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IMPERL.IL PA 1? LJAMENT. ROUSE OF,'PEgRS. • TUESDAY,-.APLII., 29 The -forage met at.ten in the Morning, and about eleven proceeded to WestininstO-Flail, to attend the Trial of Lord . isei:ttint .. The Ilia on'ibetable'Were previOvisly.forwarda • 'in their' respective. stages. Amongst these the • .3;006,0001: Eichequee Bills' Bill, the Tea Duty Bilh the Irish Bank Netienill, and the Irish House Tax Repeal Bill were read e third time and passed, and a' Mes`sage - ordered to, be sent to . the House Commons, to acqUaint tbem,..chereWitho • Their Lordships - returned •to the House about a quarter before four. • • ~ Strangere'wete .for seine time excluded, during - which an orcler Was madeto proceed on the Trial of Lard Viscount lieenorrow morning, and a - lesae c s;e was -ordered to t be sent to the House of Gammons, to acetiaint rheni therewith. LIAIIILiTY'QE WITNESSES. On being admitted; .we found the House discus sixg, the' Ameudmeets - made by . the House of Commons in the Declaratory respeaing the lia bility of , Witnesses ta-answer. A conversation of some length epsued, in which Lords iihwxzsntraY and ELDoN contended, that the consideration of the Amendments. ought to be postponaitill to-morrow, in order to give an op portunity to Noble Lords to attend upon a subject . of such. moMent, the,House having been, in this instanee, taken- by surprize. Lard Et.oeti expressed great doubts whether the Bill would •--not rather be - • injurious than'beneficial; particularly without any clause tq save the exceptions to the general The Laftp CHANCELLOR-minntely detailed the pro, gress of the•B,ill.throtegli its several stages, and - can- - tendeld-that,Judoes would, - under its provisions, be 0 vested with,the power of allowing or disallowing -any demurrer to answer questions made upon-special grounds, according to their opinion with respeet•ta such grounds of -demurrer. Lord ELLENBOAOLIGU, Lord AUCKLAND, Lord HOLLAND,. and the Earl of Rossevre, also - spoke in favour of the Bill, and - urged the consideration of . the Amendments now. • . . -Earl STANeore, thought that the Clause Origin ally intended to_bc added to the Billtrnight now be moved by way of Amendment upon the Amend . merits made.by the Commons. Lord IlAwKeseeite: Moved to defer the consi deration- of the Amendments till to-morrow; which "Motion was negatived. ... • Lord'HAw Kesel:RV then stated his 'objeetions to the Bill, which he-did not conceive to be necessary, or likely to, read to ally praaical good. •He con cluded. by moving, that the consideration of the Amendments should be deferred for three months. ',lhis•Metiou could not be put, the House having already decided thatahe word " now" should, stand part of tile Question ; and, after a short conver s ation bZi-ty;,Cll. Lords HOLLAND.ELLENBan.O,PrisEr-i,9a-r) and .HAWKESBUIVI, the Amendments were, agreed to, and a Message ordered to be sent to the House of Commons to, acquaint them therewith. PROVISIONS. , • Earl STrINHOPE said he rose to make a Mo tion on a sebjeet of very great importance, respea tng the Scat . e.ty which there was:at•present reason to apprehend. • Lord Et,LENIioROUGH suggested the propriety,of postponing a subject of such Importance until .to marrow, when there would be a fuller House. • Earl STANHOPE said his Nloti'en would admit of no delay, and therefore proceeded. , His Lord ship, after observing upon the immense. sums paid by this-Cu - entry for Corn imported, -upon' the ex , pdrtof Barley to Ireland, the export of Rice, and the reasons which,- he said; there was for :appre!tend in,s• a.- Scarcity, moved, for Accounts of the 'quanti ties of Corn, &c. impel-tea and exported since 1 - 801 ; • ,wLicli Motians, seid, be had .mentioned to a •Nroble Lord, who, he believed,, considered thent as • unexceptionable - • •fit. Earibi ATOJRA said, the Motions were un exceptionable,,but he could not help thinking- the. speech of the Noble Lord very exceptionable, as it tended to raise an alarM of .scarcity - without any foundation. He.. was anxious- that such an -irre : , pressiuli should not go forth to the public without • contradiaion. He was ,not : se well.able as his, No ble Rientl neer' him (LordAtiekland) to go into de= tail iipoti,4liS:-51-tbja,' but 14qe was enabled te state mest positiVely that ther6'kvfi:i not the elightest r6a sent° apprehend any scarcity. Every conclusion, on the ,contrary, from (lethal circumstances, must be drawn on , the OVposite Lord AUCIMIND ASO dqelared, that there. was pot the least giauad tbritlyraending any scarcity. IV:lett the . .L`: . -11)1 , 2.' Earl ne otiooed to him hit 4 Mo tion', he tleateht tet e ,: to the American Bill; bet,had not toe leio,t tai. a of the-Noble Earl's- en .t.leateenieg to an aLinn bf scarcity. 'For such tit alarot thtee: was not the slightest founda . . , tion ; the- re vets (e-ory R aeee 00 the contrary, to weel.l highlY produc tive there were • atethe present • tune, a- great Intinher of of wheat :n the river ; -added to the.ror s et: the Baltic were, not shut against • • lee eer were they likely tit Le sheet. - He had no sobjt-Otion tkYtl7te eroduetion of the loforination moved for O' the Earl was only anxious to do away the i n which, might otherwise be pw,de is con:equence of. what the Noble Earl bad T 1 E S, UN. SOLENI igers DICERZ rALSUY. AUDZAT ? N 1) 0 N, WEISNEShAY, APRIL 1 - 806, ' tated '1 he 111, - ,t;ons v. ere then •-nrreed to. Mr. Mr. -FTDELL, Lord ar.d several uther .Niemberi of the Jioti , e of (.3.)onnt n. 4, brought op the AYine Duty ;i. the .\ p!: , raisk went alty Bill,.;lnd some Private ..,whi,ll wwre read a fir.it time. ,kvjourilc':l till to morrow (this day). t. English Counties, eiid ending - vtith those of Ireland. oe , RiOns went to the principle -of tl - ifllill ; and as I About four o'clock the HOiiie returned to he (AI:. Ito the recommitment, there was only one clause iii I nary place of meeting, fat the dispatch of business. as . ..the Bill, and thot One involved the principle . itself. i uSual. ' ' '' • liewas ageinst ir, therefore, though he believed the A Message from the Lords announced their as- - 1 Honourable. Gentleman could have, no : motives in sent to the Irish ' Bank Note Bill, the EY•ehequer 1 this business' except such as Nvere pure and hoe ' - Bills' Bill, 'the Tea Duty Bill, and the Irish Hearth l' nourab}e. ' •- - Duty Repealing Bill ; end arso flea - the Lords.had• i Mr. TIERNEY observed,' that the Noble 'Lord did determined to proceed further in.,the Trial of Lore \ him no more than. justice :- he himself coUld &fin Melville (e ellorroee Morning at ten of the 'clOck. • I no advantage frein the Bill, as the Law was per-' The th'EAKE4 then took this opportunity of' Stat: I *featly declared in' the place Which. he represented, ing that he Would, as had been One this day, at- I and his only objea was to extend the advantage to. tend putiOnally at ten o'clock to-morrow, that ,at 4 other places. :If 'all eXpences to the'CaudidatecoUld qtierter past ten the Serjeant at Arms would be sent be done away, he would he very well pleased e but to clear the passages, and that at half past ten tie he had at first carried the provisions of the Bill be- Managers would .go forth. - - • ;- yond the mere paint of explanation.- When trio - 'b •REGULATION OF OFFICEs. . 1 . ney had been given, the question in the Courts Lord HereleY PETTY mentioned that he . had be . - I had been, Aterwh it had beene . allowed for fore given notice of his intention to moye on Fekely . carriage - money s objea wo establish the for leave to bring in a Bill, for Regulating the Office I' point that . no money ought to be given at all ; and Of Receiver-General of the Cnstoms. 'H6 tow give 1 this, he aPprehended, was the ease as the Law stood notice that on - the same day he would alse dove for at present. But nothing was said in thenLa about leave to bring in a Bill forßeettlating the Office of carriages; and if thing was was to pret carriages the Receiver -General of the ° Excise, .a Bill for the frena being provided, it would be more than an ex of the Stamp-Office, .a Bill for the Re- planatory one. . * , gulation of the Post-Office, and a Bill for the Re- i Mr. FRANCIS thoUght that the Am endment gulation of . the Office . of SurveyoreGeueral of the I would alter the principle of the Bill con siderabl y . , , i Carriages were-to be allowed to co nve y the Voters ; Woods and Forests. The ATTORNEY GENERAL postponed the third but how were they to be conveyed—alive or dead ? reading of the Slave Trade Restrietion , 1301. till An Honourable; Member behind him whispered Thursday'next: . . ,; 1 dead drunk. Well, be it so ; but if you give the Mr. Irvine, the Inspeaor,General of Imports and i Voter, nothing to eat _or think in ~.a tourney of eo6 Exports, presented Papers, pursuant to an Orileseof I miles, he would scarcely be alive by the time he came' the House.--Ordered to lie on the Table., ' ' •.. ' Ito the place of polling ; or, if he were alive, he would . . , , , . - INDIA, AFFAIRS. -a '-, : 1 not ue able to vote. . _ • Mr. Meheux presented the Furrnekabad' Papers,-I Mr. RAKER contended that the Candidate ought moyed for by Mr. Paull. . , . : 1 to be at no expence ; but- this Bill would do so little, Mr. PAULL , moved that they sh ould b e ;p rinted, ! that he thought, it better the Leis , should remain as and, at the same time, begged the House to Observe lit was. .. ,-• • , . the small bulk of those Papers Which had been re; .. Mr. .11eN!VY LASCELLES agreed with the last . presented as so voluminous. i Speaker. Mr. CREEVEY said, that the Hon. Gentleman was Mr. SrENcen STANNOPE thought the Bill better under a mistake, as the Furruckabad Papers had not than no Bill at all, as it was impossible to. the been represented as very voluminous, 'though the matter* as it Was. He thought that' it would be Papers relating to some of the other places had un- better to regulate the expellees of lean Candidate, for doubtedlv been so represented. • Ihe was of Opinion, that any Law ch went . to do Mr. PAULL was proceeding to defend the corre&- ' them away altogether svould be evaded. It was ot a nest of his statement, when he was calle d t o prdeorderwiseeaying'of Solon to: the Athenians, " I do n He then said, that-be, was the only person who was 1 give you the best Laws poSsible , but t h e best which kept to such stria order on these subjects ; upon you can-bear." We ought to keep this in mind. which the SPEAKER appealed to the House Whether ' Mr: GRAHAM su orted the Bill at first, but it pp he deserved the imputation, now cast upon hies— would now be scs much altered that he wished it had ( A cry Vilna, no,•frora every part tithe House). + never been brought before the House, and he would The Papers were then ordered to be printed, and to Oppos . e its farther progress. lie on the. Table. . .. . • Mr: ROSE wished to have- the. LaW settled one , The Sea Offences Bill was reported, and ordered way or anothe e r,ba a d nd on that peeprinciple ions woUld support to be read a third time to-morrow, the Bill. H seen th o given by . Petitions were presented from the Dealers in Lea- three Lawyeni of eminence ; two of them differed, ther of Newcastle-undee-Line, and anether place, 1 and the other said, that k believed the Law to be praying for a Repeal of certain Regulations iujuri- ! one way, but that very likely the Committee would ous to the Trade. _Ordered to lie. on the Table. ' decide the other. .As .toziving money; this would The Appraisement Duty ,Bill w as read a third be iinpossible, as no regular rate could be GE fixed.ANSIT- , . time and passed. . .. • After afew words from Mr. GEOR V Lord TEMPLE moved the first reading of the Bill TART, Mr. Coe - ews:etas, Mr. 1 -.ANGIIAM Chet Hon se ano foe inamnifyine. those - who pertnitted• the Im- ther, whose name we could not learn, lidrtation of Ciro:LIS into our West India Coloiiies in divided on the question, whether the Bill should be Foreign Bottoms. This Bill, he stated, did not at - re-committed ?—Ayes 24----Noes 14. • . . all refer to the question respeCtieg the Navigation 1 The 13111 was then re-committed and reported, Laws e which had come: under the consideration of I and the Report ordered to be farther considered on the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Rose.) Friday: —The.Bill . was thereread a first time, and ordered , . Mr. Moons presented a Petition from the Tan to be read a second time to-morrow. - tiers of Coventry, praying for the Repeal of certain •On the Motion for the further consideration of i i _ Regulations _Adjourned. • ' the Report - of - the Tortola Fr ee Port Bill, Mr. RosE expressed himself ready to enter into ! . ' his objeCtions to the Bill now, in case it was re- I ' . committed. - 1 Lord TEMPLE, however, on account of the ab- 1 sence of a Right Hon. Friend of his, wished rather ' that the recommitment should be postponed.—The Bill was accordingly ordered to be recommitted en Thursday. . . Mr. FOSTER, in pursuance of his notice,moved that the House should resolve itself into 4 Coin mittee, to take into Consideration the - 45th Geo. 111. . cap. 98. The House having resolved itself into a Committee, Mr. FOSTER. Oid, that his objea hi moving for . this Committee -was ~ to submit to • their considera tion a Resolution for disethitintling . 'certain draw- • backs which -had . been "granted by an Aa'of last Session upon the re-exportation of Foreign Linen. It was the obvious policy' of this Country to give. every possible encouragement to the Manufattures* of both parts of • the United Kingthim, and there, fore he did not apprehend . that any•objeaion ceeld be made to his Motion. Near the latter end of the last Session an. Act was passed which-granted Cer- • tai; Drawbacks upon the re-exportation of Poicieu Linen ; he wished to discontinue these.Drawbaelee as far .as rehated to Printed or Stamped Linee. Ile 'therefore moved, " that from and after the Ist cloy of August, . t 806, • the Allowance and Drawiete'es granted by the 45th Ge0..111. cap. 98, upon the :\ - portatiOn of Foreign. Linen, the thread tit- yarn o f 'which the same is composed having been *stained, coloured, or dyed, before the manufacture, do cease and detei l mine." s . • 1 The Resolutionwes agreed to, 'and :the Report was, ordered to be received to-morrow. - ' - .ELECTION TREA'rING'BILL - . On‘the Motion of Mr. TIERNEY, Ih'6 House re- sunned the consideration of the Report ' of the Elec . - tion Treating Bill. • Mr: TIERNE y wished -that it should he recom mitted,-for the sake of some Amendments which he' meant to Propow. It had been suggested to hiM ; by a Learned Friend, that , time Bill Went somewhat ferther, than was intended originally. Its objea was. todeelare the Law. But there had been no doubt that a Candidate might provide a carriage fur the Voter, though he ought not to give money to the Voter;himself to procore elle,. By this, Bill, ,how ever, the Candidate could pot even provide a car riage for the Voter, and thus far it went beyond de . - clari ti : g the Law. He wished to amend it in this HOUSE OF colimoNs.. poi ne and therefore moved that it be now re corfunitted. The other *Amendments were merely TVESDAY,AFRIL 29. : i verbal. , TRIAL Of. LORD MELVI-tl.t. i Sir ROBERT BustTosi thought that the Cartditate 're , Tim -e this day-met at ten o'clock, pursuant . ought to be at no expence with respea to the too der, for the pu: pose of prneeecing to Westenin-! ' Voters, and would rather have the Law as it stos, eter Hall, ta.protiecute the Trial Of -Lord Melville. than agree to pass the B [ t hat, h w th ever e A the Bill iiiiht mendment. Strangers were exclqed, but it was understeed that - Mr. PAULL thought, ho the Managers left tlle House first, and repaired tO he disguised, Its end would be tesdiruinish the tits i,lace assigie 4 them in the Court, after Which number of Voters, and for thafreason he would ok ; te e Meeple..!rs w lit ont according to the alphabetical _pose -,t-•• • , .• - . erder er st..ver. 1 Counties, be inning with the Lord ARCIIIBALA HAMILTON .4aid i that his Lb- MAILS. Dvs- . - t HAinburgh, t Gottenhurgh, s Lisbon, 2 Waterford. ►RICE I')F sTock.s • THIS CartY AT -1W ELV Y O'CLOCK. Consols — 6 .l Onitiium - - 2 Tut,: Iligh Court of Parliament met agaiu this (lay in Westminster-Hall, and, after the same ceremo, nies, proceeded upon the Trial of Eqta Viscount Alra:viLLE. : . , . The Court was chiefly employed' itr hearing the: Report- of the CommissiOners for Naval Inquiry, Extratas . • from Parliamentary Records *to which re" , ferences had been made, and s the Examination of Witnesses. • Tnere was nearly as large an assemblage of Peers as yesterday, but a much smaller Koportion of the 'Commons. There was also a much less attendancii of speCtators, and the • scene, excep. for . the important objet s of inquiry, was of course compa r:ltiely less interesting and impregSive.- Eizfreprenqnta Cutter, Lieut. You No, arrived ou i)londay last, at Plymouth,. with Dispatches from Admiral Lord•CoLuNowoo She brings no intel-. ligence of any importance. There seems to remain very little doubt that ano titer French Squadron has appeared in the West 'lndies, for' all the accounts which have been re ceived concur in that point, though they diner in. some minute particular; and it appearsequally clear that AdMiral DUCKWORTH has sailed itl .pursuit of it. He stated - to have sailed - . from 'Jamaica on his return home on the 24!„h uf . February, and• consequently niu ;t have arrived before this time if he had continued his voyage : there seems, therefore, strong reasen to believe that he had received in formation. of the French Spiadron,.and that he had gene in prirsuit of:them. I.,, , ,T•rtqits were this morning received in ToWn fr,4l, Holland,. but we do 'not, understand that they contain any intelligence o- importance. The in-, ten• Jed ch:tuge in. tile Governtnent of th4t C JMI I ry Lay not 'yet - taken plaeel +~~-= A short but interesting conversation t o ok plaee yesterday in the House of Peers, upon a Motion of Lord STANIJOPE, for an Account of the quantity of ,Corn imp'orted into this Country since the Ist of January, 1804. The Noble Lord prefaced his Mo tion by making some' observations upon the possibi 'lity of a Scarcity of Cdrn" iii consequence of the Ports of the Baltic being shut against this Country. Lord MOIRA,. and Lord AUCKLAND declared, that there was not the slightest foundation for the apprehen sion entertained by the Noble Lord of the possi bility of a Scarcity; and Lord .A.uct(r.A.Nii added, that the Ports of the Baltic neither were, nor were likely to , be, shut against us. . • Dispatches were received:on Monday night from the Government in Ireland, at the Irish Treasury, in Whitehall, . . Yesterday morning . an express arrived from Dub lin Castle, which was forwarded to the Irish CHAN- Cill.oll of the EXCHERLIER, then ht his place at the House of Commons. The most perfect order prevailed in and about Westrninster Haan yesterday : this our lteliders not be surprized at, when we hrform them every .thing was cOndueted utlder the. dire6tion of AARON GRAHAM, E4tF acid Sir DANIEL - WILLIAMS, Knt, who attendelin person, equally active and intel , •• CcfOoy has beets 'appointed from 0411 to Ton-• nitigen;Atind4ill sail on the of May. 'lt is daily expect; V a Convoy froth . London, for the same place, will be appoititea. We have the satisfaCtion of announcing to the Public, that in answer to a,demand from the Court of Berlin 'to .that of Copenhagen, enforced' y an ap plication 'from the French Resident, that. the Ports Of Denmark should be. shut against Gie:at Britain, the Government of Copenhagen have replied : " - That a secret but fundamental Treaty exists between the overnments of Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, by which the security and the fteedoin of the Baltic Seas is re gulated, and that the demands of the Court of l3erhu are contrary to the stipulations therein." The outward-bound China Ships, now lying at the Motherbank, are to recelve,oh board 380 troops each, and those about to sail for Bengal 250. each, for the Cape of Good Hope, and the Coast of Coro mandel. Private letters from St. Pctersburgh, by the Got tenburgh Mails of yesterday, state, that the Grand Duke '(the Emperor's brother) is to take the com mand, of the Russian Army on the Frontiers of Po land, which now consists of about 2 . 40,000 ALEXANDER wished to command in person, but was dissuaded by his Council. Private letters from Berlin of the 15th state, that the Troops stationed under Count KALICREUTIE, in Prussian Poinrania, are ordered to bold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice. • The Prussian Troops are spreading therosetvos over every part of the Eleaorate of Hanover, on the other side of the Elbe. Some few days ago a party of them took possession of the celebrated University of Gottingen, where they immediately put seals ou the presses belonging to the different Professorships. If the War 'now carrying op ht- the. South of litaly be well managed, it may be continued in I wternum. The Country is prodigiously strong; and, a very small Army may defend it against numbers vastly superior. HANNIBAL maintained his ground for I 3 years, in this very quarter, against the whole power of Rome, and then only quitted the field be,. cause he received a peremptory order, which ho long resisted, but at length complied With; to leaVe , ThefOrtress of Gaeta is ,situate upon a peninsula, and is very .rong by art and nature: The ,ground in its vicinity being' hard rock immediately below the surface, no trenches can be opened upon it ; and without the dominion of the sea it is impossible to reduce it - by famine. It bears a striking reemblance.. to Gibraltar ; On . which account tho Italians call it Little Gibraltar. In 1707 it sustained a .celebrated siege by the AustrianS, who tool: it by assault, after throwing into the place y 000 bombs and eO,OOO cannon-balls. Aaiarticle; dated Amsterdam, April 15, asserts positively, - that JEROM• BONAPARTE'S Squadron is `gone to"the East Indies : The • fAlowing Extras from thepage of history is strikingly'applicable t6' the conduct of France at the present moment, particularly as the French have often denominated- this Country the Modern Car . ~ ,usage, and, if they could possibly triumph over it, would, no, doubt, treat us worse •than the- . Romans treated the Carthagenians. _ " The Roman's no lOnger apprehending any oppo sition from Carthage; set no bounds to their ambit. tion, cruelty,:and contempt of national faith. They interfered, n the most arbitrary manner in the affairs of all nations, and took upon them to regulate, or rather to pervert, the succession of Kings. PERSEUS, liing of Macedonia, AwriocßUS, King of Syria, and a multitude of smaller Kings and States, including all the Gaulle 'part of Italy,and almost the whole Peninsu la of Spain, were subjected to the dominion of Rome. .ATTIOCIIUSi and several utlier of the Asiatic Princes, were permitted to retain a nominal royalty ; but they were merely deputed Magistrates,, etibotually ; deprived of sovereign power, and particularly of their naval force; and, alter assisting in the rednetion of their neighbours, wherein they gratitied their resent ments, without considering that they were accele-. rating their own destruaion, they were stripped of their tolerated Shadow of power, and had only the comfort which, according to the fable, POLYPIIEMU • promised to ULYSSES, of being last devoured." Such is the brief history of the Romans for about half a century, as collated from their own Writers and the Ronranized Greeks. What would it he if' the Historians of other Nations were extant to tell the talc ! . Nothing can be more improbable than the decla ration in the French .ErposJ, importing that the last change the Government of Holland had not the sanaion Ot BONAPARTE, when it must be notori ous to all the world, that the Dutch could not presume to make any alteration in their Legislative System, except with the permission of France, and such indeed as must have been ae,ually frained in all ointtb.y thq ,French Ruler,