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DISABI,ED SEAMEN.

The Report of the Committee on the Greenwich
Hospital Acts was received, the Resolutions agreed
to, and Bills ordered accordingly.
On thy; Motion of Lord HowtaK, the House
then resolved itself into a Coinmittee on.,the Prize
Act. is the Committee, is Lordship moved, that

11. 13s. 4d. per cent. out of the Proceeds of the
' Bounty allowed the Men for Enemies' Ships taken or
destroyed, should be granted for Greenwich Hospi-
tal, and that 31. 6s. sd. per cent. should be granted
out of the same for the Chest at Greenwich.—Agreed
to.—Report to-morrow.
MARQUIS WI LI.ESLEY.
. Mr. PAULL, pursuant to notice, moved, that the
First Charge against Marquis Wellesley should be
printed.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY opposed this, on
the ground that the circumstances were the same as
:when the House had before rsfused to print it, the
whole evidence not being as yet produced. If the'
Charge could be taken into consideration this Session,,
he would have 'had no obje&ion to come to a deci=
sion even on the Papers which the Hon. Gentleman
himself had moved for ; but as that was impossible,
he thought it improper that the Charge 4hould go
into the hands of the: Public in the present state
of the business.
Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON observed,
that the grounds on' which the House had before re-
fused to print this Charge were, that the evidence
was not before them. But- mit, the evidence was,
in part at least, before the House, and the rest would
very soon be produced. The circumstances were •
altered, and the Charge ought therefore to be.prints
ed, that the House might, as soon as possible, com-
pare it with the evidence.
Mr. Rosa could not conceive why the Charge
should be printed, when it could not be taken into
consideration this Session.
Lord DOUGLAS supported the Motion for printing
the Charge.
Mr. 'Secretary TINDHAIII said, that the reason
for printing at all was for the use of the Members
of the House; and as to the Papers finding their way
to the Public, that -was an incidental occurrence.—
The more business there was, the: greater necessity
there was for printing, and the natural conclusion
was, that Papers ought to be printed in the first
stallce, unless some reason was shown to the con-
trary. NoW the 'reason here was; that a false and
improper impression -would be made by an e.r parte
statement. But it might he a question, -whether
• the injnry would be so material as to induce the
House to sacrifice its ,convenience in any case of
this sort. And, at any rate, in the present instance,
the evidence was on the Table, or would soon be
why should, that be printed, unless the
Charge was printed to be compared with it ?-4t was
no reason for not printing tlse Charge, that it could
not be considered till next Session—for the longer
the time the Members had to examine it the better.
He could not therefore see why the printing should
be deferred,
Lord CASTLEREAGH was not satisfied with
these reasons, He thought that the Charge ought
not to be printed till next Session; but at all events,
it ought not to be printed now, betbro the evidence
for the Defendant was prodeeed.
Lord H. PETTY thong'
::' that the Charge and
the Evidence should 'go togstiser, The Evidence for-
the Defence would soon be-produced, and the Mem-s I
bers ought to have the Charge along with the Evi-
dence on both sides, in order to consider them during
the summer.
Mr: BANKES saw no reason why the Charge
should be printed, as it could not-be considered during
the present Session, and - therefore opposed the
Motion.
Mr. GRANT observed, that theses-es of India
and -of the EmPire in general were fixed upon the
condai of the House in this business. With re-
gard to the objeaions urged' against the publication •
to exparte statements, he was surprised at the quar-
ter from whence they proceeded; For he would
ask, whether variOus.Pspers and-ex parte statements
were not circulated by the friends of the .Noble
.Marquis, though not• among the Public. yet
among those who were
;to decide upon the great'
question to which 61'42 Motion- before the House
referred ?
Mr. MARTIN (of Galway). conceiving the ob-
je6t.of the Motion to
,be merely to put the Mem-
beri of that House in pbssession of this Charge, was
astonished at the „opposition in-ide to it. Every
Membet' was entitled to order a Copy of the Charge
from the proper office, ; doslif it were written legi-
bly and delivered to the Members„, he would not de-
sire that it should be printed.
, Mr. ALEXANDER was against the Motion.
Dr. LAWRENCE considered the grounds of op-
position to this Motion as of a most extraordinary
nature. The Charges against Warren Hastings bad,
it was well Istiown, remained on the Table and were
printed above 18 months before they were taken, into
consideration ; and yet it was now argued that the
Charge befere the House should not be printed until
the shortest possible time before the House should
be called on to decide upon it. But no one attempt-
ed to argue in this way excepting those who, he
had no hesitation in saying, were the avowed friends,
supporters, and advocates of the Noble Marquis—=
and would the House allow itself to be di&ated to
by them ?--If so, there must, of course, be an end
to all hopes of justice in the, case. • He recolledted
the story of Sir John Hensey, who was found guilty
of high treason—but there was a polit6 Attorney-
General in that time, who declined to bring hith to
judgment until the traitor should himself think pro-
per—and that time never coining, the traitor, of
course, was never brought to judgment. Now, in
this case, be apprehended that if. the advice of the
Noble Marquis's connexions were attended to the
day of judgment would never come—sit' sough,
strange to tell, those connexions were sometimes
heard calling out for a speedy trial.. To-night, how-
ever, their language was, that it would be absurd to
think of going into any of the Charges until the next
Session. The Learned Gentleman concluded with
observing, that no answer was given to the question
of the Hon. Dire&or (Mr. Grant), relative to the
exparte publications from the friends of the Noble
Marquis.
Mr. W POLE declared, and pledged himself to
the faa, that his Noble Relative had never written
Or published, or authorised to be published, a, sin-
gle line4n answer to the Charge to which the
Motion before the House referred, nor had any of
the. Noble Lord's friends either, to his (Mr. Pole's)
knOwledge.'
M?: SHERIDAN thought the. understanding
was,- at the time he bad the honour to make a
Motion'nPon this subjea, that the Charge alluded
to should`liot be printed until all the Evidence con-
neCted.witlt should be printed also. Now, as a
great (164 of that Evidence was not before the

_House, he did not think that this Motion could be
consistently acceded to at present ; at the same
- time.he could see no obje&ion to print the Charge
with the Evidence.
Mr.ARCHDALE concurred in the opinion of the
last speaker.
Mr. PAULL was astonished at the opposition
made to. this motion. When it was asserted that -
this Charge contained strong allegations against the
Noble Marquis, Gentlemen should bear in mind,
that much stronger allegations were to be found in
the dispatch of the India Dire&ors, of which so
many thousand Copies had been published, and also
in a letter addressed by the Secretary of the India
Dire&ors to Lord. Castlereagh when at the head of
the Board of Controul. Gentlemen might deter-
mine to prote& Lord Wellesley; but his condu&
had been decided upon elsewhere, and that by the
persons most interested and best acquainted with
the subje& ; and a majority of 980 India Proprietors
had, against a_ minority of 175, pronounced, by, a
solemn vote, that the Noble Lord's condu& was
highly culpable. The lion. Gentleman proposed
to the Gentlemen on the other side, if they would
not agree to the present motion, to fix upon some
day not later than the 1 oth of July for the printing of
this Charge.

Mr. J6HNSTONE lamented that a question of
such trifling, or rather of no importance, should be
so 'often pressed upon the attention of the House.
The Hon. Member, in opposition to the remarks of
his Le,arned Friend (Dr. Lawrence), asserted, that
the demeanour of the Hon. Gentlemen behind him
-(Sir A. Wellesley, and the. Hon. W. Pole) was
marked by good temper and propriety,, although
he was ready to own that his Learned Friend's re-
marks would be somewhat applicable to the Noble
Lord who generally sat on the same bench with
him, (Temple) who seemed resolved' to diaate what
course the House should pursue in this investiga-
tion. The Hon. Member denied that the Court of
India Proprietors meant to-ileclare any opinion as to
the Charges against Loixt Wellesley in the vote of
approbation which they had thought it their duty
to pronounce upon the conduet of their own Di•
rectors.

After a few words from Mr. 1.101.1. toog, Lord
FOLKSTONE, and others,

Lord HENRY PETTY conceiving it not necessary
at present to press any division upon this subjeEt,
moved the previous question ; which was agreed to,

AUDITOk's COMMISSION.
The House having resolved into a Committee of
Supply,
Lord HENRY PETTY moved that a salary not ex-
ceeding tbool. a year should be granted to each of
the Commissioners first named in the new Commis•
sion for, Auditing Public Accounts, and a salary of
12001. to the lather Commissioners ; and also an ad-
ditional sum for incidental expences attending the
said Commission.
- Mr. BANKES considered the salaries rather too
high, and the Commissioners too numerous. At the
same.time the, Hon. Member took occasion to re-
commend the adoptiOn of a principle in this arrange.
meat which ought, in his judgme4t, to prevail in
all Ptiblic Offices—namely, an increase of salary
to the subordinate Officers, who, it wag ktiown,
were the only efficient ,persons and a proportionate
decrease of the salaries of the Principals. Those
upon whom4he onus of the Public Business devolv.
ed ought, iti'comrnon justice and policy, to be ade.
qtrately re,.varded..

Lord Hay PETTY said, that, from the import
tmce of the institution to which this Motion re.
ferred, it was thought right to plate the Gentlemen
who were to condudt it, upon the same footing as the
Principals of other Public BoardS, namely, those of
Customs and Excise ; and upon that footing the
amount of the salaries was adjusted, As to the
number of the Commissioners, he hoped he had
already stated enough respecting the quantum of the
business they had to go through, to satisfy, the
House tliud the Country upon that point; and with
regard ' m the other point alluded to by his Hon.
Friend, he could assure him that care would be
taken in this arrangement, that the business should
not be left to the lower Officers, but that the Gam-
missioners should be obliged to do it thequelves.
After a few words across the table between Lord
HENRY PETTY and Mr. Husxtssow, the motion
was agreed to, the House resumed, and the Report
was ordered to be brought up to-morrow.

WEST INDIA TRADE BILL.
Lord HENRY PETTY moved the further consi-
deration of the Report upon this Bill.
Lord CASTLERRAGH expressed a wish that this
Motion should be postponed, as many Gentlemen
had left the House under the impression that it
would not be brought on to-day.
Lord HENRY PETTY was at a loss to know
the cause of this impression, as some Gentlemen
who had enquired of him whether it would be
brought forward, had been distinctly answered in
the affirmative.

Upon this a long and desultory conversation
arose, in which Mr. WIIsIDHAM, Mr. .1
OR=' the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Lord HENRY PETTY, Lord
CASTLEREAGH, Sir ,CHARLES PRICE, Mr. ALEX-
ANDER, Mr. CALVERT, and Mr. GILES, took a
part. The Report was at length agreed to, and
the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-
morrow se'nnight.
The East India Shipping Bill was read a second
time, and committed for to-morrow.

MILITIA BILL.
The Order of the Day for the second reading of
the Militia Tests Bill being read,
Mr. YORKE ell ,aired of the Right Honourable
Secretary, whether it was intended to extend the
principle of this Bill, or of the Training Bill, to
Scotland ?

Mr. WINDHAM answered, that certainly there
was no such intention as to the Training Bill ; nor
did he think there was any upon this-Bill either :
but as to the latter he was not prepared to answer
so decisively.-
Sir WILLIAM ELFORD requested to have
some explanation from the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman as to'a point which he did not fully, under-
stand in his speech upon the opening of his Mili-
tary Plan, . namely, whether he proposed to abolish
the Ballot.for the Militia altogether, and recruit that
Force by Bounty, or merely to suspend the: Ballot
by way of experiment, until the Militia should be
reduced to the number at which they were in future
to remain ?
Lord CASTLEREAGH was surprised at the

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. The Bill was read a second time ; and upon the
-Motion for its committal,
. Mr. YORKE-rose to ask what was to be under-
'stood as the amount of the Militia proposed to -be
;permanently kept up ? Previous to 1802, that Esta,
blishtnent amounted to only 30,000 ; but in conse-
'plence of an At of that year, it was raised to 40,000
for England and Wales, and 800 b for Scotland. By
the repeal of the *tiny ,of Reserve and Additional
Force Acts, which repealed -the 'Clauses for raising
the SUppleir!entary Militia, those Clauses were' again
come into existence, and any County Was liable to
be called upon, and fined for negle6uing to 'raise such
Militia,unless some legislativeprovisionS were adopted
to guard •Against it. li, 'he'begged leave to 'suggest
to the'Consideration df the Aight. Hon: Secretary:
bu his principal motive in rising was to ask, Whe-
ther* was intended tot-educe the• Militia to the ,an-.
'cient &tablishment, or to that settled by the ,Adt
of 1.800

Mr. IV 11vDt-lAR replied, that the teduCtion was
intended to the nutnber settled by the A& of 1802.
As,to the other point, The. Right lion. Secretary said
that t are would be taken -to make the necessary pro-.
Bil; "was ordered to be committed
otj
• Vriday,
_ _ _

MARQUIS WtLLESLEY.
. The House then went into a 'Cominittee'On the
nude Charge (Mr. Hobhouse in the Chair), When;
on the Motion of rvli. PAULL,. Major-General St.
Leger was called in. The objeallmeant to be gained
by 'bis.ovidence was the effeaive force of the 27th
Dpgoons, to which he then laclOnged, in each
month during the time they were employed in the
Nabob's service. For this, however, he in general
refe'ried.to the returns made. .
cliis evidence being finislied, the Chairman re-
potted' progress, and obtainedleaye to sit again on
Friav,
Mr. PAULL having prel;lonsiy declared that the
only other evidence besides Sir James Craig :whom
he had to examitie was Captain Salmon, if, on pro-
duEtion of the account, 'even the re-examination of
that witness shouldbe deemed necessary.

On the Moticin of Mr. PAULL, the return of the
aanal strength of the 27th Dragoons, as ordered to tre
made on the sth of June last,,was ordered to be made
forthwith..

VANSITTART brought in the' Newfoundland
Fishery Bill; which was read a first, and ordered to
be read a-second time.

Mr, \''/NSITTART presented an Account of the
Sums paid from the Civil List Unprovicleci for by Par-.
liarnent,.according :to Order. • _
On his Motion an humble Address was ordered
tobe presented to his Majesty, prayinga farther List
of all such Sums still unprovided for.
The other Orders were postponed, and the House
adjourned. •

• MAILS,
ARR IVFD—lGottenburgh, I.Lisboni I Waterford.
DuF. z Ilamburgh, i Gottenburgh, i Dublin, i Water..
ford.

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LONDON,

THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 180 a.

'Tim' wise policy of Ministers still precludes us
from giving our Readers any authentic intelligence
respeaing the. present state of 'affairs between the
Court of the Thuilleries and the British Govern-
ment. Some of our. Competitors treat the whole
matter as the result of mere Stock-jobbing specula-
tion. In this respect we entirely differ from them.;

polio), ordeelihing to extend thissßill and the Train-
ing bill to 3c,alapct; which was a part of the Er n 7
pine so peculiarly distinguished tor its military cla-
ra6ter. There might be r,eaons of policy for not
extending the principles of those measures to
Ire-
land ; but he could not conjecture that they were
applicable to Scotland.
Ilfr." WINDT/J/1U observed, in reference to What
had fallen from the Honourable Baronet (Sir
Elford), that a more proper time, would come
for considering the question relative to the mode of
keeping up our Militia Force in futhre. It would
be a point very fit to be mooted hereafter, whether
that Force should be supplied by Ballot, or whe-
ther recourse should be bad to recruiting by Bounty:
but at present the intention was rather to let the
vacancies which might occur in the Militia.remain
unsupplied until that body should be reduced to the
standard at which it was intended permanently to
continue.

Sir W. ELFORD asked whether, if, for instance, a
„Regiment of Militia shOuld he reduced one half, none
of the vacancies in that Regiment should be
,filled up
until the whole of the Militia Body should be re-
duced to the standard which the Right Hon. Secre-
Aary had in view ? •
Mr. WINDIIAM answered, that the intention was
exa6tly the affirmative of the Honourable 'Baronet's
`questiOn. •
Sir JAMES PULTRATY took occasion to re-
,
commend a farther recruiting from the Militia. In-
deed, notwithstanding the obje6tlons urged to the
-principle of that plan, be neither saw nor beard of
anyi- mischief that resulted from the practice at ei-
ther tiirie thdt the experiment was tried, While he
knew that it- ivaS highly prod-Lie-live to the Army
Irrhis opinion it would be wise to allow the whole
of-the Militia to tioiunteer into the Line; and when
reduced, in consequence, that the several Regiments
should be sent' to their respedtive Counties to recruit
their complement. Upon moving such cornple-
raents, he would rather recommend that they should
belivided into certain pottions, to be trained and
kept under arms in rotation a Certain. part of the
year, instead of the present pra6tice of keeping the
whole Body under arms throughout the year, which
struck blip to be quite unnecessary for military pur-
poses, and therefore a useless expence to the Coun-
try. The Hon. Baronet hoped that it was not in
contemplation to get rid of the*Ballot ; for sure he
,was that it that mode of raising men were anan,
'cloned, the State would at length be reduced
to: the necessity of having recourse ,to
'tion.

''and though we Are not vefy sanguine in our hopes
~ass to the probable result, evee-are certaitjli- induced
to' believe that measures are in agitation', of Whiell
they are by no means aware, and which have a
more important foundation' than is generally sup-
posed.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, HisIIIA3E4TY held a
. .
Private Levee, at the Queen's Palace, which vas at-'
tended by . . .
,The Lord Chancellor 'the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the' Home a: d Culonial Departments,
the Secretary at War, the First 'Lord of the Admiralty, the
Lord President of the Council,_ the Master-General of the ..
Ordnance, and the Russiiin Ambassador. .•
.Earls—Granard, Caledon, Searbor.lugh, Spencer, Ditrf,....
mouth, A ylestiird; Harrington, Fitz Carnarvon, St,
Vincent, anti Moira.
Viscount Howick. •
Lords—Erskine, Grenville, and Sydney.
Admiral Dommett
Sir—Wm. Curtis, T. Thompson; and R. Barlow.
C enerals —A bercromby, Ferguson, F itzpatrick,and L.; order:.
Captains--Cunningham and Bowen.
Messrs.—.Fordyce, Fawkener, North, and ‘Virdham.
The following had the honour olbeingpresented
to HIS INIAJ4STY':
• Earl of G ranard, upon coming to his title, by the Earl
of Moira. ,

Count Strangenorf, by Earl Spencer, on his arrival in this
CoUntry, upon his Embassy from the Court of St. Peters_
.burgh, when he delivered to Ills Majesty his credentials,
which were most graciously received.
General Abercrombie, son of the late Sir_Ralph, upon his
return from France.

General Ferguson; upon his return from the Cape of Good

Earl of caledon, upon being appointed Governor of 'the
Ca pe of Good Hope.
Captain 13owen, of the Royal Navy, upon his return t 6
England, by the Earl of St. Vincent.

Mr. North, upon his return fronl the Government of Ceylon.
AA
zlotlnTal Sir ROGER CURTIS, AcltOiral Dosi-
METT, and Mr. FORDYCE, laid before His MA2
JESTY the Second Report of the Committee for re-
Visitig the Naval Affairs.
It was reported .that General FEucarsON received
the'honour of Knighthood.
AftertheLeveeHis MAJESTY held a Privy Council,.
' • Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, HER MAJESTY
• and. PRINCESS AUGUSTA.IIOIIOUred Lady CHARLOTTE
FINCH with a visit, and congratulated her Ladyship
upon her recovery after her late operation.
INDIA HOusß.—Yesterday a Court. of DireaorS•
was held, when Captain GEORGE GRAY, of the Sir
Step4en Lushington; took leave of the Court previous
to departing for Bombay dire& S. P. COCKERELL,
Este was appointed Surveyor to the Company, in the
room of HENRY HOLLAND, Esq. deceased.
We are very glad to find that the escape of Mrs.
SPENCER SMITH from the hands of the French ruf-
fians is confirmed -by letters from ,that Lady, dated.
at Prague. She means to return to this country by
the way of Russia. '
CITY BuSirsEss.--A Court. -of Common Council
was held yesterday at Guildhall; which was nume-
ronsly. attended. The By-laws 'for, regulating the
Port of London were finally agreed to, and ordered
to be laid before the Judges for their approbation.
The C.tirt referred it to a Committee to prepare_ a
Bill, to be presented" to Parliament, for Repealing
the Additional Force ACt, so far as the 'saline relates
to the City of London. It was referred.t63lie City
Lands Committee, •to consider of a proper scite of
ground for the Ere&ion of a new Compter, in the
loom of the present Poultry Compter, toget'lla with,
Plans for the same, and an Estimate of itS Expellee,
&c. and to report thereon.
The public services ..and private merits of the late
Earl MACARTHEY Well entitle hint to biographical
distindion, for the sake of example. We are glad,
therefore, to find that such a proper tribute to the
general worth of so estimable a charader is likely, to,
come frem the pen 'of his learned and ingenious
friend Mr. BAR.Itow.
eni NI. CON.—A case of this kind occurred In the
Ceurt of Exchequer, Dublin, or. Wednesday last.
Major BLAND, of the 47th Foot, laid-, his aßion
against Capt. KING, of the Commissariat DCl)art-
mem, for criminal intercourse with his wite: The
fOrmer Lel been absent from Europe for a length of
time, during which the lady had not heard 'frontshim. A \
t length, concluding he *as dead, she
;listened to the addreSses of the Defendant, 'and mar-
ried him. These allegations were tontradi6ted by
thecertaintv of the lady .laving received remittances
from her husband. On the Plaintitrs.'coming home,
the circumstances of the case were devc4oped—an
a&ion. Nyas commenced-.-damages weite •laid at
but'the'Jery only gave a Yerdi'a
On Saturday 'evening a ...young Naval Officer, fE ho
had served on board the Lively Frigate at the taking
of the Spanish Prizes), at the commencement of the
present War, and who bad since lost his arm on board
theTemernire, at. the Battle of Tr:dialler-, was rubbed
of about 6601. in St..Beorge's-tields, by a 'Ouple
'2. nip/47-es whom the Officer and hi-s. cempanion bad
aeCompanied to their lodgings, He had arrived
town from Portsmouth on the: preceding day Neith
his prize-money. The women committed the rob-
bery the Son of Neptune was sleeping, and
they immediately absconded.
li,umOtious Coroi!;11 Clergyman
having a dispute concerning several shares in di rti-reti t
mines, found it necessary to send for it, London limb
of the law, to have some conversation with the wit-
nesses, examine the title deeds, view the premise,
&c. The Divine took him to compare his surve,ybr's.
drawings with the situation of the pits, &c. • In one
excursion, when the professional gentleman was dei.
seending a deep shaft by means of a rope Which be
Ife.ld in his hand) he called out to the parson who
`stood at the top, " Dr. as you .have not 'confined
your studies to Geography, but know all things froiri
the surface to the centre, pray how far is it from this
'pit to that in the infernal regions ?"--" I cannot ex
ably ascertain the distance, (replied the Divine) but
let go your hold, and you'll Le there in a minute."
MutAceEs.Chatham, Sheerness, and indeed the
greater "part of the County .of Kent, have been
amused for some days past, with an illiterate man,
a private Marine of Chatham Barracks. He calls
himself the seventh Son of the, seventh son in the
third generation, and pretends to be inspired; and to
have the power of curing all diseases, making the
deaf to' hear, , the dumb twspeak, the blind to see,
and the Jame to walk. So credulous are the people,
that many hundreds have crowded to him in hopes
of benefiting byhiS skill, so much so, that the Bar fi
-
racks became inaccessible to those belonging there :
the man has been discharged, and now exhibits.at an
alehouse in Sheerness, where.), assisted by his
votirite spirit, or genii (Maidstone gin), ke is allowed
votaries to perform miracles,'