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• The' OPtaiten considered himself called upon to 'discharge a most, important duty. The rule to Ire foltovieil is rue peneesit gumshoe appeared, he quite clear; it ensile its application the appeared: •As a Committee of Ways . . was also one of the whole Moose, it as that went, compe;.eut to theesurs the • k was not until within these few years range of dimension wait allowed in • of Wave and Mines. " :Tt tie Ey asked, if practice of the Tiouse '4 itst.not for confining discusinone•te the coasiderae *ion of duties, be. is a Cesumittee of Ways and keen • rhe.SrEtstit thought a larger range might be allowed. Mr. A 1.6.3 CAM DIM Braden considered this a Bill entirely affecting trade. and unfit to be referred to a Conunitec of Ways and Means. It was nut duty ',,nr ;apply we were considering, bat a most im ..portant gantlet), affecting the interests of the wintry. FAH TSMCPLE wished** knew whether the duties ingerieed in this war could he poitioned ageihA, iihether the merchant vroultl Late any redress ••••• 1 14re CWJ ricer.tes of the Ellistll4Mlll said not. - Sri,anaa ktuw the Bill* as alone coming OMB this Committee, amidst' out think it could be . . pelitinnee agiunst. • A division then took place, when there appeared fer.tke !anise of Mr. Tierney— hoes Ga On the opening of the gallery we found Mr. ?renew, the enescuxoti of the Beaumont. And Mr. Poisson at, in convei union, relative to the Orders of Criuncil. - - - AMERICAN TREATY RILL. •• On the motion tsenig put for refaring this Brill fa a Committee, Mr. EDLN said, he could not omit this opportu nity' of eallinkt i l: attention or the House to a q uestiou put him to the Right Hon. the Chao tellor of the equer on a former night : He ielshed re know, whether neutrals were permitted to carry the colonial prodnce of the enemy to states in 'Naive with His Majesty, or whether that trade *as to be considered on , the same footing as be &Tithe limning the Order of the llth.Noveinher ? lie had read the reference recommended to him by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex chequer; but-he confined it hail not the tendency Of enlightening lifs Mind, or giving him the in fortnafion he sought. The eminent:Lot of the Eicatouen said, that the question put by the Hon. Gentleinan wai one that he thonht might have answered itself. There ens, iw jab:liked tutu, no axceptiou in the Orders in Council in favour of the trade alluded to.— Every reliaPoy was placed on the good disposition of Sweden. • Ilii.Tsantitir wished to knowerkether the Chan neline of the Exchequer had any reason for mach tdkneet Mr. WatirssEAD was surprised us answer was ice too 0111DBRIIII4 CIOVOCIL. Oa the media of the Cwatscataaa of the Es- INIVIVER, the Howe resolved itself into a Com mittee. A long and uninterestieg conversation the.st took place on particular clauses of the Bill, which were objected to by Mr. Trtasty, Mr. Wastroacan, Mr. %Talent's's, Mr. EOM, and Mr. Bettina ; and Were defended by the CsAmassi.oa of the Elan- QUEI and Kr. Rost. Mr.' Werrastais said, bele/tit his duty to sug gest to the House the necessity of keying out in the Pill the went. •' Jesuits' bank:" He felt it be neath British policy to exercise so wujost a restric tion on the trade of any nation. It was to wage war oti the soured of fife and 'health. The min ciple of action mai the cease of objection. Ile be lieved, he hoped, it could not bc.awiried into effect. This inference he was induced to make, from the eoneidiration that this article, being the produce of aforth isosti:e colony, its exportation would moat probabl , by way of retaliatiou, be first prohibited to Son America ; and iiiiice the prospect of its rapid increase in vino had already advanced its' illievetwinneusly in our noarLet, while it remained nearly the same in Ole market of the enemy.— Vraoce hod in her warehouses, at this moment, an shawl : mice of hark, as Kell as sugar. This, he could state from the best suithority, exceeded the usual conirumption for a twolvenrouth. He could not •eapenss, in adequate terms, his detestation .of ri•jfe itillin 1 measure ; vile, siuce it re to ble means of warfare, and ii- effected, inasmuch as she had slimly a caps sideralste apply on hunch, and had even species hard -tie <hi ponibility. Of providing herself wok an efficient substitute for this necessary article in roodieirev it would by no means oecasion a pres sure on the eneniye force.—No ; &professedly was a war Orilla w cak Ilea and debility. Its objects were the sick, the wounded, the helpless, and the aged. To follow up the principle of the measure, the Right Hon. Gentleman should have p:oposEd iu tlitsbttt INNTl . Eeepetlient for introducing plague and pestilSbee Onto the country of our enemies, aad'thus wage oaf', without any expense to the country of taco or money, by swath% the constitutions and health of our foes. Famine bad been attempted tO be introduced into this country by this bill, in the regulations relative ter Ainerica and the coun tries in the Baltic, from whit* we had hitherto been ad ustomed to import our greatest supplies of corn. He concluded with expreseing his hopes that this measure 'of-hostility, leveHed solely at the distresses and calamities of . the•witlrret Of our fel low-creatures, who happened to be unfortunately involved in war with us, would never 'obtain the sanction of an enirghtenoil and humane British Porliatnent. Mr. limn:goat. said, the arguments made use of by the Hon. Mender were of so extraordinary a nature, that the one was the hest refetution of the other. In one instance, the Hon. Gentleman had pathetically described the evils that would result from the enforcement of thie regulation, and im mediately afterwards he confessed the measure would never be effectually enforced, and coolie quently nn injur!, nould result to the enemy. He maintained, that in the regulations adopted by these order., there had been no reasonable grounds for secusing the Ministry of inhumanity. There had been a choice afforded to the enemy. Alt that coniti be done to soften the ri•t n eurs of war had been done, without itajustinablydeserting the in terests of the enamel.. If the Hon. Gentleman should rely on the fallacious hope of inducing Fnince, by a display of oar adherence to the ro mantic notionsf justice and honour, to a perma neat peace, hsiliould be foffild to teat his hopes on a loviseli reed. Mr. Letitia mow frayed the' measure' resorted to would ultimately fail of producing tba desired •,-itieet, when the disposition Al the Governor of France was taken into coosiettratioo. The mea sure he conceived highly criminal, and rather wor thy of assassin* than the Ministers of au enlightened manor. Mr. Helmets? supported the opinions of the 110- 111111111Shie Member who spoke last, and conceived this port of the Bill highly derogatory to British policy. Mr. CARVING said, that if there existed no impediment in procuring peace, hut our own wilfirinevs and , obstinacy . , then, fivieed, would it be highly improper to irritate the enemy by any fur ther restrictive enactment. But when it was; well known that no dieposition had' been at all mani fested by the c•nerny, bat that of an avowed system of exterminating . policy. surely 'those who haj ranted so romantically this evening, on justice a honour, had but vanity and ridiculously wrested the tittle of the House. If Hon. Gentlemen could once for all point out a mode of warfare which would direct the whole force of the war rind its in ermermiencies and losses on the belligerent part of the nation, such a mods should, he admitted, be preferred in ordinary cases. He 'said that in many instances, in the prosecution of war, as in the bitiekade of é town, the evils fell on the un offending and peaceful iubabitants, wiliwe dis tresses were ultimately the' means of compelling those in arms to - inrrender. Yet such practices were common, and unit - ripe wheel; though no Ge neral' eenld conduct his approaches gradually claw and closer to a city, without feeling a pang for the unhappy and starving inhabitants. He eel mated the principle of the warfare to be detestable and disgraceful ; but elicit a principle had only been that du which France had compelled us to proceed, ,and those who were so clamorous now in their opposition to the present measure, Aortic! at least have the consistency to recant the argu.uersts which they had, on a former occasion, twelve months since. used in favour of similar measures. He conceived that the erroneous statement of the Honourable Gentleman, reineetuig . tla quantity of bark indoor& now in France, vitiated not only the arguments founded thereon. but even his state ments on other particulars; and maintained, that, from the sources of information he I ()iodised, he could assure the House several articles of colonial produce had already made an advance of near fifty pounds per east. Mr. Wureassoo esploioed ; and Mr. WILBERFORCE MINN to express his sorrow that the war should' have assumed n character of ferocity unparalleled its the history of latter times. He feared * would not produce any effect on the apoiluti of the enemy. 'the army /email, at all events, be supplied by their ambitious larder ; and the only effect produced by prohibiting the importation of this article of medierual economy, would be to lead the Freed) to unite the idea of the cruelty of this restriction . to those other re strictions which were usual is war, and thus seeing them through the discoloured medians of exas. perated feeling, it would but confirm them in their hostility. General GAoenaowE rose, with SOME warmth, to meet the criusination of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread), relative to the improper eaten eon of pardon to the military, tried for improper practices at Copenhagen. These men were recom mended to mercy, and it was the proud character of the Commander in Chief kindly to listen to every such appeal. when it was well founded. But it was with a certain description of men in that House, as it was with the Methodists, they considered their own partisaus all stints, and their opponents all sinneti. Sir Awr nun Witt.tistit t would not have ttobbled theCommitteei but felt the Houonrable Member hating adverted to the mile of the bArlier who had been tried fora breach of the Articles of War..— Items certainly tree that sits of outrage weir cops- Mined in the army as wag tiro frequently the owl is all evpeditiona. But the_ entails were brought to trial. and the only doubt *O3, wit'h the Nola, Lard who comman•led. whethit he hid alegs) power to take cognizance of tpe 41infp. l and to cm the sentence into eseeetiso Ifstsightly informed, the result of those trials was at peewit under Mt copsideration of the Law °Sons of the Crowe—a eircuoistuace, with which if the * Hon. Member Was acquainted, he ems in candcrur hound tis emamunicete it to the - Codapittee, at the same time that he had to unexpipaill iutpcinced the subject to which, it applied. Mr. W HITS AC AID ,OM 4, there were *art distinct (lunges of rape, rubbery, and uturdfr.,,brought afe.instscertitiu eolcilere in the arsabiatelyeaturned from the attack against Copeohleeete: He did not know haw to t recoacila the *section, of the I knowable General (Gatkciigne), ILO said the cri e initials were recommeadedto mere , with the belief of tle... g al lant General oispOsite . ~ tA. Welleelq). that the deeirinii of their Court: artist was under the consideration oTthe Law Officers of the Crown. Geiteriti •Geoctiferiti add the CitanceeLoa of the Eheinemita severally spoke in eeplenation. Mr. Wintageed . then gave notice ((Chia inten tion to submit fhb eireinustance, on a future claf, to the solemn derftic4itieni of Parliament. It weir • strange that (Wane Officers should have a power to bombard an • intrecent and defenceless capital,' and not have authority to punish a murderer, a rcliber, or a violator Of female honour! ( Hear ! hear ! Afar .7 The Arroaser-Gr xtem. observed, that, how ever genii roitht saaretimetieteape with impunity, 'it was ultimately of thrhighest aelvar.tage that the accused should Moth of tilt defects m the legal process issued against them. Mv. Deems GIDDY, although friendly to lire general .priuriple of the Bat, was yet hostile to enforcement of the prohibitisa of This article of Jesuite' kirk. Mr. 'llEiteeeT commented upon the indecorous °temerarious the galleat Gerseral (Gaecoigiie) on the religions faith of the HOD. Gentleman (Mr. W'illierMrce) opposite. Whatever creed that Hon. Gentleman prolitired, his opinions on that night, es on inauy others, did bailour to his principles and I his faith. But it was not to the article of bark, that he *wished to Innis the amendment of his lino. Friend, he had also to expose the encroachments of the Riglit,Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer upon the tolerant spirit of the House. Not satisfied with Aiming ma unotiending American ship into their ports, they called upon Parlia ment to legalize the locking up of pint of her cargo in their warehouses, at their own pleasure, without any,regaril to the consent of. the party whose pro perty' It was. 'lie, on' further reflection, wished to separate the amendments, and was determined to take the sense of the Committee upon another ertietichnent, for leaving out so Mich of the pisra graph as refers to the expiwtatien'of cotton wool or yarn. Sir CHARMS Patter. assured the Committee, that he knew, from the most unanswersible tes timony, that the article of Jesnits hark was up to 70s. pier pound at Paris this moment. Mr. BARINO contended, that the prohibition - would prove nugatory ; is one vessel loaded with , that article would be sufficient to supply the wants ••of France in that reopect. Sir JOHN Nicnou. supported the principle of the Orders of Council, and the enforcement of ' these prohibition.), on the Maxims of the Law of Nations, which antiorised a Belli;erent to meet upon its enemy the severity of its own inputs of an noyance. , Nit A. Pfecorr argued Alt &Oust the princi ple of the Bill', as suliversive'of the eine-1)69J - inte rests of juiniee.• He considered it nothing short of the most violent outrage, to arrogate a right of confiscation over an innocent neutral, althouglebei had not violated the provisions of a blockade, or in any degree contrivened the Cirders this country hall issued. Stiff such aneffect did follbw from the new system of' Ministers—and therefore he should tabs every opportunity of declaring his decidettlioetility to it. The question being loudly called for, a division took place, tine upon the amendment of Mr. NV rite bread, relative to the prohibition of Jesuits' Bark, when the numbers were— ', ital.' 7 6 . .'. .ti ogalosttlko Alitewinwor .... 97 . Etrie woo then took place on Mr. Two ngAinitlo eint, relative to the prohit)aion of co-;*opitiroJi.ro,whett the notniters were-- 16 )67 Majority 'Ono tt c Ronsdosee.. -91 On Our fe-zidU:iNetl.s, Sir THOMA% TUITAN wa OD. his legs. opposing the clause which went to lay a duty on the importation of Colonial produce from St. Domingo. He contended, smelt a mea sure eras highly unjust towards the persons con cerned in teat trade, at the same time that it was itwtErient 111 - 4 a consideration of revenue. The wor thy Baronet prooore.l so amendment, which we ua.lerstand was Afterwards withdrawn ; and on the inotion of Mr. Ttstrar, the Chairman reported progrt,s, and said !meet° sit again to-morrow. — Adjourned at Ous seCtoca. •.o. Fortie Ceurt, low, tie Doke of Reere Letter, ice. K* lag per. Tilg - i3R - tiISK PRES S. LONDON, THURSDAY, Foist:Aar is. In the House of Commons, last night, Viscount CAirrLemsos brought down a Nessage frosts tits MAJLSTY, preppiiiu4 to settle a pension of 20001. a-year upon Viscount LAns, awl his next heir male, bearing the title.—His Lord.l4 gave stake, at the mime time. of an Acl4,lreis to His iVisszwry,, to erect a monument to the memory of tl.e late Lord, in consideration of his ensineut servicts in Mr. CALcaArr Wit notice of II motion, on Tuesday next, grounded on the r•7 , 1-ts that Sir RICHARD STRAPIAA'S squadron w.a driven front the Itoehfort station on tux.otust of the want of proxisioo 4. 004:e mot;pr, of the cI4.I.ICAL),OR ,9f cagoules, a Committee - - how far it ermiyhe expeditat to 0,04 lerietoto the elie of sugar and atelemase Mr. TIERNET'II motion for referriwi to Coulee% a Committee of Trade,‘l by a majority of 118 so 65. In the Commute on the Orden t s the dumb 'prohiloititig the exportation audited& bark were warmly opposed diced much ditoctission. No account has been received of tt squadron of a later date than the 24 which day it was seen by the Comas frii Seven English Mails, including tl Mail, were due, in Dublin, oa the nom igth instant. Two of them, ithwierer i i course of the day. General Sect:CSR'S Expedition, detained so on at Falmouth by eon ailed on Monday.—lt consists of 60 porterwith 12,000 troops oa board, me Antelope, of so guns, the Ytiw►oa and the Milbroo/c schooner, of 16. were all clear of the harbour at twelve proceeded on their voyage with a fii The destination of the squadron rem Letters were yesterday received dated the 9th instant, which state ? OM rican venaelsliad been ca2turrl the pre end carried into that port, and the ere severs., The same letters mkt., the geetitiven to the Commanders of all vateers to capture American Vessels Manner as if there was • ein actual • , France and Ameziea. Yesterday a Court of Directors in East India house, 12i,n the um Commanders took thea final leave previous to their depatture for:their I tinatimis, Capesie Males Gram, Wlllivn Pie Alexander Campbell, >iiefer..ini, t&t cedes CaOsin Gelidoas Europa, SLUM! The Court adjonswad . at sit ole Ili crow. The Eakepiwarsie has arrived • with dispandms from bit The enemy hate evinced no &nos sea. Sir Ricaaao has three swil of . two, frigates. Sir Itit.itsais Stay thet[siationi and-is wa% not known- it whither he had gone. Dispatches have been received BILIITIE, who commands the equal The enemy remains as usual is giell A Court of Common Council 'wit day for the general npatch of pub Ale Coalman Ilan. for the elacti master; in the room of tee tate Mr. pointed for Ist of March next. • A ship from Charleston bas bron of another severe cadlict bets; een Cnitivrornx and Pao tow. in St. D has terminated greatly to the dire latter. • American ships are said to hibited enteruag the Ilaytian posts, eisdietion of Csassromm. Account ol•irrin, he.nip,and talks St. Petersburgh iu Boti.h ships, is and 190. extracted from the Li published.by authority at St. Petty Imo—Foods limp—Pords. isn6-4219,409 1,541,5e0 1507 710,541 1073,414 Let" is 1,07 j 3011,8ti1l 108,119 than Igoe ti3rods per tea. ons. um Tom 5077 956 e 4541 Yesterday was the twentieth of locke r trial. The Court met at and the examination of Bngadit inuty WRI resumed. The conree tom weut principally to ascertain treat po,sessecl by the British aro enrcessful attack upon that city, July last. Some qttestomiii bein opioion of Vie witness, Lord Co the Court was cleared, and 'getup for about half au hour. On their re ' peered, from the succeeding quest rctioo was generally over-ruled, st was impossible to ascertain. Th ation of General Achiouty proc o'clock, when Lieutenant-Colon Major King were caned to state their respective columns, from tit of the cannonade, on the moron, the taking possession of the Pit the brigade under the COMMAS Aehmuty. On account of the vast preset% of thedoors ou preceding days, a formed :bree deep, surround t of the Hall. The Nth of next Month, the' gins Drawing. The Scheme c ing rich list of Pvizet.--three of ' Pounds, three of J 2.10,000, fit fifty of £l,OOO and £soo, hesi Prizes of Poo, £5O, &c. &c. Sham are selling in great vati Co. No. 11, Poultry, and No. Pho sold, in the last Lottery, N rize of £OO,OOO which was sot Fuldie approbation on all pee road of sureem—lt strengthen supports every undertaking that The public admire the Scheme tery, and make an early cho Shires in a sapid manner, such tery Once Kcopera never expo queries there... HoaNsay and recommend a speedy porches , vontageous to buy before the 8 the day the Drawing commeu 72. Chatimpfiert fad M rough. • well that he had left out the two lietds :km there was crtainly in the moile. ne o pportuotty 'for the 'One ot 4 the other. He end- wool ' that the province of the Coninaittee , of Wye ii nd*Meaus work to lay inn duties: It was no t competent to auy Meinlyer in tine lioune4o move for oaf thlpg ur such Co mmittee thistl - vons - not conne cted with' the. impaisiugel *latices He woiild dif: tiny mod to my, if this was not the unifotm Here of the House. It . -had been ur6i..d, that Hive was nothingcoutterY . to the usual ti nna of tide in these uumsales. Lie thought that a nevi., trsi vessel catnip:4 into this . count ry, which would' be obliged to laud Whatever cotton or lurk she had on board, and wen altetwards desired to about her business , after conoitilsorily tithing from her dm roost valuable part of her cargo, was a sort of med- iae that could not be designated as ordinary or meal. He then read an extract •from one bf the Orders in Council; shewin: the provision alluded .to. %Vas this, lie would ask, nothiug more than she usual forum of trade ? if so, he confessed he 'knew not what they were. Without going at itiygth into argument, which would require every Member in the House to have those Qrdere ni Council before him, he thought that' es the Bill most e videutly rehited -to made, it might to go into a •Corrauittrie of the whole House, -as that of Ways and 'leans did not enable the House to take all the steps necessery. to its fell tovestigation. He would leave it to the. Hieeerable Gentleman ever against him, and to this/Kum to say, whether they thought in 'their contleiedeinl. this a tit ir.ir to bring o i po :WO, rriMien" re forward ? strong- deprecated any petty view or, fooling ou the t premacqrsestiee.. His anxieties were to have it t Wells &tithe omaidetertiftn it nieriterl. . • 1-2 -..11.A