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London, England, 1803-04-29 00:00:00

AT PLYMOI

TO BE SOLD—The Fee Simple and Inberi:
tame, with paikillon at Lady Dap sextiailf mufin all
that Inn and Tavern, known by the name of The LONDON
INN, Stuart in Fozbele-greet, in thi* Enough, and now in
the Occupation of Mt. George Brewer, as l'enent thereof, un-
td Lady Day neat, but who is &Brous of giving immediate •
poffedion open reafenable terms.
The Dwelling Houle contains (event Parlours and S tins
Rooms, betides a large Room in which the Public Balls and
Concerts are always held, and la frequently sled as an Amanita .
Room, owing to its being the molt capacious in the Town, a :
great somber of Chambers and Apartments in the Auk Rory
with a Counlage, Stables, and Cenral detached 011ims, which,
have a communication with a lane called Seven Star Lane.
For which purport en Maim will be held onThoefdoy,
Twelfth Day of May neat, at the fame lug, at the boar of Six
in the Evniing.
The prcfent Tenant will hew the Peerages; and my tinker
iciforniadon may be obtained by applying to Mr. H. Wooll-
combes, Solicitor. in Plymouth.
N. B. lithe above mentioned Inn it sat fohl, the has wil
be Let by Private Centred immediately.
Plymouth, April 14, dos.
A FREEHOLD—LYMTNGTON, HAM'S.
TO BR BOLD BY PRIVATE cotirrit ACT,
THAI' elegant and commodious MANSION,
called the GROVE HOUSE, with the Furniture. Stoat-
ed near the Town of Lynoingten ; and immediate Realm
may he had.
The Hence has been recently enlarged, improved, and MIMI-
ed in a fuperior and fabflantial manner. It contains on the
Ground Floor, a Drawing Room et feet Iquare, to in height:
Dining Room of fame dimenfinns; Library 23 feet by t 7, and
it in height; Breekflift Parlour at feet by cc. and 9 feet 7
inches in height, with °Sas of every deleription, complete
and ernv.nient. In the Attie Story are five large Bed Cham-
bers, with two Muffing Rooms, four excellent Servants' Rooms,
and a, Laundry. There see good Kitchen Gardens (partly
walled), and a neat Skrubberiformunding the Hoare, with a
Cash-beak andSublina fee fate Herb*
The Furniture Is new within the latt ten mond.. made of
the belt materials, h the BretKyleof elegance, mid in good
mehmation.—Oreve Houle commands beautiful and eatenave
Views of the Me of Wish', the Sea and fa:rounding Country.
That delightful Walk called the Grove, adjoining, Is part of
the Prange% and will be included in the Sal-.
Es, further Particulars (if by Letter, pnR paid) arply
Charles St. Darts, Eft at the Rank. in Lyrninmon, who will
deliver Tickets for viewing the Hoeft and flarattnee.

CAMBRIDOtSHIRE.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION—By Mr. CHAPMAN,
of Richmond, Surrey,
Os Wednefday, the 4th dey of Mayes, at the Baptlft-beed
Celkethoeie„ Chimney-lane. Imam, at Twelve
THE Manor and Elting of WOODSOILT HILL ;
containing la the whale One Tboufand Three Hundred
and Shay eight Acre• The Mate is very comps& and Si..
ate is the Pad& of Gandingay, 'lwo Miles from Potion, biz
frost Diggiviwade, Seventeen from Cambridge, Fifty from
Leaden, mid Paw from Glrford ; die Orem North
Rog. trove where the River Otis is to Lynn.
The Maratha. Hods eed Oikes are la complete Repair, and
St fee the laiinediete tempt* el a Family.
The Sell rased the Molise la researtably dry sad loatitity.
end the Ter( le se good vim Race Gramma; the Girdles Is
.Seemed swig sap le the Uepisis for!. Oink
The Woods which ere is Heed. end at • iisilhabie tioanos
from the Minim Hoek are good Shelter ter Game, et which
there is • gems moiety se the Meer.
Pagodas& may be bad at the Chambers et Mr. Grain.
No. 4, Liandah lee ; of W. and J. lime, Middle TWat
sit
ibegrheelpil gm et Pewee; the Oath. Sham the
Sheaf, Alcoebsr? HSI; the Foggia. at Headaltdo• tbs
fdsad Ram. Newmarltat mid at ]Sr. Chapman, at the Rapda-
Cellgbeek leen
IL II The Madam at Wasissry NA will flew the Heeds
sl sod e.g.. 40.4*; wit tr. Tama will taw eat refese-
FaiiimaditigiO. Alp}

The Sugar and Coffee Bill, the !rift% Revenut Lo in Bi.l, and
the Innkeepers' Military Q.2.u.ters Bill. went through the Com.
mince. They gave rife to no dileuffiun, and were ordered to
be reported to-morrow.
Lurd Vdcount BULKILY? was fworn and took his feat.
DIVORCE.

The Order of the Day being read for the fecond
reading of Markham's Divorce Bill, Counfel and
evidence were called, froth whofe natement it ge-
nerally appeared, that the Petitioner was the Rev.
Dr. George Markham, Dean of York, and fon to
the Archhifhop of that province—that he was mar-
ried in June 1789, to his now wife, Elizabeth Eve.
lyn Sutton, and daughter of the late Sir Richard
Sutton, Bart. of Norwood, in the county of Not-
tingham ; that they lived and cohabited together
until the month of OEtober, 18ot, when it was dif-
*covered that a criminal and adulterous intercourfe
had taken place between.the Lady and John Faw-
cett, Efq. of Faceby, in the county of York, who
was a Captain in the Militia.
In confequence of this difcovery, the Petitio-
ner, Dr. Markham, brought his aftion in the Court
of King's Bench, Weilminfler, againft Captain
Fawcett, for criminal converfation with his wife,
and obtained a judgment againft him for ;wool.
damages.
The ufual proceeding for a divorce a menfc et
lbw), were afterwards instituted on the part of the
Petitioner in the Conliftory Court of the Archbi-
fhop of York, where a fentence to that circa was
obtained. The iffue of the marriage was to children.
Mr. Gaseow, Counfel for the petitioner, called
the perfon who was (errant to the Dean at the
time when Mrs. Markham's infidelity was ditto.
vered, as a witnefs to prove the fad of adultery.
This man Rated, that his Matter and Capt. Fawcett
lived upon the moil friendly terms together. He
underilood from the converfation that took place
at table. while he was in waiting, that Captain
Fawcett and his Matter had been fchool-fellows at
Virellminiler, and fellow Rodents at Oxford. From
feveral circumstances that occurred, and obferva-
ttons he could not help making, after Capt. Faw-
cett's intimacy in his Mafter'sfamily commenced,
he began to entertain fufpicion that an improper
connetlion might take plate between his Millrefs
and Capt. Fawcett. Once particularly the gave a
letter into the bands of the witnefs, and ordered
him to convey it to Capt. Fawcett, who was Ra-
tioned at the time at no great dillance. He had
fufpicions that this letter contained an appoint-
ment, and took means to afcertain whether or not
thefe fufpicions were well founded. He had the
letter conveyed according to the direftioo, and
kept upon the watch about the houfe to mark the
confequence that might follow. He obkreed the
window of the room in which Mrs. Markham fat
alone, drawn up, but covered with a curtain. It
WAS on the ground floor. Capt. Fawcett appeared
and looked about him, but did not obferve the
witnefs, who had concealed hinsfelf. He law the
Captain go up to the winclow,draw the curtain,and
get in; after which the curtain was again drawn
Upon the window. The witnefs then ftept op, and
;drawing back the window curtain, looked into the
mom. _ _ _

Mr. GARRovt.—Have you any doubt after "'bat
you faw that the adultery vrasatittally committed?
—Wither.. I have not. _ _ _

Mr. Gmtaow—Did the Dean and his wife live
on good terms together ?—Witnefs. They did.
After this was finned, * was found that the
witneffes were not ready to prove the fag of the
marriage. Thefe were his Grace the Archbilhop
of York, father of the petitioner, and Cap-
tain Markham, of the Admiralty, his brother.—
Notice had been fent to them, but they were ab-
fent from caufes which made their attendance im•
poffible.
The LORD C/WICILLOR propofed, therefore,
that the further confider-46°n of the fecond read-
ing of the Bill Ihould be delayed till tomorrow.
The Noble and Learned Lord, at the fame time,
adverted to the manner in which the property,
which formed the marriage dowry of Mrs. Mark-
him, was fettled by the marriage contra& He
Rated that its real amount, as well as the amount
of property fettled on her by her hulband, and of
legacies which had fince accrued, were not fatis-
feelorily mentioned, and therefore additional evi-
dence was neceffary.
The motion for putting off the fecond reading
till to-mot row, being therefore put from the wool-
tack, Wilc agreed to.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The following are the names of the Members
on the reduced lill, forming the &lea Committee
appointed by ballot to try the merits of the con-
!eked Eledion and Return for the Borough of
Taunton :
James Sallee, Ifq. Weft Lo.e Geo. Sent* Elk
ohn Lowther, Fig. Walter Jones, q•
Jonathan Rains, Efq. J. H. Williams, Efq.
Henry Peirle, Eq. Lord Wm. Stout
Wilier PAW, Ef.y. • Wee. lIIINTOWS. lifq.
I James firederkk, Sfq. Nathaniel Odes, Eft ,
Wm. Stereefe, Eli. Aawhad Bonk" Efq.
lila. fteetyse, Efq. .
The following Members were chofen to try the
merits of the Petition complaining of an undue
',Elation for Bolton :
Henry Holland, Efq. Geo. PtteoeiS
I ktiralli, Efq. Hen. Oen
Stat. Efq. Hew, 'award
IWm. Middielae. Sf,_ Lord Arehibald Hamilton
Jobe Blackburn, of Newport, lahn Atkins. zr*_
Eft Hon. Frederick WM
, Han. John Scott Thames Creamy, Efq.
IL. Docks, MI. Haw
Ordered, thee the Hank be caged lortitfbvpiteßfq. asst.
and 'be Wen dd and to be ulna iag Mk* if kr-
}east as Arms.

CAPS 01' GOOD Hors'.
Lord Foterroes.—,, I rife, Sir, in purfirance
of the notice I had the honour to give yefterday,
in order to move for copies of all correfpondences
of which his Majefty's Minifters may be in potter-
refpeCting the Cape of Good Hope, and the
negotiations which have taken place on that tub-
jet, if any, with the French Government. In
doing this, I with to be tinderflood as by no means
defirous of interfering in the halt with any fubfiß-
ing difiuffions between the negotiating powers ;
though, confidering the length of time during
which the Houfe and the country have been kept
in fo difagrecable and inconvenient a Rate of fuf-
penfe, there are many, no doubt, who would
think no motion improper, the objet of which
would be to take the difcuffion altogether oat of the
weak and feeble hands to which it has fo long been
committed. But however I myfelf may be difpo-
fed to incline to that opinion, I (hall not now offer
any tending to involve the general queßion, par-
ticularly as notice has been given of another mo-
tion in a very few days, if the Minifters do not
render it unneceffary by a previous and fatisfaeory
communication. I than therefore let out by de-
claring, that if the Minifters explicitly fay that the
motion I meant to have the honour of fubmitting
would be likely to interfere prejudieially with any
exifting negotiation, or difcuffions with foreign
powers, I than abflain from making it, and Apo-
Inglis to the Houfe for whatever trouble I tray
have already given them.—[This did not produce
any obfervation from the minifterial fide of the
Houfe, and the Noble Lord proceeded.)—l fhall
urge but a very few obfervations to enforce the
propriety of the motion I am about to offer, and
(hall not enter into all the details in which this im-
portant fubjett is involved : but in the few words,
I have to fay, (hall have occafion to refer to fome
documents which cannot of courfrbe confide*ed as
authentic by this Houfe ; I mean the declarations
made nu the part of the French Government. I
am driven to have recourfe to thefe, becaufe our
own Government hat been fo tenacious of with-
holding any information, that the only authentic
documents received, have been made public by
the Government of France. This is the mote un-
fortunate, as, from the communicatibm made'
through unofficial channels, the Houfe add the' •
country has had only the unfatisfa&ory intbrmaz,
don, that fometimei orders have been given to
give up the Cape, and that at others, coudter.or-
ders have been given to retain it. The laft ac-
counts tell us that the Cape has been finally given
up, but theindecifive manner in which the bafinefi
has been condated, affords matter of very mate-
rial and important confideration. We know, how-
ever, to a certainty, tharafter the Signature of the
Definitive Treaty of Amiens, orders were fiat out
far the ceffion of the Cape, in conformity with the
flipulations of the Treaty. It is al,/ known; that
in the month of Odober„ at the time of the inva-
fion of Switzerland by the French arms, a con&
derable flir was made in this country, and mili-
tary preparations were going forward in our ports:
No official information has been laid before the
Houk, by the Minifiers of the Crown, to es abbe
us to judge of what fort of interference, if any, wag
made by the Britifh Government on that occafion a
but it is pretty generally underflood that orders
were then fent out to retain or retake the poffeffion
of that important Ration; and the French docu-
ments inform us, that the poffeffion was retained
by the extraordinary mode of recapture and capi-
tolation. As information has been fo long with.
holden, it is time for the Houfe to esercife *aright
of demanding from his Majefty's Minifiers a full
and fair explanation, without being confined, at
at prelim, to the Ratements contained in Gad
French documents, which we are not allowed tql
confider as official. By adopting the motion I
have now to fubmit, this refult at keit will follow,
that oti comparing the dates of the feveral orders
fent out, with that of the Meffage, which has kept
the country in Inch uncertainty and alarm for thefe
two months pall, we may be enabled to fee hose
far they were both connected. Ido not conceive
how the difclofure of this can much interfere with
any other difiufficiss between the two Govern..
menu. The Meffage Rated, that there wWe
portant negotiations pending, and that prepare-
tions, were in the mean time, gr idg on in disports
of France and Holland. The French, however,
deny the truth of this, and deny that any difcuf-
fions were pending, or any armaments-making id
the ports alluded to, bat what had been going
forward in the fame way for a confidnable tinge
before, and ever fince the conclufion of the peace,
and during the time of the lag &Rion of Parlia-
ment. It is, therefore, impoffible to cemjeCturs
what thefe difeuffions could be, to which the Met-
rage referred, except they rllated to the Cape
of" Good Hope, or to the 'fiend of Malta.—
Subfequently to that period, Bonaparte made
communication to the French nation, fimilar to
what is given here in his Majelly's Speech at the
opening of every Setfion Of Parliament, and in
which he plaided to inform them rerpeiting the
Rate of the French nation. In this review there was
little that breathed much of hoftility towards us.
The Fit aConful, indeed, obferved, that France had
reafon to complain of England's not fulfilling dW
condition of the Treaty of Amiens, and (till conti-
nued its troops in Alexandria and the Cape of Goal
Hope ; and added, that intelligence had been re.
ceived by the French Government, that Englil
'Weis bad arrived at both thole places, to convey
the troops home. Nes explanation on this head had
fince been given by our Government, but it is sea.
• finable to Safer that the infamatilla was erne a tee

were it othertiife, it would be abturd to rappore that
in the:face of all Europe Bonaparte would zfreet
The language he made ufe of was of a pacific and
conciliatory tendency, for were Bonaparte hallily
(lit-poled, it would have been more to his purpote to
have inflamed and irritated the minds of the French
people for what might have been rcprcfented as
bad faith and a breach of treaty. Taking, then,
Egypt and the Cape nut of the queftion, there re-
mains no objed of difc ninon left, except the Ifland
of Malta. In this alto I find myfelf obliged to re-
fer' to the foreign documents already retorted to.
From thefe we learn, that in confequence of tome
former difficulties or differences refpeeting the elec-
tier of a Grand blafter of the Maltefe Order, it
was agreed, on the fuggeftion of England, that
the above thould he referred to the Pope. With
regard to the guaranteeing Powers, and their Fro-
ceedinge, our Minillers have left us in the dark ;
but from the correfrondence lately publifhed be-
tween M. de Buzy, Knitter Plenipotentiary horn
the Grand Mailer, and Mr. Alexander Ball, the
Englith Governor, we find that the guaranteeing
powers have declined to interfere or undertake the
charge ; but, it can hardly be contended, that
England is on that account authorized to retain
the Mends, according to the terms of the treaty,
which did make the furrender conditional, and
only Ilipulated that the power there named fhnuld
be invited to guaranty the independence of the
place, and the maintenance of the order. I again
repeat, that I have no intention whatever by this
motion, to extra& prematurely from his Majefty's
Minifters, the fubjeet of any fublifling ditcuffions,
on which they may with to be filent for the prefent,
and therefore confine myfelf entirely to the reten•
tion of the Cape of Good Hope ; in demanding
an explanation upon which I think myfelf juftified
by all the circumflances which have hitherto come
to our knowledge. In the firli place,it has been teen
that his Majtfty's Minifters fent orders to furrender
it; they afterwards tent orders to retain it; and 14
days fubfequently, in a fit of weaknefs, thought
proper to countermand them. It is underftood,
that in zo hours after the orders were given for the
retention, which having been done by recapture,
may be conftrued into an adt of holliiity,therecame
that !near from his Majefty which has arise kept
the nation in a Rate of anxiety, and it is therefore
material to know, by a comparifon of dates, what
stonnetlion there was bets/ ecn them."
His Lordship then moved,
fa That these be laid before the flask espies of all the or-
ders fiat out for the formatter of the tape of Geed Hope, in
virtue of the Deflaithe Tracy at Amiens ; ago, of all the
orders fart for Its retention; s 0 earrefpandenee with and from
the Olken Owned, rehiring to it ; and aro, of all difeutluni,
If any. on that fobjedt between his 114s)eity's *flamers and the
French Republic, together with their refpcttive dotes."
There objeffs were all included in cafe Motion.
The Ctf•eceaart of the EICHIQpiII raid, he
could not but think there was a ftrange inconfift-
ency between the argument tiled by the Noble
Lord at the beginning of his fpeech, and the motiestl
by which he had concluded it. The Noble Lord I
had declared in his outlet, that he did not with to
prefs Minifters on any heads which related to the I
difcuffions now carrying on between the two coun-
tries, and by his motion he had moved for what
he himfelf had declared, towards the end of his
fpeech, was the only point that could be in difcuf-
lion. He had entertained great hopes that, at the
preterit moment, and under the prefent -eircum.
dances, every man would have abflained from
bringing forward any fpecific 'notion, or at hail
that no motion of this kind would have been Cub•
muted to the Ilnufe, efpecially as a general mo-
tion, which would comprehend the whole of what
was wiffied to be attained by the prefent, was fixed
to come on fo early as Tuef4ay next. The prefent,
he Paid, was undoubtedly a point on which the'
fulleft information rruyi be given by hit Majefty's
Minifters, and nothing would afford them more
fincere fatisfaelital than to give it in the moll ample
manner, whenever it could be done without mili-
tating againft the effential interefts of the country,
liv difclotino that which, in the prefent pollute of
affairs, ought
v to be kept fecret. But even if his
Majefty's Minifters were not defirous to give this
information, he was fure the Houle would require
its and therefore he could have no other reatai for
a:tithing to withhold it, than that which he had kill
a'l'igned. After fuch a declaration, he could not
conliftently negative the motion, and it was equal-
ly impolhible for him to accede to it. Indeed,
worded as it now was, he thought it a motion that
could not he entertained at an time. He fhould,
therefore. prnpofe to get rid obit by moving either
•;‘ the previous quedion," or 6, that the Orders of
the Day be read," and concluded with the latter.
Mr. Wm:were allured the Houle, he flould
trouble thefts but very (hardy. He wilhed only
to fay a few words, in order to thew that his No-
ble Friend, in making this motion, was not liable
to the charge of that intonfl &new which had been
attributed to him by the Right Hon. Gentleman
who had jolt fat down. His Noble Friend had
declared, that if the motion thould be sinclerftood
by his Majelly's Knitters to interfere with the
dikullions now pending between the two countries,
on their declaring that to he the cafe, he would
withdraw it. He could not fee by any means how
the prefent motion could interfere with the papers
intended to he called for by the Hon. Gentleman,
*link motion is to he brought forward on Tuelday
next. His Made Friend thinks, the papers moved
for cannot interfere with the prefent difcifilions ;
if fo, and if they relate to matters which will ne
rieffarily come before the Honk on that Hon.
Gentleman's motion, it was an argument rather
in favour of their prndnetion than agaiiilt it, and
clearly acquitted his Noble Friend of that incon-
Agency with which he had been charged. It now
iPpeared, Ilisseever, on the authority of thole who
mull he allne•ed the belt knowledge of the cafe,
that the dif.lesfure of thefe papers will have an
effcB upon the prefent difcnffion. He was lorry
for it; Ireeanfe he was apprehenfive it a-mild be
the means of continuing, for a ?Midi longer time,
that Pate of darknefs, uncertainty, and anxiety, in
which we had already ton long been.
Lord nevem ss he was not prefent at
the WIC part of the Noble *Lord's foe .ch. and
therefore lie cottid not fay any thing relating to it;
OSt he renaioly-bad a very great objearon to Z:e

motion as it was now worded. He tmderftood,
however, that the Noble Lord had proceffect that
he fhosld not wills to prefs for any informations the
dirclofore of which might embarrafs the ',relent
Negotiation, and yet the end of his motion went
to ant for papers relative to the dircullion now
pending. He had entertained hopes that no de-
tached motions of this kind would, under the pre-
fent Rate of affors, have been brought forward.—
He frankly conteged that the Houle and the coun-
try had the moll undoubted right to expel infor-
mation on the very important points which have
lb long been the ()Netts of difeullion between the
two conntries. No perfons whatever, in the whole
country, could be more defirnus to give this infor-
mation than his Majefly's prefent Minifters k and,
it would give them the fincerell fatisf#fion to do
lb, whenever they could accomplilh it, Without in-
juring the molt important interefts of the country:
but whenever this was done, it mull, in order to
he ell-canal, be given on general grounds, and not
on detached points ; and he fhould therefore think
the bell mode was, that which would bring the i
whole fubjefl entire before the Houle ; and then,
if filch Ihould not be deemed fatisfaelory, the Horsfe
would know how to alk for what they deemed to
be infutficient. He had only one word to fay, in
anlster to what had fallen from a Right Hon. Gen-
tleman oppofite to him, as to what had been laid
by his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. His Right Hon. Friend did not fay
that this motion would he prejudicial to the Nation,
but he underilood him to fay that it might lead to
a dilcuflion that in all probability would be pro-
dutlive of great inconvenience.
Lord FOLKSTON& begged leave to fay a few
words, by way of exculpating himfelf from the
charge of ineonfitteney, which had been alledged
againa him. The difpatches he had called for in
his motion were thole fent nut in Oflober and he
did not underßand how chafe could interfere with
the prefent negotiation. The Noble Lord oppo-
fite to him had laid, that he did not like detached
motions, when there is one of a general nature
pending. He was of a contrary opinion, for by
means of a general motion any Member May, ac-
cording to the Noble Lord's do&rine, preclude
another from taking op the fame fubjeft in a de-
tacked point of view, and by poßponing ?le general
motion, prevent the fubjed from coming before
the Houle for a length of time. This was, he
thought, owing to the introduainn of notices of
motions, which he thought irregular, and produc-
tive of many inconveniences.
Mr. Fox laid, be thought it neceffary to obferre,
that the Noble Lord who had brought forward
the prefent motion, was not deficient either in
candour or fairnefs; at the fame time, he could
not agree in the propriety of his motion. He would
fhortly Rate his realons for fupporting the motion
for the Order of the Day. No one, he believed,
could doubt, but that the queßion now the fubjeo
of debate, ought to be fully examined ; but was it
fit that it fhould be examined on the prefent day ?
A motion was intended to be made next Tsaefday,
on the State of the Nation. If the Houle on that
day fhould agree to enter into an enquiry on the
State ache Nation, the queßion now brought for-
ward would very properly form a part of that
enquiry. Therefore, when it was propofed to enter
into a general qoeffion on the whole of the eondua
of the King's Minifters, he would put it to the
Noble Lord, whether it would not be better to
take the general quetlion firff, and the particular
queflion after ? He, for one, certainly thought it
would be better to let the motion which Rood for
Tuefday be &II brought forward. For that was
a preliminary queftion, which the Houle olght to
enter upon before it went into particular details ;
and if it (hould be the opinion of the Houle, that
it was not fit to enter into that general quellion, it
mull follow, that it would not be fit to enter into
the details that formed a part of it. And if the
general queflion fhould be examined, the Noble
Lord's motion would very properly come forward
after it: and he writhed it might afterwards be
brought forward, beeaufe it always was his opinion,
that the Houle ought not to be timid in calling for
information from chore who had the management
of the affairs of the country in their hands.
Mr. MARTIN (of Tewitelbury) obferved, that
ever fence the prefent Chancellor of the Exchequer
came into power, he had attended part'cularly to
his conduet, and thought it but juftice to fay, that
he highly approved of it. He confidered him as
having uniformly silted with integrity, and with
the bell intentions of promoting the intereß of his
Country. He had often heard a great deal raid in
that Houle about the refpontibility of Minitlers,
not only by Members in Oppolition, but by Mini.
tiers themielves ; yet, after all he had heard, he
never found any good effeet produced from the ar-
guments advanced on the fubjed ; and as to the
refponfibility by which Minitierk were Paid to be
held, he would not give two-pence for it.
The queßion was then called for, and the mo-
tion for the Order of the Day was, agreed tn, and
of courfe Lord For stew I's motion negatived.

PAST INDIA AFFAllti

I.nrd CAITLIIIAGN moved for an account of all
the Goods fold at the Eaft India Company's Sales,
from March 1802 to March a 803 t and alto for an
account of the Amount of the Company's Stock,
exclutive of their Capital, within the fame period.
The motion was agreed to, and the accounts af-
terwards brought to the Bar by Mr. Owen from
the India Honk.

LOVACASTLIRIAC n,inaCommittee of the whole
II Aire, role. purfuant to the notice he gave on
feefday, to move for Leave to bring in a Bill
to enable the Eal India Company to defray the
Eapences of raifing three Bittalions of Volun.
teers. By a former AO, the Company had railed
two battalions, together with artillery ; it was now
propofed that they Ihould have three battalions,
without any artillery. The whole of tnefe were to
confill of perfnns in the ferviee of the Eaft India
Company. The nffi ce rs were to be taken from among
th.)fe who held the higher fituations under the
Company ; and the men were to be the fame per.
inns who were r.ow confidentially employed in the
!Company's wareh...tfes. Nothing could he better
Icalculated to anfwer the porpoks intended, than
this force. His I.nettihtp then concluded, by

Making-Itis motion, tviiielt was agreed to, atkcidie
report Waif ordered to be received to-morrow,
Mr. Poi preferred a Petitlßlt from the Mayor, Aldermen,
ate. of Nottingham nand the Bill for regulating debase et
• that place.—Referred to the Committee
Mr. Vawat prefented a Petition, praying relief from
the operation of the trim Li* Courts Bia•—Referrat to the
Committee on the Bill.
A porton from the India Houfe tirrfattect certain Accounts,
conformably to the 33d of the King and the Order of that
Holift--Orderad to be printed.
COROItERS'

On a motion being made for fixing on a cer-
tain day for bringing up the Report of the Coro-
ners' Bill, tome oppofition was made to it ; and
the Houfe was proceeding to a diva-ion, when
there not being 4o Members prefent, an adjonin-
ment took place.

LONDON.

PRIbAY, APRIL 29.

PRICP. OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK s
3 Per Cent. Reduced 644
3 per C. Calf. money, DJ+ , ili—sfor ace. 651.
New 5 per Cent. nyii—Old ditto too}}
PRICE OF S POCKS YESTERDAY:
Ban Stock 170 171 .5 Per CcoL '797.991 991
3 per Cent. Red. 64H1 Lon Ann. 19 3-16
3 per C. Conf. 631 65i India Stoct ar:7 at:int
News q per Cent. Bs} Rifts 5 per Celll4. syst
5 per CL Ann. aoot Conf. for May, 66 65411 66F

Though the Monittur continues filent on the
filbjed of the Negociation, the Englifh Paper,
printed in Paris, Rates, " on the authority of per-
fims of high confideration," that all the difficul-
ties in the way of adjoftment are on the eve of
being completely removed. To this we may add,
that difpatches were yellerday received by the
French Ambalador, which are tinderflood to have
brought informatioa that orders had been ailed
by the French Government for the immediate pay
ment of the firft inftalment of the debt due to
Great Britain for the maintenance of the French
prifoners dining the war. This circumflance;
flould it prove correet, would be of great im-
portance, as manifefting a defire on the part of the
Confular Government to fulfil its engagements.
On the other hand, we find in a Paper of this
morning, which alto eats at leaft to (peak on
the authority of perfons of high confideration,"
the following paragraphs, which, ?they tuft on au-
thority, may be confideted as decifive of the quef.
tion of " Peace or War ?"

We are not at all fbrprized at the impatience
of the Public for a definitive anfwet from France.
The Ragnation of Trade—the general want of
Confidence—and the evils which arife from the
Rate of Uncertainty in which cireumßances have
placed us, mutt be admitted to be aloft etnbarraf
fmg ; while, at the fame time, it is well known,
how difficult, upon many occaGons, it is to obtain
an siteseanais. We have reafon to believe, how.
ever, that Minifters are determined to bring the
matterto a point, and we than have to announce
to our Readers, wry/wily, the relish of the Ne-
gotiation.
" In the correfpondence between Sir Ataxannea
Batt. and M. Ds Buts, (or, as the French will
have it, Signior Bust), the only reafon Rated for
refuting to deliver up the Wand of Malta is, be-
cattle certain Powers, who hadibeen invited by the
Loth Article of the Treaty of Amiens to guarantee
the Independence of the Wand, had not agreed to
that mature. We had occaGon before to remark
on this fubjea. It is not alone the refufal of ter-
tain Powers to guarantee that independence, nor the
abolition of certain Lampe: fince the Signature of
the Treaty of Amiens, but the views and preidl:
of the Feiss. Cow su t, demonarated fince that pe-
riod, which render its retention neeefary on the
part of the Britilh Empire. That degree of Inde-
pendence which, with a pacific fpirit in the Flare
Con s u t., would have been complete fecurity, and
all that the Treaty of Amiens aimed at, is no recta.
rity at all with the hoßile projefts which have been
but too plainly manifeßed ; and the quellion is,
Shall we give up Malta with lefs fecurity than we
Ripulated for when Boa•PARTI promifed us peace,
now that he threatens us with war ?—and with
war, to the fuccefs of which, on his part, the pof-
lemon of that ifland would moll efentially contri-
bute? From the moment we read SIIIIASTIANI'SRe-
port en 414 we were convinced that his Majef
ty's Minitlers could not give tip Malta without
receiving force ample fecurity in lieu of that polTef
lion. We have made thefe animadvertions, becanfe,
though we do not affe& to Rate the whole cafe of
Minifiers upon this fiihjelt, we do not like to fee
thisimportant point narrowed to the mere queflion
of Grannnery. Of one thing, however, we are cer-
tain, that the point in difpute has been carried to
that length, that nothing but the diftina acknow.
ledgment of our right to keep Malta, will, under
all the circumßances, fatisfy his Majeßy's Mini•
Ilers—as we are convinced nothing fhort of fuch a
concelLon will fatisfy the Public.
" Whatever may be the iffue of the prefent Ne
gotiation with France, a flrung Adminiftration will
be neceffary for our fecurity. Upon this point w.
are unwilling again to advert to a tranfaltion, the
refult of which has filled us, as it has every friend
to the intereas of the country, with regret. What
we have already Rated upon it may be relied upon.
Mr. AMOINGTOII, we believe, wiled for the aced.-
lion of Mr. Pirr and frme of his friends to the
Government, and would willingly have relinquilk

•ed his office to the attainment deo great an object
When Mr. Pirr was applied' to by Mr. ADDING:
roU upon this point, the former repfied (aernight
be ciliated) that he could entertain no propofi-
tiorrupon this fubjeft,, unlefs His Marrs TY'S wifhes
were diflindly fignified to him. He added alto,
'that in filch a cafe he fhould feet it necefrary to pro.
pole an Adminiftration upon a large and extended
plan. Here the whole tranfaCtion ended. Whether
in the cootie of it any difinclination was exprefrect
on the part of the prefent Minifters to ad with
Lord GI anvil LTA, or any of his party, or whether
that party expreffed a fimitar difinclination to an
with the prefent Minillers, we have not been accu.
rarely informed, nor indeed does it appear need:
fart' to inquire. In whatever way the prefent ne-
goeiation with France ends, the country will na-
turally look to a fitting adminiaration. becaufe
experience has taught us that we have only diffi.
tufty to expeft. It is hardly necerary for us to
fay, that among the prefent Miuillers there are
Tome whom we moll highly refped—in whore ta.
tents and whole charafters we have peat confi.
dente but thefe are times in which every depart-
ment lhould be filled with the able( men in the
country. We have already expreffed our difap.
pointment and regret, iir obferving the conduCt of
the Naval Department, and when we look round,
much as we refped tome of his Majeßy's Mini..
&re, we mull own, that unlefs Come changes take
place, our ht/- rogolation will r 0 is the faint hope of
from peace."
I I'o the above extract we may add, that the
news which we communicated yefterday from the
French Papers rend alfo to damp the hopes of
peace, in as much as they Phew that the Four
Cow s I. of France (till cherifhes the fame hopes
and views which prompted his expedition to Egypt.
Nothing leis than a whole divilion of (hips of
war, was. it teems, equal to the importance of
conveying an Ambafiador with his train, from the
Confular Court to Conflantinople. Did the bulk
of General Bauses equipage and the numbers of
Ms attendants labially demand flag a pomp of
conveyance ? was it not intended to imprefs an
idea of unequalled magnificence as neceffarily in-
veiling every reprefentation cif the perfun of the
FIRST CONSUL ? Was it not fent to lead a parade
of naval triumph in leas in which tho navy of Re-
publican France V"as before known but by defeat
.and difgrace? Did not Ls stemmas go to convince
the inhabitants of the Levant, that. even after the
defirtation of the day of Aboukir—that, thougi
Alexandria fell unrelieved—France had Rill a fleet?
Was it not, among other things, one object of 'his
expedition, fent out fo critically at the moment
when the Englifh were to leave Alexandria, toper.
tirade at leaß the more ignorant part of the People
of the Levant, that the Englifh retired in terror
before the approach of the French ; and even to in.
finuate to the Turkifh Government, that if the
Englifh would not of their awn will depart; here
was a French force in readinefs to drive them away ?
Had the objeds of the expedition been others than
we fuppofe, there could have been no wife reafon
why Less:swims fliould haye, before his return.
vifited the ports of Syria and Egypt. Commet-
cial Commitiaries is, it kerns, the new name for
thole political and military fpies who were emplot-
ed without offenfible name, though in great num•
hers, and on miGlons into every foreign country.
under the old Government of France ! is not
every one of thole Commiffaries in conftant pri-
vate correfpondence with the Ftarr Cosisnx him.
Pelf, not merely on the commercial, bat upon the
political and military affairs of the countries into
which they are refpedively fent ? Do not there
Commercial Coramiaries for the Levant go tp
fulfil the pmrnifes, to renew the intrigues, to follow
our the views of the illußrious COL SIa&STIANI ?
Have they not his journal, as a chart to guide
them in their intrigues with the Chiefs of the EaR.
and in the Afiatic flatteries which they are to con.
vey home to the Friss. Consul's ear? And then.
what confequence rand not every one of thefe
Gentlemen acquire in the eyes of the people of
the EaR, inftalled as he is with all die pomp of an,
Ambaliador. and by the very fleet rhichlgive
portance to General Saone at Conßantinople
At St. John D'Acre,—at Alexandria,—it is, we
may be Pure, quite impoffible. but the appearance
of Le ss ion rs, with his fquadron and his Corn-
, mitioie•—their appearance as the humble( Mini-
' tiers of the will of the moll risognimoiroser and pr,...1
'infant Bow AAAAA have utterly extingnilh,
ed all remembrance of the affair of Jaffa—of the
repulfe from the ruins of D'Acre—o( the glorious
Xs asas-like efcape from Aboukir!

MAILS.
This day a mail arrived from Holland, and two
from Hamburgh.

IN IN ARABIA.

For a long wit:le the affairs of the Porte, as if-
(deed by 'the unprovoked attack made by the
French apart Egypt, and by the operations of nut
brave countrymen in forcing the invaders to aban•
Jon their clog/ten, occupied much of the attention
of Europe. The good faith of Great Britain ip
evacuating that country, bat bardithad time se be

known till a freer event has taken place, which
will probably excite no (mall degree of intereft—
we mean the infurreftion of Abdul Wechab, in
Arabia, againfl the Porte, which we announced
two days ago.
This affair cafes no little nneafinefs at Con (tan-
tinople, where, as we learn, by letters from thence,
of fo late a date as the 18th ult. intelligence has
been received, that a very intimate correfpondence
has for Come time been kept up between the Rebel
Chief in Arabia and the Beys of Egypt.
As Coon as it was difcovered information of every
thing relating to the affair was immediately com-
municated to the Porte, but at that time it was
confidered to be of Co little importance that the
Government did not Coon enough purfue proper
meafures, for preventing the bad confequenees
which may mine from it. Theprincipal ohjeß of the
Revolution, as appears by the moft authentic In-
formation, is to deprive the GRANO Slllolltoa, and
the Sett of GaAs, of all authority, and to transfer
it to the Sett of ALA. We need hardly inform
oar Hiftorical Readers, that thefe two Sets have
always held each other in the utmoli abhorrence.
'The Turks are moftly followers of the former; but
throughout a great part of Arabia, and alma all
the followers of MAHOMAT belong to the
Sat of At.v. The Infurgent, therefore, could
not have pofibly fallen upon any device more likely
to fecure to him a large body of followers, than by
cenneaing his meafures with a queftion of faith.
In the mean time ABDUL Weems' has divided
his troops into two armies, with which he is ad-
vancing againft Mecca and Medina, where fuper-
ftition has been heaping up for ages the devout
gifts of the pious, who finilla the fum of their holy
attainments by pilgrimages to the birth-place and
hpulchre of the Prophet. It will be no difficult
matter, if he fuceeed in (citing the treafirres, to
perluade his followers that what the fee of °mat
will confider as facriledge is an ad of devotion, in-
tended even by the Prophet himfell, as a reward to
the faithful followers of Aar.
Report Rates, and it teems not improbable, that
teveral of the Tarkifir Pachas, among whom are
thofe of Baffora and Damafcus, have declared in
his favour ; this much is certain, that he is furnifb-
ed with (ufficient means to enable him to continue
the expedition he has undertaken, as he is fupport-
ed by a great number of Believers, a/they are
called, who confider the greateft &orifices as ads
of religious duty.

The Commandant of Mecca has already march-
ed to meet him with a confiderabk body of troops,
and it is espeaed that a thong army wall be im-
mediatdy candled in Natoli*, which will aft
aping the infurgents, under the command of the
Gamin Vazna. This meafure is rendered the
• more urgent, as the force of Aspire. Wien*,
inmates daily, while he gives himfelf oat as a
real defendant of Mahomet, and, under the pre-
tence of purifying his religion, gains over to his
purpofes great numbers of the credulous people.
The Duch and Hamburgh Mails have alto
brought us the following ktters :
Hatsua, Aram 34.—Two Couriers from Paris
with difpatches to the French Ambarador have
arrived hen fine Friday lakbut nothing is knows
in regard to their contents, fo that we aill remain
in the Lame mate of uncertainty in regard to peace
or to war.

According to letters from Nimegucn a number
of French troops are espc&ed there this day and
to-morrow. Quarters have already been provided
for them. There troops, it is faid, will form a camp
in the neighbourhood of the city, and, in cafe of
an unexpefted rupture, are deßined for Hanover.
We learn from Helvoetiluys that feveral of the
French !hips lying there, and belonging to the ex-
pedition cleansed for Louifuusa, have fuffered con-
ftderable damage by the late Rorm.

VIRNNA, APRIL lo.—The GRAND Dust of

TOSCANI' will fet out en the isith to Salabour&
and on the tech of May will proceed thence to
Drefden. Their bittatat Majarrtas, during
their tour to Italy, will pay a vifit to the baths of
'lfs. According to general report, the Imperial
troops, in the enfiting rummer, will form two en•
eampments, one in Steyermark, and another in
Cracaw.
RATISIIOII. Aram to.—We Rill cape•*, with
great impatience, the Imperial Ratification of the
General Reces of the Empire, •and begin to fear
that it will experience Come difficulty. M. de
F AAAAA alio, the Aunties Envoy at the Diet,
has hinted, that. his 'lmam. MAJUTT may
fend hither a limited Ratification, fo that he
will merely fanaion all the difpofitions of the
Recs., which related to the dittribotinn of the
indemnities, and fobmit thole each relate to a
sew organisation of the three Colleges, to the
particular deliberation of the Germanic States.—
But there is reafnn•to believe, that in this cafe the
Minißers of France and Ruffia, with thofe of
Pruffse, Bavaria, Has-Cafe), Baden, %auxin-
%erg, and other Powers, will pulite meafures is
concert, to induce the Emperor to ratify the ge•
anal MCI% Ala as it, was decreed by the Depu-
tation of the Empire and by the Diet, without
any reArilliam isedifstatioa,

EAVES OI Till Mint, t4.—The French
troops in garrifon at Coblentz have received or-
ders to proceed immediately to Toulon.
BERLIN, APRIL 16.—Laft Thurfday evening
KOTZLIDUI and M. Onyx fet out from this city
for Leipfic. The hereditary Prince of Ortaricz
fet out yefterday for Fulda.
On the 13th, G is, accompanied by kis
friend M. Gamut, merchant, of this city, made
an aerial excurfion with his balloon. He attend•
ed at half an hour after fir, and about half after
(even defcended at Mittenwalde, in the Saxon ter-
ritories. In a few days he will leave this city, and
proceed to Ruffia.
MILAN, Aram ..—Letters from Genoa elate,
that in the end of March a detachment of troops
embarked there for Oneglia and Port Maurice, in
order to reftore tranquillityamong the inhabitants,
who were in an open (tate of infurreition againft
the introduction of a laid :az and other meafures
of Government.

BERNE, A►RIL !S.—General NEY, the French
Mini ter, fet out yellerclAy for Paris. BARBOU,
General of Divilion, fucceeds him in his fundions,
which he will difchargc till his return. The Can.
tonal Governments will be installed throughout
all Swifferland the day after to-morrow.

This morning their Malts-ruts, the Duke of
CU«aaCLINO,and the Princefres AUGUSTA, ELI.
WITH, SOP NIA, and AMILIA, honoured the Roy.
al Exhibition at Somerfet Houle with their pre-
fence, to view the Paintings and other prodalions
of Art, previous to the Exhibition opening on
Monday, for public infpeetion. Their Majirrats
were attended by the Countefs of HARRINGTON,
and Lord and Lady HARCOU aT, the Earl of CH as-
vaarisxo being with the KING, as Matter of the
Horfe. His Maisrry and his attendants were
dreffed in the Windt's'. uniform.

As the Royal Family were leaving Somerfet
Houfe. the carriages were incommoded for a Stott
time by the entrance of the Lottery wheels, which
are to be depofited there till next year.
The IWO converted a good deal with the Earl
of Coasraartato, and took particular notice of
the whole length portraits.
The Academicians have their Annual Dinner
tomorrow.

Yellerday about half pall twelve o'clock. Her
MAJESTY and the Princeffes AUGUSTA, EL:za-
ps-rt., Soya ta, and Apt a Lie, arrived at St. James's
Palace from the Queen's Houle I foon after the
Princ crs CHAILLOTTS of WALEs, attended by Lad
ELOIN, arrived at the Palace, and continued with
Her MAJISTY and the Paincassas till the Draw-
ing Room commenced.
About half pat! one His Mate Iry arrived at the
Palace, and held a Chapter of the Order of the
Bath, which was attended by his Royal Highnefa
the Duke of Yoae, Sir JOSIEN &Vas, Sir Wit..
t taw FAWCITT, the Earl of Massessuar Lord
BLackylaaa, Lord Hans, r, and fevcralothers
of that Noble Order, when General Dursas, now
Sir DAVID DUNDAS' was inveßed with the Red
Ribbon, vacant by the death of the late Sir Wit.-
Lien HAMILTON. Sir Isaac HEARD, and the pro.
per officers from the Herald's Office, attended the
ceremony.
About half pall two Their MAJISTISS and the
Patacesses entered the Drawing Room, which
was attended by the Panic& of Wit.ss, the Duke
of Tome, the Duke of Cs.aasect" the Duke of
Cum D. the Archbilhop of CADI RRRRR Ay,'
Archbithop of Dossia, Chancellor of the Esche-
quer. Secretaries of State, the Lord Chief Baron,
the Judge of the Admiralty, the Lord Mayor of
London; and the Nobility and Gentry who at-
tended were more numerous than on many Birth-
&a. There were prefent:—
~ata--Rr+ibargl. Portland. I "NI% Mno,rofe. It. Abase&
aschodros—.DevaaStire., INaott,fe, Northisenkrlead, St.
Alban's. and Leak.

eillibery,Werceter. Ely, Tbsineed.

EIT; Bath, Saligberi, liadhry