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•, IMPERIdL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, MONDAY, MARCH Z 2. Lord ALVANLEY, in consequence of the absence of the LORD CHANCELLOR, through indisposition, officiated this day as Speaker. The further consideration of the Scotch Appeal, Lothian and others v. Henderson, Riddell, and Co. was postponed till Thursday. The various Bills before the House were for_ warded in their respective stages. The Report of the Committee of the Commons appointed to consider the severed Papers and Ac ;Dents laid before that House was, in pursuance of their Lordships' requisition, presented by Mr. AGGE accompanied by several Members. The title of the Report being read, it was order ed to lie upon the Table. Some routine business was transacted ; and one private Bill, ..brought up from the Commons by Sir CHARLES BoNBuRY, Was read a first time. Lord PELHAM moved, that the Report of the Committee of the Commons relative to the Civil List, be printed for the use of the House, which was ordered accordingly. His Lordship then moved, that the Order of the Day for taking his Majesty's Message relative to the Civil List bit° consideration, be now read. — ‘.`v filch being done, he observed, that in conse nuepce of the proceedings which had just taken place, and in order to give their Lordships time co peruse, and further to consider the information before the House on the subjea, he should move to discharge the said Order, and to make a new one for considering His Majesty's Message, and sum moning the Lords thereupon for that day se'nnight. The immediate Order of the Day being dis charged, and before the question was put upon the Noble Secretary of State's second Motion, Lard HOLLAND rose and took the opportunity to inquire whether the Noble Lord meant to pro pose to refe r His Majesty's Message to the consi deration of a Committee of that House, or to move for the appointment of a Committee of their T_,ordships to inquire into and investigate the sub ; a proceeding of this sort he conceived to be necessary, and he did not think the Report of a Committee of the other House of Parliament, suf ficient grounds for that House to proceed on. He Nvished particularly to know, whether or not, it was the Noble Lord's intention to move for the appointment of a Committee, as it struck him so forcibly that something of that nature was proper to be done. He should, in case the Noble Lord did not intend it, come forward himself with a propo sition to that effect. Lord PELHAM, - in reply to what fell from the Noble Lord, recalled to his Lordship's recollettion that he had just moved for the printing of the Re port brought up from the Commons, for the better ,formation of their Lordships upon the subjea, Which when they had perosed and considered, they would be better judges how to decide upon the whole. With respeCt to the Noble Lord's Ques tion, he would repeat shat he had on a former evening found occasion to olrve, that it was open to the Noble Lord, or to any other Noble Peer who may think proper, to move for the appointment of a Committee on the occasion. Lori! .KOLL,AND spoke shortly in explanation, and observed that by what fell from the Noble Secre tary of State, he understood it was not his intention to move to rater the subjea to a Committee. He felt it incumbent on him, therefore, to come for ward himself, and on Thursday next he should move for the appointment of a Committee, and of course he should move that their Lordships be sum moned upon that day. • Lard P ELHAM then, after a few words, :Ir_ parently on the subjea of Arrangement, moved, i‘ That His Majesty's Most Gracious Message be taken into consideration on Friday next, and that the Lords be summoned for that day ;"—which, on the Question being put, was ordered accordingly. No regular Motion for summoning the House on Thurschin was made by Lord HOLLAND. Lord Hoooallo then moved, " That an humble Address be presented to 1-1;s MAJEs - ry, praying, that he will be graciously pleased to.order to be laid before the House an Account of the Extraor dinary Expellees of the Army, incurred and paid by the Right Hon. the Paymaster General of His -Majesty's Forces, in the year ISot, and not pro ,:ided for by Parliament :"—and also, " That there be laid before the House an Account of the Distri bution of the Sum of 2,500,0c01. granted for defray ing certain Extraordinaries,of the Army, incurred in the same year, &e." These Motions, on the Question being put, were severally agreed to. The Ear! of C, ARNAR PON wished to learn from the Noble, Secretary of State, whether it was intended to lay any further information before the .House, on the subject of the Civil List, than what was contained. in the Report of the House of Com. mons—the information thereia, the Noble Earl seemed to think was by nu means sufficient for the thorough undersiaraling of the subjea on the part of their Lordihips ; neither did he think the document in onastion, which, with respea to that Housa, he conceived to be nugatory, at all a sufficient ground liar their Lordships to proceed of on . Having given his opinion upon these points, rather decidedly, his Lordship again expressed his wish to know whether any farther information was meant to be laid before the House. He thought their Lordships should have, with a reference to the interests of the Public, the same opportunities of investigating the subjea as the Commons ; they should have a Committee of their own appoint ed to inquire, and not proceed upon a Report of the other House of Parliament. The Noble Earl con cluded his observations to this effea; by intimating that in case no further information was intended to be laid before their Lordships on the part of Mini sters, hc should have occasion to move for the pro dation of several Papers which he deemed neces sary to the due illustration of the subjed. PTITELHAP4- thtepipirt—Trrezoservatruns of the Noble Earl, seemed to put it to the con sideration of their Lordships, that there was a de gree of difficulty in answering the leading .proposi non of the Noble Earl, as it was built upon an assumed knowledge of what the Report of the other House of Parliament contained : for his own part, , he had no regular opportunity of knowing what the document in question contained, but it appeared to him, highly probable, that it was fraught with important information on the subjet. Indepen dant of this, he would recall to the Noble Earl's recolleaion, that there were several papers and accounts ; in faE, every thing that was deemed necessary for the proper understanding of the sub jea, laid upon the Table shortly after His Majesty's Message was originally brought down to the House. These lay ever since before the House for the pe rusal and consideration of their Lordships, and these were documents, so we understood his Lordship to say, of a similar nature to these communicated to the other House of Parliament, and on which they had grounded their Report. Hovvever, if it should ap pear, there were any other Accounts alluded to in the Report, (which he rather imagined was not the case) than these on their Lordships' Table, it was, undoubtedly, open to any Noble Lord to move for their produaion, The Earl of C ARN A R rOAT spoke shortly in ex planation ; after which, an adjournment being moved, the Question was put, and the House im mediately adjourned till to-morrow, HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, MARCH 22. SIR W. YOUNG brought up the Report of the Committee% the Booksellers and Printers' Peti tion, which was ordered to lie on the Table, and to be printed. Mr, N. VANSITTART moved, that Mr, BRAGGE should carry to the Lords a Copy of the Report of the Committee on the Papers relative to the Civil List, as desired by their Lordships on Friday last. Ordered. Mr. BRAGGE shortly afterwards reported, that he had carried to the'Tords a Copy of the said Re port, in pursuance of the order of the House. INCOME TAX. Mr. Alderman COME presented a Petition from the Lord Mayor, 41dermen, and Livery of the City of London, in Common Hall assembled, pray ing for the Repeal of the Income Tax. The Petition having been brought up and read, Mr. Alderman COMBE moved, that it should lie on the Table. LaniTEMPLE wished to know how the Petition was signed. It purported to be a Petition of the Lord Mayor, and others, and• he wished to be in.. formed, whether it was signed by those whose Pe tition it purported to be. The SPEAKER said, the clerk should read the Signatures ; but he observed that Petitions purport ing to be Petitions of the Lord Mayor, and others, had been received, a4hough not signed by the Lord Mayor. The Clerk then read the Signatures to the Peti tion. The SPEAKER observed, that with respel to the point stated by the Hon. Member, it would be a satisfaaion to the House to know, that there were then on the Table two other Petitions entitled in the same way as the present, and sigof2d as this was, by persons who did not describe themselves as persons whose Petition it purported to be. The Petition was then ordered to lie on the Table. TR.EATING ACT, • Lord BELL R.-:l'E said, that in pursuance of the Notice he gave on Friday, he now rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill relative to the 7th of William 111. commonly called the Treating A. Tile House would be aware, that the Aft in ques tion had two objects in view, one of them was to prevent those riots and excesses at Electiors which had taken place, and which were so injurious to the health and morals of 1114 people ; and the other to prevent those exorbitant expences which had at tended such oceaf,ions, and to preserve the purity and freedom of EleEtions. There were however, defeets in the Aa which he thought it incumbent upon the House, before a dissolution of Parliament took place, to attend to and remedy. He had in tended to move for an entire repeal of the Aft, but upon further consideratioo, he thought it better to move for the repeal of a part only, for the pur pose of introducing more efficient flauses. This he thought would be a preferable mode, as the framing of a new Ad would only involve them in cor i siderable embarrassment, and he was persuaded there was no occasion to alter the former part of the Act. There had been decisions of Committees of that House upon EleCtions which tended to strengthen and confirm the Aft, and it haul also been decided in Courts of Law that the value of articles furnished for Eleetion Purposes could not be recovered. Still, however, the words of the Aft were so obscure and mysterious that he thought it necessary to propose certain amendments founded on the decisions in the cases of Southwark and Can terbury, by which those Persons whose EleCtions should be declared void, in consequence of their offending against this ACI, shoOd he rendered inca pable of being eteCted to fill that vacancy which was occasioned by their own miscondua. There was another point also, which he thought ought to be attended to, which was, to make the provisions of the Aft attach upon, the unsuccessful Candidate who offended against it, as well as the successful one. He thought it necessary that some measure of this kind should be passed previous to the next General Eleaion, in order that the subjea might no longer be involved in a state bf uncertainty. He concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of the At of the seventh of William 111. as relates to disabling Persons offend ing against the said Att, from serving in Parlia ment, and making other and more effeaual Provi sions in lieu thereof.—Leave given. SUPPLY. Mr. N. VANS !TT A RT, (in the absence - of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER') postponed the Motion:. relative to Miscellaneous Services in the Committee of Supply, till Wednesday. Mr. Couty postponed the Motion of which he had given notice relative to the Civil Service of Ire land, till Friday. Mr. RORSON said a few words, which we could not distinctly hear, relative to some Accounts. Mr. CoRRy said, the Accounts alluded to, would be laid on the Table in due time. WET DOCKS. Mr. BRACCE brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Petition of the City of London, rela tive to the Wet Docks. Ordered to be referred to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow. CORN BOUNTIES. Mr. N. VANsITTART moved for an Account of the Bounties paid on the Importation of Corn, Meal, Flour, and Rice, in pursuance of several Acts of Parliament, from the sth of Jan. 18oz, to the latest period to which the same could be made up. — Ordered, PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. - - - Mr. N. V4Nsii-rART gave notice, that he should, on Wednesday, move for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the mode of making up Public Accounts. The Committee of Supply and Ways and Means was deferred till Wednesday. Adjourned at a quarter before five o'clock till to< morrow,_ THE SUN• SOLEM QUIS DICERS /ALSUM AUDKAT LONDON, MARC!! 23, 1802. THIS morning a Dutch Mail arrived. We have extraaed the following Articles : HAGUE, MARCH i6.-- , Admiral Ds WINTER, it is reported, will sail in the beginning of the next month with his Fleet to the Mediterranean. Yesterday the New National ChamLer of Ac counts was installed. - Next week the Departmental Commission is to meet, in order to adjust some.difßculties that have occurred in settling the Department of Holland, owing to the Council of State having been occupied with the consideration of Dutch Brabant, and thus not having had leisure to attend in proper time to that Department. It is hoped, however, that these' difficulties will soon be removed, and that the De partments will be speedily settled according to the New Constitution. It is said that our Colonial Troops are to receive an increase of goon men. Citizen DEDEM de GELDER, the Bata v ian Am bassador to the KING of ETRURIA, arrived at Parma, accompanied by Colonel VILLERS, on the Bth of February. MILAN, MARCH I.—The President Mg z l , who had announced an intention of immediately reforming every branch of the Administration, has in his first step found an unforeseen obstacle in the limits of his power. He has thought it his duty to render an account to his Flllow-Citiz i ens, and to reveal to them more clearly than he has hitberto clone,, the relations of himsftlf and the the Republic with the First Consul of France, For this purpose, MELZS bas written to the Consti tuted Authorities, through the medium of the an cient Cisalpine Minister of the Interior and of Justice, and has at the same time published a cir cular Letter dated the 22d of February, which is thus concluded : " The Vice-President wishing to satisfy, as fat as relates to himself, the impatience of the Public to see the organization of the new system put in a state of glivity, charges me to make known, that the delay does not proceed merely from the indis pensable necessity of requiring 4 precise know ledge of the aLaual state of affairs, in order to ground upon it with confidence ulterior operations, but principally from this circumstance, "that we have not received the appointment of our Ministers, which our President, BONApARTE, reserves to himself." It is easy to comprehend, that without Ministers it is impossible to organize a Ministry; and that without an Administration, it is impossible to give aaivity to an Administrative System. The proofs which our President has given of his zeal for the prosperity and success of the new order of things which he has established, leaves no room to doubt, that in spite of the distance of place, and other cir cumstances which have contributed to the delay, the appointments may be shortly expelled. (Signed) PANCALDI.'• AT length, after repeated annunciations, the for midable attack on Mr. ADDINGTON'S Admini stration, so long threatened by a Morning Paper, has made its appearance. Fabius Cuaaatordescends from the hills ; and relying on a preparation of at least six weeks, meditates nothing less than the total overthrow of the notorious Enemy of his Coun try. The movement itself is a genuine indication of Public Spirit ; and the means employed to en sure its success, well become the Assailant v.ho has had recourse to them. A wise General will always be disposed to pl.►ce the greatest relit:ince or. bituated ; and slander, venoin--, misrepre—sentatiol;; and lies, are no less familiar to that P3per 1114 its Myrmidons, than the bow to a Parthia.n, broad-sword to an Highlander, or the tomallawl`: to an Indian. Don't let our Readers imagine, that we are dis posed to intrude on their patience, or to insult their understandings, by a laboured and critical examina tion of this jumble of Con tradiftion, Inconsistency, Spleen, and Falsehood, which bears conclusive marks 1 of its emanation from the pen of some Mortified' Malicious, and Disappointed Partizan, who, per' haps, had vainly imagined, that had the U n ion, so much talked of, between the present Government, , ‘ and some Opponents of the last, been carried into effea, he might have been thought worthy o f a re commendation to some inferior Office. The Arti cle is throughout an Attack, not on the general ( Measures of the Government, to which the Coun try would have anticipated us in finding an A n ' swer, but on the personal qualifications of the et Mi nister. On this topic, we relu a ntly take tip tile . gauntlet, as they can of course be proper l y esti' mated by the large circle of friends by wh om he is surrounded, as well as by a Parliament fro m which' he has experienced almost an unanimous Support' and by a Public, which has abundantly derived the happy consequences of them, With respett to his measures, it seems , ti4t they have been at once unconstitutional, but i''' o . tfessii.ve ; violent, but unobjetlionable ; insult" but ?arrive; injurious, but harmless. In h is eotro position as a man, we find Vanity, Specion soes6 ' Inability, Presumption, Lust of Power, Deceit, Ob" sequlousness, Selfishness and Immorality , Ft°lll what model the writer of the Paragraph in q uestion drew this portrait, representing the happy tui°se of so many amiable ingredients, no one can , p erh s r s ' .„ so properly explain as himself. It is nothing lesp AP' than a Libel on the Monarch who chose Mr, D i N oToN for his Minister, on the Legislattlt° . which has supported him, and on the Public wi liCti has given him its confidence. The Charges against him, as a Minister' ore C 011• fined to his continuance of Martial Law in Ireland" and the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus A 6t ;,. to the Bill of Indemnity; to the Constitution °I the Secret Committee ; and to his desertion of Mrs ABBOTT, on the question for continuing Mad /31 Law. The whole concludes with the triune ant exultation at the defeat which he sustained in the R°B' memorable conflia with the celebrated Mr. SON. We are far from suspe6ling Mr, Rolls° I t be the writer of this paragraph, or indeed of an l i e o h f av i e . no T t t h :l 4 c g it h sacfault remarkable th fo e r c i r t s s mSmaensc, w But were the circumstances of the CountrY such 2° not to warrant the further Suspension of the Vab es : • , Corpus AFt ?—Did any symptoms , of violoo ° precipitancy marls the adoption of that me asure ? '" Was not that, and the continuance of Martial 1431 in Ireland, abundantly sanCtioned by the ReP rt - • ' a Secret Committee of ;ha House of Cornow ,- ns% on loudly called for, and the necessity of them ( I °'' ye 1 strated, by almost every individual RepreseotAtt this from that part of the United Nino= ?,4111 : n of slanderous Writer date to say, that a seleet'° - ve more honourable and independent men could 118 eo f been found, than those fixed upon by th e g Ols , ic h Commons itself to investigate the materials w"in, led to the adoption of those measures t A s to t he la demnity Bill, it was nothing more nor andlessthzn Aft, called for by ever consideration of Justice a Humanity, as a Security to those who had re ar P er, the most essential service to their COUlltfyy An d haps, the most critical period in its historY• vent the desertion of Mr. AB BOTT (the present O ct to nt h, continue amounted to this, that on his proposidtb, continue the Martial Law Bill for a twelveOalta Mr. ADDINGTON suggested, with hi s accost° ity unconstitutional precipitancy, that an opportunf its should be given, by shortening its duration' °For, being again brought under the consider ation 0f iv, liament then sitting--to which Mr. AB O°Tl l if s t a ntly assented. It is remarkable, that th e st ost observation about the Sick and Hurt Office ° have occurred to the writer since he f i rst' s° P tslitio ously announced his intended animadversio ns- DP' On the Charge of Selfishness brought again st , iti e ADDINGTON, we cannot forbear from saY ir l r i o „, word. We will fairly own that it has excited cirroo dignation, we hope, not an unbecoming one''." d e ' s , a Pension, and a Peerage, are state d b y t 8 w e picable Calumniator to be his main Obj IS. en of boldly ask, which of our Cramtrymeno cv e t o, those who may be disposed, from ~•ohatofret cat' s .' 0 ' • h pa t° think the least favourably of him, can Is l 4 , t hu i f iled hear it insinuated, that he, who fill and """ 0 t his for twelve years, the most honoura ble sitn:2,li°D i iiiii this 0 hY Country, admired, applauded and Irene" vti44s.- high in reparation, and secure from altucst .w tot bility of a reverse, would volun tarily have pot t himself in the most perilous predicament, .h '