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London, England, 1807-07-21 00:00:00

POOP.'s ithl.lF.F BILL.

Mr. WHITBREAD moved the second reading of
the Poor's Iteiief

Mr. MORRIS expresssed his decided approbation
of the Clause, for .granting —reliet under particular
circumstances to cott'agerS having some property.
If his Honourable Friendr could only carrythis:he
was entitled to the gratitude, of the Country, and
his labour would not be:lost. He also approved of
the objet of innsf of the other Clauses, though
differed as to the mode' oe. attaining it. He partfr
cularly approved of the exemption of labourers,
in certain circunistances, .from Parish Rates, but
thought that the
.simplest mode of carrying . this
into exe:cntion would be by' giving a diScretionary.
power tor Magistrates to relnse warrants of. distres&
He would vote for th© second reading of the Bill.
111 r, DAVIES GIDDY would also vote for the second
reading, but doubted about the proposed relaxation
of the Settlement LAws.

Mr. WIIITBRE,4 D • agreed with his Learned
Friend (Mr. Morris) that if he could but secureitny
one of the objeas proposed in this Bill his labour
would' not be 'lost, If he could bdt pass the Clause
for giving relief in certain cases to cottagcrs having
property, it would be doing a great deal. •Tkx;
emptian too in some cases was so essential, that it
could not be withheld without gross cruelty. He
was astonished to hear the Honourable Gentleman
n .the other'side objed to the' .proposed regnlatiOn
with respe& to the. Settlement Laws, the severity of
which he himself (Mr. D. Giddy) had beep the first
to shalco,' By this Regulation every liouptiolder
would bAvo his settlement' among his friends and
centle&iOns, instead of being removed far Irian 49th,

tit was at present the case by the laws. He would
be allowed to' reside where he had splmt
.1 he greater
part of his life. He mentioned a case which had
Caine before himself in the interval of the Dissolu-
thin. A man near 80 years. of agehad been brought
'before him, he had lived near 50 years in the place
from which it was proposed to remove. him, and
:such had been his'dread of being removed, that he
hadaElnally shut himself up with his -wife, with a
,resolution to starve rather than ask for relief. If
'the Overseers had persisted he must have removed
,that'inan... All he could do was to appeal to the
'companion of the Overseers; and the man was.al-
lowed to remain. • But he wished to be enabled to
do that by law, which in that instance he had only
done lay perpasion.
Mr. ROSE agreed that there were many good
points in the Bill, but when the importance of the
measure was considered, and particularly that it'
went, In-.a great Measure,, to shake the Law of
Settlement, he hoped the Honourable Mover of the'
Bill would be content with having it printed in its
most improved 'state, and then lying over till next"
Session. The Right Honourable Gentleman proceed
ied to consider the Clauses in the Bill, many of
"which he'approved of highly, and was in the
'course of animadverting, on others, when he was
set right by Mr. Whitbread, who inthrmed him that
the Clauses objeCted to formed no part 'of the pre-"
'sent Bill. .

' -,TnHITI3,READ, itt explanationi. said, that
;the I..aw i.t* Settlement • Wal not at all'altered by this
; he only wished to have another Close, which.
;was admitted to be desirable, superadded to
.the pre;;
sent l'aw.'.He had been accused Ev.some Oersons, and
even at• the public meeting of a, respeaable parish
in this city, of pertinneity in pushing forward the
preient measure. He hoped liis condo& would.
not seem to the Boone to tloserve such an epithet :
but he a,sured them he •should-cminoy every degree
of .becoznig perseyerance ill carrying through, dur-
ing the present Session, 4/4tever part of the mea-
sure he could. The Right flonourable Gentlecoati
(Mr. •ROse)•agre6d there were three or ibUr..a.
the clauses in the preent Bill whieh.deserveci,.his.
approbation. Surely there -could •be no .necessity
tor leaving them over tor. 'farther • consideration.
The Right Honourable • Ge!ntleman had • already 'had,.
three or lour mouths to consider-. the measure, and..
With all that atturition to. the subject for which he
had been hitherto oistinpished, he, had not even
acquainted hitnhelf=with the Clauses of .the Bill.

Mr. LUSHINGTON highly approved of 'Oat part of
the 8111 which went to .411arge the Law of Settle-
ment.

Mr. StmEON contended that •Overseert had at
this mordent no power to dispute the .order. of. a
.hlag!strate to grant parochial aid, even where oiL
pauper had effetts of his own.
SirJ..SaABKIGHT should 1).4 happy to thick the
Law was so, but he knew the practice was. ether 7
:Aviie; particularly where a person.chaticed.to possest
Cottage, probably of 3() R, year value, and.On
Whieki the repairslnnight amount to 'AM yearly;
Mr: Mounts contended that the Law was as ,he
The C:kIANCELLoa of the ExcnEduai stated his
ttnth. titanditig of it to be ditterent.
l:ie till was then second time and ordered.
to be cotnmitted on Thursday. ,

sT I N DIA IWNDS.
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Mr. GRANT havl..e tllnvt'd the Order of the .uay
for the House gi,ior; 11; to a, Committee otv the East
Bohds Bill. • ,
Lord A. H 4111111,7 ON declared that he could not
'sntre,r a Bill of tkk nature to proceed without,
-plying to the ElonourahleGenttemert who. were cot-
r; it through' !or intrirmation on some P.ints
Which it occured to him werO werl,d;eqerving of ex...
planation, He ,wished, in the first place, to knoW
thr what bbji'd so large a sum was to be raised, and
whether- it was for a mercmitile or a political pur-
? He also wished to know what was the state
of accounts between the -Conipany .ond this Coun-
try ? He had siren, On three dterent occasions,
sums of 1,000,0001: voted to the it'iost India Com-
pany, and he h;.d ABever, except on tide iiecasioh,
about three years~;nice: ,heard asAo tbe state ot
counts between them. He was de*itous likewise to
know what was the quantity of Debt, the interest
of which by a possibility hilght•tall'on this country ?
and, also to lea3h something as' to the general situa-
tion of the Company's affairs ? If there ;was rOotn'
for that degree of deipondency as "aithe general'stati
of th,: 'affairs of the Company,'he' mast object to'the '
present measure, which •could only go to' ineri:aso:,
insteakl of diminishing the. evil. If their trade'%V.iii'
a lcr.itlg concern, it wbuld be-abstard•to allOw
tor.exiend it by trading on credit, In this, view'the
prUsent must be alneas'Urc pregnant with Much mis-
chief, and he could not agree that the House should
make. a grant so: extensive .without seeing the cut•
rout account. tie declared. that he was tar from
speaking• from any feeling 'of hostility to the COM*
pAny. but that he only. discharged what he esteemed
his duty,
regreitc,l that the Noble Lord had
n.,t been -pies,:or (in tt,e former night when this sub-
ject was distn-,se !. answer to the Noble Lord's
first goestion, hw.vever, lie had to inform 'him, that
the object of
,the prehent measure Was to make up a
deficit to the extent at upwards of two millions, on
an account of some years standing, fir political, not
for commercial purposes. 'As to the State of the ae-;
• counts between this Country and the Company, he
roust say that he conceived the Company had been
aggrieved. They had bven called on to make ad-
vances from their fund in India for conquests, and
other objects, in which the public rather than the
Cuinpany'Were interested ; and of these advances
they had at different periods received payments in
this country. The company had at this moment a
claim against the country on this head, as he reckon-
ed to the extent of about a present
nothing bestthe issuing in one way of what
they were already fully anthrirised tho year. 170
to do in another, This surely. exhibited no very
strong 4ellire to deceive the public, or to carry on
moneyamotm a
amount of
ott. h
the
what was improper,. They. could easily, from, the
is moment.
otheirblesLtoocrkd,ar:kiedh
se thTee
debts, payment of which Might be demanded in this
cortotry. No part,of these became due till the year,
1810, atul then not to a very great extent. Before
that time, however, measures should be taken to
prpVetit their coming on this country in any way
which could incommode. As to the general state of
10e atfairs Df the Company, he had no hesitation in
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saying, that their affairs were iiinnitely better no
him they were,two years ago. The territorial deb',
IthOliglis great did hot greatly exceed two years
!atriottntl,Of the territorial revenues. The Company
;was novtiat- Peace, and the disposition of the native
Princes were understood to be most favourable.
ILord A. HAMILTON having alluded to thesuppos•
ed difference in opinion, as to the. state of the Com-
pany's account with the country, entertained:by the
Ministers and the Company,
Mr. GRANT said, they had no difference with the
.Board of Cohtroul, but with the Lords. of the Tree.;
sury..
Tile Bill then went through a Coinmittee, and,.
.was ordered to be reported on Thursday.
The SECRETARY at WAIL obt6ned leave to bring
in a Bill for preserving and keeping in repair the Mi-
litary Canal lately made from Shorncliffe, in Kent,
,to Cliffend, in Sussex.

TA,Compassionate List Bill, Sierra teone Bil!,
the FrQgmore House Bill, he Excite Regulation
8411, and the Irish Infirmaries' Bill, went through
Committees, and were ordered to be reported to-
morriiw.

Mr.. Ross °brought in .a Bill for authorising His
Majesty to permit the Importation of Military Stores
into this Country in ShipS the property of any
States in amity with His Majesty.—Read a first
time, and ordered to be, read a second time to-
morrow.

On the Motion of Mr. Ross it was ordered, that
the • liouse do to=morrow resolve into a Comtni4ecl;
on the Gern3an and Prussian Linen AEts.

POOR LAWS.

`Mr. ItTELLtsn presented Petitions from the Rec
tor; Btc. of the Parish of St. James, against Mr.
Whitbread's two, Bills for Parochial Schools, and
bettering the.situation of the Poor. •
.Mr.,li. TiIOENTON presented similar Petitions
from the BO:tor, B.lc. of the Parish of St. John, Shad-
well.

These Petitions Were severally referred to the Com•
rnjttees,on the respedive Bills.
The Other Orders of the aty were disposed or.—
Adjourned.

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TUrStm,Y, i'VgY 21, 1807:

Tins:Mimic:it a Gidienturgir arrived;' but
its contents have been in 'a great degree:anticipated,.
TheStockholtn Gazette contains some details of the
lattlos.previous. to the. 14th tilt. which have now
tuitortanatelt log. their interest:

Ws have been- charged by a Morning. Paper de.
voted to Opposition, with incinasistency, for havivg:

attributed our reverses in-Egypt, in a great degrees
to the circumstancl of our Commanders acing
der l mistake with resped-to the disposition andin.
tendon of the Matneltikes, and at the same time
asserting,' that. it . was extraordinary those. who.
planned the Expedition did not take proper means
to ascertain, accurately, the disposition of the in-
habitants. We are not, however, aware of any thing
bite inconsistency in the language which we have
used. The Expedition to Egypt was, we have no
doubt; undertaken under a conviaion that the Ma-
melukesnnd inhabitants in general were favourably

disposed towards us; because we cannot believe
that the late Ministers could for a moment suppose
that 5000 men could conquer Egypt, if the popula-
• tion was hostiie to us ; nor can we believe that the
,oljed was merely to take possession of 'Alexandria.
Itharediatlly after General FRASER landed, he Sent
a force to attack Rosetta, or rather to take possession,
00 it; 'for the Officer who commanded that t;)rcc
doesc-not appear to bare expeeted any oppositvn•
'When General STEWARTwas sent a few, days after-
wards upon the same service, it appears that be
went under the.firm persuasion that the Ma.-neluhcs
would co-operate with him. That I.erSuasion mqis
have been -founded upon information received
antecedent to the dkembarkation, for G4n. FilasEit
could hardly, between the 2.0 tti March, the day
took Alexandria, and the.3d April, the day General
STEWhit't marched for Rosetta, have received such

itirbrtnation as would enable hitn to form an opinion
of the disposition and intentions of the Mamelukes•
The Expedition to. Egypt was undertaken under It
false notion that the Mamelukes were favourable ti)
our cause—our Commanders as upon that notions
and we have seen the consequence.

,c trtia D►vision of the Fleet, under the command 01
Sir S. HOOD, arrived in Yarmouth Roads yestercis/
morning.

Sunday evening there was a very 11411. M-race at
Windsor. Their MAJarri as and PauicEsscs were
preaent : likewise Princes GEORGE and AvonsTus
of HolStein and Oldenburgh ; and Counts HoLmEll
and MALTZAN, Accompanied by Count MUNSTER,
who introduced them to their MAJESTIES.

Yesterday morning his -MAJESTY and PRINCESS/0i
with-Their usual attendants, rode in Windsor Park.
The Tunica of WALES arrived at Windsor yes'
terclay'.
Attniitai ESSINGTON left town on Sunday for Yam'
mouth, where he will haft his Flag on board 0,0
BI
Minotaur, Admirals GAMER and ST ANHOPS left
town
Yesterday ; the-latter is 40 hoist his Flag on
board the Mari, of 74. guns'

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THE. GbTTENJthRGII MM'Z;

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Major VON' GSEISEtICAE; Comm—andantitif
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Fortress. of Colberg, matte, undeitho iBtEt.of.4,,une;

the following Report to his Majesty thelliun of

SWEDEN'
:". Most 'mighty and gracious King, ,; •
" I ..fietewithil have the honour humbly.to report
to your-Majesty the operations which have recently
taken place near the Fortress, for the further partl
culars of which 1 respeafully.refer to my Report.to
Lieutenant-General VON 131;11CHER. •
" Of materials which were very 'indifferent I had
in haste raised a small Field Fortification .on ' the•

Wolfsbcrg, situated about 2060 paces from the,
Fortress, which the enemy had,already twice. qt-
tacl:A, and twice been repulsed with .considerable.

loss. He then bt.gan to lay' a:regular siege to it, and
completed the first and second parallels, anl..made

mines, under the proteaion of ten redoubts. Mare

than 7000 shot had already been &red, when on the

11th of June the enemy's batteries began to play on

the above Fortification, and made a breach:, Your

Majesty's Frigate Chapman came to anchor,- and
fired on the enemy with great effed. Having filled
ilia trenches with troops, he summoned the Wolfs-
berg, which was half destroyed; and offered ..a kind
of capitulation, which was accepted. All the ar-

tillery was removedl and thus.the enemy -obtained
possession of that- small fortification, after two days

Siege,.

" Since that time we .have rnacte two vigorous
sorties, in one of which we retook the Wollsberg

in a .feW' minutes, which has cost the enemy a
regular siege.
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" In these two 'sallies the enemy► had upwardcof.
2000 men killed and wounded, one howitzer
taken, six'.-Pieces 'of cannon spiked, and nearly a
whole battalion made prisoners ; among whom were
one Cohinel, one Lieutenant ;Colonel, iwo Captains,.

mind 'six. Lieutenants.
. 1` I cannot close this report without making the
Lost horrourabli mention of Baron GEDDAN, Lieu-
tenant nflour Majesty's Frigate Citti.poati a young-
inan wltioe gallantry and zeal deserve, in every
point of view, Your Majesty's most. gracious atten-
tion. I remain, with prdfound veneration, &c;'
(Stpckholin Gazette, July 4.)

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PETERSBURGII, JUNE 23.--Tha Court
tette of this thty contains an extract from Gtitteral
)31:1,;NIGstItes reports to the Emperor of the opera-
tions which took place from the sth to 10L11
June, which is of the following tenor : . , . •
,GUTtSTADT, JUNE 's.—General NEY's. Corps, is ••'
defeated. General Rothia,... several .Officers, with-
about teioo rank and file, _have been taken. prisoners.
The'Enemy's loss, in '
killed, amounts t 0.2000 : on
our side it is not Considerable... I)uring .the aaiop,
which took place en the left )3anks of the-A11e,..
Lieutenant-General Prince GoTT' ad4Akotto rend r;.,
ed himself niaSter of Guttstadt, and took a conficicrff
able magazine. Thelnemy was pursued four qiirrr,
Wan mile..

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BETWEEN DEPIN AND ITEILIGENTHAL,JUNE
General NEY'S Corps, which, on its retreat, took a
strong position. near Ankendorf, was this day at- ,
tacked, at three o'clock,
in the morning, routed.on
an Paints,. and
.forced ,to fall back to the Passarge.
The.itietrir s loss 'livery considerable, and amounts;
rnetely in prisimers- taken in the course of these two
days, to 60 Field and
.other Officers, and at least .tco',
"00 sank and file. The Regiment ofChasseurSvf:l
the Guards, commanded by ',the
,Grand. Duke
CONSTANTINU,. fought , with. a gallantry which:bei'
cattle- the admiration .of the .Whole Army. The :1
Itegiments of Count 'STROZONOW, and the. Ma-
than's Coss'acks, also greatly distinguished them-
"lves. The latter swam across .the.Alle, attacked
the enemy at the most critical moment of the ation,
killed at least i duo men, and took, 4.Ftejd pacers,
in Officers, and. AO's-auk and file, prisoners.
AsKENDoac, JIMA 7.—Thp chain: .cf Op Rus-
sian advanced posts extends along the Passarge., The
, • bead-quarters are 'remoied. to Glotau. The pp*,
lacks suiith this day across the Passarge, twin_ miles
ttlow the Enemy's position, and took 40 waggons,
Vith gun-powder, bombs, and balls, the escort of
hich was partly put to the sword and partly taken
inisoners.
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HEILSBURGH, JUNE 10 (at midnio).--...aksday,
It boon, BONIAPARTE. attakdd -tile Russian army
'kith his whole force in the position on the left BapW
of the'Alle... A shorttime before the attack Priuce
BAGRATHIGN was detached to Lalinau; w here he was
att~%cked by a force greatly superior, and he was'
obliged to fall back. , A considerable number of
trnqns then,received orders to advance, from all sides
white others fonnedthe Reserve. , '.fhe firing began
on all points; and, the enemy was forced to.leave
the field of battle to the Russian troops, who ac-.
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suired new -glory on that day. The loss - cannot
yet be asCertained, but is very considerable on both..
Aides • it amounts; ori the part of the French, at least i
to 12,000 'men in killed and wounded. The
InY was pursued
.4 German mile from the figld9f.
battle: Lhe atop lasted from 11 o'clock in the:.
morning till i t at night. The prisoner,s sotte;is-Miat
!h2 Enemy's whole Reserve, consisting 0f.:20 battia,,
h the Guards, were engaged, .and drivel)
01t.. rest of his troops.-.-(Stockholm G'a-
.4ity