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Two Naturalization Bills were returned from the Commons, agreed to without Amendments. Lord KING moved, that the Papers relative to the Irish Bank Notes in circulation lately presented, pursuant to the Order of the House, be pfmteil.— Adjourned. have no objeftiou to enter the Militia on that ground, ii such was the nature of the establishment, but when the principle of that fiirce was direaly the contrary, he was averse to a departute from it. If this clause was to be adopted, he was confident it would prevent men of property from coming for. ward, and putting themselves in an ankward situa tion with persons that they would not wish to sit in company with. The SECRETARY at \V \R said, he thought k unnecessary to follow the Noble Lard ; it was a prin ciple adopted last war, and he believed a wise one, of introducing a few men of experience into the Militia. Colonel MITFORD spoke against the Clause. General TA KI,ETON rose barely to make some observations on the expressions of the Noble Lord, who said that if °Cheers ut the line were admitted, the qualified officers would not wish to sit in their company. He could assure the Noble Lord, that men wino were bred in camps, and had seen service, ' were not in general the most improper associates, and that he would in general find then; pleas -ant fellows at the tahle ; and if affairs should reqiiire it, very Flex:lnt neigh!iurs in .the field. The Resolutions w•ere then agreed to. Report ordered to be brought up to-mot row. Mr. TIERNEY moved, That there he laid be fore the I louse an account of the increase or dimi nution in the number and amount of the salaries in • the public offices of Great Britain, in the year 1).02. He thea moved for a sitnihr account for Ireland, in the yews ISO I and !sq.!. Ordered in eorditigly. The lloasein a Committee went through the Kill fir regulating the office of Surveyor-General of his Majesty's woods and tisrests. The Resolutions were agreed to, and the Report ordered for to-morrow. Mr. W. POLE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for vesting certain lands, &c. in trustees for the use of the ordnance at Woolwich. Mr. TIERNEY gave notice, that he would, after the recess, move tin- leave to bring in a bill for ex plaiuittg At of King William, chap. iv. The Grenada Bill was read a second time, and or dered to a Committee of the whole house to-morrow sennight. Mr. ALEKANDTR brought op the Report of the lri.h Militia Bounty Hill. The amendments were read and agreed to. and the Hill was ordered to be read a Third time to-morrow. 'fbe CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that he would on Monday ;text move fur a Committee to investiote the joint accounts of Great Britain and Ireland. The Irish Bank ReAliaiOn Bill was road a thisi time, and p.used. Adjuurard. . , •hile a•e have no particular report rests on such vague authority, we should give it little credit, did it stand atone. There are, how ever, several accompanying circumstances which intitle it to noted, such as the late l'roclamation of the FIRST Comet. for taking the Catholic inhabitants of Corfu under his protestion; and the recent symptoms of disobedience to the Pour shewn by PAsswAN 00 L Eight Hamburgh Mails, one Dutch Mail, and also Paris Papers to the :Nth; arrived yesterday. The Official Journal still continues obstinately silent upon the subject of his MAJ EST Y's Message, and our war like preparations. The minor papers, however, and particularly the Argus, have copied some obse r v a . tines from a London Print, accompanied with a few refleelions of their own. The latter would scarcely deserve notice, did they not spew what we arc to expect, even in case the present differences shall end in friendly accommodation.— We shall then be told, that all those armaments in the ports of France and Holland have sailed quietly for their Colonial destinations; that we had no ene mies but our own fears and suspicions ; and that while England was panic-struck, and alarmed from end to ead—witile she was exhausting her revenues in unnecessary extrnces, and her funds were tum bling down, France preserved a calm and dignified composure; her Funds rose, the discussion cf the Ci vil Code went on without interruption, and the FIRST CONSUL was preparing for his holiday vi,it to Brus sels. he rialle Government of France will ilea be compared with that of England, and the nations of Europe will be called upon to admit the superiority of France. Even, therefore, in the case of the mcst favourable result. the Minister will find him self obliged to give some explanation of the cir cumstasaces which have produced the present crisis. We do not, however, presume that he will do so with reluctance, being satisfied that he will be happy, when a sate opportunity shall pr_!s.nt itself, of shew ing his title to the contidenc..: width he has re ceived. A French and an English Messenger arrived yeterday from Paris, and a Council sit upon she dis patches broughtby the latte r frantlordWa 11 ma at . . ••_ - ..... .... •••••//,' ' • 44•401 4 •••4411•4 • . ,"',.`. ..- - . • . ' . ' . . - .k. 1~1.41:1. of tile gp.Lec 'between Oita early period of life, of the Zll, for enabling Vessels employed 1‘ . ..414t TirEirtiztitoria, DR UR I`-I.ANP. • ' and t h at ,t reen Id stage of it, to which onr narrative Gl a nd %M l le Fishery, to compleat their num _ TO-hltegitOW EVe:NING wilt be prescuteil a scw inso- , v'e't 14111, in Three Act., called is now b roug h t, was lost in wretchedness of mind ; ber of M en in certain Ports , fi n' the Season. Read • .THE lira() Or THE NORTH. • and his tonv.alescent and more lucid intervals were a first time, and ordered to be read a secon d time The Overture and Mimic soineoseei and selected by Mr. Kelly. engaged will% uccunatiosis, which offered amusement to-morrow. • T., which will be adiEct, without •Letelledual effort, or en aproach to fa- On the Motion of the SECRETARY at WAR, THE VIRGIN UNMASKED. ogise. Speeking of thi. portion. eflifee in a letter to the Hoes. went Otto a Committee of the whole Ott Sattuday, The Way to Keep Hiiii, watt A House to be one of his friends, he says, " I have spent my time S Ad. ia the country, where my reading has only been an Hou s se on the Militia Officers Bill. The SECRETARY at WA R proposed several THEATRE-ROr.u., COVENT-GAR DEN. apology for idleness ; and where, when I had nei- Amendrnents, which were read. TO-110KROW EVENING will be perfumed a saw Csiinsidy tiler a magerine or a review, I was sometimes a car-Amen d :rnnts, called 1 eta, at trite-.. a bird-cage maker, or a 7.trderrr, Mr. BASTARD objeated to the Clause em- JOHN BULL; or / drawer of buidscepes.' At the age of fifty, the powering the Lord - Lieut enants to appoint persons Or, e.N ENGLISIIMAN'i. FIRE-SIDE. 1 solicitations of Mrs. Unwin and of another female not quali fi ed to vacant Companies, where qualified To which eat lie Railed, t i friend, whose _taste he respected, and whose influ- persons could not be found. He said, it would be THE INTRIGUING CHAMBERMAID. l• . ence he acknowledged, i n du c ed him to devote his a great hardship on those Gentlemen, who had 0.1 Tenaeoa, tae New oseeray of Joao natl. . powers to poetic composition ; and the two volumes served as Subalterns of Militia, to have unqualified iii . cotiesewibee oithe too stron! Ele 15 proetueett upon the E. eltngt t 4.01 P.irt of th i , Audience lot' ight, by the Now mono of poetry, with which the pliblic has been so justly persons brought in over their he:ids, when the rant l i • . • pleased, were the result of his fortunate exertions. On the c.tnipletion, in 1;6 I, of his second volume, of a tialification only prevented them from be- g coming Captains. prima, t e .aiit ior iss eareareee it. i . Ti! , E I? HITISLI PRES . S whirls i nc l u d es the Teak, li e undertook the transle- Mr. LASCELLES said, that in all cases the pre- i I I '. lion of !Verner, and finished it, with the interrup- fere= should be given to qualified Officers, N% lwre ' b 1 tinn of eight menthe of indispositions 'in 1 790. they could be found; as the principle of the Mi- LON DON, . incision of thiS work, for a second edition, e- -1 •, re em- was to have it offered by WE the Landed Interest ployed him in the short Oreething times, indulged of the country. . DNESDAY, Menem 23. 'by his afiliaing malady, during die remaining years WA The Gazette of last The SECRETARY at R said, that qualified -- night announces, that a re- of hi: life. In 1786 he left Olney, for a more con- , .wou ld certainly be preferred. but it was ne- , 1. veoient beetle, and a pleasanter sitteatioa, in the conciliatiun has been effeded between the PORTE C P :S r Sa S" T n : til sübmit n neighbouring village ot Weston ; and here he con- Lte' ute"nants, as many peraons may be quell ied •in and the teys in Egypt, by the intervention of the tinned, till the melancholy sere of his mind, fire d point of property, but otherwise - highly objeelion- English Ambassador at Constantinople.—A rumour LI the infirmities of Mrs , t'n' win, who now re piired that assiatence which sha had so long been accus- able. to that etre& has prevailed for some time past, but 111 1 tooted to give to the calamitous condition of her A convereetion then took place between the Se- • it was generally considered as improbable. While friend, made their removal to the house of a rela- cretary at War, Sir William Geary, Col. Mitford, t 1 ' lion in Norfolk, a measure of prudeace and of rue- Mr. Vansittart and Sir James Erskine Sinclair. it remained a questionable case, it would have been ! , decal experiment. This event occurred in mei, Mr. FULLER said, the best wiiv to do away all idle to have ma de it a g round of observation ; ii ' end it formed the last change of worldly re s idence diff i culties, would be to snake the Bill annual. but now that it is a confirmed fad, it may 1' lingering under the most dreadful despondency, in a t he Chins^ for introducing; hilt -p.iy o ffi cers. rious rumours in the French Papers, which repre- I I few years, which were soo:heel by the unremitting ° t - •,..• ` • ' The Milit ia, he said, had been insulted and de- attentions of his affeetionete kinsman, Mr. Johnson, sent the English intluence upon the decline at the 1 (trailed, by the measures adopted by the last Per- he closed an exemplary life, distineuislied by no 11 . ) varieties of fortune, but t h roate d i';vereast and u s Eament, Which put that constitutional establishment Ottoman Porte. This measure furnishes irresist- -1 • lumined by the effeets of diseased and of vigorous on quite a different footing. ible evidence of the siacerity of our friendship fie- A , •a. ' Turkey ; and if any doubt was ever entertained of l• 4 . Lord Spencer, whose charader includes all that is denied that the Militia had been insulted or de- honesty of our intentions, in retaining possession the meesures adopted by the last Parlia- , the - • r benevolent end amiable, procured for this excdlont ;41%4de,', by a pension of eleal. which was become ncces- merit. Those measures, he col-trended, were neces- of Alexandria, that doubt must now cease. Had airy for the proteaion of his declining age from po- sary for the security of our interests, both at home England conceived any sinister desig,ns against verty ; but such, fr om this period, was the oppres- and abroad. At thesame time, he admitted, they l' , :gypt, she would have fomented the quarrels, eion of his disorder, that he was insensible of the had not been measures of choice, but of necessity. • benefit winch he had received, and of the hand by :rho. Militia, so far front being degraded, were the and widened the breach between the rebel- which it had been bestowed. " instruments of upholding the honour of his Majes- ' lious Bess and their lawful Sovereign. She would We shall conclnde our present article by observ- ty's anus. To them we o w ed the pre s er v ation of have tor.: precisely what France would have done, I s inn, fur the informetiou of our readers, that Mr. i Lyles 's work, front which, this ourlite of the Ireland ; and to them, in a great degree, the splen- h did achievements of the Egyptian campaign, in aIIe d SE st - ies i's annnier cial visit succeeded, and his history of Cowper has been drewn, is formed upon conaequeace of the measures adopted by r o se last offers of conciliation been accepted. This aft must . , , • t the model of Mason's life of Gray, and composed principally of letters, written by our intention to exhibit specimens of the various Parliement. Gentlemen have stated and corn- i • eo f t h e : t h e e ej e a o f t h e P l ane d The Militia was at first embraced remove all suspicion on the part of the Poitre., as o it u p r r i oLe c s es tha in t E m g e yp do r, n a o n t a se tha ek t a o p ur re o te nl a y f o o t :. je k a eer s in t g o u N n li a l v it o il d e a ltl e b ? lishment ; but was not this innovation . . , biography to his friends. Ina. future pa l ier it is • I . ' contents of the two quarto volumes now in our hands, and to close the whole subjed with such re- with ardour on its establishment, by the landed in- terest of the country ; and it is not matter of re- see that country in a state of solid and secure Peace under its lawful Sovereign. The recent marks as it may suggest to us. Cowper an d hi s proach to the men of property of the country, not affedionate biographer have claims upon us for no- to be so forward to enter it now as then. They , reports then of the rising influence of France, . (ice, which cannot be satisfied in a single column of have many other claims on their zeal and patriot- of the joy evinced at Constantinople upon the arri- • , 4 a newspaper. ism; and, besides, the novelty which at first caused sal of the French Ambassador, and of the offence, i : 1 an attraction, no longer exists. Change of times l, ' - —-- - ---- - t I anal circumstances, brought with them a change o f given by Lord Feats upon his departure, may, ur. IMPERIAL f l it Friend wished to provide for. That if the Com- representations arising from jealousy and disappoint- missions ware not filled up in two mouths, they HOUSE OF LORDS. should be filled up from the half-pee sooner than , • merit. The Fitter Correct, however, is not a man 1. - et - tansy, MARCH '2'4 1 the Militia should want officers. easily diverted from his purpose, pietitularly in the Mr. M eerier:en:HlE finished his argument, Loud FOLKitiSTONE said, the "Militia did feel casc of Baffled, therefore, of attaining his ob- it by the measure s adopted by the last Par- half of the Appellant, and Mr. Ensers I was h eard • ' kat thro' the rebellion o f t h e B e s, we find him now, i•. Es sm the pen of the Respondent, in Appeal,Mre EIiZA. Lament, having their best men taken away from according to letters from Constantinople, expressing them, iu a very extraordinary and often indecent ' be Craultird v. Thomas Coleus ;after which the manner. We arc told of the vidories in Egypt, and an anxiety to obtain a military position in the . 1 further hearin • was adj ourned till o-morrow. b T • services in Ireland, and those events will, no doubt, Turkish Empire. The Crinlea is said to be the The Bala on the Table were read a stage each. 1,11 1 The new Irish Postaee Bill was brought up by o , , serve on any . future occasions as an excuse for hiv- ing the Militia treated in the same manner, and the place chosen for this purpose ; but while we have no li 'it 2alr. CO and Tend a first time. Two Naturalization Rills were returned from the Officers made drill-serjeants for the line. He would doubt of the views of France, this particular report - • S. illir ! 1 11 , . ~ 1 i t . i 1 . • • . ' i 1 1 , 1 . i 1 • I pp 1 '11..1_ - - HOUSE OF CONINIONS. TUESDAV, atAlirli "I) Sir JAMES PULTENEY brought up a report of the Carmarthen Committee, stating, that in come silence of the indisposition of Fraaeis Sannsierizon, E.g. a Member of said Selea Committee, they were sdbliled to adjourn till to no Mr. Hicits, an Apothecary, appeared at the Bar, and .tate..l, that Mr. Saundinain was prevented by illness from attending, whieb state of indisposition still prevailed, and rendered him unable to attend his duty. On the motion of Sir JAMES PULTENEY, Mr. Saundersin was discharged from further at ten lance on said selen Comniitiee. Lord EUSTOIc informed the 1-I 'use that James Trotter, a witness rho had neglected to attend the Dunfermline Committee, w hen duly summon ed, and fur whom a rat ssenzer was sent to Scotland, had yesterday surrendered himself into the custody of the sergeant at Arms. Th. 2 Lords Amendments on the St. Giles's Burial .g and Bill were read a first time; on the 'motion tor the set.und reading The SPEAKER t s uought it Lis duty to call the attenticn of the I louse to the nature of the Lo:ds' 4:upin...mt. The Rill -went, he said, to empower tliz. pa: is:loners of St. Giles to enclose an additional piece of burial-neounds and a catain clause was Tgintaitted in it relating to CM:44l7;de. and fees, and persons appointed to collect the same, :tad the .amendment of Lords vent to superadd other ,persons as a check on thus, already mentioned, which was an amendment this House would never surfer ; and the old:. motion he conceived that could be made would be tor deferring the consideration of it to a distant day. It was accordingly deterred to this day sit months. On the motion of Mr- DICKENSON, Jun. the Report of the Committee on the 1% oulien Manufac turers' Petition was deferred to Tuesday nest The Horse resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House on the Clergy's Non-Residence Bill. Mr. DICKENSON, ten. rtir:ed, that the blanks he Wk..' up tOr the sth of JulF. I tlO3, for the pur pose of giving lull time to an lion. Gentleman ss hi, entende'l to bring in a Hill on the subje:t. The Resolutioas were then agreeJ to. Report to-mur ruw. Lama GLENDETVIE btought up the Report • gany rumours were, of cotme, propagated in the course of the day. In the variety of speculation and report, the only probable conclusion that can be drawn is, that nothing decisive has yet taken place. By the American ship "Wive, arrived at Fal mouth, and which left the Cape four days after the Prince: Amelia packet, we learn, that the Cape remained in the possesion of the British on the ldth day of January, according to the articles of agree ment entered into between the British and Dutch commanders.—Of which we insert a copy. The French funds have improved. They were on the 18th so high as tiO. Our own yesterday kept pretty steady. The Argus, an English Paper printe, at Paris, received ye::terday, has some remarks upon his Majesty's Message. It denies, generally, that any preparations arc going un in the ports of France-- the only fcr:ce that they were equipping having al ready galled, partly to the West Indies, and partly to the East Indies. As to the expedition fitting o t in the Dutch ports, it says, the destination is • well known to be for Louisiana, that this cannct possibly have furnished any ground of " England therefore only makes this a pretext to cover its ulterior views." The Leyden Gazette of the 18th M.trch, says, the Message of theKtNo ofENGt.nND was sent to Parisby extraordinary couriers. This unforeseen event could nut but he followed by prompt resolutions on the part of the French Government. We cannot knew the whsle extent of the measures adopted in con,e quence ; but we are assured that they have taken steps not less vigorous than those taken by England, and that in case of hostilities, all the ports of the European coast, under their influence, and which may facilitate the means of an invasion, would be immediately lined with troops. A Board was held yesterday mornir, , , at the Treasury-office. It was attended by Lord 'G EU la G. L I . IIY N F., Mr. Bost), &c. &c. Stc. Mr. SpAkkow, the King's Alessenger, who re. tinned on Monday from Paris, performed his jour ni, from London to Paris and hack again, in six days, out of which he remained twenty-four hours at Paris. Accuunts received yesterday from France state, that Peace is the general topic of conversation in that Country. The people there, we have no doubt, speak as they wish, but the wishes of the people are, we fear, little regarded. Ihe perfea and stu died silence of the French papers, accounts for the total ignorance which prevails in that Country re speCting the nature or subjeCts of the discussion be tween their Government and ours. The Palatine of HUNGARY was to set out on the 7th inst. for Petersburgh, where he is to be affianced to the Princess of 13AotN. The marriage is to be solemnized at Cracow, where the presence of the Emperors of GERMANY and Russia is expeeted. Accounts received by the Hamburgh Mails, state, that the French troops destined for Louisiana are all embarked on board the transports at the mouth of the Meuse. They consist of 4000 infantry, a de tachment of the I;tth regiment of dragoons, a de tachment of artillery, &c. The expedition is to put to sea in a few days. The Merchants of Turin have obtained from the French Government the free exportation of wrought silks from Piedmont. Letters from Ratisbon state, that it is expeeted that the business of the Indemnities will be entirely terminated w ,, a month. The Chevalier d'ANDUAGA, the Spanish Envoy to London, set out from the Hague on the 7th instant for this capital, by the way of Antwerp and Paris. PASWAN OGLOU continues to pursue an arbitrary and independent conduCt, and is little embarrassed by the displeasure of the Porte. He is still in force, and has not disbanded the greater part of his troops, as report had stated. Admiral Sir Jou% Cot pors, Admiral STAN.. HOPE, and Lord li. PACLET, are in the numerous list of Naval Officers who have tendered their ser vices at the Admiralty. Orders were received yesterday at Dover to re mount the ordnance pieces, which were dismounted upon the ratification of peace. A Rotterdam paper, of the 19th instant, says, " The grand question of Peace or War is suspended on the will of I.IoN Ap Aat L. There is no absolute hostility pre-determined by the English Minister; the limits of concession, on their part, are chalked out ; and as France may approach that point with out injury to her safety or her honour, it is hoped she will weigh the consequences, and suffer the scale to preponderate on the side of humanity, and of re gard for the dearest inkiest: of thin cuuntry, which are immediately at stake ; thus convincing us of the im portance of her amity." A private letter from Path says, " The only in terruption to the sudden torrent of discourse, by which the saloon of the Thuilleries was invaded on Sunday last, was attempted by M. DE MARCOW, the Russian Ambassador. When BONAPARTE said, " that France had waged 'war for ten years," " and all Europe," said the Ambassador, " felt that to be a Li.ingerous nod fearful crisis." When the scene was over, and the principal after withdrawn, all the other Ambassadors shunned Lord W iiirwu at it, as if he had caught a political influenza, or the pesti lence ! M. l)s: MARCONI/ alone continued with him, and remarked with great good humour on the deli cate and embarrassing situation in which Lord W. found himself placed for the moment. The Count DE Conti TzE 1., the Austrian Minister, was the only person of the Corps Diplamatique who was not pre sent on the occasion, and his absence has since been noticed by the FIRST CONSUL with no light degree of displeasure." A daring robbery was attempted on Wednesday evening last, at the Ebenezer Methodist Chapel, in King -street, Bristol: some villains, who are supposed t have concealed themselves in the Chapel, re moved from its situation an iron chest, which was fixed with masonry into the wall, (containing a considerable sum in cash, and some writings of im portance) ; after having succeeded in getting it out of the Chapel. Some of the tackle used in carrying it off gave way, and the chest (about 3 cwt.) fell on the ground with such violence and noise as to occa sion an alarm, when the depredators were forced to decamp without their booty. The goodness of the locks, and the strength of thechest, bad rendered fruitless every attempt to open it.