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the Home resuming ordered the tepnrt to be corksiderei to-morrow. Mr. ryrell (:temembraneer to the City of Lon inn) presented certain statements and accounts, purwant to the Aas of PArliAm 'IA for the Imp ove ment of the Port of London. Ordered to lie on the The linnse ;lien arliPtttrned tlll tr.-morrow, when the Parliament will be. Prnrogired by Coniniksion. 1101. 1 SE OF CoSINitr:S. A Medsjs rove the the Hoke that tit..ir Ler Ithip had eireet.l to Vie rgiwaleiii.t C.thidion th I; Siougifiny ' Aid; Mt Blnkru..t ; the Irn• portation Sill; tta.t pole of Xihor• Pill; and the ,111i , lell WI VII. Bill .11 hour an! to thr PaeMolgton COlit Bill; and th" \Vittleo.r. I id.unolty B• 11, with anterarutuits, to wh.ch they desned the cottcAirence of this /loose. A new *fit was to be Jagged for the County of Doane, in Irrland, nth. room of Lori Viscount C,.ih reach, oh li114:6 his ele Yi , tB, huh acclpted the Office of SecretAiy of Stitt for the COL 9, .1 pa. t L• nt. Mr. I: lING, ocai At the Rtr, and informed the 'I I ou..e thai riiiariiity had b,.ii IrCt.ll wool with their Addresi, and had been rseintole ideas —d to .ignify that he witi.kl COll - .one &cony m the choral. on c Res. S. b,nith, the Charlain of that If 411041- .! u t I. been wailed on with the several ether Address J: roe Motu., ciative to the rvaninciation of the fltfiesia,of Cli.rlo of the blouse, and had An...serest that he *wild gisc bard.-rs arcnettitgly. i re was ord ired that there he laW hifore tilt lions . . an Ac count of all Gantt of !4.4 Jile V matte to the Sierra Leon, Coin. Fully and Ili.) an At'''. lit of all Disbursease..ts of the bald C•in pane. Mr. DENT nee notice, that he would, earls , in the neat station, rneve for leave to Wing to a 8.11 to abolish the horrid p;ACtICd of Bull bating. TAUTTER'S INDE %I NITY. Mr. WHITBREAD mired that the T.nrcli' Amendments to the Witnesbas Indemnity Bill be then telten into consideration.—Ordered. The Si'FAKER informed the House that among Or' numerous amendments made by the Lords to this Bill, there were some wh:ch related to the in demnity of witnesses against the use of certain parts of the rthlic momey, which had never been suffe:ed by that I Iratse. Mr. WHIrBREI moved. thu the sa;d aMendmenrs be talon jay, con,ideration d !). three rnoittlis.--OrUced. The Bill was os c'e thrown nut. • WHITBREAD then moved for leave to bAti7 in a new Maio the same purpose —Ordered. He then brought tip the said Rill, which was read 2'SrPt and scc.ond time, and committed ; and on the question that the said Bill be read a third time ; Sir W. ELFORD rose, and reiterated his former objeeitons to the Bill, sand still strenuously contended, that the Atr , rney General should be ordered to dis eitatinue an I drop for eVer the proceedings on the civil snit which ted been ordered by the House to he instituted agaibtt Mr. ratter. He did not think this the hest method which could he pursued ; but as this tither, which was suggested, had been re piled by the Loots, it was the only mode that citinl4 now he ouraued to free the patties from their tiafti!h) to subject themselves to a civil suit or suits, which be deemed a ease of extreme hardship. Mr. WHITIIRRAD said a feu- words in an swer; after w:tich the Bill was read a third time, and passed. Sit W. F.I.FORD, after a few preliminary ob setstelibits, moved, in conformity to a notice he had bef: re stated, That so much of the order of the 27th of April, as direFted the Attorney-General to prueeed against Alexander Trotter, LIT by civil Touted, be discharged " Mr. R. DUNDAS (,on of Lord Melville) seconded the motion. Mr. WI lITBRRAD said, he sh.ould not oppose the motion—but he thought it would be more re plat to wait for the opinion of the twelve Judges, which, he understood, was to be delivered upon this sultieel, in another House Mt. X INNAIRD said, that the first law au thorities of the country were agaist.t the opinion which seethed to be entertained on the other side of the House ; and thought it would he no more than respetfui to the Judges of the land, to wait for their decision. If Mr. Trotter should be biassed in the evidence be may give, he thought the public had I tight to initktue a civil proce-s arain,t him, for the recover, of the sums of which it might have • Wien defraudett. The ATTORNEY-G ENER AL tpote in support of the motion; and Mr. C. WYNNE against it; tlf,ft which, the question was carried without a di- Mr: KINNAIRD " Thit there be laid befote the Hoit..f, an actoarit of the stipends of the cu: ates of Teine, in Scotland ; and also a list of Elie populatioh of the di6►tent parishes in that emin*ry, alphabetic:sit, ranged." The SECRETARY at WAR opposed it, on the krohnsi of the I;steness of the vession, and the con tusien that it rnthe inevitably occasion in Scotland. The Motion was negativad. ‘PrAIN tettmirr. Mr. WINDHAM moved, .4 That there be laid before the House a copy of the correspondence be tween the British and French, as well as other Go vernments, an the sehjeel of the detention and im prisonment of Captain Wright, of His Majesty's Navy." ire did not, however, build his argument on any one thing that Might be done by foreign states, as We had the right of making a dire& claim for him ourselves. He did not feel it necessary to add much to what he before said upon this sully& ; but he tlismight it necessary, that this country should itihk M the eassiderstion which it heretofore had with forei, , n powers, and also to the consideration tibial it iitre3 to itself. However irritated Bona parte Might have been befrre, he might now be ac kneed by more liberal teeliy—and, instead of imitating the cruelty and barbarity of A lgerine Pi rates, be inclined to acquiesce in the Acknowledged rights of war. Sir SYDNEY Smrri I seconded the motion. lie spoke in MO terms of the char-After of Captain Wright, who ti.,d w,Lintarily engaged in a very Jif f:mit and dangerous orvire; and who ought not to he overlooked by the Government, by win m he *is regularly employed. He did not see any ana. lily between his care, and that isf tl e prisoners at Verdun, and thnutht him doubly entitled to protec- Lion, from the humanity which he displayed, even at the time Isf his rriking to a much soperior force. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said. that all the ohj.44lion he had to the motion 11V41. that it did not go far enough ; and therefore snowed. as au amendment, 6. 'Rat ante should al- • ----"•-•" • so be preserited a. cop* of a title+ frbm award Coke, Eia. to William Marsstent Esq. upon that %Ori* which was agrei to. Message Iron) the Lords announced, thst the! ;lad agreed to the Bills for allowing an indemnity to the witnttss;s emplo , ,ted in the Navy Pay Office, due :ng the administration o. Lord Viscount Melville, on his impeachment; and that, providing that the aroceedings had in the impeachment of the said Nil. ole Viscount should not he discoktinned, noiwith standin7 prorogation or dissolution (4 1 sPasliallleat. -Sir A. HAMMOND moved, 44 That there he laid before the House a copy of a letter from the Commissioners of the Admiralty, including their Memorial, in answer to the Third Report of the Naval Comm:s-loners ;" which, after a few observ ations from the CHANCELLOR of the Exca A.Rur a, Sir C. POLE ' the SECRET ARY at WAR, Mr. Jun e. s - rotiir, and Mr KIN A I an, was agreed to. Mr. KINNAIRD then moved, " That there be laid before the Hone, an account of the number of apprentices and ship-wrights employed in His Ma jesty's dock-yards, and discharged from thence from the Bth of May, 1803, to the lsrof June, 1804."=1- . Ordered. He then moved for an account of the expence of the fortificar;fms and garrison of Bomb Ay. Agreed to. Mr. JOHNSTONE moved the consideration of the adjourned debate upon his Financial Resolu tioos : to which the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER said he had no objedion, but to the 10th, which he altered by a resolution, 44 that the public debt of the country amounted, on the sth of January last, to the sum of 567007,0001. ;" which amendment being agreed to, the House aJjourned ta!l to-morrow. •„ • no length of the Law Report obliges us to defer " Ptctune GALLIIIf, No. VI." until terniermw. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY. JULY lg. 3lic expeßation is now upon the stretch for news from Lord NEtsui:. A crisis of this kind is ever fruitful in rumours, and the speculators in the funds generally contrive to turn it to their advantage. Yesterday they played off a hear, which, for a few hours, made nearly as great a noise as the celebrated stock-jobbing trick practised in S:r CHARLES Pitices Maycralry. Between twelve and one o'clock, after Mr. Easittee had stated the case for the Plaintiff, in the case of-Dr. TROY, titular Archbishop of Dublin, e. the Pu:dis!ier of The Anoi4seain Review, of which we this day present a full report ; and, while the Learned Counsel was in the aftuf examining one of the witaesses, a slip of paper, folded up like a note, and addressed to him, was sent int.) Covet. —As soon as Mr. Easels E received it, he left off his examination, and, having taken a rapid view of the paper, he a!dressed the Court., ob serving, that an anonymous note was put into his hand ; the writer, or the person from whom it came, he knew n,,t ; hut as it announced news of g•rat im portance, he would lead it, with the permi- it of the Court. The Court having assented, Mr. ;la - :KIN' read the note aloud. It stated, that a paper was posted up at Lloyd's Coffee [louse, announcing a vidory by Lord NELSON over the combined d':ets of France and Spain, in which eight ships of the enemy bad been taken ; and that at the time when the account came away his Lordship was left in pur suit of the rest of the Combined Fleet ; adding, that upon the receipt of this news in the city, the funds rose, and the 3 per Cents. were then at 6c." A loud and universal buzz succeeJed this communication ; several of the Jurors began to clap, and the liveliest joy pervaded the whole Court. The papa was handed up to the Bench, and the Loin CHILI Jus- TiCE, having read it, observed, that he was not sur prised at the sensation which such news had excited. In a very short time, however, the buzz subsided, and business was resumed. 'the public will acquit the Counsel avid the Court of all precipitancy in this case. Mt. ERSE'S:: could not have prefaced the communication With a stronger cmition, and not a word fell &Om the Rench in favour of its authen ticity. The actor; in the gcc.ke r.evef tipeetM tr forward the plot b) the ere/Inlay : , 1 Ow Court or the Counsel ; all they wilhed, c. all they w4i,te,i, was to have the note received and read in Cou. t by a gentleman of Mr. LISKINE:II high character and re putation. This point once attained, they relied upon their own activity, and the weakness of the idle, whom curiosity had attraned to the Court, to complete the business. The Court was uncom- mord) , croudcd, and, even on the outside, a great number of people pressed about the doors. One half of the persons in the place, of course, did not distinctly hear wh it really passed, bur all saw the piper, and the general report made was, that the Loan Curer .11;s-rice had received a communica tion, which he read from the Bench, of a great vic• tory obtained by Lard NaLsotr, and that the whole Court of King's Bench rang with acclamations. The persons interested in promoting the boas im mediately ran off with the news of their own fabri cation, and were followed to the city by a crowd of credulous idlers, all ready to vouch fot the truth of a great vi Rory, opon no less authority than that of the Loan Curse Jusrrea of the King's Bench, and Mr. ils,ar NE. The report spread rapidly through the Man. In every street, in every coffee-house, it wit die tabled of Conversation; end, though ffib discerning few saw kin its true light, dr erinsidered it onlyan anticipation of *hat we had t tight to repot' ; it obtained, for a short time, credit to an extent stiffi cient to sensibly aie,ft the funds. As s /Owe ver; as inquiry could be omie at the Admiralty ;ler d other public offices, Arid Cie te.il contents of the paper, received by Mr. Eit! , F,!%:, were ascertained, the bubble burst, and the inn,: fell into contempt and ridicule. Indeed, Mr. EIISKINC shortly after stated, he had received an intimation, that it was an impudent Imposalre. The Prince of Water. in 14 days, And the tutimahend packet, in nine-days from Lisbon, are both strived at Falmouth. The former sailed from the Tagus on the 23d ult. and brought the mail of that date ; the latter brought that of the 30th. The following is an extra& from a letter, dated Lisbon, June 22 : " Th.• Rochfort spladmo hat ca i I ogl earl with more trop.,.; it is sn i mosed for the Cape of Good Hope, and the Isles t.f gumboil." Some think that the writer of the Lisbon Letter has confounded Missiessy's squadron with o,e se cond squadron of four new 74 gun ships ‘...l.ich sailed from Rochfort. That, however, does not appear to be the case, as the latter sailed on the Ist of May before Mis!iessT's squadron rettuned from the West Indies. We have received New York Papers to the 11th last. A Paper of the leth contains the following article :--.• Capt. CL AR K, of the brig Merchant, ar rived on Saturday, from Honduras, informs, that the same restridies, in the exportation of mahogany, is still cuntinu.d, and that tut ther instru(tions have been transmitted to Col. Gortnon, the superintendant, to allow no greater quantity of logwood to be ship ped in American bottoms, than two tons to every ten thousand feet of mahogany ; in consequence of which order the Alerrimt , was refused a clearance, and was compelled to land all the logv,•ood she had on board, although laden before the receipt of the instruCtion. LoiMser, provisions, and naval stores, are permitted to an entry, other articles are deemed contraband, and will sulijeCt the vessel and cargo to seizure." We have reccieed Pit is Pipers to the nth instant. Their contents are of no importance. It was generally understood last night, from the orders given to the OiTicers of both Muses of Lords and Commons, that the Parliament will be prorogued by Commission this (ay. The report of a dissolution of Parliament, which we noticcd yt.stlrdry, continues to gain ground. On Wednesday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Calm -61 was held at Lord Met.cliavi..'s Office, which seas attended by the LORD CHAN cu. toa, the Duke of Nloi•ir host, WRSTMORLL AND, and !midi HAWKESSI av and HARROWS Y ; at half-past two the Council adj turned to meet the Kim a at the Qt.r.EN'S I I , ,US Yesterday, Mr. Willi. as can, and others of the Committee of the House of Commons, for con cluding the impeachment , of Lord Al4tvi ti.t, went to the Bank, and examined the books of accounts re lating to the service of the Navy. Lord L AITLF.R anya retains the Presidency of the India Board ; an Office, the salary appointed for which (2.0001. a year) is considered inadequate to the situation of a Cabinet Minister, and his Lord ship's merits. Dispatches were on Wednesday received at the Admiralty, from our fleets off Brest and Fetr.Jl, but they contain no news of importance. The ene my have not yet made any attempt to put to sea. The Eurydice frigate, with the fleet Under her convoy from Portsmouth, is arrived at Gibraltar. The A et from St. Kitt's were all well off Kin sale on Saturday last. Rear-Admiral STIRLING, in the Glory, of 98 guns, is detached from the Channel Fleet, to take the command of the squadron off Rochefort. A letter front Lord Iltasott to his brother speaks with the greatest confidence ol his Lordship's fall ing ;n with the Combined Fleet. Captain WI LLIAM ATHOL, late of the ship Mar . y, of Greenock, and Capt. Jos Picas, late of the ship /1, 1 ,e, of Workington, were landed at Torbay on Monday last from France. Capt. ATHOL reports that he sailed front Virginia in the above ship, Mary, in the month of April last, that on the 18th May he was chased by a French privateer the whole day, and lost sight of her in the night ; that on the foL. lowing morning, the wind having died away, she was soon alongside, and gave three cheers, which was returned, and an aelion immediately com menced, which lasted 45 minutes, when lie was under the necessity of surrendering to the privateer, which carried 14 twelve pounders and 100 men, while the ship Hope had only 6 four-pounders and 2 three-pounders and 13 men, exclusive of Mr. Stew. A RT, the owner's son, who behaved with the great est gallanty during the aelion; fortunately there was not a man either killed ar wounded on board the Hope, but the ship was much injured in her Lull and rigging. Captain ATHOL was carried into Bayonne, where he was with Captain Pious seven days. On the 25th June, they both got on board a neutral ship, secreted them,elves five days previous to her sailing, and were on Monday pit on board one of the Torbay fishing•boats, and landed at Torbay in the evening, with upwards of 100 letters and packets, which he had secured from the enemy. Capt. ATHOL also reports, that an English packet from Halifax, bound to England, had been taken and carried into Passage, in Spain ; she had on board the Captain of an English man of war and a lady, who were coming home passengers. TIIE ST. JAMES'S ROYAL. VOLUATEEItS, • This excellent corps, commanded by Lord Am. herst, mustered yesterday at nine o'clock, at Bur. lingtomhouse, preparatory to a sham fight aad grand field day. Thirty cars, each drawn by l out fine hones with postillions, conveyed the Corps, to the amount of 400, through town, and down the Kent Road to New Cross Turnpike. 'The sa l company and light infantry, forming the French party, proceeded ro Blackheat h, and to o k possession fields the elds between Shooter's Hill and Woolwich; while the grenadiers and the other companies, forming the English party, took the Lewisham Road, came upon Blackheath by the villag e of Lea, and dismounted from the cars near Mots den College. The affirm then began. It lasted three hours ; during which there was much Lai i fighting ; the enemy, though dtiven at the is, onset from their entrenchments, rallied kr :J ., times, and at last to o k re f uge i n a neighlsoiMie, castle, which they deferided with great obstieJcs,, The English divided themselves into two coluivis; in pursuit of the enemy, one of which was obl;r4 to defile through a morass and a wood, where i t encountered many difficulties ; but at length sat. ceeded in joining the other column, sviich it foaul attacking the castle into which the enemy had re treated ; and, by their united efforts, it wan at law obliged to surrender. The French were command ed by Major Dow's, the English by Lord Au. sense ; and when in two columm, the second by Major Ho ARC. After the battle, the corps partuck of a cold collation, at the hall Inn, Shooter's hill, The day being very fine, a great number of car; riages, full of elegant women, from London a n d the surrounding country, were upon the ground; and also many officers from Greenwich, ‘VoJlwich, ' &c. About hall past six, the regiment re:notated their cars, and ari ived at their Parade, Dutoues place, about nine, when they were dismissed, v‘ith an appropt late speech kyr' , his Lordship, upontheir order, discipline, and good conduel. 'I he eArs going and returning, formed a beautiful cavalcule, and were cheered by the crowds which so iote,e,t ing a spectacle culled - led in the several streets which they passed. Yesterday morning His MAJLtry and the Dub of KLPIT, attended by Count Muting,. General Ftrzacilr, and Colonel DISOKOV/, walked tl the Barracks, and inTeccled the Royal Horse Guards. Her MaJscr y and the Palm c gssc; took an airing to Frogmorz, accompanied by the Duke of SUSIA on horeback. Yesterday the Duke of CAM uttnoc left London for Weymouth. Their MA,eart re and the Pt. INcgsses leave Win•l sor this day for IVeymouth. *lke hlarchioness of Sat issues. and Lady G. Cacti. are expeaed in town the 19th, to atte.al Lady Louisa M ' • s's Grand Masquerade. Lord and Lady DoriALLv are gone to Lath. Lord HA It/WOOD arrived in town on To.niay for a few da)s. The Earl of ROYINtY and family are at Moat, the seat of his Lordship. Viscount Maasnist juiced them on Tuesday. The Marqu i s of &Amt.:air is hourly expeaed in town from Bath. The Marchioness of STAFFORD, with her sot, th... Earl Gown', arrived at 1)C1:11411CICS at Edinburgh, on Friday morning. Major General STYWART is an in Edinburgh from Perth ,hire. hli-s SMITH takes leaves of the Bath Theatre to• morrow. The entertainments—Wwie.l is tie Mae? lOliowed by Mr. TaorT FA has taken a small house near High gate. He was probably n there, as he did not take the firer houiz, until he had lost the large house in the Strand. Sir Asitau ast lir me came to town on Tueday, and returned yesterday. The Duke of 11a.cHesTee will leave town in a few days for Kimbolton, previously to his journey to Scotland. Colonel V Ell FK ER has left town for Ireland. Mr. !tonnes. in St. Jarnes's-rlace, gave a grand dinner on Vs'edi.e4ay last. Mr. Jeavoist CLERKS and family leave town this day. J. P. BAST A au, Esq. M.P. and family, left tow* on Sunday, for their seat in I)evonshire. Mr. Cooke excelled in his performance of elt. /Mint Mao ; at the Brighton Theatre, on Satutaay night last. We are aspired that the sew change of Minis:rf first transpired at Mrs. Fc FIT() n's Masquerade ; a fit scene for a change th tt only amounts to a rkint of ehariegers. The Prince of WA ere was so much delighted with Mr. WA 1.111 PORTER'S Villa, at Fulham, that His Royal Highness has determined to fit vp and furnish Carlton House anew, under the auspices of that Gentleman, and according to his elegant taste and fancy. Vauxhall was crowded with fashion on Wednes day evening. The fireworks are most beautiful, as is the transparency of Wimbledon Camp. Every box had an elegant party. In one we observed, the Hon. WILLI .Vl,l SPENCER. ANACREON Moo Rl, Montt Lewis, and Mr. Roos's. A stronger impression could not he made upint a British audience t h an what is effeeled by that spirited and well-conduCted Spedlacle, T.4c Faut.'h Jane; or ; Maros Bay, at the Rto t•L CIRCUS. This arises from the very interesting situations and clia rafters which are so happily introduced ; amongst these, the I'rison Scene deserves particular notice, throughout which Mrs. ROVEZY and Mormn- MERY, in harry Cerstera and Samba, are peculiarly happy; and the wand elfeEt of the last scene; the manning the boats from the La Loire; its sailing up the Bay ; the storming the tort, &c. A molt crowded audience, who yield the loudest p!audits• are attra3eJ by this proddaion : the beautiful and impressive piece of hiv e , ; the highly amusing Hatlequinadc of A A l ai Tale; and the superior feats of Equestrian agility and skill displayed by M•ti I. IN. f o und I r 51r SP '; 4 . , mNI• mw Ay 5' vile Olau &thin Lie whiff from Hazi will I 1 r ] hr