The Sun. — London, England, 1801-03-25 00:00:00

IMPER/AL, PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS,' TUESDAY ) MARCH 24. THE Royal Assent was given, by Commis_ sign, to 'Eighteen Public, and Six Private Bills ; among the former were the Post-Office Duties - The'Stamp Duties, the Horse , Duly, The Paper Duty, Sir- SIDNEY SMITH'S Annuity, and the Irish Martial Law Bills, together with two other Bills: relatiie to the Government of Ire land. The Lords Commissioners were, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the .Duke 0f ROXBURGH, and 1- 1,014 WALSINGHAM. • The Earl of WA R'W lax addressed a few words to their Lordships—but in such a . ,10w tone of 'voice we could pot distinffly'hear what he said; however, as we could collal, they included a notice, that on Monday next" his Lordship 'would bring forward , a Motion respecting the High Prices of Provisions ; andfor which day he moved that their Lordships be summoned, which was ordered accordingly. . . Some private business was disposed of, and Annual Parliamentary Accounts laid before 'the I-touse by the proper Officers. ,Sir IsAA'c HEARD, &c. attended•for •the pur pose of introdu . cing inform, Lord WA LPO Lt, of ' s Aroolterfon, as Baron WALPOLE, of Walpole ; but his .Lordship' not attending in due time, the' • Eerernony did not take place.. • Adjourned .. till to-morrow, when the . Lords CoMmittees meet at half.past two o'clock. ' l IIOUS,E OF COMMqNS, TUESDAY, MARCH 24.. A Message was received from the Lords stating that their Lordships' had agreed to the Irish Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, and to the . Hilt for continuing Martial Law in Ireland for a limited time. Mr. ELLtc:r and R. S. MILNES, Esq. were sworn and took their Seats. • - The Usher of the-Black Rod 'Came to desire the immediate attendande of the Commonsi in the House of Lords, to hear His• Majesty '4 Commis sion read; for the, passing of Bills. The Sr EAK,F-R, upon his return, informed the 1-louse that the Loids Commissioners had declared the Royal Assent to the Additional 'Postage Duty, Starnp,'Paper, and Horsi Duty Bills, Sir Sidney Smith's Pension Bill, the Irish Duties/ Bill, the Irish Prohibitory Coro Distillery Bill, the Bakers' Amended Bill, ,the. Mutiny Bill, the Marine Forces Regulation Bill, the American Ylour Bounty 'lmportation Bill, the Irish Mar .tial Law, and the Irish Habeas Corpus u'spension Bills, and• the Irish Militia Field.Offiters! Ang mentation Bills, together with several Private Vgrious Accounts were I ;,rcsented f rom t h e Nlerc4s 3 Company, and the Tax Office, whiith were ordered to be laid upon the Table.. On the Motion of Sir W. QEArt y, it.was ordered that there be .laid before the House, an Account . of the Income, and Expenditure of the Board of Agriculture for the year t flop. Also an Account of the Parliamentary Grants to, and of the Income and Expenditure of the Veterinary College, for the year -ending 27 th Feb. rSo • Tht*:ATTfiltNEiY GENERAL brought up, a Bill for the more effedual prevention of the Forgery of Bank Notes, - &e. Also t a.Bill for butter regu lating thc Ratesibr granting Relief to the Po,lr ; -after a conversation.: respecting the latter between Mr. JOI.I. I FEE, Sir W. ,YOUNG,. CURW EN,- and ELL tsorr, both Bills were: read a first , time, and ordered to.be printed, and to • be read a second time on Thursday next. Mr. BRAGGE' brought up the,-Report of_ the Committee on the East India-' Judicature Bill, when th 4 names of Members nominated for try- - ing offences committed in India, were read over, agreeably to thetAtt. • !'he House ic;olvect itself into a Committee'on the Scotch Ylohisscs Distillery Bill.' • Mr. LONG moved- a Resolution for continuing. the Duties .imppsed his't year; which being, agreed tO, and the House resumed,• .the Report - was ordered to h,, received to-morrow. The House went into u. Committee on the Bill, for the. better Cultivati ,, r , „Of .CornmOn Arable Fields, Wastes; Sec. and for encouraging the growth of Potatoes on't•paid ground:, - The House being resumed, the. Report was ordered to be received to-marrow. Sir IV. PUL'I'ENEY said, he rose agreeably to notice, to rnove for leave to bring in a Bill for promoting the Cultivation of Potatoes, a measure by which he apprehended the. Poor-rates would be much diminished. Hi said it was not his in . tendon to propose a measure similar to what had' ~..been already, rejected, .of breaking up of Grass lands foi• this purpose it was sufficient: to allow, the.Cultivarors of Lards to remove difficulties im their own way.—At the same time, /there was • evidently a great deal of Unprotinaive Land, which. :night :he improvid by raising Potatoci in Autumn, which would prove of particular service at a time before the new Corn could be threshed out and brought to market. The Bill was not ...meant to interfere with the other 'Bill for encou. raging : the growth of Potatoes in coruition Fieldg`. Ile then .moved for. leave to bring in a. Bill for ldssening the burden of the. Poor -rates, by cute:. raging the growth of potatoo, &e. during the present Scarcity. - Mr. j H.' ADo OcTo3 'seconded. the Motion, which, 'after ;Clew words froth Mr. NICHOL-LS, Was agreed to. . Mr.. Rivet: . moved, that the Fourth Report of ' the Select COmMittee on. the : present High: - Price of Provisions' -be r?.ferted-to• the Conimittne .of Sur e ly, on Friday: • • The India Goods Land Carriage Bill wa, read a second time. . The .F,xpiring Laws Bill Witssoin:nitted-I when the' Bill for continUing the ,Importation of Goods in Neutral Ships went through the Committee, and was reported. , The other Orders of the Day sue deferred.= The House adjourned at Six o'Clock t}ll- To. LONDON, 111A,RC11 25, 1 801. WE are happy in being able to contradia, in the most positive manner, the indiscreet reports which have been for some days cii,..u l ,ated, of a suspension in the progress of HIS MAJESTY'S Convalescence, So far from than being the case, I - I t s J ESTY, we can assure the Public, is every day gaining strength, and his health has almost been brought, to the same poinCat which it was before his illness. WE last, night received, By EXPRESS, Attars to the 2,2 d 'instant. They bring us few faEts. The Ratification of the Treaty of Peace concluded at Lai:milk having been exchanged on the 16th instant at Paris, the Legislative Body, after having heard a Mes sage from the Consuls, which is given in our Subsequent ,Columns, decreed on the zoth inst. that the Treaty of Lanmille should be promul. gated as a Law of the Republic, To this there was no dissentient voice. It will be seen by the Letters from the Hague * which come down to the lull „inst. that the Plan for the Revision of the Constitution, has been . übmitted, by the patavian Direlory, to the Legislative Body, who were to make their Report on the' 16th instant. Our Readers will remember, that , we stated in our Paper of Wed nesday last, that such a revision waa to take place on that day ; and at the same time we ex pressed our hopes, founded on the information we had received, that the proposed Change would be advantageous to the liousE of ORPIGF. The news froth the Hague . brought by these Papers tends ' to spew the increased moderation of the Batnvian Government ; and the circumstance of an• Amnesty for all political opinions haVing been proposed to •the Legislative Body, together with the censure of the existing form of Govern ment, may be considered. by ' many as favouring the probability of some important alteration. The Emperor PAUIi continues to afford etn, p)oyment to the Political Speculator. He has, it will be seen-from the Riga Article, rorbidden all Exportation to - Prussia, unless the Magistrates are sufficiently satisfied that the Exports shall ; hot, through the channel of Prussia; find their way to England. It remains to be seen bow far the Court of Prussia will approve this interference of the Autocrat PAUL in the commerce of their Country. The votes of the Diet of. Ratisbon, as far as they have been collated, and of 86 no less thap 76 bad, on the Bth inst. been given, are, of course in favour of the Ratification of the Peace, with those modifications which the local interests of different Members may be supposed to intro duce. An Armistice has been concluded between the French-Republic and the KING of NAPLES, the terms of whiCh are to be found in our subsequent • Columns. The number of the Troops under Sir RALPH ABERCROMBY was; as we yesterday stated, at the date of his last Letter ; i 6,000. We have the pleasure to learn that it. was then expeded he would soon be joined by a Regiment of Dragoons and a Regiment of Infantry. On the probability, of this reinforcement we can place, much gr•ater reliance than on that which it was reported he was to receive from the Bombay Art - ay in the month of February. The Force of tfie .French in Egypt, according to the best information in our possession, is about Sixteen Thousand Men, including the Native Troops, whom they have pressed into their Ser vice. Egypt •will, therefore, be attacked and 'defended by nearly an equal force, a circumstance - alone, which would, militarily speaking, make the Expedition, which, as we have already stated, was to have been begun in the first days of Fe. bruary, 'an objeft of great interest. Other cir. cumstances must have a . greater influence than even the number of Troops on the issue of the contest. Though the numerical Force .of the British, when joined by the above-mentioned re inforcement of , two Regiments, will be some what larger, the advantage is, in. Many respeets, on the side of the French. They are in posses sion of all the principal posts, and have had lei sure to fortify them; they are well acquainted with the Country, and are inured to the Climate. situation of affitirs would, at first sight, seem to promise a happy system of defence ; but examining it in another view, we are led to fOrm opposite presumptions. In fad, the ignorance of the French with respeft to the real Milt of attack, and the essential interest which they have in pre_ renting our Troops froM disembarking at airy pOint, will force them to Occupy every one ; and they can only do this by spreading themselves widely, which must 'Weaken them in every direc tion. Sir RALPH ABE ItCROMBIi, by being Matter of the sea, may keep his Fleet otTthe Coast of Egypt, may watch the whole extent of it, may succes sively threaten it at every: point, and•rnay ulti atriic. the blow'vrittrrc - tiro- ~,rtertly most weak. We-may, therefore, presume that h , ,!. will succeed in effeaing his diseinharkation, and in establishing himackf: the. French will, no doubt, endeavour. to preven't him from conform ing and consolidating his power : they will lea the greatest ' body of force they can against him, and if they could assemble all, the contest woe!,. he obstinate and bloody,' , and the viftory l might, perhaps, be' uncertain. 7 But Sir RALPH AusRcRoMBY more than one means of pre- Venting this co-operation of his Enerniei, against him. Possessed as he is of a superiority of small Vessels, and of Maritime Resources of all kinds, he can, -by small Detachments, alarm all the Mouths of the Nile, caq seed armed Vessels -up client ; and can, at several places, take post in the Delta. - The French cannot,' without the greaten _ risque, suffer him to Cffea these auxiliary enter prizes ; and they will cOnsequently be necessa rily obliged to make a great number , 6 " f . Detach ments; , in order to guard the different branches of the Nile, ,and the ,Batteries which they must doubtless have thrown np for the defenceof them. A still more important diversion' will, however, render a still greater division of their forces in dispensable. Inferior as the Turkish Army is, both in num ber and in discipline, to our Troops 'and to that of our Enemies, the latter will certainly not treat it with such contempt as to adopt no precaution against it. They will at least .gnard the mouth of El Arisch with a fourth part of their Force, and they may, perhaps,.not succeed even then in maintaining themselves there. At all events the ,Troops whom they must leave at that important . Post cannot by any Means' be employed against Sir RALPH. We may therefore reasonably flat ter ourselves, that as the latter will.have a supe riority of men at his disposition, and greater maritime power, he will succeed in an under taking which, whether seccessful or unsuccessful, cannot be of long duration. The conjectures which we have here hazarded appear to us those which it is most natural to form, with respea to art (skied so remote from us, and on which we have but very.few corm% data. Our suppositions have , been formed upOn the grounds that both parties will 'make use of all ,the military means in their , . power. But it is very possible that - -this may not be the case, and that the . Expedition may have an issue not less fortunate than easily attain able by us. The well-foundel fears which the French have 'long entertained with respea to the attack preparing against them,' the - discontent and disgust of the greater part of them, and" the I. divisions which have been the. consequence, give us room to'hope that the uneasiness so often' ex ' pressed in the Meeitarie will prove-well founded, and that our Enemies will either oppose . Inn a very feeble resistance, or will even refuse to run the risque of any contest, and will determine to .abandon,'hy capitulation, a Country which has al ;eady been the grave of tee greater part of their Companions, . , `FOURTH REP, MIRO fitOM THZ COMMITTEE OF THE HOCSE OF COMNfONS, ArPOINTED TO coNiini.it Of THE PRESENT HIGH PRICE OF PROVISION'. The Coatutr - r•ez appointed to coeisider of the present Higll Price of Provisions ; anci to Report the same, with their Opinion thereupon, front Time to Time, to the House: • - flave received information respe&ing the situa_ Lion of certain parts of the Country ; namely, about - Braintree, Bocking, Halstead, and Coggeshall; itt the County of Essex; the Parish of Folesbill, near Coventry; andtheTownships of Dewshury,Ossitt, Ovenden, Clayton, and Northowram, in the West Riding of the County of York ; . —to which they feel it indispensable to call the serious attention. of the House.—From the extreme dearness of Prcivisions; Combined with the temporary, and partial interruption of some branches of manufac ture, the pressure - upon the above.mentioned places is become so great as to require immediate relief beyond what their own means are in the present .moment capable of affording. Whatever mode may be suggested, of applying to cases of this description, the principal of that Clause in the . 43d of Elizabeth, by which neighbour. ing Distrias may be rated in aid, it is pro_ liable that objettions would be found shificient, if not ultimately, to defeat the measure, at least to..produce Much delay. The objedions to any demand. upon the general revenue of the State, for any 'such purpose, are so obvious, that it is unnecessary to state them ; and they ar e felt so strongly by your Committee, that. nothing but the pressing exigtincy of the case could have in duced them to recommend any deviation from the general principles; which have hitherto regu_ lated the maintenance of the poor; They trust, however, that such checks and restriCtions may be devised, ascertaining and limiting the cases to which assistance should be extended, and fur ,providing the means of . gradual re-payment, as will circumscribe, in a considerable degree, the demand upon the Public in the first • instance will prevent the burthen'from ultimately falling upon. the Public'; and obviate the, inconvenien cies resulting from so extraordinary an interpo... - 1 sition of the .benevolence of Parliament.—Ai: - .:, soon as they are able to digest a plan for that::i purpose, which may be applicable to all easel where the necessity for such an interposition may be found to exist during the present emergency; your Committee will submit the same to the wisdom of the House ; but, in the mean time, they beg leave earnes tly to recommend, that a sum not exceeding 20,0001. should be granted to His' Majesty's upon-accoant, to be applied in such proportions as may appear to be in.: 'dispensably necessary for the immediate assistance of those places to which your. Committee have referred,. and of such others as may appear to he under circumstance s of pressure equally ur. gent. But your Committee not having fully and. satisfaaorily been able to inquire into all the circumstances, even of the special cases above enumerated, are of opinion, That no money should be issued for the assistance of those places, or any of them, without the strielest previous GaintliTisstitioss, t. * idle 67",:t51! which May' be instituted 'for that purpose, or b y inquiry made upon oath,before Matistrates in the neighbourhood, and transmitted to the L or d s Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. —It is, however,, necessary 'to remark, that the ex. treme distress of some of these places, renders it expedient that as little delay as possible should occur in condueting such investigations. The Resolutions to which your Committee have come are as followeth, viz. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee * that they will proceed to consider under what restrio tions it_may be expedient to recommend a temporary ad.. vance of public money to pines in' situations of extreme and peculiar distress ; that in the mean time, from, the preient exigency, the Committee think it necessary to re - commend, that, with a view to the immediate relief of certain places, the House should grant to His MAILSTY such sums as may be domed ne,:esary to be advanced by way of Loan, for the assistance of :nose places *here the pressure is most urgent. Resolved, That it is the opinion of •this Comrnittet- t , that the money to be advanced by " n, " 1141 be re.paid by the Parish, Town ship,. cc-place, to Which such Loan shall have been made respeol4llY. pa g p , er n w ei a t s he p r u t o t f o w P h re ic s h s. had Three Ilambitr g b M a il' became due this morn, i n arrived when this This morning arrived a Mail from Istna;ca. 4 A Board of the Treasury was held yesterday, at which Mr. ADDINGTON for the first time pre_ sided, and at which Mr. J. H. ADD INGTON tuck 'his Seat as *Secretary to the Board. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIpIQUER is re. covering, but slowly, from Jtis late severe indism position.—He has not ventured out except in a carriage for these two or three weeks. Mr. RosE has left the Treasury; Mr. LoNO will remain 'to transa& the Official *business for some days longer. • There Is an idea that the Debate upon Mr. GREY'S Motion will extend to more than one day. So many and such important ,specches are expefted upon it, thai were the House to sit it Out, it probably would not rise till late on the following day. On Monday came on at - Oxford, the Ele Bi " of.a Representative in Parliament for the Univer sity, in the room of FRANC is PAt; E, Esq. when the light- Hon. Sir WI LLIAM SCOTT was unani, mously elefted. 'The Stores, &c. found in Valetta, have been valued at 200,0001. the whole of which will be given up, it is ;bought, as prize-money, in cos sequence of the hardships the Troops underwent during the Blockade. Yesterday the Master . and Wardens of the C o mpany.of Bakers attended the ,Lo R D MAY Olt at the Mansion House to set the Assize of Bread. His Lordship, after-examining the Returns of the Mealweighers, and there appearing a consider able reduaion in the average price of Flour, ordered the Bread to be lowered two Assizes, or Four-pence in the Peck-loaf, to he sold commence , to., r morrow. The Quartern-loaf will then for . One Shilling and Nine-pence Halfpenny'. From the LONDON C4ZETT.E I Ararth Lord Chamberlain's °Ace, March 24, 1801. Notice is hereby given, that there will be a Drawing Room, at St. James's, on Thursday the :.6th instant.. ' Whitehall, March 2 3, zBo r . - The King has been pleased to appoint William Lord Auckland, and , Charles‘Spencer, Esq.-com monly called Lord Charles Spencer, to the Office of His- Majesty's Postmaster-General. " BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. April go. J. Tones, of Liverpool, viaualler, at ten, at the. Globe Tavern, Liverpool. April 30. Thos. Chamlov i of / Liverpool, earthenware dealer, at ten, at the GlObe Tavern, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS. John Scott and Walter Scott, ►f Gainsforcl-street, South wark, tallow-chandlers, ,ta surrender March 3r, April 1, and May 5, at eleven,' at GUildhall. Attorney, Mr. Williams, Sion-College Garden, Aldermanbury: John Paul, of Winchester, hardwareman, April 8,9, and May 5, at twelve,.at the Shakespeare Tavern, Birming— ham. Attomies, Mr. Smart, Staple-Inn; or Mr. ' Bedford, Birinin)lltarn. Richard Mason, of Birmingham, grocer. April 8,9, and May 5, at twelve, at the Shakespeare Tavern, Birming ham. , Attornies, Mr. Smart, Staple-Inn; or Mr. _ Bedford, Biriningliam. George Fletcher, a Knightsbridge, hackneyman and stable-keeper, March 28, April 4, and May 5, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Clark, New Inn. Thomas Amos, of Holborn-Hill, mercer, March 28, at one,'APrit 4, at 'eleven, and May 5, at one, at Guild . hall. Attonues, Messrs. Collins and Reyno lds, Spital- square. Thomas West, of Blackburn, cotton-spinner, April 'B, 9, and May 5, at ten, at the St. Johns Tavern, - Blackburn. Anornies, Mr. Wilson, Castle-street, or Mr. %V. and.t. Carr, - 131aciburri. • Gregory Knight, late of Liverpool, glass-martufaaurer, April 29,30, and May s; at eleven, at the Globe Tavern, Ltverpool. Attormes, _ Mr. T. Windla , Bartlett';- - 'Building4, London ; or Mr. f. Phillips, 'Liverpool. John Davies, of ,Liverpool, linen-draper, April 13, 14, and May 5, at four, at the Spread- Eagle Inn,. Man chester., At tOrIIiCS, Mr. Lowe, Manchester'; . or Mr. Ellis, Cursitor.street; London. DIVIDENDS. Marcher. A. Cheap and A. Loughnan, of Swithin's lane, merchants, at ten, at Guildhall, , April 21. Win . . Slater, of Basinghall-street, warehouse man, at ten, at Guil dhall. April 14. Dells ',Owen, of Canterbury, vidualler, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. April at. J. C. Clarke, of South Mmuns, innholder; at . ten; at Guildhall. April 7. I. Cockle, late of Lincoln, tanner and fell , monger, at eleven, at the Saracen's-Mead, Lincoln. A pril. so. S. Livesley, of Liverpool, bricklayer, at eleven, lit the Globe TaN ern, 'Liverpool . April IS. ,W. Wrtglit the elder and W. Wright the younger, and J. Maude Wright, of Wellclose-square, coal-merchants, at nine, at Guildhall. April 20. R. Haft, of Coppull, Lancashire, muslin manufadurer, at eleven, at the Royal-Oak Inn, Charlet , . .April 28. Wm. Rawlinson, of Saint John-street, Stag fordshite-wareman, at ten, at Guildhall. April 20. Farrow Chilton,. of Bishop-wearmouth, fur. - ham, coal-fitter, at twelve, at the Queen's-Head lnn, Durham. April 24. Wrri,• Jones, late of Cheltenham, viclualler, at eleven, at the Plough Inn' Cheltenham. E. Foster, of Blackburn, grocer, at ten, at the ,Red-Lion, Preston. April ts. J. Williamson, of Lane-End, Staffbrdshire, • and Win. Williamson, of Portsmouth, glass-sellers, at three, at the Talbot Ina; Stourbridge; April 24. J. Taylotand Nightingale ' late of Preston, and R. Wood, late of Blackburn, musl in-manufacturer, at ten, the Red Lion in Pregon, C:ERTIFIC AT Es. April 14 : C. Storey, of Sturton-Grange, Northumber- land, 'farmer. Mary Burbidge, of sheerness, shqpkgeper. J. Cook, of Royal Oak-V4.44. tinner, J4pie4 Coupland, late of HWs-Mcws, tianover-square, T,H E SUN. . • SOLEM QUIS FALSUM AUDZAT ?