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London, England, 1808-03-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. HUSKISSON presented, agreeably to order. an Account
of the sums advanced from the Civil List, pursuant to Addresses
of that House, and not made good by Parliament.
Lord FOLKESTONE postponed till Tuesday tht 29th inst. a
Motion of his which stood for to-morrow.

Sir A.WaLLESLEY gave notice that he should move to-
morrow; for leave to bring in a Bill for better regulating the Po-
lice of Dublin.

Mr. PERCEVAL, agreeably to notice, postponed the different
Election Petitions, standing after the Penrhyti Petition, as under.
Sussex - Tuesday, March 99.
Christchurch - Tuesday, March 29.
Dungarvon Thursday, March 91.
Newry - Tuesday, April 5.
DonegaU - Tuesday, April 5.
Westin d - To stand as before.

The House was ordered to be called over on Thursday.

RENFREWsIIIRE ELECTION.
The following is the List of the Committee appointed to try
the merits of the Reaffewshire Petition :
P. Grenfell, Esq. A. Campbell, Esq.
Thomas Carter, Esq, J. Jackson, Esq.
James Grahams, Esq. C. Rose Ellis, Esq.
Timothy Shelly, Esq. Hon. R. Ryder.
Henry Glassford, Esq. Lord W. Russell
Hon. C.A. Cooper NOMINEES.

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GREENWICH HOSPITAL.
Sir C. POLE, pursuant to notice, called the atten.
tion of the House to some appointments on the esta•
blishtnent of this Hospital, in which due regard was
not had to the preference which ought to be shewn to
persons who had served in the navy. He cited ail the
commissions relative to Greenwich Hospital, from the
first under William and Mary, to shew, that such 4
preference ought always to be given. He concluded
with moving an address to his Majesty, praying, that
he would be graciously pleased to give directions, that
all the appointments belonging to the said Hospital
should henceforth be filled with persons who had set.
red in the navy.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
1 said it must be the object of every one to promote, as
' much as possible, what the Honourable Baronet was
desirous to accomplish. But there were offices for
which persons properly qualified could not be found
in the Navy, such as Clerk for the Works, who should
be an architect ; Auditor, who should be a lawyer;
1 Oiganist, Brewer, Clerk of the Cheque,
!Surveyor, and
some others. With these exceptions, he thought no
other office should be filled otherwise than from
the Navy, except when, after a month's notice in the
`Newspapers, no Naral person should present himself
with proper qualifications to fill the office vacant. He
should propose an amendment, adopting the Howe-
rable Baronet's idea, with this limitation, and he should
in the event cf the amendment being adopted, pea
pose an address to his Majesty, praying that he vmuld
cause a corresponding alteration to be made in the
Charter of Greenwich Hospital.
Mr. WHI rB READ observed, that there were rerY
few professions or situations, from that of Lord Chan'
cellor downwards, (alluding to Lord' Erskine) in
which persons who had served in the Navy may not
Le found. He had now a very meritorious person in
his own employment who had so served. He theta'
fore thought the exceptions ought to be omitted.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
Iwas willing to limit the exceptions as much as pos-
sible, but he thought it would be imposing useless
trouble on the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital
to make them advertise for an Auditor, a Clerk of the
Works, or a Brewer, from the Navy.
After sonic observations. frotti Mr: Rose, Mr. 14,

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d Mr. R. Ward—Sir C. POLE agreed to It had cruized some days off Madeira, anti then put
about for the Eastward.
Calttattilons proposed by the Chancellor of the Ex.
Ito e,,,rx—ras limited, after the remarks of Mr. Whit-1
The Carthagena fleet is also cut, and it is believed
passed accordingly. i
ck 4—; ' d the motions were
'l' an gsyNoorn COLLEGE. that the Brest fleet wished to put out to join them.
ma a Mr. FOSTER, there were ordered .to be laid 1 Accounts had been received at Gibraltar which in
pa tbe---ths., copies of the Letters fro mthe Chief Secretary some particulars agree with the statements in' the
Po`—..itbe.:th Trustees of the Collese o Maynooth of date
-- fejouiry last ; with the Answers thereto of Dr. French papers. The French have taken Rhegio in
sk od sa ° b
Calabria by storm, and were bombarding the castle of
.--"refiNtbeNinci°lEWPOurelZT asked,. if the statement of the Irish Ca.
-- • est, for clerical Eddieicltavtelon,
red toonmthre
Fulham or
Scilla. We regret to state the death of two valuable
oious...
~,,,to the Fienbytirßpueic'oll; innl797, was to be produced ? , Officers of the Navy, Captains STANDPIELD and Sw-
ord ussu.”-.-Fi isji.EY did not believe there was any such pa- stoma, who fell at the taking of Rhegio.
gri.."
fr iii,7,0414aw PORT had himself a copy of it, and he should We shall subjoin some of the letters that have
f_...,---for ving it laid before the House. His object was to reached us. We have received others Which we sup-
*PP— -it ',alba evident from this paper was the case, that the I
press.
110001-, • hment on the Continent, was greater then They complain grievously of our, trade in
010..0aghttt, be la. de by the addition to the establish- that quarter being still extremely injured by, what
at* Isla` "7.31,Ee1l had no objection to the production of
the Merchants consider as a mistaken and erroneous
SIX SVILL
;fit weld be had.—Ordered. construction put upon the Orders in Council. Pro-
tior_, ..,00 of Mr. FOSTER, there was ordered to be laid .
tests for damages to the amount of 1'.70,000 have
01,17,b,5e a Report of the Chief Secretary in Ireland, re-
bZbephia of the Harbour of Holyhead. clime home by the packet, and, if there be no mistake
ir'^, gnsTEßgave notice, that be should to-marrow move for inBhe statements we have seen, either the Comman-
is"--„,kes a Bill to abolish certain Fees in the Customs in
bore regulation of the hours of attendance. der or the Government will ultimately have to pay.
P.-- oros WOOL AND BARK.—IRELAND. At all events ambiguity of every kind should be
it was resolved, that the Exportation of Co:-
bo.d wil kirk from Ireland should be prohibited. removed, and we hope the receipt of these protests
utygg WPORTiotimatedbis dissmt from the measure. will be the means of causing explicit instructions to
, ,n.'"--foreelawas brought up and agreed to, and Bills ordered
be sent to that quarter. A single moment ought not
relpheitt in accordingly.
It-
taag fa" TILE EAST INDIES WITII IRELAND. to be lost.
•
asignittee on this subject, it as resolved,
i that it was ex.
i
dis an Act of the Irish Parliament, passed n the ssd of
eilliino.hereiting all East India Goods arriving in Ireland from
jra4 Port, except the Port of London, be revived and
tad.
1•70-,,, iv NEWPORT hoped It would, be so amended that
trio- dieeold receive something in return fur the advantages she
Wells tuthe East India Company.
The Report was received, agreed to, and a Bill ordered accor.

The Report of the Committee of Supply of. last night was
ap, agreed to, and a Bill ordered accordingly.
Tbe Report of the Exchequer Bills Funding Bill was agreed to,
o:jibe Rill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
mr, FOSTER brought in the Irish Warehousing Bill, which
',soda first time, and ordered to be read a second time on

PO.
Tie House resolved itself into a Committee on the Malt Duty
Wad the Report was ordered to be received to,morrow.
The Annual Indemnity Bill was read a third time and passel.
the Irish Silver Token bill was read a second time, and ordered
tobeemumitted to-morrow.
ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
The Order of the Day being read for taking into farther consi-
elation the Petitions against the Orders in Council,
Mr. PERCEVAL moved, that they should be referred to a
Committee of the whole House.
The House having resolved itself into this Committee, and
Camel being ordered to be called in, Mr. Brough:m, the Coun-
d for the Petitioners, called Mr. Thomas Martin, Mr. Robert
*tin, Mr. Alexander Forrester, and Mr. Abraham Mann.
k being nearly twelve o'clock when some discussion arose about
deropriety of a question that was put to the witness, and it be-
;found that five others were yet to be examined, the House
aimed, the further consic,:r Allan was then postpoaed to to-mon-
or, when the last witness is to be again called in.—Adjourned.
TIIE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23.

. _
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Cools, money, 64F—for April acc. ati—omnium si pre.
Nary 5 per Cent. 961 97—Exchequer Bills, 4s. pre.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
ipxCent. Red. Ann. shut India Bonds, eq. le. dis.
Spet Cent. Cons. 64iii Imperial Ann. Ti 13-16ths
4pa Cat. shut Ex. Bills, Ss. 6s. pr.
S per Cent. Nary 915/ 97 961 English Tickets, 911.
Long Ax. skit Cons. for arc. 640

" MALTA, FEB. 1.

" His Majesty's ship Sirius, with a fleetfor England,
sailed from hence on the 10th ult.—pait of them re_
turned in consequence of heavy gales from the west-
ward, but sailed again when the body of the fleet
were in sight of Valetta : they were seen to the
eastward of Sardinia, three days since, by his 'Ma.
jesty's ship Vizard."

" GIBRALTAR, FEB. 23.
" The Imperieuse, Lord COCHRANE, arrived last
night from the Eastward, with the intelligence of the
Carthagena fleet having sailed on the 10th of this
month. The Imperieuse brought in with her a French
corvette, of 10 guns, and four Spanish Merchant
vessels, which she cut out of Almeria a few days ago,
after a gallant action, in which Lieutenant Caulfield,
her Ist Lieutenant, and one man, were killed, with
seven wounded. The Imperieuse saw five sail of the
line three days ago, off Cape de Gatt, steering this
way, supposed to be the Carthagena squadron : the
Windsor Castle, Nymphe, Leonidas, with the Mi-
norca and Redwing, put to sea this rnoraing in con-
sequence of the above intelligence.
" FEB. 26.—Last night the Foudroyant, with
Rear-Admiral Sir SIDNEY SMITH, and the Agamem-
non, came in from the squadron off Lisbon ; the Fou-
droyant has sprung her foremast, and has put in here
to refit. The Sirius, with the convoy from Malta,
and this place for England,is now getting under weigh.
" FEBRUARY 29.

" The Surinam sloop of war has just come in from
Sicily, and last from Malta, in 13 days passage. She
brings accounts of the French having taken Rheggie,
in Calabria, by storm ; and that they were bombard-
ing the Castle of Scilla. Captains STANDFIELD and
SECKONIBE, (If the Navy, were unfortunately killed at

French Papers to a late date reached us last night.
—By accounts in these journals it appears that the
French have got possession of Fort Scylla after a
iombardment of six days. They even talk of having
made a lodgment in a peninsula to the north-west of
Messina in Sicily.
The Paris papers are principally filled with details
!trisecting the creation of an hereditary nobility in
that empire.
The Empercr, as in all other states, reserves to
himself and his successors the right of making fresh
Dakes, Counts, and Barons ; but, in some instances,
a certain term of public service is necessary, and in
etc case a stipulated income of 15,000 franks is a
requisite.
The private letters from Paris state, that several
Merchants have been arrested at Brussels and Ant-
werp, in consequence of an order from Paris, whither
they have been conveyed for examination on charges
of having infringed the laws, by transmitting goods
and merchandise to England. Amongst the arretit
of the former place is a Mr. VAN DEN' ELD, an eminent
calico-printer.

the taking of Rheggio. Great apprehensions were
entet t aned at Sicily of an immediate descent of the
French, as the Rochefort Squadron had effected a
junction with the Toulon Fleet.
The Carthagena Squadron have put into the bay
of Palma, in the Island of Majorca, where the Hydra
frigate left them three days ago, after having watched
them from their sailing on the 10th inst. They are
supposed to be bound to Minorca, with troops, to re-
inforce that Island. _

64 The Surinam met the Phcebe and Renonunee with
the troops under their convoy for Sicily, but saw no-
thing of Sir RICHARD STRACHAN'S Squadron.
“ Lord CoLumswoon was at Syracuse with his fleet
when the Surinam left Sicily."
Detained on the lath, the American ship Albula, eight days
from Barcelona, with wine and brandy, for New York, by his
Majesty's ship Magnificent.
Captured and brought in co the 14th, the Spanish felucho San
1 Antonio, five weeks front Barcelona, with brandy, for Cadiz, by
I his Majesty's ship Redwing.
1 Arrivals from the 13th t 6 the 19th instant.
The brig Minorca, from a cruize to the Eastward.
The sloop Sabrina, 2 days from the Beet off Cadiz.
The WaLingham packet, 8 days from Falmouth, with mails.
The Engliqt ship George, 40 days from Malta, with fruit, ba-
villa, &c. for London.
The English brig Josephina, 40 days from Malta, with biscuit,
i
silk, vermicelli, &c.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
The Auckland Packet has reached Falmouth with
mails from Malta, Sicily and Gibraltar. She left
Malta on the 2d ult. and Gibraltar on the Ist.

The Carteret Packet had sailed from Gibraltar
for England ten days before the Auckland. Not
loin yet arrived it is supposed to have been driven
far to the westward by the late strong easterly gales.
The Walsingham Packet, we are happy to say, had
snived safe, and sailed again from Gibraltar for
Malta en the 24th ultimo. _ _ _

A Gentleman who came passenger in the vessel
from Holland, which a few days since arrived at
Harwich, states that General ARMSTRONG had in-
formed him at Paris, that he had recently received
the personal assurances of BONAPARTE, that none of
his Decrees relative to Commerce were intended to
operate against America ; but, yet we have seen a
f letter received yesterday from Spain via Holland,
which states, that an American vessel had just been
condemned at Alicant, in consequence of her having
been found to come from an English port. It is,
however, known that this vessel had English goods
on board, and may have been condemned on othcr
grounds than those stated in any of BONAPARTE'S late
I decrees.

The Auckland sailed in company- with his Majes-
trs ship Surir.arn, and about 40 sail of merchant-
rees, bound for England, under convoy of the Si-
rius, cf 86 gins, Captain Kmo. The Surinam
brings dispatches from Rear-Admiral Sir SIDNEY
&urn, containing an account of six sail of Spanish
rine-of-battle ships having been seen off Minorca.
The Auckland parted from these ships, on bearing
up for our Cadiz fleet, of eleven sail, under Admiral I
Pusvis--was informed by this fleet, that the Spanish We understand that accounts were received yes-
thiPs, about nine sail, had manifested a disposition to terday at the Admiralty, of a most gallant exploit
pit to sea—left our fleet all well, and expressing performed on the coast of France by the boats of the
Strung wishes that the enemy might give them an Emerald, Captain MArrttan. They cut out and de_
opportunity to have a brush with them. I stroyed several vessels under a very heavy fire, and
The Rochefort squadron is in the Mediterranean. returned in safety to their ship.