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PIPERLIL P.J.RLIA.AIENT 110 EIS E OF PE,ERS. WEDNESDAY ) MARCH 23;\ Courser, were farther heard relative to the Scotch A:pc.3l, Crawl - 40v. Cu',ut,S viz, the Hon. Mr. H. ERsKI Eat considerable length in continua tion, as leading Counsel for the Respondent. The lityther•hearing was adjourned till. Friday. The Earls of ,Rostml And Anovils were sWorn and rook their seats. The - various Bills before the /--P.Arse were for warded in their respettive stages ; among these the Paddinaton Canal CoMp , any'S Bill was' read a third time 'and Passed.. Mr. ALEXATIDEt brought up a Message frem• Cotiirridns respeaing the Resolutions of The. House relative to the printing and promulgation or certain , Statutes, &c. and stating that the Com-, mans ha'd agreed to the Amendments made ty their Lordships 4; the Said . Resolutions. Several return Bills, chiefly Naturalizations, Were. brought up frorri the Commons by Mr. GlLA „and laid upon. the Table.. . . •Mr. r L x.vxri eit and ~others. .brought tip the Bank:Of 'lreland Restritlion iltxT brought up a private Bill, which-was read a first time. • , 'On the question being put for the first reading gt the .134410 f Leland Restridion Lord,' KING look the opportunity. to - 'lrt3lie a few .obstrwations on • the subjed„ ~.Frotu the very to:,y,,to,ne of voice in which his Lordship e•xpr esse d h:tnself, , we were unablesto colleft the preci,e pur port-of them, but he concluded with expressing itis.,svish, that-a sufficient. time would be ailowed for the.due . ensideration of the Th4 , 'Earl of VM.ERICK said a fc.,v words in reply; and expressed. himself happy to learn,. that the subjed was intended to be fully 4tiseussed, which, die seemed to say, would evince .that the Noble Lord's conclusions thereon were ill-founded. Lord KING spoke 'very shortly in explapation;' after which, the Bill in question was ordered to be printed. ' The (new) Irish Postage-Rates Bill was read a 11CcPnti time, tilt!, commitment thereof Legatived, and the Bill ordered ,to be read a third time to • Mr. WICKHAM brmght up the Irish Milikia }.,trended 13111 from the Commons, which was read first rime. Sr,nle routine business was then disposed of; after which their Lordships adjourned till two (4'eToi.k to-ruortritv, whet the Ctiounittee of Pri. Vileges bit, relative to the Chandos Peerai,e. HOUSE OF' COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, M,AetcFl 23. • A new Writ was ordered for Brackley, in the trios of Central EGERTON, now Earl of BILIDGE 4Tatta wht since hiS'ele4ion lot that Borough has I )eencal;ed,up to the House of Peers. Sir 70 . 11N.ANDERSON said that an. Amend- J a y,ing been made by the Lords in R money' clauso in the Bali tor making a new Burying Ground •for the Parish' of Sr. Gil( the House could not, consistently with its forms, proceed fur. titer with ,drat Bill :.but as this was a subjed which, requir“l the immediate adoption of some Legisla_ Live provision, as the present Burying Ground was so full that it was tilromt impossible to inter any more bodies in it, he hoPekthe Hotta would 'con_ cur' iii the Motion whitsh he should now mike, for leave to bring 'in inOtherßill:for'that puepose. eI'ht..SPMICER said, he thought it his dory. to al'theittteation Uf tilt lima, to this. sohied. The HottNe would recoiled that Yesterday: it would not take into doniiderittion the Amendments made by the Lords in a money clause in tile Bill in question. An application was now made for le;ive to replace that Bill'; the necessity of the Measure w,as : s t o t,ed to, be of a very urgent nature, and it was added, that 'if the application were refused, it might pro. duce very great inconvenience.' Perhaps, Under. theSe circumstances, and as it was not proposed to adopt altogether the Amendinent of the Lords in Ole new the Hone would think it right to accede. to the Motion ; but he thought it his duty to awaken the:jealf , usy of the House to these pro. c'eetliql.i• because if they were one qay to yejea a Bill because it contained Amendments of this nature, a f od the., next day they received'a new Bill, co n- Lainiog those very Amendments, they wnu id, in fad, be giving up their antient, in doubted, and established Privileges. He thought it right to - say thus much, that the House might he aware of the tititUrts and tendency of these proCeediogs. RUXTONsaid, that after what had fallen from the Chair, it would he unnecessary'fbr him to s,ay' any thing': he hoped,' however, that thePri., viteges of that House would be and that nothing of this kind would be dime in fp.ture. - - Sir 3. ANDERSON said, he certainly simid not 'lave made the Motion, it it was. not a case of tloe almost moment. Leave was given to bring in the Bill, The / Greenland Fishery Bill wal read a second time, and ordered to be contrnitted to-morrow. Mr. VANSI'I TART grooved for leave 01 absence for. Mr. NA TI R, on argent private bminns, wALLACe said, these appticatious' were becoming 60 numerous, that he thotie,ht OPT ht not to be granted without some ex;onination. w to know, whether the qeotletnan in question had served on any Elediun Committee. • , Mr. VAINTOTTART said, he was not apprized of the fat, Gut he would inquire into it. The SPEAVIR recommended to the Hon., 114 em. kr to Imike the inquiry, for excuses' were. multi. plying exceedingly. General G...SCOYNE g ave notice, tha: he bhotthi on Monday, wove for leave-to in a Bill jo equalize the, Bushel Measure, in ‘pf Salt into the Forts of livian4, The SPEAKER said, he wished to remind'Gen. denim, that there•were two Balloti fixed for to,. morrow, a7'd that the'l-fouF.e was to be called-over. He should' proceed to count the House at half past three q'clock. The' CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that. the House should resolve itself into a Corn. mittec of Supply, „.and. that the .account:of the.dis. • position of grants presented to the Htitrie` on the 23d February, 'should`be referred to the said 'COM. mit tm—Ordered. The House having resolved itself into a COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY; CH4NCELLOR. if the EXCHEQUER said,„(lie.surn which he should propose to vote was ; of that 'sum 868,9001. was to discharge the iniereSt of Exchequer Bills issued in. vursuance ,of- different Acts of Parliament. , They were ‘to :have been discharged out.of the instalments of the -Loan of last year,: bps as.a very inconsiderable of that Loan was paid up at an early period after the Contraa,, the consequence was, that a great deal of interest- accrued upon those Exchequer Bills; hey therefore—muved, that a sum -not exceeding 868,4031. hsirOnted ftir,the inAirest.of Exchequer , lii He also moved the following sums ; viz. r9tol. to the Commisbiocers for the discharge of the Nit tional Debt, for salaries of Officers, 8:c. cool. to the Officers of Exchequer, for preparing Exchequer - Bilk, &v. Sec. . 23iti4.1..' to make good money, advancer to the Bank, lot' the discount of the Loan. 225 2SI. to make good money paid to the Bank, f:r receiving Ctintritiutions on the Loan of 18q2. 37 ti. to John employ.t . d as Clerk to thy. Commissioners in settlinthe American Claims. 3 . 6c0:. for Incidental Expences, of 18oz. - The Rtgolutions were agreed to, and the Report was ordered to he received . to.morrow. RONIAN CATHOLICS. • Thr MASTER of the ROLLS said, the ()hied of the Motion ofwhich he had given notice, and which he POW rose .to make, was merely to remedy an inconvenience which resulted to the Roman Catho. „lies - from the Provisions of two Ads of Parliament. The inconvenience was simply this: That the . Romaii Catholics were obliged ; totaketWo 'separate Oaths, whereas, oee would he completely sufficient. There had, been, during His Majesty's Reign, two Mis of Parliament passed in favour of the Roman Catholics The first. was the 18th of the King, brought in by Sir GBORGR aAvrcLe : the other, the 31st of'the King, brought in 'by the present Chancellor of Ireland. The objed of the former, was to relieve the Roman Catholics from the penal ties and incapacities imposed by the t tth and t zth Of William The: second Bill was to remove the penalties, Sec. imposed- since the t ith and 2th of William Neither' of those MI; entirely repealed the Laws to which they referred—they were entirely conditional - in their operation ; they extenicd "only to such Roman Catholics as gave assurance of their fitielity, and (Unclaimed such prin.. ciples as were inconsistent with the safety of the State. An Oath, containing such disclaimer was introduced loco each of the Mts. If the Oath,in the second Ad had been precisely the same as that containe.l in the former one, the inconveniences which he now proposed ; to reinedy would never have arisen ; for, by taking the second Oath, the person would have complied with the provisions of both the Statutes ; but when the second Mt was brouglia, in, it was thought necessary to make some altetatitms in the. wording 'of the Oath, in fOrni, but .nof in ,substance. The faci, however, was; that a Roman Catholic, to entitle himself to the benefit.ot both the Statutes, was tinder the necessity of raking both the Oaths. For, if he only took the . Oath prescrile!d in the second Statute, (which was mote, perfed: than the 'onecontained in the first Sta. 'tutu) 11,c still remained-li a bl e to a ll t h e pena l t i es , & c . impti,cd by the. tvls and t zth of William 111. /New it happened, that a great number of Catholics had ,on! ) , taken the last Oath, `thinking that there • was but one Catholic test, and iliac that ,was the one imposed by the last Statute. They supposed that they were'not under the necessity of taking the first o,:th, which in substance is included in the second one. Instances hind occurred where, when ' their titles'to estates Came to b 4 examined,' - they had been found defeetive merely from , the in:River.. tency of not taking' the - first Oath, There appeared to him •to be no conceivable reason why both the oaths' shoold he retai'ned, be. cause the State 'derived tea additional security from-. retaining the first oath. The second oath differed - aorta the - first, in an . omission, the nature of which he wguld state. The first oath contained a renunciaiion-of Allegiance to the person aSsUlTlit,g the title of 'Charles 111. he being alive when rh,t At passed ; but it was omitted in the second Mt, because he, was then dead. This was the on!v omission in the second oath, which, with that exception and some,amall additions, was the same as the formet one. Now, it was rather guilt'', after a max, had taken:l4' 10:314 pericei oath, to call upon him to take one that was less perk& A Catlimie Nho had taken the ,last oath, could have no objediOn to take the furmer one, and therefore, if he did oot rake it, it could only arise from igno. ranee, ar ieadvertence. It was therefore veiledly useless and inconvenient• to retain it, besides, it led to a degree ot4incongruity in the Law, which ought: not. to:exist.: Uptio these grounds he should move for leave, to bring in a Bill to extend to Roman Ca. tholics the benefit of both Statutes, upon their taking the oath contained in the first. This being a 'Motion ,respeding Religion, it was referred to'a committee of the' whole Huse. The MOtiOn of the MikSTRR of the Rot,t,s wag agreed to; and upon the' Report being brought up, leave was given to bring in the Bill. The Irish Bounty Bill was read a third time and paNsed. The Cathttiit: Oath 'Bill was 'read a first time, and ordered to be read a/second time on Monday next. The Arro riir GE"; ettxt. moved,' " That lelve he giten to bring itt.,a Bill for appointing sioncr& for distributing Moßey stipulated to be paid by theinhabitituts of the United Stares bfAm!rica, Ruder 4 Cc,ioolttort between His Aleijesty .n 4 thc ....U.. 4,4.1 ua.laa.a "J F. 441.1113 &sail , lug S.:IAN - 11S TO COMperlsiititM out of inch Moniei-. 4 • M, J. AL EXAN DER brought up the Report of the Clergy Non. residence Bill ; .which was read, and agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time .to- morrow. . Mr. Pats CAREW brought up the Report of the Bill for regulating the office of Surveyor-General of which.,was . „reid,and.agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to.. morrow. A Message from the Lords stated that they hid agreed to several Private Bills without any Amend. inents. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up a Report of the Militia Officers' Bill. Mr. WINDHAM said,- he had taken a very comprehensive view of the measure now about to be adopted by the• Bill before the House ; upon the whole 'he did not mean to objet to it, yet he thought it necessary to state how far he approved ; of•the Bill, and the Clause relative to the admission of flalf..pay Officers i nto t h e Mili t i a. I t was nothing but the exigence of the moment, that war_ . ranted the present measure : he therefore should Make.a few, remarks on the Militia, as to its first constitution and present establishment. As the Militia was first constituted, it was the arnied force of the Country, and contained those regulatiOts which must be approved of by every man who took the trouble to compare it with the established , 1 ‘.410a of the present day. Within these few years it had been torn to pieces by many new Laws, alit' its members embodied into the Regular Service. Suet measures had done much to ; destroy the importance of this constitutional Body. Tlie Militia, for these few years past, had been carried to a great and an improper extent, and nothing but . the exi gence of the moment could justify the alteratiOn which had taken place in the Militia of the- Country, and which, in his mind, had reduced' its importance,. thought it would he of advan. tage to the Country if-the Regular Army assimilat ed with the Militia, and that those who came into the Service, should enlist for the term of six years. The Hon. Gentleman then repeated many of the ob servations on the Army, he had made on a former, occasion. It was a doetrine laid down the other day, that no opposition should be given to this Bill, unless Gentlemen who opposed it, should suggest some plan that would answer the purpose of the Country better than what the present Bill had offer ed ; but he did not think this doetrine good, as a man may be able .to discover defels in a Pidure, without being an Artist, or be able to judge of a Poem, without being a Poet ; and therefore he, thought the opposition any Gentleman might be in &titled to give to the Bill, was not improper. The Militia, as it was now constituted, went a great Way to destroy the regulai Army, for it wits tt known fact,' that : the Militia Officers were now giving, nine Guineas per Man, consequently they could not ;appose that men would enter into the Regular Service. He said, he • would ac. knowledge with eaiidour, that- he had conversed ! with 'many Military -Men, soma of whom were advocates' for the Augmentationiof the . Militia, others, indeed, did nut 'support the principle:— He could not but again Objed to the Militia as it was now established ; for every Gentleman in the House must own.. it was not like the Militia that was originally' constituted. It has long appeared like the Regular Service, without its perfektions. The.Hon.Gentlemao then said, there ought . to be ' no distinction between the Gentlemen. qualified for the Militia, and those unqualified Officers whose charader and talents should be approved .of by the Lord Lieutenant. The Army abounds with Gen. tlenten 'of the highest honour and talents, and, therefore, the want of property should 'not render their situatioo and duty unpleasant to them ; but, at the same time, every care ought to be taken to prevent improper persons from being admitted to join the Militia. The SEC RETARY at WAR said, he did not think , it necessary to follow the Hon. Gentleman through all his remarks, but•he must'repeat the obserVation he had before made on the clause alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman. If this was, a moment of exi gency, a strong and well constituted Militia was ne. cessary, as the Hon. Gentleman had allowed, He was sure the clause in question would not be considered as improper,as the vacancies might not be filled With qua. I ified men in time, therefore it was riecessary the Lord Lieutenant should have a power, which t hi s c l ause grants, to him, to compl et e the numbers as early as . possible. The , inalteration which t h e H onoura b le entleman wished in the Militia Law, so as to-ena ble the Militia to enlist men for the term of six years, could not be carried- into execution on ac count of .Colonial Service. There was a •material 'difference betweenitbe arrangements of our Military Force, and that on the Continent, therefore the principle the Honourable Gentleman had suggested could not he carr ied into efred. He said it was his intention to moie a proviso to the clause; that if the Lord Lieutenant could not fill the vacancies with gliftlified men within two months, that heft/ pay Officers should not be advanced to a higher rank in the Militia than a Captai tn this, he said, would satisfy the Gentlemen who had opposed the clause in question. Lord STAttt.rr said a few words. • Mr. KINNAIRD requested to know wbcther the Bill had force in Scotland. The SEC RET ARY at WAR said, it did not extend to Scotland. He then moved, that the proviso he had just repeated, be added to the Bill which was immediately agreed to by, the House, and the Bill' was ordered to be read a third time us morroi—The House adjourned at six o'clock, j‘.R Mr!' oh' TOG K 4. DAY, YitTS Bank Smelt INT4vy s , per Cent..ggb Z ; rat Lent. t 797, abut I I islis per Cent. 4 per teat. Con, shut per Cent. -Red. shut per C.Crin. 6 4iiii 4i I , itto Scrip • Rank L. Ann. shut OittO Short Ann. shut Ditto Scrip India Stock South Se 4 Stock Excbeti. S. dis. Fundable ditto pretn. 3d Exchequer pills dnt, Omnium Izi Inver.. 3 per Cent 63h Ditto Ann. tt 1-16 OA for opentag India for Acc. cons, for Apr 1164111; witt.vs.o'ctocg. googol N 64611. THIS .DAY AT PQ4I;OIA to ot ,1 l LI-,• , Z, - • DUE. French - z - . . . • ~ Lisbon .0 ...... 1 `; - • u . . • THE SUN. 11101-IKM QUIS Di Cant AUDJI,At LOX DON, MARCH 24., iBO3. NOTHING arrived from France in the course of yesterday 'or thft morning, but we have reason t? :hope that the public anxiety will in a few days be at an end one"Wiy or the other. Some of the rope! , meanwhile.make it a pradice . to state the arrival.of Messengers,' when none do arrive, thereby exciting 'public curiosity, and increasing that suspense,whirh must naturally already prevail in a sufficient dcgter , To this Paper, the Narion;tnay confidently look for the earliest as . ..well as mast authentic account of the issue of :he subsisting Negotiations. Major-General ‘STIIAAT., who COMlllandea at Alexandria, has arrived in Town. The Era. cuation of that place by the British Trasr took place as soo n 25 possible .after the are rangement in favour o f tlss Bet's had been can* cludod - byLoitl'acts. The'Troops, we belie' e ' hive gone to Naha. General SrtiAXT came through France, and his reception at Paris „is stated to have been by ho means agreeable. . • . By our Plymouth Letter, it appears that orlk ders have been received there, to' =spend, for the present, the mounting of any more guns on the Ramparts of the Citadel.' A Lisbon Mail arrived this'morning, brought to Falmouth by the Pr;ace Adclphua Packet in i 8 Jar:, Before she sailed, advites had been received at LW bon from Spain, that the Chief Consul of Franc'd, had insisted upon the Sparriards immediately sending' 7000 Tthops to garrison the Island of ilfs'norcol‘, Accounts were likewiie received through the ulna channel, of a number of British Troops having land ed in the bland of Sardinia. TII E Opposition Writers tell us, that-if the Wit is renewed all Parties must unite--Political digit fences must subside, and we must all . jtiin, hand end heart,. to save the Country,--to give eiceet to thin Putriotic Sentiment, they begin by. endcAvouriog :j . 1 iw.ridenceinthHey i n sinuate His Majesty's Ministet s. y . l, If d es troy th 7 N a 'C l ' i a r c breaks'out see no hostile ells'is. position on t h e p art o f F rance s i n . 4 1 t Si g r i 3 " 4 " air vernment here i s to blame--trey s ee that the Go. the Treaty of Amiens—no •infringetnent of that i .. h er toldela n t o y tnee i r t e s si e ita l s f y , 0 f o t r htha a et n . y tßhr d eiy e t i s .si r i e t t m o p t i a r k e e i stepsmin i:t ffe e :in the Peace th eir the next, that they have broken the Treaty wit#' France, because they arc ashamed of , It....ena this. a: all rq'''''"",becausetbethreeys.°llOvver4 they -are told by persons who -compilment theta, c o ir p p re is s oti erls . i: : selves-on their , Consistency and who accuse. Mini. , .. _ sters of fludnatiOn ! This rimy .be ratty...lo4f or Malice, otl Disaffeaion ; but it has not theltast resemblance either to jiistice, Trot,, er - Honci'V. ' The call to unanimity lay sach persona,. Who ,ate`'. doing every thing they can to destroy it, is insul t. _ . \ ,- : -, ing ; . but. there is n o cheat more easily defraed ~., than Faction; in the garb and charafter of Patricia., ism. We .are unwilling to state all we hAve to saY upon the subjea of Violations of the Treaty Of Atniens, because Negotiations are still pending which may yet possibly end in Peace : but we con. tend, that if the Conditions of that Treaty resPc 4l " ing Malta, haie in vain been attempted to I Je. car" tied into effeet, and that His Majesty's Ministers then say they shall keep ,possession of t he Liana till new stipulations are agreed upon---:end the Chief Consul replies, by insisting ulon the immedi" ate evacuation of the Island—if dip, is, in substance, -!!!• state of the case, ii is not Great Britain that violates the ,Treaty in this respea, but From , . There is another point -also on which 4e shah venture to touch, because in doing so we implicat e. : no t ersons, and becauie it cannot have escaped the notice of _those who have watched the 'progress at France'since' the Signature of" the Treaty with thy' Country. 'We were in po s session of the Island to' Oa at the time of the Signature of the Pre" .; _ was not ceded by us . - to —hut as if the Chief Consul was determino tv exclude us event from the Chance of obtaining s Port in the Mediterranean, Frond has Since 1 141 " : nexed that Island to her Dominions. Now W' ask, by what principle has this been done, whic h ' would not equally apply to the annexation,. ooth e part of France, of the . Cape of Goa Hoe, of Sillfr yam, of Dontrar # 4 of hiefai4o, or of any of our ^ Conqueits which were -cede.' by us -at the . Peace! bur 71. , ;t ceded b Frinsti P . We have seen it WW I ! in The Mcaittur in a manner ,uSciently art itra t P thAt we have no tight to interfere wish rtaac-00