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He . - was , Upon all oceaSioni.' and particularly under the present_ circuins tdoce. i. on _ willing to forego the opilortunity of reSOrting to the deliheratave wi4dorn of Parliament-;• but thougfi 'he was convinced that' such a reference would not be necessary` on the present .occasion, yet as there might be a bare possibility of- it, .he -was induced to recommend to the House to Concur_in the Motion; with which ` lie should conclude, that . the Htittg6'.sliOuld, at . its rising, adjourn till Tuesday. 1 71e4t 1 (11.)A-he hoped on 'that daY he Should not be • 'l. disappi3:nted - in his expealation of being enabled to !neve a' further 'adjournment to•the :zBth, whe'n he trusted that the House would proceed on public bu 7. ,laws. He then moved that the House should ad journ to Tuesday, next. 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Stock Oginium _ Tr,opei• 3 per Cent. 66ii Ditto Ann. tat 3-16 Bank for Account India for Account Cops°ls for Open. 6sl 69t I I I E S UN. QUIZ 7ALSLZ:4 AUDtt.T LONDON,.7A N 1.7 ARY 15, fBoz. YESTERDAY the Houses of .Parliament met pur suant to their adjournment, and adjourned again to Tuesday next, when a further adjournment w; 1 take place_ to the 213th instant, when they Will - pro. eeed to business. • Three Hamburgh Mails renuinedrdue when this Paper was put to Press. Her Royal Highness the . PRINcE.S,7. of WALES dined yosterday..with Viscount HOOD, at ,his resi• dence in Wimp°le-street. • Mr. wicKHAm is expedect to set out in a short time on his embassy to the ColirrOf Berlin. • Yesterday a General Court of Proprietors was,. held at the East India House, for the purpose at determining the following Question by ballot : " That this Court confirm the Resolution of the Court of DireCtors of the 4th November last, whereby the Commander," Officers, and Owners . or the Kent, are fully acquitted frosts all Imputation of Neglect, or Miscondu&, in resped to tit: .f.oss of that Ship. ''• When the numbers appeared to 'be, For theques. Lion 325 —Again” the queition io —Majority e f s b t r erda tbe y court q a tiestian. of Dire&ors was held at the ast India House, which adjourned at six o'clock till Wednesday next. Yesterday at a Court of Dire tots of the Ease Xndia Company, ROBERT CH ATF I E OD, Esq. wag sworn: in Paymaster, and Pistts CoccAic, Esq. Assistant Paymaster and Cterk to the Committee • of Shipping. Mr. RiCti MUD •LE -GR°s was- also appointed irst Assistant to the. Clerk of the Com mittee of Shipping DAVID SCOTT-has recei ye& So much benefit from the Bath waters, that lie- , has dome to Town, and resumed his duties as a - LT ittatrt at the East India House. The Dire 'tors of the East India Company- dined at the Crown and Anchor in the Strand on Wednes day. . , Mr. CURRAN , the_ Irish B arr i ster , went yestert? day to view the house of Peers, iri which some far , . they - improieinenti are about` to be made i he wa s accompanied by Mr: TIERirEy., . . . . . . A letter received,, dated. December z, 13olt from a respatable .commercial house at Leghorn, states,- that when a British Frigate brought, tile accounts of the Preliminaries of ;Peace being ,signed, the,Ao - le City was in. a tumult of joY' The. French General invited the Captain and Of' cers of the Frigate -(O . him,: with hi and carr ied them to . the Theatre. In .the evening, to convince the people tlia.t dip-news vas..true. The audience, on the entrance 'of the 'British Officers, testicle their joy by v e ry food applanSe. It has fregneritiy h eer our disagragabl, l to .advert to the mis,staternents and in orlic: v Papers, from est)s.e Public,,Dutp-- 7 This dadi we feel, it . at the present moment more incumbent •on us assiduonsly td . execute than perhaps at ant -period daring' the A, misrepresentation t h e det a il .of a _battle is easily corroded, the pet' version of a fait ; is soori•detcaed- ajjd' refuted, follow,thepr"evirniNg and ignorant journals . of M... British. DierropOlis throqh.- till, their' falsehadro . tricks, and chicaneries to affea. the Public runc ls l even a single ibadt!, for the most nefAritius practices of. ~ S'iock-jot.V4trg, is a task • indeed of .F.fercule.an dimensions.—From that tasks • however, disagreeable as it, may be, .it is not our conieinplation.nor-in our, nature . tashritik--an when we have•dertaed :presumption, ignorance, ,we - shall never hesitate to expose is 0 its native coleuis 'to the pul7!)c eye. , Having generally premised ,thus .;t1;11.!ch, • we ha o particularly to contradia a - .sttentog made ill Morning Paper of yesterday, ,(othrsiiinly the woll! informed Paper in London), t'hat..)4r. sm&w, tba Messenger, had brought on'di day, the nitiTe Treaty of Peace. This', 'l;ve-coilceive, to 1 7` the sixth time at . least, (perhaps' the ir n th) . , that the same Paper has had the impudence to state, in I peremptory way, a circumstance of such general portanCe to the British Empire, and to all kuroyeP whkh was - completely unfounded. In thus strongly' reprobating the conduct of contemptible' Morning Paper in this Particular! (Conieinptible certainly iii every point of i r itelll° genet), we 'do not mean to . involVe the gre a t ob' jeCi ro which not only this Country, but all . Euroll looks, with the most anxious.exp e Cta t io n , an d wit an 'expe(ta'tion which we are copfident'wili riot vv f disappointed. All the objeas o f t h e Governnl,en, of France seem ro have Peace for their a i m . IN' draw our conclusions of its dispositions, more fro g ' its iiaians.than its Prefestionr;. and in our judr merit, the former are directed by a' steady and sit'' cere principle of general Pacification. On-this soh:. .j e a we could very much enlarge'; but as our .servations' are now drawn • from us in a cursor • manner, we shall take another opportunity of at • vetting to it. At present we content oursciv, with observing, that though;the Definitive 'TreafL is not yet •signed, we_have no_reason to supt 4 "' that it is not in a fair Way of.speedAy.beinc , so.' The celebrated Sculptor, Mivx - lt,p;. TAN, has oc e. , cuted in marble a _colossal bust' C nsul -0 General BEURNONVILL . I has Obtained leave v ? return to Paris.. • General MoNc tx, whohas•lately been appoint First Inspector of the Gendarmerie of the whole R e ; public of France, - and who in that quality receiv c the pay of a General_,Staff QttCer,. attends the Chi c, Consul to Lyon.s. • Atone of the Theatres in Paris, a Piece 11°9 lately been brought o ut , e nti t l e d t h e Death o f Adam. HAYDN, has lately caused his Oratorio of Cfeg i fian to by perforthed at Vienna,. for the benefit o f the Poor. i