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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS. FRIDAY, JUNE 2O. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Irish Malt Duty Bill, the Mutiny 'Bill, the ChelSea Allowance Will, the Dublin Paving Bill, and .22 Private Bills. The Corninissioneri were the LORD CHANCEL LOR, Lord WALSIN CHANT ; and Lord AUCKLAND. In an Appeal from Scotland, " Martin v. Mae the Lord Advocate of Scotland was heard for the Appeilant.—Fnrther hearing on Wednesday next. Mr. HobhObse, Mr:.Alexancler, -Mr. Fellowes, Mr. Mainwaring, and several other Members of the House of Commons, brought tip the Duke of Graf ton's Agreement Bill, the Insh Mine Bill, the Ad ditionfil Assessed Takes Bill, the Gibraltar and - Malta'Postage Bill, the Prussian Yarn Bill, and some Private . Bills ; which were read a first time. - The West India Auditors' Bill passed through a Committee and was reported.. • The Report of the Iniolvent Debtors' Bill was; on the Motion of the Earl of LAUDERDALE, or-' dered to be taken into consideration on Wednesday next. TORTOLA FREE PORT ACT Earl SPENCER moved the second reading of the Tortola Free Port Aft The . Duke of MONTROSE . expressed his regret at the thin attendance of their Lordships on a ques tion which he conceived to - be one of the greatest importance. He Was .at.a loss to conceive the rea sons upon which the present measure was founded. The. present' Board of Trade had aeted in this in st::lnce diametrically opposite to , the decision of the Board of Trade of last year. He'had hoped that Upon this question the Noble Lord at the head of the Tie sury wonld have attended, but understand ing that Noble Lord was prevented from attendincr by a slight indisposition, he must request his Noble Friend in the Blue Ribbon (Earl Spencer) to at as Umpire upon this question between the two'Boards of Trade. The principle upon which the Board of Trade of last year had a6led was clearly this, that in allowing the free importation from Foreign Islands into,one of our own Islands, of Sugar and Coffee, and those articles which our own Islands produced, ' it was impossible afterwards' to •prevent the impor tation from thence into this Country of such' foreign produce, .upon the same terms as the produce of our own.lslands, thereby materially injuring the inte rests of our own West India Islands. This princi ple applied to the Island of Tortola, from whence; foreign. Sugar was to be allowed to be imported thither, all the ingenuity of ,man could not after wards prevent the ingenuity of man from finding means to import that Sugar into this Country, un der the pretence of its being Sugar of the growth of our OVVII Islands.. The establishment of a free Port, according to the provisions pf this Bill, in the Island of Tortola, was therefore, in his opinipn, 'a measure highly impolitc, 'and a measure which he thought the Noble Lord at the head of the Board of Trade could only have been induced to bring for ward by the representations of the very ingenious Agent of that Island. .He thought, therefore; that the consideration of the Bill had better be postponed for the pres:•nt Session.. Lord AUCKLAND defended the Bill, which he considered - 4 measure of sound policy. The obje& of it was to render Tortola a carrying Island, and to take from St. Thomas's some part of the carrying trade in the possession of that Island, in which a DU'ilber of British Shipping were employed. This was 'a measure; which he conceived, would there= fore be beneficial to our (..;onnnerce and Navigation, whilst, with respe2t to OW 'West 'lndia Trade, it would not be' injured, nor did , any of the persons concerned in that Trade, or connected with the - West India Interests, Whom he was in the daily `habit of seeing, make the least coMplaint that any such injury was likely to result from it. As to the dangers which the Noble Duke apprehended, there was , an express provision in this Bill for the purpose of preventing the importatio4 into this Country of Foreign. Sugar; as there was a Clause • by which no more Sugar was to be imported into this Coun lryfrom Tortola' thail the amount of the average annual produce of that Island. This, therefore, negatived all those evil conseqUences apprehended by the Noble Duke—as it was not to be supposed that Officers employed in the Customs of Tortola would grauf false Documents, when, at the end of the year, on making up the Acconnts, the fraud must necessarily he discovered, and those guilty of it lose their offices. Lord_ HAWK ESB UR Y supported the arguments urged by the Duke of Montrose, and supposed that this measure , must have come before the Board in the absence of the Noble Lord (Auckland) oppo site, whose accurate knowledge upon the subjed forbade the supposition that he had been present when the measure was discussd. Earl SPENCER observed, that, in his new office of Umpire, conferred upon him by the Noble Duke, he had little difficulty in deciding, as be found that the present Board of Trade had, in this mea sure, only followed the example of the former Board of Trade, by whom an Ad similar to the pre sent was brought ' forward, last SeSsion, for esta blishing a Free Port al Nassau, in the Bahamas.— His Lordship likewise supported the Bill on grounds similar to those urged by Lord Auckland. The Duke of Moxraosn and Lord AUCKLAND explained. The Bill was read a second time and committed for Monday.--Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, JUNE 20. Mr. LETH,BRI6GE was sworn and took his seat as Member for the County of Somerset. A Message froM the Lords required the attend- . ance of the Ho6e. at their Lordships' Bar, where the Royal Assent was given ,by Commission to se veral Mts. [For which see the Proceedings of the Lords] . Mr. 'HolmousE. bough up the Report of the Committee of Expiring The Resolution for • continuing. the East India Shipping At was agreed to, and a/Bill orderedac- Oofdingly. The AssesSed Tax Bill, the. Duke of Grafton's Bill, the Prussian Yarn importation . Bill, and the Gibraltar Postage Bill, were read a third time and passed. • Ott the Motion of Lord TEMPLE, the T-lon3e went into a Committee on the American Intercourse —ln answer to a question from Sir C. Paicn, TEMPLE stated, that he had the concurrence of those who had been most a&ive in opposing the Nil, for carrying it through a Committee, the further 0pp0... sition being reserved for the subseqdent stages. Sir-W. CußTrs declared his intention to op i pose the Bill in a future stage. Several Amendments were made, and 'several were declared by Sir C. PRICE to be still necessary.—Lord TE:.irt:c said, it would be competent to propose any further Amend ment that may be, deemed necessary upon the third reading. The' Report was ordered to be received on Monday, and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. On the Motion Of Lord H. PETTY, it was ordered, that there be laid before the House a Copy of the Report of the Comptrollers of Army Accounts, dated. the 13th 'instant-,- on :the manner in which Mr. Trotter (the Contractor for Army Stores) made up his accounts ; together with a Copy of the Mimite of the Treasury thereupon ;• also . Copies of two Minutes of the Treasury on the Accounts of Messrs. Pierce, Army Clothiers, with respect to some sup plies on the Continent. Mr. WILLIAMS WYNNE presented Copies of the InstruC.lions issued to Commanders of Yeomanry Cavalry since the first ofJanUary last. On the Motion of Mr. FOSTER, the further- con sideration of the Report of the Corn Intercourse Bill was postponed till this day se'nnight, with a view to some further information. The Irish Endowed School Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The Irish 'Spirit Licence Bill was read a second time, and is to be committed on Tuesday. Mr. Meux, from the India-House, preseuted se veral Papers relating to the condb4. of Lord Wel, esley. On'the- Motion of Mr. VAN SITT A RT, the Report of the Committee on the Newfoundland 'Fishery Petition was referred to a Committee of the whole House ; the House to resolve itself into"that Com mittee on ,Mohday. In consideration of the examination of witnesses on the condua of Lord Wellesley, .the • hour ap pointed for which (live - o'clock) was. 'approaching, Mr. VANSITTART deferred till , Monday his Notice of Motion relative to the Arm? Extraordinaries and Miscellaneous Services. He also gave 'notice of a Motion in the Committee . of Ways and Means for that day, the substance of which, from thc.. very low tone in which he spoke, it wa4 impossible to col le&, but the objeE was supposed to be an issue of 4,500,0001. in Exchequer sills, to cover the like amount issued on the Aids of last year, and nOw to be called in. Mr. ALEXANDER gave notice, that he would on Monday, move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the ACts relating' to Eleetions in England. , The Amendments on the Custom-House Attend ance Bill were agreed' to, and the Bill ordered to he read a third time on Monday. MARQUIS ‘vELLESLEY. • „Mr. PAULL moved, that the first Article of Charge against Lord Wellesley should be printed, for the purpose of comparing it `with the Evidence and the. Papers on the Table. A. WE'LLESLEY reminded the House, that a Motion for the printing of this Charge had before been negatived. He thought a Motion of this im portance aught not to be brought forward without notice: it would be for the House to consider, whe ther it would suffer a Charge, containing the strongest imputations that ever were urged against a public man, to go tbrth to the world, and to make an unfavourable impression during the vacation, when it would rest with the discretion of the Ho, pourable Gentleman whether he would prosecute it Or not. • The SrtAKER stated, that the. pradice of the House required a notice in every case where oppo sition to the Motion was likely to he made. • Lord FoLxsToNE did not look upon the praCtice of giving notices as an established pra&ice : it cer tainly was not uniformly enforced ; he wished the point to be settled. The SPEAKER stated the praEtice ever since he had entered Parliament • to be, that notice should he given whereon a difference of opinion was likely to arise. This he stated from his sense of what the usage of the House seemed to rc-quire. But it rested with the House itself to judge of - the usage and the application of it in every Instance. He had done his duty in pointing out the practice as he under stood it. The House would use its discretion in enforcing the practice, or departing from it. Sir JOHN IPROTTESLEY said, the pradice of insisting upon notice was a modern pradice---but it was a prat:lice founded upon general fairness and general convenience. He wished the Motion to be, withdrawn. Mr. ROSE supported the practice of the House as laid down by the Speaker. Mr. WINDHAM stated the ancient usage of Parliament to be, that Metions may be offered with out any notice. This usage was even now often applied with advantage. The recent pradiee, found ed upon general convenience, was certainly that notice should be given. He was unwilling that any general unqualified rule should be established, but that every case should be left to the sense of the House on its own individual merits. After a few observations from Lord FOLKSTONE on the Vote of Thanks to Earl St. Vincent recently brought. forward without a notice, and some stric tUres from .Mr.. STURGES BOURNE on the in pro • priety'of proposing that Vote ; which ~ the, Speaker declared to be wholly, out of order, Mr. Paull with-. drew his Motion. On the Motion of Mr. PAU'LL, seconded by Sir A. WELLESLEY, it was ordered that there be laid before the House a Copy of an Application made by Lord Wellesley to the NabOh of Oude in a loan of ten cror'e of rupees, from . June till August, 1805 with a Copy of the Answer to that Appli cation. On the Motion of Mr. PAULL, it was ordered that WA. Wellesley, Mr. HobiiOUse, and Mr. Paull, should be permitted to examine at his private re sidence general Sir James Craig, who was prevented by sickiies from attending : Os a witness at the Bar of the House on the Oude Ch.aril'e.---The same Gen tle Men were appointed to, prepare a list of qUestions to bp put to Sir James Craig, 'and ordered to report the same to the House, GENERAL TRAINING BILE.. Mr. WINDHAM moved the Order of the Day f6r the second reading of this Bill, for "the purpose of forwarding it a stage, according to the - understanding of vesterday. • :lir. R. RYDER, to prevent mistakes as to this understanding, wished tOknow whether it was in tbnded, as he had understood the Right Hon. Secre tary of State, that the Bill should now pass thwag - li a batnmittee pro forma the - blinks to be filled up, and to be re-committed on another day, for the pur pose of particular discussion. Several persons had gone into the country under this understanding, and particularly an Honourable Gentleman lately at the head of the War Department (Mr. Yorke), who .was very niuck interested. • - Mr. Secretary Fox had expressed himself, as he thought, in such a manner as to leave no room for the idea of a re-. commitment, a proceeding which he always looked ,upon as irregular.. .He wished the second reading to take place now, and the Bill to be.committed on some day next week, when every one interested should have sufficient notice to attend, or even if it had been so un4erstoOd and aated upon,, ; he had no objection to. a Committee 'pro forma, and a re-commitment for the 'present, leaving what' he had now. - said as a notice that he would objeEt to that mode of proceeding in future. Mr. 'PERCEVAL thought the proviaions of the,Bill would' be better understood when_ it was seen with the blanks filled•up. , • • • • Mr. Secretary . Fox was of opitrieff that the pro per mode of discussing _a, rneogrA',-was to make the obje&ions to the principle, if there were such, on the second reading ; and if • any new 'consideration should arise from the combination of : the principle with the regulations made in the Committee, these to be brought forward on.the third reading.' Mr. Secretary.WtunuAN agreed to:the statement of his 'Right Hon. Friend; but, from- what had been stated from-the othersideas having' been understood and aEted ;Ton, he had nq Objeaion t 94 re-commit ment in the present instance. The Bill then went -throne? a Committee pro forma. The report was received, and ordered to be taken into further consideration. on Monday. The Bill as amended to be printed: , MARQUIS WELLESLEY. The Eon S e -then went into the Corntnittee - lor the further consideration oldie - ChArges against Marquis Welteslu = air,,llosHansLin..the Chair.)' The first witness examined was Mr.. Cooper, who stated himself to. havl been one ,of the Supreme Council in Bengal, in the year 18op, and the result Jr' his evidence was, that the Marquis Wellesley enjoyed 'the confidence of his Council to as great an•extent,, and his condua had been as highly approved by the Council, as that of any:. other Governor-General ho had ever known in India, and, he had been the confidence both of Marquis Corn wallis Sir John .Shore 3 and to a question put to hint by Mr. Wallace, what he thought would be the opinions of the higher order - of natives iti Oude, when they. heard he had been accused of rapine, hy, pocrisy, oppression, and murder 3 he answered, - be . thought they would receive' the infOrmatibn with seritirnehts oldie greatest sutprize and indignation. Mr.. Riley, a Collector and a Magistrate in Oude, was the Second - witness and the tirst,part - of his evidence tended to shew that the inhabitants of Oude had; in.two or three instances, shown a dispo sition to revolt. - • - " The next witness called was Major Ousely. Af ter be had been a short time Ander examination, Mr. PAtlst.t, put some questions relative to histnow ledge of the charatiter of the Nabob Vizier. Major Qusely hoped he would not 'be obliged to disclose all he knew with respect to the Nabob, a, lie had been, and still. was, in a . confidential situation Ander him. _ On this point a conversation took place between Mr. ,Paull, Dr, Lawrence, Sit John Newport, Mi. Wallace, and Sir Arthur Wellesley, It was, how ever, finally agreed, as a matter of favour to Major. Ousely, that any question he did not like to answer should not be pressed, and shoilld be expunged, Major Ousely was then called. I,n, and hisnxami nation proceeded in both by„Mr, 'NULL anu Sir A. WAMLESLEY.- ,Vrom his examination by the latter Member, it appeared that . the splendot. and state. and establishment of the Nabob ,of Oude were not infe rior at present to what they had been before the Treaty, for though' his cavalcade may be less,' it was more correa and appropriate..---On his re-examina tion by Mr. PAULL, he objected with submisSion to answer, " Whether by subsequent events he knew. that Marquis Wellesley had accused Mr. Treves of using his 'influence with the Nabob, contrary to the Marcialsriviews,"'On the ground; that tbe answer might implicate a Gentleman now absent in India. The Committee decided, that the' question should be put ; and tin his re-appearance at the Bar, the Witness stated,, that what he knew of the case had come to his knowledge by a private correspondence; and expressed his , hope that he would not be pressed to answer the question. - On this.point another long conversation took plaCe ; but as the Gallery was cleared we could not coiled die particulars. . We understood that theexamination of Major Ousely was concluded whilst we were. ex cluded, and that Mr: Johnstone was again examined; after which the Chairinan reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday. Adjourned till Monday at Two o'Clock. MAILS. ARA fV F --1 Dublin, I Waterford. Duit—t Ilamburgh, L UotteLlburgil, r Lisbon, i Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS TUIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Cons. for the Opening 631 Uranium - - - 6 THE SUN. SOLIM QUIS DICERII.FALSUM AtI,DEAT, ? L 0 N i 5 0 IV, SATURDAY, JUINZE 2. 1 , 1806. THzipereasing rise in the Stocks, founded upon, rumours of a Pacific Negotiation between this Coun try and France,, will naturally induce our Readers, to look to us . fpt some information on the, subje&. That a Negotiation. may be on , foot we dc. not pre sume to deny; but it is certain that Administration are too cautious to let their measures on this import ant subje& transpire. -We have often observed that BONAPARTE must, of course, be anxious to &lea a Negotiation, and, if possible, a Peace, because he would thereby remove many impediments to his career, and have a greater chance of do ing injury to this Country during - Peace, than .it is in his power to accomplish in the present state of affairs. -- , . A,subjeCt of the most delicate kind has• for the last two. days excited particular attention in . -the higher circles, _and was yekterdaY ithrodUced in a respeEtable Morning print. We were feilli".aWare gf .11,that has been said on this interesting point, .but felt great difficulty as to the proper mode of giving -to our Readers an intimation of what *as going, Pr ward. One of our motives was certainly a full convic tion that the rumouredcharges had no,foundiltion in truth. From all that has transpired on the subjeat, we have the - most satisfaetory reasons to believe that our eonviCtion was founded on the firmest grounds of in nocence, truth, and honour. But it is also with great satisfaetion we find, that the person whose feelings -would have been most • deeply affect- • ed, if there had been dis Covered any probable reason for accusation, or even suspicion, has given. no countenance to the charge himself, though he might properly conceive that on a matter of such weighty interest it was necessary that some in vesti-, gation should take place, The subjeEt itself is not the mere produal of the present moment, • but oc. casioned mysterious insinuations a few years ago, and 'has only ,been revived by a recent tour into the West. of England,' a circumstance of the most, harmless Jkind; however it may have beep distorted by malice, prejudice,- and misconception. The business, .howeyer, we ha" . reason to believe, is. now entirely at rest, and . ve trust that it will never more be resumed in obloquy in, a quarter whero there are the highest claims to . respect, interest, and admiration, His NIAJESTY, the Duke of CANWRIDGE, Prin. cesses AUGUSTA, 501 , H14, and AMELIA, accompa, tried by Genetals GA4twn and 4rißoy,Colonel TAYLOR, CAMPBELL, &c. took au airing on-horse back by Cranbourn Lodge, yesterday morning,:after breakfast, and returned to the Castle a little ,before one o'clock, when His MAJESTY dined. Thprsday evening f-115,1\43ESTY, Princesses Au- GUSTA,. EL;ZAIIETII, and AMELIA, walked On the. Terrace, accompanied by Gen. EiTztto - t find co lonels CA.MPB,E4,I. and I),(;:ssitoNv, ,The Pokes of CIP.i*ER,LAND arkd CANIZRI,DqE ar4 rived at Windsor yesterday morning from town. - A Council of the Cabinet Ministetii was xesterda* afternooo held at the Foreign Offic.e, in DoN.vning.4 street, at which the LORD CHANCE:4OR,, Earl SrEN. T , CER, Earl MOIRA, Lords GRENVILLE, HOwlcic, Lord HENRY PETTY, Lord AAr. Fax, and Mr. WINDHAM, were present. After the Council, Dispatches were made up to be forwarded to the Courts of St. Petersburgh and Vienna, and two Messengers, Mr. Dr.ESSINqS and Mr. PROLTDMAN, remained under orders. A report has been circulated, that Lord fivercitat,! SON is to be appointed Captain-General of India. Whether the report be well founded, or not, `.VO have not been able to ascertain ; but certainly his Lordship's political . and military talents eminently qualify him for the situation,. • The People of North Berwick, as well as of se.. veral parts in Scotland, have manifested . great plea- - at the acquittal of Lord MELVILLE. The. Ma gistrates of that place, the Town Council, and many Gentlemen of the neighbourhood, assembled in the Town-Hall, On Wednesday last, for the purpose of mutual congratulation on the occasion. The Vo-. lunteers also paraded on this event, and fired three yollies in honour of the Noble Defendant, with a corre6tnesA equal to . what rnig:ht have beets expected from the most experienced veterans. We are sorry, to learn, that the Duke of MOND is at present SO much indisposed as. to excite serious apprehensions, Yesterday a Court of Direct ors was held at the East India House, when Cap:ail) MACINTOSH was sworn into the command of the Ship Union, destined to Madras and Bengal. On Thursday the igth inst. the Rev. WILLIANI. TOURtstAY t -B*elor of Divinity, was eleeteu 'War, den of Wadha:n, college, Oxford, in the, room Of the Rev. Di. WILLS, deceased. The Pia - ture . of the Village Politicians, which afrords' such an . admirable proof of the talents of WILKIE, the young Scotch Artist, was originally. purchased for ten guineas by the Earl of MANSFIELD. If the Noble . Lord were inclined to engage in pitiure dealixg, he might dispose of this work for ten times the sum;. such is the increased popularity of the in genious Artist. The Marquis of STAFFORD liberally opens' his magnificent house twice a week to afford the .(,site world and the admirers of the Arts an 'opportunity of seeing his fine ColleEtion of PiEtures. Mr. llEs. E‘TFANS also does the same, and his Coliezti a is one of the very best in this Country. Among the changes of this wonderful world it will , not soon be forgotten, that twelve years since, the two persons, now called Emperor of France and King of Naples, were lodging together in one Parisian garret at a livre per week, and two of the Princesses, their sisters, had no more than one gown between them at, Marseilles, in consequence of which the inhabitants of that place were ❑ever 'favoured with the ,presence of both at the same Promenade. Such has been the fate of this family out of many thousands, who, aim ing at, the same distindion, were stopped . short by the Guillotine..