The Sun. — London, England, 1802-06-22 00:00:00

NE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, MONDAY, JUNE Zl., Ltffirtm liurctuNsoN (of Alexandria), was intrcduced with the accustomed tormalities, swori,. took his Seta. - His Lordship's supporters were Lords T and PiLH goui,isel were heard in contintiation relativeto the Scotch . .Appeal. flialawe ittad Others, v. the Governors of the Mecc44 s' Hos pft4; &c. inely, Mr. Moo s, .as second t outisel ior the A ppeilatifs: Affer which - the fur hearia4 was deferred till Wednesday.... lhe Order of the Day being. read for 'the farther consicieration •the ''.. - 7 1e4ercis' Canal Bill, ro,e,* and shortly expressed bi,s disapyl9hatic s 'i of the Bill as .it then fito.od. He • •• was..,ativerse yttnciNlly to•tilat yroupton o f t h e Bill which went to authorise.the sale - of 'Entailed gst:tes, I . not4e . t4ol;urchLtse Shires in the intended Canal. •The LORD. Cll AN-OELLOR stated - his send melts:of the , me•asure at some length: He adverted to.most of those points which he touched on a f0r.... mer evening, and enforced Jiem with considerable al3liity. He animadverted generally upon the prin ciple of the Bill, and , expressed his determination, which had always been 11;4 rule, of praaice, to look at every thing that bore the charmer of a job on-the -face of it, and to guard, to the, tamost r of his power, abuse mouocts,which the Law. had ereaed for the preservation of rcivate Property, and pronounced a very lk;gh and 'appropriate panegyric on the Judi cial Chara&er and' Constitutional Principles-of his Nol,ie and Learned - Friend; whia - e first care was the preservation of the properties of 11151611°w subje4s, .and bo, in the considcratiols to which he alluded, was the mos.t experienced Pcer i.n• that Louse. Lord ROLL ANL? spoke very ably, and at con. • aiderabie length-, in support of the Bill: The Earl VSUFFOLK,-ip supporting the Men. en:ered into Nome details rcspeaing what . had • passed before the Committee ; he contended for the advantage which the Canal in question would be to those parts of Scotland-,—pointed out the great'ad . vatitageS North - Britain derived from the Clyde-and . k'orth, Canal, and insisted that much of'the internal improvements of South Britain -resulted from the - multiplicity and extension of her Canals. Lard 4LT 4NLEY cornbar,eil certain provisions of t.,e Bill,' upon legal .grounds; particularly those rela-ting to .the sale of the Entailed Estates; and 'he observed, that to pass the Bill in its present form, would go to set a very iniurious.ptecetlent, - Lord DUN DAS spoke at some length in, support - of tle Bill, -and chiefly on the grOund of its proba .ble local.aiivantages. Lords THuaLow and PUNDAS spoke severally . in explanation. Some farther explanatory conversation 'ensued be tween the Lotto CHANCtLI.OIt and Lords - Hot,. „AND and WALSINCHAM — in the course of. which it was proposed to leave out the objeCtionable • Oa Lon .ELI, 4N .13()R0E1011 spoke very warmly against the principle of the Bilt, and censured those Clauses which went to authorise the disposal of - the properties of others, who could not he heard in their own behalf, a principle so repugnant to the Laws. and Constitution of Et•gland, Lord HOLLA ND fepliect to several_points which fell from the NOble and Learned Lord who spoke last, as well as to the arzuments of LorciALvAN„. . After some farther conversation, -irf which most a the above-mentioned Peers took a part, a Divi, sion took place relative to the Omission of the Clause above alluded to, which, as we c(9lct Coiled was, that respelling the sale of Entailed Estates, and two or three others conneaed with it, when there ap Feared, For omitting these Clauses, /6 Against it, 8 Mapri . ty, - 8 The further consideration of the Bill was then adjourned till io.mnrrow. On our readmission to the House, their Lord_ ships were engaged in the consideration of the Scotch Militia Bill, to which some additional Amendments were made ; and which, after some g.onversation between Lord•Ho a ART, who proposed the same, and Earl Frrzwit,LiAtvt,, were agree d to, the Bill was then read a third time and passed, The Order,of the P,ly, for taking into consider, ation the.reasons assigned by the 'Commons, for dis greeing with . the Amendments made by their Lordships •to the Militia Augmentation / Bill being Their Lordships proceeded accordingly to con sider the same, when, after some conversation be tween Lords HOBART, FICZWILLIAM, SUFFOLK, HOLLAND, and the LORD CHANCELLOR, one of the Amman - leap, made by their Lordships, was in sisted upon ; the others, as we understood, were relinquished—and it was ordered, that a Conference be desired with the Commons. to-morrow, in order to communicate the , same, &c. _ _ Some °tithe Bills before the House were forwarded. On the question for the commitment of the Foreign Letters Postage Rill, The Earl ,of VIE IijLIC called the attention. of the House to some grievances which the inhabitants of Dover would be under, by those provision. of the Bill which went to exempt French PacketS from tonnage, by which moans those vessels would be enabled to take over Passengers much cheaper than the Dover Pucker Owners could afford to do.—lt was the intention of theinhabitants to instrua their Representative on the occ knew not whe ther it was regular on such a Bill as that in question for Petitions to be Leard by Counsel against it, in tlw. same Session, hit, it . it were, he would suggest the propriety of such a proceeding. Lord AU,:kI„IN/), in a statement of some length, and which included sonie Official details, r: plied to the objedion3 urged by the Noble Eatl, in the cflur , e of which he stated that the return of Peace, joined to considerations of commercial con venience, rendered it advis:tLle to equalize the rates of Postage, on letters to France, Holland, and Hamburgh, ultich now were fixed at Ica. t zd. and t 6d, ..o . oin this arrangement, however apparently disathantageous, he was coofident the post revenues uould — not eventually suffer. With respell to the allaged grievanczs stiticri by the Noble Earl, he . argued that the regulation could have no such effea.. The tonnage duty was taken off from Packets coin- - ing with the: Mails, and '.which xvas &tile from the considerations he had stated, and also in considera, Lion of the duty of 71. for every Packet , which the French Government had 'during the War laid on English Vessels being taken off;. in regulating those . 1 , 'matters he observed the French Government mani. fested every friendly syniptom. The tonnage duty to which, so we understood his Lordship, the Dover ,Packets were liable, Was only rs. per ton, and these vessels ran to no more than from 35 to 'eo tons ; but the regulation did not affed them at all, as•evectually the difference would be made good to th o rn, . He expressed, his surprise that no objet= bons should have been publicly made till then, .though frequently opportunities offered, as the Bill -was a.long time before the other House, and the in tended regulations were generally known for more than six weeks. • Lori/ HOL,LA2O expressed himself shortly, in favour ofthe Bill. The Bill then passed . a Committee of,the whole House, and. was ordered ( to be reported to-morrow. The Aliens' Bill was re-committed for tomorrow, and the House to be summoned on the occasion. The Earl of SUFFOLK stated, that.with respeet to his_propositions relative to the Affairs of India, he was. then ready to go into the discussion, but he supposed Noble Lords, from the lateness the hour, would rather it should be deferred till to-morrow. His Noble Friend, then absent, - persisted in - his in tention- of bringing forward the investigation he had given notice of ; but for his own part, though he was aware of the nature of the information expetted from India, it would necessarily_ preclude him from bring ing forward what ,he proposed, which chiefly re lated to the Debts of lodia ;—those, even the Do. ctiments before the House, made to athount to /13 millions, hut he could prove they exceeded that sum ;—the present situation of India Affairs he did not attribute to those now in power, bet to those who lately dire&ed the Affairs of that Country.— He concluded by stating the outline of a Motion which he intended to make for further information relative to the Debts,. &c. of India. The Earl of DARTMOUTH and Lord HoBART professed themselves ready even then to meet the Noble Earl on the subje4t, but they adverted to the lateness of the hour,- and thinness of the attendance, as riot suited to its importance. After some explanatory conversation between the Earl of SuvFoex, and the abovemeotioned Peers, t was understood that the former's Motion, , Etc. is, not to be postponed beyond to-mortow. The Irish Uncertificated Bankrupts Bill was, af. ter some forcible , objeftions urged to its principle by the LORD.CHANCELLOR, and some observations rather generally in defence of the measure, by Lord Viscount LIMERICK, whom•the Noble and Learned Lord, in his explanation, seemed to compliwent for his manner of treating the subjeft—read a second trine, and was committed for to-morrow. 0n the Question for the second reading-of the Bill to.prevent Illicit Games, &c., commonly known by the name of the 1 ' qoes" Bid; Lord HOLLAND inade.a few observations there on, chiefly to the effect of the. subjett being very unworthy. the attention of the Legislature. The LOR D - CH ANC ELL() R pointed out shortly the iinportance of the suliject, and'the necessity al a Legislative Provision thereon, not only with reference to the concerns of the State Lottery, but the morals and. good conduit of the middling and lower classes of. the people, principally as it regard ed the destruftive praftice of insuring. The Bill was their" read a second time, arid corn. milted Tor to-Morrow. The remaining Orders of .the Day were then dis. posed of; and, at forty minutes • after eight their Lordships adjourned till to-morrow, when the Royal Assent is to be given by Commission to Si Public; and Private Bills. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, JUNE 21. Titz Consolidated Fund Bi 1, the Post. horse Duty Bill, the Five Million Exchequer Bills Bill, the Irish Militia Pay Bill, the Irish Dis charge Bill, the It ish Import and Export Duty Bill, and the Customs Duty Bill, were read a third time, and passed. The House having resolved itself into a Com mittee on the Scotch Schoolmasters' Bill, Colonel FULLARTON said, that at this late period of the session, he only intended to have the Blaiiks filled up, and to let the measure lie over till another Session. The Report was received immediately, and the Bill ordered to be printed, and read a third time this day month. A Message from the Lords announced the assent t•f their Lordships to the - Mifl.iny Bill, the Irish Coffee Bill, the Irish ParliaMent House Sale Bill, the Controverted Eleaion Bill, and the West India Dock Bill. The Report of the Irish Gaols for the year 18ot, was presented from the Irish Secretary of State's Office, and ordered to lie on the Table. . The Papers relative to India, moved for by Mr. Ntexou.s, on Friday, were presented, and order. ed to lie on the Tabi- : and, on the Motion of Mr. WALLACE, were ordered to be printed fur the use of the Members, Mr. WALLACE then moved, that there be laid before the House such parts of the Correspondence •tour.d at Seringapatam,'. as were alluded to in the Report of the Governor and Council of Fort St. George, of August 4,. and not comprehended in that Report. Ordered. . Mt. WALLACE thkin moved, that there be laid before the House a Copy of the Examinations held by Marquis Wellesley's orders, before Messrs. Webb, &c. at Velure, on the 4th of August, i 800. Ordered.' He then moved, that there be laid before the house a Copy of Lord Clive's Minutes 91 the 7901 l ' September, snot, relative to the Provision made for the Nabob of Arcot's Family.—Ordered. • • He then moved, that there be laid before the House a Copy of the State of the Nabob of Arcot's Health, on the 4th of August, tEct.—Ordered. On the question for the third reading of the Paper Duty Bill, Mr. N. VANSITUR: moved a clause, r) at the same discount at the Stamp-Office as formerly be allowed to the Proprietors of Newspapers, for the space of three months. The.clause was annexed, as A Rider to the Bill, which, was read a third time atld passed. Accounts were presented from the Custom-hone of the real value of Foreign Merchandize imptrted, and Goods exported t,or two years, ending January 5, rBc2.---Ordered to be printed for t!)e use of the Members. _ Mr. N. VANSITTART triove.d for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the Commissioners of Excise to restore Exciseable Goods seil,:d or detained by the Officers of the Excise, to the owners, if they shall think proper so to do.—Leave given. The Bill was then brought up, read "a first and second time, committed, and the Report ordered to be received toAtuorrow. A Message from the Lords announced the Assent of their Lordships to the Smuggling Bill, the Miners' Militia Bill, the Foreign' Qtrencto Bill, and the Clergy Relief Bill. Counsel was heard, and Witnesses examined, on Bonham's Divorce Bill, .in a Committee of the whole House, and /he Report ordered to be received to-morrow. Mr. \Vim(At ! r moved, that there be laid before the House an Account of the number of Ships re gistered in the Ports of Ireland, the number of Tons they carry, 4nd the number of men employed in them, at the agth of September, IScit. Mr. WALLACE said, he had - waited for some time expeding to kte an Han. Gentleman (Mr, NI-. cnoits) in his place, before he should state that another Hon. Gentleman (Mr, SREFI DAN) had sig nified to him that lie was to put off his intend. ed Motion relative to the affairs of India, to Wednesday - , instead of bringing it forward to morrow. Had that Hon. Gentleman now been in his place, he might also have thought proper t 3 put off till the saillo clay the Motion which be had signified his intention of bringing forward on that day, provided the other Hon. Gentleman failed in making . the one he had announced. If the Hon. Gentleman would consent to do so, it would be a matter of convenience to the liodse to have the business brought' forward on the same day, rather than on twp separate days. As the delay was only for one day, he hoped it could . make no material differ - eke to . the Hon, Gentlern'an: .The House adjourned at a quarter past ,Five till t 0. MOM w • MAILS. ARRIv ED DUI. French - • lianibursh o - - - . - YRIOE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY A? Consols. - --.75 3 a - Omnium - a Prern. T H E S U N. SOLEM guts DicEKE FALsum AUDIT,AT) LONDON, JUN E 22, 18oz. Ws now learn that the Proclamation for the Dis solution of Parliament, is expeded to appear in the Gazette of Saturday the 3d of next month. His IVIAJEcTY, it is likewise expeCted, will go in State to the HOuse of Lords, on Friday the 2d, and close the Session of Parliament with a Most Gracious Speech from the rhrone. French Papers of tlif r9th inst. were received this morning ; but they contain no news of consequence. There will he a Levee at St. James's on Wed. nesday the 3orh, and a Drawing.roorn on Thurs day the tsr of July, being the last this Season, 1-Its MAJESTY is to give a Grand Fête to a . nn. merous Party of the Nobility and Gentry at Cum. berland Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, early in the next week.---Munday next is mentioned as the day fixed on, Saturday, the 3d of July next, is at present fixed on for the visit of I'HEIR MAJESTIES and the PRIN CESSES to Weymouth ; they propose leaving Wind. sor early in, the morning, and reaching Weymouth to dinner. The PRINCESS of WALES passed two days with Lord and Lady MALMESBURY, at Henley, after the Frugmore Fete, last week, Yesterday His Royal Highness the Nall; It of WALES gav:• a grand dinner at Carlton.house. • Ascot Races commence to-day„ They be honoured with . the presence:of THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES. The PRINCE of WALES left Town this morn. ing for Windsor, in order to be present at Astot Races. Lord 1-It7Tcntrtsom yesterday, in the House of Peers, wore the Uniform of a Major-General, - and the insiggia of the Order of the Bath. He is very thin, and appears to have suffered much from his late indisposition, and the fatigues of service. Mr. PITT went to Walmer Castle on Saturday, accompanied by Lord CARR I NOTON. The reports in circulation of the intended creh.. tion of a batch of new Peers, as it is called, at the General Eletion, we believe to be wholly void of foundation. One or two have been confidently mentioned, On this subject we a few days ago) copied a paragraph from a Morning Paper. We will take upon ourselves to assert, without feit‘r of contradiaion, that Lord GAl.t.ow AY was restored to the office Of Lord of the Bedchamber at his cwn expresl and earnest solic;tation, accom panied, we suspea, with expressions of contrition for the hasty and disrespetiful step which he had taken. Some friend of his Lordship seems to have taken great pains to persuade the Public, thathe resumed the office at the request of Has ,NIAIRsTY. 311 7 PR.! LEONE. THE roLLowlato ;% AN'EXtRACT OF A,,,WitTllll FAONt q x °tile Eit Ix 'raw: covarrr. " We arrived here froM Goree, on the 14th Ja nuary, and remained unmolested by the Natives until ,the trth of the ptesent month (April), when they attacked us at five o'clock in the mornings--' Our force then in the fort was about 6o men, and we understood from a prisoner, that the Enemy were about zoo. The rascals, elated at the num , . bets they killed on the x Sth November, thought that they could do what they pleased. Just rarer the morning gun Arai, they fi;;ed their lag on the east side of the fort; and after shooting the patrol ing sentinel, they forced open a gate, and twelve or more had adeally got in'when they were charge. 4 and forced to retreat. They rallied again arm' were beaten back; they then kept up a smart fire, outside, for about twenty minutes, but being flank ed by a bastion on one, side, and a large block.' house on the other, they were obliged to retreat, iedving 17 men dead under the fort. In the mean time a large party had kept up a heavy fire in the, town, but when they perceived their friends - run- ning from the fort, they ran also, but 'were pursued( for three miles, when several were shot. There were four pound guns well leaded with grape, firsa op them in their retreat from the ble.ck.lwuse , , Where I commanded, which annoyed them riot 3 little. We had no notice whatever of their coming/ indeed I may safety say it was a sUrprize, as we conceived the dispute was settled,- and every diffe rence brought to a conclusion. They are treacher ous villains, and would have put us all to death 1131 they succeeded. We have found 31 of them 44' 4 , and suppose that, at least, that number - or more (A : them have been killed or wounded, the bush being so thick we have not found any more. Our loss is pot sp. great as might be expe4cd from their mi[P' hers. African corps -3 Men killed ; Capt. Lloyd. z Serjeant• and 6 Alen wounded. Settlers *and Maroons in Town-- Woman killed; W .. " man, ; Men IN ounded. •COPT OF THE ORDERS OF THE !ZVI APRIL, 7801' " Fort Thonte. 0 6 The Governor feels extremely happy in congratulati n i the Officers, NonXotpinissioned Officers, and Privates the Detachment of the African Corps, on the itery complcl e , defeat of the Enemy in their attack yesterday, which, wi d e 'Providence, he is sensible, is owing in great measure to Eng ° brave and gallant exertions. His mast cordial acknowledge ments axe due to Capt'.•LLOYD and 4usign 15,$ t icsi.tY ; „t ° the first for.the very spirited manner in which he r,:real charged, and drove back : the Enemy, after they had three the _ open and-entered the eastern gate ; and to the latter for very great and elfeduar annoyance he gave the Enemy, trQ 11 :„ the blockhouse in which he commanded. The Go vern ' feds it a duty, which .fie will must cheerfully, fulfil, to „ snake known - to his-and their superiors in Europe, the sense he entertains of these Gentlemen in particular, and the whole Detachment in general; lie requests tile C°T.; manding O ff icer will cause these Orders tp Of mid W tP"! Detachment at this evening's parade." • By the Bill which has just passed the Rouse of, Commons, it is .provided that the Tax shall not b e paid for horses taken on job, unless they shall laavl° been hired for more than a month. This fair an 4 judicious regulation .has given very general satis ta&ion, and will, obviate a ;.% ell faunded complain t against the iigorous c.onstruaion of the Mt, br which that Tax was imposed; We contradided a repJrt which we sec rer 3l ' a itt yesterday's thrald, tlut Colonel Fu4.46g T , °14 succeeds Colonel CoCHRAIIE jorursozri in the L iC fr vernment of Dominica. it is not so—.Coloner luk LA TON, Wt believe, goes to Trinidatio. We understand that our Plan of the Cattlrig ft ° which appeared in THE SUN two months ago, b a-* suggested a subbed for a caricature, which is lik 4 f soon to appear in -print. The Comte, as well as Comtesse litscobrrt, is now - in this Country. The Lady is an Italian be birth : she has passed the zenith of youth , b ut sh is a very fine - woman, and indeed-much superior V' personal attraftions to Madame Rtc-41411ER1 .wil°l7l/ she is understood to have succeeded in the Evrtifi* ° Beauty. r i l l • Had General Vial been sent as Ambassado r to !, Country, we could have fitted the French by sendink . the Earl of Core. Lord WHITWORTH will most probably takettereo coaches and .vehicles of different kinds to Paris the ally of his predecessors of the Diplomatic . Orsir It will be strange, indeed, if 'the French G avel " ' ment should object to his Lordship's carriage. If it be true that: the French Government are Pr paring a Ne'w Constitutiox, which is ro'cprnpreb e e two Legislative Bodies, like those in England , titer can be little doubt that whatever Laws may be Pr,c; posed, due care will be taken to secure the Con so l " e' negative. Indeed nothing, seems likely to keep various tribes of French Politicians in proper or" but an authority "oire and indivisible... 4 The CHIE? CONSVI., it is said, has consentei to arra .gements. which will give to the King As S A RDIN I A some part of his former possessions. ; the. CA IE F cotistn. may be' said to hold the C 0 e 4 tinent in a string, it would have been hard indt. h if he had refused to suffer the unfortunate Mona"o to recover something from the wreck of his for° _ State. r hio The King of ETRURIA is said to be out o', i n f senses, and from what has been lately heara. p his conduct there seems to be some probabi lir i the report. At the Liverpool Theatre, Mrs. Biti,.ttgrrl(ot, during last week, performed successively the Cl'iri rafters of Clara, in The Duennw, pf Rosettaf"; Liive in a Village, and of Polly, in The B'L Ofera. fro The prices of admission to the Brighton Thesfve are raised this year—the Boxes from Four to,',/if, Shillings, and the Pit from Two Shilling s to Pa a-Crown. re , Miss Ron PRTSOx, of Blackheath no torierr', o f covered on Saturday, in the Court of Common r L e o , the sum of 621. +s. 6d. of a Bookseller, for the P fits of two of her pamphlets. . 0 0 ' We perceive, by the Paris Papers , that Clitio.sti John Harrison, about seven years ago a Delepres, from Sheffield and from Birmingham to the C°ranti ponding Societies, has been taken into custodioiltt tried in France, but acquitted, He sold razors 4( God save the King" on them. I