At «hrainey-top of the Hall during a
waim debate; one member in opposition
to this motion, alked, Where is your e
quality, and where are your levelling prin
ciples, Citizens, that you would thus aid
a Jlighty, over-bearing attempt to soar a
bovc the People ? I alfert that an at
tempt to promote the elevation of an in
dividual above the multitude, mult be
ariftocratir, or I do not understand the
meaning of the word. Moreover, Citi
zens, 1 am by no means convinced that
the measure would be fafc. We have ne
ver heard of the force or effect of Demo
cratic Gaz, when tied up in a bag. The
balloon ma,y burst and ruin poor Citizen
B. Nay, worse than all this—it may
mount with velocity before the fafpend
ing or depending cords can be detached
from the Hall, and taking us all up to
the clouds along with Citizen B. we may
Lord knows where.
No, Citizens, tilth ' <we have frequently
met to propose high-flying, and dangerous
project for others, I never have uniLrjlood
that we were to trujl our own carcases in
the voyage.
This ft ruck the members so forcibly,
that the motion palled in the negative,
by ah unanimous vote.
Mr. B. will now be obliged to look
elsewhere for his gaz—or the expecta
tions of the public will again be disap
pointed, and none more so, than those of
your humble servant—
NOOLLAB.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, April i.
The Cordeliers have resolved to cele
brate a civic feftival, in cafe Hebert, Mo
moro, Ronfin, and Vincent, should be
acquitted.
In consequence of the tinufual number
of perfuns now confined in Lancaster goal
for debt, Lord Kenyon, who is now on
that circuit, much to hie honor,
an order of court—
" That if any creditor who may have
" arrested the body of his debtor, previ
" oua to or during the term preceeding
" the Assizes—and does not declare a
" gainit within three days previous to the
" Affixes—then fitch priloners (hall be dif-
cnargeu nuiti the lafu arFCIUUU action.* 7
It would be an inestimable benefit to
the commercial part of this country if
the fame rule were generally extended.
At a country meeting at Edinburgh,
held on the 24th inltant, it was agreed,
that the country should raise volunteer
troops of fencible cavalry, confufTng of
not lrfa than jo nor more than 80 men
each troop, to serve only during the war,
and within the kingdom ; and a committee
was appointed to conduit the business.
The Kent fubfeription, towards defray
ing the expence of embodying the militia,
amounts to near 7000!.
A P"I 3-
The Brufftls Gazette has at length an
nounced the defeSion of the King of
Prussia from the Grand Federal Alliance
againlt France !
_ Mr. Erpe, a watchmaker ofCaftle Do
nington, was tried before Baron Thomp
son, at the late Leicester allizes, upon a
charge of uttering seditious words. The
witnesses for the prosecution were Samuel
Baker, an exciftman, and William Hear
fon, a publican, both of whom had liften
edto the conversation of Mr. Erpe, and
had been instigated to inform by an afloci
ation at Caftlc Donington.
The Jury, after retiring f6r about
twenty minutes, returned with a verdict,
Guilty of speaking the words, but not
with the seditious intent." His Lord
ffiip r;fufed to accept that verdia, and
the Jury, after retiring again, in ten mi
nutes brought in another verdidt of " Guil
ty of speaking the words, but not with
an intent to disturb government this
was rejeSed by the court. The Ju
ry then brought in a general verdict,
" Not Guilty," but being repeatedly in
tenogat-d by his Lordship, an d feme of
the officers of the court, whether they
were unanimous, and one of the jury ap
pearing to hesitate, they were sent back
once more. The)- however,, returned a
fourth t.we, and brought in a general ver
j°j NOT GUILT Y I which was re
corded.
FROM THE EAST INDIES.
Yelterday morning Ca>pt. William Fair.
of ~ heT Oil"" Charlotte Paeket,
came to the India-House, with the pleas-
ing intelligence of her fafe arrival at Fal
mouth.
Arrangements in the Supretrie Council of
1 Calcutta.
The Marquis Cornwallis having, in a
letter from Madras, declared his religuti
on of the Governor General, a ipecial
meeting of the Supreme council at Cal
cutta, was held on the 28th of October,
at which Sir John Shore, took the oaths
and his feat as Governor General, with
the usual forms,
Major-General Sir Rabert Aberrrom
bie, at the fame time, took his feat a£
1 the board as commander in chief of the
company's forces in India ; and Mr.
Graham resumed the office he had former
ly held of ailing President to the board
of revenue.
Death of the Nabob of Bengal.
The Nabob Mobaric U1 Dowla, Na
bob of Bengal, departed this life 011 the
6th of September.
The Nabob U1 Mulk, his eldest foil, is
declared his fitcceffor.
The moil flattering accounts are receive
ed of the prosperous Itate of the Compa
ny's affairs in general; and that the utmost
harmony fublifts between the Britilh go
vernment and the native powers of India.
The French have, however, been but
too fuccefsful in their depredations on the
country trading vessels, and are said to
have made some very rich captures,
PARIS, March 27.
Letters from Holland announce', that
advicts from the Cape of Good Hope
have brought the news of the taking of
Batavia by the French.
At the trial of the conspirators one
only, Laboureau, was acquitted. As
soon as he was liberated, the President of
the Tribune embraced him, and placed
him at his fide, while the hall resounded
with applauses. When the sentences were
pronounced, Anacharfis Clootz was the
only one who addressed the auditors.
He appealed to the human race, wiofe 1
con (last orator he had been. Ronfin
made an attemp to speak, but wa's carried
off with the rell.
Madame Quetiueau declared lleifelf
pregnant.
rtic compfratofs, Wtie 11 carr:ecfbac£ tO
the Conciergerie, demanded a gallon of
wine to be divided among them, and some
soup. About nine, yelterday morning,
they were conveyed in three carts to the
place of execution. Never (fays the Edi
tor of the Annales Patriotique) did a
fpe&acle attract such a croud, such an in
finite number of During the
whole way along, hands were clapped,
and hats tossed in the air, am id ft the cry
of " Live the Republic." Insensible to
the indignation manifefted against them,
they passed along, and, when at the foot
of thefcaffold, they embraced each other.
Hebert, vulgarly entitled father Duchefne
was guillotined the last, and his head
was displayed to the people. At this
fight, the clapping of hands and shouts
of the fpedtators were accompanied by
the cry of " Live the Republic."
The Cordeliers, in their fitting of the
fame day, announced, that provisions
were every where abundant, and the late
scarcity was merely a criminal contrivance.
The eating houses were extremely well
supplied, and indeed feafted their custom
ers too well. It was therefore proposed,
that the keepers of the ordinaries should
supply their guests with no other rcfrelh
ment than soup, bouille, and a cutlet.
In the bill of the new maximum, poll
ed up on the 23d inft. Beef is fixed at 16
sous, veal at 18, mutton at 16, frefh pork
at 18, lard at 20, and Bayonne hams at
35 sous per pound ; butter of the belt
quality at 3 2 sous, Dutch cheese at 16 3-4-
per pound ; frefh eggs at 50 sous the do
zen, and the pint of milk 7 sous.
Among those who have been recently
guillotined afe the three brothers Pou
ganne de Viches, Rouganne de Barodines,
and Rouganne de Bellcbat; the two bro.
thers Marquis and Count de Balleroy
one of them a Lieutenant-General, the
other a Marchal de Camp; the conftitu.
Uonal Bishop of Autun ; Gouties, Ex-
Preside.it of the Constituent Affcmbly ;
Caftel de la Grange, formerly one of
Monfieurs body guards; the Ex-Vicar
r itp , ,de J ouvc > a" Admi
ral ; J. B de Vak.,3, formedy a Captain
Pnrt i g rV°L Wr ; re g' ment i Moulin,
Post-master of Cherbourg ; Porton, R ec .
tor of Veaux, $ c .
The number of prisoners amounts to
6622. Among thcfe are the Notaries
Ghauron and Sabourdin ; Chovart, a Fi
nancier; Antoinette Boaret Gumal-di-
Montmorin ; Anger, a Rector ; Buiflon,
Agent to the Duke of York ; De Ben
niere, Vicar de Chaillot; Chefneaux, Pre
sident of the Cordeliers ; Barois, a Book
seller ; M. de Champcenits, son of the
late Governor of the Thuilieriea; 1/
Huiler, National Agent of the Depart
ment of Paris,
HOUSE of COMMONS, April 3.
RETURNS.
Major Maitland faid,he rose under some
expectation that Mr. Pitt would recede
from the opinion lie firll entertained, and
concur in the motion he was about to
submit.
It was not his intention, he said, to
bring forward again any proposition for
printing the returns of the killed and
wounded, and the extracts of the gazettes
relating to the war, as in his ensuing mo
tion on the general conduct of the cam
paign, he fliould be authorised to avail
himfelf fully of those documents in their
present (late, but the returns of our lofies
of stores and ammunition at Dunkirk and
Toulon were accounts of a different de-,
fcription, and which it was.highly impor
tant to the full investigation of the fubjedi
that he (hould poflefs; though he declin
ed bringing forward the two fir ft fubje&s,
he yet thought that t,hofe motions
were very improperly rejected, whether
hs regarded them in a general view,
or as precedents, in both of which
cases, he disclaimed all personal influ
ence, as to him they would be entirely
ufelefsou this oceafion, however neccflary
thev might be to the general infoimation
of the House. Ke could not, at the fame
time, forbear expressing his aftonilhnient
that they should have been refufed by mi
nisters in opposition to the general feeling
of the House and country j and whsn, in
fadt, as to the firlt, it was known by the
return of the killed and wounded, that the
number was much smaller than what the
public generally conceived, for which he
was now about to' move. The returns
would be to him more necefiary rs he ex
pected to hear his motion opposed by as
sertion and declamation, instead of argu
rngnt and fart In this view, therefore.
they would be highly important, and could
not be refnfed unless it was contended,
that the House and country have not a
right to be informed of every circumflance
relating to the operations of the armies
they employ ; they became also more ne
ceflary, when- it is recollected that the
Gazette account of thelofles of the retreat
from Dunkirk had been declared errone
ous in the instance of the number of guns
left behind by the very officer (Sir James
Murray) who wrote that account. He
profeffed himfelf at a loss to suggest any
ground of opposition to the motion, as the
enemy could receive no information from
the difclofurr, which could only apprise
the House and the country of tliofe fadts
with which the enemy had been long ac
quainted.
From this view of the fubjeft be repeat
ed his hopes that his motion would receive
no opposition, and that Mr. Pitt would
retraCt the opinion of it which he had be
fore exprefled.
He concluded by moving, " That an
humble address be presented to his majesty
lequefting that he would give directions
that there be laid before the House returns
of the number of guns and military stores
left at Dnnkirk and 1 oulon refpeCHvelv,
on the retreat of the British forces from
those places."
Mr. Pitt declared himfelf, on reconsi
deration, confirmed in the opinion he for
merly exprefTed on this fubjea, and by no
means mclinrd to retratt it. What fell
from the Hon. Gentleman, had rather
ttrengthened his former opinion, as he had
confeffed that it would be ufelef# to him
ir the two firft accounts were printed ; if
any compromise, therefore, were to take
place, he e*peded it would be br an ac
cession of numbers tohisf.de, rather than
any detection from it.
He objeaed to printing the return of ■
kdled and wounded, as being fuperflnous, i
aru, as unwise, by llifhifmg the knowledg-e
of the inevitable evils of war, when no ]
good consequence would arise from it It ,
was true, in this cafe, the calamities were ,
In" than were apprehended ; but s
as he fliould not have felt his opinion of ,
the war, °r hia reflation to carry it on, «
at ail shaken from any degree of those in- ,
separable evils, he thought it not fair to
avail hirafelf of tlie contrary arguing,
when; from accidental citcumftances it
told in his favour.
He obje&ed to printing rhe extra&s of
the Gazettes, because it would, prima fa
cie, indicate a ground of suspicion as p re .
paratory to a general inquiry into the cir
cumflances of the whcrfe campaign) and
this, he contended, would lead -the Hcmf
to an extent and detail of inquiry, of which
they could not be apprized, and as nofitf.
picion whatever in fad existed, he would
not consent to a measure which implied
that it did.
Whatever opinion the hon. Gentleman
had adopted concerning the British troops
he himfelf had no hesitation to declare
that with the single exception of the
of Dunkirk, they had <b6en as fucceijful
as they had been brave in every conftift
in which they had been engaged. Guns
colours, and stores, he said, would be a>
bad materials for the declamation which
was apprehended as for argument. The
merits of the campaign wpuld not bt de
fended on the ground that we had taken
or loft, more or less of these articles. The
campaign proved fuccefsful from the im
proved fituatron in which we flood at its
conclusion, compared to that in which we
were at the commencement of it.
Drat some (mall inaccuracy might in
some instance have occurred in the returns
contained in the Gazettes was very pofli
ble, particularly in in,lances of speedy re,
treat; in which cafe it was well know<i,he
fuppofed,that the officer commanding may
be less able to ascertain immediately the
articles left behind ; but this he thought
too trivial to conftitjjte a ground of minute
or serious charge, which never fk.uld be
instituted, but in enfes of great importance,
and founded on ft long ground of suspicion.
He conceived it no part of the duty of
a member to give in his individual capa
city, any information which the House
did not think proper to require, and there.
fore that hon. gentleman had no right to
ltx>k even for private explanation from any
person who may from his official Itation
(as Sir James Murray) have it in his pow
er to give. Forthefc reatons he thought
nothing could be more unnecefiary than
the prcfent motion, which he therefore
should refrlt.
Major Mail land j-ofe to explain, and
difclaimeil all intention of imputing any
j tnrog^rrireJpeFtfnnto - tJSTiriufh iroopj, j
as far as they were personally engaged in
the execution of plans, however unwise
these plans might be in theit.felves and un
fueceisful in the event.
Mr. Pitt observed, thiit in that view of
the xubjedl the motion became more un
necefiary, as his crimination would therv
only apply to the cabinet, in which the
plans were adopted, and yet the motion
pointed at a detailed examination of th*
execution.
Mr. Fox said, that if the doctrine ad
vanced by Mr- Pitt prevailed, the House,
though avowedly misinformed, were nci
thertt? lln** that misinformation corre&ed
~by private or official "t>mmuruotion.
The prcfent motion, he
thought expedient, and regarded it as 3
preliminary to a very neceflary inquiry
into the losses and di(honor of the cani
paign.
He took for granted, that Mr. Pilt,
agreeable to the opinion advanced this
night, was highly displeased with the At
torney-General, for giving the private un
alked information relating to Lord Shel
burne's letters. The loss i>f \va» P°
objection to a war, he represented as a
very lofty argument, and one to which
he could not accede. Ever* with refpeft
to the continuanee of the war, the lofs
of men was a fad highly ufcfui to be
known, as.if the obje6V gained was inad
equate to that luff, it would fugged rea
sons to alter the plans of operation. As
there appeared tio danger of improper
disclosure to the enemy, and the informa
tion was such ss the country at large as
well a* the House should receive, he ex
pressed much furpiizc that any oppufitioiv
was made.
Sir James Murray informed the House,-
that the account of the loss of guns be
fore Dunkirk, which was inserted' in the
Gazette, was the best account which at
that time could be colle&td. In fact,
however, on more mature inquiry, tf<?
numbfr was found something under ra
ted, but not in a degree that would make
aay mete-vial imprt-ffion on the publie
mind. This inaccuracy arose from the
expeditious execution of the retreflt im
mediately after it was determined on.—
At that period ea«h oiScer of artillery re-