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1:e end, be highly prejudicial to the interetis of chi.
4runtry, without obtaining that revenge we fought
tn our enemies. The Noble Lord had, to his great
urprife, Paid, that his requeff was unconflitutional,
sod even urged, that it was improper Members
21r uld interfere, or animadvert on the conduit of
Milliners, in the relent Rate of the Winds, ex-
cept they were of opinion the country was fo far
in danger, through the inability or imprudence
of Miniflers, as to make it neceffary for its well-
withers to addrefs the Throne, and intreat that
thofe evil advifers fhould be removed from his

Majefty's Councils ; and the Noble Lord had there
upon fisted, that had he conceived it was his (Mr
Perceval's) intention, to found, on this application
for the Papers in que(lion, a Petition to the Throne,
be would willingly have given it up. Now this he
conceived to be a principle not only the mon abfurd in
argument, but alto the moil dangerous in its conic-
quence to the community. What ! Mall not the
Houle of Commons, in the event of an indifcretion,
or impropriety of conduit, have the liberty to inter-
pole their counfel or remonarances, with temper and
moderation, and warn them of their danger, before
they were irrecoverably overwhelmed in the fatal
confequences of their error ? Are we never to check
the deftruelive progrefs of error, but calmly wait till
its confummation ? Or is it by removal alone, we are
to corral the perhaps venial errors of the Minfitry ?
It had been obferved by the Noble Lord, that while
a firnilar oppreffive Decree had palled in France, is
1798, England, though her power at lea was not
then equal to what it is at prefent, thought it im-
proper to retaliate in the fpirit of that order.—
Now this very circumflance of our comparative in-
feriority then at lea, alluded to by the Noble Lord,
explained the reafon of England's not retaliating on
France. The neutral nations being then more on a
footing of equality at lea with us, would have re-
monarated, and perhaps carried the matter to an
open rupture. It was obferved by the Noble Lord,l
that France had made an exception in favour of
America. He wiffied to know, was that any reafon
in the mind of the Noble Lord, that we should not
impede her in her enjoyment of this exception ? In
fine, was it proper that we should content to the
Americans carrying into France the colonial pro-
duce of the French, provided France permitted them
to carry to us the colonial produce of England ? The
principle of ading, in this cafe, was undoubtedly
falfe, and the conceffion dangerous in the extreme.
He concluded with Hating, that, had the Noble
Lord, on a former occafion, Dated, that fuch an ex-
planation of the conduit of Minifters would neceffa-
rily di dole cireumllances of fuch a nature, as might
be prejudicial to the welfare of the nation, he would
not have trefpaffed on the patience of the licufe by
requiring the paper in quefiion.
Lord HOWICK role, and obferved, the Hon.
Gentleman had rather unfairly laid on him the I
blame of bringing the prefent difcuffion unneceffarily !
before the Houfe ; he was much millaken in his re-
colletflicn, if• he had not before, in a general way,
Rated his objeClion to the motion of the Honourable
Gentleman, to be the apprehenfion that, in our pre-
fent fituation, with regard to neutral nations, fuch an
explanation might be attended with dangerous con-
fequences to the welfare of Great Britain.
The original motion of Mr. Perceval was then read
from the Chair and negatived without a divifion.
Mr. HOBHOUSE then brought up the Report of the Commit-
tee on the Canaria Yarn Bill ; the amendments were read a fe-
cond time and agrefd to.
On the motion dLIVIr. WYNNE, the Bill for the prevention of
the Sedudlion of the Military; and alto that for the prohibition of
the importation of gun powder into Ireland, were feverally read
a third time, and patted.
The other Orders of the Day were then poßponed to Friday
next, and the Houk adjourned at twelve o'clock.

WEST INDIES.

HOUSE.OF ASSEMBLY, NOV. 27, iBo6.

It was recommended to the Hour", to dited the
Receiver General to remit to Edmund Pufey Lyon,
Efq. the font of three thoufand guineas, for the pur•
pole of purchafing a fervice of plate, to be prefented
to Vice Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K.B.
A debate thereon atofe, and on a divifion taking
place, there were, Noes t 4 ; Ayes 19.
Ia confequence of thefe proceedings, a meeting of
the Freeholders of the city and pari(h of Kingfton,
was held at Kingfton, on the 4th of December, to con-1
filer of the propriety of the condo& of their Repre-
fentativcs, in the Honourable Houle of Aftembly, in
voting with a majority in a late divifion, as above,
&c. &c.
DANIEL MOORE. Efq. fen. Alderman, in the Chair.
Among feveral Refolutions which were agreed
upon, were the following :
Refolved, " That the voting of 300(o guineas for the purchafe of
a fervice of plate, to be prefented to Sir J. T. Duckworth, is a
wanton and improvident expenditure of the public money."
Refolved, 4 That an addrcfs and petition be prefented in bumble
and conftitutional terms to his Majefly's Reprefentative. praying
•ti it he may be pleafed to diffolve the prefent Affembly, which has
i( r:eited every claim to the confidehce of the good people of this
ifland, by its ineonfiftent, extravagant, and uneonftitutional eon•
duct, ih refpedt to the difpofal of the public money, Etc. &c."
Thefe Refolutions,:tcgether with others, were pub-
lifbed itt the feveral Journals printed and publifited
in the gland. This being dine, the Houfe took the
matter under confederation on the t3th December.
Mr. 'TAYLOR, Chairrwin of the Committee of Pri-
vileges of the Hon. Hook of Aftembly, made the
following report to the Klee :
" Mr. SPEAKER, ant &reeled by the Committee of Privileges
to report to the Houfe, that iti their opinion a breach of the Pri-
vileges of the Houfe has tu en committed by a Publication, putt-
portirg to be certain Refolutions which have been adopted at. a
Mce:ing of Freeholders of the City and Parini of Kingfton, on the
4th Member, ittob, an/ ligned Dan. Moore. Chairman; and by
the insertion if the fame in the refeedlive Newfpapers. entitled,
Vs !Lily Advertifir, Tbs Kingpins arras& aid City Advertifer,
abd Tte Courain"
After this report was read, the Houfe, among other
things, refolved,
" That any fet of individuals prefuming to cet.fure the proceed-
ings of Kit !lode, is a breach of Privileges, and tkftrudtive of
the freedom of this Houfe.
Th the Editors of the refpedlive P.ll.(trs, and Daniel Moore,
Chairman, arc guilty of a breach of Privilqe of this House, &c."
Thefe Refolutions wete fdllowed np by a motion,
which was unanimetufly carried, to order Mr. Daniel
Moore, and the reipeaive Editors, to attend the
Houle on the Toefday following. They accordingly
were taken into euttody, and brought to the Bar cf
the Houfe at various times. The refult of the bufinefs
w th it Mr. M. ate wits difchat ged, and the Editors
feverely reptimanded, and luffered to depart upon
payer& ufual Lea.

KINGSTON, JAMAIC3, NOV. 29.
By a Captain Nelfon arrived at New York from
the Havannah, it appears that a Spann packet had
anchored at Trinidad in Cuba, bringing accounts
that Eaft a.al Weft Florida had been ceded by Spain
to France, and afterwards by France to the United
States ; alfo that the island of Cuba had been ceded
by Spain to France, on Bonaparte agreeing to rein-
awe the King of Naples on his throne.
We undernand that in confequence of the ceffion
of Cuba to France, as mentioned in the above para.
graph, the Governor of the Havannah has made a
propolal to the Government of this Ifland, (which
has been communicated here by the way of New
Providence) to deliver up to the Britilh immediately
on a fufficient force being fent for the purpofe, the
Ifland of Cuba, and all Spanifh and French veffels
of every defcription lying in the different ports,
bays, &c. of that Colony.
The following veffels, captured and detained by
la Pique frigate, arrived on Monday, via. the Spa-
nifh brig El Cabarito, in ballaft, cut out of Porto
Rico by her boats ; die French felucca la Surprife,
of. one gun and feven men (nineteen being abfent in
prizes), taken off the fame Ifland ; a French (loop,
with logwood, captured off St. Domingo ; and the
Danifh fchooner Eleanor, from the Bay of Cumana,
bound to St. Thomas's, in ballall, detained by her.
The Refinance frigate, of 36 guns, Capt. Adam,
arrived at Port Royal the fame afternoon. She
failed from Plymouth on the 4th ult. with difpatchcs
for the Governor and Admiral, and touched at Car-
thagena on the i 7th init. for the purpofe of landing
Signior Mendoza, a Spanifh Nobleman.
We underhand that the Refinance has brought
accounts of a powerful force being about to be fent
out to the Well Indies, intended to take poffellion of
tome part of the Spanifh dominions, which his Catho-
lic Majefty has determined to deliver over to Great
Britain, to proted it from the rapacious grafp of the
Corfican Ufurper. This appears very probable, as
the Duke of Kent packet brought intelligence of the
arrival at Falmouth on the ill ult. of Mr. Coelho, a
Spanifh rneffenger, with difpatches from Madrid for
the Briiifh Government, and it is fuppofed that the
Refinance was difpatched in confequence of the in-
formation they contained.
DEC. Anton frigate, of 4o guns, Captain
Lydiard ; the Arethufa, 0138 gnus, Capt. Brilbane,
and the Latona, of 36 guns, Capt. Wood, failed from
Port Royal on Saturday morning, for the purpofe,
we underfland, of taking poffeffion of the Dutch
Eland of Curagoa. The Qatement publifhed feveral
weeks ago of the Elephant and Veteran line of battle
(hips having proceeded on that fervice was erroneous,
thofe veffels having been difpatched on a cruize off
the Havannah to watch the motions of the French
tio gun (hip le Foudroyant, and the Spanifh 74, San
Lorein.
Mc. i 3.—The Cleopatra frigate, of 32 guns, Capt.
Love, put into Port Royal, having fprung her bow-
fprit. She failed from Halifax on the 24th September,
with the General Carleton andßofina mall (hips under
convoy, and arrived at Barbadoes on the 19tn OEM-
bcr, from whence the proceeded with them to Ai-
tigua, which Wand (he quitted on the 18th November
for St. Thomas's, and from thence the failed on the
:ad for Tortola ; the latter 'nand (he left on the a
for the purpofe of returning to Halifax.
A report was current at Antigua of the arrival, at
IMartinico, of four fail of the line from Rochefort.—
While the Cleopatra was at Tortola, the Moyne For-
tunee fchooner, of 14 guns, Lieut. Brown, arrived
there with the lots of her malts, having fallen in, off
IBaffeterre. with the famous French privateer brig
General Ernouff, of 18 guns, and 150 men, which
the engaged for upwards of an hour and a half, and
would have captured, had not her malts been unfor-
tunately (hot away, in confequence of which the enemy
efcaped. She had left Guadeloupe the day previous,
where the had been to repair the damage fullained
in an action with the Grenada brig, of 12 guns (five
days after the engagement and capture of the Tobago
tchnoner), in which the was beaten off.
Arrived the Mary ; on the 3oth ult. at five P. M.
near Cayenne, the defcried two ftrange fail handing
towards her, from which the endeavoured to efcape,
taking them to be French cruizers. At ro P.M. they
came up with her, when the funained a running action
with them tilt daylight next morning, when having
her boatfwain killed, her Captain and feveral men
wounded, her maintnan and bowfprit feria* da-
maged, fix or eight (hot between wind and water,her
fails and rigging much fhattcred, and after ufing eves!
exertion ag,intt their furpolid enemies, with great
reluctance Capt. Crow was compelled to ; but to
his great fad sfaCtion the two veffels proved to be his
Majefty's (hips Dart, of 33, and Wolverine, of 18
guns, Captains Spear and Collier, which were fent
lame time ago fiom Barbadoes to cruize off Cayenne,
in hopes of intercepting a large French privateer, of
36 guns, reported to be fitting out there, and for which
they unfortunately miflonk the Mary. Captains Spear
and Collins were extremely forty for the accident, and
rendered Captain Crow every affiftance in their
power.
The Mary carries twenty 9 and font 6 pounders,
and at the time of the unfortunate accident had on
board 4S feamen. Captain Crow was feverely wound-
ed in tire left fide, and nightly in the left arm, but we
are happy to add that he is in a fair way to recover ;
the boatfwain had both his legs (hot off, and expired
fhortly after ; fix feamen were badly wounded, and
five Negroes killed and fix wounded.
Late on Thurfday evening laft week a duel took
place at Port Royal, between Lieut. B. of the Royal
Artillery, and Lieut. S. of the Second Weft India
Regiment of Frt, when, on an exchange of {hots,
the former was feverely wounded in the breaft.
A race was run on Thurfday laft, on the Parade at
St. Ann's, between Captain M—'s bay mare, and
Mr. C—w's chefnut poney, which afforded very
little (port to the amateurs of the turf, but was at-
tended with many ferious accidents, and one molt
lamentable cataftrophe. On Ratting, the mare proved
relive, but the poney went off in good ftyle, and
walk: have dillanced the other before (he took the
courfe, had not a negro boy imprudently croffed im-
rn,-...nately before the poney, by which the rider, a
Gentleman named MAIDEN, was thrown, and tlit
negro bad his knee luxated ; by which the mare Iliad
the cpporturtieg.. of coming up, although it Ilia
proved :t dead heat in favour of the poney. The.
fall of Mr. Masisit being perceived by his father
(a refpeCtable man in the Naval Storekeepet's depart-
ment) he, With, many others, let off in full gallop

to his afflaance ; but in a moment, a Gentleman
coming in conta6t with him, he was precipitated to
the ground, and the horfe on him, bearing the whole
prelfure on his theft, which inftaraly deptived him
of fpeech, and, notwithftanding medical aid was
immediately afforded, after lingeting totally infenfi.
ble for three hours, expired without a groan,leaving
a widow and eight children. The fall of Mr. Milani
was not known, owing to the immenfe crowd, to his
fon until the fecund round, which was won by the
poney with cafe ; during which another negro got his
fkull fraeured, and a Gentleman his arm broken.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY s.
. PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT MN. O'CLOCK.
Cot&ls, tummy, 614i—for account 6t/ 6a—Oninium 64 prem.
Exchequer Bills, par..

Laft night Mr. Pszcavat. brought forward his
promifed motion for the produftion of the Order of
Council of the 7th January, refpeding the Trade of
Neutrals. Not only the Houle, but Mr. Paaca►AL
himfelf, were fo much convinced by the arguments
brought forward by Lord HOWICK, that its produc-
tion would occafion a difclofure of circumaances
which ought not to be divulged, that the motion was
negatived without a divifien.
It is reported that Government have determined
to afford every pnllible aid to the Allied Powers now
in hoftility with France ; and that befides the propofed
Loan of fix millions, a formidable military force will
be fent to the Continent early in the enfuing fpring. All
the Foreign Ambatradors, it is likewife reported,
have been requefled not to go more than a convenient
diflance from town for the prefent, as it may be ne-
ccffary to confult them on fome important points.

It is our duty to Rate fuch intelligence as reaches
us from the Continent, even when we cannot appre-
ciate its value.

A letter from Memel, of the Bth of January, but
which appears to have been opened for the infertion
of a Poilfcript, written fume days afterwards, flutes
as follows :

MoR grltifying intelligence has jpa been received
here from Konning(berg. On the 28th of December
the fortune of war changed in favour of the Ruffian
arms, and continued decidedly fo till the 3oth, the
date of the laR difpatches from the fcene of aftion,
which at that time had removed nearer Warfaw, to
which city the French had retreated. after fuffering
repeated defeats. Particulars not known."
Here preeife dates are given, and there fubfequent
to the 26th December, and therefore we cannot help
indulging a hope that the French have encountered
a more form check than that detailed in the official
I letter of General BEININGSINI which we gave in our
Paper of Tuefday.

An account is Paid to have been received of the
Englifh having been obliged to evacuate Maldonado,
in the River Plate, after retaining polliffion only three
weeks. This ill agrees with the report which we
mentioned a few days Since, of Monte Video having
been captured by the Englifh. Neither of thefe (late
meets, we believe, have the Illation of any refpeaable
authority.—A new attack upon Monte Video was
meditated early in November, and its failure might
lead to the evacuation of Maldonado.

Accounts from Jamaica to the 13th Decem'her,
mention a report received from America of Eaft and
Weft Florida having been ceded to the United States,
and Cuba to France, in eonfequence of the promifed
re•eftablifhment of his Sicilian Maje fly on the Throne
of Naples. In confequence of the celEon of Cuba, a
propofition is Paid to have been made from the Go:
vernor of the Havannah to the Governor of Jamaica,
to cede Cuba to the Englifh. We apprehend there
is fome miftake in this ftatement. Probably the
furrender of Curacoa, announced in the letters from
Jamaica, received by the mail of Tnefday left, is the
circumftance alluded to, though garbled and dif-
turbed by the relater in confequence of his miftaking
the name.

Yefterday, at twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY MA
to town from Windfor, and held a private Levee at
the (teen's Palace.
The following had the honour of being prefented
to his MAJESTY

Earl NeLsow, by Lord Grenville, upon his reeeivingthe grant
of a Penfion and Eftate,and his Majefty's permiffion to accept the
tide of Duke of Broate, in Sicily.

Vifeount TRAFALGAR, fon of the Earl, by Lord Grenville,
upon his receiving his Majefty's permiffion to affume the title of
Vifeount Trafalgar, and to accept the Order of St. Joachim. The
Noble Vifeount wore the ribband and all the infignia of the Order,
as worn by his late Uncle, Admiral Lord ?hum
Mr. Mt!Rl' by Vifeount Howick, upon bis return from his.
Embaffy in America.
The Earl of CALEDOM took leave of his MAJESTY,
previous to his departure for the Cape of Good Hope,
to take upon him the government of that place.
The Rev. Dr. Luxuoaa, the Dean of Gloucefter,
laid before his MaJESTY his Sermon, preached before
the Clergy of his dincefe.
His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, when he, ac-
cording to annual cuftom, pricked for the Sheriffs
for the year enfuing, and they were finally fettled.
His MAJESTY gave private audiences to Lords
GattilviLts, H. PETTY, and Howtca ; and Earls
Darrtiourft and MortA ; the lait-mentioned Noble-
man laid before his Maje 'Tv his propofed new regu-
lations for the Ordnance.
The Conftance, SAMS, from Africa and Antigua,
is arrived at Liverpool, and reports that his Majel-
ty's fchooner NETLEY is captured in the Weft Indies
by two French frigates and a brig—particulars an-
' known. -