Star.
London, England, 1802-06-12 00:00:00

THE CLERGY.

Mr.Dicestisox brought up a Bill to continue
for a further time an Aft of the oft year of the
reign of his prefein Majefty, entitled, An Ad to
flay, till the 25th of March, 1802, the Proceedings
in Aaions under the Statute of Hetiry VIII. for
preventing Spiritual Perfons holding Pluralities,
and alto to flay for a time to be limited, Proceed-
ings under the 13th Eliz. c. so, for refiraining be-
neficed Perfons from granting Leafes. The Bill
as read a firfi tirae. Upon the motion for the
fecund reading,
Mr.CALCR•FT faid he did not rife to oppofe the
f:cond reading. lie regretted that a permanent
law had not been brought forward which might
have precluc'ed the necedity of having thrice had
'recourfe to a Bill of Sufpenfion upon a fubjea fo
extremely important. But he preferred even this
meafore to the one recently propofed, which he
confidered the boldeft, rude% and moil darin. g
innovation of the Conflitntion he had ever teen in-
troduced during the fifteen years he had been in
Parliament. lie fruited, however, it was not in-
tended to continue the Sufpenfion longer than till
the 25th of January. He alto fuggelled the pro-
priety of placing informers exailly upon the fame
footing as they would have been.by the Bill lately
brought forward.
Atter a few obfervations from Mr. Diczanson
and Sir WM. DOLIEN, the Bill was ordered to be
read a fecoud time to-morrow.

LORD HUTCHINSON.-
The CHANCELLOR ache Excumpla prefented
the following Mc Page from his Majefly:—
" C.,.

"‘ His MAJZSTY having taken into his Royal Catilikradoo
the eminent Services performed by Liniment GearentLord
Hirrent sou during the late glorious and hooded
in Egypt, and being dcfirous of en biss Os=
m,rk °ibis Royal Approbation, undo( htg end greeting to
Lieut. General Lord Horcuntsor. spit his sweatiest Heirs
to wheat the Title of Lotd Hutchinfue. Boron of Alexandria,
in Egypt, and of Knock Lofty,in the County of Tipperary, Sail
fcend, a net annual SUM of snook reeensmendsitto Width-
ful Commons to take fuel, Meafures as will enable his MA.
ItstY to fecure the fail Sum of scook in fuck mapper as may
be moft effacing for the Benefit of loleutcoant-Gerieral Lord
HUTCIONSOM and his Family."
The CH•NCALLOIL of the Exotic:lsla moved
that his Majefty's Meirage lhould be referred to a
Committee of the whole Houfe, and that the
Houfe thould to-morrow refolve itfelf into the raid
Committee.

AFFAIRS OF TNt CARNATIC.

Mr. Niceott.s laid, he rofe purfuent to his no-
tice, to move for certain papet _, to the produ&ion
of which he hoped there would be no objeftion.
His firft motion was, “ That there fhonld be laid
before the Mottle a copy of the orders and in-
firattions given by the Honourable the.tall India
Company to Lieutenant-Colonel M,Niel, when he
marched his troops into t'le gardens of sift Nabob
of the Carnatic, tome days anterior to the demife
of his Highnefs ' • togethzr with all other orders
given him up to the time he was relieved by Col.
Bowler.

Mr. W*LLACI Aid, he did not rife to objed to
the motion i on the contrary, it yap his moll
andous with. that arena ly direnfficm which might
take place pa to very iyaportaat afubjeft as that

which involved the events in the Carnatic, the
Hoofe thonld be afforded every means which could
enable it to conic to a corre& judgment. He felt
very firongly the importance of the quettion : he.
was glad the motion had been made, and he rea-
dily confented to the papers being produced and
printed. He wifhed the Houfe and the couniihy
fhould be fully informed, perfuaded that when the
fubje& was perfealy underftood, the falls them 7
felves would be a fufficient vindication of the mea-
Cures that had been adopted.. A great many ca•
lamnies had been induftrioufly circulated. He did
not mean to Rate his opinion, but he was defiroos
it fhould not be mifunderitood. He wifhed to
Rate, in jollification of thofe who had the conduit
of the bulinefs its the Carnatic, that after having
bellowed all the attention in his power on the pa-
pers relating to it, he had no heination in flying,
it met his entire approbation. There was no part
of the tranfaaions in the Carnatic that he did not
approve, or that he was not ready to take all the
refponfibility upon himfclf, for he confidered the
right of the Company as incentellible, and founded
upon the molt approved principles of the law of
nations. He thought the means adopted were
confiftent with the humanity, confideration, and
generofity. which had uniformly charafterifed the
Britilh arms—qualities, he was perfuaded, thole
who had the conduit of affairs in India never
would violate.

Mr. NICHOLLS next moved for copies of the
letters, papers, and propofitions to Lord Clive
and Secretary Webber, upon the fame fuhjeet
alto the copy of the will of his Highnefs the Na;
bob ; alfo a copy of the orders and inftruaions to
Colonel Bowfer, upon his relieving Lieut.-Col.
*Niel, in the command of the Gardens of the
Nabob. He thanked the Hon. Gentleman for the
candid manner in which he had afrented to his mo.
dons. He begged to be underftood, that in bring-
ing them forward, he meant no manner of cen-
lure on any man ; he had never made any ob-
fervation refkaing in the leaft either on the Mar-
quis Wellefley or Lord Clive, but the fubjed was
one of fuch magnitude that be could not content'
to its being pallid over in filence. He wifired the
proceedings in the Carnatic either to be avowed
as jolt and neceffary, or admitted as rafh and in-
confiderate. It was for thefe reasons he had moved
for the Papers. If they fhould be produced, it
was his intention to fubmit a propofition grounded
on them ; if they fhould not be produced, he
should neverthelefs think himfelf bound w bring
the fubjea forward.
Mr. WALLACE Paid, he was perfuaded every di-
ligence would be ufed to have the papers laid be-
fore the Houfe, yet he feared, from the number
of them, that it would be impodlible to get them
ready. He would therefore a& the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman what motion he could poilibly
bring forward without the papers? If his &jell
was to enable the Houk to form a judgment upon
the papers, it was necessary they should be pre-
vioufiy produced ; if it was merely to draw from
Government an acknowledgment, of the principle
on which they Rifted, all he could fay wis, that the
papers contained the fulleft information upon that
fubje&, and any motion would be fuperfinous.—
He fincerely hoped no motion would bethought
of till the papers were on the table.
Mr. NICHOLLS Paid, if he was rightly informed,
the papers might be produced immediately. He
thought the Salon ought not to dole without the
fubjee being canvaffed in fome shape or other—
the charaaer of the country was implicated in it.
If he could have the paper he would make them
the ground of his motion, if not, he would proceed
without them on this day k'nnht.
Sir Haute Sraac Ev moved, that there fhould
be laid before the Houfe a copy of the Treaty of
!nit, between the EaR India Company and the
Nabob of the Carnatic, commonly called Lord
Cornwallis's Treaty. Agreed to. He alto moved
for a copy of a letter fro:• the reputed fon of the
late Nabob of the Carnatic to his Agents, James
Stewart Hall and Samuel Johnfon.
Mr. WALLAck (aid, he could have no objeklion
to• the production of the letter,but he doubted how
far the Houfe had any right to order it.
The Comecitt.t.oe of the Excirsqpsa obferved,
that poffibly the letter in quellion might be a pri-
vate document which the Houfe bad no right to call
for. Sir Hauer STRACHRT withdrew his motion.