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forpjity *• thqir direSions, a fjjnnion Ifiad | been fcnt to every Peer diftintxly. Apologies were then admitted for such as through ill ness or other unavoidable canfes were abfeut. The Lord President (Lord Camden) then briefly dated, that on the last meeting of the*’ House he had moved an adjournment, uuder the flattering hope, that before the present pe riod his Majesty might be fudicieiitly recover ed to come down himfelf, and open the ses sion in a regular manner : That his Majesty having, however, remained for near seven weeks in the fame lamentable condition, the Privy Council had judged it exp.edieut to meet and examine the .phycifians attending as to the nature of his Majefly’s complaint, a copy of which examination he begged leave to submit to tficif Lordfljips. He then moved that the fame be read by the'Cleft, which Wis agieedto. When the minutes of the examination be fore the Privy Council had beeu read, Lord Camden moved, that it be taken into consi deration on Monday ; to which day the House adjourned. HOUSE of COMMON S. This diy the Honfc of Commons met pur suant to their adjournment from the 20th of last month. Public anxiety bad been wound up to such a pitch, that the avenues to the House were crowded at a very early hour. It was with extreme difficulty that thecon ftable could keep open a free' palfage for the Members, who, as well on account of the call of the House, that flood as the only or <der of the day, as of the important business which it was imagined would have been taken' into confidetation immediately after it, at tended in greater numbers than perhaps ever were seen at one time in St. Stephen’s Chapei, there being 470 Members present.- According to the rules of the K'oufe, no Granger can be admitted into the gallery on a day when the Members are to be called over, and the order for the call has been fulfilled or adjourned. This circumstance prevented our admiflion, and deprived us of the means of gratifying the eager curiosity of our readers by a full and accurate account of what passed in the House on this great occafiott. We were therefore under the necefiity of applying tbfoine Members for information, who were so obliging as to furiiifli us with the following particulars : About four o'clock,, the Speaker having taken the chair,* The Chancellor of the. Exchequer preffcnted to the House a report of the examination of tht King’s phyficiahs taken yesterday upon oath, by his Privy Council, relative to the tf&tc of his Majefly’s health; This report was, by order, immediately read at the table by the Clerk, and was infub flancc as follows : Dr. Warren’s opinion, as deduced from the queflions put to him, by the Privy Council, was, that hfis Majesty was at prefenfincapable of attending to public business ; that there was gteat probabil ty that his Majesty would in time be able to reftimckis'fliare in the govern ment of the country j but 1 that- be could not fay when such an event was to be ex peeled. His opinion was founded on personal experi ence, and confutation with other phvficians. Sir George Baker, Sir Lucas Fepys* and Dr. Reynolds, were feveraiiy of the fame opinion. Dt. Addington was still more fatiguine in Hit-hopes of his Majesty’s recovery, as he had seldom or ever known cases attended hr such fy mptoms as he had difeovered in his Majesty fail of a happy termina tion. ihe . hancellor of the Exchequer then moved., that the laid report be taken into con fidcraticm c« Monday next. At the fame time he gave notice, that 011 that day he would move that a committee Ihould be appointed to fearcb- for precedents in any degree applicable to the present melancholy state of public af fairs, and report them to the House. 1 he awful magnitude, he said, of the pre fem crib*, called for the moftfoious delibe rauon, and the House could nor, in his opini on, proccc.i with too much folcn.nity, or he too rauutnu in ns determination, in a huliuefs , lucli til'mi,can .i* was that which mult ihurt \y he brought Wefmc them. Ihe quell mu was then pm on the mo.ion, jud it was agmd mm, i;».p tepett flioulJ be taken into coufideration on Monday next. The Chancellor of the Exchequer next moved, that the order of the day for calling over the House on this day ihould be discharg ed, and a new order made for calling it over on Thursday next. This motion pafled with out any opposition. He then moved that the House would, at its riling, adjourn to Monday next. Mr. Viner took this opportunity to make • a short-remark upon the report that had been delivered in by Mr. Pitt. He lincerely la mented the melancholy occalion that had made it necessary; and he believed every : man in the country was truly concerned' at the cause of it. Having premised this obser vation, he said that a report taken by the . Privy Council was undoubtedly entitled' to great weight; but lie doubted whether it timed tire dignity- of Parliament that such a report Ihould be made the ground work of . a parliamentary proceeding. He quetfionea whether the House could or ought to take ihe • report''»£ the Council as the guide of its con dud ; he was rather inclined to think that it ought; to order the attendance of his Majelty’s physicians, and hear them examined at' the bar, before any final measure Ihould be pro posed or adopted. This, however, he said, he threw out only as his private opinion; the House would-judge foritfelf. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that nothing could be farther from his intention than to pieclude any measure which the House might in its wil'dom think it necefi’ary to adopt for the purpose of procuring the most ample information : He was of.' opimon,.however, that, when gentlemen woiJld confider the de licacy of the fubjed, and the dignity of the i great Personage to whafe ftatc of health the report referred, they would think with him, that the mode pursued by the Privy Council was precisely that which ought to have been adopted, and which Parliament might, with out furfering the least infringement of its dig nity, pursue. Gentlemen would also ob serve, that the examination of the physicians, by the Privy Council; had been taken upon oath, which could not be the case if they were to be examined at the bar of the Moure, as the House of Commons had not power to ad mini Her an oath to a withefS. Mr. Fox exprelled his entire acquiefeence in, and approbation of, the ftepa that had been taken in the* melancholy business; he, howeVer; had his doubts, as well as the Ho norable Member who spoke lift but one, whe ther gentlemen ought in duty to rest fatisfied without the personal examination of those physicians, on whofc testimonies they were to found confeqtiences of the Urmofrimportanee. 1 hey would, no doubt, all feel it neccflary to ad with every possible delicacy in the course of their proceedings ; but, at the fame time, if delicacy and their duty ihould .happen to clalb, the one ought not to be facrificed to the other. The question was at last put, and carried mm. con. After the motion had been thus diipofed of, The Speaker exprelTedhis doubts, whether, during the inefficiency of one branch of the Legifiature, he was competent to ifTue writs : filling up the vacancies that Ihould happen in the repr©f e ntation of the people in that House, It was the present vacancy in the borough of Colchefter, oocafioned by the death of Sir Edmund Affleck, that firit suggested to him the grounds of those doubts. Mr. Pitt was decided in opinion, that thV nq-ad could'take-place which required the joint concurrence of the different branches of the Legifiature, yet each- of-then* in its se parate capacity was fully competent to the exercise of : those powers which concerned its own orders and jurildklions. A motion was at lalt made, that this House do now adjourn } it pafTed without opposition and put an end to the couverfation. The divifious among the thiee different ranks of people in France are growing every day more alarming and violent, and we fear • will fflortly amount to a civil commotion, VVc (hall at fume leisure opportunity resume the difeourfe on the present fituatiou of Fiance, The Daniili force* have totally abandoned Sweden, But fume difference ha* occurred between the Prince of Hole and the King of Sweden, from the former** having insisted that the lum of 100,000 dollars ihould be paid the King of Denmark as a contribution in the space of four mouth*'. As a security for the payment of this ftne, the Prince took with him from Undenuilid three of the principal merchants as hodages. But it is much doubted whether the money will ever be paid. This contribution, as well as some others which the Prince of HeiVe endeavoured to ex ad on the Swedifli territories, had nearly re kindled the flames of war. The King of Sweden opposed this condud in the warmest manner, and lent an officer to . the Danith camp with the following formal declaration: “ That, if the Prince of HeiTe persisted in. bis design to levy contributions in his Bates, 4 he fliould immediately dillblve the armiflice agreed 1 on; nor ihould he abandon his fub jeds to f ch oppreffious without affording them his afliflaiice.’* To this declaration the Prince of Hesse re plied, “ that he ihould refer thole differences to be fettled by the mediating powers.” The King of-Sweden acquiesced to this proposition, and thus the matter is terminated for the prelent. N:nv Arrangements in the French Minifry. M. de Brienne has at length resigned the War Department in France. M. de Puyfe guar, as we-loug since dated, is his successor. He comes into the cabinet aided by the pow erful interest of the House of Conde. The Comte de St. Pried, late Ambassador at the Hague', ia to-be the new Secretary- of State in France for foreign affairs. M. de Mbntmorin, who now holds that fi tnation, is gaing to Condantinople, it is said, for the purpose of v negotiating peace* between* the Emperor and the Turks.- It is certain the former is mod heartily sick os the war. On the other hand, Ml de Choifcul is al ready on his route to Vienna, charged, as is reported, on a similar comnriffion. When Marflial Biron died, two millions five hundred thousand livres- were found iu his cabinet. Q_.U E-* B E C K, December 1. By a letter from Lake Ontario to a gentle-, man in this town we learn, tha', on Sunday the 2d of November, Mr. mate of his Majefly’s veffsl Limnade, cut his wife’s throat, and then his own. Jealousy, aided by liquor, is tiippofed to have been thecaufe of this ralli action. He expired immediate ly, but it is expeaed-Mrs. Fitfimons will re ' cover. BOSTON, January 16. On Friday lad the Honorable the House of- Representatives granted the Aim of idol, to his Honor Benjamin Lincoln, Esq. A meflage was received from the Gover nor, informing the Legillature, that, agree ably to a resolve of the General Court, all the copper in the Mint has been coined into Cents, . and that the Mader Workman, Infpe&or, and other persons employed therein, aredii charged. N E W • Y O R K, February 5. The brig Revolution, Capt. Kean, is ar •; rived in the river Delaware from Eatavia, in the Ead Indies, after four months passage. Ext rad of a letter from Bata-via, July 1 4,.. 1788. “0“ the 1 2th of Juue we fpuke Captain Barry, in the freight of Sunda, all well on board - “ The Dl, tch and are at present much engaged in war throughout the Chinese ffcas ; two of their European Tndiamen have been captured this season, one of whom has been since retaken in an engagement 7/ith fri gates on that dation. “ This is the mod dedruefive part of the globe to foreigners, owing to its low filiation and impurity of its waters; there are few that visit this port without experiencing the effefls of both. “ Since we left China, in January there has been a- civil war throughout that empire,, which dill continues; in consequence of which a famine, then hut partial, is noyv become general.’ 1 On the I.ih nil. the (hip Fed.ralift, C«(. p.l», failed hum Mtrtut'iHuuh lurch* till- JiuLei* • -