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Majesty's Ministers, at a proper time shewed any
reltidanCe to withhold every degree of explanation
.rid information relating to those important objeas.
In the mean time, I can by no means accede to this
-notion at the present period, as it could not be en-
tered into at this time without risking disclosures
which might be produaive of public inconvenience.
I -bell therefore propose, that the other orders of
-jle day be now read, .:hick will he equivalent to
.Ice previous question."
When the Speaker was done reading this Amend-
nent,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
again submitted whether it would not be more eon-
sfetent with order, for the Noble Lord to put his•
eeot:on in the shape of an address to his Majesty,
by vrtlich his objet would be equally attained.
Lord FOLKSTONE expressed himself ready to
e.•nliirni to an thing which might be thought most
sensistent with the usage of the House, and the al-
teretion was made for putting the motion in the
tinm of an Address.
Mr. WINDHANI —" I am sure my Noble
Friend dues not mean to embarrass the proceedings
of Government, and I am confident that if his sla-
jesty's Ministers will say that the discussion would
te in any way prejudicial to the negotiation now
carr;ing on between them and the Government of
rrauce, my Noble Friend will not hesitate to
withdraw his motion; i do not, thetefore, think
it necessary to enter into the merits of the
question. I rise merely to remark briefly upon
vita has fallen from the Right Honourable
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on such of his
observations as may be construed into a reflation
upon my Bonen/able and Noble Friend. I can
safely say that, from all I have been able to collect
of what has been said since I come into the House;
my Noble Friend has not rendered himself in any
manner liable to the imputation of inconsistency,
ith which he is charged by the Chancellor of the
Lschequer. My Noble Friend declared that he
would not urge his motion, if the agitation of it
should be prejudicial to the negotiations now pend-
ing between this Government and France. My
Noble Friend is therefore g liberty to state the
reasons why he has brought forty: rd this motion,
and he is perfeelly regular in doing so, in order to
spew that he does not mean any suck embarrass-
ment. As to the aliedged connection between the
present motion, and that of which an Honourable,
'slember (Mr. Patten) has given notice far Tuesday
nest, I cannot understand why such connection,
supposing it to exist, can be a reason why the in-
lonisation required in the present instance should be
withheld. 1 can easily conceive the solidity of the
etle2r nseson assigned by the Chancellor of the Ex-
c'tetrier ; I mean, that the distlosuie required might
Fruve prejadielal to the pending negotiation ; but I
.sae no objesaion upon the ground of its connection
with the metion which stands for Tuesday.. That
thio"lk a reason that operates the tont: ary way ;
iTUte objet of the present motion constitutes a
the question fixed for Tuesday, it is per-
well timed new, and its connection with
the subsequent motion is thetefore an argument'
in its favour. But all such reasons, I allow, may be
overruled by the consideration that the discussion of
tll4 motion might prove injurious to the negotiation
pending between this country and France ; and, if
that be the case, we must rest upon the authority
and responsibility of his Majesty's Ministers. My
Noble k riend, therefore, must be ready to rest under
a declaration f.-om them. that the information which
he requires cannot be disclosed now without prov-
ing injurious to the public interest at the present
moment. I ant sorry for it, because it delays the
impatience that is felt for information upon the sub-
jea, and because the reason is of that kind that
must debar us from it on Tuesday, or any future
day, if his Majesty's Ministers shall think, fit to re-
sort to it."

Lord HAWKESBURY, —" Sir, I shall only
offer a few words. 1 was not present at the begin-
ning of this conversation, and, therefore, I can
anly speak upon what I have been able to coiled
my Right Honourable Friend, and the Right
Hon. Gentleman who has just sat down. I should
rtainlv objed to the address as worded. The
Noble Lord leas, professed that he did not mean any
motion that could embarrass the negotiation carry-
ing on between this country and the Government
of France, and yet the latter part of his motion calls
for a disclosure of the circumstances relative to the
Cape of Good Hope. Wow I tninic that this is one
of the poiats involved in the general question, and
that it is inipossible to discuss it without disclosing
information as to other points connected with the
-negotiation. But, independent .of that considera-
tion, I objedl to the time at which the motion is pro.
duced. I entertained hopes that at the present
time no detached motions would he brought for-
:.rd. The 'louse has a right to expect full infor-
mation upon the proceedings which arc now, and
have been for some time past carrying on between
the Government of this Country and France, (a loud
cry of Hear .1 Hear!) but the right way is to look
at the whole subject, and not to take up a detached
part of it, or to provoke a discussion upon a point
that mmt involve other things iweessarily 'comiefted
with it, respteling which, disclosure would be ma-
n testy improper. 1 think it would have been more
proper to Wait till a communication shall be made
I.fAili his Majesty, or a general motion shall be
brought forward, than to male a motion of the
partial nature now submitted to the House. It will
het the duty of Ministers, a: the proper time, toenake
comniani;ation in which they shall state fully
eve y thing that appears necessary for the infon.ta-
tion of the I ionse, and when such communication
iraall have been made, it will be the duty of the
House to see whether it be .Itisf:atory, and if not,
what subsequent informatiots may be access and
move for it accordingly. With resped to what
has fallen hum my Right Hon. Friend (the Chan-
...llot of the nliequer) I beg to say a few words
aa order that h: may not be misunderstood. My
(tight Hen. Fricati did not say that the produaion
ar the papers and informatioa called for by the
motion, would be prejudicial to the negotiation
acraiing with France. 1k said only, that the motiar•
%fix& led to a ditclatere of pal: that mil& he pram--
'ire of jtablit imosrutaitacc, and therefore wished
ti
.00ttld not he iKessed.'"
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A peson from. the East-India Company pre-
senzed certain accounts, which were ordered to be
pinted.
Mr. HARVEY brought up the Report of the
Coroners' Bill.
Upon the question that the Report be received,
Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE wished to postpone the
consideration of the 'report till Monday, to obtain
information resring the opinion of the Magis-
trates of.the di crentcotinties.
A convercationtheii etweed between Mr. Harvey,
- ansittart, and Sir Puiteney, when the,
question put, atai straagcrs ordered to
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relates to orders oto remote a date as Odober last, TRRIfiltE-ROria, !MITA n.I.,ANE.
and what injurious effeo they ,rims EV ezitNo will he er' ed a New Conted Y tmned
cast her upon. the
MARRIpAGE PROMISE.
discussions commenced within, some weeks past, I. .
gamble, Mr. nw.yei. Mr. noir.
do not perceive:. The ' The Noble Lord has' ?Ise declared . The Chars:ter:to Mr. C.
ton Mr 1 lellitivwortli, Mr. Bannistur, inn. Mr Paltnl, :?.r.
it unfair to bring forward a several and separate
Pope,'• Mr. Powell, Mr. Pow'', Mr. Evans. MN. nuwee,
motion at a time when a general motion upon the eineeetion, Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. S,Ktrlc4, Mrs. Maddocks.
subject is hanging over the House."—His Lordship To which will be added, . •
proceeded to say that he could by no means admit FORTUNE'S FROLIC.
this as a general principle, that when one Gentle-
men gives notice of a general motion, other Gentle-
men are to be excluded from bringing forward par- ,
ticular motions on the same subjed. The argu- LON DON,
ment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer had the
same tendency to preclude any Gentleman from FRIDAY, APRIL 29.
bringing forward a motion on a subjea respeding
which a previous notice had been given by another A very interesting conversation took place yes-
Gentleman. This, he contended-, would be the terday evening in the House of Commons, our rc-
means of defeating any attempt at enquiry, in any
case whatever, if :any Hon. Gentleman thought port of which may be relied upon for its accuracy.
proper to give notice of a motion, (he meant no It was produced by a motion made by Lord Fo LK-.
refledion on the I ion. Gentleman who • had given STONE, for the production of copies of official pa-
notice of a motion in the present instance) he might
defeat the intention of others by putting it off from pegs, and discussions with the French Government,
day to day. This would be an improper situation relative to the Cape of Good Hope. The CHAN.-
, •for the House to be placed in, and he rose for the cer.eoa of the Excel:quiet opposed the motion on
purpose of offering thee few words in justification
the ground of irregularity, as constituting part of
of the motion he had the honour to make, since Ile
found himself precluded Iron' persevering therein. the motion upon the state of the nation, which
Mr. FIX rose for the purpose of stating his ma. n stands for Tuesday ; and also, because the ex-
sons in fixour of the previous question. The en- planation which it might involve could not now be
roe se, he said, should be confined to no one question.
given without the risk of considerable public in-
Th.: Noble Lord had urged n paricular question, and
the Right Hon, Slrentletnatt'had answered that the convenience. Mr. WINDHAM, who followed, ar-
ob::ed of his motion would' be included in the mo- gued as if the CHANCELLOR of the Eticee.eura had
tion on the general question. Now we had to consider
whether it was better to enter upon the merits of the said that the information called for by the motion
motion made by the Noble Ler2', or wait for the could not be now disclosed without proving injuri-
general motion. For his own' pare be had rio hesi- ous to the negotiation pending between this
tation in declering himself in favour of postponieg country and France. This called up Lord HAWKES..
the discitssion to the period of making the motion on
erav, who contended that the CHANCELLOR
the general state of the nation ou Tuestlev next ;
because we ought to determine on the preliminary of the Exeirequt a did not say that the produCtion
question before we enter into the 'details; and he- of the papers contained in the motion would be pre,.
cause the motion of the Noble Lord would be in- judicial to the pending negotiation, and that his
chided in the general question. revery person who
had honoured him with an approbation of his sen- Right lion. Friend had only said that it might lead
timcnts must know, that he was always of opinion to a discussion of points that might be produdive of
that the House should not be timid in demanding public inconvenience, This was the strid course of
information ; but he was averse to any partial or
premature proceedings. • Every one must be con-
vthe.cnnversation, which we are the more anxious to
vinced of the necessity of going into some inquiry lay down with clearness and precision, because we
on the state of the nation, but he thought it better know from recent experience how variously it will be
to have the general question taken into consideration.
Mr. JAMES MARTIN (Member for Tewkes- tortured and twisted by many who were not present
bury) said, he did not mean to flatter the Right at the conversation, and only know it by report.—
Hon. Gentleman under him, (the Chancellor of the We have little doubt but some of the persons will con-
Exchequer) but since he came ireo Administration, sider the caution of the Minister upon this occasion
he had given him his support, because he considered
his eoriduCt marked by integrity. He had the ho- as a proof of his fears, and that his hopes of making
nour of having had a seat in this House for many a communication before Tuesday are on the decline.
years, and had often beard the word responsibility Unquestionably it would have betrayed a consciousness
used, but never knew it produetive of any good—(A
of that kind on the part of the Minister had he posi-
langh)—and as to ministerial responsibility, he would
nut give two-pence for it.--',.1 loud laugh.) tively asserted, as Mr.Wte DHAM would suppose, that
tl lie question for residing the other Orders of the the disclosure wouldproveprejudicial to the negotia-
Day was then put and carried. Lord Folkstone's tion. The papers called for couldnot,fromtheir num-
motion was consequently lost. ber, be laid before the House, in all probability, sooner
BOSTON ELECTION. than Monday.—To say then that the disclosure
The list of the Members chosen as a seled Com- would be prejudicial to the negotiution, would be
mittee, to enquire into the merits of Petitions,
complaining of an undue Elation for the Borough to say that he did not exped to be able to make his
of Boston was reported as follows : promised communication on Tuesday. In any other
Henry Holland, ::.q. flan. G. C. Berkeley, case the disclosure would come too late to cited the
J. B. %Vakti, 17...1. Hon. Edward Finch,
• Samuel Scott, ir'
sti . Lord Archibald Hamilton, negotiation. But the language really used by the
WiAitm Mid.iieton, Esq. John Atkins, Esq. CHANCELLOR of the Exciteocett, and enforced by
John Black*,.urne, Esq. lion. Frederick West,
Hoii. John Scott, Thomas Creevy,E:q. and Lord HAWKESBURY, is perfectly innocent. It throws
Geswge Pocock, Esq. Henry Joddrel, E.q. 1 no new light upon the subjed, and leads to no new
Mr. FOX brought up a Petition from the Mayor
conclusion. " The disclosure required,".sayMinisters,
and Corporation of Nottingham, praying to be
heard by Counsel against the Bill now before the " might lead to the discussion of pointy that might be
House. The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table, i productive of public inconvenience." We do not
and leave given to he heard by Counsel. i -pretend to know all the points that the present
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that there be negotiation embraces, but we do not know any
laid before the House, an account of the Sales of
the East India Company, from the Ist of March, other answer a rodent and cautious Minister could p
1802, to the Ist of March, 1803. Also, an ac- give, unless he had actually at the time, the defini-
count of the Stock of the Company, by compute- tive and irrevocable answer of the French Govern-
tion, exclusive of the capital Stock, to the Ist of
March, 1803.—His Lordship said, that an Ad of men: in his pocket.
Parliament had expired relating to the appropria- The House was very fully attended. With the
tion of certain parts of the profits of the East-India exception of Mr. Peter, all the leading Members
Company to the support of the volunteer corps of
the East-India House. His Lordship enlarged on were present.
the utility of the corps, which he termed trust-wor-
thy, as being composed of the different servants of
this East-India Company ; the superior officers be-
ing persons who filled the higher departments ; the
inferior officers of another class of respeEtable per-
sons; and the privates, of the warehousemen, and
persons in the lower situations. Provision had been
made, by a former Ad, for two battalions, exclusive
of the artillery, which lie wished to encrtase to three
battalions. He therefore moved, that the House
should resolve itself into a Committee of the whole
house, to consider so much of an Aft of the 23J
of George 111. as related to the appropriation of
ct•rtaiu parts of the profits of the Last-India Com-
pany. .
The House having resolved itself into a Corn- pears to be re-estantisneu tee —8„....
mittee of the whole House, Mr. Alexander in the lakes were cantors:el in Upper Egypt.
Chair; the Chairman was direded to move for
leave to bring in a bill for the appropriation of cer-
tain parts of the profits of the East India Company midst of the English -
for the support of the establishment of the volunteer -
i•
tell ships o
corps of the East-India House.
Leave was given, and the Report ordered to be . t" '
brought up to-morrow.
Mr. VANSITTART brought up a Petition from
certain pero:ns against the Irish Law Courts' Bill,
Which was referred to the same Committee to which
the Bill was referred.

THE JUTISH PRESS.

Egypt has certainly been evacuated. The Moniteur
of Monday last, which, together with the other
Paris papers of Sunday and Monday, we received
yesterday, has brought the confirmation of this
intelligence. Rear-Admiral LENseiosEc, who is
arrived at Toulon with the squadron that conveyed
the French Ambassador and suite to Constantinople,
returned by St. Jean D'Acre, Alexandria, and
Malta. He left Alexandria on the 30th March.
The English had evacuated it on the 17th. Since
their departure, says the Moniteur, tranquillity ap-
pears to be re-established in Egypt. The Mame-
lukes were canton.ed in Upper Egypt.
At Malta the French Admiral anchored in the
midst of the English squadron, which consisted of
ten ships of war. The Egyptian army, amounting
to 4000 men, were performing quarantine at the
Lazaretto.
The French squadron carried to every part of the
Levant Commercial Commiu;onerr, " who were re-
ceived by the Turks with " a delirium ofjoy."
The FIRST CONSUL'S approaching visit is to ex-
tend to Ostend, where great preparations are making
fir his reception.
The French Funds are a little higher. 54 1-10.

The Hamburgh Mail which arrived yesterday'

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Yesterday the dispatches for China, by the Gan/
%etre final closed at the East India House, and
livered to Me purser.
tlonicAencli vessels have lately touched at C :ib-
raltar, from Marseilles, on their way to Louisiana ;
:nee
:OM
:a's
clothes, loose trowsers, great coats, and round 1 iats,
lOtainifFe:ftwthienreecsohanielllPS7Ctirly:VlVladi tedhdieSsolln•.vilteehr(epaldiaslcsederrnse'gselsaernsd.diendTmfl
hi which dress they appeared on the public pa rade
SOW.'
at guard mounting, with the most perfc
czaia,
By an English brig
.(the Albiones:), arrived a
.t Gi-
!trait.* the 7th April, in eight days from Genc a, w
learn; that 5000 French troops emit-irked ther v fig:
weeks ago for St. Domingo ; they were so uns villing
to embark, that they were obliged to shoot t wo of •
them, as an example to the rest, before they could
be induced to go on board.
It is obvious that the French troops will not .in any
case be withdrawn from Holland, for so una
.nimous
are now the people of that country, and sc impa-
tient and indignant under the French yoke, that the
moment an opportunity presents itself, we believe
they would to a man sacrifice their lives in t ,heir last
ditch, z tither than submit again to French fratCrni-
cation.
Great exertions are making in Fran ;e, in the
Departments of the West, to discover and seize
concealed arms.—The Prefect of the Iv lame and
Loire, in his letter to the Mayors of th at Depart-
ment relative to the subjeCt, observes, ' We feel
too much the importance of this measure , under the
present circumstances, to neglect its exec ution for a
ifesta bli s-
single instant."
The Society of the Friends of the Scienc e
nd at Warsaw, whose present President ts
venera-
ble Bishop ALHERTnaivoi, one of then lost eminent
Polish Literati, has lately published the firsrvolutne
of the Alemoirs of the Society under the tide—
Annual Transadions of the Warsaw society of the
Friends of the Sciences."
The complenient of Boon L t.'s Club i .n St. Janies`v
street, is 400 members ; and there an no less than
170 candidates for the first vacancy.
The Marquis of sLANoroan, Tio Lo WT Fi ER.
Lrd MORPETII, Colonel ST tostav ; Lord CAR-
ansi.TON, the Marquis of HERTYOaD ;and the Duke
.of NORFOLK, were purchasers at I. .glen and So-
literary sales, which close d' on Tuesday
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DESOIECI COR‘I ARTIN, who has been long con-
fined in the castle of Ham, but resit lei, at present in
the town of Bar-sur-Orne, ( )uc) has lately
claimed, as his property, the tray°. Is in Portugal.'
printed under the name of the Duke CuArzi.tr,„
with B;;RGOING'S notes.
The celebrated Baron ToT, pr operly TuoT,
native of Hungary, and author of the ,f Memoir et
sue les Tures et les Tartares, &c ." being driven
from France by the Revolution, i found a kind and
generous protector in Count THEW lORE BATHYANI,
passed his latter days at Tatzmansc lorf, in lituagaryi,
'and died there in 1793.
At the Imperial printing-office i a Constantinople.
the present diredor of which is . ri.soua-RetisiAre
Erten!, the following works ha• .'e lately left the
press : A large Turkish and Persian IpiCtionary,
Burhan Katij; a Dictionary of th e Turkish, Ara-
bian and Persian Languages, Lehoso betollagat • and a
collection of loganthmetical tab les. The latter,
printed without a title, contains t i nere columns ef
figures, which appear to be tolerably corred. These
tables are solely intended for the use of the corps
of engineers and bombardiers. .
Colonel Noel gave a grand The attkal Entertain-
ment on Tuesday evening, at hi s house in Caven-
dish-square.
Two balls and a masquerade ar eto be given next
month, under the sandion of the . PRINCE of WALES,
and the Duchesses of DEVONSIIIa E and St. AL BAN'S,
The Board of Agriculture rest imed their Sessionc
on Tuesday, at their house in S ackville-street ; the
Earl of BEIDGEWAT etc, and the Right Ilou. Isaac
CoRR v, were chosen Honorary] Arlembers.
A sum equivalent to forty lc uis d'ors has been
lately sent by some person, who has chosen to con-
ceal his name, to Altona. It is to be given as a
premium to the author-of the t 'est verses in honour
of Klopstock. The verses are ; to be submitted to
the Professor of the University of Gottingen, and
Professors Wi:land and Nurdes , who are to decide
on their merits.
By letters from Stutgard oft he s'h of April last,
we have inforthation that the Court of Vienna is
now negotiating to enlarge, t 'y purchase, or ex-
change, its new acquisitions is . Upper Swabia, so
that it may add to the Tyrol and Voralberg the
whole territory between. the La: ke of Constance and
Upper Bavaria, and may esters( I the frontiers of the
two former countries as far as B empten.
Mr. EDWIN COOPER, a TOw thful artist of Burr,
much distinguished in the neigh .bourhood as a pain-
ter of animals, was lately enip loyed to take.a por-
trait of a blood mare belonging to his Royal High-
ness the nuke of YORK, new at Barton ; and also.
of Sir CHARLES BuNnuaY'c celebrated mare _Elea-
nor, with the jocl:y thereon; which he effeded so'
much to the satisfa &ion of his employers, that ho
was adVised to of'er them for public exhibition at
the Royal Academy, Somerset-house, where the
painting of the Duke's mare was accepted, but that
of Sir CHARLES.S returned, assigning as a reaso.,
that it was a copy from Stubbs, although the latter
never saw either Eleanor or the Tider ; and it is
believed young COOPER has never seen a'single
painting by that celebrated artist.
The following rescript, by which 'the present
Eledor of BAVARIA has sandionedthe publication of
a periodical work, undertaken by Mr. VON Aac•rin,
under the title of " The Genius of the Bavarians," and
intended to record and celebrate the most memo.:
rahle ads of Government, is an appendage worthy
of the above mentioned ediel. " During our reign
we have constantly endeavoured to prove, both by
public. ordinances axid deeds, that we know how to
appreciate a reasonable freedom of thought, and •
the liberty of the press, and that it is our earnest
wish to excite and promote in ottr dominions kite./
rary ativity andineinal culture. We shall, there-
fore, the less obstru& your intention of editing a
periodical publication, recording the most important
trairsadidns and events of 6u: :reign,'_.tssfwer hte sa-
tisfied, that every Goxerittorailakh from' part
stootivor biti math* :tar. loshaa.,* contrary to cart
the ,most bereeicool,tv tales of etc agiioo4:
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. 1.-rw.i FOJLSTONE, is 3 reply—" The Noble Mr. and S
I.Grd has objetted to the maim) which I have had. question was again
%be honour: to ,being futwasti, upon. two grounps.
'Me Ea-st objeEtiun is, that for tururma- 771;liassa was
,aoi
;In ghat aff4ol the.negotiatiPiik4twoe4lWAP4ntrY. Wee fikotplvtisned
uJ Prance. Now thc iliiomation WiilC 111 k fps

morning brings no news.
Between three and four o'clock yesterday morn-
ing dispatches were received at the Foreign Office
from Lord Wurrworrit ;. and about the same time
iwiH.
a French Messtsgattartived 'at .Gein. AND RSSA
houseo
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