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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. %MUSE OF LORDS.-SATu OAT. MA los 23. - • Counsel were farther heard relative to the Scots Appeal, Re cheid s. /Cinlock, Bart. viz. Mr. Clark in continuation, and at great length, on behalf of the Respondent. The farther con sideration of the case was adjourned till M o eda, The Irish Promissory Notes, and Sur., Honours Drawback )dills, were read a second tinie, and the COM ItO:c1 thereon negatived. The various Bills before the !louse were forwerdist in their respective stager. Among these, the Exchequer Bela Rill, the Sugar Duties Drawback, the Spirits %searcher's:nig, the Irish Stamp Duties Bill, Postage Bates, Excise Duties, Malt lax, Custom Duties, and Expiring Laws 5.1 k, were I the Com mittees thereon having Wen preverusly tregete.eil, sergeant read a third time and passed. The Order for summoning their Lorddrips, fur taking into consideration the 26th and 155th standing orders, with a re ference to suspending the same, as far as related to the two last ene ntiimed Bills, being read ; Lord %V A LSINGIIAM addressed a few word: to their Lord ships on t:,e occas,cm. He expressed his unwillingness to come forwaid in such instances, save where the necessity of the else justi6ed a casual suspension of any of their Lord shins' stooding orders ; such a prie•reding was, he conceived, neetssarily called fur in the present instance he should there fore :nose, that the said standing Orders be suspended, as far as related to the Bills in question. The LORD CHANCELLOR quitted the woolsack, net for the purpose of opposing the motion ; for that, he thought, was called fur by the particular circumstances 4 the pr,erit ease, and he was *waren( the importance of the Bills in question to the revenue ; bur, in discharge of the duty he owed their Lenliships, to endeavour to impression their minds the general wearily of scrupulously adhering or their sca..ding o,dea , isn which so much of the dignity and correctness of their Lord ship; proceedings depended. Oil ilia grainy!, he had th:ft• fore to express his earnest hope, that the Iluuse would not be again called on in a similar manner The question tieing pet, and the special suspension ordered : the Irish Sugar Bounties Dravih.ick, and Promissory Notes WIN, were, on the motion of Lord %Valsingbant, accmhngly forthwith read a third time and eas-cd. Lithettlen's Noturalisat'un Bill war rod a third time. and passed Ailjoinned till Monday, when their Lordships stand sum moned upon Lord Auckland s propositions. ..-erse•mr FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND GERM.\N PAPERS. PARIS, MAR'il 6. The troops on board the squadron from Roche fort are commanded by General Regnier, who for merly served in Egypt. The Pope is packing up : it is supposed that he will set our in about a fortnight. The army in Italy will be very considerably rein. forceJ. LUMEN, MANCH 14, At the audiences gives by the Epmeror of the French, after his coronation, to the functionaries, in vitt-d to attend that ceremony. were the Presidents of the Consistories of the Lutheran and Reformed Communions. The Address to the Emperor by the Dean of the Presidents of the Consinories of the latter Communion, M. Martin, Pastot at Cc neva. and the remarkable answer of the Emperor, have not yet been published.. They are as follows. ISCOVInt •ODRESSLD 70 Vile EIitEROR 01 TH6 7111111ICH, IV 111,14AILTIN._Of CINIVA. I' His Majesty has fulfilled the wish long since formed by the reformed Churches of France, iu en abling them to catty to the foot of the throne their homage, and the expression of their sentiment:. It is sjth the liveliest satisfaction that we come to ex press to His Majesty. for ourselves and for our churches, our respectful gratitude for the protection which he has hitherto granted to us, and the full confidence we place on the oath which he has taken in our presence with so much solemnity to maint.in the liberty of worship; an oatj) thatgivestranquility to consciences, and insures Ilse peace of the church. We hope that all the French of all communions, all of whom we regatd as our hr. thers, feel as we do, the value of this benefit. We will merit it by our gra titude, our fidelity, and our submission to the laws, of which we have uniformly given an example. May our fervent prayers draw down upon I lia 1%1• s. jetty, upon the Empress, and upon the Princes of the Imperial Family, all the blessings of the King of the World ! ! May His Majesty, after having done so much for his glory, add to it the title of Pacificator of all Europe, and cease to have any other way of exercising his virtues. except in con tributing to the happiness of his people, and aug menting the true glory of Sovereigns." ANSWER OF THE EMPEROR. " I see, with pleasure, assembled here the Pastors of the reformed churches of France. I seize with eagerness this opportunity to express my satislaaion at the fidelity and good condua of the pastors and citizens of the several Protev ant communions. I wish it to be known, that my firm resolve and wish are to maintain the liberty of worship. The empire of the law ends where the indefinite empire of conscience begins. Neither the law n'sr the Sovereign can do any thing agaitist that liberty. Such are my ptinci pies, and those of the nation ; and if any of my race, who may succeed me, shall fo•get the oath I have taken, and. misled by a false conscience, shall violate it, I here devote him to public animad version, and I authorise you to give him the name of Nero." 711.1111OURGN. assets 14. Our Government have address id the following circular letter, dated the Bth of last month, to all the Lieutmants "The Advocate and lesser Council of the Canton of Friboutgh see, with great displeasure, that, in some parts of our Canton, the fair sex have re nounced morality, which is their brightest orna ment, and introduced and adopted those costumes, which are foreign from our manners, an 4 contrary to public decency. Those fashions. extremely fool ish and ridiculous, must inevitably make a danger ous impression on a people who have not yet entirely renounced those manners which distinguished their ancestors. They contribute to the contamination of public morality. " Adopted with blind enthusiasm, and followed with fury by the pleasure loving crowd, what fatal effe.ts may not be produced to those whose educa tion bring neglefted, makes us tremble for the mo ment when morality shall disappear ! "This public scandal has so much excited the at tention of ecclesiastical authority, that they have to solicit our attention to repress. by -ions means, this growing evil. These 'ithout died, so long as hose who, their families; those to whom God given the most sacred duties of in. ores* to seriously reform them. LONDON, MONDAY, MA aca 115. We have received Dutch Papers to the ir-Al inst. and German and French Journals to the I 7th..— Although destitute of any raking and important Lais, they contain a variety of interesting matter. The same papers, which lately assured us that all the doubts and suspicions excited by the Austrian cordon in Italy had subsided, new announce the movement and augmentation of the French troops . in that quarter. The maintenance of the Austrian cordon in its original station, so long after the in fedious disease had ceased, is the ostensible cause for this proceeding upon the part of the French Govern ment. At the same time it is said that BONAPARTE'S visit to Milan, and the military pomp attending it, are only for the purpose of making a Kiag of Lombardy in the fair way of his lawful trade and occupation. The continuance of the Austrian cordon, and the augmentation of the French troops in Italy, may, no doubt, still be for the purposes which they profess, but they certainly have an ulterior obeCt. The re volutionary torrent could take no continental course more grateful to BONA !MITI than on the side of Italy. In that diredion are his designs against the Turkish empire, Egypt, and India. To obstrud or retard the completion of these designs, at lea.:. so far as that can he done without involving her in hostilities with France, is equally a legi timate object in the politics of Austria. She will therefore, endeavour to maintain her forces upon the Adige, and BONA PARTE will continue to pour his troops into Italy. While the colossal power of France, bestriding the Continent, fixes one foot upon the South, it is ready to plant the other upon the North of Europe. At the same rno ' meat in which the little Corsican c3mmands the Queen of ET KURIA to sound the intentions of Austria in Italy, he desires the complaisant King of Pitusst a to use his i.iffaence to prevent the execu lion of a subsidiary treaty between England an Sweden. The prompt obedience of Prussia to this command has recoiled in disgrace upon her own head. Inaccessible to her influence, and unawed by her threats, the generous and heroic King of SWEDEN has answered that an attempt of Prussia to execute her menace by any hostile movement against the Swedish territories, would only oblige His MA JESTY to call to his assistance, the stipulated suc cours of Russia. Private Letters mate, that this an swer has been communicated to the Emperors of Russia and GellblANY, and that they both com mend this spirited answer of this brave and vir tuous Prince. Of all the countries that sunk beneath the over whelming power of the French Republic, none excited more interest and emotion than Swit anland. It was revered as the abode of pri mitive innocence and simplicity. Its daughters were chaste, and its sons were valiant. Unoffending, and ;inpatient under offence, it seemed of all coun tries the most secure, for, while it possessed no temp tations to violence, it had both spirit and powerful means of resistance. But Switzerland fell, and the world lamented her slaughtered sons, her desolated fields, and ruined independence. An article from Friburgh chews that, to the loss of her liberties, we are now to add the los! of her virtues. French vices have settled in those fields which French arms lately over ran, and the meretricious manners and habits of the Bois de Boulogne have spread over the mountains of Switzerland. A letter, dated Malta, 7th February, says : " Lord list.sos, with his squa.lron, passed from the Faro a few days since for the Eastward, in pur suit of the French fleet. We are all solicitude and confidence." Yesterday morning His MaisavY, and the three youngest Painctsscs, accompanied by Generals Furznov and MANNIRS, EATI,of UXIIIIIDGE, and M a jor Patce, walked to St. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon by Dr. COOKSON, from 9th Chap. Sr. JOHN, verse 4. After Divine Service the Rove FAMILY took an airing to Frogmore. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Privy Council was held at Lord MULGRAYS'S Office; Earl CA MD Sir W. SCOTT, and Mr. PITT, were among those who attended. 3. _['he Council did not break up till three o'clock. - 11ie Russian AMIASSADOR attended the Council. On Saturday, an elegant dinner was provided at the London l avern, by the West India Merchants and Planters, to which His Royal Highness the Duke of CL ARENCE was invited, with several Members of both Houses, who had opposed the Bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade. The Right Hon. Geosoc Lord Roils v has been :Ipp:rioted Lord Lieutenant of the County of Radrsor, and on 'F:iiirsday last, at the Queen's Home, took the usual oaths on that occasion. Tire Hon. Col. O'CALLIGHAN, brother to Lord Lissmag, left Butt's Hotel last evening, for Ports mouth, to embark with the 39th Regiment for Mal ta. Lor I Lisstos k accompanied him, but is ex peaed or return on Friday. Private letters received by the last Hamburgh Mail state, that the frisk& of the late conspiracy at Stntgard was to carry off the Et.scraess, Princess Royal of Es o Lasn. and a num!rer of other persons in high credit with the Court. A special commission is appointed to examine the prisoners. Most of them have h'•en confined in the citadel. Advice. , have been received respeeling the It ~t helort squadron. It was becalmed, or was laying-to for particular purposes, 100 leagues West of Cape St. Vincent, from the 19sh to the 17th of February. After that period, the enemy were seen st •eriog a course to the South-West. Ile York itangers were to be reduced yesteiday. The men are to be transferred to the African Corps at Goree. A division of the 39th (one of the regiments which is to compose the secret expedition) arrived at Gosport on Thursday last, and have occupied Ilaslar Barracks ; tit" remainder was to march in on Saturday. Nn other regiment has yet arrived in that neighbourhood, except the 44th, which went to Hilsea barracks the preceding week. It is said that between twenty and thirty Medical Gentlemen had been just appointed to accompany the expedition, over and above the establishment belonging to each respellive regiment. The Gazelle of Saturday night contains a Pro clamation, permitting all ships from Charlston, South Carolina, and New Orleans, in Louisiana, to enter British Ports, and unlade their cargoes, with out performing quarantine, provided such ships shall have sailed from the above places subsequent to the Ist of January last, and that none of the crews or passengers have died or been sick of the fever prevailing there prior to that time. The Bill fin allowing a certain portion of the Militia voluntarily to enlist into His Majesty's re. gular forces, has been printed. Resides the regula tions and provisions stated by Mr. PITT, in his ex planatory speech upon its introdudion, it contains the followiog clauses: His Mai srr is to appoint the regiments into which said Militiamen may vo lunteer. If the number of men do not enlist in the first instance, they may afterwards be permitted to enlist : When the lull number do not enlist, the vacancies to he supplied under Ads of the last Ses sion, until the Militia is reduced to original quota. Serjeants and Corporals may enlist. Their enlist ing to be discharged and attested, if approved.— Drummers, hlusicians, or Armourers, not entitled to enlist without consent of the Commanding Of ficers. Commanding Officer of Militia may rTfuse to discharge persons desirous of enlisting into the Regular Forces, upon assigning iisufficient cause to the General Officer, or Adjutant General, who is to determine the validity. Ad not to extend to counties in which original quotas have not been raised. , - - Mrs. Mackenages rout, Berneis street. SATURQAY. , 'Yu:count Castlitreagles dinner, k.street. Opega King's Theatre. Mni.-I : tebrrden's party, Pall mall. HY PARK. FiStrIONABLK ARRANCEAfftir4 THIS WEEK. THIS DAY. The Marchioness of Salisbury's card parts . , Arlins,ton•atreet, Toe Marchioness of Abercories rust, (irides street. Lady Gibbs' rout Burlington-street. Mrs. Greenwood's dinner, South Audi'' , street. Lord Arden's dinner, TUESDAY. Opera, King's Theatre. Lord Carleton's dinner, George•street. lion. Mrs. Knox's card party, Grosvenor street. WEDNF.SDAY. The Countess of Portsmouth's root, Lincoln's 1! a fields. Lady Le Despencer's hall, Haeov t-square. Mrs. Malcolm% rout, Mansfield street. Conc,ti of Ancient Music, Ilanovervoquare. THURSDAY. Dowager Lady Halewood's rout, Portman.esrare Lady Smith Burgas': rout, Piccadilly. ()era at the King's Theatre. Mrs. Benyon's concert, Grwvenor-square: Mrs. Culvert's card party, Albemarle-street. Mrs. Mackensie's rout, Portland-place. Sir Robert Lawley's dinner, Hertf : wd•itreet. FRIDAY. Earl Cholmondeley's dinner, Park-lane, and Countess Chelmondeley's rout. The Marchioness of Ahercem's Grerwereet, The Earl of Buckinghamshire's dinner, Groevesor-place, The Countess of Carhampton's ball, Bruton street. Dowager Lady Harewood's rout, Portean•square. Lady Lonbert's rout, Manchester-square. Lady Bmwnlow's ball, Hill-street. General Calvert's dinner, Grwvenor•place. Mrs. Brown's rout, George-street. Mrs. Fitsherbert% party, Tilney-street. Notwithstanding the keen breeze which prevailed yesterday, the promenade was unusually crowded with persons of rank and fashion. Kensington. gardens were the principal scene of grace ar.d ele• fiance. 'lle diversity of dress was indescribable; but we observed that velvet pelisses still prevailed, and various coloured velvet hats and bonnets, with willow feathers, were very generally worn. Some few &genies ventured in their Spring dresses. The carriages were more numerous than we have seen them this season. Amongst the charioteers, Lord Ca amity, Mr. ALLEN, and Mr. Goa Imo, were the most conspicuous, driving four in hand. The Dukes of Cuss am. AND and Mawr, ose, Duchesses of Grouctsz ea and ST. Azaas's, Marquesses of STAFFORD and DOUGLASS, Countess of EUSTON, Earls of KINGS FON, WESTOSOELAND, lIFILIJIAERY• Nose, were in their carriages. Saturday morning early, His biaJzsyrjnspetled the repairs going on at the mansion in Park -street, which is fitting up for the young Princess of WA Las. He afterwards joined the hunt, accompanied by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Generals Matit.zes, FITZ ROY, &c. The stag was turned o u t at Langley. Broom, and passed through the village of Mule:, where he crossed the water. The Kuv AL PARTY crossed at Datchet Ferry, after which the chace was renewed by Shaw Farm and Old Windsor, near to which place the animal was taken. Her MAJESTY, accompanied by the Princesses AUGUSTA, Etiz• BETH. and MARY, took as in a chaise and four to Frognriore. The Princesses SOPHIA and AMELIA rode on horseback in Windsor Great Park round Bishops gate, Scc. They were accompanied by Count MUNSTER, and the Hon. Mrs. Cuazow, on horse back, and followed by Lady Is A azi.t. A Tit v fist, in a phaeton and pair. The ROYAL FAMILY Win ho. nour Covent Garden with their presence to-morrow evening. Colonel and Lady ELIZABETH FINCH HATTON have arrived at their house in Welbeck-street, from Kent. The Earl and Countess of Ils RDWICILZ honoured the Dublin Theatre with their presence on Saturday se'nnight, to see the Comedy of The It:eata - Mrs. EDWIN appeared in the part of faidia Langsdshi for the first time since her widowhood. The Stamford Theatre opens to-morrow ngiht, with the Tragedy of BarearNsa ; Aehmet, by a Fe oraleßotrire ; Zaphire, by Miss Wouur a . The last Bath arrivals are— Lady Rivers, Sir R. Leighton, Sir Robert Burnett, Sr J. arid Mks RAin%forr!, General Cowell, (7olnnel Jame , CoMael and Mrs. Phillips. Lieutenant-Colonel Dowels's, Lieutenant. Colonel and Mrs. Wilson, Major Iler.s, Dr. Cooper, Dr. Ben nett, Rev. Dr. Ord and family. The Countess BERKELLY will present to-morrow, at Kingscote, the Tilbury and Horsley Volunteers with their colours. A Mr. CH A a LTON has made his &bat at the Bath Theatre, in the charatter of dehniet, with very fair promise. He is also a favourite of the Muses. Colonel Ro SIMON, private secretary to the Mar quis CORNWALLIS, is much indisposed. Cornet From has succeeded Lieut. Sys& in the Fourth Dragoons. IbacintbD A r. v is appointed an Ensign in the 98th, mice Fluster promoted. Marquis Co auwar.r.is, it is ciliated, will sail for India the middle of April. Earl CA MUSH gave a grand dinner yesterday it his house in Arlington-street. Earl BA TURRET gave a grand dinner yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of NoaTuusiseaLa on are daily expetted in town. The bridge in Hyde Park is to be taken down, and a new one, upon a larger scale, built ; it is not yet determined whether it shall be iron or stone. The loan: ROSCIUI performed Hamlet again on Saturday night, and, from the appearance of the house, public curiosity increases to behold this sur prising boy ; there was not a vacant seat when the curtain rose. Viscount CASTLIRIAOH entertained a seled Part,' at dinner yesterday. The Earl and Countess of CHARLEMONT. Mr. and Lady CECILIA LATOVCNR. General and Lady C. ST ILW Alt r, Right Mon. Isaac Calms', Mr. HoamousL, Mr. Biaccwoon, and Mr. SAY ANC The Opera on Saturday night was crowded with rank and fashion. Yesterday morning a most admirable Settaita was poached at St. Clement Danes, Strand, by Mk Rev. THOMAS Far:on:ALL Dianne, B.A. F.A.S. Afternoon Leaurer of Brampton Ch a pel, in aid of the Chapel Fund of the Philanthropic Society, is St. George's Fields. addressed IIS to sob the most efficacious means will be withi in the interior ~f the and nature have gis sulcating virtue, me selves. A general remedy must discover the exist ence of an evil, the knowledge of which is always dangerous and obnoxious to telose who may he al read), ignorant of it ; even the publicity of it is a scandal which ought to be avoided. "To retain as much as possible simplicity of man nersin our Canton. and to avoid such threatening inconveniences, it appears to us, that the only effi cacious means consist in the tit.tuly inter ference of the Tribunals of morals, conseliiently the Justices of Peace, and Presidents of these Tribunals will re. eels° from them the following instruCtions " If a person of the female sex dress in such a manner as to offend decency and morality, the Jus tice of Peace, as President of the Tribunal of Man ners, must address the parents, guardians, or hus bands. to engage them to exert that power which is given to them by nature, and the laws, to bring the person back to the paths of propriety and prudence, and apprise them, that if they still continue re frattory, they must cite them before the Tribunal of Morals. " And if these representations are ineffeaual, or if the weakness of parents, guardians, or husbands, afford no hope of amendment, and that the exhorta tions of the Justice of Peace should prove of no effea, then shall these menaces be executed, apd such contaminated women shall be made to.appear before the tribunal of manners, which will censure them for their irreligious and immoral conduift, ex hort them to fulfil their duties, and represent to them with energy, how ridiculous and indecent is that dyes; which, besides the ;sandal that it occasions, exposes a virtuous unman to the danger of being confounded in the public eyes wit!! those unhappy females who justly merit gegeral contempt."—(La Clef dr Cabilat). 1111 MS 01 iHlt MEIN, r•stcM 7. The Court t.f Prussia hawing dechiri•J, that in the event of Sweden concluding, a Subiiidiary Treaty with England, she Avonld occupy Swedish Pome rania, M. 1)e &inhalant), the Swedish Charge eks 4firaires at Berlin, delivered a k uer upon the sub jed of this decimation. in the hand 'writing of his Sovereign, to ljardenherg, the Prussian Minis ter of State, in whi Hip Swei;:sli Majesty declares that, as a sovereign power, be is not bound to ac count to any other powers kr any alliances which he •may think proper to conclude. That any foreign troops entering his territories should be treated as enemies, and that he should at the same time tie mind the as,istance of the auxiliary Russian troops, in conformity with the treaty concluded at GAIS• china the 29th Oft. 1799. GENOA. lEll i 14. One of our Newspapers mentions the following important pie,e of intelligence: " Accorchn4 to letters from Madrid, negoteattuus are actually still going forward betwezn Spain and Fiigland ; and it was hoped in that city that a gen:ral peace would take place iu the course of the cu. r e .t year " MADRID, rte. 9.0. - - - Dispatches from the Captain (general of Gallicia to the Prince of Peace, of the date it the 9th in zt. state that an English ship of 80 guns had anci,red between Colleora and Varis, and boarded a vessel of 200 tons at the entrance of the Bay 01 liarquero, and carried the vessel ; but, as they were,passing the point of Vicedo, they wer attaeke. 4 by some armed peasmts, aid forced to relinquish • it prize, after losing one halt of their men. The Prince of Peace has sent a reward, in the name of the King, to the Corregidor and his brave militia. 'rue Engitsh Vice-C.::atil at ihrcelona, Mr. Gil. bert, and some other Englishmen, who resided in the Bay of Rosa, have sent prisoners to the Citadel ; they are suspeeted t having conveyed in. telligenc2 to the enemy. Tins D47—L4 DT DA 11 , •••HOod ,v at the Publi O. cm. TILE I - piaci - sent into had; chin she the cleat knit into 1,4 d, did, Wit is ti pm