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ufe more falt, on amount of their living principally on vegetable food. He thought the Hon. Gentleman who Spoke before him had mifiaken drawbacks for bounties, and concluded by laying, it was not on ac count of the quality of the fah ufed in Scotland, but becaufe the people were not able to pay fo high a duty, that the Miniiter had propofed to lighten the Tax. Mr. ROSE role to explain, and alto to entreat the Foerty of the Houle to turn afide charges of mil. takes and mif ftatements which had been impuredt o him (a cry of order front the *Ore fads) : he was al. lowed to proceed, and argued snore fully in favour of the advantages of drawbacks. • Mr. JOHNSTONE explained. The SECRETARY at WAR entered into a cal. culation of the different Duties on Salt paid by Scot land and England, fince the commencement of the Tax. Mr. DUNDAS underflood, that finee the Union, down to t 798, t! taxes on falt in England and Scot lAnd, bore a proportion to each other : in that year, he laid, an addition of five fhillings was laid on the kingdom at large ; but that it was found to be fo nn. fair a duty, that in the year after it was lowered with refpeft to Scotland. The Honfe then divided—For the third reading, 91---Againa it, 34—Majority 38. When (hangers were again admitted to the gal let), an amendment was agreed to, and added as a rider to the Bill, all raving a drawback of as. upon all coarfe fall exported from Scotland. The Bill was then pallid. • PACITIATT TAX. • . • The CHANCE LLOR . of the EXCHEQUER moved the order of the day for the third reading of the Bill for the Augmentation of the Property Tar. Mr. FOX rote, not to oppofe the voodoo on the grouted of his original objedion to the tar, but mere ly to enter his protect againft thisfpecics of increafe. He would .not. now inquire, whether the tax was found:d in frond policy, though .if at all jultifiable, it was:ll.lll;64We only as a war tar.. Bat even in that cafe, tome limit ought .to be let . to it at the com mencement of a war, loch as the fire per cent. at the commencement of the prefent war, which the Houle Ihould determine not to exceed, aisles (Dine very ex traordinary and unforefeen circumftances should vire, its to the nature and duration of the war. .To in. create it ccntinually ty an annual per centage, he thought moll unfair. A facility of augmenting it year after year, would thus be created and ailed upon, till little of the property of the country was lett is its original hands. It was no anfwer to this, to fay, that 90 years of war would be need:ay, before the whole property was taken at the rate of the prefcnt increafe. as nobody conceived that the whole, or any thing like the whole, could in any circumilances be taken. It was beyond a doubt, that filch a tax, if carried to any great height, dirOtly took away the property of the people, and tended to alienate the a4eaion of the fubjefl, more than any other meafure of taxation whatfoever. The CHANCELLO Rof the EXCHDZUE R beg. ied >A enter his rota agaisilt the printiplc laid down by the Hon. Gentl:man, which was dangerousto the country, aad contrary to the principle of all Parlia mentary proceedings—he swam that of tying up the hands of Parliament at the commis , .u.ent of wwar, as to bow far it would avail Waif of any one of the iefoUrces orthe nation. He agreed au: - nature pas not eafy to be augmented, but n was fo *dangerous as that Parliament ihould impole any limit upon itklf with 'TAIRA to the nfe which it Aould snake of any of there* refoorces, to anfwer the.desaands which the public affairs asay create. The Bill was then read a third time. Lord TEMPLE propofed a elanfe, by way of rider, for exempting the pay and allowAnces of fub• ahem officers from this rax. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER faid, nothing was more lexceptionable than the ex emption of any particular clafs of men from a gene. ral tax. If any relief was intended for the Gentle men who were the objea of the clank, this was the worn way in which it could be given. - Lord TEMPLE Paid his principal object in pro poling the claufe was to afcertain whether any relief •as intended. If the- Right Hon. Gentleman would fay there was fuch an intention, he would not prefs the claufe. The CHA N CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not pledge himfelf, nor enter into any detail on a point which lhould be made the objek of a fc parate confideration. It depended on a variety of circumnances whether it would be prudent. to ;liclalge the difpofition which he had no doubt every Gentle man had. to render the fituation of the clafs of Of& cus alluded to more comfortable. The queftion for bringing up the claufe was nega tived.—Adjourned. .11/lA:BURGH MAILS. CONSTANTINOPLI, J AN. 22.--The vidory which the Pasha of Bagdad has gained in perfon, at the head of his troops, over the Weclia'ai., is confirmed by late accounts. As the greater part of tliefe enthutiatti have been killed, taken, or wounded, it is fcarcely to be expelled that they will be able to collect again in any kind of a regular body. The report that a new alliance has been concluded between Ruflia and the Porte, and between thofe two powers and England, has been officially contra ditled ; the Porte means only to continue and fulfil the conventions the catered into with thofe powers during the latt war, after the attack of the French. FLORENCE, s. z.—A convention has been con. eluded between Aullria and France, by which it is agreed that no more troops (ball, on either fide, be fent to Italy. NA ruts, Faa. 6.—A Danilh (hip which arrived on the 24th oidantiary, reports, that the met in the Straits of Gibraltar, a Ruffian (quadron, and that the 1,4 d teen a Ruiragn this) of the line not far from Meffina. . Sc ua toast, Matte,' 1.--Letters from Genoa, of the : eth February, five, that it has been agreed between the French and Neapolitan Governments that, in the pi-dent eireinnfiances, the King of Sudinia, who has returned to Gaeta, (hall go on board a Ruffian fri• gate and proceed to the ifland of Corfu. Prince FIRDIVAND of Wittenberg, Governor of Vienna and Lower Atifiria, h.ts fet out for Peterf- burgh. The ()Ned of his journey, in all probability, i$ ut a political nature ; and it is believed that he is charged with a diplomatic mit:Goo. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. MARCH t3.' •• . PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE-O'CLOalt • Confab, for money. 311}1—for Ate . 58 ii - ‘ o mnhnn PRICE OF stoma YESTERDAY. Bank Stock ihut India Binds is. as. dif. 3 per C. Red. Ann. bat Imp. 3 per Cent. syi slf 3 per Cent toot 311f1 Imp. Ann. 91 9-36 4 per Cent. Phut Ezelseq. Ms par re. dit 3 per Cent. Navy °trillium 41 pram Ensiiih Tickets in turr; te°1,1.79f1;: at tfa Coot. for see.silif Short Ann. ghat DUBLIN, MARCIE B —Each. Dublin 00 London 91 a 91. In the Houfe of Commons, la( night, on the queliton for the fecocd reading of the Bill impoling the additional Tar on Horfes ufed in Hufbancity, the Houfe divided ; when there appeared for it only 73, again( it 76—majority 3 aping the Minifter. The next queflion was on •the Salt Duty, when 92 were for the' Tax, and only scagainll it, leaving 3 majo. rity of 38 in favour of the meafure.—The Tax on Holies was taken for 320,0001. ; of courfe a fubai. tute mull be found to that amount. • The Catholic Delegates had an audience of Mr. PITT yefterday, at haltpaft , twelve o'clock. He treated them with attention, but refuted to prefent the Petition, under the prefent circumfiances. Eleven Hamburgh Mails have arrived. The fo. reign.joornals, which we had only time to glance hef tily over, feem to prefent but little novelty. But our private accounts (late, that a body of French troops had appeared before the city of Lubee,anddemanci ed of the citizens two millions And a half of marks, with a threat, that if this demand was not complied with, they would take porelßon of tie city.. It is added that the Emperor of Raffia ii fo much.diffatif hed with the condua of Boa APAITI, that he had or- . dered a conliderable body of troops to be cmbarkecl in order to join the Ruffian forces in the neighbour hood of Italy. We announced yeßerday the arrival of the EaR India beet. We this day kefent our Readers with fome interelting details from our &Reza poffeffions. On the ad of September the At neon and, SUPTII I men of war, from St. Helena, anchored in -Madras Roads, and the following day the Alit and Bengal; Ito which place the fhips of war had rarely convoyed the Canton fleet of 141 year,,isoUnd to Englando- The Alia and Anna, of Bombay, end the Alaaandes; and three Portuguefe veffels from Calcutta, al) bound to Canton, hid palled Malacca earlyin Joly. , - A few days before theta() India fleet failed from Madras, intelligent..: was received that thet Colonel . Mo snot, while 01 , -!.:* mSrch with a detachment, of 100 men to 1 . .'1 the forces about to engage Hoc . . was forced to an anion by the_enemy, ...tfo're he could effeet ajunaion with the The fuperiority of the entity was fo Kest, that CoL Monson wu defeated; two regiments of ;gantry are raid to have been cut to pieces, and two regi menu of native infantry deferred, which had greatly encouraged Hot.zat and his army. The extent of the defeat was not known when the flips failed, but it is feared that it has been very great. It is further Rated, that he mutilated feveral offi cers of ditlinaion, who had fallen into his hands, and fent them back to the Britifh c'amp, in the molt de plorable condition. Upon enquiry, we find that no official accounts ha , e been received to this effea. Intelligence had alto been deceived at Madras of, the fuccrfs of a detachment under Col. MAILTINDALI againfl a banditti of Buodellabs in the Bundelcund, without any material lofs on the fide of our troops. Some time ago it was Rated in the American Pa pen that the Prench had captured in the WI Indies the Princefs Charlotte and the Upton Cattle. We are lorry to date, that by the accounts now received, the former appears to have been taken. The latter is probably wrong named, and meant the Stirling Cattle, which has alto been captured, and likewife the Byramgore. The two LA were country chips. Admiral Limon was Peen on the Bth of September by the Portuguefe !hip Gram Para, from Litton, which arrived in Madras Roads on the tads of the lime month, of Point de Galle, in company with three frigates. Admiral Ratans, in company with the Amos, had failed from Madras in quell of Limon, leaving the Scarras to guard Madras Roads. For other particulars fee the fneceeding columns. Yeßetday, at one o'clock, the former Sheriffs of London and Middles:, viz. MelTrs. Co: and Raw time, furrendered themfelves into the ccftody of Mr. NEWMAM, the Keeper of Newgate. They were ac companied by the Serjeant at Arms, and the Hon. Mr. FAN I, M. P. who was bound for their appear ance till the time allowed for their furrender. They occupy three apartments in the State fide. The Marquis of SALISSUIT, and a number bf the Lord Lieutenants of the different Counties, had a meeting yefterday noon with the Cseaactsama of the i Esc H KS/ 11, in confequence of his impending motion on Friday next relative to the Redusaion of the Mi• litia, allowing them to volunteer into the Regulars. EATEN COVENT G•EDEN.—Their M•IIISTIES and the PRINCE Sll3 again laft night vifited this The atre, which was extremely crowd e d wi t h e l egant company.—The performances were, 4 4 To Marry or not to Marry," and •i Cot of Race," both which leaned to give much etitcrtaitiment to the Royal party. — The loyal and patriotic longs were fung in full chorus as ufual. NAUTICAfL INTELLIGENCB. MAILS THIS DAY.-..qlAd & E,.• AIR. DUE. ARIL DUB. Dunn 2 ' Halsborgb i Wau I rford • 0 4 Gotzentough o s Ltrearoor, MARCH t t.—On Wednefday arriv ed here the Spanifh fhip St. Ana, alias Noftrea Her manos, from Vera Cruz arti the Havannah for Ca. diz and Malaga, laden t:•ith 60,000 dollars, 242 chelts fugar, 1800 pieces logwood, 368 cwt. cocoa, 69 bags wool. &c. captured on the 14th ult. off St. Mary's. by the Lady Francis, private fblp of war, Captain Haw aims, of this port, who was left all well. • • • YAIMOUTH, MAICH, 12.-.-This Morning• the Di •pna Packet, Capt. STILWART, arrived here from He ligoland, with 6 mails. and . 6 bags with difpatehes, fifteen foreign and Englifla Paitengerc, and upwards of 5o recruits. The Lark, Capt. Detr.. and the Auckland, Capt. Ham mon D o am hourly 'expeCted, as they failed with the Diana from Heligoland. The .Flora of and from Stettin, Jolla Hot.: mailer, bound to Hainburgh, and laden with fugar and coffee. was loft off Heligoland the sth tuft.; the crew are all fared except one man. —Arrived the Smira gon•brig, from Sheerpefs ; and armed !hip, Lieut. SPURR airy. The flips of war here costal of four fail of the line,' two frigates, 'five !loops, three gun-brigs, acid two cutters. Wind S..E. • f b OILTSMOUTH, Maacta la.—Sailed thoCasToz fri gate to the eaftward t and an armed defence Chip with a convoy for the Downs. • Dj•L, MARCH :z.—Sailed the VULTURE aoOp of war for Sheernefs. Arrived the Lioritari and Taus- TY men of war; SPY, BONETTA, and SPEEDY floops of war; BITER and Fuatous gun brigs, from a cruize off the French coati, and remain in the Downs With the reit of tl:c !hips at per laft. Wind S. W. • PLYMOUTH, Marco t t.—Late laft evening arrived here th: CENTURION, of so guns, Captain LI ND, floc: St. Helena, from which place the failed the 13th Ja nuary laft, having under her convoy the following Sips : Britannia, David Scott, Earl Spencer. Lnrd Melville,-and Euphrates, Eaft Indiamen. from Ma dras and Coati of Chili, for London ; Juno, —, William, , and Dnchefs of Portl an , —, from the South Seas, for London ; ansfthe Fanny fchooner, that bad been trading for thins and furs, from which they patted yefierday off the Deadman and the is talin c ut up Channel. About a fortnight be fore the fleet from Madras, the Ca . :mum:l, of go guns, then being at onebor in a Bay on the Cleft, having under her convor.the•Charlotte extra Indiatnan, which war colleting bale goods *bete, a frigate, one of Limo:l's fimadroteartivad, and conceiving them to be' Emit Indiaraen, fired into the Cavi/atom, but the retorn lbe .keeeived loon convinced the ,Frenchmen of their error i feteral of their ports being driven into qne by a well &react' fire, they immediately wore fkie L and made off. The Malmo*: bd . 84. - kuni, being in the offing,, flood in, and gaffed the CasTuatom's (tern, and raked her, but the guns not being: well direiffed, did not do much damage: the CENTURION was not Ws Rate of fighting, beT•decks, booms, &c. being full of calltsdbmber, &c.: however, this did not deter the Britith tar', for under all thole difadvantages, they gave the French Admiral three cheers, cut their cables. hard llOod further - into the Bay, to ptcvent the legate from getting — Wide of her, by which the Cskruaiow would have been placed between two fires:. the again anchored with finings on her cables, land was again ready to receive her opponents : the Marengo alio anchored, and commenced a very brilk firing, but a; fo great a dillance, that little damage was elated: the CENTURION returned the fire, and the anion was then continued until the French frigate bad fucceeded in cutting nut the Charlotte, when the gallant Admiral got under weigh, and with the fri gate made off with his prize. The CENTURION was, and is now, commanded by Captain LIND, Captain RAINIER being on (bore tick at the time : it does not appear that there were any killed on board the Cam - roams:, and only one man wounded : the action feems to have been a very gallant one, on the part of the Englitb, a► the enemy's force was very fuperior, and the CEHTURION at the time in the worft poffible condition to receive them.—Came in the Bremen gal riot Teutonia, Captain Pum DI, from France to Spain, laden with wheat, detained by the NAIAD, of 38 guns. Sailed on a ernize, the nose, of 36 guns, Hums's, of 14 guns, HELENA, and ESPOIR, of a guns each. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. His Majefty's fhlpCesrtUn',Tej,wi;;;lleEalt India Company's hips Lord Melville, Lenox ; David Scott, Jones ; Earl Spencer, Rake; Bettinnia, Birch; and extra (Lip Euphrates, Welfteed; arrived Is Plymouth Sound the.tcth iultant, failed from Fort St. George the at ft of Odtober, arrived at St. Helena the 3tft of De cember, 1804, end failed from thence the 13th January lett. The Marebienek of Exeter, Nam; and the extra hips Fame, liaker ; and Sir William Bentley, Rhode, arrived at Fort St. George the 37th of July, and failed for Bengal the tBth of Aortal. The Lady jam Modes, Lindley ; and Lord Helicon, Orroek, failed front Fort St. George the 3d of Augult, and were to touch at Mare/Mum ip their way to Bengal. The Glatton, Drummond ; Cireueeller, T. Robertfon ; and Winchelfm, Campbell; arrived at Fort St. George the t9th, and proceeded on their voyage to China the alit of Anguf, wider 'convoy of his Majefty's hips Dedaigneufo and Dallier. The Bengal, Canine ; and Afta, Fremenhke,arrived at Fort St. George the 3d, and were to fail fur Bengal the 9th of September, thee. Pass RR LORD MELIFILLECOIODeI W. VigIDS, Ma dras Eftablihroratt ; Lieutenant •Colooel W. Wilton, ditto, ditto ; Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hunter, Bengal ditto; Captain Lilian, Ma. dim ditto; Sir John Bulkeley, his Majefty's 33d regiment; Mr. IL Nicholls, t9th ditto ; Lieutenant M•Lean, sad dragoons; Lieu tenant J. Fogerty, lath regiment; Lieutenant J. Rift, —; Lieute nant H. Fletcher, 77th ditto ; Lieutenant J. Campbell, 94th ditto; lansee t sast Lieutenant H. Newington, Ma dras Ellablihment ; Matter Walter ions, child. LIST CIP PAUL/1011a PLR EARL SPIMC/11811' A. Dixon, Bart. Major Nagle, Major Devito'', Captain Gaup, Mrs. Gaup, Captain Ledger Hanfard, Mr. R eynolds, Mrs. Reynolds, died et St. Helena, January 12,1804 ; --- mil —4 _1) wrap, Mr. katts, Mr. Wat fon, Mr. Webiter, Mr. E. l'homfon, Mils Lomita leCynokls, Mlfs Elko Reid, Mifs Eliza Harrb, Mifs S. Mackenzie, Mils Eliza Gasp, MI6 Philippine Gaup, Mafter Cori Gaup, Matter William Harris, Matter Stephen Bagihaw, Matter George Cochrane, Met ter Charles Armftrong, Matter George De Gray, Matter James Nakic, Matter George Winn, Matter James Bagiltaw—Charles Raitt, Commandant ; James Fairfax, Flrft Officer ; J. Goodin% Second Officer. -------- LIST or PAIISENOIERS TYR 'BRITANNIA.-.0010061 0d Mrs. Kinky, Honourable Colonel A. St.'Leger, Mrs. M•Mabso, Mn. Gordon, Mica )Lydell, 11-few:mama Grier, Tooracod. t.M Oor• don ; Vlr. Saumarez; Captain Jeffries and Children; MKS C. Kcon y, Mita G. Dick, L. Dick, Wis A. Miry, Mar. bakidlfs P. Gordon, Matter G. W. * Maley, Meer I'. Klafiry, Miter juha Bele. Peter Howland, from St. Heltaa. SUPPLEMENT TO THE MADRAS COURIER. WED. NESDAY, SEPT. 26, 1804. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM YMAGAPAT•II, DIVrED ssrr. 18, tBo4. " The 1 - lonntirede Company's lhip Princefs Char lotte arrived at this pots on the evening of the 1 4 and his Majefly's Ihip Cesruaton, cf 50 guns, Cap mitt ' LIND, anchored in the Roads the following morning. " At feven o'clock this morning three fafpicintis (hips H ere obferved in the offing, (landing in under a prefr of fail. At eight they (poke each other, and gave us reafon . to believe they were an enemy. The weather-molt of the two frigates then hoilled French colours, flood dole round the Indiaman (who firucg her colours without receiving or 6: ing a gun) and commenced a fire upon the CENTURION, which was inflantly returned in loch a (lyle, as drove her off in a few minutes, with a prefs of fail to leeward. " Immediately after a large line of battle (hip, Int - pored to be the Marengo, Admiral Lima, of So guns, with a heavy frigate, bore down upon the Cavort/atom, and after an engagement of about 39 minutes, the flag (hip and frigate bore off and flood after the other frigate, when they all came to in the offmg. ' ^ As loon as the fmoke cleared, we obferved his Majelly's (hip Cr sr int ton, who had received damage in her rigging, was under weigh to occupy a pofi tion in (bore, which would preclude the poffibility of her being furrounded, where (he anchored with a fpriag on her cable. •' " At half pail eleven, the French line of battle (hip and one frigate came down from the fouthward and windward of the Claruarow, with an apparent determination to engage her clofely, but to their eternal difgra:e, they opened their fire at a long and cautious diliance, where the flag (hip anchored, the frigate taking up a pofition on the CENTURION'S quarter, both keeping up a tremendous fire upon his Majefly's (hip, which continued about an hour, and was returned with that coolnefs and refolution which ever marks the Briti(h feaman, and which ultimately obliged the enemy to give up a contell fo unequal, and gloriose to the King's (hip, and to (beer off. The CENTURION giving the large (hip a raking fire as (he pre( her flern. , g In the courfe of the aelion the after frigate came down to the Indiaman while her contorts !acre en gaged, and the is now in their pofteffion. The Bur naby country (hip, Captain WATT, ran on fhcre, and by this judicious precautrua was prevented from fall ing into the haads of the enewvy. 4 6 On the firfl appearance of the French fquadran four ta-pounders were Manned at the Fort battery, and kept up a (harp fire.as the (hips came. within reach. A detachment nf &cloys were embarked in boats, for the defence of the Honourable Company's (hip, but her colours were (truck before they reach ed her, and they were recalled. " His Najefty's (hip has moll nobly fopported the honour of,the Britifh flag. The French fquadron are now (landing with a profs of fail 10 the eafl ward, and at prifent evince no difpofition to renew the attack. “ In tbic at±bon the French ftinadron, and partica latly the line of battle thip, betrayed the greateft irre folution.” EXTRACT OF A LITTER, DRIPED THE 19TH TNIT. At nine o'clock yefterday evening, the Freud& fquadron changed their courfe to the Northward, (landing up the Bay before the wind. The Indiaman has been difpatched to the South-EA. The CiNTu alou has warped to her old anchorage." MADRAS COURIER, SEPT. 26, lane. Letters were received on Monday evening from Vi zagapatam, which hate that Aalmi-al Littots, in the Marengo, and accompanied by two heavy fri gates, had approached thefe roads. He was re ceived by Captain LIND, in his Majelly's (hip Ckli. ruatom, of so guns, with the utmott (pith and gal lantry. The firft conteft laved for half an hoar, and the fecond nearly the fame length of time ; for it ap• pears there was an inte r v a l o f - one hour and a half. Thus did a Bridal 5o gun fhip fullain the fire, and in fad, repute the utmoa efforts of a French one of 8o guns. The Cestruatom has eight men wounded, and her malts and rigging much cut. The Princefs Charlotte was captured without refinance. Captain WATT, of the Bombay, ran his fhip on afore, and thus laved his valuable cargo. The Lucy Maria, Captain Dawes, failed from Bengal for China ; and her non-arrival at her deftin ed port has created great alarm for her fafety. A contagious and deftruilive malady had appeared on board during her palFage, and had, in the courf e o f a few weeks, deltroyedneay the whole of the Ihip's com pany, whelp the few that remained alive were, from illnefs and accumulated labour, unable to navigate the (hip. In this diftreffed &tuition, Captain Dawes had put into Amboyna • the fhip was taken polfef lion of by the Dutch Governor, and tent into Ba tavia. Only tbree of the crew furvived. By letters received from Bombay fo late as the 28th of September, it appears that at that period no account whatever had been received of the Prince of Wales ; fo that a (pace of four m ont h s h o d dapfed face t he dorm , which had moil probably proved fatal to her. MARK-LiftvE. COIL* SICHANCI, !COACH 13. The arrivals of Wheat and Flour are numerous. particularly from the North and Scotland, sittc.h caufes little (ales, and the& at a reduaion. At the clofe of Monday's market, Wheats were rather at leis than the general currency—Barley is in good fup ply ; that, with Malt, at (mall differences as are Peas of each kind—Tick Beans, being much in demand for (hipping, .re dear—We have many arrivals of Oats, and this trade is quoted at a declenfion of price— Flnur has very little Pale. GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER. Mat, 762. 900 100 per qr. Gray Peafe 4os• to 4.35• Fme Ditto. sob. star, 04. HAIM, 434 49% CA. Rye, sia. 62a. 021. Tick Ditto 42r. 4E2. 04 80ng12446 495. Cd• Oats, 262. 292. 3 ts. Malt, 765. 1124. 44. Poland ditto, 325 33s 04 Wbite Peak, 445. ar. Od. Ougoefoil, Rape Seed, 41L to 471. per la E. PRICE OP FLOUR. Ilse FlasoSse. to pos. Snoods Bea to Sp pas tack. • ; ,