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I of them had stated, that they did not knbw of_tl - 4 Treaty of Oude till a little before they had :written their dispatch, in 1805. He read a letter, sighed by thirteen Direalors, by which . it appeared that they knew something about it in 1802. Mr. GRANT explahled. ' Mr. PERCIVAL, objeaed to. the proposition of Mr. Sheridan, and ,proposed, that the_charge should. be withdrawn altogether, if it.could now be' done, till the documents could be produced. . __ _ After a few words from Mr. Fox and Mr. SEE- • Mr. RAULL'olefended his mode of proceeding, by stating, that the friends of Marquis Wellesley 'Were constantly saying that he only moved for do • cOtnents to gain information, and that he did know what'he was about. This induced him to bring the charge thus early,. and he. had the documents in his hand to prove it.. He adverted to several Members who • had, on different occasions, expressed senti ments similar to his on the conduet of Marquis Wellesley. Mr.. II - UDDLESTOhE knew nothing of the, letter which had been read by the Hon d•Gentlenaan (Mr. W. Pole). He approved some parts of the couduel Marquis Wellesley, and disapproved of 474beiparts of it. He would be glad to find himself in an error ; but, he believed the evidence against Lord Wellesley would be too strong to be refuted. . Mr.. SH4I - iLIMN adverted to the calls which bad been made upon him by an Honourable Friend near him '(?r. Francis.) He still retained his opi nions relative to the trnnsa&ions in the Carnatic butt, when he spoke of these before, he never named Marquis' Wellesley. To be sure ,now it appeared that he had some connection with them, but the charge would equally. lie against the Board of Con troul and the Dire6turs. He had used the privilege of friendship to state to his Hon. Friend (Francis); that he wished to avoid, as much as possible, ques tions which might occasion differences between the Members of Administration, when union was so de sirable. But why did riot he himself undertake this business ? He had lost 'none of his fire and, if re port was true, he would have had no objediou to go as Governor General to India. 'His Hon. Friend, however, had not a6ted from motives of personal disappointment', but merely from some friendship for him (Mr. Sheridan), and a regard to his charac ter. He hoped, however, that his Hon. Friend .-Would leave to himself the task of justifying his poli tical condu&. Mr. FRANCIS observed, that the general tenor .of • his condut'..l.waS such, as he was confident must convince the House that he was not so much Of a disappointed man as . he might have been expetied to he. Sir T. METCALF defended the cOndua of the Direetors of the East India Company. He delivered Lis sentiments in that House as a Member of Par- Lament only, it - lilt:pendent i any Other considera thin, and he was confident that every'Llember Of the HOn; Court of ,Directors now - spoke what was' his Own individual opinion, without the least reference to what might be the• opinion of those vc:lio need Nv t h him in another situation. • 'This much, how ever, he would say, that the question pfan impeach ment, or a Civil Suit against the Noble Marquis, had never been once aOtated - by the Court of Dire tors. ' Mr. ADLEvOTO.Nsuggestej, that' the most re - gular cov.l - se'v-ould be, for the Hon. Gentleman to move that the Motions be, fur the present, with drawn ; and, after there was some further infornia ition-before the House upon this subjeft, it might be competent to him, or any other -Hon. Member, to move the further consideration of the question on some day substqueut to the produCtion of those do -cc ment s. ' 1% . 1r. I'AuLL said this was the very mode which he, intety.k3 to ime pursued, in (:onsequetice ofwhat . lie had heard in the course of this night's debat6.. The _Motions were then orcicrM to he withdrawn. Aft.er which, rlr. Smsitimtx gave nriticc, that be would rnovo the House. to. re:itincl thn'Order fot. printing the first Article of he proposLainipe4th -111 nt . Mr. I'Autt. then moved f-)r the. prodtiaiort of cer tain Accouuts, with a view to skew the comparative amount of the Public Expenditure in India during the Administrations of Governor Hastings, Lord Cornwallis, Sir John Shore, and Marquis Wellesley. ----TheMotions were carried unanimously. Mr. WELLESLEY gave notice, that he would, on Thursday, move 'for the produCtion of some addi tional Popers relative to the conduct of the 'Noble Marquis. The Committee on the Property Tax Bill was, on .tile suggestion of Sir H. Mildmay, deferred , till Fri day. -r—titter some routine business, the House 4d journeci at Twelve o'clock. Froal the. FRENCH ...4.:1 7 D DUTCH PAPERS. PNRIS, APRIL 12.—Upwards of 14,000 Austrian Prisoners - have, since the Bth of March, taken the rdad to Strasburgh 66 their route home. :1.-4n consequence of a Report made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the French Consul- General of Leghorn has been suspended from his funtStions, and ordered to be tried according to Law : he is Charged with having received gratuities from the Merchants of Genoa for certificates of origin,. by which it is supposed he' obtained an annual revenue of 100,000 francs ; and also with having restored to an English Commissary at Leghorn some Ligurian Sailors taken on board an English Priva teer, whom the Arch-Treasurer had claimed to be sent to Genoa. . . The taking possession of a part of. Dalmatia by , the Russians, at the very moment the French were on their way to take possession of that .Province in terms of the Treaty of k'resburgh, has already Created d. good deal of speculation among politicians here, and appears as a manifestation of a hostile tendency. The Cabinet of St. Petersbuigh (they say) has trampled upon the Treaties by 'which Russia . was allied to Austria. 'We are already well.assured that Prussia will unite with France against Russia and Sweden, and that the principal st.T.t of - war ,wild in cline towards the North of Et4ropp._ , . A report is current, that one of tlx,greatest Courts of, Europe has offered an 'asylum in' their, States to the Royal Family of Naples, with an allowance of a yearly pension Of .half a million. TRIESTV:, MARCH 20.—the Rpasians ',aye effec tually taken possession of Cattaro ; anti . we must suppose that they endeayoure , 4 to form a correspon dence with the inhat:';itants, in orde to intiinichite the Austrian' L 0 N 1) 0 N, WCDESDAY, APRIL :24,, .18106, The following very important intelllgence was this Morning received at LLOYD'S. • It appears that not, withstanding all wujeaures to the coutrztry 4 ano ther French Squadron has reached the West 'ln dies, and there'is strong reason to hope that Sir Jon): Dc . cKwoualt will fall in with 'them The illexan . dcr L rtdo, Capt, itiNNEtu;Alci the Fun e, BRAITHWAITE, the Alaria, 1 1 iNcE,. and the Venus, ToBIN, arrived at Liverpo6l, on the (20th7inst. from Jainaica : they sailed from, thence on the 24th February, in company with Admiral PUCKWOETH, in the Superb Man of War, accompanied. by the Acacia Frigate and the French Prizes, and parted from them the next day. On the 29th, off Nevaza, spoke HiS Majesty's Ship l'eteran, who the preced ing: day had fallen in with AdmiraIDUCKWWIT!.-1, to whom he communicated intelligence. of His Ma 7: jesty'sschooner . Gi - &-iciise having been chased a few days before, otf La Gwyn, by four FrenCh Line-of battle Ships. In consequence of this information, the Admiral and theAcasta steered back for Jamaica, to eolleCt his Squadron and go in quest of them." Extra& of a Letter frorri Cork, dated 17tit.Aprit: The Earl Spencer Cutter is arrived at Cove : she boarded a Ship from Jamaica, the .Captain. of whiCh stated, that Sir Jontc Ducxwor.-ruhaving .. re ceived _intelligence that a French Squadron had ar-' rived at La Guayra, determined on attacking it; and • . when 'the Merchantman sailed, he had procured: 1500 Volunteers, with whom he manned the twa French eft gun Ships, and was proceeding to La, Gilayra." OUR 'leaders - will recolleca, that on the 12th of last March we inserted a very important Letter from Count HaitDENEEIIO fo Lord HAP.ROWBY, dated the 22d of DeceMber Ilst. On lite 31 St nit. we lath fished the evraordinary übzervaC t on.s.of the Ilionitezir upon that Letter, the tendency pt . v.- 1 :14i was, to make the - , ,v(Mt.l believe „ nEN - nr.no's not authoristd A.1N.0 r.IIU3ST: We, hoti.e'er, at that time declared Our conviCti. th:it Count HARDNEERG had, full authority-from• his Sovereian. We'this'day insert a very important article from'Count HARDENBERG, in which, in con firmation of our 'opinion, be, declares, tharhe wrote the Letter in question by comMand of his Sovereign The most important part of this interesting docu ment is, that it proves, beyond a doubt, that Count HA6GWITZ signed the Treaty at Vienna the 15th of ttec.'wth BONAPARTE, if not in dire& opposition to his orders, at-least without the knowledp.ofhis Sovereign. A Dutch Smack arrived on Monday, at 1 7. 1-- . mouth, with a Flag of Truce. A Dutch Ofticer was on board, and it'is supposed - he is come over to Negotiate an Exchange of Prisoners. Thirteen Vessels are detained and sent into that Port by the North Sea Cruizers, under the Embargo, all laden with timber. A report ‘71:.15 strongly prevalent this morning, that, St. Helena had been taken by a French Squad-. ron ; but we could not trace it to any authentic- 6 Jurce. . We last night received Paris and Dutch Papers - , the former to the itith and the litter to the 19th inst. from which we have extracted the most interesting articles. DE,Cf,ARATIO4I4 ;, OF MS MAJESTY'S MINISTER OF STATE CABINET BARON HARDENBERG. The Moniteur of the .f...)ist March publishes a Letter written by me of the 22d Dec. 1805, to Lord HARROWBY, then His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Berlin' (this ;Letter has already appeared in our Paper) and requires of me at the same time to say whether this Letter be authentic or a fabrication, and at the same time 'accompanies this demand with several - observations. - The duties and the situation of a Minister of State are rendered sometimes difficult from the cir cumstance of their frequently imposing silence upon him, even when he is misunderstood or "calumniated. However, in the present instance, I owe it to my Sovereign and to myself - to declare—that this Letter, though some of itS.expressions . Ware altered, was Written officialty, and by Command of-thel<.ing. I owe it to his Majesty to make • this declara tion',' t•:-.cause, at the Court of Berlin, it is not permitted to any Member to take-steps of that na ture without the knowledge of the/Sovereign 3 , and I owe it to myself, because I cannot he indifferent, when I am held to be capable of -aaing contrary to my duty, or of exposing myself to -the -risk of bayilcg aas which I performed in , the ..name of the Kb -2, afterwtrds disapproved of by Majesty. " -On the 22d of December it w:.s not known either to the Kling or to any person in Berlin that a Treaty had been concluded on the 15th, by Count }-lAuowrrz, at Vienna, as the Count had reserved this information to be' communicated by' himself on his arrival •at. Berlin, which did not Arhappen tilt the 25th. We were, as :1 expressly stated in my letter to Lard HA'anoway; wholly-uncer tain respeeting the objeas of his Majesty the • Brn peror of the French ; the Armies on both 'sides were on the. war footing, and in the , field. Major-Gen, ?nut, was sent to the French head-quarters and 'to Count HAUGWITZ,r to declare himself upon the in termediate, Agreement which was the object of my Letter to Lord 1-lAnao,wii, and which was propos •ed by Count linuowiTz. M. Da PaUL met , this Minister on his journey bacl;:to Berlin, with a De finitive Treaty ; the interme4te tigreem,ent.-na tu,rally became null. , " This is the exa& statement of the facts; and. upon this statement I leave the Public impartially to judge of the observations in the Moniteur. I place my honour in the esteem and punfidencel of my Sovereign and the, Prussian Nation, in the re gards-of estimable strangers with whom 1 Was in re lation, and among whonr I have the pleasure of counting Frenchmen,. I am not a native- of the PruSsian States ; but I do not yield to any native on the score of patriotism. I have acquired a right to this pretension by my services, and by the transfer of the inheritance which I now possess into the Prus sian Territory. '):hough lam not a Soldier, I feel, nevertheless, thatl would not have been unworthy to be of this profession had fortune destined me to defend with the sword my Sovereign and his rights, the dignity and security of the' State. This is my .Ausl.ver, to the Observations in the Allciniteur.— Neither Newspaper Bulletins, nor the Observations of their Editors, can dishenour me. " The genuine text of mar 'Letter to Lord HAR ROWBY appears below, by comparing which with the publication in the Moniteur, the alterations which I have, mentioned will be perceived. " HARDENBERG." • _Yesterday. morning His MAJESTY, the Duke •of CAMBRIDGE, Princesses AUGUSTA and. SoX'HIA, ac companied by Generals HARCOURT, MANNERS, and Frrnioy,' Col. TAYLOR, Lady THYNNE, &C. took an airing on horseback in Windsor 'Great Park. Her MAJESTY and the other PanKcEssEs took an airing in a carriage and four by Winkfield. Yesterday, the canopy used for the ROYAL FA-- lIILY at State Trials was removed from St. James's Palace to Westminster Hall. At a Court of Aldermen held yesterday at Guild hill the Price of Bread was increased two Assizes, which makes the Ctuartern Loaf Wheaten, Is. lid: and Household t tild. The Abbe Winekelman, in his celebrated Trea tiie, denies that the people of nprthern climates have any pretentious to genius. This was probably in tended as a satire upon the age in which he lived ; for could he but witness the plan upon which the present execlient Lottery- is to be drawn, he would be forced to adinit that the inventive genius of man cannot be advanced to a higher Pitch than when it makes whole families happy by distributing among: 317,:uz of C15,0T,q 179. 4 0%,i. j 0;0001. rx.,,,A., N_t iv. Pion - LONDON GAZETTE, April zz, 1&.6. Adniiralty-Office, April 22, 1806. Copy of a - _Lettgr front Tice.-Admiral Thorrzrougk to the Earl of St. liincent, K. B. iltiniiral and' Commander in Chief of Ills Itliljesty's,Fleet ern " ployc'd in the C7iannel,iSoundings,'"ey. , _Prince of IVales, off: Roan:fart, tpril 9, L. 806. • ,• MY „ , have the honour to' transtnit'to.your Lordship h , Copy Of a Letter I have this day received from Capt. Lord Cochran; of Majesty's Ship Pallas,'undee my orders. ICAvill not be necessary for-Me) my , Lord, to comment upon the intrepidity-and good condu& displayed , by Lord Cochrane, his Officers; and men, in the execution of a very hazardousieh.. terprize in the Garotnre, a river . the•most difficult perhaps, in its navigation of any on this Coast the complete sUccess that attended it, as well as the cle struaion of the Vessels of War mentioned in the said Letter; on the Coast of Arcassore;bespeaki, their Merits more fully than in my power to do ; towhich may be fairly added, that nothing can evince . mare dearly the high state of discipline of the crew of the Pallas, than. the humanity.sheri by themto the Enemy id the conflia, 'I have the hon our t o b e , &c. - (Signed) EI)W. TI-1011NBROUGIT.' , The Ear! cgs Sze! Vincent, t. . . „ • His ' n r Chqsseron, s Pallas, o • sits, : April 8. Having received information, r7which proved cor re4, of the situation of the,Cprvettes in Abe River Of hourdeaux, a little after dark on the. evening of the sth the Pallas was anchored dose to the Shoal of Cordovan ; and it gives me satisfaction to ate, that,.about three o'clock, the National Corvette La -“l'apageuse, ,of 14 long 12-pounders and 95 men,. which had the guard, was boarded; carried, and cut out, about twenty miles above the Shoals, within two heavy batteries, iii spite of all resistance, by the First Lieutenant, Mr. Haswell ; Mr. Suther land, the Master; Messrs. Perkins, Crawford, and Thompson ; together with the Quarter-Master, and such of the Seamen, the Serjeant, .and Marines, as were fortunate enough to find a place in the The tide of flood ran strong at day-light ; La 2.'aper t. geuse made sail ; a general alarm was given ; a Sloop of War followed, and an action continued, often within hail, till, by th e same b ravery by which the Tapageuse was carried, the •Sloop of War, which had been before saved'by the rapidity of the, current alone, after about an hour's firing, was com pelled to sheer off, having suffered as much kn the. hull as the Tapag euse i n,t h e r i gg i ng . Th e 01,14.4 of the Officers a n d. Men will .be justly appreciated. With confidence I shall now beg leave to recom mend them to the notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. It is necessary to add, that tho same morning, when at anchor waiting fir the boats (which, by the bye, did not return till this morning, three Ships ,were observed bearing down upon the Pallas,. making many signals ; they were soon perceived to be Enie mies. In a few min u t es th e anchor was weigheLi' and with the remainder of the Officers and Crew, we chased, drove d in shore, and, wrecked, one Na tional 24-gun Ship, one of 42 gnus, and La Ma licleuse, a: beautiful Cottette,. of 18 guns; their masts ,went by the board, and they were involved. in a sheet of. spray.. All in this Ship sheaved great zeal fob . jesty's service. The Warrant Officers, and A - - 'llittual, Midshipman, supplied the place of commissioned: The ab.ience Of Lieut. 'Mapplet o A is to be regretted ; he would have gloried in the pedition with the Boats. Theassistance ren.iiCri by Mr. prum mond,of the Royal M ar i nes , was such_ as might have been expe&ed. Subjoined is a the wounded, together with. the Vessels captured and destroyed since the 26th ult. I am, Sir, &C - ' (Siglied; COCHRA-N-E! Admira/ThorOrQugh, &c. Kt Lt. o.—None. Iv6l.7NoED.—Michael Molloy, both arms shot ofr; Crookuran, in the aim ; John 111 4 Donald, in the back. .VESSELS TAKEN ok_ DESTRovED.—Le Dessabc, Ch ass e Magee, 'taken; L'lsle Daix, ditto, taken; La 1 5 0/ 11 ° 1 ". Br;g, taken; a large I;rig, burnt ; a Chasse ivlaree, NA.rtoNAr. SEIFS.— l'apagcuse; 14 guns, ;95 me "' ; La Nialicicto;e, t 8 guns, wrecked ; Imperial 24 guris, wrecked ; Imperial Ship, 22 suns, vvr,eked. (Signeti) COCIIItANE. Admiralty-Office; April 22, 1806. Copy v . r. r a Letter from Capt. Brace . to Admiral Lord • Gardner, Commander in Chid . of .His Majesky's . Skips and Vessels at Cork. ills Majesty's Ship Virginie, at Sea, April 9. Nt• deg. 49 miii. r 4. long. 10 deg: 25 min. W. MY LOX!), _ . I lave the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that at six P.M. I captured a fastt-siailing Spanish Schooner Privateer, called the Vengador, 'haunting 14 gulls , with a Crow of 82 men. -. PLYMOUTIU APRIL 2 i.----Arrived this morning h the French Brig Privateer L'lntrcpide, of 14 guns, ' captured off Scilly on the 18th instant, after a run ning action of three hours, ,by the Hind Revenue Cutter, of 14 buns, commanded by C apta i n T. M. ALLAN ; had been 20,days from St. Makes', in the course - of which period she took the Transport Brig Mary, Capt. M'AULEY, from Ireland (afters,Vardit re-taken and carried into Scilly); the _Brig Hop , . JAMES. CULL Master, and the Brig John, 11. DRY ' BROUGH Master, both from Lisbon, with wine and frdit, and the ildop Speculation, .John M‘DokiALD Master, from Liverpool, with wheat and flour ; the three latter were sent for France. Citpt. J. BOW SFN, the Commander of L'intrepide,.,and two of his Crew, were killed in the action, and two others Were desperately wounded ; the Hind, very fortu nately, had none killed.or wounded. 1.,' trepide has been formerly Very successful against the trade , of this Country, having captured several Vessels on a former Cruize, and sails remarkably fast. Capt. ALLAN was informed of her being on the : Coast by the Transport which was re-taken and carried into Scilly, and immediately, with that promptness which has ever characterized that aaive Officer. went in pursuit of the Privateer, and ii:11 in with her on the folloWinc , day: . . I..oNnow•: Printed by R. 11...RR's (of Martfett,court Bow-street), and published by W. A. ScR iPrs (of South kb.r.zitatt-trect'l, Zh2 t ts, Strand. dispoSe . of it the un;)re, easily. We b,>lieve, hox eVer, that the Russians rctire3 ; and this is very prOlubie, because the of Austria cannot sup port such dvibhifion, without she:wily , a weakness which would degrade it, or ,without e:kposing itself to suspicions of a, perfidy which the Court Of France would not suffer to pass with impunity. It has been said that the Russians arrived lane!<peEtedly with . 1;0,1)00 men; this number is exaggerated by :at least tvio-thirds ; but supposing "it to have been &able, Would it have been sufficient to have hindered the. House of Austria from being her own mistress, and disposing of her Provinces at pleasure, in conformity with her Treaties ? No Treaty is obligatory; unless it is executed seriously and pointedly by' the c e rt.,. tracing Parties : if the Russi a n s k ee p possession of Cattaro, the Treaty of Presburgh will be -violated,. becaUse Prat - lee never engaged_ to conquer Venetian, Dalmatia, but only to receive it from the bands of the Coiitt. of Vienna. It is,' therefore, very pro bable that the aboye Court will interfere ; and it is only necessary for it to wish it seriously, in :order to compel the Russians to 1141 . 1d0n the most singular conquest ever made by any Nation. NAI'LES, MARCH 22.—Last Tuesday his imperial Highness PrinceJOSEPH, and Marshal MASSENA, proeeded - tOwarils Gaeta, and returned on 'Fliursday evetitna. The bombarament. commenced the same day. The resemblance in the situation of this For= tress to that of Gibraltar has caused it to 115 called iii Italy Little Gibraltar: I • The clay before yesterday 400 , prisoners, taken in Calabria, arrived. at Naples. AmonEr.st them are 300 Grenadieri of the Royal Guard. They have, like those taken before, departed for captra, and will pro lx.6ly be sent from thence to Rome. defenCe Of Ga;qa: has been lacilitated, and the determin:ition of the Prince of RES 4 PHILIPSTAL, 'ha Commandant, confirmed, by the, arrival in tho Port: of o 1 a Neapolitan Frigate laden with provisions. Printed Papers have been' scut to the French, on one of which it is said " Remember that Gaeta is not Ulm, and that thePrinee of HESSE is not 111Ncx.7 The place is, however, expe&ed to surrender in the course of a short time. _ . The Military Cotninission sitting at Naples hare eondeninetl to death an innkeeper, who had assassi nated a soldier; ana also ' two peasants, father and son, guilty of- a similar crime. HAGUE, .A..PuIL, O.—Their. High Mightinesses will meet again to-morrow (Friday). To-day a Council was held at the Alpison du 13ois, b/ his E:icelleney the Grand. Pensionary of this Re public; it consisted of the MeMbers of the Assem bly of their High Mightinessesand thei r Sect etary, the ...I.NitimberS of the Council of State and their Secre. tary, the General Secretary of State, and the Secre taries of State for the Foreign and Horne Depart. meats, the Marine, the Army, and the Finances. — At this Council business w,?s transacted 01 . the high c.it importance to the Ehitavian Republic. This morning a Vessel brought us the intelligence that the English had laid an Embargo o n ail Pru ss i an Shits iit their Harbours. HAGUE, APRIL 16.—The Session Extraordinary of the Assembly of their High Mightinesses repre senting the d3atavian Republic, which was opened on the Ist instant, closed the day betbre The ordinary Spring Session of the same Assembly commenced yesterday, when M. F. VAN LEYDEN VAN, WESTH:AItENDRECHT was elected President.— M. RoottoA took his . seat on the i 1 tli. for the De- Nrftnent of Friesland, in the room of the .hite BUIPIANIA ItENGERS. . , „ . . OF STOCKS THIS fl AY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. COESOIS - 591 I 0 till ;ill 11 - - - THE SUN.' soLem QULS DICF.PE rALsu:i.-AUD‘I4T ?