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~- IMPERI44. PARLJIIMEJVT• 110VSE OF PEERS. THutuniiv, -APRIL 4. "1:11 la Lordships proceeded further in the Ap. pea: of Biane, Trustee f,,r Sir Andrew Cad). cartotgainst the Earl of Cassilis. Mr. ADAM was heard ire Contiourition on behaif of the Respondent ; after which the further eontsideration was postponed till Monday. Sir. I. W. ANIIEILSON, Mr. GILES, Mr. PIERRE POINT,ard 'several other Members of the Houle of ,CoirpriOns; brought up the Irish Spirit Permit' Bill, the" Bread Assize Ball, and some ',Private. Bills; which were severally read It first time. pn the Broad Assize „Bill, tbe,Earl of SurFoLic said a,fe.w, , yi . Ords, for the purpotte,of spewing. that tine A,size of Bread in L'aridon was fixed too high. The Customs Duty .13111, and the ,Excise Duties Bill, were read a .third time, and passed, and a 'Message sent to the Commons to acquaint them therewith. The Committee on the American Treaty Bill, and the Neutral Ships BiII, were postponed till to. Lc orrow. B.,)wyer's Lentery Bill, after a few ohserva. tions frcitti Lord FLLSNIIOItOUGH arid Lord WAL- I,INGIIAM, was read a second time, and referred to a Committee. The Bengal Scipreme Council Bill passed through Committee; and was reported. "rice - tarl uf> Surpout moved, that the Letter veritten try LOTti VisCotllit M LVItLE to the Com. missioners of Naval Inquiry, dated the 28th of IVlareh, with their Answer theretoi should be laid an - the Table.---Ordered. Lfirci AUCKLAND gave notice of a Motion, as . we understand, relative to . the Charges' against Mr. justice Fox, for Thursdity next vfor which day the Lords were ordered to be 'summoned. CATEDLIC PETITION. Lord GRENVILLE saiti, that Agreeably to the rmice which he had vreviously kitten, he wished tO fix the loth of Niv for the discussion of the Nil. tion now on their Lordships' Table, from certain of Mai , nity's Suhjeds, in Ireland prniessing the Roman Catholic Religion. Ile therefore moved. that the Lords be surnmoned fox that day.. Lard 4UCKL ANL) wished,for A more .definite specification of 11,e Nobl e Lord's intended Motion relative to thi, Lotd'G i LN KILL S said, it was his intention an the day he had mentioned to move for a Committee to take the Petition into consider a tion. The MUliat IstilntlVJOing the Lords' for the loth of M4y }ttitS then agreed Cu. !jtraogets were ordered to withdraw, whilst their, Lordshirs discussed a question of Privilege / dative to Wi4o had caused a disturbance at the door of the House oi Lords, but 'who is no' yet in custody. Onsre,enterilt ilit , litatise we found their Lord. abips.in converiation relaiive to the Standing Or. tier, No. 30, a ncitice of a Motion for the expunging of which was given by .14,,rd MuLaRAVX 0,4 Tues. 4 4 y fo r Monday next. A few observations were made by Lord Mut.. pRAvg, GuaNyttot, Earl FJTZWILLIAM, and the 1 1,9 t to CHANCELLOR; bolt n proCeediogs were had, and the conversation having ended, Lord Fra,wx.esaUltY H)o4ed to postpone the,se. wind renting of the Oxford and Cambridge Univer. sity Bill to Friday, the 2s'•h of April, The Bishop of oxi•ottDD acquiesced in the Mo. .burl. • Lord G lENVILLE expre s sed his ;Ipproliatian of the principle of the Bill, but feared the tirldy pro ! . poled might be too long to allow the Bill passing through - the other FtAtse before the close of the Session. The Earl of SUPPOLICiaid, that as they were on the subject of Advowsons,, he wished to advert to the situation of a very deserving body of men, nittnely, tjte• Curate, which had been very little improved b the op ration of the Bill passed two tiession.4 ago. Fit, had received several letters upon ihi t 'Subjyr: frfiro p f .• rsona of that description, and , he. wished his speech to serve as an Ativcriisrment in ‘ll,ll l),1.1y Or Olen to bend him more conntionications of nature (a lqud laugh).• After a few further Gl)ficrvaii.it:l from the Bishop of Lo the Duke of No R rots:, and the Bishop "of CxFut , .o, the Morio i m of postponement was sgreeil to ; aid the Lords ordered to be summoned for the t6th of April. NAVAL I)E, RTA4 ENT. rod 1)41k IV L. EY obset { ved, thAt When the No. hie Viscount laid the Papers on the Table, which hAki bedn granted in consequence of 'the . A4dresses voted to Hts fvliSjgwri, -he hakstated, thsit the ke. preientatiOng which ' passed between the Navy 04ra and the Admiialiy were somumerous, that it 14'idS1 vrepate copies Of them without gre,si intetv:viliun Business; It ap. ytJted, lioweet, very exiravadivary, 'that Papers, w h i di 1. 1 , v Adthess had been presented to His tvl. , jesti , and' la 11 . 16 His . Mdiesty had'been pleased if.. 'dorm t 4 lious 4 _6ll,,old be laid before ihem, tx,eic do ithheld merely on s the 51;410'11CM of the Noble VISCOWII in his place. Lord MIELFILI.E said, he had tnoved to dis. chsrge the Older fot the ALidre , ,,s, 'a pruc t edi og which I,e c " 1 4$ 1 , 5 r futtly regular. Ine G i 'INCA I,LO fecolledion of a similar ease, and therefore could not 'tate .the i)rattice of the House. Lord GRE,Ni4 I .4.LE said, that as His Majesty kid sent a rmtice, that he Was pleased to grant the rapers, the regular proceeding would'have been another Mesc ge from His Majesty, stating, that it was found st;ffic illeollVelliCile would ' arise from producing the Papers. Their Lk.rdships would then had the option, either i to move another Address, or to reimin I H tised lib the answer. R 4DUCTION - , The Older of the I)ay being read for the second reading of the ReLlutlion Bill, Lord IMIrKi4S,BURY rose, and stated the ob. 'cat it saill to he, increabe the Disposable t:orce.ol the C.untry, by allowing a certain pro. portu n ela Mtliu to enter into the Regulars and tldr IVlArittes. The increase 011ie Militia in was not greater then the exigency of the peri , il re. quired. A Bill, however, had been Fiisseci last Sessioo for reducing the English Militia to 40,000, 09a the Scotch to Soon men.. This principle befog recognised, it was fur their Landslips to coosidera, whether a great public advantage, would not . ariae from allowing the Militia to volunteer into the Re., gulars, instead of waiting for their gradual reeltiee, ties • In pointing out the propriety of reciting the Militia, his LoteishiP observed, that the Volun. seers now constituted a great peatenetiebt Definifve Force, and that there were great objections to push. ing the,Militia'hyorid its due bounds. He was no friend to the Militia who wished to carry it to an extent in i,vhieh it could not be maintained upon true Militia principles. In consequence of the augmen. , cation of the Militia, it had been found impossible to obtain the necessary number of Officers. Of the nuedier attualiy e requireil by law, there were nearly. +co deficient ; and if those 'whom particular regu. lations had rendered necessary, were included, the deficiency of Officers would amount to about 500. As the Militia Officers, were .themselves to carry the Bill into execution, there could be no appre. hensien of its operation Peening injurious to the discipline of the Militia. : The Marquis of 13UCKING11,4111 very strongly expressed his predileCtion for that Constitutional Force, the Militia. Much had been promised last Session, relative to the increase both of the - Defen. sive and Offensive Force of the Nation, but when he looked at the situation of Europe, and of this Country, he was surprised to see how little had been done, compared with the giant promises which had so liberally been made. The Earl of DERBY said, that were the Govern ment of the Country in proper hands, he was copft dent a great Disposable Force might be created withoutareserting to the miserable expedient of rob. bing one service to feecteenother. The principle of the Bill was bad, and the provisions were such, that its nhjeft rota not be 'attained. Was it the inten tion of Ministers to tell the world and Bonaparte, that the Resources of this Country were it su low a pitch thei 17,060 Men could net be procneed with_ cut tranferring them from one service to another ? His Lordship expreseed his regret that the Clause for liinitieg the period of service, proposed in an. other place, had been rejected. The former Adinia nistratiun had given a pledge that no measure of this kind should be proposed ; but that pledge was now completely violated. It was understood there was to be no farther ballot for the Militia, until the gradual reduction was completed; lautin'consequence of this Bill, a new ballot must immediately: take Why was this Measure not brought forward before if it was So necessary fur increasing the Disposable Force ? lie believed it was introduced at this, time, in order that the men might be sent to reinforce the West India Garrisons t in that quarter of the world a French Fleet now _rode ttiumpliant ; and it appeared that the defence of the Colonies had been grossly The Earl. of BUCKINCtiAMHIRE said, that when the Bill was introduced for increasing the Mi. litia Force - to 60,000, it was certainly not in the contemplation of Government to reduce it below that number. • The Counly was now, however, in dif. ferent circumstances, and it bad already been deter.- mined by Perliament, that the Militia should be reduced to .0.000. In this situation, was •it not 'advisable to rake the opportunity of iocrcasitig the Disposable Force, by allowing the number to he re, duced, to enter into the Regular Army ? The Noble Earl who spoke last had very ircorrealy described the state of the West Indies. There was a British Naval Force in that quarter, which he was coefi. dent, would not permit a French Fleet to tide there triumphant. He could Also assure his Noble Friend, that the Foice which might be .obtained by this Bill was not wanted in the West Indies. Care had been taken to have a Military slid Naval Force there, frilly, sufficient to meet those events which had"ucclarred, and the possibility of which was not 'Ordure/Oen. • Lord Peeve, in • explanation, maintained, that if one Men was taken from the Militia it would be an infringement of the Constitution. ' Lori BORINGDON observed, that no man was less inClined than himself to dissent froM the pane gyrieprotiounced by the Noble Marquis in favour of the Militia. He respeded it as the Constitutional Force of the Cawley, and therefore. conceived it ought not to he violated. He doubted very much whether the number of men proposed to be raised by this Bill would volunteer from the Militia Regi ments. From the Regiment he commanded, - he. thought but few would volunteer into the Line. Lord CAWDOR' said, his decided opposition to this Bill did not proceed from any systematic deter. mination to throw eliffieuitiee in the way of His Majesty's Ministers. IltsohjaEtion to the measure was, that it evotild•give a fatal wound to the Militia Seryiee. He observed, that the RegOlar , Army would nor benefit by' it, because only the very worst men in, the Militia Regiments would .volunteer those who, having miscoodualed themselves, wished to cuter into a different service, apd those habitual drunkards who would be glad to avail themselves of thebounty. He considered the Bill as :timed at the character snot Constitution of the Militia. His Lordship entered into a long detail., the reiult of which was, that Government, when the Militia was reduced last War, had pledge(' itself not again to have recourse to a similar measure. H e concludes' by saying;, heshould vote against the Bill. Lord Wi.STMORL AND contended, that the , principle upon which the M i l itia was founded did nut peeclude the men Composing it from engaging in any other service of a less limited - nature. He considered the present proposition as one which, in its consequences, would be highly. benefieialoo the Country. The Bled of CAERNARVON observed, ithatohe breath was scarcely cold with which the pledge hail been given never 'to recur to a measure that had for its ()hied the teduaton of the Militia. He denied there was tiny necessity for the measure proposed, and•lie objeaed to it chiefly ;le hostile to every Con stitutional pritteiple. Lord C D F,N supported the Bill, on the groun d that an augmentation of the Pisposahle Force of the Country was neceoary, to whiell the present me store would essentially contribute. This wa.3 to be ciliated ii a inisnoq as latibfattory lof*le to tlic Ittiinp of the Militia 011 . 3r5, who were a bpdy Whom h' ropeeled, and who were intitled to the appr hnian of the Country far- their zeal and great exett ions. rot E.irls of* SupPottc,',Routtutir, and CAR. o,iposed the measure, and, censured the wretehetl exvekiiertis and nugatory systerni"by which the Regular Force was pr o po s ed to be augmented. —The Noble Lords, however, corigratulated the Country on chi failure of the Parish Bill, which was ,evident, from the introduttion of that then before their Lordships. MW .The,Loao.CHANcni,es. having put the ques. tidn, that the 'nut be read a second time, a division took place—Contents 102—Non Contents Majority 4.8. 'l`h• Bilt was thieread a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. Adjourned.• HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, APRIL. , Mr. N. VANiITTART took the Oath. and his seat, as Member tor Old S.►rum. The London Bread Assize, and the Irish Militia Volunteer Bills, were read - a - third time and passed. Lord STorkotto acquainted the House, that His Majesty had .been waited upon with the Addresses of Friday last, and had been pleased to give ordets accordingly. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, on moving for the second reading of the Bill for establishing an Asylum for the support of Lunatics in Ireland, thought 'it proper to observe, that the COmmittee upon this. subject, of which he had the honor to, be Presi. dent, had reported in June last, that the Grand Ju. ties of Ireland negletted to comply with the Aft of the 27th of His present Majesty, empowering theta to make provision for establishing Places, annexed to the Houses of Industry, for the accommodation of Lunatics and .Ideots. He then read many parts of the Report, which stated, that . even - where there were charitable• contributions for that put. rose, the expences of the accommodations very far exceeded the Funds for their support—and, What he chiefly proposed for giving security. to, that ne t . cessary ; object was, that the Establishments should be under the inspeClion of the Judges upon Cir. cuits—and their Reptirt of Expences incurred should be annually laid before Parliament,, together with the proceedings of the Trustees. ' AY thought that the negled of the Grand Juries to exercise the powers given them under the 27th of the King, chapter 26, section 8, was not a sufficient ground for the measure now proposed, which he considered as no more than a tautology.. Being averse to a Bill which enabled Lords Lieu. tenant of Ireland to go to any, expence in the erec tion of places, for the maintenance of.a thousand mad Irish, he should propose, as an Amendment, that the Bill should be read a second time this day six months. Lerd DUNLO hoped the Hon. Bart. would not presss the sectind reading of the Bill on this day, hut defer it till after the Astizes in Ireland, in order to give the Grand Juries an opportunity of considering it. He expressed several objeCti'ons to theloovisions of the Bill, as the distance of the Asyla from each other would take the patients 'so far from their for. mar residence, and sometimes so or 6o nutlet away from the visits or inspettion of their friendi ; and, in that part of the County (Derry) which he had the honnur to represent, he sow no . strong symrtoMs or extraordinary madness which could induce him to vote against ►he Amendment. Col. BAGWELL animadverted on the incon'sis tency of the N,,ble Lord, who began by expressing a wish that the Bill should be delayed till the AN. sixes were over, and afterwards coneurredin a Mo. tion . for its total rejection. He highly approved of , the object it proposed, as there was a vast number of those nbjeCts to be seen swarming in every part of Ireland. Mr. ALEX ANDER said, that though he ap. proved of the outline,of the measure, he must object to the mode in which the object-was proposed to be accomplished. He thought the Bill d rawn up has lily sod inaccurately, and could see no necessity for all this complicated machioery. He should, there. fore, vote for the Amendment, in hopes that Another Bill would he brought in, which wooid be better 'adapted to the purpose. • - ;Sir'. NEWPORT replied, that all the objeCtions made to the Bill appeared to him more t(pplicable to a Committee. It was notorious, that the Att of th e 27th of ',His Majesty had been negletted, ai& that the :Returns of the Gr an d J ot i es o i C or k , Li l etick, Watetford, Ennis, and most of the other Counties, Were a negative to the provisions made by it. With regard to the power of the Lord Lieutenant, it was confined to the original direttion, 'and the inspec tion, detail, and regulations, would be- under the controul of the Judges at the *Assizes. He 'dc. Glared sincerely to the •House, that the tolled of that, or any other measure he should .propose, was not meant as a party job, or a provision for any individual, hut ptuely touaded art the Report of the Committee. If, however, .the House should nut• think proper to assent to the Motion, he hoped the ,House would take•care that the Grand Juries should be compelled to make Returns of the provisinns they should make, in compliance' with the Mt of the 27th of His Majesty. Sir. G. HILL expressed himself, against the Bill s which he thought to' be unnecessary, when sufficie nt powers were already given to the Grand Juries. Mr. Lea said, he would oppose the present but was ready to support any other which would accomplish the same otsjcett'in a better manner. Col. FITiGERALD thought the LW at present competent to attain all the ohjeeti Of the Bill. Sir J, New PoeT said, that finding the sense of the House to be against the Bill, lie should beg leave to withdraw it--but not with the intention of bringing in another. The Amendment wag ) then agreed 'to that the Bill should be read a third time this day six months. Sir W. St:ol—r brought in a Bill for the better encouragement of Seamen, and the more etiedually and 3peedity recruiting His Majesty's Navy; which was read a - first, and ordered to be read a se. Could time on Tuesday, in order that it may be printed in the interval, lie stated that he should move for a Committee, and that the clau,es should be filled up, 'and a sufficient Mine allowed for th e evnsideration 9t the ntynero4l royi s i w,is i t t on. tained j which being agreed to, he moved, that the House should to.morrow4esolve itself into a Co. mit tee, to consider of so Much of the Prize Agencr Aft as relateaf to the salaries, perquisites, and enlo• lumen's, of Malta, and the Bermuda and PO Islands ; which was agreed to. Sir RR. LAWRIE said, that, in consequence 0/ the delay and difficulty attending it, he should ta t tl ie for the discharge of so much ut the Order Ivircsr• merly moved for, as related to the expert ee of " I ' lunteer Cavalr in respea to the article of nolt, l and Hair Powd e r; which Motion was agre ed to. II! then moved for a detailed statement of the Funds applicable to the expense of the VolunteerSetrlet.it! ! from the Office of the Agent General, together her the experice of that Establishment, and also the"' pence - of payment of the Staff o f the WOW! from the 24th of September, t fio+,• to the id °e nuary, igog. A Message from the Lorannooneed that thel cit had agreed to the Coastways iniportation and the Excise Duty Bills.—Adjourned. MA/ LS. ARR IVED —I in lablitg4 I Gottenburgli, • lin, Watctrani. ur.-1 WiiterOrth PRI.CE SToCKS TULA PAY Al ,i,vat.vA Consols - . " THE SUN. 4°411* 9 0 IS OICSILS [Matra AODP4II LONDON , FRIDAY, At.1211 : t1fn ........ .„.... , "" prriencrezmiteleißnhautanperodefrptse.rs:ißeosirayy::.er:eaisnotno tDnombei,l,iiecre3 ; ( 1 1 ::::: i neral METERS has svueeded in throwirla 01 sailed_ for that Island ors the 23d FehrOarYl than' ri d doub t s were entertained of their arriving 141dt - The large to the southward r 44 froth Cork in the beginning of FebruarY 135 r/ a i lg , badoes ick early in March. The were 3 1 WICen I 1 Yr,, , Madeira on the 13th febiu. , d Olg The accounts in the Papers of Adm. ' ° " ' „, g plit spoken h uitirahaving f v o inn n gg d g e s with being o f o d r r t l i e n n s A t T e d l a l tat i onn g ruffil e oir i t ar i nolc c e e n: Cm Oa:l3f' r e inforcem e nt the Frenc h ''a"TYt:le r''Sltiaa r5l i CI : tlhi 1 IV Flee hat ° 111 .ifill 'I4 C ; n lj lIP ' u re i : et he uT s e t d ill in re has six Sail of the Line ; and the Frenchl:°fcc. n , it SIT sisted of five. . One, of their Line- d ' 3.l 01 In answer t o where her the ha ° Tat° am amimmnosai Morning : s in; ge y r c op t ua u sl in ,p. r e 4, 1 1 ; or e : r : ip jor:: ty for stating, P"' 'se of Piteing our NatiotoiConceroginl° ti e r ; , • rid most disatrous light, 'i • the W I ati it It, w e have h o , t o of the French Line.uf-Battle.Shi wee a t" ~, w ilco the truth of the Morning that on the 16th of Feb , 1. , e f01i p,,, except one, which was driven into Pii'c`-' och l,o it is also stated, s he w as wreckccl, $E' _ l lO ingenious conjedure that the ade of V il i , IIA' 1 " expressly raised in the page of its Brother 4 nalo ;or ' These lets entirely annihilate the c 1 e To o which have been hazarded with reset w t. ', . of . j o the' , ton Fleet having been seen in the MO tic e 1 eCtd l i ,, f to Admiral COCHRANE'S not be' n g ' 0 che l fer S ome weeks after the arrival of t he 1-' ) Squadron. 1 v )fee Paper filluded o . 0 7 , 0 1 Several large Ships are staid' tO ' l3 C i fd , to the leeward of Barbadocs on the )s th ° 10 attack upOn saf e .1 whiQii there • ..,. ' is much reason go hclievt'olocceido muchefort Squadron returning from so 1 ' , „di° 1- 1 0.- hey I cots ld not be the Toulon F leet ' fro / : I chi° f ' The contents of some further I)lsit-t i o fov Barbadoes will be found in. a noihr r P' r Paper. Dominica; At ali events, 1 if 0 0 a ro ° d f h e e u l a l t T v i o hn n e : vi t t E e i L a nt l l n el ; a w l ys e e 'nl is i iS n n i ' g a ll r 'il e ; i rt h i b ir e ; y : 'nh s l i t ig u cC i ti n r ° r 4 lt i ll n ‘ lt :i ; '::::g.sh d tll i c : hh e id: l ij ci:ll°/.1:41: . I . of Or P. 1 40 Ship the .1/Egretar, the Convoy wo °/. ' . i fil till seed to Sr. Lucia. 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