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■ to the reduaion that was Rill likely to take place; and even with the additional duty, the beer might be fold for the fame price it had been fold for Tome time back. Willi refpea to private brewers, he thought it necellary to hold out encouragement to them—he had looked to them .with great folici tude, and he should rejoice to find that the coun try Gentleman, the tradefinan, and even the la bourer, brewed their own beer under their own roofs; and therefore it was neeeffary for him to arrange the tax in fuch a manner that the public should not have an advantage over the private brewer • which would certainly be the cafe if the ' whole Of the duty had been laid upon malt, be caufe the perfon who brewed a great quantity has always the advantage of making a given portion of malt yield more beer than the perfon who brewed but a (mall quantity. He trotted therefore the Houk would be of opinion, that he had dißributed the tax in fuch a manner as not to give either of them an unfair advantage over the other. Taking the quantity of beer likely to be brewed hereafter at an average quantity brewed for the laR eighteen years, he had reafon to hope, that fo much woold be confumed as would produce a revenue of two millions. With refpea to the Hon: Gendernan's ob jeßion, that the fum to be railed exceeded hii efti smite, it was de(irable at all times that the Ways and Means should exceed the Supply. Althodgh he had no great reafon to apprehend any . Confider able defalcation in thole revenues accruing to the country during the war, he could not look for ward to a period of peace as any other than a period of great uncertainty, particularly the com mencement of a peace ; and therefore every means Sould be ufed to guard spina any probable deficiency. it was naturally expeaed that larger means fhotdd be procured for the defence and fecurity of the country. Our Peace Eftg blitlur.ent would certainly be greater than at for. suer period.; there was already a 'nnfiderable in creafe in pay and allowance, which the advance in all the requifites of 'life had rendered smeary a there extraordinary expences matt be provided (or by the Ways and Means, and it was of the bigh t(' importance that they should be provided for - by the large(' poffible eliabliffiment. He trolled, when Parliament lhould meet next year, that the Confolidated Fund would be found fully adequate to the Peace Eftablifliment without having recourfe 'to new Taxes. It was with a view to this (Nat that he wilhed to raife more Taxes than from hit calculations he thought would be necetfary. He would heg of the Houfe not to entertain any no tion of reducing the Taxes at this time; and if a sedation fliould at any other time be deemed es. pedient. there were other objeas which required exoneration more than that on which the Houle was then debating. With regard to the circurn dance Rated by the Hon. Gentleman, of Publicans being dependent on Brewers, he knew it t 6 be a fad' that there was hardly any fuch thing as find ing an independent Publican any where through out the country. On the contrary, they were fo much at the wi l of the Brewers, that they bad no kind of choice as to what beer they &odd fell the Brewers who kept them in an abjed ftate of de pendence, fent them whatever kind of beer they chore; and there was hardly an inflame of a Pub. bean who could brew his own beer. This was a great and crying evil, which loudly called for Tome remedy. It bad a fatal operation on the morals of the country; but it mood be recolleaed that this Tax had nothing to do in creating that evil. Mr. Alderman Conga (aid, that with regard to encouraging private Brewers, it would be impof- Mk for perfons living in cities to brew their own beer. _ _ _ Mr. SMERIDAN was of opinion the tax would fall more peculiarly hard upon private perfons who brewed their own beer. He obferved that in the ' town of Stafford, which he bad the honour to re prefent, nearly all the houfekeepers brewed the beer they drank, and for the molt part did pretty Lodju(bce to their commodity. The effea of tax would be to deprive them of the means of continuing the praftiee ; their families would no longer have an wholefome beverage to retort to, and they,for their °wit private gratification, would be driven to the ale-houfe, where they would con traift habits which would render them lets worthy members of the community. He maintained that the price of porter was fixpence per pot; he might be told, it was only four-pence halfpenny ; true, the reduced trail% which was called porter was only four-pence halfpenny, but the brown flout, which was what porter was formerly, was fixpence. Ije adverted to the inconvenience arifing from the leafes of public houfes being in the hands of the brewers, and recommended that tome remedy might be adopted for fo ferious an evil. Mr. PITT obferved that the profits of the brewer were fufficiently ample, even with the additional 55. I id, per barrel, to juftify the tax, and he was of opinion if the price of malt fhould, in confe quence of favourable feafons, become lower, the public revenue might be encreafed to the amount of many hundred thoufand pounds, without cur tailing the fair merchantable profits of the brewer, or enhancing the price Di the article to the con ;utter. Mr. Joe s faid,the t Hoe. Gentlemen teem- ed to him to have meditating in his retire ment additional b the public. He was .; the Chau Exchequer to in creak die Tax on was Paying " you have not laid on 1001111 b• go on, tax them,' Aever mind them, if they *met drink porter they may drink water." It is Willed the cafe, for there is nn porter now nal& it be brown Rout, men tioned by an Hon. Gentleman (Mr. ilheridan),-- ift he would do well to confider that his calmila item might prove fallacious. If he was rightly in formed, the laborious clefts of the comemmity felt thernfelves inadequate to the payment oftbs addi. final tax ; and be could afore the Right Hon. ( '"nlenum, that in a club, of which a friend of his Memher, there were upwards of ninety per funs who had refulved to drink a pint of porter Ids an evening. (A km kagh 0 He did not fee any re:111M for laughter. He did not mean that the whole company collative!) , had refolved to drink a pint lets, hot every individual feparately. It was fzrious thing that a poor OM could not raife a pot of porter to his mouth, without Paying u here goes 41d." How were tilde laborious and refpeft• able chats of the public, the Chairmen, the Dray men, and the Coalheavers, to exift ?—their profits would not allow them to drink porter at fuch a price, and they would not be capable of going through their work without it. He was fure the Chancellor of the Exchequer never could have thought of fo unjuft and unpopular a Tax. He had too good an opinion of him to fuppofe him capable of it. Doubtlefs it had been fuggefted to him by his Right Hon. Friend, or fume perfon who wilted to get him out of his place. Mr. Pitr Paid it was not often that any obfer ration from the Hon. Gentleman rendered an ex planation on his part neceffary, but in the prefent inftance be Mould be extremely forry to be under- Rood as having recommended an additional tax to be borne by the laborious part of the community. All he had Paid was, that if the price of malt fell confiderably lower, by which the profits of the Brewers would be greater, all beyond their fair and reafonable profits ought, in cafe neceffity re quired it, to be called in aid of the public refources. After (one further converfation, the Houfe di- Tided upon the queftion for the Speaker's leaving the Chair—Ayes, 82 • Noes, ta—Majority 70. The Houk then refolved itfelf into the raid Com mittee. A long . converfation enfued upon the fe veral clanks, principally between Mr. Wl4 I Tat lAD and Mr. PITT. Theformer moved an amendment, that inftead of an additional duty of as. per bar rel, k Ibould only be is. The Committee divided upon the amendment—Ayes, t t ; Noes, 62—Ma jority againft the amendment p. - The feveral claufes were gone through, after which the Houle refumed, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Adjourned at half-pall eleven o'clock. I.ONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14. MICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: per C. ConC money, 761—for May account, 78 Reduced 75f j-4 per Cog. 9 0 /} .-01111 ‘ 181 r PRICE OF STOCKS YISTELDAY. , Doak Stock 194 Lang ARD.Sii 7-1 s 3 pa Ct. Red. 7s India Bonds 6a ss. pron. 3 per CL Conf. 7 t } l Ira 5 pa Cents tosf f 14 4 Pa Cent. 9 9 •if . . Excheq. Bills is. dIG par. 5 pa C. Ann. lost : Oninium Ati i prom ' - -- Dusupc - Aram go. 3f per Cent. Goy. Deb. 861- 5 per C. Gov. Deb. Grand tanal 6 per Cent. to 3. The Ratification of the Definitive Treaty on the part of this country, did not receive the Great Seal till yefierday afternoon. In the evening it was difpatched with Mr. H arse, the Mellinger, who is to overtake the Honourable Mr. Pitearromr, at Dover, from whence they proceed together for Paris, where they will probably arrive to-morrow. Mr. Pt ILILIPOIXT, a fon of Lord NIWAII, Was defigned for the Church, but preferring the diplo matic line, has kill been appointed one of Lord Warrworra's Secretaries, and the prefent oeca fion is chofen for his aside. He wiU, it is under- Rood, reticle with Lord Warrivoura at Pans. By the proceedings of the Houfe of Commons lait night, the Public will learn the intentions of Government in regard to the future eftabliihment of the Militia. The out-line of the preterit plan is to augment the Militia of Englind to 6o,ooo—thßt of Scotland to 12,000 men. His MAJESTY is to be "authorifed to call out any proportion of this number, whenever it may be deemed expedient. They are to be exercifed twenty-one days in each year, and the annual expence is not to exceed i+o,oool. They are to be enrolled in four diftina claftes—Firft, young unmarried men ;—Secondly, married men without children;—Thirdly, married men who have only one child; and Fourthly, el. derly and married men who have more than one child. They are to be divided thus, in order that the Lieutenants of counties may have a better op portunity of feleaion, whenever the public emer. gency does not require the whole of the militia to be embodied. We underfland that kveral Lords Lieutenants oppofe the tyaem intended to be eftablithed,among whom are the Dukes of Bsauvorr and Davos. SHIRR, Lords MERRY, CARLISLE, BEWLEY, WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAH, CARNARVON, ROM. NIT, GRANTLIT, DORCHESTER, and UPTEIL 01110. aT. They urge, that the propofed alterations and augmentations appear materially to deviate from the principles on which the original dia. blifisment was formed. Since bGnifters are of opinion that an increafed Militia is neciffiry, we may entertain a hope that a meafure which has often been recommended, and the propriety of which is pretty obvious, will now be adopted.—We mean a Regilter for our feamen. A very limn fum annually would infure a Ikons Naval force at a few days notice, on any emergency that might occur. until Wednef. Parliament adjourns ti • day_ next only. Yelterday Count WORONZOW left town on his MOW to Peteriburgh. Yells:day was the fettling day at the Stock Ex change, and, confidering the weight of the if. firma, franc failures bad been expelted. None have, however, been declared, except thofe of one brokin firm, which was known laft week, and ofa Tingle Jobber, for no great film, which took place on Monday. This fettling has been, therefore, much to the credit of the houfe, focthe differences are great, Confols having been dou is the mute 'of the account, both at 68 aad 711 kr Ml* CO Al MARKET. .111/1111C-LAMIS, .1.1.111. 14. Tyre is not the leaf alteration this dap evety article felling at the fame price as mentioned in this Paper of Monday ha. Yeaerday, at noon, the Loan MAYOR fet the affize of Bread, and having infpeited the Returns, ordered the price to be reduced one affize and a half, or three•pence in the peck loaf, to commence on Thurfday next, when the price of the (blartern Loaf will be sod. The Baptifm of the new-born Son and Heir of Lord SHEFFIELD IS to take place to-morrow even ing. The Prince and Princefs of WaLss are to be the Sponforp • and from the circumftance of Lady SHEFFIELD being one of the Ladies of the Bed chamber, her Royal Highnefs Bands in Perfon.— The Ceremony is to be performed by the Bifhop Of WINCHISTIII. Lady GZOIEGIATA STANNOTI, the Earl of CHI C. T tam LDS daughter, awl god-daughter to their Majerriss, is about to receive a fuperb fervice of plate, as a Royal prefent. The Earl of Firs left town for Scotland, on Sunday laft. A Battalion of the Guards yefterday marched for Windfor to relieve the Staffordfhire Militia, about to march for their own County for the put ?We of being difembodied. The gallanc4ad, or Royal Highlanders, at pre fent at Winchefier barracks, are under preparation to march to the North. Oh their way from Win chefter to London, they are to be infpeeted by his MAJESTY on Wimbledon Common. The Regi ment, notwithftanding their heavy lofs, came home near 100 ftrong ; they have difcharged as invalids, who have palled Chelfea Board for the out-penfion, ' i 60, and will now march northward, to recruit, a fine body, of Soo men, which are to be filled up, in Scotland, to Soo rank and file. Mr. SHAW - 'Mar Thin' from Barton on Tnefday next, the aoth intl. at five-o'clock in the morning, on the match againil time s which is to go from Barton to London in twelve fucceifive hours, dif tance 170 miles, by any conveyance he may think proper, except an air balloon. Confiderable bets are depending fix to four in favour bf the per- formance. ENGLISH STATILOTTSIT.-Thirty-eighth day. —No. t 3471, a prize 0rc001.—N05.3,672 9 34,879, 24,296, prizes of sot—This morning No. 48,3:8 was drawn apprize of ao,oool. A vefrel has arrived at Liverpool after a very quick pafrage from Bolton. She brings Bolton pa pers fo late as the t3th of March. At that time the following interefting details had been received of the arrival of the French at St. Domingo, and the Rate of the colony. The Colombian Cooks! of the isth gives the following 'account, on the an thority of Captain Roosts, of the brig Nell'', who left Cape Francois on the 14th of February : • A &Meta of the Preach, goodding of z fall *tithe line and ii other Mpg whb about so,ooo men, arrived off the Cap...what i!ipeeledwas were entered into by the Command ants on each lore. &to tams OR which the one party were ac be permitted to boa, and the other to hold their liberty and property. Daring Us& ere ndating's General Lacteac retitled to recognize say roeh chandler as a Oeverootin the ifiand, whore feadlias, it wae pretended by the Iladta•trna wanted to permit him to land. Tide lap ilWahailner routed the furpi don of the Negroes, who pareoptedlyretufed to allow him to land, and threatened to repel farce by Three. (We now the rank. Ths accounts go on to fay),—• The Negroes *red wither age, nor fez ; only one American, Mr. Learbass. et Chmisikenoras bided; with ore hand the Black Damns of fiangtitor *ere font holding op the writhing infant, and Insidag Wks limbo with the (word in the other. Tilde that Awl the [wad were preferred to witnefs more horrid knee. Wog dragged by the Nqroes to their ftrong holds in dheassumains. On the osoening alas stb, out of moo houfes, sy only had efeaped ; and their tenenb, except a wretched few .on baud Anserkan reeds, were not to be lien. All the plantations of the emotive and once lionriating plain around the Cape, for many miles, exhibited the fame tremendous ap pearanc6 "It was thought that Too sse tm T was hag. in the tovm ' and that be has withdrawn to the mountains, and is there at the head of his army, in a patio* ftrong by nature and art, and which be has for fame time been fortifying and rendering im preguible. To this ftroog Ohba be has retired with his tresfury and his mymildons, and from it will make his murder ous exeurflons, and harafs the inhabitants. RJOAUD, his old and implacabb rival, was with the French, and much was ex pelled from hikknowkdge of the Mind, and influence with its inhaidtanta" It is Rated that every maritime town in the ifland had been burnt in the fame way, except Port Dau phin (now Port la Liberte), which was faved by the vigour and rapidity of ROCHAMBIAII, who commanded thedivilion which attacked it. After the total evacuation of the Cape by the Blacks, Captain ROGER was permitted by the French Intendant to fail on the 14th February : but no other vac's acre allowed to go. Captain Room, however, in amendment of the above Ratement, fays, that General Lscmc em ployed every meafure of conciliation and policy. He imputes the burning and malfacre at the Cape not to Cnatsvorma, TOUSSAINT'S fecond in com mand, but to the ungovernable fury of the blacks. The following accounts we extra& from other papers: The Bofton Gazette of the isth of March fays—" Captain Dans, from Poet Repubikaln, flutes, that the Negroes, in evacuating that place, took a nuniber of Whites with them, sub;ed tley issfeend as fen es they were est e the *web f the French troop / As they retreated through the country they de -1 every thing in their way. Little reaftasoe was nude ttl e :French. Capt. D. reports, that previous to his failing, intelligence had arrived there of the entire deftraftion of the Port of Leoganc." - - - - A letter from Port Republicain of the 12th Fe. bruary Rates, "That General BOUM,' had landed there with four thoufand troops.—( It agrees as to the arra of tht flag of truce fent on flume by the General).—The Negroes, it is laid, made but " fmall refiftance; they did not (laud their ground above three hours." The letter concludes with Paying, thatµ from the great force (the numbers are pretty correct) already landed, and a fecond divifion which is'hourly expeeed, we hope every thing will be tranquil here in a &tut time." It is Rated is a letter to a Member of Congrefs, that 44 General TousSAter had completely thrown off the auk by an indifcriminate malracre of all the Whites who were to be found, and that he had ordered an vinoes end itores to be removed to die iateri ot. DUBLIN, .Sr/IL JO. On Sunday afternoon a duel was fought in the vicinity of Cork, between the Hon. Mr. I'. and Captain F. We are unacquainted with the r:utfe of mifondertLanding, which oceafloned nothing fa tal to either party. Sunday morning a meeting took place between Capt. B—e, and St.— B —t, Elq. near the watch-houfe, on the North Strand, Limerick ; when after dircharging a cafe of pifuls, by which each were nightly wounded, the Seconds interfered, and reconciled the combatants. Two State Prifoners in Newgate, and eleven out of thirteen of thole in Kilmainham, were y terday liberated, agreeable to an agreement which they were induced to enter into four years lance, of being then liberated on giving fecurity to quit his Majeny's European Dominions, and not to enter any country at war with Great-Britain ; but as fe- . veral of there are znesaAaf large famiNes, and in capable of procuring . the means of removing to any other country, 3t is thought the clemency of Government will be extended to perliins of this defcrip;ion. The State Prifoners conined in Fort George are, it is laid, to be brought to :his country without delay, and liberated on the fame terms. NAUTICAL INTE[ • LIGEATE. MAILS THIS DAY.—WIND W. S. W. Dublin, Out. 0 FALMOUTH, APRIL ix. Arrived this day the American fhip Juno, Capt. Owas in 38 days from Norfolk, with z9oc bar; of Boni for a market, and the American briir Wil liam, STURES, in 4o days from Galipoli, with oil, for Briflol; the failed from Galipo!i with about 4o other rails, the greater part of wl;ich were bound for England. Sailed this morning the hired cutter Allan on a unite, and was Peen this evening in the offing in chime of a fmnggling veflel; alto the Kira Geoaor.packet, Yercomas, with the mails of the 6th ink. for Litbon, and the Dugs ov CUMISR LAND packet, BOULDUSOII, with the maili of the 7th ink for Halifax and New York. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 13. This day failed the EARL Sr. VINCENT for In dia; and the Margarett, CARDER, for Mogadore. Arrived the Adventure, CLARK, from Plymouth. The ARETHUSA, Captain WOLLEY, was this day paid off. The CONCORDE frigate:, Capt. BARTON, arrived laff night from Torbay. The FaLcos sloop which put back to Spithead, failed again this day with troops on board for Ireland. Sailed the Ga ntt(/' and RANGER tranfports for Gravefend, they have on board the 9oth regiment, lately from Egypt. Landed on Southfea the z4th regiment of foot, and part. of the Q . Lieen's German regiment, lately from Malta. FROM LLOYD's LIST. DEAL. APRIL the Tellicherry, —; M..trquis Cornwalßs,—; and Bombay Anna, —, for the Lail Indic es and feveral outward bound 'act% and a large fleet of Coafters and Colliers to the westward.—Wind N. GIL AVIS ND, APRIL t3.--Palred by the William Dent, MAY ION; and Experiment, Wur, Tr, from Bengal; Mercury frigate, and Romulus Soap of war, from Gibraltar; SWAIN, from the South Seas ; Argo, FRA MPI 0 N, from Oporto; Chance, Wvira, from Curacoa ; Thames. BLACK, from To bago; Eagle, Donns, from Norway; Hamburgh P. - teat, Groocm • Levant, —; and CIIOIII9. SIBEALD fitm Ham bargb.-Sdkd the Heroine, COOK for Antigua ; Bridgetown, GOODWIN, for Trinidad; Bridget, BRYAN, for Peterlburgh ; Alert, SALTER, for COMM& and Jonge Barber, BAaaea, for Anfterdam. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. To la Seine, for the capture or the French privateer l'Hi rondeSe, a diftribution will be made onboard the &ine on tier arrival in port. The Achille and Terrible, for the capture of la Sally; le Theodore, a brig marked F, a hoop (name unknown), v.l a brig (name unknown); will be paid in Plymouth, on Friday the 16th infant. The Centaur, for the capture or le Temeraire, and Ic Bon Arnie, will be paid at the fame time and place. The Captalt; and the Sirius, for the Capture of the French lugger le Temeraire, will be paid at the fame time and place. La Coollance and Flirt armed veffel, for the capture of the Spial& Slip of war San Pedro d'Aleantara, and Spanillt lugger fEgalite, will be paid ou the arrival of the fail Chip► in port, or in Plymouth, the 3oth initant. The Mary, James Condic matter, is arrived at Kirk aL2y from Rotterdam. The Emerald, M'Klnnon, from London and Faye, for Ja maica, was captured on the ifith of Augult LIR, and is carri:A into Carthagena. The General Oglethorpe, from Charlefton to the Havannah, was loft on the sth of February, on the Reef N. E. from Whale Key, fix miles from the land, and went to pieces next day.— The fecond Mate, 9 Seamen, and t 3 Negroes drowned; is Caved, and arrived at New Providence. Fivc or li other vef kls were loft at the fame time, near the fame 'lace;4 one of them a homeward-bound Jamaica Chip, and another a Guinea man. The Henry Addington, Ocean, Nottingham, Boddam, Hin doftan, Admiral Gardner, Hope, Carnatic, Windham, and Lord Duncan Eaft Indiamen, with fourteen American valel , , and four country aim arrived at China the 23d of Odlnber. On Friday fe'nnight the American Chip Profperity, Captain Joughin ,ladt a with flour, flax feed, and ftaves, arrived at.Dcrry from Ncw York, after a paCagc of as days. The Court Martial held at Portfmouth for the trial of Lieutenant-Colonel BERKELEY, was on Monday' dilrolved, he being acquitted of the charge exhibited againil him. We are concerned to Rate a circundlance that has juit come to our knowledg e, which r :leas on the charaitter of an O ffi cer w has borne an un blcmiffied reputation during the war. The perfi , n alluded to has till within there few days COITI• mended one of the finea. frigates in our navy, but has been fuperfeded in conleglicnce of a letter haii ing been written by the thip's crew, in the nature of what is termed a Round Robin, which they caufed to be fent to the Admiralty, charging the Commander with embezzling the King's limes. The frigate has been ordered from her Ration round to Porembuth, and a Court-Martial will imme diately take place to develope this unplcafant fines. Three Officers of Artillery on the Madras Ella bliffimertt have, it k CAW, been calhiered for th e embankment of Horn at Seringapatam. 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