The Sun. — London, England, 1806-05-24 00:00:00

. . every thing he bad been able to dicover, the articles were of the vel.y - begiquality. Burin SO - doMplete . an absence of all check on the extent - and tia:ture of the charge, it hecame his duty to-advert to the above circumstances. tie had so statedit oti a former day, and now he could not contradict what he then ,tltated: If he did not find credit•for his statement before proceeding to prove it, he- knew he should do "so when the Documents Were laid before-the He felt much obliged to the night lion.- Gent:lt-Mari for moving for these Papers, or any others which could throw . additional light on the subject. Fie Must state that it would take avery considerable time before the Papers could be produced, a delay which would principally arise froth the state of the Accounts themselves. He had therefore made the necessary inquiry as to what Papers could be produced this Session, and; after the Hon. Gentleman's Mo tion should bj assented to, he should more for - the production of such Papers: RAI of 'his Plan he might thus be. obliged to postpone till'next Session; keeping in view, however; thenecas=sity of the im mediate adoption of that part of it which regarded the balancing of the'•aceountsevery 'year; in the same manner with mercantile bodses: Any delay, however, he assured the House, should proceed, not from an idea of abandOning the Pjan, but from a wish and expe6.lation of being 'able to bring it to greater perfeCtion. '" Mr.. PERCIV>IL thringht, that 'instead of being. Hon„ offended at his Right otf„Friena for any ;thin , lii which had - fallen from'M,' . flie - Noble Lord ought to e been obtiged td Friend for 'affording hi,n ,an opportunity of doing,nway a false . impressionhis.foriner statenl,eqt bad created, and which what had. fallen . ,frnin, him this night was not altogether calculated to remove., By the very circum,tance of calling thern arrears,. ideas bad been excited in the public that there were millions of , arrears of balances outstanding; instead, as the No ble Lord must have meant hi tuself ,to be understood, that these were only arrears: of 'accounts. If the, public expeded that these were arrears of balances, 'and that they would produce a great deal of tr.oney, they would be much disappointed. was a matter ofdciubt,if, Oa the whole of those accounts, a single iota of balatice remained. , Lord H. PETTY explained, that the arrears he . had alluded to were.,surely arrears t)f . Accounts.-.- What the loss to the .Pubhew these Accounts might be it was impossible to say till the balances were ascertained., tie was surprised, he cenfessed, at the observation of the Learned Gentleman, as if it bad ben blameable in hirn at every-repetition of the word' arrears to omit adding the words " of accounts." Arrears of ,Aecounts were the subjea under inquiry; ind nothing else but Accounts could be meant. Dr, LA IFUNCE thought the obiertion one of the most absurd 3.rhich could well be figtarid. The turns talked of were nearly equal to 0.41 - National Debt, and yet it was alledgedthat there were people o ridiculous as to suppose that such sums could be in a staEa of balance. How, then, could it be con ceived that the Country had been carried on Mr. PERCIVAL and Dr. LAWRENCE mutually ex plained. Mr. HUSIELISON supported the idea of Mr. PER.- 01.YA1L.." Mr. WILIStRFORCI3 thought his Hon. Friend un der him (Mr. Rose) a little too tender as to persons Supposed to hold balances in their hinds. And his Learned Friend (Mr. PEAcivA.l2) had distinguished between arrears of halances . and arrears of accounts . unsettled, as if.the latter were not a great evil. Mr. PERCIVAL explained. Mr, PAULL thought the faez of there being Ac counts unsettled to the amount of 450 millions atibrd ed prima facie evidence that there would be great balances due. Mr. W. DUNDAS said, that from a new mode adopted in the War Office as to Regimental Ac- Counts in the year• 1798, by the Ruiistitution of monthly, instead of haft-yearly payrnents, - the Ac counts there would speedily be made up. The SECRETARY at :Wail concurred in this State._ ment. Mr.. Rost replied generally; when the Motion was agreed to. He also moved for Copies of all Letters from the Paymasters respeCting delays in making up. the Accounts, and far-a variety of other Papers con ne:aed with-the subject; - all of whiCh were agreed to. Lord HENRY PETTY then moved'for 2 variety of other Papers connected with the same subjeEt, lie expeCted might speedily be prodUCed ; all of which were ordered. The SECRETARY at WAR brought up the Bill for regulating. Chelsea Hospital, and for better providing ,for the Army at different periods of their service, agreeable to the-Plans submitted by Mr: Windham ; which were read a first time. -• _ On the Motion for the second reading, Mr. Pik, CIV - A.L again asked if an Estimate of the expellee of this innovation swas ready to be laid before the House ? . Tlse SECRETARY at WAR said, such Estimate Would be before the House against the period of the second reading. 7 - General TARLETOII renewed his complaint as to the House being kept in ignorance on the Subjea of the Army Estimates; when, after some conversa tion, the Bill was ordered to be printed, and to be lead a second t►me on Monday sennight. Lord TEMPLE then moved the third reading of the Tortola Free Port Bill. , Mr. Ron renewed. his : objeaions to the Bill, •in Which he was supported by Mr. Husxlssog: . Mr. PERCIVAL dwelt strongly upon -the objections to the measure, to which no answer had or could be attempted to be made by Ministers, 'who seemed resolved to carry through the'Bill in silence. The .question was called for, when the House divided, • For the third reading, Ayes; 35—Noes, 12---Ma jority '23. - „ The Bill was then read a third time and passed. On our return to the Gallery, we found Mr. Rosa moving for the Copy of a Letter from the Secretary at War to the Counniisioners of the Treasury, re- SPeaing Trotter's proposals for supplying military Mores. Mr. YANSITTART observed, that it was the wish or Aliniiters to lay before the House every • intbrtna Con that could be conslitentlydesixed upon any pub= subjea, and therefore there could be ub ob,iealou to this Motion., _ _ Mr.Loso expro.-ivA higconviEtinti that the House„ spew Will fully 4ufguaeti, swo i itt uci talanie could be imputed to His Majesty'g.late Ministers f c )r this or any . part of the transaetien elluded ;to in the late, Speech, of the Chancellbr of the Eke-ht.-her. It would appear,he was,satisfied that the bitlances due; or Still .unaccounted for, were not attributable to•any 1 . remissness .or undue impartiality on the part of the Administration he referred.to. • ', • Rosa'.a Motion was agreed to. . • The: House. having resolved into a Cdthrnittee of Supply,. on the. Motion of Lord HENRY PETTY, it was voted, that .300,0001 e should be granted for the use of . the Ofcers and-Seathen engaged in the aetion off Trafalgar. The Report *as ordered to be brought up on Wednesday. . . Sir Jbny NEWPORT moved the Order of the Day for going into a Committee on the Irish Customs' Bill. • Mr. Fostik.hoped the Right Hon.. - Bart. aVould not proceed upon this Bill in so thin a House. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said,. that there was no ground whatever for postponing the discussion of this Bill. It had undergone a yery•full discussion last night, and only went off upon the assertion of the Right Hon. Gentleman that the. Schedule - of the Drawbacks was not in the Bill. The fa& was; the Schedule was in the Bill, and that by some means or other it dropt out upon the Table; and was found there after the.discussion. He would ask the House whether, after the full investigation of the subjeCt which had taken place, this further attempt to delay , the passing, of the Revenue Bills could be 'consider ed Many other light than as a litigious and vexatious • opposition, Ca 4 .l.culated only for the par,iose of delay. Mr. FOSTER said, that since the Right Hon. . Baronet bad -thought proper-to throw an imputation upon him, he would convince the House that it - was : iMpossible that the Sehedule could be in the Bill ; for in the Resolution of the Committee of Ways and Means, upon which the Bill was founded, this . Schedule-was not to be found,• and consequently it could not have been regularly in the Bill. • Sir Joittaiewpowr asserted that the Schedule Was the strongest proof of which wis h that it .was referred to in - the Bill. The House then resolved itself into a Committee, Mr. ALEXANDER in the Chair. Me. FOSTER said he would not repeat his jeaions ,to this Bill, but he wished to understand, in point of form, whether, as the Schedule of the -Drawbacks was not voted in-the Committee of Ways and Means, it could now form a part of the Bill ? Tice SPEAKER said; that as the effeEt of these Drawbacks was to lessen, and not to increase, the Duties, he conceived they might then be inserted in the Bill. The Bill-then went through the Cothmittee, and the Report was ordered to be received on Wednesday. The Irish Malt Duty Bill was read a third time, and paced. The Irish Additional Force Bill went through a Committeee--Report on Wednesday. The House then resolved itself into a Com m itt ee on the'lrish Stamp Duty Bill. " • • Sir JOHN NEWPORT proposed a Clause to prevent the Evasions of the Duty on Insurance, which was praetised by completing part of the Insurance - in one Country and part in the other.. Mr. FOSTER approved of the Clause, and suggest ed the propriety of introducing a general provisioo by which every kind of instrument which had been stamped in Great Britain might be produced as evi dence in Ireland.without being re-stamped, and vice versa. • Sir JOHN NEWPORT approved of the suggestion of the Right Hon, Gentleman, but did nut think that it applied to the present ClaUse. Mr. VANSITTART said, he thought the Law had been as the Right Hon. Gem. proposed to make it, and there could be no doubt that it ought to be so ; -.hut it would be better to make it the subje& of . a separate Bill. , Sir JOHN. NEWPORT proposed ,several new clauses to' the following effea : that the Stamp Duty on PowerS of- Attorney to execute leases should be paid by the - Lessor, and not by the Lessee ; that per sons taking out same licences should take them out at the Office next to their place of residence, or else at the General Office in Dublin ; that no person should . be,iicensed to deal in Stamps where there was adistribator of Stamps ; which were agreed to. The remainder of the Bill then •went through the. • Committee, and the Report was ordered to be re ceived on Wednesday. Mr. FOSTER moved the Order of the Day for go ing into a Committee to take into consideration the Irish Mail Coach Ae - t Mr. FOSTER , moved, that the Chairman should apply. to the House for leave to bring in a Bill to amend. the , Sir JOHN NEWPORT observed,' that froth all he had heard upon this subject, the best way would be to repeal the -Bill altogether. At all 'events he, on' the part of-the Irish Government, deprecated any. attempt to impose upon, that .Government the re sponsibility- of superintending the .future arrange ments under this Ad, which he understood was in tended. '•‘ Mr. FOSTER assured the Right Hon. Baronet that no suchh - tbing as he alluded to was at all in con templation, With respeCt to the complaints against the Bill tinder consideration, and the Petitions on the Table respeCtine them, he . had e reason to think that the proposed amendments would reconcile all parties to the .measure. Col. FAutxtvea, Mr. PARNELL, Mr. FITZGE RALD (of Kerry), Mr. FRENCH, H. HAMIL TON, Mr . J, Daa.,;,,and Col. \TERMER, made some observationS' upon the.measure. Their general opi nion was, 'that the Ad ; under certain modifications, would beluite unobjeCtionable, , particularly as the . Right Hon. Mover's purpose now was, to-leave to the Grand Juries of the several COunties, with the assistance of proper engineers, the arrangement .of the different Roads in future. The House resumed, and leave was given to bring in the Bill ; which is to be printed and circulated in Ireland, in - order that all ,parties concerned may have atvopporynity of examining its provisions. Mr. ALEXANDER hi-ought up the Report of the Irish Revenue Regulation Bill.—Agreed to, and the 'Bill was ordered to be read a third-time on Wed nesday. ••The third reading of the Property Bill was, post , poned 01 Wednesday, to which day the Douse-ad journal. MAILS. A4IItIVILD-n DI Win, t Watirford. Drs--t Gottenbursh, A. La: bun. A Dublin. 4 %Valet lord.. • PRICE OF STOCK§ ?His DAY AT TWELUE O'C.LCPCK. eOnSOIStOr Op piing . 61! THE -SUN: i n ttM QUiS DICiRk FALSUM - AxpEcr ? 1, 0 N D 0 A", gATURDAY, MA'Y' Z 4, 1806. . . WE received last bight Paris and Dutch Pafiers; the farmer to the 17th, and the lattr to the 22d inst. from which we have riade several Eitra&s. The king expe6led change in the Government of Holland .has not yet taken place, :but though that event May have. been retaided by:the opposition whiCh it has 'met with from all claSses. of the People; we are con vinced that it will very soon take place It is stated that BONAPARTE intends Making a ,jour ney to Brussels. The object 'of his • visit to that City is tiot stated, but as he is to be accompanied by Lotiis Boxi,ARTE, it is most probably cooneaed stritb the intended changes iii Holland. These Pa pers contain no ,intelligence either from Germany or the South of Eulope. The report of the evacuation' of Cataro is not mentioned in any of the Fiench PaPers: The Session of the French Legislative Body 'elokd on the 12th inst. The French Funds are 6 L--4go. THE SECRETARY at WAR (General FITZrATEICK), lastnight, after paying a warm tribute of applause to the Managers of the Impeachment against Lord Vis count MELVILLE, concluded with a. Motion that Thanks of the House should be given to them fbr their faithful management 6f the Trust reposed in them. This Motion was agreed to with one dissent ing voice. The SPEAKER then addressed the Mana gers, and delivered a high eulogium on - their condua upon the occasion referred to. The SEcarTArri at WAR then expressed his hope, that though his for mer Motion did not pass nem. eon. yet' that the one Which he .bad now to offer would obtain the mous approbation of the Hou . se - He then moved that the Speech of the SPEAKER should be printed. -=-Mr. PERCIVAL declared that he should not OppOse this Motion, or deny that.it was 'authorised by, pre cedent ; but he signified that. he should probably consider it as his duty to bring forward a Resolution, on a future day, for the purpose of withholding a Vote, of Tiianks, on similar occasions, till the final conclusion of a Trial. We have authority to state, that on Friday next Mr. WiNDHAM_will lay his Plan for Recruiting the Army before the House of COmmons, when its im portance, and the expeCiation it has excited, will engage a full attendance. Its merits will then 13.?, duly appreciated; -it will receive such improvements as it may still be capable of; and will, we have no doubt, prove the most probable and best mode of inc.-easing our Regular Army. THEIR MAJESTIES had a Seleft party on Thursday to celebrate the Birth-day of the Princess Euza, BETH. Among the company, were, Earl CHOI MONDELEY, Countesses CHOLMONDELEY and WEST MORLAND, Lord CATHCART, Lady WALDEoa4vE, Generals . FriZßOY, DE BUDE, and HARCOURT, CO-, lonels SNEYD, TAYLOR, and s DESBROW, and the Hor.. Mr. VILLIERS. THE ARTS. .:The event which 'occasioned' the death of the heroic NELSON, must always be 'ranked among the most conspicuous subjects of British 'History. It was natural, therefore, that all the powers of POETRY and PAINTING should be exerted to do ho nour to a subject of so much triumph .and so much regret. Many poetical compositions 'have appeared of considerable merit ; and 'the Artiste of, this Country have been emulous to pay homage to the 'manes of the great Naval Hero. But the best work which has ' yet been produced on this great and interesting subject has at length come • from the pencil of Mr. WEST. He has, indeed; treated it with so much success as.. to eclipse' all., his formeflabours, and to give ample s,*sfaclion:44 the critical mind. He has rep:esented the dyitig with . . an appearance of pious resignati6n, in ex.aet.. unison with his charader, and in a manner t hat makes a powerful Impression on the feelings. All -the sur- , rounding figures are placed in such a point ofyiew as 'to heighten the striking and : pathetic interest of ,the piece. To add to the impression of the awful scene, the whole of the figures are portraits of those who were aEtually concerned in the glorioUs aaion. The ingenious :Artist has liberally' opened his house in order to indulge all persons of taste wilt a - view of a Piaure that must be so generally interest ing. We rejoice to find that this admirable work is to be assigned to Mr. HEATH, from whom we May expe& a Print that will render as Much justice to . the original as it is in the pOwer of engraving to best Ow. It was a peculiar advantageHto Mr. WEST to 'lpe personally intimate with the Hero whose glorious end he' has represented with so Much skill, and he was hence enabled. to give a filithfial portrait of his featuree, and to estimate in a great degree the noble qualities Of his chataiier.• We shall close this article with an interesting WI. Lord NELSON was once speaking to Mr. WEST of .his memorable Picture, the Death of Gett .Wolfe, anti advising 'him to paint a companion to it, The Artist paused a moment, and then said, " I shall never think'Of a companion to the glorious end of that patriotie Hero, unless, Sir, it should be your titte to 11111 in the service of your Country, and mine to surviv=e such a subjeEtfor national lamentition." Aci VA :IT - , E HARWICFI, MAY, e 23.----TliC Amity Extra P.lcket arrived yeAertiay fromGottenbtirgh v . 'ith a The-Packets, with the ou*aidrb,Aina - Mails, are yet detAined by contrary winc4. The PrUssian Ship De;- Friede, Arm, ckmAr:r, from. London to DAntzte, is thisday released fro n the embargo, and permitted to proceed on her voyage. SHEEkI4ESi, MAY 23.--Arrived the 0/pkems; of 3 guns, Capt. BRIGGS, }roll] Went out of Harbour the _<liztelQpe. The Conroy, under, the orders of .. the .Bonetta, which had proceeded as far the Warp, bore up lest night, and returned to . .their old anchorage at the Nore, owing to the bad appearance of 'the weather. It is understood that die Vcsseli captured off' Tra falgar will be ordered tound . to Chatham. The Winchelseti has the signal for Convoy to Ton ningen, And - the Diligence fot the Northard and lirestwrd. FALMOUTH . ; hfAY 21.--- ., Arrived the /Virfo/h Hero, CALVIIT, front Quebec for London ; and the Gun-brig, with several V esse l s under ConVO, from Portsmouth, bound to POrtugal and the Meditetra: nean: , PoItTSMOUTH, APRIL 2.3.—Arrived the Honflurai Packet, EDWARDS, from New South Wales, lad;'n with furs, skins, fire. ; and the Brig Eika, Capt, E. SKR/7', from bound to Hamburg - I), laden with fruit, detained by the Forward Gun -brig. Sailed La GOnstance Sloop of War, Capt. GRIP- Frnis, on a Cruize off Cherbourgh. The Racehorse Gun -brig is appointed to Convoy the Fleet.bound to the Mediterranean instead of the Jamaica Frigate. • The Ville de Milan is dropped down to. St. He len's, and will sail to-morrow morning. Came into the Harbour, for the purpose of un--, detoink repairs, the Re.Fistarxe Frigate. - The Fleet which sailed from Cork on the 3d of March, under convoy of His Majesty's Shi p Media/6r, for the West Indies, were all well on the (251 ii March in lat. 27. 30. long. 20. 30. except the Joiin, WOODHOUSE, frO;il and the Hope,. ---,--, from. Cork, both hound to Jamaica, whica had paste A Letter from . Capt. SURAM of the Kingston, from the South Seas, arrived. at St: Helena, 'dated' the 24th March, states as follows As 'there is not the least prosped of a Convoy, we.inte:.l sail on the 27th inst. for England, in company with the Brook 'Poison, and three or four other Whalers,:" His Grace the Duke of lienFoßn has given orders for a, sele&number of hiS celebrated Woburn flock South Downs to be shipped for' Ireland. From so auspicious an introdulion of this valuable species, much it provement ma v soon 'be expeded iti the breed of sheep in that isiand. . • Of the various institutions-which have lately been offered to public notice, none seems more deserving of general attention and support than the Plan e)1- plained yesterday at the' London Tavern, 'by Mr. LUDLAM and from the number of subscriptions im mediately set.down, *little doubt can be entertained ._ • of its success. BON MoT.- 7 --A Perforther OlDrury-lane.Theatre, respectable for his talents as a Musical Composer, and esteemed for his good-humour, which (knows him to relish a joke, even against himself, was lately consulting:Mr.-SnERIDAN, whether, considering the extensive number of his friends and acquaintance, it-:would not be a wise plan for him to commence Wine Merchant P"—" Yes (said. the, Wag), and you should describe yourself as importer of Music, and Composer of Wine !" On' Thursday evening a boat belonging to the Grand Jun&ion Company, arrived at Mr. IiCATER'S, Paddington Wharf, - which has been fitted up in Northamptonshire, for the purpose of bringing, at once, near one hundred live fat sheep to the London market ; this being the first attempt of the kind, since the opening of this Canal, it excited consider-- able curiosity, and many spe&ators were assembled to sec this novel' sight ; .which consisted a com mon Canal-boat, which had in its bottom, by way of ballast, a lading of ten tons of a sort of lime-stone, from Southam, which is in great repute for water works on this there were tsvo slight decks, 'at a proper distance aboVe, each other, -and - a roal of - thin boards above, to shoot off the rain ; the space beteen each 4 the decks was divided by sliding boards into - near' fifty separate SO that each sheep had a distin& one to itself,, in "which it .could 'either stand or lie down at -plea sure. Mr. ALLEN, a salesman from near Braun - stow,. in Northampton Shire, accompanied the Barge from that place, in charge of the sheep, and in order to sell them at market. On the arrival of the Barge close alongside the wharf, the sliding boards at - the hide of the Boat, and between the pens, weft.; taken' out, and the sheep all walked or , jumped 'on to the 'wharf in ;he course of a few mi . nutes . ; after whin they were driven to -a field of grass for the. night. The - Boat left Braunston on Tuesday last at three o'clock, and in. 53 hours it 'arrived, after a journey of upwards.of 95 mile; it is expected that a similar Boat, laden with sheep, will now weekly arrive in future. ' Alai - Lied on the 21st inst. 'at Grea l t Dalby, in the County of Leicester, Captain ROBEaT HALL, of the 45th .Regiment„ to Miss MALTBY, only daughter of SAMUEL MALTBY, Esq. of Shelton, in the Count%) of Nottinghain., Died on Thursday last, at . his house in Queen Ann-street 'West, the infant. son of JAMES WEST, Esq. On Thursday night; about half past eight o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Wow), -Second. Master of St. Paul's Grareanar School, put a period to his existence, by hanging himself. For a considerable time prey O , JS to this melancholy event, his conda, at intervals, had indicated a deranged mind. A C goner's Jury .sat on the body, and returned a verdi& of ,