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HOUSE Ur COMMONS. A Message from the I.r.rds announced, that they had agreed to the Irish Bank Notes, and Irish Three Shillings Winn Duty repeal, the Three Millions Ex chequer, and the 'lea Duty Bills; and also, that they would proceed further in the triai of Henry Lord Viscount Melville tomorrow morning, at ten o'clock. The SPEAKER the❑ renewed his notice, that he should, to-mort ow, adopt the same line of pro eeeiliog on the impeachmrnt, as was done this day. REGULATION BILLS. Lord HENRY PEII . Y gave notice, that on Friday next be should move for leave to bring in Bills for the better regulation of the Offices ot Re r.ivers-General of Customs, Excise, Stamps, and Past-Office, an Surveyor-General of the Woods and Futtsts. SLAVE TR ADP- On the Motion of the ATTORNEY-GENE. RAL. the third reading of the Slave Trade Bill, was deferred to Thursday nest. INDIA A'FAltta. Several accounts were irceived from the Offices of the Receiver-General of Exports and Imports, and from the India Bo ad, of the Treaties relatiag to the affairs of Ferrukabad. Mr. PAUL wished to know when there was any chance that the Surat paper a would be presented ? Mr. CREED' Y said, that these papers consisted of 200 folio sheets, and were preparing as fast as possible. Mr. PAUL teplied, that out of the different pa- ff I IMPERIAL PA Ttl. TAMENT. HOUSE OF LORU , —frasu+r, Mau 2f• The I louse met this day, by special adjournment, at ten o'clock. A very c 'nsiderable number of Peers attended in their robes of state. The order for the exclusion of strengers was most stri&ly enforced. N.rt even those who had Peers orders were admitted below the Isar ; the eldest Sons of Peers, and heirs apparent to Peerage•, Nero alone admissible. Pre vious to their Lordships biing marshalled, the Bills upon the table, we understand, were forwarded in their respeCtive stages. Asnong which, the Irish Bank Notes Bill, the Exchequer Bills B;11, and the Irish House Duty Repeal Bill, were read a third time and passed ; and the Customs Duty, and the snuff and Tobacco Duty Bills, were read a second time. Their Lordships were then marshalled by his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, as sisted by Garter. Principal King . at Arms, and the Principal o. fi cers of the Heralds College, who at• tended in their gala-official dresses ; they were mar shalled according to their different ranks and degrees in the Peerage, the Junior Peer of each Order walk ing first ; and in this order, having adjourned the 1-I.;use till four o'clock, the Peers present proceeded (the passages having been previously cleared, and the doors leading thereto locked) to the High Court of Parliament in Westminster-Hall, to preside at the trial on the Impeachment of Lord Viscount Mel ville. Before four o'clock, their Lordships returned to their own House, whither they were followed by a great lumber of Peeresses, and many Ladies of din. minima. For some time, until the House got rather cleared, and that degree of order, necessary to le gislative proceeding was obtained, the soder for the exclusion of strangers, continued strictly en forced. A short time previous to the doers be ing opened, an order was made, that their Lord ships should proceed farther with the 'Friel of • Lord Viscount Melville tomorrow, and that a Mes sage b: sent to acquaint the Commons Eke:en:tit. wiThlT' , SEs' LIABILITY E 11.1.• On our admission to the House, their Lordships wee 4 etgaged in a discussion. reopening the above mentioned Bill, in which the amendments mit ie by the Commons had previously beet' moved to be now taken into consideration. A conversation of considerable length ensued, in which Lords Eldon. Hawkesbury, Holland, tiler bowmen, and the Lord Chancellor; the Earls of :'ll,ilk. Itosolyn, and Stanhope ; and the Deke of t Norfolk. ;.,1 k.l past. S lof their Lordships, ' particularly Lords Eldon and llawkesbury, were steal tiotes on their legs Little new is the w ay of gnment or illustration, transpired ; many of their former observations anal statepents on the sulieei, were referred to ; we shall, therefore. not attempt a recital of what took place. t.nral HAW KESBURY moved, " That the -i. fattier co- sideration of the amendments be cost pined All to-mar ow ;" in order that the attenlince on a topic of inch importance should be fuller, and to aleiri certain Peers, who, he bad reason to think, lo' -4 to speak, au opportunity of delivering their C Tents. LoreF.I.DON *ought the Bill wanted some far tiles sthecation or amendmen:, not deeming it, in its 1 pres.e.t shape, a Bill declaratory of the Law, as de ( cl trod by the Learned Judges, or the greater part of t C•ena k l or according to their conceptions of what - the law really vists, as he had an opportunity of knowing, from a personal communication with some of them. ;Its tenor was different trom that of other Declaratory Bills, fir it went to declare, not what the Law was, but what the Ltw was not. He tboneht, under what had been thrown out on the ' subject, they should pause, and not pass the Bill in its oresent shape. !t involved legal consideratiors of the greatest importance, and an a way likely to ! affiect many of their Lordships. for instance , those who were great landed proprietors. The word •• nolo" in the Bil', on which so much stress had .6 ...to is.V, its rendering the declaration sufficiently isiefinite, and as likely to prove a sufficient guide for '..as Judi, es in the Courts below, he thought would slot he so efficacious, and in the in;erval proposed, heehaw - lot he should he able to dctetmine upon i tome iurcber amendments, which would produce the desirec: drat. i Liord.!-;.toil a nil ,Stanhope, trod either Peers, defend ed the 1.1. under the circumstances of the case, as it now 0tr.0. 1 , aid were adverse to any further delay to i's passitv, which theycontended ought speedily to take place ; it was also observed, that the Mil with the Amendments had loin on the Table for several i Oars, and Noble Lords hind sufficient time to have sailed the attention of the noon to the eubjeet. The Lord Chancellor. Lords Ellenborough and • Eldon, iti the course of their explanations, adverted to what heal taken place with respect to the Bill ; its original introdusioon, the alterations made in the Bin at different Orrin, and the causes of those al terations. wbith have been repeatedly stated in former diecriesions nn the sullen. The LOIID CHANCELLOR. in particular, spoke - se considerable length ; defended the Bill in itsetwesent shape, upon the legal grounds he had formerly adduced in support of it ; and coat nded, the , !hi dole' atite,, as SO worded, would, by con fining it to the single species of demurrer, be a suffi cient rule for the Learned .lodges. The Bill, how ever, he observed, Wad hovr.psfty teen calk., b.: Pill i though his was the hand that presented it to t e e Irmieration o: . their Lordships, it was founded upon the proposition I f a Noble a, d Learned LorA then present ; in future, should he propose any thirg in the shape of an An of Parliament to their Lord -41 ins' consideration, it should be patchy his own; and then he should rightly have to stand or tall by its mi-rats or Oe , r , erits. Lord II A WKESBURY, in further explanat ice. &moved, that though the Bill. with the Ameed mints, mieht have lain for several days upon the table, yet it was incumbent upon those, in the case of a legislative me astir, of such imp rtance, urging the passing of the hill so emended, to give some antic: of the time they proposed for the co: - sideratioa of such amendments, and to have the Lords outmanned thereupon. After some further &scussion. the qiiestion was put,aud the original motion f u r raking the Amend ments into immediate co:iodination, WAS neg stn ed lookout a division. 'lie Amendments made by Ole Commons were then formally taken into consideration ; —to which Lord HAWKESBURY made some f art her rib jeaiOns. He alluded to the peculiar importance, and (Iva of declaratory Bills; and contended, that their Lordships ought to be sure that what they were declaring, was really the law, before th.y passel the Bill in its present shape. He concluded by moving, " that these Amendments be farther con sidered, on this day three months." Lord HOLLAND argued shortly in defence of the Bill Lord ELDON made some strong remarks against the Bill, in its present shape, which should induce him, even did not any other Peer join him in that respea, to signify ultimately his repugnance to it, by a " dissentient—E/don " The LORD CHANCELLOR repeated seme of his former arguments, and contended, that the Bill did declare the law, as delivered by a majority of the Lekrned Judges. 'lle Duke of NORFOLK noticed an informality in Lord Hawkesbury's Motion, because the House had already decided, that the Amendments should now be taken into consideration. The proposition of Lord Hawkesbitry was nega tived, and the several Amendments made by the Commons to the Bill, were confirmed by their Lord ships. SUPPLY OF CORN, WHEAT, &r. Earl STANHOPE called their Lordships' atten tion to a topic, which he deemed of the utmost im portance. He alluded to the supply of the country with Corn, Wheat, &c. and with reference to a possible scarcity of those necessary articles ; and, in this view, he had one or two Motions to submit to their Lordships. Lord ELLENBOROUGH suggested the pro priety of the Noble Earl's deferring a Motion of that importance, until there should be a fuller at tendance. Earl STANHOPE said, he should bring for ward his intended motion without delay, as tending to the first aaive step in an enquiry into the subje& It was but a necessary preparation ; the cubjed was one of the greatest importance, as would appear, were it only from the cot,sid !ration, that in the course of fifteen years, no less than 4.5 millions ster ling were sent out or the country for corn and grain; the cis arms ante of the blockade of certain foreign ports, and a great export of bitliCV, as he had heard, to Ireland, rendered the topic still more interesting. What he should now move was for " An Ac count of the quantity of corn, flour and grain, im ported into Great Britain since the Ist day of nuary 1804, distinguishing the imvtts of each year " Also, A similar Account of sfe quanti ties exported during the same period." The Eirl of MOIRA had no ohjedion to the mo tion itself, but must seriously deprecate the manner in which his Noble Friend had introduced it ; there existed not the least necessity for his conneding it even wish an idea of apprehended scarcity; as, either with respeft to the stock in magazines throughout the c usual, (17 in the prospcd of the ensuing harvest, there was not the most remote ground for such a sus picion ; there was no necessity for commencing an erviry into the general state of these things, by onrlng such an alarm. He 'Poke, not from de tailed, but from general knowledge of the sullied ; and he wished it to be distindly and publicly und2r stood, that not the smallest ground existed for such an apprehension. Lord AUCKLAND followed ; what his Noble Trend had just advanced, hail taken a load off his mind, and he was fully able to corroborate the truth of h s assertions. He deprecated the idea of accom panying such a motion as the Noble Earl made, with sounding the alarm of scarcity ; no ground whatever for such a supposition existed. He would deem himself criminal, did he silently hear such language held. With respect to the information desired, he believed the Noble Earl could derive it from accounts already before the House. He wished it to be understood that every thing which, in fa 1, had recently taken place, militated against the ground of such an alarm. Under the regulations made by the Privy Council, immense quantities of corn had arrived from tl:e Cultic ; the ports of which had neither been, nor was it likely they winds' be, shut against us! The questions were then put, and the Accounts ordered to be produced accordingly. Mr. King (of the Treasury) brought up from the House of Commons, the %'ine Permanent Du ties Bill, and the Appraisers' Tax Bill. Mr. Fydell, Lord W. Russel, and other Members, brought up some private Bills, which, with the fore going, being severally read a first time, the House Adjourned till to-morrow ; when their Lordships meet s t Ten o'clock, preps ra ory to their attending the High Court of Parliament in Westminster Hall. pees lie moved for, all that had yet been presented not exceed . too hundred pages ; and was pro ccerlins;, when he was called to order, end 'clic SPEAKER put the question, that the pa pers should he on the table—which was weed to. 11r. PAUL then observed, that he had been tome fieqo aoly called to order than any other Member who spoe upon this soli -et. The SPEAKER appea eJ to the House whether he deserved the insinuation r. ore thrawn cut a gainst him ? which excited a et y of keen I hear ! and the con v er satirm ceased. The Bill for allowing the houses built by the City of I. inilon, at the back of St. Clement's, and in Skinner-street, Snow Hill, to he disposed of by Lot tery, was read a second time, end committed far to morrow. Sir M. Bloxham presented a Petition from the Debtors in Maidstone gaol, pi iqing for relief.—Or dered to lie on the Table. Mr. W. Bootle presented a Petition from the Ma nufaeturers of Leather in Newcastle-under -Lint , against the Leather Duty.—Ordered to lie ois the Table. The Bill for rendering the Wine Duty perma nent, and the Appraisement Duty Bill, were read a third time and passed. Lord TEMPLE moved the first reading of the Bill from the Lords, for an indemnity to such persons as had permitted importations into our West India Islands, in neutral and friendly bottoms ; which lie ohs d would not interfere with the measure proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite to him (Mr. Rose.) The motion was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The House having resolved itself into a Commit tee on the Adl of last year, relative to the export ation of Irish Linens ; Mr. FOSTER said, that as it wnuli be neces sary to encourage in as great a degree as possible, that branch of the manufaCtures of Ireland, lie thought it would be tight to continue the draw backs ; fur which purpose he nieved, " that from and after the first day of August next, the allowances of drawbacks be extended 'to exportations of Irish linens to all the ports of the Russian and German dominions." The motion was agreed to, and the report order ed to be received to-morrow. kLECTION TR E kTIN: BILL. Mr. TIERNEY moved the tuoher consideration of the report of this Bill, for the purpose of having it recommitted, as the amendments made in the former Committee did not meet the approbation of A Right Honourable Gentleman ( Mr. Fox) not then in his place. It was suggested to him, that he should allow the voter to he conveyed at the expence of the candidate to the place of eledtion, b it he could not agree to allow him a sum of mo ney to defray his own expences The amendments he proposed, when the bill should be recommitted, stoup be for the most part verbal, and. therefore, hot likely to provoke any iiiscussiou. Sir tto:tT cuxToN expressed himself un friendly to the Bill. NIT. I.INGS rON was of the same opinion, bitt should not object to the Bill being rc-committed and printed. Caprain HERBERT objeeted to the Bill, as it left the whole principle in doubt. Lad ARCHIBALD HAMILTON objeCte 1 to , the principle of the Bill altogether, as it woula, in ' his opinion, tend to annihilate the eledlive franchise. Mr. TIERNEY said he had no personal interest whatever in the Bill; as, in the place he represented, the law on that point was already settled, and he only wished to extend the benefit of it to all parts of the country. lie would rather give up the Bill al together, r.tati have any new doubts started on the law. lie stated before, that he did not objedt to the candidate providing carriages, but the giving of money for that purpose. This Bill was no more than explanatory of the treating aa of William 111. and he thought if it should be rejedlei, it would be right, for the purpose of ending all doubts, to declare, that the candidate should in fir ere pay the conveyance, as well as the ezpence of travelling Mr. FRANCIS said, that though he opposed the Bill at first, the alterations since made had more re conciled him to it. However, k would not do, he found, to convey merely the body of the eleftor, whether dead or alive. The difficulty was, that if a man should be conveyed two or three hundred miles, without food, he might not be sufficiently alive to give his vote ; and it hawere conveyed dead drunk, the effedl might be nearly the same. I I Mr.BAKER approved of some parts of the Bill, hut, upon the whole, thought it would be best to leave the law on the same footing it was placed on by the act of King William. Mr. H LASCELLES spoke against the bill. Mr. S. STAN HOPE said, that though he slid not wish the law to remain as at present, because it was as often violated, as the qualifications required for subaltern officers of militia, yet he did not approve of the Bill now proposed. He would rather have the allowance given in money than in kind ; as the law stood now, if a third candidate had open houses, the consequence would be, that the other two must do the same, and then, if the same third candidate was the loser, he may, by a petition from the elec tors, cast the other two, a ithout any danger to him self, as he would not be a parts before the Com mittee. He did not wish, he said, to make laws too pure for the people they were meant to °pet ate on, but to follow the example of the sage Solon, who gave the Athenians not the very best laws, but the best that they were capable of receiving. Mr. GRAHAM said, that though he supported the Bill at first, los found it now so Altered, that he must ohjedt to it. If the candidate found convey ance for the voters, he must of necessity supply them with provisions on their journey ; and, to strew the mischief of it, be stated that he was assured the conveyance only of vorers at the last Middlesex Eledtion, cost no less a sum than 50.0001.. Mr. ROSE thought the country was under great obligations to Mr.•ll'serney, for bringing the matter lot ward ; as it was necessary that the point should be decided in one way or the other. He wr rather indifferent in which way that decision should be made; but he preferred the mode of ex empting the candidate, as it would be SapOss:ke to equalize the ezpences; for 2s. a day may be as objet to one elsClor, when 10s. a day would scarcely be an Objea to auothu• The law at present was - extremely doubtful; for on twe emluent lawyer. ing consalted oil this point, in a ..ase that ("c -orrect at the last general eleEtion, one of them cit.. cured, that Ire was convinced C e law wa... me :Jut he was of opini,n, that the Committee would decide the other W3V. Mr. VA NS I t' F.A R r thought it wnela be pr „ per to fix the allowance, decisively, to each voter at 55 a day. Mr. CORNWALLIS said a few word s Al y 3 ; n o : the Bill ; after which, the House iliviJest or, the Al-tron for the Speaker's 1, avi, g the Chan : Ayes, ?A —Nue& li—Maj nil, 10. the liaise, on our return to the gallery, was in' the Committee, which wit merely pro. wino. • Cht y then resnrned —the report was received, and ordered to he tut her coosidered Mr. P. Moore broug'tt tip a Petition from the Tanner; of the C.ty of Coveotry against the Duty ou Leatlier.—Ordcri..d t lie un the table. A; turned. THE BRITISH PRESS. lA - 441X)N, WE:)NE•MAY. Arad. 29. An At ticle, dated V it2llloi April 9th, in the Pa pers brought Ly the last Ilantburgh Mail, says ; " It is asserted, that yesterday there was signed between the Conas of N'ienna and France, a Con. vention, in virtue of whidt the former concedes to the latter a free passage for its troops by La Pontelia and Trieste, for Istria and Venetian Dalmatia ; thy number of these troops is varionsly stated ; snipe carrying it as high as 45,C - C 3, others to only 30,0(A). This last point is a matter of indifference; the pas sage being once gtar.tud, there probably would not be any difficulty as to the number. Although from the maner in which this demand was made, no one doubted of its success, the news of the conclusion has nevertheless caused a great sens.ttion among the public, and the corps diplerasiique." The article then proceeds to state." that Russia having foreseen , this condescension, the Commander in Chief of her fleet in the Adriatic, had ordered the blockade of all the Ports on both sides of that sea ;" as stated in OUT Paper yesterday. Ragusa itself is included in the blockading ports. The ship Mane, CaptAin KEYSER, is arrived at Liver;sool, from Bar balms, which place she left on the ‘23.1 of March. By her we lean, that accounts had been received there, that a French squadron, .consisting of six sail of the line, two fri ales, and a brig, se.lito at anchor at Cape Maize (Island of Cuba), on the R Ith of February, supposed to be that which Adrithal ilso tsvitr A sailed from Jamaica in pur suit of. Cape Maize is a fine open bay, on the , Eastern eril 01 Cuba. Earl S o verioet last night called the atren ion of the linuAs of Lords to the subjett of Corn. and moved for some accounts respeCting it. . mmihmseit=e2ror Lieutenant-Colonel Los° of the 15th, or King's Light Dragoons, has contradited, in the mot po sitive and pointed terms, t paragraph, which - lately appeared in a Morning Paper, stating, that symp toms of mutiny have appeared in that regim , :Ir. Orderosrhearvsct for r beenret re s ul t sugr retu r ns v s a e ;nos be t ze l pi si rio. fled.ut d e e c o r f ll i p st e .i n s o n n o s t i t ; 0 4 . 1 molest any Dutch fishing vessels on their wa y with fish to the London market. 'I he following notice was fixed at the Post-Office, Oil MAIdAy : " Tie Bremen portmanteau, eontai hit the ba g s from Italy, Germany, and Tankry, ' , hi h ahould have come wan the llamburgh Mail, is not arrived at this (thee." List Wednesday and Thursday the E ast Devon Militia, commanded byCol. BAST a so, marched into Lewes Barracks from Portsmouth and P ortsea. Monday morning the first division of t he Derby shire Militia marched from Horsham. Sir E. Pi t.t.zw has formed a new arrangement (or the blockade tit the Isle of France. hots which t he mast The favourab l eorders ble to serve under the Ler, en Masse AB, are for the present suspended. A detachment t f the Third West York Militia, lately quartered in York, arrived at Hull, on Ftid.y morning, to join the lest of the Resiment. Yesterday the Loan MA Toe, on examining the Mealweighere Returns, . rdered the Pr ce o f Bread i to be continued at is. lid. the Quattern Loaf 1 ‘74'heaten, and If id. lion.eliold. His Lordship will hold a Court of Common Council at Guildhall on Friday next. The Chemise, French lugger privateer, of fcrr guns, and 17 men, arrived at Christiansand, on 1: C 29th ult. The Alarzeref and dire arrived in the Clyde fro,; Jamaica, sailed from therce on the 223, with ST STTA. other vessels, under convoy of the Ha ter sloop ,! war, and parted from them on the 13d of Mardi. in the Cult ; the Liberty, TEAL', for London, war in the fleet. Capt. Haut ITT, is alpo;fiteli to the Gear , . 21 Portsmouth ; Captain h. Caxishnv, to the God . at Jamaica: Lieutenant NIIICIILLL, son of the I. • Sir AMMILW MITCIIIIIIII., is promoted to be a Cot: sander. The 7h ale, with a A-et under convoy, boned Labrador, sailed from Guernsey on the 223 lust The rig dant, ,of 74 guns, an ordinary at Pori mouth, which sunk in that harbour in January I. • was raised on Tuesday and put into dock ; her tons appears perteCtly souni, and her siok , np not arise from any leek. but. it is supposed, the ter, at various times, funs in at the scuppes , a from inattention ot some persons nes board he!, was negleeed to be cncasionally isumpeds - h ertions used by the men employed to pump h` were astenishiur ; she wis completely purril':' is less thin ten hours. Momla: ceeding trial of of the a b e post doors c tify the a s it w his La becorn n ot ar taken tailing c..;.% cf tlte not b Read the cc it prc om A. clog;o1 frtt-dir '•id b ceet and the: sire ing wei se. riai sin tro ne in tic D fo 1 . 0 ST