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WbitehtirrhAihottfers• Ensign Henry Clarke to be Lieutenant, vice Gregory, resign. ed. William Reddrop, Cent. to be Ensign, vice Cla-ke. Samuel Parker, Gent. to be Ensign, vice R. Reddrop, re signed. Wigan Pilunterrs. To he Lientenants—EniigA Thomas Blinkhorne. William Lyon. Ensign John Greenough, vice Fleyn. Aigneci. 't'o'nes Ensign—loszph Be;iver, Cent. vice Cireenough. To be Ad . ;urant —Hillier Towzell, Gent. Errata in Gazette of z tth O. rBo 3 . . fionnivAam Volunteer blantr_y. for Henry Deborv, Gent, to he Lieutenant, read Henry Da vency, Cent. to he rieutenant. In Gazette of 24th instant. For [ohn Hammond, Gout. to be Quarter-master, read John Hammond Smith, Gent. to be Quarter-master. Cmmi4sions in tie Worcestershire Militia, ugned 6y the Lord Lieutenant. Ensign john Mountford to be Lieutenant, vice Barneby. re signed. Dated January 20, 1804. Ensign William %,cl - to he Lieutenant, vice Humphrey, resigned. Dated fanuary 2T, 1804. IMPER [AL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY ' FEB. 1. Mr. Secretary YoRKE gave notice, that on this day sennight he should wove for leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate, explain, and amend the diffe rent Ac'ls relating to Volunteer Corps. New Writs we -‘e ordered for Truro, in the room o ,T• Lemon, Esq. who hart been appointed one ci the Lords of the Admiralty, and for Wallingford, in ' /he room of Sir F. Sykes, Bart. deceased. _ . Mr. VANSITTART moved for an account of t!le net produce of the permanent Taxes from January 1803 to January tBo4.—Ordered. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave no tice, that he should to-morrow move for a SeleEt Committee to inquire into the state of the Civil List, and also for a Selea Committee to inquire in_ to the joint account between Great Britain and Ire land. NIIDDLLSE.X ELECTION. Mr. FOX rose to call the attention of the House to a subjeCt. which he considered as being of consi derable importance : he meant the Order which stood for to-morrow, respecting the Middlesex Eleflion. It appeared to him that the House had been inadvertently drawn into an error upon this subjeCt. In the Aft of the zBth of His present Majesty, there were a variety of regulations re spfCting Petitions in cases of Controverted EleCtions, and respeCting vexatious Petitions, and the mode of preventing, such Petitions from being presented. Among other provisions there was one which star. ed, that the House should not proceed upon any Fe. titian which was not signed by persons either claiming a right to vote upon the EleCtion, or who were Candidates. Upon examining one of the Pe titions respeCting the Middlesex EleCtion, which was appointed to be taken into consideration to it appeared that the persons who signed it merely stated that they were Freeholders, but did not state that they had a right to vote. Now it was very obvious that a great number of Freeholders had not a right to vote, viz. those under .i.os.a year. The provisions of the Aet of Parliament to which he had p'ded were_precise, and were obligatory upon that House. A.ets or raritament takight .be con.. stetted liberally, or, in - other words, loosely, but liege was a distintt clause which could not be got over. If he were correct in his opinion upon this aubjeCl, and that the House had inadvertently fal len into an error upon the subjeCt, it would then only remain to propose a remedy, and the most ob vious one appeared to him to be, to discharge the Order which had been made upon that Petition.— But at all events, he thought there could be no ob. jeCtion to put off the Ballot till Friday, in order to give an opportunity of considering this subjett to morrow. He should at present only desire that the Clause to which he had alluded and the Petition should be read.—[They were both accordingly read by the Cletk.)— It appeared, he said, that the Petition did not state that they had a right to vote, and as the words of the AC were positive, he ap_ prehencied that no doubt could be entertained upon the siabjc&; . " ) 1 , The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted that this was a point of considerable im portance, though he could not help entertaining an opinion different from that which had been advan ced by the Hon. Gentleman. He, however., con curred with him in thinking, that there could be no harm in deferring the consideration of the question till to-morrow, and in postponing the B.itlot till Friday. He could not avoid, however, even in the present stage of the business, just stating the grounds u p on which he differed from the Hon. Gentleman; in the first 'lace, before the House came to a deci sion, he thought it would be proper to ascer;lin what was the Praelke of the. House in simi:ar ca.es. The Petitioners stated themselves to be Freehold.. ens, and the House had a right to infer; . pr;ma facie, that they were Freeholders, having a right 'to vote' because if they !tad not, they had .Qo claim Loon the attention of the House. The House had otazred this Petition to be taken into- consideration, and it wculd,at least pause before it would take advantage of its own inadvertence. The ground of his doubt therefore, was this, that the. House ought to prestime a disability in the Petitioners. There were sOtris4 other ,points which occurred to his Mind,' bu t he wou ld n ot ester farther into the discussion at present. 1 Mr. FOX said, "he did not call upon the House to presume a disability, but to• notice that the provi. sions of the Ac of Parliament hid not been corn, plied with.• He then suggested, that if the Middle sex Petition was put off .till Friday, th,z other Bal lot which stood ft.r to_mortow Might' as well be put off to thersame time. He then gave notice that he should:.tozaticrrow . :mike - a Motion respecli'ig the Petition in quest , . - In. The Orders of the Dad for hallotting Committees to,try the Contested Eiedions of Middiesek and Mitlhurst were then discharged and fixed fo: Friday. The Committees of Supply and Wnys and Means were put off tilt Friday.—Adjnor.qed: MAILS. DUI. Aknivsa. iiamburgh z ..... I • THE SUN. SOLLM QUIC DICER' FALSU3I AUDEAT ? LONDON, FEBRUARY 2, 1804. YESTERDAY a fourth Gun brig, captured by the Hjdra and Tribulte Frigates, came into Ports mouth. She is of the same description with the other three, the arrival of which we mentioned yesterday. ,;:.• • It appears from the superior constrthion of these Vessels, and their mode of being out, that the French have made some improvements in the equip ment of their Flotilla. Whatever may be their improvements, however, we have no doubt but that the skill and courage of British Seamen will always continue to prove an over-match for them when they fairly meet. ACCOUNTS from the Gape of Good Hope have been received, though by the very circuitous route of a Slave-ship bound to the West Indies, of the date of the 29th of Odober last, which give an account of the very unpleasant situation of that Colony, and particu lady the English in it, in consequence of the renew. al of the War. On the first receipt of the news, the English were ordered to confine themselves to their houses, and the property of individuals was put under sequestration by a Proclamation from the Go. vernor ; but this order was rescinded in con. sequence of a very spirited Memorial presented by the English Merchants, headed by Mr. Pa INGLE, the Agent of the East East India Company, to whom the Batavian Government was under very weighty obligations. It appears by these accounts, that the Cape might at any rime since the re-commence ment of War have been easily taken. .~, -.. . MR. Secretary Yoe gave . notice yesterday in the House of Common! , , , of his intention to move on Wednesday next, for leave to bring in a Bill to con solidate, explain, and amend the several Als re lating to the Volunteer Corps. Mr. ADD I NGTON gave notice of his intention to move this day for the appointment of a Stied Committee to inquire into the state of the Civil List, and likewise for another Committee to in_ quite into the state of the joint Account between Great Britain and Ireland. THE Hambizrgh Mail due on Sunday last arrived last night. It brings us the following intelligence : CONSTAN'TINOPLE, DEC. I 5 Rebels in Romelia are again in motion, and the Troops of the GRAND Stet lott have lost a battle against them, and are now obliged to hold themselves on the de fensive. One of the Chiefs of the Rebels who had fled to Asia has been taken there, and his head is epe4leel soup at Constantinople. No Russian Ships of War have as yet p'assed from the Black Sea through the Canal into the Me. diterranean, Mr. STRATTON has had his audience of entry of the GRAND S IGNIOR an d R EIN E FFENDI , as the ne'w Envoy Plenipotentiary from England. GENOA, JAN. 3.—The French General RECNIER has passed through this city, on his way from Bo logna to Toulon, where he is to take the command ofa Corps of zo,cco men, which are assembled near that harbour, and hold them elves in readiness to embok. Six Ships Of the line, four Frigates, some smaller Ships of War, and a number of Transports lie there ready to sail, and are taking on board six months provisions. NEL , uN, however, keeps tae Port of Toulon closely blockaded. MENrz, J. 17.—Within this week five Regi ments of Cavalry have arrived at the Rhine, be tween Coblentz and Strasbur&, which will receive their new organization in the interior of the Re. . The report is entirely without foundation ) th at French Troops have passed the Rhine, at the re. quest of a German Prince, to support him against a powerful neighbour. We are likewise to reckon among the unfounded reports, that of an approaching re-inarriage of the QUEEN Of ETRURIA, and that LUCIEN BONAPARTE will take on him a considerable Post of Government in Italy. LAUENBURQ, 34. N. 2 r.—To.slay the Uussars of Chamborand leave the l)utchy of Lauenbuig, and return over the Elbe to Luneburg, where-they will be cantoned in the neiglib,,uripg villages. Instead of them, we receive two companies of Chasseurs. In tl;e towns of fluenbyrj„ Ratzeburgh, Munn, the stritest discipline is; observed ; in order to maintain which, no`Soldier'is suffered to be seen in any public-house after eight o'clock in the evening; and any landlord who serves theni after ‘.l::t titnf with wine or brandy, is fined ten riy. doll Irs. HAGUE, JAN: 17.—Yestelday i•ur Ct , uncil of Wa r publicly passed sentence 'on Itar-Admiral STORY, and thy Captains VAN DE CAFELLEN and VAN BRAAM, who in the year 1799 .gave up Our Fl eet ,. in the Flitter, to the English. They are d e , : l ar ed disgraced, perjured, and infamous, degraded from their posts, and banished the Republic, not to return on pain of death. These three Officers, it is well known, are in England. On Friday_the r3th inst. a kind of Earthquake was felt along the Lower I\e/aese, in the villages Vleardingen and Maeseland, and at Rotterdam and at Schiedam. It ,was., rot, a sudden shock, but a slow undulatory motion' of the earth, similar to what was felt in Hollan'd'ial the time of the Earth_ quake at Lisbon in 1755. To provide for the extraordinary expenditure of the present'year, the Direaory has resolved on a new extraordinary Contribution on the Property and Income of all the Inhabitants of the Republic, which is to be levied as a gratuitous gift. The amount of this Contribution will be forty millions of Florins. The Inhabitants who are to contribute to it are divided into 32 classes ; the first of which is assessed at 16,000; the 2d at 14,000; the 33 at 12,000, &c. the 31st at 7, and the 323 at 3 Florins. The contributions is to be paid at four instalments, in money or in good State-paper, among which is reckoned the Rescriptions redeemable in the pre sent year. Domestics whose Salaries is less than 20 Florins, are exempt from the Tax. The plan of this Contribution will be laid by the Dire(tory before the Legislative Body at its next meeting, on the Ist of February, for its sandion. The day before yesterday four persons were ar rested here, charged with being English Spies. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 17. —Eleven Transports have sailed from Flushing for Ostend. General MON. NET has published a very striet Ordinance, to pre vent accidents on board the Flotilla, arising either from carelessness or treachery. No fire is to be made on board any Flat-bottomed Boat or Transport, nor any to be kept on bo a rd airy Ship of War after eight o'clock in the evening. During the night strong patroles are appointed to watch. Yesterday morning His MAJESTY went in his carriage to the Riding-house, attended by Generals MANNERS and SPENCER, and rode on horseback between the hours of eleven and twelve. About twelve o'clock, HER MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, ELIZAISETH, MARY, and SOPHIA, attended by the Countess of HARCOURT and Lady MANNERS, touk an airing to Blackheath, and honoured the PRINCESS of WALES with a visit, at her house in Charlton, and after partaking of some refreshment, returned to the Queen's-house. PRINCESS AMELIA took an airing through Hyde Park in the King's chaise. On her Royal High ness's return, Princess SOPHIA of GLOUCESTER visited her, and dined with her Royal Highness. At a quarter before two o'clock His MAJESTY arrivd at St. James's Palace, and in a few minutes after his arrival gave a private audience to Mr. AD DINGTord. After which fits MAJESTY wept to the Great Council Chamber, and held a Privy Council for the purpose, we understand, of pricking the Sheriffs for the ensuing year, and other business. ft was attended by Their Royal Highnesses the DUKES of YORK, KENT, and CAMBRIDGE, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the CHANCELLOR Of the Ex- CHEQUER , the Duke of PORTLAND, Marquis Of SALISBURY, fl.arls CHATHAM, HARRINGTON and PAUL ET, Vis. CAsTLEREAGH, Lords (:.SOMERSET, HAWKESBURY, SOMERVILLE, FALMOUTH and ST. HELENs, the MASTER of the ROLLS, the JUDGE Or the ADMIRALTY, Sirs C. MORGAN, W. GRANT, S. COTTERELL, G. OsBoRN, General PovriTz, Messrs: CORY, YoRKE, A. PAGE; SMYTH, LIE RS, HUNTER and 14 ATLKNER. The Council sat upwards of an hour, after which His MAJESTY gave pri‘late audiences to the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord 'HAwKEsBuRY, Earl CHAT. H•Am, and Sir CHARLES MoRGAN, who laid before His MAJESTY the determination of several Court MAttialS. Soon after five o'clock, His MAJESTY left the Palace for the QUEEN'S house to dinner. His MAJESTY appeared in excellent health and spirits, and went through the business of the day with his accustomed ease and good humour. This day at one o'clock, His MAJESTY was held a Privy Council at the OtieEN's house, for the pur pose of receiving the Recorder of London's Report of the Convifts capitally convided at the Sessions before last at the Old Bailey. We are concerned to state that His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES is much indisposed at Brighton : and early yesterday morning Sir WALTER FARQUHAR and Mr. WALKER set off to attend His Royal Highness. Yesterday forenoon the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE o f WALES arrived at Carleton House from Black_ heath. We are authorized to say, that the SPEAKER'S weekly Levees commence on Saturday next, the 4th instant, and will continue on every following Sa turday till further notice. Earl ST. VINCENT went out of Town on Satur day last to his seat at Rockets, in such a bad state of health as to awaken the alarm of his friends. _ _ Mr. TIERNEY gave a &and Dinner on "Tuesday, at his official residence in Somerset place, to a nu merous party ; among whom were the Duke of NORFOLK, Lords HOBART, HAWKESEURY, and LIMERICK, !Messrs. ArIDINGTON,YoRICE,BRAGGE, COREY, SHER funia , rti sic' NE, SHEEN, and Ho House. The ccinsid;ration . of-the Middlesex Petition was yesterday postponed till to-morrow, in consequence of the objeftion taken by Mr. Fox to the informa lity of one of the Petitions presented in behalf of Mr. MAINIVARING. It is reported that a Bill for the Relief of Insol vent Mbtots is 511()Itly to b; bronhE into Pallid ment. ' LETTERS are received from the Cape of Good Hope, dated the 29th of 06tober, which state, that imme. diately on the receipt of the intelligence of the War in Europe having been renewed, the Gover nor of that Colsmy ordered seals to be put on the whole of the property belonging to the East India Company ; and on the following day -(Septem bet 29) a Proclamation was issued, forbidding, under any pretence, the transfer of any species of property belonging to English Suljeas, under pe nalty of the whole value of the goods, and com manding, that no debts due to the S4biels of HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY should be paid, under pe nalty of three times the value of allpayme.nts so made. So harsh a measure as the seizing of all private property, naturally threw the English in. habitants into the utmost state of alarm, and a meeting was in consequence called, at which it was agreed, that a Memorial should be presented to the Governor upon the subject. A Committee of the British Merchants, headed by Mr. PRINGLE, the Agent of the East India Company (to whom the Batavian Government was under very considerable obligations for pecuniary assistance, without which their garrison would have proceeded to a general mutiny), accordingly waited on His Excellency with a remonstrance, on the 2d of Oduber, in which, after calmly representing the injustice of the measure, and contrasting it with the mild and liberal proceedings of the British Government on similar occasions ; they reminded him of the en-' couragement held out to them to remain in the settlement, and their peaceable and industrious de meanour since the reestablishment of the Batavian Government ; and concluded by declaring their readi ness at the same time, to enter into suc,h obligations fur their future propriety of conduct as His Excel.. lency might think proper to exam, consistent with their true allegiance to their King and Country.— This remonstrance, we are happy to find, produced 'the desired effeEt ; for, in a few days, another Pro., clamation was issued by the Governor, revoking the harsh measures complained of in every respel. The Dutch Inhabitants are daily expelling and ardently praying for an English force to appear before the town, which, there is little doubt, would surrender without firing a shot. The strength of the garrison is 2300 effective men ; the Hottentot Corps is disbanded and dispersed in the country ; and they have not a single ship of war on the:station but several privateers, both there and a';',fhe Matirititisr are fitting out, under the idea of ' - snisicePting our homewatd-bound India Ships. No intelligence had arrived at that time of the return of Liiiots' Squa- . dron to the Mauritius, from which place, as appears by what we stated yesterday, it certainly sailed for India. The small garrison of the Cape was in such a state of insubordination when the intel ligence of the war arrived, that the Government thought it necessary to increase their pay and d o uble their rations, in order to keep them quiet ; and it was making a feeble effort to call out the Burgher who however, had declared themselves to, a man unwilling to oppose their best friends tM English. These Letters mention also an idea gene-, rally entertained at the Cape, of Mr. PRINGLE being entrusted with certain overtures from that Gover" ment to His Majesty's Ministers, with regard to Settlement. If, however, His Majesty's Misist et had a due sense of the importance of thit key t° India, they would not have waited thus long fo r any overtures from a Power that is hostile to Great, Britain, when they knew, or had the means 131 knowing, that two Ships of the Line, and a few . hundred men, might at any time have had possessioil of the Settlement. Mr. PRINGLE, we understand , is on board the Experiment, which arrived a feW day s ago at Cork. Yesterday a Court of Direlors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders' took leave, previous to departing for their respec' tive destinations, Capt. JAMES LI/ DOVICK GRANT , of the Br:stip-wick, and Capt. ANDREW HANNAY/ - of the Marquis of Ely, for China. • Captain DONA L D NPLEOD, of the Waithamstortut and Capt. J A MES JAtvM E soN, of the AfitiffOn'. - were sworn into the command of their jetPeCitv'e shitAf By a private Letter received frotiV-v-Ctylon, we are sorry to announce bad accounts from that IslanJ• The climate had so reduced our Troops at an inland Fort, that the Commanding 'Officer, Major Div/ VIE, found it necessary to propose a Capitulation' which was agreed to; hut no sooner was it carrie d into effea, than a body of Malays in our servic e joined the Natives, and murdered all our Officers , except one, who escaped., Among the sufferer s were Major DAVIE, Captains GRANT, PL E NDER" LEATH, MiLE AN, &C. Yesterday a Committee of Gentlemen, Planters, and Merchants of Barbadoes, with the Agent at tieir head, waited on Lord SHAFORTH, the Gover nor of that Island, in St. Alban's-street, t o con gratulate him on his safe arrival from th e Wrest Indies, and to invite him to a public (liilncr. - '• , c: - Lordship has, by his upright and vigorous adnii n a stration of the Government, deservedly obtitio.e the approbation and esteem of the Colony. Lad, SE AFORTH remains in Barbadoes, whither his Lau' ship proposes speedily to return. Advices from Port.au-Prince, previous to the Capitulation of the French Army, state , t h a t Ro'. CHAMB EAU behaved to the inhabitants with 11 0 • greatest cruelty. He ordered 200,000 dollars to be raised by them in four hours. A merchant, whose name was FR E DON, was shot for not raising his pr(o' portion in time. His brother endeavoured to ge t • the money, but was too late. Rocca AMB EAlf coo' fiscated, and took possession of the house anti elfea s of the FR E DONS. We hear from authority, the zoth, or East De von, Regiment of Foot, who g ly volunteer ed their services to Egypt, and had a conspicuous shar e of the noble expl o its t he re , an d now Kw:ling - a part °( the brave Garrison at Malta, have;6if the most is fr triotic manner, come forward a 'voluntary l're scnt to Government of two d a y' s p a y i n sup s 011 °f the present War. It is most likely this lop' er e ample will be followed and a d opte d by 411 Regiments of that Garrion. The Light Infantry Companies, of !he Gult ls e praaised the new bayonet exercise yesterday DUKE of GLOUCESTER'S Riding.housc in Hyd: far''