Star.
London, England, 1803-05-13 00:00:00

TNt CLIttlY.

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Lord Rations moved for an Account of the Number and
Jammu of the Augmentations which had been made in the
Repose of Chunk Livinp from (been Anne's Bounty. Ret-
ina the Dion:res. Counties and Yean in which tech Aaron,-
ta
had taken place. rter a few words from Lords Anckland and Mender, the
account was ordered.
Mr. Williams prefented at tbe Bar the firft Report from the
ftenriddlonens appointed under the late Adt for Inquiring into
the Frauds committed on the Navy.--,Ordered to lie on she
sable.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Noofe was occupied from its Brit String, at half pail
time, to half pail give. in balloting two Committees. for coo.
'ildernm.theduserias of theCirearefter and Bilhop's Cattle Eke-
Pctinoos...
fAtlowiri arc the Names the ?Ambers chofcia for
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iiirmaiiii.
Sir R. W. Vaughan. Bart. I Hai. Doerr I
Ch. Stewart Hawthorn, Bk. A. Ram, Ef
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Jeff. Allen, Efq. Hon. Phu Nand
,ir Thomas Motytt, Bare Lord Vircoant Crank/
W. H. Felfories,.kfti. I Charles Winne, I- lii.
Earl of Dalkcith William timytli, Efq.
I. Gafesigne. Efq, Charles Duels; Efll
Lion, John Elliott

Hon. C. 1.. Dun as

sistwei,

Francis Dinkins, F.fg.
fir G. cernstan, Safe.

Sir Robert Peck, But•_

Wm. Lec Antoine, Erg.
Mrs. Allen, Efq.
Lord Vircount Stopford

Cdatt.*:
Robert Huck Eq.
Hon. Edw. Paget
Jotiti Geo. PhMips, EN.
Robert Hobboute, Ergl
Rich Benin°, Erg.. ,
H. Layeefter, Efq.,
Wni. Raid,lyni EN.

Wm. Edgerton, Efq. . I
Which Constftitteds hieing firomi were emitted fo ridded
forthwith to their dim:elite COMmittee Rooms.
Mr. Su YTII brought up the Report from the CoMmittee Mt
the iriib Law Courts R. gulation BUI.--.:Rdotuttorts agreed to.
Mr. J C. Bea ontoad moved, that there be laid before the
Houle an account of the member of Diftilleries in Mitt part of
the United Kingdom called Ireland, with the number of ftlUs
and an account Of the number of gallons of ipitits home
made, which paid duty from thole diffilleries in the fait year.
He alto moved for an acCount of the number Of Redlining
Diftilleries in England, and where fituated; with the nfithber
of gallons of fpiritE from each which paid duty in the laft year,
and the quantity row on hand in each—Ordered.
The SZCilmtay WAI moved the Order of the Day, for
taking into confideration the Amendments in the Militia Fa-
mily Bill.—The Amendments were accordingly read and
tweed to, and the Bill ordered to be engroffed and read the
third time to-morrow.
Mr. Fmt GERALD moved the fecond reading of the BM from
the Lords, for the prevention of Veratious Arreit&—Read ac-
cordingly, and committed for Monday.
A Mcdage from the Lords brought the Markham Motto
Bill, praying the concurrence of the tioufe.—Ordered to lie da
the table.
The CIiAMMLLLOIL of the EICHIMBIII moved to defer the
call of the Houle until Thuriday neat—Ordered.
A perfon front the Navy-Office prefented at the Bat the ttrf t
Report of the Commiffioners appointed to enquire idto Navel
Abufes, *Ha was ordered to be printed.
tsbenthiTi BILL.
The ATTORNEY-G 5 &JUL, purfuant to his
tice of yefterday, rote to bring forward his motion
for leave to bring in a Bill to indemnify certain
perfons concerned in the iffuing orders for the ex-
portation of certain quantities of Corn to Norivay,
within the period prohibited by law; and all for
doing orders, permitting the exportation of Naval
Stores. As the ground of this Motion he Dated,
that it would appear, from Papers laid before the
Houfe, that a reprefentation had been made tt,
his Majefty's Minifters, on the part of Norway,
that owing to the fcarcity which prevailed in that
country laft year, they were in great diflrefs for a
quantity of feed-corn wherewith to low their lands,
in the late fpring, and intreating to be fupplied
from this country With yOOO quarters of Seed Bar-
ley and Oats, by permiffion of the Britill Govern-
ment; as a prohibitory order of the Privy Council
was then in force to prevent the exportation of
corn from this country. This application was mi.
gioally made in the month of February, and the
corn was then intended tb have been procured
from Scotland ; but it was thought prudent. on
the part of his Majefty's Minifters, not to comply
with the requifition. A fubfequent application
was Made in more preffing and urgent terms, on
the 44th of March, Dating the great difirelfes that
country was likely to fuller for the want of fuch a
fupply, and upon this reprefentation, and having
learned that no inconvenience was likely to sefuli
to this country from a compliance with the requeft,
it was thought prudent by his Majefty's Minifters,
to comply, although the time granted. by order
of Council, for preventing exportation to other
countries was not elapfed. Upon the propriety of
fuch a compliance with the urgent requeft of a
neighbour nation, with whom we were on terms
of mutual amity, under fuch circumftahces, he
believed there could be no difference of opinion.—
A friendly nation, Rating its urgent necellity
for fuch a fupply, without which it would he in
danger of fuftaining a famine the enfuing
year, was, he was convinced, fuch a motive,
as founded on the fpirit of mutual benevolence
and amicable reciprocity between two neigh-
bouring and friendly nations, could require no
very forcible arguments to juftify it ; more efpe-
cially, as it was a meafure which mon increafe
the (ounces of fupply for our own Wants, ihotild
the failure, in any degree, of our enfuing hat•
vest, or any other exigency, call for the aid of
other countries. At the time the permitErm was
given for this purpofe, the Order of Council for
prohibiting the Exportation was within a very few
days of expiring ; and it was not at that time the
determination of Government to renew it. Sub-
fequent circumftances, howeiret occurred, which
induced his Majefty's Government to renew the
1 prohibition for another Month, which order was
I slued on the of April; but the permiffion being
1 given under the pretinre of obviotts necellity, and
without the direst Order of Council, was one of
the grounds which induced him to appeal to this
Houle for an Aft of Indemnity. Tie other I
ground of his application was, on the fubjea of
Orders iffued for preventing the Exportation of
Miltary and Naval Stores; and refpeaing which
a Noble Lord now in his eye (Lord Temple) had
yefterday given notice of hos intention to move fot
the produftion of certain papers, &acid the objea
of his motion this night turn out to be what the No-
ble Lord conjeauted. He trusted, however, that
, from the explanation he Was now about to give the
Houle. the Noble Lord would feel no ground of
objeaion. By the Aft of Tonnage and Poundage
of the i 2th of Charles H. his Majefty was enabled
to prohibit, by his Proclamation, or Orders in
Collodi, the exportation of Military Storer; and
Iby a fubfequent As of the xsoth of George
Saltpetre was deemed a Military Store' and in-
eluded under thole difcretionary powers of prohi.
bitition. By a fubfeqoent Aft of the 23d of G. 111.
Naval Stores were included under the prohibition.
Now, on the 3111 of March, a communication was
made to Government. that a merchant here,
deeply concerned in the Batavian trade, had re-
ceived orders for the exportation of a confiderabk
quantity of faltpetre to certain parts of Prance
and Batavia; on the following day, an Order was
fent to the Commitfioners of Cultoms, figned by
Mr. Vanfittart, Secretary in the Treafury Depart
meat, dittaing them to take fuch matures as to
prevent the eiportation of Gunpowder, Saltpetre,
or Naval Stares to France, Spain, or the Batavian

kepublie, tintil they fhould receive pofitive direc.
dons from his Majefty's Government on the tub
.Elio the 28th of April another communica-
limn from the Boafd of Cullom:, figned by Mr.
Hume, was received by Mr. Vanfittart,
that an unufual quantity of lignum Vitz, being
deemed a naval ftore in the laft war, was about to
fie (hipped for Amftcrdam. Another order was
&ref:echo the Board, on the soth of April; fign-
ed by Mr. Vanfittart, for preventing the exporta.
tion of the lignum vitae, but by Come miftake the
defcriptive word " Naval Store" was omitted;
which was, in time degree, a deviation from the
Ad of the 33d Geo. iII. Subfequent communi-
cations were received by Government, that the
chips on board of which the lignum vita and fah-
petre were fhipped, and which were bound to
Havre, Rouen, and Am fterclam, had changed their
deftination to Hamburgh and Embden. It was
deerned necefrary to iffue a general order, for the
purpofe of preventing any elution of the intentions
of Government for preventing the conveyance of
naval and military (ores to France, Spain, or
Holland, again( the exportation out of the coun-
try of ihofe (torts for any part abroad. No*, as
thole orders were dined uponrhe fpur and need! •
fity of the occafion, by his Majefty's confidential
fetvanti, and without an order of his Majefty in
Council, and confequently violatory to the arid
letter of the law, it was to indemnify the parties
Co acting for the public good, that the prefent ap-
peal was made to the juftice and wifdom of Par-
liament. The only cattle of objeCtion he could
anticipate was, that thofe meafures were taken
during the fitting of Parliament, and that com-,
munlcauon had been fo long delayed upon the
fobjed but he Willed the nature of the circum-
fiances under which thofe ads of illegal authority
(if he might fo esprefs himfelf) were done, and
the communication of them to the Houfe as fpee-
dily as prudence would Warrant, after they had
taken place, would induce the Houfe to accede to
the motion which he had to make for lease to
bring in a Bill to indemnify the perfons concerned
in thbfe ads.
Mr. I. W. Cois rofe, he Paid, not to oppofe the
motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman, but to ex-
prefs his with, that his Majefty's Minifters had teen
the propriety of taking of altogether the prohibi-
tion for exporting corn at the time that petiniffion
was given to fupply Denmark with 3000 quarters,
for lure he was, that it would have been a meafare
infinitely more advantageous to the agriculture of
the country, and to theist-actuation of plenty; than
the prohibition could polfibly have been. There
was another principle connefted with this ;serrnif
Lion for export to Denmark, of which he had
much to complaint The permiffion for perform-
ing the contrail, there was ftrong ground to be-
heve, was partially given to a few favourite( of
the Government, and a precedent was thereby laid
for converting fuch contrails into a fyftem of Mi.
nitterial influence, and thus turning the Corn Ex-
port Bill into a Bill of Patronage ; for inftead of
the contrail being left open to the trade in gene
ral, it was partially given to a few chofen indivt-
duals at Yarmouth and Lynn. There was another
inflance of this partiality; in his mind not left
glaring t permiffion was given to certain perfons
for exporting from this country 800,000 quarters
of corn to Barcelona, which had been imported
into this country in trlos, at an enormous expence
to the public in bounties upon the importation...-
He was the mote furprifed at this, becaufe he
thought that if ever there was a Minifter in this
Country who was conceived to be moll likely to
encourage its agriculture, by promoting the ex.
port of its Corn, it was the Right Honourable
Gentleman ; as he never recollected any Mini-.
tier before him in this country, who had made
I the interefts of Britith Agriculture an object of
patronage and potation. He hoped, horrever, to
tee the agricultural interefts of the Country, united
by a fenfe of their Common advantages, coming
forward with a Petition to Parliament, to relieve
them from the reftridicns of the Limitation Bill.
Loki Therm; Paid a very few words, which
were merely in explanation of *hat he had faid
yefierday. He did not mean to °hied to the :no-
lion. Whit he was particularly anxious to know
wilt, whether from the time that the Preliminaries
of Peace were figned to the conclufion of the De. II
finitive Treaty, naval (ores had been exported,'
and what order etifted on the fubjed ?
The Coattcsuant of the EICHEQS/Fa went over
nearly the fame grounds as the &It (peal:cr. The
delay in laying an explanation of the grounds of the
Order of Council before'the Houfe, arofe from a
defire not to create any unnecefary and premature
alarm. If the order for prohibiting the exporta-
tion or hays! and military (ores had been commu-
nicated at the time that it was ifued, a hoftile in-
ference might perhaps have been unjultly drawn
from it, and it was with a with that the difctif-
lions at Paris ft:mild previoufty be brought to a
cottclufion that the propofed Bill had been de-
layed. The Hon. Member oppofite (Mr. Coke)
had indeed accelerated its appearance ; but he
could with truth affure the Hon. Gentleman and
, the Houfe that he had not by any means been the
occidirm of it. Minifters Mere previodly fully
aware of its necetfity. With refped to the feledion
of indiViduals to be employed in exporting the corn
to Norway, he had to fay, in reply, that he knew
nothing of any tech circumaance. GovernMent
did not in the moll indirect manner interfere in the
befinefs ; and all he had now to remark on the
Hon. Gentleman's ftateniebt was, that, if he would
bring forward a Motion on the fubjed, and lay
(tong grounds in proof of his afertions, fuch a
Motion thould have his cordial fhpport. The fame
obfervations he withed to apply to what had been
alluded to about the telethon of particular
inai-
viduals in tflos. The Right Hon. Gentleman atter
recapitulating the tiatements of the fir( fpeaker,fat
down,by exptefGag his hope that the motion would
be acceded to. _ . .

Mr. Coat, in explanation. contended that he
brooght forward the fubjeft with no view of forcing
Government to make preroatare communications.
Hs andertbsod that the Right Hon. Gentleman
bad no objeftion to the difculfion.
The Cn alma si.oa of the Eaco Boy ta admitted
the !Meads of this itatemmm

Lot dTs rta repeated his former queftion.
The CHANCELLOR of the Excit soy at profelred
himfelf unable to anfwer the queftion ; but expref.
fed a readinefs to Make inquiry into the matter.
Mr. Fox had no objeftion to the motion; butdid
not fee how the two fubjeas were fo intistiately
conneaed as to make delay neceirary. The order
for the exportation of corn was quite diftina from
that for prohibiting the exportation of military and
naval (totes. An explanation might have been
given in the one cafe, without at all interfering
with the fecrecy neceffary to be obferved in the
other. He thought, that in granting liberty t 6 ex.
port the five thoufand quarters of corn to Norway,
Parliament ought to have been confulted. By
this Means all fufpicion of corruption or undue
partiality would have been avoided: While he
laid Ibis, be begged it to be underftood, that he
meant to attach no charge of this kiad to Miniflets.
After a few words of explanation from Mr. D.
Rinse; the motion was put, and have granted to
bring up the Bill.
CLRIOT lERSIDENCE RILL.

The Honfe then refolved Ittelf Into a Committee. M take
Into further confidential tht Clergy Baldest* Bill.

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Sir WI wan SCOTT faid, it would be impofilble to pprteevvenentt
the duty of a pan& being frequently performed by f ;
abd if tech a prohibition milted, it would be highly detrimen-
tal to the interefts of religion. Men could not, upon being Or.
dained,* immediately appointed to benefices ; they molt fill
fubordinate SIC WOOS, and acquire experience in the dudes of
their profallon. Even plaralitiet meth in tome Softened be
allowed ; Gawk Clergymen molt have their emoluments, and
dick emoluments could not be put down. The coodielon Of
that molt meritorious body of menthe Curates adds Country,
was delaying the deepelt and molt *mane attention of Parlia-
ment. He wilted it were ratite to make a provifloo In the
pretest Bill, that mould tend comrade their anoluments,fo is
to place them in a (Manion of iodependeme • but he was afraid
It
could not be done at this time. The pr
11111 related only
to lacunihrids; and an ample 'cora= for Ceram ought to be
the fubjeet of another Bill. liefidet there was one material 66-
jattion to a meakre of this Mod. It ma to be feared that Cit-
rates would then be plated in a worth fituation, beteg put
altogether out of employment, as many incumbents, rather
than give an encrafed falary, would Perform all the de tier of
the pariflia thenakives ; be would not, therefore, load the relent
Bill with a proviSon fo important and eatehfive as that to
which *alluded ; particularly foss be had received affurances
from high authority, that fotnething would fOOO be done for the
inferior Clergy. He had, however. delude to propoth, which
would la those manner tend to their immediate relief, which
was, that the Bilbop mould have a diferedonary power to order
any refident Curate furl a flipendary fdary as he might think
fit, due refped being had to the value of the benefice, aced ether
dreumitinces.
After foam obtervations from the Clianielier of tits /WI&
quer, Attorney Ciaseral, Mr:Rwier, MD Bond, Dr. Lawpasti,
ecc the dauth teas agreed to.
After the Bill bad been read over paregratth by pawl"
very folly &faired, and satiate amendments moldy
Sir WILLIAM SCOTT propofed en additional chafe,
it th9old be declared that no validity %add be given tottee2
in fo far se related to informations flir any atit of nonwefidandi
prima, the ift of January. I Soo; which elaufe was read a Iles
sod fond time, and ordered to Band part of the 1111. Heat
propo(ed a Moak, by which It Mould be wedded. that no Ms
milks &cold be Incurred by any 401 MI or other perfans one
der this MI, prior to the etleday of April sat; and essedset
diode, fpecifylng that no provithen Of the Ad thould moat
beyond 7110/001.
Lord POSCIUSTIR promfai I dente, whereby any
MOO meting -s Indices or Magi:dates at any Mises, even
the rinse of three months, could not be UMW to any parity.
This, be those* was not a dutch of indaigencei as hell
Clergymen was atm on hoportant dudes, while others who
had no fuels duties, were to be allowed three months tar *auto
meat.
The COANC LLLLL of the Excentepea,Mr. Boma, mg
Mr. H. Snows', objcaed to this elude, ee the greats
no Clergymen would prefunw to abaft the privileges
by the Ad, foot to employ the time thereby allowed. noir
io idle ancidement. This claufe was aceordingly withdraws.
Mr. Pots Celt aw, the Chained+ tithe Committee,
up their Report, which was ordered to be printed, iusberere
takes into further confideratthe on Toddey nest. MAMA