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P4RLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE or.LoaDs, JUNE 27. :
The Irish Bog Drainage Bill pilled through a Committee, nisil
1 was reported. I
pea- The Insolvent Debtors Bill, and the Irish Insolvent Debtors
' ex- Bill, were returned from the Commons, by Mr. Horner and other
ill Members, with amendments. Some other Bills were also re.
let- turned, agreed to, by Mr. Lusbington and other Members. 1
The Spirits Drawback Suspension Bill was read a third time.
ters, according to which the Pacha was forced to The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved a clause to extend to
adept this terrible measure in consequence of the con- Ireland the provisions respecting Distilleries entered for exports. 1
tinual mutinies of the Mamelucs. The carnage last- tim, which was negatived, and the Bill passed.
ed six hours. Those who escaped the first massacre rjebectiEnarAl of
ebUl;E:atsnOtiLeKligoauvseenooftiLords,ce for
andonmdaoyveod that
f aniat"i the°n
were sought after with great care, drawn from their Lordsp begsunpipmoned.—Ordered.
hiding.places, dragged into the streets and mas- I Mr. Kinmer, from the Court of Chancery, presented an An.
sacred : their wives and children were sold as slaves. count of the business in that Court, from 1755 to 1799; which
was, ordered to lie on the Tablz..
—The number of Mamelucs who perished in this was
Order of the Day was read on the Amendments on Love.
bloody execution exceeded 1200. This formidable den's Divorce Bill.
militia reigned a long time in Egypt; where it formed The LORD CHANCEI.LOR called their Lordships attention
an aristocratic government. to the petition presented by the party claiming the relief. His
Ip.onsrtdpsehni!tthheoufghthtehrecobentsteidrerwauayonof.t
After the conquest of Egypt by Selim I. they ceas- e proceedinga.c.dn-mbsytinlllotllvaintgchtioy .
ed to reign, but not to trouble the tranquillity of it. six weeks. l'he question was put, and carried sees. diu.
The Beys, who were drawn from their body, have DEPRECIATION OF BANK NOTES, &C.
frequently reduced the Pacha, who is the Governor Earl STANHOPE rose to make the motion of
sent by the Porte, to be but the instrument of their which he had given notice. The subject he conceived
will, or the passive witness of their exactibes and to be of the most important nature, as it regarded
mutinies. the particular interests of a most usetul and deserving
It was right and proper that this state of things class of the community, and as it affected the general
should cease ; but we must agree that the means adop. interests of the nation. The selling of guineas, and
ted to effect these were violent in the extreme, and the depreciation of bank-notes, were productive of
make all those who read the details shudder. great disadvantages, and if no timely remedy were
._, ~. applied, might go. on till they involved the ruin of
VIENNA, MAY 23. '' the country. Their Lordships ought to take the alarm
Baden will become the rendezvous of the gyearno. i in go_ _0 d time, and do what lay in their power to pre-
bility —they are actively employed in making it a . vent the enormous probable evils. They should re-
:harming abode ; Councillor Count Gleispach is char- I collect what experience might teach them on the sub-
ged with watching over its embellishments. _ elect of a depreciated currency. Let them look at
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The clergy have possessions in Baden, and several
;louses. It is said they are to be sold, and no doubt
they will be much sought after. It is now asserted
that the Court intends to buy some of them and spend
part of the summer, after having made the requisite
preparations, in Baden.
His Serene Highness the Archduke Palatine is still
at Vienna ; and his departure is not mentioned, which
negatives the reports invented by the stock-job-
bers, that the situation of Hungary required his pre-
sence. That kingdom is perfectly tranquil.
ZURICH, MAY 27. •

the cases as they occurred in America and in France.
In America the depreciation went on till it amounted
to 98 per can. In France, previous to the overthrow
of the assignats, the depreciation was infinitely greater
and quite beyond the conception of any persons who
suggested or continued the use of the assignats. It
was almost impossible to conceive a greater evil.—
When recent c►rcurpstances first came to his knote-
ledge, he felt it to be his humble but active duty to
enquire into them. He had learned that a person of
landed property (he should not mention the name or
county) had issued a notice, that on next quarter-day
he should expect to receive, and would only receive

The Gazette of Cave contains two letters publish-
e 1 by the infant Council of the Grisons: one is writ-
ten in the name of the Catholic 'part of that Canton,
and signed by the Landamann of Latour. The Ca-
tholics acknowledge, " that it was entirely owing to
the extraordinary exertions, tt the unexampled efforts
and extreme activity of the Reformists, that the pro-
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ie :peg -• _
from his tenants, the payment of their rents in gold,
or in Bank-notes, caking the twenty-shilling notes at
a depreciation, at only sixteen shillings. Could they
conceive any thing more dreadful than the imitation
of this by other landed proprietors, small and great ?
It must be evident, that the most alarming conse-
quences must in that case follow, and the injury to

gress of the fire was arrested, and the Episcdpal Pa-
lace saved from total destruction." They express
their lively gratitude, in assuring them that the
sentiments which they feel on the occasion will
never be effaced from their hearts, but that they will
transmit them as an inheritance to their children,
and by them to their descendants. The Reformists
have replied to this letter in a manner which does
them as much honour as the first did the Catholics.
BREST, MAY 29.

the tenantry. especially the farmers, would beshock-
ing. He wished to stand forward as the farmer's
friend. He had thought on the subject, and the cir-
cumstances of the times, and conceived the remedy
he should propose to be for the present the best he
could devise—his wish being, that the farmer should,
as far as possible, be protected Against injury and op-
pression by law. It a landed proprietor took his rents
in gold, and paid his expellees to his tradesmen, &c.
4... bank-notes, he would be making untair gains.—

Three ships of the line, one corvette, and two cut- Having tremed his remedy, he had endeavoured to 'emends on which the Noble Secretary of State ob..
ters, retook their stations, on the MI instant, near take the best advice he could upon the subject ; there-
jetted to the Bill. The evils consequent on the de-
Glenins. • fore he had consulted those persons whom he thought preciaunn of paper might proceed, step by step, to'
. FRANKFOIIT, JUNE 3. it would be fittest to consult on such an occasion. He affect the income of the landholder to a most serious!
His Excellency the Duke of Vizenea passed yester. had accordingly gone to some principal B.trikers and extent. He instanced the case of a lady in France,'
day thlough this town, on his return to Paris. eminent Lawyers. They bad told him, particularly who was reduced to destruction, with an unforfeited
AUGSBURGH, JUNE 5. the Bankers, that his proposed remedy,.was the best
estate of £7OOO a-year, and was relieved by charity.
He alluded to statements before made by
The lung and Queen of Bavaria propose making hey could think of, and might soon become abso.
should be him, re- ,
specting the demands of rents in gold, in Ireland, and
lutely necessary. Something, therefore,
a joiirney to Baden in tie course of the present month:
repeated the circumstance of 100 guineas being pla-
ther Majesties will be accompanied by their children. done speedily, lest the evil should encrease to an
ced in a house, in the town where the rents of, large
His Serene Highness the Duke Charles will alone ae.. alarming height during the adjournment. He did
were to be received ; and as gold only was to
main at Munich. not wish to take up their Lordships' time by entering estate
at length into the general questions which were con- be taken, the matter was so managed, that the mo-
A Jew merchant from Frankfort, at whose house netted with this matter, and which must soon come nay went backwards and forwards between the house
a large quantity of English merchandise was found, beforeand the agents, and the tenants were in that ma - Hoer
was, on the Ist instant, put in prison. compelled to buy the guineas to pay their rents with.
minded instead of paper in parts of Ireland, and the
We have seen past through this town several mer same might soon happen here pretty generally. A It might become the duty of the landed interests to
chars from Leipeic, whom the pens d'Arntes were, man might insist on gold for rent, and only pay his take care of itself, if the depreciation went on. That
conducting to Frante. . coechmaker in' bank-notes, and so take to himself subject must come under their deliberations soon.—;
• AMSTERDAM, TUNE E. enormous profits, to the injury of others. As to the The Noble Earl, after various other statements, said,
he was not then disposed to press his Noble Friend's
Qp the celebration of the baptism of the King of Bank paying in gold, he had always thought it? was
Rome the &copies at Rotterdam received the game enough to say, where is the Bank to get it . In motion.
Rome,The Earl of LIMERICK declared, that in thous!
of Port Napoleon, and the Haringvliet that of the his view of the circumstances of the country, and the
parts of Ireland he was best acquainted with, the
Port of the King of Rome. The
arced t, at the present state and uses of the Bank, he must say, if
he might use a figurative mode of expression, that practices alluded to by the Noble Earl who paid
Nagee was, on the same occasion, named Cour Na-
such attention to the affairs of Ireland, did not exist.
poleon—the Tyreiberg, Cour de l'lmperatrice—and the Bank was one of the great bottom planks of the
the Paradeplein, Piece de Roi de Rome, or Square ship of Lrigland, and it behoved their Lordships to In the South of Ireland, he could certainly say it
of the !Lug of Rome. . take care that it was not bored through, and the water was not so.
let in through the hole, which might speedily cause 1
ELSINEUR, JUNE 11. ' The Earl of CLANCARTY corroborated whit
the whole vessel of the State to go to the bottom, fell from Lord Limerick, and stated certain peculiar;
Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Swe- What he meant to propose, was to make it illegal for circumstances in the north of Ireland, which had long
den has passed through Fredericsburg, on her journeyprevailed there, and which unquestionably occasioned
1 any body to give more money for
to the Bath of Pyrmont. guineas,half-guineas,
am than the value they lawfully bear, and to make . a strong preference for receiving goldanstead of pa-
KONINGSBURG, JUNE la. it also illegal to take Bank of England notes at a de- per. But that was entirely different from what was
At present there appears to be no prospect that co. predated value; at any thing, in short, less than what stated that night, of some proprietor having issued
they purported to be equal to. Having stated the such . a notice as that, which might proceed from a
lonia' produce will be allowed to enter the 'Prussian
ports, and it is by no means advisable to allow any kind of remedy he wished to see applied, he might ! black malignity of heart, in order to push such a
loaded vessels, except with salt and coals, to proceed follow an usual custom in declaring his motion for question to the greatest extent, under the idea of what
us such ports. ' doing so, and clearing the ground on which mg
i he might was called a depreciation of Bank-notes, which, in
personally stand. He spoke without any private, fact, did not exist.
According to all appearances, it is not to be expec-
tad that a rupture will occur this year between France
personal, or party feeling or view, but merely under , The Earl of LAUDERDALE strenuously con-
and Russia ; and it is believed, chiefly on account of the impression of his duty to his country. It was his - tended, that no such charge as that which he had ,
;he glorious success our brave countrymen have met fortune to be charged unjustly, and to be attacked heard could, in this instance, be justly made. In
with in Spain, which prevents Bonaparte from detach-
by malicious falsehoods, which tended to misrepre- fact, he was convinced that such conduct might spring!
ing an army of sufficient force to conquer that coun- sent his character; but he had never heeded such from motives of the purest patriotism. After Mini-I
try. Dentzic is now fortifying, and will be rendered ! things greatly.. It might be said that he had private sters had before them, in various shapes, the real state
almost impregnable. , views even in his motion, as he had been charged by ' of the case, and the prospect of the evils that three-
An increase of duties has been laid on all colonial some persons with strange intentions. It had been tened the country, a person might think it right, when
produce at present in the duchies of Sleswic and Hot. said he was one hundred thousand pounds in debt ; he saw no arguments could convince them, to put the
stein, and all future importation of such goods is to- yet the fact was, that he owed nothing to any body; question to a clear and unquestionable test. He should
tally prohibited. land that he was about to set off to America with not name the particular part of Ireland he had allu
OUTTENBURDI-1, JUNE 17. 1 £BO,OOO worth, from his family estates and property. ded to, but it was not exactly the north. After he
Our account to-day corroborates what a 'cars in Such things were even countenanced by a person who first mentioned the circumstance there, he had re.
i
the newspapers, viz. a rupture between Russia and re
oughth to be the last of all persons to countenance
d ceived abundance of anonymous letters, stating to
Prunes. Add to these letters the fact of the Danish
suc charges. They were all most false and ri icu- him facts of that nature. I
army having been ordered to hold itself in readiness loos. He wished to do all the good he could to his The Earls of LIMERICK and CLANCARTY ,
to march ; and the circumstance of so large a pd-
own native country. Hesaw no way by which a de- spoke in explanation : the latter Noble Earl proles-'
lion of the French and Rhenish troops mourn to
. preciated paper currency could be raised again: no sed, that, at all events, he could not see, in the con-1
g
wards the frontiers of Poland. Add also the circum. experience proved it. Recollect what contusion duct alluded to, any evidence of the pure patriotism, ,
;once rat so many of the French Generals having been might happen. The other day only, they saw the the Noble Lord imagined.
c floor of the nouse actually covered with petitions Earl GROSVENOR was of opinion, the subject
th
dere,l to Paris--Massena, Monier, Junot, Ney, and
from all quarters, in consequence of a bill brought merited the serious attention of the House. He
prers—Generals who would have been kept in Spain
if their services had not been wanted elsewhere. *To in by a Noble Viscouet, who usually sat on the cross thought, however, in the proceedings on the present
all these facts we retis; unite the important omissions
bench (Sidmouth),whom he believed to be a most occasion, they should be guided by circumstances,
in Boneparte's Speech, the omission of all mention of
respectable and well-intentioned man, and of whon, and not come to any final decision as to the Bill, until
Russia, the rage he vents against us for endeavour- he had always entertained a good opinion ; but who they saw what course those would take.
was so misled as to bran in a foolish and most elan- The LORD CHANCELLOR was not prepared
ing to stimulate other Powers against France, and the
n,....:.._... doubtful indecisive manner in which he speaks of the
fiverous Bill, which alarmed thousands of people. to give any opinion as to the expediency of adopting
- -- c - 51n,....:.._...by were all these petitions so quickly before them ? the measure proposed by the Noble Foul; but he felt