Star.
London, England, 1805-02-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. STURGES BOURNE moved, that the Speaker do iffue
his warrant for new writ for the 'eledlion of 'Members for the
following places, viz. ttr Kirkaldy, dtc. in the room of of Sir James
St. Clair Erfk:ne, no* Earl of Rofslyn, called up to the Houfe of
Peers.
For Newark, in the room of Sir Thomas Manners Sutton, who
has accepted the office of a Baron of his Majelty's Court of Ex-
chequer:
For Toners, in the room of Vicary Gibbs, Efq. who has accep-
ted the office of his Majelty's Solicitor General :
For the Borough of St. Michael, in the room of Robert Dal-
las, Efq. who hasaccepted the office of Chief Jultice of Chelfter.
Reported the Malt Duty, the Peußon Duty, and OLiaralitioc
Bills.--Ordered to be engroffed.
ORDER OF THR DAY.

The Houfe having refolved into a Committee of Ways and
Means,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER role, and gave
notice, that he would take an early r tunny of naming the day
when he mould bring forward the W end Means fur the fcrvice
of the year. At prefent he mould n. ve, " that, in part of the
Supply granted to his Majetty, a fum of two millions be m.fed by
loan upon Exchequer Bills."—The motion was agreed to, and or-
dered to be reported.

LOYALTY LOAM.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notiee,that
he fhould, on Monday nest,propore tome relolutions te the Houle
on the fubjeel of the Loyalty Loan.
MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

Lord MARSHAM role and laid, that he flated
on a former day, his intention of fubmitting to the
Hottfe, this day, the manner in which he would pro:
ceed upon this tilbjed. It was then his intention, he
laid, to examine witneffes at the Bar on the part of
the late Sheriffs. But fince that time, he understood
thofe Gentlemen had altered their mind, and did not
mean to call any witneffes. In order, therefore, to
give the Houfe time to form the fiilleft opinion upon
the evidence before them, on this fubjeft, he trutted
it would nit be deemed inconvenient, if he moved to
poftpone the further confederation of the bufinefs till
T'iefday next; conceiving he did, and as he was
convinced the Houle muff, tiny a deliberate decilion
would be an objea much more defirable, than any
expedition that could be accomplifbed by deciding
this night. He therefore moved, that the further
proceedings on thisfubjeft be pullponed tillTuelday."
Mr. FOX rofe, not he faid to objed to the day
propofed, but to (fate, in a few winds, his own opi-
nion as to the mode of proceeding fuggefled by the
Noble Lord. The Noble Laid had laid it was not
the intention to examine any witneffes at the bar, on
the fubjed : but he united whenever that Houle was
called en to exercife a jurifdidion, a criminal jut&
diftion too, that it would found its decifions on evi•
dence whichl it had itfelf heard, and not merely upon
the evidence heard by others elfewhere. If, indeld,
as he underftood from the Noble Lord's intimation,
the late Sheriffs had no objeftion to admit the evidence
before a Committee againit them, certainly there
could be no °Nation, on the part of the Houfe, to
accept that evidence as part of the grounds for its
own decifions. But not calling evidence as to any
thing already proved before a Committee, and calling
no evidence to their exculpati .n now, were, in his
own mind, two very diftiaa confiderations. He was
decidedly of opinion, that if any matters had come
to their knowledge, for their own exculpation, even
fence the decifion of the Committee, it would be per.
fatly open for them to bring forward fuck evidence.
The SPEAKER reminded the Houfe, that it
would be informal to fuller any further converfation
on this flibjed, without previoufly reading the Order
of the Day—which having been done,
Lord MARSHAM explained, that he was given
to underltand, in a converfation with the Counfel
employed on this occafion, that the Sheriffs would
be contented with the evidence contained in the Re-
port, and within the laft few moments, it was inti-
mated to him, that, on their own part, they meant
to decline calling any witnens. He underftood fur-
ther, that what they intended at firft to fubmit to the
confederation of the Houfe, arofe out of a proceeding
which took place, fubfequent to the diffolution of the
Committee, whole report was in queltion. This,
however, he now learned, they did not mean to
perfift in.
Mr. FOX Laid, that his objedion would not be re-
moved unlefs their In declining it fhould appear to be
their own at and choice.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
role, not to make any objeftion to the Noblerd's
motion, nor to delay the Houle now by any ar-
gument upon the fubjed itfeif. He rofe merely
to exprefs his fentiments in the &It inftance, ref-
petting a principle avowed by an Honourable
Gentleman over againft him (Mr. Fox) ; namely.
that the Houle, when called on to exercife its jurif-
didion on thisfitbjeft,fhould not be fatisfied with the
evidence taken ellewhere, but lhould examine evi-
dence for its own fatisfaEtion. Againft filch a prin-
ciple, he begged to proteft, in the fir( inliance, as
contrary to the citablifind ufage of Parliarocot,

ways before, and ever finee the paffing ref Mr. Cren• •
vine's AR in the year r 770. Previoutly to that time
it was the contlant ufage of the Houle, in deciding
upon matters reilieding contefted eleaions, to form
its judgment upon evidence taken lactate its Com•
mittees, and not to examine evidence to the rime
points at its bar. The Grenville AEI created the
firft alteration in the law and ufage of Parliament
upon this head—and it mull he recolleded, that a
principal alteration made by that Aft was, that the
Committees for invetligating fuch queflions mull be
chofen by ballot, mull examine all evidence on oath,
and mull ihemfelves be fworn to aft and dscidejuilly•
to the bell of their opinion. The Eloufe then Purely
would not be lefs inclined to accept theevidence taken
before a Committee fo folemnly bound, now, than
they would be to accept evidence before a Committee
not fo bound, previous to the palling of the Grenville
Aft. The precedents only in which the Houle did
aft in any degree at all different from this principle,
were the Shoreham cafe, the Lifkeard, and the
Great Grit:Ay. In fib: Cricl:lade cafe fame filch
proceeding was propofed, and the Houle adjourned
the confideration of that cafe from time to time, in
order to fearch for precedents, but came to no final
clnifion. His motive for troubling the Hoare at all
on the prefent occafion, was an camel will: to uphold
the charafter and piivileges of Parliament, and to
guard againfi any innovation which might tend to
alter its eflablithed forms of roceeding, or dim',
nifh thofe powers it had always enjoyed and exer-
cikd. He had no objeftion to concur in a motion,
having for its objeft to give thole Gentlemen further
time till Tuefday, tolnake up their minds—bu' his
objeft was not fo much the accommodation of had:-
viduals, as to maintain the privileges of the Hoirfc.
itfelf.

Mr. FRANCIS hoped, in the mean time, that
Gentlemen who fhould come to vote upon that quef.
don, would come fully prepared to make up their
minds upon the fubjeEt, by rendering themfelves .af-
ters of the whole evidence upon the cafe.
Lord NIARSHAM'S Motion was then agreed to, and
the former Sheriffs, Rawlins and Cox, ordered to at-
tend at the Bar of the Houfe on Tucklay next.
PUBLIC I'ORCI.
Mr. WINDHAM sequeßed to know in what Rate
of progrefs the papers were for which he had moved
fame days fince, refpeEting the increafe of the Public
Force, as they were not yet laid before the Houle,
and as, without due time for their perufal, the
Houfe would not be prepared for dircullion on the
motion of which he gave notice fume days fince.
The SECRETARY at WAR laid, he could not
correelly fay, at this moment, in what Rate of pro.
grefs the papers were, but be fhould be prepared to
give the Honourable Member an anfwer by the next
meeting of the Houfe.
SPANISH PAPERS.
The CHANCELLCIR of -the EXCHEOUER
rote to apprife the Houfe, that the additional paper.:
moved for, refpeeling the conteß with Spain, would
be ready for delivery to-morrow.—Adjourned.

by. the grand hantiman and feveral bfaefhah of the
.Empire.

The Chevalier Ai:Dual:s, who milli have quitted
Locdon in confequence of the rupture between Spain
and England, is expelled zt the Hague, from whence
he will probably return to Madrid through France.
FIRROL, Dec. 26, 184.—M. I ILaN4RRt, Lieute-
siant-General in the Army, has come to take the
command of this place. Several regiments are Co
their march hither, and will augment the garrifon to
to,ooo men. The commandant of the French divi.
!ion is going to place at the difpofal of M. FILAR-
GM, 700 (carnet), who will be commanded by
French officers: cannon and ammunition are now car-
rying into the forts, and workmen are employed with
great adivity in fitting out gun-boats--the citizens
are organized into a corps, who, in cafe of need, will
concur in the defence of the place : in a word, all
thole meafures of fafety which circumftances require
are purfued. The Englifh fcmadron, confining of
ten !hips of the line and two frigates, has quitted the
anchorage of Ares, but it i. Rill in fight, and ap-
proaches the coati when the weather permits. Two
of the enemy's frigates are cruizing off the Wands of
Bayou..

Mlsasi, Jaw. 3.—We learn from Cagliari, that the
Englith fleet, canfiding of t 8 fail, under the coin.
*nand of Admiral \lessor, which for Come time had
been in tli:it hain,ur, put to lea on the ztll.

VILLA NA, JAN. G.—Letters from Conflantinople of
the loth ult. cosifit mcd by others from Odefrt, date,
that a dreadful temped which continued feventeen
days, bad taken place throughout the whole extent
of the Black Sea. Among a great number of veSels
which perilhed, there are reckoned to have been
twelve RuMan, on.: of which was a frigate, of 40
guns, having on bozrd 6.t0 troop:. No more than
a tenth part of the crews of there twelve fhips would
be laved.

FILANCIMAT. JAN 14.:—letters horn Turkey in
Eui•ope announce, that Bekir Pacha has entered Bol-
si* at the head of a confiderable body of troops, to
reduce the infurgents to obedience ; that the gervians
lave gone. or pretend to have gone into winter quar-
ters, and that the commetc:al intercourfe between
Hnigary and Servia is again open, fo that large
purchafes df cattle are made in the latter country by
the inhabitants of the former.

HAMMUROR, JAN. I t.—lt is now known that Ba•
Yon d'AassrsLDT has quitted Vienna by order of his
Court, and that this recal is a eonfequence of that of
Count de Lonlow from Stockholm, on =mint
of the refufal made by the Krim of Swims to ere-
knowledge the Imperial Dignity of the Emperor of
Aufiria.

The Ruffian lips mitt M. Vox Kam. Inmate,
arrived at Kamfchatka on the nth July. They had
touched in the courfe of their voyage at the Marque-
fa, and the S.:r dwich Wet., and were to fail for Japan
about the end of A uguil. The crews and all on board
were in perfea health.

Bt RUN, JAII. R.—The Prince, of whom the Q2een
was delivered on the 13th December, was baptized
yeaerday, in the prefence of his Majefly the King.—
Ile was prefented at the baptifinal fcnt by her Ma-
jelly the Queen Dowager, and received the name of
FREDEILIC JULIUS FLR.DIW AND LEOPOLV.