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T ~. ;,. • .1 • , fr. • .%1 ' l 4 S ,• ' l O - . _ 21*.IniH%` , I ti FRIDAy, JUNE 3, 1803. fritics gixiii*dg; NITSIBER 3341.1 This Day was published, price 'S. 6d. THE SUBSTANCE of the SPEECH of . the Right Hon. WILLIAM PITT. in the House of Commons, on Monday, May a3d, on the Debate on the War. • _ Sold by C. and W. Nicol; Vooksellers to His Majesty, Pall. Mall ; and J. Asperue, Successor to Mr. Sewell, TIO WORKS •of LADY MARY WORTLEY MON- TAGU. AN account of the very numerous Orders M ready received for the Fine Edition of the Works of . LADY MARY WOItTLEY MONTAGU, the Pub. l ishet, in order to Make a gefteral delivery at once, is under the necessity of deferring the publication from Monday fill TueliseAv NExr, the 9th inst. on which day all the Book sellers will be supplied with Copies, tor the accommodation of their respetlive Customers. - 'l'he Work will consist of Five Volumes, printed on sm. !vain* Post. 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SAMUEL FINN INC, junior, Secretary. 111, 13 Attendance is given dilly at "the said Office, and at their Office h Pall-Mall, for the Aiming of Buildtbesi Goods, Merchandize, and, Ships, from Loss or Dawage by Fire, and also for the A ssuranie of, and granting Annuities on AFEMALE, left with _Seven Children unpro. vided tor, who has had the misfortune to fail in Busi. Hess, solicits the assistance of the Benevolent: The smallest Don:lnuit gill be recoved wall thanks it._Messrs• Coitus, Ilankers,lllLtrand, or Mr. Wraugham, Stationer, New Bond. strett.—She takes this opportunity to return her grateful Thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have had the goodness to serve an unprotected Woman and Seven Father. 44 : 5 S Children, and save 111C111 front penury and want. The Rev. Robert Tyrwhitt - Z. 33 a -. The Hun. Miss Alehevnioncl . ..1 t o Edward Wilbr a ham Bootle, Esq. . - io o Coitus Tro t t e r, Esq. - " S * W. Southby, Esq. . - .- . . at o The Earl of liglincaun . - . I t' 0 ..,; P. Anderton, Esq. - - - - I 1 0 7.. . _ ... - .... . oko 6 W. T. in a Letter - - . . 2 0 0 C.l). . . ~ . " . 0 7. 0 it. (minim:in - - - - - o 2 6 , Nlr. ly . • - - . •3 o Iler Royal Huder - Highness the Dutchess of Gloucester i r o Lady 'Adair - a 17 6 Lady Susan O'Brian - - . . oto 6 "VOURTEEN YEARS unexpired LEASE of a 4." COTTAGE and Land on Englefield Grtam, TO BE SOLD, most eligibly situated in the Noighbourhood of wincisur. With good Gatden t full cropped Shrubberies, and *very convenient Out.olficc for a small Family. Parrkulars apply, post paid, to Mr. Andrews, House Agent, Egharn, Surry. the Prernif.e3 mil be viewed at any time, andinusiediatc possession he givon. May 170803. WAR , thoOFFICERS of HIS MA lESTY's ROYAL NAVY, tuskAß MY. 701-1 N DURGESS and SON take tlti3 early op. portunity, iu the renewal of War, to solicit the favours 0/ their Friend, the Officers of the Royal Navy and Army, whom they had the honour of hetiore 4tting out. Officers going to the East or West Indies, or upon a Sta. tionary Situation, can he provided regularly with Stores, \ as *ill 'keep good in any Climate, upon the shortest notice. Families in general arc Tespedfully informed, ttey have lately imported a large quantity of rannewn, Gruyer, and Chatniger Cheese, French Moutanle de Maille, Nevi Salad Oil, Gorgotti Anchovies, New French ()lives, Capoot Ca. pers Westphalia Hams, Rein Deers Tongues, &c, &c; Warehouse, No. 107, Cameral the Savoy Steps, Strand, London. SALE of MANFIELD FARMS POSTPONED, and the • - Lots altered.. MA NT I ELI). TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, In Seven Lots, at the House of Mr. Ringrose, Innkeeper, York, on Wednesday the Bth Day of lune, 1803, at hour o'clock in the Afternoon, subjedi to such Conditions•as shall he then produces! ; A lA, that VAluable FREEHOLD ESTATE, A situated in the Parish of Mantield,' in the North Rid ing at Yorkshire, containing 1.;25 A. 3 R. 12 P. or there. abouts, of excellent Arabic, Meadow, and Pasture Land, now in the occupation of several respectable Persons as Te nantA front Year to Year; together with ,thc Corn Tithes thereof; viz. Lot t. HOWDEN HILL FARM, containing 123 A. 3 R. 25 P. or thereabouts, with a Farm House, and other neces say Buildings thereon, and now 'in the occupation of john Wade, as Tenant. Lots. ABBEY FARM; containing 206 A. tR.aoP. or thereabouts, with a Farm-house and other necessary-Build ings thereon, and now in the occupation animas Stnintliorp, as Tenant, with Three Cottages, situated in tiie Village of Stanfield. Lot 3. NEW HOUSE FARM, containing 236 A. 3R. 36 P. or thereabouts, with a Farah-house and other neeesbary Buildings thereon, and now in the occupation of william `Wright and loan Hogget as Tenants, with One Cottage situated in the Village of •Manfield. Lot 4 . HALL (;LOSE FANI, containing r 56 A. 3R. 9l' or, thereabouts, with a Fartn.hause aed'other,necessary buildings thereon, and now in the occupation of William Wright and {On Ilogget as Teems, with Two Cottage's si. Ipated in the Village of Manfield. Lot S. LONG LEASES. FARM, containing 757 A. °R. P. or thereabouts, with a Farm House aud pther necessary Uttildintis thereon, and now in the occupation of fohn Hag. let as 'I conic. Lot 6. LOW HOUSE FARM, containing 196 A. 2R. 1 7 P. or thereabouts,. with one rarer House and °Mettle. ••eisary Ruildirtss thereon, and now in the occupation of Ro. :Jett Smith, as reliant. Lot 7. I'INKN EV CARR F. containitg 149 A. 6.11 '• Z3 P. or thereabouts, whit one Fag) House and outer tv-CessarY Buildingsthereon, and now iu the occupation of the said Robatt Smith, as Tenant. 14 • Di Each Lot is within a Ring Fenco. .. "Photnas Craliam of High LonscliM ' and the respec tive T 0121123, ;hew the several Lots. A Plan and Sur. yey of tha :mist:Tay 1)4) seen at Messrs. Witharns', Gray's. ~Il l, l ' ',l 4 ‘,l a r. e . Landon; Mr. l'ay,los's, at. near Durham t I tlithorne's,ctt Lartington, near 'laniard Castle; and at the above-named Thomas Graham's. , This Estate is calithle of great Improvement, bcii ig within Mite of Lime of the best quality. It is also situated wit h a short distance of excel cut Coal. It is hounded 00 the North by the Ritter Tees, and by' the 'turnpike Read from Pierr,c.hrielge to Catterick.bridge, on the West. It is situ ated tour Miles from Itactingtost, eight Nliles ; to. I:iL:lttriond, Ind elcvm Miles twin Parnant CAStle, Market Townsov4rc 311 Y gitant! , y of .C.ortt may he sold to ti.e hest advantage, and each of whiektltere are good Tninol.o - gmuli• It i nimeeissary to make any ola,trYatiort on the Fertility, 1114 kiltfwit rtchnei:i of th goal, oron the hcattty of the 'itirrounttiliS CoUniry. JAIPERIAL PARLIIM4Nr. HOUSE OF PEERS. I • iriOntsdAY, JUNE 2. - ?He Duke Of Liens was sworn anti took his seat. A number of Bills . , chiefly Private , were brought up from the Commons , by the SLCRIRTARY at WAR, Mr. AI4XAN DIA, and other Gentlemen. Among the Public 13ills, were the Supplementary Militia and the Land-Tax Redemption Bills. , • / The Bills upon the Table were forwarded id their respec tive stages, and those brought up from the Commons were, severally read a first time. CONDUCT' OF IVIINISTERS. • • The Order be the Day for, summoning their Lordships for the consideration of certain proposi. Lions, being moved, .' L a d FaZWILLIAhI rose for the purpose of bringing forward those propositions, the drift and tendency of which he had described to their Lord, ships on a former evening. Ir) the course of the various observations matte 14 , the Noble Earl, as introductory to his proposed resolutions, he ad '• vetted to the solemnity and intim ranee of the ques. tions which their Lordship were that night to tie. liberate upon and to decide. He, in Cottunon with those who heard him, must-be apprised of the re. spedahle charader, in most points of view, of those against whom he was about to state grounds for the disapprobation of that House, as Ministers. The task he had Undertaken Was painful—he was guided by no personal motives whatever, but solely came for , ward upon Public .grounds, and under strong im. pressions of his Parliamentary duty.: The subjett which he brought forward to the consideration of their Lordships, was not the aft of tlis Majesty's Ministers upon any one day, nor their condutt at any given particular period singly, but the general tenor and uniform chaeatter of their proceedings tor a very iieportant interval of time, and ,that not of very short duration. He should have parti cularly to - notice their cooduCt, nut only since the conclusion of the Treaty of Amiens, but before that period, from 'the time of the signing of the Preliminaries. In this view of the question, the Noble Earl proceeded to argue, that many at the 1 ails of the French Government, in the interval alluded to, were of the precise charaiter and d , :. soription of those acts which Ministers afterwards thought worthy of specific remonstrance and nego ., tiation, and ar a period when such proceedings could nut obtain with that effect as if they had beta taken up in the first instance. Among the instances stated by his Lordship, of the unju.gifiable anti aggressive conduit of the F tench at these eeriods, were their pro. ceedings with respeit to several parts of Italy, where with the most unprincipled audacity, they diStriem. bercd antient Nations, and annexed their ;roll:lied Territories. Why, he askedi did not Ministers stiew some indication* of wisdom or of spirit by an interference cni these occasions ? Why was not so notorioul, so extensive an agrandisemetit of the French Territory and Power, resisted by His Ma. j e sres Government ? So early even as' the month of February in that year, was the basis, agreed upon between the .two Governinents, infringed upon, anti disregarded by that of France.. Atfvertieo. p to a more • advanced period, the Noble Earl observed, that scarcely had the first mopthi of Peace elapsed, ere the French made additional annexations to their Territory : in fine, the Countries of Puma, &e. were taken possession of. In this part of his Speech, his Lordship referred to _memorandums for the dates of the periods in which the French had taken possession ot different parts 'of Italy., .until they became possessed of, die greater - or inure valu. able part of that peninsula ; in short, if that Coun try could not be 'considered as an integral part of France, it must be, considered in the light 'of a compleat Province. On these occasions, lie con tended, Ministers should have stepped forward,,and at least done that, which afterwards they found themselves constrained to do, but at a period when it was impossible they could aft with such tlyan. tage or effeit. The Noble Earl then adverted to the affairs of Switzerland, upon which he coin.. Hunted a' great deal in detail : by the information laid before Parliament he seemed to say, it appeared, that the conduit of Ministers with tespeit to the Cape , , - was guided by their senseof the transailions which had taken place in Switzerland. ' If nut, it would be incumbent upon them to state the grounds upon which so extraordinary a line of conduit pro. ceeded. His Lordship 'then referred to the Papers upon the Table for the dates, &c. of particular pro. Ceetlings which took place in the course of those - transactions—on the Communications made bMr. Merry, and other points, apparently with a-VieW to establish his opinion that IMinisters.were infiu. enced in their conduß with respect to the Cape, by their sense-of what.liad taken place with regerd to Switzeiland. He then alluded to the Mission of Mr. Moore, which, he.seemed to contend, was a period wherein the interference of Ministers could be of no avail, as it was well._ known to what a situation that unfortunate Country was reduced at that peridd. The Noble Earl then adverted to the admitted acts of aggression and injustice which bad been exercised by the French against the subjefis of this Country, and•vhich War, in open violation of express treaty, and contended that to scarcely any one insiance . had justice been done to the Represen. tations on our. part. Passing on to the affair on I whictilo much stress had been laid, namely, that of Malta;* his Lordship commented on that prominent 1 part of the transactions considerably in detail ; he ' obserVed, that on this occasion it was, that Mini. ' stets first appeared to manifest any degree of spirit or resolution, which former instances, more loudly called for, and where a spirited interference could I have been made with much more grace and effect. He 1 trade frequent references, and read copious extracts _front tile papers while discnssing this part of his suls. jefl, and argued, that Ministers must have been long before, aware of the intentions of the First Cansol with respect to Egypt; they were daily in the ha. hits of' seeing his unprincipled aggressions and boundless ambition 1 . before any specific coarmnrii. cations took place relative to the Island of Malta ; but that was the only point of all the iinpartant topics which existed, upon which: Ministers seemed to call for decisive exilanatinn. They at length called upon the spirit of the tanntty for support, in a case in which comparatively, there existtAl no adequate grounds, syliets they pars. sed by the innumerable acts of violence and ag-, gression on the part of France-without one de: cisive interference or call upon the Country 1)t -its support in resisting them. He ceesoted par ticularly 'the line of conduct adopted by Ministers with respett to the termination of those, transac_ . tions, as well as the mode and period in which 'they came forward to Parliament and the Country. With tesPeti to them, circumstances, he contended, had she%so that their boasted Treaty of Peace, was only' a temporary truce, and that Ministers bad withheld all due knowledge and information from Parliament and the Country, at periods when those were tie. cessary, and when the awed of events might be attended with she most desirable consequences.' It was upon these general grounds that he had' to . call upon their Lordships . in vindication of their own honout, and in contemplation ,of the best interests of the Country, to adopt resolutions expressive of their just sense at the weak, im. politic, and disgraceful conduct of Ministers - in the points to which be bad adverted. He could not avoid pressing to their consideration, that now the Country being, in consequence of - the measures of those Ministers, again in a irate of War, if they wished fur the assistance or co-opera. tion of other Nations, or wished their Country.to be respected abroad, the affairs of Governmenemusr be administered by men. of acknowledged talent, in whom the Country could safely confide, and who. in return could fairly call upon the Country for its exertions and support. Pursuing this topic for some time, his Lordship alluded to the circumstance of Mediation, to which point he seemedlo apply much of hit latter reasoning. He . then . proceeded to ad. vert to some points of the former cOnclutt of Mini. asers, and averred, that there was a time 'when they called for unanimity, when etch ought not to exist : their condutt In those points was such as must super sede unanimity. If they looked for this most. de. sirable of all objetis t let Government make the peopleione people, and they may safely bid defiance to all their adversaries. . The Noble Earl then pro. ceeded to stare the first resoluti on which he meant to move, merely as a kind of preliminary, or lead. ing plopoaition, which, as we cou ld eo lith, w as in effeet—" That by 'the Declaration of His MR jeity on the 18th of May, it appeared to that House, that the condtul of the French Republic towards this Country, contrary exhibited one continued scene to every rid. ciple of good faith, of aggression, violence and insult,,&c,"His Lard.' ship then proceeded to state Aar' tte shoted have Certain other resolutions to submit for the , ationtion of their Lordships' ; one of 'which, Ina deemed it incumbent Upon his candour to state, would eXpress.. I) go to censure - Miniiteti fir their conduct in par. tieutar points. His Lordship then described the nature of his subseqttent intended 'propositions ; after 'which he moved the first resolution, to the above effett, in fordu. The LURV CIiANCgLI.OP. secordingly read the resolution, anti on the quc:stionleing put, - The.Earliof Ft Fll, GROSVPNOR, and Lire r RICK, rose at the same time, but the last-mentioned Peer who had risen, though rather informally before, was most generally called uPon. The Earl of Iftl4RlCrthen proceeded to ob. 'serve, that upon a question Of such peculiar import. once as the present, and which involved subjefts of such interest and magnitude, he should find it diffi cult to give a silent vdte ; hut as it bad fallen to his lot to take a leading pats in the discussion of a sub. jeet, in some degree connc..t,d with the present, that relating to . the Pacification, he could not think of sheltering himself - under the shield of silence, on the present occasion. On alortner night, when , a line of discuision nearly similar had taken place, it was proposed, to . him mat unaccountably, and indeed it seemed the general feeling and sense of the Hqese at the time, that, it should be so, to consider the necessity, anti consequently the justice of the War, es a.subjed•distinet from the condo& of. His Majesty's Ministers, which in some degree neces. sully had brought the Country into that state.— Whether it arose from that confusion of intel. le4 which was supposed to exist among his Countrymen, he could nor tell, but for his part he .Could not ~separate those considerations, he • thought them ,closely linked and interwoven, and he was incapable , of fully consideting the necessity or justice of `the' War,, without refer ring at the same time, to the conduct of Ministers. Propositions of such a nature, the More-especially when brought forward by a Nobleman of rank and. ell:ruttier, as in the present instance, were worthy of the Most serious attention of that House :' - as such he contemplated the question and impending cussion with no light degree of anxiety, raped, ing that some ground might he made ta: foci the serious consitteraritet of the Rouse, but when I he heard the Speech of the Noble Eatlind heard a statement of the proposed resolutions, his anxiety entirely subsided, 'and Fe entertained no doubt of bei ng able. to Ahew, even from the very Speech of the Noble Fall hutp.ill, that the condoet at His Majesty's Ministers. had been inided by moderation and temper as long as they thought Peace could be preserved ;. and that wl.en they . were convinced '44 could its longer preserVe Peace consieteetly with the honour of their S. vereign, or the true interest of their Cavalry, they ailed . with heeeming spirit and decisitin that they endeavoured to raise the dorrianespirit (IV Europe, and (malty recurred to that line of conduit which a long series of insults and aggressions on the part of the Enemy had rendered necessary:, With ree speCt to the tenor of the Resolutions proposed by the Noble Earl, he trusted he should be permitted to say a few worth : the substance of the first be conceived to be, that since the Treaty of Peace, a continued series of insults ar.d aggressions were experienced by' this Country from France, and that from a number'. hf those nets, a disposition had become manifest, on flee part of the French Gavernment, to violere are Treaty of Pelee. The next Resolution, as he con e ceived it, went to complain of Ministers fur not: having from titneeo time communicated those nits of aggression, the correspondence, arc'. -to Podia. meat. Un rhls point; he must be allowed to Say, that if Ministers bad from sucha course, it would be a derelielioti from their duty ; nay, it would be an infringement of the 'Constitution of 'their Country. The prerogative of the Crown,- with respect la its Minieters, was too well known in that- House to require eicposition—to have recourse, the refore, to Parliament in the - way alluded to by the Nohle Earl, would, he contended, he to convert boots branches of the Legislature into Cahine!.c. He • should regard Stith a line, of procedere tir,coll. stitutional—in another point of viewi' it would go, •in a great degree, to exonerate - Ministers from their responsibility, it would go to shore it between Om and both 'noose, of Perlia. merit, need ultimately In a case of necessity, the - - great Council of • the Nation could riot punish for aels which it had repeatedly sundli tmc d. h w a s giV I assertion in atiOthet , ilf the Resnletious, that, Mini.. seers made no representations in ConsegnerWe • of those acts of the French Government—bat let their • LorpThips loek to the Cortespoodencei and they would soon be convinced:of the contrary. The erect-. dieft of .Ministers, with respect to the points under consideration, might, he thought, he divided into three periods: the first, that which int:nediately succeeded the Definitive Treaty of Peace ; in that they endeavoured most scrupulously to fulfil all its ,conditions, and as far as in them lay, to secure to their Country and to Europe, the blessings Of Peace.' The second period wow, that at which they leuda.: bly and, spilitedly endeavoured to fescue. Switzer. land from its impendidg fate, and on this important point, he would ask, what could, or what shotild Ministers do, but precisely what they did 1 The Envoy Of the unfortunate Swiss, it was true, knocked at 'the door of every Minister of the European Powers at Paris ; but among the degraded Nations of Europe, there were sotne, whose Ministers daied not allow him to pass their threshold lest they should draw down upon them the anger of the First Con. sal of France; on this occasion Ministers did every thing that siett wise, politic,. or fitting for them to de; they dispatched-a rerson to that quarter to learn firat; whether the Swiss were disposed to re. sist; secondly, theiexterit of their Power ; and lastly, the dispositions cif those Continental Poweri more intimately'CooneCled with that Conntry.—Ho.undete stood there were two parties, who disapproved of the Cortduft of Minsters, the one,- who thought they had unadvisedly and unnecessarily 'forced the . Country into the War ; the other who thought that War ought to have been made long since : for his part he disagreed with both : he thought His Majesty's Ministers had chosen rite moment to aft with spirit and decision 'when it was impossible to 'refrain from War. Previous to this, their con. duet was such, particularly with resped to a pro. curation of Guarantees, as tended to give every fa. cility to the execution of the Treaty ; they endured, for a considerable-time, the aggressive conduit of the French Government, and which-perhaps, more than in ael l y other instance, in its insolent attempti • against that great pall:Mien of the Liberties of the Country, namely, the Freedom of the Press, and the cruel demand of the First Consul, so- he must call it, respecting the Bourbon Family,' and the train of virtuous Nobles anti Ecclesiastics who preferred sharing their fortune and their fate ; the latter of whom had resisted the proffers held out to them; 'Sooner. titan violate their religious principles, their consciences, and their oaths. .Let their Lartishipi look nt.the conauft of the First Consul at the mo. ment these insolent regnisitions were made-.-at that very moment, self.conviCted and .avowed traitors were openly proteaed arid cherished" by the French' Government--.[a' .ctr Hee/ ! bear i")—Mert who had plunged their daggers into the bosoms of their unoffendirig Countrymen ; but, perhaps, he had used too 'strung language; In thecourse of moe . dem refinement,' to which he was not, perhaps, mice quately harmonized, it may not .be allowable to describe strong things in strong language :* the epi. thets of sweet Innocents might, according to s o me , be more applicable to them ; but it was that species of innocence that should be resigned to the guar. ilianship of Kirk, and. 'the Committee of Safety of Robespierre! Recurring to the general subject in' discussion, 'the 'Noble Earl adverted to carious 'points •of the conduit of Ministers which was censured by the last Noble Speeker. it would appear, 'he observed, that . there' were other causes fur Ministers ordering the ettaetl3lioll.ol, the Cape •to be suspended, titan the atfaies of StVitzerland. About the-period the counter orders were eent our , there was an aPparent intention on the part of the French Government, to • pour a great number . of troops into Holland, under the pretence of securing its independence, but in faet, he believed the de_ sign was to abrogete . the little remnant of itainde. pendence which then existed, Were she cession made under suchcircumstaneese the cession, the' no minally to Holland, would in effed be made to Fre nee '