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lers had not bad sufficient notice. It ints bat rea sonable, he thought, to give them time to dispose of their large stock on hand - , before bounties were given to the small distiller. He therefore should propose as an amendment to the present clause, thv. the . bounties on the small stills be postponed for a time to be limited. Mr. FOSTER contended, in oppcsition to the ar guments of Mr. Shaw, that • the great distillers had Lad abundant notice, and knew so far back as the year 1806, that the principle of the encouragement of ' small stills Woold be acted noon, on the earliest op. portunity that it was deemed expedient to to do. Sir JOHII NEWPORT supported. the clause as it stood, which, after a . few words from bin LESLIE FOSTER, Was agreed to. Mr. S H AW then sta l led a case of great lardship which had arisen from the want of a proper controul over the Excise Commissioners. A ganger, who was prolublr drunk at the time, had _entered the house of a distiller in Dublin ; a Anarrel . took place, and som e blows passed between the gauger and a clerk of the di•tiller. This man, who paid £4OOO a week to t h e revenue , applied to' the Commissioners for redress, and '.he answer he got was that his licence was sus 'pendei They refused to hear evidence. Trials at ength, however, took placsi-l—the clerk was acquitted, and the gauger did not appear but forfeited his re cognizance. The distiller, suffered great injury by a suspension of seven vieeks.• He moved, therefore,• that the clause placing the suspension of li c e nces i n the discretion of the Commissioner's be tett Init. Mr. DENIS BROWNE supported this ' Amend ment, and dwelt upon the hardship - rtsuking from any subject of the empire living, contrary to the constitution, under the arbitrary.caprice of any indi: vidual or set of men. Mr. CROICER said that be had occasidn ' to know that the method of proceeding in the excise Courts was bad, and such as called for correction. Mr. FOSTER, Mr. WELLESLEY POLE, and Sir JOHN NEWPORT observed that the Treasury had already a controul over the Excise; but Sir John Newport still thought that this would be more effica cious if stated in the Act. Mr. SHAW'S Amendment was then withdrawn, and that of Mr. FOSTER, " That no Distiller should be deprived of his licence without previous application being made to the Lords of the Treasury, and their approbation being had," was adopted in its stead. A clause was introduced, directing the Commis sioners of Excise to repay to eny,Pistiller who, from (JR. sth day of March last, shugd have paid a duty of more than '2s 6d. per the amount of the snrrlas duty so paid by them. Mr. O'HARA proposed the abolition of the sys tem of fines on land, on account of illegal stills. Mr. FOSTER agreed that this should be suspended for tsco years. After some discussion, in which the conciliating conduct of Mr. Foster in the present business received every merited compliment, the proposition was poit• pored till the bringing up of . the Report, when Mr. •TuAer undertook to bring in a clause on this subject. C lonel HUTCHINSON wished to know how a irrcli was to be kept on thine nunterous small stills ? FOSTER stated, that he proposed doing so br i!to present Officers, and by 180 otheri; new 'an pi e 3 at h'gh salaries in the OelleotiOn of the As sessed Taxes. The House then resumed, and the Report was or dered to be received to-morrow. The Report of the Committee of Supply, and of the Committee en the F.:chequer Bills Funding Bill were brought up and agreed to.—A6journed. Ttiv, EVENING TAR. LONDON. " AN ot.D Mtnicst OrricEß" would have had a speedy in sertion had I.is tommu . nication been sufficiently condensed.—We have so marl' important public documents, and re! ular advJrtise rnents %yawn; for room in our eo!umns, that we cannot speedily rake room for articles of the length he has sent. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. per Cent. Cons. for money, 68* —ace. 681* Exch. Bi (.1(1.) Ba. to 10s. prem.—Ditto (34d.) 14s. to 17s. pre. 5 per Cent. Navy 98.1--Bonds 14s. PRICE. OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Cent Red. Ann. shut S. S. Stock 731 3 per Cetr. Cans.6B6l Imp. $ per Cent. --- 4 per Cent. shut F...te. Bills, Its. Bs. 9s. pr. 3per Cent. Navy 9f.* 08 Omnium 1 ss. a 1:3.131. pre. Long Ann. shot I.nttery Tickets £24. 6s. India Loads 158.145. pre. Consols for Acc. 68-k 69 68i Letters from Oporto, to the date of the 2d instant, Kate, that at that time no apprehensions were enter tained for the immediate approach of the French.— h° English and Portuguese armies continued nearly .I , ei r f ormer positions. • I :ic z;Tort that Ceuta has not been Occupied 'by <-41; tre,.,ri rests on no foundation whatever. No 20- colnts whatever, of a later date than the 27th ultimo,' !'-!7e been received from Gibraltar. The report to lk:,ich we allude was pretended. to rest on accoldts tc the Ist instant. A.l , :tter from Malaga, dated the 16th Otitis°, states, that all was then quiet at that .part but which un happily confirms the excess es committed by the trench in that unfortunate city. Some accounts were yesterday reseisred from Spaiss v:Lich mention the circumstances and result of the iro battle between the armies a Marshal AVOZREAU and Ceneral O'Douum. as highly favourable and firing to t h e l atter. The * conflict is stated to have tsted, with little intermision, fee nearly- two days, and the 10 51 of the enemy, it is said, amounted to several thousand Men* " The heit4itn of O'DONNELL was 1 ""er, tempered with - the necessary portion of Prudence, and in the end he judged it expedient to wi thdraw his brave army from the field, rather than risk its saf ety b y an obstinate perseverance , in what bad then obviously become an unequal and most ha zardous combat. The Spanish Chief bestows the l ' i ghest praises, not only on the gallant conduct of regular troop!, but that of the peasantry who so 1 cheerfully T spaired to the standard of their country, and even In the end' quitted the ensanguined" scene with marked reluctance." There is no other intelligence of importance from Spain, except that no immediate apprehensions were entertained in respect to the utmost efforts which the enemy were deemed capable of making against Cadiz. 66 From Petersburgh letters have arrived to the date of the 3d instant. Nothing of war is mentioned in these communications, and trade was proceeding as if there w a s no expectation of it. The exchange at Petersburgh had improved, and was at Tallow , had advanced 30 per cent. beyond the price of lest year, and obtained 86 rubles. Contracts were entered into in various other articles of Russian produce to a great.extent, and at high prices, in the confidence that the trade with this country would be open during the ensuing summer."—Such are the reports in circu lation, but we doubt whether they rest on good au thority. Many speculators in Russian produce have at this moment an obvious interest in giving currency to sttch statements. The Election of a Member for the town of 1-Tythe in the place of the late THOMAS GODFREY, Esq. came on on Monday at two o'clock ; the numbers at the close of the poll—were for Sir JOHN PERHINO, Bit/. - 83 WILLIAM BUST., Esq. - - - 49 J. H. BRYDOLS, Esq. - 44 Sir Joan PERRING was declared - duly elected. The Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM GRANT, Master of the Rolls, &c. is unanimously elected Rector of Ma rischal College and University of Aberdeen. Some recent letters from Bombay state, that the KING of PERSIA had solicited the Government of Bom bay to send him a sufficient number of Officers to in struct a corps 0f15,000 men in British manoeuvres and discipline. Friday a Court-Martial was held on board the SAL VADOR nEt, MUNDO, in Hamoaze, on Mr. Denham, late Master of his Majesty's ship DAPHNE, for having absented himself from that ship, contrary to Captain Ptrow's orders. The Court adjudged the charge to be fully substantiated ; and did therefore sentence him to be dismissed his situation, and rendered incapable of ever serving as an O ffi cer in his Majesty's Navy. Rear-Admiral Sir EDWARD BE:LLER, Bart. President. G. EASTLAKE, Esq. Deputy Judge Advocate. We have it from authority that Madame CATA LANI will enter into any suitable engagement to sing Italian or English in the Oratorios, or amateur meet ings which may be given. K:so's THEATRE.--.Last night a new serious opera, called Atalide, was performed at this theatre. The story is very simple : Atalide, a young Ottoman Prin cess, kft as an hostage at the Sultan's court, engages the affections of his son, to whom she is privately married. The Sultan, who aspired to a powerful alliance for his son, is highly enraged at the discovery; but is at length overcome by his paternal feeling, and relents. CATALANI and TRAMEZZANI were very happy in the two principal characters ; their duet tin the second act, was fervently applauded and rapturously encored., The whole of the performers acquitted themselves in a very creditable manner. The audience, which was as numerous as it was fashionable, appeared' highly I ratified, and the piece went off with uncommon spi rit. The music, by GUGLIELMI, is entitled to much praise, and . the scenery, which was magnificent throughout, gave universal satisfaction. Wednesday last was purchased in the Fish-market, Edinburgh, for 2s. a cod fish, weighing about 18 pounds, which, on being opened, was found to contain two soles, one of them measuring twelve inches by five, a herring ten inches in length, a half herring, two lobsters, and a flounder seven inches in length. Friday last an affray took place between two French prisoners in the Royal Prison at Dartmoor, in which one of them drew his knife and stabbed the other through the heart. . . Friday last Robert Mansfield, a lad between 17 and 18 years of age, was unfortunately killed by the falling of a piece of timber, on board the Centinel brig lying in Sheerness harbour. _ _ Two convicts lately made their escape from Sheer ness, and have not since been heard of. A buoy, stationed about two miles to the North- East of Bamborough Castle, was last winter carried away in a violent storm, and found, together with a large piece of metal, which served as an anchor, on the sand near Nova Scotia. The Jean and Bell, Morris, for Colerain, took fire in Grangemouth Roads on the 2d inst. and was run ashore at Holemurry, in Carron river, where vessel T and cargo were burnt to the water's edge. The crew, ; and a woman and three children, passengers, saved. Some weeks since, Mr. TOOLEY, of Horncastle, re ceived an anonymous letter, cautioning him to take. { care of himself, as an attempt would be made to as-1 sassinate him ; he considered the letter as, only in tended to alarm him, and did not pay any particular attention to it : some nights since, however, as he I was goin to bed, a pistol was discharged at him through the window, and a slug passed just above his head, and lodged in the ceiling. Mr. Tooley imme diately threw up the window, and leaped into the I street, but the assassin escaped. The slug was made , of a letter n sed to mark linen, and appears to have bgecon 0, bnt has been defaced in an endeavour to beat it round. Between six and seven o'clock, on Tuesday se'n• tight, as Mt'. John Meagher, innkeeper, at Nine-mile house, county Of Tipperary, was on his return home from Mullinahone, he was stopped within a quarter of a mile of his house, by three armed men, one of whom called upon him to stop, and attempted to catch at his horse's bridle which he missed, when I im mediately one of the others fired a blunderbuss at him, and lodged five balls in his hip and upper part of his thigh. Mr. Meagher instantly fell, when ano ther of the fellows came over him with a blunderbuss and was going to fire a second shot at him until the villain who had fired, called out—' I have done the rascal's business, don't waste your shot." The vil lains then made off. The report of the shot brought some people to the spot, when Mr. Meagher was brought home, and languished until the following Friday, leaving a desolate wife and family. . . • - 114 PAL nirnaucENcis. i THE ARMY. •• • • . . . . , FALMOUTH, MARN lc . rot* of the transports, with drivers an Olery on a ail -- Sailed the followi ng Packets :—th Lady Arabella, board, which, sailed from Cove on the 28th ult. under I PORMUS, for the Brazils; the Ptnce of Wales, convoy of the PRIN‘ESS CHARLOTTE, for Liibon, have TODD, for Lisbon; and the Lord &hart, HAMM- put back, after receiving great damage. TON, for Cadiz.—Wind Ea. The Northumberland Regiment of Militia hat • PLYMOUTH, MARCH 19. marched from Ipswich for Norman Cross Barracks. Sailed the PHEASANT sloop of war, Captain PAL- f . MER, with a Messenger, f or C a di z .—C ame up har- The Royal Welch Fuzileers commenced their march, yesterday, from Lewes barracks, on their hour, to refit, the H AZA R D s l oop o f wa r. route to Guernsey. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20. i Four companies of the riflemen, which were on Sailed the BONNE CiTOYENNE, with a convoy, tor Nova Scotia and H a lif a x ; t h e w i n d b e i ng qu i te calm, their march from Hythe to Portsmouth, for embarka tion; have since been marched back to Bythe. they have brought up in Cowes Roads. The extensive building now erecting for the Royal DEAL, MARCH 20. Military College on Bagshot Common is in .great Came down from the River the Ainwick Castle forwardness, and is expected to be completed in less East Indiam an ; P omona , G eo r g e, an d t h e J ane , f or than two years from this time. Rib Janeiro. Sailed the SATURN and ORION, for A Yarmouth ; Alnwick C ast l e , f or I n di a ; e nd t h e w h o l e ' „ civil . zat in the Army" remarks,- that if the of the running ships, that were left here, for the West:. Commander in Chief, instead of depriving them of ward.—Wind N. E. • 1 their Epaulettes, had increased the pay of the Medical Staff of Regiments, he would probably have got. a CHATHAM, MARCH 18. f N 1" Id - ' both , : greater number of recruits for that department.-- I - The PLA,.IAGENET anL. LION have sailed from hence to Long Reach. The RUBY and VIGO will be put out of Dock on Wednesday, and the CRESSY lately launched from Frindsbury, and one of the new cutters will be docked hi their stead. ABERDEEN, MARCH 17. One of the vessels captured on the Yorkshire coast, by a lugger privateer, proves to be the schooner Jean, BLACK, of and for Newburgh, it ant London, with ship-timber, which has since been retaken by the MAGNET sloop of war, and carcic•cl into Yarmouth. Seven other vessels are said to have been captured at the same time, by the above privateer ; and it is re ported, that two or three other privateers were cruiz.- -ing to the northward of Yarmouth Roads. The Hercules, GinttoN, of this place, sailed on Sunday last fur the Davis' Straits Whale Fisheiy. NEWHAVEN, MARCH 19. Last Wednesday, the brig Tyrole, frnm Yarmouth to Gibraltar, with a generA cargo, was Captured by a French privateer, off Fairlight. The enemy took the whole of the crew from the brig, and put on board her 15 Frenchmen, who had nearly reached the French coast, when one of our cruizers, the SPE CULATOR lugger, luckily fell in with the Tyrole, and re-captured her. On Friday, the lugger brought her prize into this harbour, and delivered her up to Messrs. BnowN and TASKER, agents for the captors. The Frenchmen, who are all very fine young fellows, were landed, and escorted to Bletchington barracks, where they are placed under a proper guard, to be otherwise disposed of, as the Transport Board may' direct. FR.OM LLOYD'S LIST. GeAvinNn, MARCII 20.—N0 arrivals.—Sailed the Sisters, Rendle, for St. Martin's; the Admiral Colpuys, Venabhs, for Demerara; the Ann, Johns, for Madeira; the St. Patrick, Ross, for Dublin ; the Caledonia, Reid, far Limerick ; and the Lady Andover, Dye, for Oporto. _ The Rachael, WYLIE, bound to Liverpool, is lost at Fayal. The Captain and five of the crew were drowned. The Clarence and several other vessels were blown out to sea from Fayal, on the 19th ult. The ship Dannebrog, laden with deals,. on her pas sage from Norway to. London, cattp.,ht fire at sea so suddenly, that it was weraffficulty the crew could W save themselves in the -sr Twenty-nine of them, including the Captaie s hlabi at Cromar, on Moaday niOt.; but two •vrhit 'tied the ship in a small boat, it is feared, ha . d. et g About three ' etits ago the sloop Fleet, MNAIIR master, 40 tortilorden, sailed from Portaferry for LiverpoobiadWwith wheat, the property of Mr. Gib son of Portatery: When she arrived off the banks of Liverpool sheisuddenly went down, bat fortunately the boat floated, and the crew, three in number, got into it with two oars, one of which however soon broke, and they were obliged to scud in a most tre mendous sea. One of the crew, a young man, died of extreme fatigue while he was lashed to the tholes ; the two survivors reached Douglas, Isle of Man, after being in the small boat, only nine feet long, for 48 hours, without the least sustenance. On their ar rival they sold the boat and purchased a coffin, and decently interred their deceased friend ; they then I took a passage for Peel, and from thence home. the scarcity, of bullion has had any influence in producing ,the change alluded to, why are our Dra goons. covered over with gild lace ? The useless trimmings ot one of these regiments would morethan supply-. all the Subalterns and Surgeons of the whole Army with the distinctive mark of which they are ordered to be deprived. Mt I ,ITIA SYSTEM. • At a period, when taxation undeniably, has reached its maximum, and °economy in our expenditure is be come so necessary, that a reduction in our means of defence has, already, been resorted to, it is important to consider how far, without injury to its efficiency, our Militia System is susceptible of retrenchment, and thereby to preserve, undiminished, those establish ments (the Navy and regular Army) which have hitherto enabled us to contend with our enemies at a distance from our own shores; and also to preserve the appointments which are the fair rewards of merito rious service. The statement under the following heads will sbew, that a saving in our Militia Expenditure, little short of half a million sterling, is• practicable : Ist, Off Reckonings, on Profits on Clothing. 23, Reduction of unnecessary Commissions. 3d, ConsoLdstion of the smaller Corps. Off Reckonings.—That the superior Officers of Militia Regimen;.s should have any, even the smallest, profit on the clothing of their men, must be consider-, ed, in these times of difficulty, as an extravagant waste of our means, and the shadow of pretence for its continuance cannot be offered. In the line, cer tainly, the practice has long obtained; but there it is intended as a grateful remuneration for tong, active and nuritorigus services. Reduction of utin.cessary Commissions.—lt will only be necessary to remark under this head, that Re giments of the Line are frequently without more than two effective Field Officers, and that :tithe Guards the strength of the companies is 120 men each, and in nei ther has it been discovered that the service has suffer ed inconvenience or detriment ; therefore on the grounds of efficiency, the Militia establishment may be reduCed from jive Field Officers to two, and the -privates formed into companies of 120 each (the effec tive, acJiirding to late returns, do not average more than from 50 to 5.5 per company), the establishment would then be as follows :—(Allowing it s we shall be noxious to do, the rank of Colonel without pay to the Lord Lieutenant of a county.) One Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, One M.ijor. Six Captains—of Companies of 120 Rank and File -- Nos Com missioned Officers in proportion. . . Six Lieutenants. , V . , • Six Ensigns. One Adjutant, a Paymaster, Quarter-Master, a . hsteell t led an Assistant-Surgeon. • Consolidation of the smaller Corps.—No Corps to consist of less than five Companies, the numerous small Regiments, such as the Merioneth, (not L.,0 men) Huntingdon, &c. &c. to be broken up. Probable saving by this Reform : Pay of 115 Colonels at £450 per annum -- - - 55,010 Profits to ditto on Clothing (E.l lOs, per man) - 135,000 Reduction of unnecessary Field Offizers (91) - - 24,000 Pay of reduced Captains and Subalterns, on forming the Privates Into Companies of 120 each - - - - - Saving on Allowances, I.odging Money, Coals, Candles, 'I rarsport of Baggage, by this reduction of Officers, probably not short of • - - 102,000 co,•aco LATE FIRE IN HoLLE‘-srstEur.—Yesterday,another body was, about four o'clock, taken out of the ruins, supposed to be either Mr. Brodie or Mr. Rakes. It was taken in a shell to St. Clement's.bone-house.— The remainder of the woman was not found ; but, fortunately for Mrs. Ingram, who lodged on the first floor, and had lost cash to the amonnt of 8600, she recovered it yesterday ; £305, in bank notes, hav ing been found in the ruins, in a leather pocket-book, the notes only a little scorched ; the remainder of the i Yesterday, the LORD MAYOR ordered the p r i ce of property, which was in cash, was taken out of a closet, :bread to continue at ls. Std. the qua r t ern l oa f o f . which had escaped the conflagration. wheaten, and Is. 2a. household. Monday evening,. a fire broke out in some wooden lAt Norwich cattle-market the supply of tat beef and mutton was on Saturday se'nniiu ve r y c o ns id era bl e , premises, near the end of Bury-street, st. Mary Axe, ;which greatly alarmed the neighbourhood, there being and much cheaper. Lean bullocks sold high, and an extensive oil-warehouse nearly adjoining. The : store sheep were very dear. Tnere were but few lambs, al- . which fetched high prices. Hogs were plentiful an d prompt arrival of the engines, however, speedily layed their fears. I cheap. Horses, both at Norwich and at Great Win- A fire broke out, on Monday evening, at a sugar- nold fair, held at Downham-market, w e re b oug h t a t baker's, in Tower-street, in the City, which raged : h eavy sums . with much violence, and burnt that house and the ad- Monday the annual town fair of Wincheste r Icon joining.—Two other fires took place in the Borough , ! minced, which was well attended. Chee s e so ld f rom which destroyed the houses in which they broke out, 70 to 955. per cwt. There was a good shew of horse s , ' but were extinguished without further damage. but they sold dear. Last week a fire broke out in the drying-mom of CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LAXE,MARCH 21..—There Mr. Wm. Painter, fellmonger, at Bicester, which are several further a:rivals of foreign Wheat, which consumed the same, with a quantity of wool and i with that remaining makes a considerable supply ; sheep skins ; by the prompt assistance of the inhabi. not much Coastwise—Fine Samples support their tants at the engines the fire was prevented from ex price, Other qualities dull salt-Prim e D an t z i c a b ou t - tending to the contiguous houses. Neither the boil- 1 16 s. per quarter—Batley and Malt rather lower— ding nor its contents were insured.'i 'WhitePeas somewhat dearer—Oats are in short sup- Early on Saturday se'nnight, the mill at Mousemill, ly, and those of bt quality a rathei near Lanark, was discovered on fire. About four I p n }lour and othe r articles littl re e quote variat d ion. higher. o'clock the alarm bells of Lanark and the drums beat, . GiNERAL CtiItSINCY AS UNDER . when the Magistrates and a great concourse of people Wheat, 82s. 955. 105 s. Beans, (old) .565. 625. repaired to the spot, with the fire engine belonging to Fine ditto, 110 s. 114 s. Tick ditto (old) 4(;16. .525. the town ; but, as the roof of the mill had mostly _ Oats 225. 28s. saw. B R lrl e ey, 54 . 5 55 :8 . 9.0a. Poland ditto, 945. 375. od. 'fallen before the fire was discovered, the utmost that Malt 7 , 05.185. Potatoe dnte, 991. od. White Peas (boilers), 68s. 711 s. Rape Seed, 461. SOL could be done was to save the kiln, and, in part, the large water-wheel that drove the mill. The fire, from Grey ditto 475. 525. - inquiries that have been made, was accidental. Fine Flour 85s 90s.—Saeonas 80s. 05s. R/LE Friday morning, about eight o'clock, a fir: was COAL MA T, March le. Qhips at Market Ships sold Price discovered in an iron-monger's shop near the Nether -441 Newcastle Coals 23 48s. id. to elk. •41. low, Edinburgh, but, by timely aaiistaace ) it was 2 su n dedand 2 45%. Od. to Ids. Ild. speedily got under,.whhout much damage. ;. .- , i Saco coat • • . , • -. . . Total - - - - X. 466,050 By the Consolidation of the Regiments and of C , m- • panies, there would be a reduction of neail.- 1500 Officers, and yet not one Officer qualified ac.ording to law would be reduced. G'l~ l 4.