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ELECTION TREATING ACT,

Mr. TIERNEY_ moved the third reading of .the
Dalian Treating Bill.
Mr. BLACKBURN observed, that this Bill was
more than a Declaratory Bill, for it alloWed car-
riages to be provided for conveying the Voters to the
hustings, which was more than wits warranted by
the A& of King William.. He concurred with the
Hon. Gentleman in his view of thi3 -subjea., as it
:was found in the Bill in its original state. But
.the
Hon. Gentleman had 'agreed to an Amendment,
which altered the nafute of his Bill, and which
would leave him without support from either side of
the House. He concluded by moving, that the Bill
be lead a third time this day three months.
.Lord. A. HAMILTON i ffe.-ed entirely from the
.Hon. Gentleman who spoke last. He had the
strongest obje6tions to the Bill as it originally stood.
Now he thought it .was perfenly nugatory, and on
that ground he.w6uld.vote against it.
_ _

- Mr. MORRIS' contended,._ that this was barely
a Declaratory Bill; and that there ought to be no De-
claratory Bill except in cases of serious doubt. Now
here, he contended, there was no good ground for
doubt, for tie spirit and letter of the Act 'of King
\Valiant was against giving money on any pretence.
It was true, that Committees had decided, that .giv-
ing compensation for loss of time, and so forth,- was
not bribery ; but no Committee had decided thht
the giving of, money was legal. He opposed the
Bill, therefore, as nugatory.

Sir WILLIAMD-OLilENtbought that if money
was.to be given, it ought to belodged by both Ca'n-
didatei with the Returning Officer, so that there.
conld,be no bribery on either side.
Sir ROBERT BUXTON expressed his surprise
at what had.fallen from the respeaable Baronet, and
contended, that no money ought to be given by the
Candidate on any pretence whatever. Whoever gave-
money was not a .constitutional representative of the
people.

, . . .
Sir W. 1)043 L::: explained..:
Mr. BAKER dwelt AipOn;the inconsistency of
providing carriaesfor the vote's, and not supplying
them wj.th =Meat and dtink ki the and con-
. ... ;.road,
tended,lhat those 'who '''dittlAot reside iii the'places
Where their franchises lay would suffer no hardshipS
though allowed no conveyance whatever. Ire-op-
poSed-the Bill. . --- - - , -
Mr. TIERNEY, though not in an ; unpleasant
situation, because. he was
,doing his duty, .yet felt
.
himself in an extraordinary one for having brought
an a Bill to Which there were some obje6tions, by
agreeing to remove 'which objepions, he lost the
support he had before, without gaining any thing to
counterbalance the loss.. He entered at some length
into the decisiOns. Of the Committees, and drew the
conclusion from the whole, that the principles on
Which they decided Were very unsettled. 'He con-
tended, therefore, that there 'was a strong necessity
for a Bill of this nature to set the point at rest. This,
. was his obje&. . He himself had as little interest in
thequestion as any body. He had often received
letters on many subjeas which he brought befofe
the House, abusing him in severe terms; but all the
letters he received on this subje& were filled with
thanks. If the House did not pass. this Bill, great
mischief would be done, for it would be understood
that henceforth money-might be freely given.
Mr. FOX scarcely thought it necessary to say any
thing, as this Bill did not appear to, be very favour-
ably, received. He opposed it, hoWever, on the
principle, that it went to diminish the number
Of Ele&ors, a thing which he thought ought parti-
cularly to be guarded against. The lemurs 'Which
'tie Hon. Gentleman had received on this subject
.were probably from persons 'who intended to be
',Candidates. The Clause he did not conceive to be
So uncertain as_ it had been represented, and at any
rate he thbught it no great evil ,that some latitude
'was allow'ed, as the Committees ailing as Juries
would eN.amine every case on its own merits. If,
however, any thing was to be done in this case,
something more would be necessary than mere ex-
anation. 6 - 4. .
The House then. divided. '
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..,Ac'ainst it - 12.
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Nlajority -
The Bill was'accordingly iltiown out.
- CHELSEA HOSPITAL BILL.

When Strangers were adthitted into the Gallery, it
appeared that Mr. WlNtSupt had moved the re-
commitment of the Chelsea Atospital Bill.
BAISTARD mentioned that orders had been
sent to the Secretaryat War,for theissue of the Jane
Allowances to some of the Volunteer corps, anti
that the issnes had actually been made: He wished
to know, Whether it was intended to extend this
to other Corps ?
Mr. 11/1 MO II AAI replied, that nothing had been
done but what wail - intended to be done according to,
the Plan.which he had stated to the Hon*, which
had notbeen altered in this-respeEt.
The Bill was then recollornitted.

In the Committee a conversation of some length
took place relative to the propriety of Parliathent be-
ing called upon to engage-to make good the expences
arising from certain regulations befOre they knevir
what these regulations were. Mr. HustussoN, on
the one hand; contended that this was not proper ;
while Mr. WitiplrAm,tNr, Fox, and Dr. LAW-
RENCE; on the,other side, argued that- it was a rea-
sonable degree of disCretion to be allowed to the
Crown, and a thing that had often been done before.
• Sir JAmEs PULTENEY expressed 'his hope that Sol-
diers who misbehaved shOuld not have the penSions.
Mr. WINDHAM- said; that, according to his
present idea, this would be decided by a Court Mar,
tial. At all events, this point might be discussed
when the regulations came before the House. •

After sOnie observations' from Mr. HusactssoN,
General TAR LETON, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and
Mr. BASTARD, one clause was left out, and the
others agreed to.—Report to-morrow.
The Thread ,Lace Bill was read a 2d time, and
ordered to be committed to-morrow.

• ,
Mr. FOSTER said, there was an Order in .the
Paper for the second reading of the Foreign Linen
Drawback Bill. Counsel were to be heard on it; and
he would be guided by the Gentlemen at the oppo-
site side of the House, whether it should be post-
poned or not; for his part lie thought that, on ac-
count of the state of the Honse,. several Gentlemen
beingabsent who wished to hear the matter discussed,
it would be better, to postpone the second reading
until Wednesday next; to which day he then moved
it should be deferred.,

Lord A. HAMILTON 'said, be did not well know
what to say to the Hon: Gentlethan's Motion; but
being convinced in himself, that the measure was
not yet advisable, he would move, " that instead of
Wednesday next, should be inserted thiS day three
months`."'

Mr. MAGENS made a few observations on the
state of the trade, from the cm]sideratiOn of which,
he said, he was very desirous of seconding the Mo-
tion of the Noble Lord.

Earl TEMPLE said, he thought it necessary
that. this business should be explained to the House
before it was absolutely decided on. The Board of
Trade had formerly come to a resolution to allow
a drawback on the duties on foreign striped and'
chequered linens, but not on plain ; the objed of
this was, to increase the exportation of our own
plain linens ; but, by a mistake in the wording of
the AEI, the plain; as well as chequered linens, were
inserted. Now, on the faith of this Act. of Parlia-
ament, the merchants here had sent orders to the
foreign markets ; 'so that if this Bill was now to
pass, it would a&, much to the disadvantage of these
merchants. For-this reason he thought Parliament
was
,pledged to hold them harmless; and, he there-
fore, conceived himself bound to suppat the Amend-
ment.

Mr. MAGENS explained.
Mr:STEWART was of opinion that Ireland Ws. a
capable of supplying the 'foreign markets with linen
of the best quality, and therefore would support the
original Motion.
Mr. -FOSTER thought the Noble Earl (Earl
Temple) should have explained the matter more
fully. Atter this mistake in the wording of the
Act kid been ciiscovered, he had proposed that the
Bill he had the honour of introducing should not
take effect until every order that could pdssibly go
from this Country to foreign Merchants should
have been executed. By the Ist of :November he

conceived that these orders would be perfeaed
but if other Gentlemen did not think so, that was
no reason why the Bill should be thrown out en-
tirely. It was a subjea.thai could be considered,
and settled in a Committee ; and he, therefore,
thought, that the Amendment should not be allow-
ed; but that the Bill should be committed, when a
time might. be fixed on, to preclude all possibility of
the merchants, who bad sent orders, being injured.
_Earl TEMPLE, in explanation, said, the term
from which this Bill was to have effe& could not be
agreed on, and that was his reason- for. supporting
the Amendmen►.

Lord HENRY PETTY said, as it was agreed by
all that there was a mistake, it should be redified as
soon as possible. The Committee, he considered,
as the proper place to deliberate on the term that
should be allowed ; he believed it was required that
until the Ist of March should be allowed, and he
hoped his Noble Friends would consent to have the
matter discussed in a Committee.

Mr. ROSE agreed with the Noble Lord, and
said, that the negle& was in a measure attributable
to him, and he would be very sorry, on' that ac-
count, that every chance of readying it should be
taken away.
A Gentleman, whose name we could not learn,
declared himself in favour of the original Motion.
Sir J. NEWPORT hoped the Noble Lord would
withdraw his Amendment, as, by rejecting the Bill
in the present stage, it would appear as if the prin-
ciple was objeote% to, when, in reality, the only
question was with regard to time, and he was sure
the HOn. Gentleman opposite to him (Mr. FOSTER)
would be willing to make every allowance.
It was then agreed that both the Motions should
be withdrawn, and the Bill, at the request of Mr.
Foster, was read a
.second time,:aiicl-orderebt to he
committed on Thursday next.

The, Committees un /he Excise Office, Stamp
Office, post Office, ,and West India Auditor's 'Nils;
were severally postponed until to-morrow,' and the
other Orders of the Day being disposed. of, 'the
House adjourned.

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` THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

L 0 N D 0 N,
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1805.

WE have received American Papers to the 13th
'ult. from which we are sorry to find that the unfor-
tunate death of John Pearce, the American Seaman,
has led to consequences much more serious than we
at first apprehended. That a Party devoted to-France,
and anxiously seizing every opportunity of creating .
differenCes between Great 'Britain and 'America,
should have availed itself of this ;unfortunate acci-
dent, and should. have prafaned every artifice to in-
flame the popular fury, might naturally have been
expected; but we certainly could not suppose that
the ExeCutive Government of America would have
suffered itself to be so completely influenced by po-
pular prejudice as it has in.the present. itistance.—
The President of the United States has issued a Pro-
clamation against Capt. WHITBY, for, Murder, order.:
ing that he shall bt, arrested if he shall be found
within \tile jurisditaion of the United States. The
Leander, the Cambrian, and the Driver, are ordered
immediately to quit the Harbours and Waters of
the United States, and forbid ever to return.---,„
The same prottibition is extended to all 'Vessels
that 'may
.hereafter be' commanded by Captains
WHITBY, NAIRNE, and SIMPSON. This Procla-
mation is couched in the most decisive terms,. and
seems almost to preclude any explanation upon
the subjed. It is also stated, that the Congress,
which had adjourned till DeCeMber, would be as-
sembled in the course of the present month.
The other articles in these
,Papers relate princi--
pally to General MIRANDA, but they do not contain
any intelligence respe&ing his extraordinary expedi-
tion of a more • recent date than that which we have
already laid before. our Readers. TOM PAINE 'has
published a Letter, the obje& of which is, to prove
that General MIRANDA was consulted by. Mr. PITT
at the time of the idiScUssions between Great Britain
•
and Spain, relative to Nootka Sound.

WE last night received Paris and Dutch Papers,
the former to
.the Ist, , and the latter to the sth in-
stant, and we are also enabled to anticipate the intel-
ligence which mar be expeaed in the Hamburgli
Mail due on Wednesday last. , The IVloniteur of
the 30th ult. contains a very detailed account of an
Engagement which took place between the Russians
'and the French, in Lessina, an Island in the Adriatic,
in which it is stated that the Russians were defeated
in an attempt which they made to obtain possession
of the Island.—The same Paper _also states, that the
British Squadron cruizing before Naples had made
an attack upon Procida and D'lschia, two small
Islands on the northern side Of the Bay of Naples ;
but that it had completely failed. The particulars

ace not mentioned.
The F•:rtress of Gaeta still holds. out, and it is
now said that the French will attempt to storm it.
The Garrison Consists of .about 2000 men, ,and has
lately been reinforced. The discussions, between
• ,
France and. Austria appear to be going- on with in-

creased aaivity. General ANDREOSST, who had
left Vienna on his return to Paris, received orders at
Munich to return to that City ; and M. TALLEY..
RAND, nephew to the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs, arrived at Vienna on the 20th ult. .with
Dispatches for the French‘Ambassador M. RocHr-