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Vtt& On the p (ster i ors of the Nation ; but he thought the arguments to prove this, were a posteriori. , 'le Presen t Peace had brought comfort to every fire -side in the kingdom ;• any Motion, therefo r e, that tended to censure, he considered as having an evil tendency. kr. THOMAS GRENVILLE said, that he ~,,4 11o uld thi n k hi mse lf equally blameable with His 4-laiesty's Ministers, if he sat still, and did not snake some observation s on some things which had fa llen from the Noble Lord (HamkEsattßY)-. He sa id, it was strange that any opposition should be made to the Motions made in the present stage of theb bus iness. One would think, from the debate ti t 'Ley had given rise to, that the attention of the t l °use had been fatigued by repeated Motions for kiT 'aPers. But this was the first day, and the first ' ° tion on the sub'efi • and no sooner did a Mein ' bet presume to ask i for Certain Papers, than the Mo. iloll was called faelious. (A cry of " N° ; ";" ' i t i r "ii the Treasury Bench.)—Not only were hi s t;l°n.Friends accused of breaking down the question t ° a fraftional deb ate; artifice was also imput e d ot hem. Diu i t t h en requ i re art ifi ce to i n d uce th e House to take into consideration a Treaty in. v°l ving the d earest i nterests of t h e C ountry ? He ;i"ned, that he wished to have this question con. odered in detail, and, if lie did not do so, he should c k °Pon himself as betraying the - interests of his I, -tint rY. At present, however, he should only ad. 1 - , e ,t to one tiling which fell from the Noble Lord re. t i t .tVe to Portugal. The Noble Lord seemed to say„ ? i ," because His Majesty's• Ministers had given at 4 °gal leave to negotiate a separate Treaty, with tr l u lations prejudicial to the interests of this Coun. 1 .. - Y1 because circumstances prevented them. from ,` n clerin g her, at that time, the assistance requisite C)enable' her to defend herself; that, therefore, this ountryt was released from all obligations to attend ci ° the interests of Portugal in the Treaty. To this ~,oCirine he could not assent. With regard to the 'rapers demanded, he said, that they were neces. 4 ary to a full u nderstanding of the subjed, which, f rom its magnitude and complication, could not be obtained without much previous discussion. The C HANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, 'ieeoncurred with his Noble Friend, in the com tlllii!!A Ile had .so ably made on the speech, by which bMotio n now before the House was introduced, I, l L, t he should not have been able to concur with him b e d he said that;the speech of any Honourable Mem. f aa ' .°f the House was dictated by Faetion, or by x iiros motives ; but he was sure his Noble Friend t I 4 t make use of the words imputed to him ; he f a P i ' l l , u ot charged any Member of the House with 1 ,, "us motives : the words - of his Noble Friend t i d ere, " that the conduct of Gentlemen on theother pl a e Was as extraordinary as any that ever- took h c t e , even in the most faftious times." He owned t ' l e felt the justice and the propriety of that m fb „,„ N--,int ; but he felt a difficulty in addressing . the wan. n al , y further upon the subject, from an habitual al l s ,f t n,for the Orders of the House, which he felt, by 'nich, he would dare to say, was equally felt ick eve rY Member in it ; lie was impressed with an Ir, a that he was not at liberty to answer the argu lients ur ge d i y D Gentlemen on the other side, yet th ere two or three points which he felt an in. tlietion to touch upon, not to argue, for that he not think he was ent i t l e d to d o i n t h e present i Wh, - I , ° ' t the case. I t was state d , i n t h e speec h 11i a ,," Related the M ot iO n now b e f ore t h e H ouse , I:4; l 4'is Maj e sty' s G overnment must b e i gnorant Prell.e T reaty of Badajos, on t he s ig n i n g o f the. t lu 'inarie s o f t h e T reaty o f P eace, ot h erwise there could not have been so large a latitude f or hii 4 „ n Z on the s u bj e d o f Portugal.—Gentlemen were thi s s l / 4 en on that point, and he was surprised at I\l4 l consideri ng t h e many exp l anat i ons o f hi s ,v as 'e Friend upon that very subjed. The tru t h taV n i t was know n t h at t h e T reaty o f Badajos had k t e e , - P l ace when the boundaries of the French and 19 4 1 guese Guiana were d e fi ne d b y t h e Ri ver A ra. out'; b ut His Majesty's Ministers were not with. k h , apprehension that further concessions might N r e t taken place, or might take place, o n behalf of any gal, n its th en di stresse d s i tuat i on, b e f ore tl f cin could be made of the Ptelimina ttalicifpeace agreed upon between this Country an d to ea c i es and th ere f ore, with what he would take leave l‘tit,„: l a prude nt caut i on, as well as anxiety, they b o rt teti that no future concession on the part of of Madrid l tal should b e binding; after which the Treaty Nati Was signed. —Th e Right Hon. Gentle tlifet w ho had just sat down had said, that the only gas te nee entertained by Gentlemen in the House state only as to the inference to be drawn from a an d ,Tent of fads on which they were all agreed, R 4 l t'sne question, he said, then was, whether Portu. pr ot " e aci ? by her condud, forfeited her claim to the tti ad !, ton of Great Britain, and to stipulations to be k y ' o lo her f avour ? He would not argue that, nor ho t i, t her point upon t hi s great question of the - De. khatay.e Treaty o f Peace, now ; he had - promised to tlei t : f rom .that course, but he would desire Gen. tat : lie to recon e a wh at was the. situation of Pont]. htatel would abstain a l so f rom mak i ng a full ad t Oent of the case i n t hi s particular, because that carat en rendered unnecessary, by the able and ac treat!, manner in which his Noble Friend had Ivita,eU the subject ; but let Gentlemen recoiled to re ' tthe situation of Portugal was a few weeks be. andflci t,i..'e sign i ng of the Preliminaries : they would - , L , S . _ne sin a state in which her independence as cl'aitt.r.pean State was greatly in danger. In this tLia a l `, l° ° °F things, did Great Britain aft as if For. 1),;,,,Tid forfeited her claim to our proteCtion ? it4rs'Nelinisters advise His Majesty to take such a titi rlos ' as if we did not intend to provide, to the t ont?, t, for her security ? No such thing; on the fi e . ber g, 4r we stipulated for her independence ; and in i seenrity we sacrificed many of our conquests th e ttie West Indies. This was a price we paid for b p inter jjetty est we took in the safety of Portugal; a ! - ort o g i o° c l Pledge of our sincere good faith to I s , a pt , whose interests we were charged with hay itci oandoned.—A. • 'tally b irregularly,Point had been introduced inci but which, although to rigo4.laerlY introduced, he felt himself called upon lie,ef,' F . , and it was upon a subject which could iyort`-,tall to awaken and arouse the feelings of every of ti _Y___ Man in this Country : he meant the Honour tot sitaßrhish Flag. He knew that Gentlemen did ed, they te tha t our maritime glory had been tarnish had only said that it had been counteracted-, 1 in enit by the conduit Of British Ministers ; that was in substance to say, that the Honour of the Bri tish Flag had been tarnished, not by the conduit of the British Marine force, but by the conduit of British Ministers. All he should say now was, that he was glad the whole subject was to be investigated, and, when the season arrived for the discussion, he should be able to prove that by no act of omission or commission, had Ministers brought such a stain on their Country as that of tarnishing the lustre of as Naval Triumphs, or in the 'slightest degree disho_ noured the British Flag ; he would go further, and aver, that if it had pursued another course, they would have exposed the credit of their Country, in_ stead of supporting its glory, as well as have abandoned its interest. However, all these were, and ought to be, reserved for future discussion upOn the great and general question. He could not help obset ving, before he sat down, that these Motions for Papers were made and supported by arguments, not for a conclusion on the particular and specific Motion before the House in each particular instance, but they had all of them, visibly, a tendency to the main and general question of the Definitive Treaty of Peace : by which Ministers were invited, in each distinfl Motion, to enter at large upon the main question itself; now, with all possible respect for the Hon. Gentleman who thus continually invited him to this discussion, he would beg leave to de cline the invitation ; he would now only say, that he was ready, and he was desirous to enter, at a pro per season, which was not now, upon all the topics which had been brought forward, when he trusted that Ministers would be able to give such an account of this great matter, and enter upon such a justifi cation of their conduit, as Would satisfy the House and their Country. Lord IIAWKESBURY, in explanation, said, that after the conclusion of a separate Treaty be tween two Powers ,at War, the Allies of these Powers were never considered as bound to stipulate tbr their interests in any future Treaty which these Allies might separately conclude ; nor had it ever been done to such a degree as we had at present done for Portugal. The Motion was then agreed to. Mr. ELIOT then moved, That an bumble Ad dress be presented to His MAJESTY, that he will be graciously pleased to lay before the House such treaties as have been concluded between France and Spain, between the signature of the Preliminary and Definitive Treaties, by which any part of Spain has been ceded to France ; also such Treaties as have been concluded between France, Portugal, and Spain, in 18or, and communicated officially to Government ; which Motions were agreed to. Lord TEMPLE wished to know from Ministers, if Austria, Russia, or Prussia, had acceded to the article in the Definitive Treaty relating to Malta. Lord HAWKESBURY said, there was every reason to suppose that these Powers would accede to that article;" but no dired official' communication of their accession had arrived since the Definitive Treaty. On the Motion of Lord HAWKESBURY, the dis cussion of the Definitive Treaty was put off from Tuesday to Wednesday next. The Coroners' Fee, and Cotton regulating Bills were put off to Monday se'nnight. The Bull baiting Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. The Contested EleCtion Committee Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. Mr. BANK Es gave notice, that he should in that Committee make a Motion relative to the Nomi nees. The House then, at half past Six o'Clock, ad ourned till to-morrow. MAILS. ARRIVED. DUE. Haniburgh 0 PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCI:. Consols. - 761 I Omnium 3 1 THE SUN. SOLLM QUIS DICE/4.E FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, MAY 6,18 oz. W 7 this morning received an imperfel Set of the Path Papers. They bring no Intelligence of im. portance. Also a Hamburgh Mail, by which we have ac counts from Vienna, stating that in Set-via, Bul garia, and most of the other Provinces of Turkey in Europe, the Pachas begin already to resist the orders of the Porte, and to attach themselves to PASWAN OGLOU. • The French Minister, HEDOUVILLE, arrived at Petersburgb on the Bth of April, and two days after had an audience of the EMPEROR. His MAJESTY yesterday held a Levee at St. James's Palace, which was attended by His Grace the Archbishop Of CANTERBURY, the Right Hon. the LORD CHANCELLOR, Bishops of St. DAVID'S, LIMERICK, LONDON, Dean of CARLISLE, Rev. Dr. Moss ; the French, Imperial, Sardinian, Nea. politan, Wirtemberg, and Danish Envoys, the Ca binet Ministers, &c. Dukes—Gordon, Portland, Hamilton, Richmond, and Mon trose. 11 farquisses—Winchester, Cornwallis, Douglas, Aber.corn, and Bath, Earls—Camden, Chesterfield, Fortescue, Mount Edgcumbe, Castlereagh, Chatham, R os li n, Galloway, Scarborough, and Athlone. Picc 6 /m/s—Wentworth, Howe, Folkstone, and Hcod. Lords—Grenville, F. Spencer, Ellcnborough, Cozens, C. Spencer, Pelham, Hobart,Cathcart, Eldon,Louvaine, Bos ton, Mulgrave, Kinnaird, Blaney, Rolle,Whitworth,-Hin chinbroke, Grey, Radstock; Yarborough, Clonbroke, Brownlow, Graves, Rous, Courtney, Leslie, Gleubervie, 13;tynin6, Dishy, Downe, Hawke, iind E. Stuart. Cotton, E. Pcliew, H. James, J. Riddle, 1 . . B. . Purges, R. Ford, 'S. _Catterel,. H. Parker R. Calder, P. Hales, vgarlvi`f, H. Harver, W: Calder, and A. Clarke. Admiral Cornwallis. C;etterals—Burra, Pigot, Trapaud, EdntonStOrie, 13allottr, Egerton, Lister, and Hulse. Colo;:els —uoya, Phipps; Englefield; Lawson, McLeod, and Wood. Captainr—T.Umley, Paten; Irby, Baker, Hervey, Domet, ' Petre, Sydenham, Pride; Hardrinan, Ditrliain, and Digby. • Governors—Bentinck and Denham .. . Messrs .—G ordon, Hohhouse, Grenfel, Howard, Dundas, C. More, Windham, G . Pitt, E&rton, King, Salith,l'orkc,, Ogle; Folghain, Henlock, and Beckfbrd. The Presentations to His MA J ESTT were— Mr...Serjeant Onslow, by Earl OnSlriw. His Excellency Count De Shirwiti, by the Russian Am bassador. Count Chitrieby, by the Imperial Ambassador. Lord H. Stuart, son of the Marquis of Bute; and Mr. H. Curzon, by the Earl of Scarborough. Mr. Henlock, by the Duke of Portland. Colonel Lawson, by the Earl of Chatham. Capt. Wrigglesfield, by the Neapolitan Ambassador. Mr. Beckford, by Earl Effingham. Mr. Hobhouse, by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Gordon, by the Earl of Galloway. Capt. Pater, of the Navy, by Viscount Hood. Lord Chief Justice Clerk. Capt. Irby, by Lord Boston. Lord Kinnaird, by Lord Blaney. Capt. Lloyd, on his return from Egypt. Mr. Smith, by Lord Rolle. Mr. 0 rde by Lord Grey. Sir R. Calder, of the Navy, on his promotion. Capt. Sydenham, of the Navy, on his promotion. General Lister, on his promotion to the command of the 45th Regiment. Mr. Folgham, by Lord Downe. Lord Clonbroke, on his promotion. Sir - li. Hervey and Capt. Argles, of the Navy. For the first time this season were, Admiral Cornwallis, Lord Yarborough, and Lord Hawke. After the 'conipany had withdrawn, the KING held a Council of his Ministers ; after which, Mr. JACKSON had an audience, and at half past five the KING returned to Buckingham House. Last night the RoyAL FAMILY honoured the Concert of Ancient Music with their presence. : We agree entirely with Lord HAWKESBURY in the opinion which he expressed last night, that a course more extraordinary than that which has been taken by the present Opposition, was never adopted even by the most falious ; entirely agreeing with his Lordship, that that term can never be properly applied_ to one heilded by Mr. Windham. Under the pretence of arguing and discussing the Question of the Definitive Treaty in detail, the deliberate plan teems to be to take every opportunity which a motion for the prodalion of Papers may afford to enter • into a general view of the whole Question. The motive is obvious—Ministers seem perfealy . to understand it. This day, it is Understood ) the Lord Chancellor was to give his Opinion upon the Claim of Right preferred by His Royal Highness the PP.ltsc E of WALES, to the arrears of the Revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall during his Minority. The Contra& for the Lottery must, we should ima_ gine, have gone beyond even Mr.Aollr NCTUN's most sanguine expeflations. The lowest bidding was in fast a high one ; and the result is a conclusive pr oo f, if any was wanted, after the terms of the Loan, of the confidence of monied People. The Plan of the Lottery was perfealy new, and being in its pro fessed objea, (so creditable to the Government) calculated to prevent, or at least very much to di minish low Insurances, was likely a good deal to affea the terms of the Bargain. Such, however, has not been the result ; and the interests of the Public have not been affeaed, by a laudable atten tion to public morals. The Bargain was the best that had ever been male. A Committee of West India Merchants and Planters have had an interview with Mr. ADDING_ TON, to represent to hi m t h e i r desire, that the im mediate duty upon raw sugars should be reduced from zos. to tos. per cwt. The Minister, as we under stand, replied to their statement," that, though a change in the application of the tax might be grant ed, the final amount of it could not be diminished ; and that, if the duty upon raw sugars were to he thus reduced, an excise duty of three-p+nce per pound upon refined sugars must be substituted for it. Yesterday Captains ROGERS and ANDERSON, of the Admiral and Cullan's Grove, topic leave of the Court pf,DireetorS, previous to their being dispatched for:- Madras and Bengal,: The Admiral Apliu will sail.ftoni Gravesend on Monday next. By the death of the late Lord GUILDFORD, Mt - PITT, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, has the appointing a Successor to his -Lordship in the station he held as .Captain of Deal Castle. The emoluments of the situation are but trifling, but the apartments are very good, and its vicinity to Waltner and Dover Castle, makes it a ,roost desir able summer residence. Major-General EY R r Coors, who was second in command to Lord HUICH iNsoN, in Egypt, is by His Majesty's express command, to be rewarded for his gallant services, with the Order of the Bath, with which he will be invested on his return from Ireland. • As Politics are very p ro p er ly put out o f t h e way, in the tribute of respea that is so univ.ersally paid to the memory of the late Duke of BEDFORD, We most cordially join in every mark. of regard and regret that can be bestowed. The Statue of him about to be creted by the friends to Agriculture is honourable to the Projectors of it, and to the •Country ; and we have no doubt care will be taken that its execution will be creditable to the Arts. The Noblemen and C.;entlemen of the Club in . Bond Street have very properly invited all the Fo. reign Ministers to their Fete on the r+th. We shall be able in a few days to lay before our readers the plan of the splendid Fete to be given on the t+th at the Club in Bend Street. Mr. JEFFERYS certainly declines the pressing invitations of his Friends to stand as a Candidate to represent Coventry again. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on Captain Ws BLEir, of His Majesty's Ship Savage, and Lieu.. tenant Coos, of the Liberty, for their exertions in the preservation of the cargo of the ship Princesses, lately cast on shore near Beachy Head ; they have already saved full fifty thousand pounds worth of her property, and by the vigilance of her Officers and men, have prevented her being shamefully plundered. IV - A L 'PO RTVAIOI.II7f, MA Y 5. Altilif Ell tha Lib4ty, STokEr, nett Abc E ‘frori : ll)ar'itic 1.)_;:i:13 to the N.T.:(iiterranean ;. Betsey, fit K r N - S; rthal \N r yillOtith ; Ziherty, VAR REL, Iron LOndOri ; jobatina Maria, CRICK, for Copeuhazeri to SAUta Cruz, and Drie Getrc , eders i UcttlcKs, front Eiti!)den. Siiited the Nell:y, HOLT, for Ern!)(ten. SHEERNESS, MAY 5. This day sailed on a Cruize 'after . S.ringgin-5; His Mljesty's Gun-vesels Archer, Lieutenant J. SILENZIFri and lactall, Lieutenant W. Htcxs; DEAL; IVII T ARkiVE6 frOth Shterness, the Diligence Sloop and Assistant Navy Transport; both of which have sailed to the West Ward; • Came down late last night; the East India Corn. pany's ,and Herciderin ; and they have Since sailed on their voyage. Yesterday the -Right Hon. the LORO IVIAYotc held a Court of Coinnion Council. His Lordship, after the Proceedings of the last Cottrt being read and confirmed, was .unanimously reciuested by the Court td order an Especial Court to he summoned * to address His Majesty on the happy restoration of Peace ; Which his Lordship very cheerfully com plied with, and immediately appointed Friday next for that purpose. HiStordship presented to - the Court a letter he had received from Admiral Lord Keith, .dated on board his Majesty's Ship Foudroyant, Malta, iBth jan, last, expressing his acknowledgements for their Vote of Thanks, the Freedom of the City, and a Sword; and that his Lordship had al ~agreeably to their re quest, communicated the Resolutions of the Court, voting their Thanks to 'the Captains, Officers, Sea men, and Marines of His Majesty's Fleet engaged in the Expedition to Egypt ; which was read and ordered to be recorded in the• Journals of this City, The Court came to a Resolution of petitioning. the House of Commons against the intended Market at Paddington, which was ordered to be presented by the Sheriffs, attended by ;VII-. Reutembrancer (the City's Parliamentary Officer.) Samuel Hall, Esq. was appointed Governor of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals, and John Cow ley, Esq. a Governor of Christ's Hospital. The Court broke up at half past three o'Clock. Lord EARDLEY is detained at Belvedere, having received a very serious hurt from the kick of a horse, and is attended by the Faculty from Town. Earl CONYNGHAIT is, we hear, slightly indis posed, at his house in Stanhope -street. Algonah is likely to become a Favourite. - I.t went off on Thesday evening. with great applause. The Duet between Mrs. BILIANcro s and Mrs. CROUCH is particularly admired. At the Picnic the French far surpass the Ei;gihi. , Aaors. At super too, their talents far outshinz those evetiof Col..A . C.nie himself. The restriaions which are proposed by the Pro prietors of the Liverpool Tneatre are, we under_ stand, of such a nature that it is not likely to be disposed of so easily as was expe6fed. The future Manager, it seems, among other hard limitations, is not to be permitted to engage any of the Per formers. To preclude a Manager in such a point, is in effea to withhold necessary authority, and to make him little more than a Prompter, or Propertj- man . Mrs. PINTO, of musical celebrity, who lately paid the last debt to Nature, was not, wp are as sured, of an extravagant turn herself, but was the vi((. - titn of extravagance in others. AU the profits of her performances, considerable as they were, were Li'vished in dissipation by a careless husband ; and her great vocal powers were impaired, more by disappointment and chagrin, than by time. The late Dr. HUGH. SMITH, Who was a great admirer of muFic-, allowed Mrs. PINTO a guinea a-week for many years, merely in consideration of what 'she load once been, and to what she was reduced '; but making no bequest in her favour, his family with_ drew this liberal tribute to unfortunate merit, and at his death she was left to struggle through the world as well as she .could.—Mrs. lim L L.I N GTO N . , much to her credit, shewed great kindness to Mrs. PINTO, and afforded comfort to her declin ing days. But one of her most zealous and per severing friends in the hour of adversity was the veteran. Ho lA, a man to whom the Theatrical Community; arc indebted for the establishment of an Justin:l:ion to support them in age and debility, and who is always alive to the interests of humanity. Tue3day morning, at nine o'clock, Mr. TRENT'S Irish Horse, and Mr. HERRING'S Chesnut Man:, started at the top of Sloane -street, to run one mile on the Turnpike Road, ,for a bet of rso guineas a side, which was performed in one minute and a se cond. The Horse carried eleven stone, and was rode by. the Gentleman's Groom, and the Mare car ried catch weight. A better contested race was never witnessed ; the Mare won only by a neck. The Rev. TUFTON CHARLES SCOTT, of Exeter College, Oxford, Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Pr. tNC E of WALES, and of His Majesty's Dock yard and Ordinary, at Portsmouth; was on Thurs. Clay admitted to the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford. On the same day, JAMES KEVILL, Esq. Fellow of Exeter College, was admitted to the Degree of Master of Arts. On Monday last at the Beccles Quarter Sessions, Charles Chinnery was fined 203. for suffering hogs to go at large in the streets of that town, This is a laudable instance of attention on the part of the Magistracy, and worthy of general imitation.