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PARLIAMENT...Mr PROCEADINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 31.
After Lord WALnzoa.tvz had taken the oaths and his seat,
the House resolved itself into a Committee to bear evidence on
the Liverpool "petition.

.
Messrs.. Bell, Hinckley, Cropper, /Cinder, Allen and Pollock,
were interrogated by Mr. BROUGHAM, in support of thelmti•
lion, principally as to three particulars.
I. The comparative state of the American trade with this
country during the last and present year, to shew that the Orders
in Council are the cause of its stagnation at this dim.
2. The state of the Manufactures in America, to prove that a
temporary suspension df this commerce will terminate in its an.
nihilation.

3. The motives of the embargo imposed in the United States
on its own Shipping, to testify that the expectation of some simi-
lar measures to the Orders in Council was the cause of that expe-
dient of American policy, and not the Berlin decree, to which it
had been attributed. Mr. Kinder, one of the witnesses named,
produced four newspapers, from Philadelphia, New York, and
other places, to indicate, that prior to the reception of the Ord:rs
in Council pn the western side of the Atlantic, such was the ex-
pectation there.
Lords Auckland, Hawkesbury, Holland, Erskine, and I.auder-
dale, proposed a variety of questions to the witnesses. It was
subsequently ordered, that the further testimony be received on
Monday, and that Counsel sum up on Wednesday next.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
A Committee was balloted for upon the Dungarvon Election.
A message announced the Lords' agreement to the Irish Bank-
Token Forgery Prevention, the Malt Duty, and the Croydon
Canal Bills.
A Person from the Post Office presented, pursuant to order,
• an account of the Authority upon which the sum of 25,097/. was
paid, for the conveyance of Government Expresses to Ireland.
Ordered to be printed.
'The Orders in Council Indemnity Bill, and the Indictment BM,
were read the third time, passed, and ordered to the Lords.
The Irish East-India Trade Regulation Bill was reported, and
eedered to be engrossed.
The House resolved itself Into a Committee on the Irish Im-
ported Merchandize Warehousing.—Ordered to be reported to-
morrow.
'The Call of the House *as postponed until Tuesday net:. '
The Innkeepers' Soldiers' ,thowance Bill was read the second
time, and committed for to-morrow.
The House resolved itself iato a Committee, to consider the
expediency of permitting the exportation of Wool to Ireland. It
was resolved, that !cam be asked to bring in a Bill to allow of
such exportation, bond being previously given for the due landing
such Wool in Ireland.—Leave obtained accordingly.
REVERSIONARY PLACE BILL.
Mr. BANKES presented his Bill " to prevent the granting of
Places or Pensions in Reversion, or for joint Lives, with benefit
of survivorthip, for a time to be limited, and to vacate such grants
already made.' —lt was tend the first time, and ordered for the
a ucond reading to-morrow.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for an account of all Offices in
Ireland granted for two or more lives. The Ri;ht Hon. Baronet
had, some time since, moved for a similar ace cunt ; but the re-
turn to theorder then made did not state all the places so granted ;
for there were five principal places omitted. His motion was,
therefore, for a full account.

This occasioned a conversation between the Right Hon. Mover
red Mr. FOSTER, concerning the date of the former return, after
which the motion was agreed to.
Mr. PARNELL gave notice of a motion on Monday nest, for
tertian accounts respecting the Post Office in Ireland.
The Leeds Cloth-workers Regulation Bill was read ths :cc )nd
time, and referred to a Conunittm up-stairs.

Stibatti i'oLwt full*
on the nadtiod 6f Sli AlitHl,7lt iifFle-v-ALEY, the Order
of the Uonse reipeethig the beceed readings of contested Private
Bills, so fai as respoited this Bill, was suspended, ansithe Bill
Was read t Seagull:Mu and committed, trs fert;hs, to afford dose
to have the =printed. and transmitted to bublin. The farthei
consideration of the Bill was appointed for Thursday, the se&
of Apra/
COMFENSATI6g TO THE NABOB OF OUDE.
Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON made his
promised motion, for compensation to be made to the
' Nabob of Oude, for the losses be had sustained by the
seizure of one-half of his territories, and the very em-
barrassed state of his finances, occasioned by the mea-
sures of the Marquis Wellesley's Government in India.
He observed, that the papers laid before the House,
and the recent debates upon the Oude question, re-
lieved him from the necessity of trespassing again
upon their patience by further details : the House had
indeed, come to a resolution upon this subject—final,
he Would admit, as fit?' as concerned the conduct of
Marquis Wellesley. To this resolution, as it was the
sense of e majority of that House, he was bound to
defer, though he could not give his private assent to
it. That resolution went to vindicate the conduct of
the Noble Marquis, upon the ground that he was ac-
tuated by a zeal for the public service, and for the
interests of his country. But no man had ventured or
could attertapt to deny, that the Nabob of Ou de had been
treated with a degree of tyranny, oppression, cruelty,
and injustice, almost without parallel, and which no
conduct on his part deserved ; and that he had been
forcibly deprived of one half of his territory, without
even the semblance of justice. In violation of all prin-
ciple, he was forced to sign a treaty in 1801, totally
different from that in 1798, and plundered of his pro-
perty, in defiance of every principle of national jus-
tice. It was therefore but an act of common equity
that the British Parliament should make some recom-
pence to that Prince. The Directors of the East In
dia Company themselves, having perused the docu-
ments respecting this affair, were so impressed by a
sense of the sufferings and oppre?sions heaped upon
this unfortunate Prince, that they had cotne to a reso-
lution that compensation ought to beenade to him—
but the proposition was defeated by the Board pf Con-
treul, under the influence of the Noble Lord opposite
to him (Lord Castlereagh) who acted on that occa-
sion in violation of the principles of justice, and the
honour and character of the British Government.—
When two authorities in the same branch of Govern-
ment, like the Court of Directors and the Board of
Controul, were at variance upon a point so highly in-
teresting to the character of the British Government,
he thought that House was the proper tribunal to de-
cide the question. The Noble Lord considered this
transaction as paralleled only by the late outrage on
Copenhagen. The Noble Lord read a variety of ex-
tracts from the Oude papers, comprehending the se-
veral treaties from 1793 to 1801 ; and also letters
from Lord Wellesley to the Resident at Lucknow for
the time being, and the answers of such Resident—
from these he argued at great length, on the impolicy,
injustice, cruelty, and oppression practised against the
Nabob, contrary to the faith of treaties v.hich had
been approved by the East India Company, and for
which he thought the Nabob entitled to compensation.
He concluded a speech of more than two hours, by
moving a string of resolutions, reciting the substance
of the several treatie- from 1793 to 1801, and draw-
ing inferences from the same, and his last resolution
purported :
" That the East India Company ought to revise and reconsider
the treaty of 1801, and indemnify the Nabob for the damages
which be had sustained by being forced to sign that treaty, which
was a violation of air the other.."
Mr. R. DUNDAS (the President of the Board of
Controul) said, it could not be expected that after the
very full and ample discussion which had so recently
"taken place on this subject, he should be under the
necessity of trespassing Much on the time or patience
of the House. When the question was agitated a
few evenings ago by a Noble Lord, the House had,
by a very great majority, determined that the con-
duct of the Marquis Wellesley had not only been jus-
titiable, but praiseworthy ; and all the resolutioUs pro-
posed by the Noble Lord on.that occasion -had been
met and disposed of by the previous question, except
the last, which received a direct negative. The ar-
gument urged on that occasion was, in his mind, a
complete answer to the present question ; and it would
be a most extraordinary circumstance if the House
should now act diametrically opposite to their former
decision, and that so very recently made. He should
therefore move the previous question on all the reso-
lutions of the Noble Lord except the last, which he
should meet by a direct negative.
Mr. MAR TIN supported the motion, on the
ground which was generally agreed upon in the last
&bate, viz. the breach of treaties, and the injustice,
cruelty, and oppression exercised against the Nabob
by the Marquis Wellesley, in order to promote his
own aggrandizement—and as the East India Com-
pany had almost unanimously disapproved of that
Noble Lord's conduct, he thought they ought to
make compensation for those injuries which the Na-
bob had received in consequence of the acts of their
servant. It had been said, that this having been done
it was now too late for the House to interfere—but
he hoped it would ever be the honourable principle of
that House to say, that when an act of injustice had
been proved to have been committed by one into
whose conduct they had a right to scrutinize, that it
was never too late to make compensation.—He con-
cluded by giving his hearty assent to the motion of
his Noble Friend.
Mr. R. THORNTON began by saying, that on a
late occasion he was prevented from giving his opinion
by the impatience that many Members shewed for
the question. He disapproved of the violent mea-
sures that were taken in Oude, because he was sure
that the Nabob was ever willing to take the advice of
the British Ministers; and he believed the Vizier was
equally willing. • He had read of a maxim which
prevailed at a corrupt zre of the Roman empire,
" My son, get money, if you can, honestly ; but,
at all events, get money." He thought a simi-
lar maxim had been adopted by Lord Wellesley
in the business of Oude. It was, " My brother,
get money and character, if you can, honestly ;
but at all events, my brother, get money and cha-
racter." He considered the fnendship we shewed
to the Native Powers in India as very like the fra-
ternal embrace of the Galilean hug of Bonaparte
to his allies in Europe. When it was said that he
and others of the Directors approved of the system.of
the Marquis Wellesley, he would answer that they
were not then acquainted with the circumstances of

the IMO.- At the same time bt wished that it should
ararif bit understood that when he spoie of the sys-
sr
.elt4the Marquis Wellesley, he did not mean to
;peak personally of that PlOble Loud. He blew that
he Was supported by very great authorities in this
country. He spoke of the system merely as a general
system, which the Court of Directors disapproved of,
as considering that it involved them in wars which
were too expensive fot their finances.
Mr. HOWARD disapproved of the system of the
Marquis Wellesley ; in consequence of which, altho'
the territories of the Company were extended, the ex.
pences exceeded the reventie by above two millions.—
He felt no fears with respect to the threatened invasion
of India by the French armies.
Tne House then divided. Few the previous ques-
tion, 80; against it, 20. Majority, 60.—Ad:.mrned.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON,

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There was a report yesterday in the City, that seve-
ral flags of truce had recently passed between Gene-
rat JunoT and Sir CHARLes Corrox. It was said
that JUNOT, finding it impossible, in consequence of
the strictness of our blockades to provide subsistence
for his troops, And for the population, proposed to eva-
cuate Portugal, upon certain conditions. The nature
of these conditions, or the manner in which Sir
CHARLES COTTON had treated the proposition, was
not mentioned. Indeed, we are not inclined to attach
any credit to the statement. We mention it merely as
the rumour of the day.

No further accounts have been received respecting
the reported naval victory in the Mediterranean, and,
as we stated in yesterday's pkper, the report from
Holland is not sustained• by any known authority.—
This, however, is not to be expected. The tyranny
exercised by the French in every country which-they
occupy, makes it very unsafe for persons of respect
to have any political correspondence with their
friends in England, and therefore we receive only
unsigned communications, and in feigned hands; but
there were letters froth Holland stating the fact of the
total overthrow of the Carthagena feet.

DRURYALANE.—Last night a Comedy, the avowed
production of Mr. KENNY, the author of several suc-
cessful pieces, wai performed at this Theatre, for the
first time, without a negative voice, entitled The World.
The principal Dramatis Persona are as follow :
Cheviot,
Echo, BANNISTaII.
Davenant, Wamionvots.
In iex, MATHIAS.
Subtle, WIWITZIR.
Social, PURSER.
Lady Bloomfield,
Mrs. Berkeley, POWELL.
Elinor,
The plot exhibits two principal characters, Cheviot,
a generous enthusiast, the sport of fortune, ignorant of
his birth, but who at length finds a father and mother
in two friends, whom he encounters accidentally in his
struggle through life ; and &he, antqtially generous
Child of Nature, warped from his genuine purpose by
a short intercourse with a vitiated world. The business
that leadyto the denouement of this piece, which ends
in the marriage of Cheviot with. the amiable Lady
Bloonejeld, and the sister of the former with Echo, is
well conducted. Many of the sisuations are extremely
interesting, and the dialogue is at once elegant and
animated.—The character of Index is perhaps the best
in the play : it is that of an old batehelor, who, with
nothing to do, really does mare than half the men of
the business in the world. He is popping in every
where, knows every body, and will do every thing,
for—,, he has nothing to do." The character had its
full effect in the hands of Mr. MATHEWS, who was
warmly" 'welcomed from his late confinement.—Mr.
Berniisrea shone in many parts of his character--
Mrs. JORDAN, in the few that were in her line; and Mr.
alarm:, universally shone. An Epilogue, playing on
the title of the Comedy, was admirably spoken by EL.
Lisros ; but we have but little to say in favour of the
Prologue,.delivcred by DECAMP. The play was given
out in the midst of a general roar of applause.
COVENT GARDEN.—At this house, after COOKE'S in-
teresting performance of Sir Pertinax Macrycophant in
the comedy of the Man of the World, the novelty of the
evening was, as the bill expressed, a new tragic, comic,
pantomimic, melo-dramatic Galamathias, called—
Bonifacio and Bridgetina ; or, Me Knight of the Hirmi.
(age; or, the Windmill Turret; or, the Spectre of the
North-east Gallery !—The idea of this piece is taken
from the French of M. MARTAINVILLE; and a comic
conversation, supposed to pass in the box-lobby, be-
tween the author, box-book-keeper, and one of the
audience, is introduced, by way of prelude, to inform
the public what species of farce they are to expect.—
From this we easily anticipate a travesty, after the
manner of Tom Thumb the Great, or Chrononhotonthologoz,
in which we are presented with every species of pa-
geantry usually exhibited in pieces of a more serious
nature; interspersed with robbers--edivened with caves
and spectres—and finishing with a combat and con-
flagration! The Music accompanying the action is
in the same burlesque style, as are also the words of
the songs. Messrs. Stiersows, FARLEY, and BLAN-
CHARD are the heroes—Mrs. GIBES and Mrs. Lines
the heroines, whose tragi-comic adventures diversify
the Piece, the scenery of which is extremely showy,
as are also the dresses, &c. The applause bestowed
upon the performance was not, however, altogether
unqualified. If the piece had been assisted, hike the
tragedy in The Critic, by the intervention of the sup-
posed author, it might have seemed a less miserable
work : but, as it is, we can only regret, that Mr.
Diann/ should have employed his time, and the Pro-
prietors their money, on a thing which seems likely to
increase neither the reputation of the author, nor the
profits of the theatre.