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refult completely removed all grnunds of fufpi cion. With refpeft to the connexion which Go vernment had at prefent with the Bank, the fael was, that the advance upon Exchequer Bills to Government was now lefs than what it was even previous not be laid, that this advance could form the fli4htell impediment to the opening of the Bank. Tile Right Hon. Gentleman repeated, that he would conceive it extremely abfurd to agree to a rnmittee for the purpofe of inquiring into that which was notorious, and which formed the grounds of this meafure. He recapitulated his fe. veral arguments; and in anfwer to the declaration of his Hon. Friend, that if any Member of Admi nitiration would fay that there was any thing in the political fituation of the country which ren dered the refirittion neceffary, he (Mr. B.) would wave his objeaions : the Right Hon. Gentleman Rated, that, without offering any thing more than what general obfervation of the circumitances of Furope furnithed, he would afk, whether this was a period, politically fpeaking, at which any man of thinking habits would ferioufly advife to let afide that rearittion—and whether fuch a perfon would not rather recommend us to fubmit to the inconveniencies which we do know, than refort to a meafure which might expofe us to inconvesien cies, of the extent of which we could nut even form a conjeaure ? Mr. BANKS fpnke fhortly in explanation, but urged no new arguments. Mr. H. THORNTON made Come general obferva tions upon the great importance and extent of the fubjeft under difcuhlinn. He feemed to think that in one point of view the motion of his Honourable Friend oppolitt to him (Mr. B.) might have an advantageous effea. At the fame time, he was fuily aware of t he great inconveniences which,under the prefent circumfiances, would attend taking off the reariaion; it might in a great degree operate as a notice, and raife an univerfal expeaation of the immediate renewal of monied payments. — The (hock which this might give to paper credit May early be conceived. He telt that the prefent was no time for the adoption of fuch a meafure, wither would there he a fufficient interval for the wecetfary preparation allowed to the Bank. Not vkithflanding he felt in this manner, he at the fame time was impreffed with a degree of parliamentary jealotify on the occafintf, and he mull fay. that all his doubts on the Cubic& were not yet fari-fied ; however, he agreed with his Right Hon. Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) in his great point,namely, that the Bank could not with perfeft Safety be opened, except the exchange was favour able to thfs country : but he was of opinion, that the firft favourable feafon thould be taken advan. tage of for opening the Bank ; and he was not prepared to fay that it was the du , y of the Houle to wait for ever for it—the contrary, in a great degree, might be his opinion. The meafure in queflion was now continued for three or four years, and its continuance far another year was propufed. In this view of the cafe it may be important confider, whether a favourable opportunity, in that interval, might not prefent itfelf. He then adverted to the confequences of too great an Ale of paper, and the conneftion of that circumßance with an unfavourable Rate of the exchange, with 2sfpea to which it unqueflionably had a drfadvan ugenus effeft ; and in this view of the queftion. an obfervation made by an Hon. Gentleman had evidently a great deal of common fettle in it. A moderate iffue of Paper in the country would have the effeft of improving the Rate of the exchange; and he alluded to the duty incumbent on the country, not to diftrcfs, or do any thing to impair the public credit : and in this view they feemed to obteive an exalt medium, which he conceived to he a leading cattle why, notwithflanding Great Britain made a freer ufe of paper than any other country in Europe, it was able to maintain its public credit, vigorous and unimpaired. The CHANCELLOR of the Excisavta, after fhortly complimenting the abilities of his Hon. Friend, and his fuperior intelligence on the fubjea in queftion, laid, he had one obfervation to offer upon chat had fallen from him, relative to the n effea of the Retirittion, upon the Exchange. His Hon. Friend mug be aware, that at the periods in Nrhich the Reßriftion originally took place, name ly, in the years 1797 and 1798, the Rate of the Exchange stas highly favourable to this Country ; and, that it was not until after the harvelt 011799 that the Exchange became unfavourable ; and he confidered it as of material importance. that the public Should be aware, that the Courfe of Ex change was by no means unfavourable during the whole time of the Reflriftion continuing. The (42eRion being called for, was then put. and the original Motion agreed tp. The ATTORNEY G AAAAA L then prefented the Claule, the nature of which he had defcribed in the early part of the debate, and which was agreed to by the Houle. The Chairman then left the Chair, and the Houle refumed, when the Report was forthwith received, the Amendments agreed to by the Houle, and tlie Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday. if engroffed. Some private Winds was then difpefed of, in the enforce of which the Heydon Port Bill wasread a fecund time and referred to the confideration of a Selea Committee. The lift of thole Members who had been chofcn to firm the Court of Eaft India Judicature on the part of the Lower Houle, was then prefented, and read from the Chair. Among the names we no. tired thole of the following Members. W. Wilberforce, Efq. W. Sturges, Efq. W. Smith, Jan. Efq. J H. Strutt, Efq. G. Wood. Efq. Hon. R. Rider, D. Iri•gbam. Efq. Sir W. Pulteney, But. H. Bankei, Efq. C S. Lefevre, Efq. If. Browne, Efq. W.M. Pitt, Efq. Him. T. Scott. Sir E. H. Hattopp. Bart. 1f..,.. W. A 'rowndiend, Stan!, y. Efq. and C. Adam., Efq. Sir J. Frederic. Bart. On the Monk), of Mr. SAROR vr, a 'lrv/ Wrlt. WA, ordered to b. ailed fur the Borough of Yarmouth. In the County of Southampton, for a Burgrfs to I rye in Parliament, in the r 001.5 of JA V t s PATRICK Rtra RAT, Hiq. who has accepted the OfS. S:cw .rd of bit Majcfty's !ti.uiur of Laft Haulm!, in th,. Comity of Re- Its. Thr Crmmittors of Supply and Ways and blear, were dc kr.al tm Maiday, to wldch day, :kc Howie adjourned. - LONDON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY it. PRICE OF S POCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 pa Ccnt. Red. 7cll. 3 per C. Coid. money, 74—for ace. 70! ! 1. Old S per Cont. too/—News per Cent. 1031. Omnium 31 dii. PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY: Bank Stock 1871 187 187/ Imp. 3 per Cent. 691 f 3 pa C. Red. 'Ail Ezcheq. Bills is diE 3 per C. Conf. 711 70 India Stock it Iti 4 per Cent. Conf. 6g Omnium dif. per C.Ann. tool too tool Lottery Tickets t 71. 17e. 5 per C. 1797. to3l 103 1031 Conf. for ace. DUBLIN, FEBRUARY B.—iSrocc EXC /I ANCIY. 3l per C. Gov. Deb. —3 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 99. Cisurfe of Exchange—Dublin on London is. Accounts have been received from Sir ROGER Coal-is, at the Cape of Good Hope, of the troops having embarked from that place. Lail night in the Houfe of Commons, the SE CRETARY at Watt obtained leave to bring in a Bill to Train and Exercife the Militia twenty-eight days in the year, inftead of twenty-one days. The ellimated additional expence of this meafure is only EB,oool. a year. The Bank Reflrielion Bill went through the Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. The Refirielion is to continue for fix weeks after the next Srrnon of Parliament. Yefterday the Committee proceeded to try the Univerfity of Dublin Petition. Mr. FANS, Chair man. The Connfel for the Sitting Member, (the Hon. GEORGE KNox) are Mr.ADASI and Serjeant LENS; for Mr. PLUNKET, (the Petitioner) Mr. PLOMER, Mr. DAMPIERF, and Mr. NoLats.—The ground of the Petition is, that the Reprefentatives of the Univerfity of Dublin, and indeed of any Univerfity, tuch as Oxford, Cambridge, &c. mutt be a real Member of each Univerfity ; whereas the laid Hon. Gamic); Kant never had been fuch Member of any Univerfity, and was only an hone rary Member of the Univerfity of Dublin, nn hay. ing obtained therein the honorary degree of LL. D. Lieutenant WM. ARCHBOLD is appointed to the Eling fchooner, at Plymouth. Lord JAMES TOWNSNEND, YOUtlgeft fun of the Marquis Towsiso awn, left town yefterday for Portfmotith, to affume his command in tho Navy on his new appointment. Lord Nit.scut yeftcrday fat on the bench next to Lord ELLENsoitovoN, for the purpofe of hear isig the dilcullion of the affair between Captain FREANAVTLE and Lieutenant Rica. Lady SARAH EINE% debut at Court, on Thurr day, attra&ed thither all the young beaux of fa mily and fafhion. Her Ladyfhip is beliefs to 45,0001. per annum, and confequently is a dear child. Early next month, Lord MONTOOMBRII, eldeft fon of the Earl of En Li w To um, leads to the hymeneal altar, a diftant relation, the eldeft daughter of the late Earl of Ea LIN rout. ; and, by this match, two large ellates will be re-united in the fame family. The Earl of STANFORD and SirGILSIIT MUTH- Corr have entered the kgd/f/1: about the right to a common worth 20,0001. in Lincolnfhire, and the whole county is alive to the refult. There is a Ranier in the city who has two foru ; nne of them is extremely diffipated, and dreffes in thepisti of fetioa • the other is domeftic, and MEI • ly attends to the banking 6010; which peculiarities occafioned a wag to name the &It Cwast, and the other Dy:x*tai. A Seaman has been apprehended at Cork, on furpicinn of being one of the crew of the Fit &stows, concerned in the murder of Captain Ptcor, and taking the (hip into a Spanifh Port in the Welt On Saturday laft a Gentleman of very refpeda ble connexions in the neighbourhood of Hull, was committed to York Cattle, for having with a brace of pintas, on the preceding day, in a fit of info. nity, killed his only two children, one of whom died immediately; the other only furvived the melancholy event a few hours. Yefterday, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the neighbourhood of the Poultry was alarmed by a loud explofion, occalioned by the burning of a frill in the laboratory of Mars. HANROTT, BUR. ICITT, and Co. chemifts. The fervants of there gentlemen had been diftilling nutmeg-water, and the furnace becoming over heated, the head of the (till flew off, with a mon violent explofion ; the (ky light of the laboratory was broken, and fe veral panes of glafs in the (hop windows, as well as the window frames, were (battered to pieces by the eameunion. The noife and fmoke occafioned by this accident drew feveral fire engines to the fpot, as well as a prodigious crowd of fpeflators ; but we are happy to nate, that no injury of con fequence enfued, and that no blame whatever can attach to any individual concerned. When we witnefs extraordinary exertions of ta lent, to record them is an aft of junice which we are no: inclined to negleft. From the late period at which Mr. IRKYLL was appointed Counfel for the unhappy perfons recently convifted of High Treafon, it might have been expelled that he could not have taken up the arduous defence intrufted to him with all that preparation which its importance demanded. His fpeech, on the occafion,may Itrift ly be called an Impromptu, notwithftanding which, we have feldom heard an addrefs to a Jury which pleafed us more. It was impaffioned, without extravagance or difarrangement; and as argumen tative as the limited advantages of his cafe would permit : he was legal, without loading the memory or the fpirits of thole to whom he addreffed himfelf, and eloquent without being iinneceffarily diffufe, though he (poke for Two Hour, and a half, and there did not ezift a point of defence, which he did not leize upon and interpo:.: between his wretched Clients and their Fate. la a (cord, his exertions on the occafinn Jo him the highell credit, and furnifix a fohd and iplendid proof of his abilities as an Advocate and Lawy,r. NAUTICAL lIVTELTIGENCE. pLymouni, Fk.BRUARY Four o'clock I'. M. this moment his Majcay's lOIP BEILLFISLE, Of 74 guns, WHITBY, weighed from Cawiand B.ty, and failed to the weflward, under fealed Orders ; h:r dcaination is unknown to any but the Admiralty ; fhe has a Foie breeze at S. E. and will foon be clear of the Port. Came in from the Bay of amduras, with fut . . tick, logwond, and mahngany, the flip Nf:flor, Captain ANDERSON; fhe hrought home the Cap fain, crew, and pafrengets of the Turin galley alto from the Bay of Honduras, where fire foun dercd in a dreadful gale of wind—flip and cargo loll; hut the crew were providentially all picked up by the exertions of Captain ANDERSON, and the crew of the Neftor. Remain in Cawftnd Bay, CALCUTTA, 0154 guns, Captain Woos Housr ; and SIRIUS, of :36. In Ha moaze, the CULLODEN, of 74, Rear Admiral DACRL i ; Coo:tar:aux, 0174, Captain G. HARDY; ESCORT, gun brig; RAMRLER, of 14, Captai❑ T. INNER ; the GANNET, of 14, and NIMBLE Cut ter, Lieutenant J. COGH LAN. The Intrepid (arrived here on the Bth from Ja maica) left the ifland very healthy : the fpoke, on the 27th of January latl, all well, the Brothers, Capt. \Vi LLOUGHBV, of and bound to London, with rums and fugars, from Kingllon, Jamaica, out 48 days, had a good patfage; lbe was then in lat. 49- long. 12. On the sth inflant Capt. C. fpoke the fhip Brothers, of and from Liverpool, laft from Cork, out one day. On the 6th inflant (poke the ]hip Adventure, of London, five days from B!ack wall, for St. Kitt's, with a cargo of fundries.— Wind E. N. E. all the time. FROM LLOYD% LIST. DEAL, Fr It. I I.—Sailed the Arrow (loop of war (,r Portf mouth, and the Windham, Graham, for the EaR Arrived and failed for the River, the Moore:, Lei h, from China.—Wind N. E. GRAVZSLND, FE11.11.--Paffed by the &Ilona, from Virginia; Confola, Cockrsn, from Lifbon ; Rtfolution, Mor ris,from Waterford; Jonge Adwick, Defreis, from Dunkirk ; William and Nancy, Daniels, Perfeverance, —, and the Al bion, Lore, from Limerick.-- , Sailed the Flying Filb, Peterfon, for Africa, and the Cleopatra, Julien, fur Juicy. ARRIVED. _ At Ramfgate, Margaret, Lcihe, from Newry—At Lack mandy, Crow ifle, Campbell, from Charlefton—At Have, 'l'riton, Lime, from Virginia—At Bourdeaux, America, —, from ialem—At Marfalies, Hope,Critehill, from London, with damage—At the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, —, from the 'read; Nile, —, from China and Caledonia, , from London--At Bengal, Governor North, —, from the Cape of Good Hope—At Portfmouth, &trey, Morris, from Brdtol. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Yefterday a Court of Diredors of the Eaft India Company was held at the India Houle, which adjourned to Wednefday next. The new (hip, the Prince of Wales, lately launched by Mr. Meftaer, for the Company's fervice this feafon, is configned to Bombay and Madras. and is ordered to be in the Downs on the 29th of March next. Captain John Price is appointed to command bee. AU the extra Gips taken up this feafon are now difpatched, .xecpt the Huddart and the Union ; the former is deitined to St. Helena and Bombay, and the latter to Madras ; they arc both appointed to be in the Downs on the 23d inftant, About ' which time they will be dlfpatcbed. Captain Miliken Craig, of the Company's fhlp Elpkinftone, lately difpatched, has ►een permitted by the Court of U redoes to touch at Madeira, for wine, in his outward-hound paffsge to Bombay. The Advice, Stowell, from Lancerota to Cork, (prang a leak, after being three days at lea, and is returned to the (aid Ifland to repair. By the Minerva, a Botany Bay Alp, arrived off Dover, we are advifed that the extra Ai s, Lord Eldon and Minerva, out ward bound, arrived at the Cape the soth of 06tober 14ft, and the Skelton Caftie the ssth of that month. The Lord Eldon was getting under way the 4th November, and the Skelton Cat tle on the toth was aoly waiting a fair wind to put to lea, Part of the Duchefs of GORDON'S fuite arrived in town lait night from Paris, and her Gracc is ex peeled in the courfe of a few days. The ice is now fo (Iron; in Hydefark, that a waggon might pafs over it. Mrs. Esr en is engaged for twelve nights at the Edinburgh 'Theatre, for which the is to receive fix hundred guineas and a clear benefit ; after which the is to perform for the remainder of the feafon at Covent• Garden Theatre, for which the is to receive two thoufand guineas. Mrs. IncireaLD'S tranflation of T he judgment of Solomon, which wit to have been brought forward at Covent Garden Theatre, under the title of An Ancient Story, is, it feems, to be laid afide. The Voire of Nature, a tranflation of the fame piece, having been already before the public, the die& is, of cootie, foreflalled, and the latter, we find, is to reprefented at Covent Garden Theatre, with new fplendour of (cenery. Thurfday the prifuners, who nand committed for felonies, were removed from the feveral gaols in the city of London aid county of Nliddlefez, to Newgate, in order to take their trials at the earring &Mons ; which commence oil Wednef day neat, at the Seflions•houfe in the Old Bailey. An epidemic difordef continues to rage in Pat is. The number of deaths in the het month was the ?uadrople of that in January tfloz.—This diforder is a catarrhal cough, accompanied by fever and (pitting of blood. Several Phyficians ordered bleeding; but this, in almoft every instance, proved fatal. The common people there call it "la Gripe," and attribute the contagion to the perfons return ed from St. Domingo. A fingular plicenomenon was lately obferved in the parith of Noa Kopparbarger, in the province of Dalecarlia, in Sweden. At two hi the morn ing the moon, at its full, was feen furrounded by a black circle, inclofed in a circle of blood red.— From the call and weft fides of the moon feveral rays efcaped, which were prolonged to the circles, where two funs appeared didinAly, the one in the eaft, and the other in the welt, having the colours of the rainbow, and emitting perpendicularly to wards the horizon rays of light. It, the heavens was fern a rainhow,which touched the circle round the moon, and on the fides of rc hid, were alto two funs of the fame form as the other, but of a pale, colour. This plgenornenou embraced nearly the whole horizon, and continued for fome time. CALPANISAL Some curious GAY:tide cxperiments were made n Friday laa by Profcifor ALLINI, in Dr. PF SON'S Leeture Rooms. They were by tar more intereaing and fatisfaaory than any sue have yet noticed, owing to the pain, taken to procure the titteit fubjeas for tae operitions. They were inai• Muted is the pretence of his Excellency the Am• baffador of France, Genzral ANnuosst, Lord PE(. HA Lord Ra :BURCa, Lord CAS rGCRFACH. LordlicavFy, the Hon. Mr. U? rov, Mr. Cnot.- HON nt t v, 111r.Ascrtt.x.s, Mr. Er.t.aor, and feveral other Gentlem.-n of rank. The Profelf.T was Atria d ably, as nri for MCI' OCCArSUPS, by Mr. CARPVL, Mr. CLITHSFRTsON, 4n,1 Mr. HuTcniNs. Among other important faits, it was decifively !hewn, t. That a vital attraaion fohfills between a rot ye and mufcl::fi,r the fufpendtd fciatic nerv , :s of a frog, after detaching the (pine, being hroug:tt near the intercoaal 'flacks of a dop , , while s h e Allifiant who held the frog did, with his other hand, touch the mufcles of the thigh of the dog, (ihas forming a circle) ; in this fituation, the nerves ftilpended approached, and came into con taa with the mtifcle, as eviden:ly as a filkca thread is attraeled by foaling wax. 2. The heart of a rabbit was excited to a&ion in a little time after the animal was killed, Lot vi tality difappcared much fooner than in the other mufcles, In th it this organ is the primum, and not as IlasvEy aliened, the ultimum morieru. The lungq, liver, and fpleen could not be excited to anion, even immediately after' the animal was killed. 3. The moll important fan of all, was that of exciting contraFtions by making A circle of nerves and mufcles of different animals, without any me tallic excitor or conduElors. 4. The head of an ON, recently decapitated, ex hibited ailenifhing effeas: for the tongue being drawn out ►by a hook fixed into it, on applying the exciters, in fpite of the lirength of the AlM ant, the tongue was retraEted, fo as to detach it fell, by teasing itfelf from the hook ; at the fame time a loud noife iffued from the mouth by the abforption of air, attended by violent contortions of the whole head and eyes. After the exhibition of there phenomena of Gal vanifm, which, among other philofophers, particu larly occupy the attention of the FIRST Co.istst., the company partook of an elegant ddeurte and a converzatione in Dr. PEARSON'S Lode. The freights from Jamaica for the current year have been fixed at only fiurfbilliav per cwt. the fame rate of freight was given in the year 1783. Yefterday the Right:Hon. the Loan Mayoa pre fided at a Wardmote, held at St. Mary Magda len's Church, Fifh-lireet, for the Eledion ot an Alderman of Caine Baynard Ward, in the room of Mr. RIGBY, deceafed. On a thew of hands be ing put, it appeared that SMITN, Efi. a Sugar Baker, was unanimoufly defied, Mr. Axle- ANDER having withdrawn his oppofition. At the Vaccine Inoculation Dinner, on Monday 1.11, among the toafts given, after the healths of the Royal Family had been drank, were the fol lowing The Promulgator of the Vaccine Inoculation, Dr. Janata -3. Dr. WOODYILLI 3. Dr. PRARSON, with a due acknowledgment of his fervices in eftablithing the new inoculation by the evidence of fads.—Dr. Pearfon, after thank. ing the company for this honourable teftimony of approbation, addreffed them in an appropriate fpeeelt, and gave an account of many particulars refpeeling the management and objeds of the in flitution, which could not be noticed in the report. He drew a moll pleating piastre of the advantages which individuals already derived from the Cow Pock, and anticipated, with great fatisfaftion, the beneficial confequences that would anti, in two refpeßs, from univerfal inoculation throughout the United Kingdorn.—tft. That by thefe means from thirty to forty thoufand lives would be an. preferved.—sd, That, in a few years, the Small Pox by this pradice would be exterminated. To accomplith thefe views he contended that laws to oblige every fubje& to be inoculated within a certain period after birth were effentially necelary. as well as the immediate prohibition of inoculation for the Small Pox, He obferved, that the latter meafure alone would be quite inadequate, and maintained, that to render the Cow Pock univer fal by compullion was no more an infringement of the liberty of the fubje9, than to prohibit, as al ready propofed, the Small Pox inoculation. The number 101 l by inoculation for the Small Pox was not, he Paid, an objea of national importance, as it amounted to no more than from fix to nine in a thonfand, but when it was confidered that it could fcarcely be raid there was any more danger from inoculation for the Cow Pock than from A punc ture with a clean lancet ; that the fymptoms were always much (lighter than in the Small Pox Inoculation, and that by rendering the Cow Pock Inoculation imiverfal, the infehion of the Small Pox mull he extinguiihecl, it was certainly very desirable that the Cow Pock In oculation Bintild become an objed of Legiflative attention. The Dotor then anfwered the objec tions made againft increating population. in con let-pence of a fuppofed want of provisi ins to main tain it, by thewirg that the refources of agriculture were not vet thoroughly underftood, and that an increase of pomil ction would be accompanied with an increase of indullry. He ()Nerved alio, that the overgrown power and immenfe population of France required, in a political point of view, that every means Should be employed. on our part, to increase out population, and illuftrated his argu ment in favour of the Vaccine Inoculation, by re. marking, that going through the Small Pos. in the cabal way, or by Inoculation, and eliciting I the Cow Pock inflead of the Small Pox, were like crotling a river in three different ways :—ltt. By fssimniing or wading :hrough it, in which 97 put of a 'coo pctithA : 2J, By gniag over in boats, by which mode from 6 to 9 in a thoufand were :011 3 .1. By means ot a bridge, ',fining which ipalfage no one perished, except tram comics which ' might operate is any other fituatioss.