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NA PAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTS'4OUTI!, ♦CIO. Arrived the Rau 1.. r, Bel mon 1, 1 nm l4;nJoit, bound to Jamaica. and sailed for Cork t. , join ceavoy. Sailed the SI figai,i, eni, man of v to join the Channel fleet. Wind, SE. V.V.Ant'roi. 417. N. Arrived the incirfetipb/e tr:g4te, and the Naer , /us sloop of war, fro*: a cruise. swasseass, AUG. 29. S.ti!ed the Lisa *met, ship with 42 s.:11 of vessels conv , ly for the Baltic. . .hived 11:e 7nno, Enterprise, and the irrnw under Prussi co lours. detained by the North Sea squadron going into Entbden. BRISTOL, AUG. U. CAM* ia. Susanla ; If/keels, Gimore. from Cork ; and Sopty. Ballard, from Pmersburgh. • Arrived. at Atrica. Gordon, from Bristol. The Ce,ndii,• Bliss. was sem% the elh of August. in latitude 46 dee. 3 S min. tong. Al, her main and strizen masts gone. the ship wit.i-logged, and no person on beard. PE•L, ALIGVIT £9. Sailed yesterday evening, the 'Mar armed ship for Portsmouth, and the ticringcpctese, Beard, for the South Sew.. Arrived and sailed for the R;ver, the Ca.:tiro, Smith, from Sailed th.s morning, d:e Oran; sloop of war. with the Rrhger. Perseus, and !N.., armed defence ships. P 4461.5.1/, Pri,:reu &knot, and Int4lat,,a,Sle armed transports, to join the squadr..n off Bo:tlogne. Remain In the Downs, the rest of the ships as per last. A very heavy firing ;s now dictinetly heard from the direition of Boulogne, supposed to be an ep. gagement between the enemy's flotilla and the lit i• ush squadron. PROM LLOYD'. LIST. we, Aria .19 —4 0 .1.. rd by the htatilda, Drink water, (om the Ewe Robim, Caiter, (rein Jeney ; )largwet, Barclay. from Stockholm , Good Hope, fro,) Dantaic ; Goats ptestiu, Limlo, from Memel Rising Sun, tticklim, Sophia, Lambe. Ebenezir, Nerburgh, and thr Grrde nuffin, fmm Norway; Speculation, Viiron, tom eltrualana ; Catharine, Cuulion, Two Brothers, and the Young Elizabeth, from Embden. Sailed the Actrv• , , Jones, from Philad •Iphia ; SAM:, ----., for Tonningen ; and the Jonge Ann, --, for Embden. The whole of the Hull Greenland whalers, to the amount of no less than forty sail, have reached that port in safety. They have had one of the most suc cessful seasons ever experienced. Not a single ship returned without a tolerable cargo. Several of them had on board nineteen fish, and three hundred and thirty-seven was the amount of the fish brought by the fleet. The Newcastle whalers have also arrived, and their success has' nearly eqtitl. %shale fishery, by the retui as trom all the ports, has been snore successful this season, than almost any one ever rememl - .ered. Saturday, arrived in Leith Roads, the Repair re venue cutter, from the Downs, convoy to the Mae and Edgar West-Indiamen. Sunday, sailed from Leith Roads, the Baltic and Tonningen fleets, under convoy of the Lync sloop of war, lick and Thames armed ships. Monday, arrived in Leith Roads, the Prince's Royal revenue cutter, with a fleet from the llaluc also, the Prinee of /!/ales cutter, Capt. Meat av, from a cruise. The grape vines, ii is observed by gardeners, are more produltive this season, than they have been for some years past. The weather, however, has not hitherto been very favourable to their perfection. The favourable weather of last week has proved of immense service. Amongst other instances, on Saturday last, Mr. Wi I LIAM NICHOLSON, of Wed dicar 11.d1, near Whitehaven, fini,hed the cutting, stooki^:-, and thatching of .513 stooks of tine wheat. 0:. Muulay last, Mr. WOODS began to cut a very fine field of wheat, of about five acres, cut the farm of Burnton, in the parish of Ayr. It is calculated that the produce of this field will be twenty boils per acre. A hundred pounds were offered for the whole crop, and refused. Wednesday se'nnight, the Hexham Volunteers of feted t ieir services for any part of England. The offer of the Hull and Sculcnates Volumecrs, to go again upon permanent duty, for three weeks, is, we understand, accepted of ; and the corps is expelled to march for Scarborough, on Thursday next. On this day the above corps will he pie sensed with a pair of colours, :it the garrison. On Friday, the Glasgow Light Horse were re viewed in the Green by Nlajor-General %sr YaS, and Colonel BA iLLrE. His Maaesr v's First Regiment of Life Guards hada Grand Review and sham battle= Wednesday, in Hyde Park, under the command of General the Earl of Ilene INGTUN. The soldier who received a severe fall about a week since, when that regiment was reviewed, is nearly recovered, And will soon he n'4e to do duty again, though his life was then de sp tired of by some. We find that meetings are beginning to be col, wised in different parts of the counts), fur the pm -pose of ascertaining the camber of waggons and calk/ex of every description, which, in the event ' of invasion, could be a►sembled in each JistriCt lor the speedy conveyance of troops. A general in speftion and classification ~ f carriages took place at Woodhouse Moor, near Leeds, on Prida) 1.411, Ind the same steps are immediately to be tak,•n through out all she distrifts of Yorkshire. The several corps of Lisa.' pool by order of His Royal Highness Prince Witt' an FM l otatoc, Commander in Chief of that distria, as sembled at their respe3ive alarm posts, at seven o'clock, on Monday morning, together with the carts, that had been offered by the proprietors, for the purpose of conve)ing them, Ili case of invasion: and, after a short excursion of about two hours, re turned. The Ladv of General 211 siaiosts n, %slb had been ill a long time at Aix-la-Chapelle, left that city upon the bat for Paris. The Earetss made her a visit, accompanied by the principal attend dants of her Court, and :hewed her every mark of the litbest moped and esteem. PRECF:ZrER. A second experiment was made on Wednesday,kd the utility of this invention, which met with the most complete success. Six persons, having fist girt themselves with the machine, jumped overboard off Parliament Stairs, above Westminster-hridge, and went down gently by the tide to Blacktriars'-bridge. A groat number of boats surrounded them, as %%ell to says them in case of danger, as fram a desire to witness the experiment ; but every thing went on ex tremele smooth awl well. It was curious to ob serve six heads and shoulders in a perpendicular pos ture, Walking, as it were, through the waters, quite still, unless they wished to change their direction, which a small paddle or two 1% ith their hands, which, as well as their legs, are pettedly at liberty, will do. The machine is extremely simple ; it is made .if strong sheet cover, hollowed, and strongly soldered together, in eight different pieces, conneded with straps ; it is laid on the chest, and rolled up over the breasts, the whole fastened with straps that go over the s h out tees, and are secured to the belt that goes round the chest. The divisions of the machine, though of a different shape, partake of the qualities of a cistern hall, to float on the water, and when the whole is fixed on, it is not unlike a horse's collar in shape, bat much larger in proportion. It it very simple, almost instantly put or., and it ap pears to us will be of incalculable benefit in enabling persons attending lift-ioatt, (-moth, Ste. who ran 4riao, to remain Z considerable time in the water without tiring ; and, by its buoyancy, to assist others. who ...vow swim, that may be in danger of drosveing. A great number of spedators, both afloat and ashore, apt ared highly pleased with the experi ment, to v:hiLit the fineness of the day not a little contributed. POLICE. Wednesday, at Marlborough-streor office, &hos and Frnme, journeymen boot-mrkers, u-dei 'sent an examinaton charged with menacing and irritating the moh, on Monday evening, at the house of I kis tv, a closer, in Henriecia-stree., Manchester-square. HEALY 'wore, that when his house was beset by the mob, he observed the Defendants peculiarly alive among them, and that he distintly beard them say, after QUIGL EY, a closer, had been dread fully hart, " We now want Hits I.v, both he and Qum; tv should be torn in pieces, and the house should be pulled down where such Government in forming rascals live." He was obliged to shut up his house for personal security, but the mob re mained for upwards of an hour, and he saw the Defendants particularly alive until they were dis persed. The statement was corroborated by two others, who saw the Defendants present, prior to Quigley's ill treatment, and who heard them repeat what has been stated above. The Defendants denied the whole of the c!iarge, except that they were brought thither by seeing .1 mob. The Magistrate remarked, that if the charge was as satisfaciorily made out before a Jury as before him, the Defendants would meet the most severe punishment, and he held them in substantial bail . CHESTER, Aug. 28. We are happy to be able to state, that at our As sizes, upon the tri of Daniel Hum/hirer. and two others, charged with lacing concerned in the tumult which took place in this city on the 2-411 of Decem ber last, it was proved by a very respeetable Magis trate, who was producer! as a witness on the pert Ole Crews. that not above hake of the Royal Chester Volunteers were concerned in the riot. It was also proved that the corps contained about haler hundred men. Lancaster Assizes ended last Tu, 'day, at which the following trial took place. Tits Kean Han- VlT.—This was an indictment brought by the Cor poration of Liverpool, against the Defendant, for a nuisance, in burning lime at his kilns, in Litrie. street, Liverpool. Doaors Cues:if and f: and Mr. J. Mutsu ALL, (the physicians and surgeon to the Infirmary, near to which the kilns complained of were situated) were decidedly of 'vision, that the vapours room the kilns were prejudicial to the health of individuals. Sir ALAN CHAMBRE semmed up the evidence at length; and d e jury, a ft er an hour's con.ultation, brought the Defendant in guilty, but recommend...l a conip::nsation to be mad,: ham for the loss of his kilns. A forgery has appeared 4n the Guinea Notes of the Ship Bank of Glasga•A, which may be e.tsily distinguished, particularly by the name Achotioia toeing impelled. The first d of the name is left out, And the note: have generally the appearance of being purisosely torn at that place. Oa Wednesday evening, at IVhitehaven, one Gsoeos Nt•Fa et ANL, a boy about ten years of age, who had been riding upon one of thecoal-wAggras, jumped off, and, staggering, fell over the parapet of the North Wall, upon the Sands (a height of about 30 feet), by which he was so dreadfully braised, as to occasion his death in a few hours af ter. The unfortunate youth was a stranger here, and had only arrived in town that day (Acconip.i n;ed by his prents) from Scotland, on his road to the South of Engl.tati. Coroner's Verdi.% "Ace ile , ilal heath. An extrast of a letter from Lexington (Kentucky), dated June 12, says, " We have been informed, that on the 501 instant, a negro-man was sent down Co lonel Jounsom's salt well, at Grant's-lick, on Lick ing -liver, for the purpose of bringing up a bucket wbich had fallen from the rope. landing a light ne cessary, a candle was let down to him when the air in the wed immediately took fire,and the flame ascended 10 or 1.2 feet above the mouth of the well. After the fire was extinguished. the aegro was taken up, burned in the most shocking manner, and it is sup posed that he cannot long survive this unhappy ac cident. the air in the well, it is believed, con sisted of a mixture of hydrogenous gas, with atmos pheric fire damp. well known to miners- Lass place in the same way. Great quantities of stilphurated hydrogeirous_ges, are continually rising front many of our we l ls &Alt .b and spills." SUBSTANCE nr LORD CAST LEREAGIT's SPEECH', Delivered in the Home of Ihuraday the 19th of Jolc, lifo4, previously to his inoviing for S..veral Ac count. relating to the Finance, of ti✓ East India Company, in India sad Europe, tor the la.t Ten Years. Before I proceed to move for the papers, of which I gave notice on a former day, as I shall not deem it necessary to found any motion upon them when laid upon the table, I fed it my duty, at . present, slinnly to state to the House, the obje& welt which ibis information is called for, and the conclusions which, 1 apprehend, will be dedec:nle from it. In the successive debates wl ch have annually taken peace on Indian Finance, however complicated and extensive in its nature the subjot is, I have ob served, that so long as the discussion confined itself to the particular accounts of the year then under consideration, whatever difference arose was easily reconciled, by a reference to the accounts themselves : but, so often as the discussion has taken a wider range (as it has hequently very naturally and very properly 'one, with reference to the results and statements of former years), a great want of pre cision has been observable, from the difficulty of referring back, with acctracy, to the voluminous accounts of preceding years, not at the moment either in the hands, or in the recolledion, of those who took a part in the debate. One of my objeds, and indeed the principal one, at present, is, to bring before the House, in rise compass of a single and intelligible account, the substance of the last ten years' accounts, commencing with the re newal of the Charter ; so that Gentlemen, here after, having before them, in one point of view, the estimate of each year, under the several beads of revenue, charge, interest of debts, surplus reve nue or deficit, and increase or diminution of debt, they may, at one glance of their eye, compare the same with the actual result, as furnished in the ac counts of the subsequent year. I am the more desirous of putting Parliament in possession of this information, from the perseverance with which Gentlemen, on the other side of the House, have asserted, year after year, that all the estimates, from time to time laid before Parliament, with reference to Indian finance, and all the pre. dictions of my Noble Friend (Lord Melville) and myself, have been completely falsified by the event. They have not, certainly, charged either with wil ful or deliberate misrepresentation ; bet they impute to us the having relied for our conclusions upon esti mates, formed upon a confined and inadequate view of the probabh- er—nditure for the succeeding year, and that. e tb, deception of our own over-san guine we have given to Parliament and to the public positive assurances of results which have never taken place. lt; Sir, my Noble Friend and myself have been in the ha'iit of annually misleading Parliament on this important subjed, we certainly have taken all Jae pains :o supply the means of deteling our own errors. The detailed report, which is annually published, of the sentiments and opinions stated by the person who fills the situation I have now the honour to hold, furnishes more ample and authen tic materials, than are to be found in the admi nistration of any other broach of the public affairs, for conviding him of any inaccutacy into which he may have fallen, or any mistatement he may have ventured to hazard : and with such means, it is a little surprising, if they are borne out by tans ; and a just subjed of complaint, it they are not ; that instead of bringing the question to this test, they have confined their attack to general imputations. Wishing to bring the question, once fur all, to a distint issue, I shall endeavour to state, as pre. cisely as I can, the two charges, which, I conceive, comprehend the substance of every thing that has been alleged upon this sebjed. Ist, that tl.e an nual estimates themselves were founded in en or, and disproved by the expenditure at the end of the year; and that whilst the estimates gave no reason to apprehend an increase of debt, an accumulation, to a Liege amount, has taken place annually abioad. 2d, That a positive assurance was given by my Nn ble Friend to the public, its the year 193, of the participation of Suu,oool. being regularly paid, and that his Lordship had often declared, the finances of the empire would derive aid from the resources o India, before India became a charge on the mo ther country. And, r:rst, as to the latter charge, which is of a more general nature, I have only to meet the asser tions of Gentlemen, who state, that these assurances were given absolutely and without qualification, by asserting they never were; referring for the truth of my denial, to the recorded sentiments of my Noble Friend, as published at the time. 'They were, no doubt, made absolutely, with reference to a state of peace ; but, so far from being equally applied to a state of war. Parliament was distindly apprised by my Noble hr iend, at the time, that war, in pro portion to the extent of its operation, and more par ticularly war tan the Continent of India, must wholly alter the calculations then made. A hope was entertained by my Noble Friend, at the com mencement of the late war, that in the then crip pled state of the enemy, o'er expence abroad might not be such, as to disturb materially our financial prospeds; but he pointedly guarded himself against causes of expence, distind Irons the probable dire& efforts of France in India. Since the it time, we have had two Indian wars, one with Tippoo, the other with the Main-wets. We have had r little inferior to wars, in the expenditme conneaed with their suppression : and we have, in that time, fitted out from India various expeditions, and pro. minently that to Egypt, not immedi a tely c o nneded with the Company s service, the charges of which, with interest since accrued (in whatever proportion they may ultimately fall on the public or on the Company), stand recorded in the accounts to the amount of about 7,0u0,0001. Could my Noble Friend's statements, even had they been unaccom panied by the express qualifications which made a pan of them at the time, he in fairness considered as applying to such a state of things as 1 have de- Kr ib er n o r is it wonderful, under such an accu mulation of expence, incurred not merely on ac. count of the Company hut of the public, that the result, which my Noble Friend was justified h opening to Parliament in the year 1793, should stand suspended, in whatever degree those causes have continued to operate This Howse will recoiled, when my Noble Friend stated his conviction, that the empire was like', t., derive aid from India, before the defence of India would become chargeable upsthe moth er counts ; that this statement was ma to meet the then gloomy prediaions of Gentlemen on the other side of the House, who asserted, such was the deplorable state of the Company's finances, that the empire must swirl he drained at home, for the defence j our possessions in India. The truth of these pre di&ions has been now pretty fairly tried, by ten seal s of the most expensive war, during whi c h t i nt , : I udia in important exception to all our other foreign dependencies) has sustained its own expenee, ani t, at the present day, more equal than ever to continue sn to do. What would have been its ability to fulfil the other and more flattering part of soy Nobl e Friend's predietion, that of affording an efficient re source to the finances of the empire, had w e e , peace, leave to the House, from its having thus sup ported itself in war, to judge only adding, by w a y of explanation, one observation, namely, that th e increased annual expenditure arising from the war, eventful as it has been, icay be taken, on the ave. rage of ten years, at a sum considerably ea '.cec.. ing a million a year. Having thus taken notice of the more gene ra l charge which Gentlemen have been in the habit of urging, I have the satisfiglion of coming to that, which, from its being precise and specific in its na ture, can at once be decided by a reference to the accounts themselves : and here, lisde more remains tor me to do, than to read to the House the leading results of the accounts* for ten years, which I now hold in my hand, comparing the estimate under the head of Revenue and Charge, with the result, as established by the actual accounts of the succeeding year. The revenues for the ten years were taken at They a !Wally produced More that estimated • • 3,0J7,0u0 The chalet for the SSOW period WIC 1 at They Aelually amounted to . • More than wit,..tteJ . 6,313,000 It is here material to observe, that an increase on each side of the account is not necessarily a trout of inaccuracy of estimate, as in the cours! of several of the years after the estimates were tr.numitted home, new territories were annexed, whits, broujila with them an addition, both to the revenue and charge side of the account. The best criterion to try the accuracy of the estimates upon, is, to take the result upon the net revenue. Thn. wa,fttiinatact in the ten year. at . L. 14,179,000 It aEtulil ~:lloooted to Less than enimated 3,277,000 so that, in an expenditure of ahnve 80,000,0001. and during a period nearly of uninterrupted war, the error in the final result, upon the comparis , l of Revenue and Charge, did not much exceed three millions; an instance of precision and accuracy of estimate, Rut, I will venture to say, to be paralleled. in the financial proceedings of any other govern ment; and which becomes the more surprise 0 . when even this excess of charge is to be account,' for, by the military expenditure, both for the Mysore and Mahratta wars. becoming a charge in the course of their respetffive years, when at the outset, and at the moment the estimates were framed, neither events could possibly have been in the contemplation of officers preparing the same. (To be contin nett RIZETIND OF CREDITORS. AT GUILDHALL. TO•11 , 101111011. 111. 11. 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