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Woolsack. said be was glad to find the illustrious I Duke had taken a day a little remote. This was as important a Bill as any that could come before th it Lordships i • tho' it bad been before their Lordships for several days, he believed airy few Noble Lords knew any thing of its contents ; and it was so appa rently abandoned, that if the illustrious Duke bad not taken it up, it might bare been found at the end •f the seg‘ions, having made no further progress than the first reading. He thought the Bill could not pass, if it was thought expedient to pass it, without ' Teri material alterations. He hoped their Lord ships' attention would be direded to the subject. 'rhe motion was agreed to. Ths Report of the Committee on Brognoen's Na turalisation Bill being read ; The Bishop of &. ASAPH observed, that the naturalisation of foreigners was an saa of mere grace in the Legislature ; and the principle it had adopted was, that the person praying for such favour should be of the religion of the realm by law esta blished. If they were adults, it was required that they should have received the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England. If.they were not adults, be thought the principle should be still main tained, and evidence required that they were pro truants of the English Church. The proper evi dence was, that of having been confirmed. In the present instance, which was that of a lad under the age prescribed by law for taking the sacrament, no evidence was produced before the Committe to prove that the young man was a protestant of the Church of England. He thought it indispensible that the person praying to be naturalised. should give pt of of his being a protestant of the Church of Engle id, by 'saving reamed the sacrament according to the ekes of the Church of England. if an adult ; or be im; confirmed, if otherwise. He should, on this penscipie, which he held to he of the utmost import ance, move, that the report be taken into con.idera dun on this day three months. The LORD CHANCELLOR said. he entirely agreed with the Learned Prelate, on the principle which should govern such Bills. But perhaps, in the present case, it was pushed too far. It would be hard on the party to lose all the expenees of the Bill; because of that which might fairly, as to him, be deemed to result from mere ignorance. He therefore wished. that the report be postponed for a few days, to see if the party could not give proof of his being of the established religion. Perhaps the Bill might he passed sei.h a prespiraive power; engaging that be be naturalised so soon a:. be shall be confirmed, or receive the sacrament. He was unwilling the person should suffer from ignorance. He would therefore propose, that the Report lie on the table. to see what could be done, consistent with the principle, which he wished to maintain, and with what was just in this pirticul.sr case. For future regulation, lie thought it would be well. that a Committee should be appr.inted to point out what evidence should be necessary when tlz z urson was not an adult The best evidence probably be that of confirmation, as suggest. ed by the Learned Prelate. Tho-report was ordered to be on the table.—Adjourned to to-morrow. HOUSE OW COMMONS. Sir Joint ANDS '4Olll brought up the Report of the Committee on the Petition of tl:e Lord Mayor and Corporation of Londo3, requesting leave to bring in a Bill to remove Prisoners from the Ponitr y Compter, which was stated to be out of repair. Leave was given, an4the Bill was then brought and read a rust, aml ordered to be read a second titne to-morrow. The London Additional Force Bill; the English Vote of Credit Bill; the Consolidated Fund Hill ; the Additional Defence Lands Bill, were severally t:ed a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. A new writ was ordered to be issued for the City of Bath, in the morn of laird John Thytme, who has accepted the office of Vice-Chamberlain to His Tbe Committee on the London Dock Bill was de ferred,till to-morrow. Mr. HUSICISSON brought up a list of the Accounts delivered to the Comptrollers of the Army. Or *eel to lie on the table. The Expiring Laws Bill ; the British Fishery Bill; the Property Commissioners' Bill; and the Irish small Notes Bill, were severally committed, and the Reports ordered to be received tomorrow. The Hill permitting the exportation of Salt from the Bahama Islands ' and the Loyalty Loan Bill, were severally read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Mr. FOSTER moved for a Committee of the whole House, to consider of the propriety of per mitting salt to be exported from Ireland to New foundland, Doty free, which was agreed to. In the Committee, Mr. FOSTER said, the trade Newfoundland,from Ireland to was of great conse quence, and it was desirable to put it on the same toot ng as it is in England. He therefore moved, that salt imported into Waterford, Ross, Cork, and Limerick, and warehoused there, be permitted to be exported to Newfoundland, D uty free. Agreed to, and the Report to be received to-morrow. The Irish Revenue Regulation 341, and the Irian Treasury Bills Bill, were severally read a se coed time, and ordered to be committed to.morrow. Mr. Fusel moved, that the Irish Home-made Spirits Bill be read a second time. Mr. HUTCHINSON objefted to this, and said, there was a general alarm among the Distillers of Ireland, on account of this Bill. He wished, there fore, the Bill should not be hurried through the House. It was only brought in yesterday, and was ordered to be printed. It could not be printed be fore to-morrow, and it would be impossible to have time to consider of it in that time. He did not wish to use his p 'vilest of counting the House, and hoped,therefore, the Right Hun. Gentleman would indulge him with postponing the Bill for a day or two. Mr. LONGFORD spoke on the same side. Mr. FOSTER refused to do this : in consequence of which, Mr. Hueentsisou moved, that the House be monied. This gallery was accordingly cleared ; and there being only 29 Members present, the House, of own, adjourned. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY, JILT 13. We have been informed through a highly respect. able chalnel, that BON AAAAA a has returned an an. swer to the Memorial of the Esc PZItOII of RYSSIA, against the violation of the independence of the German Empire, by the seizure of the Dugs of Et:idle:4 at Ettenheint, in which he states, that "if the Russt A N Barr ao a will eat his own words, and withdraw his remonstrance, the Eurzloa of the Fecticu will condescend to pass over this provocation in silence ; but if not, he vows he will answer it in a manlier at once striking and energetic." The Ru , sian Cba•3e re Afatres at Paris, upon the receipt of this answer, demanded his passport ; but was re fused. He then dispatched a Messenger with it to St. Petersburgh, an a declaration of war was ez• ;sailed upon his return. The Dublin Papers, for a fortnight past, have contained, in the shape of an Advertisement, a Let ter (tom the UNDEAL Sscax r•av, of which the fol- lowing is an extraft : " Dublin Castle, June M s lOC " I ant much concerned tint the search rn.ide in the Queen's roomy, for person; •,4ainst wh rm there was a capital charge, his, in its crinserpiences, occasioned any inconvenience or un pleasant feeling t you. The information was such as wilds it indispensably nice,..ary, that the most diligent se—ir;ny shout , ' lie lived •nd I have no h. 'nation in assuring yes, that the in tros un into your home was not in the slightest degree fr tin any visi.icion of your loyalty or at•a:', ,, itnt to the Government, but became secasary, from rh- peculiar circumstances of one of the parties fee whom swirl& was made. " SIR, " 1 h.ave, rte.. " A. MARSDEN. Gen Darrtukon, ICaq. Huntinvion-lodge." The Dublin Papers, received yesterday, also state, that a Mr. SMITK was, last week, brought up from Kilcullen. in the county of Kildare, to the Castle, where he underwent an elimination. H e was sus peacd to have arrived very lately from France; but it is said, that he was a resident of Baltimore, in America. from whence he lately arrived in the quar ter where he was arrested, of which he is a native. A Morning Paper, of the 7th July, says, Mr. SMIT H has been discharged; but of this we have no certain information. A man of the name of PATRICK Dovt z has also been lately apprehended in Dublin, by blapr Sias, and committed to prison, upon a charge of treasonable praftices. Some journeymen sailers, bricklayers, and shoemakers, have also been lately convifted of combination, and sentenced to various periods of imprisonment. In addition to the above, a private letter, which we received yes terday, says, under the date of June 6, " There is a report in circulation here, which is by some ►elieved, that soother riaing is to take place in the CUUTSII of a fortnight ; it has originate.d, I believe, fmm thr very particii- lar and stria orders whirls have been lately given to the Officers ..fr the daft/rut gua - dt What the orders are, or whether the Gowen, nent have any intelligence of an intended eiturration, is not known; but that stricter ankrs have beengtven is cer isonly the (ad." To these fags, a Dublin Paper, in the interest of Government, adds, " that certain confined mis creants are adopting a lofty tone, and privately circulating printed papers of an inflammatory kind ; and that the steps which have been lately taken by Government, and the vigilance now exercised (meaning, no doubt. the increased aaivity of Go vernment stated by our Correspondent), shew, that it is not a mistake to suppose, that the flame of trea son is rekindling." A London Evening Paper of yesterday, also in service of Government, adopts this construainn, and, with a sound discretion, a candid feeling, and shrewd conjeCture, peculiar to itself, subjoins, ". The Dublin Papers announce, that most of the working classes, the tailor., shoe makers, and bricklayers, in particular, have struck for more wages, and that at some of their secret meetings. on being broken in upon by the Police Officers, treasonable papers have been found. The late movements of the Brest fleet may probably be connedted with these unpleasant proceedings, and, we trust, Government will be on the alert." Here, then, we have a second edition of the tragedy of the 23d July, vamped up in a moment by the Dublin papers, and ready for representation, while their ftiends in London are ready to cry out dram encore! As, how ever, a rebellion in Ireland is, in our opinion, too se rious a subjea to be advanced upon light or equivo cal grounds, and as, we trust, the public in general, for their own welfare and tranquillity, are not the sport of every speculator in a public piint, whose imagination may have been over heated in contaa with the entail mind of the Loan Aovoc•Ta of SCOT Lawn, we wish to consider this evidence of TO. hellion, upon which Ireland is now conviaed, fairly and dispassionately. In the first place, then, the search made in Mr. HA musses's house, alluded to by Mr. MARSDEN, negatives the charge, in support of which it is adduced. We admit that the party, whoever be may be, was charged with treason ; but are there no old traitors of 1796 and 1603, still out standing and untried ? All the recent trials for treason in Ireland, have been for old offences ; and the pro bability is, that the party of whom Government were in pursuit, is an offender of the one or the other of these periods. The case of Do v LE, that is next relied upon is of that description. He was deeply engag ed in the rebellion of 1798, and was an image at the depot in Mass-lane, prior to the e plosion in July last. He is said to have belonged to the desperate knot ef traitors called Fini,hers, that is assassins, but it is not pretended that he has been taken up upon a new charge, as implicated in any new treason or rebellion. The next proof relied upon. is the com bination among certain classes of tradesmen.— As for these combinations, the Evening Paper of yesterday, to which we have alluded, does not I hesitate to say that treasonable papers have been found upon the parties at these meetings. Most of these gregarious tailors and shoemakers have been tried and punished for combination. Those, whose trials and sentences we have not yet learned, are only charged , with comb nation. Will any one believe that the laws would not have been enforced against these men, and that traitors and rebels have bean suffered to escape as men only seele.ig to raise tk •ir wages ? But is combination a crime that cannot exist in Ireland but as a cover of some higher offence? We have had combining boot-closers and other trades• men lately in London, hut we do not find their pro ceedings have been connect.'d wilt treasonable prac tices and the movements of the Brest fleet. Why then should combination in Dublin be hailed as the signal of treason and insurreaion? In Dublin the necessaries of life are as dear as in London, and wages lower. The late depreciation of the coin has also added to the difficulties of the lower classes. All these cir cumstances, though they do not palliate combina tions for encrease of wages, surely do not make them more suspicious than they are in England. where their avowed and ostensible objea is allowed to be the real one. We feel ourselves, therefore, justified in considering this alarm of a new rebellion in Ireland, as a mere idle speculation, or int.aded to answer a particular purpose. Fr la .ile ynoment Mr. PITT came into power, it as as reasonable to ex pea encreased aaivity and vigilance on the part of the Irish Government. But if the necessary conse quence of that encreased vigilance must be the ap ' prehension and pursuit of rebels and traitors, who have survived old crimes, it is not fair, upon ' this ground alone, to infer, that treason is again hatching, and to spread the terror and alarm of new rebellions. I.etters were received in town on Wednesday from HoHasid, dated the 7th inst. ; and there was a rumour that an embargo had taken place in all the parts of FrAnce. We could not trace this, however, to any respeftable authority, and it made no impression on the public mind. 'fhe Paris news contained in the Dutch Papers, will be found in the lost page. Yesterday morning, soon after breakfast, Their MAJLSTItS, the Pitiscsisrs, and Dukes of KINT and C%.MIIILAND, walked in Kew Gardens. Yesterday, at the Common H all, THOMAS PARRY, Esq. Citizen and GirJler, and G toting SCHOLLY, Esq. Citizen and Distiller, were, by a great show of hands, elected Sheriffs of this City, and Sheriff of the County of Middlesex, for t to year ensuing. A Common Council will be held to-muriow, for the purpose of sealing a deed. The Admiral Aptin, East Indianan, Captain R. "MRS has been taken by the squadron under Admi ral Limon. This intelligence is received by the Dutch Indiaman, Le Misauie, sent into Plymouth by His MAJLSiv's frigate La /..in ' the Captain of which states, that when he left the Isle of France there were lying there the Ceuntets of Sather/a/4 country ship, Admiral Alin , and a brig, all captured and sent in by Lutois. The Admiral Aplin is supposed to have been taken by the enemy off the Cape, at.d to be the same ship reported to have been captured some time back, anti erroneously stated as the Euphrates t she sailed from Portsmouth the 28th August last, bound for Madras and Bengal. The e/dinotw/ Atha had on board about 12,000 oz. of silver, and a considerable quantity of copper coin, together with several stand of small arms for the use of the regiments in India. 'the following is a corred list of the passengers who embarked on board the Admire!Ap/at : Cayain Moffatt of the Malay Regiment, and Lady. Lieutenant 11 Ar‘iiis Lady, and Child. Lieutenant IV. P. FA, s, of the Rumba , ' Nlirine. C.iptain Illeury, 19th ()racoons, and Lady. Captain De Mewl. W R.ighleigh, and Filater, Cadet*. She was the last ship of the past season, and s tiled from England with the Geofirana. Her cargo is estimated at about 15,0001. By the arrival of the ships fsom St. Helena, we learn that the gentleman who proceeded to the Cape of Good 1-fope, to enter into an explanation respelling the recapture of the Mary whaler, had beenfavoitrably received by the Dutch Government. The Sal/sante, that captured the Inins and Uni corn whalers eff St. Helena, i► commanded by Sum co FI, who said he was proceeding to cruise in the Bay of Bengal. This is the same officer who did so much mischief in India, is the late war. The Company's ships, &donna," and Grorziama, are appointed to cruise off the Island of St. Helena. Captain Lawroao is appointed to the command of the Petypitemers, of 64 guns, at Chatham, at which port that ship has had a complete repair. A large commodious place is ordered to be built immediately in Woolwich dock-yard, for the pur pose of manufacturing cables, and all kinds of ropes, for the use of the King's skips. St IRO.k7T, ti, We have had a most jei l tipesittons niglsri . *a a more awful or distressing 5ig1g.44 0 ,4 e ow the Beach presented this morning I never saw ; f eag . ments of a wreck floating in all direaions ; greatest part of the deck of a large trading Te ne t. supposed to have been lost on the Goodwin Saadi, is now lying on the beach; some kegs of liquce, bags of cotton seed, and a medicine chest, have bees secured, but nothing that can lead to any certaiatv as to what country the ship belonged, or whether th e unfortunate crew have been saved; a small boat his come on shore, supposed to belong to the wreck, with the name 4 , Peter Tr.p" on her stern, bu t di, is the only boat, and as the ship must have hm I irge one, I hope the crew have saved them Ayes is the Urger boats sh.: must have had on busrd, G o d grant it may be so!—Some suppose the ship to i n Dutch, others Swedish ; but from the cotton mei, I should suppose it to be an American. It is surprising to see the eagerness and temerity with which the sailors and fishermen attempt to se. cure parts of the wreck as they float on shore; oes man caused a great degree of interest by his lad's. cretion in endearmring to attain what afterwards proved to be the medicine chest; although the s ei was very rough, and the shore very bold, he veal. Lured in his shirt and trowsers and reached the chest; having no hold, and endeavouring to push his prize betore him, he was very near being lost ; the waves dashed him on the gravel, and, deprived of all power of helping himself, he was immediately hurried back; and, had not a sailor ventured in ar.d lai.i held uf his shirt with a boat hook, he mast inevi, Lave perished. The scene was interesting 1v!ye.,..1 de. scription ; several ladies (for the pier was crouddli fainted, and nothing was to be heard but screams and exclamations. The boat was putting oa:, but he must have been drowned before it could haw reached him. Mr. Fosrta mean, to set out vpis his retina to Dublin on Tuesday lieu. Sir Davin and La.V U :•tsv proceeded front Newry on hoard the Corry ?::eket for Liverpool, on a tour to Lakes of Westmoreland. SJuth Wales, upon th, 2.7 th last. Married, on N: -tday, at Mary-la-bonne Church. the Rev. FRANCIS LLZ to 1!:_s BALL, filter to Li. WARD IRI , DHES B tLL, Esq -cessor to the late Admiral Sir Eown en 1-112 , :u L.. _ _ EXI AORDINAIIY 13111111.111 e fOneWliig gular birth appeared in a Morning l'aper of ye,. terday : " On Sunday last, at Bath, John Walton, Esq. of Church Lane, Whitechapel." The next mile delivery we hear of will probably be of a Street or a Square! On Tuesday at Newmarket, before di! Races, s foot nee was run between Mr. hlcl.l.lli and Lord F. BEN TINCK, for fi4 . .y guineas a wde. over de Beacon Course, WhiC.l WAS won by Mr. MEMILISA by about fifty yards : the winner was 38 mimres and 10 seconds in doing it: both of them walked pan cf the way. The M. .vrouri, arrived at Plymouth, sailed from Batavia about the 4 22 d January, la,t, put i:Ito the Isle of France on the •ti9th February. ;:pl sailed thence nu the I tith March. The 31issotai kit at Batavia the following vessesls: the Hem YcA••• sat, of Baltimore: Financier, SECO...ANT, Borer.; Relecrl, DALE, BAlTbore ; Erre,* T Anttts, hope, You, Martha, EisNoiescla, Rebecca, M lota, New Jetseg, Coo PLR, ' ; Bed Sa:er, Coots a, Boston; Ho , r, Tri.sis, Beverley; .41 Moselesm non, DE/NIL/Ls, Baltimore. According to advices from the coasts, the French National Flotilla continues its manceavres upon different points with a.tivity. The latter end of law month was distinguished at Sables by the fortunate arrival of a convoy of ISO flat-bottomed boat', et enrted by several gun vessels. It was to no put pose that the English cruisers attacked the rear of tris division from the Isle of Rhe to the Road of Sables. The Kura of Swericts will, most probably. re main at Carlsruhe till autumn. His )41 AJ &ET v ap plies himself closely to business from seven in the morning till two in the at noon, every day. The Queer R wens: Of ET KURIA, in sending her new credentials to her Ambassador in France, bas written two letters of congt at lation wish ber own hand, one for the Ell? tROR and another for the Ev- P iss, which their *MA J LIT I s have condescended :o answer in a m inner highly honourable to their send. meats, and flattering to the Queen Regent. The Empress JOSEPH:Nei letter was accompanied wi:il Her MAJE.TYN portrait, set round with diamonds , valved at ten thousand Louis irid-s.—CGs:eite France.) An article from Frankfort has some s?eatistiora in die shape of cpie,tions, wh a :he most iagen , o 4 s politicians of the day will he unah!e t o o p,i,ei Among them it is asked, " Will the Ears !ere . 1 Itt:ssts shortly declare wrs against Fiance, aed will the Poex abdicate the See of St. Peter r' The registers for voting the hereditary Imperial dignity in the family of Emperor N E 0 ice now closed at Nlontz. Of 792 votes. two only wvre against it ; and they were those of the public exe cutioner, and the sexton of the cathedral, v.how °d ices will no Conk suffer from the destruFtion of anarchy by the new organisation.—(La A private letter from Paris, says, a On the scaf fold, Geoeoes made a motion, as if be intended to speak ; on this the greater part of the populace ifs' mediately took off - their hats, and a dead silence prevailed. when on a signal being given, the mil tary immediately surrounding the place of elt01• Yon, raised a cry of " Vaa l'E.noperrigr!" which ea tirely drowned the voice of the viaini. Thus is' terrupted. he gracetully raised his right hand 10' wards Heaven, and after wards laying it upun Res breast, bowed most respetifully, and retired root,. paces. The executio n immediately took PLO , w the midst of a general murmur." copitT C fittings be quint . it g Ise month o incimatir up on the west to versatiot mess; be decline I k froth I k was ar of more than the nest, she struilion the Deli man of he wish ready tc It may aunt w to have Laving the Def lenge, : caned and the event g the bui Learner as he and 1.1 beard the Del The eared, 8. A I Q. I in the y Q I went it MAI Q. I slid he in t.r.14 eomin; (suer I aw.ty vrh-tt h rusde t that for hir Q. ; procur both si it entirel apponl On th.t to nly Con 4l, rn I had, QIII narai. ticula. mann' panic omit), do -1411 i, April • leav Q e be m Le at