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. • .04 IXCOMS TAX. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, FEISRVARY • • cation more particularly to allude to the Charib lands in St. Vincent's. In laying there profpeas before the Houfe formerly, it did not occur to him, nor did it occur to him at prefent, that the fubjea to which the Right Honourablt Gentleman's quef tion applied would neceffarily be involved with the fubjea which he had announced for their future deliberations. Mr. CANNING profeffed himfelf abundantly fen. fible of the diftinaion to be made betwixt the Charib and other unappropriated lands which might be included in thole prepaid to be offered for tale. Objeftions might apply to the one whi c h would not in fairnefs bear on th e other. To the Pale of fome of there lands, without feveral im portant reftriftions and limitations, he could not accede, and therefore at a proper time he fhould feel it his duty to bring the fubjea to which he bad now only alluded under a regular difeuffion. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcH seam begged it to be underftood that he did not mean to apply bis obfervations wholly to the Ifland of St. Vin cent ; what he meant was, that to this illand his remarks fpecially and particularly referred, though be did not propofe by fnch a declaration by any means to exclude his Majefty's property to the other parts of his dominions in the Weft India Inane. Mr. Jonas, alluding to the notice of motion' which he had previous to the reeds mated to the 1 }lode on this fubjea, expreffed an anxiety to know 1 whether it was in the contemplation of his Majef- 1 ti's Miniftew to bring forward a diftina and fpe tific propoßtion on a point fo extremely interefting to the nation ? , The CNescisLoa of the Etta:knee was con. winced that the Honourable Gentleman and the Houle, on a flight confideration of the fubjea,' irould agree in ate propriety of his not anfWering the quettion now propofed. With regard to t* notice of motion which the Honourable Member bad given, he had to remark, that it appeared highly inexpedient for any Member to bring for ward i motion on this fillea till the intentions of GoveroMent could be afeatahltd i al what they bad in contemplation could have tome regularly within hi; knowledge. He held hiinfelf completely juftified, ender fi4. Ichmvhfilsoes, in refuting an anfwer to the opreftia. but he .could not help * pealing to 'die Honourable Member's own candour, that any rimiest was inexpediatiill the intentions of Government could be dikowered, In (eying this he sated it to* fully and cteartrunderflood, 110,044 that be held forth to the public no ex• LTrof the repeal of the Income .Tax ; that at a no Pledge, direa or implied, of the inten lion of Government t to prop* ruch 4 TePeal. His only objea, in raking the remarks, was to depre. ate r e ere difedidn. of the AAA.% Mr. ones declared his ' only objea to be a with to be ' d, whether It was the intentions of Govermheht to bring the fubjea of the Income Tax befOre the Houfe ? He wilhed Merely to know whether it,Was in contemplation that anT thing fhotdd bie done in accomplithing its repeal, or alio 'lain its pram? • With regard to the notice of motion, he was ready to follow the advice of the Right Honourable Gentleman, and to reft at i t prefent in the conviaion that if an thing could be done, it would be effected byhis jelly's Mini tiers. He, howeve r, referred the rig tof bringing forward the motion, if neceffary, at a future perio&. Adjourned till to-morrsw. . ~ I PECK OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT.ONE O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Codas, for 1111111/44.1...Dtte0. for ace. 69. Red 60-4 per Cent. 11,1 Nees s per Cap. 954. — Old 5 per Ceat. pStli— cog Ana. elf :5444 This day we reteilred the Paris foninali to the stft ultimo, inclufive. The Moil important part of their contents relates to the organization of the ei4tooso Cifalpine, but now IloSam Repair. The article will be reed pbliticians with Mitzi! rfi• tereft, and indeed it dthrves the fel-ions attention of all Statefinen. T%tc Conful of Frente, in compliance with the earosfi forstitatio: of the Cifal pine people, has tertafcaufed to gratify their wifhes by taking upon himfelf the arduous talk of being their Chief Direltore It rem: they cannot boaft in their whole country a !Ingle individual quali fied to fill the office of Firft Megiftrate ! In plen language, the Italian Republic is doomed, for a time at leaß, to be an engine, a mere tool in the•hancts of France I While this continues to be the cafe, would there be any Impropriety in Brirain being . eqUally foli citons for the welfare of fuch places as Malta and Egypt I In any fyilem that can be fpeedily organized in either of there, compofed of Mate rials furnifhed on the fpot, it would be impollible to find mad enough to guide the machine. This Country, like France, might thew a little muttered ethos, by kindly guiding their Reps, till they ac quire Rrength and wifdom fufficient for their own government Nothing of importance occurred la ft night on the meeting of the Honk of Commons. The rtfult, however, of the mea(ure alluded to refpeet tug the fele of the crown lands in the Weft India iflands may involve ferious confcquenees, if any thing be done heftily. Are new flares equal to at cultivation of all the Icing's property in there iilands to be imported? Heaven forbid! After all the pains that have taken to enlighten the public mind refpeiting this horrible traffic, we think it would be a libel on the jullice and hu manity of the country, to believe that any perfon whatever would be heard with patience, who fliould dare to propofe any mode of cultivat i o n ::::nneited with the deftrutlion of the huaSsa fpecies CORN MARKETS. • st.tax-taxr, WI N 3. This morning Wheat, flour, and the other forts of Grain, were at the fame prices as on Monday • At Warminfter ,market, on. Saturday laft, the prices of corn were as follows : wheat, by the quarter, 31. 3s. to 31. la s. ; barley, tl. os. to al. ts; oats, 11. as. to al. 61. ; ,bans, 21. Bs. to 31. A Court of Aldermen was held yeilerday at Guildhall. The price of bread was ordered to continue at One Shilling the quartern loaf. The Clerk of the Cocket Office, Manion Houle, deli- vered in an Account of Flour gild to the Bakers for the la( twelve weeks, amountim. to 195,417 racks, which is 16,284 nine-twelfths lacks confumed by the metropolis weekly. N4fUTILAI.,INT&LLIGENCE. 1 . POITSSIOUTN, PEI. 2.—This day &tiled his Ma- I jelly's !hip Sr. Fiozza co, of 36 guns, Captain PA reason, for Weymouth. Arrived the floop Ceres, Joi' Roosts mailer, from Chichefter, laden with our, bound to Liverpool; the MEDUSA, of 4.0 ET:Captain Goat, from a cruize ; and the Goon i ' ms, Captain rotate:swum, with part of the lath regiment on board, for Malta : She failed from Malta on the 3d ult. left there the (hip Wi i.- Luis and Amu, Captain Ba mime; alfo the PITT, Captain Otsiamo; both tranfports: alfo the fol lowing fiiips fafe at Minorca, on the a3d Dec. laft, viz. Sea Nymph, Captain Tim,. CHURCH; Betty, 1 Captain W. ROE SON ; John, Capt. LOTHEILIMOrou ; Prince George, Captain Wixsoa ; and Mourn,, Captain W. Smirk. The wind, which has been varying, is now about S. W. • YARMOUTH, 'as. a.—Yenerday aftermion ar rived the KING GEORGE packet L Captain MATH SW Flail, from Cuxhaven, with mails and paffengers: the mails were landed at Winterten, and imme . diately forwarded to town : the paffentiers .landed here this morning, confining of five French Gen tlemen and fervants. The Kiza Cloaca packet, Captain DIANN, which arrived here on Saturday, has failed to Norwich, to attend duty there. The EARL OF LRFCESTRIL packet, Captain CHAiLLAS TsoIoPSON, is hourly expated to arrive here from Cuxhaven... Wind S. w.—Freth breeze. The , Punta or Waits packet, Captain STUART, from Helimetfluys, landed her malls and paffengers at Lenveficiff, nine miles to the fouthward of this place. . . . Ave, Jam. sa.—A terrible hurricane came on yellerday morning, about (even o'clock, from the N. W.—. The brigs Caledonia and Ann, of Irvine, then Banding in channel from Dublin, in hallan, ' were drives on (pore a little to the South of the harbour; the forther totally difmallect, and the latter with only her foreman and howfprit ; for tunately the crews and paffengers got all fafe on (bore. The veffels have (offered no lots but in their rigging, and lie in a place of perfe& fafety. The hull of the brig Nancy, of this port, wrecked Come creeks ago, oh a rock near Lady Ifle,. where the (truck, and whence , every effort to get her off bad proved ineffeEtual, was, by the violence of the norm, drifted from it, with a confiderable part of her carpi' timber, and thrown on chore, near the Newton, where the went to pieces, but molt of the wood will be recovered. .... . DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The &Arrives and, le Tiuzz, for the capture of the Genoefe polacre the Conception, will be paid on the 4th inn. at the Swan, in Arundel•ltreet. The DtAosst, for the capture of the Aballita, will be paid the fame day, at the fame place. LLOYD'. LIST. GaAisszen, rota. a.—Pan by the Ocean, Sires', from Jamaica; Lord Lenox, LLOYD, from St. Michael's ; Elizabeth, --•--, froM Dieppe ; Con cordia,!--7, froth Valencia; and De Jonge Diuffe, —, from St. Valler'y.—Sailed the Adriatia; —.l--;., for Bermuda ; Amphitrite, --- , for Bour deanz ; Johannes, Woxt, for St: Croix ; Nicolas and Pieter, --, for Antwerp. At Cork• The Jenni. from • Chtforck In Margate Roads-014A Wallis,. from St. ilk's. At *Mai—Matta Dorothea, from Lifbon. At St. Vincent's—bids, Lane,from Africa; and Lady Shbre, Refs, from London. • At Martinitre•••Desklnglield, Cats; Wilding, Sparks; and Union, frini London. At Dominique--ThornakWindsr• front Landon. At Grenada—Fordtwle, Aiken; and Nimble, Loudon. At St. Croix—Ea°, kendall, from London. At St./Cites—Ann and Usti. from Newroc At Africa--Eolus, Walker, from Liverpool. At Surinam—Ands:if" Mos*, [rota Nance Ifland ; and Pitt, Tinvers, from Liverpool. The Thomas and Sally, frail Liverpool for Slip, has pelt Kilmer- The Ala, M'GIII. front the Leeward Mandl to Glafgovr, is on Owes at the Me of Man ; great part of the cargo The Harmony, Ilakd. from Philadelphia to Ireland, is on Store at Tumor& • ~ from from St. Thomas's to Chsrleßoo, is taken, asd carried ieto Porto Rieo. The Hansen* Beefielman, front Buenos Ayres and Rio, is ma into &wizens, end it is impaled will be condemned there. _ _ . Aas Jinn, from Cork ; the Mary Ana, from Liierpool ; and the Nymph, —, of Millet, are captured, And carried into Guadeloupe. The Norfditels, Thompfon, from Charlefton, for Alton, was totally lod on the aad of November. The Commerce, Underwood. front St. Croix to London, is pat beck to St. Kitts, and it is thought will be condemned. The Mks, from St. Tees to St. Michael's, foundered at !ea the Bth of Jan. crew favcd in the Dorothea Maria, from Lilbon, arrived in the Rivet. The lnduftri, Matthews. front Clyde and Halifax for St. John's, Now Almfwiek, is berm near the Say of Fundy. The Grafton. of and from North Shields for London, is on hot on the Holdernefs waft. The Extiongei ---, of and from Newcaftle, is totally loft en the emit of Holland. The Mary, Thrift, is Cupp ted to be on (bore on Saltholm. The Neptune, hPFarlanc, from Newfoundland to Liverpool, put into Oben about the web uh. The Endeavour, Teafdale, is loft on the emit of Pomerania. Crew beed. The Sally, Becket, of Lynn, Is wreefted In the Humber. The Henry, Hay, of Yarmouth, is put into Eallhoßissikahfs and will have to repair. The Harmony, Ander**, of Kirkaldy, from Dante* foss. dered in the Eat Sea the apth of Nov. Crew fatal. The Antoinette, Muller, from the Weft ladles, pat into El- Snore the Os eh. after having been on there, and throws) pert of hex cargo overboard. NABOB OF ARCOT. %Ire are glad to hear, for the fake of national honour, that the sininption, or more properly the durpation, of the Nabob's Territories, by the lialt India Company and its agents, will become the fubjeuct of Parliamentary dile...Mon. We under- Rand that this great gaeftlon will be taken up by a Gentle man whore talents are fully equal to the dignity of thc mat ter ;—one who has already reined fo Inteh renibwn for his Eloquent exertions to viatilicatt the charader of the &kith Na tion from the rnal-acroiratiralon of Its Pattern Satraps. The following will teud to llluftrate this interefting traufadion, and we hope we (hall be enaleltd to ley before our Readers many documents Rill farther to inform t'aeir judgment: To the. CHAIRMAN of the COURT of DIRECTORS, &c. Sir—Frons a pretty cztenfive knowledge of the affairs of India; I am perfuaded I Ihould not find it a difficult talk .to convince you that the Com pany's general mode of colleaiug their revenues, and even of adminiticring juffice, has for thefe laft few years been fully, as, bad • (if not much 'worfe), than that of any country power whatever, and that oceans of blood have been thed in the South, the North, and the Weft, in compelling your Ryots to pay their affeffments, and that in rpite of all your boafted conquefts, treaties, afrumptions, fequef. trations, &c. your prefent Governor General has entailed a bonded debt on you of near eighteen millions flerling, and which his Lordfhip will find he has contraEted with much more facility, than he will &vire means of difcharging : Why then, in addition to fuch extraordinary mifmanagement, do you commit fo great an ad of injuftice as to affume the entire territories of.a fovereign and inde pendent .Prince ; and is this meafure to be paired over as a mere common event, and neither to be canvaffed• by you, or difcuffed by the United Par liament of this country? What, .Sir, by a tingle ftroke of your Governor General's pen, to fee a territory allayed of five hundred miles of fea waft, and a population of perhaps eighteen mil lions—an event not occafioned by a fuccefsful war, but becaufe a Prince, your ally, had paid the debt of nature, and becaufe it was not agreeable to you that she family Ihould remain fovereigns any longer! But furely, Sir, when you. relied an inftant on the cruel . confequences of this meafure, your huma nity. will be awakened to a fence of juffice ; and when I idiom you.that,. notwithaandin . g the nu. merous branches of Old WALAGAU'E family are from a Rate of, opulence reduced to the utzhoft poverty by on indifcriminate feizure of all, their jaghires—that in the midiof fo much diftrefs the ladies of his haram have, from the fide of their jewels, fcraped together a few thoufand ponnds, which turn has been, remitted to this country with the defperate hope of compelling you by law to rettore the family to their rights—fhould their be fo peculiarly unfortunate as tolmeet neither j u Rite from you, nor protedion from the Legiflature of this country, to prove notwithftanding to the world that this meafure had long been planned, I infert the following extract from a letter of the late Mason, addre ff ed to Lord CLIVE, and which is written in a ftrain of the moft imprellive and feeling energy ; I Mall then leave it to abler perfons to vindicate the rights of this family, but I purpofe at a future period to enter more fully into the policy of this meafure, as far as it regards your general interefis in India ; and I Vag it will not be a difficult talk to convince any refiating mind, an we have now fo completely loft the confidence of our powerful neighbours, and have committed fuch unwarrant able acts in our own dominions, that in a very few years indeed the Britith Empire will lofe that coun try by their milkondua, winch they originally achieVed by their valour. I am, Sir, &c. (Signed) ASIATICLIE. =ARO rEOil A LETTER ADDRESSED IV HIS NIGNINESS 011- /MT UR °MIRAN BANADDER, LATE NAROII Or TUE CAR VATIC, TO TER RIGHT ZONOURAILZ LORD CLIVE, TRANS INTRD /UM tug PEESIAN LW ?Ni NAIIOIOI OWN NAND WEITINO. It is then the moll important duty of my life, a duty which I owe to my friends, and to the world, to my honour and charaaer as a man and as a fo verelgn, to detail to Your Lordfhip the opprefficin andinjury, and the infults and difgrace which I have fuffered by the fervants of the Company, and to demonftrate to your Lortlfhip, and to the world, that if I fail in my engagements, and that my country be at umed in confequence, the fault is not mine, and that my difgrace and ruin will be occa fioned folely by the conduit of the fervants of the Company. Nor will I fuffer without complaining. I will approach the throne of that wife, juft and merciful Prince, who governs his vaft Empires with the mild hand of a tender parent, and from him, my father and my proteaor, I will alk jut . - tice, and your Lordlhip knows that I shall not alk in vain. I will appeal to the Britifh Nation, whofe candour and generofity I am well acquainted with, who acknowledge no power beyond the Jaws by which they are governed, and who are ever ready to efpoufe the caufe of the oppreffed ; they will Wien to my grievances with the ear of attention and the feelings of benevolence ; nor will they re main inaaive in my behalf.—Every confederation which is dear to me in life piompts and urges me to make there unequivocal avowals to your Lord fisip. Hitherto I have confined myfelf to entreaties and fupplications, and which by many may be re garded as too humiliating, and below the rank I hold in life ; but to my own breaft I Rend acquit ted : my motives were the molt pure and honour able, and I was encouraged to hope that they would have had due weight with your Lordfhip, and procured a redrefsoithofe grievances of which I complained; and I repeat that it would have af forded to me the higheß gratification to receive at your Lordthip's hands that fatisfaCtion which I felt myfelf compelled to folicit, and to which my fuffer ings are jullly entitled. But, in Read of redrefs,your Lordlhip has not taken any notice of my complaints, and my wrongs are permitted to accumulate. When there truths (hall meet the confederation of the impartial, will it not be faid, that finding me punaual in , my kilts and the fulfilment of my engagements, as delineated by the Treaty, there did not appear any profpe& of acquiring the poi - - fawn of my country, and that therefore the fer vent: of the Company were allowed to deftroy my authority, to intuit and difgrace me, to imprifon and fcourge my people, to prevent Soucurs and Merchant, from having any tranfadions with the Circar, to pot a ft.)p revemtcs, art prozur: improper tLitimony against me. „td, A Hulbandman had a rich anti exienfive garden, tair.as the face of nature, planted with tail and majellic trees, whore fruit hung in vail elnfttr, like arml'e t s clamber, tinged by the ruhy's brighteft hue : a river, delicious as the Itrearns of Samer kanct, flowed through it, margined by the mull de. lightful verdure, adorned by bowers that diffufed odoriferous Tweets, which, like the mufk of Koten, perfumed the air. The Hufbandman had a large family and numerous dependants, and from the produce of the garden they enjoyed the gaieties of profution, beneath the wide fpreading vine of con tentment. A Stranger from a far distant country appeared amongft them : the door of hofpitality was opened to him, and he was welcomed with the embrace of fincerity. The Hufbandman addreffed the ftranger, and his language was devoid of guile ; you !hall refide with us, and we will be brothers. Our intereft (hall be one, and we will reciprocally air& each other ; a portion of this garden (hall be your's, and from the remainder, which PROVI• DENCI has bleed with abundance, you !ball have a (hare of the choiceft fruits in common with us. The Stranger tuned the inftrument of joy, and Tung in praife of generofity and friendfhip, of candour and fincerity ; but alas ! the words of the aranger flowed not from the heart : in the neighbouring towns he loon formed connexions which rendered him powerful, and he followed the guidance of ambition. He complained to the Hufbandrnan that the compatl which had been formed between them had been departed from ; that the fervants of the Hulbandman had committed outrages and violence againft his people and poffeffions, and that in order to create fecurity againft future depredations, the feparate authorities (hould be united in one, and that he fhould hold the reins. The Hufbandman heard with forrow the fuggeftions of the Stranger, and the thorn of afffitlion pierced him to the foul ; he placed in his view the occurrences of former times, and preffed on his confideration the unfoli cited kindnefs which he had received when accident introduced them to the knowledge of each other. The Stranger heard the Hufbandman with indiffe rence, and treated him with contempt. The dwelling of the Hufbandman was no longer the mat:lion of fecurity ; the people of the Stranger deftroyed his bowers; the trees of the garden were deprived of their fruit, ere they had been touched by the hand of maturity. Scarcity and want (talked through the once enchanting fpot, and the vine of content vied withered and decayed. The Stranger viewed the dreary change with exultation and triumph, and charged the Hufbandman with miliondud and abufe of power. The tongue of malevolence dwelt on the theme ; and the world, in recounting the misfortunes of the Hufbandman, fpoke of his mif conduit and his abufe of power, and exclaimed— he is juftly punifhed. The Huibandman's anguifh burft forth, and he laid—the chilling blahs of ca lumny have deftroyed the fair blofroms of my fame, and the voice of friendihip is heard no more with in my habitation. The fun of my glory, by its lengthened Bade, (hews how nearly it has ap proached the region where darknefs commences,and where all is horror. My generofity has proved in jurious to my profperity—my fincerity has procur ed reproaches, and the friend of my bofom turns againft me with a hoftile hand. Crushed are all my hopes, and the profpeel of happinefs vanilbes from my fight—the rote has fallen, and the (talk, with all its thorns, alone remains in my hand.— What can I write more ?----My Lord, I complain —I complain !---I complain ! Mr. Astorr attended yellerday in the Houle of Commons, where he received many congratula tkm upon his fafe return. General TR IGGE and Admiral DUCKWORTH were on the 3oth November inverted with the order of the Bath at Antigua with great pomp, in the pretence. of Lord LaviNcrom. The immenfe Park of Artillery collefled during the war at Canterbury, is now removing from thence to its original Elation at Woolwich. The 66th, or Beikthire Regiment of Foot, has been I 8 years on foreign fervice. The firß divifion of the 3d Weft York Militia marched from Edinburgh Caine on Saturday morning, and the fecond divilion next morning for Doncafter. The other div ;lions were to funny* on Monday and yellerday. They are replaced by the Lochabcr fencibles from Stirling. General ',ACROSS e, before the publication of the iniportant Manned() which we yefterday laid be fore the public, had received the following Official Letter from the Minifter of the Marine : " Paris, A 2 Vendemiaire, An to. " I cannot, General, fend Difpatches diredt to Martinico, before the Signature of the Definitive Treaty, and the epoch of the reftitutien of that Mind; but you will profit of the facility of communication afforded by the fliort diftance, in order to announce to that Colony the difpolitions of this Government, not to soh nip any thing refpo.rting the prefent condition of the Slaved, nor other Colonial Regulations. You arc authorifcd to give this poitive afforance. You wiU at the fame time make known the refolutlon which has been taken to forget, and caufe to be forgotten, every thing which may formerly have been done in oppefition to the interefts or the orders of etc mother country, that we may now enjoy the bleffings of a happy re union of family under the Confuter authority, Which receives and pretedts all its Members with as much vigour as benefi cence. I falute you, " DECRIII." Cetera' LACROSSE has fent a Cop 7 of this let ter to Madame LA Pao ERIE, at Martinico, mother to Madame BONAPARTE, with the following lion' himfelf : "Rofeau, (Dominica,) oa. lc. " I batten, Madam, to inclofe a copy of the official letter of the Minifter of the Marine and Colonies. You will thcrciu fee the rdolution of the French Government, which, :tier rc itoring tranquillity to all the inhabitants of Europe. willies to emend it to the unhappy inhabitants of the Coloniei. I fulfil perfonally a duty dear to my heart in alluring you, tii.it the difpofit ions thus announced by the French Covet omens to main tain in the Colonies, the Ram of perfons fuck as it Was in times of the greateft profperity, is not a political pretence intended to be fubordinate to circumftances, it is really and truly a fyftern adopted as folio' and rtafonable, the maintenance of which I guarantee to you.—Therefore conquer all the dares of your friends, your compatriots. The ddiniums of the revolution arc at an cad for ever : the re-union of an is confunum.ted the importance of the Colonies is felt by the Mother Country, sad we (hall now have no objedt but to Wore the happinefs of the inhabitants, who ought always to have enjoyed it."