The Sun. — London, England, 1803-04-26 00:00:00

IMPERML PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEZPS. MONDAY, APRIL 25. 'l:ma Lordships resolved into Committee of Privileges,. 2nd Lord Wm.s it.; 6144 st having - taken the Chair, Mr. Townshend, of the I lerald's College, was examined at con biderahle length respedirtg certainpoints, toddling the ciaim of the Rev. Mr, l3rydges, to the irony of Chandos. The Cominittee adjourned the farther consideration of tile.case till Wednesday. On the House being resumed, their Lordships took into farther consideratiOn the Scotch Appeal, Syme v. Dicksoni, when. the House deemed it unnecessary to hear the Respen , dents' Comm lt and - tire Loan Cita+ NCELIMit, -who seemed to have his mind made up upon the-case, moved, after a few pmfatery observations, that the Decree be :affirmed, which inceting_the sense of the House, was ordered accordingly. The Bills upon the Table were forwardel in their respec tive stages ; antei2g those was the Grenada Loan Bill, winch was read a third time and passed. Some private business was then disposed of, and the House gclioorned till to-morrow. -HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, APRIL 25. Ttrs Bill for regulating the Leather Trade was read a first time, A Petition was presented horn the Weavers o the county of Giouce , ter, against the Wool. len Manufadurer' Bill, now in the Hollse.—Oider, ed to lie on th Table, till the second reading o th STATF. OF THE NATiON', Cql. PATEN said he had given notice of a Motion for to-morrow, respeaing the - State of the Tslation. He felt himself at present - disposed to put it off for a short time, in the hope' that His Ma. jesty's Ministers sttould be, enabled 10 make a coin. munication to the House on the state of the Nego. dation. He should be glad if Ministers could state whether it was likely that any Cdnimuniea.. tion would be made before Friday ; at present, bo.yever, he would give notice of Iris `Motion for so,lllofrilW senoight. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCiJPQUER said it was imposiible for him to say whether he should be able to make any communication to the House before Friday next or not : the House Might be assured that - as a member of Administration, if possessed of information necessary to be laid be. fore the House, he should be anxious to lay it before them. No time would be lost on the part of Administration—but he wished this matter to be tioderstood as it related to the intention of the ;he Member—Was he to understand that this was o;':,1j:a provisional notice, and that if previous to Tuesday ow, a Communication should be made, he would not bring forward his Motion that day ? He wished this to be understood,iot with a view to his own convenience, but for the convenience of others, whether the Motion of the Hon. 'Oeotlentati was to be made on that day or not, Coloild FATTEN said, he could not answer this question at present,'LTause a Communication might be made on the very day on which his Motion wits to come on, and that might alter time case so mate. rially, that he could sc4cely give an answer now, what course he should then take. CiMNCALLOR of the EXIIIiQUER wished the Honourable Gentleman to state, dis. tint'tly as he .was able, the coordit,ion on which the Motion was or was not to be male.—He wished to know what distance of time between the day of titakiog the Motion and that of a Communication ts.ould operate on the.Honourable Gentleman, so as to induce hint to bring it forward or to decline it ? Cannel FATTEN said, that the notice had origi. nated with him, but a considerable delay had taken place in consequence of what had been said by the Right" Ilonourable Gentleman : be should wish to excuse himself at present frorri entering into any engagement, unless the House requited that". lie sl.onld give some direct information. ' The CILIiyeE,L,LOR of • the' EX7 ILE QUE R said, that he Understood the Hon. Member to state to the douse, that even if no Coinmunicltion should be mad,-, 'he - would hring forward his Motion ; but that itir Communicatiooshould be made, that then the fib.n2l4,4ember would consider whether - he- would bfingltittivard l,ix Motion at all. or nor. Geveral GISCOYNE wished to know, Whether t; e Right Hon. - Gentleman (the CHANCELLOR of , the EXcli twit: it ), would encontagt the House to - h A res - any thing 'in this case—whether he was led from 6i - cum:minces to hope that he should be able to troke as ComMunication ? Mr. GREY wished to know in What state. we Were,—.4le wished to know, whether in one event, namely, that of a Comniunication not being made, the Hon. Gentleman would think himself at liberty again to postpone his MOtion . ? , —Wlitir. he . wished to. know was, if no CommUnication was made he. twecn the present 'time, and -to-morrow se'nnight, whethi:r he would bring forward his . Mntion if no Communication was matte, the 'matter might be as dpubtitd then as it was at this moment. lie could not. help considering the delay that had al ready taken place, as the most extraordinary, and nninrtunate ; a delay svhich never before occurred ln any course of proceeding in which this Country. was ever engaged; and it was observed, that with respeet to the Public, it was attended with an igno nine tOtailkitMreCedell tea. The SPE „IKE observed, that 'there was no Queicioi; f ire the fiouse. F X said, t h at the predict of explaining a N aice, was generitliy countenanced by the House; for h any ,Member give Notice, it was desirable to know that Notice, at least as much explanatiop bh uld be given of it as that it might be seticiently pilderbtoad. Cotonel PATTEN signified, as we understood, that lic.shouil briog on his Nigtion on Tuesday (to. porrowsennight). ThSfurther consideration of the Tinnatie estates piii w ll . post ruled t o F r id ay next. Mr. ,k:OX presented a Petition from the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of Nottingham, i)r.iyi t i g for leave "' be heard by COIIIIB4 I 'ligainit the Nottingham ‘Franchise'Bill. The Petition Was brought up, and ottieret) to lie t p the Table, Mr. FOX soid, with the ooneurrence of theffouse; he whited to roltpone the consideration of the Woltinght Franoluse`Bill, which stands fa; Wed. pcsday l to the Monday following, give his concurrence to the wish- of the Honourable Gentleman : he thought the application rather reasonable; the Bill was brought in last Wedoes, day, therefOre there had been sufficient time for the Aldermen and Magistrates of Nottingham ,t o pre.. pare any Petition their wisdom might suggest as serviceable to them. He, for one, could not see the necessity for any further delay, and if a greater length of time was given by the voice of the House, he should move to postpone the motion for issuing of a new Writ.—He, could not but express his sur. prize, that such an ,appliCation should be made to the House, when notice.of.the Bill in question was given long before tlige F e ss , Mr. FOX said, he,.wa's ready to allow that suf . ficient time had been given, but without giving the House any further trouble on the business, he would propose Friday, with the permission of the House, instead of Monday, as particular business stands for that day. Mr. 11.1r/KINS BROWNE said, in order to accommodate the Honourable Gentleman, he would agree to Friday next. - The - Petition was then ordered to be taken into consideration on the day the Bill was read, which will he on .Friday. Mr: DICK INS postponed the further consideration of the Coroners' Bill. Sir H. MILDMAY rose, and observed that a -Bill had passed that House, the objets of which was, to inquire into certain abuses .in diffelent dices in His Majesty's Royal Navy. Four months had now elapsed since the passing of that Bill, and no Report had been made, he therefore wished 1.4 know.whether there was any Motion at present, on the subjta, if not, be took this opportunity to in. form the House, that he should make a Motion to that died on Thursday se'ennight. Mr. PIERREPOINT moved for a new Writ to be issued for Nottingham, in the room of Lord HENRY WILLIAM CAVENDISH BENTINCK.—Ordered.. The Order of the :Day was read for taking into consideration the minutes of the Report brought up from the Committee appointed to try the merits of the Great Grimsby EleEtion. Sir M. W. RIDLEY then moved that John Simpson be called to the Bar of the House. On. John Simpson being put to the Bar, The SPEAKER asked him whether he was prepar. •rd with Counsel? Time Prisoner said, he understood his Counsel, Mr. PLora ER 4 was in the Lobby. On an inquiry being made„ the House found that Mr. PLUMER was not to attend. Sir M. W. RIULSY moved that the first Reno. lotion of the Committee should be recd--which was accordingly read as' follows; Resolved, That it appears to this Committee, That (Wm Simpson,. Esq. the MayOr and Returning Officer of the Borou gh 'of Great Grimsby, did, no the day previous to the said Election, hold a full Court of Mayor, Aldermen, Common Councilmen, amid Burgesses of the s,nd Borough; at which Court the said John Simpson did unlawfully, and of his own authority, admit certain Persons to the Free dom of the said Borough, to whom objedions'were stated, and did refuse to submit to the coosideration and judgment of the Aldermen, CJIIIIIIOII Councilmen, and Burgesses of the .said Borough, aSsernbled at the said full Court, the right of such P ersons to be admitt e d to t h e i r F ree d om. %%ditch, by the Constitution of the Borough, as dela.rmined by a atesolution of a Committee of the }loos.: of CoMmons, reported to this House on the t rth day of Apt 1793, he ought to have doge; and that the said )01m Simpson did also partially, unlawfully, and of his' own am:hut - Ay, refuse to admit certain Persons, who claimed at the said lull Court to be admitted Freemen .of the said borough, to their Free. don therein, and did also refuse to submit to the Aldermen, Common Councilmen, and Burgesses of the said Borough, in the Said full Court as:.embled, the right of such Per sons to be admitted to their Freedom, and which by the aforesaid Constitution he ought to have done. That the said John Simpson, at and during the Eledion, did ad partially in the execution of his Office as Returning Officer, and ditl, at the Poll, partially and unlawfully re. jet the Votes tendered by several Persons having a right to vote at the said Elation, which Votes he the said John Simpson ought to have .received ; and also did, at the said Pot 1, partially and unla%vfolly receive and admit the Votes of several Pet - twos who had no right to vote at the said Lledion, which Vote.; he the said John Si m p son oug h t as R eturning to have rejected. Mr. Simpson being called upon for his defense, said, that he was a poor man, that, he had a wife and five children, that he retited small farm of Sol. a year, hut he was to quil i as,much as came to 401.. a year on the tzth May, that what he had done proceeded from ignorance, .for, which he was very sorry, that he - asked pardon of the House, arid t h rew himself upon its mercy. Sir M. IV. RIDL EY said, he did not,doubt but*the . .defence the Prisoner had mulc t and the simplicity of .his charader, would disarm the House from in, flitting a severe punishment on him, though he thought somekiud of punishment was necessary, to deter others : from similar offences • he, .howeve r , should no t tres p ass any longer on' die time of the House, but move that the second resolution he read, which was accordingly read as follows,. that "tie. Mayor and returning Officer of Great Grimsby. had held a WI Court of the Mayor, Alderinen'aud C:om. mon Council of the said Borough in whiCh hebad aired illegally, and in contradiction to the resolution. of that tiuse, and in violation of its privileges" Sir M. :W. RIDLEY then moved, that the sout•jr• Simpson be taken into the custody of the Seijeaht at Arms, which the House agreed to. The Report of the. Edinburgh Road , Bill ; was taken into consideration. . General MAITLAND rose, and in a speech of considerable length, entered into the state of the Roads in that Country, and reprobated many of the clauses in the Bill, as being oppressiVe to the-Far- MCI% The LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND spoke at considerable length in support of the Bill. Mr. DicxEmsoN spoke against the Bill. Mr. 111YRST also Apoke against the Bill. The Hon. ROBERT DUNDAS and Sir WI LLIAM Ppyrß NET spoke in favour of the Bill. Mr. KINNAI RD spoke against the The House divided: - For a further considesitripti Against it Adjourned at 7 o'cli4.-1 64 tis MAILS. DUX. ^RN evii, D . 'Holland a French liambirrgh PRICE OF- STOCKS, . . THIS DAY , AT TwlLvt 4We ocic. 00116013 I 7 7 7 • U N. lOWA 2UIS DICIIIII AUDIAT ? LONDON, APRIL 26, 1803. IT will be seen, from our Parliamentary Proceed ings, that in answer to' a question put to him in the House last night, the CHANCELLOR of the Exco re said, that he could not pledge himself to any Spebifirc period for a Communication to Par_ liattrpti respecting the Negotiation with France. In consequence of this answer, Colonel PATTEN has put off his Motion for an Inquiry into the State of the Nation, fur a week. It must be obvious to every candid mat►, that in the present circum stances of the Country, it must be as much the anxious wish, as it is unquestionably the duty of His Majesty's Ministers, to make a communication of some kind or other, the moment it can be done with propriety, in order to relieve the Country from its present state of anxiety and suspense. The little, however, that did pass last night, will serve to chew the folly, and indeed the wickedness in which Borne of the Papers, and indeed most of them, daily indulge, by for Ming speculations of the deli. berations of the Cabinet, and the determinations of BONArARTE, and amusing and misleading their Readers and, the Public with these, as describing the attual momentous state of things. One day we hear from these presuming Journalists, that " it is all War," and the very next, perhaps, "that it is all Peace." This is one of the many serious evils to which the present state of painful uncer taintly gives birth; hut it is in some measure a volulltary evil, fur if the Public will listen to those who are in the daily habits of deception, and are without all, means of aCtual information, they have 9nly th4lll9;Kckto blame for any inconveniencies, or uneasinels,,Ahich may he the result. We are told iiri . these. Papers, with very unblushing confi. dencc, the contents of a dispatch from Lord WH IT. women, on an important point in the Negotiation, which can only be known to His Majesty's Cabinet Ministers, and we are likewise further kindly inform ed of the Answer which the Cabinet has returned, though that Answer was sent off while the Cabi net was still sitting. We can hardly suppose it pos. Bible that there can be any portion of the British People so wholly ignorant or credulous as to be the.dupes of such presumption. Our present situa. tion has enough of real evil attached to it, without the superadded operations of malignity and self-in terest. The part that Parliament is afting is prudent and dignified. There is a calm forbearance which we have no doubt will he found highly serviceable to the Interests of the Country, and which, what. ever may be the result of the Negotiation with France, must add weight mid dignity to all its fu ture proceedings. • The attempt on the part o f t h e F rench Ca vern . mrnt to pass M. Dg BUSY for an Italian, is rather to be considered in a ludicrous point of view than otherwise. At the same • time that we yesterday gave the statement in the Afoxiieur respecting this Gentleman, we were enabled' from . uur superior sources :of infOrmation, to let the people of this Countryint•O'h - little of the private history of this man, who is now more talked of than he ever, per. haps, expeded to be, when he ailed the treacherous part to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of which he was the servant, in icing instrumental in the surrender of that Island to BONAPIqtTE on his passage to Am . Our exposition of M. BUSY'S birth, parentage, and education, seems to have ex- cited the utmost anger in. the Circle of the Thuil- !cries. We must ever feel gratified by such high marks of resentment, when the occasion is connea. ed, in the remotest degree, with the interests of our country. Yesterday being a' Holiday, little Business wa done at the Stock-Exchange, but we believe, the Stocks rather, looked upwaxds, the 3 per Cents. reaching 6; ; at which price they were this day at twelve o'clock. LAST night arrived two Mails from Holland. According to intelligence from ConittrstiqoPcs the Porte has received intelligence of an unexpeCted* insurrefflon having broken out in Arabia, whete,a mati of the name of ABDUL MEottna has colleNd a great number of Partizans, and threatens the overthrow of the preserdlteligious Constitution of. Arabia and Turkey. His followers are excited to massacre indisctlminately all - those who ackno'iv. ledge the, P A AND SIGNIcdt, as Sovereign and hvitastkitalared that he will immediately ad. vance'idagliaiiession of the cities of Mccca and Tide Partizans of the present establish. mot wereln consequeree flying lon all sides, and the Army of this blood-thirsty Leader was advan. cing with hasty strides towards' itfocca. A repnr . r haq, reache4 P;ebn a th.it .an alaituing insurreetion had broken out in Covt.witiv,p/t 3 aod that that city was in the greatest confusion. nits morning we receive Paris 'a p art c ;o t. ;1 ll IC z3d instant. The FIRST CONSUL is expeaed with certainty to leave Paris for Belgium between the . loth and . I Sal of May. A Camp, consisting of 11,000 men, is to be formed a short distance from Strasburg, whither he is expeeted to proceed from Belgium. The French Funds are at 53. Yesterday morning His MAJksTy,. accompanied ., by their Royal Highnesses the Princesses „s o PHIA . and ANteLtA, attended by Generals GWYN anti • HARCouRT, the .Hon. Mrs. FitCouliT, and the Hon. Mr. Vt LTA Rs, took an airing on horseback, in Windsor Great Park : they went•up the long Walk, through the plantations, and inspeded the different works and improvements going on,. and. returned to the Lodge about two o'clock. Her MAJESTY, and the PRINCLSSFS AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, and MARY, attended by Lady cHAR. LOTTE WYNN, and Mrs. DRAX, took an airing to Frogmore. Yesterday being her Royal Highness the Patti• cess MARY'S Birth-day, the bells.of Windsor and its vicini t y we re run g as usual on the occasion. This day THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES came to town from Windsor, to which place they will•not return till Friday next. His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES at rived in town yesterday afternoon, from Winds°. Yesterday a Battalion of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards had a grand field-clay in Hyde.:Park, at* tended by two lield--pieces. Yesterday the Itch Light Dragoons had a gram' field day on Ashford Common. The gallant 39th, or East Middlesex Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lieut.-Col. GEORGE BELL, have arrived at Portsmouth in twenty-eight dayl— from the West Indies, after nine years distinguished services in that Country. The Regiment will be quartered at Winchester. sdci dao l t ts et fh psocareitrtlahgteheva:tiallcsoi Well y ia t n . s r iNSTONE will be a Ca o • t th lie e LAUDERDALE. lEtcair)irseosefniastiLoLniogfainhati, On Sunday afternoon . one of the heaviest shower s of hail almost ev e r remembered, fell in the:neigh*. bourhood of Windsor, par ticularly:iihotit :Colnbrok• and Percy Lodge. .:• On Sunday afternoon, the Pursers of the La.# Sant Duna'a: and Walthamstazi k , arrived at the East India-House. PASSENGERS PER LADY JANE DUNDAS: Col. and Miss Handyman,. Captain Briscoe, David Vr' andel+, lienden, John Fleming, and P. Treves, Esqrs. MeSirt. BA net} and Rotliam, PF.K WALTHANISTONV Lieut.-Col. Phitirs ; distresses, Cockburn, Holland, 4,,t/' ' • bott, 'and Caicnient ; T. Cockburn, W. C:unniiiyilliall, • Casement, and T. Gardner, lacers. ; Lu n t. L: 4 * trid:son and Mr. (;ardhall. PEEL TELLICHERRY: Poph.mb Wynyeir*land I.a(ly,o l ' ("Met; and Lik:ucnants Brooke and Cunningham. Yesterday Mr. CHARLES FRANCIS, the No el of the Hun. East-India Company's Ship the iflp ' Capt. -JAMBS PENDERGRASS. attended at house, and received his-finat 'Dispatches for Supra Cargoes at Canton, with which he WA" diately proceeded to Deal, to join the.said Ship• The COUItT of Dlitectoßs of the East IndOt Company have lately in,itle very considerable recut* tioos in the allowances of their sevcral Warehouse* . keepers, and the Olikers under them. • India Company have been for some time engaged upon a plan for improving. the Breed- p. 1 - lorses for the service of their Cavalry in 1,3 0 0 1 for which purpose they rent a farm in . .Essex. Mr. jomx BRISTOW, an old servant of the Lint India Company, wlio lately died at Calcutta, 1410 tbehusbani of Mrs. 13Rtstow, a Lady well know n in fashionable life, of great beauty and accornpli s ; l ', ments. MONSIEUR, t h e brother of LOUIS XV/11,: is On • a visit to the Prince of Co NDE, at Wansi'eid 1 -144 W' Essex. LOUT and Lady CONYNCHAM aft tomorrow ; his Lindship his been .doloyed som e weeks at Paris by the illness of his scco:id son, wba is now considerably recovered. . 1 . .001011e1 \ T kILEKER, tVittriber for Limerick, ' 135 left lon.eon for that City,. in consecoence of his Re. gitnent heing embi,idied , he pity' s the .stijaest atteil. • don to it, and is' universally esteemed by the Officers and men of that brave corps. It is the I-fon: Mr. WELLESLEY POLE who i S • gone over to 11011111 d in the department of t he. Ordnance. The Dutchess of GRAMMONT, who was dis., ll "" guished the'Courc of Fr ance , d ur i n g the NO"' mirchy, for her beauty and merit, died late 10! Edinburgh, in :the prime of life. She was a in° 1 ' estimable character, ,and is deeply regretted. • A new coiriagtof five franc piec es • c misto gct has from the' French Treasury, bearing the- effigies Q ft poN.FARTE. Jostrit BotiApARTE has been named Mehlbe r ,Q t : the . third Class of the National Institute, vain( by .the death of D. Pointra. In the Sitting of the French Legislative Body of the "r6th instant, a Project of a Law was presentee for a levy of Conscripts. By this project - 3Oso ota Conscripts are to be raised, taken upon the Ca ri. e : scription of the year XI., and 30,060 upon tha t ot ,the year XIS:--these are to complete the Pea" Establishment; hut .30.000 more of the year and 30,000 of the year XII. (that is the next year)) are to be in reserve for the 'War Establishmel 4 t should it become necessary., on the ,sth instant a fire broke out at avec o'clock in the morning, in one of The. Saloons of the rt Palace of St. Cloud.—lt was occasioned by. the over heating of one of the pipes. There, seems to b e beat enough at St. Cloud to att, Europe in a flame. Sessions se a lii)gerhstosno7aas tried For' t to. 4leceive mariners, in order to enable bitn dfarnent, however, the Proseeution ottfigtuna tll f . r t l i t i e eAc w tri r tl e ill / o s Cf s o t ir : l° : lw c ci c al i ni t l s g ipncd. From a deft& to I ,{undet in the T dropred to the gtouAd.,