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King’s Bench for a habeas corpus, to 
bring up the body of Mr. ‘Tone upon this 
ground, ‘* That courts-martial had no 
jurifdiction upon fubje€is not m the mi- 
hitary fervice of his majefty, during the 
fitting of the Court of King’s Bench.” 
The chief juftice ordered a writ to be 
made out immediately, but Mr. Tone 
was not in a condition to be moved. The 
‘mulitary, im whoie cuftody the prifoner 
was, obeyed the order of the Court of 
King’s Bench, and fufpended the execu- 
tion. Heis fince dead in confequence of 
his wounds. 
_ The parliament of Ireland, which ftood 
prorogued to the zoth of November, has 
been furtherproragued to the 18th of De- 
cember. 
In Belfaft, the reftraints of martial law 
have been taken off; the fame happy re- 
laxation has taken place in the principal 
towns of the north, and it is hoped, that 
in a fhort time every feature of a mili- 
tary government will be removed from the 
face of the conntry. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
A. new and important fyflem of finance, 
and an union, between Great Britain and 
Ireland, are faid to be among the princi- 
pal articles to be difcufled during the pre- 
dent feffions of parliament. It was off- 
cially notified by his majefty’s minifters, 
on the zoth of November, “ that a de- 
cree having been publithed, by the French 
diectory, declaring, that all perfons, 
natives of, or originally belonging to neu- 
tral countries, or countries in alliance 
with France, who may form a part of the 
crews of any of the king’s fhip’s of war, 
or any other Britifn veffels fhail be confi- 
dered and treated as pirates; his majefty 
has dirc&ted it to be fignified to the 
commifiary for French  prifoners~ in 
Great Britain; that if the above decree 
of the French dire€tory, fhall in any in- 
ftance be carried into effet againft any 
_fuch perfons, taken in any Britifh vefiels 
navigated under, the Britifh flag ; it Is 
his majefty’s determination to exercife the_ 
mot? vigorous retalliation againft the fub- 
jects of the French republic, whom the 
chance of war may place at the king’s 
difpofal. His majefty, on-the zoth of 
‘November, went to the houfe of peers, 
and opened the feflions of both houfés of 
parliament, by a fpeech from the throne, 
in whick he dwelt upon the fignal fuc- 
ceffes which had lately attended his army, 
particularly that obtained by a detach- 
ment of his fleet, under the command of 
admiral lord Nelfon, by which, an enter- 
prize—the injuftice, perfidy, and extra- 
vagance, of which had fired the attention 
_ State of Public Affairs. 
-[ Nov. 
of the world, and was peculiarly dire&ted 
againft {ome of the moft valuable poflef- 
fions of the Britifh empire, was defeated— 
that the wifdom and magnanimity of the 
emperor of Ruflia, and the decifion and 
vigour of the Ottoman Porte, had fhewn 
that thefe powers were impreffed with a 
jut fenfe of the importance of the prefent 
crifis—that the extent of our preparations 
at home, joined to the zeal and {pirit of 
all ranks of his fubje€ts, had deterred our 
enemics from the execution of their vain 
threat of invading this king¢dom.—That 
in Ireland, the rebellion which they had 
inftigated, had been curbed and reprefied. 
He told the gentlemen of the houfe of 
commons, that, under the unavoidable 
preffure of protracted war, he had the 
fatista€tion te inform them, that the pro- 
duce of the permanent revenue, was tully 
adequate to our increafed ‘expenditure ; 
the national credit had been improved and 
maintained, and the commerce and in- 
duftry of his fubjeéts, had flcurifhed to 
a degree hitherto unknown—That the 
prefent fituation of affairs unhappily ren- 
dered heavy expences indifpenfible ; but, 
the fiate_of your refources, joined to the 
good fenfe and fpirit of the nation, he 
hoped would enable’us to provide the ne- 
ceflary fupplies without any effential in- 
convenience—He concluded with relying 
with the utmoft confidence on our efforts, 
to enable him to condu@ the conteft in 
which we are engaged, to a fafe and 
-henourable conclufion. 
Lord Darnley moved the addrefs, and 
Lord Craven feconded his motion. 
The marquis of Landfdown, rofe and 
obferved, that he heartily agreed to the 
eulogium which had been pafled on our 
navy, for the late brilliant victories ; but, 
there was another dyty incumbent upon 
that houfe; namely, to be careful that 
every advantage was made by our minii- 
ters, of thofe victories—It was énly by 
producing a permanent peace, that thefe 
fuccefles could be of any real utility ; it 
was therefore, that he felt no {mall con- 
cern, that the fpeech from the throne, 
gave not the diftant hope, of that which 
was fo very defirable to the nation, a 
fpeedy peace ; it-breathed indeed nothing 
but war ; for, inftead of hinting at nego- 
ciation, if mentioned foreign alliances. 
What had we to expeét from the boafted 
alliance with Ruffia and the Ottoman 
porte, when jarring interefts had prevent- 
ed Pruffia and Auftria from ating in con- 
cert againft France?» Surely the interefts 
of Ruifia and the Porte, had been long 
obferved to be almoft oppofite. It was 
well known that the emperor of Rufhia 
é had 
