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London, England, 1801-03-07 00:00:00

MARTIAL LAW IN IRELAND.

Lord CASTLER.AGII observed, that his
notice of a Motion on the subje4 of Martial Law
in Ireland stood for Monday, but it had been
expedient That it should' be postponed until
.Thursday, and then he trusted it. would be dis_
cussed, and that the House would sit on the fol.
,lowing Saturday, and lie trusted Gentlemen would
then be well prepared for the discussion of this
'important subjet.
Mr. SHERIDAN expressed • great concern
that this subjeft was tote put_ off until the last
hour which it could be put off to, without -suf.
fering that Law to expire, and which, in his opi-
nion, would be the better course ; for the only
evil that could follow, would be that of Ireland
remaining a while',without the benefit of Martial
Law.—But in the present conjunOure; he thought
it would be highly disresrdful to His Majesty's

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Government,. 'to agitate such a question as this,
ufxin any authority short of a communication
from the ThrOne.

. -Ldrd CASTLEREAGH said, that observa. 's
tions of this kind appeared to him to be ap: •
plicable, to the Debate upon the question itself,
the he did not think proper to anticipate ; -
but -he suggested the. propriety- of makino. the-' -
two Mb of Parliament which had passed ' inli ~,
Ireland.for the Suppression of the Rebellion, as , -
Well knownto thc Members of the present
liament as- possible,. whether .by ordering they,
,
to be printed, or by some other mode. -4:. / '
The SPE4KER decided- there was no prete.
dent for the Hous'e ordering any Mt of Parlia-
Inent to bp printed, because being once matter
`of Record, not only were all Majesty's. Sub.
je4s. supposed to have recourse -to them, but in
contemplation of Law, they were bound to know . 2.
them all, and Therefore an order to print theca.
was. an 'order for-publishing that which was sup,-
posed to be already promulgated, and known, to 1 - • '
everyone of His. Majesty's SubjeEts. , ' ' 1 ' -
A short conversation then took .place between
Sir LAURENCE PARSONS, Sir JOHN SINCLAIR,
and other Honourable -Members, and .which
ended, on the suggestion 0t Mr. 'RYDER'', that --
although no Order of the Haw could. be made '
for the Printing. of an Mt of Parliament, yet,
in point of fad-, an understanding might go forth,
and- be aded upon, and Copies might:be printed'
and distributed. to the Members of the House ;
this had been often done for the sake of pradical
convenience, although no Rule of Order could
diced. it. .

Mr. BRAGGE -brought. .up. the Report of- the
Committee on the Horse Duty Bill.
The Amendment being read,
Mr. ROSE propcitied a Clause, the substance or
which was, to exempt persons having a' Farm of
no more rent than 261. a year, and gaining
.a
livelihood soiely—thereby, from this Duty.
Mr. HARRISON approved of the Principle,
but thought the Rent ought to be stated at -501.
instead of 701. there was hardly such a thing as
a Farm, properly so called, at the Rent of twenty -•
pounds. •
Mr. IV. DUND-A$ assured the Hon. Gentle.. '.
mail there were many under that sum, and that
this_ exemption would be most gratefully receiv..
ea, as well as beneficially felt, in some parts of."
Scotland.

.ROSE said, there were many also in
• Wales; but .if the sum to ?which, the Ei.;
•emption was to extend, was to be Fifty
Pound§, the., alteration to be made in the scale
would be such (for some Duties were taken .off in'
order to put this on), that the Revenue- would
then have less from the' Duty On Horses than it •
had at present ; however, he would not press,the .
Clause any farther pow, for it would come more
'regularly on the third reading.
Sir F. BURDETT censured the,p,roccedings
of Ministers As they applied.: to Agriculture,'
which this was a part. At one time, they, laid
,a Tax, at another they off'ered Bobnties on sub_
je
.pro
tsol,Awtg.tyricpuil.ktiteirresttmidn
ctirutiitths, he
ut ;atit, they did
not
The 13i11 was then ordered to he ingrossid, and.,
,toad a third time on Monday, if then ingrossed.
Mr. BRAGGE brought up the Report of the
CoMmittee on the Bill tOr imposing a Duty on •
Bills of Exchange, Notes, - &c. 14hich after: some
cinversation .between Mr. ROSE, - Mr. 11 o. a -
Hot; sr, and. Sir WILLIAM DOLMEN, which we
did not hear, was read, agreed to, and the Bill •
• was ordered to be ingrossed and read a third time.
on Monday, if then ingrossed.
Mr. BRAGGE brought Up the Report of the
Committee on the Bill for imposing an .Addi,f*;.
tional Duty of Postage on Letters, &c.
Mr. ROSE observed, that part of this Duty
which applied to the Penny-Post, had been found,
on examination, likely to press,very hard'On,some
_individuals, and to be but slightly 'pro-dudive to
the Revenue, and therefore it had been deemed
expedient to forego it.
On reading part of the Repott of the. Bill,
Mr. JONES said, he had given notice of the
'subjed he was going to bring forward. He said,
:than Paper was now made extremely• coarse, •
thick, and heavy; the real cause of that was the
scareity of fine rags - they were all used in
drestiagr_the_wounds-olthose who were engaged'.
up and down Europe in this horrid.. War. The
weight, of Letters was. now increased, from the
thickness and clumsiness of the Paper, and there_
fore he should more, "That with respeft to Franks
of Members of Parliament, the -weight be ex..
.tended from one ounce to an ounce and a half."
Mr. BUXTON objeaed to this, on the ground
that it, was not creditable to the Members of that
House 16 seek -diminution 'of any burthens which.
were now thrown upon themselves, at a . time
when.they were under the necessity of loading
their consiitueuts so much.

Mr. SHERIDAN said a few words which we
did not hear.

Mr. ROSE observed, that as the new Duty
;proposed to be laid on Paper was according to ;he'
weight of it, there was every reason to appre.
bend that Paper would be made as light .as pos-
sible.

Mr. ROBSON thought the weight of one.
QUIICC too little for a Letter for a Member, for if
it was only two sheets, which it frequently was,
and sealed with wax, it would weigh more than
an ounce, of which he had known many instances.

Mr. W. DUNDAS considered this as a miser..
able and wretched discussion, which could have'
for its object only the saving now and then a few
shillings to Members of Parliament. He trusted
there were not five men in the House who woukt
wish to hear any more•on the subjett.
Mr.'JONES repeated what lie said before on
the cause of the dearness and scarcity of Rags,
and that was the cause of the great weight of,
Paper. He expressed his determination of taking
the sense of the House upon this Motion.

Mr. PIER.REPOINT thought an ounce too
light a weight:for A Frank, and, therefore, was
determined to. suppOrt the Motion. He under--
stood, that at one time, in Ireland, the weight
of a Frank was limited to two ounces, and at;

LONDON, MARCH 7, !Soh

wit have to congratulate the Public on the
continued amendment of HiS MAjESTY'S Health.
The Report of this morning will be read through..
out the whole Empire, with sensations of the
purest delight,

" Queen's Howe, March,.
4, His MA Estv's Fevcr is so much abated, as to give
the fairest prospel of his speedy recovery.

(Signed)

" T. CUSBORNE,
I" FL R. REYNOLDS."

We have great satisfa6lion in adding, that HIS
MAJEstr was yesterday so well, that he had an
interview with HER MAJESTY, which lasted
more than half an hour ; and some of the Branches
of the ROYAL FAMILY afterwards spent a consi-
derable part of the evening in company with their
Royal Father.

AT ,n late hour yesterday afternoon, antin
time only for insertion in a very small part of
our Impression, we received Parit Papers to the
4th inst. There appears no longer any doubt
remaining, as to the destination of the Squadron
of A,lmiral GANTHEAUME. The Chief Consul
received intelligence of it, in a . Letter of the
Toth February, from off Cape de Gatta, on the
Spanish Coast, in the Mediterranean. As we
were already informed, the same storm which al-
lowed that Squadron to sail from Bull, did it
great injury, and dispersed it ; nor was It until
after the expiration of a week, that it was able
again to effect a junaion. The. Dispatches which
have been published, give an account, in the Re-
publican style, of the battle which our Frigate, La
Concorde, fought with the two French Frigates,
L'lndomptable and La Bravoure ; the 'latter Ship
lost, on, this occasion, to men killed, and 2+
wounded. The united Squadron having conti-
nued its voyage, fell in with and took, on the
ioth February, the Spight,:y Cutter ; and three

days afterwards, the S'iteren Frigate; cf 3i guns,
Captain PEARDI which was surrounded by se-
veral of the Enemy's Ships, and forced to sur-
render. The Incendiary Fire-ship, Capt. DUNN,
also fell into the possession of the French. It is
now clear, that their destination was Egypt ;
and we flatter ourselves, that Lord KEITH will
make them pay dearly for this small success which
they have obtained over our i4avy.

The Public Articles of the Treaty of Luneville,
which has not yet been ratified by the EMPEROR
nor by the Empire, but which it is said has been
approved by the former, and which will certainly
in vain be disapproved by the latter, continue to
be carried into execution. The Austrian Gar-
rison has marched out of Mantua, which has
been taken possession of by the French. In
Germany they are beginning to destroy the forti-
fications of Kehl, and are preparing apparently
to do the same with the other Fortresses situated
on the right bank of the Rhine. We entertain
doubts, however, whether the French will be in
any great haste to do the same with resped to
Mentz and Ehrenbreitttein. They will keep, them
no doubt as long as they are able.

The march of the Russian Troops colle&ed in
Poland, and the dispatch of a great number
of Austrian Troops and of several transports
of Ammunition to the Frontiers of Bohemii
and Hungary, dire& still more the atten-
tion of the Politicians towards the Ottoman
Empire. Its hour appears to be come. A very
great fermentation prevails in all the European
Provinces, and particularly in Serv;a, and a ge-
neral Insurre&ion, of which the Greeks are
threatened to be the first viftims, appears to be
on the point of breaking out. There can be no
doubt that it has been excited by Russia and
France. The same ingenuity which the Chief
Consul has displayed in finding means to flatter
and to impose on the Emperor PAUL, he has now
been employing in favour of the Rebel PASSWAN
OGLou. It has been dis Covered that he has re_
lations living in France, and a genealogy has
been made out for them, by which it appears
that he is of as illustrious a family as it is pos.
sible to be under the Turkish Government.—
This family is represented as having been the
viaim of Ottoman Despotism ; and the iihistri_
on: kinsmen of OcLotr, now reduced to distress,
have applied to the Chief Consul for relief, which
he will probably not fail to afford, or, at least, to
promise them. BONAPARTE cannot suffer such
an opportunity to escape him, of testifying his
esteem and his sympathetic feeling for a man who
has done, on a small scale, what he himself has
done on a more extens;.ve plan.
The. Neapolitan Corps commanded by General
Damns, has evacuated the States of the Church ;
but notwithstanding the promises which the
French had made to do the same in that event,
they have continued to advance, and were ex-
pated at Rome.—Letters from Naples, which are
entitled to little credit, state, that the KING of
NAPLES had resigned the Sovereignty of that
Kingdom in favour of the Hereditary Prince, but
had reserved to himself the Royal Power over
Sicily. It seems more certain that the Marquis
di GALLO is endeavouring, under the mediation
of Russia, to, make Peace between his Sovereign
and the French Republic. It does not appear that
the KING,Of SARDINIA has the same views or
the same hopes, as he has embarked for Palermo.
It is a remarkable circumstance that these two
Princes, who were the most powerful Sovereigns
in Italy, should not have been able to do any
thing etrequal. towards preventing the French
from taking possession of that Country, and that
the latter, in their turn, should not have been in
a situation to deprive these Princes of the Isles of
Sardinia and Sicily, which are separated from the
Continent by so short a distance. Such is the
tired of the low state to which we have reduced
the Naval Force of France, and of the superiori-
ty which we have acquired by Sea, in a propor-
tion still greater than our Enemies have been
successful by land.

The Fret:di Paten contain nothing important
nor new respthing the affairs of the North of
Europe, nor the situation of Egypt. A letter
from Constantinople, of the toth January, in.
serted in the Mori/nip, gives us room to believe
that a considerable division prevails in the French
Army Egypt, and that part of them are dis-
posed to evacuate that country by Capitulation.
We shall not hazard a presumption how far these
dispositions may be favourable to the operations
of Sir RALPH ADERcRomBy and the GRAND
VIZIER. The issue of them must depend, in
a great degree, there is reason to believe, on that
of the Expedition of Admiral GANTEI RAUME.
The plans which the Court of the Thuilleries
is endeavouring to compel that of Madrid to
adopt against Portugal, do not appear yet to be
very far advanced in their execution. The

French employ on their part more aCtivity in
them than the Spaniards: General Sr. )CY
who is destined to the comniand of the Army of
Observation, has passed through Bourdeartic,
whence he has repaired to Madrid. We were,
it appears, correet in our information; when we
stated some days ago, that the Court of Portugal
had sent a Minister to France to negotiate. The
Paris Paper; confirm this, and say that it is
M. SOUZA who ha's been 'entrusted with this de-
licate mission.

The Chief Consul is employed in endeavour-
ing to repair the disorder in his finances, the
enemy which, excepting ourselves, he will find
it most difficult to subdue. A new sale of Na-
tional Property, to the amount of z2o Millions
of livres has been ordered : it will probably be a
long time before it is executed.

Two Hamburgb Mails still remain due.
A Council was yesterday held at Lord
HAWK ES BUR Y 's Office, in Downing street.
We have the satisfaction of informing our
Readers, that Mr. ADDINGTON, whose attack
has been 'a rheumatic fever, was this morning
very considerably better. He is attended by Sir
LUCAS PEPYS.

We mentioned yesterday that M. OTTO was
not to leave this Country, as had been generally
supposed he would do in consequence of the letter
of M. TALLEYRAND which had appeared in the
French Papers. Our Government, We under-
stand, have countermanded the order for seizing
upon the French Fishing Vessels.

The Dutchess of Go R DON, Lady GEORG! ANA,
and a number of Nobility, were invited to dine
yesterday with Lord and Lady CARR I NGTbN, at
their house in St. James's-place.

Mr. CORRY has not resigned 'the Office of
Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland.

Mr. CORRY represented the Town of Newry
in the Irish Parliament for above twenty years,
having succeeded his Father in the representation
of that place, but in the ballot which took place
in consequence of the Union, he lost his seat
for that Town for the present Parliament, and he
is now teturned for Dundalk.

By the Catherine, arrived at Cork, after a
quick passage from New-Ybrk, a Letter has been
received, containing the following article of in-
telligence : " New-York, Jan. 31.—We have
just received intelligence, in about three months
from Calcutta, that a British Squadron, with the
aid of the z zth Regiment, had captured the Dutch
Settlement of Batavia in the Island of Java."
On Thursday the principal Merchants concern-
ed in the Oporto Trade, waited upon Mr. PITT,
in order to consult him upon the precarious state
of the conneftion between this Country and Por-
tugal. They wished w make some large impor-
tations of wine, provided the duties could be re-
mitted for a certain period. Mr. PITT' informed
them, that if they wished to have their elicas
secured, he had no objetion to their bonding
their wines for two years.
All Officers 'absent on leave are to be in Gar-
rison by the loth inst. or they will be reported
" Absent without leave." All men absent on
furlough, are to be at Head-quarters by the loth
inst. or they will be treated as Deserters.
The Dutchess Dowager of BRUNSW CR, Sister
to the Great FREDERICK, and Mother to the
Reigning Duke, died at Brunswick on the 6th
ult. She was 85 years of age.
The remains of Mr. JAMES ARROW, Adjutant
of the Westminster Light Horse Association,
were yesterday interred in St. John's Church.
yard with great military pomp, the deceased
being a Member of the Westminster Cavalry.—
A Monument to his memory is to be ereaed in
the Church-yard as a tribute of respea.
The second performance of THE VOCAL
CONC MT took place last night at Willis's
Rooms. The seleCtion was well-chosen, and
properly adapted to the talents of the Performers.
The Company was as numerous and as elegant
as on the former night. The PRINCE of ORANGE
and many of the Nobility were present.

The intended marriage of Lord MORPETH and
Lady GEORG I ANA CAV E NDISH, will take place as
soon as the deeds are finished by the Lawyers.—
The Lady is to have a jointure of +oool. She
is nineteen, and his Lordship is in his 24th year.
The wife of a journeyman in Strasburgh, was
delivered on the 19th of February of four chil-
dren, a boy and three girls.—All the four died
in the birth.

About two O'clock on Wednesday morning,
happened, at No. to, Charlotte-street, Portland-
place, another dr,eadful instance of the extreme
danger with which the fashionable articles of fe-
male dress are worn in any careless situation by a
fire. A Gentleman who had been on a visit to
Miss SARAH Rt cos, supped with her, and had
been gone but a very short time, when fire was
by some accident communicated to her head-dress.
No person was with her in the room, and ere she
was aware of her danger, the rest of her clothes
were in flames. In her first surprize, she had run
to stifle them with the window-curtains, but with-
out effeEt. Her servant was at length alarmed, and
called the assistance of Mr. WI L.LiAms, Surgeon,
from the house opposite. When he came in, Miss
RI Oos stood at the door of her apartment, hold.
ing the door with one hand, with the other the
corner of a chest of drawers near it. She had
seized both with a convulsive, grasp, and was in
the agonies of death. They could not relax her
hold to remove her, but her strength was ex-
hausted by the eflbrt ; and she almost immedi-
ately sunk down and expired. Her limbs were
contraCted, and her whole frame most dreadfully
scorched: The flames had spread over the room,
and it was with difficulty-that the house could be
saved.

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