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London, England, 1804-07-20 00:00:00

PARLIdatENTARr PROCZEDINOS,

PARIS, JULY 8.
Lail week arrived at Fluthing, with the mail from
Rotterdam, a letter, di, efted to Sir Sidney Smith,
the Englah commander on that part of the Dutch
coati. The Batavian Pretident delivered it, unopened,
to the French commander, Gen. Monnet, who con-
voked a council of Generals, and in their prefence,
broke it open. It was from a fanatical young woman,
who offers the Bs hitt' knight her heart, her hand, and
her fortune, and calls upon him, in return, to deliver
her country from what the called the French yoke.—
She has been arreited, and is yet in confinement.
At Breft; are twenty-three Chip of the line ; at
Rochfort, four ; and at Toulon, nine ; all fully man-
ned and equipped, and ready to put to lea.
It is laid, bat not credited, that the Emperor has
Invited the Kings cf Pruffia, Spain, Naples, Sardinia
and Denmark, to be prefent at his coronation are
'stony. Several Eleaors, and other fovereign Princes,
have received the fable invitation. Report lays, the
coronation has been deferred until their anfwersffiall
have been received.
Madame as VA o op moat is, according to report, to
be de Lady at the head of the Emprefs's houfehold.
.COnnt ma Reuse, the Minnier of the Eleaor. Arch
c,atteellor ei-devant Eleaor of Mentz, was the firft
tbe diplomatic agents here who received his cre-
dential' and 'orders to acknowledge our Errraof in
bet weer dignity.
The new credentials of the Spanith Ambaffador,
Gaavtre, are dated June the 3d • the fame day, the
Ling of Spain received the officia% information of the
Emperor's new dignity.
It is Paid, that the Court of Copenhagen. on the
85th ult. fent to. Chevalier Dreyer, the Dania, Mini-
fler at Paris, sew credentials, in which Bonaparte is
acknowledged EMperor of the French.
Poavacts has laid before the EAS e a Loa a long re-
pat ermeerning new religious orders, which are to
be ;militated every (where. for both fetes. Befsdes
the Saks, its odrev-religious orders are propoied.
sad are bid to have obtained the Ear saoa s appro-
betko. At Lyons, the Jefuits have already opened
a coats&
The ew Imperial coins are already in circulation.
TheThave ea one fide the Emperor's bead. with this
infersptir : " Napoleon the Firil, Emperor of the
Ficmck On the other Ode is a golden lino in an
metre WA, with a crows colliers over it. The Ina-
per6l mantle is of potpie colour, lined with ermine.
Is has fevevaleagles embroidered on it.orith diamonds
sad pawls, to dor value of four millions (s6o,000l.)
Some few days ago, a Ruffian Cattier arrived at
Calais wit 4 petmiffion from the Emperor to embark
for Eng4d. iPithin fix hours he failed with a new
vat y• His difpatches are Paid to be of the
tea comfetiaerice. sad have ceded feveral con-
Tresfavourable to peace.
alba night of the sad ult. General Mamma t lef
the Temple. under an efeort of fifty gals d'aroses
srlEßut. His firff deßination was Pettognan, from
which plate he is to go to Spain, and embark there
om board a neutral veffel for North America. Ma-
dame Moaaau followed her hufband the nest day.
He is only to travels d
the night, and to reit
demios the day.: His brother is gone before him to
lipiths, acco,Mpanied by an officer of the gets d'arnies.
a obje is wines and fit out a proper velTel for his
brother and family. All their property in France is
, difpofed of, and they intend to fettle at Philadelphia.
General Lenoir sm. formerly at the bead of the
6taff of General Houma': army. but now accufed
eking implicated in the late confpiracy. has been
arrefted in Germany, and is now that up in the Tem-
ple. He is to be tried by the fame Tribunal, which
condemned MOIL l AU.
It is fpoken of as a fill, that a new trial of many
perlbns (hut up for there feveral years in the Temple,
and in other State Yarns, is to take place before the
fame Tribunal which tried the late confpirators.—
Among the perfoas mentioned who (ball appear are
Count de Bourdon; La Rochefoneault ; Fauche Ba-
sal, from Neufchatel, with fume other..
A neutral (tip was lately prevented by an Englllh 1
frigate from entering Offend, becaufe, as the Brifillt
officer Paid, be had orders to bombard that town,
and therefore could not admit any neutrals. Three
Engin bomb-reffels were not very diltant.
At Zouteland. not far from IFlothing, feveral dead
bodies were lately left by the tide : amodrng othcrs was
that of an Englifla officer of the navy, effed in full
uniform.
An official eorrefpondence is opened by the Pruf-
flan Commercial Agent at Rotterdam, with the
Commander of the Englith fquadron on the cosit ;
concerning the feveral Dutch venal and Ming-
boats captured by the Engliffi cruisers, notwithaand-
int the protcaion of a Pruffian flag. Had Pruffia
Inch a navy as Ruffia, we fhould foon ceafe to hear
• of thefe piracies.
Befides the National Guards in the Ile of Prance,
amounting to 8000 men, there are 4000 regular

troops-
The sseen Dowager of Pits(Ga. mother to the
prefent King, has arrived at Leipzig, ineepeito, under
the name of a Countefs of Hohendein. Her Mikity
was to continue her journey to Hanau, where, after
paffing fome time with her daughter, the eonfort of
the Herpditary Prince of Britt, repent lays, the in-
tends to vita this capital, defiringfo much to fee and
admire the great man who occupies the throne of
the French Empire
Baron Ehrenfword. the late AmbafTador of the
King of Sweden in France, has been promoted, by
his Swedills Majeay. to the rank of a Lieutenant Cc-
neral, as a reward for his conduit in his diplomatic

Pft.
The famous Spanifh finger, Donna !labella Col-
bran, is on her way from Italy to Paris. This virtrofir,
who is not yet so years old, is already confidered as
the firil finger of our times. At three years of age,
the fung very well, and at fix the was regarded as
a wonder. The tall concert (he gave at Madrid
before her departure, brought her in 40,000 reels
(6,0001.) She has, at the requisition of the Empe-
ror Napoleon, obtained permitlion to travel for is
months, eight of which the will pats at Paris. On
the day of the Emperor's Coronation, the is to flog
for the firs! time. From the Emperor's private purfe
too.oco livres (4.0001.) are aligned for her expences
during her refidence in France. not including prefents
and what the will gain if permitted to Eng beton the
public.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THOR SDAY, JULY ap
The Corn Bill was read the third time, and pafßiL
The Chimney Sweepers Reyul.ition Bill was, on the IMAM
of Lord W A LSINGHAM, horn,,L a variety of otafervationa
upon the tintabse, ordered to hints& a third time this day throe
mixiths.

LotiDON CLERGY it
The Order (if the Day for the third reading of this
Bill, beiirg read,
The Duke of NORFOLK faid, he fhould move
that the Bill be read this day three natrths. His
objeBion was to the principle of the Bill. It was
this
she
moll anxious with that the Clergy, not only of t
metropolis, but of the whole kingdom, fhould re-
ceive that maintenance to which they woe entitled,
as well by their exemplary condud, as their tank
and nation in fuciety. But the mode in which this
was to be done, in the prefent inflance, was incontin-
ent with the principle of legination, which had the
moil rigid regard to the sights of private property.
He was willing and anxious, that the objet of the
Bill thould be attained ; but it thould be at the pub-
lic expense, and not by a violation of private pro-
pert,- i a parochial tax, a dedudion from the elates
II of individuals. Before the reign of Charles 11. the
Clergy of London received a (U pend o
tsfes f a cer
That
tain
furn in the pound, upon the rate of ho.
was a mode that kept the income of the Clergy pro-
portioned to the value of eltates, and the,rife in the
price of articles of confumption. and other variation
of circumnances. He witted it had continued fa.—
But in the reign of Charles 11. the fixed dtpend, fuch
s it now is, was commuted fur the former increaf
hog revenue. He luppofed.that it was an advantage
11 to the Clergy of that time-; the fum fixed he fuppof-
-led to be larger than the former revenues. But, how-
iiever that Was, the fixed nipend was adopted. From
that time to this, enstes have been bought and fold
1 in the city of London, fubjeft to this fixed impofi-
lion ; and every new purchafer relies on the princi-
ple of our Legifiation, on the faith of Parliament,
that no partial change (hall be made in iris property.
He finds a patticular charge for the Clergy, fixed by
law, and he espeas that it thall remain the fame, ex-
cept as altered by general univerfal laws. He would
recommend to their Lortlihips to yelled what they
were doing, in touching this principle of Engin); le-
'illation. If the prefent Bill is pared, will tiot
every parochial Clergyman, whofe modus, or real.
conspolition, isinadequate to a decent livelihood, will
net he alto come to their Lordlhips for a new in
eagle, levied as a parochial tax, and not as a gene-
ral tax upon the whole public ? He would put this
cafe, and one within his knowledge. Abbey finds
were granted by Henry VIII. to a family, with
the charge of mi. per annum for the clergyman
who did the duty of the cure, The elate is now
worth tool. per annum—the clergyman, it is plain,
has not a competency in roll- per annum. Shall he
come to the proprietor of the caste, and silk for a
competency t that is, for the whole tool. per annum
—and yet, on the principle of this Bill he may do
fo—he has their Lordiltips' Elation to make this de-
mand. For theft reafons, the Bill, affeaing the
• rinciples by which the Houle had ever been govern-
ed as to private praperty. be oppoted the Bill. He
Wrought the learned Prelates net to (hew any eager-
nets to violas the principles of private property—he
attributed no tech defign to them r but he would re!
call to their minds the former fate of prelates, who,
governed by their rapacity and antbiLion, had involv-
ed their order in ruin.
Lord GRANTLEY faid, he imagined the houfes
and effetes charged with the dues to the clergy of the
city of London had rifen in value ; and he thought
it only equitable That the charge mould keep pace
with that advance.
The Bilbop of LONDON rofe to fupport the Bill.
He began with a molt eloquent defcription of the
worth and merits of the clergy of the city of Lon-
don. He maintained, that their incomes were not
fufficient to fupport them with that decency that be-
came their fituation ; there were fifty livings, the
higheß of which was soot. per annum ; others Were
of 1501. and many only of tool. per annum. An At
had ired their Lortilhips' Houfe to inforcithe re-
fidencepa of the clergy. Many of the London clergy
had no boufe on their livings; others had honks not
ioludaitable, fit only for green grocers and coblers.
It was his duty to enforce refidence within the City.
From the population and the value of houfes, a
clergyman could not get a houfe for let's than I Rol.
or tsol. per annum. How was this to be done with
their incomes ?It was-all that molt of them hat.
He could not enforce refidence. It would be ruin to
the clergy of London while their incomes remained
as at prefent. They were, therefore, pLceti in a
&station of peculiar hatdthip. In feventeett years
that he had the honour of preliding over, the dtocefe,
he had Peen that no men's condud could he more
exemplary than that of there clergymen. He could
not, the, clot e, affent to the ptopolition of the Noble
Puke.
The Duke of NORFOLK begged leave to affure
the Rev. Prelate, that he never entertaired the idea
of refining the allowance of an honourable provifion
for the Clergy. On the wit ary, he would give fuch
a propofition his mull cordial fupport, whenever it
flrould be brought forward on the principles that pri-
vate property was not to be invaded, but that the
fund for maintaining it thould be created by Parlia-
ment from national taxation,
The LORD CHANCELLOR repeated the obfer
vations which he had made when the Report of the
Committee on the Bill was received. His Lordfilip
went into ao hiliorical examination. replete with
great learning and coriofity. as to the mode in which
the Clergranere maintained antecedent to the reign
of Henry VIII. He Rated it to be by the produce
of certain offerings, on certain Saints days, the total
average of which was about xs. nd. in the pound.—
For the purpofe oh increaling the revenues of the
Clergy. the Pope, at one time, thought proper to
create twenty•two Saints, whole feilivals were to be
kept as ufual,catainly much to the fathfatlion of the
Clergy, but not with the entire concurrence of the
Englith people, who did not much Milli fuch a mode
of taxation. His Lordlllin, with every difpofition to
fupport the 811, was fearful he could not allow it to
pals in its prefent fhape, unlefs the content of thofe
whole Intereas were likely to be affected by it, fhould
be Gal obtair.ed. Were that crest the cafe, there was
tqle claufe in the Bill which would mini e its rejcSion;
he alluded to that clan& which propt.frti that th.!111-
4..mics fu it Weil to the Lond,ai Clergy lhould not be