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Thin Volume contains, among other equally interesting
Papers, Innis Retrospeel of is ot.ttllCAl
of the celebrated Gerhart and ..1 %fiches's by 11.1eua,f...thi
the (ltniiis Scilla, be Count lisiffinanseseg Yd PfOIOPIO, Link.
...On the nude of Fruclificatism peridiar to Ferns, be J.J
Bernhara..--Silishiny on the Crocus —.lConig on the O(gice.
ras FragiAns.—Roth's Rens.irks and Corredions of Willdenow's
Species Platitarunt.—Ventenat on the Genius
CM the Natural Osid:r on the RrrularilZ
Swartz, Genera et SistlC44 Pilicsun.—.Account of Mutit —l)r.
Smith on the genetic Charaelers of the notandrimis PapilLr
uageous Plants of New Ifolland.—Salisbury 011 !Luau Ru-
lpifirlia ...Turner oil the Iledwigian System of Mosses, and
on the Genus flirtvanits.—.lllllliCU on the Onagrarne, with Re-
mark., by Kunig ...Sims, on the Ainotinin Litscapum —The
Importanee of the Prince of Wales's Island, ha the culture *f
Spice, ‘ke 6:c.
So. IV. the first No of Vel.ll. was tw have been published
an Ole Ist of May nix!, bid, from the present gate of the
Priating Rosiness, must probably bs: deferred till the tee of
June.

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Poetiltid-witparep andall ether lietksrllats in Groat liataut and
Ireland.

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IMPERIAL P RLI AMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—Waiimss•Av. NANcH
Counsel were heard at considerable length relit-
the t., the Scotch Appeal, James Rochied, of Inver.
Leith, Esq. o. Sir Alejder Kinloch, Bart. Vi?!.
Messrs. ADAN: and thelicon. HENKY ERSKINV,
the part of the Appellant ; after which their L.
ships adjourned the farther consideration of tile
case till Friday.
The Bills upon the table were forwarded in their
respeaive stages ; among these, the Marine Mutiny
Bill went through a Committee, and was alter warsi.
reported ; and Lord John Thynne's Indemnity hill
was read a second time, the commitment of it nega-
tive !, and the Bill ordered-to be read a third ti:::e
to-morrow.

The Bishop of OXFORD presented a Rill to re.
peal so much of the Ale of the lith of George V.
as restrained certain Colleges in the lluiversitict of
Orford and Cambridge frum purchasing the .I.d-
vowson of Livings ; which was read a first time,
and ordered to be printed.
Certain Papers respeaing the Appral Cause fn .
the 1, i,h Chancery, Roche •. Morgan, were
sent.•d at the Bar, and ordered to lie on the NW,

The (Labs of Abjuration and Fidebty hems u .
administered to Mr. Francis Albert L-ehestem.
Bill for bis Naturalisation pas seed. a 'refill' time
and referred to the consideration of a Committee.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SF.(7ItETA KY at WAR moved; that a
new Writ be issued for the }intone) of Wigton,
in Scotland, in the room of Andrew btf.Dowai,
lo:sq who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds--Qr.
dated.

Mr..luirsson, from the office of the Chief Secre.
tary in Ireland, presented at the Bar a List of the
Reversionary Giants made in Ireland from 1793,
to the latest period—Ordered to lie on the table.
The House resolved itself into a Committee cf
the whole House, Lord Louvatrst in the
The Report was brought up and received, and the
Chairman moved for leave to bring in a Bill fur
granting to Foreign ships the privilege of prize
ships, and t•or other purposes—Granted. His lord-
ship also moved, as Ctairman of a similar Com-
mittee, for leave to bring in a Bill to permit the Im-
portation of Goods from parts in America belong.
ing to Neutral States.—Granted.
Mr. ROSE moved that the House will, On-mor-
row, resolve itself into a Cuinmittee of the whcle
House, to take into consideration the Order of
Council of the I sth inst. for permitting neutral shics
to trade with Spain.--Ordered.
The Isle of Mann Bill was ordered to be com-
mitted on Thursday, the 23th of April.
the Exchequer Bills Bill, and the Irish Spirits
%Varehousing Bill, were severally read a third time
and passed.
Mr. HUSKISSON brought up a Bill for re-
pealing so much of an At as went to making void
certain promissory autes tinder • 51. and f•'r reNtrain-
ing the negotiation of such notes, which was read .:
first and second rime, committed, and the
order ed to be received to-morrow.

Sir W. scarr, after a few prefatory observa-
tions on the state of prize agency, and the necessit:
of securing a more regular and pro:npt distribution
of prize money, moved for leave to bring in a %A
for the encouragement of seamen, and for the Ey :-
ter and more etleaually manning of His Majesty'.
Navv.—Granted.
The Reports of the Irish Import and Expert
Duty, the Escise Duties, the Postage and Starnp
Duties, the Malt and Spirit Duties, and the eIMC I'4
Duties, were severally brought up and agreed to.
and the Bills ordered to be read a third time
morrow.

Mr. DAWSON moved for an Account of the
Game Licences in Ireland, •from 1901, distinguis! •
ing the names of the persons taking out such li-
cences in the cl,ir,2rent uistriels.

The Committees of ‘V:tys and Mmns, and Supply,
were postponed to Friday.—Adjourned.

THE BitilTISH PltES%*

LONDON,
TI lURSDAY, Maier 21.

A P.tper of yesterlty, devoted to the interests
of Lunt Met vi Luc, conuins the followini parr
grAph—

" The enemies of the pretant Board of Admiralty have
eagerly ir2il;cl upon the Tenth Report Vont the Commi—,•ol:n
of Nural inquiry, anal have ittenuotisly endravourel,
publication of pirtial enttracti, to render it a main iti,triviiciit
be their invidious attempts to bring opprobrium tine the chi-
ratter of the Noble lord who now presides over the 'Minton.
Department of this Country; but it it not worth our wlislc to
dwell upon Newspaper reloctions and aturnailvertiout

A strong rumour bad for several weeks prevailed,
that the t ooh Report contained much interesting
muter. ‘Ve scarcely remember any one instance
of a paper of the description that bad er:ited so
much public curiosity. It became, therefore, oar
duty to gratify that curiosity as soon as the Report,
printed and published, and distributed to the Mem-
bers of both Houses of Parliament, afforded ten
opportunity. We accordingly gave the slihstance
of the Report on Tueseity, so far as it affeCled the
Office of the Treasurcr4 the Navy; a place twice
filled by Viscount MELVILLE, including his Lord•
ship's defence - and yesterday we gave, verbatim,
from the Appendix to the Report, the written de.
fence of Mr. Taovvaa, the Paymaster of the
Navy, his Lordship's Deputy in that office.
and involved in the same charge. We did
not give a partial extralt of the Report, in re-
lation to the Noble Viscount and his Deputy, Mr
TROTT ca ; on the contrary, we copied every part
it essentially affeCting either. We have stated tl..e
charge and the defence, the evidence, and the judi,-
meta upon it. Viscount Niet.vat a... and T t•

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and if our extra.% embrace the whole merits of
their case, why is their impartiality to be ques-
tioned, because they do not embrace all the mat-
ter of the tOth Report, much of which is irre-
levant or superfluous. If any Print in the interest
of Viscount Migt.vi I. I. r or Mr. TROTTER will point
out a ,:agle argument or fitet to their advantage,
which w have suppressed, then we shall submit to
the relleaion attempted to be thrown upon this
Paper for the ItitlifuLdischarge of its duty.

Another Evening Print of yesterday, under the
head of Dublin, March 16, says:—
" Mond ,v niliht Capt. Wilson, that remarkably active Chief
P. tee ()le.:, serpriseil, at the hone, of one Conl in, a publi
..an, at the writer of New-rear and Ward** hill, in the l.iberh,
journeymen blik•weaven, whe had before them, in council,
an account of money colleted from different persons of their
ism trade, in various parts et the Liberty. Thoilzh reprelien-,
table the mtssure of raiving money for the purinee. of combi-
-131111011, vet tips was supposed to be for contributing to a much
wolie poroose. At the head of this junto was found one Leech,
who MU some time since whi pp. 1, pursuant to teuteneo, for
treaormable priettees. These were benught before the Su•
perinterulant hf..gi Arate, and underwent a very strict e..ami-
tuition. There beaig, however, no poii:ti-e proof, as to what
purpo•ie the money colected its intended tor, they were dis•
charged, after ring •iifficlent hail."
For since Mr. Pi r r refused to present the Catholic
Petition, we have been in daily expeaation of re-
ports of the most horrible treasons and crimes re-
cently committed in Ireland. We could not, there-
fore, be surprised at fit.ding the above account in a
Paper notorious for its misrepresentations of the state
of that country. We could not so soon forget how
dexterously it lately cut down a wood where a wood
never Crew in the county of Wexford, for the pur-
pJse of making pikes, and with what ability it drew
up, in battle array, 30,000 rebels in arms npon
Leighlin Bridge. We have here, in England,
combining journeymen tailors. weavers, boot-
closers, printers, and pressmen. No London News-
paper, however, attaches to their meetings any
suspicion of treason or di,affe.ftion ; but, in Ireland.
no doubt, tra&smen eso rich and so pampered
with ail the luxuries of like, it is impossible that they
could c rrplain of small wages, and therefore, when-
ever Car combine, we may be sure that treason is on
too:, and that they mean to overturn church and
state. Pur g the ohjet for which this story of
new treason in Ireland has been told, and twenty

others will be speedily invented, the same Paper.
alludii.g to the notice given by I.ord GRENVILLE
and Mr. Fox of their intention to present the Ca-
tholic Petitions, says.
The Catholic busmeo ha, thus !wen sada a pasty busi-
ness, and the peresifig the diacite.:Jo of it, at the protons
periol, wilt ap,...r to the country to have proceeded more
from ;seminal animosity to M.. Pitt dun from any greet pnit •
aiple of policy or re.l regard to the Citholist."
This is precisely what we expeded. Wc long
since foretold that, if Mr. Par should refuse to
present the Catholic Petition, and the task should
Jevotve upon Mr. Fox, the Ministerial Prints would
attempt to identify it with the cause of Opposition,
and aff ,d to consider it a party question. Mr. Fox
voted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and yet,
that has never been regarded as a party question.
How then can Catholic emancipation be fairly re-
proached with that charaCter, merely because it has
Mr. Fox's support? The position is illiberal, un-
tenable, and unjust.
Some satisfactory details respe.ting the Mediter-
ranean fleet of merchantmen are given in the last
page It appears from them not more than three
ships at the most have been taken or destroyed by
the French.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
Was held at Lord Mut on avc's Office the Rossi APt
BASSA DOR attended the Office at the same time.
Yesterday a Court of Dire torn was held at the
East India (louse, when Marquis Conswa tits was
introduced, and took the oaths, on being appointed
to the Government General of Bengal.
Captain Tiros' •S GARLAND HURRAY took leave
of the Court previous to departing for St. Helena
and Bengal.
The Court adjourned at 6 o'clock till to-morrow.

Lord RtDZSDA LE is daily expelled in town from
Ireland, to which country his Lordship will not re-
turn until May.
Tuesday Admiral CORINNA I f. It struck his flag on
bend the Ville de Paris, at Spithead. He is to he
succeeded in the command of the Channel 1. feet,
which has resumed its station off Brest, by Lord
GARDNER. His Lordship is now in town.
Early on Monday morning the Channel Fleet got
under weigh, and sailed from Torbay with a fine
breeze; but, just as the post was departing on Mon-
day evening, the fleet were seen returning t.) port,
for what reason is not known.
We hear it is intended by the Irish Government
immediately to have two encampments formed on a
stray extensive scale, the one at Cork, the other on
the Curragh of Kildare.
Sir Titowss Taoualiouz is expeeed to sail in
the Weldssint, in the firseweek of April, and to take
tinder convoy the diren China ships. It is said that
a large body of troops will be embatked, to restate
t. late losses we nave sustained in India.

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ANCIENT MUSIC.
The Concert of last night, under the dire lion of
the Earl of DARTMOUTH, was honoured with the pre-
sence of Their MAtesrtes, and the five PRINCESSES.
The Prince of WALES, Duke of ('A .I EItIDGE. and
Prince W st. of GLOUCESTER, sat in the DireCtors
box. The room was crowded with subscribers.
The seleCtion was very judiciously made by the no-
ble Earl. Mrs. BiI...INdTON had two sngs, ex-
tremely well suited to her peculiar powers, Sconw.
into andai eagande, by BACK, and Lei Me luse,
SernpAims. To the former she was most admirably
accompanied on the violin, by Mr. Osamu*, and
the latter on the trumpet, by Mr. Heise. Misi
TENNANT warbled must charmingly, Gentle Mos-
phew. SOH of -4141 a, from Ells's cele-
brated anthem of Aseethe unto the L soul was performed
in the most finished style. Mr. GNI:ATONES played
the introduEtion on all the 41:lawns of the organ,
the largest pipes of which are 10 inches by 12.
It had a very solemn and grand effect. The veise
parts were most admirably supported by Miss Ttsi-
v ANT, Messrs. HA itaisois, BARI-LEMAN, and W.
Kmv v ET. The well-known Latin lines of " Amu m,
dvmum, tints( dURVI 01 ." were most admirably sung
by NIiSS TENN ANT. Messrs. i 1 A RiitsoN, BARTLIE
Al AN, and W. v • tr. They were encored. These
lines arc well known at ‘Vinchester, having been
written by a youth at school there, during his
confinement for a fault in the holidays; in conse-
quence of which he wrote the lines alladed to. arid
pined so much after home, that he died of a broken
heart.
Mr. HARnisoN, although much atilided with the
gout, was in excellent voice.

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