Star.
London, England, 1802-12-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. laviNG from the Cullom.% brought up an account of
the quantity of Flax, &c.imported for the kit tcn pears.—Or-
tiered to he on the Table.

The SraAx ER acquainted the Houle, that the Petitioner for
an undue ekdlion for Kingiton-upon-Hull, had not entered into
the proper recognizance; and alfo, that the Freemen who had
petitioned, had not entered into the proper recognizance, there-
fore the order for hearing the Petition was difchargcd.
Tile SPEAKER alfo Rated, that the proper recognizances had
not been entered into in the cafe of the Petitions from Newcaf-
tl!. under-1 4 ac, from Tregony, and from Seaford..—The order
fur bearing tho'c Petitions was therefore difcharged.
A new \V rit was ordered for Edinburgh, in the room of the
Right Hon. H. Dundas, created Vifcount Melville.
A new Wait was ordered fur the Burghs of Dumfries, &c.
in the roost of C. Hope, Efq. who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.,
Mr. NVIr.ZERFORCZ prefented a Petition from feveral Mer-
chaLts oL the City of Briftol againft the Tonnage Duty.
Mr. J. SMITu prefented a Petition from the Maltfters of
Pomfret !again ft the Malt Duty.—Ordered to lie on the Table.
Lord GLaNIItaVIZ moved, that the Petitioner and the Sit-
ting Member for the County of Carmarthen fhould give in,
by the f ft of February, a Lift of the Votes obje&d to en each
fide —Ordered.

A Pcrfon from the City of London prefcnted an Account
of the Progrefs of the Works In the lfle of llogs.--Ordered
to lie on the Table.

A Meffagt frum the Lords Rated, that their Lordfhips had
agreed to the Sugar Drawback Bill, the Navy Bills Bill, the
Militia Amendment Bill, the irifh Militia Bill, the Malta Bill,
the Cern Exportation Bill, the Dublin Baking Bill, and the
Navy Abufe Bill.
The Souciroa GENERAL moved that the Amendments
made by the Lords in the Navy Abufe Bill mould be taken into
eon :Mention on Monday.—Ordered.
The Land Tdix Commiffioners Bill was brought up and read
a firft time, and was ordered to be roads fecond time ou MoA-
day.—Adjutuned to Monday.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2S.

CIIIISTMAS DAY.—Holiday at all the Public Offices.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
Bank Stock xll6 rt 7 Long Ann. 20 3-T6ll
3 per Cm. Red. Its 711 Imp. 3 per C. 69.11 70
4 per Cent. '777 85 I Omnln st di .
per C.Ann. ruff Conf. for opg. 7st 73

We have received P4ris Journals to. the 22d intl.
A Mail from Hollandrhas alto arrived.

The Mcwitair is almotl entirely filled with a plan
of Public Education for the Italian Republic, cons.
prehending Univerfities, Asaclejisies, Schools, So.
cieties of Agriculture and Arts, Elementary
Schools, Libraries, Academic Degrees, &c. &c.-
There are to be Two Univerfities, one at .Pavia-
and another at Bologna, each to have Thirtt
,Pro.
fefors with falaries of at leak 124 &ding, sad a
free-honk. _
By the Dutch Mail we learn, that on the t3th
of December a body. of Danith troops unexpea-
edly took polliffion of the villages, which, by the
plsus of indemnities, had been affigned to the free
city of Lubeck. The motives for this unexpeaed
• proceeding are not announced..
The earthquake, on the 25th of October, Teems
to have done more mifchief in Tranfylvania than
was at fira believed. In one diarift all the ate.
pies were dearoyed, and more than fist), people
were buried under the ruins of their houfes in one'
village.
DUTCH MAIL.

,171..Nne, Dec. 4.—,General MACK has been here
for Tome time, and has had feveral conferences
with the Archduke Ch ALLIS. It is fuppofed that
he will be 2lf ointed a Member of the Council of
War: For Come time pall attempts have been
made to introduce here privatel y,contrabandEng-
hill goods of every kind, but fuck meafures have
been taken to prevent this illicit trade, that pro.
petty to the amount of t2o,cco florins has already
been fazed and confifeated.

P. S. We have kilt received intelligence that
his Imperial neje has ratified the Plan reffieft-
ing the lademnities.
The Papal Concordat with the German Em-
pire, refpeEting th. Secularifations,and the changes
thereby made in the Catholic-Church in Germany,
will appear, it is expeaed, before the end of the
preftnt year. Count Nam is ftill here, and lives
very retired.
Luasc. Dac. 14.—A corps of Danifh troops
took poffeflion yefterday, unexpeCtedly, of the vil-
lages which, by the Plan of Indemnities, have
born afligned to ;our city ; and which the Magif-
traces • declared, by a public proclamation, that
they had taken polreffron of. We are anxious to
know what will be the confequefice of this meafirre.
HA*4BUIGH, DEC. 4.—According to letters
from Tranfylvania, the moll melancholy accounts
axe daily received there of the damage done by
the lay -rtliquake, which olc place - thr 16th

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• FROM 'THE IMENCH PAPERS:• •
h.. V 181,1114, DiCEMBta. 3.—Baron d'
Envoy Eitraordik4 or, his, SW EDITH MAiIiSTIN
to our Court, had., yeaeiday, an Audience of ge-
cep t idn from his MAISSYY4 and preterite(' his
Credential;.

The laa news received at Paris from Vienna ex-
prefsly contradia the report that the fupplemen•
rary indemnities to the GRAND DUKE of TUSCANY
had been finally agreed upon. The Court of
Vienna has not adopted the plan of the Mediating
Powcrs. It has, on the contrary, propofed a
different plan, which is now the fubjea of difcuf
(ion, and will probably be, to a certain length,
adopted. It appears certain, that Auftria con-
nets the negociation upon this head with thofe
for her claims on the Duchy of Parma.
ROME, NOVEMBER 27.—The Imperial Miniller,
Count •KIVENHULLEE, had an Audience of the
Pop E on the aoth.

VIRE, DECEMBER g.—The famous Dungeon of
the Cagle of this place, built by the Engin in the
tith century, fell down, in the night between the
22d and 23d of Nov. in confequence of a terri-
ble hurricane. Some trees which formed an orna-
ment to the place, were milted and deftroyed by
its fall, but the houfes of the inhabitants of Vaux,
though Calmed at the bottom of the mountain on
which the dungeon was built, fuftained no damage.
Five per cents. 54 fr. 90 c.

Parliament did not adjourn for the Holidays
yetlerday, as was intended. The Bill for COTTCa-
ing the Abufes in the Naval Department has paired
the Lords, but as fome amendments have been
made to it by their Lordthips, however trifling
thefe may be, it is necell'ary that they receive the
candlion of the Houle of Commons, for which pur-
pole they are to be taken into confideration on
Monday.—Both Houfes will adjourn on Tuefday
or Wednefday at fartheft.

The Duke of You left town yefterday for-Bath.
Lord and Lady BATHURST, Lord MALMSBURT
and family, Lord and Lady JOHN THYNNE' the
Right Hon. WILLIAM Pirr, Mr. and Mrs.
CHAMP,' EYS, and Sir RICHARD HOAR*, have been
on a jbootial party at the Marquis of BATH'S, in
Wiltfhire.
We are forry to learn that Mr. RICHARDSON,
of 'Drury-lane Theatre, has been for fome days
alarmingly indifpofed.

The Daughter of a Lady of Fafhion, on Tuefday
laft, eloped from her mother's houfe at Ifleworth,
with an Officer in the Dragoons, on a matrimonial
expedition to Scotland. The fairfugitivecan hardly
be cleated on the fcore of juvenile indiferetion, as
(he is on the wrong fide of thirty. Her military
efiort is only nineteen.
In the ;ilia of the various Amufements in the
Fa(hionable City of Bath, none are more followed
or momadmired than the inimitable Mailer and
Mifs Salim DKR S : the intrepidity of the former, with
the moll foft, engaging, and prepodeffing figure
and manners of the latter, render the Performances
of this matchlefs Brother and Sifter the admiration
of all Ranks of Perfons; the Amphitheatre ishigh-
ly crowded with the firft Fafhion, and on Monday
Evening next Mr. &WTI DI MS'S Company will be
graced with the command and illuftrious prefence
of their Royal Highneffes the Duke and Duchefs
of Vox'.

A few days ago the largeft ox that has been
lien in Exeter for force time, fed on the grounds
of the Right Hon. Lord Cone rem, was flaugh-
'tered by Mr. GEORG! ENGLAND, butcher. Its
, *eight is about 16 hundred, and it. meafures full
I eight inches thick on the breall.
The Prize Sheep, bred by the Duke of BEDFORD,
called the South Down, weighed is ftone, the
!boulder i 21b. the leg 161 b.
The principal Prize Ox, bred by Mr.WESTCAID
(who won the prize latt, and feveral preceding
years) was• bought by Mr. CHAPMAN, of Fleet-
:market. It was by much the fineft ever feen in
England, and all the 'principal graziers in the
country came to town for the exprefs purpofe of
Peeing it before it was cut up. The whole weighed
300 (tone. Each leg weighed 22 pounds, the
buttock too. A fingle rump (leak weighed (even
pounds, which, at two fhillings per pound, coil
fourteen °linings,
PARISH or Sr. BRIDE'S—This parifh has long
been divided by a conteft for an equalization of the
Para Rates ; and a Committee was appointed to
take a Survey of the whole Pari(h, in order to
carry it into diet.
On Therfday night the Report of the Commit-
tee was brought before a Public Veftry, at which ,
Mr. WAITHINAN, Mr. GRANT, and other Gentle-
men on the Committee, contended, that nothing
could be more juft and equitable, than that every
hourekeeper should pay equal to his neighbour, ac-
cording to the extent and fituation of his premifes,
and on this fyftem the Committee Paid, they had
impartially aded in making their furvey. In
the courfe of the debate, which took place on
the occafion, it appeared that one boufe, at the
corner of I'7eet-11mo, was rated at 311. per ann.
whil(t the houfe at the oppofite corner of the fame
Greet, which (lands on two-thirds lets ground than
the former, was rated at 1701. Many other abufes
were proved. A ftrong oppofition was, however,
made to the Committees Report by many of the
old inhabitant% We have long enjoyed the ad-
vantage of the old fy aim, and a motion was made
that • the Refolutions of•the hit Ve(lry be re-
rcinded,"‘ which was carried by a (mall majority.
The Refolutions alluded to, went to adopt a
more equal fyftem of Oat% the Parith Rates ;—.
hich now being refcinded, leave the abufes to
remain as before.- •
Mr. Bah, poulterer, in Aldgate-ftreet, jeflerd,ay
fold a Illosfaik4urkey.for tufo guineale,lo a gentle-
man.'_ fize;menfurins,
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INCi
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PLYMOUTiIk DECStagit 33.
This afternoon failed with a fie& breeze at N. E.
the Dutch chip Dolphin, Capt. MATHYSS, of and
from Amfterdam, bound to Surinam, laden with
fundries, and having on board t7o aldiers ; the
Dutch Chip Rordes Welvaaren, Capt. THOMPSON,
of and from Amfterdam, laden with fundries,
bound to Demerara.

Came in the Dark, Mum, and William, HE,,.
LAW, from Sunderland ; alto the Princefs Royal
of London, Capt. KITT H N, from Africa and Ja.
maicat bound to London, with fugar and coffee,
9 weeks patFage, all well ; the French brig Loire,
Capt. MA It INCOCT R Tt from Martinico, bound to
Dunkirk, laden with fugar and coffee ; and the
fchooner Sportfman, of Bolton, from Seville, bound
to London, laden with fruit.

GREENOCK, DECEMBER 2I•

The Nancy, BAIN, arrived here yefterday from
Quebec ; left it on the t 2th November ; the Argo,
from Liverpool, had arrived there on the Bth of
that month, and the Callicut Caftle was expeCted to
fail for Clyde about the t 4th ; the Dalrymple, Hero,
Mary, Agenoria, and Chance, all for Clyde, had
failed before the Nancy, which paired the two lat-
ter veffels in the river St. Lawrence ; the Nancy
was detained three weeks off the banks of New-
foundland with calms and light winds, moilly
from the eaftward.

The Phcenix, Duxceta, of this port, failed from
Hamburgh the 28th ult. for Liverpool, with con-
trary winds, and bad weather, was put into a good
harbour in one of the Shetland Ifles on the gth
intl. and was fafe there on the 13th by the Cap-
tain's letter.

The fchooner Diligent, JoHN PORVERS mailer,
on her voyage from Iktlebec to St. John's, New-
foundland, was ftranded in the River St. Law-
rece, about 3o leagues below Quebec, on the 9th
of November.—Part cf the cargo will be faved.

FROM LLOYD'. LIST.
DEA LiDsc. o.—Remain in the Downs the Mips as per
Taft.—Wnid E. N. E. blows hard.

The night before laft, about half paft eight o'clock, the 'hip
Trojan, Capt. John Mann, of London, from. Shields, bound to
Jamaica, got athore on the Main, where the now remains, and
there is little or no profiled of her being got off.
GRAVESIEND' Dee. 24.—Paffed by the /Einem, Brood,
and Saturn, Long, from Amfterdam; Two Brothers, —,
from Calais; Three Brothers, —; Hope, —;
Wilhelml-
na, —; Two Brothers, —; an the De Free, Plege, from
Rotterdam.—Sailed the Falmouth, Sims, for Junaica ; and the
St. Jean Baptifie, Arrant; for Whoa.

On Sunday the tsth intl. a Whale, meafuring
in length upwards of as feet, and fuppofed to ex-
ceed a ton weight, being left by the fea in a low
part of a beach in St. he's Bay, was obferved by
fome people to make great efforts to extricate him-
Alf, and to blow up the water to an immenfe
teitt. - They loon after approached the fill], and
(words, and other weapons, decided its fate,
'land next day, diffeiting it in (mall pieces,conveyed
them with carts and horfes to manure their eflates.
A letter has been received by Sir R. FORD
from a gentleman at Kefwick, by which it appears,
Marl Rolisjoa, the ci•droato maid of Butterraere,
declines profecuting 114eld for the Bigamy, as
the is now very far advanced in her pregnancy,
although the expreffes the greatetl detellation
of his anions. She Pays the certainly married
him under an idea of his being Culcnel Hors,
brother to the Earl of HoriTouta, with a view of
bettering herfelf and her familiy, who, however,
have been injured by him in every way, as he
left a very confiderable bill for board, lodging, &c.
at her father's boufe unpaid, when he went off.
No. 16,230, drawn the laft day Of draining a
:Prize of One Thoufand Pounds, was .thared by
HozllssY and Co. in One Quarter, Onaighth, and
Ten Sixteenihs: No. 7228, drawn .a Pri;t orFive
Hundred Pounds, the Side- day of data/Mg, was
glib shared by HORNSBY and Co. in One Half, I
One 1Q after, One Eighth, and Two Sixteenths. •
MIDMURsT Et.sc TIOW-FIRST DAY. -After the
cuftomary procefs had been gone through,. Ed-
mund Turner, of Stoke Rochford, in the county
of Lincoln, gfq. was propofed by Mr. Pruett ; I
upon which
Mr. cLIFFORD propofed Thomas Holt White,
TS+ of Chafe Lodge, Enfield.
Mr. PELL, the Counfel for Mr. Turner, ob-
jedled to this nomination being. received, on the
ground that Mr. Clifford was not an Eledor of the
Borough.
After much private coaverfation, the nomination
was allowed.

Mr. CLIFFORD then, in the name of Mr. Thos.
Holt 'White,- as his Counfel, required the qualifi-
cation of Mr. Turner. To which his Counfel ob-
jeeted on the ground of his not being prefent and
capable of taking the oath. To which objection
the Returning Officer acceded.
Mr. CLIFFORD then prefented a paper to the Re-
turning Officer, which he defired him to read, as
a notice of the dirqualification of Mr. Turner.
Mr. Turner's Counfel objeCted to its being read,
on the ground of its being a libel on Mr. Turner
and Lord Carrington, for publi thing which the Re-
turning Officer might be profecuted, and defired
him to tear or burn it. The Returning Officer
returned the notice, and refufed its being read.
Mr. CLIFFORD then faid, that as the Returning
Officer had refuted to allow that notice to be read,
he would give a verbal notice to the lone effeCt.
Mr. pp', then faithhat the RetUrnipg Officer
hid a right ,to adjourn thO,Rpll, aqd begged he
would do fo. fitaikedAlt.4liifoyd it. be would
propofe it ? who anfiverhtVol prdpoft nothing, I
obleEt to every:Ails." - • .17•7*. •
Mr. CLIFFORD then tendered th!reiMiers, who*
declared they polled for Mr. Holt, With*. The
Returning Officer refufed to take their names, and
immediately adjourned the Court to nine o'elock
the next morning. No votes 'Were tendered for Mr:
Turtter.—Mr.-Clifford-congvatulatedate Eliators ,
on the- recovery of.their in&pendenetworaduffured
rharn Ant U.. Clara...-.

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