Star. — London, England, 1803-04-06 00:00:00

1 1 1 1 ,i i 4' i t 1 .1 1 t; i t ..... 1 .e,IRLIAMENTART PRUGEEDIAGS. FOTISF OF LORDS,TUESDAY, APRIL t. The 11. - . , .fe r, rolve.i itfclf into a Commi:tee. Pnv Ices, for the farther confidtration of the claim of the Tisiewt.ll Brydges to the Barony of Chandos.an 1 , 1,rd \VAL.. stxcitaat luring taken the Chit, Mr. ATTORNEY GENE RAL was heard at force length on behalf of the Crown, in re ply to the ~rgurrmts ot Mr. FR SXINE fir the Chiinant.— 'nett I.or,Mip deferred the farther coanderatiiiii of the cafe 1,111 The Fan of STONVORD AMILIEdRIBELESDALE were fworn and took th.!ir feats. 'Ube Mot a t male a few olifervation‘ rcfpedling the l)ebt. , rs Bill, the pri,eipal of which was, that he had fon., h.rll,er alteratiori to propore with regard to the mea fote ; and concluded by moving, that 62 Order ut ,the Day for the fecund rca !ing f the Bill be difcharged; which being done. it was ordered, on Lis Lordfhlp's motion, that the Bill be 1% ad a fccond time th:. firft Thurfday after the Reeds, and the iced, i'unirucced for that day. Mr. ALEXANDER and others brought up from the Com mons the Fvehequer Bills Loan Bill, and Sir James Saumarea's Annuity Bill. Some private Bills were all.) brought up by other Gentlemen. The Ex. hequer hills Bill was read a firft time. Lord Vifeount HOOD moved the Brit reading of Sir James Saumar.z's Annuity Bill, and took the opportunity opro nouncing a Chart bur appropriate eulogitun on the profcflional merits and fervices of • that Officer, and parti•mlarly adverted In his condo t (we believe while under his Lord thip's own com mand in the Welt Indies, in Otftober ;13z.—The Bill was accordingly read a firft time. A Petition from e•rtain Petitioners of the Parith of St. Pancras, being duly relented, againft the St. Pancras Work bou!'e Bill, the fame was formally moved to be read, &c. by Lord WAESINGIIAM. Low:Mips afterwards d, (err( d the feeond reading of the Bill in queltion, until the fccinl Tudday after the Reeds. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir JOH NFit ED EIIICK obtained leave to bring in a 13ift for re-building the Parini Church of Chrachurch, Surrey. Mr. lay's, of the Cullom-Houk, pthkuted an Account, 'hewing the Value of Exports and Imports from and to the Pert.' of Great Britain, for x 8 years laft pail—Ordered to lie on the table. The. Sol ICITOR CENERAL moved for leave to bring in • Dad to empower the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, and Lord Keeper o; the Great Seel, for the tame being,to direct the dd. pof il of the Freehold Property of Luna:icy. Leave g!yen. Lead a third time the American Comntiffioners' 11:3, and the Southampton Water Works Bill, which were paired, and "ord , red to the Lords. The S LCIUTA IT AT WAR brought up the Reports on the Militia Pay and Cloathlng, and the Militiainidfc Fatuity Pro vilion Bills, wh:ch were agreed to, and the former Biil ordered 'to be ongroffed, and the latter to be taken into further conii derat ion on the Goth of April, and tube printed. The Houk in a Comm:ttee went through the Innkeepers' Allowance BBL—Ordered to be reported to-morrow. Mr Tinter T moved for " An Account, Cowing the Sums "aid li•to, and the Charge+ upon the Confolidated Fund, from rte rib or January, 183 t, to the sth of January, 1803, ctftin gulfhing each year."—Ordered. He alfo moved for a An Account of the net Produce of the rota anent Taxes for the fame Period."—Ordered. TOC CMANCIILLOR or THE EIICIIICQ.DER lied before the Heide the Surveys lately made by order of Government, in the of Scotland:v.-Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. A AAAAA Dill reported from the Committee on the hies !Revenue Adis.—leave given to bring in a Bill. Mr. Coll a v gave notice, that he mould immediately after the Awes, bring forward his motion for perpetuating other trim Revalue Ads. ELECTION PETITIONS. The CH ewer tt.oe of the EXCMEctyzit, put fuant to the notice he had given on a former day, role to move for the adoption of certain amngements with refpeB to the difpofal of the Petitions com. *Wog of undue Eledions hill pending. The Houle had already sited with a degree of expedi tion, in the difpofal of the Petitions prefentcd to them, unparalleled in any former year (fleeted kg a General Elation : as on looking to the Jour. ails on the &Nat, it appeared, that the greaten nutnber the Houk had ever difpofed of, in the courfe of any former Sellion, was but twenty-four, whereas, in this, twenty-two had already been decided upon. He fincerely trulted the Houle would not on this account flacken its activity, but perf in the fame laudable exertion. A time was approaching when, on account' ofthe neceffary *Wines of many Members to attend their county affixes, and during which it was not ufual for the -Hoare to proceed to Winds of any great impor ince, nor to order even a Call of the Houfe : - during that period, of courfe, it was not to be ex .peeled that ballots could be proceeded upon with tuccefs. However, he trolled that doting the lilt week of April. and the enfuing month of May, there would be a fufficient number of Members in attendance to proceed to ballot two Committees every week ; by which means ten or more petitions would be chi - poled of before the riling of Parlia ment. The remainder might. for form fake, be appointed for days in the month of Aug.-3 ; hot be really difpofed of early in the fucceeding Sefiion. He concluded by moving, that the Petitions for the following places be taken into confideration as fpecified,viz.— Taunton and Button, - Tharfday, April at. Stirling and Kirredliright Connate, Thurfday, May 5. artworks and Bilhup s Cattle Thurfday, May Fvetham and Salt itctfard, - Thurfd q, May 19. Newcaltic-undcz-Line and Radnor Ceanty, TM:Nay, May :6. Ordered accordingly. and that the Houfe be called over on Thurfday the 28th inftant. I'ht following Petitions, intended to lie over till neat S:lion, were ordered, prof/ram, to be taken into confederation on the following days : Xingann upon Hsu, Augel t I Windfor - Aa3uft zo Le, mintier • - a Wertminfter - 11 Sudbury j a u uldlrf r el . 4 I MilW he y ad Al•lburougl f Herdord • Hordtnn . 6 Durham Fltatedburr - 8 Lanckla - Carnckfcrgus - 9 coduTY C0rm:4866: BILL. • 3.6 The Order of the Day being read for the fe eond reading of the County Coroners' further al- lowance bill, Mr. Dicxvis prefaced, by a few words, In low as to he inaudible in the gallery, his motion that the hill be now read a retold time. Mr. Nocuous , ' exist cried ibme futpiize, thit bill which the linufa had Lill ycir moll decidedly rejetted with marks of evid:nt indignation, af ter repeated dilcuffions, flinuld now again be brought forward wi:hout any new ground whatever heing hated to the Houle. This Bill was founded upon a petition, purporing to he that of ail the Coro :Ars in England and %Vales, yet nevertheicf. lign ed only by fitt•en names. There were, Imsvcver, fifty two counties in Eng: Ind auJ Wales ; and it was, lie thosaght, pretty extraordinary, that is this petition scab 1411./t it proldr..l to be, that only is, s.ut of at 5: (but the whole slurat.‘: was much greater ), fhould have figned it. This Bin! had four objeCts, namely, an allowance to the Co. roner for attending his County Aflizes ; an al lowance for attending the Qt_rarter Seffion ; an in creafe of fees on taking his inquefts, and a confi derable increafe of allowance per mile, for his travelling charges on Isis duty. But fo unreafon able were the whole of thofe charges conlidered ro be by the friends of this bill, when laft before the Houfe, that three of them were abaedoned ; and the only one then attempted to be maintained, was the extra allowance for travelling charges, though now the whole were again revised. He coald, however, fee no jull ground whatever for comply ing with any one of thole claims of Coroners, whofe emoluments were already fo confiderable that tlw. fituation was univerfally courted ;—and whenever a vacancy occurred, the choice of the neeholders was canvaffed with as much zeal and avidity as if it were an EleCtion for Member of Parliament. Sure he was, that if thofe very is Coroners who complained of the utter inadequacy of their prefent emoluments would refign their fr. mations to-morrow, every newfpaper in their re , fire Rive counties would be crowded with advertife , ments from other candidates, foliciting the choice of the Freeholders, and pledging themfelves to the molt faithful and indefatigable difcharge of their duty if fuccefsful. He therefore, for one, could not fee the neceffity of agitating the public mind, or creating difcontent, by laying new burthens on ! the people for the emolument of thole men, and he fhould vote againit the Bill. Mr. Straw Lsrevee fully coincided in the fen- timents of Mr. Hobhoufe, and obferved, that the Coroners, fo far from really feeling their emolu ments inadequate, many of them, direly contrary to law, and to their official oaths, as Led by Depu ties, whom they could well afford to pay for doing their hufinefs. Befides, when they travelled any dillance on duty, they were always amply reward ed for their trouble and ezpence ; and fuch was their avidity after the emoluments of office, that he recollected an inflance, where a fhip was wreck ed on a part of the coalt near where lie lived, and feveral of the bodies of the drowned mariners having floated on Ihore, whole flocks of Coroners came from various diftritls, like birds of prey, to pounce upon thole dead bodies, to hold inquefts as to the obvious caufes of their deaths, and charge the dirliiCt with their fees. Befides, there was another caufe which would render the extra al. lowance for travelling charges much greater than at firfl is would feem. The Coroners, inand of being dirperfed generally lived in all the principal county towns ; fit that in cafe of an accidental death, or extraordinary death in any remote part of the county, not only the inconvenience and ex pence of fending for the Coroner to a great dif tance, were in themfelves great and vexatious, but very often the health of a vicinage was endan gered by the putrefadip of a dead body, before the arrival of a Coroner, or clfe the ends isf jirfiice defeated to avoid the expence of his attendance.— So far was the complaint of inadequate emolu ment from being founded, that he knew an in• fiance of a man offering one hundred pounds to a Coroner, if he would only give him the firft notice of the time of his refignatior, that he might have' the flatt upon a canvars, and two hundred pounds more if he firecceded. He for there reafons voted' , againft the bill, and thought the Houfe ought to get rid of it in the molt adive manner. 1 Mr. BORLAND faid, there was certainly nothing um eafonable in that claufe of the Bill, which went to increafe the insetting allowance of the Coro- ners, which food at its prefent rate of 9d. per mile for above fifty years, and certainly the in. creafe of price in every neceffary of life fince had been fuch, as to render any allowance regulated then, extremely inadequate now. He did not know how far the lion. Member who brought in the Bill meant to go on this ground. He under flood to double the relent allowance ; that, how. ever, would certainly be going too far, and very objeCtionahle. Fourteen.pence a mile, however, would riot be unrealonable. He felt a frong pre judice in his mind in favour of ancient eflablifh ments, and certainly the office of Coroner was formerly one of great importance, and next in confid:wion to that of the Chief Magifirate of , the county : and even fill it was one of high im. portance to the public jufice ; for infante, in &telling murders, and finding out the crimioals; and in civil lints, when the Sheriff is party, the office of appointing a Jury, and exeetning the en quiry, devolved on the Coroner. He was, there fore, for preferring the refprelability of the office, and alloying to the perfon holding it every lea. (curable remuneration. Mr. SHeRIDAN fupported the Bill, which he cot:littered a lair and jolt appeal to the feelings of the Houfe ; and if the claim was a reafimable one, he would fupport it, independently of all other conliderations. An Hon. Member had laid, the Honk ought to het rid of the Bill in the milt aflive manner pothole. For any thing he had }et heard from Gentlemen who nppofed it, it was caller to get rid of i by adivity than by argument. That Hon. Member had mentioned an inftance, when he talked of whole flocks of Coroners relort ing to the fea-coafls to pounce on drowned bodies. He teally imagined at firll the lion. Member had talked of fii,cks of earmoract: ; but he could not conceive how fo many Coroners could make it th:ir bufinefs to retort to one place, feeing there vas only one to each particular diflriel. Conii• cluing, however, the very great importance of the office I Coroner, as had been remarked by another Hon. Member, and that the ends of. public juftiaki fo materially depended in many cabs upon his integrity, it would be wile, in his .'pinion, that his em-iluments lhould be fuck as to induce rerutable men to fill the office, and place them above the temptation of taking underhand fees. Sir ROBERT XVILLIAMS gated an inftance, where the conty:t enr an eleetion to the office of Coroner, con one of the !wiles 40001. The onefli. n be:rg lcutfly called for, was put, ts:leti the Houle divided—Ayes, for the fecund reading, —Noce, 49 —Majority, 12. The Big was read a feeoad tire, and ordered to be c'n'....aitied lye to-morrow.—Adjourned. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per C. Conf. 624 4 F—Etltto, for May acc. 63i• 3 per C. Reduced Ifni ex. div. Old S per Cent; Ann. 971 cx. di,. New s per Cent. 96 ex. div. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: 3 per Cent Conf. 61 6z 62i Imp. Ann. 111 611 62 611 I Conf. for May, 63i 63 64 6 3: 5 per Cent. Ann 96 961 Yefterday was Setting Day at the Stock Exchange. Several failureewere declared, hut only three of any great importance. Of there three, the Gentleman whole delleicney wal the molt confiderabic, has time expreiTed a confident capcdetbq 31at his principals will come forward, and enable hint to pay fi'tecto (billings in the pound. °Me two great previous (adores, one of which was declared on Monday, and is the fubjeEt of gene ral regret in the city, their account is laid to be very complicated. It conitlts of what is called, in the language of thc Stock Exchange, Pets and Cull, The Houfc, we underitand, has declared this an illegal dealing; and a doubt is entertained whether the claims under it will be allowed. The day was not by any means fo difaftrnus as was expected. The 3 per CelliJ opened et 61, and left off at 62,i. We this morning received French journals to! the 4th infant. The Monitrur does not, however, prefent a fingle article of intelligence—the fmall papers have not arrived.—Funds, 52 f. 3o c. We announced yellerday that on the 29th ult. there had been an extraordinary meeting of the Senate at Hamburgh, occafioncd by a demand made by M. REINHARD, the French Refidcnt, that a certain Coufular Manifello againa England lhould be printed in the Hamburgb Corrcl)adenten, and that it would appear in that Journal on the following day. This important intelligence was fully confirmed in the evening ; and we have received a copy of the document in queftion. It relates to the prefent difputes with France, and is not only highly lute. telling in itfelf, but rendered peculiarly fo from. the citcumftances attending its publication. It is well known that the prefs at Hamburgh is under a Cenfulhip, and that 'what appears in the newf papers publifhed there is fill fubjeded to the revifal of the Government. M. RssNMARD fent the article, of which wethis day give a tranflation, for infertion in the Lorrefpossfesten. The Syndic confidering feveral paftages of it as offenfive to England, Truck them out, but the FrenchAinifter malted that the article fhnuld be inferted in its otiginal fate. In cafe of re fufal he intimated that he Should quit Hamburgh. The Syndic, embarraffed by the magnitude of the affair, applied to a turgomafter for advice, but the latter told him that he could do nothing but con- yoke the Senate. An extraordinary meeting of the Senate, as we before mentioned, was accord. ingly held, when, fearful of giving any pretext for the vengeance of France, and confident in the liberality of England, it was refnlved that the ar tide Should appear. It is inferted, however, with the notice that it is by " defire." It is evident, therefore, that this paper is in reality an official Manifefto, and fome even think it is [tom %he pen of the FIRST CONSVL himfelf. The Rile and matter of this produaion, indeed, are not unworthy of the official charafter which belongs to it. The great objeft is to throw upon this country the difgrace of a breach of faith in not fulfilling the Treaty of Amiens. It is pofitively aliened that there were no naval preparations in the ports of France, except thofe defined for the colonies. The King's Meffage is fpoken of as a meafure that can be afcribed only to perfidy, to enmity to France, and a defire to obtain advan tages which France ought not to give up. Threat, ate held out that if war is to take place, the naval firength of England may not be fufficient to defend her. Laft of all, we have a detail of the fpeeches of the FIRST CONSUL to Lord WHITWORTH, at the Drawing-room, which it is clea'r Bowataare bad premeditated. The document is important in con taining an official account of that extraordinary incident. Some of the obfervations are very curious. Thr people of Holland, of Switzerland, of Piedmont, of Lombardy, mutt (mile in bitternefs of foul, to hear that France, if a war were to enfue, would be fighting for the liberties of Europe ! The allu• fion to the Treaties between the Vandals and the degenerate ROMAPS is every way unfortunate. If we are to compaie the parties to the Treaty di Amiens (or to the other Treaties of France since the Revolution), with the Vandals or the Romans, which is the party that buys peace, and who is the Vandal that appeals to his (word ? Have the Eng boa tt a peace, without getting their money's worth, as the degenerate Romans did, and are the French the Vandals, who fell peace. and won't deliver the commodity ? Or, are the Englith the Vandals that fell peace, and won't perform, and are the French the degener a te Romans ? The f.et ic, that the author had Come confuted remembrance of buying and felling Peace, and of the Gauls that put the !Vora into the (tale, and down he clips the companion, without refletling whether it was to, the put pole or no. This affords a (Irong confir motion of the fuppofition that the Pras•r Coxaut is the author. point to which all the argiments of the Ft each Government go, is, that this ccotaary has been guilty of a breach of the treaty. TM % „ facie, is the cafe, becaufe the treaty is not executed ; but were there not reafons in the condud of France to ju(ify our delay ? The temper conspicuous in the Hamburgh :!a nifeao, is that of peevifhnefs and difappointment, more than that of high fpirited fenfe of wrong ! From the whole of Bop:APAR-I'oi conduit in tills affair, filch feelings feem to predominate ; he does not go to war willingly ; that is, Miniflers urge him wan explicit declaration before it is quite convenient for him: he thought he could have gone on cajoling Mr. ADDI mcrow ; but, being unexpededly flopped, he findsthatr.:fpedablc Gentleman, as authorot the meffage, perhaps a ,‘ lunatic or a fool." What he may do in fuels a temper, it is not eafy to fee. Had he received the news of the menage with a lofty and indignant faience, we fnould have thought him more prepared for war; At prefent he betra)s impotence in every (cafe of the word. We do not believe that BONI AAAA will give np any part tf the Treaty of Amiens, any we do not knew that our Miaillers call for any thing fa, the in the was; of acquisition. We apprehend that it is fume curity againft the farther projects of France th.,t may be requircd. If Bonaraarr agrees to thc.l-, the Treaty of Amiens is not cancelled, but con firmed. Letters from Berlin of great credit Rate, that one of Dortoc's objefts was to prevail onthe KL:g of Pruffia to feize Hamburgh, for the purpofe ct completely excluding the commerce of England from that port, and from Germany ; DUROC faid too, that if the King of Pruffia would not do fo, and (it is added) likewife feize on Hanover, the Fiasr CONWL would fend troops to do fo. To this it is Rated, that the Cabinet of Berlin replied, that Ins PruffiAn Majefiy was refalved to oblervc the molt perfe& neutrality, and, if neceffary, draw a cordon of troops round the former line of demar cation, and defend the neutrality of the North. Other accounts of a more doubtful nature Rate, that Bowsrsava has declared that, if a war with England takes place, he is determined to have none but friends or foes. This mull be only a rally of paffion. He will not attempt to blotter with Rut• ti.s and Pruffia. He knows whom he kicks.. On the whole, the afpesft of affairs has certainly become more warlike, and the apprehenfion of hoftilities increafes. For our own part, we very much fearithat the tenting difpates will not be accommodated, and that France, in the pretest ' moment, aims principally at gaining time, that, as we obferved yefterdey, the • produce of the French. Dutch, and Spanik Colonies may be gat fafe home to Europe. She will rhea have the means of war, laugh at oar tardinefs, and ex* is the &cask of her own chicanery. Kleinert cirght to bring the matter to inftant iffee, and not allow tbemfelves to be cheated out of a portion of time, valuable in itftlf, and doubly fo when, by e fyftem of procraftination, they lumina the enemy with the very limits of war. Is paint of found policy, we very much doubt-whether it be' j not the duty of Minifters, as the heft means for ultimately fecuring the peace of &trope, to fweep the ocean, and bring every French, Spanifh, and Dutch (hip that can be met with fife into Britifh ports.—Not however as prizes, but as a Pimple duty of fell , pre. fervistion. If the French be really defirons to main tain peace, they would then come fpeedily to an explanation. Can any one who reads the following document, publifhed by the authority of the nisi. CONSUL, doubt of his ultimate intentions ? Should we hefitate then in adopting that line of condu&, which is belt calculated to frufirate his views ? FRENCH MANIFESTO. ?lOW ?HI HAMBURGH CO RRRRR OHDINTII. Pais. March 15. • Fur Come Mouths, a war of Newfpapen andtqf the Preis hue been kept up between France and England. nth fawned m. re'y the dying ambers of an eatinguilted conflagration; the lait coufelatloa of a ddperatc patty; the food of Come low pawn and a few hungry &Mahler& The French Government was far from attaching importance to Each matters. Notwith !landing fame skilleoltles in the complete awake of the Treaty of And they Rill believed they might rely on the good faith of the 11e.t.i& Government, and &reed their at- tention folely to the re-edabliOunesit of the Colonies. Relying hken the &mem& of Treatics, they fecurely difperkd the remains of the Preach naval knee, which had best /Nevi a prey it. the Ingallb Fleet. In that fittration, leadenly appeared a rolemn Meese' Atm the Cabled or Squares, sod hemmed all Europe, that France was making • cordidemble prepaer t ons in the Ports of Holland and France; an Added' was °Ad by Parliament, vomiting to the Moo of EN0.... curb estraordlamT means of defence as the tenuity of the BA. tith Empire, and the besot: r of the Three Crowns might erqult " Prom the Mho appearance of this bidelraerit wham at SOW the gaff 1 beey, gleamy, or 4' weeiwfis Lat any one care his quaver the ports of Finset and Hoßand, where he will And only detached Naval preparations ddlined for the Cotenant ; arty of one or two line of battle (hips ' and a few On the other hand, let him Inot at the porta of Ragland flied with a formidable Naval force; an fuch review one might be tempted to believe, that the Mcßae the KING of ENOLAIID was mat ireay,if loch a farce were not unworthy the Majdty of a Government. If one con the Iniluesicc of Failions in fo free a Country, one might frppofc that the Ktwo vl Euo taxa had only had the weak hers to yield, if weaknefe were cumpatisle with the Arta quad! .4 a King. In Mort, no ratilual motives remain to which it •au be scribed, except bad faith—except a (worn enmity to the French Nation--escept perfidy, and the &rim of oval, lartakirg a [alma Treaty, for the fake of advantages err. cat F I tt a .