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.I:V pri: 6i. in I•7 , it di, A si-7,IMARy of the LAW or SET-OFF : wA 1n A l e . STAX o!' ‘rES argued :aid determined ir. tke. Cour:., or Law cyl urn that lubjeet. BASIL AIONTACIU, rlya Inn, Lig. Bar title!. at Law. Tr:•••• 7.4w1r..4n (S;reee;Tnr to %Ir. Dilly), Poultry; I'-! licet-RICK. nil: publir , ..d, by the lame Atit:lsr, 1:11 , .:!•: , T of the BANKRUPT LAWS. ihy was publinmi, price is. 6d. A SF R` lON preached betore the Hnnrmrable J- IT, r)tm•:. of COMMONS, at the Church . of St. John the Weitiniater, oil Fridali,Fehluary 13, !EA, being tht. Jpi,c,;:ited for a General Fait. nicliwitt) PROSSER, D. D. kerlor of GatelheaS, Durham. S. old by T. Payee, at Afrw•s-Gate: F. and C. Rivinton, St. Paul's Churn-Yard; C.dllandDavies, Strand; T. Egerton,, : Cooke ard Har Iron, Oxford; Keymer,Colche!ter; Cr.:tweß. Bath; and Aaenbtad aud Sans, Newcaftle-upon- Tyr., ; ::r.d Luke Haufard, Ft inter, Grcat-Turnlidle,Lincobis- Inn-FirldY. Fl. ANNF. S HILL. This cisy was publilbed, price Dedicetfci to the Honor:l.We C. J. Fox, Ilinftrated by a view of St. Anni-'s Hill, ehrzantlx ergraved Powtse, ST. ANNE'S HILL. POEM. Feinted fo: the and fold by 3. Dchrett, orpofite Burlingt:rn Houfs, and R. Wcteon, Chertfey. ();'whnin tray tiettacl, . - Mr. Fox's Letter to the `A'frt hy and independent Eledtors of Ircitritirfltr, rf,th I price is. " or the contents rf a letter sv:tich has entratnanded fuch ge neral attention, al to hove artmed at the eighth edition before we could have an eipporturtity of pending it,few of cur readers can need to be informed. On the Mufti ious author, v, :Jae name will be dear to Blitons as long as the true principles 01 their ems *ltution are underftood, and their moll important rights conti nue to be valued, it is wholly unnecciTsry for us to attempt a p.angyric."—.Atcntil) Regina, Fed. 1;99. '1 his day was pubiiiited, ln °nava, price 2.5. 6d. Number I. Dvlicatta by kecial permitnon, to his hlslefty, of a new and praftical Work, entitled, ' rliE DOMESTIC ENCYCLOPJEDIA ; or, A- A Coneifc Analylis of fuck Difeoverlcs, inventions, and Improvements, as are more immediately applicable to the pur ples of Life: comprehending whatever defcrves to be known, or may tend to promote National Profperity, in the various Branches O:Roral and Domenic (Economy t calculated for the tare of Private Families, but more elpecially foe the accomino. nation of tilofc who arc not inclined to parchare the more vo. luminous and expenfivc Works. By A. F. M. WILLICH, M. D. Author of the Deducts on Diet and Regimen. London: Printed for Murray cal Highly. Na 32, Fleet Arert ; Verner and Hoed, Poultry ; Kearfley, fleet-ftrect ; H. D. Symonds, and Thomas Hurl!, Patetnotter-row ; and the Author. eoxnriQ ' . t. This Work will b;l;andf‘ml.:) printed en a new Type, CAR gurporcly fur it, and on a rule I)emy Paper, in Evo. a. Each Number will contain from right to nine Gwent of Letter-prLfs, and ore or more aPrn,pri.te engravings, befides oectLonal wood-rats, illußrative of tit, differ 0t fubje4s. 3. The whole Work will be completed in at kilt twelve, or not more than ficiren ?umbers; one of width will ap;war monthly, in /regular Imeiieuse—Prke half-a-ceown cask Number. P4RLI4ME•NTART PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. ; I "ate bufinefs before the Houfc being dif r i• • rid a few• Peers (worn, 2 converfation to ' wing erica took place between the under : lied Peer.: DEAkTII OP rßovistrws. • .ic Earl of Svt roc,: Paid, that had long ;;.e..1 fc,r the expelled report of the C. - onanittee •hcir Lordfhips appointed to encpire it.tr. tl.e mfe of the prefent alarming price ;old evr.rtli of provifions ; and had hoped that ere this it v .uld have been laid on the table. It vas in many re. fpeds urgently neceffary that it ihould he made with all !Peed, and he rote to enquire from any Noble•Lc.rd then in the Houle, and %chi) compof• ed that Committee, when it might rearonably be lur.voled that it would be produced ? The Duke of Arno:. anfwered, as being the only perfon then prefent who was one of that Com mittee, that every due dili7,ence,had been ufed to p: :pare their Report for their Lordfhips ; they en. tertained common with the reit of the Houle but i•ne general principle—the accomplifhment of the pbjel for which they were efpecially appointed ; and be was convinced that their Lordlhips, and every perf.,n in the country, who would nun their eye:: to their exertions, would acknowledge the fame.' In a itw days, he miffed, the Houle would be f.,Lisf:t.J• therewith, when he hoped the report 'would he pri. rented. The Earl of Si: r7ILK his motive for afleing the que:iion proceeded from a with that the report itiould he prcfented before the 2 cili of March, as I.: had an °hie& in view to fiibmit to their Lord :-!:ips which could not b.e ebtaired or steconii.liilled th.e fame effeft if :'he report was to be delay • 1 longer. For, added his Lordlliip, not only .d, but every ;•rticle the neeefrAries of : has rifen contidetably value, and come of • • even within there few days. This melan .: atni alarming circurnfiance he imputed to inttnt offc:r, which, like a dclillte, whole kingth - ,m, a:.d attempt, to connteracl h was die duty or Legina • .: this he had for font , : tiNic in cf.nteip:a. mode wherein:: be put it in ex:ctition 1 , , retria ail perfons receiving milt., from uS ;my 'g Oft: as c.l%rwmt tor the finite catit, or Ilan': of England Not es . T: le mul •.l.l,eity uf country Imukvr., who Me )(:Wit irreed in deliraaive extelaion all over the trition, at:aided the larm :r in every di Talbott roc means oi hoarding his mat ketable et,mmodi till by the rombinati: as of *cis atiiiciat•os and events, they are tailed to any price that atm , ice or monopoly may chine to fir upon t'arto. To t• trade flied grievance—his Lordfhip wits called ordcr by the Duke of Athol, who ohfcrvcd, that t;te N..bh• Earl v...as divergint• into a fubjeft, in his ~,.; 11111, not coineident with the matter of the re tivost.ontil &ft by his Lordfhip, and there ,' ...e, ecaltrar, t., the riiks and orders of the Houk, r dirt e wl , no gin:llion before their I.ordthips, ~oa yet th.: iN;able Earl was entering into a difcuf itly•at Any given fuhieft being lubmitted to ti•t ?loan: for its eonliderAt ion. This, his Grace, I.lving conceived to bedu - orderly, upon that ac ...•ta, 14r interrupted the Noble Ea:i /lacy/H.l.lam littered entirely ft= the t. `.`Zoble Drlat. and was of ipinicn, that the Noble Earl was completcy , in order. He had flared a grievance to exitt ; he mentioned that it prevailed to an alarming extent, he mentioned a means by which it might be obviated, and he hinted his in tention of fubmittng it to the Houle. All this, his Lordfhip laid, was conformable to the molt fevc re rules of Parliament. It ss'as, however, much more ; it was giving notice, and that in the moft liberal and handi - ome way, of a motion, and cf the purport of it, which any Noble Lord could pofil bly give ; a condelc•tufion by no means exaeled ac cording to the rules of that Honk, as he was war ranted in faying, that nothing beyond courtcfy called forth any tv•li notice. _ _ Lord Row, r obfervcd, that there was every right to expert that the report would be fpeedily lubmitted to their Lordthips, and he hoped, tintil that report appeared, the Houfe would abflain from all premature difeullion, either of its detail or its principle. It was the with of the Committee to prcfent to their Lorellhips the full refult of their enquiries, and lie had no doubt but the Houfc would approve, at leaft, of their labours. At all events he depfecated novel attempts at regulations which might be dangerous, and which, molt likely, would prove inefficient. The public had fufficicnt experience of that already (in the Brown Bread AEl)—andhoped no alteration in the prefcnt courfe of things would take place, till mature dilcuflion and coulideration gave it fanflion.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Leave of obfenee, for limited timer, were riven to Colonel Nosi.s, Mr. BOOCIIRR ET. and Mr. G.Woon. Earl Tim rut laid, he role for the porpofe of giving notice, that on Tuefday, the ictli of March, he meant to bring forward a motion relative to the eligibility of the Rev. Horne Tookc to a Seat in that Houtc. Colonel PORTER Paid, that in confequence of the liberation of the prifoners confined undcr the Sufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus, Aft, he meant to limit the motion of which he had formerly given notice, and he now gave notice of his in tention, on Monday fe'nnigh t, to bring forward a motion refpeding the con finement of the muti neers in the Cold Bath-fields Prifon. ,OST•OFFICE TAX BILL. The Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee on the Port-Office Additional Duty Bill. Mr. ALLAP.MICE made Tome obfervations upon, and objeCtions to the meafure, grounded upon the harditip it would occafion to the remote parts bf the kingdom. ' Mr. PITT laid, the Honourable Gentlemen ap peared to have mi(conceived the effedt of the mea furc, fo far as it would operate upon the interefts of that part of Scotland to which he was locally attached. The principle of the Poil-Office Reve nue was, that what it received was in compenfa tion for the convenience which it afforded ; now this convenience was to be confidered in propor tion to the diftance, and he ronfidered it as one of the peculiar benefits of this Tax, (which he withed could be extended to all others) that in (lead of being burdened, the Subjeet was, in fait, benefited by the payment of it. At prefent the parts near the Capital, generally (peaking, paid too much, and the ditlant parts of the Kingdom too little; and, perhaps, it might foftcn the Ho nourableGentleman's oppofition to this mcafure, when he fondled, that according to the new pro pofed Scale of Taxation ? his Contlituents at Aberdeen would only have to pay one fhilling for a fingle later, which was, in fall, no more than they paid at indent. Mr. Pieterroiar thought this Tax was only objeltionable as it referred to the Penny-Poft. Here he read a letter from a Clergyman near London, who Rated ho 7 he was aggrieved by the Penny-Port not delivering Newfpapers and Letters regularly. Mr. W. Deana 9; in anfwer to Mr. A LLARDYCE remarked, that the inhabitants of Edinburgh and Glsrgow did, not feel themfelves aggrieved by the Poll-Office Scale of Taxation, but paid the Tax cheerfully. Mr. Joass faid, it was a general complaint that the Penny-Port was very irregular in the delivery of Letters ; and fuggetled the expediency of allowing an increafe of weight to the Letters of Members of Parliament. ....... Mr. Brxrom thought this way not a time for Mcntbers of that Houle propoting to themfclves additional privileges ;—it was incum b ent upon them to b•ar their share of the burdens in com mon with others. After a few words from Sir W. Yount:, Mr. S ItEAIDA N, And Mr. PI TT, thesblanks were filled up, and the Holife being refumed, the Report was ordered to he received to-morrow. HORSE TAX BILL. The Houfe then refolved itfelf into a Committee on the additional Norte Duty Bill. Mr. JOLIIFit oblc tes! to the additional duty on Elorfes employed in Agriculture, on ite,:ount of the inequality, as it would attach, upon Far mers. Some flinty foils t. quired more honks, whillt fundy and other foils but little wanted them, and could smpiny Oxen in their Read. In furl: lm:al ft:nations where Oxen could not be employed without doing injury, ht thought the additional Tax was an as of injoitice to the Farmer, and woold alto prove injurious to the State. Mr. Yi rr faid, non: of the objations Rated wt:nt to prove the incornpatibjlity of the payment if the Tax with agricultural purfuits. It wax im prtlible that this or any other Tax fhould equally hear upon all individuals. He believed it was gcncrally allowed that where the foil would admit it, it was advifable to employ Oxen it - die:id of liorres. The tendency of the prefent Tax was, by encouraging the fubßitutian wf• Oxen fur Ilorl, s, to diminifh tic eonftimption of corn. Mr. CURWIN thought, that fume diminution of the Tax lhould be admitted in favour of Mortis under lize. Mr. PITT obfervtd, that the propofed atldi tior.al Duty was onlf upon thole Horfcs which had already been cleaned dt nivits of Taxation. :1 ) . Mr. Jones thnught, atl.i.tional Tax of sos. upon a tingle Horft aopt r pleafure, too ankh, caul 11:: a tilted at tc b -ed usrhalf. __ The Chafe, as originally propofed, was then carried, imrofing an addizional Duty of 4s. upon liorfes uted in Agriculture. The linule bring returned, the Report was ordered to be rzze.rt..; to morrow. BROWN BREAD. Mr. BRACCE arpotted flotn the Committee on the Bill to amend the 36th of his prefent permitting Bakcrs to.manufanute Mixed Bread. Mr. VANSITTART remarked on a dance in thx Bill, " laving the rights of the City of London," as calculated to defeat one of the principal ohjedt of the mcafure, infornuch as no Bakcr could wo: k in Lenion without the lie,:nee of the Corporatim of Bakers, who would by that dance have th t power of preventing the ntanufadure :,Tixed Bread, it difpofed to do fo. Mr. RYDER anfwered the obicetions of the lion. Gentleman, by listing that a . limilar claufe wac lnferted in the AEI of - the 36th of the King, and no inconvenience was found to refult from it. The Report was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. STAMP-DUTY TAX. The Houle then refolvcd itfclf into a Committee on the additional Stamp Duty Bill. On the Claufe which propofed to impole an ad ditional Duty of4d. on all Bills of Exchange, pay able otherwife than on demand, from 40 to 301. Mr. HOB HOWSE role to remark, that the middle and lower defies of Manufaelurers, particularly More of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, &c. would be affeeted by this increafed Tar, inaf much as they received many fmall orders, amount ing to turns between 51. and aol. and received Bills for them payable otherwife than on demand. The ManufaCturers could not, in fuch inftanees, ' charge the additional Tax upon their employers, which mull prove injurious to them, at a time when they laboured under fuch difcouragements. fie ward, therefore, tome Claufe to be introdu ced in favour of fuck Manufatturers, having fuch Bills between the turns of 51. and 201. And with regard to the defalcation of Revenue which this exception would occafion, he thought this might be compenfated by an afcending leak of taxation for Bills above tool. He would therefore move, that all Bills between 4o Millings and aol. be ex empted from the additional Duty of 4d. and that this additional Tax be confined to Bills, payable otherwife than on demand, between the hens of aol. and 301. Mr. PITT raid, he thought that when Gentle men confldered how (mall the additional Tax pro pofed was, they would fee that it could not have any material effect upon the Manufa&tuvs of the Country, efpecially eonfidering that, notwith. (landing the temporary preffure occafioned by the failure of crops, and the high price of provilions, there Manufactures had been increafing. Mr. Hoax ousx acknowledged, that if buta few of there Notes paired through thelvlanufafturers' hands, the increafed amount of the Duty would not be confiderable ; but the fa& was, that they were to a very confiderable amount. Mr. PITT remarked, that where a great num ber of fuch Notes pared through the ManufaCtu rers' hands, it afforded a prefiimptive proof that the average profit to the Manufafturer bore, at leaf}, louse proportion to the number of the Notes which they received. Mr. Rossom wifhed to know whether this Tax extended to the Five Guinea Country Bank Notes, which he thought were a very fair fubjed of Tax ation. They s had increafed with the inereafe of Provifions, and, in his opinion, they were one caufe of that increa(e. He wifhed a Chute to this deft to be brought uo. Mr. PITT Paid, it was contrary to rule to intro duce fuch a Claufe in the prefent stage. If the Hon. Member wifhed to propofe a greater inmate of Taxation in this inftance, it behoved him to do it in a Committee of Ways and Means. Nor did he think that the Hon. Gentleman's pofition could be eafily proved, that the increafed circulation of the Country Bank Notes had increafed the price of Provifions ; it would, perhaps, be more city to prove that this circulation h3d been the means of increating the Apiculture and Commerce of the Country. Mr. BRA Gan Paid, it would, be impoffible, ac cording-to the cuflom of Parliament, to propofe an additional Duty in'this After a fhort converfation between Mr. Hob !wore, Sir \V. Pulteney, Mr. W. Bird, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Curwen, and Mr. Role, the Claufes were brought up and agreed to. Mr. Hon HOUbk did not think, that the addition al Stamp Duty upon Deeds of Conveyance would be produCtive. He complained of the great in create of Stamp Duties, from the reign of King William, which w.ts (itch, that the very Index to i them required a Volume. 'There was a confider- I able danger recalling to the individual, from min.:king the quality of the Stamp, as it bad been determined in Courts of Law, that the deed itielf i was invalidated, where the appropriate Stamp was not affi;ed.—He fuggened the expediency of pal fing an ad eomprifing all the Stamp Duties ir. one table, in Come inch manner as he underflood was going on in the Culloms, a fimplification and con- folidation of the Cullom-houfe Duties. He thought fomething of this nature would be very ufefui to prevent conflation as well as danger to individuals, from the multiplicity of Stamp-Duty regulations. Mr. Ross obferved, that before t 797, the Stamp Duty was 7s. it was then increafed to tos. and it was now propofed to add p. more. He admitted that it was an important confideration to confolidate the Stamp-Office duties. The idea had already been iliggefted by the Committee of Pinar:v., but it had been Arid extremely difficult to bc done; however, fomething of the fort was in contemplation, but affuredly nothing of the fort could be done precipitately. At the tame time be wis aware that could fuch a defirable plan be dheard, it would' be of benefit to the revenue as well a. to the ind:vidual Mr. Ho-novs► fuggefted, that there Amid he fume cscuption of tiAx in favour o f s t i m p, deeds of A pprenticeflip, on I:half of poor perf?os. ' Mr. Roar rcpl:cd, tau the tame et= were prepofed the pada rait as Made in the former Bill of this nature. He far. tier remarked the impouibility of confolidating all the Stamp Duties during War, when Tay. were recerfarhy increafing ; hut when the Waling; of Peace 11 tonld arrive, he hoped that fometiiit 4 cff.;acious might be done upon the fubjett. Sir W. Put, r FNix.cofitletr.ned the do/trine that any legal inftrumert was v"id, becaufe the Stant ? :ma, IA was vet that which was deemed iln(tl, appropi tate. as incritrakiit wit} common feat and re,innicsn iLlLita. If no irrteucv , n appeared d.' fraud el.:: rcrciltrz, why fanubi a 31 , :al for, r f .. r ink r,-I,•etictis of a Stamp A c.•outitr:•t'i F. fro. 1 t•,-•.a• words Cum the illiam Pulttlfry, were d tn, and the 14.cir . ,rt , . brought tip to-morrow. LULTIV•VTIr , N 01 , rnrcr^,, .Mr. RI , bri.ugiit ur th.: eilitti:e rtlAti%c to wanting Premium., tivatinn of Pritatne::. Oh th( queftion for tile fecohl ro;hl:ng ..1 Refolutions, _ _ Mr. )(INF s (poke in oppolition. they would rather add to the e►ul .niC:ng from extreme high price of protifl..n. ban ,:tttl'elltve • to diminith it. Peace, he contektd, to .be the only remedy, as the quantity of 13:ay.:Ions or- • fumed in expeditions greatly contributed, ht: thought, to enhance their price. Mr. ►tu.utt t laid, that he could tint approve of thofe Refolutions, though tanltitmed b> the Selet Committee and the Board of Agricultur:. What. had the labours, he mutt :tilt, of the Stied Coin mittee effeCted ? When they entered on their tatlc. Wheat wa , , at ts%. the bufliel; it w.O now a: z r , . Btef was at 6d. it was now z,. p.. 1 lb. and mere Ma -110 knowing wheat there ptiz:s would i'op. Ev e r.: interference of Coto:militia in matter- of agrieni t ture, from the Duke of Portlx:d't ettel to the prefent day, had been produtiv; of lifchief. had been marked by thc . grolfeft could the A rchbilhop of Citnterliur y, ti'e 11: a ?I, , f l. for of the Eichequcr, or his Majetty's Attorney or Solicitor Generals be fuppofed to know of culture? they could not be foppolt d to na I ,•., their minds from the great matter, of Sear, Po fubjefts of little but practical concern. He wilt not bound to fpeak with more rerpeet of the Board of Agriculture, the late Prelident of which had moved that Sheep !honld be furnilhed with seed: oath and another Member of which had propoii:d that moveable koala fhould be erefted for their ac commodation. The Scict Committee had pafTcd the Brown Bread Bill, and were obliged, with the firil opportunity, to repeal it, leit the people of this country fhould be poifoned. Now the pat: taro lands were, forfobtli, to be turned into pu tatoe grounds, but it' was not laid what in the mean time was to become of the cattle ? It would be idle to give land to the cottagers who bad not money to pay for feed, and whore neceifities com pelled them to make the utmoit of their time. He Ihould have Ids oblation if it was propofed to plant the fallow. with potatoes, as that would be a good preparation for the culture of wheat. But as the motion now flood, he mull oppofe it altogether. Mr. Burrow defended the Committee on the High Price of Provifions, and the Board of Agri culture, from the attack made upon them by the hail Hon. Gentleman, but he thought the mtafure ,then before the Houfe not in the kali calculated to p;mote public utility, and would, if carrietlinto e:edition, overthrow all the agreements between ' 1 landlord and tenant. Sir W. Yonne; thought it highly improper ts favour, by means of premiums, one fpecies of Agri. culture in preference to another, as it would only tend, he conceived, to i ure Agriculture in generaL Mr. WILDERTORCR (aid, he thought the Ho nourable Gentleman who had preceded him, had argued too much upon abltraftei.nciples t without payingfufficient attention to the cafes of general convenience. He thought the propofed premiums proper and judicious, as a large Rock of potatoes was wanted, which there was not at the prcfent moment fufficicnt encouragement to cultivat:. To obviate the oblation arifing from the agree menu between landlord and tenant, he intended, he Paid, to propok an amendment, that no tenant Ihould cultivate potatoes on land not agreed to be ufed fur that •purpofe, 'without the content of his landlord. He hcped, however, if the nrior Re folutions of the Committee were related. that the Houle would not alfo rejelt that Refolution re lative to panting premiums to cottager:, as to that he thought no taNd objeaion had yet or could be made.—Sir Witttasi YouNo explained- Mr. Jonsson was againa all interference of the Legiflature ; trade, he (aid, would be belt mana ged by itfelf, and the endeavours of Committees • had completely failed. Mr. WHITBREAD oculared himself. decidedly Londe to the rcfolutions ; he thought Legi d interference relative to Agiicultare ought to have proceeded no farther than the graniing of b9HIE* • ties on the importation of wheat. He did. hoz- . with, he kid, to arraign the Cummitue on. the High Price of Provitions, but he thought the fit& den changes they had.latcly exhibited in thei: opinions, particularly with refpea to the Brown Bread Bill, would tend to bring that Committee into difrepute. He thought that notwithdand -1 ing the amendment hinted at by the Honourable j Gentleman, the premiums would even then caul: much difinthon and many difputes between land lords and tenants, arifing from the clerking of oppofite intently which muff at kart be very on pleafant. That part of the refolutiuns which re lated to cottagers, he conceived to be nugatory, fence that clak of men already, for the Kike of their own profit, cultivated to the utmoft 'their little (pots of ground. Ms. Reason contended, that the price of pota toes bad rifen contlently, from the Sra time of mentioning the bounty in that Houk. He was proceeding to remark on the refolutioas, when • Mr. Antra °Waived, that Gentlemen were dl coifing a &Wee, with great difference of opinions. when there were not Members in the Henfe to di• vide on if. He moved that the Hoek be counted. which being dose, thus was NIT 34 pretest.-- .