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,_ ,• , I' to retard the progress of the Rai, as it had' , ,ce:dccl Otis far, rose merely to express his verbal gal ryst a measure originating and proposed I t !!! carried into efii:d in such a manner. The I Member voted several occasions where simi b,r nva,kures had been discussed, to prove that they were always looked upon as unconstitutional. He t,n.ted an explicit answer would be given to the z;:mstii , n that bad been on a former day put by his t too. Vriend (Mr. FRANC TO, whether this step h.nl been taken by the advice of the Privy Council, .Itile'r that that the House might know what was Olt degree of responsibility Ministers took on The Report was then read and agreed to, and tliv Nil ordered for a third rending to-Morrow. The Ordnance Chatham Lands Bill was read a secf , nd time; to he committed to.morrow. Sir joHN SINCLAIR deferred his Motion relative tn, the comparative value of English and Scotch Bar. a , tl Malt, to Friday. Mr. FRANC is moved, chat there he laid before 11 , 0,e an account of the particulars of' the sum fit L90i,6661. received from Government by the LIS , India Company, including interest at four per cent. per annum, up co the tat of March, 1804.. — Ordered. COL STANI.P.Y presented a Copy of the Minutes of the exidenee taken before the Con miwe to whom the Petition of the Journeymen Calico Printers had been referred. Ordered to lie on the Table, and to be pt intrd. VisemilitC6s KILWARDEN'S Annuity Bill pined through .1 Committee. The report to be received to.morrotv. IRISH AFFAIRS. Mr. SM ITH, from the Exchequer Office of Ire. 1:10 1 presented an Abstract of the Funded Debt o On the question being put that the Accounts should 'oe printed, Air. CORRY rose to beg the attention of the House for a few minutes. lie complained that cere tail' statements had been made on a former eve n . in t/ by the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (ylr TeMTER) which went to attach blame to the late Administration of. Ireland. He was far from think ing that Right Hon. Gentleman had intended any misrepresentation, but at the same time the state. meats he had made were far from being correEt, and the House, he was afraid, had been induced to draw from them concussions very unfavourable both to himself and to the Government of Ireland. From the nature of the statements that had been laid before them they must have drawn inferences very remote from the truth. He by no means imputed to the Right Hon. Gentleman a wish to produce this effeel, nor did he throw any obstacle in his way to the Qf6ce that he understoed he would soon publicly be aenoueced to occupy ; but he wished to vindicate turd IJnauwrcttta and others, and to shew that they were not liable to the imputation that the state. merits he alluded to really bore. The !louse would ircolliCt, that the Right lien. Gentleman, in speak i g of the Revenues rif Leland, asserted, that the Ii itaeces in the hands of the Collectors in Ireland a , natit , ted to near 600,0001. and the impression upon the H use in coosequtmce of this statement was, that there was aeliedly a Balance of so much cash in the bands of the ColleCtor's, and that consequently the Government of Ireland was guilty of neglect, or aamedking worse, for not withdrawing those Ba ,evei fromaheir hands. The R:ght Hon. Gentleman t ler) prnp..reti these I daeces with the B dances in th e hands of the Colleetors ref the English Revenue, which did not exceed 37,0001. He must have known, Owever, that this was by no means a fair eempari , on, because in Ireland these Balances in elLeied net only the Revenue colleded, and in the haiala el the Celleetor, but all the otostandiog Re venue ; whereas in England the Balaece only meant the, Cash aelually received arid in the hands of the Colleder, Ie Ir-land, it was the praCtice for the tolleetor to meke himself chargeable fur the whole AinOunt of the Revenue as soon as it became due, though, in many casea, the Subjeet was allowed a mnoth to pay them, such as the Malt, and other buties, and, yea they were called Balances in the hands of the CalleCtor, the day they were due. In the case of Quit-Rents, which amounted to above 64,0001. a year, the Colleetor charged himself with Oetn as soon as they Were due, although it was in general impossible to collea them under a year, or a year and a half, and in some cases, he was sorry to say, not at all. If the Right Hon. Oentleman had been disposed to make a fair com parison between the outstanding Revenue in Eng- Lied and Ireland, there was a. Paper on the Table of the House,, by which it appeared that the pn g lish Revenue, outataeding and in arrear, was between Six and Seven Millions, instead of mow!. which was only the cash left in the hands' of the Collet - infs.—Mr. CORRY then adverted to the Debt ót Ireland ; he arguede. that this Debt had been necessarily inc r e ase d lately, owing to the important sod necessary War in which we were engaged. Very eamiderable additional expences had been occasioned, ;not only by preparations against a Foreign Enemy, hut by providing also against the designs and machi oat inns of such at home, as had been infatuated enough to cohtemplate the overthritw of the Governtent. bt her extraordinary expences 'also had been incurred winding up the Union, and by the compensations whtch had been judged necessary to such as had suffer ed by that measure.' He adverted also to the state of the Revenue,and attempted to account for the apparent i,lecrease, as 'it stood in the statement of the Right Viou. (77:ntreotan. During the troubles in Ireland stoma' leol been exhausted and the warehouses coMpletely empty; upon the return of tran. ther4oe, a great deal of importation took !dace ; iehich added very much to the Revenue of th a t p ar e 'lle could not 'but consider it, however, as unfair, to compare a year of this description with the, l oue folloWing, in Which less imeortation even t Lan usual 'would be necessary, for 'the purpose of I)o:ming out the decrease of Revenue. He had mo t e rlyin'unec iven notice of Ilk intention c,f proposin g ite a - rneasure for raising a large part of the Supplie s wiihin the e:t ar, and which would have includeasome irital;ition , a(eapettieg Absentees the ciicumstanCes !wrir'cli had decurred however,' prevented him il itona pot ri're'?; his t)eeign in execution. 'lie coecluded 04; C , Ci. 7' iili'die C , 41.41a6ti0n he would have in PC; . gaining the goon °NOM Of the noose, WHICH ne thought must have been forfeited by the statements which he had now attempted to corral. The Hon. Gentleman then moved, " That there be laid before the House a Copy of the Surveyor General's state. merit of the Excise in Ireland, as altered and de. livered in by the CHANCELLOR of the Exott Iz/tit in Ireland, up to the tsch of October, 1803 ; and also a similar Report of the further proceedings of the Surveyor-General, for the Improvement and Colleaion of the Revenue, up to the latest period the same could be made out." On the question being put; Mr. FOSTER rose, in reply to the Right Hon. Gentleman who had eat down. If, from the state. menus he had made, inferences had been drawn that were not agreeable, he could nut consider himself as accountable. He had stated the balances in the hands of the Collettors, according to the title under which they had been returned. He had stated them according to the documents put into his hands ; he was therefore justifiable if he clasied them under the general title, as the items were not mentioned. He contended that from the very face of their own papers, there must be blame attached somewhere. Could they have acted rightly, he asked, if from a sum of 2,500,0001. they allowed soo,oool. which was one. filth of the whole, to stand back unpaid ? He did not mean to throw refledion on any individual, but meant only to state what he apprehended to be the case, that the money was detained, in progress, from the pockets of the subjed to the Exchequer, contrary to law. He again repeated, that what he had stated he believed to be true, and that the par. ticular accounts would come before the House next Session, when it would be seen whether he had been mistaken or not. Mr. FRANCIS thought it very unfortunate that the two Right Hon. Gentlemen did not understand one another. There must, he apprehended, be some extraordinary intricacy in the question, as they could neither convince one another nor satisfy the House which' was in the right. If what the Right Hon. Gentleman on the same bench (Mr: COXILY) -had said, was really the fad, he was completely convinced he had cleared himself from every impu tation of blame ; but it was rather singular, they could not come to a proper understanding. The English Members, he was sure, must go away very dissatisfied, as the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had given no satisladtory answer, and as .the case required some expisnation to those who were un. acquainted with Irish Affairs. , He did not know what the items of those Balances might be, but he understood ,they VIM be Arrears of Money in their hands, and that the Arrears must be of such a na. cure as were nut allowed by law to lie in this man. ner in hand. It would give more satisfaCtion, he thought, could the Accounts, with the different items, be laid before the House. Mr. HAWTHORN said, he bad made an inquiry on this subject, and the answer he had received had been perfeCtly sarisfaCtory. The balances were n , q cash, but charges, for which the Culleetors had themselves credit. He had compared also r lances of former years with the present, and w glad to find that Ireland was not reduced ►o such a state of desperation as had been described by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. FOSTIK). Mr. FOSTER explainer'. The Papers were then orlered, in pursuance of the Motion. Mr. CORRY moved also, that a Copy of the Ge. neral Orders for the better cnlieFti..g the Revenue of Ireland, issued by the Connniisioners since Ja nuary Soo, be bid before the Howe, which was ordered. Mr. HusxissoN obtained leave to bring in a Bill int- regulating the appointment of Comoissioners 10 ad in execution of the Property Tax A. Also leave to bring in a Bill to explain and amend the several At relating to Hackney Coaches, and for indemnifying such Hackney Coachnien as had neglected to register their Coaches, as the MI of Parlial.tent required. Mr. I-11E;L:r •soll gave notice, for his Right Hon. Frieni (the CHANCVI.LOR of the ExcirliQtrui), not then in his place, that he should, on Friday next, in the Committee of Ways and Means, submit to the House a proposition, relative to a Lottery or Lotteries for the present year. The Srcfi E riot , / at WAR obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable His Majesty's Quarter-Master. General, Adjutant.Grneral, and Ma ste r.Getyeral of the OrdnAnce, and certain Persons in iheir Offices, to receive Letters and Packers free of Postage. Mr. FOSTER. moved the Order of the Day, for a Committee of the whole House on the Acts relating to the Irish Di,tilleries. The House having resolved into the Committee, Mr. ALUXANDER in the Chair, MI. FOSTER moved, that the Chairman shou'e be direned to move for leave to bring in a Bill for confirming so much of the Provisions of the 32d of the King, as relate to the Prohibition of the Impar tation of Malt into Irelan►l, an►l for' sepealing so much of an Ad of last Session as authorized the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council in Ireland to prohibit the use of Oatmeal and GUS in Distillation in Ireland, The Resolution was agreed to, and the House being • resumed leave was given t o b r i ng i n t h e Bill. Mr. FosTER then brought up the Bill ; read a first time, and to be read a second time Jo-morrow. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee respeaing the Ista►blishment of a Free Port in Crooked Island, in the Mamas. The Re. solutions were agreed to, and the Bill ordered ac. cordingly. Mr:Pos'rim brought up a Bill for allowing, for a time to be limited, the circulation of Bank Notes under the value of twenty shillings, and for re. straining the issue of such notes hereafter. Read a first time ; to be read a second time to.morrow. On the Motion of Mr. FoaTER, leave was given to bring in a pip for the better regulating the col. letting of: . the Revenue at Ireland, and preventing fraud3 . theriin. " On the Motion of Mr. FOSTER, the Howie went iota Colonlitte(! ihe Corn Exportation Bill. in the commiL:cp,, Mr, PATTEWN moved that 411 the fractions of pe'oce fig 4rruck out of die rates, which eo:/as — agieril to. The Report was brought up, and Ordeal to b r:committcil to.morrow. • i net °Met Uroers of the Day were disposed of.-- Adjourned. • MAILS. ARRIVED. 114171bUrgh o • - • ----- 2 PRICE OF STOCKS, THIS DAY ♦T Twsz.vx o'cLock. Consols . 37} I Red. Ann. - 56 I Omni= -41 THE SUN. *OLIN QUIS DICKRIC ?ALSUM AUDLAT ? LONDON, JULY s, 1804. THE Two Hamburgb Malls which were due on Sunday and yesterday, arrived this morning. By the following Accounts from Ratirbor, we have a Copy of the very important Note presented to the French Ministry by the Russian Chargel d'Affaires, relative to the late unprincipled violation of the Neutrality of the German Empire. RATISBON, JUNE t7.--A Copy of the Note pre. sented to the French Ministry by the Russian Chargi-d' Affaires, M. D'Ouu a 1., relative to the late occurrence at Ettenheim, is now circulated here : it is as follows : II According to the orders which the Under signed Chargil-d' Aping of His ImPertint. MA. JESTY the EMPEROR of all the Russ' AS has receiv ed from his Court, he hastens to inform the Mi. nistry of the French Republic, that his Illustrious Master has learned with equal astonishment and concern, the event that has taken place at Et. tenbeim, the circumstances that have accompanied it, and its melancholy result. The concern of the EMPEROR on this occasion is the more lively, as he can by no means reconcile the violation of the Territory of the ELECTOR Of BA,DEN to those principles of justice and propriety which are held sacred among Nations, and are the bulwark of their reciprocal relations. His IMPERIAL MAJESTY ands in this act a violation of the Rights of Na tions, and of a Neutral Territory, which at least was as arbitrar) as it was public; a violation, the consequepc'es of which are difficult to estimate, and if . considered as admissible, must entirely annihilate Security and independence of Sovereign It he German Empire, after the misfor .uile, i. has buffered, which have made it sensibly feel the necessity of tranquiiiity and repose, must siltl be in tear for the irtegrirV 'of its territory, c .u!d it h tve been expeded that this shouid have i►rigin.ited on the part of a Governmen► which has 14houied to secure ft, it Peace, ant imposed an itself the duty of guaranteeing its continuance ? " All these ',:onsidetations have myt permitted the EMPEROR to pass over in silence this u..ex. peeled event, which has spread consternation through all Germany. 111, IMPERIAL MAJESTY has held it to be his duty, as Guarantee and Mediator of the Peace, to no. tify to the States of the Empire, the manner in which fe views an atlion which endangers their security and independence. The - Russian Resident at Rads. bon has, in consequence, received orders to deliver in a Note to the Diet, and to repre , ent to it, and to the Head of the Empire, the necessity of remon. strating to the French Government against this 'violation of the'German Territory. " His IMPERIAL MAJe.sTy holds it in like man ner to ,be his duty to notify his sentiments diredly to the French Government, by the Undersigned, as His MAJESTY is assured that the First Consul will hasten to attend to the just remonstrances of the German Political Body, and fed the pressing ne. cessity of taking the must adivc measures to relieve all the Governments of Europe from the alarm he must have occasioned to them, and put an end to an order of things too dangerous to their safety and future independence. The Undersigned hereby ftnfils the commands of his Illustrious Master, and avails himself of this opportunity to communicate to the Citizen Mini ster for Foreign Affairs the assurance Of his high esteem. (Sig►tie:l) " D'Ou BRIL." Jura t B.—Though this is the day appointed for taking into consideration the Russian Nose deliver. ed in to the Diet, nothing has been done relative to it, nor have any farther observations been made on the subjed. The Minister of the ELECTOR of BADPN, however, has frequent conferences with the Deputies for Austria, and the Arch.cliancellor Elec. tor, relative to this Note. VERONA, Jorge 13.—The English who were put under arrest at Leghorn, have obtained their liberty, as is believed, in consequence of the appliCation of the Court of Florence to the French Commandant ar Leghorn. Admiral NELSOI.I, it is said, threaten. cal to,bornbard Leghorn, and to declare the Port in a state of blockade, if they were not set at liberty. It is at least certain, that an English Flag of truce brought dispatches to. Leghorn; .which were immediately forwarded by exprcii to Fro'rii:Ve; "• ~ Amongst the other Intelligence brought i,y th Mails, we find a report in a Letter from Venice, that the POPE is about to resign his Sp:riluai Dig nity, and that Cardinal is to be his Succes. sor. Letters from Antwerp of the zoth ult. state, that preparations were making there for the reeeptiot-of the new Emperor. IT appears by the latest accounts from St. Do mivo, that DESSALINES I}4lll been formally invesj ed with the Sovereignty of that Island. He is ap pointed Governor-General for life, has the power of making Peace and War, and of naming his Successor. So far he has followed very closely the example set by BONAPARTE. Whether, when he, hears of the new title assumed by the late First Consul, he will also chuse to be styled Emperor, we cannot at present say—Certainly he.has just as good a right to that title as the new Emperor of the French. It is said that CHRIStOPHE is anxious that the Colony should be put under the protection of the English, or at least that a strict alliance should be formed with them ; but this is opposed by DMA. , LINES, who is jealous of his own power and inde. pendence. We stated some time ago the failure of an attempt made by the Governor of Jamaica to establish a regular Commercial Intercourse with St, Domingo. Wt have uniformly been of opinion that the Era. PEROR of RUSSIA would refuse to acknowledge the new title usurped by BONAPARTE ; and this opinion has been strengthened by private Letters from the Continent, which positively assert that fall. The example of Restia will probably be followed by Swede*. The other Continental Powers may for the present submit, but we are convinced that it will not be lung before they will make an effort to de. liver themselves horn the most intolerable tyranny that ever was exercised over civilized Europe. It is very confidently reported that the Port it to be brought to France, partly to add to the splen. dor of the Coronation of BONAPARTE, and partly to negotiate away what remains of the Temporal Power of the Successors of ST. Parr.*, which are, it is said, to be formed into a Kingdom for Lucca" BoxitrArrt. If this should be true, and, after the events that have passed before our eyes, we see no rational ground to doubt ir, then will Italy and France be in a state of abjea vassalage to, anden4 tailed upon th e d escen d ants of, two obscure men, whose names were not known in Europe ten Y e " l ago ; while almost all the other States only enjoy precarious tranquillity, by crouching to a _Powet whicir they equallrdread and detest. Yesterday morning TRittlt, MAJII7IIS, th PRINCEMSEi, and Dugs of KENT, walked in Kew Girdena. Yesterday morning the Duet of YORK visited THEIR MAjESTTEI. Tuesday evening THEIR MA) ESTI Es, in a post-, chariot, followed by the PRINCIthsEi and attend ants, in three coaches and four, took an airing, 'and honoured Sir J. liksles with a visit, at his houses Spring Gro.re, near Hounslow. The ROyal Party returned to Kew about nine o'clock., Svorday evening His Royal Highness Prince WILLIAM FREDERICK Of GLOUMTER, Suite, arrived at Trinity college Lodge,. Came bridge, on a visit to Dr. MANVEL, Master of Elle College. The event was soon known, by the ringing of bells at different churches. Sunday he dined with the Vict.CHArtc ELLOR, and attended Divine Service twice at Great St. Mary's Church. Monday morning His Royal Highness held a wed numerous and respeetable Levee at Trinity. Lodges and was expeaed to honour the Commencement B.tll with his presence in the evening. Dispatches for Lord NELSON, in the Mediterra• nean, and for Sir ALEX. BALL, at Malta, were la s t night forwarded from the Admiralty and S;ere•- tary at State's Otfi , :e to Portsmouth, to be put on board the Firgard Frigate, Lord M. Kra, which tvt:l sail in a few days. Yesterday a Court of Diredors was held at the has India House, when Capt. Wm. Icing EAsi. FIELD was sworn into the command of the Moe/dash destined to 13engal ; and Capt. JAMES NORMA 44, Into chat .11 the Si e l ten C ast l e . Capt. T. Sitrittig 4 of t! Travers., rook leave, previous to departing lot St. Helena and Bengal. The Middlesex Scrutiny terminated yesttraart when Mr. MAIN‘YARING wag found to have a ma• j.,tity of 5 2 good votes over Sir FRANCIS Boat• D/Tr. The Committee, however, adjourned Ib this day, without having made .a formal declaration of their deci,tion, in order to give Sir FRANCIS time to consider of the expediency of presenting his promised Petition against Mr. MAINWARING, com plaining of a violation of the Treating and Bribery AEI. Yesterday the Durham, Second Warwickshire, and Cumberland Regiments of Militia, the whole under the command of M a j or -G enera l Moussori, were to encamp at kidgmonr, near Burstwick, is Holderness. LEWI3, EMERY, and Mrs. GLOM, are per. forming with great success at Liverpool, on his first appearance for the season in Rangfrs was received With the highest ma-rks of popular 11t. your. At the Liverpool Theatre, on Friday 104 Mr• BARRYMORt (recovered from his late accident) Performed the part of Peregriue, in the favourite Comedy of JAN Bull. lie revolved a hearty wcl' cztue from ttie'unditncioi