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ebserveil, was Clerk iit rlte Nast* Par-011e% an 4 we'. et tots Causenttce are in the fiequeut habit ul niastiic peewit' y sitcoms, to Lose TIIO application of the lark , " eons of 10,0001. which was with d awn on the 14th of Apnl, 178,i, by a draft in favour of Mr. )oar Committee have tern ab:e to trace; mid it a:, pears to have ben used by Lori' Melville as a lotto to the huu.e of Mure aid Atkinson, with whom he kept an account, and who tippet, to have been at that time in need of a..istance.... This advance will be found to base been more than dist-1%71rd before the rod of three mooths, by the re-pay nients mat's be that house on the 7th and 12th July, 1713, to Loid ea-treasurership account at the Rank. Too use made aeon,. of the smaller sums withdrawn, your Committee lave uut yet discovered ; but being str.•olly ini Mseed with the importance of the fafts now laid before the ouse, amil appraiser nye that the Articles of Impeachoseet, which were prepared before they were in possession d this in• formation, are not so framed a. to admit full evidence of all the circumstances herein deleted, they have endeavoured to die. charge their duty, by statinl them to the House, as the around of a lumber Articie, t-i be .dried to thole Arcady preferred. ereecoamosenemmw IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. --.0.- 149ITSE OF LORDS, WIDNIOD•T, MAACII S. Mr. Knapp appeared as counsel, tre forma, for the Defeedaht, in the writ of error from the Court of King's Bench, Macdowall v. Bailey, which was immediately manned by their Lordships, with 601. masts. Mr. Fordyce, Surveyor-General of the Crown Lends, presented at the bar the third Report from the Surveyor of His Majesty's Land Revenue, in obedience to an At of Parliament, which was laid ups% the table • and. on the motion of Lord Viral ewiejed to be printed. lgtdr spat the table were forwarded in their yetspeetive stages ; among these, the Annual In demnity fill was read a second time, and com bined for tomorrow. A few orders with nrspeet to the honing of Ai)• i s were made, after which their Lordships ad till to-morrow. - noun 01 COMMONS. - I Mr. Hotchinson brought up a Petition from 'lst Mayor. Corporation andini4hitants of Cork, for Wee •- a bill for , Now Gaol in the to bring in _ building a t. city of Cork.—Ordered to be referred to a Corn tniure Mr F‘rdyee brought up the third report of the Surveyor.Grneril of the Crown Land*, pursuant to Aft of Parliament.—Ordered to be printrd. Mr. Arndt presented at the Bar an Account from the Commissioners of the Thames Navigation.—Or defog to lie on the Table. vttittlrmeNT OF MR. TkOTTER. Mr. Whitbread brought up a repi.rt from the Commiree for carrying on the Inipeachroent against Lord Viscount Mlville, informing the House, rlutt Alexander, 'ryotter, Esq. had refused I to answer certain cpiestincs which had been this day put to Lim by Th.. said Committee, atid prayise the or der of the House ther..cm." r Y As soon as the rep. rt was read, Mr. WHI I'BRFAD moved, " That the entry get the Journals, 1742, be read ;" which was read fomedingly ; by which it appeared, " that Lord Li merick reported from a Committer, that Mr Pax ton, who was then Secretary to the Treasury, and sacq,bee p. m ). (whose name we did not bear), had severally refused so answer questier.s put to them by the two Carsomittees, before whom they were ex 'opined ; and that. In consequence of the same being reported so the House, they had been. on a coal:pitted to Newgate toe their contu macy▪ ." It-. WHIT BitEAD then said, that these persons were not only committed to Newgate, but were de aied the use of pen, ink, and paper ; he should not, however, make any sucb motion, but content him self with moving. r , That Alexander Trotter, Esq. be committed to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms for the said offence." On the question being put. Sir W. ELFORD said, that he had been desired by Me. Trotter. to state to the House. that having, by t h e advice of his legal assistants, been cautioned against answering certain questions which might tend to injure himself, and underitar.ding that not. withstsnstrng a majority of the Judges had deter mined, that a wiusess was compellable to answer. thou Os he might sobjeft himself thereby to a civil sui .that nevertheless as it had been thought necessary a declatatory law should be passed on this subjea. he hoped this matter would not be pressed further, till such declaratory law was known. The Hon. Baronet then rend, as part of his speech, the writ ten opinion of Mr. Serjt. Shepherd, which was con curred in by Mr. Alexander. stating. G. that be could conscientiously advise Mr. Trotter not to answer -die said questions." The Hon. Baronet therefore ,hoped, that the managers would suspend the in quiry. till the law was declared on this subjeil ; and be was the more inclined to do so, from the circum- ranee of the Hon. Gentleman himself having, as Chairman of the Committee, recognised the caption in question, by having brought is a kliU of Indem oity. Mr. Secretary FOX said, that if no bill had been brought in on the iiiihjed, the House would Mme , diateiy have attended to the application of the Com. , Mince, and have ordered the commitment. He me , yet knew a single instance in which the House had, in such a case, hesitated to support the authority of their Committees. The majority of the Judges having determined, that a witness was coinpellable to answer, put the matter out of all question ; and further delay in the proceedings -of the Committee 1 might be attended • hit great inconvenience ; and if the 1-I)the should now refuse to attend to the Ap plication of their Committee, especially after some extraordinary manceuvies which had been attempt ed in this business during the last Sev.i.n, they would make a precedent which had never before been known. Mr. %% Ail ['BREAD said, the Committee had already given Mr. Trotter every indulgence in ad • sing with h-s Counsel ; and had repeatedly en larged the time ti r his receiving such advice as he w.eied :o take. It the opinion of the tour Judges had ;wen the nther way, the questions now put to ben were su:h as the Committee thought he was bound to answer, in order to obtain the ends of jus - ttr ice found any reluelaece in n he had made, it would be point nglie Committee, in more confidence. he had no intention of revaigring the cnndliff of the Committee, or of imt utirg the smallest blame to them ; he hid only wished si state the mr4ivas Aldrich itulated Mr. r k ottet PSI etw,e fcl i aaswer certain questions, tinder the advice of his Crustatl. The sprestion was then put, and the motion agreed to; and it was fUrther ordered, no the motion of Mr. Whitbread, " that the said Alexander Trotter should be brought before the said Committee, by the Setje int at Arms, in order to be examined by them, when, and as of ten as they should scud tot him tur that purpose." MILITARY ESTABLISH MYNT. Mr. LONG rose and said,that sc cing a Right Hon Gentleman belonging to the War Department, in his place, he would beg leave to ask him a single ques tion, which was, when he thought he should be able to bring forward his plan for the completion of the Military Establishment ? He declared, he did not ask this from any hostility to His Majesty's pre sent Ministers, nor from any wish to incommode them. But it was evident the recruiting service could not go en with any effed, especially in Ire land, so long as things remained in the present tin certai:t and undecided state. He hoped, therefsae, if the Right Hon. , Gentleman could conveniently do it, that he would favour him with an answer to his question. Mr. Secretary WINDHAM said. he was very ready to give the Hon. Gent. every sati.faCion in his power, relative to the point alluded to. Ihe Hon. Gentleman had, however, in asking the question. desired to know, when be meant to bring forward his plan He did net understand what he meant ley the words, his one. He had never mentioned any plan to the House ; nor bad he ever heard, that any other M4tabet bad done so for him. The busi ness of the Military Establishment, for the present Tear, had keen taken up by His bLjesty's Ministers, immediately 00 their coming into office; and it had ever since engaged their most serious, minute, and continued attention and consideration. They had, however, found it delicate, difficult, and Uglily im portant, and as such, had not bean forward to say any thing of it to the House. till they were able to bring it, among themselves, to a state of sufficient maturity; and, whenever they should find it in such a state; both their duty and inciination would lea 4 them to lay it before the House , as speedily as th e nature and importance of it would possibly admit. Mr. CANNING said, that on the vet y first day of the Session, an Hon. Friend of his, whom he did not then see in his place (Mr. Sheridan), had given notice of a Motion, for a repeal of the Ael, commonly known by the name of the Additional Force At. That Motion had never yet been acted on. and the raising of men under that Aft, was now entirely at a stand, and must continue so, while that notice stands. Though his Hun. Fritnd was not then present, he had no doubt but some of His Majesty's Ministers who were, could resolve him. whether it were intended that AR should form any part of their Military System ? Mr. Secretary WINDHAM said, that in conse quence of the measures in contemplation, as far as he could at present judge of the matter, that Al would not have a place. INDIA PAPERS. Lord OSSULS lON withdrew hit Motion, re lative to India Papers, which stood for this day. WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES. Lord TEMPLE. moved for leave to bring in Bill. to continue for a time to be limited, the Sus pensive of certain Mk, relative to the Woollen Ma atiladtures. Granted. TREATING ACT. Mr. TIERNEY said, that as the motion of which he had given notice, and which stow stood for Thurs. day, was of very great importance, and required the fullest consideration, he would beg leave to postpone it from Thursday to Monday neat. LORD DOLLING WOOD'S ANNUITY. Lord H. PETTY moved the Order of the Day. for the House to resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, te consider further of the Annuity to be granted to Lord Collingwood. On the question king put, Colonel BASTARD said, before the House west into the Committee, he wished to address a few words, by way of question, to the Noble Lord oppo site. He understood Lady Collingwood, in case of her surviving her Lord, was to have the Annuity continued to her for her life. He thought it very right it should be so ; but, what he wished to know, was. whether any provision was intended to be made for the unfortunate n idows of Captains of men of war, whose husbands had fallen gallantly defending their country in the glen ions battle of Trafalgar Capt. Duff had so fallen, and had left behind him a disconsolate widow to mourn his loss, and, at the same time, the loss of her subsistence ; for he under stood she was very ill provided for ; Capt. Cooke had also fallen on the same glorious occasion, and had left a widow in a similar p-edicament. He wished, therefore, to know, whether it were intended any provision should be made for those unfortunate Ladies and he hoped he should not be deemed troublesome by the Noble Lord in asking the ques tion. Lord H. PETTY said, he understood it had not been usual to =Aka prosi•ie* far the wives of Cap tains of men of war, who fell in the service of the country ; but, in answer to the question of the Hon. Gent. he informed him, tha4both these cases had been mentioned to His Majesty's Ministers, and he understood that applications were intended to be made in their behalf. The House then went into the Committee (Mr. Spencer Stanhope in the Chair.) Lord 11. PETTY moved a resolution. " That in the event of the decease of Lord Collingwood, the sum of 10001. a year should, from the time of his decease, be settled on Lady Collingwood for her life ; and, after her decease, if the daughters of Lord Collingwood be living, the same annual sum to be settled on them, to commence from the day of Lady Collingwood's decease. The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr Secretary FOX said, there was a motion of an Hon. Gentleman opposite to him (Mr. John stove) relative to India Papers, which stood for to mot row. If no personal inconvenience would ac cru.: from it, he would be obitged to the Hon. Member to postpone it till Monday. Mr. JOHNS I ONE expressed himself very !w -ry to accuctunodete himself to the convenience of the Right Hoc. Sctr et.: y, an 2. a: 7- 0 -liur•eJ cordi.;gly. DE Frtit•F .\:'r. Lord C4STLEILEAGII bai.l, that as 1e ttot3•l - the Defence Mt was ttit t., be a part of tt.e Military system of 114 Alajeiry't ?resent Ministets. :old as a notice stood for a motion to repeal that MI, he thought it his duty to give notice, that he would, on Friday, move for some acielitic nal Papers relative to that Aa, which would add to the 'taw ita acion of the I louse on that subjea. I ,Lice llt (.4 . 4 tt a ilotlift I acceJing to the Motion he better InT them In aprojt .11,•871 they cr.1,1,1 !ILK! /nal Si: W. LLroaD saiJ, INDIA I'ArERS. Mr. PAUL sail, it wa► his intention, on Tuesday nett, to move for two more Papers, which wrie po sitively the only ones he should want, and that in the fast week after the recess, he should bring torwat his charge against the Marquis %Vellei4ey. Mr. H. A DDING . TON requested the Hon. Gen tleman to deo:vibe the nature of the Papers. Mr. PAUL said, they 'elated to the Rajah of Pl i iirrpore, and were material in the c..barge against the Noble Marquis. ARMY ESTIM ATFS Mr. N VANSITI'AR I . moved the Order of the Day, for the House to resolve itself into a Com • mittee of Supply. The SECRETARY at WAR brought up the Army Estimates, for two months, and moved, that they be referred to a Comm i!tee of Sunly.—Or dered. The SECRETARY at WAR said, these Esti. mates were only made up and intended to be voted for two months, as tit, re was at preset t no permanent establishment for the service of the pre. sent >ear ; hurt it was absolutely necessary they should now be brotlght forward, because the Mutiny bill expired on the 113th of this month, and they should be voted befne the ;mooing of that Atft The doing so, he said, could make no possible dif ference to the public, nor to the situation of officers of the army, as the sum voted would be included in the general permanent estatilishmelt ; and the present Estimates wet. only in the shape of a sum voted in account. It had been usual for these Es timates to lie on the table for tie information of the Members, a full week before they were voted ; but on account of the present circumstances of the service, he hoped no objeseian wool] he made to voting the Estimates in the Committee of Supply on Friday. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he was extrerwily glad the Right Hon. Gentleman had proceeded in this manner. His Right I lon. Friend (:he late Se. crater? at War), had made up the Estimates only for three months, in order that His Majesty's pre tent Ministers might arrange their %r:terts with the greatest convenience. He had only to add, that had the laze Administration continued in office, he was certain they would have been prepared with a permanent establishment at the time !do Right Hon. Ft iend laid the Estimates on the table. The Revenue Als (74ntinuance Inll Was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time tu•mor mow. WOOl. FXPORTATION RILL Lord Temple brought up n Bill tor allnuing the Exportation of Wool from the British Plants• trolls in America. On the question, that it be read a first time. Mr. HARRISON said, it was a Bill of great i portance to the landholders and the growers of wool, and might cause a great alarm in the country. He hoped there would he a clause in it to enforce a re gular return of all wool imported iota this country. If the wool growers here have more wool than the manufadurers can use, they have no marker, and the wool would remain on their hands a total loss. "The House should, therefore, ad with great caution. Ile hoped it would only be fur a year or two, $lll it was well-known what its operation might be. Lord IiMPLE said, the Bill would not br at tended with any of the inconveniences apprehended by the Hon. Gentleman. The only objet of it was, to put our own Colonies on an equal footin; with those of America. At present, the Amen cans can export their wool to s hatever country they please, and the subjects of our own Colonies cannot. It the Hon. Gentleman, or any other Member, wished it to be limited, he had no objec tion. Mr. HARRISON hoped there would be a clause in it to ascertain what sort' of wool should be Al lowed to be imported. The Bill was then read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The Royal Marine Mu:iny Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The Foreign Soldiers' Bill went through a Com mittee. Mr. HUSKISSON asked, what WAS the number of men fixed on ? The SECRETARY at WAR answered, the number, by the original AR, was 10,000 ; that the King had ordered them to be increased to 13,000, awl that it was intended, by the present Bill, to fix them at 16,000. The Home was resumed, and the Report ordered to be received to-morrow, The Greenland Whale Fishery Bill was com mitted, and the Report ordered to be received to morrow. On the Order of the Day being read for the House going into a Committee on the Free Ports Bill, Lard 1 EMPLE moved, " That it he an instruc tion to the Chairman of the Committee, to move for leave to bring in a Rill for allowing the Export and Impart of certain Articles in the Road I larbnur of the island of Tortola." The House went into the Committee, and the Report was ordered to bt received to-morrow. C09%1111'11 OF SUPPLY. he House resolved itself 'Lao a Committee of Supply. Mr. VANSITTART moved, " That provision may be made for the Pay and Clothing of the Mi litia of Great Britain and Ireland, and also for the Subaltern Officers in both, in time of peace ;" which was agreed to; and the Report ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. ...... Mr. Fuller brought up a Petition from the mer chant ship-owners and underwriters of the city of London, praying leave to ►ring in a Bill for making a pier and harbour in the town of Btighthelmstone. Ordered to be referred to a Committee. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. THE BRITISH PRE; s, LONI)ON,, THURSDAY, MsoicH 6. Mr. NVUITIBII EAU yesterday reported to tl s House of Commons from the Committee f.l naging the Impeachment of Viscount Msi vi et, that Mr. TROTTER bad refused to ansiver questions put to him on that Jay by the Comma. tee; and moved, "that Mr.Taturr en be cemmiati to the custody of the Serjesnt at Arms, for the sad offence." Sir Wu. BI.FC•IID stated, that Tanrtea allied by the advice of Course!, and wishei that the business might be suspended, until the Declaratory Bill, intended to be luought in, was passed upon tae suhjca. This no: th ee . iieg the sense of the House, A:r. Taos rut was ordered into the custody 'if the Serjeant at Arms. TIT Report of the Committee for managing the Iropeochment of Viscount Me:Lvit.t.r, stating the ne.tsly-discoveieti grumisle of a new article of Us ) . peochment against his Lostlship, is given in our precy.li;lg columns. It mates to the 10,000. sf Vtsc. out Lit said, in his d. fence be. fore the Ilou cof Commons. neither hi. p rsrm-1 ' nor public duty, allttw him to give any account." An account of the net produce of thermal:en' taxes, and of the sear taxes in Great Kritain, Int the years ending the sth of January, 1805, and •' 4 sth of January, 1806. distinguishing each qu a , ;., has been laid before Parliament :—I appear: hum it, that prodnee of the prrntaltent tax", for the year ending the .ath L . s. d. Jartuery, lirf, was 49,911 • 4i3 to 5 Fur the year end. og the sth January, IS C, - 31,795,110 3 • The e,t produce of the War Taxes, fee the y,,ir ending the th of Jan nit* 11.419,474 11 For the rat , endsng the sth ofJan. 1666 14,171.499 a • 11,,r,, the net prodoct of both the per m-meat sod war inert, fur the year ending the anh ni Jan. Mb, WAS 49,731,157 It 71 For the year ending sth Jan 1306 414%049 i 1 being an inert-Jut of upwards of four sui!lious ia favour of the year ending the sth of January, 1 805, above that of the preeecliag year. This great in crease affords a fl meting prospeß of the strength, the richnesg, and extent of our resources ; and ap• pears to have principally arisen out of the following branches of revenue: The Ctllisula.trai EXC;I4, in the fernier L. I. d. you, produced only - - - L. 111,79-;,340 li 81 111 shu latter it prailluced - • 144..1,694 11 14 The War Tea on'Tee, in the formes For, rode,- td only - - 1r0.3113 144 ANA in the latter year it prrelik:ed 1,711,1311 0 0 Making an increase of above two millions urn these two heads. Exzrast of a letter from an of f icer on board His MAJESTY'S ship Norlham/y-4.nd, dated (supposed) at St. Kitt's, 31 January, 1406 We are just re. turned from cruising off Martinique, to intercept a lints of battle ship and throw frigates, which were seen within 40 leagues of us ; but I am afraid the! had intelligeoce of our cruising for them, AnJ have returned." A letter from Antigua, dated the 18th Jan 1806, states, " that the rafa,ter of an American vessel had informed the Captain of His Majesty's ship (wit, that he had failen in with a squadron of eight line-of-battle ships on th.: 11th of that month, in lat. 17 N. long. 0. but did not know to what nation they t2lonjied "„_ The Earl of St. Vincent Attended yesterday, at the Adamant, in full naval uniform. • The outward-bound Eaw India fleet did not sail until 'l'ussday from Portsmouth, under convoy of . the Fame, of 74 guns, the Pe!Athemes and &miss 64 64 guns each, and the Adamant ut 30 guns. Sir SioNEY SMITH sailed on Sunday from Lil t:south, with the squadron under Isis command, for the Mediterranean. A report prevailed yesterday. that Mr. T. Gar/. •ILLE and Mr. Haggler AD•Ill Wert about to pen coed to Paris immediately, in a diplomatic capacity There is not, we believe, any foundation for the rumour. Lord Hot.t.ARD, it is saiJ, goes toVienna. to replace Sir ARTHUR PAGET ; and the Marquis of Dow; As to Berlin or Petersburgh. Letters have been received from Colombo, date& the 30th July ; General AiAtTL•ND WAS at that arse employed in regulating the army. He had dis banded Col. BAILIE'S Regiment of new levier, and given the Caffree Regiment, another new raised itegiment. to Col. Bat sic. 'lnc Sir Clarks Hareilien, —, from Africa, has been captured, re-captured, and carried into Ha' badoes. The Jyrk Tar, M'PKLR sorr, from Newcastle for Jamaica. is arrived off Portsmouth, after beating off a French privateer, near the Goodwin Light; the privateer had captured two colliers. Tat SPE AKER of the House ot Cow moils. when putting the question, last night, for the commitment of ALLEANDIIi TROTTER, Esq. substitued, in nrs 'Ake, ALEXANDER DAVISON, Asq. Fortunately of Mr. Da v isos's nerves, he was not present. The mistake excited a loud laugh, tut it was soon reiliied with the usual quickness of the Rie.t Genticman. 16 0 tC 1 THE The C !evening, was hril the 3 , .1; w;'h M, hnlditig enritualy ?hr. e w were It anJ moue branchr. inur wa juvenile the brct tahk', wit'. col finest wi Their I aft, Gho u , Duenti slue C unu Xing too fait, • aft a 4.— , o ao4 Cool NM* La4iet. Cia:d, S. / Tann rd. L• .rd-- Pt and I.' If ilium Ifs ,v, mes,nl Yet cases Lady •I kriosesi Tim Wio.al4 cram hi NY {lr. day, 4 tended, His amern:t ofF.ce, i Hors. chess. T'-ey the hesi, is, shim Sir .1 Asa - ni The dieurr The - e VORA, H tsav Th. OS Ma ses4ll 1.441 N r 143' a • TO The Win Oa Mn rut's§ 1 be tree G, are Mn.l dal the Is. Lod} rived ii of that . Pada