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IMPERIAL PAR 14!144,0.A72 f, ft.!, 110. USE OF P . , J4N. 9 • .• .••• r • n . •. . IN an Appeal from the.caart of C . ba , ncery in Ire jand, Page and others zj. Kirrultan - ar,ct pellets, the Solicitor General 3yasfbearct . 6l: the 4pNllants.-- Pirther consideration 'deferred: :Monday; • The Pensions; &c. linty through Committee,..an4 w as repqr.teii: - The Order'tbr committing •the Malt Juty Bill; which 'also purported to be a Bjll for rdmovingrioubts ' respee:ting the issue of cerfa Exchequer Bills, and for other pal - poses, - having been read, • The LORD CHAtqcgr4oit left tlicWoolsack,- to call the attention of the Houk to'thisßill, which appeared' to 'contain' foreign - to 'the objed of a Money $lll. His Lordship - 1 - n,ved -that 'the Standing Order respealing Bills of thi s d escr i pt i on ' be.read. The Standing Order 'was - accordingly read by the Clerk, •declaiing, that to:' tuseft in Money -Bills clauses foreign to . the obje6ts 'of those Bulb was un parlianlentary;''and destruative of the constitution of parliament.- • • TfiE LORD . CHANCELLOR 'said it would be wast ing the time oftheir Lordships for him °to attempt tb prove, what must be obvious to . tile -House, that Clausei were inserted in this Bill which had no re lationto its object as a Money Bill, and. which there fore rendered it obnoxious tp the Standing Order of the House which had just been read. He therefore moved that the Bill be rejected.—Ordered. adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMNaYS, FfiDAT ; JAN. 9. Mr..mooriE 1 4T coht p the RepOrt of Bowyer's Lottery "Bill. The ,Report on the Sc. nio l g. Bill was or dered to be re-committed. • Sir ..l'ouN NEWPORT, Chahcelfol74fthe ENchequer for Ireland, took the oaths and'liiS'"..seat. iTflio Hon. ' Baronet, upon taking his^seat,, ipfoinied the House that he made his eludion for; thecity of Waterford. A new writ was ordered tb' be, issued, to ele& a Member for the County of Sus Sex, in the room Of General Lennox, 'who was called to the- Upper :House, as succeeding to'the title and honours of the Dukedom of,ltichMond. Mr'. DICKINSON informed the House; that being chosen to serve, in Parliament .for the Borough of ' I,ostwithiel and the County of Somerset, he made its eledion for thelatter place. Sir Jour NEWPORT gave notice that he Would; on Monday,' move for leave to bring in a Bill 'for correating an error in an A& of the 42d of the King, chap. 105th, for RegulAinci•Cantroverted Eledions, as relating to Ireland: The ()hied of this Bill would be to supply a defeet in the said AEt, for though the C , ;mmissioners were sworn to aet,.they were not em powered to administer an oath to the Clerk who at tended to take 'down the evidence; to empower them to administer this bath was the objeet of the he hoped to haVe the honbur of submitting to that House. Mr. , CALCIM FT, seeing an Hon. Gentleman in .his place (Mr.:3ohnstune), he should take that op portunity of giving that Gentleman every satisfaelory explanation as to the question that Gentleman thought .it necessary to putltp him yesterday, with respeet to the item for powder in the charges for the Island of Ceylon; the Honourable Gentleman asked why the iiecessary supply ofgunpoWderhad not been furnish *ed. by some of our Settlements in the East Indies ? to that question the best answer would be the simple statement of the faCI, that the Governor of that 'lsland had required a supply of English gunpowder, in preference to that of. our Eastern Settlements, Awing to the superior quality. of 'the former—and this too, nut so much for the comparativeexcellence our gunpowder, as the positive inferiority of that formerly supplied by the Settlements. As to. the ap parent disproportion in the charges i 0001. for .Engtand, and 70001. for Ireland,. for worms, turn-screws, c, it vas to be considpred, that .of the Suppiies hitherto furnished for the service of England, 91001. remained unexpended, so that towards the customary Annual Supply there was but a deficit of 9001. whereas, there was no remain der to supply the yearly derriand for Ireland ; this otateMent, howeyet, as it stood, put in this case the _Ordnance Estimates of England to those of Ireland in the ratio of 7 to 1, which be was free toacknowledge was,by no means th e due proportion. As, to the officers of Ordnance, .in Ireland, they were en titled to every praise . tor the strictest economy, and the most laudable. attention to:the duties of the:de partment.' If blame, therefore, was justly to attach self to arty quarter, it would rather belong to this side. He confessed that, upon this head, he was pot sufficiently prepared to . ire, as satisfactory as he could "wish, not having had sufficipnt time to possess himse.l( of the fullest, mfortuation upon the ; be should,_ however, take the earliest opportunity to enahle i 4 to account for this apparent- dispropor - t.tou. JOHNSTONE felt much obliged by the great anxiety the Right Hop. Gentleman had,evinced to gile.hirn and the House every satisfaction relative to the quesiious he took the liberty of putting to yesterday. It was, however ; very natural for .11irn to suppose, that in .that country where the ma terial of which the gunpowder was made. was to be acl r _if could •be furnished at , a:chettper rate than it puid be contraded for in England. As , to therecpui ion forwarded by the Governor of Ceylon,. he (Mr, johnstone) did not thrik that the responsibility to that House rested upon the Governor, but upon the , v.ho,were bound to judge of the propriety pf acceding to it. This, too, he felt it necessary-to add, that he had the fullest reliance in the capability of the Governor of Ceylon, and thought that that gentleman had given proofs of a strict economy. • Mr. CALCRAFT said, triat . he had onl; to repeat that English gunpol.vder had been sent out. to the Island of Ceylon, upon the positive orders of the Go- _ . verncr, founded .upon reasons already specified, that pppeared'to the Governnient convincing. General WA LPOLE intbrmed the .House that it was Lis wish that his Motion (of which. he yesterday gave potice) for enlarging the time for receiving Recog pizanCei relative to the county of Lol2dona p rry' Pc 7 'tion should .tand For iNiorldly Mr. ADAM MO*, according to not;ce, that tire Order of the Day tbr hearing the Aberdeen Petition be Ocharged, an4that-said Petition be heard Upon l'hUtsdiy, the •2611 t March. EpS saki„ hat after the rule laid down by' the House in the case of the Thetford Petitjon,, he could-not consistently vote for delay in this case, where no reason. whatever •was specified. • Mr. Anot, did not state a special reason, as, he thdught the mere mention of the mkne of the county, sufficient. It was 'the usage of that House . , the case of Scotch Petitions, to grant a further, day whenever applied for, and the reasons fo.r such pe culiar indulgence were obvious, the distance of the country, the necessity of bringing up Agents acid Barristers -conversant- in the Law of Scotland. pie, rested his motion, upon the usage of that House in all cases of Scotch Petitions. Mr. DUNDAS agreed with the- Learned Mover, and gave as an, additional reason, that the Lawyers would be employed at the Sessions in Scotland at the time now, fixed for- hearing this Petition.--,-Ordered to be heard on. the 20th March. 'On the Motion of Mr. FRERMANTLE. ? ,t4e House went into a Committee of Supply, on *the Annual Indemnity Qualification, and EXChe9net Loan Bills. Report concerning each ordered to, be received to morrow. Mr. IVILPSRE. begged leave to.. 'Alt the Right Hon. Secretary (Windham), why among the name); of those Officers honoured with the thanks'of that House for contributing to the vi6tOry of Maida,lhat . , Of Colonel Oswald was omitted ? • . , Mr. /P/A 7 D/L4,31 replied, that considerable as were the claims of that:gallant Officer to special.ho (ice, he was yet below t 4 rank to - which the stria ness of precedent confined the mention of flames. Afr: IVIATGFIELD presented a Petition frorp cer;- tain of the Ejectors of Penrhyn; praying that the time for entering' into the necessary recOgninces . _might be enlarged. He said that, by the 2kiii of the King, cap. 52. Petitioners were required to en ter their recognizances.within fourteen days, but that the same Act granted a discretionary power to th a t, House .to enlarge that titue, if the reasons 'specified were found to be satisfactory. In this case tecog nizan'ces had been entered into, , but were objected to on the ground that th e y were . enicred into before the Petition itself' was presented. This was pro ductive of unforeseen delay, and he therefore thought that the time for receiving the Same should be en larged. _ _ Mr. SwAN thought it necessary tomention to the House, that the signatures to this Petition were the names of three labouring' men, one - of whom r 'ii4d given him the honour of his 'vote, though he could not now account for this change in his good wishes. Mr. PERCIVAL was afraid that this motion went to 'establish a general principle of granting the indul— gence ola distant day to all parties who were placed an any embarrassing situation, in consequence of their ignorance of the necessary_ forms. The SPEAKER wished .to know from the Hon. Gentleman, whether the Motion he was about to sulainit to the klouse had for its objeet the relief of the parties in this case petitioning, or of all that may hereafter be similarly circumstanced ? Mr. WINGFIELD had no farther obje& than the ielief of the parties now before the House, and moved that the time for entering into their recog nizances be enlarged to ten days.—OrdeiTd-that the said Petitioners do enter into their recognizance on or before Monday, the Igth January. Mr. YANSITTART moved that the Resolutions of that House upon the first day of the month be now read. Read accordingly; and leave given to ,bring in a Bill pursuant to the same resolutions. Com mittee of Ways and Means on Monday.—Adjourtied. MAILS. ARRIVED—I Dublin, I Waterford. DuE—z Gotteribtirgh, Dublin, zraterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O ' CLOCK. Consols - - - 59 11 Red. Ann. - - -59 i THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS ;SALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, 10, 1807. SATURDAY, jiNuAlty- The Fervent Gun-brig arrived at Plymouth on Thursday from Gibraltar, with Dispatches from Lord COLLINGWOOD. The' Enemy had withdrawn into the inner harbour of Cadiz, and did not shew any disPbsition to venture Out. A report had reached Gibraltar of the French having been defeated in Calabria. We fear, however, that it is unfounded for Government have- received Dispatches from • . . Geueral Fox,•dated.th - 6 - I 6.oNoVeniber s , and at that time certainly no A4ion had taken place. _ • Governinent have also. received Dispatches from Lisbon; of the 08th ult. which do not contain any confirmation of the re-capture of BhenosAyres ; we . , are therefore 'confirmed in the opinion which we before expressed respecting the safety' of that im portant accoisition. Several of the private Letters which have been received from the Continent state, that BONAPARTE had been obliged, - by indisposition, - to leaVe his army, and that he had, returned to Paris, These Letters speak so confidently upon the Subje6l, that the report obtained general credit in the City this morning: WE this day lay before our Readers the Pr4ia.7 matiori of the KING of PitessiA, containing•his rt4a sons for refusing to ratify the Armistice Which was . , concluded in .4rovember last:: In some parts of this Proclamation his Prussian Majesty displays a ddgreeOf 4rrrines and fortitude worthy the descendant 'of the Great FUEDERIC. trust that he will adhere firm ly to the resolution which he has §o nobly forin .Fd. He must 120 W be. convinced, by de,ar-1?0,py,14 c:perieno, -that cances,ion,- and even servility, to .France afford no Sectiri4y fr6m- her aggressions. • It ;s Obvious that BoNAPA WiE hoped to realize his plan of conquering the, Colonies in the East and. West Indies' on the plains of Brandenhurgh .and 'Poland ; and to use his victories ;over Prussia as the.tneans of compelling Great- 'Britain and RuSsia to conclude a Pea"ce with him on his own terms. His plan howeyer.failed ; indeed as the PrOclaination staies, “, If a i ny - ,alternative rinained for . procur - ing Peace, it 'was ; that of. perfbrming' impossitilitks, since BONA.PARTE had resolved to keep the Prus sian States in PaWn • and ;make no Peach unless by extorting, as the price of evacuating them, from England, all . the Dutch; Spanish, and French Colo-. pies; arid, froni nussia, Conditions respeeiing' 'the . Porte." The Note which TeVAEYRA ND . presented to the Prussian Plenipotentiaries; on• signing the Armistice on the ).oth November, will aUo be found in sequent column ; it is an interesting.. document: The .TValsinghant Packet, from Lisl)on", is arrived at Falmouth, in nine days. , • The princess Elizat f eth. Packet, from F a l m o ut h , arri'Ved at Lisbon on , the 24th„....ofbecetriber. His Majesty's Ship Lively, from England, • arrived thereon thd f.:6th ; and on the 2.9 th His Majesty's Ship Nemesis, with the Newfoundland Ships from •• , , off Oporto Bar. SomE of our Contemporaries appear to have this .• taken the nature of the Order in Council respeaing the Trade of Neutrals with the Enemy : we .. yes terday stated it a ccurate l y .—Th e T ra d e of Neutrals direct with the. Enemy's Ports, .is not prohibited, except they are laden with articles which come un -der the 'denomination of " Contraband of War."--: No Neutrals are to be permitted to trade from any Ports• in the possession or under the controul of the' Enemy; and the Neutral Trade from Pori toPort is prohibited. • SECOND EDITION. SUN - 0 TETC4, HALF-PAST TWO O ' Cl.pCK 4 r P. M. WE stop the Press to communicate to our Read ers the following Intelligence respecting the Expe dition under General CRAUFURD, which is the more satisfa&ory, as some apprehensions were enter tained for their safety. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LISBON ) DATED 27TH DECEMBER, 1896. " Gen. CRAUFURD'S Expedition passed Madeira on the 7th December, all well. The object of it was not then known. " The Nereide Frigate had carried into Madeira a Spanish Corvette, laden with arms, ammuni tion, and Officers (French and Spanish), bound to the Caraccas ; the capture of which Vessel may be regarded as a fortunate circumstance." Their MAJESTIES are expeded on Wednesday , next at the Queen's HouSe, where they will remain till after the Birth Day., His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES passed above an hour with his charming daughter, the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE Of WALES, on Wednesday evening, to congratulate her on her Birth-day : His Royal Highness entertained a select .party after-, wards at Carleton Rouse. The Privy Council, we understand, have finally pronounced upon the charges lately preferred against General PICTON by. colonel FULLARTON, and decided that there is no real ground for the accusation thus preferred.—The case of the girl who was put to the torture, however, remains to . be re-argued in the Court of King's Ben c h. A General Conrt.,Martial assembled on Wednes .day, at Chelsea Hospital, of which Lieutenant-Ge iieralAßAßlN is the President, .for the trial of Capt.. DAVIS . , of the First Lite Guards, on charges exhi bited against him by Colonel BRADSHAW, of the same Regiment. The evidence on the part of the Prosecution closed on Thursday ; and the defence was entered upon,..wllich was expe6ted.to closeyes terday. I'4p Members of the Court are composed, of the 'Household Troops, it being a privilege pecu- • liar to these Corps, that they can .only_ be .tried by Officers of their own establishment. • 'The first battalion of the 6th Regiment of Foot moved on. Thursday from Dover to Deal barracks. , The 'Fifeshire Militia is also under orders to move from Dover into the •SUSS:2i distrift, and com menced its march by the coast. on Tuesday. A-farther - change of quarterg of the troops in the. Kent distrid, arising from the late movements, took place in the course of the present week. The Renfrew Militia moved from Ashford to the Sussex distrift, and the Denbigh Militia 'from Ashford. to Dover. The Renfrew were expe&ed to commence their march yesterday. It appears, from our Bath Letter, that the report of the Bishop of London being,seriously indisposed in that city, is without foundation. Two young Gentlemen, the one the son of a city merchant,, and the other, an artist, met to fight a duel on Thursday, near Ealigg, but their intentions having transpired, information, which led to the pre vention of the duel, was given to the. Police, and one - . of the young men was held in sureties ta.keep-the peace.. , About .five minutes before twelve o'clock, on Wedpesday se'nnight, as the ringers of Bodi4in,. iu 411 :3 7; e x, were about to usher in th.r:leW,yeaCwith a merr/ peal, the. frame-work, of one of the bells g - lve way, and discharged its heavy burthen; which tell with an alarming crash among the ringerS - ; and broke to pieces, but fortunately without causing the smallest hurt tq tithe; of them. A A.L NE WS. PLYmourH,J AN .8.,--Arried the Fervent Lieut: HARE, from Gibraltar ; sailed thence the I,Bth ult. and tias brought Dispatches from Admiral Lord COLIdiNGW6OD, off Cadi ; left theFleat, Sail of the Line, 21st Ult. all well. The. EtleMy* Fleet, Which were in the Outer Road, have within these few days retreated to the Inner Harbo=. A Russian Qdurier is arrived in the Furveni., who is . _ _ said to bring intelligence of an adjustment of the dif ferences between the Turks and Itussians ; and also of a defeat sustained by the French in Calabria; but the .particulars have not transpired.. On her passage spoke the Plover Sloop of War, off Scilly, in company with a large French Cutter privateer which she had captured. Arrived a Spanish Lugger laden . with rosin, cap tuied the ./;nperieirse It 1,%4•A11e Magnificent, of 74 Guns, and not this Vo/ufsuOtvliiFll sailed yesterday for the Channel Arrived the Assistance Sloop from Guernsey, -laden With spirits, detained by the Narcissus Frigate; thp panish Ship Alagclaling, PETERSQII, laden with -.lion and deals from Gottenburgh, to Nante's, detained by the. Lion Privateer ; the Danish. Sloop Patientia, SELTH, from Bourdeaux, bound to Tonningen, laden with brandy and wine, detained by the Happy Return Privateer; and the Russian Ship Kaiser •Alexculder, BitouEN, laden with masts, &c. from Rigs, bound to Lisbon, put in by contrary winds. Sailed the. Phoenix, of 36 guns, Capt. 11.1111? us, fot .Portsmouth a the Dragon, of 7i guns, sail hence to-morrow. 11:05013TH, JAN. 7,—Arrived the Danish Ship • gmiqu ,cum Pet), Morivßs, from Saloe, with brandy, for. Tonningen, called here for orders ; also the Brig Betsey, ROdElt§, with wine from London; ;he Brig Emma, BUTCEIER, from London, bound to Gibraltar, leaky; parted with the Lisboa, Maditer rapean, and West India Convoy, consisting of 43 . 2 Sail, yesterday, off the Lizard, distant S.C. about 20 miles ; , also arrived two French Vessels Les Freres and Le Courrier, from Bourdeaix, with wine and rum, prizes to the Growler dun-brig. His Majesty's Ships Blonde, Moselle, Alnen4co?ce Store-shitg and Snipe Tender, with the Lisbon and Mediterr4ean Fleets, which put back last evening, sailed again this day. SHEERNESS, JAN. 8.--Went out of harbour the Sea-horse of ?6 guns, Capt. STEWARD, was paid pp to 6 Months, and will sail for Portsmouth immediat,sr ly ; the Roebuck of 44 guns, Cape. CURREY, was paid to-day, and will sail for Yaimouth in a feNy days. , 31 , ,1NF. IQ—Yesterday the Roebuck of 44 priso, Capt. CURREY, was paid and sailed for Yar! mouth. The ,Dveence of 74 guns, came down from Lona . - Reach and anchored at the Little Nore. DE 4 L, JAN. 9.—Remain in the Downs His Ma jesty's Ships as per last. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 9.—Nothiqg arrived or S4ifC4 this day. GREENOCK, JAN. M'lyEa, of the Brig Duckworth, of this Port, who was captured' on hid passage home: from Limerick, the 20th August, about-8 leagues W. S. W. of Tory, by .(sq Syeith and La Revenge French Frigates., of 40 guns each, arrived here- yesterday. He and crew were carried to Pampole, where Capt. M‘lvEa, and Capt. SAR-' MON, belonging to the Ship „plginstone, of London, were liberated by request of Capt. LA Due, of .44 Syrene. Capt. MrIvER speaks in high terms of the very polite attention and kindness he experienced from the French Officers. Thy crejv of the Duck.... worth, and a number.of other prisoners, were maich, , . ed 200 leagues up the counlry. 'The Western States, WHITEAmRs, from Phila, delphia, is - arrived' at Liverpool ; she was boarded off Cork on the sth inst. by a 'French Brig of 16 guns.; a Ship of 22 guns, her consort, ihetj in . sight. Lefevre, a foreigner, was a few days since arrested at Woklrigham, and has undergone several examinations at the Alien Office: . From what has transpired, it. appears, that he was. for merly arrested near Walmer Castle, in Kent, where he was secretly landed from France out of a smug 7 gling boat. On Thursday a Parisian Merchant was apprehended under 'a Warrant from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and underwent 4 long examination at the Alien Office. He- was of- terwards committed to. the custody of a Messenger. A foreigner, lately a waiter at Crabb's Hotel, at Rotterdam, but who came to this country in the charaeter, of a Brussels Merchant, was on Thursday 'committed to prison from Bow -street, under the Alien Mt, for being at large without a licence. He had run away from Gravesend, where he was landed out of a vessel from Holland in December. Report mentions, that , some Lamplighters applied / 'a few days since; to the Sitting Aldermen to Sup- , press .the • Lottery illuminatians, on, the ground of complaint, that their lustre put the lamps out of countenance. The worthy Magiitrates are said to have wisely observed- 7 c" that whatever tendod 'to serve an: interest, . whether by transparenca:s, or any otherAecorous exhibitions, which manifestly pro- , 'noted the good of thd revenue, tniist of coarse merit the-approbation of Goverameut, and the tea- gi3tracy, in generall",