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HOUSE OF COMMON!.

The Hon. Dennis Browne, and Mr. Sturges
Bourne, took the oaths anJ their seats

Mr. Wedderburn presented a Paition from the
Master Calico Printers of Perth, against the Calico
Printers' Bill.—Ordered to lie upon the Table, until
the second reading of sa,d Bill.
On the motion for the third reading of the East
London Water Works Bill, a clause was proposed
by Mr. MANNING, to resttain the Company
within certain limits ; on which a division took
place, when there appeared—Against the clause,
75—For it, 26—hiakirity against it. 49.
While strangers were excluded, another division
took place, but upon what point we did not learn.
The Bill was read a third time, and passed.
MUTINY AT VELLUM

Mr. HOWORTH, in a tone of voice not very
audible to the gallery, said, he thought it his duty
to call the attention of the House to the late dread-
ful mutiny at Vellore i a mntiny, which he had
every reason to think, had been occasioned by an
ill-timed military measure, tending to violate some
of the customs of the natives. lie wished to put a
question to a Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, as
President of the Board of Controul, and, according
to the answer he shoald receive, he should, perhaps,
think it his ditty to found a motion upon this sub-
js.& He wished to know whether, in consequence
of the accounts received from Madras, any steps
had been taken, either to remove those persons who
have been so obnoxious to the natives, or to attempt
to conciliate these who were so much irritated
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Mr. DUNDAS, as President of the Board of
Controul, answered, that he could *RAMC the Hon.
Gentleman, that the subjeel to which he alluded had
been matter of serious consiJeration with the Board
of Controul.. Previous to the appointment of the
present Board, the Court of Direaurs did make a
Resolution, as to the charges that were to take plcce
in the Madras Establishment. With regard to the
causes of that unfortunate mutiny, he could only
►ay, that during the very few days since the present
Board have been appointed, it was impossible that
they could have made up their minds, or that they
could ascertain that any diesatisfadtion did aQually
still exist. The Board having been so employed,
no delay would take place in adopting whatever
steps might be judged uecessary.
Mr. CORRY said, that as the question was one
which deserved the most serious cen,ideration, he
should thick it would he advisable to delay adopt-
ing any measures, till the an ival of an Officer,
wl.om he knew to be upon his passage from India
to this country. The Officer he alluded to was Sir
John Craddock, who, from his situation at Ma.
dras, had bad an opportunity of investigating the
whole affair--and who, therefore, would be able to
state the particulars with more accuracy than could
be done in any written dispatches.
On the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, Sir
Fi: agerald Hdl was ordered to attend in hi. place
on Monday se'nnight.
Mr. Widtbread presented a petition from a Mr.
Waterhouse Crimhle Lindsay, who had been Capr,
of a Yeomanry Corps, in the county of Tyrone, in
Ireland, praying for some rclief, on account of very
severe losses he and his family had: sustained,
during the rebellion in that country, while using his
best exertions iu support of the King and Consti-
tution.

Mr.STEWART and Mr. WICK II A Al, bore tes-
timony to the veracity of the assertions is tis• Peti-
tion ; and it was accordingly ordered to be laiJ upon
the Table. •

Lord HENRY PETTY postponed the second
reading of the National Debt Redemption Bill, till
this day se'nnighr, on ac aunt of the Loan Interest
Bill, with which it had some conneftion, still de-
pending in the House of Lords.
GLEBE lIULISES, IN IRELAND.
Mr. WICKHA NI rose, in pursuance of a notice
he had given, and made a speech of considerable
length, explanatory of the ►tale of the Protestant
Church, in Ireland. It had been long a matter of
great complaint and grievance, that the Protestant
Clergy had bees so iU provided for, while their
duties had been greatly increased, by the union of
many parishes into one. He concluded with m9v-
ing—" That a &lea Committee be appointed, to
take into consideration the sevetal Aels of Parlia-
ment relating to the budding, re-building, and
keeping in repair Glebe Houses, in Ireland, and
purchasing Glebe Lands ; inquiring into the returns
made of the Churches, and the Reports ai to the
union of Patishes made in 1803 and Itfuti, tespec-
t:vely ; to examine said Papers, and to ascertain
how far the said Aas have been effeetive or inade-
rrtate, and to report their opinion thereon to the
House."

Dr DUIGENAN said, that most of the unions
complained of had taken place under the patron-
, age a the Crown, particularly in the county of
Kerry. Ile admitted, however, that many griev-
ances had thence arisen, and therefore it was a fit
subjed for inquiry. e believed that a more op-
pressed set or men did not exist any where than the
Parochial Clergy iti Ireland. They did not elj
one-fifth of what they were entitled te.the great ma-
jority of them not having 2001. a-year. He there-
fore seconded the motion.

Sir JOIN NEWPORT said. that many erro-
nelus ealcu!atious had gone forth as to the aSu2l
number of inbabitants in Ireland. The number, as
laid down by Mr. thhhe, in the Irish Philosophical
Transactions, amounted to upwards of• four mil-
lions. Although the 1.1r.:s lieutenant of Ireland
had the power of dibunitinA parishes, he had ant

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foifiti initanee in .0101 tkl'y had done lid:
The state of the Pretettart Church of Ireland dies
require the attention of the and he Was
sure they could not bestow their labourt better than
in discussing such an inqui: y.
The CHANCELLOR of &e FkellEQilE.ll
said, he should certainly finward the ohjrft set the
motion lie believed the mom. y dirt dto be ap-
plied for the benefit of the Chinch, by the Ads in
IrArz, had never been properly applied. Many of
the unions had been direded by the Privy Council,
on account of some of the parishes not bring ade-
qu tte to the maintenance of a clergyman. The
proposed inquiry, therefore, appeared to be one of
the must us ful ads the House could ergage in.
One obj-d en this side of the water had been so be.
cure the residence of the Clergy but such an ob-
jed coal not be aimed at ia et land, till such
time as they had parsons ge houses to teside in.
Mr. MAL:RICE ZG ERA I. 1) stat,d, that,
to his knowledge, cane of the l.iviegs is the South
of Ireland amounted to 10001., to 15001., and
some even tol 30001. a-year; and also, that, in
some instances, where a consolidation of Livirgs
and Parishes had taken place, an attention to the
religious ditties of the people had been reversed ;
for no place of religious worship was provided,
within the reach of the inhabitants ; nor could such
parishioners obtain baptism for their children, or
the other rites of the Church ; and the consequence
was, that the Protestant inhabitants, in such places,
had disappeared. He hoped, therefore, that a
said investigation would be set on foot, with a view
of correcting such abuses.
Mr. PARNELL thought, that the House ought
to he put in possession of circumstances so material
as those hinted at by the Hon. Gentleman. The
popuiation of Ireland, as computed by Mr. Bushe,
amounted in the year 17c18. to 4.800,000 inhabitants ;
the population of England and Wales, as she Crates
was Laken in 1801, was 9,200,000; from this it ap-
peared, that the calculations of the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman, (Dr. Duigerian), were Lirtatd
upon mistaken data.
air. WICKHAM spoke in explanation ; after
wli:ch the Resolution, as moved by him. was put
and carried ; and a seled Committee of Inquiry
was appointed accordingly.

A6SF.SSMENTs OF DUNI{ GRAND JURT!..S.
Mr. MAURICE FII'ZGERALD staved the
amount of Assessments imposed by the Grand
Juries of Ireland, for the repairing of roads and
bridges, to be of a magnitude beyond expeelation.
By the returns on the Table. the annual sum was
stated as exceeding half a million, exclusive of the
heavy levies imposed for turnpikes, and the mainte-
nance of ...orrmuAeations between the high-roads,
in addition to considerable sums for opening and
repairing cross-roads, which sums it was to. be
expelled would increase. T o 'Thus a sum equal to ne-
titth of the whole revenue of the country was raised
in Ireland for the sole purpose of making and
repairing roads. Such a revenue ought to be con-
dulled with the most economical mana,„Tement.
The objet of his intended motion was, therefore,
to regulate the Assessment of the Grand Juries ; and
in order to this. he should propose that rents under
six. pounds a-year should be exempted from Grand
Jury Assessments, and that this tax should be levied
on the true principle, that those on whom it was ins.
posed should leave a sensible interest in the tax to be
levied, and that the Grand Jurymen who imposed
this tax, should themselves feel somewhat of Fhe
burden. He meant also to propose some regula-
tions respelling Presentations by Grand Juries in
Ireland, and a more rigid mode of calling persons
to account for the sums raised. and the disburs.iment
of them. He proposed, with the leave of the House,
to bring in a Bill to remedy these evils, and that
such Bill should lie over until next Session, to give
time for its examination by the Grand Juries of Ire-
land ; at the tame time, he did not mean to trench
upon the ancient powers of these Grand Juries, but
only to subjeCt the exercise of their power to strict
regulations. It was necessary, at the present junc-
ture, to attend to the state of the people of Ireland ;
at a moment when every man who supported the
Union had his views completely blasted, and when
the recent Administration was founded on an in-
terdict to meet the wishes of that country, and had
accepted (Ace on conditiou of intercepting the com-
munication of political privileges to a large class r.f
that community ; and when it had even become mat.
to of consideration, whether it was any thing betty r
than a mere nominal union which had taken place ;
it became especially necessary t,r consider what sub-
ordinate measures could he undertaken for the
benefit of Ireland. He concluded with moving for
leave to bring in a Bill to after and amend the laws
relating to the levying of money by Grand Juries in
Ireland.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHF.QUF.R
sa;cl, he by nu means ohjea-d to the introduction of
this measure, nor should he oppose it in its pro-
gress through the [louse, any more than he w.).:id
°hyena the progrem el ma►y swenwrm calculated for
the real benefit and happiness of that country; he
rose merely for the purpose of rebutting the
ill-
founded charge of the Hon. Gentleman, with re-
speCt to the supposed principles of those with whom
hr now ailed in !Es Majesty's Administration. He
assured that Hon. Gentleman, that there was no
thought more foreign from his heart, than that of in-
tercepting tl.e wishes of that kingdom from ap-
proaching the ear of His Majesty or of that House ;
nor was any duty mote present to his mind than
that of promoting the interests. tranquillity, and
prospe-ity, tit that part of the United Kingdom.—
Such, he would most distinaly state, should be the
objet of any counsel he might be called upon to
give respetliag Ireland. He must, at the same
time, enter his protest against the idea of the Hon.
Gentleman, that it was doubtful whgaher the Union
betwixt Great Britain and Ireland was produftive
of any advantage. or was any other than nominal.—
Such a suggestion, if not noticed, might lead per-
sons to suppose, that a doubt was even entertained
in Parliament, whether that great national Measure
should be rescinded ; but considering. as he did,
that the interests of the nation at large were em-
braced in it, so as that it would be produaive of
the greatest mischief, if Parliament should suffer
this corrratt t be agitated ; he could not therefore
suffer such sit idea as this to be thrown not in
silence, believing as he did. that neither thst House
nee the Empire at bur. ircold indulge for a rao•
meat such a serious thought.

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M. OA ;24 wisted, that
Right Hon entleman had been such as not ens
courage such an exoression as that made use of ,
his Hun. Fiend (Mr. ri:zger.:lJ)
were set afLiat to the pletudters of a large body of
our fellow In Ireland, was it suspristrig, if
the re. ling. of Gentlemen, beli,ngin4 to that non of
the Empire. should be amused to the use ors:tits-1
expre.s'iols ?
Mr XV I I.BERFORCE said, he willirA• azinvti
to tte tooiiisn ; at the same time, h. could not
help. thinling, that it gentle:nen of Ireland would
e..deavour to enlighten ihe lower orders of the pa...
pie there, with welts' knowledge, and nt Out
limo the real welfare of that people nii7ht be beer.
'promoted, instead of truchi^; upon high principles
of polity. on whiiili differen es of w 044
leer exist. and which did not materially affeel the:Li
welfare ; in such a case, he could assume tech gen.
tlemen, that they would he willingly heard, and at.
tended to, by memb:is oi this part of the United
Kingdom. He recolleeled. upon a former memo.
rable occasicn, ars, r the rebellion in Ireland, ri
leading man, veh.,iusteied that rebellion, beine
terrogated, wherher he thought the meaniee ti•
tholic Emancipation ‘.-out' tsancinillise the peep.
of that persuasion answered, that witis
tere, ?
thath view, it was of no more value than t..t. !*s
pen. If Irish Gentlemen, and Memhers oi
liarnent, would study aftd point out n•!..ivi!,
calculated to promote the internal comti•:t
prosperity of Ireland, they would do far more real
service to their country, than by recriminating upon
those who could not hazard the strong ME4.llrts
they might wish. Whatever difference of cpiaies,
there might be at to higher que.!rons of policy, ..!;,
he trusted, would concur in endeavetring to rc.-.
mote the teformation of the ahu:--• is that colinit) ;
and with this view, lict wishe.l it t ) he contid.ire.i.
whether it im;ght no: be jx)s!•'ile fur Cie volunta:,-
exertiiios of the gieat landholders tliemselves, to
corn 1 eiese ?

Mr. Pi Elit AID, in explanation, stated t-,;
motives and t xpe&vior, in votirg for the
Eli, nritioo vas thm pr. and ea:tied, aad kale
was giv,-ri to by Lig in a fYll stevarriir::ly.
the. motaas of Mr. WICK ILI NI, the ses,i
papers relative t•• the Glebe Lanus, in Ireland, we:.:
or.lered to be printed.
The Income Allowance Bill. the Traders' Asset/
Bill, and the Oak Baik Bill, were severally read a
third time and passed.
The Report of the Committee on the
Port B:II, WAS brought up ; when the ttcycert was
ordered to be committed.

The Parish Apprentice Bill went through a Coro.
mittee.

The other Orders of the Day were deferred.—
Adj,Jurneti.

FORAIGN INTELLIGENCE.

lIUSUM MAIL -

vitinu. APRIL I.

The English fleet, it is anckistood, has not made
its appearance a second time before Constantinople;
but, without attempting any further hostilities, re-
turned on the sth of March, through the Dada-
nelles, is its former station in the ArchipelAgo.—
(11asse6. Cerro Afprills.)

24RA IN DALMATIA, MARCR 7.
General llbrmont,- who is still here, has given
orders that new roads shall be made immediately
from Dalmatia to the neighbouring parts of Bosnia:
they are to be rinithed within -‘2O days. The whole
work is carried on under the direetion of French en-
gineers. Tr.e general Proreditor of Dalmatia has re•
quired that all the inhabitants of the countries through
which the roads are to pass bhall contribute their la.
bour. The Bosniaks,sho are most of them Mahomk -
tans, have all taken up arms, and occupied the fror.-
tiers in great force against the Scrvians, firmly re.
solved to defend themselves to the last man, should
the Rauians, in conjunEtion with the Servian
gents, attempt to make an incursion into their coul.-
try.—(Hess6. C pond. April 15.) 1

Declaration of the English Ambassador, Mr.
Arbuthnot, in the conference at Constantinople,
Ft b. 25 :

The Sublime Porte, which has rent ceased to manifest par-
tiality for the French, hu more particularly, since the amid
of the French Ambassador, General Selasetimii, in this capital,
changed its principles and system towards its own allies.
The said Ambassador, some days after his arrival, having gin"
in a Nute containing certaie threats, the Sublime Porte ought
to Lan returned the Note, and sent away the author ; the
Sublime Porte, on the contrary. received the Note famorakly
and signified to Russia, that her ships of war wad/ net be
suffsred to pass the canal of the Black Sea.

Os the OCCASiqj of the ernablishmant of the Hospedars d
Moldavia cud Wallachia, which wok place iu cossessetism el
preceding circumstances, the Porte ought insmodiamly to lute
contented ; brit the delay of that consent, which was net gives
till three weeks afterwards, when the Russian Ambassador had
formally demanded it, al, a proof of the overbearing Wham,'
which the French emit had acquired. The Kukla m t
English Coins thercfrire agreed, that the former should st,l
lead forces into the Turkish Territory, and the latter a Met to
the Capital of the Ottoman Empire. Should the Parte Pia•
c:ed to renew its alliance with Rutile wad Inglend 01 the
ancient frosting, and dismiss the said French Arnbarsdor from
the Capital, the war will immediately eeaae t but It this be set
done, a breach of the friendship with Enearld will be ma-
vo.dabile.

To carry this On into execution, England wlfl lend a well
appointed Wort, besides tha squadron now stationed a lb'
Wand of Teeledos. The Russian fleet will jets it a the ease
seas, in owlet to pate together tl•e wait of the Dasdamelleo
Should the Lurie be diclined to give a negative easy,. W Ike
present pmt ..l, the Ambassador will send hack le the
iinantry oil the English merchant's in the Otinalli sago, a"
remain himself here to renew the WWI propoials and cats
into weaketrices on the subjects-when the said combined Id'
atone fovea s►all have hewed a junction in the vicinity of Ibis
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