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Comedies, 2 Vols. price 11 6s. u s ieras and Farces. 1 Vol. price 16s. Primed for William Miller, Al IMPERIAL PARLIAMLIVT. HOUSE OF LORDS, TuuoAr, MARCII 11. ROO'S PFERACA. Their Lordships, pursuant to the Older of the Day, resolved into a Committee of Privileges. Lord Welsingharn in the Chair. 'The consideration of the claim of Lady H. Fitz gerald, to the above Berens , . was resumed, and Mr. Adam, leadieg Ct tinsel for the Claimant, was beard at some length in reply. The Committee then deterred the farther con sideration of the case till Thursday, and die House resumed. After Prayers were read. Lord Al iCK LAND moved, •• That the Report of the Lords' Committees, appointed to search for precedents, relative SO the piaßice of the House, in cases of Impeachment for High Crimea and Mis demeanor, made to the House on the 17th of Aptil I ,be re-priuted ;' which was ordered accord io The Bills upon the Table were lot warded in their several stages. LIABILITY OF WITNFSSFS. The Order of the I).iy, being read, far their Lordships going into a Committee on the Bill to de dere the law with respeB to Witnesses being liable to answer, the House accerdingly revolved into the 'same, Lord Walsingham in the Chair. The en sele:g Clause being arrived at The LORD CHANCELLOR proposed one or Iwo short Amendments; the first was, to omit, after the weeds " to accuse himself. or to ezpose „Sim to." the word any;" and to insert. after the words s• penalty or forteitute." the words, " of any 'attire whatsoever." On the Question being put — Earl STANHOPE rose, and expressed his dis approbation of the BA before the Committee. as a deelawatory AA. He expressed his hope, that, by subsequent Legislative provisions. should the pre sent bill be passed. Noble Friend would guard against the mischiefs which might arise from such a me a sure. On this ground, however, he could not avoid coming forward and objeiting to the Bill as it then stood. and endeavont ing to induce their Lordships to divest it of its declaratory • rafter. He was hostile to the prieciple of Bills of that description, which, he thought. should never be passed by the Legislature. except in very extreme eases. The occasion which he al •ioded to was. for instance. a violation of a min eiple of the Constitution. such a case as was re. furred to in the Preamble of the Bill of Rights, ice. t and such was the case of the excellent Bill sic cleratory of the law tespeding libels, proposed by a Honourable Member of the other House of Pet iietnent. On that occasion, his Noble and leagued Friend, ne.s: him (the Chancellor), deserved the thanks of the commis.; he did not mean for his conduit with respefl to the Bill alluded tom. but for whet he had so nobly dune to assert and to up hold the Censtitetiewed powers of Juries. idecept on some great excising% of the kind, Le never ap proved of a declaratory' Bill. le was a* engine 17' which a gem deal of mischief might be done ; through it the Law cf the laid might be overturned, by its declaring that to be law, which was not law. The Nnble Lark in adverting, as an hypothetical rate. to the return of Members of Parliament, through the influence of wealthy or powerful indi vid, recited the anecdote of a late Noble Lord, • obtained the place he wished for, from the then Prince Minister (we believe the late Viscount Fal mouth, and the late Right Honourable Henry Pel ham), by threa•ening him, in ease of a refusal, with the delettion of his own support in one House, and that of his friends in the ether. His brief and pithy aeswers to the arguments and repre•ntetious of the Minister. were, •• There are seven of us !" ▪ There are seven of us!" Remember, there are seven of u.:!" Continuing his observations against a decleiatery Bill, he stated, that an adual majority of the great Lawyers of the country were of such an opinion as to explode the necessity of such a Bill as the present. He adverted to some opinions given by the late Lord Mansfield, and one of these, the case which gave rise to that recorded observation of his Lordship, to the then Dunning—.• if that be law, l'll burn my h toks." He adverted to the established c.str.pella bility of pewnbrokers to give evidence, and adduced s ome reasons why horse-dealers should be consider ed in dir same light. lie liked not the idea of the pr gives Bid I ailing. to the imminent ask of that I • which he proposed ; hut, with o, 4 7ieW (Can far ob viaiing the inconvenience to be apprehended, it would be better to pass his Bill in the trst instance (a laugh). He adverted to some further cases, which, he conceived, tended to chew the probable inconveniences of passing such a Bill as the pre sent. lle was, he observed, very stout in his opi nions upon throe points ; he had read more Ads of Parliament than perhaps most lawyer's, having pe rused all those from Magna Charm clown to about fifteen years back. His Lordship, towards the con clusion of his address, adverted to some farther cases, one of which, stating it hypothetically, from the contingency of technical incorrectness in his an swer, an individual might he destituted of his means of support. He repeated his hope, that the incon veniences which may arise from such a construction in the law, would be guarded against by adequate legislative provisions. The LO lt D CH ANCF.LLO R observed, it would be better, had his Noble Friend postponed the discussion of his own Bill, until it came regu larly before the Hoese ; as to that he conceived the greater part of his observations to have applied. He did not altogether approve, on such an occa sion as the present, of his Noble Friend referring to the authorities of dead Judges, as well as the living. As, in all cases of the kind, the law must be decided by the Racial Judges of the time. There were cases in forensic practice, in which a Counsel may, allowably, fortify his opinions by a reference to those of former Judges ; hut, on such an occa sion, a poll of defend, as well as living luminaries of the law, so as to out-number those of the living, who may be of a contrary opinion, was a doctrine to which he could wit !submit. Such proceedings would tend eventually to interfere with the judicial functions of that House. A proposition, that the law was so taken from the very beginning of die British Constitution, to the present moment, was what he had never heard of. The Law was to be taken. from the mouths of those appointed to deliver it but a poll in the way his Noble Friend appeared in clined to adopt, would be as ohjedionable as a poll of departed Peers, with respell ro decisions in . that House—(e faziah). Adverting to the ohjocs tions against the Bill itself, he observed, that in 1 such a case as it applied to, a declaratory at was more peculiarly necessary, that is, where doubts -a isted ; as, if such did not exist, :here would be no necessity or declaring what the law was. Earl STANHOPE shortly spoke in exylination He then adverted to the lancuage of the Bill. %if:in resred sus the term " Lords Spiritual and i empo rah" These descriptice.s, his Lordship seemed • think, ought to no reversed, not only-in,the present, but in future Bats, inasmuch as Lords Telr i nnal. meaning (as we understood the Noble Earl Princes of the Blood. Members of that Ifnur-7,•' ha., prece dence of the very foremost of the Spiritual Peers. namely, the Archnish ip of Citirerbu• y. Lend AUCKLAN) deprecated y alteration of the kind, without the ano n. sr mature cons'. beration ; deeming it far pre!, ratite to abide the unthrm praline or Parliament, and to fallow the example of their ancestors in such cases. The qursiion was thee pet. on an aniendrnesi as proporea by Earl Staniope, tending ti, do away . the died nt the declara , ry part at the Bill, but which was negatived by the Coramittee !'heir Lordships then agreed to the amendments proposed by the Lord Chancellor, after which the Horse resue ed. cud ordered the R port to be re ceived to-.arrow. Earl S CANHOPE moved. !! that the hill for the more effectual Discovery of 'Fruits (an ! apparenly. as if through inadvertence, precee tel no farilt with the title of his Bill, which created a Jonah), be read a second time to-morrow." On the question being pat. that the Bill for rite more effectual Discovery et L'rsth from Witnes.cc. be read a second time to-morrow. it was ordeie acceerdiagly ; and an &dimes-meat immediately took place. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Bristol Road Bill was read a seemed time, and referred to a Sele,t Committee. Mr. Trevin, from the Office of the Inspetior General of Exports and Imports, presenk,l au ac count of all the duties on customs outstanding, from the nth of January, ; aPS, to the sth of JADU. ary, 1806.—Ordered to lie on the table. The Irish Clergy Residence Bill was read a se cond time, and committed for to-morrow. Mr. Tierney pretested a Petitioe from the Insol vent Debtors confined in the Marshalwa Prlson, in the Borough of Southwark, praying for relief.— Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Alexander, after bringing up the report of the Committee na that subject, obtained leave to bring is a bill tot continuing the provisions made in the Treaty of Amity with the United StAtrc. The Expiring Laws Loan Bill Mai committed, and the report crdered to be received to-morrow. the Corn Exportation Bill oar reported, and or dered be read a third time to-morrow. The House having resolved itselt into a Com mittee os the Bill for making Road-harbour, in the Islarsd of Tortola, a free port ; after a short con versation between Mr. Ruse, Lord 'temple, Mr. Fuller, and Dr. Lawrence, it was ordered to be re-committed on 'Thursday next. Several Petitions were presented from the Malt sters of Waraick, Coventry, and other places, com plainin of the hardships imposed upon them by the bil l of last year, and praying for its repeal.— Ordered to lie os the table. The Secretary a: War brought up the Mutiny, the Meanie Pay and Clothing, and Militia Subaltern Officals' Allowance Bills, for England, which sere read a first, and ordered to be read a second time Similar Bills, for the service of Ireland, were also brought in, and disposed of in the same manner as the former. On the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. Parnel was ordered to be added to the Committee for examining the Joint Accounts between Great Britain and Ireland. CATHOLICS OF IRELAND. Mr. 1)11 I.ofsiadrerte el tosome rUmours which had gnne abroad, cf a change having taken place in the opinions of some gentlemen now in office lc speding the claims of the Roman Catholics of Ire land, and 'he acquiescence of that body in the dis cussiza being postpoced. As he thought it wc4.l be • right, for the trAnquillity of Ireland, -to havt,any doubts, upon that subjed removed, he hoped he might be excused, if he tont the liberty of asking, whether this change of opinion hid adually takeh place of not? Mr. FOX—" As to any rumours tlie,Hon. Gen tleman retht have heard, he can scat . cely exped any antWer to them from me. Whether there be any change in my opinion on that subjed, may ea sily be known, when I assure him, that I adhere to the sentiments I expressed last, as I thought, in the most unequivocal manner. Whoever, therefore, may wish to know my opinion on that point, may refer to my past conduß, and there they will find their answer. However, if any person were to con sult me now, on the expediency of bringing that measure into discussion at present, I should advise, merely to be guided by the chance which, under all the circumstances, these could be of success. Winh regard to the second part of the rumour, that of the acquiescence of the Roman Catholics, it is a ques tion, I conceive, which I might rather put to the Hon. Gentleman, than he could exped an answer to from me. Mr. DILLON replied, that he hoped, at least with the moti►es he had stated, there could be no impropriety in his having asked the question. INFRA AFFAIRS. :t CGARGIS AGAINST SIAFRUIS wcr.t.tatv. Mr. PAUL gave notice, that, on Friday nest, he should bring forward the charges upon which he meant to ground an impeachment against Mar quis Wellesley. DEBTS Or Tilt INDIA comeam•. Lord OSSULSTON said, that before he made the motion of which he gave notice, of an Account of the Debts of the East India Company in India, with a list of the loans, the dates, and the terms on which they were made, he hoped he might be in dulged in making a few preliminary observations. He said, he did not mean to impute any neglect to the Board of Controul, for not haying produced these papers to the House, of their own accord ; and if there could be any objeCtion to what he had to propose, it must be from some considerations of in convenience, of wfsich he WAS not aware. He con fessed,th at he himself possessed no local knowledge of the stahket, nor any advantage of information, which was not common to every member of that House; and, therefore, had no other apology to make, for his interference on these points, but the great opinion he had of their size and vast importance, and the apprehension, that the alarming state of India was likely to bring great calamity upon this country. For the last fifteen years, the House and the public had met with nothing but a series of disappoint ments respeßing the affairs of rho East India Corn . parry In the year 1793, when the debt of the Cittpeny amounted to eight millions, a specific sum was appropriated for its reduCtion and liquidation ; but so tar was this from being faithfully carried into effcet, that it was since suffered to accumulate to the enormous amount of thirty millions. He could Lot cot.clude, without observing, that if this were done wahcut the authority of the Court of Di rectors, they certainly were to blame in suffering it to go on, without applying for the assistance of Parliament. ale then moved, " the-. there be laid 11 , f ore the House, an Account of the debts of the East India Com?any in India, since January, 1734, with the amounts and dates of the loans, and the places where the principal and interest were made payable. Lord NIORPETH said, that it was the wish of the Board of Contreul to give every encourage ment and faciiity to the investigation of the Com pany's affairs ; for which purpose, the Clerks were stow diligently employed in preparing an account of all the debts of the Company. both at home and abroad, distinguishing such as did, from such as did not, bear interest, to be laid beture Parliament. He therefore hoped that his Noble Friend would con sem; to withdr.w his motion for the present, as he wadi have an opportunity of renewing it, if the acconwts preparing should not include all he wished for. This being acquiesced in, the motion was with drawn. Mr. FRANCIS said, that when he assured the House, last night, that he should no more troubk _ them with In Aa Affairs, he forgot that he bad aireedy pledged himself to institute an inquiry re speßiug a loan to an Indian Prince, earned Guipar, and which engagement he should think himself bound to fulfil Lord TEMPLE requested that M , . Paul would inform the House of the name of the charges be meant to prefer against Mat quis Wellesley. Mr. PAULteplied, that he did not mean to give any answer to the Noble Lord and tl'oet proceeded to the motion, of which he had Riven notice. In order to conciliate the confidence of tt-e lionse, and the public, he thought it right to mention what was the situation in which he stood with regard to Mar quis Wellesley; having already disclaimed any con neCtion whatever with the Native l'rioces. There was no a m a n in Asia, or in Ettrepit.'vrins Item better than the Noble Lord in question. He had been ten years resident at Lucknow, whither he was sent by the Marquis Cornwallis. and where he re mained for two years atter the aiministration of the Marquis Wellesley. On his retura to the Compa ny's settlement at Calcutta, he seas received by the Marquis Wellesley; and it being then aim. the Peace of Amiens, he laid before that Nobleman, a plan for the government of the country, hut which, how ever, he did not think proper to adopt. Martinis Wellesley thought it necessary that an eramination should take place, as to his conduß, duting his resi dency. Mr. Lumsden, who was Ambassador at the place, while he was resident, spoke highly in his favour. The Marquis was sot satisfied with that, but applied to Colonel Scott, for further inform ation (Ile then read Colonel Scott's answer, which described him as a person who concluded himself in an exemplary manner, always teeping aloof from the intrigues and party politics of the Court.) — The Noble Lord was at length so well satisfied with this, that he offered to insert a paragraph in his dispatches, recommending him to the Court of Di redoes. After this, he fancied it could not be sup posed that he was atfluated by any personal animo sity against that Nobleman. He thought it very strange, when in the discussion of last night he heard an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Johnstone) glance something like a censure on this proceeding, and avowedly profess to separate himself from chose. • - ^ .: • who - meant to bring eisargee against the Mari : Wellesley It was trite, said he, that the Hoi.. Gent. did not attually pledge himself to supper: these charges, hut from the unison of sentiment, a nd leng intimacy between us, 1 hardly expelled this sudden declaration front him. There wss, however, a declaration to a similar of ea made by another Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Francis ) 'flee SPEAKER here interrupted him, observing, that it was disorderly to allude to what passed in former debates. Mi. PAUL said, he bowed with deference to the authority of the Chair, and was only led to tie irregularity, by the example of others, whom i„ often observed to do the same. He said he did not mean positively to assert that Marquis Wellesle ; was guilty, but he meant to lay down grounds which would enable the House to judge for there. selves; and nothing but a vote of that House should deter him from proceeding in it. H e then stated, that the Rajah of Bhurtpore pm. seised a considerable territory in India ; alliance was thought a matter of so u sn ,h importance by Lord Wellesley, that he sent instroc. lions to General L tLe for that purpose, the tesoli of which was a Treaty, concluded on the Sao o f January ; in virtue thereof, the Rajah iramedi..t..!, sent a detachment of 1500 cavalry to join the Brush army. The terms of the Treaty were of tour., mutual assistance and support to each other. Iwo , . diately after this. however, the Rajah was accused of holding a treasonable correspondence with Hole That remained to be proved, hut even tedmitting, for argument, that he did so, did it justify the conilnet of the Marquis Wellesley ? We had a similar pro. ceeding now in Europe, in the conduct of the Court of Naples, which, after forming a Trees with the French. entered into a correspondence and connexion with the powers whose troops woe received. Did any one, however, in this counter argue that this condutt justified Bonaparte in over. whelming, and expelling the Royal Family of Na. pies. Had the Marquis Wellesley demanded satio faftion in the first instance, he should never have brought this charge against him. He, on the con. trary, made a war of vengeance and extermlns. tion. Genetal Lake sat down before Bliartpore, towards the end of December, 1804, with an army of 8000 men. chiefly Europeans : two autsuil were made, in neither of which were the &hid arms successful. An army was then crossing the peninsula of India, composed of the flower of the British troops, by which General Lake's force was reinforced to 12,000 men. IVith this united army, a general assault was made; the unfortunate result of which, according to the General's report, oat, 58 Officers, and .2,638 men, kiled and wounded. To crown the whole, this war of vengeance and en termination was at length concluded by an ingfr rious and dishonourable peace. He cancludoci, with stating the different Motions he had to make. A copy of the instradlions, sent to General Lake, for concluding a peace with the isajah of Bhurtperes a copy of the treaty with the Rajah ; the applica tions made to the Government of Bengal, to pre vent the war ; the return of the Officers and mw killed and wounded, on the several attacks spout the fort of Bhartpore, ke. Lord TEMPLE thought the Papers should hare been laid on the Table before the Ho.. Oarici-nue had made such a serious charge, and when they were before the House, he was wed satisfied they would tell a quite contrary story ; they would shee, that as to the Rajah of Bhurtpose,MarquisWellesley behaved with a moderation hi. condo& did not merit. The Hon. Gentleman staied, that the Rajah of Bhurtpore was lorml by the point of the bayonet to sign the Treaty alluded te, but when the Papen were before the House, the contrary 'would appee, and it would be seen the treaty was concluded u Sept. 1805, and ratified the following October. The Hon. Gentleman was mistaken, also, io slumber of articles conta , ned in that Treaty the/ consisted of four, and not three only, ae he stated. This 4th article stipulated, that the cot:trading pr• ties should assist each other with troops ; and, sou after the Treaty was concluded, the Rajah wet a DOM of horse to assist the British army. By !hi+ role Treaty, certain territories were ceded to hits, fully adequate to those he had lost. How then could it be said that that treaty was forced onbi cs by the point of the bayonet ? When the war arid Holkar broke out, in March, 1804, and whets Co. loael Hudson's brigade was obliged to retr eat. s secret correspondence was carried on between as Rajah sued the hostile powers aping whom the British forces were a:ling. When they siihmared:J the British power. copies of this corre.pondesea were sent to :darquis Wellesley, taro, the Ho' pourable Gentleman said, thirsted for blood. far he was borne out in this assertion, would spry upon the product ion of those papers. Si , f ar frcrss thirst for blood, it would app. it the Noble Marva was anxious for the most lenient and thoder.s. measures ; and in this spirit he wrote to Lord LI saying, that dense who had misled the Rajah, 5" , " 64 tdem* Is. the *ices of punishment, but nestle,: ths. the Rajah himself should be treated with lenity. only ea:rimed as to his future conduct ; elecleiff that the Company would not, in any manner, rt"' fere with his terraories. Lord Lake attid rote t these instruftions ; a^.d when 110 went to Delhi, left the same direZlions with General Fraser. a, siring him by no means to attack ; but in c i a,e an attack to resist ; not to punish the Ra j a h. those who incited him to hostilities; howl; the 114 j-th of Bhartpore cut the matter shiet.i. himselt commencing the war. Al!er the Deeg, when the British troops were viaociou- 1 7. •• tresancs ; ing , nd H asolka the r had thrown came himself on, ware opened upon them by order of thaß.Je• and ti e s) tbh.a; tx Bnurtpore, and the whole of Holkar's ariille. that means, escaped ; his cavalry was wearies.: and he could not hare protralted the wet', st•,;; the assistance of the R..jah of Poluartpoir then, was the first a& of hostility dose by zh'' jail, who, in the moment of oar rititory.ertdcso:,. - . to turn the tide against as. Was it then. rite Lord asked, to be woodesed at, that Marqui s 1 1 • ley pursued the measures, he did ? Atter that in the month of 'February, the Rajah applic*: ' peace, which was concluded in the tallow:14: • of April. Was it i i this, then, we were to i .. 7 the Noble Marquis', insatiable arntaitsont 4: for blood ? By this Treaty, the Rajah v 4 ' 2u lacks of rupees, past a r..hich Aim wa, I C.