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RIGGE's newly-invented LIQUIFIED "IN .IMBER l/klrl.Nti-CAKES.NapIeo Suap having been ever constdert t•te mast excellent and lubricating Shaving- Soap, the Prt ,, r:••ttir of the *herr article has anain A its pro perties and : as • --el enabled to prepare his AMBER CAKES ran 'uteri e u ,:•s , desirable; he, theierote, with mein detee, pi i, s .tinsici that they will he found in every respect as piamaat set , .nd far superior to the Naples Soap in fra il2loe, b•ttles poitar.sing rite advantage pf being less than see-fourth " 1 its Price. The Amber Soap, being prepared in a lopsid ode, rent ea it a desid?rAiun to (.cattlemen who use Shaster,..-jfa, , es, tir ; 15 they may be filled with out tb . : least isoAi'Jic elan;..- r freaking: a disadvantage al gnat i.n.%earthl,• form ortanary Shaving Snap, 7 and, though filled to a liquid form, et isiß become sufficiently solid in six tom% J. T. RIGGF. imraes, only, a single trial, to prose the ef feat". at has invention ; and offers to return the purchase mo ns!, if it yields not tho most perfcct satisfaction. Said at his genuile Perfume WArelinit.*-, 2.1 d Ntanufactory, 65,0winiside ; where ma! he had cire:y Artie:.: of Foreign arail Larsh Perfumery, o the first quality. UN MONDAY, APRIL 4, the 1..NG16511 ST.ITE LOTTERY begins 'trio :pg. GRAND SCII.ENIF. Value of each. Tula! Vahm. 1.20,f)00 60.000 10.000 30,0c0 5,000 -- 1,),001) 2,000 6,000 1,1 1 00 b,OOO 11.0 su s,OOO 20 250,000 110 .• This Scheme from ill (.t1;(m I,r tram , Y.•im poet, to the coessiviauce ut nut ham Jai ) Vraes fixed for partie,.!as dart. CIVIFT and CO. No. 11, POI . I.TRY, are ap t G.,vernin in t., isc'l the T.eki is and Sim:* of oLiers.? Lutvry. r.tabfe4ll,,l n t h e y", 17 y 9) ba. het% foirtiutate in the Saie of Cipital Prix:%,TIIIRTLEN so vs hien Isar of the I. t and Thre• preceding Lotteries, and smote of !bests divided menu srvinv Shares. No. of Prises. 4 of 3 3 -- 5 -- 30 60 11.100 N.i. 149. oxFi•IL1) STREeT, OPPOSITF. MOND STIttET, az. : Se. 44, 4T. Jr.ubliw ity p-s•r.Kr, HODGF.S atid co. s - rocK-eßcrKEits. re spetifutly acquaint Va.! Nobility at dPalgle, that the Tsekets v 4 Shams of the pr.:L.-in G..ind State Lotte 7 are on see, at their licz.tvd Offico, in pest saristy, and at the lowest intros. In the late I.•.tteries 411.• following Capltal Prises were sold, ie.& Id, n rod r.gi&m. i :1 I:tr above IMflc .4, Tu. K. 29,44;7, • 1'624 of 20,00 Nu. 2, 4 41, a Prize 0(10,000 15,793 20,01:) 30,r4 . 1 .5.9 4 fit 12,660 20,Uns) 24,5-.18 5,000 f4,7i7 10,000 111,9644 b,OOO 7.111 I 1.4000 36,030 5,000 N• K. Tti'm Lottery will c itnivestee Drawar the 4th of ne :. t Month, and *Waits sour Privi of 20,0 1 .`..'1. ; tla ..: of 10,0001 three of .5,0001.; three t.f ~0')01.4 hve of 1,0001. ; And other Prins, amounting to 392,0001. 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Whole, if passibie, in Six Volumes, forming a comprehensive • Sri vs of Hvolrograpbv. t 4 t roots may Alto be had, by the same Author, • NAVAL SER %lONS, preached on B rant his Majesty's Ship She liapotmew.. S..••sassed Editian, ei:. lards. . . 0R JV . 7 V G •4DVERTISYR. [PRICE SIXPENCE. try. Sufficient information, therefore, ought to be given ; but he had no wish to urge his Motion at present on the House : if it was disagreeable or inm• proper, he, therefore, threw himself on the indul gence of the House, and would ad, respecting his motion, according to their pleasure. Lord GRENVILLE rose to offer his request to his Noble Friend behind him to withdraw his mo tion ; but if he were compelled to vote, he must say he had not heard a single argument to prove the necessity or even the propriety of relating it. For his part, his Lordship said, be should be sorry tO heir any thing at that moment from any quarter that might have a tendency to throw embarrassment on 'Ministers; they had taken upon themselves, without the smallest communication to Parliament of the grounds on whieh they ;teed, to propose a strong measure to the country. A time, therefore, must come, when not only such a motion as his Noble Friend had moved, but when other motions leading to enquiry into every part of the concluel of his Ma jesty's Ministers, during the last eighteen months, would be necessary. The subject of his Noble Friend's was a proper siobjee of enquiry, at the pro per time ; and he could not acquiesce in the opi nions that he had at . different times heard from those Noble Lords who took upon themselves to de fend the conduet of Ailninistration ; and it was im possible for him not to notice the general unwilling ness of his Majesty's Ministers to give any sort of explanation of their conduit. Their responsibility for that conduet, during the last eighteen months, was great and unprecedented. They had called upon the country, first to disarm, then again to arm, then once more to disarm, and now to arm again ; so that their measures were done and un done ; adopted, and altered, without assigning to Parliament the smallest reasons for those variations and differences. But still he would not wish to have at present any occasion afforded to his Majes ty's Ministers to Charge either his friends or himself with having thrown any difficulties in their WWI: there would be future opportunities sufficient for discussing all such motions hereafter, and therefore . would request his Noble Friend to withdraw his Motion. The Earl of CARLISLE said, he would wil lingly, with leave of the House, withdraw his Motion, at the request of his Noble Friend ; but he must declare, that he had heard nothing from Mi nisters which be could consider as an explanation of their conduit, or a reason for their resisting his Motion. Lord PELHAM said, he saw no great objection or harm in the Motion, farther than his general sense, that it was contrary to the pradlice of Parlia ment to adopt any Motions, the grounds of which had not been explained to the House. At the same time, he had no wish, either in the instance of the present Motion, or any other that mght he brought fbrward, to shrink from enquiry, when that should be properly instituted. With regard to the con dun of his Majesty's Ministers, no taunts that could be brought aganst them, no loose insinuations picked up without doors, sh ould drive him or his colleagues from a steady perseverance in all such measures as, upon full consideration, they should deem it their duty to propose. The country and the Parliament had hitherto approved of their con duct, and honoured them with their confidence ; and while they have that support, they should feel them selves sufficiently satisfied. His Lordship, after va rious other similar observations, concluded with re peating, that he must resist the Noble Earl's mo tion, because no grounds had been laid for it. Lord GRENVILLE made a short reply, and denied that Parliament had expressed any confi dence in the conduit of his Majesty's Ministers, during the last eighteen months; for, during that period, Ministers had not thought'proper to make a single communication to Parliament, assigning their reasons for the extraordinary and contraditon condue which they had held, of first desiring the country to disarm, then calling upon them to arm, then again bidding them disarm, and now suddenly coming forward to bid them to arm again. Parlia ment therefore had no grounds to rest its confidence upon. Lord HOIIART said, there were two great and in.portant public measures, respecting which Mini sters had laid the fullest communication before Par liament—a Convention and Treaty -of Peace with the Northern Powers, and the Preliminary and De finitive Treaty of Peace with France ; both of which the majority of both Houses, and the Country ap proved. Lord GRENVILLE said, both these measures took place before the commencement of the eighteen months to which he alluded. The LORD CHANCELLOR left the Wool sack, to state his reasons why.he should vote for the Motion, which lie held in his hand, viz. a Mo tion to withdraw the 141oaon first• moved by the Noble Earl ; and also to make a few observations. When the Noble Earl introduced the original Mo tion, he gave the House no explanation of it; and if lie understood a Noble Friend of his correctly (Lord Hobart) he objeaed to it, because, according to what he had himself always taken to be the constant usage of Parliament, sufficient grounds were not laid for it, previous to the Motion being made. A Noble Lord, who had risen next, and advised the Noble Earl behind him t) withdraw his Motion, had declared, that he had heard no argument front Ministers, why the Motion ought to be repelled. 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Lord HOBARC lamented, that his Noble Friend at the head of the naval department should be pre vented from being present by indisposition, as he understood that the drift of the Motion was meant to convey some insinuation against, or refleCtion upon the conduet of his Noble Friend. For his own part, he was not in the least afraid of any en quiry into any part of the continet of Administra tion—of every aa of which the whole House had sufficient grounds of judging. He did nor see whe ther the Noble Earl's Motion might not be a harmless one, further than as it went to make an undue impression on the public mind ; but he must objeft to it, because some grounds ought to be laid before the House, and something like specific charges ought to be stated, before such a Motion would appear to be fit to be received. He could not be satisfied with indireet insinuations against his Noble Friend, or the conduit of the Admiralty, as he presumed there was not any thing in the con duet of either that called for enquiry, or made in vestigation necessary. Until, therefore, lie should hear further reasons than those which had yet been alledged, he shoald Lel it his duty to resist a Mo tion, for which no satisfaCtory, grounds had 'oeen essigned. . The Lag of CARLISLE said, the objeCt of his motion WAS so plain and simple, that he did not Mink it necessary to take up the time of the House in going into any explanation at length. Called upon as Parliament had been on a sudden to arm. Parliament had a right to call for every degree of information that could be attained, without danger to the public interests, or embarrassment to Go vernment. With regard to the Noble Earl at the head of the Admiralty, no man had a deeper sense of the obligations the country had to that Nuble Lord's professional exertions, than he felt. No man valued his services—his great and eminent services, higher than he did ; but as a Member of Parliament, and standing up in his place as a public chatatter, there was a duty paramount to all feedings of pri vate admiration, respe6t, and friendship. Upon that ground it was, that lie thought it incumbent upon him to look to the managementof the affairs that came di reEtly under the superintendance of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the conduCt of the Board over which he presided ; since upon that depended our being ready to meet the French off Brest, as soon as occasion should require. He must, therefore, be allowed to state, that doubts did very generally exist in the public mind, in regard to the management of the Admiralty; and when fads could le ascer- tained, the public had a right to know them, and thereby have their anxiety removed. When a ques tion of war was pending, Ty were entitled to know haw tar what was dt/i143 at home WAS com mensurate to the danger that threatened the cowi- - .>.5-._4%' OR, LITE R.411.4Y - 1 •~.. . YCLI