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o l eeess, the sync principles that be taitintainad isi India; and stood almost alone, in al ways contending for right against wrong. He contended, onetime F roui.ds, a t ainst Mr. Dundas ; but he always foetid tomelf attempting what he was unequal to. He was for all that time standing Counsel for the inte rests of the Fast-India Company,which did not thank turn for his exertions ; hat limn this day he was firmly resolved to give it up, as he could not stand the labour any longer. He would now leave it to others more eaoable • f the task. He should never again be a leader, or any way aftive, in any of these questions ; but, as a Member of Parliament, take care of his English .liny, and endeavour to prate& the finances of this country from the burthens which he foiesavr India would eventually bring upon them. But, as to the prosecutions, whether right or •.vrong, lie would have nothing to do With them. He had a sufficient lesson for that, in the impeach inent of Mr. Hastings, on which ciecasion he found himself also impeached ; and the great difference between them was, that Mr. Hastings was acquitted. and he was riot. He did not interfere, unless by his vote, in the impeachment of Lord Melville, ' though people would not be surprised if he had; far though Lord Melville was u good-humoured a man as ever existed, yet it was well known that they were always in a StilUt of contradieum and contention. lie was glad to Ind that the suirjadt to which he so long applied his whole attention, was now in better and abler hands I aid bit bltqat_ion#l- Th ..: would be to defend England against India. without any further interference in India POW* unless the plain and undisguised state of their affairs should be fait ly laid before the phblie. Sir THEOPHILUS METCAVE Aged an ex tra& of a letter, to shew that the Ralf of Shun pore was detected in a treasonable Correspondents with Holkar, and that the Marquis of V4'011.'147 was at first unwilling to believe it. Ha considered that Nobleman to be the groassit Statannaa that ever was in India, and thought it hard. that on his return, after many years service, he shrtald find himself assailed in so violent a manner. Lord FOLKSTONE thought,' that as the Rajah of Bhurtpore was a natural ! 'r anee of the country, he could not, with propriety, be charged with tree. son against the East India Company's Government. Mr. C. GRANT thought that some delicacy ought to he observed in speaking of the ebarater of an absent man, like Sir G. Barlow, whose con do° he commended. Mr. FRANCIS disclaimed having referred to any thing but the public condo& of Sir G. Barlow. Mr. WALL AC:E expressed his intention of de fending the conluet of the Marquis Wellesley, whenever that questioa should be regularly before t'-e House. M . JOHNS (VINE spoke shortly in reply. He expressed great pleasure at having gone at some length into a statement upon the opening of his motion, s• it had drawn a declaration from the Honourable Gentleman on the orpnste bench (Mr. Francis). satisfAStry in the highest degree, not only to him, but, he believed, the whole House. He could not, however. help observing, that several of His Majesty's Ministers bad approved of the condu& of Lord Wellesley, while others condom:- ed it ; And it was rather singular, that some ',c oons were nen less formwd as ore time to blame his measures. than they were at aneaser to irpplautl them. Mr. Secretary FOX said. he had but.' few words to sit. at esent, apse this softie& ebe ohjefted not only to t he loic, bet she m menses of the Hon. Gentleman's *serrating's i and asked, was it not peed le to think, that ender particular circuits- Milifele, it might to feed is ci.asary to have per sold ono coat .e on a former occasion, and now ti , Waitailati.art As to du prudence of his &wr ite eiC ; that th e former was no prece des' Oho Gotonstaent of ladia. TilarNiliot tiff ibe reihodion of the several let ters aleaos si, ins moos put, and carried in the affirmatiott. Mr. Abrifiradat Mon& up the report of the Counnistoo of Supply g tin several melanges were read and agreed to. and have given to i. lin in a 1111 mama thereto. • Lam obas was OM lii being is a NU to pm. wet fatundsentio9s, and mutiny in the army. the Egon of the Committee et Simply. for em bodying the Militia of the United Kingdom, for the space of sixty-ate days. from the 25th of March to the nth of Mar t was ordered to be received to marrow. • Vaasittort brought up the Sager Drawback and Ballades Cootimsente &IL which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to morrow. Hs also brought op the Irish Sager Drawback Amandioant bill, wh•ch was likewise read a first time, and ordered to be . read a second time, to 1001Tollr. Mr. Alerander brought tip the Leport of the Committee of Ways and biases. upon the Militia Allowances. The several resolutions were read, ' end agreed to; and a Bill ordered to be prepared pursuant thereto. Also the Report of the Committee upon the Irish Continuance Duty Bill. The Bill was ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow. Also the Report of the Committee upon Use Ex piring Laws ; which was ordered to be referred to a Committee of the whole House. Mr. VANSFITART moved for an Account of all Sheep and Wool imported into Ireland, within a certain period, distinguishing Spanish from other Wools. The Tortola Free Port Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Woollen Manufadurers' Suspension Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed tu t morrsiw. The House went into a Committee upon the American Treaty Ads, riposted progress, and leave given to bring in a Bill. to continue the Aft of the 37th of his present Majesty, respelling the Treaty of Amity between Great Britain and the United States of America. The Irish Land Partition Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. The SHIA KER acquainted the House, that the Clerk had made out the usual lists of those com petent to try persons accused of offences committed in the East Indies, accordis.g to annual cut tam. The /louse then adjourned till to-morrnw. ~. .•," • vs- ) TO CORRESPONDENT 3. t e• *IS elr6fr wd!probably renal Ws cesoure, oleo we assure WI die the substance of the Twatrre &stoat of tin Casendlitioners of Nasal Enquiry, for the onsiesion of which fo eerier,/ of pesseiday, he sio sharply rebukes es, was shin. exetuttismv, lo Tea Be: it's Pesti, on iaturd-y The it',lo rode Mental, Ne. 11. , still necessiitily postponed with several num &mins. I •• .1 .V! ?dg' • ..•• ' !; islet from 'the *whin of armies, and the ap 'enabling of troops, that a war is likely to ensue motto tiMie two piasters ebdt,• M the Mernsiot wilts treaties ire upon the tapir,. when a new distribution and partition of territories, are. in question, surely , it most be the policy •of the several Stites which divide the Toil, AC well as of those who are is danger of being despoiled, to assume an irapos;ng attitude. Besid , s, to cart' , such a system into are, requires a strong force, for the purpose of werAw iog the people, thus transferred. like slaves, to new masters, between whom and them these can be no sentiment of duty; loyalty, or attachment. The Hamburgh mail,dee on Wednesday se'n. night, arrived yesterday, but having previously re ceived• the two mails of more recent date, and_ also so large a supply of Dutch and Paris papers, we End nothing in it of any interest. An interesting cow/et sation took place last night, in the House of Commons, upon India Afairs ; in the course of which, several Members declared their determination to support the conduit of the Marquis WEt, Lan I6V, and others to arraign it. The fleet for the West Indies, consisting of abos 150 sail, under convoy of six frigates, sailed hose the Cove of Cork, en the Sd inst. On Sunday night, Their Mantillas had a sele& party at Windsor. Among the company mere, the F.arl of Ussei nos, and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. The Bill presented by Lord Chancellor Eisele', and read a first time last Friday, and a second time yesterday in the House of Lords, to declare the law a ith resped to Witnesses being liable te am- I ewer, declares and *nails,. " Tnat a Witness is by law liable, and may be requited, to answer a tratollon relevant to the smatter in issue, the sower. inn of which lids nil nostency to accuse himself, oe to expose him to my penalty or %tinting, but the answering of which play totabiish, or tend to establish, that he owes a debt, or is whinnies subjea tot civil suit, either at the iretwase of His majp,,y, nr of any other person or l otions." The French squadron, which lately salad from Brest, is not supposed to be vest° the Won park but to the Caps of Good Hope. GOOIIIIIMINK are ansietts for the next advice from the Car. The tedettion of General JAWS' will not, it is fond. be go easily accomplished as was at first supposed. Reis believed to have retiree into the interior, for the purpose of maintaining himself, and of preemie ing our receiving supplies. ' Mr. W. none is a Candidate for the county of Wicklow. 'state of the Pell at Worcester, on Saturday, evening ThisHea. W. E. Lyra The Hoe. W. H. Littleton . 677 The Judges have refused to adjourn the Assize at Worcester. My. Ascece has declined a contest for the City of Waterford. and Sir Joe. Nawtote will be re ' iteeed without e The Sittings o7t/ ti tl ft (ing's-Bench, at Oddball,terminated yesterday. No cause of a s ny-pub& boa patience. occurred in the course of the day. The Right Hnn, Geotioe Powson a v leaves tow* ?hit day, for Ireland, to assume the high office of Lord Chancellor. Should he remain a Commonee, he will be the first Lord Chancellor of either Eng. land or Deland, in that sitnation, since the restore trm of Ring Charks 11. in 1060. During chador; interval, a few instances have oecutred of a Lend. Keeper. or a First Commissioner of the Great Seal being a Commoner, but none of a Lord Chancellor. The intends insurrection of Trinidad was, it is reported. It aded by a hlack, who had been servant to Gen. PICTON, and who is represented as being a fellow of uncommon daring. and more than ordi na.y talents. He had established a correspondence at Tobago, where the negroes, it said, were to have risen on the same day, and to have committed like excesses The insurrettinn in Surinam, we have the satis faetion to hear. has been wholly suppressed. Gen. Aecitte, on the B.a of January, was on the eve of going thith .r from Barbadnes. Est raft of a letter from Captain ROSEILTS, of the speditim, to the owners, in Liverpool, dated Basis Road, 27th November, 1503 I have the morti fication to inf..rm you, that Crab Islat,d FaAory is blown up, at.l that Cap ales DuitArc, Captain FOTHISINGHANI, a , d his Do&ar, suffered in the explosion." JOSEPH BOMAR SSTF, en the lesth of February, the day after his entry into Naples, posted the Proclamation, signed by the Est at Schoen bruen, and that, it is said, gave great satisfaction to Naples. Same Jay he attended mass, which was celebrated by Cardinal Kure°. On this occasion he took the opportunity of presenting Saint JAM.- mties with a diamond necklace. According to the latest accounts, the French army bad passed the city of Naples, and was ad vancing rapidly to Calabria. The Queen of N•PLIS, it is stated, has carried to Palermo. not only the Royal property, but also a great deal of private property. She has taken ten millions from the Bank of Naples, and most of the families of that city are described as ruined. . Yesterday the State Lottery concluded drawing. No. 15,916, the first-drawn Ticket, entitled to 20001. was sold in Sixteen Sixteenth Shares, by RICHAIIDSON,GOODLUCK. and Co.; also, No. 305,a Prize of 5501. in Shares; and on the 9th day, Nos. Li 42 and 1;1,453, both Prizes of 10001. in Shares. On the 7th day, No. 1368, a Prize of 5001. No: 20,3 . 10, on the tith day, a Prize of 10001. and No. 1077, on the first day, a Prize of 20221. were all sold in Shares, by Rictiaaososi, Goontece, and Co. ; who respetlfully acquaint the public. that the Scheme for the New State Lottery will be pub lished to-morrow, and the Tickets and Shares for the same will be issued for sale. Mr. Scour, the K.ng's Messenger, met with an accident, on Saturday, at Hammersmith ; he broke his arm, while conveying dispatches to His MA 's:Tr, at Windsor. The packet was forwarded, aid Mr. Score war conves , ed back to town. THE 13RITISH PRESS. _ LONDON,. TUESDAY, Maine A Cabinet Council *as held yesterday at Mr. Secretary's Fox's Office in Downing -street, wh;ch was fully Attended. The subjea matter of its de liberations is supposed to have been the recent ad vices received from the Continent. We mentioned yesterday the arrival of M. lie Woiuizuw, the nephew of the RUSSIAN AURASSADOR, with dis patches from St. Petersburg for our Court. One of the domestics of Mr. TAYLOR, late Minister to toe Court of Hesse-Cassel, arrived also en Sunday et Mr. Ares Office, with dispatches frum whichiplene he teat* the 23J of February ; it is said, that he has brouFht intelligence that Mr. TAYLOR had been compelled to leave Cassel, and go to Berlin, and that he intended to return to Eag laid immediately. Dispatches were also received feels Vienna. These advices were, no doubt, taken into consideration by the Council yesterday. We anamincati yesterday the arrival of an express at the Admiralty. with intelligence that the Texel ghat bad pat to sea. This information was brought to England by the Carrirr cutter. Lieut. GEDO L. which arrived on Saturday evening at Yarmouth. Vico-Admiral Russet oiled in pursuit of the enemy, with every ship iu Yarmouth Road's except the Roebuck. The Orpieus frigate, of 32 guns, Capt. BUGG'S, which arrived at Orford, un 'Wednesday, trent a cruise off the Tete', states, that the fleet in the Teael amour.ted to nine sail of the line, and two frigates. A line-of-battle ship and two frigates were at the same time ready f.:r lea at Gore. Vice-Admiral RUS,LOS squadroc consists of the Ittl.*.tic, 71. guns (flag-ship) ; EI T L ps, 74, Capt. Dorm AS; .- ~ f-anti, {34, Capt. ; 64, Capt. Al AC:: A StAtA ; Ruby, G 4, Capt. Dr Au x ease ; Stud!), 64, Capt. PARS:CA ; heiSais. 6a, CA pt. CAN evt ; Tatar fniate ; and Krteet gun. The enemy are supposed to have gone North An article which we copied yesterday from the Foreign Papers, stated, that the King of Patas iA had entered :at° t treaty with Fr ince, in s.hteh His Pat clan tila ry has consented to cede Anspach to the King of I!..‘v ; and stipulating that the French army, nr le: \ia-s1:41 Baits anor rt. shall provisionally occupy that territory, as so , Not as the Prus.ian troops s io1!.1 take possession of Hanover. Some Paris tapers, but not of a later date than those, the subjea of viil4.ll we cornmuaicated yester day, contain the following article, in conSrmalion of this intelligence : PRUCL AMATIoN. In erwaseuswos et a treaty connAuded bowmen France and Resale, Ms Prussian Majesty has eutiseuted to cede Art-pach to the King of Ilavana; 4 .1 foe 0.-Uptioll of that country is to be carried into elle& by the French troops, at the same 'no vae= when the troops of the King of Pint 0.% Will OCCUiri HJISOYCI. The Prussians occopying that Electorate, I bate orders from lay sovereign to proceed to the occupation of Anspach. The revenues and reusurcet of the country will he %Poem bared to maintain the troops winch will occupy it during the time that may be judged necessary, The army, the command of which is confided to nie, skis I observe fined diecipliue, and Ilea!! punish, with the severity ul the taws, any soldier who shall violate or disturb the public tranquillity. I hope, en my part, that the inhabitants of Anspach will re ceive, as they ought, the troops under sv.y command. !lead-quarters. at Anspach, Marshal of the Impire, 24th February. J. BERNADOTTE. Although it is not expressly stated is this Procla mation, that Anspach has been given in evchange for Hanover, yet the people of Anspach consider the transaction decidedly in that light ; and, upon the first rumour of the exchange, they expressed their apprehensions to the King of PRUSSIA, in an Ad dress, professing their attachment to His Majesty, to which they received the following answer :- 0 The expreoions of fidelity and cordial attachment, in your repreentatien of the 21st ult. in which you also manifest your concern, in conseqweitre of the reports circulated of an exchange of the blargraviate of An:path, have sensibly affected me. I thank you cordially, and shall never forget you as •our gmeimis Kul. • " FREDERICK WILLIAM." " Berlm, Feb 8, 1816" If any doubt could be entertained upon the sub icel, this vague and evasive answer of Ills Pmssi A X MkJ Lsr r would be sufficient to remnve it. From this, and many other circumstances disclosed in the Foreign Papers, we are confident that a better un derstanding subsists between Prussia and Fr.trce t han our Contemporaries will allow. They would , --.---- . This Lady had her first Grand Rout this seiteolti. last evening, at , her elegant house, Great Stanhope street. Mat lair; which was attended by upwards of eight hund-ed of the Nobility. Every arrange... meat that taste and elegance coati suggest. was made use of on the occasion : the grand hall *as brilliantly lighted, by Ceres, on the left side, upon s • pedestal, and Mere, on the opposte fide, each hold.. ing a large lamp in her brad ; the grand meal staircase Was lighted by two Grecian suspended over each ocher ; the passage so d case covered wish Brussels carpet, laid l a purpose for the occasion; the gallei y wee a by parent lamps. The grand front draw' apogee for elegance ; the walls are painted „ in s= 'yellow, in pannel% with a gold and black round ; outside of that mouldin g is a Sillamise blue border, with a gold edge, and ficittendwith an ebony border; neer each pannel are medallions, beautifully painted, representing' the-Muses danc ing. Opposite the fire-place, is an -elegant Ow% nine feet •hy six • over the fire-place is astodser, roves feet by fo ur feet five inches : the chins. isey-piee is of white Egyptian iturbl: richly elliftil i epon the mantle-piete is a - valu able and magnilkent elect, in sr erne, upon the bet* of a spread eagle; at each rooter of the mantle-piece are two valuable figures, supporting a gold' breads % to hold wax-lights. At each censer, at the-bestow of the room, are two magnificent stands, seven feet t. high, with gold swpentinatrauches swinging from the ottom, and finished at the top with a gold ism pot; in the middle of which, upon a small marble . are two gold Goddesses *opossum, a law V i llt i ch. Between the pannels of th nriodren. are two white Egyptian marble slabs, upon rose wood stands ; os which are two lere learn ramie Meleallad in gold. Opposite the middle lehttleatie a WOW row-wood cabinet, with a white . , dub At,* lop, and surmounting that. as AWN =pole stand. upon which are two awl staidois mph is which are fitted two • ; the maim and furniture are. , interspersed with dowers ; the wielloP ..., 4 Wee', and chins, are richly gilt ; fibre ,the ea of the cielieg is suspended an elegant di gLss lustre. The mi.lcile room is fitted up in* comet priding s:yle of elegance. with a bow window rated is me Egypuan style. This apartment into the grand ball room. which was brilliantly • • ed by two valuable lustres, which cost 000 stieit, s this digest tom is sixty feet long, sod sumo:tea at each end by four fluted pillars, each end fortaing as alcove; at the top of the room is a large glass, which teaches from :be top to the bouom.imi PI feet by 7 feet wide ; on each side of the glass is a titre lover's knot, from which were sus numerous wax lights ; in each corner of the top room ere two recesses, with beautiful tablet% inlaid. rad medallions painted round the top of 0" room. is the earn* style . as the_ fret woo? ; or- Ma., _ Pe'• Iktdge•nrea, Derby, Moe ::..11.664, Carna.nctoo, rayon, Hareaud, Cno;mondel.7, Clwriinot, .Jr: at son, 11.tveropol, Malnt-•bur?; toPt4.l n L eon, •nn fret, Abenkao„ Pottossuath, Idasniffeseedftbe,'lllrertaioatti„ aad Kinnond. Eartr•-Gpincer, Canmilas, Smakiogiantabire, Mar,vp, E. don, Sani.lcb Yadaor, uupaoick,. Morey' ciala j Tdonpla, Nelson, Forte•cus, B , .1 liarcono,Wipchntsea, Cardigan, Challnavolt ey, • Cowpw, Moira, Cholninsdelay, Maasickk \I . _ braids; Wadoirerbed.: ifeethaniptura. 4.lotinc- earl. , Care V attelp awl Peristastles uourlsme..4llo2l4llrooks, IVAGiottrn a, Pr , pan ky, Ciellereegb, Atideeee, Sydney, St. Asapet t Falmouth, aaatelagh, Courtney, St te-apti, W=t i n el tilt, Lambert. Carrington, Lanz r itt.a ;I tee. N. Pratt, Perth, Townshend, °waster Grant:lan We. Rote, Cord Montgomery, Ezel, Tent pl#tuivii: t'ave. t. Thy tine, M. Stanhope, Ingle, Leah', Legg,• 'haus, Hosaard, Fitzpatrick. Darling, Mot* M'Clend. Wellesley, Milazy. Soringeon r - . Restell, Corti:Was, Arden, Hann, Durham, Plaakr, Lindsey, II 13-ittmck, . land, Da Dunstanvills, Metcalf, Milbank, *end, zed G. Cool. Lortim..Seamerville. M into, Motto- Montgomery. Prelates*, H. few Seyntonr, Gostilaton Partway, Petersham, Dagnihi, Czry.fort, land. Erskine, lt. Speneer, Haearden, T. Merry, and Sirs—Hugh Dalrymple . dish, John Shelly, G. Ailed', Svyranour, R. Onslow, J N3Wr Metrolaesmarreonaantlo, Adair. St. Jabs, Whitbread, vane, Grant, A. Stanhope, Hawkins. llurg. ile, Grauer. Mister—Montgomery, Smiths, and Bonveria. Metars.Hae, Trent, • aitri Strobl. The house in St. has been a long time of WA Ltis is nearly , Yesterday morning, Duke of Yoa IC arrived mintr..l sinew with His M A3XSTY. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Yosit ha a snsall party, on Sunday evening, at her hogs Rortman.square. . . ' '. .... . V t f ..., ,t. , __ .. •••• . • • l ' 4411,,i1e,, k c it•••- iir t. • .. 11. 4r 1;.... , . ....; , ........ , vb . • THE MARCH/ONES. oF HEADIu.I27•I I . GitAND ROUT. ,piece. richly caived, over which is a large, mir- ror ; on the mantle-piece is a valuable clock, supr ported by two lions, with gold balls Isetweed their paws, and race Cupids at each corner of the maitile- piece, holding branchei for wat lights the dbor- frame is richly carved and gilt. 'fhe Needle Aft of apartments is unrivalled for elegance incttatta.,,' Amongst the brilliant assemblage Welt He. Royal Nigh meal the Prittec-of Watre - Duktat--31nuerdet,, Nepefd. mortuwww .- Oalitisr. lastu. tries Os Beata, S 14111Cliet. - Nai4itembedsod. heat " Dateheams—Deent.thsee.tdasisraarr s l4ol., arDtatti s , d r Si, Alban., De Castries, Batson, and •''itatttsti i iiberlasstl. Man-hlopetiec--Ssselti..eham„ nertfo.d, BFwenststill, fcrd. Bath, Slati4lV.4, Ci”.legat, and 'ffittefie,bet. ninpriesa.--Lorrie, Abewead. Deig:as, Stalle‘Blenti- (.J4 e.d Sapekstaibtnn. - .ee s Guutits-Bdentrie•,,S•atsteatberg, Wpresauw, andis.len. /aeon lad Baron .:g. I.e De`l" ll °, .r• The Pnrtniut4e and Dinith Anairamiditt. Connte.att—Csaidges, n , :seer, Atitcaeest• Clas s. per, Dardley' i hdentlead.- Sawn, E.;a5tri..0.01.....te, , - - - lagdon, Eilenbansugh„ C. . W. ,nleu, Hasade:t, Caltmorpa, E., , m. S. r, M 13-ntlnck, Vernon, Loyal, Aar.- Metcalf, M dba:rk, Sundatitud. Town- into, Morton, Ha mania, Cat/to-let.' r, H. petty, Cavaadatli, Colrain, R. Po , chemer, Macdonald, B oing.low.l Cary,fort, Facharria, puodis, II d- icer, M•Dorlaid. C. ToonAtroas Eldon, and Su•,dorland. de Hamann', lamer !latency, F. Stan: AMeck, Watki.i Wynne, R.; I Newport, and P. Milbank. Fortires, allaolll94lt, Fitaherbort, :bored, La...g, Morragna, Adam., 800. nhope, Shvidan, Ripy, Thorny. ~, Hopwood, Blackwell, Walpole, an, ry, Steward, Ellikers, Grattan, Vase , at, Metcalf, Mercer, E. Laseelles, Lloyd • . Alban's-street, Windsor, ne in preparation for the Prince, ly finished. ing, at half past eight o'clock. th rived at Windsor, on military bu 11l sit.