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London, England, 1802-06-19 00:00:00

GENERAL LECLERC TO GENkRAL TOUSSAVIT.

Head-quarters, Cape, 13 Floreal, MaT 3.
I fee with pleafure, Citizen General, that you take the courfe
of (Omitting to the arms of the Republic. Thofe who have
trtci to indlead you refpedlinsthe re.,l iutentions of the French
Government, art very criminal. We molt not now think of
purfuing the authors of part evils. My only bufinefs muR be
to er.deavour to reßore the Colony as fpcedily as poflible to Its
ancient I.lcndour. You, tke Generals and troops under your
ccrnmand, as well as the inhabitants of the Colony who are
with you, have no reafon to be afraid that liken niolelt any one
for pat viaduct I throw a yell of oblivion over every thing
that has plied at St. Domino before my arrival. In this I
imitate the example of the Chief Conful in France, after the
itSth Brumaire. AU thofc who are here have ■ new career to

enter upon. and In future I lbaU have no dißitiltiou but between
good and bad citizens. You, General, and your troops, will
be employed and treated like the reft of my army. With re-
gard to yourfelf, you &Ere reptile, and you defuse it. After
a man has Waned for fevetul years the burden of the Govern-
ment of St. Domingo, I apprehend be needs repore I leave you
a' liberty to retire to whichever of your habitations you pleat&
I rek fo much on the attachment you bear tothe Colony of St.
Domingo, as to heti. ye that you will esnplul the moments of
kifure you may have in your retreat, in communicating to me
your views refpeeting the means to be taken to retake agricul-
ture and commerce again flouriih. As loon u a lift and ftate-
nen: of the Gtuation of the troops under General D. &lines are
tranfruitted to me, I will communicate to you my intentions as
to the politinn they arc to take.
Annelvd to this letter, you will find the decree which I have
IffeA. to repeal the provifions of that of the 2 RA Pluviofe, wisida
regarded you. (Signed) Licazac.
DECREE.

The General in Chief decrees, that the difpotitions of the hilt
article of the /trete of the 28th Plu•iofe, which put General
Tooffaint out of the protedlion of the law, are repeated—in con-
fequenee of a hich he requires all the civil and military authori-
tiu to el:slider that article as abrogated.
To be prir.ted and publifhed. (Aped) arcaaae.
1.*.ca,1 1,11-Pers, at the Cape,
ith Martel. (May a.)
There is no doubt about the IT.ing of Etruria
;acing depofed, but the French Journals have been
ordered not to fay any thing about it, or to fay a
word on the affairs of Piedmont, or the King of
Sardinia. _ _

The report nqw that the Kteo of Erivatit
is abfolonely deranged in his mind. The lofs of
his faculties is hippored to be occafioned by an
epilepfy by which he has of late been feverely
af-
fliaed.` He has, fine he arrived in Italy, been
alma uniformly governed by the advice of his
confelror; who, in conjnnEtion with the Archbi.
mop of Parma, Suitor', and the new Cardinal of
Snare, and M. SILVITICO, prevailed on him to
Iffue the Taft edift refpefting the Oats, in oppoll:
tion to the French Minifter, General CLARK:. The
latter threatened the Cardinal with banifliment.
Lai! Monday three weeks General MutAr was
invited to dine with the KING at Foggia, and
took the opportunity of expreffing his fentiments
freely on the fubjea. The dinner !ailed but a
Sort time, and the converfation made a deep im-
preflion upon his MAISSTY% mind. He palled a
very uneafy night, and at eight o'clock in the
morning, drefled only in his robe-de-chambre, he
ran about the palace with a drawn fabre in his
hand, calling out that he was betrayed. He or-
dered M. SI LVETI co. and his Secretaries and Apo-
thecary to be arrefted. At length the Courtiers
felted the Kim c, whole paflion threatened the moll
defperate confcquences, and he was prevailed upon
to lofe come blood, which calmed his mind.
Some difturbances have lately taken place in
Piedmont. The caufe is not known, and our jour-
nals dare not notice them.

PrIRLIAAIENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JUNE 28.

The farther hearing of the Scotch Appeal, Harlaw and
ethers, e. the Governors of the Merchant Maiden Hofpital,
Ediniturgh,and others, was poftponed till Monday.
Caunfel were heard in continuation, relative to the Scotch
Appeal. I.aihkys et. Hog, namely, Mr. Romilly, at eonfiderable
length on the part of the Refpondents ; after which their Lord-
Rim deferred the further hearing of the cafe till TueftLay.
A confiderable number of Bills were brought up from the
Commons, chiefly by Mr ALIZANDCR, and Man the public
Bills precasted were, the Euhequer Loan Bill, the Land Tax
Redemption Bill, the Nations] Debt Bill, the illicit Games
Prevention Bill, and the Tortola Free-pow Bin; there Bills
were, in the courfe of the evening, revere!), read a Mit time.
Mr. (Lipman. Deputy UR= of the black Rod, appeared
at the Bar, and Rated, that the Commons were waiting for
the appointed conference with their Lonithips in the Painted
Chamber. Accordingly a Deputation. connfting of the fol-
lowing Peers, were, on the motion of Lord WALSINGUA/S,
appointed to manage the Conference on the part of their Lord-
(hips (which was relative to the Amendments made by the lat-
ter to the Militia Augni, ntation bill), namely, the Duke of
NORI oit,the Cads of &ISSN, RADNOR, C , FlTZ-
wilso, and Rossmte, and Lords HOBART, AUCKLAND,
Pm. al, and DONDAS. In about ten minutes the Deputa-
tion returned, and the Duke of Noarota brought with him
the Militia Bill, and alfo a paper containing the communica-
tion made on the rubjcdi by the Managers on the part of the
Commons, which were laid an the Table. It was then order-
ed, on the motion of Lord HOBART, that the rcafons arrigned
by the Commons, for not agreeing to the Amendments made
in the Paid Bill by their Lowtriaips, be taken Into confideration
on Monday next. •
Mr. Owen, from the East India Houfe, prefented certain
Aceoutds from the Company, direded to be laid before Car-
}lament ; as did ago an Officer from the Land Tai Commit-
'Miters, certain accounts from their Department.
The Expel cm of the Aliens Office, for a given puled, was
laid upon the Table, pageant to a late Addrers of their
I..ortifkips.

111RINJAV PEDIGILIF.
The Order of the Day for taking into cgnfider-
*don the motion to repeal the Standing Order,
No. tag, being moved and read,
The Reading Clerk read thelitanding Order at
lcu_gth.
The Earl of Surromt then Paid he could have
wifhed that the Noble and Learned Lord who had
moved for the repeal of the Standing Older, and
for whole opinions he entertained the greateß de
ferer.ce, had Rated the grounds upon which he
inured fur the repeal of an Order, under which
great 'good had requited ; be bad hoped that at
Testi fotue part of it had been (Ogled w yem.lin,
becarac oadoubtedly the according the claire pt
Peerage, and the delivery of Perri! Pedigreee, had,
iri various inetarices, been cif greihiglreCuality.—
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/elce,which he knew ettremely well. His father.
his Lordthip Paid, was a feventh fon, and had
fallen at the liege of Carthagena, for he was a mi-
litary man, when he was an, infant of two years
old. He had not. therefore, known his father,
and fuch had been the cafe with his father, as his
grand-father died coming from America.in a man
of war, of which he was Captain, when his father
was an infant. The little profpal of the two Earl-
doms that be held devolving to him, would have
occafioned the difficulty and emixaraffment of
having to prove defcents of the titles of Earl of
Suffolk, and Earl of Berkfhire, for ninety years
together, had not a particular circum Rance inter-
vened, but as it was, he had the defcents of feventy
yea's to prove, and how could he have done it, if
the Pedigrees bad not been delivered in The
prefent (landing order had been made in the cafe
of Lord Willoughby of Parham, after much con-
fideration, and therefore he hoped that it would
rather be amended, if there was any part of it pro-
dative of mifchievous or improper confequence.
than wholly repealed. His Lorilfhip touched upon
the defcent of his Earldoms in future, but it re-
called to mind the recent and unfortunate lofs of
Ilk fon, and affeeted his feelings fo forcibly, that
he could with difficulty get the better of them.
He therefore faid, he would content himfelf with
the 'Jingle inftance he bad mentioned; and merely
Rate his with, that thelorder might be modified. but
not at that period of the Scifion repealed, without
further confederation.

Lord Tituatow (aid, he was forry that he had
explained the grounds on which he moved the re-
peal of the !landing order, or that the Noble Earl
had been prefent when he had done fo, on a for-
mer day, becanfe it would have toyed the Noble
Earl the trouble and pain he had been put to. He
had been induced to move its repeal, becaufe, in
confequence of the authority it gave in one part
of the order it contained, a caufe had been under
trial before a jurifdiaion not competent to enter.
rain it, upon which it could not decide, and be-
fore which legal evidence could not be given.—
That eaufe too, his Lordthip (aid, was the caufe
of minor,, who were not before the Houle either
themfelves, or by truflees. With regard to the
firft part of the order, that which referred to the
delivery of pedigrees, and all the ufeful refult to
which the Noble Earl had fpoken, he highly ap-
proved of it, and thould be as ready as any one
Noble Peer, after the (landing order war repealed,
to affift in framing a new order, that fhould con-
tain that part of the prdent (landing order, and
amend it flill further. To the fecond part he had
fame objeftion, and to the third (till more, which
would let in Peerages and Peers of different de-
feriptions, and Roman Catholic Peers, who could
not otherwife exhibit pedigrees, as they were ex-
cluded from feats in the Houfe. His Lordfhip
enlarged upon thefe two orders which it contained,
and (hewed that they led to the fort of improper
courfe which had been put a flop to by the ad-
journment of the Committee of Privileges further
proceeding in the cafe of the Noble Earl to whom
the flirting the prefent fubjea referred. The for.
mer proceeding having gone to the length that it
did, it was due in common juftice and humanity,
to the feelings of thofe concerned, to repeal the
(landing order, under 'which fuch a proceeding
had been entertained. His Lordship, at tome
length, difeufled the principles and grounds on
which he •had been induced to move the repeal.
The Doke of NORFOLK rote with great defe-
rence to the Noble and Learned Lord, to differ
fomewhat in opinion even from tech high autho-
rity; but he taw no reafon why the whole order
thould be repealed without further confideration,
and more deliberate difcuffion, than the Houfe
could at that period of the felßoa give to it. In
one fad Rated by the Noble and Learned Lord,
he believed the Noble and Learned Lord was in
an error, vizahat Roman Catholic Peers were not
allowed to prove their pedigrees. He conceived
the fad was otherwife, becaufe although, for rear
tons of (fate, Roman Catholics were not allowed
to take their feats in that Houle, yet it would be
the higheft injuftice to deny them the exercife of
the right to prove their claim of Peerage; they or
their defeendAnts might think fit to change their
religion, and by conforming, entitle themfelves to
a feat in the Houfe. Ought a depending claim
of that fort to be prejudiced or defeated ?—Un-
doubtedly no Noble Lord would fay it ought.—
With regard to the (landing order, his Grace Paid
that much advantage had been derived from it ;
that it was made in the year 1770, in confequence
of the cafe of Lord Willoughby, of Parham, which
happened about 1 7691 that it had therefore been
deemed a wife and necellary order by our ancef-
tors; that it had confewently the authority of
thirty•two years in its fupport. He had, he feared,
been the caufe of the confederation of the order
having been deferred to that day, as it had been
put off to fuit his convenience, and fte was forry
for it, as it had deprived him of the pretence of
another Noble and Learned Loid, the Lord
Chief Juflice, from whom he had received 'a letter,
expreffing a regret that it was impoffible for him
to attend that day, but that he bad not quite made
up his mind upon the motion for the repeal of the
Ilan3ing order. To t4t Noble and Learned'
Lord's authority he had to 24, that of the late
Lord Mansfield, Lord Bathurft, Lord Camden,
Lord Grantley, and Lord Ailthurton (names cer-
tainly of great and refpe&able men), who had all
concurred in fuppiirting the 6rdef. The Duke
touched on the cafe of Lord Berkeley, and the
proceedings that had been had upon it, and con-
tended, that the having 'adjourned the Committee
/,w die had done no prejudice-4g it left the cafe
unaffeFted and uninjured, and therefore he law no
reafon on that account to repeal the order. If it
did contain improper parts, thole might bt modi-
fied and amended without repealing the order
(and he hoped that inch would be the opinion of
the Houle), nr to poffpone the confideration of it
to a future day, earlier in the pest SeMon, when it
mi ht be more deliberately refumed.
The Loan CHANCE Lime left the woolfack to fay
a few words before the Houfe came to decifion
pa the qpeftion. He raid, that with regard to the
admillejty Watch teftimonyas had been received
••.••• r • -

Under the fending order now moved to be re-
pealed, he was ready to allert, that nine-tenths of
it could be received as legal evidence nowhere;
but Rill there was fomething to be collated from
the other part of it, which had in it fo much of
the charader of evidence, that it might prove ufe-
ful in a Court of Law, in aid of other teftimony.
He alluded to the teftimony of a father as to the
fituation of his family; as far as that went, it was
equal to the authority of a father's entry of the
baptifm of his child in a leaf of the family bible,
or to any memorandum of it in writing at the
time lodged in his defic or efcrutoire. Certainly,
however, if the Houfe encouraged fuch a courfe
of irregular, and, generally fpeaking, nugatory
proceeding, as had taken place in Lord Berkeley's,
it might do mifchief hereafter out of that Houfe.
If a Peer defired to prove his .pedigree in that
Houfe, he was entitled fo to do, but st ought to
flop fhort: with the perfon in poffeffion of the rank
and honours, and not to go into a fruitltfs and
premature inquiry of what would be the rights of
his fucceflbr, whoever that might be. When the
Peer now in poffeffion fhould be no more, it would
be time enough to hear proof of the claim of his
fucceffor. With regard to the delivery of a pe-
digree into that Houfe,that of itfelf was no higher
proof in the view and confideration of law than if
the pedigree had been kept locked up in a Peer's
poffeifion, as he had before hated, in his delk or
efcrutoire.

Lord Alice:AND role to fay a very few wordsi
he thought it would be a more proper way of dif-
pofing of the fubjeft to refer it to the confideration
of a Committee of Privileges, who might frame
fuch new order fit to be moved immediately fol.
lowing the repeal of it, if the Committee fhould
think it ought to be repealed. He owned that his
mind was not ripe to agree to a repeal of the order,
before he law what was to be moved to come in
the place of it, he therefore would conclude with
moving an amendment, to leave out the wood
a repeal," and infert the words a be referred to
a Committee of Privileges."
The Duke of NOLFOLIE raid, that would fatisfy
him completely.
Lord TNUILOW then role and faid* that he
moved for the repeal of the Standing Order, be-
caufe it was in juftice and humanity due to the
feelings of the Noble Earl and his family. It ap-
peared to him as the next and natural Rep to be
taken after the putting an end to the Committee
on which improper proceedings had been fuffered
to take place, and, when the Order was repealed,
it would be right to follow it up with framing a
new Order, in which due provifion might be made
for all the good that the prefent Standing Order
was capable of producing.
Lord AUCKLAND faid, he law little difference
after the Noble and Learned Lord's explanation
had been made, in proceeding in the way the
Noble and Learned Lord had recommended,. or
perfifting in his amendment; of the two his own
feelings led him to prefer the latter.
The Earl of ROSSLYN laid, that he in Tome de-
gree felt as his Noble Friend did, who had jolt fat
down, bat as to the cafe referred to by the Noble
Duke, that of Lord Willoughby of Parham, he
was particularly well acquainted with the fails of
that cafe. They were as follows : One of the fons
of an elder branch of the family of a Lord Wil-
loughby, in poffeftion, went to America and there
fettled. By fo doing, he became, as it were, loft
to his family, and in a courfe of time, no perfon
here knew of his having, after he migrated, left a
family behind him at his deeeafe. In proccfs of
time, it not being known that any of the elder
branch of the family exifted, the peerage of Wil-
loughby of Parham was claimed by one of the de.
fcendants from the younger branch, and he was
admitted to take hi. feat, to which his fon fucceed-
ed ; and after him a third of the defccndants of
that branch : by this time a defcendant from the
migrated fon in America, had come to London,
fettled here, arnaf4d a confiderable fortune, and
was well known in London as a man of wealth
and worth. He at length difcovered that the
Peerage had gone in the wrong line, for the then
polfeflor and his two predeciffors had no right;
but it had been the tight of his ancellors, and *as '
then his own due right. He did not claim it, be.
caufe it might be difficult to ellablith it againft a
Peer in poffeffion, and that Peer of moll excellent
charater and univerfally refpetled.—The Earl
laid, the claim to another Peerage, for which he
had been concerned at their Lordfhips' Bar, had
Tome remarkable circumftances in it, vit. the
claim of Norlyirne Berkeley to the title of Lord
Botetourt, which was ultimately obtained. In
that cafe he had to eflablilb the defcent of the
Peerage from the time of Edward the Second
downward, and they were able to do it without
difficulty till they came to the two laff defcents,
I in which they were under confiderable embaraff
ment, on account of the Commiffions to enquire
`having been 101 l at the Herald Office, though as
the tellimony itfelf got at under the authority of
thofe Commillions was produced, it was admitted
to be fufficient proof that fuch Commiffions had
been iffued. His Lordfhip treated on the ufe of
inquiries into the landed property of Peers as col-
lateral proof of their claim to Peerage, and related
Come anecdotes which created Tome (miles from the
Lords prefent. At length, after concurring with
Lord Thurlow and the Lord Chancellor, that the
proceedings in that Houfe under the Standing
Order could not be received in a Court of Law
as legal evidence, he declared he thought the
1
cleareß mode of proceeding would be to vote for
the original Motion made by the Noble and Learn
ed Lord near him.

The Earl of RADNOII rofe, and fummarily re
capitulated the former proceeding with refpett to
the Earl of Berkeley, in which he declared that
the Noble Earl had not been content with proving '
his own pedigree, but having proceeded limiter,
and cone into matters concerning his children',
birth, Re. the Houfe very properly interfered,
and did not permit him to play fait vnd loofe, but
!lopped the further proceeding altogether.—Lord
Radnpr Paid, what had paffed in i 79 had tended
to afford the eldall fon of the Noble Earl by his
Ifecund wrirriase hints hereafter how to comfit&
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tote any. That being the tale, it certain') sv,,;
right to dote fu imperfect a Rate of the matter a::
that adjournment of the Committee left it in ; but
u to the mode of doing fo, he owned he preferred
the amendment of the Noble Lord mar him, to
the repeal moved by the Noble and Leaned Lord.
The Earl of CAIRMAIL.OII role to exprcis fhortly
his opinion that there was no other way of wiping
off every trace of the farmer irregular proceeding
than by voting the repeal of the (landing order.
His Lordthip touched. upon Lord Berkeley's cafe,
and Paid the difficulty that had arifen to the No.
ble Earl had been incurred through his very na-
tural anxiety to protea the right of his eldelt for,
and for that purpofe celebrating a fecond mar-
riage. His Lordthip, with Tome warmth, prei:ed
upon the Hook the neceffity of their voting fer
the Noble and Learned Lord's motion.
_

The Lots CNIUICELLOR left the Woolfack to
declare that he could not vote for the repeal of Olt
Standing order, without entering his folemn pro.
tett again& the doarine laid down by the Noble
Earl. This gave rife to a debate of Come durltion
between the two Noble Lords.

Lord Paula," fopported Lord Aucklanci's
Amendment. _ Lord BOLTON did fo

The Earl Of DARNLEY, in a Ilion /peed, Er.
ported the original motion of the Noble an 2
Learned Lord; hoping that Lord Berkeley's eii.
dence, as far as it hitherto went, be not done away.
The Houfe divided on the cuetlion, that the
word 4. repealed" (land part of ~the queilion.—.
Contents ro—NotContents 13.
The Payees of WALIS and Duke of Ctsasscs
divided with the majority.
The Loan CHANCILLOR pledged himfelf to the
Houfe to follow up the motion juft carried,
with a motion for a Committee of Privileges to
frame a new Standing Order in lieu ef that re.
fcinded.

The Order refpeaing the Scotch Djlitia Bill
was difcharged, and a now one made for Monday
next. The fame motion was put and earriedipou
two other Bills. Adjourned till tomorrow.