Star.
London, England, 1801-03-28 00:00:00

NEW Etist4 I: FACTOR V.

°DARTS and PLOWMAN molt refpcafolly
inform the Nobilil and Maury, who have not feet' their
New and gligant Matraftetory of Chamberry awl Italian hluf-
that their Wrrehoufe.is the re'y play, in thi.,,Countrc
where they can be bad genuiue.-1•:a z. Cliandos-ftrcet, Co-
vent-Ga. den.

N.l' A. stoat variety of Flinty Siliti,hy the Manufaerturera

I 't ItE LOVERS OF PURE SCOTCH DANCING.
IIw.LECT ASSEMBLY, DASICINC ACAUP.MY.

ALLEN's CITY ASSEMBLIES are
Av.a• every MONDAY till June, at No. to, Great Aylifft
ftreet, (. oodman's Fields.—i let:rosined to !pare no expencr
render them fuperior to any other of the kind, be has togav,
as Principal Violin, for all hi, I.2veciings., Mr. hhccis r 0,::
from Edinburgh, whole animating notes arc the life ai:d fool oo
the Scotch Nobility's private I).:nces' and who is eftcemed the
fitft Performer, .-n in Engl.-nut for Stsatafpep and Reels. Mr
WIPPART Ira the harp.
one hut Ladies of diaraclrr admitted.

Ladies and Gentlemen who have never learned Dancing. 3?
privately taught them, and at No. tu;Sherrerd-ilreet, Golden
ilynare; where the terms may he had..—J hofe who emu tro-.
the country I. learn may live in the boufe during their aceorn-
Ointment, and learn what is neceira:y in about d Etrtnight.
Broad Sword, Fencing, and Mufie tatted. Schoch attended.

PrIRLIAMENTeII22' PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 27.

The Duke of Marlborough was (worn, and took his feat.
The Earl ufOrmond was Introduced with the ultra: formali-
ties, (worn, and wok his feat, as a Peer of the United King-
dom, by the title of. Baron Butler—his Lortilldps lbpporters
were Lords Willingham and Aucklaud.
A number of Private Bills were brought up from the Com-
mons, and feverally read a firft time.
Earl of Moira, after a few prefatory obeerrations, prefent-
ed for tbe tooovent Debtors,which. be laid, was
a literal tranfeript of hia former Bill, and be obferved, he thought
it advifable to limit the operation of the Bill to the 2.3 d of Ja-
nuary taft.—alse Bill was, on his Ladalp's 1210tiON, read a
Brit time.

The Earl of CLARE rofe to give notice, that he
I meant on fame future day to hi in forward a mo-
tion of confiderable importance, but perhaps, he
might u well explain the general nature of the oh-
jeft to which he meant to draw their attention.
The LOAD CHANCELLOR hinted to his Noble
Friend, that he thould move to have the Houle
cleared.

Lord CLatt made the motion,and it was cleared
accordingly—when firangers were again admitted,
The Bifhop of EXETER was on his legs, explain-
ing what he knew of the fags on which the Di-
vorce Bill turned, what had been the charader and
condua of the Rev. Mr. Birdwood, the perfon who
committed the adultery, and what were the Reps
that he, as his Diocefan, had hinrfelfpurfned. We
undcrdood his Lordfliip to fay, that Mr. Birdwood
was the fon of the worthy head of an ancient and
refpedable family in the county of Devon,to which
he was himfelf related; that he had lived in habits
of intimacy and friendfhip with them for many
years, and that his parents were moll virtuous,
moral and meritorious perfons ; that he had him-
fell by impofition of hands qualified him for the
Church, and that the unhappy affair had planted
daggers in the breaths of his afflided relations. The
Bifhop proceeded to Rate, that Mrs. Taylor en-
tangled the young man in her dangerous fnares,
even before he was ordained, and bad engaged
him in a criminal intcreourfe with her antecedent
to his entering into orders, and that fhe had con-
trived to continue him in the praCtice of adultery
for a period of fome time previous to the deteetion
of her guilt. That the young man was engaged
in a virtuous purfuit of addreffes to another Lady
whom he would have married but that he could
not difentangle himfelf from Mrs. Taylor.
Lord Auc K LAND rote to (peak to nrder,and
the detail the Right Reverend Prelate was entering
into had no relation to the bufinefs of the day.

The majority or the Houfe calling out Go on !
Go ex I—
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The BISHOP proceeded, and (aid, not having
been prefent at the former debit e, in which he un-
derftood he had been perfonally alluded to. he
thought it necelfary to Elate to the Honk all he
knew, and what his own condua had been. He
fhortly added, that it was a millakt to fuppofe thai
Mr. Birdwood continu::d to perform the facret
' duties of his profctlion in the parilli in which his
family rendes!, much lets that he had it in his con-
templation ever to contra& marriage with Mrs.
Taylor. Mr. Birdwood was at a conliderahle
dif-
tance abroad, and as form as he (the Bifhop) had
heard an accurate aeconnt of the criminal fags
committed between the parties, it had became his
duty to plant a new dagger in the hreall hf Mr..
Birdwood's parents, by difplacing their fon and
fufpending him. He could not deprirehim of his
benefice, tecaufe he held none, but was merely a
curate y as to the patting oat of orders it was not

in his power, but he was fufpcndcd from officiat-
ing, and would fo continue till, by a due repen-
tance and regular and virtuous ccrarfe of reformed
life, lie had proved himfelf worthy to be reftored
to his rank and profeflien.
The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, who had entered
the Houfe while the 13ifliop was fpeaking, role to
(peak to Order, and was about to enter into the
main debate, when he was told acrofs the Houle,
that the Order of the Day had not yet been moved.
The Maacwis then moved the reading of the
Order, which was initantly done. He then again
role, and entered at confiderable length into the
fubjea, but as the arguments were pretty much
the.fame as thofe ufed by him when he introduced
the Claufe in the Committee, it is unneceffary to
repeat them.
His Royal Highnefs the Duke of CLAILIINCZ
role to maintain the converfe of the inferences
drawn by the Noble Marquis from the probable
effect of the ciente as a check to the repetition of
the'crime .of Adultery, and to declare, that ex-
cepting 411 his deteftation of that crime, he dif-
fered comr tetely with the Noble Marquis in every
thing 11C had advanced. In illuftration of this,
his Royal Highnefs went over the ground he had
taken laft Thurfday, and concluded with declaring
that he thould objed to the claufe paffing.
the
fame Earl of WESTMORCLAND followed on the
fame fide, and alluded at fame length of detail,
to the arguments of the Bilhop of Rochefter in a
former debate, grounded on the docctrines of the
canonifts and commentators. He referred to an
Al paired in Scotland 'in the reign of James VI.
relative to Divorces, as a proof that before that
fpecial ftatuteb adulterers and adulterelns
intermarry. His Lordfliip, with fume farcattn,
(poke of the claufe, as having been the offspring
of a Noble Lord, who lalt year introduced it as a
general Bill, but it proved fo fickly a child, that
its parents thought fit to abandon it, and ht is die
quietly on the 'Fable of the Houle. His Lordship '
uti.d various arguments againft the clout's..
The LORD CHANCELLOR left the Woolfack to
explain as to the inference to be drawn from the
Statnte of James the 6th of Scotland, which paired
in the int.tucy of the Reformation.
Lord Carlille and the Bithop of Rochefter role
together, but after a conteft on the part of the
Earl of Radnor, that it was the duty of the Lord
Chancellor to point to the Noble Lord who thould
(peak, which the Lord Chancellor intimated lay
with the Houle and not with him,
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The Earl of Caituste obtained a hearing by
the Ililhop yielding his dcfire to be then heard.—
The• Noble Earl laid, where two Learned Prelates
differed on interpretations of paffages of Scripture,
it was fomewhat hard upon unlettered men like him-
felf. becaufc it obliged them to form a judgment
for thenifelves. His Lordlhip proceeded tb pro-
duce extra& from the Old and New Teflament to
fupport his fenfe of how the law refpeaing Di-
vorce, or putting away a wife for any thing be-
fides Adultery, and eßb in the cafe of Adultery,
had been declared to Rand by our Saviciva con-
tending, that an explanation of fo much as that
divine legiflator did not explicitly declare, was to
be looked for in the Mofaic Law. Having argued
this very clearly, his Lordihip complained of the
great mifchiefs that arofe to fociety from the fre-
quent difcullions of the fubjed of Divorce in Par-
liament, which went very much to poifonthe riling
female generation, and to make them prematurely
ripe in the knowledge of faCts and dirquilitions, to
which it would be better for the inter efts of morality
they Ihould, as long as poffiblc, remain grangers.
The Bifhop of Roc MiSTER replied to the Earl
of Carlisle's fpeech in a very learned and elaborate
argument, citing the doctrines of the Eaflern and
Wellern churches in fupport of the opinion that
he had delivered in the debate of a former day--
that all marriages contraded by parties after di-
vorce, were in the eye of the Diva's' Batmo con-
fidered as adulteries. He contended that in the
Romifh times, marriage was held to be a facra-
ment, but though after the Reformation it was
no longer fo confidered, Rill it was held by all
theologians to be an inflitution of God himfelf,
and therefore indiffoluble and to be deemed &-
erect. The Bilhop difplayed a profound knowledge
of the writings of antiquity, on this Cubic.% as
well as the wntings of the modern polemics. He
ftrongly supported the claufe.
Lord GRENVILLE argued forcibly on the fame
fide, and in a perfpicuous and able Beech con-
tended that the dance was effentially neceffary for
the prefervatiein of morality and religion. He
differed totally from Lord Carlifle in relpea to any
mirchief rcfulting from debates on the fubjed cf
divorce in either Houfe of Parliament, but declar-
ed, that, no doubt, great mifehiel did refult from
the debates being mifreprefented, and what was
in diem indecently made the fubjelt.of feoffinf;
and ridicule in the public stewfiiarers. He denied
that any fair conclufion could be drawn by antici-
pation of the probable condo& of the other Houfe
of Parliament in refpol to the chafe. If they
rejefted it, and fent the Bill back with an Amend-
ment, that was no rcafon their Lordfhips fhould
not fanction its paging their Houfe in the tuft in-
flame. Each Houfe of Parliament would un-
doubtedly eaercife their own right of legiflation,
otherwife there could be no occafion for two dif-
tina I Intik. of Parliament, which, with the So-
vereign, Count the Government. Even if the Bill
was returned from the other Houfe with an
amendment, it would be for their Lordibips to
exercif.. their diferetion and deride which of two
evils they w3uld jtrget•-..t0 re ka the Bill, or,
confidcring it the Wee red of two, pall the
Rill without that clank, for tbr fake of refitting
Mr. Taylor the relief to which be bad proved
hiodclf to be fo amply entitled,

EPRICE SLIC-PENCE.

Lord CLARE rofe, and faid he was lorry to dif-
fer in opinion from his noble and learned Friend
on the Woolfack, but he could not agree exaetly
with him either in the conarudion or the proha,
ble effed of the propofed claufe, or in the policy
of introducing anyJuch claufe in a private Bill,
introduced on the petition of a particular indivi,
dual. If fuch a clank was advifable or fit to be
palled into a law, it ought to have been made the
fubjed of a general law, and fo difeulled, fince,
in that fhape, and that fhape only, could it be
fairly difculfed. Neither could he agree with thq
doctrine laid down with great authority by 4
Learned and Right Reverend Prelate, that tie
Canons of the Church were a part of the common
law of the land, and flood on the fame footing.
From the situation which he held in Ireland, it
was his particular duty to expound the common
law of the laud, for the protection of all whole
cafes came before him ; his attention and ftudies,
therefore, had been directed to that °lied, but
he had afro examined with diligence and ailidnity
into the cceletiallical and (latute law of England,
and he would Ilate cerredly how the canons
of the church were connected with either. The
canons of the church hefere the Reformation, they
all knew, were the contrivance of the Porn priests,
thechildren of the See of Rome; at the Reforma-
tion, they, in common with all other parts of the
rubrick of the Church of Rome, were of courfe an.
nibilated, cubic& however to one frecial exception.
By order of Henry the VIII. a commillion was
ilfucd, dire:ling an inquiry to be made into the
canons et the church, and report what part of
them might be adopted without prejudice to tht
king's prercgative, or injury to the laws and ton-
ititution of England. A report was made in fa.
your of adopting •*ome part of them, in particular
thole that referred to matrimony and other ordi-
nances of the Church ; and by the ed of 'harp the
VIII. it was cnaneth that the canons of. the
church thould be in tOrce to a certain rind limited
extent; as much of them confeqiiently as were of
authority, derive.' that authority from ftatute, and
not from the common law of England. I lis Lou.!.
(hip fpoke much of the firange corruptions of the
Roma Church, and the impure radices on:ler
it, of the tyrannous authority and dominion the
See of Rome afinmed, and the grofs impolitions
laid on the minds of men, contending, among
other abfurd pretenlions, for the infallibility of the
Church, as undeniably arifing from the infallibill,
ty of the Pope. He denied the Right Reverend
Prelate's alfertion that the bond of marriage wail
vinculum imegolubile,and that marriage was of Divine
authority. He quoted the canonills to (hew, that
it had been fo laid down by them, but contradict,
ed in the writings and books of many celebrated
theologians and learned commentators, who all
agreed that the bond of marriage was vinculum di:
foirbile. He would not, however, give much au.
thority to the canons of the church in centraillt.
tincion to the law of England; on that, and that
only, he relied, and the law of England, and the
practice under it, in refpedl to divorces, plainly
'hewed that marriage was with us regarded as 4
civil contra& merely, and nothing more. The
Ecelefiallical Courts, who relied a good deal upon
the canons of the church, took upon them to in-
quire into cafes of jaditation of marriage, and, if
the cafe was made out in a manner fatisfadory,
they proceeded to pronounce a fentence of divorce,
as it was called by them, a .11fenfit d ?Lore, but
they would venture to go no farther and thence
the praftice obtained of applying to that Route by
petition, and fubllantiating by proof thc marriagr,
the criminal fads, in fnpport of the Petitioners
praying to he allowed a vioodo matr.moo.:!.
courfe of proceeding could neither in the inflance
of the pradice of the Eccleftallical Court, nor in
the ufage and view of the Legitlature, be tight,
if the bond of marriage was confitlered as vista:on
iodifeMile. Being only a civil contrail, the zno
meat that contrad was diffolved, it was diifolved
wholly to all intents and purpofes. With regard
to the doubts that were raid to ha ee been enter.
mined as to the validity of the marriages celcbr.t.
ed fubfequent to a divorce had and obtaiued from
the I.egitlature, and the legitimacy of the Wile of
such marriages, he never heard of any (itch doubts;
before he entered the t'onsmittee 'on the Bill un-
dcr confideration haft Thurfday, he never had en-
tertained a flistdow of doubt on the fohjett, and
having fince that evening turned the fubjed oeer
very fully and deliberately in his mind, he wag
convinced that there was no ground for any doubts
whatever, and he dcfired Noble Lords to look ut
what would be the confequeree if fuels doubts were
acted upon. The parties could not go to the lain.
nici pal Law Courts, nor to the Ecclefiallical Courts
for relief, but they mull come to that Bar, and
learned Courfel mull there argue the cafe. 1-14
would hip/tore that fuch a cafe might arife as
this:—The" Odell fon under one of there mar.
riages claimed his feat as a Peer, and the next en.
tail, who, if he could difpofe of the marriage, law
that he thould be feated, would naturally endea-
vour to vitiate it. That claim could only be fet-
tled in that Houle; and think what a glaring ad
of injullice it would beto decide againft the war-
riage With regard to the claufe. his Lordship
raid, be molt &nee to it cntirely--it would-operate
as a favour and a bounty to the aclukrrer, who
would be freed front the temp of matrimony,
and encouraged to carry on his trade of feduc.
ikon ;he lho therefore vote againa it,
Lord MOLLIES) fitid. he rofe merely to ray a
few words. A Noble Lord, a friend of his ( Lord
%Wilmot Jand) had. early in the debate, thrown
out foniething as if hc had quelliQned tbe power
and coropet.alce of that Houle to legiflate is cafes
of divor,c. When he b 4 °taw (neuter night in•
eland it to he his **gm that the Half.: Was not

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the moll fit place for fuch a fubjelt to be entertained I
in and decided upon, he had aot ptefumed to quef:
tion the legiflative power s of the Houle, or to treat
them with the flightuft thirefpeCi. His Lordfhip
took notice of what had fallen from the Reverend
l'relate (the Bishop of Exeter) who had been
patiently littered to while he delivered a long (le-
t:1:, the greater part of which, he mull fay, ap-
peared not at all relevant to the cafe before the
roafe, and carried with it a colouring that
amounted to fomething like a palliation of the
crime. With regard to the eholfe, he had intro-
duced it in the fhapc of a Bill Jail year; but it was
tar from being a licitly infeht kit a: hill to die
upon the table ; in fait he was not the parent of it,
but a more relpeetable and more learned charac.
ter, a Right Reverend Prelate, who, in 1770, in-
troduced the fame Ma of Bill, which, it was to be
recollefted, had in that and another inilahce, palled
that Houfe unanimoutly, but had been 101 l in the
other. Let the fate of the pi-dent chtlifc, however,
be what it might, it was impoilible that the quef-
tion of Divorces by Bill could be luffered to re•
rosin as it Ilood at prefent ; and if the other Houk
fri.,uld throw out the Bill, the injury done to Mr.
Taylor would be done by them and not by their
Lorclthipc, who would have the comfort of having
done their duty, and as far as in them lay, provi-
ded a protation and guard to the purity of mar-
riage, which might be confidered as the clemen•
tary principle of religion, morality, and bell and
molt feriousipterells of the people.
The Duke of BEDFORD complained of great in-
difpotltion, and raid, if he did not (peak at that
period of the debate, he fhould not perhaps be able
to argue the fubjeCt at all. The Duke then entered
into a dikuilion of the merits of the elanle ; but
protelled againft the whole field of argument which
had been entered upon by the Noble Marquis \ % hi )
begat the debate, and had !ince been gone over
by molt of the Noble Lords who had fpoken afar
him ; becatife he thought it quite out of the quef-
tion. The tingle queltion appeared to him to left
on two points :—Was the claufe likely to check
Adultery ? or, was it not more likely to encou-
rage the commiflion of that crime ?—And, was it
:lull and candid to put the petitioner (whole cal:
had been fully made out, and a moll atrocious
cafe it was) in the aukward and injurious lima-
tion in which the advocates and fupporters of the
claufe would place him, if they fucceec:d in fend.
to down the dance to the Ileac of Commons?
The Duke briefly argued thefe two points, and
contended, in the fira place, that the claufe would
operate as an additional punifhment on the mutt
innocent party, the adulterefs, who did not appear
to Mei ve it, from what the Houle had heard ii ~m
a Reverend Prelate, who gave the Houle fuch full
information on the fubjeft before the Noble Mar-
quis, oppolitt to him, role to move that the Order
of the Day fhould ibe read. He faid, the party
moil to be reprobated was doubtlefs the adulterer;
and yet by the clank the Noble Lords who fup-
ported it would cover the wolf in fheep's cloath-
ing, infread of branding him with infamy, and
letting his fhame be for ever his companion. With
refpea to the lunation in which lie would be placed,
if the claufe went to the other Houle and came up
from thence with an amendment, it would be in-
jurious in the extreme.
The Loan CHANCELLOR left the Wooltaek,
merely to fpeak to the law points mentioned by
his Noble and Learned Friend, who, lie faid,
though he perhaps purfued his lludies and inqui-
ries into the decifion of the Law Courts, and the
laws themfelves, with better advantage than he
had, yet undoubtedly had not had quite fodong an
experience of both, as he had poffeffed. His
Lordfliip explained what was done in refped to
the Canons of the Church immediately after the
Reformation, and faid the prejudice that at that
time prevailed from an opinion that the Church
was arrogant arbitrary, oppreflive, and intolerant,
which charafter had properly belonged to the Ro-
anifh Church, was early corrected, and by degrees
done entirely away, by the meek and mild man•
ners of the ecchfiaffics of the eflablifhed Proteftant
Church, the moderation of their difcipline, and
the piety of their dot:trines and praftice. With re-
gard to marriage being a civil contraft, it un-
doubtedly was a civil contraft, but his Noble and
Learned Friend mull recolleft that it was in the
whole view of it, and even in the ritual itfelf, de-
clared to be a divine ordinance, and had ever been
In confidered by the Miniflers of the Church of
England, and by all polemical writers. His Lord-
fhip laid, he orly rote to explain thefe points.
The Earl Of DARNLEY rote chiefly to prctea
againll the affumption of thole who fupported the
attire, that other Noble Lords who oppofed it,
did not hold the crime of Adultery in., as much
deteflation as they did. The conclufion lie aifert-
ed to be equally unfounded and unwarrantable.
He raid, be was perfnaded that the claufe would
operate in a way direftly contrary to the expeilla-
tions of thofe who fupported it, and for that rea-
fon he would vote againff in
The Bifhop of Roca tsrsa, in explanation, faid,
marriage was not merely a civil contraft, but of
Gan himfelf, was declared by llatute„ becaufe it
was fo exprefsly pronounced in the prayer-book,
and that was a flatute.
Load Ce ARC laid a few words alto in explana•
Lion, but adhered to h:s opinion that marriage
was ever fince the Reformation a civil contra&
and nothing more.—At length the Houle divided.
Contents 29 ; Non-Contents 56. The clank was
therefore rejeCted.
Lord SUFFOLK'S motion was put off to a fu-
ture day.

HOME OF COM•.IONS.

A Meffage from the Lords informed the Houfe of their Lard-
thir' art to Conceal Private BOW.
A Committee was appointed to enquire into the caul • of thc
.I,ld, or the e It-el ion nra Burgers for the Borouth of CoLington,
ler a Writ had boat ;lied tome nrer.
1 be He if., Art-rt threAs% a Comrll-,-. on p:11 to re,
rongraCt Pn•atncis tip ( -.mown aza' tv .11c
!Ands; foes elauf.s were .14"..d, .od ti.e riper! ordered 1,1 be
received or Mand
TM Houk rtPavxl into 1 6.llllllittee nn ti.e NS If 1,7 -
Cntleettnn of the Pow R ,tes. Tho ei • r
Abfervations tern str W. E. • 3 .1:14 I.• I/ •
se.. re wad is; Asti sic etrAt adored to be I.v:tinsel on
14054111.

On the metion et the irifh Chancellor of the Exchequer, an
account WAS laid before the Houfc of the Exports and Im-
ports of Ireland for the year t1;oo.
Lord SUE IFILLD prcfrnted an account of the Income and
Expenditure of the Board of Agriculture.
The Order of the Day for the Houle to take into cenfidera-
tion the ath retort of the Committee on the High Price of Pm.
vdions was, on the motion of Mr. RIMER, deferred to Monday.
The Poor Children's Indenture Bill was reported, and ordered
to be read a third time on Monday.
The Scotch lmportatlon Spirit Duty Bill, was read a fccond.
time, and committed for Nlcnday.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Mr. Hositousz rofe, feting a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Dundis) in his place, to give notice of his intenti.nt of fpetdily
!wing* forward a motion for laying before the Houfc a Copy
of the Communications which had taken place b:tween Ruffia
and the EVA Government, refpeeting :Walt
Mr. 'I it RNEY laid, that it was hi, intention to
move an Addrefs to his Majefly, that the letter of
his Royal Highnefs the Commander in Chief to
the Ex-Minitler of War, dated February 2S, 1800,
fhould be laid before the Houle. If there was no
objeEtion to this motion, he fhould propofc it then;
if the contrary, he fhould give notice of fome fu-
ture day on which he fhould bring it forward.
Mr. Du N ons laid, that as the Hon. Gentleman
and the Home were already in poffefiion of the
purport of that letter, he Law no neccEity for the
motion.

Mr. PITT objaled to the production of the let-
ter alluded to, unlefs the Hon. Gentleman would
slate the uf.: :sc designed to make of it : he cer-
tainly would feel little delicacy in refilling the
motion altogether, as he could not conceive the
ufe of it. As another fubjett flood for this even-
ing, which was likely to produce debate, he hoped
the Hon. Gentleman would not pi cfs his motion
at prefent.
Mr. TitreNEY Aid that upon that letter he in-
tended to found a charge again!} the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Dundas.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EleaF.Q2isa expreffed
his hope that the Hon. Gentleman wa-uid fix feline
convenient day for his.motion, as it was intended
i,n 'Dina(lay next to move for an adjournment to
Monday fe'nnight : yet if any prelling bufinefs
fhould offer, it might be expedient to lhorten the
adjournment.
Mr. TILRNEY fixed on Thurfday.
Mr. Pirr f.:d that the very day fixed on for the
adjournment was rather an awkward day to ap-
point.
Mr. TIERNEY named the firfl day after the re-
ccfs.

Mr. GREY Paid he underflood it was intended to
lay before the Houfe force papers refpeding the
difpute with the Northern Powers. He wiflied to
know from the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chan.
cellor of the Exchequer) wheelie; fuch was his
purpore ?
The CHANCELLOR Oldie EXCHEIVER raid, that
in the prefent Rage of the bufinefs he did not feel
it advifable to lay any fuch papers before the
Houfe At a more advanced ['age it was his in-
tention to do fo.
Mr. Ho aHOoss wifhed to know if it was meant
to include in tae papers, the Right Hon. Gentle-
man limed his purpofe to lay before the Honk,
any thing refpetling the communication of Mini-'
Iters with Ruffin on the fubjea of Malta: if fo, the
motion of which he had given notice would be-
come unneceffary.
The CHAhCELLOR 02 the ExcesoVlß Paid he
bad no inftruaions relative to the communications
alluded to. He did not think diem at all con-
neaed with the fubjea in difpute with the
Northern Powers. At prefent, however, he could
give the Hon. Gentleman no decifive anfwer.
Mr. GREY Paid, that he fhould wait for the pro-
duaion of the Papers promifed by the Right Hon.
Gentleman : but that if they fhould not contain
fatisfaaory information, he fhould bring forward
a motion on the fubjed, as he willed for the fulleft
expofition of that bufinefs.
Lord HAWICESBURY allured die Hon. Gentle-
man Minifters had no defire whatever to conceal
any information he wifhed for, but from motives
of propriety, which the lion. Gentleman mutt be
aware of.
Mr. SHERIDAN Paid, that it was his intention to
bring forward the motion of which he had given
notice on the third day after the adjournment.
Mr. PITT did not recoiled precifely the notice
to which the Hon. Gentleman alluded. He re.
membered when he was in office, the Hon. Gentle-
man mentioning his intention to move an addrefs
to his Majetly to difmifs his Minifiers, he fuppofed
it could not be that—(4 lase.)
Mr. SHERIDAN replied that the Right Hon
Gentleman's mirreprefentation arofe from the lit-
tle attcni ion he paid to any notice of motions from
that fide of die Houfe, probably confiding in the
facility with which he could defeat them. He had
never mentioned any intention to bring forward a
motion for the difmiffal of the Ex.Minifler ; ano-
cher Gentleman had, indeed, done fo—but he was
Paved the trouble, for they had prevailed on his
Mirjelly to accept their refignation, as they termed
it, tut he believed they were aatially turned out.
The objed of the motion he propofed to fubmit to
the Houle, would be to fhew that the prefent pe-
rilous Rate of the Empire had been produced
by the obflinacy, incapacity, inattention, and i -
norance of the Right Hon. Gentleman and his
colleagues.