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Mr. ALEXANDER thnight the Bill was hur-

vied on with too much precipitation.
Sir J. NEWPOR replied, that After the blanks
were filled up in the Committee, he should not
Gbjeft to the Bill being printed, and a sufficient tins.
given for its due consideration.
Col. VEREKER said, with some warmth, that
he had no idea of a bill of such magnitude being
sa hastily read a first and *mood time. without
being printed; particularly when he considered that
it struck at the very existence of every cot po: elm%
of Ireland. which this Bill woull prohibit from
proceeding to any other busine,s, till they should
first have decided on the claim of every freeman.—
The Corporations of Limetick and GA!way were
particularly interested, and time should be given
for them to petition against it. When the Voters
was made wi:h Ireland, the people were told, that
they were to be governed in future by justice; but
he would ask, what justice was to ►e found in the
present measure? He could consider the Bill as
nothing else but a measure which was intended to
be carried through by Ministerial weight, on the
part of the Right Hon. Baronet, and for his own
purposes.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT replied, that his objet
in bringing forward this measure, was to secure the:r
rights to persons who had been deprived et them
before, either by the tardiness or the injustice of
Corporate Bodies in Ireland. The principal pro-
vi‘ion of it was, that those who were entitled to the
freedom of Corporations, should make the de-
mand of the Clerk of the Peace. who was a per-
manent. instead of the Mayor of the Corporation,
who was only an annual, Officer; and that in 18
hours after the application was made, the Clerk (I
tht Peace should be bound, under forfeiture of A
severe penalty, to return it to the Mayor, atter
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or other business, till the claim of ft itedom was de-
cid•J on. As the law 14 the Irish Parliament at
present stood, the person entitled to freedom. if not
admitted within one mooch, was entitled to apply
fora on-swiemut to the Court of King's Bench, sad
after obtaining it, no penalty attached to the fit-
;left or d lay of the corporate Aker. This Bill Was
tote ied to give effed to that Law. The n-xt clank Of
the Bill went to regulate that the decisions should take
..lace according to the order of delivery. l'he ob-
jrEt of this was to remedy the abase of claims made
within a few bows being frequently, by the in-
fluence of the parties, considered •sod decided upon
before those which had been preferred and unde-
cided upon perhaps for three or four years. It must
be obvious, that if -very freeman, perhaps in low cir-
cumstanc,s, was to mak • good his right against the
vie.ght and power of a corporation, he must labour
under a great hardship. As to the insinuation,
that this Bill Was a Ministerial one, he wo tl i only
say. tkat if he made uus of office for any private or
corrupt purposes, he deserved t' be reprobated ; but
as he scorned to mince matters, or go behind the
bush, he must now declare that the Bill was ren-
dered necessary, it it was only from a circumstance
which happened at the last eledion for Waterford,
• when the sum of 50001. was raised by the Corpora-
tion, for no other purpose than that of keeping a
man from the exercise of his freedom. As the

law was at present, if a man spent 1001 in assert-
ing his fr" dom, the kreatebt costs he could have
against the person who illegally kept him out of it.
vas 301 s but by the present Bill, any public officer
°intruding the exercise of the right of voting.
would be to a fine of $OOl shameful and
cry.ng abuses were known to have existed. and this
Bill would only compel the officers to do justice.
Is was, in fad, no more than a farther regulation
of the hill of 33 of the King, and the reason why
he was in this ita;:e. to address himself at so
much length to the house was, that he may do
away the insinuation that he was capable of any
abuse of office.

C. Innei VEREK ER said, he opposed the mea-
sure, as being the representative of one of the most
mp-flable corporations in Ireland.
Mr. S. BOURNE thought the question to be
considered was, whether a Rid which so much al.
felled the right. of the Eledors, should be allowed
so pass the House in the coursr of a few days, and
!score the people of lielanJ had time to judge of
? He suggested t.. the Right. Hon. Bart. the pro-
priety of filling up the blanks now, rather than or-
dering the Bill to be printed ; and afterwards to
let it stand over to the neat Session of Parliament.
Mr. ALEXANDER as.erted, that in the cor-

poration in Ireland with which he had the most
connexion, he never heard of any instance of in-
justice ; he only knew of a discretion which be
thought properly vested in the corporations, to
in fee of she finless of persons, according to the fair-
ness •if their charafters.
islr FOS ('ER said, he hoped that on a question
which affeaed so many of the franchise tights of
Ireland, the Hon. Gentleman would net, in the
absence of so many Irish Members, press a Bill
now on the 19th, which was only brought in on the
14th of this month. It was a serious thing to im-
pose a penalty of 10001. on a returning officer, for
omission or pealed; and Ara penalty on him, it
Ire was a Revenue Officer, and gave a casting vete.
It the measure w.te now persisted in, he should
oppose the Speaker's leaving the Chair; but be
hoped the Right Honourable Gentleman would net
press it.
Mr. O'HARA said, that if the Gentlemen oppo-
site wished the Bill to be well understood by the
Corporations in Ireland, the best mode of doing it
wt u.a be, to have the blanks fast filled up in the
Ca emotes. in which all the objeaions they proposed
raw' be obviated.
Earl 'IEMPLE thought, that as the objelliess
went merely to the clauses, it would be right to go
into the Committee, and after they Were tilled up,
be understood that his Right Her. Friend would
consent to defer the Report for tin days, during
which there would be time to celled the wan of
the Corporations in Ireland.
Colonel VEREKER arid Mr. S. BOURNE said,
that explanation was not sufficient to induce them to
give wp their objellions.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, be should consent
to allow fourteen days for consideration, after the
blanks were filled up; but if he deferred it for
twelve months, the consequence might be, that a
number of Ekftors stood a chance of being de-
rived of their franchises.
Colonel BAGWELL did not think a fortnight,
by any mean', sufficient to coiled the sense of the
corporations its the distant parts of Ireland.
Mr. PARNELL said a few words in support of
the Bill.
Dr. LAWRENCE said, that if any modification
of the pi nvi‘i"ns was desirable, that would be done
best in a Committee.
lie. S. BOURNE thought, that as there were
so many oi,jeftions to the Bill, he should vote against
the Speaker's leaving the chair, unless it was agreed
that the blanks should be filled up in the Commit-
tee, and the further consideration of the measure
deferred ti:l the next Session. That House, he
thought, should br careful, and particularly in the
absence of so many Irish members, how it interfered
in the eleCtive franchises of Ireland, and of Ireland
only. Were it even early an the Session, he thought
14 days would tie insufEzient for t;:e consideration
of a measuie, which involved the elective franchise
of the whole of Leland.
The House then divided on the Tiestion for the
Spealti.r's leaving the chair, when there appeared,
for it 27—Ag.inst it '2,6—Majority f.
The Kw e then resolved itself into a Committee
on the Bill, Mr. Hohhouse in the Ch air.
Mr. ALEXANDER thin stated his objeCtions
to a measure which at/Cetera the r;7..hts of all the
Cornora-ons of Ireland, comprise„; nut less than
300460 Eleflors. He was called to • rder by
Dr LAWRENCE. who th it irregular
that he should take that opportui. • taming on
the general merits of the Bal.
Mr. ALEXANDER was again when
be was interrupted by
Earl TEMPLE, who obsetved, ir it WAS then
on toe strums ct aye o'clock, and tila. an under
standing had last night prevailed, tl.a. to other
sutj. ft sluitud be discussed, till the ex.:lL:la:ion 0
Witnesses uu the Charges agansst the L.:. ;.cis

Inky was evaelneedie ant thereto, loosed gg that
the Chairman should repent progress. and have
leave to sit aga.n."
The SPEAKER said, there was an understand-
ing that all other business should give way to the
exaMination of witnesses.
Colonel V EREKER considered this interposi-
tibilas the exercise of Ministerial 14th-flee.
Mr. FOSTER remarked, that it was irregular
in the Noble Earl, to take advantage of his speaking
to order, for the purpose of making a motion;
the Noble Karl rose either in order or slisor-

der. The House was pressed by the Right Hon.
Bart. into this Commi•tee. and the clock had not

since moved so rapidly, that he might have foreseen
5 o'clock would arrive before the discussion cool

be over.

Mr. S. BOURNE expressed his lamentation and
surprise, that the advocates of this Bull should pro-
pose and press a measure at the same moment, or
within a few moments of the time, when they were
obtged to propose that progress should he reported,
and the Chairman have leave to sit again
Earl TEMPLE said, that he would n 4 appeal
to the Hon. Gentleman, but to the Committee et

large, whether the understanding was not la,t
night, that the examination of witnesses in Lord
Wellesley's case, should precede eve. y other discus.
sion ? His motion, therefore, was not liable to the
invidious remarks made on the other side.
Mr. ALEXANDER vindicated himself from
having said any thing which imuld be called invi•
dious.
Dr. LAWRENCE said, that when he had the
honour of being more acquainted with the Honour-
able Member who spoke last, he considered him
as a good classic scholar ; but th'ugh u e Honour-
able t;entleman might h ve changed his i•pini,ins, the
word "invidious" had nor changed its signification.
Sir J. NEWPOR.I explained.
Mr. ROSE said, that when he came into 01,
House, he was astoni.hed to find it dividit g in)
measure, the discussion of which must necessarily
isterfere with the arrangement of last sight.
VEREXEIt said, the argu vents of S
J. Newport were unsatisfaeory to hias. lie ha.
anew's his ignorance in his statement, as
the Clerk of dm Peace. 11 vitull as she May '7. WS:
an annual Officer.
The Howse then divided on the C'..ainnan's re
porting progress. when the hum en ...tie • Fur it,
S9—Against it. 27—Ma:aority 12.
The Chairman then obtained leave to sit again
on Monday.
Mr. PAUL moved, d, that a return he forth.% ith
males, the order of the sth of June. gut Papers
relative to Oude:" Them Papats, be said, would be

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necariary to the elucidation ut the c. Atge, and
ou,nt to be brought f Prward beton W in..veJ at.
The motion wac agreed tu.

CH kRGES AGAINST THE MARQUIS .
Mr. PAUL thca moved tn,• O?dcr of the .u.ty
for taing into further consteerstion the chaii;e
against me Marqsns Wellesley. relgtAve to ti.e
tra isatlions in °Ude

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Sir A. WELL&SLEY asked, whether all the
witnesses need attend the whole of he pi: tmi si rl ?
Mr. PAUL replied, that t •e nest • ittle.set, u.
meant to examine were, Sir Alured Clarke, Major
Ouseley...and Mr. Job•trinwie ; after gags, be means
to defer the farther examination of evidence tel
r bailaday, in order that the papers peremptorily
moved toe this day, should be on the rabic Cite
evidence of yesterday and this day mtght in the
mean tuns be printed. and tlle examination on
Monday be supposed would not occupy mote than
two hours.
The House then resolved itself into the Corn.
mince, Lord Folkstone in the chair.
Mr. Johnstone was then examined in his place by
Mr. PAUL, who first asked hint whether he had
not been for twelve years in a high situation. as Re-
sident at Locknow ?
Mr. JOHNSTONE said, that as his situation its
India was in many respects a contidedtial one, he
felt himself in an awkward and embarrassing pre-
dicament, upon which he wished to &heel ai
opinion now. as he might not afterwards have say
opportunity of doing so.
Mr. PAUL acquainted him, that the question he
meant to put to him related principally to &lance, an .
would not therefore place hitn under the embarras<-
ment he apprehended. He then repeated his former
question, to which Mr. Johastone replied, that while
he remained at Lucknow, he was frequently Aging
Resident ; that the subsidy paid by the Nabob was
at that time fifty-sic lacks of rupees ; that the Nabob
Vizier was very unwilling, and would not. without
restraint or some degree of compulsion, cede any
part of his territory; that the late Nabob was said.
by public report, to have been much addl.:tett to the
use of opium, and intoxicating liquors.
Mr. PAUL. having put a question to Sir Aimed
Clarke. relative to the opinion he entertained, whe-
ther, if the Nabob of Oude had been obliged to
pay 5o0;0001. in addition to the 70 lacks of ru-
pees, it would hot have been an infrattion of the
Treaty?
Mr.W ALLACE objeaed to it, as the Treaty was
on the table, and any Member could see whether
this was an intraaion or not,
A long conversation then took place between Mr.
Paul, Dolor Lawrence, Mr. Martin, and others,
who were of opinion, that the question should be
put ; and Mr. Wallace, Earl Temple, Mr. S. Bourne,
and others, who objetled to it ; after which, a divi.
pion took place : The numbers were, for putting
the question, IS—Against it, 46—Majority SU.
When strangers were again admitted, we under-
stood, that Mr. Paul had proposed another ques-
tion relative to the opinion entertained by Sir Alured
Clarke on a different point. This was also objeCted
to on the same grounds by Mr. Wallace.
Mr. PAUL then stated, that all the questions
he had prepared were of tile same nature ; he there-
fore moved. it that the Committee should be ad-
journed until to-morrow, that he might hare an op-
portunity of putting bis question into another shape,
or for the purpose of taking the odinion of the
Committee, when there were more Members pre-
sent."
Earl TEMPLE opposed the adjsurnment, and
thought the speech of the Hon Gen.leman most un-
parliammtary, when he proposeftseke the sense of
the Committee to-morrow on a question which had
Ibeen already decided. The Noble Lord then made
sonic urnatas on the propriety of taking tLe opinion

LONOON,
FRID Tuwa 20.

The Orttniune was, yesterclay, at 41 and for
the next payment; and lett off rather *Wye the
p.icros c f Wednesday. Sotue of our contemporaries,
w'iti have no iatormation upon the subject, exclaim
that ttii, improved state of the toed, is all the efface
of stork j bbiiig artifice ; but the public ought to
h upon tittir guard agaiutt such idle clamour.
sir rep-e, with cr,Adence, that it has been pro-
dkrcod by the communications exchanged between
this Cuuntte ant! the Government of Frame. Of

drouist ; but whether they will end in peace or tot,
i• a v-ry different question. A blesaenger sailed,
nn Sunday last, with dispatches, in a flag of truce,
for Boulogne. Lord Y 4 t.Alf.tt:To is also gone to
France. He sailed on Monday; from Ramsgate,
in a cutter belonging to Lord IIEgITICI squadron;
and landed, %se understand, on Monday night, at
Hos Lot (+ship, hcwever, as we stated in a
tor e'er Paper, is gone exelnusely epos his private
uusiue,s.

Hamburgh Ma.l due on Sunday, arrived
early yester.tay morning. with letters and papers to
the 1I th instant They announce the escape of
Mrs. Spet.taa SMITH. and her arrival at Prague.
l:his lady being born a sujeft of the Emperor of
GLItilAt4Y, it was feared. that the m.gnaairnous
Bomar•ii:c would claim her, and, therefore, she
was advised to proceed, without delay, to Polish
Russia. Mrs. Soothes! SMITH was arrested at
Venice, and upon her way to Valenciennes, her in-
tended place of impri.onment. This is the only
fad of any interest in the Hamburgh Papers. The
rest of their contents cnnsists principally of spek.ul,i.
tions and unauthenticated rumours.

We have received New-York Papers to the 21st,
and Boson to the Slth last. One of the latter slates,
than is the Chops, • frigate boarded an Americas
trading ship. the Efiar, from Londomierry, stab's
two leaguer oftbe labs!, is fee► fathoms wa►er, load after
pilot bad lax ►stetted e•r bated. and violently carried
drone American citizen, 14 men passengers coming
to reside in this country, one woman (wife to one of
the impressed), and an apprentice bey." The
fourteen passengers, it is pretty clear, were British
subje&s, allured by false representations to forsake
their native country, and become hewers of wood
and carriers of water, in a foreign land. It
is not pretend-ea that more than one American citi-
zen was impressed by the Cleopatra, and yet this is
called, " a damning deed," .4 a daring outrage upon
the sovereignty and independence of the United
States." Such vulgar and angry abuse affords but
an unfavourable idea of American manr.ers and ci-
vil:cation, while it evinces a spirit of &wait, against
this country. at once impolitic and ungrateful. It is
also stated, in these papers, that as the loser frigate
WAS returning home, she was met by an English sloop
of war, wh'els, through mistake, Ered into her. and
that the Estes in return gave ber a broadside, which
seat the sloop to the bottom. This, however, is coa•

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sidered only a vague report by the P.spers 'which
mention it. and is consequently iatitlott to little
notice. The Intelligente respeaing tilotatrissa it
contradictory. One account states,tbathe has calcite
the Provinces of Martgaretta. Cut:nano, Barcelona.
and Caracas; that Barcelona and Caracear tureen; '
dered without resistance, and that be has beer, join-
ed by -ixtten thousand of the inhabitants. Om tirer.
etl,er hand, *catmints from Porto Cava* of the '
18th April, am from Laguira of the 48:14, declare
Neat no insurreetion bad taken place in any of rha
Provinces --that no attempt had then heed mada by
mi NIA NDA, and that the alarm was subsiding.
_....—.....—.
A person arrived at Tortola, from St. Thomas*
when the Maarhuter packet was sailing, who re.
ports, that one Spanish, and three. French frigates
had arrived at Porto Rico, from Cadiz ; and that
four Fry, ch line of battle ships were at St. Do.
mingo.—The Bet for Great Britain sailed from
Tortola, on the 10th May, under convoy of the
Am-44. and two other frigates; the 11:ePrfr.frons
Grenada, for the Clyde, put back to Tortola ors
the I Sth of May, very leaky.
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The SlearLesfer past. Capt. Davis, with a Mail
from the Leeward islands, arrived op Monday 184
at Falmouth; she sailed from Tortola on the IStla
of May. 1
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The dila., 74, from Jamaiea, is arrived at Phil
mouth ; part of her convoy separated soon after
sailing from Jamaica, the remainder passel Ply.
mouth the day before yesterday.
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The Slave Trade Question is postponed in the
House of Lords until Tuesday. We are cnherrned
to state, that the indisposition of Hie Royal High-
ness the Duke of CLUZSCI is the eIIIAUC of the
delay.
The consideration of Mr. Justice Fox's CUu was
also postponed, yesterday, upon motion in th 3
Huns,. of Lords, for three months. It will, aeon:sr,
stand over until the next Session.

Her M*JriTY and the Pa imerssrs dn.d at
Fr.lgmnre, on Wednesday. On H.§ Memory .4
rnnin to Windsor. he walked on the Terrace wi h
the Pan:cassis.
Yesterday mussing the Whew( YORK derived at
Windsor, and afterwards tode on horsebeet aids

His PI4.IIST Y, PritKenieS AMUST•, SorMia, and
A sr. A.
Yesterday, the Earl of Moles trantadled busi-
ness with Mr. WINDHAM.
Hollllfolll EtaCTION.—The Poll closed on TOMS.
dad, and the nornbers went, for Mr. BILDSMAW
ni9 I and for Lord COCIIIIANIE 124. Liebi CDCH.
a Ns *suited the Electors of his 'dmerniniiirem to
offer hinnelf again on the first vacancy.
1 he Chereater, from Bristol for IlegmsliSlimit
swken with at sea, ih di.tress, anig y
for the Wertem Is!acass -•st
The Gov-rnar Parton, front the Clyde; irk
at Trinidad, and expedlad to be lost-- Carsten& ,
A raper of yesterday says—" His MMISTT AI 1
a Privy Coined yesterday. at which an Order leidd
to have bees signed, foe releasing all vessels carry-
ing the flag of P-ipPerslauegh, which were 0* mimed
previous to the 14th d May, titers* each as elnil
appear to have cleared ou: from one enemy's peg
to another "
Me levier BAICLAT, from Greenock, was lost
at Newfoundland, on the 12Th May.
he Riwriurk, Sressio•ce, from Antigua, for
London, put into St. Kites leaky, and will be
obliged to discharge part of her cargo. .
The Wilroirhbv; LOVETT ; the Sir Affirm Haw.
wed, hi'Dosi•to; and the Si. Goes* Wristep
Tno as AS, from J imaica, bound to London, arrived
off he Start, on the 17th instant I they parted trona
the fl •et about a month since, in bad weather.

Ot the remaining Capitalists in Holland, many.
we an 'erstand, have taken alarm at the violent
change effeete.l in their Gotreentnent. and have, is .
consequence, made large remittances to this cenntr).
This circumstance is highly probable, but it is by no
means sufficient, of itself, to account for the late
progressive rise of our funds.
The Bill for regulating the conduft of the Rec-iver
General of the Excise, as to the application of the
Public Money, and Bills, is founded on the sum- prua
drnt principle as that which now vegulate. the
Navy and Army Paymasters. It proposes, thee
oily 20,0001. shall be left in the hands of the Rea .•
ceiver, at the close of esch day, tanks, any further
sum shall be direaed by the Cnormissioners of Ex.
rise, to terrain for any exigent services; or by a tow t
vial order signed by three of the Lards of His Ns.
Jays- v's Treasury; all other Monies and Bills t be'!
de in the Bank.
Yesterday morning the second battalion of th.
Coldstream Guards. commanded by His R. pi
Highnt s; the Duke of CA m sit and the seco-sd
battalion of the Sd Regiment, commanded by Co-
lonel DI Lit BS, had a grand Field day, in Hyde I
Park, and went throngh their evolutions with great.
precision. General Last a commanded the bri-
gade.
At half-past ten Ism night, a fire broke out in the
ware:ionte of Messrs. Freest. and Bousrono.
slop-sellers, in Tonley-rrett, in the Borough, snick
consumed the whole of the warehon—; but, i y the .
affivity tf the firemen. and there being a plentiful •
surlily of water. the fire was prevented from com-
rnuni:Eing to the dwelling-hoises. The St. Olare't
and Southwark Volunteers attended, and kiln of
the crowd, wli;ch was very great.
Between twelve and one o'clock yesterday morn.
ing, some person unknown fired the contents of a
blittiderbu.s, 1.-,aded with small shot, into the mid.
dle window of thn first-ftior front room of Mr.
PORTIt's house. the Lottery-cfEce in Parliament.
street. which 'lnke the same, but did no °Ova.
injury.