The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-23 00:00:00

Two Naturalization Bills were returned from the
Commons, agreed to without Amendments.
Lord KING moved, that the Papers relative to
the Irish Bank Notes in circulation lately presented,
pursuant to the Order of the House, be pfmteil.—
Adjourned.

have no objeftiou to enter the Militia on that ground,
ii such was the nature of the establishment, but
when the principle of that fiirce was direaly the
contrary, he was averse to a departute from it.
If this clause was to be adopted, he was confident it
would prevent men of property from coming for.
ward, and putting themselves in an ankward situa-
tion with persons that they would not wish to sit in
company with.
The SECRETARY at \V \R said, he thought k
unnecessary to follow the Noble Lard ; it was a prin-
ciple adopted last war, and he believed a wise one,
of introducing a few men of experience into the
Militia.

Colonel MITFORD spoke against the Clause.
General TA KI,ETON rose barely to make some
observations on the expressions of the Noble Lord,
who said that if °Cheers ut the line were admitted,
the qualified officers would not wish to sit in their
company. He could assure the Noble Lord, that
men wino were bred in camps, and had seen service, '
were not in general the most improper associates,
and that he would in general find then; pleas -ant
fellows at the tahle ; and if affairs should reqiiire it,
very Flex:lnt neigh!iurs in .the field.
The Resolutions w•ere then agreed to. Report
ordered to be brought up to-mot row.
Mr. TIERNEY moved, That there he laid be-
fore the I louse an account of the increase or dimi-
nution in the number and amount of the salaries in •
the public offices of Great Britain, in the year 1).02.
He thea moved for a sitnihr account for Ireland, in
the yews ISO I and !sq.!. Ordered in eorditigly.
The lloasein a Committee went through the Kill
fir regulating the office of Surveyor-General of his
Majesty's woods and tisrests.
The Resolutions were agreed to, and the Report
ordered for to-morrow.

Mr. W. POLE moved for leave to bring in a Bill
for vesting certain lands, &c. in trustees for the use
of the ordnance at Woolwich.
Mr. TIERNEY gave notice, that he would, after
the recess, move tin- leave to bring in a bill for ex-
plaiuittg At of King William, chap. iv.
The Grenada Bill was read a second time, and or-
dered to a Committee of the whole house to-morrow
sennight.
Mr. ALEKANDTR brought op the Report of the
lri.h Militia Bounty Hill. The amendments were
read and agreed to. and the Hill was ordered to be
read a Third time to-morrow.
'fbe CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
gave notice, that he would on Monday ;text move fur
a Committee to investiote the joint accounts of
Great Britain and Ireland.
The Irish Bank ReAliaiOn Bill was road a thisi

time, and p.used.
Adjuurard.


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•hile a•e have no

particular report
rests on such vague authority, we should give it
little credit, did it stand atone. There are, how-
ever, several accompanying circumstances which
intitle it to noted, such as the late l'roclamation of the
FIRST Comet. for taking the Catholic inhabitants of
Corfu under his protestion; and the recent symptoms
of disobedience to the Pour shewn by PAsswAN
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Eight Hamburgh Mails, one Dutch Mail, and also
Paris Papers to the :Nth; arrived yesterday. The
Official Journal still continues obstinately silent upon
the subject of his MAJ EST Y's Message, and our war-
like preparations. The minor papers, however, and
particularly the Argus, have copied some observa.
tines from a London Print, accompanied with
a few refleelions of their own. The latter would
scarcely deserve notice, did they not spew
what we arc to expect, even in case the present
differences shall end in friendly accommodation.—
We shall then be told, that all those armaments in
the ports of France and Holland have sailed quietly
for their Colonial destinations; that we had no ene-
mies but our own fears and suspicions ; and that
while England was panic-struck, and alarmed from
end to ead—witile she was exhausting her revenues
in unnecessary extrnces, and her funds were tum-
bling down, France preserved a calm and dignified
composure; her Funds rose, the discussion cf the Ci-
vil Code went on without interruption, and the FIRST
CONSUL was preparing for his holiday vi,it to Brus-
sels. he rialle Government of France will ilea be
compared with that of England, and the nations of
Europe will be called upon to admit the superiority
of France. Even, therefore, in the case of the
mcst favourable result. the Minister will find him-
self obliged to give some explanation of the cir-
cumstasaces which have produced the present crisis.
We do not, however, presume that he will do so
with reluctance, being satisfied that he will be happy,
when a sate opportunity shall pr_!s.nt itself, of shew-
ing his title to the contidenc..: width he has re-
ceived.

A French and an English Messenger arrived
yeterday from Paris, and a Council sit upon she dis-
patches broughtby the latte r frantlordWa 11 ma at

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and that ,t reen
Id stage of it, to which onr narrative Gland %Mlle Fishery, to compleat their num_ TO-hltegitOW EVe:NING wilt be prescuteil a scw inso- ,
v'e't 14111, in Three Act., called
is now brought, was lost in wretchedness of mind ; ber of Men in certain Ports, fin' the Season. Read
• .THE lira() Or THE NORTH.
• and his tonv.alescent and more lucid intervals were a first time, and ordered to be read a second time
The Overture and Mimic soineoseei and selected by Mr. Kelly.
engaged will% uccunatiosis, which offered amusement to-morrow. • T., which will be adiEct,
without •Letelledual effort, or en aproach to fa- On the Motion of the SECRETARY at WAR, THE VIRGIN UNMASKED.
ogise. Speeking of thi. portion. eflifee in a letter to the Hoes. went Otto a Committee of the whole Ott Sattuday, The Way to Keep Hiiii, watt A House to be
one of his friends, he says, " I have spent my time S Ad.
ia the country, where my reading has only been an Hous se on the Militia Officers Bill.
The SECRETARY at WA R proposed several THEATRE-ROr.u., COVENT-GAR DEN.
apology for idleness ; and where, when I had nei-
Amendrnents, which were read. TO-110KROW EVENING will be perfumed a saw Csiinsidy
tiler a magerine or a review, I was sometimes a car-Amend:rnnts,
called
1 eta, at trite-.. a bird-cage maker, or a 7.trderrr, Mr. BASTARD objeated to the Clause em- JOHN BULL;
or / drawer of buidscepes.' At the age of fifty, the powering the Lord-Lieutenants to appoint persons Or, e.N ENGLISIIMAN'i. FIRE-SIDE.
1 solicitations of Mrs. Unwin and of another female not qualified to vacant Companies, where qualified To which eat lie Railed,
t i friend, whose _taste he respected, and whose influ- persons could not be found. He said, it would be THE INTRIGUING CHAMBERMAID.
l• . ence he acknowledged, induced him to devote his a great hardship on those Gentlemen, who had 0.1 Tenaeoa, tae New oseeray of Joao natl.
. powers to poetic composition ; and the two volumes served as Subalterns of Militia, to have unqualified iii.cotiesewibee oithe too stron! Ele 15 proetueett upon the
E. eltngt t 4.01 P.irt of thi, Audience lot' ight, by the Now mono
of poetry, with which the pliblic has been so justly persons brought in over their he:ids, when the rant
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pleased, were the result of his fortunate exertions.
On the c.tnipletion, in 1;6 I, of his second volume, of a tialification only prevented them from be-
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coming Captains. prima, t e .aiit ior iss eareareee it.
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whirls includes the Teak, lie undertook the transle- Mr. LASCELLES said, that in all cases the pre-
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lion of !Verner, and finished it, with the interrup-
fere= should be given to qualified Officers, N% lwre '
b 1 tinn of eight menthe of indispositions 'in 1790. they could be found; as the principle of the Mi- LON DON,
. incision of thiS work, for a second edition, e-
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the Landed Interest
ployed him in the short Oreething times, indulged of the country. . DNESDAY, Menem 23.
'by his afiliaing malady, during die remaining years WA The Gazette of last The SECRETARY at R said, that qualified --
night announces, that a re-
of hi: life. In 1786 he left Olney, for a more con-
, .would certainly be preferred. but it was ne-
, 1. veoient beetle, and a pleasanter sitteatioa, in the conciliatiun has been effeded between the PORTE
CP:SrSaS"Tn: til sübmitn
neighbouring village ot Weston ; and here he con-
Lte' ute"nants, as many peraons may be quell ied •in and the teys in Egypt, by the intervention of the
tinned, till the melancholy sere of his mind, fired point of property, but otherwise - highly objeelion- English Ambassador at Constantinople.—A rumour
LI the infirmities of Mrs, t'n' win, who now re piired
that assiatence which sha had so long been accus-
able. to that etre& has prevailed for some time past, but
111 1 tooted to give to the calamitous condition of her A convereetion then took place between the Se- •
it was generally considered as improbable. While
friend, made their removal to the house of a rela- cretary at War, Sir William Geary, Col. Mitford, t
1 ' lion in Norfolk, a measure of prudeace and of rue- Mr. Vansittart and Sir James Erskine Sinclair. it remained a questionable case, it would have been
! , decal experiment. This event occurred in mei, Mr. FULLER said, the best wiiv to do away all idle to have made it a ground of observation ;
ii ' end it formed the last change of worldly residence difficulties, would be to snake the Bill annual. but now that it is a confirmed fad, it may
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lingering under the most dreadful despondency, in a t he Chins^ for introducing; hilt-p.iy officers. rious rumours in the French Papers, which repre-
I I few years, which were soo:heel by the unremitting °t - •,..• ` • '
The Militia, he said, had been insulted and de-
attentions of his affeetionete kinsman, Mr. Johnson, sent the English intluence upon the decline at the
1 (trailed, by the measures adopted by the last Per-
he closed an exemplary life, distineuislied by no
11. ) varieties of fortune, but throated i';vereast and us Eament, Which put that constitutional establishment Ottoman Porte. This measure furnishes irresist-
-1 • lumined by the effeets of diseased and of vigorous on quite a different footing. ible evidence of the siacerity of our friendship fie-
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•a. ' Turkey ; and if any doubt was ever entertained of
l• 4 . Lord Spencer, whose charader includes all that is denied that the Militia had been insulted or de-honesty of our intentions, in retaining possession
the meesures adopted by the last Parlia- , the - •
r benevolent end amiable, procured for this excdlont ;41%4de,', by
a pension of eleal. which was become ncces- merit. Those measures, he col-trended, were neces- of Alexandria, that doubt must now cease. Had
airy for the proteaion of his declining age from po- sary for the security of our interests, both at home England conceived any sinister desig,ns against
verty ; but such, from this period, was the oppres- and abroad. At thesame time, he admitted, they l',:gypt, she would have fomented the quarrels,
eion of his disorder, that he was insensible of the had not been measures of choice, but of necessity.
• benefit winch he had received, and of the hand by :rho. Militia, so far front being degraded, were the and widened the breach between the rebel-
which it had been bestowed. " instruments of upholding the honour of his Majes- ' lious Bess and their lawful Sovereign. She would
We shall conclnde our present article by observ- ty's anus. To them we owed the preservation of have tor.: precisely what France would have done,
I s inn, fur the informetiou of our readers, that Mr.
i Lyles 's work, front which, this ourlite of the Ireland ; and to them, in a great degree, the splen-
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did achievements of the Egyptian campaign, in aIIe d SE st- ies i's annnier cial visit succeeded, and his
history of Cowper has been drewn, is formed upon conaequeace of the measures adopted by rose last offers of conciliation been accepted. This aft must
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t the model of Mason's life of Gray, and composed
principally of letters, written by
our intention to exhibit specimens of the various Parliement. Gentlemen have stated and corn-
i • eof the :
the eejea of the Planed
The Militia was at first embraced remove all suspicion on the part of the Poitre., as
oituprrioLecsesthaintEmgeypdor,naontasethaektaopurreotenlay foot:.
jekaeersintgo
uNnlialvitoildealtleb?lishment ; but was not this innovation
. . , biography to his friends. Ina. future palier it is
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I.' contents of the two quarto volumes now in our
hands, and to close the whole subjed with such re- with ardour on its establishment, by the landed in-
terest of the country ; and it is not matter of re- see that country in a state of solid and secure
Peace under its lawful Sovereign. The recent
marks as it may suggest to us. Cowper and his proach to the men of property of the country, not
affedionate biographer have claims upon us for no- to be so forward to enter it now as then. They , reports then of the rising influence of France,
. (ice, which cannot be satisfied in a single column of have many other claims on their zeal and patriot- of the joy evinced at Constantinople upon the arri-
• , 4 a newspaper. ism; and, besides, the novelty which at first caused
sal of the French Ambassador, and of the offence,
i: 1 an attraction, no longer exists. Change of times
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t I anal circumstances, brought with them a change of given by Lord Feats upon his departure, may, ur.
IMPERIAL
f lit Friend wished to provide for. That if the Com- representations arising from jealousy and disappoint-
missions ware not filled up in two mouths, they
HOUSE OF LORDS. should be filled up from the half-pee sooner than
, • merit. The Fitter Correct, however, is not a man
1. - et-tansy, MARCH '2'4 1 the Militia should want officers. easily diverted from his purpose, pietitularly in the
Mr. M eerier:en:HlE finished his argument, Loud FOLKitiSTONE said, the "Militia did feel casc of Baffled, therefore, of attaining his ob-
it by the measures adopted by the last Par-
half of the Appellant, and Mr. Ensers I was heard • ' kat thro' the rebellion of the Be s, we find him now,
i•. Es sm the pen of the Respondent, in Appeal,Mre EIiZA. Lament, having their best men taken away from
according to letters from Constantinople, expressing
them, iu a very extraordinary and often indecent
' be
Craultird v. Thomas Coleus ;after which the
manner. We arc told of the vidories in Egypt, and an anxiety to obtain a military position in the
. 1 further hearin • was adjourned till o-morrow.
b T • services in Ireland, and those events will, no doubt, Turkish Empire. The Crinlea is said to be the
The Bala on the Table were read a stage each.
1,11 1 The new Irish Postaee Bill was brought up by
o , , serve on any. future occasions as an excuse for hiv-
ing the Militia treated in the same manner, and the place chosen for this purpose ; but while we have no
li 'it 2alr. CO and Tend a first time.
Two Naturalization Rills were returned from the Officers made drill-serjeants for the line. He would doubt of the views of France, this particular report
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