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C IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE Or LORDS-THURSDAY, FIAT 14. The consideration of the Irish Appeal Elute, Steditouton t. ft edinetrin, being testi melt, Mr. PlOiner was heard at emisid.... able length on the part of the Appellant. Further hearing de ferred till to morrow. !Sir J. STEWART, accompanied be several Members, brought up a Message from the House of Common:, in pur port, legurrting the , this Earl of St. Vincent be permitted to :vtsod t r lielectCommittee of that House, to wlinn the con,irlmation of the ease of Home Riggs Popham, Bart. is referred. on the Meilen of Lord IIAWKESBURY, it was ordered to eorruniinicatal to the Messengers, that their Lords ipr yenta acrid an answer by messengers of then own ; which was aeenrdi agtv thine by the turd Chancellor. Several Private Bills were brought up from the Commons, by Mr. Ft-newts, Mr. H. Brows*, Hoe. Mr. Pierrepteit, and other Gentlemen, which were severally read a hist time. . The Bills upoe the Table were read in their several stages ; these were mostly third readings. The OnLir of the Day for the second reading of a Bill (in troduced by the Eail of Radnor), d' Fur enabling Bodies Cor porate, in the eases and undar the restrictions therein con tained, to 0 •'ant the conection of I.ocal Oaths, administered by the a Id Bolies Corporate," being read, the Bill was accord• ingly read a newel time. Lord IIAWIESBURY fit it proper to oppose the further pr.rgress of the Bill Whit their Lordships would do, were they to pass the Bill in queraiou, would be to enact a. general law for a pelican use a principle which lie must abeam oalrect to. If any particular Corporation, or body of men, felt theenselyea aggrieved or hiconvenienced be the mode it which the uadis they were obliged to take were dictated, let Clem curtly to Parliament, state the spcific gdevance, and - whet they con:civet! to be a seasonable remedy, and be was willing us pay every attantiou to it ; but to a general law, such e s the present B II went to enact, in cense:octet of some dif leulties exietieined. or objections entertained, to the form of their oaths, b? the Corporation of a partieu'ar place, was what he could net mania it.. He should them fore resist **further progress of the Bill. The East of RADNOR defended the eraunds on which he brought forward the measure, and adverted to borne rases in which a corn:Clio:1 or alteration of the Oaths was evident's , necessary. It had been his duty, in an office which he had the honour to bold (we believe that of Recorder of New Sarum ), to administer the Oaths to certain Members of a Cerporations parts nil which were nositive nousen‘e, soil other parts Ineon ststect wali, or contradictory to each other; these we., re rreel to by the Ruble Earl, and created some risibility among then atedships There was every proper caution adopted eat the provisions of the Bill, to prevent any improper use being mole or it. The interventian of the Judges of Assists was required by the Bill, and, after these, the Loh' Chancellor was raeurred ro, as checks and matron!' with respect to proceed ings unaer the autlioritv of the Bill ; at the same time, Its Lord ship did not seem willing to press the Bill- The LORD CHANCELLOR was willing to allow his Noble Friend every credit, as to the purity of be motives in coming forward; and the object, which was gne..l in itself, was endea voured to he strained by the purest means; hut, with his Noble Friend wh•o first spoke, he Tither disapproved of enact ing a griieral law, when a remedy was caUed for on the part only of a particular place. He thought the mode of ap ilisrirr tia cirenrtortanger of the particular case, fur redress to the Crievn, would be a preferable mode to that pre.. scribed be th • Bir,—.t reedear and more unesceptionahle made. hyper the whole, lie would tag leave to recommend his Noble Emend to withdraw the Bill. TI,. Led of RADNOR spoke shortly in explanation af.er which the Lee. COIANCILIAII moved, That the Bill he eomminsri this day three months." which was ordered ae xird• and, pa consequence, the B li is 40ii see the present Sess'orl—Adjouraod till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Me>sage from the Lin& announced that thee• had *reed to the Insh Loan of 1,R00,0001 the Irish Postage, the Inah Pronto's - n - 1 Noir., and a rarriety of piirate B !Is. Mr MATTHEWS moved ha leave in bring in a Bill for olteriny the AO of the I th or the King, at ler as relutcrl to the penalties by Ilia...intr., on e.ancies four wht.elcd wagons, of six niche., us the turoynkit ;went, whin. drawn by four bones_ Sir R. BUXTON 'Aid, he would not divide the House upon the pnosut Motion, though he was convinced t'..at the public roods woeid Dot lice, Min-wheeled witgrins of the de.cription eluded to, and that howew r unpopular private Informer may be, they were airvo:utely necerikry, at long u no public In fame's were employed by Clatern meta. Ile trusted, that sit the Connntes, it would be made !oral, as it could nook be go lowan", wetted —Leave was then giros to bring in the Bail. Mr. LI/MOCK moved that there be laid before the Howe Aeceniat of the Dividend, paid by the Bank of Eligivnel to the South Sea House, from the 10th of October, 1604, to the !siert nerind. Also 1.3 Account of the sum% still remaining tuipa".‘l, and a Lig of the persona w entitled t o D uidse d,,, which dad not yet been paid.—Ordered. Au Account wa• ordeesl to be laid before the House, of the wen/Maki' of Use Sank of 500,0001. voted by Parliament, for the puree/mg the Inland Navigatioti in Ireland. THE TENTH REPORT. Mr. LEICESTER. Chairman of the Committee on the Tenth Report of the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry, reported from them, that, on a full con sideration of the restriitions and limitations con tained in the minutes of the Committee of Con ference, they were of opinion that they were not enabled to examine Lord Viscount Melville satisfac torily upon the points on which they required his at tendance. SIR HOME POPIIAM. Sir JAMES STUAR P moved, as Chairman of the Committee appointed to enquire into the ex pences of the repairs of His Majesty's ships Rom ney and .Le Stn.ible, when under the command of Sir Home Popham, in the Red Sea, that a message be sent to the Lords, requesting that they would permit the attendance of Earl St. Vincent to be ex amined before the said Committee, if he thought proper ; which was agreed to, and a message sent accordingly. PADDINGTON CANAL COALS. Mr. HUSKISSON, after a few prefatory obser •ations, in a low tote cf voice, moved, that a Committee be appointed to enquire into, and report upon the expediency of allowing coals to be brought, to a limited extent, through the Grand Jundion Canal by Paddington to London, subjed to the •ame duties as those that were brought coastways. Mr. Itt.:RDON said, though he was sensible of the difficulty and inexpediency of the measure in contemplation, he should not objeO to the motion Dow made. He must, however, observe, that the proceedings of the Committee of the Grand Jundion C..nal had lately shown a great disposition to en croachment, and insomuch that the House should be aware of them. It was originally proposed, that a mark should be set up at an intermediate place, between the c(•'I ieries and London, for the carriage of coal; but the scheme was since altered, and the mark removed to Paddington. It might appear to some a very good experiment to tilde:wo to bring coals at a cheaper rate to the collieries ; lout he was afraid this measure would prove 4estrtative to the several collieries in which less capitals were em ployed. Mr. DUPRE made a few observations to the same effed. Sir M. W. RIDLEY was apprehensive, that by affording this indulgence and encouragement to the Cona:s, we should thereby greatly ailed the coast atie, which would c.at off that &mud mource, !Jr" which at this moment furnished nn less thin 30,000 brave and hardy seamen to the British Navy. Mr. CURWEN spoke nearly to the same eireit; after which the motion was agreed tn, and this Committee appointed, with the condition that all who attended it slunild have voices. Lord CASTLE REAG H gave notice. that on to morrow he should move for leave to Firing in a Bill for regulating the County Inflmaries in Ireland UNIVERSMES ADVOWSONS BILL. Mr. PITT moved for the first reading of the Bill, brought t!p horn the Lords, for repealing sus much of the A6t of George 11. as restrains the Col leges in both the Universities from purchasing Ad vowsons of Livings, beyond the amount of half of the number of Fellows in the said Colleges, which was agreed to ; the Bill ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday next, and to Ise printed. CIIARGitS .kGkissr FkRl, ST. VINCENT. Admiral MARK HAM, pursuant to a notice be gave on Monday last, moved for a :lumber of Naval Papers necessary for the elucidation of those docu ments moved for by an Hon. Gentleman (Mr..lef fery) : first, for an account of His Majesty's ships in commission, from the Ist of March, 1801, to do. in 1804; their original cost ; the sums expend ed in their repair • the numbers built by contraß, and those in His dajesty's Dock-yards; the return of masts and spars, and the time they were likely to last, &c. Mr. PITT thought that as the motions seemed to be very voluminous, it would be sufficient to read them from the Chair. For his own part, he only meant now, as 011 a former occasion, to Wye& to such as may disclose any correspondence relative to the sources from which timber was procured for el e service. Several motions were thee read from the Chair, arid agreed to, among which were :—A copy of t.l.e order made in January, 1796, for always keeping a stock of timber in His Majesty's Dock r.rd , sufficient for three years consumption; a copy of the Report of the Commissioners and Sur veyors of Sherwood Forest, respeding the quantity of timber therein proper tar the use of the Royal Navy ; and the correspondence s...ith the Navy Board respeding the cor.trats for the supply of timber. Mr. PITT objeded to this motion, on the ground he Iy-fore stated, of its disclosing the resources of the Navy, and thereby posably giving the enemy an opportunity of embarrassing them. Admiral MARKHAM replied, that the qua lity of the timber must greatly depend on the places from which it was brought. If, however, the Right Honourable Gent. persevered in his objeCtion, he should he unwilling to press it; and though he did not think the objedion a valid one, he should for bear to discuss it, as that must have the same effed as the Motion that was deprecated. He saw no good reason to apprehend that the enemy would be enabled to intercept our supplies of timber, which always came home very regularly, and though he should not insist upon the Motion far the present, he wished it to be understood that he cer tainly should bring it forward again, if it should be found necessary.—The Motion was then withdrawn. Amongstthenumerous Motions afterwards agreed to, were, Accounts of the number of Apprentices and Shipwrights employed in I lis Majesty's dock yards, doling Earl St. Vincent's Administration; of the average of ships built in Merchants' yards, and in the Dock-yards; of the ships lam...lied in both places, for the use of the British Navy; of the se presentations from the Ship-weights to the Navy. Board in 1803 and 1804, &c. &c. LORD VIsCoUNT MELVILLE. Lord HENRY PETTY said, that, from some circumstances which lately came to his knowledge, he should not think it necessary to bring forward, to-morrow, the Motions which stood for that day , relative to theplaces held by V iscount Melville in Scot land ; but, as he did not know whether those cir cumstances were such es should induce him altoge ther to abandon it, he would let it stand over sine die. THE ELEVENTH REPOr.T. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER adverted to a Notice which had been given for Mon day next, relative to the Eleventh Report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, and suggested, that, for the purpose of convenience, it would be better to defer it to a later period. Mr. GREY, in the absence of his Learned Friend (Mr. Serjeant Best), said, that he did not suppose that he could obka to postponing it to Thursday next..--lhe Motion was altered accord ingly. A Petition was presented from Mr. D. Cox, and others, against the provisions of the Bill now pend ing. for the preventing of smuggling in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, which created crimes, and imposed penalties, which never before existed. The Petitioners prayed to be heard by themselves, or Counsel, before the Committee on the Bill, which was agreed to. On the Motion of Mr. STURGF.SS BOURNE, the Order for going into a Committee on the Smug gling Bill was then deferred to Wednesday next. Mr. JOHNSTON E moved that there be laid before the House an Account of the Sales of the old Siores and Droits of Admiralty, from the Ist of Ja nuary, 1803, to the latest period that the same could be made up; and also an Account of the expenditure of the 100,0001. already produced to the public, by the sale of the said :tures. Ordered. R I TS ,, I VI TREATY. _ _ _ Mr. GREY observed, that, oa the first day cf the session, a communication was made to the House by His Majesty, stating, that overtures of peace had been mad* to him by the enemy, but that he was induced to decline them, on account of inti mate and confidential negotiations, then going on with Foreign Powers. He had to remark also, that, in proposing the sums of money requitedfor the ser vice of the year, the Right Hon. Gentleman had appropriated a considerable part of the supplies for Continental purposes. Since that time, he did not attempt to make any enquiries upon the subjed, or press the Right Hon. Gentleman to any disclosure whatever; neither did he mean to do so now, it it should be thought by any means indiscreet or im proper; but, as the session was now drawing to wards a conclusion, he should wish. if there was no serious objettion to it, to ask, whether there was any reason to expel, that the House would shortly receive any communication upon that subjett. from His Majesty Th'e CHANCELLOR of .the EXCHIQUER replied, that as soon as the business was in .a suf ficient degree of forwardness, or absolutely con cluded, His Majesty would be advised to make a communication of if to Parliament; but he thought it for the present, sufficient to say, that the subjeCt alluded to was not yet in such a state as would render a commnnication adviseable or necessary. Mr. FOX wished to know whether there was any probable hope that any communication would be made in the course of the present session ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that any shade of opinion which could yet be given on that =Weft might possibly turn out to be merely conjeftural. Mr. FOX still thought, that some opinion might have been given, as to the possibility of some in formation being given to Parliament. If the bu siness was not yet concluded, it was probable, that, from the distance of those powers with which we were supposed to be negociating, and the lateness of the session, the Parliament may be ororrgued before any treaty could be brought to a conclusion ; therefore, without pressing for any explanation of the nature of it, lie thought, at least, that some general communication ought to be expefted. Here the conversation ceased. IRISH ELECTION BILL. Colonel BAG WELL moved the order of the day for going into a Committee on this Bill. He said, that, at a meeting of several Irish Members at his house, the provisions of the bill had been discussed, and he foresaw that some objeftion would be made to it. What he therefore should wish to propose was, to go into a Commiuee, in which the amendments might be discussed, and the bill afterwards recom mitted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that, if the bill was likely to lead to any dis cussion, he should wish it to be postponed, in order to make way for the next order, respeCting Commis sioners of Enquiry, on the military expenditure of the country. Lord MATHEW, Mr. M. FITZOCRA ID, and Mr. 0. Poasoaav, were for postponing the bill till next session; as several Irish Members, who wished to attend the discussion, were necessarily preparing, at this time, to return. Colonel BAGWELT.. then agreed to defer the Committee on the bill till to-morrow. COMMISSIONERS OE MILITAV( ENQUIRY. The House having resolved itself into a Commit tee OR the hill for appointing Commissioners to en quire into the abuses in the military expenditure of the country ; 'Mr. A Lessens:a in the Chair; The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that both in Cie general plan of the Bill, and the names of the persons seleCted for its mention, be had thought proper to follow the example of the appointment of Commissioners cf Accounts, insti tuted about 20 years ago, and whose reporewas produCtive of so much benefit, and afforded such general satisfaetion. It must be obvious' to the House, that in the description of the persons to be appointed on such as important duty, it was neces sary to have persons every way qualified fur the va rious branches it would embrace. It would be in dispensibly necessary to have persons intimately acquainted with all the details of the service of the army, persons equally conversant with civil cecono my, persons who understand the laws as they ap ply to them, and lastly, persons eminent in the mercantile line. In this selection, he had studi ously avoided the names of • any persons who could be liable to any imputation of party, or of political conneCtions Some of them were person ally altogether unknown to him, and lie judged of them solely by what be knew or understood of their charatfers and qualifications. For the mitary de tails, be should mention an officer who served with high charafter under Generals Abercrombie, Sir Charles Stuart, and others, with great distinCtion in that particular department—Major General Oakes, and with him, Colonel Beckwith, of the Guards, whose qualifications could not be disputed. For the civil ttetmomy, he was induced to propose Lieutenant-General lhinkwater, who, after a long and meritorious professional life, had now retired from active service. For the legal part, he should mention Mr. Cux, one of the Waster , . in Chancery, and Mr. Templeton. For mercantile judgment. Mr. Peters and Mr. Charles Bos inquet. In men tioning these Gentlemen, he spoke of them in terms of the highest encomium; and their names were put from the Chair, and agreed to unanimously. In reading the Bill, when the Chairman came to the ;tossers vested in the Commissioners appointed to carry it into etecuti.m, the words its the Bill are, " that they shall enquire into all abuses that do exist within the said departments." Mr. GILES said, he thought these words did not afford sufficient scope to the Commissioners, as they only went to present abuses existing at this moment, and not to spilt as have previously existed. He would, therefore, move, that the following words be added as an amendment—that the words " have existed" be introduced before " do exist," by which it would run thus—" that they shall er quire into all abuses that have existed, or that do exist." These .vere the words of the Aft appoint ing the Naval Commissioners; and they had pro duced so much benefit to the public by their In quiry and Reports thereon, that he thought this Act could not be worded too nearly to that. Mr. PIT i• objected to this on the ground that the aft was to be imperative on the Commissioners, and the words " have existed" were too general, as there would be no limitation as to time; they might go back to any period. Mr. FOX thought there could be no danger of that ; the discretion of the Commissioners was a sufficient limitation, and the best that could he re sorted to. The Naval Commissioners were left to their discretion, and had not gone further back than was necessary. He therefore approved the ."tmend ment. Mr. PITT said lie could not aj , , , ree to that raw. young. He had no objection to a retrospett Into all matters of great importance. but it was absurd to svppose the Commissioners were to inquire into every possible irregularity. He was willing, how ever, to meet the Amendment cf the Itonourable and learned Gentleman as far as he could, and therefore proposed that the words in the Bill should stand as they do at present—" all snch abuses as do ezist"--and that the following should he added by I way of amendment :—" and if in their opinion they shall see occasion, into all such abuses as ha:e es isted"—which words he moved as an Amendment. This produced a very long and desultory conyersa timl, in which Mr, biles's Amendm ent , . was sup _ ported by Mr. For, Mr. W!titbrcad, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. C. Ponsonby, sod itihnital Markham ; that of Mr. Pitt was supported by K t . Rose, the Attorney-Gencral,. the Solicitor , General, Mr. S. Bourne. Sir W. Burroughs, and Mr. H. Addington. The Hon. Members on both sides re peatedly urged their opinions ; when the question at length being loudly called for, a division took place on MrJ , Pitt's amendment. Ayes, 98—Noes, 12 —Majority, .56. After some further conversation, the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Bill for continuirg th? Commission of Naval Inquiry was committed, and the report ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. KIT gave notice, in the Committee, that St was his intention to move an amendment in this Bill, similar to that in the last. Mr. FOSTER brought in a Bill for regulati , T the business of distillers in Ireland, which was read a first time; ordered to be read a second time to. morrow, and printed. The Property Regulation Bill .vas read a third time, and passed. The P rize Bill was Committed j the report re- ceived, and ordered to be taken into further coni. deration to-morrow week. The Land Tax Commissioners' Bill was read a third time and passed. The other Orders of the My were postponed; and the House adjourned at Half past Ton o'Clock. TEIE Barris] , LONDOS, FRIDAY. M*r 17. Private letters were yesterday received from the Aidlssa frigate, Capt. Goer, dated off Cape Finis terre, April 30, by whi-h we learn that Marquie Cosy IV ALL is, and the Gentlemen of his suite, were in high health and spirits, hav:ag had a most plea. sant passage across the Bay of Biscay. In cow. quence of some intelligence which Capt. Goan had received, he altered his intention of touching at Madeira, and it was expeaed they wouleproceed diren for Bengal. We lave copied from Tits Gtose, a reletlahle Evening Paper, the official account of the siege of Delhi.—The fortifications of the city were in the most ruinous state, and the native troops deserted in great num.bers rhat British valour finally pre vailed, and obliked the enemy to relinquish the ' andertaki.:3, after a siege of nin day , ;in the course of which they made an elf .rt to str rra the place. TILe city of Delhi is ten miles in circumference, and never before sustained a si?ge. A private letter from PArig states the arrival ea Russian Ambassador in that city, charged with a prop-aition for an accommodation between this country and France. According to report, it pro- poses that Boys A r.taT ea title, as Emperor of France, shall be acknowledged ; that England shall retain Malta, and Russia the Seven Islands; and dad Bon AAAAA t shalt receive some farther compensa tions for these concessions. If these terms were re fused, the letter adds, that the P.ussian Arobass, der was instruaed to inform the FrencU Govern ment that the treaty of alliance, offensive and de fensive, between England and Russia, would be im mediately carried into effca. Ow Portsmouth correspondent states, that a sign'al was made by the telegraph, on Wednesdsy evening, to send a fast sailing cutter to Plymout±i, to prevent the sailing of Admiral Cottanowoov, with the detached squadron from the Channel flee, for the West Indies. This countermand was given in oonsequence of the return of the combined Freacb and Spanish fleets to Cadiz. • We have received Dutch Papers to the 12tbs e"r• wining the Paris ncws to the Bth instant. Tig.r contents are of little or no interest. The flillnwlng are tetrads received froth !erect by the Lisbon mail, the arrival of which sv.s:- timinced yesterday : " Lisbon, May 4. " The combined witsedttm have !return; ;1 to Cali: Bay, eh 4 they were seen 011 the lid u;t. and were counted £0 &tattle low (mol facia voght ILivsl ;at only eighteen sailed rt.* tthlia, it is romectrited that the two width nal lips math.* joined them at me." d. Sim Lieu, A l m 41. " Yesterday and today several pieces t wreck, MIRA masts, apart. dec. have bzen thrown .share at this pinert as d" eineml tte.d bodies, in so mut ;Levet a rttte, as to !in "l t. Vie eninnotition of an engsgcnieut haying taken place betYala t tor too Horde squadr,st." Tbel.nt(r Warren arrived at Plymouth on day last, from the squadron under the orders," Attars! Sir Rcncar CALDER, ofF Ferrol, to wh o station several transports had been convoyed' provisions, Ste. The squadron were all well, sag had not heard any thing of the Combined Fleets. The report of the com :Tenchbine,' ench and Spo il fleets having returned to Cadiz, four short of til l number that sailed from that port, is nm true. 1 10 fat is the contrary way. They teturned with addition of two ships of the line. It is not AP" habl: that they may hare put to sea again since di! 224 ult. The Wasp sloop of war looked m;nol . into Cadiz oar that day, and counted ei sail of I" hue, and several frigates, but they had their bent, and were all ready for A start. A letter Portsmouth states a report, that they had ;:oice 4o attempted to join, the Brest Beet. g TI! cous7: C•—svenot &Mal veasettais::::siriiiw • ete.n l icwagiehts l l:7 l 2lr n tian;Embeim l nd i r i osil e tht7;n t ieai:e l shita i ncl e is.ucptc:l l , hAfss n h . n ion ine ab i l i e un v i r ta ed r nos ted medallionsand inlaic ...! 4/ d ews ; but, ' graceful t h a n the i I'llitleil: la li d g:ll .4: : v , ::: xvb a i i . . .•. p l if6,l ll)°9eir iim il r' . 2F ,,, 4 isc. 4"- I R,4b..):: : : E ch7vittarwi ß w o yobitu ' r : erati . :ll u te : tise.....cd m ab !:: . l' si t in kia t i ßadu , C t h uB d ltP e .... c' ,l: ll l l . 3 l7..efol l k ") ,T e sit .lPee v ii e ,: e la°l ,lt as , tal : h:dg 7 , : Ph .m i ii t i d atistralia.—Dss Nadi, Mow, C Yesterday it teer IntantrY, St James's, SI North Rri um% Clerkenwell, S Doke of Cur C. 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