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Wady to reeeire Toole's, in writing, (sealed iip,) and lien for Fire Hundred Tuns of !maelstrom or' Newcatile Snit, er Salt y equal goodness, of which the Persons who mane the Tenders are to produce a sample; to be delivered into his Majesty's nelstaNing Shores at Deptford, one-hay out or before the 3014 of fine next, and the remainder by the 30th of September falloteisg, free ef all charge and risque to his isieaty, creept that the Contractor trill be allowed two shillings and eleven-pence per tan for the porterage of.the Miff - root the wharf to the stores ; and to he paid fir by bills payable with interest ninety days after date. The Conditions If the CiattraCt may be seen at the Secrrtary's Of. .lice, at this Office, ot by applying to the Callielor if the Sall DJties at Lyme's:tan, fit Hampshire. And all Persists mho may think prom to make Tenders upon the said occasion, ore daiedl b/ tohe Notiee, that no regard well be had to any Tender, in which the pike shall not be taw tied in ti'o' ds at leugth, or that shalt nut br drfirored to the Roard hrtore. Opt • n'Clor4 at the raid Tnardinq the 3th of April nest, ~or the Perm. who 1001 es the Td Tel t•r, or wine Person on his be. ha% Ramis to cense ET when eau, d lux. . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. WEDNESDAY; MARCH 16. The Prince of Wales's Annuity Bill was read a third time and passed ; and the usual Message was ordered to be seat to the Commons. The Bills brought up and presented yesterday, were . read a second time. VEXATIOUS ARREST RITA.. Lord R AWDON (Earl of Moira) wished to have put off the recommitment of his Bill. but the Lord Chancellor said it might be immediately re committed. It was recommitted, and with the as sistance of Lords Ellenborongh and Alvanley, seve ral Amendments were made, and the Report was ordered:to be received to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16. The Bill for enabling the Royal Canal Company to cut a Canal from Dublin to the Shan non, was read a second time, and committed. GREAT GRIMSBY ELECTION. Sir M. W. RIDLF.Y moved the Order of the Day for calling to the Bar of the House John Hall, who had been committed for prevarication before the Committee on the Great Grimsby Ele6tion. The prisoner was brought to the Bar, in custody of the Serjeant at Arms. Mr. SPEAKER addressed him, and pointed out to him the extreme enormity and heinousness of the offence of a witness prevaricating in his evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Com mons. He observed that the House, though deeply impressed with the magnitude of. his guilt, had in its mercy and lenity taken into consideration the length of the confinement he had already endured, and the penitence he had expressed for his delin quency, and had therefore ordered that lie should be reprimanded and discharged, upon paying his . fees. The prisoner, Mr. Hall, was accordingly repri-, manded by Mr. Speaker, and ordered to be dis charged upon payment of the usual fees. Lord ALVANLEY moved to adjourn the Cause of Appeal on the subjeß of a bridge on the estates of the late Earl of Lonsdale, which was peremptorily ordered.to stand for hearing to-morrow, till Tues day the t'dth of April. Ordered. itrt9p rosT-OFFICE, MAII.PACK ET, AND I.F.TTER • RILL. On reading the Order of the Day for going into a Committee on this Bill, Lord AUCKLAND rose and observed, that in this Bill, which professed to be a Bill regulating the Post-Office Duty in Ire land, these was a clause respelling franking of Let ters to and from England and Ireland, which ex. tended that privilege to the Secretary of State for Ireland, and s4ch recognized a fourth Secretary of State, a person unknown to the-Constitution of Great Britain ;---besides it introduced a new prin ciple in an Irish Bill—the principle of legislating for Great Britain, which certainly could not be ad mitted. He was aware that any attempt to alter the clauses would endanger the fate of the Bill, which was necessary to be passed before the 25th of the present month, he would therefore appeal to his Noble and Learned Friend on the woolsack to learn from him, what course the House under such cir cumstances ought to pursue ? His Lordship stated the Revenue of the Post-Office to have increased at one period from 140,0001. a year up to 390;0001. and from thence up to the present time up to 900 and odd. thousand pounds per Annum. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, it was highly necessary that the chars of Bills sent up from the House of Commons relative to Ireland, should in their titles stri&ly correspond with the contents of such Bills. that in so great a variety of business as must now necessarily be done in this country for Ireland, it was unavoidable that those whose anxious aim and desire it was to be Most accurate,' Would sennetimes inadvertently fall into inaccuracy. ?Iv, present. Bill was entitled, a Bill for regulltia,t.J Duty of Postage in Ireland, wititis . `thelitagdoit. of Ireland, and, for various important reasons, it was necessary that it should be passed on or before . the 25th instant. Every man, therefore, must wish, that it could go on without interruption. It was impossible, however, for their Lordships to withhold from themselves that there was an inaccuracy in one of the clauses of the Bill, and that in one of them this Bill legislated for England, and extended the privilege to a person or officer who had neither " local habitation nor name ;" at least, tho' he might be said to have a " local habitation," had not a name recognized by the Constitution of this empire. However unpleasant the consequence, therefore, might be, that House must do its duty, as far as be longed to itself. He should therefore recommend to negative the Committee, to read the Bill a third time that day, then to rejed the clause in question, and afterwards pass the Bill, and send it so amend ed to the Commons. If they agreed to the amend ment, well and good, though it was not a very pro.. bable matter that they should do so ; if they threw out the Bill, there would be still opportunity to in troduce anew Bill, and pass it in time to go through both Houses, and receive the Royal Assent by the 25th inst. This course, his Lordship said, he 'found to be agreeable to the orders of the House. The Earl of LIMERICK made a speech in fa vour of Ireland, professed himself a warm advocate for the Union, which had done AS much, and would, he was persuaded, do more for both parts of the United Kingdom, and stated the distinl grounds on which the EnglislrPost-Office Ads, aria the Irish Post-Office Ads had_ been passed, thence proving, that the charader of the Irish Secretary of State was recognized in the Post-Office Al fOr Ireland, in 1800, contending that it was an innoxious character, and expressed his hope that it might be allowed to stand in the Bill. His Lordship also read the names of several other charaders, such as Secretary for Ulster, Secretary for Munster, and the Secretary to the War Department, who had been, under the Irish Post-Office Ad, permitted to use the privileje of franking. Lord AUCKLAND very ably replied, and pro fessed himself as zealous an advocate for the Union as the Noble Earl, declaring that it had fortunately been a successful part of the labours of his life to bring about and effeet thai truly important event. Tl,iat not the smallest prejudice was entertained, or to be entertained, respelling Ireland, but that it their Lordships bounden duty to legislate corredly, and riot with their eyes open Foss a Bill with a clause in it undeniably and grossly inac curate. TheLORD CHANCEL .LOR put the question on the steps he had recommended, and assured the Noble Earl that in respect to every Irish Bill, he felt it his personal duty to use as much caution as he knew it was incumbent on him to shew to every British Bill. They were all bound, as the common children and subjets of the same United Kingdom, to consider the general interests of the whole as one oblat t and to do their utniisst to promote those interests to the fullest extent. After a few words, in a low tone, from Lord CAR est on, the Committee was negatived ;'the Bill read a third time, the inaccurate clause related ; the Bill then passed, and ordered to be sent down to the Commons. .After a little other simile business', the Hons. adjourned. • . . PRICE, MAYOR. Isperial Court of Mayor and Aldermen, hold on in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, Loudon, on Wednesday, the 16th Day of March 113(13- jx ESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That this At Court .to approve of the Condiad of the Right I lonor able the LORD MAYOR, in &coking Pre.s:Warrants, and for his attention in rendering the e,;ecutlion thereof consistent with the tecwe anilprivileges of tlik City ; and do return Ins Lordship thanks fur his communication on the sObje;ft. WI.OODTDORPF. • NOTI'INGI-LIM ELECTION. --- Mr. T. H. BIiOVVR, the Chairman of the Seidl Committee appointed to try the merits of the Petitions referred to them against the return mady for the Town and Borough of Nottingham, brought up the Special Repoft of the Committee; it was couched in the following terms : On the 4th of April next lOU be peblished,eirigtiitly printed in lArce Folio, TA: T. (Containing Four Engravings with Descriptions) of T HE MEN AGF. RI : A series of EN seconsrani..4 by 4rnilbUte rl,arriptions of the mum...rots LIVING ANIMALS • now in the Collection tamed by the National Instmite at Pang. Printed for Cadeil and W, Dade", Strand. •.• This Publication will be continued Monthly, till com pleted. Each Number will contain font Engravings with de scriptions, and the price of each Ntimbt r will be HAW-a-Gui nea for the Plain Cortvs ; er *One Guinea fur a few Copien ele gantly and accurately coloured from Nature. The Engravings, ail exccute,Lay Mr. Warner, posse/0 a spirit, fidelity, and ele gancy that have seldom beers slit passed. They are upon a vale, ton, erneederably Irepr than that of anviimilar Work, viol that moat faithfully d t!wate% the form and character of the sespeclise Animals. The deiicriptions are accurately translated from the French of bfiiasieirs Lacipetle and Curier, rh.• Cure tilt of the 'Menagerie of the National Institute at Paris. It k rateoried, to add such Animals ' not in the French Coffee -10,16 10 are to be found in the English Nitoageries. And the whole Work, which it is presumed will be found highly hr Ito-it:sting to the Ainateur, the Student in Natural flistory, and the Artiat, will be one of the cheapest tver offered to the Public. t 4 t Specimens of the Work, Plain and Coloured, may be seen as above. That the said • Seled Committee have determined, that Joseph Bitch, Feq. is nut duly defied a Burgess to seine in this present Path 'mein for the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham : and also, that the said Select Committee have determined, that Daniel Parker Coke, Esq. is w t duly elected a Bargesa to serve in this present Parliament fur the said Town and County of the Town of Nottingham : and also, that the said Select Committee have determined, that the last Eiectiun for the said Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, is void, with respect to one of the Burgesses to serve in Parlia ment for the tune ; and also, that the sad Select Committee have determined, that the said petitions did not either of them appear to the said Select Committee to be frivolous or vexatious; and also, that the said Select Committee have de termined, that the opposition of Joseph Birch, Esq. to the said several Petitions did not appear to the said Select Com mittee to be frivolous or vexatious; and the said determinations were otdered to be entered its the Jelling.; of this House. Mr. I. H. BROWNE also reported the follow ing Resolutions of the same Committee. That it appears to this Committee, that John Allen, being the Returning Officer at the last Eleetion for the Town and ' Camay of the Town of Nottingham, acted contrary to his duty in opening a Poll, and proceeding to take the Votes of Elec tors, for the period of about an ho.tr, and until Forty-four Elec tors had polled, there being during the whole of that time no third Candidate. That it appears to this Committee, that after the first day of dtevid Eletien, the freecdou of the. Election was grossly violated by disturbances and rites, accompanied with personal intimidation and violence, practicer! and cottelaued during the six suhsequetit days of polling. That it appears to this Committee, that the Petitioner Da niel Parker Coke, Esq. after sustaining several insults, and suffering personal violence, was obliged, from tbe jnst apprehen sion of hazard to his life, to leave the place, and could not yen ' tore to return. And that a large number of Elector: in his in terest were deterred from exercising their franchise of Yo nne. That it appears to this Committee, that the said John Davi son, the Mayor, the said Joseph Oldknow and Thomas Old know, two of the Aldermen of the said town and county of the town of Nottingham, took no effectual means to pr e s e rve the freedom of Election, or restore it when so violated, or to punish the offenders. That it appears to this Committee, by an entry in the Cor potation-book ol the Town and County of the Town of Not tireihani, that at a Common Ilan, held on Thursday the Bth day of January last past, (aftet reciting the Petitions referred to this Committee) it was " Resolved, That this Corporation will defray all such legal expences as have already been or shall hereafter be incurred by them the said John Davison, Joseph Ohlictiow, Thomas Oldknow, awl John Allen, or either of them, or George Coldham tinder their direction, in preparing for or making their defences: and that the Chain beilains for the: time being be hereby authorized and dire led, from time to time, to advance Mr. Coldham all and every such win and sums of money as may be necessary for this purpose." It appearing that the Mayor and Aldermen have, by charter, an exclusive jurisdiction within the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, and the Committee thinking it highly expedient to provide some better security than is likely to be provided by the Corporation of Nottingham, to preserve the peace within the said 'lowa and County thereof, and to prevent the repetition of the same disgraceful scenes-- That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the House be moved for leave to bring in a Bill to teethe Magistrates of the County of Nottingham concurrent jurisdiction with the Ma gistrates of the Town and County of the Town of Notengliam. That it is the opinion of this Committ e, that unless such or some other meirture to the like effed be taken previously to the !text k euiou fur the Town arid County of the Town of Not thigh es, there is no reasonable hope that a free Ele&ion can be had. That the Evidence adduced before this Committee be laid before the House for its comet:racier]. . 7 hat it appears to this Committee that Alexander Fee-croft was employed to procure signatures to one of the Petitions re ferred to this Committee, namely, that, signed by .537 Peti tione', and containing the following allegitriatis : " That at said Eledion they had determined to poll for " the said Daniel Parker Coke, but that such was the violence " of the Moll, systematically regulated and conducted fur the " purpose, that they were completely intimidated, and there " by prevented from wane for the said Daniel Parker Coke. " That the said John D avison the Mayor, John Allen the " Sheriff, ?holm; Oldknow and Josizph Oldknow, two of " the Aldermen of the said 'lawn, sod who, by virtue of their " offices, were Magistrates, frequently attended on the host " jilt, and were repeatedly applied to to preserve the peace " of the place and the freedom of Elediett, but the said Ma " gistratet took no effectual steps to prevent any of the violent " or illegal acts which took place at the said FJeCtion." That it appears to this Committee, thot the said Alexander Foxeroft stated to those who signed that Petitimi, that it was a Peltion for those who would have voted fur Mr. Coke, bin he admitted that the major-part of them were not acquainted with the allegations against the Magistrates and Sheriff, and that atriht sixteen of those who signed the Petition, were to his knowledge not at Nottitighatu at the tinie of the Eledicin. Mr. SPEAKER observed, that the regular way of proceedMg, in conformity witli the rules and or ders of the House, was that the Report should ei ther be read, a second time, or that the. Honourable Gentleman should move for its being previously taken into consideration. Mr. J. H. BROWNE said, it was his intention tor move, that previous to its being read a second time, it should be taken into c 'On on . the .20th. of April nest. Hid reason fur ettenttuntnt tiP dis , • BRITISH FULL-OFFICE, STRAND AND CORNIIILI., LON DON, INSURANCES against Loss or Damage by FIRE continue to be made on Mit-es, Buildings, Manu. factorier, Gwods Ind Merchandise, Ships, Vessels, Barges, and every Kind of Craft, with their Freight, Cargoes, and Stores, iii any Harbour, River, or on any Navigation, Fa a m o Sroca, and all Mint Property, in auy Part of Great-Britain and Ireland persons who remain uninsured, will do well to reflect on the many Calamities occasioned by Fist; and of the dreadful Consequenres to many Individuals : and as Property, in gene tat, has considerably increased in Value, those already iniurcd shookt reeqnsickr their Policies, and make such addition as prudence flay suggest. Annual Payments due at Lady-Dar, moat he mule within Fifteen Days therefrom, or the Benefit of the Poliey will be Lost; but Insurance may be renewed after, without a New Policy. Printed Proposals and Conditions of Insurairee, and a List of the Directors, Trustees ' &c may her had Grath as above, and e th e Agents in all the Cities and principal Towns in England, Scotland, and Wales. For the Convenience of their Friends in Ireland, they have established an Olive in Dame-strixt, Dublin, where, and of the Agents in the principal Cities and Towns, Propo•ssls are also to be had. Gratis. ROBERT SKELTON, Sec. WESTMINSTER LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY OFFICE, IN TFIE STRAND, AND IN CURNHILL, LONDON. THIS Office was established in 1792, and insures the Lives of Persona desirous of seeming independency tetheir Families, or to piovide fur them in any way agreeable ti their wishes; to effeft which, an Annual Premium will be tsceived for the Payment of a guts , Suns, or of an Annuity, to Itacome doe and payable at the Decease of a Person insured, to bits Widow, Children, or other Representatives as he may ap poUit. Instrancea may be wade for a Variety of other Purposes :.—. to provide for Renewal of Le4ifi;--to secure Sums paid for Places or Employment:, or for the Purchase of Life Estates ; — or in Aid of Arrangements betwei Debtor and Creditor, he. he. whidris explained further in the printed Rates and Conditions of Insurance, which may be bad Gratis, with the List of Dtrecions as above, or of the Agents of The Bat mot Ft a a-Ocrict in the Country, who are appointed Agents for tilli Of Annuities are e-anted to commence immediately ? and are payable at Michaelmas and Litly-day in every Year, or by Agreement, at either of the other Qitat ter Days The Rates and Conditions ate also delivered Gratis at the, , Office in Dame-street, Dublin, and by their Agetiu in the Cities and large Towns in Ireland. Att-ndance is Daily given for grantin7 Insurances and An- HMCo!, and a Board of Direflors is held eveni Tuesday at One &Clock, at their Office in the Strand, and on Thursday at the same Hour, at their Office iu ROBERT SKELTON, See. THE GREAT F.NGLISH STATE WITERY, Consistin g of 44,000 Tickets, To begin Drawing 4th APRIL, 1803. GRAND SiCHEMF.. Nu. of Prir..s. Value of each. Total Value. 4 of 1.10,000 is I. bO,OOO 3 . 10,000 30,000 • 8 5,000 15,000 3 2,000 6,000 5 1,000 5.000 30 3,030 60 8,000 12,500 20 250,000 This Scheme thfr.rs from all others for many 'Perin part, in the circumstance of not having any Prizes fixed tor particular days. C; Win and CO. No. 11, POULTRY, are ap -17 pointed by Government to sell. the Tickets Ind Shares of the above Lottery. 'l s hii Office (estab!islnxt in die Year 1759) been fortunate in the Safe of Capital Prises,THiRTPFN or which were of the List and Three precedieg Lotteries, and fonorof them divided o:to maiiv Strata The Vises of the November Lotter, being now payable in 1.4, Slurs and Co. recommend In early application to per sons who wish to exchange them Air Shares of the irrevent Lottery, which will calltoinfy advance *price as the Drawing itipsuanhea • .. • • . . a . « .. ' - •,- - .. ~- -•• •• --gee •kp ~ • - .~.e 7 .1 - ; - . • .:. , r . --0 10, ftger- 13 40:4, - I o. - , , s,~. . • • I. . • T_TSEA. ~.~ , ' - • ~.. . [PRICE SIXPENCE. tint a day was, that the evidence adduced before the Committee was extremely voluniinous, and it was his particular wish, and' the wish of the Com mittee he represented, that it should be in the hands of every Member, prior to the House coming to an ultimate decision upon the subjeft ; he should there fore move, that the further consideration of the R-- port should be deferred to the 20th of April. Mr. FOX.—" I do not mean to rise to oppose - the - Motion, but merely to beg the indulgence of the House, while I say a few words. I presume. that it is the intention of the Hon. Gertflernan who hai brought up the Report, to move to postpone the issue of a new Writ, till after the Report shall hire been taken into consideration. I do not mean to say, that I have it in ccintemplatllkto move for.a. new Writ, but I wish •to have it distinctly underL. stood, that I do not consider myself as precluded from so doing, if upon consideration I shall deem it expedient." Mr. I. H. BROWNF.--" Sir, I certainly Meant to propoSe, that the issue of a new Writ should. be suspended, till after the Report was taken into con sideration. I could have wished the Report to hare been discussed much sooner, but that I think it so very material the whole of the evidence should be in the hands of every Gentleman. 1 mean to move, that no writ shall be moved for, till after the Report shall have been taken into consideration. That Motion I shall follow up by another, " that the minutes of the proceedings of the said Selea Com mittee be laid before the House ;" and by another Moticn, " that such a number of copies of the Re port and minutes be printed, as are sufficient for the Members of the House." The Set.% Kta put the first Motion -from the Chair. Mr. FOX--6 , If the House should come to this resolution, they will come to a resolution, in my opinion, most precipitate and =justifiable.- The Hon. Member who has moved it, .and the Hon. Members who are of the Committee of which he is the Chairman, are, I make no doubt, fully ac quainted with the subje.t, and know the gromuls upon which the Motion is submitted to the House ; but it seems to me that for the House upon hearing the mere reading of the Remit by the Clerk, and leithout having had any time to consider it, 0 come to such a resolutiOn ' would be establishing a prece- • dent which may be attended with consequences of the most mischievous nature and tendency ; *ld at best, I must consider it as a measure of ,unnece.ssary precipitation. thought it. right to say, that did not consider myself precluded from .moving for a • new writ ; I certainly had no intention of so doing, because I meant to look into the . report, in order-to satisfy myself not only ivhether it was proper to keep the Borough of Notting ham without a Relkesenta tire till the 20th of April, but also, whether there was any pretence for keeping the town in that state of ferment which it unquestionably will be in chiting the intervening period; for we all know perfatly well that the state of a town immediately prior to a eon.: tested Elation, but little differs; in point of tumult, disorder, and intrigue, from the period of the Elec tion itself.. It was my wish to look at the Report be fore the House came to a determination on the reso lution, bat I do not mean to take the sense of flie House upon the question." Mr. BOND.—" The motion complained of is made in the usual form, and is perfealv consist:nt with precedents.. The Committee to whom the pe titions against the Nottingham Fledion was referred have come to several resolutions, all of which have been drawn up and incorporated in the Report which has just been laid before the House. It appears to the Committee that it is absolutely impbs sible to proceed to a new elcdion in the town of Not tingham, with any hopes of obtaining a fair repre sentation, unless some means are adopted in order to secure the freedom of eleJtiOn. The confidence the Committee asks the House for, is a confidence which has been repeatedly reposed in other Committees ; and we trust the House will allow the issue of the new writ to be suspended upon our assertion, that it is necessary is should be so, until the freedom of elation can be secured in Nottingham;by those mea - tures which the wisdom of the House may hereaf- ter suggest." Mr. I. H. BROWNE.--i I should not have made such a motion without having assigned my reasons, btit.thax I thought it better to assign no other reason thin vihat arises from the evidence contained in the report. I thought it much more respeetful towards the House to adopt this mode of condu&, particular?" as, with the exception of the Members of the Com mittee itself, every other Gentleman in the House must have been incompetent to form an accurate es timate of the observations I should have made, and the arguments I should have advanced : it appeared to me, that. 1 was acting with becoming deterence to the House in not entering into any detail beyond what is stated in the Report. The evidence will shortly, I hope, be submitted to the perusal of every Member, and then every one will be able to form his own conclusions. Id the light the proceedings referred to by the Report appear to the Committee, they really exhibit a gross and fla grant violation of the freedom of deafen ; and the Committee have thought that those proceedings contain as strong reasons for withholding the issue of a new writ,, till after the subjea of them shall have been considered by the House; as it would in the grossest instance of bribery and corruption. There can be no question hut that the freedom of ele&ion is as much violated by the sytematic tumults and violence of an organised mob, as it could be by the strongest case of bribery and corruption ; but, in all cases, it has been usual to repose confidence in the statement of a Seleq Committee, appointed to examine the merits of a petition ; and the House has uniforryily, when bribery has been the subjec re ferret! to its Committees, done them the justice to believe thai they would not report that for they losd,not just and legitimate grounds. It is 0 4 that e riuciple we demand the confidence of the House,. trusting the HOuse will give credit to the Committee car the justice and• propriety of its re- CarateendatiOn. I have mai( .ico it.Pe 3l, "t , .. .'ice J • Eire I ri , , . * . 4 r , P' • : t 2 7. a 3. F Q 414 V V 'i i