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Hower, nothing certain in this respell has yet
transpired, and it rests entirely
from Barcelona, which speak of
port spread in the latter place•

A PLAIN ANSWER.

In the Committee upon the Insolvent Act Ameodment Hilt
in the House of Lords, on Tues lay, Lord Elletsborough "tie,
he felt it necessary ti trouble their Lordships with • few ob.
servatioos, in consequent. of a misapprabension with respect
to the object of this Bill, which bad gone abroad, and which
carried it to an extent very far beyond that which was the
real purpose of:the Bill. This misapprehension some of Get
Contemporaries yesterday insinuated, and one directly charged
to have arisen from a misrepresentation of the Bill in tlis pa.
per. As the best answer to this calumny, we now republish o.lr
original report of it.
" HOUSE OF LORDS.—Wanntsotv, JAW. 16.
" DEBTORS.
" Lord Ellenhorough presented a Bill f con i 1 r
" of their Lordship:, the objet of whit,. was to .V
" efirtaio 0111111$10111 of the lioirlr itit &1.1 of hs. s,,
" lion ; and mole clearly to ascertain time far the
" of that Bill were meant to extend ; one
r. visions of the Bill seemed to be a soe.'ific regulation of rhr
" lists to be furnished by jailors of the prisoners in dint
o custody liable to the operations of the late Invilvent
" Debtors Act. His Lordship moved th.t the Bill bi
14 read a (vat time:"-.-8R171,14 SAS. 17.

The misapprehension of which Lord El'enhomugh ems-
plained was, that the unfortunate class of persons foe elm;
relief it was intended, but nut generally, as it was supposed,
for this was net a fresh instance of the humanity of the I,
gisiature, had taken up the idea that it was hn I.orddrip'sie•
tendon to introduce a new Insiiivent teh •rras. he meta:
no such thing. We appeal to the render, whitirer therif. be a
word nips!' report to encourage the misritpresentation can.
plainer! of ! But we own we are not surprise.l at thee:tack 'me
bu+in►sn of the House of Lords of the titli was repro:. ,
steely in this Paper; but our rival., fearful of making such
cidixt admiselon of their neglect, end our superi.rity, never -
ticed it. Thus, to gratify a mean and petty passiom'they endea-
soured to suppress, as far as in them lay, a piece of inted^g•rwe
so interesting to the many punt dulltors within tee spirit of tt.e
Hill of last Session, whom his Lor.iiilly hormamily seeks to
hese. We charged th •m smith o'3 omission, and Itence the
atta,:k in the Paint to which we payticutarly allude

THE BRITBR

LOND-
THURSDAY, JANUAILY '_'•t.
We understand that the sailing of the expeAltivs
is beyond the time originally intended, but the pm.
parations are carried on Seidl unabated activity.

Yesterday a Council Ira, hcbl wt 4* Quash
House, when His Ms,zsrs declared his intenders d
giving to the Captors his right in all Prizes takes
duripg the present hostilities with the Ligariallita
Italian Republics. The follcmi.:g Louis were re.
sent: LO3O PRESIDENT, LORD Padre UAL, Dale
of Ntosreosz, Earl C•111Dtle. Lord MULGRATI,
Lord MELVILLE, Lord CASTLERZAOU, &C.

A report prevailed in town yesterday, 41 pc, n the
alleged authority of private letters from New Yoit,
of the 22i of December, that " Tao mas.l r mos,
Esq. and &matte CttrzroN, Esq. late Governorof
the State of New York, have been eleaed to the
Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the UeisL
States, by art immense majority. C. Cotsswoete
Piaci:Nu, Esq. and Rurus KING, Eeq. were the
unsuccessful Candidates." This report is, perhaps,
only the anticipation of a very probable result. We
have received a regular •eries of New York rapers
to the 24th, in none of which is to be found the least
trace of such an event. They do not bring the proceel
ing; of Congress farther down than the 18th
which time, its attention was almost exeltigively
copied with the articles of impeachment a;...ra
Jodge CHASE. A dreadful fire broke oat on IL
lath, at New-York, whicreentatfiei the Office
Tl. M ChrontA, a very excellent Paper, and
39 other houses. It also extended to the shiprng
the river, but without much injury. Some otLei
fires broke out upon the following da7s. which sr
suspeaed to have been wilful. The particulars ar
"u in a subsequent column.

Web ive receive 3 several sets of Paris Paper;
the 17th, and an irregular series of Dutch hie
n;
the I ;test of which is of the 20th. In the pt
enslaved state of the press in both cnuetries,
cannot exped to find in them any news unf:root
to Government. It was therefore with 'wt.t.
that we read an article in a Dutch p ;per,
that the funds at Paris had suffered $
sislerahle depression on the 23, in consequence
a report that .4a warm dispute had taken place
tween the EMPICROR of the French, and the I
perial Ambassador, Count COSENTZEL, in 14
the prep7ratives to a new war sera discover
The Dutch Paper adds, that this rep, rt :s not to
depended upon ; but this qualification will rot
it from the anger of the Usurperosor, ate we
fore inclined to give it tip least cre.4it. S 3 Or'
deed, as the alleged depression of the fa
if the Stock List in the ALroteur be coma,