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measure of that nature should be crorteded upon with the utmost deliberation and caution ; send the objea nt what f.e wits ahnut to propose was, to at certain how the Mute had proceeded with rtspr.9 to former B.lis of that kind ; in what instancec such measures were adopted, 7ind tr;lori wit at grounds; .. . , . and whutlier the mere faCt of a prosecution by the Commons had been deemed sufliiient grounds to proceed upiin ? What he had to ststrthit was merely to procure information on a subjeft of great im portance, not only rn the Hiose, but to the mem bers of the community at large. He would, there fore, move for the appointment of a Committee to searchlor precedents respeCtii.g Bills. and the pro ceedings of tae House relative ihereto, enabling per sons to give testimony in matters of accusation, &c. by inlenanifying them from prosecutions or civil slits. Lord HOLLAND did not rise to oppose the Motion, but to say a fw words respeCting some points wLich the Noble and Learned Lord had so emphatically. thrown out, as to the Bill before the House. For Ins part, he considered it as materially differing from the Bill of 1742 ; for any detailed view:. of the sutsj..d, he would reserve himself until the Bill came regularly under discussion. He, however, should be the last to support the Bill, if he thought it involved these principles, as contended by the Noble•and Learned Lord ; and he thought, until the precedents to be sought fur were known, it was unfair to represent it av similar to the Bill al- Inded to. Lord ELDON, in evplanation, observed, he had sever contended the bill now pending was i mile of that alltt.led to by the Noble Lord. What lie meant was. that thougli the Dill was diferent in s'.me prints, it could be reasoned on en the same • principles. The Question wss then put, when Lord LiJon's Motion was curled, and all the Lords present this Session were citi dined to sit in the said Committee, WhI;l1 WAS oidcresl td commence its proceedings to-morrow. Mr. Jolinson, nom the Chief Secretary for Ire. land's Office, presented certain accottnts from the Cosonsissioners for cleawang, lighting, and paving the streets of the city of Dublin ; and also certain returns from the Commissioners of public accounts in IrsLand, directed to be laid annually before Pal- Lament. MOUSE OP COMMONS. Maw AND RE-ELECTED Mr.OI3IERS. Lord Temple, Lord rylorperh, General Fitzna trick., Lord W. Russell, Lord H. Spencer, Mr. Windham, Lord Oaatlstone,• Mr. D. M. Latkme, Mr. Calcraft, and Mr. P. J. Cocks, weie severally introduced. and tank• the oaths and then SCAM IMPFACHMT-NT COMMITTEE. • Mr. moved. that Lord Temple, Mr. Cali:laic, and Lord Robert Spencer, he added to the Committee ter rattling on the Impeachment against Lord Viscount Melville. Ordered. tiu VIE EAST-INDIA COMPANY. , Mr. FitANCIS gave notice that he would to -21101:0W Move for the produCtion of a Paper relative to the Debt of the EAST 'lndia Company, unless he should. in the mean tithe, receive some intimation that alight render the rune unnecessary. THE CAPINET AND LORD EI.I.P4IIOItot7CII. Mr. S. S PAN HOPE gave rotice, that he would, to-morrow se'nnight, make a motion on the suniell of Lord Ellentioreugh having a Seat in the Cabistet. Mr. Secretary FOX said. be would be plad if the lion. Gent.lemitt would say what was the nature et the b•n. Mr. S. sTA NiioPE answered, that it was not at present in his power to say Whitt the precisc nature of the motion would be, only that he would make a Motion on the sunicel of that appo:ntment. ARMS IN couaTs MARTIAL. The SECRETARY at WAR (GeLend Fitz patrick) alluded to a notice which he had given to wards the litter end of the last Session, of his inten skin to bring torwprd, early in the present Session, a motion relative to certain abuses in the proceed imps Or Courts Martial. 'Hie peculiar situation of affairs en the commencement of the Sessinn, had in , dined him to postpone bringirs it forward for some ' i time longer, and the change which had lately taken place in ktis Majesty's Council;, led him to hope ' that the abuses to which he bad alluded, would unw be taken up and con-card by the Executive Governmimt, which would render it unnecessary for him to unuble the House for Parliamentary relief. He should therefore waive the notice he had given on that subjea A message from the Lords informed the House that their Lordships had agreed to Lady Nelson's cad Sir Richard Strachan's Annuity Bills, without any SINKING FITNI). Mr. Alderman CURTIS rose, and begged to ask a question of the Noble Lord whom lie then saw in his place, relative to a report which had gone abroad no a vets' important subjcd. It was by no means his intention to interfere with, or ask any questions relative to taxes ; but he hoped there was nothing improper or irrexular in requesting tEe Noble Lord to say. whether he had applied to the Governor and Dilators of the Bank for information relative to appropriating a certain portion of the Sinking Fund towatds payment of the interest of the new Inas? Such a report was in circulation, and might occa sion considerable alarm and uneasiness in the public mind. He hoped. therefore, the Noble Lord would excuse his troubling him for an answer to what he h id taken the liberty to ask. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQPER (Lord Henry Petty), soid, lie was extremely happy in having an opportunity of assuring the Honnur able Alderman. and the public, that there was no foundation whatever for the report he had heard on that su bket, Mr. Johnson, from the Office of the Chief Se cretary in Ire:and, brought up an account of the narn'ocr of effective men raised in that Country un , ..er the aft of 44 of the King, called, •• The Drfeaca A 3," pu-suant to the order of the House. —Ordered to he o^ thl 7 able. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER I( f..e an account of all offices granted in rever. 14t.n in England. sp-cifying tint nature of t s 'e of i• a Aces. a:.te cfthe grants ! and the ',Nine! for ij xsf iett 'hey were 2r 1 • 11c moved also, for the same ;n Scotland and Ire land, UhiCil w ere severally old red accordingly. lie then moved for an account of the increwe and diminurion of the calaries, crooktments, and ixpences, of ..11 the Public 011 Lev in Englinl, which have been made from the Ist day of January, 1805, to the Ist Jay of Iroisary. IOU; and also, Fa the same in Irelan•l; which' were semully or dered. VOLUNTEERS. Mr. WHlTBREiiiii;;;;;iice, that he wonli, on Thlraday, being forward a motion relative to the FUtsT. FRUITS IN litri.AND. . . . Dr. DIIIaNAN rose, and stated, that he had last Session introduced a bill into that 1-1 use for amending the AI of e 9 Geo. IT. for better regu lating the Charitable Trust :liking under the Will of the Right Itcv. Dr. Hugh Bonher, A rclibit•hrip of Armat,h, and Primate of all Ireland, tor in:reas ing the livings of Clergymen, under 1001. per an num, to that sum. That bill had then received the approbation of, and passed the !louse of Commons; bur, he soon afterwards set off for Ireland, and by some means or other, hut for what reason he could not learn, it had been thrown out in the House of Lords. The hill he now meant to propose was the' same bill as that of last Session, without any alter atians ; and he though; it unnecessary to trouble the House futther on the present occason, than to move: "That leave be given to bring in 3 Sill for amending an Act, passed in Ire!aril, in Nmg (; 11. relating to First F , 111t9, and rrr tbeeltarnalile tact left by the tV of the I(.tit Rev. Fi Honker, Arch Wallop of Aim igii, and Prim rte of all 1tc . a.141, for incrcasl•rg small Living.' in dist country." Mr. FIIANCIA submitted it to the Hon. and Learned Mover of the question, whether it would not be more proper and decorous, in a Bill of this nature, to postpone proceeding in it, till the Hon. Clent!emau lately appointed to the office of Chancel lor of the Exchequer for Ircl ind, should be in his place ? He thought it would also be of advantage to the Rill, to have the benefit of his consideration and a;sistan,:e. Dr. DUiGENAN . said, that before he first brought in the bill for the consideration of the I louse, he had shewn it to Mr. G. Ponsonbv, who, he understood, had lately been appointed to an °l lice of the highest trust and imptatance in Ireland; and it had received his full and entire approbation. He did not know, till a few days ago, that an Hon. Gentleman had been mpptiisited t' the office of Chancellor of the Exefiever in Irrllnd ; but he had no ohje4lion to deter proceeding with the Bill, till the flcn. Gentleman should be in his place. Tiestion was then put, and leave given to bring in the Bill. 1)r. DUI(: EVAN then adverted to the notice he had given to move for a Bill to enforce the residence of the Clergy in Ireland. and said. that it was his intention, to-mot row, with the leave of the !louse to explain the purview of that Bill. . . The CHA NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought up a Mess,oge from the King. stating. "That the Annuity to Lor4 St Vincent, as it now stood, was to be continued only to the two next Male /lens of Loft,- chip, and Hit Al.jesty was desirous the .ante &lonia i.e father eatendrd. lie therefote applied to his faithful Comilioa. to t.ke the same into consideration." On the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Mecum, was ordered to be taken into consideration on Thursday, is a Commit tee of the whole House. A new Writ was ordered to be icsued for Ennis killen, in Ireland, in the room of Sir W. Burt owes, now one of the Sunreme Judges of Bengal. Also, for Plymouth, in the room of P. Eangnicitle, Esq. who has accepted the Manor of East Hendred ; and far Portarlington, in Ireland, in the room of T. 'fyrwhit, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern lundreds. MIDDI.FcrX PETITION Mr. MOORE said, he held in his hand a Petition from several persons, Eleeters for Middlesex, the objeft of which he begged to state to the House. In a former Session, a Petition had been presented from certain Freeholders of Middlesex, against the qualification of Mr. G. B Mainwaring ; but he not being the Sitting Member at the time, but only a petitioning Candidate, they were told the Petition could not be entertained at that time. Mr. Main wming had since been declared the Sitting Member, and the present Petition”is conceived they had a right to present this Petitinn, which was exanly si milar to the other, as fourteen days had not passed since the Hon. Gentleman had taken his scat. It had therefore been put into his hands since he came down to the House, to present in the absence of an Hon. Friend of his, who was to have brought it forward. He knew nothing, he said, of the patties, only that they had been stated le him to be Eleselor; of Middlesex. The SPEAKER wished, on the pressnt occasion. to have the advice and assistance of the House. If th e Petition were direeTly against the seat of the Sitting Member, the lion Gentleman had a tight to lay it on the Table. As the Hon. Gentleman, however, had opened it to the I louse, it was for them tsl consider whether it teas such as they could %%jib propriety teceive. Mr. PERCIVAL (t} .e late Attorney-General). said, that a Committee having already determined that Mr. Mainwaring is the ' , ming Member, he thought the House could not allow the Petition to be teemed. The Petitioners, in his opinion, put the House into an embarrassing situation ; and it was incumbent on the Hon. Gentleman who present ed the Petition, to chew how they were entitled to have it taken into consideration. Mr. Secretary FOX said, that from the first • view of the suhjerct, it appeared to him the Peti tion could not be received. As to the question of qualification, he did not know at what precise Lime it ought to be brought forward ; but, as it was a point of some consequence, he thought it would be better, if the time words( allow of,it (as he under stood it would) to pospone it till to-morrow, that Gentlemen might better consider the Aa on which it was grounded; and it there were any difficulty, to !ee how it might best be remedied in future cases of the same kind. Mr. PERCIVAL said, that if this Petition were allowed, the Petitioners might as well petition against Mr. Mainwaring, on every other point which the Committee had already determined in his Carom., which would be giving leave to hatra%s Members in the :nest .an'ust manner. • • • rox saits,,s* had sent &Le:Z:or. e point. though it greatt.. Mr. MA !NW Nfr; 441-Lied tq the Pisthior tieing received, beer e, Lseiits on the ground of his qiialification, it w's a Petition to renew a former Pe tit r,, and Ortefore otwht to have been r..leoted within fon- days after taking his seat. The SPEAK ER said, the Hon. Mcmher was very corriiet in his argument, if this were a Petition to renew a Petition. The only way, however, to ascertain that, was through the niedium of the lion. Gentleman ss ho brought it for Ward„ who must ci ther real tl:e Petitit.n, and so enaLle the !loos,. to judge of it, or else to say in what light he himself considered it. Mr. rslOOllE said, he thought it was a Ntition to revive a former Petitifm. The SPEAKER said, having admitted that, there was an end of the business; for it was clear, by the rules of the House, su.:h a Petition was not admissible, as it ought to have been presented within four days. The Petition was therefore not received. The Qualification Indemnity Ball was read n secntid tune, and ordered to 1.12 committed to morrow. Tbe Committees of Supple and Ways and Means were postponed to Friday.—Adjourned. THE BRITISH PRESS. " LON DON, TUESDAY, Fitioakir t. A Morning Paper of yesterday contained the fol lowing paragraph : ss unvier , tarni, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer hay written a letter to the Governor of the Bank, desiring the opinion of Mai body, what would be the probable effect of rai,ing the Property Tax from *even to ten per C.nt., avAl also, what would be the probable of applying some pan of the Sinking Food to the p.tyment of the interei of a new Loan. It is proper to add, however, that Government have not revoiviel on either or these measures; aril the Chancellor ortl.e Exeheytei', letter states, that they will nut be adopted without very mature consideration." Yesterday was a holiday at the Stock-F.xch tnge, but *private bargains were done at 1 per cent. low the pt ice of Consols on Saturday; and this de pre.sion of the Funds was attributed to the above paragraph. Sir lArt LL IA NI CURT IS adverted to it last night in the House of Commons ; and was as sured by the CilaNcet.t.na of the Excn Novi, that there was no foundation whatever for the statement alluded to. This -disa.rowal must prove a great di.appointment to the Jacobins. They had eagerly seized hold of the report, and male it the founda tion of clamour and abuse against the Ministry. One of them last night emended Lis observations upon tLe subjeet with the following sharp rebuke : " There is another point, too, to which we hurt cat tilt at. tention of our reader•—Tlte new Ist 666 I 6 tt n began by telling us, that tht•y eanceat.ated all the talents necessary to save thc country ; yet, hs their very slst measure, thev act as if they had taken upon themselves a buNiness for. which they sett oont.—Whr refer to the Bank of Engia:,il 0.,,ta what is ne c, .0... is to be dome for theCouu'•y 'f" We would advise these Jacobins not to be so pre cipitate in their censure in future. To some observations, last night. in the Ilnuse of Lords, relative to the Crust. JUSTICE a the S►ing'•-ketch being a Cabinet Minister; Lord GKE. NVI Luc answered, that there was no conch)). tional differenre between a Cabinet Minister and a Privy Counsellor, and that the cases of Lord ILs ao. .wtcKe, anal Lord Islassrsttn, were precedents to justify Lord F.i.t.ssaoaouum's possession of a seat in the Cabinet. The Earl of BRISTui, tint bring satisfied with the answer. gave notice of a motion on the subject, for Mnnd.ty next. Mr. S Sr .% HOPS gave notice of a similar motion in tire Com mons, on Tuesday nest. Mr. SPARROW, the Mtssenger, arr:red ye‘tztd.ry at Mr. Fox's Office. from the Continent, in a chaise and four, accompanied by two Foreigners. At an adjourned meeting of the Corporation of Stationers, of Dublin, held on the 18th inst.,nt, to receive the Report of a Committee of Nine o f t he Corporation, appointed to consider of Resolutions resreMing a RepeAl of the A . of Union, the ing Report was received, ;411,1 unaniaioudy agreed to : •' That not wishing to embarrass I li• Mairs es pith a matter of so much impottance as the consid-rarion of a Rental of the Act id Union, we deem it right to &far fra-,i ig a Petition to Parliament, o:i that sub ti.:til th- measures which the exigencies of the Empire requlr. inst. he arr.lng- 1. " Re.olvel, That your Comnuttee he made a ;landing nne, to Cnll4Ul , with other Coiporatioi”, as to Ve wpod el►actual mcutc and two, when to preNent a I.olion to Parl.antent, for the aboke purpose." The flamburgh 2.1.41 due Sunday arrived yes terday, with letter• and papers to the 19th inst. Tim Porte is taking measures to resist the im pending storm, and has accorti:ngTy renewed, for nine years, the Treaty of Alliance with Ru-isia, concluded ahnut eight yPars, ago. Thr Magaarate. of Frankfort have had reconrw to a form! !oar of two per cent. upon property of every description. to pay a moiety of the cowl it.utior it itiur miiiions nitrvi-cf opo.) that indepi:ndeit city, by General A I:- z et t Au T:w French truops ate grcatly augment • A in that neighisom hood, and an army of '2poll'^o :nen %via Le lormed, exendi:,g from Baile to fl•,!. .and, until all the toreign troops in the Norc, vrrm.iny ve entirely vistitteft psis country. ers from R one state, that the NespolitAn at;ny :!as receive! orders not to resist the trench, that the English troops will embark at Cattillansat. the Russi.s.i troops at Baia, and that the erpottiva iig.4l(lSt N.41)14:4 wilt end without bloodshed, We have received Paris Papers to the 19• h They are unrommon'.y barren of intelligence. 1 0 corrnientin2 itpoii the Treaties which weir la:d te,.. • fore the 111i:is5 Parliament, and upon the ohjea s the Coalition, the M.mileur has a 'erg tiUte, of which the following is the conclusion : Whether there was any great ability i n flritish C•abine; and its agents, in giving som e histelice to such illusions, %ye will not.deci:.•, whatever may be the hatted—of England, or 1., ;oil•t.ace it tna• %vre it exciting cupidity and j, . Frstr.cts prosper the more, and ; French Empdte, cn its one hundred and depar:mcnts, at.d on its Federative States, wili lull of s i7,iair an :I youth, whilst Creit Britain - a :d perish el d.:crcpitote and consumption, lie inlitence of the French Empire of e Conti: e:a will establish the happiness of Ent opc ; it is that which will give a commencement to the ma of civilization, of science, intelligence, and law." A latter from Stutzardt, dared Feb. 9, say_ Intelligence has been received, that the nurnetinn Austrian Prisoners who are in France, have rect:vcd .pvrmis•ion to return home. The tnli of May is the day fitted for the grand Military Fete. The Officer, whose arrival we mentioned yester day, was Captain Bitten, late of the Bri:amtia East Indianian. He landed at Portsmouth, on Satorday morning, from Lisb3n, and bring. in. • t:iiigence that Sir Hcsat POPHAM left S. ;; a ' s i... dor on the 'Bth November, with the fie.t ard ar:n;•, Capt. BIRCH - came from St. Szlvadcr is the Void° Bra..il ship, and from Lisbon -in the Mercury. The Britannia and fling Gee's., 114.- men, of Sir HOME'S v•:-e lost on the Ist of November, on the Roccat, to leeward of the LI,Ed of Fernando-de-Noronha. All the officers and ple wore saved, except Brigadier-General Yossa, of the Artillery, a gunner. and one seaman. The General was lost in getting from the spriril-yard into a boat. By the AcHor.! packet, arrived at Falmouth with a Mail from Lisbon in 14 days pacsage,34sices are also / revived that the Expedition under com mand of Sir lion! POPHsM had sailed from Sr. Salvador o:, the 24th November last; the Naiad and Wahinghon padtets were left at Lisbon. The "fuel-lan' packet spoke, on the 20th instant, is lcng. 7/. the Hope, FLAGUM.PI, from Demerara, fur London, with only the Captain and two men to board, the re.t of the crew having died on their passage. We have received New.Yotk papers to the £2.1 last. The Merchants ul the City of Y} iladeipl , i , , following the example of tl cir brethren of York, have prr.ented a Memorial to Congress, com plaining of the injuries inflieted upon. American trade, by the cruisers of the belligerent nations Speaking of England, it says, .•Could the jiiclzmeot. er even t h e amity, of your Memorialists, see in the now doctrines of the British Court nothing tut the revival and enforcement of an ancient Arki eca'ilislted principle, which friendship had re'raseri or favour permitted to slumber, they might Torn the departed good, but could impute nu Ljustice to the hand that withdrew it. They are strudo however, with tile novelty of these datrinft, their unequivocal hostility to neutral interests and rights, their inconsistency with former declarations of their Ministry, and dezi,ions of their Cour and with the extract:hoary time and manner of their mann- ciation." The Baltimore Paper, olacei vi2g upon the von. soiled, says, It affords pleasure to disc , :ver thAt the merchants of Eshimoie intend co-operating with those of Blew-York, in presenting to the comics! , ; thenation, a public testimonial of the shameful i:.• juries and habitual wrongs which at present op press the commercial interests of our country. Ali we may firmly 'calculate, that appalt so justly f, eJ, and so oommordieg and eiorretie, as those con tained in the Memorial, cannot lid to produce the lent interposition of our in lependent gnvern mem." In the l louse of Re l . er-etitatives, Jan. fit The Speaker laid before the House a letter receivci by him. from DAVID R.I4ISCT, stating that his s., - though p.sse‘sed of a protenion, had been impres , by the British ; and that, notwishstarding his tu , stienuous exertions, he is onAb:e to ob aio his r - le is The letter concludes in the following "I list an estaa by lending money to on tile revolutionary war, and I suffered tv, th:r . ; .trst truth, by being a prisoner among ti:. (the close capti to be made that C lieve wretc On Coa% Amet which these vishin 3,000 Britial useful, House propel I have Rego before i were 1 Evert, FI •11 ➢cnr I. 01, Sir VI Capt. IC for Mad Col fie Fri Ly wi NAPr. •W French hcee•nt c evt I. :c wm.rcig t'ie •fru who, mid m :tiinist his aril *at di sidtrai mitre alio at gaged of the AV 'l'll in 0,..z.t s r TAU► tem : W en ; Oa b e , the el er Kin 41 4 Hier 1 tOefts I