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faaure of Ireland. He.wished co move fbr leave to bring in a Bill to amend 'the Laws relative to the regulation of tliat ManufaCture, in which he had three objeas in viewfirst was relative to the Export of Linens ; the second was relative to the times of meeting of the Linen Board, which, As they were fixed, were at present inconvenient to many of the Members, who were also Members of that House ; and the third was with respect to some doubt s relative to certain Rights of the Trustees of the Linen Hall. The Bill he proposed to move for Was therefore intended to embrace three different objects. He concluded by moving for leave to bring in the Bill. Mr. CURRY said a few words, which we could not distinaly hear, but which we understood to be expressive of approbation of themeasure. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as this measure related to Trade, it ought first to have been discussed in a Committee of the whole House. ' The SPEAKER said, it was his intention to have observed that no measure relative to Trade could come regularly before the House until it had passed through a Committee of the whole House. Mr. FOSTER said, he should certainly comply with the forms of the House; and he was glad it was 40 ,, as the subjea might be better discussed in• a Committee. Mr. FOSTER then withdrew his Motion, and gave notice that he should on Tuesday nest move tor a Committee relative to this subjea. Civic, SERVICES OE IRELAND. Mr. CU RRY 'Thursday next move for certain Sums for the Civil Service of Ireland. SUPPLY. The House resolved itself into a Committee of- S upply, to which were referred the Estimates of the . Ordi nary and Extraordinary - of the Navy, the Transport Service, and the Expences of Sick and Wounded Seamen, Prisoners of War, and Sick Pri soners of War. ~' -Al'. W ELIOT moved for the Sum of 140,4031. 'ut . the Ordinary of the Navy for two lunar months, commencin g t h e 26th of March. , kir. ROBSON said, he did not mean to objea to th e SuPPlies, but he objefted to voting them for i r w o °m unths only. H e thoug h t, t h at vot i ng Supp li esm month to month, tended to. and from week to week, only injure the credit of the Country, and to hold: o u t to the Enemy that we relied upon them • Suppliesglve t2.s Peace- within the period for which the ,iv;o vv ; ere Voted. Relative to this point, he i u ls r h t - n - r° Ine.lire to what Department the Sick and s-,flice belo nged, A great number o f A ccounts W ere, he said, lying upon the Table; - which had 110 t been e xamined. 'improper that large sums of He thought it highly money . should he 'voted in so thin 41-I°u se ; and he believed he should be induced on 4 similar circumstance hapetaing in future, to put a stop to such a praelice. 2-IJi CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the übjeCtiOns of the Hon. Gentleman were n ot very of well timed. The Hon. Gentleman c omplained . the want of attendance., but it would be surely high- . 'Y ungenerous in the Hon. Gentleman to take ad . van tage - of that circumstanc e, when the thinness of the House m i g ht b e f a i r ly attributed to the Hon. . 7 e t ' t i e m a n himself. ~. W ith tespea to the subjeft matter of regret ex. P r essed by the Hon: G ent l em a n to-day, that there was not a more numerous attendance in the House as c ome to a vote on suc h a su bj e & as t hi s, h e wou ld k the House, what it came to i At this moment there was but one voice, because there was but one ,feingi.and th at was a d eterm i ne d one,--;to support oet'nee Naval Gre atne ii by continuing th e. N aya l r 2 n ngth of t hi s C ountry. Th e H on . G ent l eman . drew a unfavour a bl e i n f erence f rom the attendanCe ' g r a few Members of the House, upon a Question N - --e the present, that of voting the Supplies for the onY• He had said that it was a point which ld not be left to two or three Gentlemen to di s Pose of : now he drew no such 'inference from the attendance being so thin. On the: contrary, he c_enside re d it to arise from the general anti well founded r . convietion whi c h h a d b een l ong f e l t t h roug h at at House, and over evety part of the Cou ntry, th at over Vo te for . N ' continuing the present Naval .I' orce would be opposed, and that, therefore, afull .. aotftendance was not necessary • that was the cause the,present thinness of the 'House ' . Indeed, - so very general was this feeling, . little difficulty in . that he should have __ say ine such a Vote as that which zn was now before the 6) the hands f Houses. might safely be trusted ° any tw o or three Members ; for it was a Vote to continue the Naval Force of this otititry at the present • d . ; t .ts -tate rest—the- . period , tp resent . , . was, to continue the Force for twot months. P. the it, t " e Hob. Gentleman would have " that this mode of. voting the continuance of thee, Naval Force fbr a short period, was tellink the _l•tnenty we must have Peace at any rate."— I te; 'vas no such thing—Thii, it was said, would be t tel ling the Adversary we should be ready to agree ° any terms of Peace rather than not have it ; het ,n.tiksuch, inference - was warranted from any thing that any of His Majesty's Ministers had said . upon that subjeft. No.sentiment had been expressed to the., liouse, nor was any' thing ever yet done, on tt o .e part of His Majesty's Ministers, so disgraceful I to m the k es s o ve , ; , or so injurious to their Country, as Would..- 't Matte r, even of supposition, that'theY assent to a disgraceful Peace. What was the Pr°Position now before the House ? Only to conti nue a Navil Force we had already, to a period be yond which we hoped it would not be necessary for the esta b lishment of our objed, th e . attainment °f Peace by a Definitive Tteaty. He hoped it would not be necessary to continue , that Force for two trionths, etle as prop er t h at i t b e. voted, until the hut a objet} of , it was attained. But if .the Honour .o . r In terest of the Cetintry should require it, be was confident that House would continue this, or any other Forte, fur this or any other period which might appear to be necessary, to su the Ho- nour, the Di gn i ty, the Independence p , p or ort the Safety of this Country. This Vote meant nothing more than to continue the Naval Force as it stood at Present. But as to the other part' of the observa : tion of the Hon. Gentleman, which related to the ton.attchdance of Members on these occasions," he took it to indicate that Members w tisfi e ere perfealy sa d with the Vote 110`n proposed in the Commit. tee, for it was. a ,subjea of which tiniely notice had been given, and it was fair to infer; that if any Members thought the present measure improper, they would have attended the House to oppose it, for he could not presume that any Member of that House would so neglea his duty as to let such a Vote pass without a comment, if he had anyobjec tion to it, nor did he believe that the House, or any part of the Country, would suppose that His Majesty's Ministers were doing any more than their duty at this period in bringing this mea. sure forward. They were pursuing a course which, in his opinion, was their duty to purstie:—a course which, if they did not pursue it, they would prove they were lost to every sense of what was due to the Sovereign, - who did them the honour to com mand their Services—lost -to. the interest of their Country, whose confidence he trusted they should have, while they performed their duty---lost to every feeling which he hoped they possessed as men, and particularly as Englishmen, under circum stances as delicate and difficult as any this Country had to aft in, at any period in its History. Mr. JONES said, he was extremely happy to hear one part of the Speech of the Minister upon this occasion. There was, however,-another part of it, from which he differed, and that was on the subjefi of the attendance of the Members of the House, or rather their non-attendance : he really 'did think that was a matter which ought to be remedied. He had often noticed that millions were voted in thin Houses, and he never could approve of _ - that pratlice. The Vote now before the Commit see, was for a serviee, and to a purpose,---for_ which_ he would be ready, if necessary, to strip the shirt from off his back ; but that was no reason With him for excusing the attendance of the Members of the House ; and the Right Hon. Gentleman who bad just spoken, .had assigned, a very good reason for not excusing Memlers for non-attendance, that of Ministers being in a situation and circumstances so delicate and difficult. [Here Mr, ADD! NGTON said, it was not to Mi nisters, but to the circumstances of the Country, he applied the observation.] Mr. JONES said,. he would - apply the'obServa_ tion , to the situation of the Country, and he assented to the Vote now. proposed to the Committee, for the purpose of keeping the Enemy in order, if he might he allowed the,expreasion, to keep down the ambition of the First Consul of France. 'lt was with thiit view, and that view only; he should vote for the Resolotion now Moved„ i He : was hap_ py to find, - as a man, and particular 4sliii'Eriglish a an, that Ministers were determined fo*WeW a bold front to the wavering First 'consul of Ranee. He applancied them for so doing., No one approved of their boldness and determioation upoo that subjeCt, more than he did. - He might excite a smile, per lAps, by what he was just about to say,- but that should not prevent him from saying it. He remembered the many proofs which had, of late especially, been given . of the tremendous power and inordinate ambition of the First Consul: He saw the absolute necessity of checking it. He saw the danger of - delaying the Negotiation of the De finitive Treaty ; for these reasons—were he in the situation . of His Majesty's Ministers, he would name a day; beyond which,_ if the Definitive Treaty was not concluded, the force of this Country should not pause a moment—That Was his 'opinion ' as 'an Englishman. It was with a view -to that vigorous use being made of our strength,. if necessary, that he voted for the Resolution now before the Com mittee. He felt great readiness in supporting Mi nisters in the present condition of affairs; Ministers who, he said, told us, in pretty •plain language,- tha: they were determined to be decisive in their mea sures, and that we must now prepare fur-War : this they not- only gave us to understand by their language, but they manifested it by .their ac tions, by the fitting out • of Fleets and other -mea sures, which bespoke decision, which he. approved of. He was happy to find that our Ministers - pur sued a tone and temper which told the First Consul f l of France, " Thus far shalt thou grY hut-no. fur ther." Nothing was likely to . give fkt•to,Such a tone or temper, but the Naval Force, f,this. Coun_-, try—a Force which he wished to be :continued un til our objea' was completely attained. He--wished to see the Navy .of England upon the pinnacle of glory—higher than even yet it - had ever. been ; and so he was persuaded - it would be, if occasion should require its future exertions. . .‘ The CIIANCELLO of the EXCITEQUER said, he was desirous that, the Honourable Gentleman who had just spoken, 'might not draw inferences which were not warranted by what lie had said. A - s to the tone - and the temper of Ministers in the course of the management of public affairs, he- knew not how to speak upon it better than by saying, he hoped and he trusted they would take every -step which, to the best of their judgments, appeared to conduce to the real interest of their Couniry,"and to procure for it the real blessings of Peace on- the Terms of the Preliminary Articles. It was the earnest wish . 'of kis Majesty's Ministers that that objeet might be obtained—They would pur sue that objet. They were also determined to pur sue every step that should be requisite to assert. the honour of this Country. They desired Peace : ; bin they would be prepared for either. alter native. However, although this was the feeling - of His Majesty's Ministers, he would not have it un derstood, that the alternative of War was that to ' which - they looked forward. The Committee would not unde rs tand, him as now stating the al ternative to be taken by Ministers ; but that he was only - taking notice of the inference of the Hon. Gentleman, which was not warranted by -what he had said before that inference, was drawn ; nor, _indeed, did what he said warrant any inference, except that Ministers were determined to, pursue that Which appeared to them to be their duty, and of aging for- the real interest of 'their Country, in the delicate and difficult situation of affairs — He - should' not have called for the"Utientiou of the ' committee . again, if it had not beet`t for • that part of the . speech of the Honourable Gentleman in _ which was drawn an inference which.was not war_ ranted .by what - had preceded it, and on which it -was partly a comment. - But as he was up he would, once more, take an opportunity of observing, -that .aa to the non-:attendance of Members of that House, while public business: was in- the course of being . . transaAeci, it boas a p — taaice which he fiact never applauded Or attempted to justifit certainly was desirable it were otherwise, but he had . stated what appeared to him to be the reason of it. There Was no difference of opinion .on this important subjea : nnbovig wished., to oppose it, and therefore each individual thought his attendance unnecessary for passing that to which he ,was conscious nobody objeaed. But should it. be understood that any public measure,. necessary fOr the interest of their Country, was about to be proposed, and the pass ing was likely to be attended with any'difficulty, the benches which now appeared to be deserted, would, be thronged with Members ; stteh; . he was persuaded, was the real .feeling of : the Members of that House. He had assigned the reason why they . were now so thinly attended. But the Hon. Gentle man should not go away with an idea that this thin ness of attendance, on the voting of public services,:! was peculiar to the present day, or was it a pra6tice purely of. modern date. He could not very patiently hear it said' that this was merely a. modern praCtice. It had been frequently observed to be the case, in a period .the most proud and prosperous that this Country ever, knew, when the glory-of .this Coun try was trumpeted over the different Nations.of the Globe—when its power and pre-eminence over sur rounding Nations was most conspicuously displayed.. If the.H:sn. Gentleman doubted that, let him en quire, of the . oldest Members—let him. ask the Clerks of the House, and they would tell hips, That the Public Services were voted in very thin Houses during'-the Administration ,of. the late Earl of _ .---ertaar-Lisa, The, attendance, was, L _On these occa sions, in 'these times, much more scanty than it had been of late: he said this to .do away the idea of this non-attendance being'a modern , thing ; not 'dial - he applauded , its--on the contrary, he could • wish it to be otherwise,' for 'this . thin attendance was sotnetitries the cause of impediment in public , business, since the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, and the Hon. Gentleman who sat' next to him . (Mr. Ronson), had , sometitries (from :a sense of their public' du'y no doubt) stopped the proceedings of the House, on account of the non-attendance of a sufficient number to constitute a House according to its rules. - _ •_ .„ ijONES said, he certainly had no intention to draw a wrong inference from .the words of the Minister as to the tone - and temper of His Majesty's Government towards France ; but he still retained the "opinion he had expressed on the propriety 'of vigour on our part ; and' he had no doubt that'Mi_ nisters were aftirig, and would aft in that business, in a way that would do-ithemselves honour, and their country service.: , -;He retained his opinion, entirely, on the sutpjeft--.of'the, non-attendance of Members when public business was transafted in the House, to support-which,'he recurred to several instances which he had; formerly, had occasion to notice.—He observed, that he had supported the proposition of a friend of his,' now no more, .the Hon. Mr. PIM fio I ir, which went to provide, that no public business should be proceeded in, but in the presence 'of at, least, sixty Merribers. He concluded with-obseming, however, that the Re 'solution proposed to . the Committee, had his en tire concurrence. ' Mr. ROBSOiV wished to know who the Auditors were of the'Sick and Hurt Office,. and how the. Ac countS of that branch of Public Business v;'ete made' up. Mr. TANSITTART said; that the Accounts of this Office were 'audited in.like manner, and return ed to the War Office as other Public Accounts. Mr. ROBSON- w.is dissatisfied tvi th this explana tion, 'and also 'with various Items of Accounts, to which he referred, in various branches of the Public Sery ice, -upon- which ~ h e expatiated at considerable length, but professed to have no objeaion to the Vote-now before the Committee. - Mr. ALEXANDER, the Cliairman.of the• Co mmittee, submitted, that as the Hon. Gentleman had. no objeaion to the proposed Vote, some other sea. son might, be as 'convenient as the present - for gene ral observations upon:citieltvarious branches Of the. Public Service ; which, fiensome explanation was assented to. The question. was theriput . and - carried, as were -- the remaining Resolutions before the Committee, for defraying. the. Expences. of the Navy for two months, -Sze. The House being resumed, the Report was or - dered;lto he receit ed to- - morrow•. The American Treaty Bill was Ordered to •be read ra third timelon Monday' next. • Deferred the other Orders of 'the Day. • • At - half-past Six o'Clock the House adjourned - tO to-morrow. . • T SUET. SOLEM QUIS DICERE , F ALSUM AIJI)k.AT LONDON, MARCH 13, A Messenger - arrived late last night from Mar quis CoßryALLii -at Amiens, but nnthiug had :transpired when our Paper - was put.toTressi THIS morning we received Jamaica Papers of the t9th of January, brought by La Seine and Apollo Frigates, arrived at Portsmouth from that Island.,They make :no mention of any arrivals of Men of War, either at Jamaica or St. Domingo. A Dutch Mail arrived this morning. The Dutch Papers announce' the arrival of a number of Merchantmen from various ~.ports of England, in the-Texel, and other'll4rbortrs,bf the Batavian Re pUblie. They speak ‘Vithiltilthtion of the revival of Commerce, and the bustle which 'begins. to. re commence- in the Sea-ports around the Zujider-zre; WE this morning received the Paris Papers of the 9th instant a they do not contain one article of any importance. The French-Full& are at ;6 f, 6o co ViErntA; Ftri: Codit eci official totntriuniCaiibriSt- -- tite result of the Conitilti at Lyons. A Cotineil State. was ii - nrnediateli held, aftei which three CoUiiere werc expedited to Berliir t Peiersbzi'rgh; and London'. The good understanding Which contin u es to bi maintained bet Weep-our Cabinet and those of atic France, the more certain, that we have lately received from Ratkbon the important intelli gence, that Hig PRU SS! AN MAJESTY has renounced his ptetensiOn's to the Biihopi.ick of ; sd that .out Court may reckon upon an advarit3geoui estab:. liFluifent for a Prinee ofour Rdval Family, and also a good prosper fot the Other Eccl6iasiical Prinees con neEted with us; since it is dius deciled that thi Secularization are not to be universal: . . Yesterdair noon HER Nifij EsTY and 'the PR NC EgSti left town for Windsor. _ _ _ The Hon. Mrs. DAgtER;. accompanied bV Miss BERRY, on Mom.lay lot set off for Paris, the for.: mer on business, and the latter for health: The'Coinmittee on the Civil List are 6iPeaed tri make their Report on 'Monday next. It is with infinite satisfaction that we are enabled to assure our Readers and the Ptiblic; from the•mos,t undoubted authority; that the - gallant and distin,.. guished Veteran who has for some yai.s represented the City of Westtriinster, has no intention whatever of" withdrawing hienSclf from its Representation at the General. Eldtion. •It is many days since we heard the very idle and absud . repoit respeftingan illustrious (Nicer, and a mUch-iamented Duke,.but it appeared to us too ridiculous tO he deserving of notio::, and we sho,uld not haVe noticed it at all, but for the purpose of giving it our most :Positive contradiftion, The Personage implicated in,this cruel Oport, we have every reason to believe, participateg most sensibly in the general' concern at tile demise of :Le Noble: man alluded Yesterday a Court of Dire6iors was held at the East India House, when Messrs. DICKE - NSON and JONES were sworn into the officn of .6,:ngal Wave_ house 7 keepers, hi the room of Mf-ssrs. COaSETI and SII3I-Ei - resigned.—Mr. BAR NAR D was sworn in as Assistant to Mr. MbRDAUNT, in, the Cost Warehouse, in the room of Mr. DICKENSON. Mr. GEORGE WELD EN Was sworn into the Command 'of the Ship Minerva, stationed for Sc. Helena and Bengal. P'ort-rstrou l ru, MARCH I:Z.—Arrived. His Maies.. ty's Ships La .Seine and Apollo, from Jamaica ; His IVlajesry's Ship Stork, from . the Bithamai ; St: Pierre, CkEVEL, front Honfie.ur ;. and Industiy Att,K, from Bristol. MARCH z.—Arriv'ed th Em b. den PrzikeiiCapi.W CKM Ai!, front liathhurgh, with Pa;Sengere, which place she left on Monday morn ing last:— . 7eSterday evening arrived the Di/igeui Sloop of 'War' from Sheerness; qnd bailed again this morning to the Nore.-:-Sailed the A/cinz.., to the •_. _ _ _ SHEERNESS,,MARCH day' , arrived from the River Tharrie, the Cantel; of 36 guns; having been refit - tea. - HARwicu, ARCH 12.----On Wednesday last aboUt six P. M. sailed the Prince of Willer Packet, Capt: A. DEANE.; and tee walla, Capt. STEWART, withfrassengers, and the respeCtive Mails for Hel. voetsluys and Cuxhaven.—Thls day, about One P.M. arrived the Princess Royal Packet, Capt. SANTER, with Passengers from Helvoctsloys : the Mail ,of last Wednesday' they landed' yesterday tvening at Southwold.—The Packets which take the Mails to. morrow , are, the 'King George, Capt. FLYNN, for Cuxhaven ; "and the Prince of Wales, Capt. HEARN, for Helvoetslnys.. • DEAL, 1 MARCH 12.—Sailed the Charger Gun.. vessel, for. Margate.—came • down the Bengal, Cummi;:lcs, for ‘ the East Indies, with several other ciatward-bound; and remain. II i I Miss WI LkEi.—This Lady, the &uglier of the ' celebrated JoHN WILKES,of political notoriety, died yesterday morning at her house, in Grosvenorsquare,, She walked in the Park'the day before, .and, dined apparently in perfet health. About twelve at 'night she called up her servants, and in less than - an hour expired. She was much advanced in life, and for some years bad been deprived oilier voice. She recovered it in some - degree, but spoke in a harsh, diScordant manner. Her mind had been Se.: clulously cultivated by her Father, and she. was a well-bred, intelligent wonian. aftClion was always a striking feature in her, 'charader, and•this virtue she displayed in a generous use of her independent fortune, in support of her Father, during Many severe embarrassments which, his pro fuse 'style of ! living had brought upon him. 'lt was understood .that she had many .Manuscripts of her ,fatlierro,,which she intended to give to the Pub lic, among which were his private and political Life, in two distino works, as well as many poeti cal; imitations of classic authors. Miss Wri-kEs lived in cides of, elegance and fashion, in which her good scv.se, knowledge of the . world, and easy manners, rendered her very acceptable.i • The LORD MAYOR has ordered a Common Hall -to be held at Guildhall on Thursday next ; at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of taking into considera.. • tion the propriety of petitioning the Legislature to repeal the Tax upon Income. The Palace of Scoone, celebrated_ for the Corona tion of the Scottish.,Kings; is undergoing a Most expensive repair and elargement,; by the hereditary ;. keeper, the Earl of MArtsvrELD ,Henry Cock, an Attorney, for whose apprehen sion a reward of has been advertised; as liar, ing committed forgeries on'the Bank, was,. .in con sequence of private information, apprehended near Cambridge, when he was returning. from a hunt_ ing party ; and early yesterday morning brought to the Public-Ofke, . Bow -street, where he,underwent an examination before N. BOND/ Esq. when:head - mitted he was the person described. The speedy, execution of James Snook ;Thursday. morning), who was only cor 7d a t Wea Tuesday, will.-tec‘b . _ - ..-",r:;-tc , leSsen the crime of Mail.; robbing thanany other measure whatever()