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IMPERIAL P4RLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUU,SDA.Y, SEB. 2. The SPEAKER communicated to the House a letter he had received from Rear-Admiral Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ, in which Sir JAMas expressed bis grateful acknowledgments for the Thanks voted to him by the House, and promised to take the earliest opportunity of communicating the Vote. of the House to the Captains of the Fleet. The SPEAKER mentioned the expediency of get ting through all the private business before four o'clock, and expressed a wish that he might be enabled for that purpose, to take the Chair in future at three o'clock. SUPPLY. Mr. STEELE presented an Account of the Distribution of the sum of 2,500,0001. voted by Parliament for the Extraordinary Services of the Army for the year r Sot. And also an Account of the Extraordinary Services of the Army for the year 'Sot, not provided for by Parliament—which ' were severally ordered to lie on the Table, and to be printed for the use of the Members. Mr. RoBSON said a few words across the Table, which we could not hear. The CHANCELLOR of tke EXCHEQUER said, that the Accounts now presented to the House had no reference to the notice he gave when the House last met. He gave notice at that period, that he should to.morrow move, in the Committee of Supply, for a sum for the Extraordinary Services of the Army for the current year. He was not then aware that the Accounts now ,presented could have been prepared so soon. As they were, how ever, before the House, he should withdraw the, notice he had given, and should move in the Corn mittee of Supply, on Friday, fora sum, to make good the excess of the Army Extraordinaries of last, year, it being his wish. that the expellees of last year should be wholly provided for before those of the present. Mr. ROSON was proceeding to make an obser-, vation, but was interrupted by 7he AKER, who said, it was irregular. The CHANCELLOR of the,ExcutotTEß said, the ; Accounts would be .printed, and ready for delivery . on Thursday morning. An Account was presented from the Navy Office of the estimated Debt of the Navy up to the 3tst of December, 180 I, which was ordered to lie on the Table, and to be printed for the use of Members. Mr. N. VANSITTART presented Accounts of the distribution of the several sums of two millions, and one million, granted to His Majesty in the last Session of Parliament, which were respeclively ordered to lie on the Table, and to be printed for the use of Members. CIVIL LIST. Mr. CANNING said, he rose for the purpose of calling the attention of the House to the subjeCi of a notice given by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex cHT•QUER. That Right Hon. Gentleman had given notice to the House, at a former period of the Ses sion, that he should, - after the Recess, bring forward a measure for the purpose of providing for the payment of the arrears of the Civil List by the sale of certain of His Majesty's Colonial Pos. sessions. With respeCi to the objea which was to be thus provided for, he trusted there could b e no difference of opinion ; he, for one, considered a provision for such an objed as a most wise distri bution of money, and whenever it was brought forward, it should have his most cordial and entire assent. With respect to the mode of raising money for this purpose, he had turned his attention to the stiljeCi, and he thought it was not entirely free from objt:aion. His objeaions, it would of course be irregular now to state, they must be reserved till the question came before the House.-- He wished, however, to be informed by the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether when this measure should be brought forward, it would come before the House in such a shape, that the question as to the sale of the Colonial Possessions alluded to by the Right Hon. Gentleman, might be made a matter of distinet and separate discussion. If the measure was to be brought forward, so as that the mode of raising the money would not come distindly before the House, he wished to find some other opportu nity of discussing the question relative to that sub.. jea, independently of that, upon which he saw no objedion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in the notice which the Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded to, which he had felt it his duty to submit to the House,' he ,had stated the accumulation of Arrears upon the Civil List, the expediency and necessity of liquidating them, and that the means of discharging these arrears might be found without imposing any additional burden upon the Country ; he had stated that the sale of certain lands or Colonial Possessions of His Majesty would afford the means of discharging the greater part, if not the whole of those Arrears, without adding to the public burdens. In the notice he gave, he alluded to the Island of St. Vincent, in which Island His Majesty's Ministers had in contempla tion the sale of the lands which were called the Charib Lands, in order that the produce of such sale might be applied to the purpose alluded to. — He did not, however, think it his duty to bring forward a distinct question before Parliament as to the sale of those lands. Mr. CANNING said, he wished particularly to express that the objed to which the money raised was to be applied, met with his most cordial approbation. As to the mode, however, of raising that money, if the lands alluded to were to be sold without certain restriftions, he should make strong objettiens. He did not understand the notice of the Right Hon. Gentleman to allude solely to the Island of St', Vincent, and he wished to know whether the uncleared lands, in other Colonies, were not also included. The CII.4iVCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he wished it to be understood that his notice did not refer wholly to the Island of St. Vincent. It was true he had spoken particularly of that ba at the same firne, the notice equally referred to the private property of His Majesty in other Colonies. INCOME TA)I. Mr. JONES said, he had, at a former period of the Session, given notice that be should, Oil the first day of the meeting of Parliament after the Recess, narnit a day when he intended to bring forward a proposition relative to the Income Tax. He now wished previously to know whether the CIitANCEL. LOR of the EXCHEQUER intended to bring forward any specific proposition upon this subje6t. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that neither the Hon. Gentleman, nor the House, would expert that he should give an answer to that question. As to the proposition which the Hon. Gentleman had intimated his intention of bringing forwards, he submitted it to the candour of that Hon. Gentleman, whether it would be pro. per to urge such a proposition before he knew what were the intentions of Government with respeft to the Ways and Means of the year. He wished it to be understpod, that he held out no pledge, but he deprecated any premature discussion upon the subieet. Mr. JONES said, that after what had been urged by the Right Hon. Gentleman, he should not give the notice which he had intended. If, how ever, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not bring forward some measure relative to the subjeEt in the Ways and Means of the year, he should then think it his duty to make some- i.rnrosition upon it. BREAD Alderman CURTIS, moved the Order of the Day for the further consideration of the Report on the Bread Assize Bill, for the purpose of post. poning it. • The'Ortler of the Day being read; die further consideration of the Report was deferred till Thurs. day next. Adjourned at a quarter before five.- ..THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICE:tE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, FEBRUARY 3, iBoz. WE this morning received the Paris Papers of the 31st ult. The Proceedings of the Cisaipine Coniulta, at Lyons, are at length published, and the Constitution of the Italian Republic is arranged. On the z6th ult. the Chief Consul went to the Hall, where the Consulta, accompanied by the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, several General Officers, Prefeas, &c. and made the following Speech. " The Cisalpine Republic, which has been re cognized since the Treaty of Campo Formio, has already undergone several vicissitudes. The first efforts made to establish it have not succeeded. Invaded afterwards by hostile Armies, its ex• istence seemed no longer probable, when the French People a second time chaced your Enemies from your Territories. Since that time every means has been tried to . dismember you. But the pro. tedion of France has prevailed ; you, have been recognized at Lunewille. With an addition of a fifth part to your Territories, you are now more powerful, more consolidated, more assured in your hopes. " Composed of six different Nations, you a re about to be united under one Government, more adapted than any other to your manners and cir- cumstances. (c I have assembled you at Lyons, as the prin cipal Citizens of the Cisalpine Republic. You have given me the powers necessary to fulfil the august tisk, which my duty imposes on me, as the First Magistrate of the French People, and as the man who hi.:4 most of all others contributed to your creation. " The choices which I have made to fill up your Magistracies, were made indcpen&ntly of all ideas of party, of every local spirit. With regard to the Office of President, I have found no one among you qualified, by the rank he holds in the pub lic opinion, sufficiently free of a local spirit, and who ha ronclered‘orvirec sa great to his. native Country, as to qualify him for such an impOrtant trust. " The PrOcesVerbal which you caused to be trans mitted to me by your Committee of Thirty, in which is analyzed with the b utmost precision, the ex. ternal and internal relations of your Country, has made the deepest impression upon my mind. I ad here to your wish—l shall preserve in my mind a perfect remembrance of the state of your affairs. " In the midst of those continual meditations enaaed from me by my situation ) nothing that re lates to the consolidation of your existence and your prosperity, shall be estranged from those affections which are dearest to my soul. " You have only particular laws, from hence. forth you must have general laws. " Your Pcople.have only local habits, they mus now assume national habits. " Lastly, you have no Army, a►;d the Powers who may become your Enemies are strong ; but you have what can produce it—a numerous popula tion, fertile fields, and the example which has been afforded, you 1)y the first People of Europe," 'This Speech was received with the most un- ' bounded applause. They then proceeded to read the Plan of the Constitution ; when the Title, viz. ig The Constitution of the Cisalpine Republic," was read, the whole body expressed a general wish that it might be called the Italian Republic; in which wish the Chief Consul appeared to acquiesce. The Government is to consist of a President, a Vice. President, a Council of State, 'and a Legisla tive Council. The President is to hold his office for ten years, and is indefinitely re-eligible. But the most important fart is, that BONAPARTE has accepted the Office of Chief Magistrate, or Pre-, sident, of the Italian Republic. After the reading of the Constitution, the Chief Consul caused the Vice-President, Citizen MELZI D'ER IL, to sit beside him, and taking him by the hand, embraced him affeftionately. The Sitting then broke up, and the Chief Consul returned to the Palace of,Government, amidst the acclamations of the People. The Chief Consul was cxpeted in Paris on the st ult. The French Funds are at f. BoURDEAUX, JAN. 25:4.L -They write fkcjm iirest on the 24th, that the Batavian Division, composed of Three Ships of the Line, the Brutus, the Nemote, and the John de Witt, a Frigate and a Corvette, enteked that Road the evening before. On the fol lowing morning they saluted, which was returned. As soon as the signal was made for them, a Dispatch. boat was sent out taacquaint there with the_departure of the Armament, and to desire them to continue their voyage, but the Dutch Admiral stated that he had wants, and that his Vessel made water.-- These Ships have. French Troops on board. Aitcsa vac, JAN. 18.—We learn, that the da. mages which have been sustained in the Brisgas by the late inundations, are estimated at no less that/ t zo,croo florins, which is a prodigious loss for su small a Province, and one that has - already suffered so much during the War. HAGUE, JAN. 22.—The waters have begun to subside in Zealand, and in the Isle of Cadsand, but the frost is so severe, that we are unable to begin the reparation of the Dykes. It is determined by Governinentohat the Battalion of Troops under the Command of Citizens LEGA. and HENRY shall be employed to garrison the Cape of Good Hope. They will sail on their destination in the Spring. By the Letters which we receive front Orange_ stein, the residence of the Ex-Stadtholder,we ace informed that that P rincc wi l l in a few days go to Berlin, in order to solicit that Court to carry into effea the Treaty of the sth August, 1796, con cluded between Prussia and France. MuNrcH, JAN. 20.—1 t was yesterday stated that His Serene Highness the ELECTOR has signed a Treaty, by which he engages to cede the Right Bank of the Inn, but it is said that he is amplY in demnfied for this Cession. GENOA, JAN. 1 5. --If we may give credit to the Letters from Tunis, the GRAND SEIGNOR has given notice to all the Powers of Barbary, that they must, at a fixed period, release all the Slaves in their pos session, of whatsoever Nation they may be. Extrafl of another Letter from the same place.— For several ages, the Pirates of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, have tyrannized over the Com merce of the Mediterranean. At last, however, it appears that the two Powers to whom it naturally belongs to repress these barbarians, have agreed to put an end to these disorders. England and France have determined to area that objets, which nothing but the want of union among the Powers of Europe has hitherto delayed. It appears, by Letters from Tunis, that two Frigates, the one English and the other French, entered that Port, and made the fol. lowing Propositions to the Bey : tst, That all the Slaves of the two Nations should be set at liberty. That all the nraticat Vessels should be dismantled. 3d, That all European Nations should have liberty to tr..de in that Port'. Similar proposals .are to be made to the other States of Barbary. If they refuse these just de mands, the two Powers who make them, have the means in their hands to enforce them ; and the other Maritime Powers of Europe, who are obliged to pay an annual tribute to these Pirates, will willingly join England and France. In the mean time, thousands of unhappy Slaves are groan ing under their festers ; but undoubtedly this determination of the two Nations in Europe, the most powerful, and the greatest enthusiasts for Li.. berty, will for the future rescue Europe from such disgrace. Tar state of the West India Colonies, and the strong Armament which France has sent across the Atlantic, have been for some time the general topics of conversation. It has been idly suggest. ed, that the French Force is so great and formi dable, as to occasion great alarms in the mer cantlle world for the security of cur Colonial Possessions. But this is a false mode of reasoning . If the accounts are to be depended upon, tile French Settlements are in a condition s o hostile to tranquillity and subordination, that a much large force will be requisite, before these can be ant hope of restoring them to their former prosperity'. It is the interest of this Country, that the Fren o Islands should be restored to perfeEt disc Vine; for the contagion of example is so prevalent in t h a t to gion, that if the revolutionary spirit shoult, have ( time to move itself, it will endanger that systert by I.which our Commerce and—Revenue have hithettO L. increased and flourished. J Nothing therefore can be more ridi.aplous, that the sup,ez :tion of a treacherous disposition on th e part of the French Government. The ExpeditiOS from Brest, did not depart without the 2C ' r quiescence of the British Government, and that ' acquiescence was obtained in consequence of th e 1 glaring circumstances which rendered it pror t : well-timed and expedient. There is no force the i• has yet sailed from the Ports of France, which su' fr passes our strength in the West Indies ; and furthe r ' more, Administration have already detached 6/0 a Squadron sufficiently strong to guard.our own po P SEsSibris; is well' as imiliiiitious i f i 4 tempts, if such were ever in contemplation (W hy we absolutely disbelieve) of the French, Were th a t SO disposed. The idea, therefore, that the Bits / expedition has any other °Ned in view than th e i ' occupancy and reduction of their own ,revolte° Colonies, is wholly futile and groundless.... The same observation applies equally to O le , Armament which has sailed from the ports °I , 'Holland. Both of these Countries will find arTIP l e employment for t heir naval and military forces 1 : and about St. Dominzo. The Troops were embark ° , on board Ships of the Line, for very 9bvious2r . eas °lls ; i• ' In the first place, much time hasbeen gained fil i, -the measure, and secondly much expenditure heti been saved. It would have required both time 34 ' trouble' to have prepared vessels proper fo r transport of troops, and besides the French ife rg a not in possession of Ships of that construftion* °ri g , it has generally been their praftice to eillF l(7/ Men of War on such services. In their c s 4 ‘' e pedition to Ireland under General Hoont, an =t man ' WO many other occasions, none but Men of: i were made use of to convey their men, The ge ee4 - ....._, ral ides of the present, and all the preceding Gc :l vernments of France, was to blend together the . l 4/1 . I ' and Military Departments, in all Foreign Egni 60410 ; and it must be admitted, that the Pi° o t . , both politic and cheap. But, in whatever lig ht tO matter be examined, it will be found to 113—e h iri s kind of hostile design whatever against the Br sti c" /, Settlements. France could not be benefited by 0 1 a measure ; she has already a greater C°l ef) e; Establishment than she can conveniently 1; 134 10 and if she so -far mistook tier interest, as to ma , I a rash attempt, our power in the West In ui-9 ' more than sufficient to repress her schemes an temerity. THE Hamllash Mail which became doe poi morning, had not arrived when this Paget Os' to Press. his The PRINCE of WALES met with rather aa t of lucky accident on Monday. Dismounting fO l l, ( se horse, his spur got entangled in his boot, and c o ss ed his leg, which has subjeded Royal His to a lameness. • a 1Q Yesterday the Duict ofCANt R I I:ig ECIZO ~ his new Apartments in the Palace at St. jaill esj- 0 Lord fluTcHlicsoN, having leave to ° J : O to England from Egypt, resigned his cowry° the Earl of CAVAN, who remains as senior . -11)e the Staff in Egypt. The Stith!, Force left l iV Country in October was about sOOO men, oc ci° of the Indian Army. Getieral OAK ES is appointed Commanai Alexandria, where Lord CAVAN (the Con l/3 1 :; 1 ' in Chief) and General Flora are to fix thei r m l, quarters, with all the British Regiments. ;41 ral BArttn is to command Dtignti t Ketle r t f and the distriel and town, a Rosetta; and STUART is to command with the Foreign ReS t and a Regiment of Cavalry at Cairo. • Sf j t We this day insert an important Manifesto isiptv by the French Military and Civil Officer s aPri tei by BONAPARTE fur the Island of Guatialoilt if / speeting the Rebellion in that Colony. „ LACROSSE, it appears, was taken under t" - i co" teetion of Capt. WESTERN, of the Tamer, .1111.0401/6 tied from on board a Danish vessel to Porn' 11 l where he was most honouraly received i'l r o f te Governor, the Hon. ANDREW COCHRANS dater STONE : he was there joined by LEnC AL LI g " 0, 0 Councillor of State, sent out since' the pea d , or,„' the Secretary of the Government of the Islildo,ci had been forcibly prevented from landing 2 ' o ,loj loupe. It shews in a high degree the e s i s to;l and good sense of the Governor of the 1 -. 0 0; $ Dominique, to have received the French Maf t o d e o in these circumstances, in such a manner. ~i oc lo , l l to afford a wholesome example of mutual op e and assistance in time of peace ; and we 1 . 0 0r, 1 e promptitude and alacrity of the British Gi' ve o o this instance, will make a deep impressWilove French, and shew them, that in order to 111 ; 1 1 blessings of peace in all quarters of the w°l.,.e; th have only to follow the example we hav e in the West