Star. — London, England, 1802-04-28 00:00:00

luau re• pc.it the expreffion ; for he hoped it was true, and that it would lead to the encouragement an d: ex. tett ;inn of manufahories in Ireland; and when that Should be done, the two countries might be put on an equal footing. At prefent, he trailed that Ire land would turn its indullry and capital to agri culture and die linen manufahure, and while it did fo, the cotton manufacturers of England could have no fears for their trade. Lord SHMILLD obferved, that the exemption eninyed by Ireland in regard to taxatiOn, related only to articles of internal confumption ; but this exemption was nothing lel than a bounty in favour of frith tonnage, to the prejudice of Britifh ton nage, and to the &fit-Utica of our glorious (yam of navigation laws. Lord Casratasaou faid,he wifhed to fee a per. felt equality in point of taxation between the two countries ; but according to the rate of taxation now in Ireland, the prefent was a fair proportion. The apprehenfions of an Honourable Baronet for the cotton trade mull ceafe to have any foundation. when it was known that the cotton manufaltures of England came into Ireland in the very fate of a duty nearly prohibitory, to the amount of rao,oool. So far from looking forward to any competition of this kind as an inconvenience, he did not even confider it as a refource is point of revenue. Mr. W. DuNDAS Paid, that the difference in tax ation now propofed was not new in its principle. Such difference trilled in Scotland long after the Union between that country and England ; sad in fame refpetts it exilled at this day. Mr. Boum raid the intended tax on tonnage would be a great harellaip to the (hipping inured, whole property had already fallen in value about Jo per cent. The tax would be felt as a . perfonal tax on the fhip.owner, who in many !finances could not throw it on the merchants. If it were permitted to petition arainft a tax bill, he had a petition then about him from his conftituents, againft the bill, which would be feverely felt in the eaftern ports of England, from which the voyages were Short and frequent, and where veffelsmult - be liable at each voyage to the payment of the duty. Mr. DILHT confi&red the tax as highly impolitic and dangerous at the prefent time, when it was ge nerally underftood that France would not enter into any commercial treaty with us; but on the contrary, appeared Jefirous of h excluding . the ma nufaores of this country from her territories.— A Noble Lord oppolite to him had obferved, on a former night, that commercial Treaties were of no bre. He wilhed to know what was now to be un derftood with regard to the commercebetween this cwintry and France ? He had heard a report, sliw:h be believed to be true, that an Englith (hip bad lately attempted to land a cargo of goods in a french port, but was obliged to pat back again ithitut being poi mitted to enter the place. This tax wanks Shackle our trade in Such a manner that we Zook; 11..ve rivals flirting up to underfed us in every forsigu market. Lcrd Hammel:as. Paid he Should not have troubled the Houle had lie not been particularly alluded to by the Hoti. Gentleman who fpnke lak. He never did fay that Commercial Treaties were of no life ; but he Paid that in many points of view they were of lefs confequence than was generally imagined. He confidered them as nothing more than as regulations which might be beneficial; but as to commerce itfelf, the advantages refulting from it mull reft on the mutual convenience and Lucre as of countries; and upon credit, capital, and confidence. It was not always neeefara fur two nations to enter into commercial treaties ; they might carry on an extenfive trade without them. This country had no treaty either with Ruffia or Holland ; and although we had made a treaty with France in 1786, our commerce with that country had at all times been inconfiderable cons. pared to our trade with Holland. No refufal took place on the part of France to make a commer cial treaty with this country. The truth was this —(and he had now no hefitation in Stating it) that it was found abfolutely impoffible to renew the treaty of 1786, without fach alterations and mo difications as mull have taken up a (pace of time that migla have caufed a confiderable delay in the Signing of the Definitive Treaty. S, me objec tions exifted againit this treaty in France, and a great many on the part of this country. It was smpoillble to apply the fyftern which now exitted in France to the treaty of 3786. We could not renew it without giving up fume of thole prin ciples concerning maritime law for which we had lately contended - with Such fuccefs —On the whole, his Majefty's Minifters had thought it better not to fufpend the late negotiations by introducing Cle topic of a new Commercial Treaty, but leave it as a quetlion of fubfequent arrangement, par faularly fo, when the various alterations and con. Talons Which France had undergone, mull ren der many alterations in that Treaty neceffary.— tut the 'trench Government had not evinced to this Country any indiipoittion towards renewing that Treaty. Sir RALPH MILSANIC and Alderman CURTIS were againft the Speaker's leaving the Chair. Do‘ctor LAWRENCE laid, this was merely a c0m m.:1.6.e. regulation, the principle of which was, that t..e butthen, it any, fhould fall equally on each , ••otrv- objeaed to the laying of duties on L..: raw materials, becaufe the,rices of many ar t,clws (naval tiores for inftance) would be railed io high as to be alma deltruative to our commerce. He laid he had within a day or two been informed from good authority, that there was at this mo ment a general Ragnation its the trade of this coun try; and burthenibme regulations of this kind would make it work. It was not in much for the Like of individuals, as of the public, that he then (poke againft the Bill. Mr. ALZIANDER lupported the Bill. Mr. H. LASCIELE thought there Should be a difference in the tonnage duties on veffels that made Short and than that made long voyages. Mr. Wiass s emelt was of the Came opinion. H. obferved that the duty was generally taken ohanever the velel cleared out of port. Now thine velliels made fix v,.y ages in a year, and otl ers 4 7one; In that a veil - el trading to Holland wont(' i; a: times the duty to pay with one trading to Turhey..Aftex this the gallery was cleared of , ftrangers, but no divifion took place. —The Houfe then went into a Committee on the Bill: Several amendments were then propofed and agreed to. Mr. S. Tootles-on moved an abatement of one. half of the propofed mom duty on Blips going to the coatis of Germany, Hollani, and the nearer ports of the Baltic, as he thought it very unju ft that they thould be charged with th e f a m e rate of duty as fhips Kohl to North America, the Weft Indies, and the Mediterranean. Mr. VANSITTART replied, that by the treaty with America we were compelled to put her ref fels on the footing of the moll favoured nation, confequently if we remitted the duty on thefe (hors voyages, we mull forego a proportionate part of the duty on Bridal (hips bound to America, or give a preference to American flips over Briti(h. He prefumed the Hon. Member did not complain of the amount' of the propofed duty, but of the COMtarative proportionoptich will not be amended by his motion. If, hereafter inconvenience thould be found, the Legifiature would always be open to application ; but he was convinced the burthen (neeefary as it was) would not be found to fubjea the parties on whom it fell to the inconvenience aprehended. Mr. Wsissasoecs replied to MTNAISSI ?TART, and fupported Mr. T Hoe W roes amendment, which was, however, negatived without a divifinn. General GASCOIONS obferved, that Ming vef fels would be liable to pay the duty, and had hitherto paid the Convoy Duty. They did not come under the defcription of Coaling Veal:, be tante they did not clear out from one port to an other. He was fore it was not intended to tax therm The CHANCILLOII of the Exch sq:_usa replied, certainly not. He did not conceive it equitable that vetch employed as they were (Mould be taxed The Bill having gone through the Committee, the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Adjourned at half-paft ten o'clock. I.ONDONd tizimisDAY. APRIL Z. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK re C. Cad mow. yg—Gar May mount, 74. Italoadl p li s 4 V o rz e , i Crda1....,5 per C.IOA-- Oldj pa C. 4-4-001 a Ann- 21 9-16.. PRICE OF STOCKS TISTERDAY : Bask Stock 195 1671 Short Ann..; z-z 6 ; per Cc itcd. 7sll India Stock sa64 3 pa et. Coal ;7 7611 hUh 6 per C. zed 1011 4 per Com ssS gill Eschat BULL, is. to 4s. prom SpaC. A. 103 zed i Cousiom im 31 Fan. s per C.A. O 1797 zoi zest Calf. for 771 Um( AWL ss Ira 744 Mb s pa Cam... GPM* 47 Llibon yof Oporto 72 Pokemo 90 peas per 00. Dobkin es COURSE OF EXCHANGE. lungtadam, zo 16 sU. Cadiz 371 effea. Moat Wm NI la Madrid 33i pslur Rotterdam, tot sU. Ditto 38* de& Hamburg' 3s tt si U. Mom efft& Altos& .13 o sU. Ledo= 32 Cadls 331 is paw Naples 44 Irwik t dales allega odd'. ellemailli s Uf. 23 to by. Hoursiesss • s Uf. 23 IS UV. Yak% S 7 Lions Pink MEM per tl. It is generally underitood that on the day of General Thsrakfgiving. cm the tft of June next, the nee will go ia graad procesion to St. Paul's. The Thankfgiving is to be on the fame day in Scotland as in England...-(See the Proclamation in the laft Page.) In onr Parliamentary report will be found forge important obiervaticass by Lord HAIVRISSIMY. on the fubjea of commerciahreaty between this country and France. His Lordthip remarked, that in the new circumitances in which France and England flood with regard to each other, it was not polEble to sailors the former Commercial Treaty as it was, and the negotiation of a new one would have &etched to too great length to be entered upon pending that of theDsfinitiee Treaty. We underaood his Lordfltip to have raid, that the afair had hitherto not been brought into dikuf fion, rather than that the French Government had declined altogether to enter upon it. The matter therefore remains open. This day we received Paris Journals of the 24th inft. Their contents are not very interelling.— furs Confers& 57 fr. It is the intention of the French Government, in the event of the reduction of Bt. Domingo under the authority of the Mother Country, to hold out an encouragement to Three Thoufand European Families to fettle there, for the double purpok of repairing the deftruflioti of European manners and I civilisation, and forming a counterpoife to the power of the Blacks. The ROYAL FAMILY came to town yelterday from Windfor. Her MAJIIITY% next Drawiatßoom ts a r& pond to lliurfday fennight, on account the King's Proclamation tomorrow. Hi> Royal Highnefs the Duke of Kin? arrived at Falmouth on Sunday catalog laft, to embark mi board the Isis. of p guasyfire Caretaker. The Isis had not then arrived. in aoakquence of the wetlerly winds. but was boodyeirpeeed. Lieutenant Colonel Caattrrnaas. of the dill Regiment. arrived at Pottfmouth in the flap 80. nito, from Alexandria. and WI from Malta. The Ri % Ist Hon. Earl FITZWILLIAU is appoint.' ed High Steward of Hull. The Hon. G \OROS Homers'. of Dont:after. u appointed Governor of Grenada. Lieut. Dies klt, tithe Vote** has been tried by a Court Martial, and fentrueec to be difrnifred the fer-ice, for killing the carpenter of the faid I So many law arrangements are talked of. that `the Theatre Royal. Wtilminfier Hall. will open for Fader Term with an entire new kt of prior. I awn, new drj s, and decorations. CORN MARKET. `MARK-LAME, AP.IL 28. No arrivals of confegnence have taken place fence Monday. and the prices remain without any al teration. Basao.—Yeiterday the LORD MAYO% ordered the price of Bread to be continued the fame as laft week, •itt. tod. the quartem of wheaten, and M. houfehold. The preparations for the Illumination which is jo take place to-morrow evening, after the Pro claiming of Peace, are great beyond any thing of a fimilar nature which we have ever feen. The devices are the mot fplendid we ever beheld as well as general. Every one feems to vie who shall be the moll magnificent. The occafion certainly difpofes all ranks of people to difplay their zeal.— The Bank of England will be lighted up all round. The tranfparent PiCture, occupying the fpace betwen the two central columns in the principal front of the Bank reprefents Britannia feared ; her robe of war is cart aide, and her helmet, shield, and cuirafs, lying by her, thew that the has re. cently difarmed : the is faluted by Peace ; and Mi. servo, as her Counfellor, Rands near her Tribune, while the pyramid immediately behind this group is a type of that (lability which her Government mull acquire from fuch an union.— Britannia ftretches out her right hand to receive 'asir, and Geniut; while the other holds a Cornucopia, the emblem of that abundance which heft correfponds with the liberality of her views. This allegory exhibits the Brit Nation under the aufpices of Peace, impelled by the wifdom of her Councils to call into utiful ation the corporeal and intelleetual energies of the country : a condue at once moll worthy of her chara&er, and molt ca pable of remedying thofe evils which are infepa ble from a Rate of-warfare. Such precautions have been taken by the LORD MAYOR and other Public Magiftrates to preferve order, that, fhould the weatherprove favourable, what with the ceremony and procefflon of the Proclamation. through the day, the tranfparea. cies, millions of •variegated lamps, and myriads of tapers and flambeaus, all fancifully difpofed at night, it will be a molt memorable day. The following Notice has been iffued by the LORD MAYOR :•••• The LORD MATO". begs leave to ileool2 his Fellow Citi zen', and the Inhabitants or the Ciry in general, that the public Proclamation of Peace is smiting to be made on Mornay, the spa Day of April Mont, tad takes Ms appeednity to result that they will allied Yid their heft allibere in his en deavours to pdaysgsed Geier daring &BMWs paged of the Preeethas, and the anritedur In the eveeisg. And to this end the LORD Month host tha ftria injundkions to the Peace Meets, and their Allem% is take care that a. Injuries are committed ups the palms or prop wry of any of the inhabi tants. And has alto thread droop Coaches, Cans, or other Carriages, be fulfered to *and or remit in the pthicipal thews *roses which the Premien Is to Pds." bioa firft entertainment of this ntedey • was even by Mrs. Pows of Gla . at Hanovertquare Afembly.Rooms, 011 night. The essellany confined of a&- leaks °fel& hundred friends and acquaintances. The tickets were not transferable; no Dominos were admitted; and the brilliant fuccefs of the night proved the judicionfnefs of her (peculation. At eleven o'clock the manes began to affemble, ad every room was completely filled by two.— A more lively, diverfified, and milling fcene cannot be conceived than the rooms prefented from that hour until five in the morning, when the company began to feparate. In its variety of theatrical charafters, it was a reprefentation of the whole force of the nage; in its collation of trades, profeffions, and callings, it was an epitome of England; in its affemblage of Turks, Jews, Spa niards, Indians, &c. it was an epitome of the whole world. All the nations of the earth being now reconciled in peace, one might fuppofe, from the joyous fcene, that it was a meeting of their re prefentatives, to join hands, and pour out their heartfelt congratulations. It would be impoffible to enumerate all the excellence of the company, and it would perhaps feem invidious to fele& any particular portion of them for praife.—The few, therefore, which we (hall notice, we mean as a (ample of their fafhion and dyle. The charming hone(' of the night fupported feveral charallers, but principally a rimier, in which (he proved herfelf a real friend by her care and atten tion to the happinefs of her guefts. Prince Wi Liam of Gloucener fuftained the charafter of a &silty with great fpirit ; Lord VAL time and Lieu tenant Colonel Cosuas, as Covistrymes, with their wives and daughters, formed an interefting runic Ih A rifissirid and a Flower Girl were well bed by Mrs. and Mifs HARVEY COMEN. Sir WYNDHAM Dawmo was an Wan Owl Lord andLadyDa Seinen wort beautiful fancy dreffes, and Lady Boca wrote was a molt interefting tlia• /sr. Sir ifif. V.TiMPIST, being anxious for a flice of dile delightful esteriew, prefented himfelf in the neat of leis bioaoas, the daughter of the Loan Coarsely, but the Ceritrar of the place loon dif covered the nonvordance of the perfon with the Holm. A &repo alfo, who was not duly au tbarifed to claim admittance, was turned out; and a Chem had nearly glared the Caine fate in an at tempt to carry in the exiled heron ponhis back.— Renal:nests of every kind were (creed in the up per apartments.—Reels and firathfpeys concluded the entertainment.—The rooms were not entirely cleared until (even o'clock. Among the other principal &natters we noticed were & Mr. ltatterr . Dr. 011epod Mrs bluer ow - An Indian Prince(' Mr.Torteste • A few Broker Mr. H.MassLL A lialo.Dreffer Mr. Mimeses. I. • A anforiess Old Maid Mr. DT morrow - • Potaioan Mr. °AMMAN - Mai Teen••accilent Mr. Cy Tessa? - Falb! MaClassameLL3 Mar- DA j%acre DAR Poster Jonas • ftwonskre ber. Id as • A Toth Mee Man is A very waft hash MD Pa.. . . Aa fauw Mr.T. Puma At theillent Ftiq Calms' Lunt - A Ted& Mow Otheval Attaed - A liselkasa c 1110=10116 i. DEFINITIVE Tit Arr. • We hale been favoured with a copy oftlt . c De finitive rrtaLy, Ati it will be laid before Parli met,r. It is printed both in French and Englilh. We have very carefully compared the tyanflation whicli inferted in our paper of the 54 Weft. with the Of ficial Englilh Copy, and we end-no difrerence of the lean importance to the mcirting, fo far a; re gards translation. We therefore confider it un necetrary to republifh it. There is one or two variation, indeed, material to be corroded, but they are ffich as we are not ac countable for. They lie between the French copy in the Moniteur and the French copy ',tinted here by Authority. In the article VII. in the dip:lh tions refpeding the frontiers of French and Por tuguefe Guiana. it is Rated in our ft-imitation,. 4 ' The boundaries of French and Portugnefe Guiana are filed by the river Arawari, which empties it felf into the Ocean ABOVE Cape North," &c. ; the French word in the Moniteur being au delis:. In the Englilh Official Copy it is " Mow," &c. The French being printed as deAu. From this we ten elude that the Moniteur of the 27th, from which we translated our copy, has by an error of the profs put au &fur for ass &jou:. In paragraph three of article X. refrieding Malta, there is a very important variation between the French and Englilh copy, as we f?nd theni printed together. It is faid, The Municipal, Revenue, Civil, Judicial, and other O%ies under the Government of the Wand, !hall be filled at kart in the proportion alone half by *he inhabi tants of Malta, Govs, and Comilla,' In the French it is merely Natant • fo that by the Englilh, " Na tives" alone are adm itted= whereas In the French, any adventurers who may be " inhabitanti," may hold places, fo that the regulations to preient in triguers getting into office with the meat=s of com mitting treachery as before, are in Tome meafuve null by the French copy, though they are in full vigour according to the Englilh ons appears to be important. The French word " &tutu" certainly does not imply fo much as the Englilh " Native Inhabitants." We obferve too, that in the article XV. re fpeding the fiffieries on the coalt of Newfound. land, there is a flight variation between the official Englilh copy and the official French copy, and con fequendy our translation taken from the latter. After mentioning that the fifneries are placed on the footing they were before the war, it is Rated in the Englilh copy " the French Elia-men, and the French inhabitants of St. Pierre and Mique lon, shall have the privilege of cutting wood," &c. In the French, it is the French fiffiermen " of Newfoundland," and the inhabitants§ &c. let Pe elteurs Francois de Terrenetroe, dlu hokum. Thera verbal differences may in future produce difputes. Thefe, however, are the only variations of any confequence that have occurred to us. We have fubjoined a copy of the feparate article, which has not hitherto appeared. It regards the novelty of an Englifh copy.' The variations itiore noticed are the more important, as between France and England the Englilh and French are of equal authoritt. The circumaanee of the Leo of GREAT BRITAIN being placed firft in the Englilh, and the Four Cousin. in the French copies, is well underftood- They Rand refpettiielyfo in the refpettive copies given to each potvef, fo' that in fad no recognifed precedence is allowed to either'. The date of the treaty is certainly the 27th, though the Afatiteurabfurdly publifhed it on the 27th, with the date of fignature the 25th of March. The following feparate Article to the Definitive Treaty above alluded to has not yet been publi fired : It is agreed that the omiffloo arcane Titles which may hast taken plate in the prefent Treaty.fhall not be prejudicial to the Powers or to the Perfons concerned. It is further agreed that the Englitt and French Languages made ufe of in all the copies niche prefect Treaty Mall not form an example, which may be alledged or quoted as a precedent, or in any manner prejudice the Contraaing Powers whole Languages have not been tired; and that for the future what has been obferved, and ought to be übfcrved, with regard to, and on the part of Powers who are in the practice and poffef (ion of giving and receiving copies of like Treaties in any other Language, bail be conformed with ; the prefent Treaty having neverthelefs the fame force and virtue as if the aforefaid prac tice had been therein obferved. In witnefs whereof, we the underwritten•Planipotentiaries of his Britannic Majefty, of the French Republic, of his Catholic Mikity, and of the Batavian Republic, have figned the pnsf.nt feparate article, and have canted our refpcdive feats to be af- Lied thereto. Done at Amiens, the twenty-few/Ith day of March, ore thoufand eight hundred and two; the Sixth Germinal, year ten of the French Republic. (LS.) CORNWALLIS. (LS.) JOSEPU BONAPARTE. <L.%) J. NICOLAS De ALMA. (LS.) R. J.ScHnimiLrENNINcX. It would be an acceptable fervice to the public, if the volunteer bodies would form themfelves into (mall patrole parties, and to walk through the great thoroughfares, without arms, but in fuck force as to prevent the fcandalous outrages which are per petrated during an illumination—inch as firing piliols and crackers into coaches, cutting the traces, frightening horfes, and to the obvious dank Ezi:4fletting fire to the drelfes of ladies, who too dy venture out in muffins. Perhaps it would have been prudent to have faced no car riages in the ftreets at all, even at night. His MAJESTY'S grand favourite cream coloured charger, ycleped Adonis, will, to-morrow, be beftrode by Sir JOHN EAMEIt, Lord Mayor of London. His Lordfhip will ride in great pomp, attired in his official robes, attended by his City Regalia, to Temple-bar, and meet the Weitminfler proceffion. The feene will be very magnificent.— All the regiments of Militia, the Eaft India Volun teers, the Bank Volunteers, &c. will be called out and line the (trees. The City Carpenters were rellerday fent to era. mine the gates of Temple-bar, previous to their being thin to=morrow. We hope the Heralds wi ta k e pity nn their rnincms condition, when thty come to demand entrance by a loud knocking.