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umtar— . • t . ~e g ged vessels cae safe. m It • i t o ilissre• •,wail ap e : , o f c owl ingratitude wipe animals' that .bad car. ', riders so long ; each of those be saw wits • • j eas on an average, and the value of the whole Would have more than defrayed the expense of wt dif proper transport : for them. ▪ Lord PALMERS ION sa id, he did not think thy jpn of hones thus lost was very great, an d d ist the loss was owing to the severity of the season, set t the difficulty of getting convenient vessels tsr them ; The decrease in the number of horses was mot e owing to the losses of the campaign than the eg ide u alluded to. Mr. PONSONBY conceived after what had been fa ted, that it would be impossible not to make some inquiry into the subject. BENNET! expressed alarm at the large ea. • establishment intended t , ) be kept up this year. The i r on it use would be this, that of being employed kio neetiog the reieaue. Loco FALMERS TON said, the regiments this yea weft considerably reduced at home; but the p ea sfishment abroad was kept up. Sir M. W. RIDLEY observed. that our troops ere em ployed in assisting the collection of revenue ke the French Government, which he considered the mos t degrading part of the Treaty entered into with that Government. • Genertil Sir A. HOPE thought it highly expe- Jinn to maintain the present establishment of heavy cavalry .which was now chiefly confined to the Guards; and he entered into several military state ment id order to prove the great advantage of keep. jog up such a force. There never was a moment when the army had so strong a claim on, or deserved t o well of the country as the present moment. Mr. C. W, WYNNE could not help expressing' his disapprobation at .the cordon of troops intended to be kept: in the country for the purpose of assisting i t the collection of the revenue. It was proper some times to fall in the military to assist the civil power ; bet he cd old not bear the idea of a body of armed c avalry coming up to and stopping a carriage on the' pretence of their coming to prevent smuggling. Lord .CASTLEREAGH agreed that it would be much more agreeable to all mens' feelings and Coostitunional habits, not to employ soldiers on these occasions; but those circumstances were greatly ex aggerate d. It was impossible now, under the pre- ' eat agencies of the coontry, to prevent smuggling, lylowet7ing duties, the +use it would cause ai detalca don oft ight millions annually in the revenue. Now, the expi nse of keeping cavalry to watch the coast was only 40 100,000, and these prevented a species of smupling, which, if suffered to go on, would take eight tines that amount of taxes from the revenue. Unkssi the army was employed to support the revenue officers,. the revenue would be so broken down as would 1 gdige . the Members to lay very heavy taxes on dirt constituents. Mr. I I BERC RO NI BY considered the prospect held out by .the N ,ble Lord as most hopeless ; for he be lieved it would relax and destroy the discipline of the army to i employ troops constantly on such a service. Aftes • some farther conversation the Resolution moved by Lord PALifilltsTo37 was agreed to. The following Resolutions were also put, and agreed to r, ,e46s t : 760 for Miscellaneous Services. al IN 956 for Expenses of Crimp. in Ireland. • £20,1 35 'or the Army in India. iessq 000 for the embodied Militia of Great Britain andlreland. £194 129 for General Officers. 11314 AN for Supernumerary Officers. sling ,I 9:) for Half-Pay Officers. 1119; 477 for Hospitals. if911:,000 for Pensioners of Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals. £93,119S for Widows Pensions. Is7o, 103 for Foreign troops in our Service. E 17, 1 30 for Retired Chaplains. 444,4 24 on the Compassionate List for Children, Orphans, Ste. ASS AO for the Commissariat Department in it eland. £175 ,000 for the Barrack Department in Ireland. 035 i an for British Officers in the Portuguese Set vice. Bill for maintaining in custody N ipolcon Bo 'arrange, and the Bill for regulating the intercourse betwe en Great Britain and St. Helena, were brought tip, a ad a first time, and ordered to be read a. second time tomorrow. Fte 1114: Ink rind was * de lii. OD. 0. Tne other Orders of the Day were then disposed tind the House adj(ntrued at HAlf-past One. PRENCii PAPERS. PARIs, MARCH 9. mimosa of DIIIPLITIES-.-41TrING OF THe 9TH. 11. CORBIERES, Reporter of the Committee charged Ma the consideration of the Budget, made .a report, stmltch the following is a summary •Tle Committee finds nothing to retrench in the lies Household. Toe King, of his own motion, ka teen up 10 millions,. and the first feeling was to reftlie.then3, it every oae Had not been penetrated MI the noble sentiments of the Monarch, who wished to be the first to give an example of the sacrifices m ammy to the safety of the State. The Ministry of Justice has expenses which the Committee thinks susceptible of ditniaution : it esti mots these possible deductions at two millions. The airtime& (A the M:uistry of the Interior appear also to bp susceptible of economical arrangement ; as also the s•ffices of inspectors of weights and Measures, and the schools of music. The condition of the clergy uglet to be ameliorated, and particularly the inferior dttgE. the Co.timittee therefore proposes an addi tie of five millions relative to this branch of the .1141 114 L is The Committee has seen with astonishment, that in the /3udget of the War O f fi ce, 1 9 millions *redirected to General Staffs, while the expense of the reef of the army did not exceed 30 millions. It thinks economy possible in this quarter, by the sup reision of certain employments which should no Longer exist in time of peace, and by formin l # into one torPts the Reviewing Generals and the Al' Com.' Missaries. The Ministry of the Marine requires a sum of i 48 millions, which is scarcely sufficient : that sidle Police the sum of one million. " The Ministry of Finance rates its expenses at 16 millions ; the Committee thinks economy possible; the operation of estimating the Land Tax is too ex peony', as it costs lour millions a year ; 55 millions •avehten already expended. A century would be ne nuary to complete this survey ; and in a century vsriations in the produce would render such an Operation nugatory. " As to the resources, the Committee adopts the rfits of direct contribution, will - . an addition of ten -1111•4.111hich is not to oscced GJ cent; "Pcr Iran' It . ' . . . • rejects the id:it If the pee incl;r-at taxes prTesed, a., well as that *it the airigiientauo4 on the dates 131 re gisterin,t; t it sitbstitute• the ale, of . doubling the pa tents, and 01 productive mod.tications io the. Stpinp Acts.- and injirect contributions now existing. 1 proposes to prohibit a pliliAlitY of offices and salaries." The report was ordered to be printed. The trial of Linois and Boyer proceeded on the 9th. and several witnesses were examined; no new fact came out. The tt ial was adjourned, after a long sitting, till the next day. CoURIRR EXTRAORDINARY OF -SUNDAY 11 quchm. By an Otdonnanee of the limß tie Royal Of phan House of St. Dvnis has received a definitive orgAniza lion. The number of pupils will be 100. l'he Coun tess of rinquengo is appointed superintendent of the abore tesubli‘liment. plaque extends its ravages in Walachia. On the 2d of February an earthquake was kit at the island of Madeira, which lasted tout or five mi nutes. Several public buildings were damaged. On the same day. it will be recollected, a shuck was eit perienced at Lisbon. The P•pe has conferred the dienity of Prince on Ge'nerel hin,tenr.--French Fon , ls. 61. TtlE EVENINti >TAIL LONDON. • • THURSDAY, MARCH 14,1810. PRICE OF srocici THIS DAY A I' I WE.I.VE O'CLOCK* Reduced (shin) —Cons. mo. 6 -14 acc. 621. 4 pa. Critt.(alkut)-5 prr Cast. 90i1-.lionds u. Si. pr. Omn. pr.—Do. pay. !LSI{ —Excli. Etna so. dm. la. pr. Last night the Earl of LiVerteont. in the House of Peers, and Lord CANT LEREAGH in the Commons. gave notice that a Message would this night he s , ..nt Irom the PRiNcE REGENT to Parliament, relative to the intended marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTE of WALEs. The Tax on Income, as usual for some time past, formed last night a promitent subject of discussion. A number of new Petitions were presented against its continuance in a time of Peace; and as a co. lateral branch ist the arguments on this subject, and the economy that is desirable in the Public Expendi. cure to lessen the necessity for drains upon the indus. try and Property of the People, the comparative ftrtfigacy of different Administrations in increasing the Salaries of Office, elicited some curious recrimi na►ion, which will not tail to produce a due effect upon the People, especially nn those who have not expressed their sentiments by Petition. Men of plain understandings, on a question of this kind, will not fail to ask, if the profligacy of any one A.insinistratiou can justify another in pursuing a similar line of conduct, or lessen its criminality in wringing from the people, by inquisitorial oppression, their own fair portion of the fruits of their industry? —With Stares, the conduct of the Goveram:•nt should ever be analogous to that of the prudent head of a family, or the result will infallibly be the same as with the improvident spendthrift.— How stands the Land-holler, the Agriculturalist, the Merchant and Manufacturer at this moment ? I 'heir respective incomes are abridged and they are cataftelkd to reduce their establithrnente. Have office. holders an exemption from the effects of public cala mity ? Are others to be taxed and racked by the en gines of inquisition to compel them to contribute to the upholding of the fall establishments of a particu lar class ? Is this bearable ? Is it reasonable, when the prices of sustenance are reduced, and consequently purchasable with a smaller sum of money, that pub lic salaries should not only not be reduced but be in. creased ? that such men should not only be freed from the effects of the general pressure, but be positively benefited in proportion to the increased value of money. This as to the individuals—but this is not all that is required by the unerring analogy of the case we have put: the Government, as the wise director of the affairs of a large family, is bound to keep its expen diture within its means, and to reduce its establish. meet in a time of general distriss - and poverty, if it would maintain its solvency. There is no more rea. son in a Minister, .in certain circumstances, stating how many objects he wisbekto accomplish, and the sum wanted, than in a private individual stating that he must have a coach, a chariot, twenty men servants for his establishment, and other things in proportion, without first inquiring whether his income can sup. port such an expenditure. tet the voice of reason and prudence be perseveringly disregarded by the Ministers of any people, and ruin-must ensue as cer., tainly as in the case of any imprudent individual who draws upon futurity to meet present extravagance. Every argument advanced by Ministers in support of their favourite measureof a Peace Tax on Income has been repeatedly overturned, and every new ground which they have taken has only, served to expose the feebleness of their reasoning. One of their first arguments, when requested not to hurry such a measure precipitately through the House, has now received a refutation, which by their hurry, they would have prevented. It was stated by Minis ters that their intention to continue this Tax had been early announced (about twelve days before the night to which we allude) yet the ionntry had shewn no repugnance; there had been no Nam: against the Tax.—a proof that the sense of the country was with them ! Will they repeat this argument now ? Will they follow that line which their argument inferred —namely, relinquish the project, the sense of the country being against them ? Time will chew. The conduct of the.Honourable.General MATHEW in reprobating the insinuation that the Irish Members would probably Min the Minister in rivetdng the ^nerescive chains of tbi , t tux , spon Xl;Mtlishinest. d• serves and obtains MOtely* Praise: We lielisist, with this worthy Member, t h at hishmea will net their country being exempted from this imposititit, lend their aid to fix it upon Others; We must, however, except Lord Carmarasou be recommends and supports the minium— but however honest .bis mo tives may be, let it be recollected that his Lordship's paternal estate is in Ireland ; and therefore beyond the reach ot the . op-ration of this Tax". The argument which would distinguish between the rich and the poor, ,tbough answered again and again, is still pressed by the imprudent suppoiteri. of this measure; hut, it would appear, with as little effect as the attempt to persuade the Landed Interest that it may be so modified as not to affect them. Ercry attempt to prove too much serves to expose a. fallacious argument. In deiision of Petitions from Merchants and Manu- Ititurers it was ttiid, that the Tax affected them in only a small_degree, for their whale contribution-was under three millions [by the printed return we find it to be, for 1181 i, the sum of £2,776,800] t of course the landed interest drew the proper inference—then comes the plan of modifications to bribe the Land holders I but all classes' have had their eyes opened ; And out of Parliument the general and universal sense of the People is against - . the measure.— In one word—lf the Commercial Interest is to pay in future only one half of the former rate, and the Landed Interest to be almost entirely exempted by the efficacy of modifications, What is the . tax to pro duce I Would the Minister persist in a tax which, by his own argument, is to be unproductive ? No! no I Give him a pages precedent for such a War Tax as this, and you will find to your cost, that by means of /ware modykaiions he will make it productive. .This day Mr. HASa waited upon the Genthmen of the Stock Exchange, and informed them that the Bank had agreed to their Petition: that is to say— ihe first payment of thirty per cen:. is to remain as before, viz. the 11th of April—The second payment, of 30 per cent. which w•{s to hive been on the 26th of April. has been put ufr to the 17th of May ; and the third payment of £4. p. r cent. which e• to have keen the 10th May, ilits been Jefenreti to the 12th July. We have received the Paris Papers of Snnday. They entrain a continuati ,, n of the trial of LIND!, and BovEtt, whose conduct daily appears of a darker hue. It these wretches had the smallest spark IA honour or honesty in their compositions, they woulis "confess their crime, and ask pardon of their injured Sovereign and country. As to LtNots he seems to have been like NZY, in a state of temporary insanity, and now expresses something like regret at listening to the seductions of BUYER. A most interesting report. on the state of the French Finances was made in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday. Economy and retrenchment are the orders of the day in France at, present. Washington Papers to the 11th ult. have reached town. There appears to be si.me foundation for the rumour that the Peace between America and the Dey of Algiers does not promise to he permanent.— That great hope of the Amer;can navy, Commodore Decatur, has been cbarged by the Algerines with a forfeit of his pledge, if not with a direct infraction of the late treaty. This accusation does not rest upon the authority of the Algerines alone, but is confirmed by an American Officer present at the signing of the Treaty of Peace. The Amnit.an Officer in question has written home from Port Mahon on the subject, and tells his story as follow; :—That on their arrival off Algiers on the 4th November, Mr. Shaler, the American Consul, came off from the shore and informed them, thal the Regency was very favourably disposed to the Americans, but that the Dey himself had expressed his great dissatisfaction at the prize brig not being returned, as Commodore Decatur had promised him. The Dey was the more hart on the occa sion, as he had made a more favourable peace with America than any of his predecessors had ever made before with any Christian Power.— The Dey further observed, that the people were not altogether satisfied at the terms of the peoce, and that, as he was young upon the throne, the restoration of the two prizes was absolutely necessary to his po pularity : that he had faithfully observed and exe cuted all that part of the Treaty which related to himself: that although the restoration of the two ves sels was not a specification in the Treaty, yet he con. sidered Commodore Dec a tur's pledge to restore them as sacred as if it had been ; and that he was truly mortified, after a lapse of four or five months, that Mr. Shaler could give him no satisfactory answer whether the brig was to be restored or not, or why she was, with her crew, detained at Carthagena.r-- On the part of the naval Officer of the United States, tie affirms, that true it is, mid strange as it may ap pear, Commodore Decatur sailed from Carthagena tor the United States, without communicating with the American Consul at Algiers on• the subject, al-- though he had pledged his word of honour to do so, and was in the very port where the brigs were detained. The . Officer further avers as a fact, that when the Dey was about to sign the Treaty, he °infected, with out the restoration of the brigs : the Commodore did not object.; but not wishing to make any allusion in the Treaty, he made the prcimise to do so, notwith standing, on his word of honour, and that - the ves sels should be delivered at Algiers in their present situation. One of the vessels the Spaniards, it seems, afterwards gave.up, but the other they refused to surrender. The Algerines continued dissatisfied, and a rupture with America was considered inevitable. Some squabbling bad also taken place between the Americans and Spaniards respecting the detention of the Algerine vessels. Lawn Ecaorios, MARCH 12.----The second day's 'Poll was most severely contested. Rectiminatiot.s between both parties oceasitnally interrupted the pro gress of the bushiest. At the close of the poll the numbers were—Fox Sir Joint SIALIAST La—For Mr. (lAtill.b.T 126. rug - gni?: The regiments ,of th • lire in England, Sentl.n and Ireland, are to be reduced to 400 men eich, in lone nut. The 92J regiment of Hy,lll4nii rs, one of th most distinguished in the blttle 1V Orrin's. is arrived at Hull, and will in a tow digs em!, •rk for ilh•ri..en. The Royal Ayrshir • Militia Ir on Soturdsy se'iiniglit, on their route for Scotlind, to be disembodied. ?ridgy se'nnight, the 1 •t division 4 the Ist batty. lion Royal Scots marched ghodee. where they landed on Wednesday preced ing, from Portpatrick The British Isle transport is arrived in Waterford irboar with three comp.inies of the 27t!', • r killen infantry, u ider the common.' of Capt. Aiwa. NitYAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST-INDIA SHIPPING. The country si.i;) LonD CASTLERSAOII , rrived in til e Downs yesterday from Bomb.sy, place she left about the 10th November las., on which d4y it is reported the DAVID SpnTT and CAHMARTIttti arrived there. The Company's s!iir 'rriol4AS GnENVILIA outward-bound, sailed from Simon's Bay the lst Ja. nuary last. ..-.1 -_...._-f41•••••ao.;1 \ ..LA. —wurir~c FALMOUTH, MARCK 11. Arrived the M.irlborough Packet, with s Mail from Lisbon in ten days ; the Snake Pick-t, from Stangate Creek, after performing quarantine. rived A ship Transport, No. 25, supposed the ringapatam,' from Portsmouth; alsd• Anntfier ship, but the weather is so bad no boats can go off. PLYMDUTH, MARCH 12. Came in the Rachael, Coca, from Hull to Phila delphia. The MEDWAY, 74, came in yoterd ty from the Eastward, and not the VENGEVR, as was stated. POR TSMOU CH, MARCH is. Arrived the Ross. HARBISON, for Jimlica, put back from off the Lizari, with lobs At to?-m4bt and tore mast sprung t. the AlVon, BiumN, put I,,tri t ; And the. Fortitude, NAPIER, from Genoi. Set , r.,1 other outward•bound ships are put back, particul.t.s 'n known.—Wind W.S.W. mr:re moderate. DEAL, MARCH is. Put back by contrary winds, the Essrx, Ronnia. 'stm, for Bourdea:tx. Catbe down from the Rivet and remain, the Lacuna, L wts, t,r Dem-r Ari,vcd the Lord Castlereagh, LAING, from B ; and the Cyrus, atviE, t. om the South Sea, .in : rein tin the Dawns with his bl.4jesty's ships aa.l I.):F ward bound as beft:re. • DOVER, MARCH is• ' The ship Die Freyheit, trait Havre dor L-sndol, Kent on shore yesterday, abut two !iv .Vestwtrd of this port, and is a tottj wr,rk. c•ew saved. The ketch fiorf.iing, of ran on shore yesterday near Ilythe, and wa: I.y her crew; she has ,iii been Jot (Al, and L.:git:4i into Folkestone. HARWICH, MARCH 13. c‘slcs of whii , ey, L, Mo. 473 S and botl7, have been picked up and Linde., here.— Arrived the Henry Fretling packet, wan a Mail frr. rn H• liana ; and the beauto ) r acket d M, ltota •.uxlittven.—Wind W. Yesterday a Court of Directors WAS held at the East India Houtt . e, wlit.n the tollovting Captains were sworn into the command of their iespective ships, via. Captain B. BUNN, ot the Mangle s , for Bengal direct and C a ptain H. COB., of the Alexander, fta and B-mbay.—The under-mentioned Comma:Went took their final leave of the Court, previoui to de parting for their respective destinations, viz. Captain T. DUMBLETON, of the Larkins, and Captain I'. CAMP. BILL, ot the Lord Keith, for Madras and L3..ng41...... DANIEL CALLAGHAN, jun. Esq. WAS appointed the Company's Agent at Curk. It was mentioned the other day that an A•neriean ship, called the Baltimore, of 800 tons, had been abandoned at sea by the crew, who p . m nn board the Rapid Packet, and that nine of the Rapid's crew, in cluding thellate, had volunteered to bring her into Port,. The vessel has got safe into Falmouth, to the great credit of the nine British s anien. We shall say nothing. of the twenty-two Ame:icans who ab.:u. dotted her. It has been already stated, that the smack swift, of Montrose, Roam. CLLOAL master, had been run down by a collier, off•Flamborough-head. A letter has been received from ALEXANDZIC WATT, cle of the crew of the Swift, stating, that the brit; itoterr. Anusrnouo, of Shields, run on board of then, abmtt nine o'clock, on Tuesday night, the 27th u:timo, and struck the Swift thrice severely atrsid,hips. WArt saved himself by clinging to the lalwhpra bert, and was ca!ried to London. After i!lt veiteis separated, a light was huisted on the Swift, was seen from the Robert for alt ut ten minus when it 'disappeared, and there is little d.nibt s ):e went down with all on hoard, as her boat was j:irkeJ up by an Aberdeen vessel, on the Sunday follow:rig, off Sunderland. , .The Swift had left Monti use t:,e day before fir London, and her crew and passengers were seventeen in number. 'I he Hopewell, Houston, of and for Glasgow, from Gihrakar, was tonally to-t uu the loth ultimo, at Ruta. 'll,e pay.enzer, and a bay, drowned Saturday evening, between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, a dreadful fire brake out at Mr. %:'n.. i.EitHousc's Stables at Small Mims. A large stabit., in which were twenty-six horsts, and all the buil:brigs on the same side of the premises, speedily fell a ; rey to the devouring element. The horses were all s.t% e.l. - - WEST I.OIIIIAN COURSING CLUB. the West Lothian Coursing Club held their t:pling Metti , l on the Sth instant, on Seim Moor. A Silver Cup was eta, f.r by dogs, bona fide bred by members. bree (nay were entered —were drawn and run u under: Mr. Johnstone Hope's y. and w. b. Fly beat Mr. G. Hamilton Dundas's br. d. Quiz; Major Shairp's b. d. Orange B osch th y a bye apt Mr. Johnstone Hope's bl. d. Sulran--won by Shlian ; air. J. Hope's bitch beat Major Shakes dor, and won the cup. MaTcuas.—General Maxwell's bl. d. Nora!), agaiiitt Adakir !;hairp'. bl. 41. Speed, false slip—Jud ge coa ld not decide; Ali.. inglis's bl. d. Flying Muscovy beat Mr. G. klanulton Dundas's braid. d Quiz. MArcu (the best of Three Courses).--ist, Mr. G. Hamilton Duudas's brie. d. Dart best Mr. Jo meteor Hope's bi and w. b. .Pws—Hare killed; Ltd, Mr. Hope's bitch best Mr. H. Oneidas's dug—Hare killed ; yd, Oil , by consent. tiaras remarkably scarce, but never seen to run so strossi-w -t/wing to the'extreme badsiese of the summing there were very few members present ; nor were the amateurs so numerals mu terser inestlop.-riteward for asst Lair, Ulm 1 'Hof" R. '-A -_L._l. 21; _7l.ct l