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London, England, 1808-03-25 00:00:00

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

The Order of the Day for the sectmol reading of
the Orders in Commit ludemnity Bill was then
moved—the. Bill read—and ordered to be coin;
muted on Monday nest
The CHA NCELLOR of the EIGHLQUER moved the
Order of the Day for the House going into Com-
mittee on the Orders in Council. He wished to
inform the Hight lion. Gentleman opposite (Mr.
(Tierne)), that the mode of proceeding kid down
last night hail been too vague cud micireem-
scribed ; the Order of the House, he believed, was
to let the Petitioners establish their case, as far as
they could, by evidence, and then let the Counsel
close the whole by his observations. Their case
being then concluded, the House would next con-
sider the Counter-Petitiou, and the evidence
brought iu its support after which,. the Peti-
tioners would have no right of replication or fur-
ther examination of witnesses.

Mr. 'FiltaNtv thought it hard the Petitioners
should have no right of cross-examining those wit-
nesses on whose eounter-evidence so much of their
ease depended.
The SPLARER conceived the Order of the House
to be such as that stated by the Right Hon. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. He estublished the
custom lay an appeal to former precedents.; ,lie in-
'termed the Petition on the Tobacco Bill, is which
item:ince, after the Petitioners had closed their case,
several excise officers had been examined against
the Petition, whom the Petitioners were not suffer-
ed to examine. The House, in no instance, were
bound to any precise quantity of evidence, but
might at any time call in additional evitlenee to that
produced, either for or against the Petition. In
the instance of the Tobacco Bill, the Committee,
after hearing evidence agent 4 the Bill, still conti-
nued to sit, idler they had procured all they wish-
ed. They neat finned resolutions, on which a Bill
was brought before the House and read. The
Committee still sat, sad soon- after entered into
further resolutions, which Were brought before the
House, and then, end net till thou, the Commit-
tee broke-up. Such might be the conduct of the
House on this or any future occasion, if it should
be thought convenient for the public business.
The Order of the Day was then read, the House
resolved itself iuto a Committee, Counsel MIA ad-
mitted, sal the following Witnesses examined :
Mr. Garland, of Poole, connected with the New-
foundland Fishery, and Mr. Pollock, an eminent
cottou iniumfocturer, who resided a considerable
time in America, proved, that the Orders in Coun-
cil would be destructive of those two branches of
our commerce.

Mr. Mann and Mr. Ratbbone were called in for
the purpose of completing their evidence on some
particular tope s, and proved the injury sustained
in their trade with America.

The CiLiIRMAII then reported prop, and ob-
tained leave tortit again on Tuella ay next.
Some conversation then took place between Mr.
TIERNEY, the CiLtriceiwa of the EXCHLQUEN
and the Arroftwer and Souctwoa-Genxitat. ;
nfter which, the Petitions were ordered to L taken
into further consideration on that day. The erri-
deuce was ordered to be printed.
Adjourned at half-past nine (idea.

GIBRALTAR MAIL.

61111•LTAR, rre. sta.

The Imperieuse, Lord Cochrane, arrived last night from
the Eastward, with the intelligence of the Carthagens Beet
having sailed on the loth of this month. The Imperiense
brought is • ith her • French corvette, of to guns, and four
Spanish utrr`haot vessels, which she cut nut of Almeria •
few days ago, after a pliant action, in which I.ieut. Caul.
Bald, her Find Lieutenant, god one man, were killed, and
eleven wounded. The Imperietsse saw tire sail of the hue
three dugs ago, off Cape de Gantt, steering this way, ■up
word to he the C,arthagena squadron : the Windsor Castle,
Nymph, Leonidas, with t►e Minorca and Redwing, put to
sea this morning is conscipimiee of thettlouvc intelligeoce.

I ES. 16.

We learn from the Prize Master of an Americas brig, de-
tMneel by His 'Majesty's stoup Surinam, that on the :nth
loagitade of Cape de Galt, be fell in with a strange
squadron, consintiag of six sail of the hue, sad one brig,
which he is of opinion were either Russians or French.
The brig gears chose to the detained vessel, which
hove-to, and skewed her colours; on gloving which,
• signal of rival appeared to be MAC from the sqitailron,
as she hauled her wind and junked. Ti ry lime steer-
ing to thelotased. The following-account, received by the
Masters( a• Amnesia ship frame New York to Marseilles,
shirk arrived yesterday, may serve to spare us a multiplicity
of conjectures ss to their maim' is...On the nth, is latitude
37, longitude in. no. le fell is with • Preach squadron,
consisting of one threw-decker, four 74'4, a heavy frigate,
and s brig. From the frigate he learned, that, taking adiati-
Lige of the late heavy gales which had Mown oar cruisers oil
the moot, they had effected their escape floes Rochfort wt
the *.Ol, and, in disabling Cape Piu.sterre, had steered to
the Southward, in the loogitnde of 11.0. to avoid our look-
out frigate. After examining the American ship they rusts-
used a southern coarse. until they reached the latitude of 3 -,..i,
alien they hauled to the eastward, sod fell in ith the coast
of Barbary, abuts ten or twelve leagues to the southward of
t'apr Sperm( On the 81ii they lay-to till sun-art ; about sia
tt came to blow hard at S.W. with rain, when they entered
the Cut under douhle reefed topsails, and were abreast of
Ceuta about twelve o'clock at night, when the American lost
sight of them in • squall. This vessel was boned to Mar.
seines, bodkin.% in with the Hydra, off Carthagena, was
ordered to radars to this port, in cookomity with His Majes-
ty's late Orders in Council. As the Hydra has sot seen the
enemy's squadron, we think it probable they have paned to
the southward, on the coast of Barbary.

TVE..29.

The Carthorse squadron have put into the Ray of
Palma, is Hie lased of Mojave, where the Hydra frigate
left them three days after, ha►is; watched them from their
Whs., as the meth last.