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to stinit wh'ieh roust be deemed important ; but lila,
entertain a last sense of the times in neoce %e-
-lite, and look unreel'' to the dangers and difficul-
ties which may be yet to curne, mint b. CODVIIICrd
that the prosved rende r it still more iinport•
art than 'won any former occaainn Mulch end
highly as I feel the honour you propose to confer
upon me. I cannot avoid stati • my own dca.iency
and i..ability to justify your chime, tit alower the
expenarion which the House may have formed.
Alt!mtteh they
.have been cleared to suppose that
inmyaykAatFin.ier.ll7onguinineti.":ts.'flOAritutilypo:e-frolrenidei !n°", aj'lrkerl
different impressrinn is thereby created my mind.
I an, persuredcd that whoever understands, and leas
already endeavoured to ext cute the duties of th .c
.t tified and responsible situatine, must readily
acknowledge its various difficulties. and feel Ins
own ioadequacy to do you justice. If, however, it
bey determination that I slien'a again r„„,,,
that Chair, and endeavour to fulfil us numero s and
important duties, I have only Si. offer )011 my as-
surance of unalterable vial and determiernio •
to support its dignity, end diligently to petscvr •
to the utmost of my pnreer, to justify your expel
titans. I therefore shall submit With deference
Your decision "
Mt. ABBOT was then condoned to the Chtir,
by the mover and seen .der of the motion, a.ol
when seated therein for a short interval of time, he
again rose and addressed the following few addle
urinal words to the Holm t—" Since the House hes
been please I to place me again in this that., I de-
sire from this plot— to return you my humblest
thanks, and most ;crateful acknowledgments, for this
elfin mai proof of yi.ur conlience and CSIIICI3.
have only now again to enure you, that while
have the honour of occupying it, I shall crinst,etly
lahour to deserve a continuance of your regard, re
maintaining the dignity and authority of this H..a e
unimpaired, and by ender arming to do so waits
fidelity Anil staid i:nparaiality."
l'he CHAtidiiE.l.i..olt of t'ie EX2I.(EQUEIt
next role, AO, addressing the Chair, spoke as 1,•:.•
lows —" SIT. I rise to offer to you. not et(
conrcratulatin. s alone, but the con.vatulations,
may say, of an unanimous ii 41,411 of Oda.
items. and of in un.ninhois public. I must ar•
hnowledoe, besides the prrf moaner of my polio,:
ditty, I am aduated by feelings of a persooal
sere, arising nut of those habits of too ter•
rupted friendship, with which yof have, far
I mg pertrid of time. condescended to hoe iur me.
These feelings alone. would of themselves aff
rd
me the greatest sattsirtaion in seeing you reamed
ro a situation at which every one seems to tijoice.
wh-ther they Cotes' into private or pi6lie Constdcrar
non:. But the pfeosute of seeing you in that hi:4
situation is now to be ..tcribed to that descrtption of
consideration, wh rb relate. to the great invert 411C1
of the trust belieging to the idfi:e, tied the clt .r
convidion of your adequacy to its iunctions,
from an exp• rience of your peculiar fitness for it
Although the usual form of our procet..hog.
leads n to address my rmagratulatarm,
the chair, yet I am diepos.:l to think
that` the proper objeet of congia.ulation is the
Flousie itself. I cannot forbear looking back to he
first occarion when rto were called up in to toil has
rretst important offh.e.. and its doing so I shall Yen•
tore to conapare which you then enter.
.tained. to what youilliesting, must maw Ise. Yoe
h.tve stated, that you are much impressed with t,e
consideration of your own insufficient-, when y
compare the trature acrd extent of the duties, wen
the qualification. which you possess ; hut, sir,
think all this dubiety in .y he now compirtell don•
away, after the length of trial, and the severity
of
the criticirm to which you have been wooed.—
Your predecessor, who had for a long contteuahe
of year, filled test chair in times of heat and party
cling et, in a manner which aonfetred upon hut, t'ic
ipprobation and the applause of this House (I
allude :o Lire! i loon trio wtfitArtimear eatielser
w .s considere.: ey all as a perfeet charades to be Ili
the Chair. rail' opinion of that Noble bird was
tot med of him atter a very leng mad. You. tea.
have tad your trial, and you havernOt been founts
wanting, You, like my Lot J Sidmouth. have hosed
that Chair, with dignity of clsarader, and utility
to
the pulsate, so as again to entitle you to the come.
dance 1)1 the f louse ; and whatever may have been
your own apprehensions upon your first appoint mei t
after Lord Sidman's, the circumstance of that
confidence remaining still noditainsahml; must con•
vine you that tie expeetatiora originally IC/I awrA
by the House have bren jerified. I cannet eun•
vivo that there could be any thing to increases
the satidadion I feel in seeing you called ripen
by use utsania.oun COMM' and approbation
of
the House. not wholly expressed in silence,
but in a manner that convinces me all parties elute.
in thinking you the best adapted for such a situa-
tion. Although a silent elstaion might have tut. s
perfealy hulficisht to have satisfied you, yet' '
the choice has been erieded by more loan issue' et.-
servations, the coaseqUence of then) will be,
ytnt will have the satistadlioa to reel, that whatever
may be the opinion of some individuals as tO
e
fitness of, public own to fill their tespeSive
situations, no difference of opinion as to you cent..
( Hear ! bear I/ Conscious that I must fall
ly short of giving au adequate description either
my own feelings, or tb• se which the House en.:er
thin.
tains upon this occasion, I shall therefore` C" 1:
with moving, " That this Hones do h ow 4
joutn."
This last tuntlnn was put from the Chair, mu! tlit
House adjourned accot dangly to twelve o'caxli
morrow (this day).

Among the Member of the House of Com-
mons who attended yesterday. and took Jo usu,
odhs, were :
Ti. Chine:ll,w of the EsehNuot, Lard Cattlereagh, W.
Canning, Mr. Sturm Bourse. \lr. fluskl.son, Mr. Mn..,
gue, S.r W m Sent*, had. Mr. Yueke, Mr Bonites,
'rumors Aldernn Comm. Alderman Sir C. !nee, AMlrro.
Sir W.O t.i
urt, Ahlerman Show. Sir (More Rom. 541
el 1.0 •
P 11;t1Illay Mr. Wilberforce, Mr Calmat, I.nrd Mi -1
Pescr, Mr. Wm. Swarth, M. rotifer, air' metal Vrtspatr c .
Sor Charles Banbury, Mr.- Wm. Adams, Mr. D. P t, sar•..
111:!.•y Addivots. R ght Hoe. Nathaniel Benda Case'3l.4
Wallahs+, J. Hawlar.. Browns, Mr Item, Marro, Mt
Win Due.dm, Saunter+ Modes, R tett. Hon Wm. L S
P. liraurn, Dories Giddy, Das tides, SW A. tie', t.,/
Plumy r, Mr Lame, and Might H... R. B Sh,ndan.
The Cat Members sat at the sight hog of 1.1.4.
's ia time eirse rubes.

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LON UON,
TUESDAY, JUN& 23.

of d,•

THE BRITISH PRESS.

The First Session of the Third Parliament of the
United K.ngclons corrn-nced yester lay.—ln the
House of Peers, thenainber of Peers who took the
Oaths was bet•veen six,y and seventy. The at-
tenclasce in the !lame of Commons amounted to
between two and three hundred. Mr. Ammer
sus propos,%l as Speaker by Mr. YORKE, and
sconded by Mr. BAWILES...-Mr. CALCII•FT also
strongly so Totted this nomination, aad took an
opportunity to suggest, the public expeAed that
the present Parliament would prosecute inquiry
iran public abuse, with the same zeal and energy as
the pre-esling one. —This sentiment was loudly
cheered.—Ms. Nestor was re-elected unanimously
The House could not possibly make a snore judi-
cious choice.—This day, the New Speaker will he
resented at the 'kir of the House, when he will
receive His Majesty's Sanction, by Commission.

Letter. have been received ffom the Fleet under
IT:cc-Admiral Lord Cot. t i stawoo°, off Cadiz, dated
about twelr- days since, all of which agree, that
the Combined iqu.tdron. about twelve or thirteen
sail of the line are ready for sea, and it is supposed,
if our Fleet were by .accident ski-7m off their sta.
Lion, they would ende ivonr to make a grand push
out to get through the Gar of Gibraltar, and endea-
vour to form a juneltion wit's the Cat thagena or
Tnulon Squadron, or perhaps with both. But Lord
Cot tosinwoon ever on the alert, and his cruising
hot ,tes fo:m a line of communication from off Ca..
ilia Any. to h,s Eire' in the Offing, for the nurpose
of communicating inforrnstion direaly by telegra.
pLic signals.
?spas and Inters from Holland, of Wednesdai
lan, hire Len received in town; but we do not uir
dcr.tand that they contain any C4Ws of importance.

The illefsene, 40 guns, Captain BRIS LUIZ. and
the ibureeya. 38, Captain UV muor, which sailed A
(Lip +wet., liy trl•gr;phic ‘renal, from Plymouth,
w•• understand, to m Ike a streta, vet y far to
wr."oard, to endeavour to fall in with the rich
China &et, nine sail. houtly expeded in soundings,
ircru

Tnr k ,r* loop of war, will a Beet from Eng.
lan is arrived st Lisbon.
Viscount NEWARK will move the AcLisess to His
?Assure, in the House of Commons, cm Friday
acti •

tho nyw Purliarner.t are 13 of the Merr.hers
Edo vomsl in tlie Ws Par lug one. or both
alb!. two motions, Mr. Be 401.1', and Mr. LT Trig-
aproving the toodu.lt of the late Ministers ;
and Geattsmen, totally unconneded with the new
Ministry, have been chosen for 63 other elaces.
On Friday and Saturday last tie Chaplain Gene-
ral underwent a long examination before the Co.n-
sni,.hnersof Militai y Ent:wiry, respeaing *be at-
coml.. of his departkteat, front the institution of ois
office.

Levers -ec-iVed from the 41.. Cap::in
Wott,,thsted ab,itit six Jays si!.cr, state, that she
bat been cruising Ltf L'Orictit Mr two month;
had chased several convoys of chaste
tnarea.:, but could not pet bold of any of them,
swig to their gettiibg into such shoal water, that
tbr fish could not. pursue them. The Ai g 4 has
loon MO .tral chiefly it, closely watching the
ram.o.o of a French 74 gun ship that got in with
c-urn hews s, some time since, when he escaped
into a river near L'Orient. fri.ro the GrArelier, d 4
the has been quiz: refitted for sea. and is ready to
tett Any opportunity that .ay offer of getting out,
tur t•ie purpose of Laical a push for the port of
L'Orani. if sbe can .wqs the vigilance of our
cruisers

A seventy-four gng.ship was launched yesterday
at Deptlord. fhelanaels was wended by a great
aernber 01 Nobility sad Gentry, mei :dine the
lioctiess of Noiermustasai.msn, and two of the
Ladres Paac v.
It was between five and six o'clock on Friday
semis* whet, a signal was fired from the Commo-
dere% ship, for the transports, with the first division
the Expedition, in the DOWISS, consisting of 13
trosports, to get under weigh. Gcneral the $ irOft
Premsel. who Quogiai.Js lhe Expen.tioat. was at
tit meat smoking his pipe in the trcnt parlour
‘i the Ro7el Exchange Inn, at 1)eal. Obedient
to the signal for sailing, he got into a boat, accom-
Parhed by his Aid-du-Camp, and in about twenty
"boutea...itrer five o'clock, he was on board the
',nspott appointed to receive him. The Baron is
• .e lovking old man. He wore a plain blue coat.
•da VI Oen leather cap. 'fhe beach was covered
• r.wds at spoliators. The wind was in the
East vane; when they sailed, but it soon
were to the We•tward, and the Fleet were

out 14 sight. Oa suuday the winil changed
C F..a E and, of course, became uatsvourable.
%ieslocid Professors have treated the diss
hich has been termed the Egyptian Ophthal•
Al cr nsaginus. We expressed our disbelief, at
the time, that as, d v.rders of the eye are contagi.
001. and a circummenist io said to have occurred.
w'i'sh. if true, will justify out opinion. According
to teiwtt, many soldiers who 'steed with greet gal-
Liery in Eiypt. and have Inst t4.fir sight since they
num el to this c.•untrv, were sappnesd to have
brought ►act with them the latent seeds ot• this di.-
"4' r. It ts wish however, that tbey have used a
insture of coiri.si.e &ultimate mercury ind
ity the purpose of producing blindness. in
owes Ro reti•e frm service upon a pension. We
druid Ise glad to find that this shi.clung ►tory
4iii tt'unded, but ire a.e assured, that there is tau
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