onceived to have received fevere cenire from the House, fince several of his wn friends had voted for it, a circumance which would mark the tranfacon with cenfure not only now, but a undred years hence. Thus circumlanced, the Right Hon. Gentleman had rought down this Meffage to the House, o continue the practice, and had put nto it words more ftrongly in his favour han the decision of the House the other tight. He cenfured very highly the conluct of the Bank, in presuming to precribe to the Ministers, as they had done, when they said a Loan could not be made to the Emperor; and faid, that Ministers were very culpable in making the opinion of any body of men, however refpectable, the rule for the conduct of Parliament. He was convinced, that the Loan might with fafety have been made, and that those advantages were very cenfurable-all upon no better authority than the Bank of England, which, he could not admit to be authority for King, Lords, and Commons.Of the Bank, he found that they had altered their mode entirely, for he knew a man who was in the cuftom of difcounting 150,000l. and now could not get 10,000l. discounted. Would the Houfe fubmit to private whispers, coming from a corner, being made the rule of their conduct? With regard to the Emperor, he thought, we fhould take care what ideas he might have of Peace. -The Houfe th call to mind, that the doubt whethe were fteady in our views to War induced him to make the separate Peace at Utrecht, and our parfimonious mode of furnishing his Imperial Majesty now might poflibly drive him to the fame expedient. The Honourable conduct of the Emperor called for the gratitude of this country, and he thought we should evince it, by giving even more than he asked. Was this then a time to fend fuch paltry fums to our Ally?—He was shocked to think of it-500,000l. was, in his opinion, very inadequate be therefore moved to leave out of the Addrefs all the words after "take into confideration."

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of it, conceived that fuch a measure was not, at the time at which it was proposed, well fuited to the pecuniary circumftances of the country.

Mr Fox thought it was a matter of confiderable difficulty, when Ministers had sent eight hundred thousand pounds to the Emperor during the fitting of Parliament, and without its confent, how to word an Addrefs which should enable his Majesty to lay out five hundred thoufand pounds more for the fame purpose. He would suppose that an Address should be prefented, authorifing the expenditure of five hundred thousand pounds, or, of three millions, for be thought the fum indifferent. The Houfe was not only ignorant of the manner in which it was to go, but it was very likely that, at the moment in which this Meffage was fent down, the money might have been iffued. It was not uncommon with Minifters to ask power to do that which they had done previously to the application. But whether this was or was not the cafe, he should object to the Motion, for he thought it. ferved the purpose of continuing to delude the public with an idea, that the Houfe attended to the expenditure of public money, and the mode of its appropriation. Mr Fox thought that a Subfidy was better than a Loan upon precarious fecurity. In the cafe of a Loan, the Houfe gave a power to Minifters; but in that of a Subfidy, the House itself would fee immediately what was to be paid. In a Loan, Ministers would be empowered to judge of the fecurity on which the money WAS advanced; and he thought if there was any question which should not be trufled to them, it was that. He con◄ cluded by obferving, that the meafore had for its object the delufion, that what had been done should not be again done.

Mr Grey agreed with his Hon. Friend in thinking that a Subfidy was to be preferred to a Loan, not only with a view to the fecurity which it held out to the public, but alfo with a view to the fubfcribers. The Hon. Gentleman had in his Budget fpoken of good faith, as a Mr Robert Thornton faid, that, the quality neceffarily accompanying vaHon. Baronet had alluded to what had lour; he had, therefore, fet down the fallen from him on a former night, with fum advanced by him to the Emperor, refpect to the Bank. The Bank had as likely to be repaid in the course of oppofed the remittance of money from the prefent year, and as forming part of this Kingdom, because the twenty-four the refources for it. But how could Gentlemen, who were in the direction the Houfe look with confidence for the

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repayment of that money which the not been complied with. From the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had ad- treaty, it appeared that thofe payme
vanced, when the folemn and formal ought to have commenced, and ve
obligations, which the Emperor had con- been carried on, with the interel, tran
tracted at the time the former Loans the 1ft of May 1794. How far that had
had been advanced him by the British been done was material to cosider, l
Parliament, were unattended to, in com- fore we made a New Loan, both in s
parifon with which the former fum gard to the individual and the punis
muft appear of light importance? He There was another point connected wa
had afked, as it was his duty to do, fuf- this question, upon which he wished to
pecting that the money raised by the afk the Hon. Gentleman a question. The
Vote of Credit had been mifapplied to money for the Prince of Conde had bea
past services, for an account. The Hon. for fervices in the year 1795. As the
Gentleman then produced one, in which fame Army had continued acting, t
the payments were faid to be made to wished to know whether the Hon. G
the paymaster of the army; but it now tleman had made provifion for the y
appeared to the Houfe that the four 1796? and whether the Houfe wan
teen millions had been paid for the fer- hear any thing of that matter? He c
vice of the army of the Prince of Conde. cluded, by moving as an Amendment,
Thus the firft account was contradicted," as foon as the Emperor had fund
and was to be confidered as fraudulent;
and he called on the Houfe to declare
whether they would not only fuffer the
public money to be expended without
their concurrence, but would alfo fub-
mit to be prefented with a fraudulent
account?

Mr Sheridan rofe for the purpose only of afking two questions-one a queftion of fact, and the other a question of opinion, and to which he wished the Right Hon. Gentleman to give an answer. The first was, whether the whole fum due for intereft on the Imperial Loan had been tranfinitted and paid? Whether the whole was not due except what had been retained from the Loan? And the next was a matter of opinion-Whether did the Right Hon. Gentleman fuppofe, that, when the Loan was completed, there was likely to be a greater degree of punctuality obferved, on the part of the Emperor, than what had hitherto been?

The Gallery was cleared, but no divifion, as we understand, took place.

20. Mr Hobart brought up the report of the Committee of Supply.

The queftion being put for agreeing with the Committee in the report,

Mr Grey faid, he thould move an Amendment, in order that it might appear upon the journals of the Houfe. It certainly could not be confidered as immaterial to know how the Emperor had fulfilled his laft engagement, before we entered into a new one with him. It now appears that the remittances for the difcharge of the capital, to which the Emperor was folemnly bound, had

his prefent engagements, or thewa a
tisfactory reafons why he had failed."

Mr Pitt faid, he should fay nothing to
the Amendment, but merely answerte
Hon. Gentleman's queftion. He be
ed there was a further fum of
100,000l. advanced for the fervice of the
Prince of Conde, which would be in
cluded in the Army Extraordinaria,
when the whole came forward aftertie
recefs. In fact, a large part of what bad
been paid was for the service of the yar
1796.

21. The Hon. J. Elliot brought up the
report of the Committee appointed tou
the merits of the petition, complaining
of an undue election and return for the
Borough of Southwark. The reput
ftated, "That George Woodford Tack-
luffon, Efq; was not duly elected, and
ought not to have been returned: that
George Tierney, Efq; was duly elected,
and ought to have been returned: that
the petition of Mr Tierney was not fri-
volous or vexatious; and that the op-
pofition of Mr Thelluffon was not fri-
volous and vexatious." The report was
received.

Mr Elliot then moved, that the Clerk of the Crown do attend at the bar to-mor row, to amend the return, and that the name of George Tierney, Esq; be subfituted for George Woodford Thelluf fon, Efq. Agreed to.

23na committee of fupply Mr Pitt pro

The merits of this contested election

had occupied the attention of the houfe for
the greatest part of feveral days; the elec
tion is faid to have soft Mr Thelleffon up-
wards of 20,ocol. Starling,

fed, that the fums of 600,000l. fhould granted to the planters and merchants Grenada and St Vincent's; alfo one illion fifty-four thousand pounds for funding the like fum advanced by the ank of England for the public fervice; ad alfo 177,00ol. for the pay and cloathg of the militia. Thefe motions were greed to, and the report ordered to be eceived to-morrow.

agreeable to the juft and humane laws of Parliament, in relieving thofe officers of the Company who had long laboured under age, fickness, and infirmity; that the expence of our conquefts of Ceylon, Batavia, &c. had been defrayed by the Company; and that though from the vigilance of our navy none of the East India hips had been captured, yet on account of the war, the expences of freight had increafed one million; bur,,

Mr Dundas finally ob

Mr Dundas, expreffing a hope that a e fhould never part with the Cape of notwithflanding these heavy deductions, Good Hope, but hold it for ever, ob- he still hoped the million to be approerved, that in confequence of the navi- priated to the nation would be found ation laws it was requifite a bill should forthcoming. afs to enable his Majefty to make cerain regulations refpecting that colony, or it was the with of the Government of this country, that it should not be held in the monopolifing manner of the Dutch, who compelled other countries in their traffic with it to numerous impofts and inconveniencies---but be open to the trade of all nations, and in its imposts equally impartial to all. He moved a bill accordingly.

The Houfe being then formed into a committee, Mr Dundas again rose to ftate the annual accounts of the revenues and expenditures of the Eaft India Company. He read from papers, the accounts of the receipts and charges (caft up in rupees and pagodas,) at the different fettlements; and then cambined them with the property of the Company at home and afloat, in one view-- the refult of which was, that there was a large furplus of revenue, and the Company's affairs this year were better as to debts and affets 1,240,4901.

Much of the prosperity of our territories in India, and particularly in Bengal, he attributed to the wife and benevolent fyftem which had been established in that province by a Noble Lord (Marquis Cornwallis), and the good effects of which were daily obferved in the growing happiness and the encreafing wealth of that country. There, fecurity was now affixed to property, the people were happy in the enjoyment of what they poffeffed, and the population increafed from the temptation which increafed profperity held out to people to leave other countries, and to fettle in that. From an increase of population an increase of revenue followed of courfe, because there was a greater demand for every article of confumption in the country. He then remarked, that this year near 400,00ol. had been expended,

ferved, that the trade of the Company had lift year increased four millions, and as it was not probable they should long have a rival in that quarter of the globe, it was not likely their trade would foon be diminished. Their prefent capital allowed them by Parliament to traffic, with, would therefore be inadequate, and it mult be enlarged. The right hon. gentleman then made feveral motions founded on his ftatement.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Dec. 19. The Lord Chancellor quitted the woollack, and prefented a meflage from his Majelly, which was read by the clerk, and appeared to be fubftantially the fame with that delivered laft Saturday to the Houfe of Commons.Ordered to be taken into confideration to-morrow, and their Lordships to be fummoned on the occafion,

20. The order for taking his Majefty's moft gracious meffage into confideration being read by the clerk,

Lord Grenville rofe for the purpose of moving an address to his Majefty on the occafion. He prefaced it with a fhort but appofite fpeech, in which he obferved, that his Majefty's communication to their Lordships was of that tenor as to preclude the poffibility of a difference of opinion in regard to it. He therefore deemed it an injuftice to the good fenfe and feelings of the Houfe, to enter irto any detail refpecting its contents; but would content himself with ftating generally, that it was obviously the best policy, when engaged in a conteft with France, to avail ourselves of the affiftance of fome powerful continental ally— and none more clearly came under this description than Auftria—and such affiftance was never more neceffary, perhaps fo neceffary, than at the prefent

crifis.

crifis. He was aware it was the wish of juft; and that his Ambafador war.
every man in the kingdom to terminate quired to depart Paris within forty-
the prefent conteft by a fafe and honour- eight hours.
able peace, and to that end his Majefty
had wifely fet a negociation on foot.
However, it was a felf-evident principle
of policy, that the best mode of treating
was with arms in our hands, and fo to
evince to the enemy, that we were ready
for a vigorous profecution of hoftilities,
in cafe they refufe to accede to fecure
and honourable terms of peace. With
this view it was neceffary to ftrengthen
our alliance with the Emperor, and to
enable him to act with vigour against
the enemy, in cafe of the alternative he
had alluded to. He then moved an ad-
drefs.

The Duke of Bedford faid, his wifh was
not to oppose the address in the prefent
instance, as he deemed it proper, to a
certain degree, to strengthen the hands
of our ally the Emperor on fuch an oc-
cafion as the prefent. Such a measure,
he acknowledged, may tend to a speedy
termination of the war, and on that
ground some affistance ought to be given.
However, he wifhed to have it unde-
food, that, by his vote of this night, he
did not pledge himself to approve of pe-
cuniary affiftance to the Emperor to any
amount, nor granted in any mode that
minifters might wish to afford it. On
the contrary, he deemed the late con-
duct of ministers, in this respect, to be
highly reprehenfible. This opinion was
not confined to himself. It was the fen-
timent of the public in general, that mi-
nisters, in fending money to the Empe-
ror in the manner they lately had done,
without the confent of Parliament, were
highly culpable.

Lord Grenville replied. After a fhort
explanatory converfation,

The Lord Chancellor put the question
on the addrefs, which was agreed to-
Bein. diff.

22. His Majefty's Affent was given,
by Commiflion to the Loan Bill, and
feveral others.

26. Lord Grenville informed their
Lordfhips, that he had a Meffage from
his Majefty to their Lordships.

The Lord Chancellor read it ; in sub-
ftance as follows:-

That it was with the greatest concern
his Majefty acquainted the Houfe, his
endeavours to procure a Peace were a-
bruptly broken off by the French Go-
vernment; and his intentions fruftrated,
on a bafis as inadmiflible as it was un-

His Majefty had ordered all the me
morials and other Papers, which had
paffed on this subject between the French
Government and his Ambassador, wri
the final refult, to be laid before then
Lordships, that the fincerity of his n
tentions to obtain Peace, might be made
manifeft to the world; and to prote
that his Majesty's object was the bes
our and dignity of this country, and the
general fecurity of Europe-the c
duct of the French Government, man
occafion, was contrary to the fyftemf
pretended exifling treaties.

In this fituation his Majefty had the
confolation to reflect, that the continu
tion of the war was owing to the cambi
tant views of the enemy; and be looked
forward with anxiety to the conci
of this unhappy conteft, and to that
hour when the enemy fhould lifter to
terms of reasonable accommodation. He
trufted, under the protection of Divine
Providence, on the firmness of his Pr
liament, the valour of his army and
vy, the great zeal of his people, and fr
refources of the nation, for carrying a
the moft vigorous measures.

Lord Grenville then rofe, and inform
ed their Lordships that he had very few
words at prefent to trouble them with,
he should therefore merely move that
his Majefty's Message be taken into on
fideration on the 5th of Jan. The cor
refpondence he promised should be laid
on the table to-morrow, and printed
copies he laid upon the table the day
following.—Adjourned.

A General Bill of all the Cbriffenings cad
Burials in London, from December 8. 1795,
to December 13. 1796.

Christened,

Whereof have died

Buried,

Males
Females

9648

Male's

968:

9178

Females

9405

In all

18,826

In all

19,288

6772 60 and 70

2113

2840 70 and so

900 | 80 and go

357

Under 2 years
Between 2 and 5
5 and 10
10 and 20
20 and 30
30 and 40
40 and 50
50 and 60

1211

Decreased in the Burials this year 1891.

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