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than recommended anew to the notice of the House
- . plan for perfecting men in the use of arms, by
having camps in different stations in the country, and
bringing into action every description of force.
Leave' was then given to bring in the piA.
sTiPs.NDTART CURATD,RILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, he rose for the. purpose of moving for leave to
bring in a Bill for making more effectual provision
for. the maintenance of the Stipendiary Curates in
England, 'He had the honour of bringing this ques-
tion-three 'times before the, consideration of Parlia-
ment. On the first, the ill was rejected by the
Lords,. on account
.Of a money clause which was at-
tachocl, to it', on the second, it was rejected the
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Commons, on account of an amendment which it re-
ceived in the Lords I and on the last, through the
opposition of a Noble Lord, supported by the com-
manding eloquence of a late and much to be lamented
,Secretary of State (Mr. Fox), it was not suffered to
go to a Committee in that House. Now, on all these
pccasions, not one argument had ever been urged
against, the principle of the Bill. He did not, there-
fore, consider these failures as sufficient to deter him
from reverting to the subject. It was his wish that
the Bill should be read a first and second time, be
committed, and the blanks be filled up before the
recess, upon an understanding that it should be re-
committed after, and the principle debased, if there
were any objection to it.
Lord PORCHESTER could not agree with the
Right Honourable Gentleman drit such frequent re-.
jections of the Bill were not. to be considered as proofs
that the principle Ait was disapproved.. If he thought
them an advantage, he hoped they might be continued
to him, and that the Bill would be rejected a fourth
time. He had on former occasions resisted it as un-
constitutional, and he would persevere in his opposi-
tion. It tended to vest the Bishops with a power
,contrary to the spirit of the English law, and from
which there was no appeal. Even the King's supre-
macy v:as taken away by it. 1
Mr. BABINGTON spoke in favour of the Ball
being brought in.
Mr. CREEVEY objected to the Bill, though be
agreed with Mr. Perceval, that a further provision',
should be made for Curates, but not in the way this I
Rill would provide fOr them.
" Sir R. MILBANKE thought Curates should het
provided for on a principle.of justice, and that the
Rectors should pay them according to the value of
-the living, for instance a fifth.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied to the several arguments, and contended that
the debate ought to be delayed to a late stage of the
Bill, that the blanks might, be filled up, and then
printed, by, which Gentlemen would thoroughly nn-1
uerstand what the Bill was,.which he was certain was
at .that time very much misunderstood. : 1
Mr. TIERNEY and Mr. WINDHAM were of
opinion that the Bill should be printed immediately,
and the second reading postponed till after the recess,
during which time the House would have: time to
consider'- .

it.
It was at length agreed that the Bill should be read
a first and second time, and comtvitted to-morrow ;
the blanks filled up, and printed, on the undertaking
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that after the re-
cess the Bill should be recommitted, and two
tunities afforded to debate the• principle.

DROITS OF THE ADMIRALTY.
Mr. CREEVEY stated, that the returns made of
the I)roits'of the Admiralty, were not by any means
such as to answer the purpose of his Honourable
Friend who moved for such account (Sir F. Burdett);
and as that motion had been altered by the •Right
Honourable Gentleman opposite, for the purpose of
making it more effective, he trusted, they would not
oppose the motion he had to propose, which was for
" An account of theprcceeds of all Droits of the Admiralty re,
eeived by his Majesty, either in right of his Crown, or in right of
his Office of Lord High Admiral.
" Also an account of the,proteeds in thebands of tkeDutch and

Spanish Conunissinners."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
and Mr. HLTSKISSON having advised the alteration
in the wording of the Honourable Baronet's motion,
expressed their assent to those just made by Mr Cree-
vey, and both were agreed to.
ADJOURNMENT.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER informed the
House, that he would move for an Adjournment, from to-mor-
row or Thursday, according to the state of business, until Tues-
day se'nnight.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. ROSE brought up the. report of the Committee on the
Cotton Weavers' Petition, which was ordered to be printed.
'the Irish Recognizance Bill went through a• Committee; the
report was received, and ordured'to be taken into further consi-
deration this day ; as was also the report of the Committee of
Supply on the Irish Miscellaneous Grants.
The Report of the Committee of Ways and Means was re-
ceived and agreed to; as were also the Irish Promissory Note,.
the Irish Spirks, the Irish Glebe, and the Irish Tithes Bills.
The further hearing of evidence on the Orders in Council was
postponed to this day.
A new Writ was ordered to be bitted for Sandwich, in the
room of Admiral Rainier, deceased.—Adjourned.at :Vwo o'Clock
this Morning.
'IIIE EVENING sTAR.
LONDON. . • •

WEDNESDAY.: APRIL 13.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Comas, for money, 641—for account, 65“—Reduced 6441.
Exchequer Bills, 4q. to (is. prom.

We are at length enabled to communicate to our I
readers authentic intelligence respetting the Rochefort
Squadror: • All the accounts which have reached us
through the medium of American Captains—all the
statements which were so artfully inserted in the French
Papers tespecting this Squadron having passed the
-Streights, into the Mediterranean, appear to have been
wholly without foundation.—The Rochefort Squa-
' de on did not pass. the Streights, but directed their
egarse for the ‘Vest Indies.
• The Abraham, frgm St. I)orningin, arrived at Lan-
caster on Monday last, and has. the following intelli-
gelice Inserted in her I,og.'uloolt, by the Hon. G. A.
Clipt*TpN, of his Majesty's brig ,Demerara, Mho had
been, dispatched to Ocrinuda by Sir J. T. Dutiv
;count, off M'artinique; and was on his return to. the
I.etward Islands. •• • • • ' •
ca MOND4T, MARCH 14, I,AT. 30. LONG. 63. 41.
sa On Monday, 7th inst, the Mullet schooner fell

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in A ith a French squadron, consiiting of six 'Sill a
the Line, one a three-decker, in lat. 31. N. long. 69.
W. steering W. N. W. and kept company 'Kith them
three hours."
The above important intelligence, is fully believed
at the Admiralty, and was put up at Lloyd's: Frum
the latitude and longitude in which the French squA-1
drop were seen, there can be little doubt that.they were
going to the Chesapeake, and there, we hop 4 they
will meet SirJorm DUCKWORTH, who left Dominica
for St. Domingo on the 16th of February, and, in the
event of his not finding the French at the latter-island,
he would proceed direct for the Chesapeake, where
he would probably arrive about the Bth of March.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
" Banks of the Elbe. March 1.

The expedition against Sweden appears to be
for the present abandoned. On the 27th ult. the
French and Spanish troops received notice, that

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though they ought, to hold themsekes in constant
readiness to march, the expedition would not take
place,-as was. intended, at the beginning of the pre-
sent month, but further orders froin Paris were. waited.

fur. SOnse attribute this to the negociations which

have lately taken place by expresses between Marshal
Bernadotte and the Prince Royal.
" The Swedish Consul, Gram, who hid been under
arrest jfor some time at Copenhagen, has been sen-
tenced' to pay a fine of 3,000 rix-dollar3 for his im-
prudent conduct during the stay of the English ships
of war there. A Merchant of the name of I.utkins
has been sentenced to a fine of JOO, on .a similar
charge. . •
" We• have heard a report here from Elsinent, that
3000 men of the Hanoverian Legion, convojed by
two'sail of the line and a frigate, in thirty-One trans-
ports, had landed. near Gottenburgh,, and that more
troops were expected. There are now, it is said, four
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English ships of the line, four frigates, and some.
Muller vessels, in the harbour of .Gottenbuigh ; and,
according to some private letters, fifteen more British
ships of the line, and a considerable body of British

troops are speedily expected there.
" The accounts brought from Sweden by travellers ,
are different. Some say, there are at Gottenburgh
only one English ship of the line and five frigates :
they admit, however, that between three and four
thousand Hanoverians have been landed. Others
say, that from three to seven sail of the line, and from
five to seven frigates, are there.
" Certain intelligence is said to have been received,
that the English ships of the line and transports at
Gottenburgh have.beeit. got through the Twinte port.
It is also said that eight or ten of the late Danish gun
boats are now completely fitted out, and remain in the
Shears, or rock-shelves off Gottenburgh.
" A very respectable commercial house in this part
of Germany, has received advice from its correspon-
dent at Marseilles, that ever since the beginning of
last month, all the carriages in the. South of France
have been put in requisition, to convey provisions to
Toulon, to victual and supply the fleet.

. " A total change of Government seems to threaten
Rome, where the French troops, it is. expected, will
,
14eize the treasures of the Convents, in the same man-
ner-, as they did in Portugal. The French Generik
Miollis, when he entered Rome, ordered cannon tool
be planted before the Pope's Palace, but .un his
Holiness expressing great turasiness, and making
many complaints, they were removed.'
" Accounts from Magdelaufg say, that the Em-
peror Napoleon, notwithstanding all the represents-
. dons made by the Deputies from that city, and even
of the intercession of its new Syvereign, insists on the
arrears of the war contribution being paid, threaten-
ing if they are not paid, to march 50,000-men into
the Duchy of Magdeburg, now the department Of
the Elbe. The war contribution was in the whole
12,129,076 livres, and must be paid at stated times
to a committee appointed fur that purpose by the
King of Westphalia. - ..
" Along the coasts of Norway there are now 21
sailing pilot-boats, which have a deck, and cannot be
upset. Their structure is such tkat they can also
carry short great guns. They have been intro.
duced into use in • Norway. lty the Prince Royal
for the security of navigation' ; twelve of them in the
autumn of 1807, and winter of the same year, piloted I,
into harbour 111 ships, all in stormy weather, with-
out the loss of a single man, which unfortunately is
not often the case with open. pilot boats.
" According to some private advice:, a great cons
voy of provisions, bound to Corfu, has been taken by
the English."

The Wexford County .Election Committee decided
yesterday morning that a Commission should pass for
the examination of witnesses in Ireland ; this measure
is said to have been carried by one vote, and that
decisive vote is said to have been given by the Chair-
man, Earl Pnitcv. The Committee has of cOurse
adjourned, to give time for adding the Icritten evi-
dence they ordered to be taken at Wexford.
The warm and general impress for seamen which
commenced on Fyiday night, and has ever since con-
tinued at all the ports, -has produced a large mutt-
ber of seamen to the navy.• in the impress, nu pro-
tections were regarded, and many of the coasting
vessels, including even those engaged in the carriage.
of fresh fish to the London market, were gripped of
their crews. Iv consequence of this„ seveial.vessels
which were about to sail with licenses, are detained.
If is said that a Inge efinforcement is about to be sent
to the Mediterranean,