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mediate fruits of our civil dissentions, have placed us 1
in a situation similar to that in which was found the
administration of Louis XIV. and Louis XV. but If
the situation is similar, the other circumstances are
different in every respect. •
Tolle possession of Holland, of the Scheldt, the ex-
tension of our power; upon the coasts of the Adriatic,
the ports of Genoa and Spezzia, all the course of the
Rhine and the Meuse, affords us maritime means of
very different importance to those who possessed the
ancient monarchy ; we can construct fleets without
the enemy's superiority being able to prevent, or ren-
dering them expensive. The judicious administra-
tion of the finances of the. Empire places us in a situa-
tion to meet the expences which the establishment of
a grand marine, and satisfying the expences of Con-
tinental wars, occasions. In short, the energy of Our
Government, its firm and constant will, was alone ca-
pable of overcoming the greatest obstacles. The ad-
-1 ministration of the marine nevertheless felt tile ne-
cessity of adopting a fixed and calculated system,
which should keep pace with the creation or re-esta-
blishment of ports, the constructions of vessels, and
the instructions of the sailors.
In La Mancha, Nature has done 'every thing for
England ; she has done nothing for us. From the
reign of Lous XIV. the importance of having a port
on that sea was felt ; the project of Cherbourg was
adopted, and the foundations of the banks laid. But
in our civil troubles, all these works interrupted were
deteriorated ; every thing became a doubt in respect
to place, and it was asked if it would not be better
1. to prefer La Hogue to Cherbourg ?
1 The Administration fixed its intention upon these
important questions. The decision in favour of
Cherbourg was confirmed, and immediately the ele-
vation of the banks, to shelter the road, was com-
menced.
[Here follows an account of the harbours of Cher-
bourg, Flushing, and Antwerp, in the latter of
which, it is said, twenty vessels can be constructed
I. at the same timeJ.—To be eoniinued.

PARLIAMEMARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH S.

The Crown Deb:ors' Relief, the' Salt Excise, the Cornish Mi-
ners Enlistment, and a few others, chiefly private Bills, were
brought up from the Commons by Mr. Lusiiirio-roN, Mr. An-
Dr n N, and other Members, and respectively read a firstthne.
The Earl of DERBY presented a Petition from the merchants,
traders, and others, of the Borough of Preston, in Lancashire,
against the continuance of the East India Company's monopoly.
His I ordship presented another Petition to the same effect
train el Won-ender-Line.

Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH presented lists of the names of
those 'tinfoil Catholics who have takell the oaths under the Re-
levant Acts, in pursuance of an Address of their Lordships.—
Ordered to . e printed. .
Lord Holton.; presented a Petition from the City of Exeter,
fin favour of the Catholic Claims.
Lord ROLLE (who had on a former evening presented a pe-
,' tithai •of aco .trary nature from the same city) observed, that the
Mee i: g at which an adverse petition was voted, was one of the
;• Urges, ever known in that city ; and took notice, that some of
those who appeared to have supported that now presented by the
Noble Lord, were then against the claims of the Roman Catholics.
I.nrd HOLLAND rated, that with respect to the individuals

alluded to, (hey had been opposed to these Claims, under the
suist.dttn notion that the oaths required by the Acts, which the
Catholic, of both England and Ireland now freely took, were
tho., which they wanted to get rid of.
Alta. a tew tarther words in the way of explanation between
these Noble Lords,' the petition was ordered to lie on the table,
and the Items adjourned till Monday.