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he shmald at present eaisteat himself Kith giving 7sis•p4sitive negative to the dill. The Earl of WARWICK said, that as he had not in any previous stage of the Rill deliverel his semi. meats on it, he hoped to be indulged wit o a few ob setvations new. lie disapproved the 11.11, because be th•atg'it it was only an humble imitation of the ,Army of Reserve ; professing to do a great deal more, but, in his opinion, would really do less. It was to be put in force and executed by mess who were not by any means calculated for. or adapted to the office The overseers of parishes were well known to be taken for three classes men, farmers, tradesmen, and manufadurers, all of whom had basineu on their hands, more than they could well manage. and who would have no leisure M enter on their new offices of recruiting serjeants The men would therefore not he raised, and the parishes of course burthened with fines, which, ac cordingto the principle of the Bill, would fall most unequally and unjustly on the landed interest. He repeated, that it was not in efficient a Bill as that for the Army of Reserve, and paid a higii com pliment to the late Administration for the great force they had raised in so short a time, and for their unexampled adherence to the principles of eneasonsy. Lord HARILOWBY ■pole shortly in support of 'the BiU. The LORD CHANCELOR did the same— ' Alter which. it was read a third time and passed. Adjourned. HMIs" OF COMMONS. 1 Bir EVAN NEPEAN brought up a Bill for es i lablashing an Additional Military Force in Ireland. . "Leads fbst, and ordered to be read a second time on Triday. Os the Motion of Mr. SHAW. the Insolvent • Pebtors Bill was committed, and the Report ordered • OD be received to-morrow. The Liverpool Prize Bill was ordered to be real • third time to-morrow. A person from the Office of the Duchy of Lan• outes firesente 0.. r, a copy of the appoint - moot of the Hon. J. C. Villiers. to the situauon of Prodsountart in that Duchy. Mr. ROSE gave notice he would to-morrow I make a Motion on that subjea. The Woollm Manufattuters Prosecution Suspen- Sinn Bill was read a third time and passed. On the Motion of the SECRETARY at WAR. the Stanch Additional Force Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. Winces brught tip a Bill for regulating the ilaraion of Corn. Read a fint time. t PATTESON expressed a wish, that be , tweet the committal and the third reading of the SRL some dew might be allowed for Gentlemen to consider the measure . The SPEAKER suggested, that the best mode *odd be to order that the Bill he read a second time t9.mani.wi eine which, it might be immediately oteassitted, then printed for the use of the Members, nod a dav fixed for taking it again into consi.iera ia a Committee of the whop House. The Bill was then ordered to be read a second time to-morrow The SECRETARY at WAR brought op a Vll ft enable the subitas of Foreign States to enlist into His Majesty's service and to indemnify those who Ind already advised such persons to enlist. Read a am and ordered to be read a second time to morrow. Mr. Cowan from the India House presented an Account of the claim of 4,011,0001. made by the Stilly upon Government. being the same which an oltnstone moved foe on a forma day. • The Exchequer Sills Issue Bill was read a secony, time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. CALSCO PAINTS. RS . ..... VW. SHERIDAN sail, he held in his hand a :re ds'', which had been presented a eonsiderahic time Was from a veri numerous bo.iy of men, tJie Jour eeymen Calico Printers. in which they complained of many grievances. 'that Petition was referred to the consideration of a Soled Committee, appointed to examine the matter thereof, and report their opi nion to the House. That Committer sat a consider able time; and as !vane of the Journeymen were • to come up to London, from a distant past of country, to give evidence, this was a great hardship upon them. The wages of one of these Jaunseymen did not amount to 30s. a week, and the whole of the expend's they were put to in sending up, and supporting this Petition, amounted to 1 oonl. The Commiteso, however, to whom the Petition had %ma referred, broke up aOre die, and had not even thought proper to make any report to the House. He would express no opinion whatever on the subjea - Ouse dispute between these men and their masters. but be lamed that by an amicable reference, it would be untied before the next session of Puha meet; and if it was not, be should bring forward ✓oan measure on the subjeft. Kr. HENRY LAScELLES said, that as a Member of tie Committee alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman. be thought it necessary to state, that after a minute examination, it appeared to them that the grievances complained of in the petition were ant well-founded : and the Committee adjourned for three weeks. If, however, the l ion. Gentleman wished to have the mantes of the evidence taken be fore them, laid before the House, be had no objcc don to their being produced. Mr. DENT said, it was the opinion of the Com mittee, that there was no around for the grievances complained of in the Petition. Mr. SHERIDAN replied, that he had set out with saying, he would not give any opinion on the merits of the disputes between the masters and the servants; and he did not think it right for any Mon k" to enter into that subject before the Rep at was before the House. He wished to ask the two Hon. Gentlemen, who gave their opinion. s.hy they did sot also produce the evidence, by whic:i that opinion etas sup The arorted. ... PEAK ER observed, th ir there W 45 no que t . don before the House, and the conversation ceased. Mr. ALIMANDEIt brought up a Report Mat the Calamine, os Expiring Laws: and the same was referred to a Committee of the whole House to =a resew. Mr. Forma brought up a Bill for laying ad,:i. basal duties on ar.icles of Excise in Ireland, and lot .eking the same payable in British currency. Read fire assi ordered to be read a second ume to row. ~~= On the motion of Mr. YOSSZO. it was resolved that the House should to-morrow resolve its.:lf into a Committee to consider ot the repealing of so much of the AS ot the 43d of the King, as gives the Lord Lieutenant of lrel.snd a power to prohibit the use of meal in distilleries. The Irt,h Stamp Du:ies Bill was read a second and committed few o-morrow. The Corn Regulation Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. DENT moved, that the minutes of the evi dence taken before the Committee on the I •urney men Calico-printers Petition, be laid before the House .-01 dered . PRIZE AGIENCY BILL. Mr JERVVi said, he Conceived that a business of this importance could not be carried into eft d dur ing the present Session; and as he was assured it was the intention of His Majesty's Ministers to submit a measure of a similar kind to Parliament next Session; h e w.iirid now move to put off the further proceed ings is this Bill for three months. He was sorry the present measure was dropped, and to that he would not have consented, were it not fir the assur ance he received, that it would be brought forward again. Sir CHARLES POLE hoped that a measure of such importance as the present Bill would not be delayed a moment longer than could be avoided. The extortions and abuses which had taken place in prize courts were so great, that they ought to be submitted to Parliament as speedily as possible. They were so notorious, that it was hardly necessary for him to name them. The greatest oppression WAS praalsed by courts in the West Indies, and he had heard a complaint made of the excessive charges of the Court of Admiralty in this country. He then held in his hand a paper, which came to him from a gallant young friend and brother officer of his, now no mote; he meant the son of Sir Charles Macros In this paper. which he signed in the West Indies a short time before he died, it WAS stated that the charges in the courts there for the r .ademnation of thirty ships, which were captured, amounted to 50,0001. and that tile prize gent transmitted other charges upon the same, to the amount of 50,0001. more. For eight years this officer WAS applying for his money, and could not get it. New he would ask whether it was fit that our brave seamen, the bravest in the world, ought to he kept out of their money so long? This was a subject on which Mete ought to be no delay. It was no question of party ; it ought nut to be taken up in that light. He should be very happy to see a Bill of this kind hrought in next Session; but if that Bill weta to shelter the enormities, praflised in the West Indies, be should oppose it. He hal another faa to state against the Courts in this country; which was, that for the condemnation of some fish ing-boats taken by an officer on the Irish station, the cha . ges amounted to more than half the value, which was not above 10001. %It- DICKENSON said, he could renew the assurances aheady made, that this subjcit was meant to be brought forward at an early period next Session, and it had been under the considera tion of the Lords of the Admiralty for some time. Sir W ELFORD belie►ed that this measure had not been objefled to on the grouods of its tending to do avrav grievance. The ground on which he had objeited to it, was, that of tts tending to create and totinue discontents in the Naval Department. One objeCt of the Bill was to take away from all the five classes, the power to appoint their prize agents, anti leave it entirely with one of the class; s. Every pan of this Bill went upon a false assumption, that in all the iuterior Departments of the N ivy, there wire no per,ms t., be found but cheats, rogues, and depredators. Certainly there are some of that Jetuiption in all departments But it was highly to just to assume that all were so. ivlr. FRANCIS said, sufficient reason had been given to thew, that this Bill ought to be carried into tiled ; but no reason whatever was given for with. drawnil it, and for that reason he would oppose its being put of. Mr. JERVIS said, he had assigned his reasons; namely, the advanced period of the Session, and the promise made by Ministers, that they would intrnduce another of the same kind. 'lle AD VOI 'ATE GENERAL said, there was no one more desirous than himself to obtain the ob. je.ft of this Bill, but l.e did not approve of the prin ciple of it. It would not remove the abuses com plained of. He was ready to admit that great abuses prevailed in the Courts in the West Indies, on the subjea of prise causes, and regulatious were adopted some years ago to remedy them. With respeA to the great expences, stated by an lion. Admiral, to have been incurred in the Courts in this country, he could assure him, that in the parti cular case he alluded to, by far the greatest part of the charge was occasioned at the outports, where each of those fishing boats stood the captors in as much at if they were Inhamen. The paper pro duced by the Honourable Admiral was under the consideration of the Judge of the Admiralty Court. It was a fit subj..a for redress, but not for Par liamentary regulation. He was ready to confess, that the mast enormous abuses had been praaised in the West Indies, but provisions were made to put a stop to them. Sir Cts A at xi Pote explained. Mr. BUR ROW ES wished to know if any com munications had been sent to India on the supjett of Y. izc Agency Kusiness? Lord CASTLEREAGH answered that no de cision had been as yet made on that part of the sub je.9. The enemy at present had no trade in the Indian seas. But the qustion was still to be brought fors , ard. The Bill was then put off for three months. THE LAVE LORI) KILWARDEN. The nous? having resolved itself into a Com mittee on His Majesty's Message, relative to the family of the late Lord Kilwarden ; Mr. PITT rose and said, he hoped the proposi ti••n he had to submit, would meet the unanimous c•.ncurrence of the Committee. He then moved the f dl wing tevlution " That an annuity of igool. be t•ranted from the consolidated fund of Ireland. to the widow of the Lite Lnrd Kilwarden, Chief Justice of Hit Majesty's Court of King's Bench in Ireland, to he held by her during her life ; and that after her death, the same be settled in the following mattner :---8001. a year to the son, bearing the title of Lord Lilwarden, and ;Ida a year to sash of the two daughters of the late Lord Kilvrarden, ard that this said annuity do commence from the 23d of July, 1803."—The resoluticri was agreed tn, and the report ordered to be received to-niorrow. The Committees of Supply, and W.iys and Means, were put off till Friday. TP,ADE. On the order of the day for the third rea,!: ► if the Slave Trade Abolition 13111; Sir WILLIAM YOUNt: row, and delivered a long speech against the Bill, itt the c..m.,e of which he observed that there was always more dan ger of insurreltions from those negroes who were born in the West Indies, than those newly imported from the Coast of Africa. As the olacks gut in formed and enlightened, they always felt a disposi tian to become leaders in revolati Ins and reb:ll;:mc. Mr. FRANCIS was clearly of opinion, that when the African trade was abolished, the planters in the West Indies, seeing no more negroes could be imported, would endeavour to take care of those they had ; and, of course, the condition of the slaves must be ameliorated. It had been argued that the Legislative Assemblies in the islands were competent to adopt regulations on the subjed of the Slave Trade. To shew how far this was likely to be done, he would read an extra6l from a cor respondence which took place in March 1802, be-' tween the Governor of Barhadoes and the l)uke of Portland, in which the former, stating his having sent a message to the Assembly of that Island, re comme3Jing a law for punishing the murder of a negro with death; the punishment being then no more than a fine of IIL The Assembly took great offence at this message, and would not adopt it. He wished. therefore, to know what could the House expert from the Assemblies in the Islands ? Mr. W. DICKENSON contended that the Par liammt of this country could not think of legislating for people who lived 3000 miles off. The negroes in the West Indies could not see the difference be. tween abolition and emancipation. This measure only held out a visionary benefit, which would pro duce real mischief. The condtk3 of France, at the commencement of the Revolution, ought to be a warning to this country. The French, at that time, disseminated pamphlets and speethes on die subjeel of liberty among the blacks, and every body knew the consequences. It was the maxim of Robespierre, "Perish the colonies, rather than that we should not carryourprinciples intopradice ;" and it was a maxim with certain enthusiasts now in this country, s. Perish the colonies, but let our favourite scheme he carried into execution." The Hon. Gentleman then took notice of the manner in which sedition Lad been propagated among the Negroes in the islands, by means of Moravian ;•.eachcrs, sent out from this country to convert them to Christiae::- ; but who, more like firebrands, cast among them the most combustible materials. Now 311 this was said to be done with a good intent. In the same manner the burning of heretics was said to have been a good thing, and done with the best intention. Mr. BARHAM said, tilat so far from the prin ciples of the negroes having been injured by the missionaries, there were 10,000 converted so Chris tianity in the island of Barbadoes, and the conse quen-e was, that their manners .is,:re improvel, and their vaNe encreased to the amount of I 01. each man The fads stated by the Hon. Gentleman he demi, and called on him to prove them, in order that those firebrands of sedition, if any mach existed, might be brought to punishment. He thought it would be a very desirable thing to Is: ing sepoys and other East Indian troops to defend the islands ; because they would render it unnecessaty to send European troops to a climate which destroyed them, and they would establish habits of free-labour, which would have a good effea on the negroes. He would sup port the present Bill, but at the sat time, lie would maintain, that the parties injured in their property by it, were entitled to a compensation. For himself, as an indi-idual, he would claim no compensation.____ _ _ hir. DICKINSON explained, and said a large body of hforaviaos had been seat out to the Wet Indies, and preached sedition there. Mr. BARHANI repl.ed, that large body amount ed to the number of five. Mr. PITT said, he had already given his opinion on the subjel of compensations ; and he would now say, as he did tkvfore, that when ever a fair case of injury could be made out, he would be ready to attend to such a claim. But he never did, nor would admit of a compensatioa on all the unlimited claims which might be made by pets ins, whose spetulations had fae.cd, by the aboli tion of the trade, who had been disappointed as to the ships they had fitted out, or who might fancy themselves injured in various other ways. But he would say that should the amount of the cortir.n sation be ever so large, that would not deter him from putting an end to the trade. Mr. ROSE opposed the motion, on the ground which has been before mentiorikJ, of this country having encouraged the planters in the West Indie• to purchase lands, and th they would be eniablel, through the medium of this trade. to cultivate than, hut that the abolition of it woidsl put it out of their power to do so, and would he a breach of contra and of faith with them. He allowed that the variour discussions which had taken place on the sub . ;el, produced a good effect in the situation of the Negr.,ci in the islan Is, and the planters had thereby !well in duced to .meliorate their conk!' tion. He did ro!, however, believe the varion, .rolies which w such constant circulation, as to the cruelties prsiaiied in this traffic. He was afraid the Negroes were :Clive to the question, from what be had heard of the infoi - :nation given by Lord Balcarras, anJ that they were very incapable of distinguishing between the state of it, as extending to emancipation or abolition. Ile feared that if 300 negroes were to fly from thair masters, and get into the woods, the sslrule military force of the island would not be able to subdue them. It was therefore necessary the House should be cau tious in what they did in that respee, fur he believe d in his conscience, that it the Aa should now pass, there would not, in the spice of three years, be a white person tell alive in any of the islands. he Bill, lie said, went to elle& an imolledene abGliticn. He wished to know what was expeCtati by the sup porters of it, to become of the great numbers of negroes that would be on the coas., waiting to sup ply the next ships that were expected out for the purpose of carrying on the trade :is usual. Many of these slaves were brought by the dealers from a great distance in the interior parts of. Africa. Did the !ix.. Gentlemen who surpost this Bill sop pn , that the slave dealers or merchants in that m en . try would march these poor creatures back to th e different place; where they were born ; or had b brou7ht, and deliver them at-Ain to their parents o r relacive%? If that %sat not the case. he feared they ..sioul.l he inti. d.eted, as the easiest way of gettinf,ul al them when there was no longer any marl:et a; means of di,p,.ing of them. Hut it had been said Re had a colony there. He had read the account 4)f Cap. tain Holloway, who had been sent out for th pos.. of acquiring all the information he could no su ijed ; and from this account it appeared, that the only convert made by the Sierra Leona Con. piny, was a man c died Daily Aordr. and he Li, cd ua.kr the guns of the fart, and was a ,sav e n chant ; so that the Cempany sent out to civilise the people, have faraished slave merchants for thei t .Iwa servants. The civil expeaccs of the cohny were 10,0001. a year, and the military 4,000:. and the whole of the rest of the settlements togellici that coast, were only 13,0001. annually. Mr. PITT called the Hon. Gentleman to order. Mr. ROSE said, that with every deference is his Right lion. Friend, he conceived he was strial y in order. He waited, however, for the Speaket's judgment—(The Speaker nodded). And Mr. a ft proceeded to state, that if we abolished this trade, it would be taken up by other naions. 1 % 4 himself seen letters and papers, %%WI 'hewed ths: large offers had been made by the Spaniards to the merchants of Liverpool, to furnish them wai l s' slaves. Some of these contradts were for 15,000. some for 8000, and other numb,r.. If the trade:' abolished, it will be of great a !vantage to these riders of Liverpool, for they will iben be able to carry for the Spaniards 600 slaves in the same ship, by which, according to our regulations, they noald only carry 400. So much for the hum tnity of tat measure. He deplored the question having been agi. tated ; butas it had been so, he must givehis sentimeeu that the abolition will be attended with great cruel ties and massacres, and with etf:as similar to whit had occurred in St. Domingo. lie should therefore oppose the Bill. Mr. 1-1. Ti-lORNION said, the Tare Trade was radically unjust, and eve-y Argo:lli...A in support al it is such as goes to justify every thing that is wrong. The plea of necessity is the tyrant's plea,. and bet very ill placed in this business. He spoke for some time in favour of the Bill. Mr. W. SMITH sa.d, there did exist in the treatment if slaves in the West Indirs, that, which must make every friend to humanity and jusice desirous to abolish it. He insisted that previous to I 757 and 8:3, or to this qlsestion being agitated is that House, it had been proved that the planters thought the system of imp. 7tAtion was m: re profit aisle than breeding, and that it was generally Adel on. Mr. Ty rwit, who had been 1‘.2 years in the Island of Barbadoes, had in his evidence said, the opinion was, that the pregnancy of the women was opposite to the interest of ere ilan•.rs ; alai he s'sewed, the: soe ansicat prrjudic.as ..f the ;lames were strongly against tl . system lie wished to Cod he e:.•.1,1 heir that these anticet pro. judices no I••nger existed ; but he har o,ie cr.uld net be otherwise than avert. from putting men into the hands of those who, in 180 , !. ed the nem. mendation His Majosty's Ministe •. to maie.ll. murder of those slaves a capita, off i ce. He ar. g led at length against the impolicy of . ..anger cew t.nuing this nefarious traffic. which could not le supported on any principlJ.of humanity or juLaice; therefore should e • •te fur tie Bill. Mr. ADDINs.TON gave his decided opinion against the Bill, on the grornd, that if it was cat ried into etiCae, it would render the situauen of die Negroes worse, and injure enmucarce. He was not, he observed, an advocaae for slavery, nor did he want to hear many of the arguments which had been used upon die subesS it was enough for him to know, that men were boeght and sold, to incluse him to aced • to any measure that might tend to their deliverance. Mr. WILBERFORCE, in along speech, used Isis former arguments in suppose of the Biil. Mr. DEN spoke against the Bill. Sir WILLIAM YOUNG and Mr. Rose eel:01;1rd. The question being then Inudly called for, the House. d.vided, and there appeared, fur the dent reading 69, against it Se. Adjourned at Hall-past Eleven o'Clock. T 111: _BRITISH P LON I)( IN, THURSDAY, .Itt.s The Defence BiII was real a thi -d time, last night, in the Lords, and passed without a division. The Prince of «• acs was present. S :me persors, ignorant of the forms of the Host.:, thought Hi: Royal : lig!iness came down as a Member; but that could not be the case, as His Royal Highness, WC believe, has nut t 'ken the oaths and his seat. It will be seen in our Court news, that His lits- J CST Y yesterday tiansaaed a contider.able vrtion business. The ULCUSDheS report of die Cl' Bailey convicts was laid before him; and of C.• seventeen capitally eunviaed and reported, 4, alone, fora (Ow ry on the Bank of Ccar as and C. . was ordered for execution on Wednesday. andat was not in t c lilt of the reported convias. The paragraph in the AI rniteur of the 15th inst. which says—" There is no anxiety with respeit tC the trancuilli:y of the Continent," affords a nes+ proof of the insolence and arrogance of BONAPARTE.. Phis official declaration, at the moment when R.ts sia is insulted, and Germany and Naples have been invaded, manifestly implies that these powers either want the spirit or the means to resent their ivrcngs and to redress their grievance:. In domestic lite, it one man assaults another, and at the same moment boasts that the peace is not in danger. is not this to proclaim the injured party to ill worIJ as a eoa tions in the;r de page of indi% Wlien the CORE banded, was ag ♦aunt was acc which she cou charafter, sacr herself among perors of Russ► contrive to smo the meaning of as a proud de power of the Cc Continental Sta official dectarat that his slaves a not entertain of Europe, it unnecessary. ' as they are de forming upon sent to augmen point ment of th it t if they did a short time pr tone, and assur corrupted cert their real into from the ate French. On Monday nied by the f horses .ck thro , the other Pat ria,res. The 1 school of that boarding-hou-t UST V,V7110 ti ery ral Uf thcm—pa On the lioyal 1 Gentlemen 101 l Lance, and gar Yebterday u M/.11 STIES At • .• s's house, P.rr I .a I continued for a About o whi...h was ;Atte! moan, SPAISIS RAMP. tt, Anc AIN:BMW ; 134 LORD CH ANC!: CiirQUIR ; .he JUDGIR MARTI R.PCORDiI of Doca—P,wds, Wl,lelp•l•cf, Dar ' Loa os--'it. !fel ga"="m", 810. , R1 —.Drum The IA vee when a *abine His MAJUST paw neoa reee wen ConviBs u After the SOM HSI T had ',and, on his I the forces, in t rEE: C, resigt Mr. Daum st, for Gr.t tin nople. Mr. A•.aut leave of His Constantin"ple Lord and resigned t the Yeomen of F.arl MACCL ar.d rcs: Bedchamber, appoint his Lo Guards, in the • .Lord .17:HE xi . srv's hana Bedchamber. At six o'clo House for Ker Yesterday, a the PSISICUSES with a visit. ball past three Yesterday a East India H PIA Y WaS SW i!, letve o; the C the command The SksPon th . hilted for Bun She was or cis e 4 laA da y 4 n's u i th : 11 . eoc r e' c omm an d A dm ira l 'g r t: i k ' R '4lll u e l i i n °) r A .r tfiNc ai : i I I Luring, tini Lord Hawke.bi i Voccesra... (Al , Monarch, Alex, A Court of to-dar, to recei , Yesterday T Chamber to be is which be wa 111 P i i