Star.
London, England, 1806-06-18 00:00:00

!ARLAND.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT broeght in a Bill for regulating the
Duties on Goods and Merchandise imported and exported into
and from Ireland, and for the better payment of Bounties and
Drawbacks on the fame, which was read a firft, and ordered to be
read a fecond time to-morrow.
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Sir JOHN NEWPORT brought up alto the NU for regulating
and amending the kith Spirit Licence Alt, which was read a
firft time, and ordered to be read a record time on Tkurfday
next.
On the motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the Order of the
Day for the Houle going into a Committee on the iriflt Militia
Service Bill, was read for the purpofo of having it difeharged.
Mr. BAGWELL. (poke at tome length agalnft the Bill, which
he coati lered as exceptionable in feveral refpeEte, and hoped that
in a new 818 the Right Hon. Baronet would take CAM to have
thole exceptionable points removed.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT obfervcd, that every attention had al-
ready been employed in framing the Bill, and allured the Hon.
Member that it would be rendered as palatable as poffible.
The Right Hon. Baronet then moved, that the order be dif-
charged, and obtained leave to withdraw the Bill.
On the motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the Irifh Eleellon
Regulation bill was read a fetond time, and committed for
Thurfday seat.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the irifh Port
Roads Mil.

Mr. eARR objedted to that part of the Bill which fubjedled
Baronies to the Ray+nent of *the expences of thole Roads. which,
in Come places, ran a great way into them, and ought to be at the
charge of the Counties at large. It was, he fold, his intention to
propore a ciente to the of ee of what he mentioned.
The SPEAKER informed him, that be would,in another Rage,
have an opportunity of doing fo.
Mr. FOSTER obferved, that the Hon. Member's claufe had
been retufco in the Committee tall night, and fuppofcd the fame
rcafons would be fufficient for its rejeCtion now. The beR way,
in his opinion, would he, not to put the Grand Juries under any
reftridtions, hut leave to them the diferetion, whether a part nt
the expence (hook' be paid by the Baronies, or the whole defrayed
by the counties at large ; sa,ln that refpcdt, many parts of Ireland
were va7 diferently emoted.
Mr. STEWART concurred in this opinion ; and the Bill was
ordered to lee rads third time to-morrow.
♦FFAII{ OF INDIA.

On the 'notionOf Mr. PAULL, the India Papers
snowed for on the 13th inft. were ordered to be pto-
duced forthwith. .

Mr. WALLACE, after adverting to the papers
moved for by Mr. Nan, moved that there be laid

byl before the Houk Copies of Ifeverailetten to and
from Colonel Scot, fo far as they Mated to the coo-
-1 duet of the Nabob of Oude.
Lord MORPETH (poke againft the motion.
Mr. PAULL deptecared the treatment he had ex,
perienced in feveral of his motions for India Papers,
of which feveral had been attempted to be withheld
on the ground of their containing (fate fecrets impro-
per for the public infpeetion. He alluded alto to the
nrong oppitition that had been made to the papers
he had lately moved for, under the pretext of their
expofing the charaler of the Nabob of Crude. He
denied they had any (itch tendency, and maintained
that it they had, the ill conduit of that unfortunate
Nabob was folely to be attributed to the cruel and
arbitrary treatment he had met with from the. Mar-
quis Wellefley. He by no means witted for the pro-
duetirn of any papers that would implicate the cha-
react or condo!) of the Nabob, but confeffed, at the
fame time, that he could have no objeltion to any
papers that would throw light on the fubjed.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY objeaed only to
the papers in queflion, as they might lead to the im-
plication of the Nabob, and allured the Houfe, that
his Noble Relation was anxious only to prevent any
thing from coming out to the prejudice of the Nabob,
and by no means to as to auy papers in which he him-
(elf only was concerned.
Mr. PAULL here complained that paragraphs,
from whatever pretext, had been withheld in feveral
of the papers he had moved for, that were extremely
neceltary to enable him to make out his charge.
Mr. CALVERT was of opinion that the produc-
tion of any papers would be highly improper, that
would expo& the condo& of a Prince with whom
we were in alliance. Such a proceeding, he mai*
tained, would be difgraceful, and therefore expiated
his determination to divide the Houfe.
After Come farther converfation Mr. WALLACE
withdrew his motion, though convinced of the pro-
priety of the Houfe having before them fuch papers
as would put them in complete potteffion of the fags.
Mr. PAULL faid, that obferving a Noble Lord
now in his place (Lord Temple), whofe motion re-
fpeaing Oude flood for to-morrow, he willed to
know if it would be continent with that Noble Lord's
views, to admit evidence on the quenion ? He Mould
certainly oppofe entering on the confederation of the
charges tomorrow, if it was meant merely to come
to a vote without admitting the evidence, and thould
therefore requat the Noble Lord, if that was his
intention, to withdraw his motion, that another
might be fubftituted in its room, embracing a larger
view of the fubjeet.
Lord TEMPLE obferved, that in giving. notice
of his motion for to morrow, he had been induced
to take up the queflion merely from a with to pre-
vent any long delay, and believed it would be in the
recolleaion of the Honfe that he had previoufly ap-
plied to the Hon. Gentleman to know if it was his
intention to adopt any proceeding on the quellion ?
He had thought it of the utmoft confequence that as
little delay as poffible mould take place in the invef-
tigation, after fuch thong charges had been brought
forward againtt the Noble Marquis, and had there•
fore fixed on to morrow for that purpofe. But as
hearing evidence was certainly taking the queftion
into confederation, be could have no objeaion to the
Hon. Gentleman proceeding in his evidence to-mor-
row, if he fo withal it.
AMIRICAN INTERCOUR3III DILL.
Lord TEMPLE then moved the Order of the Day
for the [mond reading of the American Intercourfe
Bill.
Mr. ROSE, in a fpeech of great length, urged a
variety of arguments againft the Bill. He cantend-
ed that the Britith Merchants were both able and
willing to carry on the trade in Britith (hips, provided
they were fupplied with convoys. During. the whole
of the period, from the clofe of the American to the
commencement of the late war, the Planters were
fupplied with provifions and lumber by the Britith
Merchants. In 1793 the deviation from this courfe
firft began, and continued increafing during the
whole of the lan war. The Governors of the Well-
India iflands were then authorifed to fufpend, from
time to time, the Navigation Laws, as they might
deem it neceffaty ; but were made refponfible for
every fuch furpenfion. Sold regulations were alto
laid down for preventing the introduaion of German
linens and India goods in America bottoms, and for
confining their trade entirely to lumber and provi-
(ions. But the prefent Bill granted them greater adT
vantages than they had enjoyed under the various
fufpentions. It gave the Americans an exclufive
right to the trade, and thus prevented that free com-
petition which might other wife take place. It would
alfo operate as a complete futpention of the Naviga-
tion Laws, in the event of war, to the end of time.
During the nine years of peace immediately following
the American war, the Weft India Itlaods were corn.
pletely fupplied by Britith merchants; and this coun-
try employed in the trade 903 !hips, carrying to the
amount of a eo,ooo tons, and navigated by a propor-
tionable number of (cameo. In the courfe of the
late was, the number of (hips was reduced to 137,
and in 'Soo, our (hare in the carrying trade had de-
clined fo much as to be perfectly trifling. The (hip-
ping intereft of this country required now every Cup-
port and encouragement from the Houfe. Many of
cur trading (hips were now lying unemployed, and
rotting in our docks, which might be profitably en-
gaged in this trade, if their owners were encouraged
and proteaed by means of convoys. He had never
approved even of the fufpenfion of the Navigation
Laws ; but he confidered the prefent meafure as
much more pernicious, and as nriking at the root of
that fyitem by which our naval preponderance was
(upported. It was, indeed, only defigned for the
period of war, but it would be difficult, at the con-
clufion of peace, to tactic it from the hand of the
Americans, and tellorc it to the (hip owners of this
country ; and he ventured to predit, that the Ame-
ricans would, in no long time, become alfo the carriers
of our fugar. For all thefe reafons, he hoped that
the Houfe would appoint a Committee of Enquiry
into the fubjea, to enable the merchants concerned
in the trade to 'late their cafe more fully than could
poffibly be done by Counfel at the Bar, in a confinency
with the other buGnefs before the Houfe. This en-
quiry would only require a delay of a few days, and
he thought, in a cafe fo highly interefling to the (hip
owners and merchants of this country, fuch a requett
was by no means unreafonable. He would therefore
move, that the Bill be read this day fenitight.
Lord TEMPLE thought it rather hard, after the

(nbjed of this Will had already been fo thorong..
debated, and after the Houfe had agreed that the
Petitioners againft the Bill fhould he heard by their
Counfel this day, that thole Gentlemen fhould have '
no Counfel ready, and that thole who brought for-
ward the Bill fhould now be called upon to withdraw
it, and to let the regulation it propofed Rand merely
upon the fpur of exigcncy. The complaint urged by
the Ship Owners wad, that the prole lion of their
rights, under the Navigation Aft, fhould be placed
exclufively under the direaion of his Majefty in Coun-
cil, indeed of being left at the difcretion of the Go-
vernors of the Weft India Hands, where it had hither-
to in effed remained, and been fo repeatedly violated.
This was rather an extraordinary complaint : but he
would be to know how thole Governors could be
judges of what was tranfadling in this country with
refpea to the limply of thofe Iflands, or how they
could know what cargoes were (hipped, or what ci:n•
voys were upon the fin from this country for their
accommodation, when, upon the flighted appearance
of exigency, they mould be importuned to throw open
Their ports to American veffels, for the attainment of
(applies. Under this Bill, it would become the duty
of his Majedy's Milifters vigilantly to anticipate, and
timely to provide for the neceflities of thole Mandl.
and it would be time enough for the Governors to
affitme the refponfibility of the Navigation Laws.
when the-negligence of his Majeßy's Mmillers fhould
plate them in an emergency that Ihould warrant fuch
an alumption. As to the other general topics upon
which the Bill had already been fo frequently oppofed,
it appeared to him, that they had been amply refuted,
and et was unneceffary for him to detain the Houfe
.with offering any further arguments upon the fubjea.
Sir C. PRICE declared that after the molt anxious
inquiry as to the effects to be produced by the Bill,
it was the opinion of that refpea able body of the fhip-
ing intereft for whom he appeared, that the Bill
would be produ&ive of the moil mifchicvous effees.
It would have the neceffary confequence, too, of
throwing many of our feamen into the fervice of
America; where they would eafily procure them-
felves to be fereened under certificates of their being
American Citizens. All he willied was, that the
Bill fhould go to a Committee up Claim He was
about to conclude with a motion to this effed, when

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Mr. ROSE explained that he had already, with
the fame objeft, moved that the Bill be read a fecond
time this day fennight.
Sir WILLIAM YOUNG fupported the Bill, in a
fpeech of confiderable length. He (hewed, that the
exports of Britith produce and manufactures to Ame-
rica, in the lad year, was upwards of nine millions
Reeling; very great part of which was given, and
fairly and with good policy, to American (hips, its
order to promote the advantages of our manufac-
tures, which were certainly as much entitled to pro-
tedion as our (hipping. Had thole goods been con-
fined to Britith bottoms, the fate would not ever have
approached the extent jolt mentioned ; befidea, the
value would have been loaded with the expence of
convoy, and the market uncertain. But he would
afk why thofe fhip.owners, who were fo very anxious
for a monopoly in fupplying our Well India colonies
with American produce, did not endeavour to obtain
part of this trade of nine millions ?
Sir WM. CURTIS pledged hinsfelf to prove, if
the Bill was fuffered to go to a Committee up (lairs,
' that it mutt be ruinous to the Britith flip ink, and
that, if Government would (enure to the Briuth (hip
' owners the protedion of the Navigation Laws, by
doling the Welt India ports %dolt foreign fhipping,
they would engage to find Brittfh (hip owners enough
to carry fupplies to thofe ports.
' Sir FRANCIS BARING argued, that it would
be impoffible to carry on that trade in Britith !hipping
by fo very circuitous a route, with fuch an enormous
charge of freightage, as mutt render it extremely dii
advantageous to the colonies. The (hips mutt go out
from thence to America in ballaft, as the Americans
would neceffarily with to import the cargoes for their
own confumption in their own flips; and having
obtained their cargoes of lhingles, !laves, lumber,
and provifions, in America, they would have to pro.
teed to the Weft Indies ; and then they mull come
home in handl, as they could obtain no cargoes
there, which were always fecured to the regular fhips.
Mr. Alderman PRINSEP had no objedion to
leaving the exercife of a difcretion with Minifters,
convinced that they would not abufe it. These were,
however, claufes in the Bill which alarmed him. One
in particular, where the importation into the Welt
India itlands was extended to all goods whatever, and
to manufattura a word which he thought ought to be
omitted, as all the Wands could require under the
Bill was lumber. By another claufe, a liberty of ex.
portation was given, extending to fitgars, &c. which
be thought ought to be omitted. if thefe alterations
were underllotad to be agreed to, he fhonld not ob-
j•dt to the Bill, otherwife he mutt oppofe its further
progrefs.
Lord TEMPLE had no objedion to modify the
Bill in the Committee according to this fuggeffion.
Mr. PERCEVAL, at great length, went over his
former objedions to the Bill, which he confidered
wholly unnecefffiry ; and betides, he begged leave to
exprefs Come doubts of the propriety of plating fuck
implicit reliance in the difcretion of his Majefty's pre-
fent Minifters, as he, held now in his hand an inftru-
ment figned by one of thole Minifters, a Right Hon.
Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, three
months ago, permitting the opening of thofe ports at ,„
any period during the coutfe of the war. If, there- "
fore, fuch an exercife of Minillerial difcretion was
affumed three months before it was legalized by a
Bill, to what length, he would alk, had not the Houle
a right to apprehend it would be carried when fanc-
tinned by an Aft of Parliament ? If his Majefty's Mi-
niflers had any difpolition floating in their minds to
relax thofe Navigation Laws, upon which fo much of
the maritime glory, flrength, and profperity of this
country was founded; if fuch a ptojeft had entered
into the terms of any negotiation or difcufliou in which
they were engaged with America (in which country
fo thong a difpofi.ion to quat rd with England had of
late been pretty manifeß) ; how very impolitic was
it, jolt at this moment, to bring forward filch a Bill as
this, which would (hew to the world that his Majef-
ty's prefent Minifters did not fat quite fo high a
value upon thofe Navigation Laws, as had always
heretofore been avowed by their predeceffors, and that
they were not inexorably averfe to relax or abridge
them, but that they held them fo cheap as to be ready,
without much difficulty, to difpenfe with their opera-
tion, thus teaching the unfriendly power with whom

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they might be in treaty, to be more urgent in their
demand for a forrender of thole advantages, without
yielding in return any counter advantage of adequate
value.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL contended that
no articles but lumber and provifions were imported
from America to the Weft Indies. If the Bill were fuf•
fered to go into a Committee, its provifions might be
there modified, lb as to be faisfadory to all parties,
but his Honourable and Learned Friend, who had
declared his intention to oppole it in every fhapc.
Such oppofition from one that had not been conned-
ed with Government might be plaulible, but was
really furprifing in one who had countenanced the
oecafional fufpenfion of the navigation laws, at the
diferetion of the Governors of the Welt India Iflands
for the laft thirteen years. His Honourable Friend
mutt know that the navigation laws, that the 7th
and Bth, that the 9th and loth of King William, re-
quired each Governor to take an oath to obferve
thole laws, and it was rather extraordinary that he
(holdd contend that what appeared to be a tytivm of
perjury fhould be preferred to that mode now pro•
pofed. What had been done for the all thirteen
years ? What rensonftrance had been made by the
Shipping Intereft, in order to prevent the neceftitj
of throwing open the Weft India markets ? This Bill
would not prevent Britifh Chips from carrying fup-
plies thither. This was not the firtt time that the
Navigation Laws had been relaxed. They had been
relaxed by the aa.th of the King, chap. 39, with re.
(pea to the whole trade with America ; and had
alto been relaxed by the AR of 1797, refpcaing the
trade to the Cape of Good Hope, by both of which
Ads the regulation of the trade had been left to the
difpofal of his Majefly in Council.
Sir CHARLES PRICE explained.
Mr. CANNING lamented, that the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman thought it neceliary, that
every article of advice, from that fide of the Houle.
Gould be negleaed, unlefs it was accompanied with
expreffiens of good will towards his Maiefles Mini-
Berg ; for his part, he confidered it enough that they
entertained good will towards their country. He did
not difli ke to much the praaicaleffea of the meafure as
the principle to which it tended; it was cleat at lean
that it orignated in no neceffity, and not lets obvious
that it would be the occafion of ferious mitchieE The
Well India intereft was nut of the queflion, for it had
been long teen that it could be protefted without
thofe novel expedients. Many fine words were ufed
on the regard that would in future be paid to the
claims of the (hip owners, on the confideration of Go-
vernment ; but it was manila they had no mean•
ing—no application ; but commercial men were not
to be deceived by thefe Muttons. The fallacy and
abfurdity of the argument was moo evident, and
there was this manifeft contradiction that the local
neceffity could be better known at the didance of
many thoufand miles than on the fpot where it ex.
Red. This was the utmoft excels, it was the wildeft
extravagance of human folly. This was the proceed-
ing to which the wife men on the other fide were to
perfnade the Houle (a laugh). He was forty
of the expreffion were unparliamentary, but he
thought it rather more obje6ionable for its incor-
reanefe than from any deviation from eflablifixed
forms. His Majefty's Attorney General Paid, tri-
umphantly. 44 Yon cannot fupply your colonies."—
To this great Law Officer, who had likewife held
dignities in thefe glands, it might be imagined this
was no theme for exultation. But there was another
difplay of the fame feeling that his Right Hon. Friend
(Mr. Rote) had been twenty.two years in public fitua
tiona, and had not improved this part of Colonial
Law. The truth was, that for by farthe greater pot.
Lion of that time, his duties were unconneded with
that fubjelt, and that, when his official Nations
permitted it, he paid peculiar atomtion to that de.
partment. The fame unfuccefsful fa. calm which
was applied to that Right Honourable Gentleman,
was alto direfted againft the worthy Baronet (Sir
C. Price) ; but this, like the reft of the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman's fpeech, was the mere
propenfity to mittake. It teemed that the Naviga-
tion Laws, the grand Palladium of the glory of the
country, were to be furrendered to that omnipotence
of an omnipotent Government, which delights in
this (weeping deftruftion ; but he mull remind the
Right Honourable Gentleman (the Attorney Ge-
neral). that here he was not pleading before that
fplendid Adminifiration, but in the pretence of
the Britilh Parliament, which, perhaps. would nut
adopt his maxims with the fame avidity and pre-
cipitation. In the fame fpirit, the letter on the
table of the Houfe to the Governors of the Iflends
was diaated : at a (weep the Navigation Law was
(*ended during the remainder of the war, and the
Minitiers Rate that they will take care the ufual in.
demnity (hall be granted, and that Parliament (hall
pals an Ad for this purple. Vas this within the
pi-a/lice of office ? Were the fervants of the Crown
thus to prefume on the concurrence of the Legiflature ?
Such was the damning proof the Houfe had of the
difcretion of Miniaers, in the employment of the
powers for which they applied. But the regula-
tion was, in fad, of no utility. The leaf and molt
infignificant of all the degraded and contempt ible '
Governors of which the Learned Gentleman deign.
ed to (peak (A cry of Ao, Ne!)—•lie was in the
recolleition of the Houk, would he yet more bale
and dithonourable, than, they were reprefented, if
• t hey did not, amuld the necefEry arife, dirpenfe with
the law, and provide for the exigency, at the cxpence
of tlt,'ir own refponfibility. Then as to the trade with
•k_snssica, at prefent, iron, leather, foap, hats, can-
dle:, anti' many other articles, found their way into
,Cie Manch. in violation of the law ; now they would
Ps ,teed thither in abundance, under the fanftion cf
lase; and thus a great boon would be conceded to
rica, and our own manufafures would be in the
fame Proportion difcnuraged. Was the Right Hon.
Gandsioan (Mr. Fox) fo weary of the popularity he
had acqmired by the Pruflian quefti.-A, that he was
willing by the abfurdity of inch mealtires to reign ir.
Was be prep ared to fay, that America would not be
dui ,f. ~;:t a future time, this privilege was with-
held from a reg trd to our ancient fyftem, and was
roe this the molt impolitic time to make any cancer
firms to that Power, when a temper of irritation had
been fo recently manifefted towards Great Britain:—
It fuck advantages were granted to America, would
a not other States cspea the fame benefits ? Might not
- France, at a futons time, demand to have equal
i ial privilees with other coinaties. Thisl
was ancommerc g attempt, at the hazard of all that was valua-

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llsle, to graduate the bufinefs .of the .State to C.me
fancifulashilofophical rule inapplicable in its propor•
lions. It was to give a blow to the nsvigation law,
under which it might live; but living, it would
languifb.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL explained, that
he had not fpoken in any MODS of difrefped to the
Governors of the Britifh Colonies, with Come of
whom he had a perfonal acquaintance.
Dr. LAWRENCE obferved that the Gentlemen
who laid any thing againß this Bill, feemed to found
their opinions entirely on a fallacy ; they fpnke as if I,
they confidered that a fyftem, which in fad was no-
thing more than a provifinnal .egulation for the be-
nefit of our (hipping, and for the occa Clonal fupply of
nur Colonies. Thefe Gentlemen, however, who were
fo extremely tender about the Navigation Laws,
and who were fo conllay.tly in the habit of extolling
the great virtues of that Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Pitt,) who is now no more, did not teem to recoiled
any thing about the Dutch Property Ad that was
naffed during the Adminiltration of that Gentiemzn.
When it was apprehended that Hollsnd was about
to Ist annexed to France, at 6cR an Order in Council
was pallid, permitting the landing of Dutch Property
in this country, from neutral veffels. This practice
was afterwards by a pofitive law extended, and was
in that extended Rate continued for upwards of four
tears' to the total ruin of our NaOgation Laws. Let
thole Gentlemen then triumph in their long experi-
lence in that Adminiftration t but let them not at the
fame time affed a tendernefs about our Navigation
Laws:
Sir JOHN NEWPORT rote, merely to Rate the
effect that the propcfed regulation bad produced in
Ireland. The perfins concerned in the provition
trade, inßead of fuppoling thimfelves at all injured
by this Bill, confideted that it would rromote the ex•
port of provifions from that country. They confider-
ed that it would be much later to embat k in the trade
of fupplying the Weft Indies with provifions, when
the difcretion was in the Privy Council, than for-
merly when it was vefted in the Governors of the
Viands. At the fame time they had now fufficient
notice, that if they, were not able to fupply the
markets, the ports would be open to the American
veffels. He felt a confiderable degree of ftfrprit at
finding that this Bill was oppnfed by the Ihip.owner,,
as it appeared to him that it wes much More to
their advantage, that the difcteth.n which mutt
reit fomewhete, fhould remain with the Privy
Council, than that it fhoutd be given to the Go-
vernors of the !Rands, who fometimes might be fly
poled to ad capricinufly, and Cr' m the influence of
the planters. In letting this dlfcretion remain with
the firivy Council, the deal:us was brought to their
own door. As to the Pr vifion trade, when the let-
ter had been In much dwelt upon, the Gentlemen on
the other fide (hould alfo have confidered the bounties
that were given on exportation from our colonies, and
the pains that were taken to give this country and its
colonies every advantage its fupplying the Weft India
market. He could declare molt pofitively, and he
could bring documents to prove it, that when the
Iperfons Concerned in the Provifion Trade in Ireland
' had been applied to upon this fubjed, their anfs er
was, that they would embark in the trade with much
greater coofidence and fpirit, when they knew thst it
would be governed by a fixed rule, laid down by the
Privy Council, than they would have done when the
difcretion remained entirely with the Governors of
the Hands, and when they were not Cure but that on
the arrival of their provifions, Come arbitrary and ca-
pricious order might, by giving an advantage to the
Americans, prevent the Cale of them. He concluded
by declaring, that this meafure had given more fa-
tisfadion to the frith merchaats concerned in the
Provifion Trade, than all the meafures which the
boafted experience of the Gentlemen on the other fide
of the Houle could in twenty years enable them to
fuisgefl.
1 he Houk then divided—Againfl the amendment,
1 1 X ; for it, 54—Majority, 58.

LONDON.

,Y. JUNE a.
KS YESTERDAY.
India Bonds. la a 12 dlr.
Imp. Ann .8 9-16
Ezebrq. Bills, Pc dlf. ta. pr. par
Otnni,:m 41 41 pr.m.
Conf for ace. 61 {it+
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amilerdam 36 7a Ur Cadiz 311siinet. r.„.. 47
I Do at Rake 35Madrid 35; cal. Urban 6ot
Rotterdam i 1 7 a 1?. Whoa 37 eff. Orwro 6.
Hambursk 34 3al VII Leghorn sif Duh!in Ili
Alcona 34 4at Ur. Naples 44 I Cork rji
Paris, a day's date 14 7 Iv. ViWille 64 Hares Plcoll efiktdllve
Paris - - 24 i I 2 Uf. per il. Reeling.
I Bourdeauz 24 16 ditto Palermo 90 Pence per oz.
Agio ou the Bank of Holland 3i per sent.
New Dollars o 3 5

WEDNESDA'
PRICIi OF STOCI
Dank Stoek stotif
2 per C. Rest A 0.61 eci 6s 601
3 per Cent. Con(. ant
4 Per Cent.79ii
5 per Cent. Nary Shut
Long Ann. I yft

An intcrefling debate took place in the Hnufe of
Commons lafl night, upon the American Intercionl.
It was oppolid by all the mercantile interefl, and the
Houle divided upon the queftion. In the I,,,rds the
Mutiny Bill was read a third time, after the rejeainn
of an Amendment propofed by Lord HawKt33ULY.

The funds, after various fluCtuations, left off yef-
terday at the price thcy had reached the preceding
day, the report of ncgociation having been kept tip
with great induflry. Lord YARMOUTH it was Paid
had gone to France with difpatches, and the fait was
therefore beyond difpute! It has been known for Dome
time that his Lordfhip meant to return to France on
his own private concerns, Lady YARMOUTH and his
family being (till there ; fuch a journey would there-
fore prove nothing. That his Lordlhip fhould be
converted into a Courier is not very probable, nor is
it very likely he would be the Negociator, were our
Government to fend one. We mean noth;•tg dice
fpnftful to his Lordlhip, but only that a per fon more
intimately connected with the prefcnt Government
would be emplo3ed on fuch a million.
This day the fluanations in the funds have been
much the fame as yeflerday. At one Wand. Or .ium
was 4; a i; Confols for the opening, 631; Reduced,
6oi a 6t ; Exchequer Bills at par.