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London, England, 1801-05-14 00:00:00

CLERGY EXCLUSION BILL.

Mr. ADDINGTQN moved the Order of the Day,
for the House going into a Committee on the Bill
ler removing Doubts respceling 'Persons in Holy
Orders sitting in-that Ruse.
M. V ANS ITT ART said, he had a Petition to
present 'against the Bill by Mr. Rushworth, so far
as it affeaed ,his individual rights.
Mr. ADDINGTON said, he was not disposed
to oppose the bringing up.of this Petition, although
he believed that•a similar one was not to be foutid
on the Journals of the House. The. Petitioner stat-
ed his right of sitting in Parliament was established
by the decision of a Committee, but he could only
assert his right to sit
.in that Parliament in which
the:CoMmittee established his right, He appre-
hended Mr. RuShWerth's interest was not such as to
give him any claim upon this Parliament to receive
his, Petition, at the same time, as he wished there
might be afaciliry in the House receiving Petitions,
and as this Petition -was couched in ..respectful lan-
guage, he would not objeet to its being,brought up.

Mr. HORNE TOOKE thought that Mr. Rush-
worth was justified in vresenting, and .the House in
receiving his Petition. The :present proceeding'
was important and unexampled, for it ought to be
considered that it affected the rights of a nume-
rods. body olmen, distinguished from other bodies,
who -enjoyed their incomes only for their lives,
whilst they paid ten per cent.-Income Tax, the same
as those who possessed Freehold Estate.
Mr. ADDINGTON observed, that Rush-
worth did not_ petition on behalf.of the Clergy, but
because of his own particular case. . .
The Petition was then brought up and read :
It stated that the Petitioner, Edward Rushworth,
Esq. was above twenty-one years .ago ordained
Deacon, but that he had never performed the duties
of that Office above iWo months, and that he had
since relinquished them entirely ; that he was elefted
a Meinber for Newport in the Isle of Wight, and
when his Ele}ion was petitioned against, .a Commit-
tee had declared him duly eledcd, and that he had
continued to sit in the House till the dissolution of
Parliament in 79Q; and praying that the proposed
Resolution,, declaring the Clergy ineligible' ia a
Seat-in Parliament, so far as related to his right;
might not receive the sanCtion of the House.—The.
Petition, was ordered to be laid on the Table.
Mr. ADDINGTON said, he wouldmove that:it
be an inst'rulion to the Committee to make prpvi_
sion to extend the regulations .of the Bill to ithe
Clergy of 'the Church of Scotland, by Law esta-
blished.
On the Motion for the SFEAttes. leaving
,the
Chair;
Mr/ JUL IFTE said, there•appeared to him'so
little reason for this measure, and so much against
it, that he must objet. to it ;n toto. It became ne.
cessary to enquire, first of all, what were the quail.
fications proper for a map to become a Legislator,
and what the disqualifications. The qualifications
Were learning, study, the knowledge Of languages,
history, &c. and who possessed these more than the
Clergy, Qr who were there whose lives were more
exemplary ? li;LI Gentlemen of the Army, Navy,
or Law, more of these qualifications than Gentle.
men in Holy Piders ? But it
.was olijeded, that
Clergymenwere liable to the influence of the Crown
—and might not the same be objected. against' Offi-
cers of the Army and Navy ? But though the
Crown could nominate to Deinrias,andCanonries,
it could not take them away, when once. grant-
ed, althoughit might take away a Regiment from
an Officer, so that this ol3jeaion operated less
against the Clergy than- against Military Officers.
It had also been objeCted that the Priestly charader
was indelible ; but he could not'conceive how this
objedion, could be maintained, or how, upon this
ground., more objedions could be made against
Clergymen sitting in tbe.House of Commons, than
Bishops sitting in the House of Lords,

Mr. MARTIN said it was incumbent on Ciergy.
men to attend to the duties of their Parishes, and
of Members of Parliament regularly, to attentrthOir
duty in it. He should therefore vote for the
SpEAKL:R'S leaving the Chair, and for the passing
of this Bin.

The SPEAKfit having left the atdr, and the
House in a Committee, on the Motion that the
Preamble be postponed,
. Mr. H6/2/V,E TOOKLsaid he meant to propose
the omission -of several clauses, and only to propose
the addition of one. He felt the civility of the
Right Hon. Gentlernan who' had-introduced the
Bill, and acknowledged his personal
.obligations to
him for the form in which he,had introduced it.—
The'addition he meant, to proposevOs to place him-
self in the same situation with every other person
who had been ordained, for otherwise there would
be an inconsistency after-the HouSe had determined
that the introduction of Persons in Holy Orders
ought not to be permitted, if he mere suffered to sit
in it till the expiration of. the present Parliament.
He desired no exemption in- his favour, and rather
wished to See the, consistency of the House presefv.
ed. With regard to the omissions he should.pro-
pose, if adopted, they would save himrthe trouble
of discussinz the sentiments-
of a Right• Honorable
and Learned Gentleman W,SCoT-r) whose ideas
respelling the indelibility of the Priestly charatier,,
appeared to him more romantic than 4ny thing he had
ever read in the Arabian Night's Entertainments.—
With the omit-sit:ln he should propose the firit-r.lause.
should run thus7-:.7" if any person haying been Ordain-
ed to the Office of TrieSt, or ;Deacon should hereafter
he eleCted, or, being' elefted, should. continue to sit
or vote in Parliament, he-should henceforth be in_
capable of holding any benefice or any Office of
trust or emolument tinder the Crown." If Cler-
gymen had such a disqualification- staring them in
the face, he believed the House would not be much
troubled with Ecclesiastical Candidates. A Bill
running in this -fesin-ulltlLe—kloissr...going
into questions which it 'was not competent to dis-
cuss. . Ecclesiastical questions had been
.always in
the first instance discussed by Bishops and Convo-
cations, before brOught imr.o Parliament, and till
they had agitated this question of the indelibility of
the Clerical charaCter, it. would be veiy,unseemitig
for a Lay House of Commons to decide upon it. The
learned Dr. Campbell of Aberdeen, in his second vol.
of ChUrch History, had entered very ably, he
thought more than it' deserved, into this question,
but he did' not -suppose-the Members 61 that House
cared much about it. It would appear- strange in-
deed, if, the friends and the foes of theelericAl Order,
were to unite to stigmatise that Order as if they had
done something to deserve a stigmatised exclusion
from the HouSe. He' wisheddrthe preamble to the
Bill to be postponed; and' that the 'House goon
to consider Clause by Clause. "Mr. Tooxs then
moved, that the words " declared-and;"che omitted,
because if these words. were introduced; it would
make the Bill -appear as a declararory ACt, which
would 'be .declaring what the Law was at the time
the At passed ;, but this was not really the case. -
Lo-d HAWKEiSPURY said, that those who
thought as he did, that, taking all circumstances'
together, 'the Law as it now stood, rendeied-Cler-
gymen ineligible. previous. to, the passing of. this
Aft, would certainly approve'of:this Bill in its pre-
sent form, making.it partly declaratory,_ and partly
.enading3 which was an usual Parliamentary mode
of urocceding.
.X.fr ADDINGTON confessed that he saw some
force-in the objeCtion stated tothe Bill, in its pre:
sent form, -by the Hon. GeritleMaii. • :I:heiv was qm
-awkwardness in combining a
,declaration with that
which was meant to be :prospective. He would
agree, therefore, 'to make this -an enifting Clause,
and to leave out the words " declared and.''

The SPEAKER was of opinion that- all the pmr-
pose of the-Legislature would be answered -by mak-
ing it simply an enaaing Clause. -He thought this
would be preferable to any-thinafittitarry, as :it
was not the purpose of the Hou§d to db-aurthing
prospeetivelY.

Dr. LAWRENCE said, - he belierettprecedents
were to be found of Clauses pArtly,dectairatory and,
partly enafting, and if there werebut one such, he
was unwilling to give up the present-tlause, as it:
served to maintain 'a .dihtinaion betweefi the Clergy
and Laity. . . • -
The SOLICITOR, GENERAL did not think
that the propOsed ornision would have the eireet of
abandoning. what seemed. to be the opinion of the
majority of the House, as to the Ineligibility of
Clergymen to sit in it. The Preamble wot4d state
that certain doubts were entertained, and the. Laws
would tend to remove these doubts in future. Upon.
the whole, he approved of the proposed otniisiun,
and the more so, as it would remove any ground for
applying it specifically to the case of any indivi-
dual. _

Sir W. YOUNG and Dr. LAW R ENCE were both.
in favour of the idea of having the Bill considered
as a Deelaratciry Bill. •
• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sig-
nified his wish to retain the Word "declare," to that
the Bill should be-deemed a Declaratory Bill ; but
this he wished to.be done without affeeting the Seat
of any Member in the House at the time of pasiing
it, and upon that there did appear to be a consider.
able difficulty in the wording of the Bill. He be.
lieved it was almost universally the opihion of the
Members of the House of Commons, that a person
in Holy Orders, whether-Priest or Deacon, was in_
eligible to a Seat in that House, and that a Bill
ought to pass to exclude them in future ; but he
belierzd it was also a ',yeti), general opinion that
such Bill ought only to have a prospeaive effea,
and should not operate on the Seat ..of any Member
at present in the House, because that was an ex post
faao measure, of which thesLegislature in general
were not fond. He felt a desire that she Bill should
be declaratory, and yet there was some difficulty
in making it so with grammatical precision, when its
operation was upon future cases only. He suggested
this, tint the Members of the Committee might turn
it in their minds.

Mr. BURTON said, he %vas for omitting the
word " declare," not becau,e he had the least
doubt o 1 the Ineligibility of Clergymen sitting in
that llouse,--He w.4s clearly, of opinion, that by the
ancient usage a Pagliamcnt, no - Clergyman had a

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right to a Seat iniltiCHSuse ; 'for 'hift);
and those who agreed with him, no Declaratory
Law was wanting but his observation was nut'
founded on the critical observations which had been
made, in which however he agreed, but on a diffi-
culty which he did not know how to get rid of.—
Their Constituents would probably think, that that •
House was, by this Declaratory Law, abandoning
their right of determ,ination in a Judicial Question
respeding the privitege of tie House or Connnona,
and therefore changing that which ,-applied ,to the
rights of all the Commons of England, a right which
had hitherto been exclusively exercised by that
House, and that by this measure the House.of Coin.„
mons was about to-refer that question, which had
so been tionsidered exk;asively their right to deter-
mine, to be. judged of by another House of Parlia-
.ment, another Branch of the Legislature ; for, not_
withstanding it- should be the unanimous opinion
of that House,. that it was the right tit that
Utilise, _exclusively, to judge of the Eligibility cf
its Members ; and, .notwithstanding the.. House
should be unanimously of opinion,. that nu 'Clergy_
man should have* a right . to sit io that House ;
after. this . Bill passed in the House, and. was decla-
ratory of its Rights, yet • the whole of ,that declara-
tion, and the provision by which it was accompa-
nied, might be overturned by a majority of One in
the House of Lords. He had always understood that
all _questions of Privilege, especially the right of
ting in that House, have been claimed and exercised
as a right exclusively belonging to the House ioelf,.
on which. subjea the. House
? had expressed extreme
jealousy very often • when any -interference was at.
• tempted .by.,another Power or Branch of the Legis-
lature. He. therefore regretted iliat this question,
which ought to have been exclusively judged of by
the Commons, should of necessity, for so the matter
stood now, be sent to be judged of by the House of
Lord's.. lie lamented*, because he did not know.
how they could word the Bill, so as to convince their
Constituents that they did not give up that question
of Privilege which hitherto had solely been judged of
by the House of Commons. He agreed to omit the
word "declare," because there was danger in-sub_
mitting that to the judgment of any other Tribu.
nal.
Mr. TAYLOR did not see so much danger in t 1
House allowing its power to be judged by another
branch of the Legislature, as the Learned .gentle+
man-who spoke last seemed to apprehend : there
was a- precedent .for that in the passing of what is
called Mr.,Gßtery ttur's Bill, which -was. a Bill for
determining on Contested Elections. Before. that
Bill the House itsorjudged of all these Eleftions,
,and judged exclusively ; but he' could not give up
the word " declare" in this
.Bill. If this was not
a Declaratory Ad he, knew not what
it was, nor
did he know what-was a Declaratory Act if this be
not se. If not a De,:laratory Act, it must be what 1
the House. disavowed, a, dibiranchistment. In a
word, the word " declare" was descriptive of the
essence of the Bill ; 'and as to the idea of not affea-
ins the Seat of any Member at the time of passing
'the' Bill, he had no objeion to that, and rather
than give-up the wont ". declare," he would have
a Proviso, -for the purpose of preventing the Bill
from haytnr any effect -on the Seat of -any Member
in iFellOuse at. i
Mr. BAKER thOughl that would bring on a
dispute which the good sense of the House had
hitherto excluded from its 'consideration, namely,
that' of a personal .quesiion,--r. 'Nora was
elected; and this Bill could not affect his. Seat in this
Parliarrierit ; it would operate on him as on every
-other Clergyman in the .next Pitillament,:-bUt not
in this.

Mr. ALEXANDER said, he.felt the ward very
necessary in this Bill, because that was the only i
word by which the Public could, be assured that the
Biif was founded: on the antient"Comnion Law 0t.,,,
the Land, and he had no doubt of-thp.-ineligibilily
oTClergymeti to sit in that Housetii-ihat Commoa
Lag.. :., *.' .: ' - • - .
-APerSTURGES saw considerable difficulties in
t4eworigng of this -part oftheitill, nor ,lid he like to
refer to the House of Lorcts;a4 question tespcaing
the. Privileges of the Commons, but at present that
was unavoidatte. ' , .
..
The. CHANCELLOR of. the EXCHEQUER
said, that no. man . felt less inclination thou be
did to refer to aby -trolly but to the House itself,•
:any question on its Privilege ; . but. that was utl•
avoidable in this case, , as it had, been in many
others,
ind among' the -i'es`t," the_ Bill for settling
Contested Eleaions, commonly called Mr. Git Es.
i., it. t. i'S Bill, and so must every Al of Parliament ia
which any, part of the
.Privileges of the House-might
come incidentally under consideration. He should
have been extremely glad if the House, from itt
own intrinsic authority, , could determine this mat.
ter ; but k reference to the journals of the House,
would satisfy any body who chused to examine
them, th'at such a thing was absolutely impossible.
A Resolution of -the House itself would not be per.
petual, for it might be rescinded in :mother Parlia, ~
incur ; so that a Bill was absolutely necessary ; now i
- it was well known that a Bill could not be had hi:: !,
by the cooperation' of the other , Branches of eAc
Legislature.. If the declaratory part of the 133
could be retained, and the- inconvenience of de.
}riving an individual of thefseat he now had coalA
be avoided, he should rejoice at it ; hut there tiii
• - - to him .
appear to
,be Some difficulty in accomplish.
ing both °Ned's.. .
Mr. WHITBREAD thought the result of the
arguments on this subjeet was not so clear as sow
imagined it, aS to the Ineligibility of Persons it
Holy Orders sitting in that House ; he thoti,N
they ought not to.sit there, and therefore he thouDi '
that a Bill .was necessary.
T 4 SPEAKER said, it seemed to him there was
a strong. &Sire for doing two things that woe
actually. inconsistent with each other, a declay.
place .in the
that -where the delaratory part was to
Btoiry ll,; a;itliid ;
d enafting part- at the same
do nothing. Now, to do that, which when done,
would .be to ito
purpose,. would be unbecoming
of Ole- house' of Coalitions—Retaining the Dt,
claratory Pair, and at .the same time proviainsi
that the Hdn. Gentleman who, because in Holy.
Orders, was ineligible, should not be affeeled in hill
seat in this Parliament, would involve the ijouse
in an absurdity, because it would be permitting i
. Person to sit who was declared to be inclisitak, to i
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in Aouse; for which reason, he was strong,
y of opinion, the DeclaratorY.Part ought to be ormt-
ted..l-fe distinguished between t?le Judicial and Legi-
slative Power of the House : By the one it determined
upon its own Rights and Privileges ; by the other, it
'aded only as one part of a Legislative Body, from
which be concluded that no danger was to be appre-
hended from this Bill on account of its going to submit
to the House of Lords a point involving the privi-
leges of the House of Commons, because what was to
6e- done by the House in this Bill, was done only in
its Legislative character, and should the House of
Lords rejel the Bill, the judicial eharader of the
House of Commons would remain untouched, and
the House might, after the rejection of this Bill,
vote a resolution, declaring the Ineligibility of
persons in Holy Oders taking a seat in the House of
Commons---He thought, however, that the better
way.would be to omit the declaratory part of the
Bill, and to make it purely prospedive.
Mr. W DH AM approved of the delicacy by
which Gentlemen were ;taunted, when they felt that
a person in Holy Orders was ineligible to a Seat in
that House, yet determined to take no step by
which that Seat was to be affeded in the present
Parliament ; but if he was put to a choice of diffi-
culties,• and was obliged to abandon. one or the
other, he should have no difficulty how to ad—
Delicacy towards the Individual must be buried un-
der 'that which was to be ereded for the public
good. He thosaght the better way would have been
to vote•at once, that a Person in Holy Orders was
ineligible to a Seat in that House. However, now
that a Bill was brought in; he • thought it would be
dangerous to give up the declaratory part of it ;
that would be worse than silence on the question. of
Eligibility—ii,would be taken as an abandonment
of it. • He had no objeEtion to this measure being
adopted, as some Members seemed to wish to
retain that part of the Bill which was declara-
tory, and also of providing that the 'Seat of the
Reverend Gentleman whose case had given birth to
tlte discussion, should remain unaffected in the pree
sent -Parliament but whether that could be done
or-not, he would not leave a doubt any longer on
the Law upon the subjeEt. •
-The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
he- need not repeat that it was as much an objet}
withliim as it could be with any one, to retain the
declaratory words- in this Bill ; he indeed wished
that the character of it- should be declaratory ; but
there was a difficulty in doing so, and also retaining
the Other objedi, that of not affeding the Seat of any
individual ; now, in order to effed both) he really
thought -the better way would be to agree to the
declaratory part of the Bill, and then to , have a
ptioviso, that nothing in the Ad should extend, or
be construed to extend to make ,void. the Ele&ion,
or vacate the Seat of any Member of the House of
Commons before the passing of this MI. He then
took a view of the case of Mr. Iktis H WOR TR, by way
of analogy to that of Mr. TOOKt, and upon the
authority of which the latter had. been defended,
and•to ihew that therefore it would be improper to
dispossess the present Member, although in Holy_
Oiders, during the present Parliament ; he argued,
thug it would have been unjust in the one case, it
bust be unjust in the other. He entreated those who
doubted this, to look at the case of Mr. RUSH_
'
ewoRTI.T ; a Petition was presented against him on his
Return in the year 174 on account of his being
jUltoly Orders. That Petition was referred to a
Committee under the provision of Mr. GR E
VILL E'S Bill. Byethat Commitee Mr-ItirsHwortrst
ryas declared duly eleeled. Now, be would ask,
whether it would not have been deemed a harsh
tiieasure to bring in a Bill to exclude Mr. Ruin.
WORTH from his Seat in tl6t House during that Ses-
sion of Parliament, after such a decision of a Com-
filittee competent by Law to decide as they had
decided-.? He believed there' were but few what
would doubt the harshness of such a measure. All
who would have thought such a measure harsh,
must think the same of this, if it did not contain
a Provision against the Seat of the Hon. Gentleman
!seing affected 01 this Parliament by such a mea.
fore ; jot' it Was a measure in the same Session
as that in which he was eleded, and hiS Elec-
tion was upon the authority of that case. He
then stated 'the inconveniencics which would fol-
low, if any mode short of an Aa of Parliament
{vete tried as a remedy, any thing else would be
inconclusive. A Resolution of the House at one
time would not be binding upon a COpuli tree, wider
Mr.' GIL to,t's. Bill at another, so that a de-
eiion of a Committee might appear in the teeth of
Resolution of the House, which must introduce
tuicertainty • and 'distressing embarrassment. This
the- Bill now before the Committee was calcu-
lated to_Prevent, and therefore it was prudent to
adopt ; but the prudence or the convenience of
thernemsure would pass for nothing • with him,
if he Were not satisfied of its justice. It could
not. be imagined, that he desired this measure to
contain any provision,- from any personal motive
whatever, either of compliment or censure upon any
individual—Other of courtesy, as from tenderness
in4rivate life, between man and man, or from any
di4lteein ; both which personal feelings ought to
be treated with scorn, when a subjed of Legisla-
tiefi'was Under consideration. It was needless for
hint- to say be did not offer any thing in this Bill
our of a spirit of personal hostility to the Hon,
Member, over the way (Mr. Tooca), and he
begged it to be understood, that he was equally
distant from any partiality to him. All he did was
with a view to the general principles of justice and
liberality, which, in his opinion, ought to mark
proceedings of this nature. He, therefore, thought
that the declaratory part of the Bill ought to be
preserved, and that there ought to be a Proviso to
prevent this Bill having any eirea on the Seat of any
Member now in the House.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in conformity to the
wish of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, read
a Proviso to the effect he had opened to the Com-
mittee.

Mr. BANKS thought the word " declare," ex-
tremely tit to he retained in the Bill, but had so
great an objeaion to the Proviso proposed, that he.
declared, he had rather have the Bill lost, than that
it should contain such a Proviso : he had no doubt
of the of Persons in Hely Orders to
seats in that House ; tut by this Proviso, the Hon.
Gentleman, whose case made the Bill neccssarv,

DISPATCHES from Admiral Sir HYDE PARKER
were this morning receive..l at the Admiralty-Office.
They .were brought to Yarmouth in the Bianchi.
Frigate, rapt.

Tta E. interest which the Public Eel in the Egyp-
,tian Expedition is such that some of our cotempo
raries thought it recessary yesterday to contradia
the rumours which were in circulation on the pre-
ceding day, of intelligence having been received
by Government. from Sir RALPH A BERCROMBY.
Vie do not deem it necessary .to follow all the re-
ports•to which ignorance or interest give rise.—
The News which was yesterday current seems,
however, entitled to more notice : a Commercial
House, Messrs. JottnAN and SHAW, yesterday re.
ccived a Letter from Cork, from the Captain of a
Vessel which had arrived from Bayonne. He heard
at that place of the French Army under General
MENou having capitulated on the 23d of March,
after an obstinate Battle. The very respeaable-
charancr of the 'Gentlemen by whom this Letter
was received, cannot fail to have its due weight in
the public estimation, of the probability of. the
account. A few days will, we hope, put an end
to our anxiety on this important subjea.

We last night received Paris Papers to the tith
just, which, like most of those that have lately ar..
rived, afford us very little matter for notice. It
does not appear, however, that the case is the same
in France with the English Journals. The intelli-
gence which they have lately contained respeding
Egypt, has given the -Journalists of Paris great
hour, and the Moniteur, in particular, devQtes much
space to the refutation of our LoncfreGazette Extra-
ordinary of, the sctinst. Our limits will not allow

us to insert their objections to the accounts ; but if
our Readers are impatient to know in What manner
our Enemies attempt to overthrow an Official State-
ment, we refer them to our own Opposition Papers,
which have furnished the ILlers;44.4r- with the-basis
on whjch all the supersti*lure of its re4bouing is

The,F4ncit doVelltment haie thtt>;scl es
communicated nothing to the Public oti the itiblea
of Egypt: • ~„
The only article in these Papers relative t 6 the
Expedition against Portugal; i 8 in the Mo;iiteur-;4t
is as follows :

General Morattr writes from Burgos to Ge.
neral Leci,tßc, under date the 28th
Advanced Guard arrived two days ago. at Burgos.
We every where met the heartiest welcome: The
Soldiers are well lodged ; the Magazines are stored
for two months with provision of the be 4 Await),
we assist on Sunday at Mass, wilich,,w4 serve to
dissipate all prejudices that might have been con.
ceived'against us.

" The KING of TUSCANY passes through this
place to-morrow. I shall receive him with military
honours.

" The Spanish Army is On the Frontiers of Por-
tugal. In an affair of Advanced Posts, it has taken
several hundred Prisoners."

We find only two other articles in the Papers that
can be considered as in any degree interesting.

RATISBON, APRIL 28.—We are assured that at
this moment very aaive Negotiations are carried
on between the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, and
that the Minister of Brandenboarg will not give his
Vote, nor the EMPEROR issue his Imperial Rescript,
until they shall have come to an agreement.

SF:NIL IN, APRIL 18.--It is announced to-day,
that PASSW AN OG LOU is reconciled to the Pacha of
Belgrade, and even that he has submitted to the
Sublime Porte, who has granted him an absolute
Pardon, through the mediation of the Envoy of
Russia. This Minister has, it it said, notified to
the Rebel Pacha, that if he persisted in his revolt,
or renewed it after the armistice, a Russian Army
would march against him.

The Hamburgh Mad due yesterday is not arrived.

His MAJESTY yesterday morning before break.
fast walked in the Gardens of Kew Palaccraccom-
pinied by the QUEEN and PRINCESSES.

Lieutenant GREGORY arrived yesterday at the
Admiralty, with Dispatches from Egypt.—Their
contents are understood to be duplicates of the
former advices from
.Egypt. An Officer from Ge-
neral Sir RAL.II AB ERC ROMB y also arrived at Mr.
Secretary DUNDAI'S Office.
Mr. CoußvorstEß left Town last night with
Dispatches to the Court of Petersburgh.

Colonel MAN L EY, of the Royal Artillery, set off
last week for Dublin, to take upon him the com-
mand of the Artillery in Ireland.
CoienelYrsim, of the Engineers, is appointed
Chief Engineer in-Ireland.

Lieutenant-General Sir JAMES PuLTENEY) ac-
companied by Colonel ROBERTSON and several
other. Officers, went to Woolwich on Monday to
try the merits of a portable bridge, the invention
of the Colonel, and which he had submitted .to the
Board of General Officers. It, appeared pettedly to
answer the intention, which is
.to enable Troops. to
cross Canals, &c. and is so constructed, by joints,
as to admit of an extension from twenty to forty
feet, ovet which a twelve-pounder may be easily
and safely passed.
. On Saturday marched into Plymouth, the Ist Di-
vision of the Royal Lancasidre Militia, Colonel
Lord STANLEY.

YeSterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, which adjourned at five o'clock
tiil Wednesday next.
The Corn-Market yesterday was very dull, so
much so, that Wheat has again experienad a further
decline of 9s. 'ier quarter, Flour 7s. per sack, and
other grain in proportion ; Malt was very heavy,
and full per quarter lower.
Mr. DALLAS, Secretary of the State of Pennsyl_
vania,. is appointed Attorney-General of the United
States; and-Mr. Geneose, is nomi.
-Dated Secretary of the Treasury.
The .Ships Canada, Minorca, and AA engaged
by Government to carry convicts. to New South
Ni;ales, have been permitted to proceed to China, to
bring home cargoes of tea.
The Middlesex Sessions will -be opened on Tuei_
day next at Hicks's Hall ; and the Sessions at the
Old Bailey will begin on 'Wednesday.
Married on Tuesday last,' at St. George's
Church, Hanover-square, THOMAS MAUDE, Esq.
of Burly-house, in the County of York, to Miss
JEMMETT, daugter of WILLIAM JEMMETT, Esq.
of Ashford, iii Kent.

Music.—The ANNUAL. CONCERT for the benefit
of THE MUSICAL FUND, took place last nighc• in
the great'Room at the Opera House. The 111eisiah
was the Piece chosen on this occasion, and was most
ably opened by HARRISON. The Concert was sup-
ported by an assemblage of the chief Mihical Per-
torrners in this Concert, alai was attended by a very
numerous and elegant Audience.
Clermont, the residence of the late Lord CLIVE,
and now the property of Lord Tyr,comNEl, is or-
dered to be razed to the ground, and the materials
to 'be disposed of under the hammer of the Auc-
tioneer.

The situation of Mr. Masquerier's great Piaure,
in Piccadilly, is particularly well chosen as a Morn-
ing Lounge, and there is nonewhich moredeserved-
, ly attrafts the notice of the numerous parties which,
at this gay season, frequent that part of the Town.
On Monday, about four o'clock, the Rev—Mr.
Willis, of Ringwood, Hints, in company with a
Gentleman and Lady, were stopped in a post-chaise
between Egham and Bagshor, by a single highway-
-nyan, who robbed them of about 41. in notes and
cash, and two watches,

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:Aron itli ieviringui•
aribi lone dawn.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 12.

ARRIVED the Spanish Brig Frakeiscd Stai.,ieux;
from St. Sebastian's, in ballast; captured on the zd
inst. by the Earl St. I;ineott Privateer ; also the
Amerieau Brig Minerzni, of New Bedford, laden
with barilla, front Alrneira, detained by the Ferret
Privateer.

POR. TWOUTE, MA'i r;:

ARRIVED His Majesty's Ship Hazard, Capt.
EtiriERFIELD, frOM a Cruize. In her passage she
beat over the Puller Bank.
The Revenue Cutter Two Brothers, under the
command of Mr. GREEN; Mate of the Antelope
Cutter, arrived this day from a Cruize, with the.
smack Endeavour, of Arundel, with zso casks of
spirits, and some other goods:
Arrived the Johanna Planter, Quirt, from St.-
Kitt's ; Eagle, AL t. EN, from Aberdeen ; and May;
DENNIS, from Guernsey.

FALMOUTH, MAt rI.

, .

Man, E rt this morning, the Prince Elwell' Packet,
Capt. PETRE, with mails from the Leeward Islands,
in thirty-six days from Tortola.
Put back the King George Packet, with the
Mails of the 28th ult. and sth inst. for Lisbon.

Arrived off, the American ship Argo, Capt.
HOWLAND, from Barce:ona, laden with wine, &c.
called here for orders ; also appeare,l off, for orders,
the American ship Susan and Polly, WOODBURY,
from Charleston, with sugar, coffee, &c. and sailed
again for France.

PASSErIGEILS PER PRINCE ERNEST.
Mr. Liston (our late Minister Dr. Armstrong,
at Philack., •ia) and Lady, Mr. M'Lachlan,
Major Brown, Mr. Gilbert,
Capt. Boger, Mr. Jones,
Lieutenant Gregory, Mr. Rose.
Lieutenant Morrell,

DOPER, MAY 13.

A Flag of Truce arrived this morning with a
Dispatch for M. OTTO, and Paris Papers to the i 1 th
inst. but they do not contain any thing of importance.