at an increase of 20,000 men in the laft year in the four ports of London, Liverpool, Briftol, and Hull. General Gascoyne contradicted the Chancellor's statement, and defended his former affertions. On the fecond reading of the Navy Abufe bill, Mr. Cooper entered into a juftification of the proceedings of Lord St. Vincent; which gave rife to a conversation between Mr. Garthbore, Admiral Berkeley, and Mr. Jarvis. The Houfe went into a Committee on the act prohibiting the exportation of malt from Ireland. Mr. Vanfittart moved, that malt made in Ireland be permitted to be imported for a time to be limited, fubject to a countervailing duty. Mr. Corry moved, that, for a time to he limited, Seed Corn be permitted to he exported from Great Britain to Ireland. Both refolutions were agreed to. The report of the Committee on the gar Bounties was brought up, and the lutions agreed to. H. O F LORD S. December 15. Lord Grenville repeated the fame arguments which he had urged on the first reading of the bill: be added, that by the furrender of Martinique we had endangered our Weft India poffeffions; and by permitting the French to have Cochin from the Dutch, it only remained for Minifters to give up Malta, to enable France to carry a war into the Eaft as foon as the thould think proper. Lord Pelham declared, he knew nothing of the French being put in poffeffion of Cochin; and went into a general defence' of the conduct of himself and his colleagues, not only in obtaining the peace, but in the manner in which they had advised these fupplies to be called for. Lord Minto faid, that, after the Christmas recefs, he fhould make a motion to inquire into the part we took in the late troubles in Switzerland. In the Commons the fame day, the SeSu-cretary at War faid, he should fhortly move efo- for leave to bring in a bill to extend the time for exercifing the militia from 21 to 28 days annually. He adverted to certain militia focieties, and recommended the puhlick to guard against them, and the Houfe to provide fuch a remedy as would effectually put them down. Earl Spencer again oppofed the further progrefs of the Malt Taxil, in arguments fimilar to thote adduced on its first reading. He examined the conduct of the French Government; contended there was no fecurity in the peace; that Minifers had moved themfelves totally inc.pable of their fuations, and therefore ought not to be truited with the appropriation of fuch lige. fupplies, which he admitted were neceffary; but it was only by recalling that great man, in whole praife he could not fufficiently explain himfelf, to that firmation which he had fo honourably filed, that this country could poifibly he favel atthe prefent critical period. The mesfures might be proper, but he objected to the men. The Earl of Suffolk expreffed his diapprobation of the coacuct of the late Minifters, and hoped they would never come into power again. The Lord Chancellor faid, that if Miniftes really were fuch idiots, the most regular mode would be to bring a fpecific charge against them, and move for an address to his Majefty to defire their removal. Lord Hobart infilled that neitt er he nor of his colleagues would fuffer the horour of the country to be tarnished: and entered upon a defence of the plan of the fueplies. any Lord Cary fort gave a minute account of the places we held at the period of the peace, an i wished to know whether Mihite's intended to give up Malta. The Duke of Norfolk ipoke against the restoration of the late Miniftry. Mr. Kinnaird paid fome handsome com pliments to the First Lord of the Admiralty for his endeavours to remedy the abufes in his department; but he thought the different boards had already power enough to prevent them; and, to afcertain this, he moved "That an humble Add:efs he prefented to his Majesty, that he wou'd give orders that copies of the patents of committion of the Admiralty and Navy Boards be laid before the Houfe." Mr. Sturges oppofed the bill, on the ground of his giving too great a power to the Commisioners. Capt. Makham faid, that, unless the Commiffioners had full powers, the bill would fall thort of its object. In proof of the abuses, he faid, a perfon, who con♣ tracted for cooperage in the Navy, fent in his accompts, making the total charge for cooperage work done, 1260l. or 1020l.; when this bill was referred to the proper officers to inveiligate and examine it, the whole was reduced to 37 It then became ncceffary to recur to his former charges, and he was ordered to attend the Board and produce his books, and vouchers for all he had done. He did attend; but he unrefervedly refuted to produce them, and fet the Board and the publick at defiance. After Mr. Sheridan and other Members had exprefied their opinion of the neceflity of plenary powers, the motion was carried, without a divifion. In a Committee of Supply, the Chancell of the Exchequer moved, that the form o 15,1631. 6d. In the Commons the fame day, on the motion for the third reading of the Tranfportation bill, Sir C. Bunbury thought the bil could not redrefs the grievances complained of, as there were now 723 prifoners in Newgate; 512 of whom were felons and fines. He thought debtors thould not be confined with felons, nor felons with prifoners not tried.-Several Members expreffed fimilar opinions; after which the bill was naffed. The order of the day being read, for taking the Navy Regulation bill into confideration, Mr. Canning thought the Houfe too preci-, pitate in paling it; there were tribunals already perhaps fuficient to correct the abufes complained of, as a Committee of the Houfe was the old conftitutional check over the public boards; and he concluded with withing the bill to fland over till after the recess. The Chancellor of the Exchequer defended the menfure, on the ground of its not being a new one; after which the difeuffion of the different claufes was proti acted to an extraordinary length, and the bill was ordered to be read the third time to morrow. December 18. Capt. Markham moved the third reading of the Navy Commiffion bill. Mr. Sheridan faid, he should have liked the bill much better if no Members of Parliament had heen Commithoners; but, as he had heard two of them were profedional gentlemen, of fuch honour and talents that their not being in the commiffion would be a public lofs, it had fomewhat reconciled him. He did not like to increafe the patronage of the Crown. In cafe of the death, or refufal to accept, of any of thefe Commiflioners, the nomination was in the Crown. He thould therefore move, "Tha', in cafe of a vacancy, by non-ac ceptance or otherwife, his Majesty should be empowered to fill fuch vacancy with perfons not being Members of Parliament." The Chancellor of the Exchequer faid, the jealousy of the Houfe of the appointments of any of its Members by the Crown to places of profit, was one of its most important functions; and far be it from him to leffen it. Agreed to; and bill paffed. December 20. Captain Markham moved for an account of the quantity of flax and hemp imported during the last ten years, diftinguishing each year, and the country from which it was imported. Ordered. The English Militia Amendment bill was read the third time, and paffed. On the order for the third reading of the Sugar Bounty bill, Mr. Jobrfon made fome objections. Several Members fpoke in favour of the bill; after which it was read the third time and paffed. Sir Francis Burdett, under the idea that he had not fufficiently explained himself on a former day, stated the nvure of his complaint against the True Briton, and read the refolutions contained in an advertisement in that poor; the object of which was, to fupport Mr. Mainwaring's crufe by fubfcription: he then read the two resolutions he meant to propofe, the fubit-nce of which Wa rit, That, after a petition had bean reccised, any application tending to prejudice the merits of the cofe, or prejudice the Members, was a breach of the privi leges of the Houfe, and a contempt of its jurifdiction. 2dly, That fubferibing money in fupport of a petition, while pending in the Houfe, was a breach of its privileges." He then dif med any thing perfonal; he had no wish to bring any printer to the bar, but left it to the Houie to mark its difapprobation of fuch proceedings, confulting is own dignity and honour. Mr. Thornton, whofe name was to the advertisement, briefly vindicated his conduct, and conceived himfelf justified, as an Elector of Middlefex, in mainta ning his rights and francletes. By the return of Sir Francis Bardot, he had found his own vors, and the votes of many other Freeholders, rendered gato. y. In counttency, therefore, with his duty, without any motives of perfonal hoftility to the Hon. Baronet, he had endeavoured to get his valuable franchite refored. Lord Hawkesbury confidered the first refolution to be founded on an erroneous #atement: Mr. Mainwaring had a petition pr. fented, afcribing mifconduft to his fuccestal opponent. In that petition it was oblervable, that the langage was as mode rate rate as could have been nfed. The petition was made public, and circulated in all parts of the kingdom, by the Votes of the Houfe; and he could not comprehend how it was indecorous in any fet of gentlemen to fubfcribe to that petition. As to the second refolution, the fubfcribers had a right to call upon others to join them in opinion. He concluded with moving the order of the day. Some farther converfation took place; and Sir Francis Burdett again difclaimed any perfonality; and the refolutions were negatived without a divifion. On the motion for the fecond reading of the Navy Abuse bill, Lord Pelham expref. fed his opinion, that it was abfolutely neceffary; although he was no advocate for delegating extraordinary powers to Commiflioners. Lord Nelfon alfo expreffed his conviction of the great abufes that existed in the navy, and particularly among the Prize-agents. He lamented the difficulty experienced by falers in obtaining their rights in this reIpect, more particularly when an agent happened to die. He laid great ftrefs on the neceffity of the bill, and concluded with giving it his vote. The Lord Chancellor (poke at length on the jealousy he entertained of the bill, becafe it gave unufual powers to any set of Commiffioners. Every man who wifhed well to his country's honour and intereft, nuft feel anxious that thofe failors who fought our battles fhould, without delay or vexation, receive the reward of their vaJour; but that defirable object would have been better obtained, if a separate Commillion had been authorized by a hill for the purpofe of inquiring into the abufes of Prize-agents. The fact, meant to be defcribed in the affertion ftated in the pream'b'e of the bill, might, by one fet of men, be termed "au abute;" by another, "a fraud;" and by a third, "an irregularity." Would it not, therefore, be a more intelligible thing to have divided each of thefe; and, inftead of inftituting Commiffioners to inquire into complicated obje&is, to have iffued different Commiffions applicable to each of the three heads afferted in the primble of the bill to ex He concluded with expreiling his anxiety to watch over the benefits of every British subject. The bill was read a fecond time. In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Corry, after a few prefa ory obfervations, moved for the production of the following accounts: an Account of the Ordinary Revenue, and the Extraordinary Refources conftituting the Public Income of Ireland, from the 25th of March 1799, to the 5th of January 1800. Alfo an Account of a fimilar nature, from the 25th of March 1800, to the 5th of January 1801; and from the 25th of March 1801, to the 5th of January 1802. Ordered. Mr. Corry next moved, that there be laid before the Houfe a Lift of the Officers whofe accounts have been audited by the Commiffioners for auditing the Public Accounts of Ireland. Alfo a lift of the perfons accountable before the Commiffioners for the expenditure of money entrusted to them on account of the extraordinary services of Ireland. Ordered. He next gave notice of his intention to move for leave to bring in a bill fhortly after the recess, the object of which would be to give to the public creditor in Ireland a fecurity as folid and as little liable to doubt as that enjoyed by the public creditor in England. He likewife wished to renew his motion for rendering permanent thofe acts re fpecting the revenue which were voted annually by the Irish Parliament. The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice, in confequence of this latt intimation, that, early after the recefs, he should submit a propofition to the Houfe, for confolidating the duties of Cuftoms. That propofition would not only embrace the plan adopted in the year 1787, but would include feveral additional articles to which that plan did not apply. He should alfo fubmit a motion upon a fubject refpecting which fome erroneous notions had been entertained. He alluded to a bill for extending the fyftem of bonding and warehousing to a number of articles to which the bill exifting did not apply. He withed it to be understood, that it was not in contemplation to adopt any thing like a general fyftem of free ports, but merely a partial extenfion of the prefent regulation. To that effect, a difcretion would be vested in fush bands as the wifdom of Parliament fhould think fit, for granting licences to porttowns, enabling them to participate in the advantages of the intended regulation. He alfo renewed a notice he had given in the laft Farliament, of his intention to bring in a bill for appointing Commiffioners to inveftigate the joint accounts between Great Britain and Ireland. He likewife obferved, that he should not introduce his propofition for extending the bonding and warehousing fyftem until after his bill for confolidating the Customs should have received the approbation of the Houfe. INSTITUTION FOR EXTERMINATION OF THE SMALL-POX. A VERY numerous and highly refpectable Meeting was held at the London Tavern, on Wednesday the 19th of January, "to confider of the beft means to be adopted for the Extermination of the mail Pox" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor took the Chair at about a quarter after one o'clock; and explained, in a fhort, but impretive fpeech, with what pleature he faw around him a meeting of noblemen and gentle men fo eminently refpectable; how great he conceived to be the utility of Vaccination; and how fublime the beneficence that would labour to make it, as foon as poffible, the means of externating the ills of one of the most terrible afflictions under which humanity had ever suffered. Mr. Travers, whofe zeal and indefatigable exertions in the cause of Vaccination cannot be too much commended, took an extensive view of the importance of the fubject; and, after a well-deferved eulogium on the character and fervices of Dr. Jenner, entered largely into calculations of the mortality occafioned by the Small-pox, and the decrease of that mortality fince the introduction of the Jennerian difcovery-a difcovery, to the honour of which Dr. Jenner is wholly entitled. 11,800 perfons, he obferved, had been inoculated, in the fhort fpace of two years, and of 2500 who had gone through the Cow-pock, and were afterwards inoculated for the Small-pox, not one perfou took the lat ter. He stated, that for 1000 years the Small-pox had thinned the population of Europe, had robbed the affections of fathers, the yearning hearts of mothers, of their dearest joys; that the cooling prac tice of Sydenham, invented about 150 years fince, tended to leffen the devastation; that Inoculation, commencing at a later period, had, in fact, increated the mifchief which it feemed to diminish; that the prefent annual deaths by the Smallpox, were, for the Metropolis 3000, for the whole Empire 40,000; that Dr. Jenner's invention, affording an effectual preventive, not communicable otherwife than by Inoculation, yielded a fure hope of the ultimate extirpation of this most terrible of plagues; that, for this reafon, the defign of the prefent meeting, expreffed in an Addrefs to the Publick (which he moved), was one of the most beneficent to which buman beings could, in this ftate of existence, give their aid. He appealed to the numerous affemblage of medical men, friends to the fyftem, who were then prefent, whether his obfervations and affertions were not founded in fact. The propofed Addrefs to the Publick was then read, by the Chief Magiftrate, from the Chair, in the following words: "The dreadful havock, occafioned by that horr & peftilenc the Small-pox, which "The Inoculation of this difeafe has op- "A new species of Inoculation has a length been providentially introduced by our countryman Dr. Jenner; which, without being contagious, without occasioning any material indifpofition, or leaving any blemish, proves an effectual prefervative against the future infection of the Small-pox. "The Houfe of Commons, having investigated this fubje&t with the moft scrupulous attention, and being perfectly convinced of the fuperior advantages refulting from this difcovery, have given their fanction to the practice; the fafety, mildness, and efficacy of which, more than half a million of inftances have fully confirmed. "The unfpeakable benefits which may he expected to arife from an extenfive diffation of this falutary practice, will be much atcelerated by the establishment of an inftitution in a central part of the Metropolis, on a broad bafis, fupported with a fpirit equal to the defign, and worthy of the character of the British Nation. And, when the magnitude of the object is comdered, which is no less than to eradicate a disease acknowledged to be the greatest fcourge that ever afflicted mankind, there can be but one fentiment on the subject. "The enlightened, the benevolent, the opulent, will doubtless vie with each other, in the zealous fupport of an undertaking which will reflect the highest honour upon their Country; and, by faving millions of victims from an untimely grave, prove an inestimable bleffing to the whole human race." Dr. Lettfom expatiated on the advantages the community experienced from establishments formed for checking the ravages of the Small-pox, by the introduction of Inoculation. But it was to be lamented that one unfortunate circumstance attended the practice by Inoculation: while it infured fafety to the individul, it afforded the means of fpreading the variolous contagion. This he confirmed, by the production of tables, drawn up with elaborate accuracy, thewing the comparative mortality occafioned by the Small-pox, for 42 years be. fore the introduction of Inoculation, and 42 42 years after that practice became known. He fhewed, that the mortality was annually increafing fince the introduction of InocuJation. In the 42 years before Inoculation, 1100 died annually in London, or about 72 in every 1000; but in the last 42 years, the calculation is on the average 2000 deaths in Londen only, until the last two years, in which, from the adoption of Inoculation with Coru-pock, the number has decreafed to 1500. He alfo expatiated on the increase of chriftenings and decrease of deaths, from. the very excellent regulations adopted in Hofpitals and the establishments of Difpenfaries; by which more than 300,000 poor, who could not otherwife afford to have recourfe to medical aid in their various difeafes, were relieved; by which it was very evident, from calculations made from the bills of mortality, that in the last 15 years there were annually, on an average, 1300 more chriftened, and 1500 fewer deaths, than in the 15 years preceding. That it was no unreasonable fuppofition to advance, that, if Dr. Jenner's discovery had been known 15 years ago, 30,000 lives would have been faved to the community in that thort space of time. He concluded by feconding the motion for the Addrefs. Dr. Bradley, in a moft energetic speech, took a comprehenfive view of the advantages refusting from the very great blefling with which we had been favoured, and of the honour which this Country fhould derive from having the Vaccine Inoculation first promulgated by our own countryman Dr. Jenner. That fo great was the exultation, and fo high a fenfe was entertained on the Continent of Europe of the very great advantages of the Jennerian Difcovery, that it was celebrated by fêtes and anniversary demonftrations of exultation. His being concerned in a widely-extended literary work (the Medical Journal) gave him opportunities of knowing, from correfpondents in various parts of the world, the high opinion entertained throughout the whole Continent of Europe, he might say the whole World, of the Jennerian practice; and obferved that our neighbours on the Continent appeared rather furprized, that we, with whom that practice originated, appeared flow in the propagation of fo great a bleffing, and lets fanguine in promoting it than the inhabitants of other countries in Europe. He combated in a masterly manner the vulgar error, that other difeafes are inoculated with the common Small-pox, proving that this fuppofition is totally unfounded; at the fame time calcuJated that, with refpect to the natural Smallpox, as many perfons die of difeafes confequent thereon, as of the difeafe itfeif; confequently, if in a given number of years 40,oco die of Small-pox, 40,000 more will die of difeafes originally produced by that dilcafe. He fignified his regret that preju dices of the people, which he convincingly enumerated, gave to Britain the fame of being flower than fome foreign countries in putting Vaccination (which was followed, neither by difeafe nor blemish) into unjverfal ufe; and concluded a most learned. and interefting fpeech, by obferving, that, if we received Inoculation from Turkey, we have amply repaid the boon, by fending back Dr. Jenner's Discovery. Dr. James Sims recommended, that the plan, now propofed, fhould be extended to every part of the United Kingdom. Mr. Wilberforce added his hearty concurrence with the inte tions of the gentlemen who had fpoken; entered feelingly into the full rings which humanity had borne for fo long a time, and the benefits that would accrue from the introduction of the Vaccine Inoculation; and propofed, that,› through the medium of a Committee, the i meeting fhould apply to Parliament, to addrefs his Majesty, to command the hole influence of the Executive Government, by all its fervants, and throughout every fuitable department, to be put in act for the extenfion of Vaccination. Mr. Highmore, Secretary to the Small-pox and Inoculation Hofpitals attended, with in- 1 Atructions to fav, that any affiitance within the power of the governors and officers, towards the completion of fo laudable an undertaking, would be moft chearfully rendered. He prefented alfo a report from the Commit. tee of thofe Hofpitals to a General Court, Dec. 16, refpecting the increafed public benefit of that Inflitution fince the introduction of the VACCINE INOCULATION has been added to the former branches of its practice. It began in this Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Woodville, in january 1799; and, from that period to the rft of December last, 11,800 patients and upwards have been vaccinated, of which number about 250 were afterwards proved to be fecure from the Natural Small-pox, by receiving a further Inoculation according to the former practice, which took no effect; a number amply fufficient to fatisfy the public mind of the fecurity and fuccefs of the new practice of Vaccination. And the Committee have not heard of any complaint from any one of those who were not inoculated a fecond time, of their having fince taken the Natural Small-pox, although they were chiefly indigent perions, and the far greater number of them living in places where the air is very confined, and particularly where it has been fince afcertained that the Natural Smail-pex was prevalent among thofe with whom many of them neceffarily had continual intercourse. The fuccefs of Vaccination has very rapidly increafed during the current year. From the rt of January to the 1st of December 1802, of 373 patients admitted into the fnoculation hofpital, only 49 were inoculated ac Sording |