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of them had stated, that they did not knbw of_tl-4
Treaty of Oude till a little before they had :written
their dispatch, in 1805. He read a letter, sighed by
thirteen Direalors, by which. it appeared that they
knew something about it in 1802.

Mr. GRANT explahled. '
Mr. PERCIVAL, objeaed to. the proposition of
Mr. Sheridan, and ,proposed, that the_charge should.
be withdrawn altogether, if it.could now be' done, till
the documents could be produced.
. __ _

After a few words from Mr. Fox and Mr. SEE-

• Mr. RAULL'olefended his mode of proceeding,
by stating, that the friends of Marquis Wellesley
'Were constantly saying that he only moved for do •
cOtnents to gain information, and that he did know
what'he was about. This induced him to bring the
charge thus early,. and he. had the documents in his
hand to prove it.. He adverted to several Members
who • had, on different occasions, expressed senti-
ments similar to his on the conduet of Marquis
Wellesley.

Mr.. II- UDDLESTOhE knew nothing of the,
letter which had been read by the Hon d•Gentlenaan
(Mr. W. Pole). He approved some parts of the
couduel Marquis Wellesley, and disapproved of
474beiparts of it. He would be glad to find himself
in an error ; but, he believed the evidence against
Lord Wellesley would be too strong to be refuted. .

Mr.. SH4I-iLIMN adverted to the calls which
bad been made upon him by an Honourable Friend
near him '(?r. Francis.) He still retained his opi-
nions relative to the trnnsa&ions in the Carnatic
butt, when he spoke of these before, he never named
Marquis' Wellesley. To be sure
,now it appeared
that he had some connection with them, but the
charge would equally. lie against the Board of Con-
troul and the Dire6turs. He had used the privilege
of friendship to state to his Hon. Friend (Francis);
that he wished to avoid, as much as possible, ques-
tions which might occasion differences between the
Members of Administration, when union was so de-
sirable. But why did riot he himself undertake this
business ? He had lost 'none of his fire and, if re-
port was true, he would have had no objediou to go
as Governor General to India. 'His Hon. Friend,
however, had not a6ted from motives of personal
disappointment', but merely from some friendship
for him (Mr. Sheridan), and a regard to his charac-
ter. He hoped, however, that his Hon. Friend-
.-Would leave to himself the task of justifying his poli-
tical condu&.

Mr. FRANCIS observed, that the general tenor
.of • his condut'..l.waS such, as he was confident must
convince the House that he was not so much Of a
disappointed man as
.he might have been expetied
to he.

Sir T. METCALF defended the cOndua of the
Direetors of the East India Company. He delivered
Lis sentiments in that House as a Member of Par-
Lament only, it-lilt:pendent i any Other considera-
thin, and he was confident that every'Llember Of
the HOn; Court of ,Directors now -spoke what was' his
Own individual opinion, without the least reference
to what might be the• opinion of those vc:lio need
Nv t h him in another situation. • 'This much, how
ever, he would say, that the question pfan impeach-
ment, or a Civil Suit against the Noble Marquis, had
never been once aOtated-by the Court of Dire tors.
' Mr. ADLEvOTO.Nsuggestej, that' the most re -
gular cov.l-se'v-ould be, for the Hon. Gentleman to
move that the Motions be, fur the present, with-
drawn ; and, after there was some further infornia-
ition-before the House upon this subjeft, it might be
competent to him, or any other -Hon. Member, to
move the further consideration of the question on
some day substqueut to the produCtion of those do-
-cc ment s.

' 1%.1r. I'AuLL said this was the very mode which he,
intety.k3 to ime pursued, in (:onsequetice ofwhat.
lie had heard in the course of this night's debat6..

The _Motions were then orcicrM to he withdrawn.

Aft.er which, rlr. Smsitimtx gave nriticc, that be
would rnovo the House. to. re:itincl thn'Order fot.
printing the first Article of he proposLainipe4th-
-111 nt .

Mr. I'Autt. then moved f-)r the. prodtiaiort of cer-
tain Accouuts, with a view to skew the comparative
amount of the Public Expenditure in India during
the Administrations of Governor Hastings, Lord
Cornwallis, Sir John Shore, and Marquis Wellesley.
----TheMotions were carried unanimously.
Mr. WELLESLEY gave notice, that he would, on
Thursday, move 'for the produCtion of some addi-
tional Popers relative to the conduct of the 'Noble
Marquis.
The Committee on the Property Tax Bill was, on
.tile suggestion of Sir H. Mildmay, deferred, till Fri-
day. -r—titter some routine business, the House 4d-
journeci at Twelve o'clock.

Froal the. FRENCH ...4.:17D DUTCH PAPERS.

PNRIS, APRIL 12.—Upwards of 14,000 Austrian
Prisoners- have, since the Bth of March, taken the
rdad to Strasburgh 66 their route home.
:1.-4n consequence of a Report made by
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the French Consul-
General of Leghorn has been suspended from his
funtStions, and ordered to be tried according to Law :
he is Charged with having received gratuities from
the Merchants of Genoa for certificates of origin,.
by which it is supposed he' obtained an annual
revenue of 100,000 francs ; and also with having
restored to an English Commissary at Leghorn some
Ligurian Sailors taken on board an English Priva-
teer, whom the Arch-Treasurer had claimed to be
sent to Genoa.

. .
The taking possession of a part of. Dalmatia by
,
the Russians, at the very moment the French were
on their way to take possession of that .Province in
terms of the Treaty of k'resburgh, has already Created
d. good deal of speculation among politicians here,
and appears as a manifestation of a hostile tendency.
The Cabinet of St. Petersbuigh (they say) has
trampled upon the Treaties by 'which Russia
.was
allied to Austria. 'We are already well.assured that
Prussia will unite with France against Russia and
Sweden, and that the principal st.T.t of -war ,wild in-
cline towards the North of Et4ropp._

, .
A report is current, that one of tlx,greatest Courts
of, Europe has offered an 'asylum in' their, States to
the Royal Family of Naples, with an allowance of a
yearly pension Of .half a million.
TRIESTV:, MARCH 20.—the Rpasians ',aye effec-
tually taken possession of Cattaro ; anti. we must
suppose that they endeayoure,4 to form a correspon-
dence with the inhat:';itants, in orde to intiinichite
the Austrian'

L 0 N 1) 0 N,

WCDESDAY, APRIL :24,, .18106,

The following very important intelllgence was this
Morning received at LLOYD'S. • It appears that not,
withstanding all wujeaures to the coutrztry4 ano-
ther French Squadron has reached the West 'ln-
dies, and there'is strong reason to hope that Sir Jon):
Dc.cKwoualt will fall in with 'them

The illexan.dcr L rtdo, Capt, itiNNEtu;Alci the
Fun e, BRAITHWAITE, the Alaria, 11iNcE,. and the
Venus, ToBIN, arrived at Liverpo6l, on the (20th7inst.
from Jainaica : they sailed from, thence on the 24th
February, in company with Admiral PUCKWOETH,
in the Superb Man of War, accompanied. by the
Acacia Frigate and the French Prizes, and parted
from them the next day. On the 29th, off Nevaza,
spoke HiS Majesty's Ship l'eteran, who the preced-
ing: day had fallen in with AdmiraIDUCKWWIT!.-1,
to whom he communicated intelligence. of His Ma 7:
jesty'sschooner. Gi-&-iciise having been chased a few
days before, otf La Gwyn, by four FrenCh Line-of-
battle Ships. In consequence of this information,
the Admiral and theAcasta steered back for Jamaica,
to eolleCt his Squadron and go in quest of them."

Extra& of a Letter frorri Cork, dated 17tit.Aprit:

The Earl Spencer Cutter is arrived at Cove :
she boarded a Ship from Jamaica, the .Captain. of
whiCh stated, that Sir Jontc Ducxwor.-ruhaving
..
re-
ceived _intelligence that a French Squadron had ar-'
rived at La Guayra, determined on attacking it; and
• .
when 'the Merchantman sailed, he had procured:
1500 Volunteers, with whom he manned the twa
French eft gun Ships, and was proceeding to La,
Gilayra."

OUR 'leaders- will recolleca, that on the 12th of
last March we inserted a very important Letter from
Count HaitDENEEIIO fo Lord HAP.ROWBY, dated the
22d of DeceMber Ilst. On lite 31 St nit. we lath fished
the evraordinary übzervaCton.s.of the Ilionitezir upon
that Letter, the tendency pt. v.-1:14i was, to make the
-,,v(Mt.l believe

„
nEN-nr.no's not authoristd A.1N.0 r.IIU3ST:
We, hoti.e'er, at that time declared Our conviCti.
th:it Count HARDNEERG had, full authority-from•
his Sovereian. We'this'day insert a very important
article from'Count HARDENBERG, in which, in con-
firmation of our 'opinion, be, declares, tharhe wrote
the Letter in question by comMand of his Sovereign
The most important part of this interesting docu-
ment is, that it proves, beyond a doubt, that Count
HA6GWITZ signed the Treaty at Vienna the 15th of
ttec.'wth BONAPARTE, if not in dire& opposition
to his orders, at-least without the knowledp.ofhis

Sovereign.

A Dutch Smack arrived on Monday, at 17.1--
.
mouth, with a Flag of Truce. A Dutch Ofticer
was on board, and it'is supposed-he is come over to
Negotiate an Exchange of Prisoners.
Thirteen Vessels are detained and sent into that
Port by the North Sea Cruizers, under the Embargo,
all laden with timber.

A report ‘71:.15 strongly prevalent this morning,
that, St. Helena had been taken by a French Squad-.
ron ; but we could not trace it to any authentic-

6 Jurce.

. We last night received Paris and Dutch Papers-,
the former to the itith and the litter to the 19th inst.
from which we have extracted the most interesting

articles.

DE,Cf,ARATIO4I4 ;,
OF MS MAJESTY'S MINISTER OF STATE

CABINET BARON HARDENBERG.

The Moniteur of the .f...)ist March publishes a
Letter written by me of the 22d Dec. 1805, to Lord
HARROWBY, then His Britannic Majesty's Minister
at Berlin' (this ;Letter has already appeared in our
Paper) and requires of me at the same time to say
whether this Letter be authentic or a fabrication,
and at the same time 'accompanies this demand with
several-observations. -

The duties and the situation of a Minister of
State are rendered sometimes difficult from the cir-
cumstance of their frequently imposing silence upon
him, even when he is misunderstood or "calumniated.
However, in the present instance, I owe it to
my Sovereign and to myself-to declare—that this
Letter, though some of itS.expressions.Ware altered,
was Written officialty, and by Command of-thel<.ing.
I owe it to his Majesty to make • this declara-
tion',' t•:-.cause, at the Court of Berlin, it is not
permitted to any Member to take-steps of that na-
ture without the knowledge of the/Sovereign 3, and I
owe it to myself, because I cannot he indifferent,
when I am held to be capable of -aaing contrary
to my duty, or of exposing myself to -the -risk of
bayilcg aas which I performed in , the ..name of the
Kb -2, afterwtrds disapproved of by Majesty.

" -On the 22d of December it w:.s not known
either to the Kling or to any person in Berlin that
a Treaty had been concluded on the 15th, by Count
}-lAuowrrz, at Vienna, as the Count had reserved
this information to be' communicated by' himself
on his arrival •at. Berlin, which did not Arhappen
tilt the 25th. We were, as :1 expressly stated
in my letter to Lard HA'anoway; wholly-uncer-
tain respeeting the objeas of his Majesty the
• Brn-
peror of the French ; the Armies on both 'sides were
on the. war footing, and in the,field. Major-Gen,
?nut, was sent to the French head-quarters and 'to
Count HAUGWITZ,r to declare himself upon the in-
termediate, Agreement which was the object of my
Letter to Lord 1-lAnao,wii, and which was propos-
•ed by Count linuowiTz. M. Da PaUL met, this
Minister on his journey bacl;:to Berlin, with a De-
finitive Treaty ; the interme4te tigreem,ent.-na-
tu,rally became null. ,
" This is the exa& statement of the facts; and.
upon this statement I leave the Public impartially to
judge of the observations in the Moniteur.
I place my honour in the esteem and punfidencel
of my Sovereign and the, Prussian Nation, in the re-
gards-of estimable strangers with whom 1 Was in re-
lation, and among whonr I have the pleasure of
counting Frenchmen,. I am not a native- of the
PruSsian States ; but I do not yield to any native on
the score of patriotism. I have acquired a right to
this pretension by my services, and by the transfer of
the inheritance which I now possess into the Prus-
sian Territory. '):hough lam not a Soldier, I feel,
nevertheless, thatl would not have been unworthy
to be of this profession had fortune destined me to
defend with the sword my Sovereign and his rights,
the dignity and security of the' State. This is my
.Ausl.ver, to the Observations in the Allciniteur.—
Neither Newspaper Bulletins, nor the Observations
of their Editors, can dishenour me.
" The genuine text of mar 'Letter to Lord HAR-
ROWBY appears below, by comparing which with
the publication in the Moniteur, the alterations which
I have, mentioned will be perceived.

" HARDENBERG."

• _Yesterday. morning His MAJESTY, the Duke •of
CAMBRIDGE, Princesses AUGUSTA and. SoX'HIA, ac-
companied by Generals HARCOURT, MANNERS,
and Frrnioy,' Col. TAYLOR, Lady THYNNE, &C.
took an airing on horseback in Windsor 'Great Park.
Her MAJESTY and the other PanKcEssEs took an
airing in a carriage and four by Winkfield.
Yesterday, the canopy used for the ROYAL FA--
lIILY at State Trials was removed from St. James's
Palace to Westminster Hall.

At a Court of Aldermen held yesterday at Guild-
hill the Price of Bread was increased two Assizes,
which makes the Ctuartern Loaf Wheaten, Is. lid:
and Household t tild.

The Abbe Winekelman, in his celebrated Trea-
tiie, denies that the people of nprthern climates have
any pretentious to genius. This was probably in-
tended as a satire upon the age in which he lived ;
for could he but witness the plan upon which the
present execlient Lottery- is to be drawn, he would
be forced to adinit that the inventive genius of man
cannot be advanced to a higher Pitch than when it
makes whole families happy by distributing among:
317,:uz of C15,0T,q 179.40%,i. j 0;0001.

rx.,,,A., N_t iv.

Pion- LONDON GAZETTE, April zz, 1&.6.

Adniiralty-Office, April 22, 1806.
Copy of a-_Lettgr front Tice.-Admiral Thorrzrougk
to the Earl of St. liincent, K. B. iltiniiral and'
Commander in Chief of Ills Itliljesty's,Fleet ern
" ployc'd in the C7iannel,iSoundings,'"ey. ,
_Prince of IVales, off: Roan:fart, tpril9, L. 806.
• ,• MY „ ,

have the honour to' transtnit'to.your Lordship h,
Copy Of a Letter I have this day received from Capt.
Lord Cochran; of Majesty's Ship Pallas,'undee
my orders. ICAvill not be necessary for-Me) my,
Lord, to comment upon the intrepidity-and good
condu& displayed, by Lord Cochrane, his Officers;
and men, in the execution of a very hazardousieh..
terprize in the Garotnre, a river .the•most difficult
perhaps, in its navigation of any on this Coast the
complete sUccess that attended it, as well as the cle-
struaion of the Vessels of War mentioned in the
said Letter; on the Coast of Arcassore;bespeaki,
their Merits more fully than in my power to do ;
towhich may be fairly added, that nothing can
evince. mare dearly the high state of discipline of
the crew of the Pallas, than. the humanity.sheri
by themto the Enemy id the conflia,
'I
have the honour to be, &c. -
(Signed) EI)W. TI-1011NBROUGIT.',
The Ear! cgs Sze! Vincent, t.

. .
„ • His ' n r Chqsseron,
s Pallas, o
• sits, : April 8.
Having received information, r7which proved cor-
re4, of the situation of the,Cprvettes in Abe River
Of hourdeaux, a little after dark on the. evening of
the sth the Pallas was anchored dose to the Shoal
of Cordovan ; and it gives me satisfaction to ate,
that,.about three o'clock, the National Corvette La
-“l'apageuse, ,of 14 long 12-pounders and 95 men,.
which had the guard, was boarded; carried, and cut
out, about twenty miles above the Shoals, within
two heavy batteries, iii spite of all resistance, by
the First Lieutenant, Mr. Haswell ; Mr. Suther-
land, the Master; Messrs. Perkins, Crawford, and
Thompson ; together with the Quarter-Master, and
such of the Seamen, the Serjeant,
.and Marines, as
were fortunate enough to find a place in the
The tide of flood ran strong at day-light ; La 2.'apert.
geuse made sail ; a general alarm was given ; a
Sloop of War followed, and an action continued,
often within hail, till, by the same bravery by which
the Tapageuse was carried, the •Sloop of War,
which had been before saved'by the rapidity of the,
current alone, after about an hour's firing,
was com-
pelled to sheer off, having suffered as much kn the.
hull as the Tapageuse in,the rigging. The 01,14.4
of the Officers and. Men will .be justly appreciated.
With confidence I shall now beg leave to recom-
mend them to the notice of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty.
It is necessary to add, that tho same morning,
when at anchor waiting fir the boats (which, by
the bye, did not return till this morning, three Ships
,were observed bearing down upon the Pallas,. making
many signals ; they were soon perceived to be Enie-
mies. In a few minutes the anchor was weigheLi'
and with the remainder of the Officers and Crew,
we chased, drove din shore, and, wrecked, one Na-
tional 24-gun Ship, one of 42 gnus, and La Ma-
licleuse, a: beautiful Cottette,. of 18 guns; their
masts ,went by the board, and they were involved. in
a sheet of. spray..
All in this Ship sheaved great zeal fob
.jesty's service. The Warrant Officers, and A--
'llittual, Midshipman, supplied the place of
commissioned: The ab.ience Of Lieut. 'MappletoA
is to be regretted ; he would have gloried in the
pedition with the Boats. Theassistance ren.iiCri
by Mr. prum mond,of the Royal Marines, was such_
as might have been expe&ed. Subjoined is a
the wounded, together with. the Vessels captured
and destroyed since the 26th ult. I am, Sir, &C- '
(Siglied; COCHRA-N-E!
Admira/ThorOrQugh, &c.

Kt Lt. o.—None.
Iv6l.7NoED.—Michael Molloy, both arms shot ofr;
Crookuran, in the aim ; John 1114 Donald, in the back.
.VESSELS TAKEN ok_ DESTRovED.—Le Dessabc, Chasse
Magee, 'taken; L'lsle Daix, ditto, taken; La 150/11°1".
Br;g, taken; a large I;rig, burnt ; a Chasse ivlaree,
NA.rtoNAr. SEIFS.— l'apagcuse; 14 guns, ;95 me"'
; La Nialicicto;e, t 8 guns, wrecked ; Imperial
24 guris, wrecked ; Imperial Ship, 22 suns, vvr,eked.
(Signeti) COCIIItANE.

Admiralty-Office; April 22, 1806.
Copy v.r. r a Letter from Capt. Brace .to Admiral Lord
• Gardner, Commander in Chid. of .His Majesky's
. Skips and Vessels at Cork.
ills Majesty's Ship Virginie, at Sea, April 9. Nt•
deg. 49 miii. r 4. long. 10 deg: 25 min. W.
MY LOX!), _ .

I lave the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that
at six P.M. I captured a fastt-siailing Spanish Schooner
Privateer, called the Vengador, 'haunting 14 gulls,
with a Crow of 82 men. -.

PLYMOUTIU APRIL 2 i.----Arrived this morning
h the French Brig Privateer L'lntrcpide, of 14 guns,
' captured off Scilly on the 18th instant, after a run-
ning action of three hours, ,by the Hind Revenue
Cutter, of 14 buns, commanded by Captain T. M.
ALLAN ; had been 20,days from St. Makes', in the
course-of which period she took the Transport Brig
Mary, Capt. M'AULEY, from Ireland (afters,Vardit
re-taken and carried into Scilly); the _Brig Hop,.
JAMES. CULL Master, and the Brig John, 11. DRY-
'
BROUGH Master, both from Lisbon, with wine and
frdit, and the ildop Speculation,
.John M‘DokiALD
Master, from Liverpool, with wheat and flour ; the
three latter were sent for France. Citpt. J. BOW-
SFN, the Commander of L'intrepide,.,and two of his
Crew, were killed in the action, and two others
Were desperately wounded ; the Hind, very fortu-
nately, had none killed.or wounded. 1.,' trepide
has been formerly Very successful against the trade,
of this Country, having captured several Vessels on
a former Cruize, and sails remarkably fast. Capt.
ALLAN was informed of her being on the: Coast by
the Transport which was re-taken and carried into
Scilly, and immediately, with that promptness
which has ever characterized that aaive Officer.
went in pursuit of the Privateer, and ii:11 in with
her on the folloWinc, day:

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