which was to the following effect:-"That it is the opinion of this house that it is highly expedient the functions of a minister of state, and of a confidential adviser of the measures of government, should be kept separate and distinct from those of a judge of common law."

Mr. Bond expressed his acknowledgments to the hon. gentleman for the op portunity he had afforded for the discussion of this subject. What, he would ask, was the direct tendency of these resolutions? Were they not for the purpose of removing from the council the lord chief justice, a nobleman of high and distinguished talents, conspicuous for his integrity, and that at a time too when a concentration of talents was so imperiously necessary. The noble lord was no com→ mon person; he had attained the highest pinnacle in the law except one, which was certainly not a preferable one, that of chancellor. It was therefore totally impossible to conceive that any temptation could have the smallest influence on the great and exalted mind of that noble lord, or could in any way induce him to deviate from that course of rectitude he had ever pursued. The house had every pledge for his integrity. While his business and duty called him before the public on all occasions in open day, he was always exposed to observation; his business truly was quicquid agunt homines, and while those sentiments of public justice existed, which did honour to the people, it was impossible to suspect Lord Ellenborough of any thing like dereliction of his duty. The right hon. gentleman then noticed the several arguments of Mr. Stanhope. He denied that the constitution knew such a body as the cabinet council, which was merely a committee of the privy council, every member of which (of whom Lord Ellenborough was one by virtue of his office) was bound by his oath to attend the king whenever he should be summoned so to do, and to advise with his majesty whenever any question should be submitted for his opinion. Mr. Bond concluded by moving, as an amendment, that the order of the day he now read.

Mr. Canning contended that if the chief justice was thus elevated to the cabinet council, the bench of justice would become a starting post for promotion and fame; and instead of a judge building his fame, and laying the foundation for his immortality, he would be mounting a ladder, to carry him into the regions of ambition, where he had no right or pretence to be seen.

Ayes, for the original motion, 64.-Noes, for the amendment, 222.-Majority in favour of ministers 158.

DOMESTIC EVENTS.

The twelfth report of the commissioners of naval enquiry is printed. It states that a sum of 18,1291. 3s. 2d. was unnecessarily paid to Mr. Lindegren, for charges on Commission for the purchase of Riga hemp, which sum might have been saved to the public. It points out instances of error and neglect in the passing of Mr. Lindegren's accounts by the navy board; and suggest new regulations for the preventing of such errors in future.

An incident lately occurred in the House of Commons, which created much

pleasantry. The Speaker, in putting the question for committing Alexander Trotter to the custody of the serjeant at arms, substituted the name of Alexander Davison! This mistake, for putting in durance the treasurer of the ordnance in place of the ex-paymaster of the navy, convulsed the house with laughter. The speaker, however, with that quickness which characterises him, instantly rectified the mistake.

ANOTHER JOAN OF ARC.--The Bombay gazette, of the 7th of August last, contains the following paragraph :---"The French privateer which sailed on the 30th of May, the day after the departure of the last arrived American ship from the Cape of Good Hope, on a cruize off St. Helena, is a low built, fast sailing ship, disguised to appear like a merchantman, and has Swift of Newport" painted on her stern. Her name is the Napoleon, she carries thirty guns, eigh teen pounders, has two hundred men, and is commanded by a woman in petticoats, who is both captain and owner, and who keeps up as tight a degree of discipline, as if she actually wore the breeches."

Bowles, the Cherokee Chief, died on Christmas Day, in prison, at the Ha vannah. An apprehension of being poisoned, prevented his using the food offered him by the Spaniards, and for forty days he subsisted on oranges alone, and was in consequence reduced to a mere skeleton.

The principal Irish Catholics, at a meeting held in Dublin, have resolved, after mature deliberation, to postpone, for the present, their proposed application: to parliament, upon the subject of their claims.

MR. PITT'S WILL." I owe Sir Walter Farquhar 1000 guineas, from October 1805, as a professional debt.

"WILLIAM PITT."

"Twelve thousand pounds, with interest, from October 1801, to Mr. Long, Mr. Steele, Lord Carrington, Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Camden, and Mr. Joseph Smith, and I earnestly request their acceptance of it. I wish, if means can be found for it, of paying double the wages to all nry servants who were with me at my decease.

"WILLIAM PITT.”

"I wish my brother, with the Bishop of Lincoln, to look over my papers, and to settle my affairs. I owe more than I can leave behind me.

"WILLIAM PITT."

LIEUT. COLONEL BAGWELL.---On Tuesday afternoon; 4th March, the following accident happened between Exeter and Exmouth. As Lieut. Colonel Bagwell, of the 6th Dragoon Guards, was riding on a party of pleasure, with some officers of his acquaintance, his horse suddenly took fright, and after galloping off with great fury, threw his rider with such force, that it fractured his skull most dreadfully, and killed him on the spot. Medical assistance was procured in a few minutes, but it was too late to be of service.

The heroic Nelson wrote the following prayer shortly after he came in sight of the combined fleet:

"May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe, a great and glorious victory! and may no misconduct, in any one, tarnish it! and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet! For myself, individually, I commit my life to him who made,

me; and may his blessing light upon my endeavours for serving my country. faithfully! To him I resign myself, and the just cause which is entrusted to me to defend !-Amen-Amen-Amen!

"Victory, Oct. 21, 1805, in sight of the

Combined Fleets of France and Spain,
distant about ten miles."

AMERICAN DUELLISTS.-A New York paper says, "The late duel in Pennsylvania shews that it has some men of honour and spirit; but it falls short of this state, and does not advance the combatants to the same important offices as here. This is a great discouragement to the art. In Pennsylvania they shoot high, Major Jackson received his antagonist's ball in his mouth. In this state they shoot at the legs, or not above the groin."

Provisions in France are exceedingly cheap, not from abundance or plenty, but from the scarcity of specie, which, in every department, obliges the farmer to take in exchange for wheat, corn, wine, butter, cheese, &c. the goods of merchants and tradesmen, instead of ready money, as they otherwise could not dispose of the produce of their estates and lands. Twelve sous, or sixpence, were only paid for a loaf of bread, of four pounds, of sixteen ounces, at Paris, at the date of our letter; meat sold from six to nine pence a pound; a fowl fifteen pence, a turkey half-a-crown, a goose three shillings, a dozen of pigeons half a crown, and every thing else in proportion.

The Earl of Selkirk, it is said, will be the next minister plenipotentiary to the American States.

A deserter from the first regiment of Guards, named Webb, was apprehended, a few days since, at Dudley, in Worcestershire, and conveyed to the Savoy. It is remarkable, that thirty years have elapsed since he deserted; and he would still have remained in obscurity, but for a difference with an old messmate, between whom and the deserter there was a family connexion. From the length of time which has elapsed, and the age of the deserter, no serious punishment will, it is presumed, be inflicted on him.

A novel circumstance has taken place in the powers delegated to Lord St. Vincent, and in the orders under which he sails, viz. that he may go to any part of the British dominions, where he may deem his presence necessary, without communicating with the Admiralty.

The following is the Emperor Francis's letter to his Royal Highness the Archduke Charles, in promoting him to the dignity of Generalissimo of the Imperial

armies:

"My dear brother-After the unhappy events which have lately taken place, and a peace obtained by such great sacrifices, there is an indispensable necessity for putting the military in a situation adequate to the population of the country, and the situation of the finances, which shall be distinguishable for its order and precision, and shall afford the best protection for my hereditary states. My first step to obtain this end, is to put you at the head of all my armies, in the quality of Generalissimo. When the troops shall be sensible, that, in case I should be forced into a war, they will be under your command, the idea will recal, to those who have seen service, the glory they have acquired on the field of battle, upon so many occasions, when you commanded them. It will inspire others with con

fidence in the talents, the bravery, and foresight of their general, who led them by the surest paths of victory. With the dignity of Generalissimo, I confer upon you the direction of all my military forces during the time of peace, in such a manner that the Aulic Council, and every other military administration, shall be subject to your orders.

"I shall, to day, inform you of my pleasure in a manner more in detail, in a letter written by myself, which shall define the sphere of your activity, as well as that of the authorities who are to be subject to you. I expect, at the same time, from your intelligence and your indefatigable exertions, the formation of new plans for ameliorating the present system, and also the most éfficacious attention to the punctuality and the propriety of their execution.

"Vienna, Feb. 10, 1806.

(Signed)

"FRANCIS." that he could

When Lord Redesdale took leave of the Irish bar, he said, have wished to have transacted business till his successor arrived; but he had received---and it was a circumstance which had hurt him considerably---a mandatory and peremptory communication, in which he was desired not to lose an hour, in delivering up the Great Seal into the hands of the commissioners. How he Xould have incurred or deserved such a proceeding, he was utterly at a loss to conceive."

A blind man was pitted against the mail coach from Halifax to Bradford, where the road is principally over hills; and it will appear a little extraordinary that he beat the mail into the latter town by thirteen minutes.

The Professor of Greek in the university of Bologna, is a female. This lady, Mademoiselle Clotilde Tambroni, is stated to have commenced the usual course of academical lectures last month, with a discourse full of fire and eloquence.

At Lincoln assizes, T. Temporal was arraigned for the murder of a young woman, in the parish of South Hykeham, on the 3d of November last, whom he had that morning married; and after a trial of five hours continuance, he was found guilty, sentenced to be executed on Friday, and his body dissected. The circumstances of the murder are singularly shocking. Temporal was a labouring banker upon one of the canals in the neighbourhood of Lincoln, where he became criminally intimate with a young woman, and she proving pregnant, he was compelled, by the parish officers, to marry her. After the ceremony, they left the village, in which it was performed, together; and, the same evening, the unfortunate young woman was found in the precincts of Saxilby, having her head almost entirely beaten from her body, with a heavy club, which Temporal had been observed to walk with, and which was lying by her. The murderer was soon apprehended, and his guilt very satisfactorily proved on his trial, by twenty witnesses.

BIRTHS,

At Orton, Huntingdonshire, the Countess of Aboyne, of a son. In Portland Place, the Countess of Mansfield, of a son. In Pall-Mall, Lady Holland, of a daughter. At King's Row, Winchester, Lady S. de Crespigny, of a son. In Hertford Street, May Fair, the Hon. Mrs. Caulfield, of a son and heir.

MARRIED.

At Hilton, in Cambridgeshire, Horatio Gilchrist, Esq. of Stamford, to the elder daughter of Edward Theed, Esq. of the former place. Henry Bateman Raven, Esq. to Miss Mary Ann Litchfield, second daughter of Vincent Litchfield, Esq. of the Council Office, Whitehall.

DIED.

On the 31st January, in Manchester, after an illness of several months, Joseph James Seyer, latterly a clerk in the office of a respectable banking house of that town. He was brought up to the profession of painter, gilder, &c. and had attained some eminence in the art of pattern drawing; but, having a stronger inclination for figuring in the theatrical world, than figuring with his pencil, he joined the company under the management of the late Mr. Palmer, at the Royalty theatre, in the year 1786, and continued in it some time, with tolerable success; though in what particular range of characters he appeared, we have no satisfactory account, as, since his leaving London, and becoming "another man," he generally avoided any direct conversation on the topic of his theatrical career. However, it has been understood, that he, during that time, shared, with the rest of his companions, all the vicissitudes of fortune, too generally attendant on the theatrical candidate: joining too in most of their dissipations, he was called an agreeable companion; and was a member of the society of "odd fellows." For the few last years of his life, he had been in Manchester, and there became a proselyte to methodism. Believing it was his duty to give the better." half of his substance to the poor," he had, at one time, nearly starved himself, but discovering his conduct to be governed by error, (as most people, acting in these extremes, sooner or later find) he resolved to change his manner of life, and employ the fruits of his labours for his own sustenance; but it was loo late! his emaciated frame, so far from wanting to be mortified, absolutely required nourishment, but of which he had (through a mistaken zeal) for some time, denied it; the consequence was fatal! He died of a consumption, at the age of about forty years. At Holyport, Berks. Joseph Cobb, Esq. brother of Mr. Cobb, banker, Lombard Street. The Rev. G. G. Golding, rector of Kelsale, Suffolk. The Rev. H. Robinson, vicar of Kendall. The Rev. Alleyn Walter, L.L. D. Aged 75, H. Steward, Gent. of Bury, who, in the year 1766, was, with Elizabeth Burroughs, tried for the murder of Mary Booty, his housekeeper; the former of whom was acquitted, and the latter convicted and executed, About two hours previous to Mr. Steward's dissolution, he made his will, in the presence of Dr. White, Mr. Hubbard, and Mr. Woodward. After disposing of his property, he desired the following declaration might be inserted in his will :---" I hereby solemnly declare, that, expecting in a very short time to appear before my Maker and Judge, I am innocent, and know nothing how poor Molly Booty came by her untimely death."