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to new claims upon the repel and gratitude e, Parliament, and highly redound to his own ho nour. The public would have the fatisfailion of knowing, that the effelt of the vote now propoted, however, Ihould the Commiree adopt it, would be to enable his Royal Highnefs to refurne the hate and fplendour appropriate to his high rank, three years and a half fooner than he could do, it' fuch a vote did not pars; and though his Royal Highnefs might nut be enabled immediately to re. fume the whole of hit wonted fplendour, he might do In in a very confiderable part ; and there was every reafon to expeet his eflabliihment might be fully complete by the end of the prefent, or fame time in the next year. The Hon Gentleman had Bated him to have laid, that this meafure was not to be confidered in the light of a compromife. He begged to fay, that he had Rated the meafure as eni e, which, by enabling his Royal Highnefs to relinquith his fuit, gave him the greater fitisfac tion in fupporting it ; but independent of any con federation attached to that fuit, he certainly fhnuld have given this meafure his fupport, whoever might have brought it forward. The Hon. Mem ber, in attending to what had fallen from an Hon. and Learned Friend of his (the Solicitor General), who brought forward a motion on this fubjecl lad year, had laid, that he mentioned an arrear of eyoo,oool. due to the Prince on the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall. He denied, however, that any fum was fpecified at the time, but that his Hon. and Learned Friend merely Rated, that his Royal Highnefs, when he came of age, had a right to claim an account of the appropriation of thole revenues daring his minority That right he was ready to admit , he would even purlue the fubjeet a little farther, and fuppofe the fuit inflituted by his Royal Highnefs had come to Mae in his favour, where, he would Mk, was the fund upon which judgment could be executed?— or would not an application to Parliament in that tare become ultimately neceffary t In fuch cafe, an account mull be opened between his Royal Highnefs and the public, in which that part of the Cornilh revenues, appropriated to the Civil Lift during his minority, mull become chargeable againft the public, and that public be bound to tepay him. But how much more grateful to the public feeling mists be the gracious and magnani mous fentin,ents, exprelfed this night by his Right Hon. and Learned Friend (the Solicitor General) on the part, and by the authority of his Royal Highnefs—' that he would rather forego every claim to his right than urge a fait that could be confidered in the moll diftant degree difrefpetlful to his Royal Parents,'—a declaration which molt conficlerably encreafcd the fatisfaaion with which be gave the meafure his fupport. He begged to undeceive all thole without doors, who were apt to indulge erroneous opinions on this fubjeet, by fuppofing the prefent was a new claim for liquidat ing the debts of his Royal Highnefs. There was no claim whatever againft him that had been dil l:lilted for want of fufficient funds for its payment. There were no legal claims of debt againft him, nor could his Royal Highnefs have emanated any debt fince the vote of 1795, without violating the condition upon which that vote was founded. Mr. SHERIDAN in explanation Paid that he meant tin redexion upon the Commiifioners : all-he con tended was that no reafon had been adduced to thew why the mode in which the debts had been paid, did not argue a compulfory deduaion of their amount. The debentures had been at a dif count of 15 and so per cent. and the honour and feeling of his Royal Highnefs muff be wounded at feeing his creditors Mier fo material a lufs. In deed with fuch feelings it was impoffible he fkould be at his cafe until that lots was made good.— Noterithflanding the anxiety exprefted by all fides of the Houfe, to fee his Royal Highnefs refume a fuitable eflabliflonent as fpeedily as poffible, yet he mull neceffarily give up another year before he could antwer the demands that Hill flood againft him. Was this the return which he had a right to expect after the magnanimous facrifices he has trade to the public ? And was he to be prevented from returning to that fituation of fplendour in which the Houle and the public were anxious to fee him placed, merely becaufe fome debts re mained unpaid, which, if known, muff do the greeted honour to the principles and feelings of his Royal Highnefs ? The CH•ItCELLOR of the Exciter/vita further etplained and Paid, that he was ready to believe that it was highly honourable to his Royal . High nets to delay returning his houfebold, until every claim which he conceived to hand againft him, had been fully finished. All be contended for was, that if this delay took place, it was on account of debts with which he was not acquainted. For he knew of no debt that had not been fistisfied by the Commiffioners. As to any kis that might have been incurred by a claimant on the does totes, it was only that loft which attended a de preciation of the public funds. They may have junk with the funds, but this was lately imputable to the management of thole who held them. Mr. Fox would trouble the Committee bat with a few obfervittious on the prelim occafton. The part he took in the rear tygy. when the Etlablifb. mem of his Royal 1-lighnefs was under the con tideratims of the Houle, lie remembered well, for nothing was more repugnant to his feelings than what he then strewed to. But what was the mid. lion now? His Royal Highnefs had fubmitted to a fevere retrenchment of his diablifhment for eight years (a feverity of retrenchment, indeed, which %as rarely exercifed in private life); and now it was Biked, Whether it was lit to relieve him from jhat retrenchment for the four years to come ? And •liew was that to be done? The claims of his Royal Ilighnefs to the arrears due from the Duchy of Cornwall, did not teem to be exprefsly admitted by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Addington), yet that Right Hon. Gentleman did fi:em to admit that his Royal Highnefs was entitled to call for an account of thofe arrears. 'faun the Prince Lad a claim to eaU for that. account, and-that it appeared to be an account of a large tufa, Purely Parliament fhould inftitute an inquiry -how that fim had been appropriated. or why it Mould not be employed towards tbelionidation of .his Royal. I lighnefes debts ? But the Right Hem.. Gentleman I r , s, of what avail would it be to inititute filch= I enquiry ; for even amid the claims of his Royal Highnefs Be fitbllantiated, where was the royal property upon which to execute judgment ? This again was a fubjeet for Parliamentary in mtiry. Indeed, for his part, he never could re tied upon the fltbjeet, without feeling furprize and regret at the deltitute and contemptible Rate in which the Royal Family were placed in this re tpeet--(4 cry of bear, hear) ; and here the relpeet ful manner in which his Royal Highnefs had eon duffed himfelf towards his Majetty, fhould not be forgotten or pas unnoticed. But it teems that the meafure propoted this day was not to he con• fidered in the light of a compromife. The Right Honourable Gentleman only rays, that he is glad Royal Highnefs contents to wave his claims ; becatife the purfuing of it would place his Royal Highnefs not only in an aukward fituation with ie fpeet to his Majefly, best alto with regard to the public. How this fhould be it was not eary to difeover. But in lieu of his claims, it teems his Royal Highnefs is to he placed on the fame footing in which he flood previous to the arrangement of rm. Some Gentlemen might think, indeed, that 125,0001. was a large income, even in fuch a fituation as that of his Royal Highnefs. He mull beg leave to be of a contrary opinion. The Houfe fhould not look to the different value of money at different times, when the revenue of the Crown was confidered, and the increafe which it might be proper to make in the Civil Lift, and lofe fight altogether of the fame confidera- Linn when it applied to the affairs of his Royal Highnefs the Prince 'of Wales. Indeed it teem. ed to be adverted to on all occafions, unlefs when it regarded him, to whole fituation, however, it was moil peculiarly applicable. lie, for one, was of opinion that a fixed funs fhould be grant ed to the Prince, and to his Majefty, for the demands of the Civil Lift; and that it fhould not be examined and reviewed every year, with a re ference to the different value of money —or, if this reference was made in the cafe of the one, fn alto was it fair to make the fame reference in the cafe of the other. The propofition now was to renore the Prince to what he before enjoyed, viz. the fum of 125,0001. ; but after this Refnlution is agreed to, when is his Royal Highnefs to refume the Ilyk and magnificence which his sank requires him to maintain His Royal Highnefs lays it is not in his power to refume them immediately; with the motives that induce him to defer it, the Right Honourable Gentleman profeffes to be ac quainted; but he does not choofe to etplain them. Among thefe motives may be the pay ment of. foreign debts and other claims, claims which honour and principle acknowledge to be valid. But thefe, it teems, are not to be con ii,fered in the light of (trig claims. His Royal Hi;hnets, however, may think and feel other wile. Neither, it appears, (hould he feel for thole who loft ten per cent. on the debentures. —Their lots was imputable to their own mifma nagement—for the e..ornmitrioners did not take off ten per cent. of their value--for they gave the creditors the option of debentures of tool.earing an intereft of three per cent. or debentures of got. bearing an inert& of sl. per, cent. The Right Hon. Gentleman fays, theft debentures may have been at a difeount at the time ; but that was on ac count of the Rate of public affairs, and there was a great probability that after a time they would have borne a premium—that might very well be. These was a wide difference between a guinea and a debenture, and it is to the value of any thing at the particular time that is to be confidered as its true value. The creditors, it may be true, were not forced to &dud to per cent. but the terms held out to them were fuch asto induce them to take 901. debentures, and that even while the debentures were at a dikount. He was not prepared to fay that all thofe who loft so per cent. in the debentures, bad claims upon his Royal Highnefs; but he, and not Parliament, was the heft judge of the matter. But the Right Hon. Gent. lays, his Royal Highnefs can have contra ted no legal claims fence the year 1795. The debts alluded so might not be what are called aridly legal, but honour might look upon them as fair claims—there again his Royal Highnefs, and not the Houle, was the fitteft perfon to judge. Under whatfoever afpeet theft claims might be viewed, they mutt be filch in the mind of his Royal Highnefs as to prevent him from immedi ately returning his wonted ellablifhment. To his own prudence and economy it timely might now be left to diflinguifh what were his legal, what his promifable debts, and to judge of the time when it might be convenient to him to appear again in that Rate with which, from his rank and fituation, be is espefted to be attended. He fhould not be condemned to do at forty what he had done at the age of twenty—en enter upon an eltablifhment to whirl his income was inadequate. The wifdom sad liberality of Parliament fliould guard him againft fuch diracultiesl from what they have lately witneff:d, they amid be induced to forget the pall It was evident that his Royal Highnels bad of late redeemed his charater by the moll prudential regard to pecuniary affairs, and by a fyllem of economy which it is fearcely natural to expea in fuch a fituatiom What before was re• latently, might now be joyfully performed, and the Houle fbould no longer befitate in haftening the moment when his Royal Highnefs might be reflored tothat Rate of fplendour and magnificence, of which the circumftences of his birth and expec tations fhould never be difrobed. _ Mr. FULLIR was of opinion that it was de grading his Royal Highnefs into the abjeet condi tion of a bankrupt. to permit his creditors to fullain a loft on their claims of to percent. Mr. BANK s contended that the ilitellion that had been furred on the prefent occafion, &mild not he agitated without bringibg, is to, Come Gail decifion. An attention to the okatong Highnefs by foam was mgardad as a mom of favour. by others as a matter of right: The Houfe indeed. did not know whether the claim had been preferred or not. and it might be wife in them not to come to a decifton opon , a, matter on which they were' not competent to Amide—at leaf fuch a quellion Was not nazi Wore them, andit would not be fair to dehir his Royal High nellfrom a petition of right, by the ptefeat motion ' if he pulfetlid fuels a right—neither would it be fair in his Royal Higliner. to make any filch compromill of his claim. In this view he Milted the tendency of the refolution,and felt inclined to vote against it. The quetlion was now loudly called for, and the refolution was put and agreed to without a divifion. The Honfe was then retuned, and the Report ordered to be received tomorrow.—Adj. FRANCE. PARIS. FEBRUARY z 9. A letter from Cape Francois, dated Dec. tg, flates, that the Brigands were attacked in the camp of Croix des Bouquets; that they were completely beat, and they loft t goo men on the field of battle, with the lofs, betides, of their colours and two piec:s of cannon. An article from Conftantinaple, of the 3 tft Dec. lays, " that the idea which had been entertained of the immediate evacuation of Egypt by the Bri tifh troops, in confequence of the arrival of feve ral tranfports at Alexandria, is unfounded. They are to remain there fome time longer." General Ns has written a long letter to the Swifs Minifter for Foreign Affairs, relative to the internal (late of Switzerland. He rays in it— " Emiffaries from England, Officers in her pay, and old Penfioners of that Power, enrol under the eyes of the Civil Authorities, waout the leaft oct pofition being made to them. A quantity of :nen receive falartes to frond their audacio:ts enter prices. The agents of the Secret Police are in fome refpefts in their pay. A counter Police exifts in all parts of Helvetia, and all the ferrets of Govern. ment are known to them. _ _ _ _ " The Mediator of Helvetia is treated with little refped in libels and pamphlets circulated among the people; the French foldier is confldered as the enemy of Helvetic freedom ; feveral of them have been the viaims of the animoftry excited againil them, although, in general, the French troops have obferved a wife and moderate condo& " The General invites the Council of Execution to take fuch fleps as (hall enfure the tranquillity of the country. He promifes to fecond them in their operations. The Council of Execution have recommended obedience to the General's requili. lions. LONDON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. Sr. MATTHIAI.HOIidIy it all the Public Offices. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per C. Coof. money, 7a;;—for Feb. 3CC. 1j~ 73H. Ontnium It will be feen by the Debate in the Houfe of Commons laft night, that the actomaaddation is tended to be afforded to his Soya! Highnefs the Prince of Wt.ss, will confiß of a grant of Sixty, Thoufand Pounds per ann. out of the Confolidated Fund, for three years ; that is, until the expiration of the period when his Royal Highnefs's debts will be completely difcharged. This adjullment, we have no doubt, will give general fatisfa4tion. Yeaerday being Ai Weduefday..the Bilhop of Loss room preached an excellent Cannon at the Chapel Royal, before fereral of the Nobility,- amongfl whom were prefent, Earl Sr tacsa ' Lord Gm viLut, Lord WeDINOOSE, Lord WILLOUGHBY DL BIORI, the Billop of DURHAM, the Countefs of Ltv serous., Lady CHARLOTTE FINCH, Lady CHAuLOTTI Jametssow, Lady SPENCE', Lady Cooke, and a great number of other parlous of This morning was married, at St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook, Mona., Efq. Praetor in Dodoes Comnnns, to Mils MARY Arts PAICS, &left clater of the Right Honourable the Loan MiLYOR London. After the ctremony was over, the Bride and Bridegroom, withaheir attendants, fct off for the feat of Sir J. GOODLACK, at Wan tage, in Berkthire. A letter from Contlantinople fpeaks of the nine tranfports which we already mentioned as having arrived at Alexandria, and adds, that it was on derllood, that the guglilli were 'not to evacuate Alexandria for Come time. It is reported in Paris, that the frigate on board df which the mortal remains of General LaCLEIC were put at Toulon, was wrecked immediately af ter her failing from that pert; others pretend that the ft igate was ssy adverfe windsdriven into a con trary courfe, and forced into Malta; true it is, that the General'sremaias are not yet arrived at Lyons. According to the Weft intelligence from Ma drid, the qua cis of SPAIN is ufing every endeavour to perfuade the French Government to cede the Duchy of Parma to the Kiao of ETIORIA • to ac. celerate which, the is alto ezertiag her influence with the Kula her confort to cede Florida to the French by way of cornpenfation. By an article from Venice, it appears that a very curious report had been circulated there of a bloody engagement off Sardittia,between the Eng. lifh and French fquadrons, in which the former are Rated to have gained the advantage. That fuch would have been the refult we can have little doubt, had an mullion taken place; but it is hardly necelfary for us to fay, that the report is in the higheß degree abfurd. Accounts from leveret quarters of Italy, of Ja nuary aid, fay, it is now confirmed that the new Ktioo of SARDIMia will not at paint take pact% Pion of his kingdom, but that he has concluded a convention, by which he cedes it, with all its an• neared claims, to England, and that to this nothing is Wilting but the reciprocal ratification, and the confirmataon of the Englith Parliament. The Enilifh fleet now cruising off the illand of Sat diem, is raid to be Rationed there with a reference l i to thefe negociations ; in confequenee of which, Englilb couriers are frequently arriving at Rome. The conditions on which this ceffion is made, thee accounts add, are, probably. very advantageous to the Riau of Saito, NIA, fine be hassefufed the font qf fix million. with a yearly appendage for life of one million, offered by another Power. SPORTING. His Royal Highnefs ?Rimer of WAL ES, and the Honourable Mr. Di Ltort, hive made a match of a very extraordinat y kind : each party is to produce an Arabian I.,:r . fr (his property), to run four milts, carrying eiAbt ttnne, for one hundred guineas. The remote period at which atty . /era:re croft has been introduced among our breed os racers, and the great improvement derived from the Godolphin and Dailey Arabians,give great hopes of fimilar fuccefsfrom the recent importations from Afra.—Worthydowns, near Winchefler, is the condi fired upon for the decifion of this match, which has carded great fpeculation in the Sporting World, it being the only mßance of a genuine dira tian's fluting, time the abolition of Lord Boers:G -[III.OILE% IfratilA Pak at Newmarket. Mr. Scrjeant Barr has been appointed King's Counfel, and on Tuefday took his feat within the bar accordingly. On Mond;ylaft, Mr. and Mrs. Davisow, and family, arrived at their houfe in St. James's. fquare, from Paris. Sir A. S. HA 140 ND is fn far recovered from bit late revere indifpofition, as to he able to attend his duty as Comptroller of the Navy. _ _ Lord YARBOROUGH and his fon, Mr-Putman, arrived from Paris, at his haute in Arlington- Itreet, on Sunday night. They came by way of B ,ulogne, where they - hada narrow deaf* for titbir lives: as the fhip was coming out of harbour, by fame mittake, the ran againft the pier head ; the (hock was fo great that they expeaed the world go to pieces. Mr. PELHAM is perfetily recovered from his late indifpofition, which detained him fo many months at Paris. His Ma jelly's (hip PHOEBE, commanded by the Hon. Captain Car's., was ordered to Naples for the purpofe of conveying his Excellency Mr.Dst mown, the Britilh Miniller, from that place, to Conftantinople, to take the fituation of Ambafia dor to the Porte, in the room of Lord-Ewns. The PICKLE fchooner recently arrived from the Mediterranean, has brought letters from Sir Rica. McKie-row, the Admiral on that Ration, which (late the French were preparing feveral !hips of war and tranfports in the harbour of Toulon ; as alio the Spaniards in Carthagena, fuppofed to be defined for St. Demingo, wit'h troops. The PICK:[ fchooner left Sir Rictus') Blcttt• TON, in Oriltan Bay, on the isith of November, Some French (hips of war had paired the 'nand of Malta, fuppofed for the purpofe of joining the Dutch fleet, under the command of Admiral Ds us, which had failed from Cagliari for Leg horn. --- --- The Lords of the Admiralty have. apPohated Captain Hastoaa to the command of his liraTeffei !hip - PLANTA date y‘guns, fitting out if fbi mouth ; and Captaiii S. breasos, to the mond of his Maießet3l4lScaPTlg, of 4 pus , fitting out•at Deptfoid. • • 7. The ALSOW 11000.111 S been oraeretttriara j 4 off sat Portia:south, and re•comillilLosid VINCIST. .111 k •• • '••u , .. ittgla Capt. R. H. PrAestmaireppeiorti ca dmium. wand of the" Nuatas, •44 36 gost ) , *404 Plymouth. Lieut. Jou), HOLLISOWORTIS is 110.1408/11/1" the Lords of the Admiralty, to:the Villas:than e at Portfmouth. The Lord Licutenatt - of Aberdeen has appoint ed the Right Hon. the Earl of Eastot., and col. GORDON CIJNIND of Pltturg, Deputy Lieutenants in addition to thofe sifting for the Elton Diftrißl and Wit. GORDON of Aberhour, and ALsx. Rut. set. of Aden, Efqrs. additional Deputies for the Deer dillriet, front which theparifbes of Stains and Cruden are now disjoined, and added to the AA triet of Elton. •,; Lift week a fire broke out at the Theatric Olia Lycce Varietes, at Paris, whichi in a ref '= (pace ' of time, *confittned the fame, wlik out, however, doing any mirchief to the nerghlaoar.. hood. The Bonaparte French pt#ket, with tea gers,feveral couples of wild ducky geefe,w" living and dead, pullets, turkies. Putridly*, together with many hampers of fruit, an view*, (hoes in abundance, arrived at Brighton at ooit o'clock P. M. on aturday lag. The eatables were publicly expofed on the beach for falc, and prefently found purchafers ; the turlties, averaged about los. a couple, and the wild ducks 41. To. wards evening Come contraband property being difcovered on board by the Cuflorn.houfe Officoes, the flag was (truck, the velfel feized, and conveyed into Shoreham harbour. Yeßerday a very genteel man was charged at the Public Office, Marlborongh.fireet. by a lair - neyman Carpenter, with being found in his U.d. room with the Carpenter's wife. The examination of this charge created much mirth in the roma.— Honeft Chip Rated, that he returned home front his work the preceding evening, and waifurprifed to find this Gentleman in the room with his wife. He afked him what bufioefs he bad there, and fired he would leave the room : they bad tome al tercation, which was at length terminated by the Gentleman requeßiag he "maids() and fetch a pot of beer, which he accordingly clod; and as be was going down Rains, ne heard a noife in the room. and the Gentleman fay " New', tbe time to cachif tSe flat."—The witnefs, however, went forward aid got the beer, which they afterwards drank.— tie then mulled upon the Gentleassai retiring. which he refuted to do, and at length found it necelfary to call the watch, and he was given in charge. Upon his crofs examination, he admitted that the gentleman accounted fl his being in the mom, by laying that he band his wife in liquor in the fircet, and (he 'told him where the lived. and he faw her fare home. The Magi(lrate' obferved, that W the complain. ant was folimple as to leave his wife in loch a fitnation, be mull naturally expee the Confeqrsen , cu. Hs reconimended him for the futare. if tech a eireumilanes thouid again occur,. 'to be more guarded. The matter was then ditiniffed.