Star.
London, England, 1802-11-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

On Wednefday, at eight in the morning, the
Fiarr Coasus. mounted his horfe ; he faw the
Wising boats return,examined the bafons and quays,

Difputes have alfo arifen between a part of the
burgeffes of Schaffhanfen, and the French troops
who form the garrifon of that city. To prevent
any ill confequences, the Commandant of the
place ordered the burgeffes to be- dif.irmed, which
was accordingly effeOed.

A great number of the Members being fworn
in the ufual form by the Lord High Steward,
afterwards took their feats. .

• About half palt two o'clock the U(her of the
Black Rod fummonedtheirattendance in the Houfe
of Peers to hear the Commiffion for the opening of
Parliament read. Mott of the Members prefent
accordingly proceeded to the Upper Houfe, head-
ed by Mr. Lay, the principal Clerk of the Houfe.
The Commiffion was accordingly read, and the
Commons were infiruaed immediately to proceed
to the choice of a Speaker.
On their return a fhort paufe enfued, as is, we
believe, ufilal on Inch occafions.

A defire being manifefted, though not clamo-
roufly, that the Houfe thould proceed to the bu-
nefs of the day,

CHOICE OF A SPEAKEE•
Sir WILLIAM Scot r ( Judge of the Admiralty)
rote, and addreffed the Members to the following
purport It is with the higheft fatisfadion and
the molt implicit confidence, that I now prefume
to addrefs you on the very important fubjed, re-
commended to your immediate attention by the
communication made from his Majefty, in the
Commiffion which you have juft heard read, to
the principal point of which I now beg leave to'
requeft your attention. The election of a Speaker i
is snoft undoubtedly the firtt function of the Houfe,
and certainly the very firft in point of importance. '
It is no lefs than a choice of one of your body who
is to guide and govern the proceedings of this en-
lightened afrembly. The talents which conftitute
the qualities for this molt high and important.office
are not early to be -met with, and it may well, be
imagined that in the perfon of one individual, it
is fcarcely to be expeded that
,fo many as are re-
quifite fhould be formed in combination. Happi-
ly, however, for us, experience has molt power-
fully convinced us that on that fcore we have no-
thing to dread, having had repeated inftancesthat
the important functions of this office have bten
performed with as much fatisfadion to the Houfe
and to the Country, as with credit and honour to
thole illuftrious charaders to whole lot it has fallen
to be elected to it. The qualifications necefrary for
this high and important office are numerous and
of the molt exalted kind—a tine fpirit of old Eng.
lifh loyalty—a firm and inviolable attachment to
our augult Sovereign and his Family—an unabat-
ed attachment to our invaluable Conflitution—a
love of rational improvement and gradual correc-
tion, blended with an unconquerable hoftility to
the wild and defolating notions which had oflate
led the world fo deeply into error, and unhinged

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's' '''''' ." ".'1":". ''''' '''' r''''''' “7/''' ..."- VetiC fundionaries. lifh loyalty—a firm and inviolable attachment to untorefeen occafions which, in the cootie of parlia-
&died a fpeech to him. He did not arrive here Dif utes have alfo arifen between a art of the our augult Sovereign and his Family—an unabat- ment:try proceedings, may occur. It is true, in-
till fix o'clock. The town was illuminated with P p
much
burgeffes of Schaffhaufen, and the French troops ed attachment to our invaluable Conaitution—a deed, that much light is thrown on his duty from
talk.
h who form the garrifon of that city. To prevent love of rational improvement and gradual correc- a perufal of the journalsand recorded tranfadions
On Wednefday, at eight in the morning, t e
FIRST CONSUL mounted his horfe ;he law the any ill confequences, the Commandant of the don, blended with an unconquerable hoftility to of the Houfe. From them he muft neceffarily
pr place ordered the burgeffes to be- difarmed, which the wild and defolating notions which had of late derive a large fhare• of inarudions, but there alfo
and
Using boats return,examined the barons and qua ys
oceeded to the heights of Pollen, of La Cha-
, was accordingly effected. led the world fo deeply into error, and unhinged he cannot fail to learn what is fo clearly marked
We expect in a few days in Switzerland Beoo principles which had for ages been acknowledged in every page, that no one can execute with ad.
pelle, St. Etienne, and d'Arcines. He returned
at three o'clock. He afterwards vifited the works French troops from th • e environs of Geneva.
•and 'aeted on. An enlargement of mind to em. vantage the office of a Speaker of this Houfe, who
•
The decree of the Senate, prefcribing the mode brace fubjeas of the greateft extent and high& im- is not fully poffeffed of their confidence. This is
that have been begun in the port. At low water I it!
of election for the Deputies to the Conflate at Pa- portance, and which can at the fame time enter the foie criterion which ought to guide his rejec.
the port is alma filled up. A whole year's labour
ris, has been publiffied in all the Cantons ; but in into the moft minute details—inflexibly tenacious tion or acceptance of an office fo elevated. Lintel's
will be neceffary to reftore Dieppe to the (fate in a great part of Eattern Switzerland nothing has refpeding the forms of the houfe—zealous in his he poffeffes this in the fullell degree, he ought nat
which it was ten years ago. At four o'clock the
nal? Cortsui received the Conftituted Autho-
yet been done towards carrying it into execution. attachment to its privileges—in great affairs pot-
ffi to accept an oce for which he is obvioufly uri-
titles. The Sup-Prefect, the Mayor, and three - felling a dignity of demeanor fuited to great occa- qualified, or stand in the way of another Member,
failors of Dieppe, who had obtained boarding PARLIAMENTARY' PROCEEDINGS. icons—an urbanity of private manners to foften the by whom it might be advantageoufly and honour-
neceffary afpetities of bufinefs—to all thefe were ably filled. Such are the feelings with which I
hatchets of honour for having dittinguiffied them- .
to'be added an extenfive knowledge of the rules am iropreffed on being again called on by your
felves at the attack upon Boulogne, dined with him. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, NOV. i 6. and orders of the Houfe. It is impoffible for me favour to fill the Chair of this Houfe, and though
At nine o'clock he gaited at the fete at the Hotel
de Ville. MEETING OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT. not to feel fatisfadion, when I refled that there jultly fenfible of the arduous talk which 1 under-
This being the day appointed by his Majefiy's are within there walls many dignified characters take, I than, to the bell of my power, difchaige
• - On Thurfday, at feven A. M. he fet off to vitit Royal Proclamation for the meeting of the new who are fully adequate to the talk of molt wor• it in fuch a manner as will belt maintain the fafety
69 emit as far as the month of the Somme. He Imperial Parliament, for the difpatch of bufinefs, dilly filling this high and important Elation, even of your priviLges, and the order of your pia•
flopped an hour at Treport ; vifited the jetties and
leveret Peers attended at a rather early hour, and among thole who have been bred to the profeffion ceedings.
&ice. For fire years that port has been in a dila-
at two o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR came down of the Law. Partial as I may be fuppofed to be After Mr. ABBOTT had finifhed, he was led to
• pidated condition. After his return, at four in the to the Houfe. Having taken his feat on the Wool- to that profeffion, lam free and happy to acknow- the Chair by Sir WM. SCOTT and Mr. LASCEL LES,
afternodn, he reviewed the garrifon. The prefi- fack, the LORD CHANCELLOR, in the mode ufual ledge, that there are many Honourable Members where, being feated in due form, he addreficd the
dent of the Tribunal of Commerce, the Heads of on fimilar occafions,communicated to their Lord- who do not belong to it, who being called to that Houfe in another fhort fpeech, which was to the
Corps, and the Officers, who had obtained arms
(hips his Majefty's Royal pleafure, that as it was high office would do' the hioltell honour to the following effect :
of honour, dined with him. He is to fen off to- ' not convenient to his Majelty to attend perfonal- choice of the Houfe. Amick' *ill thefe qualities Placed a fecond time by your favour in .this
night for Paris by Gifors.
ly that day, that the firft Proceedings of the new which I have pointed out as neceffary to the duly Chair, I feel myfelf impreffed wish the deepelt
Baauv•ts, Nov. i3.—The FIRST CONSUL fet Parliament .of the United Kingdom fhould take filling this important ftation,it would neverthelefs fenfe of gratitude. I wifh, however, that you
out from Dieppe at fix in the morning, and arrived place by virtue of his Majefly's Royal Commiffion be difficult for the Hattie to make its choke, ad- '.fhould- rather judge of the fincerity of this grati-
lit eleven at Forges, where the Conffitnted Autho- prepared for that purpofe. ing upon l'oppored merits only ; fortunately, how- tude by my future endeavours than by exprctlion
titles of the Arrondiffement of Neufchatel were
The Lords Commifliuners prefent—namely, the ever, for the Houfe, we have no occafion to pro. of my obligations at the prefent moment, which
gambled, and were prefented to him. He vifited A
—rc......--Mal,
op of CANTERBURY, the LORD CHAN. teed on fuch doubtful grounds, for we have the would but poorly give any conception of the
1 the manufaftory of earthen ware, which begins to ckLeoa, and the Duke of PORTLAND, then retired tell of actual experience to guide us ; and I think ilrength of my emotions.
be in a thriving condition. Having been informed to robe, and on their return, took their feats on I can appeal to a large proportion of thole who Thefe few words were extremely well received.
at Forges, that feveral married priells continued the Bench in front of the Throne, . occupied feats in the lilt Parliament, to recollect Lord CAS rs ER EAG II role to . fay a few words,
to interfere in the affairs of worfhip, and to lay a Sir FRANCIS MOLYNEUI, Bart. Gentleman from pall fervices what may be the hopes and ex- I and obferved, that he would not be doing plaice
reftraint on the operations of the •Arelibilhops, he Ulher of the Black Rod, was difpatched to order pedationsof future efforts, and from thence Lilly 4to his own feelings if he did not offer his lincere
made known that married Priefts have no right to
11. the attendance of the Commons, an unitrually great deduce, that there is an Honourable Perfon in the congratulations to the Right
.Hon. Gentleman on
meddle direaly or indirealy in religious affairs, to number of whom forthwith appeared at the Bar, Houfe who, in the laft Seffion of Parliament, receiving the greateft Mark of honour which it was
which They ought to be much greater grangers preceded by the principal Clerks and Officers of evinced a capacity to fill the Chair in a manner fo in the power of the Houle to bellow. He did not
than the tales, that prudence • even required that the Houfe. truly latistaelory to the Houle and honourable to conceive that he would do juflice to the Houfe it
they fhould have no• Opinion, and that they fhould The Loan CHANCELLOR then informed the Corn- himielf, as to confide the Houfe and the Country he did not at the fame time congratulate them en
take no part in the dircuffions of the clergy ; that mons, as he had done their Lordfhips, of his Ma. fur the lofs of thofe truly eminent perfons who had the honour which they had done themfelves by to
the Holy Father had taken rneafures for admitting jelly's fttiyal will and pleafure,reipeding the firfl immediately preceded him, and to which his con- judicious a choice. After the 'eloquent eologiuni
them to the lay communion ;that they ought to
•Proceedings of the new Imperial Parliament, and dud in the Chair had .given the molt authentic which had been already pallid on the talents and
take advantage of it to praaife the exercife of re- his Majefty'sCommiffion prepared for the occifion and decided Peal. On any other occafion than the qualifications of the Right Hon. Gentleman, it
ligion like other citizens, and always keep at a was then read. prefoit, it would be unneceffary for me to mention was unnecerfary for hint to point out the peculiar
&lance from the difeuflions of the church. After which the LORD CHANCELLOR, in the ac- tile qualifications of the Hon. Gentleman whom I features of his charaEter. In the laft Parliament
The Frits-r Cowsut. arrived at Gifors at feven in cuftomed form and manner, Rated, that en a fu- now mean to PrnPole ; but I mull beg leave to the Right Hon. .Gentleman had been called to the
the evening, and alighted at the manufactory of tar day, when the necella ry..c orms fhould he gone obferve,' that lie is charaelerifed by a happy mix- Chair from the general idea which was entertained
Citizen Moitss. He infpeded it at to-o'clock; it ugh, his Majeffy intended to be perfonally tore of indultry molt fevere—of attention molt mi. of his capacity to difcharge the duties of fo iln-
was illuminated both within and without. He fop- •cl
fent, and to Rate to both Houfes his reafons for mite and ustiontitded,—of knowledge in the rules portant a funßion. This idea had now receht
ped and flept in the Manutadory.
calling his Parliament- together ; and that it was and orders of the Houfe molt profound and eaten- the fandion of the am left experience. The pre-
. • At t t in the forenooon he entered this town.—
his Majefty's Royal will and pleat-ore,- that his five—of public demeanor molt dignified—of pri- fent Parliament, in the election they had now
. The Conitituted Authorities offered him the uftsal
faithfulo Commons fhould forthwith 'proceed to vate civility molt engaging- In addition to all made( had given the moll unequivocal teltimony
prefents, and a groupe of young women prefented the Elation of a fit and proper perfun to be their tilde qualifications, which he originally pofFeifed to :he merit which he poffeffect. He had only to
to him the flag of Jeanne Hachette.—Monitorr. Speaker, and that they Mould attend in that when fiat offered to the Houfe to fill this high and add his conviction, that a choice in all relpe6ts fo
. .. ilacur, Nov. 3.—The Cabinet of Sr. James's Houfe to-morrow, at two o'clock, to prefent their important office, he now comes forward with the wife would meet with his Majefly's molt gracious
.'.
has applied to the Court of Vienna, to know what Member, fo deflect. for.lii‘ Majelly's Royal Ap- acquired advantages of confirmed expel knee and approbation. The Noble Lord fat down with
definitive arrangements were to be made relative probation.—The Commons then retired, and the a thorough knowledge of the forms of the Houfe, moving an adjournment, which took place till to-
to the loans for which fecurities were given in the Lords Commiffioners unrobed. for which he has ever thews the highell refped ; morrow.
low countries. The Auftrian Minifter replied, that The proper Officer from that part of the Uni- and in confequenee of which Parliament cannot There was a very large affemblage of Membe.",
means would be taken to enfure the payment of ted Kingdom called Scotland, prefented an au- fail to have the fame refped for him. Under a great number of whom had not a feat in the fait
the, principal and Intereft ; and that as the fecnri. *vacated Lift of thole Peers who were elated thefe circumftances I beg leave to move, 44 That Parliament.
ties which had been given, in confecntence of the ;10 Japrefent the &milli Peerage, in the prefent the Right Hon. CHARLES Alsor take the Chair The new Lord Mayor (Mr. Alderman Patcr)
1.4 claw of circa/aflame, no longer elifted, they Parliament. as • ker.", . •- • • • was prefeist in his robes, as were Mr. Alderman
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" L klaiAlaiitiiiiorldithedadikkiWtion, CO*BE, And Sir 19HH
,Wll4lAln ANDERSON.
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LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER xi.

itgtSELIZAIIIETH.SACCIIISaudION.—HoIiday at the Exchequer.
Stamp, Excite. ,
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3 per Cent Confol. 671 68—money, 641-
04 5 prr Cent. tc.i—New 5 per Cent. 99j
Long Ann. t 91—Ornnium to dif.
PR la OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:
frit S•nek t Sclt Igo India Stock zozlC7or see.'
, pit Con. krt.. 6,c/67166) lmp. 3 per Cent. 67) 66 651
iia C. Conf. 6;1 61z1 67i Imp. Ann. 14
N.,,, ipa Cent. 831 83i1 31d. Ettebaq. Bah ts. rein.
Cent. Ann. toil 3 . Ditto, ii. prem.
P" .
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Lc; Ann. 19 1 t-a 6.1 Englith Ticket. 171. OIL
s",:: Aim 4 7- t6i Card'dor Ace. 681 682 '
COURAY. OF EkCHANOE. '
Andrrbm, it 3 zU. Cadiz 35 elk& Naples 43
U,. .t ii;ht I I it Madrid paper Genoa 47
RA0131119 11 4 SU. Ditto 361-4. I Übe* 68
Ha„,bogh 33 8 silt. Bilboa 37t Ad. 1 Oporto 68
Nan, 33 9 2417. Leghorn 3: - I pidgin it}
}WU. 1 day's date, 23
.17 liv.-ADit cr, 24 2 2 U.
Bourdeaux, ditto, 34 a _
Venice 52 bait.. Pi-:ok effetive per CI Reit

Both Houfes of Parliament met yetterday,
purfuant to his Majefly's Proclamation.. Mr. As-
rrr was unanimoufly chofen Speaker of the
ll:ufe of Commons, there being no oppofition
whatever to his election. He was propofed by Sir
WmLiam ScoTT, who occupied the Treafury
Bench along with Mr. ADDINGTON, Lord CAS•
TLERIAGH, the LORD MAYOR, &c. The fpeeches
on the occation were purely complimentary, with
ilia exception of one pottage in the fpeecb of Mr.
LamLts, who feconded the motion for the re.
ileCtion of Mr. AoioT t. . to ',urging the' Impor-
tance of the (lotion, he Paid, It is at this time
peculiarly. 4'004 that it thould be filled with
adequate talenss, as we oaly the fate of this Cowry,
pffhais of all Europe, nay 4041 upon the ekfilse:
aim of THIS fSews."l,-Gentlemen, upon, fuFh
an °canon, come prepared with. their ,fperclich
*And none of their afertions cin be confidered as
having been made lightly. ,This pOttage, there.
fore, is of mome as it corroborates the reports
Of political difcuffions upon the hate of .Eitrow,
anJ the proceedings of France, which we have
Jong fince noticed as likely .to fbrm the futojelt
muter of much interefling cisbate upon the meet-
ing of the prefent Seffion. The ceremony of
(wearing in the Members will occupy the remain-
sler of the prefent, week ; and on Tuefday or Wed-
Ffilay.neat his Majefty will open the bufinefs of
the Setnon with a Speech from the Throne.—The
;umber of Members yetterday fworn in by the
Lord Steward was 24c. .

Our Readers will fee, by our Port Letters this
day, that not the (meld' relaxation has taken
'lace in the preparations for maintaining our na•
tional independence, which have for fome time
Yin carrying on.
We have received the Paris journals of the t4th
inllant. In the ',receding columns. we have given
the only articles worth tranfcribing.
We have alfo received fome interefling details
from Alexandria. It will be teen, from the
fubjoined letter, that the Turks and our troops do
not live on the very belt terms ; and befides, that
quit Egypt when we may, there is very little
chance of the Porte being able to maintain its au-
thority., long in that country.:—

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