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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. THURSDAY, MARCH 8. TFI E various Bills before the House were for a arcleci irr t heir respedive - stagra:anrong these, the.4/I.3Kifie Moiny .. ;lPll,, ;oil , the Scotch Bankrupt c . jmrnitment; of which_had been se. venTry — reTriiiied) I.ver,.: read a third time and . passed: • &rare pri.iirate business was then disposed of: and Ilicir-LOrdshifis, ter waiting some (tine in expec_ . tattoocomniunication from the House' of Corm. adjourned iill a Quarter pait o , Crock !F6-114rroist—when !he Royal Assent will be given by Colnehission to certain Bills which.frave .pasSed 'both Houses of-Parliament. HOUSE OF .COMMONS, THURSDAY, MARCH 8. ~.4.I V IR..ForrtR moved that the Committee on.lrish Currency should havo.leam - to-sir,matwithstand:- ing any adjournment of the House:--Ordered. The Marine Society Fishing Company Bill-was eirdereil. to be read - a second time on Tuesday fort. night.. Mr. CORRY presented a ,Petition from the Commissioners of the Police, in Dublin, for - ,le - nve to present another Petition, pray ing..for a continuance of the Duties for the support of the smizt - P"Olice. After some observations of the SPEAKER relative to the Orders of the House, and Mr..CORRY hav_ ing stated• that the Petitioner; did not•learn until the period of presenting private Petitions had pass_ ed, that ,the Duties for the support of_the Poliee were not to be included in the Schedule before the tibuse . ;..;he Petitiori was brought Up, and leave given to present the main Petition, which was re- ferred to a Committee. _Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Irish Holy Orders Bill =which was read and Agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third tiMe td. morrow. A Message from the Lords informed the House that their Lordships ha,lagreed to the Scotch Cre clitc‘Jrrir:Bill, and the Royal , lVlarine Mutiny Bill. wltttiut any a m endment. " The Hides and Skins Bill was read a second time, an c , Jrurnitted-for to-morrow.. IRISH DUTIES. . . :.Mr. tORRY brought up the Milt Malt Duty Bill, ustaih' - ivaS read . a first. time. There wawa provision Bill, lie said, for imposing a countervailing duty on Malt iiiported into Ireland. By an order of . Cuurteit, or by an order of the LOrd Lieutenant of Ireltirici, Corn and Grain might be permitted to be imported into Ireland from - this Country, but the Law, in This, respea did not extend.to Malt. As the Corn 'Trade bet Ween the two Countries . was likely to come under . consideration during. the pre ent Session; it was in that case intend - cdter propoie to extend the powers of the Countawith res.peft to allowing. - importation to Malt. A countervailing duty. would then be necessary, and therefore a pro. vision for that ;purpose was made in the 'present Bill. Sir ROBERT. BUXTON expressed his thanks to ►he Right Hon. Gentleman, for introducing the subjel, as, if some remedy was not speedily applied with resveti to the Corn Trade of this. Country, the greatest mischiefs might cnsue. a Tt,c Bill was then ordered, to be read a second time tO2morrow. On-the• Order of the Mr being react • for ,the llouse• to resolve itself. into a CoMmittee on . the iOl . Duties Bill, , Mr: CORRY said, that from the great length of the Scheatile the. p ers ons ;employed .had not been _ ... able to get it ready, and-he therefore moved to post. Acne the Colinnittee till to-morrow. ,Ordered. 'The Committee on the Irish Countervailing Du. ties Bill was likewise deferred till-morrow. - Mr._BoND laid hefore the• House, by, His Ma_ . . jesty's C6mtnandi certain Orders of -Council rela tive -to Goods imported from America:—Ordered to lie on the Table. Adjourned at five o'clock till to.morrow. TO CORRESPONDENTS, The Acrostic upon LordW HI T w OAT li if very unworthy of the su6jra. The Marriage from Swansea is umauthenticated, and carries ma.. , lice on the face of it. DUI. ilambu rgh 3 MAILS. A Illiv ID. PRICE OF STOCKS,. THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - s6li THE SUN. SOLF-11.1 QU Dicelte F-ALSUM AUDZAT LONDON, MARCH 9, 1804. OWN'S' irbtiSt, Mart* 9; 1804. 1 - h S MAJEST Y tontinues togoon in a favourable way. (Signed) "L. PEPYS. " F. MILNILAN. " H. 12. REYNOLDS. " W. HEBERDEN." Wra learn with the most heart-felt satisfaaion, that ills MAJESTY is so far recovered as to issue a Commission for giving the Royal Assent this day to s-veral Bills which have passed both Houses of ear , lidthent. Our Falmouth Letter 'repeats the Report of the French Squadron.haNing got out of Toulon, and it is added, that they had got into Carthagena, It is now said to consist of fourteen Ships_of the Line. We must still doubt the faet of its having made its esotpc.., till such intelligence moil gs through a mire authentic channel. Alieisel has am vt. ft6M:Sfr EDWARD Pr Lt..2,w's Squaaon, which con ., sisted of seven Sail of tht. Line. TV Spaniards are fitting out two Ships of the Line-ar Ferrol. The Hussar Frigate was bringing. Dispatches from Sir EDWARD_ PELLEW_wheo.. she _was Jost upon the Satn(es. , . _. Wi - tiii) or three days ago express;d:an,opinton !,that the Plot discovered on the 16th ult. in Paris, . ,was a Plot cpntrived by BotiAPAßTE,'.for the pur !pose of getting rid of a formidable Rival, and a 'man who ke. , i,. , 4i afraid to leave behind him, should it be necessary for him, for any length of time, to quit his Capital.. In :this opinion we are upon te-. /- • , fleetion more and more confirmed. Many . ..of the circumstances attending the supposed Conspiracy ,which have been officially given to the world in the :Report, of the. Minister of Justice, are upon the face of them Falsehoods, and we have nodoubt thit,all the ; Documents which will be brought forward to sub. .stantiate the Charges - against' General MoREAu, will' turn out to be deliberate Forgeries. Our first opinidn is very considerably strengthened by the faa', which, we 'believe,- we are accurate When wegrate very . psitively, that General PtOHEGIttt, the man whO in the" Report.- of- the aforesaid Minister of Justice is represented as having been .pursued from house to house, has not lately been , out of England, and we know that on Monday night. lust he spent his everting at the' Yorh Coffee -bon se, St. janles'sStreet, at that time 'probably .not even dreaMing of the deep laid plot in which the Cot... • sican Despot makes him take so adive and import.. ..ant a pa / it in . the heart .of Paris. . The Dutch Papers say that the CHIEF CONSUL ' has been twice at the Theatre since he has played off his-precious plot, and has been received with great acclamations. This was precisely the cata . .. strophe which he-Wished to produce. His waning popularity, as well as his jealousy, required that some sacrifice should'be made to give a stimulus to .the sinking spirits of the: Army, and the languor 'Of the Parisians.: .TO see a favourite General ex. pine unjustly on the scaffold, will be a spectacle which we have no doubt both Will witness with .the , most perfea nonchalance, and to this will perhaps succeed the farce ..of the Invasion. The laws of . Eternal justice cannot, however, we trust, be thus outraged long-1-a dreadful retribution, we have no . .. doubt,' awaits the Tyrant who thus wantonly sports with the lives of individuals,, and the h4piness of ... Nations, for the purpose of propping fora few short moriths,.perhaps -days only, his-ill-gotten and worse administered power. - . , . _ The reports of the execution of IVIoREms, and it is added, •of PICHEGRU too ! are evidently un. founded. Though all the decurcents and proofs against MOREAU will be Forgeries, yet we hardly thick that - BONAPARTE will venture to execute him without the form of a trial. Some Dutch Papers to the zgth ult. were received in Town yesterday afternoon. ' The accounts from Paris which these Papers af ford, state, that the Ft kyr CoNsuL had twice vi_ sited the ,public Theatres since the discovery o f MottEAtes. pretended' Conspiracy, where he was greeted with the loudest plaudits. After witness ing the dispdsition evinced by the French People; for some time 'misc., we should certainly not be suf._ prized if even the execution of Mott sAu were to be passed over with unconcern. BONAPAr,TE is stated to have issued orders for ac. celerating all the Preparations for the InVasion of this Country. General DUMAS and Rear-AdMiral •MoNGEODI were on a visit of inspeftion to the dif ferents Ports and Dock Yards of Belgium, with a view also to forward the equipments. The greater part of the Gun. boats and Transports at Flushing had put to sea with Troops on board, but in conse quence:of a fog had returned into Port. The French 'General in Chief,, MARNIONT, arrived on tne. 27th at Amsterdam from Utricht, and, it was reported, was immediately_to proceed to the Helder. Letters from Russia state, that an additional number of Battalions of Infantry and Squadrons of Cavalry had been called into actual service, with. orders to march to Lithuania, to join the grand Army in that Province. Orders are also stated to. have been sent to the Russian. Fleei in the Black Sea, to set sail immediately with all the Transports and Troops to the Morea; and the Emperor At,tx. ANDER iS said to have expressed his readiness to ac cede to a Treaty between Great Britain, Turkey and Russia, for the pro tettion of the Ottoman Em. sue. General MQ.RTIER left Hanover on the t 7 . th. Previous to his departute he assured the States, in that he world make 'the most urgent representations their favour 46 the FIRST CONSUL. As an earnest, however, or his good intentions, the Commissioner whom he left behind him is stated to have imposed a new War Contribution, and to have made addi tional requisitions for hones and other supplies- for the French Army. • The 1-lead.quarters of the French Army in . the Neapolitan territories were at Barletta, on the . Coast of the Adriatic. Letters from 1/; . enna of the 9th ult. state, that the interchange of Couriers with Berlin, Paris, London and Peiersburgh, continued with unusual activity, and that interviews daily took place be. tween the Austrian Ministers and the Ambassadors from those Courts. N 21,7 A L NETV S. FALMOUTH KA 6.—Arrived the American Ship l'Yonalonset Captain RANDELL, fifty days from Wilmington, North Carolina, with tobacco, for orders; Marlborough .Packet,-.with from New-- - Yotk ; and Brig Eliza, ,Captain GREY TRICKS, prom Dublin, with linen, &c. for London. This vessel was CaPt . tired .. olilhei - jtli - iiit.' off the Land's end by La Hirondelle, French Brig Privateer 4 of 14. guns, and re-taken fifteen days since entering Ferrol, by Sir EDWARD PELLEW'S Squadron. It is reported that 'Sir EDWARD had received advice that the French Squadron which sailed from Toulon 'during Lord NELSON'S absence .to Algiers, had ar_ rived at Carthagena s—they are now said to consist of fourteen Ships of the Line, besides Frigates, &c. &c. The.SqUadron under Sir EDWARD are, Tonnanf, of 80, Malta, 80, Spartiate, 74; Northumberland, 74, Spentyr, 74 Cane', 74, Ardent, 64,. and Nig:- b/eCutter, It appears that the Hussar Frigate was bringing Dispatches from , Sir EDWA,R6 PELLEW when she was lost on the Saints; The Spaniards were fitting. out-,two Ships of the Line at Ferrol, AO Express arrived here last .night; - froth Port reath, stating that - a French Brig Privateer had captured off the Land's End the, following Vessels, viz. Morristown, HARRIS, and Betsey, CUNDY, both with copper,:ore, for Cardiff; and Brothers, DALTON, with Coals, from Swansea. 'The latter was abandoned by the Frenchmen on the appearance of a Lugger, after fobbing the Captain of seven 'guineas and his. watch; &c. &c, the MarristoFwn was re-captured by Captain Ot/CFITON and a party . of Sea Fericibles- from Saint Ives,., and car. vied in there. After re-taking this- Vessel, Captain OUGHTON proceeded for 'another Brig, which proved to be the French Nivareer, which fired se veral broadsides at the Boat, but fortunately not a - shot took effd.l. For three weeks east • has. our Coast been infested by three French Privateers„and not a King's Ship to proted the- trade 1. - On Friday last sailed the. Russian Ship Riffnung, Capt. BARTELEY, and returned into Part, bx:cpn trary wind on the following day. She w k is'boarded off the Lizard by a French Ship Privateer or 36 'guns, which had .made one captore, a vessel frOm Ireland ; Was a remarkable fast sailing Ship and 'full Of men, and had made very pirticular ir,quiries.re spediug what. Force were in I , 7alinouth Harbour. PGRTSMOUTH, MARCH His Majesty's Ship Urania, for the West Indies,' with about fifty sail of Merchantmen under Convoy, amongst which were the following : • - • - Crown, Caffray, for Demerar ; Samuel, Sughrue, for ja maica ; Salus Robson, Grant, Wright.; Ccorze, Finlay, and Hinde,•Mintr, for the Coast of Africa. ' - DEAL, MARCH B.—His Majesty's Ships Illus trious, Eurjalus, Immortality, Leda, Squirrel, Lark, and Starling sailed on a Cruize off Boulogne; the Dolphin„ for Ireland; and Etna, with Convoy fur Portsmouth. The Sulphur Bomb came in from Dungeness. Sailed the 'Canton East India Ship for Portsmouth. In the Downs. Monarch, Utrecht, 'Trusty, Vincego, Bonetta, Perseus,' Fury, liecla, Explosion, Sulphur, Basi. lick, Archer, and Speculator Lugger. Y A RMOUTH, MARCH 7. -"'Monday, sailed on a cruize the Hermes armed ship and B o ld p . m brig. Arrived the Penelope frigate, and sailed again. Tuesday, a Scotch trader, from London to Scot land, with goods, was chaced and fired at by a French privateer, cruizing between the Ncsses,.but, by Out-sailing the privateer, she escaped, and gave information to Admiral gussEL ; in consequence of which the Vixen gun brig immediafely,got under weigh in pursuit of the enemy. It is reported that the privateer made several captures, one of which was seen off this town, and. two boats were sent after it, but without effel. 'Arrived from Holland' two Dutch schuvts, with passengers ; and from a cruize, the Orestes sloop of war, and the Ferretter gun vessel. The ships here are the Inflexible, Admiral Rris.. SE Cs flag ship ; Princess of Orange`., of 64: guns Orestes sloop, and Ferretter gun brig. • The report which has appeared in several of the papers that A gun brig had foundered in sight of this pllee, is totally fake ; the vessel which foundered, was a brig from Sunderland, with coals.' The Channel Fleet was left all well on the 3d instant. Admiral Coßrwni.Lts had detached the Prince of Wales, of 98 guns, Mars, 74., Coigne, ror;' 74, and Terrible, 74, to watch the notions of the Enemy at Rochefort. - The Falcon Sloop, which sustained great damages during the, late heavy gales, on her voyage from Newfoundland, has been repaired at Plymouth.— Capt. SAttx ERS is appointed to command her. Captain MACNA,MetIt A, is appointed to the Sea Fencihies, undei the-orders of Admiral Wit LTsti a D, in Leland. FIER MAJESTY and the PR INCESSES have within these..few.days seen the Marchioness of BATH; Coun tess.ot CARDIGAN, and- Lady C. FINCH. • /Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR had an audi. ence of the ROYAL FAMILY, • Yesterday about twelve o'clock Sir L. POPY3 had an audience of Mr: ADDING.TON. Earl Mo IRA was among the inquirers yesterklay at St. James's. It i; reported in Dublin, tha . t Lird'REPESDAI f E has intimated his intention of giving in his resigna. Lion of his office of Lord Chancelior. of Ireland.. THE EMBARGO, AND THE SECRET EXPLDITION• GOVERNMENT are about to adopt a mode of °P': f r e a a ti u on ai, a a g n a d in , s a t t the tle sEanineemy' time e Po o r f ts. th o the the most mos ma t s s it t n ; l l. 3 . nature. It. haS long been reiterated on their aqe i n,-‘_,. firm - by - M - r:ltrairAiiii PrfiCr.t of SC. Church-yard, whb submitted : the Details= to Cabinet twelve•rnonths_ago.' • Mr. PHILLIPS proposes,in consequence of cur an disputed naval superiority, to cloak up and render uselesS all the'Poris of the Enemy, by sinking in 6eir, channels and entrances old. Ships properly prep tar for the purpose, and, filled with chalk-or : large:W (3cl° of stone. ;By adapting the number and the size of the Ships to the circumstances of each Port, and by sta tioning a few Cutters and Sloops to destroy pre parations of the Enemy', should they attempt t° raise the sunken vessels, he conceives the . Block acie may be-rendered permanent .at a very trifling ex pence during-the War. , This plan is what Administration are abou t to ea adopt, and we learn that a great number of 01 ` i Ships have been bought hp for the purpose, and that .they are at this time being filled with Kentish Rog" stone. The Harbours of Boulogne, Flushissg, and 5° 11° of the shallow Torts of tiolbtod, are first to be closed-Up; and if the plan succeeds, simile' sures are afterwards to be adopted against the larger Ports of France, as Brest, Toulon, L' Orient, B°# r " deaux, &c. • The adoption of such a slitem of operations w ilt Certainly give it new feature to 'Naval Warfare; and it promises at first sight to confer r securitl c'n the Country. The malice of the Enemy alaY. b ei c i treated with. contempt, and a Defensive War catrl on at a tenth:part of the present expence. ' We shall be happy•to find that Ministers CO bit roused to the adoption of -any plan •contreaed wis annoyance, to the Enetny, and we think this Pq r , 'very well, adapted to occasion -delay, •at leasfr t j , the sailing of their projetted Expediti on against i .Country, if not, itt some instances, to frustrat e ' altogether., • IMITATION OF THE JEU WESPRIT,, , XN OUR. PAPER. O F TuE3r""' Hin E in repose the Ashes rest Olth' wou'd-be 'Whom Fate, to aid, the World.'s jest, Made, 'gainst his will, a State-Physician. • Commander of the French. Schuyt Tl?tou'ght.into Dover, has declared that he was 61161 • out Of.bed not an hour before he sailed, to.ta ke the commaod of, her.; and the Sailors have all entV' ea on board the Squirrel Sloop of War. it , • • - • Bo NAP A RTOa observation in answer to the 1.1v ,f,' ing. Congratulations of the LegislatiVe Bndy , plying that if the welfare of the' Country. w erercon. cerned in the Plot, tli * Conspirators shoul d have been tried ltefore a Military Tribunal, and . be. exe cured the .same night, is an unwary ac knowledg e ; menr, and spews what sort of a trial it would 1 1 1, been, since coninnation and execution Were t o fe low of course, eCO It is impossible to form any opinion r e lsrl . ‘ the affair, in which MOREAU has been arres te r Paris, but it is well kiwwn that BON A ? A RT it' v Irt ed hint with more jealousy than any other 11 "• all he Vranee. It is by no means improbable that r Chief Consul gradually removed all the "fr"°P" wbo were aikely. to have espoused the cause of MORO before w he ventUred to secure his person. Ould . not be wonderful if the arrest Of 1\4 ,7 tt'EAti were to be' the forerunner of the Ty 1.31),. fall. The Constituted Authorities, as they are e3l ed, felicitate the Usurper on his escape, ani P r ,;( !Oise co pledge their liVe,s for his protettion ; bur he they did with ROBESPIERRE a few hours before cc was led away to the scaffold, when they exulted ov• his destrudion. Mo R EAF, it is said, has beenvery free,o# r ly remarks on the Consular Government.. He lace a s observed that of the Tree of Liberty not hing ` v iler left but l'ecorce. 'This pun, which implies e ir ',ll _the hark or the Corsican, was of 'course,. not relished at the Thuilleries, particultrly as' it 'V recommended by truth as well as by.hum9o'. N ieto' Mr: - GoDwIN having wisely abandoned s to Ihisies, and applied his acknowleciked 'rile itit Biography and the Belles Lettres, has trie r %•eIY • degree of public encouragement w hi c h has been equalled. A large quarto edition - of l'' 9 r ee . and Age of CuAtic has been; sold within weak months ; and so generally is ti,e merit of th e be admitted, that the second edition isitot.lik el Y hang on the hands of the Bookseller. re' Sir Thomas TURTo N. has contradiEted port of his having . ofF.-.red . hiniself as a Cana lie l for the Borough. of Lisketird, declaring tb 3t o i , considers himself as exclusively- pledged by grr tude and itielination to the Borough of Snu th "ia Mf. .TIERNEY, since * die Elettion, has.ce rui e rr dope all he could to make the Southwark rot i a' es souse the Baronet's interest on a future If a , camphOr bag should be fouhf a preser vat is be , of female vit irtuei is to be h o p e d t hat it 'O l, o il 1 conic an appendage to feminine attire thru tl g n the ranks of the fair sex. ho g ,1 It is olierv . ed by our great dramatic Poet) I, " A habitation giddy and unsure " Hath he that budded' on the vulgar heart." a j ' And nothing can-more strikingly shew significance of. popular :rl.CCiaMd ms than th e rco v , ferent treatment which-Mrs. LEIGH and the "I:,e DONS' received from • the crowd Oxford. Lady endured such marks of indignation ' 1 '1: was 'obliged to conceal herself -till the - Mc": ` ,,1) , persed, and the GORDON S, on_ the other ha"`" ,f -tained the, warmest tokens of cOngratularion. utHors , ing that Mrs,;LE I GB did not display any st r ang g t lt of a sound understanding, and that her finis ' 4‘ le. ; 5' gave way to impulses of another kind, it 15 - ` 1 ,1,. r• ie•7 sable to deny that she fell a' vidim Inier"S;e-.hei signs. She was therefore encill-d •to Pity r i ~ jolt than resentment, and the 6oßnorrs had cer"-: no claim to p - apular respect. cr*l'• The petrified tkeletnn Of-a ram, in high Pre:ooc tion, was lately found in the midst of an tin block of stone, in a tivatry near Paris.