The Sun. — London, England, 1802-03-11 00:00:00

HOUSE OF PEERS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAT, MARCH ICI. • ~ IMPERIL PARLIAMENT. TUE Earl of ABOYNE, one of the Scotch Re presentative Peers, was sworn and took his Seat. The SoLicxrott. GENERAL was heard at con iderable length,. relative to the . Scotch Appeal, Lothian and others v. Henderson, Riddell, and Co. after which their Lordships deferred the further Nearing till Friday. The Order being read for giving Judgment re speEting the Scotch Cause, Scott v. Brodie, The LORD CHANCELLOR 'rose; and in a speech of great length, in • which he displayed his' accustomed talents and profound legal erudition, delivered his opinion upon the Case. He concluded by submitting to their Lordships a 'proposition to the following effea : That in this Case, the tenant not being entitled to a way-going crop, &c. the House do remit the Case to the Court of Session, to review the Interlocutor complained of. Lord AL r4NLEY expressed, shortly, his con currence with what fell from"the Noble and Learned Lord.. • ----- Lord REDES DALE spoke to the same general . effed. • - - • The Question was then put, and the above was ordered accordingly. . The Bills upon the Table were forwarded in their respedive stages. Some routine- business was then disposed of, and the House adjourned till tomorrow. AN Account was presented from the Commission ers of Excise, of the amount of Drawbacks paid on Printed Books imported from the sth of April 1795, to the sth of April 18ot, and for the three quarters ending the s•h of January t8oz; which was ordered tone on the Table. Mr. W. ELIOT presented Estimates of the Or dinary and 'Extraordinary of the. Navy for two lunar months, commencing the 26th .of March zBoz, and also Estimates of the Transport Service, the experices of Prisoners of War, Sick and Wounded Seamen, and Sick Prisoners of War, for the same inriod; which were ordered to lie, on the . Table. Mr,-ROBSON moved for an Account of the dis tribution of the sum of 600,c001. granted for the (service of the year 18or. The American Treaty Bill passed ,through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. The Cinnamon Duty Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord STANLEY moved for ieaye to bring in a dill to explain and amend an Aa of last Session, entitled, "an Ad for the Relief of Debtors with resped to the Imprisonment of their Persons," .so far as the same related to the, County Palatine. of Lancaster.—Leave given. • CORONERS Mr. MAINIVAIRING called. the attention of the House to the Petition of the Coroners of se veral Counties, praying for an increase of their fees and allowances, which he considered highly descry . _ ing of attention, and therefore moved that the Pe tition should be referred to a Select Committee. Ordered. TRANSPORTS. The House resolved itself into a . Committce on .the Bill for continuing an expiring law relative to the Transportation of _Felons., Lord GLENBERFIE observed, that the House would recolleCt that soon after the. transportation of Convicts to' America ceased, an' Aet was. passed to ereft Penitentiary Houses lot the Confinement of Transports ; which Aci however, from a variety of causes, had never been carried into executidn. Since that period another mode had been ,adopted, of sending .ConviCis sentenced to transportation, to a new Settlement in New South Males. Till, how ever, they could be aCtually sent away, they were confined in Hulks at Woolwich and Portsmouth. He did not mean to. throw the least imputation upon any person concerned in the management of 'these ConviCis, but it had happened that at Lang ston,. rear Portsmouth, where the ConviCts were confined, considerable abuses had taken . place with. respeft to their food and cloathing; and various other matters. What he wished to propose, for the purpose of remedying these abuses, was,. that be sides the ContraCtor, an Inspeaor should be ap pointed, who should take care that no abuses took place, and make a regular inspeCtion, once a quarter, and who sh6uld report .to . Parliament, every year, upon the conduCt and management of the Contractor and Officers employed there, and the general state of the Establishment. He ' therefore proposed a Clzuse to enable His MAJESTY to appoint an -In speCior, with a Salary not exceeding 3jol, per An 'num. Five Hundred Pounds per Annum would be saved, he said, by the new contract relative to this Establishment, and therefore if this Salary was paid there would still be a saving. There being some irregularity in proposing the Clause, the Chairman reported progress and asked leave to sit again. The Committee was appointed to sit again on Friday. MUTINY BILL. The House having resolved itself into a Commit tee. on the Mutiny Bill, The SECRETARY at WAR said, that. the Bill was precisely the same as that of. last year, and he intended to propose to fill up the hlanki precisely in the same way, except with respect to the dura tion of the Mt. He proposed that its duration 'should be limited • to two months, as the Supplies were only voted for that period, and he had no doubt the House would he convinced that the Sup ;plies for the Army being only voted for two months, -the Mutiny Bill ought to be commensurate with that Grant. If the CdmMittee agreed to this, the Bill would be cputinued frOrn the zgth of March to Me 24th ;i)f :May. It had been the constant practice to con tinue the operation of the Mutiny. Bill in our Colonies and Possessions abroad, for one . year after it expired in Great) Britain ; but this would be tin t ecc:,sary in the present pin, as by a Clause in the last Mutiny Bill, its operation would exter.d . , in those possessions, until' the 2 Ist of Mafch .1803. In the year 1783, when the Country was in a si milar situation to that in which it at present stood,' the Army Services were voted upon a War Esta blishment from the 25111 of December 1782 to the 24th of April r7S3, and the Mutiny, Bill was passed only for one month, to the 24th — of — April; a preceding Mutiny Bill 'extending to the 25th of March. ln this* Bill, for one month, a.Clause was inserted, extending its operation in.our possessions abroad, for one year from the 24th of April 1783. By a succeeding resolution of the Committee. of. Supply, the Army Service's were voted for two months, frOm the 25th of April to , the 25th of June 1783,' and a IVlutiny Bill was passed fUr the same period. In the latter Bill nothing was said relative to extending its operation to a lotiger.veriod to our Possessions abroad, the former Bill having provided _an extension until the 25th of the ensuing March. In June 1783 a Peace Establishment w as voted, and a.iVlutiny- Bill . .wAs passed, extending to the zsth of March 1784. The reason why . he proposed to leave out of the present Bill any Clause extending its operation to our Army abroad for a longer period, was, that the last Mutiny Bill was already extended to the 25th of March r 863. When the Mutiny Bill for the ,whole year should come before the House, he had several amendments to propose, arising out of certain,new arrangemCnts which had taken place in the Army ; these amend_ rneuts, however, could not be grafted upon a :tem 'porary Bill like the present. He thought it:due to the. House to state these circumstances, 'and should now propose his amendments. The Amendments proposed by 'the SECRETARY at were agreed to ; and the House having re... sumed, the Report Wai ordered to be received to morrow. INCOME TAX. Nir. JONES said, he had come prepared to make his intended Motion, relative to the Income Tax, but as he did not see the CHANC ELLOR of the Ex= CHE Q UER in his place, and understood that the Right Hon. Gentleman would not be in his place that day, he shopld postpone his Motion till Fri day. NAVY. The House having resolVed itself into a Com mittee of Supply, Mr. W. Et, tg-r moved a Vote of 1.30,000,Men for the Sea Service, for two lunar months, from: the 25(11 of March to the 24th of May. Agreed to. Mr. ti,tor then moved for the following, Sums, which were severally agreed to. For Wages for the said Men, for the same period, at ti. 16s. per Man, per Month, - - - - 48t,000 For Viduals for the same Men, for the same pe riod, at ii. 18s. per Man, per Month, - - 494, 000 For Wear and Tear of Ships,: fOr the:same period, at D. per Man, per Month, -; - - 780,000 For Ordnance, tor the Sea , Service, during the same period, at is. per Man, pti - Mblith. - 65,00 The House having resumed,. the Report was: or dered to be received to-morrow, and the Committee to sit again on Friday. GRAIN Lord SHEFFIEI,I) moved for the following Ac counts, which were severally ordered : •An AcCount of all Grain and Rice imported into 'the Ports of England, from the loth of March iSot, to the srh of January 1802, diStinouishing the Ports into which, and the Countries from whence, imported. • An Account of all Grain and Rice exported from . the Ports of 'England during the same period, dis_ tinguiShing the Poits from whence, and the Coun tries to which,,exported. -An account of the average price of Grain in England, from the sth of July 180 r, to the sth of January I Boz, distinguishing the respeaive prices in each month. EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL. Mr. ALEXANDER ••. brought up the Report of the One Million Exchequer Bills Bill, which was read and agreed to. • On the Question that the Bill should be en. grossed, Mr. HONES said, he never had refused any supplies to Government, but he thought it was an objet} of peculiar importance at the present moment, when' he could not understand whether we were in a state of War or Peace, and when. the ob jet} of the First Consul of France appeared to be to put off signing the Treaty a 3 long as His Majes ty's Ministers would permit him. His Majesty's Ministers took supplies by doublets and triplets ; why did they not ask for enough at once ? He trusted that they would loOk stritly to the appro priation of the Supplies granted by that House, and use , the utmost economy in their application.— He believed they were not of the same tempef with the last Ministers, and he hoped they would consi der that one and twenty shillings made a guinea, which the last Ministers seemed only to consider as worth seven shillings. He had good infOrma tion, that the First Consul of France was goaded of by several persons who had heretofore sought refuge in this Country, to renew the War, for the purpose of destroying our commerce. He hoped that exalt Accounts would be laid before the House 'of the Expenditure of all the money voted to His Ma jesty's Ministers, and that the Commissioners of Accounts would have additional powers granted to them, to examine and audit all the Public Accounts. The Bill .was then ordered to be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow. FINANCE OF IRFL/.NI). Mr. WICKHAM moved for an Account of the Permanent Charges on the Consolidated Fund of Ireland, from the sth of . January 1801 to the sth of January 18oz, as far as the same could be made up.—Ordered. Mr. CROFTON, .from the Treasury of Ireland, shortly afterwards presented the above Account, which was ordered to lie on the "'Table. Mr. FosTER moved for the following Accounts, which were severally ordered, • _ , . .. An Account of the Imports and Exparts of .Ire- land for one year, ending the gth of January 18oz, distinguishing between native and • foreign pro- duce, and the Amount of the Puties or Drawbacks thereon. - - '.. _ An Account of the net Produce of all Permanent Taxes, and additional or increased Duties _in Ire land, from 1791 to iSoi. An:Account of the Produce of all New Taxes unposed: within the same period. An Account of the Progress made in the Reduc tion Of the Public 'Funded Debt of Ireland. Mr. V JINSITTART thought a similar Account had been laid befove the House. Mr., FOSTER said, .he had looked thrOugh the Book, but could not find it, and therefore he had made the Motidu. The Account was ordered. An Account of the Produce of all Taxes, and ad ditional and increased Duties in Ireland, since the 25th March t Bor, with the average product for three yeari preceding. ' An Account of the Expenditure of theUnited.K.ing dom, With the proportions paid by Great Britain and Ireland respettively, according to the Ad, of Union. That the COmmissioners for the.Reduetion of the National Debt, should lay the smile Accounts before the House, as they had been regularly presented to the Parliament of Ireland. An Account of the Imports, and Exports of lie_ land, from the' 25th of March ado, , to the Ist of January.tBot, distinguishing between, Native and Foreign Produce, , with the amount. of the Duties. or Drawbacks thereon. An Account of the ,Quantity of .Spirit's distilled in Ireland, from the 25th of March 1.785., do the zsth of March igor, and from thence to the ith of January 18OZ, with the Duties paid thereon. An Account. of the quantity of ,Malt . Made in Ireland during the same period, with the Duties . paid thereon. LINEN MANUFAcTURE., OF IRELAND. Mr. FOSTER'said, he wished to . give notice of his'inteotion of moving forlleave to l;-ring in •a Bill to regulate the Linen Manufadure of,lreland, He was aware, it would he irregular for him then to enter into any discussioo 'of 'the sUhjea, he should therefore content himself with giving No. tice, that he should make his Motion'ori Friday. BENCOOLEN. • . Mr. ALEXANPER brought up • the Report of the . BeneoolcO Bill. , . M r . W:,__D_UND AS moved that it should..bere:: committed. _ _ The Bill was then recommitted for to-morrow. GRENADA MERCHANTS Mr. LfISHINGTON moved to postpone the Committee on the Report of the Grenada Merchants' Petition till Monday.—Ordered. • The Committee of Ways and Means was deferred till Friday. The Indemnity Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Adjourned at five o'clock, till tomorrow. THE SUN. (ZUIS DICERE rA!..stim ? LONDON, M.4RCIT ;:, WE view the situation of the Country, at the pre sent moment, 'not as some persons do, with despon dency, but certainly not without a great degree of anxiety. We are anxious, not so much to see the Definitive Treaty signed, not so much to be nomi_ nally at Peace with France, but that we should he at Peace with . a reasonable hope of continuing The clamour raised, against the former Ministers Was, they did not really wish for Peace-the cry set up, amongst some persons, against the present is, that they wish for it upon any terms. These accu sations are equally unfounded. If the pressure upon the People has been great, the circumstances of the times have been unprecedented. Not only have we been driven and forced to War, but no candid man will confidently say, that from its commence ment /o the present hour, we could have closed it without a sacrifice of our Honour and Independence. The spirit of Party, we know, has diaated another language. We have heard it said, that it de pended upon Ministers to terminate the War whenever they chose—but this assertion is con tradiaed by every notorious fad. The most favourable opporttmity for obtaining Peace, since the commencement of the War, appeared' to be that which the present Ministers so readily seized. We hope they will obtain it ; but sure we are, that they will do every thing in their power for that purpose, consistent only with the Honour and Safety of the Nation ; and if they are required to sacrifice these, they will be as little ready to concede them, 'as the Country would be to justify them, if they ventured to make such a concession.-,-We do not presuMe to state, with any degree of accuracy, what may have passed in the course of .the present Negotiation. It has been generally understood, that the two principal questions in the Prelimi naries which remained for discussion, that which relates to the settlement of the Island of Malta, and that which respeas the payment of the ex pence of Prisoners of War, have not yet been brought to a point. As to the first, any settle ment of it, . which would in fa& give to France the dominion over it, we should look upon as entirely inconsistent with the spirit of the Preliminaries— the other we consider as a subjeft of less import. ;ince; but it is clear, that according to the Law of Nations, to which the question is l referred, each Nation is bound to pay the expence of the mainter • e n ' nance of its own subjects when prisoners in ~c my's country. sicP s It; 'as we have h ear d it reported, new f '''retent, °ula have been brought f or ward by France, . ure look upon such p re t ens i on s, according t o the ( ' 3 0 of whole tl m Negotiation, ,ie:lo conceded as _the price of some -other copditi which, it ; 4 0 1 eitheras evidence of insincerity' in to obtain. —a- purpose of the Neut A-1 , E to public, if) l a i, acknowledged although ow re l e a ( l g f. e c i d: vov a i see s s id t u P o h :r e i e :l s c . 0 :i President e i t n e l :t i : ien o r 9 k f f : e . the ti li rbe ic , i' l o t : F lea l : i f i t i r .. l ., o -1 ;: i l e t t: : mi g ht be brought forward in such a diV °sll.l • 2 d I t as to render it impossible to concede it; ~6 0 will ,always be' recolle6ed, that there can he 3 „i e justice in such a proposal, as i t i s a title aeq -1. f the by . the Ciiixv CoNsuL. since the .signat c the Preliminaries. The quo afr;imd must be as n' li h • subjed of considerationwithi-I '- '5 Mi. ward fur discussion in the course' _is MAJEs: ff '' ' I t tl f ' nisters, as 1 the matter. itself which is btullg i ~, was .the reT as urged °llly la bc 11, tion.-. .-- . , - eloi o.f thet_trese:-0:,,i, But we feel with many of our Countryine, it is essential to ouiint 4 ,rests that t JN e e ri t a r ti• should not be permitted to continue to l ii' l :; le' :it; • ed;` •-There can be -no fair grOuna•to l6l g 1 0 and it is.evidently'disadvaritageous to C9u ," that it should long continue in its preseatS c :. sre Ministers, we know, are aw a re of this, 3 1 ' 1 satisfied, that after having given -time discussion of every, unsettled :i ftet* ". offered every arrangement . which..a„flir cos • , r o, tion of the l'reliminaries' called tipontheln f` i 1 1 .1 pose, :they will insist firmly upon 4 f;:lir just pretersiqns, and 'that much time 2;; J 1 11°I (0 3 before this important (Question is . bro 41;i: poilt• We might have inferred t his Ir oll ha ve general chaiatler :and- dispo§itions, but wronger ground fOr asserling that such will h 4 wronger conduit. ja . ll H le i s s ,s iyi p A. al j a E c S e T , Y a t y e w s t hi r c ( l l- l a )' were hel a l) ' r i e .s i C i i i ' e f e p l'e b s. : Gi ; ? : fi cac ! the Archbishop of C A , TERI3 . utt y, YORK, Bif>hops of Ox.Y uR D, E L I', I:) l Ji til il ivi e.'Pal Rev. CHARLES CAVE, the Chief Ba.ron ~/..,",,,r,fr Nm„,o, M.'Pl e ,ArrF4, the Rig ht ti o o„ 'tile Sdf l i j o .. CELLQR Of the ii:XCHEQUER (1 IRELAND.: ,r,ille,[erS' reign Ambassadors, most of the C4binet IV ll ,`":,..tle' and a murierous Company of Noblemen in) 4 ' ii, m :ii:ics e arek4r n iegisins_u_; o ir:c.f f itioohtii t a y .ll4; l oLh i cl o coail m ,p;inr4ll::. i . v ol:r e v.:K r o e l the k, a following dß oxblugll. ; . ou:anvvgeoddeit_t o e.:.Ea s h,ein l nlona y :fs : :, cl);:isigit,firi,d:c):4oiit Mansfield, and.: 3. iur,crii., , :t :1:::::::tero e41,1:00 , t; 03 ssbst: 1 1)::.! lip at I t o g u n, gt: o y nd P .es e. , 7f t, vave, c rd Carl (i ', .4crd;—Alvanley, liapier, 13 r j n y .do p „ •,, Li'.°.„ iO 4 :„ . R er ,4 t, m. c it)9l,4 Zen c, ivst. syir.oi,,,,:rocs sir l st o t i o v pl , :.o ß ruid o .u u ar s tr e iad ß , D y r ,i, A , s Ltre, , , c 4 :11.b t ..po. " Louvaine., 'Sunderland - 5, , jz, Peel, S. Smith, •W. lern.r , hi'n ' lA.. iilll, . ' a id and W. Weill . . . 1 ' ' • ( loaf 311 Generals.— Egerten, Flo} +, )settle, C Cr a . p Oate, p IN I kainstord. . I OW Co/o/fetpL--Dalrymplt.; Co4er, Ram, Ho pe, g ac ' e g e - ir, - and Murray. v castains—Markham, rkhatn, Ilotham, Hood (or the N as. ' l" of V ,'; and Jackson. Qovernor Betitinck. ' 'Messrs. —Dent, Windsor, Penn, L o -, g King, M iln : 1 ;:? I c i l Sewcl, Lariglois, llii:kenson 13..-reis'fc',,i, Lio'll'}ionqii' d m a i s ;l:s }3 , a6o u t n , n S in t g a , pl ß et . on ri . t.in W aa it s ;d.h G arn ~,,i'lisiolt,cifiC;;er, * oral leri, Holditch, H. Addington', C. Yorke, ,sc. 1/ ~rc 10 .The presentations .to His M.AJEsTY w i" c ol o r, KENSINGTON, by Lord Cloviwit ; I''',- tir' I C for the first . time sifice the death of llis'• 1 f ' " 1 " : coming t o his titk) by the Duke of ' ()l' coo T ',. Mr, BAooT, by Lord BACOT ; G e nera ~pq t'' on his return from Egypt, by General, Cg . , and Captain JACKSON, by Lord Atvai l;i “ he 1 iT. ' re' Sir S. SMITH. came too late to Court „) .O , 5 sented. slg s t he After the, Levee a Council of miCe 11 15 t ae Ministers was held, at - which His `--" P' f , Duke of PORTLAND, Earl of CHATI„v" 3 40, i i, KINNOUL, Lord PELHAM, and Sir S. L'7 le Nl l ` to attended as Clerk of the Council. After, t ,,, t rlea sters had withdrawn, Pits M AJ ESTY rc (L i 1 Buckingham-House. . ,este' '1 HER MAJESTY and dlr. PRlNcEssfs 3 breakfasted at Lady CitAßl,orrE FiNelfs. ' 4ir # • g3l id We yesterday alluded to a Repo rt wi'lcrh es pec` at culated at Dover on the preceding 3 0 Y 7 tiat ioli sc i the probable termination of the NeVe sope Amiens. That Report turned our, as ' I,e it would, to be wholly void of foundation• (th 13 s P s Yesterday a Court of Directors was Ti ' le , r ol t f,i , .East India House, when Mr. sArittiEl, I 3 get ger‘,l4;o, sworn into the command of the extra-1"P 111' neum. The adjourned at a kite I'io tilts . t iP morrow. CA - " q p .. The Hon. Company's Ship Tel,l;4l.ljErji $ 1' ~ 1, 1 ,, i, G. WELSTEAD, is . the first di.rect S'' /f ilo/1 0i' . r ef for Bengal, and sails early in the no ' pi tlil o ' f , Yesterday Lord SrENCER gave 3 gr 3 a ,t ; ;lo .l ‘ in St. James's Place, to the Rossi"' ` 7 ' ' c • n tl l and several persons pf distinaion• ---- ~.,‘ Le,,,1 • , ie ~.4 i . Mr. Foic is to go down, to mons tb-morrow or. Monday, to trl N ',lr. l'i i . [l 4. ale ,1 11 ' ° ' e . Il'C li ,.ir Writ for the Borough of Tavistock-.,, , l i;,i;C' l. FRANC IS is the Gentleman .who. "'ll: ~ ii , Duke of BEDFORD in that reptesel lt `' W! li e I ' d o' if t I ' d ' i,t •v 1 Letters from Hamburg') mention, t' L rt , of odit peror ALEXANDER has invited the. Cl' u . D' e o or 4 na, Berlin, London, ,'Madrid, NaPlF:'entici,,i4 Munich, and Lisbon, to join jai im jo 11 ; ic f ettO . to obtain a suitable settlemiznt f, t Princes of the House of BotatPQ: N . ' '