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NUuItER 6644 • BRITISH COFFEE-HOUSE, COCKSPUR-STREET. AHE COMMITTEF. for promoting the ELEC .'. TION of th , . Hon. 'lllt/MAS BRAND respectfully inform the FreehulJ. rs in his iidtrest, resident in and near London, that CARRIAGES for their conveyance to and film ii i..RTFoRD .J 1 I.e provided at the following places, .Ills MORNING, at SEVEN u'Clock, and on every suc crAnte ea) of the Eli.ction, at the same hour Rr , herts'i, the White Horse, Fetter•lane, Holborn. Millington't Hotel, Grat's In.. Gate, Holborn Glover's, the Green Dragon, Hishop.esteenteet. ••• Am only attendance is partici' any reques•ed. SHAKSPEARE GALLERY, P %LI-MALL, February 11, 1605. riNHE NOBILITY, GENTRY, and others, are iniet respeelfuthr informed, th.it the capital Building, lc SHAKSPEARE UALLERY, tog..ther with its Ciritent., comprising the whole of that noble and valuable Collection of PICTURES, illustrative of the Works of our Immortal Bard, will be sold by AUCTION, by M. STEWART, on the 20th Day of MAY next, and following Days, if not previously disposed of by Private Contrail. Descriptive Cate logues, and Particulars of the Building, are now preparing ; and due Notice will be given of reopening the Exhibition Rooms, bAng the last opportunity the Public eau ev:r possibly have of viewing Ibis truly National Arweitiblage, w hi c h con . rains the c►oicest produCtions of oar swot celebrated Artists, Re. and whica reliefs the highest honour on the spirit, taste, and liheratity of its original PtadelahlfS, the Messrs. BOY DELLS. Any Applitationa to treat by Private Comma will be re• ceived by Mr. St.wart, at bu Au lion ROOM 4, 194, Piccadilly, opposite Albany House. STATE LOTTERY. THE following is the SCHEME of the STATE I.OT R Y now Drawing: 1 ~ts I. 25,000 --- 2 — 20,000 10,000 3 5,000 6 1,000 10 500 30 1(l0 6,10 is L 25,000 40,000 50,000 13,000 6,000 5, 00 12j,000 - 25,000 Tickets 1.230,0c0 Part of the Capital% rin:l he datei mined as follows : First drawn, Ist Diy Ll,oo'l First.diawn, 6th Day.. f. 5130 Ditto 2.1 Day .. 500 Ditto 7th my.. 10, 00 Ditto ..,1 Day .. 5..0 Ditto Bth Day • •23,0110 Ditto 4th Day.. J• l) Ditto 9th Day.. 5,000 Ditto Stli Day.. 50(/ Ditto lOth Day.. I,ono Tickets and Shared (whilst any remain) may be had at all the Licensed Lottery Ofliwes, warranted undrawn. TOMORROW. TBISH respeefully acquaints the Public, that • TOMORROW will b.. the FIFTH DAre DRAW. ING. Whilst ally Tickets rentals), Shares tno , be ha,t at 4, Cornhdl, and 9, thating-Crola ; where five of the Capital Prises in Roydell's I..ttery were wed. IT is only to look at the GOLDEN %VII EEL of FORTUNE to he convinced it iv the ready Road to R iclics: 1 Prize of.. .L 25,000 I 5 Prize; of ......1.) 000 I ditto.. .20,000 I 9 ditt0........ :),000 &C. &C. RC. 1 Ticket mar gain.... .. L 4 - ,,(100 Half ditto 22,:rtiO Quarter ditto 11.2.1.0 Lien', ditto Sixteenth ditto 2,1112 10 Tickets and Shares will be sold by HALL and CO. No. 133, Cornhill, while any can be obtained ; but, from the very few Ticket.; that remain, it es probable there will not he tufficient au ainwer the demand another week. To-morrow will be the Drawing Day. LOTTERY NOW DRAWING. CWIFT and CO. No. 11, POULTRY, are now S SELLING lel: Frs and SHARES of the PRESENT LOTTERY, warranted undratru. The Fifth D..y of Drawing will be To morrow. FIFTH OAY'a DRAWING. B RANSCOMB, No. 11, Holborn, and No. 37, C.onton, re..;.ectfolly informs the Public, that TICK ETS and SHARES are sell.ng at the above OFFICES, and that the next Day's Drawing will be To-morrow THE KICHE,T WHEEL IN THE WORLD .TAY now be seen in COOPERS' HALL , 1 containing w NSW Or I 25,000 20,000 10,000 •s 5,000 &e. T. ROBERTS recommends an early application at his 61 , 1e.t.iblished Office, No. 8, Cornhill, am, f rom - he gre.it de mad, it 14 oot likely there will be sufficient Tickets to answer d-mand through next week. To-morrow will be the next thawing Day. RICH STATE OF 1111 E WHEEL. Trite .L. Y 5,000 I 3 lO.OOO 4 ditto ...40,000 3 .ditto s OCO Ike. &c &e. FROM the UNCOMMON DEMAND f or TICKETS and SHARES doing the Litt Week, and the few remaining unsold, makes it most probable not a Ticket will bet left after this Week ; the Pubic are therefore i..7,-ested to he early in their tonLcatiun at TRULY FORTUNATE LOTTERY OFFICE, Corner of the Royal Exchane , , n .siosite the Rank, where Tick,t, and Share, (wartime l :adrawn; will continue on sale atrliilu there art any Ica. To.morecne will be the next Draw ing Day. RICHARDSON. GOOI)LUCK, and Co. re spaehilly t at the Pu'alic that the FIFTH DA 01 DRAWING the t; FATE LOTTERY wi:l be ro.m Y ßo. Ruby. TICKL.FS and SHARES , warranted c , sitinite on Sale at their Limowd SLAW L.41.1ry O Sce. , 0 , po '•! the gate of the liinet Mews. Chaim' ewes, and the c.tner the Bank Building% Cunthill. ( scat-r considers it his duty to state to V • thuie who have honoured hint with their Commands, teat !here are but f,•w Tickets in the PRESENT STATE LOTIEltlf left : lrum the unequalled richness of the Wheel, a.ul the great demand for Ticket. and Sham, without an •'rtY ap .iicat,on at his Old Fwablished Office, No. 73, New R .vr ia ,.s, h e N s , pane will be tie ippoloteil the Whetl contain. one Prise of Y.,0001. of 2 ),00M. Thee of 10,0001. Three of 5,0J01. Five of 1,0001. b..-odcs bunsmottiblsol. 1001. .% e. N.S. To•momiw will be the Fifth Day of Drawing. JPORTER. with every seine of patitude to the . Ncb lily and Gentry, who have honoured hint with their tnnnwurd., belga to stilunit the followng remarks to them That the present S PATE LOTTERY contains more GRAND PMIZIrS than were ever known before; and as there we veiy few T,clrets unsold, and the demand n unequalled b 4l l in Town and eanntry, he earnestly recommends (tar ve leta disappointment) an immediate purchase at his„Old esta blished Lottery tlffict, in P.rliam.:nt-street, where all Prises 6.41, So 2:,(ros are pn..l nt. demand , N B. The Vtfth Draw ins •i!! b. To-worn.w. fly 44rtttfib iOrtto TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1805. IWERL4L PIELIAMENE HOUSE Or LORDS—Mompar. Is It. The Pl.shop of KIL MOR I.:, one of the Irish Rapresentative Prelate+, took the ()athi and Seat. _ _ The LORD CHANCELLOR d !livered his .pinion at loin? length, r. :I tive to the Appeal C tote, Glover t a.id cusiclud d by moving for the afhrinatiou of the De with 401. csts, which was ordered accordingly. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up from the Contemns the Exchequer Bills Bill, the Assessed Tax Commis•iorters Bill, and the Annual Indemnity Bill. One Private Rill was brought up by Sir C. Bunhury. On the Motion of the Earl of DARNLEY, the Orde, for Summoning their Lordships upon his Motion to.morrow %cas discharged s and a similar Order made for Thurslay. The Earl of ALBEM A RLE begged the at tention of their Lordships for a very few minutes, previous to the Order of the Day being• entered upon. It was his intention forthwith to move for a produdlion of a copy of the New Naval Commis sion, lately issued by the Crown, appointing Sir Charles Middleton, and others, tO aa in the naval department. The commission in question may pro , bably be intended to controul, if not to supersede the Parliamentary commission of enquiry, the proceed ings of which were so beneficial, and whieh gave so much satisfadtion. 'Fhe public were greatly indebt ed to their exertions, and the commission was com posed of men of the highest charadler and respetta bility. He doubted not but they would continue to acquit themselves in the most unexceptionable man ner. The Commission be alluded to was formed under the auspices of a Noble Earl, then in his place (St. Vincent), whose professional merits were above all praise. They were universally acknow ledged, not only in that House, but without doors; but, in his civil administration of the naval concerns of the country, he was equally meritorious. He should detain their Lordships no longer, but moved, That an humble Address be presented to I lis Majesty, pray iny, that there might be laid before the House a copy of the O•mmission, lately issued by the Crown, appointing Sir Charles Middleton; Bart. and others, to act as Commissioners in the Naval Depaitment. Before the question was put ; The Earl of ST. VINCENT rose, and shortly ad dressed their Lordships, in a very feeble tone of voice, the chief purport of which, as we could col ledt, was, that he understood his condus9, while at the head of the Board of Admiralty, had been at tacked and spoken of in terms of censure, in another place, particularly by a Right Hnn. Gentle man, at present high in His Majesty's councils. le should therefore wish to know, from Ministers in that Howe, whether an investigation into his conduit, in the department alluded to, was intend ed ? and added, that he had no objedlions to having every edition of his disclosed to the whole world. Lord HAWKESBURY rose and observed, that with respedt to what had passed in another House, he could not corredlly speak, neither did he think that, in point of Parliamentary regularity, he could say any thing whatever upon what might have oc curred there; and he, therefore, conceived he could not, with propriety, he called upon to answer in that House with respedt to it. However, with re gard to the question put by his Noble Frierd, rela tive to a supposed intention of instituting an en quiry into his conduit while at the head of the Naval Department, he was free to say, he was not aware that any such intention existed. As tar as he had an opportunity 01 knowing from offichl sit*. shun, or otherwise, or in any quarter, he could say he knew of no ground whatever fur supposing that it was intended to institute any enquiry into his Noble Friend's conduit. The Earl of S i. VINCENT said a few words, expressing himself not satisfied with the answer of the Noble Secretary of State, whom he did not con sider as sufficiently explicit on the occasion. Lord HAWKESBURY, in reply, repeated his former declaration, and he would appeal to the House, whether it was not sufficiently explicit ? The Earl of SUFFOLK made some general ob servations in praise of the conduit of the former Commissioners of Naval Inquiry; and moved, that their last Report be read. The same was accordingly read out by the clerk, and, oq the Motion of the Duke of Clarence, ordered to be rtintel WAR WITH SPAIN. After the Order of the Day was read, for taking into consislciation so much of His Majesty's Speech as related to the hostilities with Spain, and the vari ous papers and documents which were laid before the House, reiative thereto, a few words were inter changed between Lord% Grenville and Mu!grave, relative to the different modes of calculating certain sums of money, specified iii the Papers, in Lyres, &c. Lord MULGkAV E entered upon the important sutije& regularly before the House, and, in a speech of very considerable length, delivered his senti ment; upon it. He said, that, with respect to the laying the different Papers and Documents before th,•ir Lordships, from time to time, he was guided by A sincere and anxious wish to have that House as fully and completely informed upon the subjat, in every respea, as the other I louse of Parliament. lie wished to call the attention of the House to this point, merely with a view to impress their Lord- ships with the conviaion, that, whatever difference of opinion might possibly exist as to the subject in gene ral, or any of its parts, there existed no desire, on the part of lli, Majesty's Ministers in that House, to conceal or withhold any information whatever, which it was safe or prialicable to lay before Parlia ment. With reaped to the general subje&, which they were about to consider, he was fully sensible of its importance and magnitude ; and he trusted it would fully appear, on due enquiry and investiga tion, that the state in which this country is now placed, with respe. Spain, was not in Cie small est degree desired, sought for, or still less provoked by any conduit on the part of His Majesty's Go vernment. One of the first considerations which nal u rail) presented itself, in viewing the question, and one upon which.mweh f its merits depended, was the stipulations of the Treatybetween France and Spain, concluded at St. 1/.lefsinso. (fin this document, , • ). great stress was naturally laid, and, in appreciating its merits, comparisons were entered into between it and the Treaty cincluded between the French and Spanish branches of the House of Bourbon, in 1761, known by the Appellation of the Family Compad. However, he thought the fair result of a comparison between these Tteaties would be very different from certain conclusions which had been drawn. The Family Compad paid due regard to that general principle of the law of nations, which dilates a relative equal stipulation between the parties ; a Treaty constituted others;rise, one wherein the stronger power didates to th e wea k er , m ili tates against the law of nations ; it Foes to deprive the weaker power of its sovereignty, and identi fies it at once with the more powerful party. He then recapitulated some of the leading stipu lations of the 'Treaties adverted to, and con tended, that in the family compad, the relative power and the re,ources of Spain were duly attended to, while, in that or St. Ildefonso, a very different ratio was observed, even to the exaction of the whole force of the country, though the object of the war should not respell the interests of the nation required Such a treaty of alliance prevailed between France and Spain at the time of the rupture between Great Britain and the former, and in considering the ques tion between her and the latter, that circumstance was of material importance. With respetft to this, as well as to every other part of the subjed, their Lordships may see, from a reference to the docu ments before them, that the most anxious desire existed with His Majesty's Government to preserve the relations of peace with Spain, and this was uniformly, an appeared by the instructions transmitted firma time to time to Mr. Frere, the case, whatever changes might have taken place in His Majesty's councils, until, from the condud of the Spanish Government, a state of war became unavoidable. In sudeavouring to this effect, it was deemed proper to ascertain the impression which the treaty of St. Ildefonso had made, and how far the Spanish Government felt itself obliged to adhere to the letter of its stipulations, if called upon. Accordingly, instrudiona i-. that spirit were sent to the British Minister at Madrid, who was, however, impressed with the like considerations, and had, pre viously to their arrival, aged upon them. IN Lordship here made frequent references to the rele vant parts of the documents, particularly to the re sults of his various conferences with the Prince of Peace (the real Governor of that country) upon the sultjed. He considered the answers given by the Prince on the occasion, as perplexing and inconclu sive ; notwithstanding the condea ati the govern ment of this country %V AS, as upon a former occa sion, equally moderate and dignified ; every thing was done to avoid the extremity of war, which could he effested consistently with the honour, the inter ests, and safety of this county:. The next prominent consideration, to which the Noble Secretary of State adverted, arose from the proposal on the part of France, to march a large body of troops through Spain, the remonstrance against which, equally spirited and moderate, appeared to be attended with some effect. With regard to the important consi derations of the Naval armaments, and the sale of prizes, the conduet of the British Government, guided by the same spirit, was equally moderate and firm. With respeift to the required contingent of furnishing the stipulated number of ships of the line, the for bearanceof the British Government, was, under the existing circumstances, far more moderate than it otherwise might be, as the French Government were occupied almost solely .with a p.aticular project against this country, viz. its invasion by me ins of flotillas, Ste. Another light in which our forbearance at the time was to be viewed, was the interest and security of our ancient ally Portugal ; they warded off the danger from that quarter, a. long as it was practi cable. In considering this part of the subject, the Noble Secretary made frequent references to the progress of the negotiation ; the spirit and perse vet:lnce of the British Government, blended at the same time with a due degree of moderation and forbearance, appeared to be the cause of substituting a pecuniary supply for the contingent stipulated by the treaty. The diplomatic transadions with the Spanish Government then wore a different com plexion; it became expedient to ascertain the amount of the proposed subsidies, and a com parative calculation thereof, with the proba ble expences of the contingent, if furnished in kind; this was entered into by his Lordship, for the information of the House, as well as a detail of that part of the Correspondence. He adverted to the perseverance of the British Government in their system of moderation and forbearance, with mired to this part of the transadions, which was mani fested by its acquiescence in the payment of the sub sidy, so long as it could be considered AS a temporary measure. The comparat ye calculations to which he referred, were ty:c,,s try to refute the assertions of the Spanish Go.ta that the subsidy was less advantageous to France than would be the fur nishing of the contingent. His statements were drawn chiefly from what had been estimated as the value in contingent of a given number of ships of the line, and number of troops, as laid down in former treaties of contribution. He particularly re curred to that between Great Britain and Holland, 1788, the result of which was, that, with respell to the infantry, the calculation was at ten pounds per man. An amount, referred to in the treaty of subsidy in question would cover a considerably greater number of troops than Spain possibly could supply ; and, in point of fad, more than eight time: an equivalent for the number of men stipulated for in the treaty with France. Still, the system of for bearance was adhered to on the part of Great Bri tain. However, when the restless ambition, and domineering influence of France was considered, it became important to the British Government not to relax in point of vigilance. This was the more ne..essary. as French soldiers were at the time clan lestinely allowed to march through Spain, and the armaments were, to a certain extent, .. .:,revr 4_ 1.3(1 (Pima surzwcz. yet going on. At length strong remonstrances were made; and the impossibility of the British Minister cisntinuing longer at Madrid, were the • Naval Armaments not completely stopped, was held out. In explaining this part of the traissaaion. several refetences were made to the documents, Rthi the justifiable condua of the British Government and its Mihister contended for by his Lordship. —During t h ese transaaions, Spain might be fair ly regarded as in a state of suspended hostility, and with respea to the sale of the prizes, the con duil of the British Government was borne rant, were it necessary to defend it b,y precedents, or arguree drawn from analogy, by the case which or.: .1 America, d o ting the diplomatic residence . r. !I inimoni. His Lordship pr05e...44, by :islet exposition of the case, to ree die allegation of-t:: Spanish Minister, that by concealin, the affair of the prizes, they had considerably injured the,e colonial interests. Throughout the whole of this transaaion, which may in some point of view be r-garded - as a wa r of pi ra cy, t h e over b ear i ng influence of France was manifest ; the firmness . ' and moderation of the British Government were, notwithstanding, attended with effea, and the French Amba.sador, considering that this wet of piracy benefited only the subjeas of his country. permitted M. Cevallos to concede the point.--- His Lordship repeated the observation, that the British Government were determined to persevere in their system of forbearance and moderation, as long as it could consistently or safely be tinite ; at the same time, their vigilance and precautionary system were not suffered to relax a moment. In this • spirit was the dispatch of Lord H.srrowby to Mr. Frere, wherein he instru&s him to ascertain, as Err as possible, the real state of the armaments in the dif ferent naval depats in Spain, as well as subs-quest documents to which he particularly refern.d, and which evinced, not only the vigilance, but the anxiety of the Bridili Government to preserve the relatiot a of amity with Spain. He pointed cut the evasive condua of the Spanish Government, particularly the allegation of M. D'Andurga with respell to the destinatioo of the armaments at Ferrol, n imely, that they were to suppress an insurrection which had broken out in Biscay ; this assertion was alleged to be made on the information conveyed by an Officer, whoseregiment wasamongthe troops ordered for that purpose. But, he would ask, was such a communi cation to be deemed authoritative or satisfaaory nn !er the circumstances of the cae? Certainly not! It was more rational to suppose other objeft , were in view. Nothing which sound and rig irons policy dilated was left undone by the British Govern ment. The Spanish Ministers were repeatedly called upon explicitly to declare the nature extent of their engagements with France I end at the same time, they were req tired to re.tuce their Naval armaments to the state they were in at the commencement of the hostilities between Great Britain and France; this proposition was )rie telly urged by the British blockading O ffi cer, w io said, "'unship your guns, and it will be considered as dis arming ; your lying a little further in the Read, ;s no disarming at all." No satisfaaory answer could be obtained on this head. They deemed it not pru dent to declare the real state of their engagements with France, and they did not dare, Leas o dis own the influence of the French ArnSa.sador Btiurnonville preponderated • and it was not too much to advance, that the w hole was temporising, until the arrival cf their treasure. Under such cir cumstances, in which a system of delay and evasion on the part of Spain was apparent, Great Britain WAS forced to depart from that system which, while moderation was safe, or forbearance honour able, she had scrupulously adhered to. He hoped and trusted, that the opinion which was already marked as that of the country, with respea to those transaftions, would be felt in that House. Ile hoped and he believed, that his Noble Friends op posite to him were incapable of proceeding upon a false ground of opposition that night, on a question which involved the interests and the honour of their counts. He trusted these grie.nds of oppusition, if such was determined on, would be on the merits alone of the transaaions themselves there is one circumstance which he should not think it necessary at all to mention, as making na ^•-• whatever of the case. had it no, been touched it, by a Noble Friend of his on a former - meant the detention of the ftigates, respeaiit ! he conceived it impossible. informed as their ships were, to have the least dispute. They ail knew that traniaction was entirely unconneaed with the cause of the war; it made no part whatever of the discussion, and was not even known at Madrid until the British Minster had quitted that capital (a cry of . Ibe transaaion, be hesitated not to aver, was, by the LAW of Nations, by ar guments drawn from analogy, or on gratin is of obvious expediency, compl e tely . justihable. And farther, the previous relative situation of tl.e colts. tries wou4l have called for the proceeding. The case of 1;61 afforded a parallel, but with this slit ference in favour of the present instance—in 1761, the whole year's treasure was in the ports of Spain ; the war is now begun with the treasures of Spain at the disposal of Great Britain ; and, in proof that the measure alluded to was not made a ground for the war, his Lordship made some further references to the documents. Drawing to wards a conclusion. his Lordship contended, that no nation ever was placed in a state of war with such complete and accurate grounds of moderation an.! forbearance to rest upon, as this country in the present instance. No proof of aggression. or ill will, could be advanced against us. Every nerve was strained by His Majesty's Government, to avert the dreadful alternative of war, and the evil day was kept off as long as possible: that nothing bad been done, which conld not Ise justified by die right, the country had to defend itself was ',erica evident: he called on the House for its support. He was com pelled by a sense of his duty to his coontry. and a perfea reliance on the justice of her cause, and oar ... 4