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ADMIRALTY-OFFICE,

9
May rs, ISIO.
TT being intended to distribute to the Poor Widows
of Commission and Warrant Officers of the Royal Nau,
whore circumstances come wain the Rules of the Charity, esta-
blished for their Relief, such Monies as may be due to them on ac.
count of their Pensions, up to the 31st of .474 y inst. This is to
give Notice, That airy PPidTtvs wh) have 9!-• for
their Pensions, an; intend to lay in their Claims, may at, so as sows
as possible, by Letter, addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty;
and all such Widows whose Claims' have been already allowed,
must send or bring to this Office between the 17th and 3rst inst.
the Affidavits 'required by the Rules, in order to their being con.
tinned on the Pension List,

. IP. CROKER,

'ICTURLLING.OFFICE,
Feb. 26, ISio.
'r HE COMMISSIONERS for. VICTUALLING
1- HIS ItlilyESTY's NAVY de, hereby give Notice, That on
Friday, the ist of ytene, they will be ready to receive Tendert in
writing (sealed up), and treat for the Supplying of SEA PRO.
VISIONS to his Majcv's ships and vessels at Halifax, in
Nova Scotia ; Quebec, in Canada ; Norfolk, in Pirgina ; and
the Island of Btimuda, (conjointly in one Contrail) for Twelve
Months certain, from the 221 of August next, and further until,
six Months warning shall be given on either side for the termini-
lion thereof.

To be paid for by Bills, payable with Interest, ninety days
after late.

The Conditions of the Contraa may be seen at the Secretary's
Office.
No regard will be had to any. Tender ite which the Priers shalt
n:4 4: led in words at length, or that shall not be delivered
to the Board before One o'clock on the saidiFridgy,- the • IV of
Tune. next, Nor unless the Person who makes the lender, of some
Pe? Iva- on hit behalf, attends, to answer, when called for :—Nor
will any Tender that contains extravagant prices upon some ar-
.ticles, and prices much inferior to the real value uton others, be
e.:nsidered as p ~per to be admired.

E.eiS T INDIA (NUS E,
May 2, t Sta.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED
COMP ANY of MERCHANIS of ENGLAND Trad-
ing to the EAST INDIES do hereby give Notice,
TA.,t a Quarteqy General Court of the said Company will be
held at their House, in Leadenhatbstteet, on Mdnesday, the 2oth
June next, at Pleven o'Clcck in the Forenoon, fer the purpose of
deciding a Dividend firm: Christmas last, to Midsummer next. •
T bat the II wryer Books of the said Company's Stock will be
shut on Twetd,ty, the sib of June next, at Two o'clock, land
opened again on Tuesdai,thf 24th of July
And that the Dividend Warrants of the said Company's Stock,
due on the Os JuLv, will be read) to be delivered on Monday the
liith of Jody next.
AMSAY, Secretary,

TO CLERGYMEN.
TO BE SOLD hY AUCTION,
At the King's Arms, in Water-street, Liverpool, on Wed.
nesday the 6th of tune, 18 ro, at Five o'Clock in the
Evening,
THE NEXT PRESENTATION to the VI-
CARAGE of LE YLAN D, near Preston, Lancashire,
well accommodated with good Roads; of the value of 4801.
per annum, arising chiefly trout Glebe and other Lands, ly-
ing in Leyland.
There is a neat Vicarage. House and Garden, Brew-house,
Coach-house, Stables, and Barn, near to the Church.
TheVresent incumbent is not the most healthy Life, and
now in his 64th year of age.
Letters (post paid) addressed to .the Rev. Mr. Baldwin,
'Great Crosby, near Liverriol ; or to Mr. Wareing, Solicitor,
Ormskirk, be duly attendd to.

WARWICKSHIRE.

SAL'E OF THE WHITE LION INN, STRATFORD.

UPON-AVON.
TO BE SOLE) BY AUCTION,
On the Premises,
By WILLIAM HANDY,

On Friday the 2 sth day of May inst. between the Hours of
Four and Six o'Clock in the Afternoon, subject to such
Conditions as will be then produced,
A LL that long-established and highly respectable
lA. INN, the WHITE LION, at Strati-or:I-upon—Avon ;
with the Stables, Coach-houses, Builinigs, and other Out-
offices to the same belonging, universally known and fre-
quented by the Nobility and Gentry of the United King.
dote of Great Britain and Ireland, being situated on the Great
rich Road from Holyhead to London, rlirough Shrewsbury,
Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, anti Oxford.
The very extensive and excellent accommodations of this
House need no further encomium than the general appro-
bation with which tt has been honoured for many years,
past.
The Cellars and Vaults are very extensive and capacious,
anti peculiarly well adapted for the deposit of Wines, and ,
the Inn has been honoured by the Nobility and Gentry of the
surrounding Country upwards of fifty years with a pre-
ference in the Wine ['rade,

In the front of the House is a large Kitchen Garden, cm-
, prising nearly two Acres of Land in the highest cultivation.
' Also a large Bowling Green, containing one Acre; and close
' adjoining are upwards of eight Acres of capital Grass Land,
which will be disposed of with the Inn.
There is an excellent Mine of Clay under the whole of the
Land.

A Specification of the Property, with other particulars,
may be obtained by a personal application at the Offices of
Messrs. Hunt and Hobbes, Solicitors, Stratford on A von ;
Messrs. Meyrick and Broderip, Solicitors, Red-lion-square,
London ; and Mr. Haply, AuCtioneer, Worcester ; with all
of whom Plans of the Buildings and Premises are deposited
for inspedion.
Posse,sion of the whcle may be had at MichaelmaS next.
N.B. For the accommodation of the Purchaser, one.lialf
of the Purchase-money may remain on a Socutity of the Pre-
mises for the term of fir': years, if required.

DIPERLIL PARLEIMENI:

110 USE OF PEERS,
MONDAY, MAY 21.

The LOAD CIiANCELLOR presented a Bill for sus-
pending the granting of Places in Reversion. •
Lord REDESDALE presented . a Bill for affording
relief to prisoners confined for debt.
THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.

On the second reading of the Bill granting a Pen-
Sion to the Duke of Brunswick,
Lord HOLLAND rose, and re-stated his objections
to the Bill, in the supposition that the Pension was
to be taken from the Consolidated Fund, and thus
tend to increase the burthens of the People. He was
.not a little surprised that the Bill was not printed,
or that the Noble Secretary of State had not at least
stated from what fund the pension was to be drawn.
IVltich had be.,ei, said on a former occasion about
practising delusion on the people. He believed that
on no subjed had the people 'been more deluded
than on the subject of the Civil List. It had been
solemnly pledged on the accesion of his Majesty to
the throne, that no further debts would be incurred
by the Civil List. Yet notwithstanding that solemn
engagement several heavy debts had been incurred
and paid off within these few years, without dimi-
nishing the pressure of the taxes. In the mean time
the wealth of the Crown increased, and funds for,
rnerly unknown were now acknowledged to exist.—
He alluded to the Droits of Admiralty, which had
accumulated to a sum far beyond what was neces-
sary to constitute,a fund for the payment of this
pension. He was convinced that every one must see
the propriety of taking it from that source, and
not from the Consolidated Fund. Convinced at least
he was that it must prove infinitely more acceptable
to the feelings of the illustrious Duke himself, and
more grateful to the feelings of his Majesty, that it
should be taken from the Droits of the Admiralty,
than that it should contribute to aggravate the
burthens which weighed already so heavily on the
pebple.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said that it was not usual
to print such Bills. As to the debts of the Civil
List, it was impossible they should not have increas-
ed during a period when it Was notorious that the
price of articles had increased. It should also be re-
collected that the demands on .the Civil List had in-
creased, as the amount .of the hereditary revenues
had diminished.

Earl GREY' was willing to allow that provision
should be made for the illustrious Person in ques-
tion, who had so many claims to the attention
and respect of their Lordships; but while he ac-
knowledged the prOpriety of the grant, he was far
from thinking that it,should fall upon the Consoli-
dated Fund: It would certainly come with a much
better grace from the Droits of the Admiralty.
After a few words from Lords Liverpool, Holland,
and Rosslyn, the Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed to-morrow, for which day
their Lordships were summoned to attend, on the
motion of Lord Holland.
THE CATHOLICS.

Lord GRRY, in the absence of Lord Donnough-
more, moved to discharge the order for taking the
Petition of the Irish Catholics into consideration to-
morrow, and postponed the motion on that subject
till Fridly, June 1, on account of the indisposition
of a Noble Friend of his.

Lord GREY also deferred his own motion for an
Address to his, Majesty on the State of the Nation
till the Friday following.

THE NAVY.
Lord MELVILLE brought forward his promised
motion respeCting the propriety of employing ships
of war as transports, for the conveyance of troops
on expeditions. In order to put the House in pos-
session of the objet he. had in view, he should be-
gin by reading a resolution which it was his inten-
tion to conclude with moving. The substance of
the resolution was, that it appears to that House to
be expedient to have in readiness a certain number
of armed ships to be employed as transports, which
from-the nature of their construction and equipment
would prove much more efledual and useful than
the hired transports now usually taken up for that
service. The Noble Viscount then proceeded to
take a view of the present state of the British Navy
and of the hostile navies with which it might
have to contend. , The British navy now consisted
of 105 ships of the line. The different navies that
could be brought to oppose it from every other part
of the world did not amount to 80. All the Bri-
tish ships were fully manned and completely' equip-
ped. This was far frOm being the case with the hos-
tile navies. On this head, therefore, we had no
danger to apprehend ;. on the contrary, so decided.
was the superiority of our naval force, that it might
be reduced without incurring any risk ; at least, it
might supply a number of ships of the description-
he alluded to for kiting as transports. He would
prefer 64's for that service ; and he would so con-
tinue them, that instead.of the usual complement,
they would not require more than a third, or 164
men to work them. They should have at the ut-
most twenty guns, and at the least, twelve. Here
already was'a great saving. But when theprompti-
Ride with which they could convey troops, and the
better accommodation which they would afford in
every respect, were considered, how fir preferable
would they be found to the hired • transports which
were now employed, and which • required so much
time and so much expellee to procure. The Noble
Viscount next took a view of the different expedi-
tions on which-such troops and ships had been suc-
cessfully employed, and .contended„ that if in the
months of January and February, I 809, such means
had been prepared for carrying ten thousand men to
Flushing, the whole of the French fleet then in 1.
that harbour might have been captured or de-
stroyed, the whole of the disasters and disgrace of

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the late Unfortunate Expedition to the Scheidt would
have been avoided; The Noble Viscount then read
a number of letters from serne•of the most skilful
officers of the navy, all recommending the adoptiod
of this measure—a measure on, the naturd.and ad-
vantages, of which he had bestowed every research
in his power, and which he could not too earnestly-
recommend to the attention of their Lordships:
Lord MULGRAVE was willing to admit ninny of
the positions 141 down by the Noble Viscow ; but
it was necessary to compare the advantages with the
disadvantages of the plan which he submitted to their
Lordships—Certain he was that in praelice the
advantages would be found ~,to prevail. When we
considered the amount of our naval force; and the
employment for which it was intended, it was not
the enemy only we should have in view, formidable
as was his power, and great as were the abilities of
the man who now wielded all the resources of the
continent—our navy was also nrcesSary for the: pro-
teCtion of our immense commerce, which eve!), day
increased, and which would consequently every day
require greater means of proteetion. Any duninu--
tion of our naval force would therefore, under all
the circumstances of the present moment, be little
short of madness. The Noble Lord then appealed
to a number of naval authorities in opposition to those
cited by the Noble Viscount ; and also entered into
a variety of calculations to prove that even in point
of economy nothing would be gained by the !-Iro-
posed plan. Viewing it in that light Ire should op
pose the Noble Viscount's resolution; but out ofre-
sped for that Noble Lord he should not give it a di-
red negative, but move the previous question.

The Earl of GALWAY warmly defended the plan,-
and put a number of cases, " in which he contended
the greatest advantage would be derived from it:
No doubt the necessity of maintaining the naval dis-
cipline might throw some impediment in the way of
it; but these, he thought, might be removed, by
the introduction of a Bill into Parliament to that
effeal.

Earl STANHOPE also defended the plan. In the
present mode of building ships of win great errors
were conspicuous. So faulty, indeed, was the
present mode of constructing, that it was necessary
to rebuild the whole of the navy every twelve years.
Armed ships to be used as transports should have a
particular form, and should not draw more than be-
yen feet of water.

The Earl of WARWICK said a few worth against
the resolution.

Lord INIELVILLE, in reply, insisted on the obvious.
advantages that would result from the plan, and
trusted it would not be rejected on account of the
quarter it came from.

- The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that if he had no
other objection to the plan, the alteration it most
produce in the discipline of the navy was to him an
insurmountable objection. The preservation of that
discipline was the soul and life of the navy ; and on
the navy depended our prosperity and our very ex-
istence.

The question was then put on Lord Ale!vale's
motion, and the previous question was catriej
out a division.—Adjourned at Ten o'clock,

ROUSE OF COMMONS,

MONDAY, MAY 21 .

Mr. WHARTON presented an Account of Ekche-
quer Bills issued in pursuance of the 49th of his
present Majesty.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. O'HARA obtained leave to bring in a Bill for
respiting Still fines in Ireland'. '

The Surveyor-General's Blil was read a third time,
and passed.

Tile Scotch Excise Officers' Superannuation Bill
was read a second time, and ordered to be committed
to-morrow.

Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up the Report of the
Committee of Supply. l'he Resolutions were read
and agreed to, and Bills ordered accordingly.
On the motion ot Sir C. MonoAN, au Account
was ordered to be laid before the House, ot the quan-
tity of Coal and Culin exported from South NViiks
during the year 1809.

Sir-W. duRTIS brought up the Report of the New
Stock Market

After a short conversation between Mr. Dent and
Sir W. Curtis, the Report was ordered to be taken
into furttrer consideration on Wednesday.
The Oil of Vitriol Bill went through a Commit-
tee, the report of which was ordered to be
ceived to-morrow.

The Bere Forest Bill was read a third time anti
passed.

The Foreign Silk Bill was read a second time and
ordered to be committed to-morro4. •

In a Committee of Supply it was tesolved, on the
motion of M'r. Rose, .that a sum not ext eetling
13,7271. be granted to his Majesty for the purchasu
of the late Mr. Grenville's collection of tninerals.—
The report was ordered to be received to-mor.
row.

Mr. WHARTON brought in a, Bill to enable his
Majesty to issue Exchequer Bills on the aids of
.the
year. Read a first, and ordered to be read a second
time to.rnorrow.

Mr. WHARTON brought' in a Bill to enable his
Majesty to appropriate the supplies of the Stamp
Duties of 1808, to defray the charges of the Loan
or Stock created in the present year. Read a
first, and ordered to be read a second tune to-mor-
row.

General TARLETON presented a petition from eer•
tain inhabitants of the town of Liverpool) praying
for Parliamentary Reform. The Hon. General stat.
ed that the petitioners, consisting of upward of
3000 lespeCtable Gentleman (with many of whom
he was personally acquainted) had made a req.lisi-
lion to the Mayor of Liverpool to convene a meet-
ing of the inhabitants, but without success. In-
stead of urging their right, they had very decoroubly