Star.
London, England, 1805-05-17 00:00:00

R U SSI A 1! Tit EATY,

Mr. GREY obfcrved, that, on the ern day of the
Seffion, a communication was made to the Hoof: by
his Majelly, Rating, that overtures of peace had
been made to him by the enemy, but that he was in-
duced to decline them, on account of the intimate
and conf;dential .tegociations, then going on with
Foreign Powers, 1-fe bad to remark alto, that, in
propofing the fums of money required for the fervice
of the year, the Right Hon. Gentleman had appro-
priated a confiderable part of the fupplits i r Conti•
nental purpofes. Since that time, he did not attempt
to make any enquiries upon the fubjea, or pi els the
Right Hon. Gentleman to any difclofure whatever ;
neither did he mean to do to now, if it theuld be
thought by any means inlifcreet or improper ; but,
as the Seflion was now drawing towards a conclu-
lion, he Ihould with, if there was no ferious objec-
tion to it, to a:lc, whether there was arty reafon to
expeel, that the Houle would fhortly receive any
communication upon that fubjeti, froset his Majetly ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQ!JF,R r e-
plied, that as loon as the bittinefs was in a iufficient
degree of forwardnefs, or abfolutely concluded, his
Majelly would be advifed to make a communication
of it to Parliament ; but he thought it for the prefent
fufficient to fay, that the fubjeet alluded to was not
yet in Inch a (fate as would render a communication
adyifable or necefftry.
Mr. FOX wifhed to know whether there was any
probable hope that any communication would be
made in the courfe of the prefent Sefton ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re-
plied, that any ()lade of opinion which could yet be
given on that fubjeFt might pothibly turn out to be
merely conjeaural.
Mr.FOX fill' thought that fome opinion might have
been given, as to the potlibility of fome information
being given to Parliament. If the Uttilnefs was not yet
concluded, it was probable that, from the dillarce of
thole Powers with which we were ftippiifed to be ne-
gociating, and the latenefs of the fellion, the Pat ha-
went may be prorogued before any treaty could be
brought to a conclution ; therefore, without priding
for any explanation of ate nature of it, be thought,

at lean, that tome general communication ougnt
be expeaed. Here the converfAt inn ceaftd.

COMMISSION OM MrLI rAMY EPPE%OITURP.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQ.VER
moved the Order of the I)ay, and the Houle ai.•
cordingly refolved itfelf into a Committee on the
Bill for appointing Commi(fanners to enquire intc
Abnfes upon Military Expenditure, Mr. A Laxaaor r.
in the Chair.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
limed to the Committee, that with a view to the
molt lair, impartial, and minute enquiry into the
whole of the fttbjed, which it was the obje& of the
Houle in this Bill to refer to the inveftigation of
Commillioners, he had judged it neteliary, in ap-
pointing thofe Commifliomrs, to ;mita.: the princi-
ples on which the Commitliuncrs of Accounts, in
the ye.o t 779, had been conflituted, namely, by the
Telethon of men who, from their avocations and es.
perience, might be naturally fuppofed molt conver-
fant with the fubjed referred to them id its different
views; whofe charatiers in life might place them
above any fulpicion of want of integrity ; and whole
want of connedion with political parties might ob-
viate all ideas of partiality. Aduated by this opinim,
he conceived that the Committee fhould be formed
alto of men in the different profellions, whole know-
ledge refpedively might the better enable the whole
to aid each other, and facilitate the objefts rf their
inve ;gat ion ; namely, men of the military proleffion,
whole long and arduous experience rendered them molt
converfant with the details of Army Expenditures ;
Gentlemen of the law, whole profetlional knowledge
rendered them competent to dired on all points where
legal confiderations fhould interfere ; and for the
fubje& of pecuniary confiderations, men of the mer-
cantile profeffion, and confequently familiar with ac-
counts. In forming the feledion of thole perfons un-
der thefe different heads, he hag been guided entire
ly by the opinion he was enabled to form, either from
perfunal knowledge of their charaders and compe-
tence, or from the known reputation which they bore
in the world, and which he was able to learn from
the fulleft enquiry. One of them he had known for
a long ferics of years ; others were perfonally un-
known to him, and he would propofe them ftom the
charader he had heard of them frcm others, on
whole authority he could place the t!-ongelt reliance;
he believed when their names (bould be reported to
the Committee, there could be no objedion to their
appointments. He then named

Ma:or General Oakes, Colonel Beckwith, and Lieutenant Co-
lane! Drinkwater, in the Military Line ;
Mr. Cos, the Mailer in Chancery, and Mr. Templeinan, in
the Law ; and
Mr. Peers, the Banker, and Mr. Cl:arlc4 Qolightly, in the
Accoun-ante part;
and there being no objection whatever offered to
thole Gentlemen,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved that they be appointed ComnsitEoners under
this AEt.

The claufe b•ing read, which gives the Commif-
fioners authority to enquire into what abufes do exifl,
Mr. GILES thought it was of the higheft impor-
tance to the objeets of the enquiry, that it (hould be
retrofpenive, as pall abufes in the iyfiem of army ex-
pendrure were to the full as clearable for deteelioa
as any at prefeut exiting, and therefore hen oved in
amendment the words, or that may have elided."
Mr. ROSE Paid, he wifhed the enquiry to be as
wide as pollible. What he was going to fay had no
perfonal motive, hut was intended merely to (hew :he
neceflity of going far back with the enquiry. A fur
of 250,0001. of the public money had laM in the hant •
of Lord Holland and his Executors for the fpace o.
fourteen years. The fum, it was needlefs 'to fay,
would in that time be doubled, by the operation of
interell. The Honourable Gentleman oppolite hires
might wrap bimfelf up in his integrity, and fay, its
behalf of Lord Holland, there was no pcfitive law.
But the lots to the public was enormous ; for the
public were paying intereft for all that money for
fourteen yezrs after Lord Holland was out of office ;
and forty years have tince elapfed, and at this mo..
ment the account is unfettled. He would afk the
Honourable Gentleman and the Houle, if that Ho-
nourable Gentleman declares himfelf ignorant of the
tranfaetion, if he is ignorant of receiving the profit ?
He did riot mean, by comparison, to 'ellen the offence
of Lord Melville, although in one cafe there was an
aftuai lots, in the other none. His only motive was,
to provide a fufficient remedy for fuch evils if the
preleF4 provifions were inadequate.
Mr. l''OX was very willing to believe the Right
Honourable Gentleman could mean nothing perfonal
to himfelf; but he begged to obferve, that as the fob-
jeft alluded to by the Right Honourable Gentleman
bad been laid before, and fully inveftigated by the
' foriner COMnsiffionets bf Accounts, who had report-
cd their opinion to the Houle thereon, he &mild have
thought the bnfinefs then* finally clofed, and that it
wbuld'be rather odd now to appoint new Commif-
(loners again to confider that lubjeet, and to enquire
into the ctmduet of the former Commiffioners. As
to bimfelf, he was fret to acknowledge he had been
appointed one of the executors to the will of his
father, but fo loon as he learned that there was fuel!
an arrear, he himfelf, for motives not riecce:iry now
to explain, had declined to aft as an executor any
longer. He would not pretend to fay that the per-
fon on whom that office' devolved, had not derived
any confiderable emoluments from the mot-I,y in hand,
or been guilty of any mifcondutl, yet he would af-
furc the Right Honourable Gentleman, that he had
never received one fingle !haling of thole profits. He
had attended before the former Comma .Hers of Ac-
counts, and was ready to do fo before the prefent, it
required ; nor had he any objeetion to the fulleft en-
quiry ; and he was convinced, the gallant Officer,
his relation, now Lieutenant Governor in Gibraltar,
would be ready to give every fatisfanion fo the (me
eff,aft, and to thew he never received ,a !billing.
Mr. ROSE answered, he molt religioufly believed
what the Honourable Member now laid, but until
now he always underflood that the Honourable
Member, the Gallant Officer his relation, and the
mi-
nor his nephew, were the perfons who received the
whole of the emoluments miring from the half mil-
lion, as the legatees of the late Lord Holland, and
the Honourable Gentleman was hinifeil the ailing
executor.

Mr. FOX explained, that his father, after fome le-
gacies to his brother and himfdf, had appointed his
mother refiduary legatee to his perfonal eaate; that
his mother, who died in a few weeks after, had made
him her executor, and bequeathed her part of his fa-

tiler's legacy to the Officer, to himielf, and
to his ncpbc-.7. I;at as no part of the legacy could
accrue to his mother's right, nor to his own, until all
the debt, of hi, father, and more elpecially this arrear,
was cleared off, the whole of Lord Holland's per.
funal effalshld been paid over to the new executors
!ix the rurrite, and not ore fixpenct had been receiv-
ed by hirm,ll or the other let::,tees to this hour.
Mr. GEORGE PONSONLY laid, that the Right
Hon.Gemleman aaed from the pureft public motives,
he could not d,:tibt. Bo!, though he had been long
in office, he had met with no abule to reform, or even
tt, inquire into,.till a late difcovery ; and then, In
lively is his z.al, to greatly is it revived by the enor-
rr.ity of that ahur.!, that lie is now willing to go back
forty years, to iniuire into that which had alteady
beta invefligated and da.i..;•:d upon.
Mr. ROSE, relied upon the propriety of the ob.
fttvations lit had made. He did not deny that

many things were wrong, and very reprehenfible, that
3:2i411t hive occurred in the condat of Lord Melville,
but certainly not to ay: 14s of a (billing by the public.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQPER
villled to know what-was, in the fenfe of the tom-
_ .

roitt2fe, to be the real ,:ha after of the Bill ? He him-
felf conceived the only 'rtffand fair objett of the en-

quiry to be the deteinn ;It-Any abates that really do
ctift, with a view to the adopti,,n of remedial mea•
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lures, and the prevention in toture of fuch ahufes ;
but he appeaied to the candour of the Committee,
wilether fuch a Bill as the amendment propofed by

the Honotirable Gentleman, world render the pre-
terit Bill, namely, a Bill to enquire retrofpetlively
into the whole expendi•ures of the army for a feries
of years palt, without any charge of criminality, any
allegatirs againfl any individual in any department,
or any allegation that any proof whatever exitled of
criminality or -mirconduel any where, but merely
with a view to leek out for caufes of complaint, or
trifling charges of irregularity. He would not pie-
tend to fay no irregularity had occurred, no defalca-
tions or frauds had taken place, in the enormous ex-
pendi:ure of a great nation like this, during the crude
r.t a vet y expertive and wide-extended war. The
urmoCt (ketch of the moil conforumate talents, oc-
enpiA in the management of public affairs, could
not, by any exertion of vigilance of which man is ea-
;
prevent toe occurrence of fume irregularities.
Bin what men of cliaraatr and talents, with any
feelin7s of Icotilrility or hotionr, could be tempted by
al.y catolument,, however high, attached to ..ny
fltuatioa, to undertake itn!rortatit departments, if they
we :a apprehend that at the end of ten, fifteen. or
twenty rear', the whole of their ac_.tints and .flicial
ptocee,:ings are to be ranfacked, in order to fcatch
for caufts of complaint for niticondu& or it regu-
larity ; after numberlers circuintlancei, material to
their vindication, are effaced from memory, and many
of the molt material witneffes no longer in exillence

He thought, therefore, enquiry into the pall, to any
remote period, was wholly tilde's in any remedial
point of view ;an that it was only to exiiticg abufcs
that enquiry Iliould he direiltd, in order to 'ntent
remedy and future pre
Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Grey, Mr. Fox, and Mr.
Giles, fopporzed the amendment propofed, upon the
go nod that the inveltigatiun in this cafe, as in that
of the Coinmifilaners nf Naval Inquiry, was princi-
pally intended for pait ahufes, as well with a view to
the jail prinitbnient of delinquents, if any ihould be
difcovered, as to the preveion of filch abufes in fu-
ture. Under the head of Bat racks in particular, the
expendittires had been of a novel and molt enormous
extent, and (hong rumours were in circulation that
great abates had been committed in that department.
The public mind wonid not be fati F.ed without the
fuLell enquiry, and in fad it was due to charaeters of
the public officers concerned, ro whom mikondrift
had been imputed, and who ought to itand vindicat-
ed upon the MIA invelligation, if thole tumours
mould be unfounded.
The CHANCELLOR of the FACHEQNER
had no objeClion to accede to the ptinciple even of
retrofretive enquiry, but thought it fhould be left
entirely to the difcretion of the Commillioners, and
not imperatively impofed upon them, hecaufe in that
cafe they would be bound to into the whole exa-
mination of al! accounts, even where there never was
the flighteft fuggellion of or default. He
thought therefore the du:y of invefligation Ihould be
imperative only as to exiting abufes, and perfeCily
difcretionary as to the pail. He then moved ano-
ther amendment in the words,—" and, where the
CarnmAoners (hall deem it neeeffary, into fuch abufes
as may have exitted."
This was fnppurted by the Attorney and Solicitor
General, and fume tier Members.
Mr. Serjeant BEST cnitlidered the amendment to
CCUI:!; fcine reatOnable limitation in point of time ;
tld Inch mull he the coital irCtion put upon it by any
Coto t of Law, or by the Cnnimilli
The ATTORNEY GENERAL fair!, that his
Learned Friend had mentioned no precife
Mr. SMITH preferred tiling the words of tl.e Aft
appintro the Naval Comminute, s, which had al-
ready been afted upon.
After a few words from Mr. Burton, Mr. N. Cal-
ec!t, Mr. Grey, Mr. Role, and Mr. W. Smith,
The CHANCELLOR oldie EXCHECIVER oh-
f.:rved, that the words .• as now erid," had been
• tpi.f.;l•.) be ameruh:d by the addition of" or have
Lined ;" and propofed to amend this tarther by lay-
ing " fuch 'r eve esilled, or !hall feetn proper to
t:,ern to In- enw,:ted into."
ELLISON iltid a few words in fupport of the
amendment.
Mr. WHITBREAD objelted to it, as the Corn-
mitlioners of Isaval Enquiry had adled with difcre-
tion under the Aa appointing them.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
thought the argument of the left fpeaker in favour of
the amendment.
Mr. BOURNE thought the Naval Comrniffioners
had considered the At as purely imperative.
M. FOX thought experience on filch fubjeds bet-
ter than argument, and particularly in the choice of
words in an Aft of Parliament, where there was any
matter of doubt. He, therefore, preferred taking
the words that had been ufed before. He thought
he Ad Ihmild be imperative in the fin inflance, to
enquire into abufes where they do exit. Under
rite lad Aft, as to time, the Commiffioners had gone
bid: a relfonable time, not, indeed, to the arrear of
.:;;e F. Seymour, in Charles the Second.
Sir. W. BURROUGHS contended, that the
ought to be 0E1)111'4 and particular. Great

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inquifitorial pOwers:are entrnfled to the Cormnifflon ;
and there were not strong officiil grounds laid for this
Commigion, a. there was in the cafe of the Navy.
Mr. FOX thought the duty of enquiry lhould be
made imperative ; .then the difcretion given re-
fpeCting the examination of abur:s that had taken
place.
Mr. H. ADDINGTON raid, that he was not at
all fatisfied by the arguments he had heard from the
Hon. Gentleman who fpoke lafl (Mr. Fox). Accor-
ding to him, the experience of the conduit of the Na
val Commiflioners, of whom no• one could expeeL
him to (peak but in the moll favourable terms, was
enough to prove, that no other Commiffinners could
poffibly go beyond what difcretion would warrant,
under an imperative claufe of an At of Parliament.
He entirely approved of the alteration propofed by
his Right Honourable Friend, and thought it a great
improvement on the Former Alt, and that it would
completely anfwer all the fame purpofes. Nrhaps, in
giving this opinion, he might be charged with mean-
ing to give protection to thole who might be fofpalcd
of public delinquency ; a charge which had been molt
I unjullly and unwarra:.tably made againtt him, and
thole with whom he acted, in confequci.ce nt a vote
Oven on a former occafion. Of that vote he had not
repented ; and was fatisfied, with great deference to
the opinion of a majority of the Houfe, that it was a
correct and a just one. The debate on that nccafinn
had not been un the merits of the cafe; if it had he
fhould not have shrunk from giving an unreferved
and explicit opinion: it was merely, whether the
whole of the charges ought, or ought not, to be re-
ferred ro a Committee. It had appeared to him molt
becoming the moderation, the liberality, and the jul.
tice of the Hook, fo to have decided ; and no polli-1
ble inconvenience could have refulted from it. It
would have been analogous to all criminal proceed-
ings in Courts of justice, where no decifion was et er
taken before all the charges had been gone through,
even though part of the charges had been ad•niqed
to be wit by the defendant. He could not help ad-
i-crt in g to this fubjeCt, nn which he thought there had
bi•en mirreprefentation, for which there was no
pi et en ce or foundation.
Admiral MARKHAM fupported the amendment
ci Mr. Giles, and thought 1792 a rearonable period
to go back to.
On a divition the numbers appeared for Mr. Giles's
arnendrneni 42.—Againft it 9G.—Majority s+.

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Seeer.:l other ametnlmen.s were propoled and withdrawn.
Mr. Gil.l•.S moved air.. to Wert the word " lawful.' before the
word " q•teltions," with a view to expunge the next claufe. which
was firml tr to what W 34 termed the /./1G clank. After a few words
ii.nn the Chancellor of the Excheque: the motion was withdrawn.
Another amettelnient was made by Mr. Giles, and was carried
with forte aft: rations propollel by Mr. Grey, the object of which
was to get at particulars, loch as in the cafe of Mr Sprott; Mr.
Bragge, tit,d Mr. Banks fpiaking in fupport of it.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE ER propered, that
the Bill he Loaded for two years. and fix weeks atter the opening
of the Se.lon of Parliament, and that no Commitfioner fhnuld ac•
erpt any civil office or profit during the fame time —Carried.
'the Bill having paired through the Committee, was ordered to
be reported tomorrow.
The CHANCELLOR of the FXCHEW2F.R ohferved, that it
would he neceffary to make tome amendment on bringing up the
report rcfpir,'ting the retmfprelive view the Commillionera might
take, and gave mo le.. of his intention to move fuels amendment.
'rite frith Water Supply Bill was committed for to•mnrrow,and
tfie Stamp Duty Bill for Monday.—Adjourned at at u'eluek.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, MAY 1.7.

PRINCESS or WALES'S BIRTH-DAT.
PNICF. OF STOCKS 'JESTER rxv:
3 per C. Red. An 57it Imp. 3 per Cctit. 561
3 per Cent. Conf. Alin. 38. N. I Imp. Ann. ni
4 per Cent C. 7jii Fxclier. IP. dif IS. pre. par
3 per Cent. 241ey Omnitan :2-1 3 prem
3 pcs Cent. 1797
L. Ann. 16 9-1(1. 1 Conf. hir .11,14), 31%
In ILL Bonds, 13.. 2S.dir.

Pads papers to the 9th, and Dutch journals to the
1 t th, arrived ye flerday. The rf rit furs take no notice
of the return of the Combined fleets, witicli, however,
mull have been known at Paris before the yth. Let-
ters from Madrid (peak in myfleti,,us terms of tome
mighty blow that was to be (truck at tLe interells of
this country by the Combined Powers; and it ap-
pears that the Spaniards make every efFort of which
they ale capable, to co-operate with their ally. A
letter from Marfeilles mentions that orders had been
given, at Toulon, for providing an immenle quantity
of bikuit, and other fea limes, from which it was in•
ferred, that a large fleet was expelled there.
The French Government have publithed in the
.110,,;: air of the ift and fuppiement, feveral letters
f. and on board one of the prizes taken by Admiral
LiNots. They are prefaced by the following para.
graphs :-.-

" Nth, April 30.

" Colonel DARSONVAL, whn arrived from the Hie
de Fiance in the corvette Diligente, has brought dif
patches from the Captain General Dr. CA N.
" Among the prizes taken by Rear Admiral 1,2-
tics was a veffcl having on board feveral official dif-
patches. We &tell the wretched pralice of print-
ing letters found on heard (hips, het as this praaice
has bran introduced by the Ergliffi, who were Co
lhamelefs as to publith private correfrondence, and
even letters written from Egypt by hufbands to their
wives, experience has proved that a monfler like
England tnufl be attacked with the fame arms as
thofe which the employs, otherwife (hew ill claim the
ufe of them as an exclufive right.
" The greatefl divifton prevails among the Englith
in India ; their finances are in the greatefl diforder ;
the war they carry on is difaftrous to them, and is (till
in full force.

44 The European army of the Englith in India does
not amount to 12,000 men ; fo great are the lotea
they have Whined.
" The letters of the Marquis of WSLLESLEY are
encedinglycurious, and [hew the great embarratlment
of the Company !"

A private letter from Paris Rates the arrival of a
Ruffian Ambairador in that city, charged Wiih a pro-
pofition for an accommodation between this country

and France.. According to report, it propofes that.
Bonaracro'c title, as Emperor of France, fhall her
acknowledged ; that England flail retain Malta, and
Ruffia the Seven Illands ; and that BONAPAP.TE fhall
retail: Tome farther compenfations for thefe cancer
irons. . It' thefe terms were refilled, the letter adds,
that the. Ruffian Ambefador was inftrufted to inform
the French Government, that the treaty of alliance,
1
offenftve and defenfive, between England and Ruifia,
would be immediately carried into effect.

A report was very prevalent in the city yefterday,
that Lord NELSON had had an action with the com•
bined fleet before ;ts return into Cadiz. We w :re not
able to trace the fottrce of the rumour to any thing
but a letter written from the Well end of the town
to his partner in the ciiy, by a highly rdpeaable
merchant. The following is a copy :
" I have jolt mA Captain Fleming,
.who informs me, that he
has ken a Letter at Lord C.'s. from a Lieutenant on board the
Leviathan, dated off Sehaftia (which lie. between Cadiz and the
Gut). This Officer, among other things, lays, ' I than not at-
tempt to enter into the particulars of the k) we have had with
the ,ny, as Lord Nelfon's difpatches, which he has km home,
give a full detail of it'."

The Izttcr above referred to is Paid to have been I
put on bor d of a fhip which has reached this coup-
try helot e Lord Nst.som's difpatches.
There was lame chfpcifition yefterday in the City
to doubt the intelligence of the return of the Com-
bined Fleet ; but we difoover n' rearm for fulpicion on
tl:at head. There was a whifper, indeed, that Mi.
!litters had received farther information ; and, it was
laid, the Combined Fleet were, not in Cadiz on the
23d, but had put to fea. We could not find any au-
thority for this rumour. As the enemy were ready
for fea on the 22d, when reconnoitered by the WASP,
it is by no means improbable, however, that they
have again failed.
Al, however, is mere conjedure, and we muft have
a little patience till regular accounts be received from
fame of our Commanders. As to the details in French
p..p,:rs %hen they give any, they are not to be de.
pended upon, being often puhlifhed only to miflcad.
This morning advices were received at the Admi-
ralty, from Lord G A RDN ER, brOtlght to Plymouth by
the DISPATCH cutter, which left the fleet under his
Lordlhip's c^mmAnd off Breit, all well. Advices
are all', laid to have been received from Admiral
lir to HT. We do not believe that any late accounts
of the combined fleet have been received by this vef.
fa—(See our Plymouth lever.)

LA night, in the Nonce of Commons, Mr. CRFY I
t3.,1c occalion to alk the Minifter, whether it was likely
tht.t any communication would be made to the Houle
loon on the fubje& of thole negociations with l.).eign
powers, the fuceefs of which has been am icipated with
fo much hope ? Mr. PITT anfwered, that they were
not yet in that Date that would jollity a communica-
tion to the Houfe, as that communication mull he im-
perfeel,and might be prejudicial to the public interelt.
He laid nothing more, though atked by Mr. Fox if
could Rate whether they were in filch a train as
alight lead to a fpcedy communication ?
A communication was made to the Houle of Com-
mons laft night by Mr. LITCESTER, the Chairman of
the Selea Committee, Hating that the regulations
aid rtiltiaions tinder which the Lordc, at the c.,n-
-f. ence, bad agreed to allow Lord Mr er ILLE to be
examined, were loch as, in the opinion of the Com-1
mittee,_would prevent them examining Lord MEL-
VILLA fo as to promote the ohje& of the enquiry.—
We do not know whether any farther application
to the Lords on the fubje& will be made.
Yeilerday her Majtsvy held a drawin!, room at
St. James's Palace, which was attended by the Prin.
celres ELIZASETH, MARY, SOPHIA, and AMELIA; the
Lord Chancellor, the Archhifhlp of Tuam, the Se-
cretaries of Srce, their Excellencies the Danilh, Ritf-
Can, Sardinian. Swedith, Neapolitan, and Portuguefe
ii:obaffadors ; the Lord Mayor of London, and there
were prefent the Dean o: Worceller, the Lord Chief
Baron MiDorraeo.
The following numerous Prcfentations to her MA•
JI3TY took place :
Lady Sarah Spencer, by her Mother, Countefs Spencer.
Lady Mary pinch, by k r Mother, Countef; of Aylesford.
Major Miller, of the Royal 1-forfe Guard:. by the Earl tit Murton.
I.aq Clanricard, by the Marchiunefs of Sligo.
Mrs Murray, by ker mother.
The Hon. Mrs. George Knox,by Mrs. Knox.
1.11,4 Jane Montgomery, by her mother, the Counter's of Ezlin.
town.

Lady Charim'e Clive, by Lady Potris.
Mite Neville, by Mr*. Neville.
Mr*. Winter,the lady Mayorefs. by Lady Price.
Lord Garlic*, on his being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty.
Lady ElizaLeth Douglas and Lady Katherine Dougl.*,, by the
Comitcfs of Morton.

Mrs. Chetwynd, on her marriage.
I.ord liawke,by the Earl of Darlington.
Lady Hawke and the Hon. Mrs. Sloane, by the Countcfs
Temple.
Mfg Robirdon, daughter of Major General Robicfon, and niece
to the Pwrl of Pawls, by the Counters of POIAS.
_ _ _

The Counters of Oxford.
Mils Mi.yncl, Visa Meyncl.
Mr. G. Rich, by his li.ther, the Rev. Sir C Rich.
MAI Louifa Rich, by her 'nether, Lady Rich.
Mr. Hanbury and Mr. Stacithoufe, by the h.ari of Effex.
The Earl and Counters of Charientont on their marriage.
Mr. Edward liofcawcn, by his lather, Lord Falmouth, upon his
promotion in the Colidltrcam Regiment of Guards.
The Hon. Henry 1? yder, by the Lord Chancellor, upon his be-
log appointed a Welih Judge.
Captain Lind, of the Royal Navy, Commander of the Centurion,
upon his receiving the honour of Knighthood.
Sir Drunimosid and 1 ady Smith upon their marriage.
Lady Ormond and Lady Cbarlemont„ by the Marchloners of

Sligo.
Colonel, Mit. and Mifs W. Stratford.
Adm rat Peckham, by Admiral Nugent.
Mr. Chetwynd, by his father, Vifenunt Cbetwynd.
Mils Hayes and Lady Louifa Harvey, by the Counters of Tent-
Mr. Lloyd, by Captain Harvey.
captain Cherry and Lieutenant Thoyt, of the Royal Horfe
Guy cis, by Earl Morton.
Mifs Sophia Vanfittart, by Lady Palk.
The Hun. Mrs. Burrows, by the Lady In Wafting.
The Hon. mirs A. Lake, by the fame.
Mift. Mills, by the Marchioncfs est Hertford.
Mr.. Stratton, by +be Du. bets of Marlborough.
Sir John Colpoys, upon his appointment at Greenwich Hoftital.
The Drawing Kum WAS very numerous and fplen-
didly attended.