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NEW STAMP DUTIES. ACOMPLETE and ACCURATE STATE MENT a the above Minot!' with the Regulation' attend ing the fame, will be introduced in a New Edition of XEARSLEY's TAX TABLES, To be publiElscd in a kw days, price is as ufual. EAST INDIES. ANY LADY going to Calcutta , by the Ships ex pelled to fail in the comic of nert Month, may hear of a Native Woman SERVANT, at N 0.3, Copel-court, or at Meffm. !WU% N 0.3, Eilhopfgate Church yard, who would be glad to engage berfelf in their ferrite for tte Voyage. She pettedly un derhand' and Awaits the Englith language, and has made four Voyages front Calcutta, with the tare of Children to England. WANTED TG PURCHASE, AN ANNUITY for the LIFE of a MILITARY GENTLEMAN, aged 3 7 years, now Rationed in one of the Wett India Mande, and not intending to wan to England during life. The Annuity to be feenred on landed property, and to be pay able in London, half yearly. A thoufand Guineas will be ready to be advanced by Clsriftisno mu ne further particulars apply to Mears Jenkins, James and Co. New inn, London.—The application muff be made by a Solicitor, far no other wiU be attended to. TO SCHOOLS. 'TABART and Co, of the Juvenile and School Li- Story, No. riy, New Bond-(trees, have opened a Regifter bosh, in which they enter free of expsoce, the names of Schools warning Militants or Teachers, and the Names of Militants or Teachers requiring &bastions. An contimmieattoor muft be made freed p..ge.-T and Co.'s Sant Catalogues fent, It re rsod orders emented on the towel! terms, cm the ufual Cie itiri'llooks and Sualostery of every &fairies. TO PREGNANT LADIES. j ADIES in a flare of Creknaney, are refpeafally A- 6 lefeemed that they may be aecommodeted with HOARD sod GENTEEL PRIVATE LODGINOS, in a healthy &nation ; mete ottendtd by a profrOlonal Gentleman, or Lady of re(peda hew, whit every other attendance that their Swindon requires, mad their children provided with proper macs. If ulsed.--Ap ply to Mr. Roberta, Surgeon, No to, Ceeiktreet. Lou. tko. The RAO& honour and feavey may be relied oa.--Lcuers adarelied 'edam (putt mild) will he regularly attended to. FRANCE. (We hays thought it war dray to lay before car Readers, the (d -iming writes pronnaloo, as it will ferve to thew to what wretched Sifts the Preach Government are redosed in order is beep op the droving fpirlts of the people, and particularly of the Army. who, no doubt, begin to deipalr of fixing their hopes of invading as miffed. If they eats !relieve fedi palpable Ad* cations, they will jellify the appellation given to their Chid, who bas bus baleroolly ftylcd Emperor of the Culls.] • PARIS, JULY ts. Every where upon the Continent the barrel pro. miles to be very abundant ; and the prices of all the muduaiondof the earth are falling; whilft letters from England tall, of the fcareity as well as of the rife in the prices of all neceraries of life. A pound of bread toasts London 9d. or 18 fous ; a pound of meat at. and ss. 6d. or 48 funs, or three limes; and the walk wine fells as high as ass. yr livres a bottle. A fa. mitre, as well as a bankruptcy, is inevitable in Eng land, if the other European nations were united, and that their harbours and forbid their fubjeas all com munication with Great Britain only for is months. 'That it is-both the inure! and duty of all other people to Rave thefe proud 'Ganders to realize, every one may be convinced, who recoiled' that their ava rice and ambition have difturbed the peace of the mi. vale ; and that great crimes deferve great and horri ble &Ailments. Their magazines are crowded with Ilse aloft elegant produftions of India; but their beets and high roads are thronged with moft numerous,reg. zed, and Raved beggars and robbers of the world; To mach fo, that the - King has not dared to bang a highwayman, or the Magtkrates to flint up a beggar for theft loft r s months. A countryman of ours, upon whole veracity we can depend, and who has lately travelled in England and Ireland with a Pruffian pals, has given us thefe particulars, and allures us that in many parts illuminations took place, when it was brown Bo was proclaimed an Emperor. In every bode in England his portrait is found, and in Ireland the peafants and mechanics have mounted national cockades in expeaation of their deliverer. Both in the tenets of Dublin and London, ballads are lung in his honour ; and the people call for him as for a faviour, and fay. that if he landed alone, and it was known, in a week he would have an army of a million of Britons ready to deftroy their t ical, banking, and mercantile ariftocrats and bloodfuckers. In Ireland, for one guinea in gold two guineas are paid in paper money; and in Eng land, notwithftanding the feverity of Pirr and his police (pies, for a one pound note in paper money only half a crown in cans is obtained. Such is the beggarly fituation of the Bank of England, that when lately an Englilh frigate captured one of our tsakingg gips, which had on board sopoo dollars, a Bank Direaor went erprels to Pottftnouth to borrow that money from the captors, at the immenfe intereft of 54 per cent. in the month. When this financial tranaltion was known, all the people role in a mats in Bouthamptonfhire, through which province it was to pals to London, and, to prevent its being plundered by the ftarving inhabitants, goon dragoons were ne cetrary to elcort it to the capital, which they effected, though not without cutting down leveret hundreds of their countrymen, who attempted to feize this ~- wow treafure. If thefe are not figns of the di (Dilution of a Govern• men, and of the deftruftion of an Empire. we are very badly acquainted with hiftorical events. We recommend the reading of this article to our brave army on the coafl, and to its valottrous leaders, whole known bassanisy and generyfity will regard it as a duty to loon bellow on an unfortunate and oppreffed nation, thole bleflings which France enjoys under her percent illuftrious Chief.—Journal des befenfeure. It may be judged of what confequence the capture of Surinam is to the Engliflt, when letters from Pa ramaribo, to a refpeel.able banking-houfe at Amite' , dam, fay, that at the arrival of the Englith in that colony, it contained coffee enough to load Sco, and fugar en o ugh to fill aOOO large Well Indiamen, not including other produitions, as cotton, runs, Stc. Is it not a Ihame to all Europe to permit the tyrants of the leas to he the monopolifers of the trade of the univerfe? Whtn will all the world unite againft there avaricious and infolcnt thr.p keepers?-7war. dr . Parir. The Emperor has appointed Vice-Admiral Vra• us us, Commander of the tr:ht wit .g of the Gallo Bolivian flotilla, in place of Kear•Aumiral blsao•i, whoy report fay', has refuted to take the oath to the E m p er or. and who is therefore ditlaided the let vice. Lletant and his wile. Verclet, Duhniffort avid his at-Aii•ted bi t: • . ns tear, plices in the late eonfpiraey, have been fent to Ro chefortj and will be tranfported to the colonies. Thefe perfons had lodged molt of thofe confpirators, who expired lately on the Place de Greve, and are (Ironly furpeeted of being in their fecrets, and of codrfe dangerous Royalilt fanatics. Under Roberf pierre, they would never have efcaped the guillotine, and have therefore no reafon to complain of their prefent treatment.journd du Dienferrs. PARLIAMENTAIir PROGEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY. JULY ay. CORM SILL. Lord HAWICESBURY moved the order of the day for the fccond reading of the Corn Bill, which being read, Earl STANHOPE rote, and Paid, he had yefier day given notice of three refolutions, which he in. tended to move, and which contained a fettled, re gular. deliberate, Often), relative to the produce of corn, different from the fyftem contained in this Bill ; ani, in his opinion, far preferable to it. If be underftood rightly the nature and °Nee of this Bill, it was the intention of the framers and fupporters of it to encourage the growth of corn and gram, by incrtafing the price.—The fyftem contained in his propolitioni was, on the contrary, calculated to en courage equally the growth of corn by &reap: the price.—He admitted the propofition laid down by the advocates of this bill, that it was neut . - fairy foniething Ibould be done towards forwarding and improving the agriculture of the country, and particularly to encourage a larger produce of corn and grain, otherwife the farmer would not cultivate his lands that way, and fcarcity, and perhaps famine would be the inevitable confequence. So far all parties were perfealy agreed. But, Paid his Lord flip, there are two ways of doing the fame thing, and the mode propofed by this Bill, he thought • bad one, for what was it but in effea to lay a ay burthen on the lower orders of the people, 'heady too heavily laden, in order to recompence the farmer by giving him a fiiinulus to increafe the growth . corn ? and what would be the confequence ? The is creak in the price of corn and grain would iaftantly operate towards increafing the price of every net. fury of life; confequently the price of labour would rife in proportion. The labourer would fay to the firmer, Mailer, the bread is railed, and every thing elfe is railed, I Inuit therefore have more wages. , The farmer continues to toile the price of his corn further, the labourer -Sikes again in his demand of wages, and fo they go on, the one againft the other. till the very end propofed is entirely frufirated. and the poor's rates become fo enormous, that the fanner' is but little, if at all benefited by the high prices,. which he, from time to time, puts on his corn, while the people are moll feverely burthened and oppreffed; and the farmer, t finding that high prices do not an fwer the end he expeaecl, and iodised, may finally produce no more corn than he does at precut, and in that way fearcity and famine may be the conk queue. It would be wife, therefore, in that Houfe, to confider well the confequences before they adopt ed the meafure pmpofed by this Bill. The fyftem he had to propofe in the Refolutions he thould have the honour to (ohmic to their Lordfitips' confider*• tion went to encourage the produce of corn, by de creeing the price, would always enfure plenty. and he was certain all the farmers in the country would be in favour of the plan; the manufaaurers would be the fame; and the poorer claffes and lower orders of the people, would receive the greateß benefits from it. The Refolutions he had to propofe contained the fyllem he alluded to. They were three in number; but he waited to read them as one, merely for 'the purpofe of entering them on the Journals of the Houfe. It was not his intention, at this late period of the felfion, to take the fenfe of the Houle on them ; but they would thereby be in their Lordfhips' poffet• Pion, and they might give them due coofideration till a fair opportunity (bould offer of bringing them for ward in the courfe of the next &Mon. He was happy to think he had received the fupport of the Right Rev. Prelate (the Bifhop of St. Afaph) , to one of his refolutions, which was in favour of public grana ries. His Lordfhip then read his firtt Refolution, which was as follows : nefoived at. That it is the opinion of this Honk, that public granaries mould be ellabliiked, to receive In years aplenty, corn and grain grown In this country. In order to keep down the price thereof in years of &amity, and effednally to femme to this nation n all Rabe* a fuSelan Ripply, and Ukewife in order to provide for the farmers at aU times a certain market for their corn and grain, and to &mini& fluetuation in the price of the neceffarks of life." -- Here his Lordfkip went over feveral of the argu ments he had ufed on a former evening, on this head, and Paid, he was certain from what he had lien in Switzerland, that fuch public receptacles for corn could not fail to produce the rook beneficial conic quences, as they would enable the Government to pay the farmers, at all times, a fair price for their corn ; the farmers would always be fore of a market ; and, in cafe of a fearcity, the country would have nothing to fear. His fecond refolution was, Refaived say, " That It is the opinion of this Houk, that all Impediments, created by any taw or laws, to the free warchouf ing of corn and grain, ought to be removed, 'baked, and re pelled." From what had fallen from the Noble Secretary of State, on a former occafion, refpeeling the ware. hoofing of corn, he thought he fhould have bir fup port ; and he was therefore happy to think he had two fuch fupporters to two of his refolutions, nut of the three. Such warehoufing would be of corn and grain, the growth of this country, and not foreign corn. We fhall thereby be enabled to produce a fufficiency, without applying to foreign countries, and thereby encouraging the agricu•.ure of thole coun tries, and enabling them to export their corn and grain into this kingdom, by which means they would in time do an irreparable mil - chief to, if not ruin, our navy ; for they at prefent engroked nearly the whole of the carrying trade. Formerly corn was only imported in Bruin% bottoms, and there was fcarcely a Dantzie fhip of more than zoo or aso tons; but now they had them front .teso to 1,400 tons, and the whole trade was in their poffafion. His Lordfitip then came to the purport of his third Refolution.— He Paid, thc two &II were Inch as he believed would be very ferviceable to the interefts of the country, but would be vain and nugatory without the 'fluid, V. itial wsa the poll acient all towards tomplet- ing the fyllem, which he had to propofe in oppofi iion to that contained in ibis Bill. He then requeßed their Lordfhips to recollca that the government of ibis country had, from time to time, for many years, entered into a fucceifion of wars, in which they bad been too much encouraged by the Legifiature ; thefe wars had brought on an enormous national debt, and that national debt an enormous load of taxes, which had long oppre ff ed the great Inds of the people. To thefe wars, this debt, and thefe taxes, are to b e at tributed the enormous rife in the price of all the nerd -1 Caries of life, and particularly in the price of bread. It was therefore neceffary that every proper encou ragement fhould be given to the produce of corn, but not as this Bill would do it, by the increaling the price. His next refolution embraced afy Rem which would fully circa this dcfirable purpofe, and at the fame time &creak the price of corn. He would have the farmers exempted from all dire& taxes, for be thought they were not fit fubje&s for taxation, and if this was carried into effca, it would do more to wire encouraging the growth of corn, and deaeaGog the price of it, than aW the Bills that had ever been framed and palled un the fubjeO. The fupporters of the preftnt Bill bad [hewn that they confidered what he raid of it on a former occafion as founded in fat, for they bad made it to commence its operation, in- Read of the isth of Auguft (which was the day fixed by the lad BiU) on the isth of November ; and wbyt Becaufe they were afraid of a fcareity. In Noietn her, the Parliament will be fitting, and then they can repeal it. Such is the permanent (Om they bad pro duced for the encouragement of the growth of corn ; whereas his would be a permanent fyitem for he would have the farmers exempted from dire& taxes for ever. He then read his third refolution as follows : - - --- Retched, 3dly, • That In Wa s to encourage the growth of cern and grabs la Great Brhala td Ireland, and at the fame doe to detrede the price thereof, far debase& of the people at krge, sod for the Isereate of oar manufahms sad emnsamace, It lathe opinion et this Houk fhat the farmers amid be far ever datelin ed from the preset of all dired tam, par* and smarmy MU, etas, dam, tithe% sad perikaanitary impolithos whattomers ' Lave oily and except theft rates Ode mare els penalty whisk way be ralkd epee any Modred as filch." If he could put this refolution to the people at large, he was fare, he (aid, that indeed of being in a mino rity, he ihould be able to poll a hundred to one in its favour. He mould poll all the farmers; be fbould poll ell the manufaCturera; he &mid poll all the la- 1 booting people : in than, all elates of pmple would br in favour of it, becasfe it muft forcibly bike nal one, that it was the chief part of a (Amu that could sot fall to encourage the growth of corns and to &- ern& the price of bread, in oppofitioo to the DM, the fylem of which is to raife the price of corn, Mid eosfequently of bread, and every other neceffary of life; and finally to Serve the people. He had lately read, with great pleafore, a pamphlet, which was admirably written, and which came from the pen of the father of the Noble Secretary of State (FArl of Liverpool), on the rabid! of “ Arming the People." He was himfelf fully fenfible of the propriety and ne ceffity of arming tie people; but he was (unwired that Government &odd firft put arms into their ham and then encourage and fupport a Bill that woaltl lamina them. The Duke of MONTROSE Paid, he could not refrain from making lane obfervations on what fell from the Noble Earl who jolt fat down. That No- Me Earl did on the prefent day, as well as on various other occaGons, think proper to cenfure the conduit of his Majefty's Government, and attribute to the, Government and the Parliament all the difficulties that tallied in the country. He would reprefent the war as unpopular, and the Parliament as the caul of that war. So far as that alterably. to whom he was addreffing himfelf, were concerned in the prefect war, it was neceffary for a moment to confider what intereft they could have had in promoting it. It was hardly neceffary for him to fay that there was no clefs of his Maje ft y's fubjeas; who gained le ft , and (offered more, by a war than the members of that al fenibly ; and therefore it was impoffible to fuppofe they could have given their rani:lion to war from any other motive than a (hong (.rife of national honour, and a conviaion that the war was neceffary for the pre fervation of our national eziflence. The Noble Earl had been on all occaGons in the habit of inflaming the minds of the people, not only againft the Govern ment, but alfo againd the Parliament. However his attacks againft the Government might be tolerated ; he hoped the Parliament, and particularly that Houfe, would not fuller itfelf to be vilified and abufed. It was not eafy to conceive what a mifchievous effea fuch fpeeches as thofe of the Noble Earl might have upon the public mind, if they were Coffered to go abroad utianfwered. To fay that the prefent was a Bill to (Lave the poor, was not only mifchievous in the higheft degree but unfounded in fait. So far from its being a Bill to (terve the people, its imme diate objelt was to prevent famine and ftarvation in the country. And lime of the arguments sled by the Noble Earl, when (peaking againft the Bill, might be advanced in favour of it. Be had contended that all taxes ought to be taken off toe farmer ; and of cootie the taxes mull fall on the cor.fumers of provi lions. Would not the prefent Bill have exaftly fuch an effea as this ? Would it not raife the value of corn for the benefit of the farmers, and compel the con lumens to pay an advanced price ? Lord HAWKESBURY Paid, the Noble Earl who opened this debate, had sled many violent and in flammatory obfervations, which should not be Coffer ed to go forth among the public, without that ani madverflon which they deferred. Like many other fpeeches which he had been permitted to uttet in that Hook, it had a dire& tendency to alienate the minds of the people of the country from his Majetly's Go vernment. It was neither more nor leis than telling the people, telling thofe brave men who had armed in the defence of their country, that the Government was about to opprefs them, by railing the puke of the neceffarics of Cite. He knew of nothing that could tend more to encourage difaffettion in the country, and ferve the common enemy, than fuch obfervations.— They were the very fame which that Noble Earl had been making for many years in that Houfe ; and which, fortunately for himfelf and the people at large, had failed cf producing the defired ate. But he was happy to find, that the minds of the people at large were now completely changed, with relpeft to thole extravagant and pernicious principles, which Come of them might 'have once entertained; and it was a proof at once of the feeurity of the Goitaximeat and of the attachment of the people to , .alfit it, that an individual kite the Noble Earl was fill fi l t ere d to propagate thole doctrines, which had done fuch mii chief in other countries. One of the propofitions made ufe of by him was, that every direEt tax llsould be taken off the farmer : and that, he imagined, would have the tied of lowering tbY prices of pro tinODS. Never did a more erroneous idea enter into the imagination of any man. Every body who heard him might recoiled the attempts which had been made by the Revolutionary Government of France to lower the price of provifions. When that ferocious and fanguinary monfter Robefpierre, had been row ingth thoufands and tens of thoufands of people dungeons, and driving the miferable victims of his tyranny to the guillotine, he attempted to pafs a law for the benefit of the people s and by that turamao lower the price of provifions. He pretended that his oiled was to relieve the public from oppreffio”. But bow was that to be effeatd ? By ellablilliing a maximum, by fixing a certain price on all the octet: faries of life, beyond which they were not to be fold. The confequences were the molt dreadful, and ruin. out that could rattly be imagined. So far from lowering the price of provifions, the law immedi. ately produced fcareity and famine. Such !Fos the eft& of fpecolative reforms, like thole which the Noble Earl would introduce ! Another plan which the Noble Earl wilked to have adopted, was that of efiablithing public granaries in the country, for the puffe of laying op corn in years of plenty, which mi be made ufe of in years of fcarcity. However Inc a plan as this might be beneficial in certain Rates, it could never be praftically beneficial in a country like Great Britain. In the firft place, there was no redundancy of corn even in the moil plentiful leafon in this country, which could be referred for fuch a purpole. There was no more corn grown in Great Britain in any one year than was lufficient for the coafumptioo of the inhabitants ; and we were coati ' =ally importing corn to fupply the deficiencies of bad feafons. The caufe why a greater quantity of corn was not produced in this country, was very ob viDlls. It was a great commercial country, and in Bach a soontry, agriculture was never carried to fuch 1111 want as in places where there was little cos. tierce. A great portion of our population was em ployed in manufaeures, and in various other parfaits thole of agriculture; and therefore, although the country did not, in proportion to its population, produce as great a quantity of corn as it might do ; yet the iodurify of the people was equally as produc. doe in other refixes; and the wealth which that in finery procured, fupplied them with provifions from other countries, when they could not be got at home. It was evident that the plan of public granaries was not only inspraiticable, but unnecefary. To fuch a Om, Inch as waepropofed by the Noble Earl, be had another obketion, fill (Imager than any be had listed; which was, that of putting the public grana ries under the controul of Government. If any one thing could be more uncontlitntional or mirchievous than another, it was that of allowing the Govern. meat of a country to have the power of (applying the fubjelis with pavilions. Such a power mould sever be.fu ff ered to esilt in this country ; and he would refill it as fat as lay in his power. Another plan of the Noble Lord% by which he Paid the pries dtbe quartern loaf could be lowered to five-pence, was Rill more impraiticable. The price of bread mutt always keep pace with the prices of all the other vaceffarics of life rand the price of bread in this coun try was, at the prefent moment, proportionably too low. How was it poffible then that it could be lower 1 Importation could ant have that effeft ; and if it had. it would have the Rill worfe drat of preventing the growth of corn in the country. The real cattle of dro high prices, which took place in almoft all the neeef larks of life in this country, was the great wealth which it poffeffed ; and that mail be always the cafe in every great commercial country. He confidered it unnecellary for him to enter into the merits of this Bill, which had been dircutled before in that Houle; but he was convinced, if the Bill did not pals, it would have the drat of producing real fcarcity in the country. His Royal Highnefs the Duke of CLARENCE Paid he thought it neceffary to make a few obferva. tions on what fell from a Noble Earl who opened the debate on this fubjea. He had Paid , that the meafure then before the Honfe was brought forward by the Government. This he molt pofitively denied. The meafure had met the approbation of, and been planned by the Members of the late cabinet. The priScrit Minifiers gave their fanaion and fupport to it ; and, in doing fo, they had the advice and affillance of their predecefrors iq office. gut fo far from its being a meafure coming from the Government, it was brought forward by a Member of the other Houle of Parliament (Mr Weftern), who had uniformly been in oppofition w Minifiers, and who had always voted againfi the late and the orefent war. His loyal Highnefs then adavnced other arguments in favour of the Bill. The queftion then was put, when Lord Stanhope's amendment was negatived, and the Hill was read fccond time. An order was afterwards made that it be read a third time to-morrow. Earl STANHOPE neat role to propofe the r:• folutions which he had mentioned. He went over feveral of his former arguments ; and in anfwer to the charge, that he had ufed violent and inflamma tory language, lie contended he had laid nothing more than that a great part, and perhaps a majority of the people of the country, would be ildatistied with the Bill before the Houle : and that it would be a dangerous thing to run the rick of alienating the affeaions of men, who had come forward with arms in their hands to defend their country, and their government. This was an argument he thought lie had a tight to make life of. He then moved his re folutions; and laid, if they were agreed to, that he would move to adjourn the debate upon them to this day fennight. Lord NIULGRAVE thought the conduit of the Noble Earl highly repretienfiblz, in fuppofing that the brave men who had taken up arms in de i fence of their country, were likely to become Ml *Rated in confequenee of a Bill of this kind. Thank t GOD, very few perfons now entertained the fame t principles with that Noble Earl. Whatever errors man might formerly have had on the fubjea of our conftitution, he was convinced that their reflation and good fenfe, with the experience they have had. did fince teach them that they enjoyed more free d dom and happinefs than were to be found in any L other part of the world t and he was therefore cow