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InPERIAL 2.IIILIAIIVIENT, HOUSE OF PEERS, TUESDAY, FEB. 9. SCOTS APPEAL BIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CUNNINGHAM, CART AND OTHERS, v. HIGGINS, ASSIGNEE OF THE PO N. HENRY Counsel were heard in continuation, viz. Mr. AL.r.>;/ , ..NDER, as second Counsel for the Appellants; after which their Lordships deferred the further hearing of the Case till Thursday. The consideration of the Standing Order on uhich their Lordships were summoned, was further postponed.—Some routine and private business was disposed of. The LORD CHANCELLOR communicated to• the House, a Letter received by him from Rear-Admi ral Sir jAmEs 5.:“.u,t, , ,R Ex, Bart. and K. B, acknow ledging the receipt of their Lordships' Vote of Thanks ; It was couched in the usual terms, and similar to that recently transmitted to the House of 'Commons by the same -Officer ; expressive of his grateful sense of the honour conferred on him ley the Thanks -of their Lordships, of which - he observed he had the honour on four different occa •sions to be the objea, and stating that he should take the earliest opportunity' of communicating the . TespeCtive Votes of Thanl:s to the Officers under Lis command, &c. At half past five o'clock the House ddjourned till to-morrow, .HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 9. AT four o'clock (the SPEAKER not being present), LEY, the Senior Clerk, said, it, was his duty to inform the House, that he this morning received a Letter from Mr. SP EAKER, and direfting him to communicate the same to the House. If it was the pleasure of the House he would read the Letter-- [There was a general cal of read, read]. . The Letter was dated Palace-Yard, February 9, fEO2, aril was nearly to the foliowing effect c‘ Sir, His MAJ ESTY having been graciously pleas ed to signify his intention of conferring upon me the Office of LORD CEI ANC EI,LOR of Ireland, it becomes, in consequence thereof, my duty to resign the Chair of the House of Commons. I have to re quest, Sir, that you will communicate the same to the House at their meeting this day. I must in_ treat you, at the same time, to express in the strongest terms the regret I feel, at quitting the high Situation to which their favour raised me, and my gratitude for the unifOrm support I experienced from them, in my humble attempts of discharging the Duties of that important Office. " I have the Hoc:our to be, &e." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEOUER said, that the House must be aware that the pre sent was not the proper occasion to express their sentiments of resped for the . Right Honourable Gentleman who lately presided in that House, which he was certain must be felt by every Member in it. At the proper time he was sure he should be supported by the feelings of 'that House, while he expressed his sentiments of that Gentleman, found ed up,,n every consideration of private friendship, of 'gratitude and admiration for his charasier as a Member of. that House, more especially in ,the high and ardeuus situation which •he had lately filed. Under the restraint, however, of the pre sent circumstances, he had only to state that His MAJEsTY, in consequence of the event stated in the Letter which had been read, gave leave to that House to proceed to the choice of a Speaker, who was to be presented for the Royal approbation on Thursday next, in the Hduse of Peers, at Two o'Clock. He then moved that the House should adjourn till morrow. The House adjourned at a quarter past four till to morrow. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Kb. 9,18 oz. Mr-Office, Februag 9, 1802. Sti Regiment of F.,:ot. To be Lieutenants without purchase.—Lieutenant William Robinson, from the 17th Foot ; vice Forsteen t promoted in the izth Foot. Ensign Thomas Couche, vice Annesley, deceased. Ensign Francis Campbell, from the scth Foot, vice ChUrch, deceased. To be Ensign.L—Adjutant Peter Mvles, vice Couche. gth Ditto, Ensign Evan John 11.1$ - Gregor :Murray, from the Bist Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Southcott, who retires. isth Ditto, Captain-Lieutenant Charles Dalrymple to be Captain, by purchase, vice D'A.rcy. Lieutenant Alexan der Milrie to be Captain, by .- purchase, vice Inns, who retires.' Ensign R. N. Nickle to be Lieutenant, vice Milne. 17th Ditto, Ensign Oliver Long, from the 82d Foot, to be ' Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Robinson, removed to the Bth Foot. ;oth Ditto, Hospital-Mate Win. Miller to 'be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Rooke, who resigns. 25th limo, the Hon. Charles Stanhope to be Ensign, with.. out riurch4.i. 3Tst Ditto, Ensign Wm. Murphy to be Lieutenant, vice Walker, deceased. 4oth Ditto, Ensign J. S. Price to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice jarvey, promoted in the Cape Regiment. Ensign- Christian to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Warner, removed to the Toth Light Dragoons. szcl Regiment of Foot, Ensi g n Wm. Shaw to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Dewes, who retires. Ensign Robert C. Harker, from the Argyll Fencibles, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Shaw. Oist Ditto, Ensign James Carmichael to be Lieutenant, by purchaac, vice Davy, proMoted in Foot. 56th Ditt6, Major Henry Torrens, frpin the Surrey Rangers, to be Major, vice l ßaillie, Who exchanges. A Corps of hilarity, Colonel John Fraser to be Colonel- Conunandant . • BREVET; Captain John Taylor, of the ~sth Foot, to be Major in the Army. Commission dated Sept 2, 1801. Surrey Rangers. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Baillie, from the 86. th to be Major, vice Toriens, *ho exchanges. BANKRUPTS. John Graham, of Berwick-upon-Tweed, baker, March 2, 3, • and 23,' at - eleven, at the house of Robert Gilchrist, inn keeper, '1 weedtrionth, Durham. Attornies, Mr. Turn bull, Berwick-upon-Tweed ; or Mr. Sanderson, Pidsgrave- P lace, London. :rnes unningharn i now, or late of Yoxford, Sufiblk, grcicer, February 14, 27; and March 23, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Fall,, Poultry. jolurldward Holmes anti William Hall, of Crosby-scluare, ' rherchants, February 13, 16, and March 23,,at ten, at Guild hPll, Attorney, Mr, Walton, Girdlers'-aAil, Basinghall 6treet. William Tremiett, of Tolnes, Devonshilt, shopkeeper, February 23, 24, and March 23, at four, at the Glebe Tavern, Exeter. Attornies, Messrs. Batten and Ar.stize, Temple, London; or Mr. antorei, Exeter. Thomas Bent, of Davyhuime, Eccles, Lancashire, cotton manufadurer, February az, 23, at eleven, at the Star Inn, 101anchester, land March 27, ' at six, at the King's Arms Inn, Lancaster. Attorney, Mr. Robinson, Manchester. Isaac "Rose Dale, of Exeter, earthenware-man, February 26, 27, and March 23, at four, at the Star Inn, Exeter. At omics, Mr. B. Follett, Paper-Buildings, Inner-Temple, London ; or Mr. Brutton, Exeter. Frances Lodge, of Pontefrad, Yorkshire, vintner, February 23, at five, 24, and March 23, at ten, at the Red-Lion Inn, Pontefrad. Attornies, Mr. Milton the younger, of Pon tefrad ; or Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane, London. Walter jacks, of Bristol ; merchant, February 16, 27, and March 23, at eleven, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. At tcmies, Messrs. Lewis and James, Gray's-Inn-square; or Mr. Cooke, Bristol. Isaac Hancock, of Bristol, cheese—faaor, February 2.3, 2 4, and March 23, at eleven, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. Attornies, Messrs. Lewis and lames, Gray's-Inn-square, London; or Mr. Davis, Bristol, DII7DENDS. March 6. Abraham Benjamin,' of Castle-street, Hounds ditch, merchant, at ten, at Guildhall. March 2. William Macher, late of I. 7 ".ker's-row, Bermond sey, baker', at ten, at Guildhall. March 6. David Lowes and John Henry Rigg, of Hart. street, Covent-Garden, branciy-merchabts, at ten, at Guildhall. March 6. Peter Briggs, of High-Holborn; man's-mercer, at ten, at Guildhall. March 6. William Burdon, of Chatham-Place, money scrivener, at ten, at Guildhall. March 6. William Butler, of White-cross-street l brazier, at ten, at Guildhall. April r. Samuel Moss, late of New Buckenham, Norfolki grocer, at four, at the Angel Inn, Norwich. March 6. Harry Jacob and Joseph Jacob, late of Milford, ship-builders, at ten, at Guildhall, London. March 3. John Motley, of Huddersfield, woolstapler, at eleven, at the Rose and Crown lon, Huddersfield. March 2. Henry Frankis, of Upton St. Leonard's,. Glou ccstershire, dealer, at twelve, at the Lamb-Inn, Bristol. March 2. Thomas Downey, of Sunderland, ship-owner, at twelve, at the Bridge Inn, Bishop lArearmouth. March 4. John Wade, now or late of Sheffield, tabor, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Sheffield. Feb. 27. John Caspar Hartsinck, Julius Hutchinson, and William Playfair, of Cornhill, bankers, at one, at Guild hall. CERTIFICATES. March 2. John Healey, of Bishopsgate-street, tobacconist. John Glover, late of Kensington, stone merchant. Charles Holt, late of Leather-lane, warehouseman. Thomas Cooper the younger, of Liverpool, horse-dealer. THE SUN. SOLEM OUTS DICEIIL FNLSUNI AUDEAT ? LONDON, FEBRUARY ro, 18oz. WE this morning received Paris _7ournals of the 6th instant inclusive. We have given, under the Head of Paris, all their most important contents. An article from Havre states, that the Definitive , Treaty would be signed by the I 3th of the present month ; but these accounts are to be received with the same degree of credit as those in some of our own Journals here, that have been assuring us for a week, or even a month past, that it was aaually signed. The strictest secrecy is observed with respeet to the proceedings at Amiens, but we have no reaf,on to abate our hope, founded upon superior information to what any other Paper possesses, that the much wished-for event of the final conclusion of the Definitive Treaty is very near at hand. The Mon;teur of the sth, contains a long article from St. Domingo, dared Nov..7th, 18ot, received by the way of New-York, in which ToussAiNT LOUVERTURE gives an account of 'some Insurrec tions, kind of the means whiet he had taken to sup_ press them ; and concludes with observing, that tranquillity had been perfedly restored. The French Funds were on the sth inst. 57. Ty. These Papers were brought over in a French Packet Vessel, which brought a Messenger and a Mail. A report was likewise brought Over yes terday, which was stated to be confidently believed in France, that BONAPARTE was to be chosen Chief Magistrate of the Batavian and Helvetic Republics. IT was with infinite satisfadion 4 that we on Mon day communicated to our Readers the Intelligence of Admiral CAMPBELL'S having set sail for the West-Indies. It is a conclusive proof of a wound being entirely closed, which we hope, and indeed are confident, will never again break forth ; and in the cure of which the delicate, the skilful, and the decisive hand of Government has been throughout so eminently displayed. On the subjeEt of the Army Extraordinarics, which have occasioned some discussion lately in the House of Commons, we cannot refrain from offer ing a few observations. To those who take the trouble of reading the Reports of Debates, they may possibly appear almost superfluous ; but may not be so to such as can neither command time or opportunity to pay much attention to them. The Minister very properly lays before the House the distribution of the sum obtained by a Vote of Credit, by which every item is made pub lic, constituting the Extraordinaries of the Army, which hail exceeded the Estimate made of them. From one quarter he is charged in the lump, with a scandalous profusion of the Public Money, where however is silence, when defied to prove it in one single instance: from another, a minute observa tion is made on all the specific details, to every one of which a specific explanation is given. At such explanation perfect satisfa&ion is expressed on one night, and retraaed on another. This is the suns total of the opposition mac?: t o the Mifistcr on this occasion, To examine it at length, would indeed be trifling with our Readers. Who of them is so ignorant as not to see that the expence thus incurred, is in fact nothing more than the winding up of an expensive War, for which the present Government cannot, at any rate ; be respon sible, but which responsibility would be far from disgraceful to them ? Who is so blind as not at once to perceive that the greatest part of this e: , ;- pence necessarily arose out of measures adopted, (wisely we will ever maintain) by the preceding Administration ; that between the Services perform ed, and the adoption of the measures, there must necessarily be some interval, as also between the demand for payment and the services performed, and between the acceptance of the Bills at home and the demand for payment abroad ? Thus a very con siderable time must elapse between the first issue of the order from home, and the tillual payment at the Treasury of the expence created by it ; so that giving the dates of such actual payments would be quite nugatory, as giving no useful information whatever. The only step that could have been taken by the present Government to avoid discharging the ex pence thus incurred, must have been, to stop the payment of the Bills drawn by different Commis saries or Envoys., when presented at the Treasury. Such a measure it might well suit the wise head of a M—T-41, or a R—s—N CO recommend.— These Bills always come accompanied by proper explanations of the expenses which they were to defray, and supported by regular vouchers, which, with the Accounts, undergo the most minute inves tigation, first, by the Comptrollers of Army Ac counts, and afterwards by the Auditors. Any re ports made by them to the Treasury may of course be called for by any Member of Parliament who has any doubts about the correaness or propriety of any one charge. On the part of the Minister, there has not only been a readines to give an ex planation on any charge, but he has courted and challenged investigation. It must have afforded very great satisfaaion to the Public to find, that, notwithstanding the vast ness of our Marine Establishment, and the great and expensive Naval Operations which were carried on in the course of the last year, a very consider able saving in that branch of the Public Expendi ture had alually been effeaed even during that period. We were not ignorant,, that the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEVER, with his able Coad jutor, the First Lord of the Admiralty, had parti cularly exerted themselves to introduce Economy into that Department. That every article of Public Expenditure should be closely scrutinized by the Representatives of the People, the People have a right to expert. It is their first duty. But a discerning Public will have no difficulty in discriminating between tlie-frivo. lons cavilling of halfwitted Senators, and, the laud_ able vigilance of the Statesman or the Patriot. — To the sacred Charaaer of the latter, let not that Individual presume to aspire, who dares to bring a charge of scandalous profusion, from the proof of which he shrinks ; and who, by a disgusting cant about candour and honesty, perhaps, but vainly, hopes to impose upon a Public, in whose estimation Professions will not constitute Worth, on the one hand, nor vague unproved Charges, Demerit, on the other. The Hamburg', Mail which became due this morning is not arrived. HER MAJESTY and the Pa INcEssti came to Town yesterday, from Windsor. The KING also arrived in the afternoon, having rode out with some Noblemen and the Attendants in the Great Park.. Our Portsmouth Letter of this morning states, that the Bells of that place were set a ringing, and the Town Colours were displayed from the Church Cupola yesterday, 'in consequence of the tidings of the Signing the Definitive Treaty of Peace. It was by Star-light, no doubt, that all these rejoicings took place! Friday night Her Grace the Dutchess of GoRDON and Lady GEORCIANA arrived in Edinburgh from the North, on their way to London. The DUKE of YORK is taking into his Park so large a piece of Walton Common, that it is said the fencing alone will cost 70001. In Monday's Paper we mentioned the munificent benefaCtion to Greenwich Hospital and the Chest at Chatham, by an unknown Gentleman. It is noticed in the Gazette of last night in the following manner : " A Gentleman, who will not permit his name to be known, having by a confidential Friend sent to Lord HOOD, Governor of Greenwich Hospital, the amount of the sale of Ten Thousand Pounds in the Three per Cent. Consols. for the use and be. nefit of the said Hospital ; • ,‘ The Governors and Dire tors take this method of returning their most grateful Thanks for the very generous gift. " This truly benevolent Gentleman has also given the like sum to the Chest at Chatham." Mrs. WALL, widow of the late Colonel WALL, is nor, as, erroneously stated, sister to the present Lora SEAFORTH, Governor of Barbadoes ; but of the late Lord StAvoaTH, a Peer of the Kingdom of Ireland, and whose title died with himself, NAVAL NEWS. BRIXIMAI, FEB. S. ark Fur into Torbay, the Fleet of Men of W 3l. Merchantmen bound to the West Indies, 3:°' 's‘ci .P 1 YlllQUilf, FEB. 8. fro m ARR I VED the Ville de Paris, of 110 ‘ gun c i eOO Torbay ; Alr.etl7.q and La N . ;,-mphe Frigat e s' a Cruize in the Channel. Sailed the Edgar, of 74 guns, and Diamov i gate, for Torbay; and SFrfire, of 20 g uns, C 3o3 ' Kt EN, with Dispatches for the West lodies, PORTS' MOUTH - , FEE. 9. WE NT out of Harbour, His Majesty's Sh i P Cita' patra. fro ° Arr Ned the Dorothy and Jane,SAßEsT° l4 ' r o Sunderland ;B e R c oN o, from Shtel„s Bourdeaux ; and Eagle, PERC IVAL. Sailed the Diana, Wool), for Sunderlan d ' t he Arrived at St. Michael's the ' , 3d jam 135E ' t ; Maria grid Eliza, ally, from Liverpool andco ' ,'r' DOVER, FE B. 9. . _ e r A. French Packet with a Mail and Mcs sei l a l the Express Packet, Capt a i n D ELL , and seye. Passage Vessels, arrived from Calais to-day. v r Pa' It is confidently rumoured and believed in -3 f t he that BONAPA R T E is to b e nom i nate d Chief 0.. 1 ,0 Batavian and Helvetic Republics, but uPP titles is unknown, FALMOUTH, FE s. 7. SAILED L'lmmortalite Fri ga t e , o f 36 gu ns ' 0) tain HoTHANI, and Spider Schooner, of 16 b a wl Lieut. HARRISON, on a C ru i e , and to loc4C the Smugglers. if) Sailed also, the D u k e of York Packet, P" s ' ; ; s a Prince of .Ifrafes Packet, To DD , with $ 3. 1 , - 0 ; tzth, 19th, ;6th ult, and zd inst. Pr Princess El;zabet.l.7 Packet, Km:), with 111 %1 4 Mails of last month, for Leeward Island s; j( 3 Chesterfield Packet, BIAGI-it, with Mai l °f liP instant, for Jamaica ; the Swedish Sh i l ) ICS° 5 trioter, Captain STEINIIOFF, with rrora' for London ; the American Brig ifligiOr' ( 310 DOCK, for Baltimore, and th e race, Of LEONARD, for Bourdeaux ; the Ship Lord I" iv ! a ll ton, Capt. HAWKINS, for St. Kitt's; the Capt. \VHITCOMBF, for Barcelona; the '4' ,t ) e Ship Friherter, Capt_.EvxkLopr, for Achs t ° i cs: the Danish Brig Peylarzy 1. -" , Capt. 1-1501'' 3 , ie ft and Brig Afau, Capt. Coxr7, for Napi''' l c lrr with fish ; also the Hunter Brig, of I 8 g' n9 ' n .S<<s GEO. JONES, to th e Westward ; t h e Arner i43. Juno, REED, for Madeira ; the Negfp Ip BoRGTJE, for Oporto; the Providence, \VI AL °ffflf for Figuera, and the Gib ra lt ar , A DA MS, f°fvf DEAL, FEB. 9. 00' 1 ARRIVED His Majesty' s F r i g ates Eg 3 ' and Africaine, Alonzo, Autumn, pit:eft: o v Hound Slocps. The Africaine has s ailed to Northward, anti the other Ships remain. o filit His Majesty's Ships Plantagenet and Bl v a r itol e are arrived from Sheerness; and the Phaeofi . i llf from Portsmouth ; the latter sailed through Downs to the Rirer. The Egyptiengf Frigate in bringing tonately got on hoard the East India C °Pl y , bi t Ship Marquis of Wellerky, and carried aW jib.boom, head, and cut-water, and oblig ed cut from an anchor and cable. SIIEERNES, FEB. 9. •••••••••• / 5 s bie YESTERDAY evening arrived His West/ 10 Santa Teresa, Minerve, and Resource, fje m o peo Westward, and they this day sailed up the 111 to be paid off. 0; A Court Martial was h e ld on hoard bridge, of 24 guns, Admiral Sir THOMA S 01'; Bart. Captain LANE, in H amoaze , on the 4t of t ; c , on Lieutenant HICKS, one of the Lieutena n ts Cambridge, for repeatedly sleepi n g out ec t t v ide,, r) , e contrary to orders. After h ear ing the against Lieutenant Hicx s , an d hi s Deen6:ctfic adjudged him ro be dismissed His MajestYis He has a wife and five children. a.....owd.1.1•••••••• IVI : 13 Yesterday the Pursers of the B a ring, C aP t J a l DOWS, and Lady .Burger, Capt. Sviiwros',ir P A ° O l at the East India Hou s e, an d received °le se 51/4 Dispatches previous to the departure of tli ° for Madeira, Fort gt. George, and Beng a l ' PASSENGERS PLR RARING, FOR Major fames Hunter ; Mr. George S,,viney• rial" fluker, Cadets ; Miss Mary Lloyd, an d , M a r y eft PER. LADY SURGES, FOR nesr.At• spepo Mr. Thomas Higgins, Lieut. Thomas Hall, Ivicl, s r rs.l , 4 Sfi gid Young, Baker, and Kirchear, , Cadets ; A1e 5 A 1'4 1 . 5 5 . • 'a l O r " Scott, P. H. Staunton, and P. Staunton: and two daughters ; Mis ses Charlotte S„,inton_, son, M. Grant, S. Hollin g s, L. tlenfield, ar id FOR FORT ST. GEORGE. 17151 e LIL4! - , rattles isaßc and. Miss 'pc Suss