of the refolutions, and induced him to congratulate the house on the narrow efcape they had experienced, an escape of twenty-four hours only from abfolute ruin! "As the right hon. Gentle men had profited so much by delay, as he had already discovered fuch alarming errors and miftakes in his propofitions, he conjured him to deJay a little longer, and to suffer the debate to be adjourned till another day, that the committee might be prepared to discuss the resolutions, and to point out to what fallacies they appeared to them to be liable. Mr. Fox dwelt upon this for fome time, and reminded the house, that most of the amendments, which the right hon. Gentleman had at length adopted, had been fug grifed, some few of them by him, but by far the greater part by the right hon. Gentleman near him, [Mr. Eden]; he faid, he must confefs, they were obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for having transplanted them into his own fair garden, where the fun ever shone. The right hon. Gentleman had done them both great hotour in adopting their children, and had dreffed them up in fuch fublimity of eloquence, and Such beauty of oratory, that at the first introduction of them that day by the right hon. Gentle man, neither he nor his right hon. Friend, their true parents, immediately recognised them, not imagining that they were capable of being fo much ornamented, and fet off to fuch advantage the right hon. Gentleman with his fuperior te and powers had contrived to let them off. Perhaps a little more reflection might ferve to induce the right hon. Gentleman to profit ftill more from what he had heard from that fide the kaufe, and to render his propofitions yet lefs obterious; on that account therefore, as well as for the lake of decency and respect to the house be wished for delay. He complimented the new board of trade as a seceffary and an excellent inftitution, but he reprehended the use that had been made of it in regard to the proposed intercourse with Ireland, as ridiculous and abfurd to a degree. The minitry, he said, without any previous communitation to them or to the country, had indecently and dilgracefully to that house and the people of Great Britain, ordered the fecretary for Ireland, a member of that house, to move the business in the House of Commons of Ireland, and to hold language the most infulting and the most improper refpecting the British parliament that could bare fuggefted itself to any man's mind, pledgfog as it were both that, and the other houte before hand, to hold fuch a particular line of Conduct, as beft fuited the fecretary's purpofe to bave it understood they would hold. At this Vay time, the committee of Privy Council were Sting examining witneffes on the fubject, and terwards, when Mr. Walker and Mr. Richardfon, and fome others of the most respectable and intelligent manufacturers of Manchester were talled to the bar of the house, and heard what had been the conduct of the right hon. Gentleman, who had prefided at the head of the Committee of Council? The Gentlemen, whofe names he had mentioned, complained of having their evidence, either misunderstood before the Committee of council, or mifreprefented in the Printed report of that committee. What would 45 any fair and candid gentleman have done under fuch circumftances? Would he not have faid to the witneffes, "I am glad to see you once more; perhaps I might have mifconceived your meaning; I rejoice therefore at your having an opportunity again to come before me, and to explain at the same time to me and the house, what you really did mean?" This would have been fair, it would have been candid. But had such been the right hon. Gentleman's conduct? Exactly the reverfe. He had laboured to confound the witneffes, and to lead them into a contradiction of their former evidence; and after all, what a miferable triumph would he have enjoyed had he fucceeded? He would have obtained the immenfe fatisfaction of entrapping the manufacturers into a contradiction in a matter of mere opinion! Having reprobated fuch conduct, Mr. Fox faid, in the ufe government tried to make of the Committee of Council with regard to the Irish propofitions, they had expofed themfeives greatly; for what had it been but a barefaced attempt to refer the conduct of the King's minifter to the enquiry of his brother ministers? Did any man imagine that the latter would have reported against the former? If there was any man who thought fo, he knew but little of the cuftom of courts, for no member of the board who fhould have ventured to have joined in an adverse report would have kept his place afterwards. Mr. Fox commended the diligence of the house, and their circumfpection in infitting on hearing the witneffes themselves, and not trufting to the report of the Privy Council implicitly. He faid, their time it was plain had been well spent in examining witneffes, for the manufacturers had almost to a man made good the allegations of the feveral petitions; hence, not only the house were competent judges in a case, respecting which they stood before greatly in need of information; but the right hon. Gentleman had himself been so far convinced of his errors, that he had found it necessary to propofe sixteen refolutions, directly repugnant to the principle of thofe propofitions, the tubftance and spirit of which that houfe had fe often heard, were not to be altered or departed from on any account whatever. After having been upon his legs nearly three hours, and proved himself a perfect matter of debate, embellishing his fpeech, as he proceeded, with an infinite variety of collateral obfervation and argument, Mr. Fox concluded with remonstrating, in the warmest terms, against the indecency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's urging the houfe, to proceed with the debate at that late hour, and while the house in general were shrangers to the probable effect of the fixteen new refolutions. Mr. Jenkinfon faid that in the amendments made in the propofitions, the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Fox) arrogated to himself a merit which by no means belonged to him. The alterations made were in confequence of a fuller deliberation, and the circumftances which arose in the course of the various examinations. He had alfo taken an opportunity of alluding perfonally to him, but in no inftance could he charge him with any thing more than a fleady and and faithful attachment to the party with whom he had the honour to act. Much had been faid, and a great weight laid on the number of peti tions which appeared against the prefent meafure, but to thew how little gentlemen were entitled to pride themselves on that circumftance, he took the pains to make out a lift of the number of petitions prefented against the propofitions, which paffed in favour of Ireland during the adminiftiation of the noble Lord in the blue ribbon. On that occafion, fixty-four petitions were prefented, and on the present, of which fo much had been faid, the number was no mere shan fifty-fix. He concluded with expreffing himself strongly in favour of coming to a decifion without any further delay. Mr. Dempfter fupported the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, declaring he was more reconciled to the propofitions from the fixteen refolutions that had been propoled to the committee that day. Mr. Dempfter however expreffed his furprife that no notice had been taken of a most important topic of arrangement between the two countries, whenever the intercourfe was fettled. He faid, he alluded to the fisheries on the coafts of Ireland and Scotland. -A fubject fertile of conteft and quarrel, and therefore highly neceffary to be adjusted early and carefully. Another matter also required to be fettled, which was the filk gauze manufae tory of a particular branch and defcription; againft which the Irish had, fo long ago as the reign of Charles the Second, paffed from motives of pique and refentment, op fome difpute at the time, a prohibitory law. Mr. Dempster particularly explained the nature of the law in queftion, and the effect to which it operated. Mr. Fox fpuke again, and in warm terms preffed for an adjournment, adding feveral new arguments to thofe he had formerly urged, in order to perfuade the minitter to accede to the propofition, afking, what the people of Eng land, and what the people of Ireland would think of their conduct, if, on a subject of fuch immenie magnitude, and fo deeply interefting to both countries, they indecently proceeded at that late hour to a decifive vote, with fo much new and important information before them? He therefore implored the right hon. Gentleman, for the fake of the house, for the fake of the two countries, as well as for the fake of his own credit and character, to let the chairman report a progrefs, print the refolutions, and to refume the debate on a future day. Mr. Dundas rofe to oppose the adopting of any fuch idea. Mr. Dundas contended, there was not any other way of getting at the refolutions, in order to have them printed, but by Voting them fift, and then ordering them to be printed. Mr. Dundas treated the whole of the conduct of oppofition as a mere attempt at delay; an attempt to which, he faid, he hoped his right hon. Friend would not give way: he allo contended, that the fixteen refolutions did not alter the fubftance and spirit of the Irish propofitions. Mr. Brickdale appealed to the candour of the right hon. Gentleman, whether it was fair to force him in the dark, as it were, to give a vote upon lo important a fubject, on a leading quef tion, which would pledge him to vote for all t reft of the propofitions? If he was compelled vote that evening, Mr. Brickdale faid he mu vote against the question. Mr. Rofe affured the honourable Gentlema that the vote the houfe was defired to come t that evening, would not be binding and conclu five in the leaft degree, either with refpec itfelf or to the remainder of the propofitions.Gentlemen would have many opportunities debating and even oppofing the propofitions, they chose it on the report, and in various othe fubfequent stages of the bufinels. Mr. Viner remonftrated upon the indecenc of keeping Gentlemen there till that late hour and infifting upon their deciding upon a queftio of fo much importance, when they were fo lit tle apprized of the confequences their vot might lead to; Mr. Viner reminded the house that their delay hitherto, had been attended with circumttances extremely fortunate; he wondered, therefore, at the right hon. Gen tleman's grudging the house the delay of one day longer. Lord Surrey faid, he had greatly difliked the propofitions, as opened originally to the house, but that he approved fo much of fome of the fixteen refolutions, that had been read by the right hon. Gentleman, that if he had time allowed him to examine them, he verily believed, he should be induced to vote for part of the propofitions, though he certainly could not vote for the whole. His Lordship faid, the rig hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer dealt at one measure for himself, and another for the house. He had brought in the ten proprofitions, and fuffered upwards of two months to be employed in hearing counsel, examining witnesses, and receiving petitions. The confequence was, the houfe ht received a large body of ufeful information; and yet with fuch strong conviction of the advantage derived from avoiding rashness and precipitancy, the right hon. Gentleman had that day come down and read his fixteen refolutions to the house, all of which, he furely would allow, were extremely important; and yet he wanted the house to vote a leading ques tion, on the inftant, without examination, and without enquiry. Mr. Powys faid, his conftitution would not permit him to continue in the houfe any longer. He approved, as the noble Lord did, of the refolutions that had been read by the Right Hon. gentleman, and believed they would induce him to vote with the Right Hon. gentleman, it he were allowed time to examine them and underftand them, which he really did not as yet To vote therefore for what he did not understand, was a circumftance to which he could not, with any regard to his confcience, accede. Powys ftated fome of the particulars of the refolutions that he did not correctly comprehend: he asked if there were not many gentlemen in the house, in the fame fituation with himself? And if there were, they would not act confcien tioully, if they did not vote with him. On the contrary, they would be traitors to their country, and loft to every principle of honour and honesty, if they gave a vote upon a question of fuch in Mr. Gaite 1786. Poetry. fute importance, acknowledging at the fame time that they did not understand it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer rose with confiderable warmth, and faid, whether the noble Land chafe to charge him with dealing out one meature for himself, and another for the house, or the Hon. gentleman thought proper to rife, with an affected parade both of phrafe and maner, to boast of his confcience, his honour, or his bonefty, there were, he truited, many Hon. gentlemen in the houfe, every way as respectable for their characters, their property, and their integrity, as the Hon. gentleman, who could fafely, and confcientioufly lay their hands upon their heart and vote with him upon the queftion. Mr. Pitt added fome other indignant terms in reprobation of what he termed the infulting tones, and manner of the Hon. gentleman, which he neither mented, nor was he difpofed tamely to fubmit 19. Having gratified his refentment, Mr. Pitt declared his intention was to take the fente of the Committee upon one question only, and that interion Le trufted the committee would have the podnels to enable him to fulfil. Mr. Powys declared, he did not mean to have encroached on what he prefumed the Right Hon. aleman confidered as his ipecial prerogative, traight of using insulting language to the memof that houfe; neither had he withed to have ke in upon what the Right Hon. gentleman ght poffibly esteem his peculiar privilege, the tom of throwing feverity and farcatm, on eveHoa. gentleman who ventured to differ in opion from the Right Hon. gentleman, with every • woe; Forth from her chamber (by the moon's pale light), Their ivy-mantl'd ruins all around. Ne gleam of comfort fooths my poignant woe ! other perfonal affront that could suggest itsell » Mr. Fox made a fhort speech, in fupport of Mr. Powys, and in condemnation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, declaring fuch language as he had held very improper for a minilter to hold to any gentleman who thought proper to differ with him in politics. Mr. Attorney General expreffed with fome degree of earnestnefs his furprize at the noble Lord and his friends complaining fo loudly, fo vebemently, and fo repeatedly, of precipitancy in puthing the measure to a decifion, which had been three months before the house, and many weeks under deliberation; when it must be in the recollection of the noble Lord, that above fifteen months ago, he and his friends had pushed through the house at a very late hour, upon the fudden and without notice, three propofitions of an extenfive and moft ferious nature, and fuch as at the time were likely to have thrown the country into contufion. (To be continued.) "Ah! what avails the large collected store, It now lies bury'd in the filent tomb. And charm'd the lift'ning fair with foft applaufe; Has pierc'd like light'ning to the inmost soul. heart To let the long confia'd insolvent free; Then welcome, Death, prepare thy keenest dart; Come, tyrant, come, and ftrike the fatal blow, The weeping fair unburthen'd all her foul; Lo! 49 48 Lo! Dudley's well-known bright, form divinely In robe more white than virgin (now array'd; Majestic mov'd before her dazzl'd fight, And to the beauteous mourner fmiling said: « Cease, much belov'd, thy fond complaints forbear, To calm thy tortur'd mind I left the sky; Doft thou lament that from this scene of care, Remov'd, I tafte immortal blifs on high? "For me arife bright amaranthine bow'rs, Sweet nectar Iparkles, odours breathe around; Angelic choirs unite their utmoft pow'rs, And raise extatic raptures with the found. "No longer chain'd to earth I ftrive to foar, But wing from world to world my boundlefs flight Trace nature's works, and nature's God adore, Loft in that fource immenfe of endless light! "Behold I bring that ever blooming maid, Sweet fmiling Hope, fair daughter of the skies; And Patience meek, in humble weeds array'd, To wipe the drops faft trickling from thine eyes. "Hark! how they fing the foul-compofing ftrains, Teach thee to bear the ills decreed by Heav'n; To all of mortal race; the tranfient pains; Since blifs, immortal blifs to man is giv'a. "When thou thalt leave this vale of tears, and woe, (Safe from all adverse blasts of fate shalt be; To a more friendly clime tranfplanted go, With me united to eternity.) "With rapture I will join the heav'nly throng, *To meet thy foul exulting as it flies, Death's pangs obliviate with harp, and fong, And pleas'd direct thy progress to the skies. "I'll lead to fhining mansions then thine own, And fhew thy parent in his bleft abode; Then proftrate we will fall before the throne, The prefence of our Saviour, and our God." He ceas'd the mourner rais'd her drooping head, The fhade celestial upward wing'd his flight; Night's pallid Queen retir'd, and in her flead, The dewy Morn appear'd with blushing light. The Summit of Happiness. THE pow'rs who watch o'er mortals' fate, Gave me a fmalt undipp'd eftate, Nor envied aught, but added health; WHEN The Winter's Evening. HEN the trees are bereft of their leave', When rude icicles drop from the eaves, Then at night, round the crackling blaze, Lines on a Publican of the Name of Death. call not here, ye fottifh wights, For if ye ftop, whoe'er alights, Where having eat and drank your fill, With grief fincere I pity those Who've drawn themlelves this fcrape-in; This one advice, my friends, pursue, FOREIGN 1-86 FOREIGN Foreign Tranfactions. INTELLIGENCE. Eaft India Intelligence. 49 out report is to be credited, the Imperial were defpatched dights after which, couriers were dispatched to London, to Paris, and to Court has accepted the last propofitions from Caftantinople, for afcertaining the boundaries of Berlin. the two empires; it is, added, that the Porte. agrees to furrender to the Emperor the district in Bolaia, to which he has erected a claim. A treaty of commerce has actually been concluded between the Imperial Courts of Vienna and Peterburgh, the articles of which, to the number of forty, have already been made pub lic. Another treaty of the like import is faid to be concluded between Ruffia and Great Britain, and a third between Ruffia and France. A fummary of the answers made by the King of Pruffia to the Emperor's declaration, relative to the exchange of Bavaria, has lately appeared. The court of Vienna infits," that Bavaria was always à Duchy, and not an Electorate; and that the electoral dignity was not extended to it until the year 1778." This, " fays the court of Berlin, is contrary to history; and that, from the earliest times, the electoral dignity was attuched both to the Palatinate and Bavaria, confequently the latter is under the controul of the Golden Bull." The Emperor cannot conceive why the exchange of Bavaria fhould he contested, while there are fo many examples on record of exchanges of German territories formerly. The King of Pruffia andwers," that any exchanges are poffible, when, by the request of the contracting parties, they have had leave fo to do. But where that is wanting, any exchange is impotlible." The differences, relative to the limits of Po. land and Pruffian Silefia, have been terminated bya convention, figned, by the Pruffian Refident and the Polith Commissary. Affairs in Holland begin to be very serious, and the public tranquility to be threatened with dturbances. The Stadtholder having left the Hague upwards of three months, on account of the command of the garriton there being given to a French officer, is determined not to return uil that officer is fuperleded. The States of Hol laad, on the other hand, are as determined not to recede from their former refolution. The King of Pruffia threaten the people are divided; and, as the time draws near, when bufinefs of the first confequence is to be agitated in their alfemblies, which cannot be done without the Stadtholder, contufion mult inevitably follow. The Sales of Holland and Well Friefland, with landing the remonttrance of the King of Premia and the Prince Sastholder, on the 19th of December, ordered the military honours, Wully paid to the officer commanding the Hague garion, to be paid to the Prefident of their Committee as their reprefentative. The fame was all ordered to the Grand Pensionary of Holland, face which there have been matters of the lat importance in agitation at the Hague. The Profisa minifter from Berlin, and the British minifter at the Hague, had jointly on this occafion, a conference with the Prefident of the States General, at which M. De Holte, the Hasoverian Envoy, was prefent. This conference Jan. 1786. The Swallow Packet, from Bengal, arrived in the Downs on the 9th instant, on board of which Lord Macartney came paffenger, who left Cal cutta on the 19th of Auguft. His Lordfhip was certainly acquainted with his appointment to the government of that prefidency fome days before the pacquet failed; but he declined that high employment, for reatons with which the publis have not yet been authentically acquainted. American Intelligence. At Boston they have received authentic intelligence, that the Algerines had declared war against the United States, in confequence whereof they are fitting out privateers, which are to mount from 32 to 40 gun, to convoy their mer chant ships and make reprifals. Bafton, Nov 19, 1785. Be it remembered, that on the 15th of November, 1785, all acts refpecting the confpirators, refugees, &c of this fate, were repealed by the General Assembly of Maffachulets, by a majority of 105 to 18. By the United States in Congrejs affembled December 2, 1785. The Secretary of the United States for the department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was refer red his letter, of the 24th of November, to his Excellency the Prefident, with J. Temple's Commiflion, having reported, That John Temple, Efq; had prefented to the United States, in Congrels affembled, a Commiffion in due form, bearing date the 5th day of February last, from bis Britannic Majefty, conftituting and appointing him the Conful General of his faid Majelty in thefe States : That there is as yet no Commercial Treaty or Convention fubfifting between his Britannic Ma jetty and the United States, whereby either have a perfect right to establish Confuls in the dominion of the other; but that amicable negotiations for that and other reciprocal privileges are now depending That although the iffue of thofe negotiations is as yet uncertain, it will nevertheless be proper for the United States, on this and every other occafion, to oblerve as great a degree of liberality as may confilt with a due regard to their national honour and welfare: therefore, Refolved, That the faid John Temple, Efq. be, and he hereby is, received and recognized as Conful General of his Britannic Majesty throughout the United States, and that his Commillion be reg tered in the Secretary's office. Refolved, That all the privileges, pre-eminences, and authority, which the laws of nations and of the land give to a Conful-General received by the United States from any nation with whom they have no commercial treaty or convention, are due to the faid John Temple, and thall be enjoyed by him. Refolved, That certified copies of the above refolutions be tranfmitted to the Executives of the different States for their information. G CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec. |