Star.
London, England, 1808-03-24 00:00:00

PARLI4MINT4Rr PROCEEDINGS.

MOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 21.
The Annual Indemnity Bill, and Exchequer Bills' Fundel* g
were received front the Commons, and read a first time.
Lord AtICKLAND again called the attention of the Home!,
the Petitions on the Table against the Orders in Council, us
quoted several precedents, to shew that the forins of their
ships' proceedings admitted of their being heard by Conni,
out connecting their Petitions with any Bill. He adrnitted,Lnk,
ever, that the more usual and best mode Would hare 44.6, t,
I hear Counsel against the Bill for furthering the Orders in Coui.
cil ; but from this they were precluded by the priecke which Ea,
preva • iled • w ith regard to the Bills of Supply,
i under which fon,
the measure before the House was most tirproperhir Ictcoduce
'Fhe only course therefore which he could pursue, in order to obtk:•.
that informition which the Petitioners were anxious.to give, atd
which he, for one, was anxious to receive, was to move that
Orders in Council should be referred to a Committee, and ibm
, the Petitioners should be beard before the Committee by theft..
selves or Counsel.
After a long discussion, in which the Lord Chancellor, ace
Lords Grenville, Lauderdale, Holland, 1-ktwkesbury, Beckici.
hNnshirt.,Sielmouth, Redesdalei Mulgrave, Erskine and Fitiwid,
took part, the motion was agreed to

- !..
A conversation of cc,lisideralde length eziued, as to the day fa
hearing Counsel, Lord HAWKESBURY having propo.ed Mot.
day, a. 7.1 Lord HO 11,1,AND to-morrow.
On a division, Lord 1-IAWKF.SBURV's motion was care,,d
and Comisel WAS accordirOy ordered to att,:ad, at two o'clock ,r
Monday.
A division afterwards took place, upon a motion of Lord
AUCKLAND'S, poitponing the Committee.

. . ,
The House afterwrds went into a Committee on the Bni—d.
preamble was disposed Of. After much discussion, tb.(• Chair-
mita ryported progre.ss, and at lour o'eSlork this Voraini :hr
House adjourncd.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Lord tCILI.IAM RUSSELL reported fr.,m the Retereadart
Election Committee, that Mr. M‘Dowall w.t% duly elected, q;;
that the Petition .vas net frivukui or vexation,.

Mr. Alderman SI LAW presented a Petition from the Water.
men of :lie River 'litanies, against the Rill for erecting 2 Ttn
over the River, year tie Savoy.—Orileivi to lie en the Table.
Mr. R. WARD presented; pt:i•su:mt to order, some furthq
papers respertilig the Dardanelk> i-.lxpedition.—Ordered to lin:.
the Table.

Exchequer Bill,' Fundin read a third time, pu.
sad, and onierea to t 1.,: I.urdN..

VANSITTART nmvcd, that the Copie.;:f the Ordenin
Council, laid before the 'gutty.: en the 1 lth ia<tant ; and aho the
Warrants from the Treasury is,Ated to the Commissioners of Co.
toms thereon, be printed.—Ordered.
The Utilise resolved itself intu a Committee of S.:pply, and
Mr. HUSKISSON moved fur the following Grants, whick
were agreed to, viz.
For the Barrack Department this year
For the same, fur arrears of fernier years
Commissariat

For Sums issued by orders of his Majesty frctr. the!
Civil List Establishment, i❑ consequence of the
orders of this I louse, and not. yet t:.-"le good,
Ordered to be reported to-mor: ow.
DUBLIN POLICE..

£579,0W
impoo
625,0 W

VASE

Sir ARTHUR 1.,V 1. l .I,ES L 1::. moved for leave
to bring in a Bill for rendering mere effectual the Po;
lice of Dublin. He stated that the number of rolibe.
ries, murders, and crimes of every sort, cosireitted
of late years in that metropolis,. and especially in its
environs and vicinity, and still cncreasing, notwith-
standing, the authority of the Police already estab..
lished, there, rendered the adoption of some more ef.
fectual system indispensably necessary. Those critnis
were chiefly committed, though by people themselee
resident in the city, to which the jurisdiction of tle
City Police Magistrates did not extend. It waenot •
to the vigilance of the Police Magistrates that the
discovery of their crimes and haunts Was owing;
but to communications made to Government from :!
other quarters. The evil had been long increasing, '4
indeed ever since the rebellion in Dublin in MI The
prepetrators had organized all their operations, with-
out ever being discovered through the vigilance of
the Police ; and the Chief Governor at-that time
found it necessary to appoint other persons in aid of
the civil police, who were occasionally continued to
the present time, and without some such appoint-
ments the security of the city could not be preserved.
The object of the present bill was to extend the autho-
rity of the police eight miles round the metropolis;
the whole, including the city, to be divided into six
districts ; three Magistrates to preside in each, one to
be an Aderman, another a Common Councilman,
and the third to be appointed by Government, and
an assistant Barrister to attend the other Magistrates
in each district. The number of the police men to
be increased, and patroles of horse and frot consta-
lbles to scour the avenues anal roads for S miles round
by night, as is the case in the vicinity of London.
Mr. Alderman SHAW (of Dublin) was surptited
that the Right Hon. Baronet had never done him the
honour, as a Representative and Magistrate of Dublin,
to make any communication to him of the tenor and
objects of the Bill, till the present moment. It was a
matter in which the Citizens and Magistrates of Dub-
lin must be materially interested, inasmuch as it was
an infringement on their charter ; and he trusted, that
before any proceeding should be adopted upon the
Bill, it would be printed ; and that time would be
given to transmit it to his constituents, so as to afford
them time and °ppm tuaity against it, if they should
think fit.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY said, his intention
to bring forward such a Bill was long a matter of no-
torietyin Dublin ; and he had several consultations upon
the subject with the Magistrates, and other persons
interested. He had no opportunity to bring it for-
ward last year, and that was the reason why he had
tnot hitherto consulted the Honourable Gentlemen.
The necessity of tke measure was indisputable ; and
it certainly was not his intention to hurry the Bill
through the House, but to allow full time for the
Citizens of Dublin to consider it, and adopt any pro-
ceeding they should think necessary.
Mr. GRATTAN admitted the necessity of some
Bill; yet he considered.the present Bill objectionable;
first, as infringirg on the charter of the City; and
secondly, as increasing the patronage of the Irish
Government, by creating eighteen new places. A
Police, under the direc*rn of the Government, had
already been tried in Dublin, under an Act of the
kith Parliament in 1786, and it had failed.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT also agreed in the neces-
. sky of some Bill to remedy the evil complained of,
for which the former Government had a Bill in con-
templation; but he apprehended that a plan carried
on by two different authorities, namely, the Corpo-
ration and the Government, could never be effi-
cacious, as both parties would have clashing interests
and objects. He would rather therefore that the ap-
pointments altogether were made by the Crown, than
have a mixed Constitution. He had another objection
to the Bill, namely, that it gave Government an in-
crease of patronage in the appointment of six places
for barristers.; whereas he wished of all things to
keep the Irish Bar us independent as possible of axle

i fair ambition for tl3
this addition.
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Mr. J. C. BERESPC
decided encroachment t
paws.
The CHANCELL(
'wished the Bill to inter
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Marching from one tot
sir that no depredatil
immediate detection ;
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bring in a Bill to abolish
sod to regulate the atten
to the Irish Conunissior
Josses sustained in the RI
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TH E '

THU

PRICE OF STO

Consols, money, 64
Navy 5 per.
,PRICE
Etnk for opg. 233.

3 per Cent. Red. At
3 per Cent. Cons. 6
4 per Cent. shut
5 per Cent. Navy 9

Tuesday mm
ting round to ti
Paris, Belleropl
Brunswick, Oil
weigh, and pre

Yesterday me
at Dover from
in an'open boat
detained in Ha
on the ships of
were informed
ships of war to
von : they ace
an opportunit3
came away up
the line now r
ing, but want
-gates, and tw
Texel, a few
Roads, where

The Noctoi
arrived at Fa
days from N
from Mr. Ro
soon to learn
aspect of aff.
We entertaii
peace and ar
be interrapte
yet reached
packet repo
things remai
and that the
the America

a. • ir ey had already injects enough
41001°166n'
fair ambition for their erwiuragement, without
addition.
j BERESPORD considered the Bill as a
?,fr.
decided encroachment upon the chartered rights of
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
ed the Bill to interfere as little as possible with
Ithe ishchartered rights of Dublin. However, this was
not the regular stage for discussion.
Mr . FITZGERALD (Knight of Kerry) inquired
,e)rether the e:cpense was to be defrayed by any addi-
tional taxes on the Citizens of Dublin, or were to
woe out
Wof the Treasury.
A. ELLESLEY answered, that there was
iara sir
dy a very large fund for the support of the Po..
lice of Dublin, arising from taxes upon the city. the
foto of the new system would very little, if any
exceed the present. In addition to the taxes
n ,and taid by the citizens. a considerable sum was
already r
received from the Treasuryhis p
oil lan
•—wis •ittooaed to proceed upon the same system. In
rot to what had been said of the quietness of the
(3,,„f Dublin, he begged leave to observe, that the
reason was pretty obvious, and not at all owing to the
rigiiance of the Police Magistrates. There was a
r•-•
of 7000 men at one end of the city ; there
ore forty different guard houses, with strong detach-
mots, dispersed in different parts of it, and patroles
marching from one to the other every hour of the night,
so that no depredation could be committed without
immediate detection ; but any man who went half a
mile from the town, after night-fall, would stand in
imminent danger of being robbed.
Leave was given to bring in the Bill, which accord-
-1„0 ~,,„Cad the flea time; and on the motion for
Kadin it a second time on Monday, with a view
to its commitment, pro fortna, to fill up the blanks,
and have it printed and transmitted to Dublin for
consideration thcre, a further discussion took place ;
bur in the sequel, the Bill was ordered for the second
reading on Monday.
glr. FOSTER gave notice of a motion to-morrow, for leave to
Meg in a Bill to abolish Custom House Officers' fees in Ireland,
ad to regulate the attendance of the Officers of Excise, founded
ten the first report of the Irish Commissioners of Enquiry.
Mr. FITZGERALD gave notice of a motion to.morrow, for
some further papers respecting Grand Jury Assessments in Ireland.
Mr. PARNELL moved for abstracts of all Petitions presented
t, the Irish Commissioners of Compensation to Loyalists, for
lasses sustained in the Rebellion, on account of loss by tithes, dis-
tinguishing such as came front eedesiattical persons, and lay-iin-
pcirietors •9 with the decision of the Coramis•doners thereon,
ropectively.—Ordered.
Mr. FOSTER presented a Bill for levying certain duties on
pods exported from Ireland.—Read the firsttime, and ordered for
de second reading to-morrow.
The Maynooth College Bill was read a third time, and passed.
Mr. FOSTER broullst up a Bill prohibiting the exportation of
cam wool and Jesuit's-Bark from Ireland. Read a first time.
CoIoneI,LONGFIELD presented a petition from the merchants
Maoists of the City of Cork, which having been ordered to
Ikon the table, he then: moved, that they be heard by themselves
a Counsel at the Dar of the House.
After a few observations from the Chancellor of the Exchequer
sad Sir John Newport, Ccilonel Longfield withdrew his motion
/deeding Counsel, and the petition was orderodto lie on the table,
NABOB OF ARCOT.
After some conversation between the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer ad j.ord Archibakllfdinilton, the latter agreed to postpone
13 motion relative to the Nabob of Arcot, which stood for to-
mrrow, until tcemerrow se'onight.
The Irish Token Bill went through a Committee.
ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
The Rouse resolved ftself into a Committee to hear Counsel I
relative to the Petitions from London, Liverpool, and Tanches.
ter, against the Orders in Council ; and Mr. Wharton having
taken the Chair, Counsel was called in, and ordered to OrOC..e
their further examination of the reserved witnesses. This
concluded, other witnesses were successively brought far sv ard.—
Their exammation was conducted by the same .7\ lembtia. who
took a 1,.:A.ir4 part on the two former occaii,os ; and at half past
One, the House was :::surnea, report ^+Zr, lad an adjournment
took place until to-rnornsw. •

TIIE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, MARCH 21.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
tosoli, money, 643—for April acc. 6416—Omnium 31 pre,
Navy 5 per. Cent. 97—Exchequer Bills, 4s. pre.
TRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Balk for npg. 233 Long Ann. shut
3 per Colt. Red. Ann. shut India lion :is, Is. 26. die.
3 per Cent. Cons. 611 3,5. 6s. 1,1-.
4 prr Cent. shut Enplisk Tickets, '2ll.
Spa' Cent. Navy 961 97 Cogs. f..n. ace. 64

Tuesday morning, in consequence of the wind get-
ting round to the N. E. his Majesty's ships Ville de
Paris, Bellerophon, Dreadnought, Africa, Spencer,
Brunswick, Gibraltar, Valiant, and Rose, got under
weigh, and proceeded down Chancel.

Yesterday morning seven Portuguese seamen landed
at Dover from Flushing, having escaped from thence
in an open boat on Monday night last ; they had been
detained in Holland ever since the embargo was laid
on the ships of their ration, and a short time since
were informed that they must tither go on hoard the
ships of war to assist in fitting them out, or go to pri-
son : they accepted of the former ; hut, as soon as
an opportunity offered, they took a Dutch boat and
came away sans certmortie. There are eight ships of
the line now ready for sea, besides frigates, at Flush-
ing, but want men to man tkem. Two Dutch fri-
gates, and two schooners mad
P their escape from the
Texel, a few days since, and got sate to Flashing
Roads, where they now remain.

The Nocton packet, with mails fvom America, has
arrived at Falmouth, after a passage of twenty-three
days from New York, and has brought dispatches
frtan Mr. ROSE. The public may, therefore, expect'
soon to learn something from authority respecting the
aspect of affairs between America and this country.
We entertain sanguine hopes that the relations of '
peace and amity between the two countries will not
be interrupted. The letters and newspapers have not
yet reached town. But the Captain of the above
packet reports that he brings no news, except that
thingc, remained as they were when Mr. Rose arrived,
and tl az there were no appearances of a relaxation in
'he Aratrican embargo.

The SURIWA)4, the arrival Of Which Rom the Me..
diterranean we annotinced yesterday, left Sicily 9th
February, and Malta 16th following'; sailed from
Gibraltar 29th Feb. and Cadiz the 2d instant. Sir
RICHARD STRACHAN passed the Strcights the 23c1
February, said to be gone after five rail of the line
that escaped from Carthagena, and were last seen
in a Bay to the southward of Minorca. Admiral
COLLINGWOOD was off Palermo, having been joined
by Admiral THORNEGROUGH, and were 11 sail of the
line. Admiral Funvis was off Cadiz with 13 sail of
the line F and Admiral COTTON was off Lisbon, with
9 sail of the line ; the Swallow, of 18 guns, having
left them the .sth instant.

Captain HERAULT of the Day, arrived at Liverpool
from Messina, states, that early on the morning of the
29th January, off Minorca, he saw five sail of the line, a
frigate, and a brig, within two miles of him, under a
press of sail, steering, as he supposed, for Toulon ; but
whether they were British or French he could not dis-
cover ; but it was neither Admirals Coeenecwoon's
or THORNBOROUGH'S squadron, as he left them both
at Sicily when he sailed, on the 18th January. Ad-
miral COLLINGWOOD had with him seven sail of the
line ; and Admiral THORN BOROUGH Six.
The Carteret Packet, from Gibraltar, has also arri-
ved at Falmouth, but having sailed from that place
ten days before the Auckland, which, as we announ-
ced yesterday, came from thence on the Ist inst. the
intelligence she brings is not so recant as that brought
by the latter and by the Surinam ; they possess, how-
ever, some interest, and serve to fill up the chasm in
the regular detail of dates. They are subjoined :
" GIBRALTAR, FEB. 6.
" We learn from the Prize Master of an American
brig, detained by his Majesty's sloop Surinam, that
on the '29th ult. in the longitude of Cape de Gatte,
he fell in with a strange squadron, consisting of six
sail of the line and one brig, which he is of opinion
were either Russians or French. The brig gave chace
to the detained vessel, which hove to and shewed her
colours ; on seeing which a signal of recall appeared
to be made from the squadron, as she hauled her wind
and joined. They were steering to the Eastward.
" The following account received by the Master of
an American ship, from New York to Marseilles,
which arrived yesterday, may serve to spare us a
multiplicity of conjectures as to their nation. On the
27th, in lat. 37. long. 10. 30. he fell in with a French
squadron., consisting of one three-decker, four seventy-
fours, a heavy frigate, and a brig. From the frigate
we learnt that, taking advantage of the late heavy
eales which had blown our cruizers off the coast, they
had effected their escape from Rochefort on the 22d,
and in doubling Cape Finisterre, had steered to the
Southward in the long. of 11.0. to avoid our look-out
frigate. After examining the American ship they con-
tinued a southern course, until they reached the lat.
of 35. 0. when they hauled to the Eastward, and fell
in with the coast of Barbary, about ten or twelve'
leagues to the Southward of Cape Spartel ; on the
28th she lay-to till sun-art ; about six it came to
blow very hard at S.W. with.rain, when she entered
the Gut under double-reefed top-sails, and were
abreast of Ceuta about twelve o'clock at night, when
the American lost sight of ill= in a squall. This
vessel was bound to Marseilles, but falling in with
the Hydra, off Carthagena, was ordered to rcturn
to this port, in conformity with his Majesty's itce
Orders of Council. As the Hydra had not seen the
enemy's squadron, we think it probable they may
have passed to the Southward on the Barbary Coast."
" FEB. 13.—0 n the 10th instant Rear-Admiral
Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, with the undermentioned
ships composing his squadron, appeared in the offing;
and, having sent the Lavinia in, we suppose for in-
formation, as he did not anchor, hove to, and being
joined by her about an hour after, made sail to the
Eastward with a strong breeze at W.N.W.—Caesar,
Sir R. STRSCHAN) Captain RICHARDSON ; Superb,
Captain M‘Leon ; Cumberland, Honourable Captain
WOODHOUSE ; Spartiate, Sir FRANCIS LAFOREY ;
Warrior, Captain SPRANGER ; Renown, Capt. ALEX-
ANDER ; Coiossus, Captain Moftets ; and Lavinia,
Captain HANCOCK.
" By the passengers in the American ship, Two
Brothers, we learn that BONAPARTE has declared war
against the Sardinian flag. This intelligence reached
Leghorn a few days before the ship sailed.
44 From the log-book of an American Captain ar-
rived here, we learn the following particulars respec-
ting the Rochefort squadron :—On the 23d instant
he fell in with it, when he was taken in tow by a fri-
gate, two 74's keeping constantly on either side, and
the brig a.stern, as he supposes, in case the tow-rope
should break, to prevent his escape in the night.
" On the '26th, about 6 P.M. they cast him off,
and made all possible sail in for the land, being then
in lat. 35. .53. Soon after they parted company, a signal
was made from the flag ship, and answered by the
frigate, which immediately shortened sail, hove to, and,
spoke the American, ordering him to steer S. W. till
the) should be out cf sight. He accordingly hauled his
wind titthe Westward about two hours, and then bore
away fa the Gut. He learned from the frigate, that
the squadron had been six days at sea when he fell in
with it. The ships are described as being most
wretchedly manned with respect to seamen, with the
exception of two seventy-fours, which appeared to be
very well handled. They were 01111,1:m1y filled with
troops.

, •
“ 15.—The Sirius frigate and Maki convoy
is coming in from the eastward.
• " FEB. 18.—Yesterday a Quarier Sessions was
held at the Court-House, for the dial of Mr. (loose,
a midshipman, belonging to the Renommee, for kil-
ling Mr. Barnes, another midshipman, in a duel. A
woman of the name of Hunter, was also tried for
murder, but both the parties were acquitted. The
half of the Juiry, on this occasion, was composed of
Officers of the Army, belonging to the different regi-
ments here.

" The Walsingham packet arrived this morning,
in 8 days front Falmouth. A large American ship
was this day carried Into Algesira', by one of the
enemy's privateers. Captain USHER, in the Redwing,
in the most gallant manner; attempted to cut her off,
under the fire of all the enemy's batteries, in which he
would have succeeded, but unfortunately the signal
was made for his recal, when he was on the point of
boarding her.
FEB. 19.—8 y the last accounts from Cartha-
gena, it is certain that the Spanish fleet in that port
did not join the Rochefort squadron when they passed.
4,, Sir RICHARD STRACHAN'S squadron were seen
on the 13th, off Cape Pallas, with a fair wind, under
a press of sail, steering for Sicily.
" Two large French friate. were seen at the en-
trance of the Streights on the 10th of this month, and
I they have ,iipeared off Cape Spartcl. It is
expectt!cl they will attempt to pass the Streights the
first dark night."