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lOPERIAL PARLIJIMEATT, HOUSE OF PEERS, 3fONDAy, SIARCFI 23. Titt Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Orford, Earl O'Neil, and Lord Middleton, took the Oaths and their Seats. The' Royal Assent was given, by commission; to the Mutiny Bill', the Royal Marine Mutiny Bill, the Sugar Drawback Bill, the Irish Tobacco Bill, .the. Bahama Salt Bill, the Paddington Canal Coal Bill, and six Private Bills. The Commissioners were the Loßn CHANCELLOIt, 14014C1 WALSINGHAM IiDLI Lord AUCKLAND. In an Appeal, Fordyce v. Gordon, Bart. the Lord Advocate , .of Scotland was heard, for the Respon dent—Further consideration to-morrow. Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, Mr. Hohhouse, Lord Stan;e7, and several other'Members of the House of Commons, brought up the Globe- Albion, Pelican, and London Assurance Companies' Bills ; which were read a first time. .." SLAVE TRADE. The Earl of W ES TMORLAND. presented a Petition from certain. Planters, Mortgagees, Merchants, and others, interested in the Witst India Island s , a ga i ns t a Clause:added by:the House of Commons .to the Slave Trade Abolition Bill,, ena&ing that. Negroes . seized in consequence of. illiCit trade should be de clared free ; which they stated would be produ&ive of great danger to the Colonies.—Ordered.to lie on the table. Lord.GRENNLLE moved the order of the Day for taking into• consideration the Amendments made by the House of Commons in the Slave Trade Abo lition Bill. HiS Lordship observed that the obje& of the greater part of these Athendments was to en force penalties and forfeitures upon those earrying.on the trade after the period fi x ed byParliament for its Abolition, which it was not - the 'prataice of that House to enad. These Amendments, therefore; were merely calculated the better to carry into effe& the principle of the Bill.. With respe& to the Amendment in the Preamble,' leaving out the words, " declaring the Trade to be contrary to justice, hu .manity, and sound policy," it would not be imagined, after what he had said upon, the 'subjed, that his opinion had sustained any alteration. It having, however, been thought right by the House of Com.- mons to make this afteraCion, in order that the feel ipgs of those concerned "in the Trade might not be wounded, he had no objc6tiOn to it. The Bishop of LAN - DAFE, not having been pre sent at the former discussions of this Bill, took this opportunity of delivering his sentiments., His Lord ship quoted several passages from the Scriptures; and cited instances from history to prove the existence of slavery at every period,which could be traced, and that it might be even suppOsed to exist amongst the Antediluvians. He considered, however, the Afri- Din Slale Trade to be so barbarous and inhuman, that the Abolition,Of it would be recorded in Flea= 'yen, and would tend to avert' from this Country - the visitation of the wrath of the Almighty. The Earl of IP ESTMORLdilientered at con-; siderable length into- a discussion of the Amend ments, the greater part of which he. considered in- - expedient and impolitic. He conceived' the,mea-- sure to be pregnant with danger. to the Colonies, and as those who supported it-wished to wash their hands of the Slave Trade, so he wished to wash his hands of the Abolit ion. t The M.irquis of SLIGO said a few words, sitting, (being too infirm to rise) in a low tone of voice, which . We understood to be expressive of his desire that the Trade .should not be declared 'contrary to justice and humanity. Me Duke cf ORFOLK trusted their Lordships would agree to the Amendruents, apd thus be en-. abled to present for the sandion of their Sovereign, during a week devoted • to the performance of a part of tinr religious rites, a measure, than which no one could be presented more just or more humane, or more worthy the appi - Onation of a Christian Prince. The Amendments Were react and agreed to; with the exception 'of a verbal alteration made on the Motion of Lord Grenville. Lord GRENVILLE moved that a message should be sent to the House of Commons to inform them that the Amendments had been agreed to, and took the opportunity of congratulating their Lordships on the completion of this important measure. ADMINISTRATION OF lUSTICE IN SCOTLAND. Lord • GRENVILLE moved an instrudion to the Committee on the Scats Judicature Bill, to divide it into two or more Bills. His Lordship wished it to be distin&ly understood that he only 4id this for the sake of - more expeditiously discussing. the different - parts of this measure. The Motion was agreed to, and the Committee, on the Motion of Lord GRENVILLE, postponed till Wednesday, for whiOh day the Lords were ordered to be summoned. The Irish Licence 1301 .passed through a Com mittee, and was reported.—Adjourned till to-mor row (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, MARCH 23. A Message from the .Lords acquainted the House that their Lordships had agreed to . the Mu tiny Bill, and to the Coal Inland Navigation Bill. lyiessrs, Jocidrell, Raisell, R. ThorntOn, and Whitshed Keenp, were ordered to be discharged f-oin the cu,to,iy Of the Serjeant at Arms, at the rising of. the House this day; each first paying his "fees. A Petitiol Was presented by Lord STON, from the Chancellor, Fellows, and Scholars of the Uni versty 'of Cambridge, against . the Bill now pending , (enabling rllajesty to avall himself of the Ser vices 'of h:s liege SubjeCis of ail PersuasionS in the Army and Navy. ^ (MANGE Or MINISTRY: Mr. DTCKEN'SON rose to put a question. to the Lord l'iowiek) of great importance. Thirteen Or fourteen days bad now elapsed since the Noble Lord bad introduce ;Ito that House the Bill'against which a petition had been: just presented ; five days hsd. passed since the Noble fiord had signified intention of not immediately moving for the se cowl reading of that Bill, and had said that he (the Noble was not then prepared to say when he §hould make such a 'Motion. It had been then st4ed, plat such dela . ; was owing to certain circut4- • , stances not conventent to explain. He (Mr. Dickens cler of the Nabob of Arcot, but insisted that both son) wished to know if the diffieulty then prevent e liad'been the means of .bringing about the murder. ing that explanation still continued to operate ?—He The Flonourable Baronet concluded with moving, had anethereqhestion to put to • the' Noble Lord. That there be laid before. the House a Copy ,of There werAt present very prevalent rumours re- the Instructions given to Lord Moraington' by the speding a change of Administration ahe wished to Board of Controul or the Secret Committee previ know how 'far these rumours Were founded in ous to the Treaty respeding the Carnatic in teee, truth—that the country were about to lose an Ad i s ,The Honourable Baronet said, that besides the. ministration without H satisfactory cause assigned for one now before the House, he had upon -the same their dismissal ? It had been rumoured too; that an : subje& twelve-other Motiont to submit to the House.• Administration was to be dismissed, though Parlia- ,' Mr. Tierteee-, in answer to the Honourable Be ment had not only not betrayed any symptoms of . ronet's long speech, should briefly, observe, that of dissatiafa6tion, but bad given proofs of its entire con- the Papers now called for, one part did n o t ex i s t; fidence.hethat Administration. Other reports war- , and the other part was alr ea d y printed. . _ ranted.him in calling on the Noble Lord- to answer Sir T. Therms said, that not being in the Office to him and to that House, whether Ministers had . of the Right Honourable Gentleman, he had not been guilty of forcing upon the King-a measure, , the same means o f i n fo rmat i on, and therefore from which, it was no t or i ous , his Majesty's scru- was not aware of what had been just mentioned. pulous and conscientious mind had uniformly re- He thought the ' Right Honourable Gentleman's yolted ?If Ministers had been' guilty of such in- answer *a fair :one, and was willing to - withdraw . discretion, he was free t o sa y, th a t i n t hi s respe & hi s M ot i on. . they were not to be justified. He had obtained . ' Lord ARCHIBALD, H AMILTON th oug h t i t b etter that leave from that H o u se t o go -t o th e country f or one the proper Officers be required to- lay before month ; during his absence he should have, in the - , the House a Copy of all the instructions that had course of the circuit, much intercourse with his Con- • been issued. . . .- • stituents ; they would very naturally put to hint Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY contended, at some those questions which he felt it his duty now to pro- , length, that all the instruCtions which had been pose to the Noble Lord, and he hoped - that the . transmitted; were already - in the possesSien of. the Noble Lord would enable him to_.answer them. He House. begged pardon of the House for thus obtruding him- Colonel Sexes asserted,, that there would not be self upon them ; but hoped that the peculiar circum, time in the present Session to examine all the Papers stances which compelled him to rise would be with for which the Honourable Baronet moved on- dif the House his 'apology. ' ferent occasions. Though he had given, a long Lord HONICK.—The Hon. Gentleman was explanation of the objed of these motions, yet the under no necessity of apologizing to the House for explanation was so impertis6t; that he could not exercing one of the. most 'important privileges of e pretend to understand him. Yet there were one Member of Parliament—that of putting to any of or two observations in his statement which, he could his Majesty's Ministers such questions-as, in his, opi, not pass over without sotne-netice— nion, his 'Parliamentary duty may . require -him to . Sir THOMAS TURTON rose to Order, affirming propose. -In answer to the. questions DOW put to I that the Honourable Gentleman ought to colifine me, lam willing candidly to state all. that I can dis- himself to the particular question before the House. creetly communicate ; but more than that I hope ' After a few words from Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER, the House will not require of me. I trust the House , Mr. TIERNEY, -Ella Colonel Seges, the Motion was Will not require of me to enter into that explana- agreed to. . e . , tion which l i think it prudent still to withhold: As a . The Motion for a Copy of the Review prondsed to any - question then, which is not for me yet to by Marquis Wellesley to the Direetors Was. then put answer, I must throw myself on. that indulgence and carried, it being understood that there was no which, upon a former night; was so' liberally con- such Paper, but Sir I'. Turton wished to have that ceded to me ; at the same time assuring the House, . that -the day of explanation cannot be far distant, ' ' e• m fad formally before the kfouse. for Copies t he and .....HOTIASTURTONT also moved O. and that no tnan can be More anxious for its arrival, Official Letters, other than that of. the eed ' April, than I. am. The principle which Makes me wish 1800, respeding the Papers discovered •at. Serin _ te stand well with my King-than sense of Public' gapata , m, w i t h t h e answers . so, far as not already duty which makes .me wish to stand well with this printed. - House—and mine own sense of private honour, Colonel SYMES contended . that the greatest mos which makes me ever a n x i ous to stand well with deration had been praised in aging on these Pa myselfe-ce-operate in 'producing in. my mind en pers. He *denied that the Papers had been come by earnest wish that this explanation may be speedily unfairly, or that any improper xneans had been used entered upoh and fully gone into. That question to shorten the life of the'Niabol;; who was said nut then of the 'Hon. Gentleman's, which goes to imply to have died a natural death. H e di e d i n conse the alledged culpability of his Majesty's Ministers quence of the intemperate use of opium. The Go in pressing upon the King's conscience what it re- - .vernor of Madras sent. Dr. Anderson toa him , when volts. from-=that question lam not now at libertyreport was, that. le e osinhimlabouring - ill, whose I • d , to answer—but 'refer the Hone Gentleman to that ' under an incurable dysentery. explanation which -will do that which .no answer of now . enter upon the mine could do so W e ll. A s to t h e ot h er quest i on of Sir T. TURTON wo u ld no t merits, hut he was at issue with the Hon. Gentle , the Hon. Gentlem a n r ela t i ng t o t h e pu bli c rumours man in the whole o f his stetetnenteMetion agreed of a change in th e Mi n i stry; i n a ddi t i on to w h at I . to. He fleet. moved fora Copy o f th e Payer con had the hon o ur o f s t at i ng to t h e H ouse O n a f or Mer taming the approbati on given of the conduct o f L or d day, I h ave now to state , t h at t h ough Hi s M a j esty has not yet c o mm an d e d me to d e li ver up t h e S ea l s ,Clive in the tra nsa Cti on a b ove a ll u d e d to, and in the of my Offic e ; b e h as b een pl ease d t o se nd f or per- subsequent arrangements with respe6 to the Prince.. .also moved fur ut 010mrah, &c. &c. sons not in the numb er o f hi s M a j esty ' s S ervants , f or —Agreed to. The Hon. Baronet the purpose of e n t er i ng into the necessary arrang. Copies of the Letters of Omdut ,complaining , ofesrievanceseeeOrdered. He next meats for formin g a new Ad m i n i strat i on .- moved for a Copy, of a Letter from Lord H o b ar t t o The Order for r equ i r i ng the attendance of Irish Omdut 11l Oinrah, complaining of the permi ss i on Members to-morrow, was b postponed to Monday the lath of April next. . given by him to certain artizans, Sec. &c. servants. .. f the Company, to settle in hi s dominions. . Mr. SHERIDA N . obtained leave to brine in a Bill o • . Sir JOHN' ANSTRUTHER said, • there .was. no such for. throwing a B r idg e over t h e l'hainese between .'' .. Paper,. eed that it was not respedful tie the Hoese Westminster and Bl ac kf r i ars Baid ges , ' , to be moving for Papers which it was known did not Mr. WHITBREAD said, that having exists commenting 'on Drake's evidence, that the Witness . _ . asserted i n . . • Colonel SYMES observed, that. Gentlemen might' had tiot lost his limb in the battle off 'Cainperdown, . 0 exercise their imaginations to the great inconvenience On the iith of ' October, he begged leave now to retract that assertion, having since learned from - of the House, if these things were permitted.. The House then divided .on this question, which Captain Bligh's letter to the Chairman of the Com 7he whole a majority of 30 to 24.. ; of mittee for the Relief of the Wounded, that the was lost by . _ , the other motions on this subject were diiposed of Witness had suffered the loss of. his limb from an accident he had met with in the action off before strangers' were again admitted. Camper.: down. He should move for a copy o f t hi s l etter , as Mr. ATKINS WRIGHT moved that the Considera also for a copy o f t h e G re e nw i c h C ert ifi cate and Committee should be 'poatported to the 21 s t o f ed with movi n g, Th at t h ere b e laid b e f ore the tion of the Special Report of the PenrWyn El e Cti on other Papers. Th e Ho noura ble- G en tl ema n concluds ` April, and that Sir Christopher Hawkins d o a t ten d House a C o py o f Capt a i n Bli g h' s Letter t o --------, Esq,- the Chairman of the Committee, at Lord TEMPLE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to Lloyd's. . prevent the Regrating of Oak Bark.' The SPEAKER said, that he felt it his duty - to ac- An Account was presented of the Niarnber and. quaint the House, that the House was not in - the . Tonnage of Vessels captured by the Enemy during a habit of acceding t o m o ti ons so-liable to objections certain period.—Order e d to lie on the Table. for certain informality in the wording. - • Sir JOHN Neweoei brought in the Irish. Stamp Mr. al/ Itann a tat perfe6tly nnderstood the good - Duty Bill ; read a first, and ordered to be read a se intentions of .his Honourable Friend, but suggest- coed time to-morrow., ed to him the impropriety of the present motion, Mr. HOEHOUSE brought .up the Report Of the which, as it now stood, went to recognize the i . Committee of Supply of Friday last.--The Regulus existence of a body of which the Parliament knew 'tihns were read and agreed to. , _nothing. , The Coffee and Cocoa Bill ; the Export Duty Re- After a few words from M ess rs. Rosa, F ULLER , gulation Bill, and the Sicilian Prize, Bill, were re -JEFFERY, and T AYLOR , Mr. W HITBREAD i mme di - . p or t e d, . an d eac h or d ered to b e rea d a t hird t i me toa . ately withdrew his Motion Se-Copies of the smart morrow. . '. Mr. . . ~ ticket, and sick tickets, i ssue d from his Majesty's v aestereee reported from the Shrewsbury Ship Direelie, w ith respect to the said Drake, were Eledion Committee, that one Sarah Barrow had ordered to be laid before the - House.' been guilty of non-attendance before the , said cone- Mr. BANKES postponed his notice of motio n re- , mittee, notwithstanding she had been regularly lating to certain Offices, Sinecures, and Reversions. summoned to attend before them.- The Report was Lord Howice took 'occasion .to obserVe e that brought up,, and upon a motion of the same H e e. during the present Administration a single Reversion nourable Member, it was ordered that she should be had hot been disposed of, though •in that ti me taken into the custody of the Serjearit at Arms for Ler several of great value had fallen into their, hands, said offence. Mr. SHERIDAN stated, that as be had in vain On the motion of Mr-VANSITTART, it was or used every means to conciliate the unhappy dife dered that the Letter from Lord' Howick to the ferences 'subsisting between the Masters and Jour- - Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, dated the neymen Calico Printers, he felt it advisable to call 5."3d of December last, relative to the capture of tote for the aid of Parliament to bring about an object ,so • second Swedish convoy, be laid before the House. desirable. —Leave was then given to bring in a Bill I The -Treasurer of the Navy's Office Regulation to the above effect. : . - Bill, and the Royal Family Annuity A& A men d-, CARNATIC PAPERS. Ment Bill, were each read-a second time, and or- Sir THOMAS 'FULTON, in a speech of considerable dered to be reforred to Committee to-morrow. - length, which he prefaced by observing; that no f The Sniuggling Prevention Bill was read a first; h cange of Administrati o n :c ou ld i n an y, measure "rid , ordered- to be read a second time on that' day affed the question now before the House, inveighed - • • . .a , r e, fortnight, and in the mean time to be printed. strongly against the assumption ot the lxoyerattiCla - T he . , - 'Maltls Duty Bill, and the National Debt Re of the Carnatic, which be repeatedly termed as one. 3 - ' • • • . , . euetion 'Bel were each read a first, and ordered to of the most gross and infamous stretches of tyran ny is read ' • a-second . time to-marrow. • third time that ever disgraced' the annals of India. ' He,d welt s . , . The Irish Paper Duty Bill was read a third time much upon the subsequent treatment of the l'oiy- - and passed. . . , gars, who, he contended, were no more stibieCts of ; . . Several other Bills were forwarded through their net Great Britain than of Hesse Cas se l. " H e 'aid ' ... a re , ular stains and, the House adjourned - ' charge the Lords Clive or W e ll es l e y w i t h the mur- ,' . ~' . . - ~ '• .- adjourned. , 7 MAILS. A►r.xzvan---4Husum, 2 Dublin, 2 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - 6z 4 614 eiunium pr. THE - SUN. SOLIM QUIS IHCERE ALSUX eIiUDIL•T L 0 VDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1 807. THIS morning,a servant of Mr. GARLIKE'S arrived at the Foreign Office, with Dispatches fr,)m that Gentleman at Copenhagen; and also, it is'said; with Dispatches from Lord HUTC H I NSON —the contents of which have not 'yet transpired ; but we believe that they do not contain any account of any military events of importance. There was, however, a report in circulation at Copenhagen, before the Messenger came away, that General BENNIGSEN having been joined by the reinforcements under General VON ESSEN, had followed the French, and again brought them to. action, in which he had obtained a decisive Viaory. We give this merely as a report that was current, without attaching any great degree of - di& dit to it. THIS morning arrived three Mails from Husain, the contents of which will be found in our subse quent Columns. It does not appeir by these Mails that any extraordinary movements have occurred on the part of the Belligerent Powers in Poland since the last accounts. WE have received_ by the Mails which arrived se veral private Letters, from the COntinent ; the latest of which is from AliPna, the 13 . th March. It states that according to the last accounts- whiph 114 d reached Russian Army, dated 15th that place from, the Febrdary, General BENNIGSEN remained with 'his whole,-Army before Konigsburgh, waiting for.the reinforcements which were .on Their march to join. him ; they amounted to 50,000 -Regulars and 9000 Cossacks, a part of-which had already effected• a junClion. The greatest discontent prevailed in the 'French Army,' and their indignatiOn was principally levelled against - MuRAT ; who, they believed, , prerail. ed upon Bcity . A PARTE to rejea the terms of Peace which were offered by the KING of P4usszA immediately after the Battle of Auerstadt. The loss of the k'rench Army in the Battle of Eylau has, 'it is said, been rather under-rated in the Russian ac 'counts, and their loss is the more severe as it fell chiefly upon the chosen troops . of the Arm?, viz. the Cuirassiers, Gedadiers, and BoNAfiAIITE'S guards. Wa have been informed by a Gentleman who ar. rived yesterday in town, that Monte Video was still in the hands of the Spaniards at the day of his departure, nth January, when he made his weape from that place.. TEER 2 appears to be a disposition on' the part of the'FrenchGovernment again to venture their Squa drons to Sea, . either for the purpos e o f ma ki ng some attempt in the West Indies, or with the hOpe of distressing Our Commerco; Squadrons both- from Brest and Rochefort helve- endeavoured lately to .elude the vigilance ,of our Cruizers,.and it was very confidently reported that three Sail of the Line . and a Frigate had actually escaped. from. the former Port. We are inclined to douht that report, because no such intelligence had reached and of course the earliest account the Admir/dty, would have been transmitted home if such an event had taken place. The Rochefort Squadron made at} effort to get out some days ago ; when Commodore K EA TS was blown off the Coast but th e re -ap pe a rance o f the British Squadron, an d t h e wind cUrnirrf round to the eastward, Induced the Enemy t o a b an d on t h e attempt, at least for th e p resent. It Las been con, jeaured that one of the objects for Which the French Squadrons ltave received orders to put to sea was, to release the Vessels belonging to Ad m i ra l Va- LEALTMEZ'S Squadron, which are now blocked up in the Chesapeat. Aseneral anxiety prevailed in the House . of Com mons last night, arising from a confident expecta tion that. some communication would come' from Ministers respecting their present and probable state. Lord EUSTON, in presenting a Petition from the University of Cambridge, paying that the Bill for allowing Roman . CatholicS to hold Commissions in 'it7teta6tuedr; The Hon. and %hid i s Member, in adverting to the prevaili ng rumours of the Army and I,',avy, might not pass, afforded Mr. an opportunity of introducing the .s u b- j a e t a p which was so i was '' s n o te a r;s x t i in ot. g isl i y n , expe~ed, impending changes in Administration, ob s erved,. that a report • was generally circulated, ing• Ministers with having attempted to press Upon. HIS MAJESTY a measure against which the 'Royal mind had revolted,, from the highe'st sense of duty and the most solemn obligations of con science.--Mr. DICKENSON, amidst the Most eager etTuslons of solicitude from the House, asked it this report was well founded.? Lord Howick, in an swer, prOfessing the Most ardent desire to vindtlit