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. IMPERIAL PARLIAIkIEND. YTOUSE OF LORDS—MON DAY, JAN. IL Counsel were heard in continuation relative to the Scots Appeal, Smith v. Yelton and others, viz. Mr. Hoarrc. a, at some length, as second Counsel, for the Appellants ; and tar. ADAM, in part, as leading Counsel, for the Respondents. Their Lord ships adjourned the farther consideration of the case till to-morrow. MR. JUSTI'...T FOX. Pending the Appeal Cause, the Marquis of A BERCORN moved, that the Order for their Lordships going into a Committee upon the matters alleged against Mr. Justice Fox, and the papers and docoments respeeing the same, on the 7th of Feb. be discharged. This the Noble Marquis generally stated, he was principally induced to do by the consideration of the great distance many of the Is itnesses who were meant to be brought for- Ward, on the occasion,had: necessarily to travel: some - from remote parts of Ireland, and to whom it would I.' t•aoraelicanle to arrive in due time, in reference . t : ::.• day at fir-t sprinted for the commencement 1. , t' e investigation. Under this impression, and s.,di a view to the circumstances of the case, be should propose that a similat Order he made for the 18th of Fehrtirry, which his Lordship seemei to think the earliest praflicable day. This proposition meeting the concurrence of their Lordships. the Order as above was forthwith dis charged, and renewed for the 18th of next month. On the Motion of the Noble ; Marquis, farther or ders were made by the House : the first, that a Mes sage he sent to the Commons, desiring the permis sion' of that House, to four of its Members ; name ly. Sir Thomas Fetherstnne, Bart. ; the [lon. Gal t' braith Lowry Colc, Sir James Stewart, Bart. and Mervin Archdale, Fsq. to attend their Lordships' Committee on the I Stir of February next. Also Orders for the attendance of divers witless es from the county of Fernnuragh, &c. in Ireland. .. , The LORD CHANCELLOR notified to their Lordships the circumstances of His Majesty's Judges having been ordered to attend in reference to a pending Appeal from Ireland, which princi pally respeecti a question of ejeement, on a parti cular day ; and that, in case it should not be prac ticable to the Judges to attend that day, he should ; I move to postpone the consideration of the case to a ;-• future day. Then ones of the parties in the cause were net mentioned by the Noble and Learned Lord. MII.IrARY LEvirs. The Earl of CAMDEN presented, in pursuance of a re.-ent Address ni their Lotdships, Accounts of the 'timber of men raised under the provisions of the Additional Force Aft passed last Session. The Accounts were ordered to lie on the 'Fable, and, on the Motion of his Lordship, to be printed. The Earl of DARNLEY (in consequence of whose Motion the accounts were produced) pro. kissed h's inte:4tion to bring forward a Motion upon the suhj,e, on Monday. However, he conceived some farther information was necessary to its due elucidation ; he therefore meant to move for an ac count, specifying . the numbers which were raised under the p r ovisions of the Aft, through the me dium of the Parish Officers, as distinft from those _ • Who were raised by the ordinary means of levy. This spec ificatinn, he thought, would tend to skew, that some of the arguments formerly used by those who oppressed the Bill were, at least, not without some foundation. He wished to know the senti ments of the Noble Secretary, with respell to the proposed additional accounts, which would intia t ence him, as to the time when he should make the Motion. • The Earl of CAMDEN observed, he saw no ob • . jeeioa to the accounts being produced, which his Noble Friend adverted to; but, with respell to the • day upon which the intended proposition should be t: discussed, the same facility, in his mind, did not seem to obtain. There were, on the other hand, other papers and accounts, which, he thought, were i s necessary to be produced, and which it may not be praeicable to get ready in due time, before the day alluded to; besides, there was a discussion of great . importance pending; and which, perhaps, circum stances may render it necessary to have postponed. : He had rather his Noble Friend would fix upon another day; as, by possible contingency, that men tinned might interfere with the important discussion which he alluded to as pending. The Earl of DARNLEY explained, and ex pressed himself as desirous that no proposition com ing from him should stand in the way of any other ' business of more importance, as alluded to by his Noble Friend, which their Lordships might have to di:ct:‘s. However, as the thing stood, he did not so- ‘vhat well gronntiod objeftion could be offered to •if r.lntoning their Lor,lships for the service of that . !iltrse, on Monday next. He repeated some of his former observations relative to the inefficacy of parts of the aft in question ; and concluded by framing a %lotion for producing the farther accounts, as above described, which, after a few words from Earl Camino, was put and ordered accordingly. Mr. Ar EI• N nta, attended by several Members, returned the Insolvent Debtors' Amending Bill, agreed to by that House, and which was laid - upon the table.—Adjourned. 1 ---, no ._ • lIUUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. FIT emir, son of the Member of that name, who is Solicitor to the Stamp-Office, took the oaths and his scat, for the Borough of Devizes, in the room of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, crcated Viscount Sidmouth. Mr. I stwiu, Inspeaor General of Exports and Imports, presented at the bar an Account of the Exports to the ports of Spain, during the years 1803 and 1801., as far as the same can be made up. A person from the Exchequer Bill Office brought up an account of all Exchequer Bills outstanding on the sth of January instant. Sir E. /ice,: sit postponed the motion of which he had given notice for this day, relative to the coo t tinning the anspension of the Hake,' Colpers Apt, and 3 Martial Law in Ireland, to a future day. • ARMY FSTIMATES. . The SEC HET ABYat NV All brought np t h e Army ," Estimates, and gave notice, that on Monday next Ise would bring that subjed before the House. were two papers, he said, that were sot —mous these presented, relative to the Volunteers - f and the Barrack Ditiartment, but they would be ready and presented before Monday. He way aware, he said, that Monday had been fixed on b an Hon. Gentleman on the otter side the House, fo a motion he intended to bring forward; but that, Hon. Gentleman, well aware of the exigence and importance of the public ser vice, had agreed to post i i pone his motion to some Noire day, and had, at his request, acceded to hint Monday, next for the pur pose he had mentioned.—Ordered to lie on the tahle. Mr. Ca rex Ara...wished the Hon. Secretary to in form him. whether he did not mean the papers now on the table should iie printed ? The SECRETARY at WAR said, he wished the Hose to have every possible information on the subjea, that would not he produaive of delay, that prevent his bringing forward the business on Monday. lie thought Gentlemen might take ab strafts, which would be of equal use to them. Mr. Ca Le ear? could by no means agree, that abstra,ls would be suffi&-.it in accounts of such im portance ; nor did be conceive the M mbers of that House should be put to so much trouble. He should therefore think it his duty to press for the printing. The papers were accordingly ordered to be printed. MIDnLESEX ELECTION. Mr. CREEV EY brought up a Petition from cer tain Freeholders, in the County of hlithilesex, stat ing, that at the late Eleftiort for Middlesex, there were two candidates, via. Sir F. Burdett, and G. Baulton Mainwariag, Esq. That before the pro ceedings were entered upon, the qualification neces sary by Aa of Parliament, of a landed estate of 6001. a year, was positively demanded by the agents and Counsel of Sir F. Burdett, and the Freeholders in his interest ; and that he, the sail Boohoo Mainwaring, should verify the same on oath, accord ing to the tenor of the said Act ; that the said G. 8.. Mainwaring, in answer to this demand, had stated that the said Aft of Parliament did not ayply to him, and that he had no need to produce a parti cular qualification, he being the eldest son and heir apparent of William Mainwaring, Esq. a Gentic man who had repeatedly been the representative for the said County of Middlesex; and that he, being doubtless possessed of such necessary qualification as required, rendered it unnecessary for his heir ap parent to produce a particular qualification. The Petitioners then proceed to state, that the said G B. Mainwaring is not the eldest son of the said William Mainwaring, and therefore the said qualification, as such, can be of no avail, and that the said G. B. Mamwaring, having no estate of his own, of the value of 6001. a year, ne WAS not eligible to serve in Parliament, as Knight of the said Shire. They pray, therefore, that the name of the said G. B. Mainwaring, who has been returned by the Sheriffs, as the sitting Member, may be struck out of the said return, and that the name of Sir F. Burdett may be inserted in its stead. The Petition having been read by the clerk ; Mr. CILECVE•.' moved that the same be taken into consideration on the 18th of February next. L.Trd H. PET I'Y said, he had on a former night moved for an account of all exports to Spanish parts ; and he had omitted to say, " to specify the ports, and the number of exports to each." He wished therefore to correct his Motlon. TAG SPEAKER said, that in such cases, the usual and regular way was to make a new Motion on the subjea. Lord H. PETTY moved accordingly, " That there be laid before the House, an account of all exports to the ports of Spain, during the years 1903 and 1804, specifying the names of the ports, and the number of exports sent to each." Ordered. INSOLVEN r DEBTORS . The Insolvent Debtors' Amending Bill was corn mitted—read a third time and passed, and returned to the Lords by Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Land and Malt Bill, and the Bill for continuing the duties on pen sifts, tobacco, snuff, &c. which were severally read a first, and ordered to be lead a second time to morrow. A Message from the Lords informed the House, th it their Lordships requested Oe House would give leave to Sir I'. Featherstone, Bart. the honourable Galbraith Lowry Cole, Sir James Stewart, Bart. and Mervin Archdale, Esq to attend the Lords, in order to be examined as witnesses before the Com mittee appointed to consider the matters alleged againA Mr. Justice Fox. on the 18th of February next. SPANISH PAPERS. Mr. G REY rose and said, that without the smallest intention or wish to anticipate any part of the general debate which is to take place on the im portant subjeet of the war between Spain and this country, he was extremely glad to find, from the communication he had just received from the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Mr. Grey and Mr. Pitt had been in conversation some considerable time, and Mr. Pitt read over the whole of the Motions], that the substance of all the in formation he wished to receive, in consequence of the Motion; he had now to submit Wale House, would be granted, and therefore he should not have occasion to take up much more of their time than barely to read them. He had mentioned, on a former nighr, that there were several chasms in the Correspondence which required to be filled up, as they appeared to him to relate to a period in which the most imprTtant part of the Negociation was carrying on. In the corresponderie now before the Howe, there is no document whatever from the lath of June to the: month of September du ring which ;atei vat, he thought several P.Ters, or written commun:cationc, must have passed ; and if any had passed, it was proper they should be laid before the House. The first Motion, therefore, he had to make,was— :hat there be laid before the I louse, Covies or Extracts of all Letters front the Minter of Swain to not %Miter of Hr Me,lesty from the Ist ofJ illy 1809, in the 18th Sept: follow ing, and oral! Instruflions sent to hint by Ministers in con sequence toerrof. Mr. GREY said, it appeared by the Correspond ence that Mr. Frere had made a very strong re monstrance against the measures of the Spanish Government, in facilitating the passage of a con siderable body of Mariners and Artillerymen des tined to reinforce die French fleet at Ferrol; to this Note there woes no answer in the Col-imps-tid e:lce. He supposed, however, some ri"tLe must have been taken of it, and if there had, be thought. ' the House should be in possession of it, His ner. Motion therefore would be— That there be, laid before do Howse. Copies or Extracts of any Ariswer to Mr. Freres Note of the 9th Septimber,la o3 . His third Motion, he said, was—. That there be laid before the I louse, Copies or Extracts of all Dispatches from the Itth of Sept 711ther to the 3:lth of De' cember 11103,n -wetting the advance: of money by the Spanish Government to F,aoce. His next Motion was— ' That there be laid before the House a Copy or Extract of the Explanation referred to in Lord Haw kesbuty'a Dispatch of the 21. t of January 1504, es to pecuniary &Rh:AOC/ 9 made by Spin to France, and the instructions sent in consequent.: thereof. His next Motion was— That there be laid berme the House a Copy or Extract of any Conrentiun,Compact, or Agreement, made between His Minister aril the Minister of Spain, relative ts the Neutiality to be obseivul by if • t Power. Mr. Gut," then mentioned that there was ano ther long chasm in the correspondence between Lord Hawkesbury and Mr. Frere, and that no dis patches appeared therein from the 31st January, Itlo4, to the 111 st of May following, the day on which his Lordship went out of office. There were also several intervals in Lord Harrowby's corre spondence, in which not a single dispatch apptared from the 2•22,1 of May to the ‘29th of September ; and ii, during that time, any had actually passed, they ought undoubtedly to be laid before the House on a subject of this importance. His next Motion would t':-refore be— That there be laid before the House Clines or Extracts of any Dispatches between Lord Harroviby and Sir. Frere, from the t2d of May to the 29th September, lall4. There were a variety of other papers, which he thuught necessary to be produced, and his next Motion would be— That there be laid before the House Copies or Extracts of all Ofticial Notes, written by the Spanish Minister to the Mi ll ster of His Majesty, relative to any disputes with Spain, fr ras the commencement of the war with France. His next Motion was— Th it there be laid before the Houtre a Copy or Extract of a L Ate from Admiral Cochrane tothe ttilrui• ally, relative to the mai , mitts carrying on in the port of Ferrol. Via, Copies of all Letters from Admiral Cochrane, relined th • arming of the Spanish ships, from Sept. 11, to Dec. 3d, IEO4. He then moved— _ That there be hid bedire the House an account of the pro •icions, nasal stores, &c. furnished by the Sponior Govern merit to the squadrons of Sir Edwar.l Mew awl Admiral C x:trane from the Purls of Ferrol and Coruna*, from the (moment-meat of the war with France to the time of the rupture. Mr. Gael , then moved— That there be laid before the House an Account of the number of v..ssA, 'alma by the enemy, and carted into and sold by the enemy in the Spanish Poet of Cuua, in the West- Inches. Having gone through the reading of the whole, Mr. Grey handed them to the Speaker, who read the first from the Chair as follows : That there be laid before the Howie Copies or Extracts 0:" all Letters train the Manner of Spain to the Minister of His Majesty, from the commencement of the war with France to the Ist of July 1804, with the Init•ii.:tions sent by Ministers in consequence thereof. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER —He should beextremely desirous that both the House and the public should be in complete possession of every possible degree of information, that, consist ently with the safety of the public service, could be given, on a subjea of so highly interesting and im portant a nature, as that to which these Papers relat ed. He was, thereforl, after the communication which had passed between the Hon. Gen-lernan who moved for them and himself, and from the cursory view he had been able to give the motions shewn to him, since he came into the House, extremely willing that the substance of the information contained in the several papers moved for, as had aelually been received, should be given. But, he said, among so great a variety, it was impossible for him to say, that such information could be given in the regular way in which they were mentioned in the motions. Mr. GREY expressed himself perfellly satisfied with having the substance of the information. The question on the first motion was then put and agreed to. The SPEAKER then proceeded to read the se veral motions as they succeeded each other, and put the question on each. When he came to that which mentioned " a copy or extraCl of any con vention, compaft, or agreement, respeain ‘ g the neu trality of Spain ;" The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose, and slid, he was very willing the substance of every paper, mentioned in the several motions, that was now or had ever been in existence, should be laid before the House ; but, with re sped to the present motion, lie must beg leave to assume the House, that, however, strange it might appear, yet the fad was so, that there had never been any writing or instrument, which could bear the appellation of convention, corn paCt, note, or agreement, entered into, between the two parties. How it had happened, he could not pretend to say. He supposed it might be, that the Spanish Am nissador might have used that word in reference to what was contained on that sub. jet/ in Lord Hawkesbury's letter ; and our Char;ze .4trairer had, through inadvertence, used the same term. Mr. FOX said, he had no doubt but that such a thing might happen as that Mr. Frere, or any other person, might, through inadvertence, use a term just before spoken by another,if he thought it at all appli cable to the subjea ; but he could .Int conceive how any one could, through inadvertence, use such a tom, when speaking on a subjeCt to which neither note, agreement, compailt, or convention, was at all to be applied. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he could assure the I louse, that every thing re, lative to what had been termed the Convention, and related to the neutrality, was already before the House. There had never been in writing any re cognition whatever of neutrality, but merely a statement of the grounds on which His Majesty's for bearance would be continued. Mr. FOX thought a great deal of explanation ought to be given on this subjett, more than what had yet appeared. Mr. GREY said, it was the more extraordinary that this term should have been used so often, when there was no such thing as a convention respefling neutrality. Ile then r:ad a passage from one of Mr. Frere's letters, in which he expressly says, " The ships shall be put on the same footing as they were by the convention with England." Ihe several other Motions were then pat and agreed to. Mr. GREY said, that, as the Right Hon. G en , tleman had agreed to the produdion of these p , ptt ' it would be necessary he should nam e some tub: day for taking the subject into consideration; they could scarcely be produced and printrd • SO es that the discussiou should come on, as was pow fi n d, for Thursday. I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIF.QUER agreed with the Hon. Gentleman, that some d a y Mier Thursday must be named for the discustitn.. as the papers could scarcely be ready before ihat day. It could not, therefore, he thought, come rn this week ; he should, thetefore, prop ose W edre... day or Thutsday in the next Week—h e ti o ,,, ^ t t Thurs ;ay ; but, as a Right Hon. Gentiyin„ cppo. site (Mr. Windham) had already given up ;,,,, day :vest, he begged he would say on what dv; auee Thursday, he would bring forwsrk; his Mcn't 4 Mr. WINDHAM said, Monday . se'nni g h t . The order of the day for bring ing on the in li on on the Spanish Papers, on Thursday near, wac then read and discharged, and a new one mad.: f ie Thursday se'nnight. 'I he Committees of Supply. and Ways and '•!, were then postponed to Friday, anti the dui. adjourned. TIIE BRITISH- 1111.1iES:). LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29. We received last night some small Paris Paper, to the 13th, being one day later than the arrivals he week from that city. They contain no news of am interest. While the fete of the inaugeratien of the bust of the CoastcaN has been sufficient to armee the frivolous Parisians, the grave Legislative Body has occupied itself with speeches upon that very important subjedl. We this day resume our extra is from the 77!'. 0f Hamburgh Papers received on Sunday. It aprn that General BRUNR had not left Constantinople na the 10th of December ; but the roars had not answered his last note, and all communication be tween them had ceased. The consideration of the Spanish corresponskete is postponed in the House of Commons until Thee day se'nnigbt, in consequence of the order fur ad ditional papers to be laid before the House. The report of the two strange sail lately seen of the Coast of Scotland, as being part of a trench squadron, destined for the invasion of Irelerid, is universally exploded. We are still, however, with out any further dire& intelligence from Glasgow it Greenock, except some private letters of Thurs. •day, one of which is given in the next page.— There are two prevailing opinions with respell to these strange vessels. Same say that they art the Bed/rano frigate and a Spanish prise blinewod' the coast of Ireland ; others assert, as we have al. ready stated, that they are Dutch East Wkly. Saturday morning Admiral CORNWALLIS made the signal for unmooring, when the VI& de Parrs (his own ship), with the Neptune, of 98, Captain Sir T. lAMS,I AMS, immediately weighed, stood out I of Cawsand Bay, and lay to for the Admiral's dis patches and letters till twelve at noon, when tbiir made sail ; at three p. in. were standing out of the Sound round l'enlee Point, going down Channel with a fine wind at N.N.E. The Spanish ship CO.l, -, of 400 tons, from Ilavannih, for Cadiz, laden with cotton, sugar, &c. is arrived at the Mother Bank, prize to the Ireisiie frigate. A Spanish ship of SOO tons, laden with cotton, logwood, and a quantity of dollars, from Car thagena, is sent into Falmouth by the Malta MAO of sear. The sth Regiment of Foot marched into Col chester on Friday last, and were immediately bri gaded with the nth and ti7th regiments, under the command of Major-General Sir D. Bent°. Orders were received, on Saturday, at Plymouth, for one Colonel, two Captains, four Subalterns, forty , Serjeants, Privates, and Droms of that Divi sion of Royal Marices, to embark on board La Fleche, 18 guns, Capt. Droav, for Cork and Dub lin, to recruit on the Irish Establishment fur that valeable corps. Part of the Siiih regiment is embarked at Cork. The 15th and 90th are also expelled to sail with the next West India convoy. SAMUEL Srtemi as, of Tregenna Castle, Esq. is canvassing St. Ives, preparatory to the neat election. Mr. Pa een,the present Member, having signified his intention of resigning his interest in that b moe!i• RA1.1.11 ALLEN Da e.et.e, of Tiliro, Eel. wason Wednesday last elened a Member of Pailiament for the Borough of West Looe. Tee Party Prints are all by the ears upon the sttS jeel of the new Archbishop of Cerir Lanvin-. The Opprnition Prints assert that the Bishop of Noftwir is appointed, at the recommendation of Lord bile MOUTH, in opposition to the Bishop of ',tricot w, who has been earrestly pressed upon His MAJESI by Mr. PITT. They would thence infer, that there is no cordial ro-operaiion between these two great men, and. that Lord SIDHOLTH has the ascendant in the Cabinet. The writers in the pay of Mr. Plri as positively deny that the new Archbishop of C•sreitaver is yet determined upon. and attribute the report of their adversaries to fadtious and jacii. bin ic al motives. The opening of the London Docks is fixed for Thursday next. The attendance is expected to be uticommonly numerous and brilliant, and the pre paratiens now making. to confer splendour on the ceremony, are of the first order. His Majesty' , Ministers. and all the Foreign Ambassadors, will be present. The ship selected far cowling the Docks, Is the Perreveraree, of LiverpooL