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I eau. :lid convenience, by the Mena, 0t the 'Ate Nli!tiqer. ............ Air. CUMMINS said, that he never --eate in t h at Hasse 1,4 re ; he mold nut non' helisaying. that he cordialy supeorted the presentopettei, the ennead of dr. Pitt having been a great Minis ter, an] an excellent statesman. Mr. W. exotalation, stated, that he Was glad to Is -at a Right Han. Gentleman (Mr. Rose) confess, !hat he theught the discharge of these debts, by subseriptitsii, would have been ho nourable to the late Nlirdster Mr. FLLISON tab!, tint tiirii:o l he always supported the measo-es of t!:e late :•.taister, he did not vote for ti e Motion, in complime..t to his own coesistency, but as a jest tribute to departed worth, and to unblemished cl;araniir. The Marquis of DOL'GLAS said, be would not hare obtruded him eh upon the HouSe, upon the present occasion, were ;t ro; for the part he had taken in a former dehote. lie merely wished it to he understand, that thnt:7- be complained of the ergements icing now aii.liteed, which gave rise to di•clission on the late plop i.inn, yet he supported tre Motion merely as au ant of generosity in a great pa , has towards a departed servant, and not as a txiute to his merits. fir. FOX declared, that lie was extremely happy to tied, that he could cordially support the mini in upon public grou 45 He hoped the 11 , 4;e would be unanimous in its approbation ; and again re peated, that he never gave a you, with a greater de gree of satisfitflien. It was, as had been observed by a Nobl Friend of his, an aa of munificence on the part of a great nation towards a departed servant. As to what had twee said about Mr Pitt's, havinglseen, on a certain occasi m, " the saviour of the country." by tie measures be adopted, he retained all his former opinions ia their utmost I-ace, and ha should continue to retain them. In t!.e year 1801;4, he con curred with those who thcoi7lit it expedient for the advantage of the country, that all tree debates which for k place upon that select, should be buried in oil vino. He was satisfied that Mr Pitt, at that time, entetteired the sante sentiments; and he con fessed, that after teat, he scarcely expelled that a yes fon in a high situation (we Understood him to al lude to Mr. Canaihg) would have given his cothi tenaece to a late motion, being so worded as ne cessarily to involve a recurrence to these topics. He knew that Pitt was oslicitous for an oblivion of them, and, in conformity wit:': hiswisbes, he agreed in feture to abstain from them Ifthen hr so restrain ed himself from adveiting ro these topics during the lit-- unit of that Minister, he should not stiffer himself to be led to a revival of them, now that lie was dead, and was resi Ived never to he led into them on any future occasion, it het mild possibly avoid it. This resolution, he assured the House, he hid adopted, not on hi; own personal account, but for public reasons. In the arraegement which WAS proposed at that time, he recommended the Right Honourable Gentleman, to whom he before ulludesl, as a proper person to fill an import ant and high situation in the Gr,vernment ; an] he now thought it extremely ill-suited that p.r,on, to encourage any thirg that might revert to discu.sions deprecate] at that time. Ilse wish for a toted oblivion of the subjed, came from Mr Pitt, and leedid and we'll] enrainue to conform to it. If Gentl-reen should persevere in reverting to those discussions, there would, as his Hon. Friend (Mr. Wm. Smith) nbt'rved, be no chance of that una nimity which se-med to he generally wished for There 'fete many powerful reasons, se! ich should induce tlte HOSISC, in his opinion, unanimously to concur in this Motion ; hut he thought it unneces• nary to urge any other, than ti - at, as during the twenty years of Mr. Pitt's Administration, he derived no personal at:sr:lL:ages from the power and ihfluence he possessed, but the Warden s ,ip r f the Ci 7qee Ports, whit, he bad amply the :leans of enriching himself, aid its fertile, if he were disposed so to employ t: ton ; I louse, in weeding to this motion, wosid 4 1 0 no rr-•e than le -ward him for his disintere.7edness. On their rounds he gave his most hearty approbation to the )notion, Mr. CANNINa hoped it would not be con eelved, that he, for a moment, was willing to de paft from that degree of c.and..iir and moderation, whleit aduated the Honourable Gentlemen, who spoke in farceur of this motion. Ile was willing, sl , .nweeer, that it Would be perfectly understend, that the nearest and dearest friends of Mr. Pitt, wt.! e •rot-enetent to receive this vote as an elymesittary gift„ as a boon of pity and ccinpasaion, from a great and magnanimetts nation, to a departed servant. They were desirous that it should be a grit made .n tumour of the memory of the man, who had de- Qed his life to the sereice of his country. The de i.att. on a former night, and the present, were con ti by an Honourable Gereleman, at the oilier side of ute House, as origina6ng in the same gees- Lion. He granted that they did. But stiil n:ller Honourable Gentlemen might dissent from that, and give their assent to this, on the grounds that such assent did act interfere with their opinion of his charaeer as a statesman. The great fault mend with the motion en the former night was, it expressed too much gratitude and resped for ti- meths cf the mar, in a politlcal point of view. lie. for his part, confessed, that he only found (atilt, because he conceived the wording of the motion was cold and inanimate, when compared with the me :s which formed its sehjec. For the purpose of c , erteroreisirg the business, and bringing the qaest;nts bsfere the House, in seek a manner as that the •$,Te m l ;;Les he unanincus, precedents had been leveled to, wL l ch but &intly expressed the tribute of pra'se (Tee to the memory of that exalted states man. t ith respect to tie notice of that Motion, be knew teithing of it ; if he had consulted his own feelings. it certately sl nuld not have been framed in she manner and words it. had been. Bet, as to any part he :night h.,ve taken in the business, after the nteice had farm given, he could only say, that he ltde thotteht that, whiist Le and his Hon. Friends were lowering thelr sentiment, and dilating their feeling, enezely tier the purpose of not preirokiag a discussion, they should be charged with holding nut . Opinions which wou ld h ave a con t ra ry ten: f a n c y. Tree Rigla. Hoe. Gentleman was proceeding to snake further observations on t he debate which took place tau the former right, when be was called to " I d , r by Mr. Charles Wynne, far noticing in his speeckati) thing which took pla:e in a ler.oer debate. • The SPRAY:aI :aid, the Hun. CentlernaA who poke to older, was perlectly corretFt. Mr. CANN /NG proceeded, and said, he thought it almost impossible to pa steed in the present :argu ment without referring le that whael - had been made u•e of on the former nceasion. Indeed, lie cun ceiv,•d that almost all the H..nnuniblc Gentlemen who had spoken before him, had referred to it ; but, as at was out regular, he Aould ender sour not again to advert to it. Some Honourahle Gentlemen had supported this Motion, as it did not engrain one wort tending to pronounce Mr. Pitt an excellent Oaa this occasion, they exclaimed with the Poet— All thy good Now ol..zes, all thy guilt .s it, the graee7 The Honout able Gentleman protested against the line of condua adopted by these Gentlemen. lie gave the greater credit to the I imourable Gentle man ( dr. William Smith) who, having opposed the for mer motion, spoke v.thernently against the present, for his eo::sistencv, and steadiness of opinion. Ile could not conceive what was•the motive which instigated some Honourable Gentleman t o o pp o - e the former M ot i on , and support this. If it were their intention to allow this as an elymosinary gift, which might be granted, by a munificent naticin, to de parted de-merit, as well as merit ; if it were not given as a token of gratitude, for loog and distin guished services to the state, he confessed he would much rather the Motion should be refused. 'sir. FOX, in etplanation, said, he distinaly gave his vote on account of the merits of the man. He conceived this a distinEt question from that which was agitated on a former night, and one which did nut involve the charatter of Mr. Pitt as a states man. Mr. I lUDLESTONT spoke is favour of the mo tion ; hut iu tie low a tone we could not coiled Ili, words. The question was then put, and carried nen,. ran. Mr. FOX rose and said, that, in conserpse ce of a change which was about to take place in the Ad ministration, several new appointments would, of eour,.., take place. He had then, he said, to offer a Bill to the consideration of the House, for the purpose of .:nabbing a certain Noble Lord to bold the office of Auditor of the Exchequer with that of First Lord of to •rreasury. It had been doubted whether these two pl..ces were tenable by the same p.m-son ; but he confessed, for his Dalt, he did not conceive that at press therewere sutficeot grounds to warrant such a doubt. The history of the country Affor,led two great precedents, namely, that of Lori Halt ix and Mr. Pelham, both of which persons held the tw . of- Aces at the same tore. The Noble Lot a th.mght it be,,, that. i : thepresent instance, it should bedone in a diffn ten. manner, and that there might he nodoubt on the subjea, and that al. contention mi lit be removed, he ha prepared a Bill,whieh, as dispa•ch wa- n..Tessary, he now offered with. ar any prey:, us nuzice, to the cnnsidet anon r f the Hoose. He etiaceived it might be r-ad a first time, and it 130 obj-Ation were made, a second ; and to4n..trow, perhapa, in the Commit tee, some orcessal y alter.: ns might be made in it The Hots. Gentleman then proc.:ecied to move for leave to ring in a Bill, to enable venom to held the office -f Aud'or of the Exchequer, with that of First Lord of he I reasury. The SM.', KEll called the attention of the Gen tleman to wha• had been th • recent or:oftice of the House with respe& to bringing in a Ball. It w.as usual, he said, to give a notice, and their, in case of emergency, where the utmost dispatch was re quired, the Bill might be passed through two or three, or all the remaining stages, on , he same day. This was the recent pradice of the House; he id not, however, mean to say, that a Member was not competent to propose any measure without a previous notice; hat he wished to call to the tecol left: on r.f the Honourable Gentleman, that, by cow-toting in the praCtice which had been lately a opted, and giving notice this night for to-morrow, he would be enabled, with the permission of the House, to pass the Bill as soon as if it %ere now brought in. Mr. FOX thought it might be done in that way as readily as in any other ; at the same time, he dio rot wish to bow to a practice, which by nn means excluded him from the right of offering a Bill to the consideration of the House, without any pre vious notice. The Al' FORNEY-GENERAL hoped the Ho nourthle Gentleman would give way to the g , ner.il praaice, and only give a notice of his intention of bringing in the Bill to morrow. With respell to what the Hononrahle Gentleman had stated, name• ly, that this Rill was brought in merely for the purprise of removing a doubt, he could have wish ed that no such statement had been made, as it was evident, if that were the only objea in view, no sw.h would ever have been before the House. lie would have Gentlemen recollea, when the gnesticu would properly come before them, that instead of passing a Bill to remove doubts, they would be enaaing a new law, a law which required their most serious attention. The Ho nourable Gentleman had cited precedents in the Cases of Lord Halifax and Mr. Pelham, but he denied that these could properly be denominated precedents; as in these li.sronces the offices were held in an underhand manner, and the right of holding them never became a su'ijea of discussi There were great and poli t ical reasons against the same persons holding these two offices. The trust attached to each was of the highest import .lnce, and one was subordinate to the other, He concluded by hoping, that the Hon. Mover would content him clf with giving the notice at pres-nt, and lrt the matter come before the House to morrow, or on any future day. Isfr.FOX then withdrew his motion, and gave no tice far to-morrow Mr. Rose wished to deliver his sentiments on the subject ; but was called to order, there being no question before the House. The House then resolved itself into a Committee on His Majesty's Message. respeaing the grant of annuity of :2 ,0001. to Vicountes Nelson for life. Mr. GILES expressed a wish that Lady Nelson should be placed in the s.tme situation she would have been in if Viscount Nsfson had survived the *dins' g he, of course, would have been created an Earl, and she would have taken her rank accordingly. The Hon. Gentleman wished to know vthether it were intended to bestow any ~ecla hozcur on her Ladyihp ? • • ••, Lt. C.% MERL asti+l, .t y Lad taken into consicieiation what the HJ3. Gentle man had just now mentioned, hut as it was a thing totally unprecedented. to bestow the honour of peer. age on any woman, and ,Maw another person at th • tame time to enjoy it, the idea had been abandoned. It w is then resolved. that the Annuity slinrehl be granted, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Iliuse then went into Committees on the grant of 2,0001. a-year to Lord Collingwood, and lo s two nett heirs, in succession; and on the annuity of 1,0001 to Sir Richard Strachan. Both of these were agreed to, and the reports ordered to be re ceived to-morrow. I hr other - Orders of the Day were then disposed I•f—Adjourned. '. O 14e will give The Colo , er a dreevingto-vaeorvow,— The length of the rarliamentar? Debate has obtained it a respite of one day. THE BRITISH PRE S TUES : 6 ( 4.I )N Y, I F )( e ) 4 N Ru ' ARY 4. NEW MINISTRY. His MAirsvv HAS SANCTIONED THB PLAN OF THE Nrw MINISTIST, SC IMJTTED TO HIS/ IV LOnD GRENVILLE. We corgratulave the country upon this Sappy event. It was accomplished in the course of yesterday; a day which will ever be re membered with gratitude and thanks. Lord GNB N. va. Le waited upon His a.trsr, sr, yes;erday, at I? o'clock, by ippointment. His audience lasted about three quarters of an hour, after which his Lordship proceeded to Mr. Fox's house, in Arlington-street, where he had an interview with the Earl of Moi RA, Mr. GREY. and some other leading Members of the Party, and thence to St. James's-place, where he had an interview with Earl SP Er+cut. Lord G Ex- VILLE had a see .nd interview with His MAJLS ry, about four o'clock, which lasted half an hour. At this Fecond interview, this most important business was finally settled, in a manner that must endear His MAJESTY more than ever, if possible, to the hearts of his people. Llrd GRENVILLE immediate.. ly conveyed the grateful inulligence to Mr. Fox, ho went to the house of Earl Seance it, where the whole party were assembled. The first symptom of this happy result shelved itself, yesterday morn ing, in the Court of Chancery. The LORD CAI AN• CELLO k announced his intention to take leave of the Court this morning, and that Mr. Baron THome ;we will deliver judgement in such cases as may remain undisposed of. The even: was more une quivocally stated last night, in the House of Com mons ; Mr. Fox having openly and direaly an nounced a change of Ministry, and brought in a Bill to enable Lord GR tSVILL I to hold his new place, as First Lord of the Treasury, along with the place of Auditor of the Exchequer, already ir•. his possession. After the Hoarse of Commons were up, Mr. Fox went to Carleton.house, and remained with the Pluses until 12 o'clock ; he thus went home to Arlington- Street, where he found Lord ROBERT SPENCFR and Lord Ossuksvora waiting for him. During the whole evening, Mr. Fox's house was besieged with visitors, to enquire the rt sult ; and exclaiming as they were going away, " All is right ; it is all settled." At nine o'clock, last night, the LORD CHANCRLLOR and Lord HAN LEM; a had audh!nees of His MA• r ass y, at the QURIN'S House. The following is the Ministerial arrangement, which, we understand, has received His MAJcsr s's san&ion. It is only a little more accurate than the list which we have already submitted to our readers. New writs, we under stand, wiil be moved this day in the !louse of Com mons, for Mr. Fox, Mr. Gft Ey, &e. ; and the whol-, or greater pat t of the arrangement, will ap pear in The Gazette of this night. THE CABINET. T.ordGeLoattLe, Firer Lord ,•f the Trratury. Mr Foz, Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Earl SPINC in, Seereory (or Horne Department. Mr W x•IIAM, Secretary hr War Department. Mr. GRIT, First Lord of ttt, A.thaira!ty. Earl FITSWILLI API, President of Council. Lnrd SIDNOCTII, Lord Privy Seal. Mr. EIIIILINI, Lord Chanty-11os. Ea , l of Co 4TH A hi, Malta General of fhanonce. Lnrd Mosey Pint , Chancellor of th. Excliegoer. L.rd E &&&&& oitotio, to bays a ant in the Cabinet. OTHER APPOINTMENTS. Farl of Morn*, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. General FITZMIIicc, Secretary at Wrr. L , •,d P , lnidcat of ttre Miami of Contrnid. Lord Aercic 4lt 0, President of toe Board of fr.de. Kai of BOCCIPI041• Y,,,,,, • l a n.nt r stmabter.-C4 Lord kostar SPENCIIII. Mr. SHIIIIIDAII, Tree•urer of the Navy. Mr. lIMIT MIDINGTon, Pa ) puan. ef the Array. Mr. T a LLLL a, Earl efDeeev, t.:hancellor of Duchy of I..incatt-r, Mr. Vann Secretaries to the Ti-wary. Mr. ELLIOTT, $ Mr. Titterer, Chef Secretaty i i Leland. Mr N. lionis e Julge Ad,ocate. Mr. PIGGOTT, Alturnly-General. Mr. Ramat?, Sohritor-Gentral. Mr rti•KOI PONSOMNIT, Chancellor of Leland. Fan Si. Vinegar, Commander of the CLannoi Fleet. The C. - irtsrmander-in-Chi e f to be assisted by a Boari of Geaeral Officers, et Military lie IlamburgAßTalf, diSe ;.. • yesterday. It . r•xtrer, • ' ' • •• • ..... - The Emperor of Oast • • • . 16th, and WAS fallow; •.. • • • • • - CH•IILCSoIi the 18th, a; the 15e1..1 I'.• • •-• In thelatter end of Dec.:ober, 4 flt , !S t Iransp:nts, with Russian troops .ni the Dardanelles, for Corioa, to supply the place of those sent to Icily. . An order was expected at Hanover on d.c for the Russian troops its that !nectarine to iwgin their march for the Elbe. A Convention 'tad bee s agreed to, according to which, liamelo wasp st to receive any reinforcement of Fren-ls troops', an 1 the Combined Army was to evacuate the cou.stry, in the viciniry r.f that fortress. The French troops are returning from 1-foll.tnd towards France. The number of French troops in that Republic, on the 2I at January, did not exceed 12tXX) men. • We have received American Papers to the t;tli ult. One of them contains a strong Memorial of the Merchants of the City of New York to th • President and Congress of the United abates, ccrn pluining of the obsfretions thrown by this country in the way of their carrying trade between the co lonies of our enemies and the Mother Country, which they assert to be just and legal, and to pro tea which th:y pray for the assistance of a per manent navy. The only other article of importance in these Pa pers is the following ; which is ertrafted from TL- NL:r-York Advertiser of the Gth ult. : " Captain WELLS from Curacoa informs us. that the Island of Aruba, about 30 miles to lesward of Ctiraroa, had been taken from the English by a i)utch sloop of war ; there were eight Spanish Prizes at the Island. A 3ritish tender, of 14 guns. engaged the sloop of war two hours, pot al shot through her quarterr, and succeeded in getting off a Spanish prize, worth 20,000 dollars : she got safe into Jamaica." Yesterd ly, an overland dispatch was received at the Ea,t India House ; but as it left India a month befere the Meisisa, it of course has brought nothing new. A vessel arrived on Sunday, at Dover, from the Weser, with an account that our troops are ens- 1 barking to return. The country is so low and marshy, and the road so much cut op, that most of our troops lost their %hoes and stockings in land- 1 ing, the mud in many places being knee deep. Bread is twice as dear as in F.ngland, an i very bad. 1 and the country very mach exhausted every where; ' the only cheap articles are liquors. They have been very successful in recruiting the German Legion; ' and as the wind is now easterly, hopes are enter tained that the troops will arrive this week. The Tor . a , be,d packet, wi t h a ma il f rom Lisbon, 1 is arrived at Falmouth ; she sailed un the `2.oth ult. , Extra& of a letter from Malta, dated 16•11 No- ! vember, 1805 :—" 'file general convoy sailed from hence frit. Er•gland on the I0:11 inst. under convoy of three friga'ec and a brig of war. Next week another opportunity offers for G•br that, a nartial convoy for those vessels which did not succeed in joining the gereral convoy." La ,f , retir, French Jagger privateer, of 14 guns, . and 60 men, and I.' Va. , 'vex, ditto, of 16 guns, i and 6S men, from St. Nfalocs, are captuved, and brought into Plc mouth. The Jane, —, from Sunderland, for London, has been t: ken by a French privateer c f 14 guns, near th • Nnre, and retaken by the Feria, CtreitY, a Berwick smack. The Frenchmen, taken cm betted the impromptu privateer, Vie capture of which we ann ,, tint - -d yes terday, state,thst they are very altive at Boulogne, in getting the French gun-boats fitted and ready for sea. Yesterday Princess Suemi a of GLOUCESTIR vi sited Her MAJESTY. Lord 1-1 A RROVIIIY arrived. on Sunday, in Eng land, from his mission to Berlin, and is expeaed in town this day. Mr. Hs sa Noy n, His Lordship's Secretary, arrived in town yesterday, at Lord Mot o:Rave's Office. Mr. Fox has taken a very handsome house is St. James's.square. FIRST DAY—The rucket,6s7, a Prize of 10241. and the Ticket 1659. a Prise ofof 5221 drawn yes terday, were both sold in She-es at Btsm's, 4, Corn bill. and 9, Charing-cross, where 'indrawn •Fickets I an I Shares are selling. The Public will please to notice, that every ?tart drawn, on Friday next, will be all Prt-re. Number 1077, a prize of two thousand and twenty-two pounds, the First Day of Drawing. was sold, in %Quarter, two Eighth, and eight Sixteenth shares, by It , CII A 110Srs:-. GOODLUCK,IIIIdCIS. at their °fliers, Cornhill. and C'•stine-cross; where Tickets ar,l Shares continue on sale, warranted undrawn. \o 8,839, drawn Cie srsr Day of Drawing, a Prize of Ten Thousand and Twenty-two Pounds. was sold by filittlSßY and Co. in the following Shares, two Quart-t, one Eighth, and six Six teenth.—The importance .if the present Lottery is manifest by the First Day's Drawing. The chance of the Capital Prizes was obtained without risk. l Every holder of a Ticket or Shave drawn on the first day, will receive more 'flan the prime cost ; and may renew the same chance foe the Second. Thus'. Fourth, and Fifth Day: of Drawing, with advantage. Morrissey and Co. 26, Cornhill, 52, Charing-cross, and St. Margaret', Hill, Borough. will continue to sell undrawn Tickets and Shares. so lung a s they can h e proctored, in great variety. and at the l owest Fr i tts . 41