Star.
London, England, 1803-04-07 00:00:00

111011-1.1103111C1 01 TOE CLIROY.

Sir W. SCOTT rote to make his motion on this
tubjeEt. He began by faying, that it was in the
highelt degree fatisfaCtory to him, and it mutt be
equally fo to the Houfe, that there would be no
neceffity for his trelpaffing at any confiderable
length on their time and patience. The fubjee
had of late undergone Co much difcuffion in fo
many various forms, and of fo many various kinds,
that it mull have been infinitely familiarifed to the
minds of all who had in the leaß attended to the
fubjett. An ancient flame enaCted, before the
national religion was Protellant, at a period of
time when the moil unbounded dikontents pre-
vailed on the fubjett of religion throughout the
realm, has for a great many years lain dormant
as to its execution. In this nature, however, there
were certain provillons giving powers to informers
to proceed againft the Clergy holding farms, and
alfo for non-refidence at the Parfonage-honfes,
under very fevere Penalties. There powers, after
lying thus dormant for near a century and a half,
had been about five years ago called Into activity
by a general attack on the Clergy, particularly in
the Weft of England, and in fuch a manner, as to
prove an engine of the greatelt oppreffion. The
praaice then adopted was, to commence anions
againft Clergymen, and then write letters to them,
informing them of the extent of penalties incurred,
but that the informers were ready to make up the
matter, and though they had it in their power to
recover Co large a funs, yet they would take a fii-
pulated fun) to compound the whole. He was
much afraid, from what he had learnt on the fub-
ht% that in a great many inftances there offers
ad been too often complied with ; and indeed he
was not Co much forprifed at it, when he refletted
how fuddenly the Wines came upon them, and
the great avert-ton which many old and infirm
Clergymen mull have on their minds againft going
to a public trial on fuch a &hie.% in which they
would have to encounter Co many different preju-
dices, and which would of courfe give rife to a
great deal of unjull obloquy and cenfure, and
much unmerited reproach on their charaiters and
condutt. This fcandalous traffic had been Rated
to the Houfe by a Member of one of the Weftern
Counties, to whom the Clergy in general were
greatly indebted for his humane and generous in
terference in their behalf; and that Hon. Gentle.
man then informed the Houfe, that there were
upwards of too cafes of this kind in his neigh- j
bourhood ; but Paid the Hon. and Learned Baro-
net, there was no proof that there were too cafes
of criminal non-refidence. Such, however, was
the outcry againft the Clergy, and filch the enor-
mous increate of penal alums, that the tall Par- 1,
liament became of opinion, it was high time to
do what Lord Coke faid iso years before fltould
be done; to take into their confideratian a revi-
lion of that Ratute enacted at fuch a diftant pe-
riod, and when the diffinfinns of the country on
that head were moll violent and mifchievous.—
The fubjelt was accordingly brought before the
Houfe, but fo late in the tieffion, that nothing to
the purpofe could be done in it. In the next Sef-
lion of Parliament, it was not taken up iu a very
early Rage, and indeed it was not to be wondered
at, as the fubjett was of fo very eztenfive and com-
plex a nature, that if there was any blame. it
mutt attach to all the Members, as be knew of no
individual who was aaually pledgedeo take it up.
At a fuhfequent period however, it had been al-
ma irrefißibly prefed upon him, in the ccnirfe of
his profeffion, to take op the meafure, and be had
contented to dedicate his time, send the bumble
talents he polieffed, in behalf of a numerous and
refpesaable clefs of men, who were fecluded from
the fpecnlative porfuits in which the reit of their
fellow fubjetts have a right to engage. He was
therefore induced, from motives of public duty, to
usdatake a talk which be knew to be tioshictotwe '

and invidieds in the extreme, and did accordingly
in the la& Seffion of Parliament review the Bill,
and referved to himfelf a pi ivilege of determining
on thefe matters. On thefe grounds, he prefumed
to offer the Bill to the Houfe ; and .13 a late Rage
of the Seffion it was finally withdrawn, becaufe it
did not appear to him that there was fufficicent
time to make it what it ought to be, or to render
kin any degree complete. He appealed to the
recolleetion of every Member who heard him, to
fay, what a crowd, he had almoft faid a mob of
Bills, had been puttied into the Houfe during the
laft agonies of the laft Parliament. He had cer-
tainly pledged himfelf that that Bill fhould be re-
turned in the next Parliament. He begged leave
to Rate, that what lie had done in refped to for-
wardin the meafure in queftion, he had under-
taken from a fincere defire to benefit fo refpeda-
ble a body of men, and to lay all future queltions
of litigation at tell ; and, with the humble hope
he entertained, raped:ling the future proceedings
of this Houfe in regard to the Bill, flattered him-
felf he 'might fucceed in attaining fo defirable an ,
objet. Under fuch circumflances, therefore, he
fhould have thought his endeavours might have
efcaped acrimonious cenfure. With refpcd to the
prefent Bill, he thought it his duty to declare ex-
plicitly, that it was fundamentally the fame as
that offered before to that Houfe. The leading',
features and provifions are the fame, though Come
of them are, no doubt, is many refpedts, tome. I
what foftened in the expreffions, and ia the enadt•
meats alfo refpeding fuch parts as appeared to'
trench on private convenience. All the confidera-
tions which reading, reflation, information, and
experience on this fubjed, had enabled him to
adopt, convinced and fatisfied him that it was his'
duty to fubmit the Bill to the Houfe in that form.
He Inuit fay, that there are certain perfons who
had claimed exemptions from the Bill, which he
had not touched. All he could do regarding. them
was, to offer their claims to the confideratton of
the Houfe. With refpeft to thefe, he came there
as free and as unfettered as any other Member of
that Houk. He had. he laid, totally omitted all
regard to any provition for meliorating the Rate
of the Parochial Clergy of this country: not that
he doubted that tome degree of amelioration was
neceffary, but that beeaufe he thought, in a pro-
vifion of that kind. it was bell to leave it to the
united wifdom of the Houfe. With refped to en-
aiding the Clergy to repair and rebuild their ha-
bitations, which he knew were many of them in
fuch a Rate as not to be habitable, be bad alto left
it to the united wifdom and difcretion of the
Hoofs; but he was perfedly convinced that the
removal of that defea would in a great meafure
remove the complaint of non-refidence. With re-
(pea to the larger Benefices, he Paid, they were
Inch as can remedy thole evils themfelves, though
they be not provided with honks (ultable to their
means : but he mull think it a confederation won.
thy attention, whether or not as to thofe, even
where there are no houfes, louse provifioa fhould
not be made in future. at the time the Benefices
are conferred, that certain portions thereof fhould
be referved for providing proper manfions on their
glebes. As to the (mailer Benefices fausethingbad
been done under Mr. Gilbert's A@; the principle
of which was to enable them to build houfes. The
Legiflature has enabled the Corporation for 21111-
hag the inferior Clergy to lend money for thefe
purpofes, on a very final! intereft, and, in tome
cafes, on no intereft at all ; and in others, by giv.
ing a (mall furn ; therefore, he thought, if a fimi.
lar meafure, on a larger fcale, conflftent with the
wifdom of Parliament,were to be adopted, a great
part of non.readence, which is now complained of,
would be compleatly obviated and done away.—
Another circumliance, he kid, wis the cafe of
Stipendiary Curates. Thefe perfons are men of,
ample manners and laborious lives. As to their
number, lie begged leave to Rate, it made him
with an aching heart declare, that their condition
both in point of number and circumftances, calls
for the interference and affiaance of Parliament :
they leave their cafe to the liberality and charity
of Parliament, under the hope and expeeatian of
thereby obtaining redrefs ; and from all quarters
he had received letters of the general alarm there
perfons were under refpedting refidence. The lati
objeft for the notice of the Houfe is, the (mall Be-
nefices ; an acknowledged number of which are of
Inch a Rae as to offer to thofe who are to fupply
them nothing bot a fcanty living and extreme dif-
trefs. The queftion, therefore. was, what was the
proper way to remedy thefe evils ? Qpeen Anne's
Bounty tended in a certain degree to that eft& ;
and items then tobe confidered, whether the matter
might not be accompliated by :he confolidation of '
fmaU contiguous livings; that. however. required
the confideration of thofe to whom it more pro-
perly belonged. It was inspofable for him at pre-
fent even to guels at their real atomic's', but be
thought it might be done by the clergy themfelves,
amongtl whom there were many names intimately
conneded with, and materially interetted io the ho.
nour, the fecurity, and independence of the Govern-
ment of this country, and who muft recollea bow
necdrary it is for them, in a cafe of this nature. to
ufe their utmoß exertions, and to make fume facri-
fices for the general accommodation and benefitof
that clefs of fociety, particularly conitituted by
themfelves. Thefe were points in which the
interference of Parliament would never be effee•
coal, unlefs followed by fuch accompaniments.—
There was only one more obfervation he had to
make, which was, that he had not prefumed to
intrude within the limits of the regulations of the
Sifter Church of Ireland t becaufe he did not pot-
fefs local knowledge fufficient for the purpofe ;
but if the Reprelentatives of that part of the coun-
try Gould, in cafe of this Bill being adopted,
think proper to make (under provifions, it might
eafily be dose. He would now Rate to the Houle
what his humble ex ton was, as to the condoa
the Houfe wail,' adopt in this boanefs. He flumd
with, that as loon as it is confißent with the orders
of that Houfe, the Bill Ibould be read a firft time
and printed, and afterwards go to a Committee,
becaufe he entertained a confident hope, that when
it has undergone loch a (minus confideration. there
can be no °Nations Rated to the material objeas
of i 4. Oa a isa view there have bees fame Rana'

with rather too great a degree of harfluiefs. Fa
his own experience he believed, that almolt ever.
Member had received fume information ou
fubjea. He was very far from blaming their de-
fire to (late objeelions for, in his opinion, the moll
difpaffionate confideration is due to this Bill ; and
from every information he had obtained from
churchmenor laymen—from landmen or feamen—
he had received not very decided, but very difcor.
dant opinions. If the till should be found, by the
good feufe of the Knife, fo incorrigibly abfurd,
to be incapable of being brought to any praaical
ufe, he would be the &It to depart from at ; but
he hoped it would be found produflive of confi-
derable benefit, both in point of private and public
utility. He then concluded a very elaborate and
learned fpeech, by moving, " That leave be given
to bring in a Bill to regulate the mode of fpitataid
perfons holding farms,and to render more elite nit
the refidence of the Clergy."—Granted.

determination the Committee would come to, he
could not fay. His claim arif2s from a difputed
einftruelion of the treaty between England and
America, and before thefe two nations can agree,
Mr. Martin's finances are likely to be entirely worn
out. Amonga the unfortunate perfons who loft the
greateft part of their property in the difpute with
America, Mr. Martin's family may be reckoned
one that was placed in that unhappy fituation.
His claim had been referred to the confideration
of the Commiaioners for thirteen years, during
which time Mr. Martin has ufed every means in
his power to obtain redrefs. His claim appealed
to the humanity, as %cell as the jullice of the
Houfe, and it can eventually be no leafs to the
Public. It would be extremely bard indeed if an
individual were under the neceliity of delaying,
perhaps for his whole life, making good fuch a
pa claim as this. The Committee would perceive
that if he was entitled to principal be was alfo en-
titled to intereft ; and he thought the liberality of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer would induce
him to difpenfe with the ufual demand of fees.—
He concluded by moving,
That a fun not exceeding 52,6501. be granted to his Ma-
yfly to enable him to make good that fool to indemnify Mr.
Mirth' for the lots he has fultaim.4."
The CH ANC LLot of the EXCHEOMIR laid, that
the Hon. Gentleman had fairly and clearly hated
the cafe rcpeaing this Gentleman's claim, which
was a very throng one indeed, not only on the hu-
manity but jullice of the Knife. He admitted the
whole of the cafe as Rated in the Petition, which
he begged the Committee to keep in mind, had
been referred to the Commiffioners ; who, not
thinking themfelvesauthorifed to allow the claim,
had exprefsly recommended this Gentleman to pe•
tition Parliament for that purpofe. He thought
the Committee ought to make him the mob ample
amends for all the injuries he had fultained during
the whole period. It is clear, that if his claim had
been fettled by the Commiffioners, there would
have been no fees to pay. He heartily joined with
the Commiaioners in thinking the claim of this
Gentleman a jolt one.—. Mr. CORRY moved,
" That assool. be gemmed to his Mikity to defray the Ea-
r:Dees riche Dublin Lying-In Hdpital." Ago, That Pro-
villas be made for the Pay of the Irifh Ago," That
Parriarm be made far payk. the Olheers of the kids Militia."
whicit Refolutions were kverany agreed to. The Hank
Was reamed, and the Report ordered to be received ee Wed.
off* the loth indent.
The Bill for better ealledifng of the bib Revenue; and the
Rill eantinsang feveral Aft* of Parliamatt tar coned:ins and
the Revenue of Ireland. were fiveralty read a irft., sad
order d to be rend a frond time toesorrow.....A4joorstod.

LONDON.

THURSDAY. APRIL 7-

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK i
3 per C Conf. 644.0itt0, for May ate. 634.
3 per C. Reduced 614
Olds per Cclle. Ann. 94
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY,
3 Ine Cent. Red. Ann. dtp Short Ann. 34
? Par Coat Cunt. Oki 63 11 imp.; pct. Cwt. 610
Igfor 4pa eau. /t/781* In,. Ann..—
5 per Cent. Ann 94* gd friths per Cents. 93 ys
isCCM Inri 971 Osmium tsf is 3
44
Am i(44 1 Ceti. for May, 63
the payment of the Diekt•ods due this quarter will cow
mute do the Bankers arid Murtha .ts to-morrow, and to the
fittac an Wedoefday next.

A Minifierial Paper of this morning, fpeaking
of the Manifeilo which appeared in our Paper Of
yellerday, after Rating that it is impotrible to read
it without being impreffed with the conviction that
the Cu: sr Cos SUI• is determined upon a renewal
of the war, remarks that—

"His declarations are explicit as his atm& of
our Goiernment is coarfe and unjull. The Britith
14i:tillers are accufed of "Dillionefiy,of avowed en-
mity to the French Nation, of perjury. and a dc(re
of publicly violating a folemn Treaty." Thefe are
heavy charges; but we are fully fatisfied, will re-
coil upon the perfon that makes them in every par-
ticular. The CHlCVCurtsot. complains of the Paper
War which has been carried on with fo much via
lence forfo many months. In any rernarkswhich we
have made upon the meafures of the French Go-
vernment, wt have as much as poifible avoided all
perfonal refleelion upor. the ludividual; but where
the rule of Government is the will of that Indivi-
dual, a pcifonal application of general remarks
aimed follows of cootie. That perfon teems de-
termined that the War (ball no longer be confined
to Paper, but that the, " avowed enmity" of
France to this Country (ball be recorded in Bk•el
Be it fo: All that part of Europe that dare pro-
nounce an opinion, will judge which, in this, as in
the former cafe, is the Aggrelfor.—The War
we (hall have to wage will be for Exillence,
and it will chiefly depend, under the favour of
I'lu:roost:cf, upon our OAII unanimity and exer-
tions. whether the iffue (hall be glorious to us
or not. It is that we may pnffefs that onani-
mity and Inecefs, t‘iit we etairt the Mien, in
tat tetreotiw Gowriineeito, of theft Went: and prirqise
dmri,or impart:titbit dsnvjfi. peril: and ten year:
oicrdtit sw.:rpire, prckrwd to at me from the horror,
.1. Amy/idioms and reefed we reforms god me egr7l
t, a pitch ovelaidlei in our ~al:. In this
u lilt. we believe, ye are fopported, not only by a
gi,:at majority of the Nation, but by areal am;
at Vi of the pietas Mistier. The upright-
-1.0 if of deer intentions (the imajorit)' of the jorifiest
.11 =ma), the real love they bear their
‘.nintr), the pi iu:iples which they have uniformly
; 1.1:(1:11, and a limilarity of mind and fentiment.
them with the ma to whom the eyes of the
Nati:Aare dikes wowed wegiefill hawed. The meafures
et the prefect Miniltry, u far as that great man's
t.tirpsuts are publicly knows. have received his
ATM and uuquali6ed approbation sad fupport. He

approved of the Peace which the Minillers made,
becaufe he thought that Peace was ne:effary to and
anzioully detired by the country, and becaufe that,
even with fu ch a Government as exiled in France,
the experiment of Peace was worth the trial
That Peace was made, we rejoiced at the time,
and we now as fincerely rejoice. Short as it has
been, the Nation has had a breathing time, and we
(hall now enter upon the War, if War we mull
have, upon ground which the moil inveterate and
malignant Oppofitionill will find it impollible to
mifreprefent or condemn. Unlike an Es War Mi-
filler, and his little band of Blood Hounds, we are
not the Advocates for war, much lets for Eternal
War-6:llmin Out ad isternmiatem—bin we are pre-
pared to defend, to the lafl drop of our blood, the
Rights and Independance ofour Country. If we
are thus then to fight for our all, we furely may be
showed to exprefs a with to be concluded in the
Ficld by thole Leaders whom we love. Let Mr.
PITT, Mr. ADDINGTON, Lord HAWICCSBURY, Lord
MELVILLE, and a few others whom we could
name, dired the Affairs of the Nation, and we
(hall think. not only our tartly infarct!, but our
Viltory certain."—Trot

We prefent the above extra& merely to thew
what is the belief and wilh of certain individuals at
the prefent moment repelling Come new arrange.
ments in the Adminiliration. Whether the attempt
to bring Mr. PITT into power will fucceed is very
uncertain, and the reports on this fubjell are va-
rious. The early vifit of Mr. ADDINcrow to the
KING, on Friday fe'nnight, related, it is fald, to
this Wind's. Mr. ADDINGTON Rated to His Ma-
/I;sr y the neceflity of Ilrengthening the Cabinet,
and the Ktwo is laid to have agreed to any change
that Ihould leave Mr. Anoimoyom his Prime Ms-
nifer. Since that period, an alive negotiation
has been carried on with Mr. PITT, who yields ra!
then to the prehling defire of friends than to his
own inclination. He will not come into power till
else prefent Negotiation with France is terminated.
It is thought he will be Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs : Lord Ga am mt.:, for the Home
Department : and Lord Haweasavay, for the
Colonies. Lord MEtvi Ls' will be Firft Lord of
the Admiralty: and the Earl of Ross Ls, so, Privy
Seal, or Prefident of the Council. Mr. ADDING-
TON will remain Firtl Lord of the Treafury, if not
Chancellor of the Exchequer alto, and he will be
the agent between the Cabinet and the !Com.—
Should the prefent negociations with France ter-
minate in peace, thefe changes, it is thought, will
not take place, as the GRINTILLII party will not
probably accede to the conceffsons Mr. ADDING
row may make, and Mr. Pirr content to. In that
cife, the prefent Minillers will fill have to defend
'heir pacific fylleas ; but by the prefent negotiation
with Mr. Pm, they will recut* his fupport, and
they will blunt the oppofition of his Mends. Ia the
event of a war, the changes we have mentioned
will, it is alerted, be immediately announced.—
Poilibly Earl Si. iftacter may be driven from
his poll earlier.

The Rate of the negotiation is Rill preferved a
profound fecret. It is ear'', however, to fee that
things are now coming to fuck a critic that it can-
not long be fo. The opinion teems to gain ground,
among thole who, we think, porefs the beR means
to enable them to form a correct judgment, that
the matters in difpute will only be fettled by an
appeal to arms. We know indeed that tome ia-
aividitals, deeply interelled in the Übe, have two.
ceeded to Paris, to wind up their tranfaelicns with
that city, from a thorough conviction, that a de.
lay of only a few weeks more would expore the
property they have there to the danger of being
placed in a Rate of fequearation.

This day we received Paris Journals to the sth
inftant. They contain nothing refpeaing the Lite
of the negotiation ; but tome of the details retina-
,l ing the movements of troops in France and the
Sifter Republics are interefting ; as are alto forme
of the articles from other parts of the Continent.
At no period of hiilory have we heard of fo
many fovereigns about to quit their own States, in
order to vifit other countries, and to converfe with
other princes. Letters from Peteriburgh Rate,
that the Emperor Asa:arum is making every
preparation for a journey, which he means to
undertake in the month of June. The ESITINOS
of OILMAN! intends alto to undertake a tour to
different parts of Germany, and great preparations
are already making at Drefden to receive him.—
On the other hand, a tour of the Keno of SWIDIN
to Bavaria, and the MARGIIIAVISTS of BADIP. is
announced, and it is raid that he will vilit the Court
of Berlin in his way. It appears that there diffe-
rent tours will take place at the fame time that the
FIRST CONSUL of France pays a viGt to the OM
United Departments.
The Eleaor of Bavaria has publifhed an Ordi-
nance. by which, in confequence of the 35th and ,ssd
paragraphs of the General Ravers of the Deputa-
tion, though that piece has not yet been poblillted
as a fundamental law of the Empire, be announces

the fuppreCion of all the convents and mediate
ecclefiailical corporations belonging to the States
of Bavaria. The execution of this meafure is en•

tru!le.l to a particular Conitnittor. f rite Mon
hers, d•ho are to form part of the Genetal Dire(
tine of the Acr.nitliation, under the Prertden:
of &iron de Wet.c 14 3 .

• Letters from Genoa, dated March trs, fay tha•
the Dachas of mse RLAND paired tl:r•o•sgh tha
city a few days before, on her way to Rom:.
STUTTGARD, MARra 25.—ACCOrdilig t., letter.
from Bale, a great nuother of French troops ar:
expcfted there from tht;interior of Fiance, in or-
der to proceed to Italy. The greater part of tin.
French troops in Switzerland arc intended for the
Cone Jellination. The fituation of affairs between
France and England has, it is laid, induced the
FIRST Cos sot to atremble a confiderable force in
the forithern parts of Italy.
The Centrals of Divifion KLIIIII, PULLY, CHA-
tier, and V VXDIER, as well as the Generals of Bri-
gade F►oßtr.ta, Q , Murat% and Lt.
stress, hare joined the French army of Italy, ;
other Generals will repair thither abb. We are
Rill unacquainted with the nature of the differences
which feem to craft between France and England,
but it is certain that they are, and will be abro.
lately foreign to Germany, which is of great ins.
pomace for the repofe of Europe.

Batumi, Aram t.—A battalion of infant!),
of the garrifon of Bruit:ls, a battalion of the gar-
rifon of Mechlin, and corps from that of Louvain
fet out on their march two days ago, in order to
proceed towards the frontiers t.f the &clarion Re-
public. We are allitred that other corps of troops
will immediately purfue the f.ime direCtion.
Hrw-
erer, we learn, by letters from Breda, thnt the
headquarters of the French auxiliary troops, in the
pay of the &clarion Repriblic, now in that place,
expeel to receive orders to proceed to forte other
place. There difpofitions, however, will depend
on the refult of the negotiations between the Ft ent h
and Englifh Governments. Na wt.): krucn can be
found at Brutrels ; they are all employed eithet by
the contlituted authorities, or by private indivi-
duals, on the preparations making %Sitil the utmoll
celerity for the reception of the FIRST CONSUL,
PARIS, APRIL 4.—We learn from Antoerp,
that the inhabitants of that city prnpofe to give to
the Firli Conful a magnificent fete on the Scheldt.

The LANDGRAVE of HESSE CASSEL has caufed
to be hired, for liimfaf and fttite, at Emil-els, the
fir Rorey of the magnificent Noel du Prince Is
Gaffer. Some other Nimes, and feveral Foreign
Officers, have alto fecured apartments, and have
hired them for the whole time of the flay of the
Flair CoNsut. in that city. A fpacious and beau.
tiful Hotel, near that which is to be occupied by
the FrasrCom suf., is dellined for the Minillers and
Aisiedeeamp, who will accompany hint.

Yeflerday, a little before twelve o'clock, Their
MAJIISTIIS and the Princeffes ELIZAUITM and So.
PHIA, arrived at the Qecn's Houle' from Wind-
for, where they found her Royal Highnefs the
Princely MART much better, but not well enough
to return with them to Windfor. Soon after His
MAJssrr arrived, there was a Council.
CHALLIS BROOKS'. Efq. and Sir WILLIAM Matt.
malts, Bart. are eleeted Members for &leiter.

• A very ferious circumflance, arifing from a
trifling caufe, took place yefterday. In the morn-
ing Colonel Monvcousar (better known by the
name of the Duke of Hamilton's Double) mounted
his celebrated grey mare at the door of his c.&re
Artie in Mancheller.ftreet, and, accompanied by a
Newfoundland dog, named Wolf, fet off to take
his ride. After flitting the different Meets of fa.
fhionabk retort, the Colonel took a turn in Hyde
Park, where unfortunately the Coconac's dog
quarrelled
u and fought with a dog belonging to
Mac &&&&& A. Each Gentleman defending
his refpeßive dog, words of fueh import coined-,
that with men of honour the only adjußment could
be a duel. The place of rendezvous was agreed
ro be Primrofe Hill; and about five o'clock, jug
in the valley under the hill, appeared Colonel
Magri:tor eftv.attendzd by Major Km, and Capt.
Macnamaa A accompanied by another Gentleman.
The ground 'seafood was :Apace:. They both'
fired together! Colonel Moirroostsar received a
ball in his right breaft, and fell ! Mr. MACMAN•RA
was wonnded in the groin. At the report of the I
piflols, Mr. lassa.limmiso. of St. James's greet,
who accidentally happened to be there, ran to the
fpot, and with great humanity, Or:coll and ac.
ize
tawny, fucceeded in carrying the l to his
coach, which drove to Chalk Farm, where Mr.
Mamma immediately, but too late, attended.
Colonel Monvoom ea r Is led, and falls a lamenta-
ble inflame of that pernicious cuftom which ren-
ders an Leman life liable to be defiroyed by the
thrall of a (word, or the pull of a trigger. Colonel
Morrotawarr was brother to the Marebionefs
Townsmen).

It is hoped the Cbronologias of the prefent year
will not omit fo remarkable an event as that which
occurred on Monday—a Stedman Cent to Neirgate
for refuting to come to Eirgiearit
AU the Naval Officers at Leith have got orders
to repair to London, without delay.
The liftrehants of Leith have bees invited to
give in offers for furnilbing tenders tor the (en ice
of Government. One has already been engaged
at that port. and another at Greenock.
An attempt was, we underßand. mail. at Al:
tons. Mailer to that which was fo foccefsfully made
at Hamburgh. by the French Government, en
procure the infertioo in the Gazette of the former
of a fimilu Manifefto ; bot it was anfwered
Etylicethe blagiltrates, that loch an Article could not
be inland -without the permiffiun of the Loa of
Deadest.

WAVTICAL mni.Lia 1: V(7.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL s.

C.tme in the Neptune, of Exeter, from C2r?
;Aden with wine and frau, for this and whet- ports.
Sailed on a cruize to impreff men, his
fhip ltssato, of t 8 guns, Capt. C neAar ; and
the Ranger revenue cruizer, of 14. gitrig,
FRAZEIL.

l'Aerday, as a feaman was helpirg to fix a cap
.1 topmall in liamoAze, of a !hip I:tting fur re?,
IIC WAS fo violently (truck on the head by its jerk-
ing, that it oceafioned hi. death in a few hours.
El SALVADOIL del hfusoo, of t 12 guns, has htr
math all canto, is rigged ores head, and will be
ready for the reception of either Lord KEITH':
slag, or Rear Admiral Daces s's, this week. f.e
TON ANT, Of 4 guns, Capt• Sir E. PELLPW, warped
down to the lower failing mornings, previous to her
going into Cawfand Day. The other !hips getting
ready will foon follow to join the Beet of obferva-
tiou forming there.