Star.
London, England, 1802-12-30 00:00:00

SOUNDINGS FRIEND.

r4lial4mEivT4Rr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, VIC. 19.
About half-PaR three o'clock the Strom of the Houfe of
Gamins, attended by fome the Members, appeared at the
Bar, and beard the Royal Aiwa jikren, by Commiffion, to the
dills :—A Bill for snow* anain Drawbacks on the
t~parts on of Sop: from °met Bri I A Smiler Bill with
mprd winked AIW dor psylqg off Navy and Exchequer
Ms: A BUJ for enquiring Imo Abides is the Naval Depart-
ments: "lea: Militia Pay Bill: The frith Militia Miltake
BM The and frith Corn Tilde Bill : The frith Corn
and Potatoes tiMoetation Bill: The Malta Trade Bill : The
hies TtfdFoetadrn ail : And the Dublin Bread Regulation

The Royal Arint.was ale given so Anne private Bills.
CoTheomellisnw wan, the Lean Cuesicsacoa, Lord
PELILISI. and Lord Wau as Am. '
The Hoofs then Asi}ourned to Tinterday, the 341 of Pcbruarr
•••••=11.••
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
At a vertu pod tiros, Mr. SPEARia cone down to the
Ifeek, sod Irides taken the Chair, the Deputy User of tht
Nadi Rod bratlbt swage front the Lords. daring the at-
teodanie of that Mufe in the Heide of Peers, ps bear read his
Ifiteelty's Cesmollion for &elide( the Royal 4Sa4 to certain
Mk isms ready for the haw.
• 'Mr. itltiti sit, with heard ldesabishatarkier attended'
and being mutest', leftism' 64%6 fiat lie Royal Agee
had been declared to thialim Abllikal" seikventeen odor
'Public and Ptisite Bills.

£DJOIIIIIIIIIIIT.
The COMICBLLOII of the Escaaapea moved,
that the Hots% do, at its riling, adjourn to Thurf
day the 3d of February new
Mr. ELLIOT rote.—Upon a motion for fo long
tries, admitted on all ban&

unparalleled dan.
trdpafs fiwtl7 on
a few obfervauonst

moll alarming, and in a fituation altogether
un-
paralleled in the hiftory of this country, he Could
not reprefs his aftonilhment at a propoittion fo ex-
traordinary coming from the Right Hon. Gentle-
man, as an adjournment of the Houfe for fo long
and unprecedented a period, without giving any
fpicific communication, or authentic document
whatever, to the Hoare, defcriptive of the true
citcumltances of the country, or the real extent
of its danger. That his Maje4ly's Minifters enter-
tained ferious apprehenfions upon that fubjedt,
there could be no doubt, as the formidable Peace
Eilablifliment which they had deemed neceffary
to call for, flood in proof of thofe apprehenfions.
Yet this Peace Eftabliihnsent, fuch as it was, un-
paralleled in the hi ftory of this country, was equally
extraordinary in its nature and objea. For if his
Majefty's Minifters intended to acquiefce in the
aggrandizing views of the French Government, it
was unneceffary ; and if they apprehended aggref-
lion, it was inadequate for our defence. Whatever
was the truth upon this fubjed, the communica-
tion of that truth was what their duty, and refped '
to Parliament, demanded from his Majefty's Mi-
nifters, before the Houfe was difmiffed for fo long
a period, at a moment when it was impoffible to
view the formidable and menacing attitude of
France towards all Europe ;- her enormous accef.
lions of territory and power ; her inordinate ambi-
tion and aigrandifing fpirit ; her recent aggref-
lions in Switzerland, and her ceafelefs efforts to in.
create her flrength and refources, by recruiting
her armies and floring her arfenalt, without the
molt ferious alarm for our fecurity. Under all
thefe circumftances, whatever were the fay* upon
which Minifterb regulated their proceedings, the
Houfe was left to form its opinion upon mere con-
jeaure, for his. Majefty's Minifters thought proper
to communicate nothing more, than what was to
be deduced from expenfive and warlike prepara-
tions in the midft of a peace, thus obvioufly al-
lowed to be hollow and infecure. Equally in the
dark was the Houfe left, touching the final inten-
tion of Minifters, with regard to tome of the moe
important ceffions which were to form the balls of
the Definitive Treaty. Whether the Cape of Good I
-Hope had been furrendered, or whether Alesan- 1
dria had been evacuated, was utterly uncertain ;
arid the only information the Houfe had received
of the retention of Malta, was the Bill which had
pallid for regulating its trade the enfuing year.—
Rumours had gone forth, and been very generally
accredited, that Cochin had been ceded to France,
-and alfo the Floridae; were thefe fubjeds of fol
little importance to the fecurity of the Britifh pof-
feffions, that Parliament ought not to be put into
poiliffion of the fads ? Were Gentlemen to be tent
back to thofe Conftituents, -whole money they had
voted away for the rapport of an enormous Peace
Etlabliihment, without being able to give them
any information as to their real danger or fecuri-
ty ? Having repeatedly urged thefe feveral points,
and infifted on the neceffity of explicit conimuni
cation from his Majefty's Minifters, as to the
grounds upon which they held *weary fo for-
midable a Peace Efiablithment, he (aid he thould
content himfelf with having expreffed his fenti-
rnents,
Sand entered his proteft againtt fo long an
adjournment, at a crifis fo arduous, without
making any motion.
The Cnamcznun of the Exca EQU az rote, and
obferved, that the Hon. Gentleman who had jult
fat down, bad fee out, with faying, it was admit-
ted on all hands that the country was, at this mo-
ment, in a fituation of unparalleled alarm, infecu-
rity, and danger : but he would fay, that what-
ever were the motives for the Hon: Gentleman's
opinion on this fubjed, he was not one who would
fubfcribe as a party to fuch an opinion; and
whatever the Win. Member, or his friends might
hold, he was pretty confident that no majority of
that 'Houfe, nor of the country at large, enter-
tained, at this moment, any fuch apprehenfion.—
The Hon. Member had Paid that the formidable
arrangements of the Peace Eaablifhment, which
the Houfe had been called on to vote, were in
proof that the peace was hollow and infecure.--
He begged leave, however, to remind the Hon.
Gentleman, that he never had pledged himfeif for
the permanence of the peace; or the good faith and
fincerity of France ; and if, under every appear-
ance of exiling circumflances, it had been thought
prudent to guard againft alternatives, and to maks
thofe preparations alluded to by the Hon. Gentle-'
man, the cireurnflance was fo fat a pledge to the
country againft that danger, alarm, and infecurity
of which be complained; but which he, for one.,
could not fee in the fame point of view. The
Hon. Member and his friends were conftantly in
the habit of calling on his Majefty's Minifters for
public information, upon every circumftance by
.which they felt it their duty to be guided in the
meafures they adopted ; but be begged to tell
thofe Gentlemen, he would never accede to
Each a fyftern of proceeding, as being prompt to
Make, on every occafion, difclofures and explana-
tions upon many points, which could not be done
;without a violation of his public duty, and a rifle
of injury to the country. The Hon. Gentleman
ispreffed his aftonifhment at what he was pleated
to confider a length of Adjournment unparalleled
in times of fimilar alarm. But to thew that the
circumflance was not without precedent, and that
a very recent one, he would refer the Hon. Mem.
Iher to the Sefton 1799, when an Adjournment
for a much longer period took place, although the
affairs of the country were in a fituation to give
-mu& more caufe for alarm. Our troops had been
arpriled in Holland, and the Archduke driven
'from Zurich ; yet,' with this intelligence, frefh in
the recolleaion of the Houfe, Parliament having
sot through the. bufinefs, for which it bad been
gambled fo early in the feafon was adjourned
um from the lattei- end of Oitoi)er until the F'
,brekry

jedtion
But :"
priced
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given

tended to meet—it was not, Cutely, Ids arioniti
ing; that the Honourable Member and his friends, .
&mild have fat Rill from that time •to
in poffeffion of the notice for an Adjournment o
five weeks, without
,fking any communication, or
moving for any documents from Minifters, touch-
ing the Rate of the Country, (certainly not more
alarming now than at any period within the time),
until the very Taft moment, when the queftion for
Adjournment was aCtually put. Had the curiofity,
.or the folicitude of the Hon. Member, or his Friends,
frompted them to fuch a motion any day for a
ortnight paft, his Majelly's Minifters would have
had an-opportunity of giving fuch an anfwer as ,
was confiftent with their official duty. He be-
lieved the candour of the Holife would agree with
him, that the prefent was not the moment to
which fuch an enquiry ought to have been poil-
poned ; nor could it, as he conceived, be thought
very unreafotiable' after more time and attention
had been bellowed by the Houfe upon public bull.
nefs, and more important meafures gone through,
for the molt part direeted to that public fecurity
for which the Hon.-Mestber was fo much alarm-
ed, than had ever been ufual previous to any
.Chritituas Rents in any feebler Seffion, if Gen-
tlemen were to be permitted to indulge in the
ufual relaxation, and enjoyments with their fami-
lies and friends, at this feafon of the year. To
the alarms expreffed by the Hon. Member ; and
to any anxiety or folicitude that might be felt by
his Conitituents, on the (core of public fecurity,•as
well as to his objealons againft the great length
of the Adjournment, the meafures which had been
difeuffed, and adopted in the preceding part of
this Seffiou,. were at once the belt anfwer and af-
furance to the Members of that Houfe, that they
might retire without apprehenfion. If, however,
any exigency ihould arife which could call for the
advice and aid of Parliament (and he would can-
didly own he could not forefee any fuch), his Ma-
jelly was enabled by an Aft, which patted within
the laft five years, to convoke the Parliament
withinfourteen days. Seeing, therefore, no real
foundation for the alarm of the Hon. Gentleman,
nor any impropriety, in the motion, he trufted the
Hoe would have no difficulty in adopting it.
Mr. Winonals rofe, not, he laid,. to add any
thing to the argument of his Hon. Friend, upoh
the fublea on which he had fpoken, for lie had fo
fully and literally expreffed his fentiments thereon,
that nothing remained for him to add. Some
things, however, had fallen from the Right Hon.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, which called for ob-
fervation. Notwithitanding the fecurity fo firmly
relied on by that Right Hon. Gentleman, yet that
there was a fomethingia the knowledge of his Ma-
jetty's Knifteri, whiCh excited apprehenfion, was
proved beyond doubt, in the auctuansents they had
called for, and deemed negeffiry to thaintain. What
this fomething was Minifters had not thought fit
to communicate ; for here he agreed literally with
his Hon. Friend, that the Houk was left to cow
jet:hires in the dark. But, formidable as the Peace
Ettabldbment was, and bold as the Right Bon.
Gentleman felt upon the (acuity of the country,
founded upon that Ziatighment, (till what did
it amount to ? A feeority spina every peak
or probable aggrefOon the 117-ench..glight chocyfe
to dire& againft wk. Os di& nprquarters of the
globe ? Certainly not. It only Served for amour
to put on in the loft extremity—the Anal blow
which France might be tempted to ;dm wink
this country, with a view to her fubjugation—
the blow of an invafion: but it was no pledge for
our fecurity againit her arms in any other way. In
fact, our chance of continuing the Peace was re-
duced to this fort of coMpromile with France-1
Only keep your hand off from Britifh poffeffions,
and you may do as you pleafe, every where
elle I The world is open for you Go, conquer
—plunder—fubjugate every other nation in Eu-
rope, or elfeihere ; only don't meddle With- Eng.
land or her colonies, and we flan never moleit
you. But was it, he Would alk, to fuch a fyf-
tem that this Country was to look for future
fecurity againft the attacks of a Nation, whole
avowed objea and waiting practice was univer-
fai conqueft, and unlimited aggrandizement ;
but whofe greaten purpofe of all was the ruin of
this Country ? He :silted pardon for troubling the
Houfe upon a topic, on which it certainly was not
his intention to go at large into difinffion, in fo ,
thin an Affembly ; but he thought ithis duty to
exprefs his full coincidenie with the arguments
and feotiments of his Hon. Friend ; to enter his
proteft againft the alledgment of perfea fecurity 1
to the ountry ; and to avow his readinefs at any
timeto enter fully upon the fubjea.
Here the converfation ended. 1

REGULATION OF MITA OF WAR.
Admiral BERKELEY wished, before the Honfe
adjourned, to ask a queftion of his-Majefty's Mi-
ngles," their anfwer to which would govern his
condua as to the propriety of malting the fob-
jea of that queftion the ground of a- Motion
(hortly after the Recifs. wished to a&, whe-
ther the Laws for the better regulation of his
jelly's
Ships and Veifits of War were intended to
brought ' before the Annfe fpeedily after the
Ricers? 'The Right Hon. Gentleman oppolite to
Um well knew his opinion on the ftiblqtl, He had
fpoken that opinion fully in a place where he bad
reafon to things it would have been adnpted ; inci
iin confequence, he did expect to have kin an effi-
cient meafure brought forwaid, long before this
time, on the fubjeel. lie now, however, awaited
the anfwer to his queftion.
the CHANCELLOR of the Esc:lacuna faid,"tbe
filbjcit mentioned by the noi. Member had been
for Tome time under the confideration of the Lords
of the Admiralty, and of the Government : but
he believed it would not• be thought neceffitry to
forward sent.

LOVDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30.

PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'Cl.
3 per Cent Red, 744—.4 per Cent. Confols 86f...
New 5 per Cent, tot}--.Long Ann zo
Omni= 3. 44.dir.-.3 per Cent. Conf. for opg. -
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
3 perk Stoc
enk
Red. 156 127 Imp. 3 per C. 70ii
Ct. 1 }. /min.
4 per Cent. 777 86 Excheq. Bills 2S. to 31
per C, Ann. los Omniuni 4 31 dif.
Lopg Ann. 20 5.1 Coal fir opg. 74,1
Short Ann. 4 7.t6i

Parliament adjourned la!} night to the
February. On this occafion the New Opp,
made an effort in the Commons to draw frt
nifters fome information refpeaing the ft;
affairs, and the probability of Peace or W
without effe&.

Whatever may be the feeling of the Coum
refpeeling the quantum of encroachment or info
from France, that ought to be borne for the f
of maintaining Peace, it would be no eafy matt
to induce a belief, that to obtain Places and Em,
luments is a jull ground for involving the counf
in a War!

With all the care and forbearance that can
exercifed, we cannot promife ourfelves a 1(
peace, when we view every part of the condua
:France. With Milliners bent on war, we mii
look for aiftual honilities, and all the evils of a fl
of warfare, in a very few weeks.

The KING will have a Levee on Wednefday ni
The Q.y. Eau gives a grand Ball on Monday m
at Frogmore Lodge.
• . The Roia* Family are not expeaed in town
a day or two previous to the celebration of
MAJE STY'S. birth-day.

On Monday evening the Qyssif gave a Grand
Concert at Frogmore to His MAJESTY, the PRIX.
cessas,. the Archbilhop of CARMEL/11Y, the
Duke ofPORTLAND, and a fmall circle of the
Nobility. The Mufic feleded for the occalion was
[ the Serenata of Acis aaei Galatea, compofed by
HANDEL. The part of Galatea was fung by Mrs.
BILLINGTON ; Aw, by Mr. HARRISON ; RUM,
Mailer KELLNER ; and PoOpbeme by Mr. BARTLE.
max. The chorutfes were fupported by the
Choirs of Windfor and Eton ; the accompaniments
by the Gentlemen of her Majefty's Band ; and Sir
WM. PARSONS prefided at the harpfchord, and
concluded the performance with great ability.—
The exertions of the performers feemed to give
the higheft fatisfaaion to the Royal Auditors.—
The beautiful Trio, " The Flocks thall leave the
' Mountains " and Mrs. BILLINGTON'S 13(1 fong,
" Heart, the Seat of loft Delight," which the
lung in a molt exquifite manner, were encored.
The Concert doled with the loyal fong, " GOD
Pave the King." After which the Princefs
LABETH (who had previoufly requefted Mrs. Bit-
LINGTON CO repeat the fall fong in the Serenata, if
it would not fatigue her), very handfomely figni-
fied the Royal approbation to her and the reit of
the principal Performers. Their MAJEs-riss,allo
very gracioufly noticed them individually.

The French Ambaffador gave a grand dinner
yetterday to a feka party of Foreigners:

_
Sir JOHN THROCMORTON has, for the laii five
days, been entertaining his friends at his hofpitable
feat of Buckland, in Berks. Each evening there
was a Concert, to which Moralist, who was one
of the party invited, gave his powerful vocal aid.
Yeiterday T. ROWCROFT, Efq. was elected to
fucceed to T. CADELL,Efq. deceaf ed, as Alderman
of the Ward of Walbrook.

Mr. CONANT, the Police Magiftrate, has, within
thefe few days fucceeded, in confequence of the
Inqueft of an old Lady, to a fortune of 30031.
per annum, which, at his death, goes to his se-
cond fon.

Lord Hum-main EL.]) arrived yefterday at his
houfe in Grofvenor-fquare, from his feat in Suffolk.
Captain Hems vroz, of the Royal Navy, arrived
yefterday from St. Cloud, where he has paired
fome time with the FIRST Consul.

Among the arrivals from France are Lord
Noawicu abd Mr. T. HOPE—Mr. I-L Hoes is
gone to Bath.
The Dowager Duchefs of LEEDS has for feveral
days pail been indifpofed, at her Grr4ces houfe iu
Grofvenor- flreet.
The Marchionefs of WELLESLEY iS at prefent
indifpofed ; but not fo feverely as to afford any
ground of alarm for her fafety.
Lord TfrsuaLow is confined to his room with I
fevere cold. •

The farm and manor of Sellfdon, in Surrey,. :s
boight, by Alderman Cobla a at 24.,0001.

Dish of Gamow's hounds, as they are
Ain 'dined (though.nOw refigned to Lord SouTii-
dist; rinsoonla )iomseatt:tathveeHryydfuel,lHfigraincig,rave, on Mon
nearly r5O horfemen, among whom wecr°enhilisaGirrgacOef,
the Eail of EUSTON, Lord SOUTHAMPTON, Lord
CHARLEE -FITZROY, Lord BRObl E, and alma ail
the principal Gentlemen of the neighbourhood.—
They did not
.find however, till after two o'clocic,
near 'swarth ; wen, after a hard run of above
two hours, audit being nearly dark, Reynard took
td earth, and efcaped the vigilance of his purl-tiers.
The following Greyhound matches were run at
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over from the latter end of Oetober until the Fe- bring k forward for z attention of Parliament. . clseveley, on Tuelday
broary following; and this too, without any ob-
Town on SILVAST. • Gentlemen, one from tl
jedion from the Hon. Member or his friends.—
Mr. ALIZANDBIL Mt notice of Isis intention, neighbourhood of Nei
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