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IMPERIAL PARLIAMEA HOUSE OF PEERS, TUESDAY, DEC. 8. Covrini, were finally heard relative to tie Scotch Appeal, CHARLES STIJA'RT Clerk of the Signet, rr• ANDREW MILLER, Deputy Clerk of the Bills : —namely, Mr. ADAM and Mr. GRANT, ;a young 3:trrister) on the part cif the Respondents, and the ATTORNEY GENERAL on behalf a the Appellant in reply. After the Counsel had withdrawn, The LORD CHANCELLOR rose, and in a speech of some length took a-general view of the Case, .and expatiated with great ability and effect upon its peculiar importance. It was (Hie on which their Lordships should pause before they came to a. decision. They had heard much in the Course of the arguments of the Counsel, respelling the -que stion on grounds of morality; and considering it on principles of law, he felt that the laws of .any country could not be better z i 7plie d than in the sup_ port of morality ; but, on the other hand ; he was aware that it should be a principle with the judi cial char:l6ler to recolle',, that the adthinistration of the law was entrusted to it ; and the House, in considering the Case, would have .to diseriminate between its chara&er as a Court of Appeal, and an assembly engaged in the _business of Legislation. • the Noble and Learned Lord theli adverted to, same`of the leading circumstances of the Case, re speCting which he stated his opinion, in regard • to what he thought should be a ground of founda tion, on which "their deliberation should proceed, as - well as the great leading priecipleS , which should guide their decision ; and throughout the whole, he forcibly dwelt upon the peculiar importance of the. Case, considering it in various points of view. In concluding, he observed, he \ should be sorry to have -the Question disposed of; on-the narrow ground of the Case, on which it certainly may be considered. . At the. same sime, he was not prepared to say, that on more maturely considering the case, he should be induced to advise their Lordships to discuss it on the larger grounds. Whatever their judgement trprxi the else may be, or in . whatever way the •- House may deem proper to consider it; be hoped the decision would be such, as to leave no chance of its being misunderstood, or room for misappre hension ; but that the grounds of decision may be clearly and plainly stated. He had said so much as a foundation for the advice he was about to give, namely, that the case should_ be, postponed, not for a feW days, nor for a week, but to such period as to enable their Lordships , . thoroughly to make up their minds respecting a case which necessarily should be a matter of much anxiety ; he therefore hoped it' would not be thought an unnecessary delay in the execution of justice, and he. also hoped it would prove an useful delay to put off the further consider ation of the case till after the reeess.-7-This, seeming to meet the ready concurrence of their Lordships present, the Noble and Learned Lord moved, Othat the further consideration of thc case be postponed till the secand cause day after the ensuing - recess," which was ordered accordingly, The Foreign Correspondence and the Naval ,Stores Bills were read a third kiitle and passed. 0 The House in a Committee ; Lord W-el Lb ING in the Chait, went through the Militia Regniation Bill, and ordered the same to be reported. - The Exchequer Loan Bill, the Exchequer Bills - Funding Bill, the Provision Ltyor.tation, and the Prize-Captors' Bills were severally read a second time, and their. LorOshiin after disposing of some private business, adjourned 411 To,morr:o.w. HOUSE OF COMMONS. TUESDAY, DEC. 8, A Petition was presented from the Prisoners con_ fined for Debt in the Ga6l fur the County of Mon mouth, praying for relief, • The Organzined Silk Bill was read 4 third time. - The Sheriffs of the City of London presented a Petition from ,the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, stating the inconveniencies arising from the Act of the zd of Geo. 111. respeCting the Fish Market of the City of London, and prayiOg for the .repeak of the same, —Ordered to be referred to a Committee. The Sheriffs of the City of London also present, ed a Petition from the Corporation of the City of London, stating • that • the •means which had been used to ascertain the aroount of the Crops 'of Grain had failed, and praying the House to adopt some measure upon the subje4.-- 7 -Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. VANS ITT ART moved the .Order of the Day for going into a Committee-upon the Bill for allowing the making of Starch, duty free; frOm Po taroes and Rice. Mr. Alderman.CUßTlS said, he did not mean to oppose the Bill, but he begged the House to con. skier that it would take too weight of Potatoes to make -j 2 pound of Starch ; now it would be full as cheap to import Foreign Starch, paying the duty of aol. per ton. Mr. V ANSITTART said, . the House would observe, that one of the effeas of this Bill would be to entourage Toteign NatiiMs to send us Grain instead of, Starch . ; but that certainly was not the principal objea of the. Bill ; it was to save our own Grain, anti to encourage the cultivation of Potatoes. The produce of last year,'particularly in Potatoes, had been most abundant ; 'anti although the cOnsumption of Po tatoes had been very much increased, , yet they had not been established as one cif the principal ar ticles of food for the Poor. Besides, it was better ; 6 ptovide for the consumption of a perishable ar ticle thati,of one that would keep. It was true that the quantity of Starch produced 4 from Potatoes was not to be compared with that of Wheat, but the quantity - was greater than had been stated by the 'Worthy Alderman. The average produce Of Qa acre of Wheat was 3z bushels, which would Make 17 bushels of Starch. Now an acre of Fora toes would produce 3ooa liUshels so, that the diffe rence was by 1:o mearis 30 great. Ikon ttese grounds he conceived that this Bill could not he produaive of any inconvevience, and might pro_ duce great public advantage, ifie House then went into a Committee upon the Bill, the various Clauses were agreed to with some athendment, and the Bill was ordered to be reported to.morro w, The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER brought up the Returns made under the Population IVl,.which were ordered to lie on the Table. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it was with regret that he stated that the Re turns were not Complete, T 4 Returns for Wilt shire were ineoinplete, the clerk of the Peace for that County not hiving made the proper Returns. He thought it right to state this, because if any de; lay should take place, the interference of the House would be necessary - , FroM this circumstance he was obliged to delay the Motion he should other. wise make for having them printed. I-le hoped, hdwever, that after this observatipn the Officer would make the Returns, otherwise the interference of Parliament to"enfOrce obedience would be neces sary. The Irish Wheat Distillery Bill went through the Committee, and the Report was , ordered to be received to-tnoirow; Mr. VANSITTART '3aid, he hoped tte Ijouse would not object to let this Bill go through two stages to-morrow. The Lists to, be preNred in conformity to the East India itidicature were referred to 4 Com mittee, to ascertain who Were the persons chosen. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he had been misunderstood, he believed, in what he had said about the Returns of the County of Wilts : he did not mean that no Returns had been made, but that they were not complete. Adjourned at. Half-past Four o'clock. THE SUN. ILUL.LNI QUIS 1)1Cliit1 141.61;14 AUDIAT ? 40NDoiV, DECEMBER q, WE this morning received Path Paler; to the gar instant. The Proceedings of our own Parlia ment occupy nearly all the 'space which is not de dicated to the Report of the deliberations of the French Legislative Body and Tribunate,—ln the. former, I;CEDEREit presented on the zd inst. the Ratifications given by the French Government and the United States to the American Treaty, which had previously undergone some moclificeions. The Government of the United States had, •it appears, added to that the Convention should be in force for eight - years, and had omitted the second Article. To this the Chief Consul had assented, • stipulating, however, that the two Con tradiag Parties, notwithstanding the retrenchment of the second Article, renounce tespeaively the pre •tensions which are the objet} of that Article. The great subjeti, however, to which the attention of the Legislative Body has been ditaled, is the. Civil Code. In the Tribunate on the 2d inst. Moßr Au deli vered a Short speech on the Bavarian Treaty. In a subsequent Column, among our Extracts from these Papers, will be found an article not uninte resting to the Lovers of the Arts—the Proceedings of the National Institute in the eledion of foreign Associates. A-dreAdful storm prevailed on the French Coast on the 27th and zSth ult. The TierssConsolicle are at s.g. A Second Haarbargh Mail became due this morn.. ing : none had arrived when our Paper was put to Press. Yesterday afternoon Mr. WIFFIN, one of His Majesty's Messengers, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office with Dispatches from his Excellency the Marquis CORNWALL Is. The Right Hon. Mt, ADDINGTON , gave a grand Dinner yesterday. at his House in Downing street. The company present were the Earl of CIiATHAm, Lord HAW,KESBURY, Mr. Prrr, Mr. W. DUNDAS, Mr. H. ADDINGTQN, Mr. WIND#IANT, Mr. D. RYDER, Mr. STEELE, Mr. BRAGGE and Mr. VAN. SIT TART. Lord Chief Baron MACDONALD gave a grand Dinner yesterday at his House in. Duke -street, Westminster, to Lord ALVANLEY, and ,a number of Law Lords, His Excellency the Algerine Ambassador, attend ed by his Secretary and Interpreter, Waited on Lord PET.-lAm yesterday, to take leave of his Lordship, on setting off for his own Country. His Excel lency and Sate are to take their departure in His Majesty's Ship Narcissus, commanded by Captain DoNEIAT, Among the new. Peputy-Lieutenants for the County of Berks are, Viscount FoLxsToNE, Hon. THOMAS WINDWR, General HARCOURT, and Sir JOSEPH ANDREWS, Bart. We understand that the claim Of our Government. for supporting French Prisoners, has been satisfac torily arranged, and that it' is to be liquidated by installments, at the rate of five hundred thousand pounds per annum. The (-'I4IEF CoNsu., it is said, has been ex tremely liberal tovards M. Orro, and has raised his 'Appointment from two to eight thousand pounds a-year. • FPANCE. PARIS, DEc. 4. CITIZEN NETTEMAN, formerly Agent of the French Government in England, has set out for Amiens with the French Legation. We are assured that England and Russia, in con cert, will make an,offer of the Sovereignty of the Island of Malta to the Holy See. 'lche National Institute having been forme4 dur ing a period of War, the nomination of Foreign Associates was necessarily suspended, to this sus pension Peace has put an end. In the general Sit. ting of the a4th ult, when all the thret Classes of the Institute were assembled, each herr! presented three Candidates, from which, on 1 sth oft Jan uary, the Institute are to chuse a First Associate for each Class. The three Candidates for the class of Mathema tical and Physical Science, are Messrs, BANNS cSir JOSEPII), MASKELYNE, and HERSCHELL. The three Candidates for the class of Moral and Political Science, are Mr. JEFFERSON, ProlAient of the United States, Major RENNEL, an Count RUMFORD. The three Candidiqes for the Mass of Literature and the Fine Arts, are Messrs 7 ,HAy oil, E DAN, and KLorsTpcic. Each Class, before they presented their three Candidates to the Eleaion of the united Classes, was forced to make its eleCtion from a larger num her of Candidates presenied to them by a Commit tee composed of a Member of each Section. The following is the List of Candidates pr.oposed to each Class: First class—Messrs. Maskelyne, Walt, Herschel!, Priest ley, Cavendish, Volta, Batiks, Mascagni, and Arthur Young. Second Class—jefrer4on, Rumford, Rennel, Norman, Dal rymple, Kant, Herder, Dugald Stuart, Sir, John Sin clair, Ebling, Arthur Young, Rhabecq, Marini, Gaetano, the Librarian of the Vatican, ChampOrnarin, Lar44obal, David Ramsey, Niebuhr, Horne Tooke, Fox. TbirdClass—Arnald, Caunova (an Italian Sculptor), Calde - rari, Cefarotti (the Poet), Haydn, Heyne, Klopstock, Merian (of the Academy of Berlin),• Sergell (a Swede), Sarti (the Composer), Sheridan, Home Tooke. HAMBURGH, Nov. 21.—1 t seeths that the PRINCE Of ORANGE does not calculate on spending longer than the winter in the German States, and that he expels to return in spring. Our Senate has paid him no Honors. He keeps into. and has only received visits from the Prussian and English Ministers. BANKS 0? THE MEIN, Noy. 2 4 . —According to Letters from J"tenna, Mr. PAGET has announced that the Court of London recopized the KING of ETRURIA, as well as the Cisalpine, Ligurian, Ba. tavian, and Helvetic Republics. Sir JAmits SAUMAREZ was to be invested with the Ribbon of the Order of the Bath on the :Bth ult. at Gibraltar, on which occasion a grand Pro. cession and Fete were to take place in the Gar rison. We have authority to ,state, that the report con cerning Lord HOBART going to India, is entirely without foundation. Parliamentary Canvassing has become very brisk in Ireland. There are few places in that Island that will not be contested at the . n.ext General Elec tion. GEORGE LATOIICHE, Esq. the Son of the Right Hon. DAVID LATOUCHE, ha's declared himself a Candidate for the City of Dublin, at the General Mr . . Secretary ABBOT remains in Ireland, de voting his whole time and attention to the Public businen. His elegant hospitalities in the Phoenix Park, ,are likewise mentioned with eulogiutn. Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNNE, with the nice and honourable feelings of a Soldier, has come for ward to repel a vile calumny against the Corps which he commanded, in a way that does honour to his spiriz, and cannot fail to have the , desired died. - An Article appeared in an Evening Paper last tight, purporting to contain an accurate account of The Peace Establishment of the Army. If that Esta blishment is already definitively fixed in all its parts, which we do not positively know, we are certain, that the Statement in the Paper alluded to is erroneous in every respell. OUR Information upon this Subje& will be from Authority, and till that is communicated, we shall not attempt to mis lead by the affectation• of early Intelligence. The Article we allude t 9, states the Peace Establishment to be already fixed, as follows : 27 Regiments of Light Dragoons, Ditto, Hussars. lot Regiments of Infantry. 6 Ditto, Black Troops, 6o Companies of Invalids. We happen to know, that the number of Regi ments of Light Dragoons upon the Peace 'Establish ment will not exceed 22 ; and we believe every other part of the information in the above Article, to be equally erroneous. The article contained in the Morn;gg Post of last Saturday, which asserts that 't Ministers grant Passports to France to almost every one who asks them," we have authority for saying is as erro neous, as .that the charge for obtaining them is about twenty-five shillings." Passports and Li censes, granted under the Alien and Traitorous Cor. respondence Ads, not being subjed to any charge whatsoever, NAVAL NEWS. SHEERNESS, Dtc. 2. THIS day arrived His Majesty's Ships AO' queux, of 64 guns, and Adamant, of so guns, front the Downs ; and the wind being fair, haie pto ceeded to Chatham, to be paid off. The Boxer, Biter, Harty, rouncer, and Bounco Gun-brigs have come fr.= Chatham. DEAL, Dec. 8, ARRIVED the Hildin Frigate, from a CrUiZe ; Iljawa, ditto ; and Deptford Navy Transport, frog; Portsmouth ; the latter has sailed for the. River. Admiral Sir J. E. WARREN yesterday attended at the Admiralty. The Lords of the Admiralui have ai)pointed Mr , DolovAN Lieutenant of the St. Antonio. A Squadron, consisting of the Windsor Castle, 0 1 98 guns, Temeraire, of 98, 4a Jude, of 84, and the Resolution, Vengeance, and Majestic, of 74P was, on the 29th ult. lying in Bantry Bay, vic tualled and stared for six months, and in complete readiness for sea. The Squadron is under the com mand of Vice-Admiral MITcHELL, whq lvd re ceived sealed orders, but its destination was supe posed to be Jamaica. It has probably sailed before, this time: Rear-Admiral cAmi.BELL is second is command, Yesterday the Lord - Mayor was waited. upon ar the Mariiion,House, by the Master and Vi v aiden 9 of the Bakers' Company to set the assize of Bread, when his Lordship, after examining the. Meal' weighers' Reports, ordered_ the price and weight of bread to' be as follows, which will Comme nce and• take place to-morroW, • The Peck Loaf„ Wheaten to, lb;; f . Weigh r 17 6 .0 and sold for 3 Ditto, Houshold , - • 17 6 03 51. The Half Peck ,Loaf, Wheatell $ ;1 o I II: Ditto, 11011gbOid - - Blt •••••-••••••... I The Quartern Loaf, Wheaten 4 5 S 11 Ditto, HOushold 4 5 S Halt: 7 • quariern, Wheaten 22 I 2 '• 5 1: Ditto; Houshold • • 2 II The Penny Wheaten Loaf, is to weigh scz. Ditto, Houshold, to weigh - - 6 tz. The Twopenny Loaf, Wheaten, is to weigh 11 13 Ditto, Hcatshfild, - The Threepenny Loaf, Wheaten 7 I lb . i II Ditto, Houshpld _ 4 4 5 Which said assize the Master and Wardens of the cotripny of Bakers are enjoined to see kept. • Lord kigt4vo* has been so much indisposed evo since Satgrday last, that he has been unable to pre. , side in the Court of King's B e nch,‘ Mr. Justice Li; B&Arrc has sat for him, His Lordship, we ate happy_ to learn, is upon the tecovery. It was stated some time ago, that at the Opera at Paris, the Chief Consul had sent for Lord Ittorytw. to his Box, and received him s itting . Loma 11-11.0-4 F. and some f the Gentlemen attached to the Englis4 Embassy being in a Box opposite, a message Nvas. • delivered that .the Chief Consul wished to see then/ in his Box. They accordingly attended the viz. , . mons---BoxAPARTE, without rising, said to Lord BRUME, " I have taken the liberty of requesting, to see your Lordship, merely to express my high sense of your father's distinguished merit--I wi l l' not longer detain your Lordship." Lord 840.`4* and his companions bowing, of course retired. The following Paragraph we copy with satisfa. tion, from a respeCtable Dublin Paper ; fc One 9 . the most common efforts of the Seditious of Irelan 4 in the cause of, Treason, was to calumniate the gal lant Soldiery of Great Britain, who volunteered their services in this Country. We cannot foti,'c the accumulation of enormities which Lord Mole?was so far imposedfelon, as to retail for truths , the Parliaments of both. Kingdoms, nor the decisive contradiction which those misstatements met frog the firmness and sagacity, and. superior informatO P .• of Lord CLARE. Since the suppression of the gc: hellion, the same spirit of falsification has been v. work ; and we have seen with pain and disgust, t ll6 . mischievous industry , with which the British 17encv ble and Militia Forces have been slandered in vari' ous publications. It becomes every man of honours who possesses the means of refutation; to overtill and expose those calumnies ; and it is not a littl e to the credit of Sir WATKIN W. o f tb 6 Ancient Britons, that he has stepped forward n i ts such a subjea, to contradiet a wicked and unfoun a ` 'ed attack upon the brave and Loyal Corps w hich' with so much honour and advantage to thit Conntl he commanded threaghout all the most difficult an dangerous moments of the Rebellion." s .- ,1 9 Artaxrrxer, supported by Mrs. BILLINGT" great powers, was again attended by a very rave r ' . ous audience last night at Drury-lane Theatre.':i .Her M.v:danc really appeared with new graces, a nd the Songs were sung with the most captivating el‘'' cellence. Shylock, and Sir Areby Sarcasm, were per formed by COOKE last night, at Covent Garde' Theatre, probably for the last time this season, order to give way to the variety of dramatic novel" . ties which are forth-coming. AE Mrs, CRAWFORD was sixty-eight years o f --q C When she made her exit from " this wide and . O l ' versal theatre, the world," in which she acted W 1 J. such distinguished merit, that more '' pomp aq splendor" might have been expected to atterul h e departure from the last aweful scene. The proposal of abrogating the Assiwe is m . approved in the neighbourhood of St. Gil ts's ; Where they say, that nothing will he watitifig je their happiness now but the destruClion of t' Quarter Sessions. Extrad from an Article in a Dublin Paper, a n de l the Head of Farming Society of Ireland :—" Se' cri s Class, the only two beasts produced in this were not considered to have .tiflicient merit title them to be slauKi-tered. - Eighth Class, t° ' t be THOMAS BATES, for the best fat Hog, being old) one produced, • , coußt "Ncs BEI+