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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Sir T. Metcalfe obtained leave to hr,:sit in a Dill
to incorporate the Globe Insurance Conpany.
Mr. R. Thorn: ln brought up a pctizion brood).
curries', leather sejers, cf Colchester. %mama
the Bull for the repeal of the }lapels AR —Or-
dered to be referred to the Cor..roitwe on the bill.

Mr. ayn presented sirafuir retnKins fron. strums
persons in the coun:y ; is virs::d. &:.s
same or.i • was made.

Mr. Alderman Cnmbe obtaing.l leavc to bri,•ril
a Bill to anserd the act of t4.,•:1^,:h of the lt.ot, so
far as related to ,:ompemat, n given in cant-i.c4Le
t - the Iminovem:nts of tile Porto, I.ondrna.

Mr. Dugdalt brolfiht tip a Pet;tiOTl from !h.: tan-
ners, saddler s, hairless maters, leather sellers,
of Birmingham, against the Bill tOr the repeal of
the Flaying 4.l.—Qrsiered to be referred to the
Committee on the Bill. '
Mr. VA NslrrAit I: moved for an account nl
the quantity of raw and disown silk, importe.!
exported to and from Gie..t Britain, for tire but
twenty years, endinilsw.—Ordered.
Ile also moved for an account of the •alue of
Goods exported from Great Britain duriag the
GAMr pelitd, with the names of the particular
Counties from which the same were exportel—Or-

dered.
Also, a Copy of the Agreement between the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and the Duke
of Grafton, under the A& of the 43d of the King.
—Ordered.
Also, that the House would, to-morrow, resolve
itself into a Committee of the whole House, to con-
sider
the rates of Postage from Great Britain, to •
the Islands of Gibraltar and hlalta.—Ordered.
He then presented an Estimate of the Expenees
of 'reeling a Court House in Palace-yard, West-
minster—which was ordered to lie ou the table. i
He then presented the several Accounts relative
to Silk—which were ordered to be printed.
vi coo VIELVILLIp:'S IMPEACIIMENT
A message from the Lords, infotmed the House,
that their Lordships would proceed with the trial
of Henry Lord Viscount Melville to-morrow morn-
ing, at ten o'clock ; and that their Lordships had
agreed to the Irish Stamp Duty Bill, without any
amendment.
The SPEAKER gave notice, that he would be
ready to take the Cbair at ten o'clock to-morrow
morning; at h.411--past ten the Maragers' names
would be called over ; and, as soon atter as poorible,
the House wt-eld proceed to Westminster Hall.
Mr. VANSIT EAR!. moved, " that the House
will, tQ-morrow, resolve itself into a Committee of
the whole flutist., on the :111 relative to Prussian
Tarn."—Ordered.
He then presented the Duke of Grafton's Agree.
ment. and moved, " that the same be referred to a
Committee of the whole llou.e td-morrow."--Or-
der
The Custom House Fees Bill was real a second
time, and ordered to be cos lint to-morrow.
W. Alexander brought up the report of the
Committee on the General Assessed Taxes Bill, al-
lowing the Ex-mptions of four per cent. for al
children above two, to these paying Assessed Taxes
of 401. a year, and upwards. The resolution was
read and agreed to ; and it was ordered, tl.at the
gentlemen anpointed to bring in a Bill, should make
provision for the same aceunlingly.
The Report of the Thrt-ad Lace Bill was re-
ceived, a a ordered to be talk-m into further con-
sideration ou bionday.

Mr. Secretary Fs )X gave notice. that he wculd.
tn-witirrow. Wive for leave to bring in a Bill to pre-
vent the carrying itt slaves in any ships but. those
that nave sailed. for the present sewn.

W4lll' INDIA !WM I'URS' BILL

L'lrd l'llliTko;;Ytlseiirder of 'h.,
Day •vr the House to r• solve itself urn a Corn-
soiltee of th • wh"l • House. on the West India Au-
dit.Biil ;in is the question that the Speaker do
leave tit:. Chair :

RO.it.: begged leave to observe, that he
thought the Bill had been pushed on with a degree
rf otecipittiney which was not strictly justifiable
He wou..i sh mite his objections to the Bills in
the year 17:4 a correspondence took place between
him and the Commissary General, in the West In-
die., no the subject of auditing the Public Accounts
to t-. 4 pact His klajesty's dominions. In •799,
insouctions were rivets to the Cumnlt-si inert ap-
pointed to investigate the accounts fit that Gen-
tleman, and these Lommissinuers h .d acc:trdinp,ly
proceeded so to do. Circumstances, bon-eve!, hi:O-
pened afterwards, which requited the appointment
of other Commissioners in aid of the first ; those
had p•oceeded to the investigation, and were em-
ployed io it. when the Noble Lord came into of-
fice. The Noble Lord came down tothe Houtz out
of breath, and told them, that next day lie would
astonish them ; and he had done so, by bringing
in the presort Bia, wnich went to appoint as
set of Commissioners for the s true poopme,
for the provisions of the Bill were smelly the
sense as those of the last Aft, under whigb the
Commissioners have so long been acing, and he
weold venture to assert, that a bol.ser pretence
for obtaining patronage was never attempted.
than that made by the pr sent Bill. without a-y pre-
tence whatever, that the other was not equal to
etre& ad that w n required of it. The great ob-
jection, however, that he had to this 11-11, we., that
by it power was given to the freasury, to delegate
powers which belonged only to Parliament to de-
legate, and which had never been vested in any
other hands. 1-le had examined every Act that bad
passed for the appointment of Commissioners, s'oce
the Revolution. and he found that in no one
instance had any such powers been ever given, but
by Parliament. There would, he said. to conse-
quence of this Bill, if suffered to pass, be nine new
Commissioners. at a salary. he supposed. of 1,5001.
each, which was a very heavy espenditure of the
public money. If these new Commissioners would
expedite the business. the eapeitce would be *ell
bestowed ; but he insisted. that if the Noble Lord
and his colleagues had managed the matter properly,
this 'aperitif need not have been incurred at all.
for the provisions of the Bill were as nearly as
passiltle the same as the Aft now in knee, anu the
old Cornmissiotieri cc.;ll have dime the business as
well as the new. 'fl.-re were, however, some
things in the Bill, which were r.ovel, and others
that I>r thought dangerous. He only desired, there.
fore. that the N ble Lord would in-fer going into
the Comroitt..e on the NUL fur twenty-tom hours.
that Sit might Ease time more fully ht consider the
sev-rul part' of it and be better preparsd to cad
the atienti.t.n et the libuse to their importance.
Lord H. rtior said, he thought the Right
Hcia., Gentleman dais not atted wiui any degree of
canti.u- or fairness. or he would have made his
re%nest for deld,?itrg to go in o the Corm:noun oil
to.ntnrrow ef-ire be had stated so many obildions
t ; toe Dill, as there would halve been no necessity
rt Lee done so. unless his request bad been rt,
llse Right Non. Gentleman having. how-
ever, it ori uis objedions to the aid. though be
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it became necess y roe him to answer thr. 3a (114.
thins as shortly a. po-Sible. Hi- denied, that 1..:
came down to the 110 t<e no of Meath, at, 1 it was
not. the fiat, that he sai.l he would astoltrlt them
and he wonl,f prove, wit it the Bill cause into the
Committee, or in any n her rag • ist the b•is;ues..
thst the prim; ions of tau• Hut were very diir.rsat
Irons chose of the A.5.t now in fuzee—shat the 11.11 was
absolutely neces.ary—and that the objetlivas ut the
Right. Hon. Gentleman to the adu.unn• of
Commissioners, wete idle and lus He lasit4ed
that the Bill was not calculated, ner t.ireatd ti the
mtaining of patrenitE,i.e, and that the addition t,f
nine .Commissioner. wsaild not be any extraorditaiy
espenee to she public, a. they wete intended -ohly
to be temporal y, and that their appointment via-.
labsolutely nee iisary, ht order to make their wog
through that immense accunsulatioa of accounts
which ha•l taken place, in conseqeence of the tn.
gle& of those whose duty it bad been to take c.ie
th.tt the public accounts slieuld have beat moperly
audited, and who should have prevented thel:
arising to that vast m.tss at which they now stoat.
He bad no objeatun to .the delay required; but
thought it necessary to say thus much, that the
Right Hon. Gentleman's assertions might not in
far work on the ignorance of the House, with u-
sped to the merits of the Rill, as to cause iaipre..
siuns against it which it did not merit.
'the Bill was then ordered to be committe.a. te.
morrow.

Mr. ROSE begged to know' of the NoYe Ltri,
when be meant to bring forward his oth.r 8.11, is
he should wish to be prepared to make his oh4.e-.
stations on that also ; and to be able to thew tf.e
House the great importance of their giving it t..eir
utmost attention.
Lord H. PETTY said, he hoped in a very f-vr
days he should be abltr co breig fotwaid Ore mil
to winch the Right Hon. Gentleman now alluded.
Mr. ROSE gave notice, that he wortli to-rntr.
row move for certain accounts, which would be
necessary to throw a light on this ,übjecl.
INLIIA PATERS.
Ter. PAUL moved for a copy of All the crate.
spondenee between the Secretary of the Gaveritur.
General and Major Ooselry, Aid-de-Camp to the
Nabob Vizier of Oude, from S.ptembet, 16M, to
January, 1803.
Sir A. WELLESLEY said, he did not rise to
obirtet to the produet ion of the papers moved for ; hut
as they related also to the transaCtions of Mr.
'Freres, who was not at present in this country, he•
submitted to the Honourable Gentleman, whehet
it would be candid to bring them lot ward ? He
had otherwise no obket whatever.
Mr. PAL% said, the papers were of the first im.
penance, to elucidate the charge he had laid ea
the table, and he must persist in nis motion.
M-. WELLESLEY POLE coincided io opinion
with his Honourable relation, on the subjedt of Mr.
Treks, whose charaeler would be implicated, with.
out 114 being ahle to defend himself ; as to hin -e:f
and his Honourable relation, they had neither of
them any objeCtion to the papers.
Mr. CREkVY thought the lloncuralik Grotty.
rran shinnd have given notice or such a motion as
the present.
Mr. PAUL said, that after the Ci•a-ge had
been so lung on the Table, he did ne: monk he
was or ought to be confined strialy to the rules
respeCting notices. It was very differom from the
first opepsog of a business of this kind.—The ;rapers
e-re hlkoly essential to the elncidatioss of the
1 Charge, And ha thought he had a .iglit to move
for tnem immediately ; he had, ho...ever, •no o'y T.
than that what bad passed should stand as a n.xce
to-morrow.
Mr. P. NIOORE gave notice, that he would to.
morrow move tor certain papers relative to lodic.
Sir A. WEI.LESLEY moved' for six Inclusurse
from the Governor General in Council, to..tkin
Court of Diteaors, datsd the 28th of Marc*,
I 803.—0 r dered.

CHELSEA HOSPITAL RILL
Mr. Secretary WINDHAM moved the third
reading of the Chelsea Hospital Bill. On the
cuestion being put ;
Mr. HUSKISSON said, he had, in a former
stage of the Bill, made his objeftions t•s n ; and
those objections lied been answered by the sup-
porters of the Bill. He had since maturely consi-
dered the answers given, and he found himself still
of tire same *plaints, and, Own-fore, kit it to be his
duty to re-s:ate those-bl3ik dims. He then said, he
LI./ _lett a ry attempt t r ilv.tie the prerogative, or
to intrer...h on the privi.eges of tf.e people, were
equally wrong, as both were essential parts of the
Constitution. Che Rigl t Honourable Gentleman,
in his military plan, had, in his opinion. done
both; and it had bean mentioned, as matter of
surprise, that those, on the same side of the
House with h'Jn, whn objefted to the inva-
sion of the prerogative, should stand up for the
privileges of the Pe iple. He though:, however.
they might do this without the smallest degree of
inconsistency. He then proceeded to repeat the
objections he had before made to tie Bill; and dwelt
particularly on the idea, that. by this plan of limited
service, the Veterans of the Army w:,uld be con-
tinually obtainiaz their di•charges, and would re-
main is the country, living on the bounty of the
Crown It was by sigh mes as tbise, that Mathit
and Syfla, among the Romans. overturned th.
Constitution of that Country, and it was dangero::
to place uds in a situation in which the same cliangt.
might be one day effected by the maciiina:ions of
the discoereated and the ambitious. He thought
also it %iris another very strung objection. t.i.:
when men were enlisted for seven years positlrel-
Parliament stood pledged they should be main-
tained fax that term ; anal if a peace should ta'.a
place in the intetins, they could not be discharged
wOhnut 4 breach of faith. wilich assimilated
to a permanent Army. From these various cciis:-
derations, be :mild out give his ascot to the thitJ
reading of this Bil!.
Geoeral TA)SLETON moved, " That th-
floule (which appeared at this time very thin)
should be counted;* upon which strangers were or-
dered to withdraw i lin., there heirg 40 Waite.:
preier.r. the discussion comln ord.

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THURSDAY, JUNE I.

bat suhjein to the ratification of Parliament. As to
enlistments, they were atols s made by His Ma:
jesty's authm it y, but annually submitted to Parlia-
ment, that the money may he provided ; there-
fore, tile head and front of that rot tat the oh.
jetticio, " had that rltrot—nu more." home time
• since, is became a que,ti,4), %Imager it was better
that the cor,fi,ielice should he placed by the
'Knit in the Crown, or by the Parliament in the
Croat ? When he c nsid:red that, he was of opi-
mon, that it was bet:er the confidence should be
placed in the Crown by Patliainent, as it was a
stronger party than the recruit. When a soldier
enlisted under the Old system, 'his dependence was
only on the Crown, in the first instance, but it was
also in the 'confidence that it would be ratified by
Parliament The greater part of the objeftioos of
the Hon. Gentleman were merely repetitions, and
some of them were new ; but they bad this dis-
advantage, that one half of them destroyed the
ether. He stated it as a complaint, that the effea
of the measure would he to fill the country with a
population of veterans. Now this, to many per-
sons, would appear a great advantage, especially in
country so circumstanced, that its great ohjeCt
sets to have a population of men in arms. That
a a, the ground-work of the Volunteer Associations.
Tiny were armed corps, but by some were deemed
defeetive. as they were not of that veteran description
the Hon. Geut. complained of, as being the only
persons from whom danger was to be apprehended I
He further complained of this, as creating a per-
manent army instead of an annual one; but. though
the disbanded tat might, from his foram *maim
be entitled to reward. he was no longer a soldier,
after he was disbanded. He objeEted that men,
after contrafting military habits, and in full health
and vigour. could not abandon them for civil em-
ployments ; but if that was the case, they would
remain in the army. for this measure did not drive
them from it, domes it Mated them to rewards.
and to their discharge. if they thought proper to de-
mand it. As to the pledge of public faith to the
recruit, that he should be retained for seven years,
that happened not to he the hat, for his oath was—
" L swear to serve His Majesty for seven years, if he
should so los* have occasion for my services." It
was an engagemeut which one of the parties re-
tained a right to dessolve; and were the objellien
valid, what would become of the Mutiny Act,
which was obliged to be submitted annually ? lu-
stead of these circum stance. being objectionable. he
should think it a considerable advantage to have
such men to recruit from, at the commencement ola
war. or int any other emergency. If it was true that
such men were dangerous amongst us. then we
must be considered as a most unwarlike people,
who have nothing in ourselves for defence, but must
entirely depend upon a standing army.
Mr. fIUSKISSON explained his objection to be,
that after this Bill, men would be receiving the pay
of soldiers, without being really such.
Sir J. PUL PENEY thought it strange that a
sneasnre of so mncb importance should be debated
and pressed forward in so thin au attendance.
Viscount CAS rLt REACH said, he had a num-
ber of obj Rion, to offer, which he wished to sub-
mit at considerable length, but h. thought it im-
proper to be under the necessity of doing so, when
there were not natmbers preset sufficient l coma-
tote a House.
Mr. WINDHAM replied, that he cams down
to the House in full confidence that no opposition

been solidly dist:ussed before, end he ways convinced
Pc was ender the same impression so many gentle-
men lcft the Noose
General I'ARLETOM then moved, that the
House sh•nuid he counted;" when the gallery was
cleared, a.td there being nn satire than thirty-five
Members preseat, the House accordingly ad-
icatrattl.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

The High Court of Parliament will meet this
morning at ten o'clock., when their Lordships will
proceed to give judgment is the case of Vi.count
Mstvitts. The Articles of lmpeachmen•, of
which' there are ten. will be read over, and the
question of guilty or not gsilty will be put se-
verally and respeitively upon each article to each
Peer, be:;inning with the junior. As each ar-,
tide is read to him, the Peer lays his right
Nand ar:nn his left breast, and says. " guilty"
upen my honour;' as the case
may be. From the length of the articles, and the
form used o?on the occasion, it is calculated, that
to collect the judgment of each Peer will ctosume
about twelve minutes and a half, being at the rue
of ive Peers in an hour. It is, therefore, preintrseds
Via; the judgment of aU Cie Peers attending can•
rot be collected in the coarse of this day, and that
the business will run into to-moron•. We wait only
for the result, to lay an able and faithful revrt of
the trial before our readers.

The East IrdiA ships so long at St. Helena, and
for which so much ar,:ery WAS er., rtcned, arrived
safe off Plymouth. on \1.,.r.1af• evenir.g, the 9th
instant.

Th-y comist of the C-sh'e 1. en, Paw, Air'?
nu*, Gemrtd agrat:nes, Trurers, and Cap-
myth-s ; Syria, asd another SVhater, is cow-