßriaion Bill was read a third no e, and paffed, and the ufual Meff-ge ordered to be fent to the e! Allmon& AU the Routine Bands of rcachog, Vetisko I a, &c. i ce . was gone through. Lord PALNAN moved the Order of ' the Day for taking into confederation his Majeft 'a Meffage, j relative to the Enabling's:lent of his toyal High nefs the Prince of Wales, which . .ng read, - his Lordfhip Paid he would not troub le f he Houfe, by making any obfervations on the f .lotion he was about to make, and in which ever y Noble Lord mull concur. He then moved, ' ~ that an hum. ble Addrefs be prefented to his lb fa jetty, thanking him for his moll gracious Meri:rj e, affuring his Majelly that that Houfe would din zd its moll feri ous attention to the prefent fanatic in of the Prince of Wales, and endeavour to adoF t fuch meafures as fhould promote the comfort. and fupport the dignity of fo illuflrious a branch. of his Majefty's Royal Family." Lord CARLISLE raid, be did Tv m rife to oppofe, or esprefs his difapprobation of the Motion made by the Noble Lord ; but he fett it a duty ihcum- bent on him, to give his opinion with regard to a meafure that was about to be al . !opted for the ac commodation of the Prince— a s neafure to which i he fhould never give his approba ion, inafmuch as it went to comprumife and bar a jull claim, which his Royal Highnefs had on certal t i revenues arifing out of the Duchy of Cornwall, and for Which a legal proceeding had lately be !n inflituted. In making thefe obfervations he 1, lid afide, for the moment, that perfonal regard, at d the high refpedt which be bore the dignified and illußrious Perfon age wlw was then the fubjedt of their Lordfhips' confederation : he was then fpeak;ng in fupport of , any Hcir Apparent to the Crown , who mi g ht be ' placed in a fimilar fituation. He u nderftood, that fome time ago the claim of his (rya' Highnefs had been brought, in the form ' a Petition of Right, before that Court over w ich the Noble', and Learned Lord on the Wool ick prefided i Why was not that claim perfevered in ? He was at liberty to alk this queftion, becauf it appeared, from what took place in another Ho fe of Parlia• meat, that his Royal Highnefs had reed to the Propofition that was brought forwa there. It fo was flamed in that Houfe, from v y high au thority. He did not know how far the Prince might have altered his fentiments on t t fubjeCt ; but if he had done fo, he was Cure it tuft have been induced by a defire to comply with e withes of fume other branches of his illuilriou Family. He confidered his Royal Highnefs to h ve been hardly dealt with. After having been nailed of that fplendour which belongedto his e evated rank, and which it was the intereft of every man in the country that he fhould have lived in ; aftei having been deprived of the comforts he ought to have enjoyed, he was now barred of hi. legal anti juft claim, and obliged to accept fil m the bolinty of Parliament, that which he fhould have poffeifed , as his right. Whenever the propofition that was brought forward in another place fhould come be fore that Houfe, it fhould meet with his opposition. Lord MOIRA obferved that the topics to which the Noble Lord alluded had no conneftion what- I ever with the immediate queftion before the Houfe, which was nothing more than, whether the Houle fhould agree to an Addrefs of Thanks to his Ma jelly for a communication made to their Lord thips ? The Houfe might hereafter have an op• portunity of difcuffing the fubjeCt alluded to by the Noble Lord, but at prefent it was irregular to en ter upon it. As the fituation of the Prince of Wales was alluded to, he would affure the Houfe, that Co far as he was able to learn the fentiments of his Royal Mighnefs, that illuftrious Perfonage was ready to acqutefce molt chearfuUy in any mea fure which Parliament might think proper to adopt relative to his affairs. At prefent he did not think it fit that the fubjea of his Royal Highnefs ' : claim fhould be difeuffed, nor that the Noble Lord on the Woolfack fhould be called on for an opinion in a cafe where he might hereafter have to decide as a Judge. The Motion for the Addrefs was then put and carried unanimoufly, and the fame was ordered , to be prefented to his Majelly by the Lords with whits (laves. 9 , ,~ ~~. , Thu day were Price oe. in Beards. ' POEMS. —n! JO HN LOWE, jun. of Manchefter. Printed for W. J. and RICHARDSO N. sage. - In the Preis, and fpcolity wiU be publifited, In fix Volumes, elegantly printed in thick pa °dare. and In demy duode cimo. decorated with Portraits and Fac Quito. THEWO R. K 8 of the WORTRight U, LADY MARY LEY MONTAG Hilnouralge Now fiat publiOrtd, BY reaseassiost, from the original mann- Cerise ; none of which have hitherto been printed. excepting an InaperfeEt copy of the Letters front Conftantinople. There Volumes will contain her Ladyatip's Correfpoodence at different periods of her Life. via. s. Setae her Marriage, in lila. s. Daring Mr. Wortley's Embaffy to Conftantinople, from 27t6 to init. 3. With her Sifter, the COQUE* of Mar. while refident at Twickenham. between 1720 and 1733. 4. With Mr. Wortley, and her Daughter, the late Counters of Bute, during her relidence in France and Italy, between the years 1739 and 1762. Inteerperred with numerous Letters hitherto unpublithed, from Pore, Younc, FIILDING, and other diftinguifhed Cha- raelcrs. ';'bey will alto include oittntwat Posses and ESSATS. in ill French and Englll, by her Ladphip; and to the whole w be prefixed authentic Memoirs of her Life. Printed for Riot nap Paters, No. p, St. Paul's Church- SANK OT !ARLAND MOTH. Lord Lac Paid, that in confequence of tome obfervations that had been made on a former day, relative to the depreciation of Bank Notes in Ire land, he wilted to have a return made of the notes in circulation there. If it lhould appear that they ' had been ailed to a very large amount, it would furnilk him with an additional argument to prove that the reflridion on the Banks of both countries ' canted the courfe of exchange to be more unfa vourable to us than it otherwire would be. The exchange between London and Dublin was very unfavourable to the latter, and Rill more fo be tween Dublin and Hamburgh. There was a lots of 17 per cent. in drawing bills from Dublin on Hamburgh ; and only nine per cent. in Lordon. He could account for this difference no other way, except that of there being proportionably a greater quantity of paper Circulated in Ireland than in Great Britain. He then moved for an account of the quantity of Notes i trued by the Back of Ireland, fence the reariaion againfl payments ill cab, laid upon it in 1797. The Marquis of SLIGO took «canon to afire the Houfe, that wh depreciation paper mo- ney bad fuffered in Ireland, it was not occafitined by any abufe of power on the part of the Bank DireEtors there, than whom no men poread more integtity and honour ; but was owing to the paper iffued by Country Banks, in which that pan of the kingdom abounded. • The motion was then agreed to. row•ace. Lord AUCKLAND aid, that as he then fax in his place a Noble Lord (Grenville), who, on a for mer day, had exprefied Come doubts concerning a lkatement made by him, of the finances of the country, he allied, for the information of that Noble Lord, as we ll as o f the t,Toure, that certain might be laid o n paperstke table.whch n H e fl e : t oti be l n d w m e o n v t e f ov ch er 'y thole financial Qatetnents which he had made on a former even ing ; and concluded with moving, that there be laid before the Houle an account of the net pro duce of the permanent taxes for the lag i`hree years, and an account of the duties on fu ga r, the duties on beer and malt, &c. during the fame period." Lord GUENVILLE expreffed his high f atufattion at the honourable and candid mode of proceeding which the Noble Lord had adopted on the relent occaaon. It afforded him extreme fatisfaftion, that an opportunity was to be afforded of entering into a full.and fair invelligation of the financial Rate of the country ; a fubjc& at all times of the higheft importance, but deriving new intereß from the circumßances in which the country was placed.— Nothing, his Lordfhip obferved, could be more gratifying to his feelings, than that the flatement of the Noble Lord, refpeBing the financial re fources of the country, fhould be realized in all their extent. But he could not help obferving that he had confiderable doubts of the accuracy of that 1 ftatement. The permanent charges on the confo lidated fund had been Rated at 25 millions, and the expenditure of the country at 24. This, how ever, was by nearly four millions inferior to what he confidered the real expenditure, even under the exigence of a peace eftablilhment, which made a difference to this amount betwixt the ftatement of the Noble Lord, and the real amount of the ex penditure. He was happy that the matter was to be brought to an iffue, for it was aot a matter of light importance. The real refources of the coun• try ought to be afcertained on clear and undenia , ble principles, and it was not fit that it Ihould be left to vague fpeculation to decide what exertions we might be able to make in any emergency which might occur. The time which the Noble Lord had mentioned, he thought was hardly adequate for that full confederation and inquiry which would 1 , be neceliary to prepare their Lordfhips for fairly and advantageoufly entering on the difcuffior. In. Read of propofing the difcuflion at the time that the motion was made for printing the papers, he thought it would be much more agreeable to Par liamentary order that the papers should firft be printed, and that a fubfequent day Ihould be ap pointed for taking them into confederation. There was alto another point to which he begged leave to turn their Lordfhips' confideratic In the papers which the Noble Lord had moved for, there was nothing by which their Lordfhips might be enabled to compare the public receipts with the public expenditure. But if the difcuffion was in tended to be concluded in a latisfaQory manner, it was effential that they fhould be put in poffeffion of every document by which a fatisfaBory opinion might be obtained. He would therefore fuggeft to the Noble Lord, while he moved for documents to exhibit a view of the amount of the national receipts, not to overlook thee documents which pr efented a flatement of the national expenditure,' without which, it was impoffible to draw any cos elution on the fribjett. After tome obfervations from the Duke of Nor folk and Lord Moira, the motion of Lord Auck land was agreed to.—Adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAR el took the Chair at half paR three, and the Houk proceeded to ballot three Commit• tees for the purpnfe of inveftigating the merits of the Invernefs. the Kirkudbright, the Lift ward, and the Waterford Eleftion Petitions. The ballots were not concluded till half paft fix. The lilt of the names of the Invernefs and Kirkudbrigbt Committees was read before the Rrangers were ad mitted into the Gallery. The following are the names of the other two, as correely as we could hear them repeated : _ hltitliAltD. • Lord C. S. lktanners E. Cb. Dorton, Ell. Hon. Chapel Norton Jollels Porter, Efq. H e nry Payne, Efg. W. Loftus, Wil. F. J. Drown, Fig- Ch. Perigall, Eh. James Gralsem, Efq. R. M. M= s Etg. J. W. Blake Webbe, Efg. Hon. W. I oh John Cott Joho tuablangne, Efg. P. Craton, Ell. WaTilli ORD. Hon. Ch. Dundee Sir Edward Winningtoa, Hatt. W. G. Cartwright. Efg. A. Houfton, Efqy . John Lemon, Efg. Wm. Graham, Efg. Hon. H. Petty Francis W. Grant, Efq. John Paey, Efq. J. Jennings, Erg. Hon. Joe. W. Warden Hon. Edward Monktrn Charles Chapman, Efg. J. D. Burton, Efq. James Dawkins, Erg Hobert Ward, litti. Such of thefe Members as were prefcnt, anti an fwered to their names, were (worn, and ordered to proceed forthwith to their refpe&ve Committee rooms. The C tithe Exclave= awned, " That the Hawk be called over on Tberfday nest ; and that the names of Nth Members as rhoulJ sot then splicer, fare thee raving on Committees, &wild be let afide, and rep eated at tech time as the Hoare &acid think te."—Ordcred. He moved alto. * That the mews at the Abrogates of die %Cots on this day, be repeated on Monday reasigist.".-or ;lend accordingly. The Sberiffs of Leaden prefetwed a Petition from the Cor poration smiled certain parts of the MI refpeding the Grand 'undies Canal now pending, and praying to be heard by sftgnfeL—.Leave given for (Coact on bath Ma. A Mame from the Lords antersed the Hods that their Lerdbip had agreed to the Bank Reftrittlia Nil without any amestileatt. Mr. Theca es moved, that the Committee to whom the Pe. deign* of the Woollen Manstseitirers are referred, have leave to it, getwittsflanding any adjournment of the Hook...oes dere& Lad Mint sad Sit H STRACIUT ',lambed leave of ab• knee tar a few days, on account of organ Wine& Sir P.lk *Petition from Irma inhabitanu of the Pant' aft k re a ralft erea v id againft the building danger Woes book la that Pardsm-Ordered to lit on the Table. Accounts were laid before the Hoak by the Comutlikeen of the Marna Naviptionosf their Receipts and Diamtementa for the year t Icra.—Orderod to Me on the Table. MILITIA TIAIMIMO The Seca e.t.a's' at Was moved the order of the day for the third reading of the Militia Train ing Bill. General TatLlTollrofe, not, he faid, to oppofe the bill in this Rap, not to objeft to the training of the Militia for twenty-eight days in the year, inaead of twenty-one, as had been nfual ; but to esprefs his Centime= upon that which he conceiv ed would be li: f a:able operation of the bill.— In a (comet be had expelled his doubts whether, under the circumflanees of flatting war, a militia force was that which ihonld be preferred to the more difpofable one of troops of the line ; he knew there were many Gentlemen, whole opi. nions merited high refpe.l, who were favourable to a militia fore4and many others, amongft whom were force of high profetlional eminence, who were of a contrary opinion. For his own part, it was by no means his idea to undervalue the ter. vices of the militia ; he too well remembered the importance of their fervice in the American war : their gallantry in the's'e war, and efpecially dur. ing the rebellion in Ireland, whither they Co cheer. fully volunteered theirfervices, were equally strong in his memory and admiration ; but he begged to put it to the confideration of the Hon. Secretary of War, and of his Majefty's other hlinifters, whe ther;circumflanced as this country now flood, i n the prefence of a rival power, with 500,000 troops, the bell difciplined, armed, and appointed, in all refpees, of all Europe, and polfeffed of every poll on the [bores oppofite to our coati, from whence we thould have molt caufe to apprehend danger, in cafe of renovated hoililities, whether fuels a force as 40.000 militia, with the expeeation of 20,000 more to be railed occafionaliy, and only drawn out for difcipline one month in the year. was the kind of force on which we could rely ? There was alfo another confidetation highly wor thy of notice; It was, that the recruiting fees icc for the line was molt materially injured by the ex. peeation of a militia ballot, as many of thofe men ' who would otherwife readily enlift in the line, had kept back for the purpole of offering tbemfelves as fubftitutes ; the confequence of which was, the bell months in the year for recruiting fervice, had palled over, as he learned from many officers of experience, with very bad fuccefs. The lion. General concluded by laying, that ifhis Majelly's Minifters did not think proper to adopt Tome mea lure on this fubjelt, he fhould feel it his duty at a future day, to bring forward a queltion upon it. The SICRITARY at WAR ' confidering that the Hon. General had fuffered this bill to pars through all its former Rages without any oppofition, tainly did not think his arguments well placed now, in its prefent Rage ; nor could he think them, as directed againft the principle of a militia force, r:. levant upon a qneftion merely whether that force thould be called out for difcipline 21 or 28 days hr she year? Had the Hon. Member come forward with his advice when the quetlion was before the Houle on the militia bill, and before the Hoge thought fit to re-adopt that old Conftitutional force, his obfervations might have been timely; at prefent, he mall certainly confider them out of time. With refpee to any of thole impediments which the Hon. General apprehended to the re. cruising fervice, from the ballots yet to take place, he could inform him thole for Scotland and Ire. land were already gone through. and completed. That for England wouldbe completed very mostly, and in lets than a month the whole would be ready to take the field, fully cloathed, armed, and ac. coutered. With repel to the foreign force to which the Hon. Member alluded, his ftatement to number rather exceeded the fait. He would allow theirnumbets, however, tobe about 400,000," The Hon. Member toe had talked highly difcipline, arms. and appointments; but be wdbld venture to affert. that if ever our troops 6014 meet them, front to front, they would thew ao in. feriority in their difcipline, arms, appointment s and bravery, to any troops in Europe, orelfewhere. General Taaseroi laid a few words in reply, and obferved, that the fituation of this country, to any contemplation of COnfiia with aneoemy, whofe population was fixty millions, and who muff be allowed to be a warlike people, mull certainly tit cite ferious apprehenflon. The ►ill was then read a third time, paged, an 4 ordered to the Lords.—Adjourned to Monday. LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY s& PRICK OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK 3 per CCM Red. 7tff -3 Per C. Colt =NW. 71M—fer ApeD see. 'eft. Osmium 4 die PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock i tyt teo _ le& Stock en 3 per C. Red. 7214 f Imp. 3 per COM 4 Per C. Conf. 7t Imp. Ant i g it iIII F 3 per Cap. Coot B4 l llli facheq. to en at di‘ 5 pet C. AMI. 1011 Ontnium T i e tt s .1 per C. t 797, to lnstills t7l. z7a. Bank L. Ann. so i t-161 •CooL ter F. ace. 734 74 Ifefterday was getting Day at the Stock Hn her 1 ing what is galled a half amount, the Dißrefs for wan 1 (intern/49mm. In the deft part of the morning, Coasts were 1 for Monet 74. and 711 for the Account in Aril; towardi OW O'clock the" were 7z far Money, and 714 for April; and at the Gni& 71 for Mew, and about 73 for April. The Csaassgs, as it Is called, gefterday, as Confab, towards ear o'clock, and the dote Oda Merkanl: a t: y m Sank Inebagge t to was equal 33 per rent. Wend for ti This morning arrived a Dutch Masl, from which we have a:trailed a few articles. We are happy in being shie to fay, that Her Majtory was Cu far recovered from her indifpofi lion on Thurfday, as to be able to take an airing for the fira time Gate Her Matiorr's arrival at Windfor, in a coach and four. Her Majoirr was accompnied by the Princefs AUGUSTA, Lady CARoLINaDORNIta i and Mrs. STAMNOPR. On Thurfday his Royal Highnefo the Doke of Canssmat completed bis 29th year. Yellerday his Royal Highnefs the Duke Yoa g and feveral of the Nobility paid 'silks to the Prin. cefs Maar, at the Q2een's Houle. - His Royal Highnefs the Duke of Ctitalaes yeßerday gave a grand entertainment at his hoe. in Cleveland-row. The long talked of inflallation of the Knights of the oath is at length finally fixed to take place the isith of nest May 111 Wellminiter Abbey. We have authority to contradia the report which has appeared in many of the papers, of Lord Nst.som haying prefented a petition to his 'MAlsser on behAlf of Colonel Dasivaan. Ir is totally vatountled.