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By THOMAS GISBORNE, M.A. Printc'd fcr T. Cadtil and W. Davies, Strand. Of whom mr.y be had, by the Lme Author, . . v. Sermons. r col. Svo. Severna Edition, Bs. in boards. 2. An Ere,u!ry into the Duties of Mtn. 1 vols. Svo. fifth Edition, res. in boards. 3. An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex. Bvo. Fifth Edition, 6s. in bawds. 4. The Principles of Moral Philofophy inveligated. Fourth Edition, Bvo. 7s. in hoards. 5. Walks in a Forelt ; or Poems defcriptive of Scenery and incidents rharaderillic of a Foreft. Fifth Edition, elegantly Printed in One Volume, and adorned with Plates, 6s. in boards. 6. Poems Sacred and Moral. Second Edition, elegantly print ed in One Volume, and adorned with Plates-6s. in boards. FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH 17. Mr. Foavair, formerly Minifler for Naval Af fairs, now Counfellor of State, arrived within there few days at Antwerp. He is Paid to have autho rity from the FIRST Coasut to examine the means propofed for the execution of the plans laid before Government, in order to render Antwerp at once a military and a commercial port. Preparations begin to be made at Ratifbon, for a negotiation between Citizen LA FOR sr and Baron d'Atsiti t, relative to the duties on the navigation of the Rhine. It is expeCted, that feven•eigbths of the expence of colleCting there duties may, by the new arrangement, be ('pared. We hear from Italy, that the Pors now ferioufly thinks of executing the noble plan of Michael An gelo, for turning afide the Tiber from its channel, in order to recover thofe monuments of antiquity which are there buried. Citizen Buss Massois, the Minifter of Public Treafure, concluded a long report of the financial operations of the y ear to, with a flattering view of the financial Rate of the Republic for the year t t. 44 The fervice of the year 1 1 (rays he) opens with untouched refources : they conk(' of a di!: pofeable produce proportionate to the expences of the Republic. There is nothing fielitious, nothing uncertain in the receipts on which thefe refources depend ; they are real, and, as it were, indigenous, and have not been increaled by any loan. The year to has left a turn of two millions for the fervice of the year 11—a convincing proof of the great advantages to be derived from order and economy. " By giving foreign nations a certain know ledge of our revenue and expenditure, we mani• left to them the extent of the means propofed by France, and prove beyond a doubt one of the principal fources of her power. This pieure of fuels various refources will alfo hold out to them a certain pledge of general tranquillity." FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. BREST. MARCH 12.—General MONTICHY, nor. withitanding the requell made to him to defer his •oyage, ha% embarked. and let out with the di ifion. _ _ ROME, FEE. t6. — Letter- from Napleg (late, that the Englifh fquadrori, which failed lately from Ori flan•bay, in coniequence of orders received frot,i proCeedcd diteetly for England.— Admiral BICREKTON'i fl.g•thip alone failed fur LI Alta. Beussrt.r, Marten r 5 individnal,fuffeß. ed of hating been one of the authors of the infirnal ntachine, has been lately arrelled in this city. This man lad fix pall - ports under different names, and particularly nrdrr thole Of Lafeale and Boo: genib. The Police of this city havirg fent to Paris for in- Mations nn thus head, an agent af the P iice was fent hither, whn has let nut with his ptiiianer for the capital, where the affair svil he esamiiied. RAT ISbON, Rle ern is believed that on Monday next the Deliberations will be refunied in th: two Superior Colleges—that they will be con tinued on Friday the tith, and that next Monday, the t4th, a Ondifi r aiN2 will be formed. which, after obtaining the Imperial Ratification, will tei niinate the affair nt tile Indemnities. During this inter val the Depdtatinn, in ail probability, will be oc cupied wi'h the Indemnities of his Serene High. nefs the liavato Palatine Fledor, in regard to which • di:el:elation, from the I'4i:utters of the Me flirting Pow,rs, is Mon expeered. t'a French C3U tier attired here yeller-day evening. Maitcw I.—The de parture of the Arr!..:ui.,: P.. L A TIS :. for PeCifilligli. Mill IaLC je:.;LC Weci— . 1 . 111% Prince, it is fa id, will distant in Rltltt I, a PriuccG of Ent.tri, tido of the p:CfLAt PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 21. The feeeral 1 Ilk on the 'rabic w;:re each forwarded a flay. Mr. Ai silt soca, and wher;,bruught up foreral Bills from the Common., which were •cad a hit time. ARTIFICERS IN HIS MAJESTY ' S DOCK-YAKDS. Lord CARLISLE lule ind laid, that on a former day he had, in ord,:i that it might not be filppored he wilitcd to take the Honk by . furprife, given no. rice of the nature of the motion which he meant lubmit to the consideration of the Houfe. As he did not fn l ipefe there could he any ferious ob jeftion to his Motion, he fhould not trefpafs much on their Lrildfliips' time in explaining the nature :Lod intent of it, nor of tiling any arguments by way of ohviatirz chjeiftions that might poffibly be uigcd againd it. If, however, any arguments ilto , Ad be brott7,ht forward, which he thought of '•weight, by way of °pp( fition to his Motion, he fhutod claim the anal indulgence given by the HOlll2, of being allowed to (peak a fecond time. His blajedy's Minifters boatled of enjoying the confidence of Patliament, hut he was confident they did not poffefs that of the public ; they had not yet been tried by a verdia of their country, though the time could not he far diftant when they molt render an account of the reafons for the very contradi&nry conduit they had purfued in the enurfe of the 'aft eighteen months. He confeffed the ultimate oWieft of his motion would be to ground an enquiry into their conduit at a future period. He then moved, "'That the proper Offi cer of his Majelly's Dock-yards do lay before the Houle a Monthly Return of the Artificers em ployed in the feveral Dock-yards, and that fuch Returns be made out from the IR of May, 1802." Lord HOBART lamented that the Noble Lord at the head of the Admiralty was prevented, by in. difpofition, from attending in his place, as any thing coming from him, on a fubjce of this na ture, mutt have more authority with their Lord- 1 (hips than what might come through the medium of himfell. The Noble Lord who brought for- 1 I ward this Motion, allowed that his Majefly's Mi. nillers polrelied the confidence of Parliament, but aliened, that they-had not the confidence of the I Public. He was proud to think they did pofiefs the confidence of Parliament, and had no reafon to fuppofc the public confidence was net equally in their favour : true, indeed, they had not been tried by a verdia of their country, but let the trial come when it would, he, for one, would be ready to meet it. As to the Motion of the Noble Lord, he could only fay, that as his Lordfhip had not given any one reafon why it Mould be agreed to, he fbould think hinifelf very much wanting in his duty, as one of his Majefly's prefent Admi nittration, if he did not refill it at a moment like the prefent. The Earl of CARLISLE laid, he did not think it would have been necelfary for him to trouble their Lordfbips a fecond time on his prefent Motion. He thought, however, that it was necelfary, as a preparatory (Lep, to enquire into the conduct of his Majefly's Minillsrs. In the courfe df the eighteen months their proceedings had been fo very contradiftory, fometimes fending orders to give up places, then Vining others to retain them —fometimes calling on the country to arm—then again to difarm—arid all this without making any communications, that, in his mind, a fever, en— quiry ought to be fet onfoot, to fee how far they had been juftified in what they had done, and whether, at the time they were aeing foineeinfil tently, they were employing fuch a number of Artificers in the Dock-yards as were fufficient to guard us from any ferious inconveniencies which thefe irrefolute and changeable proceedings might draw us into. The Noble Secretary had not faid one word that tended to repel his Motion, though he refilled it; and, therefore, he had a right to perfia in it, though, did he conceive it could have any ill dice, by impeding the meafores of Government, he lbould be one of the laft perfons to prefs it. Lord GRENVILLE laid, he role for the purpofe of advifing his Noble Friend, at the prefent mo ment, to withdraw his Motion: He allowed the jutlice of the arguments ufed by his Noble Friend in fupport of it ; was equally fenfible of the mil*. chievous tendency of the irrefolute and changeable conduEt of his Majeßy's Minitiers, who, in the courfe of the fall eighteen month s , h a d called on the nation to arm, to difarm, and then to arm again, without once deigning in all that time to give Parliament or the Nation the frnalleft infor ' minion why they did fo. He was equally aware of the great unheard•of, and unprecedented le -11 onfibility which Miniflers had chofen to take upon themfelves, from the line of condo& they had pur fued—a refpoi.fibility and condo& which mull, at no very distant time, he enquired into in a mnft fe rinus manner: yet, at fuch a period and crifis as the piefent, he would with to avoid every thing which might have the fmallell tendency to rade any difficulties that might impede his Majeßy's service, or to thwart thole exertions which it had been thought prudent and necelfary to make at the prefent moment. He hoped, therefore, his Noble Friend would Mien to his requell, and agree to ss ithdraw his Motion. Lord CAR LisLc Paid, that whenhe gave notice of his motion, and, in the mirk of what he had laid on it, he had declared, lie thought it would l in any degree impede nr inconvenience his Ma. jelly's fersice, he would be the Ia 1 perfon to pro j pole it • and as his Noble Friend thou g ht it m i g h t have that tendency. and advifcd him to withdraw i., lie hoped their Lordlhips would permit him to do ft), and moved that he might have leave to wididiaw it accordingly. Lord PiLHAM laid, he did not rife to oppofe the Noble Earl's withdrawing his motion, but beg ged their Lordlhips' attention to a few Ihort ob fervations on what had fallen from the two Noble j Lords who fpoke Taft. The Noble Lord who made jrhe motion had not advanced o ne wor d to th ew the grounds on which it (hotild be acceded to ; and in a cafe of that kind, he thought very tlrong reaforn indeed iliniil.l be (hewn before fuch a mo. lion was attended to. The Noble Peer who had ativii?.d that the motion (hoold he withdrawn, had .1 I • 1 : LUC,. ln. ..• j .::).$ iirrS not haviii:; given any information to Parliament In the eourfe of eighteen months. He hegea the Honfe and that Noble Lord to recolleft, that his Majelty's prefent Minifters had made peace with the Northern Powers, and alto with France, two events of the greatcft importance, on both which they had given Parliament the molt a:uple information, and in confequence of which, he believed, they had re ceived, both the confidence of Parliament, and of the public alfo. Indeed, he believed his Ma jetty's Minifters had never withheld or kept back' , any information, but when they were fully con vinced their duty abfolutely required them to be fluent. Lord GREN•ILLE, in explanation, Paid, that the Noble Lord had alluded to two events to which no part of his obfervations refpefting want of intorma. tint could apply, as he expretsly confined himfelf to eighteen months, in which he raid all niform i dols had been withheld, and thole events took place come time before. The LORD CHANCELLOR left the Woollick, and laid he did to for the porde of fopporting the Noble Lord's motion, for leave to withdraw the original motion which he then held in his hand. From the very words and nature of fuch a motion he Ihould conceive, that, according to the old and eflablifhed ufage of Parliament, the perfon making fuch a motion ought to bring forward fome ftrong and weighty reafon why he did fo, in order to in duce the Houle to accede to it. The Noble Earl who made that motion, had not advanced one fingle word that had a tendency to fupport it, but contented himfelf with raying, that nothing had been advanced by his Majelty's Minifters to repel the motion. There was no need for them to ad vance arguments to repel it ; it was fufficient to refill it on the ground of no reafon being advanced to found it on. As to the arguments which had been brought forward refpefting confidence, he hoped Parliament would continue that confidence till the conduft of Minifters fhould evince they no longer deferved it ; and as to what had been laid of their not enjoying the confidence of the public, he had feen nothing which tended to make liins believe it, more than the general a ff ertions of the Noble Lord, that fuels a meafure was not ap proved ; and of another, that he did not approve time other meafure. His Lordfhip admitted, that the prefent adminiftration were liable to the bulk ft refponfibility on account of the meafures they had purfued ; and as to the complaint of want of in formation, he was Pure he could anfwer for it that his Majelty's Minifters had never refufed to give Parliament any information that might be requir ed; but they were confcientioufly convinced, that it was their duty to their King and country to be filent, and that an oppofite line of condo& mull be highly mifchievous and prejudicial to the wel fare and molt effential interefts of the Empire.— His Lordfhip then put the queftion, and the ori ginal motion was withdrawn.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Houfe having received Mel' into a Committee, on the MO% Militia Bounty Bill, Mr.Wic a • am Rated to the Committee that he had but two amendments to prepare in the Bin, the one to enable the Grand Juries to adds on their refpe&ve Counties, Baronies, or other Diltrids, as mould teem ha to their difcretion, the turns for railing the Militia Volunteers within the fame • the other, to import a penalty of sool. upon any Militia Coieeel who Roil make a Cage return. _ _ ___ _ _ Thdc ti were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be reported to-morrow. Reported the Iritb Poft 018ee Duty BIB; alto read the third time, patted, and ordered to the Lords. Repotted the irilh Bank Reftriclion Bill; ordered to be en grafted, and read the third time to-morrow. The Wood and Porta Regulation Bill, and the Clergy ReG dame Bill, war read a third time and paired. Lord Gcematarsc obtained leave to bring in a Bill to allow cads employed in the Greenland While Fishery to complete the number of their men this feafon, in certain ports to be named in thcßill. ST. PILSICILMI WOUCHOUSE. Sir Fal.scis Buitomr nbferved there was a Bill then before a SeleEt Committee up Rairs, for erect. ing a workhoufe, in the parifh of St. Pancras.— This Bill was oppofed by a very large majority of the inhabitants, whale rights and interells it would aired molt materially, fhould it be cartied into a law. At the time the meafure had been firft pro poled in a vellry, it was rejefted ; and afterwards a Petition was prefented to the Houfe;figned only by sco perfons, in purfuance of which the Bill was brought in. Some time ago he had the honour of prefenting a Petition againft this Bill; it was lived by t4co houfeholders. 'There were altogether in the parilh about 7000 houfeholders, and 30,000 inhabitants. It was neceffsry, therefore, that, before a Bill, which was applied to by fo few, and Wide to In many, was proceeded in any further, the Haute fhould be in poffeflion of all neccifary information on the fubjeCt. The Counfel who ap peared againfl the Bill before the SeleCt Committee was obliged to be abfent on circuit ; and, for that reafon, he would move that the Committee do not fitagain till Wednefday fe'nnight. Mr. ALEXANDER oppofed this Motion. Mr. COVRTN sr laid the Bill went to do nothing lefs than create a DireCtoryfhip in the Para of Pancras ; as the whole power of Churchwardens, &c. was to be veiled in five perfons interefted in the meafure. At length the Houi divided, and there appear ed—For the Motion of Sir Fl•IICIS BUILDS - CT, 38 —Againa it, 40. ELECTION COMMITTEES. Mr. Bo nom obferved to the Houfe, that the pro. ceeJings of Eledion Committees were wonderfully facilitated, and a great deal of time and expence Caved by having the evidence taken down in thou hand. There was an at lately palled, by-which Committeeswere empowered to employ fhort hand writers : in order to carry its pros itions more com pletely into effed, he fhould move that a Com mittee be appointed to confider fo much of the laid ad as related to the employment of fbort band writers, to take the evidence at Eledion Commit. tees; that they do confider the expence of the fame, and report their opinion thereon to the Houfe. This motion was fupported by Col. Bacvw. and Mr. LEE ; and the Committee was appointed accordingly. ROMAN CATHOLICS. The !•Tasi a of the Itnia.s gave notice, that he ilrgrly move for leave to bring in a Bill to exempt the Roman Catholics of chic country, from taking any oath;; but the oaths of Allegiance ; and to entitle them to the benefit of the aft of the 18th of the King. EAST INDIA ACCOUNTS. On the motion of Lord CA STI. ERPAGH, the Honk proceeded to confiderthe report of the Com mittee on the India Budget. On the reading of one of the refolutions, Mr. FRANCIS adverted to fomething that had fallen from him on a former night. He contended that whenever papers were laid before that Houfe it was the right of every Member to examine them, particularly if loch papers related to matters of accounts ; and it was necelfary for Gentlemen to attend minutely to them, when the accounts hap pened to be talie. He had certainly Paid on a for mer night,that there werefalfe Raternents in the ac count brought forward by the Noble Lord, but from that atlertion it did not follow that any imputiaioe could attach to the charm:lets of thole who had Madr them out ; nor would he attempt to impeach tli. perfonal veracity of the Com t of Direaors. A very ext:aordinary flatement had bccn made, which ha thought it neectLiry to notice ; it was laid that the debt of the Company could be paid out of its capital flock ; and that Government was to guarantee the payment of the fame. If this was the faFi, he mud fay that the Proprietors of Eat India Stock enjoyed a degree of security which he I never her:ire thought they had. if Government guaranteed it, that was the fame as paying it.— ' Government guaranteed the Auftrian loan, and afterwards paid the dividends on it. He wifhed to I know whether this was the fait or not ; and if it was, whether the Parliament and the public would be bound to make that deb' good. Sir Tyro. Mc rca es was for ry the Hon. Gentle. man fhould have Ilirred fuch a debate upon the report. No doubt it was the privilege of every Member of Parliament to canvafs every queflicn and matter that came before the !lonic; but when imputations were thrown out of fabricating ac counts for the purpofe of fo-cing balances and de ceiving the Houfe of Commons, he Mould leave it to the feelings of the Hon. Gentleman, how far men of nice honour could tamely fubmit to fuch infinuations ? If the charge was true, Parliament was no doubt bound to intlitute an inquiry into it, and the Hon. Gentleman himfelf fhould feel it his duty to move an impeachment of the perfons who were fuppofed to he guilty of it. If it was not true, it snuff be left to the Hon. Gentleman to reconcile'it with his own feelings. He felt that he was alluded to in much that had been aliened by the Hon. Gentleman, but it would appear that he was egregiously mifunderftood by him. He never Paid, or intended to fay, that Government had guaranteed the capital flock of the Company, to the amount of twelve millions. The - Hon. Gentleman added the word Government, of which he had never made ufe; what he had Paid was, that a guarantee fund had been eftablifhed for that purpofe by the proprietors; but never affirmed that it was guaranteed by Government. He flionld not have felt fo anxious to refute fuels an affertion, had not paragraphs, imputing fuch opinions to him, paragraphs which be was certain were paid for, been inferted in the public papers ; and suck was be furprifed to find that Members of Parlia ment could (loop to fuch mean, underhand infinu ations. As to the capital flock of the Company not appearing at the head of the account, it fhould furely be no matter of furprife to the Hon. Gen tleman, who mull be fo converf.ant with all Par. liamentary Proceedings on India accounts; for he might remember that in 1794 there was as order of the Houfe, requiring the accounts to be prefented, without including the capital flock of the Company. What, therefore, the Hon. Gen• tleman reprobated as a glaring omiffion on the prefent occafion, was nothing more than a fimple compliance with that order of the Houfe. Lord Casrcsar•ou laid, that his Hon. Friend had very properly explained, that the nature of the guarantee for the capital of the Eall India Company, was fuels as did not by any means amount to a claim on the public. The adual and nominal flock of the Company were from the par ticular eircumßances of that Hon. Company's af fairs confiderably different ; the nominal capital was only fix millions, whereas the adual turn fob fcribed was 7,700,0001. If the value of the flock had been deferibed, it mutt have formed a very complicated aceaunt ; and yet the Company had an undoubted right to return their stets in the account, they having been increafed to a confide. rable amount, and some particular circumftances of the late war having been peculiarly preffiog on the funds of the Company. There was every res. fon for believing, however, the Noble Lord ob (creed, that the prefent afped of the Company's affairs was particularly favourable. Mr. Fite sc is obferied that, in his opinion, where a provision had been made for the payment of a fpecific annual fum, on condition of a fuppofed furplus, it required a dired answer whether any and whatfurplus had.accrued fince the time alluded to, the year 1793. Mr. W. DUNDAS laid, that there was a fpecific refolution of that Houle, which Rated, that the EaR India Accounts were to be made out exelnfive of their capital ; and that therefore the Diredors would be highly eulpableowere they to infer: capital as an item of their accounts. The Hom Member then entered into a junification of the conduit of his Noble Relation (Lord Melville), and laid, that every man muff reafonably con elude, that an ,eflimate and a report could not exactly agree ; we were all apt to draw the mull fangume conclusions from our own plans ; and be fide, there was an exprefs provifo mentioned, on condition of peace. Mr. Jon STONa declared that, in his opinion, it would have been much better if the Hon. Member had Rated what occurred since the year 1793 at that time the accounts of the Company Rated a furplus of feveral thoufands, they were now 2,200,0001. worfe. Mr. W,tt.LAcs urged the propriety of the man• net in which the accounts had been drawn tip, on nearly the i:trne grounds as thole on which it had been inpported by another Hon. Member (Mr.W. Dundas), and concluded with a very pleating de•