Star. — London, England, 1805-03-16 00:00:00

ltd the hoes id]., 104 "Veulatrn adff riftil w b'rl d o you delay, ;dial you here the Mad to carry e di So, Sit. (anfwered the boy) it is sal, an &Inds." The emsfWaation of fuch a cireinottance as this, where the mails, or perhaps more important papers, were obliged to be *mulled to fuch ignorant hands, together with a recolleition of the many robberies of the mails which bare been committed in that Coun try, would, he had no doubt, make the people of ibe country be well fatu fi ed2 that they would have the propofed (ecurity at fo low . a price. As to the Tax upon Dogs. the poor man Would be exempted from payment for one dog ; and where Gentlemen had a great number of them. for 301. &pack ; fo that it would not fall oppreflively on any clefs of people. Sir JOHN.NEWPORT hid, in explanation, thit he did not objekto the Tax on Letters, but to the Tax on Timber, the importation of which had toed detably diminithed in the !aft year. • - Mr. FOSTER phferveclohat although the year before laR the quantity of timber imported was t opoo tons, and lea year only 29,000, yet it was not to be• inferred from thence that any falling off of the dutrisould confequendy.take place, or that the deereafed import was owing to ,the duty. It was al together the confequence of the general fituation of Euro*. ••• . _ ... • . • My.- XER oppored the I*y cin Timber, . • bfIe,,,AJJAA R faid..thet there was a Pad's entutiri Cm* Pr: fiatir d sPorafriistY 3 * I f,otfuhros of :the - s o no fin *a he hoped iterouldoperaelaisfotary'ftforms; • • .- • Mr: arIiGERALD explaioed. . • - Sr WILLIAM ,BURROUOkIS faid a few words is faeoos.of •the limelight fyfteto at Mr. Folio • The Refolution, impoling an additional Dtity on Timber, was now.read and agreed to. . •On the motion for agreeing np tbe 6 per cent. duty on the !ippon Retail Trade of Ireland, . Mr. MAY rofe, and (aid, he had prefented a pe tition againft thefe duties, from the inhabitants of Belfaft, and he aided the pi!ielow of the Houfe till. be Rated a few obfervitions m fcppott of the peti tionof his coollituento They had not, he (aid, de. fared him to prefent it, from any with to newt?: them hives from the payment of taxes in general, but from a wilt to have taxes impofed in,firch a manner, as to bear equally on all deferiptioos of perfons. T his tax was not fo cooftituted. bin boroentirely, and with peculiar hardibip, on the retail importer, while the wholefale importer was altogether exempt from it.— It therefore affeited greatly the commercial induftry Lilts country. and, as fueh, he hoped the Right . Gentleman would agree to selinquith it. Mr. LA TOUCHE was detidcdly againft the tax, Sir GEORGE HILL contended that the tai would prove of. linguist detriment to Ireland. He - felt the =policy of a tax on ttretail dealer, and believed that it would undermine the internal trade of the bilk. - Sir CHARLES PRlGE.oppofed the tax. =loft, unwire, and impolitic. ' - • - Sir JOHN NEWPORT thooght it only tended to product kind encourage manifold, Maaifefl. mid al , fame fea_ndo - . . . Mr: FOX withedthat. - as the tax would bear Par ticularly bard Goths email usdq, it might bilibas;' 'f $± fold dint th e tan lord .exilled.filute Ai drys of arks 11. Ilse eitietailon of thi-tai was eonfusid-tpitibpeco. tea;-and brandy.. He was *older fpeculadiempininni tefpettizig tips during a peekid Jof ,wai.......He Notili not. think of gitiog up *limes while heridhered to that on kaiser. He was gratehil to the Merchants of 'London for .their adirice.to the Meichints pt Ittlattd .; and hoped that the former would not deeltne.taking that of the lat . ter. on filch queltiona as might lead to the general. advantage of the twouountriet The wholeMe deo lers had purthafed - the tax bylat:riflkeszt the time it • was SA laid in i aid the itholetale defier had now a flt to have his laterals properly guarded. .. Mr. CORRY wet unfriendly to, the tai. Three IllefGoos of Parliament ago he had propped the repeal - of the tax. Yet, from good difpolitione toirards the Right Hon: Gentleman (Mr. Feller), he had difcott raged his own coaftituents from fending_ to him pe dwons again* it, becaufe he did not wilt to .ati obi flacks in the way of the Right Hou.Gatilanau ;ado: wiling the taxes. He was not for nail% the . patient retail dialer, tugging at the oar of indtiffry; and eau** every fleeting breeze to make his litt le bark Pi iti (slay the haven of his hopes I Had ever hob a tat prevailed in England ? There obght to be a fimilarity of Giusti= and repletion with !e -clat trade of every quarte!..tif the Empire.— was fininded on a principle of equality, sad of fimilarity of lineation ; and bf this the alimi- Mho Of the currency of the two etionities firsinicd . hole proof. Mr. HAWTHORNE could not Iran io the ma tion. The tax was a, bad one in every view of hi operation and tendency. Mr. PRINSEP entered his rotary 'retell *FUR sill DOGOSOViry bearing on' the induftry of the indi vidual, fa es to lead to his ruin. Sir JOHN STUA RT and Colonel ODEL tippled the Bill, after Which the Houfe. divided on the Refo lotion, when there appeared—For the Six per Cent. • Import Duty. toff—Agana it 44—Majority 63. The other Refolutions were then read, and arced 0. 4f • Sir JOHN NEWPORT gave notice, he &mid op:., sere Come of the matters contained in tbefe Refolu :ions, when they came before the Moak in a different corm. Mr. FOSTER moved for leave to bring in four tiaritt Bills, to carry into dice theft Refolutimus which was agreed to. zEDUCTiCIM VT THIL MILITIA.d•LIGACT DVTT SILL. The CHANCELLOR of the E%CHEQUER hid. for obvinus rufous it would not be convenient to many Gentlemen to ascend en Monday (St. Pia trick's Day) he ftioisid thereiore with that the queftion on the Reduaion of the Militia be poftponed until l'uefday : it might alfo be eligible, for the fame rea fon, to deter to the fame day, or the following open day, the briogiog hip the Report of the Legacy•D'uty Bill. Mr. FOX willed to know if the Right Hon. Gen; :Annan dean; to perfevere in extending the duty to immediate heirs, and fignifsed his intention of oppof jog this clone of the Bill, if it were perfillfd in. 'Me CHANCELLOR GE the EXCHEQUER kid, he certainly defigned to fubmit that clank to the determination tit the Houfe, and it could not It was very readily be fOrrendered, as die 'produce was en; mate) at soo,iaool. per annum. • The Legacy Duty Bill then went into the Commi ttee, and the Report was agreed to be received on Tuefday. ' The Hours them went into a Committee of Supply, in which the• different fums advanced by Govern ment. and not yet made good by Parliament, were voted. • The Houfe having tefumed, leave was ghee to bring in a Bill for the hf Exchequer Bills fuffi cient to cover the Amount of the whole. The .Bill was thenread a Bra, and ordered to be raid a fecond time te.morrow as were alfo.thejrifh Spirit Ware. hoeing Bill, and the hi& Sugar Drawback Aill. • LONDON.. FATIADAY.VARCHI6.. . FRISS OF FTOCKS THIS DAY AT. ON& O'CLOCit: Cookie, for mows, sl4—(or Ape% siff.-Oskahus 31 4. . . Covernment has seeeived no.accoent•of the failing of the Dutch Fleet. 'is piquipned yelicr4Y. op the authority of letters front Dover I lltit we underitaod that yefiersisy information was received of the. Elate of the enemy's-preparation:ll both in the Dakckand' Freseh ports, from wide's** sktipeik tEit oflhi 'thelr 'bleu itSig great exertions to get a confidecable. force ready for failing—probably to harsfs us with , alatlits. Ship carpenters have been feat to the • dif. tercet ports to haften the equipmeneof the inf- Po!ts, and Bolosvaava is foen expelled to infpeap himfelf, the Rate, of the preparations. - The 11.0jric,an Stip Rebecca, • Captain natio, which arrived Pll the bowns yeittrday from Leghorn, In 30 days, on the tith intl. was (poke with in lat. 44. long. 9. by the Mao than of Alfar. 01 company With 6•e othcr fhips of the line. The Mailer's Mate. of the Halo informed captain N. tPit the Bre( fleet was out. The fame day was (poke 140131 a frigate, who silted him if he bad fen the French fleet. m•••• * . It gives us great fatisfeeion to be able to announce on the authority pf,our regular Correfpondent at Gibraltar, the only authority that turned out to be correkrefpating the malignant nature of the Fever which lately raged there with fo mach violence, that all fymptotns of that dreadful malady have at' loft difappeared. The eller details in his litters, which we, ftsbfoing are extremely infereiling particularly what relates to the Preparations of the Spaniard, to alloy and de ftroy our men of war and merchant velar. We need hardly add, that in every infiance in which our Correfpoident• has ever ventured to fpcak with con ' fidenee t his, information has .turn'eCtast to be M R ! curtail ausl;sherefore, have teifonto espeQ, on the prefent occasion, that, it Will not be Overlooked by theft in who& department it lies to coairtetatt Qin aaval . machinationsof our enemies, who otterelo ba' met with a force of the fame defeription as their own, iegularly Manned, and coiftantly in a (late fit for immediate anion. /Periwig*. • . GIBRALTAR. JA.I.II.TARY as. . On the night of the sod), • a tremendous . gale from the S. W. came on about twelve o'clock, accompanied with the heaviell lea ever witneffed in this bay, which by the morning did great tnifchief to the napping lying off the New Mole and the Ring's &Rion : upwards of twelve 4=re-rigged veil* being completely wrecked or funk; and Malay other; difinafied. The gale to*ardsmorning flew round to the N. W. and teemed to blow with redoubled fury. A tranfport, with 300 men of the . 57th regiment on ward; had her Bern completely beat in, and the men were obliged to be iminediately landed, without either 111111$ or baggage, al the was hourly expetted to fointiki. The Nevi Mole Prete:geed a horrid fcene of diftrefs—five valuable pities driven on (bore, and Mid water; two large vatic funk, and one large veil enmpittely overfet; bifides a tag samba' of cOalling ielrels driven en fore or.tank: • A fine cop per-bottomed (hips laden with foga) *AI drives 'on that . near Ragged Staff, with an ItaglUS and Sire diffi brig, ..and a large Greek polittfe eimpletely wrecked, the dew Paved 11th gresit Meulty. The damage done is oomputed at 4aii. to *oust to tom Awn rd thaffaid ?meek, ands yeti "eanfidefaltie etpence aid labour willbe reirifite to deaf be New Mole of the wrecks. This melancholy event Iso. thiongh nicelfity, obliged t h e cianniancier 'in Chief to land the troops lying is the Ray, and to admit all 'the trews wholiere bipwreeked, though Otherwife it was not intended to. have allowed any. one to land before the Both of this month. As, however, there has beet no new cafes of fever for thefe left fixteen days, we have every red= to belieie that the difeafe has ceafed for this feafon. Isaias , / 26.--Yofterday the guards at Lnadport were reinfiFeed at night, and the Field Officer of the day ordered to remain there all night, in confiquence, it is fuppoded, of intelligence received by fame Bpenilh deferters: • fsiviat .117.7-1.4& night the Field Officer of the dittria; with feveral Officers Patroles, remained on the neutral ground "all night, to watch the motions of the Spaniaids, who have tately marched a great num• bcr of troops into their fines in the evenings, as if they intended to snake fait attempt on the garrifon . The night being dark and windy, one of the patrole , was fired upon by miftake by the advanced harries guard. Fortunately none of the patroles were wounded. The Maims from Algegtas Bate, that the Spa. • • • • .t a wards are fitting IP two 6ri-lhipt to deltrop our !hipping in the Mole.. There are now about feventy valuable 'effects lying there, 'chiefly Spanith JAIMAIT 3o. —We &bother dreadful Itortn night. in whiCh tureen xelfeliof different defcriptionv **ere completely wrecked,,akd the whole beach is this morning covered with calm, goods l malts, and rigging. The att.croa IoG her foremalt and pow- Itait.and was very near foundevNg at her anchors. This day the port was opened,,And the place de dared tree from contagion, and clean hills of health iiTued. The moll attire meafures are Ilfo adopting to prevent any return of the difeafe next year.. . ' • Feta war I.—This morning the Asir RION frigate arrived from *mouth, with the long expeaed at taint Of thedtclaration of War againft Spain. The Amman, brought in with her a very rich prize, tikcaltst tl)ie LIIITONA, off Cape St. Vinceqt.—lkiow appears certain, from the acccounts of all the Eng lith, and inhabitants who have arrived here from Al gefiras since the part was opened, that the Spaniirds, 'for feacralnights, lately marched all their troops in this neighboarhoodinto their lines,within a mile of the Gatrifoo--% the', somber is Rated to have been about 70as. Every &sus had i double . ration of brandy iferad out. to him—and as they had number of fai ling ladders, fuppnfed they:lntetided lime attack upon the Garrifon, and 'p'robably exposed .tome af fiftance from, within as &literal of our men have deferted to the Spaniards. and propagated re• ports .of Tome of the Reginsciits in the plan being dif affeaed ai circumllaitte, however, which the Spa niards would have difeovered to their cat,. to have been count unfounded, if the, had made any atimipt. FIBRUMIT B.—We art extremely forty to hear the acenuius of the lots of the Ran's, brig off Cape St. Mary's on the, night of the 29th of January—the laving carried away her maims& in . a violent gale of wind on a lee flare: The accounts froti Spain mention in the higheß terms the uncommon exertions made by the captain and crew; both before and after the veffel (truck. The Ragan was meant (or the 'de fence and proieftion of the bay, and her lofs*Rl be sfeverely felt, as jar Commander was uaiverfidly elleaned as one of the mull naive and enterprifing Officers that ever was upon this Ration. FsIIWAILT 11.—Yefterdsiy afternoon the Hoop pf war came in with one of the Malta convoy for this place; which brings the difagreeable iotelli genee, that the Allow hoop of war, and Attar:ow bomb-ketch, with 36 fail of merchantmen under their convoy for this place and England, fix days ago, were met by two large French . Tqgates t off Cape de .Catt; .whieh attacked the-Aka* and Actaeon at (even hi the adorning, and ithieh after.a defperate anion .two boars, obliged them to, furrender,:bnt both fo Mach flattered, that the Alio* funk- in three • hours after, and the enemy were oblited to fire to the Acacia's. The convoy difperfed whin the anion began, but the brig faw five of them liken during that; and the foll Owing day, by the two frigates. . . Immediately on the above intelligence reaching this place, the Fisaaao and CHILDiRS made fail to the Eaftward to pick up and protea the fcattetarre mains of the convoy. The enemy's gun-boats now intercept every veld that offers to go out or enter thet Bay without tonne. They this morning carried a large thip into Alp& ran, .fuppefed to be the George letter of marque; of 16 guns; *bids failed from hence for Mogadore in the afternoon Of the 9th, and *hick we fay; becalmed t .indivatkeri by three gunboats off Tariffa; Nothing is more aßonithing than the negleited Rate in which this Bay has always been left during a Spanith war. Lail war the Spanith gun boats were quietly Coffered to carry Englifli ieffels into :Ararat, worth upwards of one milltha sad a ball fterling ; al though we bad then feveral gun boats . here, yet the fame thing happened, as at prekni ; no regular crews were ever appointed to the gun-boats; ainftcpiently they were never ready when -required ; ,and when the, were sianned•upon any eztraordiaaty octagon, it was by inei taken from the titiorports or merchant /tTjin. woo ware totally enured to the ferrite, and who eontequend, always fought to the greateß difadvan- lase. There are now Ceteral gun boats lying in the New Mole perfealy ready for feu, but, of court'', quite de ' Ifs, there not being a tingle man belonging to them. it is the opinion of the ableft officers here, That fifteen, or at moft twenty Englifh gun-boats, With regular crews appointed to them, would defeat, and drift ont of the Bay, any number of gunboats that the enemy eves could bring to oppofe them, and if force Inch ellablithment is not loon formed at this place, no veffel of any defcription will be able to lie here with farm, as experience has (hewn that men of war cannot even prated themfelves is a calm, again& the attacks of gun-boats ; and ire *have • undoubted official intelligence, that the Spaniards are determined to do their uttuoft to Iwirn or force ow. of the Bury, every Britifh fhip that offers to anchor here. The following flateinent of the forte deltoid Si the Spaniards for this purporecoines from unqueftion- ' able authority, and 'may he implicitly relied upon by our Govern:bent, and if. they neglea .the' warning ilmas given to them, vioeful will be the confequefices a 42 gun boats, each fitted up wits E grate to beat red hot fhot ; . to mortar boats, each cairjlag a large mortar r s• • .; . . CitiTillig tier to throw .• a (hell of 9 ir:ches diameter ; 6 feluccas, armed ; so xebecs for carrying forts ; • i a auxiliary boats, for boarding •eQels ; s boat, with lhipwrights and caulkers ; r corvette, of t 8 guns, as sr receiving (hip. FSTABLISHMENT. . Ten Poa C.aiptains, 40 Lieutenants, :5 Enfign; of the Navy, t Surgeon, and s Mates, with ano Cellars and. foldiers, and artillery, tleained folly for the eaabliniment Of the gun boats. The whole is to be under the command of Dom Faaxcisco MeneaLL, a . rooft aaive Officer, who himfelf arrived at Algefiras with the firs divifien, confining of it gun boats on the Bth of. January. The. remainder Mre preparing with.all expedition at Cadia, Barcelona, and earth*. sena, and are expeaed here •in the courfe of this mouth. Such a force Will render, it totally impof fiblie fat any veil's' to lie even twenty,four hours in the Mole,..without the utmoa rids of being &Wafted, or huhu, as the gun boats may repeat their attacks daily with impunity in calm weather. As a gunboat pie. lents fo fthall 'an Alai, and is fo low in the water, 'that not QOO mot in a ituudred will hit them from a drip or a battery on more, whilft they, on the con trary, can fire With the. utmoa precinon at to large an objelt as a IhiP, and the townis completely at ;lei ' mercy whenever they chufe to ileartly it. Perhaps we cannot more foreilidi exemplify the truth of the fails. Rated in the above letter, than by quoting the following extracts (roils Colonel 1,411 bißory of the late liege. page 107. The gunboats were Arongly built, bbi ill &lased ; they had a [mall mai inclining forwird 'front the center of the boat, alma} over the bow, upon which was hoißed a latine yard and fail, which at aiichor feived as an awning to the men on boaid. 'rimy rowed aßoniihingly (wilt, and each carried a6spounder in the bow. We never had a good op. pthlunity of making any fatisfadory obfervatiotis upon them, litit judged from their Gat that they weie about 7o feet long, and so broad. • P. 149.—The gun-boats, on the 18tb, fired agaii Upon the (hipping and men of war cruising in dr The Minerva and Monfieur frigates had Ceve rat join: dangeroufly wounded, and the Nooruch ha( a flied Crippled. the navy, after this attack, no longer ionfideted there boats in the fame defpicable Ilight as on their &ft entrance into the Bay. P. 163.;-:The at tacks of the gun boats were be come fo t hat we could (liver piomife our. felves knight'srepofe without diflurbed by cannollideand their attacki were more vezatim from the impotEbility of being able to xetaliate, be •caufe they prefented to ne fo minute an (*jai. When ever the alarm was given of their approach, which was generally a little after midnight, the fotitbern part of the rsc was in immediate commotion. Their eteas have 'been found Co defironivi s that all wer upon the look out. The troops were ordered from their tents, to pbres where they were covered from the Mal but the dells were direiled to the mod queßered reedits." Such was the terror of the mite. table inhabitants, that many of theta fled, nearl' naked, to the remote parts of the rock, and ey( kere they could Ccarcely deem themfelves lean, In fhort, no fcene could be more deplorable than their di&rcfs on theft &teflon*. The following is an extra& of a letter from officer who was engaged in, the late unfortunate II With HOLAA, dated Odtober it, 1804 • Ism one of two Of who Were fared from s whole Sat- talloo—diefeseed Battalion of the ad Regiment is even aerie, one only of their Oaken having duped. One Battalion of the is:t attier hot* wait over to the y at the beginning of , the battle - Compsoy of Tiepoys were f its aumple, whet a young Lieunnam (f don't know his wale) Omni up to the Zemindar (a Kadir g Oilker), and 4otklmthrough the heart, which fo much futprifed and aikeinilbed ea &pays, that they knatediately altered their intentionoadAwetato follow the Yuba Ligon:sant, which they a ft er Wards dia. - • Witte is now in fu farce at Hindaa, a pace about 73 miles from Agra. The Commander in Chief with all the Civarf and 76th Bqiiment it* Ciwopore for Agra on the tech Septialiber. All wheeled eanbges on the linc of march are forbid ; they will have little, thereon. to impede them ; they will hamfome tight marches, and 1 thinlf it every way Ifhtlytheywill give a good account of tkengelves, to the difcanatida of the entail:" • P 11121002, Magma tz.- =Since mylaU the cOCICI,- Talcs hired armed brig, put in here from a cruize, and remains ; alfo a, gpatah brig, laden with *ine and vinegar, cut oni of one of the Canary Maids by the boats belonging to the Lord Nelfon privateer, of Goetitfey. All tins day it has blown a terrible gale at S. S. W. with a heavy ground fea. FALMOUTH, MARCH 13.-.ThiS day arrived here the Spanifh brig Andalufia, Captain Lovo; from' MoutevidetS, hs the river Plata ; the failed from thence the 19th No4ember, tSo bentnd for Cadiz. with g cargo of hides, tallow, and about sOOO dollars, taken the igth February by the Koebuck privateer. of Lon don, CaPtain Bawls. Came in alfo the Spanifk (hip privateer &kite, of so guns and 170 men, from St. Aidero, capiured by the Kitty privateer, of Loadon, Captain Mu tic/lava, near Scilly, after an hour and a hilf's.engagement, in which the Spaniaid loft for itien killed and four,teen wounded, and the Kitty had one Alan killed* and four wounded.—WindS. W. ' • Dona, Mace ts l =-"The report of the Dutch deef 'baying put to fea does not appear certain. Another vela bas paired, which came out of the Teed on the fame day with the Fortner one e the mater hatch that he put to fea in confequence of hearing that' an' embargo was• immediately to be put on all foreigrl The Dutch &et had not parte lea, he rays,, when he ciene,llloaj f lint they were all ready, and likewife about toe trofporta, • which' bad their pro wifions all on board: Whether, therefore; they failed in the night, as before Rated, is not eenafri.• It ap.; , pears, Waterier? hue bastkaatualttartbataliq was* ,all ready, . \ 1 , 1 r 1 1; ,• , . I • . , I . 1 . I ) f i ! , i i 1 r . , . e • ✓ 1 I I. r• • i a a- , NI :t Ie 17 L. be rd w, r:h .d. a P. Iris tie lid lle We- Ad no ble be- sr- ons be- )n rich lora beii rere ram 'rein I fe- n:fe- arty even !ore. than It an mite :llt- k, one e int- battle young dar (a much dtered whkk deo, a 1 with on the , rch are 1