Star. — London, England, 1805-03-08 00:00:00

AT a Meeting of LORDS LIEUTENANTS of COUNTIES and OFFICERS el MILITIA. convened by Public Advertikment, at the Thatched Houle Tavern, oq Thud day, March 7, Sibs, r: Biartjelit BOCUMIGINAM Lieutenant of Books. DOUGLAS, Colonel Royal Lanark Regiment. furl sear, Lieutenant of Lancalhirc. Uri EOLINTON, Lieutenant of *Treat*. Berl PITIWILLIAM, Lieutenant of Eaft Riding, Yorkflare. Earl FORTSSIIIII. Lieutenant of Devon. Earl Romany, Lieutenant of Kent. Earl TEMPLE, Colonel Royal Bucks Regiment. Vainunt B&LSLer, Lieutenant of Carnervonlhire. Lord STAN L ST, COlollei adTv,yal Lane:wit Re 7 .trococ Lord Mont Goat cat r, Colonel Ayrftare Regiment. Lord Pot KSTO la, Captain Berk Dare Regiment. Lord Ea I I NGTON, Major Royal Devon Aquavit Lord 0. Cava NDISN, Colonel Derbylltire Regiment, Lad Gaanncr, Colonel tft Royal Surrey Regiment. Lord B sssss ooze. Lieutenant of Wee. Lord CtirDoll, Colonel Royal Carmarthen R Honourable J. W. Oa mar° II a, Major Hu t. Regiment. Honourable H. WA !Jot s, Colonel Weft Norfolk Regiment. Sir C. BANITICLO, Captain tftSomerfet Regiment. Sir W.W.Wynue, I feutenant of Dentrighthire and Mrrioneth. Sir W. Lc woe, Colonel Royal Cornwall Regiment. W. BRADOTLI., Colonel 3d Royal Lamellate Regiment CA LCII•FT, Major Dorfet Regiment . Coots, Colonel 3d Weft York Regiment EL tibiae, Lieu: Colonel Royal North Lincoln Regiment. W FRAN ISLA ND. Lieut. Colonel North York Regiment W. L. fluent'. Lieut. Colonel Royal Anglefea Regiment. LOWTUIR, Colouel Weltroorland Regiment. T. SveteteT, Colonel ER Royal Lancallare Regiment. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM havirg been called to the Chair, feveral of the Lieutenants of Counties and 01Scum of Mi. lir a who were prefent at the Meeting convened by Mr. Pitt on Frlear. March tit, for the purpore of coohdering a plan fur. re emit's the army from the Militia, by directing the Cielloll Of commanding Brigades to notify to the Militia Regiments the powers to he given by law to the Privates to tnliß For life in Inch Regiments or the l.ine as may be named, to receive a Bounty of Ten Pounds, and for General Service ; Rated to this Meeting the converfatioo that then pal Ted, and the objc,Rions almoft univer tally made by every Lieutenant of County and Mil is Officer then 'pretest', to a ow-afore from which they apprehend the moft fatal eonrequenees, as being rubverlive of every principle on which the „Minds can esift with advantage to the country; and it having been adytted to d.finf.ridy (under the exit' ins , law) Inch part of the rilitla as face ds 43,a00 men in Englind, and Soon men in Scotland. and that in fu..b cafe, and fo foon as the rerpoftive Colo net. hive Vs nibodied ruch proportion of their own, the army &mid be enabled by Law to recruit from and out of the portion' fo difembodied in the manner pradifed by the lad war. Refolved, sit, That the enliftment into the Regular Army of men from the Militia is tub..eiliee of that Eftabliflunent, and a violation of the principles on which it was formed. Ittfnlved, ad. That we have reafon to fir that this propolition (as we now underhand it) will overthrow the firlt principle of the Militia, by touting Gentlemen of the firlt coniktuation to decline that fervice. Rdolved. 3d, That the :restore funeßed by the Earl of Rom ney tends to remove tome of the imphrtant objections to the fyßent pmpofcd by Government, and might be entertained. al- though this Meeting agrees w•ic!t his Lordihip, that it does not re• move all the Conithutsonal objections to it. Refo!red, 4th, That the co:dill Thank* of this Meeting be Riven to I.ord Romnt y. for his ronliant attention to the Conftitu- Lianal eftabliEhment of the Militia, and for his particular fervices and fugicittons on this oceation, Regohred, stb, 1 hat Government having erpreired the wilt& of coileetiog the opinions of the Lieutenants of COlUltiell and Officer. of Militia, on the full.et of the Plan opened by Mr. Pitt, a Copy of thefe Refolutions be tranfmltted by our Chairman to their opinion, by Letter directed to him in London, on this interefting matter, for the information of this Meeting, to be trauftnitted to the Secretary of Stare for the Home Department,and to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Refolved, 6th, That th 4 Meeting be adjourned, fubjed to the call of the Chairman. Refolved,7tb, 'That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the Marquis of Buckingham, their Chairman. 21 01 A , Public 41.11 clan 'Mon hart goal Earl Earl Earl Earl Wei Lou Lon Long Lorr Low Lott Lon Lou Hon Hon Sir Sir 1 Sir W. I I C C' W W.l Li The Chair, Era w emit) ten cn powen Regime Ten 11, conver fallv 'Fenn confegi Jdihtlr been a the Scatkir net. &mid fo chin Ref , men fr violatic Rif( (ai, we Militia that fat Stdg grey to fyftern though move I Refc Riven c clonal e and fui Rea toile& of Mil of thel opinint matter the sec tailor c Refc call of ;left) Mazqu F. authe or • the ill twelve tellig: it I five II 21 fai board the 13 of the The Vatdiniot Amba 16r1I at Royal DINAH On this C ear Prr Hai .4 Marth Pre fri fore y Cant for Nc • AM ceived there his RI with h ackno , this 11 N• 101 46 My Ira ne to the which The co ed on! reflore under the let it like accuui Corfu, arrive Cot Capin en, E Swede other the eel GOZTENBURGII MAIL. FRANKFORT, Fs& tz.—Our journal, called , the Pill Ofre Gentile, contains the following article, the authenticity of which we cannot vouch for : " Lyons, January 30. " The Englill: are in poEffion rf Port Mahon and the illand of Majorca. I'he fleet front Toulon was twelve leagues from Mahon when it received thi► in telligence, which occationed it to-return to Toulon. " Letters from Rochefort mention the failing of five flips of the line, and of their junaiori at fea with 2 t fail of (hips of ours from Bre ll, which have on board 30,000 troops. This junaion took place on the / 3th of January. The letters from Rochefort are of the 16th."—(J. de S.) The latter part of this article requires no contra - diaion. VI axe A, Frs. t I.—On the gth inflant, the French Ambaffadcr, M. de la Roca troucatmr, had his Bra audience of their Imperial Majellies, and their Royal HighnelEs the Archdukes CHAILLas and Fee- DIMAS!) okMilan. On the 7th inft. a Turkith Courier pallid through this City in great hafte to Paris, Ir is fuppofed that "oi tt arries new infiruSions to Halet Effendi, or, per- Ps, letters of recall. . , HANOVER, Fut. s.—The return of hi s E xce ll enc y ~>„,,r Martha! BERNADOTTE from Paris has been again un elpeeedly deferred for an indeterminate time. A con offer from Paris brought this intelligence the day be fore yefterday, jut* as Colonel GERARD, Firft Adju tant to his Excellency the Martha!, was letting out for Notdheim to meet him. AMSTERDAM, Fes. 9.—According to accounts re ceived from Paris, an Auftrian courier has arrived there with a letter to the Emperor NAPOLPON from his Roman and Auftrian Imperial Majefty, written with his Majefty's own hand, on the fubjelt of the acknowledgment of the kingdom of Lombardy. In this letter, one of our journals Pays, the Emperor NaroLaorr is ftyled by FRANCIS 11. Mors cbe r Frere 4, My dear Brother." ITALY, Fre. 2.—On the asth ult. the French frigate Concha, of 40 guns, put into Genoa : the belonged to the Beet that lately failed from Toulon, and from which the was feparated in a heavy ftorm off Sardinia. The cordon between Leghornand Pifa was difcontino ed on the a 1 ft, and a free intermit fe between thefe cities reamed. The Eleaoral Prince of Bavaria is gone under the title of Count de Hague. to Naples, where the late American Envoy at Parts, Mr. LIVING srom a, is likewife arrived from Rome. According to fome accounts, the King of SARDINIA will embark for Corfu, on board the Ruffian nip of the line lately arrived at Naples. Coassansmost.s, jaa.g.s—Since the dirmi (1141 of the Captain Pacha from office, two European !hip build cut Benoit, by birth a Frenchman, and Rodde, a sty t de, haVe been difinificd from employment. Many other changes will take place, which will not be to the advantage of the Turk& marine. A great infurreaion has broke ont In the ;nand of Cyprus. The rebels have made themfelves mallets of the town of Nicol's, and defeated the troops which the Ottoman Governor had fent againll them. Cuirtavam, Fes. rz.—The (even Englifh Mails brought by Captain Barons, arrived 'at Heligoland on the gth intlant. To-day, at noon, two paffengers who bad failed from England with Captain Barroom, arrived here in a Heligoland boat. GOTTINBURGH, Fea. 2g. —The Engin meaner BASSETT arrived at Stockholm on the 16th inaant, after having landed at Norway. No further accounts have been received of the CHIFFONMI frigate, or of his Excellency M. Novo:it-sou.. STOCIEHOLM. FEB. t 9 Majefty was pleafed to appoint the t ith init. for the Ball, to be given by the Officers of the Garr ifon, as a teaimony of their joy in the happy return of their Mujellies to the Ca pital ; at which were prefent the whole of the Royal Family, the Duke and Duehefs of SUOIIMANEA, all the Nobility, the Corps Diplomatique, the Magif. tracy, atc- sc• O' their M.sjefties entrance, at (even o'clock in the evening, two (elutes, of 33 guns each, were fired, and a new Sang. in imitation of the cele brated Engli(h one of " God rave the King," was lung, which had a grand effed, as all the company joined in the chorus r after which, their Majefties, with the Duke and Duchefs of SunsastaNta. the Princefs Sormta WILM 61..141NA, and Sophia Aissa- TIIIA, danced a polonaife. The Royal Family retired about to o'clock, when two falutes, of 32 guns each, were fired, the fame as at their entrance, and de= ing continued till early the next mottling. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH 7. LOUSE PEillAoll. _ _ The Lotto Cu-soma-we did not come down to the Houfe till rather a late hour. Their Lordfhips then, purfnant to the Order of the Day, relolved in to a Committee of Privileges, and Lotd WALIIIIG HAM having taken the Chair, Connie' were further heard with refped to the claim of Lady H. Fitzge rald to the abo►e Peerage. Mr. ADAM was finally heard on the part of the No. ble claimant. His obfervations principally referred to the proof of the claimant's pedigree, which he thought effablifhed in evidence fuch a way, as, to gether with what had tranfpired in the courfe of the difcuffion, would be fufficient, he hoped, to induce their Lurdfisips to come to a favourable conclufion with yelped to the validity of Lady Henry Fitzge rald's claim, and make fuch a report to his Majetly as may incline the Sovereign to a correlpondent ezer cife of his Royal Prerogative ; and, on which part of the fubjea, it did not behove him to offer any obfer rations, Mr. ROMILV then fhortly addrelfed their Lord fhips, with refped to the claim of Sir Thomas Wind for Hun Locke, Bart. whole individual claim had hut lately accrued, in confequence of which, he had not the opportunity of putting in his part of the evid ence earlier. The pedigree of his client, down to a certain period, was neceffarily proved. On the part of Lady H.Fitzgerald, there were two fads which Sir Thomas had to prove in evidence before their Lnrclihips : Fill, the marriage of his father, Sir Henry, with the Lady, mother to the claimant. And, fecnndly, the necelfary circumilance of his own birth. They were not then prepared to °Ter ;his evidence, but &only would be able to do fo. Mr. ATTORSIY GIINERALL addreffed their Lord- Blips on the part of the Crown. With refped to the evidence which had been adduced, there were Come parts of it, on which he had not yet an opportunity of maturely conlidering. He was therefore pre pared to undertake an addrefs to the Committee up on it at the prefent moment. He hoped that - when their Lordiiiips met next in the Committee, (hyoid they farther confider of the fubje&, that be fhotild then be prepared. The Loan Cita/Kt:Am' enquired.of Mr. Romilly when he thought he thould be prepared with the evi dence he had adverted to ? The Learned Counfel replied in the courfe of about a week. The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved, that the farther conlideration of the cafe be adjourned till this day fe'nnight, which was ordered accordingly, After prayers were read, The Earl ' of DARTMOUTH (Lord Chamber lain) reported his Majetly's anfwer to the recent ad drels of their Lordthips, importing that he Would give direftions accordingly. The Bills upon the Table were forwarded in their refpeelive Rages. Among there—the Additional Pottage Rate Sill, and the New Loan Bill, feverally paired the Committee, and were reported to the Houle. Mr. Jo N rros s, from the Irith Secretary of State's Office, prefented an account of the number of notes iffued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of . Ireland, from January, !So+, to February, 1805, in clufive. Ordered to lie on the Table. PEERS OF IRELAND. The LORI) CHANCELLOR quitted the Wool rack, and called their Lordthips attention to the cir cumflance of the Petitions of feveral Peers of Ireland, touching their rights to vote at the eleftion of Peers to fit in the United Parliament for Ireland, 81. be ing before the Honk, and by' an order referred to the Committee of Privileges. •• There Petitions, When under confideration, merited the ferinus attention of their Lordflips, particularly upon two confiderations conntded with the fubjed ; the full of there was the circumfiance that fome of the patents of the petition ing Peers were, before Ireland WAS acknowledged an independent kingdom, by the Ad of ;782, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, and not of Ireland; and, fecondly, that fince that period others were in the fame predicament. It would be matter, therefore,l for the ferinus confideration of their Lordfhips, bow far fuch circumfiances went to ailed the rights of elcaion on the part of the petitioning feers. While on his legs, he fhould fuggeil the propriety of taking an opportunity to defer the confideration of there pe. titions, which was then fixerifor Tuefday next, until the following Thurfday, when their Lordfisips might hope to have the Alliance of the Lord Chief Jufhoe of the Court of King's Bench, in the dircuffion. . The Houle then adjourned till to-morrow • when their Lordfliips (land fummoned upon Lard ' King's motion for a Committee to enquire into the Military Eitabliament of the Country. r , • • MUSE O 1 CONIMONg. Mr. joi RION, from the Ofli:e of thr Chief Secretary of Ire land, prefted a 1.i:1 of Penii.v. on the hilt EllaMillarnent for the year doo. Ordered toi lie no 7hr. T.,bie. Mr. Butte', from the Exchequer °eke. gave in at the Bar an Account of the rums of money vehi,ll have been paid hy hia Majefty, and which have not yet been made good by the Horde. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. KINNAtiD prefented Petition+ from Perth, Stirling, and Dunfermline. valid% the late Corn Law, which were feverally ordered to be laid oa the table. - The Sugar Dravrhaak, the Legacy Stamp Duty, and the Hie of Maws Trade ReguWiwi Bills, ware each read a firft, and ordered to be read a fceond thne. The Cardrofe Dock 11111 tom brought op, read a firft, and or dered to be read a (mond time. Mr. ALIXANDIII brought up the Report of the hit Commit. tee of Supply, in which kraal rums were voted for Mifeelia mous Services in Ireland. Each Refulutkin was read twice, ac cording to regular form, and they were feverally agreed to by the Houk. RISK BUSINIM. Mr. MAY moved for an Account of the Number of Dollar Tokens which were ilfued by the Bank of Ireland from the time of their firll being circulated, up to the if of the ',relent month, fpecifying the number that have been ;trued in each month, and the quantity that was outllanding on the laft day of the month.—Ordered. Sir J. NEWPORT moved that there be laid be fore the Houfe an account of the Expenditure of the different Sums which have been iffued by the Go vernment of Ireland, for the purpofe of Criminal Profeentions from the sth of January, 1801, to the sth of January tBos, with a Copy of the Warrant or Authority under which thofe Sums were iffued and applied, together with a flatement of the whole amount.—Ordered. Mr. JAMES FITZGERALD then moved the produftion of an Account of the Expenditure for the purples of Civil Buildings in Ire from the sth of January, 1801, to the sth of January, 1805, fpecifying the warrants or authorities Lndcr which the different fums were paid, and th. Ilatements which bad been previously drawn np.—Ordered. MORIP. DUTY DILL. Mr. STURGES BOURNE moved the poflpone went of the fecond reading of the Horfe Duty Bill till Monday next. Mr, PLOMER obferved, that he had been attend ing for Come time for the purpofe of delivering his opinion on this Bill. On Monday next he would be engaged at the Affixes. He wifhed, therefore, if it was to be put off, that it tbould Rand for Come day fubfegoent to Monday. Mr. STURGES BOURNE fad, that any further pofiponement from that day might be inconvenient to other Gentlemen, and, upon the whole, he thought that Monday would be the moil proper time. After a few wordi from Mr. Kinnairci, intimating that the third reading on the Salt Duty Bill would probably be fixed for Monday, it was agreed that the fecond reading of the Bill thoold Rand for Monday. PROPARTY TAX. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the gcport of the Property Tax Bill. Upon the motion that it &mild be read a third time to-morrow, Mr. CALCRAFT wifhed that the third reading Sonia be fixed for Monday, as he conceived that it had been the general undet (landing of the Houfe that this fbauld be done. An Honourable Friend of bis (Mr. Fox) wifhed to deliver his fentiments upon it. Mr. KINNAIP did not approve of Monday, be caufe the Salt Duty Bill, he underliood, was to be fixed for that day. Mr. CALCRAFT Paid belad, no objeetion to let it Rand for to morrow, provided that it mould be put off, in cafelany controverfy fhould arife upon it. The SECRETARY at WAR did not fee any ne ceffity for putting it off from to-morrow, merely be caufe his Hon. Friend witted to make a fpeech on it, for these would be no controverfy unlefs ari anfwcr fisould be found necelfary. Mr. CALCRAFT obit rued, that few of the fpeeches of his Hon. Friend paffed without anfwers, though certainly the anfwers veve often fufficiently feeble. • Mr. STURGES BOURNE agreed that in cafe of -any controverfy, a further poilponement would be allowed. Mr. CALCRAFT declared his approbation of the Hon. Gentleman.. What he laid only related to the gooknatered obfervation of a Right Hon. Gentleman near him.—The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. SALT TAX. Mr. ALEXANDER appeared at the Bar, with the Report of the Bill for impofing an additional duty on Salt. On the quellion being put from the Chair, " That this Report be now brought up?" Mr. JOHNSTONE obferved, that notwithflanding the policy or impolicy of laying on this additional taz,-was a fubjed which might be faid to be nearly ezbaulted from the many obfervations that have been I made on it by Gentlemen of ability, few not lupe , nor to himfelf, yet he mould not think that he faith fully difcharged his duty to his country if he did not enter his proreß againft the adoption of fuch a mea fore. The Honourable Member took a vcry general view of the fuhjea, and retied his principal argu ments again() the Bill upon the 'Report of the Com mittee in 18ot, adding that it was evident that a pretrure was then complained of, and that the Com mittee at leaft gave them form diftant hope that the inconvenience fhould be lamed at a future period ; and yet now it was faid that circeimltances were al tered, and that therefore the Alt, inked of being repealed as they expetted, mutt be made to lay on a 'double duty. • If this were applied to common life, what would the Houti fay to the cafe of an in ferior perfon having applitd to a fuperior to relieve him from Come peculiar hardthip under which he la boured, and the fuperior gave' him •reafon so hope that the feverity of the circumnances of hislituation fhould he mitigated, yet, in fome time after this, the fuperior tells him that now indeed times are altered, and not that he cannot give him that redrefs which he eviler:led, but that he mutt lay on him a double burthen t• This Purely was not a fort of language which that Houfe would with to hold out to the peo ple of England, and all this ,perhaps for the purpofe of fubfidizing foreign Powers. In Scotland, he con tended for it, the hardfbip was mach greater ; it would be alma impollible to coital the duty pro poled : and be therefore concluded that either Gen tlemen would be induced to make tome alteration in •the provifions of the Bill, or that they would be un der the neceffity of arreiting its progrefs after it had been enaded. Mt. ROSE read fume Extraas from the Repeat the Committee of 1801, in which leveret bounties and dreotbacks on other articles were enumerated, and infened from thence that the Corrunittee did not confine their views to fait alone, as they (poke of commuting one tax fur another. propofed leve ret other regulations. As to the subject of the appli• cation of the money, that was not now before the Houfe ; when it was, of courfe it was competent to the Honourable Gentleman to make any obferva tions, or fubmit any propofition on that head to the Houfe which he might then think fit. At prefent the Houfe had to confider the propriety of laying or. the propofed tax, and he cird not know of one that could be more equally or mote generally laid on the people. It was laid, that the tax would be preach cl a or would be unprodoalve in Scotland; but there was not any reariaion or regulation with regard :c Scotland which would not apply equally to Englatat He therefore thought the otter vations of the Hon Gentleman were unfounded, and voted for the ing up the Report. gr. KINNAIRD laid, that the Report of the Committee had been ordered to he reprinted, and la. did not think that the prefent hill would have been hurried through the Houle, until Gentlemen had an opportunity of confidering the Report minutely.— The Honourable Member then gave a historical ac count of the progrefs of the Salt Duty from its com mencement, and Ward what were its ect.as at dif ferent periods. from which he concluded that the propofed additional duty o - . 14 both impolitic and un jult—impolitic, becaufe it would tend to difcourage the Northern Fifluties, which was a well known nur (cry for feamen, and had hitherto been thought wor. thy of encouragement—and unjull, bccaufe it would profs unequally on a elak of people (the poor of Scotland) whole circumitarces were Already too much ftraitened, and who were unable to pay the tax. He all pointed out the chemical difference be tween manufacturing fiom the Rick Salt of Liver ' pool, and producing falt from water impregnated with feline matter, as producing two (uch different forts of fah that it was not fair to tax them equally. Mr. HUSKISSON obferved, that the difference to which the Honourable Member had alluded had been formerly confidered by Parliament, but that was done for the relief of the manufacturer, and not foe the benefit of the contort:en As to the confideration of the Norther:, Fifheries, Parliament would doubt. lets continue the Irene bounties to them as had been granted for a century raft. The allufion which ano ther Honourable Memher had made to a fouation common life, was not exactly analogous; in his opi. nion the companion would be more correctly made with the fituation of a tailor who complained to hi Captain of the hardfhips which he (offered while at lea in tempettuous weather ; and the Captain gave him hopes that be fhould have better, weather, and Paid that he then would have lefs labour. However, contrary to the expeaation of the Captain,. the gale role with codiderably increafed fury, when he had thought that it had nearly fubfided, and the vettel fprung a leak. The Captain then Pays, now you mutt do double work, for, if you don't work away at the pumps, the Chip will inevitably. fink—there . is ny other means of facing her. Now, if any other mese. lure of equal benefit to the State could be propofed. he would belyery glad to hear it. Mr. HURBT reminded the Houle, that it had ever been the Contlitutional praeice of this country, to avoid impofing a 'fax which would fall directly on confumption., And it was the duty of his Majetty'S Miniftere when a . Tax was fairly objected to, to et:7 deay.our to find out tome, other fund to defray the expences of the State: Mr. CALCRAFT'took a comprehenfive view of the fubje6t, and obferved; among other things, that though this might not be a fit time for taking - off the Tax altogether, yet he could not think the prefent was the &telt moment to lele& for adding aco,oool. to the 800,bool. which is already railed from an arti cle of general contumption, as the lower order mull feel peculiarly the incona;nlence of a time of war, from the advance which rakes place las the price of provifions in confequence of the inereafe of taxes, which is unavoidably occafioned by the war. When fuels a fubjea, however, was to be difeuffed in Par liament, he thought it would have been more relpea ful to the Haute for the Minifter to have- attended in his . place. He had not heard that he was ill, or that any, unpleafant confequences had followed from ds: fatigue of WI night's debate—he might.liave been a little 4alled no doubt, but that was no reafon why he, did not attend in his place to night, on the difeuf fion of a fubjea of fuch general importance. Intlead of adopting loch a meafure as the prefent, he would advife the Colleagues of that Right Hon. Gentleman to take the liberty of recommending him in private to look at economy in the public expenditure—it was (aid that a much More confiderablc (um might be fated by a reform in 'the Navy. Mr, W. SMITH oppofet the meetre at confider able length, obferving, shit . from 16 to 18 years of his own experience, and from what he could collect, from others, the laying of fuch 'a heavy additional tax on fah, would be extremely prejudicial to the Northern Filheries. It would alto materially affect the Soap Trade, as many of the Manufacturers were already very feverely prefled on, and he was cre dibly informed, that tome of them were apprehen five of beingruined in bufinefs, if this AR took place. Mr. S. BOURNE adverted to an obfervation which had been made by an Hon. Gentleman oppolite hint, that he did not think that the prefent meafure would have been hurried until the Report of the formerConi mittee was reprinted. Genii rnen, he hoped, would confider the (late in which the Trade of Printing is at prefent, from the almolt gei.eral Ilagnation of that bufinefs, in confequence of difputes between the journeymen printers and their employers, it is un certain when that paper to which the Honout able Member refers, can he printed. Indeed there are other documents on other fubje9s which have been laid before the Houle, and which would have been printed but for the circumstance which he now Mentioned. As to the Fiiheriec, they were permitted to make ufe of (alt free of all duty. If it lhould appear hereafter that the Soap Trade was likely to be affeaed by this Tax, it might be made the fubjea of a future propofition. Mr. FOX Paid, that the Salt in Scotland was in ferior to that which was made in England; and therefore it was likely that a greater quantity thould i be ufed in proportion to the population of the two L.countties. Btu, Gentlemen on the other fide laid, that