Star. — London, England, 1801-02-23 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARr PR6CZEDIN.',S. MUSE OF COMMONS, SATUithAY, FE4. n. Mr. ABBOT laid, that' when he had the honour of bringing forward the confideration of the Pub lic Finances of this Country latt, it occurred to him that thole of Ireland fhould be brought for ward in a limilar manner for inveftigation, that the flare of Finance of the Empire at large might clearly appear before the Houfe. For this pin , pole he had framed feveral Motions, ciaffed tincltr everal heads, and made as fpecific as the nature bf the fubjefts appeared to him to require, of which their fubitance was, that of fiiewing the Income, the Expenditure, the Trade, the Debts, the Ar rears, the Balances in the hands of Public Ac countantsoflreland, &c. fo that din whole Financial affairs of Ireland (Mould appear before the Houle in the fame manner as thofe of England were.— He then moved; That there be laid before the Houfe an Account of the Total Amount of the Income of Ireland for the Year ending on the cth Jan. !Sot, fo far as it can be made up or eltimated, the net from the grofs Proceeds, dr.c. " An Account (hewing the Rate of the Exchequer of Ireland and bow Money has been thercout applied for the Public Ser vice, &c. An Account of the progrefs made in the reduCtion of the Public Funded Debt, on the zit of Fcb.-iBoz, o: to the period to which it can be made up. .4 An Account of Arrears due on the stit of Jan sF3I, from Public Accountants on Accounts commencing Ence the Tear 2780, noW aeii. or out of their refpcdtive Offices, dittinguith ing the different branch-s of Revenue to which they apply, and the Amount of the . Money due from them refpeCtively. An Account of Arrears and Balances due on the fifth of January ant, from the fevetal rerfons whofe Accounts have been delivered to the Officers of the Imprefs Account, fine January z7Bo, diftinguitbing the Names of filch Perfons, and the nature of their fervice, and the Money no* rena:ning due, dcc. • " An Account of the Value according to the Prices Current In Mai currency, of all Im ports and Exports of Ireland for the year, ending so the fifth of January, tgot, or to the lat.& ' period they can be made up, diftinguithing the value of the Home from the Foreign Articles Exported, &c."—All there Motions were carded. Lord CASTLEI tang brought op a Bill for inereafing the num ber of field Officers of the leveret Regiments of Militia in Ire land..—Read a firft time, and ordered to be read a fccond time on Monday neat. Mr. Loam brought up a Bill to =able Treafury to Me Exchequer Bills on the credit of fuch aids as are, or On be granted Exchequ er Parliament for 180r..--Rcad a del time, and ordered to be read a [mond time on Monday nat. The Twisty-eighty Millions Loan Bill was read a !mond tiw, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the wMe Honk on Monday next. of the The Stil for railing a certain additional Duty of Cuftoms on the fevesal articles of Timber, Pepper, &c. was alfo mid a fe toad time , and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the whole Houk on Tuefday neat. The Bill for railing certain additional Duties on Tea, Linen, Staff See. was alfo read a fecoed time, but the Committee on it was deferred to Wednefdity neat, on the motion of Mr. Role, who Lid he had fame obferrations to make on it. Or. the elLueltion for the fecund reading of the Additional Stamp Duty-Bill, Mr.Hossousc hid be had foe= obfervadons to nuke on tills Bill, which be would not do in (o thin a Houfe, but which he &avid take up in fome other Rage of it, of which opportu tides would be afforded. Mr. Ron ohkrred that it was not ufual to debate the prin. dple of a Mg after the [mond reading. HORS& DUTY. On the motion for the fecond reading of the Horfe Duty Bill, Mr. josi.tvrs Paid, he was of opinion the addi tional tax upon pleafure horfes would caufe fo much retrenchment as to be unprodutive; and that the tax upon horfes ufed in agriculture was impolitic, and would fall peculiarly hard upon thofe farmers who, from the flinty nature of their ground, could not ufe oxen. He was anfwered by Mr. Ross, who.thought the tax upon plcafure horfes would fall fo lightly as not to be felt, or caufe the (mallet inconvenience; and that the tax upon bodes ufed in agriculture would have the double effea of increafing the revenue and encou raging the ufe of oxen, affcrting at the fame time that the latter might be tired upon any ground, and would frequently draw waggons upon the roads fatter than horfes. _ _ Mr. jotitrra and Mr. Rosa having f,:verally explained, the Bill was read a fecond time, and committed for Tuefday. POST•OFFICE DUTY. On the qucftion for the fecond reading of the Pol-Office Ditty Bill, Mr. ALLAZDYCE thought it a great hardfhip up on the inhabitants of the Northern parts of the kingdom, that the propofed duty upon letters should increafe progreffively with the diftance they were fent, conceiving the Corn of the duty ought to be the fame whatever might be the defiance. The &tact& thought the fuggeftion of the Hon. Member not perfeetly relevant to the Bill, as it went to the complete alteration of the original duty voted by the Committee ofWays and lkflean s, which could only be done by another Committee ofthat defeription, and to which the Committee on the preterit Bill were not competent. Mr. Attaanyci explained, and after a few words from Mr. Rote, the Bill was read a fecond time and committed. SIR SIDNEY SMITH. On the cineftio;gltie fecOn CI reading of Sir Sidney Smith's Annuity Bill, Mr. Hossousx Paid, that he thought the an say,' ought to commence from the period of Sir Sidney's brilliant exploits againil the French army, rather than the prefent time. Mr. Ross °Merced, the fuggeltion of the Hon. Gentleman would come more properly in the Corn 71:nitoo upon the Bill.—The Bill was read a fecond time and committed. RUSSIA. Mr. Hosanna adverted to the notice he had given of a motion for the prodadion of the Con vention between Great Britain and Rulrea, relative to the furrender of Malta to the latter Power, if any fad Convention e sifted, which flood for Tuef daT next, and obferved, that as the motion of his tun. Friend (Mr. Grey) relatve to the State of the Nation, which Rood for Monday fe'nnight, would embrace this, amongi other objects, be ihould for t he Prefent withdraw his motion, giving notice at the tame time, that if a Committee upon the State of the Nation Amid be appointed in purfoance ofd his Hon. Friend's 'notion: Ite fltonid move in that Committee for the produElion of the document al luded to ; but if that motion of his Hon. Friend (hould be negatived, he would then purfue his ori ginal intention, and make the motion which he now withdrew. Mr. Beacor reported at the Bar, that he had prefented at the Bar of the Houfe of Lords, the Documents which had been ordered to be prefent ed to their Lordthips, in compliance with their requefl :. . _ 11r. Baacc E then- hrought up the Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, the Refolutions r:f which were read and agreed to.—As alfo the Report of the Committee of Supply, whicl. was likcw•ife read and agreed to. INCREASE OF POOR RATES. Sir. GEORGE SHUCKBURGH EVELYN prefented a Petition from the Parifh of Tolthill in the County L.f Warwick ; but before it was read, Mr. WILBERFORCE BIRD took occaf ion to obferve, that this Petition exhibited but too fiithful a pic ture of the cliareffed (late of a great part of the manufafturing Dittrids of this Country, of which the neighbourhood of Coventry was a (Hiking and lamentable example. The Parifh, on the behalf of which this Petition was offered, contained 641 houfes, only 86 of which were inhabited by thofe who were able to pay the Poor Rates, and there were near 1300 Paupers. There perfons, paying thefe Rates, prayed Come relief, for that otherwife they will themfelves be thrown upon the very Rates which they are contributing to pay, and which are already twenty-four (billings in the Pornd upon a rack rcnt. He believed the objet of the Petition was, .4 That it be referred to a Com mittee above [lairs," and he was Corry that a right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. PITT) was not prefent. He was apprehenfive that this Parifh, milers it had Come Relief, would be, as the Petitioners ap prehended, entirely deftroyed. The Sr IA K t Paid, that what the Hon. Member had obferved, made it neceffary that there fhould be a recommendation from the Crown, before this Petition could be read or received, fince the object was to raife money from the public. . . Here a doubt being fuggeded, The Sp clot CR Paid, " If it is the objea of this Pe tition to raife any public money, I apprehend there fhould be a recommendation from the Crown be fore it can be received." Sir GEORGE SHUCKBURGH EVILYN. "I do not know that this is the objea of the Petition." Mr. HORHOURE obferved that the words of the prayer of the Petition being for" Such Relief as to the Houfe fhould teem meet, or think fit," or to that effea, lie conceived to be perfealy unobjec tionable, and teemed to require no recommenda tion from the Crown. Th..: SPEAKER raid, the Hon. Members appeared to have milLicen the praCtice. He underftood the praCtice of tit: Houle to be, when a Petition was couched in ambiguous terms— Sir GEORGE S UCK VKG H EVELYN. "They are the common terms."— Mr. SPEAKER.-" Order! The common prac tice has been to afli the Member who prefents the Petition, whether the objed of the Pctition is to raife public money ?—The Honourable Member Paid nothing when he prefented it ; but another HonourableMember got up before the Petition was read, and, as I confidered, took the Petition upon himfelf.—lt then became my duty, as I conceive, to afk Whether that was the objet of the Petition? It teems no longer under the adoption of that Ho nourable Member." Sir GEORGE SHUCIESURGH EVE LYtt.-•-" I did not fay—l do not know—that it is the objet of the Pe tition to pray for Public Money—l have fees the Petitioners, and they did not tell me the Prayer of the Petition, or the objet of the Petition to be any other than is espreffed. You know, or ought to know, that praying Relief in general terms, requires no recommendation whatever." Order Order ! Sir GEOROI SMUCRIORGH EVELYN-..." Order! who is out of it r' The SPEAKS R.—Ji The Honourable Member will not fit down. It if the duty of the Houfe, as I underfland it, to receive the Ratements from the Chair, with a degree of refped, not as due to me, but to the. Houfe, becaufe, while in the Chair, I reprefent the Houfe; and, therefore, want of re fped to me in that fituation, is want of refped to the Houfe. I know . the Honourable Member did not mean to flew any difrefpet to the Houfe but it hecame me to take the notice I have done of what has happened; and the Honourable Member, on refledion, will, I dare fay, be lorry for any interruption to order which has happened." Mr. WILDE arose' Bran proferfed great ref pet for the SPEARSR. What he Paid on the Pe tition was only as an Individual, and he lhould iay no more at prefent. Mr. Loma Lid, that not a word had fallen from the Hon. Baronet himfelf, which called in quel tion the general pradice, as Rated from the Au. thority of the Chair. It was %dual on prefenting a Petition,sfor the Member prefenting it, to open the nature of the Petition, and to Rate diftindly, whether the objet of the Petition was to obtain Public Money or not. That the Hon. Baronet did not do, but another Hon. Gentleman proceed ed to Rate the futillance of the Petition. Under there cii eumfiances, the queflion was, whether the Petition could be brought up and laid on the Table, according to the rules of the Houfe ? If the Hon. Baronet faid, u that the objet of the Petition was not pecuniary relief," he knew of no objeflion to the bringing it up, and receiving it, and it might be heard. The Petition was then read, and it contained what Mr. W. Bird had Rated in fubftance, and concluded, " That this Honourable Houk may take it into confederation, and grant fuch Relief as in its wifdom &all be deemed proper." Mr. SPEARER." What would the Honourable Baronet Move 1" Sir G. Sit octant's Evatyrra That this Peti tion be referred to theC.ommittee appointed to con fider of the High Price of Provifions.' The2 p ireftion was put and carried. At ten mi nutes ter five o'clock the Hoofs adjourned to Monday. LONDON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Coutols 36 1 .1 33* Of—Reduced 37* 57. 4 per C. 761 751.—Ncw 5 per C. 9t}--Old ditto poi— Long Ann. t7l—Ontuium sf 2 prem. PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY : 3 per C. Red. 371. 1.. Ann. 17 7-16 i 3 per C. Cont 361 f-fl Short Ann.ji 5-16 4 per C. C. 76fi Imp. 3 per Cent. 5 per C. Navy 9t}} Imp. Ann. in i 3-161 Ditto Loyalty 92,; Omnium 3.1 3 31 Du 111.1 N, Fee. rice of Stocks this day. 5 per Cem. Cur. Deb. per C. Tresf. Bills, pay.tok 1303, 97. Mr. EAST arrived yefterday with difpatches for Government, from the Earl of CARYSFORT at Ber lin, and Lord MI NTO at Vienna. It has not tranf pired what part his PRUSSIAN MAJESTY will take in the Northern Confederacy ; but it appears from the Hamburgh Mail of the t 3th, which alfo arrived, that the Regency of Hanover have made confide rabic exertions to proted their territory. Prince ADOLPHUS is appointed Commandant of Hanover. All the troops of the Elatorate arc put in motion. New levies are ordered. Brcmerlehe and all the adjoining places are garrifnncd, and the utmoit aaivity is tiled to put every part of the Eledoes poifellions into a pollure of defence. The news of our flopping the Su cdifh and Da nifh fhips was received at Stockholm with tlic ut moß indignion. The king, on the zd inflant, interdined all intercourfe with England; and he laid an embargo cn all Englifh veirels. He fairly avows the Rep he has taken, and publifhes him felf the treaty into which he has entered with the Court of St. Pcterfburgh, and to which the Courts of Denmark and Berlin have fince acceded. We lay before our readers a copy of this treaty, that they may be able to judge for themfelves of its charafter and extent. The Court of Denmark, on the contrary, pre ferves its ufual moderation. No attempt at reta liation has been made, nor any interruption given to the Englifh trade. Great alatrity indeed is made in putting the forts of Altona, Heligoland, and other places, into a refpeBable Rate of de fence ; but it is obvious that they arc moll defirous either to procure peace with England, or to put themfelves under the immediate proteeion of PrulEa. The difpatches from Lord MINTO can only an nounce to us what we knew already through the Paris Papers, that the Est PEPOR has been forced to confult his own fafcty by a humiliating peace. We yeflerday received Paris Papers up to the 29th Pluviofe (the 18th int/ant). The intelligence of the rupture between his MAJESTY and his Mi lliners had been received ; and all the details arc copied into the Monikur tvitli fidelity ; hut the event feems to have made vary little fenfation at Paris, as they fee only a change of men, without any change of fentimcnt or change of meafures. The Flan- CONSUL has been congratulated by all the Connituted Bodies, on the peace which he had fo happily accomplifhed with Attnria. The anfwer to the Legiflative Body is worthy of notice. He Pays " that France will not reap all the bleffings of peace until fhe (hall have a peace with England: but a fort of delirium (*ix efprit de Vertige) has feized on that Government, which now holds no thing facred. Its conduit is unjull, not only towards the French people, but alto towards all the Powers of the Continent ; and when Govern ments are not jull, their authority is but fhort lived. All the ►'owers of the Continent mull force England to Ell back into the track of moderation, of equity, and reafun." The French Papers contain vcrr little news. All the cforts of France are now turned towards their naval armaments, and they fpeak with the utmoft confidence of the very formidable equipment which they have almoll -ready for lea in the Texel, with which they threaten a fecrct expedition. The French Funds have declined. The 77er: Coq° by the lift account, was at 59. Otir Readers will fee by the Gazette that the ar. rangements for the new Adminiftration are notjet complete. There was a Mclfenger yefterday from Ireland, which probably brought the anfwer of the Marquis Cosswat.t.i s to his MAJF ST Y:S earneft requell to continue in his high Ration. We have not heard whether he has yielded to the KING'S willies or not. Mr. Pitman now declines officer aid Lord Lswt s AM IS to be Prcfident of the Board of Con. troul. Lord anon receives the Seals on Friday. He has appointed Ric st ARD WILSON, Efq. to be hi s rrincipal Secretary. Mr. DUNDAS will not refign to Lord HOSART before Wednefday. He is blifily employed in fill ing up all die vacancies in his gift, and particular! ly in the ifland of Ceylon, which is to be wade a feparate government, totally diftind from the (et dements of the Company, and to hold immediately aide Kiva. Mr. Assor it to go to Ireland as Secretary to the LORD Lizirramasr. He has fold his appoint ment in the King's Bench, worth 270c.1. to CHallil SNORT, Efq. THE KIYG. To fatkfy die loyal and anxious folicittid.l of the public on the continued indifpornion of his MA JESTY, the Phyficians ycli.rdity morning filmed the following Bulletin, whiLli was !hewn to the Nobility and Gentry ! BULI.ETIN. " The Ktmc h:ts had a bad cold; has at pre " fent a little fever, accompanied with a cough " and hoarfenefs. 221 y Feb. 1801. (Signed) et T. cis HORN F. "H. R. KFYNIILDE." In addition to the above we have great pl,.afure in flitting, that his MAJESTY is much beats this morning, the fever having confiderably abated lince yeflerday, infomucli that the Phyficiaus have not written any report. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. [For hitutical Advertiam , :nts, fee the third colurnr. Srit MAILS Tilts DAY.—Wind S. W. ARRIVED I I - lambi:lmb a Dublin. Frb. 01, 79, 2, W.lterford, Feb. 18, 79, 2 Donnaghadee, Feb. tB, 79, Ouerniey, F b. z 2, Jcr:cy, Feb. zo, YARMOUTH, FEBRUARY 22. Yefierday arrived the Ass; STAN . CE and MEL, men of war, and the POAONE LYNX, rr m a cruize ; arrived aho the Prince of Ora Ig.: Packet, Captain THOMAS BRIDGE, with mails, Mr, EAST, Kings Metrengers, and a great number of pain gers, from Cuxhaven. Sailed the Prince of Wales Packet, Captain DEANE, with mails and feveral pattengers, for Cuxhaven. TORBAY, FEBRUARY so. Sailed the SAINT.GEORCE, Lord NELSON, for Portfmcuth—his Lordfhip is going fecond in command in the fleet deftined for the Ncr.h Sea. —Arrived the Russ ELL of 74 guns, from :he Channel Fleet, and towed in with her the snip Duckingfield Hall, of London, bound to the Welt Indies, which (he fell in with off Scilly, having her fore-malt, bowfprit, fore-main, and mizen malt gone, and otherwife greatly damaged, in confequence of her being run on board by one of the !hips of the convoy.—Arrived the JOSEPH and DOLLY cutters from a cruife. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 22. Arrived the Triton, from the Eaft file left the other Ships at St. Helena; and Six Sif ters (a Dane) in MU, detained by the Beaver Sloop.—Sailed the SNAKE Sloop for the Coaft of Africa.—Yellerclay morning arrived the Sr. GEORGE, of 98 guns, Admiral Lord NELSON, from Torbay. Sir THOMAS TROUSAIDGE came round with his Lordfhip, and landed in the after noon, when he immediately fet off for London. This day two Dana veffels and a Swede were • fent in here, one of the er deeply laden, with a very valuable carg& Sin is chip-rigged, and upwards of 400 tons burthen. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY at. Late haft evening arrived here the HONDURAS packet, Letter of Marque, of 18 guns and g men, from London, bound to Honduras, laden with various merchandife ; the was captured on the gth inftant off the Lizard, by a French brig privateer, of t+ guns, after a very fevere and well fought action, during which the whole of her crew were wounded, but providentially none of them killed, and the (hip before the ftruck, was cut to pieces in her hull, marls, yard s , f.tils, and rigging; on the 1 ith inilant the tirtTFIRE, of 18 guns, Capt. KEEN, fell in with the Honduras packet, off the Ile of Bas, re-captured her, fince n bleb fhe has been beating up againft very violent Eillerly gales, and was driven far to the Wellward ; the Frenchmen that were on board her had formed deign of riling on the Sri-mites people, but their plan was difcovcred before they had an oppor tunity 'of putting it hi execution ; the Serrital chafed the French privateer, but it is feared that the efcaped. At the time fhe difeoveredthe priva teer, fhe was chafing a Dane, but left her to the purfuit of a Brig (loop, then in fight, to which the made the proper fignal for chafing. Came in a French lugger, called tht Petit Hill , , from Bellifle to Breit, laden with wine and brandy, taken by his Majefty's (hip BRILLIANT, of 28 guns, Capt. PAGIT. Came in the Dana Blip Twee Gcbruders. of Copenhagen, Captain thou KOLEN, from Ali.' cant, bound to Copenhagen, laden with fah, de tained by the EARL OF ST. VINCENT, of 16 guns, Lieutenant SMITH; the D.tnith galliot Navfom had, Captain amts. NELSON from Bilboa, bound to Creifie, in balhtlt, detained by his Majeay's (hip INDEVATICIAELE, of 18 guns, Capt. eint zox. —The French brirla Cacil, from (Z2imper, for Bayonne, laden with ardines and hides, captured by the INCENDIARY, of la guns, Captain Dux N. —The French brig la Jupiter, from Bourdeaur, bound to Bayonne, laden with wine, captured by the Sra so wrze, of 54 guns, Lieutenant Coo x LAN. —The French !loop la Janne, lad-n with wheat, from France, captured by the ACHILLES, of 7+ gufls, Capt. MURRAY : alfo the ASIELIAp of 33 guns, Capt. HII.IIIIT, from a crui ze.