Star.
London, England, 1804-04-06 00:00:00

CEYLON OAZETTIL SEPT. sc. dos.

The hopes expreffed in our la% of Hambangtotte
being fill in our poffeffion have been realized. En-
fign Rronta was ordered to march there from Tan.
galleon the loth, and arrived on the tith without
oppofition. The garrifon, confining of about fixty
invalid Malays, under the command of Enfign Pte.
DIRGILAST, had been in a nate of blockade fince the
23d ult. upon the land fide, although a veffel moored
in the harbour afforded a fecure retreat by lea in
cafe of neceflhy.
Dining the blockade, Enfign Purnell:Misr made
feveral forges, which were attended with uniform
fuccefs ; drove the enemy from their advanced bat-
teries, and took from them (even Cingalefe guns,
without any lots on oar fide.
On the 9th inft. he received a reinforcement of a
Corporal and 8 men of the Royal Artillery from H.
M. frigate Wilhelmina, brunt' for Galle and Colum.
bo, but which had put into Hambangtotte Road.
GENERAL. ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR, SEPT. 7, Ilc7.
*Lieut. KATTE, of the sill regiment, is appointed
to as as Auditor of Military Accounts, daring the
&brows of Capt. Pottoca.
Mr. W. E. Camper:., Agent of Revenue and
Commerce of Om Writ; of Chslair.
And Mr. Jost* Di.w, Judge of the Provincial
Court of Putenam, to have the rank of Enfign till
further orders.

PARLLIMENTANr PROLEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, 'THURSDAY, APRIL S.

Mr. FOWLER, from the Cofteen Houk, brought up an ac-
count of the linen in the hands of the different G &Oars up to
the sth January isa, fo far as the fame had come to bar
Lords Weill:troth and Grey took the ostlts sod their testa.

The Order of the Day for 'going Into a Committee on the Bill
for enabling the Bank of Scotland to enlarge their capital was dl(-
charged and ordered to Rand for to-morrovr.
EarIDARTMOUTH, Steward of bin IVlajefty's Houfehold,
attended, and Wormed the Hoede that his Majefty had been
pinged molt graeksaily to receive the Addrefs of their Lordflups
for having certain papery relative to the Volt!, teen laid ou the
table, and to make the neerfary olden accordingly.
Envious to the Order of the Day (or the Houfe going into a
Committee on the Volunteer Bill being read, . .

Lord GRENVILLE role, not, be Paid, to oppofe
going into the Committee ; but merely becaufe he
thought, after what had patted on the former difcuf-
fiou of thii Bill, relative to the prerogative of his
Majelly to call out the population of the country,
that this was a fit opportunity for him to inform the
Houk that it was bis intention to introduce to their
confideration a Bill on that fubjea.

VOLU NNNNN BILL.

On the motion of Lord HAWKESBURY, the
Houle refol cif itfcifinto a Committee on the Volun-
teer Bill.

Lord GIZENVILLE propofed two Amendments
to that claufe of the Bill which regulates the diffe-
rent periods at which Officers commanding Volun-
teer Corps were to make returns of the number of
effefti we men in each Corps, and the number of day!
that they had been difciplined. After fame difog.
lion, in which the Noble Mover of the Amendmetust
fuppurted by Lords King and Hanna-by, fpoke tint
one fide, and the Lord Chancellor and Lord Hawkef-
bury in oppofition to them, they were rejetled.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in debating thofe
Amendments took an opportunity of condemning a
pratlice which bad pretty generally prevailed, nos
only among their Lordfhips, but in another affcmbly
alto, and which had even found its way into various
publications ;—he meant that which went to impute
to the negligence or incapacity of Majefly's Law
Officer.. all the confufion and incontinency that was
to be found in the various Atis of Parliament that
were pallid by the Legifhture from time to time.—
He could afTert, from eiperience, that bot few of
tliofe cif/its proceeded from them. Bin the Lift was,
that a Bill, which was of tcu 1.49).1;14 with the great.

el care, underwent fo many modifications in. its pro-
greftlhromb both the Haulm andeceeived fit OMNI,
amendments from what was called. how properly or
not he would not rake upon Waif& to fay, the con- 4
junaive wildest of Parliament, that it not enfrequent•
ly became, to a certain degree, inexplicable. As
little did he approve of the frequent remarks that
were made on the opinions of his Majtay's Law Of-
ficers on fubjetts eif law. Did Noble Lords confider
that there Law Officers (the Attorney and Solicitor
General) were (worn to give their advice and opi-
nion judiciouily to his Majeily ? And whenever they
had done fo, be thought it would have been better
if the goad old praftwe had been adhered to, and
that the Government, which afted upon fuck advice,
(hould have declared that firth was their opinion, and
not to have thruil forward upon mole recarsous the
opinions of thofe two Law Officers, as if they were
not to be fupported by the reit of his Majelly's Mi-
nifters, Whenever ei.e Executive Government chofe
to apply to thole Officers for their legal advice, it
would be proper in that Government, if limb advice
were approved of and adopted, to promulgate it to
the country as their own opinion. His Lordatip
paid fome handfome compliments to the ability and
induflry of the Attorney and Solicitor General, in
which be was joined by Lords Grenville and Her-
rowby, who difclaitned any intention of intinuattng,
any thing to the prejudice of perfects whom they
highly refpeited.
Lord GRENVILLE propofed an amendment,
tending to prevent any further increafe of the Volun-
teer forte, by omitting that part of the gill which
authorises his Majelly to accept the ferviaes of any
Corps that in bis diferetion be may deem proper. His
Lordfbip fopported his amendment by arguments
drawn from the 'attual number of the Volunteers,
being no lets in Great Britain than 360000, and the
injury that any further addition to it muft produce
to other parts of our defence, and particularly telex
Army and the Militia. His Lordfhip was fupported
by Earls Spencer and Carnarvon, Lords ang and
Darnley, and oppofed by the Lotd Chancellor.Esuls
Romney, Winchelfea, Wellmorelanda.ords Hawkef-
bury, Hobart, Auckland, Rous, and fevers' other
Noble Peers, on the ground that it was indifpenfibl7
neettfary for the preferential of a Watts. the adult
rable tendency of which was generally admitted,
that his Majetly should be veked with a power fuffi-
cient to counteraCt the poffible ill elate of the prin-
ciple of refignation; and that, they contended, could
only be effeaed by
.giving his Mikity authority to
accept offers of ferytce from new corps. The amend•
meet was reed after a long dileuffion.
Lord GRENVILLE next moved an addition to
the fame claufe, by which his Majellv liould be re .1
&inked from accepting the ferrite of any greater
number of Volunteers than what they thould amount
to at the pang of this Aft. As the Houle feemed
to difapprove of fettering the difcreti..n of his Ma-
jefly as to the acceptance of future offers of fervice,
the Noble Lord thought that the leak injurious
mode of keeping up the cumber would be by filling
up vacancies in the old corps as they Could occur,
and rent by accepting offers from new corps. His
Lordthip's amendment was tejefled.
When the claufe relative to the exemptions was
read, _ .

Lord GRENVILLE called the attention of their
Lordfhips to an amendment which he had to propofe.
Although he might be induced to arrte to the prin-
ciple of granting exemptions in certain cafes, he
could not, by any confideration, bring
.hinifelf to
content to the extenfton of flu-in ro the individuals
of Corps which might be enrolled hereafter. The
conduit of Government, in the adoption of the Inca-
lure, was very contradiftory ; for, after all the checks
and difficulties which they had thrown the way
of the Volunteer Sy Rem, after attempting to cow'.
'nu e, by circular letters and other means, the in•
creak of the Volunteer Corps, they Dow cape for-
ward for the pomp& of augmenting the numbers,
by carrying the exemptions to a greater length than
was at fi-it intended, and admitted by themfelves to
be impolitic. They were in reality refciading their
own alts ; and the 'fee, he had no doubt, would
ultimately prove injurious to the ballot for the Militia
and the Army of Referve. After a recapitulation
of feveral arguments which he formerly Jul, his
Lordffiip concluded with moving an amendment to
the claufe—" Thar the words, to be enrolled here*,
after,' be left nut." _ _ .

Lord HAWKESBURY contended, that the Ter;
principle againa which the Noble Lord had argued,
was prectfely that on which Government had aged
during the left war. Were the amendment agreed
to, i 1 would go to the extenlion of advantages to
thole Corps which were not entitled to them ; for
while other Corps of Volunteers, with leis allowances"
and with a greater extent of fervice, for it was not
confined to any particular part of Great Britain,
were to be deprived of the benefit of the exemptions,
thofe whole Cervices wen limited within their re-
fpeeive diaries, would enjoy all the advantages re-
tuning from them. He crafted that the Houfe
would- not fandion, as a principle, that the Corps
railed under the Defence Aft, with more limited al.
lowances, and more extended fervice, fhould be made
fubjefit to the ballots, while thofe of an antecedent
eftablifhmetit, with lefs claim to the exemptions,
fhould be allowed to enjoy them. The Volunteer fyi
tern was not a new one, it had been found in a certain
degree of adivity by the pre(ent Government, which
had endeavoured to render it as petite and efficient
as poffible. The amount of the Volunteers was as'
great as the Government could &fire, and it was
not intended to inmate the force which arltually
elated. When he confidered the power of refig.
nation, and the power which the Executive might
abe called upon to exercife in di(bending Corps, It
might be found neceftary to accede to new offers of
Service, but that meafure would entirely depend upon
the nature of peculiar circumllances. Should the
offers of any new corps be accepted, the wifdom of
not making regulations applicable to all might be
very juftly queftioned. Some allufions *bad been
made, on former ocotillos', to the great deficiencies
which occurred in recruiting for the Militia and the
Army of Referee in the Counties of Surrey and Mid-
dtefes, and in Weft Kent ; but he had to antwer,
that the• deficiencies were not caufed by the exemp-
tions granted to Volunteers, but by the particular
circumstances in which thole Counties were placed.
He concluded with declaring, that in every point of
view he could dikovt no good ground for agreeing
to :hc amendment.

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Lord HARROWBY fupported the amendnteut.
Lord HOBART vindicated Government from the.
charge of contradienry conduct in the cafe of ex:4
envois's' which had been preferred agarnft them by
the Noble Lord who propofed the amendment.
Earl FITZWILLIAM fpoke 1i former of the
amendment.
The LORI/CHANCELLOR was of opiniou,,
that the renion did not relate to dm general-merit,
ordemeries of the Volunteer Syitem, but confined
merely in the confideration, whether the grant of
eaemptioneto Corps to be enrolled hereafter'would
increafe the number of Volunteers, and prwm inju-
rious to the ballot for the Militia and the Arnett
of Referret As the power of refignation might be
freely exeraid, and as' Volunteer Corps might be
dinsanded by theasfeltes or by the Crown, the clad&
would, in fait, only go to the eatenCson of fimilar be-
nefits enjoyed by thus to thole Corps whose fervicee
might bo.secepted in their room ; and confequently
the exemptions would not be claimed by a greater
number than were at prefent enrolled, and the rail
ing them for the Mania and the Army of Receive.
could not nitwit-not any additional check or imps..
diment.
Lord SPENCER pfd kinsfolf friendly to the
amendment. as it would tpaterially tend to narrow
. the exemptions, which were already too numerous.
The Caamithes thee aatieued r &hate open the prepared
useadtaeut dil bad pa It o'clock.
Leeds Asuedetrens. Weseataateasea. Homutsiver, not.-
TM, Headµt, isrmenesaa4 lowlier, sad Casa Ex, rube
opelaft the sueadmat, end la trismortommanne the extenuate
audit Ide hisjeltesdikeedoss,to the additional Valaateen, whole
rentals k rant be dosead repaint to amp&
Lords Cosa soma Lao. SNIMCiII, PR3IIIIII.IANO, and
Maumee , (poke la Appeet of the staudearat u did Lord
GIMIVILLIt fn reply
The "semen beteg pat. the Comedttee disided.
Ay., (or the Aueuleseat. a 11.44 e. I t—ateieritY 30.
Reported peogrcrs, sod adieemeed tin ton-reerow.

111)13913 OP coallAlM

A Mew was reocived from the lammari of States Mkt for
Ireland, preemies an meant of the lialemsarad Imports, in par;
finance of a previous Order of the Hot&
A Melte wee reedved Item the Leeds, rimming their ma-
CilltWlet with the lookeepin' Allowares lid, Mad kveral other
re mad private Bilk that had poiedahe Houk prr et iondp to th

Mr. CREME mart, tint the °nictitate Day of the Irak
Lawn. kw s he" essabienidan the Peados sped tee undue
nab= orate Omar et Sibling be reed,b order to be dikberged.
The mew Mang ban read ead difehmpetl accordingly,
Mr. CREIVET owed, dee the Peatioo be taken into coon-
dames on Tviday the alt at itry. whida wee agreed to
Mr. Seereary YORKE. I. piertemee of a feriae. Order of the
nook, broesta.up Lifts of treat Militia Corps in Ireland as bad
volunteered ober knees iv Great Britain, which were ordered,
Mikes the Table, sed to be printed for the Me of the Members.
Sir J. ANDERSON, 12 porfnatsce of a former Order of the
Houk, brought up awed& Amounts relating to the Armed Ship.
ping of the Country, width were ordered to be panted.
Mr. VANSITTART moved for the prodedtion of he Accounts
of tlr ovritanding Exchequer Bills uf left yam which was men-
dlogly ordered.

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Mr. CORRY brought in a BM to awed the nittlag Laws foe
the better regulation of the LiSlde Manufadory in Ireland, whisk
was read a &ft sad ordered to be read a Second time to•taorrw.

Mr. CORKY moored, dot tie ld6 Flax Seed NU be 'doted,
which war oecordiney ordered.

Lord CASTLEREAGH, is purloins* of a previous order of.
the Houk, brought spa Copy of the Correfpondence that had
tate* place between the Government of India, and the Klog of
Caaiy. to to the mike of the pretest war, which was or-
dered ti he printed.

Mr. FERGUS, tn, perfume of a former order, prefeoted ear.
tali* Accoeitta from the Liege Olke, which were ordered to Us
ow the table.
The Dobße Police E6ll woe rind a towed time, oil °Wood to
be asiokted.

!ascent° taacrtnn.
Mt. SHERIDAN rowed the Order of the Day for the adfonenall
debate on the antics for taking the IPatition on the rem fa,
Li*card into confidential' an Monday next.
Mr. SLIStapIRDIS ludas ablaDiso to the radon, it famed
a tinsint of nark.

Me. WOMAN snowed that the order be dircharged.
Mr. EtflUtoool4B west at oisilderable length into the smith
of the Vedettes, meet peeticulaaly Wraps the validity of the row.
torn, In wish* be tfatied.the roue* of segernest gone over on •
fanner micalon. He ems imaelad that neither in the Petition of Malt
Haddam, 'ice In nave of MA Thomas eberidasolid any tiling aPl'
par that amid be banidored as earning within the meaning and
purview of the flame. Mr. T. fibriiith dedved he had no In.
tendon of &knew the Mum Of the dated Mr. Hukbefon b 4
• clear majority, and bad beta duly rtmersed Mr. Sheridan was
roosemed by the Swat only, who war not the tetorsing Officer, bee
oily the sued= of eseempemse, the elmerd of canna's/cake be-
tween the iteatrakag Odour am • the Hawk. Mr. /betides had
so use day pee:foal a piddle., awns that he bad molt beef May
and thereby cased* die morlie of the dedasio and comprainleg
of a doable return, end the nod day be declared be did got mean
ire deleted the nave, boa to upheld Si idad lon. If ro. he made
Wel( a pasty to Si while ameba Odors the Committee aft
Whim be Edd be *odd use defied the ram, ft rendered it, as it
bad been alroady eves& a there piece of wage papa. a nuility.
If slither Petition came wilds the araning of the dame, the elec•
Ws Cr" not PAW, be adthithad pules in the care. The alarm
of Mr: Thome Sheridan was, b fad, no fled thing ; It might as
will here loan dined by the Receiver Gemmel of Cornwall, et kry
the rope. •
Mr. dRACIOE Sewed did de lies. Member who limbs bid
had Pot IP ID oeseattethey lamitb ha mmaisrs not 'biddy the robjelt
of the pampas dikelles, aid mot through a variety of arguments
to thew that t a Itsurineot orating* nom&
Mr. Itt,IRRQUOHS expiates&
Mr. HENDERSON °birdied to the adios

Mr. SHERIDAN hit eat °Waded to an adicernmeet,bettmat
►e thought it might give OentJensen time to overcome their doubts
and dilliculties. He thee proceeded to thew, irons the Petition of
Mr. Hit&intuit hlntfdl, that the fad of a double return wee eased,
and therefore it waft go to a Committee. He did not well Un-
&Maul the intinuatiem that had been thrown out. Ha knew of
no advantage that bad ben taken, nor did be think a parliamentary
or decent to make Inch lallnisations, particularly previous to the
appointmeet of a Committee. He few no reafoa why his 'NM.
Rdationlbould defend the rotors, if be chore not to do fo, and
casseloded by putting the cafe in various ways, to thew the pro-
priety of the proceedings on his part.
Mr. WM. DUNDAS declaimed every intention of laying or
meaning an• thing dthefpedtful towards either the Hon. Member
oppollte (Mr. Sheridan), or his Hoe. Relation, the pethioniee
Member. He thought the Hon. Gentleman would much rather
have never fern the paper alluded to at all; but be believed it
arch from form maneuver of lonic over Segous friend in Coro-
wag, a county fertile in Members of Parliament, returning se
many as the whole of Scotland.

The queltion bang pat, t►e order was difehargcd nem. cos
Mr. SHERIDAN then moved, that k be uhen into coaikkee.

sioa en Tbwridsy, May tie scab.
Mr. HENDERSON raid a few words in explanadoo

sorr fposeb.

Mr. BURROUGHS produced a Banding order, of the doe of
NUN'. IS, rem that ka o cute of dnrble return, the brft moo
•oald be the Mt taken inc. confider.itsun.

This SFEAKrft oblerr-d, that be apprehended tbat order ,
applicd ooly to tile procsellny canoed before th. Cuounittse.--
A reed 00.

Mt. COCKS moved, that tint imtition en the right be red. on
wht..-b, arta a I.ort con•cr(atian Armor's stn. Ya I mans. lIA4

Mr. Smaara•re'
m pire nett= .4 a fact= for ti..-day, Ususerams be aft iairdarld.,—.Aljours4,