Star.
London, England, 1802-03-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OP COMMONS.

Mr. DiceiNsou. amebae co leave obtained on a former
day, brought in a Bill to continue for two months longer the
Aet poked in the !aft Salon lefpedting the non-refuleace at the
Clergy, which was read a brft time, and ordered to be read a
ad time on Monday.
Mr. Jou si sr on t moved foe an Account of the Servants of
the raft India Company, at their Wawa of Fort Martha-
rough. with the dates oldie': appointment. After a few words
of converfation betwixt Mr. Wallace and Mr. johnitone. the
account was ordered to be laid on the Table.
Mr. SSC& ITAIL T Toast brought in the Mutiny Bill, and
Bated to the Hoak that it was weakly &war to that dually
palfed,cteept as to the period of its He atemild how.
ever, in the Commltue. have an to explain why it
was limited to two months, foe the %tit making it cer-
refpokid with the time to which the •he the different
parts of the fervloe had been vetedp.• was then read a
bit time. and Monday named as the ime gar the ad reading.
The 818 for Ming the has of one alien by a loan on Ex-
chequer 1111 a, was alliread a 'Eft time. and ordered to be read
a &eland these on the kale day.
The Bin for regulating the duties en Cinnamon, Calla, &e.
was read a fecond time, and committed for Monday.
Mr. MAINWAIIIIO pretested a Petition from the Company
of themetehers,agahtft the Welt India Wet Dock Bill Refer-
red as the Committee on the Bill
Ordered, on the motion of Mr. VANSITTART, that there
!acid be laid before the Houk an Account et the Exports and
=from the Britt& Colonies to America for three years,
die sth of January. mad for three years ending
the sth of January, 1793.
ANISitiCAN TREATY.

Upon the motion for the (scond reading of the
American Treaty Bill,
General Gtscoion a kid, although the lapfe of
time between' he firl and fecond reading of the
Bill had enabled him to obtain information, which
had materially kffened his objection to it, there
were Rill force difficulties his mind had been un-
able to remove—one was, the jealoufy with which
be viewed every meafure that infringed upon the.
Aet of Navigation—an Aft, in his opinion, next in
importance to the charter under which the country
enjoyed its liberty. It was in confequence of that
alt the trade of Great Britain had reached its prefent
pitch of fplendur—it was by that as this country,
notwithilanding the convulfions which had fhaken
the kingdoms of Europe, prefeuted a fingular and
unexampled in Rance of wealth, power, and fecu-
City, arifing from the proteaion afforded to its
Commerce, and the privileges enjoyed by its mer-
chants. He objed alto to the prefent Bill, be-
caufe he feared it might interfere with other
Treaties which might be made at the coselofies
of Peace. The objea of ibis Bill was to enebk hie
Majelly to take off the countervailing duties in cer-
tain cafes when Parliament was not StWg. Ufa&
a power fliould be seed npbn, the conferments
would be, this country would lore the whole of the
carrying trade with the WeR India Colonies, the
produce of which would be bati:tire: to Europe in
American flips. There was point, the in-
demnification
to American merchants. He believ-
ed there bad been a great abufe of this part of the I
Treaty, on the fide of the Americans • but as be
underftood the fubjea was to be difculied on a fo. ,
tune day, he thould not now enter into it. He was
knfilde the Americans had the advantage of this
country by the prefent Treaty, and (hould time
countervailing duties be taken off, the injury void
be very tenons. He obferved, that the number of
hips employed by the Americans in the
trade bad rogreffively increakd, while 221
Great Behan progreffively diminiilied. Whether
this was to be attributed to the war, the rife of
wages, or the price of timber, he knew pot; but
the faa certainly was is he had Rated it. With
regard to the trade in the article af- Salt, the re- I
gulations in this country increafed the difficulties
of exporting it, while the Americans had no fuelt
impediments to contend with. He remarked thnt'
the alteration intended to be made in the American
Treaty by the prefent Bill, was not in confequence
of any overture on the part of the Americans;
therefore why do a thing that was detrimental to
our commerce, when there was no certainty after
it was done the Americans would be a&uated by'
a reciprocal defire of favouring the trade of this
country. He had no reafon to believe the Ame-
ricans confidered Great Britain exclufively as the
molt favoured nation with regard to her trade ; on
the contrary, the fame advantages we enjoyed
had been held out to all nations. He underftood
a Treaty had been entered into between America
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and France, by which American hips, whether I
manned by American or French Won, were to
be confidered the fame as French property. It was
the duty of the Honk, therefore, to look with cau-
tion before it granted fnch advantages as woad.,
Milk from the prefent Bill, to our rival in coon-
MOM He then alluded to the prohibitions by
Spain and the Batavian Republic, with regard to
the importation of Britilh property of the produce
of the Colonies in &itith (hips, inferring the great
wart advantages the American trade mull derive from
fech ibition. At all events there could be no
T for pang (itch a Bill as this at protein, as'
the Parliament, from the bufinefs before it, was
likely to fit for feveml months. He therefore
thought it would be infinitely better to defer it till
the lunation of the trade of the *country, aid its
relations with &reign Rates, was better afcertained
by the concluilwa of the .Definitive 'treaty with
Franca t
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her. Vanirrtnar-enprefild nis turprife tnat the
relay between die fir* and fecond reading of the
Bill bad not esehltd him to remove all his doubts.
The arguments in fopport of the pretest Bill Isty,
within the narroweteosaptiirdiblee The
between the Colonies and America was not con.
netted with it at aIL With refl*Et to the probi-
hi•ions on the part of pois aid tha French Re-
puhlic,, he Should not now enter up is g,e fubj4.ll,

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'as it was impoffible to form any accuratejudg:
ment till after the Deinitive Treaty was fignod—
it was impoilible till then to know whether. the
prohibitions would be footoved or continued. As
to the Bill being an infiingement of the Navigation
Ad, he could not, with all the attention he had
paid to the fubjea, perceive the lean conneftion
the two Bills had with each other. The Bill gave
America no trade to the Colonies that could be
injurious to our trade—they were norahle to tranf-
port to this country any produce but our own.
—With regard to America having privileges
with France, be could not enter into :my obferva-
tions on that part of the Hon. Gentleman's argu-
ment, becaufe there were no Treaties between
France and America which had been communi.

cated to this country in an authentic (lupe. The
regulations the Hon. Member had referred to, re-
fpcaing Salt, were not intended as a reftraint upon
the exportation of that article, but as a precau-
tion of revenue, and to prevent it from being re-
landed and fold without payment of the duty. The
queftion of indemnities to American Merchants he
would not enter into. The grounds on which he
propofed this meafure were national faith and ge-
neral policy ; it was in confequence of a relaxa-
tion on the part of the Americans, of regulations
Indite to this country. After the Amencan war i
that country long retained a fpirit of refentment
towards Great Bntain; which was manifefted by
impofing double duties on Britilb goods ; but after
they had formed themfelves into a regular State,
one of the firti aas of the General Congrefs had
been to repeal thofe carrying duties, and impofe
others, in which Britilli thips were as much fa-
voured as thofe of other nations; it was in the
fame fpirit of national good will, and in return
for the advantages this country enjoyed by its
Treaties with the Americans, the Bill had been
brought forward to enable his Majelly, if certain
events fhould happen, to take off the countervailing I
duties. He did not think it neceffary to enter
farther into the fubjea ; he nutted the Houfe
would fee the propriety of the meafure, and give
it its fanaion.
Dr. Laweanca contended there could be no
occafion to enable hisMajefly to take off the coun-
tervailing duties, when Parliament had fo long to
fit, and no dverture on the fubjea had been made
'by the Americans. He obferved, that the Ante-
ricans poll tied many and confiderable advantages
over the fubjcas of this country, with regard to
the carrying trade, and particularly in confequence
of the decifion of the Court of King's Bench, in
the cafe of Maryatt v. Wilfon. The advantages
held out by that decifion were fuck, that many
Merchants had left this country, and gone to
America, with no other view than to obtain them.
In order to thew the defigns entertained by France
againft the commerce and the naval greatnefs of
this country, the Learned Gentlemen read Tome
palrages from a pamphlet, written by Hautreive,
who was Under Secretary of State, and aging
confidentially under Talleyrand, which pamphlet
had been induftriody circulated all over Europe,
and whore °Neel was to ftrike at the very vitals of
our commerce. The doarines broached by France
at different timei appeared to many perform to be
nothing more than wild fpeculations, that ought to
be difregarded. Bin they were afterwards ailed
upon and carried into effeet. One thing was very
remarkable in the condua of France : there was
no country, except Great Britain, with which fhe
did not exprefs a with to enter into a Commercial
Treaty. What was her motive in excluding us .?
It was in order that by forbidding the importation
of our commodities, the might injure our manu-
faanres and deftroy our Navigation Aa, by en-
tering into a confederation with other powers.—
A fytlem fomewhat funilar to this was already
attempted to be introduced into America, by per.
Cons in that country, who attached themfelves to
the faaions by which France was governed. Upon
the whole he would fubmir, whether there could
be any inconvenience in putting off the prefent
Bill for a month longer, until accounts thould be
received from America as to what that country
intended to do? - I

Lord Hawse:suer (aid he was Corry to obferve
that the Learned Gentleman who (poke laft, had
brought forward a great llore of knowledge and
information for no other purpofe than to embar-
rafs the queflion before the Hoare, and draw away
the attention of Gentlemen from it, rather than
make it intelligible. Without intending to throw
any refledion on thofe who fupported the Bill, he
would fay, that it was one which no mm of com-
mon fenfe, who underftood it, could (ed to.—
It had nothing whatever to do with the Navigation
Ad : an Aft which he confidered as the founda-
tion of our Naval greatnefs, and which he fhould
ever fupport and defend. The nature of the pre-
fent Bill was this--America, after the conclufion
of the war with this country, had laid certain du-
ties on Britiih goods imported in foreign ihips, and
Great Britain in return had laid other duties on
American goods, to countervail chore impofed by
America. If that country should repeal there du-
ties,
we were bound, as a matter of courfe, to re-
peal ours. The only queition therefore was, whe-
ther, after America had, through her Minifter,
notified her intention of taking off thofe duties, it
was not expedient to pats an Aa for granting his 1
Majefty power to fufpend the duties here accord-
ing to circumfiances ? He was convinced it would
be much more convenient for both countries to
take off the duties altogether. The Learned Gen-
tleman had quoted a. book in order to thew the
,hollile difpofition of France, as if that had any
thing to do with the Bill before the Houle; but it
was worth while to confider the time when that
book was publifhed ; it was in the year itiot. It
then came out as a Manifefto, accompanying the
fyftem of Armed Neutrality which was forming
againft this country. It was at that time, and
ptrhaps might be hereafter, a part of the principle
of France to truth the Naval Power of this Coun-
try, by fupporting that Confederacy. He need not
call it to the recolledion of the Houk that that
Confederacy was totally defeated, and that tome
of the belt blood of the country was flied on the
occafion. But at the very time when his Majefly's
Government was preparing to'alert our national
rights, the Learned Gentleman who, tiiis night,

fo Ispid of recemmending vigorous Councils,
had beet) the firft to advife the Houfe to forbear
aniftreyttin the
ed. , mac toner
feel7l4e, atrilghevuerofwothatdc4)eu
which he produced on the prefent occafion was
publinted at that time, but he kept it in his pocket,
and never thought proper to bring it forward until
the queftion to which it referred was decided. At
the commencement of the late war, he beard it
faid in that Houfe, that it would completely de-
ftroy the commerce of the country; now it was on
the other hand afferted, that peace would deftroy
our commerce. The &ft prophecy, however, was
not fulfilled, and be was not inclined to place any
faith in the fecund. When he looked over the dif
Brent parts of the hittory of our commerce, al-
though he faw many events of late years to furprife
him, he Caw nothing from which he couldfeel any
apprehenfions for ifs fafety-L-he feared no attack
that could be made againft it. The principle of
commerce was, that thofe who could buy the
cheapeft and fell the deareft, muft always have a
commercial fuperiority; and whatever prohibition
a country might make againfl certain commodities
belonging to anothJr country, if thefe goods were
wanted, they must find their way in fpite of all
prohibitions. This ohfervation was clearly aemon-
bated by experience. Commerce refted on two
great fources—Capital and Credit. In the &ft of
diefe, no country in the world could rival Great
Britain ; and in point of punauality, there was no
country that equalled us except Holland, to
which quality that country was at one time in-
debted for her commercial greatnefs. But this
was not the cafe with France, owing to tbe national
charaCter of the people of that country. There
was not that fairnefs in their dealings, which was
futficient to infpire foreign merchants with confi-
dence ; and therefore the commerce of the country
never became great or eaten five. It was owing to
this confidence that Great Britain encrcafcd her
commerce,fo much ; and there was another cir-
curnftance in our charaCter which gave us a mani-
feft fuperiority over the Dutch and all other coun-
tries ;—that was the honour and liberality which
our merchants had always obferved in their deal-
ings. This circumflance alone was fufficipit to
throw the balance of trade in our favour, in fpile
of all the attacks and the illiberality of other.coun-
tries. The experience of every day taught us, that
if this country Rood true to herfelf, the had no-
thing to fear from any quarter. The ftrength
and refources of the country were futficient to pro-
telt her, and in the national honour and good faith
would be found the nation's bell hope and belt
fccurity.

Mr. Witimaam wilhed to know what occafion
was there fur the Bill before the Hottfe, until it
was wanted ? Why anticipate that which another
country might or might not do, kilt as it pleated?
His Learned Friend had aliened, that the French
where plotting the deftruaion of our commerce •
and the Noble Lord endeavoured to refute this al:
fertiott by obferving that one prophecy had failed,
and that of courfe the other mull not be fulfilled.
Was the country now to underftand that prohibi-
tions againft the importation of our goods would
not flop our commerce ; although the declaration
of France had been folldwed up by pofitive aRc ?
He could not believe any fuch thing afttlit' their
condo& could do no injury to our commerce.—
But it was neither our money nor our commerce
that could rapport us in &prelim ctifis. We
had to contend againft fuch a power as we never
law fine the time of the Romans. It was a do-
minion of filch ambition and magnitude, that
when he beheld it, he confided all his confidence
in thofe general topics that had been laid dowh as
the balls of our firength vanifhed into nothing.",--
The great and uniform fupport of this country
was that proud and martial fpirit, that high and
dignified fenfe of honour, which never fubmitted
to any indignities. It was this, fpirit which had
at all limes maintained us : and it was the poWer
of our arms, and not the punauality of our ,pay-
ments, that had raifed us fo high in the scale of
nations. He wilhed to guard the country againft
the fatal opinion, that if once its fortune was
made, the might go to fleep—that once its edifice
was stetted, the feaffolding might be taken down.
Viewing, as he did, the dangers which menaced
this country, he was very far from feeling defpon-
dency which however he mull feel if he was to
underhand that our wealth alone would be fuffi-
cient to carry us through the danger—that our
commercial profperity would bear us up again*
the domineering power of France. When the
Noble Lord talked of the capital of wealth, he
ought to talk of another kind of capital—the capi-
tal of dominion. The Houfe would delude itfelf
were it to judge of this from former precedents ;
and the country met be undone if the trotted to
her wealth alone, unfupported by that fpirit, vi-
gour, and' magnanimity, which at every former
period had diffinguiffied the people.
Lord Havicasauav in explanation Paid, that
the Right Hon. Gentleman who had jail fat down,
had completely miftaken his ftatements, in fuppof.
ing that he ever meant to affert, that commerce
and wealth alone were fufficient to fuftain the can-
fequence of the country. No man could be more
anxious than he was to hold up the national ho-
nour as the molt valuable treafure the country
could poffefs, and the moll erential to the mainte-
nance of its character and profperity.
The CMANCILLOR of the Exam most vindicated
the reputation and general condo& of his Noble
Friend, and exprefed his perfuafion that the Houfe
would weft, from the experience of his life, that
no man would be more unwilling to let down the
fpirit of the country than he—that to no man could
filch an imputation apply with lets 'office. It ap-
peared too tafhionable of late to pronounce com-
mercial purfuits incompatible with high tentiments
of honour and national glory; bnt it would be re-
colleaed by the Houfe, that fuch an opinion was
erroneous in principle, and falfe in fait ; for the
experience of the left twelve years, in which we
had attained to an unprecedented and unrivalled
degree of commercial property, and during which
the brilliant condo& of our army and navy fig.
* oily proved, that the molt exalted national fpi-
rit was not inconlident with that siropriety. 'hut
krvect to repudiate and to falfify fuch an impute.

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tion. lie agreed with the. Right Hon. Cehtle.
man on the other fide, that the power of France
was immenfe ; he would allure him that he was
far from contemplating that power with indiffe-
rence. He would not be charged with apathy on
that fuhjeift, for he was aware that the power of
France was fuch as to call for the utmoft vigilance,
exertion, and vigour on the part of this country;
but not fuch as to juftity defpondency ; that he
ti idled would be kept aloof from the minds of
Englifhmen. That high and national fpirit which
had ever diftinguithed then:, and which was the
great conkreative of a nation's importance, he
had the &melt rcliance, would uniformly preferve
them from any degrading or dejeaed
They had it., occafion to entertain it—if they., as
his Hon. Friend had obferved, would continue
true to themfelves, their ltrength and refources
were fully competent.
.With refpeel to the mea-
lure before the Houfe, he denied that it was gra-
tuitous on our part, but called for by overtures
frem America. It evinced none of that unbecom.
ing conciliation which fome Gentlemen had de-
fcribed as the attribute of confcious weaknefi, and
nearly allied to meannefs. That fpecies of conci.
Ration he fhould be as ftrongly difpofed to con-
demn as any Member of that -Houfe ; but he was
convinced that this meafure partook not of it—its
motive was found national policy—its objea to
get rid of countervailing duties, which, in fall
were no equivalents, and which could not be en-
forced without irritation and injullice. If, as it
was !Wed, that our (hipping were excluded from
the greater part of the Continental ports—an ex-
elution, however, which could not availmaterially
againft us while we polielfed loch curative Indian
commerce ; yet if fuch exclutioa did exift owing
to the war, or if it were to operate in any particu-
lar manner after the Peace, ihould not that impel
its with additional obligations to cultivate a clofer
commercial correfpondence with America—and
that was the purpole of the Bill. He was ready
to admit that the obferrations of the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Windham) were, fome of them,
very thong, but it did not Teem to him that any
of them could apply to this Bill by legitimate
reafoning, or could difincline any Gentleman who
heard hint to refute it his fupport.
Mr. NICHOLLS (poke in favour of the Bill.
The Bill was read a fecond time. 'On the mo-
tion for its commitment,,
Dr. Lime tact took occation to obferve, that
what he before Paid might perhaps require fome
explanation. He merely meant to difcharge his
duty in the Houfe, by calling on it to be cautious
in what it was about to adopt ; but be could not
do that, nor any other duty effeatially, if he did
not put himfelf right with thofe who were to judge
of the performance of that duty, namely, the
Houfe. He fitould therefore, with permiffion.
cone& a few unintentional errors, which appeared
in the fpeech of the Noble Lord on the other fide
of the Houk. He had laid, that a quotation had
been made to-night out of a book, which he might
have read on the occafion, when the fubjeel of
the claims of the Armed Confederacy of the
North had been under difcutlion in that Houfe, for
that the fentirnents of that book were better adap-
ted to• fupport' the ptintiple he maintained that
night, than thofe maintained by him this evening.
The reafon for his not having quoted any thing
out of that book on that occafion was a good one.
There was not then a copy of that work in Eng-
land, nor did be then know of its exillenee ; there-
fore the obfervation of the Noble Lord upon his
having kept that book in his pocket from that time
to this was unfounded. Indeed be wondered the
'Noble Lord &could think it neceffary to advert to-
'night to what had pallid on the occafion of the
eliicuffion of the claims of the Armed Confederacy..
The opinion he then gave was fimilar to the opt-
ilion he had given to-night.—merely do advife the
Houfe to watt awhile.
The Sesaesa Paid, he would fubmit it to the
Houfe, whether, on a queftion, that this Bill be
committed, it was competent to the Hon. Mem-
ber to go into a reply upon arguments larged on a
former night, and on another fubjed.
Dr. LAWRENCE fubmitted to the authority of
the Chair. He admitted, that what be was urging
was irregular; hut obferved it was one of theft
irregularities which were fornetimes permitted--
He then juftified his conclud upon the occafion of
difcuffing the-claims of the Northern Confederacy;
and contended, that the Noble Lord himfelf, as
Secretary of State, had adcpted, in part at leaft,
the Connfel he gave in the Houle, for, inftead of
fending a fleet to enforce our demand, be had fent
his Hon. Friend behind him (Mr. Vanfittart) to
accomplifh by pacific means what was afterwards
enforced by-arms.
Mr. O'Hazit Paid, that the hoftile difpofition of
France towards this Country was carried on, not
by force and violence only, but alfo by infinuation
and addrefs. It was a ilia well known, that there
was a slats of perfuns formerly in France. whore
political principles were fo bad that they could not
remain even in France. They were fent to Ame-
rica. They dilfeminated their principles with a
milchievous affiduity wherever they went: to coun-
teraa the efforts of fuch perfens, a meafure like
this was the molt likely to be effedlual, as blending
with the liberal principle of it, commercial advan-
tages to America. He Paid he was convinced this
meafure dll not encroach on the Navigation Law:
that was amply proved, and not attempted after-
wards to be refuted ; for which reafons he was de-
cidedly in favour of the meafure.
Lord HAWNESDURY role to explain, and obferv-
ed, that as to what fell from him on aformer debate
he could not refer to it. It was regular, however,
to explain what he had Paid to-night, and upon
which.he was anxious in one particular. He meant
the expreffion of hoftile difpofition ; by hoftile dd.
pofition he did not mean a difpofition for War,
but a general hoftile difpofition to the general in-
tereft of a State. That was the fenfe in which he
recant to apply the wordshoftile difpofition in thole
parts of his fpeech to which that fentiment was ap-
plicable. As to the Government of America, and
its difpofition towards this Country, his Lordthip
&WA " I am aware it Ira dangerous thing to un-
dertake to anfwer for the difpofition of the Govern.
linnet of a ForCign Country; but I think it due to

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America to Sate that from the masa of the Go-
vernment of that country for tome months pall,
there is reafonsto believe, that next to the confide-
ration of her own interelb, which of courfe is her
kit aka; her views and intentions towards this
Country are fair and honourable, and there is no-
thing in her difpolition that ought to give us dif-
trill I believe that like every other country where
her intereft and ours dab, the will prefer her own,
that is of courfe every where $ but I can fee nothing
in the condua of America that ought to infpire us
with difiruil- With refpea to what happened
in the laft year, when the prefent Minillers came
into Adminiftration, and before we fent a Fleet

into the Baltic, my Hon. Friend near me was
charged with inftruaions to make reprefentations
to the Confederated Powers, before a blow was
Brock.--He failed, not from any fault in him, but
be failed gaining the objet of his =Mon, and it
was in confequence of exertions of a hoftile nature
that our objea was accomplifbed; and I fball never
think it difcreditable to myfelf to fay, that before
I fight, I mall take every means which prudence
may prefcribe to obtain my objet without it.
Dr. LAWILINCE faid a few words, after which,
the Bill was ordered to be committed to a Commit-,
mince of the whole Houfe on Tuefday.
The Houfe then proceeded to the other Orders
of the Day; the Indemnity Ball was ordered to be
committed on Monday.—Adjourned.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK I

3 per C. Ceti money, 67K—lor ace. 614.
s per Cent. pp+
TRICE OP STOCKS YIIITKILDAT.
Bank Stock Insp. 3 per Can 67 I
3 per Cent Cant 61} 1 i 611 Imp. Ann. zsi 5.46
s per Can. Ann. Irilk s per Cast. pof TOO
S per Ct. am i Conf. for Acc. Olt oi 6s.

Venice —.. 1..
Lifbon 68 '
Ora° 69 i
Dubai Rai

The orders ;trued by Government to 6t out our
flzets, as we mentioned in our paper of Thurfday,
Rill continues to excite a confiderable degree of
alarm in the public mind, the effect of which has.
been vifible on the price of Stocks, which have fuf-
fered tome deprelGon in confequence.
There has certainly been Come delay in the IIC•
gociations at Amiens ; not, however, quite ones-
peaed, for it was known, and we Rated the fad
Tome time ago, that, though the Courts of Lon-
don and Paris were agreed refpeding all the parti-
culars of the Definitive Treaty, yet Spain and Hol-
land had demurred to the Wien of Ceylon and
Trinidada to this country.

It was generally believed that the masdas of the
FrasT Consui would Coon faddy there powers, of
the propriety and neceffity of acceding to what
had been agreed upon by the two principal parties,
and the belief retied on Pelf evident grounds. If,
therefore, Minillers have found any thing like an
appearance of musecelary procraftinaticas, it is no
wonder they fltonld adopt the line of coodu& they
have recently followed. The Trench Cabinet,
however, may dill be ailing with perk." good
faith, (as far, at leall, as any one looks for rod
faith in diplomatic proceedings,) and only aiming
at bringing her allies to aft voluntarily (at leaf'
in appearance,) inflead of making them fubmit to
the humiliating fituation of appearing to aa. by
the command of others.

But as it is alto poffible, on the other hand, that
fuch motives as we have jet listed, if they have
been avowed, may neverthelefs be a mere pretest
to cheat us out of time, till the enemy execute
fame ambitious proje&, Minifters certainly all
wifely in being prepared for the worn ; and the
very line of condua they ham now adopted is the
belt that could have been foPowed to prevent in-
(lead of bringing on a renewal of hoftilities. It is
only to be regretted that they ever paid off a
fingle (hip; and we are confident fast had they,
a$ we advifed months ago, refuted to grant per-
million to the French to fend a meet and army to
their Weft India poffeifions, the Definitive Treaty
would have been figned before this time. If it
was an objea to the enemy to fend that force out
early, we fhould have profited of the cirettmftance,
by refufing it, till the Treaty was concluded—if
it was not an objett of moment, it could have
made little difference to the enemy to wait till the
negotiations were happily tetminated.
We this morning received the Paris Journals to
.he ad init. They are Went retpe6ing the Rate
GI the conferences at Amiens ; indeed they con-
tain nothing refpeaing France that deferves any
particular notice.—The following are the molt
an Poi cant articles they prefent :
Fll. ts.—Baron Ds FaLs, a Bra-
banter, and a relation of General Gauss, is ap,
Pointed /dialer of his Imperial Majefty to the
Batavian Republic. Baron Ds BUOLSCHANAW.
Tam, Miller at the Court of Munich, is recollect
and it is fuppofed will be fent to Stutgard to the
Duke of Wirrsuasau and the Circle of Suabia.
The 4th regiment of artillery, railed during the
war, has been difbanded the foldiirs and &bal.
'erns who do not choofe to ferve longer, receive
e.-ir &Charge ; the raft will be incorporated into
three &a regiments of the fops corps. Theta

difpofitions prove that our Government depends
on a duration of the peace. Itequifitions of grain
have been ordered in Bohemia, Moravia, and the
two Gallicias, to fupply the military magazines :
this mode might appear extraordinatl, did we not
recoiled that it has been for tome trine refolved
not to have recourfe to contraaors, but to take
the necelary provifions from the farmers at the
current prices.

Her Majelly the Ojeen of Naples, after repair-
ing to Palermo, will, it is Paid, accompany to
Madrid the Princefs, who is to be married to the
Prince of Muria:. The unfortunate inhabitants
of Belgrade are (till a prey to war and agitation.
The (beets of that city are the theatre of bloody
combats between the different parties—apeaceable
man dares not (lir from_ his houfe—all the !hops
are (hut, and the fear of famine adds to the alarms
excited by thefe diforders. Several janiffaries
have taken linker in Bofnia, either that they may
avoid taking any share ie thefe commotion, or to
fecure themfelves from the confequences.

Slams, Faa. 6.—The divifion among the Ja-
niMules of Belgrade Teems to increafe on the ap-
proach of the danger with which they are threat-
ened. The greater number have declared againft
thofe who mairacred the Pacha, and thofe who
mafacred the Pacha againft thole who inftigated
them to that crime. Among the latter is a Mol-
lah, who kized part of the treafures of the Gover-
nor: not long ago he was on the point of being put
to death by the janiffaries, but having been in•
formed that they were deliberating on the kind of
death to which they would fubjeft him, he found
means to efcape, and to take flicker in the interior
of Bofnia. Another Turk who, at the time when
the citadel was taken by the janitfaries, afraffinated
with bib own hand AL: Bar, and who afterwards
'co-operated in the murder of the Pacha, has been
obliged to Pave himfelf in the night time, through
a window, to efcape the fury of the Janifaries, who
piirfued'him into his houfe. He prefented himfelf
at the quarantine office of Semlin, but the magif
irate forbade him to be received, and he was fent
back.

In regard to the Pacha it is Paid, that two days
before his death he was informed of the pl formed
againti him : they even brought inter his chamber
a dna to difguife him, and to favour his efcape.
He at fir(l determined to follow the advice given
him; but, when this plan was to be carried into
execution, he could not refolve to abandon his wife
and daughter, and at left filed a torrent of tears,
always deferring his flight till the moment when
the iffaffins forced intohis apartment and mairacred
him.

Lloyd's °Nee Hoare, March 1,1801.

The Subfcribers for the relief of the Sufferers
under the command of Lord Vifcount NeLSON and
Duke of BROSS'S, in the Channel, are of opinion,
that, as the hibfcription is fo fmall, the divilivn
should be deferred for the prefent, as they are in
hos to have it encreafed.
Thurfday she remains of %h. lsre Dr. GROWS
were interred in Paddington Church la. a. ..‘,.,,.
ably to his own requefi : any were attended thstHer
by a confiderable number of the many Gentlemen
who knew his worth, and refpea his memory.
The Will of his Grace the Duke of BIDFOIO,
by which be bequeaths his Efiates to his elder
brother, Lord Joins Rosiest" was yefterday de-
pofited in Doaore-Commons.
(COPY.)
"I, hums bake of BEDIORD, do give an my pvfooal
Vine to my brother, Lord Joan Roams: Winters ory sand,
this syth day of Febroary, silos. (L.S.) 0 Sauroao."
Signal, failed, aad delivered,/
in preface of us,
u WILLIAM Kau,
M PRUTON,
a TMOMAI PARRIS."
(Aihniniltratks, with the Will annexed, granted to Lord
Le tatoee
Josh RR ust.s., the natural sod lawful brother, aoe
of the next of kin, sod the univerfal , named
in the Paid Will, dated stlt Mardi, aos.
Another fhort Will, limiter to the a ve, was,
at the fame time, made by his Grace, which will
be proved in the Court of and by which
he bequeaths the whole of his alto to
his brother, Lord Joists' declaring him, of courfe,
the role heir to the whole of his property.
It is raid that the Duke of Banvoan by a cattail
to his will, previous to the operation, has left a
legacy of soool. to Mr. Fox.
The late Duke's diforder was firft brought onft
by a blow from a cricket ball while a boy in e-
rainier School.
It is remarkable that there has been no regular
fuccelion in the instal-ions family of Bedford. The
Earls and Dukes have all been brothers, coufins,
or graadfons of their immediate predeceffors.
The Whig Club have deferred their next meet-
ing till after the funeral of the late Duke of BID.
roue, who was one of the moil worthy Members
of that Society.
The remains of the Duke of Bauroan are es•
pcaed to be interred in the family vault at Cher-
neys, in Buckinghasnthire, which is about twenty-
five miles from London, next Weduefday. Lord
Plasm., who was particularly intimate with his
Grace, and who principally refided at the Abbey,
gives direltions, and fuperintends every thing that
is now sweaty to be done previons to the funeral.
Invzisus's narratiie of his late exile into Si-
beria, by order of the Emperor Pans, is the moil
intending and ;dating performance that has ever
illbed from the prefs. In point of entertainment
it equals the famous romance of Robinfon C: ufoe,
or any exilting work of imagination, while it more
powerfully interefts the feelings and wefts the at-
tention, by polreffing the Baling powers of truth,
aud by Commits a prodigious variety of new and
:mains itheintoos.

OINDSOR, MARCH 5.

Theit ,Msjarrirs and the Panicisssi did not
come to the Queen's Lodge to-day, agreeably to
the laft regulation for their vifiting this place, in
confequemee of their attendance at the Concert of
Ancient Marie in the Great-Room at the King's
Theatre this evening. The virit to the Queen's
Lodge is of cOurfe poftponed till to-morrow.
During the Lent feafon their MajasTißS and
the PAISICASSIS will reticle at Ole een's Lodge,
from the Friday in every week, till the Tuefday
following, when they will return to the Queen's
Palace: of courfe the ROYAL FAMILY will not at-
tend Divine Service in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's, on Sundays, as heretofore.
His MAJISTY very frequently hunts with his
Harriers in the Great Park, but has given over
hunting with his Stag Hounds: a great falling
off has confequently taken place in that hunt of
many of the Nobility and Gentry who nfually at.
tended with his Majefty.