Star. — London, England, 1802-06-16 00:00:00

r PARLIAMENT,I2r PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JUNE T 5. Conflict was heard in the .Appcal, Lafhley v. Hog. The fur ther hearing put off to Friday next. The Neutral Ships Bill—the Hackney Coach Bill—the Bri- tifh Fifhery—ebe French Letters Pottage, and the Weft India Docks Amending Bill, were brorght up from the Commons by Mr. Alexander, attended by feveral Members. The Order for fummoning the Houfe relative to the Earl of Suffolk's Motion rcfpeding the conduit of his Majelly's late hliniftet s, was difcharged, and no futulc day fptethed for the pupae. The Honfe refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Scotch Militia Bill. Lord CARNARVON wifbed to know what was meant by the fum Rated in the Bill as the qualifi cation for a Deputy Lieutenant, of 4001. Scots? Lord Rosszys: Paid, et iminally that lulu was no more than about t 21. Englifit flerling; but as 'ts value became altered by the value of lands, which had confiderably increafed in Scotland, it might now amount to between 3 and 4001. Englifh. 'Lord CARNARVON then moved, as an amend ment, that this fum be fixed at 4001. Englifh. On this Motion the Houfe divided :—Contents 6. —Non-contents 16.—The Amendment therefore was neqatived. In the ccoirte of the difinftion it tranfpired, that the Scotch Militia being, by the conclufion of the War, in fait diffolved, the Bill was to authorife the organization of a new Militia in that part of the United Kingdom, and on principles entirely new ; and alto, that as fort n as the prcfent Bill (hall have paired, it was intended to propofe a new Bill for granting certain Allowances to the Subaltern Of ficers of the Scotch Militia. .k variety of amendments were propofed, chief ly by Lord Hobart, and adopted by the Commit tee ; and many of the claufes were feverally ani madverted on, and oppofed principally by the Earl of Carnarvon, and by the Earls Fitzwilliam and Berkeley. The Duke of Mormon warmly defended many of the leading provifioas of the Bill againft the arguments of the oppofing Peers. His Grace, however, took occafion to exprefs his opinion, that the period limited for the purpofe of drilling and exercifing the men was by no means fufficient for the purpofc : it was not then his intention to pro pole any amendment, but in a future Salon he hoped Minifters would fee the neceffity of extend ing the period in queftion. The Earl of CARNARVON having ohferved, that the charg , s of the Militia in this Country , as well as the maintenance of the Parochial Poor, fell in general upon the Land Occupiers, whereas Perfonal Proprietors, Monied Men, and Placemen and Penfioners, were comparatively exempted, The LORD CHANCELLOt Rated, that perfonal property was, by law, as liable to be rated to thole charges, as landed or any other fpecies of proper ty : the caufes of its not being aelually rated in the fame proportion, was owing to its peculiar nature, to the imprafticability of getting it fo well—to its intangibility, and to other obvious caufes. And with refpeft to what the Noble Earl had mote than once raid refpefting Placcmen and Penfioners en creating there rates and charges, he could inform him, and from his own perfonal experience, that as a Placeholder, to which fituation, however, forne onerous duties were annexed ; he paid to the Land Tax not lefs than four (billings in the pound —whereas as a land-owner, for a bit of land which he poffeffed in the North of England, the rates were fo laid, that be got off for about yid. in the pound. On the remaininAclaufes of the Bill, difoilllon more or lefs took place, particularly on that claufe which related to the trial and punifhment of Inch Soldiers as fhould not ufe " due diligence," in coming to the appointed place of rendezvous. The provifions were warmly combated by the Earls of Casmanvos and FITZWILLIAM, and defended with very _great ability by the LORD CHANCELLOR, who was followed by Lord HOBART. The Bill being entirely gone through, the Houle returned, and ordered the Report to be received to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Marquis of Downihire's Eftate Bill was read a fecond time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Weft India Dock Bill, and the French Portage Bill, were read a third time, and pafed. Mr. VA NIIIT T A AT brought up an Account of the Inertzfe and diminution which had taken place in the Salaries, Free, :111.1 Emoluments of the feveral Public Offices, fince the year 1801. Ordered to be printed. The Reports of the (event Committees, on the Marine Mu tiny Bill, the Stamp Duty Allowance Gill, the lei& Coff.•e Bill. the Smuggling Prevention Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Miners' Militia Bill, the frith Controverted Mellon Bill, and the frith Parliament Houk Bill, were brought up and agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Sac TTTTTT at WAX moved the confideration of the amendments made by the Lords in the nigh& Militia Bill.* Several of thole amendments were agreed to, and others were r, I , fteel : and, upon the motion of the Secretary at War, a Com mittee was ap n"- , ted to draw up the rcafons which induced the Houk to re.ufe the adoption o ee • /On of the amendments, in order that thole rcafons might be communicated to the Lords. The Report of the Committee °tithe Laud Tax Redemption twiner eanlidered, and atter a thort cooverlation be tween Mr. S. Lefevre and Mr. Vanuttart, the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Houk In Committees went through the Innkeepers' Al lowance Bill, the frith Chancellor's Salary Bill, the Irifh 6 per Cent. Duties 8111, the Excife Duty Bill, and the Torte' t tree port Bill. The. Reports were ordered tube received to-morrow, 'l•he Deer Stc-zling Prevention Bill, the Exchequer Loan'Bill, the Poft Horfe Duty Bill, the lat Bank Certifinte Bill, the lIIc of Man Trade Bill, the Natior.al Debt Bill, and the Illegal Lotteri,a4t:ll, were frecrally read a fecond time and commit ted for to-morrow. 7be Foreign Offence Bill, and the Controverted Election Ballot Mg were read a third time and paired, toed GLINAGRVIIK brought up a Statements of the Proceed ings of the Conuniffioners for the Sale of she Land Tax. Or dered to lie on the table, and to he orbited. Mr. VAN Sl7 TA ai brought in a Bill to atthorife the ufe of a DM Hydrometer by Excite Officers; a Bill for alt: ring the Du t;es on Oil Ike.; a 1,3111 for granting an Annuity to Lonl Hutzh in fon ; aGllforextendhtgtheproviGonsoftheSouthernWhale Fifht I y Act ; and a 13;11 for altering the Duties nn Paper and Pallehoard : there Bills were all read a firft time and ordered to be lead a fecund t;me to:morrow. _ _ The Houk nn the Wilt Lottery Bill, refolvtd that proviBo,, , &mild be made to enaLle the Conrutilinners of the Treafury Fne Ind to retell* to the enmraitlic.ere of the kith Treafrry, .3r , 0.0cr1. as the Frolics of the I.olteny. StALT DUTIES. Mr. iSTE RN, adverting to the additional du ties on Malt, impofed by the Aft of this Seflion, called the attention of the Honk to the manner in which that Aft was executed in feveral parts of the country, where circumstances of the molt fevere oppreffion have been known to take place, owing, as he underitood, to a very extraordinary conitruftion of the word " malt-making," in the late ASR ; a word, which, according to the con yeeption of the country excifemen, rendered all per fiMs fubjea to nightly eifits—to having their houfes fearched, and to other provifions of the excife laws, who fhould conttaft with malt fters to have their barley converted into malt, even though for their own private ufe. This he confidered a very singular and unjull interpretation of the Aft alluded to, as fome people in the country were as much in the habit o f fending their barley to the maltfters to be converted into malt, as they were of fending their corn to the mills to beground. A an inftance of the authority affumed by the excifemen, he mentioned that very lately one of them came to his houfe, and demanded his key, s to (catch for malt, which he denied, and upon afking the authority for fuch a demand, the Ex cifentan quoted this Aft ; he (Mr. %V.) wrote im mediately to the Secretary of the Board of Excife to complain of this proceeding ; and though he wrote a fecund time, he received no anfwer, but underflood from the Surveyor of the diftrkt, that the Officer was direfted to perfift in his purpofe and praCtice, for he Allred the Houk that Inch was the general praftice in his part of the country, and that his was the cafe of many other perfons. It was, therefore, he brought the bufinefs before the Houle, in order that Minilters fhould have an opportunity of explaining, as otherwife he fliould feel it his duty to move for leave to bring in a Bill to explain the Aft alluded to. MT. VAN SITTA ItT thought it would be rather too late in the feffion to bring in a Bill of the nature announced by the Hon. Member. In the mean time he wifhed to obferve, that it never was the intention of the framers of the Bill,alledged to have been harfhly executed, that fuch inconvenience fhould refult from it to any clafs of the people as that defcribed by the Hon. Gentleman; and he was fare nothing could be further from the with of Go vernment. If, therefore, the Hon. Gentleman would make application to the Board of Treafury or Ex,cife, he had no doubt but ample juftice would• be done. He thought it fair, however, to remark, that it was not unreafonable on the part of the Ex cifemen, at a time that additional duties were im poled, to ufe increafed vigilance to prevent the Maltfters from fecreting their flock ; yet it mull be a fubjea of regret, if any feverity fhould be prac tiled, and in fuch cafe any complainant might be certain of receiving complete fatisfaaion. Mr.S.I.AFSVRE declared that he felt much plea lure in the fentiments delivered by the Hon. Gen tleman who (poke laft ; adding, that he had good realm to fufpeft the Maltfters were fometimes in the habit of fending their flock from their malt houfes to be concealed elfewhere. _ _ ----- Mr. Vairsivrarr replied, that orders had been given to all Officers employed under the Aft to ' eiecute their duty with the utmolt lenity, and to give every fair Waal= to thofe who might be unjualy affeired. bit.. WESTERN faid, he did not know what or ders had been given, but he had certainly applied to the Commiffioners, and bad received no anfwer, only he had learnt that the Supervifor had received orders to proceed againa him. The CHANCELLOR of the Excuzilyaz faid, that the more rigorous arovifions of the Excite Laws were never intended to be enforced but when there was good ground to futpea fraud, and there was much reafon on the occafion of a duty fuch as that alluded to in the prefent hillance, to point out to the revenue officers the neceffity of waive precaution. He was forry, however, that any in convenience had been fuffered, and he trolled that no provocation for a fimilar complaint would oc cur again. He allured the Houfe and the Hon. Gentleman, that when the Bill referred to was enaeted, the molt precife and pofitive orders were iffued by the Board of Treafury, that it thould be executed with the utmolt lenity and indulgence, and he fincerely lamented that any deviation from thole orders Ihould have taken place. IRISH MILITIA. Mr. WICKHAM Rated, that he waited until that hour (fix o'clock) in expeeation of the Right Hon. Gentleman's pretence, who called the atten tion of the Houle to this fubjeft yellerday. He then moved a Refolution—" that the Chairman Ihould apply for leave to bring a Bill to authorize j and render valid, the ditcharge of certain Militia men in Ireland."—Leaveligranted Mr. WICK HAM gave notice, that he would To. morrow move the Houle to refolve itfelf into a Committee, to confider the means of reimburfing fuch counties or places in Ireland, as may have fuffered any lots by the difcharge of certain Militia men, mipeCting which doubts have been enter tained. ELECTION BALLOT BILL. The third reading of the Elation Ballot Bill was oppoled by Mr. ELIOT as an unneceffary innovation and encroachment on the Grenville Ad, and 'as ten ding to create delay initead of producing difpateh, by rendering it more difficult to find enough of Members to form the Committees. • Mr. BR ACI:i laid, that in the ablence of the Mover he would undertake to defend the Bill.— As to its being an innovation on the Grenville Aft, though that Bill allowed more than one Commit tee in one day, yet this bad never been aced upon, as it m:ght have interrupted the public hulloes and Silk b ing the cafe, he conceived the ;indent ' Bill could not be. confidered as an innovation on the principle of the Grenville Atli it only pre vented the rifle of an improper fufpenfion of public butinefs. ' Mr. BAN K2S faid, he was not at all concerned about the fuccefs of this Bill, as it appeared to him of that nugatory kind which do neither good nor harm; but if the quellion was put, he Should vote againft it, as altogether unneceffary. I.ONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 36. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t Confols, for July 75 — Reduced 721-4 per Cent. 87—New 5 per Cent. to3l--- Onutinns ol diE PRICE OF STOCKS T EsT FRISKY. Bank Stock 183 Imp. 3 per Cent. 701 71 3 per Cent. Red. 711 Imp. Ann. la t-t 6 4 per Cent. 871 1s kith 5 per Cents. 991 5 per Cent. 1031 t 07.1 tO3l Ening. Bills par is. pr. Is. M. Long Ann. so 9-161 Omnium zit # t I dii. Long Ann. Engliti Tickets x7l. 71. Short Ann. 4 1546 3 Conf. for op : 741 1 / 1 COURSE. OF EXCHANGE. Amfterdam, to 17 oU. Cadiz 351 effedt. I Genna 47 Ditto, at light 13 Madrid 34 paper I.ilbon 6-1 Rotterdam, so a U. Ditto 361 eflea. Oporto 6 - i Hamhurgh 33 4si U. Bilboa 36 Palermo yo Altona 33 S 21 U. Leirhorn St pence'', r Cadiz 34 in paper Naples 44 Dublin P. Paris, t day's date, 23 is—Ditto 2 t l f. 24 Bs , . Bourdeaur - a VC 14 1 liv. Venice, 591 Livres Picoli Effeetivi per IL Rai This morning a mail arrived from Hamburgh. The Britifh merchants in that city had a grand fete on his MAJESTY'S birth-day, in honour of the peace. Particulars to-morrow. This morning we received Paris Journals of the 13th. They bring the official details of the fur render of Toussmtvr, announced in the Telvgra- phic Difpatch, which we laid before our Readers of yefterday. This is the moil important intelli gence which the French Journals have fnrni(hed for fome time ; and to every perfon intereaed in Colonial Property extremely fo. The Paris Papers alfo mention the occupation of the Morea by French troops, in execution of a plan for the partition of Turkey ; but this report requires confirmation. The French Funds are SS f. 70 c. ARMY OF ST. DOMINGO. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF TO THE MINISTER OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES. Head-quarters at the Cape, Floreal 18, year to (May 8). Citizen Minifter—l haften to difpatch Citizen BILUYERES, my Aide-de.Camp, to inform you of the happy events which have reftored tranquillity in this immenfe and fine colony. You muff have received the difpatchcs in which I pre you an ac count of the military operations which took place in the month of Germinal. Every where beaten and difperfcd, terror prevailed in the enemy's camps; without magazines and without gun pow. der, they were reduced to the neceffity of eating bananas. The arrival of the fquadrons of Flufhing and Havre enabled us to ftrike the finiffiing blow. CHRISTI)/ HE rent to inform me, that he had al ways been a friend of the white men, whofe ,focial qualities and inftrudion he efteemed more than any man of colour; that all the Europeans who had been at Saint Domingo could atteft his prin ciples and conduit ; that the imperious circum• (lances which overcome, and often detertnine the conduit of men in public fituations, had not Cof fered him to conduit himfelf as he wished; in a word, that he requelted to know whether there could be still fecurity for him ? I fent to inform him, that with the French People a door was al ways open for repentance; that the invariable cuftom of the FIRST CoNsur. was to weigh the anions of men ; and that one bad one, whatever might be its confequences, did not efface from his mind the remembrance of pall fervices ; that it was true that the information which I received before my departure was perfonally favourable to him, and that provided he would place' himfelf under my dirt tion he would have reafon to be fatisfied. He (till hefitated: feveral of the Planters fet out in purfuit of him,-and fome fkirmifhes took place. CHatsroPHE at length made known to me that! might tranfmit to him my orders. I de fired him to repair alone to the Cape Town ; to diffiand all the Planters whom he had ilia with him, and to collet all the troops under his corn. mand. All thefe things were pundually executed. More than woo inhabitants of the Cape, who were in the moll diflant Mornes, returned. The Magazines and Artillery which he had are in OW bands ; and about two troops of the line who Rill remained with him, joined our troops. A part of them were (Harmed and fent to cultivate the foil. The other part I have kept, that they may be incorporated with the colonial troops. The fubmiffion of CHRISTOPHE completed the conflernation of Toossaierr. He employed all the means in his power to make known to me the difa,greeable fituation in which he found himfelf, and how much pain it gave him to fee continued a war without (Ned and without end. He added, that yery unfortunate circumflances had already occafioned a great number of evils, but that what ever might be the force of the French army, he was fufficiently powerful to burn and ravage, and to fell at a &la rate a life which had alto been fometimes ufeful to the mother country. All thefe communications, frequently repeated, gave rife to deep refleelions. Three fourths of the colony have efcaped the misfortune of burning ; and Toussattir and the blacks, though they have occalioned great de arudion. and carried on war with extreme barba rneived only falfe ideas refpeetiug our n r ,a charader. I fent to inform ToussAiN T, tilAt lie had only to furrender at the Cape; that the hoar Of pardon was not yet pita. _ _ _ Toussaitur did not fail to take advantare of the permiffion I had granted him ; he wane.' up, in me, requefled forgivenefs, and fw•ore to be flitl,fld t o France. I have accepted his fubmiffion, and or dered him to repair to a plantation near Conak eh and not to fir from it without mj• leave. I have placed DISSALIuEs on a plantation near Saint-Mare. An the planter-6 . .vho hid been milled have re. turned. I shall incorporate with the colonial troops, a portion of the difciplined negroes, who I think may he fuffered to remain armed. The magazines and artillery, which they had dragged over lleep rocks, and concealed amon g the bullies, are daily delivered up ; they had more than a hundred. A new epoch commences. You will fee by all the decrees I have paired, and the =Aires I hive taken, that we are a6tively ployed with the adminifiration of the country. The bad feafon has begun, but the reit given to our troops will enable them to get over it with as little lois as pi:gable. Thanks to your care :we arc abundantly fupplied with prusifions. Health and reified. (Signed) LECLERC. THE SAME TO THE SAME. Cape, a 8 Floreal, year to, (May R.) We arc endeavouring with an activity, difficult to be conceived, to re.eftablifh the Cape. This town is Ming from its afhes. I (hall not conceal the mifchief which has ken done in feveral Cantons of this Colony ; but at pre. fent, while I am receiving the different reports, I am snore and more convinced that above three fourths of the Colony are untouched. The quarters of Artibonite, all the South part, the Mole, and Fort Libertc, are entirely preferred. American chips in great numbers arrive in our ports, laden with flour, planks, and other arti- Iles neceffary for building. Citizen PICHON in forms me, that the Americans had ffiewn much difcontent on account of the meafure I purfued at the tithe of my arrival; but in my opinion they are wrong to (peak of the pea. Agents of the American Government were pith Toy ssais and did not always fuggeft to him the bell lions. The muflcets, cannon, gunpowder, furnifhed with new aCtivity fence the Preliminaries were made known, came from the United States. It was therefore natural that I fhould purfue mea• fures for preventing that communication with the rebels. Our Cornmiffioners in America do not at tend with fufficient care to the intereits of the public treafury. An unfortunate (mall brig which you difpitched, cult in repairs aB,OOO francs — ( 11001. Reding). C. Pic HON ought to have known that the brig was not worth the half of that fum. The National Commerce begins alto to fend us a few veffels. I have given orders that theColcnial fyftem (hall be put into a Rate of as much ae.irity as poffible. AU veffels coming from France &all pay on im• ports no kind of duty ; for exports they (hall pay so per cent. perhaps it Would be better to demand only five. I (hall however wait for your orders in tbis point. It can do no hurt to commerce, flue you may in the mean time diminilh the duties front the Weft in the fame proportion. _ The Colony in other re - fpeas is in a fituation to receive any commercial regulations that you may be pleafed to make; and if our large commercial cities undertake to furnifh what ke have occafion for, we (hall foon be able to put in aftivity the edicts of 1784, in regard to Cullom-houfe dues. To conclude, Citizen Muller, allure the FIRST CONSUL, that I (hall not lofe fight for a moment of the precife inflruetions which he tan me, both in a political and a commercial point of vicw, ani that I (hall confider the day when the national commerce alone is fufficient for St. Domingo, as a day of happinefs to me and the army, fince the refult of a colonial war mull be the ttiumph cf commerce. I have fent General Duoua to the . Southern part; General lkoc ma EA Li is towards Saint-nit — :. I cannot but below praifes on the whole army. [but I muff make particular mention of the 7c..., conduel, and fervices of General ROCHAMBEAV. I have reafon to praife alfo the aCtivity of :L. Commilrary in Chief DattßE. Health and mfr. 'I. (Signed) LFCLFi.C• EXTRACT OF • PRIVATE LFTTER FROM THE CAFE, FLOREAL 18, MAY 8. •The news of the peace have made Tot' SS.IINT liGen to reafon; the whole island is tranquil; the Chicfs have fubmitted to the laws of the Republic; I fay . e TOUSSAINT yefterday at tht• bottle of CU'. LECLERC; and I have• feen a man. Every thir.i: he Paid was well weighed ; he poiliffes good fol . -. genius, and a great habit of commanding. ni , man is very fuperior to all others of his colour. — The people of Europe are much miftaken iu rcg. , :j ' to him. The inhabitants, unfortunate for ten years, :;re beginning to arrive from all quarters, from tht Spartans colonies and North America, to renal and the dia dyk por eigl Ma cha Gal min gari Imj circ HZ eons on Mr. 41, OCC7 from to n the 1 Aida folk Duke Duct Dud _Duch Man Sal Doves Marc Dow Marc Coun Bars Prime Vika Lord Lord Lord Lady pun fen; fast