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made aga i nst them, withthe"Slig — htestrustice. CHAN CELLOR•ofthe EXCHEQUER said, he was aware that it was. not. only the right but the Expenditure, of every Member to watch, over the Public ..xpenditure, and he begged to observe, that he did not understand.,the Hon. Gentleman. as throwing 011 t any, imputation against Ministers. But he was anxious,that expressions used there, should not pro.. duce impressions elsewhere very different from the intention of those who used them. In 178 z, Mr. linkitz's Bill passed, by which the Secret Service I \4 Oney was to be granted by that -House, instead of neing taken from the Civil List. The only sum taken out of t h e Ci v il List now for that purpose,. Was io,oool. a year, vvhiCh was called 'Treasury Money, f o r S e c ret Servic e a t Lame, but there wis not a shilling taken out ache Civil List tor Foreign Secret Sery ice . Money. The. sum. now to be applied for was only io,oool. which was less than had been granted upon former occasions, except last year.— , The Hon, Gentleman had said, that the employ , Went of the Sums voted for Secret Services, were never accounted for ; but if he would only look into Mr. BURKE'S Bill, he would find that the Se- . ctetary of State was to make oath relative to the disposition of those monies. Mr. ROBSON said, that during the whole of the :American War Ministers did not come to the House . 6 .for a single farthing for Secret Services. Where the money came frinn that was then applied to this c!?Fpose he knew • not, but he supposed out of the ivil` Liar. • The . C:IIANCELLOR of the EXCIIE.QUER Said, that if the-Honourable Gentleman knew any thing, ;he must know .this, that Parliament had, 'Within the period alluded •to by the Honourable . Centleman, paid the debts of the Civil List, a great art,of which arose, from the sums applied for Secret Services. , • - Sir 3 . 011 N PARNELL rose to.speak to Order. lie could not conceive hoW the continuance of this . discussion applied to the .question before. the House. There was nut . 4 word said about lessening the sum, and it was the first time he had heard- of any jea-' lousy tving shewn at the Minister's decreasing' the • expenses of the Country. Belpre -Mr. Bu RICE'S - Ministers could spend whatever sum they pleased in Secret SerOices, but•by the provisions of that Bill, the precise sum was to be voted by Par_ liament. He could not imagine, for a moment that any one would oppose the iroting . of Secret ServiCe Money., which was always absolutely necessary, the - application of which had, he was sure, preserved 'both England and Ireland from insurrettions and rebellions, and which. was essential to the in. retests of the State. The money now proposed . to be voted was - certainly reduced to the smallest tflun possible : he was only 'doubtful whether it was. large enough. No one could deny the truth °f the paper brought forward by the Hon. Gentle- man (Mr. RoasoN), but he denied the jnference that was attempted to be drawn from it, it having o relation to the question before the House. Mr. ELLISON said, the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. xaisoN) had been merely talking of abuses which existed previods to ,Mr. ButO's Bill, and which Were pit an end to by that Bill. The Resolution as amended was then agreed to, it * also the remaining Resolutions. • The Committees of Supply and Ways and Means "ere deferred till Monday. Adjourned at a quarter past five. 1 1 7, so ul e A .0 01 0 o ia %ft anti , Ivo; THE SUN.- SOLLM Q. 1.113 1)4 ... CYR& YALSUM ♦VDLAT LONDON, :VOL' EMBER 2.1, 18,37. ' Ws -this morning received Paris Papers of a date 13 pe day latti, those to the t 7th inst. "General riA•N` ..;.* appointed Plenipotentiary Minister Ex. t raordinary to . 1"ort oga I . a t to' :ell t riiv i 0 0- it Dr r 35 jI CCL "0" noe 5 est , co' - lor (1 of hcti , e ,l le ieJ '„} tb; : i 30 ".' The cabinet'or Vienna, it is said, will liquidate ': 1(1 1: only, the interest of. the Loans contracted on t l?eir account in. the 49w , 'Countries, 'but will also ,!"imburse the Capitals` in .. .a, limited time.' It is I.°f' jet Lively knoWn what other arrangements be taken respeaing the Securities on the Cop_ per Mines of Carinthia, on those of Quicksilver in thqa, and on the Debts due from theNerchant mpantes of Trieste end Fiume. • It. has been remarked, say the Clef du CaLiUei, th at Lord*CoßNwAta.is has, since his arrival in 4 ris, dispatched four Couriers to L6ndon. Two Homburg; .earls still, remain due. r , 'Yesterday a Privy cotineil was held at the ouneil Chamber, Whitehall, at which His Grace the bi)ke of P oßT t. 4 wo, the ATTORNEY and SULAM. NERAL, the MASTER of ,the Ro.u.s, Lord LvANLEy, Lord HAW•RESBVRY, Sir W., SCOTT, lid Mr. At orNsToN attended, \ R ilis Royal Highness the Dur ll of YORK held a 41 ilitary Levee yesterday at the Horse .Guards. The PRINCE of ORANGE left this Country rather t r ecipitately. His Serene Highness, we believe, is_ °t expthed to return'to it. . • Lord CHOLMONDELEY gives a very splendid )4 11 1 and S u pp e r o n Monday ev en in g at Ho ug h ton . ' ll l3 to all the Nobility and Gentry of Norfolk, in curation of the Peace. The French Princes, who were for some time at . i i pughion on a shooting party -with Lord CEIOL ago.NDxLEy, left that hospitable mansio.a few clays Lord Rola E [Ur FlTZ.CtitmeD has declared himself t iaodidale fur the County of Kildare. His lord_ 1 4 I P is prevented from personal attendance in Ire. 4 1 ' 14 by the severe indisposition of his Lady and r ee of thei r children. PORTSMOUTII, Nov. zo. Mitt vED a Fleet of Traders from the Downs, amongst them the Thames, dR,D, Grenada, STE rnENsoN, and Phallist, BAIRD, for the West Indies. Arrived the Maidstone Frigate from the West-- ward. PLYMOUTH, Nov. '9. ARRIVED the Humer Sloop of War, from a Cruize. Sailed the Belleisle and Courageux, of -N. guns each, for Torbay. DEAL, Nov. zo. COMMODORE SUTTON shifted his Broad Pendant this day from Ilis Majesty's Ship Isis to the Ne mesis Frigate, and the 11;1 has sailed for Sheerness. F.4LMOUTH, Nov. iB. ARRIVED the American Brig Friends, Capt. HILL, from Norfolk, with too° barrels of flour; and the Brig Endeavour, HILL, from Exeter. Sailed the Danish Brig / 7 ;s-dal/tic, Capt. HAN sos, with fish for Leghorn ; the Brig Lord Le nox, Capt. LLOYD, for St. Michael's; the Venetian ship La Virginie del Carmen, OBAD, for Malaga ; the Hope, Capt. Flicxs, for London ;. and the King George Packet, YESCOMBE, with Mail of the loth inst. for Lisbon. Passengers by her are, Messrs. ROBINSON, CORAND, SHELL, BYRNE, and HEAT_ LEY. The Towns/. end Packet is appointed to sail with the Mails of December for America. • The Duke of York Packet with Mail from Lis bon, and Penelope ditto from • Jamaica, are daily expeaed. The Eagle Brig, with bale goods, &c. for the Mediterranean, sailed on Sunday last, and put back again last evening. Letters from the Galatea, of 3a guns, Captain BYNG, dated Cork, gth inst. stare her arrival there in great distress, after experiencing dreadful wea_ titer, in a Cruize of twenty-eight days to the West of Cape Clear. She encountered fifteen severe and heavy gales of wind, and was in the hurricane of the ISt inst. in which she nearly foundered. The violence of the wind carried away her mizen-mast close to the deck, and her fore and main-top-masts went over the side at the same rime, though there was not a rag:of sail left upon her. Fortunately only one seaman was carried over and drowned, thouv,h se. vcral were severely hurt, one of thern.very danger,. ously. On the abatement of the storm, Capt. BY NG had the wreck cleared, and the Galatea arrived sate at Cork on the 7th inst. EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED JUDDA, RED SEA, JUNE 24., 1801. " On the Bth instant, the Rockingham; Butter, struck on a sunken rock, and will be obliged to re turn to Bombay to repair. The Susannah, -, from Bombay, is lost near this place. La Forte Frigate is wrecked here; and two other Ships have been lost in those Seas." Yesterday a Court of Direetors was held at the East India House, when the following Officers were sworn into the command of their respedive Ships, viz.—Capt. CHARLES JONES, David Scott ; Capt. JOHN LOCKE, New Ship ; Capt. CHA R LES ELTON PRESCOTT, Alt: wick Castle. The Court adjourned at six o'clock ti►l Tuesday next. The Salaritz, DOAK, is arrived at Poole frorn Malaga : Passengers in her arc, Captain MORGAN, of the 36th Regimens ;. Lieutenants DAv is and 14 - ANE, and Mr. GAMBLE, Purser of the Sqviftsure at the time of her capture ; and Mr. BROOKING, Purser of tile Dragov. The Report of the. Ph-ysicians.at Netc; . York is a little at variance with the accounts received by private letters.—These indeed are of several 'days posterior date to , that Report, and we are sot to say their accounts are by no means so favourable. The Freedom of the - City of Dublin was on Satur. day last presented to Gen. Sir VGrt. IVlEtiows 'the Commander in- Chief in Ireland. Embarkations of French and Dutch Troops, are tarrying on in Holland; the destination of the for mer is supposed - to be' St. Domingo,,of theiatter Batavia and the Dutch Settlements on the Coast .of Guinea: It is .understood at Paris that fifteen thoUsand pi c k e d t z oop s ' will h einplpyed in the service to Sr, Domingo: General LicLEßC ) ,.the Co*bander - in Chief, takes with him - ToussAlNT's, ions, who have been for some years educating at Paris. In consequence of an application from the French General, the Neapolitan Government has resolved that all - the confiscated property,' even that,. of the State Criminals executed since the commencement of the Revolution, shall _be restored to their heirS, as, well as - the incomes hitherto withheld: The French Jews celebrated the return of Peace in the great. Synagogu e. of Paris, with gre+t spier. dour. 'A Hebrew Ode, composed by Et.rASLe vy in honour of, the Peace, .was performed. with. great effed. In. one of the verses the Poet says, " Eter nal Night had almost covered this beautiful Country (France) : the light.of our felicity began to be ex tinguished. Discord did not, allow a single ray of hope to penetrate into our hearts. ,On a sudden, however, in the midst. of this darkness a brilliant star Made its appearance in the South of France." The iise in the Course of Exehange seems to have inspired even the tribe of Levi-with poetic fire. Otq. the t3th the Marquis coaNwAt.t.ts dineCi with the. Minister at War. Among the General Officers who dined at J - Tis Excellency's on the pre ceding day, was Adjutant-General Dußoc, who has . arrived from Russia, and the chief of Brigade LAUR ISTON, who- went to England with the Rati fication of the Preliminaries of Peace on the part of the First Consul. The day .on which the Plenipo_ tentiaries will set out for Amiens has not yet trans pired, but it his supposed they will leave town be fore the end of the present decade.—We are in formettfrom Amiens, that splendid preparations are making for their reception in that City.—Since his arrival in Paris, the Marquis has dispatches four Couriers to London. HAGUE, Nov. v.—The 27th Demi-brigade of French Auxiliary Tronps, commanded by Citizen ESSEN, have been embarked at Fitihing on board of several ships of war, the destination of which is supposed to be St. Dcm;llgo. A certain number of Troops are to be immediately embarked for Ba tavia, and our Settlethents an the Coast of Guinea. We have very satisfactory accounts from Citizen HUTTMAN, our Negotiator at the Court of Berlin. He will soon be preselited.to the Royal Family, as Minister Plenipotentiary from the Batavian Re public -The Indemnity to be . assigned to the PRINCE Of ORANGE by the Republic, is already settled between the parties concerned, and will be published before the end of this month. The Ex-Dircaor, VAN S\VINDEN, has left this City, and gone to. reside at Amsterdam. His col league, ERNIERINS, is to remain here. PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-STREET. TH E Public, especially Shop.keepers, should be on their guard against a numerous gang of little boys, who constantly infest the streets for the purpose of plunder, and who are abetted in their depredations by men and other boys of a superior age. Several have lately been brought to this Office, and com mitted for trial ;'and on Thursday evening another, only ten years of ay, was examined before R. FORD, Esq. on a charge of stealing two remnants of linen in the shop of Mr. Smith, a haberdasher, in Holborn. Edward Crocker, one of the Patrole, stated, that the same .evening; as he was coming up Holborn, he observed the Prisoner and three•other boys, and, suspecting their intention, he watched ,them for some time : at length they stopped, opposite Mr. Smith's shop, where one of the other boys took the Prisoner's shoes off . , and bid him. gO in,• which he did ; he soon after came out with the two remnants of linen, on which Witness secured him, and the other boys ran away. • The Prisoner acknowledged the 'faa, and .that . he had been instigated to commit this and other robberies by beggar-boys. He was committed to the House of Correftion, Coldbath-fields. Yesterday, before N. BoND, Esq. Mary Chu)ch, brought in custody from S►►nderland, on a charge of 'stealing valuables to the amount of several hundred pounds, the property of Isaac gensamon, la►e Bri tish Consul at Algiers, to whom she was, servant, . was examined, and fully committed f or tr i a l at t h e next Old Bailey Sessions, the property having been stolen from Mr. Bensamon's house, inSuffblk-street, Charing cross, though. with which she afterwards absconded to Cumberland. • The Prisoner, just before she quitted the Office, crave the Prosecutor a violent blow in the face. THE THEATI.E.—KEMELE'S Hamlet, which is one of his best efforts, attraded a numerous Audience to Drury-Lane Theatfe last night. He was- in good spirits, and . performed the part admirably Miss Bicos's Ophelia was marked by more good sense and feeling than usually appears in the representations of that interesting part. If DOWTON would blend a 'little courtly dignity with the brimoun of Polanius, he would render it somewhat more suitable to the intention of the Author. Miss Port, whose merits in Tke Manna we had not room to notice yesterday, performed the elm raker of Old Margairt iti.a much better manner than'has been seen since, the time of Mrs: GRE.OI, 'who was the original representative. Indeed it may be doubted whether she did not excel even that excellent, Adress, for Mrs. GREEN- was admirable in expressing the violent 'passions of lower life, but wanted variety. Miss POP E, blended with all its termagant qualities; considertble humour, and, a very diverting .afreEtation of languishing tenderness, and elegant affe'etation. • •.• QUICK is engaged at Drury-Lane Theatre only during the run of the D11(1,14. This we regret, b„_ cause we think so good an Aaor should be stationary in the Metropolis. He would be equally- an -orna ment to either Theatre. Our favourite little Isaac is engaged at Liver. pool and some other' places in the course of the Win. ter.. These engagements fulfilled, we lisipe he will : return to the Metropolis as a fixture. A few evenings since, Mr. Biggs,, of .Vested, Kent, was stopped by two footpads, near Birch. wood, on the Maidstone road', who robbed him of his cash. Th,tnorrorw. Two Charity Sermons will lie preached in the Parish ChUrch of St. Martin in the Fields, for the benefit of the Charity Children he longing to';he said'Parish ; that in the 'inclining by. the Rev. J. L. - MARTYN, Morning Preacher at St. George the Martyr, • Oueen's-square ; and that in the afternoon by the Rev.•RICHARD H.kRRISON, A. M. Joint Leaurer of the said Parish, Minister of 13rompton Chapel, and Chaplain to the Duke of HAMILTON anti BRANDON.—Prayers will begin in • the morning at eleven, and in the afternoon at half past three o'clock. 'The Ticket No: ;7,281, in the present Irish Lottery, a Prize of Two Thousand Pounds, by the 3d day's Express, was sold and registered at the old. State Lottery Office of SWIFT and Co. No. 11, Poultry, where-Tickets and Shares continue, on sale, warranted pndrawn. ' COURT OF KING's BEN'Ci sot'. to: COLLET LORD LORD KEITII. Mr. dt LES stared that this was an ACtion of 'Fres h pass, for raking 4nd detaining a Ship ; which the Defendant justified •by his Pleas, seven in number. The substance of v..ltien Pleas were,. that the Cap.!. of Good Hope was conquered b . y . His Majesty's. Arms, and that until His Majesty.had signified ,hi 3 will .for altering the-eaisting Laws of the Country,. they remained governed by the old Law, to wit, the Dutch Law.. That, the Ship - in question was in Simon's Bay, within the jurisdiaion of the Laws of that Colony, and that proceedings had .been in stituted in the Supreme Coutt at Botany Bay, and that the Defendant, Under the proceedings of that Court, had authority to detain and seize the ship in question. To this plea, there had been a Demurrer, and the cages o Demurrer assigned were, that it did not - appear what proceedings had been instituted, nor in what Court, or by reason of what faa the Court had. power to authorize the detention of the Ship. The Learned Counsel then argued at some length', that this Plea could not be supported for the reasons assigned, and quoted the following authorities, Co. Lit. 283. a Doug. 650; Stra. 509. Willes Rep. 30. to skew that the Pica ought to set out the Judgment of the Court, and what proceedings had been before them. fle ad. mitted that there was a .distindion between the Party to the Suit and an Officer of the Court: It would be sufficient hi a justification by the ratter, to set out the Process, but the Party must also set out -the Judgment. From analogy he reasoned that the same ought to be done in cases of Foreign judg ments.. By the Plea before them it did not appear with certainty what had been done, nor what pro ceedings had taken place, but merely that certain proceedings, were had; nor.did it appear that the Defendant was hound to obey the Order of that •. Court, nor for how long, or for .whirt purpose the, Ship %V i‘.3 detained. Mr. JARvts, in. support of the Plea, argued it was set out with sufficient certainty, and contended that the Defendant acted as an Officer of the Court there ; and was therefore not bound to the same rules of pleading as a Party in the Suit would be. He then cited various authoritie.s, to spew that it was sufficient in.a Ministerial Officer to state the Process of the Court. In Foreign Courts the Judg ment was. not traversable here, therefore no more were their proceedings ; and it was enough to state that such proceedings wettc.hatt: ..to ,this latter point he quoted the follow . ing authorities-3 Levins 20. z Levins 281. Lord KENYON observed, thqt the 'damages in the Case were laid at roo,oool. He-confessed that he felt himself oppressed with the magnitude - of the Case.. Nobody cou!cl say how 'far it might atFet3 our Naval and Military • Commanders. He perfectly understood. what Lod Keith meant to' Nay by his Plea, that •he did what he . did by the authority of the Law Court of the plAce. He did not know bat that he vas bound to. obey the or. • tiers of that'Court. He wished, therefore, much; that it should stand fur a second argument. Mr. Justice GROSE wished the same, but hinted his doubt whether. Lord KEITH could be . comider_ ed as au Officer of the Court. THE KING V. WEST. THE ATTORNEY GEN:ERAL prayed the judgment of the Court on the Defendant John Clayton West,. who was tried a good while ago before the Lord Chief, lilAitox of the Exc uNttE ft, at the Assizes for the County of Norfolk. The Defendant was Purser of a Ship of War, called the' Sirius, and is such entitled to an allowance of one halfpenny 4: man,per day. That as such Purser, thelndidnient stated, he made and forged, and counterfeited and' published as true,. a certiLate, purporting to have . been signed by certain Officers: of the Ship, by which he obtained. wrongfully 571. is: Bd., the money of our Sovereign Lord the King, as money due to him the Defendant, whereas in. truth *id in fad : no such money was dub Sze." Upon this Indiament the Defendant was found guilty, there being no defence made at the Trial. Mr. ERsKix-c now said, that he held in his hand an affidavit made 'by the Defendant, with a view of presenting it to the Court as matter for tion of punishment; but as part Of- that ,affidavit, was found to clash with the verdia which the Jury had-pronounced on the Defendant, he knew not whether it might not be as well for him not to give it in to be read. The A - rroNiv GENERAL said, that if any part of the' a ffi davit. was ,to be m a d e u se' o f, th e whole ought to be read. " • The affidavit was 'accordingly read; in it the Defend-ant stated, that he had been seventeen years in , the service, eight of -which he h a d b e e n i n t h e capacity of Purser ; during all which time he had conduAtd. himself! well, and had never been the subject of -complaint. That once, at the risk of his life, he siezed certain letters '.-which were intended - to convey information' to the Enemy, and sent them up - . to .the. Puke of Portland, who bf means ;of his Secretary had acknowledged the re ceipt of them,- and was pleased to afyrove of the uondu6l of the'Defendint in that pa - rticular. That on'acCount of pressure for the money for the pay 'merit of stores, he did sign the names of the Offi cers mentioned to the certificate, but that in to 'do ing, } he hnd no intention of committing any fraud whatever. - Thatindeed-he had• leave to do this on behalf of the Ocers; Who did not Wis%,that their 'absence should lie always taken notice of by their superiors, -which must have been the case if he had not siLined this certificate. That this was a'custom for along time established in-the service, but which he was unable, from' the pressure of. his circum. stances, to p'rove at the Trial, and therefore he was 'convided; bat, that since - his conviction he had suffered ten months imprisonment,' in which his' wife had fallen a sacrifice to - sorrowt That for himself he had fallen into unmerited-poverty and contempt, and was subjected to insult, and to every evil which human nature was organized to receive. That he never was accused of any other-offence, &e. Mr. ERSKINE then, on behalf of the Defendant, addressed the Court in mitigation ri , l punishment,