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I . • IFF • 7f 'JR . ..o. . 0 i. ', • } NUMBER 81.] • vicrt- ‘I.LIM: OFFICE, MA nt-H 14. 14 0 THE Commis:int:v.: for Virtuallins Majwy's Nary da hereby gi,e A"atee, tLat nu Tat,iaa, the so, of April Nest, they tut! he really to rerrior Trotter), is rritin_, (*rated Hp.) alesi treat for Fite llmolted T,,,s of 1.1 / SOINVOM Of Xi-wrestle Silt, or Solt of rqoal goottoe4, of whhh thr mrsotto 'rho make the Tenders ore to proJotv- • ',Jr;sp!. ; to In deli,', red into hi< Mejrdjt roirdr:v Stores at Ocioffird, oar 4,0 . MI Of Itifore the ODA of June nett, and te nemaitteirr by, vie :Itlth of Serotrothe• jelloaring, frte.of l (40. r risque to A. 31nieste, cuort that Ms Co/strut/or uai be sPooe4l too a n ti eleten-pewee per jun fir the porters:• AP thr Soh frogs the ungef t.O th,,tor t s ; and to be ;mid ter Ins Nils reyoele with interest ismer!, Jana atter flute. The Co.aJQi.•ns the C.' rant men be seen at the .%n•rrtnr _n's Jice, at LAW *et, ar by eppl ! ling to the Co/iv-tor eir the Duties at lassringtou, in /lonia %ire /ad seN Persons she Joey Ansa roper to metre Tender* spou the mid Amnion, ere slow. d to trice Ketier, :kat No re:Joni re.ll Le is, M snsy Te , okr, in whirk the pries shell not bt i,vier(rel in w or fls at knesk, rt. amitshma 4.1 he delis - emit to the Kw., eet...4 the 334 l'ue,i4N the Jth of :fent 41, nor un less the Person eke ask. Tcnder, AP s nee J'ersen on his he grerikke se alatirtr Oen called for. OUILMIALI. Aram 1 tAO* THE. commirrEt for Letting the Cars LANDS, will /1)01 at Guil d hall, on - WEDNESDAY the 10th day of Aped tri.tant, at Eleven of the Clo-k in th-z Fusco.-mu, to Id by Public katflinn, BUILDING LEASES fat 9) Years, (tam Lady-Day 4t, Of %enteral Piece: or Parcels • 1 Ground, ite4t Tnesetilians,:aurt-wan!, to form Two C:res %ant* and .4 11VM Striart---and abet To waive Proposals ( r ...tenon a Sewer, to drain the Ilona 't be eretittvi nu the said Ground. The euttititiotta fur 10ut.% the +ail Ground. anti the ran tams revatoest .4 tete ottsittlei 111.1u414, ittay t:en at the ankstroUe, r. W. CRflWTllCß.Comptrnllr•r. GALVANISM.. No. 19, Snhn tgnare ()N SATURDAY EVENING, at Seven o'clock. Mr. WILKINSUN w U got his EOUICIII LFCTURE nn GALVANISM; in which wilt Ik intendureil rannor Experiment. reerive to it' power 4: a Clie at i ca l a l ai to wonderful uilnence diiiereht lentil... In eongokiteenee of the te.y 'nut Sorel: , which ha' at. a d o.trit the ein ,, lovni•-ot of tit. Pnurple, in thr 'ure of De-si new. intense H .401- %che), ithrumatwo aod PAI4v, ere reVefifolli solionsect, Out Mr WILKIKCII h.to Jrriovil a roper kpforatus, and ouy be cocb , Jtvd th.:froposs, e‘cry Mooting front Ten to Two SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF of WIUOWS AND OR. MANS Of MEDICAL NIM IN LONDON AND ITS Weiler*la', March 30. 1503. THE: MEMBERS of this SOCIETY are re queNted to take notice, that the /1411-yvarly General Court will he held To-morrow Evening, April Gth, at the Gray's Lou Collke.Flause, I lolboru. The Chau to be taken at Seven o'Clnrk W CHAMBERLAINE, Secretary. Tuesday, April sth, 1803 . Mahal Gestkomen, la tr Year Loadne,diraimua of heroin jug Members, may recr vs ail neces-ary information, oft appli cation to the Secretary•, his house, No. 29, Ayleaeuryweect, Lierkenwell. PHILOSOPHICAL LECTURES. HE SOCIETY for the Promotion of USEFUL T SCIENCE is:spectre!!! inform the Subscribers and the Public, that their Letterer, Mr. C. H. 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Mr. BYNG said, it was with regret he felt him self obliged to objeet to the Petition. After the se cond reading of the Bill there was an interval of twenty days, and, after that again, five days in the Committee, to consider of its he therefore saw rep reason for delay, as every necessary extent of time had been already allowed ; he therefore moved, as.an amendment, that the words from the word e T4f ble," to the end, be omitted. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said, the Hon. Gentleman had not shewn that any degree of incon. venience would result from delay. He hoped, therefore, the House would comply with the prayer of the petition, fur the purpose of satisfying the minds of the parishioners. It would be a hard case, when a Bill was so much altered in a Committee that the parishioners could not be acquainted with its contents, not to suffer them to be hea;el resped ing it ; and as the Bill now stands he waKonfideet that was the case. Mr. HURST said, this Bill was of great importance not only to the palish of Pancras, but to the Public, 'there were 7,000 families in this Parish paying scot and lot ; and there never w.ts an instance of any , class of people being deprived of their franchises, except for some misdemeanor, or without being heard in their defence. During the last eighteen 'years, the affairs of the parish w e r e so we ll coo duded, that no one instance of litigation occurred, reTeding Parochial matters ; and at the highest time the Itates never exceed 2.5. 3d. in the potiod.— There were only .250 signatures to the Petition in favour of the Bill, and it was but common justice td grant a hearing to the other party. The parish was uniformly prosperous and peaceable, and he saw no reason for changing its government. Mr. COURTNEY was for receiving the peti tion. No evidence had been given in favour of the Bill which wx; a proof that they had none to offer. He would therefore state sonic fads against it, which, if not controverted, he-imagined, would be suffici ent to convince every one of the injustice of the measure. This Bill went to establish a set of guardians, who were to be independent of the vestry, and under no controul whatever. But what wag most extraordinary, these guardians were to be self named, or self-eleded, like the Senate in France : this was a kind of Jacobinical principle, which, he trusted, would not be countenanced by this House. These guardians were also to be perpetuated for life : none were to go out every year, as is usual in other boards. They are a committee, made au ditors of their own account ; they spend the money, and settle the accounts afterwards among them selves. These were fads which were uncentrovert ed, and he trusted they Would suffer the petitioners to be heard by counsel. Mr. ALEXANDER said, the guardians were not to be self-cleacd ; they were to be appointed by the House, and counsel had already been heard on the_ subj eft . Mr. HILLIARD said, the Bill appeated to be ab solutely necessary ; counsel had been already heard respelling it. The parish of Pancras was -ightevn miles in circumference, and contained thirty-two thousand inhabitants, and the present Bill wc:it not merely to the building of a workhouse, but embraced the whole system of the poor. He thought the Bill had a fiiir and candid trial, and was against the per tition. Mr. SHERIDAN said, the question was not whe. ther the Bill was a good or a bad one, but whether the petitioners should be heard against a new Bill, which the present one was, to all intents and pur poses, having been entirely altered from its original state. The first Bill, it seems, contained clauses which, for tyranny and absurdity, were totally unprecedented ; and those who altered the Bill, so as to render it entirely a new one, should give an opportunity to those whom it con, cerned to be heard on its merits. The pre., sent was rather an unfavourable time for those who opposed the measin e, as when there was a controverted ele&ion fur Middlesex, some might suppose there was a tendency to bias the popular party ; but he trusted no such insinuation would be made, as he was convinced the proceedings were not liable to it. He had not heard one argument in favour of the nip, that in the smallest degree con vinced him. One Hon. Gentleman had said, that the business would be entrusted to persons of good information, and who were well acquainted with each other ; they would be a very pleasant society. no doubt (a laugh). AnOther Hon. Gentleman said, that the increase of property required it • but that was a strange reason for supposing, that: people were not able as usual to govern themselves; it was no ground for disfranchising them. He considered it a hard case that no notice was served, as is usual in cases of enclosures, canals, and the like. The Bill had been br&ught surreptitiously into the House, and it was that which the petitioners complained of. He could not obtain a printed copy of the Bill, as it now stood, nor does he believe many Gentlemen in the House could produce one; but he had heard a boast that it was completely altered and amended. But he should make a few observations on the Bill as it came to his hands. There was one clause, for providing against disputes basetre the guardians (among them, he said, would have been better gram mar), and the operation of this clause went, under such circumstances, to remove the whole of them; which was an Hibernian way, he would say, since the Union bad taken place, of providing agaiast an evil. Another clause, which went to the prevention of profaneness, swearingond kwd conduct (a 'augh) me ::ions, that they were to be punished in dirt and dress ;by which he must.suppo:e was m' a. strip- - ping anu starving (a Lod luaith) . . Now wilat dia.e worthy gnat& .ans teas; thiulaneetint try to correa, as coming under the denomination of lewdness, could not easily be defined. But sonic. unfiirtonate Pan, eras Aland (a luuk6) would no doubt soon disc..- vet, when consigned to their dkeretion. Anotler anise. enaas, that a y person who- , h-ied Lt•;i. r. ea. 'workhouse, with ailv iirtoe,s furnish TUESbAY, APR 1 T . a, 5, 1803. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEND • HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, AP:•4I. 4. Mr. ERSKINE was heard to the clrese of a most animated argument, in the Committee of Privileges, on the Chandos claim of Peerage; after which the further hearing was adjourned to Co-morrow. Three private Bills were brought up- ! from the Ilouse of Commons, presented, and laid t first time. MILI ['IA OFFICER ESTARLISHMENT COMPLETION HILL The Order, of the Day for going intothe Com mittee on this Bill haring been read, The Earl of ROMNEY rose, and professed himself to have beet. all his life a was m friend to the Militia, which, according to its et iginal prin ciples, he considered as the hest constitational (1:- fem.! : , f the kingdom that could be devised ; but he • was sorry to see those principles departed from every year ; and the present Bill apeeared to him to contain clauses directly at variance with all the Mili tia Laws that had passed on the sutra from its first institution. It, in an especial meaner, contra diaed the preamble of the Bill relative to the Nil'. tia that passed last year, and by allowine the Lieu tenant or Deputy-Lieatemuits of cooot,s to ~ re commend and approve any person who, at the time of the late disembodying of the Militia, vas nakedly serving in the Militia, not basing the qua- litication required by law, to resume his station and rank in the Militia in such regiment, battalion, or corps as he had before served in by virtue of his original commission." His Lordship reasoned :it some length on this clause, the purport of which went, he thought,, to a direct violation of the Militia Laws, and a breach of contract with those Gentlemen of landed proeerty who, from motives of public spirit and pure patriotism, had been induced to quit their families, and sacri fice their leisure to aaive service in the Militia.— lie had himself, he said, served for many years, in what he always considered as the most constitutional force that could be resorted to for .the internal de- . tote.: el the kingdom ; and what but the principle that time Officers of the Militia were by law obliged to have landed qualifications coui,.l have induced such men as himself, of rank and charaaer in the country, Ind others of still higher rank, such as the Duke of Rutland and other nother Noble Personages, to en ter into the Militia, and serve cheerfttily, but the confidence that the principles of its Constitution, and the bargain made with the men 6f landed pro perty, would be held sacred, and faithfully observed in all its conditions ? The Militia he considered as a negative force, originally designed for the defence of the kingdom, an not to be sent out of it to ad otfenively and attack the 'limy, whenever an enemy commenced hostilities.' Was itto be won dered at, then, if Gentlemen and Noblemen felt disgusted at the encroachments made from year to year on the principles of the original Militia Insti tution, and Fere desirous to prefer an attire to a negative force ? The Militia Laws, he contended, had for some years past been changing from bad to worse; and after reasoning upon this point at con siderable length, kis Lordship concluded with de claring, the so widely different were the Militia Laws, as now altered, from the original principles of the Constitution, that he gave it as his conscientious opinion, and spoke from the bottom of his heart, when he declared, that he thought it would be a wiser and a sounder policy to give up the Militia altogether, and resort to .he old praaice of Noble men and Gentry raising Regiments at their own expence, to reinforce the regular Army, than to continue the Militia on its present footing — a tooting that would be by no means any longer to be con sidered, as it was originally intended to be the best mode of. Constitutional force for the internal de fence of the kingdom. The Marquis of TOWNSIIEND said, as he had the honour to introduce the first Bill forth. institution of the Militia, he hoped he sal ht lie permitted to say a few words in defence of t Mi litia. He could by no means agree with the l t 'oble Earl who had just sat down, (for whose sentiments 1 and charaaer he entertained the most profound' respect,) that it would be better to give up the Mi litia altogether, than to consent to the provisional 1 alterations contained in the present Bill. His Lord ship enlarged on the essential uses of the Militia, as the home garrison of the country, when occasion re quired that the regular army should be sent out of it, to attack an enemy on their own coasts; and ' pointed out that the Bill then under consideration did not exclude gentlemen of landed qualification from accepting the commission of Captain or Field officer in the Militia, but aanally suggested a preference to be given to them ; and merely pro vided that where a sufficient number of Gentle men of lended qualification could not be found to accept of Commissions, that then, on that emergency, the Lord-Lieutenant, or three Deputy Lieutenants, might recommend and approve of the appointment of any person, who served, at the time of disembodying the late Militia,in any Regiment, Bat talion, or Corps, not having the qualification re quired by law, to resume his station and rank in the Militia of such County, Riding, &c. &c. as he might before have served in. The House resolved itself into a Committee, Lord Walsingbam in the Chair. When his Lordship came to the clauses allowing the Lord-Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants of Counties to recommend and approve the appoint ment of Officers of the Army or Marines, not hav ing landed qualifications according to the Militia Ltws, to Commissions in the Militia, nut to higher rank than they skill have respectively held iii his Majesty'b other finves, 'the Earl of CA RNAkt‘'ON rose, and strenu ously objet, .' to the Bill, as a violation of the corn. pat between . Parliament and the Gentlemen of landed property, alter: the Militia eas first insti tuted. The Militia, he conteuded, was never Meant to resembl the arms, but it was from year to year, by the conduct of dirk-rent Ministers, made to approach nearer and nearer to the regular army; consequently, it was no longer the same sort_ of constitutional tares that was intended for the internal defence of the kingdom at its first institution. The landed qualification of the officers was its main and essen tial principle. Gentlemen landholders were invited to serve in the Militia for the defence their homes and their families, upon the idea, that the rest of officers had, like themselves, a coi.i.ierale stake in the country, and were animated equally in the cem mon cause of defending their I.)!.st interests. By this Bill, he considered that great leading principle of the Militia institution as broke in upon, and violated in the grossest degree. It was a direct breach of parliamentary faith with the men of landed property, and such as their Liirdships ought not to lend their sanction to. The -Militia was, he maintained, meant originally for the internal defenceqf the country--the clef:nice of their fire-sides and famille::, and the s.iiiing them serve in Ireland the year before the last, was i erversion of the principle of the Militia, and a departure from the conditions on which theofficers and privates were induced to serve. His L - ordship reminded the Committee, that the expence of the Militia .was not paid out of the purse of the public, but out of the pockets of the individual land holders. lhat on this ground they had a right to exped that Parliament would keep their faith with them ; but it was evident th a t a regu l ar army h a d ais.preference in the e)•2i of Ministers, although one setifter another were anxious to make the Militia resemble the standing army as nearly as possible, which was a dired breach of the Constitution. His Lordship enlarged at considerable length on these arguments, and opposed the Bill with great force and energy. .1 his led the way to a long and desultory debate, which we shall not attempt to detail, as debates in Committees are generally too copious and full, of repetition, to be easily embraced, or clearly 'con veyed to the reader. We shall barely give a fea ture of the arguments used by the several Noble Speakers. The Duke of CUMBERLAND, in a very ex preve manner, defended the Bill, as an improve ment of the Militia, rather than a deterioration of it. His Royal Highness sheaved, that it did not operate against such officers as had landed qualifi cations, and could be prevailed on to accept of commissions in the Militia ; it only empowered the Lord-Lieutenants and Deputy -Lieutenants of Coun ties, to appoint and approve of officers of the line, who had served in the Militia, though not duly qualified by the Militia Laws, to resume their rank and stations in the Militia, where gentlemen of hinded qualifications could not be prevailed on to accept of commissions. It was, in fad, a Bill to provide against a possible emergency, that might arise, but was not likely in many cases to happen. The illustrious Duke differed widely from the Noble Earl, who found fault with sending the English Militia to serve in Ireland. He expressed a sincere hope, that since the Ad of Union, England and Ireland would be considered - as one and the same, and that the interests of every part of the United Kingdom would be equally dear to the minds of British subjects in general. Lord LIMERICK argued on similar grounds, and expressed himself with an ardour highly honour able to his feelings as a native of Ireland. He said he verily believed the English militia having served in Ireland to quell the late rebellion, had, in an es sential degree contributed to accelerating the union between the two kingdoms ; and he trusted that he should never more hear of any distinctions between what were formerly two distind kingdoms. Their in terests were mutual, and when the militia of England served in Ireland, they were fighting in support of an English as much as an Irish cause. The Marquis of SLIGO spoke warmly in the same line of argument, and said most of the Colo nels of the militia regiments were Lard-Lieutenants of Counties, and to his knowledge were actuated by the deepest motives of regard to this part of the united empire, considering its interests as their in terests, and being at all times as ready to take the field with their respedive regiments in defence of England as of Ireland. The Earl of CA KNARVON was supported in his opposition by the Earls of Ransioii and ROMNEY, and Lord Hosaiir ; Lord PEI HAM, and Lord BOLTON, joined with the Duke Of CUMBERLAND in defence of the Bill. After the conversation or debate had continued till eight o'clock, each Peer having been upon his legs several times, the question was put, and the Committee were proceeding to a division, which was however given up. The clause, theretiire, was permitted to stand, and the rest of the Bill passed with only a single. verbal Amendment moved by Lord HOD h RT. The Report ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. BvNG and others brought up from the Corn mom the Pancras Workhouse Bill, which was pre senzed and read a first time. All the Bills on the Table went through a stage each : and the House atijourntsd at half alter eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, APRIL 1. The SPEAKER took the Chair at half-past three o'clock. Mr. CAMPBELL brought up the Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the merits of the Petitions complaining of All undue Eleetl„in tor the Borough of last Grinstead, when it appeared to the said Committee, that Sir Henry Strachev, Bart. was duly eleiaed to serve in Parliament for the same, and that the Petitions against the return were frivolous and vexatious. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT brought up a Peti tion from certain inlnthit,ints of the paa ish of Pan• eras, praying to b livard by Counsel against the Bill for etv,',ting a Workhouse in the s .id parish. He then moved, that the Petition should lie the Table until the third reading of th e Bill, ;I , : d that the Petitioners should be heard by Coutt:•el resp,a ing the same. Mr. SHERIDAN sa'd. uncit.rstvod the intrn: a-1 • ~~. MOR I . , . A i ...,,,,. I , • r'- - . '• ' . --, ..! , ~..• ."V • Jill= .! } .1 f ._~