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lice of fuch a proceeding, he could not fee how it was juft in Parliament to tax any but the property of its , own fubjeCts. As to the aft of gren Anne, which the Hon. Gentleman had referred to, as exempting the funds from taxation, it mull be confeffed that the pre• lent tax might perhaps be junly confiderd as a tax on the funds, and as only to be juftified from the ne• ' oeffity of the times. But the tax in itfelf was proper. ly a tax on every fpecies of property ; and were the property of foreigners in the funds to be now taxed, it might juftly be confidered in that cafe as a tax on the funds, Since Parliament could not pretend to tax the property of foreigners. It had been reprefented as provoking, that foreigners fhould be exempted from the tax ; but would they not, by being deterred from purchafing in our fund:, be enabled to give the hoftile governments under which they lived more ac tive affittance, by lending them their money, than we could derive benefit from extending the tax to them ? Such Governments alio, as far as he knew, might have a property tax, and thus the property of (Itch fo reigners might he doubly rated. In truth the hoc. tile foreigner, were he lubjeaed to this tax, might jelly complain, that we took a part of his property, in order to deprive him of the whole. As to what the Honourable Gentleman had laid on the fubjed of reprefentation, no one who had laid, that the Re prefentation of the Country was inadequate (except perhaps a few eccentric men) hzd denied that the people owed obedience to that Houle as their Repre fentatives. The very phrafe inadequate Riprefentation pasved, that the friends of reform conceived, that the people were reprefented, that the virtual reprefen• wino, indeed, was not complete, and that it ought to approach more to what was real. Every perfon with whom he had been connefled, difclaimed the idea of univerfal ftifirage, but he did not know on what the Conditution of the country depended, if the people were not eonfidered as virtually reprefent ed in Parliament. It was breaufe America was neither virtually nor really reprefented in Parlia ment, and that the Americans had no complete communion of interefts with this country, that our right to tax America was denied ; and it was on precifely the fame grounds that he now objected to taxing the property of foreigners in our funds. Would it be conliftent with the conftitution of Parliament to fay, we give and grant the property of foreigners, in addition to that of thole whom we reprefent ? And how could his Majefty be reprefented as thanking his good fubjeCts for their benevolence, as was done in giving the royal silent to tax bills while he would, at the fame time, be thanking the ft;bjeCts of France, or of foreign powers fobjea to her influence ? The very tenor of the royal acceptance would render the impofition of a tax on the property of ioreigners ab Curd. The Commons could only give and grant what was their own, and not that which belonged to others, who had perhaps a perfect oppolition of interefts.— With regard to the Hon. Gentleman's peroration on the cafe of the poor, no one could doubt that they were entitled to every relief in the power of Parlia ment to give, but -ecourfe ought not therefore to be had to a meafure radically unjull. The cafe of fo reigners refitting in this country was totally different: they enjoyed the proteCtion of Government and of the r laws, and therefore were bound to contribute to the fupport of that Government and of thole laws. On the whole, he thought that this prnpofed extenlion would be a complete departure from th it fyllem that had been followed (ince the Property Tax had been introduced, and concluded v irh obferving, that the Eon. Gentleman's arguments had not produced the flighted conviction on his mind. The SPEAKER then begged to Rate to the Emile. whether the motion, in the prefent Rage of the Bill, could at all be enter tained by the :inure. It went to lake away the exemp.ion granted toforeig,ners, and thus tended to a material increafe of the produce of the tax. But agreeably to the ellablith.:d ufages of the Houle, no meafure of this kind could be pro poled, except in a Commidee. When the Bill, there fore, had already been read a third time, he lubmitted to the Houle, whether the indent motion was not irregular ? Mr. BANKES witted the difeirlliou to continue, though his Honourable Friend had perhap , unad vifedly poftponed his motion, as it was a quedion in which the country at large would feel materially in ; terefted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obferved, that the Honourable Gentleman might, if he pleated, bring forward his motion in the Hive of a new Bill, granting a tax on the funded property of foreigners. After a few words from Mr. FRANCIS, the mo tion then fell to the ground. On the motion of Mr. VANSITTART, an ex emption from the tax of all funded property belong ing to his Majefty, and to any Foreign Minifters re fident in this country, was inferted in a claule of the Bill. Mr. VANSITTART having then moved that the Bill do pals, Sir R. BUXTON laid, that be could not omit that lad opportunity of entering his decided proteti againft the Bill, inafinuch as it charged the landed intereft with what he thought equivalent to 13 per cent. and the funds with so per cent. ; while, on profellianal men, it operated only as a voluntary tax. He could have v.ifhed it alfo to have been merely an annual Bill, like the Land Tar. Mr. VANSITTART could not fee the utility of I it. being merely an annual Bill. Betides it would be always fubjed to the revifion of Parliament. Mr. WTM. SMITH laid, that looking upon the Bill as unjuft in many of its provifions, nothing Should ever reconcile him to it. He had very lately received a letter from a family, whole fmall annuity would expire in tBoS, that t', in little more than a year and a half, and yet they would be compelled to pay as much in proportion as the man who had a retina ncnt income, arifing from landed or funded property. Mr. HUDPLESTONE agreed with every fyl lal,le that lialtallen from his Honourable Friend ; and contended, that it would oblige the man who derived a (mall income from the funds to fell hi. ca pital, and ultimately drive him to the wor khoule.— He confidered it as perfectly unjult, that the man who had i.nly zcl..a. year of funded prove, ty Ihnold pay as much 111 proportion as be who had as man y thoufands. He Ihould have chLerfully paid an nr. creafed per centage, in order that the poorer chafes tnight have gene untouched. 1 Lord 1W IiI,AQUIERE cnnfidered it as illiberal 1.• Gentlemen to atterrifit a deadly blow at ibe gill at the very time when it was about to rats, and to be fent into the world. Mr. VANSITTART (portly replied ; and (Mr. SMITH having explained) the Bill was then paired. Adjourned at half pan ten o'clock, till Friday. LONDON. . THURSDAY, MAY 25/. Kura CHARLES'S R ISTOII sr mtg.—Holiday. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock soli son India Bonds, as. dir. 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. Imperial 3 per Cent. 581- ; per C Conf. [hut Esclpluer Bills. 31. a is dif. par 4 per Cent. 7711 ff I Omnilm 3a 21 prem. 5 per Cent. Navy yBl Fr.g!;Ch Ticket s a l l. Long Ann. tyi 3 t 64 Con' for acc. bill DORLIN, MAY 13. 3 per C. GOT. Deb. 94—Ditto 34 per Cent 694. Exchange--Dublin on London tot a to}. The Houfe of Lords met yeßerday afternoon, in their own Chamber, and were engaged in deliberation for feveral hours, with glut doors. It was undergood that the evidence produced in the trial of Lord Mit.- ytt.t.a was taken into confederation. They adjourned till Friday, and it is believed that the fame fubjeft will be refumed. It is evident, therefore, that judg ment cannot be givin thio, week. When the fenfe of the Lords is afcertained, the judgment will be an nounced publicly in Weßmintler Hall ; but it is not expthed that this will take place for feveral days. In the Houfe of Commons, falaries were fixed for the Commitlioners for auditing the Public Accounts, at the rate of 'goo]. to the Firti Commißioner, and toool. to each of the inferior, exclufive of their travel. ling expences, which are not to exceed sool. a year each, with allowances betides for Clerks. inftruelions were yefterclay Med to the Commanders of all (hips of war and veffels to which Letters of Marque and Reprifals have been granted, reflraining them from making prize of, or (lopping And detaining any veffels within the Baltic. This is tantamount to an order for difcontinuing the block ade of the Trave. Pruffia and England may, per haps, find their mutual advantages in this arrange ment, though they mull be much circumfcribed to the former in confequence of the hoftility of Sweden. As a Squadron of Swedifh frigates and gallies is now cruizing in the Baltic, it is not likely that many Prufllans veffels will be found to avail themfelves of the fecurity held forth in the additional inftrations, unlefs Sweden shall join her fecurity to that afforded by the following ADDITIONAL INSTRUCT/ONa to the COMMANDRRS dill SNIPS of WAR and PRIVATEERS, that hive, or may have, Leoters of Marque.—Given at our Court at St. James's, the alft day of May. 006, in the 46th year of our Reign. GEORGE R. Whereas we hare ever Seen defirous to prevent interruption being given to the trade and commerce of every Rate In amity with us, as far as was compatible with the neccfrary operations of war And whereas it will tend very much to that purpole, that the trade and navigation of the Batik mould for the prcfent remain uninterrupted ; we have therefore been pleated to refolve, that our maps of war, privateers, and other veffels ailing under our commiffion, gull be reftrained from making prize of, flopping, or detaining any mit,s or veffels within the Bala.; and we do hereby ftridUy charge and enjoin the commanders of our Chips of war, and the commanders of all Mips and veltla having letters of marque and reprifal, that they do not, by virtue of their commit dons, or under colour thereof, ftop or detain any Chip or veffel in the B.lttir, for the purpofe of making prize of the fame, but that they fuller fuch Mips and veffels as they than meet in thole leas, to proceed in their refpeetive voyag a without any interruption. By his Mat lIITT'S command, (Signed) SPENCER. Yellerday, about twelve o'clock, his MA.; erry ar rived at theQieen'.l'.4l.sce, from Windfor ;the Dukes of YORK, KINT, and CAMBRIDGE, vilited his MAJESTY loon after. At two o'clock his MAJESTY held a pri vate Levee, which was attended by The Pica Lord of the Treafury. The Secretaries of State. Furl Spencer and Mr. Fez. The Firft Lord of the Admiralty. The Mafter General of the Ordnance. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaßer. Th- Billion of Klllala. Earls—Galloway, Derby,and Northe&. Vikount Howick. Lord Cathcart. Sir Jureph Scott. Admirals—Duckworth, Louie, Neale, and Ds by. Captain Keate, R. N. ffrs.—Law, Frcrc, and O'Hara. The following had the honour of being relented to bis MAJISTY : Admiral Sir Harry Burned Neale, en his being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, and on his return to Ensland, by Vifcount Howick. Mr. O'Hara, by Earl Spencer. Sir jofeph Scutt, on hie being created a Baronet, by Mr. Fox. Earl Northefk, on hi. return to England, from the battle of Tra falter, under the command of Lord Nelfon, by Vircount Howick. Mr. Law. on his being appointed Prefident of the Commilloners of the Naval Inquiry. The Hon. Gentleman laid before his Ma. jetty another Report of the Comm Armers. The Bifhop of Killals, on his being appointed to that See, by Earl Spencer. Admiral Sir John Duckworth, and Captain Keate, his Firft Captain, by Viftount Howick. # Lord Cathcart on his being appointed Commander in Chief In Scotland. in the room of Earl Moira. Mr. Frere, on his recurs from Spain. Admiral Louis, on his return to England, by Vircount I tewict:. After the Levee his MAJESTY gave an audience to Mr. Fcx. At half pall four o'clock his Majesrr fat off for Windfor. The ROYAL FAMILY are expected in town nn Mon day, preparatory to the celebration uf his MAJL.STY'S Birth Day. The gallant Naval Commanders, who were pre. rented yetterday to his MAJESTY,by Vifcount HOWICK, dined uith his Lordthip and a numerous party. Laft week her Royal Highnefs the Princere of Wat.as and lake arrived at Sidmoutb, on a vifit to Lord Overate- Her Royal Highnefs was received with ever po ffi ble mark of relpee from all dcfcrip tions e inhabitants. On Thurfday her Royal Highnefs proceeded on her way to Cutioells, near anitichatclu DUKZ OF -ißcru.. Died, on Saturday !an, at Inverary Ca(lle, his Grace Jotter, Duke of ARGYLL, Marquis of Lorn, (Lord Sundridge 1766), a Field Marlhal in the ar my, Colonel of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards, Honourable Mafier of the King's Houfehold in Scot land, Keeper of Donaaffstage and Carsick, and Go. vernor of the Britifh Society, &c. &c. His Grace was born 1722, and is fucceedcd by his elders fon, GRORCk, Marquis of Lorn, now Duke of ARGYLL. And on Sunday morning died, at Rofeneath, COLIN CAMPSSLL, Efq. an old and intimate (field andl faithful fervant of his Grace, in the charafter of Cham• berlain and Bailie of Rofeneath. He had completed his 94th year in February Ult. His Grace and Bailie CA m rerLL hid both been of the old Highland Watch, and were the only firrvivors of that matchlefs corps. The late Duke of ARGYLL married March 3,1759, ELIZASITI4, daughter of JOHN GUNNING, Efq and relift of Jamas, Duke of HAMILTON, father of the late Duke ; by whom, who died December so, 5790, he had ;true GEORGE JOHN, born February 17, 1766, who died an infant.—Gloace, Marquis ofl Lorn, born Sept. 22, 1768 ; fucceeded to the Ba-1 rony of Hamilton, on the death of his m ot h er .— Jolts DOUGLAS Hatay EDWARD, born December 24.1 1777— AUGUSTA, born March 3r, 176 o; married s to Capt. C lac, and hat iffue—and CHARLoTTN I SUSAN MARIA, born Junes,, 1775, married to Capt. CAMPIFLL. The Marquis of LORN, now Duke of Azar 14., left town yellcrday for Scotland. The high reputation of Lord ERSKIIII is flill boat ing. His Lord(hip% quickrefs of conception, and promptitude of decifion, are the topics of general eulogium. Lord and Lady GRENVILLE arrived in town yeller day from Dropmore. Lord CATHCART is expe&ed to leave London for Scotland on Monday fe'nnighr. Earl MOIRA, and the Counters of London, n•ith their infant daughter, arrived in town yentrday morning, from their feat in Leicellerthire. We underßand, in confequcnce of the vacancy in the Reprefentation of the County of Somerfet, Mr. LETHBRIDGE, fon of Sir J. LITHRRIDGS, Bert. flans as a Candidate, with every profpeet of fuccefs. WATFORD ELACTION.-01) Wednefday evening the numbers were :—For Mr. COLCLOUGH 406 ; Mr. ALCOCIC 378. Majority 28. It has been Rated, and, we believe, vri.h accuracy, that, at a late Meeting of the Eaft India DireCtors, relative to the appointment of a fucceffor to Sir GEoaca BARLOW, eighteen were for continuing that Gentleman as Governor General, and four only for the appointment of Lord LAUDERDALE. The latter are Paid to be Sir FRANCIS BARING, Mr. MANSHIP, Sir THEO►HILUS METCALFE, and Mr. ELPHINSTONS! A very valuable and extenfive mitre of molt ex cellent coal has been difcovered and proved by Mr. Jamas to exill on the eflate of the Duke of DORSET, at Bexhill, on the Coati of Suffer. A difeovery of this nature, particularly in that quarter of the kingdom, cannot fad to prove an mat of great na tional importance. Drury lane Theatre doles the prefent realm on the loth of June, and Covent garden un the 131 h. At the meeting, on Tuefday, of the Society of Arts, mention was made of a way to weave fpidsrs' war into ladies' garter:. The Property Duty Bill, pafrzcl laff night in the Houfe of Commons, is in length three hundred yards of parchment. • _ The Country will hear with plelfure that a general reform propofed in the collation of the taxes.-- Many of the principal collators have been found more attached to ago= than Aries! A few days fince 4 countryman going into the office at Dalin', Commons, where all the wills are kept, was farprifed to fee Inch a number of large volumes, and enquired if they were BiLlo ? "No, Sir," re plied one of the clerks, 't they are Tfllaments." Yeflerday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, when the Loan MAYOR laid before the Court Letters of Thanks from Admirals Lord Nourn rsa, Sir J. T. Ducasvoa TH, and J. H. Louis, which were ordered to he entered on the Journals. Mr. Alderman LeA prefented a petition on behalf of the poor Germans, which was referred to a Cum. mittee. It was agreed that Mr. Alderman Comas fhould move the Houfe of Commons for a Repeal of the Ad ditional Force Aet, as applicable to the City of Lon don. Mr. Dix ow moved that the Thanks of the Court with a Sword. and the Freedom of the City, fhould be prefented to General Sir Davin BAIRD, and Com. modore Sir Mime POPHAM, for their condo& and bravery in the conquefl or the. Cape of Good Hope. In vain did many Members endeavour to perfuade Mr. Dixon to withdraw his motion, eonfidering it!as premature. when Government had not thought pro• per to do it. Mr. MAR R iorr moved the previous quellion. Mr. Dol rroto feconded it, and contended, that when the Court were applying to Parliament for the Repeal of the Additional Force Ad, which was fuch a faring to the Corporation, it would be imprudent to he aeling in dire& oppofition to Gorernmeit, for if they had thought it right, they would have fop ported fuch a meafure in the Houle of Commons. The motion was fopported by Mr. GitiFFITHs and Mr. HARPS!, and oppofed by Mr. Alderman Com BR, Mr. Alderman HAWKEY, Mr. WAITH MAN, Mr. JAICK• S )1.4. &C. The previous quellion was then put, and carried by a get majority. Soon after three o'clock the Court broke up. Saturday a cart, in which was a man and three children, was upfet in Q . 22een.freet, Southw.ir::, l a dray. The man had a leg broke, and one •.•f the children received a fevere contteinn on the head. Some nights ago a warehoufe in Walergate•iireet row, in the City of Cheller, was broken open, and laces of various defcriptions were Rolen to the amount of upwards of 30001. fuppofed to have been conveyed to Ireland, as the city is not much above 20 miles didant from the Channel. . N4UIIC.II. 1317t4LIgSACE. I) ,, M:et WaterG.rd Ilamboth 111 IS !A Y.—W Ind S. E. •RR. DVS. Is 2 • 1 1 Gott,nbargh o • 2 J.:lnn 0 o t Leeward Wand 0 0 Pt!!ZANCF, MAY the After, of St. Gicnfell, from Cork, with oats for London ; Jane, from Looe ; Milford, St. Ives, Joker, flora, and Endeavour, from Wales, with coals, &c. for a market ; alto the Praia . ; In glint the Mercurius, of Auckland, Captain. I'. ERtk r, fent in by the MAR. TIN (loop of war, on her Falfigc from Lifbon, with fruit for London. FALMOUTH, MAY 26.—Arrived the (hip Bingham, Captain Boanta, from l'imadelphia for Hamburgh, laden with tea, &c. detained by the Htro and Mi. randa privateers. Sailed the Duke of Kent packet, Captain LAWILENCR, with a mail for the Leeward !Bands; and the HumBIR armed (hip with a convoy to the eaftward. Wind weftcrly. PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—Came in the Bremen brig Indiana, Capt. J. HAAN, from the Havannah fur Bremen, laden with fugar, indigo, and logwond, de. tained by the BRILLIANT, of 28 guns ; Rollock gal. lint Neptunus, P. Evtaso, from Brillol bound to Roitixk, laden with fugar, coffee, and cocoa, put in with ihe lois of her main topmall ; Pruflian galliot Mercurius, P. ERICR, from Lifbon, bound to Lon. don, laden with fruit, detained by the Martin, of it gone; the PRINCE Gain OF, of 98 guns, and the Re vaßce, of 74 guns, front the Channel Fleet ; LA. TONA, of 38 guns, from a cruize, laid to have re ceived damage in her bottom ; DIAMOND, of 38 guns, from a cruize ; Eliza,. of and from Philadd, 11*, laden with tea, fugar, coffee, &c. bound to Hamburgh, detained by the BRILLIANT frigate; and the PALLAS, of 32 guns, from a cruize. Poszsmourri, May zB.—Arrived the brig Mary. Capt. KAMP, from Waterford, with provifions.— Sailed the ANN and Lccu sr gun brigs, with a con voy fin. the Downs. Drooped down to St. Helena the ATAICA man of war. Wind N. W. SNEAK/41M, MAY zB.—Sailed from the Nore this morning the FALCON Hoop of war, with the trade under convoy, for I'onningen and the Elbe, with a light wind at N. E. DIAL, MAY 28.—Arrived the BOLD gun brig, Lieutenant Waiters Curl/sits Commander, and brought in with her the Catherine Knutzburry, from -Barcelona, bound to Copenhagen, laden with brandy ; alfo the Diana, from Cctte to Hamburgh, laden with brandy, wine, and bale goods, both cargoes are Pruffian property : arrived alfo the Mcrsos bomb, from Portfmouth. Sailed the JACRALL gun brig, on a cruize ; leinicsur gun brig, for the Nore ; the Union and Amphitrite cartels. for Flufhing, with Dutch prifoners ; and the Stag revenue cutter, for Deptford. Remain in the Downs a fleet of (hips of war, grin brigs, bombs, cutters, tenders, and fire sae's. Wind S. E. foggy. Yea:tool - a, Mar 28.—Sailed on a cruize the CR . THEO s f igate to join Admiral Rosseces Ilinadron, enticing rff tlse N. E. of the Dogger. This morning arrived the Rust and AGINCOURT men of war, from the Dore, and the Olt ESTEE hoop of war, from a entire, and two detained veffels. Ships in the Roads, Rorsucx, Admiral Dovc s ; NASSAU, ST ATr LY, land rte, with ti,e lhips above men tioned, The whole, c%cept the R.1./W(IC, wilt fait this afternoon ar early in tl,e mornin, to jt,in Admi ral RUSSELL. The Pruflian and other fitips detained by the North Sea Squadron, and fent into this port, amount to one hundred and three. The Lady Frances packet, Captain MATTHEW FLYN, with mails, and the Lady Nepean packet, Captain Dant, with ditto, remain wind bound. Wind E.N.E. light breeze. GREENOCK, MAY 26.--The Minarva, Balsam', arrived litre on Friday laR from Charlefton, after a paffige of 4; days ; experienced very bad weather, heavy gales from E. and N. E. On Monday Taft fell ,in with a bright tided brig, wanting her main -mall. off Tnfterhull, which Captain B. endeavoured to get up with, bolt in vain, and next morning he taw her towed into Londonderry by a cutter. The fchooner Andrew and Margaret, T. ROBINSON mailer, in croffing the mouth of Belfal L.ugh, na Thurfday fe'nnight, paired by part of the wreck of a veffel, confilling of mark, yards, and part of the bows, floating with the tide; it is conjettured, that it might be a part of a veffel which funk there about three years ago, which in the night time ran foul of ano. titer veffel, and inllantly went to the bottom. nexivr n. .1' In the River, the John and Thomas, renew, from Cork—Off Dover, Lofting, Donakitin, front Malta—At Liverpool, Di`patch, Buller. from Virginia—in the Clyde. Minerva. Bagme, from Chatletion—At Cork. Lord Iron, Carsiner, from Gibral;ar— At ry, Sufannah Catharina, Brinier, from Leghorn—At !M -lA, Commerce, Mattocks, from Ali ant; and the Antirtita. Liffey. from London-.At 1 nndonde-ry, M Coere”. from London—At Dublin, Itdinda. hertt, from Lotutoo--.lt Archatnel, Michael, from I irero , d—At !..oho: .1. chr.t. tuna Carolina, Harlot, from I'etetfint''.l. The Montrofe fr - rn :;t. Mk!, tr p c. f or Loudon; and the Beaver, :CLFY. horn Wattr terd to Nearfono , :l nit!, were earn,: s. :Ind burnt by ri te Tnpaze Fsench trim e, t!:: L liner on the 291 h. and the latter on et, .I . _ .1 ult. The ctew are ar: Ind 41 lift It. YerloclAy a Court of D:reil , rt ss•as 1,0-A E a % India 1-loole, when Captain Vatto Has. r:f the Stet. ton Cattle, took leave in tviontly to departing fur direft.—The Court atlkiut nett at ri= o'clock till to-morrow. ~~~ i ~ f ~~~ ~,