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proach eormanefs fufficiently for the pap& for which the calculation was intended." The queflion was then put in the Committee. and the ilefulutions were pa&d without a divifiom xsoacv The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Legacy Bill. On the quetlion being put— Sir HENRY MILD MAY declared, that he thobght it his duty to oppofe this Bill, as it operated on lega cies left in the direa line. In this refpee it was every way exceptionable. It was impofing a tax on the younger children of a family, and exempting the only perfon able to bear foal a burden, be meant the I heir, who does not pay a fin le (billing. He appeal ed to the jufticc--he appealed to the feelings of the Houfe if the Operation of this Bill would he in this cafe equitable or fair. He complained of the Bill alto. as a meafure that would fall particularly heavy on the landed part of the community, who had let` freqnently an opportunity of edabligking the younger branches of their family during their life time. The Hon. Baronet reprobated the meatus* alto, as it did not ale& children inheriting from marriage fee rterneat, while thole whore father had not the advan tages of fuch a fettlanent to enable him to provide for his younger children, came underits operation. He was concluding with moving as an amendment, that the claufe relating to - Legaaes in the distil line be omitted, when _ _ The SPEAKER informed the Honourable Mem ber that no motion of that nature could he made till the Bill was read a third time, but that then he would have an opportunity. Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH obferved, that it would operate as a check on perfons giving away property, and though there were none that repo bated more than be did the peadtice of giving . away property to the prejudice of there to whom a pro- perly belonged. yet there were inflames when legs. rtes were highly proper and necerary to the difcharge 44 . the duties of humanity and gratitude. His Lord thin appealed to the experience of the mercantile part of the Haute. There were many foreigners in this country who had either made fortunes by their lons indußry, or inherited them from the induary of their /ethers, and whole long refidence here, and the ha bits they had enquired, had detached them from any relations on the Continent. Theft would very natu rally leave their property to the friends they had formed in this country ; and it was hard, be thought, to lay fuch a tax on this ezpreffion of fricadthip.— The quellion had not bairn fulficiently caseated. He concluded, therefore, by urging the propriety of poll stoning the third reading , that they might have farther time to give the fabled due confide:ration. Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE (aid. he had a buge family to provide for ' Out the oppo fi tion he gave the sneafure was di fi nteretled and undifguifed. In a flinch of tome humour. the Honourable Mem ber reprobated the Tax as the molt obnoxious and revolting he had ever either read or beard of. It was unfit at any time to pats. It had a dirca ten dency to check the fire and warms!! of the motel duties. and whatever was the fate of the Bill, whe ther it paled or net. he would take care. be raid, to provide for his family without paying towards it. It was his intention so divide his property among his children, and in foeh times as the prefent, it was the duty, be thought, of every man to do fo. It would fall heavy, he far ther contended, not only on younger children, but= large families ; alto on old maids. the ill•favorsted. the lame, and the blind, it would fall peculiarly hard. Such a Tax, if at all allowable to be mired, ought therefore to be laid oat in nunneries and hofpitals, that the contributors to it might have at WA tome afylnm. The Honourable Member contended farther, that thoufands would evade the Tax, and that, therefore, it could only be a partial =carafe.. He wilted to know if it would idea the Irina funds ? Many from a diOlke to this Tax would not provide by legacy for the younger part of their family ; but leave that duty to the penerofity of the stela. and th us endanger the happmefs and future puce of their family. In Scotland it mac fall very heavy. as many of the Ames are (mall. and the fa milies generally large. He objeaed to it alto, as it fell molt feverely on the man who marries and has a family, while thofe who have none were lets sleeted by its operation. The operation of this Tax, be con fide:ed. as Rill more revere when added to the In some Tax. A perfon having ssol. a year left him, would be obliged by this means, to pay from that fun as a Tax to Government 801. the firft year. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER adverted with great preafion to the different argu ments that had been urged againli the Bill.— As the Houfe had already decided on the general principle . of the Bill, he did not think it neceflary to go into it at fo much leap* as odic:wife he could have felt k his duty.. The Noble Leta are (Lord G. Cavendifh) had °Neat& so * ap (' sedan raw lating to frisch legacies as were left to abfolute Nato , gent but flatly no part of the Bill could be confi acted left obnoxious than that. In this cafe the ad ' was .unexpetted, and it was natural to (up pole ne at perfons under this impreffion would party without much reludkance, with inch a portion of it as the sax required. and at any rate their claims to it mull be confidered much lets thong than in ether cafes it would be. The attack which bad been made on dire& legacies. he conceived to have proceeded horn mifapprehenfion, or a very partial view of the fubjea. Much had been (aid of us falling heavy on the younger children of a family, but whea Gen tlemen ufed this language they teemed to forget that the tax was very trilling in itfelf—not mote than one for a hundred. Suppote a father Mould with to leave to a younger child a legacy of spool it would be edify fur him to add sol. to this turn for the payment of the Tax, and fo in proportion with any other turn, taking the addition from what would have otherwife hauled to the eldell.ro that in this cafe the younger branches of the family are completely exempted, and tLe Tax comes from a quarter that is bell able to bear it. An Honourable Gentleman had (uppofed, that in order to evade the Tax a father might be induced to leave the iirovifion of the younger part of his fa • milt' to the genero fi ty of the oldeff but of the two alternatives Its thought the one he h ad jag mentioned the moil likely to be adopted. It had been objeaed alto to the meature, that it affected the provition made for a family at the death of the father, while any settlement mad* awing his life was exempted—The objea of the :maim was certainly not to agile tranF aftions, though the pr op riety of filch a tontine might open a wide field for dikuffron, but tranfattions were in many inftances taxed al colored. It was urged that it would tall heavy on the landed part of the community, as it aright be necefary often to difpofe of the legacy, in order to be able to pay the taxi but a land Proprietor might always find Come livings from which be could annex to the legacy the (um ae ce4fary to pay the duty. The monied man in this re f Pee, could be at no Ws, and even fuppoß the land ed man had not the means of leaving the ready mo ney for the pupate he had mentioned, the soli be Rill fuppoles the legacy at the value of sOOOL could be railed by inforance at not more than sos. or 4os. a year, according to the age of the perfon infiring. On the whole the Right Honourable Gentleman did riot think that the objeeions that had been dated, ought to make any impreffion on the Houfe to the prejudice of the Bill. idr. GREY declared hinifelf decidedly hoßile to the Bill. He thought that it was a direct tax on ca pital ; that in many cafes it would fall with the fever eft prefure on thole haft able to endure it. To attack taxes direfully to capital, as this tax would do, was diredly to defeat enterprise, and divert the maR be neficial channels of commerce. In a Country like this, which depended fo much on commerce, fuck taxes would be avoided by all confiderau men. But if /le objetted to the Bill on this ground, be was Rill . more averfe to it hi a political vsey. In a mixed Go vernment, like this, the credit 6f a hereditary arifto erscy could only be kept up by great poffellions and estenfive influence. 'Thefe poreffions and this influ ence were both attacked by the Bill, which, for the firft time, attached to Legacies on Land, as well as to perfonal property. Such taxes had ever been condemned by the wifeft political econoinifts. They had always been conlidered as evidences, when re lotted to, of a declining State. He hoped and trufted that fuch was not yet the (tuition of this Country; but it was impoffible for any conhderate man to fee fuch taxes introduced without a confiderable degree of anxiety. The tax was one of the wtoft Oar ing inequality. It was indeed a twee tat on misfor tune, and calculated to aggravate affliftion. Every frefh death called forth its operation ; and it was im poffilsk to fay how often or to what amount it might be paid. The Right Honourable Gentleman's ergo maul, therefore, of the lmallnefs of the film to be paid, was altogether nngatory. He fully entered into all that had b een raid about the hardlhips to which it would fubjee a younger brother. The Right Ho nourable Gentleman had (aid, that if their portion was in land, they would not be called on to pay. This was mere evalion ; for every ooe knew that Null di vifions of land were not nearly fo valuable, and there fore the younger brothers would have a thong temp tation to fell their (hares, even at a very difadvanta , geous price. But the Right Honourable Gentleman had further contended, that a (mall additional funs would cover the tax, and remove the difficulty com plained of. What was this but in other words to fay, that the land was to pay the tax, and if fo, why did not the Right Honourable Gentleman propofe the tax in this direß form 3 He army ly condemned the Bill, as ellablithing a monftrous difference between heirs by fettlesuent, and heirs by birth and confanguinity. .--This was an objeaiun which had great weight in his mind. It was contrary to every principle jut. tier to place thole on a wotfi footing, who derived their rights from nature, than chore which *rife out of rofitive appointment. After a variety of other ebtervations, the Honourable Member concluded, by raying that be Ihnuld certainly vote for the propofed amendment. The go/Rion was then put on the motion, that the Bill be read a third time, which was carried in the affirmative. Sir H. MILDMAY then propofed his amendment, 1 the objea of which was to esempt from the payment of the taa,all legacies to dire& relations.—The Gallery was cleared fur a Dirifion. The numbers were, for he Amendment 72—Again& it 164—Majority 92. Dr. LAWRENCE alked whether thole turns, which were to be dithibarted among the next of kin, . when there was a Will, Humid not be liable to the tax,. as well as legacies mentioned in the Will? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that that would be a fubjea for future con fi&oation. The queition was then put on the third reading of the Bill, and was carried without a divifion. Adjourned till blandly. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH s 3. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK CAmsL for mosey 51}}-40r ate.slll-oaudias 4 4*. F.scheq. Ri is par PRICE OP STOCKS YESTERDAY. Kish Stook at India Kinds Is. 211 e dif. kr, C.Rci. Aso. Rot Imp. 3 pa Cent. 54 3 per OM CtatC 5111 H Imp. Ann. of 9-16ths 4 par Cult. Rot Essiseq. Bi k is dif. is. pr. par. 5 per C.sot. Nan 3914 °ma"' 3/ 4f 4 prep► 3 per Cass. sr" hot Tickets tBL iss. Beak L. Am. Rut Cod. for ate.siii In the Constnittet of Ways and Means lel night, the Cuarcauma of the Excusttpsa brought forward his New Taxes, to cover the deficiency created by the rejeflitm of the Tax on Hulbandry Horfes, and the renunciation of the duty on Salt exported. He Rated the deficiency at fomewhat more than four hundred thottfand pounds. To meet this he propofes a variety of Taxes on articles of Cußoma and Excite. The following is an ablirat of his Astons:lt :-- New Dudes ea G 1 .4. .. Vic ro• Dim Maks and Tiles - . 37400 • -- Andlions . . . - 3000 ..—..Cate, stein rate .t 6d. per Paved Awe =sad Peery - - - - tspoo - 11.0 Gilt and Silver Wirt - - • '3 oo Poe Nato and none% Wriest ranilwitt • 4.108 patina, Turpentine, and iron . novo Ditty at at pa Cam on Geode kopeeted 576,000 Total 4 2 9.4 0 0 By private letters from Holland, of the soth Wt. we are again apprized of the rigorous proceedings of the French in Holland towards the Dutch merchants. Th e c a rgoe s of nine rack have been confiscated. on &adman of baring colonial produce on board. It now Teems to be the maxim of the French to appeat to re lax oceafionally from their feverittes, for the purpofe of militating the merchants, and affording themfelves a fure opportunity of making a greater number, and of more valuable feilures. The following Proclama tion has been ifued • An mkt •l Ws laoperial Majelly. troolloteted by Madam etc Cooolthor of Scam Direttor.Ocoeral of ?bum% eooeatoade• • T• fetle td 'torture an soweliandhes, makinial and whew marling Mote of the Porte and of the Levant, earning from UM den, and from all plicci arbere there are nu French Contialfferlea of Cossawreial R.lation, and which cannot, eunfequently, be as by their catilleatee, that thee emunointies do not Wm from the Eaglith commerce. This meafure emends to merchan dises from the Porte, mind with Coionial emonwilida, of w►ic► inliture the powerfid °Nat la, to mak the origin of thole em barked is England." There are upwards of forty neutral rails in the Dutch ports, which are prevented from failing by the French, under pretence that they are bound for Eng land; at the fame time it is known they hare DO fuel intention. This morning arrived a mail from Hamborgh, from which we' have feleaed the following articles : Maas, Fits. 22.—The French gattifon in Mantua will be reinforced with fix battalions of infantry and a fquadron of cavalry ; and the Magittracy of that city have received adds to prepare quarters for 340 officers. Maoato,' Fs'. ao.—;-About eight thoufand troops are already collated in the camp of St. Roch. The Duke de IRFANTADO and two other perfons of diflineion have been obliged to leave this capital within twenty-four hours. The Englilb Vice Conful at Barcelona, Mr. GlL avar,and tome other Elle;Omen who refided in the Bay of Rota; have been fent prifoners to the Citadel ; they are fufpeacd of having conveyed intelligence to the enemy. Pirsasstracm, Fu. t;. --The Coffacks of the Danube, who have been reflored to their military fituation, paraded before the Emperor on the tath ion. with their new colours, which they had received on that occafion. GINO*. Fla. t 4.—Plivate letters from Rome, dated the sob inn. fay—" A week ago we had fo dreadful an inundation, that the whole city, except ing only the elevated parts, Rood completely under water. Provifions were carried round to the inha tants in boats. The water in the ftreeta was from ten to as feet high.; and about 6o perfons were drowned." One of our Newfpapers mentions the following important piece of intelligence: "According to let• ters from Madrid, negotiations are aftually Rill going forward between Spain and England i and it was hoped in that city that a general peace would take sake plate in the courfe of the current year." Accounts we underßand have been received by Go. verument that the Lm•at.v fitgate, Captain Ham mon). had been difpatched by Sir jour ORDt to Ad miral Gicoaems, with the intelligence that on the 13th of February the Rochefort aptardon was lien one hundred leagues to the weR of Cape St,. Vincent, where it remained becalmed four days, and on the 17th failed a South-weft cootie. Admiral Coco lAN was on the gth ;ottani off the Tagus, In that the Rochefort fquadton has five weeks the Hart of him. The above account i► crinfidered certain ; if fo, the report of the French fleet having been off Madeira on the ad of February mull be falfe. We are at a lots to conceive bow the French fleet could Hill have been only one hundred leagues from Cape St. Vincent a month after failing from Rochefort. Their deffination is Rill matter of doubt. ORATORIO.—The Grand Seleaion from HANDZ L nitrated, left night, a very cronded audience. It was very Admirably Caltained in every par t. BETTI/10.R000111, MARCH EI....STATE OW THE 0000..w0AT. LANUS...Edit : 3 totot agft Julia.- 4 to it set any Other.-- &rood Ciao : $ to a agft Parafol. 7 to a agft Duxbury, 5 to t agft Eleanor, 7 to t agft Maiden, 8 to t agft Harefonte—Urea* btu t we Lord Egremont'a Waxy Colt. 7 to t agft Hafrino. 8 to I alga Newmark, : a totot agft Waxy, filly, out of Drab, tot agft Sifter to Julia. S N OC KING Ate IDs NT.—Yelerday afternoon, about five o'clock, Ledy RICHARD PRNIIVISAN Supped her chariot at the White Hurfe Cellar, Piccadilly, and ordered the coachman to hand a parcel out of the boot, which was to be fent from the Coach office to the country. When the coachman Rooped into the boot, another coach drove up behind, which caufed the hones of Lady KEIT man's carriage to take fright, being very fine blond cattle. They drove on, full (peed, till they GAHM to the end of Arlington- Rrect, down which they rapidly turned. The coach. MEI endeavoured to recover the reins, which he could not elk& ; and, in the tiruggle, he fell on the pole, which ran between the holies, from which be could not extricate himfelf. Arlington -greet not being a thoroughfare, the horfes ran with all the force they. could Reknit the railing at the end of it, which being only vaunted wood, quickly gave way from the (hock. The area was about is feet deep, and four feet wide. The pole cams againll the wall, and was b:oke to pieces,and the unfortunate coachman was precipitated to the bottom. One of the horfes fell after him ; the other being furpended in the railing, the body of the coach being placed on the area, with the fore wheel down. Several pet Guts who faw the accident ran to the (pot, and extricated Lady Pennyman front her perilous fituation, we are happy to fay unhurt, -but very much frightened. The coachman was car ried to St. George's Hofpital, in a doubtful Rate of recovery. The Prince of Waxes, followed by his groom, arrived on the (pot, and few Lady Plena. wan taken into :Surgeon's lhop, in Arlington Rreet, where the received immediate medical affißance and was afterwards taken home is a chair to her apartments, in Long's Hotel, Dover-greet. The horfe thatfell into the area was brought out through the hoof, into Park place, being on a level with the beet on that fide. Among thole who arrived to fee the accident were the Duchefs of ST Aurae's, Lords . SerTolll, GRANTHAM, QUIMBY. CargiDCMUILCHILL, aad the HAD. B. Qum. • • ' N . 4UTI44L pITELMGENCIL FALMOUTH. MAIM. 20.—Artived this day the American brig Regulator, Capt. Cutworm., in 32 days from New York, with 1070 hoglheads of Sour for a market ; the lefri ' ying_ at New York the Eliza. PAITIIIIOIII. and Leiceiter, BIER (packets); the lat. ter was expetied to fail in a few days with mail, for England; the Regulator Ipeke. a fiw days tince a large Spanith Drip, bound to Plymouth ; but the prize-matter on board would not give any particulars by what velfel the was captured; the alto (poke, in lat. 44). long. is. the American ( hip Oneida ie, for New York. all well ; AO arrived his Moja'', Chip Humber, Capt. HILL. from Plyntioth.--Saiied the Cockatrice, Lieut. Kollar, having on board the prifoners from the Spanilh privateer the Felicity, captured by the Kitty privateer, of London. The Lady Arabella packet. from the Leeward Wards, and Prince Adolphus ditto, from Jamaica, will be &only looked for. Wind South. PORTSMOUTH MARCH 22.—Arrived the Name. its frigate from the Weftward. Sailed the pecans frigate, to the %seaward, with fealed orders, and RoyaliS and Sea Nymph transports for Southsunp ton.—Wiod E. S. E. YAILMOUTII. MARCH 22.—Yellerday failed the PLY cutter, for the Tezel ; and the CATO armed (hip. on a cruize. Arrived the Scour flonp of war. from a anise. Several hoys are now in the offing. fuppofed to be detained by fome of his Majelly's Yellerday afternoon a boat belonging to the AIM* LOU, of so guns, having eleven men and one wo. man on board, upfet near the Jetty, owing to her not anfwering the helm, by which accident five num 'were drowned, viz. the MitithipM*ll, Cockfvrain, oa Mat kw, and two Seamen. Six men and the woman were laved by the ezertinns of the Sea Fencibles. FROM LLOYD'S 1•IS I% DIAL, MARIN sir—Arrived the Spray floop of war, from a cruise, and remains in the Downs with the Monarch, Utmcia, Centurion, Leopard, and the Ilia Pun of war, Canoe frigate, Rail fear, Vulture,Alert, and the Haws hoops of war, Volcano, Ea. *dun, Proi'pero Lucifer, Devadaduo, H.cLi , Difeswery, and Ze. bra bombs,* &et at gun-brigs. delitscr Mod N. N. It. . _ GIAVISZNO as-Paled by the hod SSICDCa. Kelm, and the Britannia. Birch, (rum Madras ; Duels& of Portland, Cleveland, from the South Seaq • Medway, Putts, from Virginia; sank, oibie, from Cadiz ; Hannals, Alberts, from Norway ; Edward Johanna, —. from Lear; Vrow Anna, Franke, and the Vrow Eleanor, Hutchins, from Enduleno—Saikd the Vrow Elizabeth, Meyer, for Toanlngen. - - Aamvers—At Live . the Princefi Royal, Norton ; Eliza bomb • and the , Durhunt, from AIM Hawk:Am y, Mateo, from 1.1 bun. At I .eith, Langley, Graham. from Lianas. At Clyde, Counters of Butc, M Kell/ r; Mary, Gibfoo g Hawke, Omay ; Fame, Brown ; Hope, Tr cher ; and tie Printers Mary, Ansierfoo, from Lase. The Spartfman, Stanton, from London and Litho. a, for Gibral• r is taken =4 carried into Algtfiraa. ih o N ort h btu, frum Liverpool for Hal ice, is on aims ,ar Holyhead. The Laurel. Taylor, hunt Liverpool fur Clyde, is loft in the 101 l of Calloway. The Pomona. ..—••• from Sundertan L arrtoath coals for T • was captured on Wed;eftlay Ldt, cite(,, into Portland, by a brig privateer; recaptured by t h e Gr,r hound revenue cutter, and carried into Weymouth—the J Pluto Ile pof Mr MCIU la parfait of the privateer. . . The C.ltrittiana Franco, ran Bethke for ueerpoot. Ceilcal from Tortola no the 26th of Arthcr LA, with a Ica under' convoy of the Emerald frigate. and bas nut knee been heard of. L'Etpciik (loop of war, wida u . eUtiV 4.4 fruit!' Dublin Sr the Downs, put into &aft on the r 4th Canal/LS ST Tat Flattil --The French 'privateer l'A, dolphe has taken near the Ilk ,d Wight the Ra yal Georgeott three malts, laden with corn. timbre, iron, fin, and ivory. Another French privateer ha a takcn near the Land's End the Anna twig, bound trout Dublin to London. Yeßerday a Court of Dire Elora was held at the FAIL India Houle, when Captain Ham Sruattoca, of the 'hip Preffon; an.! Captain Jou* Camattow, of the Jane, Duchefa of Gs idol', took their final leave of the Court, previoui • to departing for thkiras and Bargal. The Court ai journed at revert o'clock, till Wednefday next. Extra& of a Letter from an Officer of the Aran- Roo bomb, dated " Paul at Malaga. F.b. ia. " You will, no deli lit, ere this teitelica you, have received an account, through the foreign papers, of the capture and der' ruelion of hi t Maj•lty's oop Arrow, and Asher in hnmb, by ta o Frurch fii. gates, l'Hottenfe at .d I lncorruplible (the former with a broad pendant), f 44 got a each, h tying fra hundred troops of the I;ne on board. 1 have not at prefent an opport ur i y entering into the culars of the action. lam Ihut up here in a priton; for the Government has not yet thought proper to give us our parole. You mull therefore be fatisfied to know, in a genet. al way, that the aAinn was fur tained for a confider; .hle time againa 4 Vtr tuperioe force, and although t he Wee wa s onavoid,ib y tunate, we flatter our ielves it will be ciinfideted as re dounding to the cra lit of the officers and m:n of both vetfels. .4 The contell commenced at three quarters paR four in the morning o l fthe 4th init. Cape Pallas bear ing N. W. about twelve leagues, ani continued, not without intermilUon (but fuch intermlfitm as the enemy chofe to make) until eight, when the Arrow was obliged to (bike. Captain Farm!, HAR, of the Acheron, then made what fail be cool'', not with the hope of Caving the (hip, which, he troci4w ' firm her difabled date, was impraai c abl e , b ut i n order, if poffible, to fare the convoy. At three quarters palls eight, having in chafe received one broadfide - and part of another, the French Commodore's frigate being now clofe to the Acheron, Captain Fsagy at found himfelf under the painful, but unaroilable lie celPty of firiking to the enemy. The Arrow funk loon after the aaion, and the Acheron was found by the enemy to be fo difabled as to be unfit for service, in confequence of which they immediate y burnt her. We deem ourfelves very fin Innate in having only three killed and eight wounded, which, confidering the length of the edict!), and the great fupericuity of force oppofed to us, were remarkably few. " I was landed here on the loth intl. with all the officers and crew of the Acheron, from on board rHortenfe, which captured us. The other triple had the Arrow's crew on board. She parted from us the day after the anion, and we fuppote es gone to Alicant or Carthagena. " The day after the *Sion, I had the misfortune to fee the enemy dearoy three of the convoy, which, however, I have reafoa to hope, are all that have fallen into their hands. .4 I am at pretest confined in a room with fifteen other officers, betides Cements, and fereral wounded Wm Apia this treatment we have temonfliated, and to morrow we'experft our parole. In a fhort time, it is probable, we Sall be exchanged, and Cent to Gibraltar".