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rr7 • head-quarters et Hoehst. Thew, and the &worth Corps of the French at my, form a cordon of twenty• levels leaguer. trigadienGeneral Augereau. bro ther to the Marshal, is at Friedber4. Frays con tinue also to arrive in the distria of the Lahn, through tVurtzburg and I laninelburg. vtewea, JAN. 21. Oa the 46th there was a Coutz-day. at which the French General Andreossi appeared witn the in. reign Ministers. It i. thought this General will be appointed the French Envoy herr. The Court of Vienna has obtained a considerable part of the ci , ntents of the arsenals at that city and Brun. upon its own secoont, mostly by exchange foe others in Venue or Dalmatia. taatievoev. wee. 1. Yesterday, Marshal Leferre arrived bate from Erinstadt. hat ininiedissely proceeded to Mentz The brigade of General L.amarque entered this city on the safer day. and arnong them a battalion of r°I4ISWW• A QuarterwMaster foe the Batavian on General Dumencr4n, has arrived bore. The 141.4511 hem mad eat very strong pa. melees OD Poem red wrier in the night. liasscau. rea. 1. The mentality amine is Moravia is confirLied by the latest letters. 101 the 11th alt. the burial of the military who died of their wounds, ice took =re: re a Aar. Even a fifth part of the dead. At Olmute. Troppau, and ether piece% the mortality has been eqnaliy as fatal, though at present it has decreased. Only two vii. Lips betweep Prosaic: and Wischau have been vi sited by this accragge. ssactcoa JAN. 11. The I. the Mediterranean these three est sbe peek Mvpecasioned dreadful ravage.; the ease nth immeernil with wrecks. Some Enghshmee bare loaded wane miles from this city. atter being Ismeited I they say they belonged to a convoy, bound Aim Gioraltar te Naples. the whole of which has . ithibed• eEzine=icienzemes r-'t • ThIPERIAL PAR LUMENt. . . , --...—. NUIXE OT LOADS. Mew° ay. TOO. 17. momin. Noma wrens heard, at considerable length. re the - Appeal Cause from the Court of Countess cf Lincoln and Others v. the ratter y l i ttl• ;7 1 1 O an th d eri r;. iit viz. 7 d B s o o li n cit t o h r e - OW of the Appellants ; after which. the further Alwaidendism of the case was ricforred till to mew 'We. _ :I% Ids open the Table were forward-d in their treige mu i gorses • among these, Lady %. iscountuss Isoe's eisd Sirllichard Strachaii's Annuity Bills, went:throtigh a Carantittet of the whole House, i ortt Walsingham in the Chair, without observation ameedusent. and were afterwards severally re- C IP lyereerd..—Theet Bills lie over for a third reading. Till IMPEACHWENT WITNESSES' USDEMNIIY BILL. 0 Lord HOLLAND moved the Order of the Day . for. the second reading of this Bill, on which oeca. Moo the Learned ledges, pursuant to an Order of 111111 lions, were in attendance. Oa the question Weave 0 . ;/d &PON roes, and addressed the House on Obi*. an *lase length. /le referred to what bad alba glue relative to a Bill in the last Session. whisk neensined a provision precisely similar in l e, . Urea to the *ding owe of the Bin now under con iiderldislis Ple adverted to what he had then thous MN at the subjeff. for the consideration of *air Laidships. He had then felt it his duty - t• make wish observations, and still felt that duty en to, with a reference to those great Ind principles on which the law of the ol"nititTee• the important points contemplated by the ball. ergo tenifentsly administered, and to the rights at -awry abjed of the realm, who might become Ilisito flo be swirled by its operation. He thought oath chill, in its then shape, ought not to pass; it tem spin to every implication that might be made tarasepti facto law. With respeet to the pr-. bill, it seemed to proceed on the recital of a degtehrelatim to a point of law ; which, however. 0040 he bad lived JO years in the profession, end had Pm+ employment in every branch of it, not 1 Saillit II 0 0 alliol. but in a judicial capacity, he could, t milli 'irises truth, de, late, he had never before heard Started; sad be believed, that did they suffer them. . PIM to he mud aside from those legal principles • to which be rsdreresl. they would pros:ably be re . pepadiel la their own days. certainly in those of - Wit Ow set suSciently attending to them. Mello say upon these glneral principles, he *cold probably ofrer to their Lordships. on a 40arst stags et the Bill ; upon those general prin . ciples. we the questions relative to civil debts may - he agreed by me manseuve, he meat, on the part of eg glse mustry , oppress the Rill in its present shape. eieWith rupee to what he had said na a former ocra ir . • r im/1 4 remelt Ng his intention to bring in a Bill opals tho sobieff, its nonsinirodoctino proceeded, i,4a. ; prudent of the °passim; of the Judges not heiag al. . livered, from OM COTISideTAIiOII of doubts, which had hien thrown out, whether a Rill of the kind ' coold.onginate in that House ? Atter some Nab." observe:4)ns upon the effects of the Bill, an a lead point of view, his Lordship seemed to repress de I doubts of his being able to frame any creel*, which could draw from [ht ./Ages an Altbk , e., that would perfectly satisfy the 1-louse upon the points in mustico There must he an infinite nun.ber of i eases involving the liability for civil debts ; and he I could conceive many cases, wherein the principle of the present Bill may materially interfere with ; that on which the law is now adminktercd. Sup. pose a (variation respecting the payment of moot, by a steward, or any of their Isoldihip's servant., to , i a tradesman. In contemplation of such an act, the. 1 " sere alt might demur answering a quo sewn about 1 she payment °inch money. on the groiri.'. that if he 'hood! answer, h• dud receive th e arms : v . h e should become a debtor to his roaster. The pro - ciple was analagoes to that of a Bill before their Lordships, in 1748, when the great man *rho then • pr e sided nn the Woolsack. declared he had rather fie talc object of such it Bill, than a party in passing it: Neither were the House, from the hat-ire of the case, furnished with sufficient light for it to proceed by ; in framing suit a law, it was 'filphstible - they could knisw All tie situations in Watch witnesses might be placed; yid, as he tin:- F t . 1 4. 1$ • • celeasi it,tlnr Sal irivit to indemnifc the stirsesse, front all civil wits and proceedings s and its gene. ral of ket was. that it tended to rive money to a wit ness " in case he gave his evidence in nne way, and to deprive hm of ii, in case he should give it in another." His Lordship then adverted to the flow in which he had otiginally proposed to put the leading qii , stinn, for the opinion of the Judges ; which he had since, on consideration of what passed in one of the Courts, declared. on a very particular case. tried by the late Lord Chief Justin e Kenyon been induced to al. er, so as to confine the consi deration to the matter in issue. What he should therefore propose to their Lordships vier to the consideration of the Judges, should be with that al teration, and was to the following effeet.4 Whe ther, according to law, a witness be required to an swer questions relativ- to the matter in issue, the answers to which have no tendency to accuse himself; but where the answers may establish, ur tend to establish, that he owes a debt recoverable by a civil suit ?" On the question being put,' Lord HOLLAND rose, and, in a low tone or yoke, made a few observations in consequence of what fell from the Noble and Learned Lord. He observed, however, that a great part of his objec tions were done away by the consideration of its being carefully stated in the Bill, that the prosecu- tion should refer only to use of public money ; such, certainly, was the intention of the A& Lord ELDON, in explanation. quoted a part of the Bill, where, after His Majesty, his heirs, or successors, the words were—" or any other person or parsons, for or by reason or means, &c." Either these weeds had a meaning or they had not; in the latter case, it was better to omit them. Alen some farther observations were interchanged Ibetween these Peers. Lord HOLLAND observed, tharany inaccuracy of that k.nd may be easily removed. The Qualm was then put, and the prorvositi.m to the above tied was ordered to be referred fur the opinion of the Learned Judges. Lord ELDON then prop.o.d a second question for the consideration of their Lordship;; this seemed to grow out first. The gis: of it, as we could collect, was, whether a witness, brought forward as contemplated by the Bill, could not be objected, on the ground of his being interested. This question produced no discussion ; hut, on its being proposed, that the Judges do decl3re their opinions on such law questions, on Thursday e'nnig lA, a sheet conversation arose, as to the interval of time, between Lord Holland, Lord Eldon, and the Chan cellor (Erskine). The first mentioned Peer depre ' eared so long a delay, on the ground of its being proper the Bill blit , uld be decided upon as spee dily as it was practicable. Lord ELDON adverted to the great importance of the points the Law Lords had to consider ; and The LORD CHANCF.LLOR alluded to the various important avocations which the Learned Judges had to attend to, and which the present Sessions at the Old Batley, tended to multiply. On the question being put, it was carried in the affirmative. Lord ELDON adverting again to the importance of the law considerations which the Bill gave rise to, intimated the probability, that upon Bather turning over the subject in his mind, he should fail it incumbent on him to move for a Consesietee to search for precedents. In cage such should be his determination, he proposed to gi►e notice if it tomorrow, and to move it on the subsequent day. Their Lordships, on the Motion of Lord Hol land, were ordered to be summoned for Friday se'naight. After which, the House adjourned till tomorrow. HOUSE OF Com &WHS. Mr. FRANCIS moved for a new Writ for Ap plelsy, in the county of Westmoreland, in the room of him Coureanuy, East. who has accepted the office of one of dee Lora of the Treasury. —Ordered. Mr. P. CAREW natured for a new Writ for the county of Worcester, in the room of J. Lydon, Esq. now Lord Beauchamp.—Ordered. Mr. FOX and another Memher (whose name we meald not learn), took the oaths and their seats. Mr. Fox was introduced between Lord Henry Petty and Mr. Whitbread, and took his ►eat on the Treasury Bench. Mr. WHIFBRF.AD moved, that Mr. Secretary Fos be added to the Committee for carrying on the Impeachment against Lord Viscount Melville.— Ordered. Mr. LEE moved for an account of the number of writs issued from the Court of Common Pleas, in Ireland, for the last four years, distinguishing the numbers in each year.—Ordered. Lord H. PE TTY gave notice, that he would, to-morrow, move that the House do aThurn to Monday neat ; and also, that on that day he ►hould move for a revival of the Committee for investigat ing the joint Account between Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. ALEXANDER said, he wished to ask the Right Hun. Gentleman opposite to him (Mr. Foit.4 a question relative to some words that had fallen from hint relative to the Llaion. Those words had been very much misunderstood, he believed, and had raised considerable alarm and uneasiness re mating an intention to rep: al that m hoped, therefore, the Right Hon. Gentleman would give some explanation of his meaning. The SPEAK Ell said, that to allude to any par ticular woad, spoken on a former night was highly irregular. Mr. Secretary FOX said, he was surprised his words should have been misunderstood, for hr thought -nothing could he plainer. They were spoken on a mstron for honours to be paid to a noble and must respeaable personage now no more (Lord Cornwallis). A most respeaable Member sat that House hal objected to the motion, on account of the share the N.ible Marquis had in the Pleasure M the Union, which he said he disapproved, as a measure, bet still more the means by which it was brought ahoist. He himself hid also disapproved the measure, and still more the manner of carrying it, and he had said that lie coincided with the Honourable Gentkiman alluded to, and declared, that he vretc.l for the motion, merely on the general merits of Lord Cornwallis. He had no said a %surd t,:at cou:d tie taken prospeflively, add it was certainly not a fair inference in any to say, that ft.'s . % what fell frueo loos, be meant to move 1,( Jig I JON, TUESDAY, FLIRUARY IS. We stated yesterday, that the Stationers of Dub lin had held a meeting to consider of a Petition to Parliament, praying a repeal If the AR of Union. We copied the article from a Dublin Paper, but we could not find in it, or in private letters from Ireland, that simila; meetings were in contempla tion all over the Country. This sudden and univer sal outcry against the Union, is attributed by some rf our contemporaries, hostile to the present Minixtry, to Mr. Fox's late observations in Parliament upon the Union. Now, Mr. Fox's observations were made on the night of the 9d instant, upon the motion for a Monument, at the public expence, to the la.. Marquis CORNWALLIS ; and the meeting of the Stationers' Company, the only one mentioned, was held on the I Rh. A report of Mr. Fox's speech might, no doubt, have reached Dublin, so as to have produced an effed there, previous to the 1 Ith ; but, it is impossible it should have so circu lated, as to have produced a great sensation over all Ireland, on the 14th, the date of the latest accounts; nor do we find, in the Dublin Pap.rrs, C.ool the 11th to the 14th inclu.ive, any indication or any other meeting, except that of the Stationers. The sensa tion, we believe, has been chiefly in this country, and not in Ireland ; excited by the very justiSable apprehension, that the example of the Stationers' Company might become general through that pan of the United Kingdom. Mr. Fox's observations did not justify these proceedings in Dublin ; and Mr. ALlassnen, with much good sense, took the earliest possible opportunity last night in the House of Commons, to remove the error.— In answer to a question from that Gentleman, Mr. Fos declared (in his piece), 4' that his ob servations on that suhjed related. culusioelm, to the mode of carrying the Union, not to the Union itself, now Etat it is passed; and that nothing fell from him, to justify a supposition that he meant to move for its repeal." After this declaration from Mr Fox, we shall probably beer no more of the repeal of the Aft of Union ; and the political agitators and fadinus opposers of the Government, must look out for some new sullied of alarm. .... Lord HENRY PETTy gave notice, last night, of a motion of adjoutnment this day until Monday nest. A Jamaica mail arrived yesterday, in 44 days, and brought us the Jamaica papers to the t9.h December. The late alarm in that island has pro duced the good effea of improving the discipline of the militia corps, and the general means of defence throughout the island. The Session closed on the 22d. The Rtyal Gazette of the 48th, repeats the rumours which have run through the island papers, that a French force had arrived at Martinique ; Wt more recent accounts, from the Windward Islands, discredit this statement. Extra& of a letter from Barbadoes, dated the 31st Dec-mber, 180) The Rehr*, Dan SYSII I ea, bound to Jamaica), was seen taken by •a rrenati squadron of one two-decker, two large ft igates, and one brig, on the 7th inst. in lat. 30. 11. lon. 27. W. by Captain H.Q. - a, of the Ira, and Captain JOHN sup, of the Charl.e, who were part of the Meet from Cork, and are arrived hers. The following article was yesterday potted at LLOYD'S: " P,rt of the fleet which ta;led from Cork, under convoy of 114 Nta,e4ty's ships F.,,prd and Wolverine, are arriveri at ttelba toes. They were fan-ra in with in tat. b 6. long. 43. r,sup;ryted on the 7th Decerniver), by a French equadion, which tqrally aisperaod them ; and many of the filet had not arr:ved." Three Hamborgb Mails are now Mee ; but we have received a series of the Hansharsh Cerrespen.. drake to the nth, which anticipate part of their con tents. These Papers conffrm the intelligence before received, of His PRUSSIAN MAINSTY having taken possession of the Elettorate of Hanover; but so far AS the accroonts come down, they do not confirm the report of his baying annexed that Eleflorate to his own territories. On the contrary, by the Pro clamation which preceded this occipartcy, the rno. tive ass:red for doing so is only to oven the cola. mines or war from the North of Germany. ‘‘.: ought. hoe. ever, to ohterre, that the present ac. counts do not came down to the time of 'Rua; pns. session, whiCh was axed for the sth instant. They throw no light on any move:nett subsequent to the 4th, nor do they state any of the other particulars of the convention concluded bitween Box AAAAAA mad the King of Payssia. We are still, however, of opinion, that the quality of the possession. as taken on the Sth, was in the spirit of the Proclaim. lion though wa are by no mesas prepared to say, that Prussia will readily surrender the trust, accord. iag to the conditions. Some commotion, are said to bare arisen in tl'e Turkish provinces, in runseriewet of the Peace of Preiburgii. Nothing more likely. These inturrec. tinns, intended, perhaps, to serve as a pretext for the introdttaion of an Austrian at my inta_thi t torb;: nions of the Pottrz, coatigisous to Hungary, siert most probably, organized before the Plenipotei, tiaries removed from I'es-slough. Russia sem i aware, that some attempt to dismember the Tro territory will be soon. made. His I m 'mat MA JESTY was about to undertakes jnoeney to Moscos, as it was given tot, hot which, there is reason to suppose, would he extended, to bring him nearer the probable scene of military operations. ' The rumour is cougrmed, that a French corns has entered the city ci Fro-kfort ; Vot no an steno to have, as vet. beea exercised by it, which woiiil indicate, that it is iasended to abolish the Consims. Sutton ur privileges of that free Imperial city. Pe_ Sunday morning, twe:tty sail of tren , p , To, with' troops, room as Elbe, convoy us ttie llonctle, sloop of war, arrived in the Du 0.14. Ike small squadron that was filming, t. atuisc 4 the narrow part of the Channel, is disiolved. Adm.? al Cos/two:Am mottle.' again on Friday to Torlty, where he was joined by the squad: under odmiral Correia. The Earl of St. Vinous?, we are informed, goes to Torbay, to take the command of' the Channel fleet. His Royal Highness the Duke of CLAN/um, is s ti.:, is to be second in command ; and o:r Isaac (7,4 F IN to be Captain of the E. et The Hun. T. Ell hIC eldest son of the Loan Cita Net:LT.OR, has arrived at Portsmouth, to suiiat the votes of -the Aldermen and Rurge.s:4 of tin Corporation, at the eltaiou of a Repteseutative 14-1- the 13.:roogh in Parliament, tt-morrnw. Admiral M tits:tram will be re-elelleJ, and the Hon. Mr. Easels' chosen, in the room of his father. Jana HaharslN,Esq. is appoin'ed Secretary to Earl Srt act*, His Mai Ptiacopal Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Marquis of Dooat as is spoken of as the newly-appoit test Ambassador to tl4 Court of St. Pearshargh r than whom, perhaps, a mere able and accomplished -young NobJ, man could not be et:kites' ' , to till that important office. The Loan M his rept.ved a requisitios, signed by eleven Members of the Corporation, re- Tit sting his Lordship to convene an early Court. To rescoositler ti • Addies. or tosterarteaf en. raved tit .4 the t.se Court of Csrarrion r u.ti, ii , od tflo grounds that it was c smut to the spirit of the rst I utiun, w h ic h oug h t to h ate it, at mitten , tp the &nand omn of the Colin. .1 14 10 Ow O eclarftioa of the Membeit who supp orte d the The ifesercr, from the River Plates far Mosambique, is captured by the Lurie privateer. 41 London, an.i earned into Barhadoes. The :faire, from Demerara, for Bristol. is re.captured, and carried into Guerosey. She was taken by a French privateeroshich had captured three other West I/ohm:ten; of which the NW, Illahr privateer, of Guernsey, which reuse& the Allier, was also in chase. The Portuguese ship Clemsertee t from Senegal. for the Havanna!), is captured by the Sermaiiteme frigate, ki —twee.. Orison( LIT of war, end the Samoa replosr merchantman, and carried into Jamaica. The Cho, hi'Fttc. front the Chyle, for Grenada. • has been taken, retaken, and Arrived at Burbecities. The Beihre, St NI MiANOS, from the Clyde, for Honduras, was taken on the 7th December, by a Fret ch squadron. Tie Prioress Etzsiel4 packet, Capt. Kinn, with the November Mail from Falmouth, arrived at Jamaica on the 28th of December. The Tigress, GRAN ; and the Ace, Masson ; from Londsn,-arrived at the island of Fertliseed•de Norronka, en the coast of Brazil. on the 22d of November, and intended to sail the neat day fur Madras. The Akzasmier, Lisa.; and the Aurora. from Jamaica for Great Britain, that were on shore at Crooked Island. are arrived back at Jamaica ; the latter Alter discharging part of her cargo. 'he Britannia, LEARY, from Liverpool, fee Jamaica, is blown up at Cork. The whole of the Fisg.,rif and the Wieterrisse's convoy, hum Cork, art accounted for, except the ithse, Pasts Lxv, from Cork ; Fame, from Bristol ; Her., Cue R V 1 General Hisstee,—..., Irese ll,utu, and the Menace, —, from the Clyde. The Spy, Fowl. en, from London, is a ived at the Canaries, after having her cargo takes out by a privateer. The enfithrima, from Cork, for Jamaica, hat been taken, retaken, and carried into Avtigua. Mr. Just;ce FisucArst, of the Caurt of Com mon Pleas in Ireland, some time since expressed a wish to Iretite from the Beach, on receiving e usual compensation A King's letter was accordinie ly -sent over, appointing ROHM Mavis, Esq• 1. I successor; on the At riv.4l of the !rust-, Lord s..:1•0.: Justice Dowei.s. and Mr. Mayes waited on N; r . Justice First/cast, to sighity His hiciesri't pls. - sure. Mr. Justice i'istuCaea enquired I r t letter of corn:sensation, which they had n-t tJ produce; on which hi said he should coutsnuo do bit, duty ; and, by the change of lt,iin,sny, • MA vim will not be the next Irish Judge, but me•t probably Mr. Frercese, a MAU of the first en. DcaCiii 41 O A blab Bar. t".,r its repeal. it was not any all of that Hesse , hat could efface the effeas of such 'a iondiql (mm he m-mory of any mart. aid ts - .cr..! was a great terence between 'clisairprvi:m tile manner of doing .itch an An. and repealing it after it was done. Dr. DUIGENIAN moved for leave to bring in a mill to enforce the residence of the Clergy in Itel.ind. Granted. The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a third time and paso-ti. The Iris!) Population Bill was read • last. and ordered to be read a second tint on the 3d of April. and to be printed. 111 , I ride L4lll Partition Bill was road s first, and ordered to be read 1 steond time to-mortow. Mr. Alexander obtained leave to briqg in a Hill to indemlify all persons who have negfeeted to qua lify themselves for offices, professions, etc. The Committees of Supply and Ways and Means were postponed to Monday next --akdj,turned. THE BRITISH PRESS.