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London, England, 1806-03-28 00:00:00

PARLI4MExT4Rr PROCUIDINGS.

HOUSE OP LORDS. THURSDAY, MARCH sy.
In tbe Appeal, johniken Ind others, v. Watfon and Stott. Mr.
Adam was heard for the Rdpoodents. Ordered to be harthit pro-
ceeded In to-morrow.
Mr. WHITBREAD, on the part of the Mennen of the Ar-
ticles of impeachment, prefeuted at the Bar the &Solution of
the Commons, That on the trial of Henry Val:aunt Melville,
the whole Houe would attendee a Committer."
Lord AUCKLAND atoned, that as a Bill of conlldersisie ina%
portanee would form be before their Lon:hips, (the American In.
tercoorfa Bill) be would move that they be fummoned for Moor
• day.—Ordasui.

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111101.111 IT TILL.
Lord HOLLAND gave notice, that to the coorfe of a day or
two, he would ketonic to their Lord"kips a Bin for the Relief of
Waren Debtors. He begged lemma to apprfee the Houle, that
after it [Dodd have been read a firft time, it was his intention
to move, that the (econd reading mould take place very Chortly
after.
IMPILICHMIINT. i
Lord GRENVILLE Rated. that he felt ft nftellary, in conk.
=ol of the Reftaltitlon of the Commons, which had been pa
. at the Bar, to folonit a motion to their Lertilhips. in
thiamin* of the trtal which would Rattly take pbee beta,
their Laillips. two elreurnltanees were l dy fiellabb,—
Tim lama, tep woke it sa little re as pelvis to the per-
ils wadi; the band war, a abbe it se expedhbus as wee
erwilletne whirs *rid nowirden glebe bawl Reda ooefiltuting
! ea Mon arlapestitinem—Mech beeerualepee _ god delay
!la WNW ban the turi... cot which had Obtained In the hitt
: pireenellew if the awl. It imalanes heppened,that. to the antic
- Ma NY% at shah SIM bye is a week. end idiom Is many,
• weeedisiesed se as prefeentina if the that. To obviate a rear-
race el this abibsts. whisk here pardenbdf hard Ilea the
• perish antebOtn_wesid take the Warty of haweahts thee the
sof idelliveld pineal Item der to day. B Nth mama. may
iday wail heisedded, and he trotted fun, sod what
was dewy vim bipertemew apeditioespake would be dose
betate• theeinswiy aitjpliiitle Lea who was the objett of
thin bitpermfiroddb Mb Wien mad, that an bumble
0661016 darldlood to all 1; Rtaft
.Ant he would order
lit asenentendedens to be prepaid In WslYalsfer Han. for the
Swty
Ilmfa# Ea° ahe,thtria
alt at
wasLordon e of theft Noble Lords
bobs the long trial of Mr. Haftlnp, during which
be sedieneeeeld perceiving that than was often a lamentable
Wein elthieLnftlthipe time. He Clothed that the delay. which
• Ihetlfasionotish woad *MSS iiiiiiles to their Lordthip I on
she paha nnellea • He weal wawa to faggen one regulanno,
Ass whisk
Wet efkliC Ne he V sash benefit would he derived: upon the
: k taetultramarr for the Houfe, whenever
ssig
as? slibealass upon if evidence brae. to immetlislcir ad.
lows brat at Wig Phdllllll/11t Chinks New bethought
It very peadtlaills and s-eeelhals es the Edda hems of pro-
t" norant.thMeheir Lerallipelhadd nabs the obioettoo, &mi
pre-
ssedig the proper* of Vie ma k did net airealelly &peed upon
, se), no determine the pia sae *ay, re at hoe ennyentent op.
. =. without impeding die aerie of the paneeedings. Tbc
aaVoornmentie at Not Sints were bit te be a very great
• Imemweeketee. It was nearbed, by a witty Member of that
Houk, daring the Imp tedithdett,that " while the Judges weilded,.
this said lend Ifift."
The modes of Lord Otte ovitse was agreeed in.
Val distent Bins on the table were forwarded, and carafe
114sentildi ill Se-morrow. ,
- • • lIOUSE OF COMMONS.
r t - Pr. SPE AKF.R bevies taken the Chair, a per fon from *Via .
of Imports and Esparta prefented an account of the goodie:pined
to. mod imported from, the inane' of l'otenta, for the nit two yogic
, A p11(00 from the once of the Chief Secretary for !rental, per.
Anted ae menthe of the quantity of Wool and Woollen Yarn im-
ported Into that tedotry for the tail two years. .
' Mr. HATES, Iknen,the Bank, relented an account of the Ex-
chequer Bills liking In the 39th and loth of the King, In lieu of the
Loan of three millions, advanced by the Bath to Government tot
the reeving of the year atom
An OBlem from the Tftafury relented an account of the modes
to the Exchequer on dot aft of January, 1806; alfu an acconut of
the balance re-mentor In the hand. of the Paymalier of the forma
co the irk January halt; which were tirdered to Be on the table.
' The Dewey BM was prtfented, and reed a firft, and ordered to
be read a second time tomorrow.
AI r.VANS.TTART relented a Bill to enable the Government
of Ireland to mile money by Leen upon the Treafury Bills to be
Biked, payable from the aids .4 the current year, which was read
a flrf time, sod ordered for the kcond reading to morrow.
The Report or the Committee of Supply for the klifethaneous
fiervitea alike year. was brought op, and aimed to.
Mr. HUSKISON moved for an account, fo far as the fame
could be made up, of the arrears of the Property Tax for the years
coding the nth April, .Baµ ; and the sth April, allos, refpcdtively;
and alto an account of the arrears now outaandlog.—Ordered.
Mr. FELLOWS moved, that a Committe. be appointed totake
Into confederation 'the return made to this Houle, purfuant to order
on the t yth Joann, of the non-refident Clergy In On-at Britain,
and report their opinion thereon to this Houle.-.Ordered; and
that the kid Committee (who were accordingly named) do fit
to-morrow In the. Speaker's Chamber.
Mr. WHITBREAD acquainted the Wee, that he had, our-
' fount to their Order, carded to the bar of the lords their Rdo -
lotion., of vcitcrtiali rcfpetting their attendatice as a Committee
of the whole Honk on the trial of Lord Melville.
' The AI ['CANEY GENIMAI. moved. that a Committee he
arrol 'tea to examine la the Lords' journals their proceedings on
the late. Billrefseeling the legality of obliging perfons to give tar.
timony be ore the Coinage tee of Impeachment lo the eaten( Lord
Melville. Ordered accordingly.
At the retrial of Mr. MILEY A DDINGTON, Mr. Huddle
none poltponed till Monday his Motion fur ludla Papers, of which
be had give-wonder tar dila day.
• • Mr. P kULI. alto pollponed hi. motion until the fame day; l.r
which. alb Mr. H THORN TON pave melee ef an intended
motion for tat: Copy of a Letter from Sir George Barlow to Lord
'take, - •
noretiCe Al Tata C011111.7111'.
Mr. YORK, purfuant tntioiitie, rule for the pur-
port of moving for certain &cements relative to
the operatien of the Bill tidied the / toy In Afar" Bill,
p wbiaa he underfiond none of his Majefly's Msniiters
'Waded to (Nell: and v lien he (NIA hia purple,
he trailed that the Houle would be ,if ()pillion it
,Frail* be both tierwahle and neeeffary, that aspic do-
cuments fionl,l be before them Fn crust try to bricg-
iug forward the plea of national defence underßood

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to be now in the contemplation of his ?thiefly's Mi-*
!lifters, and which it was to be hoped would be brought
forward at fume period or other,in the bind's of time. i
By this Bill, which had patted in the year t Bti3, it was
intended, as one of the modes of defence againd the
menaced invafion, to call out I.r much of the popula-
tion of the country as were capable of bearing arms ;
who were to be divided into three clatter, and, flair
to be enrolled; fccondly, trained to arms, during
every month of Ottober • and, thirdly, rendered tile-
ful for any military purpofe to which they might be
refpeflively judged fitting. With refpett to the dan-
gers of invafion, he was perfuaded that, if our navy
continued thofe gallant and viaorlous exertions, the
many eminent intlances of which had been ditplayed
of late, there was not much chance of an attack of
that nature. Upon the former occallon, though the
Government had made Come progrefs in availing it-
Calf of the powers by this Bill vetted, yet as it was
difpofed to prefer a voluntary to a ciampulfory fervice
on the part of the peopte, and as fo great a number
of men preffed voluntarily forward, beyond all cal
culation of experbancy, the Government. tharefore.l
preferred the fervices of the Volunteers to a forcible,
levy ea wee; not, howeirer, totally abandoning the,
alternative of the Bill, thculd it be limitary to carry
its operation into effea. He had, in his hand, a
copy of the returns made front every quarter of,.the
country, in the fird year. of the number of men in
eseh didrift, properlt claffed a and what he now I
wilhed to move for was, the returns of the years 18°4
arid tBps. He hoped his Majesty's Minifiers had
thole documents before them, as they certainly would
be important for the confideration of the Honk in
difculfing the plan of defence, whatever it was, now
in contemplation, and for the explanation of which
the public were extremely anxious, and particularly
the Volunteers. who were very defirous to be in-
formed as to what was intended towards them. For
it was extremely important, if the Cervices of the Vo-
lunteers were to be relinqtrifhed under the new ar.
rangement, that not a tingle &clock or fibre thoold
he taken from their hands until the country was af-
lured of a more adequate efiablidament. He con-
cluded by moving the returns of men enrolled under
the Levy en Maji Aft, in every•difiria and plat*
throughout Great Britain. in the lad and precedint
year.
Mr. Secretary FOX laid, that fo far was he from
being averfe to the produaion of the documents now
moved fcr by the Hon. Gentleman, that he should
fuppott his motion. The fubjea was Co very new to
his wets experience, that he knew very little indeed
of the prefent date of the matter. However, as the
Dill bad been patted now three years, and his Maje.f
ty's prefent Miniflers had been fo alort a time in
office. if any remiffneft or delay was chargeable in
procuring thole returns for the lalt two years, their
(hare of the blame certainly was not the target. He
was pretty confident that the fubjeft of the Hon.
Gentleman's motion would form a very principal
featute in the plan of defence now in contemplation
of his Right Honourable Friend, not now in his
place (Mr. Windham) who was certainty as anxious
,to bring his plan forward, and felt as much regret for
the unavoidable delar that bad occurred, as anti
other Member of that oufe. As to the °Mlt eof her
Honourable Friend's plan, he %mild think it prema.'
ture to fay more at prefent ; but he could allure the
Houle, that no delay had occurred that was at et
avoidable, and he hoped that in a very few days bt
Right Hon. Friend would be able to bring his platsl
lot ward.
Mr. STURGES BOURNE hoped the Right Hon.]
Gentleman would not bring for Hard his plan without
timely notice. Indeed, as it had not come forward
fuoner, and fo confiderable a number of Gentlemeet,
mull be abfent during the affixes, who would.wifh to
be prefent at the difcutfion of fuch a meaftire, lwi
thought it would be defirable to pollpone it till after
the recefs.

Mr. FOX expreffed his hope, that his Right Hon.
Friend would be able, in his place, to-morrow to give
nonce of the day on which he fhould be ready to
hying his plan forward, and if not, then on Saturday,
if the Hoofs fliould be difpofed to fit on that day.—
But with refpcift to the fuggellion of poßponing
the propofition of the plan until after the reeefs, he
did not think that could be neceffary, as it would be
defirable to make Tome progrefs with the lead poi.
table delay, and to bring forward any bills on the
fubjed that might be thought necefl►y.
Mr. YORK'a motion was now put and carried in
the affirmative.

W*l'lll,olo I Lemon.
Mr. FOX moied." that the Clerk of the Crown
be forthwith called in ;" which being agreed to,
The.SPEAKER Aced him. " Have you yet re-
ceived any return of the haft Eledion for the city of
Waterford ?"
Anfwer—" No, Sir, I have not."
Mr. FOX (as Ilion as the Clerk of the Crown with-
drew) moved " that James Wallis and Kenny,
Sheriffs of the City of Waterford, do attend this
Houle on this day fortnight."
Mr. LEE, with great deference to the Right 'ion.
Gentleman, begged leave to fuggeft, that although
delay had occurred in the 'well:ay Intim. 'fill, on,
enquiry, it might turn out that no blame jufily at-'
tached any where, and that the delay might be owing
to fome caufe wholly different from either neglat on
intention on the part of the Sheriffs. He begged
leave to obterve. therefore, that as a previous enquiry'
had been direded to the Clerk of the Hanaper here, it
might alto be expedient to direft a fimilar enyfiry' to
the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in Ireland, tb
afcertaiti whether any re:urn had been made to his
office by the Sheriffs of Waterford, before thole Gen..
tleinen were put under the necenity of perf-rming a
journey of fix hundred miles, upon a bufinef, on
which it might turn out they were not culpable.
Mr. FOX laid, it was far from Iris with to deal
hardly with theft Sherirls, or with any other perlcns.
As to the &fiance, it sva certainly a great ineonve.
inciter, hot it was one, which there mull now he oc-
cary:n often to impute upon the people of Ireland,
to whom lie did not Ice, when there was a neceflity
fht it, that any more tendernefs &mild be (hewn, than
to per lons living at a great diflance in Great Britain.'
He was not before aware of the pradice In Ireland,
but as there was great weight in the fuggetlinn of
the Honourable Gentleman, he fhoold withuraw his
former motion ; meaning, however, if it fhottld here
after appear that there was any unnecefTary delay on
the part of the Stiegiffs, to move, that they fhoold
attend the bar of the' Houle on a fluor, day. He

then moved, ol that the Clerk of the Hanaper, in
Ireland, (hould forthwith inform the Houle whether
he had received any return from the city of Water-
ford. and when the fame was received ;"—which was
agreed en.
comas Urinates 0; YAWL It ;VISION.
Mr. OILER complained, that the return made to an Order of
the H uk, refperfling the mode of expenditure of a (um of snood.
voted to the lurpores of the Commifrioners for Reviling the Civil
Concern. of the Navy, was not the hind of return required by the
words of the motion ; for the return Rated the rum expended in
two years, to,eool. in each year, • ithout Ratio; the particulars.
Ha therefore, now moved for a return &giving a more partieulat
account.
Mr. WILBER FORCE Branded the motion, and laid the ac-
count upon the table was by no mean the kind of account intended
, by the original motion.
Mr. DICKINSON 'Arend, that the error store from the
take of the Mover, In &Wog for one thing though kitemling sue-
titer, and net Romany erver,oe goalies). on the part of thole who
made one the return. The suoduo coned fur an account of the
made of expenditure, ulna! or ;mended.
Mr. WHITBREAD raid there was no mlftake In the wording
of the motion which be had node, and which fpokc certainty what
ha imended. He witted to obtain a flocculent of the items of ex-
nenditure, and sot full around account of axpence, as for LBO5.
to.OOOL and for 1806, moo* The CommllEoners, he unlierftood
bogy, were to have fairies; he wlllbed to know the amount of
there klaries, sod of mho' &arra In Ras szpeadintre of fo coed.
dust& a (um.
OILETs motion was thee pot and earried.--Adjourned.
THE EVENING sl AR.
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LONDON.
FRIDAY, MARCH st.

PUCE or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK;
Confab; far mood. 6oli—for Acc. 6on•—•
°whim 31 prem.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
F.e.ok Stock soOf I Erchni =roe. II l dlf.
3 per C Conf. toil lit EDO* Tkkete. 191. as.
per Coot. Nary 9ail Conf. for see. ercifi

Mr. Fox Aged lall night in the Houfe of Cotil-
lions. that the new military plan will be brought
forward before the holidays. Mr. Fox added. that
the provifions of the lartl4o4llo Aft will form an
important part of it.
The refolotion of the Commons to be prefent at
Lord MaLvtsss's Trial, together with their requefl
that a proper place be prepared for their accommo-
dation, was yefterday brought up by Mr. WHIT.
DREAD to the flout: of Lords. In conftspience of
which Lord GRINVILLI moved an Addrefs to his
Majesry to that elfed, and the (Anse war agreed ta.
The trial is to be continued without the intervention
of a tingle day ; and the points on which the Lords
formerly ufed to adjourn, are to be referved, and the
trial filtered to proceed.

The Firit Report of the Commillioners for rairifing
and digeffing the Civil Affairs of MAIISTIOS
Navy, has been printed by order of the Moore of
Commons. A copy of this interelling document,
conffituting a htief hiaory of the growth of our navy
op to its prefent glorious (late, is given in ourfubfe-
quent coluthns. The papers annexed extend to 233
folio pages, containing general inftrultions and rules
for officers and otbel perfons employed in his Mass•
rv's dock yards, and a voluminous Appendix.

Peas Papers to the toth, and Dutch to the nth
have come to hand. The accounts from Paris con.
firm generally the flatements received by the Mails,
that all apprehenfions of a war between France and
Pruffie have entirely ceafed, and .that the Conven
tion of 15th February is espeaed to se (non car.
tied into full efFeet. This has partly taken place
already. On the 18th inliant, the Ptuffians, under
General Vow Soil:melt, evecuated Wefel, ■nd it was
taken poffeffion of by a detachment of French troops
under the command of General BEAUMONT. On that
occafion General BIAUMOST publifhed a Proclaim-
don to the Adminillration and Inhabitants of the
Duchy of Cleves, in which he lays, that, in confor-
mity to the Convention concluded at Paris, on the
15th, between the &Gabel of the Palace, Dattoc,
and Count Heunworz, he was authorized to take
pa:legion of the Duchy of Cleves and the fortifica-
tion of Weld. The perfims at the head of the Ad.,
minifiration of the Duchy were to remain in office
till the pleafure of the "New Sovereign" was known.
—On the fame day a proclamation by the Prunian '
Commiffary VAN RAPVAID, appeared, notifying the
arrangement that was to take place.
.The p:ople a Weld have not yet been informed
who is to he their " New Sovereign," bat the belief,
that Mutter is to have Berg and Cleves, and t, be a
Prince of the German Empire, gains ground. Ge-
neral lISAVIddIIT is one of Minter's Aids•de•Camp.
Another report fats, that the Duchy of Cleves is to
be the dowry of the niece of the Emprefs, whom the
Hereditary Prince of Baden is about to marry.

The Au(lrian troops that were fent to occupy
Wurtzburg were withdrawn on the !ph, and have
Inisrched into tollemia.

It was underflood that the french were to leave
Hameln, the only place they occupied in Hanover,
the day the Prof Cans evacuated Wefel.
room Frankfort, March .6, it is Rated, that, after
a conference between Marihal Aucvalau and the
Magalrate' of that City, relative to the two minions
unpaid, the French garrifon, fume Ilaff officers ez•
cepted, had left that city. On the 14. th, after receiving
a courier; the divilion of General DUPONT withdrew
from that city, for the 1.,-wer Rhine.
On the 2zd, Admiral VIRPIUFI.. the Dutch Secre.
tary for the Miiine, arrival from Paris, and imme-
diately waited on the Grand Penfionary. Admiral
Vas Hun. had been confulting with the French Go-
vernment rtfpeAing the naval campaign. On the
19th, Admiral Ds WINTIR paged through Bruffels,
on his way to the Hague, .‘n..l it is conjeflu:cd that
the Batavian fea form,. %ill be aeltially employed.
French Funds 60. Ilstavian Rcfctiptions h ram p
to sal.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGEXCL

PLYMOUTH, MARCH A.... Came in the Danife f
Engelin, Captain M. R. C. Somme, horn Say,
bound to Hamburgh, laden with brandy, detaioro
by the Linn privateer. Sailed the Ht, mess. of Lb
guns, to the Eaftward, with a Beet under convoy
and the Piczt.e, of so guns ; Moucu stow, of to
guns, and Viesa, of to guns, on a mice. Clime
in the Danilb brig Graf Bernitorff, Ksuosns, from
Barcelona, bound to Copenhagen, laden with brandy,
wine, and cork, detained by the Hero privateer.
PORTSMOUTH, MAIICH 57.--Arrived she Devefia,
tion bomb, with the ontward.bound under convoy
D from the owns. Sailed the Dapper gas brig on •
cruize ; Meetly, for Plymouth, and the Defender
gun brig, with a fleet of tr*nfports, Ste. under con-
voy for Guernfey.—Wind E. N. E.
Dorn, MARCH 117.....H111 sun brig Coo-
p Dant strived in the Roads this morning from the
ir Downs to visual and water. The following vdrels
pat in here [llk afternoon : the (hip Arendahl, Capt.
SHAN/lAN°, of and for Altona, with a cargo of
brandy, from Barcelona—the has loft her fore top.
mill, Sprung her bowfprit. and received other da-
mage§ ; boy Charlotta Wilhelosins, of and for
Ha burgh, Scout:re, from Liverpool. with flour,
coffee. Ac. wind bound t and the boy Stadt Norden
from Bourdeaux, bound to Embden, with,wioe do-
'
Wined by the lloop Diligence. The Blaser gun brig
isse jug arrived in the Roads from a eresise—fbe has
Ant in the brig Fortuna, Pas.belonling to Inabdan.
and bound from Rotterdam. with ea* and cad%
for Bourdeaus.
Dear., Mann 117.—Arrived the PIACI.' Boomed
broag,ht in with her the Tws Gebroders hay, from
Cayman bound to Anagram, laden with clover
Ands, which lise detained. Arrived the VaSTAL
frigate, from the river Elbe; &soot& loop. from a
unite of °Rend; and Tin M gun brig, frogi the None.
Sailed the JACIALL gun brig, on a cruises/010de
itarri And BLesslll gIOIMISS of &Were. A very
lee brit:ilia into the Downs this aisrahig. from
Dover, latutebad at that place fro* Mr. KJ a's
yard, and dais mimosa tar Modem.
O seas. Moms s.—Tared bribe latibeth. Afalserm„
trio Mama $ Hain* Mame; .Vrour nosh. ...-1 Twig
igladrid• Tao Yorni Alone --+..1101 Me VretiMe-
tioriy. Won. tressrmseabesms•-1011si dr Olive MON
Hnoiliml. Boolmbeit Neoe riarrati. for Maw Tat;
Ailml.l4lll.llW kg CIIPI!, %"11 1"11114 ter 11(b.
con. and its titadrak apapiar

The LISID CO Alt Ca 'Loa's lit Levee, for this fea.
In. will be to-morrow.
Government has, We underifind, received very
favourable accounts floss America. No knout rnif-
auderlaudiss with the United States is apprehended.
A 11111 Mew wee circulated yefierday that a French
force. of roar fad of the line, had been captured at
die Ca e of Good Hope. about a week after the
of this fettlesnent to the Englifh ; but wa
'-estell Pittance it to any refpettable authority.
The Exer, of 74 guns, looked into the miter
load of Brea lea Friday, and counted ten fall of
flips of war ready for fea.
,We underaand that it is his Mayeery's patinas
intention to reward the merits of the galling Admiral
DUCKWORTH by conferring on him the dignity of
Baron of the United Kingdom ; that Rear Admiral
Cocoas's will have the enfiges of the Order of the
Bath ; and that Rear Admiral Loots will be created
a Baronet.
Captain N. D. Glottal's, who brought the
dif-
patches from Vice• Admiral Sir J. Ducaworru, is
promoted, to the rank of Pon Captain.
Captain SITMOUR• of the KINGS/1111111R goofy is
nearly recovered from the fever* wound he receteed
in the lath efrion. and is arrived is town at his uncle's,
the Marquis of Hrerroan. This gallant Officer had
yellercley en interview with Mr. Gear, at the Ad-
miralty,
Sir THOMAS HAaDV, who fo nobly fonght in the
Vteruas,Off Trafalgar, is appointed to the cont.
mead of the Sam, sow, of 64 goes, at Portannuth.
Yenerday the difpatches by the undermentioned
Chips, ware finally elofed at the Eaa India Houfe,
and delivered to their refpeaive Puffers, viz.
Walthantßow, Capt. Marde.d, St. Heim' and Bengal.
Lord Mika, W. C. Hutton, Ditto
Earl —C, lon% Bombay.
Lord Mrlrttk, —C. Lonna t, Madras and Bengal
Lidy Lkargels, A. P.W. Striation, Ditto
Jurerrign, A. Caroptseti. Ditto
Alcsaoder, Frkokint. Ditto

rosalloOtell
Per Lord NeVon-W. Brampton, Matter Attendant, for Sr.
Bengal-Mr. Newton Walter, Cadet.
Pat IRarl St. Vincent-40r Bombay--,Msffrs. T. Macdonald
and B. Lloyd, writers; Wm. Mintoth. Efq. Free Merchant;
Agars. John Ass and Peregrine, Free Mariners ; Mrs. Stodart
awl Mira Bultner...-For Madras-Mr. Hadow, Writer ; Mr. A.
B Peppin, ,MDRaut Surgeon.
Per Lord Melville..-(or Bengal--Captain John Williams;
Marrs. Pearce, I,Vilfon, and Bowe, Cadets • Mrs and Mils
Buns, Mils Harley; Mitres J. and C. Hanfrays, natives; nag
S and Wt. (Has; Mr. d'Auvergne' native...-For Madras, Mr.
M. Bruce, AMrtant Surgeon; Meffrs. Mareott, Poulton. Stuart
,Wllliatofon, Smith, (Albert, and Inglis, Cadets.
Per Lady Burge. -For Bengal -Mr. Wakeman, Writer;
Majors Hat dwicke and Arnold; Meffra Stephens and Hall, 4f-
Gaunt Surgeons ; Marrs Guinard, De Burgh, Alb, Simpfon, Mar.
Mart, Morck, Wilton, Pritchard, Stewart Fortier, Bradihaw, and
Kyd, Cadets -For Madras-Mr. Whittington, Writer-Meffrs.
BIM), Colebrooke, Richardfon, Brown, Archer, and Hayes, Cadets.
Per Sovereign -For Bengal-Mr. Simpfon, Barrirter-Mr.
Mnrrifon, Writer-Mr. Singly and Lady-Mrol s. Fletcher,
Broadhurft, Medwin, Smith, M•Kenzte, 'Nifty, and Campbell.
Cadets... Mens. Halliday and Barclay, Artlitant Surgeons--
Meer* Koller and Mathew, Free Mariners; Mrs. and three Mitres
Jackfon...For Madras, Mcffrs. Tbarkeray and Monro, ;
Marrs. Hilton and Scott, Cadets-For Ceylon, Mita Louifa Cu.z.
!smoke.

Per Alexander—For Bengal, Meffrs. Irwin, Bl4ke, and Fagan.
Cadets; Mr. Rogers, Free Marincr —For Madras, Mr. Fraf, r,
Weita ; Mr. Parks, Cadet.

CORM EXCIIANG MARK-LAMP, MARCH 28.-
I'l ere are but few further imports of Wheat here t,
dsy ; the requeit fnr fine (ample& fully !imports their
price, and few purchafers of other finalities.—
Barley in hut midi!ing fupplie., and at little al.
teratiun—Malt is very heavy of f,ile-13c.401 are
quoted rather 'owe' Fhete me further arri-
vals of foreign Oats rot of the bell quality, and th:y
are cheaper— Clic prices of Flour aod other artii.lcs
vaty but little liner our lad.

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Malt, 62s 6 s cd Pniand eitto 19.;11! od
Wbitc 30 4:4 od Rape Seed. 581 a.tf per la&
rI. !Cr or 'LOUP.
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Fin- REPORT

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Oft ?PI COMMISIIIOIII/Rll TOR REVIRINGI AND DiatiT-
giet Tits CIYIL A►iAlt, of MS RIAJIIITY.4

• • To the Inure MoR Excellent Maley.
TIM Firti Report of the Commidlooers appointed to revile the
ileigst mod ado of acconstlng (or the receipt and expenditure
Meaty and Stares; and likcwife the Inßro aloes and Stand-
Order. for the gweernment of the Civil Departments of his
's Nun{ foruku; and to arrange and frame a regular di-
ill the Cow, liorieg it carefully in vkw to adapt the mode
asisamiarlhailhllook. end *um, and, Illttwifc the whole
Mika filikaidasi *A lultesdtMea, to the prefent exteoftve
fade of illalbsslifisevice; aria ft tea ateafutu for keeping up
the lid IPllilled dlaelt ill tidal to coca.: and who were
sir aim less dadr punkahs' malidarstiss, all
01111.11Sllidlee *St net the 1111irut deursil ef &sti
elnauest. NM balm not yet
IsfielviliategwefiFJP•voitb
dmilltdeatthithirekrvietappea,
and to
be
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11111Wilk, sod dm belt messilst &a fame lots ea-
• dmillisht hi Out last amminisse and espeidsas 'amulet, and to
revert cm di the mates alutetald, from Mae to time, as they
liall fee maim
We have proceeded to the execution of the truft,
which your Maleily has been pleafed to repofe in us,
in the order which feemed the moll likely to enable
us to accomplifh the objeds for which we were sp.
pointed.
• With this view we have not only confidered, with
great attention, the many ufeful fuggeflions in the
very able Reports of the different Boards of Enquiry,
and Stied Committee on Finance, but bare deemed
it.neceifary silo, carefully to perufe all fuel: official
or other authentic documents, as could give us in-
formation concerning the adminißration of the Civil
Alfaire of the Navy, from the earließ times.
By obferving what changes have, at differer.t times,
taken place in the fyftem of management ; what
&ban have prevailed; what means have been tried
to prevent their continuance; and what fuccefs has
attended the meafurcs, which, on former occafions.
have been adopted; we thought it probable that we
might receive information that would affiß us in
judging of the alteration which might now be ne-
eeffary. to adapt the whole to the prefent very exten-
five kale of the naval fervice I and that by compare
bag what was accomplinted in times of the greatek
exertion, by the number of artificers and labourers
then employed, with what is now done in the Royal
Dock Yards, as well as by obtaining information
from merchants-builders of the work performed by
the numbers employed in private yards; additional
means might be act hired of judging of the lathing
of thole at pretest in your Majeity's fervice. From
the whole, we hoped to be able to form fome eflimate
of what may, in future, be expelled, and of the
eßabliffsmeat which may, under proper regulations,
be adequate to the management and fopport of the
naval force, which may be deemed neceffary for the
&control this country. •
To the numerous official documents, and written
et printed authorities, which we. have perukd, we
(ball refer as the occafion may require, and than,
therefore) nOw only give, as briefly as we cat 4 loch
a general view of the means, which, during different
periods, have been taken for providing a naval force
for the defence of this country, and for the civil go.
verument of the navy, as may render it ammapeltary
ay be to full in thole references, or in our obervations
.. spas them, as for the fake of alum& might other-
wife, be fequifite.
. The whole of our Naval hiiterey may be divided
into three periods, the firil cottiprebehding all that
preceded the reign of Henry the Eighth; the fecond
ending with the Relocation of Charles the Second;
and the tali coming down from the Reftoration to
the prefent day. .
During the firfi pEriod, it appears that our Rings
bad neither arfenals nor dock-yards, their only per-
manent naval force confined of yy veffels, each car-
rying 21 men and a boy, well armed and fitted for
war, which the Cinque Ports were bound by their
Charters to turning on forty days notice from the
Crown. When, in cafe of war, a greater force was
required, kips were hired from merchants at home,
or from thole in Dantzic, Hamburgh, Lubec, Ge-
noa, and other ports, or were fitted out from various
motive, by private adventurers, who (bared in the
advantages acquired ; trading veffels, in thole times,
having no protection from flops of war belonging to
their refpedive Governments, were necenkrily armed
for their own defence.
The foundation of the navy of England was laid
by Henry the Eighth. He conflituted an Admi-
ralty and a Navy Board, and during his reign, the
Trinity Houk, and the Dock yards at Deptford,
Woolwich, and Portfmouth, were formed : the regu-
lations which he made for the Civil Government
of Naval Affairs, were, in the reign of Edward the
Sixth, reviled, arranged, and turned into ordinances,
which form the bafis of all the fubfequent innroc-
tions given to the Officers, to whom the Manage-
ment of the Civil Affairs of the Navy has been coin.
witted.
The officers then appointed were the Viet Admiral
of England, the Mailer of the Ordnance, the Sur-
veyor
of *the Marine Caufes, the Treafurer, Comp
troller, General Surveyor of the Victualling, Clerk,
of the Ships, and Clerk of the Stores.
Particular duties were allotted to each Member ;
and they were ordered to meet once a week at the
Office on Tower Hill, to cnnfult together for the
good order of the Navy, and to report their proceed-
togs once a month to the Lord High Admiral.
But the (hips belonging to the Crown, or provided
by the Civil Department of the Navy, Rill formed
only a part of the naval force employed in time of
war. In the fleet by which the Spanith Armada was
defeated, there were 176 (hips, with 14,992 men, of
which only 34 (hips, with 61a5 men, belonged to the
Crown s end this mode of adding to the naval force
by hired (hips appears to have been continued down
to the end of the loth century.
No confiderable alteration in the civil government
of the navy took place from the reign of Edward
the Sixth till the year ;nosh when, in confequence of
many abufes which were complained of, the princi-
pal officers were fufpended s and Comminioners were
appointed, with powers to manage, fettle, and put'
the affairs of the Navy into a right courfe, and to
take fuch meafures as they might deem necelfary, to
prevtnt the continuance of the many great frauds and
abides which prevailed. A fimilar commiffion was
iffued in 1618, and a very full, able, and minute
report was made by the Commiffioners then named,
in which thole frauds and chutes are detailed and el-
plained ; a very dtilin& account of the fate of the
1 Navy, at the time, i, given, as well as of its date

. . .
during the four forecedinS reigns j and many very ;
i wife regulations are fuggetled. . I
That commillinn was terminated upon the death
of James the Firfl, but was renewed by his fucceffirs
and remained in force till 1628, when it was difrilved,
and the affairs of the Navy were rellored to the ma.
nagement of the &ardor Principal Officers, which
had been ellablithed by Edward the 6th.
During the diiturbances in the reign of Charles I.
the managing Officer. were diretled by the King to j
refute obedience to the orders of Parliament ; and a
number of (hips having been carried away by Prince ;
Rupert, the Natal force was, by there means, reclined
to fo low a Rate, that at the beginning of Cromwell's
Winfred Government, he had only 14 (hips of war of
two decks, and Tome of there carried only 40 guns;
'but under the careful management of very able men,
lin different commiffions which he appointed, fuch
vigorous meafures were purfued, that in five years,
though engaged within that time in war with the
greatelt Naval power in Europe, the fleet was en-
' created to 150 fail, of which more than a third part ,
had two decks. The Navy was indeed railed by him
to a height which it had never before reached ; from
which, bowsier, it again declined, during the Mort
and feeble adminiftration of his fon, at the latter part
of the fecorid period.
On the Reftoration of Charles 11. the Duke of York
was immediately appointed Lord High Admiral;
and, by his advice, a Committee was named to con•
fider a plan, propefed-brhinifelf, for the future regu-
lation of the affairs cif the Naiy. qt whith the Duke
himfelf prefided.
In all naval affairs, he appears to bite rifted With
the advice arid Aniline of Mr. Samuel Pepys, who,
fink, held the office of clerk of the Aufts, and was
afterwards Secretary of the Admiralty ; a min of
extraordinary knowledge, in all that related to the
bofinefs of that department, of great talents, and of
the moll indefatigable indußry. All the proceedings
' of the Duke of York, in the management of the
Navy, either when he was Lord High Admiral, or
after he came to the throne, are minutely detailed in
a great number of manufcript volumes, in the Pepy-
flan Library at Cambridge, of which t 8 volumes
have, at our defire, been fent for our perufal.
The powers which had been before granted to the
Commiffioners of the Admiralty and the Navy Board
were recalled, and the entire management was put
into the hand, of the Duke, as Lord High Admiral ;
by whom three new Commiflioners were appointed
to aft with the Treafurer of the Navy, the Comp-
troller. the Surveyor, and the Clerk of the Ads. as
principal Officers and Comrailfirmirs of the Navy.
Zr, 166 r, thofe initiations and Rending orders, for
the guidance of the principal Officers and Commir-
(loners of the Navy, and the fuperior officers in the
dock yards, which are Rill in force, were fent to the
Navy Board by the Duke of Tot+. There had been
formed under his direAion, by Mr. Pepys, and had
been found, ever fence, of great ufe and value in the
hianagement of the naval departments.
It appears, that after the Duke's appointment,
great progrecs WAS very fpundily made in the repa•
ration and increafe of the fleet ; but on his return
from his command, at the end of the Dutch war,
which commenced in 166* he found that, though
he bad authorized the Navy Board to make all the
addition to their eftablithment which the exigencies
of the tear might require, yet the fame careful ma.
vestment bacinot been continued daring his abreact.
The example of zeal and.indultry fet by Mr. Pepys
in his Office of Clerk of the Aas, had not beta fuf-
ficienti without the prefence and authoritf'of the
Duke, to prevent aegis& in the other departments,
and the fleet and dock-yards had (offered greatly in
confequence of it.
After minute enquiry into the cireumftances, a
Rate of the cafe was, by order of the Duke, drawn
up by Mr. Pepys, and fent to the Navy Board, in
which the duties of the Board, and thofe of each
Member of it, taken from the inftruSions before-
mentioned. are Rated in different heads, and under
each bead the errors and mircondria that he dirco-
vered in the execution ; requiring a written anfwer.
in a chart limited time, from each of them. The
an(wers were given, and, in reply, a fecond paper
western to each, pointing out what part of the charge
remained unaccounted for; bin finding, at the fame
time, that a part of the blame was juflly to be im-
puted to the irregularity and remand's of Govern.
ment, particularly in the (apply of money for Naval
purples, in confequence of the " deplorable condi-
tion of the King's treafure," he continued thofe Of-
ficers in their employments, warning them, that on
any new nested they would be removed.
The Duke of York remained Lord High Admiral
till t 67, when, in confequence of the teft required
by Parliament, to which he would not fubmit, he
refigned ; and that office was, in part, putt in corn.
million, and the reft retained by the King. Prince
Rupert was put at the head of the Commiffion, and
Mr. Pepys was, at the fame time, railed to the office
of Secretary of the King in all Naval affairs, and of
the Admiralty; by which means his influence was
inereafed, the torrent Wind's, by the King's direc•
tion, came to be left almoh entirely to him, and, on
extraordinary occafions when the CJmmillioners
met, the Duke of York ;Rifled :. the careful manage-
ment which he had etiablifhed was, confequently, not
departed from, or relaxed till :679 ; at which time
were in tea pay, and in excellent condition, 76 (hips
of the line, all fur nifhesl with tiores for fix months,
eight fire-(hips, heficies merchantmen, and a nume-
rous train of ketches, (masks, yachts, &c. with mote
than 12.000 (carmen; there were Aro 30 new (hips
building, and a good fupply of limes in the dock-
yards.
But a complete change then fuddenly to,,k place ;
the look diflipation of the King having hill added to
his great pecuniary difficulties, he was induced to
give up the plan, which he had formerly plaited with
In much zeal, of fupporting and increafing the Navy,
on account of the expence attending it. The Duke
was fent abroad, and Pepys ro the Tower. A new
let of men were made Commitlioners of the Navy,
though of fair moral charafter, were without
experience, ability, or induflry, which that important
fituation requires.
All the wife regulations, formed during the admi-
niftration of the Duke of York, were reglefted ; and
fuch fupinenefs and wage appears to have prevailed,
that at the end of not more than five years, when he
WAS recalled to the office of Lord High Admiral,
only t wen ty-t v n fbip., tonne larger than a tow th rate,
tsith two lire flops, were at Ica`; thole in harbour,

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were quite unfit for re tyke, ; even the Iltiity new naps
which he had left bitildiog; had been ftiffered to fall
into a nate r,f girl, decay.; and hardly any fore.
were fond to rem tin in the Dockyards. The fittl
art .I the Dake of YOP k on his return, was the re-
aprMitment of Mr. Pcpys, as Secretary of the Ad
mtralty ; and his whole conchal tin that oceatinn, in
the management of the affairs of the Navy, bears the
molt confpictious marks of prqfellional knowledge,
moderation. and 4:economy, mixed with firmnefs and
wit-dom. He proceeded with great earnettnefs to the
examination of the fuperintending officers, but gave
them a year of trial, to corred the abufes which
their former negle& had allowed. At the end of that
year obferving no reform made, and them unequal
to the talk, the greaten pains were taken to find out
the abler and-mon intelligent men, to whole care the
re etlablithrnent of the Navy, the remedy of abufes,
and the renoration of order and difcipline were to be
committed.

In the manofcript mlleftions of Mr. Pepys, thei Cu.s
a paper. prepared by the Duke's command, contain-
ing a liii of all she great Ihip builders in England,
with their charafters, in refpeet of fitnefs for the ob-
jets which he had in view. Among there. Sir An-
thony Dean is Rated in be a man of by far the greats:A
abilities—one indeed, witlmt whole alliance the
propored reform could not be made ; but on being
ipplird to' he declined she employment, his prole!-
' ernelturents being greater than bore offered
to'hini. By the advice of Mr. Pepys; -a full eumpen-
fation Wei given m him for the loft of thafc emolu-
' ments, and he was, with three others, thin joined
with the former principal officers in a new consmiffion.
There new Cornmittotters *ere men, in the wordi of
Mr. Pepys, polieffing 4st prattired knowledge of 0/cry
part of the works and methods of the Navy, both at
the Board and in the yards; a general mallet) iw the '
bufinefi of accounts, vigour ormind, and approved
indutlry and integrity,' and to each of them was
committed a diflinft branch of the propofed reform,
for which his talents were the moll fuited.

Thrfe eld Commiffpmers; whofe conduft had been
Molt enmplained of, were not permitted to interfere
in the meafores of reform, which the telt were in.
baled to muffle. They were not, however; dif-
placed, no wilful tran fgreflion beinglaid to their
charge,hut were direfted entirelypn confine their atten-
tion to the bufinefs of a Committee of Accounts.
An eftimate, formed by Mr. Pepys, for the corn.
plate repair of the fleet and docilirds, and the
ftipply of ftores. was laid before the new Cremmil;
fioners, in which the whole expence was limited to
aoo,oool. a year, to be fupplied in weekly payments
for three years, in which time the 'whole was to be
completed—and this was confiderably lefs than what'
had annually been expended by the Former Comraif-
fioners, during the few years of remifnefs and wade.
' The Cornmiffioners, after full confideration of the
plan, undertook what was propofed to diem; and•it
appears from the very full-account ‘f the whole pro-
ceedings, left by Mr. Pepys, that they perfonised
what they had undertaken, in lefs time than was' al.
lowed for it, and at lefs expence.
In two years and a hell after the Commiffloners
were appointed,' the King vifited the Dock-yards--
and finding every thing accornplifked to his fatiartz-
•tion. and the whole bufineft arranged, he diffolVed the
Commiaion, with marks of his high approbatinn,
and then rellored the management to the regular
Boards. The commiffion was opened at Lady-day.
1686, and was clofed on the szth of Oflober, 115111;
and by a lift left by Mn Pepys, there were, on for
18th of December, 1688—

Of Ship* of t►c Lille, at fes. or going forth
Ditto repaired

Under repair
To be repaired
Newly time in from Sea

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soli

with a confiderable number of vefrels of (mailer fine.
Thole meafures which had been fo judicinuily plan..
ned, and lo ably and expeditioutly executed, gave, as
might be ezpeCted, the molt general fatisfaftion.
ne revolution took place within two months after
the bufinefs of the Committee was completed ; but
the naval regulations were wifely left unaltered ; the
burin& of the Admiralty continued for CIIIC time to
be carried on under the immediate direCtion of the
King, by M. Pepys, till the arrival of Admiral Her-
bert and Captain lioffell, from the fleet, into whole
hands, he lays, "he fat:tidy let it fall ;" and, ender
the fyltem formed by the Duke of York, with his aid,
the Cisil Government of our Navy has ever fine
been carried on.

We have flatted thofe proceedings the more folly,
not only bemire the fyilem under which the civil
affairs of the navy have ever fince been condutied,
was then methodized and fettled ; but becanfe the
circumllances give very tifeful information, and hold
out an example which well deferves attention in the
prefent times.
The rapid decay of the fleet, and the wage of
(ores, during thole few nears of fupinenefs, Phew,
from experience, how efintial it is to the fafety of
this country, that the moll effeCtual means fhould be
taken to guard againft any negligence in the dock-
,
yards ; and the great work of re-eflablifhing the
fleet, and reflormg order, indultry, and difcipline in
the dock yards, accomplithed info thort a time by the
Commiffioners then chnfCn with fn much care,
proves, in the molt convincing manner, how much
depends on having the civil affairs of the navy placed
under the managtment of men of real ability, pro.
feffional knowledge, and uninterrupted induftry.—
And we think it our duty m recommend to Govan.
ment, that, in the ehuice of them, no other eircum-
flat.ce, but that of their being the fitteft that can be
found, for the executi r.f. the various and important
duties they are to undertake, may be regarded.
It is far lion' being our intention in what it may
be our duty to pv,polc, to depart from the principles
on which thofe ancient regulations and orders are
founded. They have flood the telt of time, and have
been found by long trial to be well adapted to the
great objeel of their inlittution I but thofe orders and
regulations, though in every way fuited to the Rate
of our naval force at it then flood, have neceffarily
required many additions in confequence of the call
lacteal' of that force which has finny taken place ;
and thofe additions having been MCA tionally made as
circontitances occurred, the principles of the general
fyllem which they were meant only to extend, do not
appear to have been always kept in view : different
orders have been found, is certain cafes, incompsti.

hie with elicit other ; lonic itarcEecorne obfolelc. an
thole given to one dock yard have not, on all °eta-
lions, been given to the ref, though neceffary to pre.
fcrve uniformity to the management.
l he inconvenience arifing hem thofe caufes, na-
' totally inereafing with the progress if time, and the
erica; of the fervice, the attenti,n of the Admi-
ralty came at length to be necelfatily called to it—
Ana in beir orders to the Navy Beard, dated the
s4th of June 5764, and 23.1 of pine 1767, they fat-
ed, as that though the orders and ;nitrations given
for the general government of the yards and ordina-
ries may be fufficient fur the wife porpofes intended
by them, yet, as they are difperfed without order or
method in a variety of warrants ilfued at different
times, through a long (cries of years, they do not
afford, in a p•oper and clear manner, the information
neceffiery for the condat of the officers and workmen
of the yards ; and they therefore &reel the Navy
Board to proceed immediately to arrange and digeff
the laid orders and indrations under proper heads,
r as to compote one uniform body and fyllem out
of the whole, taking care where there are any repeti-
tions of the fame ruder, to adopt that where the fettle
is molt cleatly explained, and belt enforced ;" but
the arrangement thus propoled, owing to various
eaufes, has never been carried into effemt ; and, from
the late great addition to our navy, and the accumu-
lation of niders and inaruelions in conie.quence of it,
ltill ilfued without any retrofped or fyßematie regu-
larity, the evil which the Admiralty had it in view to
remedy, is now immenfely inereafecl ; and the bring-
ing into clear and regular order, what is at prefent
a great and undigefted mafs, is a work of fg great
magnitude and difficulty, that it could not reafonably
be expelled to be accompliffied by a Board loaded,
as the Navy. Board has been, wins holiness Great
progrefs was, however, made by one of our number,
while lie was Comptroller of the" Navy—a book, in
which all orders and regulations prior to the year
1786, were attired and digelled under dillinit heads,
which he had prepared, was (Omitted to the perufal
of the Commiffioners appointed in 1787, to "inquire
into the fees, gratuities, perquifttes, and emoluments
of the Several Puhlic Officeo, and silo into the abufes
that may exit in the fame," who, in their Sixth
Report, thus .exprefs themfelves, " The numerous
regulations and itanding orders, which have from
time to time been made for the good government of
the Dock yards, require to be reviewed, put in order,
and connected, to as to be referred to on every occa-
flow:" and they add, " the Navy Board have, fioce
the peace, had the meafure under conaderation, and
a confider able .progrefs has been made therein. We
have teen and examined the mode of its _execution,
which we highly approve, and recommend being
carrftd fully into effect." And the Oommiffioners of
:Anal Enquiry, appointed in 1803, obi-olive, that
4-The neceffity of reviling the initiations, and
dttelliag the ins:midi mars of orders which have
once been given to the Officers of the Yards, was
x, enhy the late Earl Howe, and Sir Charles Middle-
ton, when they prefided at the Admiralty and Navy
boards; and the latter had made fome'progrefs in fo
aisful a work, when he quitted the Navy Board; but
line that time the fubjed has not been adverted to ;
no Qeps have been taken far forwarding the work ;
'tied it teems to have been laid slide, and wholly
• feriutten." In another part of the fame Report,
they add,.". It is much to be regretted that this very
Ireful work was not accomplished, as it would have
groady facilitated the bonnet's of the Dock Yucts,
"filid afforded to the Navy Board a comtribl •
i g htie• of the (landing regulations, whereby 'weld
Awe been enabled to keep a better chee upon ;het •
'Atte obfervance of them, than in the coolie of We
Report wiffappear to have called."
The Distil Book prepared in the rnanneropiwowni •
of, Sod recommended by thole different Bowleg
Enquiry, has been given to us ; and after treflowing
the fyllell ConfidetatiOn on every pan of it, waking
fuch alterations as appeared to us 40 be neceffary,
and completing it by the addition off, allthe order;
and initrudions down to the Indent (fay, we proceeded
to prepare, as the fubjed of our grit Report, the
inarations for the guidance of the refident Comtnif-
floner,and the principal Oflicersof die Dock and Rope
Yards, concurring, as we do, with the Commiffioners
of Enquiry,in thinking that there is the moll occaaon
for them.
In thofe ;nitrations, the original plan of the Duke
(it York and Mr. Pepys has been fotlowed, and forms
the bafts.of what we have done on all the branches of
duty contained in it.
Wc began by c ailing upon the Commiffioners of the
Navy to tranlnlit to us copies of all warrants, [land-
ing orders, and inthations, ilfued by their Board,
flues the earlielt period to the prelent time ; and,
from the collation which we received in anfwer to
that precept, we related all fuch as were connected
with the duties of the principal Officers of the Dock
and Rope Yard,, and fent them to the Commiffioners,
requiring them forthwith to era:if-nit them to chore
officers, with directions to take the fame into their
immediate confederation, each in his own department,
and to point out what part of thole orders they
confidered to be inconfl tient with the prefent %%tended
fcale of the naval fervice, and what other initiations
they might deem regulate to render the execution of
their relpeatve duties mote clear and intelligible to
them ; &firing, all°, that the Commiffioners would
inform us whether they themleßts confidered thofe
intlrations to be fofficient for the good government
of the different officers, or if they did not, that they
would fuggell what might further appear to them to
be necdfary.
Returns from the principal Officers in the Dock
yards were fent to us by the G mmiffioners, with an
affurance, that if any thing elfe Should occur to
thsraelves, it Should be communicated agreeably to
our reguifition ; but no communication of that kind
having been made to us, the initi odium, after incor-
porating what appeared ufelut in the fuggeftions from
the 016:eritu the Dock yards, were again fent to the
Nflaatveymeßnotaordf,lduee
advisable to make ; and they hare Since returned
hrnainltgertaotitvieatshteli:rey"PaPmoulbadtic4ihink"iat
their pt,poting fume altct.ttiuns, a part of
which
to Lis,
bare
adopted.

The Grand Jury of the Ccun:y of Surrey yeller-
day found the Bill agai,ill Mr. Faith, for the murder
cf Mr. Blight. The trial is fixed tur Monday next,
if the principal witneti can be found; but the maid.
&ream, rho gave fuch circumllantiat gi~ttlpa la'
not at Kingflou.

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LINES TO MUSIC.

seraphic form ! thy hesenly•breathing lay
AursEts the ear with fakinatiog Tway ;
Mr& I thy ever•varied Charms delight
The Wain foal, and aid quick Fancy's IF gilt;
Ile solidi time man bow'd before thy (brine,
Snack at the power of melody divine.
When Orpheus caught enthafialtie fire,
Aad waded with rapid art the deep-toted lyre.
Sped-like, the resifted. wootrring, *Lewes booed,
And all confefs'd the !armory of found;
Ey% tmee,and Roues, with animation maid,
Facelifts halts grew milder, and apprui'd!
To thee. tweet recreating balm of pain,
The tiler Male paws forth the vocal ftrain,
Of lialleos'e fair acids the eholaft tow n
the calls, to deck thy llllllTlatialte bOwsel
Oa thee her Lots, with votive orrings wait,
And minded fylphs Bit o'a thy temple gate.
Whether thou bidlt the foie= organ (well,
The anthem's flow fubUmity to tell;
Or, Ina martial and terrific note. •
Thy ,prefenee fills the trumpet's berm throat,
The clangor him the glowing Warrior's frame,
Accordant with the battle's loud acclaim
Or to the fete's tnildiymphony we own
The wattling beaues of the totter tone.
As, by the light of COOT uta's waning beam,
Silent, we glide along, the filver ftream,
lintrsee'd, with fudden celiac", we hear
The water mu& break upon the ear,
In mate amaze, we track the liquid way.
While the Lail echo faintly tiles away.
• Nor are thy gifts to glen alone confiel,
Bet breathe fpontanumemid the featha'd kind;
If roves, tsAregeous, we fequefter'd leek,
The Soweto' greet us from their tuneful heel,
le sleek blithe cyan% aad their'sm'rons tin,
Cameo" tastaaght, *bailsmany prevails.
asedaladna.Goddcfs.delp to thow'r
•
fashion *gases Is the tearful hoar !
In folk mama* meaferes.llo4.tdy ling,
•
Of haymows's:is, halcyon days he ;
Alesmame, Dose, oar waled's* parsons mace
To Mebanettoly, now tojosmad Lon
Lehi no Moo' realms of yammer ley,
Os e mina polataed no the theme esspley
Lt M Heeds. e bits La height UM hers,
Ahd wet MB bleb above this world of can! t. it.

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.13SIZ h.S.

Wednefday laR pur
)n. Sir Gtt.es Rama,
!sat, Knights. On
.by the High Sheriff,
Efq. of the Huntroid,
Gentlemen, attended divine
after which an admi-
the Re-:. Mr. Moss,

(worn, the judge dcli-
to them.
the Crown Bar, and
iken their trials
gelding belonging
. It appeared that
. waggon Train ; was on
Nrminghatu ; and that, in
. the borfe out of Mr.
honk at noon ; after
Mr. C.'s borfe, when
, but recommended to
fhould certainly be at-

acquitted of murder, at
i, a true bill having been
) was found guilty of
,elling-houfe. She had
',ant near Manchefter,
iantity of articles be
Miffing, and the greater
er.
tried, for baling feveral
Grimes, in Oak-ftreet,

Moschella'', (being the place where the murder was
committed, as before mentioned)—Guilty of !haling
to the amount of 401.
Tfabeßa Mathom and Ann Wilfon (two notorious
Ilsoplifters) were acquitted of privately flealing in the
[hop of Mifs Cooper, of Mancheßer; but found guilty
of hating (not privately) twelve yards and a half of
Irifh linen, in the fhnp of Hannah Fofter, of Man-
chefter.—Sontenced to fever' years tranfportation.
Alice Hodgeon (one of the frail finerhood) was
tried for haling 121. in Bank-now, from Richard
Illistaiaqe, of Clayton, at Preflon. The Judge oh.
lerved, that as the profecutor acknowledged Modell
to have been intoxicated, and that if he had been
,caber bc might have felt the prifoner take the notes,
the capital part of the indiftment was done away
with,The ktry acquitted the prifoner.
tiavard Eirlow, aged 69, (who has been the exe-
stAioner for this county for 20 years, during which
...time he has officiated upon 84 criminals) for Realing
a gelding. the proper ty of P. Wright of North Meols.
j..enex Folcroft, (a watchman) for breaking into
tl.t I,o,ife of T. Brook, at Manchefler—Cuilty.
Chrifkopher Sirnpfon, for robbing S. Sparrow, oh
the highway in the tawnfbip of Clauglitan—Guilty.
William Hardman, for Realing3 pieces of printed
cambric: out of Mrs. Hargreaves' cart, at Manche&
.tcr,ihe property of H. Waterworth, of Preaon.—
, Guilty ; to he tranfported for [even years.
Mary Warkinfon, aged 13, acquitted of the murder
of her ballard chid ; bat for concealirg its birth,
three months imprifonment only, in contecprence of
her gnat* eh/rafter.
There ate nn lefs than r x 6 eauies ent,ed for trial
et Ain Prism, of which there were 39 gone through at
the Court on Friday.—A perfon of the name of Dig-
glom bad 4os. damages awarded him on Friday againft
one Berner, for an offal& which took place in Byrom.
(freer Chapel, Liverpool, during the preaching of a
German Mitlinnary.
This morning Mr. Juffice Rringx paffrd fenrence
of death upon Mat y jack(on,Sally Eddlenon, James
Voxcioft, George Lows, Chrapher Simplon, Ed-
v.ard Barlow, and Richard Weeds. He began, by
thz. t.. later, that ?here were circurralances
it eir k.aies which would weigh with him to repre

•
fent them as fit ohjeils or mercy. He then addrefiet,
each of t,he others feverally, and commenting with
much energy and perfpieuity on the faits and nature
of their crimes, told them they were not to taped
mercy on this fide the grave. He then gave them an
admonition, at confiderable length, on their unfortu.
nate fituations, and recommended them, moll ear-
softly, to ufe diligently the few remaining hours they
bad to live, in humbling themfelves with penitent
and contrite hearts before their Macsa, in whole
Mercy, through the intercelEon of their lkassso !te-
Fsest's, he bed them erne& forgivenefs, if with true
aith and penitence they fought it. He then con•
cluded a moll folemn and impreffive harangue, by
pronouncing the fentence of the law.
The Court was unufually crowded, and the (pee-
tators much &Elided by the awful folemnity of the
fcene.
Immediately after the fentenee was pronounced,
the two unfortunate young women fell down fen/g-
-lees and George Lcwe was fo much afreited, that
he was with difficulty removed from the fpot.
LETCIIITeII O. BVLYI.
This was an aition brought againil the Defendant,
for the fedutlion of the Plaintiff's daughter. '
The cafe was very forcibly (laud by Mr. Pontine
for the Plaintiff, and the faits, as lilted by him, wert
fuhflantiated by the principal witnefs, Ellen I.eyeef.
I ter, nearly as follows s
The Plaintiff was her father, and kept a vablie-
lhoufe near Manchetker, in the road leading from
Middleton to Bury. The Defendant was the Coo of
lin eminent printer and mantsfadurer, in Mautheiker,
who bad Come print work. about• a mile dithun from
Obit Plaintiff's refidenee,erberedrerefided.
She fird became acquainted wititelmat about
three years ago ; the was • inirgoteen, and be
eighteen years of age. The her par"
titular attention for a long time, Ale had every
rearm to believe his views were • honourable. He
vifited ber frequently at her father's houfe, two or
three times a week, but never at improper boars.--
She never went out with the Defendant but note, to
a wescortr in company with her filter. The Defen.
damt Mbei tilted her and her fluter to go to a wale,
wilidillhay refilled t he then laid to her," Why do
tab frit me ? If I were of age I would marry you
to IMIDITOW but lam afraid of difobligiag goy fa.
Ober." At other times, he told her, that when he
came of age. he thould have an came. and ha taken
Inttaparmertkip with his father. It was two years
after their firit acquaintance, before any criminal in-
tercourre rook place between them ; the had a child
in ctonfequenct; and the Defendant frequently pro.
mired her ma, riage, both before and fine. She then
proved the band-writting of three letters, which were
read, and contained expreffions of aifeaion from the
Defendant to her, but nothing like a protract or idea
of marriage.
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On her drofs4aamination, (he admitted that her
father had, a (hart time before his taking the poidie
houfe, been a day-labourer.; her fifty.. were Mien
cutters, and the affifted her mother in the hotsfe ; her
father's was a (mall public-boufs. She kaew the
Defendant to be a young man of an opulent'aod re•
fpeaablp family. That the firft time Defendant came
into her father's hmfe, was in company with two
other young 'r en, to call for Mouthing to drink ;
witnefs and her two lifters were then in a back roctn.,
That her mother invited the young men to go into
the back room, for her daughters were playing at
cards, and would be glad of their company. SIM'
bad sever feen defendant before. The defendant and.
the other young men tiled frequently to come idiots
wards; they came about eight o'clock at night, and
flayed till about eleven. She had mentioned the de.
fendant's promife of marriage to her father, but k-
ind never communicated them to the plaintiff's fa.
ther. She had often fat in the defendant's lap, and
her filler in the lap of one of the other young
Het father and mother had feen them fit 4
That on the evening, when the conflation,
was the fubjea of the prefent ation, took place,
had been fitting, for flume time, on the defendant's
knee, in prefence of her father and mother"; it was in
Jusie, 0104, about ten o'clock, at night; they went
out together into the back parlour, in the dark, and
were 'Went about half an hour, and then returned to
her father and mother.
Mr. PAILLII, on the part of the defendant, then ad.
drefed the jury, and flatecl, that he felt, if he were
inclined to prefs it, that his client was entitled to
their verdia. lie was not, however, inftruled to
prefs for that, which might he ruinous in its conk-
quences to the plaintiff, and he fhould content hinsfelf,
merely with (hewing, that his condua had been Such
as not to entitle him to any thing more than nominal
damages, which lie was ready to allow him. The
plaintiff, he obferved, had been for two years at-
tempting to entrap this very young man into a mar-
riage, which was altogether unfuitable to him, and
mutt hare been in its ennfequences ruinous to him.
fell, and moll diftreffing to his family. That in fur-
therance of this plan, he had on many occafions, and
particularly on that immediately in evidence, become
almoll the very pander of the criminal intetcourfe
complained of, and might be confidered as having
been liimfelf the principal caufe of it. He commented
on the very flight reliance which was to be placed on
the general promifes and expeaations of marriage,
laid to have been held out by the defendant, and the
entire failure of thole particularifed, both in the con-
verfations mentioned, and in the letters ; and ob-
(erred on their never having been communicated to
the friends of the defendant.
After Mr. juitice CNAMBRE had fummed up-the
evidence, with fume comments on the nature of the
aflion, and the condua of the plaintiff, the Jury
brought in a verdia for the plaintiff—Damages soh.

THS.

On Monday lalt, in Oraftoa•Rreet, the Right Honourable Lady
Charlotte Duncombe, of a fon.
On the 7th lottant, the Lady of Thomas Pennock, Ffq of W..ft.
bourne•piaee, Chelira, of a fon.

LANCASTER, MARCH 24.-011 %V
Agaescomtnenced before the Hon.
and the Hon. Sir ALAS CH•011114
Tbotlllay, the Judges, attended by
La GklMllf flosses irearts., Efq
and a great number of Gentlemet
Cavite a; St Mary's Church ; aft
t able difcourfe was delivered by tb
A. M. of Liverpool.
After the'Grand Jury were form
ir-qod a MoR intpreffive charge to!
a, Gst.ss Roo i a prelided at th
Sr &s ea Cilatilllll at the Nis Pr
. e fallowing prifoners have tal
rd Weeds, for fleeting a 1
r.
to A. Clegg, of Manchetter.
W
atwas a (erjeant in the wagg
itinsjyal from Carlifle to Birmingh
a.ftto of intotication, he took tbt
C 4. gable, which adjoins his bon
irsng a few miles, was erasing Mr
be was. apprehinded....:-Guilty, bu
ma y,"eshM the Judge laid mot
niir
te
d; ti'jackfon (who was acquit
the la *Tao; but remanded, ait
found **abaft her for felony) w
flealineuoder aos. in a dwellini
fcarcifi Mtn a week as a fervent
'eve the eloped, and a large (plant
longing to her miltrefs was miffini
part found upon the prifoner.
Mary Jaskfun was again tried,
articles out of the. honfe of E. Gri