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lions of Inarters annually, of which k * appeared, 1h.... the public brewers did not container more than two' maims), ; of the remaining million it was ext r difficult to afeertain what proportion was coo by the didilleries. It appeared, however, from a quirks made during the lad karcity, that the ave. rage confumption of the Millers was about asci,ood quarters ; fo that the remaining 750,000 quarters appeared to be the confumption of the private brewer, which, rated in the fcale he was about to penpofe, would produce about soo,oool. a funs ads-. ate to that at which he had eftimated th e tax upon Pig Iron. The kale of taxation was edimated from the moll reafonable calculation upon the probable confumption of each family, and their refposiee rank and abilities in life; but, undoubtedly, as It was the fartheß with from his mind to expofe the private brewer to any obtrufion of the excite officer into his family. he would Grape the tax in in fuels a way as to enable every man, by paying a fair and reasonable commutation, to avoid a neceffity fo obnoxious. The tax would be rarefied upon a kale of proportion with the other offered taxes—upon the higher orders ac. cording to the number of carriages and fervants, and epos the lower in proportion to their rank in life, and the number of individuals who compofed their families upon the following kale, viz. Won PaiLligy paying the Doty on a Peor wheeled Car. i c Se L rime. and one Male Savant, to pay a commutation for coat Male, in tech fandly • - a a o net every Mask - - - - oto 6 Yeentea, not paying for Ibror•whodod Carriage, hot dread for oat Male Servant. to pay for each Male 0 Is o Sven Pante - - o 7 6 Awake sec gaged ler a Male Servant. but PAK the AlfeAd Tar ler every Male . - o so o Airy female - o 5 o Arlene only pwfte the towel order of Afkifed Taw, end dowsed with the Window Tax, Males - os o Teadre - . . o a 6 All children under ten years. old excepted, and alto all the lower orders of the labouring poor, and all perfons not payingaffetred taxes, and who may choofe to brew for themtelves, to be exempt; for no perfon but the private brewer would have any part of the charge to bear. The number of perfons liable to this tat, he calculated upon the following kale : ?Ira Clara - 4.:.i 3,000 Second Ws - 50.003 Third ale - - 3 60 .; 00 Fourth CMG . PoPoo and the whole produce he alienated to produce a net revenue of 500,0001. Having thus briefly dated the Tax he had to propok,be begged leave to obferve, that, as nothing was more repugnant to his with, than that it &mid become neectrary to coiled the Tax in the way of Excite, he hoped, that all perfons who were averfe to the excifeman's vitas, would avail themfelves of the modification lie propofed, and by delivering in their Hits, according to the foregoing fate, enable the collector to afcertain their refpedive • proportions without farther trouble to themfelves. He begged leave to repeat that, notwithdanding what might be confidered a fair impod upon the private brewer, he would dill have many advantages over the public one .and pails a degree of comfort in the means of fupplying his family with a wholefome and cheering beverage contiderably cheaper than he could perchafe of the public brewer or retailer. The Noble Lord felt dill more happy that the clefs of labouring poor would be altogether exempt from the tax ; and concluded by moving, that there be laid upon every banal of ale or (Wong beer brewed by private (a ssail,, niehe reins* sdopesa excite duty of lOU to be paid by the perfon. In brewing, except fuck perfon as &Gold t y aglommutation licence duty upon the T , Peale produced meti a an d e i d fc . uflion of con tolerable length. Mr. ROSE thought the tax highly objectionable, and raid it was one, like that on pig iron, which his late Right Hon. riend had alto in contemplation, but abandoned upon the fulled confederation, becaufe he kne ere was an abundance of preferable four uched. ;l w OBERT BUXTON gave it his decided op podtia, as founding an obnoxious tyllem of excite empods upon private families, and as leading, for aught he knew, to a future licence-tax on baking, roafling, and boiling. Sir WILLIAM GEARY alto oppofed the tax. Mr. PA.TTISON defended it as a tax not new, but adopted under Lord North, and as extremely fair; but thought that a niu fairer mode would be, to coiled the whole of the malt liquor tax through oat the kingdom on malt Only i for he was convinced that a vaR quantity of Strong malt liquor evaded its proper portion of duty, by being paired as of a weaker denomination. He thought that Country Gentlemen who lived in cheap parts of the kingdom, and enjoyed all the neceffaries of life, at the fin hand, could infinitely better afford to pay a tax in this way, on the malt liquor confumed in their &mi• lies, and brewed by their own fervante, than the in• habitants of cities and manufacturing towns, who had no fuels advantages, and were obliged to pay, amt only the higheft tax, but all the profits of the brewer and retailer. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended the tax ; and, in anfwcr to the obtervation of Sir Robert Buxton, °Wined, that the Honourable Baronet was in an error, in fuppofing the principle of charging a licence to private families, in commu tation for excite duties, on articles manufaflured by them for their private confumption, was at all new is this country ; on the contrary, it was one long . re , cognized by that Houk. It had been adopted tn a .ray fimilar to this under Lord North's Adminiftra- Won. It was adopted in the reign of George 11. ur on the private manufacture of candles; and what, in fad, were all the affeffed taxes on carriages, fervants, windows, and property, but taxes of a timilar nature? Mr. HUSKISSON thought the Noble Lor d had calculated the product of the tax greatly beyond its reality; for, even admitting his own fcale of the confumption of malt by the breweries and dittilleries to be coned, Rill of the remaining ;moor" quarters a very great prorortion mull be etallumed by poor families, whom it was the a vowed put pof: cf the Noble Lo-d to exempt from the tax altogether. Mr. ROSE made fome further oblations to the tax, as baying been before abandoned. . Dr. LAWRENCE reprobated the difpo!tt ion ma nifelled byrthe Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Role), sod thole who fupported him, for the conduit they uniformly neanifelled toward , the Noble Lord and 111,, his colleageas, to whom they had boalicd of having signed , a bed of roles ;' but to whom, in fait, they bad left nothing but embarrafrment and Alma infur. 'singable difficulty. rvcry meat ore which the pre ii fent Miniilert propofed for Ittricating the country front its difficulties, met wish nothing but captious objeaions, and vexatious oppoiltlon, - from their pre deceirors. Mr. GILES thought the tax, in effea, would be a tax on female fervent, ; but fines a tax on the home made beverage of private families was to be laid, he thought the inhabitants of the cyder mannish with fubßitutedthat beveragealmoll totally to the exelufion of malt liquor, (tmid be fubjelted to a licence sift,. Mr. MANNING was decidedly againa the tax, and raid, he would forego the advantages of private brew. cry altogether, Conner than llama to the obnoxious intrufions of an excite officer in his family. Sir CHARLES POLE objected to the tax on the cyder countries, and alto to that fort of criterion of gentlemen's circiimaances that was to be drawn from their keeping a carriage, which, to many men of fmall incomes, was frequently more a matter of mere conve nience, than of luxury. He fuggeiled s as a better fuccedaneum of revenue than the beverage of poor families, the race of (trapping fix font high men mil liners, who crowd the !hops of the town.—( Loud laubier.) lle CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in anfwer to Mr. Manning, repeated his own decided with to prevent the obtruGon of the excifeman. He highly approved the fuggeßion of Mr. Giles, upon fubjeCting the cyder confumers to the licence, and he hoped ete Hon. Baronet who (poke lag would feel Come confolation in refleitinr, that thole Rrapping 1 men milliners, who appeared fo obnoxious to him, were as much fubjea to this tax as any other pet font. 1 Mr. TYRwEirr JONES thought the tax would, to all intents and purpofes, be a tax on female fa vants to which he was decidedly av e rfe : b etter , in finitely, to tax thole worthlefs animals called men milliners, to whom clue Hon. Baronet had fo pro perly alluded. Mr. SHERIDAN bad not the flighteft objection to the tax propofed by the Noble Lord, to far as it af feaed hirofelf, and Mould cheerfully fubmit to it (a geweral laugh). But be would not go quite fo far on the behalf of hi. Conllituents at Stafford, many of whom were poor, but honeft, induilrious men, who were in the habit of brewing a little ale for their own families: they certainly brewed a very good fort, and h e mull do them the ;plaice to fay, that they did 1 ample juflice to their own brewing (4 load lausb.)— He therefore could have withed the Noble Lord had commenced his Cale of this tax a little higher in fo ciety. And as to the fuccedaneum propofed by the Hon. Baronet (Sir C. Pole), of a tax no men milli ners, he would not only agree to a tax upon them, but upon the whole race of thole effeminate beings, in the Ihape of men, who airtime the employments of women and preclude fo many thenfands of deferv , ing females from an boneß livelihood. The Refolutinns were Alen agreed to without a divifion. and the Report was ordered to be brought tt e on Wednefday. Loan NILSON'S CIANT. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report of the Committee on this bill, and the Refolutions were agreed to arm. .1.101.21LTY TAX HILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the third reading of the Amendments in this Mr.WlLßEßFOßCEfoggefled,that Alta wording li n many ?epees wu ineorteB. It w 26 limed in tl.O opening, that perfons having life dimes under sot. Mould be totally exempt, but he faw no (itch e temp Lion in the bill. Mr. VANSITTART thought the claufe fufficicnt ly explicit. The SPEAKER informed the Hon. Gentleman, that the amendments moil he firg difpofed of, and then it would be open to any Gentleman to introduce any additional amendment or ciaufe.. I On the amend-r.ept about exemptions to labouring I men or artifano, udder certain circomilinces, Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE confhtered, that this claufe would be a mere mockery on the perfo!.s propofed to be relieved. It would be fomething like the allowance on repairs, granted lan year, which was only two Millings in a hundred pounds ; he ob ieeed to requiring certificates from all the mailers, as proof. Some farther converfation took place upon the amendment in thisclaufe,which was finally agreed to. Mr. ELLISON objeCted to the claufe for requir ing mailers to give returns of thofe in their employ, 1 who did nor refide in their houfe ; he ilated the num ber of agents that many perfons employ of whom they have no knowledge, and for whom they ought not to be refponfible. Mr. VANS ITTA RT replied, that the Hon. Mem ber gave too large a fignification to the word employ. —The perfons dv.st this churl would bring under the Tax, were bankers' clerks, and perfons of that defcription, who would other wife evade the payment of the Tax. The Amendments were then read and Faired. Several new claufes were then brought up. Mr. VANSITTART brought up a claufe for making tome deduaion on that part of the property of perfons under tgol. per annum, that is laid out in premiums far infuriug their lives for the benefit of their families. Mr. WILBERFORCE thought, that perfons of fuch fmall incomes could feldom give any thing fur infurance. The claufe was agreed to. Mt. WILBERFORCE propafed a clink kr y ;‘,.. ing tome abatements to perfcns rt moderate for - toots having families. He wilhed to divide thole rerfons into two CitifftS the first from tool. to 4ocl. per annum; and the fecund from that to food. per ann. This claufe was fopported by Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE hnd Mr. HUDDLESTONE. Mr. VANSITTART thought it was amen:try to try the experiment of the Bill in the fimple (lupe i t was now pt efented. He confidered, that it was the dedations and modifications its the late A 8 that di. minilhed 10 much of its proditeliveneirs, and which canted it to be fo much evaded. He thought, if there were abatements on account of children, it Ihould be as much to the rich, witere children were an expence and a burden, as to the poor, to whom they were an advantage. Sir H. MILDMAf fupported the clinic. Mr. W. SMITH thought the dediOtion propofed would be, to many perfons, an ohi , a ~ f the greateft importance. Suppofe a perfon, %%no h.td an income. of 2col. per annum, and ten clalciscri, deduftion of tot out of 201. would be I Moil Material objea to! N. d'Ah.peus, Mini(ler from Ruffla at the Conn •.f him. We ought not to give up all eonfiderattons of itoeleholm, has received orders to make reprefenta 'office and humanity, merely for the fake of makin g ions to his Swedilb Majefly, which have for their a new tax fimple or produCtive. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objedl to re-eftablifh a and underflanding between found himfelf obliged tooppofe the clank introduced Sweden and Pruffia. His Imperial Majelly has lately by the Hon. Gentleman, however he might join written to the King of Sweden, and pnfitively allured in his feelings. He had a dilly to perform to the him, that he will give him, conformably to trea public, which was to make the tax produ6ive. It . :les, all the fuccour he (ball demand. He ha., be it thould fail of being produelive, the Houle mutt then impofe other taxes, which would Prcfs as le rides guaranteed to him, we are alihred,thepoffelLon verely. The Hi-n. Gentleman came forward as the ,ofhib territories. advocate of a very meritorious part of the commu- MADRID, Aran. 54.—0 n the 6th init. Rear Ad nity ; but in oppofing it he confidered himfelf the . miral Sir Sidney Smith failed from Gibraltar, with advocate of the community itfelf. The to per Cent income tax only produced five millions and a half. the Pompee, of R 4 guns, a frigates and 7 tranfperts. How then were the remaining five millions to be He has a confiderable number of b"mbs on board. procured ? He conceived there were no Gentlemen and is attended by a bomb ketch. Ks deitinatt ri is in the Iloufe that were prepared to offer any other kr Sicily, but firth he will pay a viii; to the Dew tax to fupply fuch a deficiency. Mr. BANKES fupported the claufe. Algierg, and by threat of a bombardment, fuice him The Houle then divided—Fur the elude 74 to receive again the Englifh Conflth A N ainfl it 26—Majarity 47. Venice, APRIL 26.—A1l the Englifh, Tome of Mr. TYRW HIT JONES brought op a claufe to whom have refided here ten years and more, have punith thole Affeffurs who made vexatious and op rimoved, flue voluntarily; bnt the greater part in preffive furcharges. city. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER confe q uence of orders to leave the read a Chore in the Bill which went to the fame dice. 'Titre re, APRIL 27.•••• l'he Lady of Mr. Spencer Sir H.MILDNIAY approval rather of Mr. Jones's Claufe, that gave the remedy berme the neighbour. ing Jullices, whereas the Claufe in the Bill gave the remedy before the Cornmillioners only. Mr. WM. SMITH complained of the prevalence of vexatious lutcharges, by which many pctfuns who brought them forward got ich, particularly with cc fpea to furcharges for afraid taxes. Mr. ROSE difapproved of the Claufe as applied to this particular bill. It might perhaps be a good principle to adopt generally. Mr. ELLISON thought Government would get credit by freeing the country from the vexations ..f thefe perfons, which were often felt mote oppreffiv.: than the burdens rlAinfelves. Captain HERBERT, and Tome other Geneemen, were in favour of the chute. (Baronef► Herbert). who retitled at Venice, and thought herfelf in perfect fecurity there, has been arrefted and conducted to Milan. We have received New York Papers to the tith, and Bolton Papers to the t7th of April. Their con tents, as may be feen by the eztrads we have made, are of the higheli importance. Botta AAAAA has fuceeeded in extorting the fum of Two Millions of Dollars from the American Govern. ment as the Price of his Mediation in the fettlement of the differences between Spain and the United States ! Congrefs has paffed a low enabling the Pre fident to purchafe the kloridas from Spain ; and the money appropriated (or this pureofe has adually been (hipped for France. Upon this degrading tranfaftion the Et:itor of the Bo l ton Centimel makes the following remarks:— •• It is to be hoped we (tall hear no more of the independence of the United Stater of America, after the prompt, difgraceful, and daltardly compliance of the - majority of Congrefs with the demand of rip. 31i1 kw: of Dollar, made by Bonaparte, thro' the me dium of his Artillery Officer, Gen. l'urreau, under' 1 t the pretence of purchafing the Florida,! Yes, the ; ward indepen&nee ought to be crated from our records, and the declaration thereof fent cff with our frank money—left we become a byword and a reproach among nations! Will the world believe that the Em peror of the French has had the infolence to inform our Government, by a military Nobleman, that, unlefs we fent him, to help to fupport the pomp and parade of his Throne, Two MILLIONS of nieces!, in fpecie. Spero fhould ant to war with the U n it e d Stat er reffeet;ng Lougana, that France as her Ally, would of lt her in the ware Yet loch is the fart. And more: filch has been the trepidation with which the whifficrs of this Warrior Minilter have (truck the Adminiftration of our Government, that Congrefs has complied with the demand, and the lack Ariel Parafires of the Executive have been called upon to tide the doors of Congrefs, to vote this immenfe tom of money in fe [ cret Diver, and fend it off to Frame—not to Spain— With molt infamous We it not in Europe! publifh it not in tbejlreete of America ! ! Captain NARY, of the Lady Shaw Stewart, taken and burnt by the French fquadron, under the corn. ' mand of Admiral VILLIMIAUMEZ and Juntas Bo- NAPARTI, is arrived in London. He was put on _ . bond the Union Cartel, arrived from the Cape, front the FOVDROYANT man of war, on the ocith of March, in lat. 16.45. S. long. 7. W. He was on board 15 weeks, during which period the fquadron bad taken fl fail, viz. Aftive tranfport, HILLART, from Gib raltar ; Sufannah, of Liverpool, bound to Fayal ; two Newfoundland veffels; a privateer prize to the NAILICIIISUs frigate, and the Lady Shaw Stewart. One of the Newfoundland veffels was given up to the people ; the cell were deftrnyed. The bloodroo, during its cruize, had been t o h t . , 3 . 36. S. long. r 4. 30. E. On the ooth of March, it had only five weeks water and four months provifiona on board.— Captain P. fuppofed the fquadron would proceed to the Brazils for water, ace. and from thence to the Weft Indies. On the (Bth of February, an Await. can arrived at the Cape, which had a few days ago fallen in with the Regulus of 80, Prefident of 40, Sybelle and Surveillant of 18 guns, on their way to the lfle of France. FALMOUTH ' MAT 17 . — Arrived the D an ifh b r i g Margenrothe, Captain GROOT, from Salon, for Al tom, laden with brandy ; Diana, C a pt a i n iarresno, and the St. Peter, Captain Lirsort, from Triefle, for Copenhagen, with fruit—all detained by the Hero privateer ; olfo arrived the American brig Rover. . Captain WAITS, from Meffina. Sailed the American (hip Role, Captain thruway, for Philadelphia; and the Eliza Ann, RICHARDSON, for Briltol. Dove., May lg.—This morning failed His Ma. jetty's (hip lIIIGULtrs on a cruize. Paged by this day a convoy from Oporto for the River—alfo the fol lowing (hips, Argo, JACIAIt, of Lubeck,fromCharante, with wine for London; Crone, Aar sets, of Flenf. burg, from the Mediterranean, with wine, &c. for Copenhagen ; Romeo, —, of and from Bolton. bound to Amsterdam. A numb rof roamers put in here this day in confequence of the wind blowing !Leong from the N. E. Wind N. N. E. and blows hard. DIAL, MAT I9.—His Majelly's gun brig BLAZAH. Lieutenant Jona Morro* Commander, lent in the Dania. (hip Wackfamkeit, Parea. Jacos Asirros matter, belonging to Altona, from Cadiz for EVl netir, laden with fait, which the detained, and was put under quarantine. Arrived the Mimi gun brig, Licut. Par KICK MANOPIIITON. and brought in with her the Danith brig Elizabeth, 1' C Somme malice, from Amsterdam, with linen and fundrier, b •vod to Smyrna, which the detained; bath were put under quarantine. Arrived the CAMPL (tore (hip, from Gth.altar ; 'nowt, r, from Falmoutbi Vu- Tat. frigate. orn Shcernefs; Fuetousgun brig, hem a cruise off Offend; tdonsav gon brig, and Ausow fchooner, from off Boulogne. Sailed the Ass Allaarms• (loop, on a cruize of Dieppe the Meats and nue gun brigs, on a cruise off Boulogne. Arrived the CAIMITT o.lop of war, with a soevoY from Orono. Mr. VANSITTA Rl' replied. The chide was then put and negatived. The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time on Wednefday next. MISCILLLANIOUII lUSINI3&. The farther ennfideratinn of the Report of the Eleeion Treating Bill was poilponed till Midday. The Confideration of the Petition of Chalmers and Cowie was fixed for Friday. The other Orders of the Day were then read. Adjourned at halt pall twelve o'clock. LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 20. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 014 F. O'CLOCK: Contuls, for moneF, 6.-... it—for May 6o}—Oznalum sit 2xclacq. Sills. par a.. claL Wc are lorry to hate that the Piedmontois French (hip, of so guns, from Toulon with difpatches, was going into the Cape of Good Hope, but being in fo-mcd by a Dane that it was in potreffion of the Eugl fh, the proceeded for the Ifie of Fiance. U.ord HENRY PETTY, lark night, propel - ex' • tax upon private brewing, as a fubflitute fox the intended tax upon iron, which it given up. HAMBURGH MAILS. Thole due on Wedncfday and Sunday arrived this day. The contents of the former we anticipated ycf terday. The following are the only articles by the latter that deferve any notice. Valuta, May 3.—The late embarraffments into which the Court of Vienna has been thrown rela tively to the affairs of Dalmatia, appear to take a pacific turn ; and it Teems beyond a doubt that the Cabinet of Vienna has thought it proper to yield to the nee-el:My of preferring peace. Thi. conjecture is founded on the following circurnfianceb s. The French column, which had made a movement in advance, has halted, and the Auflrian prifoners have continued their march. 2. The attendants and equi pages of the Elector of Wurtzburgh have fet out for that City, and the Prince himfelf will follow imme diately. 3. The Commiffary Ghifiliero has been put on his trial by a Council of War, and after each fitting the protocol and interrogatory are communi cated to the French Ambaffador. It is Paid that the trial of the Prince d'Auerfperg is ended, and that his fentence has been fent leafed to St. Pete; (burgh, to be fubmitted to the Emperor, to whom that compliment is conceived to be necefT4ry. It is prefunted that this Sovereign will recommend a pardon for him, which appears to be wifhed here, as the Prince has in reality always been a loyal fubjeft. The negotiations which had prolonged the nay of General Andrecify here being at length terminated, he Las taken leave of his Imperial Majelly, who has prefented him with a gold box with his portrait, elii mated at 40,000 liv yes. We are affured that M. de la Rochefoucault has fixed, in the name of his Court, the gait of May, for the lateß time when the Court of Vierna (hall take its refolotion relatively to the affair of Cattaro. It is probable that it will give way in every point, rather than enter into a new contell with France. ST. PITCRITIVICH, APRIL 26 —A great atlirity is remarked in our Cabinet, and there are conferences daily between our Minifters and the Englifh Amhal fadnr. It appears from the ha declaration of this Plenipotentiary, that the change of Miniflry which has lately taken place at London will only Ilrengthen the gond tinderliandin!; between our Court and the Cdh:net of St. JAmcs%. Ow- Cabinet has refuted the mediation Nicked of it to terminate amicably the cliff:ream fitbfiding be tween England and Pru het-Rule it fears to dif oblige one or other t. f ;bac two Co•:rts. ~t i~. e