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411 t, 111 : T < n%r an pidandlen, in Two Volunina o.llvo, Pace One fto..k. "URES on BELLe.: 4 -LE rrREs and 3 IC le late WILI lotki R‘RRON, FAST iAlf of 13elle.41.err, 1,1 Loatc •it the Tio.v.:,!•:ty of Sr AnAren'a rot Hut.; It• a. d Orme. P•teroostt, .1 Hell wit; ll , adfote, litehnberigh. IMPERIAL P4RLi4MLNT. HOUSE OF L IR r.) , —Trtacoar, Fut 6. rd Ellenborodgh officiated this day. again, as Andrews. th , Counsel. appeared, formally, ialf of the Dof-ndant, in the Writ i•d . Error, le Con t of King's Bench, Moses Agar r. Warrlate Mortimer ermscrie.lee of what WAS stated by the learned ‘,el, aid the apparent circumstances of the ELLENIROROUGH quitted the Wool .d shortly sta ed its me-its to their Lordships; r~•eh he mewed •he House to affirm the Judg nf the Court bel , w, and to grant the Defend. n. as costs. W:)ich WAS ordered accord. LORD ARENVILLF.•S prAcir. ELL. AUCKLAND moved the order of the with regard In summoning their Lordship, taking certain Standing Orders of the House consideration ; which heing read, • Lordship moved, that the aturn Bill he now second time ; which was done arcntdingly. 1 then moved, that the Standing Orders, No. and No. 153. be taken into consideration. • Orders were accordingly read by the Clerk ; went to provide egailist Bills pass;ng through e than one stage in the same day, &c. Lsrd AUCKLAND moved, 6' that the said Standing Orders be suspended, as far at relates to the passi , g of a Bill for empowering the Auditor of the Eu160(1.1,16 to constitute a trustee to execute the duti-3 of that office, in the case therein meetioned." On this, the Lord Speaker formally put the clues _ lion. The motion was agreed to hel?1. th S. On the notion of Lord AUCKLAND, the House immediately resolved into a Committee on the Rill, Lord Walsingham in the Chair The provisions of the Bill were agreed to, without bereetioe or amendment. The giu.e resuming,th- Report was trceived, and the l'i I afterwards, on the motion of Lr,rd AUCK- L ANL). read a third time, and passed. The House then adjourned till to-morrow, when, it is eapethed, the Bra above stated will receive the l itob Roy.d Assent, by Commission. . - . NM'S k. or comNIONS. ....... ' f The Speaker counted the Flonse, according to custom. at tour o'clock ; and, there b e i ng on ly ,• thirty-tight Members present, it was, of c ourse , ' a..journed till to-morrow. Had the House of Commons met yesterday, Mr. Vox, according to his notice, was to have msved to dolor, to • future day, the Ballot for a Committee en the !Middlesex Election ; but that not having been done, the Ballot, by the tubs o 1 the House, pun be proceeded on this day. GUILDHALL. COURT OF co‘istut4 COUNCIL. Yestetday, a Court of Common Crtineil was held in the Council Chamber, at Guildhall. before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor. We never remember to have seen a more numerous at tendance, both of Aldermen and Common Council men. Shortly after twelve o'clock, the Lord Mayor took the Chair ; and after some routine business was gone through, Mr. Roasts.' SLADE rose, and, prefacing his motion by a kind of apo logy for making it without any previous notice, moved, " that a congratulatory address should be presented His Majesty on the happy formation of the new administration." A sh - irt 'hut animated debate torik place on this; in the course of which it was urged by several gentle men, who spoke against the measure, that the cir cumstance of the motion being made without a pre vious notice, was sufficient to induce the Court to negative it; but, exclusive of this, there was ano- Idler powerful objeCtion, as the Court was not of& I tially acquainted with th e stain' change having taken place in the Administration. On the other side, it was argued by Mr. WAITS.. SIAN, Mr. Deputy K ssi ate, and several other Gen tlemen, that this being an At/dress to His Majesty, it took precedence of every other bunness, and, therefore did away every objeaion, with respect to the notice. As to the afloat change not having taken place, Mr. Alderman Cocas: assured the Court, that he had himself heard Mr. Fox, in the House of Commons, move hir new writs, in the room of Mr. Windham, Mr. Grey, and Lord Henry Petty, they having accepted offices in the new aft ministration. The question, at length, was loudly called for, and was put by the Recorder. The shew of hands being neat ly canal, a division took place, and these appeared. For the Adirest Against it c , , Mr. R. Sr Majority !. gave notice, that at the next motion to the same effea. muNtonstENT. ise, in pursuance of a no. last Court, and said, he that day tooter for the he would find, that one iertained by the whole asset:l -li regard to the present roes. method of adding worth to the - ?mist be t ifling, when the whose memory it waz in- He was convinced, every was rrady to bear testi abilities of the Right It was en account of them to raise 1 nionu that distingufslied States :4 /owl rev 'of N., rod. conceived, he :right be allowed to make use of the metaphorical ex pression, even though that sad office, tad ilia. AS yet, been discharged. He then proceeded. and said, it was not his intention to enter upon any long or elaborate detail of the services of Mr. Pitt, his unalterable love for his country, his exer tions in her behalf, and, finally, his death in her c use. To such a detail he was totally inadequate; but even it he were, he would think it an in sult to the Gentlemen whom he was addressing, if he entered on it. He did not think the failure of some of Mr. Pitt's islans could be any argument to prevent the Court from agreeing to his motion. Every thing that man could do fur the purpose of serving his country, he had done ; and if any of his designs failed, it should not be counted his fault. Such events were more than human foresight could 'raised against. Next to his unremitting exertions to the setv:cs. of his country, the towering Abilities of t'le man were to be conadered. For his part, the more lie thought on them, the more forcibly he was struck with admiration of them. Hr was con vinced, lh.o. had Mr. l'itt lived in Ileathen times, he woold have been, merely on account of his gigan tic abiliiies, raised at his death, by the admiring people, to the dignity of a Cod. The worthy Gen tleman, for a err:shier:able time, dwelt on the many and extra rdinary merits of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and concluded by moving, That a Monument should be meted in the Guildhall of the City, to the Memory of the Right Honoetable William Pitt, in consideration of the many and emi mint services rendered to his country, of his States. man-like condoet on all occasions, and of his ttan• scend int abilities, the loss of which must ever be irreparable, and sincerely regretted by the nation at large " Mr SANUCL DIZON seconded the Motion, and thought it needless for him to enter into tire merit, of the man, as they bad been already dwelt on by the worthy mover ; he was convinced, however, that they were infinitely superior to any eulogium. He did not think that the subject was such as should he spoken of ; a silent, mournful vet*, was, in his opinion, the most respectful mode of doing homage to his memory ; and he, therefore, wishing to avoid every thing which could provoke a debate, content ed himself with seconding the Motion. Mr. R Seaos., in opposing the present Motion, conceived he was doing no more than his daty as a Citizen demanded of bins. The measures of Mr. Pitt, were such, as no man, who felt the effects of them, could approve. Ile would only call the at tention of the Court to the lints inscribed on the tomb of the immortal Chatham, the illustrious fa ther it the late Mr. Pitt, concerning whom they were debating. (The worthy Gentleman then read from a paper, the inscription on that monument, which stands in .;titlithall.) In continuation, he said, that this was ereffed in memory of real services, he be ing the promoter of judicious and stedfast alliances abroad, and of unanimity at home But, he would ask, could a monument be greeted to the late Mr. Pitt, with such an inscription ? When was there unanimity at home, during the whole course of his Administration ? or where were the alliances which could be counted stedfast or judicious ? The former never had existence ; and to affir m that any of our Continental alliance.; were the latter, would, in his opinion, be a libel upon truth. For these simple reasons, he thought it incumbent on him to oppose the Motion. Alderman HAN:KEY said, he should be sorry not to give his vote fur the present Motion, on account 'of the great and traoseendent abilities which so conspicuously distinguished Mr. Pitt above all others. He, however, could not refrain from making an Miscrvation• on one word in the Motion, which, to him, appeared to be highly improper, and certainly ought to be altered. That word was, irre parable. For his p irt, though he considered that the lossof Mr. Pitt must be severely felt by the country at large, yet he was of op' in, that word should not be applied in any instance, and it was his wish, that the worthy Mover would alter it. At all events, the Motion should have his support. - - Mr. Wa animas, in a very eloquent and im pressive speech, was astonished that such a proposi tion should be made to the Court, and that they should be called upon by the Gentleman who brought it forward, for unanimity on the suhjeut. How could there he unanimity on such a subject? Did not the enormous increase of the national debt forbid it ? D.l not the Income and Assessed Taxes forbid it. The feelings of the Livery would be in. stilted, when such a measure was communicated to them. The ashes of the imnsortal Chatham would be insulted, wh-n such a m-asure would he pot in execution. He was ready to admit, as well AS ethers, that the abilities possessed by Mr. Pitt, were splendid beyond description ; but the possession of those did not entitle him to a Monument : at least, if they did, it was net alone on account of them that the Monument was moved for. It was moved for on account of his services to his country: dreadful indeed was the situation he lived to bring that country to, and much more dreadful might her 1it11225170 he in fume, in emiseqttence of his men snres, if every possible precaution were not instantly taken. From these considerations, the worthy Gentleman was most strongly imp d with a con. viaion of the impropriety there would be in acced ing to this Motion, and therefore was determined to vote against it. Mr. QL'rc entered on the subjeet with a degree of reltilance ; but a- it was in agitation, he thought, as a man, he should declare his sentiments.— Nothing, in his opinion, was so truly despicable, as a state of neutrality. Those only were neuter, who were unable to form an opinion of their own on a sultiett ; or, who, having formed it, were afraid to declare it. On this account, be obtruded himself on the Cnnrt, and he hoped he would now be p.orduned for taking up their time, while he took a review of the merits and demerits of the man, and gave his reasons fur voting, as he should do, on the subjeet. Fie was aware, that the general datrine was, de ntortuss Isla nisi bonus; hut that had reference only to private life. The charafter of a public man ought to be canvassed even after his death, par ticularly when a question was agitated, whether a particular honour should be done to his memory. —The worthy Gentleman then entered into a re view of the whole of Mr. Pitt's political life; first recounting the different benefits that had accrued to the country, from his administration, and then Manning up the many unfortunate events which THE BRITISH PRESS. I.ON DON, FRIDAY. Festo*RY 7. A meeting of the EleSors of Middlesex, in the interest of :sir FRANCIS BLS ROET r, Was held pester. day at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. An account of it is given in our sub sequent columns. The meeting was avowedly convened in contemplation of a speedy disso lution of Parliament ; and a plan was proposed for canvassing the County, by the friends of the Baronet, preparatory to a new elraion It is precisely the same which Major CARTWRIGHT recommended last year, in the same place, and for the same purpose. It proposes to divide the County into seflions, and the friends of Sir FR ANCIS Bum *Err into Sub-committees, severally appointed to canvass the Freeholders within these several seaions This plan is borrowed from the French, but as— Far e.t ab tt.tt: we do not think its origin a decided objection to the measure. What we complain of is, the introduc tion, by SST FRANCIS BenneTT, of the qnestion of Parliamentary Reform into the business of the day. 'llse enemies of the present Ministry have availed themselves of carne loose words, which fell, of tee, from Mr. Fox, in the House of Commons, to insi nuate, that one of his tirst effirts, as a Minister, will he to rescind the Act of Union. Let these questions be adjourned to other times. England. little England, is now po:sed in the stale again't Fiance, and the South and centre of Eirope. —At such a crisis, and at such a moment, it is not wise nor loyal to paralize the efforts of Govern ment, and divert its attention from the common foe. We advise, then, the Editor of The Geier, to put off Lis fears, and Sir FRANCIS BURDFAT to pet off his reform, until a more convenient season. We little expected to see these old friends, long alienated from each other, so ready to rush once more into the fraternal embrace. We have received Paris Journals to the SI st last, and Dutch to the 4th instant. Accounts from Italy state, that the Court of Naples was endeavouri:ux to appease the wrath of Bo • • march of the krench troops intu that dom. Cardinal Iluiro had come to purpose of regociating with Cardiff uncle of Bus PART', and procuring of the march of the P. Inch 4r:ny. dispatched to Pori; .tad the cnnference ; and it is not impossible ST. CYR may Lilt, until he shall have received perative inaira.nions from the French The ohjeet of HAUCWiTZ'S missioi stated to he, the completion of some was commenced At Vienna. AT i apt WA by The French brig La Bon. captured of Diego Garcia. by HIS MAJESTY 9 I arrived at Madras in August last. Ertraft of a letter from Muscat, leos, received at Calcutta, in A Wahabies have laid siege to Juddi, made all kind of provisions very scarce 24 dollars per bag,auld Bengal sugar - bag. Fouiteen American ships have cha, for coffee, which article is risen (Ulan per bale; Rice, at this place, per bag ;. sugar as above. There n than 25 Arab ships this year for your Letters received at Madras, in Aug' Colonel .Ci.ose had artived •at Surgui sumed his situation as President at the PEISHWA. Whilst the ship Henri, Weller/i;” was Muscat Roads, in June, eight or ' arrived at that port, from the Red all in ballast, not having Leen able single bale of coffee, for which art, principally gone. These vessels reported, Americans had bought up the whole tha the market, at an advanced and exortitant of ael :7'4 as for Mg ste dir fru •e! Extraa of a letter from Teneriffe, , 1905:—." We have no French cruisers sent, as the commission of the one that here, is out ; and she was sold last week, autclion, purchased by a Spaniard, avid be employed in the Island trade." Captain HAlf t, of the Sdr.'n, from Selby, pit into Harwich, writes, that vateer captured, on Satnrday last, nine in going over the Kentish Koch, after liar, which was re-taken by a Berwicl The Race, lin A YLEY, from Yong! amptcn, is captured. and carried bug s The Jane, R►STALL, from Neweactle, ampton, was totally lost cif Y.omouth, of Dec ether, and all the crew. The following regiments from Hanover erpeaesi: the oth, aOth, and Slith, forming gade under General HILL. The ' 30th, under General SNsseeo•s:. and Buffs, under General Sir A. %V L. the Waggon-train and the German Stadt. • 10 4 , IP ill Mr. Stimulator had the ofLir of th the Board of Trade, to unite si it• official situation, which, in the ham!.somest he declined. The ride of Mr. Eestitere is, we , be Lord Viscount En,aisr, of Lts county of Clacktnatrian. His patent to pass the Great Seal this day, wb wards be delivered to his Lordship, he tikes his seat on the Woolsack, and the House of Lords, as Lieu Csi•sc; The coincidence is rather curious, person who is a candidate for the .. Premier in Parliament, is his successor his important offices, that of Chancellor-of Excheq , ter ; and on him, too, we - - elation lights." All the new Ministerial writs will day, when an adjournment of a few t said, he proposed, to afford time for of the Members who have •acated consequence of their new appointments. Ministers will be gazetted to morrow. The statement of the Doke of Ge tinn to become a candidate for the ship of the University of Cambridge, nevus, as his Grace has for many years highest office on the whole establishment, ti!At of Chancellor. Lord HAROWICKE, will be drifted, without opposition. The following gentlemen have been d Tree of Barristers at Law, by the Honour ciety of Lincoln's Inn, viz.—.lAsiss M Esq. Wm. BENETT, Esq. ASIIITNN CNRISTOPHER COOKSON, Esq. and CI La BAs, Mutat CIRCUIT, LINT AMA_ ilerandshire, Monday, March lu, at Hertford. Wedonday, —•••• 12 . Kent, Monday, 17, Mu Monday, £4. Ho Swtey, Weinaday, me t II in Sir A. Mac.Nriald, Kat. t 1%111 of too I. ,rd the Kntig of ha CkUrt of cliegnee WM John fle.rth, rim. one el , Ise t. of our -44 Lord the Krug of hi. Cue. ro.nnion red. The Lord Chancellor (ELDON) has Rev. EDWARD MAMSrtrl.o, sons Miimsetzto, to the yicarge of Sisley, tersbire. A misunderstanding is said to ha' between Admiral 1 . 1101. aniim,t, and Cirritains of the Outward hotrod were tinder his convoy when he fed gaited Admiral Litturs. .-st the particular tequila of the ' Co RNWALLIS, Commander in Caret r Stet, Captain ALroi Am, made Post the Nautilus, of IS guns. some month pointed Captain of the Ville de Par.+. now off Brest. He joins her in the H guns, now in Cevesald Bay, quite , •and will be off in a els/ ur two to j• fleet. it c ta. aid la ab ?to Doi an' dc Mil SIT G 0 I A Journal. printed in the North of ing to the reports of giving Austtii the East, asserts that France hss la! a Convention. which gua:antces t Turkey.—We ch not attach the this as,ertion. Bs. would hair , the integrity of a Power which has cause of Atom, by the facilities sloe a Power At war with him. tnl letl OM AU CO Ur we t on 1 mei b 1 CIO .1 Hi Lard Speaker. sir. I on heha from the HHarv►y In ern ertotn‘el, case, Lord Dark, ant after wh went of ant 1151 Lord day, wii and saki into coo , His L ►eai a so He th, 104 and . 1 he C they w•et more th: L'lrd lI Mr. R. SL ADE then gave Goan he would make a rnoti mit PIT I". WJ Mr. Deputy iliacit rose, tice he had g. vim at the las hoped in the busine.ss he had ermsideratsen of the Court, opinion only WAS entertain : My. Unanimity, with rega tioa. was the only method honour, which, of cows., m greatness of the man, to tended, was considered. 1 - 1 FerilL man, as well as he. tunny to the transeendant •Honotsrable %Valiant Pitt. those abilities he wished tl 11410 It to lbw niernoty of th, I =an . nosy in his grave (s Tlse ourchy Gcnclanan cc 111111111 7r, and stop list deemed ki-. . el Rome f or linal Fusels, u se ig the suspension • Couriers We : . Pith the result ut opossible but that iave received Ur.. nch Emperor• ision to Paris is ante treaty solid red at the Iil.• d P's ship Laicest,,, , dated .fnly 14, Aiigust:—" TLe ddA, WhsCh came ; rice is at rat lb dollars rer 'e arrived at Mc. n from SU to Co , s at 10 maim will be nu less our port." .ugest. state, tha t urgum, and rc.. the Court of the was at anchor in t s s Ic epii . o.e t h e :dre l s i iatati o tei ; :de l iewi a p d : lrt , Ir ne l ptD o e ha e r c Y raieta u c d ; : l r r i c. e t : * :, uticles they hal o s w 'hole that was is and is goit.g nm London. for at a French pri. ine sail of vessels :or taking a col. ick smack. ghat], for &sah- ibs St. Moloes. aastle.for Smaih. uth. on Ca.: 26:a anover are daiiy forming the Mi. sth, 27th, and The sth. .L LSEL I T IVLA .n Legion, from h- "residency cE his other higi tsomest manner, understand, Laskin,. in the tent is reveled which will Afte- r), and Monday and presides M CLI-LOP. that the same simt of the late min in one c‘ ancellor -of tit " prophecy the I be moved this days, will, it is or the re-tletlion 1 their seats, in rots. The new 1.. R AFTON ' S inte: • High Steward• 't must be erro- years filled the hment, namely. Ices, doubtless, en called to the Honotna - de So. M.or Lit GMANI, WARNER, Esq. :museum Wana tiettford. C.leltusfonl. Matd‘tione. Hordiam. u Chief of la- • ellsta:o , ▪ o f S. as presinted of Sir J ley. in paws... save taken place osi some ut t i 'd I td:Amen. wh ,. cut with and ti- e Hon. Admiral t of thy Ctianiist t Captain !ruin Iths since, is r - r.,, of 110 gu H•ber ,ia,uf 110 I ready for Sta. joir. the Chaarci of Europe, ailed- ia indemnities is rely entered ice" the integrity 01 lightest credit to loudly guarnmoe s given - him soca e has affordad tG had taken place during that poi; .d. Or, the whole, he conceived, that, exclusive of Coi.titiental Atilt more good than evil h.td arisen from Mr. Pitt's measures. The establishment of the Sinking Fund, in the manner it now stood, was an achievement of the utmost magnitude, and deserved the higheu praise. The union with Irelaial was also a measure conceived in his vast mind, and executed accord. ing to his directions. Fin this also the country was indebted to him, as it tended to strengthen and ci.nc.• :trate her force ; but the means by which that great measure was obtained, certainly did not te tlea much honour on hint. These were the beets which aims? from hij administration ; and. 25 hi• b-- fore said, more gond than evil resulted lion, :1;3, po litical career, exclusive of Continental affairs. Hut when these were taken into consideration,he thought every man most at once make no his mind on the subject ; for his part, it determined him to vote ag mast the motion. The worthy Gentleman then recapitulated the many disaster: we had met with on the Co.rinent, and in all our expeditions. The expedition to g g ynt alone, he said, was succeisfel ; hut that court not be attributed as a merit to him ; het to the spirit and intrepidity of the ititiih null. cers and soldiers. He then concluded a very elr quent harangue, by declaring it his fixed inten tion to vote Against the motion. Mr. Ct. Aa IC and Mr. G..!, F isms spoke against the Motion, and eAdei man I'IIIt.SEP in favour of it. Mr. Goo D cir ear they rose, and observing, that esthete were a great many Gentlemen who opposed the Motim, and as he thought it would not he decent to negative it direaly, he would move the previous question, which he concluded by doing. Alderman Rowcaorx spoke in favour of the Motion, saying, that a 3 the country had supported Mr. Pitt, and his measures, for upwards of twenty years, if they refused this Motion, it would but be acknowledging that, during all that rime, they had aesed as fools, and were now, for the first time, wise; or ehae it must be taken, that they were all that time aFting wisely, and now the contrary. Mr. Beat spoke against the motion ; imme diately atter which, the question being loudly called for, the Recorder put the previous question, as moved by MI . Goodhehere, on which the Court having divided, there appeared— it 78 Against it Majority 3 While strangers had withdrawn from the Bar, much discussion took place ; we understand the Court divided twice, on the same mutton. The first took place on a motion, that the Court should proceed to the elcfrion of the Irish Society." The division on that was, for it, 71 ; against it, 77. The original question was then put, and carried ' by a majority of ti, the numbers being 77 to 71. A Committee, consisting of all the Aldermen, and a Commoner nut of etch ward, was then appointed to carry the same into effect. The Court elected the Irish Society. for the year ensuing. Sir We LLI A M Cuiris and Mr. Alderman Comae being Candidates for the Governorship of the same, upon the shew• of hands the Luit n.Marna declared the election to have fallen upon Mr. Al derman COMB!, whereupon he was elected ac cordingly. The Committee for General Purposes ',Touche up thel3ill for dividing the Ward of Farr ingdon which was read a first and second time, and ordered to be read a third time at the nest Court.