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IMPTRIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF 'PEERS, TUESDAY, FEE. 3. 'Lord Viscount Bolingbroke took the. oaths, and his seat. In.an Appeal from the Court of chancery in ire-, land, Baker v. Lord Viscount Clifderk and another, the Solicitor General and Mr. Scarlett were heard for the Appellant, Mr. Richards and Mr. teach for the Respondents,' and the Solicitor General in reply. Further consideration appointed for Monday. The Irish Militia Service Bill was read a secctiyl time, and committed for to-morrow. . . Mr. Hyarn, from 'the Cemrni, , ,iioners for the Re du&i,on of the National Debt, presented the Account of the Commissioners for the year ending the 31st of Jan. 807,—Ordered to lie on the table. :Adjourned till to-morrow (thin day). HOUSE OF COIVAIONS' TUESDAY, FEB. 3. The following Members compose the Committee appointed to sit and determine upon the Petition of Thomas Jones and other Eleaors, complaining of the undue return of the Hon. Henry Bennet, for the Borough of Shrewsbury -11211106 IN'tirr F A ci. Osborne Markha m , Esq. Hon. N. Vansittart Ralph Sheldon, Esq. WilFain Gore, Esq. A.m. John Ramsay Henry Fawcet, Esq. Robert S. Carew, Esq. Lord Viscount Folkstone Hon. Windham Quin It. C. Ferguson, Esq. . Hon: Jocelyn Percy. • , 1-16 n. C. Montgomery Geo. Johnston; Esq. and Francis Homer, Esq. Nominees. • After an observation from Mr. Iif.VRKA., the Petition was ordered to lie on the table till the Re- port-of the Bill ; and that the Petitioners be allowed to be hearcbby their Counsel, at the Bar, in sup - port of the allegations contained in said Petition. Lord FOLKSTONE deferred his notice for leave to bring in a Bill to Amend an A& of the 28th of the King, for the better regulating the Trials of Contro verted Elections, from to-morrow to Monday next. The Scotch Clergy Bill was committed for Thurs. day next. Mr. VANSITTART presented the Accounts of In terest paid on Exchequer Bills.—. Ordered to lie on the table, and to he printed. Mr. PARNELL. gave notice, that he would move to postpone the Ballot on the County of Mayo Pe tition. - Mr. cony hoped that the Honourable Gentle man would specify a day, as it was a case in which the Irish Members in general were considerably in terested. Mr. PAR ELL replied, that he should make a Mo tion to that effect to-morrow. Mr. HENRY MARTEN gave a similar notice, with respect to the Ballot for • the Downpatrielc. petition Mit. DAVISON. The ATTORNEY-GEXERAL rose, pursuant to . his notice of yesterday, and after having mentioned that Colonel Charles Herries and Wm. Bragge, Esq. had been. appointed by hiS'Majesty, in consequence of the Report of the Board of Military Inquiry, cotnmis= sioners to examine the Accounts of the Barrack De partment, and that they had found their powers in sufficient to discharge the duties required of them, moved for mid obtained leave to bring in a" Bill to invest the Commissioners for the Barrack Depart ment with the same powers to examine upon oath, and enforce the produ&ion of ,papers called for, as those entrusted to the Comptrollers of "Army Ac count 3. Mr. Ron approved of the Bill, but signified his intention of moving, on Tiursday, that the opinion of the Law Officers, upon whiah the proposed Bill was to be founded, should be laid before the House. —Leave. granted.. . . Mr. GRATTAN presented a Petition from The Mas ter, Wardens, and Corporation of the Tanners in the City of Dublin against the Oak Bark Bill.—Ordered to be referred to the Committee upon said Jail.• Lord TEMPLE brought up the Report of the Sierra Leone Company Committee.—Ordered'to lie on the table, to be printed, and taken into further consi deration on Monday next. Mr. HOBHOUSE brought up the Report of the East India Judicature Bill, the Irish Treasury Bills Bill, the Soldiers' SeduCtion Bill, and the Irish Gunpow der Bill ; which, with their Amendments, were se verally read a second time, and ordered to be read a 3d time to-morrow. Mr. BIbDULPH renewed his notice for Tuesday next, of a motion for inquiring into the best means of alleviating the burthens of the people, by the abo lition of certain sinecure pensions, offices, and exor bitant fees, &c. The Land Tax Commissioners' Bill was read a second time, and committed for this day fortnight. Mr. VANSITTAIIT brought up the Spirits Draw back Su:Tending •Bill —Read a first tirn, and or dered to be reed a second time to-morrow. The Canada Yarn Bill went through a Commit tee.— Report ordered to be received to-morrow. The House went into a Committee on the Tobac co AU Regulation Bill. Upon. the House resuming, leave was given, pur suant to a Resolution of the Committeee, to• bring in a Bill to allow Turkey Tobacco -to be imported into Great Britain, in small packages. It was ordered that the House go into a Commit tee, to-morrow, to consider the Aels relating to the Trade to and from the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. HYAM, from the Commissioners for the Re du&ion of the National Debt, presented, at the Bar of the House, the Accounts ending the 31st Janua ry, I,Bo7.—Ordered to be read, and printed for the use of the Membert.—Adjourned. MAILS. Atittvz,o—t Dublin, Waterford. Duz-3 Gottenburgh, , Lisbon, I Vublia, i Waterford. . PRICE OF STOCKS • TEIIS DAY TWELVE O'CLOCK. COEISOL; - ------- 611 THE SU . N. iOLFMI WITS DICERS FALIURVf AtnigAT SCOTCH CLERGY BILL. Mr. RENRIK presented a Petition from the Commission of` the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, praying that the Scotch Clergy Bill pending before that. Honoilrable House may not be passed into a law, as such would be, in the appre hension of the Petitioners, productive of divers ef fets injurious to the rights of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland ; and further praying, that the Petitioners might be heard by their Counsel at the Var of that House against the said Bill. Air. WILBERFORCE said, lie had not yet had sufficient opportunity of acquiring the necessary in.: fo - mation upon the subject—but that from the little information he had obtained, he was induced to think Mat it would be more advisable.to hear Corm- Sel - before the House should'go into a Committee on the Bill, because then . Genlletnen would in that case be in possession of the leading obje6tions urged by the Petitioners against theßillTand perhaps it would appear that all such might be so modified in the Committee as entirely to satisfy all parties ; an objeel that, whether he consid6red the charaCter of the Learned Lord with whom the Bill originated, or the great respeability of that class of men who had now petitioned . against it, was. with him one of no inconsiderable importance: Tl 4 SPEAKER felt it his duty ,to acquaint the House, that as the Bill in question had been read a second time, it was not the regular usage to hear Petitioner by. their Counsel at the Bar in any stage tit) intermediate as that in the present instance.— When the Bill was committed, it would be-for the Committee to exercise its own discretion ; but :hat it .was more usual for the House to hear Collilsel upon the Report being - Or:mg:it up. Mr. , WILBERFORCE apologised for this unin tentional informai;ty, as he had not been aware that-the Bill in question bad .been read a second time.' . Mr. i4D:111 begged leave to observe, that no Counsel could be heard in the present stage of the Bill ; and were it even pot : irregnlar, it would be inconvenient; for he was satisfied that the obje&ions of the Clergy of Scotland, for whom he entertained the most unfeigned respe&, went rather to the appre hended modifications of the Bill than to the prin ciple of the Bill itself; for it was neither in the ne- Jure, -nor was it any part of the objedt of the Bill, to take away any ,Privilege, or to infringe upon any right. He assured the Hon. 'Gentlemen - and the douse, that notliing was more foreign to the minds of those With whom that sill originated' than any sentiment hostile to the true interests of the . Scotch Clergy. The objet, of the Bill was Merely to .nv-p . end, for a limited time,: and a very limited time, certain proceedings pending before the Com missioner's of Teinds, relative to the augmentation of ,Stipends. The Court of SessiOn, of which those Commissioners were Members, would ter minate its sittings on the 10th of March, and not resume them before the l'2th of May ; but the tjme of suspension .was not to exceed the first day of the subsequent Session. 'Where then, he asked, was the giound for any reasonable complaint of de iv, when the recess was to commence so soon, and the time of suspension was to be limited by its ter ruination ? The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND should desire no Vetter testimony to the sincerity of goM wishes to the Church of Scotland than that of the Scotch Clergy.themseNes.---Taught, he might say, frorn his infancy to hold that respeaable class of the community in proper estimation, he did not think that he could be supposed 'capable of `deliberately introducing into that House any mea asure that could in the slightest degree tend to detraa from their privileges, or to alienate their ri Tits; so - far from . it, that he had it in his inten tion to submit, upon a future day, to that House, some measure for rendering- theM more secure and iiertuannt.. He was, however, as willing as any Gentleman in that House could be, to hear the Pe titioners by their Counsel :''he was anxions..that no possible channel of information upOn that subje& skionld be closed. The principle of the Bill was not objected to, but the modifications which the Bill Should undergo when in the Committee. He was persuaded that when the blanks were filled up in the the Petitioners would then see the ci, ar and lutninouS poiiit of view, and feel, ,as be di new, how groundless were their . aure- Lenns. - Who he had the honour of submitting that ILE to the House, he felt happy in' the . con sciousne-s of introducing a regulation that he be lieVed v,cirt'd 'be beneficial - to• the Church of Scot land; but if .t shaliappear otherwise—if there is the g-outli to susped that it may be produ&ive of any consNuences injurious to the S . , ots Clergy, he should feel greatek happiness in immediately ~ , i thdrawing it. L 0 IV D 0 N,, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1807. We received this morning Jamaica. Papers to the 13th of December, from which we have made seve ral Extras. They confirm the accot;ni of the sur renaer of Curacoa. No intelligence whatever reached town this morn ing from the Continent ; but a report was circu lated, that Government had received Dispatches confirming the accounts of the total defeat of the French ; and it was also stated, that *General BEN NINGSEN'S.Letter to the KING of PRUSSIA had been discovered to be a forgery. We arc enabled, in the most positive manner, to contradi& the whole of This 'repoct. No Messenger arrived from the Con tinent either. yesterday 'or this morning, nor is there 'the slightest reason to doubt the authen ticity of General BENNINGSEN'S Letter. There certainly is some contradiction between - that Letter, and . the French Bulletins, because it is positively stated in the latter that Gen. 4uxuovnEN was en gaged on the 2Gth. It is'singular that if the, two Corps were so near each other as two German miles, Gen. BENNINGSEN should not have known that cir cumstance. The next .dispatches from the Conti nent-wilt, we trust, clear up doubts upon this must interesting subje6t.. A report was current this morning in the City, that Buenos Ayres bad ..been re•taken from the Spam:v(ls. That place seems destined to be the subject pi eternal reports. We can only say, that Government have not received any anch account. His MAJESTY arrived in town to-day, to hold a Privy Council, when it is supposed the Sheriffs for the ensuing year will be appointed. Earl SPENCER h 4 been confined with a cold and fever'since Thursday. Sir WALTER FARQUHAR at , tends him, and will not allow him to up much. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers:dined with Vis count OIDMOUTH. Yesterday the Malden Committee sat in close de liberation from.ten till four,' and then adjoUrned to this ..morning at eleven o'Ciock. Mr. PL7MER made his reply on the 'part of the Petitioner, Mr. CREEVEY, in the Thetford Com mittee, which he close& at, .three o'clock ; aft i er which the room was cleared, and the Committeoat about twenty minute, and then adjourned to eleven this morning. WHIG CLUE.—The first meeting of this Society, for the present season, took place yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. The Duke of NOR FOLK presided in the chair. The meeting had a nu merous attendance of the most respeEtable of the Members. “. The Ktrtn.," fg the QUEEN," and many other loyal and Consitutional toast's were drank. The day was marked by festivity and good humour, which was-heightened by several patriotic and plea sant songs. The Company did not seprate till. a- late, hour. • The. followincr , is. an Abstra& of the 'effeEtive strength of the Volunteers of Great . Britain ; 'dis tinguishing Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery ; ac cording to the latest Returns, dated the Ist of De cember, -1806: . , Cavalry— Field Officers t6o'; ' Captains, 49; ; Subalterns, 1'032; StAlOfficers; 745 ; Serjeants. 1556 ; TrUmpeters and Drummers, 520 ; Rank and. File, 25, lap. Infantry—Field Officers, 1238; Captains, 3154 ; Sub alterns, 7456 ; 'Staff Officers , 1786 ; Serjeants , I' 3,S2s 'num Rters an d Drummers, 6762 Rank and File, 259,501. Otlicers,a9; Captains, cst ; SUbalterns. 309 ; Staff Officers, 5'5 ; Serrants, 554 ; Trumpeters and DrumnierS, 223 ; Rank and Pile, 10,482.. Total--FieldOfficers, 1427;, Captains, 440 ; Subalterns, 8797 •, Staff Officers, .25?6 ; Serjeants, 15,986; Trumpeters and Drummers; 75 0 5 ; Rank and File, '295,103. Whitehall, 27th lan. 1307. IIIECKETT. The House of Assembly in Jamaica have voted an Addresi to : Lieutenant-General Sir Eyrp CooTp, the Commander in Chief and Lieutenant-Governor of that Island. On Thursday last the Officers of the line, on the' Recruiting Service, at Tandaragee, In the North of_ Ireland, gave a Ball and Supper, which was attended by all the fashionable and pleasant society in the neighbourhood. The Dance and Song detained the company till a late hour, highly pleased with the entertainment of the night. The Ball-room was ele gantly decorated with emblematical devices of the ViEtory of Lord NELSON. Last week the Gentlemen of the Guards, stationed at Chatham, with some Gentlemen of the neigh bow hood, performed the Tragedy of Zara, with the burletta of Tent Thumb. The house was filled with as elegant an audience as ever graced arid never did an audience leave it with greater sa tisfatlion at the entertainment they had met with The performance, both of the tragedy and the bur letta were admirable ; every performer was correct and happy in, the delineation of the charaoter he re presented ; 'there were same who particularly ex celled; but as all were aauated by.the same senti ment of benevolence, in corning forward for a cha ritable purpZise, it would be invidious to make dis tinEtions. DUBLIN, JAN. 31 .—Robberie are at •present very , frequent at the different outlets of this city. ies ; terday evening a long coach, called the Cock of the North, was stopped at Santry Wall, about four or five miles on the North road, and all the passengers in it robbed of every shilling and article of value they possessed. One .Gentleman. coming to Dublin to purchase goods, - lost 500 guineas in gold, and th e other passengers notes and specie to the amount of .5001. There were about sixteen fellows concerned in the robbery. One outside passenger was beaten in a most dreadful manner by. them, because of the'gang perceived him endeavouriilg to ccinc.,4ll his pocket-book. in the sleeve of his coat. THE OPERA.--A sele&ion from the Comic Opera of Il Principe di Tarento, was represented under the name of a Centone. After the Ballet a new Comic Opera, called Roberto L' Assassin°, was brought for ward for the first time. The Music is but very different, ann there was nothing interesting in the fable. NALDI exerted his musical and comic powers with great zeal, but the mass was tpo heavy to receive animation even from his lively talents. Signor Stnowt and Madame PERINI, also deserve rtittch credit for their endeavours to support the Piece. The new Dancer PRESLE, increases in favour every night. She follows the steps of HILLIGSBERG very successfully. • Madame . CATALANI, it is said, has den-landed no more than seven thousand pounds, two clear Benefits, and the.privilege to sing where she pleases, for an engagement next season at the Opera-House. She is equally Dioderate, it seems, with respeet to private Concerts, requiring but two hundred pounds for her performance each night. It these terms should-be complied with, we may fairly say, " How are we ruined !" It has been whimsically observed, that the TAY LOR of the Opera. HouSe does not like Gold binding. It seems that he has resolved to assume his old ma nagerial habit. Mr. XoBrN, the author of The Honey Moon, left, it seems, several manuscript Drama's, ' and one of them is soon to be brought, for Ward at Drury-lane Theatre, under the title of The Curfew. The fable is founded upon the manners of.the times when the feudal system prevailed, and it is therefore peculia . ly suited to the manner of the author, whiCh 1s marked by great vigour of sentiment and an antique . cast, but not of obscure expression. - - Miss LEE, who recently bad a benefit at, the Hay Market Theatrl, is not the Miss LEE to whom the public are inde..bted for The Chapter of Accidents, and matey literary prodOlions thilt are deservedly ad- .1,, , ,MA1rel PAPERS. KINGSTON, Nov. 29.—Late on Thursday eves' lng last weak a duel took pkce at Port-Royal b a twee}. Lieut. B. of the Royal• Artillery, ,and Vet* S. of the Second. West India Regiment of -Foot' when, after an exchange of shots, the former 'try° severely wounded in the breast. The folloi,ving Vessels, captured and detained by 14 Pique Frigate, arrived on Monday, viz. the Spa nish Brig El Cabarito, in ballast, cut out of Porto Rico by hei boats; the French Felucea La Surprise, of one gun and seven men (nineteen being absent is prizes), taken off the same Island ; a French Sloop, with logwood, captured off St. Domingo; and the Danish Schooner Eleanor, from the Bay of Cuthana , bound to St. Thomas's, ifa ballast, detained by her, The R esistance Frigate, of 36 guns, Capt. ADAM' arrived at Port-Royal the same afternoon. She sale ed from Plymouth on the 4tli ult. with dispatches for the Governor and Admiral, and touched at C# l. ' thagena on the 17th inst.. for the purpose o#' landing Signior MENDoz*, a Spanish Nobleman. We understand that the Resistance has brought accounts of a powerful coucu. being about to be aeAr out to the West Indies, intended to take possession of some part of the Spanish dominions, which l'j s Catholic Majesty has determined to deliver over t° Great Britain, to prote& it frOm the rapacioui grasp of the Corsican Usurper.—This appears yell probable, as the Duhe of Zent Packet brought inte4' ligence of the arrival at Falmouth on the Ist ult. of Mr. CoELHo, a Spanish Messenger, with Dispate' 4e o '. from. M.adrid fur the British G overnmen t, an d it is supposed that the Resistance was dispatched in con sequence of information they contained. DEc. G.—The 4nson Frigate, of 40 guns, Opt' LYDIAN, the 4rethusa, of 38 guns, Capt. BeiszANP and the Latone,-- of - 36 guns, Capt. 'Wool), sailed , from Fort-Royal on Saturday morning, for the pur pose, we understand, of taking possession of al ° patch Island of Curacoa. The statement publish' ed several weeks ago of the Elephant and Yett:rca z Line-of-battle Ships having ploceedecl on that sOrd vice was erroneous, those Vessels having been dis d patched on a cruize off the Savannah to watch the motions of the Frerkch 8p gun Ship Le Foudroyan4 and the Spanish 74, San Lorein. KINGSTON, DEC. 1.3.--,-The, C4opatra Frigate, of 22 gunk, Capt. LOVE, put into Port-Royal,. Jaa . villi sprung her bowsprit. She sailed from Haan; on 0 6 24th September, with the General Carlton and 1 1 °' sina mast-ships under convoy, and arrived at Barb j '; does on the igth October, from whence she Pr°- ceeded with them to Antigua, which sir ( quitted on the isth November for St. Thinas.3l and from thence she sailed on the 29,i for Tortoili, the latter Island she left,pn the Ist inst. for the pt pose of returning to Halifax. A report was current at Antigua of the arrival, MartilliCO, 'of four Sail of the Line from Rochef o T While the Cleopatra - .was at Tortola, the ,Fortunee schooner, of 14 guns, Lieut. BROWN., f ''' rived there with the loss Oiler masts, ILving laJJe ° in, off Basseterre, with the famOus French Private s Brig General Ernoiff, of 1.8, guns, and 150 W e ' '' which she engaged for upwards of an hour and ° II half, and would have captured, had' not her 13 , 31 been unfortunately shot away, in consequence f . - ~ . • - , which the Enemy escaped. She had ;left OOP' loupe the day previous, where she had been tor e ' e of the Tobago Schooner), in w lll O 1 2 su s s a ta n in s e ( c fi i ve ip• da a y p s . aat ti rlewe i nt i g , a t; n P G . l i e r a n t a t a i d l n e a d ß c d a r a i p g ni t , u a o i g .e t she was beaten off. Arrived the Mary ; on the 30th ult. at 5 P. -/1 ' near Cayenne, she descr ied two strange Sail stand ir l towards her, from which she endeavoured to escaP, el taking them to be French Cruizers At a o P.. 13v they came up with her, when she sustained a rung"' aolion with them till day,lizht next . mornin,g i .wil e !; having her Boatswain i;illed, her Captain and seve i '" men wounded, her main-mast and bowsprit serioas' ly damaged, six or eight shot between wind and - WE ter, her sails and rigging much shattered, and aft er • using every exertion against their supposed enetlo - great reluCiance Capt. CROW was compelled t ° , strike; but to his great satisfaction the two Nrs 6els • na proved to be His Majesty's Ship s D ar t, o f 30, and l 18 guns, Captains SPEAR and CoLLIO" which were sent some time ago from Barbado s ta cruize otf Cayenne, in hopes of intercepting a 13 q 3 ' French Privateer of 36 guns, reported to be ti ttil/°6 out there, and fot whiclt they unfortunately mistook the Mary. Captains SPEAR and COLLIER Were °*: tremely sorry for the accident, and rendered C a l' t. CROW every assistance in their. power. The Mary carries twenty g and four 6 pogn`lerg, and at the time of the unfortunate accident" bad °.- board 45 seamen. Capt. CROW was severely wail nd ho t ed in the left side, and slightly in the left arm, re we are happy to add that he is in a fair way t ° lod cover 3 the Boatswain had both his legs shot of f, bau dexpired shortly after; six seamen were baud wounded, and five Negroes killed and six woanjeu