Star.
London, England, 1802-06-03 00:00:00

LV'THTJAKL

BERNE, MAY 2,1,—T0 the political commotions
to which this unfortunate country is abandoned
are added earthquates, which for fome time have
*read a new hind of terror. A part of Rcebland,
in the canton of Backn, funk down, on the .19th
roil.—At four in the afternoon, of the fame day,
!here was heard in the environs of Wendifch, lii.
Razrnigcn, Ceifberg, and Kocnigsfelden,
a fubterranean noife fimilar to that of a waggon
iolfi,ts, or cannon fired at a diflance.
°lithe azd there was felt here, at Zurich, and

other places, a very violent (Lock. ln our city
feveral old men while walking were thrown down.
The town houfe and the roofs of feveral others
svere .trrkeri. At Zurich the (hock was general;
and ;n the tvening a fire which confirmed (even
hoti! encrealed our fear and confrifinn. After
rhefe thocks a very fevere cold took place on the
zeth and 2.7 th. Or the tail mentioned day the
:rod was to tirong as to injare the trees and fruits
in our gardiars. %Ve are much• afraid that this
icourge has been extended to the rye in feveral of
the cantons of Switzer land.
lull Laa, MAr ;s.—We hair received from f.-
veral neighbouring provinces the news that fne
earthqua,:e, which we lately experienced, has
caiired conflierable damage. Crema and Soncino
have particularly MI-el-ed. The details we have
received from Orzinovi are very afllielinz. The
Govcrnment immediately fent thither relief. At
Cremona the lima was more fenr:ble than here.—
It does not appear to have been felt at Venice.
Pa MA, May a.—This morning, at 35 mi•
notes pall ten, the Iky being exceedingly ferene,
and no clouds, with a gentle Weft wind, the ther-
mometer at degrees, and the barometer 28
inches, there was an earthquake. There were
three increafing (hocks, very dittittct, confecutive,
and flrong, with an undulatory movement, very
perceptible in a direiclion from Weft to Ealt.
After an interval of about five feconds there
wa.s anoth.A. (hock, but rather like a vatle item-

bllng, et likit !ailed three or fonr &conch, and al-
ways in a dired;iln frnm WO tr. Eta.
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The l't.ire fulpencied is tl:e Middle of the faloon
of the Hotel of ihe F:sticii legation, ofcillated alto
from Weft to Eaft for four or five minutes, form.
ing at fief with its vertical line an aperture of
about eight inches. The barometer was not af-
feEted by this earthrptake, and the Rate of the
heavens remained esaCtly the fame.
A chimney fell Joan from a bottle near the
clthedral ; v.:hits were injured in different
:tram:lents ; a par: ..f the wall of the college of
Lalatta fell down ; the clock of the palace of the
Ducal Garden, wh:ch itruck half after ten at the
time of the earthquake, gave fome firokes more ;
a watch placed on the bolßer of a bed, with the
glacs turned cicy.vnwards, was fo much agitated
that the 71..fs
For about three weeks paR earthquakes fuffici-
eutly ftrorg to fpread alarm among the people,
hare been frequently felt in the Canton of Bardi,
fituated fifteen leagues eatt of this city.

PiIRLIAiIENTitia- PROCEEDINGS.

IiOUS2 OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2.

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Cour.fci was again Seard on the claim of Mr. Brydges to the
U..rony of Chandos. The further hearing put off to Meaday
.1.13 e Franking Bill, and four private Bills were brou;ht up
from the Commons.

The Order for the Committee on the Stafford County Bridge
SW. was put off to Wednefday, on the motion of Lord Syr ror.PC,
ho olifervcd, that it was a fubjedt of too much importance to
be fmtig:led through the Hours in the manner that private Billa
Intuct;e: !s, unfortunately wt./. His Lordfhip, at the Lime
time obforv:l, that he had fome obfervations to offer on this
Eill ; it was one which went to abed private property, and as
fuck he would oppofe it.
Lord WCSTntor.ctAND raid, there was no intention what-
ever of fmuggling this Bill; and that its fupporters were as
anvicas as any perfons could be to have its principle fairly dii.
cull; d.

The Houfe was then ordered to be f;anmoned for Wednefday
rest.

Ler(' SUVFOLK then faid, he would on that day call their
Lonifhips' Atte tion to Come other topic•. In Use firft place be
would recommend that tome meafora might be adopted to-
wards r:lieving the diftreffts which the country laboured un-
der from the Poor Rates, which it was abfolutely neceffary to
do before the prcfent Seifion pafilll away. In the next place, he
would allude to the late proccsdings which took place in India,
chiefly for the purple: of exciting the attention of a Noble Lord
thou in his eye (Lord Moira), who had intimated his intention
of bringing forward a motion on that fubjedt; but which mo-
tion If the Noble lord did nut bring forward, he would him-
fell, before the elore of the Seam', (Omit a limilzr one to the
Houk.

Lord MOTRA Paid, he was a. anxious as ever he ha.l been to
have a full Invelligation entered into relative to the pr0c...431-
:lig. that lately took pl.cc in the Carnatic. But he did not
think an enquiry could with at:7 propriety he gone into. until
certain Papers neceiTary to throw a confiderable degree of light
on :his fubiedl. and which were :lot uow in this country, Ihuuld
be forwarded from India.

Lord Surto LK thought there were already fulficient docu-
ment; in the poffelton of the public to warrant the Houfe to
enter into the enquiry he propcifed. He was lorry to find the
Nobk I.ord meant to deli:), motion to another SeMon, for
he war fore that our 17mpire in India would in a fbort time he
totally fubvetted, if the fame ()Item now aded upon was con-
ti:.tted in that country.
Lord Mutt* thought, that on account of the importance of
the fabled, the butane& ought to be delayed till the arrival of
papers from India.
Lord CIF xviLLt affur,J the Houfe that it was the particu-
lar wit of the Marquis Wellefley, and Lord Clive, who go-
verned Dci, al and Madras, that this fubje.2 (honld be fully in-
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The Bills on the table were then read in their Rages.
THE CLLEGY.

. Lord GRENVILLE rofe to claim the indulgence
of the Houfe for a fhort time, while he made a
few obrerVations on a fubjelt in which the interelt
of Parliament, and of the country at large, were
deeply involved. Hel‘opecl it would not be deemed
irregular in him to allade to a Bill which was then
before the other Houle of Parliament, and which
might lhortly be brought before that Houle.—
This-was a Bill for regulating the relidence of the
Clergy in their rerpeetiveparilhes—a mealure which
it was nece(fary for their Lordfhips maturely to
confider before they gave it their 1.4101011. In fad
it was imporlible, that daring the prefent Scffion
it could receive that due confideration—that full
invettigation, which it ought to have, before it
was paired into a law. It was impcflible this could
be done, for two reafons; firft, the Seflion was fo
near its dole that there would not be fufficient time
to ditburs a fubjed of fuel) importance ; and in the
next place, the Howe was deprived of the atralance
of a molt rerpeetable body of men, who were
Members of that Houfe, and without whom it
would not he poflible to give the fubjea that con.
fideration it deferved. The Right Rev. Prelates
were now obliged to attend their rerpeftive
; and it would be highly improper in that
Houfe to pars the Bill he alluded to, unlcfs they
were prefent to give it the relation of their appro-
bation. The Bill in go Rion was introduced into
the other Houle of Patrament by a Member, cer-
tainly of great rcfpeaability ; and any meartne
originating from hint, or having the fantlion of his
name, was entitled to the highelt degree of refpat
and confederation ; but it would have been much
more proper and rat; f iaory to the Public ; and
it would much more effeEtually anfwer the pm-po-
res intended by it, if that Bill had been introduced
by the Members of the Executive Government.—
Befides, the provilions of the Bill, fuch as he
underllood them to tat, were in no relpea
fur-
ficient to anfwer any purpofe whatever. The
IBM was in fad nollting more than a meafure
Ito prevent thofe vexatious aftions which had been
brought by informers againft the Clergy for non.
retidence, which in many relpeas was unavoid-
ALL. But it omitted to introduce a variety of
rebottl ttions that were Rill more neceffary for the
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benefit oc this molt refpeilable body of men.—
The eftablithed Clergy of the Country conftituted
its greatelt fupport, and without them our fleets
and armies would not long be able to protect us ;
they were the great fupporters of the religion and
morality of the State—the virtue of the people,
which was effential to their happinefs,and to their
very exigence, depended on the conduit of the
members of the eftablifhed Church ; and it was
therefore of the utmoft importance that there
fhould co far enjoy the protection of the Govern-
ment as to be free not only front vexatious prole-
cutions, but that they fhould befupported in that
(tile of competence and independence to which,
from their rank and fituation in life, they were en-
titled. It was not regular for him to allude to

any molt of a fpeech blade by the Right Hoe.
and learned Gentleman who introduced the Bill
he alluded to into the other Houfe of Parliament;
but he had read an admirable pamphlet, purport.
ing to be the fpecch of that Learned Gentleman
in the Houfe of Commons; and in that pamphlet
it was Rated that the incomes of more than one
half of the Clergy 'of England,which they derived
from their clerical fituattons, were lets than forty
pounds a-year, and that the majority of thefe were
incomes of between twenty and thirty pounds a
year. Would any man fay it was poilible for
men, on filch fmall incomes, to fupport themfelves
in a manner in which a Clergyman ought to be
maintained ? Certainly not ; and therefore it was
abfolutely neceffary for the Government, Nthofc
care it thould be to protect the morals and religion
of the people, to interfere, and make an adequate
provition for the Clergy of the country. He did
not with to fee new burthens laid on the public,
but if ever there was a tax which the public ought
to pay,it was that which went to the maintenance
of their Clergy. He therefore objeded to the Bill
before the Commons, becaufe it had no fuel ob-
jed as this in view. He thought it neceffary then
to Rate to the Houfe, that while he was one of
the Members of Adminißration a plan had been
deviled for bettering the fituation of the poorer
Clergy by laying an additional tax on the public,
and that feveral other regulations for the due ob-
fervance of religion had alto been intended to be
introduced into the Bill for that purpofe. It now
remained with the prefent Adrninifiration to fol-
low up that plan, and he hoped it would be foon
adopted. He did not expel, however, that it
could be done in the prefent Sefton of Parliament,
any more than that the Bill then before the other
Houfe could be paired into a law. He thought it
neceffary even at that time, to throw out thefe
hints, in order to guide their Lordfhips' judgment
whenever the Bill in queftion thould come before
them ; and to prepare their minds for the due con.
federation of the fubjed, fhould the Bill be put off
to another Sefton. He withed to fee one general
Bill, embraci;;g all the objeds he alluded to ; he
withed it to contain an ample provition for the
maintenance of the Clergy ; and that fttch a mea-
fure might be introduced by one of his Majefty's
Miniflers. If they did not do to, he thould con-
fider of the propriety of fubmitting tome propoli-
tion of the kind to that Houfe, although it might
be contrary to the forms of Parliament to do fo.
Lord SUFFOLK role to exprefs his carnet with,
that whenever the Noble Lord made firth a propo-
fition,he would confider the fituation of the Clergy
of Ireland.

Lord GRENVILLE replied, that he had not given
any no:ice, nor pledged himfelf to brine; for ward
the mcafure he alluded to: but when the Admi-
niftration, of which he formed a part, had agreed
upon a plan of this kind, it was intended to em.
brace in it the Clergy of Ireland, as well as thole
of England.
Lord ROLLE faid, the fituation of the Church
of Ireland Rood in great need of fome fuch regu-
lation. In many parifhes there was no fuch thing
to be teen as a place for Proteftant worfhip.
The Noble Lord was called to order by Lord
ALVANLEY, who laid there was no queftion what-
ever before the Houfe, and that the Honfe was in
fel debating on nothing at all. The queftion of
adjournment was then put and carried.