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TRAINING BILL.

'On the Motion of Mi% Secretary WINDHAM, tbq
Trainin,7liiil was read-a third time.
On the S.;llAli:eS asking, whether there were any.
additional Clauses to 'be proposed,
177RK.a rose, and submitted two Clauses to
the consideration. of the House. One was, to enable
flis 'Majesty, to suspend the. operation of the Bill
1.11 di'itrkk in which f.; certain' pr=oportion of the
pop. Marion had voluntarily 'embodied themselves;
thy; other was, to make the .Men called out un-
der the Training Bill take.- the!, oath' of allegiance.
Unless the first of these Clauses were agreed to, the
.Volunteers rnirghtjustly consider, that Parliament had
'Withdrifwn from them tilt; proteftion to which. they
were entitlod, if,on the contrary, he could per-
amide/the House to. adopt the. Clause,- he was con-
vinced- that'it would afford the greatest satisfaction to.
the Volunteers; as it would prove to:them that 'Par-
liainent preferred voluntary to compulsory service.
At any rate, if his proposition should not be acceded
to, it would serVe as a protest by him .and 'his fri'endS
,/ ,aainst a part of the measure of the Right Hon: Gen-treman opposite. which was deemed :.bythem pe-
oaliarly
The first Clause was brought up and read a" first
time.—On the Motion that it be read a second titne„

Mr. WINIIDILIIII expressed his opposition to it;
on the ground that it tended to defeat the priiiCiple:i
of this' meastre ; which was, that the Country sEiriuld
not rest for its Permapent;.defence on' a',t/tiliintity
force alone.
syn-rm agred; entirely, with. the Itiglit
Hon. Secretary': The Bill bcfQre the House3-wakj
intended to do something .more,than 'to produce
lunteers. It was calculated to train, to
gees. the-whole Opnlation of the: country.'
thought with ati lon General who.spoke :nhtht
on thesubjecl*(Gen. Loftus), that.. the did not
go far enough ';'sand he coincided' in-opinfon 'With a
Learned.Lord'(the Lord Advo,catei, that even' boy's..
at school 'ought ro..be instruacid in tui;i`: ry disci
The second reading.of ill,: Clause w-as then neo'l-
.
tivesl Without a division.

The s;ecend Clause was 'then brougbt up and feat
a first time.-

On the Motion that it be read a scond time,

Mr. ,FitehNTC-1$ asked, Whether 'if a.man refused
to, take the Oath of -Allegiance it was inTtended. by
this Clause that he should be 'exempted from the
training? , • • ,• • • , •
Lord CASTLERE..4GH observed, that it was the
bounden duty of every Silbjeet ata proper age to
take the Oath of Allegiance; and it appeared .to
him to be peculiarlY proper in those who assumed
the military charaaer. \ It Was impossible that any
imrdividual could objea to do so. •

Mr. FRANCIS allowed, that it w4s not probable
such a refusaisliduld 'arise from disaffeLlion, but. it
tinght arise. from contumacy, and in that case,
he wished to know what was proposed to be done.
IL!. IVJVDI-iii4li declared, that he thought the
.Clause unnecessary, and he was unwilling to mul-
' tiply oaths' without an .adequate cause. It thee
men were to be ctnbodied iu corps, such a ptoposi-;
tioU might, be admissible; but; in the loose way in
which they were to be called out for a few hours, lie
cc.uld see no etre.a that, likely to be produced
e:-.yept.ttat of cNating
After sum e furthLE conversation 'between 20r.

, Yontre the LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND,- aid
Mr. Pr....Rci'ver..,.the Rouse divided—
For the Clause, 38—Against it; 84—Majority; 46
The-- Bill Was then passed, and ordered :to the
Lords:
Mr. HosnousE brought up the Report Of the Irish'
'Broad Bill; the Amendments of which were read and
'ate eed to. Tile Bill was ordered to be read a third
tune on Monday.
Lod CASTLERE,4 cm- rose' for the' purpose of
, .
,•-putting a question to the Right. Hon. Secretary of •
,:State-for-the War Department. Some time having
L7.4.14§0-since•tbe Aeration in the Mutiny A&, with
re4pe.el-to the -term. of service of tle soldier, he pre-
r-Stnitedetliat Government had issued their orders withi
regard to the recruiting. What he wished to know
wa.s;' whether these orders were to continue the same
bounties as When 'men had been enlisted for life; or
whether; in confernaity to the general anticipation
and expeaation, instructions had been given to de-.
crease the'lieunties
Mr, Secretary WINDHAM replied, that he cer-
-tainlY looked to a speedy redue-lien of the' bounty,'
although he by n 6 'means allowed that such a reduc-
..tioti was necessarily implied in the A& alluded to.—
If it were, wished-to mike a
,compariSon between
m the forMer-syste and. the present, they ought to be-
e.
contdered ceteris paribus, that vvas, the bounty re-
inainig' the, wine.
Mr, CiINNING asked; whether he was to under-
1. Stand th4..the,saihe bonnties Nvere to
.be continued
in recraiting,,fOr'Seved years service 'as had-been al-
loWed for servige,for life. • - - •
ItTINDHAIYI said, that it had been by no
means unusual:T.4-.ole Country. to recruit at various
times:for different terms of service, with the same
bounty. • • - •
Genera/ TAI7.I4ETQN declared, that he thttUght
the answers,of-the -Right Hon. Gentleman so iansa,
tisfa.dory, thatebewould take an opportunity, on 'the
open day, of bringing forward a question on the
Military Defence of the country:- , •
Lord HENRY PEPT.rose,. in pursuance of his
notice, to move for a Bill- to .coesolidate and amend.
the Ads fer the Bodemptiod of the Land Tax,and to
exonetate I_,ivit:igs from the operation 'of the -
tax. It had been .suggested. to hint that many more
persons would. be.,enabled -to redeem their- Land Tax.
,if they were, allOWed:•to pay the money by ittstal-
ents, Ike' . mtneaut to propose that such redemptions .
,
'sliohld be valid if all the payments were made within
the space of sixteenmontlas.- With regard to the ex,-
orieration of small livings, the Noble Lord stated, that
the sum produced by theple of the Land Tax of lives
ings amounted to-`70,000.1. Part: of this he was anx-
ious should be
,appropriated to that most desirable.
purpose, the. increase of sinall,livings.- The way in
which he meant to propose this measure wa,_ that all.
Incumbents shoUld ,be
,Called on to give in a state-;
ment to the Cotoonssioners of the Land Tax of those
.Jivings -winch were under 3.01. 'a-year in value-„ and
that the ComimissiOners- should see& such as ap-
peared to be the most fit obje&s for bounty, The
i. A&of-the 42d of George the Third haying .been ens
tered as -read,- Lord Henry Petty obtained leave. to
bring in a Bill, to amend . the same, and further to
t royi4e for exonerating Small Livings and Charitable,
Provisions from the Land Tax. , .
• .0n the Motion of Mr. FOSTERi the third reading-,
'of the Foreign Linen Drawback Bill- was y 0414104
to 'Monday. .

[, , C•matlT.ll:E Q,F SUPPLY.
His Majesty's Message relative to theEsiablishment
of the Yeutter Branches. of th!-..' Royal Family, the
two Returns of the Loyalty E,.61)., the Reptxt dr: the
Committee on the -Surgeons' -Petition, and several:
other' Papers, having.. been'Ordenxi3On the Motion of
Lord Fletuo'r PETTY, to be referred w the commit.;,.
tee of Supply, the House resolved itself ic,torthe said,
Committee—iVlr.,HOßnoust in the Chair.
.Lord HENRY PETTY observed, that with re-.
Bard to the first part of His 'Majesty's Message, if;
would be sufficient for him to' explain to the Com-1
mittee the object of the proposition,which he should.
consequently submit to them 'without'muCh cona.!
meet.- The fa& was this :--Some time ago a prof.
Visiow.had been made on What was then termed the
a ~kggregate Fund, for the Estaolishinent of His
.11Tigliness.the .Duke -of Gloucester, and Her Royal
PfighneSs the Princess Sophia.of Gloucester. When
'this'Fand waS-afterwards, transferred to the ,Consoli-
H-dated Fund) noprovision had been made to secure
the Allowances` fel' these .gstabliShments. The
.Aggregate Fund=. was 'Merely hotninal ; it there.
-fore.tecanre necessary to look to, tile Consolidated
FUnd fox' this provision in future. It was impossible
therefbre that: any dOtibtor hesi6tion could exist in
the House with regard to this part of. the sutjea, as
liis proposition'WOnld only go to make good that
which had been ,grahted many years ago. Rut altho,''
.7.:H.i.:l\lajeAty's•Ms'age'did not stop here, he flattered
11i;rilself Olaf on eoTaii'atiOn, and due consideration; as
little clout othesittitiOn would take place with regard
.toThe lattee.partj; that whichscalled on the House
:ft'ir an adequate provision 'Oh(' oily an adequate pro-
: visiein was required), demanded by the increased ex-
bences of the tithe; for. tbe. income of the younger
ranches of...the - Roval ,'Family. In ipereased.
provislon rt.wahot-intetided to include his Royal
Ilighttess the Duke .of York, Who had expressed
himscilpertedirsatisfled with the liberality of Par-
liametft 'towards him. 'Nrith.respea .to the Royal
pukes, so: long as the year 1778 a provision of
yOar 64; had been Made for them, on the
Civil List. If such was the Sum judged necessary
to be appropriated to their use at that period, he put
it to the. House,, whether, when they looked at the
advahced price of every article of life, in most cases
doubled, in 'many cases more than doubled, and
when they looked at the more advanced age of their
Royal Highnesses, Which rendered a great increase of
their expences unavoidable, it was not in the
highest degree proper to accede to the. propositip
which be should have the honour of submitting to
them. Precedents. were unnecessary, otherwise
he might refer to the, case of his late Royal High-
ness the Duke of Gloucester, whose income, ilaci
been increased to 24,0b01.;--All, however, that their
Royal Highnesses claimed was 'not ahy excess 'of
income that might be justified by precedeht,ibut
merely such an income as would enable them to
keep up the state which belonged to their rank.
With this view he should propose that their Royal
Highnesses' incomes be increased a third of the whole
of what they would, amount to_ atter they were so
increased ; that being t,c2,0001. they should be
made 18,0001.- That tor the eStablisLlment of her
Royal Highness 2i-incess Charlotte, a p ovis:oh
should be in,ade-of 'OOOI, It was' W.eSSary to ac-

quaint the House, that the provision for their Royal
Highnesses the Princesses stood precisely on the same
footing as that for his .Highness the Duke of Glou-
ceiter,• arid her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia
of Glouc'ester, and that of course it became expe-
dient to pursue a similar course with regard to them.
It was intended to allow their Royal. Highnesses the
Princesses .66001. The Noble Lord concluded by
moving his first Resolution, . which .was That,
in the opinion of this Committee, there be grant-
ed to His Majesty, out of the produce of the
Consolidated Fund, an annual sum, not exceeding_
60001. for each of their Royal .liigimesses the
Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Kent, the Duke of
CUmberland, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke of
Cambridge." • . •
Mr. ROSE explained the circumstances relating
to the Aggregate Fund, and trusted that the proposi-
tion of the Noble Lord would pass with pert-ea una-
-11 -, fility.
The Motion was then agreed to, as were similar
ones for the following purposes
FOE. the Princess Chat lotte of %Vales -
For the Dutchtss Dowager of Gloucester
1- or the Duke of Gloucester - -
Tor the Princess Sophia of Gloucester
TO enable the College of Surgeons to ere& a Building
- fur the reception of the late Mr. Hunter's Collec-
tion, and to provide for Ltlures on the same - is,ooo
On the Motion. of Mr. VA NSITTIBT, Resolutions
fur granting the following sums were voted :
Forthe discharge of the' Loyalty Loan - £286,179 IS o
To defray the e,x peneevf a Horse Patrole, near
the Metropolis, for Italia year, from the jth
of July, 1806
-
Fur defraying the expellees of printing the
Records _ ,
Fqr defraying the expences of printing the Re-
turns relative to the Maintenance of the
Poor - - - - 383 t r
• The House havint, been resumed, the Report was
ordered to be receiveda to-morrow..
Mr. Moon gave notice of his intention to move,
on Monday; that-thealinutes of the Evidence taken
before a Cornmatee.appointed to consider a Petition
from the Journeymen Calico Printers, in a former
Session, should be referred to a Committee, in or-
der to make- a Report thereon.
The Bankrupt. Laws Amendment Bill passed
through a Committee on the. Matron of the Sow c -
Tort he.reparred on Monday.

- £7OOO

• 400
r 4,060.
4a°6

3i67 s 6

3,596 5 10

MARQUIS WELLESLEY.
Lord TEMPLE moved the Order of the Day, for
a Committee- of the whole Haase on the Oude
Charge.
On the. question- that the SKA4,ER• do how leave
the Chair,

Mr. PAULL' did not mean to give- any opposi-
tion to the Motion•ar. the NOble laird, but. rose to
call the attention•of-the House to- the -very extraor-
dinary mode 91 proceeding adopted .by the Noble
Lord. This was the first • instance. on. the Journals
of the House, in the annalS of Parliament, of any
Member of the House taking out of the hands of
another Member any proceeding of this description,
which had originated.with him.
Lord TEMP LE felt it necessary to justify him-.
self froM the charge made upon him by -the Hon.
Gentleman who had just sat down. He had never
called oe the House to come to any, Resolution on
-- this suhje& but when the Hon. Gentleman seemed
indisposed to bring the.question .to any decision.
Lord FOLKSTON:I:4 if he had not - heard the
,Noble Lord make his Motion, would not have
lieved that any Member would adopt a proceeding
so little regardful of the dignity of that House, and
of the Country, 'and least of all one who professed to*
be the friend of the Noble Marquis. He could not
think it desirable to that Noble Person to have, any
decision come to in the present state of the House
and of the Session. The Hon. Mover of theltarge
bad brought the business before Parliament last Ses-
sion, and it was not till a late period of the present
Session that the Charee had been regularly pro-.
duced. The friends of the Noble Marquis uni,
formly stated their desire to have some decision
made•on the subject of the Charge, and. yet threw
impediments and delays in the way of the Hon.
Gentleman-who brought it forward. The Charge
was at length before the House; and voluminous
papers had been produced in support of it ; and con-
sidering the vast accumulation of public business,
and the attention that had been bestowed on that
business for the last three months, he, asked.,--could
the House be prepared for a decision on this sub-
jeat—whether a Charge of so much importance
could be disposed of in•an attendance so little-full ?
The Noble Lord concluded by- moving, that the
}louse do now adjourn.
Colonel WOO]) was surprised at the charge of
precipitation made by. the Noble Lercfwho-spoke
last. Never had any Charge beed brought forward
in that House by any Member who. had met so
much indulgence as the Hon. ltfember.whor had
brought forward this Charge. Tt appeared to him a -
most extraordinary propoSition, after die House had
been so long occupied with the question, to defer it
to next Session. He should now vote to come to •
some decision upon the Otrde Charge.
Dr. LAWRENCE wit 4 astonished to hear of in-
dulgence granted to the Hon. Member who brought
this Charge forward,. when that Hon. Gentleman
bad been watched and- goaded through every part •
of his progress. He-did not• consider this a question
between any individual and Marquis Wellesley, but
a question whether .A.6,ts of Parliament and Resolu-
tions of that House were to haVe any face--ewhat
was to be the state of the half dependent Powers in
India, and whether public faith was to • be main-
tained
? It was also charged, that Marquis Welles-
ley had concluded the Treaty without communi-
cating it to the Court of Direelors, as the Law .direEts,
till after it was concluded. These were questions
that must be decided by falls—by evidence. He
did not say that it would be -necessary to discuss the
whole before any decision could be made—but as
part of the Papers were uqt yet printed, it was ne-
cessary that they should be seen betbre any decision
could be come to upon the Charge. If a decision
should be obtained under these circunistances, no-
thing would be gained by the Noble Marquis, be- -
cause a Motion might be made next Session to re-
scind. if no other Member should move to that
effe& he Pledged himself to do it. He had taken a
solemn oath to do impartial justice between all par-
ties, and he should not fail to bring these great
principles before the House, in order that the'people
of India may have the satisfaction of .knowing that
the question was disposed of after a full and•fair I
discussion.

11if.-C4/I"AING should not enter into the merits
of the Charge, but confine -himself strictly to the

Question before the House. He could not but 'no-
tice the very extraordinary-menace' of the Learned
Do&or, powerful when coming from any Member,
but still more powerful in his lips, and from his
manner of expressing. it. Any, the least consider-
able Member of the House, possessed that power ;
but it would be for the House to determine whether
it should rescind a solemn decision on such a ground.
,The Learned Do&or, however, had taken his tre-
mendous oath, he did not know on what altar, and
was determined to bring the subje& forward ; but
it would be. for the House to decide how far it
would be desirable to adapt his course of proceed-
ing.,
Before they should come to a decision on the
Cruestion- for the Speaker leaving the Chair, they
ought to consider what was the situation of Lord
Wellesley. The Charge had beep- impending over
him. during the whole of last Session, and tile busi-
ness was brought forward -at the chosen time-and
pleasure, as every Accusation indeed must, of the
Accuser. If the principle of the Learned Dodoe
were to be admitted, no decision could be had upon
any pars of the complicated Charges, embracing the
whole policy of an extended Administration, until
the whole could be 'taken into consideration. So
that the businesS might be continued year after
year,. Session after Session, Parliament after Par-
went, and the time, of trial or acquittal ucould never
arrive whilst the Accuser could produce any sup
plerneutary evidence or document to support his
Charge. If no decision was to take place, the
Noble Marquis ought not to have been called upon
for his defence: The Learned Gentleman had kept
back his dodrine too. long. It was now too late to
require to stay the proceedine till other evidence can
be procured.' The Learned Gentleman might have
thought that a peculiar species of knowledge was -
necessary to judge of Indian questions, and that he
possessed that peculiar. qualification ; but by his
cross-examination of Major Ouzely, a Gentleman
much better informed on the
.subjed, the Learned
Gentleman appeared wholly ignorant with regard
to the intoxicating drugs of India, and their erreds.
He believed the Learned Gentleman to be in no
degree better acquainted with Indian justice.
Mr. ROBERT THORNTOZ observed, that if
the Noble Lord who pressed for some *detetrnina-
tion on the Oude Charge; .accused others of being
slow, he might be charged with being precipitate.
He could not conceive any thing that would shock -
the Pubkc more, than if beginning at that late hour,
at -this late period of the Session,.and before all the '
evidence was before the House, they should come to
a decision on this 'Charge. The Charge had given
rise to mUcleprinting, and 110 trusted reading too, so
that the decision in the present circumstances would
affix a stigma on the Noble Marquis, from which
he could .never be delivered: There were many
reasons fen; deferring the business to next Session.
He was aware of the' painful situation of the Noble
Marquis, but it was the same as the -situation
.of
every eecused person. -The. Noble Lord who was
under accusation last Session, and honourably ac-
quitted in this, had .been 'in a similar situation. The
Treaty of Oude, had not beer . communicated to the-
Court of Diredors till eighteen months after it was-
concluded. He did not know how -far he may go
with the Hon. Gentleman, but. he thought the busi-
PeS-3 should be put otito next Session.
The MASTER of the ROLLS said; it had been
universally allowed that it would be desirable to
come to a decision on this. Charge betbre the close
of the present Session, and with that view the
Right Hon. Secretary of State, now absent, ,had
suggested an Address to the Crown to keep Parlia-
ment sitting, and a, Call of the House, to inforce
the attendance of the Members. It was a course of
proceeding anomalous to all the rules of law and
justice, to allow such matter of criMination and
fresh evidence to be exhibited in every period of a'

Mr. IVINDHAM allowed the propriety of the
general doiitrines of the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman., but contended, that they were Map-
plicable,on the present occasion., His Right Hon.
Friend, now absent, must have meant no more
than that it was desirable to do every thing poSsible
to come to a decisfon on this Charge in this Session.
' If he went so far as to say that it must be de-
cided in this Session, whatever circumstances may
arise, he must have made a very imprudent' de-
claration indeed, for it was such a one as the House
would nut support him in. The great point for con-
sideration was, whether the proofs relating 'to this ,
Charge were fully before the House. The Mover
of the Charge stated that they were not. One
Paper necessarily suggested others, and that was the
reason why they were called for successively, and
some of them not till very lately. An acquittal
without sufficient consideration would be extiemely
injurious td the "Noble Lord; and if the question
could not be fairly before the House till a late pe-
t-kit of the_ Session, he thought it would be better
to let it stand over to the next, He represented the •
impropriety of taking the matter out of the hands
of the original Mover. But what he deprecated
most was, the injury that must accrue to the cha-
raaer of the House from a precipitated • decision.
On these grounds he was adverse to the Motion. .
Mr. PAULL argued, from the notices he had
,given, and the Papers that were ordered from time
to time upon his Motion, some of which were not
yet presented, that he had used all possible dili-
gence.. Some of the most material Papers had .not
been produced till the loth of May, and on the,
28th of May he exhibited his Charge.. A most
material part of the evidence was the Accounts Of
the Effective Strength of the British Regiments serv-
ing in Oude, and the Sums charged to the Nabob.
for them; the obje& of moving for these Papers
was, to skew the enormity of the charges made on
the Nabob for these_ troops; these Papers had not
yet been produced. He warned the House and the
Country against the proceeding proposed by the
Noble Lord, with which he had no concern. He had

no animosity against Marquis Wellesley—he had re-
ceived no favour, no injury from him—he was im-
pelled by no personal motive whatsoever. The
fate of India depended on the sense that would be
she*n by the proceedings of the House, in thiS
case, of • the obligation of the faith of Treaties
with the Native Powers. During the Administration
of Lord Cornwallis, and his successor, Lord , Teign-
mouth , this faith had been scrupulouslykept; hut, from
the first hour Marquis Wellesley had assumed the
,Government, a system of blood, rapine, and injus-
tice,. had been adopted, by which all India was
rendered ripe for revolt.' The only remedy for this

1 mischief was a just decision of the Charges he had,
! from public motives, preferred: ` Whatever may be
urged by the friends and relations of the Noble Mar-
quis, he trusted the House would
.not come to a deci-
sion which all Europe and all India would have rea-.
son to blame.
Sir JIRTHUR ELLESLEY, though he and
his. Noble Relative, and all those aim-lettad with
them, naturally wished for a speedy decision, was
tar from wishing, either on his own part or that
of his Noble Relative, to have that decision has-
tened -by abridging, in any degree, the means of
the fullest and fairest examination : but he doubted
whether • the Military Accounts alluded to could
be had, as no such Accounts were made up in
India. There was now as full an attendance. of
Members as was sufficient in any proceeding, of
whatever importance. Two hundred Members had
voted last night on the Training Bill ; and the
American Intercourse Bill, a measure of the highest
I importance, was not thought to require a more nu-.
merotis attendance. Under these circumstances,
he thought that the House may, with every re-
gard to justice, and to the importance of the case,
proceed this night.
' Mr. ROBERT THORNTON sailisOme of the
Papers yet wanting would be produced in a feti.,-
days. Some could not be produced. He put it to.
the candour of the friends of the Noble Marquis
whether they could' with propriety proceed this
night, ifindeed the Charge could at all be fairly pro-
ceeded upon this Session.
Mr. Wzi.t.EstAy POLE expressed the same desire as Sir
A. Wellesley, tor perfect: investigation, as well as a speedy
decisten, Pe cited the expressions 'of Mr. Secretary Fox, in
favour of so expeditious decision.
Mr. GRANT, after some explanatory conversation with
Mr. Paull, stated, that accounts of the sums expended for
Military Services in India were to be had at the India House;
the returns of the elti:etive strength of the Regint,:nts were
made to the War Office. He deprecated any precipitate pro-
ceeding upon the Charge.
Lord CASTLEREAGH thought the Papers could not aiTZA •
'Lord Wellesley, even if the Charges should appear to exceed
the number of Troopafurnished. Captain Salmon had stated
Lord
„Wellesley's instructions to him to be, to make up the
adeouhts in a manner rather favourable to the Nabob. He_
urged the'propriety of a prompt decision.
. Mr. H. MARTIN thought it unfair to anticipate the„efFeet
of the Papers, and thought it perteCtly corrett in the Hon.
Gentleman to wash his hands of the business, it' he was not
all,kwed to proceed in a satisladory way.
Mr. 13u R roN thought the 'tag of an excess in the charge
on the Nabob may be admitted, • without injury to the Noble
Marquis, when considered jointly with hisinttrudions to be
favourable to the Nabob. . ,

Sir A. WELL asLE y admitted that the accounts were made
up on estimate,, rather than on • strict -retums.7 The Hon.
ent ieman had clone his part ; he called upon hint to proceed.
•• Mr. 1' n'u L would not allow the contents of the Papers, or,
those bearing on the case; to be anticipated, much leSs the
manner in which he may apply them.
Mr. CR E EVE Y referred to the War Office fur the• Returns
of the Reginients. ,

.. Sir I. N wpokT was for proceeding withotit further delay.'
The.So Lie/ rot. G ENER AL argued at thatde-
lay lay was necessary in justice to the accuser and accusedi. arid
the character of the House. •
Mr. HUTcHiNSON spoke td the same cfrec.—s"the Solicitor
General.. He commended highly the couckal•of the friends.
and relatives of LoriftVel lesleyi Who had -conned and assisteik
the most particular investigation,• and who wished fOr no ac-
quittal but one founded:on the fullestinvettigation.
Lord TELiPLE said, could have no intention -of calling•
on the House to come tO a vote On the Oiarge thislate hour ;,
he merely wished the House to go into'ti.c Comulittee for the,
purpose of keeping the business in view, so as.todecide it, this
Session.

Mr. FoNnLlN4ue said, a speedy decision was desirable,
but it should be upon full evidence. •
Mr. PAULL would not I)ledge himself as to any time: The
Noble Lord way propose any course he should thick proper ;.
but he would.nut star one step faster or
,blow.er on that ac
count.

. Alf. W. PoLe wished the Committee to be deferred for the
present ; but it the Papers could be produced very soon, he
hoped it would be'understoott that the Charg; was to be de:.
aided in this Session.

• t
Alter some further conversation, in which-Mt'. Windham,
Lord Fnlkstone, Doctor Lawrence, and Lord Ossuistone de-
clined giving any pledge,' or coming, to any.understanding that
the Charge was to be decided in the,present Session, the' Mo-
tion of Adjournment was with-drawn by Lord Follestone' and
the Order for going into a Committee on the Charge used for
Friday next, when it will be, in the discretion of the House
either to proceed on it. or to adjourn it further. -
Omer was made that the House should to-morrow re-
solve itself into a Committee to consider of the Ad which,re-
lates to the duty on tiles.
The SNCOllii reading of the West India Trade 13111 was fixed
for Tuesday next.
The House, in a ComMittee, resolved, that ,it was expe-
dient that so mach of the Lottery Ad as relates to the Li-
cogce Okay payable by Country Venders should beletnoved,
and that the miry to be hereafter payable by such persons
should be 501.-1 he Report was ordered to be received to-
morrow.

The House adjourned at Half-past T‘yelve o'Clock.

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THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSUM A VI:PEAT ?

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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1866:

AVE received this morning- Jamaica Papers to the
18th of May, brought by the Duke of Kent Packet,
which has arrived at Fahnouth, after a passage.
of six weeks. We have also received Barbadoes Pa-
pers, which annoance the safe arrival of the Cork
Fleet, which the American Papers stated to have been
captured. The intelligence which these Papers con-
tain respeaing Gen. MIRANDA is calculated to throw
some doubt upon the reports in the American Papers
of his having captured St. Marguerita and Cutnana,
for it is stated in a Letter from Aruba, dated the
3d May, that MIRANDA'WaS at that time with his
whole Force, viz. one Ship and two Schooners, at
anchor at the Island of Bonnaiei whereas the Atne7
rican,accounts represent him as' haying effe&ed his
landing, mid having taken possession of Curnana
before the end of ApriL A report was circulated at
Jamaica that he bad been taken by tl.VoSpanish
Guarda Costas, but it was not 'considered as en-
titled to any credit. '

Oun Plymouth Letter contains an account of a very
gallant aaiou performed by the Boats of the Minerva
Frigatd, on the Coast of Spain, near Cape Finisterni.
They attacked and stormed a Battery of 8 guns, and
took the Guard Trisoners. They afterwards cut out

seven Vessels, five of which were afterwards de-

stroyed:, find' one of them hns arrived at Plymouth.
. .

Admiral *Lord Sr. VINCENT has sailed frotn
Portsmoutloa take the Command of-the Channel

Fleet.

• The iVilliain Penn, Capt. HUSSEY. is arrived at
Liverpool from New-York : she was boarded about
fourteen days since by four. French Frigates in the
latitude c 5 Cape Clear,/ and longitude 19 : three
days afterwards fell in with them again ; they had
then an English Ship in company, ‘‘ hich Capt,
HUSSEY supposes to be an English Privateer, which
boarded him the day before.

THE rumours of Peace, judging from their influ-
ence on the Funds, are not quite so strong as they
have been for the last two or three days. We have
before observed, that Foreigners were speculating ira
the British Funds, and we have reason to believe
that many French Agents are now thively employed
in- London for that purpose. It is certain, that
whatever confident reports may be circulated re-
speaing pending Negotiations, they are by no means
in such forwardness as to justify the sanguine Lopes
which have been entertained, and the erfea which
they have recently had upon the Funds.

The chief business in the House of COmtnons last
night related to a proposed increase and provision
for the Junior Branches of the Royal Family,_ ex-
cept the'DURE of YORK, who is satisfied with the
present state of his Establishment, for the PRlNeuss
CHARLOTTE Of WALES, the DUKE of GLOUCESTER,
and the PRINCESS SOPIIIA Of GLOUCESTER. It was
also prOpOsed that there should be a suitable provision
for the DUCHESS DOWAGER of GLOUCESTER. The
annual incomes of the Junior Branches of the Royal.
Family-are at -present i 2,0001. .and it is proposed
that that sum should be extended to 18,0001. That .
an addition of 10001, per annum should
.be made to
the income of the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of WAGIIS,
which is now 60001. -A .thousand a year is also pro-
posed to be added to the income of the several PRI IV-
CESES. The PRINCESES will then have 60001. per
ann-and the Princess SOPHIA of -I,otic ESTER
.50001;
The late DUKE of -GLOUCESTER had 24,0001. per,
annum. .The, proposed income of • the present,
DUKE, which is now 80001. is to be. 14,0001.
Finally, the Ducir.Ess DOWAGER' of GLOUCESTERAS
to have 400,01..• Per

• ' W.i: are still unable to give any information. re-
.
speat nga certain business of a delicate kind. There
are.contradiaory rumours on this head, but no tOr-
mal Report has yet been made,. nor .do we believe
that inure: than a very general account of the matter
will ever be,cOmmunicated to the Public at large.
, ._ .

PLYMOUTH, JULY 3.—The SpaniSh Lugger which
came in yesterday is called the ,iirgel de la f;uarila,
Ond.was'cut out from under the proteCtion of a bat-
tery of eight guns by the ifoats of His Majesty's Ship
Minerva, after taking possession of the battery, spik-
ing the guns, and making the guard prisoners Six.
other Vessels were cut out at the same time, five of
which were destroyed, and the other sent in with
the prisoners. It took place very near Cape Fith-
sterre. The crews of the PrusSian Vessels detained
at this Port were taken out this morning, and put on
bOard Prison-ships fitted uptbr their reception in
Hamoaze.

„
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 4.—This Morning Admiral
Earl ST. VINCENT came from London, anti imme-
diately after embarked on board the Hibernia, of
guns, and sailed for the Channel Fleet. Sailed also
the Venus Frigate, Capt. MATSoN, with the West
India Convoy. The Wolverine Frigate sailed.yester,
day for Plymouth, for the purpose of collecting the
West Indiamen at Plymouth.
BARBADoEs, 'MAY 6.—His Majesty's Ship Cer-
berus, Captain SELBY, with it o' Sail of the West
India Trade from London, Arrived here on Sunday
last, after a very tine passage of five weeks. On the
27th ult. the Merlin Sloop of War parted com-
pany with fourteen Sail bound toDemerara, Berbice,
and Surinam. It is much feared that the Enemy's
Frigates which have lately made their appearance in
these Seas have eluded the vigilance of the detach-
ment which was sent in quest of them, for it ap,
pears to have been erroneously stated that they had
got into the Saints, or Guadaloupe, these places
having been lately reconnoitred, and nothing seen
of them. the Agamemnon and two Frigates are
still on the look out after them, .and we hope they
may-yet be met with. No further 'accounts have
:yet been received 'from the Spanish Main of MI-
'BANDA'S proetedings; we, however, understand
(but not from that authority which would justify. our
'stating it as accurate) that he has received, at Barce7
lona, delegates from the Caraccas, Santa de Fee, and
.Mexico, for the,purpose of arranging the places to be
attacked or rather those which are to be surrender-
ed ; his objet not being to conetier, but to amelio-
rate the state of the Spanish colonies.
MAY 10.—Another squadrop appem- to have
escaped from our Cruizert off the Coii: tof Trance,
and are supposed to have bent, their course to thee
Seas. We hope they may not be so fortunate as
those which lately made their appearanCe in our
neighbourhbod, as we find, by the return of His
Majesty's Ships Canada, Circe, Etkalion, and Verf,
that the four French Frigates they had been in quest
of have got 'clear off. They were seen to pass
Dominica on the 2lst ult. and St. Eustatia on the
26th, steering N, W. and supposed for St. Domingo.
MAY 13.—The Cork Fleet which arrived on Sa-
turday, consisted of 67 sail, four having previously
proceeded under convoy of the Qjgnet to the south-
ern Colonies. The whole of thpse for the other
Islands have proceeded
,yesterday and this clay.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir A. COCHRANE: K. B.
sailed this day for Antigua.

Died, HENRY, the youngest son of Mr. JAMES
BRUZRE, of Craven-street.