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1." i I ) . ;;I I 7 r I V LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY e. - I. Mr. SIIERIDAN asked, whether, ashen the 'Bill passed, it was intended to preclude the adoption of a resolution for reviving the subjea next Session. Mr. BR A GGE said, he should he sorry to pledge himself. He did not wish to make it a condition, but he was not aware that there would be any ob jeaion to reviving the subjea next Session, if any !lon. Gentleman gave notice of a motion to that eflea. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER subscribed to all the sentiments of his Right Hon. Friend, but he could not consent to what had been sunested by an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Sheridan). The House never passed a Resolution after a Bill so definitive. Its discretion ought not to be fettered nor would it commit itself to a declaration upon the subjea. It was of importance to guard against the disquiet and irritation, whicht in manufaauring towns, would he produced rather than allayed, by suffering the question to continue unsettled, . He altogether ols;,eaed to such a resolution. It was of the utmost importance the workmen should be con vieced, that it was not by turbulence, disturbance, or cabal, this House would be influenced. The House would ever be aanated by a disposition to redress their grievances, but they ought to under stand, that such a disposition would not be quick ened by any conduct which is inconsistent with their duty to their masters. He gave his consent to the Rill, but he did no: co .cider himself committed to any definitive arrangement. . Mr. Vs'ILBKREORCE justificd the conduct of the workmen of the county of York. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, his observations did not apply to Yorkshire, but to the Western counties. After a few observations from Mr. Lascelles,- strangers were ordered to withdraw, but the Bill seas read a third time, and passed without. a di vision. The House went into a Committee of Supply. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it would be recollcaed, that, in stating the Ways and Means, he had given notice of his inten tion to move for 5,000,0001. of Exchequer Bills to replace those which were raised last year, and charged on the Supplies of the present year. Hu inovt.d, that the suin of b,003,0;i0! skinld be g ranted to his Majesty, to gothic tom to Aischarce the Es:chequer Bills Node out by virtue of an Act of tact Session, for the service of the ye ar. lle aLso moved a grant of 16,0001. for repairing the Forts op the Coast of Africa. Also, 12,0001. for sums granted in consequence of Addresses. A Iso, 171,4:311. Ils. Icl. for sums in die Disposition Paper. The Report was ordered to be read to-morrow, and the Committee ordered to sit again on Monday. The House went into a Committee of Ways and Means, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the sums voted in the Committee of Supply. The Report was ordered to be read to-morrow, and the Committee was ordered to sit again on Monday. '1 he Hense went into a Committee on the Scotch additional Army Bill. the SECRETARY at WAR proposed to levy the number of persons required in Scotland, accord. ing to the same proportion as had been adopted in England. After a short discussion, in which Sir James St. Clair Erskine, Mr. Brodie, and Mr. M'Dowall, took part, the Bill was passed nom. cern. A Petition was brought up from the prisoners confined in the King's bench prison, praying relief. Ordered to be laid on the table. The SECRETARY at WAR moved the Order or the Day for the second reading of the additional Irish Army The House went into a Committee pre firma on the Bill, after which it was ordered to be printed, and taken into further consideration on Monday. The Irish Small Note Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. • A Message from the Lords stated the assent of their Lordsnips to two private Bills. Mr. CORRY moved for a Committee of the whole House to take into consideration the Irish Distillery Ads. The House accordingly went into a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. The Irish Militia Pay Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Lona,' Bill w•as ordered to be taken into further consideration to-morro - v. The Irish Duty Bill was ordered to be taken into Consideration on Monday next. The Exeter Road Bill passed.—Adjourned. THEATRE.ROr4L, HATMdRICE7. THIS EVENING will be presented (Sixth Time this Season) a Play in Three ACIS called THE. IRON CHEST. The Music composed by the late Mr. Storare. Sit Edward Mortimer, Mr. Elliston ; Fitzhard'ng, Mr. Chapman; Wilford, Mr. H. Kelly; •Attam Winterton, Mr. Burton. Helen, Mrs. Goodall; blanch, Mrs. Gibbs; Bau tista, Mrs. Atkins- Judith, Mrs. liarlowe. Attar w hich, a 'Farce in Two AN, railed FORTUNE'S - FROLICK. Pekin Rrogh-head, Mr. Grove ; Snacks, Mr. Burton ; Frank Mr. H. Kelly; Clears, My. Waldron, jun. Margery, Mrs. leyi ; Miss Nancy, Mrs. Mathews ; Deily, Mrs. Gibbs. TILE BRITISH PRESS. The conversation which took place nu Thursday night, in the House of Commons, during the exclu. rion of strangers, is said to have been very interest ' We do not, however, believe that any thing transpired which it would be improper to COMMU TI:CatC to the public. But we do not, therefore, cotripiain of ere exclusion. It was a precautionary tairasure, very properly suggested by the course which the conversation appeared to be taking. We understand Colonel Ca AUVUItD is of opinion that it is possible for BONAPAIIft to attempt an invasion with 100,000 men. Admitting 40,000 of these to perish is the attempt, he thinks, if the remaining 60,000 were to land at several paints, but so as to • be able to form an immediate jundion, the country would be placed in a most critical state. We be lieve, hovrever, that ): is the general opinion among (m e mo/ eirperirrce. that the larger the expedition. Cie more it wicouid be exposed to discovery and dis- I . • Aster; and that if, en the other hand, an invasion should be attempted, by' several sdrall expedltietrs of )5,000 or 20,000 men each;landing on several points, they must be defeated in detail. , . - The Funds yesterday suffered a depression. This effect was probably produced by the expelled intro dueiion of a large quantity of new paper into the market, as an issue of 5,000,0001. - Exchequer Bill s was voted last night in the House of Commons.' • We yesterday received French Journals to the 27th inclusive. They are destitute of all inte resting intelligence. The_ Bishops are going on with their disgusting and blasphemous -addresses to their clergy on the subjeft of the war. The following notice was on Thursday publicly read at the Stock Exchange : " Mr. CUR at-, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of irelaairt, from pArtirrilJr circiiinbtances, under the sieeev.ity r.f fixing Fri:lay the Stli of Athwart of Monday the 11th Isl . Jolly, for receiving the 'lidding for the Irish Loan of 1,1[;00,000I. At the Castle, iu Dtibiin." Citizen SCIITqMELPENNICK 'is arrived at the Hague from London. A Russian Messenger sailed from Dover on Wed nesday, in the s6rkland packet, which took over a mail for France ; but do mails from thence have yet been allowed to come to this country. Various opi nions exist respeding the result of this Russian me diation ; but we hope it will not throw Ministers od their guard, us the country will undoubtedly have soon to resist an attempt at invasion. According to letters from Naples, a large armed American merchantman, after sailing from that port, was met by an Algerine frigate ; a smart ac tion took place, and tl-e American was obliged to yield to the superiority of the energy's force. Mr. SMITH, the late Charge d'Affaires from the United States, at Naples, was on board, on his return to his native country. An English Lady, of distindion, just returned from France says, she saw, in almost every place she passed, printed bills exciting the French to in vade this country, saying, Britain should be given up to general pillage, and that every man lound in arms shoirld be put to death. This fad is much the subjed cf conversation. It is with great satisfaCtion we are enabled to state, in positive terms, that the reports circulated through the medium of the French Official Journal, of hundreds being swept away by the plague at Malta, are totally unfounded. Letters have been received in town, from La Valette, dated the I?.th of May, at whic h time the troops and inhabitants were in complete health, nor had any contagion whatever broken out in the island. Accounts reached town yesterday morning from Gibraltar, which state the arrival of Lord NELSON there in the beginning of last month. He brought in with him several valuable French prizes, cap tured on his passage. A number of English mer chantmen, arrived at Gibraltar from the Mediter ranean and Levant, were to have sailed for Eng land on the I 2th, under convoy. We have been informed by an intelligent friend, who has, within these tew days, surveyed the whole coast, from Dungeness to Dover, that the prepara tions already completed are so admirable as to ren der every attempt ata descent a matter of almost total impossibility; the troops in all that distrid areinhigh spi rits,an el in a st ate ofexcellentdisci,dine. All ranks are animated as if with one soul, and so far from looking to invasion with unmanly timidity, they look for ward to it as the certain forerunner of destrudion, to all engaged in so hazardous an undertaking. Lord Nttsot: arrived at Gibraltar in the begin ning of June, and carried in with him several valua ble French prizes, which he captured on his passage. A number of English vessels had arrived there, and were to sail under convoy for England about the Mb ult. The exemption of Foreigners, residing abroad, from the Tax upon the Funds, is politic as well as honourable to the national charader. Foreigners have long had occasion to look upon this country as the best san'tuary for property, as well as the most secure abode of freedom. We understand it has been proposed to Govern ment to make some use of the Thames Watermen on the present critical occasion. They would certainly form a strong body of men, and might be very ad -.*antageously employed. Yesterday Lord ELLENBOROUGH sat at Ni.ri Prius, Guildhall, but none of the trials were inte resting. The Fiesr CONSUL complains that we did not snake a declaration of war previous to the corn • mencement of hostilities. This is well from a man .whose whole life is a tissue of treachery. A Court of Common Council will be held this day, at Guildhall, to receive the, Report from the Militia Committee. Laudable care is taken in the provisions (1( the Army of Reserve Bill, to etclude Quaier.r. Our fashionable young men are said to he very " skilful in dairying. We have no doubt that many of them are often seen in a reel ; but they may have reason sooner than they are aware of, to think that they ought to have learnt a man h. All ranks are strenuous in their izeitions at the present momentous crisis, to render our glorious Island invulnerable—hut should there be a descrip 7 tion of persons in this country, who 'lack the • tree spirit of Loyalty and Patriotism, let them. witness the Representation of the New Local Divezisement at the ROYAL Coleys, where it is brea tiled foethin its native purity—and they will imbibe such a zeal for the welfare of their country, that no place or time can efface it from their memories. A press-gang.went yesterday to the neighbour hood of Newcastle-street, Strand, in search of a sailor. They succeeded in discovering his retreat; but he made such a desperate resistance, his head was laid open, and he was severely cut down the check before the gang were able to overpower mut seize him. He was so badly wounded, his . life veall considered in danger ; the gang brought him imme. diately to a neighbouring surgeon to hase ,, hltt l wounds dressed. The surgeon did his duty ; gilt lo ! when the gang, who had waited at the door," entered to receive their prisoner, he was no where to be found ; whether he flew up the chimney, or out at the window, ao outs has been suble t ty, 4 ' COW: . _ _ - ~~- . ~ .I•••• Pliliden CORRESPONDENCE. mallovr.s., ittrit " You have known our former situatiot, I will cow tell you our present 1 the difference between the legal gavernment of a prince, and the tyranny of French. Republicans. " French intrigues always precede French invasi ons; the moment England armed, France plotted, and a legion of emissaries were the forerunners of an army of soldiers; hence the irresolutions, the con tradiEtions, the bombast threats, and the degrading submission of the regency; hence the opposition, the disunion, amongst the people ; and hence the want of public spirit in a brave army commanded by able officers, but whose courage and whose talents were neutralised by the weakness of their superiors, and now only serve them to feel so much the more ' the reproach of having laid down their arms, and of being prisoners of war to an army inferior or equal in number to themselves. " The death of the Hanoverian regency may truly be called a suicide, because even after years of unfortunate war, and the loss of a number of battles, French insolence could hardly prescribe, nor our regency consent to any worse or more dis honourable terms than those signed and submitted to. From being subjeas of the best of kings, we are, without struggle and without resistance, be came slaves to the worst of tyrants, who oppress and mock us, who plunder and despise us. When 30,000 brigands arc rivalling each other in mischiefs, striving who shall rob us the most, and who shall be the most busy to propagate immorality and ir religion ; to give examples of debauchery and les sons of Atheism. 'Three grenadiers have been shot, to prove a discipline existing only in the reports of the Generals. " Every where before the entrance of the French troops, French emissaries excited and encouraged plunder and violence ; and our common people were active French citizens, or robbers, before they were effe6tive French slavec ; and so rapid has been the progress of French revolutionary principles, that in many places the people have already divided amongst them the domains of the Crown, and the estates of the Nobles ; but as this caused alarm to our neighbours the Prussians, French bayonets have been obliged to suspend, ad interim, these conse quences of French example and dotarine. " We capitulated to an army of :20,000 French- men, but at present upwards of 44,000 French troops have entered our country, and every clay their number is augmented ; this has given uneasi ness, and measures of precaution are ordered both in Prussia and Denmark ; and many think them more than necessary, because, since the Revolution, France has never yet respected any country where plunder was to be got, when plunder was wanted, and wanted it must be, should the French continue here, and a& in the manner they have done hi therto. Let our resources be ever so great, they must be exhausted when extravagance prevents eco nomy, and passion excludes regularity ; when ty ranny imposes contributions, and anarchy extorts requisitions ; when property is unsafe, industry pro scribed, and commerce ruined. g 4 We know for a certainty, that Russia has much censured the condu& of Prussia and France, with regard to our country. It is to Russia alone that Hamburgh and Bremen are indebted for their pre sent neutrality, and neither pecuniary indemnities to one power, nor pecuniary loans to another, would otherwise have saved them from French fraternity. "Two of our countrymen are sent, by orders, as negotiators to the Corsican ; they are no doubt des tined to augment the number of slaves decorating his triumphal entry at Brussels, to endure his inso lence, and to hear his calumnies against their Sove reign their places are certainly nut places of honour, and we had great difficulty to fi.-1.1 two persons patriotic enough to abase themselves before the vulgar throne of the Corsican Usurper." The St. .Lkstrs's Loyal Volunteers, on Thursday, met for the purpose of electing their Officers, when the following were unanimously chosen : C. Lord Amherst, Rev. T. Braelren,Chaplaio, Lieut.-Col. Monk, W. Morris, Esq. Surgeon. Major Dowries, C4PTait:s4 ELECTED, JUNE 30, 1803. Farquhar, Esq. William Sloane,'Esq. . Charles Stuart, Esq. Wifiam Placket, Esq. Arthur Gere, Esq. Francis John Cater, Esq. H u gh Hammersley, EN. Cherie; Hamnicrsley, Esq. .Yesterday was Muster-day, when the corps made a most recpe&able appearance on the parade. The triple inscription of Rosetta, whichhav lain for some time in the Library of the Society of An tiquaries, has been lately removed to the Museum, and deposited with the rest of the Antiquities from Egypt. - Death has of late made considerable havoc in the literary world of Germany, and deprived it of =thy of those great charaelers who had given celebrity to their country, and 'assigned it an honourable rank • among the most enlightened nations of Europe. Among those whose loss is of a very recent date, the sathe of GA veva makes a conspicuous figure. This philoitopher was equally remarkable for the heatiti- Iktisibpriety of his refleaions, the charms of his elo sluortice, and the amenity of his deportment: Of 411 his•enuntrymen, the harmony of his periods bears the nearest affinity to the Greeks, and, on that ac cuant, as well as for his mannerof treating his moral subjeits, he has justly been considered the Addison of densany. ..• ntitl4tss Her Grace, last Rnut this season _ men in state liveries, man with a silver ror hall, who conducted vants of a superior announced to the ...- company then proceeded where they were which is uncommonl' colleCtion of paintini finest flowers, brut entrance of the hall, hand of music the whole of thi exceeded V*l Prue of Wales, Eails—Carlisle, Viscount Langford, Lord,—Kidatnek, Sirs—J. Milner, Dr. Dalif4x. General.—Needham, Major Knox. Thicherats—.Nostill, Mary:wine of Anspach Marellioness--Blandf ,- Cotinveser—.Harr,,,g., De Buhl, Kenmare, ingliamalihe. Viscountemes-1 Baroness Crofton, Milnes, Lowther, ' Grantham, F. Fitzwi Vyner, B. Praha., V Mantle% Deerhunt, MRS. Mrs. Freemam dity evening last, In the splendid Ills Royal I I iglu Earls.--Carl Viscount,—F.& Fatmouth, and CPI Helen's, and Walsingham Sirs—G Warrender dish. Generals—.Pigot Colonel Armst Messrs.—D. Grus scelles, Wynne, Dent, Pocock, Bouvet ie, Sheldon, and Hugt Duchesses—Bolt Marchionesses--. Countesses--Clare, Essex, Cardigan, Ch: Carhampton, Darnley. Viscountesses—S, worth. Ladies—Northwi Langford, C. Co llyo I toward, Paget, Somurton, G. Thy one, E Lee. " Primrose, Lawley. r Mistresses—D. Gascoigne, Fgerton, Weddle, Dyke, Wright, Blair, and Misses—Gibbi, Cornwall, De Gray, Wrighta, two Thomi Yesterday morning GURNEE, MAJOR, and rived at Windsor.. which engaged able time. After breakfast !MA and Au; and Major DESI rode on horsebaci through the Plantar Her MAJEST— ZAHETH, and T tended by the Frogmore, and o'clock. Among the of ATHOL, Lord Lady AMELIA On Thursda' their MAJESTI: Park, at eight Last night, t Theatre with their Dr. Pangloss, and Cecily Hones ) . Of ken-Morrow The Counte: - this season, on The March town for the season Lady I le NI., GrAnd Dinner, the Portuguese TINCK, Lord &C, The Earl tov:•n this da bridge. Lord SOMER. through Scotland. Mrs. Durr her house in Sth instant. Mr. ST. GEOI a Grand Dinner alarmingly ill poned to a DeviaEux were nue to attend Lord Ossu thumberland, corns for the A m irriage aid Mi s Hu, Miss ANGLRSTL day, at Woodlands, Lad LOUISA MA. gave , elegant -- a d Sipper, last night, at her house in Pall-Mall, tc near 500 persons of the first distindion Th_Y Hon. Mr. Doer, gave an elegant dinner yesL. .day at his house in Manchester-square. Mr. DWYER has renewed his articles with the Proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre, at a very liberal salary. From the secession of some of the Per formers, k is very probable his range of cllaraders will be considerably enlarged. • • Even the Birmingham audience are astonished at the facility with wilich Mr. Fawcm, who is now playing there, can turn his trariuus . materials 411 gold. . . - .- - • PASIIION. • S OF MARLIBOROUH'S ROUT. last night, gave her second Grand nat Marlborough House. Six foot- liveries, headed by a running foot, rer staff, were stationed in the into. conducted the company to eight set- perior class, by whom they were he Groom of the Chambers.--The moceeded to the grand dining parlour, - e received by her Grace. The Hall, =only magnificent, displayed a fine intings, with a great profusion of the brought from Sion-Milne. At the hall, in the grand gallery, an excellent were stationed, who played during the night. In the company, which were— %, Prince de Conde. N,, St Allstn'v. (~:alloway. Ford. le, Lowther ' Kinnaird, and Ka t . , H. Dasliwoutl. £ham, Pigot. atlmmberland, Gordon, St. Alban's. Anspacb. Blandford. arriiiron, Gsllovray, Carhampton, Stanhope, are, Uxbridge, Tanaerville, Dowager Buck. .Langford, Forbes. trick, two Percys, Ridstock, !Arington, , Wenterton, 11. Spenerr, Le de lidencer itzwilliam, Vincent 9 Sullivan, Kimnird, T: a., Way, Garlies, C. Paget, M. Bennett, C. arst, Croft. S. FREEMANTLE'S ROUT. antle gave an elegant Rout on Thurs. ast, at her house in Stanhope -street. d circle were-- if ine-si Prince William of Gloucester. Westmoreland, Darnley, and Limerick. Ike:tune, Sydniy, Cranley, Wentworth, leintenay. rifle, Paget, G. L. Gower, Dungannon, St_ a:lngham. ,nder, W. Wynne, A Clark, and F. Stan, a and Lennox. (mg. l.lnevenor, Byng, Gascoiene, Smith, La- Dent, Hale Sloane, Jenkmsan, Methuen, ie, CLurdiiU , Bennett, Cadogan, Bankea, ighes. ,lton and Rutland. —Devonshire and Hertford. Tare, Rasslyn, Warwick, Carlisle, Uxbridge, , Chatham, Cunningham, Kingston, Cork, -nley, Grantham, Limerick, and Roseberry. -Sydney, Folkestone, Cranley, and Went- wicke, Howe, Manners, Bishop, Warren, lyer, Monson, Greville, Mildulay, Cornwall, iomuroin, R. Fitzgerald, Glynn, C. Lennox, ee, Amkerst, Deering, M. Perry, Lowther, r, and Walsingham. . Grosvenor, Syduey,Byng, Cornwidlii Dent, nton, Dickens, Masters, Louth, iValker, , Pocock, A. Stanhope, Murata. Banker, lid Thompson. Ilunloke Townshend, Dickens, Monson, ray, Louth, two Courtenays, Leman, tire iompsons, Hughes, and Wynne. morning about six o'clock, Messrs. on, and SaitT it, the Messengers, a:- sor, dispatches to his MAJESTY, d his MAJESTY'S attention a consider- fast his MAJESTY, the Princesses So. lELI A, attended by General GA RTIR :SBROW, and Lady IsA BELL A THY NNE, aback in Windsor Great Park, and 'lantations. iT Y and the Princesses AUGUSTA, ELI? Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES, at- Countess of ELGIN, took an airing to ad walked in the Gardens till two arrivals at Windsor are the Duchess -ord JA NIES MURaAY, and his sister, A MURRAY. Jay, the Duke of CLARENCE visited tEs-at Windsor, and returned to Bushey : o'clock. the Royal Family honoured Windsor their presence to see the Heir at Law ; Mr. EL ISTON ; Steadfast, Mr. FOOT ; mespun, Mrs. MI lAA. The Farce was, `to 7rrow • ' Frederick, Mr. ELUSION. ess of GALLOW A Y gives her last Ron: it Thursday next. hioness of SALISBURY and Family left season yesterday, for Hatfield. Locke gave, on Thursday evening, a r, at her house in Albemarle -street, to se Ambassador, Lord WILLrAm BEE- L J. THY NNE, Sir A. CLARKE, Mr. cc. of TANKERVILLE and Family leave ay for his Lordship's seat, near Wey- ERVILLE set off yesterday on his tour land. r will give her last Rout this seaqnn at Manchester-square, on Thursday, the EORGE Csntr mu), who had announced finer on Thursday evening, was taken so a in the morning:, the party was post- future day. Doctors VAUGHAN and were immediately called in, and conu- I him. LsroN left town on Thursday for Nor. 1, in which county he is to raise a new e defence of the country. ge is upon the tapir between Mr. Alai . . ELSE, daughter of Sir E. HUL,.E. E.RSTEIN gives a Public Breakfast this Alands, in Kent. UISA MANNERS gave an elegant Rout last night. at her house in Pall-Mall,