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MESSAGE FROM EilS mAjEsTY..

Lord HENRY PETTY brought up a Message from
His Majesty, stating, that His Majesty having, ley
Message of the sth April, 1778, recommended to
the cotisideraiion of the House the situation of the
younger Branches of the Royal Family, the House
had in consequence passed in Ad, granting to them
certain allowances out.of the Aggregate Fund. This
however, had proved not an eN6tual, mode ot,, meet-
ing tho intention of Parliament, which His Majesty
suggested Would be more co/uipletely answered
by-
ordering the allowances to 'be paid out of the Con-
solidrite7l Fund.. ifis Majesty, However, could not,
on the present Occasion, tOrhearfrOm submitting to
the, attention of the "House the great change in the
v?,iw of money which had since taken place, and
from stating his.expeaation that the House would
make such additions ,to the said allowances as
the circumstances of the case might seem to
warrant. _ _

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On the Motion of Lord HENRY rrrry, the .V,l;es-
sage was' referred c , the Committee al:Supply. •
t ' AtM TO its' 01.1..- , I
Lord H; PETTY having moved the second 'read-,
lug of'the Anditol-s' Bid, , • -
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, Mr. T. JONES asked the Noble, Lord for, an ex-
planation—Whether the public opinion which pre- ,
vaned, which he wl.ls convinced amounted' to this,
tZtat there were 450 millions; of .the public, 'no,.
net unaccounted for; was to' be 'supposed well-
founded ? ..

Lord H. PETTY could not conceive that any man,
after the explanations already made, could entertain
any doubt on this sub e&. ,The amount specified
bythe tiOn.iGentleman vas that of the issues of the
ineney made, and which might be, yid to he
unaccodnted for, the accounts of 'its disbursement
not having paSsed through the proper audit,
Mr. ROSE stated, that be did not expect the se-
cond reading to have been pressed this night, the
Bill having only come into the hands of the Mem-.
hers within the last two or three hours.

Lord H. PETTY said he bad no wish to press the
Bill, but thought the debate:on the principle. migh t
as well take place on the question for the Speaker's
leaving the Chair:
To this Mr. ROSE assented. He had, however,
er:4ous objeEtions to the principle of the Bill, which
he thought calculated to raise the surmises to which
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an Hon-. Gentleman (Mr. Jones) had just alluded.
He maintained that nine-tenths of the stuns men-
tioned by the Noble Lord as unaudited had aCtually
been audited before they came to be considered by
the Commissioners of Accounts—by )vhom it had
formerly been resolved, that it was an unnecessary
Waste Gf the public money to audit the Accounts of
the Navy, Army, Bank, Ordnance,' Customs, Sze.
which Were aCtually audited, and etfe&ually au-
dited; previous to their coming befbre them. If
the/se were laid, out of the, computatiodi, he
,Con-
4-tided 'that not ten millions would -remain of At:-
counts unaudited ; and if the Noble Lord 'at the
Head of the Treasury Board, or the Noble Lord op-
posite, had been aware of this' circumstance, he was
convinced the House would never have been troubled
with the present Bill. , •
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL argued that the Public
had been led
.into no mistake by the Noble Lord.
It was true that there were some accounts that re-
quired only'a formal auditing ; but the fact was,
that the Accounts were not audited, and this was, a.
serious evil. No Account of the Paymaster of the
Forces. had been passed for the last twenty-four
years.
Mr. ROSE said that he would afterwards shew,
thct the Learned Gentlenr,,n was corlipletely 'in the
wrong.
Mr. WlNntwt asked how it came, that when all
the parts of these Accounts 'were said to be audited,
the *hole still remained unaudited ?

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Alter some observations from Mr. HustussoN,
the Bill was read a second time, and committed, for
Tuesday,
Mr. SULLIVAN gave noticP, that in case tke in-
disposition of his Noble Friend (Temple) shOUld
continue, he himself Would bring. forward, (he Mo-
tion which he intended to have proposed on Friday
respating the Oude Charge.
Mr. PAULL gave, notice, that on Friday he would
present a Supplementary Charge against Marquis
Wellesley tespeaina the transaaions in Oude.
The, Militia Bill was ordered to be read a third
time to-morrow.

On the Motion of Lord H. PETTY, the Report of
the As'sessed The• Atiowaikc Bill was taken into
considerLti )n.

Mr. HusKtssoN, after stating that this was an
exemption from a permanent tax to counteract a
temporary pressure, proposed a .Clause, by which
was provided that a sum equal to the amount of-the
exemption should be paid into the consolidated
Fund out of the Property Tax.
Lord HENRY PETTY agreed to thi; Amendinent,
and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-.
morrow.

The Report of the Bell Rock Light-house Com-;
mittee was cousldered, and a Bill ordered pursuant
to the Resolutions.

VACCINE INOCULATION.

Lord li' PETTY rose, in order, pursuant to no-
tice which he had formerly given, to call the atten-
tion of the House to the subjed of the Vaccine In-
oculation.—Though this v/as no political subjea, yet
it was one so important to-the 'health and to the
very existence of multitudes of the human species,
F that it was well worthy the attention of the Legisla-
ture, as it certainly promised. perhaps to eradicate
that horrid disorder the Small-Pox, He would net
enter at present into any minute detail on this dis-
covery, as it bad on a former occasion been brought
before the House by his predecessor. This interest-
ing discovery had been the result of the labours of
one eminent Physician, who had been tOr 30 years
solely occupied in bringing it to maturity. He be-
gan so early as the year 1777, and by slow gradual
progress bt ought it to what it was now. In 17.88,
lie rhoUght.of extending it by Inoculation, and hoped
by this means the total extinction of the Small-pox.
In 170, afterits beneficial effedshad been in some
measure ascertained, it was submitted to the Public,
and began to be generally diffused. In that year it
had beep distilased in England ; 1799 it had been
adopted kts America, not only among the White In-
habitants, but also among the Indians, with all the
success that its greatdst 'admirers could hope for,
In 1801, it had been adopted on the Continent.
the exertions of his
.Psoyal Highness the Commander
in Chief it had 'been diffused over the Coast of the
Mediterranean. It had also spread in Russia and in•
Prussia. But what he wished particularly to call the
attemion of the House to, .as it was the circutn.
stance that made the strongest impression on his
mind; was the success which it had met with in
the Austrian dominions.. He begged leave to men-
, tioo one fad. In the year preceding the introdu&ion
of the Vaccine Inoculation, the deaths at Vienna,.
by the Small-pox, had been 835. In , 1802, this
discovery having been previously introdu&d, the
number was reluced to 61, in 1803,, to 27 ; and
in 1804, to two persons-; so that the annual saving,
by means. of this discovery, in that city, was 83a
persons. Yet after this it was melancholy to think
that when the progress was so rapid on the Conti-
nent of Europe, and even its China, the motion in
this Country should rather be retrograde. This had.
, been owing to some objet ions that • had heels made
tq the practice; but even these very objections fur-'
niShed a strong argument for the Koposition which
he was about to submit to. the House: But these
objections had certainly prevailed in retarding the
.progress of the discovery in this Country. Lon-.
don, in 18.02, the deaths by the Small,-,pox had'
amounted to 1311. In 1804, they had been' re-
(laced to 622. But in consequence of the preju-
dices against the Vaccine Inoculation, they had in
the last year risen to 1685 ; so that they were fast
approaching to their original amount: Under' these
; circumstances he had- been induced to bring the
subjed before the Legislature ; . not with a view of
proposing any compulsory , measure, for he was
aware how improper it would be to propose any
measure of compulsion in a case, where the persons
most nearly concerned must be . supposed to be the
• most competent judges where health and happiness
was concerned. Yet it was the duty of the Leigis-
dature to endeavour to- enlighten the minds of the
people,
,and to give to an useful discovery all the
weilit which -their approbation could confer upon
it; and he hoped that 'the House would strongly.
feel the importance of this 'duty. His object was,
that the Royal College of Physicians should examine
into the case, state the condition of the Vaccine
Inoculation iti this,Country, inquire into the causes
that retarded its progress, and make a Report accord-
ingly. He would propose this with a view to have
the' Report before the House early the next Sessions,
when it would be referred to a Committee, in order
that the discovery might have that increased action,
which, if the Report should be favourable, must
follow such an inquiry. And, if the result should
be the corroboration of the o.pinion, as to the great
benefits which arose from this discovery, it' tere
was any truth in it, and if the principle was good,
notwithstanding the objections, which might turn
out to be muc exaggerated, then it would be .for
the House to consider whether any reward, should
be given to Dr. Jenner equal to the important na-
ture of the discovery, consistent with the glory of
the British name, which had been thus augmented
and extended, and worthy of the dignity and
lity of this House. This would be a subjed of after
consideration ; but certainly when such: .4 valuable
.discovery had been made among us, we ought not
to rejed it, but to be the first to adopt it, and make
it as extensively useful as possible. Be concluder!;
by moving, That an bumble Address he presented
to His Majesty, requesting that His Majesty would
dired his' Royal College of Physicians to enquire
into the state of the Vaccine Inoculation in this
Country, and into the causes that retarded its pro-
gress, and to report their opinion, and the evidence
on which they were founded, and to order that this
Report should be laid before this House.

Mr. MA 7THEW S rose to second the Motion.
He had at first some doubts as to the usefulness of,
the discovery, and had attentively watched its pro-
gress, and the result was, that he was fully con-
vinced of its great value. The Small-pox Itfocula-
tion, he sorted, was liable to great objections.--
Death in many,instances ensued—though beneficial
to the individuals, it was a magazine of contagion,
and it had, besides, the etfeCts of stirring up ano-
ther disease in the human frame, which was the
scrophula. The Cow-pox Inoculation was not lia-
ble to these objections, and he was 'of opinion, that
in the cases in which it had failed it had not been
fairly tried. He had no doubt that posterity would
enrol the name of Jenner among those
inve.itits cot vitam excoluere per artes
Atyie sui til,:itiufCS alias fecere mcreiLto?

Mr. VILBERFORCE expressed his satisfac,
tion atihe‘,subje4 having been brought forward by
the Noblq, f.,6ra. He was not surprised that the
People Country hacl.r.been, more slow in, al,.

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lowing the benefits of this discovery, as in- a free
country every one was more inClined to judge, for
himself; and to adhere with stubbortmesS, to
.his epT-
pion-, even when erroneous. The causes bf the
slow progress of Vaccine tnoculation here, he
thought, rather arose from improper matter hav-
ing been, in some cases, used, and from the igno-
rance of many persons who inoculated, and who
were not able
,to distingui-11 the true from the Use
Species, than from-the efforts which had been made
to discredit it in some publications, which, as far
as he had seen, had been written in.sUch a tone as
to render them 'totally unworthy of attention. He
thought, however, that a Committee of this House,'
and of the House 'of Lords, would have answered
better than a Report of the College of Physicians.
He agreed that no compulsion ought to be used,
but at the same time he thought, that in cases
where the parents chose to persist in inoculating with
the SmallTox, certain Regulations ought to be pre-
scribed 'them, Which should prevent the contagion.
spreading.

IPlNDHipircontended, that it was impos-
sible that in a case of this kind the Report of the
College of Physicians, given in this solemn manner,
should not have more weight than the opinion of
Committees of the Lords and Commons. He
agreed as to the mischievous: consequences that
resulted from a want -of care to prevent conta-
gion, but did not think that the case warranted
even the degiee of restraint recommended by the last
Speaker.

1l Tr. thought that the proposal of the
Noble Lord united the adyantages.of .a Report from
• the Physicians and' the opinion of a Committee of the
House. . He would support it thereforebut he
thought the Surgeons ought also to be consulted.. He
thought that- Dr. Jenner, however, had already been
amply rewarded.

• Air. S. LEFEVRE concurred in this opinion.
. P4UL4 mentioned that in Lucknow, while
he resided there, the Vaccine Inoculation had made
great progress,'and the deaths had been reduced from
600 to i 5.. As the* prejudices existed strongly
Scotland; he thought the Scotch College of Physicians
ought to be consulted,
. Lord H. PETTY, in reply, said, that he had
'considered the subjeo before he bad come to the
ancl, from his own refleaion and the sugy
gestions. of .others, he.thought the 'Retort ought to
come from, one centre. The I)hysicians_ would, of
course, correspond with the Surgeons, and
those whp. were most likely to afford them informa-
tion. He contended that the Report of the Phrsi,
ciabs would he far preferable to the opinion of 4
Committee, as a great deal might turn upon the
kipd.of rnatter that ought to be used, and. the fix-
ing, if possible, upon some criteria to distingoists
the spurious from, the true—and also upon the sub.
je6t of the Reports as. to. this. inoculation occasioning
other diseases.
After a few wards from Mr. WM. Smtrrl in al.
'your of the Vaccine .4loculation„ ;the Motion wad
agreed to nem. con. _

"l'he third reading of the West India Trade Bill
was postponed till Friday.
Tisite other Orders of the Pay were then, d4ose.4
of, and the House adjourned.

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THE. SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERS EA:',V7/4 AODZAT

LONDON;
ThURSDAY, JULY 3, 1806:

YESTERDAY we received .eifacrizan Paper; to, thp..
27th of May. They are chiefly filled with accounts,
,relative to MIRANDA'S Expedition ; but those ac-
Counts are of so diversified a kind that it is difficult
to determine which of them is most entitled to credit..
One of the articles on this subjea, a Memorial from
Mr. OGDEN, is' of an interesting kind, paid confirms
all we said when we first announced the arrival, cif
MIRANDA at the place of his destination, We
then stated,, in contradiOtion to reports confidently
urge,d,, that the British Government had no; given,
its sanction to 'MIRANDA'S Expedition. As a strong
presumption of the truth of our assertion, we stated,,
that Admiral COCHRANE, previous to. his send:
ing home Dispatches on the subje6t, had writterk
to MtaA;NbA to know whether he had any autho..
city' for. his proceedings from the Administration of
this country, and in that case offering to, assist him.
with the Force under his command. MIRANDAdid
not return, any answer; a fall proof that he had no
authority from the Gpvernment of Great Britain, for
otherwise he -would of course immediately have avail.
ed himself of such a powerful co-operation. Admiral
COMPIANE then, as we stated, prudently forbore to
take, any 'part in the Expedition, but conceived
it to be his duty to give immediate information to
Ministers, that he might know how to aa in, a crisis
which might produce events of great importance to
the future commerce of this Country. But, although
the accounts respeting MIRANDA'S progress do not
agree, we are very strongly inclined to think that
he will succeed. We laid before our Readers, some
days ago, a minute and accurate detail of the
whole of the Spanish force, regular and irregular,
Native and European, in the Provinces of Caraccas,
Cumana, Maracaibo, and Guiana, and the Island of
Marguerita. The whole of this force does not ex-
ceed 1,3,00 men, and is 'spr,ead over an immense
extent of Country'. The attack of Sir ITOmE POP..
HAM 40'1 'Buenos Ayres, though atasreat distance
from the scene of MIRANDA'S ~perations, will ope-
rate as a, diversion in his favour, and contriiiiute to
his success.

It is stated, that Capt. WHITaY, of the Leander,
has been put under an arrest at Halifax, inconse-
quence of his conduta off New-York, and .that the
American Ships which he had detained were re-
leased.

THE Stocks continued to rise this morning, and a
report 'was circulated in the City that the Prelimi-
naries of Peace were aaually signed. It can hardly
be necessary fur us to assure-our Readers,.that there
is no foundation for the report. That a•Negotiatiofi
with France is in a state of progress, we hmie no
doubt, and that is all that can with propriety be
stated at this 'moment.

THE Prince of Wa/esTacket, 'which has arrived at
Falmouth from Lisbon; • brings ititelligentie that
JEROME BONAPARTE'S' Squadron had arrived at Ba-
tavia on the 4th of,April, and that he sailed again
on the .9.lst of the same month, but his destination
was not known. •

Lord MINTo, we have reason to believe, will cer-t
tainly go out to India as Governor General,. and will
• be succeeded at the Board c)f ContrOul by Mr. T.
GRENVILLE. He cannot have a' more able suc-
cessor.

Mr. Fox was this day so much better that he
will, very probably, be soon able to resume his at-
tention to business.

YESTERDAY Lord GRENVILLE and Lord HENRY
PETTY delivered Messages from His MAJESTY to
both Houses of Parlianient, stating; that the!Annui-
ties granted to the Younger Branches of the ROYAL
FAMILY, out of the Aggregate Fund, in 1778, not
'laving been regularly secured, when the Revenues
composing the Aggregate Fund were transferred
to the Consolidated'Fund,- these Annuities had-failed,
'and become ineffeitual ; His MAJESTY, therefore,
recommended to Parliatrient to take proper measures
to secure the said annuities, and to consider of the.
propriety of making such. increase in these. allow-
'ances as the chat ge of circumstances, which have
taken place since, that period, appear to have ren-
dered just and necessary.. His MAJESTY'S Message
was
.referred to a Committee of Supply.

Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, His MAJESTY
arrived at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor, escort-
ed by a party of Light Horse. The Royal Dukes
soon alter visited their Royal Father. Soon after tivo
o'clock HIS MAJESTY gave audi&ices to the, LORD
CHANCELLOR, Lord GRENVILLE, EaYl SPENCER,
Lord HENRY PETTY, Viscount SiDMOUTH, and Earl
FiTzwiLLiAm. After which His MAJESTY held a
Private Levee, which was attended by, besides the
above distinguished Personages, - •
The “.rehbishop c,t Canterbur).
Marquisses - WAtertord, Headtort, Thomond, and Huntly.
Carystort, Moira, Vartmouth,',and Catnarvon,
Caledon, and Howick.
.Lords—Alden and Cathcart. -
13. Neale, g. Cotterel, and Dalrymple.
hlr. Windham.
' The following had the honour of being presented
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to His MAJESTY.
.
The Margins of Huntly, upon.his being appointed to the
cotrunand of the 42c1 Regiment.
Sir Hugh Dalrymple, upon his being appointed Lieu-
tenant-Governor of •
After which His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at
which' Viscount CA LEDON was intrsduced, and sworn
in Governor of the Cape.of Good Hope. At the close.
of the Council the Marquis of HEADTORT was intro-
duced to His MAJESTY by the Earl Of CARYSFORT,
and Viscount DILLON, preceded by a Gentleman
Usher, carrying the Sword of State, when His MA-
JESTY was pleased to create the Noble Marquis a
Knight of the Noble Order of. St. Patrick, and was
afterwards graciously pleased to invest him with the
Order worn by the late Duke of LEINSTEE.
The Marquis of HUNTLY had afterwards an audi-
ence of His MAJESTY.

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At five o'clock His MAJESTY set off for Windsor.
The Diana Frigate, 'with the Fleet under convoy,
arrived at Gibraltar on' the 30th .May, in 15 days'
passage, from Falmouth.

PIGEON .SHOOTING,—The match between MORE-
. TON, the, celebrated ,shot, and Mr. G. KEATES; of
Abingdon, in Berkshire, ,at •21 pigeons. each, took.
place yesterday, at Child's Hill, near Hampstead,
for 100 guineas. NOtwithstanding the celebrity of
MORETON, from the reports-Which 'had been spread
abroad, bets, were S to 4 on. Mr. KEATES on ,the
ground. The bounds were one hundred yards for
the bird to fall in.

2
3
4

NIORF.TON. XEATES.
kllled -. hit.
hit , killed.
killed. hit, and fell 3 yards off bounds.
missed - killed.
killed killed.
killed - killed.
7 - killed : killed.
8 - killed - killed.
9 - missed - killed.
to • • missed - killed. ..
as killed -
iz • , .
- missed . missed.
13, - killed.
•
14. - hit killed.
- kilted - killed. •
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16 - killed -
17 - killed -
eS hit - killed.
19 - killed - killed.
no missed - '
2 - missed - hit and died out of bounds,
It will be seen that the match was deckled. at 18
shots, but the competitors shot at the number of
birds to decide the bettings.
The odds were 2 to 1 against MotiToN after
the 10th fire, -3 to 1 after the 10th fire, 4 to 1 at
the 14th, and 10 to 1 at the Wt.!).
Another match, at five pigeons each, took place
between a Berkshire Gentleman, and Mr. CaI,ION,
of some celebrity at the sport. Mr. C. killed his five
birds, which was the number allotted to each party,
and his opponent, whO missed his first shot, lost after
Mr. C. had killed his fifth bird. The company con-
chiefly of the amateuri of the sport,: and The..
Eround was wimerously and respeaably