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IMPERIAL PARLIAANOLK.... HOUSE OF LORDS—T*llo,left. --.... Mr. Immo, luspector-General of i , pit bletriOldthas muted au Account of the.Expures of Greallacitain, Cut throe semutha, aiding the Stith of February uffe. . • ?AIM or wress, % ig• 11 1i= The Rower awl this noncom; at teal a and proceeded tu heurthe appeal cams... from the Court of Wad, in which the Earl of Wemyss wits i and Rev. Mr: AlKitoren, the Respuudetd. It referred ku the consider ation of *ascii Thuds, and Herr Admit ind tallies acre beard for the Appellant. I sober euosideratiou was axed teclloaday neat, at half past one o'clock. BLAND'S DIVORCE BILL. Counsel and Eviasoce were heard uu Blaud't Divorce Bill, sad the further psocerdimg on referred until wet Tuesday se'asight. Stlrff il private Bills ware brought up from the Commons, sad reepectirely mad is Mit tire. SCOTCH JUDICATURE RILL. - • Th. Cbmtnittee of the whole Houm: resumed its sitting on the reensmuittal of Seoteli Judicature Bill. The remaining classes were severally put, and some sumendmeuts proposed. A discussion took place between Lord Elttlil NE. the 1...01tD OSA CE Moll, and Earl LAI:OF:UDALL with respect to the propriety of giving a power to the Court of session to separate the fact from the law, and to direct au issue thereon to be tried by a Jury. A twrovi,iou to this etteet was proposed by Lord EMU Pi t. but was afterwards postpeacd for future convideratiaa, Lord GRENVILLE strongly opposed the clause, whir' left it open for the Ciounsisaioners to re commend to that House the propriety or impro priety of introducing the Jury Trial into Scotland. He tbought the principle was fully adopted by all persona, and that the wily of for the Commis sioners was to ascertain the extent to which it should be introduced. He concluded by moving au ansesidment, that the provision should recog nise that principle as one of evident utility. Alta some observations, in opposition, from the LORD CHANCELLOR" Lord ltswimstanty, and Earl Horror, the amendment wns negatived. The Earl of LAt DZIIDALE next morel the wdop tion of a clause, calculated to restrain tb. Court of lgasion from superseding the acts of the Legisla ture, by the exertion of the nubile antigun, or acts of stdtrunt. .Lord Gavot! t.t.z followed in support of the clause, and contended , -that it was the duty of Parliament to prevent its euaettneuts from being stayed.by theassumed powers of the Court of Ses sion. He considered that the Court of Session should be called upon to lay before the !louse uu account of the nature and tendency of these acts 411 seiternnt, and of the right by which that poser Oeras assumed. The clause was then negatived without &division. The Committee rose, and the report was oruered to be received to-morrow. Lend KAMILIMIBURY stated, that by some mis take, the Order for the Lords to be summoned en Monday next, spots the second readiug of the Re version Dill, was not entered on the books. He would therefore move ' « That they should be summoned for Tuesday next." which was agreed to. The Hesse adjourned at 11 o'Clock till to. morrow. NOOSE OF COMMONS. Os the setition eats LIPOID ADVOCaTa oft 011, the BM he pevividiug sallarise far the Burma of the Each.- maw sad Jeanne( Juetteimy is Scotland, on retiring from their eitimahma, was read a first tone, a,,d ordered to he read a auessd to.. en Tuesday. Mr. Comm 'mended as account of the questity of Whist, Becky, Oats, and Flour, imported into Great Bri tain holm the ark of Jan. otos to the present period, mid .other sec seta, which were ordered to he on the table. t)s the motion of Mr. Alderman Comas, the child-stea ks prevestion Bill was committed. Is tbe Committee, Mr. Limns autos sad 'then objected to he dime making the crime felony of destli i so itajostly sddiag to the camber of capital pumahniests already in the penal end. of this makes to its great &trace ; it was pro posed that to its stead diould be substituted, a Manse for main it subject to • punishment of transportatios fur the . space of a ran. A division was esikill for, the Gallery elesred of strangers, sod, Aar some dismission, the L'hainnau was permitted In report psogrem, and ask leave to sit again, that the blanks might lie filed up, whirls was granted. The Dill for regulatiog the at-toasts of the Pay-office went through a Committee, and was ordered to be reed • third time um Mooday nest. EAST INDIA COMPANY Mr. CRIBITIT thought it his duty to correct the statements lately made by the East India Com pany, is the Petition lately presented to Parlia ment. This made, a most erroneous and g r easi ly fallacious statement of their affairs to the public in their favour. In it the dritel its their accounts was stated not to exceed 2,400,0001. sterling. W berme the real deficiency in their accounts was 3,000,000 h sterling, out of which they had de frayed, by their saving on the loan of last year. the sun& of 600,0001. which he admitted reduced the 3,0000001. to the sum stated ; but the state ment was, he contended, both erroneous and dis ingenuous, as it had concealed the means by which the reduction had taken place. As an inducement to the public to lend the Company the sum re quired, the Petitieu stated that the surplus in their Muds at present amounted to 0,000,0301. ; this slab was inaccurate, as would be proved by the papers be should wove to be produced. The amount of their debts contracted abroad was stated at 34,000.0001. sterling ; this he had reason to believe was so far underrated, that on the whole there would appear a dsficit in the state of the Company's accounts, amountin; to the large sum of 14,000,0001. sterling. Thus, hile the company were boasting of the state of their affairs, it would be found that not only they were overburdened with debt, but that also their trade had been for some years gradually decreasing. An inquiry had last motion been set on foot into the matter, which had, unfortunately, by adverse circomstances, been debuted ; sad it was singular, that in this advanced stage of the session no accounts of the Company. transactions, for a considerable time back, had been laid before the House, or were in a train shortiv .to he laid belitre emus. As tl.e statement of the Company had beets po very incor rect, be should move for the production of potters to that House, which alight give the Ilon. e some fair and adequate view of the probability :itere existed of the Company's being able to discharge the debt they might contract by the indulgetts.-e smut. He thought it n however to ob serve, that the Counnittee e 77:7 lief) this petition had been referred, was radically an improper Court to try the subject of the petition, shire it consisted of several persons interested in the result. 'fliose should not have been appointed to examine the propriety of granting a supply, iu obtaining which they themselves were interested, glace they pos sessed situations, wider that ertablislernent, whii h had applied for assistance to Parlianten% and al though not officially connected with the Company, received considerable incomes from its revenues. lie concluded with moving his first resolutiou. viz. •' That an account of the East India Stoek, by computation, in the month of March, 16013, be Irbil before the flonw." Mr. S. Du NnAl said, the Members of that Coin injure had been appointed from amongst those best aquainted with Indian affairs, I,r the most obvious reasons. He tuaintuined, the Company had provided thut Committee with every species of inforiuution it bad required. die knew not the in tention of the Hon. Gentleman's motion, fur the production ofa paler which must, in the course of things, be laid before the House, when it should mine to decide on the propriety of graining the re lief required. He w.i, Imo advocate for the Com pany, but he believed their conduct would be speedily justified by the report of the C 1111 l inittee now sitting. The demand he considered as prema ture. The alletottims of the Petition be would by no mneuos d. Icu.l ; but this mach be would say in their defence, that whatever time I lonOurable Member urge against these alle4utions, he bad not produced ao . ", proof of their fah:dim - A.- 11e enumerated the Dames of the members of the Committee, and thomeOit tliere was no ibuiger iu committing the management of the lousiness to per soil; of their description. As he thoti3O,t the mt. tiod uniieces4ory, be Omuta tome the pi Crliniti question. Dr. Lawnr.set; contended, that his Hon. Friend was by nu uleaus bound to wait for time production of this paper at any future stage; it' it were of im portance, the sooner it was had the better. The t:oi 1111 l ittee weight be well eumi , t ii formed for giv ing the information to the House oil time affair, of India, yet not fitted to give an impartial opinion of the wilvenei of the Compliny many years hence ; nor was the general oleervation of there being on that Committee several members intimately con nected with the affairs and interests of the Com mittee, to be wrestesi into an imputation of per sonal disrespect to nny individual. Mr. Du x OAS explained. Sir Jou% ANFTRUTREZ said, that though a Mem ber of that Committee, and connected - with the Company. he did not stand in such • situation as that the solvency or insolvency of the Company should, in the leastoiffect him or his integrity. The situation he held from the bounty of his Sovereign, he trusted would he justified by the opinion of all those who were acqoainted with his conduct while in India. He admitted every one bad • right to criticise the petition as much u they had a wind. Yet why had net the Honourable 3leniber made his objections, when the petition was presented and debated in that Hasse ? It was rather strange to propose to snake the House. better acquainted - with the matter now under discussion of toe Commit tee, by the production of two or three papers, than the report of the Committee could, with all its in-- veatigation and research, for the share of several weeks. No pipers had as yet been refused to the Committee, and all those which the lion. Member had moved forobwl been obtained without any op position, except in one instance, in which the request was finally granted by the assistance of. his Hon. Friend (Mr. Dundas); he considered this an indeli cate mode of eastiug a slur on the conduct of the Committee, which, from its labour and research, was entitled to the coatidence of the country and the House. Lord FOLKESTONE wu happy the papers tail been moved for by nit Hon. Friend, as they would probably show mule additional light on a matter which was involved in unusual ohseiirity. Mr. %Vit. Le tic tistivti thought his lion. Friend had been used rather hardly by :Members who im puted to bim an intentiou to attack personally the character of individuals on the P,!nrismittee. had a right to argue generally, and he did now move that all persons should be excluded from the trial of a cause in which they themselves were in terested ; 'nal was the principle on which a ballot took place in that House, from amongst 49 Mem bers at least, and on such a principle the right of challenging jurors was founded by the purity of the constitution. Mr. WALT. sce considered the motion unneces sary, but had no objection to the production of the papers. Mr. GRANT defended the members of the Com mittee from any partiality. He had no wish to suppress information, but was satisfied this infor mation would in proper time come before the House, and lie 'relieved that this information would give the country lather a favourable idea of the state of the Company's affairs. Mr. Pamasoe vouintained, that every dispo sition had been displayed by the East India Com pany, to produce the information that had hero demanded ; if that system were continued, he hoped it would prove the state of the Company was by no means so deplorable as had been rivresented.. Mr. Carvair -aid, he was sorry to tind the Ho nourable Director's prophecies of an immense sur plus of millions were nut likely to be realized. Did he mean to say, that these loans would not here after be necessary for the relief of the Company. He would not MT that he would not lend the Com pany money, but he would contend that the trade way rapidly declined. On their own trade 'iley bad experienced a loss of <260,0001. last year. Whilst such was the state of things in India, hr thought it his duty to produce to the House the documents he had moved for, but which, as he found there ex isted a disposition to negative them, lie should not press the House to a division onthat subject. ;Mr. S. 1)t MDas explained. Mr. (im•INT Paid it was not the intention of the East India Company to deceive tbw• public with respect to tlifir *Mors. No such intention ever existed, and the papers produced to the Com mittee would aloue prove this assertion. The motion mid amendment were then severally withdrawn. Mr. CEEVEY then moved. " That there lie fur- nuked to the Howe an account of all bairn nod terms of 14.1:11111 i)l* Ule ILAA ludia Company in the East ladies." After some observation 4 from Dr. LAWRP.Noe, Mr. WHISTSIMAD, anti Mr. I)IJ Ole Uluii..#li was also withdrawn. Mr. Cas:Ertv thea moved for accounts of the profits of the East India Company ou investments from India and China. Mr. DUNDAS observed, this account would also be regularly before the CORI tnittee, aid Nas there ton: unnecessary. it was a.:eordingly eithdrawu. Mr. BIDDULPH hoped the lion. iltrotiot oppo site would put off his motion on too Canaille Quys tion, until Tuesday stennight. -Sir T. TURTON agreed in the suggestion of the lion. Alember, in hopes he would have the honour of hi* assistance on that day. Tile Dead Body laderme.ot Bill went through a Committee, and wit.i ordered to lw reported on slooday uext. The Irish Militia Pay and Clothing Bill, the Subalterns' Allowance, and the Adjutants' Allow aiice Rills, went throu4ll a Committee, and were ordered to be reported on Monday next. Col. Wuot► put off his motion hir the Darda nelles Papers, to Monday next. Sir Jona Ntweoar moved for the production of certain letters or the present and late Postmasters- General of Ireland, complaining of the want of roam, at present, in the Post-office of Dublin. —Ordered. On the motion of Sir A. WELLRSLET. the Dub lin linlice Bill was ordered to be committed on llocri4y next. The &loose then went into a Committee to con sider further of the assessed taxes for Ireland.— Th.* report was brought up, and ordered to be re ceived on Monday next. Mr. P. Moons presented the Petition of Charles Morgan, Esq. stating that he had been a candi date at the late election for the borough of liand wicb, at which John Sprat Rainier had Leen re tilrned a Measlier for Parliament; and complaining that the said John Sprat Rainier had been unduly electel by means of bribery and treating, and fur ther that the said John Sprat Rainer was not duly pi:tidied to sit in the Houre in point of property. Ali. WHARTON brought up two Bills, one for ricsug a million and half hr Exchequer Bills. an other for raising three millions, which were seve rally read a first time, and ordered to be read a se cond time ou Noaday next. _ . _ He else presented . 0 printed copy of the evidence Own before that House, on the Petitions preferred by Liverpool and other trading towns of this king dom against the Orders in Council. Mr. HORNER moved there be laid before this House accounts of the number of Appeal Coulees tried by the House of Lords. distinguishing Scotch, Irish, and English Appeals, since the year 1760; as also the number of Writs of Error taken out in tile Courts of Chancery, Cumulus§ Pleas and King's Bench, since that period.--Ordered. On the motion of Sir Jon tr NRWPOILT, the House then adjourned to Monday next. FOREIG.V INTELLIGENCE. GOTTE.NIA. UGH NAIL. GOTTENBLRGIII, •PRIL 27. A brisk cannonading was distinctly beard here the whole of the night of Monday last, which proves to have been au attack made by the English sloop Daphne, and two others, upon the harbour of Fla gram!, in Jutland, out of which they cut ten swe etie laden with corn and provisions, destined for Norway, and this afternoon arrived with their prizes here. ♦PAIL, 25. Our accounts from Norway to-day inform us, that the Swedish army has advanced as far as Kong vinger, which is within 10 Swedish, or 70 English miles of Christiana, and that they have possesses) themselves, by bto,.m. of two esnrultial forts in that neighbourhood, in which they took Sou prisoners, with very little loss on their side. . . Soros travellers have arrived within these few days from liainhurgli, who bring news do%vii to the 15th : they say, that '2UOI) French troops Italic en tered Altonu, and that they are in full posscstion of Milstein, but that none of them have yet come over from Zealand. A report prevailed, alien the travellers left the other side, that a great part of the Danish flotilla and transports had been de stroyed by the English ships is the Belts, but of this we rather doubt, as no official account has yet reached us. PROCLAMATION OP CTRFR &I. •Rilbl:l.ilT, ON UNTURINO NORWAY Inhabitants of Niirday . .—Thc Danish tioetritinent 11114 de clared war against Swede u, without guy manse ar pr.irocat on her part ; it has crowned the calasuitOs that afflicted the North, and spontaneously submitted to a foreign yoke. 'llse Swedish boar, therefore, enter your emintry accord ite.: to the laws 11.1 war, in order to prevent hostilities from being committed 'it their own country. But the laws of aat are carried into exerne only by soldiery; the peaceful in liabitattNi of the towns and country, if they excite uo disturb &nee., shall enjoy tranquillity and protection. The ftwedish soldiers, celebrated fur order mud discipline, respect the peraunal safety, and property of the unarmed ; and should Providence fleas His Majesty's arum, the mom finder my CUIDEI3IIIIII, so far from proving hurtful to your dif ferent trades, shall open Your ports to coerce aniinsport atiou; quicken your industry; and secure in the North au asylum fur loyalty and 'clown,' AtuusTus MAURICE: ARAIFELDT. STOCKHOLM, •PRIL 21. liis Iloyal :ITajesty recei I vet. a (-wirier, the night before la,t, with dispatches froin Gen. Boron Arm feldt, which mention the following reports of the Itith awl 17th of this month : 4. C 70.1. pursuance of his orders, which directed him to make a diversion, detactoll trio foot and chasseur, under the onlers of Lieutenant Lk on Cedertrom, to attack Skarbokiloti, to push forward as far its Nya, and to take post near that place. This detaclitnent, however, met with so much r sistance, that Baron Cederstront was oLliged to fall back; which retrograde movement he effect ed, with the utmost order, and without being pur sued by the the enemy, notwithstanding his vast superiority in number". Illead-quartert, Ailelphsfors, ttith April 16, ism'. is In pursitance of the orders received, the ad vanced guard marched, under the comtnitild of Lieutenant-Colonel Lagerbrim4, on the 14th inst. from Skillingmark, 1 :y Kroaforsen, into Norway', idler having driven back the enetu's trgop•. Ur 9ftei;...ad9 hushed hil .411.1couttuud 1.14 litc:i A.drcii he .1 .r a • - • tileto v, driveu tei '•,. .1 I .• he 14to to the 'potion ? , ; of tfe bliAsole otoicheit i Pi g MO Met with little oppoaitiots. •• The left wing of your NlitjeNiy',4 army wediately advance to (lowtur, olacuce th e n , courier shall he dispittclkil. .. O n the front err, the e.iemy made in geN T 4 hut very little resistance. The militia sr.•u, i,„, t urders to fall bad to a Sitn.:lg body of trot) } heitibicii at some distance from the c(mthleb." Htad.ynart,ra, Moroni, April 17,18 , 11." (SakkAolol Apnl V./W * lolll I.M APIIIL Ilis Royal 'Majesty halt receivel the tau tot. lowing reports flout CenerulA Count Kliiiv ‘ p o ., iliot &Iron Ariureldt, touching the opencuoin the Fumish and western array : . • (The first of them Reports was given ie THY. hum, PiEbg of Monday last, dated fialajorhie, April the concludin: sentence, which is as follters t rot " la cousequeuee of the weather hasiug becom e w „,i t milder than it was, I have adopted the res.ilot:.,s to hos this position is the course of to-morrow, and t o I 01,111.Ue tw march to Uleaborg.—Nl. KLIP•GSPOK. head. qua kalajoekie, 7th April, 1ai.4.1 . _ "AccOr . ding . to a report received from Colour) Gahn, he detached, on the 11th, about 100 melt to recommitre the road to New By. This corps Wa s engaged with the enemy before it reached Slam bokil, but afterwards saw none of the enemy's troops, until they reached New By, where II triflai t action took place, with some loss on the part or 16 enemy. The detachment afterwards pushed for. ward to Glomme, and took poooessiou of a redoult !blown up by the enemy. . . . . " Ilead...puthers, Ado pb . siort, Aped 13. " G. M. ARMYELDT, " Genres! Is Chief of the Wasters A r my-. (Steck/am Gezeite, April g.) • trroceßoui. Arm 19. By a report made by Admiral Baron Cailerstrue, Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish aquadma, dated at sea, April 9, the said squadron put to sea the 31st el' last month, and stood for Bornholia, and afterwards fur Rage's, where it wa s joined by the Swedish frigates (Urea* and Jarranws, amt the brig Dolphin. On the 4th of April the lai; Jarrow* took a Danish 'merchant vessel, and a Prussian vessel had before been taken by tee C'tsap sm. Oa the gth of April, the date of the remit, the squadron was cruising between the Isle of Al« and the Swedish court.—y(iottesbarg Gawk, April 2C.) _ The ("general Post Office in Stockholm, his, given notice, that His Swedish Majesty bas given leave to all Swedish Merchants to correspond on lawful mercantile transactions, with siihjes t, the hostile powers, on condition, that the letter, he previously inspected and examined, by the chief Magistrate of each place.—(Ssigeking;he Gentle, Apr.l 27.) 6 .* In oar Literary Catalwar, for last Meath, the fs. lowing Five iru 'mined :—Reeifeciu and Bralgeliaa Lr, Tire knight of the -Hermitage; or, The Windwal Ts; ret; or, The lipectre d ghe North•not Gallery ; with a Prchate u performed at the Theatro-Remi Caust-Gertiau ; allured tram the heath et M. Martaludie ; sad adopted Se tee English Seep, by I'. Dibeiba. Price N. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, SATURDAY. MAT 7. The division, in the House of Commons, ea Thursday night, upon the grant to the Maynoods College, was given incorrectly, yesterday, in all the Papers. The actual numbers were, for the greater grant, f 7, for the less grant, 106, being a majo rity of ouly 19 iu favour of :Ministers, and not of gas as has bees erroneously stated. Upon a question so sharply contested, and to which Mr. Pcactvat has udliered.with so much pertinacity, this advan tage is only a nominal victory. The real triumih is %idle the Opposition, because the formidable mi nority of 'rlaursday night holds out a confidrot expectation of the ultimate success of a steady and constant appeal to the good sense of the country in all questions bottomed upon the broad and liberal principles of an enlightened policy. Mr. 11.' FORCE lutist remember the prejudice and passan which so lung opposed the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and how often lie suffered a defeat; yet, with the honest and potent aid of the present Opposition, when in power, all that prejudice and passion melted away, by constant exposure to the sun of truth, and his labours wereat length crowned with the most brilliant success. Mr. Witnsar vortex has witnessed as much opposition to the grant of a few inches of room in the hold of a Guinea ship, to the Negroes in the middle liassage, as ass made by the Minister, on Thursday night, to the grant of carol. to the great mass of the population of Ireland. NI ithout any claim therefore to prophecy, or incurring the censure of presumption, it may net be extravagant to say, that the Catholic Quest is doomed to run the round of the Abolition of the Slave Trade—that it is doomed to suffer delays, defeats, and disappointincuts, hut that if advocated with the same ability, the mine propriety and per severance, it will filially prevail. That the situa tions of the A frican Slave and the Irish Papists are similar, is a positioa that we do not propose to maintain; but we 11.111 thiilk that the pril,ciple whit it would lilac:. the Mack negro On a level with wh:tx inetwe tms.at ut, cannot refuse pldee the 1:•J 1 Cathohc on a Ictt I etb his Prt)ttlot ant It btu in a spirit sf henevoleaee and hullo o unil erica in its and nu -6il u. 0 1,%:.:.1. .I . lle Alna,, e. a.l , 1 tst/VleV taa.. • Br: of t Itt I icy.. lea Catisc CAN: ritlt has si to Hp to be his u zeal mine butt went lose. tor's hold rivet 2btki Nor 25ti milt The tate qua enh 00ill ley. ceiv gnu isle •as ene Aar the the etc di a list sin thi lan pal ha' thi wl G th In , of lu