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IMPSNAL PARLIAMENT. SOUSE OF I.olCDS—lfols DAT, 'vim it; . . liana gnioraEastv. Af.t,sa. . Tiat was an appeal agataist the decision of the • (;eurt of tleanen in Seiv.latid, 'upou an iusaraure case. %herein it appeared titl, the Respondent had' canoed to he insured a certath ship from Charles- tou, to America, to the Clyde. Tlia Lord Advu tate and Serjcatit 7,1 m-shall were Counsel for the Appellant, and the Ms-General , and Mr. Fork for the Resixintletit. Thedispute was, viler-' ther, at the time of the insurance the itaspoudeat bad or had not given the *hole of the intonation, with regard to all the circumstances of the time of the ship's soiling, en that the Appellants might possess that degree ofiknowledge which would ena ble them to cstinuite the proper terms of iusurancel Further proceedings to-morrow. 1101011R4E APPEAL CAUSE. The Louts CtttnoeLi.oa rose and obtierved, that iu rita...mauce of what he had Stated tiptoe 4 for mer occasion, lie s hould now ilisitre the* Lord etterition upon the 'Roxburgh Ajpprei C.tuse, respecting the title and the kle i•iiggested this propriety, as he bad before'etsmel„ tit consi4l.4•M7 that the chaster of 1644 and the dead of We*: whick,* hod bee it contended, con veyed both tholitkond the property of the Earl of Roxburgh, 'Should - be sadiraktette the consider. atiocapt the,Conimittee of l'ririf oes, for themsr pose of attesting them in forming their report fee the information of that noose. Efts Lordship than moved, Thiethe deed already utratieteed, pal* enharly that clause of it wherein the featiVeyapalj MRS limited by certain wortiat---I4selleet daughters of the Litt if heirs male, be referred to the consi Committee of Privileges."—The motion was agreed to. The Itialt Loan Bill, the Exclimiser are} the SteimpUsta - Balk„ meet reit flail film and vowed. PADDINGTON CANAL COAL BILL. Upon ••th, toad readiii,,o of the above Bill, The Fair! of Jots* mid, that lie took this op portunity of month; a few observations respecting tins Bill. 11.1 considered the restriction of the quantity of coal* very far from a tiolitie measure, for it appeared to him, that it •• se in violation of that duty which was date to those who had begm se far beneficial to the country to procure an `Act sit Parliament for the making of the l'aulditigbin Canal, and he deemed it also injurious to those who were Proprietors of Coal Mines isi the interior of the kingdom. fits Lordship further said, that this restrictioa was contrary to,eound policy, the true interest of commerce, and.the first principles' of ustice. • 'l'he Eu..l of SVTFOLIC COitif . rided with whet had been stated by the Noble Earl Moine mad urged, as be had dot .e nu former occaeivii.. tow very highly ius i s,rtunt it v. ae that the price of teals in this Ulf. tropelis should iw at low as poosible. He o bse r ved, that it had beau ;Alleged. that the duty on the rustle coal war considerably grsater than the duty on that brought lir inland navigation. From in quiry he had been informed, that the duty paid on th e Newcastle coal, if justly committed wsth the kaddington, did not muck eseerd ona4walf. • Mir Bin was titan read a third time, and passed. RANIIIIIROtTiING BILL. Alter some opposition front Earl Semi MOPE, who preferred the former Aet of Parliament, respecting the appointment of game-keepers. the Hare shooting Hill was also read a third time and passed. LOCAL MILITIA FILL. .The report of the Local Militia Bill was brought up ; before which Earl Ft rzwt LLt AM proposed is certain obtuse, to exempt threw who might be' balloted under the Tratuing Act. Lord liAnastsauar opposed the inrertioti °Was lease, ou the I.•Tound that it was not tho intention f Administration that the Training Act should he sit in force. Sart ITZWILLIAII observed, that it would be iiiv,• a coot. adiction in the law itself,if the 'Crain trt were not repealed, or some clause, similar • rote he hail proposed, should not he inserted. said, that Ministers, he thought. 'd too far their tenderness towards the Act, auil he should sooner approve of dun t, if they would, in a manly way, pro repc4l of that statute. He contended, c_ t li Noble Secretary might think his colleagues hod a lung lea.e of their `ions, and so long as they remaiins!, it there intention ever to put the Tuiu eratiou yet he deemed such a that imparliaincatary ; for however gin to hi. heid as a aim , meas u re, .1 the Local Nlilitia, still it would en candid to have moved for have permitted it to stand in t of the provi,imis ut the pre itiow from eir Maoris tar It was breagtst ap, and die oil at third time to- tttt -row. `le Hill was • , the second reailiivr of Hill, and the Sesiteb ' were postponed till 'weir Lords:npa went •epecting Mrs PA , to.morroaa :Tax 'Names Dill, the • Ale-license the Promissory' were reed a se- he Atiterican at Hill, tilt *tints Bill, ugh Coin . 'roes the 'ape,of m Re v Pei. and' Horst or COMMONS. A new writ was (mitered for the Election of a Menthe' for die Burgh of Gnat 1 nri•outit, it the rows of Mr SletAics Letshougtou, who ha* arceettwl the oflare of Steward of the liniltintln. "It Rost bsouzitt to a Dill Amenntiottinrthe Suspeueion Pwatiltteu, owlet certain uln/Pete Acts, ninths! , to the Wooden Maaufactare.—.Read a first, sad orticsc4 w be mad area twit tu-toutruw. M r.. itt...l .Cou PEW prternlea en amount relating to she Genoa* I.:ejosar a n d the Artillery ikteera.--Laid on the SOW. .Mr. FOSTIR brought ins CIII tor grantiug certain counter vailing Untie, upon Spir4oot louputioni trona Scofield into I re lathr.--.Reisi • boot, awl uvoteecd to be mail a sewed time to- totrrrou , Mr. Rose gave batiee, that the Attemmy-Groaral would, to-morrow, mon Arr leavelto (wine: is • Bill samudiug the Acts relative to the distribution of Prize hooey. The Awricon Trade Bill. the Silk Excise Duties Bill. the %Trish Coals Bill, the EA.:twitter BW. Bill, the Sugar "twittery Bill, and the trbh Gaol Bill, were severally com mit led, and ordered to he reported to-morrow. The Tower Hamlets Bid was eonissitted, reported, tad Othletettbto be read a third tints uo Bledoestiaw west. Ibt .. atatian of Mr. BS Kea, a Committee was lip poirted • examine the areotuisottatious at the British Mowed, fur the testeteot of the laityptiim Autkitoties. On the magma of r. Wayd.i A sia %ITsse ie was ekelened, ' " bat an humble Address he presented to dial llsjeaty, Ye son% him, that the House will enable him to carry tat., eine the Acta of the 311th and both of his 'vitro'', relative talkie Sat custody of criminal lunatics, sod that the House will otalae good the expeases of erecting a sepAr ate prising far that warp's*. 'Yheiftepores of the Coffee Cuetatue and the Coffee Eseise Detiesitillit were severally °Mired le be received to-morrow. Tie thud reading of the Stamp Duty Regulation Bill was poetrimid, till to-usurvew ; as also the third rtadiog of the Jirsstl Vtitetopliill. The Dribs. Herring lithilitry BiR was read a third time, pd passjed, after au mosoduseet, limiting the duration of Aa iti?l_ to tour Feder. tea proposed by Mr. Rose, sod ovesp - - DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY. 141.0,_,..1116(P1LD ADVOCATE Ot SCOTLAND moved the limit ecuslizttoi the Seutch Local Militia Bill. Upon tbessetlea being put front the chair, ~,.. Mr. l'anas rose and *poke at great length upon Ptliesgkastimil-spelno of the century's defence. He regretted much dwelt hest, sot been in his power to be present at the discussions of the Englisu Lo cal Militia Bill; but he thought it a duty Memo tient upon lulu not to let the Session Clete without taking au opportunity of stating his sentiments, not ouly upon this particular measure. but upon the general system of defence, with a view of makiiig the Honer and the country at large consider their real situation and theii dangers seriously. He was amt . :seer! that that danger was much aggra vated by the protracted delay of the Eiii i ieror of the French, in making ready fur his threatened littliCk 110011 the cOuntry. It was the greatest co.npliment that that kinrror could pay us, to shew that lie clserr., i st neeessary to ar riinge his plans in sue t i_rnanner its to coim plcte the subjugation of isif other nations of the world, before he proceeded to attack us.' There had been, Bedouin, a great deal done, we had not lost all our time, but still he could not say we had Made the best use of it. Our numerical force had now been named to a greater exteat than upon any former occasion, by the various Bids that had been of late years suggested; but lie felt a considerable degree of regret, that the 'Fronting Bill had not been extended to Scotland, as well as to England. He saw no raven upon earth why that Bill should not be extended to Scotland, as it certainly was one of the most effective measures, and less com plicated in its detail. titan that now before the House. He never could see ally difficulty in comprehending England and Scotland in one bill. He approved much of the present measure, in so far as it went to follow up the Voliniteer s tem, and rendering them more permanent. It had been alleged as an objeetiou to our Militia .stem, that it rendered the men amenable to military punishments, iii the seine mouner as Feelich Con scripts; but, in his opinion. a great difference exist ed betwixt them, as it only refiiiired a comparison of the two, to shew that the,. punislanieuts of - the French Conscripts were much more severe, al though perhaps not of suds freieneut occurrence, as' those of our military systetn, which lie believed to be greatly ening to a greater desire far intoxica tion pretailing, in this country than in France. He thought it would base been prudent to bare gone into a complete recision of our whole mili tia system, before adopting such a measure as the present one, so difficult iii detail, as it was well known to lie impossible for us to have a regular army adequate ler the defence of the country. The Right Honourable Gentleman then took an extended view of the progress Bonaparte had made is the Conquest of Europe, and assimilated him us a Coligneror to Caesar and Alexander. How ever much lie hoped, yet lie did that expert, that the Spaniards would be able to with stand the power of Bonaparte. or to check his ambitious projects ; neither did he think our hopes ought to be sanguine as to Sweden. In a short time it was not improbable that our enemy would be in possession of all the °oast of Europe, end it would be impossible to prevent him attack ing us in Great Britain or Ireland, from some ' one or-other of the ports . he would- then hare in his possession. The danger that threatened us was lily no means small, from the peculiar circum stances iii which Ireland stood. Ikmaparte calcu lated upon getting assistance in Ireland, and it ass ketosis and acknowledged, that there was a French party in that country since the time of gneen Eli zabeth. who wished nothing more than a foreign power to assist them in effecting a separation from Brent Britain lie was inclined to believe tbe Ca tholic claims were only taken up for the purpose of carrying on the mein object which that French party had in v iew ; and he bad to regret that the right arm of the empire, (treat Britain, was ED onst:11 weaken ed in watching over the left hand, Ireland, to repress those dawgerous separatists. II • then alluded to the flourishing state of our navy—but at the same time impressed upon the 'loose the possibility of our nary, with all its .vigilao'ce. not being capable, open all occasions, tit ward off an invesion—eml stated several inststhats ill which the French fleets hail succeeded in 'getting out of their ports, and ' even rettirtilog. r without our kDOWILVIV. Oftrr se- . complishing their purpose . Oe the 2 0 tls Juur, 1794,' ' the French fleet nailed frotp..Malta to Alexandrisi i with 300 transports, and 40000 troops, uotollllit inki.tling the vigilance or Eased Nelsow, - who must have passed Amens of the ?AAA fleet, Alining the 'inglit of the.e.d of that Bliodth: In 1799, the Blest fleet eluded the vigdauce of Lord Bridport, and preeeeded to the Meditereasean ; and lately the Rochfurt atimidetin procceiletLup the Ms-thief raumin, and retuntelti safely to. Volows uotwith stambilg the vigilance of Sir Richard Straclian.--. l'here instaaces, be thought, were sufficient to sa tisfy every one of the uncertainty of naval enter prises. Bonaparte's means sere great, and his mode of applying then% was similar to that of the ancient Romans. Ile now made use of the atones of those nations he had votiquercd, in adding other conquests. We were not therefore to eakarlate up on the number of French' troops we might have against us—but we might have all the armies of 11w Continent engaged in attaching us. flue could not help wondering at the great and singular events that were going forward, conducted by one man, who was devoting his whole time and attention to one object, that of universal subjugation. If it had not been for our navy we would have had war in this country long ere now, and should we beams! conquered, we emi never again' rise, as Booaparte will realize the Roman principle of col (((( by distributing vast estates amongst. his Generals. We ought, therefore, under such circumstances, and with such prospects before us, to leave nothing to chalice—We ought to leave sin stone unturned to prs.vide fur our defence, witch beyond whet our navy can afford us : •• Toto ct Handling est curpure regal." We ought to strengthen the interoal, as bell as external parts of the empire, by numerous foetilications for the protection of our troops.— [fere the Right Ilan. Gentleman entarKed upon the necessity of our erecting ionnerosis fortifica tions silting the coasts of the kingdom, and particularly alluded to the propriety of strength ening Portsmouth, Plymouth, the Isle of Wight, and the counties of Kent, Sussex, Ea.aes, aid Sul- folk, in order more effectually to secure the me tropolis. Ile touched upuu these point. iu onler to induce Ministers to cuter into these considers- tions. and to give some satisfactory informatiou to the House as to what has been done it respect to fortifying the kingdom. The ..public knew but little of the manner in which the money has been laid out by the Board of Ordnance for these purposes. He thought this such an import ant subject, that, without going into detail, he should probably feel it his duty, early oext Session of Parliament, to move for the appointment of a Secret Committee, to inquire what has been done with the money appropriated towards fortifying the kingdom. It was absolutely necessary, in case of danger, to secure it free tain ttttttt ication between this country mid Ireland, so that succours might he sent from the one to the other, as ores arm might require. Te enforce the necessity of fortift r cations, it was only requisite far us to look at the situation of the Powers of the Continent. who had fallen for wantof having properly secured their fron tiers, and at the high estimation in which Bona parte himself held them, it being always his first object to secure them. This was now the time for us to profit by the experience we had had of the imbecilities of other nations. We have seen no in stance in history w here a eimestry had beets able to make a formidable res,stance against invaders, without fortifications. The strength of France was now in a great measure owin.,o to the numerous fortifications erected by Louis XIV. He thought he should not have been performing liis duty had he not submitted these things to the cousideration and discussion of Parliament. before the close of the session. No expense ought to be spared in putting the'country in the greatest possible state of &hence, so as got to leave its fate to depend upon the cast of a siugle dye. He trusted that before the nest Session of Pantameut is • might be enabled to say— " Oman percipimus, et wants prsisepinnuo Lord Ccerceeceun was happy to find the opi nieissof his Right lien. Friend so happily coincided iii several puints with the cooduct of His Majesty's present Ministry. Ile agreed that every possible means of providing for the defence of the country should be restorted to, but he did not think the state of the tinies, or of the country, did require Ministers to proceed to put the country to uity considerable expense in udditional efforts to give it a complete system of fortified defence. Ite viewinw the history of this country, it would appear that there was a species of Constitutional lepug nonce to the eduction of such measures of defence. Phis had left this country so totally destitute of fortification, that to apply to that measure now, it would be necessary to begin, de stone, and almost from tiothitig. W hen it was also cousidered that the ordnance system of the country was, at the conclusion of the last scar, at so extremely low an ebb, considered with the system as it now stood, it would he found that those to whom the trust bad been committed, had by no means deserved public censure for may thing like negligence in them. A system, such as that tecommended by the Hight Hon. Member, would require a complete change in many beam:limier the public service. Engineering. which hail of late years au much improved in time military sc stein of this country, would require the utmost eulargemeut and encouragement, in order to events* this new system of defence. -Hie Right Hon. Friend had overlooked, however, in some de gree, what had been done in this way. The lines of Chatham, and the fortifications on the Medway, and front Dover to the Thames, would be found to have the most derided advantage over the defenAve state of the French coast, notwithstanding the pre fereuce whist) bad been given them by his Right Hon. Friend. These had originated under the sit iseridendance of Lord Chatham, when in the 4 trd naive Department, and several plans of additional fortiticatione bed been given by him. with, their estimates, in to (ioverauneut, about two year* ego, which had not since been put into execntion ; by this he meant to cast tio reflection °a the lust Government. But it would Le an injustice in his statement, to that No* Lord, to consider his exer tions as confined tis Great Brituiu alone ; Engi neers had been employ ed to make a complete sur vey of Ireland, particularly the souther,' coasts, near Cock aad Binary Bay. and excellent fortitien titbits erre erected not. ouly them but on most other pouts of the coasts. And here he should seamark, ' the the only fortifications the enemy had erected ott their shores, hind been solely to defend their coasting trade from our cruisers—whilst ours were calculated to deter an enemy from feeding within the reed) of these lines of Crtiecatiou. With re spect to the internal force of the country, he thought every thing the could be dome, had been dime, oltliough he could not art* with E: n ig h t lion. I. irieu tlisit the prem•ut en-: • c could he 'audited equally VIIVI tiw as the rtittik ir Th c Change ILw high' lion. Eriekti had priropoietl, he admitted, Lut %yolld inteitaLly injure the ignite ; u ULt, thuugh thi s two forces ;night hr rinialguniated, yet the frgu i ;:c militia would only be, reodcrol leer enrolee. Tbe regular militia Ile thought out of thc best seettritil, i to the internal deleme of the country, mid should, above all oilier species of force, except the regu lars their' elves, he most atteaided to. Th e he however felt, were the best possible nitinis of advancing the interests of the n:ore regular force, as it had ell the advantages of the volunteer st s . tern. with the audit I adtaiitage of platidci. ; in their stead it perm:nu-id futee, ever ready to lei,. der all the service in their power tc the country the hour of danger. lb. concluded trite assurin g the Howie the present observations had fallen bon him solely as en answer to the stateno sit of his Hi. liou. Friend, who had, in the course of his suet ii , mode so many allusions to his conduct and meets on this very important subject. Mr. WIN Dli Al 4 observed, that among the many topicsl which had fallen from the two speakeh, who had prts:eded him, many of w bich might have as well beet' omitted, as not at unconnected whin the subject, there could be no topic 'sore wor thy of the serious attention of Parliament, and all tit scrip6nis of men, than that of iiiterual de fence by fortification. On this subject the opinions and the authority of all military and statistical men should be taken, in order that the systein should not he rashly or improvidently adopted.— The lute increase tt. ciperise, he contended, was by no means, necording. to the Noble Lord's cooly:t -alon, iu Ste foist dt' t4 ft'c promising to the countre, since he appeared to esmsider the present only the prelude to futone expense, as he had also eolifes eel that the local seilitin would not be an actual force, but by het ou t ing the interment of the vo lunteer system, noold flintily effect a resuriettioa of a more effective anal pennant-tit force in defence of the country. lie very' touch feared that such aisurunces would have tie effect on the public, bin • to excite distrust in our present hope of aesistsuce usej defence. The alluaions which lied bet a made to the conduct of the late Goveroment, with resi:ect to the ordnance department, were altogether idle, as that Ministry ha 3, as far as possible, endeuroured to render effective the iiitentioos of those preceded thew. Mr. hirant.ver recommended to the considers time of stie Nol:le Lord the propriety of an inter change of the militias of the two countries. Such a measure would come with peculiar proprivly from that Noble Lord, to whom Ireland had ready contracted such a debt of gratitude, by his effecting the grand object of an Union. NV havier might be the ultimate determination of Uotem ment on the grand subject of internal defence, by fortificutiom it would be well worth the attention of the Noble Lord to consider on the most effectail means of securing. he country in the time of dan ger. Mitch had been done, and yet much re. mained, purticulitily in Ireland. lie bad how ever little doubt, that under the superintendents of the Noble Lord nothing would be left mist : tempted which could 1• rove serviceable to the pub : lie security, or honourable to the exeittons of hint ' self and his colleagues. The was then rend a &it'd time, some F amendments added, by way of riders, and the *hole permitted to pima. MR. PALMER'S CLAIM. The CHANCEILOa of the EIcinALIER rove to apprise the House, that he sheuild, on Thursduv, move a resolution in the House, that the annuity of Mr. Palmer should be feepanited from the vein red Appropriation Bill, arid become the exclusive subject of a new Bill. Notice was ordered ac cordingly. Mr. Wax DHABI gave notice, he would, early is the next session of Parliament, endeavour to reme dy a late innovation whilst] had been made in the military system of the coo t..t,T, as established by en act he had the honour to introduce into the Home. 'Clint act Wall framed for the express purpose or de fending tile private, soldier from his own impru dence, or the treachery of others, by volunteering for lif. , though leaving only entered .rig Dal/ into the service for a limited period. Thus the soldier was tempted, if not threatened. into a new enttage- ment,! contrary to the spirit of that under which he had bcfeire entered the service. lie was inclined to give this early notice, in order to avoid any Or jeesion when heshould n-xt seesion bring it on, per haps, as a clause in the Mutiny Act. lie then concluded with entering Ins notice of motion for next session, providing that private soldiers shoal not be permitted to enter into any future engage ments, dieriii% the period of their service, ahich were not conformable to the ori 6 iiial engagements under which they lusts] entered. Mr. Wilitaks".aD wished to know from the Chancellor of the Excliequ. r when he should movie the Appropi iation Act To which he re ou Thunwhey neat. Mr. Ti aux r moved for certain accounts of the Imports and Exports of the Port of London of oho those of the Out-porta, for the respective years 18 0 7 and. 1888, ending May I, distinguishiog fo reign goods exported hence from oar own F odoce. --Ordered. -—_.__. CI:II.ATET BILL. On the motion of the CussceLtos of the Ex- CHEQUER fur the third reading, Mr. BARINIAIi repeated at length the ergumertt so often urged by do; opposers of this inrastias. He considered it extremely dstigerons to the tot. - rests•eftbe Church, by gratitMg can,,idetalle power to the Bishops, which 'wild not fail to leo duce Contention asunaust the 'hole locly of a clergy.. Bili, moreover, was altoge:her (lent to its pnr oat•. V , it erns at be , t bid a pert' remedy to ti.e gr.at cril of tion-ro,icience , lanulty he'rttiected 1., the eNlliket.:l4; of the fact nutticd• to extet, in wbit h st.etd, nem , : the respective values of Church ettaisti,lttnet , t , .. 114 r. IlAWsitigrattluv sopoor::! , 1 the washappy to liapi the reoit 'tor mltti gusto:113111 1 i the Church had falku • stir h eowi h •ntli• lamentetl the spirit of ").:;)u -it inn «it: rh 41' fortnly displayed itself iii the oder House, toe niter .o re• c ilcol.itt:4l to - intereets of the (:ito -4•1 , , and the e" desctiptious of talc ~' C lout env kin NA' sr.!