found in his pockets. 
4 
moved as an amendment. that, inftead of 
the firft of February next, “ten days 
after the meeting of pdrliament fhould be 
fubftitufed.”? Upon a divifion there ap- 
peared for the amendment 14, againft it 
313. The bill was then paffed through 
all the remaining ftages, and was {ent 
back to the Lords... eke 
On the next day (April the 21{t), this 
bill received the ‘royal affent by com- 
miffion. The Habeas Corpus A& there- 
fore now ftands fufpended till the firft of 
Febiuary 1799. — 
_ IRELAND, 
Turbulence, affaffination and military 
Jaw, ttill continue to be alternately preva- 
lent in this diftraéted nation. 
On the 12th of March, one of his 
majefty’s meflencers, attended by a civil 
aud military force, proceeded to the houfe 
of Mr. Oliver Bond, of Bridge-freet, 
in the city of Dublin, upon an informa- 
fion which had been received by govern- 
ment, that the Provincial Committee of 
United. Trifhmen of Leinfter were. to 
aflemble there for treafonable pur- 
pofes. A committee of fourteen dele- 
gates were found fitting, and were im- 
mediately taken into cuftody. Mr. Bond 
Was not in the room of the meeting, but 
papers affecting him are faid to have been 
A warrant is faid 
to be iffued out againit Lord Edward 
Fitzgerald. 
_ General Abercrombie JIately iffued 
fome orders relative to the better difcipline 
and regulation of the Irifh army. This 
appears to be a political meafure in direét 
hoftility to the plan originally avowed in 
the proclamation iffued by General Lake, 
and aéted upon ever fince, and therefore 
has brought down the difpleafure of fome 
" perfons upon the General, and it was even 
‘reported, at one time, that he was to refign. 
In the Honufe of Lords of Ireland, a 
' Jong and important debate took place on 
the rothof February. ‘The patriotic and 
amiable EARL Morera was the leader of 
this debate: after explaining the motives 
“which impelled him to addres their Lord- 
fhips, he adverted to the calumnies which 
had been fo induftrioufly fpread againtt 
him, and the mifreprefentations of which 
he had been accirled. ’ He faid, that he 
was ready to re-affert every thing he’ had 
afferted in’ England, and was teady to 
if rove ‘the ‘fatts by incontrovertible evi- 
dence. HisLordfhipthén made a powerful 
3 Secs the feelincs of the Houle. “He 
c 
dled ‘them 'to deft’ from a fyftem of 
“oa inilitary coercion, which could only tend 
. 
A. 
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to create diffentions ata mornent” when 
» Monti, MAG, ‘NovKXX, 
State of Public Affairs. 
faney defended it. 
“after which Lords Roffmore and Belmont 
393, 
unanimity was more than ever neceflary. 
After inveighing againft the official 
employment of profligate {pies and in- 
formers, and dwelling upon the grievances 
that the Irifh nation had to complain of, 
his Lordfhip concluded: an impreilive 
fpeech, with a motion to the following 
purport : 
«© That an humble addrefs be prefented 
to the Lord Lieutenant, reprefenting, that 
as parliament hath confided to him ex- 
traordinary powers for fupporting the 
laws, and for defeatmg the traitorous 
combinations, which may exift in this 
kingdom, this houfe feels it at the fame 
time a duty to recommend the adoption 
of fuch conciliatory meafures as may 
allay the apprehenfions and extinguifh 
the difcontents unhappily prevalent in this 
country.” i 
Lord Glenworth, Earl Cavan, and 
the Lord Chancellor fpoke againft the 
motion. 
The Bifhop of Down and Lord Dun- 
Lord Moira replied, 
faid each a few words againit the motion. 
At two o’clock im the morning the 
Houle divided.—Contents 8.—Non con- 
tents 44. : 
' The Houfe of Commons on the 16th 
of April, upon a motion by Mr. Max- 
well, voted a certain paragraph, which 
had appeared a few days before in an 
Englith news paper, called the Suz, to be 
a falfe and feandalous libel. 
his paragraph flated, that ** feveral 
regiments of the Irifh militia had gone 
over to the infurgents, whom the coercive 
meafures of government had driven to 
open rebellion.”” Mr. Maxwell, faid, he 
fhould, on a future day, move the houle 
refpe&ting an appropriate punifament for 
this atrocious libel. 
FRANCE. 
The late tranfastions of the leaders of 
the French Republic have excited at once 
the fear and the aftonifhment of the reft of 
Europe. ‘They have overthrown, the 
triple crown, and raifed a democratical 
form of goyernment upon its, ruins, con- 
formable to the modern fyftem of repre- 
fentation. 
The Republic.of Berne has alfo _ex- 
perienced a total change, as. may be Jeen 
im our Jaft, and. for further, fecunty, 
Geneva has taken fhelter under the power 
of. France. The whole, of .Switzerland 
is taking mealures to. form a Republic, 
ene and indivifible. A treaty, of amity 
and commerce has taken piace between the 
Cifaipine and the Gallic Republics. 
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