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114 stipulation timid by this Atrt be infringed and the Act of Uuiou between England and Soot-. land violated. From the ettects of these capital d. feet, a •ri dangerous provisions of the hill, he lisped their Lordships %until > e it their dully to prese.ve the hxdird interest of tile cottuiry. t.oril tan, in reply, culled the attention of the ;loose to twat provision of the Bill relative to the! incirfer of shipping, and vowels of,burdeii. He co.nutlered it a delicate subject of taxation, and trhab , ter might be the compliments pid the I\ nide Secretary of State to the ability and patience of die nation uuder taxation, be could only inter pret these assurances of his high consideration, in the swine manner us those of a certain ROlll4ll l'Oti titi, who, Wong presented by the Abbot of St. Al ban * with several exceediazi.• eostiv sacerdotal vestments, after coin:thud...di:l A the bearei with a studied eulogy, uu th • ineelinity, ta,te, bp; of the British people, exclaimed. nh, Emilarult xboti snarer of itches. thou land flowing with milk end ho:tev, it is impossible I cuss ever draw too two it 'rout thee! The sev et . i t elauw.; of the FHI: were then read, the report broug'• up, old °Mei, dto he received L.-tam-row, The Oshter l•i%lifry Bill wee committe I, aitgl the report yl.n onlered to be received to-iaoilule. The House dices adjourned. HOI'SE or commoxs. A am Writ Woo refire.) to hr i..nrd for C.lrtrrmonlh, in the mon of Jahn °Aurae, ho serve hi, .I..rtion has accepted tbo odEre of wind of the I A ata Writ e r *!so o.(tel ell for titr zh of 1 hm.lalk, In the room of Henry Vaut,han DrooLt 1 . .9 *lst, so:re hi" enetine his tbe Aire of Stco.iiii of lit:: Hundreds of East Ifroctreal. Mr. Jonnirron, from the Office of the Ibief Serretary for Ireland, presented crrtaiu paper" alsrv. wit the ni auto r shift the serbrey grastr.l fur blond Narikittuis in !rebind has been applied.—Laid upon the Table. The Mourn Estate Bill was read • at cowl time, and or dered to he rentinitted to-sorrow. As Account of the k:zproses'iracurred in the (Mire fur the Redemption of the Land Tan was presented, sal or dered to he laud upon the Table ; as was also int Aeroitot from the Oficet of laspecter-General of Exports rod Im ports. A perm from the Cenualesiesers 6f Weettniester Bridge. remitted their Quarterly Accounts sod Minutes of their proemdimbi. - 06 the roution of Mt. Tteassr there were Ordered to be Lid before the Hare Cophe of all Orders ispeed by the Swell Chnwtherlate he the Board of Works, as to the wink thee is ends Memo of Partiensent and the Speaker's Mese, tegeflow with tho Aeries leeerrei Wan the ist Joener). lees, floiorpishisni the asemser in which the seam based towards delleitybutt the expenses, beat beets applied. Kr. Loss pr seated a Report boat the Cesausisslearrs far the Ispreeentent of Westwinoter...-Laid oo the Table, and adored is be printed. A Message from the Lords intimated their Lordships assent to the Marriage Indemnity Bill, the Irish Gaol Bill, the SuathernWlusle Fishery, the Town Heibists Indemnity Bill, the Irish Vote of Credit Rill; the Coffee Customs and Excise Bills, OM Spirits Importation Bill, the Irish Spirit Duty XII. the Hop Bag Bill, the Cinque-ports Bill, and tie Seamen's Encruragement Bill, without any ugseudesent; also to the Danish Prise Bill, and the Scotch Local Militia Bill, with several &maid month to which they desired the concurrence of the U. 5... Sr Tnowss TOILTON said, that in consequence of what had already pawed on the subject of the e&irs of India, and the voluminous nature of the papers which Ise had mowed for last Se...ion. rela tive so the Polygar War. he should not users for *air being printed. ALEXANDER DAVIDSO7I. Lord ARCHIBALD Ilintrrox 'toted, that be ano the Session closed, he thought it proper to take the liberty of putting a question to Ministers, rela tive to a subject wiaSeh he had taken up in that Hanna considerable time ago, he meant the sub ject of one of the Reports of a Committee, which alluded to the transactions of Alexander Daviason. It would be recollected, that it was now near a twelvemonth since he had first drawn the attention of the House to this subject. All that the House knew of the matter wie., that an inquiry was luau toted, and certain ivegulsorities having hems dio eovered. the matter teas left in the hands of the Right Hon. ;ends-mass opposite, who undertook to investigate it still farther. What he wished to know was, what progress had been made in that investigation ? If the answer he should receive should not appear to him to be satisfactory, he should think it necessary, early in next Session of Parliament, to bring the matter again before the House. This lie not only deentei necessary for the public 'service, but also for his ..no justification. es it had been lately rumoured, that the Douse would have taken up this matter some tirue ago, had it not been owine r . to his having pledged him self to bring it forwar d. The CH ANCSI.LOII of the EICNIEQVIM ansivered, that a Commission had berm invtittited, to whom had beeps submitted the whale of Mr. Davidson's Ars:mints that they haul from time to tune re ported to the Treasoiry upon the t, and that the Treasury had always submitted the result of their inquiries to the consideration of the Law Advisers of the Crown, io order to ascertain whe ther a civil or criminal process ought N he onstioited acainat :NI-. Davidson. It had tweet li nt ,„l, th a t u p on some inant• sitflici•mt bed inn vet peen mate; 4'14 ttu.ni• 1 : 61114 Dad arisen as to whets. • a ! •gal cicoiand of a civil nature would es aws, tike neeeeusty of a 1 . r.1U11131 pooccution. If. could as.are the Noble Lord, that Government haul not lost sight of it, and he hoped the by ii-st Sesame the sootier would Ise in such • trails of tor, ardne.s, that the I,rniiitintr of whatnier ileetiontot he might Atm.(' to call for, or la, mg i.efore the lbssise a statement of the pro ceedings that may have taken place, would be at tended with sin itiesinveilience. AIR. FOR DYCE. "tr. elli;CV kW PAM. that as he Twrceived from • Finance At.. o•nit, which he hchl in hi% hood, thiat no port nr -I r. FOr.lylll . ll 1.0a11111 , 3 . r,;,e0i i. LA I been so-n.tii:e.l for. Iv should think it lii% dot! next to witonit :i inoi. to the HOW*, relative to tho tothieet. L'INANt E Chairmen tit' thi•Conanittee, tire. bennqi thrir Third Iteivirt, and in thitt it be laid ta!mn the 1 - 41. ,• with intik :nll to (16n...A e, that the Mute meek: not be hilettuell in the g;t4t wtb. of papers be bad then brought np, because although tie had themes: it necessery that the a hole should be preastoted• to itte flange, yet be did list think it would be requisite to move liar the whole of them being printer). Ide was of this opinion both ens accounts( the. vent expense attending the pi:na il% of such • voluminous productious, anti L.PCilliNe be believed that information was more cosily and more goefully conveyed, when the wipers to be consulted were cotilitsed within a narrow t oinpuss. Ile wits afraid that when Members considered the length of time this Committee had been sitting, they would be spa to imagine their time had been misapplied. Ile couldassure them, however, that ereat diligeueo audotteutsowhad been by tin 11111111 h waistiag on their. Part. Great delays had miter. Co accoont of the contrariety of opinions thud ex isted amused.,: those alio composed that Committee,. which was in his opinion ?ether too t tttttt erously coustnisted. He should therefore think is advi sable, in a future Session o.a.'arlisintait, that the House should consider whether. a Committee so numerous was most I:kely to attain the rods de sired 1 The attention of the Committee Intil not been exclusively employed upon the subject of this Report. Souse coosideashile progress had !—en made in other matters connected with the civic slioject ; but in regard to what related to the Pay (:) . ise and the War Office Accosints,they were desirous to be pet in posoession of the last Report of the Cousaii.sion of Military Enquiry. which had, on'y been laid upon the Table on Saturday last. f his had presentrd them from coming to a. conchs ion upon other paints. lie thought it was necess it:, upon this meas . to observe, that the mantle 111 which this present Report appeared, was u t so satisfactory to him as he could have wishei but it was lifework of the Committee more than ci himself. There was one branch, relative W sinecive offices, which lie regretted had been altered, morel; by means of cireimidances attending the dose of a Session, and such as would not have taken place ut the commencement of one. In what re garded satiedire places, some words of the ori ginal Report hull bcen entirely omitted. He had not, however, to complain of the proceedings which gave rise to these altennimis, as they were certain ly such as were perfectly regular towards the close of a Session, and such as insist frequently happen amongst all large bodies of men.—lt might hap pen, therefire, not to come up to the expectations of some Gentlemen in the House, and it was cer tainly not so satisfactory to him as it wits origi nally ; but there was no diligence wanting upon his part to render it more complete, nor of those who joined with him in that Courinimion. Mr. Levcarrea said, that being a member of this Committee, he was anxious to tuake a few oh servatio ,s to prevent any sniarepreseutations or mis conceptions going abroad. The Hossourable Gen tlensau who had just spoken, had said this Report might have been much wore satisfactory, lied it not been altered from the state its which it had passed at the eounuenceineut of the discussion upon it, as originally drawn up. Now, lie had to remark, that there was even at that time • great dillerence of opinion concerning it, and it was only carried by a majority of one, and an Honourable Meinlser of' the Committee then gave notice, that lie should, upon its second reading. propose an alteration upon the parsieislar part alluded to. When those pass a ges ; came to be discussed, an amendment a us proposed and carried, in the regular course of proceedings ; and, soon afterwards, another Gentlemau proposed an adjournment, which was acceded to. He begged leave to state what those alterations were, because, from the e l l sn e sortance which that Hon. Gentleman • had atta to this matter, the House might he led to suppose that it was a subject of the greatest consequence, and the more especially as he had seen, in some of the newspapers, some insinuations, as if attempts had been made, by some of the Members of the Committee, to screen delinquents. The Report, as it originally stood, stated it to be the opinion of the Committee, that sinecure places should be abolished, with some few exceptions; and the amendment went to say. that the emolu ments of some 'should be diminished, and that some should be entirely abolished. He could not help thinking that this did not constitute any material difference ; and the more especially as the recom mendation in the first 'flounce had been only carried by a majority of one, it being extreme ly difficult to determine how far they should go upon this particular; but at any rate the House were still left to judge regarding it. Another point that was somewhat altered, related to the increas ing influence of the Crown. The alteration went to state the cause of that increase, and the cases where it had diminished, as well as those where it had increased, so as to leave the House to judge of the propriety of reducing it. This alteration, in' his opinion, amounted to nothing at all ; for sup posing the passage to have stood as originally stated, he was not aware of any circumstance that could attach to it, as the object of the Committee was not so much to enter into questions as to the influence of the Crown, wino questions relative to retrenchments in the expenditure of the public mco ney. He was anxious to state this much, in order that the nature of the amendments adopted by the Committee should be precisely known by the. House, as he was perfectly certain they were such as would have the entire concurrence of the Iloilo.. Mr Herta, THOUNTON SSW, he was lIIIXIOUS to make this matter still better usderstood. lie eu tirdy concurred in the observations of the Chair- man of the Committee npon the subject. Ile by no means conceived that the first emendinent was so nportant as the Honourable Gentleman who had spoken last had represented. It certainly went to tore a very ditferdit impression from that of the original. The Report at first professed to preserve such sinecures as were deeined necessary for the personal dignity of the. Crown ; but it ex po's-id the opinion of the Committee to be, that the remainder, with very few exceptions, ought to be abolished. It reempii.ed the propriety of granting rimards to person., who, iii high situations, had rendered eminent services to their country, b...ides the rerniinerat for their daily service., i•si 1011 g as they coat NI to 6111 hem. The Ile-p • rt therefore, a. it orignally stood, eat (lis (,111101•1111111•11IV generally the principle of grals:iht; ,iaccurr.. The Report, as amended, however, in stead of statio 4 such an noission, inerely said that sitiPe.ire• might w.th propriety be retrenched, and others alsolisLed, not adopting at all the ge- Lend principle, that siuecuret °net to be redneed. This amentlwer.t was submitted no longer ago than Monday laq.a day of the week on which the Com mittee did not usually meet, uud the attendance was therefore very thin, no regular notieehavim , been sent sound to them. lle had, therefore, tor hs, 0111, part, no douLt, that, under other cireimisiaoces, the (million formerly expt. ssed by the I.:omitting., would have been their ultimate determination. He thought it was fair to' let the House kiwi , . the circumstances. (Hear ! hear ! hear !) lle did not attribute any fault or blame to any Man idual, but lie was :druid the Report would thereby appear sonsrwbat inennbi,tent tiartiea'ir.. Ab to the other aincuilinem, relative to the ineren,eil influence of the Crown, he dill not think it 113, .014 SO 'MIIOIIIIO as the other one, but lie perft , lly :.),•iet-d with the lion. Chairman as a the Ilnet oat iog opinions that must iieces,arily prevail in a C • uattee bu numerously colistituteil a, the one is guest iiiii i many of the Member, of it liming tars oils avocations to call them away from their at teudance. The Report was then ordered to be luid upon the table. Mr. BANKE3 next moved, " That the Report, with the Aupendix, be printed;" ehich, after few words from Mr. Ilontsit, relative to the purti color documents intended to be printed, ars agreed to. Mr. NIMBI( THOINITON added, that it was in tended, ;is he understood, to publish an account of all sinecures, reversions, emoluments, pensions, and annuities, received by persons perlOrming any dutiaiii . . • IRELAND. . _ Mr. SHIRIDAN rive notice, that itwas his inten tion, on Friday next, to submit a notion as to the various petitions submitted to the House from per sons imprisoned in Ireland. CEYLUN. On the motion of Mr. HSWItY. there was or dered to be kid before the House an account of all monies paid to Wm. Huskisson, Es/. or to Thew. P. Courtenwy, Esq. either as Colonial Agents to the Island of Ceylon, or otherwise, for the service of that island, since the year 1796, abewing the appli cation °finch money, and the manner in which the same can be accounted for. ANDREW DAIRYDPLE, ESQ. Lord HENRY PETTY ro►e for the purpose of moving for a - copy of the letter of dismissal of the shove timed Gentleman from the situation .f hy drographer to the Admiralty-.die did this without a notice, as he conceived there could be no objec tion to its production. Mr. Dalrymple hal many years tilled that office with greet honour to him self and much advantage to the country ; and it was only lately that an offer had been made to hint that if he would consent to resign, he should get a pension fully equitalent to his salary. The an• ewer returned by Mr. Dalrymple to the Admiralty, was, that 1w did not want any pension, as it was milt the honour of the situation which he had held so long that still induced him to retain it. The consequence was, that this Gentleman received, soon afterwards, a positive dismissal, which preyed upon his spirits in such a manner, as to cause his death. Mr. ROBERT WARD said, he believed there could he tio difficulty in laying this paper before the House. He should fully concur with the Noble Lord in any panegyric upon Mr. Dalrymple's cha racter, his services having been indeed deeply felt by the Board of .Admiralty ; but the fact was, that he had become of late years so supera iiiiii ated (be ing no less than 73 years of age) that he neither performed the duties of this office, nor would he comply with any orders sent from the Admiralty, to farisish maps as required. Instead of send ing a chart, lie would sometimes send a blank sheet of paper. Under such circumstances, it be came the iudispensable duty of the Admiralty to set as they did, and it would be fouud they had acted from no partial motives. Mr. Holm' concurred in the propriety of the motion. bon testimouy to the honourable cha racter sad eminent services of the individual, and thought it highly proper that all the facts should be laid before the House. Mr. WARD again expressed his desire to have every infonuation laid before, the House, and therefore suggested the propriety of the Noble Lord delaying his motion till lie could vtljiii4 it so as ta comprehend every thing he thought neces sary. Lord IL PETTY acquiesced, and wive notice that he should move accordingly to•murro,s. LA ND REVENUE. Mr. linsstssos presented an account of the Land Revenue for the last l 0 years. On the motion " That it be laid upon the table," Mr. Winona's said, that he understood there had been some applications made to Government, for the purpose of extending the bullrin s 's in I lyde Park. If this %%ere outs. allowed, he believed that, in a short time, the privilege enmyed by the inha bitants of the metropolis would be done away. The tits NCLI.I.OR of the EXCIIF.QUICK said, he knew nothing of any such application having been made to the treasury, but if there was, it certainly should not be complied with, without being sub mitted to II CO 11111 l ;ma: of the noose, as that was the only_ mode iu which the King's property could Le interfered with. Ile was not however it straiiger to the fact of mplications having been ninde Coin certaia iduals, that whim other Luildiugs were takes' down, new and more commodious and orna mental one. might be erected upon the saine spot. Mr. CRE.I.VI y said, he understood that there hail beet' a tri..respondetice beta ern certain Noble Persons and Mr. Fordyce, in which the latter had been so kind us to promise to apply to the Crown to permit them to erect houses in tlydi,-Park, man could doubt that this, if permitted, would lead ultimately to the exclusion of the public from the privilege of stalking there, for the benefit of their health. lle did not deny that His 'Majesty might have the power of grai.•4i4 such rerput , tr, Lilt it was certainly also the 1)0.-4. of the (loose to address Ili.. Majesty, praying thi. , lie might be graciously pleased to refuse allowing come looldiogs to be erected. lie slimild Le isaiiiied incite for the production of the correspondence a itli Mr. Fordyce, as the ground-stork for such a sub moment motion. Mr. tioDD(.I.PH Said, he wag convinced that out lo a plats as that gated was actually tu agitatiut,, and he was surprised that persons who had encournge‘i it had taut communicated it to Government. It had been mentioued to hint by ate eminent sue s.syur. that there was a plait oil toot to surranati the whole of list:le-Park with a belt of houses, and that the revenues, thence arising, were t o go towards defraying the e"..peatise of building a Royal Palace, ntorestsitable than the present one of 116 Maje..,ti (TheChtniceliurof Ow Exchequer here repeated tout he neser had heard of it). if the were the case (continued Mr. B.) there say as reason to bulynit: that the plan would stop there. thsritt..; the various chatiges of Administrations, additioaal eaeroachruents would he cwuinuall►. adopted and upproscd of; but, as the house had I:1 rr► reason to believe Ills Majesty well knew the n ...Wes of so la ge a portion of his subjects upon this point, it would be unitectssary at present to inter- ,S;.' fRA %rib BURDeTT said. he never heard of any plan of this kinti: but it there were, he should highly disapprove of it. Mr. IlusxissoN said, that if it were supposed there 'ass any attempt to favour individuals, he knew of no such applications. Ile load uever her ,1 of this subject before, except in occasional eonvei sations upon the streets. where, he believed, it was 0110' stated to Inas, that Lord Posisonhy, th e Earl of Rosalyn, and some others, had expressed souse wish to put iu such an applieutioa as that at. luded to. The matter was here dropped, with the under standing, we believe, that a motion is to be made. by Mr. CAIIRVIV, for the production of the Corre spondence alluded to, to-morrow. Oil the 'mottos of Mr PA %Rif, there was ordered to be 'mid before the House as Amount of the Application of .1,900,uv0t. fur Pimailms is Inlaid, from ssoo to ism. Ou the mot tou of Sir SANIUSL ROUILLY, several accounts were ordered to be prrseuted, skewing the number of Per sons tried and merit-fed of Offences, and senteuced to Transportation, from luoi to law. !fir FRANCIS BLRIIIRTT gave *mice, fist, Airing next Session of Parliament, he should submit s motion as to the Discipline of the Army, and, theiefure, he s►uald muse, to morrow, fur several 'Warns relative to that gallica. Adjourned. 0 . 0 For Spoolir Docomooto r he. see loot rage. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, Juts 30. :We give, this day, a continuation of those pa. pers which have issued from, and speak the sense of, the Spanish Patriots.—Amoug them is the re fusal of the Bishop of °manse, in Gallicia, to attend the Junta. summoned by order of NAPO.. Laos to meet on the Istb at Bayonne. This, we may be allowed to hope, is not a solitary case of loyalty and patriotism among those thus called to pollute themselves.' We also give the Addresses of Seville, St. Andero, and Valladolid, all of which encourage a hope, that a loyal and patriotic spirit pervades the mama of the people. But it is in the French papers, fir more than in the magnanimous refusal of the Bishop of Davos, to crouch at Bay onne, and the glorious Manifestoes of Biscay, Arrsgon, Catalonia, and the other Spanish pro vinces, we discover the magnitude and character of the insurrection, which now promises to arrest the progress of the Corsican Tyrant. When we com pare the dates of the various Manifestoes of those insurgent provinces, with the dates of Bon SPA RTE'll two Proclamations (one from Madrid, in the name of the supreme Junta, of the 3d Jnne ; the other from Bayonne, of the ith June, from the Deputies there assembled,) we cannot help perceiving that these last are intended to de precate, to cajole, and to terrify the Spaniards, whom he begins to apprehend that; he may not be powerful enough to coerce by military force and violence. In a word, the language and the actions of NAPOLEON. both strongly and eloquently evince, that lie is no longer contending against Austrians sr Russians. Like Macbeth, when the wood of Bernhan► comes to Duissinane," be breaks into alternate menaces and blandishments, which equally depicture his agitation, uneasiness, and alarm. It may. indeed, justly be suspected, if not as serted, that at length his accustomed judgment and policy have ceased to regulate his ambition.— Without venturing to anticipate the actual conse quences, without predicting victories or successe,. which are in the %%mob of time, we may safely sat. that in the selection of the moment which he has chosen for disclosing and commencing his han• euinary projects for placing the Crown of the Spaiash 31oliorciiy on the head of his brother, he has betrayed neither that profound discernment., that acute mildilty, nor that hypocritical u r n. dination, %Inch have characterised most of Lis prceerling acts. • Elevated to a summit of power, greatness, and dominion, which certainly throws into the shade every thing that Europe has Indield • ince the times Of CONSTANTINE, or Try 000ssus ; his mind seems to have be • nose giddy at being placed on such a pinnacle. Instead of using that machinery, by which he has hitherto proteedcd through all the gradations of crime, to the possession of Supreme Power, he appears to have thought all further restraint or de c. ption unnecessary. Iris will was henceforward to constitute the destiny of the Contiiient. Ilow else. except by this supposition, can we ex plain the want of judgment, the contempt of reli gion, and the outrage against all the most rooted prejudices of the human mind, which 'N•PoLccra has equally Insulin:4rd, in depwing the Head of the Catholic Church, et the terg instant he atterrirts to attract, or to subject the m. t Catholic ntten E So no de to tu th ami It C