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PAR.LI/I.4iZAT4RT P.ROCANDIYGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 17.

In the Roxburgh Appeal " Ker v: Inns.: and F...er,":`.h. Clerk
was further heard in reply. . .
Mr. Wharton and several Other Members of the Housi of dona
mons brought up tie Pa :/masters' Account Lill and the Assessed
Taxes Bill, whichkwere read a gist time, as were also a great num-
ber of private Bill?' brought up by Mr. S ni”.• Leftvre; Mr. Eyre,
Mr. Pm, Mr. Bailey, Sir Martin Eoulkes, Mr. Lygon, Mr. Fel-
ham, and other Members.
ASSESSED TAXES,
On the first reading of the Assessed '1 Axel sill,
Lord HAWKESI3URY, moved the recond, reading for incs-
day neat, and that the Lords be surrimoned.—Ordered.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE wished the Bill to be pSinted.
Lord HAWKLSBURY observed, that the usual course was
not to print Bills of this nature.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE nrgid the ecimtlicated nature
of the Bill as a reason, for its being printed; in order taut it knight
be better Anders.tuod by the House.
The LORI) CHANCELLOR said it rested' with the Ilouse
to decide whethar a•Bhl of thi: nature should be print •d•
Lord HOLLAND quoted an instance, that di the triple Ai-
sessmenx Bill, which was, ordered to be printed.
. Alter some further conversation it Scented to be agreed, that
the Bill should be printed, but it Was found that an order .1 that
nature could not be made after the second reading was hied, and
the latter order could not be rescinded the srme day It was made.
It was therefore understotii, that the order should be moved to
he discharged to-morrow, when the Earl of Lauderdale gave no-
tice he should Move the printitit, with as understanding however,
as stated by Lord Hawkesbury, that the Bill should be read a
second time on Tuesday.
INDICTNIENT HILL.
1 ord HOLLAND Mentioned, that Thursday would he more
• cony .nient than to-morrow for the discussion of thi; Bill, and re-
quested his Noble Friend to postpone the secOnd reading till that
day.
Ear! STANHOPE Was ready to airee to rite postponement,
:.hoLgh he would rather have agreed to defer the second reading
tor months.
The order for tummOning their Lordships for to-morrow was
.discharged and renewed for Thursday.
, bEhOlt.i Bat.
lord rI.LENBOROUGH moved the Order of the Day on this
Bill, and the House resolved itself into a Ogninittee.
Lord HOL LAM" obierved, that, he Bill did not go so far as
he could have wished, but so far as it went, he thought it a good
The Earl of MOIRA repeated hiS objection to the Bill as sane;
tioning the principle of imprisonment for debt.
Some verbal amendments were made in the Bill on the motion
of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and the House having returned,
the Report was ordered to be received on Thursday.
SHIPt. •
The order of the day was then moved, and
Lord SIDMOUTH rose to make his proinised
motion rcsfecting the detention and their subsequent
condemnation of ships and vessels belonging to Den-
mark, previotts to ar'y . declaration of hostilities
against that kingdom. His Lordship would not
re-aitate any of the questions relative to Den.-
mark upon which their Lordships had already de-
cided, but confine himself strictly to the question,
to which he should now solicit their attention. It
appeared from the Papers on the table, tha,t an im-
mense number of Danish ships, Many of which had
Voluntarily come into British ports before any idea
was entertained of a ru:utire between the two coun-
tries, had been detained ; that Many of them on ap- ,
plication to the Court of Appeal had been released ;
but upon hostilitics having broke out, were
.again
seized, and condemned as good and lawful priz,es. it
also appeared, that the masters and crews of those
ships so taken had likewise been detained as prisoners
of war ; and that much of the property that had been
confiscated in Denmark, add which was confiscated in
consequence of our attack on Crtenhagen, belonged
to British subjects. Thee transactions wore a com-
plexion not only highly injurious to individuals, but
irreconcileable with the law of nations, repugnant to
the usual decisions of our Courts of Admiralty, in-
compatible with the justice, and inconsistent with the
character for which this country had so long been
so proudly distinguished among nations. He had
several resolutions to propose on this subject, the pur-
port of which arras to suspend the appropriation of the
proceeds of the sales of thosir ships and their cargoes ;
first, in order tp indemnify the British subjecC, who
had suff:red from the confiscation ordered by the
Danish Government, and next the utlsuspecting and
unoffencling Danes who had come iii almost upon in.
vitation into our ports ; and also to liberate the Da-
nish, who, tinder these circumstances had been made
prisoners of war, upon such terms as to his Majesty's
liberality and wisdom should seem meet. He was
sorry to observe of late a disposition betrayed to his
Majesty's Government in the principles, in the lan-
guage, and in the measures they adopted, to deviate
from that line of policy on which this Country had
hitherto acted, and to imitate and pursoe that for
which France has been of late years so justly repro-
bated. Their Lordships must recollect, that in
speeches from the Throne the boast had been often
held out, that the conduct of this Government had in
all these particulars formed a stircing contrast fo that
of the enemy. Was that contrast now to disar2cai , •
and was the conduct of England, which he iiindly
hoped would have proved the refuge. and sanctuary
of justice and humanity, now confounded with the
practices of the tyrant of Europe ? The Noble Vis-
count then read his resolutions, and concluded with
moving the first.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, professing every
disposition to giVe the utmost weight to the observa-
tons which had fallen from his Noble Friend, still;'
felt it to be his duty, under existing circumstances, to
move the previous question upon all the Resolutions.
He felt considerable hesitation in dissenting from the
doctrine promulgated by the high authorities cited
by his Noble Friend. But he conceived that they
had broadly stated as the law of nations what in
reality was the result of stipulations introduced into
most of the treaties between the maritime powers in
the course of the sixteenth century. He would, how-
ever, remind the Noble Lord, that subsequent to the
discussions with France in 1761, the doctrine alluded"
to had not teen acted on in this country ; and the
opinion of Sir W. Wynne *as at variance with the
decision of the Admiralty Court in 1779, in the case
of a Spanish vessel brought in the year before, and
which would have been restored, had riot hostilities with
Spain supervened. Even at common law, enemies'
property, wherever found, devolved to the Crown. A
debt owing to an alien enemy might be sued for, and
recovered for the use of his Majesty. Whatever hard-
ships might therefore be felt by individuals, he saw
nothing in the case nosy under consideration to take it
out of the general rule. The same observations would
apply to the losses susained by our own merchants.
There migltt be particular cases deserving of a liberal
exercise of the discretion vested in his Majesty with
respect to the application of the fund accraing from

captures; but he conceived that it would be produc-
tive of serious national inconvenience, were an itidis-
ctiminating legal stnction given to the claims of inch-
vidaals for loSses alledged to be sttstained in an ene-
my's territory,.
Lora ERSKINE admitted that the vessels destined
Must be forfeited to the Crown as enemy's property,
and that the Court of Admiralty could give no relief;
but that ,as no teased why the Croton could rot give
relief. On the contrary, that was the very Object of
his Noble_Friend's proposition in this,case, to address
the Crown with the view of relieving those.Wlio had
suffered from the application iif this principle of law
This proposition had his fell and entire aPprobatiOn,
and those rho conibated it Must shew that there was
an actual necessity for detaining and keeping these
trading vessels, otherwise the ptvtiers were entailed in
justice to a compenSa.tion. In justification of .the
Copenhagen expedition, ,the case of a Conflagration
had been put, and it had been said, that a man had
right to pull 'limn his neighbour's house. to pre-
vent the conflagration front spreading to his own ;
but if his house itets under such a plea polled down
by hi's neighbour, and he afterwards found upon that
person some of Ilk property, he would have a right
to say, that Stith a man had net been actuated by
a principle of self-defence, tiut of mere self-interest.
SO in this Case, If there was a necessity for taking.
the Danish fleet; a Case tvhich he Would not again
argue, let us keep it ; but do not let us be exposed
to the imputation of acting upon indtives of mere self-
interest; by detaining alsb the trading vessels of the
Dane; and thereby committing great injustice towards
individuals: He considered, therefore, the motion or
his Noble Friend to be called for by the justice of the
case, particularly as Ministers had taken no step upon
the subject. ~...
Lord HAWKESBURY contended, that with re-
gard to the subject tinder consideration, it Was a mat-'
ter of little importance on which side hostilities ortgi.
nated. All the riglit,Of war were equally vested in
his Majesty the moment the rupture took place; In
this view of tile butter, therefore, there was nothing
tinpretedefited in the case of the Danish vessels; and
as it was not alltdged; that any thing had occurred
to prove, that his Majelty should not continue to be
entrusted with the discretionary nowers hitherto
vested in the Crown, with regard to the Droits of.
Admiralty and Ara dorm? • he mast concur with
his Noble and Learned Friend.' in voting for the pre-
vious question.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH supported the resolu-
tions, controverting the statements both of law and
fact, made by the iqiibie Lords WhO Spoke on the
other side. The Unfortunate sufferers, because they
had not a locus rtandi injudicio, were not to he exclud"d
from the benefit of an appeal to the wisdom and libe-
rality of Parliament.
Lord .STANHOPE ^aid that he had more than
once had occasion to teach our bishops religion, and
he now had to teach our judges law. He tvould lay
the Noble Lords who opposed the resolution, on their
backs as flat ac flounders. his Lordship then quoted
and reasoned upon the provisions in the 30th chapter
of Magna Charta, relative to merchant strangers,
contending that they had been most scandalously,
violated with regardto Denmark, and that the whole'
of our conduct to that country had been a piece of
infamous rascality,
The previous question being then put, it was car-
ried, on the first ;resolution, by a majority of 36 to 16;
on the second, by a majority of 97 to 16; and on
the others, without a division.—:Adjourned.

ROVSE OF tOMMONS.
A Message from the Lords acquainted the H'ouse, that their
Lordships had agreed to the two Exchequer Loan Bills, and to
several private Bills.
Mr. Ow EN, from the East India Hozse, presented at the Bar
several papers relative to the affairs of the Carnatic.
I..rd BAR NARD 'gave notice of a motion o' Thursday next,
respecting the empowering of Grand Juries In Ireland to purckase
lands for th- p• irpose of building gaols.
On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, the Court of Ses-
sion Stock Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com-
mitted.
The Copper Duty Bill was read a first time, and ordered for a
second reading to-morrow.
. The Cork Duty Bill went through a Committee, and was or-
dered to be reported.
Mr. HUSK ISSON, al!er a few remarks from Mr. N. CAL-
VERT and Mr. SHAW LE FEVRE, obtained leave to bring in
a MI fdt continuing the Act foe authorizing the Military Corn-
mime of Enquiry to prosecute its duties.
TILBURY ROAD B;LL. . •

On the motion of Admiral HARVEY, .the Hoist. Ytoieeded
to the order of the day for the third leading of this Bill ; and it
was accordingly read. Then Colonel Sraurr brought!up a clause,
which was received and added to the Bill by way of rider; the
purport of which clause was, to empower the Trustees under the
Act to cause the roads of East and West Ham, and Barking, to be
first repaired, together with Dagenham, Hornchurch, and Rayn-
hen; before any otlyirpirt of the said road of Tilbury sliouhl be
repaired.
Mr. BONHAM also brought up a clause, to which likewise
the I-rause agreed, and it was, in like manner, added to the Bill
by way of rlder; its purport being, that notwithstanding any
thing mentioned in this Bill, or the rider last added to it, nit part
whatsoever of the Tilbury road should be repaired, nor yet the
places so first intended to be repaired, as recited in the first men-
tioned clause, until 'the whole of the monies requisite for the ge-
neral purposes set forth in the Bill should be previously collected,
and in hand.
The Bill was then passed, and M. Strutt ordered to carry it to
the Lordi.
THE CARNATIC.
Sir T. TURTON rose to move his promised Reso-
lutionsrespecting the deposition of the Nabob of the]
Carnatic, and began by requetting the indulgence of;
the House, unconnected as he was with any party,
and unsupported by any influence except what might,
be expected from the strength of the cause. Before
he had become a Member of the House, his atten-
tion had been turned to the subject by different mo-
tions for papers which had been made, and he was
then anxious that the matter should be thoroughly in-
vestigated, feeling, in common with many others, for
the honour and good faith of the country. When he
came into Parliament he found the question still float-
ing, and did every thing in his power to induCe some
other Member to bring It forward, preferring to be
the seconder rather than the mover : no choice, how-
ever, was left him. The Right Honourable *Gentle-
Man (Mr. Sheridan) to w:loin he had particularly
looked, had found himself in -circumstances that pre-.
vented his urging the question; as it might have nuich
embarrassed those with whom he acted. He had no
doubt, however, that that Honourable Gentleman
was convinced that he had just grounds for what
he did. lie did not mean to impeach his public spi-
rit, which certainly, on many occasions, had shown
itself superior to any private motive* consideration
whatevert: and even on this subject' the Honourable
Gentleman had seized the occasion off a motion for

papers to declare, that a more inhuman, a More
atrocious, o.nd a more disgraceful act never had dis-
gtated any Government He had evefy disposition
to think well of the Polities of die Itiarquii Wellcsley,
who had been educ:ited in the same school with Mr.
Pitt, and had for some time followed his steps ; but
at the same time he had no hesitation to declare, that
if he was guilty of the acts detailed in these papers,
he was a most improper Minister for this country,
as he might bring ,into our. Councils that tyranny
%dial had disgraced his Indian Government.—
The Honourable Baronet gaioi a brief histoi ieal view
of the progress of the Company's interference with
the Carnatic from the beginning of the siarthat ended
in 1734, when they supported one candidate• for the
Musnud iii opposition to another supported by the
French; down to the treaty of 1796 with Omdut ul
Omrah, by which the p:iyment of a certain kist was
secured to the Company. That treaty continued till
the death of OmdtunlOmiali, hi 1801, when those
disgraceful transactions commenced which the Ho-
nourable Gentleman opposite had not cOlourel more
strongly than they deserved. On the sth of July
1801, Colonel M'Neil advanced to the palace of Ar-
an, with troops, under pretence of preventing corn- I
motion at the death of Omdut ul Omrah. On the
entrance Of those, the old Monarch, labouring wider
the disorder which in eight days after terminated his
existence, sprung from his bed and begged of Major
Grant not to &pose him to the contempt of his sub-
jects, penetrating into the interior of his palace ;
and Major Grant applied for instiuctions to Colonel
*Neil; who; from motives of humanity; did
.not
enter. The troops, however, remained,' surrounding '
the palace from the sth to the 15th, when Omdut ail
Omrah died, wall appearance in perfect amity with
the Company. At no period were our dominions in
India more quiet and secure than at the time when ,
this outrage was committed, under the pretence of
guarding against a petty commotion. On the same
•day ih which the old Monarch died, the Prince, his
heir, was dragged from the apartment, and railed
Upon to answer to certain interrogatories on i charge!
of treachery preferred against his father. He was
told that his father and grand-father had Carried
on a treacherotis correspondence with Hyder Ali, •
And Tippo Sultann, and that he. though inno-1
cent, Was to be deprived of his &minions, and
reduced to the siruatioh of a private petton, where
he expected to be a sovereign: That his succes-
sion would be set aside, and another placed on the
Musnud, unless he complied with certain requisitions,
which were, that he 'should give up the civil and mi::
lit:try administration of, his possessions, and accept of
an indefinite suit to keep up his dignity, and of a body
guard furnished by the Company. The Honourable
Baronet gave a minute detail of the various confer-1
aces between the Commissioners of our Indian Go;.I
veittnent and the Prince; who, with the advice of two
old Cawns, appointed Regents by hi's father, refused
to accede to these conditions, though these Cawns
'were willing to gi' any reasonable security for the ,
payment of the kist. Among the expedients tiled in I
order to procitte the Prince 'consent, intimidaticai
was one. Troopers with drawn swords paraded be-
fore
the tent in which one the conferences was held;
and the Prince was told that the propositions did not
solely originate with Lord Chile, but that they Were I
sanctioned by the Governor-General, by the Court ofl
Directors, anti by the British Government. If the !
Directors hid sanctioned this conduct, their letters
Of approbation would, no doubt; have appeared ;1
and it wns intunibent on those who had been Mem-
bers of the British GovernMent at the time to clear
themselves, and to declare that they knew nothing of
i this transaction. But, if they Were silent, he would
prove that they could not have known it. The
Prince, however; still continued to rely upon the
faith and protection of the Company, and Was at last
told to prepare to receive the final resolution of the
Governor-General, which was, that his future situa-
tion would be that of a private person considered as
hostile to the British interests. Where was British
justice then ? troin the year 1798, When Lord Well.'
lesley had landed in India; the kist had been paid with
fidelity almost tinprecedeined, at.d yet this Was the
result. When the Commissioners had set aside
the Prince, one would have thought that they would
have applied to the next in succession ; but no—
they. passed over two, and opened a negociation
with Azum ul Erowlah, who, from his situation,
they imagined would be most likely to comply with!
all their requisitions. He, as was usual in that coinl
' try, had been kepi in c'onfinement and, when taken
out, was greatly frightened lest they were going to
kill him. • .They found him, however, wonderfully
well qualified to undertake the GovernMent, and the
conferences with him ended in his acknowledging
that the whole right was in the CoinPany, his ances-
tors having forfeited it by their treacherous corres-
pondent-li%, The Honourable Baronet declared, that
he would hate been much surprized if this hied not
been the result. Azum would no doubt he willing
to believe that his ancestors had been capable of act-
ing Very improperly since they Confined him. This
puppet was presented in form to Lord Clive, on the
26th of JUly, and on the 28th was installed in the
Musnud, on which case none of the Nobles attended,
except one, who was now an outcast from all parties.
A treaty was executed on the 31St, in which it was
stated that the hereditary right of Azum ul Dowlah
to the of his ancestors had been acknowledged
by the Company. But this being communicated td
the Governor-General, ,this expression of right 'Was
objected to, and a direction sent to Lord Clive to get '
the words altered, if he conveniently could, and to
have it stated that Azum had been established in the
possessions of his ancestors by the liberality and mo-
deration of the Company's GovernMent, \which libe-
rality extended to the provision of a guard of their
own for him, and a promise of a turn to support his
dignity. But what was remarkable in this treaty
was, that in one part it gave these possessions, and in
another took them away. The rightful Prince Was,
from the 15th of July, 1802, to the day of his death,
confined with his mother in. the Palace of Chit-
panke, which was his own private property, but
where, notwithstanding, Azum resided. The Ho-
nourable Baronet dwelt upon the imprudence 'and
indecency of placing the Prime hi the same palace
with the usurper, and stated that as soon as Mr. Ad-
dington heard of it,, orders had been tent out to re-
move him. He would not charge the persons con-
cerned in this with murder, such as those that 'were
sometimes proved at the Old Bailey—he would not
say thit lord Clive could have had aat iotesti% to

have the Wine,: a reaslinated—bu t he affirmei
those who placed hiM in such a dangerous sitnate • i
with their eyes open were in fore eo4,:cientie in a gre,, I
degree implicated. ( Hear ! hear !J: The Home;
able Baronet here adverted to a paiephlet, eet'tl' ;
g, The Carnatic Question Stated," :led said that h. 4
never read so disgraceful a defence of any tr,uisactre
or one which was more calculated to condemn tit '
party hi whose fa47our it was writtei. With ee'eer, !
to What had been said of himself in, it, he pitied ale
author, if he wrote froth necessity ; is not, he de,erze,,
him. He had scarcelYeeeer seen a productien cii .iii
political question that contained such monstrous. he
Might say, such villainous doctrines. Was it
dyensoribw true," that Marquis Wellesic'e si-a;
foiced to resort to ? Reverting to the situation of the
Prince, he stated, that the unhappy man, efter several
ineffectual petitions to be re:roved, had written a
letter, in which he strongly pleaded for being sent to
another place, instead• dieing kept constantly in the
power of the usurper, wholiad only to commit one
act to finish his crimes. This proved prophetical ;
for the Prince not long after died of a desenteri,
would not take: upon hilt absolutely to affirm; the
there was something unfair this transaction; but he
world say, that he believed there was. In these trans.
actions he could discern nothing of the Brio,isli cha.
racier: The moment they passed etc Cape, he be.
belied, With Mr. Burke, that they unhaptized them.
selves ; and that when they landed in India, they be-
. came something like the trpas-tee, described oy a
Swedish traveller; that blasted and destroyed every
Thiele that came within the reach- thfits pernicious in.
fluencit. . The Honourable Baronq then entered upere •
the examination of the alledged treacherous cOnes.
pondence of Wallahjah and Omdut ul Omrah,
Hyder and Tippoo, and contended that there *as
nothing in them that could be considered as sufficieet
evidence of the charge. He several times asked the
Honourable Baronet opposite (Sir J, Anstruthei),
Whether he would admit such evidence in hi! Courtin •
India ?
Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER rose to order;
asked, whether it was in order to make perpetual allu-
! 'ions to him, whose opinion oh the subject had not as
• ytt been given ?
1 Sir T. IURTON observed, that he had merely
asked what would have been his practice in his Court
in India ?
Sir JOHN ANSTRUtHER said, that this weal
not exactly the question when he rose to order, but if
it' had, it was not in order, to be perpetually asking
win opinion upon points of line
.The SPEAKER observed, that he had never un-
derstood it to be disorderly to put questions in argu-
ment, and that nothing was more common in the ire-
; bites of that Housse than such questions.
Sir T. TURTON then proceeded. The eighth
letter was merely a translation of a copy, and hi
asked if any lawyer Would admit this as evidence ?
The ninth was from l'ippoo to Umdut ul Omrah. is
which the latter Wits Idled the Nabob of the Carnatic,
I though the letter was dated 1795, and Omdut ul
10mrah had not ascended the Musnud till 1796, from
which it would appear that the document was a fors
gery. The Hon. Baronet Went through all the twenty-
! three letters, commenting upon each separately, and
contending that they were merely representations bf
third parties of what they had heard, they were
totally inadmiSsible as evidence of the guilt of \Val-
lahjah. But, even Ornitting that they could be re:
ceived as .evidence, h 9 asserted that no honest nun
could lay his hand upon his heart and say, that they
contained any indication of hostile intention on tae
part of that Prince, or of Omdut ul Omrah, much
lets evidence sufficient to justify 'the deposition of
sovereign; and the tisiwpation of his dominions.=
Upon the parole evidence he observed, that it vres
given by the Creatures of Tippoo, and the immediate
dependents of the Company, whom they alternately
cajoled and threatened into giving such an account
of the correspondence as it Was the wish and interest
of the British Government, at the times shouldhe
given. But neither by promise nor threats could they
attain the Object of making good their accusation, for
the witnesses (and it Was material to obseriie that they
were their own Witnesses) not being at liberty to state
the truth at it really was, involved themselves itt
in-
conlistencies which tie}-could not explain. The base-
! ness and Meanness of tampering in the Manner they
did with their Witneteet, he declared to be more repttl-
sive and disgusting than the commission of the 'ant*
itself. There was not a crime in this country on
which such evidence would be tolerated, and yet it
was upon this evidence that a Prince was stript of his
'crown and his territory. But even supposing that
Wallahjah, Omdut ul Omrah, had been guilty of
the alledged offences, what ground did his actions
afford for the punishment of the son tithe latter, and
the grandson of the former ? He put it to the House
what effect such conduct would have, Were any Mi.
nister wicked or daring enough to attempt to practice
It in this country ? .And was not justice the same all
over the world, Or had we one set of principles for
India and anbther for England ? With a view to
the interests of the country, he maintained, that the
extension of our Indian territory tended only to entail
an immense load of debt upein the country. Put
this was but a secondary 'consideration, When corns
pared with the iniqttitous spoliation of an indepen-
dent Sovereign. Before sitting down he conjured
the House by the national honour and faith, of
Which it Was the guardian ; he Conjured his /eta-
jesty's Ministers, in the name of the national clia7ac-
• ter, of which they were the protectors ; he conjured
I every man, in the name of that eternal justice which
was the foundation of our happiness here and here-
I after, to consider the importance of the Vote which
1 he Was to give this evening. He was confident that
! it was essential to the security of our Indian empire,
to declare, that the British Legislature hever would
I sanction any unjust or tyrannical act. He concluded
with moving a series of resolutions, containing a re-
ntal of facts relative to the assumption of theCarnatic,
! reprObating the deposition of the Naboh and &elm--
ling that the Bsitish Parliament will 'ever counte-
nance an act of injustice and oppressibft in India, and
stating the propriety of appointing-a Committee to ins
quire into the best means of indemnifying the family
of Mahomed Aly, and of ensuring the safety of our
Indian possessieAs.
414 r. WALLIS expressed his aurplise, that the present meeen
*as not brought forward till after the papers had been six years
before the House, and printed and re-printed in titer successive
Parliaments. The Honourable Baronet, it was true, bad not ha a
, seat in chi House for a long time ;but if these were any Geit:e-
nen laths Wisp Tote tad sl fvo art 1/014r sra.lo.ld, bad was

disposed to stirpTet the motion on this evening, it teat ih-
"- t upou them to give some reasons why they had remained
°S iusemible to a question involving the character and ho-
lt, the eountr:. He panegyrized gent.rally the system. of
00.... r, st.tgesky's Administration, a. tending to extinguish the
r., r avarice, and to disarm the hand of rapine. The subject
',lb:fore the House resolved itself into three parts ; our rights
4orf ence in the affairs of the Carnatic ; secondly, the du-
sfr'—'r ed w:th those rights; and lastly, the circumstances ua-
-1 conoct. • . ?rcised. Mahnrned Aly was in-
had, as it was in consequence of
that he was raised from the dust ii
Inc into a detailed examination of
:onnection with this Frince, he pro.
',e treaty of 1787, whizh was revived
:h revival we gat additional secu •
the subsidies, and the Nabob was
:tore from all correspondence with
zer, was this treaty signed, than it
au) a correspondence with Tippoo
. British name and interests. This al-
troved by the papers on the table, tho'
e necessary in a Court of Justice, yet
dch national proceedings werc:z;roun-
ipers, he apprehended, would net be
itting their authenticity, they con:-
:ence of a secret correspondence be.
,:abob of the Carnatic. The first ob.
iggested was, that any correspondence
.co the existing treaty, and the second
are existence of the correspondence
a being unfavourable to the British
ore arose, whether this inference was
temselves? Here Mr. Wallis entered
the papers, for the purpose of shew-
itit stated, to be well founded. The
n-oceeded to comment on the letters
ended might have been proNctive
. was of opinionthat the princlples
instance, were calculated to secure,
interests in the Carnatic. He con-
le length, after having passed an eu.
of Lord Wellesley, ..1 moving the

-.,MILTON was of a different opinion
was the Hosour:o:e Gentleman who had just sat down. He
*mkt nothing but the most cogent and satisfactory reasons
addiastify the proceedings towards the Nabob ; and as yet no.
Wag but reasons the most frivolens and inconclusive bad been
read. He teaist all Amendments, and support the
kjOilcons.
Galoael ALLEN insLted that the Noble Marcris (Wellesky)
waned upon the same principles as those which bad been re-
aissended by Lords Maeartney, Powys and Cornwallis. The
Wbef Arcot, he maintained, was not to be esteemed as an in •
afeadent Prince, hut as a person who held his situation cotirely
lOU on the lb itish Government. To that Government he
aeconsiderably in arrears, and his perfidy to that Govt.rument
pinenifest, front the secret papers of his that were disce.vered
tf!be British Officers. The Commissioners bad been branded
lathe epithet of roll-blood: d; but front his intimate knowledge
int character and conduct of Colonel Close and Mr. Secretary
fib, be could avow that they were far front being liable to such
2 imputation.
*THOMAS TUR'FON in explanation stated, that he did ret
Iss to apply the epithet otherwise than to the Commission g!-
wily speaking.
Mr. WINDHAM, on account of the lateness of the hour, and
tie timber of Honourable Members that had yet to speak upon
ix subject, proposed that the debate should be adjourned to
Iksday next.—Ordered.
The few remaining Orders on the List were then fixed for future
Lasso°, and the House adjourned at half after one o'clock.

EXCHANGE OF THREE PER CENT. BANK ANNUI-
TIES FOR LIFE ANNUITIES.
The following are the Resolutions moved. by the
CHANCELLOR of t!:e ExcuEmatt on Friday last :
1. That it woeld tend to a more speedy and efficient redaction
dale National Debt, and would at the sioni; time be of in.itcriA
imioroodatien?sid convenience to the public, if every proprietor
i3Ter ant. Consolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities were at
Noy to exchange, with the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt, such Bank Annuities for a Life Annuity
daring the continuance of a single life to be named by such pro-
vider; or fora Life Annuity during the continuance of the lives
of two persons, to be turned by such proprietor, and of the li.c of
the longer liver of such two nominees.
'That, in order to give effect to the aforegoing Resolotion,
way proprietor of 3 per cent. Consolidated or Reduced Beak
AnnuitUs, who shall be desirous of exchanging any such Batik
Annuities for a Life Annuity on the continuance of a singly life,
eoll, on transferring to the Commissioners for the Reduction
clthe N4ionalDebt any such Bank Annuities, be entitled, dining
the continuance of his or her life, or of the life of some other
person to be named by him or her, to receive (under such regu-
lations a Parliament may deem it expedient to adopt) for every
1401. of such Bank Annuities, end ao in proportion for any greater
am than 1001. of such Annuities, transferred to the said Corn-
mistioners, a Life Annuity of such armoal amount, according to
Me age of the nominee, and the average price of such Bank An-
Mika on the r.e.opest open day preceding the day of the transit r
mei, as is specified in the table which is printing.
3. That, in order to give further effect to the foregoing Re3o.
loisa, every Proprietor of 3 per cent. Consolidatedor Reduced
Balk Annuities, who shall be desirous of exchanging any such
Ink Annuities for a Life Annuity, en the contituance of the
has of two persons, to be named by such Proprietor (of whom
tab Prepls:LOl may be one;, and the life of the longer liver of
la, shall, on transferring to the Commissioners for the Redoe.
die oftha National Debt any such Bank Annuities, be entitled,
bins the continuance of such two lives, and of the life of the
Yager liver of them, to receive (under such Regulations as Par-
ks:a may deem it expedient to adop*), for every 1001. of such
ink Annuities, and so in proportion for any greater sum than
100 L of such Annuities, transferred to the said Commissioners, a
lifeAnnehy of such annual amount, according to the respective
ages of such two Nominees, and the average price of such Bank
Amities on the nearest open day preceding the day of the trans-
fethereef, as is specified in the tables which are priaeiaz.
4. That no person shall be admitted to be a Nominee, either for
thepart ci an annuity for the continuance of a single life, or for
tbe grant of an annnity for the continuance of two lives, and of
tk fife of the longer liver of them, who shall be under the age of

- al pars.
S. That the dividend; payable in respect of the Bank Annuities
*lick be tranfe trod to the Commissioners for the resluctien
fide Natn.ral in exchange for Life Annuities, shall be re-
ceived by the said Commissioners, and shall constitute a rart
tLe Feeds altplicable to the reduction of the National Debt- -and
:mom ox its said Fords the .auction of the Na-
n:v.l;MA, the ,210 C-t-nnrlL.-1110411.“.'u sh ...I pay the respective Lite
Ar.nlaties Ltlated in' for such tank Airmilies during
the coctintac..:ce Df rest,ectwe ;lives hi Ch the same shall be
;a A tl.at Cie :c*.ist Annuities shall be pay-
alk half-p.:4 at tat Par!. cf. Et:hlanel, on the same days on
'which the 'linden:, at td for the purchase
6errof, ma, payal...le in t yery v,,ar ; and the first pr.vment of
creep hr,, any sl,ol eut-ane.i.:t .1:1 the tame day eu Which the
Etc avije..4 •.-ai the B.:-.k Annuities so transferred, shall be
PTS.Ae to I.IC. gaisl Contraissiom ; and that upon the death of
alsir-piet:;..airee, en 4 the set•v•::;or of ar.y two joint nominees,
a Ems equal t 7 c,:e-fourth part of the Aminity dependant on his
er Sa life, sitall be ;aid to the persons ..r.titied such Annuity,
whit ttch.a. es ccet..rs or atiministratorv, as the case may be,
Plaided :al! style be claimed within two years after the
gat": if oath single. sr sta vrving Noluirult ; aad that the annual
rz:l p.:TaLle ;or every such Annuay ,o ceasing as aforesaid,
grialtheaczotth to aad constitute part of the Funds appli-
cabk to the redt; c:loa of :he Natior.al Debt.
S. 'not frr the ye:pose of ascertainirg the effect of the mea-
sureiruPc4ed.a the afartzbing Resolutians, with reference to the
ltdez.pt'.oa of thc peblic debt, a separate a-eount shall be kept ,
14r. -rvull,Av :he Cer.missioners for the Iteduefion of the Nil•
Weal Cot, of Pank Anauities which shall have been trans-
*red to theca to: the purchase of are l ;a Annuities, auto! the
ibidends receivable by them in respect thereof, up to the period
clutch aecefir..; distir.guishing :her, in so much of the said Bank
Art^.4it.l as shall have beer. transferred ha the course of the next
ismsdiattly 7recedir.g half-year.
Also, a h..1.-yecly account of the amount cf all the Life Annui-
ties grar.ted ter them up to the period of such account, distinguish-
fertia :1:e amount of the Life Annuities which have been
Plated in the cotrise of the next immediately preceding h.ill-year ;
aid also of the amount of all tit,: annual suns which, up to the
pried of the said account, shall by reason of the deaths of 'lowl-
ier: bait reverted to the fund. applicable to the reduction cf the

National P-St, distinguithing therein the anthuttt of such annual
sums as shall have so r.verted in the course of the next immedi-
ately preceding half-year, together with an account of the amount
of Life Annuities then payable; and that in ever/ such ac:munt
shall be tpecilltd the excess in the whole amount of all the life
A:multi. 4 then before granted above the amount of the dividends
receivable in respect of all the Bank Annuities then before trans-
ferred ler the purchase of Life Annuities; and also the excess
(if any) in the amount of the Life Annuities then payable above
the an.ount of such dividends.

And that u separate account shall also be kept half-yearly, of
the Capital Stock, which, up to the period of such account, shall
have been redeemed by the application of the annual stints, w'..tich
shall from time to time have so reverted to the said Funds by rea-
son of the deaths of nominees, and by the application of the accu-
mulated Dividends of the Capital Stock redeemed thereby.
ALo, an account of the whole amount of 3 per car:. Capital
Stock, which, up to the period of such account, would have been
redeemed by the excesses in the amount of the Life Annuities,
from time to time payable by the said commissioners above the
arum[ of the Dividends from time to` one receivable by them,
in respect of the Bank Annuities transferred for the purchase of
such Liflt Annuities, in case such excesses had been intermediately
applied in the redemption of 3 per cent. Stock, in the manner pre-
scribed by the laws now in force for the reduction of the National
Debt.

THE tVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, MAY IS.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols 6831--Ditto May 683—Reduced 6731.
Reduced 6733—Exch. Bills, 6s. prem.—lndia Bonds Ss, 4s. pr.

Mr. PINCKNEY, son of the American Minister at the
Court of London, and Mr. LEWIS, who lately arrived
in the Osage, having finished their business here,
have by this time probably sailed from Falmouth, in
the Osage, to return to America. They reached Fal-
mouth on Saturday last, where every thing was ready
for their dcpaiture, and they were to sail on Monday.
Mr. NOL7rSE ren:ains still in London.
It is understood that the discussions between
the American Diplomatists and our Cabinet have
been conducted with the utmost harmony. Mini-
sters have, it is said, intimated to Mr. PINCKNEY (as
a mark of their amicable disposition towards Ame-
rica), their readiness to pass an act by which the
United States shall be considered as the most favoured
nation, and shall enjoy in all our ports and settlements
;he rights and privileges that may have been enjayed
at any time by any other Power in amity with Great
Britain. And further, some arrangement has been
proposed as to the carriage of the produce of
West-India Colonies to European ports, without
touching in Great Britain ; but the particulars we
have not learnt. The right of searching merchant
ships is not and will not be surrendered. If these pro-
positions shall not be deemed a sufficient test of cur
amicable spirit, then the United States may act as they
shall judge fit ; but this is to be considered as tke
British ultimatum. Of course no answer could be
given by Mr. PINCKNEY to these propositions ; but
they have been transmitted to America.

By a vessel airived at Plymouth from Lisboa, and
which left the British squadron cruizing off that port
on the 3d instant, accounts have been received that
the Russian squadron are very much in want of pro-
visions, and it is expected they will soon be obliged to
attempt to run the gauntlet, if the French will allow
them to do so.

Letters have been received from Oporto in eleven,
and from Lisbon in seven days ; at both these plates
it was understood that an embargo would be imme-
diately laid upon all American vessels, by the special
command cf BONAPARTE.
Information has been received from Cadiz to the
same effect, as far as respects the ports of Spain.—
This has been learnt from the Captain of a vessel,
1 which left Cadiz on the 25th alt.

Letters were received yesterday from Jeremie, in
St. Domingo, to the 50th of March. These letters
repeat the intelligence that Port de Pair, as well as
Jean Rabel, were in the possession of PETION. There
were about 5000 of his troops at Jeremie, under the
command of a General GEnarau ; several hundreds
of whom were employed in dispersing the brigands,
who had taken refuge in the neighbouring hills and
woods.

It was pretty generally understood before the late
Expedition left the Downs, that every idea of an im-
mediate attack upon Flushing bad been laid aside.
Perhaps it was never seriously entertained. We learn,
however, from a per sea who lately effected his escape
from flushing, that such fears were there entertained
of a visit from our Expedition, as to induce the enemy
to send the greater part of the ships that had been
assembled there, back again to Antwerp. The ()pi-
nion was very general at Flushing, that had a British
force appeared there some weeks ago, all the ships at
that port must have fallen into our hands.

Yesterday a cartel arrived from Harlingen, having
on board the crew of his Majesty's ship FLORA.
The order to make Sir GEORGE FITZGERALD HILL
a Privy Councillor, has been sent from London, with
the oral- respecting Dr DVIGENIAN.
The LORD MAYOR has nominated the following
Gentlemen to be in nomination to the Livery of
London for Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, viz.—
ALEXANDER CHAMPION, Citizen and Fishmonger; 1011/4
Cow LET, Citizen and Clothworker ; CHRISTOPHER TADDT,
Ci-
tiro' and Grocer; THOMAS POYNDER, Citizen and Tyler and
Bricklayer; WILLIAM HAMMOND, Citizen and Draper; THOMAS
WHIPU AM, citizen and Gnidzintibt MARTIN PEARKIS, Citizen
and Goldsnlich ; JOSIPH I.iloe, Citizen and giover CHARLES
\Valour, Citizen and Goldsmith.

jrM
o these rights were eset
pwus for every thing he h
sco:ss of the British arms, tl
pa throve. Be without enterit
the particulars of our connect
itoied directly to consider the tr
oiTen, in consequence of which
Ai for the regufar payme It of
00 mealy precluotd th ;'s bet
logs powers. Sc.-arc:Ay, how nvi
• violated by his entezing intn
pAktbe sworn enemy of the Bri
iffien,he contended, was prove
01106 a way as would be ne,
nas most facts upon which
eauthenticity of the paper
10 is question, and admittit
dimly demonstrated the exlstenci
jlppoo Sails and the Nabo
oda which this fact suggest
iibionatere was contrary to th
Airredea was, that the mere
• ;peed an inference of its Ist
wpm A question therefore
oesilleted by the papers themsi
on& into an analysis of the
Nis inference that he h
thad just
goorable Gentleman en pro
• Oe Nabob, which he conten
oworst consequences--and
ot. condtct in the present ins,
pod, and erengthen our int
MA sveech of considerable I
Nees on tl ,e Administration of
wows gues!lon.
Lord ARCHIBALD HAMI'