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poled to be the enemy’s ptivateers, had 
fade their appearance off Allepé. | 
A bedy of Faquhars, thofe religious fas 
#atics who fo frequently difturb the repofe 
of tHe people, lately excited great commo- 
#i6n in the neighbourhoed of Trichinopoly. 
Fhe military were called in, and fome field - 
pieces; laden with grape-fnof, pcinted 4- 
Hiongft thern, before they were reduced to 
&arders ' 
When the Abercrombie, Capt. Clarke, 
from Corringer to Calcutta, was wrecked 
2t the entrance of that river, the Lafcars, 
who were left oh board, loaded themfelves 
40 heavily with various articles of value, 
fot which they broke open every cheft and 
Package; that of the number of fixty-two, 
h6 pafhed off on araft from the veflel, 
i£i8 not afcertained that ten got fafe’ a- 
froré. The Abercrombie was a fine fhip 
Gf 860 tons burthen; and had on board a 
€argo of falt in high prefervation. 
A fall fort in the Bilehy Ghaut, gar- 
fifoned by fome peons of the late Sultaun, 
Has juft furrendered to a detachment of 
European troops, who has taken pofleffion 
6f it; 
IRELAND. 
fAproffed fo much of the attention ot Par- 
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ded ts, without any material alteration, 
both Howfes, and have received the 
toyal affent: 
The Houfe of Commons met on the 
évening of the 8th of May, purfuant to 
adjotirnmerit. The Bill for the Relief of 
Preteftant Curates was read a firf time 
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tid ordered to be read a fecond time on 
Monday next; to whichday Lord Cattle- 
reach faid he-intended to move, at its 
Fifing, that the call of the Holle be poft- 
potied, when 4 meafure of the greateft miag- 
tiiftide would be brought forward. 
Sir Lauretice Parions begged to know 
‘ehat was the nature of the bufinefs to be 
brought forward on that day. Lord Caf- 
tlereagh replied, a bufinefs which had been 
already very amply difcuifed in that houfes 
Hamely, a Legiflative Union between Great 
Britain afd Ireland. 
Sir Laurence obferved, it.was not with= 
ett pain and anxiety He heard the noble 
isord once more avow his determination of 
#yitating a queftion inthat Houle that had 
been already condemned by more than nine- 
tenths of the nation. He fondly hoped 
that the Minifter, profiting by the .expe- 
fience of the events daily paffing around 
itn, had at length determined to aét wile- 
ty, by giving the mealure up altogether. 
Lord Caklereagh {aid a few words ih 
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teply, and then moved the qtteftion of ad- 
journment to Monday next the 12th ins 
ftant.—Acreed to. 
GREAT-BRITAIN. | 
The principal bufinefs which has occu= 
pied the attention of Parliament fince our 
Jatt number, has been the Union with Ire- 
land. 
On this fubje&t Mr. Pitt obferved, on 
the 21ftof April, that the queftion to be 
difcuffled had originated with that Houfe, 
which, in recommending it to his. Ma- 
jefty, had pledged themfélves to follow it 
up, if it met the approbation of the Par- 
liament of Treland. 
Mr. Johnes faid, he had not approved 
of the articles, or of the meafure whicli 
had been carried in Ireland by corruption, 
and contrary to the fénfe of the people. 
He warred the Honfe to recollect the cafe 
of America; and added, that he felt it his 
duty to oppoie a meafure in many refpeéts 
fraught with the moft mifchievous éonfe- 
quences. 
The queftion for the Speaker’s leaving 
fhe chair being carried without a divifion, 
Mr. Pitt faid, that in the prefent confider= 
ation of the queltion the Committee were 
not to look to any feparate.provifion, buat 
to the whole in one comprehenfive view, 
as a meafure of general policy. We were 
to confider that it had been the uniform 
fy{tem of our implacable enemy, by clan- 
deftine machinations and_open foree, to 
endeavour to feparxte the two countries ;. 
and it fhould be our peculiar objeét to con= 
folidate the interefts of both nations, and 
place them under one fixed and permanent 
government. Mr. Pitt here entered into 
a detail of the calculations upon which the 
propoled numbers of members fent by Ire= 
land to the Imperial Parliament had been 
founded ; and with infinite ability defend- 
ed himfelf from the imputation of having 
forfaken his former political opinions, ob= 
ferving, that the circumfances of this and © 
other countries were the reverfe of what 
they had been fourteen years before ; and - 
that a rigid adherence to opinions formed 
at that period would evince achildifh pre- 
polieffion for the abftract beauties and vi- 
fions of theory, in preference to the ftriking 
deduction of praétical truth and experi- 
ence. Out of the hundred members to be 
{ent by Ireland, he believed, that not more 
than twenty held places under government ; 
at that rate, he thought they might be li« 
niited to that number in the firit Parlia- 
ment. It is propofed that the members 
of the prefent Parliament fhall continue, 
and form the firlt United Parliament ; and 
the Irifa members now fitting for tech 
places 
