Star.
London, England, 1801-03-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A htelfazte was rectived from the Lords, fining that their
Lcdtliips had agreed to the frith Habeas Corpas Sufpenfion
131.1, and to the Bill for continuing Martial Law in Ireland for
li...i:cd time.
:s'r. ELLiuT and R. S. Mt elms, EN. were sworn, and took
wiir (eats..
1 h. Ufhtr of the Black Rod came to defire the immediate
Int:dance of the Commons in the Houfe of Lords, to hear his
Commlflion read, for the palling of Bills.
The Srrsxea, upon his return,informcd the Houfe that the
'Ards Cunirnifliortn had declared the Royal Anent to the
Aduitional Pottage Dut7, Stamp, Paper, and Honk Duty
84:4, Sir SIDNEY SMITH I Pention Bill, the MIL Duties Bill,
th, I ritli Prohibitory Corn Diftillery Bill, the Bakers' Amended
Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Marine Forces Regulation Bill, the
Antrican Flour Bounty Importation Bill, the frith Martial
Lst, and the frith H.;beas Corpus Sufpenfion Bills, and the
(Jet Militia Field Officers' Augmentation Bill, together with
ft feral Private Bills.
Various Accounts were preftnted from the Mercers' Corn-
} icy. and the Tax-Office, which were ordered to be laid upon
nice Tsble.
01 the motion of Sir W. GLARY, it was ordered that there
Ce laid before the Haute, an Account of the Income and Expen-
diture of the Board of Apricuiture for the year ilk°. Alto an
Account of the Parliamentary Grants to, and of the Income
and Expenditure of the Veterinary College,for the year coding
rill February t Sort
The ATTORNEY GENERAL brought up a Bill for the more
effidual prevention of the forgery of Bank Notes, &e. Alf o a
Pill for toter regulating the Rates for granting R, lief to the
Poor; after a converfation refpeding the latter Bill, between
Mr. lotus- v E, Sir W. You NO, Mr. CUR WEN, and Mr. ELL'.
ton, both Bills were read a fit* time, and ordered to be printed,
and to be read a fecond time on Thurfday next.
Mr. Batson: brought up the Report of the Committee on the
Eaft-India Judicature Bill,whrn the names of Members nomi-
nated for trying offences committed in India, were read over,
&Trembly to the Adt.
The Houle refolved itfeif into a Committee on the Scotch
Aloliffes Dinah ry Bill.
Mr. Lona moved a Refolution for continuing the Duties im-
plied bit Year; which being agreed to, and the Houfe returned,
the Report was ordered tobe reeds% d to-morrow.
The Houfe wean into a Committee on the Bill for the better
Cultivation of Common Arable Fields, Waftes, dec. and for en-
couraging the Growth of Potatoes on laid ground. The Houk
Ling refuneid, the Report was ordered to be received to-
morrow.

Sir W. Pu LTZN T raid, he role agreeably to notice, to move
fur leave to bring in a Bill for promoting the Cultivation of
Potatoes, a meafure by which he apprehended the Poor-rata
would be much diminithed. He raid it was not his intention to
repair a mature flmilar to what had bees already rejeeted,
of breaking up of Grafs lands for this purpofe ; it was iodide:it
to allow the Cultivators of Lands to remove difficultiesin their
own way.—At the fame time, there was evidently a great deal
of unproductive Land which might be irnprovedby railing Pota-
toes in Autumn, which would prove of particular fervice at a
time before the new Corn could be threthed out and brought
to market. The Bill was not meant to interfere with the other
Bill for eticouraging the Growth of Potatoes in Common Fields.
He then moved for leave to bring in a Bill for kirening the btu-
den of the Poor-Rates, by encoaragiag the Growth of Pota-
toes, &e. during the peek nt Scarcity.
COkldli ADDING mOet feconded the motion, which, after a
few words from Mr. NICPULLI, %a agreed to.
Mr. Arnett moved. that the Fourth Report of the Weft
Committee on the prefent High Price of Proviflona, be referred
to the Committee of Supply on Friday.
The Eat-India Goods Land-Carriage Bill was read a feeoad
time.
The Expiting Laws Bill was committed; when the Bill for
continuing the Itnportation of Goods in Neutral Ships went
through the Committee, and was reported.
The other Orders of the Day were defined...4le Houk
lat/jooroed ht Bs o'clock till to-morrow.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 63.
Laax-DA?..—Holiday at the Batik and Public OMcei
Private bargaino at eh% Stock Exchange:
Confide A i—Oranium sif
;mica Of ITOCKS YtiTtlbAf
Lek Stock dot tong Ann. Sint
3 per Cent. Red. (hut Imp. 3 per Cent. 57
3 per C. Conf. 37/1 Imp. Ann. is 3-16
4 per Cent. shut India Stock
LIZC. NM 93H Otrudom !Itt
Loyalty hot Cool for sliti

The Recount we gave jeflerday, of the capture
of fifteen French 'Weis, laden with wine, brandy,
itc. and of a French corvette with arms and am-
munition on board for Egypt, is confirmed by the
Gazette of latt night.—See the laR page.
At a late hour 411 night we received Paris Jour-
tali to the 2tlt inclufive. By there it appears
that the Treaty of Luneville, the ratifications of
wl.'eti had been mutually exchanged between the
Emperor and the French Government, was rati-
fied on the rnth at Paris, by the Legiflative Body,
and that great rejoicings were to take place on the
31111 in cdnfcquence of this event.
An Armitlice has been concluded between the
l'itri.cu and the Kis° of Mutts, under the me-
ditatint. of the Emrxxot of Russin. The firft
cffo of this Convention was to order the depar-
ture of all the Englifh !hipping in the Flits of his
StLtcuN MAJISTT, and that no Englifh rails
Lail in future be admitted into them. The fame
order extends to Turkilh thips. The Englith
Merchants at Naples have requelled pairports to

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ri torn home.
An official copy of the articles of this armillice
1611 be found in the preceding columns.
• The only altufsosi we can find is thy& pipers to

the reported change in the Dutch Government, is
an article from the Hague, dated rgth March,
which Rates that an agent is going to Berlin to
treat of the indemnification the PRINCE of ORANGE
demands for the lots of the cßates he had in the
Republic.
Preparations continue to be carried on with the
greateft aetivity by the Spanifh Government, for
the invafion of Portugal. Twenty-nine battalions
of infantry, and eight fquadrons of cavalry, are
ordered to march into the Province of Gallicia,
where there are at prefent nolefs than ig,ooo troops.
The Spaniards expert to be joined by a large body
of French troops.
The French frigate, the Africain, has been cap-
tured in the Mediterranean, after an obflinate en-
gagement of four hours, during which fhe loft her
Captain, two Lieutenants, and 127 men killed, and
176 wounded. The Englith fhip that took her is
not mentioned in the Moniteur.

There is no intelligence from Egypt. The Mo-
tikeur copies from the journal du Dcfayiva what is
filed a confirmation of the mutiny in the Turki(h
army at Jaffa. The letters from Conflantinople
are not of a late date.

The French Tiers Confolides had fallen to 53,
but they have again rifen to 55•

The MEN will have a Drawing-Room to-mor-
row at St. James's Palace.
The KING has been pleafed to appoint WILLIAM
Lord AUCKLAND, and CHARLES SPENCER, Efq.
commonly called Lord CHAP.LEN SPENCER, to the
office of his Majefty's Poltmaller-General.
A Board of the Treafury was irAd yellerday, at
which Mr. ADDINGTON for the fink time prefided,
and at which Mr. J. H. ADDINGTON took his feat
as Secretary to the Board.
On Monday came on at Oxford, the elation of
a Reprefentative in Parliament for the Univerfity,
in the room of FRANC!! PAGE, Eq. when the Right
Hon. Sir WILLIAM Scorr was unanimoully elated.
The number of the troops under Sir RtLPH
ASERCROMBY was, at the date of hi tail letter,
t 6,000. It was then expelled he would loon he
joined by a regiment of Dragoons and a regiment
of Infantry.
The force of the French in Egypt, according
to the heft information in our roffeffion, is about
16,000 men, including the Native troops.
Laft week a meeting took place at Youghall,
Ireland, between Mr. JOHNSON, of the Leitrim
Militia, and Mr. BARRY, of Cattle-Lyons, when
the former received a ball which killed him on the
fpot.
The Loan MAYOR yellerday ordered the price of
Bread to be reduced two affixes, or 4d. in the peck
loaf, to take place to-morrow. The quartern loaf
will then be is. 94d.
The LADY MAYORESS had a grand route laft
night, at the Manton-houfe, at which above isoo
perfons of both fexes were prefitnt. Vifcount and
Vifeountefs Tat MLESTON, Lord W. RUSSELL, -the
Members of Parliament for the City of London,
and the Counties of Middlefex, Surry, and Kent,
the Officers of the Eaa India Company Volunteers,
the Officers of tle City Affociations, the Officers of
the Honourable Artillery Company, and moil of
the Aldermen and Common Council of the City,
and their Ladies, were prelent. The LADY
MAYOASSII had provided every thing fuitable to the
entertainment of her company. Hit LORDSHIP,
with a Idea party of his ft cods, regaled themfelves
lin an adjoining apartment. The company did not
break up till an early hour this morning.
We hear the extenfive China Warehoufe in Por.
tugal-itreet, together with the dwelling-houfe in
Lincoln's-Inn-fields, was fold the other day by
private contra& to the occupier, Mr. SPODE, of
Stoke Pottery, Stafforelibite.
ENGLISH STATI•LOTTERY.-Nineltendlday.
No. 21,277, a prize of toool.—No. 38,217, a prize
of vol.—Nos 54,102, 12,184, 10,024. 38,039,
and 2,031, prizes of sol.—Twentieth day.—
No. 44,718,a prize of 50001.—N0. 36,852, a prize,
of cool.—Nos. 42,343, 36,615, prizes of tool.—.
Nos. 47,681, to,oos, and 5,253, prizes of 501.
Letters from Manchefter mention, that a meet-
ing of upwards of aoo perfons had been difcover-
ed in the night, between Monday and Tuefday
week, at the Britannia Inn; and between so and 6o
were conveyed to prifon by the conflables and mi-
litary. Various reports were in circulation as to
the objee of their meeting ; the moll probable was,
that they *et in confequence of the high price of
pecrrifions.
The Captain of the revenue cutter, which re.
fufed lending affiflance to the crew of the berme:-
IL!, has undergone an examination.
Lail week the temporary bridge crated acrofs
the Avon, between the old and new town of Bath,
was opened. Its fpan is 'l6 feet, and was finiflt-i
ed in three months from theme it was commenced.

Much damage. was c..ccaGoned in I.incolnfliire
by the late floods. The Welland, and other ri-
vers, oferflowed their banks, and carried away
great numbers of filmy>, &e.
In confequence of the heavy fall of rain Sa-
turday laf, in the neighbourhood of Lough-
borough, the waters rde fo rapidly, that Mr.
Draper had as (beep drowned in his meadows be-
fore affinance could be given them. Several
other Gentlemen had (beep drowned at the fame
time. _ _

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At the Lite Maidßonelres, Mom:: Hut/4
was tried, before Baron Hort+ 14 and a refpeßable
Jury of the County of Kent, for fraudulently ob-
taining tiorn Peter Smit, a Serjeant in the Chat-
ham Dirifion of Marines, the funs of 71. 12 L
bounty-money, for inlitling as a marine giddier,
knowing himfelf at the fame time to be ineligible,
by reafoa his being then the lawful apprentice
of Robert Noakes, of Yalding, in the Paid County,
Blackfmith ; and being found guilty of the offence,
he was fentenced to be imprifoned in the Houfe of
Correilion for twelve months, and during that 1
time to be twice publicly whipped.

NAUTICAL INIELLIGENCR.

MAILS THIS DAY.—Wind S. W.

ARRIVED
o tlaniburgli
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✓ Dm: ighldee, March
I Jamaica, Feb. 9,

DU E.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 22.

Arrived the PRINCESS AMELIA packet, Captzm
BRYANT, with the mails from Jamaica : 'failed
from this port on the t7th December, with the
mails of that month, and arrived at Barbadoes on
the r 7th of January, where fhe found dm: of the
outward bound Welt India fleet, one with troops
on board, the others for Jamaica ; touched at
St. Lucie and Martinique, and arrived at Jamaica
on the 29th ; having fpoke his Majelly's (loop
DRAKE on a croiae on the zcth—At Jamaica the
found his Majelly's Chips Sass PAREIL, CARNATIC,
QIIEE nc, la Yawata- E, Antru los, and le Vengeance
French frigate, which had been captured by his
Majefty's fhip la SEINE ; as Alb the AMERICA and
ADMIRAL DE VRIEZ prifon (hips : while (he remain-
ed at Jamaica, his Majelly's (hips SURPRI7r, 12
DECADE, TISIPHONE, and SY.'ALLOW,arrived from
different critizes ; and the MELAMEVS, with two
valuable Spanifh prizes. The (hip CAROLINE,
with the mails for England, failed on the 2d
February, but unfortunately fprung a leak the
fame day, which gained fo much on the pumps,
that the crew were obliged to abandon her,
and foon after the funk. The mails as well as
all the crew and paffengers were faved.—Tl e
PRINCESS AMELIA received her mails on board,
and failed from Jamaica on the Bth of February,
under convoy of the TISIPHONE and la VOLAGE
!loop of war.—She fpoke the Polly and James from
Jamaica to Liverpool, on the 15th of February, in
lat. 19, long. 50, all well, out 15 days.—The TI•
stzHONE convoyed her as far as lat. 24. 37. long.
73. 49• and then parted on the 19th of February.
—The packet alfo fpoke the American flip Hunter,
bound to Carolina from London, it days at felt,
all well, its lat. 45. 29. long. 18.52. and arrived
here this day.