Sir John Sinclair, a board of agriculture was established,
and L3000 per annum were voted for the encouragement of that science.

TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS.

The trial of Warren Hastings was resumed on the 15th of February, and
during the session the court sat twenty-two days, in which time the
counsel for the prisoner completed the defence set up by them on the
last three articles; namely, those relating to the Begums, to presents,
and to contracts. After this Hastings addressed the court, praying
that their lordships would order the trial to continue to its final
conclusion, but all further proceedings were adjourned till the next
session.

DISCUSSION ON A MEMORIAL PRESENTED TO THE STATES-GENERAL.

During this session some violent debates took place on a memorial
presented to the States-general, by the British and imperial ministers
at the Hague, on the 5th of April. In this memorial their high
mightinesses were called upon to prevent any of the French regicides
from finding an asylum in their states in Europe, or in any of their
colonies. The language which was used was very strong; and Earl
Stanhope moved that the British envoy, Lord Auckland, should not only
be recalled, but impeached for putting his signature to such a paper. In
the commons, also, Sheridan moved an address to his majesty, expressive
of the displeasure of the house at the said memorial; and stating that
the minister who presented it had departed from the principles on which
the house had concurred in the measures for the support of the war. In
the course of his speech, Sheridan held up to detestation the conduct of
the Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia,
in the new partition of Poland, which they had just completed. Sheridan
said, that no robbery committed by the most desperate of the French, and
no crimes that had been perpetrated in France, exceeded in infamy
the injustice and tyranny of those sovereigns. Sheridan's motion was
negatived by two hundred and eleven, against thirty-six. In the upper
house Lord Grenville made a motion for approving the conduct of Lord
Auckland, which was carried without a division.

FOX'S MOTION FOR PEACE.

Burke remarks:--"After it had been generally supposed that all public
business was over for the session, and that Mr Fox had exhausted all the
modes of pressing his French scheme, he thought proper to take a step
beyond every expectation, and which demonstrate