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HOLLAND. HAGUR, June projeA of the law pre kited by the Government to the Leeillative Body :native to the free importation of Eoglilb mer tandires, 1 - ,tas been adored and fandioned this runining by the I.ti. , :dlatire Body, the Committee to hick the projeet had been referred having made 11 I. ritint'ole report. In future Eriglilh merchan erces may bt imported freely upon paying the fame duties ai before the war. Another law recently adopted forbids the inhabitants of the Republic to nitociate loans for foreigners without the previous eonfent of Government. A new projea of a law har been this day referred by Government to a Committee, for re-eltablifhing bells in the villages se.e. country which had been abolillsed fince the rev c!ution. 411i1ERICA. On the :7th of April the following Mefrage from the Prtlidei:t of the United States, was delivered it; the two Hanle& tsf Congrefs : " C. •': tt;t lthe Smite wed ofie Neale sr Reprefixtafives. " Commifforters who ware appointed to carry Into ez tenth., Cie 6th area.: of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce. a lid tit'.vi,7..rion.b.tween the United States and Great Britain, differed in their ennitrudian of that article, and fcea ratcd iu confequence of that difference, the Prefident of the States took immediate measures for obtaining Conven caplanat:ons of that article for die government of the Cummilloriers ; finding, however, great difficulties oppofed to a fettltwvin in that way. he authorized our Minifler at the Court of to meet a propofition thlt the United States. by the pays ant of a fixed furs, Ihould difcharge thernfelves from their ref priAbility for flab .debts as cannot be recovered from the individual de , ltors. A Convention has accordingly been ii:oed,fizing the fum to be paid at Soopcol. Raring, in three cereal and annual inaahneuts, which has been ratified by me, sei:h the advice and content of the Senate. •' I now tmnfmit copies thereof to the two Honks of Con rrcfs.indling that In thi. free exercife of the authority which Use Conftltution hail:lv= them on the fubjret of public expen ditures, they will deem it for the public intereft to appropriate the Awn neccirary for carrying this Convention Into exeentlon. " TH•JtIFERSON." In confequence of the above Meffage (lays a let ter from W4hington) a Bill has paired the Con grefs for appropriating 2,6' 4,000 dollars, for the purpofc of carrying tnto efica the Convention.— This till met with no oppofition ' the Conflitu t;onalifis voting ill favour of it from a principle nfjultice • and the Minifterialiffs (or Wrginians) agreeing :hereto, becaufe it was providing for the payment (alma exclufively) of their own debts." SAM vaL CAaor, Efq. has been recently Wiriest ed by the Prefident of the United Sates to repair en London for the purpofe of fettling bufinefs with the Board ofCommillioners ailing there under the 7th article of the Britifit Treaty. A petition to Congrefs from THOMAS Came, convicted of fedition, praying for a remit ion of his 1:.1e, was, on the motion of Mr. Gores, pollponed t:1 November. Congrctl, doled its feaion on the 4tlt of May, and aJi.lurricci to the firtt MondAy in December In feveral eleCtions, particularly at Bolton, the Federal intereft has prevailed. In N:atfachufets the Governor, Lieutenant Go vernor, ar.l a majority of Senators on the Federal life, hive been chcfen by a great majority. ft appears, that in the event of the French Beet coming to Am.:: ica, it was the intention of Pi c ox the Cl..oge d'Affaires, to requeft a loan from the American Government!! We copy the follow. in s ; ex planation from a Philadelphia paper called the Aurora It is true that the French Charge d'Affaires had the intention to apply to our Government for nflittance, though he did not make the application; Inn many confidential converfatiobls took place on the fub . jeB. That difpofition in the French Charge d'Affaires was produced by the informa;ion of& cially received by him, that a large portion of the St. Domingo fleet would put into our ports, and the utter inability of the French Minilter to provide for it by his bills on France. " It being underflood that the Executive was incompetent to An d relief under any %lupe with. out the interfet ence of Con . gi eft, M. Pic Hos wait ed on feveral Members e t both Houfes to know their fentiments on the fulsjee. Gentlemen of different opinions in politics evinced a difpofitkon favourable to the application, under the conviaion of propriety and necellity—while others alto of op. polite fides appeared averfe to it." Letter: from Havannah, April is, fkate, that no Americans are permitted to enter. Flotu 35 to an doll-trs a barrel. _ _ - A letter from 13ofion, dated May 11, lays— “ Late acconnts ft :sin Cape Francois (peak very unfavourably of the tituation of the French troops in that colony. Seven engagements are (aid to have been fought from the tit to the t sth April, in all which the French were confiderable fuffer ers. Provilious are raid to be cheap and plentiful." A letter from Cape Francois,dated April 4,fays, 6 ' The Americans here are mach alarmed, in con fequence of the conduit of the French towards them lately. The Commander in Chief has or dered our Conful, Mr. Tomas LEAR, no longer to execute the function of Conful in this Colony.— Captain JOHN Roo E RS, of Baltimore, and a Capt. DAVIS, were a few dAysagn arrefted, and thrown ioto mate dungeons. - Rocsas, it is fuppofed, fir having fludien difrefpctifully of the French Government ; DAVIS'S offence is not known or fufpcited " A letter from Norfolk, Virginia. of the 3d of May, Hates the arrival there of Captain Ross, who left Cape Francoi; on the i Sth. He confirms the ill tr..atment of the American Captains. The Government Likes fuch cargoes as they want, and will not allow the Mafters to fell to any other than we Government, ai:d that at a Rated price. A lever lrnm Norfolk. Penfrlvania, May 3d, fays, " / h4ve no news, only that the Negroes made an attempt to rife lad week, for which fix of them Prc condemned to be hunk. " _ !u . - "The N e groe s 11111 emitinue their nightly depre datitins burning and dearoying all the property they fii:cl"._ - . . - lltto from IV.4fliington, of the 7th f.tys, that Mr. I.IAR has returned there, as Lect.see told Xirn that his powers did not authorife bias to re c. ognite :any Cupfuls whatever. PARLIAAUNTART PROCEZDINAT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JUNE 14. Lord Surrota rote to call the attention of the Houle to a paper which he held in his hand, and I which was the account which had been prefented to their Lordfhips of the amount of the fide of old naval (lore', in purfuance of a motion made by him on a former day. He was Corry to obferve, that this paper did not give him the infornAtion he cleared; it only Rated that the money arifing from the Pale of naval Rom amounted to 53•0001. and that the penlions chargeable thereon amounted to yoooi. ; but it did not Rate the manner in which the remainder of that money was appro. Foliated; nor whether this money arofe from the Pale of fibres at any particular port, or in all the different ports throughout his Mefty's do. minions. It might be a return of the (ales made in Great Britain only, whereas it was well known dast there were naval arfenals .in Ireland, in Gib raltar, in the Weft Indies, ate. where-naval fibres were fold. He wanted therefore to be informed by the Noble Secretary of State oppofite him, how the +6,0001. which appeared to be unaccounted for, was applied : .he would therefore move for a return of the money arifing from the fale of old naval fibres, fence the year iBOO, in all the arfe. nals in his Majefty's dominions, fpecifying the places where Rores were fold, together with the quantity fold at each particular place. Lord PELHAM faid he did not mean to decline giving an anfwer to the Noble Lord, but he did not with to interrupt him by doing fo while he was addrefling the Houfe ; now that the Noble Earl had fat down, he would inform him, that the Account on the table was a regular return to the Addrefs of that Houfe, purfuant to the mo tion that had been made : for his own part, he did not know whether the account took in all the dif ferent places which the Noble Lord withed to have returns made from ; but that could be foon afcertained by an enquiry at the Offices. With refpea to the application of the 46,0001: which re mained, after the granting of penfions to the amount of yoool. he had only to obferve, as he had ftited before, that it was regularly account ed for by the Treafurer of the Navy, and was applicable to the public fervice equally with any other fund. Lord HOLLAND faid, if it was not confidered a kind of culpable curiofity in him, he would with to know how the money granted in penfions was applied. The more he examined the fubjed of penfions, and the greater the number of motions for the produilion of them was, the more he was convinced that - Mr. Burke's Bill had been grofsly infringed on. By that Bill it had been intended, that all penfions fhould be paid out of the Civil Lift. The attempt to exonerate the Civil Lift by paying Penfions out of other funds, was, in his opinion, a fraudulent evafion of the fpirit of Mr. Burke's Bill, and he would hereafter take every, opportunity of moving for the amount of Penfions, none of which, in his opinion, ought to be granted except (ram the Civil Lift. Liord PELHAM ftid he had no objeltion to com ply with the Motion of the Noble Lord. The LORD Casecassos obferved, that if the Motion was put in the form in which it Rood, the fame return might be made as that of which he complained ; he would therefore fuggell, as an alteration, that befides an account of the furns, there fbould alto be made a return of their appro priation. Lord Suvrotit thanked the Noble and Learned Lord for his fuggettion, which was adopted, and the motion was agreed to. After receiving force Bills from the Commons, the Houte adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Innkeepers' Allowance BM was read a fecond time and committed for to.morrow. The Amendments in the Englilh Militia Bill were refeetedta a sdea Committee. 'rite Houle went into a Committee on the Mutiny /4111..... Claufes were moved for enabling his Majeity to order Comte Mntral in Ireland and Gibraltar. The Houle returned, the Reinlotions were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Tht Itcport of the Committee on the London Wet Docks Bill was agreed to, and the BM ordered to be read a third time to-marrow. lie Hackney Coach lnereafe Bill, the Dutch Property Bill, and the Britiih Hillery Bill, were read a third dme. The Report of the Committee on the Oil Duties was receiv ed, And the Refolutions agreed to. The Report of the Committee on the Pilchard Curing Bill was agreed to. The Report of the Committee on the Neutral Trade Adt was received, agreed to, and a Bill ordered. The Report of the Committee on the French Pottage Bill was agreed to. The Report of the Committee on the Bookfellers' Petition wa , received, agreed to,and a Bill ordered on the Refolutions. The Report of the Committee of Supply was received, and the Refolution forgranting an Annuity of wool. to Lord Hut ehinfon agreed to, and a Bill ordered. *1 he lrim Chancellor's Salary Bill was read a 4csal time, and committed for to-morrow. _ The kith Coffee Duticiißlll went through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Bill to reftraln the Proceedings under the Statutes of Hcnry VIII. and Elisabeth, againft Clergymen, was read a re cant' time, after which the Houfc went into a Committee' on the fame Bill, the blank for its continuance was filled up with the words " April 8, 1803." The Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The t,soo,cool. Loan Bill for the Service of 1E43, was read • fiat, and ordered to be read a (wood time to-morrow. Mr. VAN SITTA AT prefental a variety of Public Accounts, which were ordered to be printed. The Poit Hark Duties Regulation Bill; the BiU to encou. rage the Trade and Manufaeture of the ille of Man; and the National Debt Bill, wcrc read a Mt and ordered to be read a fecund time to-morrow. Ordered, on the Motion of Mr. WICK UAW, that the Houk &mid to-morrow refolve into a Coenmittee on the irifh Mili tia Ads. Mr. A tax A NDER brought up the Reports of the Commit tec on the Smuggling Pn..rentioo Bill, and the Foreign Offence Bib. Agreed to, and the Bills were ordered to be read a third time tmnioorow. Mr. ALexANnaa brought up the Report of the Committee on the Tile astaking Drainage A& The Re:Solution was agreed to, and an inttrudtion ordered to the Gentlemen prepar ing the Excite BM, that they ihould make provifion purfuant thereto. --- --- A Bin for the Relief of uncertificated Bankrupts in Ireland was prefentc4l, read a Brit, and ordered to be read a feeond time to-marrow. Mr. VA 51 1 TA ft T, after fome remarks on the nceeflity, with a view to reienue, of providing the molt accurate inftrumtv far nicer:wing fpirita, adverted to an hydrometer Invented by on Was Revenue Conker, ibc fuperiachy of which was muck rpoken rif. He therefore Mowed for kave to bring in a Din to Authorise the Lords Crum& flic,oers of the Treufury, fora time to be ihnited,to order the Ifylrotnct,rs now in u.e to be vala drawn. and to fubftitnte another in their ftesl I .eave givtn. Mr. Vansivraer obtained leave to bring in a Bill to fupprefs certain Games and Lotteries not authorifen by Law. The Hon. Gentleman dated that the objed of this Bill wr.i. to render per. font pradifing the games called Link Coes, and loch like, fob t.dl to the fame penalties as thole to which perfons dealing in illegal Lottery Inluranee were now liable. The Bill wt. brought in, read a &it, and ordered to be read a fecond tisiie to-mor row, and to be printed. The Houfe, in a Connittee, went tbrourh the Trial Parlia ment Houfc Bill, and the Stamp Duty Bill. The Ri ports were ordered to be received to-morrow. _ _ _ On the Motion for the committal of the Guernfey Corn Bill, Mr. VA Ntl R T OlgtrVed, that dui meafure originated in the recommendation of a refpedahle body of Nierchanti. who were now of opinion that it woulti be better to fallen , ' it for Come time. He therefore moved, that it be commit red this day month.—Agreed to.--TheTortada Trade Bill was read a feceod time, and committed fur to-morrow. IRISH MILITIA. Mr. Forme rofe in purfttance of his Notice, to advert to the fubjeft of the General Orders of the Adjutants of the Militia Regiments in Ireland, for difeharkingthe foldiers of difembodied Regiments. He maantamed that the War-office had no con tropl over them, but that they were the property of the counties, and as filch only fubfervient to the command of the Lords Lieutenants. He con cluded by moving for a copy of the General Or ders iffued by the Adjutant• Generals of Dublin, the Isith of May 'aft, refpeCiing the Militi a R e gi. menu and alto for a Copy of a Paragraph in the Circular Letter, written from the War•ofhce, on the sth of May laft, referred to in the General Orders. Mr. LEE raid he did not rife to oppofc the mo tion, but to exprels his furprife at its beiag brought forward. He could affure the Honfc that Govern ment had aacd upon the opinion of the Crown Lawyers. Every man in the Militiabelieved him fell entitled to hisdifcharge after the war was over, and had it not been granted would have thought the public guilty of a breach of faith. Mr. WICKHAM faid, that information had ar rived from Ireland, which would enable him to bring forward a motion, embracing,among others, the objea of the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. DAW sox lupported the motion. • The Cuattcsu.ok of the Excuse:wait obferved, that the Papers moved for would be laid before the Houfe tomorrow, he therefore hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not think it necefrary to perfift in his motion, if he did, he fhould certainly move the previous queftion. After fome further converfation between Ge neral Gafcoigne, Colonel Bagwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Fofter, the motion was withdrawn. runLic ausiNtss. The SPEA RIR announced his intention of taking the Chair every day at three o'clock, to proceed to Public Bufiners. SUPPLY, The Houle then went ii.to a Committeeof Sup ply, when the following lams were voted, on the Motion of Mr. SER(AAFT For the ordinary expences of the Navy, fur 7 lunar months, from the Bth June - - 657 216 Extraordinary - 360,233 Tranfports and Prifoners of War 60 8‘140 Sick Prifoncrs of War - - - A,cco The CHANCELLOR of the ET:I4EQSIER laid, he, role to move the temtlin.ng Votes of Supply for the prefent year. The &it article was 199,8121. the amount of the valuation of. the Dutch fhips which furrendered to Vice• Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell, in the New Deep, on the 3oth Auguß, 1799. It would be recolletled that loon after the Englilh troops landed in North Holland, our Com manders required the Dutch fhips of war to hoift the Orange flag. The crews were willing, but the officers refuted, and finding refillance ineffeflual, furrendered prifoners of war. The Chips were claimed by the captors as prizes. His Majefty, without deciding the point, or referring them to a Court whore judgment might have been unfa vourable, held out a hope to them that, at all events, their expcitations would be gratified.— Their meritorious fervices certainly well deferved this mark of favour, and he was lure the Hassle would not grudge the expence thus incurred. He was ready to Rate, however, that the whole ex pence might not, perhaps, be liquidated by the prefent vote. The fhips bad been furrendered in the name of the Prince of Orange, and claims might arife elfewhere. He fpoke with referve, as the fubjeft was one of the greateft delicacy. Yet he was anxious to be underflood that thefe claims could not be flailed by the Dutch Government or by individuals of the Dutch Nation. A Conven tion had been entered into with the Prince of Orange, and he had agreed that the flaps fhould be employed in our fervice. The fum to be Aced for Secret Service money for the remainder of the year was 90.0001. This loin he allowed to be very large, but it was quite impoffible for him to enter into any explanation of the caufes which rendered it neceffary. He was extremely lorry to Rate, that the Extraordinaries of the Army would amount to t,000,0001. and that, perhaps, a QM larger fum might yet be required. - He mentioned the next article with very different fenfations, as it would afford an addition to the comforts of that. moft meritorious let of men, the Naval Officers. His MajeNy, in Isis paternal folicitude, had long wiffied for fomething of this nature, and the plan had been at laft matured under that molt deferv ing and illullrious Nobleman the Earl of St. Vin cent. The new regulations extended only to offi cers on half-pay. The Admiral of the fleet was henceforth to have 31. a day, inftead of 21. los. and the other Admirals railed in proportion. The Captains at the top of the lift were to have I as. a day inftead of los. The number of them in creafed, and the ref of the goo railed to 6s. 6d. Of the 2,400 Lieutenants, 200 inftead of too were to have es. a day, the intermediate claffes would be raifed in proportion, and the remainder were to have 3s. 6d. Boatfwains, gunners, and other warrant officers would receive a fimilar augmen tation. There were then voted— For tie amount of the valuation of the Dutch (hips, &c. 198. 81 1 Secret Service Money Police Office - • z,290 For the Profcafflon of George Stratton. Efq. and others, who confpircd to remove L ord Picot it I from the Gove rn ment of Madras 1,184 The Right I-lon. Gentleman (fated, that this fum had long been in difpute between Government and the Eaft India Company, but it had at lag been difcovered that the profecution was com menced in confequence of a vote of the Houfc of : Commons. • To the Simi Leone Company to defray the ex pence of tranfporting the Maroons - - 54 0 3 For the expellee of the Comm'alioners appointed under the American Treaty - 11.94 Printing the two lad volumes of the journals - 4,60• Printing the Votes of the prefect SeMens t ',o^o Printing the Public Record.; - ' 4,797 The capence in taking the Population of Crest Britain - - - - 6r a The Repairs and Alterations in the two Hooks of Parliament, in contequa.ce of the Union • t9,77r Removing the Offices of the Duchy of Cornwall, to make room for the Auditors of Public Account, f2S Tile Extraordinaries of the Army - - t,toopt , o Additional Half Pay to the Officers of the Navy • for kven months On the motion of Mr. Corry, and after along con. vei 'ion acrofs the Table between him and Mr. 30,0 Ti...-ney, for Civil Contingent Charges In Ireland sem. The Refolntions to be repotted to-morrow. The Houle then went into a Committee of Ways and means,and theCtiaeicsttoa of theExca sv E it (aid he willed to recapitulate the heads of Supply and Ways and Means, to give a general view of the financial proceedings of the prefent Sefton. He likewife (hewed the faving that would be gaited by the reduOions that had taken place in conk quence of the peace. Fur the Navy, including two Millions for the In tcrat of Navy Debt, there bedlam voted 1.1.533,573 For the Army in Great Britain - - 10,297,790 in Ireland - - . 2,640,173 Ordnance in Great Britain - - 5,1 93, 2 74 -- in Ireland ' - - . - - 203,076 Fur Milcellancous Services in Great Britain and Ireland - - - 1,1 94,980 For Corn Bounties up to the 20th March - 1,620,000 Permanent Grants - - - - 363,335 There where the Articles borne jointly by Great Britain and Ireland, and they amounted.to ra ther snore than - f 31,000,000 Thofeborne reparately by Englan d,were deficiency in the Malt, ifloo - - Inter& and Difcount on Exchequer Bills' - the Civil I dt Debt - - - A final proportion of this was to be borne by Ire land, viz. tor the Arrears which had accrued during the la& year, and early next Salon he thould move for a Committee to balance the Accounts between the two countries • To pay off Exchequer Bills in the hands of the Bank - - - - Deficiency in the Convoy Tax - - - For Redudtion of the National Debt - - acopoo Paying off Exchequer Bills diked in virtue of two Aels palled in the 39th and 40th of the King 1,0066,000 Deficiency in the Surplus of the Cunfolidated Fund 2,676,280 Making an aggregate of fomewhat above - 41400p00 1-17ths of tU 3t,and 2-17ths of 3 part of the Ar rears of the Civil Lift would be borne by Eng land. Thefe two funs might be taken at - 3,815,763 Leaving a remainder to be borne by Great Bri tain of - - 37 , 35 2 4 66 To provide for there there have been voted— The Penfuans and Malt Duties - - 2,750,cc0 The Lottery - - - 370P0 0 Surplus Subfcriptionoo Funded Exchequer Bills 188,874 Surplus Grants - - - 114,000 . The Refidue of the Subfidy to Portugal - - 99,876 Surplus of the Coofolidated Fund for the year t Bos 4,500,000 Exchequer Bills to be charged on the Grit aids granted next Selfinn - - - 3 pave* Exchequer Bills to pay the Debt due to die Bank 1,500,0c0 The Loan • - - - 13,000,000 4 1 9,774 1, 1 37P73 99 0 1 0 51 3,coopca 410,000 In all 37;522:750 Add to this t►e - - - .- 3 ,85 3.763 Contributed by Ireland, and the whole amounted to 41,338,313 The whole Supply was - - , - 4r,t68,6132 Thus there was a Surplus in the Ways and Means of 169,831 He would now ftate the Caving that would ac• true from the redultions that had taken place.— He ought, however, to premife, that this in Como instances might at firft turn more oitenfible than actual. For thc Navy there had been voted in Mt 19,0/2,227 For the prefent year only a 1,678,383 A Caving of nearly B,cco,coo For the ariny in !Sot - - i5i,9,ci10 Fur the prefent year - - 10,90t,414 A living of rather more than Coco,ooo The Extraordinaries voted he feared would not cover the real expenditure, and this Teeming faring might be confiderably dizninifhed. For the Ordnance in dot - - 1,938,963 For the prefent year . - - 1095,3 10 A raving of about 600,000 MifceUanies in 18ot • - 35 0 120 0 The prefent year - - - 1,194,0ce Here there was a confiderable increafe, but it was to be aocounted for from the allowance for the Dutch (hips, and other caufes which wouldnotrecur. The whole Sum votetsfor Army, Navy, &c. in 18oz, was . - - 4 0 ,7994 00 The prefent year - 1.5.!73. 11 7 _ ".._ Making the Immenfe difference of - This was no doubt gratifying, but when the faving was fo prodigious, it might be alked how had fuch a Loan been found necetrary In wind ing up the expences of war many great and unfore feen demands flowed in. Provilion had this year been made for many charges incurred during the tall. There had been voted, to make up the deficiency in the Malt Tax - - - 429,774 To pay Exchequer Bills iffued, charged upon the Aids of this Se rm on - - 1,166093 Deficiency In the Surplus of the Confahlated Fund 3,676,210 Intereft on Exchequer Bills, account on the Loan of aot, ate. - - - - 2,945,534 Arrears of the Civil Lift - • • 99 0 (43 Exchequer Bills to the Bank . . 1,500,ccn Deficiency in the Convoy Tag - - eto,ooo Corn Bounties - - - x,figo,c;:o Difernim for prompt payment on the loan of dor 2, 1 3, 1 9 0 To fund Exchequer Bills tyco,ooo Alto!ether - 21,662,944 Deduding the five millions of Exchequer Bills, which he was about to propofe, and for which he took credit, there would remain fixteen millions paid from the refources of the prelim tear, though expended in former years. He did not deny that this view of things atrw.d ed him the highell fatisfaftion. It was his firm perfuafion that the taxes would in future be as produaive as tilt' , had been during the year 1799, and that, unlefs we experienced Come awful vitita tion of PaoviDENCa, we might fairly look forward to an improving revenue. He begged it to be re membered, that he had provided taxes confidera bly beyond the amount of the loan, fn that, if things thould turn out not fo favourably as there was reafon to expeet, (lilt no deficiency would be found. The Permanent Taxes produced • 32,853,000 The Intereft of the Debt amounted to - 23,522,001 8o that a remainder was left, applicable to the Service of the Year, of - 411331499 I c. s zB4 4ir tuzi