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London, England, 1813-03-17 00:00:00

NUMBER 8122.

OP?IC2 OP abNANvr; Marti losis.
Tat,PRINCIPAL 01,7014$ ilia AM-
491:rs ORPIVINCR, ishirety give Notice,
that Phoposals will bn received at 'their Office in Pall-Mall,
be•or before Monday, the 22d day.ei*March instant, from such
teisons as may be willing totiodertake the Supply of Forage
/for the Ordnance Horses stationed in the following Districts, to
tie delivered at the Expence of the Contractor, viz.
NORTH BRITAIN,
NORTHERN,
YORKSHIRE, •
EASTERN, exclusive of WARLEY,
SOUTHERN, exclusive of CHATHAM,
SOUTH WEST,- including PORTSMOUTH, ISLE OF
WIGH r, and CHRISTCHURCH,
.WESTERN, • , •
WOOLWICH, with its Dependencies, WARLEY and
CHATHAM,
WEEDON, NORTHAMPTONSNIS.E, • . '
For a period of Six Mon,lis from the l st April neat.:
The Oats to be good, sweet, dry, and clean, without any mix-
ture of Foxy or Mowburnt Oats, alit must not weigh lcssjhan
37 pounds per Winchester Bushel ; the Hay to be sweet and tiry,
and delivered in Trusts of-561b.. weight.
The Straw to he good, clean, and dry Wheat or Rye Straw,
and delivered in Trusses of 36Ibs. weight.
The Prices to be paid for the respective Quantities of each

Article which may be delivered, at the following rates, viz.
For the Oats at per hundred pounds, Avoirdupois weight.
For the Hay at per hundred and twelve Pounds.
For the Straw at per hundred and twelve Pounds.
The Proposals may be delivered separately or jointly for two
or more of the said Districts, and it is expected that the Contrac-
tor shall receive the Stable Dung, which, during the Period of
his Contract, may accumulate, making an allowance for the
same aftes the rate of per horse per week.
Further Particulars may be known upon application to the
Officers commanding the Royal Artillery in each District, and
also at the Secretary's Office, in Pall-mall, aforesaid, any day
between the hours of ten and four o'clock, where the Proposals
must be delivered sealed up, and endorsed, " Proposals for For-
age," but no Proposals can be admitted after the said 22d inst.
at Twelve o'Clock at noon of the same day, neither will any
Tender be noticed unleis the Party making it, or an Agent in
Ids behalf, shall attend.

By Order of the Board,
R. H. CRAW, Sec►de►y.

AucrrioN MART, NEAR THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that from
the Newspapers and County Registers having been defaced
by various persons formerly frequtliting the Saloon of this Insti-
tution, the Directors have considered it expedient to adopt the
following Regulations, viz.
_ _

That the files of English, Scotch, and Irish Papers, the County
Registers. Surveys, and other Maps, and the particulars of all
Sales that have taken p'ace since the opening of the Building,
may be inspected on payment of 6d. each person daily, ss. 6d. per
month, 10s. per quarter, or 21s. per annum.
The Drectors vice this opportunity of offering their acknow-
ledgments for the great support this Institution has received, and
to inforni the Public chat it is wholly unconnected with any other
Establishment under a similar title.—By Order of the Board,
JOHN GREENWOOD, Secretary.
Independent of the-Rooms for the Sale of .Estates and Personal
Property, Arbitrators' Solicitors, and alias, may be accommo-
dated for Meetings and public occasions.

MIDD LESEX,—TO BE SO i.D,
AFREEHOLD ESTATE, consisting of a com-
modious and substantial Brick DWELLING - HOUSE, '
containidg a spacious and elegant Drawing-room, a handsome-
Dining-room, and Breakfast-parlour, eleven well-proportioned
Bvil.rooms, and convenient Kitchens, Dairy, and Cellaring ; with
a Coach-horise, Stabling for four horses, Brewhotisc, and other
Offices contiguous to the House; also an excellent Garden and
Pleasure-grounds, and 10 Acres of Meadow Land adjoining the
Garden, the whole being nearly 12 Acres. 'file Premises are
situated about a mile from Acton, and tke same distance from the
Harrolv-road, aria command an extensive and beautiful Prospect.
• For Pirticulars enquire of Mr. Adam Murray, Surveyor and
Land Agent, 61,St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross ; Gr of Messrs.
/hint and Bowman, Solicitors,Old Bethlem, Broad-street.

ETA I ES IN ROSS-SHIRE.
TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC ROUE',
Within the Royal Excharge Coffee-house, in Edinburgh, on
Wednesday the 14th of April next, at two in the Afternoon,
THE LANDS of DORNIE, BUNDALLOCH,
CAMBUSLUNIE, EASIER anti WESTER KEPPOCH,
CARR, and LEAULT, including the thriving Viihr,Ll of DOR-
NIE, which, though founded only a few years ago, possesses a
population of from 400 to 500 Inhabitants.
The Village will be sold with so much Land adjoining to it as
any suit an intending Purchaser, in one Lot, and the Paints will
be sold tidier separately, or so many of them together as may be
convet itnt to intending Purchasers.
There will also be sold, in two Lots, the FARMS of MOP-
VICH and INCHROE, with the Half of ti.tr Fishing of the
River Cane.

In the event that pendic g Treaties far a private Sale shall not
be c,,mpleted, there will be also sold the LANDS of GLEN-
SHE. L, comprising the Farms of Ratagan and Forlysick, with
the Grazing of Glenluine, and those parts of the Lands of Inver-
sheal and Claunie, lying to the South of the Waters of Sheal and
Claunie, and the Inn Ot Shea Meuse ; also comprising the Lands
of Achnagart, and those parts of the Lands of Inversheal and
Claunie, lying to the North of the Waters of Shoal and Claunfe,
with the Half of the Salmon Fishing of the River Sheal and the
Kelp Shore.
The Fawn of Ratagan will be sold separately; and the other
Farms of Glensbeal will be sold separatel, or so many of them.
together as may suit intending Purchasers.
For further particulars apply to Mos-re. Mackenzie and Mo-
nypenny, Writers to the Signet, in Edinburgh ; Alt :ander Man-
dell, No. 45, Parliament-street, Westminster; or to Lord Sea-
forth, Braban Castle.

A MOST DESIRABLE ES FATE FOR SALE, IN THE
STEWARTRY OF KIRKUDBRICAJT.
THE LANDS of NES*ERYETT aaEASTER•j
GLEN, &c. extendi4blisbout 300 Scotch Acres, or 360
English, will be exposed to Sale, by PUBLIC ROItIP, on Tues-
day, 4th May, 1313, at Noon, in Nairn's Coffi.e- ;nom, Dumfries,
unkss previously Sold by Private Bargain. .
In point of situation and local advantages, these Lanis are our-
passed by few • they lie within a4ut seven miles of the town of
Dumfries, andwithin half a mile bf where vessels can load and
unload with ease and safety, so that manure can be obtained, and
the produce exported, with little expellee. The village of New.
Matey, and the venerable ruins of the ancient Abbey there, are
within a few yards of the Estate. The country about is most
picturesque and beautiful; • and many charming situations for
building upon may be had, which, without being subject to the
inconvenience of a high elevation, would command a view of the
surrounding country, of•Caerlaverock Castle, of di* Solway Frith,
&c. and of vessels passing up and down the River Nith.
To a Sportsman, this Property must be a great object, as it
abounds with Game; and Loch Kinder, one of the finest Trout.
lug Lakes in Scotland, lies partly on the match of the Estate.
4,
The Lands are well watered, and are enclo d subdivided by
substantial Fences of Granite Scot* rf (*Lan 18161
and the Teinda are valued. Thy . 0 4.0 y to-
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main on the Lands for years. " - . "
For particulars, enquire of Jam le, afteArprietor or
William Gordon, Writer, Dumfr' dr of. Mr. . Jelun'ion,
Wylie, Solititirr, 141nburgb,,i-Marek 1, 3244 - -

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HAWKINS and DUNN, Manufacturers of the
ESSENCE of COFFEE, in compliance with the numerous
requests of their customers, have, in addition to their warehouses,
Nu. 79, Great Tiichfield-streets No. 3, Horton-square, and No.
16, Great Winchester-street, City, appointed the following places

of sale: Needham and Co. No. 47, Ludgate-hill; and 70;*hite
Lion-street, Pcntonville ; W. teen 122, Aldersgate-street; R.
Biddle, fiemers-street, opposite the Middlesex Hospital ; J. Stone,
1, Sacitville-street, Piccadilly; J. Whistance, 9, Newington-
causeway ; and J. Austin, 24, Clare-street, Clare-market. Sold
in half pint bottles, each equal to 18 ounces of the best Coffee of
the respective kinds, Turkey 6s. 6d. Bourbon 311. 6d. ; Plantation
2s. 6d. A teaspoon-full of this Essence put into a coffee-cup
with sugar and cream, and filled up with boiling water, will in-
stantly make a cup vc strong coffee, of a most superb; flavour,
perfectly elear end without the bast sediment.

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PdRLIAMENTARr PROCZEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 16.
In a Committee of Privileges,• their Lordships beard Sir S.
Roarittv and Mr. HAttorAva, u Counsel in support of the
claim of Borthwick, Esq. to the Boarnwicic Peerage.
Farther proceedings to take place in the Committee on this day
se'nnight.
After the House had resumed, the Earl of COURTOWN
presented a Petition from the Protestant Inhabitants of the
County of Wexford, against the Catholic Claims ;—and Earl
CONYNGHAM one from the Catholic Inhabitants of the
County of Clare, in favour thereof; which were both ordered to
lie on the table.

The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a Petition from the
Ship-builders and others of the Port of London, interested in, or
connected with the Trade to India and China, „which his Lord-
ship stated was signed by upwards of 3000 persons, praying the
said Trades may be confined, as heretofore, to the Port of Lon-
don ; and praying that no alteration may be made in the existing
laws in that respect; and farther that they may be heard by
themselves or their Counsel, in support of their interests. The
Petition being read, was ordered to lie on the table.
The Marquis WELLESLEY presented a Petition from the
Manchester Manufacturers, Traders, and others, whose names
were thereunto subscribed, interested ir, or connected with the
Trade t, India and China; and which his Lordship stated was',
also numerously signed, praying their Lordsh;ps to t ,ke into
their most serious consideration the important subject to which
the Petition referred, as recommended In the Speech from the ,
Throne, praying also that the said trade may be confined, as
heretofore, to the Port of London; and that no alteration may
be made in the present system of laws for its regulation ;—and
Anally, to be heard by Counsel In support of their interests.—
The Petition being read, was ordered to lie on the table.
On the question of adjournment—
The Duke of NORFOLK rose, and from the Cross Bench
made a few observations in a very low tone of voice, respecting,
as we could collect, the nature and tenor of the protest entered
by a Noble and Learned, Lord (Erskine) against the recent deci-
sion of the House in the case of the Banbury Peerage; and inti-
mating his intention to submit a proposition to the House re-
specting it, as he could not regularly enter a protest against a
protest.-01
Lord ERSKINE, in substance, vindicated the nature and cha-
racter of the Protest he Intended to enter upon the Journals on
the occasion, as consonant with a very important and acknow-
ledged privilege of the Peerage, and consonant to his own well
considered views of the subject. It was a privilege which he
would not give up with reference either to the opinions of the
Noble Earl Marshal or of the House ; hut would so express his
sentiments in the way and manner he should think fit to express
them.

The Duke of NORFOLK, in a short explanation, observed,
he certainly did not mean to impute any thing improper to the
Noble and Learned Lord on the occasion. But as he thought
that a new regulation should prevail with respect to the subject
to which the protest referred, it was not unfair in him to give
notice that he intended to bring forward a proposition on it, on
a future.day.
Lord GRENVILLE (who had just entered the House) pre-
sented a Petition from certain Inhabitants of the City of Bristol,
in favour of the Catholic Claims.
EAST-INDIA QIIESTION.
Lord GRENVILLE again rose and said, he
should beg the indulgence of the House while he of-
fered
a few general observations on the very impor-
tant subject of a petition which he understood a Noble ,
Friend of his had presented to their Lordships that
evening, the object of which was, fur a Renewal of
the East-India Company's Charter, nearly, or ex-
actly on the same principles upon which it now stood.
He would first adver t to what he understood from
public rumour, as to the manner in which his Ma.
jesty's Ministers would bring forward that most ex-
tensive and complicated subject to the view of the
House. The subject was one which naturally in-
volved a vast variety of detailed, as well as some of
the most important principles of Government and
Legislature, which ever came under the consideration
of Parliament. It involved, in the first instance, the
future rule and principles of Government, by which
the connection between the mother country, and some
of the greatest provinces, nay, empires and kingdoms
under the British dominion, was to be continued and
upheld. Not that alone, but a system involving the
well-being and happiness of forty millions of people,
at the lowest calculation, which were now subject t
the British Crown ; for to the British Crown they
must be subject, until the British Monarchy should
cease to be a Monarchy ! (Hear, hear.) This was
the leading and paramount principle in the consider-
ation of that vast..business, tor whatever may be the
financial or the commercial importance of the sub.
ject, the paramount duty was the way in which they
should discharge the awful trust of providing for the
happiness and good government of so many millions
of people. In this view of the subject, it was
scarcely necessary to remind their Lordships, they
would have to arrange and legislate de novo, but
they would enter upon it with all the knowlege and
experienc'e acquired and furnished by that most en-
lightened and respectaLle body of men, the servants
of the East-India Company. Through these, a '
most considerable and important body of informa-
tion was to be derived, upon points touching upon
all the important questions that would arise out
of the general subject : and, in a considerable de-
gree, through the reports made to the other House of
Parliament. There was one point not only of great
but of peculiar importance ; one that from the first
acquisition of the great territory of Bengal, in 1765,
to the settlement in 1784, was productive of much
discontent and misery to the suffering inhabitants.
He meant with respect to the mode of collecting the
land revenues of that country. It was therefore held
to be the duty of Parliament, in that year, to pro-
vide for the settlement of a fixed and permanent land
revenue to be paid by the proprietors of the soil. In
this view, nothing gave him greater pain than some
passages in the sth Report made to the Commons, in
which a departure from that system, which was per-
fected with great labour and diligence by the then
Commissioners for the affairs of India ; a system furl
the permanent settlement of the land revenues, and
which was reduced to practice under the sanction of i
that great and good man Lord Cornwallis. And,
on this head, he wished to be informed, whether it
was meant to adhere to the provisions of the Act of
1784 or not ? He felt no small portion pf gratifica-
tion from the remetnbrance of the humble but zea-
lous part he took in perfecting that most salutary re-
gelation. But as he was speaking upon general prin-
ciples, he should not press that question. A second
point he wished to be informed was, whether it was
intended to enter upon such a course of enquiry as

PRICE sucpmicz-Burnontr.

would enable the Home to decide from its own actual
knowledge of the subject; because it was Parliaments
and neither the Court of Directors, nor the Executive
Government, that would have to decide. There was •
another most important topic forming a part of the
investigation end arrangement, and that was the tines;
tion of the military government of India ; involving a
principle under which that great empire had been ac-
quired : a principle, the erroneous application of
which may tend to the speedy annihilation of all their
mand e
racsi
all omr i toynoi chatnpo imonopoly
quarter.was
on
tnTohoefqgureestationandd
the commercial
extensive importance, involving not only the commere
cial relations with India herself, and of the newly ac-
quired possessions in that quarter, but the commerce
of the whole western coast of America. And he knesv
o!ao commercial system which promised so many or
so great advantages as that which may be established
between our Indian dominions and that great line
of coast. In the discussion and arrangement of these
various important and complicated details, lie assu•
red the Noble Lords, he would willingly, as far as his
humble powers went, afford every degree of assistance,
and this would be most sincerely and zealously ren.
dered by him ; but he doubted whether the desired
results could be obtained without affording the House
a more extensive means of inquiry and investigation
than the Noble Lords appeared Inclined ; they had,
no doubt, considered that pelt of the subject well,
and he should wait for the incipient course they pro.
posed. He wished to be informed as to the earliest
time they proposed to bring the question under their .
Lordships consideration ' • because, if the measures to
be proposed elsewhere should run into long cm*
minations, he thought they would improperly, dis-
charge their duty, if they did not institute some course
of inquiry, before the probable time of such exami-
nation being concluded. And he thought the sub.
ject should be submitted to the House in such a way
as would afford them a clue to direct their inquiries.
No inconvenience could arise from such a course. At
the same time he did net wish to drive Ministers into
any hasty or precipitate conclusions ; or too hastily to
enter into investigation.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL deemed it at present
entirely unnecessary to enter into any discussion upon
the points on which the Noble Baron bad delivered an
opinion. Upon some of these points, there seemed
between them no difference of opinion ; and upon
others, but slight shades. They essentially agreed
as to the great or vital importance, more or len, of
every branch of the great and complicated subject
in question. With respect to the course of proceed-
ing to be adopted, and in that he earnestly wished to
guard against the supposition, that in whatever House
this great subject may be first introduced by his Ma-
jesty's Government, such a proceeding could not
operate as the slightest ground of disrespect towards
that House in which it did not originate. Their
Lordships would recollect, that in all the great ques-
tions for many years past agitated in Parliament, the
custom aas to introduce it in either one House or
the other, as for instance, the question of the Union -
between Great Britain and Ireland—the Commercial
propositions between those two countries, and other
great and important measures. He was read y however
to say, that the subject in the first instance would not
come before them in the shape of a Bill, in which either
House would not have an opportunity of discussing
the different bi ouches of the subject wi:hout the greatest
inconvenience; but it would be brought forward in the
shape of distinct Resolution, by u hich means :lir y would JI
have the opportunity of considering the different
parts and branches of the question separately, and
any Noble Lord would be able to propose and intro-
duce what he might deem proper and necessary for .
discussion. The Resolutions which were considered
as proper to form the basis of what was proposed,
would be brought forward by a Noble Friend of hie
io the other House, in the course of a few days. It
may then be considered whether or not it would be
expedient that the Resolutions agitating in the other.
House should be made the ground of a simultaneous
proceeding in their Lordships' House. This, he
thought, might be a very convenient mode of pro-
ceeding, with reference to the nature and course the
investigation may assume in the other House. The
Noble Baron was aware, that on the present occa-
sion, unlike that he had alluded to, some very strong
differences of opinion existed between his Majesty's l
Government and the East India Company, and in
what terms the opinions entertained by the latter on
the points in question were expressed. That consi.
deration would lead to a material difference as to the
prinoiple and course of discussion. And in that view, r
he thought it would be more advisable not hastily to
decide upon any particular course in that House, but
to wait until they should see how the question may
rest with reference to these differences of sentiment
in another place. The expedient of a simultaneous
enquiry on the part of their Lordships, could then
be more advantageously considered.
The Marquis of WELLESLEY seemed of opi-
nion, that the most material point in his Noble
Friend's inquiries had been satisfactorily answered by
the Noble Lord; and that the main points appeared
to be placed upon such grounds as must answer ex-
pectation in the way of discussion. The general sub-
ject was of that various and complicated nature that
no other mode than that of separate resolutions, in
which the various points could be distinctly discussed,
would answer the purpose. The mode of simulta.
neous proceeding, he considered as highly desirable,
as far as it could be rendered practicalle convenient,
and he was glad that part of the question had taken
such a shape that it was likely their Lordships would
be afforded an opportunity of examining into and dis-
tinctly considering the different branches of the ques.
tion ; and this he considered to be the more necessa-
ry, as they were about to decide upon vital principles
of political economy, in tallich every point, especially
of the commercial relations of the subject, could be
considered with terrence to the complex nature of
i the whole question. The Noble Islarquis then made


t few observations widtrespect to some points touch-
ed upon by his Noble Friend, relative to the admini-
stration of affairs in India, and expressed his full co-
incidence in what he said respecting the superior ad-I
vantages of the settlement of a permanent land reve-
nue in Bengal, and observedi he had never felt grea-
ter satisfaction than in his endeavours to extend that
excellent and salutary system into the Southern Pro-
vinces of British India.
Lord GRENVILLE said, that his Noble Friend
must have misunderstood him on the subject of the
permanent settlement. He thought his Noble Friend
must know him too well- to imagine that he could
ever wish that the extension of the eynetrt should be
adopted upon hasty and undigested views: Whether
his Noble Friend or the Directors were right or wrong
in the instance to which his Noble Friend had adver-
ted, he did not at present consider. He did not op-
pose whatever caution, delay, and inquiry the nature
of the subject might require; but what he said was,
that the ,faith of the British Government was or
ought to be pledged, that the system should be adop-
ted as soon as it could be conveniently applied. But
now he learnt that a Report had been made by a
Committee of the House of Commons, which appea-
red to set aside the 'whole principle of the permanent
settlement, and to form some evidence of an intention
to keep the inhabitants of our lately acquired Indian
dominions under the lash of the Collectof—to pre-
serve the worst feature of Mahometan tyranny, in-
stead of extending to them the advantages of British
Government. This Report quoted, (he hoped, in-
correctly quoted,) two dispatches of the Directors,
in which, in terms light indeed, when compared with
the magnitude of the subject, they stated, 4, that they
were in no hurry to establish the permanent settle-
ment." Whit he meant to say was this, that the
Legislature should declare, in opposition to the words
of these•dispatches, that consistently with all neces-
sary caution and inquiry, it was in a hurry to extend
the advantages of the permanent settlement.
Their Lordships adjourned till today.