Star.
London, England, 1806-06-21 00:00:00

• HOUSE GF COMMONS.

The SPF AKTR, with fereral Members, having attended in tlie
Hoer of beers, to hcu his MaJelty's Comnuilion read for denls-
rl
Y the Royal Agent to certain bills, on his return reported that
Royal Allent bad been declared to the reveral Bills mentioned
i.. our Rayon( of the Lords.
rile Afraid Tains Bill, the Irilb Mine Bill, the Duke of Graf-
t .n's Agreement bill, the Pruißan Yarn Rill, and the Gibraltar
and Mall Patage bill, were read a third time, puffed, and or-
dered to the Lords.

Lord .11IMPLE moved the order of the day for the further
eemidenhion of the American latereourfe Bill- The Houle ac-
cordingly rerolved hi It into a Committee on the;Bill, when
the ate..admenta propufed on a former night by Mr. Alderman
PRIIaSEP were adopted, aad the Bill ordered to be reported to-
htorfow.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that there
be Liid before the Houle a Copy of the Report of the Compttol-
r of Army A cc,unts with refpcd to the mode to which the Ac-
counts of Mr. 'lrrutttr were made up, tor ther with a Copy of the
Minute of the Bo .rd of f reafury thereon; alto, of two Minutes
of the Board of Trcafury on the accounts of Mr. Pierce, Army
Ciuthier fur troops on :I& C:ondncat...-.Ordered.
Mr. CHARLES WYNN• preferued, partnere to order, Copies
of Re. erns made "by Lorda Lirtitenanta of Counties, relpetting
the Sta,c of Yeortunry C.rps —Ordered to be printed.
The ioniser enefidt mina of the Grain lutrecuurfe Bill was de-
ferr,d lid this day I.:n.,ight.
l'apar, treu:, unit Affairs were prefented, and ordered
to itc upun he rowv.
11., !nth !,:uca;ion Bill rod the trith Bpbft Licence Bill were
sun a recant; eintcond commit:rd.

Mr vAwsrrrAßT prrefeoted Reports on the Experiments on
Matting eon). Ordered to lie on the table.
The further eonfideration of the Affadled Turn Allowance 8111
was peltpened to Tuefday.
The Contatittec of Supply was alto poßponed till Tudday,and
coefequentBr As fraction for the Army Extrsonlinaries.
The Committee' of Ways and Means was poltposed till
Monday.
Mr. ALEXANDER gave notice, that he lhould on Monday
move for leave to bong in a Bill for the better Regulation of blec-
lions in England.
The Houfe pro:ceded to take Into confideration the Cullom.
Houk Pees and Hai lays Abolition Bill. , The blanks (or except-
ed Days were filled up with the words " Xing Charles's Reßora-
don, his Maiefly's Coronation. their Majeltics' Birth-days, and
tams Birth-day of his Royal Highnefs the Pellet of Wales ;"
and the Bill ordered to be engrolleJ, and read a third time en
Monday.
FIRST CHARGE AGAINST MAREU/IS WELLESLEY.
Mr. PAULL moved, that the &ft charge againft
Marquis Wellefley be printed.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY oppofed the mo-
tion, and obferved, that it was pretty extraordinary
that the Honourable Gentleman thould now move for
printing this charge, which, three months ago, the
Houfe had by its vote ordered to be printed, and af-
terwards refcinded that rote. The printing at that
time, when there was a profpeEt that the charge
might have beets taken into confideration in the
courts of this Seflion, would have been perfettly fair
and reafonable, compared with inch a meafure at this
late period of the Seffion, when there was no probabi-
lity this fubjeft could be taken into tontideration, and
when the charge, if printed, would not be for the
confideration of the hlembers, but for the purpofe of
going forth to the whole country, as one of the moll
heavy and criminal charges againft his 'Noble Rela-
tion that ever had been brought againft any man in
a public fituation • when afterwards it would depend
entirely upon the 9difcretion of the Honourable Gen-
tleman, whether lie fliould move the Houfe to take
it into confideration next &Ilion or not. He objeeted
to the motion alto in point of order, as the Honour.
able Gentleman had not given any previous notice of
fuch a motion.
Mr. PAULL did not conceive himfelf under any
neceffity of giving filch previous notice, by the rules
and orders of the Houle, and pet filled in his motion.
He difclaimed any loch motive as that imputed to
him by the Hon. Relative of the Noble Lord, and
' faid, that he moved for the printing now, becaufe it
would be impeflible to underhand the folic& with a
view to its confideration, unlefs Members were ena-
bled to compare the evidence lance laid on the table
with the feveral particulars of the charge, in order
to fee hoar, the charge was fopported.
Mr. SPEAKER explained the praCtiee lately dia.
bliffied by the fettle of the Houle, and conceived,
that, agreeably to that pra&icr, the Hon. Gentle-
man's motion could not lie entertained. But it was
for the difcrction of the Houfe to dire& what fhould
be dose.
A converfation of tome length, upon the ruble&
of praelice and ufage, on this point, enfued between
Lord Foixtrrons, Mr. hum., Mr. Roar, Sir JOHN
WROTTESLEY, Mr. WINDH•M, and Mr. STURGIS
Boultita ; the refuit of which was, that Mr. PAULL
withdrew his motion, and gave notice for Tuefday
next.
Mr. PAULL then moved for a Copy of any Ap-
plication made by the Nabob Vizier to Marquis Wel
lefley for a Loan of to,ooo rupees, from June to
Auguft. tBog. Ordered.
Mr. PAULL then (laced, that General Sir James
Craig, a principal Wharfs in the Charge againfi the
Marquis Wellelley, appeared, by the certificate of
his Phyficians, to be at prefent confined to his apart.
ments in fo ill a (late of health as to he utterly una-
ble to attend and give his evidence before that Houfe.
According to precedents, then, he moved, "that the
Honourable Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, Mr.
HOBHOUSE, and Mr. PAULL have leave to pro-
ceed to the Houfe of Sir James Craig, to take his ex-
amination." Ordered—And " that a Committee be
appointed to prepare queftions to be put to Sir James
Craig ; and that they take his examination, and re-
port hs anfwers to the Houfe; and that the raid
Gentlemen be the faid Committee."
GENERAL TRAINING DILL.
Mr. WINDHAM having moved the leered reading of the Ge-
neral Tr lining Bill,
Mr. RYDER Rated it to be his underftanding,, in now reading
the Bill a fccond time, taut after going through a Committee, it
was to he re committed, for the purpofe of ambling Gentlemen,
after it hod come forth In the molt unexceptionable fhape, to Rate
their objedlions to the principle of the Bill. He urged this the
more firongly, as one Honourable Friend of his, formerly at the
bead of the War Department, had gone out of town on this un-
derßanding.
Mr. FOX declared, that he had never given any reafon to fop.
pore that he would content to the delay of a meafure like the pre-
ftrit. If, however, any Hon Gentlemen had left town under fuck
mifeonception, he Ihnutd he forty to pret. the Bill forward more
than was ahfolutely neceffary.
Mr. PERCEVAI. underftood it to be by no means ihtended
that the Bill fhould be ret,rded. but that an opportunity mould
11 be given of go tog through the Committee pr. /woo, this night,
that it timid be recommitted on Come future day, and be then dif•
ertf..d.
After tome farther explanation between Mr. FOX, Mr. PER-
CEVA 1., and Mr. WINDFI l ht, the Bill was read a fccond time,
and committed. The Report was received, and oa the motion
fur c iti tF it Into farther confideration on Tuefday,
N Ir. ROSE fuggelted Wedricfday as being the better day, the
Amcri:an Intercourfe Bill (landing for Tuefday.
Sir R. BUXTON thought it advlfable that the Bill fhould conic
forward as early as poflible, many Gentlemen being anxious to get
to tae country, which they could not do till fu Important a Bill as
this bad received a fair difcullion.
The farther confileration of the Report was then fixed for
Tucfday.

MAISCVIS WELLESLEY.
Mr. PAULL m.‘ved the order of the day for the
Houfe refolving itfelf into a Committee for the fur-
ther confideration of the charges againft Marquis
Wellefley.
Lord FOLKSTONE, before the Houle fhould re-
folve itfelf into a Committee upon this filbjedl, wifhed
to call the :onfideration of the Houle to a fubjeEt
which flrongly affected his own mind. He thought
that from the great extent of the evidence on both
fides, upon thqfe feveral charges, it would he utterly
impoaible for Members to have fu fficiently confidered
the nature of that evidence, to enable them to come
to a deliberate decifion upon thole charges in the pre.
fent Scilion. He was of opinion, theretore, that the
beft way to proceed would be to have the evidence
fully gone through in the prefent Sefton, and that
all the documents adduced on both fides fhould he
printed for the ufe of the Members, who, in the
coorfe of the reeds, would have an opportunity 01
confidering and weghing the thellitnony maturely
and might come the better reared, on the meeting.
of the enfuing &Eon, to give a clear, deliberate, and ,
decided vote on the fulska.
Mr. PAULL fignified his own determination to

prod with the [Arne unremitting indollry he had
hitlerto done, and that it would not be his fault if
the Oude charge was not completely gone through
in he prefent Seflion. He appealed to the linalfe,
wkether any thing in his conduft on the occafion
locked like a with to delay proceedings ; on the con-
tray, he had afted in this cafe with an indultry and
efiet unparalleled in the annals of Parliament, and
lad before the Houle three diltinet charges of High
Crimes and Mifdemeanours againft Marquis Wellef-
lee, and produced the documents, voluminous as they
were, and difficult and embarrafling as it had been
to bring them forth in fupport of thole charges. It
was not to him, but to the Noble Lord near him
(Lord Temple) that the delay was imputable, of not
having brought the prefent charge forward upon the
rath inilead of the 18th of the prefent month : and
when the Noble Lord had mentioned his own inten-
tion to bring it forward on the 18th, with a view, as
he underßood him, to a final decifion upon that day,
feeling, as he did, that filch a decifion would be
im-
poftible upon a fair confederation of the whole body
of evidence he had to produce, he had declared that
he would take no part in the proceeding of the Noble
Lord, and that he never would, until the whole of the
documents for which he moved upon each particular
charge, were laid upon the table, move one inch to
the right or to the left, Rawer or quicker, than fuited
the perfed convenience of his purpofe. But, as the
conlideration of a charge in very important, in
Houle' fo very thinly attended, was utterly inconfif:
tent with any poffibility of due deliberation, he would
be obliged, late as it was in the Sefton, to move for
a Call of the Houle, in order to enforce an atten-
dance, as confiltent with the decorum of Parliamen-
tary proceedings, as with the effence of Parliamentary
jultice. The three charges he had brought forward
were undoubtedly charges of very great importance;
but there was a fourth charge, not yet brought for-
ward, flill more important, and which he could not
well bring forward before next Sefton, namely, that
of depofing the Princes of Saffni and Cajowlah. He
concluded by repeating his molt earned and eager
with for as fpeedy a decifion upon the whole of the
charges as was confillent with the due ends ofjuffice.
Lord TEMPLE difclaimed having ever expreffed
a with or an intention to profs the Houfe to a final
decifion on the fubjeft on any given day.
Here the converfation ended, and the Houfe re-
folved id& into a Committee, and proceeded to the
lexamination of evidence.
Mr. HOBHOUSE then took the Chair, and Mr.
Cowper was called in, and examined at the Bar on the
Oude Chaige. ft appeared that Mr. Cowper was a
Member of the Supreme Council of Fort William in
Bengal, in the years 3798-9 and iBOO. A variety of
queftions were then put by Mr. PAULL and Sir A.
WELLESLEY. A queßion of the IA Honour-
able Member "refpefting Mr. Cowper's opinion of the
meaning of the treaty ot 1798, with the Nabob, was
objedled to by Mr. WALLACE, on the ground, that
the document was already before the Houle, and that
every Member was at liberty to form his own opi-
nion on the fubjeft. Sir A. WELLESLEY then
agreed to withdraw his queltion. In the courfe of
the examination, it appeared that the province of
Oude, ender the Nabob, had been is a Rate of great
anarchy and diforder.
From a queltion by Mr. WALLACE, it appeared
to be the opinion of the witners, that a charge of by-
pocrify. rapine, oppreffion, and murder againlt Mar-i
qois Wellefley, would be heard with afionifhment and
indignation by the people of India, as well natives as
Europeans. He alto bore teßimony to the high cha-
rafter of the Honourable H. Wellefley. On a qua.
tion from Mr. HURST, be Paid, that he confidered
the interference of Marquis Wellefley in the affairs of
Oude, as proper and neceffary ; and approved of all
his condo& in that interference.

Mr. Riley was then examined, who had been in a
judicial fituation at Oude. Nothing of great impor-
tance, as affeBing Marais WeHaley, was extra red
from his examination, «•
Major Oufeley was then examined: he had long
refided at Lucknow, and was in the habits of inti-
mate acquaintance with the prefent Nabob, in whole
employment he is at prefent. As to his general eha-
rafter, he fisted, that be was a man of dignified man-
ners, and very princely deportment; that he was
well veiled in all the literature of the Eaft, and was
polkaed of an excellenttafie in architeAure and other
arts; and that in private life he was foeial, and fond
of horfes, of hunting, and of all field amufements.
Notwithfianding the intimate acquaintance that the
witnefs had with him, he never law any great depref
lion of fpirits in him on account of the changes in-
troduced by Marquis Wellefley. His cavalcade was
not quite fo great as that of his predecellor Afuf
Dowla, but it was better appointed. He had now
in his (tables about three thoufand of the finefi borfes,
inchlding about Igo Arabian (addle holies. He had
about 1300 elephants, and in all the other expences
of his hate he was more fiimptituus than before ' • he
went to more expence in building palaces, and for-
nifliing them ; and, upon the whole, according to
his opinion, had had no reafon to be diffatisfied with
the change. He had, it was true, changed his tur-
ban for a while, and fuffered his beard to grow,
which in that country was confidered as a fign of
affliffion ; but fince that time lie had appeared per-
hely reconciled. When Holkar invaded the Douhab,
he advanced ten lacks of rupees (about too,000l.) of
his own free will, to enable Lord Lake's army to
march againli him, and there was no left than
400,0001. colleßed at Lucknow for the fame purpofe.
As to the Police that (Willed formerly at Oude, no.
thing could be worfe. It was true, there were but
few executions by law, but then it was equally cer-
tain, that there was no fecuriry either fur property
or life. The country was infetied with banditti, who
plundered or murdered thole who were not well
guarded. As an inflanre of this, he mentioned Mr.
Metcalf (fon of Sir T. Mrlcalf), who, having gone
on a hunting party from his houfe, was attacked
and maimed by fume of there banditti, although he
had all the neceffary Mahratta paffports about
him. The Nabob hunfelf requefied Marquis Wellef
ley to fuggefl to him tome improvement in the Pr.
lice and Government of his country; to which the
Marquis replied, that he would fire try, as experi-
ments, on the ceded Provinces, what he thought
would be acirrifeable, and that if they anfwered there,
the Nabob could adopt them with greater confidence.
The tendency of the remainder of the tellimony of
the wisnefs was to exculpate the Noble Marquis from
the matters charged egoista him.

some quettions were put to him, which he declin•
ed anfwering, on account of the violation that it ap •
peered to him that this would he of private friendibip
and confidence. Some of the quellions were Own
withdrawn.

Upon the examination as to the charge of the
Mancini* having kept all Europeans frcm advifing
with the Nabob during the negociatinns, the witnefs
was afked, had not the Marquis accufad Mr. Treves
of advifing the Nabob contrary to the interefts of the
Campany ? The witnefs objedled on the ground that
the anfwer might implicate the charadter of Mr.
'neves, who was then oat of England, aid in the
fervice of the Company. This objedtion was, how,
ever, at length over-ruled; and upon the witnefs be-
ing again lanced the queaion, he fubmitted another
objedlion, namely, that he had no fort of knowledge
, except from confidential letters from friends, which
he hoped the Houfe would not urge him to difclofe.
A very long debate took place in the Comnainef
refpedling this objeaion, and upon the motion of Mr.
JOHNSrONE, it was ordered that the Gallery
thou Id be cleared.
Strangers were not again admitted, but after fame
further examination of Major Oufely, and Mr. John-
(lone, the Chairman had leave to report progrefs, and
to fit again.
At a quarter before two o'clock (this morning) the
Houfe adjourned to Monday, undertlanding that the
Chair fhould be taken at three, the ordinary bufinefs
proceeded in until five, and then the examination of
witnelfes on this fubjea to be refumed.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, JUNE U.

A Cabinet Council was yefferday afternoon held at
the Foreign Office, in Downing-flreet, which was
atteraled by the LORD CNANCILLOR, Earls Star/cue.
and Morita, Lords GRINVILLS, SIDMOVTN, Howrcz,
and McNair Prrvv, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Wrsnnist.
After the Council difpatches were made up for the
Courts of St. Peterfburgh and Vienna, with which
Meals. DRESSING and PROW/MAN, the Meffengers,
have fet off, the fiat for Vienna, the latter for Pe.
terfburgb.

If the rife in the price of the funds afforded any
Pure criterion by which we might judge of the pro- •
ceedings of Government, we thould fuppofe that Come
progrels has already been made in a Negotiation for
Peace. Among the buyers at the Stock Exchange,
were Come of the known or reputed Agents for the
French houfes. From this it may be inferred that
they at leaft are perfuaded, tome overture has been
made by the French Government for pacification.—
The thing is not impoffible ; for NAPOLEON has ob-
tained the complete fovereignty of the Continent,
and before he can execute any of his foreign projeas,
the interdia impofed upon hini by our Navy muff be
removed by Tome treaty which may lull this coun-
try into a Rate of falfe feenrity. Whether overtures
ha►e aflually been made to our Government, we
cannot take upon us to hate, but we have every tea.
fon to hope they will not be liftened to, if of fuch a
nature as to involve the honour or the fafety of the
country.

We underftand that, during Lord YARMOUTH'S
fhort flay in town, he had frequent interviews with
Mr. Fox, at his Office, in Downing-fireet, a eir•
cumfiance which, in the opinion of many, gives fome
countenance to the reports in circulation.
In the City the opinion gains ground that a pa-
cification is at no great difiance. The Funds fill
keep improving. At one o'clock the pikes were as
follow : Confols for opening 631 a I—Reduced 621
a 1.--Omniutts, for Money Prices 61, and for July 61
a I—Exchequer Bills par a; dircount.

The refielt of Lord ME LVI LLy's Trial has been fo
extremely gratifying to the inhabitants of Wimble-
don, that on Wednefday evening they celebrated the
event by a Ball at the Rofe and Crown in that village.
Numerous entertainments were given on Monday
in Glafgow, in celebration of Lord MsxviLLs's ac-
quittal. On Sunday, after the idirmiffil of the parade
of the 7IR regiment upon their return from Church,
the men voluntarily gave three hearty cheers in tell.
mony of their joy on account of the fate of their
noble countryman.

On Wednefday the Magi ftrates,Town Council, and
a number of refpeltable Gentlemen of the neighbour.
hood of North Berwick, affembied in the Town hall
to celebrate the acquittal of Lord Mar.►tr.t.a. A
number of toaftt, expreffive of their approbation of
his Lordfhip's political conduet, were drank on the
occatinn, and the Volunteers fired three ►oiler.
Friday fe'nnight, the ad and 4th battalions of the
Royals marched into Glafgow, on their way from
Stirling to Ireland ; they are complete skeletons.
Same day, the ad battalion of the 73d, a Highland
Regiment, arrived at Dumfries from Peterhead.
On Thurftlay evening Itft, Mr.. incurs, had a
large party of fafhionables at her Houfe in Orchard•
(trees, Portman•fquare. •

Died, no Saturday lan, at Cheltenham, in the 43t1
year of his age, Sir WILFRED LAWSON, Bart. of BrAy-
ton•houfe and Ifell.hall, both in the county of Cum.
!Arland, the laft of the male line of one of the molt
ancient and refpeaable families in that county—dying
without if the title becomes win&

Letters from the Hague, of the date of June IS.
Rate, that on the day of- proclaiming the new Con-
Ititution to the Batavian people, a great military
force was *trembled in readinefs to prevent any dif-
torbance that might take place among the populace.
The whole ceremony,however, paired in fuller' faience,
the majority of the people having manifefted their
real fentiments more plainly by not even appearing
in the greets through the day. Though guns were
ordered to be fired, and bells to be rung, not a tingle
individual, unconnelted with the Government, could
be found to exptefs any external figns of their opi.
ninn on the fubjeel ; a kind of ftudicd condat, very
unlike apathy, which, it is Lid, has excited confi-
derable uneafinefs in the breafis of their Hugh bligt!-
tineffes.—King Louis's departure from Paris, it is
awed, has been delayed by a new indifpnlit;;.c.