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IMPERIAL PARLIAATENT. HOUSE OF PEEttS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. Trot Irish Excise and Customs, the Irish Reve nue Regu!ation, and the Irish Spirit Warehousing Bills, were read a third time: l ).66A, sn - it a Meg cige stmt to the Commons to signify the same. The Bill for appointing..COtkiruiss,ioners to inquire into the Fees and. Etn9lurnents,of ,certainUflices in Ireland was read in a Corniiiittie,'anrreported to the House without any Amenthnents. The Duke a MON T ROti E Moi/Cd; thAthe . seacirtil reading of the Bill for declaring'oertairriilrbours.in the Bahama Islands to be Free Ports; be deferroti to that day three Months: INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL: The I t URD CHANcrst,iok, on the cari;;ideratiOn: of the Report of this 13111, moved an'Aniendinent to that Clause which enacts that the' , lltrivisiona of the' Bill may be pleaded in bar of such salons tis, may. ' be brought for debta, contratted previous to„the,t st of January. The objekil of his Amendment was to allow' the matter of the Mt to be pleaded generally. His Lordship, observed, that, as the Clause Was nbvy worded, an ingenious skilled ut 4rii. plijfcatioli,. may diatv up u pier( that should cover St. George's He w ished tOrinifer such petition unnecessary, and therefore hitivetlara Amend. anent for that purpose. • The Earl of Rostti,iyi4 acquiesced in the propriety of his Lordship's observations. The Lotto CH ANCE4LPit observed, , that it would 1 e a,case of.,great hardship, if, when their, T.,(4dships Were overturning the contra4s between Debtor. arigreditor, and liberating the pertion afthe Debtor by..thi,s,liill, they shOtild also deprive . , the Cre. ditorof .ary,,remedy agatnit the, fature itoe, of the person indebted to, bim. lie did not think it tight that persons who 0104 receive- the benefit of that Act, if it should pass into a law, sbould be placed in a better situation than persons were under the Bank. , tow Laws.' Their Lordships well knew, that if,a . Bankrupt did not pay. under his first ,Commission fill fittern shilling's in the pound,. the Law declared that his future estate should ,be liable until he should have paid up to that amount. Fie would therefore move a Clause, purporting, that the future property of such persons as may derive any benefit (coin this Ad, Should be liable, unless the property assigned liner irshould have' paid fifteen shillings io the pound, on all such debts as they were detained for prior to the pit of January. : Lord GRAN crew. said, that it. war; impossible to oiled to , a principle so equitable as that proposed by the Noble and Learned Lord., The Clause was adopted, and incorporated with the Bill. Lard GU ANTI. EY suggested, that .there were many persoos detained, for debts (not charged in excel'. (ion) who were not really debtors to the extent of /500 1. w ho, if the Bill passed in its present Shape, would not 'be entitled to the benefit of it. Those were debtors, upon mesne process, who possibly might have been arrested and imprisoned for debts to the 410unt of many thousands, although they really, were not indebted to the amount of as many hundreds,. He wished that an Amendment should be. inserted, to extend (he benefit of the Apt to all such persons as shoOld be. proVed not to be indcbt. ed beyond the sum of z gaol. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the idea ex. ttemiir knit, and well worthy of their Lordships' consideration. But as it would require some time tO prepare such Amendment, and adapt it to the dif. ferent Clauses of the Bill, he recommended that it 4eiCired until the Bill should 'be read a tit id time. the Rep o rt was then rectived.—Adjourned till to.itturruw. HOUSE OF COMMONS. 'W'EDNEsDAY, JPLY 25. A Person from the Office of the kemembrancer of the City of London, presented sortie '4ceOunts, ahowiog the progress of the works at . the London D eks . .-ot.lvred to lie on the Table. On the Motion of the ATTORWEy.GRNERAL, new Writ was ordered t 4 he iwied for Tiverton, in li•vonshire, in the room of the Hon. It;CHAao 1(1' D FR, who has acerpted the Office of uric of Ills Majesty's Justices in Wales. On the M ition of Mr. STuaG” Bouatqr, a new Writ +ova% ordered for Christchurch, in the room of the Itie . ,ht l'lon, GEORGE Ro , ,R, who , 1 . 1 acceptci the (Awe if.f . joint P l lmoter, Mr. V4trtt,ou presented a petition from the Mayor and :I\4,lBi:orates of Norwich, prayino,, that alteration should take 'ace in the Corn Ltws— Order, d to lie On the Table. Ou:oo , s'oN presented an Accoitnt or Eiti. mate of ;di Di)(its On Customs charged or doe on in Great Britain,—Otdered to lie on the Mesttage from the Lards nnnuuneed their Lorti. uhipte t t vitent to the Irish Revenue Keriation the iriNh anti the Irtsh Cubtoake 11..xcipo gulatiort Bill, CORN BILL, On the Wiion 01 Mr. WE , TeRN, the House Went icatt.» a Comalittec tin this Bill. • L .141 I ICALP 11P,NIJI,T4)11 suggested se'v'eriil tanendinenis reiiiiive •l , 4 Scoiland, so as to separaie it fioin the pi visions iti It) Eilgiond anti Wait's, ilf , d to regul.ite then erage price of Corn, briporic , l, th e prices of that atiicte in the four Divriels Of Scotland. which Atnendrnents %LIT d wed. The Rquirt was brought Or the Ames-idioms ordered to be cogrd)ised, and t BM to tie reisd 'a ghi ,l Adjourned, TO TIM ZDITOR OrTHE SUN. )4K. Jtaiiort, vir% wen 4 paragraph in the Pamphlet entitled fl An Answer t 4 the Britt inquity,ai which hAs been girt) e,{ fatty more Papetb than Tel to Lit'ut,.. Cell, 1141111 ii, late Commandant of Marines, ilt i 4 br4u4:l); bcforc t4c,robltc, aw 4 decascd u# hay, Mg AV 1 ICil 4 In 4 illlalG ws. 0000 compliment to the late First Lnrd.of the Admiralty' subset:rem to his Trial, and consequently meant to' prove that the General most have remained perfdlly: : satisfied with the First Lord's conduet towards . hirrf' respedings that Trial ; permit me, through the cltan: . , :lei of your Paper, as the Friend of , the General, to observe, 'that at the time of a very extensive Promo.' lion. of Fiel4.officers..hav ing...taken. place, 4 ryas at the request of the Officers themselves .thit the ge. neral wrote a Letter Thanles (prohabfi Wilde& to),' as Ilie4leatior the 'whOte,' and,.. of cOorsei dressed not to the Man i ; but to, the Sittliktisn ; nor 9n'any .pirooforgrt of the produetion,of ,that Letter, 'untie* his own hand, induce him to acknowledge' the'style . and manner' in whiOlt the concluding pat' thc Letter is drawn up' and which 116 0634i - tray ti nits his havinw.given sanction. to. The injuries which the•Genefal NS' received from a cert4in guar. too strongly itriprinted upon'his mind ever to tae. qraed:'," and one Or the' last aels' of that per. son!inMarine AdministritiOn, by depriving the Ge e nerat closing his military career in his mg and `Country's Service, halt mat effectually secured that Noble Lord, from becoming at any future period the ' ai,bjta or Flattery. A. V. P.'S. Previous to the General's Court Martial, lac ce#ainry wrote a, Letter of Thanks, upon the Marines beinimadeltoyal, wherein he might have, personally thanked his Lordship, as at that time he liadreason to think him his friend, particularly from A c o nv ersation ` Which - took place between them at the Admiralty wine time before. MAILS. • DUI. ARRIVMD. Ilantbargh . x .... . • PRICE OF STOCKS, 47.0;13013 I 7 14 l e :( 4 1 1 ‘i Y v. 7O wn . 7 THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS 1/110011k1 AUDZAT LONDON, JULY 26, 1804. WI yesterday acquainted our Readers that ac. counts had been received at the India House, of an Engagement having taken place between the homeward-bound China , Fleet and tht Squadron under the command of Admiral Lugo's. We arc happy to have it in our power to confirm fully this most important and pleasing intelligence.— The Mlion lasted some time with great warmth ; at length LINOIS I finding the attempt hopeless, was glad to escape himself, instead of taking any of our Ships. His Vessels were so much shattered in the Engagement, that they are eirec. tually disabled, for some time at least, from a t. tempting any further depredations on our Corn. melte. It has been stated in some of the Pa. pers., that the Centurion, of p guns, was probably with the China Fleet at the time of the Aaiun ; but we have the strongest reasons for believing that that was not the case. Indeed we arc convinced there could not possibly have been any Man of War with the Fleet, as the monsoon was diredly in the teeth of a Ship sailing from Madras or Bombay, where the whole of Admiral RAINIER'S Fleet was in January last, except a few that were cruizing in the Bay of Bengal. The whole merit, therefore, of this most 'gallant achievement, belongs to the Officers and Crews of the Indiamen; and when it is considered with what disadvantage Ships deeply laden contend against vessels construCted solely for the purposes of War, this Vklory must be allowed to add greatly indeed to our Naval reputation. BY Letters received from the Cape of Good Hope, of the ad of May, brought by the Ma tilda Transport, it appears, that of the Dutch Vessels at the Cape, one only had her lower deck guns in and full complement of men ; that the Bat° and Nut. were armed en fate, and that they were all quietly lying in Simon's Bay, without any intention of going out to truize ;but that Suicorp, with a very strong Privateer, was cruizing off St. Helena. The Troops at the Cape, about 1700, were in a state of great insubordination ; frequent Mutinies had taken place, and in one of these the Coininandant, Harm 1, a Frenchman, had been wounded. Many had been executed from time to time, and three of the Roars were condemned to be shot when the Matilda left the place. The inhabi, tants in general were dissatisfied, and anxiously waiting the arrival of a British Squadron. Eight Dutch Batavia Shies, laden with spices and pepper, from Batavia, were shut up in Heat Be, hitherto unfrequented by large Ships. Under these dram stances, how easy a Conquest would this valuable Settlement prove to the British Arms ! WI! +,tated yesterday, that Letters had been re. ceived announcing that an Insurreetion had broken out in New S)uth Wales, which, by the vigilance and atlivity of the,Governor, had been completely suppressed. We are enabled this day to lay before our Readers the official account of this event. Every thing was readily tranquil when the Calcutta sailed. THE present COntelit for Middlesex it really one of the most important 'of the kind that ever a s:Jr& the attention of the People. On 'one side I U habe'been objects of the reasonable suspicion of Go. !rnmeni ve; and who narrowly escaped the Sword of the 1. 1.,itv . : ft would be absurd to suppose that any of these I , men ItitVe been refOrmed by the danger from which they have escaped, and it is rather to be supposed 'that'prosecution has embittered their feelings and incritased their rancour against that ConstifutiOn : which they vainly attempted` to overthrow. Sir FlCAt•idis Biritos'ri is the mere dupe of such men, anti they only hope to render their principles triumphant in his success. When we see that :the dreadful warning of France, which, after all its struggles' for LibertY, is more enslaved than ever, and debated by foreign usUrpition, has no • dna on such men,• what can be thought of them, , . but . that,they are incorrigibly desperate in the cause of Revolutions. If such men could effectually tri. utnph, the stream of blood Would' flow, and 114 'British Constitution would be at an end. The other Candidate is unexceptionable in his private charatter, and admired for abilities, as well as re. spefted for loyalty and a firm attachment to the British Constitution. The safety of the State, therefore, as well as the honour of the County, is concerned in this Eledion, and every honest Englishman ought heartily to co-operaie in endea vouring to support that Candidate who is supported by men of real respeelability and true Constitutional principles, otherwise this great Empire may in due time sink into a miserable dependence on Gallic Yesterday morning the DUKE of ICErr - r arrived at Windsor. Soon after breakfast, His MAJtsTY, the DUKE of KENT, and PR I ucEsses SOPHIA and AmEt.tw, rode . on horseback in the G r e a t P ar k. HER MAJESTY and the other PRINCESSES took an airing in a skiable to Cumberland Lodge. Tuesday. evening the ROYAL FAMILY walked on Windsor Terrace. Yesterday, at one o'clock, the RUSSIAN AMB AS. SADOR had an interview with Lord HARROWD Y, at his Office in Downing.street. The following persons have been appointed Kr No's Messengers; viz. Messrs. PARSON 1. MEYER. and PE G L RR, in the room of MCEISCS. GURN I, SLATER, and Cox. . By the returns made to Lord HAwicasatrity's Office, it appears that upwards of coo persons in the different prisons in the United Kingdom, have received Hts MArasTv's most gracious pardon, on condition of serving in the Ryyai Nivy, and that they have been received and placed on board the spediVe Ships of War. • Yesterday a Court of Direilors wal held at the East India House, when Capt. MITAGGART t of the Ocean, for Madras and Bengal; and Capt. GEORG* WEL LDON, of the Indus, took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respedive destioa. tions.—At six. o'clock the Coast adjourned. The COMMAND Kit in Cuter will shortly under dertake his annual tour fin the purpose of inspeding the Coast, and reviewing the Troops. His Royal Highness, it is thought, will commence with the Eastern District. Several additional Regiments have been ordered to that part of the Coast most consign. nos to the Enemy's Shores. Sir JAMES CR AI ON, Lord SOUTHAMPTON'S, Major-General BAIR o's, and Major-General Bacit wuria's brigades march from the Eastern, agreeably to the following dispositions, into the Southern Distrid Sir J. CRAIG'S brigade of Guards, with their battalion guns, on the 24. th to Mocking.heath, and there en. camp, on the . •succeeding day to Tilbury, and fr-m thence to cross the Thames. Lord SOUTIIAMP TOWS brigade on Tuesday to Chelmsford, day to Mocking-heath, and encamp. Toursday to Tilbury, and cross to Gravesend. General Hat RD'S brigade Wednesday, Chelmsford,' Thurs. day Mocking Heath, and encamp, Ft iday, 'Tilbury, and cross the Thames. Major -Gen. Becx,w riles brigade, First Lancashire and Hertford Militia, on Tuesday to Colchester, halt on Wednesday, on Thursday to Malden, encamp at Mocking Heath on Friday,- Tilbury Fon on Saturday, and cross the Thames. The latter brigades not to carry with them any of the artillery now attached to them, but the whole to be supplied with sixty rounds Of ball cartridge.—All the troops throughout the E l , ter ,, Distrid have received diredions front the War., Office, to hold themselves in constant readiness to take the . field, and to be immediately provided With the necessary equipage for that service. A camp is immediately to be , formed on Barham Downs, consisting of the Ist and ad battalions of the First Regiment of Guards, now stationed at Chatham, wider the command of Major_General WYNYARD, who are to take the ground to-morrow. and Saturday .; they consist of at too men. The last accounts from Jamaica, mention the melancholy fare'of Capt. BAKER, of His Majesty's Sloop the Pelican, on the 9th of June last, who was drowned in Morant Bay, in the gallant and humane attempt to save The Crew of a Spanish Schooner which fell on board the Sloop. • This objed lie effected, but became a sacrifice to his zeal in ac complishing it. The Schooner sunk, and in the ad of sinking caught the boat Capt. BAKE R was in under her mainstay, and took her to the bottom. On Monday evening as two young men were firing at a mark in a field near the New Mary.le.bone, one shot missed the mark, and hit a young girl who was in a field adjoining to that in which they fired. He who fired' that shot was taken ifito custody, and was yesterday brought be. fore the Magistrates at Marlhorough.street Police Office. The Sageon who attended the girl, de. scribed tte nature of, the wound, which was but slight. He, however, charged two guineas for his trouble. The young girl, considering the affair as entirely accidental, generously consented to nuke it op for one guinea. ER F NTFORD, I,VEDT.IESDAY, JULY 25. This morning the Poll opened at nine o',Jncli; hut it was past ten before Sir FaieNcta BURDETT arrived with his cavalcade at the Hustings, and he was soon followed by Mr. MA I NWAR The Poll, for the fust two hours, hung heavily on both sides. On casting up the votes ut two up his it M lor r i . ty M of Af NW A R ING had not only, fetched and when the Poll 1 5 o ' se b d u a t t he f a o d u e r ‘ , l t t l il e cr li ettn bY iii;f; 4 :' upon the-whole,2 majority of ONE in.farour : 4 ls ik. MAINWARING. The numbers then stood as fol. low. • hjaioritrr Pclla.lthis Da y A it; kit pi D X nit .• 3to 244 4 6 " Tcral•TlPird Day- $238 1231j' e Mr. Sheriff SHAW having reported' the gam of the Poll, Sir FRANC ts Burioe'ri then Wrestled his frietylh and•observed, that although, from the resolt.of the Poll, his'adV•ersarY had:to boast a triajOrity, itli•ory solitary unit ; yet he was . Conftdent that the 'ride. pendent Freeholders of Middlesex, so far from sof.• fering this trivial advantage to damp their spirits, Would feel it only as' a new stimulus to exertion, Oa that it arose merely from this circumstance... that his adversaries being able to command the attend* ance of their Supporters, had been industrious CO bring them forward early, while the independent serviced on which he relied, being wholly of a VO' luntary kind, it was but natural to expett that nog would consider their own personal convenience.'"" He relied, however, that the majority of a Oli t tli Unit, Upon the conclusion of this day's Poll, °o from a cause of that triumph in which his opponents seemed to exult for a moment, was, in fart, an ome n of their defeat ; for he could assure his friends pr e ' sent, that such an influx of suffrages would col° forward on Friday and Salurday, as would not anti replace him in a much more considerable mljort i f than that in which he stood on the commencement of this day's Poll, but effeautilly stamp with defea t the hopes of his opponent for success in the present contest. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT having been heard out without the slightest interruption. ! Mr. MAIN%VAR INC then came forward to Atha! the multitude; but W3i, as usual, assailed by. NOD a din of noise and clamour as rendered it impossible to hear a word he uttered. He was, h o were_r ; warmly cheered by his friends, with the stronr_ft assurances' of improving his advantage on the to w ' • of to.mwrow's Poll. About six the Hustings were cleared. Go Tuesday last, Lady CASTLEREAGH, in a ha' rouche and four, followed by the numerous tenanttf of her Noble Lord, repaired from East Sheen to, is the only on t hat the Hustings at Brentford, where her loveliness PO beauty prAuccd such an died upon the mob, as to buffer her to pass not only unmolested, hut ego with an acclamation, notwithstanding she wore the favours of MAIN ',ll AR INC. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, no doubt, thinks all fair II Elections, otherwise he would not have returned tl the old stale stuff about Governor AR 14. wutil° be much better for the Country, if the poll/kir/1 te/hter of the Baronet were under the prottfi i „li ° o government a i‘ M t h is C A o rt u t n s t , r yfowr s hit o o t ey The friends of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT s"if t t ; n g the rule for the Freeholders to adopt • SUPPI /1 " . " in , T h e his i • • 4 , interest, is, Be active and capevatb s n a last word of the sentence is the most emphatic $lO important, for it certainly alludes to the bag which was so deeply drained on the forit l i c Etedion, and which will soon perhaps b e wh°Pi i, exhausted. declan n The Jacobin Candidate for Middlesex most viruently, against i m a g inary Contra/1011 a without adverting to mny f.t his own Friends, ' are the .7,:torst of Contradort, because they Wil la debts whiCh they never pay. The new Empress of France is, it seems , goo r. the ho: waters at 4;x.la. cth h a p,, She has taint y lett her husband i n h ot ' wa ter at home• It has been said of Bo RAPARTIt'S politer and cal"; cit . y, that he is a m a n o f gr ea t /atitilde, but of h ti altitude. It is not true that Mr. BacittoßD endeavo"( to to force his daughter into an union with Cool o &EGMONT, contrary to her inctinatkns. Ai earnte is a into of high distindion, large r' s , g : along, and an accomplished chara t ler, Mr. B P : VORD reasonably conceived that a nuptial•tol° with that Nobleman held forth a promise of c ( , ) 3 (/ ; nubial happiness. When he found, however, tll4 his daughterie. feelings were adverie to suc h match, he at once relinquished all thoughts of it. An inhabitant of Astracan has made a very 0 1° able discovery. A plant, which grows every wll5 in Europe and Asia, in mara!iy and damp piacef, ,l l , On the banks of rivers, called by the botanists 11,,r4 mut Cimbellatut, produces, alter a very short a llO easy preparation, filwr, of which bread insl made, almost as white as wheaten bread. if to BRIAR.—The price was on Tuesday orue-cet continue the same as last week, viz. nine• Pen farthing the (pattern loaf,' v o t , Among the causes of interest, at the late center Assizes, an a cti on was brou a l it upOn I Stature. of Usury, by a Mr. WILLIAMS, ag"in' f f Mr. WM. HALL, a -Gentleman of. W orc ester , I.e penalties stated by Plaintiff, to =CAM( 1 , ( A ) 1 1,;( sum of 4848t 1 . 21. The Jury found EU Vettil" . the Defendant. On Tuesday, a Coal merchant was COnVieed e t the penalty of Four Pounds, before the. Magil irj ks , of the Thames Office, for sel:ing Coals in which sacks did not measure the length pres cr ';i l e by Mt of Parliament s .which is injurious bu)er. wo 01) Tuesday se'nnzghr, a publican of Shenk ,e -convifted, beitire the Rev. J. Wilkinson, i n ; 'f o r natty of 40s. fur refusing to'cake in a nd . preit uc vd o soldiers when duly billetted by the constats.le ; f o r .petsons also paid a penalty of ioq. ana . c° 49 ' i i i s ta riding in their 'carts'; and on Thursdays WI idsl Ridley and John Appleby, two no torious !sga'lettt were publicly whipped before the town,bell t fur vagrancy.