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IMPERItIL PARLIAMEN 2. HOUSE OF PEERS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16.,.. Tile 'Bills before the House were forwarded in their resreEtive stages. These mostly stood fur third readings, and were accordingly so read and gassed. Among them was the Malt Tax Bill. Some private business was disposed of; after which the House adjourned till to-morrow, when a Commission takes place, for giving the Royal As sent to certain Bills. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, DEC. 16. A PETITION was presented from the Maltsters of Henle'y upon Thames against the Wetting Bill, and ordered to lie on the Table. The Militia Exemption Amendment Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time .; 'to-morrow. MALTA. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee on the Expiring Laws, which contained a Resolution for continuing the Laws respeding the Trade and geographical situation of Malta. General GASCOYNE said, he expeEted that the Minister would have said something respelling the Question he was pot prepared to answer yesterday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied, that the answer was contained in the - Reso- Intion just read. He was-not apprised until yes terday, when this Report was first printed, that the Laws for regulating the Trade of Malta, and for considering it as a part of Europe, wr.:c so near expiring, and for this he tool•: no shame to himself, as he and the House could depend that the . Committee would not suffer• them to expire without bringing the subjeEt under the considera tion of the House. The Report was then received, and a Bill ordered for continuing those Laws relating to Malta. The Bill was afterwards brought in, read a first, and ordered to he read a second time to.morrow. Mr. SMITH acquainted the House, that His Ma jesty had been waited upon-with their last Address, and had been pleased to give orders accordingly. A Message from the Lords announced their having agreed to the Malt, Rum and Sugar Duty, and five millions Exchequer Bills, and Qualification Indemnity Bills. A Messenger from the Admiralty presented a Copy of the, Patent of the Navy :Ind Admiralty Boa tdi. AFFAIRS OF THE CARN:'TIC, Mr. SHED rose, in pursuance to a notice he had given yesterday, to move for certain Papers relating to the Affairs of the Carnatic. He did not intend to ask for any information • beyond what would stritily apply to his objea, and should leave the quantum at the discretion of persons in office. If fie thought it before a matter for Parlia mentary investigation, he was not induced to sup pose it less pressing ott the Justice, Dignity, and Honour of the House, from the unexpeted and cri tical death of the person who was supposed to have been treated with injustice. The impossibility of now redressing him did not take the matter altoge_ ilier out of the reach of Parliament, and he should therafora ennAne hirmelf at present to the mere state ment of his Motion, which should be for an Ad. dress to His Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to give orders that there be laid before the House, copies c,f all the Correspondence since the 26th of March, i Soo, between the Go vernor-General and the Governor and Council of - Madras, relative to the Deposition of the late Nabob of Oude, the Minutes of the Proceedings of Council on the same, the Instruetions from the Mi nisters at home respeaing that event, a Copy of the Will of the late Nabob's Father, faithfully trans lated from the Persian Records, the Correspriridence between the late Nabob and the English Govern ment, &c. &c. ' Mr. WALLACE said that as the correspondence was not very numerous, he saw no great objeaion to the. Motion. Convinced that any inquiry into the Affairs of the Carnatic would redound highly to the honour and credit of the Noble Marquis and the Noble Lord engaged in those transaaions, he was willing to leave the matter to the justice, ho nour and wisdom of the House. • Sir T. METC ALF E expressed Iris convi(tion that it would reflect equal honour on the Diredors of the East India Company, who had no disposition to withhold any thing the House might think pro per to call for. Mr. WALLACE explained. that he meant not to recommend any inquiry, and only alluded to what he thought would be the result, should the House determine that it should be instituted: Mr. SiIERIDAN'S Motion was then put and agreed to.• He next stated that his wish was to have a sufficient number printed of these Papers which ar rived since the last Session. Of these, some had been, he believed, printed before the dissolution of Parliament, but nut distributed, and it would there fore perhaps save an expellee to print no more than woald be sugicient for the use of Members. Mr. FRENCH said, that if the papers were not distributed, these must remain a sufficiency of them, 2s the number of Members was now the same as last year. The SPEAKER observed, that the Motion was quite regular, and could not be absurd ; and he should make an inquiry into the numbers now in hand, and give orders that no more should be printed than what was necessary.--After which the Jt ion for printing the Papers was agreed to. The House went through Committees on the .Wooll e n ManufaCturers Indernnity;and the English and Irish Corn Intercourse Bills, which were order d to be reported to-morrow.. The Dublin Bakers' Bill was. read a third time ancl passed. Mr. Cor.a - Y brought in the Irish Militia Par, and the Irish Sugar J)rawback Bills, which were read p Arst time, and ordered for a second reading (,)- morrow. NAVY ARUAVI. The HOUSC having remilve4 itself into a Cyp. mittee on the Bill for corretling the 'ibises , :xisuPg in the Navy, ."sun.sr V. a+.• .•. tended to leave out the first part altogether, or in. troduce it in an altered shape into some other parts ,of the Bill. Capt. MARKHAM replied, that an amended clause was intended to be introduced in another part of it. Admiral BERKELEY said, the reason why he asked the question was, because as the Bill now stood, it was extremely objeaionable, as it would he ereaing the Navy Board into a Tribunal for the trial of all the other Boards. _ _ Mr. STURGES' recommended that the altera tions should now lie agreed to pro forma, and the Bill afterwards re-committed. The CHANCELLOR 'of the EXCHEQUER declared himself disposed to ,adopt the last sugges tion. The Bill would no doubt be very much al. tered, it might then be printed and re-committed to-morrow, the Report received on Friday, and the Bill, with the permission of the House, be read a third time on Saturday, as they must all be aware that any delay at this time would be extremely in convenient. The names of the intended Commissioners under the new Bill were then read, and severally put for the _approbation of the House as follows : Vice-Admiral Sir CH ALES POLE, HUGH LEICES TER, Esq. EVAN LAW, ESq. JOHN FORD, Ecq. and HENRY, HUNTER, Esq. which were all unaribmwsly agreed to. The Report was received immediately, and order ed to be taken into farther consideration to-morrow ; with an understanding, that it would then be re committed. Mr. DENT expressed his surprize, that such names as those of His Royal Highness the Dtlx€ of CLARENCE, Lord GARDNER, and Lord KEITH, should have been omitted in the List of the Com missioners ; but this was not followed by any ex planation.—Adjourned. MAILS ARRIVED. DUE. Ilollancl 0 - I' reach - 2. Hamburg!). o - - - PRICE s roCKS, TIIIS DAY A: TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols • I Omnium - - 4 disc. THE SUN. 1041. M ijUIS DICERIL FALSUM AUD&AT ? LONDON, DECEMBER 17, ISoz. WE yesterday evening received the Paris Papers to the 14. th inst. The Moniteur contains a very serious charge against the late Administration of this Country, and, like most of the attacks made in that Paper, displays gross ignorance and perfea contempt for truth. This charge is founded upon a Speech which Lord GRENVILLE is supposed to have made in the House of Lords on the zd Decembcr. In point of fact, Lord GRENVILLE made no Speech on that day, nor was there any debate in the House of Lords ; but we suppose they must• allude to a speech made by Mr. GRENVILLE in the House of Commons, on rite Navy Estimates—Upon this foundation, - however, the Moniteur rests an accusation against the late Mi.. nisters, of having employed Agents on the Continent to foment Conspiracies,- who plotted the measure at Rastadt, and caused the French Ambassadors at Vienna and Rome to be insulted. Such is the charge gravely brought forward in the Monitenr, and which We are confident will be no more believed by any man in . Europe, than it was by the .person who wrote it. The same Paper contains Dispatches from Rear_ Admiral LAC Rosse, Captain-General of G u ada. loupe, dated the 24. th of Odober, and from Gene ral SAIIUGUET, Captain-General of Tobago, dated the 7th of the same month. The former speaks of assemblies of Brigands being still in existence in Guadalove, although several of the individuals com posing them have been taken and punished. LA CROSSE also mentions, that a number of Men of Colour, together with some Whites exiled from Guadaloupe, had assembled in the Isles of St. Tho mas and St. Bartholomew, with the . view of disem, barking upon the island of Guadaloupe, and joining the Brigands in that Colony, in consequence of which he had written to the Governor of those isles, requesting them to arrest and deliver up the Chiefs of these Assemblies. Tobago was delivered up to the French Commander by Brigadier-General CAR MICHAEL, the Lieutenant-Governor, on the 7th of October. According to SAtaucu ET'S Letter, that Island is in a very flourishing state. The Dutchies of Parma and Placruza are, it is stated in the Journal deDefenseur;, to be united to the kingdom of Etruria, provided the KING of SPAIN will consent to cede the Floridas to France ; but if that Cession does not take place, those Dutchies are to be given to the Italian Republic. The Definitive Conchisum of the Deputation of ' the Empire has been communicated to the Ministers of the Mediating Powers, by the Imperial Plenipc?., tentiary, who declines to accede to it at present ; but it is understood that this delay merely relates to the Convention of Indemnity in favour of ;he Q11,4N1) Of TTJSC ANT, WiliClliS believed IQ be cially communicated, the Imperial Minister will ac. cede to all the Arretes of the Deputation. There is no intelligence of moment from Swit zerland, nor any further notice of the Swiss Con sulta. The troubles in the Grisons are not yet ap peased. The Earthquake on the 26ch of Ceober was felt at the same hour at Petersburg, Moscow and Kiew, slightly at the former city, mote strongly at Moscow ? and with still greater violence at Kiew, where six shocks were felt in the space of three minutes, and ihe houses much shaken. The French Funds are 53. 15. WE have witnessed with peculiar pleasure, the feelings of satisflEtion and joy which have for some days occupied the Public Mind upon the very pleas ing statement given by the Minister on Friday last, of the flourishing condition of our Resources and our Commerce. None can more warmly par ticipate in such feelings than ourselves, whose espe cial duty it has ever been to roflze our Countrymen to a just perception of danger when it threatened, or to strengthen them in their sense of the singular Blessings derived from our Constitution and Go vernment. We have uniformly contended that the Resources of this Country were solid and unex hausted, and the experience of the present day proves every thing that we advanced to have been just. This is a point on which the Country is strong —it is a rock from which we can contemplate the de vastation that the Revolutionary storm has commit ted over the whole face of the Continent. But while we thus contemplate the scene, we must not be lulled into that dangerous security which the enjoy ment of present prosperity is but too apt to inspire. Our pre-eminence, we have every reason to believe, is regarded with an envious and malignant eye ; and we have no doubt but that, even under the mask of Peace, means may be used to sap the foundations . of our Commercial Greatness, upon which, it has been justly observed, our Political Existence now essentially depends. The present has been admitted by all Parties in Parliament, with the solitary ex ception of Mr. Fox, to be a period big with danger that it is so, no man in his senses can for a moment doubt.. The address and firmness of our Ministry may avert War for a while, hut it is too much to say that France will, under her present Government, .abstain from giving frequent occasions both of jea lousy and alarm.. That the CHIEF CONSUL is bent upon disturbing our Sovereignty in India, has been long proved from his anions, 'and is now pretty nerally believed. His Expedition to Egypt had that principally for its end ; and his eye is fixed upon it with a steady perseverance. He is at tempt ing every thing, even now, to facilitate, at some . future period, and that, perhaps, not very distant, - the accomplishment of his views, and it behoves us t4tch his every movement with the most sciuti nizing attention. It has been stated from the Hague, that since Lord Wu ITWO R.TH 'S arrival at Paris, the embarka tion of French Troops for Louisiana, which was RI take place in the Dutch Ports, has been counter manded. We think this extremely probable, be cause we can readily conceive it was a measure which our Ambassador was likely to be instruCted to rtmonstrate against and oppose, and we sin cerely hope it is true ; but, if the accounts received by the French Papers last night be cornea, the views of the Consular Government are not bounded by one acquisition in the same quarter. It is now said, that Spain has been required to cede the Floridas to France, on condition of which the Dutchies of Parma and Plaisance are to 'be united to the Kingdom of Etruria, and if nor, to the Italian Republic. It is almot needless to observe, that if the bait offered to the Court of Spain is not great enough to induce a compliance, the influence .of France in that Cabinet can enforce it as a de mand. It has likewise been stated, from a respec. able quarter, that Cochin has been given up to France by the Dutch. It is true His Majesty's Ministers have' not officially learnt this circum. stance, but that does not lessen its probability. At Peace with the French Republic, are we thus to be doomed to witness a perpetual succession of encroachments, against which, we presume, remon strances will on our part he made ? Are we to come, period after period, to the verge of Hostility, and then to be soothed with explanations, which may be no sooner made than the occasion of them may be repeated ? We think too highly, both of the and the spirit of our Ministers, to supposefor,a momeqt that they would thus corn. Tromisp titp r Honour of their Country, by descend. ing tq such mean submission. BONAPARTE may cut and calve on the Continent as he pleases—there seems no Power existing in Europe to prevent him from giving full scope to the di Cates of his tower_ ing ambition there; but when he thinks of extend. ing his Empire on tho other Bide of the Atlantic, or should suppose, of the necessity of obtaining eat' concurrence and assent of the British Governmen t ' and it must strike him, that these transfers of pro* perry, and bargains of exchange, are not likely t u meet with our approbation, more especially as 114 equivalent, if such it may be called, to be given O n his part, has. been illegally obtained. Amongst the subjects of discussion at Paris, oF, which we conceive there must be many, Maltsi will doubtless form a very leading and important one• We perceive with satisfaction, however, from the proceedings in the House of Commons last night) that the Laws relative fo its . Trade and its Geogr . ' phical Situation are to be renewed, a pledge that it will not be immediately, or without due coniiko - ceded. The material changes indeed that have taken place in the political situation of Europe, and that are projefted and carrying into died m othe r quarters of the Globe, wou!d, in our opinion, fully warrant us in permanently retaining it. The French Government may say, that that would be a violatio n of the Treaty of Amiens, but in how many instance s has it been already grossly violated by France ? We view, with the most heart-felt satisfaCtioni our Country in the enjoyment of Peace, and d i degree of Prosperity, almost in her own Annals exampled ; but we cannot permit our Fellol.v_Sab' jeds to sink at any, time into a false Security, th 3P which we are sensible nothing can he more likely to invite the attack of an Enemy, or be more fatal' to our future Welfare. The Establishments which the Government have proposed to be maintained? prove at Once their Vigilance, and the Sense which they entertain of the formidable Power of France: but we shall'ever contend, that any Establishments) however large, are inadequate to our Defence, on' less the Country keep alive and cherish that Spiri t of naive Patriotism, which has so successfully carried it through such Dangers, as the Civilized World had never before to encounter and overcome. COUNT STAHR EMB ERG, we have reasOn to be' lieve, has made a very spirited remonstrance to bi S Government, on the extraordinary treatment o' l4ll he experienced at Paris, and it will probably be more attended to, as that Nobleman was charg 4 by the Imperial Cabinet with confidential comon i. nications to Count Coll ENTAEL, the Imperial Mt" nister at Paris, which he was deprived, by I", peremptory conduit of the French Government, of an opportunity of making. We have been delicate about stating a ny thirli respelling the affair of Capt. D'AuvERGNE, Pin ! of 13outi.Lotc, as a notice has been given respe it in the House of Commons. Thus much, flu"' cvcr, we bclievc we nioy loy, that a propel sentation has been made to the French Govern" le t - I re s p e ai ng i t , and we have no doubt but that e"" reasonable satisfaCtion will he obtained. PRINCE WILLIAM Of GLOUCESTER, it is sa a. propo,es to pass some time at C o pe n hagen a ' Hamburgh, previous to his return to England, The Duke and Dutchess of DsvoN,HteE ‘ c4 as usual, spend their Christmas at Chatsworth? t , ,Lord and Lady HARRIi4gToN spend their Chr i ' mas at his Lordship's Seat at Elvaston, in De rb l' . shire. Mr. HENRI' HOPE gave a grand Dinner yes te :i; day ; among the Comp a ny pre s en t w ere , die E Fren i a and Dutch Ambassadors, Lord MACARTNIP GARDNER, Lord ST. HELENS, Lord ~ 140“1 -r $ ' FIELD, Sir CHARLES POLE, Sir ANDRi:IV S ;I : HAMOND, Sir STEPHEN COTTRELL, ;Air "; 1 : 0 NEPEAN, Sir i'RANCIS BARING, Mr. Pot:eCAß'' Src. ltd Dr. CORNWALL, Bishop of Bristol, is exPe at to succeed the late Dr. Bon.Etc, in the BishO r of Hereford. • ill': • The Commissioners under the Bill for ingo t ' . a into the abuses in the Naval Department , s ve s ir yesterday named. They are Vice. Admiral CHARLES MAURICE POLE, HUGH L E YCES IS i j Esq. EWAN LAW, Esq. JOHN FORD, Esq. HEIIRY HUNTER, Esq. Letters from H state, amhurgh that the Ni' l y os t ' traces of that City took possession, on the 3- l the at the desire of the French Minister, of the Ca of of drat and dependencies belonging to the Chap t `" Bremen, subjett to His BR ITANNIP his quality of Eleetor of Hanover. The Dea n ra Canons of the Chapter are to preserve their nues for life. Graf We learn by the last accounts from BornbaY , ;1 1 9 Capt. DYNE, Paymaster of the 86th Regin'e nt 'A t t , ' was convicled of having attended Lieurenaf it LAsts in an affair of }ion Air with Mr. MITcI4,-ry of that place, has received His Majesty's 10 ('' t P t* . s , cious pardon, in consequence of a proper represel) tion of the circumstances of the case. P t ' By orders from the Board of Ordnance, rj e , You No of the Royal Artillery in the Dock Lil le . a i e o rdcks, Plyniouth, with too privates and hombar,,air of that fine Corps, are to embark on board a fr'z' t he as soon as she shall arrive for that purposedt r er of Garrison of Gibraltar, to relieve'an equal n urt/ that corps whose term of duty is expired. J oe The Presentations at St. Cloud to a e.iC h BONAPARTE, are to take place on the 18 1 1/ mcinth, according to the French date. • gli o nf' A report circulated in Paris of the assassin p. of General LECOtiRDE has been fora 1 1 Y tradieted. 9 • At a Special Seisions, lately holden in Ha iceer er cause was tried between a Clergyman and ti l ! b y ttle of . a Toll gate, wherein it was determined go ld Sitting • Magistrates—" That a Clergym an ? ~,weni on duty, is every where exempt-from tilt P 2/ of toll,"