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Printed fur Richard Phillips, Bridge-street, acrd to be bad isf ell Bufthsellers is Town and Country. Of whom may be bark The PRESENT STATE of PERU, by I. Skiuser, TA. with engravings, price ass. is boards. DifE . RIAL PARLIAMENT. IROUSEOF LORDs--ekiDAy, Juin 24. ROXBURGH APPEAL CAUSE. Cl ar ke, fir Mr. Beleaden !Kee, and Mr. Broneitla, for Lady Etim Ker, were heard respecting the ioijertion taken epos a former day, in regard to their appearance before the Committee of Privileges, they sot churning the 11.1\lourgb Peerage. Tina Counsel will be heard again to tuurrow, ct two Welork. The British ithite Herring Fishery Bill was read a third time. The Scotch Locnl Militia Bill, the Court of SCISIOII Stock Bill, and the Dehlin Police Bill, passed through Committees. Mr. M IIAILTO%, and other Members from the Mouse of Commons, bought up the Irish 'ireasury Bills Bill, the Coitee Customs Bill, the Carel' Excite Bill, the Brazil Post aye Bill, men come others, which were laid upon the Table, asul ream a Si ct tone. SOllll. rontine biomes the House teljounted till to merry* (Sattada)). HOUSE OF CO3I3IONS. The Reprisal Bill was read a third Male and passed, after souse I' mwersaiaa lietweea SirCnaatzsPoLs aad Mr Hass. Mr. NVn trent; ti presented the Report of the Lottery tronimittee, appointed to ascertain the evils 2... saltine from. Lotteries and whether they did nut overbalance the airs*. tagm derived to the vouutry in point of Kevenue.—Loid on the Table, and ordered to be printed. The Limply Ports Hill was read a third time and passed. A Message (ram the Lards informed the House that they lad agreed to the Brasil Trade Bill sad the Herring fishery The Report of the Comnitspitiners' Meeting Bill was received and agreed tu, and the BM ordered to be read • third tine to-morrow pun the motion of Sir SAMUEL ROVILLY, it A'Alt or. Aired that there be laid before the House an ace..ant of the uunibet of trials fur felonious offences, that had takes glace &slug the last eleven vemss, distiugutihing the saw hat of cuntictious and acquittals. APPROPRIATION BILL. Mr. WHARTON brought up the Report of this Bill. The'amendinents were read a first and se coud time, and on the motion that they be agreed to . a Mr. %'nertintato roe and addressed the House to the following purport :—"iSir, as the Session of Pauliameat is now approaching to a conclusion. I take the present opportunity of petting to His Majesty's Ministers a variety of question* respect ing the bleariest nerd external retetious or ti... em pire. I had intruded, Sir, to pat these questions upou occasion of the Vote of Credit bring sub mitted to the HoUse, but for eireuninauces of which the House must he aware, and which ren dered me apprehensive of drawing on a diecusaion. which, was at that time to be deprecates!. But, Sir, there are many other occasions afforded ler putting questions similar to those to which I have alluded. I believe that the reception of the Re port et' the Appropriatioa hill is one of those op portiouities, and therefore Ism induced now to can. brace it. Sir, the present session has been very laborious, sand has extenled to a great length.— As mach business has been done during its con tiuminee, as, I believe, was ever done in any pre ceding Scream of Parliament. The attendance of Members has indeed been heavy and assiduot: in this 'louse, and is therefore entitled to great credit. It bas alto been similar in the various Cominittees that have been assembled upon important subjects. A Report has beets merle by the Wert podia Committee, upon whiCh a Bill bas been introduced teat e has passed into a law ; I shall only hope that it may conduce to relieve the West India merchants, in the numnerthat has been predicted. I trust, Sir, that the other reports which have been mentioned as having been presented by this Committer, will be thoroughly investigated, and that to ;he evils which thee have pointed out, an adequate remedy will be afforded. Another Committer, who have sat upon the East India affairs, have already made great progress in the task committed to their charge, and l think that the House have a right to expect that the accounts between that Company and eioverotnent are finally closed, and that the former can have tin further claim upon the latter. Long as the Session of Parliament has been, I be lieve that it has been somewhat shortened by the recommendation made to the East India Company by a Right Houourable Gentleman opposite (I,lr. R. Dueller), not to press for any additional loan or farther annotative during the pn , sent Session of Portiament. I hope too that the Right Hon. Gentlenian near him 'Mr. Perce%al) has delibe rately consented to this proposition, and that he will not give way to easy of temporary l'OOVO"-- 4sienre that may be made to him during the Re cess; the snore especially as earls , in the next Nes eine the mutter will he again unVerinir eon-hien- *ion, when it 11111 be fur the House to de.ide upon it. The result of the delilieratious of *mother Committee, of which I was Chairman, has htern this day presented to the House (the Report or the Lottery Committee) ; and I call the attention of the Right Honourable Gentleman, and, if pos- • Bible, the attention of my successors, to the nature of that Report; for 1 canner believe, ghat when the evidence adduced herore that Committee is read, it will be possible for any Chancellor of the Exchequer to contemplate the fraud practised tr some iiidi viduals, and th • misery mifFer , •,l by other's. as therein developed, and perse erre in that anemia' scheme to produce memoir to the country. Another Committee has bees, PP — pointed, during the present session, for the third time, I wean the Comuiittesc tor liumice. Upon this I have to observe, that Bum the answer made to a question proposed by one, upon a recent even ing, to a Chairman of that Com tent tee . (3lr. Ilankes) there is reuses to fear that .the public can have little or no huge of sleriviag any farther infoi ela tion during the present scesioa. Whatever he, the masons that produce this delay, it is not for ui to ascertain. 'the Iltmourable Chairman informed the House distinctly, that as far us lay with him the Report was in pi:par:thou, and ready to•be present ed before the Easter recess. Whether the power 111141 constitution of that Committee be such as to render useless the endeavoars and exertions of the most assiduous of its Members, or whether smile other myeterious impediments have retarded the production of that Report, are tuutters which may e developed in the uext session of Purliameet, when thew abuses that latve met with the pub lie dieupprubatou must be removed. Sir, I ant happy to say, that there is one part of our situation, which, at the present nems rid, we are fortunately en abled to contemplate with /I greater degree of 'sa tisfaction then at any period during a consideruble *lumber of years past ; 1 mean the state of Ireland. This is not owing certainly to any thing that has been done, but to the reception experienced, in House, during the preseut Session, by a motion made by my Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Grattan). That circumstance, Sir, hiss dif fused a calm over Irelaftd, which has nut been tilt there for many years, which tends to slew by what small efforts of conciliation it is possible to do away, in that country, all feelings of hostility, of distrust, or regret ; and I trust that by the measures of fu ture sessions of Parliament, this favourable im pression will be consider ably increased. I think it 14 but fair, at the c onclusion of a session of Parliament, to knife/ some particulars as to the success of a measure that was contested with much eagerness in this House, and carried by consider able majorities in Parliament, for the pre servation of the trade of the country—l mean the Orders in Council. It is necessary to know whether hlembere, who disapproved of those melt suses, may be able to go back to their constituents, and say, that happily they had been mistaken as to the consequences resulting from them, for they have tomes' out to be highly betteliciel to the trade of the country ? It wan said by the supporters of these measures, that the impression a hick would be produced by them upon the enemy, world be so great, as to put as in a situation to make peace upon more advantageous terms. I should like to know from the Right lion. Gentleman opposite, what has been their real effect, and whether he has executed his favourite Orders in Council, or whe ther, by the system of licenses, those Orders have been demoted from ? The Right Hon. Gentleman must know, that it is convenient for the House that answers should be given to such questions as these, sad - I think I am adopting what appears to one to be the most convenient form of coming at an expla nation upon this subject. in the mean time, he must be well aware, that the pressure produced upon oar manufacturers, from the stagnation of our trade, has created inconveniences in some of oar counties. 1 trust that no alarm has been excited, but rather a spirit of comitii.e ration for their misfortunes, and that a due dis tinction can he made between tumults that arise from 0410 cause and those that arise from anothor. I should hope that every feeling of lenity and every disposition to pity the pennies wise have been driven to manifest a spirit that name be repressed, will be shown by the Government of the country, and that no motives will be attributed to their conduct, but those which do actually exist. There are two other points to which I wish to call the attention of the Right lion. Gentleman—l mean Sweden and Ame rica. I should like to know what is our situation as to the Aniericau Government ? If we may trust to the information that comes to as all alike through the newspapers, Coliseum has been ells missed, the embargo has not been withdrawn, and there ran he no expectetion of any relaxation of it in reglad to us. iVith regard to the expe ditions that bad been of late fitted out, I hope it will he found that their object has been well considered, slid I trust that the result will be glorious to the Commanders of the armies, and for Britain. With . regard to Swe den, however, an expedition has been, according to common report, lying idle for a considerable time pest in the ports of that kingdom. I shall be glad to have some information upon this subject. It appears that the command of it was given to an Officer, whose appointment, no doubt, meets with general satisfaction—Sir John Moore. But it appears that such en appointment must have been merely accidental, and consequently it is probable that some accidental delay was occasioned. • fire arrival of that Officer from Sicily was so little expected, that whoa he reached the English shore the King's Ministers had no knowledge of his cowing. It appears, however, that he had left Sicily, accompanied with a force of ten thousand men, notwithstanding the great importance of that island being left in a state of defeats. Whether this arose from any error, lam not as yet halo:weed ; but of this I am certain, that if that Officer was recalled from Sicily, upon any other duty, in a quarter not so distant from it as this country, lie should, after its accomplishment, have been ordered to return to Sicily, instead of leaving that island in a state of insufficient defence, and ly ing idle at the ports of Sweden. One must con ceive, after the manner in which Ministers had spoken of the King of .Sweden at the time of discussing the Swedish treaty, that when an ex peslitiois was to be be sent for his assistance, there would have been some understanding between the parties as to the manner is which the troops were to have been employed. It was, however, sur prising to hear, that the Quarter-master of the army so 'sent had to return to England to learn what was to be done, and even after being seta hack to the fleet, Sir John Moore had to Set off to Sioekholm, in order to know wlsat he was to do. As, from commercial concerns with Sweden, we were as sured that we might place our reliance upon the trade of the country not being defeated in that quarter by the operation of the Orders in Coun cil, but that, on the contrary, His Swedish Majesty would unite with us its giving them effect; the Right Honourable ( ientleman said, he trusted to the getierosity of the King of Sweden, and that we would have tin reason to complain of his not having adopted farther *tip:ll4l4ms regarding these orders. Without stating any tiling further as to the Ketierul state of the country, 1 *hull only ob serve, that } still adhere tollie motion which 1 made upon the twent ; - -niath of February lad; relative to the propriety of this country entering into 'sego eiations for peace. It is nut evil.. 11 , 1 W th•gradiug to ifs to air terms of peace to I rime, hut, on the eontrary, it appears to me to be highly proper, and I cannot anticipate any circumstances that %mild render it inexpedient at this moment, to open ne gociutioos for that purpose. 1 hare to upoloAi4t: to the House for having detained them so look upon this ►uitject, but I deemed it toy duty to intil,tace this opportunity of putting these questions to i nisters, us the session is tiow s,t flier ii 1141,,e." Mr. Secretary CatiNiN,.•—" Sir, the 1/oti. Oro- tleinan need have ofiered uu apology for imams; the inquiries he has made, ask as by no memo. the wish of 'Ministers to shrink from making such uo swers us are in their power. I shall rttdearuur to meet the qustions that he has put b• me in parti cular, end in doing so I bindl howls with rho.r which he concluded his speech. lie has I spre;sed surprise, shut the army sent to the hilig of Swrden not bore commenced its acti‘ie operatious. 'Fite answer is such as is 'to lx tbnud in the very prop s o ition which he states, Daniel% , that this ur 'amorist ass to co-operate with an , nail Liaise queutly its operations must depend u pon the pious 41141 loarticalur situation of that Ally at the time such armament was sent. It is undoubtedly true, that since the sailing of that expedition tutssidcrable changes had taken phase in the military operations awl councils of that country--clumges which led to the corocquences which followed. If there is any blame at all attachable to Al Misters, it cannot be that they waited too .long, nor that they seat assist ance too 111 ,on. Ile has asked another question, re lative to the gallant officer having come from Sicily, anti leaving that place in a state of insufficient de feace. To this I may simmer, that he was removed from that island to Gibraltar, last year, whets the presence of an army at that place was deemed likely to aid in certain operations, relative to Por tugal. In point of fact, Sir John Moore arrived at. Gibraltar at the end of November, when the Royal Family of Portugal had emigrated two days pre vious to his arrival. Upon this event taking place, he was ordered to return home. Now, as to the policy of his having left Sicily with a reduced gar. roots, 1 agree with the Honourable Gentleman, that when it is possible to have • great force stationed every where worthy of defence, it was advisable to do so ; but I may observe, at the same time, that in military matters there must be some risk incurred upon particular occasions, and it comes to be a matter worthy of cousideration,what quarter should he [Eft most vacant? It had accord ingly been determined, that it wcalsl be most ad visable to weaken, for a time, Sicily, and employ that force in the mode 1 have stated. With re •gard to Sweden, the Honourable Gentleman has asked, whether there has been any security obtain ed for her co-operation in the commercial views of this country, in consequence of our Orders in Coun cil ? I. have no doubt hut this particular is, by this time, matter of positive stipulation, in conse quence of the act of this session in Parliament re lative to the Swedish treaty. It was then only stated as a matter of expectation ; it had since been carried into effect on the part of Sweden, even without positive stipulation ; hut at the seine time it was thought best to secure its performance byan instrument, and I have no doubt that that in strouteut has been signed. The third point touched upon was with regard to our relat . . with Ame rica. Ile is no doubt in poswssiots of all that has occurred, by the publication of the American pa pers. If the Hon. Gentleman had thought it wise to call for the production of any of those papers, he would have show so ; but, I suppose, he had been convinced of the impropriety of Parliament expressing an of • 'on upon a transaction pending a negotiation. I can assure him and the House, that'iu the whole of the conduct of the British Government, they have endeavoured to keep in view the principle with, which they set out, namely, to deal as tenderly as possible with America, iu re gard to an act of hostility that was committed un designedly, but at the same time not to surrender any part of that right which has been thought es eentiol for our existene: as a naval power. With the correspondence that is now before the world, I think Government may 'safely appeal to the con ntry to determine, that for no part of that transaction have they ever refuted to make a suitable reparati on ; but at the same time supporting the principle of maritime superionty. It would thence appear, that the rupture of this negotiation, by Mr. Roses departure, was not attended with a ee i eee e aity expressed on either side, although the reparation offered was not accepted, nor a revocation effected tu to that order of the American Gotenioncut, which excluded British ships from their port*, al though ships of the enemy were suffered to enter. It was essential to know that wts,have reason to be lieve that America conceived the separation offered on our pert as a proper atonement for the injuries shy austaibed. With respect to the embargo, which had been said to hare originated from the Orders in Council, it was imprirtant. to observe, that no such communication had been made to the American Government, at least that it fornml no part of their complaints. It appeared to have been the echo of the distitssious that took place here upon these I /Merl' in l'omincil, that created symptoms of irritation in America. In this state of things I have only to add, that sits'e the period of Mr. llose's return to this coun try, no communication lute been made by Anse- • rice to Government in the form of complaMt. • inonstmuce, or irritation wimutrvcr. I am the more anxious to state time., as there have been re ports, that communications hail lice,, made to Government by special Messengers, sent Imtn America to this country.. Nlessem.ers had imleed arrived, and if the lion. Grath:wan had . tiled fur a production of their communications, there could have been no disposition to refuse them; time fact being, that they cunt:lilted notirow of nay im portance whatever. My OWII OVA upnn this matter is, that it was probably expected be Arrit-rica, that the ingoriations with Frillier were birel) to pro duce results, upon which their negotiations with us were to depend, us it were, co ttttt 'gently ; and there mare it was, that these writ als of Ines seme4ers here brnught nollming worthy of com munication.— Although the diapositivir to mt:ke reparation for the transaction as to the Clern. peeke has led to nothing more satisfactory to this cuentry than before, yet Goveresineut at tached us much value to the restoration and continuance of a good understanding with Acne. lies us the wurluest nth - motes in this orally other country could possibly attach to it. Although th e remainder of the Hun. Gentleman's oliserratiuns do not particularly allude to me, yet it may lint be improper to advert to them. He has :snuffed to the stagnation of comeneree and the tumults there:by created, and has recommended, that what ever measure.. the Executive Govcrinneut now take as to 1.1.05:t that hare been led into excese, they should disc. itninate carefully in reepird to the guilt or innocence of individuals goaded on t. unfortunate eircuenstances to the commission lit s u ch elute:ages awl tumults. That principle it ass menet:J.:Ns:try for him to lay down ; but I am sure, tl:,t if their pretended griesunces were only wade the cover for other de,igns, he could not mean to recom mend such ebscrinosnation to he made, or leniennv to lee *hewn. As to the effect of the operatien:• of the Ostlers in Council, it was never stated they could be the means of leaving the eouneeres of the country free and uninterrupted, or that no impediment was to be thrown iu their way. The argument used in their support was, that the trade of the country being restricted elsewhere by our enemy, this was the best mode of freeing tlp country front the effect of those restrictions. The opixioes of Government was, And still is. that the removal of our enetry's restrictions was more likely to be pi-educed by waking them suffer the effect of deprivatiens they endeavoured to impose npon us. Sewle were the motives which induced us to adopt these ineftseires, and such were still the motiees whirls induced them not to alter them. As to his preliminary observations, regarding the getwial course of business in this House, the laborious ness of the session, asid the Committees that have been appointed, were it necessary to express an opinion upon the subject, I would entirely 'tete:: with him. I acknowledge that a more laborious session of Parliament has never occurred, and I cannot but think the Hon. Gentleman has had his competent share in producing that labour. I eau assure him, however, that we are conscious of line ing done our duty to the utmost. With regard to the allusion to the motion he himself made as to negotiations for peace, it would be a waste of time to descant upon the wishes every one mud enter tain upon the restoration of peace, upon terms con sistent with honour to the country, and such us would insure stability and duration. These a ere sentiments which it is not only our interest beet our duty to enforce. and upon these our minds remain unchanged. Notwithstanding the difficulties e 1 our intnation, sea have still the means of contend ing for the enniute uance of our power ; but toopen such a negotiation at present would only tend to ogre ate our evil*, by making it the more difficult of attainment, and relax the spirit of the country." Mr. Wnerisastes made various observations :a explanation, and to the same time took occasion to allude to the internal defence of the county, sad the necessity for Ministers attending, to the truths disclosed in the speech of a Right• Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Yorke), upon a late occasion. Lord CAATt.IartEAGN expressed his appitthation of the suggeotione thut had 14en thrown out by the Hight Honourable Cientleum..th.dosf so, ben certainly did not think - there was any endeavour to throw out any discouraging prospects. Mr. DeNDAS, ns ulharivo to what hail born stated as to the East India Committee, observed, that the account betwere the Cosniailey and Govern. meat was of the stature of an account current, and therefore west ueeeseurily fluctuate it, regard to the final balance. Ile could not take upon himself to state that Pairlialuesit would not aguiu be called upon for farther aid nest Session ; but the, would then have it in their power to impose certain' regu lations and provisions. ' The aneendnients were then agreed to, and the Bill 'admire' to be read a third time to-morrow. WEST INDIA MERCHANTS. Mr. BARHAM, after expressing his opinion that sufficient steps had not vet Isecu taken for the re lief these merchants, moved, " That the Reese do resolve itself into a Committee of the w hole. Howse. to take into consideration the second and third Report of the West India Committee." fordßs It s situ expressed his approbation, and seconded the motion. Mr. ROSE, Mr. MAttatOT; and the CHANCEI.I.Oa of the EXCIIFAUfa opposed it, on account of the protracted period of the session, end thought the measures alreetly adopted for their relief would be sufficient till tieNt session. Mr. IitnISERT thought that some more effectual measures might have been adopted this stswitin. • Mr. Er.r.ts contended, that in the present situa tion of the country the importation of brandy and foreign spirits into this country, ought to be, by means, discouraged, as tending to overturn the in terests of the torn-gmwers of this islaud, end el sugar merchants of the colonies, by the deficient, in the coosumption of the article of rum ; whilst it was considerably serviceable to the enemy, by encouraging the, immolation of their commoditn., by indirect means, into this country. Lord U. Perry gave notice, that early in t::. next tiessi , in of Partitio:tit he should take an o;.- ; portunity e.f attracting the attention of the littu-t to the sie,tructive consequences of the Ott' r. t.. Council ; and should, therefore, abstain froth . tering into the course of argument which hati 4 ) , by. the gentlemen who had preceded ilk... Ile should, therefore, content himself with " , t. in.; fur that period, to Neer int . more extended te•- servations on that topic ; anti remaAed that lion. Friend (Mr. Barham) had by no means finds • valued the measures which had been adopted relieving the: distresses of the %Vest India Phil, tt:N. The CHANCELLOR of the Eicticeustt and 1.0 ,1 H. Petry twvertily exploined. Sir. BARHAM briefly replied, angi contenile:l he lied out umlersalited the reinetlial nivasures n ~rre d to by this countrr, for the relief of the lt-e:,t Indio trotters : and co . iielutlett with inforningg House, he ahouhl not proeLtd to a 4.11%1114m queoion then before It. After a few %%fora; in explatattion from Mr. Rai the motion war uez.tived without a thri.,.a.n. ASSFASED TAXES. On the tuotiou of the Ca.czt.t.on of lbe