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da r 11 , _....1 n HOUSE OF COMMONS. IMPERI4L PARLLIMENT. TIOUsE OF LORDS, TIMIIIDA• • M•acn 19. ROO', PEERAGE. 1 heir Lordships, pursuant to the Order of the Day, I siso:ved into a Cony:tit:cc of Privileges, Lord Welsors:liam in the chair. • The consideration of the claims of La:iv H. Fitz gerald, and also of those of the Duke of Rutland to the above Barony, being resumed, Counsel were farther he.ird in reply, on the part of the former. After which, it being proposed that Sir V. Gibbs, leading Counsel for His Grace the Duke of Rut land, should be heard in reply, sonic dill fence of opinion arose (as no evidence had been adduced against His Grace's claim) upon the propriety of such a proceeding. At length it was determined, that Sir V. Gibbs should he heard, and he ac cordingly addressed the Committee at some length, On the further behalf of his Noble Client. The Attorney-General (Sir A. Pigott) was then beard at some length on the part of the Crown. After whit +, the Committee, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor, adjourned the farther consider ation of the case till this day fornight. latrii:acit Aril' OF VISCOUNT MELVILLE. After prayers were read, their Lordships imme diately proceeded to the Order of the Day, for the consideration of the Report of the Committee ap. pointed to search for precedents, respeEting the proceedings of the House in cases of impeachment tor high crimes and misdemeanours ;---this being read, Lord AUCKLAND rose, and addressed several ,ohservations to the House upon the subjeCt. He adverted to what had taken place during the last Session, with respeet to the pending impeachment of Viscount Melville, who had been required, on the nth of July, to give in his answer within one month after that date, or on the second day of the _ ensuing Session. It happened that the prorogation took place within two days after the order was made, which precluded the praCticability of putting in the answer that Session ; it was accordingly given in on the second day of the present. With respesf to the additional Article of Impeachment, preferred after a general plea had been put in, there were two or three instances, in which a similar proceeding had taken place, and in which the order of the proceedings was not dis turbed ; the fire was in the well known case of the Earl of Strafford, is the early part of the feign of Charles I. ; the second was that of Sir Rithard Dursley, Lord Mayor of London, in a subsequent part of the same reign; against whom an addition.ll A rticie of Impeachment was preferred, eight days after the otiginal atticles were brought up. The third case adverted to by his Lordship, Was that of the Earl of Danby, Impeached to wards the latter part of the reign of Charles 11. in which the House resolved, with reified to additional articles which wele preferred, that he should have farther time to put in his answer, and that he should know the whole r f the charges, before he should he tried. After a few remarks upon the nature of the iswets put in, he concluded, by observing, that in what he was about to propose, he had solely in view, the honour, dignity, credit and chars per of the House. He then moved, " that I-henry Lord Viscount Melville be allowed a copy of the fur ther Article of Impeachment against him, for high climes alai misdemeanours, brought up from the Commons,and that his Lordship be required to pot in his answer to the tame, on or before to-morrow fortnight." This seeming to meet the concurrence of their Lordship-, was, on the question being put, ordered aecordingtv. Lord AUCKLAND moved farther, " that the 10th Article of Impeachment be printed for the use of their Lordships."—Ordered. Tl.e Bills upon the table were forwarded in their respeeive stages ; among these, the Marine Mutiny Lill, the Greenland Ships' Quota Bill, and the Corn Exportation Bill, were severally read a second time, and ordered to he committed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, accompanied by several Members, brought up from the Ci.mmons tawi Collingwood's Annuity Bill, which was forth with read a first time, as was a private Bill, pre sented by Mr. S. Le Fevre. The House then adjourned till to-morrow, when their Lordships stand summoned relative to the second reading of Earl Stanhopc's Kill, for the more ofFedual discovery of truth from Witnesses. Mr. Wm. Dundas brought in the Scotch Bank ruptcy Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. Mr. Stanitotth presented a Petition from Hull, praying for the repeal of the bill of last year.— Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. KEENE moved for a copy of the commis sion of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the claims upon, and liquidate the debts of. the Nabob of Arcot. Mr. H ADDINGTON, on account of the in disposition of his Noble Friend, wished to have the ration postponed, as the Noble Lord intended, on Mossdav, to bring forward a motion which would in clude that commission. After some explanation, Mr. KEENE persisting in his motion, it was negatived without a division. Lord Collingwood's Annuity Bill was read a this d time, and passed. IRISH CI.FRGY RFSIDFNCE BILL Dr. DUIGENAN moved, " that the House should resolve itself into a Committee on this Bill." Mr. GRATTAN said, that he was instructed by an Hon. Gentleman, not then present, to propose an amendment, that while the Members mostcapable of judging of the subjed, were absent on the Circuits, the Committee be postponed to Thursday, the Bth of May nest. Dr. DUIGENAN opposed this Motion, as the Hon. Gentleman had given no sufficient reason for the postponement. He said, he brought in the Bill at the request of the Board of the First Fruits Of fice in Ireland. B► the AR of Union, it was pro , widest, that the church of England and Ireland I should be the same, and by the 43J of the King, in England, the law was declared such as he now pro • p0.e , 1. He wished, therefore, to hear what reasons ewe were for this delay. Mt. G RATTAN said, that it was not only the Church, but the State, which was concerned on this subject, and that it ought to be discussed by persons of a professional description, who were now upon the Circuits. The Learned 1)r. had called upon him for his reason s whyihe wished for a postponement. He would, therefore, give the Learned Do for this rea• son, tint it had not been debated. An observation of the Learned Doetor's wa.i, that this was taken from the law which was adopted in England. The Learned Dolor, in this tespeCt, chewed himself a bad buior, instead of a profound statesman; for though a tailor may make a suit of clothes which may fit one man, it might not fit another. The same law which was applicable to England, was not applicable to Ireland. There was no lair ana logy between them. He had a great respeEt for the Board of the First Fruits Office, but they were not Legislators ; and it was necessary to wait till persons more capable of judging of it were present. If this Bill were passed, giving so much power to the Bishops, an old parson may be ordered to vote for an individual, or else resign. He would not say, that there were any political bishops in Ire land, but should there be persons of that descrip tion, lee feared it would be throwing too much power into their hands. Dr. DV I GENA N replied, that there were near 70 out of 100 Irish Members now in London, and there was no prosped of a greater number after the blaster recess. If the Clergy of Ireland bad not glebe houses, they might get residences. The ob je& of the Hon. Gentleman in wishing to defer, was to defeat the bill. Mr. FOX thought that the same law which may be applicable to England, may not be so to Ireland, and it was but fairto allow the new Irish Government an opportunity of forming their judgment on the subjed. The Gallery was then cleared, and while the strangers were nut, sec understand, a compromise took place, in which it was agreed, that the Com mittee should be postponed to Thursday, the 21st of April. Sir JACOB ASTLEY moved for an account of the duty on malt made in Great Britoil' and Scotland, since the sth of March, 1806. The other Orders of the Day being disposed of, the House adjourned till to-morrow. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON FRIDAY, M*ice 14. We alluded en Monday to an article in a Sunday Paper, which, professing to to at of the Indemni ties to be granted to Austria, maintains that Tur key is unworthy of a polit:c2l existence. and that any power is jastifiable in seizing upon her Pro vinces, and annexing them to its own Dominions. After expressing a wish that the report may be true, which states that Austria is tor be indemnified for her recent losses, by the Turkish Provinces of Bosnia and Servia, it thus proceeds : " Do you take from Turkey any thing that she is enabled to keep ? Do you seize these Provinces from the legitimate hand of a regular and protect ing Government? or do you rescue them from banditti—from rebels who, in the general anarchy attendant upon the utter dissolution of law and government, are cutting each othor', throats, and rendering fruitless she bounty of Nan e in the most fertile countries under Heaven ?—The Turkish Em pire is, and has long been, a wreck—Austria, or even France, has as much moral and political right to them as Russia. No power can call that its own, which it did not protect.—The bond of sovereignty is dissolved in the same moment as the boad of pro. tectiois.—This is true with regard to subjects and their Sovereigns—it is equally so with regard to Sovereigns, amongst each other. " It is the first, the essential obligation of an ie dependent State—an obligation, upon the perform ance of which they hold their independence— that such independent State should preserve itself in due law and social order—that it should not fall into that anarchy, and those diwtdevs, which, by the sere and fatal contagion of vicinity, should in fect the adjacent States. When a Sovereign cannot maintain his States in this order, he ceases to be a Sovereign. The common order of Europe cannot allow such States to continue in perpetual anarchy ; there exists a right, if not an obligation, to reduce them to civilization, and recover them to law and nature—and the natural reward of such interposi tion is, that the Conqueror should retain his can quest. " We wish to express ourselves simply, and in one word. We assert, therefore. upon our mast mature ciinsideration, this principle " That when a falling Empire has become too weak to pretel its members—when this dilapida tion of the State, this imminent dissolution of an Empire, is not matter of opinion, but matter of altual and complete evidmce—when stone after stone, and timber after timber, are falling before our eyes, and picked up by every chance comer that in this state, we say, that Empire may be fairly considered as dissolved, and that its members, as having become 2oria vacant's, are fair objets of a scramble. It is neither necessary nor just, that the power, which, by its local vicinity, is neatest, should assume to itself the exclusive right of the whole ; in a word, that Austria has as good a right as Russia, and England as either of them. " Such is the couclesion, and the warranted in firanee from the simple relation of a falling Em pire. When to these considerations we add those of the present state of Europe ; a state of such peril and urgency, that the common danger will not admit that any State should be patiently left as a prey, and consequently a means of augmentation of strength to the common oppressor ; such rela tions, we say, would fully justify us, and may jus tify Austria, in seizing a State to ourselves, which cannot maintain its own independence." Were the writer of the above article in the pay of BONAPARTE, he could not broach a doarine mere favourable to his revolutionary system, and his particular and immediate designs, at this mo ment, upon the Turkish Empire. The most sub tle casuist, in the most servile Print in Park, in the service of the French Government, has not had the boldness to assert principles so subversive of all le gitimate rule. When BON•PARTL himself, the child and champion of Jacobinism, invaded Egypt, he did not preach up this extraordinary datrine. lie pretended, that the objed of his expedition was to punish the rebellious Beys, and to serve his ally, the GRAND SIGNIOR, by restoring tranquillity in that province. He had not the audacity to state, that Egypt, being in rebellion, it was fair prey to every adventurer, and he had a just right and title to take it to himself, if able to conquer the country. But it may be said, that this right accrues only in extreme cases, where the rebellion has proved of long standing, and the Government has uniformly failed in all its efforts to subdue it. We desire to know how, and where the line is to be drawn, at which the right of invasion and seisure accrues to a foreign state against a disturbed and distracted neigh bour ? Are two years, or three years of partial rebel lion, the time required to constitute this right ? and is it a failure in six or seven attempts to restore tran quillity, that is to lay the country at the mercy of the first comer ? While the legitimate Prince sits upon the l hrone, and the legitimate Government subsists, and the Prince and the Government have not absolved the rebellious subjeCts from their allegiance, but, on the contrary, exett themselves for the restoration of order, although these exertions may not have had the desired elle& it is not possible to draw any line. The principle, therefore, advanced, would justify the interpo sition of a foreign power, in every case of rebellion or insurrenion, in a neighbouring state. France, according to this doctrine, need not subjeEt herself to the charge of lawless aggressions, and unjustifiable seizures of feeble states. She has only to excite, by means of her emissaries, a little internal insurrection, and then usurp the Govro - nment, upon the alleged ground, that the de posed was not able to maintain his authority. This is an easy way to dissolve, by right, the strongest Government. La Vendee has been longer, and more formidable and obstinate in insurrection, thin Bosnia or Servia. The Earl of Sr. VINCZNI. sailed from Portsmouth on IVednesday in the ILSernia, accompanied b ) the Yuile de Paris and the Mars, to join the Channel Fleet. The Forortrd gun-vessel has c tptured a French privateer of lb guns, and carried her into Ports mouth. The Elation for the City of Waterford, is fixed for this day. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, as we have al ready stated, will be returned without opposition. Count MUNST an, the new Minister from Hanover, in the room of the late Baron de ZEN/ Hs, had his first audience yesterday of the Right Hon. Secretary Fox, at his Office in Downing -street. The New Chancellor of the Excherruee. Lord HEMET PETTY. presented his first Bill, at the Bar of the House of Lords yesterday, that for settling an annuity on the brave and meritorii us Lord Cot. ci trowoou. He was attended by an unusually great number of Members. The New Bishop of Owns , was in waiting yester day, at the House of Lords, for the purpose of taking his seat regularly, and the oaths, as one of the Irish Representative P►elates ; hut the hour to which the Committee of Privileges sat, being beyond four o'clock, such a proceeding could not take place Some of the Papers have stated, that Lord HAwttnIURY gave a grand dinner, at which a new Opposition was organised. and its leaders clu,siin for both Houses of Parliament.—The same Papers now assure Ili, that no st•ch dinner tuck place, and that his Lordship was not even in town at the time. The Deiphia, HICIII.II/0, from l'arniouth to Bristol, is captured off Portland. The Eslamrd, FINDLAY. from Quebec, for Lon den, was captured on the Bth December, of Dun geness, and carried into Boulogne. lire Thames, MARTIN. from Yarmouth, is cap tared. The Dorset yacht sailed from Plymouth on Tues day. to receive the new Lord and Lady Lieute nant of Ireland. the Duke and Duchess of Ben. ►osu. Her stateroom and cabins are fitted up in a style of superior elegance, with crimson, satin and gold fringe curtauis, with sofa and chairs to match. The Petershairgh Cautte, of the 2d inst. states the whole loss of the Russians, by sickness, casualties, and battles, hero the commencement to the end of the late casspeige, was no more than seventeen thousand men ; that the engagement of the 2d of December was rather the effea of necessity than choice; and that, through the mismanagement of the Austrian Commissaries, the Allied Army was almost starving. THE THIRD LADIES' CONCERT. This elegant musical entertainment was !nild last night, at Mrs. KING'S, Mansfield -street, who le elegant taste was displayed in the arrangemenTs. The front Drawing-room, which is extrenn.l 7 spacious, was appropriated to the Concert.-- The cieling is painted in beautiful me.iallions, th e walls an azure blue, and covered with the om it valuable paintings. On etch side of the fire place, there are two curious inlaid cabinets, filled with the iinest china. In the centre pannel there is a larg e mirror, six feet high, and on each side are three branches, supporting globe lamps, which had a brilliant effeet. Mr. NIELD, and Mr. WA ism. pe e . formed with great taste and execution on the Piano Forte. Miss GRISLIITTI, and Mts. VAUGHAN. were the principal vocal performers; they were both in fine voice, ansl executed their several parts with great taste and sweetness. The selethon chi great credit to the taste of the conductor. It coa. sisted of some of the most admired catches .11,1 glees : In April, when pritornees paint the sweet And ultn.net au • •ruaclatng, rejoiceth the Switll Also, the long-admired glee of plommo C - ! • „. • •••• -de • 1 .4 ! .'",••* •,1•• , • # I.IP " . •••"•0 Coins live with me, and he my love; In which the late Miss C*TL&Y so much excelled. Mr. W. v vcr's new Glee, ase,r3e, werrily rung the bells t)t paint Michael's tower, was much applauded I and the Catch, Come buy my cherries, beauteous klieg. The company appeared delighted with their enter tainment ; amongst whom were— The Etri and Countee of Carrrvon, the Countess of Rothes, Viscount Downe, La :les C. Howard, Caws, Le-, Piescut, D. Smith, and Tatlnr, Lord Waktrigharo, the !i•hop of Bath, tin• Honourables G. Anson and Phillia Pow", sirs Drummond Smith and William Phi:tiw, General Grenville, the Hon. Miss lortescue, the Misses Taylor, Williams, Pres. cot, and Codrington. The last arrivals at Bath are— Lady Elizabeth Palk, Lady IL Hudson, Gemara and Mn. earner ns, Sm.,. and Lady Aubrey, Sir G. Pownall, Colonel and Mrs. Erikine, Colonel Newham, GA. Peachy, Coitsnel, Crump, Major Vandaleur, Major Newham, Min elllllllllg. ham, and Mr. Wall. Lord GRENVILLR gave a grand dinner yesterday (the first time since his appointment as Lord of the Treasury), to the Cabinet Ministers, at Camelford House, Oxford -street. Naples is called by Geographers the ity And?yot of Europe. 80% P SITS. hopes, by its acquisition, to make a stead against this country. The Trafalgar Gig is now ail the rage at the Weit end of the town. The one built for Lord Ai.xx. GORDON, is much admired. Skip-son Races, which are advertised fir next month, will no doubt produce fleet horses, and a nu merous Attendance of the ninfAle fingered gentry. 'flie Right Hon. CitAatits Gear, First Lord of the Admiralty, entertained a see party of friends yesterday evening, being the Anniversary of his Birth-day. Lady D. HA vitvox recently arrived from Sew. land, is a very fine woman, and six feet high. iha Ladyship ;s tooted up to by all our eh-gooks. The Marchioness of Bucititsoo m will give a grand rout, next Wednesday, at her house, Pall. Mall. The children of the new King of the Corti are to be dubbed, by BOMAPARTC, Royal Militia ; and no rats are to be allowed, upon any account, in his *lase MAJESTY 1 dominions. His Royal Highness the Duke of Yoax will give a grand dinner, to-morrow, at his house. Portman square. Some persons complain, that, by a recent change in the Madras Council, the English Chi,: Are tracs planted into a Strove place. Sir W. W. W v pa: it, Alderman Comas, Mr. CALCII A IT, and Mr. R. WALPOLE, dined, yester day, with Lord and Lady G. CAMIDISII, at their house, Saville-row. The Countess of Deasy will have her irst grand rout, this season, at her elegant house, Grosveror square, on the Vith inst. Her Ladyship has issued one thousand cards. Bon AliAlliTt, by making a King of the Cirri, has let the cat out of tit bag, with respeNto his de,igos upon the North of Germany. Mrs. WILLIS'S FRRIMANTLe Ifni give a grand rout, 011 the !lit inst. at her house, Stanhope-street, May Fair. The Porruoutsa AMBASSADOR dined yesterday with Lord and Lady Ge Ls When FICSTeII Poste was examined, on Tuesday, at the Hertford Assizes, one of the Counsel served, that she was a very crusty witness. The Duchess tf Goanuri had a C trd party fart evening, which was nurnesously attended. The Countess of WESTISORCLAND Will give a grand root. next !Sancta'', at her house, Lower Grosvenor-street ; and the Earl, a grand dinner, next Sunday, to the Marquis of HILADIOR r, and A law party of Nobility. The Hon. J. .IwiNsois. and Mr. 'rt.., ► ive both sported new Curricles, built at the n. tory. Old Loud-street. The adad.mic ; Fheatre was very well attended last night; the performances were the same as I so,- day ; and went off with increased diva. The Dowager Countess of ficss.s. General snJ the Him. Mrs. Sr. ions, and a large party f Nobility, dined yesterday with the Earl anl Countess of Essix, as their new house, Berkek,- square; and i n t h e even i ng her Lad yship had 4 large party, which was numerously attended. The Countess of LOCOOK and MOIRA'S tenants upon the estate of Rowallan, met at Fenwick on the 20th ult. and celebrated the happy event pf )I` . r Ladyship's beiag delivered of a daughter and bcii ess. with great festivity. On Friday, th e 28 t h ult. the most rap , •;tab!.? habitants of Lauder and the neighbouillood, apt almost all the farmers of the Emil of !Aswan- DaLlt and Marquis of Twti.UDA Lt.'s estates. met in that 'own to drink the health of Lord LA , * DIRDATA upon his being promoted to the silv ulty of a British Peer. Or, t TPI - cao of tr cla. npalis h. art fel h tremor the me. the chair. the higl wisdom tinn. ' Fsery I the Cit at once same ti inunics and wr versall; 10171 tiler at be dray wls del dnilbt adopte4 'Chet erevinit tirmity aba ppnil afro' de AC at Cuil fk laic from C in anSIA prrssin good c bad to read, al Court. The general dumb i Alde that. pi he hat of some of bull City of there vi aware in a Bri as the ( domino stance e as in th it could should The vri the time Cant El The 1 thAt he 1 trading with already the chu Mr. ( the City squandt bat 100 were di indulge posed. a only oh , Mr. support, 1011. h Sever Ilion, th purpose the Cir had con with C tool. v The I dITISIOII Str an the Cott nature, It is to Pros viol( LYTTL tbcr tivi