Star. — London, England, 1807-04-14 00:00:00

be deterred from the profecution of its public duties by fuch a threat, which was certainly as indecent, in difcreet, and unparliamentary, as could potably have been thrown out. That threat, however, fhould have no influence upon his mind. He could not fee any good confequences likely to refult from protraaing to a later period the difctiffion ; nor did it appear to him, that that was the mon likely mode to gain for the fubjeil the fullea degree of attention and cont . '. deration. When a dilcutfion was put off longer than was neceirary, the attention of mankind vas apt to relax ; whereas, it it was brought on while the fubjea was warm in their minds, it was likely to command more attention, and to be as well conn ected. He had left out many parts of the Bill, in cenfequence of communications received from a va- riety of quarters, and he was happy to acknowledge, publicly, the great obligations he felt to thofe Gen• tlemen who had thus alEaed him with their obfer- srations. After a few words from Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, who alto difclaimed the idea of being deterred from Isis Parliamentary duty by the threat held out, the ill was ordered to be recommitted on Friday next. COLONEL CAWTHORNE. g General PORT!. R poilponed his motion refpetting Colonel Cawtitorne till to morrow fortnight, as the Proceedings of t!.e Court- Mart' al, which had been ordered to he printed on the t tth of March Litt. would not be ready to be delivered beiore the 23d of the prefent month. Oa the motion of Mr. SWAN, the Petition from Laneafter, In hvonr of Colonel Cawthorn, was ordered to be taken into eon. aderation on the fame day. COMMITTII OF FJNANCI. Mr. WARD role to alk a queflion rerpetiing a tranfaltion which had been generally rumoured to have tranfpircd in an examination before the Com mittee of Finance. If any Member of that Committee then prefent, would think proper to give fome expla• nation on that Cubic& he lhould feel very happy to receive it. Lord HENRY PETTY replied, that the Chairman of the Committee of Finance was not then in the Houle. While be filled a high fituation in the late Adminißration, although a Member of that Corn-, inittee, he had feldom time to attend it ; but he at tended it this day, and he could Rate, that the fait alluded to had tranfpired, upon the examination of a Mr. Thomas. The Paymaßer of the Army was alto this day examined before the Committee. The Committee would zertainly conceive it their duty fully to examine into this delicate tranfataion that had thus tranfpired, and report the fame to the Houle for their confiderati.)n. [The tranfadinn which was alluded to, was fomething which had tranfpired retiredly% the Department of Paymafcr•General of the Army.] BARRACK PAPERS. . Lord H. PETTY role purfuant to notice, to move for the produflion of the Minute of the Treafirry, re- Inciting the appointment of a Board, to perform cer tain duties which were formerly performed by the officer called the Barrack Mallet General. The fags refpefting this bufinef. were there. Early in lath Autumn, the Commiffioners of Military Inquity th.,ught it their duty to communicate to the Lords of the Treafir y certain parts of their 4th Report, which is not yet entirely printed, and it was they who re commended the appointment of this new Board. His Majelly's late Miniflers agreed to the plan fuggetled by that Committee, which had alto his Majedy's ap probation, and his fignature was obtained to the ap pointment. The Privy Seal, however, was not fet to this appointment, and he now underflo , d that iL was not to be placed to it. He made no doubt but that the Nable Lord (War-no:land) might have very good reafons for not putting the Privy Seal to the appointment of this Board. His principal motive in moving IT this paper was, that the Houfe fhould know the grounds upon which his Majelly's late Mini(lers had taken up the faggeßion of the Corn. tnittee of Military Enquiry ; and he hoped that the prefent Adminiftr,ttion would not at leaf' refolve againfi the appointment of the Board without very full confederation, when they confider what enormous abufes had before prevailed in the Barrack Depart ment, acrd that it was for the correction of thofe abufes that the Board was recommended. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Paid, he &fluid nor oppufe the produCtion of the Paper moved for; but as to the appointment of the Board, it was a matter which would require a very =pit confederation, efpecially as there was loch a variance of opinion upon ir, among all thole perfons to whom it had been referred. The reports of the Comptrollers of the Army Accounts, and of the Commiffioners for the Barrack Accounts, did not agree as to the policy of that meafure, recommended by the Committee for Milit.iry Enquiry. It certainly was not the with of his Majetty's prefenr Minitters to precipitate any arrangement of this fort, although a former Adminiffration might hare abed on different principles. Lord H. PETTY faid, the difference between them on this point was, that the former Adrninittration withed to carry into effed the recommendations of the C mtni , tee appointed by that Houle, whereas the prefent appeared to be thing in contradiftion to it. After a few w; rds in reply from the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER, the motion was agrted to. LAN INTEREST BILL. Tile Honfe having refolved itfelf into a Committee on this Bill, and the Bill being read, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER laid, that he had no objection to the intera of the loan being for the prefent year fecured according to •he mode pointed out in the plan of the Noble Lord ( Lord H. Petty). He %%Abed, however, to avoid pledging the Houle to approve of any part of that r.latt for the future. He was very ready to agree to the firß abject that was Bated, to prevent any new t ,Ixativn in the prefent year; he was ready to agree to the to per cent. which was created for the intereft of the loan tithe prefent year, and the Sinking Fund —but there were other parts of that very complicated ly Rem which required a more ample confideration han could be well bellowed upon it in the courfe of he prefent Seglon. There were many objections to the principle of making permanent thofe taxes which were originally raifed as mere war taxes, and making them the fund which was to fecure the intereß of the loans. He had been well informed, that a confiderable degree of fentation and alarm had been excited by the idea of continuing the duties on exports and tonnage after the war ) and he thought that was a part of the Noble Lord's plan which ought not to be perfevered in. The completion of any permanent fiflem mnatake a confiderable time ; and fence the plan was.origi- , nally propofed, a great deal of new light had been thrown upon the fubjeet;both in the difeuffion which took place in and out of that Houk. He concluded by propofing an amendment to the claufe in the bill agroeable to the obfervations he had thrown out. Lord H. PETTY Paid, that if the loan of the prefent year was fecured in the manner which had been already determined by the Refolutions of that Houfe, he could have nn cbjeftion to adjourn the confiders lion of the general merits of the plan he hid the ho nour to bring•forward to a future time, when it might ' be fubmitted to the fulled enquiry, and to the final judgment of Parliament. As to the alarm and fenfa lion produced by the tonnage and export duties, if any fuch alarm did exifi, it muff have proceeded from a mifunderßanding of what he had Paid. He had Rated molt exptefsly, that he did not with to pledge the Houfe to tie continuance of any one of thofe taxes, but that he meant merely to aflign that portion of the taxes, which was now reprefented by the war taxes, as the fecurity of the loan ; and to pledge the Houfe only to fubßitute other taxes for any of thofe which they might refolve to difcontinue. As for what taxes fhould be continued after the war, and what (hould be difcontinued, he had always [fated, and Rill was of opinion, that the return of peace would be the proper period, in which that fubjed thonld be taken into confederation. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would have no oblation to extend the period to twelve months, after peace, inflead of fix ; in which cafe Parliament mull meet, and would have time to decide finally on the fubjeft. He thought nothing could be more objationable than the principle of the prefect plan, which went to pledge the Houle to continue nine millions and a half of taxes as a fecurity for twelve millions of money. The furplus of the Confolidated Fund was now three millions and a half, and he thought that was a very abundant fe culity. It certainly would be poliible to avoid the pledging the whole of the War Taxes, by making permanent Tome of the leaft objalionable of them. Mr. TIERNEY again protefied agaisill looking to a fir ppofed future excefs of the Confolidated Fund, as a fecurity. It would be entirely departing from all the principles of Finance which had been eltablith. ed in this country. The fat now Rood thus : the original bargain with the contrators for the loan was, that it was to be fecured on thofe taxes, and in confequence of that bargain, the Minifters received their money, and had it now in their pockets. It was then too much now to fay, that we would neither give them that fecurity for which they bargained, nor any other fecurity, fuch as was ever given for a loan, but throw them merely on the chance furplus in the confolidated fund, when peace fhould be re ftored. Lord H. PETTY (aid, that the Right Hon. Gen• tleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) certainly was not advifed by the Nrble Lord who fat near him (Lord Calllereagli), in (peaking of a violation of faith, in applying part of the exceffes of the Confoli dated Fund, as that Noble Lord's plan went entirely on applying the Sinking Fund to the purpofe of the loans. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raid, that the Public Creditor wai not entitled to more from the War Taxes, than a fecurity for the intereft of the Loan, and for the Sinking Fund created. As to charging loans on the furplus of the Confolidated Fund, it was not In extraordinary as had been re prefented. The Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland (Sir John Newport) had charged any defi ciency in the produO of the Sugar Tax upon the furplus of the Irifh Ccnfolidatcd Fund. Mr. TIERNEY laid, the arguments of the Right Honourable, for he could no more call him the Learned Gentleman, were Inch as could not be ex cufed even in a man who had been five days Chancellor of the Exchequer. If he were appealed to as a lawyer he could not argue that it would be better for his client to have one fatuity than ttvo, and that if he already had two, it would be doing him no injury to take away one of them. There never was an inftance of any Loan charged upon the Confolidated Fund, without making tome increafe to it by taxes. If the Right Hon. Gentleman would affign tamoool. taxes, for the intereft and Sinking Fund of the Loan of this year, he would be content; but if he did not, the Contrators had, in common juftice, a right to the fecurity for which they originally bargained. Sir JOHN NEWPORT Rated, that the difference in the cafe of the Ira Loan was, that it was fecured upon annual, and not upon permanent taxes. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER raid, that no abfurdity could, in p aaice, be greater than that of affigning a portion only of the war taxes for the loan. It would be impoffible to tell the Col lators of the Cullom. or Excife, that they mull flop collating the taxes when they had got fo much money. ' He did not, however, now with to prefs his amendment, if it did not meet the fenfe of the Houle; but it appeared to him, that the Houfe had an UP doubted right to fubflitute the fecurity of the Confo lidated Fund for that of any particular taxes. Lord H. PETTY faid, that in the prefent cafe there was no fubfiitution at all. The Right Honourable Gentleman's idea would go merely to take from the Contrators of the Loan one of their fatuities, with out giving them any thing in the place of it. As to the general fecurity of the Confolidated Fund, and the faith of PArliament, they were already poffeffed of that. The Right Honourable Gentleman, therefore, appeared to him to with to take from them the fpe eific fecurity of the War Taxes, without giving them any thing elle in the place of it. After a variety of explanations from the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Lord H.PErrY, Mr. HUSKISSON, and hlr. 'I'IERNEY, it was re-. folved to poflpone the iifeuffion till to-morrow. The Chairman, therefore, reported progrefs, and the Houfe are to go into a Committee to-morrow upon the Bill. INOIMPIRS RATES 07 SUBSISTSIICE BILL. The Inn,keepers Rates of Subfillence Bill was brought up, read a fire, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Wednefday. CAPTURE OF MONTI VIDEO. Lord CASTLEREAGH gave notice, that on Thurfday next he fhould move the Thanks of the Houfe to the Army and Navy who otchieved this cooquett.—Adjourued. LONDON. TIISDAY, APRIL as. PRICK OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONIt O'CLOCK C.on(ols, for money. 64--Aprilkle Exchequer Bilk, par. se. re. GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, AND TURKEY. Yenerday, after the STAR was at prefs, time .Fo reign Journals were received, which gave a more precife view of the !late cf affairs at Conftantinople than thole alluded to in our &ft impreffion. They confirm what we have already Rated, that a Bikini fquadron had appeared before Conflantinople, and been the means of refloring the accuftomed relations. The Bikini Squadron confined of the Rout. GEORGE, WINDSOR CASSIA, REPULSE', AJAX, and Postpile, the latter beating Sir SYDNEY SMITH'S flag, the CANOPUS (Admiral Sir THOMAS Louis). the THUNDIRSR I and STANDARD, with tome Nailer veffels. It is Elated, that they took poffeffion of ten Tuikillt (hips of the line. It appears from the Vi• enna Gazette, of the sift of February, that the patige of the Dardanelles was not effe&ed without oppofition : our fleet was, however, triumphant, deftroyed tome Turkilh veffels which refined them and filenced the batteries. On the place being then fummoned the Divan agreed to the following conditions : " That the English should retain poffeffion of the Dardanelles, till a general peace. " That Ruflia should alto keep poffeffion of cer tain of the Turkilh fortreffes till a general peace, as a fecurity for the fidelity of the Porte." The French Minifler SEBASTIAN* in the mean time quitted Conflantinople ; and his influence in that quarter may be confidered AS annihilated. The advantages which will hence refult to Ruflia are incalculable. That Power will now be able to bellow an undivided:attention to the great flruggle in which it is engaged with the common enemy ; and as it can now employ a larger force in the contefl, the fuccefs will thereby be rendered more decifive and certain. We are happy to add, that Official accounts to the above effth were received by Government this morning, in confequence of which a communication was fent to the Loan MAYOR and the Admiralty Hilted the following BULLETIN. 4' ADMIRALTY OFFICE, APRIL 14. " Difpatches from Lord Cowscswoon, dated off " Cadiz, =Bth March, received this morning by his " Majefly's floopaoGam arrived at Plymruth, " contain intelligence that Vice-Admiral Sir J. T. Duc WORTFI ,finding on his arrival at Tenedos. that • his Majelly's Ambalfador had left Conflantinople " on the 29'h January, proceeded with the (qua. " dron under his command to that City, paffing " the Dardanelles, againß all oppofition, on the • Igth February. di His fubfequent operatirns were not known to " his • Lordfkip, but from the SPIDER fchnoner " on the afternoon of that day, and the report of the • Inhabitants of Tenedos, there is reaffm to believe 41 that the Turkifh Marine is 4eftroyed. 44 On the t4th of February, his Majefly's fhip " AJAX caught fire and was burnt. The Honour " able Captain Iltaezwoon, and about aoo Officers " and men were fared." This morning arrived a mail from the Leeward Mends brought to Falmouth by the Duet or Km packet, Captain Coatfworth, in five weeks.pafiage from Tortola. Accounts were received at Tortola nn the 6th of Match, that four French frigates arrived at Guada lcape on the 27th of February, and after landing 700 troops, the frigates were ordered to fail the fol lowing day. SOUTH AMERICA. We have the authority of Major TUCICIR to fay, that 4 4 He has much fatisfaelion and real pleafure in alluring the friends of the Britith Officers, ptifoners of war in South America, that their friends were 211 well on the toth of November, the date of a letter received.by Major Tucasa from General BERSSFORD which was the molt recent communication from any individual of that army. The officers were Rated to be well treated by the' Spaniards." Yelerday a Court of Common Council was held the moll numerous known for many years, to take into confideration the prrpriety of an Addrefs to his MAJESTY. Mr. Deputy Bract, opened the bufinefs in a well timed (perch, and as ably fupported by Mr. Diana as the feconder, followed by Sir Wst. Corns, Sir CHARLES PRIM and Sir BROOK WATSON ; on the other hand it was oppofed by Mr. Alderman Corneas Alderman Rowcaorr, Alderman Nawa- HAM. and Meffrs. &Abe, Seaat, WArrnuas, and glum. After a long debate the Addrefs was carried, the numbers on the divifion being— For the Addrefs. Apalott the Aildrefs. s4' Aldermen 5 Aldermen so 7 Commoners es Commoners s Tellers (Dixon do Birch) s Tellers (Waithman & Good ham) 123 49 49 .-- 74 Majority for the Addrefs` After which a Committee was appointed, confia ing of all the Aldermen, with the following Com moners who retired to prepare the Paid Addrefs : viz. Deputies Birch Me**. Edward Clarke White Anthony Brows . Brickwood Chados Sure Rowlett o i l a t d iDadmined Max. J. Boak DOM, Mai jaa Bacwea josow DIM NAUTICAL !NULL IGB NCB. FALMOUTH, APRIL rt. Arrived this day the Duke of Kent packet, COATISIVORT pi, with mails from the Leeward Mande, thirty-five days patrage. She brings an account of the fafe'arrival at Barbadoes of the Prince Adolphus packet on the 16th February, with the January mail for Jamaica. The Favourite, of 18 guns (late his Majesty's Chip Favourite), arrived at Antigua on the t4.th February, captured by his Majefty's fhip Jason. His Maiellt's (hips BacLom• and BiLLetne, of 74, - guns, itith convoy of 22 fail, arrived at Barbadoes on the azd February. Intelligence had been received at, Tortola on the 6th March, that four French frigates had arrived at Guadeloupe on the 37th Fabrus t y, and landed boo troops, and that the frigates were to fail on the following day. On the 9th April, in lat. 49. 54. long. 13. S. fpoke the Ibip Malvin, of London, from Jamaica, bound to London, out 7 3 days; failed from thence, under convoy of his Majefty's (hip Success ; alto (poke the American (hip George, Baaccay, from Philadelphia, for Amfter• dam, 41 days out. The thip Bridgetown, from London to Jamaica, is loft on the Cublcr's Rocks, off Barba does. The brig Thames, from London to New Providence, is taken and carried into Guadaloupe.—. The brig Volunteer, from Cork and Labors, to Bar badoes' is taken and carried into St. Martin's. Th e French national brig Lynx, of IS guns, arrived at Antigua on the 3oth June, captured by the boats of his Majesty's (hip GALATER in a calm, forty miles diflance from the (hip. Alfo arrived the American (hip Perfeverance, Captain FENN sr, from New York; the American brig Vanfaron, Captain Casaares,from New York, 75 days palTage, for orders; his Majefty's (hip HUMBER, and PICKLE fchooner, from a cruise. Patted this port yeflerday, the homeward bound Eaft. India .fleet, about fifteen fail.—Wind firong S. W. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL as. Arrived his Majefty's (hip CA rattan, from Midi. fax : his Majefty's (hip Emtatus is appointed ebn. voy for Ireland. Five fail of coppered tranfporu arc ordered to the Downs to take on word me 6th regi ment—Wind W.N.W. DEAL, APRIL t 3. Arrived, the Defperate gun.bri g, from a cruise o ff Boulogne. — Sailed , the Morquito &sop, on a cruise off Calais ; Otter (loop, off Boulogne; Refolote gun. brig, for Plymouth ; Calcutta, Phceniz, Preston, Streatham, Jane, Duchefs of Gordon, I s igrefs, Co. met, Europe, William Pitt, Ann, Glory, Diana, Northampton, Union, and Sir William Pultney EaR India (hips, for the River ; Surat Cattle, for Portf rrouth.—Came down from the River, ,the Amelia, SA wy R, for /I,fton, and Loam, Bort!, for Quebec, with feveral other outward bound veffels, which re main in the Downs with the reft of the (hips, as per laft.—Wind S. W. DOVER, APRIL 1 3 . As a boat belonging to one of the gun-brigs was going off from this place yeflerday morning, the wind blowing hard to the weftward, the unfortunately up. (et; but, by the exertions of our boatmen, the whole of them were fared, except the mallet's mate, who (rink before the Dover men got out. Patted by this day, the following (hips for London s Wilding, Capt. MARMON; from Demerara ; Shep, herders, MILMS, from Baltimore; Minerva, ALM, anima, from the Rio de la Plata ; Elizabeth and Mary, KthicsTos, from N , -folk ; and the Alert, Low, from Baton to Amderdam.—Wind and moderate. CHATHAM, APRIL le. Ships in cr,tnnsiffion and fitting at this Port HERCULB, 64, Isrtexies.r, 64., and LEYDLL 64; FRANCHISR and Cossece frigates; Somme and ROS•9IOIED 11 ups; Paocats, PLiOriCas RALEIGH. a d Ciao brigs. The BRARREL and INGASUS are fitting for receiving (hips. nTpatches Trom J-H II • Oern are hourly iv+ - by Government. Capt.. n lisassroau, of the Cambrian frigate, an. cue►day at the Admiralty, with dispatches from Admiral BIIIMILIT at Halifax, the contents of which have not tranfpired. A duel took place on the t6th of February, at Kingßon, Jamaica, between Lieutenant Powast., of the 85th Regiment, and a Mr. WMILLAW. in which the latter WAs wounded, but not dangeroufly. . The Novelleteu of KoTzsaus engrofa the attention of the Fafhionable World more than any other Work of Genius which has appeared within the prefent Seafon. The General Stewart, Rootas ; Travers, Cot.• tsar; Devaynes, ADDIL kr; and Carmarthen, Ross, for India, and the Woodland Cattle, for the Cape of Good Hope, were fpoken with by the LCDA frigate ) on the tfl of March, in lat. 20. 51. S. long. 26. 15. W. (he alto fpoke on the Bth April, the (hip Three Brothers (fuppofed from Surinam) had failed in corn. pang with three other velrels, and parted in a gale. The Extra thips Indus, Tottenham, and Huddart, outward-bound, arrived at the Cape the 4th Geober t , and were to fail from thence the 13th of that month, with the Country Chips Griffin and Hunter. Accounts have been received, that the following outward•bonnd, which failed from P..rtfmouth the 24.11 February, were, on the 7th March, in lat. 33. 8 N. long. 15. 45. W. True Briton, Scaleby Celle, Nottingham, Britahnia, Alfred, Duke of Montrofe, Admiral Gardner, Celtic Eden, Henry Addington, Cumberland, and Cuffnells. By the Jamaica packet, which arrived panda'', we received the following account of the lots of the ORPHEUS frigate, on the Coral Reef, on the 23d of July left : " The Orpheus was fees to the Southward front the Plareaff at t P. M. bearing up to pin the Weftward Paffage; ar 4 P M. the bore 'say, and Rood to the Northward; at half pall s P. M. me Bract oo the Coral Reef, bearing E. S. E. from wis, diftatme five miles. Signals of diftrefs being immediately made by her, the Flag-lhip (Veteran) made the Sinai for all boats, with anchors and bawfers, to go to her affiftance ; and, on the morning of thea4tbs the, endeavoured to get her off, but in vain; at half pall fie cut her mans by the board; and at 9 A. M. Ike appeared a complete wreelL The arm were all raved. I DIED. _ . On Sunday morning, the ctb inn ant, at his Honk In Charlotte. !trent, Scu'mates, In the 56th year of his age, Joreph Itabhion Peak, EN. LONDON: Printed and puldilhed by LEVEL JONI% (of Can terbury-Place, Lambeth) at the STAIL*OIIICB, No. t, Carey *KU MEOW 1401 1 1 IhetrAh•Orrave, Tample-aall I