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London, England, 1801-03-07 00:00:00

PARIS, FEBRUARY 37.

The following Letter was addreffed to the hfi-
nifter of Finance by the Firft Conful

Paris, February kg.
I am deeply (enable, Citizen Mbrifter, of the lofs which we
have juit futtained in the Cuutifcllor of State Derchic, Direc-
tor of the,Public Treafury of the precifion, regularity, and
(brie. probity which fo eminently diftinguillsed his condiuft we
frill flood in tome need,—The public &cern is the reward of
tried, upright men. I feel tome confolation in obftvving that,
even from the diftance of another life, he is not infenfible to
the forrowful regrets with which we are imprrifed. It is my
wiOs that his Bull should be placed in the Hall of tbeTreaftuy.
I falute you molt kindly, (Signed) lIONAPAR:I4.
MAI.CI4 2.

A report from General FAANCPUII to the Mi-
nifter of War, confirms the news of the entry of
the French iato Mantua, where they found im-
menfe ftores a all kinds. They confill of the
following :-260 pieces of cannon; 669,000
weight of powder ; 11,671 magnets, carbines,
Bce. ; 2,210,000 cartridges, -together "with greet
quantities of bombs, bullets, &c.
The chief command of Mantua:has been con-
ferred upon General Mott is. General-of Bri-
gade Mat►ui. has the command of tilt fort and
citadel under him.

Orders were received at Strabargh on the 24th
ult. to demolifh the fortrefs of Kehl, and the de-
molition was aaually commenced on the a6rh.
M. az Touz♦ has been difpatched from 1.4(b0n
by the Portuguefe Government, as Ambaffador to
the Confulate.

They write from Naples, that the King of Sar-
dinia had embarked ill that port for Paleimo.
, Accounts h4ve beenreceived from St. Domingo,
that the river Artibonite had overflowed and in-
undated the Plain of St. Mc. About i4OO per-
tons perifhed in this dreadful inundation, which
had totally deftroyed feveral plantations.
The Moniteur of the tit February has publifhed
a letter from Conitantinople of the.zoth of Janua-
ry, of which the following abftraft may give
room to intercfting conjeftures. After alluding
to the accounts of the arrival of Lord Keith at
Rhodes, and to the reports of three French fri-
', tsates having entered Alexandria with provifions
and military Flores, the writer proceeds to make
the following remarks:—." If- the French have
fucceeded in throwing fuccours into Egypt, it will
be impolfible for the Englifh to fucceed in their at-
tempt, whatever may be the force which they are
employing againft Egypt. And indeed unlefs a
fpirit of difunion and difcontent gets among the
French, the Eparilli muff meet with a rude recep-
tion,
nor thall they able to difentangle themtclves
from their fitunion ; and even fhoul& there Cue-
cours not have reached the French army in Egypt,
they fill, however, (if they are apprifed of the
point of difembarkation, of which there is little
doubt) make it very doubtful whether the Englifli
can maintain their pofition. in that country, and-
that doubt muff turn on the more or lets diftant
point from the centre of the French army atwhich
the Englith may effea a difembarkation. For
their first foccefres upon the waft will not be fuffi-
cient to diflodge the French from ' that country.
This'bufincfs, if (itch be the difpofition of the
French, and if they do not concert among them-.
(elves an attempt at a fpeedy return to France, may
be long and fanguinary.
1, Such is the broken and difpirited Rate of the
Grand Vizier's army, that he cannot afemble
so,coc, and thefe would fcarcely make a Randal
the very Gift aftion. The French have a campat
Cairo of ten thoufand chofen men ; at a (nail dif-
tance fi , in •thence is eftablithed a camp of the
Gr.eks aial Copths nearly to the fame amount,

and ready to repair to the point that May be at-
tacked. There are adequate garrifons at Alexan-
dria, Aboukir, Rofetta, Damietta, and SAlahich.
Every point is guarded by a fele& corps of three
thoufand French and three thoufand Greeks.
And the French Generals are ultimately perfuadcd
that thefe corps arc fuflicient to make head againft
the Grand Vizier,. !boald he attempt to interfere
in die pafrage of the Delayt,--Befides, new corps
of the inhabitants arc daily forming, Who fhud-
der at the idea of falling again under the domi-
niotr of tie Turks, and who are ready to make
every exertion to rercue themfelvcs from it. The
Soldier in Egypt is well clothed and well fed. Of
thefe details there c.tn be no doubt.

It is fuppofed that the Englith cannot Orem.
ble more th.tn t s,oca men on their difembarka.
Lion ; and it is generally believed that to,oce;
French are more than fuflicient to repulfe them.
efpecially thould they fucceed in effeSing a landing.
" This refult muff naturally be expetleci by
thole who ate acquainted with the unwillingncts
or inertnefs of the Turks to co-operate in then at-
tempts. There attempts at Conflantinople are
looked upon as regarding more the interefts of
China than thole of the Ottoman Empire. The
preparations of the Turkilh fquadron arc confe-
qtiently languid, and the Captain Pacha pretend.%
indifpofition, in order to excufe his inaSivity. In
this he does no more than execute the wilhes of his
Court. But, while the Ottoman Porte abftains
from furnifhing offenlive means, they, however
furniffi the Englifit with visuals and wine. A.
Mr. B has (et out to join Sir Sumer
Swim ; but he entertains no hopes whatever of
the fucecfs of the Englifit ; on all thefe proceed-
ings we do not pretend to deliver a pofitive opi.
nion. There is room, however, to fufpeet that
Ruilia is endeavouring to fruftrate the attemptsof
the Englifh, by infinuating to the Turks that the
Cabinet of Peterlbitrgh will intercede with the
French in their favour ; and in thus doing, th.z..
Ruffians would only do what the French have
done refpating the occupation of the Crimea. So
ItPange indeed is the polturc of affairs, that we
fhould not be furprized at feeing RuLlla decidedly
reprobate the meafurcs of England with repel
to Turkey, and require of her faithful Ally, the
Grand Seignior, to declare himfelf againft Eng-
land."

PARLIAMENTARY. PROCeEDIN GS.

HOPSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 6.

The Marquis of Doan; soma took the oaths and
his feat.

Lord Mows prefented feveral Petitions from In.
folvent Debtors at Edinburgh and other places.
Lord AUCKLAND raid, there was a Petition be-
fore the HouteTrom a Mrs. Addifon, praying for
a Bill of Divorce againft her hulband. It was a
molt aggravated cafe. He wilhed the Bill might
be brought in; and he would call the attention of
the Houle to the fubjea on that day fe'nnight, for
which day be moved that the Lords be fummoned.
Ordered.

Lord WALSINGHAN moved, that the Honfe do
adjourn till Monday next.
Lord DAitaLsy fain, he conceived that in the
prefentßate of the Country, it was highly necef-
fary for the Houfe to fit tvery day ; it was alto
confiftent with decorum, which was the duty of
every man to obferve at this time.
Lord FITZWILLI Am-declared hindelf of the Lurie
opinion, and feconded the motion. t.
The LORD CHANCELLOR Paid, that for his own
part he had no fort a objelltion to come down to
that Houfe to-morrow ; but he mutt obferve, that
there was no bufinefs before the Houfe ; that it
was very unnfual for the Honfe to meet on a Sa-
turday, nnlefs there was tome urgent bufinefs to
be gone through—it could, therefore, anfwer no
purpofc whatever for the Houfe to fit ; but, ca
the contrary, it n'ot;ld have the cited of creat-
ing an improper and unnec;:fary degree ofagitatioa
in the public mind.
Lcrd MOIRA thought it would not create more
agitation than was likely to take place in conic-
quence of the prefent difeullion. During the pre-
fent Milan= of affairs on the Continent, and while
the Benches of that Honfe remained without one
rcfponfible Minifter, it was the Duty of Parlia-
ment to exert the utmost vigilance, and to attend
every day in the week, wbe*T there was bufinefs
to be done or not. It was not for him or a 4
other Lord why that there vizi no bufinefs to be
done on any particular day; perhaps, if the Houle
fhould meet to-morrow, tome Noble Lord would
have a motion to make ; perhaps befoit that time
fornething might occur which would render mo-
tion need:try, or at lean make it necefary *the
Houfe to be fitting.—For thefe reafons, he woul4
fupport the motion of his Noble Friend.
LOrd Minolta y E replied, that no perfon could
funpofb the poffibility of any motion being add
to-morrow; for it was well known that there wee
harePy ever an initanee' of an important motiong
being made without a previous notice knot
given. I
Lord CA IIIIARVOW and Lord Romney tapportcd
the monad for adjourning till, to-morrow. "
Lord Aocit La en did not fee the leaf} necelfitT
for fuch an unprecedented proceeding. Nothing
that occurred on the Continent, nor even the do-
metric fituation -of the Country, required it.. But
what would be the cOnfequence of their Lorelfhipe
coming, down there to.morrow, without haviac
any buli '
nell to do The Rare and gaze of our
ofity would be ezercifed, mid it would be afkeel,
whether namethins extraordinary had not iancar-
red, to bring their Lordships down when no haft"
nets was to be done ? • - • •
Lord DARNLEY (aid, that as he perceived the
fenfe of the Houk was againa' his motion, he
-would not prefs h.—Adjourned to Monday 7 •

HOUSE 07 COMMON. •
Leave of *Vence Iva: granted, for a limited time.
to Lord Grer, Mr. Bcrlley, and Mr. Brook.
Mr. Breit raid, %/At a Noble Friend of his, who
had accepted the office of Secretary affitate, cow
ceived it would be difrelpeafia to the Houk to re-
fume his (cat, it.havaig been to Red that, hr
his accertancu of that lunation, bead, =MPS%

to the Place Bill, vacated his feat. As that was
contrary to his opinion, he gave notice that he
thonld, on Monday neat, bring forward a motion
to afcertain the fenfe of the Houfe on that fubjett.
Lord TEMPLE fait, that preparatory to the slit:
cuffion of which he had given notice for Tnefday
next, it was proper for him to move, that W.
Boucher, Notary Public, and Deputy Regifler of
Sarum, be directed to attend this Houle en Tuef.
day the sods of March next, with the Regifter
Book of Orders, celebrated by the Lord Bithop of
Sarum—And alto, that the Reverend Clerk of
Parifh Church of Brcntford, in the county of Mid.
dicta, do attend the Houfe on the fame day, with
certain Records, &c.—This the Noble Lord Paid,
was for the purpofe of afcertaining the fad of the
Rev. Gentleman oppofite to him, having, or not
having, taken upon him the order of Prieß.
The firft motion being put,
Mr. HORNE TOOKE.-.-" I am not a little fur.
pritid at the motion now fubmitted, after the con-
verfation I had with the Noble Lord yelierday,
the fuldianre of which I fhall Rate to the Houk ;
and if, through mittake, L mifreprefent any thing,
the Noble Lord, I am Cure, will have the good-
nefs to corral me. The Noble Lord told me
vellerday, that if I attended in my place this day,
I thould hear him flaw the nature and objed of
the motion he intended to bring forward, with-
out at all intimating that it would be what he
now calls a preparatory motion. He at the fame
time added, that he was not actuated by any fen-
timent of perfonal difrefped towards me, but
would think it his duty to do the fame, were his
neareß friend placed in the rime circumftances.'
The Noble Lord knows whether 1 reprefent him
rightly—[Lord Temple, by a cry of dear I Hear!
fignified his acquielcence]--Common decency
compelled me to reply, that I believed he thought
as he had fpoken, but that experience had fhewn
inc it was not very uncommon for men to ad upon
one motive, while they thought they afted upon
another.'—[A From this I had reafon to
aped that he would have confented to make me
and the Haute acquainted with his °hied before-
hand, and I now qply know that a part of his
motion will be, bilinquire whether that title of
lisuertod Gentleintn, which he has twice bellowed
oh ni in an honarat7 manner, belongs to me or
not ? lam certainly in a great meafure unac:
quaintsd with the rules and orders of Parliament;
but in any other place I fhould not think the mo-
tinit now before me quite confiftent with candour.
I have, on more oceafions than one, already ex-
petineed the kindnefs, indulgence, and jullice
of this Houle, independently of thofe private
fielligs sy_which fame Gentlemen were dsfpofed
to regard Me with fame attention ; and I therefore
hhpe, that, in conformity with the handfome,
manly; and candid manner which the Honfe
ulna* adopts, the Noble Lord will abide by the
intimation he gave of his intention to explain the
objet of his motion."
Lord TEMPLE, in explanation,prAffed that he
had no intention, by the expreffion he had em-
ployed, to giie the flighteft offence, and if the
tide of Reverend Gentleman, which he had ap-
plied, was difagreeable, he was willing to add
Honourable, whieh he apprehended would be per-
kily unetceptionable. He had been induced to
make the prefent Motion merely for the purpofe
of arriving at a certain conciulion with regard to
a particular fad, and when once the firft queltion
vas clifpofed of, he would then be prepared to fol-
low it yp With an appropriate Motion.
Mr. HORNS TOORE•.•." The Noble Lord has
now given us no better explanation than before,
and never did I hear of a more naked notice of a
motion. The attendance of a parith.ckrk, pnd
tome other perfon, a notary public, is demanded
without any reafon given why they fhould be font
for. In my opinion, fome reafon fhould be given
to point out the objet ; but as it alludes perfonally
to myfelf, I fhall not oppofe the motion."
Mr. Psecivat. Paid, the Noble Lord had Rated
facient grounds for the motions before the Houfe.
lie conceived that it was contrary) to law and the
conftitution to admit any perfon who had officiated
as a Prieß to fit in that Houfe; and as a prelimi-
nary to the difeuffion of that qucftion, into which
it would be premature then to enter, he thought
it right to adduce evidence as to the fad that a
Prielt was become a Member—lt would be ex-
tremely improper to anticipate the opinion of the
Houfe tin the fubjea, but it was very proper die
fad fhould be brought before them.
Mr. HORN!' Tootte.--so After all that has been
hitherto Paid, I cannot think but, in the prefent
mode of proceeding, both the Honourable Gen-
tlemen are putting the cart kfoty the hotA when
they with to eftablifts the fad iirft, and afterwards
mean to apply for the advice of Parliament. On
the contrary, it feems to me, that the more proper
mode would be, firft to eftablith the principle, and
then to inquire how the faits applied to it ? I
make no doubt 'but the Noble Lord has been
rz.db, the advice of the Honourable and
Gendensames---(Ne! No 1)—Well, fo
lintel the better; but, at all events, I am willing
to fare both of them a deal of unneceffary trou-
bles by acknowledging that I did receive Prieß's
Orders.--1 am not afraid of, but am fully pre-
pared to meet that objedion ; and. I can allure
them, that they get more by this adniitlion than
lacy Can poffibly prove by the motion now under
your contideratign. I will add, that if either or
both of than with for any further information
with regard to me, they will always find 31)C wil.
Lotto meet them two-thirds of the way."
The Stamm doubted whether, according to
the forms of the Houfe, this admiffion could be
received as evidence. He-flared the cafe of a dif-
Pute ahent As right of the Odell fon of a Peer to
itt in the Houfe, when the Honfe were of (Onion
!hat an admithon of the fae in difpute could not
recci%ed as evidence, and judged it necelfart to
.ppuunt a Committee to examine the affair.—The
-notion was then put and carried without a divifion.

MARTIAL LAW IN lILLANIL
L^►d Carrt.toloon, after a few &remotions
in the ;mat importance of his prophred motion
for the continuance of the Bill for the exillence of
laßial Law is Ireland, agreed to Foitpone it till
tr.:11247 nest, aa coafidcsetion ul the prrSat

Rate of public affairs. As he Was anxious, how-
ever, that the meafure fhould be gone through as
loon as pollibleafter that time, he hoped the Houle
would fit on Saturday to expedite the Bill in one
of its Rages.
Sir LAWRENCE PARSONS thought that a mea-
lure of this importance called for the moll ferious
conlideration. It was of the greatelt confecpsence
that every Member of the Houfe fhould be fully
apprifed of the feveral claufes of the Bill for the
continuance of which the motion was intended.
The Members of that part of the United Kingdom
called Great Britain were at prefent unacquainted
with the particular nature of the Bill, and were,
confequently unprepared to give a jut opinion
relpefting the expediency of prolonging its opera-
tion.
This information, he conceived, would bell
be obtained by printing the two Bills as they pal.
ted in different years. The firfl was an Aft paf-
fed at the end of the Rebellion in 1799, and the
other was an Alf to explain and amend the claufes'
of the former, which was brought in and palled
in the following Salon of Parliament. By the
circulation of tilde Bills among the Members of
the HOufe, a corral and diftinft knowledge of
their nature and tendency would he obtained,
and every Gentleman would be in a lunation to
determine on thc expediency of their continuance.
Without this, their information would be necefra-
rily partial, and their judgment,of neceflity, would
not be aided by any fuitahlc degree of evidence.
Lord CASTLEREAGH entered into a fhort expla-
nation, and contended, that as the meafure was
merely one of continuance, it WAS not neceffary
to enter into any minutenefs of detail on the fuh-
jeft, or to prefent before the Houfe all the infor-
mation which might be requilite in cafe of the pro-
dation of a new meafure.

Mr. SHPRIDAT4 could not agree with the Noble
Lord in his views of the meafure, or in the pro-
' priety of putting off all difcufllon till the Bill had
advanced in its Rages. The Noble Lord had laid,
that the Bill to be propofed was one merely of
continuance, dependent on previous knowledge t'
one whiCh did not require any new documents to
I be prefented to the Houfe to guide their determi-
nation. But what did the Houfe know of the
grounds on which the mcafure had formerly been
propofed? They knew abfolutely nothing of the
circumftances arifing from the (tate of Ireland,
which could itiftify their adoption ofa meafure, of
a nature fo violent, as that which it was the objetft
I of the motion to continue. They could not, there-
' fore, in confiftency with their duty, accede to the
prolongation of any meafure, of the merits of
which they had no proofs laid before them. They
owed it to their duty to the crown, and the prefer-
ratios of their own dignity, that no meafure thould
be adopted without the neceffary information of
its neceffity as well as its expediency. Under the
prefent circumftances of the country, dikullion on
fubjeas of the molt important nature had been de- I
layed, and enquiries into she general conduet of
Adminiftration had been ftifpended, and it there-
fore became the Holife to take care that this mea-
Cure, though ftyled merely one of continuance,
(bould not be hurried through the Houfe without
examination. It had been raid, indeed, that if the
meafure Were delayed, the Bill might expire in
Ireland before the forms of the Houfe admitted
of its being renewed. This, to be (Ore, might be
attended with partial inconvenience, though the
word that could ever happen from it was, that the
inhabitants of Ireland would for a fhort period
be deprived of the advantages of martial law !
But what was this compared with other motions
much more important in themfelves, much more
deeply involving the interefts of the whole Em-
pitt, which had been delayed from the prefent
Rate of public affairs ? On thefe grounds, he
lhould certainly expea information fufficient to fa-
tisfy his mind of the expediency of the meafure,
before he could give his affent to the propofed con-
tinuance of the Bill.

Lord CASTLEREAGH conceived that if the Houfe
were to go into any detailed evidence of the ne-
ceflity or the meaftire, they would throw fuck oh-
flacles in the way of the motion as would defeat
its intention. If they followed the precedent of
the Irilh Parliament, there would then he no ne-
celEty for cntcring into this detail, fince at the
time the meafure was brought forward for
the fecond time, no circumliantial evidence was
judged to be neceffary. Whether the Houfe
would now think it expedient to continue the aft,
would depend entirely in that cafe on the argu-
ments of dude by whom it was propofed. 'I he
only queftion before the Ho& now was, however,
not whether detailed information of the circum-
fiances calling for the continuance of the aft thould
be Lid before them, but whether the efts fopner-
ly patied-thould be re-printed for the information
of Members If any Parliamentary mode of doing
this could be effeeted, he was fo fir (tom having
any with to oppofe this, that it should meet with
his hearty concurrence.
The &cam was of opinion that there was no
inftance on record of Ads paired in a former fdlion
being ordered to be re-printed by the Houle.
They were already fuppoted to be in the hands of
Members, and they could only be re-printed by re-
coating their feveral chafes. This was a very
common mode of procedure, but any other he
conceived to be altogether irregular.
Sir Lawestics Paxson' was convinced that this
was an extraordinary cafe, which might juilify an
extraordinary procedure. The former forms of
the Houfe with regard to the • printing of A.!ts re-
ferred only to the Parliament of Great Britain,
and fo far they were evidently founded in pro-
priety, but they were not applicable to the (Lames
of Ireland, of which the Englith Members could
have no previous information. There was indeed
one copy of them contained in a box, to which
Gentlemen might refer, but this mode of refer-
ence would be tedious and ineffedual. He could
not conceive then that it could he far out of order
in the Houle to determine that a particular Aft,
paled in the filler kingdom, lbould be printed
for the life of Members. If the noble Lord had
therefore no objeaioa, he Mould conclude with
moving, that the two Alts to which he had alluded,
thoold be printed, and laid before the Houle.
Sir nil' hatiaterfcrsd au l laid, that-this

mot;on teas gtuu irr,Aulat, fince, ley t 1 c firms
th,: all ilat!ttec t crc ;*oppolcd already to
tbe tablt of the Hritif-_!.

Sir JMIN Sr:CIATR thomAht the appniat ment of
a Committee woulfl34,4fver all the purpofes pro-
poled, and svoit.d o the objefaions againli
the tw)tiim in it . pre lent fornt.
ItypEß agreed as to the propriety of oh-
twining the greatell pi:Oilfic information on the
fibjea, bat apprehended the motion would pro.
duce dangerotrt mconveuience. fie illtiftrated hill
Itrtlier the idea fyggetled by ttie Speaker, that all
acts were fuppnled to he in the hands of Menthe: s.
and concluded by hating that, though the l bad,:
could not order the priming of the AR., tll t 1.4 •
might be priv:ttely printed, and fold lot the mi.
of Manlius. This hint being approved fd by the
the motion vats demo le withdrawn.

The report of• the Mule Duty Bill wa,
and ordered to he read a third time on Monday.
The report of the Coniniitt;c on the Prowilliwy
Note Bill was received, the refiduti'n•.:r;recd to,
and the Bill ordered to be read a ail,' rime on
Monday next.
On the report of the Committee on the Poll
Office Bill,

Mr. Jos ss moved, as a claufe, that the weight
allowed to Members franks be increared to three
ounces. He laid the great demand for fine linen
for wounded foldiers occafioned paper to be made
of coarfer rags, and confcry neatly it weighed more.
and members had not the fall advantage propofed.
Mr. Rosa and Mr. Bo irroti oppofed the clank;
Mr. ROBINSON and Mr. PIERRE rotwr fupportcd it.
Mr. W. DUNDA S laid, he had heard nothing in its
behalf, but that the wounded foldiers conlitmed
too many fine linen rags, which was a wretched
and mifcrable argument.
Mr. JONES raid, he did not think there were five
Members of the Ho. Gentleman's opinion ; nor
five that did not reprobate the occafion of the fol.
diem being wounded in this dreadful and terrible
war.

The Houle divided on receiving the claun—
Ayes 2 t--Noes 93--Majority 72.
A long converfation took plact on a motion to
take into cow-itration the fecond Report of the
Committee on the high Price of Provifiens.
Mr. SHERIDAN did not think it conformable
to-the ufage of the Houle, to defeat a motion by
counting out the Heufe. He wifhed this meafttre
to be difcitifed. That part, at leall. that :elated
to cottagers, he entirely adopted ; if it were only
to induce great landlioldcrs to grant the poor
(mall portions of land to increafe their comforts
in fome degree.
Mr. Ryon' and Mr. WILDFRFORCE were for
the motion; Mr. HOBHOUSE and the SOLICITOR
GENERAL againfi it. The Houfe divided on the
quellion—Ayes 3o—?does 37.1—Majority 7.
Shortly after the Houfe was counted out.—Ad-
journed to Monday.