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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS'. WEDNESDAY, lAN. 29. THE House met about half past three, and after going thrOiagh some private bUsiness, adjourned till HOUSE OF COMMONS. *EDNE . SDAYI JAN. 29. A Resolution' was carried that - no Petitions -for Private Bills Should be received" after the 7th of March next. The SPEAKER said; that he felt it his duty to call the attention of the House to the nature of this Re solution. thought it was extremely proper that such a 11,esolution'should .pass. He hoped that the House would . also consider that a very late period was allowed, and ~that therefore they \would judge whether it would be prudent to extend, it any far ther. The House resolved itself into a Committee of - Ways and Means:—The SPEAKER haying left" the Chair, Mr..HUSKISSON delivered some Propositions to the Chairman, which were, That the Malt Du ties,. which had been voted up to The 23d of June, 1806, should be contimied' to the 24th of June, 1807 ; That -the Duties, not exceeding 4s„ in the pound on Lands, , and the Duties on Pensions, Placeg, and Offices, should be continued for the space of one - year, from the 25th of March, 1806, to the 25th of March, 1807 ; and, That theaDutieS on 'Sugar, Tobacco and Snuff should also be conti nued from March, 1806, to March, 1807. r These Propositions were carried, and ordered to be reported to the'House.—Report.on•Friday. • • • ' Mr. STURGES BOURNE presented an Account of the bounties given for the Supply of Fish for .the Cities of London and Westminster, pursuant to A& of Parliament. Ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. YOUNG, from the Office of Colle6tor of the Customs,. presented to the House an Account of the number of Vessels, with their Tonnage, re. , gistered in the Ports of Great Britain, from January, 1804, to January, 1805. Ordered to lie on the Table. ' AFFAIRS OF INDIA. Mr. PAUL rose to make his promised Motion, respelling the production of Lord MELVILLE'S Let ter, relative to the Affairs of India. Many persons might be perhaps disposed to ask, upon what grounds such a young Member as , he was, could enter so particularly into the Affairs of India ? To such per sens his answer was plain 'and simple-: He was conscious of the imminent danger which threatened our India Possessions, and,' therefore, he was re solved to raise his voice, hOwever feeble, with a view to rouse the attention of the House to this point. The Home did not, by any means, seem to be aware of the alarming stateof the Affairs oflndia. 12Yhen the Debt of India amounted to 14 millions, Lord Melville had written to the Chairman of the. Company, recommending a - plan, which, in those circumstances, . appeared to him absolutely necessary to be pursued, and expressing his opinion, that if it wit; not purstted, the consequences would be dan gerous, not only to the concerns of the East India Company, but injurious to the prosperity of the CouM.ry et large.. HiS objea in moving for this Letter of Lord Melville, written when the Debt of the Company was only 14 millions, was this—he designed, some fitture day, to Move - for a Selea Committee of the Hotise, to inquire into the causes - af the alarming Increase of the Debt of the Com pany, and of their'failure to comply with the con ditions and stipulations agreed upon in their Charter. biT;ere were, unfortunately,. reports at present in which might render all such measures nugatory, respeeting a person upon whom a great deal of dependence for setting the Affitirs of India -upon a proper footing, was not improperly placed. [He alluded, probably, to the reports respeeling the death of . Marquis Cornwallis.] Be that, how. ever, as it might, he wished to keep this Motion. as separate as possible from those which he had ~ - r iade on a former occasion, with a view to the c o n dot of Marquis Wellesley. The object which he had at present in view, was one of the last importance,, since the Debt of the Company had increased from 14 to 30 millions, in the e3th year from the renewal of their Charter, without any of the conditions agreed. upon having been performed on their parts; it was high time to inquire in to the causes of these singular clr curnstances. It was with this view that he moved for the Letter of Lord Melville. Having read the Mo tion,. he begged leave to add one word more : Lord Melville bad written to the Court of Direc tors upon this subje&, in, the most earnest manner; nd, indeed, his opinion had been given. them, in some measure, with all the solemnity of a death v;arning. He would say this of Lord Melville, that Lis plans - for the regulation of India•were well con ceived, and proofs of pp ordinary comprehension in him who proposed. them, TJpon 'the execution of these, indeed, he was of opinion, that the very ex tstence of India, as connected with this Conntry, depended; and therefore he hoped that the. Dire ctors thernselVes would come' forward and promote this inquiry ; or, if not, that the Board of Con troulk or some individual of that Board . , would came • forward and give every assistance to the measure. If the debt of fourteen millions-appalled . Lord Melville, ;what ought to be the vigour and attention e'i4leyed pow, when the debt amounted ' to thirty MIIIIOns The'Direetors an 4 'the Board of Controul were i;i• some degree` boUnd *liy these thrcumtirtineeS to come forwarcl and give theje sUpport'fo such an Ipquiry he proposed. It would' he said, for he wished: to nuticiElate this objeetiotf, 'that the alai - Ming state of the. Dalt arose frinn the Ward that' b id taken place :n India. He was firinly . persuaded, however,' \that the Debt had not increased troin this causepzrZicu engaged to shOw, tinle;is the Direaors cam for.vard in this stair, •that it was owing to a cauv. , , of a very ditTerent nature. 'He Was•re36l‘'red, Pt: east as far as lay i;ower, to - fix. responsibi lity \ . -viiere.it ought to attach, and this was the' great k?biett which he had in the efforts whiat he •.nd tiiva.s inclined to Make ; op this snhjea. COneii - Cfled . by Moving--; • • • , • c* rrlt:t there be laid hefore thp f1p45 , ,13 Ccry of else xti .r I'll 7 - 'n 15' pt ight , eery now i ; ilVVlnCr4int Mcl4l)ltii t ..ottke cllairman of thy East LONDON, TIitIRSI7AY, JANUARY 30, 1806, IT :is stated, but we know not upon what autho rity, that Lord SIDMOUTI-I yesterday had •an inter view With Lord GRENVILLE and Mr: Fox respeaing the new Ministerial Arrangements. All conjeaures upon the subje& will, however, soon be at an end, as• Lord GRENVILLE will hate an audience of His MAJESTV this day, when he will submit tplirs MA JESTY the Plan of a New Administration, as ar ranged between him and Mr.. Fox. • It is stated in private Letters from St: Petersburgh, but we trust incorrealy, that Count WORONZOW, the Russian Minister, is dead. We understand that the Funeral of Mr. PITT will take place on Monday-next, if the preparations can be completed in time. THE .Medusa Frigate, which brought the intelli gence of the ddath of Marquis. CORNWALLIS, left Bengal on the 3d of November. She also brings advices,,that_ previous to the Much-lamented. death.Of: that Nobleman, ScINnIA had entirely 'separated himself froth the interests of HOLE R, and' had legated a Vakeel with lull powers to enter into a Negotiation for Peace with the British Government. The Vakeel had been publicly recei%•ed in 0212 by Lord LAKE. Sir R. 11.1,itoWc on whom the. Govern- . ment di. - I:;iii;ved on the death of MarquisCoßNwAws, had passed Benares, on his way to the Upper_ Sta tions, to 'dire: the course of the Negotiations. HoL- KAR'S Troops were again in motion, and had ad vanced towards the• Country of the Sheiks, from whom ? however, it was not apprehended be would 4ci:ve any assistance : • The :Calcutta Gazette Ertraordinary, announcing the death of Marquis CoßNwAws, an 4 passing upon his ch,,ta era w-ell-alerited e4ogiurn,; will be fappd in q subsequent Col n, together with the Ship News which the advicesLy the Methisa furnish. No furthcr intelligence has Iqe , 4n received 'fro,ra the porithwnt i - The attic liambfrglh 4UP !nu., howevrr, be hourly eNpeece=b as 40 . til4t of Lori HARROWBY. We regret to state, that the las . accounts from that Nobleman left him in a very ill state of health. Ire are happy to find that Mr. C ART WRIGHT gave notce, on Monday night, in the Hous , of Commons; of Ais intention to move for the payment of Mr. PITT'S debts: - - After the very liberal andjustmannei in which Mr. Fox spoke of the purity and dis interestedness of the chara6ter of that illustrious man; inert can be no doubt . that the Motion will pass witlnut a dissenting voice. TEE Treaties between this Country and Sweden and lussia, with the accession of the EMPEROR of GERrtANY and AUSTRIA to the Treaty' of St. Peters burg', were on Tuesday laid before.both Houses of Parliament. at appears very clearly, from the speech made by Lord CASTLEREAGH, on presenting the Papers in:the House of Commons, that the whole failure of the Campaign is to be attributed to the preci pitancy 'ofAustria, who, in sending her Troops across the ku, and advancing to Ulm, previous to their being joined by the Russian. Armies, acted contrary to her enpOments, and unfortunately gave Bolsi AI'ARTE thoopportunity . of taking those immediate - and de cisive steps which in their result destroyed the hopes of the Confederacy. This precipitate step of Aus tria is the more to be lamented, as, had her Troops remained on the Austrian side of the Inn until the Russians came up, a force would -then have been assembled of such imposing strength as to haye afforded every prospect of stemming the ambi 7 tiOns career of the Ruler of France, and reducing his power within those limits which would. have been consistent - with the safety and tranquillity of Europe. The exertions of Russia were commensurate with the - zeal of her magnanimous Emperor; the Rus sian Troops arrived on the' field of - a6tionjcvo - days' before' the time agreed upon, but unfortunately, in consequence of the previous measures adopted by Austria, they were too late. This morning the QUEEN and PRINCESSES -came to Buckingham-House from Windsor. - - • . Yesterday morning, soon after eight o'clock, the Duke of YORK arrived at Windsor; and after break fasting with His MAJESTY, rode on horseback with him, accompanied by the Duke' of Cammtinai,.. Princesses AUGUSTA, SOPHIA, and AMELIA, attend ed-by General FITZROY, Colonels TAYLOR and DESEROW, and Lady CRANLEY, in a.carriagenrilef) MAJESTY and the-other PRINCESSES took an airink. to Frogmore. A paragraph which appeared in the Public Papers raspeding the indisposition of the Prince Regent of Portugal, is altogether unfotinded. We have autho rity to state, that his Royal Highness wa k in good health when the last, accounts left Lisbon,. sand that he never was afflided with the malady alluded to. . LENT ASSlZES.—TheJudges_yesterday met 'in the Treasury Chamber of the King's Bench, and chose their Circuits as under : - NOR FOLK— Ldrd Ellenhnrcingh and Mr. justice Grose. MIDLAND—Lord Chief justice Mansfield and Mr. Baron. • Graham. Homy—Lord Chief Baron Macdona{d•and Mr. lustice Heath. Viz sTERN —Mr. Limn Thomson and Mr. justice Le Blanc. No ItT.IIERN —Mr. justice Rooke and Mr, lustice - Chambre. Ox Porto—Mr. fustice Laurence and Mr. Baron Sutton.' Yesterday a Court of Dire tors was held at the East India House, when the undermentioned Com manders took their final leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respeftive destinations. viz.— Captain D. MACLEOD, Waltharnstow and Wx. CIIARLES HUTTON, Lord Nelson, for St. Ilelenwand Bengal. His Majesty's ship Medusa arrived at Weymouth the 28th inst. sailed from Bengal the 3d of Novem ber last. The Baring, Airley Castle, and Union, ex tra ships, were left at St. Helena the 24th of De cember. _ _ _ 'The Baring, Airly Castle, Lord Hawkesbury; Duke of Montrose, and Devaynes, extra ships, sailed. from Madras the 10th of September, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Weymouth. The Devaynes parted' from the Fleet the 13th of Septe.nber, intending to , return to Calcutta., in au extremely leaky bad state, but had not arrived there, or at Madras, when the Medusa sailed. , , The Dorsetsitire had arrived in Sangur Roads, and was, under orders to proceed to Prince of Wales's Island, to join the China Fleet again. The Baring and Airley Castle parted from his Majesty's ship Weymouth, in' a gale of wind, in the I k atittule of the Cape of Good Hope. The Euphrates and Northumberland extra ships, oUtward-hound,,had arrived at St. Helena. When the Medusa sailed from St. Helena,. no ac counts had been received there of the (Veyrnouth, Lord Hawkesbury, and Duke of Montrose. An American, which fell in with the Convoy off the Cape, reported that Ltkots, in. tlie,Marengo, •w;;:ti the IlettepOoc, was cruizing between the Cap?..., and St. Helena for the Convoy ; it was conje&ured, therefore, that the Weymouth, with the other two Indiamen; had gone to Rio after the separation of the Baring and Airley Castle. The Narcissus Frigate. which sailed from Ireland, - with the Expedition under Sir HOME POPHAM; had been at St. Helena, and bad .sailed again to join Sir HOME, who clestinat;,m, it was supposed, was a.g-..aist the Cape of Good Hope, The Brunswick • Indiaman, prize to LINO'S, and the Atalnta French Frigate, were reported to have been wrecked at tho Cape. The Passengers by the Medusa, from Bengal, are G. A. Robinson, Esq. Private Secretary, and Cap tain Macleod, Aid-de-Camp to the late Marquis Cornwallis ' • Major-General Wemyss, late Com mander in Chief at Ceylon ; Major Hope, Secre tary, and Captain Wemyss, Aid-de-Camp to the Major,-General. Frot4 Bt. Helena--Captain Mow- bray, Aicle,de-Camb to the lion. Frederick. North, late Governor of Ceylon. India Company, dated the 30th of Jane, 1801, re ,speaing the Debt of the Company." Mr. .11 9 :4 I, LA GE had)io objedliori to the produc tion of the Letter now oiled for, at the sarde time, he wisl:ed it to be understood that in acceding to this be did not by any means accede to the pro priety and truth of f the observations of the Hon. Gentleman ‘l, - 'llO made the Motion, or to any future emotions ors Opinions that might, by him, be founded upon it: This also he must say, that the Honour able Gentleman had not ' aaed altogether with stria fairneSs, when he began with his Motion so early, and prefaced it with-so many remarks, which would haVe been more properly introduced when those. were present,whO might wish to hear them, and who Might be better able, from the situations they held, to meet them in a clear and proper manner. The Hon. Gentleman had adverted to the cause of the in crease of the debt, and touched upon an 'argu ment against him, which he wished to anticipate. He , was corre& in supposing that war would be al- lodged as the great cause of the increase of the India Debt, and, he had no doubt that when the subject came to be investigated, this would be proved to be the real state of the case.. Mr. PAUL wished to say -Dile word in reply.--,- He had come.early to the-House, and had certainly waited a reasonable time for ,those who might be best informed upon, and most interested in, this business. It was not I?is.wish to take the House, or any person in it, by surprise—but he had a.most important Cbjea in view, and was convinced that delay would highly prejudicial to the interests of the Coutitry. If there was a cause of the Debt foreign to the War in which India had engaged, and if by-this cause the Public had been deprived of the benefits that might result from the performance of the ebtiditions of the East India Company's Char ter, it was high time the business should be inves tigated, and that no delay should take place beyond What was absolutely necessary from the nature of the thing itself. The Motion was then put and agreed to. Mr. PAUL then gaVe, notice, that on Tuesday se'nnight he would move for a Sele& Committee to inquire into the causes of the alarming increase of the Debt of the East-India Company, and of their failure to perform the conditions, terms, and •stipu lations, 'contained in their Charter.. . Mr, JAMES FITZGERALD gave notice that on Fri day next, he wouldmove for leave to bring in a Bill to ascertain the exa& state of the Popilation of Ire land. ARMY ESTIMATES. The SECRETARY AT WAR brought up the Esti mates of the Army for three months from the 25th of December, 1805, to the 24th of Mara], 1806. These contained, the Charges of the Guards, Gat risons, and Infantry at home. and on the Continent, Of the Troops in thd Plantations, and of the Militia. The Hon. Gentleman .wished that the House should observe, that he made up the Estimates for three months in order to subject those who were coming into office to as little embarrassment on this subjed as possible. It might be proper also to remark, that he had made them up on the : ground of the state of the I'orces during the last year.—Ordered to lie on the Table. Adjourned till Friday. MAILS. - ARRIVED—I Dtibrill, z Waterford. Do E-4 tiamburgh, 3 Gottenburgit, 2 Waterford. THE SUN. SOLEM. QUIS DieERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? NA VA L IV E WS. PLYnOU . TII, JAN. 28.—Arrived the Kent; of 74 guns, from Portsmouth, on board which Ship Vice- Admiral Tuourisitoult will s hoist his Flag. Arrived the Cheerly Gun-brig from Gibraltar with Dispatches for Government, which were land -eTa Torbay on Friday last. DEAL, JAN. 28.—Arrived tho Thames from the Itjvpr3 Musquito from Yarrnouth and Urgent from trio Nore, FALMOUTH, JAN. e 7 . =Arrived the Atilericah Brig Mir;ilei, TALLMAN, from Norfolk, in 25 days, with tobacco. Also arrived the Venus, PARIT, from Naples, laden with brandy, in 4 days passage. . Sailed the /Valsinglzam Packet, ROBERTS ; and Lord Hobart Packet, , PAwsoN, for Lisbon, with two Mails each ; Princess 'Amelia - Packet, STE VENS, .for New York,. with Mails ; the Marlbo rough PaCket, BULL, for. Jamaica, with Mails ; and the Ainrican Ship Cornaius, Capt: PAST, for Rot terdam. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2. 8 .--Arrived the Medusa Frigate from the East Lord LAKE had re-assumed the command of the Army in India, which he bad a short time before resigned.. Admiral STIRLING arrived here this day to take his passage to the Channel . Fleet. Went out of harbour the Anson Frigate, Captain LYDIARD ; ; she is fitting, to he, stationed at Gibraltar to fight the Spanish Gun-boats, for which she is pdairai - lfadapted, by the great weight and con- Stru&ion of her guns. , • Artived.'the Prospero Bomb, from the Downs, iyith,n'Conirdy. The Prospi!ro Bomb is appointed Convoy for the Downs. ' • YA.RMOLTTI4JAN. 29.—0 n the 27th instant, about seven,,TvM. a Vessel was discovered on the Home Sand, and shortly after disappeared ; as several let ters, dire&ed to the Master of the Nile, of Yar mouth, have been washed on shore between Corton ilnd. : Lowestoft, it is feared that Vessel was the one . seen on the Home Sand. .._ ... ~ri..~. .. . DOVER, JAN. 29.—Last night; after post, the Cotton Planter, T. MATTIIEWS, of New-York, ar• rived here ffom Helvoetsluys,whieh place the left t1.4%._ day before, and landed here JAMES COLDRED, Jont.t.. • FROST, and T. LANGDON SULLIVAN, passen . gees. They had not heazd in Holland of the , death of Mr. PITT ; but it was said in Holland that Negotiations were carrying on, through the . Prussian 'Ambassador, to include England in the -Peace. People in Holland wish very much for Peace. f " DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. • To the Officers and Company of Ills Majesty's Ship La - Loire, for the Capture of the French Corvette La Contiance, . the 4th of June ; Spanish Felucca San Pedro, alias L'Espe ranza, the 2d of lune; and Spanish Brig Maria De los Gar cias, the 4th of June, Laos ; every Tuesday and Friday, at Mr. E. Lyne's Counting-house, Plymouth, : EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CAPT. JOHN MINER . , OF THE SHIP HINDE R DATED . 1 Loago Bay, Sept. 11, MIS. ," , The. French Squadron have sent in a Boat with Prisoners, one of whom, the Captain ,of the Re-, tecca, says, informed him, they were proceeding with their prizes to water, at St. Thomas, under the - , Line, and from thence to South America, to dis pose of them. They had boarded the American Ship Minerva, and after keeping Captain LAJDLER some time discharged him." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER OF 12TH, OR QUEEN'S FOOT, DATED River Tagus, under quarantine, lan ; 8,1806. " I am requested to inform you of our distressed situation, having been taken prisoners by the Brest Fleet on our return from Gibraltar. A gale of wind separated us from our convoy, and on the 15tir of December we fell into the hands- of the Enemy, who lowered all their Boats and plundered us of all Our baggage and the stores of the Transport, which they set fire to immediately afterwards. We' were taken on board the French - Foudroyant, of 84 guns, the flag-ship of the fleet; and after taking us on a cruize four days towards the Western Islapd% the y judgetl . .(iest any-disteMperjuight get into the Fleet), to send me and the sick, toge- ! ther with the women and children, by the first op ' portunity, to :some neutral Port. On the 19th they captured the..o94and,_ of Poole, bound to Lisbon with fish; andafter having plundered heroftbe great • est part of her cargo, provisions, Bcc.-sent us, 28 in number, on board of her—we trusting to the mercy of the.wayes, not having sufficient men to work the ship, -- ,or. any provisions but such as they had ren t-Alered totally unfit for use.' We have been 28 days on board that Ship on the very dreadful allowance of half a pint of water and one biscuit in twenty-four hours, for each indivi dual ; but this days (thanks to God) terminates the whole of our distress, having . eotne to an anchor ; but the number of days quarantine we are to under i• go is not yet ascertained." The Maria, which arrived at Liverpool on-Satur day, from Charleston, performed the voyage in the s4ori space of 23 days. C,~F