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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. MOUSE OF IPEgltS.—Tuzlea.T. JAN. II After the Bills (au private) were forwarded ill their respeftive stages, and some routine business disposed of, their Lordships, pursuant to the Order of the day, resolved into a Committee on THE IN SOLVENT DEBTORS AMENDING BILL . bord Weesreossem in the Chair. Lord ELLENBOROUGH explained to the Committee the nature and objea of the measure, then under consideration. It was merely, as its title expressed, to reCtify certain omissions in the In solvent Debtors' AA, which was passed towards the close of last Session. This he conceived it the =ere necessary to do, as, to a certain extent, a de gree of misconception had g one forth respelling the operation and effects of fhe present Bill. In fa& no person could be relieved by any operation of this Am•nding Bill, who were not entitled to relief, ac ccediag wt the spirit of the provisions of the origin al Alt; bnt4 according to some deficiencies in the wet hi.g of those parts of that At which related to the lists, to he furnished by the jailors, of the pri soners in their respeAive custodies, as entitled to the benefits of the AA, great difficulties, And, to a cer tain extent, injurious to the parties entitled to relief, were found to prevail. In consequence of the omis sions to which he alluded, persons e ithin the mean ing and spirit of the AA, who might he in custody at the time required. namely, the Ist of J reran y, t.SO4. but who had been removed from one , 1 .,;s ;11 to ano ther, were, for a time, debarred the het tefits to which they were cititled, hzeaase, as that part of the An was worded, the jailors, under their construe6oll of the oath, thought they could not include prisoners so circumstanced in the lists they conceiv-d t 1 em selves bound to give. These diffiisulties natarally gave rise to the Courts below Ix `S rissole/andantes, the result of which was, that, on considering the wording and spirit of the original A& (in which the insertion in the proper place of the word " Pri sons" would, in a peat degree, obvi.t!e the neceeity of the present Rill), it was deemed preferable to come to Parliament for an amending provision on the subjeCt. Un:ler these circumstances, it was his wish, had a proper opportunity offered, to have come forward on the first day of the Session, in or der that those, were legally entitled to relief, under the spirit and meaning of the original AA, ma) . be enabled to find that benefit with as little farther delov of possible ; and on this ground, prin cip.tlly,besJsould deprecate the introduttion of any farther provisions, which might hay. , the tender. cy nf counteraaing the effect of the present Amending Bill, These observations seeming to meet the sense of the Committee, the Bill was forthwith agreed to by their Lordshids, without any amendment, and the House resuming, the Report was immediately re- ceived. The Bill lies over for a third reading. A variety of Accounts were presented by the pro per officer, from the Commissioners of the Customs, similar to those presented to the other House of Parliament, and ordered t lie oil the _TA _ _e The Oaths of alijoration and filelity being duly administered to Mr. Julius Henry G: finder, the Bill for his naturalisation was read a serotid time, and ordered to the consideration of a private Committee. —.Adjuurried. HOUSE OF COMlatnis Mr. Rose, from the Custom-House, presented a. account of the East-India pmbibited roods, im ported and warehoused during the last year, as far as the same could be made up. 0 rden,.l to lie on the table. A new writ was ordered for A gmondeshato, Bockinghamsliite, in the room of Charles Drake Garrard, Esq who has accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. Lord HENRY PETTY-moved, that there he laid before the House, an account of the imports from Spain, for the years 1803-4 ; which was agreed to. Mr. JOHNSON moved for an acconnt of the • net produce of the permanent and war taxis, divitt. gnishing each from the other, together with the dii fereat quarters, up to the sth of January, i 805 also. an accourt of the Exchequer Bills ontstandiag to the store period.—Agreed to. The SPEAK ER gave notice, that he should, in future, attend, for the greater dispatch of business, at three o'clock, in order to take the chair, as soon as he found a sufficient number of Members to con stitute a Houle. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee on the Expirog Laws, which was agreed to, and ordered to be printed. A regulation was then made, that no private peti tions be received after the Ist of March n:xt. ENCREASE OF 'ME ARMY Mr.WINDHAM said, that, in consequence of an intimation given him, that it would be the wish of the House that Monday next should stand open for the discussion of the affairs relating to Spain, he sliould defer to Monday sennieht the motion, of which he gave notice for a ( ommittee of the whole House, to enquire into what augmentation had taken place in the Regular Force of the country. from a certain period (which he did not name), and the sources from which they were produced. He added, that he should consider in the interval, the motions he should make, some of which he should submit to-morrow ; and, in order that such as might be deemed exceptionable should not affea or prove fatal to the whole, he should bring forward his dif ferent motions separately. Mr. WALL ACM: brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply of yesterday. which was read a first and second time, and ordered to be taken into consideration to-morrow, PURI.IC ESTIMATES. Mr. HUSKISSON moved, that there he laid be fore the House Estimates 6f the pay of Half-pay Officers of the Navy, Army, and Marines, em ployed in the last war ; of the probable expence of building additional works iu His Majesty's docks and arsenals; of the charges of guards, garrisons, and other land forces ; of the charges of naval ord nance for the ensuing year ; of the expence of dif ferent services not provided for by Parliament ; of the debt of the navy. up to the 31st of January, 1804; and of the transpant service for the same yea ; of the probable money which may be wanted fet hired transports, for the ensuing year; of the proba'3la expeoesslveg the maintenance of pri- 1 augers of war in and also for the sick pri salters of war, up is lst of January, 1805 ; sad lastly, for an Address to His Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to give orders to the proper Officers for the produaion of the said ac counts, which were agreed to ; and that the Ad dress be presented by such Members as are of His Majc..ty's Privy Council.---Adjourned. _ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GOTTENBURGH MAILS. 191110 A, Dee. S. The French Minister, Salicetti, has concluded a new convention with the Ligurian Republic, in the name of the Emperor Napoleon, which was sign ed on the 20th of Oetober last, and of which the principal articles are as follow: . ANTWV.P, DEC f ?..) I A great number of galley slaves have again ar rived in this city to work in our dock-yards, in which an extraordinary aaivity prevails. Five ships of the line will be ready for launching in the ensuing spring. The City of Lvon4, of 74 guns, is nearly completed ; the materials and naval ammu nition are continually arriving in abundance ; and in a short time Antwerp will be one of the first ports for ship building in the French empire. HAOI.F, DEC. '2 3. We yesterday very unexpectedly heard reports of peace, after the arrival of a courier from Paris to the French ambassador. We are sorry to say we do not know on what they were founded ; and we fear they will turn out as little to be regarded as many others that have preceded them. Before the return of M. Schimmelpenninck, it ap pears, it will be some days: he will be preceded by a person of distiktion, without giving any further ex planation. It is believed, that in the approaching changes, some persons will come forward, who, in earlier times (viz. since 1795), were well known. nxc. 29. It is believed that a subsidiary treaty is nego ciating between England and Sweden, the comple tion of which, however, will be liable to some diffi culties. The period when a new constitution will be in troduced appears to advance with hasty steps : every thing appears to indicate that M. Schimmelpennick will have the greatest influence in it, from the place which will be assigned him. A new report gives him the Regency over the son of the Prince of Orange Fulda, who, when he arrives at years of maturity, will take the office of President. Other reports are very different from this; and, perhaps, none of them are to be relied on. L'ESINEUR, DEC. 29. Since yesterday afternoon, the Sound is covered with ice. Two English ships of war, with most of the merchantmen destined for the North Sea, for tunately got out ; but six English and one Swedish ships are frozen in. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Aaisa A culls upon the Stara Expcsiitian, is as melancholy as • Moralist upon a Tombstone. His Stridures, howeva, upon a series of Fabricated Biography shall recetre au early inset tioa. " The Emperor Napoleon engages to procure a peace for the Ligurian Republic with the Barbary Powers, anti to cause the Ligurian flag to be respea- ed by those powers. Should he, however, not be so successful in this endeavour, as he expels to be, he engages to furnish the said republic with French colours, that they may be tae, proteded. " The Emperor of the French will further grant Permission for the importation of all Ligurian com modities into Piedmont, Parma, and Piacenza, only paying the small importation-toll, which was before customary, which permission shall begin to be in force immediately after the ratification of this con. " On the other part, the Government of the Ligu rian republic engages to furnish (1000 seamen dur iag the present war; and to have 4000 of them in readiness in a short time. " The Ligurian Republic cedes the harbours, with the arsenal; as also the galley harbours, and the dock-yard, with the basin, and places them at the disposal of the French ; and as it is intended to build in the said dock-;•ard ten ships of the line for France, the Ligurian Republic engages to enlarge the basin, sufficiently for the entrance and station ing of these ships, at its own expence. 4 , And as, at the time of the conclusion of this con vention, a new built ship of the line, a frigate, and two corvettes, are lying finished in the dock of Genoa, these ships shall likewise be placed at the disposal of France." stoaeset, DgC. The accounts received to-day from Genoa can not be more favourable. For the last five days, not a single person has died of the yellow fever; for more than a week, not one has been taken ill, and the few sick there are all ins state of rac. very. At Pisa, as well as throughout Etruria and the rest of Italy, there are no longer any traces of the disorder. ITALY, Dec. 11. The English, under the command of Admiral Nelson, have taken, among other ship!, some Aus trian vessels, laden with corn, from the Levant, and carried them into Malta ; but they have been set at liberty, on application from the Court of Vienna, with the apology that the capture of them was owing to a mistake. A Spanish courier, on his way to Naples, who endeavoured to pass the cordon drawn in Upper on account of the yellow fever, has been shot by the soldiers. French troops are still drawing out of Upper Italy, towards the Ecclesiastical State and the Neapolitan territory. Between Cevignola and Goggio, 18,000 men have been lately assembled, who expea orders to advance into the kingdom of Naples. LEGHORN, DEC. 14. The Committee of Health here have published a notification signed by their Secretary, Alessandro Spighi, in which they state, that since the sth inst. no person had died of the fever, either in the city or suburbs, except a boy of eight years of age, who died on the 10th day of his sickness. _ . The Committee hope they shall in a short time be able to announce that the disorder has entirely ceased, which never raged with such violence as some evil-minded persons have reported. VIEKR•, DFC. 22. The Neapolitan Minister here has received a cou rier from his court, and immediately after sent off dispatches to London and to Petersburgh ; since which, it has been reported that the French troops have approached the city of Naples, and that the King of Naples has been required to shut his ports against the English. a lc. 26. The strongest hopes are still entertained of the continuance of peace on the Continent, as the Courts of Vienna, Petersburgh, and Berlin, entertain the same sentiments on this subject, and will take measures in concert for the preservation of tran• quillity. MILAN, Inc. 17. Mr. Livingston, the late Eavoy from the States of North America to Paris, has arrived here ; he is making a journey into Lower Italy. TnE BRITISH LOND(rN, WEDNESDAY, JANU•t• 23. The arrival of two Gotteuburgh Mails yesterday has put us in possession of 1-larnburgh Papers to the sth instant, from which we have estraZted every arti cle that deserves notice. In this nu/saber is a copy of a Convention between France and the Ligurian Re public, by which the latter, in consideration of a peace, which BONAPAKTB undertakes to effea be tween her and the Batbary powers, stipulates to furnish 6000 seamen, and build 10 sail of the line for France. A ship of the line, a frigate, and two corvettes, lately built at Genoa, are also to be placed at the disposal of France. A tepott prevailed at Vienna on the .`l2d of De cember, that the French troops had approached the city of Naples, and required the K t•o to shut his ports against the English.—This is an operation long foreseen, and the great probability of the event may be the principal foundation of the rumour. The contagious disease, which aflliaed so large a portion of the Continent, appears to have almost entirely subsided at Genoa, Leghorn, and other parts of the North of Italy. The SPANISH Astsassatsoe left town yesterday, at twelve o'clock. upon his return to Spain. If he shall treat all the post boys, oa his road to the coast, as liberally as he behaved to those who drove him the first stage, they will rejoice as much as our tars in a Spanish war. His Excellency pre 51. to each of them. A report prevailed yesterday in the city, that let ters have been received from Paris, which announce the return of the Messenger who was the bearer of Bot4APARTE'S pacific Overture to our Government, and that the answer had diffused great joy through out that city, in which it is considered as strongly en couraging an expectation of peace. As the answer does not strike us in that light, we doubt very much the truth of this report. We are assured, however, that several persons speculated in the funds upon it. BONAPARTE has changed the title of the Journal to which he used so frequently to send his articles against England. It is no longer the Mensortal Antr-Britamniiste, hut the Memorial Eurepren, which is to be in future the depot of the sentiments of M. BONAPARTE upon the danger of the power of England to the independence of the Continent, and upin the efforts and sacrifices which the French Go vernment is determined to make, to render Europe - ii,dependent. The name of Btata appears no longer at the head of that journal, which has chosen for its motto, a phrase, that contradifis the assertion so often made by Bora AAAAA E, VIE. England is not able to carry on war sillk U n d a j against France." The following is the motto of the Memorial Euro:wen : "It is certain that England is too powerful wr the welfare and honour of Europe Its situation is as httnsiliating as its forces are for. rnidable." We flod in the Memorial, that M. BONA_ rAR ra is amusing himself with writing against the power of England, the thoughts of that great man upon what Spain gains by the war which she has declared against England. The following is an extra& : The publication of the Manifesto of Hit Catholic Ms. jesty has at length resolved the grand question which rweuei.•a' Europe. Souse English writers have acksted to cornp's.ii Spain. It appears to us, that she loses a great deal let . England by this rupture. She has the adyant.ge of WV.' t at implacable war openly which was carried on against •ia slandestintly. Spain has but few expe ices and sac: to make to retire with advanta g e Irvin the toots, as long as she shall remain united to an ally wino alon all the strength of the enemy, and who will neve: vio late the conditions of her alliance. England, on the coo. trary, is obliged to aegment her armaments already so mous, her squadrons so multiplied, her colonial Rai rigor's, that exhaust her. There is no ration to fear that the .Ixpeditio i s which are preparing, and which make ei great a n e don, are destined against the Spanish eoloni,x. Eiighwil ioc in a situation , to sacrifice men, ship:, and money taming i, to attack Mexico. She doe. not feel herself wring enough to at. tack the French or &avian colonies, which are of much less importance. The English Minister due: not Appear lb have een calved any serious 'McMinn to open thine/why briUlant opests tions. He reckoned Apparently a glee d : al Upon that patience which he has su much abused: he wished to frighten her try ex. tramiliiiary alarms; but the moderation of Spain prurett in her favour as much as it turns to the advantage of France. It very remarkable, that the English Minister, who et:Salmi without intermission against the influence which l'ance eiiels over her allies, reduces them to the necessity of declauill themselves entirely in favour of France. copy of an Address from the Prince of Peace, Commander-in•chief of the Spanish armies, in- citing them against the English nation, was brought over by the last Lisbon packet. A more contemptible rhapsody we never read. It is given in the last page. The ICymouth, of 14 guns, is appointed to con voy the outward bound East India fleet. The Cbrus, of London, outward-bound whaler, is arrived at Rio .laneiro. The Earl of Liverpo!, Mut ctos, from Liverpool, for Africa, has been captured by a French frigate of 31i ifuns, and since lost on the ethist of Spain. '1 he Ether, asz fa, from Ly nu, for Newcastle, foundered at sea, on the 5.h inst. The Hamborgh Pocket, PAIILS, from Riga, is lost on Gothland. The Johanna, Ciim resLL, from Copenhagen, for St. Croix, is lost on Lessoe. The Charlotte, Taal . rs, from Pillau, has been on shore, and gone to Copenhagen to repair. The following outward bound East Indiamen were all well at sea on the leth of Oaober last, in lat. Iti. 13. N. long. 21i. W. viz. Travers, Captain Senders; Unnin, Captain ; Indu s Captain Lord Keith, Captain Ran. i , e; Ocean, Captain M.Toggart: Devaynes, Ca , t,nn kiii•-r!ey ; Harriett, Captain Ly. 1.11; Captain Eanh,dd ; Sachets Cattle, Captain Norniatid. The above ships sailed from Portsmouth the 4th of September la.t, uuder convoy of Its lidajest's ship ReVelationni,e, put into Madeira, and sailed from thence the 4th of o:toner. The Rcoolottonnaire saw them safe off from Ma deira, and left them at sea, as above mentioned, on the 12th of Dauber. Letters from C3a17,, down to the 28th of last month, make not the least mention of the meditated attack on Gibraltar. Mr. Ilc)IVIS, Consul General; Mr. FREI& j Mr. Derr; and the tioccaten family, were at Lifibas when the last packet sailed. In the list of death; by the fever at Gibraltar, be tween the 25th November and the Bth December, are, Mrs. CARPLICEZO. wire of Cwain CA fir Er:- Till, of the 10t11 regiment; Mr. Mo-c141..1 one of the lately arrived Medical seat; and Mrs. WI L EIPIiON, wife of Capta:n WI minors. of the 10th tegimmt ; Lieut,narit Hama v Dc lbw LE, of De Rolle's Regiment ; Dolor Ma axial, Assistant Surgeon of ihe 13th Regiment; and Lieut. PARKES, ot the 10th Regiment.—On the 11th the fever had considerably abated. The num ber of cases in the hospital was only 56, and the loss did nut exceed more than one man a-day. The following is the opinion of the Senior Mr dical Officers at Gibraltar at , etc. 0, 104. " It a the opinion of the Medical Officers Woo emir toned, that the health of the troops and iithabillebil is melt int oroved within the last month, and that soy fee erwsei ter e;ii.teinic fever rims occur arrionglit the military nr the dill iw habitants at Gibraltar (Signed) "J. M. NOOTH, Superintend inr " AB BOLTON, Deputy Inapeetor at W. film, Acting Depot. Intp,, , tor. " THOS. RdSS, Surgeon to the Forces" Owing to strong winds which have lately pre vailed, and drove our cruisers off their stations six valuable vessels from the Havannah, and other Spanish colonies, arrived in the port . of Cadiz, without the smallest molestation, and with , out any knowledge of the war. The storm had done much mischief among the shipping in Cadiz Day several vessels had been driven on shore. Accounts from Carthagena, of the 25th ult. state the returns of death in that city, occasioned bf fever, down to the above period, to be fourteen thousand nine hundred and forty. According to the returns at Madrid from the several places that had been intated, it appears that in all one border/ and twenty-four thousand two hundred psi bee died. P ASS. Tt lstell Offic few Lew( who' beau liven and In 1.3 11 , n1! crov , coa, rear the Jr , I CJ.IC to F Que Cow arr Gir am nes' Eat Het WA F.: si;c4 in to r Fe Mu on: gnu J I. pns ; 0: it , Ica to I au, the