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I.st :they tee 'conferred on others, ssd:ete reample
ey have to imitate. The follutvii e then, Sir,
is t! 'e scale on which I mean to proceed :--To
ordinary seamen, bd. a week, or 2s. a month ;
to able-bodied seamen, Is. • weeki• or Is. a
month; to petty. officers ss. a month. 'lbis,
I apprehend, mty by some be thought too
few, compared with 11,e last class in .the scale ;
hot considering whet their pay and Aussfion was
already, it will, I Leficee, he esteemed a consider-
able addition to them. There ale in men of war
a certain number of officet 4, called Captains—the
'Captain of the. forecastle, the Captain of the main-
:oast, the Captain of the foremast, and the Cap-
tain of the top, to each of whom I shall pro-
proe an addition of Ss. Sd. per month, which
will be placing them, on board ship, in nearly
lhe !,sine situ scion at Quarter-masters in the
army. To Warrant-officers 6s. per month.
This I conceive to he a sufficient increase for them,
QS a considesable addition was made to their
Tay dining the time that Lord St Vincent was in
the Administration of the Admiralty. Besides, they
have a very inateiial advantage over man) others.
us they are left in care of the ship, whether in peace
'err war, ot whet! er in , rdinary or otherwise. With
'regard to the Masers and Surgeons, I betore st.ited.
'that they 'has) already received an addition of p ty so
dispreportionate to that of their superior officers,
that.' do not feel it necessary to propose any thing
morefer them at present. I now come to that va-
luable ciao; of men, the Chaplains of the ve,s6s,
whose situation the House must wish to make in
every way paqqlOrtable and respedable, bat on
their account I dri'net feel it necessary to call upon
this House for any additional pay, and their emolu-
ments and re-pee ability would be sufficiently con-
sill.cd, by conferring on them the necessary and im-
p,* int department of Schoolmasters of the ships, to
w!itcn is attached a salary of Twenty Pounds a year.
in regard to t e Lieutenants, who are pecu-
liarlir entitled to the attention of the House, 1 have
to t.hstivir, that their full pay is at this day precisely
the same as it was in the reign of Qucen Anne (ss
a day), and considering the rise in every article of
contuniptioirs, at d necessary espence, it can be
thought no amt.e than a very moderate addition, one
shilii e per day more. Captains and Admirals are,
in Tread to he time when their pay was serled,
precisely in the same situation es the Lieutenants,
for no difference bat taken place in it since the reign
of Queen Anne. What I shall propose for the con-
sideration of the Committee is, ti allow to captains,
down to the 3d rates, an addition of 3s. a day.
The captains of the 4th rates being in a worse
situa-
tion, in point of emolument, and obliged to keep a
table, for the eiti-nees of which their present pay is
to no means adequate, I shall propose for them en
at' -ion of 41. day. Coming now to the highest
alas., !hie additional allowances I shall propose is,
Is lit, Admirals . . 3s. Gdi Oa, day
Vice lainitais . Ss. ditto
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Adatit.ts . 7s. ditto
Aidtatrals of a fleet . . les. ditto.
• 1 have now, Sir, to enumerate the estimate of the
•'I expence, as it will fall under the different heads s
*• Total far Coisamisoioued Officers 1.. /4,353
Warrant Caw 7,0t0
Petty ditto 21.6e0
Lieutenants . 26.800
captains . 89,9 4
s Ahlsts.4ied Seamen . . MOO
SSIMOSI
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Maldive • swat of . L !earl%
which will be the sum necessary to defray this
encreased expenditure of future years, but have
new only to require 193,0001. for • ght morels,
from the Ist of March. In addition to this, the
Heise will also be aware, that some consideration
it due to persons worn out in the service. or die.
abled iron wounds, infirmity, or age. The Chest
of Greenwich, and that of Chatham. now transferred,
it obviously well suited to the peculiar claims which
may be made of this nature ; but in many in-
stances it will be found necessary that the al-
lawances they now gave, must be doubled. 'ro
enable what was Lerrtotore the chest of Chat-
ham to tree this, would not require a greater sum
dumdum 14 to V0,9C01. and as to any additional
catkins may be made upon Greenwich Hospital,
I have the satisfacticn to state, its funds and reve-
nues are already adequate to every necessary pur-
pose, and will not require any farther contribu-
tions from the public. I shall, therefore, propose,
that the allowance to out-pensioners, which is
now limited to 71. a year, should br extended
by gradations of deserts, services, or me.i•orions ac-
tions, to one shilling a day, to be defrayed by the chcrt
ot Greenwich. To obtain funds for this additional
expenditure, upon consultation with those whom
I ri.ought best criahGed to give me information on
t'.e subjen, I understand there would be no objec-
t..Al to deduct one shilling in the pound out of all
prize-meney.to be applied to the benefit of the chest;
:tvit I have authority to state, that His Majesty,
frnas that paternal kindness and zeal which he has
'ref felt a:,d manifested for the advancement of
the naval service, w:11 be graciously pleased to
order, that a similar sum cf one shilling in the
polled be deduded, for the saute purpose, nom the
(emits of the Admiralty. There is, bit, another
body of men connected with this service, who, from
their naiforrnly brilliant and meritorious services,
noon all °visions, have as strong claims as any of
Goa, I have mentioned, to the attention and grail-
taue of their country—the marines ; but, as they
stand more upon the footing of the regular army.
and come more properly under that department, 1
must necessarily defer any propositions with regard
tad:mi. until:het-louse decides upon the plan • :hich
is shortly to be priposed by a Right Hon. Friend
of mine, the Secretary of Sate for the War Depart-
ment. Having now, Sir, concluded all I have to say
upon this subject, I have only tardier to observe,
that, upon a proposition of this nature, I cannot ex-
nesft to obviate all obje.licno,er reconcile all opinions.
What 1 have to request of tho,c gentlemen who may
i el dispused to speak up :s this question. is, that
they will avoid the invidiousness of competing one
service with another, which, upon investigation,
may have no fair analogy, but tend to create di'.
utent and jealousy. I beg of them to let this sub-
/•a rest purely upon its own ground. :Ith branches
C. the British service, naval and military. have, for
their discipline. their courage, their perseverance,
and acljevernents, sgntl claims upon the sr a-
1' tile and ackoonlcdgrnents of their country
11-., I Inpe this question will be allowed to cast

upon its own expediency; and. if I may be all-wA
to off r an opinion, I should say, that the les; dis-
cussion it shall undergo, the mere likely will it be
to produce that effeetfor which it is intended."—

He' then concluded with moving, " !Fat the iiri
193,15:3 he voted for additinnal pay to the nincert
and seamen of the fleet. for eight mouths. com-
mencing on the Ist of March, 130 ti." He said he
wished further to explain, that 33 an addiiion had
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already been made to the hait.pay of Liectenants
the Navy, the present encreaw was intended may

tor I. eittenants in aaual service, or in other wor.ls,
serving afloat.
nr. FRANCIS said, he had only one general
questiqn to ask, fcr ss;.ich, h,i , ever, be may find
that there was no good found as he acknow-
ledged the subject to be entirely new w him. The
question was, whetl.e.• at the time the pay of the
navy was first fixed, the probalii;i•y of prize monry
were taken into the calculation? The reasonwhy he

asked this question was, that if Cie probability of,
prize-money were not then calcuiated on, their pay
was more adequate than it would othetwise Le.
The Noble Lord deprecated any comparison be-
tween the two services.; but though they may there
abstain from doing so, it by no means followed that
it woold not be done out of doors, and the army

miglit, perhaps, justly complain that their chance
of prize-money was not the sane as is the navy.
To this questionof Mr.Francis,rto answer was given
Lord CiABLIES said, dna having rei y frequotr-
lv aad maturely considered this suhjett, he thou4ht
great credit due to the Noble Lind, who, atter bong
so short a time °thee, was Already peep Nrltti
so desirable a measure. But though he highly ap-
proved of the principle of the Bill, he could not
iiqually approve of the application proposed to be
made of toe vans of nearly 300,00u1. in the classes
in which it WAS mea it to be distsibuted. The war-
rant and petty of were known to all professional
men, to be tht life scud soul of the Navy of Great
Britain ; and even, according to what was now
proposed, would be inadequately provided for. It
was of the utmost consequence to attach that class
of men so to the naval situations they held, as to take

from them all %iris or inducement to go into the
Merchant Service ; to Wiich, bet imentedtosay.that

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many of them were at present strongly inclined.
He had •to cbj'atim to the gradation made from
Admirals tr. Lieute-ants, but very much wished
teat greater attemion had been paid to the pay and
situatiol of the First Lieutenants of men of war,
wh., Id now no more rank or pay in the service,
than sooog Lieutenants of a day's standing, though
in action they were every moment Italie to have the
ye/ant coreimand of the ship. He thought that, for
the sake tut maintainiv•; a proper distin.ftion, they
%honkd he allowed a further daily increase of St.
pay, which, to the natl. n, Would not make an addi-
tional expellee of mot than 51. a day throughout
tic whale navy. As to the warrrant and petty
officers. he tt luld again repeat, that they were
the tastier and strength of the navy of England,
and amongst other teangs, had charge of the
stores of t':e ships, which cost the ...bon so many
millions. Ile thought is but reasonable that their pay
slytuld be encreascd to 31. a month, which was
what they could get in the merchant service ; a.;.1
as taete were but three of them in each ship. the
rise could not be attended with any 'peat expellee.
Is great ships, where there was mere duty, thereof-
county were inadeguately paid, though he would
not say the same of them from 74 gun ships down-
wards. In his *Nies. the sitisatinn of petty . fh•
ems should correspond with that of quo-per-wasters,
and the situation of warrant officers with that of
ac►jeants in the army. The petty officers, in time
of peace, would get 31. per month in the sue, chant
service, but if Government we:e to allow them the
same, they would have no inducement to enter it ;
and he thought it would be much better to do it
now, during war, than wait till a time of peace,
on Out arrival of which he feared a great num-
ber of them would quit His Maj •sty's service,
for one in which they could find superior en-
couragement. Wore it done now, he thought it
might produce the best rife& ; for though, per-
haps, no man would prefer submission to mili-
tary discipline, to being at his own liberty, yet,
when accustomed to it, and already placed in a
sati►faeory situation, he might feel no inclination to
change it. As to the able-bodied and ordinary sea-
men, they were certainly deserving of every en-
couragement that could Ise given them ; but. meri-
miens as their services were, he would rather see
the chest of Greenwich applied to the encouragement
of the Wart ant and Petty Officers. The House
would perceive, that the only difference of opinion
between him and the Noble Lord wis respeaing
the appropriation of the money. He would go far-
ther in his observations, and though the prattiee of
impressing for the navy was one, no man could ever
dream of giving up ; yet he would maintain,
that it won'cl be much better to get as na my men
as we could voluntarily, than to depend entirely
upon that praaice. He also suggested the expedi-
ency, as a further inducement to the service, to grant
the out-pension of the chest of Greenwich to the
widows of such men as had bees slain in service ;
and alca to All such petty and warrant officers as
had served for a certain number of years, without
incurring any punishment by Courts Martial, or by
desertion, which was the bane of the set vice. He
concluded with saying, that he should he sorry if
these were only the singular opinions of him, an
individual, unaccustomed to public speaking, and
therefore the more diffident in addressin4 himself to
the House ; but he had the satisfaction t., state, that
his opinion was int.fiCd by that of the 'loble
Lord (Melville) who, however he mig't: have late-
ly fallen under the displeasure of the II wsc. must
be admitted on all siclesta he agreat pr44icAl states-
man ; and he felt himselt authorised to add, that
had that Noble Lord remained oil this time at the
head of the Ailmiralt tht siiglritkos wh ch he
now humbly stitimi7ted, would have been car-
ried into effea. He h sped the .Hause would
pardon him the slight dist vision, V he farther stated
his perfea convialan, that it was to the measures
adopted by that N0',14 Lord and excellent states.
man, that we were indebted for all that extent rif
glory, which the navy of England had acquired
in the course of the last year.
The resolution was then agreed to. and ordered
to ►e reported on Monday.
st.ityr. RILL. _ _

The A frOR:NIL:o0:1,R A L moved the

Orsler of the Day for taking into consid....ration the
Report oh the ?slave Bill, which being read
Mr. RGSE hoped the 1-lon. and Learned Gentle-
man would have no objeetion to delay the present
Order for two or three days.
Mr. FOX said, he could not see any reason why
the Hon. Gentleman should wish to delay the re-
port If he had any thing to say against the princi-
ple of the Bill, tie would have an opportunity of
saying it on tl.c 3d reading, and if he wished a de-
lay of a day or two, he had no douht but the At-
torney-General would fix Tuesday fur th.: 3d read-
ing. iostead of Monday.
Mr. ROSE said, that what he had to say WAS
against the principle of the Biil ; but be was pre-
pared to give his sentiments now, as there was an
objedion to granting his request. What lie thought
a very serious objeaton to the Bill, was, that it
would greatly injure the revenue, and our cote-
merciel and manufaluring interests also. It pro-
vided, that no trade for slaves should be carried on
with Foreign Powers. 'l%,e exportation of our ma-
nufiteures to Africa, amounted to upwards of two
millions a year. and the traffic between the West-
Indies and Africa, in our manufaftures, was also
very great. Ihe interests of our manufacturers.
ship-owners, and those of the East-India Company,
would be very severely injured by the passing of
the Bill. As this country receded from the Afri-
can trade, America has advanced into it ; and as
they were under no restriftions, they had a great
advantage over the people of this country. 'There
was an instance of an Anne:can ship, last year,
which buried Inslaves, between the evasref Afriew
and the Havannah, and yet nude a profitable
voyage. We should throw the *hole trade into
the hands of America ; by which we should lessen
our shipping, and, by that mea.ss, the number of
our seamen, and the manufeeloters of Manchester,
So.:kport, and Paisley, would he nearly ruined.
The ATTORNEY•GEN ER AL said, these ob-
servations did not go to the detail, but to the princi-
ple; and in order to avoid two debates en the same
point, he wished to know from the Right Hon.
Gentle Man, whether he meant to make any further
observations? and whether he were now to debate
the principle, or reserve himself for the third
reading ?
Mr. ROSE said, be should reserve any further
observations till the third reading.
Sit J. NEWPORT said, he did not wish to pro-
long the debate now ; but as he might not have it
in his power to attend the third reading, he would
beg leave to deliver his sentiments at present. He
thought the Bill eligible, in the highest degree.
He reprobated the principle of the Slave Trade, in
every part of it ; but, if it is not to be abolished, he
did not see why this Bill should not pass. The oh-
jet of the Bill was to prevent the carrying of Slaves
cur the benefit of our enemies, and surely that was
a most important and desirable thing. It had been
said, that great advantages were derived to our
Manufactures. from this trade ; but, on a sohjeilt.
of this nature, we are not to look to the interns, of
particular parties, but to those of the country at
large. The Bill had therefore his hearty cower.
rence.
General TARLETON, in the situation in erinah
he stood, as Representative fl. Liverpool, the
Merchants of which were so deeply interested,-
begged tea mate view !Avon ttf'idi
the title of the Bill, what did it import? \Vne, that
slave. were imt to be imported in British Aim—Mitre
was a direa attack on our navigation. The town.l
of Liverpool had stated, by Petition, that they I,st, •
last sear, for w int of convoy, ship; to the.arnoantil
of tit)o 0001. The Africa,' trade was the support of
Liverpool, which had risen to a very high state of.
prosperity, within the last fifty years. The Afri:an.
ships pro luced the best sailors in the service, from.
the nature and lelgth of the voyage, and this trade.
from Liverpool, furnished the principle source of
reinforcements for our ships of war, on the West
India station. Some people held, f• at the fis:ters
and coasters were the best sailors ; hut he had heard
very good authorities give the preference to the
men used to long voyages. The Americans, of la
years, have fitted nut ships in our ports, and insuretie
them cheaper than the English could do ; and W.
this Bill passes, we stand a chance of greater dint ,-
by sending English capitals to America. All AM"-
chants, who have estates in the West bodies, area{--
tacked by a side-wind, by this Bill ; for it was eari
virtual abolition of the Slave Trade, and wine*
attack the property of his constituents, in a very
insidious manner, as they have fitted out ships for
that sertice, at a great expense, acid cannot employ
them to any other purpose. He saw the House
was not inclined to listen to his arguments. and
would therefore only say, that the trade of Litters-
pool must be resigned to the Americans, for the
Merchants there could not carry it on. He implored
the House not to destroy the maritime strength and
greatness of the country, by destroying so great a
nursery for seamen as the Liverpool trade to Africa;
and therefore hoped this pernicious measure would
not be carried into executinn.
Mr. Aiderman PRINSEP spoke shortly arida,
the Bill.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the ope-
ration of Cite Bill seemed to him to be mistaken ;
this Ad gave a sanction to the Orley in Caute:ii,
only as to the Colonies surrendered to this country.
From August, 18 )5, this order had existed,
and no complaint had been made against it, which
skewed, that those whom it concerned most were
satisfied with it. and they could be no worse by the
operation of tha Ad, than they were by that of the
order. Besides, during the existence of the war,
there was a proviso in the Aet, to enable Its Ma-
jesty to modify the regulating. in Any manner he
may think proper, or even to abolish them al-
together. The °hien of the Bill was to prevent
those surrendered settlements from being enriched
by Bs itish capital and British industry, during the
war, so as to be tat mote valuable, in case it should
be necessar v, at the end of it, to give them back.than
they were when surr,ttiered to us.
General GASCOIGNE thought this debate pre-
mature, as all the papers relative to the island of
Tobago were not on the table ; when they were, he
thought he should be able to shew, that the Bill,
if passed, will be a violation of the capitulation
made by the people of that island, saich must
prove very inju7i.,us in any future war ; and he
thought it w ,utd be better to put tb.. question fair-
ly and open:y, than I. deceits those who had

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placed themselves under our meet:Hon. Ai the
principle of the Bill was to be :trebled nn the :hird
reading, he would not trouble the House further at
present.
After a few words from Sir W YOUNG
resolutions were read and agreed en, and t
ordered to be read a third time on Tuesday: r •
eitiweare TAX 1 pi
Lord H. PETTY moved the Order of the ,Day I.
for the }-incise to resolve Itself into a Cetemittee on , I
the Property Tat Bill ; which bt ;tee read—he
'aid, that several votadmetits had Been mete,
which would ,ender it necessai / the Bill exude be
re-printed ; hot before tee SPeeket lel-ter:Se dbairs
he wonti beg leave to sate the nature of :h.rin
amendments, and how far they trfroed trans the I.
13•1 in its otiginal state. The tirst emendnieSt he
had tc empose, was respecting ,hat class of persons
who, having coneellefable weekly Wages, arising
from profits aremiest from mantra leloom,econlei
not easily ascertain whore eir yearly income was, He
proposed, that such pe-sons not having snore tti in
SO.. a week, or ss. a d ty, shettle be exempted at. •!
together. The next was income, from Oat. t
1501. and those he proposed stinted gee ogee o
same regular state of eradetion, as in the Bill i
its original state, the sums hom snl. to 100V,41412
Those, his Lordship said, were the oily mettle--
resents or exemptions he had to pi opese.
Sir It. BUXTON expres.ed an op•noto that these
amendments were by no means such as woteel be
necessary to preveet the Bill from being highly in-
jurious and oppressive taemeny daises -ofpetSple,
and particularly the landholders.
Mr. W. SMITH slid, that viewing the state ref
embarrassment in which His Maj•sty's present eli-
sisters Were placed, be WAS desirous to gave them,
in respect to taxes, as little opposition as possible.
tie should, however, deliver his sentiments
.an this
suleeff, when it was again br neigh: terward ; Mn is •
to the extession of the tax to 10 per cent, he could
not say he had any objection to it.
Sir C. PRICE, hoped the Noble Lord wettitil itt
the intervel between this day, and the matter being
again brought forward, endeavour to introduce
some exemptions or moditicatioos, io favour of the
smaller cies of ueilesmen, who, in the Metropol•se
in pa: titular. stood as much in seed of it, as the
workmen he had ex:mpted.
Mr. WILBERFORCE confessed he had enter-
tained hopes be should have heard from the Nobler
Lord, several career exemptiens. He wooed tote
however, detain the Ilotwe by any further °Mete '
rations at present.
Colonel RAS CARD said a few words to the Gamer
effect. •
After a few Ann °ban vations from Mr. VAN-
SI rrA RT. the (louse resolved itself into a Cem-
mittee, in which the ev loptinn and .• -edger:es
above mentioned, were moved Arei agree a to. The
Report was received, and ordered to be takenioto
farther consideratiore on Frday wet ; and, in the
mean time, the Bill to be printed as amended. •
M. eV. Sell e.l gave not;- hat he would, on
Monday se'nnight, move, ti 'tie. Report-of .the
Commute to whom tee Petition of Ceelentresonil
Cowie bee been eefei red. to tee's into asealiter-
atien in the Committee SaPPIT•
• . 31We:eat-eel eUnATES. b
The-feeder e f eiewLeirior the vecructrataili of
the Seirediwy Catalos &i 1 he:1174 read.' . ••
e Sir JeirlY WiteerteeSLlel• r•e io weicne
it. i4erhoutzh: the B shops %Wield hove a ;wear of
examining .to the situation of the Curates ; hot he
did not think it, necessary to place eon fihn • f • •e
propeny.of the Church ire their hands, which eould
have no other egret than to extend their patronage,
and cOnsettesentlf their power. This. as math' as •
eossible, should be 'void d, as experience plaiely
demonstrated how fond ecclesiastics were of pewee. •
'the cbjed of the Bill was to better the state of -the
Curates; het so for was it from being likely to do the,
chit he had authority to state. it was the intemenn
of many of the Curates to fitment a Petition against
it, as they coesidered the effed of the Bill would be
, to make the Reates Poi& on their livings, in i re-
ference to paying 2501. a year. He then expressed
some surprise that the Learned Gentleman (Mr.
Percival ) had nut brought in this Bill lest year,
when, being in power, he wouid have had a better'
chance of revising it. and cm: larded, by mesene. as
an aa.endn et, that the Bill be read a second time
this day six 'maths." ,
Mr. PERCIVAL was sorry to tee that a Bill of
this nature excited so little interest in the House.
He wished the Right Hon. Gent. who sat opi 2.•
site him (Mr. Fox) would take it into considerate n.
and after contrasting the benefits which would reee
from i:. with the disadvantages, deteimitie wine-et
it ought or oeght not to pass. lithe Hon barn et
who had just spokes. would himself move to hoe e
in a Bill to amend the present state of the Cereie ,
he wouid find, that, instead of Petitions ageesst a-,
every post would bring him letters ca thanks, an-i
fresh iastences which wend teed to prove the ne-
cessity of passing the Bill into a lass-. He then ad.
vetted to the Notermidele teeny Bill, passed last
Session,which gave the rectors a liberty of being
absent there months in the year (rue their livings.
He conceived a chaise might have been acted to
that, which would have le: ! the same elect as this
Bel. and that the rectors vt:l not have complained
against it. Why, then, should not this ihll be now
passed ? The rectors would have the choice of re.
siding entirely on their benefices, or of taking the
benefit of the non-resident. Bill, and employine a
curate. It was impossible, he said, that etwacies
could be regulated on that trading principle. i f
letting them find their own level, as it conle
sot he sappased, that an indigent curate wined
contend for salary with a wealthy iniousbeso—
The (steed o! the curate was to gain a oak--
sine/we, and that of the metier to get a tu.
rate fur as small a stipend as he possibly coati,
Without any reverence to the object of the prove.
which was net merely to have a sermon mcielied
(tbough he did not mean to undervalue that p..tt ..t.
the Minister's duty), but to have the cliwitame sere
vices of the parish performed. In the present Bel.
the highest Ware proposed was 2501. a year; and
be confessed. he would wish to see every resident
in the coon ry with such an allowance; but as that
could not be done, some of the livens not beii.g
able to of erd it, he did net think it soy argenteet
against the eel, to say. that it would not have
universal effect. His objea was to procure a re.s.
dolt on evety tiring ; and he wished the elec. ,A

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there could be no party or 1)01.6 al spit it in the
question ; and as the Gentlem-n opposite him seem-
ed to wish for a Dill of some kind, he hoped this.
would he allowed to pass the'second reading. In the
Committee t might be :awed in such a manner as
was thought most expedient ; and though, in its
AV resent form, he conceived it was cornet, yet he
would much rather it were passed its any state, than
sot at all.

Lord . POR.CHESTER was astonished to hear
the Learned Gentleman call on the House to take
time to consider of the merits of the Bill, as in his
statement in bringing it in, he hart said that it con-
tained nothing new. The Learned Gentleman, he
said. expressed a wish that, if possible, every Curate
should have 2301 but, he believed, he could, with
truth, state. that the average ct the livings in
England did not amount to more than that sum.
Parliament might insist on the residence of the
Cler.ty, but he conceived it had no more right
to dispose of their property than that of any other
s..t of men. The avowed object of the bill was to
compel the residence of the curates ; now it sn hap-
pened, that this object was not attained. Bishops
lad the power of appointing a curate when the
rector was absent, but the public had no security
that that would ,be don:. The Noble Lord then
adverted to the differeat parts of the bill, to all
of whi,:h he objected, and concluded by saying, he
would oppose it in the present stage, as he did not
thir.k it could Be altered in a committee.

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Mr. FELT-OWES was decidedly in favour of the
Bill. The residence of the Clergy, he said, was a
'mast desirable &ie/ to be attained. The number
•.. of parishes in England was between 11 and 12,000.
• en 3200 of which there were no resident Clergymen.
, . This was an evil which he thought should be cor.
r vetted, and he hoped the Bill would be allowed to
go into a Committee.
Lord PORCHESTER and Mr. FELLOWES
or Pained.
Mr. BARHAM made some observations against
the principles of the Bill, and was inimical to ex.
Nadir% the power of the Bishops.
Mr. WILBERFORCE expressed much surprise
that such a Bill as that before the House should
ant with so much opposition ; but, at all events,
be wished it to be committed, when it might be mo-
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! &Tied so as entirely to meet the sentiments of those
grail :men who now opposed it. He thought there
was something in the system of our nature. which
inclined us to believe, that long habits could not
be removed; but this was a mere superficial idea,
"sad it was our duty to endeavour to amend, or"
at least modify a vicious praftice. What would
be said, if a Captain of a man of war was to leave
his ship entirely, and appoint an inferior person in
Isis place, with a small stipend, to do all the duties
of it ? Such was the ease with the non-resident
tt Clergy. and spewed the effkel of custom, and of
a habit which should be remedied. Fur the further
•Incidatien of this subjeet, the Hon. G-ntlemaa ad-
verted to a letter he had this day received, upon
other business ; but in which the use of a poor
Curate, seat related, wbo, from indigence, was
obliged to employ himself in weaving cotton; it
llwas truly lamentable that men bred to such a pso.
Session. stiosild, by such occupatior,s, be under the
necessity of drumlin; the c. aracter of • Clergyman;
r rad while ecclesiastical livings were private pro.
perry, and great and firportant doires attached to
I *OM. the Clergy certainly shon'd render them.
salves to ha ',greeted by their parishioners; we
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Oust tot, therefore. tali it a violation of that private
property. when we endeavour 10 secure a resident,
to do the ditty i,t his Parish with reverenee, with de.
erne/priori with respethildity to him-elf„ and to the
satistretion of his parishioners. It appeared,that while
r".entletnito on the other side talked of the hardships
this measure would put upon tenors and Vicars,
0 they frieot the case or the poor half-starved Citrate
with his large family. For these reasons, therefore,
and feeling the great importance of the measure,
. and benefits which must arise from it to the public
ar large, he gave the Bill his most hearty concitr-
eznee.
Mr. Secretary FOX had nn ohjeftion to going
I", into a Committee on the Bill, if it could at all be
mc,dined i but he ohjefted to the principles of it en-
tirely, as fundamentally erroneous, and quite fo-
reign from the suiikel it ought to embrace. If he
understood the question, those of most value
would have least duty to perform, and the resident
Curate was to be paid, not by his own merits, or
the pit laii4Ml of duty he had to perform, but Ac-
cording to the value of his employer's income ; and
l• however it were to be wished that there!should be
resident clergymen, yet he con.idered the principle
altogether vicious, and if pin into execution, would
bring disgrace on the framers. In the case of phi.
reticles, a senstitute must he appointed, and then it
was to be considered what stipend be should have.
lie sincerely wished all the curates had 2501. per
annum, hut that the public was not now .ble to
_ rive them. He equally wished the abolition of
. pluralities, and if any gentleman who was more com-
perent than himself would consider it, he thought it a
• most laudable, spirited, and practicable undertaking.
Bat if this Bill were to pass, a IleZtor, who, from
some urgent neeerity, was not able to reside on his
being, perhaps only amounting to 1001. per annum,
would only have one tenth part of be property left
to support himself. and perhaps a Inge family. He
allowed the importance of a similar measure pro-
perly modified, but this proposition was so mon-
strous, and so much confusion would arise from
such a Bill as the present, be thought it extremely
improper to build upon such a foundation.
Lord CAS ILEREAGII made some obserra-
tions in favour of the measure, and Mr. ALEX-
A\ DER against it. The question was then called
for, and a division took place—
For Sir J. Wrottesley's Amendment, that the Bill
be read this day six months, 23—Agai:;st it I:1
Majority I'2.
The A ppraisentant Duty Bill was committed. and
the Report ordered to be received on Monday.
The other Orders of the Day were •h•n [',:posed
Of, and the House adjourned until Monday.

The Ro v• t. F• MILT will set of for Weir:tooth
between the I lth And 14. h of Juae. Preparations
are snaking rat Niteiliothe rnr their departure, Anti at
Weyrno4h,

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LONDON,
SATURDAY, Amt. 26.

Viscount Howtcx, last night, in the House of
Commons, proposed his Plan tor increasing the
Wages, in the department of the Navy; a detailed
account of which is given under the proper head of
Parliamentary Dehate.

Government, we understand, mean to send ont a
British force of 12,000 men, to Swedish Poore.
rania. The 213 t Regiment of Infantry, which is to
constitute part of that force, has embarked at Til-
bury Fort, upon the raver.

The principal part of the garrison of the Cape of
Good Hope consisted of Austrian prisoners, taken at
the battle Ot Marengo, and sold by BON A A RTZ to
the Dutch. This circumstance we mentioned long
since, when we stated, esclu4siely, the expectation of
Government that the place would shortly be in our
possession. These trrops, and others at that settle-
Went, have volunteered for British service ; and
•accordingly three skeleton Battalions of the 60th
Regiment, none of which amount to 70 men, in-
cluding Officers, are now embarking at Portsmouth
for the Cape, with intent to complete their quotas
with these Dutch and An:ittian Volunteers-. They
bring oat stores, clothing. Scc. for the full comple-
ment.

The 99th Regiment, from Jersey, are now on
board transports at Portsmouth, destined for Ber-
muda. Part of the 20th Regiment is in Sicily, and
the remainder, now at the Cape, is to proceed to
India.—lt will be replaced by the 21st L;gl:t Dra-
goons, which go out dismounted. having trans
furred their horses to the German Legion.

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Yesterday the Duke of You wa;ted upon His
MAJASTY at Windsor, and laid before him the
monthly return of the state est the a►my.
Yesterday the Princess MARY completed her
30th year. In the evening their MAJIITIAS hAd a
numerous party of Nobility in bailout of the day.
The Dukes of Kura. and Sussex went to Windsor
to he *present.
Yesterday morning the Duke of KART, Princesses
Augusta and &sem a, accompanied by Colonel
TAYLOR and Lady Ti. cons, took an airing on
horseback in Windsor Park.

Yesterday the Stafford, or King's Own Mania.
was reviewed by the Earl of ills st Dot , in Windss‘r
Park.
'the Sligo paper, of the 18th of April, says—.. Yes-
terday came on the eleetion for a Member to serve
in Parliament, in the room of Cm 4 L 0. HA •s,
Esq. who vacated his .seat by accepting the plane
of one of the Lords of the Treassny for this king-
dom. From Mr. O'H A R A'S firm and upright
eondu4 as a Senator, and as a JUAN be was
unanimously re-eked."
At an Especial Court of Common Council, held
plum:day. at Guildhall, the conveyance of the pro.
perry at scow.hill, and Temple Bar, was executes'
to Trustees, for the proposed Lottery.
The following Law arrangements have taken
place in Ireland:
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John Ball, Esq. has brim appoirit.d one of lli. Majesty'a
Council, and lett,: patent haw, pas.ed the great seal, appoint-
ing hiin Second Seijeant, amain by the death or Sir James
Chatterion. William M'Alalion, Esq. has been also appoint-
ed one of Ills ajedy's Council, and letter, patent have liaised
the great seal, appointing him Thud Serjeant, vacant by the
noi-ntinn of Mr. Hittite to the of ut SolititorAknerarn-
( a rogAedes NMI- Lei )
Sir Hove Poensoe and Sir DAVID BAIRD Will,
it it said, be immediately replaced in the command
at the Cape of Good I lope, by two other Officers.
It is not improbable that Sir DAVID may yet get a
command in India.

Among the new appointments in America and
the West Indies, Mr. W. DVMDAS (late Secretary
at War) goes out as Governor of Canada.
Whether Mr. Tiaaracv or Sir JOHN Cox HIP-
P xfittr goes out As Governor• General of the Afri-
can Settlements, still remains undetermined.

Private letters were yesterday received in the City
from Holland, which state, that "for the preseist,
no alteration is likely to he made in the form of the
Executive Government of that country, except 6V the
resiwati.in of tic title if Statithader!" but in whose
person is not known.—lt continue: to be generally
believed, that the suprerre authority has actually
been refused by Lot's Boit AAAAA C.'These Hutch
letters report that At KING of PIOSSIA is so MOS..
/MI as to be altogrt!wr unable to attend to any
public bls-iness.—The pre‘rn:e of the Duke of
Bay as» ex. it is added, has been required immeds-
a:ely at &din.
Counsellor SAMP.OI4. whose arrival io this coun-
try we mentioned a few days since, left town
yester day, by order of Governmt At. tor Falmouth,
%here he will embark for Aoseric.r. He was ac-
e:in-Tarried by Nlr. Sr am mow, the King's Messen-
ger, in whose care he haslr.en during his stay in this
city.
We are inrormed, that tcemorrow His Royal
Highnets the Duke of Castseinse will attend divine
service at the Asylum Chapel, to observe the bene-
ficial effeCts of that institution, which he has lately
se honourably pai,ronised.
Emperor Dtuat tots is said to have demanded a
formal recognition of his title by the American Go-
vernment. This is a cut iuus and laughable imita-
tion of BotsAAAava.
A letter received by a respeftab!e house in the city,
from a person who was captured off Teneriffe, by
the French squadron, of which Admiral Ducawna r 14

is now in pursuit, states, that it consists of the Mag.
"mute, the Maperserr, the Jerseappr. the Lion, and
the Caktrita (formerly English). Whilst he WAS a
prisoner, they bad taken stiveral ships, and burned
them, Ai:er Lakin out the VC% So

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•OtITSMOOTH. AP2IL 24.

The Pommea frigate, Capt. Lobb, with a convoy
from Lisbon, is attempting to get past this psirt front
the Downs ; but the wind will oblige them to put in
here (it is esp.:6lA). in The course of the evening.
Arrived the Etrpheet, of 73 guns, Capt. Daadas,
from Yarmouth, to go with a convoy to the West
Indies ; Jamniers frigate, and L'Epir sloop, from
cruising off the back of the Isle of Wight ; Leval
Sa,n, —, from Bermuda; febi, Rowe, from
London, lor Barbadoes; the Swedish brig, Pvsnone,
Capt. J. W. Beling ; and IC.,b el, of Nciveaetle.
Capt. Fothergill, bath bound to Memel ; Hoped',
Blackasides ; and' the Med Caegenil, C tpt. Carle
Bergland, laden with salt, bound to Prussia, all
from Lisbon, with several other ves,els, having
Prussian property on Lard, detained by the Pomona
frigate.
Sailed His Majesty's ship A/rreed. ir, with a con-
voy for Guernsey and Jersey ; and the fOnssiishre
sloop, Capt. Seymour, with a convoy for Quebec
and Hallifax.—Wind S.W.

DEAL, APRIL 24.
Sailed the Suiellor and Stag, revenue cutters, on a
cruse. -
Put back, last night, by contrary winds, the
Thaw, frigate, which had sailed to the Northward;
and remains in the Downs with the rest of the ships
as per Wt.—Wind N E.