Star.
London, England, 1802-01-20 00:00:00

HOUSE OP COMMONS.

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The Hon& having met puri'uant to adjournment, and Mr.
Spetker having taken the Chair at four o'clock,
Mr. Farquhar took the oaths and his ;cat for Aberdeen, Ike.
An °dicer from the War Department prefented at the Bar,
purfuant to onlcr, an eftimate of exp:mccs of calling Out a*
embodying the Arsiith in ant.—Ordered to lie up the Taldr..

ADJOURNMENT.
The CHANCr u.os. of the Exuma:Ea Paid, that
at the !aft meeting of the Houfe he had expreffed
a doubt whether he would not have been juftified
in moving an adjournment to the time originally
intended for the clofe of the reeds, The reafons
- hich had induced him to adopt the courfe he
had previonfly purfued no longer exifted in their
fcrce, but the more ferioufly he confidered the
fubjea, the snore did he fee reafon to think, that
in agreeing to the laft fhort adjournment the Houle
ailed with their accullomed wifdom and prudence.
He was now happy in being enabled to flue, that
the caufes to which he had then alluded were com-
pletely removed. He had, however, to notice,
with confiderable anxiety, that an expeCtation had
been excited of an explanation from him on the
fubjea at the prefent meeting. Nothing, lie was
Pure, which had ever fallen from him could at all
juftify fuch an ezpeaation, and he trufted that the
difappointment arifing from an unfounded ru-
mous would be prodnative of no difadvantageous
act's. Silence is matters of great national con-
, cern, and of fo important and delicate a nature,
did not, by any means, neceffarily fuppofe any
with for concealment. The Houle and the public
were aware that there were many fubjeas which
I could not, with propriety, be difelofed, unlefs
fuch a difclofure was caUed for by imperious ne-
ceffity ; and aging on this principle, the Houfe
had, in Many cafes, abflained from preffing for in-
formation, however dcfirable. Thus far he had
judged it expedient to explain the conduft which
he was determined to purfue to prevent mifcon-
cepion : but as to tbs fubjea itfelf, he did not
thank any Parliamentary explanation necefary,
and too little could not be Paid upon it. He
therefore moved, that the Houfe fhould, at its
riling, adjourn to Tuefday the td of February. It
was lomewhat later than he had propofed at;the
former meeting of the I but he hoped no
inconvenience could refult from the alteration.

The motion being put from the Chair,
Mr. ELLIOTT rote to esprefs hi; furprize at the
motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman for adjourn-
ing the Houle to lo dißant a day as the ;d of Fe-
bruary, without deigning any communication to
the /ionic upon :hofe important fubjeas now pend-
ing, which could not be contemplated withoutex.
citing the utmo:l folicitude and ftrious alarm in
the public mind. If the Right Hon. Gentleman
judged it inexpedient to make to the Honfe any
communication relative to the pending negocia-
tion fur peace, that was another fubjat which
could not fail to excite alarm in the mind of every
nom anxious fur the maritime fuperiority and co-
lott1;i1 poll-atolls of this country in the Weft-Indies.
There was no man who contemplated, thole great
national ajcils, who could contemplate without
alarm the formidable force lent out by the enemy
to that quarter of thr a force unparalleled
there in any, ',Arty uor 'annals. He was ss Wing
to give his Mishirs Mitaifters crtry 4u: degree 1

of credit fur exerting a proper degree of vigilance
on this occation, and for having afted in every
manner as they thought necelfary. But W it was
argued that the (late of the French Weft-India
Hands required a ftrong militaty force to reduce
them to order, it could not furely be argued that
it was necelfary to accompany that military force
by a naval armament (till more formidable. It
never could be argued that do. maritime ilrength
of the Blacks in ilte French Welt-Indies was fuch
as to require a fleet of twenty-five or thirty fail of
the line for its Subjeaion. kilf he could not fuppofe
fuch a force neceffary for any proper purpofe, he
could as little fuppofe that his Maiefty's Minitters
had omitted attending oldie ncetilltry communi-
cations on the fubjeft. But if fuel, a force was fens
without their knowledge and concurrence, during
the negociation of a definitive treaty of peace, he
could not hefitate to fay the French Government
afted with duplicity, and *tuft have had defigns
obvioufly hogile. If his Majefty's Minitters, by
negleding the neceffary tlioulations on the preli-
minary treaty, hadleft Fr. nee at liberty to adopt
fuch a flep, and France fhould now be inclined to
break off the treaty and to renew holilities, his
Mijefty's Minifters mutt have molt culpably failed
in the vigilance it was their duty to have exerted, if ,
they had omitted the preparations 'weary to coun-
I teraft any hoftile projeas of France in that quarter
of the world. Suppose that any difference fhould
arife in the pending negotiation upon any point in
difcuffion, even of the greateft importance to die in-
melts of this country, (and it was.by no means un-
reafonable to In ppofe fuch a difference p o ffible, ) how
would the Noble Lord entrufted with that nego-
ciation on the part of England be fupported in
pretling fuch a point with firmnefs ? With what
influence could Lord Cornwallis urge any argu-
ment againft the demands of !ranee on Inch a
point, for inftance, as the divifiOn of the Gnianas,
at a moment when France has been permitted to
eftablith fo formidable and fuperior a force in the
Weft Indies ? If hoftilities ihould be re-com-
menced, France would now be found to have efta-
bliffied fuch a degree of force in that quarter of
the globe as to oblige this country to meet it
there by adequate itrength ; and if fo, he fhould
be glad to Mk, where was the triumph of thole
Gentlemen who boalled fo much of the cheapnefs
of peace ? France by this ftroke had gained all
the had before wifhed or afferted—the freedom of
the teas, and the jundion of a great maritime
force in that quarter of the world mot formi-
dable to England, where the would he enabled,
fhould !madams recommence, to ftrike a blow
molt fatal to our interefts. Such was the flota-
tion of this country at the day upon which the
Right Honourable Gendernau deemed all com-
munication unneceffary. He was not, however,
without the thong& reliance, that, thould the
defigns of the enemy be really hoftile, he would
be ultimately defeated. Such, however, was the
charafter of the enemy with whom we had to
cope, that it was th.: duty of his Majefty's Mini-
tiers to be unceatiugly vigilant to meafure our
emergencies, in ordcr to ..dapt to them an adequate
force. Our emergencies at the preterit critic were
indeed preffing ; we had to deal with an enemy
who was
,all vigilance, all defign, all energy, all
adivity. We could not repofe with fafety for a
moment, nor leave open a crevice into which the
enemy would not endeayour to iminnate himfelf.
His obvious purpofe was univerfal don.inion, and
in purfuit of this we had the molt a v :ou 5 proofs
he would tote no opportunity to avail himfelf of
ftrength or aratagem. No caution, therefore, was
too great, nqr any vigilance too pointed towards
Inch an antagonift •• nor could he think it was ex-
peeing too much from his Majefty's Minillers, that
Come communication would have been made this
day on a topic which, in the prefent ftate of af-
fairs, had excited fo much of ferions and alarm-
ing apprehenfion in the public mind.
Lord HAWICESBUItY, though he wifhed at all
times to pay refpeh to what:ver opinion might
fall from the Honourable Gentleman,yet he mull
regret that his fpecch, jult delivered, did not ap-
pear entitled to his ufual ellimation. It was a
fpeech of war, and not of peace • it was a fpeech,
not of censure to his Majelly's knitters for any
error in the terms of negociation that might im-
pede or prevent the conclufion of a peace, but it
was a fpeech rather expreffive of a with that the
preliminaries thould fail altogether, and therefore
he did not think the queftion put by the Honour.
able Gentleman entitled to much notice, as the
whole of his fpeech was direftly in oppofition to
the fentiment which had been repeatedly declared
the fence of that Houfe, namely. the Ipeedy efts-
blifliment of a peace with France on honourable,
advantageous, and tatting grounds. The Honour.
able Gentleman refitted that fentiment, and the
condua of the French Government continued to
be marked by new fymptoms of hoftility. This
he denied, and declared that if any fuch fymp-
toms had really been obvious, it would have been
the determination, as it would have been the duty
of his Majefty's knitters, to have met fuch
fymptoms by firm refiftance. But if France had
difpofed of a Confiderable (hare of her public
force in fending them to the Weft Indies pending
the definitive treaty; was it to be forgotten that
this country had alto difpofed of a very principal
&are of her public force by removing them from
Egypt home, and thus increafed confiderably her
own means f defeoce in the event of failure to
that treaty ? But if in the condua of the French
Government fending loch a force to the Welt In-
dies there excited no obvious fymptom of holtility
to England, either by' fending a ftrength greatly dif-
proportioned to the grilling neoeffity, or by any
all which could fairly warrant fuch a conclitfion,
he begged leave to faj it was not fairly tior libe-
rally drawn. He would go further, and fib that
notwithftanding the negligence imputed to his
Majefty's Minitters on this occafion, a communi•
cation seas had with the French Government
upon the fubjea ; what that communication was
he hoped it was not expefted he thonld now be
called to 'late. But if any thtvg hoftile had really
appeared to exill on the part of France, he hoped
the Houfe and the Country would give his Ma-
jefty's Minillers credit for having' eierted every
occeflary degree of vigilance, and having bein

amply prepared for fach a refl.& The Honour.
able Gentleman had expreffed his fufpictons that
a proper degree of force was not dispatched fut
the Welt Indies, to be ready for any emergency
that might occur in that quarter. But how did
the Honourable Gentleman know what reps his
Majelly's Minitkers had adopted in that quarter,
or how many, or what (hips might be fent thither,
or from whence difpatched ? The Honourable
Gentleman too expretTed his unwil;ingnefs to cen-
cure Milliners on this ground without proof. He
(hould at lean, theretore, have waited the proof
before he pronounced the centime. The Honour-
able Gentleman ailed too with what degree of
firmnefs Lord Cornwallis would now maintain
any point of importance to England in the pei:d.
ing negociation, it refitted on the part of the
French Government ? But he would anfwer, that
he knew no event to have occurred fince the com-
mencement of the treaty that would prevent Lord
Cornwallis from ufing a language as bold, and
tone as firm at this moment upon any point in 1-

difeitilion on the part of Great Britain, any more
than if no fuch occurrence had taken place.—
Maintaining, therefore, the opinion he had already
exprefred of the Honourable Member's fpeech, he
did not think it entitled to the communication it
claimed.

Dr. LAWRENCE profefred himfelf by no means
fatisfied with the explanation given by the Noble
Lord, and could not help confidering the language
which he had employed extremely ttrange, when
he ailtrted, that an Honourable Member who had
spoken before him was not entitled to the fame de-
gree of attention, becatrfe on the fubjea of the
peace his fentiments happened to differ from thofe
which Minifters entertained. This was indeed ex-
traordinary language in the mouth of any Mini-
fter, that trecanfe a Member of the Houfe was not
of the fame opinion with himfelf, his fentiments
were to he in a great meafure difregarded, or at
leaft treated with comparative levity. He had, on
a former occafion, expreffed his own opinion of
the peace, and he wished to GOD that he now raw
any reafon to rctraa what he had then laid of the
perilous fituation in which it placed the country ;
but he had to regret, thtit to him every danger
Teemed to be encreafed in a ten-fold degree. Was
his opinion on this account to be treated with ne.
&lea ? He could not difcover any reafon to juflify
fuels a mode of confidering the importance of the
opinions which Members thought it their duty to
deliver in the lioufe; but having Lid fo much, he
had farther to ()Verve, that the Noble Lord had
wholly mifreprefented what the Honourable Gen-
tleman had advanced in his fpcech. So far was he
from affirming that the French would take this op.
portunity of renewing hoftilities, that he had af.
!cried in the molt direa terms they would be anxi-
ous to isvoid all appearance of hoftilities till they
had completed the fettlement of their colonies.—
Equally erroneous was what the Noble Lord had
fuppofed, that the Honourable Member viewed a
change of the diftribution of force, while a Defini-
tive Treaty was pending, as evidence of hoftility.
Such a manftrous propofition as this had never
been laid down by the Honourable Member in the
courfe of the obfervations he had offered to the
Houle. No one would pretend to deny that im-
portant changes might take place in the diftribn.
tion of the force of the refpeaive nations while a
negocintion for peace was at ifrue, but it would at
the fame time be allowed, that whatever altered the
fituation of the one power? ought to be viewed by
the other with jealoufy, and provided againft with
cautba. This was precifely the principle which
the Honourable Member had laid down, and which
clearly applied to the change produced in the fitu-
ation of France by the failing of the French fleet.
A formidable force had left the ports of France
for the Weft Indies, and the queffion naturally
came to be, whether fuch an immenfe force was at
all neceirary to accomplifh the purpofe for which
the expedition had oftenfibly been prepared ? For
himferf, he molt confcientioufly believed that it was
not neceffary, and all the information he had been
able to collet% on the ruble& confirmed the juftnefs
of this opinion. In his communications with the
mother country, Tnuffaint did not pretend to deny
the dependency of the colony; his Aide-du-camps
addrefred the Agents of the French Republic in
America in Inch a manner as evinced their depen-
dence, and dependence had been acknowledged in
cafes which were decided in the Admiralty Courts
of this country. In this view of the fubjea it was
impoifible to believe that fuch a force was at all
necetrary for the purpofe of enforcing the obedience
of the Blacks in St. Domingo to the authority of
the mother country. He would not indeed pretend
to deny that the French Government might be de.
firous of placing the depehdence of the colony on
a fccurer footing. But aiimitting this, could any
one ferioufly believe,or gravely affirm,tbat twentr
fix fail of the line were neceffary to effea this ob.
jea ? The thing was impoffible. It might be faid,
indeed, that France was much in the habit of con.
veyiug troops in Oaips of the line, and this was cer-
tainly true to a certain degree, but could not be
confidered in the prefent inflame as any reafon for
employing fo very formidable an armament. The
Honourable and Learned Gentleman, after Mu*
[hating a little this idea, made force pointed re-
marks on the danger to which our Welt India poff.
feffions were expoled, fuppofing the intentions of
the French to be holtile. He particularly alluded
to the cafe of Jamaica, and after noticing the di.
vifion of the Spanifh and French forces, the former
being defined to Cuba and the latter to St. Do-
mingo, he expreffed his fears that if they had any
4ftile views, the fettlement might be wrefted from
us before a Br;tifh fleet could arrive to difconcert
their defigns. But admitting that a fleet could
protect the fafety of Jamaica., againft any fudden
attack from St. Domingo, he proceeded to afle,
what would be the effea of two fleets in oppofite
Rations watching each others motions with a spirit
of fitfpicion and judo* f—The effea would be
what it had been found to be in all fimilar cafes;
it would fpeedtly lead to a renewal of hoftilitiss.
But id contemplating the confequences of filch a
diftribution of our naval force, and confidering it
merely as a burden, he begged to know, whether
we ought not to prt:tvd, againfi any danger to
which the ragtag of the Wrench. asenatnent would

expofe at, and to avoid any national expense
which a proper degree of caution might render tin-
neceffary ? Ought we not to obtain.from the enemy
come tea of their pacific difpufitions, and was not
this above all others what the country defired ?
Such a tell he was perfuaded could be obtained ;
and be contended that Milliners were bound to
xnaks4lication for Come pledge which might
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tea ain't any all of hidden haility. Malta
or the Cape might be retained in our polfeßiou till
the French fleet was reduced to that number which
would render it confident with our fecurity. He
profeffed not to know whether Mini Ren bad made
any application of this kind ; but, if any applica-
tion had been made, he could not by any means
ice the propriety of any further filence on the part
of Minifters, fence, if any thing could be effeded
in the way of remonftrance, it could only be effect-
ed through the medium of the deliberative wifdom
and fpirited fupport of the Houfe. After going
at fomewhat more length into this idea, the Ho.
nourable and Learned Member concluded by mov-
ing, on this ground, that the Houfe fhould only
adjourn till Tuefday next.
The ATTODUSVGIIIZRAL Paid, that the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman who (poke LIR, appeared
to him to have taken a very imperfedt meafure of
his duty. If he thought, as he profelled indeed,
that the ratification of the Preliminary Articles
of Peace would place this country in a fituation
from which it cannot recover, it was his duty as
a Member of the Houfe of Commons, nut only to
interpofe every difficulty in the way of peace, but
alfo in the way of the ratification of the prelimina-
ries, the which, if he be right, was to foal the
doom of his country. Indeed, he believed the
conduit of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to
be more confident than he profeffed it to be,for he
had, by his fpeech, given the peace as much ob-
ftrudion this day, as there was force in that fpeech.
If any body doubted this inference, he would ark,
what was the praCtical effea to which this fpeech
was direfted ? For although he
.gave it no direc-
tion, although he drew no inference, or made no
conclufion from it, Rill it mull be taken for grant-
ed that be aimed at fomething; his fituation, his
talents, his gravity, mutt induce all who knew
him, to fuppole that he had a drift in it. It was
not for the purpofe of amufing himfelf with (peak-
ing—then what was the purpofe ?—what the oh-
jeft ?—What but to try whether Minillers could be
compelled to utter what they might not to utter ?
To try whether they would not be fo weak as, un-
der a feeble irritation, to difclofe meafures under
a negotiation, Moll prematurely, pending a treaty.
Such a Rate of thiags had always, hitherto, been
deemed to be fiifficient reafon for filence on the
part of Mini (ler% and alfo had, hitherto, been
conlidered as a fufficient excufc for the Houfe of
Commons, anxious for the true intereft of its Con-
ftituents, not to call for tech premature difclofure,
for it might poffibly be much to the difadvantage
of the country, and yet the only practical condo-
bon that could be drirrn was, that the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman called on Miditters to make
that difeloture now—that was to fay, he called
upon Minifters to difclofe that, upon which, in its
prefent Rate, it was their duty to be (dent. and
which it was the real intereft of the country !build
not be now difclofed. That was the practical in-
ference to be drawn from the fpeech of the Learn-
ed Gentleman.-=-In a word, the drift plainly was,
to prevent the fuccefs of the prefcnt negotiation for
a definitive treaty of peace. So much for the
fpeech, and the object of the fpeech, of the Learn-
ed Gentleman who (poke lall.—How had the other
Honourable Gentleman who preceded him, aimed
in this cafe ? He had fpoken in a manner Which
he mull take leave to fay, was not decent in a cafe
like this ; for there was a decency of language,
and a decorum of manner to be obferved on fuch
important occalions; which might be difpenfed
with in cafes of inferior magnitude and folemnity.
To impute fraudulent pradhces, and bate artifice
to a power with which ism were treating for per-
manent tranquillity, *as not the way to conduit,
with Propriety, the proteedings of fuch a place as
the Houle of Commons : the general fpirit of the
Houfc of Commons was too liberal to approve of
this fort of infinuation, and its conduit had been
snore tolerant until the prefent moment. He hum-
bly fubmitted to the Houfe, that the whole of this
condo& which was profeffed net ao be an inter-
ruption of the work of peace, could have no other
rational objeft (and he could not impute to fuch
perfons as the Learned and Honourable Members
who had fpoken on the other fide, any irrational
objeft) than to interrupt the progrefs of the pre-
fent depending Treaty of Peace, which ((peaking
the language of dick Gentlemen) was to be feared,
that is to be feared by them, as being too near a
conclufion. The motives of the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman who (poke lull were rational,
his objeas were rational, and there could he no
other) for no other was rational as applicable to his
fpeecb) than that of throwing as much otiftruftion
as he was able, in the way of a Negociation Pet on
foot under the faniftion of the Houk of Commons,
and the fuccefs of which was wilted for by almoft
the total mars of the inhabitants of this Country.
Such a motive, he apprehended, would not re-
ceive the alfcnt of that Houfe.
Mr. T. Jos s s (Denbigh).-44 Much as I have
approved the conduct of Minillers in their endea-
vours to give us peace, I cannot concur with them
in this particular meafure. I can only compare it
to a blot in the fun to let the French armament fail
in fuch force before the Definitive Treaty (a kragb).
It has already produced domeftic evil; an evil
which, thank GOD, is now over, and in the fup-
preffion of which I thank the Fara Lord of the
Admiralty for his wifdom and decifion. Much,
however, as I difapprove of the advantage which
France has obtained in fending fuch a force to the
Well Indies, I fhould have remained filent were
it not for tome words that have fallen from the
Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite to me, at
the head of the foreign department (Lord Hawkef-
bury ). He lays that the armament failed with
the knowledge of Government, and he Rates, what
1 think he will not be able to prove, that the fail-
ing of that fleet will enable the refpeftable Noble-
man to whom the interells of the country are con-
fided in the arrangement of the Definitive Treaty

at Amiens, to hold a higher and a loftier tone than
be could have done before that event took place.—
(A cry of " No, so," fro** Treafury Basch). I
beg pardon W I have mißated him, but I really
underflond the Right Hon. Gentleman to fay, that
the Noble Perfonage would be able to ufe higher
language than he couldelo prior to that occafion. I
cannot comprehend how Inch a meafure could pro-
duce Inch an effeft. It doecnot make the French,
it is true, treat with the Clifford aauallyintheirhand,
but henceforth they will *eat in a manner no leis
impofing and commanding. They will treat with
a volt force in the Weft ladies,. I fay then, that
there lhould hAve been tome communication upon
the fubjeft, inftead of theft jetty fejSoar (a 1410).
I think fuch a conduit, on the part ,of Minitters,
would have been much more prudent, for, be
things as they may, truth is beR atoll times. There
are rumours and rumours of wars, po the difad-
vantage of Minitlers, which a communication
might have removed. There is another point,
which I mutt take the liberty to notice. • • What-
evir the objea of the French armament may be,
we muff fend out another. This will induce a
heavy expence. The people will fay, we have not
peace, we have only an armed truce: Now, if
this is to be the cafe • if the French are to be fend.
ing out fleets from cafe;
and the Texel, and if we
are to be fending out other* tome from Pont-
mouth, and others from Plymouth, to watch them,
I (hall, perhaps, be myfelf Cony, for having been
an admirer of peace and plenty ; of peace and
plenty, not in the real meaning of the terms; for,
as fuch, they are good things ; but of a peace,
fenced round with armed troops; and plenty,
without bread."

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Mr. MARKHAM! adverted io the alarm which
learned Member had exprefred, refpeding the di-
vlion of the Spanilh and French forces, if an at.
tack on Jamaica were meditated from St. Domin-
go or Cuba, and contended that, this alarm was
altogether founded in tnifcmiception. To con-1
vince the Houfe of this, he had only to (late to the
Houfe that Jamaica was much farther to the
windward, and an Englifh fleet could eafily defeat
their defigns.
Mr. TTRWPIITT reprobated the idea of an opi-
nion going abroad, that the French could bike
a blow in the WeR Indies before a Britifh fleet
could arrive to difconcert their defigns; Tome
Gentlemen fcemed to reafon as if the French were
adually commiffioned to attack our fettlernents
immediately on their arrival, and as if Minifteru
had taken no precautions againß any at of un-
forefcen hoßility. He faw no reafon, however,
to doubt the prudence and caution of Miniilers,
and the former +Marie' of Britith feamen precluded
all anxiety about the refult, If unfortunately it
was found necefary to rerume hoßilities.
Mr. ELLIOTT explained what he had Paid t.n that
fubjed.
The queflion Wai put on the amendment of
Do for LAWILIPICE, and negatived; and then the
original Motidti Was put, and carried without a
divufion.
TheCmasicittis. oftheExensopsathenutoved,
That there be laid before the Houk an Account, (hewing
how the Money given he the Service at dot had been dif
paled of, diltingulibin the diligent parts nailer their several
heads, &e.—Ordered.
Alto, an Account of the DiAribudon of Two Millions and
a Half, 'ranted to his Majeft teethe fetvlee of the Army for
iloa, made by the General of his Majefty's Forces :
An Account of the diftribudon of Two oiw, granted
by an AO of the latt Salon of Parliament, toe the isks and
purpofes therein mentioned :
An FAUtnate of the Debt an his Majc*y'a Navy, on the silt
of December 28os :
An Amount of the Bounty paid an Corn, Meal, Hour, and
Lee, sound into Great Detain, in whence of kraal
Ads of NrSimm at the alt of his gam Majefty, up to
the sth of Jemmy, dol......Oricred.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer then moved,
Thai the Order of the Day fee the Rode to refolve Welt
into! ec of the whale Hoofs, to confider further of
a y granted to his Majefty be now read; whisk beteg
done, be moved that it be ditcharged ; which being ordered,
be moved, That tie Haute do, an Wedretclay the 3d of
Febatary neat? ietelve Welt into the fail Commkteep-.oe-
dered.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer then gave
notice, That on Wednefday the 3d of February,
in a Committee of Supply, he &odd move for the
advance of an additional fum of money for the
Extraordinaries of the Army.
The Committee of Ways and Means was alfo
deferred until Wednefday the 3d of February.
About a quarter paft five the Houfe adjourned
to Tuefday the ad of February next.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY so.