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t Ic6 p , ; , 11 1 koty #.4 - Tr S 4 r tiFr- N 6 dfitto' Dr a: d b 3• W-(0 0- 7 41iPt V4‘ , I :d to II ck. tiler .~. NUMEgR 4533.1 F R L D A V. MARcir 27, 1807. [rltrc s[NrNT(f. UT- PICTUALLING-OFFICE, March 23d, ißoy. THE COMNISSIO NERS for VICTUALLING 1 1 s hfiel, AA 11's VA!/) do kereby give Notitf, yat oet Tuesday der 31. it instant, they will be ready to receive Tenders TvritiV (sealed .ur ), and treat fur Three Hawked Chaldrens of PITT , s TAN IEI,O MOOR Co A LS, full pay a . to be deliv ,co inimeaqatetY, in two ent i r e Carves, free o/ 4silCharge into tlis Majesty's Pi:lstaliing Premises at Deptford, and tele paid for 6. Bills, payable, with interest, ninety days af ter date. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. LOT ::011- th 6 HOUSE OF PEERS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26. Lords CHATHAM and WIL - Tor4 took.the'oaths and their seats.. . NEY the s dl The Conditions of the Contrat7 may he seen at the Secrefiry's Office. No regard will he had to any Tender in which. the Price shall not he inserted in words at length, or that shall nut he delivered to the. Board before -One o'Clock on the said Tuesday the 3tit inrtant, nor unless the Person who Snakes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends, to answer, when called jar. ;tens rICTUAL L ING- 0 FFICE, • March 2 , ;', 1807; r rHE COMMISSIONERSfor VICTUAWAG . HIS .11A . 7ESTY'r NAVY do berth) , give Notice, That on Wednesday next, the tit of April, they will be ready to receive Tenders, in of sealed up), and treat for One tiundrid Tons of the best N'ew t AROLINA, , or EAST INDIA RICE, to he ansWerable toSamplet t',Ge produced with the -Tenders ; to 6e delivered Ohe-half in a Fa:-t , :ight, and the remaiaiLr in- a Month, - 7 '71-; Majr.ay's - Yietaatling• Stores at geptlcrd ; and to - be Paid Icr by Bills, payable, with Interest, ninety days after date. The Conditions of the - Contrail stay be seen at the. Secretary's Office, No regard 'will be bad to ans. Tender in which the Price shall not he insetted in words at length, or that iball mot Gr delivered to. the Board &fore One o'Clocit on the said Wednesday,. the if! of April, nor unless the Person who makes the Tende , , or some Person on hia behaff. attoids; to answer, -when called jot. • To THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK, LAnits AND G . INTLEIVIEN. IMPRESSED with the greatest Respe& and Grafi tude, fur the Bartering manner which my Pretensions to the Yanvir Seat in the East•lndia _Direction have been re-, Ceived by the Proprietors in general, and for the numerous PrOmises of ,Support assured me in the course of my Canvass, leaves me no reason to doubt the favourable issue of the approaching Elethon, permit me respectfully to.request you will accupt my grateful and sincere acknowledgment for your kitid intentions towards me; and as the Ballot ot the House is fixed for Wednesday the Bth of April next, that you will then honour me with yourearly AttendailLeand Vote. f Plated, by your Suffragts, in the honourable ,iination of la Direthor, allow the again to assure you of my hest endea tdurs to perform the d ut i es ot t h e O f fi ce w i th zeal and elity,.a n d to protnote at al; times, to the best of thy e important interests of tile Company,. I . remain, with the greatest R.espeet. Ladies and Gentlemen, tour faithfUl obliged humble Servant, CAMPBELL MAILIORIBANKS: nerner's.street, March n s 1807 e BRITISH EIRE-OFFICE, London, March 26. 18s7. Notict :is hereby g;ven,,That a GENERAL COURT of ROPRIETO RS of this Office will be Ilolden on WEDNESDAY, the ist Day of April next,. at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, at their Office in the strand, for the EleSion of Six DiteSort to succeed those who go out by rotation—for the E lesion of a Direttor to continue in office 141161 April, 181, in the lootn of George Wye ' Esq. de- Ceased --a d fit the Eledion of Three Auditors,for the year ROBERT SKELTON, Secretary. . TO PRINTE,RS ANb S PATIONERS. r° v BE DISPOSED OF; on Very Athlriiageous .Terrns, a Well- Established BUSINESS and STOCK ti N g t A R DE ofa PRINTER, STATIONER, and BOOK- Particulars may be known by applying to Mr: Gore; Nco. tecil-square; Margate. TO BE SOLD E . LEASE of an excellent ' HOUSE, in !Me " marle-street, Piecadillk, tit for immediate reception Rent and Taxes Particulars at Mr: Bate's, Welbeck-street,• Cavendish ',9uate ; Mr. Harman's, Conduit-street, BoAd-Strcet, House 'agents ; and John Rutherford's, Esq. No. 93, Bartholomew Aldersgate-street, City. u. • • wv ANTED TO REZ7T, and Enter upon immediately, UNFURNISHED, 6 • c'MMODIOUS and CONVENIENT FA miLy HOUSE, with a sm a ll Garden or Outlet; in ITairy Situation, either in the Neighbourhood of Brompton, ensington, or Harmuer4rnith. 'Lett ers (p ost-pa i d) addressed to A. B. No. 92, Charlotte treet ; Rathbone. places containing particulars, as to Rent; number of Roonis, Situation, &c. &c. will be attended td. FOURTEENTH OF APRIL. GOVERNMENT' STA T F LOTTERY nEGiIiS bRAWINC3, Anti contains Two Hundred and ,Fifty Thousand Pounds in Sterling Money. T HIS is the most extraordinary SCHEME dyer produced in the Annals of Lotteries. The unpteee.: dented Number of Grand ?rites makes Every Lottery-Office a 'triple of Wealth ; Every Adventurer is in the Read to Riches; E very Ticket drawn 14th A will be a Prite; .Every Prize will be paid as soon as drawn. seHEmt. 4 Pfizcs of kzo,coo - - are - - k gOOOO 4 .. - - - . ; 10,000 . - .. .. _ 4oiooo .. . - .. sOOO loco - to,oo-c, ~ to - - - - soo 50c0 .So -- - Jou - 3cclo 4 0 . .. • - - 5 0 tOdb . - - - 20 - - -- - - 60,000 3000 First•drawn Tickets zo each - - - - 30,000 -.......... ,-. 4 2 5,0:0 Tickets ,C2co,coo ......... Fitst.draMi Ticket, fat Day - - k 20,000 Ditto - - 2d Day - - 23000 Ditto - - - .3(1 Day - - 20,00ci • Ditto - 4th Day - - 20,000 ' Ditto _ - - • stli Day to,ooo Ditto - 6th Day - - 20,000 " P ICKETS and SNARLS are selling at all the old cal oliheci Offices in England, Ireland, and Scotland. The i . irst-drawn Ticket will-receive Twenty Thottsancl Pounds. Ticket - - r: - £l9 Qn,,r, e ; - Zit" 3 o L.ighth - -, r 2 12 0 5 3 o Sixteenth - t 6 6 SPRING STATE i.oTTERv, To begi n t h e 14t h o f Apr i l next. ODGES, PAIN E, and Co. Stock-Brokers, Corniiill, O xfOrd.street. and St. lames's-street (esta blished yearsb are now selling the TICKETS and Legal SHAR LS on the he st T erms, mand. at their above Offices, where all Prizes arc paid o :‘ d e • S E contains • 4 ' P rizes of - ,C 20,000 4 - - lo t coo &c. Lord IVESTMORLAND rose only to congratu late the House on the statement now made by the Noble Lord, .and at the same time to remind that Noble. Lord. and his friends, that this statement did not prove, that on their accession to power they had, succeeded to , .dilapiiatcd resources, &c.—Motion agreed to. CITA , NG E rERs. Lord HAwKtsBURY then Moved, that the House upon its rising do adjourn till Wednesday •se'nnight. LOrdGRENOLLE took this occasion to address the'House, not. wi"tha view of Opposing the motion of adjournment, but a4'tt w. 6 net unusual up'en such rnotions.to advert to the then circtunsiances ,of the country; to state and expl,iin tho3e transactions which gave rise to the . change of ,Administration, which so very recently had taken pldce It was now abo'it six years, since he and thoseofthOse who were then his.Calleagties in the administration of public atiairs, had deemed it their indiSpensible duty to re tire from office, induced to take that step from con siderations which even now he should' forbear to mention ;, while he would only say that he shohld never repent theinbtftes which in his'inind didated that forbearahee: l ' The, consequence, however, Of it' was,.that.the actions and motives of that Administra tion were then made the subje& Of the same gross misrepresentations upon their retiring, that are now attempted to be affixed upon the late Ministers, who have not resigned their placeS, but who have surren-' dered them at the will of the Royal Prerngati've, in which rests the power to displace them: Warned by that experience, he shOuld'now_en ter intq a plain and distill& avowal of the motiv , es. skr4i436 6 aided kite condu&, and that of his colleagues; because, after what had passd,' he thought that House and the Country might justly claim such an avowal.—But a stronger reason at present urged him to this expla nation. For he had to ask their Lordships, at what period it had ever happened that the advice which had been submitted to . the King upon any important • matter, by his confidential servants, acing under, the suggestions of their' duty, was irregularly and un faithfully dragged before the public ? That advice had been delivered in writing, and he was glad that it existed in that shape, for it would inform the pre sent GoVernment to what it had•succeeded. Bnt they ()right to have recollected • that, if - they wished to know the authors of any.ill advice given to the-So vereign, there were two Constitutional modes of getting at themeither by an Address to the Crown, or by a Parliamentary Inquiry. But what was here resorted to to misrepresent . his coriduCt and 'that of his Colleagues ? Not a fair Parliamentary In quiry; but a garbled and' mutilated, account of what has passed thrust into the public Newspapers. —He might ask the House and the Country, 'if ever any one instance had yet occurred of so producing such. matters before the publiC eye.,--He knew to What he was bound by his oath, with respell to communications of that nature —even with the So vereign's perthission, he should not think himself at liberty to divulge them—But upon a representation to his Majesty of the situation, in whiCh such strangei misrepresentations had placed him, he not only had the permission, but had his Majesty's express wish, declared to him with' that kindness; and cuticlestensitin which had ever uniformly Marked his Mai jesty's behaviour towards him, 'to • make such open declaration and eXposition of what had passed ; as . Seemed to be indispensibie to clear his conduCt hi these late transactions, and vinditate his charaCter in , the eyes of that liaise and of the Country: At the period of six years ago tie had the happiness to at iti concert with that= distinguished Statesman (Mr. Pitt), a charader to whom he was attached, not only from private affection,' but from the respect to which that great man was entitled on account of the signal services lie had rendered to the public. He, in common with his colleagues,' proposed that some larger indulgelicies should be granted to the Ca tholics of Ireland ; that measure be considered as one of extreme and parathonnt importance, and in that opinion he then agreed with that Wise Statesman,and in the same opinion he still remained; 'but finding that the poWer was denied them of - carrying it into cxc cution,they withdrew from Office. The same opinion wasentertained by his great rival (Mr. Fox), that other splendid luminary ofworn the Country is now• de prived—if he erred in his late' advice, he had the cOn solatian to reflect, that he erred; With the two great est Statesinen'this Country, or any other; had per haps ever' seen. The other two grLt - meastas . in which these exalter' charaders had ever agreed abotit, was the Sinking Fund, and the Abolition of "the Slave Trade. Aiie first Measure was iininedialely adopted on the proposing of it. The other was at tength accomplished after hitch time, hesitation, op‘ position, and difficulty:, The thirdtneasiire had forits . objet to conciliate the Catholics qflireland by , 7 , 5. • .• ness and indulgence, and in his attempts to give effea to thit( measure, be had the countenance and con currence of the same great authorities; and indeed, when he considered that measure in all its bearings, and compared them with the ohjeetions against it,there was no personal sacrifice which he Would not be ready again and again to make of every thing dear to public men, sooner than relinquish a measure pregnant with such advantages ; for no advantages can be equal to what could be obtained, from four 'millions of men,' on the ground of conciliation, whom he thought it his duty to proteel against persecution and ,exclusion. Since that period he had. been invited again to come into office ; and many now heard him who were well acquainted with the impressions under which" -he took his Majesty's commands to frame a new Ad ministration. They knew it to be his principle and determination never to forego his right to state his . opinion in Parliament upon, that great and leading feature, though some considerations might induce him to select the fittest time. He was, however, aaquetsted to present. the Catholic Petition, which he considered as an honour, because the r equest afforded him a .pledge, that his resolution on that head was not supposed to have varied ; and that that 'respedable body of our fellow-subjects, looked upon him as: steady to the principles he bad pro fessed; and, certainty; no consideration could have prevailed upon him to shrink from the performance of that duty. He willingly undertook it, and felt himself bound to make' it matter of deliberation. Every one knew the event of that Motion, and the large majority by which it was resisted ; but that majority was no proof to him that under other cir-• cumstances the same Motion might not be acceded to: After the formation of the late Administration,, which, upon tine death of 'his illustrious Friend' (Mr. Pitt), he had the principal part in framing, the sentiments he entertained upon - this subject were' the sentiments :of that eminent Statesman, (Mr. Fox), and of the majority of the Cabinet. These` sentina4nts, or any other he. might adopt, as conducive to the public good, he thought him self at liberty to prOpase in any moment of ditfie culty which should press:them more upon his Mind. Indeed 'he could not supposes that he was called upon to discharge any duty but What his conscience aud'the Constitetion would allow. That liberty was left him by-his Oath, which .bound- him to give full,, fair, and open counsel -to - his Sovereign ; the.best, counsel his judgment, could frame upon - all emer a gencies whenever they should arise., Never did - he suppose, that any restraint Was put uporChim as to the Catholics: on the contrary, he considered himself and 'his colleagues to' be wholly unfettered upon that • subject. Never did a doubt enter' his mind that he came into-the Cabinet with that or any ottier painful teelir4, though he Was anxious that no pre:Aar - a:a asassasteasiaces snouin otaige turn unseasonably to stir . any question of this nature. • The inslruationsOf the Noble Duke, who so, faithfully represents- the virtues of his Majesty in Ireland, were so framed, that hia manner of administering the existing laws in , that country, should be steady, temperate, and mild; and of a, complexion and tendency to enable vernment to postpone dui consideration of the',, Catholic Claims for the present. The wish of Go vernment was, to knit the hearts of all descriptioas of his Majesty's subjeetS together, and to do every thing that could possibly be done by: gentleness and mildness to obtain that salutary object, and pre vent the agitation of a question that would risk any. painful sensation in the breast of.the, Sovereign. It was therefore the first object with Government tá take the earliest measures to prevent the revival of the Catholic question; but the state of. Ireland AVaS not very favouraoletto 'their wishes. Last .year disturb ances continued in Ireland, which, no doubt,, every, Noble Lord present would be anxious to Compose ; bait which, in hiS opinion, Would best and perma nently be composed by the measures which =he was al ways,desirous to . propose—by measures of lenity, and a regular administration of justice ; and not, by any extraordinary,feree, whiCh nothing but neces sity could justify ; and so well they were.composed by mere civil justice. Such was the situation- of 'lreland when he and:his Colleagues came into of lice, and their-attention was called to it on va rious' grounds :--on the ground of the .disturb ances ; on -the ground of our pwn promises ; and on-the-ground of . other very serious considerations. The total destraation of Prussia had thrown a larger . disposable force into the hands of the, Ruler of France than was ever before wielded. by any. Po tentate a we had not only to look to present, but to _future and distant ,dangers. These apprehensions rurally inclined us to endeaVot r to raise'a large force to secure us against these dangers,.espe ciallywere a peace tobe made on .the Continent which did not include England. He was ready to contend that no measure was better calculated to ansi,ver a these views than tlit lately submitted to Parliament none could bet tenpromote the great i nterests of the Empire, and of Ireland in particular. Remould induce a, large , body oldie Irish peasantry to enter into the Army and Navy. A similar Leasure was prOposed by Lord Chatham, with respect to the Highlands of Scot land; and it produced the effeEts which.he was confi dent would attend 'the one which he now recorn- Mended.- Yet tlse Same fears and jealousies then pre vailed with retard to the Highlands as are now en tertained with respea. to the Irish Catholics.. It should also -beconsidered, that Ireland was rapidly rising in commerce, in agriculture, in every useful branch of industry ; above. all, she was increasing in population, for whom there was.not adequate employ riant. The measure thatwas to meet this state °fa hings was not what is generally, understood by the-Catholic Question. It was one calcialated to induce the Irish Catholics to enter largelyandli.beraliy into the Army and Navy ). he said largely and. liberally, because it was supposed that many were already sf t • employed a . but the number of those now so employed was ina. finitely small in comparison of what this new measure would furnish. 'And .inciaf.l, until some rue4suTe of this tendency is adopted, and one that can induce the better classes; s the yeertiatiry, &c. of that Country to enter the Army and Navy ; until_ there is held out to diem some prosPe& of so - pro- , viding for the younger branches of- their fiimjlies, - with what reason can you expe& an aa - tive and cordial co-operation on the part of those classes, whose' influence and example would, prove the beSt instruments in obtaining this great advantage to the Empire. There, may, , indeed', be one exception . among these classes, and that. is their clergy, olio would naturally discountenance the enlisting- of the peasantry under their care, because they would be taken to where their religion was not prote&ed and secured by law. It was in vain to say they would .not be molested in that respe& ; Men Will anxiously • look to the,laws, as the common and only valid seus ..rity. The Bill in contemplation would have secured it to them, arid furnished the means of largely see truitine the Catholic peasantry. Without ii it is un;. reasonable to expectthe same alacrity, the san . iii contentment. Indeed nothing adequate to meet and gratify their expeClations, and here he would not !Se sitate to say, thatthe Irish Catholics are acting i n a manner highly injurious to - their own interests, and to the interests of Ireland; by cOntinuing to urge their Petition. With a view to induce them to de fer it to a later period, end .not-as a., coniPrornise ,for . • their ulterior objects, was the measure proposed that would enable them to hold any military or naval corn:- missions, and to remove *the inconveniences which arise from the law as it now stood i n Ireland.-=. Ttn re the A& passed in the Irish Parliament in 1793, . admitting the . Catholics to serve in the army.in. Ire land, no danger was apprehended beree on the con trary, it received a most gracionsreComnendatioti; from the Throne in this Country . Ihnitationg• and restridions of the A6t:w6re the sugge , work of the Irish Parliament Still, however, trig Catholics could aspire to any rank below 'a General , of the Steil. The same Ad opened to them, the profession of the Navy, though not, perhaps, in so dire& a. manner. From 1793, to the present day, , has any inconvenience occurred, has anyeniSctief been 'complained of, either from this poWer, or J the exercise of it even in that Catholic Couue. , try? Should the War continue for any length of time, is 'it not likely that some attempt will h~ made to invadelthis Country, or Ireland, or perhaps .- I both ? In such cases, would it not he desirable to be able to remove . tO this Country any'disposable in Ireland,.and vice versa ; but as the law now stands sin this countrY, we: should not be able to avail our -S selVes of the services of any of the Catholic Cotps, of Officers who are serving in Ireland, Linder - 1(1e ACI of 1793. As 'soon as they . carne over to this. couritry, - they would be subje& to the lawS that and .rut c..tcaiioncs Serving in the Army, erll would be,exposed to .whaLgallantS men would dread most, the :necessity of desert= . ipg their. colours, or exposing themselves to the. penalties which the law might inflia. can any thing,; be more incongruous and absurd ? or what should, ; most excite surprise, : that such, absurdity shoblit have ever existed; or that,. it should .5e- Perinitesd . 'to continue a day longer.? Then what wa s ps u s posed was no innovation ; it already existed.: in 're-' land, and had nothing in it fo, create uneasi ness iii any quarter. It was like Wise the best remedy. could be proposed to Parliament for such Then, after the experience of 13 years that this last and principle have existed without anyPanger,,tc) Go-` vernment„ still to say that the Catholics tire to be admitted only to the lower ranks of the arMy, and' proscribed from' Generals, on the 'Staff—hoWever . long, meritorious, and brilliant their services; hoes., ever great the display of mind and talents they may. exhibit; however, by all these merits and qualities they have acquired the_ confidence and affection of the soldiers, yet . they are never to 'be entrusted with any high command ; with any opportunity of' signalizing themselves, or of signally serving their country. He was, .he was confident, as, zealoUslY attached to the Established Church as any men ; yet he must feel it to be hard and unjust in the:extreme, that in whatever-country, ,whether in the East or -West Indies, an Irish Catholic may evince the first military talents,. yet there is something to be sup posed.inherent in hiS. belief that is to be fixed on as a. stigma, and which for ever excludes front every situation of command. What he would pro pose was founded in justice—it went only to .open_ the . Army to the. Cdtholics on principle's of reason, policy, and' liberality : to give the boon liberally ; to receive in return cordial, zealous, and liberal exertions. Now a word on the Naval pro fession. By the Irish A& it iS.confined to the' Irish Ports, so that if a ship commanded by an 'lrish' Catholic was to be ordered to any British port, he would ;save no power to aoi.. The sanfe . absurdiiiis . apparent•here as with ,regard to the Army ; that also should be done away, and the a&-opening the naval „service. to Catholics be made open and di relit, and not as it.now, is, by implicatibn„ Thole ,is another circumstance, not to be overlooked : In.the year.) 773 all offices, both civil and military, .were, without any restri&joil, Opened to the Protest ant Dissenters ff . in Ireland. Here the case is dis The English Dissenters must take the Sacra mental test; but if the -At of 1793 be adopted here, ,you admit all the Catholics, but.yeo exclude all the Protestant Dissenters. ,Ceuld such a measure, then, be, put in. force here, without . giving just reason Of complaint to the Protestant Dissenters, who, if an option was to be made,, should -surely rather have the preference from . the friends of the Established Church. These views of justice, policy, - and common sense, must therefore, haVe dictated ; the propriety= of proposing a ,measure that would en able all descriptions of his, Majesty's Subjects to contribute, hear( and hand, to the common cause, and to _frustrate the ,desperete and abominable designs of the common Enemy. _The Noble Lord then entered into a detail of the steps that had been takeo in .concert with the Duke of Bedford in In the • Scotch. Appeal, Fordyce v. Gordon, the Judgment. of the Court of Session was affirmed. The third reading of the Royal Family's Annuity Bill was deferred till after the,recess j, also the third reading of the,&otch Judicature Bill, and the other Bills on the Table, in their different stages. , Lord AUCKLAND, adverting to the different re- , ports presented to the House, of the Amount of the Exports and Imports, took occasion to observe, after a retrospeeth7e view of the state of , our Trade and Comnieree for 30 years back, that, under the Ad ministration that had just gone out, a :Government that equally possessed the aft9,Etions of the people at' home, and confidence of the Cabinets of Foreign Powers, the Navigation, Trade, .Imports, and .kx ports of this C2untry, exhibited a' slate of prospe rity wholly unexampled at any fortner, period in the . history of this or of any other Country.—He should now move that these Reports be laid on the table. is, ,ord ou gord art- Karl' of ,kl i nt are she the ith, to. tT-,1 he he an 11^ X- SC,.