Star. — London, England, 1806-03-29 00:00:00

Merit of having done their duty. As to the publicity of the financial Ratements, this was owing to that great man, the lofs of whom the country had In much reafon to deplore. He had probed the fubjett to the bottom, and it was impoffible to make the accounts more pedal than he had made them. He did not • with to enter now upon the tares particularly, but he mutt obferve that fome of them would require a great deal of confideration. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that he had charged the late Adminiltration with the frauds and perjuries committed in the Weft Indies. He had only Rated a matter of tad, namely, that fuch frauds had exifted, and did cult, and that neither had they been prevented, nor had the offen ders been brought to jullice. As to an eulogium on himfelf, he had only Rated the neceffity of economy, and the refolution of the prefent Government to ad here to it. Mr. ROSE referred the Noble Lord to the Ad of Parliament, ro fee what had been done to check the abates complained of. I'he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re plied, that the objet of the Aft had not been attained. Mr. PERCIVAL faid, that the charge, if not di. I redly made, it certainly appeared to be infinu net], from the manner in which the thing had been men tioned by the Noble Lord. He would find the proceed ings on this burin& in his office. Voluminous reports had been laid before him, (hewing clearly that frauds exited ; but there appeared to him no legal evidence to convil the offenders. The fault, therefore, if any, lay at his door, and the doors of thofe who examined the Reports on that occafion. He concurred with the Hon. Gentleman on the other fide (Francis), that the Basement of the finances was clear, luminous, and fatisfaaory. There were circutnftances, however, which mutt be afterwards conlidered ; but he could not forbear at prefent hinting at what had been blamed by hit Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Rofe). namely, the propofing of Ways and Meant beyond the extent of the fupplies voted. This was the great blemifh in this day's proceedings. The Noble Lord might have had the fupplies voted left week,hnd have made the bilkers fomewhat correct. His (Lord Henry Petty's) Right Honourable Friend on hie right hand (Mr. Fox) would agree with him that there was fometbing objectionable in the prefent proceed. ling. He may have mifunderftood the Noble Lord, but he certainly thought that his proceeding was liable to this objettion As to the general fpirit of the Budget he thought it deferving of the higheß praife ; but the produce of tome of the taxes would by no means, in his opinion, anfwer his expectations. As to the property tax, it would be found no eafy matter to manage the exemptions and deductions in the manner propofed by the Noble Lord. However, be approved of it on the whole, and the more as it was brought nearer to its original Rate, as he had prepared it under the adminiftration of a Noble Lord (Sid/Routh) now in the other Houle. It would be extremely difficult, he thought, to coital the tax on appraifements, and this he Paid from the experience he had of the difficulties attending the collation of the tax on autti••ns. He concluded by again ex preffing his approbation of the budget on the whole. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. in order to thew that the Supplies voted exceeded the Ways and Means, again Rated the amount of each. The Supplies were about so millions, the Ways and Means nearly xe millions, fo that the ears of the Supplies was about (even millions. The exemp tions, he thought, would not be fo difficult to be managed as might perhaps be imagined. The pro duttion of the deeds and wilts would Phew their title to the repayment. The appraife.ncutc wool.: be the fubjeft of future confideration ; and he would be - happy to receive any alliflance that the Right Hon. Gentleman might be difpofed to offer. ' Mr. PERCIVAL obferved, that the Noble Lord, in his flatement of the Supplies, took in the Pcrma nent War Taxes which were not granted by Aeh paged in every-year, but by one aft which provided for their continuance during the war, whereas the Ways and Means ought to be limited to the Supplies . voted within the year. The Tax on Exchequer • Bills had been found not to be produftive, but with . a view to make them Cohe referred to the Noble Lord, whether it ought not to be received at the Bank in - the fame manner as the Tax on Fulded Property, or whether it ought not to be dropp altogether ;in 'which cafe they would bear a higher price in the market, and the public would ha►e the benefit in . that Way. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ad • flitted that there was a permanent Aft for the War Tares, but particular votes refpeding them were palled from year to year. Mr. Secretary FOX admitted that the Ways and Means ought not to exceed the Supply, but contended that the objeft was to prevent Government from railing money by Ways and Means till the Houfe bad an opportunity of recognizing the neceffity of the Supply. The War Taxes, as had been Rated by the Noble Lord. were regularly voted for the ((nice of the year. The furplus, if any, might be properly applied to different fervices ; for inttance, to the Sinking Fund. But his Noble Friend would take care that the Ways and Means fhnuld not ,ex•• ceed the Supplies to be voted. He admitted, however, that there was confiderable inconvenience in bringing forward the Ways and Means before the Eflimates for the Army were regularly before the Houle, and it was one which ought at much as poflible to be avoided. But the fame fort of inconvenience was felt la( year in the vote with regard to the Sublidies, the amount of which depended upon Treaties with Foreign Power, which at that time wet e not in great forwardnefq. But thooph he a , 'rnittcrl the incon venience, b. denied that • hcre was any thing in this proceeding which con. tt rat.l.:d any fired principlt.— The inconvenience if tiLlaying the bringing forward of the Budget till the Army Eallll4tCll could be regu larly produced, would, however, have been greater than the one under which they at prefent laboured, end Government had only the choice between the two. Now w ith regard to the words of his Noble Friend refpeCting the frauds and abates in the :Welt Indies, he mull fay that he was taken up in t * very bally manner. He had heat d him perfeltly,but had no idea that he had brought any charge ag nit the late Adminittration. lie had, on the intrary, praifed highly the fchc:ne of the Sinking und, in which he cordially joined him. He had card no charge against the late Adminifhatinn ;ht he con fidered it fordetvhat hard and unfair that cis Nablei • Friend Amid be prevented from raying that It war the intenti-n of Government to adopt means for put ting an end to frauds and perjuries, merely left he fhnuld be underftnod to bring a charge againß the late Minillry. The remark was certainly not improper in itfelf ; but how long was it finee thole abufes had been deteeled ? ten years was it ! (r.o ! noI from* the other fide) How long then? Only five year: ; very well. On the firll view of the thing it might naturally enough be thought that there was no neceffity for fuch a long delay in bringing the offenders to jullice, or doing fomething in the affair. But, however, he did not mean to fay that the late Government had not made exertions to put an end to the frauds and abufes to which he had adverted. Now as to the Tax on Ap praifements, if the frauds in the 'Pax on Auffinns could by this means be prevented, it would be a great objett gained. It would be proper that this fhnuld be confidered, and any alliance that might be given by the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman on the other fide would he thankfully accepted. There were alto difficulties on the claims to the exemptions, and this point might, no doubr, require confideration. With tepee/ to the Tax on Property, he concurred with his Noble Friend, that it was better to taife it at once to the amount at which it was likely to hold during the war, than to advance it gradually. It might be laid, and it hadheen raid by his Hon. Friend near him (Mr Francis), that there was na fecurity againft its being flill gradually railed. But then, he certainly thought that the relent mode wa► preferable to advancing it t per cent. in one year, and one and a half per cent: in annther year, and fo on, which would at lafi lead to a conflant gradual advance, which might in the end annihilate all property. This he had slated on a' former occafion to be his great.objection to fuch a gradual advance. Gentlemen now, however, might be at reit upon this head. It had been laid, that his Noble Friend had praifed himfelf ; but what had he laid ? He Rated that every means would be adopted to check abufes, not in contradiftineti-n to any thing that had been done by another Mini firy, but merely as a fadt, and the grounds on which he Rated this refolution to reit were, the Reports of the Commiffioners of Naval Inquiry, and the labours of the Military Commiffion, which had certainly been appointed by the late Adminiftration. Thefe were the reafons which he had given for his expellation of public confidence and fupport. He had given a noble pledge, and he had no doubt he would adhere to it, which relied upon the truell principle that could pot fibly be Rated, and this was, that no exertion would he (pared in attending to, and inveftigating abufes dud their caufes, with a view to find out the means of correcting them, and infpiring the public with a well founded confidence that their money would be pro perly expended, which was the only thing that could induce them to bear with chverfulnefs the burdens which it was neceffary to impofe upon them. Mr. ROSE and Mr. FOX, mutually explained. Sir VICARY GIBBS adverted to the proceedings relative to the Well India abufes, and confirmed the Raiment of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Percival), that the want of legal evidence was the only caufe why the offenders had not been brought to trial. Sir WILLIAM YOUNG Paid that he had never objeCted to a Colonial Tax, nor would he do it now. ile nly role to let the Noble Lord right as to a fad. lie had Paid that the prices of fngar at prefent bore him nut in the conclulion that this article was a pa per fubjeCt of taxation. He could fay, from his per fonal knowledge, that the owners did not, fince the year 1798, get more than two thirds of the price which they had formerly received. As they had not the home mat ket, he hoped that a proper drawback would be allowed, that they might at lealt have the advantage of the foreign market. Mr. HUSKISSON alto thought that the lama re maining in the Treafury, unexpended in Jan. tBo6, Arnold be conlidered as fully balancing the deficiency of laft year. He begged, likewife, to remind the Houle, that, in the left year, an increafe of more than four millions had taken'place in the produce of the Permanent and War Taxes. When to this it was ad ded, that the amount of the debt contrasted within the fame period, had been only twelve millions, and that the operation of the Sinking Fund was advancing with fuch rapidity, be trulted there was reafon to ex pee, that, at no very diftant period, we fhould be able to defray even war expences within the year. Vari• ohs caufes required a greater Loan this year, than that of the lett ; but he trolled that there caufes would Coon cure to operate, and that future Loans would not am-runt to more than twelve millio'ns. He coofidered the Taxes propofed by the Noble Lnrd as liable to as few objellion, as any others which could be fuggeßed. The plopoled addition to the Property Tax met with his warm approbation, particularly as it (hewed that the Miniftry were determined to aft upon that principle, which had been laid down by his ! late illuftrious Friend, namely, that of railing as much of the Supplies as pollible within the year. Mr. VANSITTART entered into a general an- Ewer to the obfervatinns of the preceding Speaker ; and took that opportunity of paying a compliment to a Noble Friend of his, the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had uniformly ailed on the principle of raifing the Supplies slithin the year. Mr. STURGES BOURNE related what had been laid by Mr. Percival and Sir Vicary Gibbs, on the tubjeCt of nhules in the Welt Indies. He trutled it would appear to the Houk, from their fiatement, that nothing had been left undone which could be done for the prevention and correffinn of thole abufes; and he was lorry that the Noble Lord had introduced the fubjeCt in fuch a way as teemed to throw an oblique, though unmerited, cenfure on the late Ad , miniffration. Lord TEMPLE prof - tiled, that he certainly could have no with to throw blame on the eondua of the la* ' Chancellor of the Exchequer in this affair ; but he felt it his duty to lime, that whatever Reps had been taken to Correa the abufes complained of, fosse of them exiled up to the prefent moment. He par ticularly fpecified that of the embezzlement of pre miums on Government Bilis of Exchange 'tom the Weft Indies. Mr. HUSKISSON Paid, that a profecution was at this moment pending in the Exchequer, egoista a perfon high in office us the Weil Indict, on this very account. Mr. ROSE laid, that had tbe Noble Lord taken the trcuble to examine the records contained in his (Ace, he would have found that Repsbad been taken for correeting the evil in quailing. Lord TastrLf explained. Mr. PERCIVAL raid, that whatever Reps might have been formerly taken for the removal of the evil, yet new culprits might arife, whole cafes might re. quite the applicachm c:f additional remedies. Mr. FOX complained, that after the abufes had been known to exill for five years, no general plan had been deviled 14 preventing their recurrence, and that matters had remained in precifely the fame Bate as when they were firlt difcnvered. Mr. LONG begged to know, how the fum of go,oool payable as inteielt on the Loan from the Bank, was to he provided for ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER an. fwered, by Exchequer Bills. The feveral Ref lotions were then agreed to, and the Report was ordered to be received to morrow. . ?11-% EVEN/AG STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH act. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT GNB O'CLOGK: Confols for money, 6oit--for Ace.60. 3 ,i Onnium 31 prem. PRICE OF STOCK-. YESTERDAY. Bank Stock 3074 India Bonds, is. a dif 3 per Cent. Con. Each. Mils, ay is 35. a is dlf. per Cent. Navy sottit Englifh Tickets 191 tflo India Stock tB3 Conf. for ace. 60.1 i 61 do{ THE LOAN. Yefterday morning the feveral parties, candidates for the Loan. had their interview with Lord Gassy,: i.e and Lord Hamar Perry. The Firil Lord 01 the Treafury read the minutes of their former converfation, Rating all the preliminaries, the periods of the loilalments, Rec. and the whole belni perfedlly unuerflood, they feverally delivered their reeled papers, which he opened and read. It then appeared that three coaldced parties offered to take 6EL of 3 per Cents. Reduced. The party of Mr. BAIN is offered to take 681. Lord Ca envit.ce then (dd. that as the three Lifts were equal. he fuppofed that it was their with to take the Loan among them . They raid It was, and declared that they had eoalefced in order to enable them to offer better terms to the public than they could have dine Mending feparare. They requefted to know If the Noble Lords were not fatisfied with the bargain. Lard GIIINVILLI and Lord HENRY PUITT replied, that they were perfealy fatisfied, and they writhed them fuccefs in the com pletion of It. It certainly is an extremely good bargain for the pub lic. It Rands as follows : For every tool. advanced, du) , are to have Ica three per Cents. Confab! at 6of - 6o 7 6 661. three per Cents. Reduced 591 - 39 3 9 Amount of Dircount on prompt Payment 99 t 1 3 3 to 0 to 3 1 3 So that the Permanent !remit which the public will h a ve to pay for every tool. borrowed, is only 41. too 741 This is a molt gratifying proof of the fond wealth and power of the country ; and. yet the Contraeton have every radon to be ra ddled with their bargain. The competition was open and fair. It was a curious circumitanee that on the fame day when we made a Loan which bore a premium of 4 per cent account. were received by expects horn Holland, that the Dutch Government bad declared Will infolvent. Such is the co:unroll between public faith and the want of it I By the inland Mail of this morning we have re ceived the following letter.— _ " DOVER. MARCH 28. " The Liao swr gun brig unfortunately got on (hone " yeßerday morning in a fog, on Romney Sand—as " • the weather has been moderate, hopes are enter• " taiaed that the will be got off this day.—Sailed laR " night, the CONSTANT and BLASI/ gun brigs on a " ernize.—Arrived this morning, his Majeßy's Chip " Rio u Lys, a frigate, and a gun brig, from a ernize. " Difpatchee were landed, I hear, from one of thefe veiCh on their arrival, and immediately forwarded to Lord " Ksursi—it ie fold they were taken out of a French Boat. " The frigate and gun brig failed again this afternoon. " Wind E. and moderate." The nature of thele difpatehes has not tranfpired. THE BUDGET. The New Tares are an addition to the Property Tax, to make it to per cent.— From which there is expeded . Csoco,cco And various Duties in the Cußlma and Excite are to produce a million more imo,coo Additional War Taxes C6,oooperi There are Tobacco 300,c001. ; an addition of 3 per cwt. on Sugar. TAXES TO PAY INTEREST OF LOAN. The Taxes to pay the !turret of the Loan ►re son,opol. a year on Wine, not a New Tax, but 'bawd, permanent 310.000 Pig Iron. at 401 per ton 300,000 An Equalisation of the Tea Duty 70,0c0 Tat on Appralfentents 66,tx0 £r,l3' coo The flatement of Lord Hamar Parry vZsperipi euous and unentharralied, and he flews himfelf per feElly equal to the department he fills. Yeßuda) , afternoon arrived the Hamburgh Mail due on Wedncillay. The occupation of Hanover, as well as other cir. cumliances in the conduct of the Court of Berlin, created, it Items, great uneafinefs in the Pruflian Merchants, who naturally viewed them as leading to a rupture with th; , country. They, in confequence, applied to the Miniller, to know upon what founda tionthtir c(trnmetei.il concerns were likelyto continue, when they received the following enterer: " Berlin, March is, lb& " The Elders of the two Commercial Dept'Cations of this city are informed, in anfwer to their requell, that circumflances at prefent are not fuels as to offer fuffieient ground to apprehend any hoflile treatment of the navigation, and the property of Proirian fob ices, on the part of the Englifh Government.— Should any change of circumaances occur, the mer cants will be informed of them with all poffible cape. dition. By his Majelly's fpecial command. " 11•111 l ." During his Majefiy's flay at Stettin, tke merchants of that place received a fimilar affluence. The French Government has regained its influence with the Porte, which has reengnifed MA1 , 01.1011. The &Zan Minifier has protefled again& this mea fure, but the proximity of the French to the Turkilh Provinces cannot bat have great weight. Two CrAtenburgb Mails (thole of the vith and 2 tft), arrived yeflerday, but bring no intelligence. Paris and Dutch papers, the former to the 20, the latter to the xoth, have alto been received.— We learn from them, that the fobjugation of the kingdom of Naples is not yet compl:te. The Prince of HESSU has refuted to furrender the fortrefs of Gaeta; and the French, it was expeCted, would be compelled to convert the liege of that place into a blockade. The furrender of the city of Naples, and the lefs important forts, was in confequence of particular orders to that effett, left with the tempo. rary Regency that had been appointed when the Prince Royal retired with the choice of the army to Calabria. We (hall be anxious to fee how this gal lant Prince will acquit himfelf in the fituation in which he has voluntarily placed himfelf. (l it other F.xtraas fit the neat pop.) Died nn Monday, the t7O of March, at DaMain , ton, Mailer CaaaLs3 STAio MILLI a, fceond fon of Major WILLIAM MILL'', late of the Royal Regi xnent of Horfe Guards. The fuhje't of the Author of Junius arpears to be revived again with new zeal. Mr. Atwors has ad• duced an the evidence of %%Melt the fubjed is fuf ceptible, and has given to the world the portrait of the Author, and a fac•fimile of his genuine hand writing ; we are, however, to be additionally grad. fled by another party, with a fac fimile of the feigned hand under which he correfponded with his Printes. We collzd from the Teri Courant, of Monday la% that the 1 , ng depending and important cat fe, in which the rt is of the ancient family of Cowsrast upon the Shorts of Holderrefc teemed to he inv , ilved, was heard at York, on the Monday preceding. before Mr. Juflice Kooks and a Special Jury, when the rights which Mr. CONSTABLE contended for were Co clearly eflabliffied, that the Learned Judge. in au early Rage of the caufe, recommended to the De fendant to throw himfelf upon the mercy of Mr. Cosi. sraists, who, at the interpofition of his Lordfhip, and confidering the eircumllances of the Defendant, genernufly contented to accept nominal damages, and to forgive the Defendant his colts, upon condition of the wrecked timber which We had taken, and which formed the fubjed of the action, being reflored to Mr. COMSTABLI• La CHIFIFOIIIII frigate and the MARTIN floop of war, with eight fail of veirels under convoy. from Malta and Gibraltar, arrived at Scilly on Wednefday 'aft. Extraft of a letter from on board the American (hip Portfmouth, of Philadelphia, dated Goree, Fe binary 4, 18c6—" I take the opportunity of a (loop which fails to-morrow for England, of acquainting you of our fituation, and the caufe of our being at this barren Hie. We arrived at Sierra Leona on the 6th of December, on purport to get trade.arms, and powder, (the articles which are of mofi vainest the river Congo) ; we got them in a few days from the Englirh fa(tury there, and in the s of weighing as chor to proceed, we were taken poffelEon of by Cap tain KEITH M•ZWILL, of his Majelly's (hip ARAB, on pretence of our carrying thefe arms and powder 4 , to an enemy's port ; a thing which nn one on bawd - had ever thought of, they being the molt fuperfieial *. things that can be manufactured, add are only fit for trading with the Blacks. We were detained at Sierra Leona till the 26th of December, when the Officer to whom we were given in charge, was ordered to fail for this place, and wait here the arrival of the ARAB. We were If days a beating up, and have been in daily expeCtation of the arrival of that oda, but flie has not yet appeared.—P. S. About a fort night face came in here the privateer brig la General Blanchotte, a prize to the Favoußir (loop of war s flu carries 14 guns and iso men, t 5 of whom were killed and wounded in the alien the committed ~oreat . depredations on this coati, efpecially to un arme d vetf fel*. The Captain was killed in attempting to board the FAVOURITE, which the fought for half an boar with great bravery." The C), Wee, Thompfoo, from Cork to lAverpoot, is on Owe In Studwell BRIE HABIQiJAY, MARCH 27.—Sail e d thi s a f ternoo n from Torbay, Its Majedy's Ihips OCEAN, EURY•LUI, SER•PIS, and Ditto RPM!, with a fleet under convoy to the Mediterranean ; CIRBERUS and Maw's. with a fleet under convoy to the Welk Indies; Nast am and URANIA, with a fleet under convoy for New foundland.—Wind Eaflerly. FALMOUTH, MARCH 26.—Sailed the . MAacHarraa packet, Captain Davis, with a mail for the Weft Indies; sni the PatticEss ELIZABETH packet, Capt. Davis, with a mail for Lifbon...-Wind N. E. . PLYSIOUTN, MUCH 117.•••• Came in the for., Klawmto, from Charteflon for Caen, detained by the Vista cutter. Sailed the 4sares, TOMLINSON, for St. Michael's. PORTSMOUTH, MARC,/ 28.—Sailed the Tonvawr man of war on a cruiZe. The Devaftation bomb is appointed convoy to the fouthward and weftward coaaways The LIOPARD man of war has a fignal flying for the Eaft Indies.—Wind N. E. DIAL, MARCO 38 wn from Sheetnefs laft night and failed thr"ugh the Downs with a prefe of fail, fuppoled tor foreio service, the Cvonevr ' fhop of war, Captain CAMPBELL.—SaiIed laft night the VISTAL frigate, SEAGULL fl.), I ) of war, and fe. vcr.il gi Il brigs, for the French Coati ; and FLamta gun 1 rig fur Slieernef-.—Arrived the Poiosrsvo bomb, from Porrfinontli, w ith a convoy, which re mains in the bowns with the Edgar, Utrecht, and Antelope man ,i 1 w Kite (loop of war, Explofion bomb, Harmony, Victualler, and Several gun brigs. Wind N. E. YARMOVT/I, MARCH att.—Arrived and r a il e d ro e a Nom, l'Arittarts tiigate ; CommoaaNl , b a c r a i i s i : c t d ti Ps r e : A o r u f m i z A w c i a . A r S' s and A ri le the o it p a S , l l: A r ak war,oatt." h i l o d o m S .p:• f war. —The him di Sea Beet is to b: reinforced by the DE- Admiaacn, its•orvremi, and ANTELOPF.--. 1 The Providence' a pilot cutter, of and from Lo ne r. t.•firc. tell in with and retook at lea, about 14 leagues E. S. E. of Lowelloffe, the Hull Packet, Fe ANC'S Baa stow Mailer, from Hull, bmind to New 0 11ie with goods. She was captured by a . French luau privateer off Frataltorough Hess'. 4 __.!