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tomftaneer, sail* mime order of thins, Vette ,
taken into Confidaution. Waging war, as we pro-
felled to ttricnot merely for political purpofes, but in
defence of religion and morality, it certainly was
highly prepofterous to underrnire the charafter of
that very order and defcription of men, who, were,
by the conft ituted authorities of the State, appointed
the pillars and gdardiaans of religious and moral fen-
timent. Nothing firely could be more impolitic, and
even wanton, than any attempt to depreciate the
charadter and principles of thofe who were bound to
be at once the teachers and examples of virtue. Yet
there men were now held up as perfoni who did their
duty unwillingly: who %vele on the watch for every
opportunity to negleft and.efcape from the obliga-
tions of their offices; forty was he to hear filth opi-
nions broached and let afloat: The Bill applared to
him to embrace two different and dillind objets,
which might be advantageoufly divided and fepa-
rately confidered. As far as the queftion of refi-
dence was concerned, he was free to Rate, that, in
his opinion, the moil beneficial effeds would accrue
from the parochial habitation of the Clergy. The
State had a tight to expert every affillance from
an eftablifhnsent, inflitnted, paid, and proteded
by the Conflitution. If the penalties enaeted for
non-refidence were rigoroufly enforced, the iota'-
. lible confequence would be. that the Clergy would
'Tilde in their refpiflive parifhes, and the Pub-
lic would reap the molt elfential benefit with
refped to moral improvement. The fecond
objet of the Bill; which involved the queftion
of farming, eonflithted a point of tnoft ferious in-
veffigation. It was not a queftion which ought to
be cotnproinifed to popular prejudice and clamour.
By virtue of the Statute of Henry VIII. a Clergy.
man was liabltlo the fame penalties foi engaging
in agricultural purfuits as attached to him for non
readence. Was this founded upon juft, on wife,
on equitable, and falutary. principles? In his opi-
nion, not. As the law at prefent flood, a Clergy-
man was authorized to cultivate his glebe, and to
difpofe of the furplus produce. Gentlemen mull
be aware that this Was a very vague and undefined
privilege. The quantum of ditpofable produce
depended on fortuitous circumftances. Not only
the extent of the glebe, but the number of the
Clergyman's family, came into the confideration.
A Clergyman with a large family, and an ordinary
portion of glebe, might have very little furplus pro-
duce to difpofe of. But how flood the cafe, fup-
poling him to have no children, or, what was equal-
ly probable, fuppofing him to be unmarried? Was
itnothisright and molt undoubted privilege to turn
his glebe to its full advantage? Could he do this, to
its HI extent, without poffeffing agricultural know-
ledge e Again, the Houfe mull be aware, that,
in the cafe of Inclofure Bills, which of late had
multiplied exceedingly, there was always a certain
proportion of land allotted to the Clergyman.—
Was the Clergymen to make ufe of his (hare ?
Was he to ui the land to lie wage ? Was he
tobeuetled it once .hiscism right, and the national
? Yet, as the law at prefent Rands, he was
liable to penalties, if die dlfpofed of the produce.
Was this confiftent with common fenfe--confillent
with the national good? At a time when the
neceraries of life were at loch an enormous price,
when the produce of the country was (toted not to
be adequate to its contumption, was this a time to
pally the energies of mind, and to throw ob-
flacles in the way of improvement ? Were Aft,
of Parliament to be rendered futile and nuga-
, and Bills introduced tothe avowed pur-
e,
for
e of turning land to its utmoft advantage, to
defeated, by humouring a weak and bigoted
prejudice, cat the facerdotal chancier could be
degraded by alts of praftical good ? Was it
difgraceful for a Clergyman to devote to in-
dultry and national improvement thofe leifure
hours which may be devoted to dronith inaftion
and Pelf-enjoyment? Whether was it better for
a Clergyman to exert himfelf in benefiting his
country by pradical effort and well-direded fkal,
or to contort merely his own arnnfement, his own
benefit and gratification, in riding, fox-hunting,
Ice.? Was it not rather meritorious and highly lau-
dable in a Clergyman, whole education and learn-
ing mutt natur4ly expand and cultivate his mental
• energies and faculties in a more varied and fuperior
degree than thofe whole lot was call in a more cir-
cumfcrftsed fphere of intelle&ual effort, inked of
burying his talent in a napkin, to put it out to that
ufiny which benefited the community and himfclf?
He would not afk, whether there • could be any
s but whether it was not prafi -wept in
Clergyman to let the firft and belt eiamplet a
i in-
duftry, of (kill, of utility? To bellow his attention
on that °hied, which, in primeval ages, had oc-
cupied the care of Patriarchs and of Moparchs,lhe
purfuits of agriculture, and the means OT-rendering
his fellow creatures happy .and comfortable ? In
the Church of Scotland, the Clergy were to a man
farmers; and he felt bold to challenge the ecck-
fiallical eltablifiament of any country of Europe to,
produce a clefs of men more zealous, and more ea.
ficieat allies of the State? As reference had bona:
made to an individual cafe, and that cafe hype,
thetical and fuppofitious, he (hould take the ribesil;
ty of contralling it with one drawn from aft&
life. Let the Houfe pidure to itfelf the cafe of *
Clergyman coming into a wild and uncultivated
diftrid, coming into a place deprived of all com-
fort, and prefenting nothing but caufe for difcon-
tent and alarm! a church in ruins, a parfonage-
houfe in a Rate of dilapidation and decay I the in-
habitants rude and uncultivated--the foil ittelf am-
biguous—and, from local circumftances, calcula-
ted folly for the rendezvous of fmugglers and
plunderers. The roads, if roads they could be
called, impalrable--the country at large wafte,
defert, and negledcd. This one individual n
this Clergyman, gifted with fuperior poweirsa:i
mind, with energies which defy even the cons•
mon operations of human agency, reveries the
whole face and complexion of things. Bletb/
inftruOion with example, he civilises the i
tants ; forms their minds to virtuous purfuits ; builds
at his own charge, a church, where he inculcate,
by precept what he ilhillratei by example ; rev
claimsthe foil, and forcesoccan to reftitution i emits
and perfefts mods t plans, and carries into excite-
t Ina. meafures for public fecurity ; renders man dot
friend of man; from aggreiTors converts them ill-


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tolorethrett ; eunrrnstes tnem r tnit private goiii
coisfentaneous and dependant ow public benefit ;
that individual intereft mutt give place to general
happinefs; and transforini The Whole charaCter and'
fituationof theplace to which he is appointed. The
fervices of this man are to important, Co. con-
fpicuous and exalted, and have fuch an imperious
claim upon acknowledgment) that the Lord Lieu;
tenant of the county feels it his duty publicly and
officially to thank him ; the Migiftrates fecond
and echo back the vote of praik ; the Judges, in
their official capacity, bear evidence to his worth
and merit; the Board of Agriculture feel them-
felvei called upon to pay him homage ; in thort, eve-
ry conftituted Authority awards him the tribute of
gratitude and applaufe. Is not, he begged leave
to elk the Houfe, the cafe of a man like this more
than a counterpoife, morethan a let-offagainft the
66fitious character of Parfon Trulfilotr ? But he
was not now oppofing hypothefis to hypothefis;
not contrafting one idle charafter with another.
No l his defcription was given, not from the
pages of a novel, but from hiltorical fad. He
was (peaking of a man aaually ezifting, a man
knoWn to the world, and efteerned by all the good,
the virtuous, and the intelligent; a man nniverfally
recognized as a Public Benefador, and whofe lots
could not but be regarded as a national misfortune.
The unroofing fuch a man from the place which
he had cultivated, adorned, and almoft created,
mull be a fubjeit of genetal regret. It was more a
public than an indtvidualiofs. He was nerfuaded
that the Houfe mull readily and at once perceive
to whom he alluded. It • was invidious to men-
tion names; neither, indeed, was there occafion
to name a man, fo well known,. ro much, and fo
j u Illy e fteem ed, and recognized by public fuffra ge, as
one of the brighteft ornaments both of the fpecific
profeffion to which he belonged, and of fociety at
large. Yet, however unneceffery it might be, per
ft, to point out the individual,, whom every Gen-
leman mull immediately recognizea man whofe
merits were their own herald, and needed not pa-
negyric--it might be proper, in the prefent in fiance,
to oppofe name to name, and, as a fictitious cleri-
cal charader had been introduced, he would meet
and contraft it with a reality, by exhibiting Dud-
ley v. Trulliber. -
Mr. WINDM•II rote, not to oppofe the Bill, but
to Rate the grounds on which he fupported it. He
looked upon it as merely a temporary meafure, a
fufpenflon bill, a fubftitute till an enlightened and
comprehenfive plan was matured. Provifions
which he could not affent to in a permanent ad,
in this, therefore, he fhoukl not oppofe. He re-
ferred particularly to the power vetted in the
Bifhops to difpenfe with the refidence of their Cler-
gy. After entering into a vindication of common
informers, he proceeded firongly to object to that
part of the Bill which allows clergymen to take
•farms. On thii point he did not with to Ice the
law altered a jot. He cenfured in very revere terms
the condo& of the Board of Agriculture, with re-
gard to tithes. Their t orrerpondence with the
Grand Juries he declared to be highly indecorous.
The Board itfelf he Riled a attar nature.
Mroe Ls (poke with great warmth againll the
Bill. Having pointed out the importance of inforc-
ing the refidence of the clergy, and the melancholy
confequences which mutt follow from its being dill
penfed with in any degree, he concluded by giving
his vote again) the Speaker's leaving the chair.
Sir H. St. J. MILDISST was rather inclined to
think that the Committee (hould be now gone into,
in order tc fee what thape the Bill might airume ;
it was his opinion that the purport might have
been better anfwered by limply bringing in a Bill
to determine what was meant 'by the words “ wil-
ful abfence" in the Ratite of Henry VIII. As to
the obfervations of an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. She-
ridan) refpeaing what had befallen a Clergyman
in the county. of Effer, he perfeCtly coincided its
them—for no man was more deferring of enco-
rnium than the Reverend Gentleman (Mr. Dud-
ley), whole removal from his living was matter of
equal furprifc and regret. He at lealt, for one,
could alien, that by the exertions of that Reierend
Gentleman, the foil had been reclaimed, the inha-
bitants civilized, and the general condition of the
country was confiderably improved—a fad which
was attefted by the Lord Lieutenant, the juftices,
and Grand Juries of the county.
Mr. &meow argued at great length again& the
Bill, and contended, that the refidence of the
Clergy was uniformly recommended, and ftrialy
enforced throughout by the Canon Law.
Colonel Stays's- rote only to obferie, that he
joined molt cordially in what had fallen from an
Honourable Baronet (Sir H. Mildmay) in praife
of the Rev. Mr. Dudley whore agricultural labours
in the county of Elks lead defervedly received the
unanimous approbation of that county.
The queftion was then loudly called for, and
agreed to; and the Houk accordingly refolved
itrelf into a Committee on the Bill, when a long
converfation enfued on thearnendments: die Cha-
ncellor of the Exchequer,bowever,having fuggefted.
that it would be more convenient to permit the
amendments on both fides to be now received, that
the Bill to amended might be printed, and be taken
into further confiderauon on Monday next, the
fuggeftion was agreed to, the Report received,
and the Bill, as amended, ordered to be reported.
—On the motion, that it be taken into further cow
fideretion on Monday next,
Mr. Roomy propofed Tuefday. On the motion
that Monday be the day,the Hours divided—Ayes
33—Noes 7.
IRISH SLICTIOW SILL.
The Houk having refolved into a Committee
on this Bill,
Mr. A Boor rote to propote an Amendment,
that in lieu of the Commiffion inferted in the Bill,
confining of Affiftant Barrifters, that a Commit-
lion fhotild be appointed to examine the evidence
on Controverted Eleftions from among men d
property of not lefs than awl. a year. That each
party lhould appoint fix Commiffioners. who ball
not have voted at the eledion coutcfted--that the
twelve perforu fo appointed, (ball, by ballot among
thensfelves, be reduced to four, who (hall chock a
Barriler of not lets than fix years Rending at the
Bar, to be their Chairman; and that any evidence
rejected by the Paid Commiffion, any of the parties


FRANCE.

PARIS, JUNE i 6.

Letters from Genoa Rate that Admiral Gait-
THEAVISI has received exprefs orders from Paris,
to debark with all poffible (peed the troops on
board his fleet on the Coal of Tripoli. From
thence they are to attempt to penetrate to Egypt
whatever difficulties they may encounter on their
march.---.7evreal de Fraswkfort, quoted ly the Journal
des De. s.
The Eledors of Mentz, Treves,and feveral other
Princes of the Empire, have followed the example
of the Court of Vienna, in forbidding all fecret
focieties in their- dominions, and all intercourfe
with foreign focieties.
A privateer from Boulogne, a few days fince,
took poffeffion of an Engliffi reel laden with mar-
ble from Canara, two of which were of ;he fineft
white, for flatuaries. As this kind of marble has
become extremely rare fince the revolution, the
minifter gave orders that the two blocks alludecl
to ihould be taken polfeffion of, and they are ar-
rived at Paris.

Letters from Bourdeauz, under date of the t ith
June, Rate, that by intelligence received from
Gnadaloupe, that Colony was under arms, as an
attempt was ezpeeted to be made on it by the
lisacsLons, MIT t7.—A detachment of the
47th Demi-Brigade, coming from Mont-Pellier,
paired through here a few days ago on the road to
Carthagena; another paired to-day for the fame
place. Orders have been given to provide accom-
modation for 4000 more French troops, which are
only two days journey from Barcelona. We have
likewife been apprized that goo French tailors are
coming here on their way to Carthagena. It ap-
pears that there troops are in the pay of Spain.
Pau, (Lowsa 88888 11), JUN■ 7.—Citizen
Fa Li DZIPORTIS, Chief Secretary of Legation in
Spain,writes in the followingterms to theSub•Pre-
feft of Bayonne.-44 Peace will quickly be figned.
The Ambaffador is gone to Badajos."

LONDON.

SATURDAY, JUNE so.

PRICE 011 STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Cookll far opt. 61ii--Reducal 6oi--Omnium zo prcm.
4 Per Cent. 791—New 5 per Cent. 95.,
PILICI Or STOCKS YISTIIDAY
Bank Steak 16611571 5 per C. Le?. 95.1
3 per C. Red. 6z3 64 a. 61 Long An z 8 7-169
3 per CCM CanL t Imp. 3 per Cent. 59 1-1
4 Per Cet. CeaL 791 i I Imp. Ann. t}9 1-16
per C. Navy Mut Cant for Are. 64

Laft night we received another day's Paris
journals, viz. thofe of the 16th, but they are as
void of any thing important as thofe received the
day before.

The report of the concluficm of Peace between
Spain and Portugal is not confirmed ; the official
paper is fluent on the fubjeft ; but a letter from Pan,
of the 7th June, reports that Peace will fpeedily be
concluded.

Thefe Journals were brought over in a flag of
truce which arrived yeilerday morning with far-
ther difpatches to C. Ovro; between whom and
our Miniflers the interviews are fo frequent, as to
hold out a (irons hope that both parties are bent
upon conciliation. Till tome farther progrefs,
however, be made in this defirable work, we need
hardly eve& our only Ally to be freed from dan-
ger and apprehenfion. The Moniteur has already
announced. that the Provinces of Portugal are to
be among the compenfations given up by France
and Spain at the Peace.—Of amrfe, any thing that
could cut off the power of bolding out this bonus
will at ptvfent be avoided by the enemy.
1

We cannot learn from the Paris Papers what
has become of GANTHSAuNI• The yeersa/ it
Waiters quotes an article from the From-goes
joansal, arming that he had received orders to
land the troops on board his fleet at Tripoli,
whence they were to make the bell of ►heir way to
Egypt—A gory certainly very improbable.
It feems fomewhat remarkable that we do not
learn fometbing certain telpeEting this fqoadroo
from Tome of our own Commanders. The whole
affair begins to look of a piece with the Rorie. we
have been bearing from time to time refpeding
Admiral Bursar's ftplasiree—a thin to talk
about)
Letters icon Barcelona Emotion that numbers of
French troops, and a body of agars, are marching
to Carthage. This teems as if (me Expedition
were to be had ea frost that port. Probably

DewmlPrwwltilijr.
clofely:blockisl4 to permit any.Elpesliiipsi So pit • -
to tea vr,ithan?chincepf reaching its nail don;
ald he niat..think. 4Th is the torts ire
lefs obfe?ved, ha May be, able to carry ant plan .
of attackig foreign poßffions: of even aiding his
army in Egypt, into ;flea better from them.
Some people think that it is not imprObable
that the French May fend troops to Spabs, in order
to make an attempt on Minorca from fome of thi
neighbouring port* of that kingdom, parti!•tilarly
as the garrifon of Minorca is known to lit con-
liderably weakened by the drafts fent on other far-
vices. -At all events troops that are going to Par-.
celona, and from thence to Carthaiena, cannot be
intended for the war in Portugal, and moil he Al:
tined for fome maritime expedition. It will be n:.
ceffary, therefore, to watch with additional vigi-
lance the motion's of the enemy in the Spanilh ports
in the Mediterranean.

The French Funds have again fallen a little.—
They are 47i.

On Saturday next his MAJFSIY will go in Rate
to the Houfe of Peers, to put an cnd to the prefent
Seffion of Parliament.

In addition to the information we gave yefter-
'day, refpeeing the Military College, at Chelfea,
for which ufeful and benevolent InTiitution a new
building is to be ereaed in White•Lion-hreet, Pim.
lico, we have the pleafure of hating that the first
hone was laid yelierday by his Royal Higlinefs
the Dues of YORK. The infcription on the ye-
dellal was thus infcribed :
This Stone was laid by F rce, Duce of Yoa a, Field
Mardial of England, in the ai ft year of his IVlajelty's
Two gold medals, and a number of coins rein
current year, were depofited in the urn under the
intended noble edifice.

His Royal Higbnefs the Duke of Yosk came on
horfeback, after having attended at the field esti..
cife in Hyde Park.
The Duke of YORE'S Chaplain (the Reverend
Dr. GAMBLE), performed the ceremony. Mr.
COPELAND is the Archited ; and Mr. MITCMILL
the Mailer Mafon.

Mr. Alderman WATSON, as Commiftul-G:ne-
ral, depofited in the urn the different coins of the
realm.

This Seminar/ is intended for the Education of
the Orphan Children of thofe Soldiers who have
loft, or may lofe, their Lives in, the Defence of
their Country.
Mr. ?limn, Sir CNRISTOPIIIIII HAWKINS) and
Sir GUAM! SHUCESURON, have formally joined
in rapport of Mr. ADDINGTON'S Adminifiratton.—
Believing as we do that nothin c, can rave the coun-
try but peace, they went to Mr. Aonimovoit and
told him, they and others were detirous of giving
him their fnpport, upon condition he would anfwer
two queftions to their fatisfaaion; tit, Was there
any political conneftion between him and Mr.
PITT? ad, Was he lincere in hisovertures of peace?
To the firft Mr. Aoutwovon anfwered, there was
no other conneaion between him and Mr. .PITT
than that of private friendthip ; to the fecond, that
he was molt earneftly defirous, not only of mak-
ing peace, but that he would ultimately prove
he had offered great facriaces to obtain it. Sir
CHRIIITOPIINI HAWKINS fends fix Members to Par-
liament..

CANTISIURY.—A farther decline took place in
the price of Flour this week, the proprietor of
Barton Mill having fold his Flour at 8;s. a lack,
which has enabled the Mayor to lower the price
of Bread three farthings in the quartern loaf.
LLOYD'S MONTHLY SHIPPING LIST as a com-
panion to the Counting-Houfe and Ship's Cabin,
has not been exceeded for completenefs and utility
by any publication which we have feen announced
during many years. Befides twelve interefling
points relative to Ten Thoufand Merchant Arad*,
it will contain the ufnal particulars relative to the
whole ROYAL Navy, together with the Firft Lien-
tenant belonging to each (hip, and the Agent of
every Captain. Such a comprehenfive Work re-
lative to the Ship?ing and Commercial Interefls of
Great Britain, has long been wanted, and we doubt
not but it will meet with the prompt and extenfive •
fupport to which it is entitled by its utility, and the
great and fpirited exertions of its Condukors. v
The following arc the only Nautical Articles,
received by thejnland Mails this mornins :
. Yaarouvw, Juni 19.—Yeflerdar evening arti.
ved the Jai. frigate from a cruise.
This morning failed the Fatima of Wa :As
packet, Captain DAVID SUTTON, with the Mails,
anti Merrs. Vassoa, SNIRLD, tic. for Cuxhaven.
' —The Kayo Gioia. packet, Captain Dsas, is
hourly expelled to arrive from Cuxhaven.
Ist• the Roads—the B IN, BRU/SSIVICE,
STANDARD, Assternics, LIYDIN, and PRINCSSS
Of ORANGE t SP*IDWILL, CONOVIO, and jas.ovsa
brigs; Puosan and Ssscutaroa lugs!! ;
TOS and NANCY, Ste. fire.fhips; Lt Decry, Masai*,
Damts and DILIGINCI cutters.
Sailed the &LURAY frigate, the Faroe's.' sop,
and GtORGI cutter.

Sm ttttt ss, Joys 19.—Arrived his .thijcay's
brig Gut, Captain Russsi.s., from the Downs, .
to refit; having experienced a dreadful gale of
wind htft Saturday, when the was obliged to throw
all her guns overboard to lighten her, as it was
expefted that the would go down every minute.--
Remain at the Non his Majeßy's &A-
LAND, Vice-Admiral Gansu; Tmessus, Captain
&tom ; BOWS. flop.lhip, Lieut. loittnin; &li-
ar, hired armed-fhip, Captain WILLIAMS; HARPY .
begs Capt. Bon; and JALQUSR. the Hon. Capt.
LIST; with the PLLTII. BOLD, Mewl, CONPLKT,
FR ttttt S, MALLARD. aid Jacext.t. gun.brigs.
Dist, Joss 19.—Sailed the Locusr gun veal
Wu a cruise.—Wind E.
Gummy's. Juas ;9—Paffed by the Cambru-
cian, Sasses, from Charlellon: Venus, LARMILL;
Salem, Pamtson; from Bourdexus: V-
and Endeavour, Catmint. from
Sailed the Dreadnought. Jonsson. for
rats: Bellifatius, Enna; and Martha.
Peteriborgh.

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