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+a;.d'= the r •A to the lag xt-cniity. ?loyal ra tnily of Na . ,los'have, : it is said, taken meastwes for retiring to Malta, in caEe of necessity. An article in the • Pre.)burgh Gazeite states, that the Russian Armies are advancing ag - ,ainst . prussia but we•think the intelligence rather premature. It is, reported in Germany, that Prussia is to cede to the Ele6tor of Saxony what she has acquired by the two partitions of Poland. That Prince is also to receive the West Gallicia, Lithuania, and is to be crowned King of Poland. In recompence, the Elec torate of Saxopy and Lusatia are to be yielded up to Prussia. The Emperor of Austria is to receive In denmities in another quarter. Lord HOWICK laSt. night submitted a Motion to the. House of Commons, Ole objeet of which must give the highest satisfaaion to the, Country at large, as it is io increase the Pay of its Naval Defenders. Lord HENRY PETTY, in the House of Commons, last night proposed two Amendments to the Property Tax, by the first of which, those persons who by inanual. labour do not gain more than' 30s. a week,' or ss. a day, should be wholly exert pted : by the second, that the scale of gradation should be ex tended from loot. a year to 1501. in the same man ner as proposed in the original state of the Bill from 501. to .1001. The RoYAL FAMILY - Will - set Oft" for Weymouth between-the - t 1 th and' 14th of June. • Preparations are making at Windsor for their departure, and at Weynionth for their reception. Yesterday morning the Duke of Kr,sr,- Princesses Al/GIiSTA and SOPI/lA, accompanied by Col. TAY LOR .anil Lady THYNNE, took an airing on horseback' in Windsor Park. _ Yesterday the Stafford, or King's own Militia, was reviewed by Earl UXBRIDGE, ill Windsor Park. Yesterday the DUKE of Yotqx waited upon His . 3141451'Y at WindSor, and Jaid before him 'the monthly return of the state of the Army. Yesterday the PrtnicEss Marty completed_ her 30th year. In the evening THEIR MAJEsTrEs:had a numerous party of Nobility in honour of the day. The DUKES. of KENT and SUSSEX went to Windsor to be present. The military forte about to embark in our ports will Consist Of about 12,000 men, and Lord C4TH c4RT iS mentioned as the Officer to be appointed to the command. Of the .destination of this expedi tion we do not pretend to be accurately informed ; but the general report of yesterday was, that it is in tended to co-operate with the King Of SWEDEN. The 99th Regiment ) from JerSey, are now on board Transports at Portsmouth, destined for Ber muda. Part of the.2oth Regiment is in Sicily, and the remainder, now at the Cape, is- to proceed to India. It will be replaced by the 21st Light Dra goons, which go out dismounted, - having transferred their horses to the German Legion. The principal part of the Garrison of the Cape of Good llope consisted of Austrian Prisoners, taken at the battle of Marengo, and sold by BONAPARTE to the Dutch. The TroOps, and others at that Settle ment, have volunteered for British service ; and accordingly,' three skeleton Battalions of the 60rh Regiment, none of which amount to 70 men, in cluding Officers; are now embarking at Portsmouth for . the Cape, with intent• to complete their quotas with these Dutch and Austrian Volunteers. They carry out stores, clothing, &c. for the full comple: went. Lord ST. JOHN succeeds Lord WILt.IANI BEN TINcK a 5 Governor of Madras. The Hon. General MAITLAND, from Ceylon, succeeds J. Du N c AN, Esq. as Governor of Bombay. Mr. FARQUHAR succeeds Mr. DUNDAS in the Government of Prince of Wales's Island. The amount of the Subscription at Cambridge for the intended Statue to the memory of the late night WI%I. PITT, was, on Thursday, 66061. 1 gs, • • PLYMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Brig Not tingham, of and from IpSwich, LAWSON; Master, laden with malt, captured'by the French Schooner Privateer La Con lance, and recaptured and carried into Cork by the Confiance Sloop of War. Also the American Ship Thomas WUSon, Capt. - BURNS, laden with sugar and coffee from Philadelphia, bound to Amsterdam, 'detained and scot in 'by the Betsey Privateer. Arrived the Ranger Revenue Cutter, Captain PaizLß, from a Cruize ; and the Unity, c aptain Anir4s, from Guernsey. Also 'the Swedish. Brig; 4mphiqn, of ,Gottenburgh, ANDRIES STEABERO, Master, from St. Übes, with salt for Gottenburgh ; the Apollo , ROBINSON', and Sampson, , HAItRIS, from . London ; with stores for the Vi6tualling Office at this Port ; the Adventure, WoLg, from Har wich, with malt, &c, bound to Liverpoot. Arrived the . Cwifiance SlOop of War from a Cruize. Sailed the Maucheron Sloop of War on a Cruize to the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, Arum 25.—The Foments Frigate, Capt. Long, with about sixty Sail of the Lisbon and Oporto Fieets, brought up at Spithead and the Mo therbank, three of which, Med Corganen, BERG-. LUND, for Dantzle ; Robert, HENay, for. Memel, and Pomona, BoLIN, for Stockholm, are detained, having Prussian property on board. The Fleet sailed the'2sth ult. which consisted of 35 English Ships and 64 Swedish. • _The Antelope Cutter has detained the Franciscus, . LI NORtusA N, from Havannah, bound to Twining'', laden *it h sugar and coffee. FALMOUTH, APRIL 2 3 .--Arri%'ed the Ship n'i/- SINCLAIRE, from Loudon, bound to the West Indies; Hamburgh Brig Edward, from Charles •town, sent in here by the Uranie Frigate, which is now coming in with two other prizes, but cannot learn particulars. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Gibraltar for a Cruize. DEAL, APRIL 2.5 .—Arrived —Arrived the Seagull Sloop and Am- !der Gun-brig from a cruize. .I'ased through the Downs from the River for Portsmouth the Arniston, Cirencester, Marchioness of Exeter, Monarch, an,i Experin?ent, liastinditunene . • • 1111 - pEPIAL 1):11: Lid:3lE2;l, HOUSE OF PEERS. reIDAY, APRIL 25. The. Appeal Cause•Rosex. Lord Fife was affiente.d at once, without hearing Counsel for, the Respon dent. • Lord Possemity rook the oaths and his seat. MS Lordship was introduced between Lords Besborough and Dundas. Also, Lord WALPOLE, on his accession; to the title of Earl of Orford ; introduced between Lords Spencer and Fitzwilliam. Lord HARDWICKE took the oaths and his seat. THE IMPEACHMENT. Lord RADN9E renewed the subject of . yesterday's conversation respecting the propriety - of enforcing the standing Order of the House, which requires that the Peers should keep the places allotted to them, according to their respe&ive rank, at the ensuing so lemn Trial. The more he considered the matter, the more he was convinced of its propriety. Pre vious, therefore, to moving that the Order be enforc ed, he should now move that it be read. The LORD CILINCE.LLOR argued at some length, and - with much felicity •and illustration, against the Motion. The Noble Lord, be said, find ing that his object was defeated last night,-7endea voured noW to give it a new aspe6t, which he might expect would bestow a new interest and attraction to it, and thus procure it n greater number of parti zans. But the-Noble LOrd would be disappointed. Notwithstanding his strict regard to fru, and the number of attitudes in which his ingenuity might bring forward and place such Motions, their Lord ships would not forget that form was but' the ex ternal attendant andguardiazi of. justice; and such should be religiouslyaibserved : but they, would re coiled at the same time that such steps and atten tion should not be devoted to it as would seem to in sinuate that the anxiety of the House turned upon nothiii eke, and that the substance was sacrificed and made subservient to the form. The rank, as Speaker Of the House, which he iLla the hon , ur to bold among their Lordships, imposed it as a duty more peculiar to his situation, vigilantly to superin tend the due tinsel ranee; Of form, and that part of. hiS duty, as well as every other, he shodid be studious to perform. The. object of the Noble Lord's Mo tion to him appe4redwhelly nugatory, and he, should give it his decided negative. Lord A UCKLAND.appealed to NN/hat had passed at the last Trial of that solemn natdre, and asked if the strictest attention was not paid to decorum, though no orders had been proclaimed to enforce it. Lord CATHCART thought the proclamation of the orderS might be useful, As an adwonitidn to ob serve it, but - no further. Lord SPENCER was nearly of the same opinion., Lord RADNOR persisting in his Motion, a divisiOn took place. Contents 1 o.—Noneobtents 37. — Majority against the Motion 27. INTERCOURSE WITH AMERICA. Lord SHEFFIELD rose to, move for several additi onal Papers, which he thought, necessary to the fur ther illustration' of this important subjed. He should therefore first Move an humble Address to His Ma-- jesty, requesting instrudions might be given; that 'there be laid before the House a Copy of the Re port of the . Boad of Trade; delivered in Feb. 1784, to the Privy Council. Lord ,HOLLAND, was not for objeaing to the produ6tion of the Paper, though he did not see that any use whatevercould be derived from it for the illus tration of the subjea of the Bill he had the hon Our to' introduce, while it. would be produ(tive of much . trouble and delay. Lord SHEFFIELD contended, that this and many other Papers which be still had to move for would explain the state of that Trade at different pe riods, and the various opinions that were entertained of its tendency. After some further conversation, the MotiOn was agreed to, and Lord SHEFFIELD prOceeded to move for a similar Report delivered in Jan. 179 t, and for a Copy of all. the Memorials presented• at ditferent times .since 1801, against Suspensions of the Navigatien Laws. Lord AUCKLAND declared, .that not one of the Papers moved for„bf the Noble Lord had the least relation whatever to the objea of the Bill before the House. The object' of that Bill, he wished once for all to declare, ,seeme.d to be. wholly misunder stood by the Noble Lord. It by no ineans'ititended the introdudion of any change -in the Navigation LaWs ;' . its whole objed was to make that lawful which was now unlaWfdl, and -to make Ministers responsible instead of their subordinate servants.---s As to the Papers, they were so itolumihous, that it would employ sixty clerks for months to prepare them, which would prove a serions•derengeMent to public business, without mentioning the -expence at tending the produaion of them. If it was intended to create delay by moving for such Volumes, that intention would be frustrated, for lie was determined to proceed in the second reading of that Bill, with out waiting for any such Papers. Lord SHEFFIELD intimated, he should be satisfied with extraas. Lord AUCKLAND was at a loss to know by whose judgment anddiscretion the extraQs would be made. Lord HOLLAND dwelt upon the same objections, inchleelared his determination to oppose the pro duction of the Npers, as tending to no purpose. The Duice: of CLARENCE complimented the. Noble Lord (Sheffield) on his commercial knowledge, and thought, that for a -person so ,conversant in such matters, a reference to the Papers in question would be sufficient. Lord SIIEFFIELD pressed the necessity, of -his Mo tion, when the question was put, and negatived with , out a division. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, APRIL 25. Sir Jowl ANDERSON brought in a Bill to enable the Proprietors of the new houses near. Temple-bar and Snow-hill to dispose of them by way of Lot tery. Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time, • Mr. M A NNIN c brought iip the Report of the Com mittee on the London Dock Improvement •Bill. — The Amendments were agreed to, and the till or dered to be read a third time. On the Motion of Mr. WHITS FIED' KEENE, it wai ordered that there be laid before the House Gipieg ,of all Applications tO the Court. Of .PirectOri for . , . , . . „ k•.i.• ,e .e. ‘.. ~;• , i . ; (8 t ~„ - .1 , , ., . , . . i ‘ . , •• •-•,`r . • • • • ...1.111,..S l:a t tte • lbotS 0 ' l l % , kVi a tale amount , plaint pt gAto be alend'el 0, , attic Every c a u se isill thereof, anti] t' dessis:iona thereupori. 1 ' : Complaint removed. He had triltintelyeni'ef - eclintoth6' Mr. TN:EEL, the -City RethenThistrieers - ftsi•esetited inquiry, ,and We found that not s'eUlv the situation of aStatement of the Pregreas bf. the Works for the the Lieutenants, but also that of the higherOfficeess Iraprovement of the 'Rim of London. • ' was entitled to the consideration of the Country. 1... 1 / 1 „ On the Motiou of Mr. WA ITBIt EA Ti, a further der these Circumstance; he well knees that the remedy List of Witnesses was ordered to be sent to the ,would lose much of its value if it were not applied Lords, cootaining the names of .James Buckley., With promptitude. He would now proceed to the Hugh Goldicut, and James Chapman, in order tO classification o the clifferent rates of pay, according their heingssunamoned to attend at the Trial. of Lord to the different ranks. The - case of the Lieutenants MtAville. e - was not new to the House i some imprevementS The Tobacco Duty Bill was, read a third time and i had already been made in theircohdition. But with passed. respea to the superior Officers no alteration had • The Wine Duty Bill Went through a 'CoMmittees been made for above a century, With the exception The Report to be received on Monday. , ' - . of raising the pay of c ern:slanders of Ships of lower INIPEACHNIENT OF LORD MELVILLE. ' ', Classes to the seine rate with the higher. When he ./Vt. Secretary FOX; when . he leid on a former stated this fad to the House, it was sufficient of itself day Moved that the ;order tbr the second reading of to establish the necessity of the advance be meant to the Bill for the Repeal of the Additional Force Mt-} propose. A partial increase of pay ,bad taken.plaee be deterred till Monday, had not in his recollection last year to a class of Officers, who; he acknow that ore Tuesday a business was to come on of as . leged, had strong claims, the Masters and Surgeons. great Parliamentary importance as any the Executive He did not dispute the right of these Officers to this Government could have to be sanaioned by the House, j increase; but extending it to them alone, had the he meant thexlmpeachment of Lord Melville, Which 1 effea of destroying the proportion between theit the House had determined to attend in a body. If iI. pay and that of their superior Officers, and was a the House were to sit in . protraaed discussion to a ,principal motive with the Lieutenants to urge this , late hour on Monday night, it was impossible there desire for the increase alluded .to in the Petia• could lie thee: full attendance at helf s past ten on tion. He was certain, that a relief to any selec , Tuesday; the hour at which the House should pro- tion of classes could not be attended with the bene- sceed to Wesuisinater, that the dignity of the House, ficial of e& proposed. It was acknowledged by the - the importaece of the occasion, and the respea due superior Officers, that a considerable increase of pay to the Speaker required. After . Tuesday, the first to the Warrant. and Petty. Officers was necessary for day of the Impeachment, the same full attendance the good of the service. Some were of opinion that on that business would not be so necessary. lie ito the Seamen no increase was t necessare'; but on col would, therefore, - propose Wednesday or Thursday leaing the opinions at large of the ito experienced - for the second reading of the Bill for the Repeal of persons, and upon the best consideration be-could the-Mditional Force Aa.. ' • give, he thought kir:expedient to grant the lecrease 2.1 il. CA.A' N I .VG did not objea to the Motion ; to Warrant and Petty Officers, without a proportionate tits: Lay _low to but he hoped 11 i be fixed for the second increase to the Seamen. .The pay of the Seamen had, . reading of the Bill alluded to would be adhered to it was true, . been increased in 1797,; but even definitively— Without entering into the reasons i. since that time li rise had taken place in the price which 'were given for deferring the proceedincr be- of-the necessaries of life, add a decrease in the value yood Monday e every one must allow that this bust- j .of moneys which required an additional' increase at ness was also of the most important nature. Va- . , the present moment. But what rendered this increase • rim; eeports and considerations had gone abroad on partictilarly jtist end necessary:was, the vast advance the subjeet, embracing the whole Military Systein, • that had taken place hethe wages of Seamen ,in the which it was extrernely important to settle and ' set ;Merchant Service. To make an advapce in the - Navy at rest. as soon as possible.—He recommended Wed- bearing any proportion to, that, was impossible. • neaday for the second reading, as the nearest day of But when they recollected that the ad vance in 1797 the two proposed. . . • was general to *Men:Warrant, and Petty Officers, ' Mr. Secretary FOX acknowledged the importance, in proportion; if au advance of five shillings and :''c of the Bill • but the force of the grounds for putting I pence a month were given now to the'Warraut and it off must be felt by every one,---the indisposition i Pettyofficers, without any regard to, the Seamen, • of his Hon. Friend who originated .the Bill in the though it may be obviously los: the good of the scr first instance, am; the inaptitude of the business to vice, for the premotion.of order and diseipline, -and come on on 'Tuesday in the present. He agreed to en incitement togood behaviour in the inferior classes, fix the • second reading for Wednesday ; though he yet, When a refeeence to what wasalone in 1797 was could reckon with more certainty on the recovery of so direct, it was to be apprehended that such a par- , his Right Hon. Friend on Thursday.-=The seceed . tial measure would excite discontents in a great pro- . reading was fixed for Wednesday. • portion of the Fleet. He did not think that apiire-'. , RE-CR:W*IINC; FOR TERM OF YEARS. hensiun ought to be carried so far, if it:was ground- Lord CASTLER EAGH moved, that there be laid be- , ed on any unwarrantable expeaation ; but when fore the House an Account of the gross number of .he compared the apprehensions with the ground men that had volunteered from the Militia into the on which they stood, with the consideration that.the Line, in the year 1805, in: pursuance of .the Aft of i men Were taken from, a service of gicater cinblument, '45 Geoelll. together with an account of the effec- r andaleprived of every prospeZl , of• - •the advancement . . tive strength of the Militia-at thaCtime. .' . that Service afforded, the justice ef . the title must be The SEORET..-IRY at WAR said, the volunteer a - universally acknowledged. When irwas considered Ina- from .the *Militia !Or - general service - had first that mo s t o f th e se men were taken out of the Navy . e . taken place in I 79e. The term of .enlistment was at the commencement of the- late long War, that 4 . for five year's, during the. War. Thirty-six dune- after the interval of a short and disturbed Peace, sand men bad entered, and 'he bad never heard of which had not allowed .us to come to a peace any ill consequence.' establishment, we were again, engaged in _an ex- Lord- CASTLEREAGH never had stated that the tensive War, which - still continued, most of thetit measure of enli.stment for term, of years was-wholly had by this time passed thirteen years in the service, new, nor that it was inconsiitent with the 'make and were still to serve on : - when. a regard was of the Coontvy. But he did assert, that it had never had to the nature of the service they were upon, and - been 'adopted without a concurrent engagement, for •the hat dships they endured day after day, week after the duration of the War ; and that it had never been, week, and month after month, without variety to a right of the soldier to claim his discharge in time. i animate, without enterprize to enliven, or success to •of War. In 1799, the enlistment from the Militia i support them, disappointed in the hope of engaging had been . for five, years, or during the War, with a an en e my , whose study was - to_avoid and elude them; limitation of the service to Europe. In 1 see the . when all these were considered, every one would' , enlistment; bad been for service unlimited in time . see the propriety Of comforting them in their hard and place, and the number that had offered was duties with substantial proofs. of the high sense the greater in proportion than at the former period. The Country entertained of their merits. Frbm these fa& itself was of great importance ; the inferences considerations,' after inquiring minutely into the case, would be better discussed on a future occasion. he had felt-it his duty to recommend to his Majesty The Account was ordered, with a similar one for and to propose•to the House, a '.erY general increase the year 1799. of pay to a very considerable amount. At the same FAMILY OF LORD NELSON. time that the increase was to be general, it would be s Lord H. PETTY; in consequence of someinforrna- marked with a'suitable gradation. To landmen he lity, felt himself obliged to postpone, for a few days,• proposed to give no addition : they entered vtlion the Motion of which he had given notice, relative tarily ; they had the prospe& of advancement before to the proviSion for the Fatuity of the late Lord Vis- them ; they May - become able :seamen and petty count Nelson, which he would bring forward,, how- officers ; and this prospea was sufficient encourage ever,-at an early opportunity. meat to them. To Ordinary Seamen he proposef an . • addition of 6d. a-week : and to Able Seamen i s.— 'INCREASE OF PAY TO THE NAVY. -: To Petty Officers . as a reward for their services, as On the Motion of Lord HOWICK, the House went an - eecouragement. to ood, behaviour, and for the into a ComMittee of Supply, to which the Estimates, t - better support of order and discipline, he proposed of the Expellee of the increase of Pay to th e :Nav y , i 'to giye anincrease of 53. per month, which was by in pursuance of an Order of His Majesty in Council, many thought too small: slt was :intended .'alses to were referred.—Mr. Creevy in the Chair. . Increase: the number of Petty Officers,- by including • Lord HOWICK pursuance rose, in pursnce of his ne the captain of the forecastle, the captains of the lice, to submit to the Committee a preposition, tops, and the, captain , of the waste, and to allow which he was sure - would not meet any opposition ; these the same rate as aQuarter-master's Mate. To fin' he, was satisfied that every•otie wotild desire, as Warrant Officers he proposed to give an-increase of far as it may with propriety be done, to contribute 6s. a month which also many wished to extend far to the comforts of men standing' so high in every. ther ; but when it was considered that they were point of view, whose claims to, the gratitude of the attached to their ship's in peace as well as in war, Country must be deeply impressed o n ever y mind. and had same allowances,. this extension did net If any doubt existed, it must be only as to the ex- . seeth .necessary. A distinClion would be made be pediency.of making any alteration in the present sys tem, settled as it was. But he was convineed, that tweet' 6s. a , those in service and those in ordinary ; when he should have stated the grounds of the al teraa monta ters and bein the addition to the former. To SurgeonsMas no increase was to be given, their tion' he meant to propose, every one would feel the late advance' being deemed sufficient. To Chaplains force of them, and acknoWledge the justice He was no addition. of pay, but it was proposed to associate certainly extremely averse to imposing any additional burthens on the Country, for a burthen.this must with their offire that of school-master, to which 201. . a-year was to be annexed. Lieutenants had not had be called ; but when the propriety and . jtetice of if should be established, the merits of those who an advance since the time of Queen Ann e, w he n it was fixed at as. a-day ;it was propoSed now to give were the objects of.it Would cause it to be submitted 'to with cheerfulness.' He had been but a short tilos them an advance of is. a-day, which was rather too lit'le than too much. He Was confident than in,the officehe had the honour to hotd, when state- meats cattle to him from various quarters of the iiii• - the case of Captains of inferior rates s e as examined they . d to would: be found no less worthy of ccausideration. dequacy of the pay of the Officers of different ranks in the Navy. At length he was'infortned t h a t the ' He p ropose give, to all Captains above 6th rates ► 3i, a-day additional ; above 4 th ra tes, 4s. which general - feeling had gone so far, that Petitions vaere !eft at different ports for signatures to be transmitted would be accompanied with a better chance of prize him, for the purpose of being presented to - the t _ money. To Rear-Admirals he proposed g r a ntin g to House of Coinmons.•On exar 4 was reasonable i hang these Petitions, an advance of 3s. 6d. a-day the s to Vice-Admirals ss. he foutileothing,in them r tatt e lifiinable ; to Admirals 75. ; and to Admiral of the Fleet but he considered that moili'btedat : rying the wishes a Vat ds w los. The aggregate of the estimated c h a r g es under these various heads f 285,3061 a-year. For the, ;of the Petitioners into cited', - eetionable, and he reinainder of the present year, being eight months, discouraged it accordingly. Ipivin discouraging that mode of prosecuting - their objet, he thou*ebt it his 5 - from the tst May, only 193,0001. Would be necessa- I ' , rations were to be granted duty to itipiire into the fads alledged ; for in a sec- i ry.' Some further cou,sic.. , ~ sise that had stich claims on the Public, every corn- 1 to meritorious servants labouring under age and ilia.- ~~