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MADAME CATALAN!.
aotorowo C. vat•aotour.
111.—As srvenal Noble Lords, for wrhor family
6.77 I bare the hono.nr to he engaged, have called upon me
for un espl.nettiou, and the cueninstunces relative to the
above action, to recover the amount of the cluetba furnished
Madame Carlini and fur which I have not been paid, and
in which she performed for her own benefit, permit mit
tbrougli your paper to inform the N,drility, Public, ke. that
on THURSDAY I ahali lay my whole rase before them, to
judge thereof, togethtr with some subsequent riirusinitaneer.
Aprils, 1509. L. JAYMOND.

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Nn 4, rornhilh •nd 9, Charing-Cross.
TRltili rem i led, his Friends, that the next
• Day of Drawing will he TO-MORItOW,a•d that the
Lottery finish*s on s.truit DAY. Tiekets nod nem ate
now selling at the above (Wises, and the Whiel-eolltains
Prizes of sutooel. 6,004.11. 1,u0411. :11/01. &C. So.

STATE LOTTERY.
WIET owl Co. No. 11, Poultry, No l_, Char-
ing Crow, and No. at, Aldpate, HiAh.street, are selling
Tickets and Shares warranted uddi awn. There an. tat,
to draw, viz. TOAIORROW mad SATURDAY NEXT.
—.The Wheel cuustairse Penes of shoso.l. I,RooL
5001. Ar.
TWO DAYS T 4► DRAW.
rllO-1110R1tOW, the STATE LOTTERY
a will draw again. Tpe Capitals in the Wheel me
40,0001. s,nool. 1,00 4. 5001. &e. Warranted uodniwa Tick-
ets and Shares are sellioghy R ICU A R l;it
aui Co. Coruhill and Charing erolll., who sold No i 5,0.11, a
Prise of lopetd. iu lhe present Lottery.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSg OF LORDS, Aran. as.
BORTH WICK PEERAGE.
The Protecthugs on this claim of Peerage were postponed
till '1 Intraday.
ROX.ROROUGII PEER 4GF.
The LORD CHAN C &LIAR expressed his intention of coin.
meditating to the Hasse, in the costae of a few days, some
•further inluvinatlon relative to the above Peerage. In the
mran time the prorectlirsgs were postponed sieve <be
Mr. WHARTON, and other Members front the Hong" of
Commons, brought op the Loral Militia Bill, the Navy
Complasisaate List Bill, sad several private Rills, which
were laid upon the Table, sad severally read a tint time.
Lord AveßA•sn gave ;mitre be should. on Tuesday
next, make his inteoded motion realoieting L.vOrces, fur
which day it was ordered that the Lords he alinitutkied.
REGENCY IN PORTUGAI..
The Fart of BOCA {TAMA ustitke abiu gave notica, that
ea Friday next, he alsould propose a n 4110% ~4al,re to the
Regeacy of Portugal. Ordered, that the Lords be summoned
fuel's? ramp day.
The Er.rl of ST P.RIIRR iIIOHIMPLI his intention of !ping-
ing foraard a motion, tO.IMWTOP, AP we undershoot, retard-
ing papers ;sow before the Noose of Cominions, coact". g
AMON
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, sad
the House adjour!ed.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
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A new Ireirilwr took the oaths and his seat.
A Hissiori rnsa the Ilona. of Lords minimareil, that
their Lordship, bad agreed to the Scott ti Creditors and the
Sr.och 111.:icatior Rills, and acerral private Bolls.
P Door resolved itxulf into a Committee on the But;
tardy Rill —The Rs past was urd red to be received on
Thursday oral
The Order of the Day for the lloine resolving itself into
a Committee on the Irish Rarogaiaaiirev Bill, wig postponed
till .3Ton.lay nest. •
afr Johnson,. from the Chief Seeretan's OfAce in Ireland,
pr. stinted an AtiNHINi of liopoilm into I eland for the
Last three scan —4 trilned to lie on the 'fable.
Oa the mono. of %Ir. Roar the !loose resolved itself into
• Committer on the St:..ir of the Ann nom Tru.lo.-1 be Re-
port was received, soil leave given to bring ia a Bill accord-
ingly.
On ilia inst of Mr Ro.r the inroad reedit', of the
Woollen Mansfarture hill wait pi...mined to. Tuesday next.
Me. Rose snored, " that the 'louse should ter-morrow
maitre into a Common. c in the Ain.. raisin Intercourse Act."
—.Aver .1 to.
Mr. lit sot tacos a Rill to allow Officers of
Customs its the West Iselin to PNlitiluir Prisons upon I lath.
—Read a fret tone, sod ordered to he i•ail a second time
to-morrow.

Mr. Wit A *To% hrour,ht an the Report t.f the Ciimtnittre
of Stipply, who It was aereed n., and I, ate ci.vo to bun iu
■ Rill in ronhirouitt troth Oki
Sir Jong Nro enter brought in • LIM poiniehing
Col-
leet•ws in lielAnd oloi. tone herrafto r rushy/air the public
money. It we: read r *hid tint,, tool ordert dto hi. read •
scroioil toitoettn tlois *law to Lr printed.
3lhr Env • pototpont ol hie intitions for the toro.lunion of
cortlin plop i•oo nil:dirt to Sor loltu 31wwe sad Mr. Frac.
till tn. morrow

' 'rite Seeker ARV at VAR presented some napery relative
to the late Campaign in Spain mud Portogul —Ordered to
lie nit the table.
The WAR preilentril a boodle of papers
relative to Col,mel Ogle, a part of which were ordered to be
printed
%Ir. Hoer moved 1110 the thaw should resolve itself into
ri Committee on the Martinitpie 11.11, iu which he proposed
tact tho iniimirt:ttiva of Sow owl Coffee libou'd be unused
to be imported from Owner, subject to the WARM 1.111:11,4 AS
f C ' n. The Hoene resumed and the re-
port sac onit red to li,• received tmuiorrow.
• Mr t,t; awe% roe- to ask a question of a Right Honour-
able Centtlentim opposite, whether ain) oppoettiou was to-
tended to he nubile to the amine which he hiol given notice
of iutroduoing into the Rill for prenentiog the mete .if
en friendly was he to the Rill in question, that, rat Per
thin rhea; progress, he would withdraw bin tuition, aod
being it foes aril iii another shape.
Mr. Psani:v AL. replied, he certainly should oppose the
claim on the ground of its being irrelyvaid to the Rill to
which It was proposed to attach it.
Sir. Consery then 'aid, be should railed the attention
.of the House to the sahject or the first open day.
MOTION Op CENSURE ON LORD CASTLEREAGH.
Lind Asr tits Ato 1[0111:P0W. rr Sir—ln rising'
for the purpose of making the motion of which
It.tve notice, I apprehend it is unnecessary to pre-
face it with any observations as to its importanee.
1 shall inerely puerile that whit h 1 conceive to be
the mode of conduct most conformable to the forms
of the !loose. It is inconsistent, I hiclieSe, with
that fano, nre the to make at tint any! motion of
tvoisstre onto, may Member of this House; the most
ret:iilar form is Ind me to inner previously that the •
eri.lencc milli which it charge in ttronadtal, slionlil
be !eat), so that ul that evideoce certain fte...c.-
lotions nutty hue grafted ; and the same argittnent
that ins, lie ti...tl to lance the House to beat
that evalroce, mar also induce it to adopt some
sonsenuriit 'Resolution-. In the first place, then,
shall rilisisrvii, that I hare no personal hostility
to the Lord, nor any feeling against him
iss soy o'lter aititatitin thou that of Ins Mikis?

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character. lf, therefore, in the courae of what
I shall submit to this House, I shall be unfor.
waste enough to use any expression which shall
at all appear ofa different character than that wii.cli
I ascribe to it, I trust I shall he as willrug to re-
tract it as any other Honourable Member can be in-
clined to disapprove it. As to my having takes
this matter upon Papal, I do it upon those general
grounds of public duty, which have ever actuated
me in this (louse. It may be iii the recollection of
many Members, and particularly those with whom ,
I have been in habits of iutituacv, that I hi se stood .
forward from a sense of duty, perhaps morello, than
any other Minister in the inveatioation of every
public delinquency of the uuture of that I am now
to bring under your view. 1 %Witold diem myself as
acting coutran to the character I wish to support as
a 51ediber of Parliament, were Ito overlook what is
disclosed iu that volume of evideuce now upon your
table. In all former cases of this nature, such as that
. which occurred some some years ago. in the in-
stance of Mr. Alexander Bates, lot having dealt
corruptly in repreaentatiou ; and in ailother in-
stance, which occurred two years ago, I trust it
will be recollected I always adopted the same kind
of conduct, with a due consideration to the dignity
of the House, and the character which a Member
of Parliament ought to inaintaiu in the country.—.
My conduct, therefore, upon this occosinsi, shall
both be consistent with what I formerly did, and
also agreeable to what appears to be the present
practice of Parliameut in these and other similar
cases. I cannot help calling upon the House to
consider what are the important duties it has to
prrfniw in order to be respected by the public.--
This is only to be effected by the House presers-
nog the utmost purity in its owu representation ;
fur without that, how can you expect to receive the
confidence of the public or that they should look
up to your authority, mikes you act in a manlier
worthy of the situation iu which you are placed.—
It is no great time since we removed (rain that Bar
to prison two, individuals Air orevaricatiog iu their
evideuct ; and harsh and unpleasant as that might
appear to some, yet, if we expect the generality of
the public to respect us, we must adopt the
same strictness of procedure upon every occasion
where offeuces so injurious to the interests of;
the pithily take place. Upon this occoviou, .1-
presume there will be no necesaity for troubling
the !louse with matters in this evidence beyond•
hat relates to the charge immediately before an.
I mean to make no charge against the Noble Load
opposite (Lord Castlereagh) than what is absolutely
contained in his own evitlence, before the Com-
mittee appointed to iagaire into the Patronage of
the East India Company. It might be only meets-
wary fur me to detail what he said from his own
order to call upon this House to paws a vote
of ethadte and ditapp•olotion of his conduct, in
reotird to that pittrona;,r, which be says he polo-
sescs. Previous to this, it might hate been ea.
pected that I should make a few observations so
what I conceive to be the urgency of the Homo
adopting some measures upon this case, and the
criminalite of the porsou *4 I coniceive to be a
culprit ; hot I do not apprelierd I shall hear of
there appearing any PI? nip toms of conspiracy in
bringing this affeir forward, nor that there is any
disposition whatever to take the House by, surprise.
%Vhat I mean to show is inertly that the House are
no party to any transaction that can bring disgrace
upon theinselves. It is in the evidence before you,
that in the year 1805, the Noble Lord Winded to
received a letter flow a penult of the name of Re-
ding, • perfect stranger to his Lordship, and in
conseipience thereof* meeting took place, and a di-
rect proposif made by this stranger to assist
him in procuring a seat in Purliament, or, in plain
words, to offer that noble Lord a seat, he having
vacated his former upon his acceptance of the
Seals of the Colonial Department. Colleenled.
Its that noble Lord has been, in political Situa-
tions for many years, I shoed have thought that,
npois this proposition, he would have shown some
symptoms of displeasure, and made some attempt
to conic to the bottom of that, which might have
been considered a conspiracy, and to have ascer-
taioed that the parties, by this transaction, were
such as dm, afterwarda turned out to be, so as
to have brought them to incur some retinue.
Instead of that %shut do we timid! We find that the
Noble Lord soon afterwards saw this stranger, and
is' pleases' to tell I that he does tint want a seat
for hunsrlf, hut for his friend Lord Clancarty.—
With that exception, lie says he never hail ally con-
vened' or intercourse with this Mr. Reding.—
The Noble Lord was then asked, if any thing pass-
ed us to a negotiation for a Wittenibip ? To which
he ansiveriok " Nothing whatever. I told Mr.
Rediug I did tint waist a seat for myself, but that a
friend of untie did. I asked him the name of the
gentleman who proposed to vacate. This he de-
clined till the terms were settled, with which bar-
ns); nothing to do, I iuelosed his letter to Lord
Clancarty." Now, Sir, it is impossible for any
person exercising am impartial judgment to con-
sider this treating any otherwise than a direct wil-
lingiii-ss to agree to what was proposed. He M-
ehr-11 a letter to Lord Claucarty, and never saw
Mr. Reding afterivards. The uegotiation with
Lord Clancarty appears from a subaequeut pies.
boa, in answer to which lir Nov., " I was induced
to place a Wntership at Cod Clancarty's dis-
posed, in order that Lord Claricarty's coiniug
into Parliament might Ise facilitated." Now,
Sir, I think were I to go sus farther, but tin-
mediately propose a Resolution of ceiouire upon
that amide Loral opposite, fo hal upon that
paragraph in his own evidence, it wield lie im-
Onssible for the Moue 00i to agree to it.
answer to the next question. he says. that he con-
ceived Lord Clancarty entitled to call onion him
for a writership. The evidence of boat Claus:art*
I shall also partly read, as it brings forward a di.
ect accusation *pima the same Noble Lord. The
s questioo par to his Loodahip at, ei Pk whet or,

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onion did yea first become acquainted with Mrs
Healiii••?" fits Lordship'* answer is, ss In the
nwnth of Octol;er, ism, with respect to a wet
Fa, !lament," :led he saw hint frequently after..
wards. fie is next asked, " Did he halal out to
you that he had the power of isrocuring a •rat•in
Parliament r Ile answers, " Lie did : he repro-
seated thut a friend of his flu Parliament, a very
respectable man, was desirous of retiring, but
wished to make that 'retirement subservient to the •
()levet oh' olaaining a situation fur a young mar, a
relative of his, either a son or a nephew, end nit a
riterobip could be obtained for the party, IL!
vi mild lie williugtn retire. Having no wish to save •
any expense upon my part, sod baring no writers
ship to dispuee of. the negotiation at that'Strine
closed."--" Was this negotiation renewed with
Mr. Iteelittg. and upon what occesion ?"-.." ft was.
havieg mentior.ed the circumstance to my friend
Loral Conferee:4h, and expressing great disappoint.
meet that the seat could not be obtained, be told
me that he lined w ertersliip to dispose of, alga+, as
tar as he was coracerited, he *imolai be eery Ina 'to
give me the recominendation to." 4, Dial Lied Cate
den:sigh make you this offer for the purpose of facili-
tating your return to Parliament ?" •• Certainly he
did.' —The evideatee of Mr. Heeling says, " What
cunt ersation bud you with Mr. Davies open this sub..
ject ?" •• The couveription I had with Sir,
lya-
vies was, a party wanted a Sens of Winne y , hut the
other party were to give a seat. and this money was
to gaits that sort of uegothitian." " Was the seta
of money to procure an appointment under the
East India i antipany ?" " Yes, in reie share. but
the seat was to he given to those who cutofd get
that app enitinent made." Th. re is one other per-
, eau (continued the Noble laird) *horn I must in-
troduce to the notice of this House, I mean a third
person concerned in this transaction, who is a Peer
of the realm ; and when such are • • ned, how is
it possible that this House con be proof against the
influence of bribery and corruption? flow can any
effort be matte effectually by the lower orders of
society to stein the torrent, when we flirt that
even Peers are engaged in this abominable traffic's-
and also two persons who are in office?—l do not
pledge myself as to the use they make of* seat its
Parliament, nor do I memo to direct my obeervs.
bons to any former trafficking of this sort, Which is
• known to have existed ; but I cab spoil the
!louse to censure the Noble Lord upon tie true
principles or the Constitution of the Country.
I sin not wholly insensible of the apparent satinet
tian of hardship, that one individual may be
placed in, who has committed that nifty
have been said long to prevail; bet tante
is surely too glaring- to be passed o ithotrt
censure ; and standing :a the sitwation [wow dn. I
call iiprei the Howe to interpose its adellinty. to
put a stop to rock a mischievous practice.--It is
impossible I can hear tit' any palliation of such an
offence. As a Member of this House, that Noble
Lord must necessarily have concurred is many re-
solutious, censuring other*. for what he has himself
practised ; and add to this, he was also first servant
of the Crown ; and use such, ha was bound to pro.
sect the Government of the Country, in its utmost
parity.—But if there be any situation in which his
delinquency appears more flagrant that& ano-
ther, it is in that which he filled as President
of the limed of Contrail! ; an office Mantis.
ted for the express purpose of checking corrup.
two in all matters falling under its cognizance.
lie not only neglected his duty as President of that
Board, but lie himself became nit instrument in
the negotiation, in a mourner amounting to a direct
infraction of his official duty. It is stated in one
part of the evidence before us, that the Noble Lord
Win delivered into the Committee a list of sitoatious
ender his patronage and disposal ; but, I really do
not know upon what grounds, or under what law.
he, as President of the Board of Controul, should
imagine he had any patronage to dispose of. I shall
grant even that he has that patronage; but still he
has been guilty of corrupt practices; fur I And, in
the Statute directing that Board of Coutroul, a
dense perfectly prohibitory of that authority and
practice which he usurped and adopted. If he had
the right to dispose of patronage, I still contend,
that it must have been subject to all the provisions
and regulations that have been thought necessary
to he observed in regard to the appointment of all
our India Directors. I most presume, till I hear
the contrary upon good authority, that he must
hate hems subject to the same rules end re.
gitletions that governed the others. If I am
correct, then I do say, that there yet appears
charge in this evidence still more heavy than
any of the others 1 hate touched upon, inasmuch
as it appears he permitted patronage to go tato
cha met, the most improper and corrupt. I ellotild
think that the communications he most list e had
with his friend lA. Clancarty, must hair. seitiiiithet
Inns of the regulatiobs which had been sati•ed,:v
adopted by others. In the report there will be
found the form of detlaration, which is presented
to every Director, proposing an appolutinent.
and affixed on every Writer's petition, which•is, "
recommend this Petition. and do most solemnly
declare that I have given, this nomination to
and that I neither hsye received myself, nor am to
receive, uor has any other person to the beet of my
knowledge or belief received, nor is to receive, any
pecuniary consideration, nor any thing mitre, hie us
sue node tato a iwciiiiiary benefit on this account.
" I sea far front aelmittiuq, however, that the
Noble Lord was finaremled of any such Patronage,
but if he says he had, then surely he cannot deny
that it was eultiect to the same regulations as every
other. The attack which he has made upon the
privileges which these Director, enjoy. he hes mode
•enbeervient to the wont of parposwi. and has en-
deevonred to procure a ~at in Parliament Ina means
the most objectionable. I should be sorry to mates
sion the name of any other person coonected with
this transaction in a, light snore Perjurious thaw
abatis absolutely neeeseary for this investieialion,

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