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111PER . IAL PARLIAM EIVT. LOUSE OF PEERS, MONDAY, APRIL 27r SCOTS APPEAL. THE HON. MRS. HAMILTON FULLARTON AND COL. • WM. FULLARTON., HER HUSBAND, V. SIR HEW DALRYMPLE, OF HORTH BERWICK, BART. IVIr. ADAM leading Counsel for the Appellants in this, important 'Cause, was hear 4 at very consi derable I t ength in continuation ; after which their Lor&hips deferred the further hearing till to moerbw. A number of private Bills were brought up from the Commons, and severally read a first time. Lard AUCKL AND called the attention of the House to the circumstances of Mrs. Addison's Di vorce Bill, which, together with that for divorcing Dr. Campbell from his wife, sister to Mrs. Addi son, stood for a' second reading to-niorrow ; he observed, that with respea to the former Bill, it seemed to be understood that he had given a de cided opinion ; so far from that being the case, there never was a. measure before that House which so embarrassed him as to the Vote he should give ; the Bill . though only affecting an individual in the first instance, was one of a very great and question able importance, with a reference to the morals of the Country, and consequent died upon Society in general. The Bills in question had unaccountably been coupled together, so far as appointing in one or two instances their discussion on the same day, which might warrant the supposition that some de gree of connexion existed between them. No two Legislative Provisions of the kind, however, could be .more dissimilar, the one to a certain point' an ordinary case of Divorce, the other not only a very aggravated, but perhaps in one point of view an unprecedented case. 1 - le agreed with his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack, in much of what he - had advanced upon the subjea pn a former, night, -particularly in what regarded the noxious tendency of passiog such a Bill; he thought with him, that tolerating such applications would tend to introduce very extensive praaices of collusions. On the other hand, he was aware of the lamentable . )eiectirnstances in which a Female Applicant for a DivorCat, particularly the,Lady in question, might stand,,- le felt the' full force of her claims, he knew the hardship which must be imposed on a woman eompelled to live with, or tO' belong to a man who had so basely injured her, with one on account of whose condua she could not look any one in the nice: he knew the hardship also chaining a woman for life, which consideration was the subject of still greater , 'regret, when' they knew that an Adulteress who had basely injured her husband's feelings and honour, Was permitted to separate, from.hirn and to marry : anothtr ; these considerations particularly applied to the present Case. Mrs. Campbell, - who had kept .up a criminal . intercourse with the husband of her sister, Mrs, Addison, and on' whose account virtuotis and innocent woman, as well as her chil dren, was placed i such affiiaing circumstances; "was to be liberated from all conjugal restraint, and • suffered, if she pleased, to marry again. These considerations called for the serious attention of • the Legislatures'. With: respea to the Bain ques, • tioo, he d'is . mcd it,oue of such lar,eat and quostion. able : importance, that he conceived it his duty to propose td defer i:s further consideration for some ,timerin order to give their Lordships an opportu. ,of fully waking up their minds upon the sub • .. jq.l; in,Which .view he moved, " That the order for; the_.seeond reading of Addison's Divorce Bill, which stood for , tO.morro..v, be discharged, and a riew orler' for the same appointed for this day fortnighL" These.obserVations seeming to meet the general oopeurrence• of their Lordships present, the Ques ! .009:Was' put, and the Orders made out accordingly. The Liils before the eliouse were forwarded in their refspeaive stages. • The Zari of MOIRA moved the second read ,: - io ek is of the Bill for the. Relief' of certain Insolvent :Pebtors, on which occasion his Lordship generally stated, that in the Committee he,shoUld have cer. •'t,* alterations and amendments to propose. The till.was then read a second time, and, on the • •- Motion of the Noble Earl, ordered to be committed on Friday next. • • : The Earl . of ARE presented two Petitions ; from certain persons confined for Debt in Ireland, ' - Which were ordered to.lie on the Table. The Order - Or the Day being read respefling the Seditidn Bill, • Dhe Etil;/ of R 0 S N (late 1,,0nl Loughborough), 'rose;:andaire'sented a second Report from the Secret Committee, to whom certain Papers, A.c. brought . . .up from the "Commons was referred, znd which he rnoved should 'be read by the, deele, which was s•Kr, mlingly done. Jfis Lordship then moved that the .said Report ,be'priOted ; on the question being put, 7e Ear! of SUFFOLK rose and Observed, that is. is heitanot been present tie day the Seeret Com -, inieiee was hallotted for, he' wished, without mean anY thing diSrespenful to - these Noble Lords Who composetit, .to, heat the Lis t Fl the Committee 'read; The names of the Lords who compose the Secret Coo) mime, and' which, in the Reports of their Lordships'' 'proceediiigsl'af the 16th inst. the day the ballot. took , place; 'were excliisively given in this Paper,'Were then read lw the Clrk, on which I.k.'ignin 'lose" and seemed to express. los disanprobatioo Of 'the .mode of ap pointitig ..(7,..itrriiitttes by. Isallot. .coald not :void obs'el);),Og, that tie:l,6as- who composed the Committet one way of think itt, and ex • reSSed 'j0±1 : ;:now wthy tic na m e Lorti at ti's:' l Honse,appeared 'the lisr, ny m of whof thdr the - county:, *revs tivery way en ;File di,;sue . h a, 614414104, amply qua! i fied :to di7chargeethe , vosits „ . , • .The -Q44etiit?,nn 'the Motion' fee _rioting the Report *is• as thew pia: a nil e•it tocik . • The Earl oc,P s o rev .:licssiemosrod the order for thefleeese to gainto 901 - 1 ,OuAe :'3Eljl , ;l l- .PI) ?At; ' a pt, saide to argue against the Lill thee, thoe3h it w as one which, in a constitutional point or view, descrvel the most serious consideration, but to object to the ' 1-lowe - going into a. Committee upon it, at least until their Lordships' had do opportunity of reading and considering the Report of the Secret CoMmittee, whiCh might enable them to form it better judgment as to the necessity of the measure. The Earl of ROSLYN agreed with the Noble Duke ) that the Bill was one of serious importance in a constitutional point of view, but the grounds on which it was brought forward were of that nature, as their Lordships would see, on perusing the Report of the Secret Committee, and the ne cessity of passing it as quickly as the constitutional power bf Parliament would admit, he knew to be so nrgent,that for his part he could not consent to the least delay; he would not propose to cut any of the stages of the Bill, but he wished that it might speedily and re gularly be passed by the House; every opportunity of discussing the measure, and of offering objeaions to it, which the Committee afforded, would be as re gularly presented by its third' reading ; he there fore wished, on the score of expedition, complying at the same time with every parliamentary form, that the Bill might forthwith be committed, He had reason to fear the effels of delay ; even while they were deliterating at that very moment, pro ceedings of a very serious and alarming nature might be in agitation, and on the eve of breaking out into aaion. Even since he came down to the House that evening, he had received intelligence, that in a cert,,ln part of the Country a numerous meeting was projeEted on a common, on which bills were stuck upon posts, of a very inflammatory and violent tendency. Were the Bill in force, he had every reason to hope the meeting hi alluded to may be suppressed without any very dangerous consequences ensuing : but these circumstances, and the farts stated' by the Committee, must fully im press their Lordships with the necessity of passing the Bill as speedily as possible. The Duke of BEDFORD, in reply, repeated his ohjeetions to go immediately into a Committee upon the Bill, which the House, he thought, would not be warranted in doing until they bad,satisfadory regular evidence before them of its necessity. The Earl of MOIRA seemed to express himself nearly to the same eilea, and to observe that his wish was by no means to stand in the way of the passing tf the Bill, should evidence in any degree satisfalory appear of its necessity. The Duke of BEDFORD and Lord HOBART ex changed a few explanatory observations; the latter confined himself . ent,irely to an explanation of what his Noble and Learned Friend (the Earl ofßosL YN) had said. The House then resolved itself into a Committee upon the Bill, Lord WALS I NG HAM in the Chair, and ;:greed to the several Clauses, &c. thereof, when the House resuming, received the Report, and ordered the Bill to be read a third. time to-morrow. Their Lordships then, after disposing of some routine business, adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, APRIL 27. 'nip. Scots Militia Bill was read a second time— to be committed on Friday. A MF.Ntnt it wave notice, that the Motion of Mr. DICF:ENSON, relative t to the Residence of the Pato_ ehial,Clergy, would be postponed by him till Mon day next. Mr. WILBERFORCE said, it was by the desir‘e of the Iron Manulatiurets, his Constituents, that he intended to bring forward a Motion to the House, on the subject of certain Wares made of Cast Iron ; and that in order to distinguish them from certain commodities which resembled them, though of much infetior quality, it was proposed, that there should he soMe mark of discrimination to distinguish them. The principle was one which Parliament had re c(ignized in many instances, 'and he trusted that the Bill he should move for, would be found beneficial. He then moved for leave to bring in a Bill for regulating 'the Manufaauring of Cast Iron Ware., and to prevent Persons purchasing Icon, from being deceived as to its quality. 77.), SPE ;MT R 'suggested' to the Hon. Member, .that on a Bill cif this nature, which, in some degro, partook of thertature of a Private Bill, it would be proper to follow Parliamentary usage, by moving, to the first instance, for the appointment of a :Com mitteed..to consider the subject, and then, that a Bill be foriited. Mr. \Vtt.nrR FORCE accordingly moved, " That a Conimittee be appointed to consider of the proper method of regulating the making of Cast lrun and Cutlery Ware, and to prevent Persons from being deceived as to the quality thereof.", 0 G RE NADA. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, that in consequence Of the time bting elapsed, according to the Order of the House, for the receiving of Private Petitions, the Proprietors of Land, in the Island of Grenada, who, from their di - stance, had been unavoidably previa:Li from making their application sooner to Parliament, had now instructed him to offer to the House a Petition, praying for leave to present their Petition for aid, the same as if such Order had not been made, Mr. Lusill N ON then proceeded to state the case, as contained in the Petition of these Grenada Proprietors ; that in Mara 1799, an Inc surreCtion and Rebellion had broken out in. the Island, in concert with the Common Enemy ; that the effeas had been ruinous.beyond all example. He reminded the House, that in t 779, Grenada had been captured by the French,, under Count D'EsTA z NO, but when yielded back to Great Bri tain, at the Peace, the French Inhabitants, who were numerous, had been 'suffered to retain their property. In z 7 79, the Island bad been captured by a concert between these French Inhabitants and the Enemy. After the Peace, the Proprietors had been called upon to expend a considerable sum of money in ereeting.and repairing Fortifications, and that they had expressed their willingness so to do, provided a -.'licient Garrison was kept up in them; as the French Inhabitants of the Island were not to be trusted . : .That though application to thi;; fre4 . l was made to tile governor, a considerable time clapied without their having assurance to thir. eft ; that although a letter was received from the late Lard SY DN EV, when Secretary of State, assuring Item of the determination of His Majesty's GOvernnierit to provide a sufficient Garrison of from Soo to too° Men, in consequence of which the Assembly . of Grenada chcarfully voted the sum of 200,001. for the Fortification of the Island ; but that %%hen the Insurretlion brolte out, there were only about So Men in Garrison, the remainder of the Rtgu.r , lar Force having been previously wanted, owing to existing circumstances elsewhere, The Prayer of the Petitioners stated, that the Proprietors had ma terially suffered by the Insurreftion—that this cala mity was greatlyi owing to the want of a !roper Garrison at the ;time, but that there was no iiii)uta don that this was owing to any fault Of .Gwern ment, Under these circumstances, he trusted, the Right Hon. Gentleman who was entrusted with his Majesty's Pleasure, would not withhold his coieur rence to the bringing up of the Petition. The Petition having been brought up, and read :t the Table, Mr. LUSH NGTON next moved, " That leave be given to present u Petition for the Purposes above mentioned." The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER said, he was empowered to give His Majesty's Re commendation solely for the purpose of affording the parties concerned, an opportunity of laying their case before Parliament ; farther than this he could not pledge himself, as he declare i, that he had not as yet formed an opinion upon the sttbjeEt. The Petition being brought up, Mr. LUSH ING lON next gave notice, that he should move to-morrow, " That the House resolve itself into a Committee, for the purpose of inquiring into the Allegations stated in the Petition of the Proprietors of Estates, in the Island of Grenada." MR. H. TOOKE's ELECTION. Earl TEMPLE said; he rose to apologise to the House for the long delay which had occurred since the time he had moved for the appointment of a Se. lea Committee, for the purpose of inquiring into the. eligibility of Mr. H. TOOKE'S Eleaion. `delay, he assured the House, had proceeded from severe indisposition, which had for some time pre vented his attendance in the House. He now moved, That the Ho use will, on Monday next, takein_ to consideratio n the Minutes of Examination taken at the Bar of the House, and the Report of the Se lea Committee appointed to examine the Journals, relative .to the eligibility of Persons in Holy Orders to sit in that House. The Motion being agreed to. • Earl TEMPLE then said, that he considered it necessary according to the forms.of the House, that an order should be served on HortNE TooK, Esq. requiring his attendance in his place on Monday next. The Earl made a motion accordingly, but afterwards said he begged leave to withdraw it, for the present, in order that he might have time to look into precedents in such cases ; and mentioned that he should bring forward a motion on the sui).• jea tolmorrow. Mr. BRAG 3E brought up the, Report of the Committee of Supply, when the Resolutions were read and agreed to. Mr. JOHNSTON referred to Papers which had been - moved for relative to the judgments of Ad miralty' and Vice Aamirotycoorts in eases alreft ing the Maritime . Rights ,of Nations, and thc dis puted question. whether free ships constituted free goods. It was an objea of great importance, and more • especially at the present jun'iure, 'when it had given rise to our dispute with the Powers forming the Northern Confederacy. Some mea sures ought to be taken in consequence of the decisions of these. Courts tending to mar k t h e sense of Parliament relative to the chndna to be ob. served towards Neutral Powers.. He thought it would appear from these Papers that there had been gross abuses on the pare of these Tribunals, and that injuries had been done to Neutral Nations ; that great expellee and delay had attended the reversal of their Sentences. when brought before the Privy Council, and that the 'evils hence arising had exeit, ed Neutral Nations first to protea• their CoMmeree by Convoys, and when that failed, they had then entered into a hostile Confederacy. He then. moved . 44 That a suffieiAt number of Copies be printed for the use of the Members, of the Account laid on the Table, stating the number of Neutral Ships brought into. Ports by Ships of War, their cargoes, sentences of condemnation, and the several Appeals against such sentences pronounced in the Courts of •Admi ralty, and Vice-Admiralty Courm, as they now stand ready for hearing."—Ordered. The Committee on the Irish Sugar Distillery Bill, upon the Motion of Mr. CORRY, was deferred to Wednesday next. . _ The House then resolvell itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. CORRY moved, that the Drawback of 4 . -Ois Irish Currency, be allowed on the Exportation of every Gallon of Spirits distilled from Sugars, in Ire land, which being agreed to, and the House re sumed, the Resolution was ordered to be reported to-morrow. , On the Motion of Mr. CORRY, resolved; '.'`'That • the House go into a Committee to-morrow,` 'to con sider of,a Bill to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land to prohibit the Exportation of Provisitmv froin .Ireland, and to permit the Importation of Piovi sions• therein." ' A Message from the I.ortis 'informed the Haus e ~. • - . • that their Lordship's ha'cl ag ed to the Billi-tfint.. ing Bounties on the Import:mon - of Ainei:ii-an,.iour, Indian Corn and Rice into Ireland ; and to several Private Bill),-. The House went into a Committee on the . irish Hop Importation Bill. . . ... . Mr. C oRRY moved, " That the duty on Hop imported into lietpd he lowered to a duty, not 9:- . ceeding 1,4.1. on every pound weight thereof. The House being resumed, the Resolution was teporteil, and ordered to be received to-morrow. The Bill for encouraging the diten Importation of Rice into Ireland was lead a third time, and passed. The Ty the-Lensing Bill was ortkred tole read a second time on Monday Le.V. The other Circlet's of the Day were deferred, aed at six o'clock the House adjourned till to-metro'. THE SUN. 101..thl QUIS 1114.7.R.E. FALSA.I 41:1>11T e LONDON, APRIL 28, 18oi. THE first of the Two Hamburjh Mails which were due, and the non.arrival of which had occa. sioned some uneasir,ess, came safe to hand this morn ing. It brings us an account of the sailing of the greater part of the British Fleet on the z zth from Copenhagen for the Baltic: The expefiation Which the Copenhagen article expresses, of a battle between die Russian and Swedish Fleets, which are said to have joined, and the British Fleet, is, we trust, unfounded. In askiition to such details as the German Papers have brought, will be found in our subsequent Co. lumns two Letters from our Correspondents at Bre mex and liar:burgh.- WE this morning received Paris Paprs to the 26th inst. The arrival of the Ham6urgh Mail at the same time, has rendered all that part of their contents which relate to the North, uninteresting ; and as they contain no intelligence from Egypt, our Readers will have little reason to regret that our want of room does not allow us to give any details from them. The QuRIN and PRlNCaszs yesterday morning, took an airing in their Carriages to Wimbledon. A Council of Cabinet Ministers was Yesterday held at Lord HAWICESAURYIS Office, in downing. street. Qne Hundred and Eighty.three Days Pay to the Officers of His MAJESTY'S Land Forces, have been issued from the Office in Whitehall, from the 24. th of June, to the 25th of December, 1800. And also Six Month's Allowance to the late 3d and 4tfi Troop of Horse Guards, for die same term. The Knight Marshal Volunteers, commanded. by Sir JAMES BLAND BURGES; had a Field-Exercise yesterday ; and afterwards partook •of an elegant dejeuni, at the CrOwn and Anchor*Tavern,) in the Strand. It is with sincere pleasure we state, that the great importations, combined with the. uncommon fiae ness of the season, produced a considerable reduftion in the prices of all kinds of grain yesterday at . the Corn Exchange, but particularly in that of wheat, which has fallen zos. per quarter since Monday te'nnight.—Flour is t gs. per sack lower. • One.thoUsand eight . hundred barrels of fine Attie. :kart Flour wereyesterday sold by to a n u i ci pr io i n ,ed at au ve o r: deduced *, : ices ' . ' . . . . The Importation of Grain, - Sec.-during ti l e List' week :nto- the Port of.Londp, 13,000 quarters of Wheat, ( zo3 of which was from Lisbon), 4463 . cwt. of Flour, 3914. cwt. of . glees about 5,000 quarters of Oats, 2,000 of Barley; 99° of Rye, 800 of Peas, and 609 of Beans. At Liver s pool, in the week, ended on Thursday, 'the Impor tation of Flour exceeded ten thousand barrels.--Ae Bristol there was nearly an equal quantity.; end Greenock, Glasgow, and Hull, have had liberal sup. plies. x The Minister of Sweden at the Hague, the Cotint Di LEUWENHEIM, has published'a formal contra. 4, l iftion of the report that the Swedes had refused 'to fire on the English when the latter were palling, through the Scund. He states the breadth of- the Sound, at the Aarrowest part, at 2 4 00 toises (of six feet French), and the utmost range of a cannon, at any elevation, at Soo wises, If then, he says, the English Ships were within reach of the guns, . in other words, within Soo toises of the Castle of Cronenberg, it must follow that they were 1600 toises from. the Coast of Sweden, and of course completely out of the reach of cannon-shot. The Copy of the Treaty of Luneville which t h e French Government sent back to Vienna in ex... change fur the Copy sent them by the EmPutoit, was remarkable for its elegance. It was bound in blue velvet, embroidered with gold, but the French Journalists state that this- was the least valuabic part of it ; materiam superabat opus ; the mapu. script was so coned that there was not an etastVe or a blot in it. Last Tue . sday eight armed villains, with their I faces blacked, entered the farm-house of one Richard Homey, a respeCtable Farmer near lord BoxING- Dom's, at Saltrami, in Devonshire, about piutat. night, and With violent imprecations beat p! knocked doWn the Varmer and all his dontestks...A boy fortunately, escaped out of the svindOWA gave the alarm to the neighbourhood, ‘'vhiChinade the thieves decamp without their booty. -*IVY is very dangerously ill, and his recovery doebiql. At Chelmsford - Quarter Sessions, Philip -Flooll was tried on an indietment for regrating in' }vas market. It appeared he bought' tilos about ten or eleven o'clock in the morning, anal that they were sold again the same day r boathell Prosecutor - not proving that they were soldA)/ the' Defendant hibuelf, - the offence was nok-madiiilt, and Flood was of course acquitted. Robert well ; the, person indifted at the Ottober Sessionitfor making forehand bargains in the article of bltier, was' acquitted . for want of prosecution. The : Sills.; of Indittment against tlie'Butchers, for for6itrAying Romford Marker, are none. of them yet, tried ;"_sane of them have - been removed to the King'sßtsx.sh, others have Pleaded specially, and the rest" Wend for. crial at the next Sessions. Eli'zitbeth, 'wife of win. Stening:Letter-earrier in the Two-penny rot-office, was detiveze d on- Kon. day 'the 20th inst. of three children, tWo b.oy4- and one girl, nit of which are living. At the Warwick Quarter Sessions last week, man named TONiS, was sentenced to, be imprisoned three'Mcinths' and . Publicly wEirped,. for ill-treating a horse.