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t rARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7. Their Lordfhips refolved Into a Committee of Privileges; and Lord Wallhigham having taken the Chair, Mr. Town !head, of the Fkrald i College, was farther examined, as was alro a Mr. Colthurit, refpedting certain points touching the claim of the Rev. Mr. Brydges to the Chandoa Peerage ; after which, the Committee adjourned the farther conlidcration of the cafe till Friday. After the Houfe was refumed, the various Bills upon the Table were forwarded in their rrfpr.aive Rages. Among thefe, were the Sugar Duties Drawback Bill, the frith Revenue, and the Inn-keeper,' Subfiance Bain, which were read a fecoad time, and committed for to-morrow. Lord AUCKLAND moved to the ft:Mowing effeEt, that there he laid before the itt.ufe a.i account of the amount of the Sums granted from time to time to the Coinmiffioners appointed to manage Queen Ann's Bounty, from the time of the firli ap pointment of theta Commiffioners, to the lateft period to which the accounts could be made up, diftingulfhing the amount of the Sums illbed in e, ch year.—And, fecondly, an account of the diftribotion of tittle Sums by the fald Commiffioners, the amount, and the appropriation of the furring of the faid monies, ice. which, on the quake being put, were ordered accordingly. Ttte Duke of Richmond was (worn and took tds feat. The Dill for the better reguLdinn of the Law with refpedt to tertain capital offences, ke introduced fame time finer, and laid before the Houk by Lord Ellenborough, was read& fr.cond time, and eumtnitted for Friday. The Orders rcfpeeting the three Jnt prime Bills, being read, Lord RID r SD Ait role, and made a few obfervations, aril ng out of what he had Rated yefterday on the occafion. He refer red to what appeared in the Reports of the Committees on thek Bills, and adverted to the pradice which prevailed 'n the Par liament of Ireland, of proceeding legiaatively on the C:ertiScates of Judges and others appointed to examine withrffes upon oath, which fuperfeded the neceffity of bringing fuch perfons up from dillant parts of the country to be examined before the Houk, &c. which incurred a confiderahle erpence to the parties, and which confequently would be inereafed to an enormous degree, re they brought to this country for that purpok. The Noble and Learned Lord repeated his obfervations of yelterday, re fpeding the propriety of having a Legiflative provilion on the tubed, to regulate and extend the pradiee, and to render It more effeduaL He concluded by =commending that the Re ports of the Committees on thefe Bills be received in the ufual way; which was ordered accordingly. Some routine bufinefo was then difpofed of, and their Lord- Odps adjourned till tomorrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Born ALINANoaa coved for leave to bring in a Bill for the Improvement of the Port of Greenock. Mr. MACDOWAL moved for leave to bring In a Bill to em• Me the Magi Crates of Glafgow to raife, by a tax on the lobs bitants,a certain futri, to cover the expence of money advanced ID the purchafe of provinces in the years titan and sBot, being the twn years of fcarcity. Leave was granted; and in a Ibort thne after the Bill was brought in and read a brit time. Mr. W. Du NDAII gate notice, that on an early day next week he Ewald bring in a Bill for ameliorating the condition of the parochial Schoolmalters of Scotland. Mr. Lea moved, that the Petitions of the Officers of the Court of Exchequer In Ireland, ffiould be referred to a Com mittee, which was agreed to, and a Committee appointed ac cordingly. Mr. Lea prefented a Petidon from the Tanners of Water ford, againft certain proviikes of the Leather Tax BilL—Or dered to Ue on the Table. On the Motion of Sir WILLIAM °SART, the Sheernefa Tier Sill was read a fecond time, and ord. red to be committed. Mr. Acczaliola brought up the Report of the BiU for pro viding for the familia of Militia men.—Ordered to be taken into further confideratios on Monday next. _ _ _ The Sim/a a informed tie Node, that as a Ballot flood for to-morrow, there wat an order in force for taking down the names of abfeat members, and alto a call of the Houk. COROSIIti BILL. Mr. Dice Ens moved the order of the day for going into the Bill for granting Additional Allow ances to Coroners. On the motion being put from the Chair, Sir ROBERT BUXTON made fame very ftrong objeClions againft ch.? Bill. He did not fee that any additional allowance ought to be granted.— The office of Coroner was one which was already attended with confiderable emoluments. It was one which was courted with great alacrity ; and there were numerous inftances of large foists hav ing been expended in conceits for the appointment. The Houfe were to confider themfelves as the guardians of the public purfe, and they ought to paufe before they agreed to double the allowance for travelling expencts, when this augmentation would, in many inftances, be oppreffive. A good deal of converfation enfued on the ge neral principle of the Bill, in which Mr. Duman son, Jun. argued zealoufly againft the propofed augmentation. He dilated on the general inexpe. diem of agreeing to augmentations without a very ftrong ground of their necellity . He referred to the origin of the office of Coroner, as being one which was (erred without emolument. He (hewed that offices of a fimilar nature were ferved without reward, particularly the office of Sheriff. He was no enemy to the principle, that the labourer was worthy of his hire. This principle might, how ever, be carried to an unjulli fi able length. The Hon. Member alluded with tome humour to the duties incumbent on Members of that Houfe.— But, was the Houfe now to be told, that as la bourers they were worthy of their hire t Mr. HURST, in a thou but very able and perfpi ennui fpeech, Rated his reafons for fupporting the Bill. The office of a Coroner was of a judicial nature, and one which was coofeffedly of the greateft public utility. It was an office to which none ought to he dotted who were not poffeffed of dittinguithed knowledge, and tried integrity.— Polefling fuch qualifications, and having an ar • i duous duty to perform , in a variety of nflames, they were fairly intitled to a fair remuneration for their trouble. The (Upend at prefent was only twenty 'billings for each inquifition, and the ex pence of travelling was only nine-pence a mile, however remote the diftance. This allowance had been fixed fifty years ago, and he appealed to the candour of the Houle, whether the augmentation of expence of all kinds did not afford to the Houfe the denten grounds of the neceffity of an encreafed remuneration It was a matter of general noto. rtety and experience, that every neceffary of life was fince that period doubled. The Coroners, therefore, came forward with a fair and equitable requeft. Their general charaiter was fuch as en titled their requell to be heard with attention.— From the knowledge he had of the charatter of Coroner,he mutt (peak of them in terms of refpell and approbation. This remark he particularly applied to the Coroners of the county of Suffix, with which he was con:witted. Whether aBing for the genettl littera. of the country at large, or employing themfelves in their exclufive jurifdic.l lion, their condo& was refpeaable and praifewor. thy. They were eftimable at once for their know. ledge, their integrity, and their public fervices. With the knowledge that this was the cafe, he bad no reafon to fuppofe that the Coroners were not equally refpeaable in other parts of the kingdom. In whatever point of view he confidered the Bill, he could not but hope that the Bill might paf..— It was nothing more than what the Coroners had a right to obtain, as a juft recompence for the faithful execution of their office. _ _ After this cnnverfatien was confiderably pro trailed, the queftion was loudly called for, and the gallery was cleared for a divition. The Houfe accordingly divided, when the numbers were for the Speaker leaving the Chair - 62 44 Majority 18 On our return into the Gallery we found the Houfe in a Committee on the Bill— Mr. JODDRELL was addreffing the Houfe in (up. port of an Amendment, leaving the rate of allow ance for travelling to (land nominally as it now is, but giving power to Jai ices of the Peace to en create it to eighteen pence at the quarter lemons, in all cafes where the augmentation was judged expedient. After a good deal of more converfation betwixt Mr. DICKENS, Mr.Dicesason,un. Mr. HUILST, and Sir Rosser BUXTON, the G allery was again cleared. On the divifion the numbers were—For the amendment 69—Againft it 55 —Majority CLOTHIBRII BILL. Mr. W. Die KIN sot; moved the order of the day for the fecond reading of the Clothiers Bill. Mr. H. LA/WELLES Rated, that in riling he did not mean to propofe any Reps to obffrutlt the bill; but as feveral petitions had been prefented againfl it, he fubmitted to the Houfe, whether it would not be fit to give the petitioners an opportunity of being heard ? He was not clear as to the corral mode of proceeding, but left it to the wifdom of the Houle, whether the petitions llsould be referred to the Committee on the Bill, or the Bill itfelf, which had been brought forward in compliance with the prayer of other petitions, fhould not be fent back with thefe petitions, to the original Com mittee, in order that the matter of all the petitions fhould be there fully examincd,and afterwards re , ported to the Houfe t Mr. WM. DICKEMSOW could not comprehend the objed of the Hon. Gentleman. He could fee no reafon for referring the Bill to the original Committee. The °hied of that Committee had been to examine whether fufficient ground had been laid for the bill? that was found to be the cafe,and the prefent bill was introduced conformably to the report of that Committee. Mr. H. Lases Lt.'s, in explanation. Rated, that if the petitions had been prefented before the re port had been made ' they would have been referred to the Committee. His objed was, to procure the petitioners a hearing. The Ciraircattoa of the Exciragyart conceived the Hon. Gentleman to have miftaken the mode of proceeding that ought to be adopted. It was again(' an dtablifhed order of the Houfe to admit adverfe parties before a Committee appointed to enquire into the grounds upon which any meafure was to be brought forward. When petitions, how ever,were prefented againa the meafure, an ex parte cafe was ellablifhed ; and the allegations of fuch petitions were heard either on the fecond reading, or in the Committee on the Bill. It was impoffible that the Bill could be fent back to the originalCom mince ; yet the Houfe would not be precluded thereby from hearing evidence againfl it. He hoped the Houfe would feel the juflice of referring it to a Committee above Rairs, which fhould have power to inveßigate the allegations of the peti tions, and to examine witnefles. The Houle might afterwards dire& its recommitment to a Committee of the whole Houfe ; and exercife its difcretion as to a further examination of the matter of the pe titions. Mr. H. Luc sttss declared, that as there were general repealing and partial repealing claufes contained in the Bill, his only object was to pro cure it a full confederation ; he declined giving any opinion on the principle of the Bill. Admiral 13111.KLEY deprecated delay. He ob ferved on the matter of a petition which had been referred to the Committee above UT s, of which he had been a member, that it contained an allegation that was not founded in fart. It Rated that the Woollen Manufaftures had thriven under the ex- Wing laws, and that therefore there was no necef. fity for repealing them. The faa was, that the law to be repealed by the Bill had become obfo. lete, and the profperity of the manufaeures had arifen from their difufe. It was the revival of there obfolete laws by the fame mifcreants, Country Lawyers, that induced the Manufafturers to apply for their formal repeal. Mr. WILSWORCE laid, it was a fubjeft of the greatelt importance; it would be for the Commit tee to enquire into the nature of the allegations, and communicate the refult to the Houle, and all perfons concerned Ihould bring forward what fads they could alledge on the fubjeft. The Bill was then read a fecond time, and or. dered to be committed. Mr. Hosmouse Paid a requeft had been made to him, by various petitioners, to make a motion for granting them leave to be heard by Counfel in the Committee, to which the Bill was referred, ' againft it. He gave no opinion refpeting the me rits of the Bill. But he would make a remark, that a moll refpeigable body of men, the principal manufadurers of Wiltdrire, Somerfetfhire, and Gloucellerfltire, were equally defirous to have evi dence heard in the Committee, fo that the fulleß information may be laid before the Houle ; he therefore moved, that the feveral Petitions againft the Bill be referred to the laid Committee ; and that the petitioners fhould be heard by CounfeL— Agreed to. Mr. Dica tri sow, fen. then moved, that Coonfel fhould be heard againft the Paid petitions, againft the Paid Bill.—Agreed to. The other Orders of the Day being difirofed of, the Houk adjourned. LONDON. THURSDAY. APRIL 2S. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s per Cent. Reduced 641ifilt 3 per C Conf. money, 6s 4. Ditto, for ace. 6541. New 5 per Cent. 991 , 1-01d4litto soot PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock tyo} Long Ann. spif 3 per Cent. Rod. 64 Short Ann. 4 1.'6 3 per C CunL 65 India Stock soy/ New per Cent. I Exchcq. Bills, par is. dif. 5 per Ct. Ann. 1 tot Englith Tickets 26L 5 Pe:Cm- 1 797.99H ConL for May,6it 66 651 i 66 In confequence of a Cabinet Council having fat yefterday, the rumour is revived that Mr. PITT is coming into office. We do not find that it has had much died at the Stock-Exchange, the prices being much the fame to-day that they were the day before. People begin now to learn that they Should not liken to every report. In the Norm which we two days ago hated to have done fo much mifchief to the Ships defined for Louifiana„ we underhand that one of the French frigates has been entirely loft,and the other driven on fhore with almoft all the tranfports. A Minifterial Paper, of this morning, gives the following hatement refpeOing Holland : "The occupation of Flufhing by the French, and the march of fo many additional troops into that Country, arifes chiefly, we underhand by very au thentic private letters, from an appeal made by the Batavian Government to the EISPRILOR of RUSSIA and the KING of PRUSSIA, for their inter ference to prevent Holland from being involved in the war between England and France, Should war be the refult of the prefent Negotiations. A requeft, we underhand, was at the fame time mado by the Batavian Government to ours, that their Neutrali ty, in the event of hollilities, Should be refpeaed. The anfwer of our Government was, we believe, equally jutt and generous, viz. That the Neutra lity of Holland Should readily be refpcaed, provid ed all the French troops were withdrawn from it, and that country left independent and free. " That the French troops will not in any cafe be withdrawn, we may eafily conclude, for fo unani mous are now the people of Holland, and fo im patient and indignant under the French yoke, that the moment an opportunity prefents itfelf, we be. lieve they would to a man facrifice their lives in their ba ditch, rather than fubmit again to French Fraternization." We have received Paris Journals to the 25th infant inclufive. Our Readers will fee by the fub. joined Extratils, that Egypt is at !aft leg to shit Cosustry. Thus, by the fyftem of procraftination, which has uniformly been followed on all matters where explanations were definable between this Country and France, the latter has fucceeded in obtaining another great point. The detail is accompanied with a remark, that fince the Engli(h quitted Egypt tranquillity feems to prevail! Who firft difturbed the tranquillity of Egypt ? The French boat too of the way in which their Commi(lloners of Foreign Relations have been re• ceived in the different Ports of the Levant ! Pants, Arai'. 25.—1 n confequence of a decree of the Colonial Government of Sainte Lucie, dated February ia, and which is to be in force till other wife ordered, the permilLon granted to foreign veffels, which bring to Sainte Lucie goods not pro. hibited, of exporting raw fugan, is extended to all the other predations of that Colony, cotton ex cepted, which is referred Hely for the French commerce. Foreign veffels are to pay fix and a half per cent. ad valorem of the colonial produc tions which they export from the ifland : thole exported by national bottoms to France or to French poffenions are fubjeft to no duty on leaving that colony.—Five per cents. 54 fr. 10 c. Tonto'', tB.—Rear.Admiral Lsis. amass has anchored in thefe roads, with the di. Tifton which carried General Bann it, the French Ambalfador, to Connantinople. He returned by Saint Jahn of Acre, where he met with a favoura ble reception from Dgezzar Pacha. He left Alexandria the 3oth of March. The Englifh eva cuated that place on the t7th of the fame month : after their departure tranquillity teemed to be re. Bored in Egypt. The Mamelukes were canton• ed in Upper Egypt. He anchored at Malta in the middle of the Englifh (quadrat, which confined of ten (hips of war. The +ono men returned from Alexandria were performing quarantine at the La zaretto. In all the places of the Levant, where he touched to inftal the Commit loners of Foreign Relations, the latter were received by the Turks with fentiments of particular eßeem and every demonftration of joy.—Mswitrer. Bausso ea, Ants. as.—A French courier from Paris pallid through this city yelterday, on his way to the headquarters at Breda. General &Less's), who commands the s4th military divifion, is now infpeding our coals, and particularly thofe of the ci•devant Dutch Flanders. He began at Sas-de. Gand, and will continue his tour by Halt, AM. i the Ilk of Cadfand. and Antwerp. He has every where given orders for the moa proper mesas of defence : all the ports will be fortified, as durir.g the late war. At the Ifland of Cadfand entrench. ments and batteries are formed with every potTible difpatch, by a great number of pioneers who are employed on them. We are informed from Flu(hing, that every Point of the coati of the Ifland of Walcheren which might be espofed in cafe of a war, as well as the furrounding heights, are furnifhed with entrench. menu and batteries. A great number of the pea. rants have been required to work at there works, while their horfes are employed in tranfporting tillery and warlike gloves of every kind, from Mid dleburg and Fluffing. VIENNA ' Aran. to.—An Englifh Officer has arrived here, being charged by the Englifh net to requed permiffion of the Emperor to take in. to its fervice a part of the corps of bombardiers . which enjoys fo high reputation in Europe. Con fiderable funs were offered to obtain this permit lion, but our Court has formally rejected it, and declared, that, under the prefent political circum fiances, it could by no means conform to the wifhes of the Britifh Cabinet. —journal der Defenfiurr.. RA7111014, APRIL 16.-11 e ratification of the laft coorlsifigas of the Diet is expeded on the soth, at which time the Diet will refume its Sittings.— What has principally retarded the ratification is Paid to be the difpatching of a courier to Peterf burgh by the court of Vienna, which has thought proper to enter into tome explanations with the Emperor of Ruffia, before it gives its faation to this decifion of the Empire. A Hamburgh Mail alfo arrived this morning, by which we have received the following article., Tome of which are deferring of attention : On the morning of the 14th init. Prince Wis. maw of GLOUCISTIII left Hamburgh for Berlin, after having received from the Senate all the =ea lion that the thortnefs of his Ray would allow. PRIVATE LETTER. Beata*, Ara s 2.—The paging and repaffing of couriers through this City from London, Peterf burgh, Paris, and Vienna, has never at any period been btitker than at relent. Scarcely a day elapfes without one arriving, yet we have very little well-grounded information of what is going forward. That a decifrre cries is at band, is evi T dent ; but whether it will turn out favourable to peace. or whether we are to fee a renewal of thn horrors of war, after fo %hort an interval of repok, is what we can by no means tell with any degree of certainty. A courier who paled through this city a day or two ago, from St. Peterfburgh to London, is fuppofed to have brought the impor. tart anfwer of the Ruffian Court, which will pro bably determine the conduit of the Englifh Go vernment. For the refalt of this determination. all row wait with anxious exile Cation. The friends of the liberty of Europe are obliged to confers that on the fate of England depends their fait Rake.— They are finable of the immenfe advantages which England pofeffes by its pofition, by its union. and by the heroic fpirit of its gallant defenders, yet they cannot but look forward with Tome anxiety to the event of a conteft, in which it will be espofed alone to the gigantic power of France. Goo grant that it may be as fuccefsful for England, as it inaft in all cafes be honourable ! The hearts of all true frieadi of liberty. and of every honeft man are with you. COPINHAGIIII, APRIL 9.—After the fitting re views the Caowe Pelves will vitlt Norway, and go to Bergen by fea. The influence of the prefent warlike appearance of affairs thews itfelf in the preference that is given to Dann veffels, for the carrying trade, parties. lady to the Mediterranean. The journey of their SIVIDIIIII MaJrsrtss to Germany is Paid to be poßponed. The College of Finances has prefented to the Leo a view of the trade with Greenland, front 1797 to tßot, with fome account of the prefect fituation of the colony there. The population of Greenland, in proportion to its extent, which is goo miles (German) in length, is excegively fmall. In 1789 there were 5,1:2, and in June left year 5,611 inhabitants. The frnallpox has frequently made dreadful havock among the people of Green. land ; but the cow.pox has been attended there alto with good dices. Sr. PITIRSIVRQM, MARC/I ag.—Of the two Ihips which the Ruffian American Company in Li.ndon has bought to make a voyage round the world, one has been purchafed, and will be fitted out, at the EMPIROIt'S own ezpence. The thips are provided with every thing that can ininre fuc cefs : many foreign and native wills, and men of letters, among them the American Mr. CH vac R. IRAs. go in them, and the bell inftruments are ordered from England. Mr. Cnunfellor Rssonnre goes as Miniflcr Plenipotentiary to Japan, and many Officers of the firft families make the voy age, which will take place in July. Maio, 29. —Apartments are fitting up at the Hermitage for the PALATINI of Henoaav, who ib expelled every day. Mr. Mammon, in Cronfla.dt, has received from the Estaaoa a gold medal. During the winter