Star.
London, England, 1807-08-07 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

Mr. DUNDAS gave notice. that the advanced
period nt ;be Seam making it iccontertient fur him
to fubmit his view of the Hate of the Eall India Ac-
counts :tr prefent, it was his with to polipone that
Isurioefs till an early day next Set Eon ; he fhould,
therefore, to-morrow, move for the poftponement of
that bufinef,. He nuld air() take that opportunity
of m .vilig for certain papers relative to the Polygars.
in addition to th • already ordered, on the logger-
lion of 311 H.'n. Baronet.

Mr. CR ELVEY Rated, that he (Mould embrace
the fame opiyietunity of, moving for certain docu-
ment• relative to one of the regiments at Venom.
ILICTION RECOGNIZA.I4CIII.
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Mr. DE-NT, pnrivanfto notice, role to bring for.
ward his pramited motion, for leave to bring in a Bill
for the better regulation of Recogniaances upon pre-
testing Petitions on controverted Elation.. He Paid
thaa, by an Ad of the 28th of the King, forna rep.
lations were made, which it was then thought would
be fufficient ; but fince then, by the growing inge-
nuity of the times, th‘e regulations became nuga
tory, and called for &me additional proviti .ns, to
check the further, provers of growing abufes. By
the former Bill it was required, that the principal, on
lodging a petition, eomplsining of the return of any
elation, mutt give a recognizance for himfelf in zool.
and two fureties in tool. each, to profecute fuch pe-.
tition, which, if he declined, though he himfelf be-
tame liable to the forfeiture, it was matter of doubt
whesher the fureties were liable alto ; particularly
as they were, in many inflances, obfcure perfons,
And were not obliged to give in their places of
readence ; it was of courfe impollible to come at
them : now the objee of his Bill would be to
oblige the party petitioning to depoOt the whole
amount of die recogrizance in the Court of Excite
quer, to be retorned again at loon as he fbould have
fulqlleatis enga:ement,.or to be for fe iied in cafe of fai-
Ime It mutt be admitted as a circumflance extremely
vexatious that Menthe! s dui" warned, nay fonsetitnes
withootimy oppefetion, upon an elation, wets yet
liable to be put to trouble and .experce, and expofed
try libetlau, imputations from per inns prefenting pe-
ti jos to that Houle, that ging them with bribery,
'corruption, and all manner of illegal and improper
p.ctdAut with: ut Alien F Mowing up that petitions
Ao jt l irefote a connittee, sar giving the ba!Jvced

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IMetnber an oppottnnity Of vindicating his eonduB.,
This was the cafe wi.h himfelf, in his elation fort
Lancaner, for which he had the honour to be rsturt4
ed without any oppefition; and yet a petition was pre-
rented to that Houle again(' his return, ligned by five
perfons,ltatiog thetnfelves to be Eleftors of Lanealley,
although they never lived within :co miles of the
place, but were induced by bribery to give their
lignatures to the petition, at the initigat.rn of a pia-
ion, not now a Member of that Honk. and his agent.
Of thole five perfons figning the petition, it was found
upon enquiry that one was a barber, another the
porter to a cabinet-maker in Southwark, a third was a
labourer.l fourth a jack afs driver, and the fifth a
nightraan ; and the Petititm was, of courfe, never
profecuted. In the Taft Parliament, nut of g 4 peti-
tions prefented, there were *8 for which no recogni-
zance was entered. In the prefect Parliament, out
of 31 Petitions, (even were fuperfeded for want of
recognizance : and he believed every gentleman
who heard him would readily admit the neceflity
of foam meafure to put an end to filch pralices.-
He did not mean the Bill fhould pars this Salon,
but merely that it fhould be read and ;minted, in
order to be confidered again(' the commencement
of the next Seffinn. He concluded by moving for
leave to bring it in.
Mr. ROSE highly approved of the Bill I faid it
was a fcandalous circumftance that Members, duly
returned to that Houle, fhould be expoled to the
rink of having regifiered, upon the Journals of that
Houfe, libellous Petitions, charging them with the
groffell violation of law, by any Petitioner, however
obfcure, and without any chance of an opportunity
to vindicate their charafter before a Committee ofl
rarliament. He promifed to give the Bill his warm.'
eft fupport.—Leave given to bring in the Bill. It
(vas prefented, read the fell time, and otdcred for
the fecond reading on Saturday.
CURATVII* PIOVIIIIOIII BILL.
Mr.LOCK H A RT, purfuant to notice,rofe to move
for leave to bring in a Bill for fufpending the ail ef
the 36th of the King, comm nly called the Curates'
Provifion Bill, fo far as the fame relates to the for-
feiture of benefices, in cafe of accepting additional
livings. The Aft to which he alluded was molt ge
nerally under flood to be a Bill merely to make bet-
ter provifion for Curates of the Church of England,
but contained alfo a claufe which fubjefted any be.
neficed Clergyman to forfeiture of fuch benefice,
whenever he accepted of another. Now there were
certain pet petual curacies in this country, the emo-
luments of which were conliderably increafed by
Qt.ieen Anne's bounty : but it was a matter of doubt
whether thole curacies came within the meaning of
the term " 13rnsriess." which doubt was not ex-
plained under the Bit/. Now fence the Bill had
palled, it fo happened that feveral Clergymm, al
ready holding benefices, had accepted of fuch curacies
in addition, by which they now undernond, that un
der the letter of the Aft, t'.tey had incurred the rot -
Faure of their benefice,; and feveral of them had been
aftually threatened by their patrons, to have their
prefentations withdrawn. In this manner, thole Cler.
oymen had anted in ignorance of the law, and were
innocent of any thing like wilful tranfgreflion ; for
it cool .1 not be luppnfed 'hat any Clergyman, already
putrefied of a living of 7 or Soo!. a year would wil- I
fully fubjett himfelf to the forfeiture of that living,
by accepting a minw appointment, not worth above
tool. or 1501. if he was aware of the law. Clergy.
men were not iii the habit of looking into :Nits of
Parliament ; and thi, Bill wa. almnft univerfally um.,
derltood, out of doors, to he merely for the better,
provifi 'n of curates ; and the objeft of his motion
was, not to alter or relax the law in this yelped, hut
merely to (affirmd the operation of the particular
claufe until an early period of the next Sellion, in or..
der to proteft thole Clergymen who had innocently.
and inadvertently- ncurred a liability so its operation,
and to the embarrafrment and min cnnfecinent upon
fuch operation, until the Legator!, could have an
opportunity of mere deliberately confidering the tub
jai, and for deviling fuch relief In the parties as to
its wildnm fhould teem meet. It might be anted why
the Winds had not been taken up by his Majelly's
Minifters, and particularly by a Right Honorable
Gentleman oppofite to him (Mr. Perceval) who hid
on every occaforn paid fn laudable an attention to the
maintenance of the Church, and was vigilant alto to
fee the Afts of Parliament carried into esecittion.—
The anfwer w.-t, that all perfnns conflated with the
. bufinefs of Gov‹rnment had of late In much impor-
t tant bufinefs on their minds, that it was deemed right
not to trefpafs i n their time, and hence the duty de-
volved upon hitt-dill. The fajta, hcwever, had
the confideratien of perfnns of high charaBer and
authority • and he hoped when it was remembered
that the Houfe had on a former occafion, in the year
1796, thought it wife to pars a law for the fulpend:
ing the operation of the Aft then in exigence for en-
forcing by penalty the refidence of the Clergy, until
tome more eligible law could be deviled, that it
would not be thought nnreafonable in this cafe to
Irequeft a fimilar indulgence nn the part 4.1' thole
clergymen wbo had tranfgrefred the law through
mere ignorance. He concluded by moving for leave
to bring in the Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
i did not fcel difpoied to refill the introduftion tit fuch
a Bill, as it was merely to fiifpend only till the near
Senior'', a particular claufe in the aft alluded to; if
it was intended to repeal or alter that law, which
had undergone fro recent and deliberLe i difenffion
in Parliament, and been adopted after the fulleß Jar
liberation, he Mould certainly confider it his duff:
land the duty of the Houk to refill it. Neither twat-
he very fond of the frequency of fnfpending the ape.
ration of laws enalled by Parliament, but upon' the
very clearell and Amiga ground to juftily fueh
fufpenfinn. It was true that in the year 1796 a Bill
was palled to fufpend the operation of the pens; law
For enforcing the refiderwe of the Clergy; but if Bills
were to be brought in frequently to ailed fifth fur
penfion, it would tend to render nugatory the laboorti.
of the Legrflature in palling thole laws: and even
though he did not oppofe this motion, yet he was
Iperfueded that Parliament, in the neat feffion, would
panic very deliberately before they coated AnY Bill,
which, by indemnifying thole who had tranfgreffed
the law of the 36th of the King, would Olio materi-
ally afferft the rights yelled in others, by fuch trent.-
greSon. At Jena, he thought the patrons on thole
cafes Amid be allowed Inn time to petition, and to
(tate their Adept th.e cals.
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Lean was pen to being in the Ailj.,!-Adioneeit.

_ THE EVENING STAR.

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LONDON.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7.
' PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
ConG nsoaey 6111....forlAugeft 63I—Red. 611•61•—On2. 1i dif.
Red BIN par. as. pr. .
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PRIOR OF STOCES YESTERDAY t
3 per C. Red..inn 644 imperial 3 per Cent. 6:4
3 per Cent. Con( Ann. I Imperial Annuities 79-16 the
4 per Cent. kill Excise. BIN par is rrem.
5 per Cent. Navy 95* Omnium a dif.
Lon An t 7 t-i6thsit3-t6tbe Enid& Ticket. atl. tss.
India Stock 573$ 574 ConG for ace. 63-}
India Bends, .es Is. prem.

A Monitor of a late da►e is faid to have reached
town, which leaves no doubt of the terms of the
treaty between Rdlia and France being unfavourable
to the interens of this country. The credit attached
to this Ilatement effeded a material deprefflon in the
Funds, °minas having yeßerday fAllen from to ti
difcount.

The following statement, containing Tome parti-
culars refpe6ing the prefent Rate of France, will
prove intereßing to many of our Readers. It was
communicated to us bye perfon who left France
ouly a few days ago ;
t Bolougne there are at this time four thoufand
remelt, who are trained to military manteuvres and
exercifed three times a day. In addition to thefe there
are 6000 foreign troops, on whom but a feeble de-
pendence could be placed in the cafe of an attack.—
This conaitutes the whole of the prefent defence.
In France the male population is fubjesled to four
kinds of military Cervices: ill, that of the confcripts,
who are fent abroad in pr 0.... tion as they are affem-
bled. Next that of the veterans, who have the charge
of the garrifons. Next that of the colonise mobile, which
is every where conflantly nn foot, to reprefs infurrec-
tion, and aid the colleßion of the taxes. And laitly,
that of the guards for the protatior. of the coats,
into which fervice all perfons refi ling in the vicinity
of the coatis are obliged to enrol thernfelves.
AU the taxes which fublifled-under the ancient re-
gime have been revived, and augmented to a degree
almod intolerable to the Wet. The new impoQ
on fah (gabelle) has railed the value of that luta
fart' commodity to five pence halfpenny Englifh per
pound, an immenfe price, when the fcarcity of money
crmlidered : the profs annual amount of revenue
cAlated is eight hundred millions of francs, upwards
of thirty aree millions flerling. Tobacco is propor-
tionally dear. All the frecie is abforbed by the Go.
vernment ; and it is of little importance to the diftrelfed
and half-famifhed individual, that bread and wine can
be had at a very cheap rate, when his pocket has been
drained. In the mean time; the condition of the
agriculturift may be conceived, who is forced to con
tribute his quota of the impolitions, however tittle
he may be enabled to raife by his produce. Gras
. at three farthings Englifh per pound ; and in the
fouthern provinces the wine is at a halfpenny per
quart. Such, however, is the difficulty of procuring
tan exillence out of the army, that many an indivi
dual, who formerly fupported his family by his labour,
• is now obliged to abandon his wife and infant pledges
to their hard lot, and to Peek refuge in the moving
"column, where he is fare of obtaining his ration for
a fobailence.

On the vreftern coatis of France, flip timber is fo
fcarce, that at Breit they have lately been under the
nrcelE:y of breaking upon the Rocks a flip of the line
and a frigate, nearly completed, to be enabled to &lint
the repairs of the (hips needed for immediate fervice.
On the other hand, at Antwerp, bordering on the
immenfe newly acquired fora:, three (hips of the
line have been recently launc4d, and fix others are
in a Rate of great forwardnefs. Thirty thonfand
prifoners, taken in the fervice of PrufGa, but confin-
ing s.f individuals of almoft all the nations of Europe,
have been marched into Spain, and will be fent to the
Spanint colonies in South America, to work the mines.
The frecie collened in the Pruffian territories has
been tranftnitted to Paris: it filled fixty-fix waggons.