Star.
London, England, 1805-02-15 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

An Account was prcfentcd from the Treafory, Mating how the
Money railed in 1804 wu difpotcd of.—Ordered to lie on the
Table.

A Bin vra: brought in, enabling the Proprietors of the Manche!.
ter Canal to borrow rnorey to complete that work.—Read a Brit
and ordered, to be read a fecund time.

The London Coal Merchants Indemnity Bill was read a third
time and paired.

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Mr. H. . mow prefented an Account of the Exchequer Bill%
outftanding of thole which had been iffued under the 44th of the
Kior, entitled an At For railing adocojool. on Exchequer Bills.—
Ordered toile on the Table.

Mr. Iliptitisbou brought up the Report of the Committee of
Supply. The refolutions were read and agreed to, and Bills ordered.
The Loyalty Loan Bill was reported and ordered to be read a

time

The Greenland Whale Fiihery Bill W3l read a third time and
Paired.

ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY.
Lord GEORGE THYNNE attended at the Bar,
at three o'clock, and informed the Houle that His
Majelly had been waited upon, with a view to learn
when he would pleafe to receive the Addrefs, and
that His Majelly had appointed that day, at half pit
three o'clock, for that purpofe. In confequence of
this, the Houle, after difpatching fome private hurt
nefs, adjourned till four o'clock. They then proceed.
ed to St. James's with the Addrefs, as is ulual on fuch
occafions.

About half pall four o'clock the Members return-
ed, and a Houle was formed. The Speaker, as foon
as he had taken the Chair, informed the Houfe, that
this Houfe bad waited upon His Majefty with the
Addrefs, and that His Majefty had been pleated to
return the following waft gracious anfwer
Gentlemen—l return ;WI my warmett and moll fincere thanks
for the dutiful and loyal Addrers which you have now prefented
Your entire concurrence In the motives by which I have been ac-
tuated in the nirgociatiors with Spain. affords me the hlghelt fatis-
fzdtMn. The cordial and zealous affurances which you have given
of your firm and active cuppoit on this oceaGon, juitity the hope
that I than be able to bring u.:s new conceit to a Life and honour-
able termination.

Sir JAMES FITZGERALD moved, that the ac-
counts relative to the Irith Revenue, which had been
laid on the table in compliance with an order of the
Houk of Tait Seffion, should he printed.—Ordered.
Mr. FOSTER prefented the annual Petitions from
the Foundling Hapita , the Orphan Hofpital, the
Roman Catholic Seminary, the Protettant Schools,
the Royal College of Surgeons, and other public in-
' flitutions in Ireland, praying for aid from Parliament.
Ordered to lie on the table.—He then prefented an
eilimate of the expences of paving and lighting the
Rreets of Dublin, which was ordered to lie on the
table. The eftimates of the expences of the other
iaßitutions he promifed far to-morrow.

IRISH HASE•S CORPUS ACT.

Sir EVAN NEPEAN moved the order of the day
for the fecund reading of the Bill for further fufpend-
ing the Habeas Corpus AO in Inland for a time to
be limited.

Lord HENRY PETTY rote and obferved, that
this was the fecond time, during the film t period he
had had the honour of a feat in Parliament, that the
Houle had been called on to pars a meafure of this
lint, in refpeel to Ireland. He could not but lament
that the Houle fhould be called on the prefent occa-
lion, to adopt a meafure of this nature upon fuch
cut aordinary grounds, or rather upon the abfence of
all ground whatfoever ; for all enquiry as to the ne•
ceflity of palling loch a law had been peremptorily
refufed. He would not pretend to fay there was no
poilible cafe that could exill in which the Hoefe could
be warranted to adopt fuch a bill without enquiry,
as Certainly a cafe might occur in which the notoriety
of public danger was fo palpable to every man as to
lupercede all necelEty for enquiry : but did fuch a
cafe cull at this moment ? If it did exill, it muff exift
in the dark ; and if there was (edition in the country,
it mull be in fecret : and bef 're the Houle was called
upon to pats a Bill for fufpending fo important a
branch of the conllitutional law towards the people
of Ireland, it was incumbent upon thole; who brought
it forward, to prove that necessity, and upon the
Houle to go Into enquiry, before it was induced to
adopt the meafure. If danger or fedition did lurk in
any part of Ireland, it did not follow, that a meafore
of fo much feverity ought, therefore, to attach up-
on the whole country; but his Majefty's Minifters
had adduced no proof that the nachief had exift-
ence in any part of that country. Without due
proof of fuch evil exiling, the Houle was called up-
on to refufe the meafure ; and if any ill consequence
Ihould occur from fuch refufal, the blame ought not
to attach upon Parliament, but upon his Majeity's
Minifiers, who fltall not have brought forward
the proofs neceiTary to
.0114 Parliament on pall-
ing (such a law. But in the prefent cafe, at a no-
tice of twenty-four hours, the Houfe was called
on to adopt the meafure ;—and when his Majef-
ty's Minifters are aficed to bring forward the proofs
of the neceffity, they anfwer, proofs are not rte.
ceffary! Depend upon it the danger ezills ! Depend
upon it the powers conveyed by this Bill will not be
abufed in the lenient hands of the prefent Chief Go-
vernor of Ireland. But was this, he would afk, a

language for Minillers to hold to Palliament, or upon
which that Houfe would feel itfelf warranted to aet,
for the fulpenfion of the constitutional 116 es-tie of the
people of Ireland ? He truHed fuch a fpecies of un-
proved reprefentation would never be admitted by
that Houle as a juftification for placing the liberties
of his Majefly's lubjeets at the arbitrary difpofal of
any individual, however refpeetable ; and no man en-
tertained higher perfonal refpea for, or a more ex•
alted opinion of the lenient character of the Noble
Lord at the head of the Irifh Government, than he

did; becaufe in the Adminiftration of filch powers
as this Bill conveyed, it was morally impoflible that
the four or five individuals who compote the Irith
Government, could have time to exercile that due
enquiry in each refpedive ebarge that Mould come
before them, to warrant them in the application
of this law to hundreds and thoufands of the peo-

ple of Xi-eland, which a common jury of twelve
men, in any one county, would find it neceffary to
eiercife in the Cafe of any individual who came be-
fore diem, eves under poittive and palpable proofs
offelt. It was extremely well known, that, ewn
"der the mild and aboaKiitt adminidratiou of the

Marris C rnwallir, cl.arancrired as it fo eminently
was by cauti,n, by deliberation, and by lenity, yet
many pet-lons tottered pm.iiiiinent under erifting pre-
judices, mitreprefentation, r tulle proofs, whole in-
nocence was afTer wards fully demonflrated ; as was
intianced in the cafe of flit Rev. Mr. O'Neil, of
Yougball, the mention of whole very revere fuller.
logs did fo much honour, on a former occafion, to
the feelings of an Hon. Member who noticed the rub-
jeft. Numbers of cafes were alto mare, even in the
hifinry of this country, to thew that arbitrary power
had rarely been placed in the hands of individuals,
without being abufed : and even going nee farther
than the adminiftration of the Alien Bill, how ukany
hundreds of innocent individuals have Coffered even
with the belt intentions of his Majefty's Airliners,
through the falfe nr malicious mifreprefentation of
enemies. And if Nett abufes could occur in difpen.
ling a law to a few aliens, how much greater was the
liability of loch abufes under a law attaching urn
the millions that compote the population of Ireland.
The Noble Lori did rot mean to deny the poflibilitr
that lufficient caufe for fuch a Bill might exits ; all he
meant to Will on was, that there were wanting the
notoriety and publicity of anyerifting cattle that could
warrant the Legiflature in palling loch a Bill. He •
thould, therefore, whenever the Bill came into a
Committee, move that its operation should be limited
to two months, unlefs fatisfaetory proofs fhould be ad-
duced, to thew the necellity of its longer duration.
Mr. KER Paid, that no man more ferionfly de-
plored than he did the neceffity for calling on Parlia-
ment to Ng's loch a Bill ; but he was (bit convinc-
ed, that neceffity was imperious and preffing. The
Houfe would recoiled, that when a fimilar Bill was
brought forward, in the year 1802, arguments pre,
cifely timilar to thole offered this night by the Noble
Lord, were oppofed to it by thole who could not bet
induced to believe in the lurking (edition then brood-
ing in Ireland ; but, unhappily, the dreadful rebel-
lion which built forth in the Irith capital, in the
rummer of 1803, but too ftrongly verified the appre.
henfions of thrift who were advocates for the Bill, of
which number he was one. It was for the want of
fuch power in the hands of the Magiftrates that
year, that (edition had gone fuch lengths, and would
again gather new lirength, if not timely prevent-
ed, by renewing thole powers, which were not
likely to be aborts' in filch hands as chore of the
Nobleman now at the head of the Irifh Government,
the moderation and lenity of whole meafures had
(hone fo eminently confpicuous. In that part of the
country with which he was more immediately con.
neded, he was happy to know that the utmoft loy-
alty and tranquillity prevailed ; but he had lately
heard that fome refolutions of the Magiflrates of the
county of Waterford-had been Ablithed, in which
they Itate their determination to apply to Gcvern-
ment to revive martial law, and free quarter there, if
the feditious did not defift from their daring conduit.
He thought it hi, ditty to make fome enquiry on this
rubjed, and feveral Gentlemen allured him the ad-
vertifcment he alluded to did exit, and was called for
by the fenfe of the Nlaginrates as to the Rate of the
county. Such, he :as convinced, was the exiting
neceflity which called for this bill, in many parts of
Ireland, that many of thole who had been formerly
moll clamorous against it, were now moll carnality
anxious for its adoption ; and fo far from being
deemed a grievance by the loyal inhabitants of the
country, nothing more acceptable to them could be
done, than to pars this bill.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT Paid, be too had heard of
the advertifement alluded to by the Hon. Gentle-
man; but Paid he knew, .from unqueftionable autho-
rity, that no fads existed in the county of Water.
ford, that called for fuch a Bill, or to which the civil
juttice of the country was not fully adequate; for
out of three perfons charged with ads of (*edition
there, two were fall in the county gaol, awaiting
their trials at the next affizes ; and from the Rate
of fads the Houfe would judge how far fuch a Bill
was proved nccellary by any advertifment publith-
ed by a few Magiarates. He perfilled now as he
did the &It day, in laying that no neceffity did
exifi ; and that pofitive and public proofs, -or
palpable notoriety, were indifpenfably neccitary to
jullify the Houfe in adopting Inch a Bill. It was,
betide, an egregious error to fuppofe, that this Bill,
if paired, would operate merely as a fufpenfron of
the Habeas Corpus Law. It would be carried much
farther ; and having long lived in the County of Wa-
terford, he had feen the grofs abufes to which a Bill
of this fort was liable ; abufes totally beyond the
power and vigilance of the Lord Lieutenant to coo-
trout ; and knowing, as he did, that pains were taken
to excite diffentions amongst the people, and efpeci-
ally dilrentions and difputes of a religious nature in
that country, the molt mirchicrous of all, he fhonld
always refill the adoption of fuch a meafure, until
every necellity for it thould be fairly invatigated and
proved.
Mr. PITCHES too refitted the meafure, upon the
fame grounds of defedive proof, and refuted enqui-
ry. By the total omiaion of any mention of Ire.
land, in his Majefty's Speech at the opening of the
Seffion of Parliament, he was ifievitakly led to con-
clude, that no doubt whatever was entertain al
by his Majelty's Miniiiers of the fettled lnyal.y
and tranquillity of Ireland; but an Ad like this wets
more likely to produce tumult, than prevent it. It
was time to put an end to the scaation of imagina-y
plots, generated in the fancy of bed-ridden dotage.
It was no time now to play the tool with Ireland, or
to treat her inhabitants like forward children. The
belt policy would be to encourage in their minds a
manly, natural, and independant fpirit ; otherwife
the Union, which was defigned to unite their affec-
tion and energies with our own, mull prove not only
inefficient, but afford a conflant fource of jealoury
and diffention.
The queftion that the 811 be read the fecund time
was then put and carried without a divifion, and
ordered to he committed for to-morrow.
Mr. FOX now robe and laid, that as another quer-
lion, namely, the Slave Trade, Rood appointed for
to-morrow, he wifhed to know from the Right Hon.
Gentleman oppofite to him iIMr.PITT) which of thofe
fubjeas it was his intention ould have precedence?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQSER an-
fwet ed, undoubtedly the question for the fecund read.
ing of the Bill on the Slave Trade : but his Hon.
Friend, who introduced that Bill, meant, he under-
flood, to bring it forward in fuch a way as Dot to
excite much difendion, on to-morrow evening, but to.
defer the Debate to a future flags of the
Adjourned.

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The latenel of the hour at which the French pa•
pen reached us yeaerday prevented us from laying
before oar veaders any part of their contents, except
the conefpoodence between the French and Britifb
Governments on the fubjed of a pacification.—
This day we inkrt again Lord Mucceays's Letter
to the French Minifter for Foreign Affairs, beeaufe
in a few copies of our paper yeflerday it was not given.
The following is the letter :

MITTS' MIX LORD 1111ULOR4VII 'TO M. TALLITRAND,

lIIIIISTRII 101 FOREIGN ♦77AIIf.

His Majstry has received the letter which has
been addreffed to him by the head of the French Go.
amount, dated the sd of the prefent month.—
There is no objea which his Majeßy bas more at
heart than to avail himfelf of the fir( opportunity to
procure again to his Subjeits, the advantages of a
Peace, founded on a bafis which may not be in
compatible with the permanent fecurity and effential
intereits of his States. His Majeßy is perfuaded,
that this end can only be attained by arrange-
ments, which may at the fame time provide for the
future filet y and tranquillity of Europe, and pre-
vent the recurrence of the dangers and calamities
in which it is involved. Conformably to this fenti.
anent. his Majetly feels that it is impoffible fur him
to anfwer more particularly to the overture that has
been made him, until be (ball have had time to com-
municate with the powers of the Continent, with
whom he is engaged in confidential conneEtions and
relations, and particularly with the Emperor of Ruf-
fin, who has given the arongett proofs of the wifdom
and elevation of She fentiments with which he is
animated, and the lively interett which he takes is
the (day and independence of Europe.
(Signed)

" 11111141AVIL"

In the preceding coltunnej our readers will find
other important details relative to this bofinefs. The
letter from Bosantare, as our Readers would ob-
ferve, contains general profeffions of &fire of peace,
and declamations on the vanity of war ; mixed up,
however, with a good deal of confident fellfuffici-
encY, that moderate the condefcenfion of the appli-
cation. Lord Mace:eaves letter Rates what his
Idajeßy's Speech from the Throne already informed
is, that his Majeßy could at prefent return no other
anfwer to the communication than that he fhould fub-
mit it to the Powers of the Continent, with whom he
was engaged in confidential intercourfe and corref-
pondence, particularly the Emperor of Ruffia.
M. Santa, in pretesting there papers to the Le.
gillative Body, introduced them with a fpecch that
Saws that the French Government are by no means
pleated with the anfwer they received. It is again
denied that there is any chance of a coalition on the
Continent, and that even Ruffia will enter into the
war upon our fide. It is raid that within there kw days
BOMAIPAITA has received the mai exprefs affurances
of the amicable difpofitions of the King of Paussia
sad the tmperor of Genially ; and in a word, it is
dined that the expeitations of continental co-oper-
ation are mere chimeras. M. Sacra conc:udes with
raying, that u it only remains for French braver y to
difplay its whole energy, and to triumph at lati
over that eternal enemy of the liberty of the teas,
and the repofe of nations."
It is manila, indeed, from the whole tenor of this
fpeech, and from the bitternefs which pervades it,
that the French Government are extremely defirous
to hold out this Government as utterly averfe to
peace; and BONAPaITI avails himfelf of this occa.
fion to perfuade the people of his defire of peace—
and probably he may derive Tome credit from his late
overture.

The Moniker, in Notes as from the Editor, con-
tains a number of comments on the King's Speech,
in the fame fpirit and almolL in the fame words with
M. Setwa's Speech. One fad h alerted, viz. that
a Negociation had been on foot between this Country
and Sweden, and that the latter demanded upwards
of a million and a half for zo,ooo men; terms with
which, however, this Government would not comply;
and that the KING of Paussta declared, that the
moment fuch a Treaty was concluded, he would take
poffeffion of Pomerania.
The following is the principal pelage :
44 You (the Britilh Government) have received
pacific overtures. You have not thought proptr to
accept of them. Well then, continue to keep watch
on your hillocks, tranfport your artiaaos to the camp,
coaxed flying chariots, fabricate pikes, dig entrench-
ascots, inundate your lands, it is neverthelefs cer-
tain that every fquadron that leaves our ports may
do you mifchief to whatever point it is defined.—
While France is unattackable•on every fide, you are
vulnerable in England, in Scotland, in Ireland, in In-'
tea, in America, in a word, in a thoufand places ; we
may Like a blow againaorhieb you mud guard is

order to maintain the potation in which yon are oow
placed.
" We will confers it ; fince this is the inconteßa-
hie Rate of things, we cannot divine the motives
which induced the Cabinet of the Thuilleries to
make you prepaid.. Neverthelefs, from oor know-
ledge of the intrepid charafter, bold in the field,
moderate in the Cabinet, of that Prince, the role au-
thor of the brilliant deltinies of our country, he mull
have confidered that a eruggle, cerju-d-corfrio in
whatever part of the world it takes place, would
produce infinite mifery, and that fuch calamities
would be ufelefs to the profperity of a State which
he thinks fufficiently great and lirong. Betides what
has he not done in your cafe %%hid, he did not do for-
merly, before he pallid the Drave, on his march to
Vienna, a.td which he did not do fome months before
the battle of Marengo ?"
Our Readers need hardly be reminded that cceval
with the overture for peace, which, contained not the
lean project or hint of a hafts on which to proceed, the
celebrated Expo/se of Cii veracity appeared in the Med-
ieur in which Bow paltry. pledged himfelf to make no
peace but the Peace of Amiens. And to this the over •
tore, (ince we have now authority for calling it one,
moll evidently referred his Ma; airy, by pretending
" that no caufes for war exilled, that no difcuffions
were neceffary, but that all that was to be done was
to filence the pallions, and' to liften to the voice of
humanity." We cannot but applaud, however, the
temperate and prudent terms in which Lord Mut.-
GRAVII replied to the letter from the head of the
French Government—terms which certainly merited
a ltile of comment very different fi om that employed
by the French orators.

A letter under date of the 11l inftant, from Lilbon,
poGtively alferts, that a State Meffenger was on board
the packet, on a million to the Englifh Government
from Spain, and that the Spanifh Government paper
at Lifbon, fell, in confequence, from 14 to to per
cent. difcount. With refpeft In the arrival of a State
Mellinger from Spain, we have made particular en-
quiry, and we believe the (tory to be totally unfound.
ed, males, indeed, the perfon alluded to has come
over in a mercantile charACter. It is undoubtedly
true, that the variations fisted in the difcount of the
Spanifh Government paper did aftually take place ;
but it was afcribed to the pacific overtures from
France, alluded to in his Majefty's Speech, on the
meeting of Parliament.
Letters of the loth of January, from Madrid, Rate
that the Duke d'lrraur•oo, belonging to one of the
Nobleß Families in Spain, and another Nobleman of
equal rank, have been difmiffed the Court, in conic-
quence of fome reprefentations they made refpeUing
the condua of the Prince of Peace.

It is Bated, in letters from Barcelona, that the two
Mr. Glossa Ts, of that place, one of them ailing in
the capacity of Britifh Vice Conful, have been fent
to the chat:el ; and an Englnman refident at La
Sella, in the vicinity of the Bay of Rads, has (hared
the fame fate : they were atrefted on the fuppofition
that they gave intelligence to the Englith fquadron,
and otherwife favoured the Englith.
We learn from Cadiz, by letters of the 18th of
January, that the blockade of that place is continued
by Sir JOHN ORDE, with the greateft tignur. When
the latt adviceb came away, Lhe feveral Confuls
lon:;ing to the Neutral Powers, at Cadiz, had fen;
letters to Sir JOHN ORM, requefting to know " wk.
thcr neutral yards would be permitted to leave the
ports of Spain unmolefled ?" but owing to the blow-
ing weather at the time, an immediate anfwcr was
not expelled.

By forma. letters, we were informed of Sir. jowl;
ORrik'S intention on this fubjeet. He caufed it to be
made known to all veffels met by our cruizers going
into Cadiz, that as they were unacquainted with the
blockade they might pals, but that they would not
be fuffered to return with cargoes ; and as loon As
these was futficient time allowed for velfels of all na-
tions to be informed of the blockade, no veffcls what-
ever would be permitted to enter the blockaded ports.

The following is an extra of a letter from Gro-
ningen, dated January 28:
▪ The following notice to the Mercantile Body was
lately publifhed here, at the inftance of the French
Staff Officer reading in this city :
' The Corn Factors of this city are to take notice,
that, by virtue of orders from high authority, no
wheat, barley, oats, or other grain of that nature, is
permitted to be exported ont of the country, without
the exprefs perrniffion of his Excellency, M. de Si-
seosivit.t.t, Ambandor of his Majefty the Emperor
of the French, to the Batavian Government ; nor is
it allowed that there articles he tranfported to France,
without leave had and obtained from M. GCllti,
Comeniffary •of Commercial Relations of France at
Amflerdam.

Direel application mull be made to the above-
mentioned Gentlemen, dating the quantity and qua-
lity of the grain to be exported, the names of the
(hips, and their Captains, with the place of thcir def.
tinat ion.

• The captain of The (hip is required, on his return,
to produce a certificate, figned by the French or Ba-
tavian Commiifary in the neutral port at which the
Ibip (hall have difchargeds or, if no fuch officer
happen to refkie there, it mull be furnithed by the
magillrate of the place.
• This 'mature, and the fame formalities, extend
to butter, cheefe, felt meat, and prorihons in gene-
ral, which might principally fare for ifettallingour
common enemy."