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be motion.—HiaLordlhip was enforcing his ma-
ons why it would be dangerous in the extreme to
nterfere at prefent with the great queftion of Ca.
olic Emancipation, and Rating that the agitation
fit juft now would throw Ireland into much
eater confurion than had as yet been witneffed,
'nil of which no adequate idea could be formed by
ofe who were not intimately verfed in the nature
d chat-atter of the people—
When
he was called to Order by the Earl of
St/trots, who faid the Noble Earl appeared to
im to be hirafelf doing what he advifed others to
avoid, and lighting up the very flame he had fo
r..ach deprecated. He therefore hoped the Noble
znd Learned Lord on the Woolfack would con'
fine the Noble Earl to the quellion.
The Earl of CLARE fails, the fall was, almoft
every Noble Lord who had fpoken that day had
been a little out of Order, as the queftion of Ca-
tholic Emancipation, though net before the Houfe,
had been alluded to by moll of them, and by fome
in very hong terms, which he meant to have
;hewn the danger of indulging at this awful crifis,
before they were ripe for the difcuffion. He would,
however, have done with the topic, which he was
perfuaded was pregnant with infinite mifchief, and
the agitation of which could alone prevent the
derivation of thofc bleffings and advantages, which
might otherwife be expetted from the great mea-
fare of the Union. His Lordfbip was proceeding
to illuftrate {till further the manner in which the
public difcuffion of the queftion of Catholic Eman-
cipation on the fudden would operate in Ireland,
when he was again called to Order by the
Earl of SUFFOLK, who raid, as the Noble Earl
was agaM falling into the fame llrain of reafoning
as bere he muff beg of the Noble and Learned
Lord onlite Woolfack to keep him in Order, and
confine him to the quettion before the Houfe.
The Loa. CHANtILLOR then left the Woolfack,
and faid, 'certainly mull beg his Noble Friend
to abllain from all allufion to the topic that had
been fo irregularly introduced in the ccurfe of the
converfation, which was a meafure of too much
delicacy, as well as of too great magnitude, to be
iliiceffed partially, or by fhreds and patches; but
when the proper time fhould be arrived for enter
mining it in. that Houfe, it mull be confidered in
all its bearings and relations, comprehenfively,
fully, temperately, and difpaffionately, and in a
Manner, and with a ferioufnefs proportioned to its
great importance. He was lbrry therefore to
hve,heard the Noble Earl near him (Lord Moira)
threw out an idea, that the fenfe of the Houle
could be colletted upon it from the impreffion that
bad been obvionfly given by their Lordfhips that
day.. He ihotild be extremely concerned if it
was to go forth to the world, and to get into Ire-
land, that any thing like the real fenfe of
the Houfe was to be colletted from what had
Old repelling fo great a matter, in the hafty
and look converfation that had taken place that
evening. It would not be any thing like doing
ollies to a queftion of infinite delicacy, and of fo
large a fize, , to let an idea prevail that it could
ei•er be ditpofed of by fuch flight and carnal ob.
fi.rvations. With regard to the critical fituation
of the country, and the great lofs it had fultaiced,
no than deplored it more deeply or more finceicly
than he did. Connefted as be had long been by
public duty, and private friendfhip and regard,
with thole whofe fervices the Public were about
to be deprived of, and knowing, as he did by ex-
perience, their great abilities, their (trill integrity,
and their unremitted application to the important
flthetions of the fituations they had long held with
gteat credit to themfelves, and fingular advantage
to their country, he muff extremely lament that an
loccafion mould arife that Mould make them feel
that they could no longer hold their employments.'
There would however•arife fome queftions in all
Goiernments, about which men of honourable
mind's might fairly entertain a difference of fen-
timein and. opinion. Whatever his (Onion was,
the goodnefs and partiality that he had ever expe
nenced from that Houfe, afforded him a reafon•
able affurance that.they gave him credit for alling
to the bell of his judgment upon the genuine con•
vii ion of his mind, no matter in what part of the
Houfe he. flood, nor in what fituation he was
Placed. Nicked he could do no good to the Pub-
lic were he to aift other rife, nor should be be qua-
lified to gnbetore that Tribunal, before which, at
Dil time of life, he mull in a fhort time, by the
(nude of nature, espett to have to resider up an
account of all hit opinions, and all his actions in
this fublunary Rate. Therefore, at all events,
Ind under every. eonfideration of confequetwes,
the Houfe might be affixed, that whenever he had
formed an opinion, he &could have the firmneft to
avow it. and the cons dence to fupport it.
Lord MoriA faid, he thought it neceffary
to explain a mirapprehenflon that the Noble
and Learned Lord had fallen into.—He had
not alluded, to the queftfon of Catholic Eman-
cipation, when he faid the impreffion upon
the mind of the Houfe had that day Been fo
ftrongly Maxiifelled that it snuff basic. at much cf-
fed, where it ought ko produce a dim effea, as
could have been hoped for, if an Addrefs to his
Majelly had been moved and voted. What he
did allude to, was the apprehenforis fo clearly to
be collelfed from the expreftion of the Houfe as
to the fort of Miniftry that rumour faid *is likely
to be formed, and which the Country naturally
muff dread the having for their Executive Go.
vernment in a time fo critical and full of danger
as the prefent. After the manly fpeech of the
Noble Lord on the opprifite Bench (,Lord Gren-
ville), he had deemed it right in the Noble Lord
at Olofe instance they had been fummoned to the
;ionic that day, to withdraw his Motion, and he
had urged him to move for the diicharge of the
Order ; becaufe what the Noble Lord on the op.
pofite Bench had Rated made his perfifting in his
hlotion no longer nectff.iry at prefent. Fie
aware that it was ufual when changes of Admint;
oration were about to take place, to forbear from
bringing forward Motions for an Enquiry into
the State of the Nation, but he begged to remind
their Lordfhips that the lituaties the Houfe flood
to oa the oecaifion before chemists different from
ant i former oas. He reasssioWed in the year
that the that reflphis )11ailiar told the

Houle of Commons, not that he was bine&
fingly going out, but his declaration was, that
the whole Adminiftration was at an end. Now the
cafe is by, no means fimilar :—we are not about
(if the rumour may be credited that has met every
individual's ear) to have a new Miniftry atling
upon new, and different principles; but the Noble
Lord has himfelf told the Houfe that it is only a
change of a few perfOns—that the old Minitkry
is to be the root of the new one, and thofe princi-
ples which have brought the country into its pre-
fent alarming (late were Rill to be continued. He
hoped that the fpirit of the Houfe would be rout-
ed; that they would aft like men, and exert them-
felves properly in defence of their fuffering coon.
try- ; if ,they failed to do this, they could not pof-
fibly avert the form that was hanging over them,
and was,ready to burft upon their heads. They
would lofe all their weight and influence over the
people ; a calamity, anxioufty to be avoided, be-
caufe while they retained their authority and im-
portance in the eyes of the public, they could ad
with due effe&, and render effential fervice to the
general interefts of the Empire; whereas, if they
did not preferve their influence, they would, be-
come next to nothing. He could not compliment
tbem, as being more than an indifferent battalion
of grenadiers, and yet they would be little better,
was their parliamentary weight and authority to
be once loft. He therefOre returned his warm-
eft thanks to the Noble Earl near him for per-
filling in his Motion for a Call of the Houfe; it
was efrentially neceffary, and mull tend to con-
vince the people, that that Houfe was not unmind-
ful of the critical fituation of their affairs; but that
they were determined to do their duty, and look
the danger that threatened the country in the
f iee.—Nor was the Noble Lord, on the oppofita
fide, near the bottom of the Houle (Lord Clare)
by any means cornea in his declaration, that a
Call of the Houfe was unprecedented, except
only in the cafe of the trial of a Peer. There
were fevertil. inflances on the Journals. Thank
GOD, of late years, a Call of that Houle had not
been necetrary ; but the prefent fituation of the
country made it abfolutely necefary to look back
to old times, and follow the precedents that they
afforded in cafes of fimilar difficulty and danger.
On that account he again thanked the Noble Easl
fur perfifting in his Motion.
The Earl of Vissymosixtatio wifhed the Noble
Earl to withdraw his Motion.
The Earl of Itunicia faid, he certainly did not
rife to make motions that were unprecedented. He
had referred to the Journals, and he prefently
found four inliances of calls of that Houfe having
been moved and enforced. His Lordfhip read
them from a paper on which he had written them
down ; three of them were about the years 1678,
and the fourth was in the year 1704 His Lord-
Ihip faid there was no oceafion for fending round
circular letters, nor was it of any importance that
feveral Peers were in diftant parts of the Unkas
Kingdom, as had been Rated by a Noble EOM
,(Lord Clare), becaufe it was not ufual to tak
Peens into cultody for not appearing, nor any fort
of penalty, to enforce obedience to the Order.
Lord STRANGE (the Duke of Athol) faid, he
swat oppofe the Motion, in confequence of what
bad kilt fallen from the Noble Earl, viz. that the
Motion, if agreed to, would anfwer no end what-
ever, becaufe there was no means of enforcing
obedience to it. If the faits were fo, it was sin-
ner...easy to make a call.—Befides, every Noble
Lord, he had no doubt, would feel it to be his in-
difpenfable duty to attend in his place, if he poi-
ibly could, at a period of fuch alarm and danger.
Lord B01[111101)011 faid a few words alto on the
Moe fide of the queftion.
At length when the Lord Chancellor put the
wieftion, the Houfe divided—Contents s3—Non-
Contents 5+
IttLILI, Of THE POOL.
The Duke of 13$10.011.1) then called the attention
of the Houk to the Bill which he had introduced,
and which was read a firil time the preceding day,
for the relief of a particular defcription of poor,
erhich his Grace faid was a Bill, that if it were to
oafs, abfolutely required difpatch, as in all pro-
bability the Commons, who claim the right of ori-
ginating Money Bills, would throw the Bill oat.
and if they approved the principle would inane.
..diately bring in a Bill fomewhat fimilar ; all of
which would lofe time, and if the Bill did not pafs
Coon, it would be defers, as more difireffes were
ifrued by the Sheriff between this and Lifter, than
in any other part of the year.
The Earl of RADNOR remonftrattd spina going
through more than one flage of die Bill in one
day, and complained of the Houfe having palled'
si Bill the preceding day through all its Ra es,
though it had not been heard of for more than
forty•eight hours before, and yet had received the
Royal Affent by Cosomillion.—His Lordfhip fiticli
they Rood in steed of an A& of Parliament to
compel obedience co their own Standing larders.
After fume further converfation, the Duke of
Bedford shoved; That she Bill be read a fecund
time on Thurfday.—Ordered.
The Houle then adjourned to Thurfday.
LIST Of rill PURI WHO VOTED FOR • CALL OE

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The Oiler d B Earl et COVINTIT
Earl of Dust • ---- U*lllololl
...., FITRIIIILLIAII Firs
.•-•- MOIRA STAIR
....-.-... BRIIIIIIIOOOII Lord Vilcoott SAt and SILL
.........- RARPIOR Lord HOLLY NO
-....-.... ALIBIRIARIt .-ROIIIII.IIIT
........=.. MAR sm Lo --- Kowa
DA ..-.-, Li r VOID
.......... SUITORS •••CAIRRI.TOIIS
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CARUIIIII ..-•••••••• la ill 13.

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NOUSE or COMMONS.
A little before four o'clock Mr. Lee, the Clerk,
Rated that it was his duty to inform the Hoeft,
that he had this forenoon received a letter from
the speaker, which, by their leave, he woulj now
read.
Trie Houle having accordingly erre&
wills that he timid do fo, be proceeded i
the letter, which was dated PaLsceNard,
ma, sad was ia ['Mama aa follows

their
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Si sr—llls IVlijefty haring been, pleated to Intimate his in-
tention to appoint me, in the prcfrut conjundstre, to a .fitua-
tion incompatible with the difeharge of the dude's of that which
I now huh, I am obliged to requeft of you to tender to the
Houl my refignation of an office which has been repeatedly
conferred upon me, in a manner the molt hor.ourable to me,
and continued in a way the molt gratifying to my feelings. In
quitting this office I am unable to exprefs the fentimenu of
regret, refped, and gratitude which I feel. I am, however,
(attained by the confuleration that I have ever been adtuated
by principle of public duty, from which I trult I never
deviate.

As foon as the letter was read, •
Mr. PITT and Sir W. PULTENEY rofe at the,
fame time. (el cry for form rise prevailed that Sir.
W. &homy lboold be beard.) At length Mr. Perri
faid, 44 That he had it in 'command from his Ma-,
jelly, to intimate that it was his Majefty's pleafure
that the Houfe lhould proceed as foon as poffible to
the choice of a new Speaker. He fhould therefore
move that the Houfe do proceed to-morrow to
make this choice, and that in the meantime they
do adjourn."
Sir W. Pu t,r sw sy rote to exprefs his regret that
the Houfe was about to be deprived of the Cervices
of the Right Honourable Gentleman ( the Speaker)
in the difcharge of an office which he had fo long
filled in a manner the moll honourable to himfelf,
and the molt ufeful to the Houfe. He profeffed
his unwillingnefs to enter into a long eulogium on
the Merits of that Gentleman, becaufe it was con-
trary to his praftice to lavifh praifes, either on
thofe who were about to enter upon, or on thofe
preparing to retire from office. e might fay,
however, without being fuppofed to be influenced
by adulation, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had
executed the duties of his important Ration in the
molt exemplary manner; in a manner which had
procured him numerous friends, without begetting,
h m a tingle enemy. In refleiting on this change,
be had to regret that his Majefty's Councils were
to be deprived of the advantage of confiderable
t dents, while it gave him fatisfaftion that this
ehange had not been brought about by faCtion. It
appeared,on the contrary, that thofe who had retir-
ed from Adminiftration had done fo merely from
difference of opinion with regard to a particular
meafure. He confidered the prefent moment to be
ill fitted for the difcuflion of long difputed points. In
the alarming and dangerous fituation in which the
co ntry is now placed—(A loud cry If bear, bear,
f row eke MinOerial fide)—he thought it was the in.
difpenfible duty of all to unite in advice and ex-
ertion, to refcue us from the evils with which we
were threatened. The falvation of the country
was the firit point to be attended to ; the point to
which the wishes and talents of every public man
ought to be direCted. After thofe dangers which
hang over us were difpelled, and after public con-
fidence was reftored, the points of inferior moment
would then more properly come to be confidered,
and would be more coolly and advantageoufly dif-
cuffed. He had been long in Parliament, and du-
ring the time he had been a Member of the Houfe
he had witnefled many changes. In none of chem.
however, was he convinced, that attachment to
principle was their caufe ; and he concluded by
expreffing his hope that a time might at length
come when public men would be guided by prin-
ciples of public duty !
The queflicn of Adjournment till to-morrow
was immediately put, and carried.
After the Adjournment a great many Mem-
bers remained and entered into a cenverfation of
Come length acrofs the Table ; we particularly per-
ceived Meflrs. Pnr, Tr stagy, Hos House, &c. but
its nature did not reach us.

LONDON.

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r The converfation which took place lall night in
the Houle of Peers is well worthy of the coat.
aeration of the Public. What can we gather of
their opinion refpefting the changes in the Cabinet,
Inn that it agrees in every iota with the fentiments
.we have erpreffed on it ? The oftenfible grounds
ft which a parcel of the Minifters have retired
from office, was avowed by Lord GRENVILLE DO
be—a difference in opinion on the quellion of Ca:
tholie emancipation
If we may judge froin the fentiments exprefied
by their Lordthips, the new Minifters Will have
but a cool reception. The poffeffion of Office,
however, can work wonders ; and we (hall not
yet form a decided opinion on the kr port they
may receive in condufting the affairs of the Nation,
upon the fame plan and principles which guided
the conduft of their predeceftors, which has been
avowed to be their intention.
Yefterday evenink there was a general meeting
of all the Leaders of the New Adminiftration, the
principal departments of which were filled up ; but
the arrangements will not be known till this after-
noon after the Levee, where moll of the new
Members wal kifs hands.
In the mean time, we learn that feveral other
reagnations than thole we have already announced
have taken place. Lord CAMDEN, who was
call-
ed so a feat in the Cabinet on his return from
Abehead. retires at prefent from that fituation,
la the fame grounds with Mr. PITT and On

other Minifters. Lord GOwst has, alto feat is
his refignation of the JoiiitY'ollmalkerfldP and
we have heard from pretty good aaihority, that
Lord MACARTNEY has declined accepting the
office of Prefident of the Board of Controul, which
he had been cry much preffed to fill. There
is reafon to believe that the FUR Conunif-
fionerfhip of the
.Admiralty has been offered to
Earl Sr. yeeirev. It is reported that Sir
CHARLES STUART IS to SO to Ireland, and to be
made a Peer; Mr. CHARLES YORKE to be Seer:-
tary at War; Mr. LAW to be Attorney-Genera,
as Sir WILLIAM GRANT goes to the Rolls; ant
Sir PEPPER ARDEN to be crested a Peer.
Mr. RO3B and Mr. LONG both retire. The
latter has fecund a penfion of isool. a year for •
himfelf, and 7501. for his Wife. The former, in
addition to a princely fortune, will fill retain fine-
cures to the amount of leveral thoufands a year.
The new Minilhers have not yet been able to pro-
cure fucceffors for there two Gentlemen.
According to Lord Garsvit.t.s, the rumour is
falfe of the new Minifters having an intention to
fend a Perfon to Paris; for she prime lifloo, be
for, is to be iottlieitly purfird. Thus every idea of
a negotiation Tannins.
There is no truth in the Rory of the Duke of
Ctrs ENCE and the Marquis of Buc 1110MAIll being,
Candidates for the Admiralty.
Since yeflerday two mails arrived from Ham.
burgh. The foreign Journals are chiefly occaipied
with rumours about an event, which we already
know to have taken place—a peace between Auf-
tria and France. One of the reported conditions
hasevident ailufiontoplans, which might be looked
for from the moment our late magnanimous ally,
PAUL, deferted the caufe of good government,
order, and religion. Auftria is to grant a free
paffage to French troops, to join a Ruffian army,
and march againft Conftantinople. If this take
place foon, the power of all the ref of Europe
united will never drive the French from Egypt,
and our poileffions in India will be erpofed to •
much danger. We may, however, hope that there
is fome miAalce in the report.
The letters from Harnburgh Rate a circuit:.
fiance, which, if well founded, will be equally
einharraffing to thiskcountry, namely, that Ptuffia
has ratified the Northern league in its full exteor.
In our defence OT order, good government, and
religion, what a mefs have we got into: What a
wicked world we live in, to fee all the Powers of
Europe one by one turning their backs on fo good
a caufe !

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HAMBURGH MAILS. •
VIENNA, jaituair *4.
•
' 4d Difpatches have been received from Geneval
BILLILOARDS, which contain advice of an armi-
Rice having been concluded betsieen the armies in
Italy.
" The time of its Continuance is to be the fame
with that concluded in Germany. The French
line of demarcation is formed by the right bank
of the river Livenza ; and the right bank of the
•
Tagliarncato is the boundary line of the Außrian
pohtion. Both lines, therefore, urn interfed the mourn- 9
tains that feparate the Tyrol from the Venetian
territory, and conned at Lienz in the valley of •
Puller, with the lints of dcinarcation' for the ar-
mies in Germany.
" Mantua and Venice contii..:e in pail:firm of
the Anftrian troops; the former fortren is to be
(offered to renew its provifions every ten days ;
Pefchiera, Verona, Legnago, Ferrara, and Anco.
na, are to be evacuated and given up to the
French, on the Arne condition with the fortreffes
forrendered in Germany; that is, till the conclu•
fion of peace."—(Couin Genetic.)
PRITATR LITTER, SANS DATE.
As the Klee of Names is not included by
name in the Italian anniftice, a corps of Cifalpine
troops is on its way towards Naples, through the
EccleGaftical State.
NANSURON, JANUARY 3.
According to accounts from Mittau, that may
be relied on, Louts XVIII. and the Duchefs of
ANOonLewl left that town oh the 23d of January.
The place of their future reirdence is not known.
Intelligence has been received here, by exprefs,
this morning, that the King of PRUSSIA h;si alio
ratified the Northern Convention, and lent it to
Peterfbnrgh, by a fpecial meffenger, on the 24th.
It is much feared by the nigh& Hill refident here,
that the navigation of the Elbewill, under certain
circumilanees, be flint againit England, and that
a Danifh or Pruffian garrifon will be Rationed in
this city.
The politics of the King of PRUSSIA are diame-
trically hoftile to the intereft of Britain. A few
days ago, the new Britifh Amball'ador, Lord
CARYSFORT, made the molt urgent reprefentations
to that Monarch to diffuade him from joining the
Northern Coalition. In the note which he deli-
vered on this fubjed, in the name of his BRITAN-
NIC MAJESTY, he ezpretred bi, Betrammto
re: frond evifice to ?main the memo friend of the
Km: of Fiume, ae straw, prises iu and the hen of
confan.cniney licund bine Jo to ku Ms, &ire*
pejo*. But neither this note, nor that delivered
from Lord Gat:gni:Les office to the Pruffian
Minifter. Baron Von KLOST Jams', at London,
has produced any alteration in the fentiments of
PREDIRICR WILLIAMS.
IRATISIION, JANUARY 29.
One of the conditions of the Preliminaries of
Peace is, that Aultria !hall grant a free paffage
through Hungary to an army of 60,000 men ; •
which will probably join the !tartan Army; and
march in conjundion againft Conilantinople,
' whence the French will be able to attempt an at-
tack on the poiceirious in die E 44 Indies
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COURT OF KING'. BENCH, FEBRUARY se.

Mr.. Es s to s Rated to the Court, that in the
cafe in which he had obtained the other day a Rule
to thew caufe why a Criminal Information should
not befiled againifThomas Thomas,Efq. one of the
Magifirates for Glamorganthire, for a criminal
negleß of duty, his Lordthip then anted whether
notice had been given to the Magititate ? He
found no notice had at that time been given, but
notice had now been given to that Gentleman, and
be had an affidavit of the fervice of it. He there-
fore re-moved it.
Mr. Btvsw direßed the attention of the Court to
the Cafe of the King v. Smith, 7 Term, Rep. 80,
from which it would appear that the notice which
had been given in this cafe was no notice at all
within the meaning of the Legifla,ture, where the
Paid notice was neceffary.
Mr. Easaiws Paid, he was not one of thofe who

had any anxiety in cafes of this kind. He had do
defire to prefs any thing againft this Magifirate,
who was a total firanger to him, but he wished the
Court not fuddenly to depart from a Rule they had
Lrid down.
Lord IcEN vow Paid, he thought that cafe applied
to this. When the thing happened before the
Term, it was expeaed that the Rule would be
moved for fo early in the Term that the Defen-
dant might have an opportunity of (hewing caufe
during the Term. This Magiftrate did not come
very well recommended to thofe over whom he
was to exercife jurifdiaion when fnch a Rule was
hanging over his head.
Mr. EasKINE Paid, it did not feem to him that
the cafe relied upon was fimilar to this. There it
appeared that one Term had not elapfed at all,
and therefore in that cafe they might apply to the
Court the next Term. He could not do that in
this cafe, as the fads happened in September lA.
Yon (hall not be pemitted to move againft a Ma
unlefs you move at fuch a period in the
Term that lie may have an opportunity of (hew-
ing caufe within that Term. But the Court would
.remember that motions for Criminal Informations

mull be founded on affidavits which were volun-
tary- on the part of chore who applied for the pro-
fedion of the Court againft a Magiftrate. They
had no means to compel perfons to make there af-
fidavits ; fome time therefore was neceffarilyfpent
• before they could arrive at the fads on which the
information was to be founded. It was to be con-
fidered at what diftance the Magiftrate lived;
211 y, what was the nature of the complaint. One
fpocies of complaint might be enquired into in one
day : another fpecies of complaint might occupy
two days ; a third three, and a fourth might re-,
gain a whole Term. He had always underftood
this to be a Rule, that you are not to move for an
attachment nor for any criminal proceeding againit
any person the laft day of the Term. But if you
come before the end of the fecond Term, unlefk
the Court fee any affected delay., or any thing that
is malicioueor vexatious, the Court, he conceived,
would Wien to it. The circumftances upon which
the Information was moved for were theft :
When the whole neighourhood was in a Rate or
eonfufion and uproar, and the laws difobeyed,
this Magiftrate was called in. He cork to the
fccne of :Idiom and after remaining there for a
abort time withdrew hunt-elf, without having given
I the affiftance be had promifed, and which was in
his power.
Lord Ktryox.—" I do not think we can lay
down a pofitive rule that is to bind us in all cafes,
but mull ad according as the exigency of criminal
juftice requires. Suppore a riot were then going
on, we fhould not only grant a Rule for a Crimi-
nal Information os; the raft day of the Terra, but
in the laft minute of the laft day, in order to pre.
terve the peace of the country. The only effed
of our not intei poling in this cafe is to leave it to
the common adminiftration of juilice. The parties
may prefer an indictment. That is not taken
away. There is a rule that no man is ignorant of
—that notice mull be given to a Magiftrate before
you can move for a Criminal Information againft
him. They came here a week or ten days ago
with this ftaternent, when Mr. Easeful took it for
;ranted they had given notice. I do think no
notice appears; and %ince the ordinary courfe of
juilice is open, by way of indictment, I am of
opinion this extraordinkry interpofitior. of the
Court ought not to take place againft a Magiftrate.
The other Judges were of the fame opinion.
Mr. EtSKINI aid, having done his duty, he
was perfeßly fatisfied.—He took nothing by his
motion.

THE KIHO V. EMERTON.
Mr. Gums moved for the judgment of the
.Court on the Defendant.

This was a Criminal Information exhibited by
the Commi(lioners in the Affairs of Taxes againft
Ifsac Emetton, a conliderable Nurfery.m.m, in
the neighbourhood of Hadley, for having hung
up a figure intending to reprefent the Rev. Mr.
Cotterel, who is a molt refpeaable Clergyman,
living at the fame place, and one of the Commif.
fioners for the Income Tax.

After his Lorcifhip had reported the evidence
• given at the trial, and after the Defendant had
read an affidavit expreffing his contrition for the
offence he had committed, the Counfel delivered
three excellent fpeeches in aggravation and miti-
gation of punifhment.
Mr. jullice Gioia then pronounced the judg-
ment of the Court. His Lordfhip laid, the De-
fendant was to receive the fentence of that Court,
upon an information, charging him with a very
ferious offence, beth to thel3nhlie and to a moil
refpethable individual—that of having hung up
a figure intending to reprefent a Rev. Clergyman,
Mr. Cotterel, as an obje& of ridicule and con-
tempt. The aggravation of his offence was, that
the Gentleman fo trotted was a Clergyman, a Ma-
giftrate, and a Commiffioner of the Income Tax.
The fcntence of the Court was, that the De-
fendant fhould be irnprif.oned in the Elites Dettch
Ibr one year.

Frcm the LONDON GAZEITE, February IN

AbBIIRALTY-OFFICE, FEBRUARY 10.

jztradt of a Letter frogs the Earl of Sr. VINCLN T, K. B. Ad-
mini of the While, &c. to EVAN Nein N, Lig. dated Ter-

bay,tbe 3d in&
Sir—His Majefty's Olsten is this inflant
arrived, and I enclofc a letter from Captain LIN.
ERR, giving an account of the capture of la De-
daigneufe French frigate. -.-
HI. Maieftrs l'Ons.tie; Torbay, Feb. 3.
My_Lord—l have the honour to acquaint your
Lordfttip, that on Monday the a6th of January at
eight A. M. in lat 45 deg. north, long. I s deg.
weft, I fell in with the French national frigate la
Dedaigneufe of chitty-fix guns and three hundred
men, with difpatches from Cayenne for Rochfoit,
and chafed her until noon the following day;
whets I difbovered his Majefty's (hips Status and
AM tTHYST, off Cape Finitterre, whore Captains I
hefted by fignal to chace, and continued in pia-
fuit of the enemy until two o'clock on Wednef-
day morning, being within mufket (hot, the open-
ed her fire on the Status and Oise au, which was
immediately returned, and furrendered to the
above (hips after an aelion of forty five minutes,
difiant from the ihore, near Cape Belem, about
two miles ; her running rigging and fails were cut
to pieces ; feveral men killed and feventeen
wounded, among the latter were the Captain and
Fifth Lieutenant. My warmeft thanks are due to
Captains KING and COOK for their exertions, but
particularly to the former, as from the Status's
Ready and well-dirceted fire, the enemy reeeived
confiderable damage; the AMETHYST, from un-
favourable winds, was unable to get up until the
had (truck. I ant happy to fay, notwithftanding
the gallant refinance made by the Dedaigneufe,
neither of the (hips loft a man ; the Status's rig-
ging and fails were a little damaged, her main-
yard and bowfprit (lightly wounded. I cannot
conclude without expreffing my approbation of
the Officers and Company of his Majefty's (hip
under my command, and in juftice to them, mull
add, their anxiety to clofe with the enemy, on fir(
difcovering her, was equal to what it was on be-
eoming fo fuperior ; and mull further beg to ac-
knowledge the very great affiftance I received
from Mr. H. LLOYD my Firft Lieutenant, during
a long and anxious chace of forty-two hours ; I
truft your Lordfhip will be pleafed to recommend
him to the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty
as a molt valuable Officer and deferving of their
attention ; on his account moll fincerely do I la-
ment the baffling winds that prevented my bring-
ing the enemy to 'anion on the preceding day,
which I was feveral times in expettation of doing.
La Dedaigneufe is a perfea new frigate, copper-
fattened, and fails well, carries twenty-eight
twelve-pounders on her main-deck, and pierced
for forty guns. I have given the prize in charge
of my Ern Lieutenant with directions to proceed
to Plymouth ; and have alto to acquaint your
Lordfhip of my having detained, on the Ift init.
the Se edith fhiprHoffnung, from Valentia bound
to Altona, laden with brandy, burthen two hun.
dred and fixty tons. (Signed) s. H. ussza.
The Earl of ST. Vmer at, PI B. act,
DISTRIBUTION OP PRIZE MONEY

The crew of the lugger LADY AN ierfor the cap-
ture of the French privateer les Huit Freres, will
be paid their proportions for the hull and head.
money of the Paid capture, on board the LADY
ANN. on her arrival at Yarmouth.

The crew of the !loop DART will be paid their
proportion of the net proceeds of the head-money
bill for the late French frigate la Detiree, on tlh
arrival of the Dial-, at Sheernefs.
'lb the crew of the Hoop RACOON a diaribution
of her proportion of the net proceeds of the cargo
of the Aurora, will be made at Itio.-13, Hart-area,
Bloomfbury, on the ssoth infl.