Star.
London, England, 1805-01-23 00:00:00

TURKEr.

CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 20. —Count LrALII4 UT,
the Ruffian Ambalfador. has lately had a long con-
ference with the Reis Effendi, in all probability on
the fubjeft of the prclent Itate of the lonian Iflands,
and that of the Ruffian troops which ate at ptefent
there. It has been reported that Ruffian troops were
about to be difembarked on the Tot kith territory; hat
this has been contradiaed, as well by the Minittry as
the Ruffian Ambaffadnr.

Nov. 30.-I'he Ruffian Court leaves nothing unit-
tempted to reinforce the garrifun of Corfu in a moll
formidable manner. On the z4th intl. a Ruffian fri-
gate, with feveral tranfports, having goo men on
board fer Corfu, aga,:n arrived here. If any credit
may Fe given to the aartion of the crews, a body of
troops from Sebaaopool will be difpatchcd thither
before the winter commences. Some days (ince the
Spanifh Amhaffador received intelligence of the com-
mencement of Imailities between Spain and England,
and immediately communicated this event to the
Porte. It has occafioned a llrong fenfation in the
Divan, and it is thought will be produaive of mottle
alteration in the line of pol;•tics hitherto purfued by
the Porte.

DEC. 4.—The ufurper ISMAEL PACH A is dill
polfefrion of Acre. He lately pretended a with to
treat for an accommodation with Inaartim I'ACHA,
who unfortunately relied on the fincerity of his pro-
pofitions ; but at a moment when lealt expelled, Is-
MAEL made a fatly, attacked the troops of LIRAHIM
in flank, and beat them back with great Infs.
CAIRO, Nov. I2.—Three thowand Ofmanlis on
parching out of Cairo were attacked and defeated
at the bridge of Faioum by the Arabs and iktamelukes
united. i fecond detachment con:poled almoti en-
tirely of Albanians was to have proceeded under the
command of MAHOMET ALI towards Upper Egypt ;
but on the news of the defeat of there three thonfand
Ofmanli., fear overcame them, and they remained in
the city. Five hundred Albanians have deferred to
the Mamelukes, with the Aga, who kept up a col.-
retpondence with them. Fears were entertained that
they would betiege Alexandr'a

PALLIMYKY.4ItI4 PROCEEI3 G

'HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JANUARY

The Comniillioners of Cullom.% prtfented Account 3 to
thole which were produced ia the Commons, all cf hi 9i wt re
to !ic on the Tahlc.

INSOLVLNI rAntoßs.

The Order of the Day for the Houle going into a
Committee on Lord Ellenborough's Bill, for re;:ity.
ing an Ornillion in the lnfolvent Debtor.' Bill paffed
in the hit Seflion of Parliament, being read,
Lord ELLENBOROI;GH rote and
in confequence of a grols witienrclmtation of the na-
ture and object of the prefiart Bill, which had been
allowed to go abroad, he found it neceffary both for
the public information, and that thole unCurtunati:
perfons who might fuppofe that they were meant to
be relieved by the Bill, might not be deceived, of
entertain falfe hopes, to explain the whole extent
of the ()Ned which he had in view, in fubmittiio
this Bill to tlitir Lordfhips' conlideration. The bill
now on their Lordllrips' table was nut meant to ex-
tend in the moll diftant degree the benefits of the
ad of loft Seftion of Parliament, to any pertor..
not exprefsly and in the true fpirit and meaning of
the ad comprehended in the Bill paired Lit Sellion.
In fad, the infection of a fingle word, or rather
of a fingle le:ter, (prifons for prifont into that aft,
would leave rendered the prefent Bill unneceffary.
From the whole tenor of the. ad, it was evident
that its benefit 3 were meant to be extended to all
perfons not otherwife difqualified, who had been in
prifon previous to the ill of January, 1804., and
gill continued there. Yet, by the wordire; of than
oath, required to be made by the laiiors of the
different prifons, along with-the lift of prifoncrs in
their cultody, it is narrowed in filch a manner as to
fee:n to apply merely to perfons who, during time
period fpecified in the aft, have been in that indivi
dual prifon, of which the perfon making the return
is Jailor. To reify this narrowed interpretailoa
of the ad, and to give it the full fcope which its
other chitties imported it was meant to convey, was
the merle objed of the prefent Bill. In the Court in
which his Lordlhip prefided, number-leis applications
had been made by perfons who had been in prifon
during the full period required by the aft., praying
for a mandamus on the keepers of the different prifors
to r:ftify their lifts, according to the different cir-
cumftances of the cafes which prefented themfelves.
But, after the molt dehberate• confideration, and
after a confultation of all the Judges on the fuhjet,
it had been deemed beyond the powers of a Court of
Jullice to afford that relief which they were never-
thelefs convinced, it was in the contemplation of
the Legiflature to have bellowed. perfons who bad
been in prifon, probably in the fleet, previous to the
tit of January 18c4, and had afterwards been re-
moved by Habeas Cortus to :he King's Bench, or tier
writ', it was obviousfrom the whole tenor of the Ad
of Parliament were not meant merely on account of
loch removal, to he excluded from the benefit of the
aft—yet, on tie other hand, it was impotnble for the
keeper of any particular prifon to fwear, as was le-
quired by the ail, that a perfon Gan remov-d had been
in his cultody during the whole of the period Ipeci-
fied—nor could any Court of Jollier fo far annul an
Ad of Parliament as to difpenfe oith lo fpecial an
enaftment. In this fituntion he had thought it his
duty to endeavour to procure the earlieft poll-61e re-
lief to unfortunate perfons in the predicament he had
mentioned. He was in his place on the day of the
meeting of Parliament, had it been competent then
to have brought forward the meafure. He had beets
applied to by Gentlemen defirous of extending the
benefits of the ad to perfons not at prefent cone re
}larded under it-r-but, however much he might have
been difpofed to concur in any meafure of the kind.
he could not conceive it proper to clog, with Arch a
hoiden, the prefent bill, which was meant only to
fupply an ornir.ion, and to place perfons in the way
of profiting by the ad, who already clearly fell under
its fpirit and meaning, hot were prevented by the
wording of a particular claufe, from availing them-
felves of its privilege:. He therefore hoped no delay
would be futrered to take place in giving erred to the
prefent Bill,'by cografting on it meafures with which
it was totally uneterneded.
The Bill went through a Committee without any
amendment, and was reported.—Adjourned.

LOUSE OF COMMONS.

CUSTOMS.

Mr. RCSWF,(rom the Commit[Mims of the Ctiftiors. t reform .
to the Houfu, purfusm to Act of Parliament,
sit, An account of the Litt fritia Proharitra notr2r importA,
exported, mid At pretest lying in w•archau:cs, tar the pests 12c,
and 1804.
thl, An account of the Navel Stores imported Clem Rtaa dur-
ing the fame period.
,;(1, A lift of the Oft :en of the Cottorns.—Ordei.ed t.) !ic o❑ Ile
Table.

I.

SPANISH RIPI/IRTS.

Lord H.P.NRY PETTY moved, that an amount thould be laid
bef,rr the linufc of thr I.sports from the Spaniel ports into this
tountry for the pear; tBO3-4.

TATES.

•
Mr. JOHNSTON moved, that there leu:d be laid 'adore the
1-I,,uft
ft. Ao Aceoent of the net proZucc of the Permanent and War
Vie., up to the year t Bns, diftinguinting each quartet. and alio
I.:,:linguithing the produce of the Permanent and the War Tain.

.
ad. An Account rf the Exeli..quer Bills, outitanding, nr to the
year 18,)6, dating thr cl.fferent Ads under which they had bun
created, and the different Funds un which they *etc charged,—
Orderel.