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Mr. Wlll3l'll re)rt(T. give rotit'e, that en Wednerday nett.
Lc tri,ve 1.. m. I cant to briug a Bill hy the better Re3aLetwa

P.:rith Worll.out,2s.

Mr. DILLON pottpinod his motion relative to the exemptiu
Roman Catholics trail pelnliti:s when (erring in this country.

MR. FOX'S au-tile's.
Mr. FOX noted to the Houfe, that Lt. fhevld portpone his mo-
tior•. relative to the Hanoverian Troops (which itorxl for to-nv.r-

,r—ow to hianday neat. He begged ieave at the fame time to men-
tiun, that he did not pltdge hirnfell that the prefent (jun:ion of
would any longer opLi ate as a preve,:tice to his briaol2; ftg-
avr.l his intended motion on th it day.

TOTF or THANKS.
Lord CASTLEREAGH role, purfuant to notice,
to call the attention of the Houle to the late brilliant

foccefies of the Britifh Arms in India.

The Hoitfe

and the Country were already in pofreflion of the
principal Nets acd derllils, and lure he was, that they
would, with the utmult cheerfulnefs, accede to the
nantion with which he Mould conclude. He fhould

certainly with to feparate completely the military por-
tion of the tranfaaions from all referencg to civil

policy or arrangements, and he earne Illy implored the
Houle to avoid all dircuffion or allufion to the Lie
Treaty. He begged alto to be qnderaooal as not
giving any npinion on the propriety of the war, but
that he fhluld fubmit to the confederation of the
lioufe the general quantum of merit difplayed in
leading •the army in the field to glory and renown.
He then proceeded to (fate the provifion made by
Lord Wellacy for the Defence of the Company's
territories in India, which he had completely tecured,
and after fending off a arong detachment to Ceylon,
his Excellency brought into the field an army of
55,nsio ganive men. This, he contended, placed
the military power of the Company in a very (inking
point of view. There was another inftance of well.
direa,:d precaution, which was, that this large force
lhould be enabled to et at one and the fame time on
the molt remote parts of the enemy's territory. On
the North of the Mahratta's dominions, General
Lake attacked ; on 'be South, General Arthur
WelleOey ; in Guxerat, General Murray; and on
the Well, General Harcourt. There officers abed
promptly at once, which afforded a sery arong proof
of the wifdom and forefight of the Marquis. But
to thole who recollected that his Excellency had de-
ftroyed the power of the Houfe of Myforc, fuch deci-
lion and energy would not perhaps appear aftonifhing.
One other remarkable circumltance was the !banners
of the campaign, which did not laft more than three
months, and produced the entire conqueft of Guzerat
and the Dekan, and all the imprienTe track between
the Jumna and the Ganges. Eight Itrong places
had been taLn, four of by cfcaladc, but the
operations of the army were not confined to liorrn
and alfault ; four pitched battles !tad been fought,
two by General Lake, and two by General Welletley.
He then lilted the particulars of there engage.
ments, wi i a have already been detailed in our
Paper. His Lcrdasip dwelt at confider:able length
on there piths, and in the courfe of his fpecch con-.
gratulated the lit,t:fc nn the kiccelsful iffue of the
military operations in India. Relpeiting the caufe
of the war, he fhould Whin from any opinion until
the official documents fbould arrive. The motion
he inrended to make was, that t 4 thanks vf the
Houk thouid be given to Marquis Welletley, Captain
General of the troops in India, for the energy with •
which the Duluth refource : in India had been applied
in th,e late w tr againft SLindia'and t:,e Itajalfot Be.
rar, and far the promptitude with which they 1124
been tiled, to which the Houle attributed tb; refult
of the war, Ecc.

Mr. FRANCIci laid, that in giving his opinion on
this motion, be wilbed to divelt himielf of all partia-
lity. In his own former motion relative to the affair'
of India, he bad cautioufly abilained from prejudg-
ing the cattle, or the policy 'or jialice of the war, in
any manner that could devigate from the dharaifter
of the Marquis of Wellefley. fhe Right Hon•Geotle• '
man had left that point to be afterwards determined.
when proper information thould reach this country.
He bad no oh;e,ftion to concur with the rpeaftare prc•
poled, were he find t:ouvinced of the juftice and po-
licy of the war Welt, becatife lie felt all the gratitude
which it was pollible to Lel upon fuch an occafion.

There were other cooliderations involved in this
einetlion, one of which whether thole valuable
!ices had been loft with advant.ige or profit to the
na ? pre fent ciuilt.un'was not, therefore,
fit to he &leafed in the Iloufe, till they were in-
torined of every particular co.:necried with the war ire
India. lioiv could the Haut arleiwardi condemn
the war is India, though they might find reafon to
Jo fo, after basing come to a Vote of Thanks tei thofe
concerned in it It was iMparlille that they could
hereafter lay they condemned the pace, policy, rte.
I or r.eceility of the war. He therefore ohje.led
id the iniriion. :is it led thus to an eYident ineonflf-
ti-r.ey. There was no merit to be attached to the
cirevitinlar.ce of there being fo great a difparity of
numbers. blame might rather be attaelied to the
rat-11nel, of the attempt ; becaufe if that attack had
tailed, our army might have been totally dettroyed.
10‘., ot the c ointry forbad thole conquctly.
The ChIANc.:ELLOR. of the EXCFIEQSER
laid, Le thought th it failicii.rit information %sas al-
re idy belle the iioufc to juitify the vote of thanks
propaled by the motion ; and therefore it met with
enticehis concurrence. The favottra,.il: aie of the
campaign was gi catly to he at:riblted tii the exer•
!inn, of the Marq.llS r f V.-vileficy ; and although
there sat itch a ditparity is pcirst of numbers, yet
mua rriticed, that there was oil additional force
of ten thoultud men colleaed, at hi, 7rcat iliilance
reads. to Co opera!e with tha: army. Ile uni'..ritond
the lion. Gemleman, who opriofed the motion, to
fey, that c.irqueas were priihihited, as being incon-
fi'!rilt with the AEI if 1794; ai:d lie unified the
Iloide to iibfe: we, tli.ttti• Act alluded to only laid,
that the Coiveinnicnt r I kJ Crlgigc in
5, at for the fake of con.;:ied•, but did not I -ohibit
them, when we were engaged an vial from
other coyly s, from retaining
!c. he thought tiL propold was a very
1,1 indeed; and the more fo, becaufe it
ank a p.rton 11 ha uas not aetially engag-
Upoa the tame principle Par-

:le tißmq:

!lament misty hare thanked the Commander in
41 111.171 C 10. cvely viittory am at ruks bad ob•
t.oned abroad. 1 t‘:th the fame prtsprietr
b t I the Admit:l4y when Lord
1 and I..rJ St. Vita:cut feverally gained ..fiLie
I.nd,J 11..5. I, was, :Inm-ever, alv.ays anal to
cot tine a I'. 1C thanks 10 0101 e Mho v. ere inintedi-
%4S 110 W 13(111),,Jell 111 center the
att Captaia

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General of oncArmy, a patron who had no military
experience nor education. It,yrass in faaa doing
nothing but laughing at him. He entirety objeaed
to the motion, the more erpecially, as the policy and
neceffity of' the war was not yet made evident to the
Houle, pod concluded with moving the previous
Mr. WALLACE laid, that .fox far froni filch a
vote of thanks being unufual, the•Houle had pared a
fisnilar vote immediately after the capture of Serin-
gapatam ; firm to Marquis Wellefley, and afterwards
to Lord Clive i • ai)ti betides, there were various other
inftances. The praaice, therefore, could not be laid
yo be new ; but whether there was precedent or not,
it was impoffible for any man to contemplate thole
• triumphs of our armies in India, during fuch a Ilion
period, and at the fame time to bring himfelf
.to re
fufe the thaks of the Houle.
Mr. JOHNSTONE was for the previnOs queftion.
-le was lure that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,

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v who had alto the title of Captain-General, did rot
4 receive thanks on account of the conduO of the Army
In that country, and as for the brilliancy of the vic-
tories in India, where it was Rated that we had beat
ten times the number of Mahrattas, although that
'Melt be a very proper matter of praife for the brave
Armt who had gained the vietory, it did not appear,
at fin!-fight, to be any matter of exultation to the
GovernekGeneral. who had ezpofed them to to
much danger, as it was acknowledged that General
WeUefley'sAsmy was expnfed to. We had been
foinetimes, too hefty in granting our Thanks—per-
haps we Were fo in the instance of Copenhagen, and
alfo our Army'in Holland, when they were on the
point of capitffiting. . .
Mr. WLLBERFORCE, at the fame time that he
profeffed the•greatell refpeet for the charafter of the
Noble Marquis, *f.fid, he could not bring hirofelf to
. vote thanks until having been informed of the castles
of the war, be fhould faeldhat thanks were due. He
was not ready to give pralfe to Civil Governors for
entering into war, unlefs fnehwars could be proved
abfolutety neceflary. Mankind were in general too
much captivated with military glory, and neglected
N themain-folid.glory of contributing• to the happinefs
t of their fellow-creators'. Hr hoped, however, and
trufted, that the examination of the carsfes of the war
would only aad to the ,character of the Noble Mar-
quis. When the thanks of the Houle appeared to be
Sot to him, ho one 'Would difcharge • that debt with
mere pleafure than Lindell. . •
Mr. HOBHOCJSE replied to the Hot. Member
who (poke lag. He vindicated the eondue, and:
. applauded the wifJom and vigour with which the,
late operations in -India werecifeeted. An Honour-
able Member (Mr. it bed devoted a great
part of his fpeech in declaiming again& the horrors
of war; no man more heartily joined than he did in
deprecating fo great a feourge to man'kind ; but at
the fame tune when war became necelfary to refill
oppreffion, no man would deny its jultioet and Purely
it was Impoftible for any •Englifuman to be &raj,-
fied that prompt and decifive vianry was on our,
fide. The Noble Lord who made the original Too,
tion had iludioully and erprefsly put out of the quer-.
tion every thin; concerning the origin, caulk, and.
policy of the war, and confined his motion merely
to the military tranfaetions, of which no man had
capreffed any diratisfaCtion. It was to the wifdons
of Lord Wellelley's Councils in conceiving the plan,
and the promptitude and vigour with which that
plan was cartied into effed under his direttion, that
thanks were jultly Ji:e.
Idr. WI LBERFORCE explained.
Mr. GREY regretted extremely that the prefent
amnion thould have been brought forward on this
occafion, or that any occafion fhould have been
given for a difplay of a diffetence of opinion upon a
motion of thanks to a Noble Lord. to whom, per-
(orally, he held no fentiments bat thofe of refpeet.—.
But be begged the Honfe not to be too precipitate in
adopting a motion which mutt in any degree tend to
preclude them from in future fctutinieing, and, if
smelltry, cenfuting the conduft of that Noble Lind
for commencing a war, of the origin, motives, or
policy of which we were at this moment totally un-
informed. For his part, he was much more inclined
to follow the good old precedents cf the ancient
praftices of Parliament, than thofe of more modern
silage. No man was more ready than hind-elf to
fubfcribe to the valour wid intrepidity difplayed by
our brave troops than he as..s ; and no man with a
Britilh heart and Britifh feeling, but mull exult on
loch an occafion. But (till he thought Parliament
fhould be flow in declaring its approbation of any
part cf the war, until it iiiould be a fcertained how
far it was jai. necdfary, or warranted by policy;
and he had no heft ration in laying, that if the prcfeta
war in India was cioimenced wantonly, unneceiraiiiy,
or uniuftly, for thc fake of aggrandifement, and di-
reedy contrary to the declared policy of our Govern-
ment in India, "'saint! the extenfion cf territory, and
againft the politive 14w of the land, the Houk ought
not to declare its thanks even to our troops, kit it
thould thereby rifle the imputation of giving appro.
bation to any part of filth a war. The value of the
Thanks intended would not be leirened by a reafon-
able delay. This, he begged to remind the Houle,
was not our first Mahratta War—nor the firli in that
.:01intry in which brilltAnt victories had been Achieved,
and had the Houle, upon the former occafion, voted
4 its thanks to Goyernyr Hailing., with what fiat of
confiftency could it have afterwards followed him
with an impeachment to the Bar of the Lords ? The
atilt-ton would fairly apply on the prefent cafe. The
condulft of the Marquis of Wellefley would, undoubt-
edly, become the fobjeet of parliamentary enquiry,
as to the caufes of Mi. war. He fincerely withed the
Noble Lr.rd fbould prove to be perfally juilitied ;
but if the contra'', fhould happen to be the cafe, what
moll be the keliogs of the Houle on impeaching the
wallow:els, the artininality, the torpolicy of a war,
fir the v;trtoroits prolc.:iiti.in of which they mould
!.eve prevani;ly ti.a.o. :J Limn !
Mr. HollifOii.iL a... 1 Mr. WALLACE ex-
p.,' •. d
THIWIIII.US METCALFF, vindicated
•1)•: conduß ...; the Marquis of Wellefley, and de-
tenc',:d the war as againft the hfahratta nation, who
..ere known to esel F i in, for t 5,a years pa, to be
eI
. :he common dilturbers of the tranquillity of Iowa;
•...litsfe uniform ritici;.le, w,r.: plunder and devall t.
IMT: to every il;:!WIldIng nation ; and who, thc bet-
ter to enable then, to carry on their purpoks, Lad
ugly cr.tett.:oled in their service a number of French
L....1.'.ers :uniabi-J, by L4C ruling powers at farts, -Lir

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eartimpn and kali/rate ahoy, to teach theft] Eu
ropian traffics; but by the glorioss and gallant prow
efs of our troops in that couvtry, their armies were
utterly defeated; we had takes] from them 100 piece,
of cannon; nor were there, he was convinced, 2c
pieces more lift in any part of the Dekan.—Ht,
had read a boot, which had been alluded to in
the courfe of the debate, publifhed by the anthoritt
of the Marquis Welleflty, which recorded a (cries of
events unparalleled in the hill ory of the .world ;
which not only juflified the conduit of the NobleiMar-
quit for commencing the war, but which (hewed, that
to the wifdom of his eounfel, and the vigour of his
plans, were chiefly owing our brilliant fucceffes, much
as was due to the valour of thofe troops who were
defined to carry thofe plans into effeet.
Mr. GREY, in explanation, difclaimed for him
fell, and his Hon. Friends, any intention of calling
the fmallekimputation on the hlarquib of Wellefley.
Mr. W. SMITH looked upon the Vote of Thanks
for the cohquell of the Myfirre as no precedent fur
this ; for the grounds there Rated were of a civil na
cure, inclulve even of moderation, and the contefl
was terminated: • •

Mr ROSE fa:cl, in voting for the original motion,
he did it upon .the principle that he was not thereby
to be precluded from the future dircuflion of the
Noble Marqui►'s enndu,2, or any other vote that dif-
eulTion might jollity. `
Mr. FRANCIS raid, that the Honourable Baronet
oppolite to him (Sir T. Metcalf) argued from the
authority of a book, of which be had the exclitrive
advantage. -It was, however, rather extraordinary
the Noble Marquis fhonld chore to make his appeal
to the public opinion through the medium of fuch a
publication, while Parliament had been unable to
obtain the neceflary documents whereon to form their•
opinion upon the rubjea. •
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'
role, to allure the Honourable Gentleman that he
had it in particular requell from his Noble Friend
the Governor of India, to give to the Houfe every
poffible document that could explain, even on the
minuten point, the whole of his condua.
The quellion was now called for, when the pre-
vious epietlinn was negatived, and t4e original mo-
tion of Thanks to Lnrd Wellefley carried.

Lord CASTLEREAGH then proceeded with, the
motions of 'Thanks to Lord Clive, the Honourable
Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, General
Lake, Major General St. John, the Hon. General
A. Welleflev. and all the Officers of the Army ; and
of approbation of the b y clifplayed by the Non.
cpmrniffioned Officers and Privates I—which were
agreed to new. con.

• ROUTINE Stratum.
Mr; ALEXANDER in:lona the Ira Mica and a Qprtes
Loan _

Mr,. VANS? (TART prefented the Fourteen Million and a
Half Annuity Loan-BM, Me Additional Import Duty Bill, matte
Additional Wine Elate AU mad a brit time, and ordaed
for a feecend reading to-morrow. . . .

Deferred MI Tuefday the (mond reading of the Irilh Army of
itcfeays Buftwatim BlM—Adjourned

LONDON.

117.IDAY, MAY 4.

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Nothing has yet tranfpired refpelling the New
Adminiftration. In fait the arrangements are not yet
completed, and the various plans detailed i■ feveral
of the daily papers are all mere conjedure.
The CHANCELLOR of the ETCH ackyit kas not teen
his MAJESTY fince Tuefday—fo much for the accu-
racy of Tome flatements !
It may be admitted as a fettled point (and indeed
hardly any other is yet fettled) that Mr. Pixy. will
rcfume hit former fituation. It is the belief of many
well-informed politicians that he intends to recom•
mend a very broad bottomed Adminillration, in
which not only Mr. Fox and his friends, but the lead.
ing men of all the three parties which joined to florin.
the Cabinet, will be included. Others, equally well
vetted in politics, contend that fuch a Government,
however plaufible in theory, would be highly inju-
rious to the country, and that a Cabinet, compofed of
men, agreeing in no one principle but that of getting
into power, mutt ever be like an ill-tuned inflrument.
No harmony, no concord, no energy can be expelled
from it. Time will determine how far this opinion is
well founded, Winch a Government be formed.

Yelterday the Marquis of STaieORD And Mr. rol
put off their refpeelive motions till Monday, but at
the fame time expreffed their determination to bring
them forward on that day, unlefs fume fatisbaory
arrangement be made in the intermediate time.

Mr. PITT and Mr. Fox were both clofeted ye ner•
day with the I.olto CIIANCTLLout in his room at the
Ht nfe of Lords, abt.ut half pail four. Mr. PITT
came down filo, and Mr. CANNING was fent inn: the
Commons for Mr. Fox. The interview 'ailed but
(port time.

Mr. Fn: afterwards came into the Houfe of Lords,
and was engaged in converfatir.n ss Os Lord CRrv•
•ILi.[ for sight or ten miantes. A► foon as he had
retired, Mr. PITT entered, and ernverfed with Lords
CR!N•ILLE and Mct.vti.t.r until the con•crfation or;

the Marquis of STAIFFOPD'S motion commenctd,
during the greatell part of which Mr. PITT rern.w.ed
in the Houle.

We have receirej New York Papers to the 3,1 of.
April inclurtve. It it limed in them that the Bri;iin
force has been withdrawn from the attack of Curaena.
General DISSALIMLS has publdhed the ft,llnterng
decree in St. Domingo. it mg be Cud to proceed

figto the gel:mink and blended principles of policy
and .hunianity :

LIBERTY, ,O, DEATH.—GOVERNMENT OP HAYTL
,Head-qoattas, Pon-au•Prince, Jun. t 4

MST TIC4COT THE INDLPIINOEMCY OY HAITI.

" The Oovcroor cOnfidering that a great number of
Native Blacks and Mess.oftOloor are fuffering In the United States
of Aapeyica, for want of the means of returning, decrees
".'here &all be anoint to the Captains of American velfels the
fom of 40 dollars far oath ipdividoal they may refit= to this
country. He ordas, that this decree mall be printed, publithed.
and polled up, and that a copy thereof be immediately forwarded to
the Cougrefs of the United Sfr.tois

'Ey the Governor General, (Signed) " passeLiter."

We have received complete fete of the French and
Dutch Jour:His : the former to the 24th, the latter
to the 28th tilt. indofive. (From the Dutch papers
we hare given lane extrafts in our firft page.) A
Hambutgh Mad alto arrived this day, but it has
brought none of the Journals of the 28th, though
they were due.

An ankle relating to Spain is of fame importance :
If it be true, and it is no more than we had reafon
toe xpeCt from French influence, that that power has
prohibited the Isle of Englifh prizes, what it permits
thole of the French in the Spann ports, we may
fools t vet to fee an end put to Spanish neutrality.
An article from Buie, doted vlao a4a of April.
Rates, that the French troops have evacuated Mole
St. Naafis, the lan place they bid in the ifland of
St. Domingo. '

The Manitners fay nothing tefpeaiog the propofed
title of the Emperor of the Gauls.

FARM. A►alL tB—General B , Governor
of the Hofpital of Invalids, died yefterday : he had
been prefent at the bae.itifin of the Flaw CON stn., a
circumflanee of whied Le often (poke.
Lail night the Mindler at War fet ont for the ecarft •

The CcWitallors of Dasew it Es, at St. Domingo,
where great di llurhances frill continue, are principally
emigrated Frenchmen, who acconanLite money, and
fend it to America.

GINIKAL 141111,MONT, commasors IM OttlF 07 TNt

CAMP AT UTAICHT, TO THE FIRST t'ONSOL.

Had <barters °coeval .tiltreeltt. April ss.

I have the honour to inform you, that on the t ttb
four large FAO& boats, full of troops, came In
attack the Sea Horfe frigate, flationed in the Texel :
the crews were intoxicated with punch. The combat
was neither doubtful nor of long duration: two boats
were funk ; two more made their efcape, but did not
'carry back half their people. This attack was a real
aft of folly, which colt dear to the Englifh Beet : it
101 l by it feveral hundreds of men; the Sea Honk
Whined no lofs. The tnglifli, nn doubt, thought
they !horrid take her by furprife.
APRIL U.—The forttefs of Mole St. Nieolas, the
loft poll occupied by the French army in St. Domingo,
was evacuated on the 6th of December, feventeen
days after the capitulation of the Cape.
Memo, APRIL s.—By an Ordinance publilbed
here this day, all individuals and families, whether
natives or foreigners, who have no certain occupa-
tion, or fixed refidence, milers they can give raisin-
tory reafonsfor their continuing here, mull leave this
City within 3. days. In any cafe a time will be
preferibed for their departure ;—and the Foreign
AmbalTadors mull engage for foreigners of their
nation, of whom they mull give in a lift, if they will
to prOlong their flay.
We are now fearful that our neutrality will not'
continue mach longer; the Government havinggiven
orders that Englifh prizes not be permitted to
be fold in Spam& ports. The Englifh Envoy, Mr.
Furst:, and the Conful General, Mr. HUN rta, have
received explicit hiltruftions on this fubjeft.
HAGUE. APRIL r.-1): ivate letters from Paris
contain the following intelligence a—
" The Government has again fent a meffage to,
the Senate relative to the ellablithment of an heredi-
tary foreccflion to the Government.
We are allured that the firfl public aft of Bone.
rears, after lie has affirmed his new dignity, will be
to pardon Mouser, whole guilt indeed becomes
every day more apparent, hilt whole condun in tome
refpefls defcrves confideration. When lie has been
judicially convifted, Ens ,PART.. will, is is laid,
grant him a pardon, v itii a permiiton, rather a
coma mod to retire to the of France, where the
whole property of 10, wile is 6,iiated. Pi-fiins who
pre:end to he accurately acquainted wi,h the char
rafter rt. Mi,e tau, atf,rt that lie w:11 receive this
pardon ii,7 and gathu.:e. lie is nrw per mitred
to have his infant fon bron,:ht to him every day."

E. Aran. 19 Frerch Cnmer.:lrtry has
palled 0)11-.1,01 this cgs I•,s Nl,lnich, to afErk in the
the 2il r ar.s.l an‘qher Pt ince of the
pc;b its arreiled on account of
their bc:rg sr-d in :Ir. Ali
A. (II 2.
n
Gin-rrnment made .1 verbsl sht
Government rc!te.nly accede% to the :aft declaration

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