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London, England, 1804-04-06 00:00:00

SPRING I'HYSIC.

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IHE propriety oftAking some alterative Medi-
• eine at this Season of the year, to.lacilitate the etThrts
of. Nature, must be obvious to the weakest capacity; it is a
salutary pradice, founded by the wisdont of our Ancestors,
and sanctioned by the approbation of every Medical Man :
its utility is not confineckto the present advantages, but ex-
tends also to the prevention of many diseases which frequently-
occur when Spring Physic lu.s been neglected. The Public
are therefore reminded, that
'DE VELNO'i VEGETABLE PILLS
are proved, by ample experience, to be the most safe and
efficacious Medicine hitherto discovered, as' an Alterative,
Purifier, and Sweetener of the Blood, and for radically cur-
ing the Scurvy, Scrophula, or Ring's Evil, Scorbutic Erup-
tions, Leprosy, the ill effintis.of Mercury, and all Diseases
originating from an Impurity of the mood. ,Nor does it ie-
quire the least confinement, or restraint in diet.
Prepared by a regular-bred 'Surgeon, and Sold, wholesale
anitretail, by Pidding and Co., No. 76, Oxford-street, Lon-
don, .in small boxes, price 4s. 6d. or six boxes in one, Pricy
225. ; also retail by.'l rat, Royal Exchange; Ward, No. 324,
Holborn ' Butler, N 0.4, Cheapside Shaw and fidvvards,
No. 66, St—Paul's Church-yard, and by evely Vender. :rat
Nledicinesdn the Kingdom ; but observe that iris signed with
red ink, by 1. Pidding, No.. 76, Oxford-street, London,
otherwise the Publid might be deceived by inefficacious Pre-
parations assuming a similar Name.

;10 THE RETAL VENDERS OF PROPRIEkARI"

MEDICINES.
FNEW BERY and Sons, of Sr. Paul's
. Yard, Proprietors of Dr. James's Powder, Dr. lames's
Analeptic Pills, Dr. Steers's Opodeldoc, Dr. Austin's Cha-
lybeate. Pills -Dr: lloope.r's Female Pills, Dolby's Carmina.
tive; the Cordial Cephalic. Snuff, the Essence of Coltsfoot,
and a Variety, of other Articles of Repute, - having discovered
that sundry Medicine Dzalers in London have, by travelling
themselves, or by means of Riders and Hawkers, disseminated
through the Kingdom, large Quantities of spurious Prepara--
tioas; in the Bills of Diredions of which the Names of Mr.'
Newbery and the other Proprietors are made use'of; and have,
undercover of a Connexion in Business with his House, pre-'
vailkd.upon many- unsuspeaing • Shopkeepers to sell such
countereited Medicines, he thinks it proper to warn the re-
tail Venders against such dishonourable Traffic; and to inform
them, that by continuing to be the Agents of such artful
Traders, they render themselves liable to a.Proseeution for
a Fraud upon t he Purchasers,. as well as upon the Proprietors
of the Medicines.
In order to counteract such impostures, and that the Cour-
try. Vender may he regularly, supplied Nvipi the genuine Ar-
ticles; MesSrs.: Newbely•and Sons intend 'to employ Travel-
lers to visit-dal-46d pacts of the Kingdoms ; and in the rrtean
time, those. Persons who. may be 'inclined to open Accounts
with them, may be furnished upon-liberal Terms, byapply-
ing its above. ' • '
N. B. As the Commissioners of the Stamp-ollrce
commodaten the Propr.etors of Medicines with separate
Plates; in which their names are inserted, very fog
Articles Of consequence arc now without such
thA the'Re ail Vender, by observing .whether the !raw,: of
the Proprietors. be printed or not in the Stamps, ma, aaci.T.
Jain the authenticity of the Medicines. Ptdchasers • also. br
the same attention; will be enabled to detett any Impositiga
that may either be prActised,or attempted. , .

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF PEERS,

THURSDAY, APRIL j•

Li the course of this,

A Meeting took place this day, being the first
after-the Recess. - -

Tilt. Earl WESTMEAT-H, one of the Irish Re-
. -
pteentatlye Peers, and Lord UM DE HOWIE',
Ilieie-SWorn and took their seats.

Mr. FowLitt, from the Cominissioners of the
Customs, presented an Account. of :he Balances and
Arrears due, from the severA„Colleetors at the Ports
in,, tiglanti, on the sth of January last, as far as the
could be road,' up.
• Ordere:.:l-to" lie on the Table;
Their Lordships then adjourned cluing pleasure ;
;:iftetan interval of abOut half an hour the House
was reamed.

Tle Bilis upon the Table were forwarded in their
respeCtive stages. _
The Order for committing the Scotch Bank Bill
was dicohJiged; and renewed for to-morrow.
The. EAttr... of DAftTMOUrli .reporteci His Ma:.
jesty's Answer to :-a'recent Address of.theii Lord-
ship, (tespeding the produftion of certain State
Fevers?) the effla of which was,. that His Majesty
would give diredions Accordingly.
VOLUNTEtit
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,:The °Met of the Day tieing read, for the House
tvesave.itsell into a Cinimittee upon this Bill,
' Lard
GRENVILLE oliierved, that with respeet
,
t94..y.ftv important subje7i, .fOrinTilgrepart of ihe
present Bill, and which had undergone soine discus.
sionlrevious to the Recess, it Was-not his inten.
tiOn to ofTer any observations upon it in the Com-
mittee, as he proposed or, a future day to bring in a
Bijfup(..m the subjea.
•.I'ffeir Ecirdships then went into a Committee
upoolllsoliilli Lord W ALS] NGNAM in the Chair.
The consideration of the preamble being post-
poned, tle Committee proceeded to discuss the
Clauses and Provisions of the Bill, and several
Amendments were proposed by Lord GRENVILLE.
One of these related to the Exemptions, and
which, in particular, gave rise to a discussion of
sortie length. The Noble Lord observed, it should
be Clear and explicit, how far the Exemptions, in
certain cases, were meant to be extended. This
was by no means the case, as the Bill then stood : as,
to qualify 'for these, it was necessary that Returns of
certain attendances at exercise, &c. should be made at
three distinet periods of the year: the first of those
was on of before the first of January in each year,
and the last was on the list of September. How
a return could be made before the first of January in
each year, was to him inexplicable, yet so it was
provided in the Bill ; and with respeo to those
Volunteers who did not attend. the days of exercise,
Sec. ,until after the 21st of September, as num-
bers of the working People could not, on account
of the .har.vesr,-or other necessary occupations, great
doubts obtained as the law at present stood. With
a'view to obviate these doubts, and to 'place_ that
part bf the measure under some systematic regula.
rion,- he' moved an amendment to the effeet, that no
Volunteers included in the Returns made- between
the itt of May 1803, and :the Ist of May 1804,
should be liable to any ballot which took place
before the iSt of Atiust.lBo4.
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11,4 WK ES BTJ RY observed, that a great
deal of when fell from the Noble Lord referred to
the principle of the Bill, and not to. any part which
could regularly fall under the consideration of a
Commi,tee. The operation of the Bill was to be
coicfly prospedive ; its obje4 was to repeal the
existing A6U, nron .the subjea; and to provide a
sYstela for the ,future regulation of the Volunteer
Corps. He disapproved of the Noble Lord's Amend.
'Dent.

Lord HARiM;WBY made some general observa-
tions upon what he considered as the total want,of
system or consistency in the condufl of Ministers
with respe& to the Volun,teer Corps, and he ad-
yerted to certain parts of the Bill, in illustration of
his positions.
I,ord KING 'supported what had fallen from Lord
Carkytt,LE open the subjea.

.The LORD CHANCELLOR, in an Address to
the Curnmittec at some length,vindicated the Conduft
of Qovernment npon the subjca in question. The
Lord took, occasion to vindicate also the con_
duff of the. Law Officers of the Crown, with respell
so the opinions given, &c. and with which undue
licence had been taken: he did not mean in Parlia-
tneptary Debates, but in Pamphlets, and other
modes of. public discussion, where these respatable
Gentlemen had not an opportunity of defending
themselves. He thought thip rather hard. He oh.
served, that on the occasion alluded to, the former
course of prat.lice had been followed. They should
consider the impracticability of framing an MI so
ps to meet every possible case, and to obviate every
contingent difficulty. He remarked upon the
far greater facility to find fault than to amend. -
Lords GRENWILLE and HARROWBY spoke in cx.
planation, and severally disclaimed an intention in
IL: ;,bat. they had said, to reflea in the slightest de-
gree upon His Majesty's present Law Officers : the
latter Peer professed the warmest personal friend.
Ship:for the Learned ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Lord HAI'PKESBURr spoke shortly in support

of what ,had been advanced by hisl•Tobie-and.-ljearn...
eel Frierid. He thought the course adopted with re-
' spea to taking the Opinion of His Majesty's Law
Officers, as to the Construction of. the AEts, was
• prelcqable to promulgating what might be the inter,
pretatic..n of Ministers thereof—end. much more
5.,-,ti;facctorY to Individuals. •
:After some further discussion, the Amendment.
poposed by Lord Gaislif 11. LE was negatived.
On the Clause which went to authorize His Ma.
isty to accept the services of an additiOnal Corps.
of Yeomanry or Volunteers, a discusion of . consi.
tier4)le length took place. The principal Speakers
Were Lock G.RENVILI:E arid linwpctslauvr, the

LORD CHANCELLOR, DARNLEY, Rpu,-*
and AUCKLAND, the E.tls of WiticHiLsEA,
14py.,E;.4AND, ROMNEY, SPENCER, and CAIANAIit..
yoN,

in the present circnmstances of the Country, of
creasing the number of Volunteer Corps, or Of the
number of Men to which they now actually amount.
He thought, so far from entertaining an idea of in-
creasing the number of Corps, a provision should
be made for to incorporate smaller bodies, so as to
render the force in general more susceptible of sys.
tematic regulation. Under these impressions he
proposed the-oiniSsion of the Words in the Clause
whiehinaEted as above.

This proposition was strongly opposed by the
Earl of WESTKORLAND, the LORD CHANCEL-
LOR, Lord flAmcEseuitY and other Peers.—One
of the leading arguments was, the impolicy of
depriving ~the King of the power of ,accepting
such offers as might be made to replace those Vo-
lunteers who may retire, now an unlimited power
of resignation was recognised ; it was not contend.
ed that the number of Corps ought to be increased,
and still less that the aggregate number, with a re.
ference. to the other military services of the Coun.
try, of Volunteers, should be increased beyond their
present amount.
The LORD CHANCELLOR particularly re-
marked the inconsistency of those who professed to
censure Government at one time for repressing the
zeal and energy of Volunteers in coming forward,
and now blamed Ministers for keeping them up in
too great numbers ; he believed there was not a sin.
gleVolunteer who would, in the event of Invasion,
take advantage of his power of resignation, but
would come for Ward and die, if necessary, in the
defence of the Country.
Lord GRENVILLE, in reply to what had been
urged by those Peers who advocated the Clause in
its present form, argued at considerable length,
and with great force arid ability, in defence of his
proposition ; in remarking what had fallen from a
Noble Lord (AUCKLAND), respeding the impro.
priety, under the present circumstances, of render-
ing the Country diffident of His Majesty's present
Government, lie said he for one strongly felt a diffi-
dence. He had assigned his reasons for such, and it
was his objet to inspire their Lordships also with
a similar diffidence.

Lord HoBART, in remarking upon the Noble
Lord's confident assertions of the difficulties thrown
in the way of the Volunteer system, observed, that
did such clogs and difficulties exist, the numbers
could never have swelled to their present amount.

The Duke of Motirraose made a few obserwa-
tiOns upon the subjea; he differed from the Noble
Lord (GR ENy ULF) in many of .his positions, and
seemed to think the power should be given, when
the unlimited power of resignation was considered,
to His Majesty to accept the future offers of service
by Volunteers.
The question was then put, and the Clause or_
dered to stand in its original form.
One or two other amendments proposed by 1,30
GRENVILLE were also negatived.
Upon the Clause which relates to the Exeinp,
Lions,

Lard GRENVILLE proposed an -Amentim,..ot,
the effeCi of which was, to prevent any Exemption
being granted to any Volunteer Corps to be enrolled
,in future. His Lordship said, that if it were deter-
mined, that the Volunteers at present existing
should enjoy all these exemptions, he saw no reason •
,why they shouTd be granted to any Volunteers to
'be raised in future, and thereby to increase the dif-
ficulties of recruiting for the Army, and ballotting
for the Army of Reserve and Militia.
This amendment produced a long conversation,
in which the advantages and disadvantages of grant-
ing exemptions to the Volunteers were discussed.
The amendment was opposed by the. Lott]) CHAN-
CELLOR, Lord HAWKESBURY, Lord HOBART, Lord
WESTMORLAND, and Lord AUCKLAND, who con.
tended that it was expedient that as few distinftions
as possible should subsist between different Vountecr
Corps, and that the effeEt of this clause would be
to increase the number of exemptions, because as the
number of Volunteers was now supposed to be suffie
cient, it was not to be supposed that new Corps would
be embodied, unless in the case of the resignation
of old Corps, or their services being discontinued,
and in these cases they would become liable to all
the ballots ; consequently it would make no dif-
ference, or at least a very trifling one.
The Amendment was supported by Lord HAR.
ROWBY, Lord CARNARVON, Lord KING, Lord
SPENCER, and Lord DARNLEY, who agreed that
the Exemptions had already been extended much too
far, and that they imposed a very heavy burthen
upon those who were not in Volunteer Corps, by re-
ducing so considerably the number of men, out of
whom the Militia and Army of Reserve were to be
ballot tech

After a few further observations from Lord
HAWYCESBURY, the Earls Of WINCHILSEA, ROM.
NET, and CAMDEN, the House divided upon the
Amendment.

For the Clause as it originally stood . 41
Against it -

The Committee then reported progress, and bad
leave to sit again to-morrow.
Adjourned at Eleven o'Clock till To.rorrow.

ROUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, ArKIL 5.

AN Account was laid before the House of the Im.
portation, Exportation, &c. of Corn, Flour, Rice,
Potatoes, &c. into and out of Ireland, for a given
period, already mentioned, when the. Motion was
made.
Ordered to be laid on the. Table.

A Message from the Lords informed the House,
the Lords had agreed to the Innkeepers' Rate of
Subsistence Bill on Quartering Soldiers, and to se-
veral private Bills, without any Amendment.
The Order of the Day upon the County of Stir.
ling EleCtion was discharged, and the subjeCt-matter
of the Petition was ordered to be taken into conside-
ration on the Ist of May next, on the Motion of
Mr2CREVET.
Mr. Secretary YORKE brought up a List of the
Regiments and Companies of the Irish Militia who
have Made a voluntary offer of their services to be
employed in any part of Great Britain durin6 the
War.
Ordered to be laid on the Table and !F)
be
printed.
An Account was laid befoFe the House of the

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iiOLEI;.4 QUIP DICERS .FALSUM AUDiCAT ?

LONDON, APRIL 6, 1804,

WE yesterday announced to our Readers, that.
the state of our affairs at Ceylon had taken alavour.
able turn ; and the Official Dispatches which have
been received, amply confirm that, statement.—
It appears that the Candians, flushed, with the
success which they had obtained by means of
treachery at Candia, were encouraged to make
a" attempt upon the important Post of Hang..
; the attack was made by the KING in
Person, at the head of a numerous Army, but after
an Action of two hours, they were defeated with
Mat slauoliter. Th. Royal Standard W* taken,
besides 4Everai piece 4 of cannon; a number Pf M‘4sltrets,

and a large quantity of ammunition. The King 4.
Candy fled as soon as the A.taion commenced, but his
indignation at this complete defeat was so great, tha;
he caused two of his principal Ministers, and area;
number of other persons, to be immediately put t°
death. The consequence of this Vidory was, that at!
.E-nemy were very soon driven from every part
thr British: Possessions ; two ',detachments under
Captains. Pott.ocr and BIJCHAN then entered tlig
'Candian territories, and on the 12th September again
defeated the Candians at Orkanda, and afterwards
retook possession of Roeviairelle, a large and porl'
'taus town, in which they found considerable saga''
.zines of Piovisions, besides Artillery, Ammunition?
&c. The King's Palace and ?zoo houses were ball!' •
Our loss in these different Aclions was exceedingir
small ; none of our men were killed, and only a feW•
wounded.—We sincerely hope that these successes
will be the means of restoring tranquillity ; for if tilf
expeEted attack should bC-Made by Admiral 1-10i#
ZINIC while we are - engaged in a War with tht
►
Candians, our possessions in that most valuable
Island would at least be considerably endangered'

A Report was yesterday in circulation, that a/s.
Engagement had taken place between Lord Ns"/
and the Toulon Fleet, in which the latter were tie;
feated, with the loss of six Sail of the Line, 211 w
that our gallant Admiral was either killed
dangerottsly wounded. It appears, however, °l'd
it was only one of the idle rumours of the day)
no accounts whatever were received at the 401$)1'
ralty upon the subjea.

ADYICES were yesterday received, importiogi
that the French Government had applied to the se'
nate of Hamburgk, to Lubec, and the Haas' T
requesting• that all Frenchmen who attempted t°43111,1'
tain a passage for the British Dominions, sh°l/1
be put under arrest. The same advices state, that.
the several Governments to whom this aprlicati°
bad been made, had complied with the request'-"
Thcre can bc no doubt, we understand, of the truth
of these accounts, and it will serve to shew the
spea in which France holds other States, as well if
their IndependeAce;

Yesterday morning I-11s MAJESTY rode in fife.,
Queen's. Riaiog Ho.use.—Ahout one o'clock
MAJESTY gave audiences, and transaaed busine9.
with.the LORD CUANCELLOR, Earl DARTmovlfft
and M. ADDINGTON.
Eat L,WINC.HILSEA Js eXpetaed_ to be
Groom of the Stole.
et
-Yesterday about one-thinek, Earl ST. Vi it hip
bad an interview with Lord HAwKEsgurtio'

1

Office in Downing street, • ~b 1
laisp Lo.pt.—Agreeably to the notice gi„;:rtle-
Mr. CottßY, the Chancellor of the Irish nifis
quer, ,the following Gentlemen ,waited upon„icv
yestetdayt at twelve o'clock, to know the es'"
tars thereof, previous to the Bidding;
Messrs. SCOTT, IDLE, and Co.
SHEWELL and ELLIS.
, ORDA'INE,and SHAW' '1 :
i. 1
JOHN and ABRAHAM •ATKINS.
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KENCH and BURROUGHS.
REEVE and GREEN,
....-
.„,r)to
when Mr. Ccotay acquainted them, the sum ti
ti •
ed would be Two. Millions, to be raised in tole' 0,
where the Giddings are to take place. But in c°lo
sequence of some questions being put which to
CHANCFLI,OR did not think himself at libeloy
answer, the Meeting was postponed until SO° ,

January
y ifnroemlostihvet,Ciat
appears atritlopiaPeao
or Monday.
By
the
thea accounts notfs receivedj Cape of 3o so
to
dftimrtibsooanmfge:ht ihaimesde pbt;r:eesvnipoirauepisd,loirninneosa initshevegereisie:enl:s::io:
,R Ate
destined against Ceylon. The Expedition, ',sere
informed, sailed on the 22d of January. 'fbere -011
sixlarge Batavian vessels engaged in this service° v
of troops and stores. The Embargo was not tote
taken off vessels bound to the Eastward (the" r it
which the Expedition took), until 7o hours oreieee
had sailed. Those vessels which intended t° :10e
another course, were permitted to leave the r
in 24. hours. t liers'
The Cape was left almost destitute of s°-`„s,
It was con enured that the Expedition was 04
in concert with Admiral Litiors's Squacir°°'
that a place of rendezvous had been fixed.. re fe:
New-York Papers to the 22c1 February a.-risao
ceived. Dr. PR r esTL E Y died in Nor
on the 6th February. He was nearly 71.
days he had been certain of his approaching "55er,
The several Officers employed on the linnr!; oof
vice are ordered to use the utmost ciertiona ;Nei
curing men for the' Fleet, and to accept of all
healthy boys.
• The Constables of the different Police note
have been furnished with Press.warrants-, to 4,
01
them to apprehend all seafaring "D perfiOn9. 0
. The most laudable.zeal is pervading the i
Volunteer Regiments in the West Riding of
'shire : having received an invitation from n doff
ment to go out for 'a few weeks on pernon„..efe
they are eagerly preparing to march. "'poes /
field Regiment, bout 400, are now ar D" sttOoit:
the Halifax Regiment, a fine body r°74 morce
received .the proposal with raptures ; the:ll4.o?
to. Doncaster on the 23d instant, 10r t.%;vest 144;
lifax,ays qatlnotuhtc4rooetgrnwoef
httearShgeoffieiloti.sieltbh; ; rrtArc
Battalicms of LeeCiti'Voitinteets, about Ow 1;000
I.ojoooft I og,
to 'York in a few days • the Craven the
march to Leeds ; the Upper Aggbig, 13° ds ;
,*. Lee ;Eh
march to york, on the return of r"` 0. the 'wig
Wakefield, about 400, march to itil)°,4llrsond4 • "
inst. and many ot4er Cores, W.c nme
spin follow
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