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If ?or tap!' !nerai, 1,4'0 in some in' with Por• o which lit ngc in oil that Coils' lich he r to enalb If, how• oper to de• lamcnt 14 ewer of the to give it► satiblaaio the Peaec. .s to which 'reaty, yet :erms coul', ituation of the dangg and, there , rs were ea' for having trouble ril l . ve Lf he shovii, Debate. ,t from ani man, that h e ' h he require ight lead t° r discussiao to declire day schiG li inaries into d he haar vas not fir* THE SUM _r_ • _ ~OLiM QUIS DlCik= laLs64l AUDZAT ? Iclusion of printed b 7 45 a depar u'e. agreed to. 2onventlo o I be take° agreed the Repor i r and agreed rated to Vl* 4embers 2 1 $ Pere desire° r when 11° )e taken io^ the Cam" 1, and O f eceive tb° !a m o. ven £ 0 1 ;6 u nder )n th 3 t f le t ; des i r ed !cd t° r 1 a „cknov'• Dibrioc6 serving in the said Squadron,and that the Captains do signify the same to them."—Agreed to, nem. con. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, " that the SPEAKER do communicate the said Re. Golutions to Rear-Admiral Sir J. SAUMAREZ." - --- Agreed to. Mr. D AWSON _ gave notice of a Motion which We did not distinftly hear, but we believe it was relative to the returns of Irish Members. The SPEAKER said he took this opportunity of stating, that persons becoming Peers of Ireland, Were capable of being eleeted to serve as Members fo r a n y place in Great Britain, but not in Ireland ; at least that was the construuion which he thought rust be put upon the Mt of Union. Some difficulty had arisen in his mind with respeft to the case of a Member of Parliament becoming an Irish Peer, be cause he could not issue a new writ, for he could not receive official notice of that event, as there was no N'irit of summons issued out to such Peer, as there . as in , the case of a person becoming an En g lish d eer. It would be for the House to consider whe .(ner some means could - not be devised, by which the . ;SPEAKER might receive official communication of 1. eh an event. The SPEAKER gave notice that he should take'the thair tomorrow at One o'Clock. Adjourned at Six o'Clock till tomorrow LONDON, OCTOBER 31, 1430 z, Wt this morning received Paris Porn to the kBth inst. Their contents are wholly uninterest ing: The French Stocks have declined to 59-1, a tall of two and a half per cent: - The Gazette de France contains the following paragraph: " To secure the free navigation of the Trade, aird to produce more speedily the absolute * e-ssation of Hostilities ) the Minister of the Marine has hastened' to address Passports to the British overnment.—.Similar Passports are to be sent by til , e English Admiralty: They will be immediately kvided among the different ports of the Republic ) and delivered to all vessels ready to sail for parts Which they Might reach before the 'eXpiration of the riod fixed for the restitution of L'a'val Prizes ) af fording to the *d Article of the Preliminaries of dace between France and England." HAV it E) OCT. 2Yesterday afternoon an Eng tish Corvette arrived here ) with .orders to the tqtadron blockading our Port to -return to England. ~ ielitL&sxllty iticlrning the ICANG,QU EZiq ) and Pitt rt. EL I ZABtTH , MARY, SOP/11-Ai andPRINCESS ERARLOTTE of WALES ) arrived at Puckinghain "Muse from Kew. His MA J ZSTiP ) at half past _tine, came to St. r nes's Palace: This being the fi rst Parliamentary b e 'vee) it was Most 'numerously _attended by the *"tqcE of WALES, the bunts of YORK,CLAWENCE, ENT, CuMIVERLAND, PRINCE ADOLPHt/S, and UseTict of GLotcEs.rEit ; the Archbishops of CAN , tPlItiltIRY and Yokk, the LORD CHANCRLLOR, the AttoitifEY atd Sottettoa. GENERA,LS, theYortu test, American, Hessian, Hanoverian, Imperial, eapolitan, Algerine, and Bavarian Ambassadors; aid the Turkish Charge2e-Affaires, the Bishops Oxi 3 O Ito, CHICHESTER, ELY, NORWICH,WIN tIiEsTEA, GLOUCESTER, ST. DAVID'S, DURHAM, r. HEEERDEN, the CHANCEIAOR Of the EX,cilt- RuER, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR Eldt, 4 ,nd the two Sheriffs, Messrs.. RAw L iNs and Cox, 41 '4d a number of Naval and Military O ffi cers, with 'e following Noblemen, wete present : ,t, t541 44--Lieds, - Beattfott, Rutland, Roxburgh, and Potiland. — iarvdssts—Titchtield, Worcester, Donegal, Buckinghaln, tlaildlofd, Salisbury, ToWnshend, Thomond, and Coin. 'Kt—Chatham; Moira ; Camden, St. Vincent, Castlereagh, Darnley, Essex, Westmorland, Fitzwilliam, Warwick, Galloway, Dartmouth, Chesterfield, AylesfOrd, Why, ~etaven, Pembroke, Cholmondeley, Mount- E4ecumbe, I. l encer Digby, Pom fret, Fauconberg; Courtown, and Ro l ' line Y• - -stints—Nelson, Hotham, Belgrave, Broorti e, Palmerston. Melhur n e, Harberton ' Griinstone , Selsea; Wenovorth, Falmouth, Stoptord, Sidney, and Chetwynd. . 44 _ 1 ' 4 —Hobart, Londonderry, L. GOWer, Amherst; Pelham, C• Bentinck, Glenbervie, Sheffield ; Rolle, Holland, Brownlow, Louvaine, Arden, Bagot, Grey ; Gage, Downe, )34ning b GWidir ; Sondes, Westmeath,, Bostonr Grenville, Hervey, Northwick, Lilford, C. Somerset, Walsingharn, Willoughby deßroke ; Cathcart, Henley, Alvanlev Mcnt '. ford,- ,Bolton, Curzon, Thyt ne- Kiwcesbury; and Bit.- tons N clicker), Nagel, and De Lenthe. art—Admiral Sir Richard King, R. Ainsley, M. Lowther, T. Tro*bridge, P. Parker, H. Parker, IL Onslow, james, C. Morgan, 1. Anderson, J. Erie, L. Parsons, J. Heard, j. Pulteney, F. Sykes, H. Dashwood, S. Cot. . terell, H. Major, C. Fisshopp, and G. Shee. *6lo irds—Longfield and Leigh. 41 ,.° 4 1rs.—Egerton, C. Yotke, Langlois, Longs Wickhatn, flaatien, Morgan, T. Grenville, DondaS, Windham ; Wee:.. 'eY, Paoli, W. Dundas, Eiliot, Corry, Smith, Curzon, f Addingipn Bragge, Garthshore, Lee, Clarke, J. Dawkins, • Alderman Watson, and Mr. Quarme, Deputy Usher of the Black Rod. The Gentlemen presented to His MAiksti , were : j' l l)tain CAPEL, by the Earl of ESSEX ; Comte DE ;IzttEsroN,.by the Imperial Envoy ; Comte QAR4I.• T, by thd Char: d'faires, frMaom BaLoCK ; varia 1 HATTON, by E g arl CH A ATHAM;Major ND O'BRIEN, of the First Regiment of Life ; bards, by garl HARK IYGTON ; CNA, MARKHAM, on of the Archbisho? of YoRK, by Sir T.. Taow kiDGE ; and' Mr'. Et, tiot, ore of the .Lords of the Admiralty, was also introduced. . 1 MarquiS stoop.CORNWALLt leave of HIS MA.. 4 al"Y on his setting off ri.S. After the Levee a Privy Council was. held, at L hicli the puke of PokTLAND, Earls WESTMOR 4ND and CHATHAM, and Lord ilAwlcEsstiltl -4ss_isted. • . TheROYAL FAMILY, at five, with their usual kart, left Town for Kew Palace. earl RONINEY is appointed a Direaur of Green 'ol Hospital, and not the Governor. N, AL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, OCT. /§. SAILED the Prince of Wales, of 98 guns; Rear.- Admiral Sir R. CALDER; and Princess Rojal, of 98 guns, Rear-Admiral Sir E. GOWER, for Torbay; Fisgard, of 44 guns, Captl. SE'YMOUR ; and Lap wing, of i 8 guns, Capt. El ROTHERAM, to join the Channel Fleet. Arrived the /mogen, of i S guns, Captain R. PRATER, from a Cruize off Morlaix. The Centaur, of 74 guns, Captain B. R. LIT TLEHALES, went out of Harbour yesterday, and anchored in Cawsand Bay, and remains with the Mars, of 74 guns, Rear-Admiral THORNBROUGH, Juste, of So guns, and Hercule, of 74. guns. It is reported that the Channel Fleet are hourly expdied in Torbay. Arrived the Aurora, MINER, from Dantzic, with timber for the Dock-yard. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 30. ARVOVED the Boston Sloop, Captain. LE ROMP, from Guernsey, with wine. SHEERNESS, OCT. 30. Mrs day arrived His Majesty's Ship Eirscher mer, from the King's Channel ; Redoubt, from East Swale, and Haughty and Bruiser Gun-brigs from the Downs. The Narcissus has gone out of Harbour. DEAL, OCT. 30. AR Itt vto His Majesty's Ship Savage, and Chap man Armed Ship, from the Westward ; the latter of which has since proceeded to the River. The inspeaor Sloop of War, and great part of her Convoy, had not passed the Sound on the 28th inst. but those which had got up had proceeded to the Baltic. ' The Trinity, Forster, from Honduras, is con demned at Charleston. The Vulture, Brus, from New Providence to Florida and back, is taken by three Spanish armed ships: The Aimable Adell, Cleasby, front London to New-York, foundered zoth Sept. in long. 1 2.-The Crew were taken on board the Sarah, Gray, of Boston. The Hermes and Prince William, with the home ward bound Convoy,, sailed from Elsineur on the gth inst. _ The Maria Fredetiea, Wendt; irom Gibraltar, is arrived at Guernsey with damage. The Sloop Harmony, , captured by the French Brig Fame, for Porto Rico, is arrived at New York. This morning a Jamaica Mail reached the Ge neral Post Office.--$y it we are truly sorry to learn the Death of Vice-Admiral Lord HUGH SEYMOUR, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels on the Jamaica station. His Lordship died at sea, on board His Majesty's Ship Tisipbtme, sn;ne time in the beginning of September. MILITARY ETIOI/ETTE.—Just before the Guards left Chelmsford Barracks, a misunderstanding arose about their not receiving Lieutenant-GeneraIEGER TOV, as the Officer commanding the Distrid, with presented arms. The Officer of the Day 'command ing the Guards, on being called upon to explain this supposed negle& of etiquette, replied, that he should deviate from an established rule of service in aling otherwise. An appeal was, therefore, made to the War Office, from whence the folloWing De cree was issued, viz. « That the Guards, as the Household Troops of the King ) when brigaded, had always a General Officer of their own Corps attached to such Brigade, and ; in that case, no other military honours than those due to their own Brigade Gene ral, were to be paid by them, except to a branch of the Royal Family, or to the Commander in Chief." As the House of Commons was breaking up on Thursday, Sir W. PULTENE r reminded the House of a notice which he gave last Session, of a moti►ion relative to India Affairs: To prevent any surprize, he now repeated, that he should take an opportunity to bring it forward this Session: Orders were on Wednesday issued for an diate reduElion of the Guaids, whiCh will include all men above forty years of age, and ail whose ser vice exceeds twenty years. The STAnniOL DEP. though no* about to depart ~ t o the Continent, cannot leave, without regret, the island• where he has been so hospitably received, and where, notwithstanding the -troubled, state of the Continent, he has enjoyed so much overt: Governint having found the necessity of a strong and Vigorous Police, have resolved to in crease the number of ConstaWes at every one of the . Police Offices in the Metropolis, Other measures, all tending to produce the same effect, are in con templation: The house and premises 6f Mr: Peacock, of Tottridge, Hertfordshire, have litenf(ir some time robbed of property to a very considerable amount, and every exertion has been made to dereft the robbers, but in vain ; it has been within these few days discovered that five of the servants and la 'bourerss Were the robbers, and by the confession of the Coachman and a servant girl, that gallons of wine used to he carried off at a time, and that a tinder-box used to be left, and every preparation made for the labourers to carry off their plunder. DEATH OF LORD EUGH SEYMOUR; kINGiTO . II, JAMAICA, tr.f."l: It is with extreme concern we announce the death 'of the:Right - Honourable Lord 'HUGH. SEir- MOU it, Vice-Admiral of the slue, and Commander in Chief Of His Majesty's Ships on this station, which happened on beard His Majesty's Ship Tisi phone, at sea ; on Priday last. The information was received by His Majesty's Schooner Sting, on Sa turday boon, and in the evening the Tisiphone ap peared; with her Colours lowered half-mast, and fired minute-guns till she entered the harbour of Port Royal. The body of his Lordship is to remain in state on board His Majesty's Ship Sans Pareil till Wed nesday, when it will be removed to His Majesty's Schooner Sting, to be conveyed to Great Britain by that vessel, which sails the next morning. ildjatant General's OPT, Dublin, °Sober 26, 1801. GENERAL ORDERS. THE Surrender of Alexandria on the zã of September to His Majesty's Arms, has been announced to the Commander of the Forces, who orders a feu-de-i've to be fired upon the occasion by the Army under his Command. General Sir WILLIAM Menol.vs is proud to • notice the impression made upon, the Troops under his Command, by the first and signal successes of the Army in Egypt. The enthusiastic Spirit which pervaded the whole Ariny, and the olkts so generally made of E:;:tended or Unlimited Ser vice, w4i be remernbered as HonoUrable to the Troops, . and as worthy of the British Character. The career of Vittory which has terminated in the entire Conquest of 'Egypr, and the complete 'averthroW of every remaining part of a numerous.and veteran French Army, can alone be attributed t. a continuance of the same heroic Spirit and strict observance of Discipline, which has already been pointed out as an Example to all who desire Military Fame, or feel for the Honour and 'Welfare of their Country. As such, the Commander of the Forces is confident the Lesson will not be lost ; and he loOks forward to ekt i cry Officer and Soldier being animated by the view of such events, to a per-, severing Exertion towardS the maintenance of good Order and Discipline—That when the occasion shall again occur, their Condua may emulate past ACtions, and uphold the well earned pie-eminence of the British Arms. hlsmo ANDA—Shewing the Numbers of, the French Army in Egypt, at the time of the 'Landing of Sir RALra ABER. CROMEY, as taken from Documents obtained in the course of the Campaign. ' Mos. rst.—Prisoners dispatched by Lord Kayrn previous to the Surrender of Cairn - - sOOO zd.—Lmbarkation of the Garrison of Cairo . 13,000 3d.---MgNou's Return of the Garrison of Alexandria 11,712 4th. —Dead in the Field, or in consequence of Wounds rOOO sth. --Dead in Hospitals since the Ist of March, wrwn the Plague broke out at Cairo, and was snore vio lent than for many years - , - boo Total 29,712 Dodo& Non-Combatants. • Cairo - 3000 Alexandria - 1761 4761 Gives an Army of s 24,951 Cophts, Greeks, 6tc. do not appear ever to have exceeded zcoo Total—French .. 22,451 AbDITtONAL PROOF. The.Mcniteur of the 16th Germinal, gives a comparative State of the British Force in Marmarissa Bay, and the French in Egypt. The Corps of each, named, and the Numbers given sepa rately : Total French - - 20,435 Men, besides Auxiliaries. Total British - 16,056 Remains a Surplus of 4,355 French, exclusive of Auxilia. ries. N. B. The British Vorce froin India and the Cape, landed in Upper Egypt betwixt 6 and 7000 Men, were not brought into Adion. THE TnEATRE.—The new Comedy of Folly as it Flies was repeated last night at Covent-Carden Theatre. A few curtailments have been made in those parts which seemed on the first performance to excite disapprobation. The Piece is proportion_ ably improved by The compression, which makes it pass off with more smoothnes and spirit. The Actors in general, but particulatly Miss MUR RAY rendered full justice to their parts. — The Piece attracted so large an audience, and was throughout so well received, that it is likely to be of 'considerable advantage to the Theatre, and not to impair the reputation of the Art:lor. The Epilogue to." Folly as it Flies'," is not, as we conceived, .the prods ion of IVltt.Es PEt Elt AXISRE ws's Muse, but the work of a Gentleman in the Country, who does not; however, seem to be ignorant of thefoifirs of the Town- -it is a produc tion of his pen which does him infinite credit. The Farmers who are not disposed to make theit teturns of their crops in the' manner requested by Government, are stigmatized by the title of tenants of Knave's'_ Acre. _ _ _ An alarming fist broke out at thCirncford on Sa. turby evening- list, about seven o'clock, in the Premises of Mr. Wilks in Duke-street, occasioned by the 'witlessness of a groom who had left his can dle burning upon a post, a praftice so common, and attended with so much danger, that every pro_ prietor of a stable is bound to use his utmost en deavour to prevent it. It was at first apptehended, that the fire, which raged with uncommon fury, would not b arrested until it had Consumed the premises where it broke out; as well as the Wheat- Sheaf public-horse and. the George; but although it coMmunicatz'A to them all ; and in which there was a great deal of hay and straw, as well as coals and corn, yet providentially the wind blowing the flames from the buildings, 'and the assistance of the Town's-people and the Military; who were sti mulated by the examples of their Officers, the en-. gines belonging to the three Fire-offices, and that belonging -to the Parish; the fire was go: under about twelve o'clock, after having consumed the stables where it first began, a - brewing- office, con taining, besides the utensils, about 401. worth of malt, and a part of the corn chambers of the George Inn: We are happy to find that no individual has received any material injury, otherwise than by slight bruises. A horse and two dogs were sail). sated, and lost in the fire, and another horse was so much burnt, as to induce the owner to put it out of its misery, by causing_ it to be shot, The pre. mises are all insured. Bill. TFIIRD DAY--TRI DAY' OCT. 36; MURDER. James Leg *as indiefed for the Murder of i7i' • lion Lamb.on the zd Of Odober inst. by shoOtint him throtigh the body at Chelsea Hospital: Mr. Atßot opened .the pleadings on the part of the Prosecution. The ATTORNEY GENERAL attended for the Crown; and opened this prosectitiOn: The fri - sork . - er at the tar; he said, stood Charged with thO crime of Murder. Under what circumstances and from what inducement; or towards. the de:. ceased this crime was effeaed,• he was not able to say : Certainly-there bad been between these parties some difference prior to the melancholy event which took place on the id of 061ober inst: bUt 116 was afraid the jury would find nothing in these cir cumstanees; that would at all palliate the crime With which the Prisoner stood charged; so as to make it bear a lesser denoMination of Criminality; and be- . come ManslaUghter.—L;The Prisoner; he said, was a Pensioner at Chelsea Hospital:He was Upon the Establishment there, and Was what they Called a Captain; being one, of the Sergeants that were ad.. mitted into the Hospital Upon the usual terms a conditions of that admirable. institution ; as was alio the deceased: Each Of -then had a separate apartment, and a large room, which they frequent ed in cornnionwith others of the same station in the day time, retiring from thence to their bed-cham bers; which communicated with thin common room of accornmodation.On,Friday, the id of Olober inst. between six and seven in the morning, the Prisoner Was noticed walking up and down the common : room, which Was., as he ha d stated, ad. joining the bed-room of himself and also of the de.. ceased, on the side'opposite to the chamber of the deceased ; he was heard muttering some ext,)ressions of anger and ill-will; as it seemed, tol,i'aros the de ceased, whO was then in his ,shirt coming out of bed.--=The door, of the deCeased's - bed-room was open to the Prisoner to see through. : —'..The Prisoner came up to the 'deceased and tendered him one of two pistols he ;hen held in his hand, dernanditt "honourable satisfadipn;" or soMething of- that kind the deceased, nor 'apprised of - any citCurn_ stance that led to this, took the pistol On the snd.. den from the Prisbner and threw it into the common room, and said, " what do you mean by this ? what is the matter now ?--z-what is this. for This was all the deceased uttered, and indeed all that passed between him and the Prisoner. The wife:of the deceased 'shia the door and shut the Ptisoner out-. The.Prisorier came with' the other pistol,, took his Station at the door of the deceased, which was paylly glass and seeing . the person of the 'deceased clearly through it, he tired his pistol at the decease& and the bUllti penetrated the bhdy of the deceased and passed through him, upon which he fell and instantly expired. The report -of the firing ,brought several person's into the room, and there they foUnd the Priioner with his pistol in his hand, having gone into his : own room in the inter:. val, 'and On inquiry hoW this aet was done, he said; -" 1--httre. dente ioa on being asked, why he had done it ?. he answered, " that he had done his duty, and that he was well pleased with Tlll3 expression' the ATTORNEY GENERAL said ) precluded all possibility of doubt that the Prisoner did the ad; that *this ad was the cause 'of time death of the unfortunate object Of it ; would he equally be- Yond doubt upon the evidence of the Surgeon who examined the bocbr, as well indeed as b the fail; . the instant death'. Under these cirthnistanees, the AriortNE - r-Gr. NEItAL said, it would beincumbent on the Prisoner today before the Jury, if be could, such proof at should make this homicide a crime of a lower denO mination.than Was charged upon the record here, which was that of Murder. It was impossible, Vom what was staterto him, for him to anticipate any thing that Would make this ad a 'crime of an infe rior denomination to Murder. There' had been no provocation, if indeed any provocation was sufil- • dent to induce a man to the perpetration of sech a 61.. There had been no material ldifferenee be tween the deceased and the Prisoner for a year and an half. It might be possibly attempted 'tO show that the Prisoner laboured under a mental derange. went'. Of that species of defence, he took the berty of reminding the Jury, it behoved them to be extremely jealous ; for it had got too much into use of late to hold out that species of defence, either as an excuse; or a palliation of the most enormous 'crimes that could be dielated by the malignity of the human heart. It might. perhaps be said with propriety, that there. Was a degree of derangeMent in the Mind of every man Who Could commit a hei nous crime. Philosophers, especially ancient ones, had Said, that every wicked man was. ; to the extent of his wickedness; insane ; but if this we're to he 'received as an answer to the offence; then. the enor.. mity of a crime would amount to a total defence, and an exemption from punishment. He had made inquiry into this subjeEt, as it affected the Prisoner at the Bar, and he could. not find there was any foundation for it ; for in order to make mental derangement a defence against the commission of a crime, it should appear not to he a Slight derangeMent, but an entire absence of reason at the time of the commission of the ad, so as to render the person who did it not accountable as a moral agent. He believed no proof of that kind would be laid before the Jury, and if not, he apprehended, under the direetion of the Learned Judge, they would be of opinion that the Prisoner at the Bar, who had deliberately and Maliciously taken away the life of another, was, by the Law of England, to suffer for it by the loss of his own. lahn Foster swore----" I am a Pensioner in the Hospit4l it Chelsea. We are what are called Cap. tains, but we are oily Sergeants. I know the Pri soner at the Ear; I have known him many year:, and I knew the deceased also. On the morning of the 2ti of aftober, I went into the apartment of the Prisoner and the deceased ; they' both used the Common Room. They had different bed-chambers. There arc four different bed-chambers adjoining tilt: Common-room. As I was going clown stairs, I heard a noise. I stopped on the landing ;. I heard a pistol di icharged at the distance, as I concluded, of io or is yards. I went into the room, and I saw a dead