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St7o ICH JUDICATURE

The Lono CH kicti.i.ort order of t'u
day for c^mmittal of the Scotch Judicature
SM.
On the motion for postponing the preamble—
Lord JERKIN entered into an able discussion of
the principle of the bill. lie denied that it was
calculated to promote that object for which the ,
Legislature originally conceived it proper to nitro-
duce a reform in the administration of juritsee in
Scotland. That object was principally to facilitate
the burials@ of that House, by preventing the
pressure of Iritorcli Appeals, find by the udoptiou
of propel reinediea, to do joaticoto the suitors in
likotlasai. Much *sod would certainty bee Tecird
by the present adlii—but there was not a single
provision-which went to enthrotie the main object
tor w4kh this measure of seto7ux was originally.
reerotoftehdi _ _

The Loa? Cuitora.LLoa achnitted that the pre-
l. Nid airat‘ not uslestiated to produce the ad-
venter, he wlthoell--44.111 it eras to be recollected,
doe tt OVAIS only a .rep is the proAres.ire advance
of imnrov.,avrent. He thought it best to proceed
grad t:ie tviihea sad opinions of the
people of Scotlenai were issUy secertatned o.t rite
glappest.
ive Earl of LAR.IIIIIDALt, and Lords 11.31.t.axn

sold Oggioniti.r.,coatentled. %Jut tbe iv.tt....sit cora-

.•,. • . „
.re was not conip*trio object of reform.—
yas idle in attempt any inefficient reinedi, II .Ik-4
Ont h u.e boldly investigsed the source of the.
ass% mad checked it in its origin.
Lord REDESIPALZ, the Duke of Armin. Earls
frOICTON mud tis.Lowar, supported the bill, be-
cause it proceeded• as far as it was necessity, and
stepped sheet IA nen that necesii•y
An .lin•littinetit, to fern a uir•sion of the
Court of Session into three i•istead of two cham-
ber., was, after nose discussion, negatived shit-
out a Ili vo••inn.
CIIAIRMAP then reportei p and
%lied have to sit again to-murrow. rdewi.—
Ac'eourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Me. V let terns, Chairman of the Committee appointed to
try the tnnetts of Ike Dublin Valwersity Petttson, brought up
the hereet d the Cutommt.e, which stated the Sitting
member, Joi.it Leadie-Foster, was eleeted, and the Pe-
titinu WaS Hot Vaginas or resstims.
'lite flower le•ving met fee the *miner of ballotimc fur e
Committee to till the Elrct.on tetttion for New Mallon,
the following Wolper' were chosen
Ws. Lein, thigh. o, Ltri. Melenim Laing, Esq.
Earl of To envoi h, It Swains, Eeq.
John Lowther, Esq.
Fir John t). King lit H. V. Tempest,
. Str w. 11.11wyd, it.,,. Jos. O'Calirgima, Esq.
S.r l.Aan 1%. promo bile. J. Ireland Ilasekhoes, Bsq

J4•ha looms, P.M. I•
burt*o,Kb—rhos. D1101:IA, Egg slut Benj. Hall, Esq.

The Bill fur pme!dius fur the lute/meat of Dead Bodies
wrshrd un eburr, WIIS, read $ steaad tour, and onk red tu be
ebuiroitted
1011111.7077 preltlited !Merril from the ofgee of
(`isoeflectelar) in Ireloud, puienmit tu Order u inch, o, obe
tuutitam of Sir JOU,. L$ teat. sotw Uered to tit printed.

JOHN ititreoN,
Mr. SPIIIRIDAN presented tote petition or St.
John maws, E.g. praying relief. The Petitioner,
he *hated, had been called to the 'riots liar, in the
year irio,,; xud WWII after, in canary's' cute of the in-
surrection, hi the tome year, be WWI iiTehendel.
awd 10aZtti in Cowl, where ic remain-
ed i.l the closest and woo severe coutinessilelit fer the
apace of two year.. Ar,er repeated applications
wade try hou.elfaitil fritiol..to the Lord Lieutenant
f,,, relict, he gray at leutph liberated, though not
L..fore a Sief Willy' Of the charge* against hint hot,
bitten place ; and, after the ',boat minute literati-

•
ration of the matter, the suspicion was dir.corered
to he altogether Asurounetted.
Sir Ahrens ‘I'LLI.k.hLEif said, he hud uo objec-
tioii tiothe pititiou beim reccocd, :tad Ch after
completely utee‘ogeted. ti •
Me. at,eivetl. the Petitioner
stated, in the petition, that sthe. mutter Opal al
been it ompletely iiheuigated from which tie e-
titiouei rosined naeloteo to infer, that tioverinneat
it.e4 ani perfectly apprised of the wjustije tifthe
treatment lie lied received, and tie 'nue' oiejety of
his contiteinent. Here the petition oas reed, ea

Ab the Heastrallis the Cheepoie ii Peri:newt
TN I PETITION OAP St. J•IIV

Most respectfully sheweiti,
That year Patititnier is a Bactister, having been a/twill/a
to the Irish Ear tuTrunty Term, int*.
That your retitiouer, shortly after such sarsisslon, awid.
as your Pet bolter supposes, in onseequace of I:ac taunts.
Lion or the gad of Jody isi surd year, ou to lusapt thereof
committed, sea State Prisoner, to haussiuliaw, where )uus
Petitioner remained for wore thau two cuts.
That year Petition's unequivocally diclares kis a/I/re-
ctum, and believes that Goveiuutent, pinters: ousht Inca
Deem its opinion, is now, alter winute tuvestigetion, fully
convinced of your Petitioner. innocence.
That you Petitioner having, by each coafinessent as
above stated, beets deeply injured, nut only la his character
and property, bat also to kis professional and other pontos,
ventures to ,r 1t kis 'mute the consideration pf ,
nearaale Home, and most reupectfully hupes,"ll4ol apou
an iusowigetion thereof, this Honourable Hour w vent
to your Petationer such relict;,.. may to Its jestice ay
wisdom appear adapted to his Vievnaces and peculiar sins..
tine. Aud viol/ Pctiorwr shall, fec. Lc.
Duhlin;Peb.lo, 'sob. ' ST. AMPS MASON.
Afters few observations from Sir Elias PA
irliCK-We-were uuable to collect,
ftlrip.Mooap said, be did mot mean to coatrovert
the 4,oewledge of the Gentleman opposite us to
the ficts. The Petition before the House, cud a
visiaty of Other% now coining forward; which he
had seen, ebntameditivo allegations, with respect
to tbeimprisenment and the treatment when -in
efts- on.: to the iusprlsoolueut on suspicion, itif
clad not mesa to say, fer the present, whether it teas
a well-founded Inspicion or not ; but with Tweet
to the treetuedirteini in -prison, if the idles**.
stated in .the.veriourAueumeats which he boeteepas
were true, he did ,uot, per to toy, that whatevuo
might be the measure oft goat, the treatment
of the prisosesi eat, dishonour and a dii,gace to
ell cif ilielpftlefeeetellefito
Mr. IhUrailitillUltni milt from sue thing
be could collate of the detail* Irish C.:intern-
useistetrithme twenty years back, he was not v--
prised of atria instance Of an improper exertion of the
extraordinary ,losi-rn which it had been judgelex-
, : . aria them with. He recommended
to the House to 'beware of confounding meter
with justice. The persons in sclera' who coin..
plained, were threw whose principles had been cow.
misted, roes whose anxious desire it lied bees to,
introduce iota Ireland a democratic fonn of Go-,
-.•erineat, and completely separate her from Great'
tautens. Such persons it would be extremely ago-
. proper to consider objects of mercy or lenience.
Mr. W. ,Sutemi observed, that the Honuorl-
ble Member had confounded, if not inuocesee
with guilt, at least suspicton with guilt. If no
trial had ever -taken place, though demanded, it
the Petitioner had been treated as a guilty per-
son, there was the justest ground toe complaint ;
and the positions of *it HOistranible Member were
aitogether wrong and unfounded. With respect
to the existence of any fart, he sugg.ted to the
Hcmouralde Member that one positive proof was
worth more than all. Its negative proofs; and the
fact must be thereby established, were there a
thourind suck negative proofs existing. lie would
bey more, and this without at all memang to de-
preciate the conduct of His i(fojetty's present lriett
Government, that ;if the Geatlernan hail received
such injuries as the Petition stated he tied, lie
would be justified in -bnaging an action, and en-
titled to damages is His nlejesty's Court., agriiist
the perpetrators shoe glaritlg an outrage.
Sir Wa4l.aaLCY couttendeds that the business
bad beets thoroughly investigated, and there their
appeared just reason for entertaining suspicions of
liacheracter and conduct, though not sueb.as were
supposed sufficient to bring hit i to trial.
Colonel BARRI was surprised to hear the Right
Honourable Gentleman (Mr. M000re) say, that the

conduct.of the Irish Government to the 'Petitioner
was a diegraee to all civilized Govermueut.
Colonel Woon spoke to order and contended
this mia not the proper period fir ;aking the matter
into consideretioo. . _

Pin Monett eeplained. and said he had gaily
made t chime agaiust the Irish Government. pro-
vided the a!fi.gations of the Ilitition were founded.
Doctor Dinar Nsx supported the line of con-
duct pursued by the (;overtitnent of Ireland ; at
that period thete-n ere no other mean,. he said, of
retaining Ireland in our possession.
Mr. WHITSILEAD was far from believing such
steps as those described iu the petition *ere ne-
creamy to be taken for the safety of that country
at any petind. 'Pie. petition was not the only en-
•dtnce eNisting of the tinwarmidable and cnacl eon-
.duct of the Government of that coneby in late
,yous. There had been charges mode which had

never yet been disproved, am tinting even to mur-
der.; particularly to one instatice,where a person im-
prisoned merely nailer sualeciois of disloyalty, bad
been so srilictly coofined, that he was actually hal,-
tied into eternity for want of nutriment and me-
dig al relief.
Sir ARTltell WCI.T.C3I.IIr said, that as 000Oas
the circurnstianee to which the floe. Member al-

luded had found its war into the public prints,
the Lead Lieutenant had caused the most miaow
examination to take place on the apbject, and the
report had Leen. detected to be mahout founds-
tin.), except so fax as. misted to the mere circnm-
sta.,.•e of his death.
Alt'. SHERIDAN said, he would easily satisfy the
I lonie as to the eire umstances of that unfortunate
inast's death, *ere it regular, as he bad the report
or the Coroner, signed by himself and the Jury,
who had bee a to:ieetexl fur the put pose of holding
ao inquest on the Lody.
IRISH POST-OFFICE. _ _

Sir A lITISUIL Wlttl.lttit.EY ell the order of the
'lay for the second reading of the Bill for enabling
the Post-Master-Cement% of Ir►tand to purchiue
land for 'Merging the Post-Office of Dublin.
r. PONALI9IIIIf pas ligAtiaisitetl with rever,sl per-
sons belonging to that Office. anal laud nerPr guider-
ittorgl there existed a Integrity for tiny cat.-idt rg!,le

alteration of atilt:ans. ileace he as induced to
believe tae prebetit demand, louvred of being
' %we a wanton expenditure of tlie.
tuowey.!,
- Pit Y maintre44. Ote Post-
ai:int big illiffy large fod ciairipktiou
of tse b WO in tli (*anion he
went.' atmtute the lou.v, and etuv.., by later§ in hes
iin-vesaiei, that boll-the present and the lute Post-
"KwAteri find ateried.
isfr.f.xataiLt.t. knew of -uo Archaean:T. except in
one 44€ wind)
was iuceiivewittut am! confined. .
Sir ilacrijuia VigLl,XxLitY replied, the lirii;niple
addition to be• made was in a new eorting....iiice.
The Bill was then read, and ordered to be comb
gifted. •

• PUBLICANS' LICEMICS.
Mr. lltt.ut4siis observed, that the present mode I
of granting. licenses for bribe,/ ale, &e. was att
teutied w ith many inconveniences. Licenses, igt
present, were granted by 'Magistrates Or their
clerks.' throughout the country, who being out of
the contruial of the Excise Department, were ex-
treuiely tardy in making their payments into the
Excise. At least this was made an apology by the,
Receivers in the Excise-offiees, for neglecting to pay
their arrears into the Itecefier4leueritl's hands. lie
was inclu oeddroal these circuaturtnces, to suggest so
filtaration in the mode of coliectingthe,e Excise du-
ties. He should propose that all persons selling ule,
should, in future, resort to the Magistrate, who
should deflect to every fit person a certificate,
which, oft being delivered to the Excise Office,
should subtle thent to receive a license. This
mode of separating the selection of proper persons
for olitaining licensees from the swinging of licenses,
be thought would he productive of considerable
benefit. He therefore moved ti That the House
should resolve itself to-morrow into a Committee
to corr•idev so much of the Act of the 47th of the
present reign as related to the granting of li-
censes." _ _ _

Alter a few worth from Mr. &Lowe; and Mr.
GIDDY. . . . . . . •

*rJ.NIVPIPORT said,he could not help admiring
the consistency of the present system ofGorerument.
As Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, he had
thought proper to adopt a similar regulation to that
riow proposed by the lion. Member, which vested
in the excise the power originally in the Magistrate.
'fhirisower bed since they been returned to its for-
mer possessors by the present Chancellor of the
Irish Exciseguer, though the principle and the ea-
PedirncY. of Aim improvement were about to be
egeitssecogisised by the change turjested by the
Hoti.Xember.

-7AfierW,few words in explanation by Mr. Hvt-
-11,11160111, the motion passed.
.06 thetnoti on of Nlr.livontittost.'‘Tbnt thellonse
should resolve itself into deommittee on the report
of the Committee on the Assessed Taxes Bill."

Mr. BIDDCLrY rotie,and said his objections went
to the whole of the Bill. He hod nsbderstriod the
Hon. Member wished to raise, by the pro-
posed system of taxation, the sum of loo,ooui.
Oa the authority of a most respectable personage,
who had sat in the chair of the Finsoce Committee,
he was confideot in maintaining. that the demised
revenses of the Crown.abenld always be added to
the Cmtsolidated Fund. The contrary had beso,

he lamented, the practice ; he was, however, aware
of the authority under which the deviation had
taken place. The motion, he had understood, was
to repair the casual deficiencies of the civil list, by
applying a sum to the purchase of lai.ds. The
utility of such purchases was by no mcansto be
compared with the advantage to be derived to the
putvlic from the execution of his plan, should it
meet the approbation of the Ilou9e. It was neithr r

siece,oory, nor yet his wish, by any monis, to trench
on the hereditary revenue a the Crown. He was

only anxious an inquiry and adjustment of the
matter should take place ; the result, he was coati-
dont, would be acirantageous to the public: The
consolidated fund must inevitably be enlarged ; and
there would no longer exist any necessity for the
imposition of fresh taxes, which it is but 'justice to
endea►our to accomplish in the present state of the
nation.

Mr. Ross said, it was the duty of the Honoura-
ble Member to state the amount of the sum which
had, according to his statement, been impropedv
applied. There was a line of distinction necessary.]
to be drawn between part of the reyeuue of theH
Crown, which might fall into the colisoliclat+d
fund. andanother part which it was necessarystioilld •
be appropriated to repair the casual deficiencies lot
the civil list. If the sui-us alluded to by tlyr lion.
Member had not been applied to the civil list,
that list must hale inevitably fallen short. These
sums were added to that list, under the respectahle
authority of the opinions of the Attorney and Soli-
citor-000mi, and from what he had been able to
collect, so far from being 100,0001. annually, they
were not one-half that snip.
Mr. Husltssoo said, he held in Isis hand the
accounts of those demised revenues, sines the rear
1797. which only amounted to 30,6141. annually,
out of which there were so many different defalca-
tions to be made up in the Civil List, that had not
these sumsbein appropriated to that purpose, the
Parliament must hare necessarily increased the
Civil List itself; in which rase it was imposible
the public could be any gainer.
Mr. BIDDULPII contended. that such an ac-
count was a poor, pitiful List, not containing near
the .amount of the real value of these accesaious
the Civil List.

After an explanation by Mr. Row, the House
di►ided on the propriety of goinic iuto a Com-
mittee on the report ; when there appeared—

Ayes, 31—Noes, 11-11ajor:ty, 30.

After strangers were admitted, we found the
Committee in conversation on the propriety of
permitting the formers and land-holders to use
guns for the purpose of destmying rabbit, on their
grounds, in which Sir H. MILDHAT, Lord Poe-
cossets, 111 r. Wurroacao, sod Mr. B•ousx,
took a part.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER at length
agreed, that such persons should have pensission
to use guns for that purpose on their owe grounds.
Mr. PoNsonry was surprised se. yet to have
heard of nothing like a budget from the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer ; he wished to hear a
comparative statement of the expense of the last,
:cad the probable expenditure of the pres:At year,

with the reasons for making this addilionid requ,:t
to Vorissnrut for aid.

CaAnust.t.ott of the EXCHEQUER Mid, ht
had alreadfitade such a 4tutement of the supple'
necessary, with the ways and means to meet tLt
supply. !Ile had purposely delayedvFee.sicg tl.e
Loun, as- lie conceived it would be snore advau-
tageously_made st; later period of the year,
A cOnvafteetion 'swain took plaee on the Land
Iteveriiic-ot"tte Crown. between Mr. BIDDOLI'iI,
Mr.24.-italftetar, and Mr. ROSE, in which- the lo-
ur ;tioitiiseed see more, diet wu nocurate return et
thew: reecieties tee Wel before the House.

Mr. P. Moosta contended it was a (nitrate to
the present ~limiters that they could not kind out
any weans of alumeciug the paltry supply for the
psegent year, by owe Opeciu, of cecoi.otpy or re.
trenelonsaist. It only aniquuted to. lion,uool. To
,91,,n ,n- *Well trifling boos there were a 4 itepona of
erhenee eininnittees,.e ach cf "hit h he! 'thought
crould at least produce Ido,oool. At least he could
procure a cow puny of Geutiemen.atho a ould give
84,0013000 L for the udvahtages held out h.• boar
retinas.
Mr. BARING did not know what great degree of
credit the Chancellor of the Exchequer t.as eau
titled to for delaying the execution of the loses
for the Nude bad since risen, and the Right lion.
Gentleman could uot but be aware of that Liman.
stance. _ .

Mr. linsatssost contended, the saving to the
country by the delay of the Isim woull automat
to near half a million, both on account of the rise
of the funds, and this saving of interest on the
loan. 'This benefit he hoped tote Qornmittee would
not quarrel with Ministers follr The growing credit
of the country was not certainly consistent with
the daily details of public distress, nor could the
increasing revenues of the country be attributed
to the 141113 C tatuse.

Mr. Ross supported Lis Hon. Friend's state.
nients of the prosperity of the country in credit
slid revenue.

Mr. BAN ea attributed the rise in the fends to
the difficulties attending the employment of capi-
tol in other lucrative speetiletions.

Mr. I lusstssom cousidered it the consequence of
the late funding of exchequer bills.
Mr. Rose said, that for many years he had not
known of any exchequer bills sold at a premium,
whereas they were of late sold at a premium of lu
and lea. per cent.
Sir Joan N11111'01? thought that a rise in the
funds was not always to he hailed as a mark
prosperity. If the prevnt system continued, ai
debarring us from all trade with other nations,
very much feared, the rise of the funds would L.:
proportioned to the greatness of oar calamities, as
it would be founded on the Gbstruetion of our
capital_ front commercial speculation.
Mr. DIAITIISW MOIITAGUI said, it was singu-
lar that at the present momentous crisis the funds
of the country were never in a more flounshisig
state, and that Government should never bane
found less difficulty in accoinplishing.their loans.
Mr. STLPIIENs was astonished that the Sight
Hon. Baronet bad said, that the Orders in Council
destroying the commerce of the country, and the
.want of commerce, were the cause of the rise hi the
funds. He ought to have recollected, that the
• fnuds rose three months before the Ortient in Colin..
•cil ; and it was singular, if they were the cause of
the stagnation of trade, and the stagnation was the
cause of raising the funds, that it wihild not have
the same Effect on America, where an embargo ex-
isted which destro)ed her trade altogether; but the
American funds, instead of having risen, had
fallen lower than they ever bad been since Ame-
rica become an independent nation.
Mr. A. Batten said, the Honourable Gentle-
man must he completely misinformed as to the
state of the feuds of America since the embargo
was laid oa. He was confident they had risen
instead of having fallen. Ile had seen several or-
ders from Moyne* to purclmse American Stock in
this country, it having been reported there that it
had fallen 1111 this country. Did the Honourable
Gentleman knew that the funds in Holland were
at 10 per•ceat. and in France at 5, and would he
argue that this was a proof of the flourialaing state
of the continent'
The several resolutions were then read and
agreed to.
Mr. IVit SIMON brought up the report, which was
'ordered to be received to-tuorros.
IRISH CATHOLICS. - - .

Mr. WIIIiTON la rougtr up the report *of the
Committee ou the Irish Supply, whoa' was Rail
first tium, uud On the questioit being put fur ti:e
accoall reading.

Sir June Newroste rose and said, the reduction
of the grant of the last Parliament, from 13,u001.
to 94501. was • part of the system of His Ma-
jest 's present Shouters to alienate the affections
of a great body of His Majesty's subjects, the
Roman Catholics of Irehuld. It was not multi-
plicity of Priests they worsted ; but they wished
to have men of education in that situatroc.
It seemed, however, to be the deterniniatlim
of AliiiiEters, 'that they should be uefu
without aily education. He knew seven pa-
rishes in the county of Cork, where tbere were erwi
18.30 Protestants, and the member of Cathr,
was 7J,000. In these parishes there was enly sn
equal number of Clergymen of both pert.ttavoi:•:
a:id would it be argued, that this was a butficie:..
of Catholic Priests? prom the nature arid ns '
of their religion, their duties were more severe
those of the Protestant Clergymen, and it
logically impossible that so small a Luinher coil. i
„perform their sacred duties to such a macs of peon:, •
Au argument had been used on 'former ocessieg,
that if the country did mot educate them, t,.:
higher orders of the Catholics would educate
children for the profession. This was a fallacice-
idea—for the Catholic Nobleman had not the
inducement that the Protestant Nobleman had, t
educate his children for the Chu-ch. The rro--:-
ant brought them up to a profession where the
Nll,* a Brent number of capital prizes to he obta.
ed—the other would educate them for a pioles,..
where there was nothing but blanks to' be dray
When be looked bark to the late improvident pr
motions of Protestarre in Ireland, it appe•rr
him that there was a prof/4.604n intended :ie.
the most numerous class of His :11m:le,t's
iu that cortutry.—/A legal cry Ilecr 11'
from die INiaisteriui Bemlites.) The P. 4.

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L aronet concluded by mo•+ing " That the Report
be recommitted."
Sir Alining. Wer,testry contenderli thatthe
College of Maynootti was uriginallyinetituted by
private subscription he reed• an address from the
Catholics of Ireland. to the then .Lord Lieutenant,
praying that the institution might be incorporated.
He had made every iaquiiy.and every effort to
make out what number of priests there were
in the country, and had ascertained there were
etil, 'and only 200 benefices ; mind he had also
learned, thut in latter years 50 annually took omit*
their degrees for priesthood from the College of
ilisymootb, and sorely this was a sufficient number
to make up any deficiency.' There weic also other
Colleges that educated them for the same purpose,
and iu almost every instance they were found to be
persons of the lowest classes.
Sir Joite NEWPORT, iu explanation, said, there
was no other College where persons were educated
for priests—there were preparatory schools—there
Inas one in Waterfowl, and when they bad finished
their school education, they were sent to the Col-
lege of Mayuooth. Fie remembered a (-imam-
etanee that was told him by a most respectable Ca-
tholic Nobleman • that a good and worthy priest
bad gone to reside at Rome, WWI the Noblemati
wrote to expressing nis wishes that he would
Mme and reside in irelainl. His answer was, that
be had a situation at Rome equal to ROOis a-year,
Irish currency, and, if he had one bemired pounds
e-year paid to bile as a freutleuum, he woad,' prtfcr
being in his native country, but he never could
think of living there and receiving his pittance as a

beggr -
The Honorable -mow T AGU M ISEW-11 Sir,
I am astonished that any Miuirter in the station of
Secretary of State for Ireland should "not know the si-
tuation of the country better. The Hoe. Secretary
ought to reside in it a little more. He ouglajtaia-
veetis,mte the state of the country to make hjuiseif
competent to act as its Secretary in that Horse."
He (Mr. Mathew) had resided move in thut comary
these last seven years than he trier dilla his lite,
and he found it necessary, as the people .beustue
sore oppressed. He thought it his duty to he with
them to appease their just discontent. He was the
friend of Catholics mid their emancipation. He
had coltivated their friendship, and there is, no class
of men he was more proud to amociate Alb. His
Majesty had ao better nor more faithful subjects.
He had been at Mavnooth later than the Hisuoura-
hie georetary. He went Lena on purpose to in-
!suite into its date. Time house is cot fluished—if
is not leaded—and from the most authentic infor-
mation, if you do not give them the mine great
you did last year, it will never lie hui.hed. The
Head of the College informed hien, that the firma-
est number of students ever entitled to their de-
yeas in one year, was 19, although the Honoura-
ble Secretary had stated that they am.uuted to
Ally annually. He had heard the loyalty of
the Catholics doubted. Ile held in his hand a
letter from Napoleon, the Conqueror of the Con-
tinent, -to the College of alayoooth, and the Re-
mm Catholics of Ireland, holding out great others,
to them, if they would forfeit their allegiatice to
their King; but they inditnautly rehired the
offer. This mem not be thought a fictions. He
held elseeneinals in his hands, even the answer to
the :otter. signed by Mr. 'Fro!, the Archbishop of
Dutilim and all the other Bishops of Ireland (a
load call of read it, read it(. He would state
the substance, hut it was too long to read.—
The answer refuses all communication with France;
and adds, that if auy Irish Catholic should accept
of the proposal, and receive in education in
any college under the idiocies el Bonaparte, he
should Anew receive guy' church preferment in
Ireland ; that they had full confidence in the Ad-
ministration, and were certain that their situations
would be properly attended to. He should wish
the House to recollect it was not the present Ad-
tainistrution they spoke of, but the late. Are
these the people you will not do any thin for?
that you do not consider worthy of a grant of a
few paltry Clouse ads ? Why do not you turn them
out of your armies and year navy ? He would
wish Ministers to attend more to whit Gentlemen
said Oa his side of the House, for if they did not,
they- winild Bail the dreadful effects of their in-
atteatma ahem it was toe late CUT remedy. He
did not wish to speak of the Royal Family, but
he mould riot see what (Canter* meant by being
c:osetail with a Royal Duke for hours before tiny
brought nue measure into that House.
Mr. C. W. W. %Vs, wemild nut think it was
the suggestion of the Noble Perseus who gave Lind
Camden his in.tructions as to the present insti-
tution. wheo hr was Lur.l Lieutenant of Ireland ;
nor coul I it be the suggestion of the Noble Lord
himself, who had congratulated the Catholics on
their rialuisitinn, and that it would he no longer
necessary for them to aced their clergy to foreign
countries to lie educated ; hut it way the Act of a
Secretary nut presents (Lord (;astlereagh), who
wonted to destroy the peace and happiness of that
unfortunate country. He wee not favonrable to
the present Administration ; but he thought it was
bad poliker fur auy AJusiiiistratiou to hold out to
any set of men that they were hostile to them.
The Cansecatuia of the Reanimate wished to
know were the Hinsoorable Gentlemen right in
calling it.contrary to toleration, to wish the people,
dissenting from the established church, to bear a
pert oldie expense for educating their own Priests ?
Nlbiultl they call it toleration to vote away the
public money for the erlocatios of dissenting cler-
e) mei! ? It would be friend that the persons who
stistlied the support of their own church and belief,
-would not be partial to such toleration. The phi-
losophers who planned the French revolution were
the great advocates of toleration. The question of
toleration did .notalepend ai numbers; he thought
an iudividual hail as much right to toleration as a
great number ; and if it was granted to the Roman
Catholics, the clergymen of every sect of dissenters
would hare an equal right to be educated at the
vicpenee of the country. In the But instance, the
Catholics oily askei to have the college ;denim-
rated, and to he supported from their own funds,
but the Government did at that time gencesusly
contribute wool. and have increased their grants
al.nost annually. We do at present afford them
the means of educating two /melte! ant tirty
stastents, and we do not say the.; shall not can-
cafe any more. They may educate as res any
as they may thick proper at their own expense.

-.They have Cat 11% same ren4s khey had at
the commencement TA I,* ;Attain:lbn, although
the sum proposed to be Toted is lesirthort that grant-
ed by the list ParOuineate I )et it was a generous
grant—a Tote to Hn excess for elocatiuti, and such
kind of education ! Bet he und-rstood from the
Honourable Gentleman who said he bad been re-
ceotly at Mayitooth, that it would be taken inane-
thee light, and that the present vote would he the
cause of a rebellion. (iVe, nu, from the other !Me
of the House.)
Mr. NI explained, and denied that he had
mode use of any such expression.
The CHANCELLOR of the EgettEet!Fe expressed
his hotness to thud be WAS mistaken, Had E. 001.•
eluded iy observing, that whenever any Measure
was brought 'forwent by His Majesty's Ministers,
there was always something dark and mysterious
charged to theta, which it was impossible for them
to explain. as they did not understand it.
Lord HENRY PETTY was astonished that the
Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Per-
easel) should ratoress surprise at the charge of secret
ingstence. 'l'he secret inflaeoce and secret Mi-
nister that decided the fate of a recent Bill (the
Bill to restrain Reversionary Grants), could hot be
out of the recollection of the House. But did the
Right Honourable Gantl,man's colleagues expect
to get clear of the charge by absenting themselves?
(None of the Ministers ~tit Mr. Percival were pre-
sent). The origiinii g ant in this ease did not ex-
ceed the sum voted - that Malt', -within 14 hours
after its first propose', to Judges, for doing no-
thing; et this sum is denied as ton much fur the
great mass of His Majesty's *objects in Ireland.—
The .rant in the one case, mid the refusal in the
other, lie contended, both preceeded from the
same secret influence, and the vine nominal Prime
Minister. 'f tie establishineut was commenced in
the Administration of Lord Westmorland, and
was continued itnl enlarged in that of Lord Cam-
den, both of them now Cabinet Ministers. He
would recommeod the High: Hoaourable Gentle-
Oleo to ask their Noble Colleagues, what was
their intention us to the institution and the grant'
for the giant of the eatablitiament necessarily im-
Ved au intent to atford toe means to support
refuse, then, the original sum, was iiot only a
want of honour, but a ••gueil the a4selice of every
pnneipla of justice. It was impossible for coy man.
who read the papyri upon the table, to say that
there is not a notreseity for • PHIS equal t• that
granted during the late Adinitustration. The Hon.
Secretary, the seli.-ereated defender of the Irish
Protestant Chum h, rens, there are QO) parishes

in that country; but the numaer would ,ieritap., ha
more correctly stated at Sl3OO. Thi• question then
is, whether, with the Catholic Religion existing in
Ireland, and three millions of Catholics in that
country, the House would its," them a well
educated, well disciplined, and mvilizi-d people;
or a. people sunk in ignorance, and without
Oily education at all ? There are several )lcitt-
bets in the House who here in parts of ire-
Ird where they a e entv ely sarroaaided by Ca-
't otics, without the interveatina of a single Pro-
tstaut ; and he wished ti know whether they
would feel win :secur- amidst well-disciplined
Catholics, under toe care of a Pastor educated at
home, or aio.-iag igoorasst Catholics, with a Priest
of foreign education ist lace. head ? He was aware
that souma politicians had held that it was desimote
that the pouulation of a country should be reduced
to a state of positive ignorance. de With persona of
such description, tabs se mi.ds most he so strangely
perverted by prejudice and 'miry," said Mr. Burke,
** I will notcondescend*o argue.' The French Phi-
losophers, who engenderel the Revolution, main-
tained the same principles as thoseof Right
Honourable flentleman opposite, and of those
politicians wham Mr. Burke condemned. Thee
were men who :ironosed to attain a speculative point
thsough an infinity of evil, who were looking to a
fixed horizon, hut, like the traveller, saw that
benison always fleeing before them. TiisdaNer
of the country, he admitted, was pressing, hut that
woe no reason agaiiist the agitation olthe ques-
tion. It was rather a reason for looking at the
true state of the country, with a view to make
the best of it.—lf, however, the system recom-
mended by Ministers is to be adopted, he
wished to know what is to be the state of the
country, while that experiment is in its course
of trial ? If the expenneot should fail, where
are we to find gaols, and bolts, and bars, to coutine
three millions of people? What security were
we to have against the bursting of the storm, while
the speculators were proving their experiment ?
Who in such a crisis will secure our Church and
State, and Protestant Establishment, for which' hey
boast so much attachment? We might say to
them— .

" ----.---- Yes him
" Pat the wild waters la this roar, alley them"

Load cry of Hear ! Hoar !) But this is a re-
sironsibilitywhich His Majesty's Ministers would not
undertake. It was curious that they should have
absented themselves. When they were in opposi-
tion they did not oppose the grant, and now when
they are in power, they do not oppose the proposi-
tioo to take it away. Thus the affairs of Ireland
appear to them ai matters of perfect indifference.
For the sake of the paltry crrnsideration of 30001.
was it fitting to tell'the Catholics, that Lord Cam-
den, Lord Cornwallis, Lord Ilardwicke, and other
Noblemen, who were friendly to this esta-
blishment, when at the head of affairs in Ireland,
were all mistaken, and that the House meat to
retract from that plan ? He believed in his heart
that it was possible for any Government, by a steady
and moderate system of conduct, to remove all
discontent and jealousy from thb minds of the Irish
Catholics, and therefore he must regret the con-
duct of Ministers on the present occasion, us it was
calcnlated to produce a contrary effect.
Mr. WILBERFORCE slid, the subject was one of
considerable delicacy, and he felt the difficulty of
speaking upon it not a little aggravated by the
conduct of Gentlemen on the present occasion. If
the Noble Lord (Petty) felt all the liberality which
he professed, it was strange, that, after pushing
to the very extremity of extension the coadact or
hi. Right Hon. Friend, (Mr. Pereeval), he shual.i
a-einie them of meting in a way to excite irritation.
His Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Perceval) laid it down,
that toleration does nut require that the public'
sleitild teach at their own expense the children of
a relagion differeat from the established one ; and

this principle strikis. 141fAtaiP.
gent, he associates with it prisons, and amts, aryl
bars, and every thing thit it terrible, In spite 'of
experience. he weatd hattairuperead front the Gen-
tlerneu opposite that they grotdd have eudettroured
rather to soften 'thin to irritate, that they would-
have rather endeavoured to present than to pro-
voke the consequences ~t which they seem so much
afraid; and yet every thing which fell from them
was only calculated to produce tl.at mischief witch
they affected to deprecate. This much he must
say as preface. Upon the subject itself, he re-
peated, diet he felt cousitlootiaia pain and solici-
tude. If the principle of...the Gentleineu opposite
to him be right, they awn ',neon, that you may
take any sect dilferentTrom the established religiou
of the cobntry—the Illation for instance; or any
other (a load cry of Heat ! hoar .') and that it
would be justifiable to spepd the money of the tame
in its cultivation'. The Flom Gentlemen opposite
appeared, from their manner, to feel that there was
eo.iie limit to their principle of toleration, and he
must impute it to us error in their understandliq,
and note defect in their hearts. liedid not construe
toleratioar iu the special pleading of the philologist*.
11e meant it in the sense in which it was understood
by Locke, by Rousseau, and Voltaire. Toleration,
according to them, means is others to follow
-their religious principles in their own wily, so long
as they ao not interfere with the cis i haw. That
privilege, the Gentlemen on the other side ku ,a,
was refused to ireiniheree time ago. " For this
principle I would contend with all my strength,s al-
though I would not raise an infatuated say. To.
leration means distinctly whist,l have Mated, and
this is the lint instance in whtoh a proposition for
the education of priests different from the estahliph-
ed religion has been made and prevailed.' -i When
the House carried its liberality so far as to pion&
for Catholic Priests, was it too lunch to oily it
ought not to carry its liberality so far as to preside
for all the Priests ? It web impossible fur those who
read and remembered 7'be history ,v
not to feel a jealousy of the Catholics, (flea.!
hear ! frost the Opposition Bench) ; and he could
not see ut ail claims boa the country should be
called upon to support a superalmodant number
of Priests. •WheisCseutleasita talked of thethithelic
Religion. Abet seemed to forget dust religion is add-,
fervid thiug • in different ranks. They forget that
the reli, of the limas is not what it is is
the higher classes, whose minds are liberalised
by intercourse with the world. 'io luau was a more
decided enemy to peeves:whoa than hiar.,elf,
sus no moo will ever be thorn. willing to assist
individiudx to worship God hi their own way, but
he and his frit:ids mud he forgiversfor their solici-
tude that the Protestant religion should have lair
olay—(lfear hear tort the Irish Ca dilution
should not he greater than uecessary. The dan-
gar of Ireland was bottomed iu this very difference
of religion. He wished to kuow whether the ( len-
tlemea opposite hod a rece4st fur tranquillising
Ireland ? and Whether the ground of iliKonleall,
would not remain as !sing as the Government was
of mie religion, and the mass of the people of
another ?
Lord MILTEI 'observed, that the Hoch Gentle.-
man who spoke loaf had reprrseiffed him-elf as ae•'
enemy to toleration, yet when.* recollected his,
opposition 16 a blll to open the door to Disioentero,•
he must doubt his practice, however bound he
might feel to give credit to his professions. His,
Lordship maintailiell that a sufficient ground had
not been made out for narrowing the grant. Ha..
was called upon in common, with his friends to
smudge the wounds of the Catholics, hut this was
an admission that wounds hail been inflicted ; and
the House should recollect that the laws had
not been made against them, because they
were Catholics, but on account of their attach-
ment to the House of Stuart. Born in a county
in which the Christian religion was practised in its
greatest parity, he hoped he was not so insensible
to the blessing, as not to iish ever/ persona( the
same church us his ow is ; but if we knew that we
could not convert the Catholics to the Protestant
religion, then it became oar beat policy to enlightea
them, as the more they were enlightsmed, the less
would he the danger }'tom the difference of reli-
gion, and the greater the chance of attaching
them to their fellow subjects.
Mr. LAING was of opiuipm. that a more glorious
opportunity than the present, of producing uni-
versal tranquillity, never occurred to any. Adlcinis-
tration. It was not a questioo of teleiatiou. but of
sound legislation. It was wise policy to consolidate
all classes of society ; and, consequently, wise to
attach to the Government the heads of a religion
professed by the muss of the people. The Honore
would now lose or embrace the opportuuity of es-
tablishing the legislature fur cier upon the basis
of the religion of the countr)•.
Mr. Hittite? (Member for Berry) said, there
was a variety of circumstances, to make the cur-
tailment of the grant the most impolitic measure
that could be possibly devised. The Hon. Member
then proceeded to urge,lhat the Union took away
the only plausible argument against equal, treat.
tnent to the Catholics; that the Catholic tenantry
in Ireland coutnbuted to the support of the esta-
blished church; and pressed several other arguments
in support of the larger sum.
Lord Potion:slant contended, that if the argu-
ments of the Lion. Gentleman (Mr. Wilberforce)
went to prove any thing, it was% that it was better to
have an unonlightenedCatholic Priesthood. Indeed,
if they were to be understood in their practical
application, they went to the extinctieu of the
Catholic Religion itself. The Hon. Gent. had, its
the course of his speech, laid great stress upon the
term to. Did he mean to identify himself with
the views sad policy of the Chancellor of the kz-
chequer, or was it his object to ethibit himself to
Parliament, and the country, as the mouthpiece of
a certain religioui persuasion—that persuasion",
by whoa public report gave out that kr
was to be canonized ?—(is longla).—With re-
spect to the grant itself, it had been stated
by the Chancellor of
-the Exchequer. that hi,
great objection
_against this monastic institution
was, that it alienated the Irish Catholic from 'nix-
ing with other habits. Such an objection too from
him—from him who was and is prepared to ex, tea.
that class of his fellow-subjects from the partici-
pation in any interest or privilege, from the coyest--
ment of follow-feeling ; and now, disclaiming am
wish to inform or to cultivate their mental progress,

fixed .pn their ignorance as the instrntaetik
of his seduction.
_ _

Mr. Gement PonsONlllV, is an animated goer. ,
.replied to the camel rations of the l "'anti io,
the Exchequei., al.d of Mr. W nisei torte. e -e
charged by then*" said he, of a wish to arouse
religious emu:oaths. for edralicenient of our per*
views Who is there but isnot. admire the oda
_witty of the application, and applaud the cth- -
aistency of the quarter frcin wheats" teas sonnies
ties proceeds 1 Surely that niost escsilost ttttuMst
would never cohdt.t.cetnt to rail* for hat own
views a religuine ioturtateti cry Ortitio esst,irtl He
certainly ie not the inan who could condescend tp
such beat ex pedieutt ? /Leer! hear Sos,erior
to all such tleh:uoug trickerrf i.nbey ; Mane all
such vulgar subterfuges, shiner tit `tor growling
Statesmen 44 puny politicians ;.ist hat uislatiati
tie stoical co maim, open fakir alarms, nut cc n-
teuiptible wily. because they site dangerous. It
is for such a time to appeal to our armee, candour,
and inodetatioa, to warn us of the snochief Which
religious discord may create, and 111, hrstioth
our unanimity upon the einniesadieg thflueace
of the love of country. Aker! hoar ! Aearf)—
•It. epnW Weer be raid of such A Minister, that he
lied owed fist official existence to the wicked cry of
". No Popery, awl. the Church int danger;" or that
he hail not borne Iris iseclusioa •frein wi44
petietice, and opposed the mama of his politii al
opponents with a teesperate atidrieshifiud 'pikers of
discussions No; he is too generopes to* tweittiftl fee
such a line of conduct. Ise part ieisates trio limp by
pf the benevolence of „the Hon. Cientleniaa bent tid
him (Mr. Wilhestsirce), to lead his. tolerant OaSIS
to such a forbidding and ; heat
Ifieceariend et•bis, who is eves beneficent* Abell;
eiptbed mid wrapped in the sientinof philasthropy,
embracing all ranks, all peseuesieue, end elf cesen-
plexions, in tilt scope of his ermine , ex-
cept myself, to)- Honour iple .b trends mound stet
sad the Catholics of treiseil. teetAidbit
aolepptobatifige of any tem,' measure if 'peolicis4
if we reprobate th; or OM ether ppopoe6 Or of
Gmerutaeutsireif .slate. our opposition epos •
the iutriesic demerits of the eneasure inielfs--ouv
aroma** have no avail; the defect or mischief
of dr! measure is no *leftist, of cur proceeding*
fu such epis our conduit is factious, unpahseeire,
*Ail Grimiest. Witte' usable to chifeint Nene+. If
/porgies of his gee nielisilres, the Mitiestell
unities himself behind the base motives whieh eve
mputed-to- hie opponent* although *here are ekes-
woes in which he can yield up a great ingesireof
uational defence, when he feared that .the perks**
once wouhipeeitsalsly endaoger his official eximelbth.
Hut we are, told that it, is 0111' duty is aseiniesillee
people of freissela instead of irnarting them ; thaw
111-treaded as they are, we might to exercise our in-
fluence, and assure them that they are mistak&
in imputing•hostility to their interests to this hews=
tiful and tolerant Chancellor of the Exchireleer
—bountiful to the sum of 90001. hew he iris
qeite exhausted; toleration ends at this 9004. :
and eattobbblunent iuterposer at IE4OOI. bat,
rays the Honourable Gentlemao_sppesite, 4Ms
Wilberforce) the prospect with - reipeet. ter behind
is d retry indeed. And be asks us what nirearesf wilkeyr
and of advantage we think ought to be pummel I
will answer him, and tell lam that tgete is ids use•
for any of es to p at:measures) this Hew..
whilst he and his tolerant "'bend, the Chasieillersi

the Exchequer, are ever oa the atnetch to
.our motives, nod to corer *Nue . with ara:erl
have the honour to act, with obloquy, and, if jogai-
We, with contempt. What amatitutsonad right
or . civil issenuuity &my he and his boun-
tiful friend hold out to the people of Iceland?—
What relaxation of suffering or enjoyment of pri-
vilege does behold out to that ill-uorsi people ? Au
absolute refusal of whatever they ask is the only re-
ceipt with which they are conversant...-11kor !
thaw !f—Theis say they the sum of £ 9 ,000 is sat.
licieot. Where have they found that out ? The
Chancellor of the Exchequer assunacs, and there-
fore he asserts it. The fact is, that such a grant is
not competent to its professed purpose. Again,
such a superfluity. of Catholic Pneqs endangers
the RICCI'Ss of their malting_ proselytes airostgat
the Protesiahts. One should sopi.ose' thst an
Ireland they had Ca4iiiiiitis enough to attend to.—
But seriously I call upon any Irish Ala miser in this
House candidly to slate whotherghere is the least
ground for this appreliensiou ? I call upon him to
say, whether it. was not iroatidarrio suppose that
the Catholic Priest would -thin •of commencii g
such a crusade as this? (Been. J. Afford then
.a grant competent to provide t e due number
of priests ; without doing so, it is impossiblo to
give to that claws of year fellow-subjects satisfac-
tion. And unless you give satisfaction, better cot
give any part of the grant at all.' B;liev*i ate,,
the surest road to•aatiottal anaaimity and public
strength, is by giving suchgoaots with liberality and
kinflocas,aiwidiag all the odious suggestion* which
we have this night heard.. if it he the wish of tom
House to :assure the affectionate attachment of
Ireland,-amid in your int-romire all narrow, stir-
did, and illiberal view's. Whilst she is treated with
a yeoman kiadneis by you, 'be will neVer fail to
repay it by an active and generous gratitilde."
Mr. STCPHZIee. spoke against the grant, and
strongly 'reprobated the education of Popish
Priests, by a Protestant Government.
Mr. Quart as .gave the Mat Speaker credit for a
Mitere nod- pure conviction of the truth of the oh-
*emotions which be advanced ; but it was a parity
of motive and sincerity of conviction which might
involve the British Empire in an immensity of mis.
chief. Such statements must be beotticial to
France, and ultimately rninous to this Country...-.
To tell the Catholics that their religion was alio-
geroas, and their allegiance doubtful, at this mo-
ment, when death was ow his march,. might give
pail' to thot people, but must entail coin no our rm.
Aire. •' If," said he, " I was impressed with such a
strange idea, I should fed it nay duty, on thegrootid
of paltry, to preserve • fixed silebee on the subject.
For if we it in this House to criticize ow the vedigi.
nn of mafioso of our fellemmehjecta, if weassamitio
here to impute disloyal roofings and brume/able
intentions to • great proportion of those who till
our armies and man our does ; I my, if few Mt I
Purposes the people's Repreacatatives meet -toes- I
'her, the nation is theologically mad, and a.muat bt
onlitically rinsed. Thee dreadful ravages of i ebgauus
ammo./ have been too legibly written is the to *for.
WINS of oho country, to be totally out of our re-

LONDON,
FRIDAY. MAT C.

A spirited and interesting debate took place,
last night, in the House of Commons, upon the
Grant to the Roman Catholic College of May-
nooth, after which the Home divided upon the
Minister's resolution for granting th less sum,
which was carried by only a majority of 24, the
numbers being—on the Ministerial side iO6, on
the Opposition lA.

Lord Gazavam.t, last night, in the Ilosise of
Lords, postponed his motion upon the Catholic
Petition, until the 27th instant, on account of the
unavoidable absence of Earl GIU:Y. His Lord-
ship added, that if the same rause should coutiiiiir,
it sight induce a further postponement of a few
days, but not more. There is no reason, there-
fore, to presume that the zeal of the Noble Lord iu
this business has suffered the slightest diminution.

Lord GRZWVILLY also took ormusion to notice a
import, that it is the intention of Ministers to revoke
the Orders iu Council ; and, at the same time

gave nntiee, that if such a measure was net in eon-
templution, be should make a motion for that
purpose.—Lord lIVIVILLSBUItY, in answer, said, he
merely robe. lest his silence should he construed as
giving authority to the report alluded to. We
must. consider this answer as pacific with respect
to America, for bed Ministers been determined
to continue these Orders in Council, it might be
expected that Lord HAWkESSUIRY would !lave
spoked iu more precise and positive terms.

On Wednewiay a Proclamation was agreed upon
by the Privy Council, granting a pardon to Sea-
man and Marines who have deserted train His MA-
JESTY'S service, and shall return on or before the
314 day.( December. The saute will uppetr in
to-morrow night's lisi_-ette.

The expedition to India still continues a subject
of speculation. la 'the Ilainburgh papers the
invading armyiit.is said. Will assemble at Astracan,
•nd march through Persia. Marshal DA VOMIT'S
corps is to form part of it. Gen. MAitisuaT is also
to have a c.ouitnaud.

Our Dover Correspondent, in his letter dkted
Wednesday. says--., For these three .4eys past a
frequent bring en the Fresuh coast has been heard
here ; of the cause of which we can form no con-
jerture."
The expedition which has sailed from the Downs
eousista of 84 transports, 34 of which have cavklry
ou Ward. The part of the expedition fitted out
at Harwich, got under weigh en Wednesday.—
They an going to the Baltic.
A sacra expedition is ready for sea at Plymouth,
under the .eeuistiatid of Admiral De Cotmcv,. It
sousists dP the Towront. Gibraltar, Bellerophon,
litnustwiek. bravos, and A'eptetw, two frigates,
sad two deeps, idl victualled for six months.
The Portuguese Am hisiwador hits received a letter
Isis the Governor of the Cape de Vera Islands,
Olullings that he had been instructed to treat the
wf France, and thew of her Allies, u enemies.
ane letters of the ieth last, from Hamburgh,
state, that by ecceunts frets St. petervburgh, of the
sad of March, BONAPASTIi had been able to per-
suede the Emperor of Russia to adopt the F inch
system of prescnpeiso against England, through
the whole of the Russian Ilarepire. Ukases were
actually promulgating, which subject all vessels en-
tering Rustiest port* to condemnation, together
with dwir cargoes, should they have been spoken by
a Untish cruiser. These letters, by their sileuce, re-
fute the absurd reports of a revolution in Russia.
The Earl and Countess Ftrzwaxusit are
daily expected in town ; their domestics arrived
yesterday.
The Jew of Mogrorlore boasted a complete crane
last night ; every pert of the house was tilled, and
the Theatre rang with plaudits. The duet be-
tween Mr. BILAHAIN and Madame STOR ACE W4ll
most beautifully executed, as was that between
Mr. BRAMAN and Mr. KIILLY.

The revived Tragedy of Bowdon* was performed
at Covent-Garden Theatre, lust night, with the
finest effect, and every assistance of music and
spectacle.
Ilia Grace the Doke of ATNOL arrived at
Douglas, Isle of Mann, on Wednesday, the 2utli
ult. from Liverpool, after a passage of tan days.
His Grace lauded at Whitehaven on Friday even-
in and and set off for Scotland the next morning.
• The Earl of LONIIDALC has been attending the
Quarter Sessions at Cumberland, and en Monday
last arrives! at Lowther.

CRAKES 011 ARA, Eli. is confined at Abergale.
North Wales, with the gnnt.
Wednesday Mr. Justice Law/mitt, nmininted
one of the Judges of the Court of COlll mon Pleas,
in the room of Sir Gum, ROOKE, took his solo.

It is said that BONAPARTE issued at Bayonne,
on the Sth ult. a Decree, ordering the capture
and condemnation of all Amerillin vessels, where-
ever they might be found. This report has not,
however, been traced to any authentic source.
Mrs. RICRAZD6 gave a grand ball and supper,
last night, at her louse in Grosvenor-square ; it
was numerously attended.
Viscount and Viscountess Mti.roa arrived on
Wednesday at the late Sir Tuomas GAGE'S hone
in Arlington-street, from Northamptonlliirc. Ills
Lordship has taken the above house for five years.
The World displays all its/wont/dim at Drury-
Lane Theatre this night. In addition to the ex-
cellence of the Comedy, and the attnu•tinu of
Mrs. JORDAN, the boxes promise ablaze of beauty.
Mrs. Gotta's'', relict of the late B. GOLD-
Esq. we understand has determined not to
make the seat at Risehampton her future residence.
The Marchioness of LANSDOWN gave a splendid
rest, last night, at Lanadown-house, which was at-
tentlled by 'even hundred Nobility and Fashion-
ables.

As Lady BAILIN BAILEY, Miss BAILEY, and a
child. were driving in their chariot, last etenit4,
up Bond-street, the wheel came in contact
with another carriage, and they were upset with
great.violenee • their carriage was dashed on the
groom!, but the glasses fortunately were down, so
that the lidiee •;ere taken out as the carriage lay
on the side, without suffering any other injury than
considerable alarm.

Si' French fishermen were sent on Monday into
Dover, and have since been put on board the
guordship in the Down*. They belong to (7alais,
and were taken at night going close along shore,
by a boat, which put off from on• of our cruisers,
anal cut thein off. Some of them are very well
knowu in Dover, having been formerly empliped
in the passage trade between that idaee and Calais.
They represent p-ovisions of every kind as very
cheap in France, but difficult to purchase, on ac-
count of the extraordinary scarcity of money.
The distress among people of their own descrip-
tion they describe as very great, and acknosv-
'edged, that for the continuance of the war,
the source of all their sufferings, their own Govern-
ment was to blame. We may well doubt, how-
ever, the sincerity of this last adniksion. At
Calais they would hold a different language.