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:zngly reprobated the tax. We could cqllett from , tat we overheard, that he maintained the effe& of tax in enhancing the price of bread, an effea Use propofition of the tax had already produc ed in the metropolis. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON alfo oppofed the Tax, and alluded particularly to the baneful ef fetts it would produce on the Rate of the fineries in the Northern parts of Scotland. Mr. HUSKISSON maintained, that the tax would lay no more than four or five Qtillings en each family; This, indeed, was quite clear by looking to the po pulation of the country. Mr. JOHNSTONE, on the contrary, vindicated the Ratement of his Honourable relation (Sir Wm. Pulteney ) that this rum moll apply to individuals and not to families. In the Report of the Committee on the Salt Duties it was Rated, that each perfon on an average confumed fourteen pounds of falt in the year, and this, by the old tax, made two Ihillings and ft:pence. The new tax would make one (billing and tl.l..e.pence more, being nearly the fom alluded to by Honourable relation. He was clearly againn the I tax, and maintained that it would hold out new temp tation to finuggling, which in the northern parts of the ifland, was already carried to an enormous extent. After a few words in explanation from. Mr. Parr and Mr. Husatssow, the Gallery was cleared, and the Houle divided.. The numbers were, for the original Motion that the Bill be now .read a fecond time 93—For the Amendment of Lord W. Refidt 6o—Majority for the Ceased Reading 33. On our return to the Gallery we found that the Salt Tax Bill was ordered to be committed to-mor row—to which day the Houfe adjourned. ELECTION COMMITTEE, MARCH 4. Mr. Puma's, Connie! for the Petitioner. occupied the attention of the Court from ten o'clock till two In Contusing up and obferving upon the whole of the evidence. Strangers were ordered to withdrew, and the Cons goatee confuked about half an hour. Coonfel were again called in, and the Chairman Paid, the opinion of the Committee would be delivered to-morrow wor sting, at eleven o'clock, till which time the Court ad journed. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH S. PAIGE OF STOCKS T:IIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Confok, for money, 51 sll—for April,3llllHOntnium 31. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTF.RDAY. Bank 1.. Ann. Mut Short Ann. a 13.16 India Stock OW 184 Excbeq. Rills is. prem. Omoium 4 31 prem. CooL for acc. 3En Bank Stock S per C. Red. Ann alit per Cent Cont 5815 g 4 per Cent. ant 5 per Cent. Navy 50414 5 per Cent. t7p7, mut Advices have been received at the Admiralty of the Rochefort fquadron having got into Breft. Yeilerday two Gentlemen arrived in town and at tended at the Foreign Office, with intelligence from France relative to the Enemy's Force in their Har bours oppolite the Britilh Coaft, in confequence of which difpaches were laft night forwarded from the Admiralty to Lord KEITH and Lord Gaszssa. Some accounts are Paid to have been received in town yellerday, brought by (hips arrived in the River, which Rate, that in the ports of Holland orders have been given within there few days for an embarka- tion of troops which had lately arrived from the in• terior; it is however added, that the veffels appointed to receive them were very ill fopplied with Rotes, and that the Dutch leamen had 'spelled themfclves very diffatisfied with the feritice on which theywere about to be employed. It continues to be reported that Bowararrs ar rived about a week or ten days fince at Boulogne, and was to proceed thence to Weft: LaR night, in the Haute of Commons, there was a difeuffion -on the Salt Duty BilL The ground which the Oppofition took was the prefrore of the Tax upon the Lowe: Orders : to which it was ant veered, that it was very hard to find any preduCtive Tax that would not in tome way prefs upon every Clafs of Society. The confnmptiin of Salt is about one Buhl annually to nub Family. The Tax will, there fore, raife abc.nt F,, Shill;nge a year frc.m each. It was contended by the CHANCELLOR of the Baena cys lt, that in War like this, in which the Neceffa• ries of the Poor, as well as the Superfluities of the Rich, are to be defended, it was jolt that a fmall !hare of the burthen fhould fall upon them ; and he pointed one the number of Taxes which, finee the year 1793, bad been laid exclufively and diredlly on the Rich and Middling Orders. He could not find any Tax that would be equally produltive and lets objeltionable. Lord WILLIAM Rossini. moved, as an Amend went, that the Bill fit-told be read a fecond time this v fix months, which Amendment was negatived by najority of 93 to 60. The Tax, however, will no doubt, be amended and modified in the Committee. Thus much may be inferred from the following paragraph in The Li ,loot advertifer, received in town yellerday : 44 The following is the copy of a Letter, dated London, Feb. 27, from Gen. GASCOIOIII, relative to the export dory on Salt, addrelled to the Worlhip. ful WM. HART/11, Efq. Mayor: am authorised by Mr. Pitt to inform my Coollitotots at laverpool, that he Stall for the preterit year daft from preffing it the Houle of Coounoos the propok4 Tax oc the export o Salt to the Coalman." On Sunday evening an Oratorio was performed by her Majefty'i band, and the Gentlemen of the Choir, before the Royal Family, and a idea party. POETRY. EXTRACTS FROM A poet ENTITLED THE SABRA TR A Poem of extraordipary beauty, bearing the above title, full of that fervid but amiable fpirit of religi ous feeling, which the mind of the true Poet never wants, has lately come from the capital of the Nhrth, its author anonymous.—We cannot forbear, in giving fbme quotations from it. to exprefs our fenfe of its merits—in palling from the bury fcenes and &Wets, which, as heralds of public events, we are celled to defcribe, it forms a pleating Tell to our minds to con template tbis fubjee, and this poetry fo worthy of the fubje&. Hail, S x ! thee I hail, the poor man's day : The pale mechanic now has leave to breathe The morninz air pore from the city's fmoke, While wand'ring flowly by the river fide. He meditates oo Him whofe power be marks In each green tree that proudly fpreads the bough, As in the tiny dcw-bent flowers that bloom Around the roots ; and while he dies Inner With elevated joy each rural charm, He hopes, (yet fears prefunntioo In the hope), To reach thole realms where SAIDATII never ends. But now his Reps a weitome found nosh : Solemn the knell, from yonder aodent pile, Fills all the air, incident joyful awe : Slowly the throng moves o'er the tomb pav'd ground: The aged man, the bowed down, the Wad Led by the thoughtlds bey, and be who breathes With pain, and eyes the new-made grave, well-ph:l4 Tbefe, mingled with the yang, the gay, approach The hank of GOD: theft, ['Ate of all their ills, A glow of gladnefs fed; with fluent pnife They enter in; a placid =nes reigns, Udtil the Man ofkoo, worthy the name, Opens the book, and reverentially The Rated portion reads. A peak enfues. The organ breathes its dillant thunder-outesi Then fwrils Into a diapafon full: The people rifler, fing, " With hart, with barb Aid wok, ef harmonloufly attun'd The various voices blend ; the long-drawn Miles, At every dote, the liog'ring &rain prolong. And now the tubes a foften'd Rep contrails, In rafter harmony the people join, While liquid whifpers from yon orphan band, Recal the foul from Adoration's trance, And fill the eye with Pitj's gentle tears. Again the organ-peal, loud rolling, Meets The haßelalahs of the choir: Sublime A thoulind notes fymphouloully afcend, As if the whole were one, (*ended high In air, foaling heav'nward: afar the; float, M'a'ting glad tidings to the tick man s couch : Rais'd on his arm, he lilts the cadence dole, Yet thinks he hears it Rill : his heart is eheer'd ; He (miles on death 4 but ah ! a veldt will rife,- -Would I *ere now beneath that echoing roof ! No lukewarm accents from my lips Ronald flew ; My heart would ling and many a Sabbath day My Reps ihou'd thither turn; or, wand'ring far In folitary paths, where wild flown blow, There would 1 bids His name who led me forth From Death's dark rale, to walk amid thole tweets, Who gives the bloom of health once more to glow Upon this cheek, and lights this Lumped eye." it is not wily in the lured lane That homage ibould be paid to the Mose Moo ; Tere is a tt mple, one not made with bands The vaulted firmament: Far in the woods, Ahnoft beyond the found of city-chime, At intervals heard thro' the hrcezelefs air ; When not the limberelt leaf is teen to move, Save where the limn! lights upon tic (pray; Where not a Boveret bends its little Ralk, Save when the bee alights upon the bloom ; There, rapt in gratitude. in Joy, and love. The man of Goo will pars the Sabbath-anon; Same: his praife : his difembodled thoughts, Looted from the load of words, will high akend Beyond the empyreal.— Nor yet lets pleafing at the beav'nly throne, The Sabbath-ferviee of the Shepherd boy ! le tome lone glen, where ev`ry found is To number, Cave the tinkfing of the rill, Or bleat of lamb, or hoering falcon's cry, Stretch'd on the fw:rd, he reads of Jeffes Son; Or toeds a tear o'er him to Egypt fold, And wonders why he weeps: the volume cloed, With thyme-fprig laid between the leaves, he Wigs The (urea lays, his weekly kffoo, ermn'd With mcikle care beneath the lowly roof, Where humble lore is keno, where humble worth Pines unrewarded by a thanklefs Rate. Thus readin, hymning, all alone, unkeo, The Ihepher d boy the Sabbath holy keeps, ill on the heights he marks the ftraggling bands Returning homeward from the houfe of pray'r. In peace they home retort. 0 bli'sful days When all men worfhip GOD as confeience wills. Far other times our fathers' grandllres knew, A virtuous race, to godlinefs, devote. What tho' the keptie's (cons hath dar'd to foil The record of their fame! What tho' the men Of worldly minds have dar'd to ftigrnatile The fifter-caufe, Religion and the Law, With fuperflition's narnel yet, yet their deeds, Their conftancy in torture, and in death,— There on tradition's tongue full live. thefe On hifery's honeft page be pldtur'd bright • To latelt times. Perhaps fotne Bird, whole Mule Difdains the fervik Brain of Falhion's quire, May celebrate their aoambitlous names. With them each day was holy, ey'ry hour They flood prepaed to die, a people doom'd To death;—old men, and youths, and fimple maids. With them each day was holy ; but rt.t morn On which the angel raid, " Ste 'where the L rd We, laid," joyous arofe; to die that day Was bills. Long ere the dawn, by devious ways, O'er hills, thro' woods, o'er dreary wants, they fought The upland moors, where rivers, there but brooks, Difpart to diff'rent feas: Faft by fuel brooks, A little glen is Cometimes fcoop'd, a plat With green-frard gay, and Bowers that ftrangers kin Amid the Feathery wild, that all around Fatigues the eye : in (latitudes like there Thr perfecuted children, SCOT A . foll'd A tyrant's and a bigot's bloody Lin : There, leaning on hie fmar, (one of tb' array That. In the times of old, bad traded the role On England's banner, and had pow'rlefs ftruck Th' infatuate monarch and his watering heft, Yet tuned irfelf to aid hie fon dethroo'd), The lyart veteran heard the word of GOD By CAME ion tbunder'd, or by Rem WICK potted In gentle fheam then rote the tong, the loud Acclaim of praife; the wheeling plover ccasl Her plaint; the folitary place was glad, And no the diftartt cairns, the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times tie Meese borne note But years more gloomy follow'd ; and no more Th' affembied people dar'd, in face of day, To worihip GOD or even at the dead Of night, Cave When the winery florin rav'd Berne, And thunder-peals tonsperd the men of blood To couch wkhin their dens; then dsuntldsly The featter'd few would meet, in fame deep deg By rocks o'er-canopied, to bear the yoke. Their faithful Pal ises voice: He by the gleam Of ducted lightning op'd the famed book, And wards of comfort fpake: Over their fouls His accents footWog eantt..aa to her young The beathfowl's plumes, when at the elate oleic • She gathers, mournful, In her brood difpmed By murd'rous (port, and o'er the remnant fpreads • Fondly her wings; dote odthug 'math her breath They chcriged cow's' amid die purple bloom. NAUTICAL INVILLIGENCL MAILS THIS DAY.-:Wind,d. W. All. DUI. All. DU!. Dtabla o 1 I Hamborgts o 9 Waterford • o 1 Clotteobaril 0 4 Linton 0 t I Pasta/yr'', Milos 2.—Sailed the following packets, viz.: Prince of Wales, Toon, with Mails of the sth and igth ult. ; Auckland. SKOYLES, with ditto of the 12th and 26th ult. for Lifbon ; Lord Charlcs Spencer, Covisworra, with ditto, of the loth tilt. for New York ; and the Princefs Charlotte, KERR, with ditto, of the 6th ult. for the Leeward Iflands ; alfo his Majeltj's brigs PLov at, of 18 guns, Capt. HANCOCK, and the Gams IT, of 18 guns, Capt. Bass, on a cruize. The Eliza, PATIRSON, from New York, and the Walfingham, Rocaars, from Lifl3on, are hourly expated. Remain in Carrick Roads his Majefly's Chip INCONSTANT, of 36 guns, and l'Avsnosua, of 18, Captain WHITE, with the outward-bound Lifbon and Mediterranean fleets, which wait the arrival here of feveral valets from the Downs that loft the laft convoy. Wind N. W. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 3.—Letters from la TOPARR, of 36 guns, Capt. Laza, (late her prize, le General Angeteau privateer, 16 guns and go men, canted into Cork, as an extremely ftrong 'elle% and well fitted for fighting or running. A prize to the Virlams, guns, Capt. NEWMAN. •arrived at Torbay two days fince ; by her, is learnt a very .extraordinary account of the fquadron which efcaped from Rochefort having got into Ferrol, to join the Dutch. Spanitb, and French fquadrons there; and that the detached five fail of the line, of which the Variaam was one,had joined Admiral COCHRANebrquadmn on that Ration. I As this account is received by a letter from the VR TBRAN'S prize, it, is given without vouching for its authenticity. Sailed for Torbay to join the fleet, the MINOTAUR, 74 guns, Captain MANSTiELD ; and Ds stance, 74 guns, Captain DURHAM. Lail Monday a Court Martial was held on board the fleet at Torbay, on Captain BLICH, of the %Velma, 74 guns, on charges of tyranny preferred againft him by one of his Lieutenants (who was tried Tome time fince for difobedience of orders and acquitted): after a trial, which tatted the whole of the day, Captain B. was reprimanded, with an admonition from the Prcfi lent in Court, and reftored to the command of the WAR RIOR. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4.—This day arrivedhkMa. jefty's (hip HasEN A, from the Downs : alfi) the Rafh leigh, DUNN I tic, for the Weft Indies; Paxton, BAL • STON ; and Diana, —, for Africa : they parted from the Windham and Phoenix EaR India (hips about fix o'clock laft evening. Came into harbour his Majefly's (hip ENOYMIOII, Hon. Captain PACIT, after capturing a number of Spanifh prizes. decorated with the molt sighing ribbons the tars on board of her could purchafe to the amount of one hundred pounds; nothing could be more pleating to the fpee tators than to fee the (mile on every Tar's face, in confequenee of their fined's. Sailed the DRAGON, of 74 gunc, Captain GRIFFITH, to join the Channel fleet ; SARACEN, of IS guns, Captain Pasvorr, with tranfports and troops, for Ireland ; DARING gun ver fel for the oppofite coaft ; and the TR I RUN R, to cruise off Cherbourg. Previoufly to her failing,l3o 000 dol lars were limed to the officers and crew. Each man received 125 as his proportion. „ NH I IRNISS, MARCH 4.—Arrived his Majefty's (hip mei arm, Capt. R. Mooasota, with the MA lIN SR gun-brig, Lieut. ANDREW LA TSUI. Sailed his M.:jelly's (hips AFEICAIIII, AMETHYST, CURLEW, and DIADEM. DIAL, MARCH 4.—Sailed yellerday evening, the AFRICAIHR frigate, for Portfmouth. Came down the GaLco (loop of war, from Sheernefs, and re mains in the Downs with the reit of his Majeffes (hips, and armed defenc; (hips as per laft. Wind weiterly. YARMOUTH, MARCH 4—Ye(lmlay arrived theCow mums frigate, from the northward. Paired the back of the Sande the Gs sr LH FM man oewar, for the Nore. Sailed on a cruize the Parecass or WALk s and FLY cutters. The LADY Faawcsa packet, Captain M. FLYN, failed this morning with mails and paffengers, for Holum. The fbips of war here, are the Mom /morn, Rear Admiral Russet.; ANTX LOP R, trsav,and ADAMANT; la CONSTANCR and AMRTHYST frigates; SCOUT, CORMOR•N r, and Is S P ICTOR (loops; Cawsos gun brig, and BADOF 1 cutter. Wind S. W. DOVER, MARCH. 3.—A large fmuggling lugger arrived here to-day, with about twelve hundred bar rels of gin, brandy, rum, tobacco, and tea, taken by the Twee and LIVELY revenue cutters, after an affray, in which two or three were wounded. On the 19th ultimo, the officers of Excite, on fearching the north end of Deal for 11 ime good:, (hilen out of the wreck (hip Endeavour, were 'woofed by the Deal men, who mounted a twelve-pound carronade to fire on the officers, and deter them from doing their duty; but the officers calling the military to their aid, the banditti that oppofcd them ran away. Great praife is due to the military on this occalion. The weather now being tolerably fine, the woke at the heights go on with increafed aitivity ; a (haft has been be gun, and will be opened before long to form a quick mode of afcendiag and defcending to and from the works from the town in Snargate-ffreet; the barracks that are finiared are very commodious, and faid to equal any in the kingdom ; great improvements are alto Paid to be likely to takc place (non in our har bour, now become a place of fo much confequence from she great forte the enemy has colleaed at Boulogne. Rol/war, Ifaacts 2.—A tmnggler, which landed her cargo on this coati a few days fince, was feized by a Reyenue cutter, but the officers, from the iv polition they experienced, could not keep pnfilflion of her without the affiflance of the military. A party of the IR Royal Lancafhire Militia, Rationed at Dungenels, were accordingly called to their afli l ance. They had not been long on this duty, when they were attacked by about one hundred Imuggltrs; in confequence of which a !Mart envagement enfued, nor were they repulfed till the military had fired eight or tcn rounds. One fitioggxr was killed on the (pot, and feveral wounded ; and we are forry to add, that Captain 1-loLuitoslrsan. who headed the party, received a flog from a blunderbufs in his lisle, which we fear will prove fatal. GRAVRIP:ND, M4IICH 4.—Paft by the Brunfwiek, Dryfdsk, front Jamaica; Maria, Greenway, front Bengal; Flying FM, liar ringharn, from St. Michaels; Sor.ncdad,, Rath, (tom St. Lilies; Domlue, Lumberg, from Bourdcaux ; Parrey, Holman. front Altea; Triton, Smidt, from Barcelona; Flora, Ellum, from kV fins ; Hope, Boyce, from Senegall ; Aurora, Lud.treg, from Va lenti;; Speculation, Sayers, from NapleA ; Jenrey, Clear, from Guernfey ; Leopolia, Herbert, and the St Andreas, Arans. trum Seville. There being no Court of Aldermen to-day. the Lord Mayor, after inipeaing the Meal Weighers• Returns, ordered Bread to advance td. per Peck Loaf. Yetlerday was held a trial of the Piz, of all the monies coined at the Mint of the Tower of London, fince the year £BO2. in pretence of the Lords of his Majelly's molt Honourable Pi ivy Councliet Welt minfter Hall,, when, upon the firiaell lemony by an able Jury of Goldfmishs, the coins were found to be fully agreeable to the Itandards of his Majeky's Ex chequer. Count RUKTOMD has lately led to the Hyrne:Wal altar, at Paris. the rich widow of M. VAagesv. This Lady's foetune * amounting to about B.ociol. per an num. will of coorfe enable the worthy Count to wake a capital improvement in his cytiem of horde warming. The pap . ular•Swifi air of the Reim de troche:, which is introduced in the Overture to the new lute of " Out of Place," is prohibited from being played in France and Germany before Swift becaufe, on hraring it, they return to their native land. Ou Thurfday the ssth Regiment, quartered at Southampton, gave an elegant ball and (upper to sso of theneighphouring gentry, as well as dr ft f the town, at MARTIN'S rooms. SIT CHARLES Rive and family, General STEWART, and his beautiful daughters, together with all the fathionables, graced the AlLmbly. FESTIVITY IN WALES --Sir ROBERT LYNCH BLOSSE, Bart. wh . came of age on Tuefday and into the poffealon of a clear ellate of to,oool. per annum, gave a grand entertainosent the fame day, at the ancient family feat, ear. Llonblithian, near Cowbridge, in Glamorgar4 In the even ing the Baronet gave a grand 1.,d1 the principal inn, in the town of Cowbridge, . was honoured with the pretence of all the :.(:?,1-.:souring Gentry, &c. A very elegant (upper wed the dancing, of which nearly aoo perfons n :nook. THEATRE, DRURY•LANE.—Laft night the houfe was again entirely filled by an audience eager to wit net, the performance of Mailer Berry, in the cha racter of Ewer. It had been announced that he was to fupport that part as this evening; but the Royal Command interfered with the arrangement that had been formed- Thefe who had taken boxes, merely with the hope of teeing The Honey Moon, were thus agreeably difappointed, while thole who had been waiting for weeks to fee the theatrical prodigy, were grievoufly difappointed. The audience was as nume rous, and as idea as on any occation fince he &ft ap peared before a London audience. He was mull en thufialically applauded. The tidies of Mrs. H. Jom a rrow is a very interelling delineation, but not to 'richly coloured as that of Mrs. H. Sintspas, at the other houfe; and BANNISTER'S Mereutio is confider ably inferior to Lewis's performance of the fame charater. COVENT -GAIDEN.—LaIt night the Comedy of "To Marry, or not to Marry," was repeated at Covent ' Garden Theatre, and received with undiminifhed applaufe. The Houle was much crowded, and the inimitable drollery of Mumma kept the audience in great good humour. In the courfe of the third A& tome mitchevious perfon in the gallery had the au dacity to throw an orange at the young Lady who , lately mad: her debut. This circumftance excited great indignation in every part of the houfe, and we hope that the offender was taken into caffody. Such atrocities are a difgrace to a civilized country, and ought to be feverely punifhed. The new after-piece • went off alt . () with increafed tuccas, the merit of which teems now. to be fully eftablifhed. Etwcerr, in the 6.lra:ter of 7 imothy, excited much laughter by his numerous and fatirical firokes. Lauretta having oh. ferved that Midas turned every thing to gold, Triserh y archly remarked " that things were now reverted, for, tonal a great man with gold, and you can convert 'him into any thing." He afterwards gained more credit by relating an exploit he had performed, while in the tervice of Lawyer Poac shof Lincoln's Inn. A Cat which greatly difturbed his Mallet, while drawing his pleadings, had been frequently Shut up, but always efcaped—" So," Pays Timothy, " I at Taft tied her up in a blue bag, and dropped her io I the Court of Chancery, for I wa: fare /be would not get out thetice again in a hurry." BRAH•PeS beautiful long When William Tell was doomed to die," and Fawcrre's • • . 1 Oh ! Father had a jolly km& Of cooking up an Almanac," were loudly encored. Yenerday the foundation none of the Ean India Docks, now confiroaing at Blackwall, was laid by Captain Jost r H HODDAIr (in the abfence of the Chair man, Josr rH Corrom, Efq. who was confined by ill nefs,) and ft)HK W001.1401E 9 Efq. the Deputy Char man, with some others of the Direltors, amidfk a numerous concourfe of people, who teltified their good wifh=s for the Cutters of the undertaking, by giving three cheers on the occafion. Thefc Dock., though not fo large as either the London or Weft India Docks, will be capable of admitting (hips of larger burthcn, by having deeper wider, and locks of larger dimenfiens. They confift of two Docks, and an entrance Baron. That for difeharging inwards will cover eighteen acres—that for outward bound nine acre►. The entrance Bafoo will be about thus ;KM. t d I. e J n, e S' k le Is k- -1.1 is 1- •t r- h • a e V II It I d I. ie I. II r, i s e t• le I • If 1. C • ly r. )f t- d le In io re 1 • Id :e • ke is . • In I , •ct 's :!. 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