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view of the ease, that this important omission pro posed by the Noble Lord would go to frustrate the objet of the Bill; neither did he think that part of the Bill would go to preteet the parties from suits generally from other individuals. but merely for ads done under the Treasurer of the Navy. The objet of the Bill was slhsrantial public justice, and, to attain that, some sacrifices may be made ; a free unbiassed testimony was the object in view, and this might as well operate in fascist. of the accused individual as against him. Lord lIAWKESBURY thought the Noble Duke incorrect in his opinion as to the ex tent of the Bill in its present shape: that part of the clause went to indemnity for all Act/ done, either with respect to the Crown, or to individuals, while in the office under the Treasurership of Viscount Melville. In this, the wording of the Bill hare him out. The professed amendment, he thought, might be ameliorated, by confining the in , lemnification to civil suits, on the part of His Majesty, His Heirs, or Successors, which would leave use parties open to attions brought by individoals. Lord Viscount SID MOUTH was not convinces of the propriety of leaving out that part at the hill which went to afford the witnesses protettioe against civil suits. Such a provision a as, under the cir cumstances of the case, he thought, conducive to the ends of public justice ; the witnesses should be freed from the apprehension of suit or prosecution. The proposed amendment would, probably. cause the loss of the Bill that session ; and he should, there. fore °Neff to it. The LORD CHANCELLOR spoke at some length in explanation. In a case, he observed, where an individual, upon a weighty charge, went to be tried in a solemn manner by his Peers ; he held It his duty to the House and the public, to twit the passing of a Bill, which, in its present shape, would operate as an er port facto law. As the Bill came up to them, and at such a perh d, the question was reduced to. whether they should yap it nest session with due consideration, or pass it this session without any consideratiol at all? He enlarged on and enforced his tormer arguments. against the principle on which the indemnity from civil suits proceeded. Impeachments, though rare, proceeded upon the same principle with othes prose cutions : from the articles, it was discernable, that some individuals had made immense sums ; and where war the difference, in the effeet, in giving a witness so much money for particular evidecce ; or suffering him to keep so much of th • public money, of which he was already possessed ? As the law now 'stood. with reference to civil indeninity—an in dividual was bound to give evidence—an indi vidual was bound to restore the public their money. Why then should a bargain be ma.'e, al lowing an individual to keep that money, for con senting to give evidence, which he was at present cnmpellible to give, provided he were secured from criminal prosecution? With respea to such a deci sion, he could almost say with Lord Hardwicke-- " I protest to God, I would almost as lief be the object of such a Bill as give my ciorsent to its pas ing, if it be not altered in these respells."—ln con cluding, he again suggested the propriety of post poning the discussion of a Bill of such novelty and peculiar importance. mil next session. Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH spoke in explana tion, and adverted to some doubts entertained by high legal authorities, with respedt to the consider ations of how far witnesses in the cases adverted to by the Noble and Learned Lord, were compellible to answer ; but for the deliberate and decided opinion pf his Noble and Learned Friend, he had so high an Astimation, that, as he thought, that witnesses were - plimpeted from criminal processes, they were bound, 411111 he law stood, to answer the questions put to thorn; he should, under that impression, no longer se:i.t the propnted amendment. The LORD CHANCELLOR spo4te in farther explatztion, and, adverting to the legal doubts al luded to by the Noble Viscount, begged leave to obeeree, that what he advanced was merely his own individual opinion, and, as such, he wished it to be understood. With rupee to the doubts thrown out, relative to the power of witnesses to demur iti such eases, it was an additional argument for deferring the consideration of the bill, till the next session, when they might have the benefit of the Judge.' opinions. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE seemed to concur in the proposed amendments, on the ground latterly advanced by his friend the Noble Viscount. Lord MI N'l'o entered into a detailed considera tion of the stibjea ; and, from the positions ad vanced, drew inferences, in many CAWS, very dirt-r -ent from those stated by the Noble Lord on the woolsack. lie adverted to some precedents, which, he thought, furnished cases in point ; and one even of a stronger mature, than that involved by the bill. With resisea to the civil suit, he argued, that, in the mode in which it might be applicable to the individuals in question, it would have the effea of a criminal prosecution. On this point, lie laid parti cular stress, and seemed of opinion, the proposed amendments would frustrate the whole purpose of the Bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR again quitted the woolsack, and replied to some points adverted to by the Noble Lord, who had just sat down. The question at length resolved into, whether the parties should be indemnified from tire civil suits, or from the criminal process only ? On thin head. he retain ed his opinion, but repeated, that he advauced it as his opinion only. "N f 0 and the LORD CHANC6LI.O R -lanation. V thought the opinion of the Lord, that the evidence might 4 parties, notwie.standing the indemnity against civil sues. under of the exisung law, worthy thi the House. He also observed inference to draw, that because tempted from prosecutions on the lAL it necessarily followed, either that they were indemnified on the part of individuals not • . of the Impeachment. ,RYSFORT spoke at some length I ANCELLOR continued to think the Bill were against the sound aw and the constitu•ion. He move, that the opinion of Cie ;d betaken on the paint, wltelber bird hI IN ro and i spoke in farther expla Lord MULGRAV Nuble and Learned o be rn o u b s t i: i n ned from arthe e the inder the rirulsr course of serious Attention of t that it was A ltrAllge the parties were ezem part of the Crown, tio In ptinciple or praai, trom civil processes A . within the provisioi o Tile Earl of CA L in favour of the II& The LORD C HA' that some p,trts of thi princivici cl the la , should, theri tore, rn twelve Jaases sii,,ald the soTtnesses in a criminal 1161 - cutiort, should be compeiliblei - by law, to answer' questions which might Inculpate them in a civil prgcess. Lord Mt to and Lord Stustour o were in favour of the Bid, but had no objeflion to the question praposed by the Lord Chancellor being left to the opinion of the twelve J udges. After some fttri her con rersation, the mil was read a third time and passed, with the amendments, leav ing out the exemption of the witnesses from civil rocess ; but on an understanding, that the t welve Judges saoulsi be consulted on the question alrearly referred tot and that, should their opinions be, that persons so implicated were coirvellible to answer, a short hill should be introduced early in the next Session, for the amendment of the present bill. DUKE OF Ail;t3l;s ComPENsATioN On the third reading of this Bill, the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM renewed all his former objetctions to it. His Lordship, in a speech of two hours, took a view of the whole question, in an historical, po litical, and general way : lie compared the differ ent sys ems, both feudal aid monarchical, and drew many ingenious inferences therefrom ; upon the whole, he repeated his arguments against the measure; and concluded, by declaring his unabated opposition to the bill. A long discussion then took place, in the course of which the Earl of Westmoreland and the Earl of Carlisle argued strongly in favour of the Bill. The Lord Chancellor an.t the Earl of Suffolk against it. The Duke of NORFOLK urged many reasons why the Bill ought not to pass, and concluded by moving that it should be recommitted tomorrow. On this the House divided, and there appeared, for the Motion 7—Against it 23—Majority 18. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM then proposed several verbal amendments, on which two divisions took place, and the Home decided on both in the neg itive. •lle Bill wa. then read a third time and passed. Ti.. LORD CHANCELLOR then brought up the Bill to indemnify witnesses from any es idence, given by them in the course of tte Impeachment, hcing brought against them in any civil process which might hereafter be instituted. Tte 8,11 was read a first time; and, after a short coaversation between the Duke of Noe WOLK and the Lotto Ascci. Loa, it was ordered, that the JnJge should attend to-morrow ; and in the mean time it might be considered in what form the ques tion, as to the matter of law, should be put to them. The Committee of Privileges was ordered to sit tomorrow, at three o'clock, for the further consi deration of the Zouch Peerage. Adjourned At Half . past One o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Lord STOPTOILD appeared at the bar, and in formed the House, that His Majesty had been wait ed-on with the Address of the House, preying that His Majesty would be graciously pleased to order a sum of money to be paid to Edward Coleman, Esq late Serjeant of Mace in that House, as a re muneration for his long and faithful services ; and, that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to return an answer that he would give direatons ac cerciingly. A Message from the Lords informed the House that their Lordships had agreed to the Irish Fire and Hearth Duty Bill, the Hop Duty Bill, the Irish Paper Duty Bill. the Irish Custdms and Excise Bill, the Irish Military Sorvey Bill, the Irish Dis tillery and Loan Amendment Bills, the Southern Whale Fishery Bill, the Qoarantine Indemnity Bill, the Sugar Drawback Bill, the Linen Drawback Bill, and the Scotch Assessed 'Faxes Bill, without amendments. A person from the India House presented an ac count of the erpences of building the Cortiwallu, of I 32 guns, at Bombay, and the frigate Bombay, of 46 guns, at the same place.—Ordered to lie on the Table. Sir SIDNEY SMITH said, he had not the ho nour of being in the House last night, when his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Windham) alluded to the imprisonment of Captain Wright, in France; but, as he had been given to understand that his Right lion. Friend had intimated his intention of making a Motion on the subjea early in the next Session, and had not moved for the correspondence on that business, he gave notice, that he would to-morrow move for a copy of the said correspondence. Mr. HUSKISSON moved, that the adjourned debate on the Finances, which stood for to-day, be postponed to to-morrow.—Ordered. Mr. VW HITBREAD brought up the Bill for preventing the discontinuance of the proceedings under the Impeachment, ordered against Lord Vis count Melville, notwithstanding the prorogation or dissolution of Parliament ; which was read a first and second time, and went through the several other stages, was passed, and;xent to the Lords by Mr. Whitbread. A new writ was ordered for the Boroughs of Stranreer. &c. in Scotland, in the room of the Hon. William Stewart, who, since his eleaion, bath ac cepted the Chiltern Hundreds. A new writ was also ordered to be issued for the Barough of Cockermouth. in Cumberland, in the room of James Graham, Esq. who, since his eleaion, bath accepted the Hundreds of East Hendred. Sir A. S. HAMMOND gave notice, that he would tn-morrn* move for leave to lay before the House a Memorial of the Commissioners of the Navy as an Answer to the Third Report of the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry. Ile said, he had the Memorial with him, and, it the House had no objeaion, he would then move that it be laid on the Table. Mr. WHITBREAD signifying a wish to have the Third Report read ; Tne SPEAKER informed the lion. Baronet that if any individual in the House expressed the smallest disapprobation, it could only be considered as a notice. Sir A. S. HAMNIOND was about to observe nn what Mr. Whitbread had said; but— The SPEAKER informed him there being no question before the House, he could not be allowed to go on. Mr. LONG moved, Thu an Address be prm,rnted tl His Maituty, praying that he will be Neared to ord :r .ueh a remuneration as to Hui hla ie-tr shall seem meet to the Rev. Samuel Smith, for tits ser ♦wee as the Chaplain of t +at H..isse.—Ordered He also moved an Address to His Majesty, pray ing, That he will be please! tt "A., the •urn of 1,1-101 to be paid to Nary Alemender, E-4 fur 113 femcc, as elsalrgiAri of the Committal of Ways slut Mzera, tet - 7 1 . dered 1 and that Ilya Dow* would melee rend the tame • . . etteliCitiol entente . Also, richa suns as, together with the V se. , AI make up the esm of 5,0001 to J.ireetellt D. 11111; Etie, Clerk A...ottani, fur ha s e rvices during the rat eut Se aluil Ordered. Alto the tom of 1,1031 clear to John Henry Ley; El. se cent, Clerk Attittaut, for hie se vices during the pre,iedt'Setmon Also sudi sin a-, together with the lees a.al l•:nuduni -sue of office, will male- up die , uni of Sonl to Jo oe Cent...lnto Eli- Deputy Seejeant at Arms.--Ordeeart Alto the 411(11 oh 3501. to Mr_ (;carpe Whalen', the Clerk of Ihe Sum .14, and for making the la lea —'Jrdered. woe eito oat:nett that the J•Juritel with the lades 6e. getter,- Alto such eihn as Hit Majesty stall think proper at * eon , - peettation ha the other Clete of the H .use for Atte..hog 1.1.• *ate Comm meet —Ordered. Alto the soot ei I'3ol. to T hn•lies Effie iol Tom' in, Esti for his tereket doting the pre•oent Sewion.--Oolere.l Mr. HUSK ISSON then moved an Address to His Majesty, praying, mar he would "'de. the stun of 3,25.1. Irish Currency. f, paving the coterie, of Cutunnatiunert and Clerk, employed' in the Lottery of Ireland fur the year 1805.--Ottlered. Mr. Qlllllo4e, Deputy Usher of the Black Rod, appeared at the Bar. and summoned the House to attend the House of Lords, to bear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several public and private Bills. The SPEAKER, attended by the House, pro ceeded accordingly to the Lords, and on his return he informed the House that he had been in the I louse of Lordg, and heard the Royal Assent given by Commission to the following Bills : the 8,000,0001. Exchequer Bills Bill, the 2,500,0001. Exchequer Bills Bill, the 1,500.0001. Exchequer Rills Bill, the Customs Duty Bill, the Straw Hats Bill, the Hop Duty Bill, the Sugar Draw-back Bill, the Irish Customs and Excise Bill, the Southern Whale Fishery Bill, the Quarantine Indemnity Bill, the Isle of Man Bill, the Corn Exportation Bill, the Auditors' Bill, the Irish Infirmaries Bill, the Pil chard Fishery Bill, the Leith Harbour Improvement Bill, and several Private Bills.—Adjourned. •.• Picture Gallery—No. VI. shall certainly appear to r. morrow. The Law Intelligence to s i.nn in the Laat Page. • THE BRITISH PRESS. .ON DON, THURSDAY. JitLir 11. It will be seen, under the proper head, that His NlasEsry held a Council yesterday at the Quzeres House, Aler which, he gave audience to several Members of the Administration, and the following Ministerial changes took place The Earl of Csandon to Ise ['tendon of the Council, in the place of Viscottnt Sidniouth, resigned. V ticount Castlerea%lt to tic Sectetary of St Ile fur the C Instal Department, in the place of the Earl of C trnJen. . . Lord Flarrorrhy to be Chancellor of thr Duchy of Lancaster, in the roan of t . .e Earl of Buckinghatuskue, resigned These changes, we believe, were not decided upon until a reconciliation between Viscount Salo mon-fa and Mr. PITT was found hopeless, and it was felt that there was no chance of detaching any of the leading Members of the Coalition. Visccunt SlDsenur it, we understand, intimated to His MAJESTY, on Friday, his intention to resign, but consented, at the Royal request, to recon sider it, and he sent in his final determination on Sunday. Lord Gaesivti.ta had also an audience of His MAJESTY on Sunday, but the subject, of course, can be only matter of conjecture. We do not know who is to succeed Viscount CAS TLERLAGH as President of the Board of Controul. Some say that he will retain it, but, perhaps, they ground their opinion upon his Lordship's avowed predilection for " two strings to his bow." Should this prove the case, Mr. Parr will have added but one new member to the Cabinet, in the person of Lord HARROWBV, being more a nominal than a real accession of strength : as his Lordship was al ready his supporter and friend. Mr. PIT r has thus new-modelled his Ministry without giving it a par ticle of strength to snake up for the deficiency caused by the secession of the ADDIHOTOI4 Patty. We lately antiouuced that it was Mr. PITT'S inten tion to dissolve the Parliament, in case he earild not form an Administration which should give him the power and influence necessary to his management of the public affairs with steadiness and facility. We do not see any other course which now remains for him to pursue. The Aooiworoa Party, esti mated at 43, will be a powerful reiniorcement to the already formidable ranks of Opposition. Even though they should not enlist ihemselves under the banner of any other Chief ; surely Mr. Pi r r w:11 not depend upon their casual support, or subjea himself to be defeated in some favourite point by their sudden and unezpeaed hostility. Viscount Sin vou ris was lately charged by the partisans of Mr. ,Pirr, we will not say how truly, with taking him unawares, while sitting with him in the same Cabinet ; will his Lordship be likely to give fuller notice of his casual opposition now, r when he has not to study even appearances , and all delicacy is removed by a complete and open rupture ! Nit. PIT r neither can nor will hold his place by such a tenure There is no chance of permanence for hi, Administration, but in a new Parliament. It has been said of Mr. ADDINGTON, that the influence of the Crown was not sufficiently exerte 1, n it its in terest sufficiently consulted, in Ore formation of the present one. Upon a iiiist eltlLon, Mr Purr will not probably lay hsmself open to a I,ke csasare. He will be able to surroand iiimstif with new friends, and to greatly Meer, if annibilAte, the ADDINGTON PArty in Commons. doubts entertained of Lard N to Trinidad hive been removed. Paper of the , :tla of June states, that bined Fleet had left Martinique, and the I'.dth of May from Pigeon Island, the *utiliser of 28 sail, steering a dire& , Trinidad. It was upon this informatioa Nscsos shaped his course for that Whether the information has been the enemy, apprised of Lord NEI.SONs, altered their course, and ran to the north. not say. There is certainly some obscurity part of the case. If the enemy passed r the t.'fith of May, they would have' to reach Trinidad before Lord NCL The 1, trw: accounts make his Lordship two-thirds of that distance in one day. from Lord NeLsort are hourly expected, their arrival a variety of rumours will of these announced yesterday, upori authority of a letter from Holland of the defeat of the Combinua Fleet off , with the death of Lord Nrcson, and of the Spanish Admiral GRAVIN A. Absurd as this report is, it ob tained general circulation. Three Hamburgh Mails arrived yesterdAy, with letters and papers to the 9d instant. The Rus;an Minister. M. Novoswrzorr, arrived at Berlin ea the 23d, and remained there so late as the His mission has given rise to much speculation upon peace; but. notwithstanding Russia and Prus s ia appear desirous of effecting an accommodation tween England and France, we have sanguiae hopes that Lord NELSON has, before this, atchieved a victory, which will infuse new spirit into the nntinent, and produce, like that of Aboukir, a new confederacy against France. BON At•Il re has got Italy completely into his revolutionary crucible. 'fhe new order of things is spreading fast over that nnf or. tuna.e country. The Ga APi n SIGNIOR has refused to acknowledge BOX•PARTC'S assumed title •f 44 King of Italy," We have also received a Gottenburgh Mail. with Papers of the Cith, of which th's following is an IMMO J; 28. •4 A Russian Courier goes by the packet to-day, for England, whn has entered this place b ten days from St. Petersburgh." The creation of Peers so long talked or, it 7s now said, will take place shortly after the Prolog. tion of Parliament. Sir CH AXLES MOILGAS:, Mr. LVGI)N, Sir W. Scott . , and Sir H. MLLDrOAY, are tho'e oil whom, it is repotted, that high honour is to be conferred. Mr. JAMES DALY has been returned to serve in Parliament for the town of Galway. Lieutenant General Sir Ev me Coott expels daily to sail from Cork to Jamaica, to take upon himself the government of that island, in the room of General Nooaar. Sir Ewa. Coors will take with him a part of the force now under his com mand, the remainder will continue at Cotk, and will be strengthened by other corps ; the whole to be placed udder the command of another General, to be ready for service whenever they may be called for. The mien, the last of the East Lodi& fleet, has gone round to Portsmouth; it may, therzfore, be expeCted that the fleet will sail without any fur ther delay. A postscript to a letter from St. Helena, dated the t Ith May, received by His Manors's sloop L'Espoir, arrived at Portsmouth, states, "that a sig nal was then flying for eight ships being in sight, supposed to be the fleet from Bergal for England.' The Fosny, SALM, from Wales for Cork, is to tally lost. The Privet of W s and the Tvent6end packets, from Lisbon, are arrived at Falmouth ; the mails will no: be in town until this day. The Amelland packet, from Falmouth, is arrived at Lisbon. The Minerva, Itit.rv, from Jamaica for Londim. is captured, and carried into Cliba. The American ships, Cheri,: Carter, Capt. Stmt. [INS, from Virginia, for Falmouth, for orders, and the Huntress, from New-York, for Malta, hare bent captured by the Marie Spanish privateer, and re captured off Bermuda, by the Crescent, Cipt. LT' SON, from Tortola, arrived at Liverpool. Tire Crts mt left them in lat. 35 N. long. 53 W. with or ders to proceed to Liverpool. The Sophia, NIMMATI, from the Isles cf France, arrived at Boston on the 7th June. She sailed es the 21st March, and reports, that no late accounts had been received of Admiral Li aois's sq,radrol , but that the Britis'i Lquadron was daily expoaed Yesterday, the 6: at of the three Lotteries fc: t' c present year, was bid for as under : N:. Niehndsav 17 2 9 Mr. T. Cove 16 14 0 Mears. l!et:sley, Pulley, and CApel 16 11 9 Mr. 'T dish Mews:l'o , 4o.A Shewell 16 8 0 Ms Sievewlight 13 17 10 Mr. RICH•StOSON was, of course, declared di Purchaser. The 4th lafantey, commanded by the Earl of Crr ATHAIii, are on their march from lionham 'l.achey, to be encamped there. The first dinar* vas expeeted at Lesves yesterday. Lord vßegiismcrt il of u il m it , !a , , n co o rg i 0, 1 ; ;l by Cvilonel A t Hull, hay,: received thuir route for Beres P°°' 1111111 if notalra t.; an t the House of ,lELS.) V'S visit A Barbadoes that the CORI- I were seen on , St. Lucia, t o Ind ireft cou rse for' .retecic4 ;reflation Lo r i t' that hand.--_ I incorreft, or nd on's approadi. T lord'. we can - di boi 3bscurity in this pm ', id Sc. Lucia ort The had seven d a y s the - t'lol. tcson's arrival. r il dship's fleet sail 130 1 kY• DiTatclo.l :lie et:fed, and tottil Cdr ill prevail. One far ori the all ege d He f the $d instant. La ala if the Canaries. we