Star.
London, England, 1803-05-24 00:00:00

LONDON.

TUESDAY, MAY 24.
PRICE Op STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
33 per Cesar. Cosfols, 1:1110ney. 32411 37+f{.
oiao, for account, rt.
Olds per Can. 9.4—New Ditto gs

I We entertained a hope that we lhould, this day,
have been able not only to gratify our Readers, but,
to ferve our country, by an accurate and impartial
detail of the proceedings in the Houfe of Commons
laft night. We repeat the expreflon—we hoped
to have (Cried our country by detailing the debate
on the fubjeft of the late negotiation; for the honell
indignation of every Briton has been roofed again it
the defpot who dared to fuggeft, that the publication
of the debates fliould he fupprelfed and the liberty of
the prefs retrained; and it is of the highelt impor.
tance at all times, efpecially at a moment like the
prefent, that the free undifguifed fentiments of the
Reprefentatives of the People fhould be conveyed
to them, through the medium of the pu,blic prints,
with all the facility poffible.

This difappointm e-nt has arifin from a new regn.
lation, announced on Friday evening, that the gal.
lery iliould not be opened till after prayers, that is
at half pal three in the afternoon. This regulation
took place yetterday. It was adopted by no means
at the fuggeftion of the Speaker, but at the earneft
defire of many members, who were determined that
their friends fhould have a preference, as it was fa
very inconvenient to come to the Houfe a few hours
earlier ! Beftdes, a great number of members intro.
duced their friends before the gallery was opened,and
foreflalled the places and the avenues to the galls y
in the infide. The crowd of perfons, elision*
to obtain admifion, was beyond any thing ws
ever few. The paffages were choaked up, and
!bands of conflables were employed to prevent
!or increafe the tumult and diforder. Several
!hundreds were difappointed, and the Houfe of Lords
was overflowed by a confiderable portion of thofe who
,Were (hut out from the Houle of Commons. The Re.
porters, after fuffering great inconienience from the
preffure of a prodigious crowd from eight and nine
in the morning, were unable to make good their ad.
!millmillion into the gallery. No paper had a angle re•
ion
in the Houfe of Commons, fo that the debate
we believe is entirely 1011. We trufl that if debates
are fuffered to be publillied in the newfpapers, the
regulation of yefterday will not be continued,and that
the Houfe, which winks at the publication of reports,
will wink alfo at -y facilities abfalatity nectar,
for reporting ..4,..eeches of Members with tolerabla
accuracy. NUbdy a(ks or expeits
_ _ _

A courier arrived this forenoon at eleven o'clock
at Lord et Office, with difpatches flora
, Paris, the nature of which has not tranfpired.
By our Port Letters it will be Lien, that our crui-
sers are difplaying their ufual vigilance and adivity.
The Acssra, of 38 guns, has captured a Frocl4
merchantman and a Dutch dagger.
This morning arrived a Hamburgh mail, by which
we received the following letter from Stockholm,
dated May 3 :—" Baron ULTIPAIIItt who arrived
here yefterday esprefs from St. Peterlburgh, in five
days, has brought intelligence that a Convention has
been figned between the two Courts, by which the
Frontiers are, for the prefent, left in the fame Mum..
Ition as before. All preparations (or War were
mediately put a flop to." _ _ _

The 4ad and 92d regiments of foot are ordered to
march for CoWaiter.

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