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London, England, 1806-05-21 00:00:00

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VISIIA, MAY 3.—Our Court Gazette of this day
contains the following intelligence from Turkey :
Pafrwan Oglu, againit whom the hatred of the
Servians was principally direCted, drat, fince the af-
faffination of the Bifhop of Widdin, and the arreft
of the molt diftinguiffied Rajahs. fent negociators
to the principal chiefs of that nation to appeafe them,
and terminate their quarrels in an amicable manner.
—The Servians have demanded hollages as fecurity
for the promifes ot Pafrwan Oglu.
On the 3d and sth of April the infurgents gained
new advantages over the troops of the Begletherg of
Romelia, near Oftroniz La.
The news of the taking of Shabatz was prema-
ture, but it is certain that the place is reduced to dif.
reefs, and that the Chiefs of the Servians, Czerni
Georges, and Glavarch, have twice been into the
fortrefs to hear and difcufs the propofitions made
them by the Turks.
GENOA, Apart. lg.—There are at Porto Ferrajo,
in the ifland of Elba, nine French (hips of war,
which will fail immediately for Gaeta. That fortrefa
(kill defends itfelf with great obltinacy.
They write from Leghorn, that all Englifh met-'
chandize is there feverely prohibited.
The government of Etruria will not in future pay
, the 60,0c0 livres it had engaged to advance per
month for the maintenance of she French troops.
COPINNAGEN, MAY 10.--111 C Engliffi armed (hips
that have convoyed the merchant velrels into the
Baltic, it is Paid, have received provifinnal orders
not to commit any holliliries in that quarter. Seve-
ral circumflances teem to indicate that our troops in
Holftein and Slefwick will flay these this year longer
than ufual.
STRALSUND, MAY 6.—His Majefly the King of
Sweden has found it neceffary to publi(h a Royal
Ordonnance, fignifying, that any perfons in Pome-
rania, who (hall be implicated in oppofing his or.
dtrs, for enrolling for the defence of the country,
(hall be fent out of it ; and if any perfons of this
defcription (hall be aatially convieted of fuch a,
breach of confidence, his Majelly will look upon the
101 l of fuch unworthy fubjeas as a real gain.
HaMIURGH, MAY r4.—His Royal Highners the
Hereditary Prince of Denmark, according to infor-
mation received at the Exchange of this City, is
lhortly expelled at Altona ; as he intends to snake a
journey of infpettion into Hollicin.
All the Swedifh veffels at Dantzic and Koningffierg
have been laid under an embargo.
ASISTIRDAM. MAY 10.—A loan is let on foot here,
for the benefit of his Majeftythe King of Wirtemberg,
to the amount of one million of florins, ar five per
cent. intereft, upon the fecurity of the revenues of the
entire kingdom, and in particular the cities and ma-
nors of Heilbronn, Schoenthal and Rothenmunfter,
which produce 126,800 Dutch florins yearly.
HAG ua, MAY 10.—We teem very nearly approach-
; ing the expelled change. Gen. Michaud, the Confuls
' Gobier and Maupertius, and (everal French Officers
; of the Staff,have arrived here from Amfierdam and
• Rotterdam. Tomiorrow a principal Officer from
; Paris is expelled here.
Among the Orange tumours circulated here, we
, learn that a new kingdom is to be crated out of the
• frontier provinces of France and Spain, which will be
, given to the King or Queen of Etruria, who are to
cede their part ot Italy to France. Spain is to be in-
, demnified out of Portugal, and Portugal is to receive
: tome ifland:.

Our public debt at prefent amounts to near one
thoufand millions of florins, and the intereft to al.
mutt as much as the whole of the revenue before the
Revolution.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MAY so.

The Scotch Judges Salary Bill was read a third time, and paged•
Several alb, among them the frith Franking Bill, the frith De-
bentures Bill, were brought up from the Commons, and read a
firft time.

DEBBNCI BILL.

Lord SPENCER moved the Order of the Day for
the fecond reading of the Bill to repeal the Bill
known by the name of the Additional Force Ml.
His Lordlhip would not wafte the time of the Houle
in a minute enumeration of all the reafons which
concurred in recommending the repeal of that aft.—
Neither did he think it necefrary to refer to any of
the plans nr meafures which were fuppofed to be in
contemplation as fuhlli.utes for that Bill. He fhould
chiefly telt what he had to fa; upon the known ope-
ration of the bill for more than twenty two months,
and on the complete failure which marked that ope-
ration. I: was upon the ground of that failure that
he felt himfelf jullified iu preaing the prefent bill for
irs repeal. From a fair and general view of the ope
ration of the Detence Aft, it has appeared to be a
bill not for railing men but money, and that that
money had been railed .in the moil fevere manner.
He might nest demonflrate the enormous deficiency
in the number of men that were to be railed from
the papers now before the Houfe, and alfo the utter
improbability of its ever proving produdive. It
would be hard indeed, if on account of the incapa-
city of the perfons employed in the different willies
to raife men under this At, the pacifies fhauld be
now obliged to make good the immenfe films in
which they mull be fined unlefs the Defence AIE was
repealed. His Lordfhip, after entering into a variety
of flatements refpthing the progrels of the bill at
different periods, flrenuoufly contended, that from
no profpeit or calculation could any rational expee
tation be derived that the operation of the bill could
be amended, or any fuccefs whatever relish from it.
In that convitlion, he fhould move that the Bill be
now read a fecond time _ _ _

. _
Lord CAMDEN oppofed a long ilring of (tate-
ments in favour of the promifing fuccefs of the De-
fence Aft, in oppofition to thole that were advanced
againft it by the Noble Earl who fpoke firft. Above
all things. he mull deprecate the repeal of the aft,
before fomething equally promifing and efficient was
fabtlituted in its room.

Lord ST. JOHN took a long furvey of the bill,
and entered into an equal number of calculations to
prove the accuracy oldie Ratements advanced by his
Noble Friend (Lord Spencer), which, in his mind,
had by no means been adequately anfwered. As to
a fubßitute for the Defence AA. be contended, that
in the firft intlance die chief fobtlitute for it mac be
its repea).
Lord WESTMORLAND argued at great length

agalna the bill for t' e repeal. Every thing he had
oblerved and learned upon the fubjed, tended to
convince him that the operation of the Defence At
was every day becoming more efficacious,and that no-
thing Runt of infaniry could prompt the repeal of it,
at a moment when the afpat of affairs both at home
and abroad, made it fo urgently neceffary to en-
courage our military force by every pollible means.
Nor did the imprudence of the propofed repeal flop
there. What was to follow ? Could it be believed,
that in the midfk of the molt arduous war, the prin.
cipal fuldlitute propofed for the Defence Al, would
be come wild innovation of recruiting for limited ter. ,
vice. With what rnirchiels fuch a change at fuch a
moment might he pregnant, he (hould leave to the
cool confideration of their Lord(hips—but even at the
prefent moment, he could not but exprefs his ut.
moll furprife and chlTatisfaftion, at the ftrange fyi
tern which Minilters teemed difpofed to introduce in
the place of what had been fandioned by fuch long
experience. The Noble Earl was proceeding to dif-
cufs and deprecate what was rumoured to be the in-
tended fubliitutes for the Defence Ad, when he was
called to order by
Lord SPENCER, who reminded the Houle that
the only queftion before them was the merits and de-
merits of the Defence ASR, and that to them in open-
ing the bufinefs of the Houle, he had molt pointedly
called the attention of their Lordfhips.
Lord ELDON and Lord HOLLAND made tome
obfervations upon the point of order, after which
Lord WESTMORLAND perfilled in difTuading
the Houfe from agreeing fuddenly to the repeal of
a Bill, from which fo much now might be expeded,
efpecially before any meafure was propofed that was
likely to be more efficient. He fhoold therefore move
that the fecond reading of the Bill be deferred till
this day Fortnight.
Lord SIDMOUTH raid, that, for reafons which
tome of their Lordfhips would think fufficient, he
was difpored to have been fluent on the prefent quef.
tion, but the Noble Lord who had jolt fat down had
left him no alternative ; he had adverted to him in
a way that it was impoffible not to notice, and he
hoped he fliould reply in a manner continent with the
refped due to their Lordthips. He was defirous not
only to reply to what had been faid on the merits
of the queftion, but alto to what more immedi-
ately and perfonally affected himfelf. The Noble
Lord alerted, that the country, at the commence-
ment of the wan, was in an unprovided Rate, and he
rather more than infinuated, that the culpability for
its weaknefs was attributable to him (Lord Sid.
mouth). It was true, that, at the beginning of holti-
lities, the militia had been difbanded ; but their Lord-
(Nips would recoiled, that this was not in confequence
of any aa of his Majelly's Minifters, but by the oper-
ation of law. He raid, by operation of law, not he-
caufe there was any pofitive regulation on the fub-
jed; but the men were releafed from their regiments
becaufe the natute was fo Imlay worded, that, con-
(trued is the popular fenfe, it was fo undertlood. In
fuch a cafe, the Government did what he hoped every
future Adminiflration would do—intlead of availing
themfelves of the Mel letter of the law, they admit
ted the more liberal conflrudion to prevail. It was
alto true, there was tome redudion of the army on
the edition of the war ; but on this fubjed there
was but one opinion, fo that it was with Come furprife
he heard an ohjedion, at this time, urged to that di
minution of the force, and efpecially from his Noble
Friend. But to what extent was it carried ? No
part of the infantry was withdrawn, excepting from
the Guards, to produce a nee pproach in the
height of that regiment. A full and complete anfwer
to every charge of want of precaution in the Admi
ninration referred to was this : that, at the time of
the renewal of the war, there was double the number
of men on the eftablirament than at any former period
of tranquillity. He might be permitted to go one
Rep further. By the papers on the table their Lord-
(hips had Peen, that, in Odor, the numbers were
77,574 before fix months were expired, they u•cre
increafed to 88,765, (hewing an augmentation of
more than t 1,000 men, in that (bort interval. Could
the refiedion be juftly applied to the Adminiltratirn
of that day under thee circumaances ? There was
another point to which he would folicit their Lord-
fhips' attention. It had been faid that the event of
defertion was in proportion to the number of men
railed for the fervice. This was not found to be prac-
tically correct. The number railed in the !aft year
did not afcend to zo,ooo men, yet the defertions at
home only amounted to 5954. In 1803, when the
men raifed were greatly more numerous, the deferters
were fewer by zOOO. The fad was, that the defection
was not in proportion to the number railed, but to tile
mode of acquiring men. It was inaccurately obferved,
that no particular exertion was made in 1803 to en.
hance the public force, but by referring to No. t, on
the Table, their Lordfitips would fee 85,559 men were
railed, and of the Army of Referve 40,000, forming a
total of 125,5 to men.
Lord CAMDEN explained the qualification with
which he had made the remark.

Lord SIDMOUTH T.:fumed, that when the Bill
was under their dellheration.bcfm, he entertained
the fame opinion of it he did at that moment : he
knew that it mull be inefficient : laft year, from the
conviaion that the experiment had totally failed, a
motion was made for its repeal, and it was then
juflly affirmed that it had been unfuccefsful in its
primary ohjea, which was the railing of a given
number of men for the fervice of the country. It had
been faid that thofe who difapproved of one meafure
fhould recommend what was preferable to it. Al-
' though he was not always difpofed to protect himr if
beneath any negative defence, yet this was not the
time to confider the efficacy of other expedients; it
I was enough to (hew that this had mifcarried, and he
called upon the Nolle Lord not to defend a projed
which was difcovered by experience to be wholly in-
adequate to the objet propofed. If he formerly fop-
ported it, confittency did net require that he fhould
perfevere in the fame opinions when its futility was
afccrtained ; at lean there was a continency of a
higher kind affeaing his parliamentary charaaer,
which his Lordthin knew well how to refped. In
flitting his fentimcnts, he fhould not examine at all
the arithmetical computations ; he would rather
confider the general (cope and defign of the Bill.—
The intention undoubtedly was, to add to the do-
mettie force, and to procure a fupply for the array
without interfering with the recruiting fervice ; and
in this it had not fucceeded. Before October t Bog,
41,455 mat were to have been obLair.ed, and of theft

twenty thoufand were to be in the ranks of the regu.
lars ; inftead of producing this *timber, it only
relied 7540 ; and of thefe five thoufand only were
procured under the provifions of the 8311. Their
Lordffiips were aware, that he now alluded to the
encouragement given to parochial officers to difre-
gard the eflabliffied law, in order to acquire the men
—fo that he was entitled to fay the fuceefs was not
real, but nominal, even to that limited extent. A
Noble Lord wrote a letter on the t 6th Septembers'
18og, on the difeovery of the infufficiency of the Bin
—yet, with all the united exertions of friends, and
Lieutenants of the Counties, it was incompetent ;
and another letter was written in the month of De-
cember following, to fubftitute Infpeding Officers
for the regular legitimate conftitutional authority of
the Lieutenants ; and thus the whole agency of the
Bill was changed ; but, whatever alterations at un-
derwent, it Rill preferved the fame charader of inef-
ficiency. It, however, fucceeded much better when
parilh officers had no concern in it ; and accordingly
an augmentation was found on the :9th of April laft
which was the Weft period of the returns. This
circumftance led to a fuggeftion for the employment
of agents in various pans of the kingdom, and the
policy of this was recommended from the fuperior
Weeds in Scotland and Ireland, where, there being
no porn officers, perfons of another defcription per-
formed this duty. In Ireland, 1078 men were rwifed.,
and, by regimental officers, only 272. This variation
in the plan was the true caufe of the improvement.
The queflion then was not merely if the means em-
ployed were legitimate ; into that he would not en.
quire ; but if, on the whole, taking the Bill in its
general effect, it were operative to inmate confider-
ably the military force. On this part of the fubjed,
the ftatement of his Noble Friend was incontroverti-
ble ; he had diflindly proved, that, in proportion
as the effect of the Bill was augmented, the recruit-
ing of the army was diminifhed. Let them make
a companion between any correfponding periods
of fix or twelve months, and the preffure of the argu-
ment would be evident, and the redudion would be
Peen to be fo great, as to produce annually a confi-
derable lois to the army. The companion to which
he had referred, applied to thole who had volunteer-
ed and the number railed by recruiting, and in this
view, he contended there was a detriment to the
number of 3003 men. Betides all this, there was a
monttrous injuflice in the effed ; whatever might
be the benefit in other refpeas with which it might
be attended. As it was, penalties would exceed
00,0001 even when the regular army was declining.
When filch fads were Rated, and not difapproved,
were thofe difcharging what they owed to their coun-
try, who endeavoured to uphold fuch a Bill in the
teeth of all this evidence t It had been Paid, that if
it fucceeded in one county it would in another.—
This View was not coned, the population of the
kingdom was irregular, according to the exuberance
of the produce, and the Rate of the manufadurit,
and this muff effentially vary the operation of fuch a
bill. No leis than twenty-two counties were incapa-
ble of carrying it into execution, and they were to
fubmit to the fpecies of legiflative extortion to which
he had referred. It was a grofs violation of thole
humane and equitable principles by which all laws
ought to be adminiftered. In !bore, the objections
to the Bill were fo numerous, that he fhould detain
their Lordfhips much too long if he were to diced's
them in detail. A Noble Friend of his had fpoken
of the increafe of the public force fence July, 1804.
He never would enter into any invidious companions
—all he wiffied for was, that the refuurces cf the
country fhould be advantageoufly employed, by
whomfoever the government was adminillered, and
' he was happy to commend a meafure adopted laft
year, for the incorporation of a confiderable portion
of the Militia with the Regular Army. Whatever
might be the fucceis of fome of his plans adopted,
when he was formerly in the Councils of his Majefty,
he took no credit to himfelf and his colleagues : they
were encouraged and fupported by the fpirit of the
country, withnut which the molt difcreet meafuree
which political wifdom could have deviled would
have been infufficient. He was 'anxious, at leaft, to
ft end lo far well, as not to have it fuppofed that
he had lhrunk from his duty, which would have
been, indeed, molt criminal, at a time when the
people were united in one great and common eaufe,
and were ready to fubmit to any privations for the
welfare of the State. Qn the grounds he had aced,
he fhould oppofe the motion for tl3e amendment.
Lord MULGRAVE declared, that if he had the
leaß conception that any decent fuldliture was intend.
ed to be brought forward in place of the Aet it was
propofed to repeal, he would not oepole the meaftire.
The Aft, he contended, was never generally under.
Rood. In fume counties it was oppofed from political
motives.; merely beca,ufe tome of thofe whore duty
it was to give it every facility, had oppofed it in other
places. He difcuffed the whole of the military plan.
and difclaiming any fettled determination of oppo-
ling Miniflers, laid that he muff fupport the motion
for poll poning the fecund reading.
The Earl of DERBY contended that the Ad was
impracticable ; that it operated as a tax upon the dif-
ferent pardhes. He explained and jultified the con.
duet of the Lieutenancy of the County of Lancafter,
where every effort was made, but in vain, to give
effect to it.

The Earl of ROSSLYN, at confiderable length,
argued againft the meafure, and maintained the ne-
ed:My of repealing the Al on account of its ineffici-
ency, even if nothing was brought forward in its
place. It had, in his opinion, nothing of compul-
lion in it, but vexatious expellee and inconvenience.
The Duke of MONTROSE wiffied that Minifters,
inflead of afting upon the defenfive, had come boldly
forward and fupported the whole of their intended
plan ; but there teemed a reluctance in his Welty's
Minißers in that Houfe to uphold the wild and vi-
unitary theories of his Majefly's Minillers out of the
Houle. The confequence of the repeal of that dia
would be that the Army of Referve A4l, a meafure
he would acknowledge of much energy, and which
did great honour to the talents of the Noble Vifcount
who who was then at the head of his Majetty's Coml.
cils, would be repealed alto.
Lord SIDMOUTH obferved, that from a convic-
tion of the inadequacy of the Army of Referve Ads
one of the kit meafures of that Adminiaratioo, of
which he formed a part, was to bring in a bill for
its fufpenfion.
The Earl of WESTMORLAND and Lord'SlD,
MOUTH bcth fpoke in expLuation.

The Earl of DARNLEY inferred, from a corn.'
parifon of the returns on the table, that the meafure
had completely failed.
Lord HAWKESBURY faid, that if there was any
thing in the Bill before their Lordfhips, which par.
tieularly called for his oppofition,it was the abandon.
ment of the principle of the Ad it propelled to repeal.
If it was an infulated meafure, he poffibly might be
induced to relinquifh his objeCtions, but when it was
notorious, that it was brought forward as part of
fyltetn, he could not, until the whole of that fyliera
was before the Houle, be induced to give his vote in
favour of it. Why did not the Noble Lords, who
were fo anxi• us now to dirconneel it with any other
meafures and difcufs it on its own met its, bring it for-
ward three months ago, when they fira came into
office Lordfhip next adverted to the different
partsof that fyftem as embracing the Volunteer Force,
the Militia, and the Army, and deprecated in the molt
energetic language, any change in the praftice of
ballot, or in the ufual terms of military enliftment.—
He earnestly entreater4 Miniiters to paufe before they
gave fanetion to an experiment which in its develnpe-
ment might effect the complete defiruCtinn of the
recent army. He trolled that if they did perfevere
in it, it would be fo modified as to remove the great
and manifold dangers which would inevitably retitle
from it. The prefect military eflablithment, he con.
tended, was greater by 23,m0 men than at any pet ind
of out ki(tory ; and at no period had filch efforts been
made fir increafing the regular force, as dirrieg that
adminifirat ion of which he formed a part, and of which
a Noble Vifcount was at the head, when no lets than
a difpoleble force of so,ooo men had been created in
the courfe of a few mnnths
The Earl of CAERNA RVON Paid, that they who
withed to continue the bill fix weeks longer, wilhed
to continue the illegality of the praftices by which it
was rendered operative. Such a mafs, fuch a con-
geries of nonfenfe, never, in his opinion, difgraced the
ilatute book, and the fooner it was got rid of the
better. His Lordfhip went into aminute examination
. of the different, claufes of the Bill, which he con-
tended were not only embarraffed and inconfiflent
with each other, but abfolutely impracticable upon
the principles upon which they were founded.
Earl SPENCER. replied and obferved, that allow.
ing every poffible merit and efficiency to the Army
of Referve Aft, he could not approve of its revival,
as it would be attended with the former grievance of
a revival of the high bounties. . . . .
The Earl of RADNOR elated, that his chief reafon
for voting againit the Additional Force At, was its
extreme injullice. Had it produced twenty times the
number of men it did, his objeftions to it on that
ground would fill
Earl GROSVENOR would vote againft the Mt,
conceiving it to be unequal and inefficient; but
would not pledge himfelf to fupport the ref of the
intended military plan.
The queftinn being univerfally called for, the
Hanle divided on the motion that the Bill be now
read a fecond time—Contents 75, Proxies 26-97
Non Contents 30, Proxies to-4o
Majority - —57
The Bill was then teed a fecond time, ordered to
be committed to-morrow, and the Houfe adjourned
at one o'clock.

.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Sir JQHN NEWPORT brought up the kjlli Revenue Resole.
Lion Bin, and the biro Additional Force Repeal Bill, which were
read a firft time. The Revenue Regulation Bill was ordered to
be read a fecand time commit:ow, and the Additional Force Re.
peal Bill on Tburiday.
A Melrose from the Lords 'beamed the Houfe, that their
Laraithim bad agreed to the Scotch Judges increafed Salary Bill,
Sod to Several Private Bills
Sir WILLIAM OEARY prefented a Petition from the Malt
fters If Kent, apinft the Regulation} of rbe Malt Doty Aft. A
Similar Petition was prelented from the Palaltiters of the County
Of Hens.
Mr VANSITTART brought upon account of the Balances in
She hands of the Coßeams of the Land •Tas Ante April Igoe
On the motion of Lord MORPEI'H, an account war ordered
atilt proloble Eftlmate and Charges at India. including the In
WWI of the Debt, and the Erpe.ves of St. Helena and Prince of
Wales Eland, for the year t Bos-6.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and
the Refolutions retheding the licences for Private Brewing were
agreed to
Mr. HLISKISSON poftponed, till after the Lords mould have
renounced Judgment in the cafe of Lord Melville. a motion of
which he bad given notice, to fret him from any charge of Intereft
on his balances during hb &ft Trealbrerthip.
Mr. C. WYNNE brought up a Copy of an Additional Inftruc-
den given to all Commanders of his .ajefty's fhipa of war, as alto
of planters, and fbips having kfters of marque and reprUals.
NABOB OT •RCOTT.

Mr. HOBHOUSE moved the Order of the Day
for the fecund reading of the Nabob of Arcott's Cre-
ditors Bill.
Mr. WHITSHED KEENE called the attention
of the Houfe to the nature of the debts, molt of
which were fraudulently created, at Dealt arofe from
no teal and onerous caufe, and were accumulated
by fraudulent interef). He called on the Honoura-
ble Gentleman (Mr. Francis), who had fir much dif-
tinguilbed himfelf in the attempt to fupprefs Indian
abufes, who had hiinfelf retitled in that country for
25 years, and who had returned to this kingdom wish
a charafter as unfullied as he had left it, ter aflift him
in his prefent endeavour. He then proceeded to enter
into a long llatemenr, and to call for the reading of
many minutes relative to the debts of Sir J. Ivl.Pher-
pw, and Sir R. Sullivan, which had been allowed to
lie d:,rmant for many years; and which, he alledged,
did not p..oceed from real and bona.. de contraftions.
Mr. JOF:NSTONE found himfelf called on, out
nF regard to the charafter of Sir John M'Pherfon,
whole friendlhip be had experienced in early life, not
to lit filent, and hear lris name nnneceffarily dragged
forward to public attention as elucidating a fubjeft in
which he feemed to have fir little ennneftiou. He
altar thought the infinuation againll the other Hon.
Baronet equally unbecoming in his abfence.
Dr. LAWRENCE agreed in the obfervations
thrown out by the Honourable Gentleman who had
fookt:n firll on the fithjeft.—lt was a fit fuhieel, not
of inctignation, merely, but of fhame, to chunk that
bribes tr the fervants of this country, by the Native
Prince I of India, fhould have been at all times deemed
neceffar,v et, infure a faithful pet (or ounce of their
duty, or ass iraducemenss to them to betray their trait.
If debts were .really boxer.fide due, he could not con-
e,zisre .1r) whet p, nand they were allowed to lie over
om the year 174.6 to this time, withaut any claim
being made ander t hem.
Loud i.:AsT.LEh EAGI-1 replied at confiderable
lenth to the IA fpehlter.
di If. the general tn.erit_s of
the agreement were be iculfcd, the dilculuon

THE EV2NIhO STAR.

. lANDON.
WEDNESDAY, MAt H. .
PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE &COCK.
Confols, for money, bolt—for May 64—.0ranItam if 4.
ratites. Bills pu II
PRICE OF S TOCK., Yk.6 EERDAY.
Bank Stock :to (Wk. Bonds, par is. as. dir.
3p. Ct. Red. Ann tort Imperial Ann. 84 9t6
3 per Cent. Cant Rich. Bills ts. 3.. dli.
4 Oa Cent. ()mina' tif prom
5 per Cer.t. Navy 931 94 9aif Englith Tickets aol. tc4.
Long Anu. 17 3-16 ConL for acc. 6of
lota Stuck tl33} IE4

The Bill for repealing the Additional Force Ail
was debated at lime length in the Houfe of Lnrds
tall night, but no new arguments were adduced on
either fide. 'Die original quellion was carried by 97
againa 40.—Majority fur the Bill, 57.

In the Commons, the further conlideration of the
Income Tax Bill was podponed till to•toorrow.

Our letters from Gibraltar come down to the afith
ultimo, at which time the ga,rifon was healthy.
Our Readers will be forprized to hear of captures
made in the fight of our men of war in that quarter
by the Spanifh gun boats. We cannot for a moment
I attribute negligence to our Commanders in that quar-
ter. Is there a want of gun boats on our part fimilar
to thofe of the enemy ? or to what other caufe fhould
we afcribe thefe captures ? It is an evil of fo ferious
a nature, that it ought to be enquired into.
H ode racing fill continues at Gibr, .'tar, and we
are lure it will allonifla our Readers to find that on
thefe occafions, fuch is the high opinion entertained
of the Spaniflt charafter, our Commanders and Offi.
errs do not hefitate to truft themfelves within their
lines.

GIBRALTAR, APRIL £9.

44 Yefterday the DREADNOUGHT and BRITANftIIA
came to anchor in the 13.ty from Tetuan, to refit, and
convoy to England three of the prizes taken off
Trafalgar ; the fourth is to be left here as a flag Chip
for the Pmt Admiral.

44 APRIL 23 ['his day an Engin brig, the Me-
,literranean Packet, was carried into Algefiras by a
tingle gun boat, though we have at this time four
line of battle (hips and ftveral other men of war lying
in the Bay.

This morni:ig a large naval tranfport, of 400
tons, with fix weeks prtAifions on board for Admi-
ral Coaarsowoou's fleet, was taken into Algeciras by
the Spaniards! I Her lots will be mai fevarely felt
by the fleet.
4, There was a horfe race rode this day elfide of the
nuirty's livers, between two officers of the Guam,
which was numeroufly attended. General Fox, and
moll of the Officers and Non.commiffloned Officers
belonging to the regiments here, were prefent ; alio
a great number of the Spaffifh Officers and fnAiers.
6! Area. V6.—Yeti:lday a veal ived ftm Mef-

fina in fit days ; (he left two fail of the line, and fire
frigates there, bcfides a number of Neapolitan gun
boats. They expeeted cnemy flora), to make
fume attempt upon Sicily, but had no dread of the
event. This (hip r•' Sir SIDNEY SMITH with four
veffels under Lis convoy, within two days fail of Sicily.
" The Malta convoy for England, has jun come
to anchor in the Bay."

Some of onr cnmemporaties, who make it a role
to inflate and magnify every trifling occurrence, told
the public foordays ago of the " moll tremendous, in.
cerfant and loin, continued firing that has ever oe
elated fine the commencement of the war, having
i been heard at Dover on Fridn ' direflion of
W Boulogne." e hive in vire . epeeing the
Important details.which there,* er. r maltidg ptintt,
might have been expeCted to give of the ilfue of " a
cannonading which has never been equalled fines the
day of NaroLeoa's Coronation."
Laft night the town was alarmed with the follow.
ing fahricatimn,lnnbilibed in an Evening Paper :
` PLYMOUTH, Mar 18.—A report has been in current circa-
lation here to day. of the Capture of the In-bore Squadron cruiz
iog off Brea, conaing of tht Impetucue, of 30 guns, Captain
1,,,,wr0au ; the Diamond, of 33 guns, Captain ELPIIINSTONZ ;
Latona, of ;8 guns, Ctptain J. A. WOOD; and the Haughty guts
brig, by a fquadron of to fail of the enemy's line of battle Mips,
',villa flipped Irorn the Inner Road of Breit,on finding the above
becalmed, and w ithin reach of the batteries. Though there is
fome rearm tofear that fume difafter of the kind has taken place,
it is hoped it will not turn out to the amount Rued." •
In the above letter there is not a fingle word of
truth.. . .
~

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Some le4ters from Holland, of the date of Friday
laft, mention, that a general diffatisfaftion prevails,
not only among the great body of the people in Prof-
Ira, but that the contagion has reached the army alfo.
A fpirit of infurralion has manifelied itfelf on va-
rious occafinns, and in feveral places, in the fupprel
lion of which the foldiery, it is faid, refilled to inter-
fere. Some Officers of high rank arc reported.to
have thrown up their cnmmiffions.
During morning f.;rvice on Sunday fe'nnight, at
the porn church, Kendal, fome boys fitting on a
railed tomhflone in the yard, found the upper part
of it not to lie clofc ; on taking off the top, they dd.
covered three trifles of cotton goods, valued at tool.
conceded, which had been (Wen on the Friday night
previ,ahrout of an adjoining warchoufe to Hargrave's.
MRS. LITCHFIIILI3.—This deferved Favourite of
the town, after pla)ing Alicia' in Jane Sim, with the
greatefk excellence, delivered IA night a very neat
Farewell Add; efs on her retiring from Covent Garden
Theatre. ft was fpnken with much tenability, and
produced a very gratifying effect. Mrs. LirciaFlELD
had a numerous and falhionable audience, all regret-
ting her retirement from a profeffion on which her
uncommon pelYl CIS had refl:fted lb much honour.

The American Newfpaper, the Aurora, contains
the following Paragraphs, dated Bolton, April 17.
" AFFAIRS WITH ENO LAND.-4C tt, we prefume, to
the fortunate event of the change in the Britifb Mi.
niltry, that we are to attribute the delay that has
taken place in adopting tneafures of defence againit
the outrages of Englith cruizers: for as yet no Rep
has been taken on the fubjed. The bill, introduced
by Mr. nem-mina, and adopted by the Houle, has
not yet been :teed upon by the Senate—a committee
appointed to confider it, have recommended amend-
ments, confiderably reducing the number of articles
to be prohibited. This is ell that has been done, and
it is a matter of fatisfadtion if our hopes (hall be re•
alized, but to be regretted if no accommodation
thould take place.
" On Wednefday the 26th ult. the bill prohibiting
the importation of certain ( 11l itifh) goods, wares, and
merchaadize, paired the Houfe of Reprefentatives by
a majority of 6t votes.
Such is the greatnefs of the majority in favour of
this meafure, and fe irrefiftibly does this majority
prove it to be confcntaneous with the voice of the
American people, that we hazard very little in can.
fidering it in the light of a meafure already clothed
with the efficacy of a law. For, it is feared), to be
expedled, that the Senate, even did they entertain a
different impreffion from the immediate reprefenta•
titres of the people, would oppole their will to that
of the natian. '
BOTANY BAY.—We received, yeßerday, a let of
the newfpapers of this Coony, ending at 2111. July
1411. The public news confilt chiefly of ditlurbances,
given to diltant fettlers by (mall parties of the Na-
tives, who had become very adventurous, and had
two leaders, the one called Branch Jack, the other
Mahoito. In fume inilances the latter have been vie.
lotions, their (pears nutlalling the ammunition of the
fettlers ; in others they have been repulfed. They
generally attempt to let fire to the buildings they
attack, and have a mode of throwing fire brands
from a dillance, by means of the moutang, orhi gig.
It teems, however, from the following notice in the
paper of July 7, that there was a prolpett of a
better undcrltanding with them ;
o lire Ell AI ()lOW •—•The Natives, after giving up the
principal in the late out rages, lr.elire eenemlly capretfad a &lire to
cone to, and many being on th. toad from Hawitaluity and other
quarters, to meet the Gnerrnnr or Paramatta. no moldtation
whatever is ro be effereol Ile in ill any part of the eulony,unlers any
of them than renew their h..: aeig. which is not probable, as a re-
conciliation will take phce with the Native, generally."
Several of the Natives of Otaheite and New Zea-
land having been brought by different veffcls to Bo-
tany Bay, Governor Ktaa, with equal humanity
and wifdom, had them fummoned to the Govern-
ment
Houle, where they were informed, that they
were free, and might ferve whom they pleafed ; that'
in cafe of any ill ufage, they might complain to him:
and that they might apply to the Government Arti-
ficers fur gratuitous infirudtions in feveral ufeful
trades. One had immediately been placed under
the fuperintendant of the Smiths, the other under
toe Carpenters, and both were highly pleafed with
the prolpeet of returning with their valuable !kill to
their native country. Thus will European arts he
introduced into the Earthed known Manch of the
Southern Sea.
Some of our enterpriling traders appear to have
(peculated ton much upon the means of thefc Car.
fulls to purchafe finery in apparel ; for we no longer
ohferve any advetliknient, r I rune"' fans, muffin
di c fres, or jockey b• arts. A pertim at Pa-
ramatta, indeed, adv,l tires for a Maa Cook for a to
roily, but that is probably for a gang of workmen ;
and at the fame time a Mr. Crook has effiablifbed a
2s.arJrn itekuoi, at 'he price Of 271. a year in calk or
301. in svbrat &Wiwi