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IMP ER ML PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. WTOMDAY, APRIL 3. Ntr. AoAg was heard in continuation in the SC9t9 Appeal; CATHcAaitr. The Earl of CASSILTS, c,rl the part of the Respondent. Appeal to be pro. seeded with tu.morrow. • The several Bills upon the Table were forwarded in their respective stages. The Innkeepers' Rates Bill, and several private were brought up from the Commons, and read a first time; to be read a second time to. morrow. - A• Person from the Post. Office presented an Ac. count of the Net Revenue of the Post. Office for 20 years, ending the sth of January, 5805. —Ordered to lie on the 'rable.,—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COAWONS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. Sir .jortte Amniutsorr•brought up the Report of the Committee on the ILlcere Bill ; which was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to he engrossed.' Mr. MArt4 sNG obtained leave to bring in a Bill fourendering more etfglual the Provisions of the 'London Dock: Mt. ° On the Motion of Dr. DUIGENAN, leave was given to bring in a Bill to amend the Aft for Build ing Glebe blouses'' in Ireland, , After some conversation between Mr.CRiEVEY, 111 r. STURGES BOURNE, Ijnil Mr. DUNDAS, the following Papers, on the 'Motion of Mr. CRERV EY, were ordered to be laid before tlr; noose, viz. . - A Copy of the Power of Attorney, or other In. strument, granted by the Lords of the Treasury' to the then Lord Advocate of Scotland, now Lord Justice Clerk, to prosecute or give discharges for the Claims made by. Geornment on the late Admiral KEITH STEWART. An ACCOUnt of ail Sums, ter'Seeurities for Sums, paid by the Representatives of the late Admiral KEITH • STEWART to the Lord Justice Clerk, in pursuance of the said rower of Attorney, spectly. AN! the times when such Sums or Securities were Copy of. the Account settled and dischar g ed with the Representatives of tits ifte Admiral KEITH SIVE WMIT, by the Lord Justice Clerk, ailing under 'the aforesaid authority. A Cepy of the Petition from the Town of Ee..in tiorgh to the Lords of the Treasury, praying that 2 hoctli. be granted out of the Balartees due from the l a te Admits' KEITH STEWART, th\r the pur.' r oses therein mentioned ; together with the Re:, f'frence (wale by the Lords of the Treasury to the Court of Exchequer in Scotlargron bite subjeCt. On the Motiuo of Mr. STIIRGIA BOURNE, it was likewise ordered, that there be laidbefute tlie House a Copy ef such further Proceedings as may have 7seen feta by the Lords of the Treasury for the Recovery of - tiny Sum due to the Public from the ' P.epreeeetntives of the late Admiral KEITH STEWAAT. Sir jotete NeWerier 3noved, that there lie laid before . the Howe a Copy of he Case laid before the ATTORNEY and SULK !WEL GVNER ALE of England, cm the IGttl of May, tBor, by the Direttion of the Comtrissioters ai‘lting under tine Union Cornpensa. Lion Act, relative to the Claims of Compensation tra d e by the AlroaNey and Sot. c ITOtt GENERALS vi Leland, together with their opinions demon.— . in making this motion, Sir Jon N NIiWrORT took OCC3IIOII to observe, that three years ago the Com. missionera found the business before them decreased bu rapidly that they obtained permission. to sit only once a week. They still, however, continue lleger in their Office, and as they each receive t wel,‘ e hut , dred pounds per - annum, it seemed to him doobtfed, whether they would ever withdra w from it.. Mr. DUIGENANrheard nothing of the reference alluded to by the lion, Baronet, while he was in the Commission I indeed, several of the Commissioners being men bred to the Law, and of considerable legal letiowleeige, such reference seethed to be un. 14cestrary. " • 81r 301 a NEWPORT assured the House, he would not have offered his motion on light grounds. e-it was not a question whether such reference had been . made by the Commissioners, for in the minutes Of tf.eir prOceedings'‘Vhieh had been laid on the Table of she liottse, and atterivards been printed, the cif cumstante was mentioned,. A few words passed on the inbjea between Mr. 5. Bevatle, Mr. Kt oteArtio, Dr. DUIGEHAN, and S i r loner' NtWPORT, after which the motion Was agreed to. LORD MELVILLE. Mr. WILLIAI43, from the Board of Naval in. cl uiry, presented a Copy of a Letter fwm i 4 td Vie. unt Ni6r.vILLE to the Commissioners of • Naval )nribiry, dated the Jar!) rsos, with the .11.nswer of the Commissioners thereto. The CHAvoiLtrist of the EXClitiZtliß moved, that thei.e Papers do lie on the Tante to he r erulrcl, by the,Members of the Housel but yielding, to the wi!,hes of Alderman , Cooms I And Mr. FRANCia, he ittutrew his moti.m.,-and on Alderman Carnal; Os motion, the ?Arts were rtad On the mottan of the CHANCILLna, of the E*- P.Qtr elk I the Papers were then ordered to lie on the Tatole, ztintl to be printed. Motions as the present the discussion might be post. poned to an indefinite period. Sir W. DICA'EIVSON stared Ilse grounds of his Motion, which were, that Sir HOME Po 1' PI AM •having discovered some imperfeftions in the nrigi nal Report of the Navy Board, had written to the Admiralty on the .and that the amended Report had not been received by the Admiralty until yesterday. Some further conversation ensued between Mr. GREY, the CIiANCLoLLoR of the tXCHEQ,LIE it, Sir W. Dictexsou, and Mr. KINNAIRE); in the course of which Mr. KtNNA.IRD intimated his in. tension of bringing forward a Motion relative to Sir Home POPHAM, on Tuesday, the 7th of May next, Sir W. DICKENSON'S Motion was then agreed to. The CHANCILI,OIt of the t XCHFQ,IItR gave notice, that on Friday next be would move for leave to bring in a Bill for making some alterations in the Property Ad. Mr. STURGES BOURN, brought up the Report of the Committee on the Irish Bill; which was agreed - to', and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. On the motion of Mr. Gmes, it was ordered, that there be laid before the House a Return of the number of effeetive men raised- under 'the Addi tional Defence Aft from the Ist of February last to the period of the latest Return, statiog the number of 'men raised per week, and specifying those pro. vided by the Parish Officers, and those procured. by Recruiting Officers; as likewise the number that had enlisted into His Majesty's Forces for general evrvice. Mr. BAGNALL brought in the Bill for regulating Irish Freeholders ; which was read a first time, and ordered to be lead a second time on the 7th of May. The Innkeepers' Bill, and the Irish Spirit Permit Bill, were read a third time and passed. Lord WM. RUSIELL presented several Petitions from Lambeth, Peckham, &c. against the Surrey Water Works ; which were ordered to lie or► the Table.w—Ac:journed. ERRATA.--In the Letter' from Lord M r,v ILLt.,. in our Paper of yesterday, second culumn, line 7, tvr " 1502," Iced " 173 z," and for " 1503," read " 1783." MAILS. Dna—Sane as yeste►day. PRICE OF STOCKS TUI4 U4Y AT Twig;,vK o'!,:tOClC, CQMOIS •- • 574 i - 21 3 T H E SUN. so.am, 41113 DfelLitt• ? so AUDEAT ? SIR HOIVIR POPHAM. Sir W, proicottsow movetl, that there be laid jrt:orc t he House a Copy of a Letter from Sir Hour FortrAm to the Secretary o r t he Admisall date d astir l tb, ;805, with its linelosure. C o py of a Letter from rue Navy Beard to the Admiralty, dated ;fa Apr?l, 4805, in' answer to the above mentioned Letter of Sir ff. POPHAM; A Copy of a Letter from Sir 14. roPHAIA to the Navy Board, dated Feb. 28, tsos A Copy of a Leiter tram Sir POPHAM to the Navy Board, dated March ;6, :Bos, with the answer t he Boad thereto, Mr, way did not rise to °hien to the pro. tluCtion of these or any other Papers that might . ‘Terd to elucidate tile bullet% but merely to remark, that loveriti weds had olapsod since a variety of rareia moved fur on both sides had been presented, 0141 whio no iniairy had taken place,' By boob LONDO THURSDAY, 4, 1305. Till partial success of the Enemy at Dominica has been eagerly seized by the Opponents of Co vernment; as affording ground ofaccusation against the Board of Admiralty, and the grief wh;eh those patriotic Gentlemen must nal:1611y feel for what they represent 83 such, a disastrous event to the Country is considerably relieved by the opportuni. t y it affords of venting a little Party malevolence, overnment, aixi particularly the Board of Atimi. ralty, are charged with criminal oegligence, because a French Squadron has had the good fortune to escape from Port, and to reach the West Indies in safety ; and Ministers must, it is said, be responsible for having exerted so little vigilance to watch the Enemy,—We really do not know what degree of vigilance these Gentlemen reouire—but we should think that the Admiralty, having stationed a super., riot Naval Force off every Port of the Enemy which contained any Ships of War, would have been safe from the charge of criminal negligence, and of hate. ing exerted no vigilance to watch the Enemy." If an Enemy's Squadron escape from a Port watched and blockaded by a supetior British Force, it seems by no means consistent with justice to accuse the bard of Admiralty ofnegleti.' We desire, hoseevcr, not to be understood as wishing to throw out any insinua. dons against -. an Officer commanding ; a Blockading Squadron, because the Enemy 'mit , happen to elude hie vigilance ; we know that in many cases it is im passible to pretest if the Meer' commanding the Blockading . Squadro n b e not l i a bl e to blame, it is rather too much to censure the Board of Admiralty for it. But, it is said, the Admiralty are culpable because they had not a, 11,yerior Naval Force prepared to meet the French, at the spot where they chose to commence their attack. 'll this argmnent mean any thing, it means that it is incumbent on the Board of Admiralty to have a Fleet eqital to the aggregate of the Naval force of' France' in every part of the world where an attack may be made. 'Suppose, instead of the Squadron from Rochefort, the Fleet from Brest had escaped, and had sailed eithet to the East or West Indies, would the Adrniralty he r , uilt y of criminal negligence if they had not a Fleet of 'twenty Sail of the Line mixing off 1/nniniea, anti another of equal foree off Ceylon t The Britisii• Navy, great as it is, would not, If it were doublet in sufficient for this,rurpmz , With respea to the attack upon Pornin;ca, we have Very few particulars to add to thosew‘hich we yesterday laid Jaffa:, out Readers : %le hot great flagon to hope that General ratrosT will be able to hold out until he receive a reinforce. ment ; and it is stated that yo© men had reached him frs)ln Barbadnes. it is certain that the Forces un. der his commaml amount to goo Regulars,and bet weep four and five hundred Militia. There is reason foal,- prehend that some Merchantmen had fallen into the hands ... of the Enemy, having arrived at Dominica after the French were in possession of part of the Island. The Vessels stated to have been so Gap cured are, the llazukesbu►y, CAr.a. ; Progrerr, FROST ; Marquis of Lansdowne, ; Mars, MITCHELL ; Stork, THOMPSON, from London; and Stapleton, ,Richmond, and Watson, from LiVer- pool. A Fl►•et from Demerara called at Dominica, in the beginning of February, but fortunately sailed from theme on ;he sth of that month; The Fa. ryourite, flotramq, from London, was spoke with in long. 4s or 46, all well, with five Sail i►t coin. pany, bound to Dementia. The Unicorn Frigate, which sailed from Ports. mouth the latter end of December, with a Convoy For the West Indies, arrived off Barbadoes , the t zth of February. The Ships bound to Jamaica were to sail from Barbadoes on the tsth of February. Avery desperate engagement has been fought n the West Indies, between Le Cur' ieux SiQop of War, and the 'General Ernouf French Privateer, of 22 guns the littler was captured, after losing a number of her crew, and sent into Barbadoes. The Minervo, Du NSTANV ILLS, from London to St. Vincent's, had been captured, re-taken, end afterwards arrived safe at' I3arbadoes. The Ilrot.hers, from London to Barbadoes, is taken and carried into Gviadidoure, The Westbury, Git:n ear, from Bristol to Gre- nada, is also captured and carried into Gnadaloupe. By the intelligence received from Antigua, of the tg.th February, we learn, that the sailing of the . different Surinam Convoys was regulated as fol. lows :—The first was to Dave Surinan on the ; zth of April, and to take up the trade from Antigua, at an appointed rendezvous; the second was to l eave that Colony on the 28th May -; the third on the 3t st July ; and the last at Wale time in au. turns. THE Public have, no doubt, read and reflrded upon the Letter from Lord MELVILLE to the Com. missioners of Naval inquiry, inserted in our Paper of yesterday.--. That Letter cantains his Lordship's positive disavowal of all participation in any Pro,tits which Mr. Taorrite. might hatie derived from the use of the Public Money which hchad in his hands, and this disavowal his Lordship declares his readi. ness to verity on oath. The reason stated by the Noble Lord for his unwillingness to make such a distind disavowal before, was, the intricate na. tore of, Mr. TaortEß's Accounts, which pre. vented his Lordship from precisely knowing whether any pecuniary advances mode to him by Mr. TROTTER came from the public or private funds of that Ciantieman. The report of the Cum. 1 missioners, as his Lordship states in his Letter, re. (erred his answer to their inquiries to periods w h en M r . Tao TTE A 'was not in office, though his answer, in fad, ought to have been referred wholly to the rime when the latter, was in office. Lord MELVILLE, with a degree of urbanity baldly to be 'e4etted after the treatment he has received, and the opprobrium attempted to be thrown upon his character, terms this very strange, as well as erroneous Misapplication of his An. ewer, sir an ;ilarcarary." The Enemies of Lord MELvit4,E, in answer. to his Lordship's Letter, say that he ought to have known that Mr. Trtorrett's situation did not afford him an opportunity •of inking such advances from his own resources ; but Lord MELVILLE must have known that Mr. Te.ox- TEB., by his former business, had obtained consi_ derable wealth, arid that his intimate connexions and relations are of a very opulent description...-. These Enemies are, however, malignant enough to suppose that his l i ord3hir, isi his Leiter, has made a fallacious vindication of his conduct, and that consequently he would incur the guilt of perjury if . he were to support it by an aflida. vit. On 'such malignant suppositions we shall make no comment ; but leave the ultimate de. cision to Parliament, hy whom the matter will soon be thoroughly investigated. It may, how. ever, be repeated, that the enemies of his Lordbliip have acted upoa the true principles of the French Revolutionists, in the I..forst period of their career ; in attaaking, with such unlppeasable rancour, his Lordship's rbara4er before he could have an oppor. tunity of a fair trial. Yexterany H;s MAJVSTY dined' with the Plit;tl. ct ss ot WALII, at Illackltectth, and arrived at the Queen's Reuse about four o'clock. Hsi M r.jAsmy, aCCOlTlpailittit by three of the PRI NC 114915, paid a morning visit yesterday to the Hon. Mrs. Howe, at her hOuse in Grarton.street. About three Watt& His Royal Highngsa the rp.lnt of WALts visittcl Hut IVIAi • SUN-0111'1re, . HALF PAST 'tWn► Me ,wig 16, We stop the Press t o state, that the falls intelligence was just received at LLovosi: Accounts from Birbadoes, of the 2.6.11 Feigner)? that decker, the French Force arrived at Martiolq" on the 19th February, consisted of one dad/ The Uni c orn t-w 8 1( .° ;i 3 ;a Frigate two strived 7 4's, anadt fißY:tbiladroirgiateolll the 26th: she had just boarded a Neutral Vol d from Martinique, the Captain of which cans rn!d the statement of the Enemy's Force arrived h and added, that Seven Sail of the Line, vrit ser e ' ral Frigates and .Transports, were m oment a for thepo r ‘ e xpected there from the Medit erranean, pose of co-operating in a ge neral attack on el! Islands ; and further added, t hat an Expetlllo6l •laic St. 4.7,00 men were on the point o f sailing Wi ll Lucia. A number of Ships, one o f them sl id be a Line-of-Battle-Shrp, five o f them . Blig l ! and from their maneuvering, supposed to PIP: were seen from the Height s to windwar, owl were fallen in with on the by an . 0 61141 Vessel. The Prince of ilustr;a T r ansport, bc* cured by the French Fleet in the West Wi!' 1ma•rbe......... ......,--. INntit.Hooss.—Yesterday a.OOlll OfPitaro; was held , whep the undertnenticsiedShipio4l" 6°4, viz; •4, ,: ~„ soi Ann, for I"k:ailras and Bengal, to bo afloat 110""" ? - sail from Gravesend April Diana Glory, 3°. i f fisie4 .o6 and Sara ht y,and Northampton, for Ma :, bo p Christiana, , for Bombay and Beopir I' . . April 13, and sail Irons Gravesend May 11.. ot e Marquis CORNWALLIS and hit suite ir„e4,,. on Wednesday next for Portsmootbi.'w:":loo will embark for the East-Indies . lie' w "` 11111 'i companied by five regiments of infotridli ' . , I 3th Light Dragoons. The following is the Answer of 1 1 1'. v i oi. :Cc sioners of Naval uity tc) the L ette r ' ll i, , I ELvILLE, inserted in Tplt SUN Of lOW 641 , Office 61 NOVill INII4I I li , I WO!, April Jo il'ii i isti Of My LORD—We have rc...ceived your LoittiK/P 4 ' 0 0' the atith of last month, by which you intirnao tt'' t ' aw lih „ n a pear not to have accurately understood the greo-;,,ioors- Yetl declined answering our questions, and s ubtalh. l . t o jot observations in order to place those groun al " ) i n ; toe view ; and also express a wish, before you 4 °oo red an inaccuracy in one part of you r ev idenect , ""' tie tit." ' to verify by your oath the faas stated iu that .- 3 . , 0 el! If it ne the obitiNl o f this CommunicatiA ;b i d e! again b, require your Lozdship's attendance, :Gr 01 , -,; i e upon jeux:eninneide,istaoru:ilt thesomatteri, arlll,4oste make a Supplemental Report upon the O lit ig i g h t tiel f : ‘ Initiation, and such other examination SalS al W''''' ia ' s iot, r. there call gnu di li t 7 ,„„ - i) 000,. ,pans (as far as wo . are concealed in the I i apPsO n ttps, Ot 7, , ing your Lordship's wishes: But - it ad ulO r i inquiry, which is the subject of ‘' iftercl4ll:gro tett taint(' that period when it woul d not bcCci.F . f u ip itl y such a measure merely upon the sugslo4 . - ji parties to whose conduct that Report 010! , in • pi% We.were oceu pi of se VetAl months in inveitir t g i o fF of conducting the business of the office of 'fibs`' pNoarvtuy:ntTylotofssetawtihnogNavnedrecexxpaimaiinni :d ig I:Y o u t * h t i lu o t 7 7 ., :jo hleli,i„. 4.- to the management of that departmet7r? tits , 0 0 0 1' they respatively had in it ; and o f corre'el igt „ : olo during the progress of the Inquiry, anyniistali; 00010: •nadvertently have been made. Our oplO n aloo oo l 4 - ° I ; upon th e irregularities and abuses which ts l 4 6s c liloil°;; formed anu cirawn up With the utinost 00 5' 1 1 .. ,h0 4, and they are now submitted to the 'VIPs 14.'7:000:ti Legislature, as the A4i, by which Vfd O IC I ,: p e 0 ;) quires. It it could he made to apllc4r ul:ll;;;lcnatittit44:elp; to them that any thing has been °Mite' misunderstanding or error had ?c curredia ild . 2 1 ° 1 3 iglOt quiry is ad viseable, upon these, or ani vt-10, Amin,` would be for them Co threat such turtherlll,'.:4loo.4, chile by whom, and in what manner, it snogl7orio 0 but, in the present circumstanues, 11 itin s ‘ i° i . cannot with propriety resume it. L o rds . Or We have the honour to be, MY hl , p 1,77. Your Lordship's most obedient 1311 P- Cl.I. M. PO"' . l'IVI°111.1414ANNINIC:kCI:°:::::1:0'S'It'' . 'l.. 14 .14P1$9' I ° aLiNsLb.oisnnw"a; s 'F „ genx.c,-*-1114 rlitgliiii:ll:l4 t11\410,/liaril'gittili:ll:l:i :,............-Initiy impe s. 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