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IMPERIAL PARLIAM.ENT. ROUSE OF PEERS, TRIDAT, APRIL 6. ATTER some routine business was disposed of, the House adjourned during pleasure. Some interval hav'ng elapsed, the House was resumed, and the Bills upon the Table were forwarded in their seve ral stages. Mr. ROSE, the reading Clerk, officiated the first time since his recovery. The Committee upon the Irish Priests and Dea con's Bill, which stood for this day, was, on the suggestion of the Bishop of Sr. AsATH, postponed till Thursday.. On the Motion of Lord AUCKLAND, Certain, accounts respetting the capital, '&c: of the Scotch Bank were ordered to be laid before the House : These were moved for, his Lordship observed, from no inclination on his part to oppose the'rnea. sure, but from the accounts moved for being ne cessary, he understood, for the due illustration of the subje&. The_ Bankers' Bill, and the Irish Militia Families Provision Bill, were brought up by Mr. ALEX ANDIta from the Commons. .Three Private Bills were brought up by DU.NCOMBE and other Gentlemen; these were se verally read a first.time._,. On the Motion of the Bishop of Sr. ASAPH, all the Lords present during this Session, were or dered to be Members of the Committee on the-St. Pancras Poor Bill. VOLUNTEERS BILL. The Order of the Day being read, the House resolved into a Committee on this Bill, Lord WAL. NGH AM in the Chair. The discussion of the fourth Clause was resumed. C By.this it is enated, that every 'person enrolled, cr to be enrolled, or serving as an effective Mem ber in any Corps of Yeomanry or Volunteers in Great Britain, and who shall be duly-returned or 'certified'as such, shall be exempted from being liable to serve personally, or to provide a substittite in .the Militia of Great Britain, or in any additional force raised, or to be raised, fur the defence of the Realm, or the more vigorous prosecution of the War, by any A& passed in this Session, &c. Earl SPEN . CER having referred to this part of the Clause, moved to amend the same by the addition of the words, " or any subsequent Session of Par liament." This proposition gave rise to a discussion of considerable length, in which Lords SPENCER, GRENVILLE, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lordi ELLENEOROUGH, AUCE.4LAND, CARNARVON, and the Duke of Mosrause, took the principal part. It was contended on the part of those Peers who supported the amendment, as Lords GRENVILLE, SPENCER, CARNARVON, &c. among other points, that the principle of exemption having been re cognized in, and provided for by the Bill, it should consistently with Parliamentary faith and honour, do which the VolUnteer relied on tendering his sir vices, be extended in the way proposed .by the amendment: the case was similar to that of the 'public creditor, who relied on a continued and un_ altered Parliamentary sanlion, as a security for the interest of his money ; and in alluding to the re_ peals made by the Bill, it was preferaille that the exemptions, such as contended for, should stand on -the Statutes and Rolls of Parliament, as the best security to the Volunteer, and not stiffer these te gala ions to be dependent on the feelings or futUre .opinions of 'individuals. If was contended by Lords HAWKESBURY, the :'OttAN•ci.tort., and other Ministerial Peers, that un.ler all the circumstances of the case, it was pre -le-6We io — let . the Clause remain as it stood : the Clause had a two-told operation, and applied to orps ece..lo he raised hereafter as well as to those ' no w in existence. The amendment of the Noble; ,Earl - woulitriat - . - therefore meet the ()Ilea proposed ; iinpolicy of. tying up the hands of the Legis!a_ ture in cortain.case; - was contended for ; the honour L and good faith of Parliament was, however, to be ,Icept.iuviulate, and. these were considerations which must have their due effect on the Legislature when considering of Ads hereafter on the suhjel, should ,such ofocerdings be necessary. . Atter a great deal of discussion, in which the =abOvementioned and other Peers repeatedly deliver ed their opinions, ir Amendment, was pu,hed to a division, when the:rc appeared for the same 14. Against it 34 Nl,ijority On an Amendment proly)sed by Lord Gr. EN- V 1 t t, E to a subsequent Clause, the general effect of w hich was to equalize all the Volunteer Corps, even those. who had disclaimed them, with re_ % pea to the exemptions, a discussion of nearly equal length took place: the Peers abovemen. cloned, together with Lords KING, 1-IoART, and RoNIN EY, were the principal Speakers. This also terminated in a division to the same effect as the former one, and the numbers were also the same, viz. 34 to 14. On a subsequent Amendment proposed by Lord GR ENV ILLE, and whicit also related to the consi deration of Exemptions, sever4l FCCTS delivered their opinions : the principal Speakers were those who had taken a part in the discussions above al luded to. Lod HOB ART particula7ly vindicated Mini sters from the imputation of incompetency respect ing the Volunteer System, and a3serted' that the charge of inconsistency really applied to the Noble Lord and his Supporters, who were determined to find fault with the conduCt of Mioisters re'speaing the Volunteers, be it what it inay. Lord KING took occaoil to ()merle, that His Majesty's present Ministers did not p osses , t h e confidence of the Country : Their retreat from rower would be more gratifying to the people than a, victory either by sea or land, or even a Peace ; that event would however be displeasing to 13 0 oa_ trtc, as he knew their continuance in power would be beneficial to him. Lord II AW/KES BURY rose,, and with a consi derable degree of warmth and animation, comment. td on what fell from the last Speaker. The Noble nrobablv suoke from his own acouzintanee arid knowledge, "but they also spoke from theirs, and they were well assured that His Majesty's present Gavernment possessed the coAdetice, not only of Parliament, 'hut of:the Country.: Meaqtressuch ak thin under discussion, should bi judged !ro m a view of their own merits, and not with a reference to who the aflual advisers of the Crown were. If . these were obnoxious, the most fair and manly way would be to come forward with an Address for their removal. lie then went into a spirited vindication of the condo& of Ministers in the pre. sent arduous crisis, which, he was confident, would not suffer by being compared with that of former Administrations, even" when circumstances were not so unfavourable to them. The Duke of MONTROSE. expressed his belief, 1 that Ministers meant well. Lord CARNARPON supported the amend. ment : he coaessed that orte of his principal rea. sons for opposing different. parts of this Bill wag, his trital want of contideriee:in His Majesty's Mi. nisters, and ht firmly. believed that a great Moja rit y of _the Country agrcp,l with hint in that opinion. The LORD CH /INCELLOR said, it certainly was competent to any,Nuble Lord to express his own want of confidence in the King's Ministers ; but while they had the sanction of His Majesty, and their . condua was approved of by 'a majority in Parliament, which-was the constitutional organ for expressitt the public opinirin, no Noble Lord had a right to say that Minister's had not the confidence of the Public: The offices which tthe present Mini sters filled they hatl nut sought f3r—they accepted them under most arduous circumstances, and since they held those offices, they had uniformly endea_ voured to discharge their duties conscientiously to the best of their abilities. Lard,GRENVILLE:saiti, he had never insinuated that the present Ministry were aluated by any bad motives, .I.tecattsc he was ready to give them full credit for the purity of their intentions, but he con tended that At. such a crisis as the present, other qualities besides_good intentions were necessary for the Ministers of this Country, which was now for the first_ time_fighi ing fox it s.exiatence ; and he really an d conscientiously believed. that His Majesty's present Ministers did not , possess talents equal to the Government of the Country at such an . arduous crisis. • After a short conversation the Amendment was negatived. Lord D ARNLEY then moved, as an amendment, that. no Volunteer Corps should be entitled to ex. ernptions Who had not offered to serve, in any part of Great , Britain in cape of iovasion, This was oppostd by Lords RQ4INEY., WIKCHILSE . A, and EGREMONT r who contended that it• would be a breach of faith to the Volunteers to narrow the ex emptions uudet which they had been embodied, Lord DARNLEY then consented to withdraw his amendment, tar the purse of introdu(9,,ng another, the effea of. w bleb. was_to de4ilive 'al( Volunteers of exemptions 'who had not offered to serve.-in the titry distria - tb Which they belonged'.—This amend. merle was opposed ,upon the ,same grounds as the former, and afier some consideration, the Noble Lord was induced to withdraw it. The Clause was then ,agreed to, and the House being resumed, the - Committec was ordered to sit again on Monday, and at twelve o'clock the-House adjourned to Monday: • : ' HJUSE OF COMMT),NS,, • - APRIL —6z-- --- - - LORD JOHIICASqBA4L 'took the oaths and his sear. . • - ,I - Mr. V AN strrAtt:r .tnnve. f or several Accounts •of the Official Value-of•Exprts and Imports- for the last seven years, which ttvere ordered; and alio urclered to lie on the. Table and to wards presented ;- be printed. , Mr. VAtorrrear.lso moved for Accounts of the net Produce of - the permanent Taxes for the years en .ling the jih of January .. 1 _O3, .anti 1894 respec_ atld of the.net produce of the Do.ties.of Cus. toms; fur the year ending the sth of April .1804.. Mr. Secretary Yo%ki withdrew the Lilt of Re.. giments and Companies of the Irish w h o had voluntarily offered to serve in this Country, and presented another more Cotred, which 'was ordered to lie on the Table, hod to be printed. r.. VA Ns rrtt a.l - 41esented..an Estimate of the Sums wanted under. the 7th Article of -the Treaty with America ; and also an Account of Exchequer Bills outstanding, which were severally ordered to lie on - the Table.. . .• Mr. FRANCIS adverted to a Motion he' made on the t sth of last month, fot Paper's respeCting the origin of the ivlahratta War, which he was then i n d uce d to withdraw, in cons:Tie:lce of its being intimated to him by a Noble Lord (CA , erLER s AGO), that the necessary Papers were not received. He now found that advices had been received, giving an account of some brilliant successes in ILdia, and he therefore thought it probable that the Papers which he wished to move fr, might also have been • received :—Upon this subjett he wished for some explanation from the Noble Lord. However•great our successes had been in India, they had nothing to do with the original object of the War ; a 'War undertaken on the justest principles might be un successful, whilst, on the contrary, one unjust in its principles and objeft, might be eventually suc cessful : the point, therefore, - with tespett to the origin and object of the War with the Mahratra Princes, still remained an important subject for in quiry. It appeared that General Wellcsley's Army was in motion early in August, the deliberations with respe6t to the p:ilicv or the justice of com mencirl that War, must have taken place some taunt!;:; before; this would carry than back at soon est to May, and he wished to know it the Marquis Wellesley had not since that period informed the Court of Diredors of the plan and ohjeU of the War. 1-11: concluded, by moving ler Copies or Ex irk-is of all Dispatches received from the Gover. not... General of Bengal, or the Presidencies o f Fort George, or Bombay, so far as the saui' related to t h e Was with the Mahratta Princes or States. Lord CASTLEREAGH declined enterbig the.' general subject, but expressed hiln . self same disosition which i n dLiced the to hope that the Hon.on former occad on , to svich! draw his Motion, would equally operate on the pre- I sent, 'as the same reasons for not pressing it still existed - . He would certainly have apprized the Hon. Gelitleman if any advices had been received calcu laud to put the question into a state of discussion, but since the period when the Hon. Gentleman last made a Motion upon the same subjea, no (fired communication_ had been received either by sea or land from Bengal ; intelligence had been received from the Presidencies' of Madras and Bombay, through the medium of. which they had adtqces of our late glorious Successes in -India : they had, how ever, no later intelligence from Bengal than up to the z6th of June. He agreed with the Hon. Gen tleman ihat - thise successes had nothing Co do with the merits of the War ; the measures which led to that War were undoubtedly of some time standing, hut they Could not be-brought into discussion with - out sufficient information upon the subjea. He trusted therefore that the Hon. Gentleman would, as on a former occasion, withdraw his Motion, and he might rest assured that he, (Lord CASTLEMEACK) would apprize him of the circumstances whenever the necessary informatian arrived. Mr. JOHNSTONE expressed his surprise that . when they - had advices of a date two months subse quent to the commencement of the War, there should be no information as to the grounds on which hos tilities had commenced. -..--- - Laid C4STLERE4GH said, they were in pos. session of the discussions which took place between General Wellesley and Scindia, which undoubtedly led to hostilities, but these discussions were,found. ed upon instruCtions which they could not judge of until they were in possession of the motives of the Governor-General for issuing those Instruttions, and his view of the subject. Mr. FRANC IN, after pressing upon the attention of the HuuSe the importance'of the subjett, con -sented to withdraw his Motion. LOYALTY LOAN. Mr. DE NT postponed his Motion respecting .the Holders of the Loyalty Loan, till Monday seri night. LISKEARD ELECTION. Mr. SOMERS COCKS moved,, to discharge the Order for taking into consideration on the 17th instant, the Petition respeaing the right of voting in the Borough of Liskeard, with a view to fix it for a future day, --though' still to precede the consi. deration of the other Petitions. He did this with a view to obviate the inconvenience which would otherwise result from keeping the Mayor of Liskeard and other. Witnesses % so long in town, as the. interval between the consideration-of. the several Petitions. Mr. SHER ID AN thought the question of right:, ought to he brought.to a decision as speedily as .pos. sible. He had no objelion, however, to accom modate the other,side,, if the 'consideration tf the other two Petitions was also deferred. After some observations from Mr. GREGOR ' , Sir . WILLIAM Ert LFQRD and Mr. SHERIDa, explanation, the consideration of the Petition of Right was fixed. far the .24. th instant. The consideration of the Petition'of Mr. TnomAs SHERTDAN was also, on the Motion of Mr.' SHE. RIDAN, deferred till the 3d of May. Mr. SaERIDAN then moved to discharge the Order for taking into consideration Mr. HUSRIS- SoN's Petition on the 3d of May, with a view of mo ving to defer' it to the sth. This produced a conversation between Mr. BANKES, Mr. itURROUGHS, the .SEcitItTAItV at WAR, Mr. SH-ERIDAN,- the ATTORNWIr•GENIRAL, a nd Mr. SomEas- Cocks, after which, in conse quence of the SPEAKER'S suggesting that if the Motion for discharging the Order was negatived, it could not afterwards be postponed, Mr. SH . Ii 4. briN consented to withtitaw his Motion. IRISH FINANCE. 1,-,rd A. HAMILTON gave notice of his intention to submit a Motion to the House on Thursday re speCling the sums paid at par to the Officers of the _ _ Yrish Government. IRISH MILITIA. Mr. SF cit eTAR v YORKE moved the second read ing of the Bill for enabling His Majesty to accept the voluntary offers of service in this country made by certain Regiments of the Irish Militia. Sir IV. ELFORD said, he thought it his duty to oppose the measure, as no ground had been stated for this infringement of the constitutional system of the Militia. It. must be inferred from this mea. sure, that there was by so much a larger force in Ireland than was necessary, and if so, it followed that the best and most obvious way was to take from thence a portion of that force which was really disposable, without trenching upon the • Constitu tional principles of the Militia. He Considered the present measure as inconsistent in itself, and that the radice of encouraging the volunteering of service amongst Regiments of Militia, tended to create insubordination, as it tendered them de liberative bodies. This had already been the case amongst some RegiMents of English Militia, where the men had volunteered their services without the knowledge or consent of their Officers, a circutn stance which was likely to produce serious incon veniences. Alter a few words from Mr. BANK ES and Mr. BASTARD, which we could not distinctly 11C3r, the Bdl was read a second time and committed for Tues day, The Irish Militia Augmentation Bill was read a second time, and committed for Tuesday. Mr. Colutv moved for a" Committee on Monday, .to consider of making provision for enabling the 'Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to accept the offers of Service of the Militia of Ireland. Ordered. On the question for reading a second time the Irish Flax :ie.ed Bill, Mr• HUTCHINSON said a few words with respect to the hardship s of the Oil ManulaOurers. nor. o Biirte. preventCo! C URRY said, there was a provision in the ci a a t c t b of the Manufattbuiltr, seedd s b y n warehous e t h e see d upon giving secur i ty f or t h e pay vw ie of the d uty. from eab g lientg getting into l hands The Bill was then read a second rirrlt's and corn. mitred fur Wednesday. ..J he Cutnniittees, of Supply and, Ways and Means were deferred till Monday. Adjourned at half past six e till Monday. Tv; 4t LS. j outryto. , DUE. a Hamburgh t - - - PRICE OF STOCKS, TUTS DAY AT TWILLYS O'CLOCK. Consols - SS it THE SUN. SOLI^ QUIS DICLAZ FALSLIN AUDZAT ? LONDON, APRIL 7, 1804• We stated some days ago, that the Preparati ons of the Enemy for the Invasion of this Country were completed, and that they now only waited for a fa rumble opportunity to attempt to carry th eft plans into execution. The threat of Invaiion has been continued so long, and the time when it wan to take place has been so often mentioned; t hat we are afraid many people in this Country e (7 . 4 consider it only as an idle menace, calculated u' ere ; ly to keep us in a state of alarm, and tbS e t tea ; execution of it will never seriously be attemP A we say we are afraid this opinion is entert 2l° ` 4 l because if it were general, or prevailed tool g rea extent, it would be most fatal to this Co,outrY' L The French Government have hitherto delaye d t " e. ,attack, because in an enterprize upon the-issu e ° which they risque every thing, they would naturallr wait until they had colleded a force equal (at least i ll their opinion) to the difficulties they had to encounte r ' But now, when every thing is prepared ; when il l impatience of the : French A rm y h a s been egej l ! .hytlle the effort m us t b e made, for the curse.d elusive prospeac of t h e Plunder of this quences of a much longer del a y wou ld be almost as fatal to the First Consul as the un su ccessful iss ue ° Country, the Enterprize. BONAI'ARTE has also other motives. ;.,, ,to urge him on. He must teel it necessary to tur!‘:. the attention of the French Nation from the u"" temptation of his recent conduet, because he coo° be so infaruared -as so suppoic ,that - the.fulsom e: of the People of France ; must know t! 13 ! addresses in the 117v:deur speak the' sentime nt' , he t they cannot but feel deeply, when they See $)1. most celebrated Generals, when they see the MP of the illustrious race of CONDE sacriccd To quiet the apprehensions . of an Alien Despo t ' o f withdraw their .minds from the contempisti° ug'^'ania these events, some great effort must be ?,, ai. that, we have no doubt s will be the P y t t i- ittbs , Great Britain. We therefore think theattefl / P t b eca pse speedily m o de ; and we sincerely hope it tua , Such as 1° we are convinced that the result will a f ; hit prevent all futnre prose 1s fuf the Tnvasio ° Country, Qu Y ee e n st ,s er ß da i y di m ng o . r H ning His MAptsTY rode • ou ,--04.--,— se. d i e r n \ c li e o tuot thets: . o L o o s c i l , o p c k c FT H A I N S c E MAJESTY LI.o R . gave an A ' a.. Yesterday at one o'clock H :G. E :Haro ß d:rntdaAso,oeißn.n.rdv;: t itsf j ayo9 E tEa S hun T ; ! ; l l. ; ,: : : uo nil c.„,„ „ , : e; tricktended Yesterday a n by: i r t i l i t t e ga Countesses oe o nl u e t t v t ie t l eens Harrow s , s ci o r o d f ck l: : Princesses ELIZABETH, had an audience naudi o e f nc M e r o . f A L Do ord ; in r D: i t a s d vn a ig-street. 04 09 cihis l o - e ffi st c e e rd i a n y p a c t ,w on n e in o g ' .. e s lo tr c e le e: the till Russianrear ' . Lord CATHCART is nosy L ca. h th a e ve E t n h g e li ll sh lu L e oßainblomnnt.he 25th ris fi Loan 'cicean:ci L T a h s e c night l* he put on board the Lev; I. is to be bid f t he °194 General ,an, of 74 instant. gut esterd in ay th ItTeioNrlnrid ne iterranean. for L° : NELSON yGo.. WHIT?LOCIC. ne, vernor Of Portsmouth, accompanied by c.` , /I , lj . r Ge t bef rat CALv EAT, Adjutant-General, and bole"' `',, r or Officers, attended at the Tilt-yard, t o incre 6t °i 'f'oor of the Light Infantry of the First Regiment r:" e i s e. Guards, in the },erformunce of the bayonet cxerwitii The General expressed himself highly please d the adisity and precision of the men. t 9 ° f The Vest Kent and East Middlesex Regicrlel,;aver Militia, stationed at Brabourn Lees Barr.icks, "ea, with an attic y highly honourable, each 0 41°1 eta their services for Ireland. I\l3rg ° Yesterday, about two o'clock, the St. - , vo nti dispatches were t in sentenla ton Pilitl4tr3sell_kuetilit , t t ° 0 ret's arid St. John's Volunteer Corps had a 6 , b y Field-day in Hyde-park, and were inspeicd Lieut. Colonel JENKINSON. b Yesterday morning , ab o u t ten o'clock,, t . e \f l o: 4Th, and 7th Companies of the Queen's K''", l ban lunteers mustered at their Ground near 1-.' ~Hri, VVells, under the command of Colone! Rol3vrilcom to shoot at a [di get, given by Captains Gael' three 01, LANE, and ADAMS, for three gold, aoti shoq ver medals, to be decided by the two be' r coor se. out of duce, at too yards distance. In the After othfethfieies 'W C' ' 0 firing rwg a somet the excellent targ er, skirmishing ; they were then enterta ined t s i l t l e ot C s L e i r ):: red : 5 „ . :,:h .e3 Dinner at the expence of the Captains. , i pn.. h u°' o don Volunteers marched to Walwort ,_.,,,. _., „„.,,,,, Yesterday the Fourth Regiment of Loyal c' toe command of Lieut.-Colonel SMITH. "." ds tc cfr ` re .not c" - ' 6. wards executed the different marceu . i __ l o sp e. ' t the inspeded by Lieut.-Colonel HARNAGE, 4 ,- n , g rall a field-day, under his superintendani. . ,I n i.rn 0 b • . With which tnr d. lhs. diseipline and precision (ms were erlor"' ° ,., iielt.4 movements and cv.°lv ri hi into ° I " in , * Officer expressed his fullest api) . r_. var, return of the effettit e force brought amoynted to neatly 5000, r, .. _ i