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SOU was sufficient to go through tbant: and, !laving
undertaken that disty. he a as seen by the Hon. Gen-
tleman some times so employed.
Lord FIF.NRY PET i Y could not give his assent
to a motion. which was calculated to jusiily mem-
bers in future, either from their private feelings or
caprice, to ptOpese the names of particular friends,
for Committees, which the House had previonsly ap-
pointed. In the present case. however highly he
esteemed the character of the Gentleman proposed,
be still could not see the sl;gbeet necesi:y for the
addition. There were seitded for the Committee
of Finance, twenty-one Members. independent of
himself ; they were not chosen by ballot, but ill-
dividually submitted to the decision of the House.
fie felthimself justified in asserting. that theri never
was chosen a Committee truer representatives chhe
feelings and component parts of the Meuse. It
was composed of men of all descriptions, opinions,
and parties in the House, with one exception, viz
that there was not a single plnceman amongst them.
In the appointment of 1797, fifteen Members were
considered sufficient; yet, with all the result of their
labours, with all the information obtained by their
inquiries, with, as it were, a geographical map, cor-
teal delineated for our instruction. the House was
called upon, by the Motion of the Hon. Gentleman,
to eJlarge the number still farther, although in the
present case there was an excess of seven over the
former Committee of Finance. From these consi-
derations, he was induced to vote for the Order of
the Day
Mr 'JOHNSTONE did not conceive the stile.
117?' 1t of the Noble Lord a stidicient ground to in-
duce the llouee to Peg ItilC the Motio of his Hon.
Friend (Mr. Bi4dulph). In putting such extrava-
gant ettremes, he milli not give the Noble L-rd
great credit for his candour. He feared such con-
e-id would tend to weaken the belief of the House
in the apparently sincere support p ;yen to the
Motion of his linn. friend on the last evening.
There wete precedents which justified the present
Motion ; he recollected one in the case C f the Irish
Coils; and yet in this instance the Noble Lord has
refused to the Gentleman, out of whose hands he
took the nomination, even the right of moving for
the addition of one Member. Such conchal appealed
to hint hiehly oareaeonable.
Mr. FREI:MAN FLE observed, that it was the
uniform pradice f the House never to adopt such
/Motions as the present in Finance Committees.
Wilt reaped to the ease of the Irish Coin, it was
a very abstruse inkjet% and hale understood by
niany Members of the Helm. It was, therefore,
considered necessary to enia:ge that Committee front
time to time.

'strangers hav;ng been ordered to retire, we un-
derstand that bir. Biddulph's Movon was with-
drawn, and some Orders of the Day disposed of
daring cut Tientsin*, from the Gallery.
On the Morton of the SECRETARY at WAR,
the Order of the 1.47 tor the Douse resolving itsCif
inns a Committee on the Mutiny Bill, on Friday
se'nr•ight, wa. discharged, and the time fizad for
Tuesday se'neight.—Adjourned until to-morrow.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE MbiCH AND DUICII PAPERS.

PARIS. JAN. 2e.
M. Fontaines has just been cuntiiitb.td in the
dignity of President of the Legislative body, by
Hi. kiajesty the Emperor.
evnie !al:owing is the letter from His Majesty, the
Emperor and Kmg, to the Bishops of the Empire:
MOnalvig I.lLvequa of
The new duCctllfec which *sr MOUS have Rained en the
Maks of ths Bug and Cm N 14.111, where, in five days, they
routed the Rowan army, took Lti aaiHery, ba4gagei, and a
`Mat 414.6er of proosert, and ...Wipe,' it t.. evacuate all the
asnpormut pus.. in which it was ititreitclted, induce us to
the, ()JO' people would cage, bp theoke to Heaven. to order
t►at at may continue to be levourslee to us, and that the God
of Affairs in.), second our just enterprises, the object of which
ie, to pecuttt for our perTle aeo m and lasting peace, which
the grates of evil may not disturb. 1.11,6 letter being for no
other pori ow, we intruat God, Monsieur l'Eveque. to keep you
in hie holy we:maims.
Treat our Imperial Camp of Pultusk, Dec. 31, 1106.
(Signud j NAPOLPON.
The Minister of Worship, PORTAL'S.

In execution of the orders of His Majesty, con-
tained in His letter written from His Imperial camp
cf Puittisk, of the Slat December, 11106, to the
Bishops of the Empire, his Eminence the Cardinal
Archbishop of Paris, waited on his Serene Highness
the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, to con-
cert with him foe the exceed= of His Majesty's
orders. It is, in conseqsence, determined, that the
Te Aim shall be sung in the Metropolitan Church,
on Sunday the 119th inst. precisely at 12 o'clock, sat:
that the same ceremony shall be observed as in the
e Altai Cohaunted in thank -,, -iving for the mcmora-
We viZtory of Jena.