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hit' NDAS said he felt some ernbarrass-
vot .
to the DU
propriety of complying with the Hon.
as R
Ache
motion, to a part of which he conceived,
- eetpeoper to concede, namely, the produc-
I p -per last named by the Hon. Member,
:coo.lnmnn'ita.:ated w the Directors by ate Marquis's
ry after his death. He did not feel the pro-
Secretao-la ssenting to the motion of the Hon. Ger.
n
ric7 op the mere alledgment that they were
1101:010fuirmpeetance, and ought to be before the
Besides, there were other points on which
14.,cuswoll bc highly imprudent
.to grant some of those
it the consequences might endanger the lives
irr-perseeass in India, who had been extremely service-
** to the British Government.
Lord TEMPLE expressed some astonishment that
reHonourable Gentleman should object to
the Rift of his Honourable Friend for the papers,
nwtetroretence that he had laid no Parliamentary
l'i" -, -t;inre the House, and that there was no topic
grounosied
fee discussion upon which those papers could
PeerTlevant. He desired to know, then, if the Right
Honourable Gentleman had forgotten the notice he
himself had given to the House of bringing forward
j for cOnseeration the affaidrs 44 India ? And was not
this parliamentary locum upon which to demand the
,eieetien of everyuent that could throw any
P."-- uVect of so much importance to the
light upon a s ; i
Wish empire
DAS said, be had by. o means forgot-
Mr. DLTN
tenthe notice he ha attention nor had he, in any de-
- changed his •, but he had not limited
re' - - that notice, to the precise topic of India
innelf, in
asfuirs, to which he meant to call the attention of Par-
!ament. The topic, however, which he had in view
was that of the financial affairs of India.
Mr. WALLACE joined in the objection made by
Mr. Dundas, to the production, as well of the un: ic,ned
latter of the Marquis, as to some of the letters which
would be dangerous to produce. Most of the others
were already before the House ; and it was, he ob-
served, pretty extraordinary, that the Honourable
Gentleman who now moved for those papers, was one
of those very persons who upon a former occason, in
the last Parliament, voted against a similar motion.
Lord HENRY PETTY expressed astonishment at
the opposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman ( Mr.
Dundas) to the production of those Papers, contain-
ing, as they did, the opinions and suggestions of a
wise, experienced and patriotic Noblen al, upon a
subject of so much importance as the British interests
is India, and the transactions of the British Govern-
ment in that quarter of the globe. It was a subject
of vital importance to this country, which would
speedily and inevitably force itself forward on the
smous consideration of Parliament ? Did the Right
Von. Gentleman mean to mislead the House of Com-
mons into any resolution upon the subject of India
finance, without laying on the table every document
necessary to the fullest information upon India Af-
fairs ? He hoped the House had already been put on
its guard against such conduct, in the official organ
of the India Government, by a late transaction, and
that it would" not suffer itself to be seduced to any
decisions upon a subject so closely affeceing the in-
terests of the British empire, with suppressed infor-
mation, garbled documents, or partial extracts, but
We have k from good authority, that an American
insist on the fullest information.
vessel, which arrived at Guernsey from St: Maloes,
MT. WINDHAM supported the same argument, 1
and saw no season why the unsigned paper should not I after a short passage, repeats a former statement that
also be produced, if it contained any important infor- the embargo in the ports of France is strictly enforced
?nation. with .respect to vessels of all nations, ifmtricant
Mr. CREEVEY said, that since the Right Hon. ,
nreeria.
Gentleman had now avowed his intention of only
Private letters from the Savannah of the fhb tilt.
bringing forward for consideration the financial affairs
of the Company, he should now obvia:e all objections i state, that intelligence arrived there from the scat of
to his motion on the score of not having laid a parlia- I Government on the 7th, that an embargo should be
trentary ground ; for he pledged himself to bring ' laid upon all American shipping ; but that the order
forward the aolitical affairs of the Company for con-1
i was suppressed for two days, for the purpose of fa-
ideration.
1
Lord FOLKESTONE denied that the papers in wonting the sailing of six ships, with valuable cargoes
question had any bearing upon the Oude subject; for i on board-
they contained the opinion of the Marquis Cornwallis, 1 It is reported, on authority said to be derived from
ia condemnation of the subsidiary treaty with the Ni- - several ships arrived at Liverpoolkwith intelligence of
nm, founded precisely on the same principle as that •
a late date from America, that Congress had been
which the Nabob of Oude, namely, the grant in per- :
;dissolved. It is added, that this measure produced a
petual sovereignty of a territory valued at sixty lacks
deems, to liquidate a subsidy of forty lacks. I great ferment and a violent altercation, in which the
Mr. G. JOHNSTONE recommended to the ' opposite parties were near coming to blows. The.
Honourable Member who made this motion an embargo is generally considered the Measure of the
amendment, by directing it merely to the letter of the
15th August, which would answer all his purposes. 1 President; and it is supposed that the dissolution sea:
The motion being put, was carried in the affirmative. I merely to prevent any modification of that act. The
MU:CELL:OIEOM : party favourable to peace, conceiving the disco.
Mr. CANNING produced, agreeably to order of his Majesty, lotion a trick to take advantage of them, were et'
tie Note from Mr. Rise and answer the reto.—Ordered to lie on course very violent, and one of them denounced the
the table, and to be printed. i
Sit J. NEWPORT asked if there was any intention of renewing , President as a traitor.
the Committee appointed to settle the disputes between the his- I ..m.,.m.....~
tikes of this Country and Ireland ? The Bill on this subject was I
Several vessels are arrived •
,or expiring, and he now gave intimation that be should oppose in the River from Lisbon,
el renewal of the suspension as contrary to the Articles of Crime which place they left on the 17th ult. The advices
Mr. Puma' said, he should attend to the subject on an early
received by this conveyance enable us to add the foi-
ord4rEAltip moved for an Account shewing the Imports and lowing particulars to the intelligence of which our
Isamu of Great Britain, for the last three years, ending the Ist
of January last; with the Real and Official Value, distinguishing readers are already possessed:
tack year, and also British Manufacture and Produce from foreign " The new Decrees and Orders of the French General Iv NOT'
hletchandizes. had been regularly transmitted to the Regency, and by them put
Abe, an Account shewing the imports to and from the united ! , •Ihe furniture of the British Assembly Room had
Stun of America and Great Britain, for the same period, and 1 into execution.
Wtr the like distinctions. been sold by I v NOT for 6001, sterling ; the lower apartments were
Also, an Account skewing the value of Provisions, Lumber, 1 immediately afterwards directed to be converted into stables ;
thd other Commodities, imported into the British West India 1 and the upper rooms, which are very elegantly constructed and
Wands, and the Countries from whence imported, within the t
, furnished, were presented to Bentanexuots, who has taken up
tame period, so hr as the same can he made up.—Ordered.
his residence there.
Mr. WHARTON reported from the Committee of Supply, their
rail ) fur the Navy ',err- ice.—RePorts agreed to.
C.enntitted the Exchequer Bills, Issue and Payment Regulation , of the Soh of December, had been entered with Mons. Legoy,
isti—to Le reported to-morrow. did not amount to 14C,0001. sterlinr, and no efforts on the part of
COMMITTEE OF SrPPLK. the people were attempted to be made to increase the amount.—
).11.• R. WARD moved the Navy Estimates. After prorosirg The seals had not been raised from the doors of the offices of Cos-
Ilt usual vote for 130,000 seamen and marines, he observed, that • ,
ILhdaily expected, under the superintendance of
atigh the number of men was the same as last year, yet the : toms' hut this was
nerrant of the Estimates would be between five and six hundred ; officers,who had been charged to inquire into the nature and va-
thasand poundi more_ This hi secenintea for by stating that there due of the property. Such as should be found to be in any manner
acre nuw (leech thous tad workmen, Stc. in the different yards ; i connected wi thßritish subjects was to he confiscated as British
let year only eight or nine thousand. There were now forty-six
or nerty and such as should clearly appear to belong to the rab-
4-Itaf the line (besides smaller vessels) huildirt• ; last year there :• m• '
"WE but thirty-three. The increased number of transports and of ' d andallowed besold
jects of Portugal was to be restore , an to for
!isen/Ts of aar occasioned a proportionate addition of ezpence. I their benefit:.
He . hAdetsonmentbtiofn one other circumstance, which wa. that
h the
d 1 A letter from Falmouth, gives some further parti-
tad* and, he /111.:ErePORtifiei4":bulLse• pv414.-etr:;v• cox
had beutett latstey • culars of information received there, respecting the
id°ll:d by:, Right Hon. Gentie,r-tan 'Mr. Grenville). Ala de- state of affairs at Lisbon. General Jusor had taken
liati'mil'illet proceed from the •slighieet disrespect toward' that siss his residence at the house of an opulent Portuguese
'•eatlernan, but arose front some peculiar circumstances, which erchant, where he kept an open table, for which he
readered it unfit to detail the several items publicly.
Mr. Tirß NEY enquired whether there was anv specific charge obliged the Merchant to pay him 75 Portuguese coins,
6dudedie the estimaie of repays' fur the Danisit ships ? This value 36 piastres each, Per diem He had also im-
rxieersi some conversation in which Lord Temple took part ; poscel heavy contributions on all the Irish who re-
... 7 alr• Ward declared that there was no distinct sum Included mained bellied, one of whom (Mr. C.) was called on
tsar &recent. .
klit PETCPAI sums comprising the Esttrastes ware then voted. for 30,0tX) crusades (about 70001.) l'he Exchange,
India-house, and Custom-house: were shut.

Mr. Hussaissou presented, agreeably to order, a top} of the
speech of the President of the United States of America Id Celt-
grcsi.—Ordered to lie on the table and to be primal.

Tut EVE NING S'S'A R.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
PRICE OF STOCKS TI-US DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
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PRICE OF STOCKS YI7S I'ERDAY.
Sank Stock 228 i 228 India Bonds, is. dis. •
3 per Cent. Red. 84t Imp. Ann. 71 11-16ths
3 per Cent. Cons. 6:11 Irish 5 per Cent. 94
I
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India Stock 1701

By letters received yesterday from Gibraltar, we
have strong reasons to believe that the siege of that
important fortress is determined on by the French ;
and that a large French army is now on their march
to Spain, for that purpose. Some of the letters which
we have seen mention, that the Spaniards had actually
begun to collect &seines in the neighbouring country,
and to form dep&s of grain at Algesiras, for the sub.
sistence of the besieging army.
We are extremely sorry to state, that some of the
letters betray great gloom and apprehension—and
speak, in stronger terms than we choose to repeat, of
something like a spirit of efistatirfaction, amongst' the
inhabitants, against whom it has been thought neces-
sary to take strong precautions, at this important

juncture.
We sincerely hope these accounts are exaggerated.
We know, however, that property of all kinds has fallen
greatly in value, and that the trade of the place is very
dull ; in consequence, as they say, of some regulations,
considered there as very impolitic, with which it is
clogged. Strong memorials, it is said, have already
been presented to Government on this subject; and
we hope measures will speedily be adopted to remedy
any grievance of which the inhabitants may have
ground of, complaint, if any such exist.

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• Monday the Shannon frigate, of 36 guns, with se-
veral transports under convoy, arrived at Plymouth,
from Madeira : they are the vessels that carried out
the troops for the capture of that island. The Shan-
non left Madeira on the 13th ult. Sir S. Hoon was
there. Every thing was perfectly tranquil, and the.
troops were in good health. It is stated that all the
inhabitants of Madeira have taken the oath of alle-
giance to his BRITANNIC MAJEstr, and that they have
voluntarily surrendered 17,000 stand of arms.
The Hydra, one of the armed transports, was gone
to the Western Islb.nds, to procure certain necessaries
that were wanted at Madeira.