Star.
London, England, 1802-05-18 00:00:00

HOLTAF O CO?.:MONS.

- Tt^.tFlc 1i..1 H.:i teat. re •:1 a !Lt.' time and parr d.
m.ak• t Lill v 1S road a fecond time, and
a 1,11 ...Ice: CO:11111Ht

that the Ac.-ounts preferted for the
,o I, h:• the C:iamberlain of the City of Lomion rib-
,ice to t.litt 0r:41.:,5' Fund, fhould Ix refenr•l to the Commit-
t• : en 1.'031 \l:•fcct RAI ; which, aftir a few words fr..,.n
Ludington, wa. nidend
LIIA:t 1.1. • pt. r 5 mov:! Par a Committee of the wloale
:1:.•:r•` :l-mot :• • rnndrr the std Geo. M.
t.12{,(1,:n PAM incur:l.d ,n the ruilding of Poor Houies,and
;.:,cnicm of :he Poor as:Jiving to one Parini in another.
—C)rd• ts.i.

Mr At EK AV,' 1-row•St th. Report of thc Ntiviny Bill.
hich and 2::.retd to, at,, the Bill ordered to he read
t'•i7.! !,,...iorrnw.

Mr. .4., Tx a:. I: broll,tht IT the Report of thelitia Su-
read and ::grecd to.
_ .

'rise Snit T.T.lly WAsi propored a Claufe relative to the
alosyst-zs to Staircons, which, :fro. a form con-,:rfation he-
at •cn :he Secretary at War, Lore, Btlgr-r.re, Sir Wm. lilford,
and Sir Wni. Lemsin, was 37reed to, And the Bill ordered to be
mad a th:rd time to-morrow. _ _ _

Mr. ALTLAND brottelt up the Rrport of the Marine
Mtviny His!. :rli t h wag read and agreed to,and the Bill order-
td tl he r•-ncl .i third t.m. •,,nic”-Trse.

The Volunteer Corps Bill waa read a fecund time, and com-
mitted 1,,r Wedn.oftlay.
•Flie Ede:lion o.lth Bill pairsisl through a Committce.—Re-
rxtto-mirrour.

• The
Ihe ••,..c r.;•.% •• it WA a :nosed the Order of the Day for
the f ,ber conlit!..rx ion of the Iteport of the Englifh Militia
Jul: as b: La.!, he ftveral Am; Irnents to propofe, be
.! the ISill to b.• then r• committed, in order that tht
.1 0 mink et% might be receir,d. and that it might be taken
,nrthts c.,101..fet.,:i0n to-morrow.

1',." il•ad havin7 rrfolvcd i•itn a Committee,

Tier i•CR L I Aft Y W r,•vtril Anirnam-nt., nne
of l,t•tre th.r to V.-Timmt 0r1.4.: than tilt...! rompa•iies finned
.• .n .od an... Orr to trurn...tr Matelly tn
es t .be in crfr of er;-•r;rrrv,tlic renrilrin.,2n,trrt
tc th.• whole run•her .-.! 6,r.`•,,,,cf which it ',as
i.• net.; the Nter,ti, ihneeio t..,nritts—Some ronvt.rfition enford
It. !we: \ War. Sir W. W. Wynn •, Sir W.
w•re a;tr..:•d
t • nn.l t!'t• E I•aving Reptirt was ordered to
L. r,-:civt,ltti-ennrron..

*r.e Bill pand thrru;;h a Committee.—Rtport to-
LI7 AV.

CJR Rr notice of hi% intention to move the bur nrfs
of Ireland in the Committee of Way. and NI eam on Friday neat.
The Committee on tiie Cotton Apprentice Bill was deferral
til! o-morrow.

Mr. ELIOT .13Yr rotiee of lii• ..etertion to move the Navy
Fttimate, M the Commitrx of SmTly eriday next.
Th.: H. uf. i.t a C. mmittee o [AMC to a Refolution
to make :rov.lion fur a. tain allrwaticen to the Sub.:kern Of-
fie-r+ of the hie tia in Ir; land— Report wag ordered to
Ac reeeiecd to-morrow, and th.. Committee to fit again on
NV ..tit:efday.
he Hoef, in a Comm:tree to er.nfiller of certain An. relative
v.) Frimrttd, came I.• a V...tohatioa to :...f, .end the Du:kg
cr nr, Sugar i.xport..il, fora tintc to be limited.—Keport to-
me .w.

C..nnr-:ttee or. the Fr;okirz, Bill xaa patlponed till to-

lie Part Office Bill, the Port Frorfc Dury Farming Bill.2nd
the ir,.lt I.Actimity Bill, were rc.id a third time and patted.
0);111:1{LIVO 011 the kith I.inen Manufaaure Bill was
till ti,-rrcrrc.m.
The fecnnil readiag of the lrifh EL.:lion Bin Fas deferred till
to .nr,rrow,

T. Committer of Ways and Man; was poltponcd till Wed-
a• .fd.t y.

SINKINC FUND.

The Cuascretost of the EXCIiFIZFIR moved the
order of the day or. the fubjeta oldie Sinking Fund.
The order heit.g lead, and the Houle hiving
ref:rived it frit' into a Committee of the whole Houle
acc.adinitly,
The of the Excir rzr lit laid, that
as is cede; Hood Gentlemen who were delimits of
olif:rvatior. en the Reiolutions which he I
had to fuLtnit to the Committee, meant to poll-
pone them until a Bill Iloa,' be brought in, if it
Mould he the pleafitre of the Houle that the Bill
Ihouhl be brcught in ; he Ihould now, therefore,
not enter into the particulars on this fubjetft.—He
had already hated to the Houle, that he believed
the tendency of their Refoltitions was to give effect
t', the me:ff:ire which had received the general ap- 1
probation of the Houle, and of the country; and,,
if it iliould ire the pleafore of the Houle to give
lea...e to b:ilig in the Bill, lie fhould thew the opi-.
ri;on he had of the efficacy of the Aft tnr the re-
t! wile ci hr National Debt, by endeavouring to
r.rnen I that Ac":, and to render it more etfeataal
11- !la: purpol: of extinguifhing the National Debt.
—4.-.,der dick cireumffances, he Ihould content
hirnfe'f with 'boy Retblutions, the general heads
he Oad hated on a former day.
The Itefo:iiticins being about to be read
Mr. BtIYD elin.red into feveral calculations upon
the fubjea, and obferved, that by the mode now
pi irini-Jd an advantage would be gained over the
ol Sinking Fund of'i I 5,cpc,0001.
Mr. Y. ry laid, that the Hotile world always be
13.1npy to hear tl.e obiervations of a Gentleman in
s ill qualified to farm an opini,-‘n upon fubjefts of
tti;% ac the Gentleman was who (poke
It appeared, however, to him, that the Hon.
Gt.:nit:roan had in f.-,rae degree undervalued the
~,ivant.ige:. that would Oe derived from the plan
now propoied. and' pcillaps judgment might be
r-rr:d upon the quellior by a lefi difficult procefs
of cal-ulation than that which the Hon. Gentle-

rltn had adopted. 'Cie Honourable Gentleman
had ;Lard, that the advantage that would be
gained by adoping the pracilt plan, would be
hit upon the bell confideration he
could give the fubjeft, he was inclined to think it
would be much nearer to 150,000,0001.
Mr. Bova e,:plained.
Mr. Tiiarti (aid, he could have wilhed the
fiiiijezt had been referred to a Committee above
hairs, in order that the calculations might have
be...n made in dittercnt points of view. What lie
frl, was the diffmnce which the plan now pro-
pp J make fur the prefent ; it appeared to
that if the ec.;:ntry was loon placed in a hate
of watt' thficulties • nld arifc ; but that if we

continued in a (late of peace for forty-fire pears,
then the plan propofed would be produdive of
much greater advantages than the former plan.
He wished calculation might be made with diffe-
rent views of the fuLjed,"in order that they might
be fine they were accurate.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHkQ.E'ER laid, he
was fully aware the calculations nun' upon the Ta-
ble of the Houle could not be adopted in all the
views which teemed to be entertained upon them.
What the Hon. Gentleman who had kill fat down,
had aid, was of great importance, which, was,
the nccellity of confidering the operation of this
fyftem at eifferent intervals and Rages of it. It
was true the operation would be apparently to the
difadvant:'ge of the Public at firft, that was to.
fay, fo much could not he received for the extinc-
tion of the Debt, and the advantage could not be
obtained up to a given time ; and on which, he
apprehended, difference of opinion might be en-
tertained in the Committee on the Bill : but he
thought, that the objetftions would be of fuch fort,
as to be confiderahly outweighed by the utility
of the Meafure. The Honourable Gentleman who
began the difaillien of the fubjeet to-day, (laced
with great cleatnefs, the grounds on which he was'
di:poled to approve of the meafure. He laid, the
amount of the immediate Paving, that which mug
I otherwife be levied by Taxes, was 970,0001. in.'
eluding the Sinking Fund of one per cent. by
funding Exchaqaer Bills. It was very much to
be wished that the benefit of that fyftem could be
taken, fo as to apply it to the whole of the finan-
cial operations of this Seafon ; but the Aft of
1792, required that the proceeding Should take'
place at an early period, in confequence of which
that advantage was bat red.—He meant the rule of
the One per Cent Fund—This would appear on
reference to the Aft of Parliament he alluded to.
The Hon. Gentleman laid, that this meafure
%you'd have the efFed of withholding from the
Sinking Fund the fhort Annuities at fomething
more than 200,0001. He could not think he un-
derftood the Honourable Gentleman accurately
on this point. He mull be aware chat the fhort
Annuities in 1808 would be 512,0001. which form-
ed a part of that which would be withheld from
the old Sinking Fund, and therefore the advantage
in the firft iiillance, of 870,0001. was withheld
from the Fund created in the prefent year, and
which malt have been railed under the provifion
in 1792. Then, at the prefent moment, to the
amount of 870 0001. the Public was relieved of the
ricce flit y of railing Taxes, and that was an imme-
diate advantage, and by tho old Sinking Fund
that would not be afforded until fix years had
elapfed, in that we could not have, in lets time
without this fyftem, the advantage to the fubjeet
which would be now immediately enjoyed. By
this fyftem in iBoS, 572,0001. more would be ap-1
1 plicable to the relief of the fubjed. He perceived
he was getting into the fubjed farther than he in-
tended, which he Should abftain from at prefent,
as it was the genzral with to defer the difctiffion of
it to a future day, when there would be a full op.
portunity of confidering the whole of the fubjed,
and when lie Mould take the liberty of 'hewing
the advantages which would arife from the adop-
tion of the meafures ; of the ample fuperinrity of
them over the diltdvantages to which the Hon.
; Gentleman had adverted.

Mr. PITT laid, that the view of the fubjed
taken by the Hon. Gentleman who (poke laft but
one, %1 :IS fo interelling, that he begged to fay a few
words upon it, no! with a view of entering, at pre-
fent, into the difcuflion of the fubjed, but in order
that the grounds upon which it was to be confider-
ed, might be fully underilood. It mutt naturally
occur to every Gentleman who had turned his
mind to the confideration of this fubjed, even
after he was fatisfied by the calculations which had
been made, that the ultimate objed of the Sinking
Fund would be accelerated by the adoption of the
prefent, infead of adhering to the former plan ;
it mull naturally occur, he laid, to every Gentle.
man, to inquire whether, during the interval, any
change effected by this new plan in its progrefs,
would leave the country lefs able to meet any new
conteft that might happen, than it would have
been if this plan had never been adopted. This
certainly was one of the molt important parts of
the whole fuhjed, and if he were not perfealy
convinced that the effect of it would be not only
not to place the country in a worfe fituation dur-
ing its progrefs, but even to put it in a better
one, he certainly fhould not be fo ftrong an advo-
cate for the meafure as he was. It was true, that
for a certain period there would be a lefs portion
of the debt paid off than there would have been
by the former plan, though the whole of the debt
would be fooner difcharged. The point of time
when the difadvantages of the prefent plan would
be the greaten, would be, when there was the
greaten quantity of (Lock in the market, which
would have been redeemed by the operation of
the old Sinking Fund, and that period he Cup-
poled, from a rough calculation, would be in about
14 or 15 years time. At that period, when the
difadvantage againft the Public would be at the
greaten, there would be about 15,000,000 more
hock in the market than by the old plan there
would have been ; but every year before that pe-
riod the difadvantage would not be fo great, and
every year afterwards it mull neceffarily decreafe.
Taking then this objection at the utmolt, he with-
' cd to alk every Gentleman to confider, whether
in the event of a war, two, three, (even, ten, or
twelve years hence, it would not be advantageous
to the country to borrow, even with a greater ca-
pital by fifteen millions, (taking it at the molt un-
favourable period,) having at the fame time an
undifpofed revenue of nine hundred thonfand
pounds a year to raife the Loan with ? This quef-
tion he would readily leave to the decifion of the
lion. Gentleman behind him (Mr. Boyd). It cer-
tainly was deferable that upon a fubjea, the calcu-
lation upon which Gentlemen were to decide,
fhould come before them in the molt authentic
lhape, but as to the point to which he had jolt al-
luded, it was fo fimple, that every Getqlenian
would calculate for himfelf. It was, however,
worth while for his Right Hon. Friend to confider
whether, as Come time necelfarily mutt elnpfe be-
fore the Bill came into a Committee, calculations

upon this part of the fubjeet could not be forni filed
to Gentlemen, as had been done upon the other
part of the meafure. It might remove a great
deal of difficulty, and would open a new view of
the advantages that would reftilt from this plea-
Cure. The Sinking Fund. by the prefent plan,
would be perfectly continent with the original re-
gulation refpcs9ing that Fund ; all the pledges of
the public faith would be preferved, and the mea-
fure would he more conducive to its object : Par-
liaMent would be able, by thefe means, to make a
provition in cafe of any unforefeen exigency of the
times ; it would he enabled to aftill the C.:hjeCt. if,
unfortunately, at any time, the preffure of Taxes
preffed urgently for relief; or, Lilly, it might be
made the foundation of fome fyllem, that, under
a new charaCter, might afford the means of
're-
lieving the Public in time of Peace, and of fur-
-1 nifhing new refources in time of War. lie would
not enter further into the fubjea at prefeut : he
merely threw nut this as n filbjal which Gentle-
men might turn their attention to, as he might
probably fubmit fome further obfervations upon it
during the future a-cull-lons upon this fubjed.
Mr. TIERNEY laid, be underitood that by the
plan now propofed, the fund would be lefs produc-
tive than under the old plan for a certain period,
after which it would accumulate very rapidly.—
He did not wills to exprefs any opinion upon the
meafure at prefent, but he dOubted how far it was
continent with the public faith that the 56,c00,0001.
for the payment of which the whole of the Income
Tax was pledged, could be transferred to another
Fund.

Mr. PITT fAid, he could not fuppofc the Hon.
Gentleman would be an advocate for the continu-
ance of the Income Tax. The Hon. Gentleman
mull be aware that no particular fund was appro-
priated to the payment of any particular part of the
public Debt, and that no fpecific 56,c00,0001. was
charged upon the Income Tax. The only quef-
tion was, whether a fufficient provifion had bccn
made in the room of the pledge taken away ? he
thought there had, and he apprehended it would
not be contended that public faith was bound to
continue the Income Tax.

Mr. TIERWEY explained.
A very limn farther converfation enfued be-
tween Mr. WILBFRSORCE, Mr. VANStTTART, and
Mr. BOYD.

The CHANCELLOR OF THE Excurostot faid,
he would give direetions to have calculations
made with different views of the fubjea, accord-
ing to the idea of the Honourable Gentleman,
(Mr. Tierney) which would be laid on the Table
in a few days.

•
The Refoltitions of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer were agreed to, and the Houfe having re-
fumed, the Report was ordered to be received to-
morrow.—Adjourned.

/.ONDON.

TUESDAY, MAY 18.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :

3 per Ccnt. Conf. for money, 74f,+...Ditt0, for ace. 74411;
4 per Cent. Bpi 90—Yews per C. to3l-01d s per C. ling.
Onuttum, tit.
DUBLIN, MAT 11.
g per Cent Gov. Deb. loci.
Exchange—Dublin on London It xi.

This morning we received Paris journals to the
Igth inflant. The Legiflative Body is doing every
thing to haften the eleaion of the FIRST CONSUL
for life. As they cannot vote as a body, a plan
has been deviled to enable them to vote indivi-
dually, without taking the trouble of a journey to
their own departments.
Some ferious dillurbances have takev place in
Switzerland, in fome places of which the peafants
have been tieflroying the archives, with the view
of getting rid of the payment of tithes and taxes.
It was probably to this that the FIRST CONSUL al-
luded a few days ago, when he expreffed a hope
that the Helvetians would ceafe to follow a line
of condua, which might render it neceffary for
other nations to interfere for their own fafety.

The plague has broken out on the Ccaft of
Africa. Government will. no doubt, order the
proper quarantine regulations to be enforced in
all onr ports.

PARIS, MA r 14.—At fit o'clock in the morning
of the 12th, a battalion of grenadiers, and a bat-
talion of chaffeurs, belonging to the Guards, quar-
tered at Courbevoye and at Ruel, went through
various evolutions, under the immediate command
of the FIRST CONSUL, who was highly fatisfied, in
particular, with the exaanefs and precifion with
which the battalion of grenadiers performed their
manoeuvres. After parade the officers dined at
Malmaifon.

Orders of the 22d—The grenadier GMIAIN has
committed the aft of fuicide, in confevrnce of
love. In other terpeas he was a good fubjeft.—
This is the fecond event of this kind, which has
taken place in the corps in the courfe of a month.

The Filar Comsoc commands that the follow-
ing notice Mall be polled up at the Guard :
a A foldier ought to know how to overcome
grief, and the melancholy arifing from paffion :
there is as much true courage in fuffering with firm-
nefs,4nental pain, as in remaining firm before the
grape-ihot of a battery.

For a foldier to abandon himfelf to forrow
without any radiance, to kill himfelf in order to
avoid it, is to abandon the field of battle without
having conquered."
MAY s.—Entrance into our ports has been for-
bidden to all veflels coming from Oran and places
adjacent. The plague bas' fuddenly snanifefled

itfelf in that part of Africa, and with fuch rnAg.
nity that it carries off id a few hours thole ar
tacked by it.

In the Extraordinary S itting of the Legirative
Body of May 12, (Prefidency of RANA tr, jun.)
VIENNOT VAUBLANC Paid-4, The Commiiton has
charged me to prefent to you the refult of its me•
ditations. It has endeavoured to reconcile what
is due to the dignity of the Leginative Body, and
that of Government. Thc motives of its deter-
mination will be fufficiently underftood by the pro.
jet of a decree which I have the honour of pre-
fcrting to you in its name, viz.
" The Legiflative Body having heard the Cor.-
mifiiou named in the Sitting of Floreal 21 (May
t ), for prcpofing means to regulate the mea.
Cures purfued in regard to the Metrage of Covert:.
meat of the fame day ;
4, Confidering, that while the Citizens exprelred
their wilhes for the acceptance of the Conftitution,
the Legillative Commiffions then exitliag opened
Regifters, in which the Members of the two Coun-
cils infcribed their individual votes;
" Confidering, befides, that in the prefent circum-
(lances, the Members of the Legiflative Body may
not arrive at the places of their refidence in fuf-
ficient time to infcribe their votes in the public re-
gillers;

6, Decrees I ft. The deputation of a Member from
each Department, nominated in the fitting of ref.
terday, than repair to the Palace of the Govern.
ment, to prefent to the Confuls the exprelfton of
the fcntiments of the Legiflative Body.
ad. A regifter !hall be opened at the Admini.
ftrative Commiflion, to receive there the individual
votes of the Members of the Legiflative Body on
the object announced in the Decree of Govern.
ment ; and the refult fball be tranfmjtted to Go.
vernment before the end of the prefent Seffion."
This Projesf was adopted.

Sscua-41 Citizens Legiflators! Though my
opinion coincides with that of the Commiffion, it
appears to me that it has not been fufficiently Fe-
cife in regard to the immediate opening of the
regillers. When the Tribunate expreffed a walls
dictated by national gratitude, to the Firft
Crate of the Republic, the Legiflative Body, which
experienced the fame fentiment, believed with re-
gret that the Conftitution had interdieted it from
the power of expreffing it, and of tating the lead
in this refpea. I was then afraid, in confequence,
of the bar thrown in the way by the Conftitution,
that none of the eftablillied authorities could com-
pletely fulfil its with, which I believed to be general.
In a cafe offo great importance, when the quetlion
in agitation is to decide, whether the glory of our
arms, the fweets of Peace, the refforation of pub-
lic order, the fupprellion of all fattionsf will be
falling or trantient; when it is neceffary to affix
the teal of conftancy to our inftitutions, and de-
prive the enemies of the French people of the fatal
hope of feeing revived thofe troubles and norms
which agitated the Republic before the 18th of
Brumaire; and in the laD place, when it is necef-
Cary to give to the man whom France admires,
and whom Europe envies, a recompence worthy
of ourfelves, and of him, it is to the fovereigr.
people alone, that we ought to addrefi ourfelves :
they alone can realife our willies, and by an aft of
their free and fupreme will, can eflablifh on a folid
foundation their happinefs and repofe, by giving
to BONAPARTE the moll ftriking mark of their
confidence, the reward due to the labours he has
undergone, and the dangers he has encountered.
—The anfwer of the Flan Conger. to the Senate
is perfally confonant to this opinion. This illuf-
triotE, Citizen, whole mind no great thought ef-
capes, expreffes at the fame tine his gratitude for
this great authority, and his profound refped for
the majefty of the foyereign people: in a word,
the Confuls, and the Council of State, in convok-
ing the nation, give us the kat hope of teeing dif-
appear thofe melancholy boundaries which true
patriotifm beheld with uneafinefs and envy, with
bafe and perfidious joy. This decree of the Coun-
cils, which has been communicated to us, Citizens
Legiflators, leaves us entire freedom to espies
our fentiments. This is not one of thole ads re-
fpeeting which the impartial filence of a judge is
impofed on us, it is an appeal to the people, of
whom we form a part, and of whom we are the
Reprefentatives. It appears to me, Citizens Le-
giflators, that this double fituation as Citizens and
Reprefentatives of the nation, naturally points
out tge two refolutions which ought to be entered
into by the Legiflative Body. As Legiflators,
we ought to fend a numerous deputation to
the FIRST CONSUL, to exprefs to him the fatis.
faction we experience from his anfwer, in which
we admire all thofe fentiments which jail), Co well
the national confidence ; and as Citizens, we
ought to open immediately, in the Office of nut.
Commillion, a Rcgifter, in which each of us may
individually fubfcribe his vote : this vote, loon
repeated, I have no doubt, throughout all the
Republic, giving confidence to all friends of their
country, and deftroying all the hopes of the fac-
tious, will conftantly unite our fate to the gloriiai;
defliny of the Conqueror of Italy and Egypt, of
the courageous Citizen who overthrew anarchy, of

the hero whore audacious genie]; mull a paffage
oash the Alps, difarrned all our enemies, over-
came all prejudices, calmed all confciences, and
who has given peace to the world. I propofe, then,
that the Legiflative Body fhall fend th deputation
nominated yefterday, that there thall be opened
immediately a regitler, in which we may indivi-
dually infcrihe our votes, and in the lalt place,
that the refult of this infcription (hall be trand
mined by the Deputation to Government."
The PRESIDENT—" The fira two propords of
the Orator being comprehended in the decree
which you have paired, it remains that we fhould
determine refpefling the third, which is, that the
r•fult of the infcription NAM be tranfmitted by
the Deputation to Government."
Vat.-81.stec." This amendmria has been dlr.
a:td fet afide by the coninliffion ; it has
amined which would be moil proper, to tranfmit
the relish of the votes to the.Fira Confitl by a
melTage, or to fend it by the Adminiffrative Com-
million. It has thought that the queftion in agita-
tion is not a legiflative aft, but the emifflon of the
individual defire of each Member as a Citizen, on
the queftion propofed to the French people, by
the decree of the Confuls, on the loth of this
month (May to); that the opening of a regiffer
of infcription in the Legiflative Body is intended!
to facilitate the fpeedy exprellion of that defire, and
that it is diffident if the relish be tranfmitted to
Government by the Adminiffrative Commitlion.

Plcrky Dion Art called for the order of the day
or. the propofal for charging the Deputation, to
convey to Government the relish of the votes given
by the Members of the Legislative Body.
The Legiflative Body pdfed to the order of the
day.
RotmERS anted when the regiller would be
opened
Several Members.—lmmediately.

Maacozr propofed; that a Meffage fhould
be fent to Government, to communicate the mea-
Cure decreed by the Legiflatiie Body, and to know
at what hour the Deputation would be received.—
This propofal was adopted.
[The filon7tevr here gi res the names of the Mem-
bers who compote the Deputation.]
BERKE, MAY 6.—For fome months paft the
peafants in the Canton of Leman, who owed tithes
and taxes, have been concerting meafures to de.
(troy the archives in the caftles and towns, with
a view of annihilating the titles of their debts to
the State. A conrier, who arrived laft night,
bvnight intelligence that there fatal plots have
been fitdde.nly car: icd into execution. A great
body of the populace have been armed and orga
sized for that purpofe. Several of the archives
were already burnt at the time of his departure.—
Several engagements had taken pl.tee in different
points, hot ithou: any great lnfs, becaufe they
were not in a condition to eppofe mulch refiftance.
Government has ordered troops to march in order
to put an end to this anarchic explofion : they will
be fupported by the French troops who are in the
diftria of i'Aigle, and C. Ku HM, the Minifter of
Police, will repair to Leman as Commiftioner of
Government—we have no doubt, therefore, that
good order will foon be reftored.

Mar 7.—A part of Helvetia is again a prey
to dircord and trouble. The infurreaion in the
Canton of Vino is more ferious than was at
Era fuppcfed. Two thouftnd armed peafants have
declared war againft the callles, archives, and
magazines of arms. They threaten Laufanne and
Morges, and are mailers of fix callies. Troops
have been dispatched againfl them, who are march-
ing thither with all fpeed. The Chiefs of the in-
forgents ailed a part in the difturbances which
took place in the month of November 1800. The
Valais is not in a Rate of greater tranquillity than
the Pais de Vaud. C. Pa LTiER, nominated Pre-
feft byGeneral TIIVItIt F AO, has difplaced the Tri-
bunal of the Canton, who have formally prottßed
againfl this meafure, and they have declared that
they will not quit their functions tinlefs compelled
by force. This capital even has bccn the theatre
of divifion. The Helvetic troops in gairifon here
came to blows with the French troops: feveral have
been wounded on both fides. The refpeeive Com-
mandants have configned them to their barracks.
In the mean time the Notables are again employed
w:th the plan of a Conaitution prefented to them
on the 3d•by the Petty Council; but the nature
of this plan is not yet known.
Laos/man, May 6.—At nine o'clock in the
evening of the 4111, four companies of the 87th
Preach demi-brigade, and on the sth two other
companies of the fame troop, arrived here from
dißria of l'Aigle. In the night between the
4th and sth, a patrole of militia cavalry were met
at fome diftance from this town by a detach-
ment of infurgents, who fired upon them, a ball
pall J through the cloak of the officer who com-
manded them, and wounded his horfe. The fame
Light a company of militia, organized at Morgcs
by the Sub-Prefett, made ten prifuners, one of
whom was feverely wounded.• The infurgents pro.
mile.: to feveral callles in the environs of Morges,
anion!, others at Graney,Artifens,Coltens,Hollens,
14. and uLtlized tlic Proprietors to deliver op their

chatters, which they tttrnt in theft pretenee. The
Prefct continues to purfue every meafure of fafety,
didated by wirdom and prudence. A plate of
rendezvous has been appointed, to which all the
Militia, and even all thole capable of bearing arms
are to repair in cal.:: of alarm. Two companies of
French troops let nut on the sth for Morges: others,
it is raid, will repair to Coflonay. We are Allred,
that a body of infurgents to the number of 2000,
and commanded by Captain RFYMOND, are now
at the gates of Morgcs ; they demand that the
archives, arfenal, and prifoners, than be delivered
up to them. The Sub-prefed, after a conference
with the Committee of the infurgents, thought it
his duty, confidering the infufficiency of his means
of defence, to accede to thefe imperious demands,
except that of giving up the arfenal, which he
was able to preferve.

Max 7.—Laft night Citizen KUHN, Member of
the Petty Council, charged with the Department
of Juflice, arrived here as comniillioner of the Hel-
vetic Government, with a company of ca Tally,
and followed by feveral corps of infantry.
Two companies of French troops from the dif-
trio of l'Aigle arrived here alfo this morning.

Her Royal Highnefs the Patacess of Watts
yellerday completed the 34th year of her age,
and in the evening her Highnefb's tradefmen illu-
minated.

Four candidates have commenced to canvafs
Cambridge(hirc, againft the General Elation, viz.
Lord H. PETTY, fun of the Marquis of LANS-
DOWNE ; Lord C. MANNERS, brother of the Duke
of RUTLAND ; Mr. C. YORKE, brother of Lord
HARDWICK F and Sir H. PEYTON.

The Marquis of ABERCORN has lived quite do.
meflicated rnce his accident laft year, and has re-
tired from all the Clubs of which he was a mem-
ber. His houfc is now the rendezvous every even-
ing for the bell circles of falhon, but the parties
Are not numerous.

The fecund battalion of the 31 Regiment of
Foot Guards had a grand Field Day yefterday in
Hyde Park. _ _

The Prince of WALES'S, or toth Regiment of
Light Dragoons, expea to be reviewed by his
MAJESTY on. Afhford Common in the courfe of
this week; the field days preparatory to it being
very frequent. After the review, the Regiment
will be relieved from the KING': duty at Windfor,
by the Duke of CUMBERLAND'S, or 15th regiment
of Light Draooons.
Yefterday the Admiralty was crowded with fe-
verAl hundred navy Officers' widows,who attended
to be fworn as to their being widows previous to
their receiving their penfions the enfuing pay day;
and what has been lb long talked of is at length to
take place, namely, an augmentation of their pit-
tance of 201. a year to 301.
The fum of three thoufand and thirty-four
pounds eleven Millings and fixpence, was the
amount of the fees to the War-Office on the Staff
Promotion in laft Tuefday's Gazette.
Saturday gam William and Sylvan:sr Morris were
brought up to receive judgment, in the Court of
King's Bench, upon convection of obllru;liin an
officer of the revenue in the execution of his duty.
—They had been four months in prifon at Shrewf-
bury, where they were tried. Morris was the fer-
vant of Williams, and therefore the Court ma4c. a
diflinetion in their punifliment, ordering Mori is
to be imprifoned four months in Carnarvon 170,
and Williams to be imprifoned for the fame
and alto to find fecurity for his good bchavi ,tir tor ,
one year, himfelf in tool. and two fureties in
each.

A Lady was on Sunday laff brought to the
neceffity of doing penance in the l'
Church of Newington Butts, for having Rip!,
talked of her neighbours. A numerous Co.._ .
gation collected, for the purpofe of witneffii .he
ceremony.
Friday fe'nnight the mill and Bores of To i)bera-
henny, near Clonmell, were totally confirmed—and
what adds greatly to the catallrophe, the quantity
of wheat and flour which they contained were alfo
deftroyed. This beautiful building was not two
years finifhed, and coR its indultrious and worthy
proprietor a very confiderable fum.
The Bill now pending in the Houle of Com-
mons for enlarging the powers of the Aft for the
relief of Infolvent Debtors, commonly called the
Lords' AR, contains clanks to the following ef.
fed refpefting Members of Parliament. They are
highly important, as well as curious :

" And whereas Debtors having Privilege of Parliament are
not compellable to pay their jult debts, by reafon of the free-
dom of their perfons from arreas upon civil proccfs; to remedy
fuch inconvenience, and to fupport the honour and dignity of
Parliament, and good faith in all dealings, which require that
haall cafes the laws fbould have their die eourfe, and that none
Gould be exempted, by any privilege whatever, from doing
equal jultice to all their creditors; be it maned, that it fhall
be lawful for any creditor of any perfon having privilege of Par-
liament (having obtained judgment in any Court of Record) to
fue out a Commons againit fuch privileged Pcrfon •. and if fuch
privikged perfon !bail not, within one year after perfonal ler-
vice of fuch futumons, fatisfy fuch creditor his debt and coils,
fuch privileged perfon !hall be compellable to difeover, deliver
up, and affign, all his property, real and perfonal, for the be-
nefit of his creditor or creditors, in the fame manner as if he
had been charged in execution Cot and during the fpaee of one
year, and !hall for that purpofe be fubjed and liable to all the
provifions of the Ad herein recited and of this A ta.

" That nothing in this Ad than fubjett any perfon entitled
to privilege of Parliament to be arrcited or imprifoned dur-
ing the time of fuels privilege, except in cafes of perjury, and
in the rife made pumfhable by traofportatiom by the At
herein recited-

" But Curb debtor having privilege of lihrliament,lnfiead of
being brought into Court, shall be at liberty to deliver Winch
account as aforcfaid, either in perfon or by Attorney, and veri-
fied by affidavit, and alfo to make fuch affignman as is afore-
raid, either in perfon or by Attorney, for the benefit of loch
creditors as (hall have obtained judgment at the time of filch
alignment, and who mail then claim the benefit thereof.

" Every creditor intending to compel any privileged perfon
to smite (nal difeovery and affignment fbaU,intlead of deliver-
ing fuch notice to other the creditors of fuch privileged petfort
or their A ttornies,give notice of fuch hi, intention by advertife-
ment in the Loudon Ggzette, twenty days before the day on
which fuch prlvikged pcefun be required to deliver to fuch
account as atosziaid."