Star.
London, England, 1805-02-20 00:00:00

IRISH H•ISAI CORPUS.

, Sir Evan Nepean, attended by feve-
brought up from the Commons the
iding the Habeas Corpus Alt in Ire-
weeks after the commencement of the
E Parliament, which was laid upon the

'KESBURY moved that the Bill be
which being done, the Noble &cre-
che Bill be read a fecond time on
added, that, under the fpecial cir-
the cafe, he asould, were the Bill read
on that day, have to move the coin-
. Bill on the fame day. He was, how.
that certain Banding orders of their
itated againft a Bill going through two
the fame day. He would, therefore,
Standing Orders, No. 26 and 155, be
Ideration c.n Thurfday next, for the
being fufpended, as far as relates to
tbeas Corpus 4 Sufpenfion Bill.
- were put on his Lordihip's Motions
ig read 4 fecond time on Thurfday,
orders in queftion being taken into
, the fame day, which were orde►ed
was alto a third Motion for the print-

ism then adjourned pro forma till to-
: pat-pole of attending divine fervice.
till Thurfday, for which day all the
fixed.

HOUSE OP COMMONS.
counted precifely at four o'clock. A number of
en bellowed for. out of which a Committee was
. merits of the Petition complinolog of an undue
County of Middlefex

Houfe:kaving Enithed the ballot. proceeded to
the Reduccd Litt was returned.

BOURNE moved, That there be laid before
Account of the quantity of Hops grown in the Conn-
- the laft three years, and the Amount of Duty
• Houfe agreed to the motion. The Accounts
at the Bar, by Mr. Rix, and ordered to lie

moved for production of an Account of the Num-
• Men who had been added to his hi*lty's For-
a January tilos, to the id of January tgos, dif-
amount of thole which had been railed by the or-
'recruiting from thole which had been railed by
_ or in any other manner.--Ordered.
:RAFT moved, that the Army Eztraordinaries be

puribant to the notice which he had given yef-
that there be hid before the Houk a Return of
Spud& Prifoners now In England, dacribing dif-
"-1 amount of the number of Officers, of Sailors,

and diftingulthing thofe who bad been taken
declaration of War, from thole who had been Unce
a account of the amount of Private Property
Spud& thips, together with the Order or Or.
Reftitudon of Private Property, if any Loch has been

AIDDLESEX ELECTION.
appeared at the Bar, and prefented the following
:ommittee appointed to try and determine the merits
Pedtions relpediug the late EleCtion far Middkfel
Sharp Malik, Efq. James Hamlyn Williams, Efq.
• Middleton, But. Charles Mordaunt, Efq.
` Fitallarris David Cleophane, Efq.
Ankh, Efq. C. M. Ormfby, Efq.
Martham Hon. Archibald Atehcfon
Bart. A. H. Eyre, kfq.
Efq.

NOSIIINtiII.
Andrew St. John. for the Petitioners.
Gregor, Efq. for the Sitting Member.

IP THI HARI•S CORPUS IM IRIFLAHD.
TEPEAN moved, that the Order of
l for the third reading of the Irifh Ha-
Ipenlion Bill. Upon the quelLion be-

Y PETTY apologized to the Houfe
:m with a few obfervations previous
on the third reading of this Bill being
then called the attention of the Houfe
t which they had before them of the
Phich fuch a meafure was introduced

and of the firm and manly Rand,
Ifiderable portion of that Honfe had then
`le pang of fuch a meafurf. At that
wo-thirds of the King's Speech was em•
'ing out the necelEty there was for the
• tuch a meafure. Even then, after
die-union upon the fubjeft, there was, he
largeß minority apinft it that was ever
Honfe. And it was not finally agreed
`,obert, Walpole, then one of his Ma-

confidential Mininers, had pledged
would Ihortly lay inch falls before
rould moll fully jufiify him in having
a treafure. The difclafure of there
took place in two or three months after-
ly did bear him out i the affertion
made. But now where can the analogy
ze it not a (logic word upon the rub-
,peech from the 1 hrone. Can the Hon.
' Gentleman oppofite Jcclare, that he

l
finds the analogy in it.hat now taint In Ireland,lreland,ore '
what is likely to exit l I—lf he does. that is an argu-
ment for the inquiry, and not againft it, as the Houle
would then know upon what grounds they acceded to 1
this extraordinary propofition, at a time when the
neciffity of the cafe is fo far from being notorious,
that every one of thole Gentlemen mon- intimately
tonnelled with that part of t)- kingdom, have de-
clared, that as far as their own knowledge could ex-
tend, the country was completely tranquil, and was
as well difpofed towards his Majefty's Government, as
any county is England—Until Come inquiry *as
made, or until form pledge was given that a Rate•
ment, fimilar to that which Mr. Walpole had promif-
ed, and afterwards made to the Houle, fhould be
given in the prefent inflame, be could not, continent-
ly with his duty, in the face of filch a precedent,agree
to the patting f f this Bill.
After the E;11 hasl been read a third time,
Mr. MARTIN moved an Amendment to be in-
ferted in the Bill. Rating the reafon which had been
affigned for the introdulion of fuch a meafure. He
thought alfo that the law would not have that rata-
tary dial which the framers of it intended, if it did
not operate upon every part of the United Kingdom.
The very worn fort of machinations, and thole of the
molt dangerous tendency, were thole which were car-
ried on by means of correfpondence from England to
Ireland. If Soo difaffeaed men, for inflance, were
to land here, they would not be punifhable by the
provifions of Bill,unlefs its operations were to ex-
tend generally over the whole of the United King-
dom. The Union was effedted to very little purpofe
indeed, if the different parts of the Kingdom were
not now to be confidered as being altogether iden-
tified as one and the fame nation ; and certainly if
they were to be fo confidered, the Bill fhould extend
to the whole of the kingdom, or elfe not be palled at
all. The Honourable Member concluded with read-
ing his amendment, which sits nearly as follows :
" 1% hereas it is notorious that a traitorous con(piracy
is now carried on between perfonsreliding in that part
of the United Kingdom called Ireland and other
per(ons refident in France," to be inferted before the
words "be it therefore enaaed." The Honourable
Member Paid that at leaft it was fair that fuch a rea-
fon fhould appear on the face of the Bill.
The Amendment, however, was negatived with-
out a divifion. The Bill was then paned, and or-
dered to be fent to the Lords.

WAYS AND MEANS.

M. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the
Committee of Ways and Means.
Some converfation took place between Mr. Fox
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to the par-
ticular period when the profits and intereft upon the
new Loan would be fubjed to the operation of the
Property Tar. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
Rated, that while the Loan continued Scrip, it would
not be futile& ; but the moment it Mould be tran-
ferred into flock, the dividends from that time would
be liable to the Tax upon Property.
Mr. HUSKISSON moved, that the Refolutions
of the Committee fhould be read.
Mr. JOHNSTONE lamented that there teemed
but little difpofition, in either fide of the Houfe, to
attend to the important fubje&s comprehended in the
refolutions which were moved to be read. The ap-
proving of thole refolutions appeared in general to
be confidered as a bufinefs of mere routine ; but he
thought it was the duty of that Houfe to withhold
their approbation, until documents had been brought
forward fufficient to warrant their concurrence in
them. Some accounts fhould be laid before the
Houfe, among which he conceived the receipts and
diffiurfements of loft year to be particularly requi-
lite. There was alto another document abfolutely
necefrary ; he meant a dillind account of the Confo-
lidated Fund, before the Houfe could come to any
rational determination refpeCting that complicated
fubjeEt. He few that the Right Honourable the
Chancellor of the Exchequer propofed, in his bud-
get, a Turn of one million on account of a debt due
to the Eat India Company. They bad received a
like ruin, he believed, about two years before.—
He could not find in the papers hid on the table, or
indeed, in any papers, that any allowance was made
for the five hundred thoufand pounds which that
Company bad engaged, at the renewal of their char•
ter in 1793, to pay to the public. He wifhed to
know why that fum was not fet off againft, and de-
dueled from the million, which the public were now
about to pay to that Company? He had fume objec-
tions to offer to that part of the budget which re•
ferved a fum of five millions for continental put.-
pufes. Although his heart was not fo contraded as
to with to ifolate this country entirely, and to render
it indifferent to what was paging on the Continent,
he could not approve of any projea which fhould
tend to lavifh fueh an enormous fum upon fuch re-
mote powers as Ruffia and Sweden. He would have
no objeEtion to concur with the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, if there was a profpeet of bringing Aullria and
Profile to take a cordial and extenfive part in the
combination that was expeeted; but the employment
of the two Powers he had mentioned, which were
geographically out of the sphere of immediate ac-
tion, appeared to him to hold out no reafonable prof-
pea of any poffible effeaual utility. He could only
comp ire it, as to its inefficiency, with Come of tl.e
filly projeCts of the agents of the late Adminifiration,
where two bottles of treparberic ink and
_coo guineas
were to effeCt a counter revolution in France, and to
put an end to the war.
The firil refolution was then read and carried.
Mr. FRANCIS recalled the attention of the
Houfe to the Aft of 1793, by which the EaR India
Company was bound to furnilh the fum of po,oool.
in aid of the revenues of this country. This contri-
bution had never been furnithed by the Company
but once; and now, it-iced of receiving it, this
country was called upon to pay out of its own fi
nances, by way of debt, to the Company. This was
done at the time when the finances of the Company
were reprefented to be id a moll flourithing condi-
tion. He would not take upon hidi• to alien, that
the debt now in queflion was not really due : even
fuppofing it was fo, he maintained that the arrears
due by the Company, fince the year 1791, fhould be
fet off againfi the prefent demand. He contended,
that the Houfe had no right to pay this debt, for the
exitlence of which they had no more than the word
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer without any
Parliamentary evidence of it being laid before them.
If the statement given in the coutfe of laR Se ion
was tirietly true, and that in reality the Company's

debt from the country was nearly liquidated, then
the legal confequence ought to be, that the fum now
required to be advarce3 thould be dedueted. in order
that the debt, now fu ne tr liquidation, Mould be
finally extinguithed. Li:, therefore, nifhed to know
whether this fum was meant is liquidation of the for-
mer debt?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER de-
clared hirnfelf rather unprepared for giving the Ho-
nourable G•ntleman a fatisfadory anfwei ; but he
certainly did not propofe to vote this Turn' without
referve, or without fubjeaing the Com2any to be
called to an account for what may be due from its
revenues to this country. The vote now called for
had no relation to, much leis did it annul, any prior
engagement ; but both the Hon. Gentlemen were
minaken as to the purport of the Ad of 1793,
which enjoined, that, after the Company fhould pay
its dividends and expenr.,3, and have a furplus to a
certain amount, then out of that furplus, it was to
contribute half a million towards the general finances
of the country, and be at liberty to apply the re-
mainder to the increafe of its dividends. This fub-
jed would beft be referred to a future difcuffion,
when the (fate of the Eaft India finances fhould be
brought before them ; but it Purely would be allow-
ed, that the revenue and refources of the Company
may be very profperous, and yet, by the interven-
tion of two or three unexpeded wards, be rendered
inapplicable to the aid of the national revenue.
Mr. JOHNSTQNE agreed,' that the Company
may have a juft claim upon the public; but what he
complained of was, that after declaring that they
had a furplus of a million, inflead of paying out of
it what they owed to the country, the Houle fhould
be called upon to difchsrge an old debt to them:
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER ex-
plained, that the furplusfo often mentioned was only
Rated to arife out of the territorial revenues of the
Company, of which Parliament had no right to claim
any &are, until it was brought home by invellments,
and all the charges on it paid. That indeed may be
made the fubjed of a future claim ; but as to the ter-
ritorial revenue, Parliament had no immediate right ,
to interfere with it.