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• • : NA VA skips. L 1 411 i IsioN illi impflium prlvi v revutnive tridentem, Sol miGi scrte datum. PORTSMOUTH, ArRIL 13. ARRIVED the Savage Sloop ) with a Fleet ritim the Downs, and among them the Preiton East.ln. diaman. A French Lugger has taken one of the homeward bound Oporto Fleet, said to be the Beaver, CON. rE R. The Privateer is taken by the Aretbraa Fri. gate, and is arrived here. YARMOUTH, APRIL 13• ARRIVED the Inspraor Sloop of War from Leith ; and Princess Royal Packet, Capt., HAMMONDi from Cuxhaven. SHEERNESS, APRIL 13. 'This day arrived from the River Thames, His Majesty's Armed Ship Galgo, of 20 guns, Capt. Hmvxlss. Caine into the. Harbour, Hi s Majesty's Sloop Ra4ger, from the tittle Nov, Tuesday last sailed from Leith Roads, His Ma. j est y's Frigate Shannon, and on Wednesday the Kite Sloop of War, to join Admiral PARKER'S Fleet. Thursday a Court-Martial' was held on board Majesty's Ship Gladiator, in Portimouth Har bour, on John King, (2d), John Betham, John Forest, Byrne, A. M. Scott, Henry Blake, yam Parish, and John Marsh, belonging to the ilaive Frigate, for writing Anonymous Letters, ende4vourmg to make Mutinous Assemblies, and, for uttering Seditious and Mutinous words. tvi. deuce having been examined on the part of the Prd., secution, and the Prisoners heard in their defence, the Court, after a mature and deliberate conside ration, passed the following sentence :—King, to receive coo lashes ; Betharn 4nd*Forest, .300 each, and Byrne, co, from Ship to Ship; Scott and Parish, three dozen each, on board their Ship. Marsh was acquitted. A. Patterson, belonging to the same Ship, was also tried for Desertion; and being-found guilty, he was sentenced to receive 5o tashes. t'HE ROYAL AR77LLERY. ors m A its.r.v., has been pleased, p . reduce tll6' ttOyal-Irish-Artillery to one Battalion, consisting of bYie Colobel:Commandant, one Lieutenant-Colonel, One Kijor;and fen Companies ; and has direded that f t s h a ll, in. its present st,ate, be incorporated.with the • It r i t i s h Artillery.; and henceforth •it forms a part of ih e Royal Regiment of Artillery, without differenee be, destination. The Regiment will now consist • of seven Battalions, exelusive of the Horse Artil. 'cry. The -seventh Battalion to lxe completed in Officetz-tOthe same qta!alishment as the others, so' . that there will bean addition ofa COlonel.en.Second, and two Sv:ond LMutenant.COlonels, to make the latter equal to. the six former ,Battalions. But ills MAJEsTy, considering the pretensions Of the several Officers; and the castor and tisage of the corps,,has thought proper to dire& that ibis, and all future PrO_ motions in the Royal Regiment Of Artillery, sh a ll be regulated by",the length of ,serviee—that is to say,- every Meer to be pronioted accordi©g to seni , ( ) ray of his Comrhission in the Artillery, and not eon. formable to the date of his present Rank. In conse. .:,-;..quence/df thid arrangement, all the Captain.Lieute. natiti‘ of the Irish Artillery, but one, have retired. however, to the incorporated, field Officers and Catitaint of the late s lrish Artillery,' who may not be inclined under these regulations, to continue in the Regiment, His MAJESTY has b een graCionsty plea s ed, to permit that they should retire upon their Full Pay. Though Sir WiLLI,U.I PULTENEY'S B ill - f or nas Aor the Encouragement of the Growth of Potatoes on grounds intended for sainmei. failed of success, we cannot but think, that lifAreircr oh jetlionable- it fluty have been in some points of view, that respe4itable Baronet is entitled to. the thanks.of the Country, :roe -itaving' called its at tention. to that important object. We know, that in some few parts - . of the Country, the piaa.ice prtvails of: Farmers letting out ridges , of arable ground to 'Cuttagers, for the growth - Of •Potatoes ; a pradice no less.favotuable to the' crop of. Wheat which is to fallow it than highly bene, ficlal to the Poor of those Distrids where it'is in 11;:e. We therefore most earnestly recommend the encral 'adoption 'of it: And— as 'we 'under. stand, from the best atithority, that; in most soils ; the. planting' of • die , L eye of the potato; w/th asmall part of the bulb, answers the 'purpose quite as well as the' planting of -onGthird or halfeof the Potatoe,-We strongly recommendlt, as a special agreement to 'be made between such 'Farmer and •Cottager,fand for universal pradice, by-which an • immense saving-might be made in an essential ar ticle of food, . to the lower orders of people at this distressing crisis . . . • i i 4 ,o:i t tenttitlon . '..about .to.be.c4rried i • ntoimmediate exectitiori: it is to consist of no more than three arches, the centre of which is to be capa. ciOus'enough to admit vessels of zoo tons burthen to sail under :, thts..lpridge is tube east-of iron, erefted' on a stone bassi, the ..east. work !is estimated 53,0001. . . South appOin fed to arrive at Bristol on the aa& instanr, . and' twp following days, to relieve either the Aitintrninth 'or zd So_ JnersetlMititia, both of shorts to leave that city, Allitkkii. MONDAY MARCH 9. ON Wednesday last THOMAS jeTritsort Oie.:. sident of the United States; took the Oath of 9ffice required l) the Constitutidn; in the Seriaie thnth ber, in the presence of the Senate, .the Menibets Of ' the HOI4e of ikepiesentatives, the Public.Oftcers, and -a late concourse of Ciiitens. Previbus to • which he deliVered the following, Address : •• ‘i Friortfrand fellow-Citisinii • ..:c " Called upon to umlertak e t h e dutra t of the first E;ecu. five O ff ice of o u r C oun t ry , I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my Fellow -CitizenS.'which is . here assein bled, to express my grateful th an k s f or the favour with which they have been pleased to look towards me;, to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful piisenti ' merits which the greatness of the charge, andthe weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising Nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas With the rich produt%ons of their industry, engaged in Commerce with Nations whofeel power and forget right; advancing rapidly to.destinies beyond the reach`of mortal -eye ; when I contem n plate these transcendent objeas, and see the honour, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved Country committed to the issue and the auspices of this, day, I shrink from the . contemplation, and humble myself before the magnitude of ' - the undertaking. Utterly, indeed, should I despair, did not the pr4ence of many whom I here see, remind me that, in the other high Authorities provided by our Constitution, I shall ,Gentlemen, h cli who to for ith . tti-. stor fi toa tid lfioyettytul rei gnoset: o hda tt earl rees ils4vcocieeisiani t c s s . 4teedd f iffi wisdo iscunuwpliwttpohi m eshnni , c.h o wu f wiTi eiolcahyl r virtue, cooilka 11,a a r }l tdwe enable then,e zeal, f :l e encourage m ent u embarked, s t o to steer as 1 nt v e: tw are charged with the sovereign fazaions of Legislation, and conflict ing elements of a troubled world. " During the contest of opinion through which we have ' past, the aninaatioudfdiscussions and ofexertiOns has some. times worn an aspe& which might impose on _ strangers un used to think freely, acid to speak and to writ e what t h ey think ; butt this bei ng now decided liy.the voice of the Na tion, announced aceordingto the rules of the Constitution, all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the Laws-andunite in common efforts for_the common good.— . All too will bear in mind this sacred prinbiple, that 'though thl will of thelnaiority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess . their equal rights, which cilia' laws must protea, and to violate would be oppression. Let us then, Fellow- Cititens, unite with One heart and one mind, let us testate to social intercourse that harmony and affeaion, without Which liberty, andeven life itself, are but dreary'things ; and let us re-' ilea, thathaving banished from our land that religious intoler ance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody perse cutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world—during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking 1 ., through blood and slaughter his long •least liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore; that this should be more felt and feared by some and less by others . ; and should divide opi nions as to measures of safety; but everydifference ofopinion is not. difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.. We arc all Republi , cansi we arc a,ll Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its Republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with whioherror of opinion may be tolerated, where reason ii left free to combat it. I kaow indeed, that some honest men fear that a Republican Government cannot be' strong ; that this Government iselot strong enough. But would the honest , Patriot, -in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a Government which has so far kept us- free and firm, on thz theoretic and visionary fear, that this Government,the world's best hope, may, by possibility, want energy to'preserve it self,/ •I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary; the strong est Government on earth. • I believe it the only one, where , every man, at the call of the Law, would fly to the standard of the Law, and would meet invasion s o f the Public Order as his own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man can -not bC trusted with the government of himself Can he then be trusted with the government of other& ? :or have we found Angels, In the form of Kings, to govern : . him ? let History answer this- littestiritt. Let MS then, with courage and con. fidence pursue our own Federal and Republican Principles , our attachment . to Union and Representative Government. Kindly separated by Nature and-a wide Ocean, from the exterminating • havoc of one quarter of the Globe; too high minded to endure the degradations of the others ; - possessing a chosen Country, with, room enough tor our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of out own faculties—to the acquisitions of our own inclustry 7 to honour and confi dence from our Fellow-Citizens, resulting not froin birth, but from our aaions and their sense of them I enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and praaiSid in va rious foims, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, :and the . loVe of man .. ; acknowledg i _b ig and adorin g aft over - ruling Providen ce, which, by all it, dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of Man here, and his greater happiness hereafter ; with all these blessings,what more is necessary tnmake us a happy and prosperous people P Still one thing more, Fellow-Citi 7 lens, a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring t u x another; Shall leave them otherwise free to regtilite their own pursuits of industry and improve ment, and. shall not. take from the mouth orlabOur the bread it has earned. This is the sum, of good Covemment, and this is necessary to-close the circle of our inquiries. " 'About to .enter, Fellovv.-Citizens, on the exercise of ditties which corriprehtnd every thing dear and valuable to you ; if at present you shoUld understand what I deem the essential Plinciples of our Government, and , tonsequently those which ought to shape its Administratiim;:l-will com press them within the narrow compass theOrilficeir, stating the general principle, hut n _ of all its limit4elis:'' Equal and exael justice to all men, of Whatever state or persuasion; religiousor„political ; Peace, Commerce, 'and Honest Friend- , ship with all Nations, and entangling All ia rICCS - with none : the support of the State Governments. in all their tights ; al the. Most competent Administrations for 'out dam mit - , con ' cerns, and the surest bulivarks_ against Anti-republican ten denciesof the general Govannient in its :-.-trim preservation who,le constitutional vigour, as-she sheet anchot °font peace at home, and . ; qafely aliroacl i :.a . jealous care of the right of elcaion by the people ; a mild and Safe corrective of abuses while)] are Ibpped by the sword Of revolution, where peace able remedies arenalprcrrided ;4-absolute acquiescence in the . • - , .• • 81 .thelittrOtall the tital prineipie of Re übtic w frdal which is - no appeal but to FOrcei the vital Principle and immediate parent of Despotist a well-disciplined litiai our best reliance hi Peace, and Poi die first. momenta of War, till-Regulars niay relieve them s the Supreiriacy of the Civil - ok-er the . Military 'Authority : eedhOmy in the Public Expedee, that labout nia be lightly burtlielieit : the honest pay matt' of our Debts, and Sacred preservation of the Public Faith : the encouragement of Agriculture, and of COminerce as its handmaid: the ditfusi6n hf Information, and atraign- Merit otall Abuses at the bar of the public Reason : Frcedeni of Religion ; Freedom of the Press ; and Freedom of Person, undei the proteftion of Habeas Corpus, and Trial by Jamb impartially seleel'ed. • These principles form the bright constellation which has-gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our Sages, and bibod of our Heroes . , have been de voted to their attainment ; they should be the creed of our politiCal faith, die text of civic instruction, the tinithstone by Which to try , the services of those we trust ; • and Slibuld we wander from them in moments of error or of alatot; let-us hastento retraceour steps, and to regain the road which alone Wads to peace, liberty, and safety. . " I repair, then, Fellow-Citizens, to the pit ybti have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices, to have seen the difficulties of this, the greatestof all, I have learnt to expeil that it will rarely fall to the lot of impa led man to retire from this station with the reputation, and the favour which bring him into it. Without pretensions to that high confidence rou-reposed in but first and greatest Re volutionary Character, whose pre-eminent services had enti tled him to the first place in his Country's love, and destined for him the fairest .page in the volume of faithful History, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and circa to the legal adininistration of your affitirs. I shall often go wrong through defetl of judgMent. When right, I shall often be . thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be inten tional ; and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn.. what they would not, if seen in all its parts. The approbation implied by your suffrage is a great consolation to me for the past ; and my future solicitude will be, to retain the good opinion of thcise who have bestowed it in advance ; to conciliate that of others, by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freeckuußf all. " Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever yoll become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. And May that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the Universe, lead our councils to what is ber, and 'give them a faiotiratile issue for your peace and Prosperity.', On Monday, the late President of t!:e United States sent a Message .to the Senate, in relsaion to the French Government. He observed, " That it was his wish that the Convention should have been .rat4ed entire. But as a different opinion was entertained by the Senate; a respitt lot the high authority . of . th a t B o dy i n d uce d him to ratify it, under the conditions they had im. posed ; that he _had nominated Mr. BAY AR Mi. nister Plenipotentiary to France; . but that Mr. BAY AR D bad asNinedrtohim•ttie most Sit aaCtOry reasons for : declining the Emba - ssy—reasons which would operate to prevent him from nominating aiay other individual qualified to - discharge faithfully Ole duties of a Minister. He therefore suffered the business-to devolve on his successor." AARON 'BURR, Vice-President of the .tnited States, on Wednesday morning took his-kat in the Senate, c.s President of that Body. The House of ReiireSentatires Of the Unired States, on Monday' last,- took up the Amendnie:lts proposed by the Senate to the House, for ereiling a monument to George. Washington. It was.proposed to augment the Amendment of the Senate, which appropriated so,ooo dollars for the ereftion'of a Monument, by inserting too,ooo dollars in lieu of so,ooo. On which question 'the Yeas and Nays were taken, and were, Yeas .1 . 4; Nays 49. It was therefore rejeded. Lord WHITWORTHi by all accounts of his cha.. raaer and manners, would be likely to prove an able Negotiator at the Consular Court ; but at pre sent it is hardly to be expefied that he could be spared from the home , department. MORTON may be thought to have ventured upon a bold enterprize, in bringing forward a Blind Girl afterThtvDEN'S Emmeline. The story, however, is of a different kind, and more adapted to the man. ners of common life. The French Princes, who, it is said, have ap plied m the Consular Government, through the me dium of the Court of Vienna, for some part of their former property, have, we 4car, little .chance of success. The confiscated property, ullacir the title of National Domains, has in a great meqsure been disposed of, in order to increase the dependants on the Republican' Government, except a portion which was to be reserved for the army ; and when a Peace takes place, there will doubtless be .na want of military claimants. Lately died at , Duryard house, near Exeter, Lady PENNYMAN, Sister of Sir HENRY GREY, Bart. of Howick, in the County of Northumberland. The Assizes for 'Somersetsliire did not conclude until' Monday last, When the awful sentence of death was passed upon the following dine malefaftors, and who were left for execution; viz: Samuel Tout and Robert Wcstcot for heading a mob, and breaking into the dwelling-house of Richard Griffey, and stealing 15 loaves ; John Tucker• i Robert Thaw, and Roh ert Wygood s for house..brealcing ; 9eorge Tour, other. wise Greenslade, for stealing v=heat And sheep ; RichArd Warily for the same offence ; Michael bay, for steaiing a cart mare ; and Peter Kingdon, for stealing two heifers. Saturday a girl named:Dean, underwent a long examination at .the Police-Office, - Ilatton.:Garden, Aarged with having at different tipes.enticed up watds of twenty children into priiate places, and stripping them of their cloaths. Two. meet were committed to the House of Correetion, for hating taken unlawful Insurances in the pKesent Lottery, iiiTiVEEN INDIA AND EIJI:017;i. • . . Tfi s Papers oti t iffs important Subjed, a subjeCt hich hat to long bOn floating H . _ the minds of the Coinmcrcial People this Cou . nti- - S• w;eie as Sa.: ttitdal• last rinted, rcii-ltlit'lhfokiiiAtion. a the Pio= pi - letaty an d the Pulilic; In the ,foll'o*ing 1 • ~1 • . . .• bu No. I . A Letter ft om th e Right ~00nurable Henry ndits to the Chair Man ; dated the ad of. April, tFoO. 11. Report of the SPecial , Ccirrnitiee, to whose cAsidert.:. • .-tion the Letter front mr::DtiAdai; was rilerred. 111. Minutes of the Court of Direaors of the 4th Fcbrustrii 1801, containing the: Resolutions of the Special COnahut• tee,..adiipted by the Court. . -• ' , IV. A Letter fr om t h e Right - Hon. Henry bulidat ie. the Chairtnan ; dated the atst March, Mt. V. A Letter tioiri the Governor C.eneral to the Cottrt of reacts; dated fort William s the 3Oth,Setiteniber 1S o, arid • received 0 ver.land the id of Mar ch , ,Igor. VI. Second Repor t of t h e Special COriltilittee. . In cader that those who g ' f . run .may. te a , Shall endeavdur to give a brief Abstrad of thtit contents in the order above specified:. NUMBER I: xd -AtrUi t SOO; . Mr. Thuti nAs; in his I.4itit to the Chairman oti the Question of Private Trade, and India.huili Shipping, courts a decision, thinking, that in its present state, much Mis Chief results to the Commu., , pity at late; and he is the more impelled so to do; as hoping to suggest some proper meditiM between these extremes which agitate the contending Parties., The Right llom President clisclainis Any idea of being a Party to those opinions; which go to general attack upon the East India Company's Mo. nopoly. He remains on the exact ground of his re., newal of the Charter in 1793 ; that though a direct interferenCe may be necessary; yet the detail of Pa. ttunage must remain- in italu fug. Or the stibjed - of Freight; lie, is prepared as well as any man t o cry down the Abuse ; but is equally averse to the Company's Trade _being left tta the chance of the Market at large; The Monopely is attended with these twomaterial circumstances : Ist; That the exportable prOduce of India exceeds what at present the Company is capable of em. bracing. 2dlyi- That the Monopoly does riot rest on principles ofcoltinial exclusion, the. Trade being open to Subjeets in amity with Britain. If there: fore the Trade is to, be limited to the extent i . of their Capital, what is to bccoine of the remain.; der Nothing can be, more just or natural than that the. Capital British Subjects resident in ,In. dia should be brought where it- is desirable it should ultimately. settle : this is. the true appropriation of the . Surplus; but the Trade to and. from India ottght not (iti the com mon acc eptation of the terms) to: be ftee to lVlajesty's SubjeCts. If the d&iling with the ManufaCturers..already confined to Government, were laid open; d boundlepiLscene of confusion and fraud would present_ itself, suticiently, exemplified in Lord CaRNwALLts Letter of the ts:t NOV. 1788,. paragraph, 24. and. 3 1 inclusive bow then is the Tra4e to be conducted ? By Agents licenied by the Company, and the mode of convey: ince. ,IN tax EtIILT' Stitt , ten., cleric), of this meastitc, , kis been unanimously ap.: provedby the ablest servants in India, aric 'hOthing. has prevented its adoption but the great citiantity of unemployed ShiPping sent cidt by the Company:— The Investment anti Shipping ought io be systema tically conthided; and a discretion' raft to supply accidental deficiencies with the Shipping tb be fdund in. India; the - regular Shipping from this Country should bear - an exalt protortion to the expieeted vestment. It was on this prineiplt soon tans of private trade.were appropriated' in 1793, at' the re newal of the Charter; though expefience has proved its inadequacy ; that 'clause in the At ought therefore to be repealed, and a power .granted in lieu, to employ 'lndia built Ships, 'which Ships Might be contratled for by Governnient and re-freighted to the individtials; this would not opt; rate against the regular, Shipping.. The only cited of its not being adopted Would be to benefit the trade of other Nations, but not render any addi:. Lion to the regular Shipping of the Company: It may be also considered; how tar it is Consistent With the national interests that so much Ship Timber of this Country ought to 'be - appropriated to its commercial concerns it has beets asked; why should not the Subjeas in Great Britain have the same indalgencies with those contended for in India ? • ' The answer is plain; a material national interest, the exclusion of Foreigners. = Such , an indulgence to English .Merchants might tempt them. to with.. draw the capital of the Country to a trade less pros fitable td themselves 'and less beneficial to the Pub. lie, introducing a rival capi t al i n :India against the remittance trade of the Company; and the individuals sheltered under its wing.--==The export trade ttl bidia can never be proportionate to the wealth and pc . pulation bf the Indian Empire ; hot bur the, export s , increasing haie been incre n g may be considerably increased, but the peospeh must be a liihited one, A difference of opinion has prevailed to what places in India Private Trade should be tilloWed; there does not appear grounds for any: particular. restriftion with regard to Agency at home;---there is not cause for an interfetencb of the Company, prnvided the gre4t point is observed:--4hat every thing comes through the COmpany's Sales and Warehouses: 24UMBER The Special tomtnitiee in their hprift on Mr', thitoAs'i Letter; speak of it as containing. th,z. Main outlines of Indian policy; traced tvith equal energy and justness, and with a liberality which must command respcd and appiatise. The Committee then proceed very ably to' take a short teerospeti of the pri6 l .eges already con. ctdeOlb the lridi,v_idnat Trade of, India ; the claims no* adtianced,. tk..consequenee3 to which they lead ; the Coinmerce, of British India. with Europe and America,' its amount and di.nribution; the Indian Capital applkahle to .it; the nature of the ability which tiritish India .poSsesses for extending its produce and exports, and the policy of promoting such an extension ; and lastly, the true principles of . poliy by which the ktndency of India on rat