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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. MONDAY, FEB. 9. . . TUE Bishops.of DOI2HAM, ROCHESTER, and LiNcoitiN, Lord KING, and other Peers were sworn, and took their Seats; . —after'which • The Earl of SUFFOLK called the attention of the House to the circumstances of what he had said in the Debate on the• first night . of the Ses 7 be,ing'in a great degree misrepresented; ot giVen in such a—ivay,., in one of the Public Prints, as that inferences, widely different from, • any he' „Could have in contemplation.i . might be diaWn from it—namely, that what he said tended :•, relied upon the professi on:it chataCter 6f.1 - iis• Royal Highness the Com_ mander in Chid, . as .. the 'most, remote idea of 'any thintof -the..kind -never occurred to hint.. IV felt a considerable.. degree of anxiery and id:. -patience, until the opportunity arrived when he could regularly mike .this declaration in• his Place in the House.. The Noble Earl did -not, as we could colleet,•specify' the ‘ . Ptint in which -the ac .• count ailtided • to; ,of his spc'eCh, had been given ; but he seemed to feel considerably hurt, that .his otiiervations therein ~should. - bear . sueh a corn- LerdLhip stated the steps which he felt it incumbent on Kira to take, in consequence of•the nth-representation, - on his being' apprized of it, particularly,, as we understood his 'Lord. ship, 'on' application. to an Illustrious Personage mlllo 'was present , at the time: His Lordship spoke ity straips of approbittion ,of the Professional Chi_ rafter of His•-•Royar Highness, and particularly :14'(!r ted to Cue. . g epoeiliailly de memeou-,- with viiiich he uniformly conduCted him-, self; its Corrunander in Chief: . .14e expressed no- intention propo: - ,lng to ground ;my:proceeding bp'on. it, ,we could coital, but coneluded by e! : cpressing-himself •ivitli a 'Agree of asperity, on .ei :speech being so stated,' in the p r i nt h e a ll u ded. t 0.,, • • • Nrrangernents were made with. respea to die hearing of .Appeals,-;-Some Petitions Were tecei red - , among' whtch was.one, though,. at .sO early 'it.. period: after' the 'Union 'A6.t, becoming an operative L;rw, respetting.an Appeal from Ire lansi, tea tive to which . Mr. Wi9tripitiroN, Ofileer 'of 'the-Court of Kibrig'S ,Bench; in Ireland, brought up a' Writ of Error froM that Court, , and made the necessary depositions , thereon, as that ihe lid it under the authority' of Lord Kit IV A it mil, the Chief Justice, that the Papers were now in the Saiiiis state in which b`c received them; &e; • Mr. ER.AGGE, attended by several Members, bzrOught - up from.the'Curninons a Bill to:suspnd -ulifil the zstly iof Ivlarch'next, the operations of the late Bread Bill, as fat as the Same -elated to the Mixture, with Wheaten ~Flour, of Oats, Barley, l'hc Bill was forthwith read a first and second, time, the Commitment of it negatived, and short, ly alter ieici a :third time and passed. - It being the intention ituit the.l3l,fl should itn-, rfindi.ttely receive the, Royal .Assent, the Com. ttlis;ioners . prqent, who were the Archhi'shop of CAttilutautty, the ,Lotto CHAkCELLOR ) and hord AM, -retired to robe,' when they . took theii . Scats on the Bench „the :CommonS were sent foi„ and that House, .with the Sp EAK Mt. Anot.NGTON, at their head, appearing at . the Bar,. His ,Majesty's' 41 Ase t U , as . an: flounced tcohe Bill, in thc.Usual , form. In the course of the - private liusines, a great deal of which was tranctiled in the Bourse of.the, evening; 'a. Petition was. received from: a Mrs. 'I.ANt ,or - '-'rgyleslitre, in North- Britain, praying to be divorced from her httsband Mr. EutVAan AnntsoN, &c. , ik-egieffinc, , thi.-4, the Ct At CEr.i.-61t made . R few observat . io?./s,but . in o 16w - a tone of voice,' that We were unable" to coiled their purport.—,. The ,r6ult-appored to, us ,to be, that in conse. (plc:I - ICC of the,,triglarity of: tho lie. P,ropoted that the, Petition should lie two or .three. days. tip'On the'.Table; for the consideration of their Lordships: • . . •:' 77.Je Ear/ of SUFFOLK', 'after adverting to the. present, %Try ,High l ices of inost articles of trovision, the',hard,hivs . which the middle clat;Ser: of, the P must necessarily suirer therefrom, exprc!.,ed his wish to know ft linistf r:,, whcther. Government intended io,post; , of the Committee of their I rtlships-; to con,ider, of the High Price of rr, , visions, or the appointment of any - other to t i,, sam , el ),1? He thought it highly niaterial„ tit It a Committee of inijuiry into the Catises of the firgli Prices *oulti belmtititted ;' and the proceedings should take place with as'little delay as possible. He .aciittainted the House, that in ilie , colirse of . an Inves,t,igiition of tlltit . kind, he had° to propose the adoption of a titeaure -which, he erd'ettained.nottioulit, latild 'greatly conduce to lower the. prices, of Prnyisions. After . conti. puing to cornmcht upon the necessity of adopting e'*islati.ve measures to remedy the Evils 'he 8-11.4-ed t ltd in in exprested his•wisltto inion-3..1 on tl,nt head by •Adniiriistra riot). .1.\....-)lLe of I ,!_y's Ministers being present, no r,:piy- w‘is in„:1. to the (lien , of the Nom, Earl. 77: Mae of REDFORD addressed the House , - 0 6 a q)jea. t.ufier o a complpcion with :that toncht.d upon by the Peer who had last spoken, Ilk Grace re-callol to the attention of their Lvldship , , Ahai he 14 thriewn out in 'the !air. ISessiort.rebping the administrationof the Poor some . points of _Vievii; in that ; ;yiiie,l)l. cv 11,6 4tt,er . , lje principally felt Ernselicttl!e,l,.tlD,On j t I point them attention of the 1..0 gislaj-ortf to of a certain des( rip. titan anti chats cat persons,.. who, ,by trie existing Y.,riws weye liable to the r.. Pin ms' tehial• essment, ,jvt.Ac) . ,4,t incomes, ir. getter:)l„ did ..not C'l4,7.ced . rit hottei .ot qui ordinao LAourer. &Wit : . r.,Qns lifejf I.6raikrys wotita feet, were fitter 61)jeRs rceekya htnty, than to be gpmppilc<i to bestow it, and under th,st impression,, he threw out )lints for the adoption of Ministers lair year; thinking that measures of the kind ttrould- best, originate from them ; and he observed, it wura not' be said char they • not sufficient tinfe to have come fortv4rd ce. Wktli respe6. to himself, another reaso for his n'ot, proposing any thing in Ate ,shape...' a Legislative Provision, was, that in addition to the, consideration he had just stated, he thought such a measure would preferably originate_ in the other House ) as by bringing it forward here, in the, first instance, their Lordships might possibly be led into a con tention, as - to what were and what were-not their rights. *Under all these disadvantages, how ever, so strong were his feelings upon the sub. jett, he had framed a Bill in the deavour - to mcCt the evil _he had complained of ; And he stated,. as beliad formerly done in detail, 'the leadinf„Y PrOvition of Alte Bill to be, to em_ power` the Justicei,- for a limited -time, to ex onerate the decription persons to whom he alluded,' from the payment of Assessments to the l'oo't . Rate. should, in , the first instance, move, that ihe Bill be read it first , time, and be printed for the perusal and consideration of their Lordships, a_ _ His Grace then presented the Bill, the brexia cc of which was' read to the above' effeti., by the !Clerk, after which it was read, in the usual way, a first time from the , Woolsaek, •add agreeably to the Motion . of the Noble Duke, ' ordeteti to be printed. An Officer from the Bank of England laid be_ fore the House, the' Annual Accounts of . the far ther Progress made by the Commissioners for reducing the National Debt', in the liquidation thereof. . . The Duke of BEDFORD again' ,cidlecl attention of the House, to a suhjed eonneeted with the present Scarcity and ,High Price of Provi sions.r--After making sonic observation, the particular tendency of which, we. could not respeEting the appointment - of a Com mittee to consider t further of the above important subjeas, advefted tothat part 9f the last. Report, or their, Lordhips'' ComMittee,' which related. to a system of General Inclosure, which he read, and Called, in . fcircible terms, .the 'atten tion of the Peers to it. He, expatiated upon the beneficial tendency which he said would result front carrying. into effed, as far, as pratlicablc, the recommendations , of the Committee, and pointed out the pl•oprie:y of, and rrobahle good cortsequeliO`g . of .their LOrdAiips coining to Reso lutions in approbation of that part the Report of the Comlnittcc.. -So fui:y was he' . impressed with the importance of the subica . , co,vinc_ ed'of the expediency of speedily adopting some niensures thereon, 'that he should, on Thursday next, submit sOmepropogitions . relative' to it, for the consideration of which, he moved._ That their Lordships be summoned." The Qttestion being- put, the Proceeding was ordered accordingly; and the House, at 'five o'clock,. Adjourned till a. quarter hefore four tozoorrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS: ~ \ MPNDAY,,FE,B. 9.: .; .Several *Members were sworn in: . A person from the Commissioners for the Randion of the. NatiOnal.tiebt, presented AceountiL . Lord STORPORD said, that His MitjtSTY had been .waited upon" . with the Address of 'that House of Friday last, - and that FitsMnstsTY had been pleased to itttwer, that. he would give di regions accordingly. • . C . E , . OLD BATII-fEtng ritis9 : ll. , Sir -FRANCIS BURDETT -, said, - -he did not. think he shoal faithfully discharge his duty as' a Member of Parliament, if he did nut make the . acCriaitited.with a.citeurnstance which had come to :his' knowledge respecting, he Prison in Gold 111:th.Fields. it appeared, that since the close of the last Committee appointed - to imp:tire into _the stare of thtit prison, the G.l) l ,ei. had con-. duCtect lihnsclf fati lie had done belbrC, 'and had been gUiltY of fresh am'ls of outrage: i thought it right not to lose any time in stating-this cir... Curristance; to the licitise, because, if - .some mea. sures were not adopted immediately, the live* of some of the Prisoners' might be , dangcr.—[Sir FLANc is read a Cage of a Person who was stated to have been very severely beaten by the Governor of the Prison,] --itfter this statetnent, lie should think lie pA1..n.0 oompiimeht to the Hous.e if nude any.. co mment upon sucli inhutnan condtni. He did not think it necessary, in the present in stance r - to point ,out the. mode which. the Honse ought to adopt, but he waq sure the business would be taken op, - because' the hollow. of the whole Muse Was concerned. As to an Lion to the Magistrates, he considered that as wholly. useless. Re, had nOW.ciiiiliatged - his duty by stating _the-fad, and the- House would either appoint Committee to inquire into thc fad, of proceed in any other manner that they might think proper. e should not at present make any distind MutiOn upon the subject. A Message from the . Lords stated, that their Lordships had.,agreed to the, Bill ,for suspending part of the Bill past last Sessions respelling Brown Mad. Mr. 'ABBOT moved, that there be laid before the House, Copies of the Proceedings of the Lords of the Admiralty, respeding the accounts stated in the Report of the Committee Of Finance. - 'Mr. jOLLIFFE-idi, that 'he had upon a former occasion Stated, that the expenees of the present War were infinitely greater than that of the Anierican War, and in orderto prove his as. sertion, he should move for some Accounts of the hist and present War. He therefore moved, " That there he laid before the House an ,count of the Expence of the Army maintained by this Country, including Militia, &c: for the • , years. 1793,;17 94 , 17 9., and 1790,distinguish ing the number of Horse." .The :'notion was agreed tq. ' Mr.,. joLliFye., then .moved for similar ac. counts for tht years 1779, e7Bo, 178.441ru117432, which was agreed to. Mr. jot.tiFFE then Moved for an account of the number of Troops maintained by this Coati. try, ;minding Militia, &c. for the years t 793, 1795, and 1796.—Agreed 11e)r. joLL,IFF E moVekfor... count fdr the yevs ',779, .1780,, "i7n, d /78z. —:-Agreed ro.; i i. The Order ot,N e _Day was'." hen read, f9r sinning the Debate upon the ft'eport of the Com mittee appointed to consider what alterations were necessary in the Standing Orders of the House. the or the C`otiimtttee were then read and agreed to, after some, verbal alterations. CA!LL'OF THE HOUSE. Colonel O4S'C l oi"'lYE'rose for the ; :purpose - bf moving for a Call of the House: • He said he was induced to make this Motion, from a serious consideration of the State. of the Countw .both at home and abroad, and he believed that At must be the opinion of every man who heard him, that under the present circumstances, it was necessa. Ty that there should be as full an attendance of Members as possible. He knew it bad, upon for. mer occasions,' been urged as an objection to a Call of the House;..thst though Members might be compelled.to attend, yet it . was impossible to make them vote;-- bin he considered it as no ar. gument to say, that an abase might be praised if Members could not be compelled to attend to . . their duty ; it was high time, that' the ture shOuld interfere, upon the subjed. Out of - 6sB Members, only 410 had been eworn, and though Ireland ought, at this period, to be fully represented, there Were nOt aboVe half her Repre sentatives sworn.- On these groundsle hoped he should' have - the .'ccinetirrenee of the e , House in the Motion' he was about to make. If it was necessary that a notice should be given of this Motion, he Should - Move it to-morrow, but if no notice was necessary, he should now move, , " That the House be called over this day three • weekS." The Motion was agreed to: - • •". The other . MOtions usual upbn a call,'ot the louse, such that the Sergeant ~at Arms should take thrOse Members into custody'.viho did not attend, &c. were 1146 agi'e'ed fptPEDI'iION. Lord H4IVKESEURY said, that an Hon. Gentleman had givenUbtiee of a Motion 'for this day, respeting the Expedition to kerrot, but•as ,two Right Hop,,Gentlemen t Mr. PITT and Mr. .DuNDAs), werennavoidahly alisent, one of whom w. 1,, from hi 4 situation, particularly -concerned in the question,' he 'hoped the Hon. Gentleman ;would have no objettion to put off his *Motion for a few days. 111 r. STURT said, the present was an occasion ,upon which every person ought to attend, and as :to the abscnce of the two Right Hon. Gentlemen who had .been' alluded to, he lamented sincerely 'the cause of their absence. But theri were others of His Majesty's Servants, and also Offi cers- engaged in, the Expedition, present, who 'could give him every necessary _information. .11,• however, it was the general wish of the Home that the Motion should be postponed, he had no objeetion to putting it off for a very short time. Sir . TAMES PULTENErsaid, nobody could be more. anxious for the discussion of this point than hc wA, but it would be, affectation in him to say, that ,a delay of two or three days would make Any very essential difference. - - Mr. RYDE,R , said, that the Hon. Baronet must undoubtedly be very anxious for the discus sion Of. the Question, but so short a delay as the one proposed, could certainly be of no imports atke. The' Honourable Gentleman whose Mo. tion stood for this day, certainly descried great credit for his readiness 'to 'comply with the NvisLes of the House. It t2vas, not mere4' , upon the ground of the aceidental-absenee of his two Right Hon. Friends that this delay was Proposed, because it had been known for years that they were not in 'the habit of shrinking' front the dis: ' cussion of Questions. If this could - in any degree tend , to place the Hon. Gentleman,. wlio had.given 'make of the Motion in a more disad vantageous situation, he v.:rtainly would 11,4 ,ask him to postpone it . ; but the - Hon. Gentleman must feel, that there Were , sOnie,fircurusiarices about which it' would 'be improper 'for hitt) to speak, but which were notorious to every Gen. tleman pthent, which.lo to thejr6ent applica tion' to postpone; the Motion. Under these cumstanees, .h 6 hoped. it • would be the • general sense of the House thatit ought not to be brought forward this day. CQM - MISSION. The Hotise was required to attend in the House Of Teets, where His MAI Es:ri's Assent was given by Cornmission to the Bill for . sus. pending - part of the New Bread Bill. , Upon the return of the'SkAKER, Mr": STURT agreed to puroff his Motion till Thursday next. Mr. GREY said, it really seemed to him that the deliberations of that Hbuse ought to be, re sumed, which had been interrupted in a most extraordinary manner, and he believed that the House would concur with him in chinking, that there ought to be aninquiry into the. State of the Nation. The dangers with which the Country was threatened• were hourly increasing, and top much dispatch could not be tisectin going intO the necessary Inquiries. Allusion had been:made to the rumours which had been in circulation these two days, and that was the grsiund upon which his Hon. Friend had been requested to }nit off hit Motion ; and under all the circumstanced he thought his Hon.'Frierld was botind in candour to •ait -as he had done. He hOped, however, the Right Hon. Gentlemen would attend, and that the :Inquiries would , take place. He merelY at• present wished to give .notice, thaton Mon. day next he, Should move fdr an Ingetiry #t t o 0 the State of the Nation. ," • Mr: PIIINDII,IM brought up tilt Atmi Eiti. rn4tel t jvilich_werc ordered to be primed. .3,11.q.ANT brought up . die OrdninCe Estimates. - Mr. ROSE observed • tb - the Hon. Gentterign who had given notice of a Motion for Monday, that his Right Hon. Friend was to state' the Ways and Means on Wednesday, that as Friday -was the Fast Day, - the , Army and Navy Estimates could not be voted till Monday in, the Comniit. tee of Supply. Mr. GREY said it was not probable that the Debates upon the Army and Navy Estimates would be so long as to prevent his Motion front scuning_o_n that da=y, lie ivould 'therefore - take ilia: chance, and let Its Motion stand l'Oraiircl'ai. Mr. RYDER moved, that the Rev. Dr. Pisß -sett be desitcd to freachbefore.the House on the.. Fast Dalt. Th 4 Motion was agreed to, abd sand Lord HAWK ti were &tired to acquaint lum with' the 'ache: The' COMriiiities of Supply and Ways and Means were put off till We.dnesday. Adjourned 4t Five o'Clo&k. till To-morrow. = THE g ~ LT~•. SALEM QU:S DICtRE• fALSttt A.( DEAT • . . L0xp0 . 41,. PER RRU . A 'ro, ; iSoY:k~ Iti our Paper of yeterday we:stand/he charle whiCh hai taken place in AdMinistraiion; and, we • , believe very accurately, the Cause thai has le(' .to it. Ail the other Papers, We observed ye3ter.c day, were merely calculated to niiSlead the Pub.. lie. 'We ' stated that the only appointniknt • was satled.ws ..that of ,the Rikht i Aboxgcrobr aSFirit Lord of the.Treastlry and • Chanallor of the Exchequer—That.was.perfedlr . le?rre4l.--,Yelterdtty . irerY, more wa.s: known !with resp ell to - the aPpOintments to other Officesi:' • t • - ' ' , as it was Ave o'clock before fits MAJESTY came' to Town. , We heard last night, lowever, upon authority on which we can rely, that Lord I - HAWKEsttvI.Y is Co be Minister fOr Foreign . fairs. LordMACARTNEt is to be place d at. the 'head of the Board of•Controul ; but the Office' ot IWar Minister is not to be' united 'with that, as 'beiorei in the person of Mr. DUNDAS. Mr. :LAW, it was likewise a s serted, is to be Soaitor- General . upon the ldvaneenitiii Of Sir WM. Ci eirt • to be Attorney-General:—These are point; upon - • which we believe our Reader's may rely. —Were we to- detail all the ,Reprtr of the day, we shod add very considerably to this article-;-We nihr however be permitted to state what of the Re 7 ports we ktiCitiV to be true•—.Arnung4t theS; is the., appit,tmepi Lord 1100 b to be First Lord of the Admiralty, which we ~ believe was thought of; nor does Mr. ?tt,i4A . st corm in, as reported. , . • .• • Both •Mr: Lbrid TreaSury, as does Mr. C 4 idr..,70 . -tife - 415:cit • ~ • • • - Joint Paymaster or the Atrily.z-14 S.fOt we believe remain& • - . Yesterday Mr. PITT sent notice to the Rant .• 4 •ind whi& wercammunieated by M. koßmi.o4 l‘isveLeiSD•to the Gentlinicr, of the Stock , Ex cha4gr, that shot(' continue trarisaa Public EttsitiOs io as Chancellor of the Exclievu. till aft et the Budget, which he- would bring forwriia .on the day already fixcd that oft Thursday he, w 0.4 r.:.[;iy ip t the Biddirigi f6r the Loan ftnd ZvOuid contrt ft.it . . ri it on Monday. , • . . ~ _. . }.: OWL Portsmouth Letter states the,sailing of the oset.,,tc Frigate, with g Feet 'Of Triiu ports on a st'eret'Expedition. THE last Parii 30,10-gats are far fro interegt ing, particularly in the. situation' of our do. mebtic concerns. It will be, sien toe most important article the*. Pa as contain rcspeeting Foreitn Politics, ,61Aeg• tai the transadtions. between the Fret.ch and Ne politans in Tuscany, and the States of the Church. The letter of General Count Daigis . , to General. MURAT ) leavei no. doubt that the operations of. the small. Neapolitan Army wete concerted with thole df Genera Bgt.t.EGARPa. This diversionrnight i in case of. sueeess, hale been of the gteateDtutility to the latte'r Genfirat * and it may be well believed that but .for.. this Cir. CttihOttn - Ce the Army of Xescrve of Gen ail Ri Wotild: not have beep gent beyond the Alps this winter. :Those whci . Itae: informed .them trelYes of the real catltes of the dekari experienced. by tie Austrian Attliy al y; tift 4 / Were rather the efrea df IV/dial:than-4 . Military •CAltet ) and that they would nOt have takep place had they not been -preceded di; A:it Etat: iii:di;divriv: We have b. more thki dfie re4son td ttipittfe' 11* little of atd the slowth with the }louse of Austria h i s adopted prt - • scribtd to it by its. situation.: ire' cto7. not hesi lgt Cd 4s,etc, natwychftazidinA ftiu losses which the Imperial - 15.rttly , had . stistairedi ana . . notwithstanding the superior means vdtich the French arc supposed to possess, the winter Cam- ,••- • r.