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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEEPS.
MONDAY, JUNE 23.
The House met about half past two. Counsel
were heard, and evidence examined, on Simpson's
'Divorce Bill, which was read a second time. The
other Bills on the Table were forwarded in their
_respeffive stages; awl the House adjourned, soon
after three, till to-morrow (this day).

HOUSE .OF .COMMONS.
MONDAY, JUNE 23.
Sir JOHN- NEWPORT brought up the Irish Militia
Volunteering Bill; read a first, and ordered to be
read a second time on Friday.
The Irish School Bill was committed ; report to-
morrow.

TRISH ELECTION BILL.
Sir JOHN _NEWPORT moved the Order of the
Day for going into a Committee upon the Irish
Ele&ion Bill. He said, that his obje& in making
this-Motion was merely for the purpose of having
the blanks filled up in- the Committee; that he
shoulsl• then move to have the Bill, printed ; and,
that; it might not be said that he 'had taken the
House- by surprize, or that he wished to-pass a
Bill the mature and obje& of which the, people of
Ireland were unacquainted • with, he would then
move to ii,ostpbne it till early in,lhe next Session of
Atrliament.-, It was his wish that the Bill should
he fully understood by, the people 'of Ireland, and
that they should have ample time to -Consider it,
because he was convinced that the more it was,con-
sidered, and the better it was made known,• the
more it would be approved of. Upon these grounds
he was willing to postpone the Bill till next Session
of Parliament ; but at the sane time he begged to
give notice, in -the most clear and distinEt manner,
that it was his firm intention, anearly period of
the next Session,
,again to bring forward this
•Bill in,
the exaa form that it would, appear wfien it-came
out of the Committee. The People of Ireland
would then, during She surfimer, have an opportu-
nity of examining this, Bill and Gentlemen would
ii ire kb, -COnsider whether any ,amendments or
improvements could be made in the Bill. Having
thus explained his intentions, he should move that
the*HOuSedo resolve itself into a ComMittee upon
the said Bill. r .
Col. VEREKER said, that as the Right Honour-
able Baronet did not mean to press the Bill this Ses-
sions he would not now oppose the . SPEAKER'S
leaving the Chair; but he at the same time hoped
that he might not be supposed to consent in any
degree to the principle of the Bill, which he con-
ceived to bt founded upon injustice,' and, a violation
• of 'the chartered Rights of -the Corporatiens of Ire,
land.--,Rights which had been granted to them 'in
the earliest ages, and which they had preserved invio,
late until tills attack made upon them by the bightpon.Baronet. He therefore b,..gged to give notice that
he would use his utmost endeavours to explain the na-
ture of t his Bill to all, the Corporations of which he
was a member, and that was five or six, -and to obtain
petitions against the Bill next Session. He should also
elaiin it as a rigtit that the Petitioners should be
.heard by Connsel agz:iinSt the Bill. He concluded
With declaring that',he did riot think the Right Hon.
Baronet haa inought., in the Bill so much from gene:-
ral purposes as with a view to the City of Waterford
The HOliso then 'resolved itself into a Committee
upon.the Bill, and the blanks were filled up.
The House'being resumed, the Report-was brought'
Up and was prclered to be taken into consideration on
that 'day two months, and the Bill to be printed.
• Mr. ALEXA NDER sid, that as his Right Hon.
• Friend, had given up 'this Bill rug this' Session, he
. .(Mr. Alexander) should not now make the Motion
of which he' had given notice on Friday. His ob-
it:ft in ,giving that notice was merely to draw the
'attention of the English Members to the, subjea,
but as the Bill relating to Ireland was withdrawn;
his Motion was not necessary.•
The Irish Spirit LiCence,Bill was committed.—Re-
port to-morrow. •
Sir JOHN 'NEWPORT gave notice, that early next
Session.,he would move for leave to bring-in a Bill
to. remove all obstructions to the Trade between
Great Britain and Ireland,' as fat as the- same was
pra6ticable.
A Petition was presented from the British Fire
Insurance Office against the Globe Insurance Coni-
parry Incorporation Bill.—Ordered to lie on the
Table.
Mr. Hoanonsi brought up the Report of the
West-India -Trade Bill. After a few words horn
Mr. CA NNISG, the Report was ordered to be further
consitle:ed on Wednesday.
The Stamp Office Regulation Bill was committed.
Report to-morrow.
Mr. PAULL Moved for Copied of the Treaties con-
cluded with the Nabob of Oude, from 1765 to• 1801..
77--Ordered.---,He then moved, that the Order-for the
Account of the Nett Revenue of Oude should be
,complied ivith forthwith.
Mr. PAULL, as he understood that the General
Training Bill 'was to be discussed to -morrow, post-
poned iris Motion for the printing, of the first Charge
against Marquis Wellesley till Wednesday.
• Lord Hoi.etets moved, that Mr. Giles and others
should be. added to the Committee ,to which the
Surgeons' Petition was referred.—Ordered,
DISABLED SEr)MEN..
Lord H. PETTY appeared at the Bar with a Mes-
sage fr9m His Majesty. This being brought up,
was read by the Speaker as followa

" G. R.

"lira ej 'STY haying taken into his most serious'cort,
sideration the expediency of making amore efiednal provi:
#i,n tut aged, disabled, and wounded Seamen, is desirous of
procuring the assistance of hii faithful CoMmons towards
attaining this desirable objed ; and His Mt.TESTY has been
pleased :a declare, that he is willing to grant such part of the
prJp4icy arising from Fr4F:s to be condemned, as to the wis_
dam of Parliament shall seem ptoper, tor the. benefit of
preenwich hospital and the Chest 'at Greenwich, in such
manner as may be settled by Ad of Parliament."
This Message was ordered tp be referred to a
committee to-morrow.
The Land-Tax Cpmrpissioners Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday.
.Y4zestl-rAAT presented a Iteport pf the
CPCPPtrOCT4' of army ACc9uPtP!r—Pf494 Uz' lie
efltheTO.llql

The Report of the Committee on the T.rewfor,pcl-.
land Trade, was committed.' In the ComtnitteWdr.
VANSITTAIiT moved, that, fish should be a110w,.-!cl to
be imported, for a time to be limited, and that a
bounty of 3s. per owl. of fish should be granted.
This was agreed to.--41eport to-morrow.
The Excise Office Regulation' Bill, and the Cit.-,
tom-house Fees Bill, were read a third time and
'passed,

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
Lord HENRY PETTY rose, in pursuance of
the notice which lie'had formerly 'given, to submit
to the House
,a•plan 'for the xtiore effectual auditing
of the Public 'AccOunts.- 'The House would do him
the justice to believe, that after the views which he,
had stated'on a formeroccasion on this subjed, and
the sense which he entertained of the magnitude and
pressing nature of the evil, no unnecessary delay had
taken place in bringing forward this plan,. but -that
every moment had been employed in the investiga-
tion of the subjeCt, 'and providing means for ob-
viating every possible objeClion. He was glad,
howevd,:that. be was enabled) notwithstanding the
diculties.that. stood in the 'way, .to 'move for this
Bill, before the conclusion of the present Session of
Parliament. Without 'going over the grounds ever

which he had formerly travelled, or entering upon
statemetits which had. then appeared, to convince
the-House of the necessity of doingsomething for.
the purpose of having this mass of Accounts • au-•: •
di/ed, he.would content himself with laying before
the House the basis of the plan which. he had in
view, and Mentioning the amount of the Accounts
Which remained unaudited, with respect. to 'which
he had now more full and corred'information, than
he had
.when he'hadbefore occasion to address the I
House oh this Point. Wheti this was considered
it would be a proof-*--not, certainly, of the efficacy
of the mezisuri, but undoubtedly of the necessity of
doing something.' , He would afterwards chew, that •
his method was the only•one which was likely to
be attended with the desired success. The amount
of Accounts unaudited .was greater than he had be-
fore stated. The amount of. Atcounts delivered in
Was above 52 millions ;:the amount of Accounts
under examination was 169 millions ; the amount
of Army
„Accounts not delivered' in was 209
millions ; of Navy Accounts not delivered in
100,820,0001. ; which; added to three millions! of •
unaudited Accounts' in another department, made a
total of about 534 millions-of money. That enor-
' 'Mous amount of unaudited Accounts it was the ob--
jeCt of the present Administration, as far as in them
lay, fo endeavour to audit. He had before men-
tioned that a great, step had before been taken for
that purpose--to *which an. addition had been made
last year, which was infinitely better calculated to
answer the purpose in view, and which would form'
a considerablp part of the institution that he was
now about to submit tb the House:, He would now
state. the ,plan more dirt idly.' But first he Ought
to-observe, that the two Comptrollers of the Army
Accounts were to be separated frpm it entirely ; a
measure, the expediency of which had been already
recognized. After this separation It was intended
to consolidate the two existin3. Beards, and to add
four Cotmpissioners ; one of these would
,be
Chairman with_' an increase of ,salary. It was in-.'
' tended that the application of these Boards to -any
particular business relatink, to the.Aceourits,
oc-
casion might require, should ,be left in the handS
of the Treasury, which must -be best able to judge
how the business ought to We appOrtioned. .At
sent;hrever, it was proposed, that out, of the ten
CommisSioners; four Should be entrusted With the
. auditing, of the current accounts, and these would
1-form the first. Board:- .The :second. Board would

consist of, three COthmissioners, and. these would

have- the charge of those:AecoUnts which. were, nOw
under, examination. The thitd Board would- also
' consist of three Commissioners, whose businegs it
would be 'to bring up,fhose.Accounts
.which .were
entirely in atrear, and not entered On at =all. This
was what at 'present appeared to be the most useful.
orrangernent. At- the same time it would be ex. 4..
pedient to leave the power with the '-Treasury;
to: alter it as they should see occasion„ because
the Treasury would, have ,the' best 'opportunity ,
of observing -how the . different Boards..wrought,
and what might be the, most effe&ual mode -of
carrying. -speedily . fel-ward: the, great work which
' must be. managed in some Manner or other.— ,
Whatever errors therefore might occur; the Tea
sury would'be enabled to ,recut}them and to make
up in some measure for the defeas which might
escape the notice of Parliament in passing the Bill.
As the Establishment was by this plan undoubtedly.
considerably increased in the .lirst instance, it was
proposed to have the advantages of this increase
with 'as little expence to the Public, and with as
little additional) power to ..Ministers, as --possible.
With this view a provision would be introduced
into the Bill, by which in .no instance in case of a
vacancy by death could the loss be supplied till the
number was reduced to five, without coming to
Patliament, and on such occasions the House would
have an opportunity of discussing the necessity for,
or the expediency of, the several appointments, and
. of ascertaining' how the work Went on. This would')
ofl-d employment to the ten Commissioners' till-1
they were reduced to the permanent number, which
was six. But in the event of the business getting
a s ter than was expeCted, a thing not very likely
to occur, in 'that case t}.-.ere was a provision by which
the CommonS; by address to His Majesty, might
suppress any of, the Commissioners. But, however,
Parliathent wand have the
,whole under its own eye.
But' the greatest provision' respetling-the current ac:.
counts was, that there should be a compulsion ex-
tending to 'allAccotintantS, by which they must send
in their accounts froth year to year. He had Obte
some doubts whether this provision could
.be now
introduced, but he had the satisfaaion to find, upon
examination, that it might" be done, and accordingly
this provision was introduced into the Bill. - It was
proposed, within the space of three months from
the 31st of December in 'each year, every AcCountAnt
should send in an account of his receipts and expen-
ditnre. for the year preceding, together with the
vouchers connected with them i and it was more-
over proposed, that immediately upon those accounts
being gi-len in, an examination should linthwith be
entered upon, and a Comparison take place 'between
voucher, accounts and the voner, so that "they should
at least be o far examined at the time they were de.::
livered. And also in those Cases, Where Officers
must, from the necessity of circumstances; examine
tlieei;* recount ditfocP PF,lii;s4; it '!%'a! proposed

that the accounts should be given in there three
Months before that period, instead of the three
months from the 3'i st of December, as in other in-.
stances. Another part of the Bill, though a -subor-
dinate one, certainly was to enable the Accountants
to have their accounts attested wherever they 'should
be, Wore any of the Canmissioners of the Ex-
.chequer, which, as these were spread over the whole
Country, wciuld ;be - a very -•great • • convenience.
Another part of the Bill he considered as of great
importance, and that was the provision by, which all
those Public Officers who authorised the ,expendi-
ture of the public money should he eharged•with
that expenditure, and made accountable for it. He
mentioned the instance of a General Officer who in
the West Ihdies,s during the last War, had autho-
rised the expenditure of 200,0001. By mere acci-
dent he had not a Commissary with him.. If there
had been a ComMissary, as the Commissary-would
expend and the Officer would have the confront over
him, neither of them could be charged with it. As it
happened, however, the Officer- was responsible, and
:when that account came to be examined it was dis-'
allowed. It was therefore provided, that all who
_authorised the expenditure of. money should be re-
sponsible ; but at the same 'time an appeal was
allowed them to the &Chequer in case 'they fel!:
thetnselves aggrieved. It was : also provided, that
*hen ACcountants paid in any part, of the finds
-which had been issued to them , in their proper
Office, they should be, considered' as so far aCquitted.
There now remained only tosstate the authority-
which was to be committed to these-Commissioners.
The nature of this authority was to remain as before,'
but to extend over all persons who hact the care of
stores, &c. See.; all which persons they should be
einpeSvered to call before "them. In addition to this,
it. Was proposed that the C.omptrollers of the Army.
should have the power of calling, all persons before
them who were concerned in the Military Expetidi-z-
-tiare of the Country, and their poWers were .to be
placed exactly on the same footing as they werewhen
the Commission was first created , in the Reign of
Queen, Anne. These Comptrollers were to be the
Advisers of the Treasury -in all matters corineaed
with the Military Expenditure, and -in case any
persons for whom they Called should refuse to ap-
pear, which he was told was sometimes the case,
they should have: the power of imposing , a fine
ton all -such persons. ,There was one. thing more
which it was, incumbent on him to state, and that
was, that 'where the:stores were embezzled a va:-
luation was to be made, and the: persons who
had the care of those' stores were to be charged
with the amount according to the valuation. ,He•
had now stated the principal 'particulars. of -the
plan which it was proposed to carry into execu-
tion for the auditing Of:. the Public Accounts. '-'lf
'any .thing further could' s be, suggested. for this'
'great object, it would be thankfully attendedao, ‘. As.
to' the Millet-tat-ice of getting
.rid of this mass 'of
Accounts, ,it was too obvious to require any coin-
ment. But as to :the patronage that .might thus be
conferred on the3reasury? that was a point which
he wished to betheroUghly inieftigated, a, ail opi-
nion seemed to 'be entertained by some, that there
was a design in this to augment -the patronage col
the Treasury. All he could say-at present was, that
both his Noble Friend (Grenville), and he himself,
were extremely anxious to avoid any thing that could
have the tendency of giving patronage to the Trea-;
sun, ;. and :if there. could be any other ,mode by
which the end proposed could be eft-eau-ally: an-.
swered; 'that Mode would•he gladly adopted.. Bat
what .; scheme - could be proposed, that` would be
equally well calculated to attain' the desired oh-'
jea, and yet keep free of the Ached *Miens,.
he could not at present possibly conceive. In ad-
ditionfti that he cOuld safely say, that -the utmost
attention had been paid to the means 'of'
that patronage as- much as it could be. done in
consistency with the, attainment-of the object of
the measure. He had stated how the' Comtnis-
-sioners were• to- be re-placed till they were re-
duced to five innqnbees. and as to InspetStors (for
'some InspedOrs'there must el necessity be):, it was in-
tended to select, them entirely-on account of their
merits, and•the selection would be made from the
most meritorious Cominissaries, on half-pay, by
which Means ,the whole amount of their half-pay
would be saved to they public. The Examiners
would be taken from Clerks now belonging to
the Boards, and every' thing would be done .to
render the Measure as economical! and efficacious
as possible. With regard to a large class 'of
counts, he had been told that they were subject 'to
no risk, and that they were only mentioned with a
view to. swell the List of the Commissioners. • That
some of the 'ACCOunts were of this de,cisetion he.
was by no meals disposed to deity-,--but ,5 till the la:
hour must be gone' through, and these- Accounts
must be examined-. 'But as to the point of risk; it
sometimes happened that there was some. risk,
where, at first view, there appeared to be.
There were instances of this even in the Bank. Ac-.
count. He mentioned one instance; in which seven
hundred thousand, poUnds had been issued from/the
Bank to one individual in the West Indies. • He
'had been On 'a former occasion accused of ignorance:
on this, head, and told- the Accann of Valentine
Jones had no more to do with the Bank than it
had to do with the Hackney-coach Office, 'a com-'
parison which the Right HoneGentletnan's (Mr.
Rose) experience enabled him to make. He 'would
state the particulars of that transaction, and leave
the matter to the judgment of the House.
_ln the
year 1797
,several Bills had-been drawn on the Trea-
sury, which applied to the Bank to discharge those
bills, and bills to the amount of 1,600,0001. were
discharged, and when the subsequent Loan was
made.- the Bank detained the amount. They pre-
sented their Accounts to the Anditors—the latter
refused to allow the sum which had been drawn by
Mr. Jones, which the Bank had also withheld. In
; 1798 an ex post faaa Clause, was introduced into
the Loan Bill, sanctioning this condud of. the Bank,
• empoWering the Auditors to admit the account,
and making Mr-Valentine Jones. Insnper on the
Bank Account. .This sum, therefore, had seine-
" thing more to do with the'Bank Account than it had
to do with the Hackney-coach Office. tie would
not accuse the Right Hon. Gentleman of ignorance
'on this subject—,;he would only call it a 'sort of want
of recollection. Undoubtedly, 149 w-ever, he allow-
ed, that with, regard to the far greater part . of the
Bank Account there was 11Q risk, and as to the
Paymaster, he allowed that tits VayMasters them,
sa were YerY 4.94944121 V Vcrsys, 19; ilae I)Pt

sons under them abroad, and in many place; at
home, might be of a very different description.---.
But, however, he would not go on describing the dif-
ferent shades which might be pointed out on these
topics. All that be wished to do was, to spew that
great risk was, upon the whole, sustained from the
unaudited state of the Accounts. Besides this, he
had lio.doubt that considerable sums might be re- •
covered ;- and; at any rate,--the example would-be,
beneficial, and produce a considerable.effea on all.
those 1.-Crho were entrusted with the public 'Money.
In this view the measure would be of immense
utility. It had heensaid that the War Office, parti—
cularly required revision. In that he most petleEtly.
agreed, and it was certainly extremely desirable that
a • new distribution and new regulations could he
made 'in that Office. But so many points had come
under consideration that be was not prepared with'
any measure respecting' the -War Office at present: •
But this, however, Would. most certainly be speedily
attended to. But in the mean time ,the want of
thiS would not take away from the value of the
measure now_ proposed, as far as it went. He
pledged himself ticat next Session he would' pro.
pose some Plan ;to regulate the Accounts of the
War' Office.' 'But in the mean time we ought to
proceed immediately
,with all that could be done for
the present. -He coriChicled• by MOVing- for leave -to"
bring in a Bill for consolidating the two Boards of
Commissioners, and for the
,more eiredual Auditing
the Public Accounts in arrear. On recolleeting
himself after he sat down, he rose again and stated,
that the expence of the permanent Commission
would be: less by 10001 a-year than the expence of
the' Establishment at present. The expence of the •
present EStablishment was 2B,oool.—that of his
permanent *Commission would be 27,000 ; the ex-.7.
pence of the temporary addition would be 14,0001.
more, whiCh 'would make it in all 41,0001,
Mr. ROSE did not-mean to obje& to the bring.
ing in of ‘his Bill, but contended, that the far greater
part of the sums which-his Lordship had mentioned '
were mere formal Accounts, where it was Morally
impossible that any thing could be lost to the Public
or expeaed 'to be recovered. He then made a state-
ment shewing where' the far.greater part of the
coOnts had in fa& been already examined, and with.
respe& to which the examination of the Auditors
.was a mere• Point of form. Froth this he asserted'
that out of 'the 534 millions mentioned.by the No-
ble. Lord, only eight millions No-mined in fa& to be
examined andaudited. : Some AcCounts stated that
there Were balances of 200,0001. remaining due,
' but that was from the year 3743, and that might
as well 'be' allowed to drop out -of the books for .
they could never be recovered. NO new powers,
he contended, would be' here given to the Cdmmis-
sioners=and he read some Extra&s from the former
Ad.t6 Sbew that the Cointnissioners at present exist-
,. ,
ipg' had the Same. powera as were here proposed to
be-granted to the new Commissioners: He doubted
whether thefaur additional Commissioners were ne.
cessary, or the -additional Ipspedors. He particU.-
larly dwelt on the War'Office being negleEted, which
was the most' important. of- all, and where ten mil-
lions- a year was expended. unaccounted for any
where but at that -Office. The Batik, he still con-
tended, had nothing to do with -Valentine Joneasslie.
Count, for he dreav the money, as, otherCommissariea
did, 'on account of the :Paymaster; but he allowed
that
,Bank had
.beep
.gnilty of an irregularity.—
HC ihen stated, with regard to himself and his sine.
cure; that he had•taken the Office of Secretary to
the Treasury with great reludance ; and that he was
the first who had quitted a good permanent situa-
tion to accept of a' precarious one not much better,.
The salary, of Secretary to the Treasury had been
reduced by certain regulations from 54001. a year
• to
_3OOOl, a'year but it 'afterwards augmented
to 40001. a 7:/ear.. No one could save a shilling of
this sum in that situation; and yet, after. all this,
he had only accepted the reversion of the place
which he now held dependent on two lives; ono
of , them as good- as his own; and -it was only
by"an accident that it came so Soon into his posses.
sion. He knew thaCout of doors 'his'late friend -had
been blamed for heaping Offices en him, whereas,
•
In fad, he only. retained this one, which he thought,
tinder all the circumstances of the case, he was en.
; titled to.

•
I\44.QUIS WE.I.LrgLEY.
Colonel Baines, who had been Aid de Camp to'
General Craig,' was then Called in and examined by
Mr. PAULI., on the number of Troops kept in tho
Territory of Oude., •
Mr. Strachey, who was one of the Judges is
India, was also , examined, principally as to what
he had observed as to the opinion of the Natives
relative to the changes made by Lord Wellesley in
the Territory of Oude. His 'answer amonnted to
this, that some seemed to approve, and others to dis,
approve of them.
• A conversation then ensued as to the propriety of
. examining Captain Salmon, who had been Super-
intendant ,and Auditor of Accounts in India, on the
fairness of the Estimates laying on the Table of thq
Expellee of the Troops: empioyed• in the Nabob's
• terniories, and charpoedaninst him by-the Company,
•Y Mr.' PAULL grid Dr. LAWRENCE thought hi 4 evi-
dence would come with more propriety -when cer-
tain other Accounts, which had been Moved for,
and which woUld go to shew the fallacy of, those
now.before the House, were produced.
Sir A. WELLESLEY, Mr. W. POLE; Mr. HURST,
&c. on the' other hand, argued, that Mr. Salmon
.I
.. must be qualified at this moment, as' being Superin:
tendant of Accounts, to say whether these Aecountat .
were or were not correct : if there was occasion for
examining him anew. the Hun. Gentleman could,
move for it. The Witness was then called in, .and
he in general stated, that the orders of the Marquis
Wellesley were, in making up the estimate of tile
extra troops employed by the Company in the ser-
vice of the i\;abob,•rather to under-rate than over-
rate the expense.
...Being cross examined, however, by Mr. PAULL,he admitted that the calculation as to a Regiment of
iiifatitry or of Cavalry, 4* specially referred to the,
particular Regiments employed in Oude.
• The examination of this witness being finished,
the ch.iirman reported prOgreSs,, and asked leave to

sit again. • •
On the Motion of Mr. PAULL, there was then or,
dered to be laid before the House an Account of the
extra Expellee paid by the East India Company for
the number 'of Troops stipulated to be engaged by
til:erp• for the Nabob' of ()tide, from, the Ist Novem,
ber, 1799, is? Oho WlNOVsnber, 001,

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AR niv /D-1 Hambugh. i Dublin. t Waterford.
Dublin,
DUE-1 liamburgh, Gottenburgli, Lisbon,
Watcrford.

WE last night received /Dutch Apers to the
inst: and this morning the, Hanzburgh
.2lfail due on
Wednesday arrived. The former are filled with ac-
counts of the arrival of Their Majesties the new
King and Queen of Holland at the Hague. They
arrived there on the evening of the 17th, and took
up their residence at the House in the Wood; they
were attended by a large body of Cavalry, 'and the
road through which.. they passed.. was lined with
TrOops, all French. - -
'Gen. LAVRISTON, on taking possession of Ragusa,
has published a Proclamation, in which he states, .that
the Enemies of France had too much influence in the
Ragusan Republic, and that BONAPARTE; feeling his
dignity thereby hurt, bad ordered him to,take posses.
sion of it; and adds, that he will keep, possession of it
until.the Russians, shall have evacuated not only Ca-.
taro,
.but Corfu, and the wholeßepublic of the Seven,
Islands, and until the Russian Squadron shall have
entirely quitted the Adriatic, The intelligence
brought by the Mail is more than 'usually uninterest-
ing. No part of the French Troops have yet eva-
cuated Germany, nor do they shew any disposition
to give up Brannau to the Austrians.' A letter has
been circulated on the Continent, said to have- been-
written by BONAPARTE to the KING of BAVARIA,
requesting him to' abdicate his Throne in favour of
his son. We are, of course, unable to vouch for
the authenticity of this letter ; • but if it be not
genuine, the style of BONAPARTE is very well irni-
tated.

TEE Funds yesterday experienced a considerable
depression, which it is said arose from a report that
the EMPEROR of Itussm had concluded a separate
Peace with France. No such intelligence has been
received, nor is such an event by any means likely
to happen ; the Teat reason of the decline of the
Funds yesterday was the anxiety of those who pur-
chased Stock /some days ago to realize a profit upon'
their speculations. Nothing is yet known with any
certainty upon the subjeEt of the supposed Nego-
tiation.

Lord HENIY PETTY last night submitted to. the
Rouse of Commons his plan for auditing the Public
Accounts : he proposed to increase the number of
Commissioners to ten, and to-form tlkein into three
•Boards—the first Board, consisting of four Corn-
,rnissidners,, is . to audit the current accounts ; the
second; of three Commissioners, is to take charge
of the accounts now under examination ; and the
third, also consisting of three Commissioners, is to
audit the_ accounts which :have not yet been pro-
ceeded upon. Every Accountant is to deliver in his
accounts, and vouchers annually, within three months
after the 31st December.

NOTHING more, we understand,' has transpired
respecting the mysterious affair to which we have
relutlantly drawn the attention bf our Readers for
the last two or three days.—lt is said that a Baronet
and his wife, particularly the latter, have been active
in the charge, and have urged it with confidence
and Circumstantiality ; but it is not held by those
best able to judge, as chara&erized by, any pre-
tensions to credibility. The amiable and illustrious
obje& of this dark and disgusting accusation, ani-
mated-by conscious innocence, confident of ample
justice, and assured 'of national support, is open as
day, and, without ostentation, submits herself freely
to public notice.

Admiral THORNI3ROUGH 'is coming home in His
Majesty's Ship Malta, and is to be succeeded by Sir
SA mut'. HOOD in the Command off Rochefort.

The ROYAL FAMILY honoured Windsor Terrace
with their presence on Sunday, which was'•crowded
with company,' Among whom we noticed Lord
BuLKELF.y, Count MUNSTER, Mr. VILLIERS, Miss
and General VYSE. Their MAJESTIES honoured
Lord BULKELEY and General VYSE with their con-
versation. At half past eight o'clock the ROYAL
'FAMILY. retired to the Castle, and had a Concert.
Yesterday the DUKES of YORK and KENT arriv-
edat Windsor.

Yesterday morning His MAJESTY, the Dukes of
v - °tt and KENT, Princesses AUGUSTA, SoPulA,
and AMELIA', accompanied by Count MUNSTER,
"eneralS GARTH and Frrzaoy, and Colonels TAY-
Oit L
, and. CAMPBELL, rode on horseback by Cran-
u°urn Lodge.
HOMIGUSE is to succeed Mr. ALEXANDER as
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and I\l'eatis.
HOBHOUSE' has been some time inclisposed; but
" 41?1,v, entirely recovered, and from the nature of
his talents, and his experience in business, is likely
acquit himself very ably in the Ittiation.