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power would belt eUsoff 1 meritd
Its displeaseee aims • it the
seam of the Hoists 1100 d Ilse bY
that Vete, how his it ken eellifted ? May
In not presume, that it has been eat. as the
reports of lad week strongly is sone&
queue* of ministerial intrigue 2Scoeiads
rtnlPeedellis end
slot in obedience or out of re,g=evdm.(it
this House ? The Right Hos. sem he
has been colleding the oPieisile eftto members
of this House on this impet is
teit , and yet.
those opinions-Mesh according to
hnoisty owithnstaand
arguments,
mnnts, eto have had Sweat weight with
him in forming his determination to give this advise
to His Majesty, which be did est think liirnMlf
bound to do at the first expresese sf the House's
'ensure of Viscount Melville' yet
_the Right am.
Gentleman bas still taken the very Best ssesiset be
possibly could take, to satisfy the Hamm mad. dw
cpoint in which they wars bob sods.,
lyouhntiter
rec.n a
ted. The case steels, IP be pro?
plainly this : the Right Hon. Cloala. smites. to hoe
been very much inclined to have seppetted glee
count Melville, but after taking the opinion of IMF.
Members, and finding by those that he was likap
once more to be !skin a minority, be has very pee-
dentiv desisted from any further opposition to the
will of the house and of the country. most audibly
and warmly erpreesed. Viscount Melville first
offended the Right Hon. Gentleman, and his adhe-
rents defended him ; the House most deservedly
censured Viscount Melville; the Noble Viscount
then resigned. It was then expeded Viscount Mel-
vilk/s name would be struck off the Privy Council ;
but the Right Hon. Gent. bad no idea there was
any necessity for it ; he saw no reason. from any
thing that had passed in the
.House. to advise His
Majesty to adopt any such proceeding. My Hon.
Friend near me accordingly gave notice of his pro.
seat Motion, and now, at the very last mamma, he
tells the House that His Majesty has determined Vis-
count Melville's name shall be erased ; so that the
House sees that every step wehave gained has been
fought and contested to the last. Whattime, Sir, this
may be done, I cannot pretend tosay. I suppose.
end will hope it may be speedily done. though it
has been so tardily begun. I hope the House, at
least, though Ministers may tot, will take care to
follow up the holiness, not by future Legislative
provisions, which may perhaps be attended to with
as much scrupulous regard and attention as past
provisions of that kind have been. I hope they
will take care to sift matters most thoroughly, to
probe the various wounds the public have received
m their credit and in their finances, and that no
person convicted of a direil breach of the law, let
his rank or situation in life be what it may, shall be
suffered to escape without a due punishment for
those grimes of which he shall be found guilty."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHLQULR•
" The Hon. Gentleman, Sir, desires to know whe-
ther this step has been taken in consequence of the
decision of the House, or of any other causes I de-
clare, Sir, in the most unequivocal manlier, that
this measure is the result of advice given by me to
His Majesty, in conformity to the s.-.)e of the
House, and not to any opinion out of doors. The
Hon. Gentleman seems to be surprised, and to com-
plain of my having stated, that since this subject
wee Red honsight before the Hilltne many debates
have taken place in which the particular question
has Mies been alluded to, and that I had taken
every opportunity to find out the sentiments of mem-
bers in regard to it. Sir, I repeat it—l have so,
nod where is the harm in doing it ? There is no-
thing in it which is in the smallest degree inconsist-
ent with my public duty ; and I know no way of
obtaining a jest knowledge of any part of the sen-
timents of the House, of which I might entertain
a doubt, either more fair, or by which I could he
more likely to obtain the mcst certain information."
Mr. FOX—" I never found faith, Sir, with the
Right Hon. Gentleman for having consulted the
opinion of different Members; on the contrary,
think he was very right in so doiag ; I only oh.
served, that I thought he had not taken up this
measure, till be was actually forced to it."
The SECRETARY at WAR requested the at-
tention of the House to a very few observations ..e
wished to make on what had passed this evening.
As to the name of Viscount Melville 'wing struck
off the Privy Council, there certai .lee could be
ao disgrace attached to it, merely of for he
remembered, and begged the House also to recoi-
led, that the lion. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Vox)
bid, on a former night, mentioned his own name
having been 'erased from the Privy Council, and
the Hon. Gentleman boasted that he gloried in
standing by the side et the Duke of Norfolk, in
that predicament. The aft itself was, therefore,
the same, unconnedel with the matter. The Hon.
Gentleman who opeu this debak.: had spoken of
the " compund ten feelioge' of Viscount Melville,
for partaking in the plunder of the public money.
He denied positively that this was the case ; these
was not a single tittle of proof to shew that Viscmnt
Melville had ever been a partaker, and as such the
Hon. Gentleman might have made himself rely
easy as to the .• compundious feelings" of Viscount
Melville. He begged leave, however, the House
would recoiled that there had been times when the
cry in that House was not so loud against those who
bad made use of the public money, as it was at
present. Lord Holland, when Paymaster of the
Forces, had left balances in his hands. of the public
money, the interest of which amounted to 15,0001. a
year, from 17135 to 1782, which amounted to a very
large, he might say enormous sum, with whi, h he
defrayed the extravagancies of the private life of his
sun, the Hon. Gentleman opposite to him; and,
however that I Inn. Gentleman might inveigh against
speculations made with the public money—he had
an the younger part of his life been nary much ad-
dieted to speculating in his gambling societies. wad
he thought there could be no doubt but that the
large sums he lost were part of the public money.
He thought, therefore, there were others whose
" compuniious feelings" ought to be as !much
alive as those of Viscount Melville.
Mr. FOX said, he would only trouble the House
with a vet y few words in answer to what had bees
so personally addressed to him by the lion. Gent.
In the ti. st place, wiry introduction of his father's
name into this night's debate would answer but one
sad. vet. to give him an uneasy sensation. He final
vine ashamed to be susceptible of filial feelings; bet
?n this oceneion he was quite easy, for there sea. no
kind of aaalugy bdweeu the two cases. It was well

TEEN BRITISH ID

IAN DON,
TUESDAY. M•Y 7.

Mr. Witte/mean arose yesterday in the House of
Commons to make his promised motion for an
Address to His MAJRST T to remove Viscount Mac-
VI LLE from all places of trust or profit which he
holds doting pleasure under the Crown, and from
I lis M •,I Est. v's Presence and Councils for ever ; but
h: consented to withdraw it, upon an assurance
IrJm Ir. PITT, that His MAJKST T had determined
to erase the Noble Viscount's name from the list of
his Privy Council at the next meeting. Mr PITT,
in kutification of his own conduEl, in not having ad-
vised His M /JEST Y to take this step sooner, said he
thought that the House would have been satisfied
with the punishment already inffided; but that, feel-
ing, from what had passed in subsequent debates,
and from what he had learned in conversations with

several respeCtable Members, that the sense of the
House was against him, he had been induced to
change his opinion.

Lori! Cittsvir.ca yesterday declared his intention
in the House of Lords to bring forward the Catholic
Question on Friday.

Accounts from Barbadoes, of the 23d of March,
state, that the French force, after leaving Nevis, on
:he evening of the 6th of March, intended to pro-
ceed to Montserratt, and that it returned to Port
Royal, Martinique, on the 15th, since which they
had received no accounts of it. The lamaica
ships (75 sail) of the Pro:ldylr . convoy sailed from
Barbadoes on the I nth of MarcEfor Jamaica, under
convoy of the Eli brig. A neutral vessel sailed the
same day far Martinique, and, it was feared, would
give the French Commander there information of
it. The ASise, /hear ; the AreA. WHITS.; and the
Inda,try, MM'CaiTHY, three of the Proselyte's eon-
voy, had not then arrived there.

The Ventraik, Captain Lawrim, from Barba-
does, is arrived at Liverpool 1 she sailed on the 16th
March, and brings an account of the arrival of the
Prosdate fr 3 te, and Eli brig of war, and the Stet
under their convoy from Cork, on the 13th March.
The Centaur man of war had arrived at Berbedoes
from Antigua, and had soon nothing of the Frank.
Gm; she brings no odor accounts of the Preach
force, than what were bows en Saturday—only
that the liorkesbory, Cutts 114:PSFISS6 FROST I.
Mem MtrcosLi. ; and • uf lassikerar,

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of London; the Akreeir, Meagan ; the Dellis
Con servos; the Ali% Wit.atm amid the Slepbtnrs
Nicaotsom, of Liverpool; the Rie4wew4
of Wbitehaven ; and several smell craft, were taken
by the French at Dominica, and carried into Qua
daloupe, on the Ist of March; the Aurora, Pim.-
La
rs, of London, was burned at Dominica.
The Ontario, STARSUCK, from New-York, ar-
rived at Liverpool ; spoke, on the 22d of April, in
Lt. 47. 30. long. 29. 30. an armed brig, which sailed
from Barbadoes on the 2d of April, with dispatches
for Government, which said, that the French were
daily expected at Barbadoes.

Dispatches were yesterday received at the Ad-
miralty, from the Mediterranean, by the Sophie, of
18 guns. In the evening it was reported, that they
contain an account of the capture of the armament
under General CRAIG, by the combined Toulon and
Cadiz squadron ; but we could not trace the rumour
to any authentic source.

We yesterday announced exc.:us:v(ly the atro-
cious attempt to burn the King of FRANC,' the
Dike of iitiskoosmasse. sad other members of the
Bottitaoa family, in the Castle of Wan. We
have since received Paris Papers to the fails, but
their contents are not of any importance.

Sir Joists Oa oz joined the Channel Fleet on the
30th last. It is confidently stated. that he saw six
more line of battle ships enter Cadiz soon after the
arrival of the Toulon fleet. They were supposed
to be the French squadron which had been lying at
Catthagena. If ,he statement be sorrel!, the whole
of the force at Cadiz must have exceeded thirty sail
of the line.

The Brest fleet have made several recent attempts
to put to sea. Their number ready for a&ial ser-
vice is calculated at twenty-one sail of the line.
The F, id, cutter left Admiral Lord G•itoissa on
his station last Thursday.
Lord HOLLAND appeared yesterday in his piece
in the Committee of Privileges in the Howe of
Lords, after an absence of nearly four years. His
'Lordship's appearance is very little altered by his
continental tour.
Lord HENRY PETTY'S motion concerning certain
grants to Viscount Muni. Ls, which stood for this
day, was deferred yesterday, in his absence, by
Mr. Gutsy, in consequence, we understand, of the
death of his Lordship's father, the Marquis Of
LANSDOWNE.
Mr. Taorrsa, Mr. WILSON, and Mr. Twator,
were yesterday examined before the Sele3 Com-
mittee of the House of Commons,
A letter from Barbadoes, of the 12th March,
states, that the commander of the land force there
had granted an application for a regiment in aid of
the garrison of St. Vincent's, which would go down
in two days.
The „Awe,- Marra*. and the Stressort,
from Liverpool, for Surinam, were captured on
the 19th February. off Surinam, and sent for Gua-
deloupe.
The Grace, Tartoa, front London and Ma-
deira, for Barhadoes, is captured, and carried into
Guadeloupe.
The Diligent, French corvette, arrived at
L'Orient on the 19th March. from the Isles of
France ; she sailed on the nth, at which time, a
number of rich rizes had arrived thaw.
The Diana, TiT Starr, frets Charleroi's, arrived
in the Clyde, was boarded of Tillingbetati, by a
French privateer. of It guns, and 80 men. which
had destroyed several resole.

\rammer DAIIIIY, Esq. Cdkaor of Cavan, one
of the Fermanagh Grand Jury, who, in an address
to their Representatives in Parliament, requested
them to oppose the Catholic Petition, has been dis-
missed from his employment. Mr. D•ii av is
brother to the gallant Captain DAISY, of the Nary.
Judge J o Hos° Di attended on Wednesday last in the
Chamber of the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin,
and, after some conversation between the Pains

Swearer and MT. CURRAN, Friday was appointed
for bearing arguments ou the case. I'he Court was
weedy crowded.
The City of Chichester has at present every ap-
prarnisceof a garrison town, on account of the great
Member of men who are volunteers from the mili-
tia regimmts into it to join the regulars. The se-
cond battalion of the 3.5 th regiment is to be formed
Os that city.
, We understand that encampments will take place
this summer at Barham Downs, and at Shorneliff%
which axe eiptaed to commence the latter part of
May, or the beginning of June.
No mars of any public interest occurred yester-
day in the Courts of King's Bench, or Common
Pleas. At oae o'clock Lord Et tsrusoitouere set at
Nis: Primo, when some causes which stood over sines
last Sittings were disposed of.
We yesterday copied a paragraph from a Sunday
Paper, stating, that the Indiamen under convey of the
Nediteeoe man of war, consisting of the following
ships, Werford, henry Addington, Hum* Castle, R
George and W Hamar, had touched at Ma-
&ire; George,
sailed from thence. We believe that this is
a mistake, u neither of those ships were consigned to
that Island, and only one ship of the convoy under
the Hiesdoeton, the CnnatreAve, Locersa,was to touch
there ; the others, Oat" Walpole, Sarre', Phalli:,
Coinage, Rend Hove' CheeNete. Lord daises,daises,Ceiba,o
and WillAaffh were destined for India only. It is net
likely that lit• valuable a Stet would be led eat of
their course, and toads at an island, which manse
cense great delay, for one ship only. AU apprehen-
sion for the safety of the Oros must, of coarse, be
without any foundation. We understand no intelli-
roc* of the name alluded to has been received at
the Fast India Home.
Yestikaisttaosalegg, at eleven o'clock. ter. Sza:
a Nodes Meehan is Covent
aadollogr fa • dealthiag maw for
ono OM Omit wee/ • two pair of stairs
window acme Maiatu-lane, and,
we are wet Ili was Wed on the spot. He
was a lusty Moss betimes fifty and sixty years of
ago. Aa Lague ost ea the body la the evening,
sod bead as 'Neal al Lamar

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