Star. — London, England, 1803-12-14 00:00:00

FRANCE. 1:61 - . 27. VAT;OIIj r hi.llol:S :,TC at prZnit farmed here, lIS to the tattittt t bat the general one is, that it wia I)G till next year. It iN tlion;:;ht th.tr Irtland was prevented by the 1: , ,g• lith fleet keeping its lJtion off Brea luting the latt. ternpcl;:loir contrary to all expeCta . ..ion. The report g.tins ground, that a convention has been coikluded between the Sr. Domingo Blacks and our troops, in pin IIiaIICC of which, thole that are kit will evacuate that cclony, which is to be decialcd in , dr:pendent. The Dutch Admiral VE Huy t will, it is laid, have the command of the Batavian and Frenzla naval force on the coati of Zealand. Many Bankruptcies have occurred at Bourdexix, Ror T I RDA M, Dc.c. Z.—Although it now fcems to he a mitter of douht if the delcent on the Brifiih , coatis will be made this year, the preparations making in this country to cooperate with the French, both by lea and land,. by no means relax. Number., of !mall vefrels have been pitrchafed here, on French I. account., which arc to be fait to the various ports of embarkation. 1 3 .1 A PROCEEDINGS. 1-10li3E OF LORDS, TUESDAY, DEC. t 3. The Curat,i lid Pill, Iri'tt Prornifrnry Not, Li!!. LA: Pro e'hon Itia, 1-131,-is Corpus SuipenGon BM, and Matti.' Law Bill, went through a Committee. .On the motion for the third reading of the Bank Reariaion B:11, Lord GRENVILLF Lid, that he did not mean to oppole the B;11 under the prefent circomrianres of the country, and confidering that it had fo often been adopted by Parliament. He was afraid, however, that it was owing to the frequency of its adoption that it had been alurioil a matter of cootie to pats it. He slid not, for ''ne, regard it in fo light a manner. He could not conceal frum himfelf that though it had tita been introduced in a period of great difficulty, ant to remedy a temporary inconvenience, it had it felf been prodattive of much evil; never till now, had the iffue of Bank end private paper extended to fuch an enormous amount, as not merely to enter in to great commercial fpeculations, but into almoll all the ti ainfadions of private life. He was afraid that the continuance of the meafure would produce the very mifchief which Government intended to guard againft in the contemplation of invalion. He did not with to alarm the Public upon this topic, but it was better to alarm them now, than when the remedy Mould be too late. The bell fecurity againft the in conveniences which a; mild attend that event, would be to have the cafh circulation of the country gradu ally reamed ; and on this account he thought that in dividuals, intlead of being condemned as they had been in another place, fhould be praind for what had been called hoarding. The clamour attempted to be railed on this point was precifely of the fame nature as that which had been direaed againft the farmers during the late fcarcity. His Lordlhip, after further cap /timing on the evils refulting from an exceffive pa per circulation, fuggefled, with a view of giving in crcafed confidence to whet it might be deemed ex pedient for commercial facilitiesto retain, that a Com. z*ittee (bout,' be appointed to enquire into the fufti ciency of the country banks, and to propofe a plan of reciprocal guarantee between them, the Bank of England, and the Public. As Parliament was gene rally fuppofed to be on the point of adjourning for the receis, he would not enter into any of the details which occurred to him in relation to fuch a plan. Lord HAWK!SBUKY replied to his Lordlhip, and petfealy concurred with him in the opinion that it was a fulijeift of regret, that the Legiflature had ever been obliged to recur to the meafore now before their Lordfhips. He, and thole with whom he aced, were under the neceffity of continuing that fyftem, becaufe they found it impnffible to deviate from it, without difturbing the whole commercial relations of the country. They c ,uld not by any meafures of theirs replace the country in that precife point of credit in which it flood prior to the year 1796, when the Aft for reftrining the payment in fpecie was fira I.afted, and therefore they were compelled to perfevere in that prat - tic:, which no doubt had been wifely retort ed to by hi. predeceffors. His Lordlhip acquiefced in the troth and foundnefs of the principles advanced by the Noble Earl, as applying to commerce and credit, but he could not, with the flight confideration he could afford the fubjeet at this moment, fay that he was prepared to give his concurrence to the idea thrown out by his Lordlhip, of appointing one or more Comm:aces. He could not fee any great be nefit that would refult from it, and it was not quite clear that f.sme diladvantage, would nut arife from their appointment. Lord Kim° was glad to hear it admitted by the Noble Secretar y of State, that the principle on which this and (imam Bills were founded, was radically vicious. His Lordlhip regretted that the motions he had repeatedly fubmitted to that Houle, fi.r af:ei taininir, at the end rfevery quarter, the amount of notes ifiiied by the Bank, had not b:en adored. lie thought that rellraining the Bank from making its payments in fpecie, had a tendency to withdraw the cut rent coin of the realm from circulation. His Lord !hip entered with very great avidity into the it:hie.'d of the exportation of tpecie in coin, and condtmned the pra:tice of prohibition ; an idea in which the Noble Secretary of State teemed to concur. 'l'he Duke of NORFOLK, in additing to the Bill, tritfied that Minitiers were not influznced to this mca. lure by any reprefentatinns from the Bank of Eng land. Much as he refpeiled that Corporation, and delerving as it was of every fupport the Legiflature conld affiod it, he hoped, that a meafure fn general and fertiais in its ortotion up... 1 the cr.:dit of the country . Wotild not be Call kJ into cffc&, unit A Mi• riiflerS were fully convinced of the neccflity 1 , 1- it.— l!., for pro to inr.tai ;vim the formidable influence of that C. , :pi:raton. Lord HAW KR SILLIRT elCillpAZt d the Balik liom at t in r xerrik an influence over ....node's, to i d. ice them to prormite this meolitre. Or, the c•-n -ii.ov, 'he Bank was inclined to ref..rte i:s payments twiner 0144 151;i...tiers judyed it to be advifable. Ato.r tome unids in expl..ii.v.ton, by L'rd • t, the Bill -nct•a.tcad:f- cordrd , . • 1, t 1' I, I , I • 1 1 , I II . I I 4 1 • j ; • ‘ilis HMV. OP COMMONS. lAA Timor Pert, moved , that the Petition preented on be half of Mc Sierra Leone Company, in a former Seffion, be referred to a Cononi;:ce. Agleed to. Mr. Losuourie trought up the Mutiny Bill, which was read a d. ft time, and ordered for a kcond readirrg to-morrow. Mt. jo RN SON, from the Secretary of State's Office in Ireland, perfented an accoutre of the Bank of Ireland Note. in circulation. Ordsrsd that a (efficient number of topics he printed fur the ufe of the Member.. Mr. Hoodoos/ brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply. A Maine from the lordF announced their I.mM:tips' affent to the ("flowing Bala, wi , bout any amendment, viz. Malt Duty Bill, s.cco,cooL Loan Fzehcquer bill, Penfion Duty bill, Irilh Sugar Drawl,,, c h Bill, O lil , eation Indemnity Bill, Irilh Sulpenfion Prom!ffory Note Pall, Eat India Bond Bill, and &man'. Defer- Bon Bill. Admiral BER KT VEY prefented a Petition from the Debtors cont fined in Oloticell• r gaol. Ordered to lie on the table. Alderman Pr.ler prefentcd Paition from the Petters confined in the Kinea Bench Pant Ordered to lie on thc table. Sir WM. ELFORD gave notice, that he should, after the recefa, nv.ve to know the rcaGin why a rap: ;table fervant nif the public. (Mr. Marfh.,ll) had been diftniff•el front his office by thc Corarnif (toners appointed to enquire into naval abt;:es. Mr. Yost a a relented a lift of the Yeomanry and Volunteer Corp: whof, G rviees h,cl 'ren accepted and placed in the eftablifh merit of Irel.mcl. Ordered to lie on the table, and a fufficient num- Wr printed for the ule of the Members. VOLUNTEER. EXEMPTION BILL. The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houle on the Volunteer Exemption Bill. Mr. YoRKE Dated, that the ohjel of this Bill was to r:move an inconvenience which had arilen from the Commandants of Volunteer Corps being unacquainted with the provilmns of the former Aas, which required the returns to be made on the at of September. The Bill goes to permit Officers commanding Volun teer Regiments to make the return at any time. The next provilion was, that in cafe only a proportion of a Corps should be armed and equipped, owing to the unparalleled demand for arms, it (hould be impoffible to turnith them all, the Commandant of fuch Corps (hould be jullified in returning the whole fully armed and equipped. The Right Hon. Gentleman here ob ferved, that notwithilanding the great exertion, it had been found impraaicable immediately to fupply with mulkets, Ike numerous bands of patriots who 1 nobly came forward on the prefent occafion, there fore fome had been armed with pikes. The IkEts alfo required the muller rolls to be returned la January, ill May, and the ill September ; and no Volunteer (hall be entitled to exemption, unlefs he is out and exercifcd eight days every four months, if in an In• (entry regiment, and four days every four months, if in a regiment of Cavalry. He was convinced no Volunteer Corps would deem this hard, as there was not one but whole zeal called them out much oftener. Mr. Purr could not help obferving, that a Com mander of a Volunteer Corps could no; properly re turn his regiment armed and equipped, who had only the pike and not the mu(ket, that weapon not being ufed by infantry ? and again, if 25 only had mufkets, he certainly would not be juilified in returning too as armed. He thought, however, the general objeft of the Bill extremely reafonable. Mr. Roe F joined in the arguments of Mr. Pitt, and inflanced the cafe of a Rifle Corps, who had pikes fent them ; he nee not, he Paid, obferve how ridicu. lousa figure they would cut armed with loch weapons. Mr. Vox Kr, in reply, obferved, that it being im poffible to provide firelocks for fuch unprecedented numbers, Government deemed it more prudent to arm them with that weapon, than none. Mr. PITT faid, it was immaterial to difeufs this fubjea any further, fince it had been admitted, pikes were not fit inllitirnents for infantry. For certainly it never could have been meant that a Corps, .armed with pikes, flicks, nr pitchforks, could be returned asarmed ;the mufket only being the properinfirumeni. Dr. LAUILINCE 111fill:d that the arming men with pikes, was not according to the interpretatioh of the Law, and ridiculed the idea, that 25 men only, armed with mufkets, would juftify the Officer in re• turning too as armed. Mr. TIERNEY, in anfwcr to Dr. Laurance, ob ferved, that 25 mufkets were not deemed by Govern ment fufficient to a:m too men, as he feemed to argue, but fufficient to perfea them in their difcipline, when called out twenty• four hours, namely, an hour in each day ; and if he commanded a Corps fc circum (lanced, and found them attending regularly to make the bell life of thole arms fur perfeaing them in their difcipline, he fhould feel himfelf jullified in returning them duly armed for the purpofe. He begged to put the cafe profeS)nally to the Learned Gentleman : fliprinfe a funor in the Civil Court, having feed five Doeors on his fii!e, but being inclined to 'economize in the article of br; , -.1., furnifbed them with only one, he begged to all:, if the whole five Doaors had read this brief, would nor ti.e purpofe be jug as well anfwered as if they had one each i (loud lavbier) After fome further craiverfation, the chant.: being read, which was to fpecify the number of day s ne celtary fur V.ilunteei. to prove, by certificate, their attendance opon drill, for eLercili.. in older to their exemption horn lei vice in the Militia, and in the Army of Referve, Secretary i nerd moved to fill up the blank in the former cafe with the words 't twenty-four." Mr. ROSE thought there fliorild alto be introduced tome Clalife for compelling, under a fine, not only the attendance of Volunteers upon the appointed dais upon the drills, and other field Periods, in their rcfpenive cliflrins, but aim for the prefervation of dire lubordination and refpc(f to their officer.; tn.:fly inilances of violation to both, he was forty to learn, had accrued, though certainly not under his own oblervation ; and foch in(tances he conceived highly derogatory to that difeipline which it was de liious by alt means to maintain. Mr. GILL: felt it neccltary to call the attention of the Committee, as well to the number of days atten• dance, which were now propofed to confhtute the plea of exemptioo, as to what had fallen from the Hon. Gentlem whit had jolt fat down. He c-n -ccivcd it hizl,!y dangerous to the Volunteer fervice to alter, at tine time .•f day, the definition of what war to he deemed an effective atteniixoce. Under the former Mihtia La..v, the proof of .4 regular toren &ace for live , W 2, ail that was dexmxd nerttfary to eat'rl: the Vrnia•lt:cr to c. - ;crupa,i.n ; now tior. term was about be exchanged, n, one ;nil:Alice to a term da;s in the ) ear, and it thi, regulation lhould be itlop:ed, a va!f t•trmlwr of r itt-dcers indeed, who had entered I:11o.: tha; f:r vice, :tiait.r :lie co.r.p.at of t'.c &Imo. 14.A.,`,,ti0nv, p;eii F ,ol t•• them u p ..0 the -;th P... ;;:tau.r.:, dcpr:ccJ ft,:,: t 1:.1. I c ~irtptio; , t.i iin .hat II • # were certainly er.wlerl ; and a. 01,l : . 'l(lol7hre;flT ••• . • At . .• fition. of the Leginaturc. With refpea to the propolition of the Hon. Gentleman who (poke ha, he thought it wholly minced:try to emharrafs the fervice with new refirietions efpecially as whenever the day cf attual fervice ihnuld come, and the Volunteers flould be ordered to march out of their diflria, they wou!LI be liable to all the provifions of martial law. Mr. Secretary VOR r thought that what had fallen from the Honourable and Learned Gentleman cer tainly was entitled to an anfwer. He perfeely agreed with him in the propriety of performing every pledge of public faith to the Volunteer Corps, bnt, if he meant that Parliament was at no fublequent time, or under any change of circumllances, to have the power of forming any new regulations necelEary fur the better condutting of the Volunteer fervice, then he could by no means agree with him. The firmer regulation to which the Hou. and Learned Member alluded, was adopted in a period of profound peace, and with a propped to the permanent continuance of that peace. The occurrence of a war, new and un precedented in its nature, certainly called for reviflou and new regulation, if neceffary. If the Volunteer, however, dad not like the regulation now propofed, he was certainly at his option to withdraw from the Corps, but then he would forfeit all claims to exemp tion, and be liable, according to his ails, to be drawn for the Militia or Army of Referve. . . A very long and defultory converfation enfued, in the courfe of which feveral Members repeatedly fpoke, and to points not very interefting for minute detail. Sir WM. YOUNC took a material diffinClion be tween the old Volunteers, who had formed into Corps before the Defence Mt was palled into a law, and thole who fince entered, of whom, he contended, that above three-fourths had come forward, not of a pure voluntary intention to offer their fervices, but by way of commutation for levying in the Militia or Army of Referve. The CHAMCI.L.LOI of the Excerciy la would ad mit of no dittinftion, and contended that the Volun teers whe came forward under the 43d of the King, came forward, and he defired it to be hiflorically Rated, with a pure, voluntary, and patriotic inten tention for the defence of their Country, and without any view whatever to exemptions from other branches of the fervice. The arguments fo frequently urged by Members oppofed to the Volunteer Syftem, that the Volunteer fervice locked up men from the Re h rru• lar and Militia army, was molt fuccefsfully refuted - by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Role, the At torney C e eneral, Mr. Secretary Yorke, and other Members, who contended that no Volunteer was pre cluded from entitling, whenever he chore, in the Mi litia or the Line ;—and fome of thofe gentlemen ad duced leveret praftical and Itriking inflances to flew that, fo far from locking up men in fuck a way, or difinclining them to general fervice. their dilcipline in the Volunteer ranks, infpired both officers and men with a military fpirit, and had aCtually induced the greater part of the numercus corps to enlii iu the Line and Militia. After a difeufGon tf much length, the blanks in the Bill were filled up, agreeably to the origin4l propo . Mr. Secretary YORKS afterwarcls brought up a claufe for providing for the families of Volunteers on actual fervice, out of their diflria, during their ab• fence on fuch fervice, in the fame manner as the fa milies of Militia men. _ _ The bill was then reported and agreed to, ordered to be engrolled, and read the third time to-morrow. Adjourned. LONDON. FBDNESD,AY, DECEMBER /4. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONS O'CLOCICt Confab fur opt 5514—Reduced 54—Onanium 6 4 Per Cent. 701-I—New 5 per Cent. 90i. Loog Ann. 15 a3-t6i--, PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY : Bank Stock t 450 Long Ann. 151 3 per C. Red. Ann- 540 Short Ann. 3 z 3 per C. ConE rout Oninium 61 df. . . 4 ~ Pa C. 7 0 0 3 per C. Ann au S Pa C 1 797 9 1 9ot nglifla Tickets 71. Cod. for arc. ss;+ This morning Captain BASSITT arrived in Town from Lilbon, with difpatches for Lord HAWK ibIIURV, and the Admiralty. Their contcnts Lave not trAnf pired. Accounts have been received from Boulogne, which , Rate, that there had lately been a mutiny among fome of the troops there. The mutineers were not quelled till frrne lives were loft. Three officers he• longing to the 4aft demi•brigadc are Paid to have been killed, but whether in quelling the mutiny, or previeufly by the foldiers, we have not learnt. We cannot vouch abfnlutely for the truth of this account, but it comes to us through a refpeßable channel. In addition to the account given yelterday from the Captain of a Proffian veal, which left Rotterdam fo late as Tuefilay lan, and which arrived on Satur day in the River, we have to mention the following particulars:— The general feizure of Dutch veffels in the Meufe took place on the 2111 of November. They were de• tached in little fquadrons up to Antwerp, from which it was underßood they were, by inland canals, to be fent to Dunkirk and Flufhing. Our informcr law two divifions proceed to Antwerp, one of 40 fail on the 22d, and one of to fail on the :3d of November. They were generally between 3o and 4o tons burden. At Rotterdam he left lag Monday so of the new confirtifted gun boats. There were on the Rocks at that town ten more. Thcfe are the vac': of which he (poke when he Paid he thought them not rea -1 worthy. They are, according to his eliirlion, of a moll wretched conßrutlion—(lightly put together, and with green timber. They are calculate: to con tain a hundred men, but he conceives No tY the utrisat they could Row. . The public and accredited rumours in floHand were very prevalent a few days before his failing, that .tn attempt would certainly fuon W tosJe to rad: :114 country. He brought with him fir or feven parrenzers, among them a Mr. REID, a half pay officer, his wife end chili, who had lately made their efcape from Va. lerciennes. The Englifh there are Rill very feverely treated, and on a late application to BON APAR T E fot common fuhfillence as prifoners, were very tritely anfwered, that he confidered them as hollages, and not as prifoners. Colonel ARSRCROPAHR (nephew of General AETICROVTISF) and Lord Sop, ERVILLE, had rendered their unfortunate countrymen great :drift. ance. They had procured cloathing, and eflabliffied foup•houfes for their relief, but without further affift ance even their h iends would loon be exhaufled. His Lordfhip and the Colonel were both well. At Rotterdam, the Captain lays, there were nn. French troops, but in the ifland of Walcheren he had heard from good authority, that there were between. 7 and to,ooo ready for immediate embarkation.— The Rate of the inhabitants on the Banks of the Meufe, he lays, is wretched beyond dcfcription, the greateft mifery prevails. The peafants and Mer men are feen (trolling about as common beggars.— all regular influilry is at a flop. At the French coffee hnufes at Rotterdam, on Sunday week, it was confidently Paid that feveral General Officers of note had explicitly refufed to ac cept commands in the expedition to England, which circumflance, together with fome political occur. rences, laid to be in the North, had oecafioned the late fudden and unexpetted return of Bowarears to Paris. The public fentiment throughout Holland!' and France is, that BONAPA ITS mull fall, unlefs he make the attempt; and that if he do make it, and do not fucceed, he is equally loft. The army openly mur mur at his delay, and fay, at the mention of his name, It To England or the Guillotine ;—be has told us he would conquer, and he mull." On board this veffel there were conflantly two French foldiers from the Brine, who were not only regularly re lieved, but frequently vifited by their comrades. It was in this way they always (poke of 8011APAITS, and by no means with expretlionsof attachment or efleem. The Captain of la Proffian galliot, from the Texel, which he left op Tuefday lafi, Rates, that fix fail of the line, feveral frigates, and a large fleet of trail!: ports, were apparently in a Rate to put to fea in as. hours ; but how they were equipped, or internally arranged, he had had no opportunity of judging.- -He was boarded by Admiral THosssokoucies, fquadron, all of which he fnppofed to be well. Lord Sr. Vsactvir arrived in town yeqerday from Brentwood, to attend a Cabinet Council. The French Generals, MORGAN and NoGu s, hav ing been regularly eachanged, fet out on Saturday last for Gofport, whet.; they are to embark for Mar• laix. They are accompanied by an Englifh Gentle. man, who is to proceed with them to Paris, and is en trulled with a number of letters to perfons in France. A treafonable and inflammatory paper was polled on a door in the city of Durham on the ad inflant. addrelled to the Volunteers of that City, muting them to lay down their arms, and not oppofe the French army. A reward of too pintas, and the King's pardon to any accomplice, is offered in Laft night's Gazette, for the difcnvery of the author. The Gazette all contains his Majefly's licence to WM. Sruacss, Efq. of Adon Hall, in the County of Worcefler, and sine of the Reprefantative& in Parlia ment for the Borough of Chrilt Church, to take and ufe the addiiinnal name of Dot:siva, from grateful and affeßionate refpeet to the v.ifhes and memory of his mat rnal uncle, FaaNcis Pica, formerly BouasiL, Efq. deceaf.A. Monday evening, in a thick fog, in Dover Roads, the Baring Esti Indiaman, ran on board the Admi ral Colpoys, outward bound Welt Indiaman, by which the latter lilt her mizen malt .incl bowfprit, but is brought into the Downs. jEItnME BoNAPARTI.—A letter date 4 Philadelphia, Nov. 5, to a Merchant in Liverpool, Pays—" JERO/43 BoNAPARTE has married Mifs PATTFRSON, daughter of Mr. WM. PATTIR sow, of ; he has veil ed 80,00 dollars in the Bank iif Baltimore, and re port lays, his brother allows him ►o.Do dollars per week." The following article, however, of a later date, gives a different account of this affair : " PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12. NAPAITE. %%1101T1 the Foreign Journals have of in various ways, has been a confirm rein' ever fince his fiat arrival. Having long gallant of our firft-rate beauty, Mifs PATTI cor.fented, a few days fince, to bellow her N her Gallic admirer, and a licence was illus form for the folemniration of their nuptials morning on which the ceremony was to tal the French Minitler went in perfon to the Civilian, and in the name of the FiesT Coi Mager, forbade the union : in confequenco cence was revoked, and the lovers are left, great mortification, with little hope of redrefs !" Coal, MAILICET, MARK LW, DEC. 14.-- Grain in general in good Apply, with form reign arrivals of Wheat.—Fine Dint zic fet per quartet.—Malt inclines down, as Beans.—Boilers arc at lefs.—Pearls at are in good tupply, with a few foreign, at may be expe.!led.Fine Polatids a t 2 75 .—C ticks are at little vat iatints.—fine American at :ss. per band of 11 cwt. Yellerday the LnID Maros ordered tht F3t.tad to be continued. The Lottery begins drawing on Mondry of nest month. The 'rickets and Stampt S) fc.ll::ig in the greaten variety of Numbeic, at 1 sot.'. Stare Lottery Office, No. 88, Cornhi c-rner of the Royal Exchange, %%hoc the ing Shares of the Capital and other l'ri, fad there, are pay ii.g M full, without any S;LCTEIC' At lA'SC GrAtit awe' 13,- re difpoced (Went here ; been the 'EaSON, the • • hand upon ued in due s : but the :aitc place. e preficlint 01ISUL, hts ice, 'the li- Ft, to their f Hymeneal —We have ne few fa :tches 59 5 • do Tick ins.—Oats and more -Other ar- can Flour ie price of r the 19th Shires are If Nicuot rf - the outßand• lees Weir ri' t