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• - •-. . . boat on the subjellt. He therefore witlolrew his no. tice, dewing it to he uniitiateod thee he should sub mit it on Friday, If however, his Majesty's Minis ters would assure him there were hopes of a commu. tieation relative to the ftegnajtions with France, he would in each case consent further to defer his mo tion till Tuesday se'nnight. The CHANCELLt)R of the EXCHEQUER—. " It is impossible .for me to say whether I shall be We to make any cemmunicatic'n to the House bee bore. Erislity ; the House, however, may be assured, they as yell As his Mejesty's Government is possess ed of such information, as it is its duty to lay before the !louse no time will be Jost. I wish the notice of the Hon. Gentleman to be distinct and precise : Am I now to consider the notice as provisional; end •that unless some notice or communication should be given previous to Tuesday, he does not mean to bring it nb ? I wish it to be ascertained, not with a view to any personal convenience of my I wn, but for the convenience of others, whether, if there should be no communication the motion will be made on that Jay r • Mr. PATTEN . said he could scarcely give a pre cise answer, but he was in hopes his notice would tot remain over `Tuesday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER— " I wish the Hun. Member to state the condition on Which his bringing forward his motion depends. The Hon. Gentleman said, if a communication should be made the day previous to that for which his motion should stand, he would not bring it on. Will he state that if the communication should be Made on any ether day, what would be the distance of time at which he would bring forward his mo tion?" Mr. PATTF.N replied, that his notice was provi sinnal. If any communication was intended to be made, be did not wish to exclude his Majesty's Ministers from the opportunity of bringing it for ward; but he was not prepared to say whether he could postpone his motion or not. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUF.R— -" Then I understand, that even if no communica tion is made, he will bring forward his motion on Tuesday ; but that if a communication is made so Late as Monday, it would be for him to consider whether he would bring it forward on a future day." General GASCOIGNE observed, that if the Right lion. Gentleman would state that he enter tained a hope of making a communication to the House, perhaps there might be no objeClion to the motion standing over for a further period. Mr. GREY said, he undeistoixl that in one case, namely, a communication being . made between this and the day for which the motion was appointed, the Hon. Gentleman would be at liberty to postpone it ; but he wished to know whether, if no communi cation was made, he would then put off his motion. He understood there was some expectation on the part of his Majesty's Ministers, of a communication. Tiewever this might he, he could not help lamenting a delay, which, under the present circumstances, was as extraordinary as unaccountable; a delay which, in no instance within his remembrance, had tier occurred ; a delay by which the country was kept in a state of ignorance totally unprecedented. Several gentlemen rose, but Mr. SPEAKER ob served, that there was no question before the I pause. Mr. FOX—" If a Gentleman gives a notice, it is St that it should be understood." Mr. PATTEN said, lie gave notice that he should bring forward his motion on Tuesday if there wes no communication made to the I louse. The Committee on the Lunatics' Estate Bill was deferred till Friday next. Leave was given to bi ins in a , Bill for the regu lakes of several Ports in Leland. Nt IT INGHAM Mr. FOX presented a petition from the Mayor and Magistrates of Nottingham, against the Bill pendine in Parliament, and praying to be heard by Counsel. The Honourable Member suggested the propriety of delaying the second reading of the Bill. Mr. BOND observed, there might be objeainns on the part of some of those persons who were in terested in the passing of the Bill. Mr. I. H. BROWNE said, he thought the Mayor and Corporation would have been perfeltly ready. lie had expeited they would present a pe tition, and had distinctly stated that there was time for them to retain Counsel by Wednesday, and lie thought the Hon. Gentleman had acquiesced. He had transmitted the Bill to the Mayor of Notting ham on Friday, that he might be prepared to pre seit the petition, this day, and have Counsel heard on Friday. It might strike the House that the writ one ht not. to issue till the Bill had passed. He should therefore move for its suspension for three weeks, by time he hoped it might be gone through the Houses of Commons and Lords. He could wish not to be under the necessity of further suspending it, but if the Bill was delayed he should be compelled to move to extend the period for is suir.g thy writ. The heat of parties, in tvirise caence of the approaching election, was never so eat at Nottinghans as at this moment. It was material There should be no greater delay than was z‘s.alutely necessary. There had been notice of this pill lrs'sie before the recess ; and the only thing un known *as the precise form in which it WAS to be 4: i awn. _ . Mr. FOX sail, he felt extreme objections to any clay. -• He ianderstood the Mayor had only come tip to town this day to consult Civins-1; there was rri business before the House for Friday nest, and wished this could he postponed till that day.— ) :e .issented to the propc.sition for delaying the issue of the writ. Mr. I. HAWKIN3 BROWNE said, as the Hon. Gentleman acquiesced in delaying the writ, he readily would consent to defer the second reading till Friday. The Petition was ordered to lie upon the Table till . the second reading of the Bill. The Committee on the Coroner's Bill, was de ferred till Wednesday. Sir HENRY MILI)MAY said, that previous to the Christmas recess, a Committee Lad been ap pointed to examine into the abuses in the Navy. It had been sitting now tour mi..nths, and he was a.lsioui to know what progress it had bade. As he saw one of the Committee in his place, he wished to aik him what progress had been made. If no report was presented to the House, he should sub mit a motien on the subjef on Wednesday next. Mr. APIEUREPONT moved for a new writ for the ti Lion of a Knight of the Shire to Notting. Lam, in the room of Lord William Cavendish .- ~. F I El .71+ Bentina, who had accepted the Chiltern Hun dreds. GREAT GRIMSBY ELECTION. Sir INr.. M. RI DLEY moved the Order of the Day 4pr tatimg into further consideration the Report of the Sch., t tont mince on the Great (rimshy El e M on; which being agreed to, he moved that John Simp son, Esq. the Mayor of Great Grimsby, s h ou ld b e _called to the Bar. He was accordingly called to the Bar, and the Report of the Selea Committee was read, stating, that as Mayor and returning Of ficer of Great Grimsby, he had held a Court the day before the EleCtinn for the purpose of admitting certaies persons freemen, whom he aught not to have admitted ; that he had refused to admit those he ought to have admitted, and that he had aced with partiality as a returning Officer. Mr. SPEAKER—" John Simpson what have yea to say on the matter of the charge which has been read to you ?" Mr. Stersost—" I am a poor man, an.l have a wife and five children. I rent a small farm of a-year, and I am to quit to 1. of it on the I 2:11 of MAY. What I did was through ignorance ; I ask pardon of the House for my offence, and submit to its merev." ' Sir M. W. RIDLEY said, the offence of the person at the Bar had struck his mind at one of the most atrocious complexion, and he had determined to press upon the House the necessity of a very ex. emplary punishrmat ; but what Mr. Simpson had stated, had disarMed him ,• from his situation and appearance he was induced to believe his offence had arisen from misapprehension. He concluded by moving the Resolutions of the Selea Committee, which were agreed to by the House. He then moved, that John Simpson, Esq. should, for his of fence, be committed to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms. The Order of the Day was moved for the Report of the Edinburgh Road Bill to be taken into consi deration. General MAITL.A.ND opposed it, and wished it should be recommitted ; he observed, that improve ments wete purchased at a dear rate, when they were purchased by injustice : tEe farmers had, for 50 years, been exempted hem taxes for the repair of the roads, and he ir.•.frof opinion that this Mea sure would operate mttelt to their injury. The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND supported the Bill ; he thought the farmers, who derived an advantage from the roads ought to bear part of the expense cf them. The tar, he contended would ultimately fall on the consumer. Mr. DICKINSON, jun. was against the Bill. The carriage of manure was, he observed, in gene ral exempt irons taxation. Sir WM. MILNER was against the Bill, because it went to accommodate the gentry, at the expence _ of the farmers. Mr. BOBFRT DUNDAS was strenuously for the Bill ; aall said, the manure enriched the far mers, by producing abundant crops for the Edin burgh market. Mr. KINNAIRD was against the Bill, because he considered it a tax on agriculture. Sir WM. PULTENEY spoke in favour of the Bill. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, when the division on the question for the further considera tion of the Bill, was negatived by majority of 65 to t 4 ; and General Mai.knd's motion for recommit ment was then carried.—Adjourned. THEATRE-RIrAL, DRUR ANE. THIS EV ENING will be preformed a New Comedy cuilod THE MARRIAGE PROMISE. The Chimelen by Mr. C. Kemble, Mr. Dwyer, Mr. Dow ton, Mr Hollingsworth, Mr. Ilanniiter, jun. Mr. Palmer, Mr. Pope, Mr. Powell, Mr. Purser, Mr. Evans. Mrs. Powell, Mot Mellott, Ma. Jordan, Mrs. Sparks, Mrs. Igaddocks. The Prologue to be spoken by Mr. Dwyer, Te which will be added. THE SPOIL'D CHILD. 7 ;I r .4T RE-Rorit, COVENT-GARDEN. Tin% LI'ENING will be pre:wilted 1 New Comedy called JOFIN BULL; Or, AN ENGLISIIMAN't FIRE-SIDE. The principal CbaraCters by Mr. 1..-wiry Mr. Cooke, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. 11.3 , illuiton, Mr. Waheltard, Mr. Emery, Mr. Waddy, Mrt Mes. rOWVI, and 5416 4 Marriott. The Prologue to be spoken by Mr. Brunton. With a l yrieal Epilogue by Mr..loliiiitotte. Tu uhich will be added, THE MAID OF THE MILL.. TO CORRESPONDENTS. .7orresreesitrats see reque.teit to atklresit their Communications bir this Papa to the Editor, at the Office, Salisbury-square. ‘: - THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL '26. 11111 ILIA th , tblic Although yesterday was a v at the put. offices, the critical state of public affairs colleacd numerous acsemhly at the Stock Exchange. The public mind seemed to have recovered a little from the panic of Friday aft&noon, and private sales were made at tis, 6.51, tis.—The money and the May prices were the same. No circumstances have come to our knowledge that justify this increase of con fidence. The contents of the dispatches received on S,tt:orday, of course have not transpired ; but it is very evident that they were not such as the Minister expected on Tuesday last. The Privy Council that sat upon them did not rise until five o'clock; but Mr. DRES!iINS, the Messenger, left town about three fur Paris ; and at seven the same evening, Mr. MASON, another Messenger, was sent to th►e Hague This bustle and aCtivity did not evince the conclusion of a dispute, nor any thing of the de cisive nature which the public were taught toexpeCt. But if any 'doubt remained upon the subject, the conversation which took place last night in the House of Commons would be sufficient to dispel it. The gallery was crowded with strangers, expeCting that Mr. ADD !TWIGS would make his promised communication. No such conmsunication, however, was made; and all that can be c(..l!ected from what passed, is, that he thinks it prob Able he may be able to make it before Tuesday next. Under the infli 'nee of that presumption, Mr. PATTEN postponed his motion on the state of the nation until that day. No besiness, therefore, of any importance, will be discussed in the House of Commons during the-re mainder of this month, but the first week of May is expected to produce much warm and interesting debate. We think it, however, very probable that Mr. PATTEN'S motion may suffer another adjourn ment. Those who have studied the temper and policy of the present French Government are not very san- T rise in their hopes that matters will be brought to an issue even on Tuesday next. While all the objects of the l'ozsr CONSCI. can be attained by negotiation and del.!y, lie will not be anxious to bring things, liv war, to an inuncJiate conclusion. The Oppo sition know this, and therefore are not over zealous to press the Minister. They think they may allow him as much time as he can reasonably ask, be cause they cape& nothing but evasion and delay; and, despairing in a satisfolory issue, they feel that every hour encreases the weight of responsi bility. The reports circulated since the arrival of • the dispatches on Saturday, arc of a nature that fa vours this view of the subjeCl. Lord WH I T WORTH is said to have experienced another burst of passion from the FIRST CONSUL. In a conversation upon the de mands of the English Cabinet, BONAPARTE is said to have asked his Lordship, if he wished that he should put himself at the head of. 500,000 men, and over whelm this country ?LordVs' u env° itTitasked whether he was to consider it a mere private conversation, or should transmit it to his Court ? To which the list. Comet. replied, that his Lordship might use his own discretion. It is also reported, that this in terview was immediately followed by orders dis patched to the several ports of France, to expedite the naval preparations ; and that the public mind is worked up to a very high degree of irritation and enmity against this country, from a con viCtion artfully produced that the whole blame of the present misunderstanding rests with England, in . her refusal to execute the Treaty of Amiens. We do not pledge ourselves for the truth of t'iese re ports ; but without going that length, we must con si‘kr them of importance. Our situation is me lancholy indeed, if we must set about preparing for war whenever BONAPARTE chuses to be in a passion. Such, however, is the growing senti ment in this country, ,or such reports would be subjects of ridicule and not of serious consideration and belief. It is one of the evils that necessarily arise from despotism, but it is also an evil that may be reduced by a bold and firm demeanour on the part of those with whom it comes in contact. We cannot, however, state the case fairly, without ad verting to both sides of the question, and therefore, we must admit that a report of a contrary nature has also its supporters. It has been said, with some degree of confidence, that the subsisting differences with France have assumed a more pacific aspeet; and that no serious difficulty stands in the way of a complete adjustment. The improved state of the Funds yesterday is in favour of this supposition, but we see nothing else that gives it an air of credibility. Yei,terdny we received the Paris papers of the• 'l'hey contain no intelligence of much im portance. At Brest, Ghent, and other places, the rumours are said to be more pacific ; but they rest entirely upon letters received from London. Th'ey were sent to France the beginning of last week.. when our readers remember the hopes of peace be gan to revive. An article from Brest of the 14th, states, that there has not been these ten years less aetivity at Brest than at the present moment. The French Funds are steady. • The long-expeeted A mbassa:lor from the Court of Spain, the Chevalier D'Arsot:Aca, has arrived: He landed at Dover, on Sunday, with his suite. - A letter from Gibraltar, of the 3d instant, says,. 44 The French are arming most adively in all the ports in the Mediterranean, and are purcha'si'ng naval stores at any price. By the last accounts from Toulon, they were then paying as high as four livrcs a foot for ship-amber. Yesterday morning arrived a mail from New-' York atut halifax, brought to Falmouth by the Owen Charlotte racket, in seventeen days from Ha- Wax. • On Sunday afternoon the Purser; of the Lady* Jane Ando: and Walthanutow arrived at the East :lndia House. Passengers by the Lady Jane Dandru,—Colonel and Miss HAMA MAN; Capt. BRIM°, DAVID VAN• iIN II k: V DLN, J. FLEMING, and P. Texvcs, Esqrs. Mess. Bo srow and !tort; am. Passengers by the Walthanutow,—Lieut. Colonel revues; ;Nlistresses, Cot:KAI. RN, HOLLAND, Ai- BUT!, BUJ CASEMI:NT ; T. COCKBURN, W. CUN NINGIWW, T. CAO:NENT, T. BAILLIE, and J. GAttoiNLis., Esqrs.; Lieut. PAriacKsoN, and Mr. GOoDu.% Passeit , zers by theTillicherry,—Major-General Po r 'Wv NY Aau and Lady, Mrs. GIL- Ha NI, Lieut. COI. LET, and Lieutenants BILECH F. and CUNNINGHAM. A Portsmouth letter, dated on Saturday, noticing the statements in some of the London papers, says, " The London papers state, that the exertions in Plymouth 1)ock-T.ard are relaxed. We have intelli gence contradiAing that statement; ard at this port the exertions are as unremitting as at any time du ring the present discussion with France ; the s hip.. wriBhts, &c.- will Bor k even to-morrur ." t OXFORD, A am 23. Wednesday, the first day of Easter Term, the • Rei. Richard Dixon, of Queen's College ; It. Mayne, and C. R Cameron, of Christ Church, Bachelors of Arts, were admitted Masters o Arts. Messrs. Henry Gahagan, of Christ Church ; Henry John Symons, Joesph Heath, and John James, of St. John's College; and John Will ':on, of Lincoln College, were admitted B. A. The same day, in convocation, the Rev. Brian Broughton, of New College, and the Rev. Richard Michell, of Wadham Colleg e, Masters of Arts, were admitted Proctors. The Rev. Edward Allen, of Worcester College ; Robert Ralph Smith, of New College ; Robert B. Gardiner, and George Swayne, of Vsradham College, Masters of Arts, Pro-Pringoi c. Yesterday the Rev. Edward Royld, Master of Arts, of Exeter College, was admitted Bachelor in Divinity ; and Mr. James Hoare Christopher Moore, Bachelor of Arts, of Magdalen Colley:, was ad mitted Master of Arts. The Right Hon. Lord Heathfield has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Benjamin Churchill, A. M.' Fellow of Queen's College, in this Univer sity, one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains. A letter from an officer at Trinidad, says, , g Oa the 13th of February his Majesty's ship Centaur, Capt. Li raarai A L ES, arrived at this island, with the 37th regiment of foot, from St. Vincent ; and the next day the troops disembarked. On the 21 . st the Blenheim, Commodore Hoon, Cept. M ►Tsow, an chored here, with Gen. GRIP:F . I:mi), the Commie der in Chief, Brigadier MAITLANL, CoL Sete ai.v, of tha Engineers, and Major Wiasus of the Artil. •lery, to inspect the troops and fortifications of the island. On the lath of March, the General and his suite embarked on board the Centaur, and sailed for Grenada, from whence they will proceed to visit the other islands under his command. The Excellent, of 74 guns, Captain NASH, will take to Lngland the 1 4th and 57th regiments." His Nfairary's ships Dragon, Altgator, and Pre' voyana, on their passage from Gibraltar to Englana, on the Hth instant, fell in with two French line t f battle ships, off Cape St. Vincent, standing to the. southward ; one of them bore a Rear-Admiral's Flag, and the other a broad Pendant. Upon their discovering the British ships, they hauled their wind to the westward. Admiral GA al emit proceeds shortly to New foundland, and is to hoist his flag on board the his, of 50 guns, Captain Lo al. Several regiments of horse and foot, in England and Scotland, are under orders for Ireland. A. troop of fly-inc.-horse-artillery will be stationed at Fermoy barracks • The Prince of Wales, of 98 guns, was on Saturday ordered into commission, and Capt. Grasataio ap pointed to command her. Captain Saav le, of Durham, has received per mission, from the Lord Lieutenant to raise a corps of Volunteer Iniantry ; nearly 100 last week offcted their services to any part of the Northern District. The journeymen ship Wrights of Leith have de clared themselves ready, if it should be considered necessary by his Majesty's Ministers, or in the event of threatened or a&ual invasion, to work the artil lery on shore in any fort or battery belonging to his Majesty, betwixt Berwick -upon - Tweed and Newhaven. This offer of service has been accepted by Government. The Projea of Law respecting the establishment of a National Bank in France, has been passed in the Legislative Body by a majority of Isa votes to 63. Damages for Crim. Con. are unknown in France, and yet the admirers of Doctors' Commons might insist, the offence is full as common in Paris as in London. But where there is nothing lost, who can claim compensation ? The regulations also with re spell to Voluntary Divorces render Doctors' Com- • mons' process quite nugatory. Every day's news paper presents examples of persons declared divorced • pour contrariete d'huracur ;" and " incompatibilite chs cara&re." The only drawback on matrimonial freedom of eleaion is that by the new code ; when once married,. you cannot complain sooner than after two years trial ; nor at all, if you have en dured the ""corstrariete.& incompatibilite" for twenty. A woman may not be divorced, if she is forty-eight or upwards ; nor in any case, is an adulterer or an adulteress allowed to intermarry with the person whose intimacy has been the cause of the previous divorce. Yesterday morning about eight o'clock, Corpora LYNN of the second battalion of the artillery, was shot at Woolwich Warren, for having deserted from three several regiments ; the procession from the prison was as follows : fit st, drums and fifes ; se cond, prisoner ; then six marines • and lastly the baud. The prisoner sheaved not the least signs of dismay or contrition, and even the moment before his execution he smiled, and said, without the least concern, it was the happiest day of his life. He sat. duwu on the coffin, and the marines appointed for the purrse tired and killed him instantly. On aunday afternoon one of the heaviest showers of hail almost ever remembered, fell in the neigh bourhood of Windsor, particularly about Colebrook and Percy Lodge ; the force of the hail-stones was such as to pierce the leaves of the cabbages and other plants, as though they had been shot at : the ground was completely cover d, nearly to the depth of a person's shoes; it was accompanied by tre menduous thnider and lightning. The gardener's glasses and frames have suffered very much, and great part of the wall and other fruits are, it is feared, destroyed. Yesterday the II tai Light Dragoons had a grand field-day on Ashford Common. Yesterday evening as a gentleman was driving two ladies, in a one-horse chaise, in Fleet -street, a hackney-coach ran against it, and broke both the shafts in two; the gentleman and ladies were thrown out, but fortunately they were not much hurt. On Saturday evening Wtottax Newroe was ape prehended on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Mr. S FEEL S, and sent to town by Lt. Col. RAY, from Uxbridge: he was examined the same evening, and yesterday morning, by Sir RICHARD FORD, at the latter of which the different parties attended from the country, as well as Mr. 1; uutocx, the surgeon belonging to Hounslow Barrack;, when it clearly appearing he was limo. cent of the charge, he was set at liberty.—From Mr. Be utocicas description of the persons whom he supposes to have committed the murder, there is reason to think the said Wituste Ntwroaes bro. ther is equally Innocent.