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IMPER 1 /IL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, MARCH 26. - Lord At v A NI, ZY again :presided as Speaker. Counsel :were heard.relative to th , ,- - ; Scctch Appeal—W r 1. so H EN p v.ato:: and Nil ELv:r;.r.—narneiy, Mr. GI LL lES in con tlnti,tion.,--on the part of Rcapondents, after which, their Lordship;, deferred .he farther hearing till Monday. :flip ',al - ions Bills hofore the House----chiefly of a local and Frivase clescrlption, were forwarded inch ikir respeCtivfAstaAes. Mr. i-i, a Member of-the otsr.•r House of Parlia ment, Was sworn at the Bar, respecting his propc , sed gvi dence relittive to the Calway County G aol Bill. The:: Lerd,hips then adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20. Mr. CoR N, from the riercers' Company 7, presented' some Atcounts, which were ordered to lie on the f able. Mr. 111.11 N WAR iNG moved that the Coroner's .should be read a second time on Friday next.—Order ‘d Lrt - 1 G T.EV B ERV lE brought up a Report from t - Corn Cominittee„vvhich was ordered to lie on the to be priritzti, ana to he taken into consideration ~1 Thursday next , ‘34. 0 70RR Y moved the Order of the Da , r going into a Coni,i;iittee on the Irish Duty Regul,ati , The Bill went throvo the Corn. mitee, and t' was ordered to be received on Nonday. o F Petition from Liverpool the 1111 fur altering the Rates of the County of L.:ncaster. UPPLY: - - - Mr. CORRY moved the Order of the Day for going into a Committee of Supply. Mr. Cotexy moved, that the several Estimates respecting the Miscellaneous Services of Ireland, ahould be referred to the said Committee. Mr. BAKER said, he did not mean to oppose the Motion, but there were many of the Services t.vhieli the Committee was now to be calle . cketpon to vote, which, in his opinion, required some ex planation. They might, for what he knew, be necessary, but he wished the Committee to have some further information upon them before they were voted. The 'Parliament had voted similar sums of money for institutions in this country, the ift'oundling Hospital, for instance ; but they had al ways required that a full account of the state of that charity should be laid before them ; and he thought, that in the present case Parliament ought to have sllnilar information. Objeaions had been made to the charge for paving and lighting the City of Dublin ; he did not mean to say, it would be wrong to vote ir, but he thought the subjeo ought to he fully explained. Mr. CORRY said, that nothing gave him more satislattliOn than to hear the sentiments of every Gentleman upon these subjeas, because his objet was to give all the information in his power, and to give every possible degree of notoriety to these Grants, in order that they might be fully and fairly investigated. Whatever could be suggested by any Hon. Gentleman, that would tend to put the House in possession of the most accurate, extensive, and Minute information upon these subjeas, would he most agreeable to him and if any mode could be 'pointed out for that purpose, he would most readily accede to it. He was not, however, aware of any other mode than That which had at present been adopted. But if the House were of opinion, that any further time would be necessary to examine this subject, that a longer notice should be given to enable Gentlemen more fully to investigate it, or that any other Papers were necessary, he would most willingly accede to any proposition for that purpose. He only wished to conform to the general sense of the House. He had lad occasion, on a former day, to stare, in reply to an Hon. Baronet (Sir W. ELFORD), that it would be attended with great in_ cons etlience, if the Vote for these Services was post poned to a distant day. But, when such a sugges tion as this had been thrown out, and front such a (payer, he had rather run the risk of a little incon venience, if he could completely satisfy the House. The House had fixed the 3d of April as the last day for receiving petitions upon these subjeas, from Ireland; but if Gentlemen wished that he should postpone the Motions, which he was now prepared to make, till after that day, he would conform him.. self to the pleasure of the House, and should moVe, that the House should resolve itself into the Com mittee of Sualy on the 3d of April, or rather on the Monday following, because he should have some fetcher Accounts /0 present on the 3d. He wished to understand, whether it was the pleasure of the House, that he should postpone his Motion ; if it as, he would readily do it ; if not, he was ready now to proceed to move the different Resolutions, which he held in his hand. BAKER said, he was obliged to the Right I-lon. Gent Yill:L1 for the candour which he had dis played upon this occasion, but he did not know th a t his object would be answered by merely post poning this discussion. The third of April was :er7ainly the day limited for presenting privag e'er tiaras respdting these subjeCts, but the Right Gentleman had not said any thing about pre senting any explanatory Papers, which it. was his objea to obtain. Mr.CORRY said, that in answer to the question which the firm. Gentleman had asked, viz. whether he meant to present any explanatory Papers, he could only say, that he wiri not aware that any other Papers were necessary, as those which were alreacly on the 'fable, appeared to him to he sufficient. If, how ever, :ill Gentleman' thought it was necessary to have further intout - ration, and would make a Motion to that effect, he was sure that any Order of the . f louse tOr . that purpose, would be obeyed with the greatest expedition in Ireland. lie had offered, if it was thought proper, to postpone his Motion for some days, but as the Hon. Gentleman had said that that would not answer the objet he had in view, he would now with the permission of the Commmit te proceed to move the Resolutions. Mr. ROBSON desired to know whether the Right Hon.. Gentleman meant to persist in moving the Resolution respeCting the paving, &c. of the City of Dublin ? He wished much that some sche dule of the Papers which had been presented could be laid upon the Table. The SPEAKER said, that all the docurt.ents which were laid upon the "fable appeared in the - Votes of the House. The''CH4NCELLOR of t 7 ie EXCHEQUER id, the House could not now take into consider.. ation the question of paying and lighting the City of Dublin, beeause the necessary rstimates had not been presented. His Right Honourable Friend had candidly expressed his willingness to postpone these Resolutions, if the Committee thought proper ; but its !he Hon. GentleAaan had stated, that it would not answer . his purpse, his Right Hon. Friend would probably now think it right to proceed with his Resolutions. • The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply. M. CO R,RY said, it would be unnecessary for hint to detain the Committee, by entering into ;Inv/ statement upon -the different Resolutions he had to propose, unless he was called upon so to do, in which case he should be ready 'to give the fullest explanation, He .coucluded with moving the first Resolution. Mr. BAKER said, he d not mean to criPW.t to any of the Resolutions in i articular, but to the ge neral proceeding. He conceived that the United Parliament would be justified in requiring more in formation upon these subjeds, than they now had before them; that explanation not having been given, it appeared to ! that they were now called upon blindly to v , .; these 4e:solutions, wiLh out sufficient informatio,. The CHA,.I CELLO... of thf EXCHFQUER said, that every thing which clime from his Han. Friend, who had just sat down, came with great weight, because he was never aFtuated by any other motive than a strong sense of public duty ; but be begged the Committee to cor,rider in what a situa don Parliament would be placed; if the suggestion of the Hon. Gentleman eras acted upon. They were assembled as the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and all the Merribers of it were upon an equal footing : and if Members of this part of the United Kingdom had a right to call for a full in quiry into all these Estimates, the Members for Ireland had an ,equal lien to call for inquiries into the propriety of continkiing similar Institutions in this Country. They might call for inquiries into the propriety of continuing the Police Bill, the Thames Police Rill, of continuing the encourage ment given the lioard of Agriculture, the Vete rinary Insii,ution, and a number of others of a simi lar nature; existing for the exclusive advantage of Great Britain. The Representatives of Ireland would have a right to nuke inquiries into the nature of these Institutions, as well as the Representatives of Great Britain to make inquiries, into the nature of the Institutions which it was now proposed to provide for. The adoption, therefore, of this principle, woe,id lead the House into an incon venience whicli would soon make them sorry for having given into it. If his Right Hon. Friend did not give a satisfa&ory explanation, the Com mittee might postpone these Resolutions, or nega tive them altogether ; but if the Hon. Gentleman's principle was adopted, it would lead to'the greatest inconvenience. Mr. CORRY said, he should be extremely sorry if the Committee should suppose, that he had not laid all the information which it was in his power upon the Table. He had brought forward every document that he thought could give information, and had laid upon the Table papers similar to - those which were presented for similar services in Great Britain. .He was anxious to state thus much, be cause he was jealous of the charafter of Government, and also of his own character. Ht: then desired that the Estimate; reseeding the first Resolution (the Pratique of the Port of Dublin) might be read ; (the Clerk having read the Estimate), he said, he had desired this Estimate to be read, in order to slices that every possible degree of com munication had been given. With regard to the other Resolutions, the Petitions stated a great deal, and the Estimates more. If any Gentleman, as he had before said, could point out any further, in formation, he was ready to accede to it. , Mr. ROBSON said, the Estimate which had been read was sufficiently full, bur he did not think the others were. He did not think the United Par., liatnent was bound by the Union to provide for these services. He wished to have the Opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown upon the subjed. Sir W. ELFORD, in explanation of what had passed upon a former occasion,,said, he had merely objected to the form of the proceeding. Lord DE BLAQUIERE said, that all these In.. stitutions had undergone very full and minute in quiries in the Parliament of Ireland ; he had him self been upon many Committees appointed for the purpose of investigating these subjeds. Mr. BAKER said, he conceived that the United Parliament was bound by the Union to grant the Money for these services, but still he thought more ample information might be given. • Mr. CORRY said, that he could not accept the concession of the Hon. Gentleman, because it was a concession greater than the 7th Article of the Union required, and he would state his reasons shortly to the Committee for saying so : but before he did it, he begged the Clerk would read that Article of•the Union. [The Article was accord ingly read.] The objet of that Article was, to secure to Ireland a specific sum, that is to say, that not a smaller sum should be granted. The Corn mittee would observe that it was . a stipulation on the part of Ireland, by which, when she entered into the Union with Great Britain, she wished to secure to herself a sum for the purposes mentioned in that article ; but there was no stipulation for any other sum, or for any other purposes than those mentioned in the Artie', in question. He therefore felt himself bound in candour to warn the lion. Gentleman not to make a concession greater than he was warranted by the Terms of the Union, because the lion. Gentleman seemed to think that the United Parliament was bound to grant the same sums for the same purposes that had been usually granted by the Parliament of Ireland : but that was not the case, because the United Par liament was not bound to make any provision for any purposes except those specified in the Article. Many of the motions he should have the honour of submitting to the Committee, were for Services not coming within . the meaning of that Article : such, for instance, as the charge for paving and lighting the City of Dublin, the charge for print ing proclamations, for apprehending felons, &..e. None of these came within the meaning of that article, and therefore the Hon. Gentleman had con. ceded too much, when he opposed that the United Parlitiment were hound by the terms or the Tir,lon to yore them ; trit, on the other hand, if they were not bound to vote them, he hoped the Com, tittee would agree with him in thinking, that P4iliament was not limited as to the sums which t.,ey might grant, not even for those purposes specified in the Article. At the time of the Union, when Ireland was to send over zoo Membeis, to mix with a Parliament consisting of 558, she had thought it necessary to stipulate that not less than the specific sum should be granted for this purpose; out the Committee might, if they thought the case required, it, go farther, and grant a larger sum.— With regard to all the other purposes not men tioned in that Article of the Union, there was no restrietion whatever imposed upon the United Par liament. The Committee was not bound to grant the sums' applied for, if they did not think it necessary : on the other hand, they were not re striEted from doing it, if it should seem proper to them. The ()bled of Ireland had been to secure an average sum, but it was left to'the discretion of Parliament how to apportion it among the differ ent Services for which it was granted. In fart the sums now applied for, for some of these charitable Irstitutions, were larger than bad been usually granted. The Foundling Hospital, for instance, in which 3500 children were maintained : with re gard to that Institution, the Estimate for this year was larger than usual, he believed the excess was near zocol. but this increase of expenditure arose from the great increase in the price of pro visions. He had no other able& than to state this subjeet in the fullest manner to the Committee, and therefore he had been particularly anxious to make himself understood. If he had failed in that ()bled, he was ready to give any further information that any Gentleman might require. With regard to what an Hon. Member had said respeaing the pro priety of the Law Officers of the Crown giving their opinions upon the meaning of that Article, it appeared to - him wholly unnecessary, because the meaning of it was plain and obvious to the un derstanding of every man. Mr. ROBSON said, if it was stipulated by the Union that these sums were to be granted, it was not necessary for Petitions to be presented. Mr. CORRY said, they were necessary, because it was in the power of Parliament to dispose of the .general sum in different proportions, as might seem to them proper, and therefore Petitions were, necessary to paint out the proper obleas. The follo , -'ng Resolutions were then agreed to ; the Estimat . , were for Nine Months, viz. to the sch Jan. .tBo3. Pratiquc Dublin Port - - - £. 726 o 2 Apprehending prbiic Offenders in Ireland 1 73 0 '5 4i For defraying charge of c; iminal pax:eedirtgs 3734 '4 xi For Proclamations and Advertigementi•A the Dublin Gazette, sec. - -- , 46 . 5 i 6} Printing and Stationary for Public 0 ificas 13621 t 24 Incidental expences of the Treasury - 1 3g4 12 4 For building Courts of Law, •&.c. - 4153 17 o For working the Wicklow gold mine - )S-1 6 3 I Cloathing the Battle-axe Guards - - 683 i 6 The Dublin Society, for promoting husbandry and other useful arts - - - 35e.:.7 13 Itl Further Grant to the Dublin So:iety - 3r 15 7 9 To the Farming Society of Dublin 1 3 8 4 12 4 Protestant Charter Schools - - 1 35 0 5 7 9 Foundling Hospital - - -1269 a 6 31 Hibernian Marine :'School for Sailors' Children t_i32 tS 9.6 Hibernian Sehciol for "Soldiers' Children • - 324 o . 4 1 Lock. Hospital . - - - - 4164 18 61 For the Catholic Seminary - - 55.3 8 9 4 7 For the House of Industry in Dublin - 13107 3 c For the Society for discountenancing Vice, and promoting the knowledge and practice of the Christian Religion - - - ,C.5;3 16 116 For the Vemale Orphan House near Dublin, 346 3 1 For sitting up and supporting a Penitentiary House for young Criminals - - - 1869 4 71 The House being resumed, the Report was ordered to be received on Monday, and the Committee to sit again on that day. The Committee .of Ways and Means was deferred till Monday. Adjourned at half past five till Monday. THE SUN. SOLEM QIJ:S DICEItE F ALSUM AUDILAT ? LC) NDO N, MAR C 11 27, iSo2, Tilts morning French Papers were received in Town, of the date of the 23d inst. which contain some further accounts from St. Domingo, to befound in our subsequent Columns. A Dutch Mail arrived this morning, by which we have some Extracts from the Hamburgh Papers of the t9th and loth inst. A Messenger reached Town this morning, with Dispatches from Marquis CoaNwALL is at Amiens. The KING left Town yesterday morning for Windsor. The QUEEN and PR INCESSES followed at noon for the same place. It is reported the DUKE of KENT is going out Governor to Gibraltar. Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES was at the Opera on Thursday night. Mr DUNDAS, we understand, arrived in Town on Thursday night from Scotland. The LORD CHANCELLOR, we are happy to state, is recovering from his late indisposition. We are sorry to hear that the.Dutchess Dowager of SOMERSET is much indisposed with a cold. This morning arrived a Wit from Lisbon, brought to Falmouth by the King Grarge Packet, in eight days. The Nutzve/t, arrived in the Downs from the East Indies, sailed from St. Helena the 3lst of January, in company with the Sir John Barbie Warren, Sir Edward ilamiltan, and Duke of Kent, Whaler, and parted six or seven degrees to the South ward of the Line. The Scarborough and William liitt sailed from St. Helena the same day. The Experiment and Caledonia, from Bengal, were left at the Cape of Good Hope on the 19th of January. His Majesty's Ship Suffolk, and Arran, from Bengal, were to bail frorti St, tie4tna the 4th of FehroAry. IPid VAL NEW OVER, ,MARcx HAT.F PAST SIX, P. M. A fr Packet is in sight From Boulogia "ce ll ' ther being quite calm, a boat rowed off to her, ad is now within three miles of the bhore on het rr , turn, baring, it is imagined, the Messenge:r and Dispatches on board. YARMOUTH, MARCH 26. THE *iana Packet, Capt. STEWARD, from CU'` haven, landed her Mails and Passengers here Y ei " rerday afternoon. Sailed the Mary, WiLoocic, and Hope, seiftL" l ' s to the East ; Diana, BARR ET, to Christiana Zephyr, ORE E UR, to Liverpool. Arrived the Corporation, KENT ' , from jive ; a'll rn4stry, Wxt.soN, from London. SHEERNESS, MAECII 16. A Court was he'd yesterday a nd t his JAY °r. ' hoard the Ilebe, in this Harbour, Rear-Adalirld Rt.SirLEY President, to try Mr. J v HNXAL sSIw* Purser of the Came/ " Store-ship, for having f rau " 4- lently made out Dead Tickets, with an .intent i°4 of appropriating to his own use part of diff.erent SUMS he received for the sale of Officers' an d Mgt's ' efreas lately belonging to the said Ship ;" — " vilic3 the Charges not being proved, he was acquitted. DEAL, MARCH 26. ARRIVED and sailed for the River the 2 11 * - - CARSE, from Bengal. g2l! Came down the Lucy y„Maria, for 90 ." and remains. MADAME 13 AATI's BENEFIT. ,/ The Opera of Polifonte and Aler.l4,perforille iv Thursday night for BANTI'S Benefit, was a ttende u , er the most brilliant and numerous audien ce that c` was witnessed at this, or perhaps any other 11,1 11 e: tre in Europe. Every avenue was crowded; ther BILL INGT ON displayed talents of a sur i er i Tot kind, or that the situation is better adaPte`;,,, their exertion than at the other theatres, w f elt -° : 0 not, but certainly her powers never were rJ the same degree. The Duo between her a nd nA l bc was such as might naturally be expeCted from t ra ,. exertions of two such performers, and such a c i li a poser as NASOLINI. BANT I'S mellow tones) l l„,. powerful Sgstenutos increased the effea of c oed LINCTON's modulations, which in their turn ,a t f at the aeg lo rn v ra e at r vi s ou o nra f much to the intonations of - BANTi ; such a fe 3s v , scienceim could dtefa endn w c - y a al a stand was composed expressly for Mrs' Opera we """" 0 , L h er TON, consequently there was mor e romp fo r te r exertions than for those of BANTI ; but the 13 , t 0 f must have been amply reconwensed in anothe r - s for the restriaed fief for 116 r talents. hardly eve r e e r v y e r t e xhibit As to the absolute science, we think there 0 , greater room for admiration in BILLiNGTOS! etho cution than any thing we ever remember :`,.. / : t onc Duct she held C alt for several bars, w ith 7 n lig and clearness, that elektrified the audience: J ut tp Bravura, she carried her voice by the Gar t puo E flat, and lastly as a sort of coup de gracer l i n or dulating, she touc{ed on Fon the top of ac o tioo' sichord, with a justness that beggars all d es c i rl iAdie/ The House was so crowded that sev ell ,_j v fainted in getting in, and the Pic was ent'f—' five minutes after upening the doors. tilf On Thursday afternoon, a man of . the n ; „ Seo Wardiuk, who keeps a potatoe warehouse r Compton street, Soho, went to the house ° f - D. he a merchant in Guildford-street, and sold f 5 01 0 waited on him for 35. 6d. for the ciftieget, then household goods. Mr. D. not knowing. wile ,;, ti e ; wad the man who was entitled to the tri°,, r h i - ell 3 ‘' sired him to call again ; but Warwick replied', more called several times, and would not call any that he was determined not to leave' the 11 ° nse o . out' , out his money : Mr. D. insisted on his gotorren and endeavouring to push him,a scuffle ensue n out,r he them, and Mr. D. not being able to g et hill" a ni went into his back parlour, and brought a P ls . t° ;f . bc presenting it to him, said he would shoot 1 1,7 rwicli did not go out of the house ; upon which " 1 ;00 1 ran into the street, and called with a loud h - b o ur s times, Murder ! This brought several neW'ac wici‘ and other persons round the house, and ;citile° told them what had happened. During t'sto.blet Mr. D. sent a person in search of a 'Cnitnsenter' and the street door being left open, leVatvv,ic'frtend ed the House again, accompanied by a t he} went with him, and was waiting for hln l; o lhi s remonstrated with Mr. D. on the impror ic Pcisist ej condua, but he would not hear them, at'n t oed ; that they should leave his house ; the} refused p isto l and he went into his back parlour, to get his again ; several persons in his house elici cav w - ith the persuade him not to have any thing to d° - an v Jed, • pistol •; but he assured them it was not .I° '' v ith i t ' that he only intended to frighten them a lai' when he got to Warwick, he again thr ea r a vtrori shoot him, if he did not leave the house' f) a n fir' m. . wick refusing to go without his money,ded ; ' h e p the pistol at him, and it roved to be 'r. are a t shot passed through his left cheek, and tlt jaw. Warwick fell apparently dea d '. ; ti o ed' Ws { proved not to be the case. Surgi cal ass°, 0.90 'to immediately sent for, and considering, In c i f o dangerous, Mr. D.'s neighbour s at'visea whic" surrender himself into the hands of justic e o, eig boa" ,bo accordingly did. A Constable in rbe v „„p, t l ti e hood took him before Sir It lc H AII P ''," l" t ill committed him to Clerkenwell Dridevic fate of Warwick is known. i