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; ) 1: UAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. SATURDAY, MAY 17. The Hue proceeded, as. usual, to 'Westminster 11. They. Teturned about half past three. Strangers *ere - noi, admitted for some time afterwards, during -.which it-was understood their Lordships appointed Wedbesday .se'ribight to take into consideration :the evidence 'adduced on the Trial of Lord Viscount - Melville. .. . . . :. '-.The 'belLitiny Bill, the Irish Loan Bill, and the, 11rislateasury Bills Bill passed through C9mmitteei, ; a'hd . w< e - ie reported. • --:,' Earl STANHoiE mentioned to the House that sonic doubts had arisen whether the Order of the buS.e -extended to forbid the publication - of the • Proceedings in-the Trial of Lord Viscount Melville until the final .41dgcnent oc the House was giyen. 'll LORD CHANCELLOR stated, that any one who p:esUmed. to publish those Proceedings - Until final Judgment was given, would be guilty of a high — Breach of the Privileges and Orders of the House. 'The Earl of. AOSSISN suggested the propriety of _ making a fthsh , :Order, to prevent any doubt being entertained upon the subject. An Older was accordingly made to forbid the ptlblication of the Proceedings in the Trial of Lord .Viscount Melville until the finai Judgment of the House, was i#onounced;--AdjOurned till Ari,iinday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. SATURDAY, MAY IT. A Messdge from the. Lords intbrrned the house tliattheir-LordshipS - liad . agreed to the Slave Bill. ' A Petition was presented from . New Woodstock, praying the 'cOntirmation of the Hide . Bills.. to regulate the Offices of the lleceiverS-Ge neral of the E'xCiSe, mid of the Post-Office, were brought in,. read . a first:, and:Ordered to be read a se cond time on Monday; and printed. Several Ac cOnntS from the Chief Secretary of Ireland, relative Ito the Revenue Department, were- presented, and ordered to be printed; - • • • :'The Franl;ing Bill Iffas read a third,tinie and passed. ilea to Monday. • . . MAILS. Ait.xtv.zp—l Dublin, r Waterford. Duz Hamburgh, Gottenburgh. PRICE t)i• STOCKS . - THIS DAY AT TWELVE. O'CLOCK. Consols - - - = - - - - 6o f, T H E' SUN. SOLEII QUIS DICER& FALSUM AUDEAT? LON D 0 , MON IA Y, NAY 19, tioG IVS - 1 received yesterlty - Prod/ and D:eei Papers, the former to the toth and the latter to the 16th inst. The Ilataurgh Correspondenten,•of the gth, also arrived' at. the,. same time. The intelligence, particularly fro , n North or Enropc,i3.fiot of so important and (':bite a nature as we eXpeded.--, ; - It does not appear that the Prussian Army had advanced the purpose : of qntering' Pomera .thlt they have 'made any movements for that purpose., General KALKttEUTH, who com man.ded the Prussian Army, has resigned his corn-' Mand. It is stated, on the authority of private Let-, - tors, ,that. throughout . the Eletaorate of Hanover, wherever the Prussian .F,agle has been put up, the word." Provisional - has been placed under it. This 'circumstance is not mentioned in the Papers which , have reached us, bat we think it is by no means im probable. After the very intelligible hint 'given- in the Moniteur to his Prussian Majesty, it was not to be supposed that he would venture to announce the definitive annexation of Hanover to. his Domi nions. In Gmnany_the French Army still remains in the same position ; it - does not appear 'that any part of it has marched towards Italy ; but it is stated in a letter from Aug - shargh, that. the Austrian Pri soners'tharwere. returning home have again received orders to halt. We .are, however, inclined to doubt the truth of 'this • sttement, for the Letter is dated as fin - back as _ the second April,• .and. Letters from Kehl of the .),d of May state, that a large boly of Anstrian Pr'!.soners had arrived there on theft rbtnirn The Poss,ians .are,making a rapid progress in if_elmatia; and - will probably in a shert, t e complete. ThaSter j s Of that Province. ,The • French have . not hitherto - ,made any attenipt to op pose them. uenerai aEBAsTrANI hasbt.t,n appointed Aanbal.sador from oNAPARTE to the Porto. . . Since writing the above, we have reCeivad.the -Leyden Pryer, of the 16th inst: from which we have .• • - made the following Daniels.; GENOA, MAY . Neapolitan Prisoners of State, to the number of twenty-three,. arrived at Turin 'on:the 26th of * April.- -They are all going to Tenestrelles, except one, viz. Mr. SCQTT, the Eng lish Vice-Consul. It was at first intended that, he should remain at Turin, but it is now settled that he is to take up his resicjenCe at Bitche, in Alsace. BASLE, MAY 4.—The Merchants who were ar, , - rested on the . ground a their having British Mer.= chandize in • their possession, have been liberated upon bail. It appears by a CirCular Letter from the iandarnman . to the CantonS, that a measure will be . proposed. to the Helvetic Diet next Session, for the absolute prohibition of English, Merchandize throughout Switzerland ; they. have been already prohibited in the cantons of,Zurich and Vaud. .UANZBURGI, MAY g. —Baron D'asrrEnA, the Minister from the Elector of Hanover to the Cs)Urt ofßerlin, demanded his Passports on the 7th April; and tipon that occasion he delivered a Note, in which he-protests, in the name of His BRITANNIC MA . JE§Ty, as Ele&or of Hanover, against the taking possession of that Ele6torate by Prussia ; and declares that . neither his Majesty, nor any Prince-, of his. House, will ever consent to the cession of the Countries, or the Rights, which that House has post sessed for ages in Germany. PARIS, MAY I L—The Legislative Body has sane timed a Decree for the establishment of arrlmperial University, and also a Decree for effeaing a juntaion 'between the Rhine and the Scheldt. • , . • The Officer who was sent, about : the'end 'of last month, to t\le,liague, with dispatches from the Bata- Vian CoMmission Which i at. Paris, tras. returned With very important 'disptChes. The Conferences between the Batavian Deputies and the Minister for Foreign Affairs have been resumed; and there is no doubt th4t. they will have a happy result. The French Frigate the Top'aze, Which was so• long blocked up in the Tagus _by it4;o English Fri gates, has escaped,.,and arrived at Brest on the She took and destroyed on her passage three.BritiSh Vessels. Mr. ADAIR embarked at Harwich on Saturday last, on board ,the King George Packet, for Husain. He. will proceed, as.. we have alteady..stated, to Vienna, on a Mission of considerable impoi - tance. • WE, have received the Jamaica Royal Gazettes to the 29th of March inclusive. The, following are their only interesting contents :—A Convoy was appointed to sail for England on the 2d of April. A Vessel which•was sent into La Vera Cruz, as a Flag of Truce, under the command of Lieut. PECIELL , With the Crew of His Catholic Majesty's Brig La Raposa, lately captured' by La Franchise, was afterwards lost in coming out of :that Port, by striking on a reef, and the Lieutenant, with 25 Men, being all that were on board, unfortunate ly perished. There is no mention of any'Ereneh Squadron having 'arrived in the West Indies, since that destroyed by Sir Joux : but the trade of the Islands still continues to be greatly an •noyed by Privateers and Pirates, that plunder indis , .criininately Vessels.ot all Naticins. OxSaturday Mr. WU .1*.)•• conchided his re ply in support the Impeachment againgt Lord MEL vitiu: It is underStOod that their Lorthhins will on We;lnes(Liy se'nnight proceed to take the :evi donco.., which has been adduced, oa the Trial, into consideration. In the mean time, we believe, some question upon .points of Law will be proposed by their Lordships to the Judges- ,SOME of the Publid Prints. have circulated reports intitnaiing that a Message from HIS MAJESTY would be sent to both HouseS of Parliament. in the course of this 'Week, on the subje& of Thelate Comanknica tions between Administration and the French.,Go 7 .vernment ; but , the result of our inquiry, in a chan nel likely to be well:infornied, does riot induce us to think that there is any foundation for .the. •, . , • alluded to. • The following intelligence was thiS moraing re ceived at LLOYD'S The, Dr fad Frigate- arrived - at. IVT - ' , ,4eira • 1-T.l , , April. On the loth, in lat. 31. N. loin:;. 14. 2. W.' saw a Fleet of 13 Sail ; ten of them appeared to be of the Line. The Dryad itnade signals, • whiCh they ' did , not answer, in Consequence:of- which Capt. DRUMMOND dispatched the, Eohic Frigate 'to Lord COLLINGWOOD, and kGuernsey Cutter, which was. at Madeira, to the Cape of Good I-lope." probable that the ,above was the outward bound: India' Fleet; which killed from Ports mouth-on the 30th March. . •CHALNIF,R, is arrived at Lwerpool from Barba"does, which place she left ,on the 2:1 of, April., in - company - , xith the Jerre, juw (supposed , • to he off .Liverpool), and bringS : an tc.count Of the arrival there of the, Canada Man of War,..with . the Fleet under her convoy; which sailed , from.' Ports mouth on the 28.th•January; part of those for Ja7. maica had proceeded on their vokage„ under convoy, previous to the 28th March. A French Corvette, with a Mail from ,France in 30 days paSsage„is cap tuned and sent into Barbadoes. • • , .Saturdaymornina His MAJESTY, Princesses Au- GUSTA, SOPHIA, and AmELIA,-aceotopanied by Ge neral FITZROY,CoIoneI TAYhOlt, &c. took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park., Their'MAJESTIES had a s,eleet party at Windsor' Castle, on Saturday night, to a Concert. The Duke' of CAMISRIDIn , . arrived at Windsor from town on Saturday might, after attending the Trial of tortl Viscount Nigl...viLLE. The Duchess•of YoßK.arrived at Windsor, yester day afternoon, at half - past two o'clock, - from Oat lands, on a N?isit to Their MAJESTIES. , Yesterday morning Her MAJESTY, Princesses AU 7 GUSTA, SOPHIA, and ANELlA,accompanied by Ge nerals Fil- - iaox and ,Gwv:sttiF, and Colonel DES:- BROW, went to St. Georg - it's Chapel, and heard:an excellent Sermon, preached by thelt , .w. Dr.-CooK sop, froM the 24th Chapter of. the 'Gospel of St. Luke, 51 st and 52d verses. After Divine.Setvice, the Roy +l: Party toqk an airing tdFrogmore. The. Princess of:WLys completed her _3Bth year on . Saturday. • . •Her MAJESTY completes her. (3.7 d year to-:lay. The same 'will be observed by an entertainment be ing,given at ?rogmoFe to a small NA VA L S. From the LONDON Gi4ZETTE, IIZ t 7 Adinirtilty-Qffice, May 17, I ' so6.:', Copy of a Letter front Vice Admiral Lord'eolling wood, Commander in (Thief V . His Majesty's Ships did Vessels in the Mediterranean, to Thiz. Mars den, Esq. dated on board . H. M—S. Queen, of Ca= diz, 19th April, 1806. SIR, . . „ I have the Wisfaaion. to acquaint .you., for, the I.,ords. commissioners of the Admiralty, that His-Ma jesty's Ship the lienornm6e, Capt. Sir 'rho. Living= stone, (one of the Ships stationed off Carthagena for the,purpose of watching the Enemy's Squadron„) on the 4th inst. Captured,the. Spanish Brig of War the Vigilante,; for the particulars of which I refer yoU, Sit, to the inclOsed Copy of r Thomas. Living stone's Letter.. I am, COLLINGWOOD. H. M. S. R . enopmee, Anchor„ Europa Point, IV.N.W. One Mile, sth April, 1806. MY LOUD, I informed your.tordship by the Nautilus that on the,3d inst. two Spanish-ShipS of the Line, a Prigate, and a Brig came out of the Port of Carthagena, hav ing under their prote6tion.a few small Coasters, and that the Ships of the Line ,and Frigate chased us . to the Southward, while the Brig and Convoy steered along shore to 'Westward, the wind being North Easterly. • • • • Finding that the Renomm6e had left the Spanish Ships a great distance a-stern, I Made sail as soOn'asT it was dark for Cape de Gatte, in the hope of Cutting off the Brig, and in this I was not 'disappointed ; for. At two, A. M. bn the 4th inst. we saw the Brig an chor under Fort Calloretes, distant from it, about two cables' length: I was . prevented, by baffling winds, from getting up to her for three quarters of an hour ;. but when we did getup tier fire was soon silenced, and she was in our possession. at half-past three. The Bat teries on theshore began to fire as soon as we were, Within reach, and continued doing it till we were out of their range.' There were two Gun-boats with the Brig that fired a few shot at first, but they 'soon ceased, and, I believe, ran on the beach. The Brig was in the'aa of warping on shore when we commenced firing, but fortunately we cut the warp, and thereby . prevented .her getting on shore. lam happy to say, in this affair, _we' sustained little or no damage, and had only two men wounded. The. Brig prOved to be the Vigilante, belonging to.bis Catholic Majesty,* commanded by Teniento De Navio DOn Joseph Julian,. mounting' eighteen guns, ,viz. tweh`e twelVe-pounders, long guns, and sik twenty-four pounders, shorter, with a crew of one hundred and nine men, and is well calculated for His Majesty's service.: • She had one man killed and three wounded in the fray; her mainmast 'went overhoardtsoonafter we took possession ; S and the foremast was nearly shar ing the same fate ; I therefore'..took her in tow, and bore up for this anchorage, where I ;Arrived 'this daf ; - and was the more induced to take this measure, as, upon our appearance off Cape de Gatte, all the bea tors towards. Cartha z7 r , : ena were fired, and I did not • know how near t.'pe. Ships which had chaced us the day before might be. ; 1-hope Therefore your Lordship will approve of my having so done: have reason to be.well satisfied with my Officers and CresV on this occasion ; their steady' and well dire6ted fire did them great credit As Soon as the,PrisOners are landed,' -& - c. I shall, teturn to my •station. - . I have the Hononr to be, Bcc. . THOMAS - LIVINGSTONE. , . To the RiL ., ht Ron. Lord Coning wood, Admiralty Cflh . e, 17, 180 G. Copy (f a Letter /iron.. Commodore Sir Home Pop ' ham to William Marsden, Esq. .dated on loard Hip Mqiesty.s Skip Diadem, Talfte Bay, Marelt,4, 1806. SIR, 1 beg ypu me the:, honour to, inform my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that, at nine this morning a. Ship was discoed coming from the southward under a . press of sail, and, soon after, two more; one of which the station on the. Lion Rump'reported.to be of the Line, and'an Enerrifs Ship, upon which I direCted the Diomede and Leda to slip; and keep on the.edge- of the South Easter; which had partially set in on, the East . side - of .the Bay. At eleven the headmost Ship hoisted French co 16urs, and stood towards the Diadem and by this time I was satisfied, from thejudicious: manceuvres of the Ships in :the Offing, that they could be, no Other than thejlaisomible and .Narcissus.: / At twelye , the French Frigate passed within bail of the .Diadem, when we changed our Colours fi:orn Dutch to. English,.. and directed. her to strike', which she very properly did immediately, and I sent • the Hon.: Calm Percy, who was serving with . me as Volunteer, to .take possession oilier. _ She proved to be La Volontaire ; is nearly_ eleven hundred tons, and inounts,46 guns, -with a complement of - .360 • men on .board, • • I congratulate their .Lordships, that by this capture Detachments of the Queen's and r4th_ltegirriputs, 'consisting 'of 270 'men, who were taken __in • two Transports in the Bay •of Biscay, are restored to His i4laj6ty'ServiCe. . . I have the honotit, &c. . • . - - - ' HOME . POPHAM. PORTSMOUTH, MAY B.—Y(4terclay afternoon ar-: rived at St. Helen's, and this' morning cane up to Spithead, the:Dreadnaught, of 98 . uuS, Rear-Ad ,,miral the iion. Earl of NORTH ESK , Capt. CONN ;. and the Britannia, of 100 gUns, fron) Gibraltar, wit:b. three of the Prizes Captured by the late Lord NEL., 'soN, off Trafalgar ; San Ilddintso, of 74 guns Capt.: Gt4wAm.;-.Soliftsure,, of 74 guns, Capt. DicEi• ;: and the Bahanziz; Of 74 , guns, Captain SiEwAriT. The other PriZe", - the Berwick, of 74 guns, still remains at Gibraltar, being the Flag Ship 'of Admiral Arrivec..l also.the Bk. Sloop • of War, Capt. CoA4E, from Cork; and to-day Abe Ant Schooner from aCruize . ; and the Hind, CLARK, from Oporto, laden with wine. Sailed' yesterday the 41/eier 119 n -lb, Capt. Col LtNs, with a Convoy to the ilowns the Car,. •el Store-ship.-flit- 'Woolwich ; Hearty Gun-brig with a Convoy far - Plymouth ; the Pelter Gun-brig on a Cruize : and to-day the Brisk, -with Convoy for ' Cork. Ai , rom - rmENTs:—Capt. LOBE is appointed to the Captain, of- ;4; Capt. BARRIE to the Pomone ; Capt. VINCENT to the ;. Sir THOS. HARnY to the• TriuMph:; NNETT to the Fame ; Capt. S. LAUGURANE to thelriS 3 Capt. Lord Coca.. .RANE to theShqnnuil;:Capt. LYE to the Terpsichore; mid the Hon. Capt. BENNET to the Crocodile. Sir B. NEALE, tart. 'has. left the London to . attend hia duty at the Adtniralty Board. . - The Captain, of 74, and the Vigilant Prison-ship (which. was floated after having - sunk in the Har bour), were undock.ed, and the Donnegal and Royal Oak are taken into Dock. • 'Admiral.LiNms still remains with his Son (who was wounded in his mouth) at Gosport, until they are sufficiently recovered to proceed to'the place ap pointed for their parole. PLYI4OUTH, MAY I6.—ArrivedthePickleSchooner from Admiral. Lord COLLINGWOOD'S 7 Fleet, - with Dispatches, which she Jeft'alr . well on the 2d inst. Oruizing off CadiZ y the Ann Transport, TWILKI N 5 oN from the Cape ,of. Good Hope, from whence she sailed on the 10th of March, with Dispatches, which were - taken out, with the dfficer chargedWith them, by the itaiv . e Frigate ; aF, stated in a former letter ; the Lim, Trafalgar, and indefatigable Fri vateersi from a Cruite.,.. . Sailed the St. George; of 93 guns, to joit the Channel, Fleet. • Sailed also the AClive Frigate on a Cruize ; Brisk Sipop of War, with a COnvoy, to the Easiward.; Harlequin Sinop Of War, with a Convoy, to the Wetward ; Albicoro Slobli 'of War on a Cruize ; :Lord Boringdon and George (Cartels), with Spanish Prisoners, for Corunna ; John and Avice, -BAKER, for. London; and the Amphitrite, ANDEr.s-oN, for Flenshurgh. Arrived the Nordfelt, Thrane, frorp cette,, bound to Ko nigsberg, laden with wine and liquorice ; the'Danish Ship Norberg, Christlensen, frOm Trieste, bound-to Tonhingen,' laden with currants,. ; the Danish Ship !dor Margaretta, Ahlmin; laden with wine and brandy ; and the Danish Brig Haabet,HansOn, fi;om Certe, Ibound to Stettin, laden-with wine and brandy--all the above detained by the Alive Fri gate; the Danish Brig Coed Hans, Rowe, from Malaga. laden with wine for Copenhagen, detained by the Trafalgar _Privateer; the Danish Brig Elizabeth, laden with wine,from Leghorn,' bound to' Bremen; the Danish Brig lamp, from. Barcelona. - bound to Altona,, laden with brandy and nuts, both detained by the Topaze Frigate ; she- Spanish Schooner Vangador, of t 4 guns, with eighty-three men, • captured by His. MajeAty's Frigate Virginie, bit from Ireland ; the Danish Ship Maria Louisa, Nesen, from Santa Cruz, bound to Copenhagen, laden with coffee, 'sugar, and rum, de. tamped by the Betsey Privateer the Danish Brig Anna Mar -.garitta, Rostock, from Gallipoli, laden with oil, bound to Ihmblirgh, detairAl by the Trafalgar Privateer ; the Dahish Brig Fortuna, Heyer, from callipoli;laden with oil, and the Danish Brig Hotthung, Knoet, laden with 'wine and bfandy, 'from Barcelona, bound to Ltibee, both detained by the Lion Privateer; the Danish Brig Theseui, Jensen, from Saloe, laden with wine and cork, for Copenhagen, the Danish. Brig Leit Slein, Johansen, from Cette, for Copenhagen, laden with wine and brandy, and the Danish Brig Elizabeth Chris tiana, Barenhold, from Trieste, bound to Tunningen, laden with currants and raisins, all detained by the Betsey Priva..' 4 teen; the DaniSh'Brig Resolution, Furbeck, from Cette, la den with brandy and wine, bound to Hambro:, detained by H. M. S Alcmene; the Danish Ketch Marrianne, Nielson, from Cette, for Konigsberg, laden with brandy and cork, detained by H. M. S. Adive ; the Danish Brig Fortuna, Peterson, from Malaga, laden with wine and fruit,- bound to Dantzic, detilned by His Majesty's Ship Topaze, the Danish Vessel ,TvVinde Venne.4 Moldt, frorn Cette, .bOund to Lubeck, laden with wine, detained by His Majesty's Ship .Alcirtene ; the Danish Ship Two Friends, RoclofFs, from Smyrna,' bound to Rotterdam, laden with cotton, detained by the In. defatigable Privateer; the Danish Vessel Adjutor, Alholmi from Saloe, bound to Bremen, laden with brandy, detained by the tiVely . Frlvatecr ; the Danish Vessel Hercules, Capt . Greese, from Marseilles, bound to Hamburg . h, laden with braridy,det . ained by Ills . Majesty's Ship Alcmene; the Danish Vessel Men:Mins, Capt. Marear, from Tarragona, bound to Copenhagen, laden with brandy detained by the Indefatigable Privateer; the Danish Vessel Fortuna, Larripen, from Cette, boUnd to Hamburgb, laden with brandy, detained by the Atlive Frigate; ,the Danish Vessel Industry, Fisher, front Cette,.bound to Bremen, laden with brandy, 'detained by His Majeity's Ship Alcmene; the Danish Brig Havenford, Capt. Icrog;frorn -Marseilles, laden with:brandy and wine, bound to Copenhagen, detained by the Trafalgar Privateer; the panish Brig Restitution, Torbeck, from Cette, bound to. Hambuigh, laden with brandy, detained by His Majesty's Ship Alcmene; the Danish Brig Fortuna, Hammerferdt, from . Leghorn, bound to Copenhagen, laden with wine and fruit, detained by the Thomas-and John Privateer. -HARWICH, MAY 17.—Capt. SAUNDEPS, of the King George, Packet, sailed tllig morning for Hus . um witivthe Hamburgh and Bremen, Mails. Mr:ADAIR embarked on board this Packet, on his journey, to Vienna, with one of His 'Majesty's Messengers. Capt. FLYN, of the King ,George' Packet, sailed at the same time with a Mail fOr GettenbUrgh. FALMOUTH,, 6.---Arrived the Danish Gal Hot Die Liebe, GAY, . fom Saloe, with wine and brandy, detained by the :Hero Privateer, of Plymouth ; the :Danish„Brig . Triton,MOLEER, from Gal.ipoli, with oil, &c..dettiined by thellero Privateer; the American .Ship Washington, ADAMS, from Palermo, With sul phur and shuniac, detained by the L'n:O n "Privateer, of Gnernsey the Danish Q.lPiJt wia Christiana,