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I4I.IERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF PEERS, FRIDAY. MARPII 6. The Earl of ORFORD took the Oaths and his Seat. _ . Jo an Appeal from the Court of Session in Scot land; " Balderston v. Hamilton, — the Solicitor- General anclMr. Brougham. were heard for the Ap pellant, and the. Lord Advocate of Scotland and Mr. Horner for the Respondent.- .Furtlier consideration on Monday.. Mr. Hobhouse, Mr, Byng, Mr. Stanley, and se veral other Members of the House of Commons brought up the 'Brandy Duty. Bill, the Sierra'Leone Bill, the:lrish Duties Bill, the Sugar Bounty Bill, and two Private Bills ;which were read a first time. . Lord WALSINGHAM presented a Bill for dissolv ing the marriage of John Ellis with Maria his now wife, and enabling him to, marry again ; which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday forttfight, and - the Lords to be. summoned. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND. Lord GRENVILLE, in order to suit the corm.; nience of some Noble Lords who could not attend on Monday, moved to postpone the second reading of the Scots Judicature Bill till Friday next. He wished it, however, to be distinaly understood, that he had no intention of moving to postpone the com mitment of . the Bill, which stood for Monday se'n night, and he hoped there would be no objeaion to go into a Comniittee on the Bill on that day as,ori ginally proposed. The Order for reading the Bill a second time, and. for summoning their Lordships on. Monday, was discharged, and reneWed for Friday: Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MARCH 6. The Chairman of the Committee of the Guildford Etion moved, that James Holloway the -younger, it prisoner in the New. Gaol, Southwark, should.be brought up to attend the Committee by warrant of the Speaker.—Ordered. Mr. BASTARD brought up the Parish_Apprentices' rt...gulation Bill.—Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. • WICK ELECTION. The Chairman of the Wick Ele6liOn Committee reported, that the Committee had determined that the sitting 'Member, -. Brigadier-General .Mackenzie, had been duly eleeted, and that the • Petition of Sir John Sinclair was not frivolous or vexatious. . Major RAMSAY moved for leave to bring in a Bill to improve Montrose Harbour:—Leave given. An Account of the Number of Bank of England Notes in circulation was presented by Order of the \ House ; and, on the Motion of Mr. BA!IKES, ordered. -to be printed. • Mr. Johnstone, from the Office of the Chief Se cretary of Ireland, presented certain Revenue Ac- 'count - B.—Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr.'MELLISH presented a Petition from certain Butchers `in London and Southwark, praying for a partial. Amendment of the Flaying A&; and obtained leave to bring in a Bill for that purpose. Lord KENSINGTON presented the Account moved for by Lord Howick, relative to the 'pension and 'wounds, Scc. of William Drake, and the: pension of Weatherheacl, two of Mr. Paull's witnesses.—Or tiered to be printed. MR. CAWTHORNE. Colonel WILDER, seeing an Honourable Gene ral in his place, wished to know whether he meant to follow up the proceeding respeaing Mr. Caw thorne, and when ? An explanation of 'his inten tion was due both. to the House and to 'the M.. General PoßT.p.r. was to proceed when the Aeport . of the Committee of Precedents should be in the hands of Members. The appointment of that. Conatnittee had occasioned the delay. He meant to give notice on Monday, that he would. move the question on an early day after the Easter Lord CASTLEREAGH desired to know' from the Noble Lord opposite (Howick) when the Mutiny Bill shad(' be reported, as he had an Amendment to propose in that stage ? Lord HoivlcK replied, that it would be Aeportecl on Tuesday next. Mr. PARNELL brought in a Bill to repeal, to a certain extent, the Irish Tobacco Importation Act. Read - a first, 'and ordered to be read a second time on' Monday. • TAUNTON ELECTION. . • Mr. ADAM moved, that the consideration of the Taunton EleUlan Petition should be postponed from the day for .which it stood to the ilth of April. The princi',)al ground Was, that the Petitioner's 'Counsel and Agents, and sotne, - Of his• Witnesses, were obliged to attend the Western Circuit: 'A conversation on the subjc& tcok place betwoen 1,4 rel H. Petty, Mr. 'Baring and Mr. Hammet (the ittiug Members) .Mr. Adam, Mr. Hobhouse, and Eit James Pulteney the result of which was, that the_Motion was rejected, and the Order consequent ly stands as it Vas. Mr. Fidaqsß moved for leave to bring in a Bill for raising and securing a' Fund for the Support- of the Widows of Parochial Schoolmasters in SCot lancl.—Leave given. The SPEAKER reminded the House, that it was unldersto9d according to notice given, that the Order . of-the House for talcing into the custody of the Ser jwtit,ot arms such as ;11ould'be defaulters, on Tues day next, without a sufficient excuse for notiatten-, dance, was to .be enforced. PERCIVAL pbServed, that hei must exercise his judgment on the •particularc cases. When a n , ?tice of this sort was given, it ,ought a to be con sidered before .the•propriety of the thing was ad mitted. . • Jr. VANSITTART brougnt.up, the Loan Bill; read a fir:4 and ordered to be read A second time on I:`..loltday. • Mr. Hoßnousy. brought up the Report of the 'La'. Committee. Resolutions agreed to, and Bills ordered to be brought- in to continue .Sugar .I)rawback A6t;' the Paddington- Coal A&, &c. • , SCOTCH CLERGY. Mr, I.C.E.ca - rcx moved. for a - variety of Papers ie lative to the Bills of the Lord Advocate •for aug-: meeting the stipends of the pc:6l - er Clergy, and . for transferring the power of granting augmentations from ,the Court of Session to the Exchequer Court, Ist, A Copy of the Record of the General. Assem, bly, containing an account of 833 Parishes, with the inferences from the fads. 2d, An ACcount . of the ntiMber ofStiPends augmented since 1707. 3d, An Account of the Number of the Stipends augmented more than once,-and how often, since the same period. 4th, The Particulars of the Augmentations, the Amount of-Money-virtual, &c. &c. from the year 1748. oth, The NuMber of Processes for Augmentation since 1707. 6th, Au Account of the Processes depending. 7th, The number of Ap peals in these Processes since •the same period, and their dates. Bth, The Number ofsacant.Stipends, at any time" for the last fifteen years. -9th,- An Account of the Suits between Subje& and Subje& in the Exchequer Court since 1707. . After some remarks. from the Lone ADVOCATE, Mr; ADAIII, - Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER, 421011,. PER CIVAL, the. Motions were agreed to. The Royal Navy Asylum Bill was committed. The Chairman reported Progress, and asked leave to sit on Monday. Leave giVen. . Mr. VANSITTART gave notice that he would move the Plaiatation Estimates on Monday. SLAVE TRADE. The House then;on motion, resolved itself into a Committee on the • Slave Trad6 Abolition Bill. Sir CH4RLES POLE opposed the measure, not, he observed, with a view to the consideration of any indiVidual interests, but as an obje& of the utmost national importance. About the time of the year t 780 there were 15,000 persons destroyed by a hurricane in 'Jamaica ; in case of such an event taking place again, it would be found impossible to uphold the state. of property in the Islands without imPortation. On the other hand, if the Trade was not permitted by Parliament to be continued, it would be found almost impossible to : prevent smuggling ; or, if we did completely aband.ori the Trade, it would be immediately taken up by, the Enemy, who would increase and strengthen his navy by that means, and we might soon expel to see the downfall of the British Empire. At least he thought it might be expedient to give the Planters time to add to their number of female slaves, as a probable means of laying the foundation,for a better supply - in future. He therefore moved, That in stead of May 1807, the words, May 1812, should be inserted, as the time for the commencement of the operation of the Bill. . IPARD stated, in a very impressive maiden • speech, that•he knew of an estate in Jamaica where the population was kept• up without importation ; and that there wak.nothing in nature, he was con 'vinced, that prevented man from multiplying his species there, but the malignant institutions of man Sir' PHILIP FRANCIS assured the House that he was. informed-by - an Officer of rank and ex perience in the British Navy, that the African Trade, and that from' thence, to the West India Islands, was extremely, pernicious to our seamen, and that the Commander of a King's Ship,WOuld not wish to take a single recruit from the Vessels in chat Trade. The gallant Admiral observed, on the Que - hand, that it would be impossible to prevent importation ; arid on the supposition, if wepermitted theenetny to have the full enjoyment of the trade to himself, it would only be the mans of ruining his navy ; and, on the other, it *ould 'be impossible by this mea sure to ruin our Colonies. Mr. FULLER would- be extremely glad to hear by what regulations the Honourable Member's fa ther (Mr. Ward) kept up the population on his estate in Jamaica, and there could not be the smallest -doubt of all the other planters being extremely obliged to him,' and most cheerfully following his example ; 'he had heard something of its local situa tion preventing ,the negroes from mixing with those on the estates adjoining; their habits were different, and that might in some measure account for the dif ference in the maintenance of the population on that particular estate. He cautioned Gentlerrien, how ever, against being led away by false notions of po pularity and humanity. Those who were not Planters themselves might easily raise a clamour againSt the cruelty 'of the Planters, &c. but he wou;d have Gentlemen to recoiled that. the West Indies had been the support' of the country for many years, both as to seamen and revenue. We might as well say, " Oh, we will not have" our chimney swept, because it is a little troublesome to the boy," as that we should give up ,the benefit of the West India Trade on account of the supposed hardships of. the negro. .General VYSE, in a very neat speech, .vindicated the cliaraaer of the Phiuters for humanity ; but sup ported the Bill most strenuously, ob the ground that there was a most sharneffil abuse of the autho rity delegated by them. • Sir T. TußTox.observecl, that if the 'Measure of French iniquity was not yet full, we.shourci surren der up to them this guilty trade, that we might acquit ourselves from any further charge as to this heinous offence, whilst it might complete the cata logUe of our enemy's crimes, whilst we, at the same time, might hope to have taken one great step to wards averting the wrath of heaven from us. Mr. H. ADDINGTON supported .the . Amendment; but at the same time . recommended that a Parlia mentary Commission should be sent out' to every Island in cite \Vest Indies, and that Parlia men t might afterwards lay very high duties oh the im-. portation of slaves into every island where the traf fic was found to be still carried on. Mr: WHITBREAD thought it would be a most tedious and impotent measure to wait till we had the Report of as many of the Commissioners as might chance to reach home with the Report, and then leave the measurein a great degree to the ‘isere tion of the Governors of the different islands. But there was one point which he thought to be Frii cularly worthy of notice ; Mr. Plomer, Counsel for the Planters, had acknowledged at the Bar 'of the tionse of Gords, that it was intended to have seve ral new pieces Of land cultivate& for which a fresh supply of Slaves was Wanted ; and there was ano ther point to which he thought it necessary to ad vert—Did (he gallant Admiral opposite suppose that we; as Christians, could hope, when visited by. the wratfrof Heaven, as he had Stated, with a hurri cane, could we then hope for a • blessin< 4 froti) Almighty by setting off to Africa to rob and murder in order to recruit our stock ?' Mr. Rosi entered into a most minute and elabo rate detail of the various proceedings • Parliament; and the opinions of the most eminent public men' for a century past, as to this ; trade. He concluded by observing, that hiS late Right Honourahle Friend was, in his heart, a most sincere Abolitionist; as as himself, though there was some difference of opinion between them as to the best •nneaus of carrying that principle into execution. • • . Lord - H. PETTY, in ,a-very animated speech, op posed any fdrther delay j•jie contended that the au• thorities cited by the Right. Honourable Gentleman were not conclusive; on speculative truths the•most 'clear and incontrovertible, there have been in all ages men of probity and wisdom who have had their own peculiar and exclusive sentiments. .In the -Par liaments of France how-long was. it a subject of dis cussion whether torture should be sanioned or not ? and yet could there be at this day found,a man in civilized gurope who would profess • himself an :advocate for torture ? So would it be with the Stave. Trade. As to the necessity of delaying its abolition, what had been said ? They set out, said the. Noble Lord, with the proposition that the Slave Trade is inhuman and'unjuSt, and then they propose to pro long that system ofinjustice, and continue for five years more the practice of that inhumanity. General GASCOYNE ' followed at considerable length, and contended strongly against anirnmediate abolition. Mr. CANNING took a viel.v of the subje& in three different.relations--'=viith respell to Africa, the slave mer9hants, and the. slaves, themselves ; the argu ments advanced by the Honourable-B aron et (.Sir C. Pole) appeared to him to have been. completely over turned by the statement of faLts advanced by. the gal lant General in support of them ; he was decidedly for the most speedy Abolition of so disgraceful a traffic. • Mr. S. STANIiOPg was for the immediate Aboli tion. Mr. B. BATHURST thoughtthe irnrinediate..Aboli, tion of the Trade impossible. Mr. BARHAM was of a contrary ,opinion, and thought that' the measure, to be effeaual, must be speedy. - MI; PERCIVAL warmly contended for the neces-: sily of immediate Abolition. When, -after. a few words from Messrs. WILEERFORCE and FULLER, the Qdestion . being loudly called for, the Committee divided, For the Original Motion and immediate Abolition i7s' Against it • Iy Majority for the Immediate Abolition IsB Strangers being ex c l u d e d on t h e divisiOn,.tir Gal lery was not again thrown open before-adjournment. —Adjourned at half-past. twelve. MAILS. • ARRIVED—I Waterford. Duz--t Gottenburgh, Dublin, r W.aterford. 'PRICE OF STOCKS Tnis DAY AT TWELVE, O'CLOCK. Consols, - -62 i On4nium -, - -•- THE S N. SOLENt QUIZ DICERZ , FALSUAt AUDiaI.T? L 0 AV D 0 Iv, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1807. Ir was reported yesterday afternoon that a Mes senger had .arrived with Dispatches, from Lord HUTCHINSON, containing a very favourable account of the late Battles in Poland. We are sorry we are not able to confirm this statement. No Messenger had arrived from the Continent when this Paper was put to Press. The report, we believe, tobk its rise from the arrival of a Vessel from Memel, at Har wich the Captain, of which stated, that before he sailed accounts had reached 11:lemel, that BONA PARTE had invested MAsssNA with the Chief Com mand of the Army, and had himself set out for ,Pa ris- A Gentleman who came over in this Vessel, and who, had lately travelled over a mnsiderable part of Prussia, states, that the result of the late Battles was decidedly in favour •of the. Russian's, though they had sustained very severe losses, It is singular that BoNAPARTE should quit the Army under such circUrnstances; but it, is possible that he may consider his presence necessary in France, in order to enforce the levy of the Conscripts, and to hasten their march into Poland. The French Army ha's been very much redUced by disease, as well as by the losses. sustained in the numerous and obstinate aaiotis which have been fought.-HThe Russian Army -is continually .receiving reinforce - ments, and as they have been able to defeat the French wfth inferior numbers, every thing is to be hoped from' their exertions, when, by the junction of the numerous reinforcements which are marching into Poland from different parts of the Russian Em pire, they shall have become more numerous than their adversarieS: . • The Trial of Sir HOME PoFq . zor commenced yes terday on board the Gladiator, at Portsmouth. The Evidence in support of the Prosecution did not oc cupy more than two hours. The Court have al lowed Sir HOME till Monday to prepare his De fence. The Duke of CLARENCS arrived at Windsor on Thursday, on a visit to their MAJESTIES. , The Duke of Stissr_ix is confined at the QUEEN'S Lodge, Windsor, through indisposition. ' • Yesterday Lord Sr. HELEN'S arrived at Windsor on a visit to their MAJESTIES. * • GOlCral GROSVEI. , IOR was presented to His MA JESTY' on Wednesday last, upon his being appointed to the command of the 97th regiment and General W}IIILOCKE was presented, upon his befilg appoint- Commander in Chief of the Troops in South A.ru et ie NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Nei7r4 Sloop ofA,Var from the Eastward, and is appointed the Convoy for the Mediterranean. Sailed the Dcedalus . and Enzu/oizs-Frigates on 3 ten -days Cruize. The Speedy Sloop, Capt. MUDDLE, is ordered to fit for South America. The Court Martial on Sir HOME POPHAM com menced this morning on board the Gladiator. The Prosecution closed in about two hours after the Court sat. His Defence, instead of being: made to morrow, is deferred until Monday. ANOTHER LETTER, SAME :DATE. Sir HOME POPUAM'S Court-Martial commencei this morning, on board the Gladiator, at nine o'clock. At one the Court adjoUrned till to-morrow morn ing, 'the prosecution having closed, which con sisted in 'various official documents and orders, transmitted to him whilst . at Cork, with the force which afterwards captured the 'Cape of Good Hope. These were read by Mr. GREETHAM, the Judge Ad yocate.+7Lord MELVILLE was in, the Court, and looked very well : he is a witness for Sir HOME.— Mr. MAR,3I7EN, Secretary to the Admiralty, was also in Court," PLYMOUTH, MARCH s.—Sailed the Achilk, of 74 guns, to join the Channel Fleet; and the Coi . a, Cflpt. MOONEY, for Efaltimore. SHEERNESS, MARCH 4. Came down from ilia Tower•the Deptford Tender, Lieut. ANTRAM, with VolutiteerS,"&e. for the Fleet; also several Merchant Vessels for the Baltic, to wait their convoy, the Falcon SlooP . of War, which ship is still detained by , cOntrary winds. Sailed the Resolution, of 74 guns, Capt. BURl.7oti i for Yarmouth; and Eliza Tender for Shields. MARCH 6.—Sailed the 111alabar, of. 50 guns, Capt. TEMPLE, for the Downs ; and the Forrester and Hyacinth Sloops of War, Captains IticnAttna and DAVIE, for Yarmouth. Came down from Chatham His Majesty's Ship Excellent, of 74 guns, and Afrkaine Frigate. HARWICH, MARCH 6.--ThePorset , Packet, Capt . HAMILTON, arrived this morning express from He jigo4nd with Dispatches, said to be of the utmost impOrtance, for Government. The Paclcets fgr Gottenburgh and Hustim,'with three Mails, are yet detained by a 'contrary wind. DEAL, Mnacu 6.—Sailed through: the Dowm, ' last night the Eliza, FITZGpRALD, fur New dence ; this morning His 111:4:ie.ty-s-Ships Ulm aud Bruiser, from a Craize off Calais and imwe diately sailed again. Arrived His Majesty's Ships Firm, Railleur, and the Sea' Gull, from a Cruize, and remain in the Downs with the Ships as per last ; and the E/i,za A HUGHES, from St Michaels, for London. On Wednesday evening the Guard on duty at the Guard-house, close to Buekingham-gate; were drawn out, as usual, to.salute His Majesty, on his leaving the Queen's Palace. It being very.late_hefore-iiis Majesty left the Queen's Palace, his .grooms drove His Majesty's chariot past the Palace to exercise the horses. The Officer of the Guard mistook this for ,His Majesty setting off, and gave orders to the men to present arms ; the drum and fife of course played, which induced the party of Light Horse, waiting at the bottom of Constitution-hill to escort' His Ma jesty, to set off without His Majeny full speed on , the road to clear the way. The .ling had, in,con, sequence, to travel without a guard. An Order of Council has been issued; And will ap, pear in the Gazette this evening, allowing His Ma jesty's Subje&s to trade to anefrottheanldslraengtil:liao„f Curaeoa, subjea to‘the duties, rates, tions, the same as those imposed on the West India Islands. Likewise allowing 'the growth or manu-: •faEture of the same Island to be imported into any Ports of, Great Britain and Ireland. • Between the Ist of January and the 31st of De cember, 1806, there arrived et Boni'deaux 637 ves-. sels, viz. 465 from Northern Ports, under neutral colours, ,most ofthe.tn Prussian ; the greater part of them laden with timber, iron, &c. ; and 172 under Portuguese colours, most of them laden with colo nial produce; the rest with cod fish, oil, &e. On hundred and twenty-seven vessels arrived at Boar-. .deaux in January last.: " On Wednesday morning there was a most excel lent fox-chace, by the Gentlemen's subscription hounds (formerly. Lord BERKELgY'qI, in the neigh- - bourhood of Windsor. The fox was Started about - ten o'clock, at Blackness, near Sunning-hill, when about 200 sportsmen were assembled. They threw off n ea r they Sl 1r ° found b 's-b i a 5 they b weret haey considerablea Shrub's-hill l a very large one, of the Great Park. He w o uld have . shewn go o d sport had they got out of the Park, 'hut the horse, men were so in the wood on the , 6 . oUtli side numerous, some,of them got a-head of fox,tttlentli tii t i i 2 i : I l ' ' . e before - the fox, and turned his course. The weather ,being extremely fine and clear,"rendered the sight very de lightful to • view such a great number of horsemen galloping along the beautiful rides k . Tiro - inia Wa ters. The foi took towards Cumbrrland-rodge, and hid himself in the garden ; but being closely pursued he attempted' to jump over a hi g h wa ll , b ut not reaching the top within a 'l - eNir inches, he fell back 4' and was taken. The following are the (Inds tions for the Bachelors' Prize Exercises in Latin Prose,. at Cambridge, this year the Senior Bachelors,' Utrunz nun es ci= viurt "emendet an cornmhal coitimerciun?? Middle BaChelorS, Utrum, profit librorum, quanta nunc est At - litann? capia ';' • 1 1