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i IMRERML PARLIAMEN7. HOUSE OF PEERS.. TIMRSDAY, FERRVARY 3. ROUSE OF. COMMON . THURSDAY, MRUARY 3. RESTRICTION of 'BANK PAYMENTS io SPECIE. Lord IlAwKEsBuRy then sail, that in donse. quence 'of the absence of a Right Hon. Friend of his (the (UANCE LLOR Of the ExowEQuER), pro duced by a slight illness, he wa:•• authorised to give notice, in his name, that on Monday nest it was his intention to move for the continuance of the Aet imposing a Restriaion of Payment in Specie by the Bank of England. Tnts day, about four o'clock, a meeting took pu'rciant to their Lordships' adjournment, on the expiration of the Recess. A rather extraordinary number of Peers attended, and several were sworn and took their sears ; among whom were the tulr: d COVENTRY, EEFINGHAM, SO BE RKR I:EY Visctiunts FALMOUTit and I)(svN the Bishops of ELY and CHICHEVrER, and Lord Dr: DUNSTANVILLE. The Earl of DARTMOUTH, Lords Hoot), EL LENISOROUGIi, and "other Peers, presented their Lists preparatory to the Ballot, for Members to compose the East India indicature of the Upper House. One or two Petitions were presented with re. ape& to the Woollen MAnufafturers' Bill, which were ordered to lie on the 'Fable. Several arrangements were made with respen to the hearing of Appeals, and some private business dispatched. After which their Lordships adjourned till to-morrow, , NEW Writs were ordered foT the Borough of Ipswich, in the room of C. A. Cricket, Esq. tie. ceased, and a Baron for Hastings, in the room of Lord Glenbervie, who, since his elcaion, accepted the office of Ranger of His Majesty's parks and forests.. A considerable number of Members, mostly from Ireland, took the oaths and their seats. Thr. SPE4KER said, he wished" to draw the attention of the House to the subjea of two.Peti rions presented against the last Elcetion for the County and Town of Drogheda. According to Law all Petitions of this kind must be presented within Li.. days after the return of the Writ, and 'and recognizances entered into. In consideration of circumstances stated at the time, the House thought proper to enlarge the period for entering into reeogninnces for the Petition, in question for .21 days. That 'order was made on the zSth of Oaober, and the rule was, that recognizances should be entered into before the SPEAKER perso nally, or before a Magistrate, and transmitted to the SPE AKE It within the limited time, together ‘4ll th a• notice, that he may be enabled to inquire into the sufficiency of the sureties. That rule not having'been complied with in one of the Pc tit,ions, that on the part of . 11. Mead Ogle, Esq. the Order fell i z i , :to flithi to the ground, and was accordingly discharged. If the case had ended. here there — would have been no difficulty, but in regard to the other Petition, the case he believed to he of a novel species. He had received a recog nizanee.for that Petition, but lie wished the House to decide whether it came within the meaning and provisions of .the MI, which stated• that it was jawful for' the St.r.Akett. „to inquire into the sufft , •.cieney of the sureties,• empowered him to hear 11N•N►API." tin.l , • rink flee should also .be given to the adverse • party. The Officers, in whose deptrtment that business was, had informed him that they had received no intimation whatever of notice to the adverse party, and 112 understood that a Petition to that efFeti was ready to he presented by the Sitting Member. What he wished to consult them in was, whether the recognizance.alludedto came within the intent and meaning of the An ? In all 'questions of this WA it was 'necessary for the House to proceed with due deliberation, and he would beg leave to suggest, that the most regular mode of their pro ceeding would be a Motion that the Order be dis. charged, and the debate upon it he adjourned to some convenient day, such as Monday, which would neither be too distant nor too soon. Lord HAWKESBURY concurred in the pro_ priety of the observations made from the .Chair, nod, as he Fupposed that the floty.e would be dis. posed to fallow the suggestions offered, moved that tie Motion be diseharqd, and the .debate on the Notion adjourned to Monday next , ,--which Was ar, reed to. AFFAIRS OF THE CARNATIC. Mr. :KEANE reverted to a notice given before the Recess., of a Motion relative to the Affairs of the. Carnitir.', and urged, that'on a question of such importance, it was necessary that - the House should be 'possessed of the fullest information that could possibly he obtained. He was not aware of the moral or political - necessity for the Motion alluded to, hot before they came to the discuision, it was incumbent upon them to inform themselvesiof the rise and progress of- the different relations. subsitit.' -ing between the British Government, the Native Powers Of the East, and the East India Company. The nature of the relations between the C ompany and our Government was already before them ; but to judge of the other branches of tj,le subject}, they tnu,it have recourse to records too numerous for the irispedion iif theM all. To obviate this. difficulty be would refey Gentlemen to a. :work of great re; : potation, uncommon judgment and, accuracy, and .whieh had stood the test of a considerable portion of time, he meant Mr. Orme's History of Hip. dOstan. In the mean time he . should move, that there be laid before the House a copy of Lord M.:eartney's Letter to the Diredors of the East India Company in March, 1786, ditto-of a better in January, 1795, ditto of a Letter from Lord Hobart, dated on the Bth of January, 1795, the corresphndence thereupon between the Governor. General of Fort St. George, the Supreme Council, and the East India Company, and finally, the-Mi. note of Lord Clive in March, 1800. lord CASTZRE.4GI? saitl, he did not mean to oppose the Motion, though he believed all the information it called for was included in papers previously moved for, and already before the House. The several Motions were then severally put, and agreed to. A Petition was presented on behalf of certain Elettors against the Return of the present Sitting Members.—Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. CoRRY presented Petitions from the follow. ing Public Institutions in Ireland, praying for the usual Parliamentary aid : From the Governors of the Protestant Charter Schools ; from the Society for Charitable Donations and Bequests; from the Society for promoting the Christian Religion ; from the Governors of the Female Orphan House ; from the' Penitentiary House in Dublin ; from the House of Industry in Dublin ; from the Foundling Hospital, Dublin ; from the Hibernian Marine School ; from the Hibernian School for Soldiers' Children ; from the Westmorland Lock Hospital ; from the Trus. tees of the Fever Hospital ; from the Roman Catho lic Seminary at Maynooth ; from the Committee for widening the Streets of Dublin ; from the Cor poration for paving and lighting the City of Dublin ; From the Dublin Society for promoting Husbandry ; and from the Farming Society of Ireland. The Petitions were ordered to lie cn the Table. Mr. CORBY then moved the necessary Estimates in consequence of the said Petitions. Mr. J. C. BER ESEOR D presented a Petition from the Royal Canal Society, for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon—which was referred to a Committee. After disposing of some other business, princi. pally of a private nature, ;he House, at half past five o'clock, adjourned till to.morrow. MAILS. ARRIVID. .nus. 'Tolland 0 French o - ''' - 3 1 - Lunburgh o PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY A T TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols . . 70 A7O THE SUN. 110LIM QUIS DICERS FALIIUM AUDIAT LONDON, FEBRUARY 4, 1803. WE have at length received some of the Par;i Paper:. The Moniteurt of the 2.5 th, 27th, and 28th ult. reached us this morning, but they are un.. commonly barren of intelligence. General LASNES was introduced to the FIRST CONSUL on the 23d ult. and had his Audience of Leave, preparatory to r - - Ambassador from the French Republic. The Ft AST CONSUL expressed himself perfedly satisfied with the whole of General LASNES. conduit during his former residence at Lisbon. It appears by Letters from Naples, that the Re. gelid of Algiers had declared War against Denmark, and ordered the Danish Consul to leave Algiers in three days. The French Chargé d'Affaires interfered, and represented to the DRY that such conduct would be highly displeasing to the FIRST CONSUL. This remonstrance gave great of. fence to the pest, who a t first threatened to send the French Agent away in company with the Danish Consul ; but the business appears now to be in a train of accommodation. The French Official Style has been changed within the last few days the Ans of Government used to commence thus—" The Consuls of the Re. public decree," &c.--ft is now, 44 The Govern.. ment o f the Republic decree," &c. The Funds have risen to 57. 25. Lord. finw Ult V gave notice last night in the, fiduseof Commons, in the absence of the CHANCE Lt.oß of the Excur.Quvrt, that the latter would 'on Mcnday next, m)ve for leave to bring in a Bill to continue for a further period, the Bank Restriaion Bill. • Yesterday about twelve o'clock, the DUKF of Yott K . had a long conference with His, EvrY at the Queen's .House. At two o'clock His INCi ;FM' held a Privy Conn. dl, for the purpose of nominating the ,Sheriffs for .the year 'ensuing ; after which the Re COR,D E R made his Report of the conviets Capitally cOnvided in December Sessions at the Old Bailey, who were all respited during His MAJESTY'S pleasure, except Francis Findley, convi6led of forgery, who was ordered for execution ,on Wednesday next. There were present at the Council, His MAJESTY, the LORD, CfrANC ELLOR, the Duke of' PORTLAND (President), the Duke of RO X BUR GH , the Mar. quis of SALISBURY, Earl CHATHAM, Earl CH ES. TERF I ELD, Ear! WESTMORLAND, Lord ficortitT, Lord HAWK ESD U RY, Lord PELHAM ) and Lord CA;. TLER EACH. Mr. FA WK ENER attended as Clerk of the Council. The DAIKE of CORIDER LAND, paid his rezpeas to HER MAJESTY and his Royal Sisters. The Countess of ELY and Lady CATHCART attended HER MAJESTY aS Ladies in. wai t in g . Lord °MOW attended His MAJESTY 113 Lord in waiting, rue evening HER MAJESTY bad a, seled card party of finiale - 11/4L NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, FE n. 3. AititiVED His Majesty's Ship .Cerberus, from Jamaica, last from Ireland. Sailed this evening, the Aat, S!NCAR, and Jane, MELDRUM, for Havre.de-Graze. FALMOUTH, FE a. 1. ARRIVED the Four Friends, HOSK/NC, with bale goods, groceries, &c. from London ; the William, EAMER, with sugar, &c. from Liverpool, bound to Havre.de.Grace ; the Brig Suir, Capt: Jories, with provisions, from Waterford for Lon. don ; and the American ship Rebecca, Captain MIKEVER, with flour, staves, &c. from Philadel. phia, 38 days passage ; called here for orders. Sailed L'Emilie French Sloop, Captain TARTE: NEAU, with wine, &c. for Havre.de.Grace ; the Success, LANDER, with fish, last from Newfound. land, for Poole ; the Diana, WALLER, with but. ter, &c. for Southampton ; and Spanish brig El ihnistadt, GALEANO, with wine, fruit, &c. for Ostend. Put back, the Dutch Ship Three Sisters, Captain RYMER!), with gin, last from Rotterdam, bound to Guernsey. The litabinghom Packet, from Lisbon, is hourly expeeted. Tl,e King George Packet, with Mail of the 25th ult. for thence, sailed on Saturday last. Passengers in her were, Mr. StrwEt.t. and family, the former in a very bad state of health, accompa. nied by Dr. FEL LOW RS• GREENOCK, FIB. I. THE gran, ANDERSON, from hence, arrived at Antigua the 16th Dec. 0 - ter a passage' of 65 days, and from Cork 41; passengers and crew all well. Colonel SDP WART, Captain RATIN. AY, and Doctor WALKE R, Of the Ist Battalion of Royals, who went passengers, with a party of recruits, sailed the 6th day after for St. Kitts, along with the rest of the Corpsi who had all embarked fin. that Island. Arrived here on Saturday, in 33 days, the Ariad joHrtsTow, from Barbadoes, with the loss of her boats, which were carried away, with almost every thing else on the main deck, in a dreadtul gale, about the beginning of last month, which lasted several days. On the 13th ult. spoke the American Ship Minerva, LINDSAY, in lat. +B. long. 23. from Charlestown for this Port, all well, then out 35 days, the Captain of which informed Captain JOHNSTON, that he had been ly ing to fur seven days in the same gale. SEA MARK. THE following Placart was lately publisneo muter the authority of Mr. KuLENCAMP, the Danish Consul, at Bremen : For the'security of vessels, bound for the har bours or rivers in the neighbourhood of Helgoland, and which may have been carried by accident or otherwise, to the northward of that island, a sea_ beacon has been eretcd on the sand-bank, which lies a quarter of a German . mile (a Ger man m il e i s upwards of 4 . an d 3-4.ths English) .to the south of Amrum, and the west of the idand of Pellworm, and which,, in ordinary floods, rises five feet above the surface of the water. The height of this beacon is sixty feet. It is easily seen at the distince of three German miles ; appearing at first like a sloop with a top-sail set. The beacon and the light. house on Helgoland are different from each other, by a compass devPating 21 deg. from N. to W.— N. E. by E. t.Bth E. 63.4ths German miles. in bearing and distance. The advantages to be de rived from this beacon are as follow It - serves to point out the sand.banks in that part. As soon as it can be distinetly seen from the deck, the vessel must not approach nearer, for then soundings will be from 5 to 6 fathoms, and the distance two Ger. man miles. 2. The beacon may also serve as an excellent mark for enabling vessels to regulate their course. When it is seen two German miles east, by the compass, it gives the following courses and distances ; regard being always had to the state and direttion of the tide : Course. Germ. Miles. To the island of Helgoland, S. W. Outemiost Red Buoy attic Elbe, s. W. Black Buoy of the Eider, . - S. S. Red Buoy at the Hever, . • - S. E. by,S. 3 Black Buoy at the Schinal•deep, - S. E. E. a Lister-deep, - . N. E.. , j E. 4j 3. The Beacon further serves as a principal mark for directing the Navigation to these deeps and rivers. To make the Schmal deep,. the beacon must be brought to bear N. E. two-34 E. and this course most be kept till within a German mile of the bea con, where, the Pell worm Old Towet' bearing N. E. by E. the outermost black buoy of the Schmal_ deep will be found in four fathoms and a half water. In clear weather, the beacon may be brought within an eighth of a point of the compass, to the east of the outermost corrusr of Annum, and the Pellworm Old Tower, betivixt North and South Oog, but nearer to the first, • in the proportion of one to two, —To make the Hever, let the beacon he brought two German miles to the East ; then let the above mentioned course S. E. by S. be kept, till, North Hoft (that it , the N.W. of the land of Eidersted) is seen E. S. E. or till the church and steeple of Wester-hever become clear of the sand-downs.--:- Wilco the beacon, which can there be distinetly seen, bears N. by the compass,. the outermost red buoy of the. Hever wilt be discovered. To make the Eider, let the beacon he brought two German miles-to the east, and let the course he S. S. F. till the beacon disappears to the north. The sand.downs of titlerated will then he discovered, and the course must be continued to the southward, in from four to three fathoms and a half of water, till. the two beaeens en Sudhofr, er at St, Peter, appear in J straight line E. N. E. when the outermost buoy will be seen. In the same manner, the beacon is of advantage for making the Lister deep; for as sow' as it disappears to the south, the islard Silt.is dis covered, and when the middle of this bland, called Rothelit\ appears in the east, the course in iy direaed northward very near the coast, till the northern point of it is reached, then turning to the E. and S. E. good anchorage may be found behind List. Yesterday the DUKE of CLARENCE gave a dinner to a party of Naval Officers, at his house in the Stable Yard, St. James's. Sir CHARLES HOLLOWAY, who received the honour of Knighthood on Wednesday at the Levee, succeeded the late General KOEHLER upon the death of that Officer by the Plague, in the command of the Turkish Mission in Egypt. He is to have a pen sion of 4001. per annum, and tool. perannuiri for his son, in consideration of his distinguished services on that mission, and is besides appointed Command ing Engineer in the Distrid of Cork. We hear some improvements are very shortly to be made in St. James's-square :—One plan is to drain the square, fill up the bason, and plant it in a supe rior manner ; and in the centre to place an equestrian statue of His Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK. The Extra Cadets of the Royal Artillery ate to be sent to the Military Academy at Great Marlow , where they arc to remain till vacancies occur in the Academy at Woolwich. The new Society for exterminating the Sm dt Pox, is going on very successfully. BE:FORD has a c c e p te d the office of President; Duke andsi l dent; i the Archbishop of CAIITERIIIIR Lord Cattattla" TON, CASTLEREAGH, DERBY, EGREMONT, SOMIg‘ VILLE, and S PENCER , t h e Ri g h t H on. H o AO'', DINCTON, Messrs. ANG:MSTEIN, THORNTPN , WILBERFORCE, with many others, both Noble men and Gentlemen, have consented to be Vice' Presidents. Wednesday a trial was made at Portsmouth, of a new invented machine for purifying filthy, corrur ed, and stagnant water, and rendering it wholesotne and fit for use. The machine gave the fullest sates' faCtion to the beholders ; as in a quarter of an hone after putting the foul stinking water into it, a pot" tion was drawn off, which- was perfeElly sweet, well tasted, and changed from a greenish colour to a clear resemblance of clean pimp water. The Dinner given on Wednesday at the London Tavern, by the Directors of the East India' Corn pany, in compliment to Lord Wm. BENTINCK, was extremely grand. The table ornaments were th f e most rich and elegant that have been seen in 61 . Country. On each s id e o f t h e Ch a i rman was place d the deck of an East Indianian, each supported he eight pillars of glass, three feet high, from theca" of which rose a mast, with all the proper rigging* The deck itself was richly gilt, and highlyorna" mented with various naval emblems, and six piece s of. ordnance w ere mounte d on it. Under the deck was seen a shepherdess feeding a lamb, denoting Peace. Golden anchors were suspended, With' richly decorated flags, on which we re izseribed appropriate 111,11.44.10 :11 gold. O n each of the side tables seer 6 six other ornaments, consisting of armour and plements of war reversed ; among these were thre e , cannon set up r i g h t i n t h e f orm of a triangle, wit h olive branches issuing from their mouths. The recent alterations which have been made in the mode of aunrming the House of Lords, howev e r they may add t o t h e f avourable appearance of t he Chamber, appear to be little calculated to render it t generally comfortable a ,variety of climate stil l prevails, for whil e one s i de is adequately . worme' by means of t h e two fi re places, t h e opposate side of the House is excessively coll. The expediency 01 warming the West side of the House by flues a s heretofore, has, we un d erstand, been suggested, an d very probably will be carried into effea. thotig Th l e ip s lcd beloweacoendfirc tiea .pla l ce ß i r n , the House of Lords , is included in what ist termed the Howe. Ail that side, at the distance es about six feet from the wall, is inclosed by a roiling' to the exclusion of the strangers, and a free cam munication ma d e t h erewith from the upper pates o f the Chamb er . A considerable number of peore were present yesterday to see the alterations. The Ship atunerr might 29 well have discussed t the merits of the subject which they assembled to consider, without animadverting so severely uPe n what was said by Mr. Alderman Clain - ts in another place. What the worthy Alderman paid, On th e . occasion alluded to , was differently reported in dif ferent Newspapers, and, perhaps, none of them wer e precise in their statement. It was therefore, a sort of prejudication to determine upon his words, whe n, he was not present to repeat them, and defend hi' opinions. Last week Lieut.-Colonel PARKER shot 3110 0 1/e r ' or wild swan, in the canal of Sir HARRY P A RKER': Sear at Melf or d, w h ere i t had joined t h e tam c swans. It measured 7 feet 4. inches across, 0 ,, 11 ; i r i its wings were extended, and 6 feet 4 inches beak to tail.—lt is very rarely that these birds ' lr seen so far inland. The old tt hite-fronted house that stood withi n court, thepassage to which was under a part ofth Black Swan public-house in Butcher-row, near Top. ple-bar, and is now visible, in consequence of paring for the new ereaions at this time construa, ingi wap the residence ofSir WALTER RALsou+ Last Sunday forenoon, at the Presbyterian Chapel at Leominster, as. the Rev. WILLIAM LEvritt#L l4 was about to conclude his discourse, he genii/ stooped forwards, and expired without a groan. He was about 65. years of age, and had, for a sep ta of years, bee n a very indefatigable Minister to t 1 Congregation, during which time he published se. mai religious books and crafts. On Wednesday evening the coach-house of Mn' SPRANGERS, in Jockeys-fields, near Bedfotd•ro?'' was robbed of the hanuner.cloth belonging to the coach. Early yesterday morning, the coach-house Of Jour; WAY, Egg. Lincoln'sann.tields, was bra °Pin k and the Imminer.clothsto:en frcun the hariOt