Star.
London, England, 1805-05-09 00:00:00

SIR HOME TOPIIAM.

Mr. KINNAIRD Gcid, that he had come t!••wn
prepared to fubmit to the Bottle the motion of which
he had given notice; and he thould feel it hi> duty
to propofe that a Committee thiiithl he apps ,tee to
take into eonfideration the accounts ia:d on the table
of the Houle, relpteling the repairs of the Romney
and l t Sentible. He undtrflood that no oppAition
wcuid be given to the meafure he pouted, and he
thought he fhould take np the time id the Houle very
improperly, if he Inould go over the grounds which
were contained in thole papers ; he was, befidei, of
opinion, thet c was an impollibility of confideting the
matter properly, in any other manner, than that
which he propofed. The bell way for conlideting the
bulinefs, would be for the Committee to lay the Re•
port hcfire the Houle, and then to adopt fuch mea-
tures as necell'arily mot-coot (fit. He (baulk!, there-
fore, move, " that a Committee be appointed to con-
fider of the matter contained in the papers before the
Houle, relative to the repairs of the Romney and la
Senfible, whin' under the orders of Sir Home Pop-
Lan) in the Red Sea."

Sir H. POPHAM laid, that the only motive he
had for offering a few °Nervations was,that he th,itild
not be Itippoted to acknowledne the jultice of any
charge alledged againil him, by his acceding to the
inrition for a Committee of Enquiry. There was not
a (logic particle of chat ge, which he was not, at the
preterit moment, fully prepared to refute, in the corn-
pletett manner ; and though there ni-ay be come r.iitts
proper enough to gts before a Coonthijitee, lie mutt,
at the outlet, deny, that they c-itrld attach crimina-
lity upon him ; though he mutt declare, that there
was a degree of criminal indufiry made life of, to at-
tribute blame to him. The Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Kinnaird) laid, on a former night, that be had been
treated contimant to the general ufage and praElice
of the navy, and in the fame manner as Sir Richard
Bickerton, Sir Richard King, and Sir Andrew Mit-
chell. When this affertion was firll made, he mull
acknowledge himfelf to have been fo nervous, that
he did not feel bold enough to contradiel it ; but• Ire
had, at prefent, a full refutation, in a letter from Sir
Richard King, in which he informed him, that when
fume imputations were made againli Iris condo& in
the Etat Indies, he attended, and was examined be•
fore a pablic board. In this cafe, however, there
was a deviation front the %anal praaiee, and he hem-

td to be tingled out as a i'leim both to the Navy
and the Admiralty Boards. They had fent for Capt.
Sance, to try whether he could fay any thing againft
him, and he had at prefent a copy of their letter to
that-Officer, and his anfwer, in which he perfealy
exculpated him. This was on the eft of OCtober,
and they ordered Captain Sante to attend nn the
Tuefday following, at ten o'clock. They then en-
quired of him why he received in the Senfible
forts, men, &c. different from thole appropriated
to veftels of that dads ? He mull here beg leave to
fay, in corroboration of Captain Sauce's leftimonn
that he never gave orders for any alteration in the
quality of the limes, and that when he left the
Serif-11de in the Red Sea, he left it nearly a wreck.—
While in the Red Sea, General Baird confulted hint
whether, after the army thould be difengaged from
the Egyptian expedition, it would be molt advitable
to attack the Mauritius or Batavia? The anfwer was,
that be had not fufficient naval force for either ; but
he at the fame time thought it his duty to enquire
whether, if fuck an attempt could be made, the Ealt
India Company would furnilh the needrary (tures ?
and receiving an anfwer in the negative, he was un-
der the necellity of fupplying the (hips in the bell
manner he could for the fervice they were defined
to perform. Every thing relating to this fobjeCt was
fully explained in the report a the boatfwain of the
'hip; and he had to complain that the Navy Board
refuted to receive it, though it fully accounted for
the ring and (hank of which to much had unneceffa, ily
and injorioully been laid. The papers fpecifying the
particulars, were afterwards 1011, but that could
never be made a fault attributable to him. To (peak
of the (hip itfelf, he had to (late that, on leaving
Em;land, he was obliged to fail down the channel
with a Ilrong Seellerly wind, which obliged Lim to
put into Portland Roads with the veffel in fo very
bad a Late, that nothing but the extreme importance
and ne,efli'y of ;he fervice upon whis:ll he was tent,
could ever have ind c.-..d lii .o to fail for hid:a in fo
ill-conditioned a conveyance. All this v.arnid be
proved by the papers on the table, as well as the on.
avoidable repairs which the (Lip had Teemed in the
different parts where he was obliged to lion. Hall.
ing heard that, notwithltanding all there ditativan-
cages, imputations were made againll his charaCter
by the Barcil of Aalmiraliy, he did not hefitate to de-
mand an enqairy, which being refuted, be mull in.
fat that never was an cfficer to injorioufly and un-
justly treated. The time ill olage was followed up
in the overt-trained Reports of the Commiffioners of
Naval Enquiry ; and reports were circuLted that he
was to he profecuted in the Exchequer, after having
been refuted a Court Martial, which ever had, and
ever moll be, the proper judicature, before which an
officer of the Britifh Navy (hould, in the fide place,
be tried. This was the fyttem under which the Navy
of England throve ; but in this tale, fer ft m: perverfe
or wayward motive., that praCticc was :everted.—
Was it right to lub!litute for the regu:ar tribunal of
1 a court martial, a fcandalous paper w..r, arid an in-
unmet able let of teurrilous pamphlets, n.iginating
from fources from which they ought nt.t to have
come ; as he was allured nn no lel; authority than
that of fame of the publifhers themfelves. In proof
of this affertion, he could produce a letter from a
Gentleman who was formerly a Member of that
Houle (1-!ere a genera! cry of read ! read!). He then
read a letter, dating the indignation 1,1 the writer at
'learning from the publiffier of one of ihefe kurrilous
pamphlets, that it came from the hands of Earl St.
Vincent's Board of Admiralty. The letter was
flailed by " John Marnamara" (formerly Member
'slot. Leicefler) (a had laugh!). He next '«dverted to
the conduit rf the Admiralty, in fending a letter to a
labordinate Officer, Captain Edward,,Toliciting and
exhorting him to ranfack his memory, and try whe-
ther he could dilcover any blame imputable to him
(Sir Home), from the time of his failing from Eng
land till his return. He read a copy of that letter,
dated 3111 of November, 1803, and arced, whether
it was 4 proper kind of conduit in men, bnalling of
liberality, to tamper with an inferior officer, it; a •way
fo very inftdions ?
Mr. MNNAI RD called the Hon. Officer to or-
der, for (raving fir II read the letter, and afterward,
repeating words very differently from thole whicl, it
c:altained.

Sir H. POPHAM proceeded to nbferve, that he
did not confider himfelf at all irregular in giving
to the letter, what mull appear to every one to be
its fair confirtittion ; and appealed to the Gentlemen
of the Learned profeflion, whether he Wonld not be
anthorifed in doing fo, even in a Court of Law ? He
would repeat, that it was unfair and illil.eral to ioli-
cit any officer to ranfack his memory for any thing
that he could think blameable in the conduul of a
sfuperior officer, from the time of his leaving Eng-
land for India, until the period of his return to this
country. He might ',Ably overffrain the con.
ftrudion, but he would put it to any man of honour.
whether Inch a letter was a fair one, from a public
Boatel, in refired to any individual ? In fr,me in-
fiances, it was peffible that his co••duft might have
been, in Conn degree, irregular r but he would ever
maintain, that it was not criminally fo—while he
could not help animadverting on what he mat call
the criminal induflry that was cmil againtl him.
He, in common with the Houle and the public,
highly applauded the general proceedings r.t the
Commitfioners of Naval Enquiry but he was not a
little furprifed at the manner in which he was fpoken
ot, after Mr. Lewis had been examined as to his
conduct, and after lie had, upon that Gentleman's
teitimony, been honourably acquitted cf collusion
Kith any Naval Officer. Upon that Inbjett. he wrote
a Ihmtpitly letter (a Lush) to the Commillioners of
Naval Enquiry, challenging an inveltigation in any
collusion between Mr. Lewis and him.—
During the whole comic of his command, he was
confident that it would appear, that he always ma.
nifelled the ftrongefl defire of retrenching expellees,
and had contributed to it, by every means in his
power; as a proof of which, he would (laic, that the
whole of the old materials belonging to the Romney
fold for nu more than 121. after the repair, which he
fancied would be fufficient to thew, thkt repairs were
nut made till they were abfolutely necetrary. It was
natural enough that he fhould be fomewhat warm
upon this fubjeul. He never expeded that he lhould
have occasion to mention any thing in that Houfe re-
greting his private family ; but he hoped due allow-
ance would be made for any warmth even approach•
ing marly to intemperance, which he might be led
into, when it was confidcrcd what a length of time

he remained under thefe afperflons, and that he ha.'
a family which mug of courfe have feelings with hit:.
on a fubjeit in which his honour and charaeter were
fn effentially implicated. As to the accufation re-
(peeling the high rate of exchange, he had .only to
fay, that he gave orders for no bills being drawn at a
higher rate than as. 6d. while other from various
offices on the fame fervice, were drawn at 7s. or Rs.
exchange. His rations alfo to each man, in the
Sick and Hurt Office, were no more than 4'. and
a farthing, while thofe of Admiral Blankets, on the
fame fervice, were 44. sd. per man. Another
leading ()Net of his during his command was, to
confider how much freightage could be Caved ; and
he had the fatisfa&ion to fay, and was ready to prove,
that, on his arrival in the Red Sea, he difcharged
freightage to the amount of '7,0001. per month, and,
by following up the fame lyflem, it afterward
amounted to a faring of 27,0001. per month. Let
the Houfe then compare thefe important fav'agr
with the paltry furls foppofed to be overcharged in
the repairs of the thipc, and then judge whether Le
was nod entitled to co aaaaaa endation or to cenfure
After having performed thefe Cervices, and difcharg-
ed his duty in the Red Sea, with chips almoft unfit
for fervice, he failed for Calcutta, where he was un-
der the neccflity of ordering thole repairs, the ex-
pences of which had been fo much complained of.—
If it was poffible for the Committee to make the mat-
ter mote clear than it was from the documents on
the table, and the Statement he now made, he could
not have the leaf' poffible objedion to it. He would
again repeat, that in fome instances it was poffible he
might have been wrong ; but loch errors were whol.
ly to be ufcribed to the difficult nature of the fervice.
He certainly had mach to complain of the manner in
which he had fince been treated, both by the Admi-
ralty and Navy Boards, and under fuch impreffions
he fliorld confide, the inflitution of a fair inquiry as
the happiett moment of his life.
Mr. HUTCHINSON exprelfed his fatisfaaion that
thefe papers had been moved for, as he was convinced
the general imprellion unlit be the fame as it was oa
his mind, viz. that the Hon. Officer had difcharged
a mots important troll with great fidelity, great per:
severance, and great honour ; and, in doing This, had
evinced an extraordinary degree of talent. He was
a friend to the Committee, but; not froin any doubt
as to the charader of the Hon. Officer, and it %vas
with the greatell p;e.ifure he feized the prefent op-
portunity of deliver tag his fentimunts otapptuhation
on his general prink trot or/ eondua diving the
whole of ihatexpedi.i..ii.

The CHANCELLOR of the E.7c.CHFQIIER ob-
ferved, that as it was 1ik..17 the Houle would crime tO
An unanimous vote for the apPointment of the Copal
mince, he thould ink remark, that he did fo under
the impreffinn of timilar fentiments then co forcibly
delivered by the Hon. Membe'r who fpoke
There was nothing• contained in thole papers, from
which any imputation of zuilt could be drawn again 4
the ga:lant offi:er ; but on the contrary, there was
much that tended to thew great and exemplary merit:
His merits, he knew, were not confined to that parti-
cular fervice, but had been difplayed ..n other
lions. The papers were fo numerous, comp:icated;
and detailed, that they could not be advantageouay
dilculfed bur in a Committee, when it would be proper
alfo to confider other collateral ;natters. There were
various points refpeeing the Admiralty and Navy
Boards, and the Ihort examination of one tingle Wit-
nets to which their attention might he directed. There
was likewife the circtuntlance of the publication of
the R •pntt from one Board to :4,u:the, Th= 14, of
the vouchers was a matter fit for enquiry, as well as
the fingular manner in which an Englifb• fubjee, art
Officer of the Navy, had been imprelfed. He ihould
forbear entering into details ; but all thefe matter%
deferved examination, and thole points thould he left
open to the Committee, for their report to the Houle.
As the motion was worded, it did not embrace enougl4
for this pippofe, but only refpeeed the repairs of the
Romney and Senfible. Hs fhould fuppofe there would
be no oNceion to an amendment to this ere& :
" That the Committee lhould examine the matters
of the repairs of the Romney and Sentible, and the
proceedings of the Admiralty and Navy Boards, and
Comnrialon of Naval Enquiry thereon, and alio en-
qoire into the circumllances of the unauthorifed puP-
lication of Feb. 20, I Bc4; the lots of the vouchers•;
and the circumtlances ofimpreffing Mr. David Evart
Bartholomew ; aNd report to (he Hr ufe; w itb filch
obfecvations as arife to therq from the confideratton
of the whole."

Mr. FOX ohjeBed to the word unauthoriled, an.l
Mr. Pr rr agreed to the omiffion of it.
Mr. JEFFLRY (Pm,le) laid, that the Honourable
Officer,. in what he had that night to clearly and do!.
quently flared. had c:.nvinced his mind that he had
dircharged the imputtant and arduous'duty enttulle3
to him, in (itch a manner as refl,:fted the highell ho-
tiOUr on his zeal, his talents, and his perleverance,
and he was happy in the opportunity of paying this
(mall trihtve to his merits.

Mr. 1). SCOT paid the highefl compliment to
the manner in which the Hon. Officer had executed
the high and important tt tel committed to his charge;
moll part,cularly in the casings he fu:cl made of
27,C001. a month, whol 1 in the Red Sea. He had
correfponeit-d vi h Sir Home Popham and w th othe:s
relative to this expedition ; anti, frotn the tettimony
of all he had i:ren able to coiled, he nevn- knew or
heard of any man who had condu4led hindill better
that the Hon. Otrer alluded to had done in the
whole of the expcdit ton c! mitred to his ch. rye.
Admiral MARK? lAM fail, he did not rife t.t
make the leAft 0111)0416On Li the motion, or to tb,
amendments jut opofed. He only wiffied to make
one or two ot,fervations on what had fallen from tl
Hon. Officer. lie had complained of a fcurril :us
pamphlet that had been publithed. Whether it was
fcurtilous or lint he could not fay. He would only
fay, that it was not manufaatired by Earl Sr. Vir,
cent's late Board of Admiralty ; and he, for him•
felt, difclaimed any Blare whatever in it. The Hon.
Officer teemed, however, to have entirely forgotten
his own pamphlet againil the Admiralty, whirl] vt as
one of the highest and moll important Boards in the
kingdom. He had never heard of it till he went down
to Portlinouth, in November, and there he found it
had been circulated, and much read among the Offi-
cers of the Navy there. He thrmg:it it very extraor-
dinary this Board (hoold be to grofsly abufcd by aft
Officer who was at the time ailing under them. If a
pamphlet was wrong, that was written merely againft
an individual ; how much more lo mu il that be %hies

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was direled agaltitt a public Board, to Which art
entrulted the molt important concerni of the coun-
try ? He did not with, he laid, to oppofe inquiry.
On the contrary, he courted it ; but he cautioned'
Mr. Pitt to confider, whether the Rep he was taking
would not tend to weaken the hands of the Admi-
ralty ? He warned him to be careful how ,he agita-
ted the delicate queftion relative to the liberty of the
fubjefl. As to the report of the Navy Bpard, if the
Admiralty s: ere not authorifed to refer matters when
they thought proper to another Board for inquiry and
inyefligation (which is all they have done),, he would
be glad to know, whether it was likely the Admiralty
.will ever do its duty in future ? When Earl St. Vin-
cent first went to the Admiralty, he endeavoured by
every means in his power to reltore the Navy to the
molt refpielable Rate the belt friends of the Country
could :fir ; and when he looked to his conduft, ei-
ther in the civil or military line, he knew no one more
capable, Or who had taken more efficient meafures
to attain that dent-Ale object ; and he believed, from
his foul, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt)
would be heartily glad if the Navy was now in as
-aood a hate as when that Poble Lord had quitted
his high (Winn at the Admiralty.
Mr. W. DICKINSON exprelfed his furprife at
hearing the Honourable Gentleman fay, that he with.
ed for inquiry, when Ire might have given the Ho- I
pourable Orlicer that opportunity long ago, and not
have detained him In long from his duty to his coun-
try. The fact was, he might to have been fent by the
Admiralty to a Court Martial, who, acting as a Jury,
mull either have acquitted or tound him 'apilty imme-
diately. He did not mean to fay any tiring againft
the Naval Cornmidloaers ; but the Honourabllt Offi-
cer had been fent to another Court, which might ac-
quit or delay, according to their own caprices, and
might wifh for pert-ens brought before them to crimi-
:ate themfelves. They did not, however, decide
upon his cafe, for they refuted to hear it, and referred
him to a Court Martial. He Paid this to thew, that
inquiry, if defired, might have been had long ago.
Adotiral M RKHAM Paid it was not a fit bufi-
nefs to go to a Court Martial. There was filch a
complication of charges, and fuch a mixture of dif-
fer Cot matters, that a Court Martial would not have
been equal to its full and adequate in vetligation. This
Was at leaf/ his own opiniouiand on that he had acted.
Mr. SHERIDAN begged to trouble the Houle
with a very few words. lhe Hon. Gentleman who
(poke lalt but one had raid be would not fay any
thing againft the Naval Comniittioners' and had im-
mediately afterwards (tiled them a Court which
might acquit or delay, according to their caprices,
and that they might with for perfons to criminate
themfelves. This was a kind of language he could
not bear, and thought no Member ought to ule,
when the commiffion had been renewed, and the fame
powers inverted in their hands by the Houle, as they
had before. If the Han. Gentleman thought they
were a Court acting according to caprice, or withing
perfons to criminate themfelves, he thould in a man
ly way have come forward, and ttated fuch fafts as
ftrong objections to the renewal of the commiflion,
and not at this time deal oat infinnations againft Ho-
nourable Gentlemen who had acted with In much
zeal, fidelity, diligence, and inflexible integrity, in
the great trust repofed in them, as to acquire molt
defervedly the univerfal approbation and applaufe of
the whole country.
M. W. DICKINSON, in explanation, allured
the Houfe that he did not mean to call the Gighteft
fellation on the Commit:Goners.
Mt. KINNAIRD laid, that, after whet had pal-
led; there was a fair opportunity given him to make
thole remarks on this whole tranfaftion, which he
was fare the Houk would believe he was not unpre-
pared to make, but he would not give way to the
temptati, n. There were, however, one or two points
which he could nut refrain from noticing. He had
been reproached by the Honourable Gentleman who
had just fat down, with not having moved for a Com-
mittee in the firft inflance, and thereby keeping the
Honourable Officer from his duty. He begged the
Houfe would recnllert the immenfe mafs of papers
that were moved for on both fides, and he thought it
mutt be evident to every one, that it was impoffible
Ire could fee the extent of the proceedings, or be able,
in the firft inftance, to fay what would be the fitter'
mode to purine. There was another point alto, he
was at a lofs to account for ; he could not fee any
thing in the papers which warranted that Hon. Gen-
tleman's affertion " that the Commillioners refuted to
hear his cafe, and referred it to a Court Martial." As
to the cafe of Bartholomew, he thought it required the
fullefl and the (trifler' investigation, and, he had no
doubt, would turn out to the difcredit of thole who
now gave it fo much the air of a charge againft the
late Admiral, y.
Mr. W. DICKINSON laid, he did not Rate the
Commiflioners referring it to a Court Martial was in
the papers, but took it from what was Paid on it in
the Houk by the Hon. Baronet, who is at the head
of the Commiffion ; and, from a private converfation
he had fence had with him, he found he was Rill of
the fame opinion. _ _ _

The queilion was then put, and the original motion,
with the amendment added to it, was agreed to.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then
propofed the Committee lhould be by ballot.
Mr. KINNAIRD objeiled to it, and Paid the
Right Honourable Gentleman feemed determined to
have all the Committees by ballot.
Thu! CHANCELLOR ofthe EXCHEQUER de-
nied that it was his with to have every inquiry deter-
mined by ballot, though he thought this one in parti-
cular ought to be fo.
Earl TEMPLE was proceeding to fpcak ; when
The SPEAKER informed the Houfe force name
must be mentioned for the Committee, or there was
noqueftion..

Mr. KINNAIRD raid, he world give a wire,
and immediately mentioned Mr. Cannin---(a loud
and g:neral laugh.)
Eall TEMPLE then raid, his Right Honourable
Friend's principle and practice were at variance ;
when a Committee of Inquiry is fixed on to examine
into India Accounts, he named them all himlOf ;
but now, when the Committee was to inquire into
papers and other matters, it mull be by ballot.
The queftion on Mr. Canning's name Handing as
one of the Committee was then put and negatived.
When Mr. Pitt cried out No—there ma: a lid louder
latish thaq kfore.
'lhe Committee of Supply was paponed to Fri-
day.—Adjous sled.

LONDON.

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Private letters by the Taft Hamburgh Mail Bate.
that Ruffia is Rill undecided on the queftion of ac-
cepting the fubfidy offered by Great Britain, and that
M. De NOVOSILKOFF, the late Envoy to England,
was on the point of letting off to Paris on a very im-
portant mifflon.

A Mail arrived from Lilbon this morning. The
letters are chiefly filled with details refpee;ng tFe
Toulon fquadron, but they add little to the fads be-
fore known. Some of them fay the French (hips
never entered Cadiz, but on their appearance off
that port were joined by fix Spanifh (hips of the line,
and immediately proceeded on their voyage.
A Gentleman who came paffenger in the DIANA
packet, which brought over the mail, left Cadiz five
days before the Toulon fleet appeared off there, and
Rates one important fail, not known before, namely,
that on board the Spanifh (hips which were appointed
to join the French, there were embarked three regi-
silents of difmounted dragoons, from which circum-
Rance it appears improbable that they are gone to the
Well-fndies, and conjetLure is now divided between
the EA-Indies, the Brazils, and Iceland.

The letters from Li(bon (late that the Ferrol fqua.
dron is alto ready for fea.

Indeed, in all the ports of the enemy there appears
to be great anivity. The Danilh brig Juilicia, arrived
at Plymouth from
.Charente, brings intelligence that
an embargo was laid on all 'hips in the French ports
between the 23d ult. and ad inllant. On the latter
day the Jufticia failed. On the at infant a three-
decker and a two-decker failed from Rochefurt full
of troops. And from a gentleman who was lately
on the Continent, and hid every means to obtain cor-
reft information, we have learnt that in the different
dockyards belonging to France and its dependencies
there are building at this time not Jefs than fifty (hips
of the line, betides frigates and (mailer veffels. At
Antwerp alone there are nine (hips of the line in con.
liderable forwardnefs.

We are happy, howeier, to °Verve, that in our
own ports there is at ltaft an equal degree of aBivity.
A number of fhips have been ordered to be fitted out
with all poflible fpeed, and great exertions have been
made, and are now making, to procure a fufficient
number of hands.
We have reafon to hope too, that Lord Nazsow,
if he has not already overtaken the Toulon fo,ua.
dron, has obtained fuch information refpeaing it
as will enable him to come up with the enemy;
for we find the intelligence was corral which we
Rated in part of our impreffion yefterday—namely,
that Government have received difpatches, an-
nouncing, that Lord NELSON had got intelligence
of the failing of the Toulon fleet, and was on his
way to get out of the Mediterranean in purfuit of
them. He was off Carthagena on the 13th of April,
(landing for the Streights, but with an unfavourable
wind. The Ileac La (loop of war faw the enemy
elcvtn leagues to the wellward of Cadiz only on the
preceding day.
The rumour circulated yefterday afternoon of the
Breft fleet having put to fea is, we are happy to fay,
unfounded. It arofe from the circumflance of the.
Well India fleet returning to Falmouth—but this
was occafioned, as we have already flitted, by the fail-
ing of the Touhin fleet.

Difpatches were this morning received at the Ad-
miralty from Lord GAILDN se. They bring no news
of importance.

No certain intelligence of the French fleet has yet
been received at the Admiralty.

The Spanifh Admiral Don BUSTAMANTI, who
commanded the fliips detained previous to !trinities
with Spain, has received petmiffion to return with
his family to that country.
Admiral Sir JAMB. SAUMARIZ is arrived in town
from the chief command at Jerfey.
Mr. GIFFAILD, accompanied by his friend, Alder-
man Jamas, arrived laft night from Dublin, for the
purpofe of petitioning the Imperial Parliament, on
the ground of his difmilfal from office.
By the deceafe of the Marquis of LANSDOWN there
is a Blue Ribbon to be difpoled of.
The Bill now before Parliament for inquiring into
the public expenditure of the departments conneeled
with the army ena&s, that the Commiffioners are
to inveftigate regulations of Commiflioners of Pub-
lic Accounts, and Committee of Public Expenditure;
to inquire into the expenditure and condu& of the
Officers of Ordnance, Secretary at War, Commiffa-
riat, Royal Hofpitals, &c. and the expenditure of the
public money in the Well Indies. The Comniiflionerb
to examine upon oath, and to be empowered to en-
force attendance of witneffes. No perfon to be compel-
, led to anfwer quellions tending to criminate himfelf.
On Thurfday night Capt. Niels Thorfen, of the
Norwegian vad Emanuel, was killed by a fall from
his horfe, coming from Bo'nefs to Grangemouth.
Orange and Lemon Trees, Catalonian and Ara-
bian Jellimines, and Tiue Bronfwick Saul-ages are
this day arrived in excellent condition at JOHN Bye-
ass and San's Warehoufe, No. to7l Strand, corner
of the Savoy Steps.