Star. — London, England, 1803-12-01 00:00:00

F I, I AI.MANACKS FOR 1804. 1500[11:::-CERI STATIONEAt, ari the Trade in gea c i: a i. are refpctlfully informed. that on the 22d iaftant, A NEW ALMANACK, Called . !? r. Ihl 'E I AI. LM A.NACK ; or, T ICA I . RECORD, for gut, was putitilihed, price Ss. printed on a large thee' rff Royal Paper, ornamental with up wards of 20 el-7,ant Engravings, via.Paffa,^e of the St. Cwithard by &marrow, of tl.c Ips by Bonaparte. the Hattie of the Nile. rd Alexandria, Ste fo contrived that while it .• the r loft complete Shact Alinunack ever publidwd, It is alto calculated to hind up as an elegant Pu. kct Alniannk, in a Paper Box, Morocco Tuck, Etc. (brining a e:on?l,.tc Hiltarical Record of all tht grtat evert of the), Ord prcient century._ Publiale.l for T. boon(.-, I nraver, IN-ntotrille, by W. Suttaby, St owner .-court; Vcri,or and Hood, Poultry, wd W. 3. and J. Ittebat dqt., Royal Ilm . huoge, I.undon. ~~ P.IaLM.IIE.VT.4Iir PROCEEDINGS. HOUSF. OF LORM WLDNESDAY, NOV, 3c. Hip Majeiy's Anfwer to the Addrefs of the L^rd•, eras read by the Lord Chancellor, and ordered to be entertdon the journals. Thc gra 1 nblilh Cattle, Keeling T. the I:all India Company, was poilponed till Friday. The bra ri:ch caufe was poliponed till Monday next. Tile LORD CH at 4 cEL Loa left the Woolfack, and chfcr.cd, tn.it a matter of privileges was to be fob not• 1,! to their Lorsithips, and the Bar was accord cluaied. After this was difpofed of, the Honfe asljrai ned till to-morrow, at three o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Han. Col. Stuart (fon of the Earl of Gana tray) tank the oaths and his feat. 1 be SrKARAIt acquainted the }lnufc, that the Pe. tirions from the following perfons and places, had rivt been renewed during the prefent feilion, viz. both certain Fiecholders of the town of King(inn- I, againil the eicainn of Samuel Thorn. .—Fic m the freemen of Leonainfler, agnind In or the Hon. Charles Kinnaird—of Col. ad, againa the eleaion of Edward Love. !den, Efq. for the &rough of Sbaltefbu. if John Ogle, againli the eleaion of T. iq. for the Borough of Holton—and that luau:nice of the Aa of Parliament fur :le, duly certified to the Court of Exehe the leveret ree , gnizances or the different id their fecuritics, were forfeited. •ASTLIREAOH role to make the motion, of had given notice, relative to the bonds of India Company. He laid, that the realms . ..at application to the Houle, arofe nut of &station of the Company, with regard to , ty AEI, and the duty payable thereon. By the Company had a right to dedua the per cent. on all turns due on their bonds, at of paying the inters* thereof. That on Is they could only take the legal buena of That the holders of exchequer balls were le fame duty of y per cent.—but that ca lls, bearing a rate of intereft at fo much a am amounted to 51. 6s. 6d. per cent. ; and le Company to a very great inconvenience, *ere highly at a lots from the circumllance bonds not bearing lb high an interelk as Ex "ll* and therefore that their value in the is confiderably diminithed. That the Com. holders of Exchequer Bills to a very 'Argo It of which 51. per cent was to be dedua ed ; ,he difference between the rate of intered mode of eltimatinv it very operofe and That the quellion between the Company ablic was by no means of any great impor :he gross amount of laurel! on their bonds )re than go,oool. and the duty payable on ;an scool. It was effential, he laid, that any Ibould not in time of war, be Ibut out advantage of Exchequer Blasi as their , re fa interwoven with thole of the Rate, be faid to be identified, asd therefore the ugh: to be viewed in the fame light, and he fame footing as the public. The objea he bad to propofe to the eonfideration of was, to enable the Company to give in aeir Bonds not exceeding the littera of Bills. He did not think it =celery then the Hoofe with any further obfervations, therefore move, Wave be given to bring in a Bill to regulate of the Eat India Company, with refpea of intact and the duty payable thereon." ..eaten brought up the teport of the Com appointeal to take into confideration the Pea. the London Dock Company for railing the of soo.oool. towards carrying on and the fame, which was read and agreed it given to bring in a Bill purfuant to the of the laid Committee. RANI RESTRICTION. .NCELLop of the Esc'. Irtyltit role, accord. io.ice he had given yelferday oa this fob. id, i: was not his intention to trouble the many rib:Creations. Several anilines, had been Made to the lag Bill, notwith fief), he had ever been perfeilly convinced rriety of palliag it, and of the good 'feels ' not fail to refult from it. He had nit, :ard from any quarter whatever, the *lion to the expediency of continuing the luring the mar. He paid a very handfome at to toe care, attention. and liberality of Diralors, and laid it mull give the highell to every one to fee that tire continued re. I aCtuall y iiiereafed the credit of the Bank. ns of which had in many influx's:, paid hen they were not by any means bound nit bad exeicifed their own judgment, they thought it would be for the benefit of the puLlic ; at the fame time ;erc aware, and could bear the mod am. iy, (ha , they had never taken advantage ;Mon to ii (reale ;be ifloe of their paper, the dividends which conflituted their own luenenta. If. however, it &aid be the the Houle. to agree to the Motion he had (hould fiql think it his duty to follow it let motion to that paled 141 year for the e feveral Prue. of paper during the year, 1.." e n.ight sontiratally have its eye over lc then moved, "'flint leave be given ,o elottionr,inr, a time to be limited, II WI , 1 7 Pank from pa',.ing in fpecte." I. 1.0. t, he did not rife with soy imen. tLs but merely to calithe at. tention of his /fajta/ /Unifiers So X Proceeding throughout the country, whieh was, he foarods raPid• ly growing into a ferrous evil. .What he meant to allude to was the great want of circulating fpecie, which was in many places fo great as to put almoff a total Rsgnation and flop to bufinefs, particularly in the retail line. He did not know exaely to what this mifchief was to be aferibed ; but the general prefumption was that it arofe um a bare and fordid difpolition in great numbers, to hoard up the cant in circulation—a difpofition which, in the parent circumlfances and fitnation of the country, was highly derogatory to the fpirit, and ferioully injuri ous to the beg intereas of the nation. Thefe private hoardings had increafed to an evil of fo great event ) that he had been credibly informed, by the molt re fpedable authorities in the banking line, that if they were not put an end to, or fume method hit upon to prevent them in futu•e, or to remedy the ill •tonfc. tp , Pnces ariling from them, bankers would be unable to pay the fractional parts f notes, and bills, and that in a very ( bolt time. A very refpcilable Corpora tion, he underßood (we fuppofe Portfmouth), bad tailed a Meeting, and come to a refolutiod, which , they had publifhed, of taking dollars at a certain' rate—French crowns at five (Innings, and French half crowns at two (billings and fixpence. He did not fee how this could be produdive of any great ad. vantage ; bat it (hewed clearly the neceffity they were in at that place of adopting tome meafure for their re. lief ; and he hoped his liLtjefly's Minißers, and the Route in general, would give the fubj ea ;heir moll ferious attention, in order that fomething might be done to cdrrea or remedy fir great and growing a mifchief. The Comic s t.i.ost of the EacH EV Ea allowed, that the evil, which the Hon. Gentleman bad jutldeferib dld at preknt calk and had been very cnrrefly Rated. It was a pradice unworthy the fpirit and patriotifm of the people of this country and it Vian certainly highly deferving the attention of the Houle, and mull be the duty and with of every Member in it, to nfe hit utmost endeavours to thew the fallacy and bafenefs of fuch a proceeding, and to promote and forward every measure that may tend to cot.. rat or remedy it. Leave was then given to bring in the Bal. Ths CHANCELLOR of the Excitant? ea moved that there be laid before the Houfe an Account of the Amounts of Notes ilfued by the Bank, on the IR day of June, the Id of Augult, the ill of Odober, and the asth November, 18°3, didinguilhing thofe not amounting to 51.—Ordered. Mr. DEVERALL moved the Order of the Day, for reaming the adjourned confideration of the motion, to grant leave of abfence to Mr. Pcdley ; which be ing read, The SPEAKER laid he thought it his duty to call the attention of the Houle to the prefent date of this quedion. He then recapitulated the motion as made lad night, the datement made by the Hon. Gentle man, and his having moved "that John Pedlcy, Efq have leave to be abfent from the laid Committee I" that an objeftion having been made to that motion, and a difcuflion taken pace thereon, an amendment had been moved and carried, that the debate be ad journed to this evening. The quellion, therefore ' he had now to put was, that John Pedley, EN. have leave to be abfent from the laid Committee." Mr. Dreg RE LL role, and in fupport of the motion urged; that he thought the Houfe ought to agree to it, beeaufe they had, in feveral former cafes of the tame kind of application, gone the length of decid. ing, that private Wind's was by them deemed a good and fuffieient ground for indulgence of a fimilar na ture to that now asked for. He thought it, he laid, a very hard cafe ; and that the objeelion made by the Attorney General laR nig ht as to the number being b the abfcoce of the Honourable Gentleman to eleven ; and that, if the abfenee of two more fhonld take place the Committee would be re duced to nine, below which it would be incapable of aching at all, ought not to receive much weight, as It *as by no means probable that two Mould drop, and therefore he thought fuels an afrumption was making it an extreme cafe. He could by no means agree with the Right Honourahk and Learned Gentleman either, that fufficient notice had not been given, but contended that the cafe had been laid be. fore the Houk in a fair, candid, open, and manly manner, and he thought, therefore, it was deferring their indulgence. The ATTORIItY CMIAL anted the Houk that the oppolition be bad thought it his duty to make Jail night to the preterit motion had been very painful to him, and that he should be much better pleated, that the Houfe fhould determine to grant the leave re (ladled than refute it. Viewing the matter, however, in the light he did, he could not, confidently with the duty he owed to himfelf, to the }look, and the country, do otherwife than give his decided oppna lion to the motion. When he mentioned laa night that he thought notice fhould be given in inch cafes, he a Mired the Hon. Gentlem4n who made the mo tion, that be did net mean to impute the flightell blame either to him, or to the Hon. Gentleman who was to reap the benefit of it. He thought that iu all fueh cafes, notice fhould previoufly be given, that every Member might come prepared to decide on the fubjell, after matnre eonfideration, as to its propriety and importance. He found it, therefore, neeettery why he now &cold give Isis reafons for the opinion he Rill pert:Red in, that the indulgence fhould not be granted. The Learned Gentleman then recapitulat ed his arguments of Let night. He allowed it to be a hard cafe ; but denied it to be what the Hon. Gen. demon had termed it, an extreme cafe. For two Members of the Committee bad already eeafed their functions, and these was therefore no improbability, two more might do the fame, efpecially as further communications with Ireland molt take place, which would greatly prom& the time. He was, therefore, clearly of opinion the Houle ought not to accede to the motion. Mr. W. Downes thank this might be a danger ous precedent, and that the Houle ought to paufe before they gave birth to k. If the proceedings &mild fall to the ground, many and great incoave situate, and very heavy expences mull be the certain conforstoce to the parties. He thought the Rate of a Gentleman's private affairs in Jamaica was no more entitled to the indulgence of the Hook, than if it e in Ireland or Scotland, and to pave the we, for familar applications train Members in either of thofe, ' might be produaive of the worn coofequeoces. He Ittlf therefore agastat the rao;togi. • way) took th it 'I Ite SPKAI titions from 11 net been re froth' certain l ' ` npon•Hull, a ton, Efq.—} the deßion c Mark Wood, den Loveder .1 vv—and of . i Pydell, Eiq. be had, in p, i that purpcfe, quer, that th II parties. and I I LnILI CAll which he hat ' the Ealt Indi of his preftat the present lii the Property that Aft, the ) fum of 5 per the time cf 1 F thefe bonds tl ler cent. - 1 iable to the . I chequer bills, day, the funn . 1 this put the C i and they wen of their bond! chequer Bills market was C , pany were ho amount, nut t but that the made the nu onerous. Th and the public ranee, as the . eras no more ' that lets than the Company from the adi ' finaaces were they might be Company /mg placed f.n the of the Bill he the Houk: wa terclt en their Exchequer Bi . 1 11 to trouble tin i and would the 0 , Diet hum the words of to the rate of i Granted. Mr. NAOMI: 1 ; mktee appoint i taw of the I, / further turn e completing th th e and leave i refolution of g] I The Cumic I ing to the no,i , . letufto.ae withndi mid. he allotted ha Rending whit/ of the propriet 1 which could n 1 1 h.)wevcr, hear flighted obledli rettrittiun duri, complimentto the Bank Dire fatibfatili.n to • . . firittion had al The Ditehors in fpec➢ . whet fo to du e but when. by ft) cat . , inure& and IN I the Houle wet ple tc ilimony, of the 7:: ?WOW or to a.ld to the private maim • pleaftue of die to offer, he fhc up by a fundat 1 1 amount to the that the Hula 1 the Larne. ilc t bring 1 , . A ra • tl r felt , lai• i. t NI.. 1.)... I. . ti to .4.1) , ,,..) ; , Mr. Boasts!, fa a few words in favour of ft. Mr. WARD (poke on the fame fide. He allowed that the quellion was of great importance ; but be. lieved it was the with of all parties in the Committee, that the Hon. Gentleman fhould be excufed from any further attendance. The SP Letitia then Rated to the Houfe the feveral precedents founded on the cafes There were eight cafes, he (aid, in which Members had been exculed, for death and Hinds; on the ground of private bufi nets four cafes. In bufinefs flnEtly private, the Houfe had allowed two days and adjourned, that the . Mem ber might return to refume his there in theCoanmittee. There were only other two cafes where application had been made for a Member to be abfent. The fira was the Ockington Cafe, in which it a that Mr. Pelham, one of the Committee, in n l iZ e te had to attend bufinef, for the confideration of Parliament. the Houfe allowed one day, and adjourned. The fourth cafe was one in which a member had been totally allowed leave of abfenee; this was the Shaftef bury cafe. Sir R. Wortley was the returning officer in a place where an Election was coming on; the Hottfe decided he &odd have leave of abfence, aad he was totally retested from his attendance on the Committee. How far thefe cafes applied to the prefent it was for the Houfe to determine.—A divi lion then took place. Ayes 45 —Noes s+. When ftrangers were re-admitted, we found the Houfe in a COMMIIMIII OF SUPPLY, And that a motion had been made and agreed to, " That t 00,000 Seamen be voted for the fervice of the year 1804." Sir P. Symms then moved the following efli mates : 2,403,0001. for payment of laid 1030,000 Seaman for 13 tuner mooths, from la of January to the fait of December aka& at the rate of ti. tya per man per month. 4704*W. for vidualling the fame during the fame period, at the rate of a fis. per maa per month. 3.p00,0001. for war and tear of Chip* is which the Gid mot terve for the fame ppeeriod, at the rate of 3s. per man per month. 323.c001. for ordttaooc for the feu (cruise, at the ran of 3s. per own per month. Which were all agreed to. The Houle retuned. The report wee brought up, and ordered to be received to morrow. Mr. Yoe' E (Secretary of State) gave notice, that he would on Friday move for leave to bring In a Bill to continue the A& of !all Salon, for futpeuding the Habeas Corpus A.l in Ireland. Mr. N. VANSITTART moved that there be laid be fore the Houfe an eftimate of the mossy wanting for I the Tranfp'rt Service for 1804. Alfo for Panne,. of War in Health. Alfo for Sick Fanners of War from the ill oT January to the lan of December tflos.. Alto, that an humble Addrefs be pretested to his Majeftv, to requeft he will give direeinns to the pro. per officers to lay the fad ellimates before the Houk, which were all ordered accordingly.--Adjourned. LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER t. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Coat. fur opg. dlr. op•—Reduced sa. 4 per Cent. Olds per Cent 3--. New ditto po to ,of. °minions 7 to 7i This morning difpatches were received at the Se• cretary of State's office from Sir JoN N B aa Waling', the Britiffi Arobstitidor at the Court of Sr. Peterlburgh. They were brought to Shertnefs by the Ctortos frigate, which has arrived theft with part of the couvoy from the Baltic. There difparehes are believed to be of great importance. _ _ We are concerned to Rate that the convoy, which confined of nearly Soo fail, was difperfcd by the late liorroy weather. We are happy, however, to add, that Cenral (hips of war have been ordered by Ad miral Row csv to proceed to the North her to pro. to the fcattereo !hips ; and we hope we Thin fear have it in our power so Announce that the whole have arrived fait in our ports. American P..pers, bringing intelligence from New York to the ; ith, and from Baltimore and Norfolk to the t 2th of 08ober, have arrived. The former contain the afilifting inforrnatirn that the malignant fever is progreffively increafing at New York and Alexandria. The fame difeafe alto continues to pre vail at Philadelphia, but with lets virulence than at the former places. At Baltimore, fame flight fymp toms of the fever have appeared, and the greateft precautions are ufed for preventing its progrefs. The Mayor of that city Wired a Proclamation on the tft of Oftober, requiring that no perfon fhould enter the town who had not been at haft fifteen days abfent from New York, Philadelphia, Alexandria, or any other place where the diforder happened to prevail. If the accounts from St. Domingo-stray be credited, the difficulties and diftreftes of the French increafe. Suf. picions have alto been entertained of fame of the prin cipal Officers, who have been fent on board a frigate in the harbour.—We have little doubt that tome of them will be fent to the pearl ! A Proclamation has been ilfued by the Captain- General, &c. of Martinique, to the Governor of St. Thomas's, and other neutral iflands in the Weft In dies, which will, no doubt, be read with intereft. Nsw Yours, Ocr. 9.—The Committee of Health has returned a datement of 2o deaths and 54 new cafes, during the laQ 4ft hours. Ocr. to.—Ten deaths and 3t cafes have been an nounced during the lel 24 hours. ALIXAMIDRIA, OCT. 6.—Seven deaths returned for the !aft 24 hours. 0 CT. 7. and B . — Three deaths in 24 hosts. The Committee of Heahh, on the 3d of Weber. ordered, that none of the inhabitants litho had been *bran foe Come time fbould return to their homes until the fever was abated, of which proper notice would ipe given. Panieet►uttyOcr. .—Taree cares oflicially aft Haunted during the left sa hours. OCT. 6.—Six cafes declared during the laa 24 hours. OCT. 7.—••Filre cafes during the laft 24 hours. NORFOLK. OCT. 4.—We learn by Captain Munt from Cape Francois, that a plot was difcovered there a few days before his departure, which had for its objeEl the leisure and death of the Commander in Chief and the Prefed. The Second In Command, General CHAD UL, and the Chief of the Staff, Toy. yeast, together with upwards of 4o others, have been put on board a frigate in the harbour the two cooks of the Commander in Chief and Prefed hate been hanged. Fort Dauphin was formed and taken on the Bth ult. by the Brigands. A Proclamation has been iffued, ordering the immediate imprifon. ment of all the Englith at the Cape, which was car ried into execution on fuch as could be found, and their property feised. Ocroast 6.—On Sunday night this place was v feted by a tremendous hurricane, attenoted with Inca , (ant rain for 24 hours, which, with the low tides, laid the lower part of this Borough under water, which has done conliderable damage in the warehoufss and to the (hipping in Hampton roads: many veils have been driven on fhore. OCTOBER 7.--The Aorm laded from 13 o'clock on Sunday night until Tuefday morning. The lower pan of the town was laid (cveral feet under water. Many fhips long boats were rowing about the (Inlets, where carriages had travelled the day before. Salt, tobacco, and fugar has been dellroyed, to a confide. table amount. Two Negroes, of the names of George and Cha rity, were executed on the 7th of Odober, for at• tempting to pollen the whole of the white family of THOMAS Lawsoil, Efq. of Prineefs Ann County. MARTINIQVL—FRENCH REPUBLIC. Pert de Preece, Aura 3. dol.; ADMIRAL TILLARET MENAI, CAPTAIN CAMBIAL Of X mm1111(13,1 AND STA DIIIIIICANCIBI. tO HIS ZICELLINCT TOO eunsamin Of sr. ?sow ',AIM THE OTlllil ON OF X MAKIN " Ism informed by Commodore Samosa Homy commanding the naval fortes of England, ache a♦ tification which he has made to the Neutral Govern ments, concerning the blockade of the ports of this Colony, which he has thought himfelf Aisle to ander take, pretending to (hut them againfl grangers, to whom he goes fo far as to declare, that'it is his in tention to capture them even on their going out. A tneafure fo oppofite to the laws of nations, and to the rights of neutrality, has doubtlefs alloniftsed your Excellenci no lets than me. It is to be prefomed, that that *Beer, perceiving the advantages allured to grangers by try Proclamation ; Renck with the fpeaaele of the field offered to their indnilry bribe opening of ali the ports of a Colony fo interefting as Martinique; perfueded el the advantages which the French Government would thence reciprocally de rise, was fenfible that the enterprifing fpirit of fpe culaticm could not be repreffed by ordinary obaacles: But in calling your eyes on the chart of this Colony, your Excellency cannot but perceive, and convince fuels owners veffels as any be Mani to make Ihipmeots for our puns; how Alufory is foci% &block. ads, undertaken by a tingle {Yip and one or two {loops of war (for this is all the force that at resat appears on our coaft),-finee thee is not a road nor a creek of the Colony which is nut open to dressers, and where they do not enjoy the proteaion of our batte ries, at which the inhabitants of the Colony do duty with seal beyond all prailit, gnding daily their re. ward in the ahnoft uninterrupted arrival of the need: fury fupplies ; while they who bring them thofe Cup plies, ate in their turn rewarded by the profitable markets oceafioned by the prefent Rate of affairs.— To the means which I owe to local eircumftances, I hope loon to add thofe which are announced to me from France, whence I (bendy expel a divillon, per ? haps thong enough to give ma, for (owe time, the fuperiority ; but at all events, fully fufficient to en able me to protea by tea, velfels arriving on our coat. Nor can the Englills hope for fuch flamers, from a permanent Fru; ze uring the hurricane months, as to be induced conflantly to exports their (hips in that feafon. Thus every thing concurs to thew, that all phyfical caulks oppofe the prataicability of coati. nuing a blockade thus undertaken. Your merchants being relieved from uneafinefs on this !core. need not be alarmed concerning the motives which Commo dore HOOD may pretend for the ails of hoffility with which he menaces them, &mid his cruisers, in fa&, commit any fuck aas. Can that Officer think, that if his (hips of war are not numerous up the extent of mall we poffer., be ptmilh, as thew gu out. fuch velfels in entering. have baMed hi. vigilance not the dighteft remoseranee from e• fuffice to put a flop to Inch a pros, (peak of appeals to the Tribunals of publir notoriety declares to haveftrquestlY MT 'NAM annulled prizes made in !eh extraordinary. The proceedings Hoop MOM& yesp appear to me, thefe obfervatioas. which I have than' to fubatit to vnor Zseelleney. to cam away, as fat as in you lies, the mode, meat which have been held op to a I"( if I late the honour to s enough to flout 1 e has the right to of your nations.* / Ace ? And would rour Government cce4ing Not to 1 f England, which t requeetly, in for- a manner much 1 [yr of Commodore e, Sir, to require 1. ought it mt deer noble you to d v yes of djfecu4ago• 11 foreign aiserchoot. r. Abe. be. be. nbieigir."