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ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. PUBLIC OFFICE. BOW-STREET, DfC. 20, 1802. JOHN SIDA WAY, for whofe Apprebention a Reward of tool. has been offered, it is now afzertained. I' ft I.onden in the Edinhurgh Coat It front the Bull and Mouth Inn on &tot-day Evening, the 4th hitt. under the Name of ALEXANDER WALLIS, and that he had with him a new Solid Black Leather Trunk, without any Nails, (with a flap on the top.) The Trunk is at Inches long, 8} Inches wide, and 6 Inches deep, with a Lid having one of Mr. Seabrook's, tic Maker's, mop-bills palled in the iftfide of it, (containing a print of St. Paul' Church at the top, with feveral Trunks and Portmanteaus on the &les ;) there was an Iron Lock to the Lid, and three Straps to the Flap, and Buckles; and the Flap and Trunk were lined with ftriped Ticking, and there were titian leather handles on each end of the Trunk. The laid JOHN SIDAWAY has fince been at Greenock, from which place it is foppofed he 'vent to Hull, in Yorkfhire, but ft is probable he may have fince taken fome other direEtion. SWEDEN. Sroc lEHOLM,DI c. 3. —After the birth of the young Prince, of whom our QUEEN has been happily de livered, it was announced to the cityby a quadruple difcharge of 128 cannon on the sd init. At eleven at night, the Prince was brought into the Anti chamber by the principal Maid of Honour to the Q H sae, and (hewn to a great affemblage of per lons. The Kt wo, accompanied by their Royal Highneffes, the Duke and Dachefs of SUDERMA• NIA, and his Royal Highnefs Prince WILLIAM of GLOUCESTER, repaired with a numerous retinue to the Cathedral Church to return thanks for her MAJESTY'S happy delivery. During the Te Dann there were again- two difcharges of cannon. The Qarasts and thesi*lt Prince are both well. The Chrifiening is to WV on nest Tuefday, and Thurf day is appointed for reecivigg the congratulations. This evening the PritikatfGLOUCkSTEß honour ed with his prefence a fplenditi Ball given at the Exchange. Since the appearance of the decree concerning the Liquidation, the Courfe of Exchange is falling as defired. FRANCE. PARIS, DECEMBER a 6. The Criminal Tribunal of la Seine is now em ployed, it is faid, in making preparations for the trial of MAC LOURS PELAGE, a man of colour, who was Commandant, ad interim, of Guadaloupe, ac eufed of having formed a plot to render himfelf matter of that colony, and to (hake off the Govern. went of The mother Country. Forty other inhabi tants, both Blacks and Men of Colour, are com prehended in the fame accufation. , The French Gazette of Franckfort announces, that the Archduchefs AMELIA has received from the FIRST CONSUL the molt agreeable affurances in regard to her claims as Duchefs Dowager of Parma. The Conful Camaaczazs gave on Saturday a dinner of ceremony to the Bntifh AmbafFador, at which were prefent the Members of the Corps Di plomatique, and a number of General Officers.— Amonglt the perfons of diftinetion prefented by Lord WHITWORTH, were Lords CHOLMONDELZY, CON ENG AM, BORINGDON t COLERAINE, and FAII• ncitic MONTAGUE, Colonels Rocas and MATHEW, and feveral other Englifh Officers of rank.— Amongft the foreign ladies who attended the affembly in the evening were, the Duchefs of DoasaT, the Duchefs of Goa Dos, Lady Gun 131AN• GORDON, the Marchionefs de Gam.o, the PrincefsJusTiatatti, Madame de Bourft.sas,Ma dame SA LAME li g Mrs. Huartz, and feveral other Englith Ladies of the &ft diftinaion. Citizen &came has been appointed Prefident of the Tribunal of Appeal, in the room of Citizen Taint -Haan, appointed a Councillor of State. Five per Cents. 53 fr. to c. PROM THE PARIS PAPERS. _ VENIcs, Nov. 25.—The widow of the late Duke of Parma let out this morning to proceed to Vi enna. She WAS accompanied as far as Trevifo by the prefident of the Imperial Government here, and by the principal of the Nobility. It is Cup poled that this Princefs will fix her refidence at Clagenfurth. The Court of Vienna is now endea vouring to procure for her an eltabliihment faked to her rank, and agreeable to treaties. Her dowry is forty thoufand fequins ; we do not know when hcr fon. the King ofTufcany returns to his kingdom. RATISBOU, DEC. 6.. The thirty-fecond Sitting of the Deputation, which took place the day before yefterday, offered two objeds of fuperior intereft, the Note of the Minifters of the Mediating Powers, of which we have already given an extra& and a long declaration made by the Sub-Delegate of Bohemia, of which the following is the fubilance: His IMPERIAL MAJZSTV has fan with pleaftwe, the lau dable zeal with which the Deputation has fought to provide for the fupport of all tilde who will tidier by the fecularizations, and he accedes with alibis heart to the arrangements made in that ape& Nls birrasat. MAD* ft' declares, that the Archduke ARTMOIST renounces formally, and without referee, all his sights refpulting Cologne and Moniker; he declares be fides, that on the In** of the occupation of Palk'', be has given diorama the molt tranquilizing, and inverted his Am bafiidor at Paris, with full powers and definitive inftaudions, in fuck a manner, that, in order to terminate the Intiblefs,eves7 thing depends at prefent on the difpontions of the Mediating Powers and of the Dr wades. lf, however, the Deputation, contrary to an espedailoo, do not with to wait the Woe dant Negotiatioh, it will be peccary to Infect in the Reeds ado* in favour of the changes which may yet take place in the nasal allotment of the Indemnities at the modules of the raid Nor gotiatins, and it b only in referring a funilar eleufe, that the Sub-Delegate can secede to the Reeds. His Ist es ItIAL Me- JIIIITT @lli thinks it his duty to make the propofition of con (erring upon the Grand Duke of To se A N v and the Grand Maf ter of the Temente Order, the Eleitoral Dignity, and alfo to peopofe the 0111/116111ellt in the College of Princes, compofed, awarding toting new arrangements, for the molt part of Proecf unt States, a certain number of new Catholic Votes, fueb a medure being nmetfary to preferve the equilibrium, and a jail between the two Religions." • lertr a ti h n e appeal made by the Diredorial Minifter for the Totes upon this declaration, all the Sub delegates referred themfelves for the next Sitting. A new Note of the Minifters of the Mediating Powers is fpoken of, which will either immediate ly appear, or has already appeared, refpefting the States who will have the right of voting in the nest deliberations of the Diet. • . The Minifters of the Mediating Powers tranf• mines, this morning to the General Diet of the Diners 01 the Deputation, for ratifies- Aix,LAAmu, Dm 6. —There is no tmth in the report of Cleves and 6ueldres being about to be ceded to the Batavian Republic. AUOSSURGH, DEC. s.—Letters from Conlian tinople [late, that the new Imperial Internuncio, M, de STURMER, On the 25th of Oaober had his &ft audience of the Grand Vizier ; and that the Grand Patriarch of the Armenians has made pro pofals to the Patriarchs of Confiantinuple and Je rnfalem, tending to unite his Church to the Roman Catholic. BASLE ) Dsc. 9.—A corps of artillery from Hu. ninguen has traverfed our city in its way to Zurich. There has been a general movement amongß the Helvetic troops. The fiat battalion of the line is at prefent at Berne, the fecond is on its march for Laufanne, and the battalion of light infantry is Rationed at Zurich. A battalion of light infantry is Rationed at prefent in the diftrift of Hans and Diffentis, the centre of the late infurreflion in the Grifons.— General Sk a ItAs has caufed to be arrefled the chief and principal promoters of the infurration, which defolated the Canton of Rhetia, andehas impofed a fum of 48,000 livres on the Communes and indi• viduals who took part in it. General SERRA! being convinced of the return of order in that Canton, has Let out for Lucerne, where he intends to ellablith his head quarters: thole of the General of Divifion, Batson, have been eftablifhed at Zurich. . All the letters from our Deputies at Paris agree in liming, that the labours of the Coafult3 will not begin until all the Delegates from the different Cantons, Diftrias, and Towns (hall be alfembled, which will be in the courte of a few days. Their number is in the whole fixty, amongft whom are men of all parties, conformable to the defire of the FIRETCONSUL. There are amonga them feven Senators, fourteen Members, who have fat in the Legiflative and Executive Councils, ten Ex Pre.; felts and Ex Members of the different Adminiftra tive Chambers, twelve perfons at prefent holding fituations in the Cantons, and fourteen who were more or lefs concerned in the ancient regime. The Senate has received official intelligence from its three deputies at Paris. They have been pre. fenced to the fecund and third Confuls, by whom they were very well received. The Conful CAM BAC ERE; has Already invited them feveral times to dinner. They have made vifits of ceremony to all the Ambaffadors, Envoys and Foreign Miniftera, who have returned their vifits. PARLIAMENTAEr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, DEC. 20. Lord TALBOT and Lord KINNAIRD took the oaths at the Table. The Order of the Day being read for giving judgment on the Scotch Appeal, Graham 9. Henderfon, the Lord Chancellor quitted the Woolfack, and after making a few obfervations as to the merits of the cafe, from which it appeared that he was decided thereon, moved a Refolution, which tended to affirm the decree of the Scotch Court,but without the annexation of cofts.—The Tuition being put, it was ordered accordingly. The Lord Chancellor then proceeded to difeufs the inegits of the cafe in the appeal Lord Kinnaird v. Mattbewfon, wYeh he entered into in great detail, going through every progrefive fad that belonged to the clink, and all that had pared upon it in the Courts of Scotland from the period of the date of the Letter milve, (Polgavie Auguft 6, 1 794)1 thropgh the pro ceedings before the Sheriff, his Interlocutor of March so, I 799, the Interlocutor of the Lords of Scion (Lords Glenlee and Lord Meadowbank), tpth N vember, dors, their Interlocutor of remiffion sift January, dot, the interlocutor appealed for, and the Interlocutor of the Sheriff Subititute 27th May, dot, accompanying each particular feature of the cook with a va riety of pertinent and pointed obferrations, and taking occa fionally in elucidation and aid of his argument the comparative difference of the adminiftration of Law and Equity between the pradtiee of the Courts of Weftminfter Hall, and the prac tice, forms, and the ufage of the Court of Seffion, and the other Courts of Scotland. His Lordiblp complained of the extreme loofenefs of expreffion to be found in the terms of the letter miffive, and having reafoned upon all the merits with great elaboratrnefs, left the final decree of judgment until to-morrow, in order that he might have Ware in the interval to frame cer tain words, and infert them in the interlocutor, which Ibould convey a refervation to the tenant of a right to bring an salon againft Lord Kinnaird, upon one particular fadt *Hedged in the feveral petitions prefented by the Refpondent in the courfe of the proceedings in the Courts below►. His Lordfhip's general reafoning, if we colleted his meaning corraftly, ties Ltrongly in favour of the Appellant, Lord Kinnaird. All the Bilis on the Table were read a Rage each. The kids Militia Pay Bill, the Woollen Manufadturers' Bill, the Malta Trade Bill, and two other Public Bills were brought from the Commons by Mr. Alexander and others, and read a firft time. Two Naturalifstion Bills were brought up from the Commons, prcfented by Mr. Strange sod others, and read a Brit time. The Navy Commilßoners' Abufe Bill was brought up from the Commons by Captain Markham and others, and read a Brit time. Th z fecond reading of the Godmanchefter Puclofure Bill was poltponed until to-inorrow, in confequence of a Petition pre rented againft it, praying that the further proceeding in the Bill might be adjourned to a diltant day. Mr. White's Clerk was interrogated at the Bar as to the reafons which influenced the Petitioner to prefer fuch a prayer ? When he kid, it came to their oftke in the forenoon of that day, with mitrudtions for them to prdcnt it; that a limilar Petition had alto been pre tented to the other Houk, but no proceeding had been taken upon it during the progrefs of the Bill through its feveral —Adjourned until half pait two to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPIAKIa fraying taken the Chair, after foam private bufinefs was gone through, two new Members were (worn in. Ordered, on the motion of Mr. VAIII.IIIT TART, that there be laid before the Houfe an Account, thawing the quantity of Flax and Flaxen Yarn imported for ten years, commencing 1792, dittioguiihing the quantum in each year, and the countries from whence imported. Read a third time the Militia Ameedment Bill, pelted, and ordered to the Lords. Mr. ALZIAND zit brought up the on the Irilb Sugar Drawback BilL—Agreed to. and so be engrOfted. A Mdfage from the Lords requiftata Copy of the 31ft Re port of the Finance Committee of June 5798. The CIAWCELLOI of the Excu eve a moved, that the Paid Report be fent, as defired by their Lordfirips.---Orderrd. He then moved, that the Mermen be called in and ac quainted therewith. which they were accordingly. • • Mr. Omar give notice, that be thould to-morrow move for certain Public Accounts relative to Ireland. SUGAR MORT BOUNTY 1111. L. Mr. VANSITTART moved the Ok a of the Day for she third reading of this Bill. Mr. Joan sow rofe,and apologifed for trefpatru,g on the attention of the Houle, but hoped for its indulgence while heexpreffed hi s f en ti ments ()lithe fibjea of this Bill, upon which he had the misfor tune to differ from fo many Hon. Members i but which, however, he could not let pals without a few obferfitions. The prefent ft Bill was broulths it ...._ _ - 1_ _ ___• r re flderably overttocked the Market bete, now felt themfklves under the neceffity of applying to Par liament fo. relief, by granting a Bounty on its Exportation. It bad, - he Paid, been the policy of the Britifh Legiflature, fence the firft cultivation of the Weft India Colonies, to grant the Importers of Sugar in this Country, a Bounty upon Export, equal to the Duty they paid upon the Import, un til the year 1794 ; when the abundance was fo great, and the article fo very cheap, that it was thought politic and fair by Government to retain a part of the Duty upon the Sugar exported. In 1799, the old principle was again resumed : but this Bill went Rill farther, by propofing to grant on the exportation, a Bounty of two (haling: per hundred weight over, and above the Duty upon Sugars imported. This was an indulgence grant-' ed to the Weft India Merchants, at the expence of the People of England, by fuch a deduCtion from the Public Finances of the Country, as he by no means confidered them entitled to claim or expea. Examining the Returns upon the table for the year aor, he found the amount of Boun ties paid upon Sugars exported to be, on Raw Su. gar, ioo,oool. on Refined, 125,0001. but what, he would alk—was there, in the advantages of this trade to the country, that it fhould be maintained at fuch an expence to the Public ? If the Importers had huit themfelves by the avidity of their fpecu lations, and lowered the price by over-flocking the Market at home, he did not fee how granting a Bounty upon Export could produce the effea of relieving them. For if, as was the fact, every other Market on the Continent was overttocked, the natural confequence of fending more there, mull be to render Rill lower, inftead of railing, the price. But fiippofing the fan was not fo, and that encouragement of Exportation was to pro cure good prices abroad, as well as railing them at home, was it a jet policy to charge the public with a Bounty for conliderably railing upon them the price of a neceffary of life, for the advantage of perfons whom he conceived not at all entitled to fuch Bounty. He had not the good fortune to be in the Houle on a former night ) when the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in pro poling to bring forward this Bill, Rated, that the abundance of Weft India produce, imported laft year, was fo great, and the Rock in the - country fo extenfive, that unlefi a Bounty was given to the Merchants for its Export, in order to find elle where a Market for the redundancy, the etre& would be to damp the fpirit of commerce, as well as of cultivation, for the future. But he could not underftand the argument, nor fee why, becaufe we were oyez-flocked tiy the abundant produce of one year, that we were not equally liable to fall fhort in perhaps the next; for it was only by the average of crops, for a fucceffive feries of years, that a true criterion could be formed. The true ground of the meafure was, as he believed, that Gentlemen in the Well India trade were Much diftrefed 1 and, if relief was not given them, they might be much injured. Neverthelefs, he could not fee the juftice of a claim on the public, to in demnify thofe men from the confequences of their own erroneous or imprudent fpeculations. if the manufaiturers of Manchefter, or the clothiers of Yorkfi‘ire, had over-fpeculated in 'cotton or wool, or overworked the market in their relpeeive fa brics, would it have been admitted as a general principle, that they had a right to claim of that Houfe reparation for their loffes ?—no fuch prin ciple, he was confident, would be admitted. It. might be imagined, from the language of the Weft India Merchants, that the grower, and not the con fumer, was to pay the duties. This, however, was not the cafe, for in impofing*the duty, arid adhe rence was maintained to the principle of Adam Smith, and the tax laid upon the confumer. How ever, when he confidered the nature of the Weft India trade, and the prefent fituation of thlt guar ter of the Globe, it muff be obvious to every man, that the more it was extended the greater the por tion of mifery to the unfortunate people, by whofe labour it was carried on, and the lefs our fecurity in the permanence of our poffeffions there. If Gen tlemen complained, that the profits arifing from their plantations were fmall, he believed the fault would be found chargeable to their careleffnefs and imprudence, by entrufting the management to perfons not deferving of their confidence. He had every with their profits were greater, becaufe he was lure, that in the hands of - many of them, thole profits would be converted to laudable pur pores. But there was certainly no proof of an un profitable .trade in the aitivity and increafed ex tent which Welt India cultivation had manifefted in its progrefs for the laft feven years. Another proof of the profperity of the Planters was, he Paid, the high intereft which money has borne throughout the war, and to this moment, in the Weft India Elands. For at Jamaica, it had uni formly carried so per cent. he did not mean that this was the legal intereft there ; but it was fo ma naged, that all thofe who borrowed, paid at that rate, and the profits of trade mutt indeed be con fiderable, where fo high an ufance could be af forded. He concluded by apologizing to . the Houfe, for trefpaffing thus far in fupport of his opinion, that the claimants in this cafe were not to burthen this country with bounties to recom pence them for unprofitable, or even lofing (pc culations, any more than other merchants or ma• nufaeurers : and though he was convinced, they muff have made out fuch a safe as reconciled the meafure to the Right Hon. Chancellor of the Ex chequer, he himfelf could not anent to it. Mr. FuLt.za obferved, that the Hon. Member who (poke left, was averfe to giving any bounty on the exportation of fugar, but be would beg to apprize the Houfe of the confequences before at tendant on taking away the bounties ;*namely, that the profits of the exporter were reduced to an average of not more than 2 per cent. Happy as had been the confequences to this country of that peace, for the relloration of which he was ready to yield his tribute' of thanks to his Majefty's prefent Minifters, the principal perfons in the country who were fufferers in the event, were the Weft India Merchants, for to them the confe quences*ere ruinous ; and would the Hon. Gen tlemans fo far undervalue the advantages which-, thjs country, as to think that chore who e • f:Nre ~ yes l e a n nrn d ° lie; fiwahii whichcr a h l i bt o or n oo ku a g h oh d frt reliefbaanrnku annually tol teahsceotlim: y on were entitled, under no circumllanc atlic( cr, r , country to the amount of above j eer„ of i, t1 „ " ; duce, to the amount of eight milli P ssltielt adlually made one tenth of the fearn en h ed the bell defence of the Empire And ‘c it that the Weft India merchant alkyd Only whatw - to be permitted to export to other mark that re dundancy, for which he could not liar don here ; of that produce which he was compel. confump led to bring to the Britifh Market in B (}tips, charged with every import of f • I feln. 6 of duty, tonnage, which the Legiflature though t fi t of to im pofe ; and to be enabled to make fuel] e on fuch terms as to be able to meet other Nations market elfewhere. In older to Phew theations_at hardfhips under which the Well India mepecinhar rc lan% laboured, under thefe rellri6tions, h e a inftance in his own experience ; one of hisestates ated in the We ft Indies, he (aid, produced fugar, i• ch he could fell in Jamaica, for home co--rift:my' there, or in America, at 40 Guineas per hl d Pnurl 1 • but for which at home, in this country, though h e was compelled to bring it here, he could above 251.; was it then reafonable, aft er t t i; el compelling him to bring home a commodity h u ; which he muft be fo very confid bl - era e a Inter-.% WAS it, he would afk, reafonable or jull, to debar him of a market elfewhere ? The Hon. Member ar mit have formed his opinion without refiedtion ; but confident that their cafe was in the hands of a generous people, with junice and reafon on their fide, the We ft India merchants feared not there, fufal of redrefs. Mr. BARON fupported the arguments of Fuller, and hoped when the lituation of the Welt India ' Merchant was con fi deted in every point of view ; when it was con fi dered, they were compil :Attnrtrade (71. s to i o c ß e arl t il h t i e nith y e w thd o iu u pt l si d e, s f a, e n t id c m h pw ; oii t tih o i led to purchafe at our markets the fupplies for the Weft India Iflands; to fell thofe commodities at nr a ; t t fr an y uabci our r i t a e f r e k a e t m h t s e: i e e a p t n r t tifh and reflridions this country thought fit to impofe; when it was remembered , that the average ex ports from this country in that trade, for three years pail, amounted to 7,300,0001. ; and the duties they were obliged to pay, more than doubled the whole of their profits, he trolled the Honfe would confider them as entitled to proteCtion, in. (lead of expofing them to ruin. When the pro : duce of the Welt India Hands was comparatively fipall, and the prices of higar high, it was deemed expedient to allow a drawback of the whole im. port duties of fugar on exportation, but when the abundance of a few years might have enabled them to, make up the deficiencies of thole much lefs fa• vourable, by obtaining a preference in the markets of Europe, Government thought their profits too great, and went into parinerthip with them, by retaining the greater part of, the duty charged upon the fugars exported. This condud he confidered as highly illiberal, unfair, and opprefEve. The Hord. Member who began this debate, feemeT to confider the Bounty granted in this cafe as fingu lar ; but had he been at the trouble of confulling the Cuftom-houfe books, he would have found his opinion contradided in numberlefs instances: and he now held an abftrad in his hand, containing above fortz different articles, which were allowed Diaiehacks, or Bounties upon exportation. He had not the flighteft doubt of the corrednefs of the Ratement made by the Hon. Member who fpolcn WI, that by taking away the Drawback the profits of the Exports were reduced to two per cent. ; butte was perfedly fare the average upon the !aft four years did not exceed three per cent. a profit lefs by two-thirds than thofe of any man who (peculates in building, agriculture, manufac tures, or any commercial concerns ; and if he took the average of the laft ten years, in which were included the fix moll produdive ones ever expe rienced in the Weft India Colonies, the profits, he was five ; would not exceed fix per cent. The Right Hon. Gentleman oppofite to him (the Chan cellor of the Exchequer) was, he underilood, well informed and thoroughly converfant on this fub jed ; and he wifhed to yield that Right Hon. Gen tleman his tribute of thanks for the atrention he had paid to the reprefentations of thole concerned in the trade. He was intitled on the fame pound to the thanks of his country, for tiling his endeavours to prevent fo important a branch of her commerce and her confequence, from being ruined ; for this he was fure muft be the refult, if fome effeetual meafure of relief be not fpecdily devife '. Here the Hon. Member went into a feries of calculae tions, from which be deduced that the balance of trade in favour of this country, in her ciimmerce with the Weft India Colonies, is not lefs than three millions ; and her export, in home produce and manufadtures, being (even millions, he would afk, how would (land the account of the land owner, the manufadturer, or the monied man, if fuch a fource was to be cut off? From theft confiderations, he (hould hope the Hon. Member would be inclined to revoke fome of thofe affer tions he had fo harfhly dealt out againa the Weft India Merchants ; for when he looked round him and refs red on the fervices rendered by thofe Gentlemen to this country, he could not help thinking they merited very different treatment. Mr. ATKINs ftipported the like arguments. Mr. VAN SIT TAR T 1 at the fame time that lie fupported the policy and prudence of the prefent Bill, obferved, that notwithftanding what had fallen from other Hon. Gentlemen, who alto fup ported it, the interefts of the perfons concerned in the Weft India trade had at no time been treated, with negled or inattention by the Government or the Legiflature of this country. It was a trade in which vaft fums of Britifh capital were already veiled ; many thoufands of British fubjefts inte rafted, as the means of their livelihood, and, therefore, a matter of too much importance at any time, to elude the care and attention of Go. vernment. Neither could the Gentlemen of that trade complain of any backwardnels to afford them relief when it appeared neced:iry. No hadlongel: , a 4 large furs fence nce than the year 1800, a• . WS. .• . • • r 1 I i • f 1 r 4 I 1 t L i f r r ;11 t) • ol M c littl( COLT wel: latu tion thir by 1 red( fny pub to ii re, of f Ith alli rr of hi