Star.
London, England, 1803-03-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Lord EVSTON Informed the Houle that James Trotter, who
bad been ordered into cuftody, in confequence of a Report from
the Dunfermline Sete& Committee, and after whom the Ser-
jeant at Arms had been defired to make farther inquiry, in eon-
(equence of his being reported to that Houfe, as having been
abfent from home at the time of the firft inquiry being made,
had yefterday furrendered himfelf, and W 3.1 now in the cuftody
of the Serjeant at Arms, to wait the decifion of that Houfe.

Mr. SA ND easox was exeofed further attendance on the Se-
ket Committee for the County of Carmarthen.
On the motion of Mr. Dickens, the confideration of the
Petitions from a variety of perfons engaged in the Wool Ma-
nufaCture, was ordered to Rand for Tuefday next.
The Houfe refolved itfeif into a Committee on the Clergy
Non-Refidence Bill.
Mr. Dien tNION Rated, that he underftood that a Bill, of a
tendency fimilar to that of the Bill at prefeni under confidera-
tion of the Committee, was in contemplation by an Honourable
Gentleman oppofite him. He wilbed to give every opportunity
to Gentlemen much abler than himfelf, who felt thernfelvts in-
clined to take the fubjeet under their confideration. He there-
fore moved, that the blanks for the time of the enadtment of
this Bill, be filled up with the words, " the Bth of July, 1803."
.—Ordered.

Lord G sew seam e brought op the Bill for allowing veffels
employed in the Greenland trade to take in their full comple-
ment of men at certain ports during the prefent feafoo.—Read a
irft time, and ordered to be read a fecond time to-morrow.

Mr. TIERN Kr moved that there be laid before the Houfe an
Account of the Increafe and Decteale in the Salaries or Emo-
luments of all Public Offices for the year 'kn.—Ordered.
The Honourable Member then moved for the Produetion of
Accounts nearly Gitlinr with refpeet to Ireland.—Ordered.
The Houle went into a Committee on His Majcßy's Woods
mad Forefts 8111.—The Report was ordered to be brought up

The CHANCIELLOR of the ESCHICQ.OII gave notice that he
would to-morrow, in the Committee of Supply, move for a
Vote of an additional Sum to be granted to His Majeßy, for
purpofes which bad not been named in the Supplies aloft year,
and were not eonfequently in the Dißribution Paper.
Mr. TIZRN ar gave notice that he would, early in the next
Sedan. move for leave to bring in a Bill to explain and amend
the Aft 7 Will 111. cap. 4 ; and that it was his intention to
adhere molt flatly to the coottrudion of that Ad.
The Grenada Loan Bill was read a fecond time, and refer-
red to a Committee to-morrow fennight.
The Report of the !rilts Militia Bounty Bill was brought up;
the Refolotions were read and agreed to.
The CsaticaLtost of the Back agent gave notice that he
would on Monday next move for a Stied Committee to in-
vefligate the joint accountabetween Great Britain and Irdand.
The Lords' Amendments in the Bill for the better Promul-
gation of tie Statutes were read and agreed to, and a perfon
deputed to acquaint their Lordihips witk the concurrence of
that Hoak.
The Ida Bank Reftridlan Bill was read a third time and
paled.
ST. GILES'S BURIAL GROUND.

The Order of the Day being read, for taking
into conlideration the Amendments made by the
Lords in the St. Giles's Burial Ground Bill,
Mr. SMILER laid, he felt it his duty to apprife
the Houle, that this Bill was of the nature of a
Money Bill, becaufe it crafted certain rates and
razes to be aided in that pari(h, and appointed
perfons to coiled the fame. The Amendments
made by the Lords went to appoint other perfons
to fuperintend the laid collection ; but ac this was
the kind of interference with a Money Bill which
this Houle never would allow, hecaufe an infringe-
ment on their erclufive rights and privileges, it
would he neceff.try to reject the Bill, by poltpon-
Mg the fccond reading of the Amendments to fO
diftant a day, as to render such fecond reading
imprcbable.—Ordered that the fecond reading be
poliponed to this day fix months.
MILITIA OFFICERS BILL.

The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee on
the Militia Officers Bill.
Upon reading the claufe which empowers Lords
Lieutenants of Counties, to admit to the rank of
Captain, fuck perfons as have, during the late war,
held a Captain's commiffion, upon the recommen-
dation of his Majeßy, although they fhould be un-
qualified;
Mr. BASTARD laid he thought it very hard that
perfons unqualified with refped to propert-,thould
be fo admitted, and placed over the head of Su-
balterns who bad been confiderably longer in the
tervice.
The Sic aaaaa r at Wait laid: that it might fo
happen that perfons qualified by Ad of Parlia-
ment, that is, with refped to property, would not
be always found the bell qualified in other refpeds.
Sir W. Gsaer Paid, that Parliament teemed to
have agreed almoß Itv by Rep, to defhoy the na-
ture of this conflitutional body, and he thought
the prefent was almoß the lath
A (mall verbal alteration was finally agreed up-
on in that Clank.
Upon the claufe which relates to the Supplemen-
tary Militia being read,
The SICIUTAItY at Wan mentioned% trifling
mention in the time of their being embodied; but
Paid that, the chute he referred to, w:'s preettely
the fame with that which had (mired a part of
the late Ad of Parliament.
Sir W. Gtaar Aced it the Right lion: Gen-
tlentan could tay,that the fame neceffity at prefent
exifird ?
Lord fi laid, that during the calamity
of the late war, the moll extraordinary meatures
had been retorted to, and jutlified en the plea of
nate neceffity ; during a time of peace, whatever
degree of alarm might prevail, it furely could not
be laid that the tame neeeffity exiled.
Mr. Putt sit (aid, that if the tonntry had limb

urgent reafons for the demand or propriety of Inch
a mes:ure, year after year, it was, he thought,
—"ouch better for the Houk to agree to making the
Bill annual at once.
Mr. Basrmin Lid, that the lafl Parliament had
difgraced the charader of the Militia by their in-
movatioris on the pi inciples which originally con.
flituteJ that national body; and by converting the
Members of it to a different rife from that for
which they bad been intlitcd. That inroad on the
refpettability and rack of the Office: 5, and that

tnifapplication of the ufe of a Militia, he wet con-
fident, had difgutled many of the moll refpeEta-
hie of the Officers, and bad occafioned the fre-
quent refignations which had been fo much the
objeft of Minitlerial complaint. He hoped and
truffed that, if Minifters again went on to degrade
and difgrace the Militia as they had done, the
fame ccurfe of refignation and refentment would
be taken ; and he bad no doubt that the men of
fortune and influence in the country polfeffed fuf-
ficient fpirit to defend it, if there were no Militia,
or, though they were difgufted, if the neceffity of
their country fhould require it. The Hon. Mem-
ber concluded by obfereing, that he thought it
improper to admit any perfon to hold rank above'
that of a fubaltern, who did not poffefs a qualifi-
cation, fuch as the efiablifhed ufage of this nation
required, namely, a landed intereti in the country:_

. • .
The-dnancsi.coa of the ExcHtopra repelled
the charge of ill treatment to the Militia made
againft the lase Adminihration, and contended
that the late Parliament did not infult or degrade
that body, as had been Rated by Hon. Members.
The meafures alluded to fo pointedly this evening
were forced on the Parliament and on his Majef-
ty's Minitiers. The fecurity and welfare of the
country required them, flow then could they be
confidered degradatory, if they would promote
thofe effential objects? He did not mean to fay
that the Militia laws, ftrialy (peaking, were ad-
hered to, but he fhould affert that their fpirit was
lilted upon. Who conquered in Egypt ? The
Militia. Who fought Jacobinifm and Treafon in
Ireland ? The Militia. Was there a man in the
country who did not rejoice that thole foldiers who
were limited, even by Al of Parliament, to ferve
at home, had volunteered to fupport the King
and Conflitution againft his enemies in the lifter
country, as well as to gather laurels in diftant
climes, and prove by their valour that they too
were foldiers of glory ? Though he was proud of
what had taken place in the late war, refpeeting
the Militia, Rill he hoped the fame neceffity would
not recur ; it was his ardent defire that the coun-
try may never be in a fimilar (ituation. How.
could the prefent claufe be con fidered objeftionablc ?
On what ground ? The Lord Lieutenants were
to be empowered to fupply the deficiency, in cafe
qualified officers were not to be had. Was that
objectionable ? They were to take care that his
Majefty's fervice fhould not be injured, or the in-
tereft of the country endangered. What ground
for complaint, he would ant, or caufe to provoke
afperity was there in that ? The necellity for fuch
claufe, he was fame, would be conceded, when the
Houfe would recolle& that, in proportion as the
novelty of the inflitution ceafed,the number of the
qualified officers alfo dimini(hed. They did not
feel after fome time that they had fo many and
unjuft calls of patriotifm, of zeal, and enthuhafm
to anfwer as at the commencement. In order to
obviate the injuries that murk be produced by the
want of a fufficient number of thole men of pro-
perty, of weight, and high confideration as offi-
cers, power ought to be vefted in fome perfons,
and to none could it be trufted with fuch confi-
dence. as to the Lords Lieutenants, of appointing
Officers from the line, in cafe of a deficiensy of
thofe who are qualified.
Lord FOLKSTON a Paid, he ccmfidered it wrong
to make that body, which was entirely confirated
and deligned as a body for home defence, fubfer-
vient to the will of a Minifter, and convertible at
his pleafure to other,ufes than that for which they
were firft inftituted. However he mull glory as
much as any man in the fuccefs of his countrymen,
he thought it wrong to keep a body for one pur-
pole, and apply it to another; he thought it wrong
to make the Militia a place for recruiting the ar-
my : and, when their duty exprefsly defired that
they fhould Ray at home for the defence of that
home, he thought it could not with ftritt propiety
be Paid that they were right in volunteering their
fervice to Ireland.

Colonel MITTORD faid, that if not in their own
counties, perfons properly qualified migl.e mof ge-
nerally be obtained from the adjoining counties.
The converfation was extended to a very confi
derable length. The Refolutions were finally read
and agreed to, and the Report ordered to be
brought up to-morrow.—Adjourned.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CI.OOR :
3 Per C. Conf. motley. 64H—for April ace. 64. 65.64.
Olds per Cent. Ann. 984-omcium 14 diL
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:

3 pee C. c0nr.464.1
c per C. Arm. I
Imp. 3 pc: C.att 31
Imp. Aim. IA

Escbeq. &lb, s►to 4 diL
Onuthun t s t sf dif.
EnO Tkkets 171. as.
CoaL for Ap. se. 65i 64165

Inquities have been made at Chatham by the
Navy Board, to afcertain the time necelary to fit
out a certain number of Mips as blocks, to defend
the mouths of the Thames and Medway : it is un-
derflood a fufficient number may be Rationed for
the purpofe in the comic of a fortnight.
The Gazette of yellerday evening announces
the final adjilament of the dderences between the
Porte and the Beys of Egypt. It is highly credi.
table to this country that fo fatisfaaoryan arrange-
ment has been effeaed by the mediation of the
&hint Minißer at Contlantinople. The particulars
of the adjußment have not yet tranfpired.
The letters by the Hamburgh Mails of yefter-
day were not delivered out till the afternoon. The
contents of a number of thole we received had
been anticipated in the French journals; we have,
however, been able to fele& forne Articles worthy
of a pernfal.
We alto lay before our Readers an article from
the French Papers, on the difpote with this coun-
try, which fotne people reckon femi.official.. We
Scald fay it was impeGiiile it could, had we sot
before fern article• as completely abfurd infased
ja the Maticear

A private leitet from Pans (gates, tlrAt TALLEY-

RAND, on a late occafion, " was far from approv.l
ing of the violence offered towards the Reprefentil
tive of the King of the firft Nation upon earth, he,
therefore, with all humility, entreated his MAller
to make it up. His maxim is, that until France
has a Navy equal to that of Britain, the CHIEF
CONSUL mult fink his pretenfions to be the modern
Alexander, and content himfelf, with refpeet to
England, to aft a-la-Philippe. His advice, how-
ever, was fo ill received, that he gave in his refig-
nation, and for twenty-four hours Rumour ap-
pointed him different Succeffors, fuck as SECUR,
OTTO, CALLAS'', &c.; but while the Public
were thus holy, BONAPARTE nlvited TALLEY•
RAND to dine uith him in private, and, after
Come explanation, returned him his Miniflerial
Portfiuille, and he is, at prefent, again the firfl
favourite of the FIRST CONSUL—The fellcon-
vifted traitor, O'CONNOR, has lately been every-
day Peen at TALLEYRAND'S Office, and he boat}s
to thofe perfons who dilhonour themfelves by his
fociety, that the late Swift Confulto flail foon be
followed by an frill) one. 'Phis It:fr.:node, how-
ever, meets with little confidence even from his
ragged and (Laving rebellious accomplices. Two
printers, and three bookfcllers have been lately fent
to the Temple, for the printing and felling the late
trial of PPLTILR, with Mr. MACKINTOSH'S (peed)
at full length. Another Edition from the Confn-
lay Prefs is now prefented to fale, in which, of
courfe, every thing ftriking, or offenfive, is left
out :—in fbort, it is now a trial a-la-Francan?, fit
for free Frenchmen to read."
The Dutch papers indulge themfelves freely in
making obfervations, though brief, on the difpute
between France and Britain. A Rotterdam Jour-
nal rays, that the grand queftion of peace or war,
is fufpended on the will of BONAPARTE, that there
is no hoftility pre-determined by the Englith Mini-
ftry : the limits of conceffion are chalked out on
`their part; and as France may approach that point
without injury to her fafety or her honour, the
Writer hopes that the will weigh the cunfequences,
and fuffer the fcale to preponderate on the fide of
humanity, and of regard for the dearell interefts
of Holland, which are immediately at Rake. We
fhould have thought, that the Dutch would have
been by this time convinced, that their deareft in-
terefts would be confidered as only a feather in
the fcale, when weighed againß the ambition of
the Power, whore humanity is thus fo pathetically
invoked.

Lord Emstv's Secretary arrived yenerday from
Conflantinople, with difpatches for Lord Hew K ES-
stray ; as did a French Mellinger from the French
Government ; and from Roßocir.
Cov TTTTT Etacrton.—At the clofe of the fe•
cond day's poll, the numbers were :-
For Mr. MOORE 118 I For Mr. STRATTON 117

The communication made by his Excellency to
the Yeomanry Captains of Dublin, has had upon
them that effeel which the circomflances of the mo-
ment call for. Prompt and decifive in the exprttlioo
of their zealous loyalty and public fpirit, meetings
of the different corps are taking place. The refo-
lution adopted by the Merchants Corps is highly
fpirited, yet temperate, and refleas much credit on
that patriotic body. The Stephen's green cavalry.
Liberty Rangers, Lawyers corps, and Linen-hall
corps had called meetings to be held early in the
prefent week : it is, however, reported, that the
yeomanry of Dublin, on being re.embodied, will
be placed on a different footing from that on
which they flood before, and inflead of feparatc
corps, diftingnithed by profeflional names, the
whole will be amalgamated, and formed into dif-
trid regiments. It is, alto laid that there will
be no cavalry corps for that metropolis.
• -

• By the Ceres, Maros'', arrived in the Clyde
from Charletlown, the American papers are re-
ceived to the Bth ult. The following is the 'exc.-
ing article of The Cl:ar.r:llown Courier (a new p
per,, of that date:—" A report is in circulation,
on the authority, it is laid, of a French Gentleman
lately arrived in this city, that a large fleet of
French men of war, with a number of workmen
and labourers on board, are on their way to the
river St. Mary's. to cut timber for building (hips,
and to form a Dock Yard on the bank of that ri-
ver. It is added that the two Floridas had been
ceded by Spain to France, and that Ito: cation
took place at the lama Lime with Louillana. We
are getting into a warm titration. Such a neigh.
j boor as France on oar Wellern and on our South.
ern boundaries, are not profpelts of Peace and Se- j
cnrity doubtful ? what is our Prefident doing ? ,
Is England blind ? or has Fate itfelt entered the
13th
on the fide of France against the world ? from
the fame quatter we underfland, that trardports I
laden with refraftory Negroes from St. Domingo,
are to come to America and land their contents J
on the banks of the river S. Mary's."
COVIPIT-GARDIII.••••LIA night an at-
Compt was made to impofe a fooldh thing of one act,
called a Mom drawl. on the public ; but the audi
ence, that had made fo hearty an inteUeaual resit
with geix naufeated the fulfome halt, cantle.
ing oldie (peaking of one charaCter, Come mediocre
mak, anti wretched dumb thew in a dungeon. In
a word, in was, according to the liege phrafe, com-
pletely dammed. The aaing of Mrs. LITCKTIRLD
was, however. deferviag of Come praife.—As the
audience might probably cape& fonsething Capes--
natural, the Farce of Ybr GIN, fiscceeded !
N,cnotsou's truly fort anate Tickets and Shares.'
can only be bad in London, at Na. i 6, Cornhill,
?Clto the front of the Bank of England.—Note.
awing begins on Monday fenaight, the 4tb

CORN man KET, 111 z 1 1: ...WE, MARCH 2;

Thin,,,,,s !;ewer.:! a!C ; •kt.l7llT this day.—
There have been vets th,•lt rci;.c-
tantly at the pikes nr.n.i.,tul in :his ..1
londay. We Lire Ilad arriv..lb :1:3; day.
ASSIZE cf :jay the M..fler
Wardens of the Bak.::s' ;hal Op:
price of Bread be cralt.c.l.z..l
vir. 9d. the quarters loaf.

NA U 7 ICA I. IA"TRI.LA7!.. NCR.

CHATHAM, MARCH aa.

Yefterday arrived a !t:t.ic7 and gun brig, wi!h
tso men for the AREMN r, e3rt. WIN r Soap the
has been fitteLl by people from the IN TP.EPIO, Anti,
should the wind be ELI:v.:I-dbl.!, stil: fail tar Shea-
nefc to nun

Tbe LEOPARD'S 71^'20 RBI !;4•,-,. TR
ready in 3 few days. Ctpt. .nnirnands tic t.
The UTRECHT :Old GEl.'Ahf J are
and fitting by con:r.tzl :IggerS. Capt.
RUCURS is appointed tu ih

PORTSMOUTH, MA RCII as.

Sailed the Juno, 0132 gun,, Captain Ricit .sa D.
soN, with felled orders.

This morning Adrn;-al. Lord Gsaniiit t
at the George Inn, from Lon the
command at this por w•i11 11.):-t tL to-
morrow on board the NE►ruNß.

The DIAMOND and l'Alota frigates have made
the fignal to go eut of harbour.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH ar.

Came down to their refpeftive (hips the Maxra
of S 4 guns, and TOW AN r, of 74, Captain BY RI.TOII
and Captain Sir. E. PELtAw, Bart. This fore-
noon a Captain, three Subalterns, fix Serjeanrs,
and 100 rank and file of the Roy.:l Marines, em-
barked on board the M %RS -4 now fitting for fta
in Harm-mac.

Admiral Lr,rd KEITH is very naive in receiving
the daily reports of the (hips getting ready for fca,
and jailing orders in confequence.
The PRINCE FREDERICK, Of 64 guns, late con-
valcfcent ship, is to be refitted for a receiving and
examining fliip for entered feamen and landmen.
The SAN Joss r, oft so guns,isr Tiered to be bawled
down the harboulpreparatory tobeingennmtiffione d.
Orders came down on Saturday from the Ord-
nance-0:1:c: to General MARION and Col. STE-
►HENs, to get mounted direetly at the lines, dock,
and citadel here all the guns urn:illy mounted on
the different batteries for the war eftabliihment, to
be immediately taken oat of Sore and got ready
for immediate fervice. In compliance of which
orders, the Royal Corps of Artificers have beets
hard at work ever fince Saturday.