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4 11. ships' Table, in every particular, except that highly objetaionable Clause, could be passed through the other House in the short space of two days, and might on the third he submitted to their Lordships, in a form to which there could be no objeCtion. Ile took shame to himself for not having perceived at first the-manifest injustice of that Clause ; and it twist be in thk: recoliettion of their Lordships, that when the Amendment, obviating that injustice, had been first propoSed by a Noble Lord, whorl - ) he did c.ot now see in his place, that it was unanitno,Bly 3CCedicil to ; he trusted that their Lordships would, in so , ,;.port of their con.sisteney, and the sacred prin. ciples of justice, ntaintain and defend the Amend-, meat so proposed and adopted. The Earl of CARLISLE was anxious to receive from Ministers some explanation respeaing the ope ration of that Clause. He himself had clothed a Vo. lohteer Corps, and supplied them with every thing trit arms, which he could not procure., and which Government had furnished. He should think him. sett' rather hardly.dealt with, if this Clause should be found to authorize a Commanding Officer to take those clothes-and appointments from a set of men whom he knew and could confide in, to place them upon the backs of persons whose faces he had never seen. If this particular Clause invested any person with a power of s.) extraordinary a latitude, it was necessary that it should be either done away, or that it sh old be distinctly signified to the Country, and th it nothing should be left to inference or implica. tion. The LORD CHANCELLOR found himself under the necessity, in consequence of some observations that fell from the Noble Lord who spoke last but one, to state his ideas of the operation of the Clause. He Cottl not agree with that Noble Lord that it contained any sort of injustice. The Clause vested the I , roperiy of those clothes and accoutrements in the Commanding Officer only "pro tempore" and in trust. Whenever they should be claimed by the persons proving to have a legal right to them, such as to the King, in some instances, or to Subscribers, the Officer was hound, on demand being made of the same, to give them up, under the penalty of to!. by this-very Bill. He would, moreover, be subject to an action of Troyer ar common law, and would, upon retuAl, have damages a warded against him. He did not think that, subjed to such process, one man in a hundred would thiole it prudent to refuse surrendering property of •which he was barely in trust tOr others. His Lordship saw much inconve nience likely to result from insisting on the Amend ment, amid no probable injustice, in his opinion, could be derived from the Clause passing in its pre_ bell( shape. Lord AbCKLAND (the Mover of the Amend ment) said, th.st he by no means concurred in the reasons assigned by the Commons for rejecting se. veral of the Amendments proposed and adopted by their Lordships. With regard to the present Amend atrit, which he had some very natural reasons to be partial to, he did not think it advisable to per_ severe in it. He could not exped to derive much benefit from a free Conference with the Commons, as was proposed by a Noble Lord (GREwv o„,s. ~ , h icsh they hart assigneo ror :7:tir dissenting from many of the Amendments.— He did not exped to convince them; and therefore, not wishing to risk the loss of the Bill, he . would not perseVere n that Amendment which he had the honour first to propose, and which had been re jeCted by the other House. Lords MuLGRAvE and HARROWBY also main_ caused that there was no necessity for the Amend ment, as the Clause did not invest Commanders with the property of the clothes, &c. but merely with the right to demand delivery of them. Earl FITZWILLIAM could not figure how it was possible, when the Journals of the two Houses of Parliament were consulted, to put such an inter pretation on the Clause. It would he seen that the Clause, as it originally stood, warranted the inter pretation which the Noble Lord (GRENVILLE) and others, had put on it. They had accordingly, remov ed that idea, and had prevented, by the alteration which they had suggested, any chance of misconcep tion. The Commons, however, had dissented from that Amendment, which unquestionably they would not have done, had they viewed the original Clause in the same light as Noble Lords would represent, so that the interpretation first put on the Clatiae, must be confirm td rather than removed. Lord GRENVILLe, when the Question was put, insisted on a Div ision, when the . numbers were, Contents 23 Non-Contents 8 - ---IS ' iVl..jority His Lnra.liip expressed his hopes, that His Ma jesty's Ministers would, agreeably to the promise held forth by the NobIeSECRETARY Of STATE, bring in a Bill to exempt Commanding Officers from iocmiveoience of being subject to the Law re lating to Public Accomptants. Tue remaining Amendments being agreed to, a Message was ordered to be sent to the Commons, to signify the same, and that their Lordships had not instated on their Amendments. The Bills on the Table mostly of a Private nature) were passed their respedive stages. Adjourned to Wednesday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, MAY 28. ON the Motion of the MASTER of the ROLLS, l'haliks of the House were given to the Rev. jActc,oN, Canon of Christ Church College, Oxford, for his excellent Sermon preached before the House on Friday last, the day appointed for a Ge ,ler.ll Fast, in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. Lord CAST LE R E AGH moved for Accounts of the '?r,,fit and Loss of the Sales of the Eait India Com.. for the year ending the Ist of March, 1804; _, ) ,.1 A l so o f the Amount of Stock, independent of wit!) a Statement of the quantity of Goods ici within the-same period.—The Accounts were .4-tiered. The consideration of the Report of the Corn Cornulirtee was deferred to Thursday; as was the (..:Lrrirnitte. on the Scotch Militia Expence Bill, to tilt same. day. The second readirg o? the Prize-Agency Bill after some conversation Letween Mr. JERvls and Mr. STURGES BOURNE, deferred till Thursday' se'nnight. Mr. STURGES BOURNE then gave notice, I n the. name of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Ptr c), that.. his Right Hon. Friend would, on Friday next, sub mit to the House his intended Plan for the better. Defence of the Country. Mr, ADDINGTON expressed a desire to know, whether tile Plan proposed to be brought for ward by the Right 'Hon. Gentleman, was, in its nature, the same as that unfolded by him on a former occasion. Mr. Sitritous BOURNE could not take upon him se:f stridly to explain what were the precise inten tions of his Right Hon. Friend upon the question ; but he had reason to believe that the plan intended to be proposed by him, would not materially differ from that which his Right Hon. Friend had opened on the occasion to which the Right Hon. Gentle man had alluded. Mr. BANK ES, pursuant to notice, moved for a va. riety of Acccunts respecting the state and disburse. meats of the four and a halt per Cent. Fund, from the Ist of January, rBor, till the Ist of January, 18o4. —Ordered. Mr. SHAW moved for leave to bring in a Bill fur the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in Ireland. Mr. Alderman Cor.tßE said, he saw no reason why such a Bill should not also be extended to England. The Motion, with this extension, was agreed to. On the Motion of Mr. H. ADDiricTott, the second reading of the Cotton Manufadurers' Bill was deferred till Thursday se'nnight. Also the Irish Criminal Offenders' Bill. Also, the further consideration of the Report of the Irish Revenue Regulation Bill. Mr. WHITBREAD gave notice, that he would, on Wednesday, move for the produlion of a Copy of a Letter sent by the Lord Advocate of Scotland, on the 18th of May last, to. the Sheriff Depute of Banffshire, regarding the condutl of Mr. Morrison, in dismissing a servant who entered a Volunteer Corps without his consent. The Archbishop of Dublin's Palace Sale Bill was read a second time, and committed for to.rnorrow se'nnight. Sir R. BUXTON moved, That the Accounts of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Veterinary College be laid before the llonse.—Ordered. The Lords' Atnerd.nents to the St. Pancras Poor Bill were read and agreed to, The other Orders of the House were then dis. posed of, and the House adjourned till Wednesday. MAILS. Duz. ARRIVED. Hamburgh z - - THE SUN. QUIS DICERE FALSUNI AUDEAT ? LONDON, MAY 29, 1804. PRIVATE Letters were this morning received in Town from Paris, which state, that BONAPARTE was proclaimed EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH ! !! on the zoth inst.; that his Brothers had all been de clared Princes of the Blood! and that the Senate had waited upon Madame BONAPARTE (now Empress) with an Address of Congratulation upon the eleva tion of her Husband to the Imperial Dignity. The French Funds have risen, but that may bd accounted for by the opinion which is very prevalent in Paris, that Mr. LIVINCSTONE'S journey to this Country was undertaken with a view of making some pacific overtures. IT is with the utmost satisfadion we find from the Proceedings of the House of Commons last night, that Mr. PITT'S Plan for improving the Military Defence of the Country will be brought forward on Friday next. It appears from an answer given by Mr. STURGES BOURNE to Mr. ADDINGTON, that the Plan is in all its leading features similar to that which was so eloquently opened by Mr. PITT an the Motion for going into a Committee on the Army of Reserve Bill. The circumstance of Mr. ADDINOTON'S having made such an inquiry, in the House of Commons, is considered by some persons as a kind of notice that lie intends to oppose the measure altogether ; and it is also urged as a proof that a reconciliation has not taken place be tween the late and the present Minister. Without undertaking to decide upon the fat`}, we may be al lowed to say, that the circumstance alluded to does not necessarily warrant such an inference. If we recoiled right, when Mr. PITT first opened his Plan, many parts of it were approved of by Minis ters, and Mr. ADDINCTON'S objection went not to the expediency, but only to the permanency of the measure.' The Division which tool: place in the House of Lords, is also represented as a proof that Lord GRENVILLE has entered into a decided Opposition to the present Administration. The fad is simply this—Lord GRENVILLE constantly and vigorously opposed the Volunteer Bill, and he naturally enter tains the same opinion about it now that he did a few weeks ago. The changes which are to take place in the Go vernment of Ireland, are, we believe, very nearly settled: they have not, however, aBoally taken place. Lord lIARDWICKE and Lord CATHCART remain as Lord Lieutenant and Commander in Chief. Mr. CORRY resigns the Office of Chancel. lor of the Exchequer, in which he will be succeeded by Mr. FOSTER. THE zeal and aaivity of the present Board of Admiralty have already entitled them to the highest approbation. Orders have been given for lay ing down two Frigates and two Sloops in each of the King's Yards, and Vessels of different rates are immediately to be construtlal in all the Private Yards. The propriety, and indeed the necessity of building Frigates, is very ap parent. We have lost since the commencement of the War several very fine vessels of that descrip tion, and the supply we used to derive from the Enemy, is .completely cut off by their remaining constantly in Port. We have already stated the exertions that are making to procure a,sufficient number of stout Gun-brigs to be attached to our Blockading Squadrons, and we hope in a short time our gallant Officers will not have the mortification of seeing the Enemy's Flotilla passing from Port to Port in open day, without having a force capable of attacking them effedually. Sunday morning, soon after ten o'clock, THEIR MAJESTIES, the PRINCESSES, the DUKES Of CUM BERLAND, KENT, and' CAMBRIDGE, with their usual attendants, walked from the Queen's Lodge to the Chapel Royal in Windsor Castle. The 13th Regiment of Light Dragoons, and the Staffordshire Militia were drawn up in the Court-yard, and the bands struck up martial music. The Royal Party then passed the front of the different lines, andlits MAJESTY conversed with the Earl of UXBR I /nu, who is Colonel of the Staffordshire Militia. They then proceeded to the Chapel, where the churei ter vice was read by the Hon. and Rev. Mr LEGGE ; after which a sermon was preached by the Bishop of Nottw icx, from verse 2S, of the ztth chapter of St. Matthew " I thank thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and earth, be cause thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and lust revealed them unto babes." About twelve the - LoaD CHANCELLOR arrived at Windsor, and waited in the Castle till His MA yEsTy returned from the Chapel, when his Lordship had an audience of His MAI ESTY for a considerable time. HER MAJESTY and. the PRINCESSES, after their re turn from the Chapel, took an airing to Frogmore, The ROYAL FAMILY 'were expected to leave Windsor this morning fur the Queen's House. Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES being somewhat indisposed, the Admiral at Sheer. ness having intimation of it, yesterday sent over to South End, Dr. KENT of the Sussex Hospital-ship, for the purpose of attending on Her Royal Highness. The DUTCH ESS of YORK, who has long been pre vented from coming to town, by a lingering illness, is now so much amended, that she is in hopes of at tending at Court on the ensuing Birth-day of His MA j EsTy. It is said, that the claim of an Illustrious Per. sonage to Military Rank, is about to be conceded to him. Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, a Privy Council was held at the Cockpit, at which Mr. ADDINcToN, and the MASTER of the ROLLS attend ed ; it did not break up till near four. While the Council was sitting several messages were sent into the City. Yesterday morning Lord MELVILLE had an au. dience of the DUKE of YORK, at'his Office. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Portuguese Am bassador had an audience of Lord HARRowBY, at his office, and continued till four. It is said that there wilt be a General Review o the Volunteers on His MAJESTY'S Birth-day, on Wimbledon Common, by Their R , ,yal Highnesses the PRINCE of WALES, and DUKE of YoRK. Lord MELVILLE has given dire4ions or f,:ur of the Frigates which have been stationed as Block Ships at the entrance of the River Thames, to proceed to Woolwich to be fitted for attual service immediately, with their full complement of men and guns. The CORPORATION Of the TRINITY-HOUSE yesterday convened, according to annual custom on Trinity Monday. The Members, with Mr. PITT at' their head, assembled at ten in the morning, at the Trinity-House, Tower-Hill, and utter a suinp. tuous Breaktaq, went in Proccsstrm over To wer- Fidl, and embarked at the Stairs, in seven splendid Barges, with a good Bond of Mute. These Barges, with their streamers fi) ing , torrned a magnificent speetacle or the 'Thames. The Company pro ceeded •to Deptford, and again assembled in the Hall at the Alma H ,, uses. Mr. PITT was unani mously re-chosen Master, and Captain JOSEPH COT. TON Deputy Master. The Members then attended at St. Mchoias's Church, where the Rev. JAMES FINCH, Chaplain to the Corporation, preached an ad. mirable Sermon. The company after divine service re. turned to the Trinity House in the same state, and finally adjourned to the London Tavern, where they had a splendid dinner. The company altogether amounted to near three hundred persons. The cninpany was augmented by about forty more soon after din ner, as many Noblemen and Gentlemen arrived after attending their duty in PArliament. The Chair was taken by Captain COTTON, as Deputy-master, and Mr. PITT sat on his right hand. SALE, GORE, PAGE, DIGNUM, &C. enlivened the repast by their vocal exertions. As yesterday was the Birth-day of Mr. PITT, DIGNITM was requested to sing " The Pilot that weather'd the storm," and two additional stanzas given in honour of the natal day of that pure and enlightened Statesman. " The KING, the Qu EEN and ROYAL FAMILY, (he PR INCE and PRINCESS Of WALES, the Trinity House, and Mr. NTT, were given as Toasts, and drank with hearty zeal. The whole passed and concluded with t he most cordial festivity and good-humour. The Office of the Barrack Master General is to be removed from pSLI-IANI'S Hou)e,Spring GArderis to the tare Miss in Whitehall. IVAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, Mn _ Y 28.--Arrived the SPW . e h r Brig, Lieut. TOMLINsotr, from AlderneY, "It several Transports under Convoy ; amo n g themwere the Ceres and Ifibithy, and Dolly, from Sunderland. Came into Harbour to refit, His Maje st y 514 Topaze, Captain LAKE, from Spithead. The Pursers of the East India Ships lying h ere arrived this morning with the Dispatches ; t he y will therefore sail as soon as the wind is fair, un der convoy of H tens' convoy Majesty's Ship Athenienste,of 6 +l Came up from Cowes the Ajax Transport , Vii; too Troops on board, for Guernsey. Came into Harbour His Majesty's Ship the 41(1.. tomene. His Majesty's Ship Ambuscade has fired a gu ns d tO and loosed her topsails, the wind coming Win the S. S. E. DEAL, MAY 28.--Sailed the re/capro rnb on Cruize off' the French Coast ; Sir Stephen Lushike eta, Earl flowe, Admiral Gardner, and Cbarill: East Indiamen, for the River. Arrived the Archer and the Nooa'boand G 1 1/ fit : brig from a Cruize off Boulogne, and I:Main in ne r Downs with the rest of His Maj , sty's ships as o F a last, with the coppered armed Transports, an Fleet of outward-bound Vessels. t i t s MAY zB.—Arrived to rep air damages sustained in Sir SIDNEY SMITH'S eng4 7 ment with the Gun-boats, the Penelope Frigar-: Capt. BROVGHTON, and Cruizer and Rattler Sor°lo of War; also the Immortalite, Capt. Owgil, the Downs, with the Locust Gun brig, to refit. t Passed up the River this day, part of the we . India Convoy which came home with the P 1 Frigate. tt ll ll EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER " THE BRITISH SQUADRON OFF BOULOGIO' A b " In the evening of the 2oth inst. the w;11'. being N. E. by E. the Immortalize, followed t; the brigs, took a sweep of the Bay, upon which 51 French brigs anti 72 loggers, with all the forts allna: batteries, opened a heavy fire upon us with 511(4 4 ,0 s htlis, but as the fortune of war w-duld have its r cci ed no injury, as the greater part of them O ho a sli ci o: l a r n te d r sh if el a ls m ca il m e returned a single shot. Admiral Louts and,,.l squadron were then lying at anchor before the i r $ ll square-rigged vessels, close e S t . e : nl u ee l n o ,e g n e Two days after we had 22 s"" eovi,etretutsy. hough t o several of Oho o. th in yvstillen out. a BONAPARTE'S promotion to the IMP etia r i 4 04. and shells were throw n n nity. It was really a beaut,fui sight • and four two.deckers, us, but- we were just without range 0 1 t- uc h, The firing, however, alarmed our Coast 5° die' that the Snips in the Downs had unmoored, a n Alt veral of them aaually slipped their cables. ,cfe the Deal Boats were launched with their carrorloov and all the Troops on the Coast were under arb'or, The whole indeed had the appearance of a gre at fine tle. The hills are covered with tents, and O r° t o new Harbours have been construded at Asib lelc he , and Fort Louis, which contain twenty Brg s 'b r itlit sides Loggers. Some time ago, the Aft . be r , if becalmed in the Bay by herself, was verY n c i ; or' salute tihnewttanhs°elfiniriicoodgpeut is:lot nifolonr:ote u_D,Qiiifr:gl:, ing taken. Several Brigs rowed of to aco c :01 0: but a small breeze springing up, and the t . f - a LP. heaving in sight, the Frenchmen were 0144 c return." t he yesterday received /0". Dispatches were Channel Fleet and the Ferr)l Squadron. a i 'Pori hot‘ that the French and Dutch Stops in Fe tr° „ - f loc. hour had not discovered any intention of })1 to sea. derfa • The Beaulieu Frigate at Portsmouth,is °l .: the' to be fitted for foreign service with , ht del ' ',Op West Indies is supposed to be her place of "e tion. vreri eh The Echo Sloop of War has ca p tured t 6 had Tr hound for New-Providence , 360 men on board. Cap in l'he Harlequin Privateer, of ~ guns', 0 , JENNINGS, Is arrived at Fowey, ► to m 00' 1 o ptit' the 6, ti inst.-she drove a French Schooner, Ili° a, t hfc c tour carriage guns, and 40 inen, on slo re w '„, t to leagues south of Viana. She immediately - r /e/a pieces. In the course of last month the 'A a r - e ta' near Cape Finisterre, beat off a ship of t he with the loss of one inan killed, and nine w °° ry itlt The boat of this privateer, while at °port''' . MP Captain DYER, Mr. WISE , M r. SYM"S' uring HALL, and two sailors on ho ard, in endea_a bar, to reach the shore got within the sur f of we, ' bu t and was swampy. Every one on board perottogish'uesc Mr. HALL, who was picked up by a P boat. ptitit A letter from Capt. FR ANK CUNDY, 01 the to his friends, dated at Verdun, May I,_„st ate , s he was landed in France on the after a march of nearly 600 miles in eleven tibevYco arrived at Verdun. There were a bout he 7th of marcuirg, hundred English Prisoners at Verdun at of Captain CU NDY'S writing. These are. wo g: ly Masters of Vessels, and other Officers. g C 3 rl the Prisoners at Verdun , Ca p t. C. menti° ll . o , o o f tains G. COOP ER, of Bristol , WILLIAM few f Swansea, J. SINCOCK, and W. PURCHAS.,mge, o zance, JENKIN, of Clovelly, and Jokill a n the Mount. These were all in good hew n an d had the liberty of walking about the to e obl i g e d v iere c ; , d o tsohoartttedni,sitatn,cveiceinetovetrlyie dcoayunattrya ;ctbrutatin ..oro 0, Is inscribe their names in a book ke p t (each,he Porch They ate allowed 29 livres a mo nth lI barely sufficient to find them necessaries,*