very amusing recreation for the merchants of London, to see the ships of France arriving, month after month, to enrich their port. And it is but just that King George should defray from his own purse the expenses of this little amusement which he has given his subjects. It i not without some difficulty that he has reconciled himself to bear these injuries. Protected by his floating batteries at home, he hoped that the great powers of Europe, would have undertaken the protection of his continental possessions; the hundred voices of fame seemed to be the pledges of their se curity. Prussia, Denmark, and Russia,' it was said, would never quietly see the • French enter Hanover, and thereby strike all the North of Germany with alarm, and violate the peace of a country protected by the Treaty of Luneville. For these considerations all the fleets of Russia were ready to set sail, all her armies were waiting to begin their march. A Prussian army advanced on one side; its direction was known, and its general was named. These rumours were the most ridiculous absurdities. It would have been strange if those who had violated the Treaty of Amiens, could have retrenched themselves behind that of Luneville; it would have been strange if those who had declared war against the Republics of Italy and Holland, only because they were under the dominion of the chief of the French Republic, could have made those countries respected which were under the government of the King of England. We might have believed that England was not serious in proclaiming this hope, if the Royal proclamation for a leve en masse, and the arrival of one of the sons of the King of Great Britain to command it, had not established the certainty. The folly of these two circumstances are requisite to give the expedition of Gen. Mortier the appearance of a triumph, by giving the capitulation of the Hanoverian army the appearance of a defeat.

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may observe, that this capitulation is the same as that which was signed at Clostersevern in 1757, under the direction of the Maréchal de Richelieu. It was then stipulated under the guarantee of the King of Denmark, that the Hanoverian troops should not exercise any hostilities until the conclusion of the war. It is well known how that capitulation was violated after the battle of Rosbach. The celebrated Lord Chatham, the father of Mr. Pitt, decided that as the King of England had not ratified the capitulation, it could not be valid; and it was in consequence of that decision that the Hanoverians went from their lines,

and went under the command of Prince Ferdinand to give the battle of Crevelt.➡ If the occupation of Hanover, which the folly of the British government has compelled us to call a conquest, possesses but little importance as a military achievment, it is at least, a source from which riches may be drawn. It is, however, a great military point. It is a great thing to have acquired fifty leagues more of that iron wall, so truely described by Mr. Windham, which now extends from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. The war at present is nothing more than playful pastime. When the English shall have finished their game of capture and depredation, and the French shall have completed their formi dable preparations upon the whole extent of their coast, then will WAR commence, and a WAR which every thing declares will be TERRIBLE.

MR. BURKE's letter.

The following is the fragment of the Letter from Mr. Burke to Dr. Laurence, which was read by the latter, in the House of Commons, on the 23d instant, during the debate on the Conscript Bill.. -It was written from Bath in the spring of 1797, when an increased attack of the writer's disorder threatened the fatal termination of his valuable life, which soon after took place.

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MY DEAR SIR,- -The very first relaxation of my complaint, which gave me leisure and disposition to attend to what is going on, has filled my mind with miny uneasy sensations, and many unpleasant reflections. The few of us who have protracted life to the extreme limits of our short period, have been condemned to see extraordinary things; new systems of policy, new opinions, new principles, and not only new men, but what, might appear a new species of men. I believe, that they who lived 40 years ago (if the intermediate space of time were expunged from their memory) could hardly credit their senses, when they heard from the highest authority, that an army of 200,000 men was kept up in this island; that in the neighbouring island there were at least fourscore thousand more; but when he should hear of this army, which has not its parallel, what must be his astonishment to hear, that it was kept up for the mere purpose of an inert and passive defence; and that in its far greater part, it was disabled by its constitution and very essence, from defending us against an enemy by any one preventive stroke, or any operation of active hostility. What must his reflection be on

hearing, that a fleet of 500 men of war, the best appointed, and to the full as ably commanded, as this country ever had upon the sea, was for the greater part employed in acting upon the same system of unenterprising defence. What must his sentiments be, who remembers the former energy of England, when he is given to understand that these two Islands, with their extensive, and every where vulnerable sea coast, should be considered as a garrison sea town? What would he think if the garrison of so strange a fortress, should be such as never to make a sally; and that, contrary to all that has been hitherto seen in war, an infinitely inferior army may with safety besiege this superior garrison, and without hazarding the life of a man, ruin the garrison and the place, merely by the menaces and false appearances of an attack? What must his surprise be upon finding, that with the increases of trade, and balances unknown before, and with less outgoing than at any former time, the public credit should labour, even to the edge of a bankruptcy, that the confidence of the people in the security of their property, should lessen in proportion as all the apparent means of their safety are augmented? The last part of this dreadful paradox is to be solved but by one way, this is, by an obscure undefined sense which the people entertain, that the apparent means of their safety are not real, nor well understood, and that they confide in their government, more from their opinion that some sort of government should be supported, than from a conviction that the measures taken by the existing government for the public safety, are rational or well adapted to their end. Had it pleased God to continue to me even the late weak remains of my strength, I purposed to make this the subject of a letter, which I intended to address to a brother member of your's upon the present state of affairs; but, as I may never be able to finish it, I regard this matter of defence as so much the most important of all considerations at this moment, that it supersedes all concern of my bodily and mental weakness, and urges me by an impulse I cannot resist, to spend at least, my last breath in laying before you some part of the anxious thoughts with which I have been oppressed, and which more than any bodily distemper, has sunk me to the condition in which you know I am. I have no hand to write, but I am able to dictate from the bed on which I pass my nights and days. What I say may have no weight, but it is possible that it may tend to put other men of more ability, and who are in a situation where their abilities may be more usefu!, into a train of thinking. What I say may not be

pleasing either to the great or the multitude; but looking back on my past public life, though not without many faults and errors, I have never made many sacrifices to the favour of the great, or to the humours of the people. I never remember more than two instances, in which I have given way to popularity, and those two are the things of which, in the whole course of my life, now at the end of it, I have the most reason to repent. Such has been the habit of my public life, even when individual favour and popular countenance, might be plausibly presented to me as the means of doing my duty the more effectually. But now, alas! Of what value to me are all those helps or all those impediments? When the damp chill sweat of death already begins to glaze our visage, of what moment is it to us, whether the vain breath of man blows hot or cold upon it? But our duties to men are not extinguished with our, regard to their opinions. A country which has been dear to us from our birth, ought to be dear to us, as from our entrance, so to our final exit from the stage upon which we have been appointed to act; and in the career of the duties which must in part be enjoyments of our new existence, how can we better start, and from what more proper post, than the performance of those duties which have made occupations of the first part of the course allotted to us?

PUBLIC PAPERS.

Note.-Presented by Mr. Liston to Citizen Vander Coes, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated Hague, May 24, 1803.

Sir,-By order of my Court, I beg you to submit to the Batavian Government the following considerations:-The King is animated with the most ernest desire that the new war which has just broken out, shall not extend to the countries connected with France; and that it shall not involve in its calamities nations which have had no part in the events that have given rise to it. His Majesty, however, cannot adopt towards the Batavian republic the conduct which such sentiments would dictate to him, unless the French Government is disposed to adopt an analogous system,If France will consent to withdraw immediately her troops from the territory of the republic; if she will release the Batavian government from the obligation of furnishing any succours whatever by land or sea; if, in short, she will permit the republic to observe a sincere and perfect neutra. lity during the continuance of the war; His Majesty will engage on his side to adhere with scrupulous exactness to a reciprocal neutrality, and in that case the vessels which may have been provisionally detained, shall be immediately released. But if unhappily the First Consul persists in determining to occupy the Batavian territory, and to convert the resources of the country into means of hostility and attack upon Great Britain, His Majesty will feel himself forced, by what he owes to the safety of his territories, and the dearest

At the Court at Windsor, the 16th of June, 1803, present, the KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas His Majesty's most anxious endeavours to preserve neutrality and peace between His Majesty and the Batavan republic have failed, and the Batavian republic has become engaged in measures of hostility against His Majesty and his subjects; His Majesty, therefore, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that general reprisals be granted against the ships, goods, and subjects of the Batavian republic, so that as well His Majesty's Fleets and Ships, as also all other ships and vessels that shall be commissionated, by letters of marque, or general reprisals, or otherwise, by His Majesty's commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral of Great Britain, shail and may lawfully seize all ships, vessels, and goods belonging to the Batavian republic, or to any persons being subjects of the Batavian republic, or inhabiting within any of the territories of the Batavian republic, and bring the same to judgment in such courts of admiralty within His Majesty's dominions, as shall be duly commissionated to take cognizance thereof and to that end, His Majesty's advocate-general, with the advocate of the admiralty, are forthwith to prepare the draft of a commission, and present the same to His Majesty at this Board, authorizing the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral, or any person or persons by them empowered and appointed, to issue forth aud grant letters of marque and reprisals to any of His Majesty's subjects, or others whom the said commissioners shall deem fitly qualified in that behalf, for the apprehending, seizing, and taking the ships, vessels, and goods belonging to the Batavian republic, or to any persons being subjects of the Batavian republic, or inhabiting within any of the territories of the Batavian republic; and that such powers and clauses be inserted in the said commission, as have been usual, and are according to former precedents: and His Majesty's said advocate-general, with the advocate of the admiralty, are also forthwith to prepare the draft of a commission, and present the same to His Majesty at this Board, authorizing the said commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral, to will and require the High Court of AdmiTalty of Great Britain, and the Lieutenant and Judge of the said Court, his surrogate or surrogates, as also the several Courts of Admiralty within his Majesty's dominions which shall be duly commis-ionated to take cognizance of, and judicially proceed upon all and all manner of captures, seizures, prizes, and reprisals of all ships and goods that are or shall be made, and to hear and determine the same, and according to the course of Admiralty and the Laws of Nations, to adjudge and condemn all such ships, vessels, and

goods as shall belong to the Batavian Republic, or to any persons being subjects of the Batavian Republic, or inhabiting within any of the territories of the Batavian Republic; and that such powers and clauses be inserted in the said Commission as have been usual, and are according to former precedents; and they are likewise to prepare and lay before his Majesty at this board a draft of such instructions as may be proper to be sent to the said several Courts of Admiralty in his Majesty's Foreign Governments and Plantations for their guidance herein; as also another draft of instructions for such ships as shall be commissionated for the purposes above-mea. tioned.

From the Court at Windsor, the sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and three.. Edward, Erntar, Adolphus Frederick, Westmoreland, C. P. S.-Pelham,Castlereagh,-J. H. Addington.

FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. Circular Letter from Chaptal, Minister of the Interior, dated Paris, June 11, 1805.

In the actual State of France, and with the kind of enemy that we have to combat, French bravery must remain inactive on the brink of the ocean, if numerous vessels do not furnish it the means of attacking its enemy. It is then to the building of vessels that all your efforts ought to be directed; Commerce, Agriculture, Industry, will suffer the less for the execution being the more prompt.-A Flat-Boat, of the first class, will cost 30,000 francs; that of the second, from 18 to 20,000; and that of the third, from 4 to 6000 francs.- -Two feet of water are sufficient to float a boat unarmed; thus there are few places that may not execute an undertaking of this kind.

If,

-These Boats will bear the rame of the cities or departments that shall build them. The Government will accept with satisfaction from a ship of the line to the smallest transport boat. by a movement as rapid as general, each department, each large city, will cover their stocks with boats, then the French army will go and dictate laws to the British Government, and establish the repose of Europe, the liberty and prosperity of commerce, on the only basis that can ensure their duration.-CHAPTAL.

Arreté of the First Consul, prohibiting the Importation of British Merchandize. Dated Paris, June 20, 1803.

Art. 1. Dacing from the publication of the present decree, theic shall not be received in the ports of the Republic any colonial produce coming from the English colonies, nor any merchandize coming directly or indirectly from England. In consequence, all colonial produce or merchandise coming from the English manufactories or English colonies shall be confiscated.-.----2. Neutral ships destined for the ports of the Republic, shall be furnished with a certificate of delivery from the Commissary or Agent of Commercial Relations of the Republic at the port of embarkation, which certificate shall mention the name of the ship and the captain, the nature of the cargo, the number of the crew, and the destination of the vessel; in that declaration, the Commissary shall certify that he has seen the loading completed under his inspection, and that the merchandize is not English manufacture, and does not come from England, nor from her colonies. A duplicate of that de claration shall be sent to the Minter of the lu

terior by the Commissary of the Republic, on the

day of the sailing of the vessel 3. The captain, who, through forgetfulness of the form or through change of destination, shall not be furnished with a similar declaration, shall not be admitted into the ports of the Republic, but upon condition of loading in return French manufactures equal in value to the amount of his cargo. The Director of the Customs shall send to the Prefect of the Department the statement of his cargo, and that of the merchandise taken in return. Upon that statement, the Prefect shall deliver a permit of departure from the port.4. The Minister of the Interior, of Foreign Affairs, and of Finance, are charged with the execution of the present decree.-BUONAPARTÉ.

American Consulate, London, June 27, 1803. By an arreté of the French Government, of 1 Messidor (June 20th), no American vessels are permitted to carry merchandise of any kind, directly or indirectly, from this country to any port of the Republic. And all British manufactures, or British colonial produce, so carried, will be subject to confiscation.

PARLIAMENTARY MINUTES, Jfrom p. 915. Tuesday, June 14.-LORDS.-Bills from Commons read.-Committee on Clergy Non-Residence Bill. After some debate between Lords Caernar. von, Ellenborough, and Auckland, Bishops of Norwich, Durham, Oxford, and St. Asaph, Duke of Richmond, and Lord Chancellor, some clauses agreed to, and some pos:poned.-Adjourned.COMMONS.-Third report Highland Committee laid on table and ordered to be printed.-Bill for incorporating a Company to supply London with Fish read second time, and, after some conversation, referred to a Committee.-Report on Budget, after some debate between Lord Folkstone, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, brought up and read. Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice of asking leave to bring in bills grounded on the resolutions; also, for consolidation of Excise, tomorrow, and army extraordinaries, Friday.-Orders of the day disposed of.-Adjourned.

Wednesday, June 15-LORDS.-Counsel heard in appeal Thelluson v. Woodford. Postponed till Monday.Southampton Ordnance Bill from Commons read.-Exchequer Bills bill read second time, and committed for to-morrow.-Committee on Foote's Divorce Bill, report ordered to-morrow. -Bills on table forwarded. Adjourned. COMMONS Report on Malicious Shooting Bill. To be read third time to-morrow.--Report on Irish Ship Burning Bill. Ordered to be printed and read third time Monday.-Papers laid before the House on Income Duty of 1802, ordered to be printed. Accounts respecting the importation of various articles from 1793 to 1803. Ordered. Bill for suspension of Navigation Act read third time and committed for to morrow.-Leave granted to bring in Bill indemnifying certain persons in Ireland. Committee Ways and Means. Agreed that certain charges relative to the Militia of Iseland be defrayed out of the Land Tax and Consolidated Fund of that country. Postponed till Friday.-Irish Budget postponed till Monday.-Petitions against Woollen Manufactures bill presented.-Committee on Bribery Oath Bill. Report to. morrow Ordnance Lands Bill passed.--Militia Transfer Bill reported and ordered for third reading tomorrow Committee on report concerning Scellind." Moved that 20,000 be granted for making Roads and Bridges in Scot

land.Committee on Consolidation of Excise. Report ordered to-morrow.-Report of Committee on East India Shipping Bill agreed to. Bili ordered for third reading to-morrow-Bill for raising 12,000,000 l. for service of the year, on Annuities, brought up, read and ordered for second reading to-morrow.-Bill for granting certain duties on Exports, Imports, and Tonnage brought up, read and ordered for second reading to morrow.-Committee on Custom Consolidation BillAdjourned.

Thursday, June 16.-LORDS-Committee on Exchequer Bills bill. Committee on Chandos Peerage. Resolved, "That Rev. Mr. Brydges has "not made good his claim."-Committee on Clergy Non Residence Bill. Amendments proposed and new clauses added.Adjourned.COMMONS. Mr. Coke of Nottingham took his seat.— Committee on Act of 42d of the King respecting Work-honses. Leave given to bring in a bill to amend said Act.-Committee on Irish Parsonage Bill. Amendments agreed to, after some debate and report to be received to-morrow. Leave given to bring in Bill concerning Scotch Roads. Woollen manufacturers Bill postponed to this day se'anight. Malicious Shooting, Irish Ship Burn ing, and Militia Transfer Bills passed.Scotch Militia Bill read and ordered for second reading to-morrow. East India Shipping Bill read third time and sent to Lords.-Leave given to bring in Kill respecting the mercantile interest.--Mr. Whit bread moved for copies of the minutes and evidence taken at the dock-yards, during the late visit of the Commissioners; and also of their correspondence with the navy and victualing boards. After some debate between Chancellor of the Exchequer, Capt. Markham, Sirs W. Elford, C. Pole, A. Hammond, and F. Baring, Messrs. Courtney, Bastard, Harvey, and Sheridan, Admiral Berkley, and the Attorney General, the motion was withdrawn. Leave given to bring in Bills to restrain the issuing of small notes in Ireland, to regulate the Corn trade between Ireland and England, and, to transfer seamen in the militia of Ireland to the navy. Bill for granting dutics on Exports, &c. and Loan Bill read second time, and ordered for third reading to-morrow.-Orders of day disposed of.-Adjourned.

Saturday, June 18 LORDS Committee on Clergy Non-Residence Bill. Considerable debate took place and various amendments were propo sed. The speakers were the Bishops of St. Asaph, London, Oxford, and Durham, Lords Alvanley and Auckland, and the Lord Chancellor. Report or dered Monday.-Lord Hobart presented the following message.

"GEORGA R.-His Majesty thinks it proper to "acquaint the House of Lords, that for the more "effectual defence of the United Kingdom against "the avowed designs of the enemy, and for the purpose of providing such means as may be best calculated for a vigorous prosecution of the war, his Majesty deems it important that a large "additional force should be forthwith raised and

assembled His Majesty recommends this sub"ject to the consideration of their Lordships, "and relies with confidence on their zeal and

public spirit, that they will adopt such mez"sures as upon this occasion shall appear to

them to be most effectual, and for carrying "the same into execution with the least possible "delay."—" G. R."-Ordered to be taken into consideration on Monday.Adjourned.—COMMONS-Irish Indemnity and Militia Officers Kill read second time and committed for Monday.————

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Excise Duty Bill read and ordered for second reading Monday-Report of Committee of Supply on Army Extraordinaries agreed to.-Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered a message from his Majesty (see Lords) which was committed for Monday. Tax on Property Bill, after some observations, read second time and committed for Monday. Adjourned.

Monday, June 20.-LORDS.-Counsel heard in appeal Theiluson v. Woodford-Surveys of Highlands of Scotland laid on table and ordered to be printed.-Lord Hobart concluded a long speech by moving "an address thanking his Majesty, for "his gracious message; that this House will "cheerfully concur with his Majesty in adopting "additional measures for the security, and for"ward the same to the utmost of its extent and "abilities." After much debate between H. R. H. the Duke of Clarence, Lords Grosvenor, Caernarvon, Suffolk, Carlisle, Moira, Mulgrave, Limerick, Fitzwilliam, Grenville, and Sheffield, and the Lord Chancellor, and Duke of Richmond, the motion was unanimously agreed to.Adjourned. COMMONS-Petition presented against Cotton Manufacturers Bill-Committee on the King's Message. The Secretary at War, after a speech in which he detailed a plan for Military Conscription, moved an address similar to that in the Lords, which was carried unanimously. He also moved, "that bills be brought in for raising, in the most "speedy and efficacious manner, an additional "force for the security and protection of the "realm." A long debate ensued between Mr. Windham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Pitt, Cols, Bastard and Wood, Sir W. Young, and the Secretary at War. Motion carried, and a Committee appointed to bring in the Bill.-In Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Corry moved rertain new taxes for Ireland.-Bill for taxing property read in Committee, and reported.-Highland Road Bill, and Irish Militia Transfer Bill read second time-Adjourned.

Tuesday, June 21LORDS.-Several Bills brought from Commons. Justice of Peace regulation Bill read second time.-Bills on table forwarded Adjourned.——COMMONS.--Leave granted to bring in a bill to extend the limits of the Southern Whale Fishery.-Petition presented against London Fishing Company Bill-Irish Corn Bill reported and ordered for third reading.-Report of Committee on London Port Bill ordered 10-morrow. Irish Indemnity Bill and Subaltern Officers Bill reported and ordered for third reading to-morrow. Report of Militia Pay Bill postponed till Friday.--Militia Adjutant Bill read second time and committed for Friday. -Reports of Committee en Medicine Duty Bill, and on Irish Seamen Bill, ordered to-morrow. ---Irish Parsonage Bill passed.--Scotch Bridge Bill postponed. -Property Tax Bill and Scotch Manufactory Bill read second time and committed for to-morrow.-Assessed Tax Consolidation Bill postponed.-Excise Duty Consolidation Bill committed.- -Motion to commit St. James's Workhouse bill, after much conversation, negatived. On motion of Mr. Calcraft an account of the number of Shipping, employed by the EastIndia Company. Ordered-Report of Committee on Irish Budget bought up, and bills founded on the resolutions ordered to be brought in.———Adjourned.

Wednesday, June 22.---- -LORDS.-Bills on table forwarded. Several bills brought from Commons. -Loan Bill and some other bills which were ordered for commitment, passed through commit

tees and ordered to be reported to-morrow. -On the question of receiving the report of the Clergy Non Residence Bill, some discussion took place between Lords Grenville, Alvanley, Roslin, Auck. land, Grosvenor, and the Lord Chancellor, and the Bishops of London and St. Asaph. The Report was then received and some amendments agreed to, when the consideration was postponed till to-morrow. Adjourned.—COMMONS. Lord Stopford reported that his Majesty had made a most gracious answer to the address agreed upon on Saturday. Foote's Divorce Bill read.-Report of the Committee on the petitions of the Irish Tanners brought up and committed.-Highland Road Bill postponed.-Irish Militia Transfer Bill brought up and ordered for third reading to-mor row. Assessed Tax Bill recommitted, and report ordered for Monday.-Militia Subaltern Bill passed.-New Levy Bill brought up and read first time. Report of Additional Customs Bill brought up, agreed to, and bill ordered for third reading to-morrow.Committee on Personal Property Bill, report ordered for Tuesday.-Report of Medicine Duty Bill brought up, agreed to, and bill ordered for third reading to-morrow.-Report of Excise Consolidation Bill brought up, agreed to, and Bill ordered for third reading to-morrow. Committee on Assessed Tax Bill, report brought up and bill ordered to be printed.-Committee of Ways and Means, report ordered for to-morrow. -English and Irish Corn Bill passed.-Orders of the day disposed of.—Adjourned.

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Thursday, June 23.-LORDS.-Counsel heard in Thelluson v. Woodford: cause postponed till 11th July, when the judges are to give their opinions.-Committee on Bribery Oath Bill-Committee on Justice of the Peace Regulation Bill, re-committed for to-morrow.-Committee on Clergy Non-Residence Bill, report ordered for to-mor• row.-Adjourned. — COMMONS.-Edward Morris, Esq. took his seat for Newport Cornwall.-Sundry accounts of East India shipping laid on table. -Woollen Clothiers Bill postponed.-Committe on Highland Bridge Bill, report ordered for tomorrow. Leave granted to bring in a bill for increasing the number of Militia Officers. brought in, read, and ordered for second reading to-morrow. Army of Reserve Bill, after a long debate between Messrs. Calcraft, Sheridan, and Elliot, Sir G. Heathcote, the Secretary at War, Messrs. Pitt, and Windham, Lord Castlereagh, Sir E. Coote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir W. Geary, was committed, read second time and ordered for Monday.Message from Lords stating their assent to several bills-Committee on Assessed Tax Consolidation Bill, report ordered for to-morrow.-Committee on Irish Corn Trade Bill-Irish Militia Transfer Bill and Medicine Duty Bill passed.--Additional Excise Bill read sccond time, and committed for to-morrow.-Orders of the day postponed. —Adjourned.

Friday, June 24.-LORDS.-Royal assent given to 47 bills.-Several bills brought from Commons and read first time.-Bills on table forwarded.Clergy Non Residence Bill passed, after considerable debate and some amendment.-Adjourned.— COMMONS.-Southern Whale Fishery Bill read second time.Highland Road Bill reported and amendments agreed to-East India Dock Bill recommitted for Monday.-Horse-hide Bill passed. Message from Lords agreeing to Bribery Oath B II, -Report of Committee on Assessed Taxes agreed to and Bill ordered to be brought in.Militia Officers Bill read second time and committed for Monday, Accounts concerning Exchequer Bills