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iMPPR P. 4 ft LI4ME. 110 USE OF PEENS. MONDAY, rEBR.UMLY CAT,INSILL were finally beard relative "to the Scotch Appeal, Sir WILFRED LAWSON, Barr. V. MAX. _ o f LL and Others, viz. Mr. ADAM, on the part 4 00 P of the Respondents, and Mr. ALExAstosit for the 1 -7 Appellant in reply. Aftec which, their Lordships, on the motion of the LORD CHANC ELLOR, deferred the farther consideration of the case till Wednesday. The Archbishop of DvaLin (Viscount Somer.. TON, and late Archbishop of CASHEL) took the oaths and his seat, as one of the Irish Representa. tive Spiritual Peers. The Dukes of MONTROSE and ATHOL, the Earl t i of PEMBROKE, and Lord MONTFORT were sworn and rook their seats. After some routine business was disposed of, the Order of the Day was read, for taking the Report of the Committee of Privileges relative to the sitting of Irish'Spiritual Peers, &c. into considera. tion. The Resolutions of the Committee were accord. ingly read in the usual manner, and confirmed by the. House. • The' Report was then, on the motion of Lord Viscount CARL ETON', ordered (as we could eolleti) to be printed for the use of their Lordships, The LORD CHANCELLOR, took the opportu nity to obsetve, that, notwithstanding the affair of the Archbishop of Dublin was decided, there still, he conceived, remained some difficulties' with re. aped to the general subject ; these, 'he seemed to say, principally arose from the question, whether those Peers were to be considered as summoned, un. der the Provisions of the Alt of,uni.? It was his intention, he stated, to submit some observatiOns on this head to their Lordships, either on Thursday or on Monday next, as a Committee of Privileges will sit on both those days. The House then Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. 1.461 , 1D4Y, PEA. 14. • tilt Chairman of the Committee on the Dutit. fermlin Eletlion, reported that Mr.CAkTWRIG,Wi, one of the Members of that Committee, was. ill, "and could not attend his duty. Dr. lit.trottiosi attended at the Bar and stated, that Mr. CA.krwittatiT was indisposed with a lever, and could not attend his duty. An order was then Made to e*ctoe that Gentle. man's attendance,. - Mr.FANE,Chairman.of the Committee appointed to try the merits of the Petition complaining of an . *Woe Eleaion for the University of Dublin, re. ported, that Mr. JErrERY, of Poole, did not attend that committee on' SatUrday, Mr. J E F FEr ty was then called upon to state, and to verify upon oath, the reason of, his non.attendance. He stated, that when the Committee adjourned on 'Friday, he did tint hear, no; was he informed 'of the precise time to which the adjournment took place; that he was coming down to attend the Committee ori Saturday, whep he was met by several Members of the Com, mittee, who acquainted him, that the Committee : was ati;ottined. He further added, that his'non_ attendance did not proceed front negligence or dis_ respea to the orders of the• House. 1)0 r. VANE tl4en moved,• that the excuse of Mr. jVs`matte s!hnilli be allowed. The motion Was agreed to. Message was received from the Lords, stating that they had agreed ro several Natoratization Bills, which Were, nom the Motion of Mr. HolittOUSt,' eao 'a ,first time, and ordered to , lie tead'a second time to.'morrow. Mr. Stu Eo t presented the estimates of the rmy INiraordinaties, which were ordered to lie on the General LENNOX moved for leave to bring in a till for estab}ibhing a Chapel of Ease at '4right. Lelmstone, in Sussex. 'Tbe,SEC ET4r, at WAR brought up the Bill for regulating the' period for which the IV:ilitia are to be exereisetl.—,Read a first time. .• , -me sEcRE T AItY at, Watt moved,' that the order of the day for the' reading of the Mutiny Btll, which stood for Wednesday, diseharged, in order to piopose that it should, he taken into consideration un Tueday ,se'nniglit, when he shouid have cope irn'ortant me , r, tnefirot to propose, ,• 14r, TititNE7 prese»ted a Peritinn from the Apnthecariot alltt Dro'gifists, of' the Borough of Southwark, against the. Medicine fir, undtitoode.th4t it was inttnded to repeal that Aft. ' • " Mr. I ,INSITTIMT said, that it was imended to propose scene altetationi and modifica tions ificattons of that • ci" • A6t, hut it wasHnot proposed to repe : ol The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table. The - CtiAnc: t,L014., ci the ExorcQuEtt moved the thirst reatlin- 6f 'the ',Bank }6:itriafon M r . 3odiv7 4 7rolvrE said, he h:id not stibmitted the observationg,whin occurred' to him before IQ because he wished to hear the sentiments of G e nliem e n who 'were much better qualified to discuss the' .subjeCt than hp was. He would :now, tiowever„ state . tlw reasons which induced him to tupport . rhe Bill. One of the reasons why het was to support' this' was,' that if, ainde t the present eireuMstances,"the itestriftion was not continued, the 1, Ink. wotld not ` he disposed to con. ;d oll , i ts aciornmetti,tjorl ,to the Public rd' the same 'mem' which 'they now did'. 4 was well k nown , that, in a period of War, IVlerchantS were' disposed to strain their credit to the utmost, from the great vantage that gener ailr attended their Speculations, , tnd he did not Chink t;4lt 'tljitigs' were' y et' bufficient. ly restored to. their proper state, at once to 'suspend the aceotranoclatiOns Of the pank, by'repealing the Itestridion. He, hoWever,' agreed entirely with the . Coolosi,Ltit of the _E4Ctißettso,' that the Credit 'of Ccsuoriy Would never becompletely restored until Cash Payments were resun ed. at' the )3iink is because, it would be found upon arrexamina. tion . of the History of all I.l . atiiins,' that an 'attempt to substitute Paper in' the morn Of Cash, was always produ6tive 0f'634 consequences. It was true, that t h e Sto i sp,ige of Cash 'Payments at the Bank had not is crtoe4 t:ie paper Circtgatio3 but it had wry much increased it in the Country, fi rat, because there were a much greater number of Country Bankers than there were formerly, and se. comity, because it was the interest of the Country Bankers to have 35 great a number of their Notes in circulation as they,could. Upon these grounds he was dispOsed to agree in the passing of the Bill at present ; but he hoped it would not continue longer than next Session. Aftei making some observations upon the general nature of Exchange, he concluded by voting for the Bill. The Bill was then read .a third time. The ATTORNEY GENERAL, proposed some verbal amendments, after which the Bill was passed. Mr. WILLIAM ELLIOT said, that his learned colleague had given notice of a Motion respecting Captain D'Auvergne, His Learned -Friend had been too much indisposed to attend the House ; but ,he hoped to be able to attend on Monday, and to bring.forward his Motion, provided that the busi.. ness which now stood for that day did not occupy too much time. ELECTIONS IN IRELAND, Mr. WICKHAM said, he rose in pursuance of his notice , to bring forward a Motion for preventing certain Revenue•Ofiicers in Ireland from voting at the EleCtion of Members of Parliament, as he wished to assimilate the laws of the two Countries upon this subjeCt. Leave was given to bring in the Bill. The Order of the Day fin going into a Com mittee on the Land-Tax Commissioners Bill, which stood for to.morrow, was discharged, and fixed for this day three weeks. The SPEAKER said, as .there were two Eledion Committees , which stood for to. morrow, he would take the Chair at half past three o'clock. Mr. Rose brought up the Report of the Bill for the ImproVement of the Port of, Southampton. Petitions were presented from Leeds, Halifax, and other places, praying for some alterations in the Cotton Apprentice Bill. --Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. MANWYNG presented a Petition from certain Inhabitants of London and Weitminster, praying for a Bill to make a Canal from the Reservoir of the Grand Canal at Paddington to the 'Sew Docks at Wapping.—Ordered to be referred to a 'Corn. mince consisting of the Members of London, West. minster, Middlesex, Acc. Adjourned at half past five o'clock till to.mor. row. MAILS. Altk IV ID. DUI Holland. - r y - $ Frea4h o - - - - . . Hamhargh o - 6 Lif f bo4 - • .. .. o PRIcEoFsTocKs, • TH,Is bAY AT TWItt,VE (PciLOC!C. 70?,i Money. I Coo$ol.; for the 7! Consols THE SUN♦ 401.41.1 QL/IS LiiCtkit FALAUM JOJDRAT ? LONDON, -,FE nßuAlty ISO 3. YESTERDAY -His Majesty's Ships Int)Vid, of 6+ guns, Capt. FlARpoop, and La Firgivie, of 44. guns, Capt. ASTLE, arrived at Spithead from the East Indies, together with Lu C4iarra, f , Capt. STuAa r, the French Irrigate so gallantly caplnted sotue time agu by, Capt. ALSANi. WE received this morning the Mlauiteur• of the icth inst. It brings no Intelligence, but it eon tains some very curious observations upqn the state of the Finances of Great Britain. In most of the observations which we find in the French Parrs, either upon the Constitution, the Fin4nces, or • t even the Manners of this Country, 'we per. ceive a degree of ignorance so gr(ns, that we are frequently inclined to suppose that it is affeaed. The article to which we allude, i 5 htatement of the 14udget for the year i kof, as opened in the Houie of 'Commons, with marginal anotations by the Editor of the Mori/cwt., on the different branches of our Revenue, and ppon the extent of our Expen. diture.--fhe first discovery of the French pditor that the amount of the Loan in one of the most experliil,e years of the War, forms the permanent difference between the Revenue and Expendi. tui.e of Great Britain in time of Peace, and that therefore, because there was a Loan of TWellty.eiziir Millions in raor, there mus Che a regular, annual, permanent, deficit in our Revenue, of stB Millions. The operation of the *king Fund is represented as chimerical,' and we are told that the Bill for pre. venting the Cash Payments at the Bank; will be perpetnally renewed. Such are the assertions of the Writer in the Mani/fur respeeting our Fi. winces, and upon which we think it necessary to make only one observation, which is, 'that in giv'ing an account of the present fmancial state of Great Britain, , it would probably hive occurred to any body but to the Writer in question, that it would have been quite as fair to have had recourse • , to the last Budget, as to the one which was opened in 180 i. The 'Funds were 58. Go. Wg forbore, previous to the State Trials, to • • • make any observatiOnS u pon t he fats which 'had • come to our knowledge respeaing the late CL.,nspi.. . . racy, because we felt it incumbent upon us nor to excite any prejudice u eta Emil a subi By Letters received this morning from Quebec, of the Bth December, we learn 'that the season ha 4 been temarkabl_y open an t i mild until the 6th of that month, there scarcely having been any frost, and no snow. A small quantity fell on th e 7t h. S uc h which Wall Li. I a lirtg rIP var 11#3.,1 ...,1 r undergo a legal investigation._ Much commenda - don is due to Ministers for their vigilance and ex ertions upon this occasion. We have contended, from the commeticemenf of the French Revolution to the present time, that there were Traitors in the Country—That they were numerous we never sup posed, but when we consider how much mischief a few dariug and wicked Men may do, we have thought extraordinary powers at different times ne cessary for our preservation ; and we have earnestly recommended the exercise of those powers, in op position to those who have never failed to repre sent such measures of preeaution as aas of useless severity. We do not state the dangers that exist now, as of the same alarming nature with those which have existed within the course of the last twelve years; --the dreadful atom which threatened us is past, and wise precautions have prevented its bursting over our heads. Circumspeetion, however, is still necessary, and His Majesty's Ministers have given proof to the Country, that they will not be found sleeping on -their posts. But when we say, that the dangers are less now, than, they have Leen, let us not be supposed to join in the cry of ,repre senting the late Treasons as contemptible --There have been,those who, (for no good purpose), have represented all Treason as unworthy of notice for the last twelve years, Let any Man read the late Trials, and, if he value 'the life of our belove'ci Sovereign as he ought, he will not look upon the Treasons which have been lately discovered, as matters of little moment. The Plan, it has been said, was foolish, and certain of deteCtion—as is the folly of a Traitor was to be his proteetion, and as if no Treason was worth notice,. except that which was so cautiously planned as to give it a probability of soccess, Against such reasoning we enter .our protest, even if it shoeld be still sup. .ported by the whole weight of the Old Opposition. We hope, however, that even those who, during the ferment of the French RevOlution, were in duced, by the Spirit of Party, to deny the exist.. once of any treasonable designs in this Country, will hardly now be foolish enough to. hold the same language. Have we not seen enough, abendantiy to lustily all the measures of Precaution which the late Ministry, in spite of the clamours of the Opposition, thought it necessary to take, for the proteaion of the icing and Constitution ?-- Have we tot reason to believe that' to those mea. sures, and to the vigilance of those men, we owe tire very existence of our Constitution / And does any man now think that they had not.the strongest grounds for proposing the suspension of the Habeas Corgis 441, and for conning suspeaed persons, without disclosit* the sources of Evidence against them ? People may well doubt vihether some of the persons confined were not liberated too soon, but no lover of the British Constitution will con tend that the Ministers of the day a4ed unwisely, or arbiopily, in exercising a power to which the people havo the strongest reason to feel they are _ _ indebted for the suppression of the blackest Trea. .sons, and the preservation of His Majesty's Go vernment. If in the best, times of our Constitu. don, in the reign of King Wlt.t.;Am, there were grounds for the sttspenson of the Ht4ea; Cotno Ad, thce certainly have been in the reign of Hi; present Majesty, when the principles of the French Revolution, and the wild notions of Government inculcated in that Country had spread themselves to this, and had paved the way for the overthrow of every existing Establishment. We do not.en'Yy the feelings of those who have at any period stood forward as the Champions of Arthur O'Connor, or Colonel Despot's). We hope they will derive a useful lesson from experience—Alas the confession of the one, and the convidion of the other, will checls the violence and the intetpperance of I?aity, and that we shall, in future, see Opposition, (for we do not wish to discourage it upon fair grounds) dire4ing its attention to the jealOus examination of the proceeoio g o of Government; not to the pro._ tenion of persons, harbouting traitorous designs, or to a resistance to those measures which, in times of danger, are best calculated to save us. yesterday nprning His Royal Highness the . Do,: E of CUMBERLAND breakfasted with THEIR MA. JESTI ES and his Royal Sisters. In the evening THEIR MAIESTIES had a concert and card party. • To:rnotroW evening THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES will. honour the Concert of Ancient whike With their presence, for the 'third time thi s seaion.; . ,; The Countess of SUtIiEaLANIP gives a grand route to.morrow evening, at "lier'house in Ariing tbn.streer, . Tills morning arrived a. ,Mail f rom Lisbon, brought _ . to Falmouth- by the ffreihiNibtim Packet, in fifteen days. . . . Nif I 11 L NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, FEB* 4. ARRIVED this day, His Majesty's Ships Intrepid, Capt. Fia.ROOOD, La Firginie, Capt. ASTI:E, and La Ch rot, Capt. STUART, from the Fa St Indies. Also the !fibbers ! Transport, -Lieut.. Dorrov Agent, WM. CRABTREE Master, from New Provi dence, with part of the 47th Regiment on board.-- She spoke the Tartar Frigate cruizing off-Bermudas. This day came into Harbour to refit, His Ma. jesty's Ship Arrely. Arrived the Neptune, PAtp, from Milford; Atiive, MORGAN, and yame: and Ann, jowls, from Chepstow ; and Dispatch, WOOD, from Plymouth.. Sailed the Ann,liEsANT, and Castle, ANDERSON , for London, and Centro= Friends, BR 0 far Ha Yre de.Grace. DEAL, FEN. 14. THE Honourable East India Company's ShiP Walpole came down this morning from the River, and remains. Arrived the French Frigate Necessity, from Rah fort, bound to DLinkirk, to take in Troops, remains ; The 'iambi& Ship Ton, Captain F. B. C. PEI. - u t ex, from Philadelphia, with cotton, tea, nah keen, cinnamon, tobacco, and coffee, run upon the Goodwin Sands, and she now lays upon her broad side, a complete wreck. OIRRALTAR, JAN. 17. The wind is still Westerly, so that no ship been able to sail for England this month past. Thc.Qarrison are all in good health, notwith.. standing the uncommon severity .of the weat her lately. Nothing but heavy rains and violent gales of wind fur t h ese 'E ve wee k s - . The followi ng m are the o f some of the vessels which were d rove on s h ore at t h e botton) of the Bay, in the l as t storm ; The English B r i g KiMerry ; the English Egg Nile; the English P o l acre F ortune; the rangl's , PQlaoe Nag; the Ame r i ca n Shi p Anna A . Yarbq the American • Scho oner Do/ a tshiit; the Irt,Po," Polacre Bona rentura ; th e S pan i s h P o l acr e Moq Non hre de Mari e ; ; the French Brig L a Bier Ai mee Adelaide ; the French brig. L'Onzietne ; the French Ketch L' ; the town -Vessels, sn! Pear/ and Fortuna. Eight of the abOve are si n " on shore. The Gluison is all petfedly quiet and tegula r i as usual. DISTRIBUTjOA OF PRIZE-MONEY. To I,lie Arrow sloop, a distribution of the cond e m ne d pas of the dirges of the Olsterßl'acer, will be made'or. the t7t" inst. at No. st 3, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, To the Calypso, for the capture of the Prmisit argir t ; r. dish ships Carolina and Nlerc ur i us , a distributior';r'i,,v, made this day, the teal inst. at No. .BeaUfort 131.tdultli* To the Courgeux; Gorgon, and Fox Cutter,"for ibecapt u ; of the !Meech corvette 1'1.; tile, a disttibuti on w • 11 be Mule a • 'the same time and place. • TO the Culloden, Minotaur, • Zealout, Swiftsure, 5 g Horse, the'Perseus arxi Bulldog bombs, and San Leon brig, as also to the Vorttiguese ship San Sebastian, for th e caiL tu n r .: of the French pol acca 11 Santissitoo Crociti.sso• a disi` h ' tion wilt be m a d e to t h e parties, at No. Barnard's 0 1 '1 Holborn, on Thursday, the 24th inst. To the hired G cuter Nancy, for the capture of the Henrietta! a 4istribution will be mane this day, the tsth at No. 7 ! Beaufort Buildings. On Friday night, arriVetloW Plymouth, the Nil ( ' East indiamen; from China. The Parser landed at PlYmou t h, w i t h t h e pis iitches The Nib le China on th e 25t h of May last. She qperienced. very bad w eat h e r an tier passage. In a g ale Pt wind, last m ont h, she f e ll i n w i t h t h e Vinorca, Eat ft Indiaman, which arrived in the Downs a ftw ago, • The brig Sop& was last week lost on the Brake, about a mile and a half from l'arillat e ; m The Master, six en, 'antra passenger, got on 11 , , ': topmast shr ou d s , the surf making a passage over vessel this situation they remained during OP' greatest part of the.nighi, but in the morning their situation being discovered from - the shore., a boa t ! put off to t h e i r relief , . but before she could reac h them, the sea beat the brig off 'the Drake into de e P water, when she sunk, and unhappily only ono of the people could be saved: „ . It is said, that on Monday next a Message will be' elivered to the House of Commons from a” MaIENTY, respe6ting the adjustment of the offtir of His Royal Highness the P4irica of WAL"*„ , t On the instim wt a grand dinner as' git. o " o - d Gordon Castle, and on the same evening a Bali a d Slipper at Fochabers, in honour of the Mar TO EIRNTLEY'S Birth-day. Wp arp htippy in being able to say, that tile re" ports sprat! in some of the Papers, Of Bills be ll ' posted up, and threatenin g Letters dropped in f ferent. parts of t h e City' are wholly without founi dation. The busines s o f t h e L or d M a yor s a c ' other Magistrates of the City, With the Secre tar y of State, on Saturd a y and Su nday, related solely c 9 the state of Newgate. We heard a report some days ago, which is no w ;epeated so con fi dently that we cannot help noticing it. It }s raid 11 ' 4 E 4 r l at. V INC INT ret ires from the 4d miralty Board, and is 'to be succeeded- .b 1 f,ora MELVILLE. The abilities a the latter for th:t, or any other public situation, are suificieadY known to the country, and his . distinguished Wilk:. ruentary talents will form a great a ccession et strength to Administration' in the Upper House, This morning' the fi rst Battalion of the Colj stream Regiment of Guards attended 'at the Sorter side of 13Iackfriars-bridge, to condat the remaining Convids from Newgate to Woolwich; to be on board the Transport. intended for Botany Bay• Yet' terday morning at eight o'clock, eighty of t" c Guards attended at the abosie place, to es cort in