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* • . • p. t.... ."r. it ahsrlute'.y necessary, as the question had - 14 , nt yet lw'n pie, es that the Bill be read c ecand time hoz! vslear test Callen from the Right Rev. Prelate we ts only-fer tv be..oxesed in the nee: stage of Use Bill, viz. when they came to the (19*Slidit "thate Bill be committed ' His Lordship said, lithe fo bs of the House were not striellv adhered to, their ships would find themselves ruaniag into laser con= - lasi n.' The Bishop of St.. ASAPH said, he saw he had mistaken the stage of the Dal; he tholieht it had been teed a Wend time. ' Tlispute et es !LAMONT) said, he objeard to - the prult:ple of the Sill, and thereto* he trusted :!tat he *.sin order.• His ohjeaion to the principle, Cs-aces:6d, seaS, thitt it went . tolake away front theeiurieSffie right of trying the cwuies brought s ainst Ora of the Clergy as.were sued for nen-resi eseceesfanit ledge that power hi the hands of the fi;nwhom he begged to he understood to eutertain a very high respell ; but he conid not bin consider that the gutty, whether Affluent, or' only reeletately able to keep heiese, paid the Clergy of .eerry description for the religious ilnties they per t tined. and therefore he ceulig not but be of opi nion that the jurisdiaion to euthece the residence of their Reitor sre Vicar 'should remain in their bands, end utieht not te roe trensferred tothe Right Reve rend Prelates. In oaks to shew that the same pri nci sle pet %sided xiasiy if the clauses, of the Bill, his Grace proceedea to touch upon a few of them in ss hich it was perceptible, and to Argue upon what appeeled to him to be an unjust, a partial, and an • operation likely to result from them; when he was called to order e en the ground that what he was ad vertiag to was fitter for the Committee. Lord ROSSI: I I.N rose, again, and said, the No ble Duke was 'certainly in order. He had began - with leclertlie . that he objeaed to the principle, and vets only adverting to such clauses as from their • en:tan:elite served, in his view of the WI, to sup on that objeStion. The Duke resumed his arguments, and spoke generally to spiritual persons not being allowed to liold or let lands and estates of their own for culti vation, without licence of the Bishop—to the linii anions upon spiritual persons, with respect to the hicalis of occupation and cultivation of their glebe —to the possibility of partiality in granting the li cences ; one Bishop might do it with facility to his lergy, while another might, front caprice or some other motive,. refuse it, which might set hint and the clergy of his dieeeee at variance, and produce ill blood Among them, which must necessarily bring t em into disrepute, and prejudiee the character and hherests of the clergy and the-church n—but above ell, the huge thought that the power of grant ing licences would be extremely inconverdent, and not to be desired by the Bishops themselves ; it would lodge an • invidious power in their hands, which they would find themselves easier without. His Grace also pointed out the difficulty of appor tioning the penalties to the means of those who were to pay them. How were they to get at the amount if the produce of a Reaory or a Vicarage ? The entries of their amount in the King's books, were all of them notoriously far short of the real pro duce. His Grace made several other general and cursory observations on the Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR left the Wool sack, and discussed the Bill in a summary way at sore e length. He said, if he himself understood the Bili, he was persuaded the Noble Duke did not un dei s treet It $ at least the' Nohlo Duke mulerstood it very differently from the light in which he viewed it. His Lordship read a clause from the Act of iittry V 111. to chew the violent injustice that might be practised under it ; and he remarked, that in trying a cause upon a penal statute, no discretion weds invested either in a Judge or Jury. The Judge r. ue be bound with the express letter of the law, end must i.i liis direction lay down the rule of law fir them to go 'by, without referring or observing upon the hardship id the case, be iE ever so 'peat. Lb recapitulated the causes tried by himself in one 'week. that of the exemplary Clergyman of Bow church, for nen-residence, although the Parsonage house was the hale pocket-book shop the corner of the Church-yard, a residence not fit to put a Cler gyman into, and therefore he was obliged to reside in Ely Place : and the other cause that of a Clergyman, who held two or more livings in the city, but had lived for nitre years, sporting and taking his pleasure in Somersetshire. Both were obliged to be tined the penalty of 1101. though their cases were so dissimilar. He also mentioned a cause of eon-residence tried before a Noble and Learned Lord r,ow dead, who had been provoked to declare in Court, that it was the most impudent cause he had ever tried. The cause was this :—A cunning attorney in a country town lived in a house rather too small ter his family, and observing that the par s: nage-hoase was much larger, and the incumbent a ringlernan,proposed an eschange upon his pay ing rent. When he demanded his rent, the attor ney said, " Don't trouble me about rent, or I shall prosecute you for non-residence ; and then there will be a considerable balance in my favour." He did prosecute the minister, and obtained the penalty. His 1/n(1,1 - lip added a great variety - of additional • ;ervations. 'lite Doke of RICTINIOND replied at some kerb, and was called to order as speaking twice, which was contrary to order. The Duke, however, urns he erd to an end. 'Thihishop of NORWICH began a very perspi enoue coerce% and well-err:urged speech, with ob serving, that the Noble Duke had proved his sure rier Lnowhalge how to avail himself of the forms of the Houst, since he had contrived to be heard in detail 'qn the clauses, although the Right Rev. Pre late hati,not bown permitted the same liberty. IVith regard to the Bill, he approved its principle, but he did not think th e Bill altogether faultless.— His Lordship stated the law as it stood, with retsard to the residence of the clergy, under the Act of Henry VIII, and went through its regulations and restzietions, sheaving their operation in all re sr.-Is, And thence evincing the hardships it imposed on the clergy, and the great iuequelity of its pe nalties. Haviag gone through this Bill, he ad dressed his argument to the Bill he held in his hand, and went through a summery statement of the ob jets of each clause The first part of the Bill, he ob served, referred solely to what was termed the farm ing facilities giviag to the clergy, and the latter to their residence. He wok notice of the Noble Duke's observations, as to taking the trial of penal su it s oa t o f the hands of the temporal and putting into those of the spiritual pcwers, and said, the Bill did net slo that in the manner the Noble Duke cottetived. .4 WV , i wow . . • A.Ctze roakluingfor s ime time upon th i s and o th er ' points of th e nal, his ordahip said he should, in , s tbi ll ta ll et h tee, X' s t. beat on him to move sense • me& t I 'ag of tbe'Rischt 4%.1011Qe lvf the Bilko ibe Rigpt Rawisrend, fi/fc lt,the same solCunint him, that t f rap spe t esteem, and the deesrgratiftrde ; and he was 'surti•that the whole of the ~ v ererid Profession must ,regard hits) with the utmost complacency. aollkosoith the most grateful mi-tds. When the Bill should have brow mittnred in the Committee, and becrme law, it would be a lasting monument of fame to its very respcNftable author. The question was put, and the Bill read a second The Fl'oshop of ST. ASAPH repeated, that he fully appnwed the. principle of the Bill, but was nut .ati..fs...d with its fabrick, and the flame, of its 'clause.. Understanding that at opportunity was to be given fur ring into detail upon it previous :0 the Hews resolving, itself into a Committee upon it, lie sh(•uld then explain on what principles he should feel it nect.isary to propose several amendrrteuts in the Committee; bet those would not be mere verbal amendments, those of leaving out case word, and insetting another, but amendments that AMU go as it were, to n•)%)- -ast:ng several of the clauses. '1 h.., Bill was committed for Friday. A private Bill, and a returned Bill, were brought up from the Commons by Mr. Isaac Hawkins' All the Bills on the table went through their it's peaivc sages. Adjourned at ciglit o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. let.snsv, JUNE 7. Lord TEMPLE: presented a petition from cer tain Lace Manuftfltivers of. Bocisinghasnshire, against the Consolidated Custom Duty Bill.—Or tiered to lie on the table. ACCOMMODATION TO NIF.ReII ANTS. On the motion of Mr. Vansittart, the House resolved itself into a Commiuee, Mr. Hobhouse in the Chair, to consider of so much of his Majesty's Speech of the 23d of November as related to af fording Accommodation to Merchants. Mr: VANSITTART then said, that what he had to propose was rather to be considered as aaac corpmodating commutation, than in the light of new duties. He then, without farther comment, pro ceeded to develope the nature of the new arrange ments, mhich was contained in the followir.g resolu tions : 4. An additional duty of 201. no the value of 10A. ef al! home-hair imported ihtu Great Mann, and that the drawbar-41 upon thA expoitation of the mid article thould ceabt and dekr 171111e. 2. That • duty of 4s. per yard be impaled on all foreir thresdAsee in Tutu thi country, of the v - alue of 235. per yard arid upwards. 1 iris, he said, was asubject eons:Actable importance to the Terftflit, and, for the purpose of terming this arrangement, it w-as thought necessary ID abolish the re!. sent duty of 201. per rent. ad ' , alarm... 3. A duty of Is 3d. for every square yard of damask and ta ble liner iikiorted, and a drawback to be allow . ed of 10d. ycr yard upon the exportation. 4. A duty of 10s. 6d. per hundred weight on the importation of all foreign pearl-barley, and a drawback of Gs. per hundred allowed upon the exportation of it. b. .'t duty on all stock-fish imported of 2s. 6d. on every hun dred and twantv pounds weigiit. 6. A duty 4641. 1.. nn every ton of (;emit, ItheniA ind Hungarian wine, imported in British vessids, • eoltainini gallons, with a drswbaek of 341. Is. GA on the vnoitatian. 7. Oa the same wines, imported in foreign vessels, a duty of Gil. ss. allowing a drawback au the export:4ton of the same 'sums to the British roloniss to the West India-s, and American colonies, of 591. 66. The resolutions were agreed to, and the report ordered to be received to-morrow. • Mr. WICK HAM obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable theCummission..-..rs of the First Fruits in Ireland, to lend money, without interest, to enable Clergymen, in certain cases, to erect Parsonage Houses. Mr. POOLE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for vesting certain lands and heieditaments, in Northamptonshire, in trustees, for the use of the Ordnance service. Mr. WHITBREAD stated his own knowledge of a number of abuses in the adulteration of gun powder, to the injury 6f the service and the public, which he mast attribute to the carelessness. though he could not say wilful neglect, of the Board of Ordnance. Ik)wder had been sent from Purfleet and other places in a good state, which was afterwards adulterated, before it reached its final destination. Tl.ere were many complaints upon this subject, on which he had made enquiries, and he should be very willing to communicate the result of them, to the Board of Ordnance, if it should be disposed to re ceive it. Mr. POOLE and Mr. SERJEANT said, that the Board of Ordinmce was perfealy uninformed of the abuses alluded to. If any such existed,, the Board had both the . power and disposition to repke.s• them. and would thankfully receive any intOrmation the Hon. Gentlenuin would be kind enough to ford them. Lease was then given to bring in tlic Bill. ABUSES IN THE N.W.`.l. DEPARTMENTS. Mr. WH ITBREAD said, that as the tir.t Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into Abuses in the Navy, was already on the table, and as he saw the Minister then in his place, he wished to know whether this report was to be followed up, and whether any other report was to be expelted He thought great.praise was due to the uiligcnce and aaivity of the Admiralty, but to determine whether or not he should Move for the minutes of the evidence in the duck yards on which the report was founded, was his reason for requesting this ex planation. The CHANCELLOR of the F.XCIIKQUER replied that the Commissioners were still proceeding in the cause of their enquiries, and as another report was to be expert d from them in the present session, he supposed the Hon. Gentleman would• tOrbear front malting any motion on the subjea. '1 he conversation went no farther. The ATTORNEY GENERAL brought in a Bill to remedy dcfets in the present mode of issuing Exchequer Bills; and Mr. Giles, a Bill to report so much of an Ad of the 42d Gel. HI. as related to the bribery oaths at elcaions for representatives to serve in Parliament, both of which were read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to morrow. Mr. ALIAANDF.R bronght up the Report of the Committee of Supply cm the Army Estimates; the Resolutions of which were agreed to. Mr. GAR 1 fiSHORE brought up an Estimate of the Navy Dew t to the 31st of December, 1803, which was ordered to lire on the table_ . - ~+•~ The Militia Pay BiTI was read a sleond time, and committed for to-morrow. 'the Soldiers' Relief Bill was returned fr,dm the - House of Lords, rd the Amendments made by, .their,Lotdsbips acipiesced in. • • Ane writ"%vas ordered, on the motiokof Mr.' Vansittart, fora representative to serve in Parlia 'ment, in the room of the Hon. Edwina Bouverie, who, since his election, had ascepted the sffice of one of the stewards of his Majesty's rhiltern bun dre is. Mr. CORRY moved for the revision of the Re port of the Committee on the pay and cloaking of the Militia in Ireland: which was agreed to. Mr. FITZGERALD moved, that there be laid before the House an Account of all Sums raistd in the several Counties in Ireland respeaively for the last Ten Years, distinguishing each year, add the sums levied for the Miiitia and other purposes, which was agreed to ; and the House adjourned till to morrow. THEATRE-ROT 4L, COVENT-GARDEN. Tim EVENING will b.- pn , entell the Comedy of THE ROAD TO RU/Nl.. Cnlrl6nch, Mr Lewis; Silky, Mr. Emery; Harry Drirnton, Mr. Barnum ; Ehirnton. Mr. Mitinkra ; Strlicq, Mr. Daven port. Sophia, Mm. Mills; and Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Mattocks. To which will be ad led THE POOR SOLDIER. Patrick, Mr.Johnstone ; Dermot, Mr limit-don ; Bigatltc, Mr. Farley; Father Luk..-, Mr. Waddy ; and Darby, Mr. Nurah, 110WCIIS and Kathiatie, hfartyr. T.,-murrow, John Bull, with the Review ; or, the W.IV of Windsor THEATRE-ROrra„ HArII.IR K ET. Tills EVENING will he iirewNited THE IRON CHEST. Sir Edward Mortimer, Mr. Ellistnia; litzltirding, Mr. Chap man • Wilford, Mr H. Kelly ; Adam Wintertoti ; Mr. Berton ; Rawiolit, Mr. Archer; Sanisrin Rawbokl, Mr. Mathews; D.ivid Hawbnirt, Master Linton; Armstrong, Mr. Truemaii ; and o:rwi, Mr. Hatton. Ellen, Mrs Goodall • Blanch, Mts. (.41h1/4 - , Barium, MIN. Atkins ; and Judith, Mrs. Harbowe. To which will be added THE VILLAGE LAWYER.. Justice Mittimiu s Mr Wharton; Scout, Mr. Mathews; Snarl. Nlr. Hatton; Charles, Mr. Field; and Sheeplace, Mr. BURCM• Mrs. Scout, Atm. Ward; and Kate, Mrs. Kendall. To•morruw, the Surrender of TILE BRITISH PRESS• LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JuNE 8. Yesterday we received Paris papers to the sth in stant.—The ilioniteur of the 4th announces the march of General I.IoRTILR from his head quar ters at Coeverden on the 26th, and the evacuation of the Bishopric of Osnaburgh by a Hanoverian battalion on the 28th. The entrance of the French into the Hanoverian territories has been preceded by a proclamation to the inhabitants. After an in vedive against his BRITANNIC MAJESTY, and an eulogy upon the political and warlike virtues, the moderation and humanity of the FIRST CONSUL, General MORT MR promises the inhabitants safety and proteftion, " If consulting their real interests, they separate their cause from that of a Sovereign, who, in breaking all the ties of good faith, has thereby freed them from the attachment which they might have thought it their duty to manifest to wards him !!" This Is the old Jacobinical cant, of which Europe is going once more to surer an inundation. The KING of England has not • thought fit to evacuate the Island of Malta, in a case between him, merely as such,and the Republic of France, and by this act General No rtirt ik contends th.tt the people of Hanover, who have no more to do with the Treaty of Amiens than the people of Otaheite, are absolved from the allegiance due to their Sovereign.—The whole mass of French pro clamations, mani'.estocs, and addresses produced in the late war, does not afford a more complete speci men of Jacobinical reasoning, 'or rather that absence of reasoning, which despises moral reditude, and would assume as truths, the reverse of all principles established by long usage among the nations of Europe From this it appears, that the account in the French papers, received last week, of the entry of the French troops into Hanover,*as premature. — 'I ature.— hat such an event has taken place, is, however, extremely probable, as on the ...:9th last a French coy, of 10 . ,000 men had entered the Principality of Osaaburgh. It will be seen under the head of Ha nover, that the most energetic preparations have been made in that tledorate for resistance. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE is ap pointed second in command, and an effort has been made to raise the country en marse. But who can be sanguine enough to suppose that Hanover, with all its loyalty and courage, could, .tingle-haehd, maintain a successful•contest with the Republic of France ?—Had Hanover any continental support, the issue might indeed be doubtful; but Prussia does not appear to have made any objedion to the admission of the French into the North of Ger many; and Russia has either not interfered, or in terfered without effe&. • On Monday a Message was delivered at the Stock Exchange, that the Minister would be ready to re ceive, on Friday next, proposals for entering into a contrad for a Loan. A report prevailed yesterday in town, that an ac count was received at the Admiralty, by the tele graph, of sevet4teen sail of French West-India mer chantmen, and one East-Indiaman, having been captured off Brest, on their return to that port, and that they were in sight off Tortamouth, under a strong convoy of part of our set. The Itirl us s ctt B TX and fim il y set off yesterday fbr Long Witrazinster; . 4211E5, igiet 6. Fire companies of the 95th regiment, or IliP.e corps, lately stationed at Shoruchtfe and adjacent,, on Tuesday last, arrived at their old quarters io Bktchington barracks. The same day the South Hants Militia quitted their quarters in this town, and marched into bar racks. . On Wednetday the 47th Infantry marched into this town on their route from Portsea to Battle bar racks. The above re meet, about three months since, landed from the West-ladies, where they heist endured a service of thirteen years, and a very hard one, if we.may judge from the tatu.red cor.dition , of. their colours, and the tawny complexion of their drums. On Thursday the 91st foot, lately arrived in England, from the Cape or Good Hop e , ;a y .. ) marched. into this town on their route to the above barracks. The Sussex Militia at Brighton, and the North and South Hants, and Dor:Jet regiments stationed here, arc under the immediate command of Major General Lennox, who visited our barracks on Fri day. On Saturday, Thomas Cecil Granger, E,q. of Bridge House, Cuckfield, qualified as a Mag:s trate for this county. Encamptnents are talked of at Roborough-d , wn and Maker-heights. Twelve regiments of - foot are to be stationed this summer in Devon and t'ornwall, w;th six lieutenant-generals and major-generals, and their staff. A letter from an Officer, dated Po:: Royal, J. - maica, 3d March, says, It is with pleas :re I in form you, that our squadron, consisting of eight sail of the line, six frigates, and six sloops, is is the best state of health, and, as far as I can ascer tain, without even one case of fever on board. We have sent home forty invalids by this ship (the Trent) which reduces the number elk day in the hospital to thirteen, which is below wh«t it ever was, even when there were only five pendants iu country." A letter from Plymouth of the sth says, "Anong the passengers on board La Francaitc, 44 guns' captured by the Minotaur, 74 guns, on the 2Sth'ult. is a French General in Chief, from Sc. Domingo; he is lodged at March's Hotel, attended by two gre nadiers from the picquet from each regiment for the day and night. He tAked very confidently of over running this district with 10,000 men; but yester day being his Majesty's birth-day, he had an op portunity, from his situation at March's Hotel, of seeing four' British regiments march in grand stile from Mill Bay Barracks and Frankfort Barracks (three of which were militia regiments), on their rout to the lawn before Government House, to form with the Royal Artillery, 9th and 2dth regiments, a lint and two flanks, to celebrate his Majesty's Birth-day, they passed his hotel ; their military appearance surprised him,particularly on being told there were, of those that were passing, three militia regiments only embodied two months, and mostly recruits." On Saturday last at noon Rear Admiral Montague hoisted his flag on board the Salvador d,l Mundu, 112 guns, as Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels, and Rear Admiral Dacres shifted his flag to the St. Josef, 112 guns. A vessel from Jamaica, which arrived off Dover on Monday, has brought some details relative to the state of St. Domingo. She left Jamaica the begin ning of April, at which time the accounts from St. Domingo were very unfavourable to tho French g the Blacks were very strong, and well supplied with arms and ammunition, and kept the French troops from advancing into the country. The French men of war are coming home, it is reported, singly, with part of their guns dismounted, in order to stow cargoes. Since the treacherous conduct d the French to Toussaint, the Blacks have refused all offers of settling the dispute, • and are determined to perish to a man h..fore they will submit to 0 e French Government: they are•reported to be twcen 80 and 90,000 strong. French frigates' are kept continually cruising oil the Cape, to intercept the supplies of arms and ammunition, which low,- ever they are constantly receiving, . Extra ti If a Letter from Trinidad, dated Port Spin, 24th April 1803, to a Genii/man in Glasgow. " Inclosed is a copy of a proclamation isrued,la:t night by Governor Maori and Commodore Hood, excluding Colonel Fullarton from the office of Com missioner. "I hat gentleman has been absent on a tour through the island for some weeks, and, pre vious to his departure, disputes had gene a great length between him and the. other two Commis sinners. Commodore Hood sailed last night' for Barbadoes, and Colonel li'ullarton is hourly expelled here ; how he will be received, and how the matter will end God only knows ; certain it is, that the militia have just receiv n.l a supply of ball cartridve, and orders t be ready at a moment's warning ; expesfled insurrestion of the nef.roes is held oat as the reason of this, but veri little believed." TRitfipskr.—A PeocLaI.IATION. By their Esectlenries Brigadier-Cycneral 'flutioas Picton emaciates, e Samuel }loud. his M.,,csty' ,, Comm ' , loners tin executing the 0thr....:•0f Governor of Tri..id hl. itrc. Whercas it now • appears that Coloacl Will .in Fullatton, his Majesty's first Commiesioner fur thin Goyerontefit, has withdriwit himself therefrotn,• and 'fawn the duties thereof, without Ins Majetty'S.,loave, and without permiw.on from us, nr any consultation wittsnut his Matestv's Council Of this isl..nd—We do, theifore, by and with the adisice of bit Ma jesty's said Council, iiertiliy and d. dare, dud z can-. slur and deem the said William Fultarton nli Ifingsr effici4log as one of lois Majetav's Comuliawioners in the Gsrvernmgi t of and we require all persons, ciyi.ltsl mifitary , to govern theiusalves accord' , gly. Given tinder our bawls and seal", at the Counci.t ehanilier, st Port this twimty-seienth day of Aptil, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and throe, and hi ilia forty-third year of his Majesty's reign. "Priam ss PICT4tN. SAMCIL HOW). By command of their Excellencies, Josern M. WOO AAAAA Sec. Mr. Vander flare, the Amerman Consul* maw Pen, hat distributed the following important document t Extraa front an At t, by Cocizress, imitULtd, s An Act slipple• eatery to tee A- t concerning Consuls. and Vice COOllll6, and :et the fui Qui t foe/twin American Seamen"' " Sec. 9 And be it farther enacted, that alt pbwers of utter uey executed after. the ,IGth day of June nest in a foreign country, fur the transfer °(an! tack of the United Scats.- of Ann-tit:4,ot for the retletpt of interset thereon, the I he vivified by the certihcalt;.. and seal of a consul, vice-cons I, wogs atenialarn., or vileieo none:tit, agent, if any thetelgy at tht roar a where toe mine shall be executed The hoy sent into Yarmouth by the Lailev4. is the Reiderpri, Hoittitg, rro;• Pinurtlettor to Bremen, ttalitthk e b sa nua n jt y t im aad e h a r t/ 1 1)0 e LtviiltawavEfsst.hdias. the insa li n e s a r i t tioa in Jagger. tram China. . **6*__