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FIT OF THE UNDERWRITERS. "Llo F. ,01D LI" PUBLIC AUCTION,WITIIGIUT SLAVE, A: ..:ta L. - utter Weymouth, on •Ehuriday the tc,th Elevcn in the Forenoon A r,our 5 00 BUENOS AYRES little Damaged ; hill landed trout the 'rig Enterpriz.• C.:; it, Wdlc.,s, arrived from the River Plata.—May be fest. t:.. e Days previous to the Sale, en application to Joltf! i 1,1 o: „I, EN —Weymouth, zit Ed% tFo3. PiIRLIAMENTARr PROCE.EDIAGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, 'THURSDAY, FEB. 3. A nr,rnbtr of Peer , took the oaths and their fear.. I*,titiom were prefented :vigil the lA'oollsn Bill, which were ordered to he on C.,. Table. .•,..tral Petitions relative to the mode of hearing Appeal , tl:e Court of Scffion, and on Writs cf Error, were alfo tent d. and ordered to lie on the Table. • Lord ELLIENIIIO4O4'OH brought in a Private Bill from the Cc! elin Papers previoufiv ordered w.'re laid on the 'rae by L r 1 Faiatn and other Peers.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Houle met this day,purfuant to adjournment. and upon •he Sreaker's raking the Chair, a great number zrproactud the Table to he fworn in. Amo.,g them we oh. i.rved Sir J. SlncLir, Sir M. W. Ridley, Nlr. Dundas, :r. J. C Rem,ford, I\ Ir. Newcomen, he. A new Writ was iffued for the Eleition of a Ms nshir for :lir Untough of Ipfwich, in the room of C. Alexander Criactt, A writ was ailed for the eleCtion of a Member to ferec in P:itliarnent for the liororgh of Hollings, in the room of Lord Gle, hervii., who fin:: his election has accepted of the place of S.,tvin or oi his Majefty's Forefts.&c. Sec. the SPFANEtt then folicited the attention of the 1 Icufe no the fobjeft of two Petitions which had been prefented this Sellion from the Town and roma) , of Drogheda, in Ireland, complaining of an trx lie election. The Houfe was well aware that if in cafes of this nature, at the end of four teen days, the Petitioners had not entered into their recognizance to profecute their Petitions, the or der for taking them intoconfideration was of courfe difcharged. In the prefent cafe a Petition had been prefented for an enlargement of that time, and the Houfe confented to enlarge for at days. The period of that enlargement expired during the recefs. Now, according to the allth of the whenever the parties petitioning fail to enter inter their recognizance within the limited time, the' Speaker is bound to report the fame to the Houle, and the order is immediately difcharged. The fall then in the prefent cafe is, that one of the Petitioners has entered no recognizance at all, and confequently the order for taking his Petition into confederation isprofaßo difcharged. The other cafe to which he had now to call the attention of the Mule, was a cafe new inheeir, and carried with it Come difficulty which might be worthy of the mature confederation of the Houle. In conformity with the Aft already alluded to, the parties might enter into their recognizance either perfonally be fore the Speaker, or before a Magiarate, who !honkd tranfrnit the fame to the Speaker, and if not received in due time, the order Ihould, as in the former cafe, be difcharged. In the prefent cafe he had received a recognizance, but it was for the Houle to judge whether it was tranfmitted to him in the true meaning and conftruflion of the A 3. Whether the recognizance was entered into perfonally before the Speaker, or before a Magif trate who tranfmitted it to him ; it was moreover neceffary that due notice fhould be given to the adverfe party, that he or they might conteft the fufficieney of the fureties entered into, and that th.st notice fhould not be lea than two days. A recognizance was indeed tranfmitted to him, but the officers to whom it was addreffed had no war rant to advice the adverfe party of the time or place, when and where they might examine into the nature of the fureties offered, and this °minion was moreover confirmed by a Petition from the fitting Member. It was, therefore, for the Houle to determine whether in tranfmitting the recogni zance, the true meaning and fpirit of the aft was adhered to, or if not, whether the order Ihould not be difcharged ? In his opinion the prefent cafe, as it prefented a new queftion, fecmed to him to call for a ferious examination and difcuffion, and he Ihould confeeptently throw it out as a fiiggeition to the Houfe, whether it might not be proper that fume Gentleman fhould - move that the order be ditcharged, and that another motion Ihould nest be made, that the debate arifing upon the former motion be atljourned to a future day—fuppole Monday next. Lord HAWILFSEURY perfectly coincid-d in what fell from the Chair, and then moved that the oi tier be difcharged. The order being eliieltarged ac cordingly, he nest moved that the debate thereon be further adjourned till Monday nest.—Agreed to. THE BANK. Lord HAWICTIBURY next role, and faid th.tt he was inflruEled by a Right Honourable Friend of (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), who w•as prevented from attending by a Bight indifpofition, to give notice that it was the intention of that Right Hon. Gentleman to move on Monday next that the Refirition on the Calh Payments of the Bank be further continued for a time to he limited. AFFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC. Mr. Kt FN There is a fubjed likely to be form brought forward in debate. with reference to which your table is covered with papers. I mean the tiiitiladions which have taken place in the Car natic. It is important to afcertain whether the alterations which have taken place there are v fi _ .n -tent with iitice or not. the: are incontinent I apprehend .my' farther enquiry w he unnecef• fary ; fur tio confide.' ation of expctliPney can :pitlify what is in it:sit tinjaa. In order that the lioille may he enabled to determine upon the quail:in, it is inditprniible that it fhould be in poi frlli •n f every fad relating to it. The queition • mull ii.r..matciy depend upon the contideration of the fads. I conceive, therefore, that it cannot he anvantagertillv 'brought forward without our kno\4ing the hirfory of the rife and fall of the f.lmily in the Carnatic, the rife and progrcl ion with that (mil), and t s • •avariginally fru med. , j • te ; i 4. 1 ,,, k .. • • Xe ' Rice to he de. g , I • Houle 'horrid L views, U.. A.• •4e4... • 4 ______ •4. !ewe to move that there be fail before the Hook : A Copy of a Letsti from Lord Macartney to the Court of tors of the Lail India Company, (tat"! tit Lee. 1782. Anothtr Letter from Lord Macartut y to the Court of Di ee.ors, dated 2.;sh J..n. 1'784. Anothtr 1 ttcr (tom Lord Macartney to the Court of Di reaors, dated 4th June, 1795, with 14 inclofures. Copy of a letter front Lord Nlacartmy to the Court of Di rectors, dated January d, 1797. Copy of Minutes of Lord Hobart and Council of Fort St. George, dated Bth OCtober 1791. Copy of Minutes of Lord Hobart and Council of Ditto, dated 26th November, t 795. Lord Clive's Minutes rranfmitted to the Court of Diredlors in March taco. Lord CAr,TLEREAGH raid it was his objet that :he Houle ihould come to the dill-Akin on the quellion, with every rffible initirmation that could throw light upon it. Ile rather lid - peeled that fame of the p.tpers the Hon. Member intended to move for, would be included in the voluminous macs of documents moved for prior to the recd.." _ _ The quellion was then put on the produaion of each pat ticulai piper, and agreed to. They were confcquently ordered to he laid upon the table. Mr. Tat, a pref•-ntc,l a Petition from the Borough of Midhurft, comphining of an undue cicetion...—Ordercd to be taker; into conftderation on the ad of Julie. Mr.Coettr prefented a number of Financial Accounts for Ireland—Ordered to lie on the t .file. Mr. CORRY next prefented a variety of Petitions, praying for an annual pecuniary• grant for the following public Inltitu tions in Ireland:—The Proteltants Charter Schools—The So ciety for Charitable Donations—The Society for promoting the Krowledge of the Christian Religion —The Society for the Protection of Female Orphans—The Houfe of Indu'try— The Foundling Hofpital— l'he Hibernian Marine School—The School for Soldiers' Children—T he Weitmorland Lock Hofpital —The Fever Hofpital—The Penitentiary Houfe—The Ro man Catholic Seminary—The Commiffion for Widening, &e. the Streets of Dublin—The Corporation for Lighting the fame —The Dublin Society for promoting Hufbandry—The Dublin Farming Society, Sm. Mr. COR RY then moved, that there be laid be fore the Honfe an Eflimate of the Expences at tending the above Inftitutions for one year, ending the 4th January, 1804.—Ordered. Mr. Oas: env prefented a Petition from the Corporation of Sligo, reprefenting that the powers granted by a Bill paffed in t►e laR Seffion for improving that town were inadequate to carrying into effed the intentions of the raid ad, and praying that it might be repealed.—Referred to a Committee. Mr. J. C. BERMORD prefented a Petition from the Royal Canal Company, praying for leave to choofe Dire ors, Ste. Ece. to be invelted with certain powers, &e. &e. and alfo to bring in a Bill to alter and aniind the ad paffed in the lan SeMon of the frith Parliament—Adjourned. LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK; 3 per Ccnt. Red. 741 3 per Cent. ConL money, 7oßi—for ace. 41i. New 5 per Cent. 103 t—Old $ per Cent. 1 Omnium diL PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock 186 187 India Stock sop! sal 3 per C. Red. 70. 7 t 7ci Imp. 3 per Cent.69p 3 per C. Cont.7offi Imp. Ann. 114 9-166 4 per Cent. Conf. semi Esebeq. Rills. par. 18. dif. S Per C.AOII. lOC 1_ Oranium S dif. 5 per C. 1797. to3gi Lottery Tickets 871168. Long Ann. sof 7-16 ConL for Feb. GC& 7011/ Yefierday Lord HAWICISBURT gave notice to the Honfe of Commons, of the intention of Mini. (lets to move for the renewal of the bill forbidding payments in fpecie by the Bank. We are not much furprifed that the continuance of this mea fure fhould be found neceffary ; but thofe who the moil ardently fupported it laft fpring, when it palled, mull now find their predidtions woefully fallified. We were then affured, that no doubt could be entertained of the capacity of the Bank to renew its payments in fpecie on the la of March, s 103 , and fo fanguine were fome on this fubjelt, they expeEted the Bank would be able to refume its payments even before that period. In conic quence a power was inferted in the bill to enable the Bank to make payments before the expiration of the reftriEtion. The idle rumours that have been circulated by fume weak politicians, founded on the nonarrival of Paris Journals for fume days, are all diaipated as might have been expeeled, by the receipt of French Parrs, which have come to hand to the 29th ult. and which were detained only by the inclemency of the feafon and contrary winds. They ink nti. onc circanillance not a little cut ions, and which will, probahly, excite no little dsgrce of conk:line among politicians, as to the confeepicnces which may ultimately refult from it. General I .INNES (or Last its) the Ft ench Ambaf fador, who quitted the Court of Farm fume months ago in high dudgeon, has again been ap pointed French Minifier to that Court ! A letter from Naples, dated December 2, pub haled in the Moniteur, mentions the receipt there of letters from Algiers, dated January 5, (Wing, that that Regency has declared war againa Den- I Milk. It had given orders to the Danifh Conful to embark in three days, and even threatened to treat him with the utmoll feverity. Citizen Dv sots THAINSILLE, Charge d'Affaires of the French ' Republic, having received fpecial orders from the Fittsr COSSIM to protefl all friendly Powers againa the injuflicc and violence of pirates, made known to the I)tv that the F, sr C , I4SUL had with pain heard of this irregular conduel againa a Power which had given itita no cattle of complaint, and which, on the contrary, had lately paid to him a very ennfidetahle fublidy. Thi* mediation of France feemed to give great difpleafure to the Div, who even threatened to fend off the French Agent with that of Denmark. Matters, host ever, Item to have been accontniodated. The Danith Agent ha: remained ; and it is believed that the Regency wiil oat &elate war agaioß Denmark. PARIS, JANUARY The FIRST COMOI.II, re turned to this city )efterday, and will remain here during the winter. JAN VARY 27.—" General LANNES, Envoy Extra ordinary and Minifter Plenipotentiary to his Royal Highnefs the Prince Regent of Portugal, was pre. rented en Sunday to the Fitts? CONSUL, by the Minifter of Foreign affairs. It was an audience of leave, in order to return to his port. MINISTRY OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES. " COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE COMMISSONER OF COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE Rk PUBLIC AT PHILADELPHIA, DATED NOV. 13. " I take the earlieft opportunity of acquainting you, that the difeafe which affiieed this city and that of Wilmington in the State of Delaware, and which, at the end of October and the beginning of November, had become very alarming, has it length ceafed. " The Officers of Health have begun to deli ver nut to the yea's, which fail from thele two cities, certificates : there is no more any danger in admitting there veffelsinto the portsof France. (Signed) " FOURCIOY." Five per cents. 57 fr. 25 c.—Moniceur. Excepting the above the journals that have reached us contain nothing worthy of notice, be ing filled with intelligence from the German jour nals, which we have already had by the Dutch and Hamburgh Mails, with internal regulations, and with extrafts from the Engli(h papers. Yefterday about twelve o'clock, the Duke of YORK had a long conference with His MAJESTY at the Queen's Houfe. At two o'clock His MAJ rry held a Privy Coun cil, for the purpofe of nominating the Sheriffs for the year enfuing; after which the RsCORDER made his Report of the convias capitally conviaed in December Seffions at the Old Bailey, (for a lift of whom fee our laft Page.)—There were prefent at the Council, His MAJESTY, the LORD CHANCE LLOR, the Duke of PORTLAND (Prefident), the Duke of ROXBURGH, the Marquis Of SALISBURY, Earl CNA- I THAN!, Earl CHESTERFIELD, Earl WESTMORLAND, Lord HOBART, Lord HAWIIISBURY, Lord PEL• HAM, and Lord CASTLIRRAGN. Mr. FA t/LRNIR attended as Clerk of the Council. The Council did not break up till a quarter before four o'clock. The Duke of CUMBERLAND paid his refpetts to Her Ma'am and his Royal Sifters. The Counters of ELY and Lady CATHCART at tended Her MAJESTY as Ladies in waiting.— Lord Ons Low attended His MAJESTY as Lord in waiting. _ _ In the evening Her MAJzsry had a fele& card party of female Nobility. Yellerday the Duke of CLARENCI gave a dinner to a party of Naval Officers, at his houfe in the Stable Yard, St. James's. Sir Cats. Les Hoz.coway, who received the honour of Knighthood on Wednefday at the Le vee, fucceeded the late General KOEFILEt upon the death of that Officer by the Plague, in the command of the Turkifh Million in Egypt. He is to have a penfion of tool. per annum, and tool. per annum for his fon, in confideration of his dif tinguiffied fervices on that miffion, and is betides appointed Commanding Engineer in the Diarift of Cork. The Extra Cadets of the Royal Artillery are to be fent to the Military Academy at Great Marlow, where they are to remain till vacancies occur in the Academy at Woolwich. A new College is thortly to be ereded at Cam bridge, by the name of Downing College. The officers are appointed, and the ground is meafur ed nut on that part of the town called the Leys. Colonel LEMON, M. P. is eletted Recorder of &hall; ; and the Rev. Mr. MATTHIN, Chaplain of the faid Borough. The Taunton Petition againa Mr. HAMICIT, is on this ground, that as Conftable of Taunton Cattle for life, he is officially Returning Officer, and confequently not eligible himfzlf. It appears that the Conflable of the Cattle did a4I as Return ing Officer in a former reign, but never more than once. Among the laft arrivals at Bath are— I.ord Harrowby, Lord H. Piglet, Hon. Mr. Ryder, Hon. Mr4.l.yfaglit, Hon. J. Parkins, Hon. W. Otway, Slr Lawrence and Lady Palk, Admiral Charrington, Col. Dickfon, Co'. Col. •ilk, Col. Thomas, Col. Orr, Rev. Dean and Mrs. Stevimfon, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Johnfon, Rev. Me Angell, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, Rev. Mr. /Utley, Rev. Mr. Parse, Rev. Mr. Hart, Rev. Mr. Ellicembe, Rev. Mr.Robinfon, Rev. Mr and Mrs. Coy, Rev. Mr. M'Clintock, Rev. Mr. Brun, Rev. Mr. Capt. Bullock, Capt. Monkland, Capt. Watts, Capt. Wilton, Capt. and Mrs. Kill, Capt. Mani, 11, Capt. Williams, Capt. Irwin, Capt. Shield, Capt. King, Capt. Smith, Captain Cockburn, kr. &c. The Duke of NOtTNOMSLRLAMD, when at Bath. a few weeks ago, prefented a bookfeller with aool. the amount of what he loft by the failure of a trade in London ; a lots which otherwife mull have been his ruin. In the fame way, the Duke lately faved a fbopkeeper's family at Charing•crofs, by a prefent of soot. though he never had fen or dealt with the fhopkceper. The Aron:deur, amichi all the flories it has de. flounced, and the falfehoods it has aliened, has never taken notice of Sir Rost ar WI Lsoit's account of the campaign in Egypt. We have not yet feen any letter from Jaffa, dating that the Turks, who, according to Sir R. WI 'Ames narrative, were maf facred in cold blood, are alive and merry, nor is there the leaft hint from M. Discs's sr rss about the poifoning of the fuldien in the hofpitals. Now there things are much more worthy the attention 1 , 1 the French Government than M. PE LT' sit's t pi zrams. We do recollea a (tory of M. DEbG inoculating himfelf for the plague, but we do not believe that it has the kali conneftion with the oisvahuiaa of which Sir It. Witsow reprefentsfo many French troops to Lave died. YIRME REWARDED. On the 3511 of January, at eight o'clock, A. M. was married, by the Rev. Ws EDEN BUTLER, M.A. Mr. JOHN PHILBEICK, tradcfman, of Witham, Hex, to Mifs HANNAH FRANCIS, of the fame town. The circumftance is no otherwife remarkable than as affording an additional proof (if proof were wanting) to the millions of proofs already upon record, that " honefly is the bell policy ;" and that " a C.hiflian conduct will never go unrewarded', even in this life." Hannah Francis was, we are informed, educated in the Sunday School of Witham, endowed by THOMAS Kvitasrom, Efq. At the proper age, fhe entered into the fervice of Lord Loa soacE, under his honk-keeper. In that humble capacity Hannah behaved fo exemplary. that the houlekeeper, at her deceafe, left her a gold watch, fome valuable female ornaments, and her Welling. When Lord LONSDALS died, he left her tool. in money, and an annuity of to )I. Hannah immediately fettled zol. per annum on her indigent parent , ,: and Irts now entered into the filken bands of wedlock with a young and in du firiuus tradcfmaii of her own native town. Thic is no romantic tale.—We have authority for what we [late ; and we cannot but fmcerely congratu- late a virtuous youthful pair on their mutualmoral independent pi inci pies. The Judges, it is laid, have direeted, that no more of their opinions on Cafes referred to them, Ihall be publifbed by the Tax Office in future. On Sunday la ft, twenty poor children, who have been educated and reared by the bounty of the Duchefs of YORK, in the neighbourhood of Oat. lands, were, by her orders, brought 01 her houfe in Portman.fquare. At fix o'clock the children, pre. ceded by their Governor and Grwernefs, were con. duffed into the dining room, in which were the Duke and Duchefs of l'os K, and a large company of the Nobility who were invited on the occafion. After each of the children had received 'Tom her Royal Highnefs's hand a fuitable prefent, the♦ fat down at a table provided for the oceafion, at which they were regaled until eight o'clock ; and on Monday they were conveyed back to ()elands in her Royal Highnefs's long carriage. efcorted by the male and female domekics of her Royal High. nefs's ettablifhment. MATCH AGA I N ST TlME.—Friday a mare trotted on the road frvn Kirkintulloch to Killyth, a dill. tance of 24 miles. in five minutes lets than two hours. Ckalliderable bets were depending. Lail week Lieutenant Colonel PAR cut (hot a hopper, or wild (wan, in the canal of Sir Halter PALK R'S feat at Melford, where it had joined the tame fwans. It meafured (even feet four inches acrofs when its wings were extended, and fix t four inches from beak to tail. It is very rarely that thefe birds are ken fo far inland. Many Sportfmen continuing to kill Game in February, for want of knowing the left Aft of Parliament, it may be proper to inform them and the Public, that by the 39th Geo. 111. cap. 34. no perfon (hall take, kill, dam, carry, fell, buy, or have in his poffieffion, any partridge, between the iR day of February and the ilk day of Sep tember, qualified or unqualified, under the penalty of 5 1. for each bird. An ancient (tone pillar, in a high flat7e of pre. fervation, was found, a few weeks ago, in the bed of Artie Beck, at Caton, four miles from Lancaf ter. It is about eight feet high, and bears an in fcript ion dedicatory to the Emperor Adrian; the concluding line of which is not perfeelly legible. The circumliance of finding this pillar conffampi the fuppolition of the Roman Military Way hav ing palled through Lancaft er, to Over Burrow. A few days ago, an old woman died at Ber• wick.upon.Tweed, whore name was Margaret Cleghorn. Although the had been chargeable to the wills, the made a will, direiling how the war to be buried, and fundry legacies to her friends; but the overfeers of the poor immediately feized her efforts, to indemnify the parifh. Betides a confiderable fum of money, the had great quan tities of clothes; and nearly 3oc night and day caps; the very papers the had got with groceries were all carefully packed up in boxes, which all fold well, as the buyers were in expettation of find ing fome hidden treafure in her packages. Laft Sunday forenoon, at the I'retbyterian Cha pel, Leominfter, as the Rev. WILLIAM Lswati.in was about to conclude his difcourfe, be gently Roped forwards, and expired without a groan.— He was about 65 years of age, and had for a ferics of years been a very indefatigable Minifler to that congregation, during which time he publifhed Cc •eral religious books and traits. We have little to add to the account we gave of the dreadful fire which took place on Wednefday night at Mr. HAMI LTON'S Printing Office, whereby the whole premifes were deftroyed. Nothing has fince tranfpired to difcover by what means the un fortunate affair originated. It has been Rated, that a boy belonging to the Printing Office feu fome ftraw on fire, while feeding a dog. The youth fufpeCted of the crime, or rather the negligence, was lodged in the Compter all Wednefday night, and was yef terday taken before the Sitting Magi It rates at Guild hall,for the purpofe of undergoing an e xamination. but which was not entered into in con resilience of the non-attendance of Mr. HAM I L Tow,whofe perturbed Rate of mind, throughout the whole day, rendered him unfit to attend the invettigation. It is much to be regretted, that by this calamitous fire, not fewer than fixty perfons are thrown nut of employnient, many of whom have large families. Several engines continued all yefterday to play upon the ruins,o 'licit Rill harboured a great deal of fire, to prevent the poffibility of its being renewed fo as to effea further mifchief. It is exceedingly diftreffing to witnefs the quantity of paper tl.at is now lying among the ruins, fpoiled and unfit for ufe. The quantity entirely defiroyed is very great ; a Boukfeller is Patemnfter-row had fent in paper to complete fome Works, worth fome thoniand pounds. A very valuable Work, juft firlithed, would have been fern to the Binder's yellerday morning, had not the melancholy affair taken place. The agreement for the binding alone was made for aid. I tit •e' fac L 2 fano Corn are g ing I at t 1 By India Praul pieces Cork, the fll Capt. MET,, the fr Lane Thi Irorn Sail packei Er I:11