Star.
London, England, 1802-12-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. ALIMANDIR brought in a Bill to explain and amend
certain Claufes of an Adt paffed in the laft Seffion of Parliament,
relative to the Exemption of Diffenting Clergymen in Ireland
from ferving in the Militia. The Bill was read a firft time, and
ordered for the fecund reading to-morrow.
Mr. VA NSITTART moved the fecond reading of the Sugar
Bounty Drawback BM. It was read a fecond time accordingly,
and committed for to-morrow.

A Meffage from the Lords informed the Heafe that their
Lordlhfps had agreed to the Cyder, Perry, Mum, and Penton
Bills, to the Five Million Exchequer Bills' Bill, and to the
Annul (2alification Indemnity Bill, v►irhout any Amend-
ments.

The Bill for fufpendlng certain penalties now attaching on
Woollen Manuf eturers was committed, and the Report or-
dered for to-morrow.

The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up,
the Refolotions were agreed to, and a Bill was ordered ac-
cordingly.
The Irilh Corn Intercourfe Bill was reported, and ordered to
be read a third time to-morrow. • _ _ _

The kith Militia Pay Bill was introduced, read a first time,
and ordered to be read a feeond time to-morrow. _ _

The Report of the Committee on Expiring Laws was brought
up, itatim, that the Mt for granting Relief t..• Captors of ships
of war, and the Ad for regulating the Trade bctwiXt this
Country and Malta, were about to expire.
After thefe Refolutions had been read, and a
motion made that the Houfe fhould confider them
in a Committee,
General Gascotons exprefred a with to know
whether the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer was now difpofed to give him the an-
fwer to a queflion which he had put yefterday, as
he had given reafon to the Houfe to expeet ?
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHeozrez, in reply,
remarked that the anfwer which he meant to give
was contained in the Refolutions now read to the
Houfe. He had yetterday (bated hisignorance that
the At regulating the trade betwixt this Country
and Malta was fo nearly on the point of expiring,
but he had full confidence in the diligence and
a.ftivity of the Committee annually appointed to
draw up a Report to the Houfe on the fubjed of
expiring laws generally, that they would not omit
the confederation of a fubjed of fuch material im-
pottance. The Committee had given in one Re-
port, (lasing that the Al was on the eve of ex-
piring, though in another Report they had not
thought it necefrary to take any notice of this fub-
jeCt. Without inquiring at prefent into the caufes
which led to a notice of the At in the one care,
and an omiflion of it in the other, he should
certainly fupport the motion for the Houfe to go
into a Committee on the Report now laid on the
Table.

The Houfe, after this, rerolved into the Corn.
mittee, and a Refolution was agreed to, Liming
it to be the opinion of the Committee that the two
Afts mentioned in the Report flould be continued.
The Houfe refumed, the Report was agreed to,
andleave was granted to bring in Bills accordingly.
In a short time after, the Bill for regulating the
trade betwixt ibis country and Malta was brought
in, read a firft and fecond time, and committed
for to-morrow.
Mr. 'SMITH appeared at the Bar, and intimatcd
that his Majelly had been waited upon with the
Addrefs of the Houfe of yeflerday, praying that
Copies of the Patents of the Admiralty and Navy
Boards might be. laid before the Idoure, and that
his Majefty had been gracioufly pleated to give
orders accordingly.
There papers were foon after prefented by Mr.
Garthfhore, and ordered to lie on the Table.

INDIA.
Mr. SW•RIDAW, agreeably to his notice of yef-
terdiy, role to move for a variety of papers rela-
tive ito the late tranfaaions in the Carnatic.--0
Though the papers he thould now move for twere
not of •a nature from• which he could expect very

were produaion of which there
could be a.
be nkoinpod ffi thbllth4 e objelli on.
After fame obfervations from Mr. WALLACE
and Sir THEOPHILUS METCALF, who thought the
papers to be moved for might be granted without
oppofition, the following documents were moved
and ordered to be laid on the Table. ,
A Copy of the Inftrudlions fent from the GoVernor Genersl in
Council to the Governor of Fort St. George on the 26th day
of March, sBOO, together. with Copier of all the Letters
Minutes and Proceedings which give rife to thefe inftr udions!
A Copy of all the Letters, Minutes, and Inftrudions of the
Governor General in Council fa far as they rapt-died do,
father of the late Nabob of the Carnatic.
A Copy of all the Correpondence which pared betwixt my
hommcd Aly and Omdut Ul Omrah. Nabob of the Carnatic.
On the moti.2l of Mr. SHER3bAN, an Addrefs was alto or-
dered to be prefented to his Majefty, praqng that his Mien,.
would be gr.icioufly pleafed to give orders for laying before the
Houle a Copy of the Will of 0 • dut Ul Omrah.
ABUSES IN THE NAVY.
Capt. MARKHAM moved the Committee on the
Naval Commflioners' Bill.
The Houfe accordingly refolved into the Com.
mitteee.—Several Amendments of confiderable
moment were propofed.
Mr. STORGEs rofe,and fuggefted that as he un-,
derilood the Amendments propofed to be intro.
duced were very material, it would be better to
allow them to be introduced at prefent pro forma,
without any animadverfion. The Bill might then
be printed, and afterwards re-committed. By
this means Gentlemen wifhing to deliver their fen.
timents on the Bill might do it with more advan.
tage than in the prefent impeded flate in which
the Bill appeared.
Some little paufe enfuing,the Honourable Gen.
4eman again rofe, and walled to know whether
it was meant that his faggeftion (hould be adopt.
ed ? If it was adopted, he fhould now fuller the
different dudes to pats, without obfervation, but
if a contrary mode was to be adopted, he fhould
then feel it necefFary to trouble the Committee at
fome 'length on feveral claufes which the Bill now
contained.

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Mr. STURGES Rated, that it was very far from
his.intention to throw any unneceirary obliacles
in the way of thy progrefs of the Bill, and had no
objedion. that the re-committal should take place
to-morrow, as the Night Honourable Gentleman
had propofed.
Admiral BERKELEY fuggefted that the names of
thelCommiffioners thould be inferted in the firft
claufe of the Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcatopEt,inanfwer
to thisp remarked, that the names of Commiffion-
ers appointed by an Ad might be inferted in
whatever part of the Bill the Houle should think
proper.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL then read the names
of the Gentlemen propofed to be Commiffioners.
They were—Vice Admiral Sir Charles Maurice
Pole, and Hugh Leycefter, Efq.
Mr. DENT threw out fome hints about the
propriety of fixing the falaries of the Comruiffioners
appointed by the Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQFER ObferVed:
that the ufual plan of proceeding in thefe cafes
was, not to introduce any claufe into the Bill, ba
to award a falary to the Commiffioners by a tub.
fequent Refolution of the Houfe
The other Gentlemen were—Ewan Law, Efq.
John Ford, Efq. and Henry Hunter, Efq.
• After the Report was brought up, and a Refo-
lution for its being printed agreed to,
M. DENT, though he adinitted that the names
of the Gentlemen propofed to be Commiffioners
were highly refpeetable, confeffed he rather was
furprized not to find in the lift the names of Lord
Keith, Lord Gardner, and other gallant Officers
who had diftinguifhed themfelves during the late
war.
It was underftood that the Bill flinuld be recom-
mitted to-morrow.—The following is a copy of it :
Whereas it is highly expedient for the public fervice that an
inquiry mould be made refpeding the abufes which may have
ezifted and been pradifed by perfons employed in the feveral
I naval departments hereinafter-mentioned, and in the bufincfs
of prize agents, the modes of concluding and carrying on the
I public fervice, and the fees, gratuities, perquifites, and emolu-
ments received and taken therein, with a vtew to fuch regula-
i tions as mall be judged expedient and propkr for the corm ion
of abufes which may have arifen; for the better managing and
concluding the bulinefs thereof, and to effed fuch ravings as
may be•made in each; that is to fay, the office of the Commif-
fioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the
United Kindom of Great Britain and Ireland, the office and de-
partment of the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Navy, the Trea-
furer of his Majefty's Navy, the Commiffioners for viduallittg
his Majefty's Navy, the Commiffioners fur taking care of lick
j and wounded feamen, the Commiffioners for tra L orts and
prifoners of war, the Commiffioners for the receipt of lix pence
a mouth paid by all feamen in the merchant fervice for the ufe
of Greenwich Holpital, Agents for prizes, and all perlims con-
, cerned in the diftribution of prize money, and it the reccipt
and management of the monies paid on account of the Cht ft at
Chatham, his Majefty's feveral dock-yards and " naval-yu
the counties of Kent, Hants, and Devon refpedtively, or elfc
where within his Majefty's dominions, the royal holpitals a
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naval hofpkals for fcamcn at Hailar and EA Stone Houle,. and
elfewbere within hiA Majefty's dominions, and the late pi tfors
for prifoners of war, prifon-fhips, prifon-hofpitals, and prifon-
fhip hofpitals in the laid counties of Kent, H. ors, and Devon
refped vely, or elfewhere within his Majefty's dominions; _
Be it therefore enaded, by the King's moil • xcelletit Ma ci-
ty, by anti with the advice and content of the Lords fpiritu,l
and temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliamen• 07'
bled, and by the Authority of the fame. That the Comm '-
Boners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland :hall, with all
convenient fpeed, lay all fuch information and documents as
may in any way tend to the difclofure or difeovery of the irre-
gularities, frauds, and abufes whit h have exifted or may exist,
in any of the before-mentioned offices or departments refpec-
tively, at home or abroad, or true copies of fuch docunrasi,
or in the bufinefs of prize agents, together with copies of
be
fuch letters or any other papers as may from ;low to time
.
who are hereby conftouted
requircd' before intended by tiAl aft

that the hey'examineffion Mof theM, ffiall
in.l they are ired to and to take into their
'tatifideration, and to inveftigate all fuch corrtipt and fraudu •
nt praaices, Irregularities, frauds, and abufes, or other mif-
•nduCt as may be fornd to have cuffed or to exilt in all or
of the feveral offices and departments above mentioned, cr
it the bufincri of prize agents, or to have been committed by
any perfon or Friona concerns In the management thereof, or
cf ary or either of them, and m proceed thereupon according
T., fuch inftruelions and dire ions as they mall from time to
time receive from the King s moR excellent Majefty in Coun-
cil; at d the faid Commiffioneri. than from time to time report
and tt ally their proceedings in writing, under the hands anti
may, of them, or any of them, to the King in Council,
oron each office or department, and in the bothers of prize
fpecifying fuch mal.praelicm irregularities, frauds, or
,bilks, as they may have difcovered or fully inveftigated, ad-
ding at the fame time fuch obfertations as theft occur to them,
eh; ruch plans either for correction or improvement, or for
aiebthing or regulating any of the raid departments or offices,
er the bufinefs of prize agents, as may appear to them to be
peeper to be adopted for the time to come.
And be it further enadted, That it Ilan and may be lawful
in the faid Commiffioners, or any of them, and they
h.reby empowered, authorired, and required to examine
voc oath (which oath they, or any of theta, are hereby
authurifed to adminifter) the fevered perfons employed in any
of the offices or departments bef-ve mentioned, or in the bull
refs of prise agents, whom they !ball think fit to Rumen, at
fuck time or times, place or plates, as mall be fixed, on appli-
cation to be made to the principals of the kid offices or depart-
swots for loch ptipo(e, and all other perfons who have had
shy contrails, dealings, or trunfadtions, with the (aid offices or
departments, or the reprefentatives of fuels perfons, or the
agents for rises, or thek fub-agents or clerks, whom the frid
Commiffioners, or any of them, &all think !It to examne
refpetling all irregularides, frauds, or allures, relative to fed i
comrade, dealings, or tmnfadions, and touching ail other
platten, and things nteefrarr for the execution of the powers
vetted in the faid Commiffioaers by this ad; all which Ferrous
areliereby required and direded punduafty to attend the faid
Came iffioners at fuels time and times, and place andplaces,as
bail be appointed; and alfo to obferve and execute all (ugh
orders and direetions lithe faid Conunlffioners, or any
sf them, than make or give for the parpoks before mentioned.
The next claufe enables the Commiffioners to fend for pa-
lms and papers.
And be it further evaded, That hi ca'e any porton or per-
lons, upon examination upon oath before the Aid Conamilka-
ers refpedively as before mentioned, dull withal,/ and cotruptly
sire fade evidence, every flieh perfon fo offending, and being
thereof duly convidted, mall be and is, and are hereby declared
to be fubjed and liable to fuels pains and penalties, as by any
law now in force perfons eonvidted of wilful and corrupt perjury
are hiked and liable to.

LONDON.

)FRIDAY, DECEMBEIt I/.

!HIGH OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t
3 per Cent. Conf. for °pg. 73A
3 per Cent. lel ilf—OmnitundlL

Se have received Paris journals to the 14th
iniLant.

The Moslust of the t zth contains a curious
paragraph, founded upon an extra& of a Speech
which Lord Oa a alit r.t.a* is fuppofed to have Made
in the Houle of Lords, with refpea to a Gentleman
high in the Secretary of State's Office, having been
at Conliance; inferring that he had been fent there
by Minifters, though they had fence thought proper
to deny having in the 'Mallet degree inftigated
the late revolt in Switzerland.—Miniiters denied
their having in any manner initigated the proceed•
ings of the Patriots, and we believe it ; for, previ-
oes to Mr. Mooaa's leaving England, Switzerland
was in arms, and almoft febdued before he could
have reached Conftance.

As to the charge againfi Lord G&W/ILLS, of
having employed agents ott the Continent during
the war, it implies no blanie at all, nnlefs thofe
agents were employed for purpofes difclaimed by
the laws of nations and of humanity. The charge,
however, that the agents of this country had any
hand in the murder of ROSIRJOT and Bosnian
at Rafiadt, muff be heard with indignation. Even
the Dirsaory and its tools never went fo far as
to afociate any Englilhman with the Archduke
CHAIM*. and Colonel DAILSACZY ii that affair,
The gallant Prince in queftion. was acenfed, but
In defence it was fufficient to nano his aecufers.
Now, for the Aril time during profound peace does
the French Official journal accufe Lord Gass-
vi Lt.a of having contrived the murder of the French
Miniflers at Raftadt. The atrocity of fuck an
accufation makes us forget the folly of the charge
of having tacked the mobs at Rome and at Vienna,
which made JOSIIIIII BOSA4AItiI quit Rome, pre.
pious to its fubjugation ; and Bs a 116DOTT1 Vienna,
previous to a new war. Indeed it is now believed,
as much as any hiftorical fad whatever, that the
tints in quefiion were purpofely excited by thofe
who waited to profit, and to a certain extent did
pro& by them.—to wit, the French Ambafadors
themfelves and their Government.

It mutt be confeffed that the Maims, has jolt
is much liberty of the prefs to abufe this country
and its Government, as the Journals of this coun-
try to abufe France and its Govemmenb At the
Lime time there is an infinite difference in the im-
portance of the abufe, and the conclufions to be
drawn from it. When the French Official journal
accufes Lord GaE sysLLI of contriving plots and
Perpetrating atraffination, it is not to be forgotten
that it is the Government thardidlates the accufa-
tion.

The Imperial Commitary at Ratilon, in a
Note to the Diet, expreffes a hope that the nego-
ciations going on at Paris will procure for the
Gump DURAL 1.13 Ch additional indemnification to
be engrafted upon the plan of indemnities, as will
ultimately induce the EMPSIOR to accede to it.

The French Funds are 53 f. i 5 c.

• The Mootteur has, WI believe, Weaken Mar TUNAS
CumvILLD for LORD Os RisysLl,R, tbs words Winded to, or
fame esprellOOß so tbst elk& Living been ited by the fernier