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imi t. that could be offered to therecitteit of an Hon. Gentleman in the courfe of yefterday evening, that aa allowance thould be made to the country brew er in order to put them on an equal footing to ( 1 1 ,-,fe of London, He therefore was difpofed to ::cede to it, and a claufe would be prepared to grant them an extra allowance of two-pence per b ol d or beer,beyond that to the London Brewers. The Right Hon. Gentleman was not prepared to airoi: 11. at there really exifted fuch a material dif. i.reree between the circumftances of the Country Al.l London Brewers as fome Gentlemen feemed t fippofe ; however, as it was intended in the c ,, urle of the next Seffion to confolidate the Beer and Malt Taxes, thofe circumftances might then he taken into confideration. In the interim he hnuld be open to conviEtion on this queftion, and vny information that might be communicated to turn refpeßing it he fhould molt gratefully receive and deliberately examine. _ _ Mr. WI USER FORC I was furprized that his Right Hon. Friend 21ould entertain any doubt of the dif ference between the fitnation of the London and Country Brewers—though in faEt the propofed drawback in favour of the latter was a recognition of the principle of that difference. Mr. Alderman Comas acknowledged that a dif. ference did exile much in favour of the London Brewers, and therefore he would not objeB to the propofed drawback. After fome farther remarks by Mr. Vex SITTA T o Mr. BA B I NGTON, and Mr. Roason, the Report was read and agreed to, and a Claufe added, on the ?notion of Mr. VAIISITTART, granting a drawback of 6d. per barrel of beer to the London and Weft. mintier brewers, from the Ile of May next, to the sth of July following, and a drawback of Bd. per barrel to the country brewers for the fame period. The Bill was ordered to be zead a third time to. '...norrow.—Adjourned. I.ONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL zs. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3, per C. Conf. money, 77} 1 I—fer May account. 7 8 1 1- Reduced 76.1 1-4 par Cent. 9 *- 5 per Cent. to 6— New Ann. to6l-omnium 41 S• PRICE or STOCKS YESTERDAY. sank Stock t 95 Short Ann. 5 3-16 i 3 per Ct. Red. 75 h India Stock ass} 229 3 per Ct. Conf. 7 Milt 5 per Cents. Mt 4 per Cent. 90} 91 Eacheq. llil4 za. to is. prent. 5 pet C. Ann. 105 zo6i ro6 0111111 URI dal pr n. Long Ann.sri 9.16 Cone for y Ace. 7711 78 The Speech of Mr.ADDINGTON laft night in the Houfe of Commons feems to have been received with much fatisfaltion by the majority of the pub lic. Great as our National Debt is, being Four husdrei msd Eighty-eight Milfietu, paying a yearly intereft of Thirty Milfionr, he Rated the means of, redemption to be fo great, that in 43 years and two months, taking even the molt unfavourable ellimate, the whole will be paid off. If Peace can be maintained, the meafure, no doubt, may be ac complifhed ; but if the Nation fhould unhappily be again plunged ip war, we fear the payinents will bear a fmall proportion only to the frefh bor rowings. The Honourable Eve Lira Pisa k PO:NT, with Mr. Hum-ran, jun. the Mellinger, embarked at Dover ye fterday morning at nine o'clock, with his Majtlty's Ratification of the Definitive Treaty of Peace. This morning we received t'aris Journals to the .t3th inliant. Their principal contents are the following : GTUTTGARD, APRIL SPENCER SMITH, late Ambaffador from England to the Sublime Porte, has arrived here with his family, as well as Lieutenant Colonel BROMLEY, from Egypt. CORFU, Frs. 25.—Four days ago a squadron of fix Englifh veffels arrived here, the Commander cf which brought with him a letter to our Go vernment from the Miniftry of the Porte, (toting that, as gur Conftitation had not been accepted by the Gamin SEIGNIOR, it was annulled, and ghat the old Government was to be re-eftabliffied. The Englifh troops then took poffeffion of the forts, and carried thefe orders into execution. We e::pcel here alfo Ruffian troops. The letter of the Turkifh Government lays, that our iflands than - be converted into defarts, rather than fair in them a Conflitution which occafioned fo many troubles in France. The new Government has already begun the exercife of its funetions by changing all the perfons employed in public offices. PARIS, 19 GERMINAL, APRIL 9.—The Cardi nal Legate of the Holy See was this day at two o'clock introduced to an audience of the FIRST CONSUL. The hlinifters and Members of the Council of State being prefent, the Legate made a fpeech to the Firft Conful, and then read and figned the prefcribed Oath. APRIL 21....-The Firft Conful has nominated to the Archbithopric of Paris C. JOHN•BAPTIST-DR. 'ELIOT. This refpeEtable Prelate, 84 years of age, long honoured, by Z' is virtues and knowledge, the Epifcopal See of Marfeilles, which he occupied !ince '755. The Confuls of the . Republic have authorifed, by a decree, Cardinal CAPRARA, Envoy in France, with the tide of Legate a &ere, to exercife the fanClions announced in the Bull ifilied at Rome on Monday, 6th Fruaidor, year 9, (Aug. 24, 18014 but with the provifo of conforming entirely to the rules and (Wages obferved in France in fuch cafes. TN MTN ON AMOUNT (VP TRY HAPPY EVENT OP PEACE AT APtIENS, AND THE PUBLICATION or THE LAW RISPECTING RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. This Ts DEUM will be chaanted in the Metro politan Church of Paris, in pretence of Govern ment, on the 28th of Germinal, April iB. At fix in the morning thirty cannon (hall be fired, and ten cannon every hour till noon. At eight o'clock the Fiasr CONSUL fhall . pro. mulgate the Law of Germinal 18. At nine o'clock the Local Authorities shall pub lifh it, in the form and with the ceremonies ufual for Treaties of Peace. At eleven o'clock the Government (hall fet out from the Palace of the Thuilleries, and repair to the Metropolitan Church. • The departure of Government (hall be an nounced by the firing of 3o cannon, and its return by an equal number. In the evening there fhall be a general illumi nation. LEGISLATIVE BODY, et GERMINAL, APRIL 7. ?RESIDENCE OP MARCOREL. The fitting announced for eleven o'clock was opened at one. Befides the galleries and area of the hall filled with fpeftators, four rows of benches, deftined for the Members of the Legiflative Body, Were occupied by ftrangers of all ranks and of both fexes. An officer requefted the company to leave the fourth bench empty, but as they did not feem difpofed to comply, it was neceffary to introduce five fufilliers, upon which the bench was imme• diateiy left free. Among the fpettators were a great number of foreigners of diftiation, Englifh, Ger mans, Dutchmen, Ruffians, &c. ; the Hereditary Prince of ORANGE and his fuite, the Ambaffador of Ruftia, and Mr. Jacitios, the Minifter Plenipo tentiary of Great Britain. After fome time the Oiators of the Tribunate arrived, and then thofe of the Government. There were, on the one hand SIMEON,LUCIEN BONAPARTE, and JAUCOURT ; on the other Portents, REGNAUT de-ST.-JEAN-d'ANGELY, and Br•owiie. The Pre fident read a Meffitge, announcing the will of the Tribunate for adopting the Convention agreed on between the French Government and his Holinefs Pius VII. Loci IN BONAPARTE mounted the Tribune..." I Come, faid he, to carry to the LegiClative Body the with of the Tribunate in favour of the Con cordat agreed on between the French Government and the Pope Pio s VII. together with the Organic Laws of the Catholic and Protefiant Worthip.— Legiflators, the revolutions of Empires refemble thofe great and violent locks, which, by tearing the bofom of the earth, lay open its foundations and difplay the caufes of there dreadful convultions! It is after funilar political commotions that the obferver ftudies the mutes of them, and endeavours to difcover and check their fatal efreets." After proceeding fome time in this figurative (train " It is in the pretence of the DEITY," faid he, " that Nations are civilized, that people aid each other, and that men become brethren —Temples are their common afylum—Goo is their firft hap pinefs. Religion forms man to individual virtues ; it protects him from his cradle—it tranquillifeshim at the fight of the grave—it infpires him with a falut t i7 dread of wickednefs--it fupports perfecut. ed virtue—it confoles the good man under mill fortunes—it rays to tome, Pemble,and to others, be comforted, there ezifts a Goo on high who punilbes and who rewards. The deftruetive doarine of the Atha gives up the human heart to its paflions, renders it a fport and a viaim to them. Atheifm flatters itfelf with the hope of analyfingevery thing, while it only dif folves every thing. Miferable Sophifts! in vain do yon accumulate arguments and objeetions'to prove that morality and religon are impraaicable, and that its doarine is incomprehenfible. The one is inconceivable only to minds blinded by error, and theLother is impraaicable only to hearts dried up by the fcorching breath of the paflions. " It has been proved in this tribune that the ableft and wifeft founders of empires made religion the balls of them. ROUSSEAU, the Author of the So.. cialContraa,did not think otherwife—" Religion," fail he, " ought to be chafed among the firft af. feetions of a State." Even MIRADEAU, who will not be fufpeeted of ignorance and fuperftition, one of the firft movers of the Revolution, fuffered the following words to efcape from him in the Confli. tuent Affembly—" Let us declare loudly, in the face of all nations, that the acknowledgment of a GOD is neceffary to the French people. Let us plant the fign of the Crofs on the fummit of all the departments : and let us not fuller ourfelves to be reproached with having attempted to break down the reftraints of vice, or to dry up the 14 refource of diftreffed virtue." After•fhewing in the new organic laws of the Catholic worship the annihilation of old *bufes, and the recal of the minifters to their primitive in ftitution, the orator traced out the condudt of the Conftituent Aitembly, which, wilhing to force the priefls to take the civic oath, and to acknowledge the civil eonllitution of the clergy, purfued only intemperate and ill timed meafures. The Legitla ture which fucceeded it, laid he, were defirous of /mating meafures Hill ltinre revere, and tin lefs imprudent. The Convention went flits farther than the Legiflative Affembly. It tranfported to Guyana thole pt ;efts who rcfufed to take the oath : it pronounced death againfl thafc who in twenty. four hours did not comply with the law in regard to tranfportation. The demon of deflruCtion fonn arofe in France. The priclls who took the oaths became alfo necelfary viaims to the rage ofi innovators. The cry of death was extended to all the minifters of religious wot (hip. It was thought they could not be annihilated but by maffacring them. There was then no medium left to them between the fcaffold and abjuring the Gofpel. Infamous courtifans were introduced into the lane- ' tuary, and feated on the marble of the altars. Sa tisfied with their work, fanatics thought they had annihilated religion in its foundations ; after hav ing overturned the temples and profcribed their minifters, the band of demagogues propofed sharing their lands. On all fides the (late was verging to ruin. Several departments, however, shuddered to fee that fanatics had changed the mild manners of the French into ferocity.— Atheifm was frightened at theli exceffes. It chang ed its language. It recalled from that oblivion in which they had been buried, the ideas of the exigence of a Goo, and of the Immortality of the Soul. The Atheifts themfelves became the preachers of a morality which they had difowned is fo indignant a manner. The Direftory made war againft religion in a manner lefs open, but no lefs cruel than the Convention. It proclaimed liberty of confcience and wo: fhip, yet canfed its Mi ' nitlers to be imprifoned. It entered into an accom modation with the infurgent priefts of la-Vendee, and tyrannifed over thole who had fubmitted. It ellablifhed Thropkilanthropy, which ferved only to prove, that Chrillianity was the only religion fuited to France. In a word, the 18th of Brumaire ar rived, and the people were permitted to pcknow• ledge a COD, a Religion, and a form of Worfliip without danger. The Government loon after a& dreffed itfelf to the head of the church. Thacon ferences of the Concordat began at that epoch. It is on this labour of two years that you have to de cide. Hagen, Citizens LegifLttors, to make re paration for fo many errors and evils in which you had no fhare. SanCtion the religious code, and you will have difcharged the debt you owe to your country. While the head of the Government gives external peace to Europe, you will reftore the in• ternal peace of confciences." JaucoußT, one of the three Orators of Govern. ment, Paid a few words in regard to the Organic Articles of the Protellant Worfhip. He beheld in them a term to thofe numbcrlefs evils produced by the revocation of the edift of Nantz.—The con• quells of the Republic had produced the return of a great number of Proteflants—the Concordat will occafion the return of a great many more. The Affembly having proceeded to the Appeal Nominal, of 249 voters.--22 . 8 were in favour of the Convention between the French Government and the Pope Pius VII. The Prefident then declared it a law of the State. This being Maunday Thurfday, his Majelly's bounty was, as ufual, diltributed to fuch Poor as were thought worthy; by the Rev. Dr. VINCENT, Sub Almoner to his Majefty, at Whitehall Chapel. At a Meeting of the Whig Club in Dublin, on the sth inftant, the Duke of LEINiTRR was in the chair, and Mr. GRATTAN attended. On Thurfday, at a meeting of the Proprietors of Bank Stock, is Dublin, it was agreed to put.. chafe the Parliament.houfe for a National Bank; they are to pay 40,0001. and 2401. per ann. The following Letter was yetterday communi cated to the Gentlemen t•f the Stock Exchange : Du k e-Itreet, it 3 April, 1802. 1 requeft you will take meafurcs for communicating that an Loan for 1,6230001. Irdb, will be negociated in Ireland, on or about the 6th of May, and that I have appointed Thud day next, the tsth inftant, for meeting any of thofe who may with to bid for the Loan, and who may be defirons of knowiig the particulars thereof, at three o'clock, in Duke-ftreet. I am, Sir, your obedient fervai t, John Puget, Etc. IFAIC CORRY. Some new arrangements are in contemplation for the Settlement at New South Wales. The Corps at prefent there is to be reduced, and their place, it is fuppofed, will be fupplied by a detach. went of Marines, which is to be regularly relieved at (Laced periods. There was a fplendid ball and flipper at Pen rith, on Friday in celebration of the Peace. The Princcfs of WALES is now giving a merry round of dinners, not to perfons of her own fez, but to a vat circle of Gentlemen, political and military. On Tuefday her Royal Highnefs had a company of 21 Members of Parliament ; and yef terday, for the fecond time, the gave an elegant entertainment to a party of the Officers lately re turned from Egypt. Her invitations, we under- Rand, are to extend to the whole of the Military Gentlemen who have ferved in that country ; but no Ladies are invited to any of the far.ies. It is flawd in the Decade Phi/ofpiique that the Voyage of MORCHAND Round the Wo rld, latelyl publithed by FLEUR= of the National Inflitute, (a tranflation of which has lately been publithed by Meffrs. LONGMAN and Rigs, both in Quarto and Oaavo) has been fent, by order of the French Government, to the different Sovereigns of Europe, and among others the KING of GRUA T BRITAIN. This is the fame work that was prefented by Bo- NAPARTL to the Prelident of the Royal Society of London, accompanied by a letter in his own hand , writing. NAUTIC.II INTELLIGENCE. MAILS TINS DAY.-WIND ARRIVED French, PORTSMOUTH, APAR, 14. Dr!. This day arrived the Thomas, Twin , fr.m Shields for Grenada; brig Union, THost r nor, trom Gilraltar; thip Qieen Charlotte, ANDRFWS, liiim London for Lymington ; Judas brig, MITCH ; Charlotte brig, PARK ; Mary brig, TwyN ; Nau tilus brig, DAvi€ ; and Neptune hi ig, P ARSONS, from Sunderland ; alfo the Julius Ca: far tranfporto with about 300 of the 3oth Regiment from the Straits; the Nancy florin, JOHNSON, from London with groceries ; the Elizabeth (loop, JAKAIAh ; Thomas and Jane (loop, HART; and Beaufoy floop, HUKTLEY, from London with ordnance ttores.— Came into harLour the fhip St. Mary's Planter; Ihip Peggy ; and Peggy brig, tranfports.—Sailed the Good Intelit brig, cartel, for Cherburg, full of French priPriers. DOVER, APRIL 13. The Duchef. of CUMBERLAND came into town yellerday evening, and failed laft night's tide for Calais, in the Venus. Sailed for Calais this day, the Duchefs of Cumberland paffage veil - el, with Mr. CORAGIII, L. T. DUBUC, JAMES PATTERSON, C. CLARK, H. WOODWARD, WHITE, arid Mr. PIERRE POINT.—Wind N. W. and blows hard, therefore have had no arrivals from France. PafTed down Channel feveral large (hips outward-bound. LANCASTER, APRIL io. The Recovery, WATSON, arrived at Tobago the ifl of February, from London ; and the Benfon, POSTLETHWAITE, from hence, at Martinique. The Richard, Timm som, from Curacoa for this port, was taken by a Spanifh privateer, manned with go men, chiefly French. She was boarded after a fmart engagement, in which the Richard, had the &ft and fecond mates, the ..fteward, and one feaman killed, and the carpenter and five fea men wounded : the carpenter died of his wounds. The Captain writes from Carthagena, the 29th of December, that they had heard of peace, and ex. peeled to be fent to Jamaica in about three weeks. FROM LLOYD's UST. Ds L, A ?RI L 14.—Sailed the Glory man of war, and Gan n-tt floor of war, for Sheernefs; and CaLdonia, TuoirlA,:, front the Care of Good Hop:, for the River.—Cama down the Sir Edward Hughes, URMSTON, for the Eta Indies, and remains. Wind W. S.W. GRAVESEND, APRIL. If/j......P:aed by the Ganges, Barons, front the Eaft Indies; Matilda, Bt.ooetrl ELn, from St. Michaels ; R eliance, Ktet nit r, from Lifbon ; Gratis, ; and the Neu tral, 0 cstt it, front Norway,--Sailed the Duchefs cf Cumber. land, TODD, for pporto ; Lady Audover, —, for Jamaica ; Race LANGLEY, fur Leghorn; Pater, MUSSALL, for Rouen ; Sopltia, ::MITH, for Havre ; Jonge Weltertnann, for Flu thing; Deborah, —; Vrow Marl, SAMSON ; Vrow Catharine, —; Vier Gebroders, —, for Anaerdarn. ARRIVED. At Dover—Minerva, Lairder, from Charante; William, Cabborn, from Suriname; John, Silkreig, from Martinique; Fanny, Tate, from Charante; Pauline, Borradaile, from Vir ginia; Hi-am, French, from New York; and Navigator, Ro binfon, from Smyrna. At Falmouth—Juno, Owen, from Virginia; and William, Stokes, from Galipoli. Off De rtmouth—Etty, Jones, from Charante. At Briftoi—johanna Charlotte, from Charante. At Liverpool—Sarah, —, from Jamaica; and Canada, —, from Maryland. At Clyde—Entsrprize, Cameron, from Ncw Providence; Montezuma, Rofs, from Curacoa ; Mores Gill, Paterfon, from New Orleans; Eagle, Chamary ; Waihinvon, Hay, from Sa vannah ; Canada, —,from Maryland; and Jean M`Donald, from Charletton. At New York.—Eliza, Sorrel, from Cowes. At 'Sligo—Orion Hodgfon, from New York. At Leith—Duchefs of Buccleugh, —, from Lilbon. At Ncw Providence—lroquois, Cooch, front London. At Surinam—Mount Royal, —, from Bremen ; Louifa • Henrietta, Jack; Rote, Barron; and Sally, Barreagh, from London. At Virginia—Peggy, Boog, from Clyde; Mary, Corder; Francis and Mary, Spencer; Dunnobeen Cattle, and Dauphin, Gardner, from Liverpool ; and Pandora, from Gucrnfcy. At Cbarlefton—Thomas, Higgins ; Lucy, Lamont. from Liverpool ; Lady Wafhington, —, from Raffia ; and Nancy. Ingram, from Cork. At Savannah—Prlncers Royal, Marquis, from Clyde. At Curaeoa—Lady Nation, Defmay, from London. At Gibraltar—George, Atkins, from London. At Hoyiake—Sparrow, Rogers, from Sicily. At Africa—Bryan, Mackie, from Liverpool. Yefterday a Court of Direflors of the Eaft India Company was held at the India Houfe, when the following Commanders attended, and took their final leave of the Court, previoufly to their receiving their difpatelies for the Company's fadory at Canton in China, viz. Captaia CHARLES BOWLAND COTTON, of the flip CUFFNELS ; and Captain JOHN REDDIE, of the Ch i p Fru aE. The Court adjourned to this day. Yefierday a General Court of Proprietors of Eaft India Stock affembled at the India Houle, for the purpofe of eleaing by b;:llot fix Gentlemen to rev:re as Dirdlors of the Lill India Company for four years. At fix o'clock in the evening the ballot being finally doled, the glafils were delivered to the fcrutincers to examine the lilts, who declared the fix following Gentlemen to be duly eleded for four years, there beinc . ; no oppofition : William Devaynes, lifq. George Smith, Efq. Charles Grant, Erg. William Thor::(..n, Efq. Sir Stephen Lu!hington, Bart. S wen y Efq. Thc fix following Gentlemen go out of the Direction by rotation, for the term of one year, namely, . Simon Frafer, Efq. Robarts,E.'q. Charles Mills, Efq. David Sz9tt, Era. Thomas Parry, k.fq. GeorgeTaten!, E q. The folic wing is the Lift of the Directors of ri'- Eaft India Company for the year 18oz, with the number of years each Gentleman has relpeCtively to ferve in the prefent DireCtion, For one Ycar—Sir Fr...c;s Bar:. g, Bart. Sir Hurfa hie; Bart. Paul Le M-furier, J. , 1,11 &Untidy, tfq. Theophilus Metcalf; LP/. and George V.",,f.i.c..ird The Hui . Lig. For Two Years—qaeoh Bofanquet, Efq. Joreph Cot :n, En, Sir Lionel Darell, Bart. Edward Parri, Efq. John Robert , Efq. and Rulmrt Thornton. For Three Years—Sir William 8en11., , , Bart. Sir r Smith Burges, Bart. the Hon. William Flphinftone, 3, 1 n Hunter, Efq. John Travers, Fro ; and Stephen Wirt irns. For Four Year:—William Devaynes, Efq. Charles , Efq. Sir Stephen Lufhington, Bart. George Efq. W... •lianalsornton,Efq. and Sven y T oo n e , Fig.