Star.
London, England, 1805-05-25 00:00:00

DUBLIN PAVING BOARD.

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Mr. VANSITTART purfnanr to notice, toff to move for leave
to brag in a Bill for the more effedual providing for the paving,
lighiing, and dranfing ot the City of Dublin. He was aware of
the difficuty under which any Gentleman would labour in bring-
ing forward a remtdlal meafure, who had not local experience.—
But the grievance was prtffing, and the reined' could not be put
off to neat &Mon. Hr WA* Suer,tlild:d too by Gentlemen poffel..
Sing local experience, who would cornet him if he Should be
wrong in thc view he &Add take of the queltion. The Honoura-
ble Gentleman then entered into an explanation of the eircum-
ftances tweet which the prefent Board had been appointed. The
deht an theft appointment was 45,cir.vi. but it had Since inereafad
to 34,0d0L and it wnit:,l he evident that if Such a fyftent were tol,e
continued without any ir.reecre of revenue that no good could he
expetted from it. Hi; objcet was to fufpenel the powers of the
;intent Board, and to arpoint another with powers to invelligste,
and alto to give power to the Lords of the Tresiury to advaoce a
certain funs to the Board tor the immediate purport of bang ap-
plied to :Trimly the eitiflior, grievance. He did not wills fur pre-
cipitation on the oreafion, but propoled that the Bill Should be
paffed through its first Rage, with all convenient difpatch, go then
to a Committee with a view to have it pricted and rcconimitted
on tome future day, that would leave Sufficient dine to take the
fenfe of the paries on the Spot. On there grounds he moved for
have to bring in a Bill to provide for the appointment of Com-
miffionent to inquire into any irregularities or abufes in the con
dudt of the Paving Board in Dublin, and to provide for the fufpen-
Dun of the powers and authority of laid Corporation, for vetting
the fame in another Board, for the better concluding the bufinets
of Paid Corporation.

An irregular but h-r interefting converfation took place on
this motion amongft Irilh Members. Alt agreed in the prin-
ciple of the meafure propufed.
Lord DE BLAQIIII-AtE, as a Member of the Paving Board,
rejoiced that the time had arrived for inquiry. He agreed that the
Blameful Rate of the !beets of Lublin required fortethiog to be
done immediately. He thought the Commiffioners Rauuld be ap-
pointed in the Hour', and not by any one out of it; and that the e
inquiries Should extend to the inveftigation of the grounds upon
which the unfavourable report made three years finee of the Paving
Board by the Commiffioners of Imprcft Accounts was founded.--.
The Noble Lord Rated alfo tome details, proving the ir.adequaey
of the funds of the Board to the fulfilment of their contrails.
After a converfation between Mr. Shaw, the Hon. Denis Browne,
Mr. Akxandcr. sir j Newport, Mr. Ponfonby, and Mr. Vanflt-
tart, leave was given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. V.t.NSITTART then brought up the BilLwbigh was read
a Brit time, and ordered tobe read a fccond time on Monday.
hIr.VANSIT TART then gave notice .that he fhould on Monday
move the Houfe into a Committee to con:oder of tbc propriety of
empowering the Lord lieutenant to direct the Lords Cominifilun
en of the Treafury to advance a certain turn for the purpoks of Paid
At

neural other orders were pollponed, and the Mule adjourned

LONDON.

The length cf the Debate In the Houfe of Lordt. lving prevented
sit from giving in the STAR of this day, the continuation of the
intercepted Correfpondence between Lord Wat.i.asLair and
the Court of Dim'tor: of the Eaft India Company, we (hall re-
fume it on Monday. We confider it of the utmod importance,
and we have no doubt, that it will be read with great attention,
not only by all thofe In pardesdar who are interefted in the fate
of oar Bait India poll. ffinpo,but by every man who has any re-
gard for the Britifb charadter. It will ferve to thew the refult
of that fyftem rif conga& which has been purfued by the Noble
Marquis, who is at the bead of the Government in that country,
But we are lorry to find in it fume expreilions, which had they
occurred in the Correfpondence of the Corfican Defpot, would
have been univerrally reprobated.

SATURDAY, MAY kr.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK;
• Confol4,3Bj—for Account, 39+1—.0ronimn, 3i.
PRICE OF s rocKs YESTERDAY.
Bank Stock 174 172 Innia Stocks cB2,
3 per C. Red. An. Than In ha Bonds, i a 211. 414
3 per Cent. Conf. Ann. 3bilif Imp. 3p. Ct. 3'61
4 per Cent. C. 73{ 74 Excheq. Bills ti dit IS. par.
per Cent. Navy Omnlum 31 3 preen
3 per Cent 1797 974 i Englith Tickets 191. St.
L. Ann. itst 11-16tha Coat. for Ace. Op. 39fr 39;

It will be feen in the Parliamentary Proceedings,
that Lord DARNLEY'S motion was rejeded lafi night,
in the Houfe of Lords. Lord ME evt Lea appeared in
his place- In anfwer to Lord Dalt e r, whole fpeech
went to cenfure the condud of the Board of Admi-
ralty, or, at leak to lay force grounds for an in-
quiry, Lord 14sevnert Rated this very important
fad, that, inßead of fuffering a diminution of the
number of (hips of the Royal Navy, our Navy
before Chrißmas next would be increafed to One
Kindred and Ten, or One Hundred and Fifteen
fitips of the Line. a force much more than adequate
to contend againß every effort of our enemies.

This morniNg difpatches were received at the Ad
miralty, from Lord NELSON. We have not been able
to learn their date, nor the intelligence they bring.
A- neutral ve(rzl arrived at Briftol, is raid to have
i.)::en in with the DONNIGAL, one of Lord NELSON'S
fleet, on the 25th ult. which had paired the Gut of
Gibraltar on the preceding day. The whole fleet,
which was in molt excellent order, tont-riled of twelve
fail of the line, one fifty gun (hip, frigates, floops,Ecc.
to the amount of thirty-fix fail.

Lett zrs fi om Penzance mention a report circulated
there, that Lord NELsorr ha• fallen in with the Com-
bined fleets, taken five Spanifh (hips of the line, and
funk or deflroyed feveral others; but as the channel
through which the intelligence was received there is
not Rated. we are inclined to doubt its truth.

On Tuefilay evening Lk a !mall vacl arrived at
Penzance from our fquadron off Mint, for provi-
fions, &c. The Mailer mentions what we have al-
aPaLly flared, that the enemy lately (hewed a difpofi.
;NI to ‘umc out, but finding our tquadron bad re-

turned to its Ration, they again retired into Brea
'harbour.

A private Letter of the loth intl. from Dublin,
Rates as follows :

" 1 Itavejuit ken a private letter from Bantry, Rating that a cut
down 74 gun ildp made its appearance off that Bay, and not an-
fwering Groats, was fired at by the Fort, which, after hoiltio;
French colours, the veffel returned, anti then failed elf, This ac-
count has naturally given rife to various cunjettures. I think it
tight, at this critical time, to put you in potreffion even of every
report entitled to notice. You may rely on the earlieft intelligence
of any important event."

The Dublin Papers of the ztft, received this morn-
ing, do not even mention fuch a rumour as the above.
There are letters in town from Cadiz, of fo late a
date as the 28th ult. which alien that the combined
French and Spanifh fleets had failed, but without
mentioning any time or particulars. The general
fuppofition was, that it was defined for the EaR In-
dies; but this opinion appears to have been founded
merely on the circumfance upon which we obferved
in the &ft inflance, of General Lava ;ma, who is
a native of Pondicherry, having the command of the
French troops.

Admiral Cox LINGWOOD% fquaciron, we underhand,
is certainly deflined to reinforce Lord Nixsow's fleet.
The Captain of a Swedith veffel, juit arrived, reports
that on the 4th inhant, he law eight fail a the line
in Lagos Bay, which is fituated a little to the fouth-
ward of Cape St. Vincent. Thefe he fuppofed to
be a part of Lor&NaLsom's fquadron—a conjeflure
by no means irrational ; the remainder of the fleet
being then, in all probability, cruizing off Cadiz,
waiting for the neceirary reinforcements.
By the Difpatches received from Admiral COCH-
KAN a, it appears that the enemy, of whom he was
in purfuit, had only three days hart of him, and
great hopes were entertained of his being able to
come up with them. The predatory career of the
enemy in that quarter may now be confidered as ter-
minated. Its exploits have been confined to the moll
wanton ravages committed on private property.—
Defencelefs individuals have of courfe materially
fuffered, but no one important or national advantage
has been atchieved by the expedition ; while there is
every profpeet of not a 'lngle ihip belonging to it
being ever able to re-enter the ports of France.
A New York paper of April ; t, fays—A. A 'Orel
arrived at Portland, in 23 days from St. Thomas,
brings a report of the arrival of another French fleet
in the Welt Indies, confilling of twenty veffels,"-.-
This intelligence cannot be correet.

Lord ST. VINCENT left town this morning for his
feat at Brentwood.

The Polemics aore-fhip, at Deptford,ic completely
ready, and is expelled to faii fur New South Wales
on Tuelday next.

Lord KEITH yeiterday arrived in town from the
Downs, and had this morning a long interview with
the Admiralty Board, as had likewife Admiral
DUCKWORTH.

A Court Martial has been held on the Officers of
the Arrow !loop, and Acheron bomb, which were
captured by the enemy in the Mediterranean. They
have been honourably acquitted.

Captain FAR(tyllAll, Commander cf the late
ACHERON bomb, captured in the Mediterranean by
two French frigates, has been promoted to the rank
of Pat Captain, for his gallant condo& on that (re-
cafion.

Law.—Yefierday, in the Court of King's Bench,
George Bailey, of Devonffiire fireet, Hanover-ft:pare,
Efq. exhibited articles of the peace again(! Lord Rea,
letting forth the commencement of his acquaintance
with that Noble Lord, at the time he took a Gentle-
man of the name of M'Kee into partnerfhip in his
extenfive bufinefs as a Welt India Merchant in t 793.
Stating that he (Mr. Bailey) •had time difference with
Lord Rea about the latter end of the year t 799, or
beginning of aoo : That his Lordfhip thook his cane
over his head in Bond-firect, and menaced him :
That fume little time fince, at Mad. Dupre's ma
querade, in the prefence of feveral ll
of the nobility and
gentry, his Lordfhip followed Mr. Bailey over dif-
terent parts of the 'room where he had been fitting,
&c. calling him a d—d rafcal ! fcoundret, &c. and
WAS proceeding to pull him by the note, ',non which
a fcuffie edited. The articles then prayed fecurity
to Mr. Bailey from bodily harm, &c. which the Court
ordered accordingly.
The newßallet Dance of " Leander and Leonora,"
at the Royal Circus, befides its highly pleafing fcenes
and charafters, amongft the latter of which the Mungo
of MONTGESIL RY, and the UrfUla of Mrs. Pat am sox,
deferve pat titular notice, brings forward a great
variety of admirable 'dancing, in which the brilliant
execution and talk of Mr. Gieoux in Leander; and
Mifs GIROUX, in Leonora, together with that of M;ft
CAROLINE Glenn x, (land highly eminent. The
44 Knights of the Garter" abounds in fplendor, mixed
with fcenes of great humour. The tinging cf Mifs ,
FaIRON is truly aftonifhing, for fuch an infant. The
Horfemanffiip of Maaasw is admired by all lovers of
Equarian teats ; and the whole concludes with the
pleating Pantomime of Harlequin Bacchus : A
richer routine of evening amufement can certainly
no where be met with. . .

STeTI Losrsay.—Fourth Day.—Na. 18,594, a
blank, but as firfi drawn entitled In soool. 'Tickets
and Shares, warranted undrawn, are felling at Dan M-
MOND'S Office, 65, Fleet-lirect. until Wednefday
morning, nine o'clock. •

RESTORED Sutclus.—At the Humane Society's
Receiving Houle, Hyde Park.—An unfortunate de-
fpending female laR Friday-was taken out of the Ser-
pentine River apparently. dead. Mr. WiLtrom, a
Surgeon of the Horfe Guardsland Mr. RtuARDSON,
Medical Affillant, employed the ufual methods.—
Life was happily reflored by their (kill and perfeve
ranee. In the evening. her dittrefred relatives came
to the Receiving nioufe, and when able to be re•
moved, (he was conveyed home in a coach. The
parties recommended by Mr. RICHARDSON have been
rewitaed by the Treafurer of the iybove• Society.