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MR. DUNDAS spoke against it. Upon a divifion of the house there apeared for it 55, against it 84.

The question respecting the treatment of the prifoners in the Coldbath Fields rifon has been brought before the houfe of commons for the purpose of a fair inveftigation.--MR. DUNDAS laid on the able the examinations taken before the nagiftrates at the last quarter feffions refpecting this bufinefs. This and feveral other papers relative to this subject were afterwards ordered to be printed, and alfo a Committee appointed to examine into the state of that prifon, who were empowered to fend for papers, perfons and records.

SIR FRANCIS BURDETT withdrew the notice for his motion for the 7th of March, on the fubject as he wished to avail himself of the information that would arife from the above arrangement. [In our next we shall be enabled to give the refult of this enquiry.]

On the motion of Mr. Pitt on the 8th of March, the houfe in a committee of fupply agreed to grant 150,000l. for foreign fecret fervice money for 1799, and alfo that an aid of 5000l. fhould be granted to the Turkey company.

MR. DUNDAS on the 12th of March, the houfe having refolved itfelf into a committee on the ftate of the finance of India, gave an elaborate detail of what is generally called the India budget. After going through the various calculations ufual on thefe occafions, he obferved to the committee that the affairs of the company were better on the whole than they were in the preceding year by 413,220l. But he did not mean to give this in an unqualified way, for there was a difputed article between the nabob of Arcot and the company, which amounted to no less than one million fterling. The company were truftees for the creditors of the nabob who claimed their inftalments as ufual during the laft war in India. The revenues appointed for the payment of thefe inftalments had unavoidably been employed in defraying the expences of If the company were now to make good this fum they would of courfe ftand in a worse fituation by 600,000l. But when he recollected that fince the year 1786 at which time the accounts of the company had been firft put into a proper train, their capital had been in creafed in no less than eleven millions, he could look without any difmay on this deficiency or on any ftagnation which might occur during the prefent war. He

that war.

alfo obferved that he felt it his duty, as
looking to the general interefts of the
empire, to fee that the directors in Lea-
denhall-street should make compenfations,
either by exporting bullion or otherwife,
for the increafed imports which they drew
from India. This was the more necef-
fary at a time when the company, how-
ever opulent, felt it beyond their power
import the fuperflux of Indian wealth into
the ports of thefe kingdoms. The fum re-
mitted annually to Europe from India
amounted to no lefs than five millions;
but of this fum the means and capital of
the company did not permit them to im-
He was
port more than two millions.
determined to try in fome shape to bring
this wealth into the ports of this country.
and before the end of the prefent feffion
he fhould certainly fubmit the matter to
the ferious confideration of that houfe,
and crave their advice as to the beft means
of fecuring to this country that pre-emi-
nence to which it was entitled. The
refolutions were read and ordered to be
reported the next day.

MR. DUNDAS on the 15th of March, after ftating that our volunteer cavalry amounted to 30,000 which rendered the provifional cavalry not yet called out, no longer neceffary, moved that fuch of the latter as were embodied fhould be put on the establishment of fencible cavalry which was agreed to. On the motion of the fame gentleman, the bill for reducing the militia from 106,000 to 82,000 was ordered to be printed and a committee appointed.

On the 16th of March the refolution of the committee of fupply for granting 226,000l. for the reliet of the fuffering clergy and laity of France now in this country and the American royalifts, was agreed to by the house.

It appears by a proclamation iffued from the court of St. James's on the 15th day of March, that fome attempts have been making to organife rebellion in this country. This proclamation states, "that there is reafon to apprehend that divers perfons engaged in treafonable confpiracies in the kingdom of Ireland in concert with our foreign enemies are endeavouring to incite and ftir up rebellion and war in this country. That for the reafon the privy council do ftrictly order and charge, that from and after the 20th of March no perfon whattoever be permitted to pafs from Ireland into this kingdom, except perfons in the public fervice and fuch perfous as fhall obtain a paffpoit for that purpose from the Lord Liet

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lift was divided into eight claffes. The first appertained to the perfonal convenience of the fovereign and the dignity of the crown. He next adverted to the provifion made for the judges, Lord Chamberlain, the mafter of the horie, the fteward of the houfehold, the expences of meffengers, minifters, &c. With refpect to the household establishment of the crown he afferted there was a faving, which must be an object not only of applaufe, but furprife to parliament.

He next adverted to the falaries of foreign minifters in which from the fituation of affairs there was a decrease of

In the lord ftewards' bills there
was an increase of
The actual expenditure was
from 80 to

Under the head of occafional
payments there was an ex-
cel's of

£27,000

36,000

of commons, but he was forry that he could not return him (Mr. Tierney) the compliment. His laft speech he contended, to have a quite different tendency, or he mifreprefented public facts, merely for the purpofe of cafting public odium in that quarter to which the honourable gentleman juft adverted. Mr. Pitt then recapitulated his former ftatements; he afferted that the civil lift did not amount to more now than it did twenty years ago, though in the household expences there was a confiderable increase. The houfe divided on the motion, when there appeared ayes 83, noes 4.

On the 13th, the bills for granting an annuity of 12,000l. per annum to Prince Edward and Erneft Auguftus, and for eftablishing his Majefty to provide equal90,0co ly for the Princeffes Elizabeth Sophia, and Amelia out of the hereditary fund of 30,000l. granted by parlia ment for the maintenance of his Majefty's daughters, were read a firft time. In the courfe of difcuffing these bills it appeared that the civil lift notwithstanding the utmost economy had fallen 40 or 50,000l. in arrears and therefore wholly incompetent to fupport the propofed and neceffary establishment for the two princes. It alfo appeared, that befides the permanent 100,00ol. a year granted to the civil lift, between two and 300,000l. arifing from the Dutchy of Cornwall, during the minority of the Prince of Wales, had not been refunded to his Royal Highness.

74,000 This excefs was occafioned by the prefent state of foreign affairs and the number of meffengers neceffarily employed. He then ftated the law charges which encreased in proportion to the number of ftate crimes, by which the civil lift incurred an expence of 10,000l. per annum. The next head of expence was the police which was naturally connected with the latter and this amounted to the fun of 25,000l.

It appeared from these statements, he faid, that the expences of the civil lift could not be augmented; he therefore moved" that it was the opinion of the committee that a fum not exceeding 12,000l. per annum be granted out of the confolidated fund as a provifion for Prince Erneft. MR. TIERNEY faid he wifhed to fee every branch of the royal family to be put upon an happy and comfortable establishiment, but he at the fame time thought that the civil lift ought to bear every ex.. pence attending fuch eftablishments. He expreffed his forprife that the charge for foreign moffengers fhould be greater now than when we had ambaffadors at all the foreign courts, and contended that the items ought to be furnished. The prefent meafure he declared was calculated to caft odium where no good fubject would wifh it to attach, and was fuificient, in fpite of all the anti-jacobin fpeeches made in that hole by the right honourable gentleman, to procure for him the thanks of every jacobin in the kingdom.

MR. PITT in reply faid that the honourable gentleman had charged him with uttering anti-jacobin fpeeches in the house

MR. WILBERFORCE on the first of March, addreffed the house and said, he had fo frequently brought the question of the flave trade before them, that he did not think it neceflary to go to any great length into that bufinefs. Since the first time he had addreffed parliament on this fubject he obferved that events had occured which had a material effect on the habits and temper of his mind. Twelve years had elapied fince he first moved for the abolition of the African flave trade: the queftion then excited a confiderable fhare of intereft both within and without the walls of that houfe; but he was forry to remark from what had fince occured that he was inclined to believe that much of that intereft was created by the novelty of the question. Days, weeks, and years he had given up to the investigation of the flave trade and waited patiently fince the year 1791, in the hope that his exertions would be followed up by the abandonment of that abominable and iniquitous fyftem.

MR. PITT fupported the motion.

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MR. DUNDAS spoke against it. Upon a divifion of the house there appeared for it 55, against it 84.

The queftion refpecting the treatment of the prifoners in the Coldbath Fields prifon has been brought before the houfe of commons for the purpose of a fair inveftigation.--MR. DUNDAS laid on the table the examinations taken before the magiftrates at the last quarter feffions refpecting this bufinefs. This and feveral other papers relative to this fubject were afterwards ordered to be printed, and alfo a Committee appointed to examine into the state of that prifon, who were empowered to fend for papers, perfons and records.

SIR FRANCIS BURDETT withdrew the notice for his motion for the 7th of March, on the fubject as he wished to avail himself of the information that would arife from the above arrangement. [In our next we shall be enabled to give the refult of this enquiry.]

On the motion of Mr. Pitt on the 8th of March, the houfe in a committee of fupply agreed to grant 150,000l. for foreign fecret fervice money for 1799, and alfo that an aid of 5000l. fhould be granted to the Turkey company.

MR. DUNDAS on the 12th of March, the house having refolved itfelf into a committee on the ftate of the finance of India, gave an elaborate detail of what is generally called the India budget. After going through the various calculations ufual on thefe occafions, he obferved to the committee that the affairs of the company were better on the whole than they were in the preceding year by 413,220l. But he did not mean to give this in an unqualified way, for there was a difputed article between the nabob of Arcot and the company, which amounted to no less than one million fterling. The company were trustees for the creditors of the nabob who claimed their inftalments as ufual during the laft war in India. The revenues appointed for the payment of thefe inftalments had unavoidably been employed in defraying the expences of that war. If the company were now to make good this fum they would of courfe ftand in a worse fituation by 600,000l. But when he recollected that fince the year 1786 at which time the accounts of the company had been firt put into a proper train, their capital had been increafed in no less than eleven millions, he could look without any difinay on this deficiency or on any ftagnation which might occur during the prefent war. He

alfo obferved that he felt it his duty, as looking to the general interefts of the empire, to fee that the directors in Leadenhall-street should make compenfations, either by exporting bullion or otherwife, for the increafed imports which they drew from India. This was the more neceffary at a time when the company, however opulent, felt it beyond their power to import the fuperflux of Indian wealth into the ports of these kingdoms. The fum remitted annually to Europe from India amounted to no lefs than five millions; but of this fum the means and capital of the company did not permit them to imHe was port more than two millions. determined to try in fome shape to bring this wealth into the ports of this country. and before the end of the prefent feffion he fhould certainly fubmit the matter to the ferious confideration of that house, and crave their advice as to the beft means of fecuring to this country that pre-eminence to which it was entitled. The refolutions were read and ordered to be reported the next day.

MR. DUNDAS on the 15th of March, after ftating that our volunteer cavalry amounted to 30,000 which rendered the provifional cavalry not yet called out, no longer neceffary, moved that fuch of the latter as were embodied fhould be put on the establishment of fencible cavalry which was agreed to. On the motion of the fame gentleman, the bill for reducing the militia from 106,000 to 82,000 was ordered to be printed and a committee appointed.

On the 16th of March the refolution of the committee of fupply for granting 226,000l. for the relief of the fuffering clergy and laity of France now in this country and the American royalifts, was agreed to by the house.

It appears by a proclamation iffued from the court of St. James's on the 15th day of March, that fome attempts have been making to organife rebellion in this country. This proclamation states, "that there is reafon to apprehend that divers perfons engaged in treafonable confpiracies in the kingdom of Ireland in concert with our foreign enemies are endeavouring to incite and ftir up rebellion and war in this country. That for the reafon the privy council do ftrictly order and charge, that from and after the 20th of March no perfon whatsoever be permitted to pafs from Ireland into this kingdom, except perfons in the public fervice and fuch perfous as fhall obtain a passport for that purpose from the Lord Lie

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tenant or from other perfons qualified for that purpose in Ireland."

During feveral days the public and particularly the friends of the honourable Mr. Grenville were kept in the greatest anxiety for the fafety of the Proferpine frigate, in which that gentleman and fuite, charged with an important commiffion to the continent, had taken their paffage from Yarmouth. On the 31ft of January, two days after the failed, the came close up with Heligoland, from whence the procured a pilot. The fame night the lay

Marriages and Deaths

Married.] At St. George the Martyr, H. Carrington Bowles, efq. of St. Paul's Church Yard, to Mifs Garnault, of RedLion Square.

Mr. Shirley Forfter, of Holborn, to Mifs Sibley, of Iflington.

At St. Paul's Deptford, Mr. Finch, winemerchant, to Mifs Rolt.

At Shoreditch church, W. Rocke, efq. of Fenchurch-street, to Mifs Jenkins, of the City-road.

At St. James's church, John Weyland, jun. efq. fon of J. Weyland, efq. of Woodeaton, Oxford, to Mifs Keene, daughter of W. Keene, efq. M. P. and niece to the Earl of Dartmouth.

At Walthamstow, W. B. Tarbutt, efq. of Gould-fquare, to Mifs Freeman, only daughter of J Freeman, efq. of Cornhill.

Mr. Reynolds, author of several dramatic pieces, to Mifs Manfel, of Covent-Garden Theatre.

At St. Paul's, Deptford, Mr. T. Dowley, of Bankfide, to Mifs Nicholfon, daughter of R. Nicholfon, efq. of Kent.

Died.]

At Clerkenwell,

wife of Malachi Foot, efq

at anchor at the mouth of the river Elbe ; and the next day proceeded for fome way up the river, but from the great quantity of ice flowing down, fhe was obliged to return, but had not gone far before the ftruck on the fand abreast of the Scarhorn Beacon, about two miles from land; all endeavours to get her off failing, it was refolved on the 2d of February that all hands should leave the fhip and endeavour to reach Newark Ifland, which was with great difficulty effected, with the lofs of 15 lives.

in and near London.

efq.

In Fenchurch-street, Abraham Newman, At Blackheath, aged 78, W. Hopkins, efq. In Welbeck-ftreet, Mrs. Lukin, wife of R. Lukin, efq.

In Frith-ftreet, Soho, Mrs. Chamier, widow of A. Chamier, efq. of Epfom.

In Goodman-fields, Mr. John Hammond, fail-cloth maker.

In Bloomsbury-fquare, aged 73, Mrs. Prefcott.

J.

At Walthamstow, Mrs. Bennett, relict of
Bennett. efq.

In Cannon-street, W. Stonehewer, efq. In Bloomsbury-fquare, Mrs. Wegg, wife of Samuel Wegg, efq.

In New North-ftreet, Mrs. Dignum, wife of Mr. C. Dignum, of Drury-Lane Theatre. In Great Ruffel-ftreet, Thomas Williamfon, esq.

At Pimlico, aged 92, Mr. B. Tolley. In Bruton-ftreet, Richard Hopkins, efq. member for Harwich.

At Greenwich, Mifs Sufannah Innes, daughter of the late Col. Innes, of the royal re

Mrs. Foot, giment of artillery.

At his lodgings in Princes-ftreet, Hanoverfquare, W. Lemon, efq. eldest fon of Sir W. Lemon, Bart.

At Limehoufe, John Fowler, efq. one of the elder brethren of the Trinity-houfe. In Coventry-street, fuddenly, Mr. Faulding.

In Duke-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare, Mrs. Elizabeth Coghlan, wife of Mr. Coghlan, bookfeller.

At Bermondsey, Mrs. Charlotte Field, wife of Simon Field, efq.

At Highbury-Place, Ilington, Richard Lee, efq. formerly an eminent merchant of

London.

In Upper Charlotte-ftreet, Fitzroy-fquare, Mrs. Weft, widow of the late Temple Weft, efq. formerly Lieutenant-Colonel in the first regiment of Guards.

In Queen-frect, Westminster, Mrs. Auriol, aunt of the Earl of Kinnoul.

In Queen-street, Mrs. Hardy, relict of the late Robert Hardy, efq. purveyor to the board of works.

In Edward-treet, Mr. Hawkins. In Caroline-street, Bedford-fquare, Mrs. Goodwin.

At St. James's Place, the Right Hon. W. Hollis Capel, earl of Effex, Viscount Malden, Baron Hadham. His Lordship was born October 7th, 1732, and married first Frances, daughter and heirefs of Sir C. Hanbury Williams; by whom he had iffue George Viscount Maiden, who fucceeds to the title and estates, and one daughter, Lady Elizabeth, who married Lord John Monfon. His Lordship married fecondly, on the 3d of March, 1767, Harriet, daughter of Col. Thomas Bladon, by whom he had four fons, now living. The Earl was Lord of the bedchamber to the late king, and held, at the time of his decafe, the fame appointment to his prefent majefty.

At her father's houfe, in Alderfgate-street, Mifs Seddon, daughter of Mr. Seddon ; a moft amiable and accomplished young lady, whe was reading by the fire fide, when her drefs caught fire, and fhe was fo dreadfully bunt that the died in confequence.

PROVINCIAL

NORTHUMBERLAND

AND DURHAM,

Married.] At Newcastle, John Spedding, efq. of Kefwick, to Mifs Gibfon, fifter to T. Gibfon, cfq. of the Newcattle Bank. C. Dodgson, efq. captain of the 4th regiment of dragoons, to Mifs Lucy Hume, daughter of James Hame, efq. fecretary to the customs. Captain Griffiths of the Royal Artillery, to Mifs Brandling of Gosforth.

At Alnwick, Mr. W. Kirkby, attorney, to Mils Wilfon.

At Hexham, Mr. J. Swinburn, to Mifs A. Richardion.

At Hart, Mr. Trizel, of Elnwick, to Mifs Martindale, of the fame place.

Died.] At Newcastle Mrs. Bolam, wife of Mr. R. Bolam, joiner,

At Durham, aged 96, Mrs. Jane D'Arcy. At Hexham, Mr. Robert Hedley, butcher. Mrs. Margaret Potts.

At Sunderland, Mr. Watfon, apothecary. At Byker, Mr. J. Johnfon, coal-viewer. At Shiremoor, John Maddifon, who was killed by falling into a lime-kiln, near White-hill Point.

At Darlington, Mr. Francis Thomfon of the talbot inn.

At Stockton, Mr. R. Grange, late a brewer.

At Norton, T. Wainwright, efq. late of Graveley, near Stevenage.

At Durham, W. Alderson, efq. of the Durham armed affociation.

At Newcastle, aged 48, Mrs. Greenwell, widow of the late Mr. Greenwell, tallow chandler.

At Boonwood, near Diffington, Mifs E. Leck, daughter of Mr. S. Lock.

OCCURRENCES.

At Henfingham, aged 56, Anthony Benn, efq. one of the juftices for the county of Cumberland.

At Kendal, aged 21, Mr. John Atkinson. Mr. William Hargroves.

At Little Brompton, aged 72, Mr. Robert Lowther.

At Seatonworks, Mr. W. Dickinson. At Braystone, aged 23, Mifs Ann Ruffel.

At Drig, aged 29, Mrs. Mary Singleton Spinster, lady of the manor of Ulpha. At Workington, Mr. Sewell, fen. Mr. J. Smith, Schoolmaster.

At Claybrook, G. H. Hodgfon, efq.

At Bolton, near Wigton, aged 81, the Rev. Dr. Fisher, thirty-nine years rector of Bolton, and formerly mafter of the grammar Tchool at Cockermouth, whofe literary productions are numerous and highly refpectable, as well as generally useful. As a divine h's talents were fplendid, and his labours unceafing. He was bigoted to no party, but fought truth alone; in the fearch of which he was conftantly directed by great goodnefs of heart. In him were united the firm friend, the good and generous mafter, the kind and tender parent; bleft with a mild and forgiving (pirit, he paffed his long life in peace with all good men; and borne above the fear of death, by the confcioufness of a well spent life, he endured his last affliction with tranquillity and refignation.

At Langton, aged 85, Mr. C. Harrison, the oldest common-council man of the corporation of Appleby.

At Kendal, Mrs. Hancock.

At Challen-hall, Mrs. Mary Dickinson, wife of R. Dickinson, efq. captain of the

At Frankland, near Durham, aged 89, Westmoreland militia. Mr. Gilbert Snowdon.

CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND.

Married.] At Carlile, Mr. S. Holker, of Bury, Lancashire, to Mifs C. Wilion of

Carlifle.

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YORKSHIRE.

Lately at Sheffield, the houfe of Signior Petro, the celebrated maker of fire-works, unfortunately was fet on fire, and the explo fion was fo very fudden and fo extremely dreadful, that an officer in the Somerfet fencible cavalry and several other perfons, who happened to be prefent, unfortunately loft their lives.

Married.] At York, Richard Kentish, efq. captain in the Cambridgeshire militia, to Mrs. Remington, widow of Richard Remington, efq.

At Leeds, Mr. Jofeph Brent, of York, to Mifs Gafcoigne, of Malton. Mr. Moxton, furgeon, to Mifs Hall.

At Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, Mr. Jacob Smith, of Givendale, to Mifs M. Fretwell, an amiable young lady with a handfome fortune.

At Hull, George Uppleby, efq. merchant, to Mifs Eliza Fowler, daughter of W. Fowler, elq.

At Scarborough, Mr. W. Noble, of Alnwick to Mils Sharp, daughter of Mr. Sharp,

hip-owner,

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