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• The' OPtaiten considered himself called upon
to 'discharge a most, important duty. The rule to
Ire foltovieil is rue peneesit gumshoe appeared, he
quite clear; it ensile its application the
appeared: •As a Committee of Ways
. .
was also one of the whole Moose, it
as that went, compe;.eut to theesurs the
• k was not until within these few years
range of dimension wait allowed in
• of Wave and Mines.
" :Tt tie Ey asked, if practice of the Tiouse
'4
itst.not for confining discusinone•te the coasiderae
*ion of duties, be. is a Cesumittee of Ways and
keen
• rhe.SrEtstit thought a larger range might be
allowed.
Mr. A 1.6.3 CAM DIM Braden considered this a Bill
entirely affecting trade. and unfit to be referred to
a Conunitec of Ways and Means. It was nut duty
',,nr ;apply we were considering, bat a most im-
..portant gantlet), affecting the interests of the
wintry.
FAH TSMCPLE wished** knew whether the duties
ingerieed in this war could he poitioned ageihA,
iihether the merchant vroultl Late any redress
•••••114re CWJ ricer.tes of the Ellistll4Mlll said not.
- Sri,anaa ktuw the Bill* as alone coming
OMB this Committee, amidst' out think it could be
. .
pelitinnee agiunst. •
A division then took place, when there appeared
fer.tke !anise of Mr. Tierney—
hoes
Ga
On the opening of the gallery we found Mr.
?renew, the enescuxoti of the Beaumont.
And Mr. Poisson at, in convei union, relative to the
Orders of Criuncil.

- - -
AMERICAN TREATY RILL.
•• On the motion tsenig put for refaring this Brill
fa a Committee,
Mr. EDLN said, he could not omit this opportu-
nity' of eallinktil: attention or the House to a
questiou put him to the Right Hon. the Chao-
tellor of the equer on a former night : He
ielshed re know, whether neutrals were permitted
to carry the colonial prodnce of the enemy to states
in 'Naive with His Majesty, or whether that trade
*as to be considered on, the same footing as be-
&Tithe limning the Order of the llth.Noveinher ?
lie had read the reference recommended to him
by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer; but-he confined it hail not the tendency
Of enlightening lifs Mind, or giving him the in-
fortnafion he sought.
The eminent:Lot of the Eicatouen said, that
the question put by the Hon. Gentleinan wai one
that he thonht might have answered itself. There
ens, iw jab:liked tutu, no axceptiou in the Orders
in Council in favour of the trade alluded to.—
Every reliaPoy was placed on the good disposition
of Sweden. •
Ilii.Tsantitir wished to knowerkether the Chan-
neline of the Exchequer had any reason for mach
tdkneet
Mr. WatirssEAD was surprised us answer was

ice
too

0111DBRIIII4 CIOVOCIL.
Oa the media of the Cwatscataaa of the Es-
INIVIVER, the Howe resolved itself into a Com-
mittee.
A long and uninterestieg conversation the.st took
place on particular clauses of the Bill, which were
objected to by Mr. Trtasty, Mr. Wastroacan,
Mr. %Talent's's, Mr. EOM, and Mr. Bettina ; and
Were defended by the CsAmassi.oa of the Elan-
QUEI and Kr. Rost.
Mr.' Werrastais said, bele/tit his duty to sug-
gest to the House the necessity of keying out in the
Pill the went. •' Jesuits' bank:" He felt it be-
neath British policy to exercise so wujost a restric-
tion on the trade of any nation. It was to wage
war oti the soured of fife and 'health. The min-
ciple of action mai the cease of objection. Ile be-
lieved, he hoped, it could not bc.awiried into effect.
This inference he was induced to make, from the
eoneidiration that this article, being the produce of
aforth isosti:e colony, its exportation would moat
probabl , by way of retaliatiou, be first prohibited
to Son America ; and iiiiice the prospect of its
rapid increase in vino had already advanced its'
illievetwinneusly in our noarLet, while it remained
nearly the same in Ole market of the enemy.—
Vraoce hod in her warehouses, at this moment, an
shawl:mice of hark, as Kell as sugar. This, he
could state from the best suithority, exceeded the
usual conirumption for a twolvenrouth. He could
not •eapenss, in adequate terms, his detestation .of
ri•jfe itillin 1 measure ; vile, siuce it re-
to ble means of warfare, and ii-

effected, inasmuch as she had slimly a caps
sideralste apply on hunch, and had even species
hard -tie <hi ponibility. Of providing herself wok
an efficient substitute for this necessary article in
roodieirev it would by no means oecasion a pres-
sure on the eneniye force.—No ; &professedly was
a war Orilla w cak Ilea and debility. Its objects were
the sick, the wounded, the helpless, and the aged.
To follow up the principle of the measure, the
Right Hon. Gentleman should have p:oposEd iu
tlitsbttt INNTl.Eeepetlient for introducing plague and
pestilSbee Onto the country of our enemies, aad'thus
wage oaf', without any expense to the country of
taco or money, by swath% the constitutions and
health of our foes. Famine bad been attempted
tO be introduced into this country by this bill, in
the regulations relative ter Ainerica and the coun-
tries in the Baltic, from whit* we had hitherto
been ad ustomed to import our greatest supplies
of corn. He concluded with expreseing his hopes
that this measure 'of-hostility, leveHed solely at the
distresses and calamities of.the•witlrret Of our fel-
low-creatures, who happened to be unfortunately
involved in war with us, would never 'obtain the
sanction of an enirghtenoil and humane British
Porliatnent.
Mr. limn:goat. said, the arguments made use of
by the Hon. Mender were of so extraordinary a
nature, that the one was the hest refetution of the
other. In one instance, the Hon. Gentleman had
pathetically described the evils that would result
from the enforcement of thie regulation, and im-
mediately afterwards he confessed the measure
would never be effectually enforced, and coolie-
quently nn injur!, nould result to the enemy. He
maintained, that in the regulations adopted by
these order., there had been no reasonable grounds
for secusing the Ministry of inhumanity. There
had been a choice afforded to the enemy. Alt that
coniti be done to soften the ri•tneurs of war had
been done, without itajustinablydeserting the in-
terests of the enamel.. If the Hon. Gentleman
should rely on the fallacious hope of inducing
Fnince, by a display of oar adherence to the ro-
mantic notionsf justice and honour, to a perma-
neat peace, hsiliould be foffild to teat his hopes on
a loviseli reed.
Mr. Letitia mow frayed the' measure' resorted
to would ultimately fail of producing tba desired
•,-itieet, when the disposition Al the Governor of
France was taken into coosiettratioo. The mea-
sure he conceived highly criminal, and rather wor-
thy of assassin* than the Ministers of au enlightened
manor.
Mr. Helmets? supported the opinions of the 110-
111111111Shie Member who spoke last, and conceived
this port of the Bill highly derogatory to British
policy.
Mr. CARVING said, that if there existed no
impediment in procuring peace, hut our own
wilfirinevs and, obstinacy., then, fivieed, would it be
highly improper to irritate the enemy by any fur-
ther restrictive enactment. But when it was; well
known that no dieposition had' been at all mani-
fested by the c•nerny, bat that of an avowed system
of exterminating. policy. surely 'those who haj
ranted so romantically this evening, on justice a
honour, had but vanity and ridiculously wrested the
tittle of the House. If Hon. Gentlemen could
once for all point out a mode of warfare which
would direct the whole force of the war rind its in-
ermermiencies and losses on the belligerent part of
the nation, such a mods should, he admitted, be
preferred in ordinary cases. He 'said that in many
instances, in the prosecution of war, as in the
bitiekade of é town, the evils fell on the un-
offending and peaceful iubabitants, wiliwe dis-
tresses were ultimately the' means of compelling
those in arms to-inrrender. Yet such practices
were common, and unit-ripe wheel; though no Ge-
neral' eenld conduct his approaches gradually
claw and closer to a city, without feeling a pang
for the unhappy and starving inhabitants. He eel-
mated the principle of the warfare to be detestable
and disgraceful ; but elicit a principle had only
been that du which France had compelled us to
proceed,
,and those who were so clamorous now in
their opposition to the present measure, Aortic! at
least have the consistency to recant the argu.uersts
which they had, on a former occasion, twelve
months since. used in favour of similar measures.
He conceived that the erroneous statement of the
Honourable Gentleman, reineetuig.tla quantity of
bark indoor& now in France, vitiated not only
the arguments founded thereon. but even his state-
ments on other particulars; and maintained, that,
from the sources of information he I ()iodised, he
could assure the House several articles of colonial
produce had already made an advance of near fifty
pounds per east.
Mr. Wureassoo esploioed ; and
Mr. WILBERFORCE MINN to express his sorrow
that the war should' have assumed n character of
ferocity unparalleled its the history of latter times.
He feared * would not produce any effect on
the apoiluti of the enemy. 'the army /email, at
all events, be supplied by their ambitious larder ;
and the only effect produced by prohibiting the
importation of this article of medierual economy,
would be to lead the Freed) to unite the idea of
the cruelty of this restriction. to those other re-
strictions which were usual is war, and thus seeing
them through the discoloured medians of exas.
perated feeling, it would but confirm them in their
hostility.
General GAoenaowE rose, with SOME warmth, to
meet the criusination of the Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Whitbread), relative to the improper eaten-
eon of pardon to the military, tried for improper
practices at Copenhagen. These men were recom-
mended to mercy, and it was the proud character
of the Commander in Chief kindly to listen to every
such appeal. when it was well founded. But it was
with a certain description of men in that House, as
it was with the Methodists, they considered their
own partisaus all stints, and their opponents all

sinneti.
Sir Awr nun Witt.tistit t would not have ttobbled
theCommitteei but felt the Houonrable Member
hating adverted to the mile of the bArlier who had
been tried fora breach of the Articles of War..—
Items certainly tree that sits of outrage weir cops-
Mined in the army as wag tiro frequently the owl
is all evpeditiona. But the_ entails were brought
to trial. and the only doubt *O3, wit'h the Nola,
Lard who comman•led. whethit he hid alegs)
power to take cognizance of tpe 41infp. land to
cm the sentence into eseeetiso Ifstsightly

informed, the result of those trials was at peewit
under Mt copsideration of the Law °Sons of the
Crowe—a eircuoistuace, with which if the* Hon.
Member Was acquainted, he ems in candcrur hound
tis emamunicete it to the-Codapittee, at the same
time that he had to unexpipaill iutpcinced the
subject to which, it applied.
Mr. W HITS AC AID ,OM 4, there were *art distinct
(lunges of rape, rubbery, and uturdfr.,,brought
afe.instscertitiu eolcilere in the arsabiatelyeaturned
from the attack against Copeohleeete: He did
not know haw to trecoacila the *section, of the
I knowable General (Gatkciigne), ILO said the cri-
e
initials were recommeadedto mere , with the belief
of tle... gallant General oispOsite. ~ tA. Welleelq).
that the deeirinii of their Court: artist was under
the consideration oTthe Law Officers of the Crown.
Geiteriti •Geoctiferiti add the CitanceeLoa of
the Eheinemita severally spoke in eeplenation.
Mr. Wintageed.then gave notice ((Chia inten-
tion to submit fhb eireinustance, on a future claf,
to the solemn derftic4itieni of Parliament. It weir •
strange that (Wane Officers should have a power to
bombard an • intrecent and defenceless capital,' and
not have authority to punish a murderer, a rcliber,
or a violator Of female honour! ( Hear ! hear !
Afar .7
The Arroaser-Gr xtem. observed, that, how-
ever genii roitht saaretimetieteape with impunity,
'it was ultimately of thrhighest aelvar.tage that the
accused should Moth of tilt defects m the legal
process issued against them.
Mv. Deems GIDDY, although friendly to lire
general .priuriple of the Bat, was yet hostile to
enforcement of the prohibitisa of This article of
Jesuite' kirk.
Mr. 'llEiteeeT commented upon the indecorous
°temerarious the galleat Gerseral (Gaecoigiie) on
the religions faith of the HOD. Gentleman (Mr.
W'illierMrce) opposite. Whatever creed that Hon.
Gentleman prolitired, his opinions on that night,
es on inauy others, did bailour to his principles and
I his faith. But it was not to the article of bark,
that he *wished to Innis the amendment of his lino.
Friend, he had also to expose the encroachments
of the Riglit,Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer upon the tolerant spirit of the House. Not
satisfied with Aiming ma unotiending American
ship into their ports, they called upon Parlia-
ment to legalize the locking up of pint of her cargo
in their warehouses, at their own pleasure, without
any,regaril to the consent of. the party whose pro-
perty' It was. 'lie, on' further reflection, wished to
separate the amendments, and was determined to
take the sense of the Committee upon another
ertietichnent, for leaving out so Mich of the pisra-
graph as refers to the expiwtatien'of cotton wool or
yarn.
Sir CHARMS Patter. assured the Committee,
that he knew, from the most unanswersible tes-
timony, that the article of Jesnits hark was up to
70s. pier pound at Paris this moment.
Mr. BARINO contended, that the prohibition -
would prove nugatory ; is one vessel loaded with ,
that article would be sufficient to supply the wants
••of France in that reopect.
Sir JOHN Nicnou. supported the principle of
the Orders of Council, and the enforcement of
' these prohibition.), on the Maxims of the Law of
Nations, which antiorised a Belli;erent to meet
upon its enemy the severity of its own inputs of an-
noyance. ,
Nit A. Pfecorr argued Alt &Oust the princi-
ple of the Bill', as suliversive'of the eine-1)69J- inte-
rests of juiniee.• He considered it nothing short of
the most violent outrage, to arrogate a right of
confiscation over an innocent neutral, althouglebei
had not violated the provisions of a blockade, or in
any degree contrivened the Cirders this country hall
issued. Stiff such aneffect did follbw from the new
system of' Ministers—and therefore he should tabs
every opportunity of declaring his decidettlioetility
to it.
The question being loudly called for, a division
took place, tine upon the amendment of Mr. NV rite
bread, relative to the prohibition of Jesuits' Bark,
when the numbers were—
', ital.'

76

. .'. .ti ogalosttlko Alitewinwor .... 97 .
Etrie
woo then took place on Mr. Two-
ngAinitlo eint, relative to the prohit)aion of
co-;*opitiroJi.ro,whett the notniters were--
16
)67

Majority 'Ono tt c Ronsdosee.. -91
On Our fe-zidU:iNetl.s, Sir THOMA% TUITAN
wa
OD. his legs. opposing the clause which went to lay
a duty on the importation of Colonial produce
from St. Domingo. He contended, smelt a mea-
sure eras highly unjust towards the persons con-
cerned in teat trade, at the same time that it was
itwtErient 111-4 a consideration of revenue. The wor-
thy Baronet prooore.l so amendment, which we
ua.lerstand was Afterwards withdrawn ; and on the
inotion of Mr. Ttstrar, the Chairman reported
progrt,s, and said !meet° sit again to-morrow.—
Adjourned at Ous seCtoca.

•.o. Fortie Ceurt, low, tie Doke of Reere Letter, ice.
K* lag per.

Tilg-i3R-tiISK PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, Foist:Aar is.

In the House of Commons, last night, Viscount
CAirrLemsos brought down a Nessage frosts tits
MAJLSTY, preppiiiu4 to settle a pension of 20001.
a-year upon Viscount LAns, awl his next heir
male, bearing the title.—His Lord.l4 gave stake,
at the mime time. of an Acl4,lreis to His iVisszwry,,
to erect a monument to the memory of tl.e late
Lord, in consideration of his ensineut servicts in

Mr. CALcaArr Wit notice of II motion, on
Tuesday next, grounded on the r•7,1-ts that Sir
RICHARD STRAPIAA'S squadron w.a driven front
the Itoehfort station on tux.otust of the want of
proxisioo 4.
004:e mot;pr, of the cI4.I.ICAL),OR ,9f

cagoules, a Committee - -
how far it ermiyhe expeditat to 0,04
lerietoto the elie of sugar and atelemase
Mr. TIERNET'II motion for referriwi
to Coulee% a Committee of Trade,‘l
by a majority of 118 so 65.
In the Commute on the Orden t
sthe dumb 'prohiloititig the exportation
audited& bark were warmly opposed
diced much ditoctission.

No account has been received of tt
squadron of a later date than the 24
which day it was seen by the Comas frii

Seven English Mails, including tl
Mail, were due, in Dublin, oa the nom
igth instant. Two of them, ithwiererii
course of the day.

General Sect:CSR'S Expedition,
detained so on at Falmouth by eon
ailed on Monday.—lt consists of 60
porterwith 12,000 troops oa board, me
Antelope, of so guns, the Ytiw►oa
and the Milbroo/c schooner, of 16.

were all clear of the harbour at twelve
proceeded on their voyage with a fii
The destination of the squadron rem

Letters were yesterday received
dated the 9th instant, which state? OM
rican venaelsliad been ca2turrl the pre
end carried into that port, and the ere
severs., The same letters mkt., the
geetitiven to the Commanders of all
vateers to capture American Vessels
Manner as if there was
•ein actual
• ,
France and Ameziea.
Yesterday a Court of Directors in
East India house, 12i,n the um
Commanders took thea final leave
previous to their depatture for:their I
tinatimis,
Capesie Males Gram, Wlllivn Pie
Alexander Campbell, >iiefer..ini, t&t cedes
CaOsin Gelidoas Europa, SLUM!
The Court adjonswad . at sit ole
Ili crow.
The Eakepiwarsie has arrived •
with dispandms from bit
The enemy hate evinced no &nos
sea. Sir Ricaaao has three swil of
. two, frigates. Sir Itit.itsais Stay
thet[siationi and-is wa% not known- it
whither he had gone.
Dispatches have been received
BILIITIE, who commands the equal
The enemy remains as usual is giell
A Court of Common Council 'wit
day for the general npatch of pub
Ale Coalman Ilan. for the elacti
master; in the room of tee tate Mr.
pointed for Ist of March next. •
A ship from Charleston bas bron
of another severe cadlict bets; een
Cnitivrornx and Pao tow. in St. D
has terminated greatly to the dire
latter. • American ships are said to
hibited enteruag the Ilaytian posts,
eisdietion of Csassromm.
Account ol•irrin, he.nip,and talks
St. Petersburgh iu Boti.h ships, is
and 190. extracted from the Li
published.by authority at St. Petty
Imo—Foods limp—Pords.
isn6-4219,409 1,541,5e0
1507 710,541 1073,414

Let" is 1,07 j 3011,8ti1l 108,119
than Igoe ti3rods per tea.
ons. um Tom
5077 956 e 4541
Yesterday was the twentieth of
locke r trial. The Court met at
and the examination of Bngadit
inuty WRI resumed. The conree
tom weut principally to ascertain
treat po,sessecl by the British aro
enrcessful attack upon that city,
July last. Some qttestomiii bein
opioion of Vie witness, Lord Co
the Court was cleared, and 'getup
for about half au hour. On their re
' peered, from the succeeding quest
rctioo was generally over-ruled,
st was impossible to ascertain. Th
ation of General Achiouty proc
o'clock, when Lieutenant-Colon
Major King were caned to state
their respective columns, from tit
of the cannonade, on the moron,
the taking possession of the Pit
the brigade under the COMMAS
Aehmuty.
On account of the vast preset%
of thedoors ou preceding days, a
formed :bree deep, surround t
of the Hall.
The Nth of next Month, the'
gins Drawing. The Scheme c
ing rich list of Pvizet.--three of '
Pounds, three of J 2.10,000, fit
fifty of £l,OOO and £soo, hesi
Prizes of Poo, £5O, &c. &c.
Sham are selling in great vati
Co. No. 11, Poultry, and No.
Pho sold, in the last Lottery, N
rize of £OO,OOO which was sot
Fuldie approbation on all pee
road of sureem—lt strengthen
supports every undertaking that
The public admire the Scheme
tery, and make an early cho
Shires in a sapid manner, such
tery Once Kcopera never expo
queries there... HoaNsay and
recommend a speedy porches,
vontageous to buy before the 8
the day the Drawing commeu
72. Chatimpfiert fad M
rough.

•
well that he had left out the two lietds :km there
was crtainly in the moile. ne
opportuotty 'for the 'One ot4 the other. He end-
wool ' that the province of the Coninaittee,of
Wye iind*Meaus work to lay inn duties: It was not
competent to auy Meinlyer in tine lioune4o move
for oaf thlpg ur such Co mmittee thistl-vons- not
connected with' the. impaisiugel *latices He woiild
dif: tiny mod to my, if this was not the unifotm
Here
of the House. It. -had been ur6i..d, that
Hive was nothingcoutterY .to the usual ti nna of
tide in these uumsales. Lie thought that a nevi.,
trsi vessel catnip:4 into this . count ry, which would'
be obliged to laud Whatever cotton or lurk she had
on board, and wen altetwards desired to about
her business, after conoitilsorily tithing from her dm
roost valuable part of her cargo, was a sort of med-
iae that could not be designated as ordinary or
meal. He then read an extract •from one bf the
Orders in Council; shewin: the provision alluded
.to. %Vas this, lie would ask, nothiug more than
she usual forum of trade ? if so, he confessed he
'knew not what they were. Without going at
itiygth into argument, which would require every
Member in the House to have those Qrdere
ni
Council before him, he thought that' es the Bill
most evideutly rehited -to made, it might to go
into a •Corrauittrie of the whole House, -as that
of Ways and 'leans did not enable the House to
take all the steps necessery. to its fell tovestigation.
He would leave it to the. Hieeerable Gentleman
ever against him, and to this/Kum to say, whether
they thought in 'their contleiedeinl. this a tit ir.ir to
bring oi po :WO, rriMien" re forward ? strong-
deprecated any petty view or, fooling ou the
t premacqrsestiee.. His anxieties were to have it
t Wells &tithe omaidetertiftn it nieriterl.
. • 1-2 -..11.A