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the ilex which had been thrown out, that the mea.

sure before the .I-louse, should be considered solely
with reference to tile Re.,,striCtion of the Bank of
';gland, or,. as..neeessaiirly.forming a part of that
tavasure. On the Contrary," he•thought that a med..
pure-which .went to Rreatice such, serious and MI-.
_portant effe4s in Trelik4,. tiinne,third part. Of the
UnitedKing,doth,' should be considered in a'g't'eat
degree,a;least upon' its: own merits.. This odor',
.tunately was, not , the
.only consideration in the pi`e_
sent instance, as what liattaken place in 'lrelantl
may speedily
.occur,in this country. Neither. Was
, it too late
,to remedy those evils which already had
i footing in
,consequence of a similar measure in
•tog,land,. eitherjctmsistently .with,,sound p&licy, or
4 constitutional Attention to. the-forms' of
merit, as the measure' he alluded:- to might (upon
due consideration..of :the subieEL and keeping in
iLindi
an adequute nteival_for notice) be revealed.
NVitli respect to the great point under consideration,
~,tiae,deprzciate&state of the—ciiirren4 of Ireland,
it
as clear as mathematical dein instra-
, tion' could rcNeeif,fhat the evil W;is owing to the,
• t•,:>;,;e.ssiy.e issue of, .Pap,er. The proof of this was, that
~.io.the northern parts of Jreland, where gold chi fly
_.,circulated, the rate of .Exchange was rather in fa!
7v;.itic of Ireland, while ai;`i-tlie contrary, in ail tile
cgher parts of
.the Country-where PaVer was the
cis-
calatir g. medium'., the depreciation was at more than
_percent.. That the reStriajons,..indeed in both
cOnt6beled co tile excessive
issue , of Paper,, was apiiire.nt, freed the fae.t' that •
the quantity ,of'., Bank :,P,flpyr in circuLation in
„vas .near five times" greater :than before
that,.Restriaion,took
_place;and twice the amount
, duyn4y. contended 'that this was
tile. train cause. of the deplorable depreciation
currency of lieland,, and of Which he was
sorry to he obliged
_JO state there - already ex-
. t.!,tet.l some incipient syniptotri,; in this Country.
That tlie issue of private paper had.greatiy increas-
ed, he believed ',vault,: not be
-denied, but this his
L irdshipsiemcd..consider as a necessary' conse-
quence of the Ps,eSitiZ.litins: on the National Bank,
aiid, of eocine.reaserl issue of Rink Paper ; he there-
lore considered the increased issue of private paper
;ay bias.. ties and Lloa Adverting to the dam.
.grrous politicalcons.equen'ces of the depreciation of
the circulating mediuin, he quoted the writings of a
ulitical philosopher (Dr. Smith), of whose merits he
!woke in terms of unqualified pinegyric. With his
sentiments on that topic the Noble Lord entirely
-concurred, the more especially when such an evil
v4asragg.ravated.bY the danger of Invasion. He re.
il,qttett, with a reference to this part of the sulijetl,
that his Motion for certain Accounts, a few-nights
, since, had. been rejed.ed: indeed he believed it-was
. the_tisst instance of a Motion of the kind being ne-
. giuiv.ed in Parliament; but that specie had in a
great degree disappeared in this Country, as well as
in Ireland, he could colleet, anipng other sources of
information, from a document then in his posses.
sion which furnished an instance of, the Reteiver of
colleBiods within a given period,
received tool. of which only one Guinea was
itriapreie. In Ireland, the depreciation of the Paper
Currency was held to arise,at first, from some con.
iprined between Private Bankers and Army
Ageut.a,, W. 11Q were necessitated for Cash to pay the
A'rorps,. which greatly, augmented the value of
in Those" parts Of. thetoiitrY. Adierting
the dep'oraVe of eets Whici,'lt'e contended, must
form ana A ttria) depreciation' of 'the Circulating M 6.
. in phi,
t,...0 , .
untray, ~nis Loidshipinstanced the
ca,e, of. a Pretvincial Blok whose issues gave credit;'
;In)i,wete the cArculating lyledinin.Of a diameier of
kor. Lj miles a.roUndtt what, lie itusti
tlie- present circumstances,- he tries situation
a
o€ the, loh,a,‘itaniof.such,• a District,' were the
ccosilipktlpo,s,e, of tank possession. of, the
Y„nernyts. ►lQoi' • bi 'still farther ih.
I,usitatedi by tilt conside.rdt,ipn 01: 4: lila of very

great importance, which took plaet- a few years
since in this Coun'trv, and which was one of the
causes which rendered the restriaion on the Bank of
England necessary. On a temporary alarm- of in-
vasion, near Newcastle, the Farmers of the adjoin-
ing Country flucked in, on a market day, and poured
their Notes into the Newcastle Bank, for which

they insisted on payment in cash ; this produced
effeas the mos-t important, not only upon the Bank
in question, but upon all intervening Banks between
that and the Metropolis : the run was for cash pay-
ment, and, this of course ultimately reached the.
Bank of England, on which the demands were made;
not for paper, as usual, but for cash payments.—.
When such important and serious eTeas arose from a
temporary' alarm of Invasion in a distant part of the
Country, What,. he would ask, must be the effects
if the Enemy had landed and advanced to any is.
tance up the Country ? After expatiating upon these
topics considerably in detail, his Lordship expressed
his satisfaaion at the appointment of an inquiry
into the subjea in Ireland, and his earnest wish was
that an investigation was set on foot on the part of
both Houses, as the subjea affeled Great Britain as
well as Ireland. It was by no means, as he had
before observed, too late, and one great °Neel for
consideration, in endeavouring to remedy the evils
of an excessive • paper circulation, should be, a
gradual taking off the restriaion upon the Sank :
that Corporation should be enabled, but gradually,
to resume their cash payments—not, however, with.
out due and full notice being given. The with.
drawing of the small Notes from circulation, would
necessarily induce the introduttion of Cash to the
like amount, to rill up the chasm ; this, of course,
should not be hastily done.—Suppose, he observed,•
that within a given period the One Pound Notes
were to be called in, and, in another subsequent
interval, the Notes of Two Pound, the most salu.
tary effect; would be produced in reference to what
he had suggested. These were, howeirer,: only
parts of the outline, which might be recommended
to the attention of a General Committee of Inquiry,
the expediencyof which, under the present circum-
stances of the` Country, the' Noble Lord ably and
impressively enforced. •
Lord H 4WKES BLI RY in,answer to what fell
from the two Noble Lords on the opposite side,
also spoke at some 'length. He observed, that as
the Noble_ Lords seemed to agree in not opposing
the further progress of the Bill under the present cir-
cumstances, it was unnecessary he should take up
the time of the House on that part of the subject ;
and that the circumstance of the Noble Lord who
spokelast, not having made any specific propo.
sitiori respecting the inquiry the' expediency of
t which het:amended for, rendered it the less netts.
sary,f?qtim to go 'into' a detailed consideration of
the general subject. However, what had fallen
ftom.the.;Noble Lord calledlor a:few observations on
;his-partflie.:by no means considered 'that the evils sb
strdngty iiisigteduPon were proved to,,exist by the
iNobleiLord,.or at least in that degree that rendered
.31..ei,41atiVeihterference necessary upon the occasion.
HeSo'e'ttiig with refereUce: to' a'general
Lion of the subjea. The modified mode of 'inquiry
adoplidinanortiet.place, was a dis'tioa consideration,
and much he thought would depend upon the resuft'of
that,inqtriryo.ayheolier adequate remediss could or could
, oat be provided. for those general evils so greatly
deprecated by the Noble Lord. It would' be a
question, whether such.a 'Case of greater or less in.
• COrivcoiericeor injury, could be made out to war-
rant_proceediog in the way of inquiry, which cer-
tainly must •indoce alartia and inconvenience to a
considerable-degree. This did not. appear to. him.
to be as yet dune by the' i\Toblel,rd. The great ,
argument upon' 'which the wholesuperstruCture was
founded, , was; that the excessive 'issue of -Paper,
and the .aCeumulatiiiii_ of provincial Banks, pro-
ceeded, principally at least, from, the restriction
-upon the ;National Bank. That the latter' part
of this propoSition was not fOunded, he "could
prove from documents which Set forth, that in .the
year 1793, the.. number of ProvinCial Banks were
at least 4.00, and 'that within a .given period after
the Restriction was laid' on, they were in number
.frown 350 to 306.. He contended, that the .Paper
Circulation did not tend to drive. the coin out of
the CoUntry. A' diminution of the Cash in the
Country, to whatever degree it' may occasionally
take place, was attributable to very different causes :
it !nay:arise 'from the balance of 'trade and of pay_
enents, which, as they were in favour or against a
Country, 'tended .either to eitraa cash or to cause
an influx of it.' The demands for coin at the
Mint were, during His Majesty's reign, and more
especially the latter part of it, incomparably greater
than at any former periods : during the present
reign, the coinages exceeded 64.,•000,0001. ; in his
late Majesty's reign 1 r,000,0e01. ;. in that. of Geo.
I. 8,000,000 ; of Queen Ann, i;o00,003 ; and in
King William's reign 10,000,000; for the last twenty
years 32,000,003 were coined.—So. much for the
amount of Specie coined and circulated within the
Country, at different periods. In 1793 the plan.
thy of'Paper in circulation was considerably greater
than'at present. Certain evils were then felt and
complained of, 'and Legislative Interference then
took ; hut this (so we understood his Lordship) was
eventually produaive of more harm than benefit.—
With respect to the Noble Lord's idea of great danger
ensuing to the circulation, in the event of invasion,
he did not entirely agree with him that if would pro-
duce these evils insisted upon by the Noble Lord o
an Enemy must riot only advance, but obtain a foot-
ing for some time in the Country. His apprehen-
_sions, on that score, were not great..—Many of the
cases adverted to by the Noble Lord, were beyond
the power of Legislatare 'to remedy. A combina.,
tion of Banks could not be forced—and the effects
Of such measures, when attemptedaluttst be partial or
'injurious. Upon the whole, he deemed the case, as
established by the Noble Lord, .better left to the
course' of events. No legislariVi remedies, he fear-
, ed, could be applied thereto... The proceeding, as
urged by the Noble Lord,
,would create alarm, and
'.be productive= of sure and certain inconvenience;
and it,.afforded not ;has prospect of benefit and ame-
lioration which might induce the Legislature to run
the hazard. • •
Loral CAR.NAgovOlir saidolie: could not agree
with the. Noble
.St R R STiTiic, in the ob.
servations he had made. w i th regardao thccoperation
of the Bank Restrktion upon the Specie Qf the C:;:tri.

try. While the Payments at the Bank continued to
be made in Paper and not in Specie, the consequence
inevitably mint, be that the Specie must go out of
the Country, and though it. might" return in the
shape of Bullion, it could not return in the shape of
a:circulating medium.
Lord AUCKLAND supported the Motion.—He
considered the present state of the Ban:ls, both of
England and Leland, as a solecism in the history of
Finance:- 4here.was no-less than twenty millions
Of Paper.in circulation, for which the Holders could
only require payment in the.same kind. He con.
lased' When -the measure of the Bank Restrielion
was first adopted, he did not foresee that at the
distance,of seven years they would be again discus-.
sing the same measure. With regard to the situa-
tion of Ireland, its Paper was in a most unfortunate
State, and :he was very happy to find that a Corn.
mittee h,ad been moved for:in another place, by a
Right Hon. Gentleman of the greatest talents, and
who thoroughly understood the subjed. If it were
possible to afford any Parliamentary relief to Ire-
land, he was sure- there was no person More able to
point it, out than the Right Hon. Gentleman to
whom he alluded. He did not agree with those who
thought that no advantage could result from the ap-
pointment of Committees-of this kind, for if they.
were not able to suggest every praCtical measure
that could be adapted, at least they put the House,
in possession of tarts that could he depended upon,
and upon which they might form their judgment.—
With. regard
_to the state of Exchange against
Ireland, for the last five years more money
had, flowed into Ireland- from. this Country, than
had beets drawn from it, in consequence of the Loan;
which she had- made in this Country, and the
balance of trade, if carefully examined, would not,
he was sure, be found to be against Ireland. There--
fore it was not a real exchange against Ireland, but
a depreciation of her Paper, because if a person were.
to pay a hundred pounds in Ireland, in Bank of Eng-
land Notes-, or a hundred guineas, he would obtain
a -draft "upon England for the whole amount without
any deduCtion. , With regard to the Bill before the
Hotise,' he should give his vote for going into the
Committee, because, in the present Situation of af-
fairs, he did .not see how the RestriCtion could be
taken off the Bank of Ireland.
- . Lord CARYSFORT said he did not see how a
Restrielion on the cash paymentS of the Bank of
England, rendered it necessary that there should
be a-similar Restriction on the Bank 9( Ireland.—
The Paper of Ireland was now at a disconnt'of so
per cent. and if their Lordships were to .consider
for, a moment the immense mass of paper circulating
in Ireland, they,Miist imMediately, perceive the im4
mense loss which. the Country must sustain ; where:
"as the sum Which it 'would cost the Bank'of-irehnd
to put themselves condition pay -in spec'ie
=would be infinitely smaller ; upon these ' grounds
he should oppose the' Bill, becatise.' he consider
.7
ea the Restridion as a serious injury to that
try.
The LORD:CHANCEELOR said, he could 'not
,•
recondite the cOndtia of some. Noble• Lords who had
suggested amendments to the Bill, and yet opposed
its going into, a CohiMittee, which was the only
place in which any amendment could be made.,—
With regal-Al.-to . Whit had been said about the Re-
striaion of 'cash payments, and the injurious ef.
fe4s it produeed, he was perfeCtly ready to agree
that it.was'a'AieaSure.whieli could only be justrfied
by the necessity of the case ; but at the same time
some of their Lordships "laboured under an
.error,
when they 'supposed:that because the Bank was not
.bound .to pay in,specie, that therefore private Ban-
kers and'others who issued paper, were .also not
bound 'to pay in specie ; this was not the case ; the
only indulgence which.the law gave them was to
secure them from arrests in the first instance,provided
they. had tendered the amount of the debt in Bank
of England Paper ; but after a Judgment they were
liable to be sent to gaol if they did not pay in
specie, if the creditor. required it. His Lordship
then commented with severity upon the conduit of
thoie persons 'Who set up Banks without any capi-
rat, bur who merely- traded upon the money the
customers put in their hands, and upon their own
paper. fie then adverted to the immense quantity of
What is called accommodation paper which was in
circulation, which there was no property to pay,
and which therefore when it became due could only
be paid by other notes of the same kind. One in-
stance, he said, 'had occurred to his knowledge,
where accommodation paper had been constantly in
circulation between a house in the country :and a
house in town, to the •amount of no less than four
hundred thousand, pounds sterling, without .one sin-
gle farthing to pay it with.
Lord Ktlec said a few words in explanation; af-
ter which the Question for going into the Commit-
tee to-morrow was agreed to without a division,
and the House adjourned at a quarter before ten
o'clock till to-marrow.

HOUSE' OF COMMONS.
'MONDAY, MARCH 5.

MR. ADAMS brought up the Report of the Royal
Marine Mutiny Bill, which was read and agreed
to:; and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-
morrow.
The Bill for regulating the period of taking sacred
Orders in Ireland, was read a second time, and com.
mitted for Wednesday.
The Mutiny Bill was read a third time and passed.
The ScaNll Creditors' Bill passed through a Cam.
mittee. The Report was received, read and agreed
to, and the Bill ordered' to be (read a third time to.
morrow.
DUTIES ON BEER AND MALT.

-
Mr. WESTERN said,' that an apprehension hav-
ing prevailed that, the Duties on Beer were
intended to be reduced, and an additional Duty laid
on Malt, he wished to be informed whether any
such measure was in contemplation. • .

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
he had no hesitation in giving the Hon. Gentleman
an eXplicit answer. There was no intention on the
,part.of His Majesty's Ministers to• propose any ad.
ditional Duties on Malt, nor any reduction of those
on Beer. ,‘
ire Cuainilt tees of S4ply. and Ways and :Means
were postponed till Wednesday-.

IRISH ouvr.s. ,‘
Mr. Cotuty moved for a Committee (3" t'
whole House to-morrow, to consider further of the
_,
Irish Duty Ads. 'The objett for consideraticarr
would be, he said, the Duties on Salt, bops' an
Coals. Ordered.
Mr. CORRi' brought up the Irish Duties Bill
ere
and
the Irish CoUntervailing Duties Bill, which vyo
severally read A-fi-tir time, dnd ordered to toe read.
second time to-morrow.
Acljourned ative_o'clock till to morrow.

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"Qumn'r Muse, March 6, 1804.
" His MAI Es rk" is going-on in a favourable way•

(Signed) " l" PEPYS. " F. Mrott• „
" lt. R. REvrroLos. " W. “goziU)4l4.•
• .
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WE have great and peculiar satisfadion
ing, that Fire MAJESTY'S health is so fast adVa.'
sr"
cing towards recovery, that the LORD'CI4ItriC
• 1-
LOR, on Sunday and yesterday, had audiences
de,
His MAJESTY on tome public business
thi'
pending in Parliament. , His Lordship state,' - .0
pleasing faa in the HoUse -of Lords last nights vile
he announced His Majesty's concQrrence tQ
°‘,/
procedure of the sof Yoatt's Estate Bill`'
in its progr.:ls through the House of Peers,- t
which His Majesty's consent w2s necessaLrit.
s
on
We most "heartily 'congratulate the -CcitlntrY.
this happy evert.-The Public Business, we- P", 7
some, now proceed without further inte.“:l6
tion; !or many and momentous are the,
which Pa4iarnent had to pursue. -
A Debate is expeAed:this evening upon the' a
luntier Bill. -IVIrJ.L-r-T :Will' no doubt propose a
at
utoe those material ::Amendments which
Jintsti at, for lue_imprnvernent_.-0/Ithe
System,' d'd'ig
e- are confid:tnt that every .
whieh he proposes Will be received and adOpte.
respeet ancl:cbe.4.fulness by the whole !Dais °I IVQ*
: • of
leers'illiungliotit the EMPire. Mr. PITT sow'
only-man in Parliament 'Who has turned his 5.1111 '4O
this im octant subject, or whopossesses the
`ru,
model and direcl, for the real Veunefit of the Cool, 4
004'"
ici..yast, and ,complicated 't...ioody as, the
,now:ceinpose, ••••:
CannonadingA /003 Y
was, heard allyes.",-;st
morning at Deal,. proceeding. from SOUtI34"
the - f
quarter, supposed to be. occasiutv:d by :some o'
y,
Boulogne, Flotilla having come out into e ire
e
and been attacked by our Cruizctrs, or s°"-.--tot
of their reinforcements attempting to reach IT
Harbour under the prote&ion of their Batteries!':
j 'Pat"
' LAST•nig4t, we received EioraCls from' toe •
• g e
apt,
Papers to the zth ult. -and this morning the-
gni
ca tears to 21st Ult. inclusive. They' bring dr
count of an event which we have long eq d to ,
and which, if the French -People are not dea'
1046
every sense of feeling—if the French Aril? 0,
not. forgotten,their 'ablest General—must be foe
duftive of the most important consequences.' I
rs-
event to which we allude, is the Arrest of "I;ed
MottsA,tr. That the First. Consul has lani<:°°
that
upon that General with an eye of jealousy tents,
he envied his popularity, and dreaded. hisfed
has 'Ong been known ; but deservedlY!!„,te,e't;ce,
as IVlottsam was by the People or 'Fr the
and enthusiastically beloved as he wns. ycoo.
Army he so long led to victory, the Firs'
rO.
f 11.
jul has hitherto been deterred by motives rat,
dence from ads of- violence against that Getie
stet
At length, however, his fears have got thee leitcf.
of his judgment, and MOREAU has been,
ose a
p
port of ..the Grand Judge,' implicated in a „
Goff
Conspiracy of General PICHEORU and Gitcr.,,g t o'oc/
and has been committed to prison. The —O si;
Judge, in his Report, states that a rec°llC;ft•
don has been effected between MottEAu an
Or-
CHEGRU, and that they carried on a c t,
spondence by means of LAJOLLAIS, their Ag
who paSsed between Paris and London for that
t die
ppse. It is hardly necessary to state,„ -u'a- on
Moniteur charges the origin of this Conspiraclt;j,
the English Government. It is stated-that a 5c.. 'pi*
'ed spot was chosen ,between Dieppe and rreiiiiht
where the Conspirators were landed in the t by
from English vessels ; where they were Iretetli
confidential persons, who conduaed them sec.,e
I cal!
to Paris; where houses were prepared for .oca
ception. The first of these disembarkations eons'
f Cost'-
of Gro RG ES and eight others ; the second .
rfcb
ST. VICTOR and ten others; and .the third
-'o kw
took place about the latter end of Januar'''.
„t oth
was Pelcs•
nerdPiCHEGA .L.-0. T,.. OLLAIS,' and 6%. f"-C co
A fourth. disembark t ion was tended, hut'

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vented hv contrary winds.. PICIIECRU and Gr o R rs,
it is stated, ;irrived at Paris;and lodged in the same-
house, and had several interviews with MOREAU,
two of which were at his own house. Pic 11 ECIII
and GEORGE. have escaped, hut the papers of the
latter
.have been seized, and MOREAU, LAjot—
I,Als, and some others, have been arrested.

This is the substance of the Report made by the
Grand Judge, and whether such a Conspiracy really
existed, or whether it is a fabrication for the pur.
Pose of effeding the ruin of Mot Au, it is not
very easy at present to determine :it is, however,
a little singular, that if PtcHEcttu and GeoRGEs
were really in Paris, and if the French Government
were so completellr acquainted with every proceed_
ing of:the Conspirators—it is a little singular,•
say, that such distinguished Leaders should have
been suffered to escape.
Several Addresses have been presented to the
First Consul from the Senate, the Legislative Body,
and other Public Bodies, upon the deteaion of this
Conspiracy.

The General in Chief MURAT is appointed to
the command of the Troops of the first division,
and to that of the Garrison and National Guard of
Paris, with the title of Governor of Paris, with a
salary of 60,0c0 francs.
PIZANI, of Ghent, is appointed Bishop of
Namur.

General Mor,TIER, Commander in Chief of the
Army of Hanover, is appointed one of ti:e four
Generals of the Guard.
The Funds are 57,

EXTRACT OF LETTEk FROM OXFORD, ,:MARCH 5.
" The Bill of Indiarnent is found against the
GORDON'3, and the Trial appoir.ted to cume on to_
morrow at seven welock."
In ,)ur Paper of to-morrow we shall give a minute
,7:;.-0102t of this interesting Trial.

Yesterday at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was
held at Mr. ADDINGTON's house, in Downing'treet,
aC which Sir L. 'PEP .1( s, Sir F. MiLMAN, Dr.
ItEYNOLD., and Dr. HEDERDEN, attended. The
Council sat 61.1 past three.
Yesterday the DuKE.of CLARENCE dined with
'the'PititsicE of W,./ Es at Carlton Eiouse.
. Yesterday morniri a Foreign Messenger arrived
from i" Vienna. He left Mr. PAGrr, the British En-
`YnY, and suite, at tictligolind. Soon after the ar-
• tival, of 'the Messenger; a Cabinet Council was sum
&w which at thiee hours at
it Lord
rof
aEsßuky'si his Lordship., the CHANcEnooR
tilt! vxcitEQuEV., Lord HoirAICT., and Earl ST.
v It:CENT, were present.
From the statement of the CHANor.t.Lop. of the
1-..zcatEct.tliut last night
there a in the House of COthrnorlS,
ppears to be nu intention on the part of Go-
vernment to transfer any part of the duties on Beer
to the Malt.
Saturday morning Earl MotRA set off from
FoR
Edinburgh , w
for Londonith Sir WM. Kt
tt, Lord
BFS and Mr. SHE RIDAXi his aid-de-camp.
The Marquis of HUNTLY arrived at Edinburgh
on Thursday night, from Aberti.!en.
Letters from Flamburgh state, that Mr. DRum-
Morin, the late Amb,ssildur from Great Britain to
the Porte, is expeaed every day in that City from
Berlin, in his way to Husum. Dispatches were yesterday received from Admi-
ral CortNwALLts, off Brest, dated last Wednesday,
at which time the fleet were all well ; nor had the
Enemy manifested the least disposition to come out.
Letters from Amsterdam, of the Ith of I4'e-
bruary, make mention of a violent misunderstanding,
:and even of adual bloodshed, in France, between
the former Grenadiers of the a
nd
Guard and
the newly arrived Lillian Guards.
Ditations have been issued by Medical
Board, to the different Surgeons attaclivd to the
Medical Staff, to prepare, in forty.tiaht hours,
medicines and surgical instruments suffi an
Army Of 200,000 men, in case they wcient for
ere aanally
in the field.
It is said an attempt will he made to choak up
the Harbour of Bolli)gme, by sinking some of our
'L'ld Dote!) Ships of War, so 05 to impede, at least,
the Enemy from bringing out their numeroas Flo-
tilla in any considerable body together. This
service, we understand, way be performed in such a
manner as to render it impossible for them to be
weighed again, or rem,ved, from the facility with
which our blockading Frigates and Gun boats can
cover them, without being exposed them
any effedlual fire from the French batteries selves to.
Accounts,
Founts, dated zzl January, mention, that
preparing
tc French Troops- from St. Domingo, were
were train at Cuba to attack Nassau,' where they
ing the Militia and Free People of Co-
lour. The Stork Sloop was tile Only King's Ship on
that station, and there Troo were not more than rob
ps of the 7th Regiment in garrison. The Ha-
zard, a Privateer, from Nassau, had fallen in with,
and been taken by a French National Schooner, with
a General (who was killed) and 300 of f
on board. The Hazard had her Captainth anedse tweellowsnty..
two men killed, and about a dozen wounded. Go-
vernor HALKETT was up at one of the out Islands."
The Packet which brought the Hamburgh Mails
that arrived yesterday was cut fur the length of a.
mile out of the ice. This was performed by thirty
men with saws, an attempt of a novel and most la_
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•).;r:ous nature.
On Thursday the z,;.tli of February, died, at
Port Eliot in Cornwall, in the 68th year of her
age, the Right Hon. Lady Fa tor, widow of the
Rlglit• Hun. Lord ELio-r, whose death we an. noneced last week, and whom she survive.t only
tive days ; and on Thursday the Ist instant, she
,11.176, were interred together, in the famili
v,.uit at St. Germans,
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