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been so industriously pressed upon the minds of the People lately, from circumstances too well calculated to have that effete, this Country should be the only one in Europe that has, in this great struggle, the memory of which will be dear to the World, preserved the full benefit of a Constitu tion, which is adapted to support the public Li berty and private happiness of a Pcnple, whose good Sense, Loyalty and Fidelity have been proof against every Sttack ; a People who have shewn their affedion for- a Sovereign, who has at all times shewn for them the feelings. of a Father—a People who have shewn a vigour and a firmness that is worthy' of being guided by the wisdom of such a Parliament." He then moved his first Resolution. Mr. JOLLIFFE said , there were several statements in the course of the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech which were very question able ; but as other opportunities would offer, he should not at present animadvert upon any . thing which the Committee had then heard. The Resolutions being read by the Chairman, the House was resumed, - when, Mr. BRAGGE stated that the Committee had come to several Resolutions towards grant ing a Supply. to His Mn J ESI•'Y, and asked leave to sit again to.morrow—wheri the Report will be brought up. • • Mr, SHERIDAN begged leave to remind the House, that a Motion of which an Honourable Friend of his (Mr. STukT) had given notice, stood for to-morrow, and, unless some arrange ment, was made, he was afraid the Report could not, ' consistently with that Motion, be then brought up. Mr. SPURT declared his intention of perse vering in his Motion for to-morrow. Mr. PITT said, he had no wish to delay the Motion of the Hon. Gentleman, at the same time that he must remind him, that it would be ne cessary for the Dispatch of Public Business, that the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means should precede that Motion, About Seven, o'Clock the House adjourned till To-morrow. THE SU.N. 3QLEM QUIS DICERE, FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, FEBRUARY 19, 18ot. TH F. interesting subje& of the Budget, which our Readers will find detailed at length in our Parliamentary Proceedings, prevents us from offer ing any observations this day, upon the Treaty of Peace between France and the EMI EROR of G E R. MANY, which we gave in our Paper of yesterday. We shall take an early opportunity of consider ing this subjea. We cannot omit at present, particularly di /thing the attention of our Readers to Mr. PITT'S Speech in the House of Commons last night, in which the situation of the Country is described in the most eloquent, but at the sarn4 time, the most pleasing and satisfaftory manner. It is consoling, nay, it is cheering, to know from* the highest and most indisputable authority, that the Commerce of the Country is more flourish ing' than it ever was, and that notwithstanding the heavy drawbacks of unfavourable seasons, which materially increase the pressure upon all ranks of People, the Country is in a capacity to support the necessary ,burdens for the continuance of the struggle in which we are engaged for our National Existence, with the pleasing and certain prospeft of conquering our difficulties, and, of se curing, at no very distant period, we trust, the blessings of plenty and ease. Amidst the present difficulties, an increase of Taxes becomes indispensable ; but we are happy to perceive there are none. which were last night proposed, that will at all bear on the lower or. ders of t!►e Community. These are composed of addition Duties on the following Articles An increase of zo per cent. on all Teas above 2s. 6d. per pound. An increase on Paper, the duty upon which is to be doubled, except on paper hangings, glazed papers, and hangings for exportation. An additional duty on Printed Cottons. An additional duty of is. Iod..per cwt. upon Sugar. An additional Duty of one-third on the present Duties on Deals, Staves, &c. A Duty of 6d. a pound on Pepper exported, and of 3a. on the home consumption. A small increase on the Export of Lead. An increase of the Duties upon llorses-43. upon liorses wed for Agriculture ; ios. upon Horses kept for Pleasure, where only one is kept; and ao:, where more than one is kept. Au increase of the Scatty Duties on Bills, Notes, Sea Policies, and Deeds of Conveyance. Some regulations with resped to distance in the Conveyance of Letters, and some arrange ments relative to the Carriage ?f Letters by Cross Roads, &c. Peony-post Letters to be raised from id. to zd. OLD BAILEY. FIRST DAY.--WEDNESDAY, FEB 18,1 THE Session this day commenced in the usual form, before the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Baron. 1.10 - arAm, Mr. Justice LE BLANC, the RS. CORDER, &C. 7,hn Whitehead, and Sarah Whitehead, Other . .. wise Gi-iffths, were charged with feloniously 'stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, the pro... perty of Mary Moses. Such evidence was ad.. duced in support of this charge, as to induce the Jury, After dis Missing the capital part of it, to find John Whitehead Guilty, and to acquit tho Woman. Thonzat King was charged capitally with a burglary, in the house of .Charles Thomas, and Stealing therein several articles of wearing ;gyp. parel, his property, and Sarah Gfradlty, for loniously recei . ving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. The evidence, in this case, was such, as, in the opinion . of the Jury, to war.. rant them in acquitting both the Prisoners. • , lames Wright. was also chatted with a capital ofFence, in stealing articles of wearing i_lppareli valued at +is. out of a dWelling-hoUse. tiOdiet ----Gui/t)y of rtcalifg ta. thr value of 391:. which Qbviates the capital part of the charge. AI /Chad Cassidy was.convided of stealiug. callico shirt, and a pair of silk stockings, . - tho. property 'of William Iluihby, of Great Ctirpliet.4 land Place, Esq, to whom he had been just hired . as footman. Susansuih More was charged with stealing a silver table spoon, the property of Mr. japies, Brewer, Proprietor of the Swan, Lad.lane. hn consequence of the - Prosecutor not beisig able sa— tisfadorily to identify )the article, the Prisimet having found means to !obliterate the marks, the Jury were constrained to acquit her. • lames Deakin and William Smith, alias Bri. brim, conviaeci in April Session, 0100, and , whose case was left for the consideration of the Judges, were put to the Bar, when they were. informed that the Indiament was proper. They were then ordered to remain, anti will 'receive,. sentence with the other Prisoners 'at the end of • the Ses.sionS. James Al'lntosh, who received judgment OF death in September Sessions last for forgery, and whose case was afterwards referred for the nion of the Judges, which bring in favour of the convidion, he was ordered to remai,n in execu. tion of his judgment. On Monday . was married xs . St. James's • Church, Colchester, GEORGE ROUND, Esq. of that place, youngest son of JAMES ROUND, Esq. of Birchall,. to' Miss ANN WALLER, youngest• daughter of the late Rev. Dr.. WALLER, Arch»• deacon of Essex. S'IiIP AVSICS. GAAVWND, 71tII. 17. Passed by-mbe *Nose Hombre:o Packet' • ,!;;'. Row, Notion. Metcalfe, and . Lady Elisabeth, -from Hambrob Die Geteollers, from Altopitir and Neptune, from Stt e ti n_ Sailed--the North Star, Parry, for Tortola; . Young. Jale, Lamb, for Gibraltar; and Active, Hayward, foC -Cork. 7 : DltD. i On Sunday the teth inst. in Tenter(len-street, Han. over-square, Lady Eilttlbeth Douglas, wile of Sir Georg*. Douglas, ighter of the late, and sister to the presaaC Earl of Glasgow. Yesterday morning, in C har les-street, G rusvenor- square, the Right Hon. Lady Archq,- On the 16tii inst. at 14 1 Cop-Hall, Salop, Miss Elias, beth Severn, second daughter of Samuti Amy Sevetne s • Esq. .ageil four•years and two months. PRICE OF,STOCA3, YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent. Red. 56i $7 3 per Cent. Cons. 5614 Otnnium 21 pr. • - BOOKS. FOR SALE BY AUCTION,. • By Mr. PLURA, • On Tuesday, Feb. 24, aol, and Three following Days, at • Eleven, at the Great Room, No. 9; John-street, Bath, ASELECT and VALUABLE COLLEC- TfON of upwards of ONE THOUSAND VOLUMES (in prime condition), part of the Libraries of two Gentlemen deceased ; containing Iklontfaucon's An. tiquities; explained by Humphreys, and the Italian Diary. by Hrnley ; Dugdale's Monastieon ; Speed's Chro nick, and Maps, .a vols. a tine copy ; Camden's Bri tannica ; Gougli's Camden, 3 vols. ; Selden's Works, • 3 vols. in morocco, by Wilkins ; Biographic Britan nica, 7 vols. ; Rapin's England, *Acta Regia, and .• • Maps ; Hutchin's Dorset, 2 vols. ; 'Minus's Anato my, tine Plates, Quarto Explanation ; Voyages and Travels from Ea rl of Oxford's Papers ; Spence's.Poly metis ; Grose's Antiquities and Supplement, 8 vols. (the best Pates), large paper ; Ludolphits di Saxonia Sene ca, Plato, and other (.lassies of early Editions ; Boling.. broke's Works, s vols. ; lianmer's Sliakspzire, 6 vols. • Philosophical TIMISACCIOII3 uniform, 1" vols. ; Newton's Milton, 3 vols. very tine ; Shaw'i Travels ; - Bibles, by Field anti Canue ; Wilson's Bible, 3 vols, ; Baskerville's Prayer Books, the 3d editions ; Bayly's English and He. . brew Bible, 4 vols. ; Turner's Herbal'', Walpole's Lives of the Painters, 4 vols. Strawberry-Hill Edition ; The Spettator, Guardian, Tatter, and other fine Editions, by 'Fonson, in octave ; Swift's Works, 22 volt. by Hawkes worth ; a variety of Chirurgical, Chemical, and Medical Books, of Modern Practice, &c. ; various Treatises on Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving, &c. &e. dee. To be viewed on Monday, Feb. 23. Catalogues, 3d. each, to be then had at plate of sale; and at Mr. Thomp son's, No. 14, Fox -court, Holborn, London. Letters post-paid. VALUABLE CHURCH PREFERMENT. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. SYDER) At Garraway's Coffee-house, on Friday the 27th instant, . . , at Qne o'Clock, precisely ; THE PERPETUAL ADVOWSON of the VICARAGE of CHATTER'S, in the County of Cambridge, subjcd to the Life of the present Incumbent, aged 63 ; consisting of a Modern and Substantial brick Vicarage House ' Offices and Garden, with the VICA RIAL TITHES of the whole Parish, containing nearly 14,000 Acres of fertile arable and pasture Land, whereof Saco are already inclosed, and in a high state of Cultiva. ! tion ; of the annual valUe of poi. -Chatteris is a Post Town, about 69 miles from London, 2.4 from Cambridge, and rz from Ely. Part of the Purchase Money may remain on Mortgage ; and printed particulars may be had of Mr. Tyndale, Soli citor, Lincoln's Inn Fields; of Mr. Paddison, Solicitor, at Louth, in Lincolnshire; and of the Auctioneer, at Thetford, Norfolk (by letters post-paid.) 1,0 N DON s Printed by litlC HA NA 1.1 ILAN, (of Pfrv-Srreer, COVe'llr- . 4t.ie:li; and Published by WILLIAM AIIMIGER SCRIPPS (of Horse-ferry-road, Westminster); At the SoN.Ovvics, No, tlz, ,Yrrand ; where Advrrhierwiti, 9,,hrt tbr the Pater, Lriters for the Editor, &c. (pcit4aidj, must be atidrzsseci. I V/ 714.5 :* e i VAVAL ..... .!, Z'4'-' ' Y. NEWS. P, t.i ,9 ' 16 .7. -‘ zt,...10 't.... ,'" - CI t ,,,. : •!:.,11. Na„ illi ;MP/ ;UM rehigi, savtentglet trig/ewe*, Sed mibi 14r1e darrern. PORTSMOUTH, •FE B. 18. SAILED this day, His Majesty's Ship Windsor Castle, to join the Channel Fleet ; also the Sea gull Sloop of War for Guernsey. Arrived this evening in the Offing, several large Ships, supposed to be the Isis Man of War and five outward-bound East India Ships, from the Dow ns. The Ccrsaris expetled to sail to join the Chan el to-morrow. . Wv . dmiral Lord NELSON is hourly expefted to e from Plymouth. DEAL, FEB. iB. His Majesty's Brig. Anacreom sailed this morn ing on a Cruize to the Westward, The following East-India Ships came down from the River this morning, and the wind being favourable, they proceeded immediately to the Westward ; Airly Castle, - Capt. A. NASH. Calcutta, Capt. WM. MAxwr.r.f.. Charlton, - - Capt. J. A. Cu ma zxf..l.ct Dover Castle, . Capt. Pi:TER SAMP3ON. Duke of - Montrose, - Capt. P. BWRT. HULL, Fan. 16. ON Monday and .Tuesday last the following Danish Vessels were brought into this Port by the AvrizoNFrigate, Capt. Ittou, viz. Two Bro thers, and Sash,'ndo Burned, both &dm Kragriaie (Norway) ; harmony, from Christiansand ; and- Good Hope, from Dran. The Swedish Ship &den, JACOB MANEI-111, bound from Abo to the Mediterranean, laden with naval stores, is taken by the Sri;tre/ Sloop of War, .and sent in here; another is laying be low, name not yet known ;. and three more are sent to Yarmouth—all Prizes to the Squirrel.. On Saturday evening, the 3 tit ult. at 7 P. M. the Cilista, WILT. rAmsor, 'of Newcastle, .was near)) , boarded by a cutter.rigged Privateer afew leagues ter the Southward of Flamborough_head ; bur 1w the spirited,. et),rantl of the Captain and Crew, she was beaten off, and 'the Cedista has since arrived at her destination, having on hoard a cargo of merchant goods, of the value of near. ly '20,0001. The Hamburgh Merit which became due yes... terdak, had nor arrived when this Paper was put to Press. Yesterday being Ash-Wetlnesday, the 131sitop Of LoNvort preached a Sermon, at the Chapel Royal, St. Jahles'6, before the Nobility, from St. Matthew's Gospel, Chap. iv. verse 17. " Repent, for the KinKcietri of Heaven is at hand." *he Lord Pit NIAT r of Ireland, Lor►l and Lady GR t E, and. a small number of Nobility at tended. • The K ING did not hold a Levee yesterday at St. James's, but we are happy to hear lies MA JEVI Y is recovered from his' indisposition. A Privy Council was yesterday held at the Queen's House, at which were prese heir Royal Highnesses the DuK Es of YORK NT, Rad. CLARE, SPENCER,HARitINGI*O LOUGH BOROUGH, and Mr. ADDINGTON Earl S. VINCENT does not retain ,the com mand of the Channel Fleet, as has been ,tated. The person who is to succeed him in that com mand is not yet appointed.—Admirals Coma- Lt.ts and PRINGLE have both been named. Earl 'TEMP LE'S notice on Monday in the House of Commons, relative to the eligibility of Mr s,)RNI TOOK Eto sit in Parliament, was giveiii t itavery Gentleman-like and;sensible The discussion of this question cannot fail to prove highly interesting. Yesterday, a Court of Direaors was held at the East India-louse, when CHARLES WI LKI Esq. was appointed Librarian to the Company's Oriental Repository. Capt. JAMES BOULDER. sort, of the ship fort William, attended, and took his final leave of the Court, previous to his being dispatched for the Presidency of Bombay. The Court adjourned at four o'clock, till to morrow, Lady,, Lou ISA PAC ET, it is said, is to be t unit ' rolonel EItSK IN e, in the course of next' we *if rAccount 6f the Amount of Duties on Bri. i Ol tish and Foreign Spirits imposed . before 1792; paid into the Exchequer in the years ending Jan. sth, i Soo, and Jan. sth, tSo i : distinguishing each year. Brith7i Spirits. Rreign Spirits. Total of 6.,b. , C 1.: • . 1800, - 7 28 ,454 - 934 ,1 0 - 1,632,632 >C• dol, . 603,193 - 927,593 - 1,530,788. An Account of the Amount of the Payments into the Exchequer, in the years ending Jan. 5t1); I Soo, and lan. sth, 1801, on the Duties on Beer and on the Duty on" Malt, which was permanent, till made annual by the Ael of 38th George 111. Chap. 60. liter. Malt. ,C. • tgoo, - 2,251,801 - 13 " , 1 19 0 9,30 " 15.3042, LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING's BENCH, FLII. 17. SIZELAND V. WATSON:" This was an Aaion for an Assault. The Plaintiff is a reipedable Tradesman in one of the principal streets near Oxford road ; the Defendant, a Constable of the Night of a Watch-house belong ing to the Parish of St. George, Hanover-square. Some time about Christmas last, between mid night and one o'clock, the Plaintiff going home, saw a Watchman dragging a poor unfortunate girl to the watch-house. He went up to him; and said it would be better that the watchman went his round, to see that the houses and shops were not broken open in the neighbourhood, than that he should be dragging a poor prostitute to the watch-house. The watchman asked him if he was one who was going to break.them open ? He said, No ; and repeated his advice to the watchman. Upon which an altercation en. sued, and the watchman sprung his rattle, and gave the Plaintiff in charge of two 'Wier watch man who came up, and who took him to the watch-house, Two Gentlemen i t ho had no thing, at first, to do with any par £f the trans aaion, but who were men of charaner, and who had been spending the evening at a toffee-house, happening to come by, saw the whole of it. — They went to the watch-house, where .they said the Plaintiff was roughly kindled ; that the com plaint, and the only► one they heard, was, that of the watchman saying " that the Plaintiff had accused him of breaking open and robbing houses and shops in his rounds." . The Plaintiff was then put down in what is called the Hole, and kept there until these Gentlemen wept away, they not being allowed so much as to know his address, to go and inform his family where he was. The next day, these Gentlemen gppeared before the Magistrates, but, there the watchman did not support any charge against the Plaintiff. On the part of the Defendant it was contended, that he was not only justified, but bound to take the charge of the watchman as he gave it ; and the charge was, " That John Finey, watchman, complained that . Robert Sizeland struck him while he was on duty." A Beadle and another Watchman swore that Finey, who is now gone to sea, made,this charge in the watch-house. Lord KENYON took occasion to observe, .that the Defendant was justified in what he did in this case by the,Statute ; that if any complaint was at' all founded, it was . against this Watchman, and not the Constable of the Night, and that even then twenty days .notice ought to have been given to the Vestry before this Ation was brought, to afford them an opportunity of tender ing amends, if any one of their Officers had coat !flitted excess. Ilis Lordship took occasion to expatiate on the necessity of taking up disorder ly persons in the street, as one of the regula. tions that were absolutely essential to the Police of this unwieldy Metropolis, and chat the abodes of these unhappy women of the town were too often (though perhaps their poverty, and not their will, consented,) the haunts of the highway man anti house-breaker.—Plaintiff nonsnited. The recent event of the change in His Ma. jesty's Councils continues to fill the mind of every true friend to the Country with the deepest anxiety and concern. The difference of opinion between His MAJESTY and his late Ministers upon, a most important point, had, before any ex planation had taken place, been too far ailed upon lky both, to render it possible for either to *yield with honour. If the question was hurried to this extremity by any of the Parties concerned, chose who took that line acted neither as friends, to their King or to the Country. We lament most sincerely the length to which this disagree ment has been carried, but we will venture to -assert, that no man ever took a part upon any similar occasion, so honourable to himself, or so conducive to the general interests of the Country as Mr. N T'l'. Instead of that common and mi serable policy which has induced many of his. predecessors, in similar situations, to endeavour to thwart the views of His Sovereign, and to throw the Country into confusion, he has at least re spelled the conscientious feelings of the KING, and though he could not agree in his 'sentiment), !le has endeavoured that a - difference of opinion upon one point, however important, should not embarrass His Majesty's Government. Differing upon a question which he thought essential to the welfare of the Empire, he has thought fit to sacrifice his office rather than his opinion, and in doing so, he seems to have considered the point of diarcnce as one, upon which -men might honourably entertain opposite sentiments ; and he has therefore, without any hostile feeling, lent his assistance to the formation of an Administra tion, which he considered as most likely to attend to the real interests of the Country. The men whom the KING has chosen, and whom Mr. NTT supports at this conjunfture, are, we will venture to assert, those in whom, next to him self, the Country will have the greatest con fidence. Did ever any person fill any difficult and important public station more to his own credit, or more to the satisfadion of the Nation than Mr. ADDINGTON did that of Speaker of the House of Commons ? Is there a man either in public or in private charafter more irreproachable ? Or is there any person whom Firs MAJESTY could have selected, .whose known talents and integrity could have afforded a more satisfactory test of his future conduit ? If in addition to these we contemplate the eharaders of the persons who are to compose the New Ministry, we can only say, that, lamenting as we sincerely do, the loss of Mr. PITT and his friends, we must at the same time (*fess that we derive some consoll don under this misfortune, in the consideration of those who are to be his successors ; and even in the midst of dangers and difficulties our hopes are revived, and we bid every true loVer of his Country not to despair. ,