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IMPERIAL PAR6iAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—WcwagoAv, MAY 16•

The Wine Duties Bill, English and Irish Loan
Bills, Militia Officers Allowance Bill, with Cune-
ton's I.:state Bill, and other private Bills, received
the Royal Assent by commission. The Commis-
sioners present were the Lord Chancellor, and Lerd*
Hawkesbury and Walsingbam.
In the appeal, William Greive o. Lieut. Colonel
Francis Cunningham and J Ames Gtey, Mr. Hominy
and Mr. Warner were heard for the Appellant. The
ferther hearing was adjourned to Friday next.
The minutes of the Committee on the Aylesbury
Ele&h.ri were brought np from the Commons, and
presented by Mr. Alm:ander, in consequence of
their Lnrdshi ps' message. Two private Bills were
brought from the Commons, and read the first time.
A Petition was presented by Lord Walsingham
against tie Aylesbury Eleaion Bill, signed by cer-
tain Eleftors of that Borough.—Ordered to lie on
the table. The second reading of the Bill was post-
poned till that day fortnight.
Adjourned to to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS
The Speaker and several Members attended in
the House of Lords, and heard the Royal Assent
given by Commission to several public and private
Bills. Anion- the public, were the English and
Irish Loan Bills, the Wine Duty Bill, the English
Militia Officers Bill, the Bill for making a provision
for reduced Subaltern Officers of the. -English Mi-
litia, the Statue .)uty Composition Bill, the West
India Dock Road Bill, &c.
Mr. YORKE reported from the Committee ap-
pointed to try the merits of the Petition of Thomas
Sheridan, Esq. complaining of an uvulae eleainn
aid return for the Borough of Liskeard ; that the
Committee had determined that William Huskisson,
Esq. was duly eleaed, and that the Petition of Mr.
Sheridan ass not frivolous or vexatious.
Mr. FOSTER brought up a report from the
Irish Exchange Committee, which was ordered to
be printed
Certain Accounts were presented at the Bar. from
the Commissioners of Excise, and Commissioners of
Customs in Scotland. Some accounts were also
brought up from the Secretary of State's Office.
Ordered CO be printed.
Mr. ROSE brought up the Report of the Commit-
tee appointed to try the merits of the Petition of
William Huskissen, Esq. complaining of an undue
Return, &c. for the Borough of Liskeard ; and he
said the Committee had direaed him to inform the
House, that they had come to a Resolution, that
William Huskisson, Esq. only should have been re-
turned as a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the
Borough of Liskeard. And they had also come to
a Resolution, that John Damon, the Under She-
riff of the County of Cornwall, in annexing to the
Writ returned to the Clerk of the Crown, the In-
denture complained of in Mr. Huskisson's Petition,
had aged contrary to his duty as Under Sheriff, and
in violation of the Privileges of Parliament.
Mr. SHERIDAN said, he should just beg leave
to trouble the House with a word or two on this
subjeO. It was far from his intention to find fault
with the Resolution which the Committee had come
to. He believed it was a very proper one ; but as
Mr. Damon had, on a former occasion, been charg-
ed with gross corruption, he was glad to see, by the
present report of the Committee, that that charge
was negatived, because be was convinced no such
thing could be made good ; and he had no doubt
but that if Mr. Damon was allowed to be heard be-
fore that House. he would be able to prove, to the
satisfaaion of every Member in it, that his condua
did not arise from any deliberate intention of viola-
tingthe privileges of Parliament.
Mr. ROSE replied, that the Committee had made
that report, which it appeared to them to be their
duty to do. As to Mr. Damon having an oppor-
tunity of being heard, he must inform the House,
that his condua in the business in question had been
defended by very able Counsel before the Commit.
tee, and therefore no opportunity was wanted, by
which be could have vindicated h mself. The Com-
mittee, upon considering the whole of the case,
made be report in quesuon, under the impression
that the House would adopt some proceeding in
consequence of it, and consider whether it might
not he proper to order a prosecution to be earned
on against Mr. Damon. The Committee were
certainly of opinion, that this man had tided in the
manner he did, wilfully and knowingly; and whe-
ther he had aaed from corrupt motives or not, his
condua was the same with regard to the effeft it
must have had upon the public.
Mr. ROSE then moved, that the report of the
Committee, which had just been made to the House,
be taken into consideration on this day fortnight,
and that the minutes of tie evidence taken before
the said Committee, be laid before the House. Ile
also moved that the Clerk of the Crown do attend
to-morrow, to amend the late return for Liskeard,
by taking from the the the indenture sent by the
Under Sheriff of Cornwall, and purporting to be
the return of Thomas Sheridan, Esq. for the borough
of Liskeard.
The Committee on the Westminster. Court House
Bill was put off to this day st'nnight.
Mr. DUNI)AS brought up a Bill for preventing
the Sale of Liquors by unlicensed persons in Scot-

'Aid. Read i fiist; and ordered to be read a second
time to-morrow. 1
The Bill for apprehending Criminal Offenders
passing from one part of the United Kingdom to
another, was, on the Motion of the Attorney Ge-
neral, read a second time, and ordered to be com-
mitted for Friday.
Mr. STEELE presented a Petition from certain
Linen Merchants in the court!, of Kent, against
certain Petitions from Ireland already presented to
the House, respeEting the Linen Trade. Ordered to
he referred to the Committee on the other reticions.
Sir JOIIN NEWPORT gave notice that, on to-
morrow se'zinight, he would bring forward a Mo-
tion on the subjea of the Property Tax, so fir as
it regarded persons from Ireland who were o'uliged
to have a temporary residence in this country.
A new Writ was ordered to be issued for a Com-
missioner to serve in Parliament fur Sutherland,
in the room of the Right Honourable William
bundas' who, since his eleflion for the same, had
vacated his seat, by accepting the office of Secretary
at War.
Mr. WILBERFORCE put off his Motion which
stood for Friday next, relative to the Slave Trade,
till to-morrow se'nnight. Adjourned.

This Day—Princess of WA Lteg BiabAlay—lioliday at the
Public Offices.

THE BRITISH. PRESS•

LONDON,
THURSDAY. MAY 17.

The new Ministerial arrangements are nearly com-
pleted.
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The following Members constitute the

NEW CABINET.
!mid Eldon,
I Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
t,
Mr. Pit tint Lord of the Truantry.
Viscount Melville, . . First Lard of the Admiralty.
Earl Chatham, . . . . Mailer General of the Ordnance.
Doke of Portland, . . . Prmident of the Council.
Earl of Wevtinurland, . Lord Privy Seal.
Lmd Harrowby, . . . (Secretaries—ii.Foreir DePanment•
Lord Ilawkeittury, . . Home Department.
Earl Camden, • . . . ( War Department.
Viscount Castlineagh . Presided of the Board of Controul.
Lord Mulgrave, . . . Chancellor oftheDuchy Lancaster.
Pcntruaster General, voce Lord
Duke of Montrose, . . Auckland.
This is the first tine a Post Muter General has
been a Cabinet Minister.
MINOR ARRANGEMENTS.
LORDS Or Tilt ADMIRALTY.
Sir P. Stinihuts, Admiral Gambier,
Sir 11. B Neale. Admiral Patten,
Sir J. Colpoys, W. Dickeasoa, jun. EA.
LORDS OF TUt TREASURY.

Lord Fitztvarris,
Lord Louvain.,
?he Hon H. Wel►esey.

Mr. Scott,
Mr. Long.
Sccritaries of the Treasury,
Mr Canning . . . . Treasurer of the Navy.
Mr. W. Humid, . . Secretary at War.
Earl of Dartmouth, . . Lore Chamberlain.
M. Rose,
Lunt G. Thy nne, . .
Hun. John Spencer, . . Receiver• General for Oxfordshire
M;. Percival, . . . Attorney General.
Mr. Dallas,
IRISH ARRANGEMENT.

Lord Redentale, . . . Lord Chancellor.
The other Irish appointments, we believe, are not
yet finally settled.

We understand that Louts the XVIII. King of
France and Navarre, means to protest solemnly in
his own name, in the name of the BOURBONS, and
particularly in the name of the French nation,
against the elevation of a foreign usurper to His
Majesty's throne under the title of Emmaus, by
certain individuals, calling themselves the Senate
and Tribunate of France, and falsely arrogating to
themselves the power to dispose of His Majesty's
rightful crown and dignity. In this protest, His
Most Christian Majesty calls upon all legitimate
Sovereigns to defend their legitimate rank and rights;
upon all Europe to defend its independence ; and
upon all the world to defend the laws of humanity ;
upon all civilised nations to resist the return of
Vandalism ; and upon all Christians to unite in op-
posing atheism and immorality. This protest is said
to be written in a spirited and dignified style. We
hope we shall soon be able to lay it before our
readers.

men.

We yesterday inserted a sketch of the eloquent
Address of the Bishop Assizes to the inhabi-
tants of his see, which will be read with interest.
The want of religion caused the French rebellion,
has preserved the French rebellion, and continues
the French tyranny. In the fashionable circles of
many of the French nobility and clergy in 178 e, re-
ligion was seldom the subjea of conversation ; but
when it happened to be spoken of, it was to turn it
into ridicule. Among the mass of the French peo-
ple, ignorance and immorality walked hand in
hand. Frenchmen went to church as to the play ;
they kneeled before the Altar of Christ with the
same feelings as thry applauded a tragedian upon
the stage. The external ceremonies of religion, an.l
the religious processions amused them in the same
way as the decorations or processions of an opera;
and they kft the mass a, they left the farce, enter-
tained, but neither improved r.c.r edified.

The first thing, therefore., 1!e conspiring rebel, of
the Constitutional Assembly did, for the de,•rudloo
of Christianity, was to deprive religion of its lustre,
and the clergy of their riches; and that they have
completely succeeded, cannot be doubted by any
one, who remembers that in I the French natioll
worshipped MA It AT and ROBESPIERRE ; in
the Goddess of Reason ; in 179.1, the God of the
Theophiluntropes was adored ; in 171)5, Atheit:n
was preached ; in 1796, Deism was tasir;onahle,
proscribed in its turn, in 1797, by the •)s
Atheists of the Jacobin fadion ; in 1798, v.i!,n
RoN P A urr led his army into the Mosques of M
HOMET, in Egypt, and preached the tenets of pre-
destination, the Diredory pushed the French Re-
publicans into the bagnios of the 'llieophilanthro.
pists, to hear the dodrine of fatality, proclaimed by
regicides, rebels, plunderers, and assassins.

After the Revolution. effected by ALT Bo oar Au rr.,
in 1799, he began to think of the Christian religion,
which, his patrons and accomplices, for the eight
preceding years, never mentioned but to proscribe,
or calumniate. In 1800, the French emigrant priests
were permitted to return. In 1801, a concordat
was signed with the Pore ; and. in 180 Q, after the
peace of Amiens, this concordat was, by a Senuties
Comultus, declared a constitutional law. But it was
more easy for BOSAPiIt TE to reseal the exiled French
priests, than to restore religious principles to a
nation, tormented for twelve years by the innova.
tions of revolutionary philosophers, or trembling
under the daggers of atheistical assassins. Most of
the churches were, besides, sold ; and the sums of .1
money allowed for the salaries of clergymen. or for
the expences of religious worship, did not amount
to half of what was assigned to the national feasts
and the opera. The consequence, In corrupted
France, is evident, when thousands of Frenchmen
are emulous to become aaors or dancers; none pre.
sent themselves to take priest's orders, so, as the
Bishop of Amiens expresses himself in the eloquent
address to the inhabitants of his See, " The time
will, perhaps, soon come, when in France the I
Christian religion will descend into the tomb with its
last preacher.”—From 1789 to 1800 (according to
French authors), Upwards of six thousand four hos- t
dred priests Live been murdered in France; teo
thousand nine hundred exiled and proscribed, and
eighteen hundred transported. What young
Frenchmen, will, therefore, renounce the enjoy,
ments of life and enter into holy orders, for the
sake of baing insulted, beggared, and, perhaps,
murdered, u Mout any probable prospect of
doing any good, as all those Frew& youths
of both sexes, whom the revolution over-
took in their first lustre, have never been taught
any religions notions, whilst they have daily heard
the blasphemies of Atheists, and witnessed their bar- I.
barities ; seen their horrid triumphs, incomprehen-
sible successes, and dangerous impunity ? The crimes t
of former priests who have joined in the rebellion, i
as those of a Bishop TA LLILYILAND, an Abbe
Sinus and G sitcoms, a friar Foucua, and others,
have besides thrown upon the priesthood in France
an odium. which neither the Concordats of the
POPE nor BONAPI ST I'S SCUM COOSIIitIIS can re-
move. Ages are necessary to repair the scandalous
abominations of some few years, and of some few

On Tuesday, Mr. Witt' All Don Dad had the boi
nous to kiss His Majesty's hand on his being ap-
pointed Secretary at War, and yesterday that gen-
tleman attended at the War °Zee, and masa:led,
business.
Yesterday Lord Metvitts, Admiral Giants',
and Mr. DICILENSON, the new Lords of the Admi-
ralty, attended at the War Office, and transafled,
business for the first time since their appointments.
Yesterday at ten o'clock. Mr. Pita. had an au-
dience of His MAJ LSI Y for a considerable time.
Two of the Newfoundland fleet, which sailed on
the 94 from Waterfoid, have been taken by the
General Aufercau French privateer, off Cape Clear.
The Captain of the Angered% is also said to have
previously taken three English vessels, one of which
was from Liverpool.
Monday se'nnight, the 17th regiment embarlce
at Cork, for Portsmouth, on board the transport
which have been for some days waiting there
the regiment consisted of upwards of 900 men, a
of whom appeared in the highest spirits. Major;
Gen. Sir E. Coo re, and the Earl of Coax, attend-
ed daring the embarkation, which was comrletec
at 9 o'clock, A.M with much regularity and d..co•
rum. They proceeded to sea io the evening. Then
troops expeift to sail from Portsmouth for the
Indies.
A Court of Directors was yesterday held at tin
East India House, which adjourned a: a late 1.4,U1
till eleven o'clock to-morrow.
The Atnitti'h Carle East Indiaman is on sh. r
Long Reach. hut it is expated she will be E
without much damage.
The East India ships Lord Eldon and Teterrirli
for Malaria, Madras, and Bengal, and the / ant,
molt, for Madeira and Bombay, are under J,
patch, and are cap:led shortly to sa;l
with several ships for China.
Private letters from Chira sir F that ttanepi:..t
has at le•.-zth been wanted 'lt I •Em .-e
The ;o6IY COU11:r of the st
"We are truly • orry to b. or f.. 4f e it
failure of the to •s this /XIV t in .nr.iiva:tte
neighbourhc. d, ant the high , ices of gi.!..1
this unfortunate disa.ls.i.,ltariit ilrca.ii
sioned throughout these islands."

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