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P F ME •~ , 1 , r IRO ' ÜBE OF LORDS. •aatDAT, M. 4. i r. 111PTRILL I'ARLUNIZAT, The LORD CHANCELLOR acipkainted the w lase, that the Clerk Assistant had Lad' the list of the names of Peers eligible to be. Memhets, under the East India Judicature' • , ski inble, agrertble to the directions of that ; nod that the me list•vreni&-beepened as hiceresy asst. 7111 niti ttre. the Lord.Bhhop of St. ASAPH wasupaohis traidloost from the See of Rochester, and also theilightsievahe Lord Bishop of Hereford upon his translation from the See of Gloucester, between do Bids" of Chichester and Rochester, and took the oaths. The proper officer from she Commissioners of the National Debt presented the annual account of the same, which was ordered to lic on the table. Two more petitions against the Woollen Manu factory -Bill were presented, on one of ul.ich Conn sc.l arc to be heard. MOP 'IRISH BISHOPS'. The LORD CHANCELLOR-lei the Wool sack to call their Lordships attention to a subject. sthich appeared to him to De of importance enough to require immediate attentien, as it invoiced the first nrinciple of the constitution cf Parliament, viz, that care should be taken that the House should be full It related to the right to their seats of the A rchiepisceral Lords cf that • part of the United Kirgdom called Ireland. Feeling its im portance, lie had thotsght it his duty to cull the attention r f the Houle to it en an early day pre vious to the recess, but in concequence of the ab sence of two ileble and learned Lords, owing to in disposition, (Lords Thtirlow and Rosslrii) the e,nestion hail net vet been decided ; he had then • stated, that a nnestion had arisen during the last Pa:livnent; whether tl:c In. hhishop of Cashel was entitled to a teat in that I louse during the Session in ..-hich he rat. The A:1: of Union had piosided, that a certain number of the Spiritual Lords of I relard should be entitled to sit -brrotation, and that he took to- be the sole object of the.enactenent 4 the Act of Parliament ; hut the Act did net ap pear t-+ `hare provided, or foreseen the necessity of provid;a; Against a vacanay, by death or other wise, aceurrit4g 11 , (teeen the issuing the free andthe ;corn of the writ. Another di.licultr, also, had aricen, respeetirg the writs to be issued to the Lords .pirictial the Disheps. Tl.e Ac: did n( t, in terms, ..press in :what manner the four Bishops, whose tarn it WAS to sit, should be sue:ironed, hisoranch th-tt they were t-etrewhat purzled -themselves to low upon whom the right of sitting deveved. 1 ... v the Act, all Abe Temper.:l Lords of •Irrlard, en to sears, were to he summoned indnidnally, hr or.ly four WI - 4S Were directed to be issued to the tour Spiritual Lords, who were to sit in rotation. 'Their Lerdstip would readily go with him, in the •knowled,le that the writs directed to the Spiritual Lords d:ffered in their contents from those issued to the Lords Temporal ; as the former.referred to the several matters with which tire Lords Spiritual alone were conneetcd. These several doubts. his lord 'hip said, eraght to be raneved, and any Mitre difficulty, of a similar nature., .preverred; he thertfae should move, that so much of the Act of the Union 'with Ireland, as refers to the right of the Lads knitual -c.f that .part the United Kingdom called Ireland to their seats in the I louse 4.1 Lords, be referred to the consideration of -the Cernmittat of Privileges, and that the said Corn-. mime sit on Thursday next for that purpose." 116 Lordship( put the question from the 'Woolsack, ac ccrelingli. Ordered. Mr. Gaanast, the Inspector of Convicts, -pre. sensed the Annual Accounts of them, and their dis posal in rusnance of the Statute. Ihe Appeal Cause, Lawson v. Ma x well, was,. 911 motion, ordered to be heard on Monday next. Adjourned till Monday, at tom o'clock. IICV:;1:. OF COMMONS. tun Av. I Tl'e ST E.tKEll took the at half pal_ th:le o'clock, and continued swearing in the new r. till four. Genet al GASCOIGNE prey_Tte-1 a petition from the Corporation of Li 7erpor.l, for lc.urc to erect t.s.w Docks ar.d rnalte roads Im!ing to foe same. Re ferred to a Committee. The Aneual Accounts of the Commissioners for the Iteduction of the National Debt, ending 31st January 1803, were presented, and urdered to be bid upon the table. The Accounts o! Mr. Adam Graham, Inspntor of convicts on the river Thames and :n Portsmouth, were presented, and ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. WILLI:01 DUNDAS ga7e notice, that be Lhould, on Monday, mote to enlarge the time for receiving private petitinns, one wee!: tardier. General GASCOIGNE moved there should be laid before the House, an Account of the number of Vessels, and the amount of their Tonnage, together with the number of men and boys employed in the transport service and armed ships, bets\ een the sth of January 1801 and the sth of January 1803, dis tinguishing each year. SANK OF ENGLAND. VANSIII'ART moved, that ihere should be laid before the Howe an account of the Notes of the Bank of England in circulation an the Ist of Wolper 1802, the let of November IHOI2, and the Ist linuary ISO% distinguishing such as were un der five poend,. Mr. I'I.EICNEY suggested, that merely to tale the a.ccounn fir the last three mouths would t o i n . *efficient. Ile thought it v..ould-br mor e p ro p er to have them commence from the period the hut were presented, which he believed was about a year ago. Mr. vANsirrAß'r said, he had no objection to taking the account , : from any particular period; he, however, pm-tuned it would he quite sufficient to state them at every three months. Mr. T11:10ZEY intimated that this mode would not convey all the information I.e wanted. He had been tolithitludoltPnoecurred,that there had been a great issue of notes within very short periods, especially when any parlicular or extraordinary news had reached this country. I !t• was of opinion, there fore, there *mid he a geoeral re urn of the whole transactions of the , Bank, with regard to the issue its note. for the las! twelve months.- He was not actuated by improper trasan, of curiosity, but ; , . 3 mak Jkillid sot ow lisimilsti4ctilied Wire& ‘ uu . . - without • . . * . . • • . , , 1 . vo lt i 41beirish: of i ti ;• . 1 ..•• tO • . • - • •:'. . 6 . • Be art • . ,• .to • i -to ovidy Mo. in .o' dus.in • .• • - • • '• die making • them out would be a •• - '•• •usere .siiiiiculty, sind.weuld occasion dela . .With regard ! o the oh.. iesvutige rade- sty di i • ons -Member, of sudden • no i nercizi ad =weal issue 4 of in consequence of ex traordinary political or c occurrences, he: should be happy, at all time, to meet him on the subject, and he had no doubt he should convince lira of the contrary. • Mr. TIERNEY said, he intended no injurious in sinnation—far from it; but he had been infortmd that what he had alluded to had taken place upon souse sudden events of a public nature transpiring. If the fact was so, it might become necessary to as certain the cause of the unusual liberality of the Bank In the issue of their notes. In fact, he was desirous the accounts should be made out from month to-mouth, as fully as they were before the Commit tee of the House to whom it was referred to engnire into the general concerns of the Bank. He thought too the accounts ought to be brought 4own to the present period. He further desired to be- informed, whether he was to understand that the Paper now moved for was to be the only ground for the renewal ' of the restriction with regard to the payments by the Bank in specie ? •Mr. VANSITTAIIT replied, that he was not aware of any other Paper that would be laid befine the House ; at the same time he was ready to uss.un• the Hon. Gentleman, that every other ini,rniati,.:l v isich could throw light upon the subject woull most readily be given. He had apprehended that the accounts for every three months would have beets sufficient; but if the Hon:Gentleman suf,iso , ied there. had been an ex . traordinary issue of Bank notes at any particular period, and would point it out, he could have no objeEtion to the account cf such ex traordinary issue being laid upon the table prepara tory to the discussion of the subjeet. But it appeared to him, that as the Hon. Gentleman's apprehension of the fact was so vague and undefined, it would be better for the House to take the account as it had been moved, until he should hare obtained such in formation as would enable him to bring forward a specific Motion. lie could not admit that he was in possession of any other Paper than the one-lie had moved for, but if the Hon. Gentleman brought for ward any-proposition, founded upon the sup poskion of further information being necessary, it would be for the House to consider the propriety of acceding to it. _ _ • -- --- The Motion was put in an amended state, thus : That there should be laid before the Ifous:r an Armful of the Notes of the Governor and Company of the Kink sf rand, in circulation on the Ist June ISO?, the bit Ant:. 1802, the Ist Oct. 1802, thz Ist 1)•x ltft/tr, and the 1.4 Feb. ,listusguishing the amount of those below tose value of 51. ANNUAL ACCOUNTS OF IRELAND. Mr. CORRY crowed there should be !Aid before the House the following Annual Account - s relating to the Revenues of Ireland: An Account of the . ordinary , IL...Pane and extriordinary Resources conitituting the Public Income of Ireland, from the sth ofJanuiry 1802, to the sth of January - 1803. An Account of the Consolidated Fund of freland for the year endhag the sth of 'urinary 10103. An Account of the Arrears and Balances in the Meets of the Collwtors for the year ending the sth of January 18W). .An Account of the Value of all Imparts and Exports in and franc Ireland during the year ending the sth of January 1803. An Account of the Number of Vessels, and the Amount of their Tonnage, built and registered in the Ports.of holm* be tween the sth ofJantoary 1802, and the Stli of January 1503. An -Amount tithe Number of Vowels, and the Amount of their Tonnage, with the Number of Men and Boys employed in them which belonged to Ireland, on the 30th of Septein bei 1102. _ . _ _ . An Account of Nrectiel., and the Anviimt of their Tonnage, which ay...rem:tit:lll Inwards, or cleared Outward., to ie;y part of the World, from the 701 of .latiiwy 1802, to the sth of Jaita• ary from any of the Ports of Ireland, distinguishing thoia belonging to !retintf. An Account how the Mmes. in the Eschequar for the •ter yiee of Ireland, from the !ith nt January 180:4 to the :..th of J4llll.ltV 1&03, had bent applied. Au Acuitint of the Publi': Funded Debt of Ireland to the rich of January ISOI, dlititizointing the years in which it had been ereatt:4l, and tha: fund.. M ts hick it had br-cn invested. An Ae-trnint of the Cntund Debt and Outstanding De m...turfi out freiats,l, t • the sth of Jarritary Iko3. An Account sitewine how the Nfoney raised for the serviceti of Ireland fw the rear 18::2 b.ten dispotred of. .An At-eount of the application of 54,41361. 13 , . 4d. Irish currenry, gratiteit I:1 the la , t Sesf.jonS of Parliament, for defray- - in: the Civil and contingent Expencei of Ireland for the year Igo2. An Account of the application of 3”,0001. Irish cm - renew, rm:nixt In the 13.4 Sessions of Par:iametit, towards riefrainry, the E-xtraord:rntry .Seryicts of the Army in Ireland fur the year ; and An 'runt of the Itimors and Exports of Ireland, from the lot of .I..linry•l6ot, to the INt of January tBO2. These account!, were severally ordered tot be pre pared and laid upon the table. MT. CORBY gave notice, that on Mon&ay next, in the Committee- of Supply, he should move the or ' dinary grants of the Sessions for Ireland. lie also gave notice, that on the same day lie should more for taking into consideration certain acts relative to the revenues of Irclar.d, with a view to altering, amending,, and rendering the same per manent. The- Committee. of Frupply and \Vays nci. which stood as Orders of the Day, werepostNned till Nlontiay. Adjourned till Monday. TffEzTIRE-RGrA•L, DRURT-1,41VE. Tfllti EVENING wig be re...fitect a New Comedy called HEAR ROTH Character 13 , 4 Mr. Dowton, Mr. 13 tnoist.:r, Juu. Mr. C. Leinht.', Mr. itay.nontl, Ntr S.tett, Mr. W•oughtoti, Mr. C:ltvry. Mr. %Vowitv..r. Mr. Co PIN I llft , and Junlan Tht: Vrolutue t , ) ue poken by Mr. Aatinitvr, Jou. and the 4i:utue by Mr:. Jurrtm. To which v, ill be :Well, LOVE ANI) TIACTC._ 71:;. New Contedy will be perfArnied every Evening till fur ther notice, with the new PAttinnirne. THEffRE-ROr4L, •COPENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will bt performed the Comic Opera of FAMILY QUARRELS. The principal eliara, - t..rs by Mr. Prraltam, Mr. Mundell, Mr. H!anchard, Mr. Emery, Mr. B:yerlv, Mr. Simmons, and Mr. Incledon; Mrs. Mattocks, Mrs. St. Leger, Mrs. Dibdin, Miss Waddy, AM Signora Storace. To whith will he added, the new Melo-Drame, called A TALE 'OF MYSTERY. • Orr Morel:::., will ha revived the the Tragedy of Venice Pre•-ryed—.Patfier by the Young Gentleman who performed girt of Othello, beinpr his 4th appearance on any Star.. T (;:nittlemaii who periotined the Character of l lamlet, on Wedoesday, for the ttret time, way received with unbounded applause, anal will repeat that Character on Wednesday next. A N•qr o.metly r-h-at 41. Tuz.4ll _l-_s • Yesterday lee‘seeeived the Paris Tapers vp to the 'lst. inst. Szaarrrxst has returned to Paris, and matte a report of his tour to the FtftET Cossut.-- TMs document occupies - ten columns of a Sup plement to the Moniirur, and, as it is an ar ticle that cannot fail to excite much interest in this country, we regret that our limits confine Qs to merely an abridgment of its contests. — Sea AST TANI . first visited Tripoli, from whence he went to Egypt and Syria, arid returned to Fran:e by the Republic of the Seven Islands.—Through this tour, in which he has skirted all the principal tountries ef the Levant, k is , impossible for an Eng- lisp eye to follow him without j+calousy and dissatis faftion.—The onensihle purpose of his mission to Egypt, was the establishment of commercial re. lotions; but nobody in this country • ever sup posed that it hail not an ulterior object. The report states, that he carried out n crder from the Minister for Foreign ATairs to demand the im niediatt: evacuation of Alexandria by the English troops, conformably with the trcraty of Amiens, to which demand General Srutote answered, that he had no order; from his Court to that etTetft, 'and that he believed he should even pass the Wintcr there. This communierztion took plttcc on the IGth of Oc tober. Having fulfilled this object of his mission, the report goes on to state, thzt he proceeded to visit, - - in succession, the P.tcha of Alexandria and the Pacha of Cairo, to whom he communicated the FIRST COVFI.I.'S intention of establishing commer- cial Agents in their respective Governments ; an offer which was received, on their part, with the expressions . of gratitude and joy. His next visit was to DJSZZAR PACHA at. Acre, who also gladly acceded to his commercial propo sition ; and from thence he went to Zante, where his arrival produced such ati enthusiasm of joy, he hesitates not to assure the Fir:sr CoNsut. that the lonian Islands are ready at a moment's notice to declare themselves French. While, how ever, commerce is every where the first word in Citizen Sze/ariaNi's month, even a cursory perusal of the report would be sufficient to slim -that there is another &jai much nearer to hisiteart. The word " Liberty" appears to be worn out in French recommeudatious, and to be succeeded by " Corn- merce,"•birt the meaning is still the same. While, therefore, Cki,en SEHASTIANI traverses Egypt, _ -- - Syria, and the Islands of the Levant, with proffers of commerce, he takes especial care to avoid any enquiry into the state of trade and manufactures. and examines the country with 4 , a soldier's eye."— The strength and situation of the various•forts, even the most inconsiderable, arc examined with the most minute precision. The di positi, n of the inhabi tants in general towards the French, is every where sounded, and the character, principles, and talents of every man of influence in the country, are every where cautiously inquired and accrrrately ascer tained. Fortunately for his hopes, he every where finds the strongest attachment to the FIRST CONSUL. His visit to Egypt is remembered with gratitude. The astrologers are constantly employed in consulting his destinies, and a sight of his portrait every where excites an enthusiasm of joy. On the other hand, the Natives are jealous of the English, and urgent for their departure, while the latter envy the friendship evinced for France, and even General STUART he.s recourse to intrigue, in order to damp the brilliancy I of S: E AST I A NI ' S reception and to expose him to insult. In this flourishing statement we meet, however, one admission which must be considered very unfavour able to France. He tells the Paella. of Cairo, that the FIRST CO . NSCL has charged him to offer his me diation between him and the Beys, but this office is refused upon the ground that the Porte had given ordeis that no accommodation would be acceded to, 1 —a pretty plain proof that the Porte, aware of the object of Sri:as-I.IA N l ' s visit, had taken care to shut. the door against all French -interference.—But the most remarkable part of this Report is the nine that it holds, and the interest, which it affeds for the Peolae of Egypt. SEBASTIAN! is not in struded to address them as the sajeas of art iatle pendent Power—lt is au afiWtionate Father enquir ing into the state of a. darling family, lung lost to his embrace. .He sends his love, he prefers his prayers, he promises his prottllion. Nothing is too trivial for enquiry. The interest which he feels-gives impor tance to every thing that concerns them. General LASNES, whdlately returned under such extraordinary circumstances from Lisbon, and was supposed to have inctured the FIRST CoNsues dis pleasure, ' has taken leave, oni, his appoinuneut to re sume' hie Embassy at that Capital. This event is auaouneed, b b the OfScial Journal, in terns that amount to a panegyric upon his. forma conduct. — The FIRST CONSUL recommends to him, to do jus tice, and to protect the French trade at I.:sbon, ca he had began to du in the 4rst year icf his mission. We must therefore presume that the charge of enema- t agistatilScit traffic twthe Injury a( the Portnvese feientse, :the cause which report assigned for his re. crl, has proved to be without foundation. The Monirrrr also contains a long,. false, and ex aggerated accomst of the late riot at Gibraltar, in which it is stated, there was an engagement of an hour and a (limner, in which 80 men were killed and 200 wounded. It appears, by letters from Naples, thaskaiwale... gency of Algiers had declared war against Denmark, and ordered the Danish Consul to leave Algiers in three days. The French Charge d'Affaiies terfered, and represented to the DEY that such. conduct would be highly displeasing to the Farr CONSUL. This remonstrance give Preat offence to the My, who at first threatened to send the French Agent away .in company with the Danish Consul; - but the busine,i appears now to heir a train of ac— commodation. The French Of Style has been changed within the hot few days ; the Alps of Government used to commence thus--" The Commis of the Re publc decree," &c.—lt is now, ,! The Coveril. ment of the Republic decree," &c. • 'filelic Council of War, that machine • vented by Field Marshal I.Asoy, and composed of siu:h heteroueneous parts, appears by Letters front 'Vienna, to be at length broken to pieces. The. : Austrian Monarchy is indebted for this great woe: to the firtnnessandwisdom of the Archduke Cita tks, who had such fatal experience of its want of energy, . promptitude end capacity . in the late.war: • A letter from Venice of the l'2.th of January st that at that date, the Engii'h had no of ating Malta, or could any. idea b.-. formed of the period when that event would take place. 1 The Flllld4 have risen to 37. 25. • Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the• Fast India House, which adjourned at six o'clock, till Wednesday. The journal de Paris of the.Sist January, men tions the departure of Mr. BENJAFIEL n, Private Se cietaly. to Lord WmiTworrn, for-England, and says, that be is.orclered by Dr. MACLAUkI N, . sician to the English EMDA.SSY, to make use of the Bath waters for two or three months. His Excel- - lency, who has entertained a particular friendship and esteem for his respectable countryman for a - number years, consented to his 'departure only, in hopes of seeing him soon sufficiently recovered to resiarne a situation, of which his momentary absent& • deprives him neither of the title nor the emolu ments. Accounts from Vienna, of the 20th January, state, that the new military organization projected by the Archduke CEIA.I.ES, has been published there and in the other great cities of the Austrian Monarchy. and notified to all the various corps that compose the Imperial army, and that it has been generally approved by the public opinion. Bavaria being obliged to cede to the Grand Duke of Tuscany the distria of Eiehstett, will be freed from all the annuities with which she should be charged according to the original plan of indemnity. Such a compensation, however, being insufficient for the loss which she sustains by this cession, she has made pressing sal:citations at Paris to obtain the towns of Nuremberg and Augsburg, as part of the• • indemnities assignt:d to her; but it is understood, that her instances, on this head, though supported by the King of Prussia, and by Austria herself, have not been able to make any change in the determin ation of the First Consul, relative to the principle , : adopted in the ?lan of indemnity, touching the im- perial towns. The part •of the Bishopric of Eichstett, destined for the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, contains abut 50,000 Lthahltants,and affords a revenue of above :;00,000 florin% This territory being entirely sepa rate from all the others granted to this Prince, it is supposed that Austria means to avail herself of it only, as the me:tns.of obtaining ultimately, by the way of exchange, what she has failed of obtaining directly is the course of the late negotiations. A . letter from Vienna, dated 13th January, con- tains the following paragraph :—" It appears cer " min that the English have no thoughts of eva " crating Egypt. The Brother:, BETHMAN, of ig Frankfort. have just sent. considerable sums to " Mr. A RTII.VOt PAGET, the English Minister here. " who has furthered. them to Constantinople, to be " employed in paying the English army in Egypt." A Consular Decree of the DWI January appoints as Foreign Asscciates, of the First Class of tliilnsti tute, or Gass of Physical . and. Mathematical Sci ences,— . Nt,s4s. Rinks, Rfasketyne, CAvenclish, and Herschel, at I.naJon, Pritstley in. Apncnca, lianas in Russia, and Conut Rumford at Munich. The narnrs.of Jefferson iu Americ.,„ Vi:: aad Rt. licll as.,, Loa L.n.:Ziebur iu U..innark, lleyne at Goteargen, Witleford at Calcota, Clopsiock• at Ilamhurgh. and Wieland at Saxe-Weimar appear as foreign associates ur the Third thaqt-the Class of I listory and Ancient Lite.ra tor.. A letter, from Gibraltar, translated from the Parts papers, 'gives an account of theinutiny, which the . accounts we have previously obtained prove to be incorrect. From that account, however, it clearly appe..4rt that his Royal Highness the Governor con ducted himself throughout the whole business wit: the utmost coolness, de-termination, and courage. Au article under the head of Batisbon, in the French papers, gives in detail the votes of the dif ferent Ministers on the subject of the indemnities. We have been for a considerable time in possession of• aIL the information which this article communi cates, and that is, that the general plan of the in demnities which has at last been fixed on, meets with the approbation of the panics principally interested. Some arrangements are still to be made respecting ' the mode in which the votes of the Catholic and Protestant Princes is to be - settled. • An augmenta tion of the Catholic votes will be .admitted hut. there is betwixt the Imperial, Prussian, and Saxon Ministers a difference as to the principle on which this is to be estahlish.ed. The Imperial Minister wishes it, to be considered as an arrangement .ori ginating fro:n religious considerations, while the others contend that it is framed' solely on principle of civil policy. I "TM i I .PAP LONDON, . S.ATURDAY, Fs'. 5. bib.