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1 , . . . . 1 •: >. lan 4 . .... .7 . •11 ° .. /A— .• . . .. . . . 4 be ,i rttlo b ,v re t o . , - . _ .... ~r i 4344111 ' . i . • •0. —4. ~~ •; , • N ~„,. AGE , • the r yi E, ESS4 S S , 011 I. Su N ter, S ing riu 1 1;A at NE I Pt in T 1 to Tf ri llt • 4 IN D D D tti 4 3. a a a 3 s oorEß b 58•) ARMY CONTRACTS. COMMISSARY GENRRAL'S OFFICE, Great George Street, Feti. 1 /MS. OTICE is hereby given, that the Comm is I Own , is re a dy to cereise Proposals for pplying usrh of ,11,, t esty's Vole es mcs he encamped in the rosiest of the re•st Few, in the feller/iv, Districts, seta BREAD, FOR ' qE, FUEL, and STR ; nick Proposals to be sent in nit wit 0„. yes d i u,„ef Morels out (ohiereing tint noise tall he ~,,u ad a f ter r i felre *Thick as that day), ow', lent by Art, • r0.;04r to he paid, Mt. NORTH BRITAIN. NORTHERN DlSTRlCT—Nod:suns— %%its/loner sill, thirttant. yORK—y • Lncoln. EAST ERN —Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex • SOUTH FRN--Kcnt, Sane:. SOUTH WES I.—Hauts, Wilts, Dorset (excepting within the distance of CO. ,00ks of the Town of Weymouth. ISLE OF WIGHT-44e of Wl4l t. WESTERN —Across, Cornwall, S , soscrset. sguEgs.....Glowtester, Worcester, Hereford, Monmouth, South Wdes. 10 7 , Lancaster, North Wales - NO RTH WEST...Cheer" Sa H O‘IF--Middleses, Surrey, Heorord, Berks. NORTH INLAND. —Derby, Nottingham, btafford, Le,ces ter, Warwick, Rutland SOUTH INLANII--Bedford, Northampton, Oxford, Buck- I, Cumberland, Ingham Tile Nandi of GWlTnsey, Jersey, Altlerney. hypo ds oust be made lapses:rig for each Dietrid, aivi the arsts 0. ttro deed &unties, with titeir places of Resdesee, mutt inserted is the faot thereof. Prtierfors of the 0 sersite st.l be had, up eflpplteatios at ea 06ce, Waves the Hassell Ten .ad Pour. SOCIETY FOR THE. SUPPRESSION OF VICE. A N ADJOURNED GENERAL MEETING Aof the MESIBERS 0106+ INST TUTION Fill br hold I the Grat's Inn Coffee-House, Holborn, on MONDAY IFJET, the 18th inst. By Order of the Committee, JOHN CRANCH, Tm. See. N.B. The Chair is be taken precisely at Twelve n'elock. MINLRATA PRESS. LOSS OF THF. ABERGAVENNY. IN consequence of the important intelligenc e re ceived front var.cos respectable Corry, ...3d •ntq, the PUBLICATION of the ri ‘RRA fIVE,.Isy • G - .NTLEN4 \N in the East India House, is unavoidably POSIPONED till TUESDAY NEXT, when it mil: most assuredly be submitted to the Public. This Day is published, elegantly printed in small °Owen, wine ss. in Swint% the Secrni.l Edition, eorreeted and i•sitirg of rrH E SA B B ATH: A POEM. 1 To which are now add lid, SABBATH WALKS. Printed for T. Cadell ook W. Darin, Strand and W. Blackwood, Edinhasgh. STATE LOTTERY LOTTERY following is the SCHEME of the STATE LOTTERY now Dray/jog of L 2,,000 -.-. nO . 16,000 • • - • b,OOO • 1,000 80 --. 11* 60 ,130 L 2* , ,000 40,0110 56,000 15,11J0 MOO 5, 00 3,000 3,0 )0 123,000 d• ~. - . —,-- Tickets L 3w,0. 0 15 4:,, , the Capitals will be deter mined as follows rettaistro,.lst thy Ll,OOO Firit.drawrs, 6th Day.. I.'loo Dine ad Des .. 900 Duo 7th Day..lo, DO Ditto 3d Day .. 5.10 Ditto Bth Dar • •25,000 Ditto 4th Day.. 50 Ditto 9th Day.. 5,000 Ditto sth Day .. .100 Ditto 10th Dar.. 1,000 Ticket, and ShAICS (whilst aiiv remain., may be had at all the Licensed 1,,, , ••ny Offices. warranted und , awn. The seveuth Div of Drawl , 47, wit be ott Thursday hest. LOTTERY MOW DRAWING. WIFT and CO. No. I I, Poultry, beg Leave to S inform the Public, that the CapitaJr new in the Wheel are as follow : viz. 1 of 25,0001—.3 of 10,0001—$ of 5,0901. of I,oool.—besides °theme( :001. ke. undsawn Ticket. and Share• continue on Sale at the abuse Mee, when the Ticket Ne. 9,802, ser first drawn, third Day, entitled to 5001. and No 8,200, a Prize of 1,01/ I iu the pro em Lottery, were shared and wild. The Seventh Day'a DTI% leg will be on Thursday. next. RICH STATE OF THE WI 1 Prise of .1, 23,000 I 3 . Prises of L .5,000 3.. ......ditto lO,OOO I 2... ditto 1 OOO &c. Ec &c. And nnly FOUR DAYS to Du. TICKETS and SHARES, warranted undravrn, are wliing At lIALL and Co 'a, late Nielsokon, No. BS, Cumhill, ware all Prizes will be paid oil demand. Thursday neat will be the S.velith Dar of Drawing. 10,0001. YIR4T•DRAWN "th DAY. 25,0001 UITTU Bth D.Y. DOPE recommends an early appiicatinn at the Lucky Office, Caner of the Royal Exchange, o;+p•.site ?Pr : Bally as the Wheel is extr►mely Rich, thereat* but rtre 11.ns t,, ,Irtw, and very few Tick , :ts remain Uti Mlt. The Seventh Day of Demme will be on Thursday ne,t. WHEEL OF FORTUNE. 0t25,0001 - -13 --- 410,000i,:•-•9 4 - 3 - 0001. he &c. 'l l ROBERTS begs to acquaintlhe Public, that S. • there are bet Five Diyi to draw, and the Wheel is I,, 4toevedeutedly Rich. T,r , ••••• and Shares are selling at his d Siete Lotte.y Office, No. S, Cornbill. ThitteiLryttext w b t•• • Sy. ..nth Day Of Oranitvg. ItiPtIARKABLY RICH WHEEL, 1.• Prise of.. L. 2 - i,noo .1....... L. s,nno 3 lo,ooo 12 . tO &e. TICKETS and SHARES will continue on Sale whilst any remain, at DRUMMOND', Office, No. 65, fi'llwfteet, where Nn. 5,4.11, a Prise of 5001. was sold and npatered on the Svenod Day of Drawing. A• D.ummnnd recnitunwvils an early Pureliaw, a. very few throes aril left on hand. The Contractor., much to their credit, have enr to provide the Unice Keepers with them at long se they have any left. T Seventh Day's Drawing Will be on Therviley neat. _ - - ( SCOTT returns his most 'crateful acknow. ledgments to his Friends and the Public for the kind l'''''hwee he has ree,ived, and thinks it his Duty to inform the.", that the TICKETS for the GRAND STATE LOT. TF.RY (now drattiti4) are nearly all sold; therefore, to pre. rent d,.4 0 , n111151 he rententmends an immediate application at his .elil (Isiah ishod Fortunate OfF , ..e, No. 75, New )bnd. InN t, w 111.1 e he will continue selluig tickets end ShareA, war. oudrawn, whilst any rem iin. The un; , :eced....nted demand for icket. and Shares 11 obrioes to the cleanest capacity, the Wheel contalniag one Prise of Alwec of 10,0001. three four of t ,Ottol. "1 at besi.tes numerous 1001 `s, &c &c. Sc. Th. /*youth Day et Drawing will he on Thursday next. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1805. • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT: lire SF. OF LORDS ..—rittoss, Fes. 13. COMM! were hetatly heard retssertiasg the Web 4iweslC ,, l'e ' railfleid t. Atosta,.. : aster whir,, tne LOc:U CHANCELLOR wok a i4t.rat ...ew of the meow' of ceds,d..i.o. s..s oi the ca.e, and tone ed d by moving, that .e tam paints to-rein re• f sued fir tan oput.on of the J ,tnel •hat the farther con sideration of the eu- he adjourned tall tn., day tortitight. Th.. Fart of ROSSI.YN (I itt Sir J St C Erskine) wat in troduced with the accustom••.l formalities, ',worn, and took his seat, on hot ascending to the Peerage, oat tie demise of his hock, its late Earl. The B It up°, the Table were rinri in their r .I:,ective .4 4 1. Tic Excheqne, ll,lt rie Aiiseited C..mrros. ...toner., and the Annual Ind. trinity kW, were read a third time a. 4 i .ai,ed ,S,r W ANDERSON brought up rmos the Criminnnv the FaCt•or. titile.iinws Flll4 wh eh, together wVI a private Stil t prizsentilt by Mr. W. Dititens.iii, way wart a fits', tiwe. TtIE EMIL OF ST VINCENT. The D .ke of CLARENCE ohaerve.l, that on a fcem,-r evening, a sabjea was agitate i, which of that nature, as that not only upon public grouncl., but from his, private feelings, he was induced ag in to call the attention of their Lordshit to. lie al luded to the circumstance ht his Nobl- Friend in the Red Ribbon (the Earl of tit. Vincent) then in his place, having enquired, whether it was in the inten , tioa of His Majesty's present Ministers to investi .2ate any enquiry into his conduift, while he held the high situation he had lately filled under His Majes ty? He had known the Noble Earl during sixteen or eighteen years, and though, on some certain points, he had occasion to duffer from him, yet it was always with the deepest regret. However, while at the head of the Board of Admiralty, the condua of his Noble Friend was such, that he should detend it, if necessary. Seeing a Noble Viscount in his place (SAlmonth), who was lately at the head of His Majesty's Councils, and at present held a high situation therein, he would beg leave to ask the Noble isconnt, plainly and decisively, whether the Noble Viscount could say, or could not say, that, so far front its being the intention of His M ijesty's present Ministers t institute any enquiry into the condua of the late Nilinister for Marine af fairs, that there kaisted no ground for setting on to. tan enquiry into the conduft of the most ho nnura'Nle, dignified, and illustrious Naval hero of the country Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH, after shortly ad verb ng to the point, how far he might he warrante in point of Parliamentary usage and otatllice to an swer in his place queries of such a nature as th it put to him by the N ihle Duke—stated. that with respell to the particular question which His Royal High ness did him the honour to ask, he had no hesi tation in saying, ant if he had any hesitation in saying, he should b.ilie every feeling, both pri vate and public, which he possessed, with respeft to the Noble Earl, and which u'l those who knew his charafter and coodua must feel. He could therefore have no hesitation to say, that in his con science he believed there existed no go and or rea son whatever for enquiring into the oificial condo& of the Noble Earl ; but, on the contrary, he thought him ere y way entitled to the. approbation and the gratitude of his country. The Duke i f CLARENCE replied, that he never vet heard any a swer within the walls of that Home, which had given him such complete satis -14a!011, as well in a pithlic as in a private point .of view ; he should therefore, on that subjet, never more troubli- their Lordships. Before hi/sat down, however, His Royal Highness observed, there was another question, touching a point of considerable importance, and which might have some relation to the subjeft which their Lordships would that night Save to discuss. He then asked, whether the report was well founded of the Brest fleet being out? There was another question of importance, and which referred, in some degree, to the same topic ; and which lie would wish to have decisively answer ed, namely, whether it was intended by Ministers to make any alteration in the system of the Volun teer Corr ? He rather put this question to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment ; because he conceived the description of force In question was more particularly within the pro vince of that Minister. He should possibly have occasion to move for the produflion of certain do cuments upon the subjee; hut, at present, he would simply ask, whether or not it were intended to make any alteration in the Volunteer establishment of the United Kingdom? Lord HAWKESBURY observed, he would not then enquire how far it could be exile Red from him, upon Parliamentary grounds, to answer to such questions, as those put by the Royal Duke. He should now only observe, that, if it should be the opinion of His Majesty's Goverarnmt, that any further alteration was necessary or expedient to be made in the Volunteer, or any oth.lr service con. neaed with the defence of the country, they wout3, at a proper time, give every due explanation ran the subjea. At present, he deemed it his duty to decline giving any further answer. The LORD CHANCELLOR then quitted the Woolsack, for the purpose, as he o'sserved, of giv ing his protest against the species of proceeding which lately seemed to prevail in that House, and adverted generally to what he deemed the obvious impropriety of praftice. The Duke of CLARENCE, feeling himself per sonally alluded to, expressed his desire to say a few words upon the idea adverted to by the Noble and L-arned Lord. He would never admit it as a prin ciple, that things should not he said, or questions put, because they might not happen to he agreeable to I lis Majesty's Ministers. Fur his own part, not withstanding what had fallen from the Noble Lord on the woolsack, he would offer such arguments, in favour of any line of conduit he might deem the best, and persist therein, until he should be per fealy convinced that it were wiong ; more particu larly with respeet to considerations, in which the . honour, the safety, or the advantage of the country should be involved. . k - DEFENCE ACT. The Order of the Day being read, for summen ing their Lordships relative to a Motion for the re pt-el of this Ad; The Earl of DARNLEY said, that with 'resped to the topic which their Lordships should more Par ticularly have to'discuss, it would not be necessary to occupy much df their time.' He conceived, that 'on that head, In call their Lordships' attention to certaia effects of the measure, %Would alone be requi site. In viewing the subject before them, it would be necessary to advert to the siltation of the country at the commencement of the war. A persod a' which the necessity of arcane and energesic mea sures, was universally acknowledged, se,d the mea sures which were thee resorted ta, viere submitted to withnnet murmuring. The Administration which succeeded the lag, to a certain extent, thought a change in the military system if the country ex pedient ; and their prominent measure. in codes ,tersitring to effect this, was the Bill then under con ) aid-tenon. These Ministers, in that respell ,' Iw-* withstanding the magnificence and extent of their pcsinnses ; the strong and eloquent language in wn.ich (one of them in particular) 'else soared the measures of their predecessors as weak, futile, and inefficient, had in their remedial provisions entirely, but above all, in the measure under inspection, disap pointed the expedations of an anxious and confident public. Their professions and promises were magni ficent and gigantic, their performance diminutive. The present Ad emphatically illustrated this position; and when their Lordships considered what was said, when first ushered into "strliamentary notice, and compared its effeds, as appeared in the documents before the House, the language of the Poet might well he applied to it: " Tartu imst Moltrs et nrriter ndiettl Mss '• His Lordship proceeded to state, referring, as he went on, to certain parts of the Military Accounts upon the Table, and various instances in which the measure under consideration had completely failed. In one particis%tr souote, where the nnrn hers exmded and prescribed t be raised by the Ad, were 1097, in fad, no more than fourteen own were obtained. There were other ease; in which the inefficacr of the Bill was manifested rear'y as much. Whit was expected if the Parish Office s, events had preyed. was beyond their power to perform. He contended, that the sense of the country was against the Bill, as a pradical mea4' cure, and adverted to the great number of the re presentatives of this part of the United King dom, who opposed it in the first instance. A great stress was laid upon the support the me:Rare Would receive fro-rat the influence and personal exertions of individuals ins different tiar ters. This expel:lion haJ been miserably dn..- appoint-A. In proof of which, his Lordship re ferred to the case of the - Ciniire - Porti, at which, there was raised, by the parisni officers, hut a siegle man Let their Lordships but cousider the cir cumstances of his race; %Ow the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports it the exertions which shnnld be expeded frowhint, in support of the measure, and his power and influence in that particular quarter ; and, if, under such cir cumstances, in a place where so many m•-n were espeded to be raised, only a man was to found, it was a most imf ivourabie symptom as tithe general of of the measure. In the course of eight months, by certain parts of the accounts, it appeared that no mote that 1295 men were raised, and of these, the number applicable to general service was only 343. In feet, not shove the twent4th part of the expeded number had been procured. It would be a misuse of their Lordships' rime to argue fot the inefficiency of such a measure. Aod this was the only pro-1 they had of the vigour and energe of that Administrarien, so high in their vaunts, and so gigantic in their promises. In saying this, he meant nothing personal to His Majesty's present Ministers, for many of whom he had the, highest re sped. Bur. he held it his duty, as a Peer of Parlia ment, and an Leredivary Councillor of his Sove reign, to speak the sincere coovidtion of his mind, as to their public measures. These, however, were such, as when he not only considered them in their effects and consequences, but, when viewing whit had passed, and what bad begin said upon the subject', he considered of what materials the present Administre ' tion was composed, he felt it his duty, upon public grounds, _generally anti systematically to oppose them. He condemned many of their hostile and offensive operations, particularly the Catamaran' expedition ; he thought it wauld be sufficient to rest the merits of what he should propose upon the de cuments shish were then before the Home ; the consideration of these would he sufficient to con vince the House of the in ffieacy of the measure, and induce them to repeal it. With resped to Ire land, its inefficacy and objectionable sende ney was not less apparent. Upon tee wn de, from what he saw of the effects of the Bill, and from his convic tion of what should be expelled from it, lop could with confidence propose to the House togrzputige it from the Statute Book ; and under such impression, he would move for the proceeding on which could be regularly grounded a Motion for its repeal ; namely, that the At in questions be now read. (The title of the At was accordingly read, viz. An Ad for raising and maintaicing a permanert Additional Force, tic. for the Defence of the Realm.) The Earl of CAMDEN rose. He obses veal, be had listened with attention to the speech of the Noble Earl, and to him it appeared to he intend d rather as an attack upon His Majesty's present Ge vernment, than as applicable to .the measure in question; this 'he was the mere induced to think. when he considered the allusions made to what h id passed the last session of Parliament, and the nine of observation in which his Noble Friend indulged himself throughout. With reseed to the Bill itself, he was rather obliged to his Noble Friend for bring ing it under cosumeration. In considering the Bill. the peculiar and extraordinary circumstances that preceded it, and %hub, to a eettaiu eaten:, Kill multi . _•4, (ram' sixtzwcs. nosed to operao , should be fairly considered. He sr tt :Jame that, to a cet tarn extent, endeavours had , been made to countenref the operations of the Bill ; • • and these vices would be rather forwarded, tisan otherwise, by the hokling forth the ides that t:.e measure was not likely t' , be prosisten in tie dife feted widely hom his Nellie i'ricnd h deeming of the measure, as he knew that it was not only an efficient, but, he believed, it was likely to prove a very beneficial measure; at -the same time he ..d.! mined, that the numbers at first exuefte.l were net raised under the Bill. In consid•nieg ibi merits', it would be proper to advert to the peeve:ors tree of tlnees. The country was so circumsneneed, !hat. much larger force was requisite for general err- - • vice than etisted at the time. This urgency bad_ the eWt of raising the bounties to a very high rate, n. and which induced the necess'ey of Attiring the mode of raising men. Upon great deal of' die principle of the Bill proceeded, the moism e, he con-_ tended, had as yet, by nn means, a fair trial. Un der the circumstance of the case, its ore ration had here of that kiad, as, in every pilot r 4 view, to render the continuance. of the measure 41*U - table- His Lordship referred to the beneficial changes which, under the Bill, had been made in the rela tive proportions of the miht try force of the country, as Militia, Army of Reserve, and I)isposeable force. • He contended for the superior policy of persevering in the present miltary system, and of giving the measure fair play. He was sanguine as to the operation of the Bill, and that the m^n avoid i be prndeced by it. He referred to the provisions in the Bill respelling the fines, the peculiar tempta tions held cut, and the liability, in certain cases, of the parish officers, as likely by their scpArete or combined eff et, to produce the most benelkiel con segeences. Ile deprec tied all animadversons in a discussion of the kind, which were unt coneeded with the topic under censideration ; he was seldom in the habits of troubling their Lordships, and he • confessed himself unit for the woody warfare. Not withstAintrw, he would venture O 'ay, if all the • circumstances atten•!ing the elhoge in Administra tion adverted to by his Nahle Enend, were 16.90W1 to the world, very different opinions would be enter tained of it. Those who accented of office at the time, arts .rg whom he was one, did it re seer very urefAvciur- Able circunestences, a ra had un dee tAkeci a very pain ful deny: it was not from an corn and anxious dens for the occupation of office, they came forward, but t.,mis a sense of duty, :in upon ernislic grounds. fleet the Admirastraene at die tittle was nut formed upon a more extended ...cafe was nor the lank of hose with whom he hid the tioniier tie aft •.Re., curving to the suirieel of the Bill, tlen Noble Earl made Lorher references to the diatiments epna - toe fable. hough, he Admitted, toe ei !strobe?: were nisnogrceneve I. tat from ev ek g, thing that appeared, he related it was arida*, the - Bill ought to have a tint 10r.saditisike to these, was the important cbasi.iikeatirm of wtslt. system thee wire prepared to bubaitnte in CU,e of* repeal of the 80l Coold one so, ustohj upon the whole, be neurseesa, oert their restore the ballot for nerseloAt nerviie s e cone tended the, from a street sewiew iserintoidoi curnents before the Rowe, Jttse n ne-ossa,re would t ie found far from ineffi :tent in the .0-Ilse id has. year. Throush its open -tom, it would :Trey that an ag gregate force of 23,00 r men was reneured ; :rod they had, beyond the number elf last Taal, aii addo lion of In.ooo men for geueral service. Upon taal whole, lie argued that the effendi of sita Bell were hitherto decidedly beneficial, and were likely to prove more so, in a very increasing ratio; and, therefore, he held it his ditty to give a negative to the proponents of the Noble Karl The Earl of SUFFOLK referred to certain parts of the documents, from which it A o penred, that no more than 505 men were, seinen a givni p rind. procured for general service—these, 396 boys. He telt himself at a loss to find where the immense number, stared by the Noble Earl, were to he found. The county, he coctended, were ill satisfied with the late c ,inge in Administration; i• might have been unon a much broader basis. Were it not for the present Ministers, the country would not he involved in a new war. Ile considered -he Bill as objeOinneble in every point of Vl.•Vf• ,Let even its preamble be cons dered ; the pro minent and leadiog feature of the Bill was to ics duce the actual force of the country A great part of which, as sifted upon by the Bill, were highly disciplined troops. He supported the onservAttoos of .he Noble Earl who Opened the delatC, as totote inefficiency of the Bill, car-:ended dolt very few men had been gained by it tor general service, and expressed his hope the Bi I would be, to him, rote UsfaCtorily disposed of, tneore lie left the House. 1 he Earl of CA Moss spite in explaoailn, as did the Earl of Sirronx. • L od KING •ens of opinion, that revelling the genuine merits cf the 11.11, little ditTerence, of seliti resent coull prevail. In vie a it was a money bill. a bill of taxation, rather than one for the purpose of raising men. On the pecuniary operations of the Bill. the Ni•ble Earl was totally silent. In thie opinion he was confirmed, by viewing the cleat of the Bill for the "oast twelve months ; it in- ontrovertibly operated as a tee. He would admit the abolition of the ballots to be a beneficiel measure. He thought unfavoura bly of that mode of proceeding, but he should con sider the abolition of that, and the repeal of the Bill in question, as a first step towards a complete re form in the military systern of the country. With respect to gaining men ftn'the service, the channel of the Army of Reserve was one which eventually proved very prolific; the men who enli•ted into it, if not to-panned into the army, were, in fiat, to be 'considered as enlisting into the army. Considering the Bill as an engine of taxation, it was the most uner.o4l, partiAl, and oppressive, that could well be dcvi ed ; it bore not up in taxable prope t:, but according to the ratio nt population ; its some parishes it amounted only to 401 in others co 230 L That part of the operation of the Bill 1. uoti skew ••• • -