Star. — London, England, 1801-03-31 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS. SCY.CORRY moved for Accounts of the groft and net Produce of the Dudes on Malt In Ireland, of the (tem:bk. , its. and Flne Sugar, Coals, and Tan, import: el into, and of spiritt tlif tilled In Ireland, with the eras ~mamir .d the illutivs lLver..lly thereon, for one year, t nd 25th a Marc.,: oleo, which were ordered, and (hardy art, rw.r.l, prof toted to the Houk, and referred to the Cotno.itt , ...: of W a y.; an d M, „„ s . An Account was prof. need tram tite Cullum, of the quanti ties of Grain and Rice, Sugar met Hu n r, imported into England and Scotland for one Year, whirls was ordered to lie ou the Table. Mr. Be Anne brought up the Report of the Committee ap pointed to enquire into the mars of the delay in fending the 'Writ Rifled for the oleetion of a Member for Callington in Cornwall, from which It appeared the Writ had been 1,41, The Report being read, was ordered to lie on the 'Fable. Mr. BRAGGC then moved fur a new Writ ft.r the above Bo- rough, it appearing that the Writ, liked the 13,1, infant, been loll; which motion, after a Mort convorfation, was put and carried. Colonel BUXTON, by brave of the Houfc, brought up the Report of the Poor Rote Colteetinn Mr. BAleta prefented a Petition front the Overfeers of the Poor of the Peri& of St. Peter, in the. Borough of St. Alban's, praying for a Ch u& to be introduced in the Bill to relieve them from certain embarraffments relative to the collection of the Poor's Rate in clam Parilh, which st as ordered to lie on the Table. The Report was then read, and after receiving a great num ber of verbal ;amendmints, was agreed to, al,d the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The poor Apprentices Indenture Bill was read a third time, and paged. EaR India Goods Land Carriage Bill was read a third time, and palled. The Millers Indemnity Bill went through a Committee, and the Report w is ordered to be received to-morrow. The Bill to encourage the cultivation of Potatoes in Fallow lands went through a Committee; the Report was received, and the Bill orderid to be read a third time to-morrow. TAYLOR'S DIVORCII 111L6• A Menge from the Lords informed the Houk their Lordthips had paffed a Bill for divorcing .--- Taylor, Gentleman. from his wife. On the queftion for reading Taylor's Divorce Bill a firft time, Mr. M. A. TAYLOR role and adverted to tome rumours now afloat that marriages with women who have bccn divorced are illegal. He fiiid it *as of the utmoll confequence that the point fhould be fettled. Many families were extremely tinealy, and a great part of the prnp:rty of the kingdom was at flake. He himfclf was extremely furpt ifed that a doubt Ibould have ever been enter tined. Marriage was without doubt a civil contrad, and Parliament had power to digfolve it. If a man were indifted for bigamy at the Old Bailey, what sewer would his Counfel receive if he were to plead that one of the wives had been divorced from a former hatband The Honourable Gentleman was proceeding, when Lord Temple II)oke to Order. A long con y-edition enfued upon the point of Order between his Lordfhip, Mr. Taylor, Mr. W. llundas, Lord de Blaquiere, and the Speaker; after which Mr. Taylor was allowed to proceed. He again urged the propriety of Petting the minds of the public at reit, and obferved how injurious it was to throw cut fuch fulpicions. Mr. Witsaaroact was of opinion that in Come refpeEts marriage was a civil contra& in others fornething more !acted. After Tome further converfation between Lord de Blaquiere, the Speaker, Mr. Taylor, &c. the mai was read a firit time, and ordered to be read a feeood time. RUSSIA. Mr. Hosmousa gave notice he thould on the isth of Apnl, bring forward his motion relative to any Convention between this Country and Ruffia, relative to Malta. DANK OF ENGLAND. Mr. IsItcI4OLLS have notice be fhould, Coon after the Holidays, endeavour to call the attention of the Houle to the conduft of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. HORSE DUTY. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR rote to call the attention of the Houfe to a fubjeft of which he had given notice, the propriety of exempting Curates who kept one honk, from paying the Duty on Horfes. It is perfeltly well known, that a great number of Curates officiate at two different Churches on the fame Sunday, and as there Churches are often at the diftance of from five to ten miles from each other, he is obliged to keep a horfe in order to be enabled to do his duty. The Motion which he meant to make was, that the Houfe fhould re folve itfelf into a Committee, to con fi der the Aa of the 38th of the King, and then in that Com mittee, he meant to move, that Curates, whole income does not exceed tool. and who keep only one horle, shall be exempted from pay ing the duty impofed by that Aft. He could not extend his Motion according to the rules of the Houfe, to exempt them from the new duty impofed this year, becaufe there is no elaufe in the Aft allowing the whole or any part of it to be repealed this ration. His Motion mat therefore be confined to exempting them from pay ing the 11. 4s. impofed by what is commonly call ed-the Confolidation Aft. This 11. 43. and the tog.. additional duty impofed this year, form a Cum which Curates in ordinary have no adequate fund for paying. Many of them have not above 401. a-year ; in Wales, many not above pl. and even the belt Curacies, which require the performance of ferriceat three, or even four different Churches, feldom exceed 501. oc 601. a-year. For the fecu rity a/the Revenue, however, he fhould with that a provifion fhould be made that there fhould be ' , no exemption unlefs the Commiffioners for the col letlion of the Tax fhould be convinced that the horfe was kept really and lona fide for the purpofe of enabling the Curate to do his duty. He wifh ed much, and he was lure that the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer con tuned with him in opinion, that the Parochial Clem / could be obliged themfelves to do their duty. In that cafe, they: would be no occafion for the Motion which he wifhed to make. He concluded with moving. " flat the Houfe do re- FAIT itfelf into a Committee to confider fo much of the Aft of the 38th of the King, as impofes a duty of tl. 4s- on pc.fons keeping one boric." The CIiATICALLOR of the Excusgyrs faid, he thought the Motion of the Honourable Gentleman might be much better worded, and at the fame time anfwer the purport which be had in view. At prefent, in his °platen, much too great a la, • titude is left in the Motion. Ile , therefore propof. ed to the Honourable Gentleman to fubflitute for his Motion the following : " That the Houfe re folve itf•lf into a Committee, to confider of the eved!errey of exempting Curates keeping one }:uric, from the Duties impofed by that Ad." ' This Amendment to the Motion was acceded to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEO,yER laid, that it was at all times molt difagreeahle to him to find it his duty to oppofe any meafure which had for its °Ned extending relief to any clafs whole fituation teemed torequrre it. But he felt himfelfcallect upon to be cautious of fandioning any meafures which went to let bole the fources of the public revenue, and more particularly if doing fu on fuggeilions of hat dillips felt by any particular tats cf men. He did not with however to carry this principle into uniform and rigid pradice. He allowed that the Curates are a vials of men who have the ftrongcft claims to indulgence, and that perhaps there is no eats whore means of living are lets adequate to what they are entitled to from their education, their manners, their chart. lee. and the rank which they ought to hold in Society.—But he conceived the Motion to be largely expreffed, as it is a well known fad, that there are many Curates in very eafy circumfiances. For his own part, he recollected feveral cafes in which perfons who had an inderumdent income of 5 or 6001. a year, held Curacies. To fuch there could be no intention of extending the propofed exemp tion. He, therefore, would propofe, that inficad of leaving the cxprcflion in the Motion general, " to Curates," it fhottld he iirid, "to Curates in certain circumftances." He wiihed, however, the grounds on which he would agree to the motion to be clearly underitood. He would only agree to exempt Curates from the payment of the Tax, who do not contribute to the Income Tar. On this ground, and on this alone, would he agree that the Houk fhould go into a Committee. Ile was anxious that there thould be no appearance, in this meafure, of any inclination to let loo's the fources of the Public Revenue, and that it Ilrould not be confidered as any precedent for the admit= Pion of fuch pleas of hardthip to a particular claf , of men astioft the general earning of racafures which it is found necelTary to adept for the fu ply of the demands of the State. Applications of this kind had often formerly been made to him, but he had alw ays found it his duty to refill them. Mr. M. A. TAYins agreed that the Income Tax was the belt criterion that could be ado7te,i for afcertaining who Ihould be exempted. and rtn; , to infert 'after the word " Curates," the words " in certain circtunftanees," in his Motion. The Motion thus amended was then agreed to, and this day fortnight was fixed for the Motif,: re folving itfelf into a Committee. CORIMITTIR OF SUPPLY FOR. IRELAND. • Mr. Cony faid, that he Mould now move the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of Supply, and that the feveral accounts pi-dented by Mr. Crofton, of the Irifh Treafury, fhould be referred to the (aid Committee. The Houfe then refolved itfelf into the Com mittee, Mr. BIAGGI in the Chair. Mr. Cour Paid, he fhould now have the ho nour of Rating to the Committee the fums necef fary for the Civil Services of Ireland ; thofe for the Military Department had already been Rated. The Refolutions which he held in his hand, and which he fhould have the honour of propofiog to the Committee, were thefe which were annually voted in the Parliament of Ireland, and (with a very few exceptions) contained nothing new. Re lying upon the confidence of the Committee, he fhould think it unnecelfary to enter into the details of the particulars for which the Sums were re quired, unlefs the Committee expreffed its pleafure that he fkould do fo. If, however, any Member required explanation upon any part cf the rub jed, he would give it with pleafure. If no filch with was expreffed, he fhould referve the °bier vations he had to make, until he Rated the Ways and Means. It was, however, necefrary for him at prefent to Rate that, on account of the circumflances of the times and the deamefs of Provifions ' the Grants, to thofe Public chari ties which had always been the objceis of the bounty of the Parliament of Ireland, (and which he trufted this Parliament would Rill continue), were necefrarily increafed, hecaufe the children in the public fchools, and the patients in the Hofpitals, mull be fed and taken care of, and as extraordinary eapences had been incurred, the grants were need- Cully increafed. He fhould not trouble the Com mitt& further except to move the Reiblutions.— He then moved, that there be granted to his Ma jetty, for the Proteliant Charity Schools, a fum not e_kceeding 18,2131. 4s. Sd. being 39,7311. 'rah Money. 121111/. !NOUS& For the Foundling Hofidtal 15,000 0 e 13,346 3 1 Marine Society . :,coo • 0 1,346 3 1 Hiberiii.iis Society for Soldier.' Children - - 3.960 0 • 3,615 7 9 Weitmoreland Lock Holpital 6.ag9 o 0 6,131 1 3 10 Roman Catholic Seinitury 8,000 0 0 7484 13 4 Society for dillounttnaming Vice - - 300 0 0 57613 6 Female Orphan Houle - 300 0 • 461 9 Houle of Indußay - 16,394 • 0 15,,194 9y Pratiquc Port - 3,047 10 2 944 13 7/ Appr handing Offenders - 2.5t5.) 0 0 2,301 13 10 Civil Buildings - - 0 0 29,638 9 3 Criminal Priifecutions 25,0c0 0 0 23.076 ill 6 PrintingtheStatutcsoflreland 4,000 0 0 3423 6 a Printing c;az,ttc - 74.26 0 0,4 if :o 9 Treafury Incidents - - • 0 1,846 3 s For working the Wicklow Gold Mines I,neo 0 • 913 • 6 For the Battle-axe Comas 740 0 0 633 3 6 For Heralds' inw (loathing 1,086 0 0 1.003 9 3 For Stationary. Ste. for Dublin Calle, and Public 011ecs I 7,6:0 0" o To the Accountant General 340 0 0 313 16 It ITo DeputyAeenuntant Goleta! 240 0 0 221 /0 9 To P.iymalter of Corn Bounti.s 800 0 0 731 9 3 To the P.z.uninator of Corn Bounties - -- 20 0 0 zs4 1$ 4 To the Infpeetor General of Enorts and hornets - 100 0 0 as is 4 To the firft Cl. to ditto - too 0 0 129 4 7 To the IlLsininstor of Excite sso 0 0 77 7 4 7 The Linen BOWltki - 214C3 0 0 19438 9 3 Fieft Fruits SPos o o 0 1 5 7 Dublin Society - 5.5 o o sp76 tit 6 Paving - - 10p00 0 0 9,2.0 SS 5 Wile Streets 5,500 • • 4.153 16 as Truing Bills . iss,soo o 0 The Refolndult being agreed to, the Houle was Mimed, and the report was ordered to be receiv ed to-morrow. Mr. Coaav raid, he nnderflood it was neceff.try to defer tilllWednefday the Motion for the Houfe to refolve itfeif into a Committee of Ways and Means, which he intended to have brought for ward this evening. He therefore rofe to give no tice, that he &mild on that day, as earl; atter four o'clock as might be confluent with the public bu finds, propofe the faid Committee, and fubmit to their confederation filch means as he had devifed to cover the fupplies for that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. BANK NOTE FORGERY RILL. The ATTORNEY GENERAL Paid, that it having been fuggelted to him that it would be proper to introduce certain provifions into the Bank Note Forgery Bill, to extend to Ireland and Scotland, he felt it necefrary to wait for farther information on that head ; he therefore moved to pollpone the committal of the Bill to Thurfday. Agreed to. The remaining Orders of the Day were defer red, and the Houfe adjourned till to-morrow•. LONDON. TUESDAY. MARCH v. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCY. Confo 58--Ic.r ace.. 38F—Omnium Si prem. S per Cent.p3i PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY Billk Stock Imp. Atm. 3 per Cent. Red. Ong Ormium 54 5 3 per C I Coml. 58 7.1 58 37} frith Deb..— 4 per t. end Bank for Ace. tare. Navy 95i 96 India for Ace. InT• Ikr C 57.11.1 CouL for Ap.38137f 58; 57; Yeilerday, after our Paper was ac prefs, the Hamburgh Mail due on Wednefday bit arrived. The lateft intelligence it brings from the North is a letter dated Copenhagen, t 7th March. At that period Sir HYDE PARKER'S fleet had not appeared, nor is there any mention of its being expeeted. The Government of Denmark, however, had com pleted all the preparations for defence which its fituation permitted; and, on the firft alarm, all per lons at Copenhagen capable of giving affitiloce, were to attend at their pofts. Mr. Cr entota, our Conful is Lower Saxony, is raid to have given notice to all Britith (hips to quit 1::e Elbe oil the utmoft difpatch, but no aft 411o:tint) has yet taken place. An embargo has been laid on all Britith veffels in the ports of Sweden, but the Danifh Govern ment faems to have refrained from following the example of the Court of Stockholm. The French Goverment is Rated to have made a demand of 4,0c,0,v- - ., of livres from the city of Hamburgh. A body of 15,c00 Au►lrian troops are reported to be on their march to Switzerland, to affift the French in enforcing the acceptance of the new con- Ritution prepared for that country. A letter front Vienna fays, that the Porte, alarmed at the formi dable military preparations Rill making by the Esi- PERO*, Las applied to the Imperial Minifter at Conftantinople, for an explanation on the fubjeft. A flag of truce failed from Dover for Calais on Sunday, with a • Meffenger, and difpatches from M. Ovvo, for the French Government. Various reports are in circulation refpeaing the nature of their difpatches, and the Negotiation laid to be propofed by the Britifh Minifters ; but, in the pre font Rate of uncertainty, we (hall forbear laying any thing farther on the fubjea. By letters from Jerfey we are informed, that two captains of velfels lately arrived from France, have brought intelligence that troops were afem bling on the neighbouring coati, with the apparent defign of attacking that ifland. We have repeat. edly afferted the neceffity of fortifying the Town. Hill in Jerfey. Were this plan put in execution, the ifland would be impregnable. M. TALLIETS arrived at Dover on Sunday even ing from London, and embarked there yefterday forenoon for Calais. The ha overland Difpatch from the Marquis of WlLLEst.ty mentions, that his Lerdthip was about to learc the Prcildency of Eengal to repair to Bombay, and furerintend the Expedition from that fettlement, wLich is to co-operate with Sir Racism Aasacsoxsir's Army in Ef;ypt. The force from Bombayniil confift of twelve thoufAnd men. Letters received yeßerilay from Virginia, dated the 2t ft of February, by the Putty art. cc! at Da. tol, (hue, u that Mr. fart 1113011 iS PtCr.ilent ; the Convention with France ratified: and that the in tercourfe between the two countries will be imme diately opened." A foreign bfelrenger arrived yellerday at I.erd HAWKISBUR office, with ditpatch:s hum the Court of Der.mark. Mr. Baron EHRE NSW A RD, Envoy E ara ordinary from the Court of Stockholm, left town yefterday for Yarmouth, from whence he will embark on board the Packet for Hamburgh, on his way home. This Minifter was prefent, on Saturday. at a din ner given by Lord Haw cr sir xi to tbc Diplo matic Cor ps . M. de Nor-Zstr., the Swan Charge d'Af faires, will let out for Dover, to•morrow, front whence he is to embark for Cal..i<, and proceed I to Paris, previous to his return to Stockholm. M. de LAS Hitos, ancient Conful•General of Spain, and Charge d'Affaim from the Court of Madrid during the Embalry of M. LA! CISAS, will alto fig a for Paris to-morrowevraing. Nitu-ircAL INTELL IGEIV MAILS THIS L N. £. o Hembnrrh, I Dublin, o Watvrfnrd DuaagLadce, nu:. On Monday fennight the WeR India convoy once more failed from the Cove of Cork on .its voyage with a favourable wind, which we are hap py to !late has lince unremittingly continued. The Scour (loop of war, Captain DUNCAN, we are forry to Rate, is entirely loft, in confequcnce of her firiking againtt the Shingles, oft' the Me of Wight. The crew were,howe rcr,fortunately rimed. The Rofelic of Leith, JOHN ST.ABLES, maf Cr, arrived at Jamaica the i 6th of January, all well. TOP.RAY, MARCH 29.—Yeflcrday arrived ti.e BARFLE DR, of 9`l guns, Rear-Admiral Cot.ta sic wow), and the FORMIDABLE, of 9S guns, Capt. GRINDAL, from Plymouth. Wind S. W. SHEERNI:S, MARCH v.—Sailed yellerday nf temcon his Majelly's floop FAVOR ITE, Capt. WI:ST. 11E AC H.--ATTIVed the .A cf 64. guns, from Chatham, the HOVND 16 •ip, and the A uvloe and Ex rgEss, advice-boats, ti.an the river Thames ; the ADDER gun-vetfel went out of Ilarbour to the /shire. YARMOUTH, MARCH 30.-YCIICTLIay P. M. ar rived the KING GEORGE packet, Captain l'i.vN, with the mails, and feveral parrengers, from Cux haven.—This day arriv:d without a Mail, the PRINCE or WALES packet, Captain SurroN, from Bremerlehe ; this packet has been Rationed in ;he ‘Velcr, that every pritaicable means might be tried to kccp open the communication with the Conti nent, in cafes when the Elbe river might be frozen up.—The DEANE, Captain OSBORN, is hourly ex peaed.—This morning a melfenger anived here to enfaark for Cuxhaven, but the wind Icing N. E. the packet has been prevented from failing. FROM LLOYD', ms-r. DEAL, MARCI 4 3o.—Sailed the Warley, WIL. SON, for China, with the re of the outward-bound under convoy to Portfmouth.—Remain the OVE. RYSSEL MPII of war, and Swlrr, India Wind N. E. GRAVESEND ; MARCH 3O.—Pad:ld by the Fre derica, BOSA, from Hamburg!); Juliana, MDR.' PHY, from Dublin; Vrow Elizabeth, —; and Pctcr and Frederic, LUTWIDGI, from RottcrJan•. —Sailed the Nancy, DRYSDALE ; and Fortuna, Arro.:u, for Hamburgh. Mr. Dvxnas has not yet quitted his office, being employed in anfa•e:inq every difpatch, and com pleting all the bulincts of his department up to the date of his refignation. It has come out bef we the Committee of the Houle ef Commons, Ippointcd to Search for Pre cedents, anJ Report upon, the eligibility of Mr. Joni. Hoem r ToOKE to a Seat in the Houle of Commons, that a De.tn of fie fat in the Hotde kr two whole Parliamcnts, without challenge or enatiiry.. _ _ _ The Earl of Motes gave, on Satnrday lall, a grand dinner to the Members of Oppofition, at bis bottle in St. James's Place; prefent, the Prince Of WALES, Duke of BEDFORD, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sus. RIOAN, Mr. GREY, Mr. TIERNEY, and fevet-al frith Members. MILES PETER A NDRT.WS, EN. Member for Bele& ley, is the purch:tl4 of Lord Ge Eli 91 LLE'S &Ade ill CieVdand•rOW. I The Toth regiment of Light Dragoons, corn. minded by his Royal Highnefs the Panics of WALF 2, are to march from Reading tomorrow to Guildford, where they are to be quartered. The corps of Royal Mid-Lothian Cavalry go into quarters to of May. According to private letters from RulTia, which may be deemed authentic, we learn that Pact 1. is difpofed to remove to Mofcow in the courfe of the month cf May, and that he has already made fuch arrangements as indicate a long reradence in that city. A Letter from Conftantinople, dated February 14, fay:—" The French army in Egypt knows that the Engin are at Macri, and are impatient to fee them difembark. Their ardour is the more furprifing, as they expelled Tome officers, among whom there were even Generals, to carry them back to France, under the pretence of an honour. able capitulation. The ailivity of General Mr v oat, and the frequent intelligence they receive frcm France, have ! changed there difpofitions. " A vefrel arrived here from Damietta, brings an account, that (even large tranfports had st rived at Alexandria in the months of Odober, November, and December, laden with balls, muf quets,Bcc.and each having on board from 5o to 6o men. It is, however, certain, that the Englifla will not return without making an attempt. They have puchafed soo horfes to mount their cavalry, and they have equipped a certain number of tar tans to go up the Nile, bv the branches of Da mietta and Rofetta. Lord Krrrm and Sir RALPH ABERCItOMBIE have given the command of this adv weed guard to Sir &DAL'' , SMITH." ENICLISH STATII LOTTFICIP.-.—TWINPT•TIPTH DAY.—Nu. 42,925, as tuft drawn. entitled to o,oool.—Nos. 2H,80 I. 44 16, prizes of 53c,1. — Nos. 46,42 g, 12.937. 23,326, 23,132, 54 , 3 62 , prizes of loch—Nos. 41,547, 55,768, prizes of 501. Ills Grace the Duke of &roman had four of his Leicetlerflaire fheep brought to Smithfield Market yetlerday, and alfo four Kentifh heifers, remark. able for their beautiful 2pr:trance; they fetched good prices, as did the rc:l of the cattle. Satoorszo.—The returned (hooting match be tween the Hon. J. W. COPP ray and I Aa vox. Fig. was Dux for, on Friday, at North Cray. Kent, and was won by Mr. Corsa) Ay, who killed nine birds out of eleven; and Barrok, Efq. killed (even. The werher Lis hecn extremely feverc during 1.111 week in Ireland. The Lol.liones were sharp on the Curr3gh on the t 7th. as to cut two ftrong nintotellas to pieces, and to render it int. poithle for tome trnveUers to keep the heath of heir liorfes toil* dorm. ARRIVLP ■