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London, England, 1808-05-31 00:00:00

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AREPLY to some ANIMADVERSIONS of
Dr. E. NATHAN BANCROFT, on the Fifth Report of
tM COMMISSIONERS of MILITARY INQUIRY.
ly JAMES GRIGOR, M. D. F. R. S. E.
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; De-
von,- Inspector of Ariny Hospitals, /tr. lee.
Printed far John Murray, a, Fiect-street. London; A. Con-
stable and Co. Edinburgh ; and Gilbert and Hodges, Dublin.

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR
DANISH PRIZES.
FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION,

,At the London Tavern, Foxhole-street, Plymouth, on Friday the
17th day of June next, at 1 t o'Clock in the Forenoon,
THE Good Danish Barque NAIADEN, No. 53,
no figure head, of the following Dimensions :
Length on Deck 70 Ft. I In.
Depth in the Hold 14 3
Breadth above the Wales 21 9 . • • -
Admeasures 133 59-94 Toris.
For viewing, inventories, and other particulars, apply to
Mr. JOHN AAWKER, Merchant, Plymouth,
One of the Agents to the CoMmissioners for the Sale
Plymouth, May 28, 1808. of Danhh Prizes.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE. OF LORDS, MAY so.

The Assessed Tax Bill was read a .!_ird time and passed, after
which the House adjourned at ten ;.'clock.
Lord AUCKLAND moved fur an account of the amount of
the Exports and Imports of the Ports of London, Liverpool,
Bristol, and Hull, up to the sth instant, and also of the four first
months of the year 1807, in order to shew bow prejudicial the
Orders in Council bad proved to the commercial interests of the
country.
A long conversation ensued on thismotion.—Lords Ancx LA ma,
GaENVI I.LE' LAUD ER DALE, and HOLLAND, contending, that the
falling off of the commerce of the country was to be imputed to
the operation of the Orders in Council; while Lords BA-rut:err,
HAWK ESBORT, and the LORD CHANCELLOR, proved that the di-
minution which had taken place in our trade at the period al-
luded to, could not be ascribed to the Orders in Council, because
it had occurred some months before those measures were adopted,
and was evidently to be accounted for from other causes.
Lord 4:uekland's motions were agreed to, and also a motion of
Lord Bathurst's, for extending the order generally to all the other
out-ports.

INDICTMENT BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this Bill,
Lord ELLEN BOROUGH observed, that he was
prevented from delivering his sentiments on the mea-
sure, in consequence of an attack made on him, in a
former stage, by a Noble Lord (Stanhope). He had
the honour of holding a very high office, and surely
there was some respect due to him on that account;
but it did not suit the Noble Lord to refrain from ut-
tering invectives and calumnious, language, which
had so much excited his feelings on the occasion to
which he alluded that he thought it advisable to sup-
press, rather than express his indignation at being
compared to the Judges Hallebut, Scroggs, Jeffries,
&c. Under such circumstances, he deemed it pru-
dent and dignified to treat the calumny and calumni-
ator with silent contempt, instead of giving him any
answer, or entering into a vindication of the principle
of this Bill.
Lord STANHOPE conceived it extremely irre-
gular in the Noble and Learned Lord to rise ii his
place that night, not for the purpose of throwing any
light on this measure, but to allude to what passed
in a former stage of the business. However, as it was
brought forward, he readily acknowledged that he
never meant to apply to the Noble and Learned Lord
any misconduct in the discharge of his duty : he did
not certainly intend to make any comparison between
him and those Judges who had disgraced the Courts
of Justice, and ccottibuted greatly to the revolution
which ensued; but no delicacy towards any indivi•
dual, whatever his station, shottle restrain him as an
independent Peer of Parliament from expressing his
jealousy of a Bill, which would have the effect of in-
vading, to a certain extent, the liberty of the sub-
ject. Their Lordships knew that rogues and villains
had sat upon the law benches of this country ; and
how then could it be supposed absurd or impossible,
that men debased by crimes may not hereafter worm
themselves, some way or other, into power and office?
He maintained, that he was justified, upon constitu-
tional ground, in opposing this measure.
The motion was then put, and negatived without a
division.
Lords ERSICINZ, HQLLAND, LAUDZIDALL and MOIRA, also
opposed the Bill, after which, tht. House divided on the question
for the third reining.--Conti.nu 13; Non-contents 6—Majority 7.