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vaiamtdangs. Mr. PR ENDEROASTwouId wish to put a ques tion to &nine Hon. Members, whom he then saw in their place% Ha read from a newspaper, rociedings of the Missionary Sudety , at a public dinner. To these resolutions were signed the names of Mr. Wil beribrce, Mr. Minstar, Mr. Grant, and Mr. H. Thornton. The part, to which his attention was par ticularly directed, wne that resolution by which is £250 was to be gitte, to pay persons for reading the Scriptme in the mgrizet-places of the populous cities in Asia." He wished to know, did those Gen tlemen avow such A resolution ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER spoke to order. The SPEAKER said, that it was certainly quite new in the proceedings of Parliament, for Members to be questioned in that House about what passed at ta vern dinners. Mr. PRENDERGAST said, that this paper would go to India, and .rnigitt do a great deal of mischief there. It appeared to him a matter of such public importance, that he newt, iii4ol3lo way or other, brinj it before Parliament. PROitilliV TAX. Sir THOMAS TURTON would not have eons, forward at so late a Z a l a o n f the Session, had be not been prevented by t business from bring. ing forward the present Modon earlier; and he brought it now forward, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Percival) oppositi might take the subject into consideration during the fecesa. He had no objec tion to the quantum of the Property Tax, but to the quality of the people on whom the Tax was partly raised. A person enjoying a Freehold of 0200 a year, and an annuitant of 8200 were precisely on the same footing, though the annuitant could only re ceive ten years purchase for his annuity, while the freehold could be sold for thirty years purchase. ' Was there any equality in levying the same amount of tax on a property worth only 82000, which was levied on a property worth £6OOO. In going to ether classes the same inequality would be found. The offi cers of excise, whose income was net worth a farthing. if brought to salt in the market, received of their al lowance of only £62 or £64, after deduction of Property Tax. He then stated the hardships of al lowing Assessors to harass poor people with inquiries about their weekly wages, particularly as those wages fluctuated from SO to 30 and 70 shillings a week.— He wished therefore that the Right Honourable Gen tleman should introduce a graduated scale of taxation. If the tax Was unjust, it was the duty of a great States man to look it in the face. It was his duty to put the higher and the lower ranks on the same footing. He concluded with moving that the House should, early in the next Session of Parliament, take the Act of the 46th Geo. 111. into their consideration. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could see no advantage in agreeing to the present motion. It could not in any wise influence the dis cussion which might take place in another Session, and it might have the effect of implying, that Parlia ment was bound to give some relief. He, for one, thought that no relief could be given, and he there fore thought it improper to hold out to the country any thing like an expectation of it. The Property Tax was infinitely preferable to the two Taxes which had preceded it, the Triple Assessment Tax and the Income Tax • but this Tax would suffer a great diminution if the alterations of the Honourable Ba ronet were acceded to ; arid he would ask, what other Tax could be found to supply its place A higher rate of taxation on the few possessed of great in comes Would in no degree supply the deficiency oc casioned by the diminution of the burden on the lower classes, for it was on the great number of the lower classes that a productive tax could alone be raised. The graduated scale of the Hon. Baronet appeared to him a levelling system : it was as much as saying that within a certain limit property ought to be un touched, but that a man could do very well without the remainder beyond that limit. Now in this country all property was liable to similar contribution ; and the protection of the property of tke higher ranks was necessary for the interests' even of the lower ranks. What other resource then could supply the place of the Property Tax, which, he would venture to say , was the least burdensome of all taxes that could be imposed. If it was a tax on the annual profits of pro perty, then the tax on an annuity was very properly the same as that on a fee simple. If the tax was merely for one year, then it might be proper perhaps, to levy more on the one description of property than the other ; but it was to be observed that the tax was to subsist during the war ; and that as the possessor of a fee had no other fund from which to pay the tax but the income of the fee, and as he could not be per. petually bringing his property to market, he would be under the necessity of gradually mortgaging the future income of his estate, so that in a few years he would be very much outstripped by the annuitant. Mr. W. SMITH admitted that the tax as it stood at present was free from many of the objections which attached to it in its original state. It had been matter of astonishment to him that, as it first stood, any Minister should have ventured to propose such a tax for the endurance of a free people, or that it could have been pressed down their throats without military force. The rigid inquisition into the private fortunes of individuals had been even more offensive than its inequality ; now, however, it was certainly less objec tionable. In its original state it was almost exactly the tax which the revolutionary tribunal proposed to impose in London, provided they conquered it, as had been shewn in one of the daily prints at that time. But even to the tax as it existed at present, he thought :he Honourable Baronet's objections well founded. —He wished that a pledge should be given this session that the House would reconsider the principle of this tax, allowing at the same time that it was im possible to relieve the lower classes in any way that ~ could not produce a defalcation in the amount of this particular tax. Sir THOMAS TURTON said, that the observa tions he intended to have made in reply had been, in a great measure, anticipated by the last speaker.— At present the tax was proportioned not to the ability, but to the inability of those who paid it. Adverting to the remarks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on his observation that the people of this country had become somewhat sanguinary from the long conti nuance of the' war, he stated that he only meant by this that from the late successes the people had been buoyed up with the idea of being a great mili tary power, and of being enabled to contend with \ - .7: 7 7 %". `7"-$llll _ •,:} _ 7• - • Bonaparte on the Continent—not for every .5000 we could afford to to could afford to lose 100,000. It was contend with the population of France at and Spain had not made exertions adequate contest. He had not expected, indeed, that gal could have been defended so long; and he thought the greatest praise due to the General and the army, which, under all the circumstances had done so much. —The motion was then put and negativeli. The Lords' Amendments in the Militia Interchange Bill were agreed to. Sir THOMAS TURTON moved, in the absence of Mr. She ridan, that the consideration of Mr. Mason's Petition, relative to oppressive imprisonment in Ireland, stand for Wednesday.— Ordered. Mr. PRENDERGAST gave notice, that on Wednesday he would move for the production of all the Paperalhat had been met to India on the subject of the Missionaries, *lie the first of !apiary, Iso7. Mr. WHARTON presented a Return of the number of rank and Se in the Militia service.—Laid on the table. Adlisorned till Wednesday. Ei E EVENING STAR. rat UPI o the LONDON. TUESDAY. JUNE 25. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAP AT ONE O'CLOCK. pet NMI. fir opg. 633 84-3 per C. Reduced 62n 4 per Ct. 79H—Otnnium lit dia. Xsehequer Dills 2s. to par—Boods I 74. 18s. pre. omonlorml•=8 8 This day a Mail arrived from Lisbon, brought to Plymouth by the FAVOURITE sloop of war, which left the Tagus on the 9th. From some of the accounts in the printed papers, it would appear that Badajos fell on the sth instant, but the latest letters only speak of that event as being hourly expected. A considerable breach had been effected, nor was there the smallest prospect of the garrison receiving any relief. We have 'more than once intimated that there was reason to believe that the French would make great efforts to collect a sufficient force to enable them to try the chance of another battle. By the accounts subjoined, it appears that they have been manifesting movements of the kind alluded to. Indeed one of the passengers by the Favourite, says, that a rumour of a battle in the neighbourhood of Badajos had got into circulation before the Favourite sailed, in which the enemy were totally routed.—We cannot however credit the report without better authority. Since writing the above, we learn that Dispatches were received this morning from Lord WELLINGTON, dated the 6th instant. Badajos had not then fallen, but his Lordship was in hourly expectation of the event. The operations of the besiegers were carrying on with uncommon activity. There had been rnit ge neral battle, but the British had suffered some loss in killed and wounded by the fire from the enemy's batteries. We regret to add that Lieutenant HAWKER, of the artillery, a most gallant and deserving Officer, has been killed in the trenches before Badajos. Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches do not contain any fact of sufficient importance to warrant the issuing of a Bulletin from the Foreign Department. Letters from Elvas of the 3d inst. announce that the fire against Badajoz opened with the greatest pos sible activity, between nine and ten in the morning. In the same day, between two and three in the after noon, an open breach was observed in Fort Ss. Chris tavas ; it is said that the enemy abandoned it, after spiking the guns... From four to five o'clock the file ceased in the fort. • The fall of •Badajoz is expected every instant. Yesterday it was affirmed that there had been an action in the road from► Llerena to Seville, in which the French suffered considerably. It was also asserted that our army had entered the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo. Accounts from Spain positively assert that a divi sion of 6000 men, with which General Suchet en deavoured to retake Figueras, was completely beaten and destroyed. _ _ _ An enemy's corps of 2000 men, which attempted to enter liostalrich, 'mac also routed. LISBON, JUNE S. Yesterday (the 4th) was the glorious anniversary of his Britannic Majesty, of that immortal Prince, who, by his wisdom and firmness, opposed an invin cible barrier to the greatest abyss that ever threatened to subvert social order, and overturn all the Govern ments of the world —the French Revolution ; when thus uniting all its means and resources in the hand of the most turbulent and atrocious despot that the world has ever known, become most formidable, and appeared to be absolutely irresistible. Then the ge nius of England in like manner assumed an hitherto unknown energy, her fleets covered the ocean, snatch. ed the trident from Neptune, and asserted her empire along the shores of mighty Albion. At this moment the irritated and crafty enemy in vaded the provinces bordering on the Baltic and the peninsula of Spain, in order that possessing the Con tinent, he might render less useful to England the do minion of the seas. But the noble inhabitants of that fine peninsula disdained to submit to slavery. On the banks of the Guadalquiver and the Douro, of the Ebro, and the Minho, arose at once, and as if by en chantment, the shout of liberty. There arrived from England powerful aid of evety kind ; and more than all she sent us, in the person of Lord Wellington a new Marlborough, who, combating in new. fields, de. feated the French Generals, and dissipated that my gic, that illusion which seemed as it were to have fas cinated even men of powerful minds and noble hearts. Thanks to that immortal Prince, who to the benefit of Great Britain, and to that of the world, has now for more than half a century swayed his powerful sceptre. Yesterday his birth-day was celebrated in this capital with every possible demonstration of joy . The castle of St. Gear fired salutes, which were answered by that multitude of ships which covered the Tagus, ell with displayed colours. In the two principal squares of Rodin and Tenviso de Paco, the English and Portuguese troops and artillery were _ 2 0 , 1 . • .6..• .0t lo - /.......0040a....00••••,- C 4.. , ....••• - r--..-,,, drawn up, and fi red repeated trollies. At night th e In the most - earnest Manrer, that - your Majesty will whole city was illuminated, and in the IsTationel deign to place me in a condition to maintain in the Theatre of the Rue des Condes; which was supejtly part where I command the splendour of his arms, by oritamented, an eulogium on that great and generate granting me the succours which circumstances oblige Sovereign was recited. me to ask. A reinforcement of 20,000 men and Jura 7.—Yesterday we were assured that the for- 1000 artillerymen are most urgently necessary ; other tress of Badajos, in consequence of the horrible fire wise I cannot answer for the success of the operations kept up against it from our batteries, and of having no effectually contributing to terminate in a short time chance of being relieved, finally capitulated the day the war in Spain. before yesterday, at five in the afternoon. , " This 'powerful interest and the good of the ser- Ante B.—Letters received yesterday from Elvas vice of your Majesty, are the motives which induct by the mail, do not confirm the fall of Badajos ; this me to supplicate yam to give your attention for a mo. event, however, may have taken place since the meat to your faithful army of the South which has Courier set out, as the letters say, a breach was partly no thought but the glory of your Majesty's army, effected, and that it could not hold out long. nor any wish but to obtain your approbation. JUNE 9.—Badajoz still continues to be vigorously u I have the honour to be, with the most profound respect, and unlimited fidelity, your Majesty's most attacked by our army.—Seuvr is recruiting his humble, most obedient, and most faithful vassal, strength in the South; while the French have gather- The Marshal, Duke of DALMATIA." ed together 24,000 foot and 4000 cavalry at Sala manca.—General SPENCER continues with a consi. derable force on the Agueda and Coa ; while the Lord MELVILLE, who has recently taken his seat in 16th Light Dragoons and Hussars are near Castello the rocm of his father, the late Viscount, is a con stant attendant in his place, in the House of Peers. 1 Branco, ready to advance wherever they may be re quired.—Lord WELLINGTON, as usual, ever active— Earl GREY was yesterday honoured with the corn. I our only anxiety is for his health, which, thank Gon, parry of the PRINCE REGENT to dinner. The party has hitherto continued excellent. The Marquis of consisted of • 1 CAMPO VERDE has routed Sucher in Catalonia, with The Prince Regent, Duke of York, Duke of Bedrord, Duke great slaughter, some say 2000 men. We are told of Argyle, Earl of Jersey, Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Holland, the Cortes has decreed to Marshal BENESPORD the Lord Kinnaird, Lord Ponsonby, Lord Hutchinson, Right Hun , R. Fitzpatrick, Right Hon. R.B. Sheridan, and W. Adam, Esq. rank and appointment of Lieutenant-General; to Yesterday the avenues to Carleton House were as BLAKE, that of Marshal ; to CASTANOS, the Great much crowded as on the night of the Fete itself. The Cross of Charles III.; to every Officer, a Medal, on numb e r of visitors of the Palace was immense, and one side Albuera, on the other, Besse Meritus da . fiteleveral hours the great thoroughfare of Pall Mall Parris ; and to each man, a Dolla r. was completely blocked.up by carriages. Every thing, ST. PEDRO DE ELSA, MAY IS. I we understand, remained in its place, and all the Yeo. 1 On the evening of the 11th Mortier entered Valla- men of the Guards, and servants in their state liveries, dolid, with all those belonging to the brothel of Jo- were on duty to attend to the company in passing seph ; he brought the treasury from Madrid, the office • through the magnificent suite of apartments. lof national prosperity , which continued their progress I A n American for Burgos, taking with them the effects that were in for the last five and who arrived at Plymouth Valladolid. Seven hundred men have left Benevente ,in a cartel from Mor ut . ix on Saturday meriting, states in the direction of Asturias, and on their way were that Kum* and other Generals from the Peninsula I , totally routed by Porlier. were treated with the greatest respect in Paris. The Joseph was on the 6th at Vittoria, and setting out reason assigned for their visit to the capital was that for France. There are no signs of reinforcements, 'it was necessary to make some new arrangements for To-day, entered the 2d corps, commanded by Reg- a more effectual system of operations in Spain and tier, amounting only to 2000 men. The Staff began ' , g Portugal. This gentleman says that, notwithstanding to advance before noon. It is said that the 6th corps , the precautions taken to prevent the French from ! is at Salamanca. knowing the real state of affairs in the Peninsula, the INTERCEPTED LETTER, PROM MARSHAL SOULT TO JOSEPH Parisians are pretty well informed on the subject, and ' BONAPARTE. that they very generally condemn the war. Not the " Smz—The place of Campo Maior capitulated smallest apprehensions are entertained in France of ' on the 22d instant, after a blockade of eight days— any rupture with Russia; but an important exchange of territory was shortly expected to take place in the garrison are prisoners of war. The Governor . consequence of a negotiation that is now carrying on. begged a delay till two in the afternoon, in the hope of receiving the succours which had been promised BitEAD.—There being no Court of Aldermen this him : the succour did not arrive, and he surrendered. may. the Lord Mayor, after inspecting the returns, I found 48 pieces of artillery in the place, which were ordered it to continue at the present prices. carried to Badat ' Badajoz • at the same time they began to TORBAY, JUNE 23. i Majesty's ship Comer with destroy the wor s of• defence, as I had commanded. Sailed this morning hiso This was executing, when, on thei 24 -th, an Anglo- the trade for Newfunciand. The ANTELOPE and Portuguese army, commanded by Marshal Berestord, MACKAREL with their convoy remain.—Wind N. E. arrived at Arronches, and, on the . 25th, attacked FALMOUTH, JUNE 22., General Latour Maubourg, who protected the evacu ation of Campo Maior. Oar troops performed pro- Sailed the Duke of Kent packet for Halifax and New I I digies of valour, and maintained the shock against York, and the Duke of Clarence packet for Lisbon. double numbers. „ PLYMOUTH, JUNE es. 44 The Marshal Duke of Treviso - wrote me that Arrived, the FAVOURITE sloop of war, with a mail I.there were 10,000 English infantry and 3000 horse, and dispatches from Lisbon, which have been landed, with many Portuguese regiments, which raised the and are forwarded for London; a Cartel, 'rota Moe. • force of this army from 17 to 18, 00 0 men ; he infor- I lair, which has brought over several passengers ; and med me ahat Marshal Prince Essling had changed I a small fleet of transports, to take on board reinforce. his position, • and marched in the direction of Coim- menus for Spain and Portugal.—Another detachment bra. At this epoch the Marshal Duke of Treviso of the sth infantry has also marched in, to embark had received no intelligence of the troops from the for the beer quarter. Sailed, the VAUTOUR, 18 Army of the Centre, which I had with suchae.rncy guns, on a cruize.—Wind N. begged your Majesty would be pleased to to PORTSMOUTH, JUNE as. 1 march to Badajoz to strengthen the fifth corps. 4 8 A Spanish division of 8000 men disembarked in The NYADEN, Captain FOWLER, which passed by with the West India fleet, on Thursday, the 13th inst. for the Downs, returned to Spithead, onTuesday last ; Huelva and Moguer, where they united with a corps she left England about 18 months ago, and was then oaf 5000 men commanded by Ballasteros ; I imene- Idiately ordered the troops of the pith corps, which I commanded by Captain Comma, who died on the had brought from Estremadura, to march against of a consumption. In consequence of the death of those troops which had just arrived. General Marausin 19th of April last, while on a cruize off Barbadoes, Captain COTTRELL' Captain Fowtaa, of the CHARTS obliged those which were in Moguer to re - embark. DIN was promoted to be a Post Captain, and appoint. On the 27th the Hussars destroyed , in the Peninsula ed to the NYADEN, Lieutenant CLIIPHAN, first of Dila,. if the Arenilla, a detachment of 500 perfectly well mounted cavalry, and took 300 horses ;but the di- ed to be a Lieutenant in the DlatOON.—Dis , vision coming from Cadiz, posted themselves in an non, to be a Commander in the CHARYBDIS, and Mr. ease had been very prevalent in most of the ships at 'lsland at the Mouth of t he river Tinto, and from theece gave orders to occupy Huelva , and commu nicate with Ballastems. lam not sufficiently strong the different Islands, and was felt more particularly to attack this new army. at the English Harbour, Antig et Marshal Duke of Belluno informs me that a ua, but the winter sea son was considered the most sickly. While the Nye den and Thetis were at Antigua, they lost nearly every diz, which makes the number of troops of that nat i on Midshipman that was on board, and the mortali t y Ca in that point amount to 10 , 000 men ; he fears they fresh corps of 4000 English have disembarked i n Ca was very great among the petty officers and marines. will attack him, and urgently begs reinforcements The Castor frigate, which lay in the outer bay, lost from me. Such is the situation of the army of the two Lieutenants of Marines (one of whom was a pas. South ; four armies attack it at the same time upon ranger), several other officers, and many men. The different ants . I have the honour to most earnestly Nyaden left at Barbadoes, the Dragon, Admiral Si r supplicate y F. LAPORY, Tribune, Atalante, Wanderer, and seve thepoour Majesty will be pleased to order all troops - which are in the Valley of Tagus , und er ral small vessels. The Statira, Orpheus, Gloire, Ga the orders of Generals Laboussaye and Martiniere , to • nymede, St. Pierre, Forester, Frolic, Thetis, Charyb dis, Opossum, Star, Peruvian, Cygnet, De merar y, Sec. were distributed at the different Islands on the M his absence march upon Badajoz, placing them , for the present , • coast of South America. The Castor, Cherub, Ama. tremadura, t ll the English army depart, and the at the disposition of the Marshal Duke of Tre v iso , o r ranthe, Arachne, Surinam, Scorpion, and Maria, col. i of the General who cemmands in Es- tow of Badajoz is free from all insult. lected the convoy from the other Islands, to St.Tho y the Ama. " I likewise beg your Majesty will be pleased to aden and mas's. The Arachne accompanied the N order, by forced marches to Andalusia , the battalions her convoy.to Bermudas, in consequence of and detachments belonging to the Army of th e South, ranthe having charred a French privateer in th ose seas which are in the territory of the Centre. a few days before. The following pass e n gers came Sire—ln the name of the service of the Em home in the Nyaden : Captains BARCLAY a n d \V it - LOCK ; Lieutenants LAMB, WlLson, Uwe, an d B - pe. SHOP, of the Navy ; Lieutenan wATERS and GRAV ES , such, that without the succour which I solic i t , the of the Marines ; Mr. HewLerr, master in th e nav y ; IS .. ror, I snake bold to renew my supplication s to your Majesty ; the situation of the Army of the South i s among the Civilians were, Judge SMITH, and Messrs. success and preservation of Andalusia cannot fail MACNAMARA and HILL. of being endangered ; this crisis is without doubt the Deal boats,on the coast of France, arrived here Eleven of the gold smugglers, which were taken in • the last effort of the enemy ; and we may hope . yesterday in the Phipps schooner, and were put on hoard the Royal William, where they are confined its result will be the pacification of the Spanish Pro- I vinces.—l have the honour to be, with die most pro found respect, sire, your Majesty's most humble, and I most obedient servant, lull the intention of Government is known resp ect i ng 1 . APRIL 24.—Arrived his Maje from sty's ship a cruize. EINNBURCHE t h e m ' 4‘ Marshal Duke of DALMATIA." I , YRIAN " Seville, March SO.—To his Majesty t he Kin g of S p ain, &c." from the Downs, and the T 1 lb " It appears by accounts that the Prince of Essling was ordered to make a retrograde movement : it is I DEAL, JUNE 24. probable that this circumstance has been the occasion I Sailed his Majesty's strip 'ip EDINBURGH , for Ports ,of the English detaching an army aga i n s t Badajoz. ' mouth ; Pietas cutter for ditto ; Hope, Elisha Tucker, 44 We shall all fulfil our duty —but your army of Martha, and Betsey transports, under convoy of the the south is much too weak to support such a shock CRACKER gun-brig, for Leith. Arrived the NAIAD ' with that certainty of success, which your Majesty frigate from a cruize, and the PLUM schooner from • - '"" " ought always to expect from your armies. I entreat, Portsmouth. . , su; • .- ..r ' - '• .r• .! ,\