Star. — London, England, 1803-06-25 00:00:00

IV It ~I Lr - ~: f! FRANCE. PRIVATE LETTER., PARIS, JUNE rt. HOUSE QF LORDS, FRIDAY, FINE 14. it 1 .. ~ ~, ~ R .:`~ '~ . This an was pub!! flutd,ln 3 Voltam. price a Guinea in boards, A COURSE of MEDICAL STUDIES, contain- Mg • Comparative View of the 4natonileal Breda% of Man and of Animals ; a Milroy of &fears, and an account of the know kdge hitherto acquired with regard to the regular act on of the dif ferent organs. A work thirty deigned for the ufc of Medical itudeots. By J. BURDIN, M. D. Tranflated from the French. Printed for cached and Martin, Middle-row, Holborn. It would not afford nc the flight& furprife. when the fit hour comes,to fee the Eletorate of Hanover be- Rowed ac a compenfation from Francemon a Pt ince whole interefishave been unworthily facrificed by Eng- land,and who has fallen from his rank, in confequence . of having originally efpoufed the caufe of that power. We fpeak of the Houle of Orange, to which France .ias, on more than one occalion, given proof that it no longer remembers its conduit, as head of the Old Government of Holland, in the beggining of the loft war. In whatever light we regard the potlibility of fuch an event, we mull find grounds to induce us to think it very likely to be realifed. It is evident that France never thought of taking Hanover for the pur pore of appropriating it to herfelf. In the fecond place, it is probable that France would feize, with pleafure, any opportunity to evince her friendlhip for Pruffia ; and that the Court of Pruffia would fee with great fatisfaEtion a political event tending to compen late a branch of its Royal Family for the lofres which it has fuffered. On the other hand, all Germany, and all the powers on the Continent would probably be better pleated to fee a poffeffion of the Germanic Empire governed by a Prince to whom it would be a fuitable domain, than left to a foreign Monarch, to whom it ferves for a pre=text to embroil every feven years the affairs of all Europe. France heifelf would prefer a grateful ally to a mortal foe ;• and would them itglorious to treat an old enemy with attention and generofity, who has been abandoned in the day of his aelverfity by a potent ally. Finally, this ar. rangement would exhibit a novelty in the hiftory of turope ; a Prince corapenfated by a late enemy at the expence of his ally. rARLMMENTARr PROCEEDIivGS. The Royal Agent was given by Conuniffion to oy public and private Rills. The public Bills were the Twelve Millions Loan the Cußants Duty Bill, and the Militia Transfer Rill. The Commiilloners were the Lotd Chancellor, Lord McAuley, and Lord Wilfisishant. CLIIRGY R ESIDINCII SILL. Lord rtenase moved, that their Lordihips bold revile and tecorilkler their determination of laft night relative to ftriking out ' the Chaplain General of the Army from the hit of exemptions. and that he Mould be reinftated in the Lift. After an argument of form length tetween lard areneille and the Lord Chancellor oo this point, a divillon took place—for the reinftatentent—Contents 43—Non-contents 6—Majority 7. Lord 4L laid, that though be approved the principle of the Bill, and sequlefeed in the greeter part of it, yet there were fame parts of it to which he objected: he therefore would wish to take it on the whole as a'Bill of experiment, and therefore waled it Ariuld have a limited duration. He accordingly moved, as an Amendment, that it Mould terminate on the ssth of June, a to. 'Alivilion took place on this Amendment..—Contents 4—Non tootenta t6—Majority is. Lord RADNOR then moved, " that It &Gold terminate in atB." .Contents 5..-Non-contents 16. Lord Gut cremes moved, as an Amendment, "that all the en. ::granted ihould be void, voids a fufficient Curate in each provided by the beneficed Clergyman.* ste dlvilkm.—Cantessts, A.—Non-contents 14. Dill was then read a third time and paled, and the Hoofs *Groot to Monday. HOUSE OP COMMONS. TM Southern Whale Ft awry Ri colon Bill was reed a Brit dme, and ordered to be reedit recited time as Monday neat. The Raft India Shipping Bill was ordered to be committed on The y. Mill for preventing the Coning and Damaging of Horfe Hides was read a third time and paled. 'A Menage from the Lords informed the Houfe that their Lord litlye had agreed to She Briber, Oath Bill without any amendments. Mr. Axexano la prefented the Report of the Committee on the AffelEd Tay Contolidation. The Athletics', were read over, and agreed to, and a Bill ordered to be brought in, in conformity thereto. A Mcrae from the Lords, by the Gentleman Ulher of the Black Rod, required the attendance of the Houk in the Houle of in order to hear his Majelly's CommiSon for the purple ' of eking the Royal Mime to certain Ws. On their return, the Speaker natal that thole Bill were theta Millions Loan Caftans Doty Cooteficktion Bill, the Bill for Correelting certain Deeds in the true of Exchequer Bills, the Britith Militia Trent , ger Nil, the BM foe better Prot...Sim of Trade during the War, the aMp Paillemsers Regulation WO. the Bill for the better Simply ed Mesitesee by the introdudtion of Foreign Seamen, sad the man ly Bridges Bid, with feveral private Bills. Lord (ixestatearsa pretested, porfuant to order, an account of the Proceeding of the Consmilionen appointed for managing the fais Odes had tax, with refpea to the redemptim elitism tax upon the property of bodies politic and corporate, att.—ordered t o lie on the table, end to be printed. The Report of the Committee on the ketch Roads and Bridges BM walk hem& up, and io the made of the reading of the Re kiatimas. Mr. Auas moved that Mr. Charles Dunes Mould be ad ded to the Camtnlfonere appointed for carrying the BM into ex- Modem Me. H. Daewee oppofed this motion, which, however. was Merkel with only the Honourable Gentleman's (Westing voice. Some chuffs were proptifed by Mr. I. H. Bement, among which was ens that the CommitSoners mould report their proceedings to the Houle, which were adopted, and the Bill was ordered to be Mad a third time on Monday. Mr. L H. Bauwee gave notice, that be would on Monday next' Move the Houk to refolve into a Committee for the purpofe of coondcring the propriety of a rant of money to his Majefty in mnicquence of the yd Rep At of the Committee on the Northers' Survey. The Mitiiia Ofileme Btp was read a fecund time, and commit, ted for Monday. The farther confideratlem of the Report of the Committee on the Militia Pay Rill was poftrined to Toefday next ; an was alto the committal of the Militia Ad,ettants * Bill; upon which the Se cretary at War Rated that it was his intention to move that both fhould come before the Hoofs. Ordered, on the 'notice' of the CIIAWCILLOI ef the EICINKOta, that there Mould be bid before the Houfe an account of the amount of Eschequir Rill. Matt in purfasnee of an Aft of tag Setßons, en ' titled "an Ad fur Failing Five Millions by li:charier Rills." w•et *MD MIANS. The C11•11CILLOR of the Excattraa moved, 61 That the Elmore refolve itfelf ;fro a Committee of the whole Ifoufe, to confider further its Ways and Means for the prefent exigencies of the State." The , 11 ,, ufe refOlved accordingly, and The ClIA•iCt 1.101 of the EXCISIVIR laid before the Committee the terms upon which he had con traned fm the Lotteries. He (aid, that he had found it mon i.ru'dent, e n the relent neeaftnn, to reduce - the prices and number of the Tickets. Lan year there were tin left. than 90,000 Tickets, with a power 6 of ent.rcafing them to too,coo. This year h was pro heifad. t h at t h e num b er o f Ti c k ets Ib ou ld be limited to t, e.. with A power of =Cr Ca fill them to the number of 80,ouo. He Elated, the er.ntran had been made to extend both toward the fervice of Great Bri tain and Ireland, and that the clear profit which would arife to the public would be 3 a 3,0001. which fomewhat exceeded the profit of laft year's - Lotteries. The number of Tickets propofed in the prefent Lottery would, at the rate of 131. a s. o/d. yield the total amount of 3,380,0001. It was his with, and he was Cure it was the with of the Houle, to guard againft large infurances, which the plan adopted hit year tended greatly to encourage. He had found from experience, that confiderable incon venience, hurry, and confufion, ufuaUy aro& from the mode of limiting the number of Lotteries. It was now intended to raife by three Lotteries the funs of 1,523,0331. 6s. Bd. of which Cum 1,166,2371. gs. would be appropriated to the Cervices of Great Bri• tain ; and the Cum of 356,7751. t 7s. Bd. towards the Cervices of Ireland. _ Mr. &Burns-on, in a fpeech of above an hour's continuance, objeded to the principle of Lotteries al together, as tending to excite gambling and immo rality. The CHANCELLOR of the Excnvos tit obferved, that the fpirit of gambling to which the Hon. Mem ber principally alluded, namely, low infurance, had been entirely done away by the mode of drawing the Lottery lift year ; and as to Lotteries in general, he was convinced they were fo regulated as to have no fuch tendency ; and as the country in graeralhad a bias in their favour, he thought it fair, paitieurarly, at fuch a crifis as the pr:fent, to turn that bias to the public advantage. Mr. Wm. SMITH and Mr. WILBERFORCE make tome objeCtions to the principles of Lotteries, which were anfwered by Mr. VANSITTART and Mr. CORNY; when the Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion was put and agreed to, and ordered to be.reported ))n. Monday. On a queftion put by Sir HENRY MILIiNIAY. the CBANCIELL9R of the EXCHEQ/ER propofed, that the Bill for the defence of the country fhould be taken into further confideration on Monday next; and that the report on the Bill for railing a contribution from Real Prop:rty, fhould be pottpaned till Tuefday, and that from Perfonal Property till Wednef%l..y next. _EXCIIII DUTIBS. The CHANCELLOR of the EZCNE(WIR moved, that the Houfe refolve into a Committee on the Bill for railing additional Duties of Excife. Mr. PLUMMER rote, he laid, before the Houle fhould go into a Committee, to make a propofal or motion to the Houfe. As there were four articles united in the prefent Bill, to Come of which he en tertained objeaions, he thought that he was entitled to move, that there fhould be an infiruaiongiven to the Committee to divide all of thefe articles into two or more feparate Bills. If this was not done, he imagined, that there was a probability of Come Mem bers voting againft all the four articles, while they might happen to have objeatons againft one only. The CH awe sLLoa of the lac H sop R obferved, that if the mode adopted in this prefent Bill had been in the leaft degree incontinent or irregular, it could not poffibly have been allowed to advance to it; prefent Rage. He was entitled to airtime, that the forms had in no manner been violated, yet, at the fame time, he was far from being . difpoled to adhere to rigid principles of form, could it be &went° him that any advantage could refult from an infringement of thofe farms. It was the objea of the prefent Bill to grant additional Duties of Ezeife on four different articles, by the fame mode of collation. Such a method was entirely confident with pratice, convenience, and common fenfe. During the twenty years in which he had fat in Parliament, he was almoft certain the journals of the Houfe could not afford an inftance of fuck a praaice having been adopted. In the Com mittee, and in every liege of the Bill, every Member would have a fufficient opportunity of Rating his ob. jeaions to any particular article, and of having his amendments adopted, if found reafonable. On the motion being put, it was carried that no ' fuck inftruaion was neceffary to be given to the Com mittee. The queftion was then put, That it be an infirm tion to the Committee to divide the Bill into two•or more parts, when it paired in the negative. DUST •VTT IN SCOTLAND. The Houfe then refolved into a Committee upon the additional Excite Bill. Mr. Aisz►Mosa in the Chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EICHIVER rate, and with refpeet,to the additional Duty on Malt, as re lating to Scotland, recapitulated the regulations made on the Malt-Tar of Scotland comparatively with England, from the diablithment of the Union till the prefent time. At the time of the Union it was, on full conlideration, laid down as a principle, that the Malt Tax in Scotland fhould be half the rate of that Tax in England ; and in every fuhfequent increafe upon the Malt TAX with England, half as much thould be laid upon Malt in &land. This rate was adjußed, and continued until the tail Set fion of Parliament, principally on account of the backward (late tit' agriculture in Scotland.4hichNiyai unfavourable to the growth of barley; and conk quently the almort exclufive ufe of an. inferior (pe tits of grain, called beer or bigg, in the manufac ture of malt ) and its tole ore in the breweries and diltilleries of Scotland. Malt made from this grain was by no means fo produiffive of fpirit, or Riong beer, as barley, and hence it was always thought a fair principle to charge it with an inferior duty. But of late years, the agriculture of Scotland having in a very rapid degree improved, and the culture of barley introduced there with very confiderable foe cefs, the produce being, on an average, equal in quality to that of the barley Counties of England in general, and therefore, in the laft Sc ion, it had been thought fair to equalize the duty on barley malt in England and Scotland, in order to put the brewers and diflillers in each country upon an equal footing with each other. Lail year the additional duty of one Wiling per Israel was impofed on Scotch bar ley malt. as upon &With ; and now it was props& ed to fubjeft it to the additional duty of two !killings, as in England, upon the fame principle. as a war tax : but inilead of charging the malt from beer or big', with one-half the duty, it was propofed to charge it with fixteen pence. It was his with to have inßituted a Committee of Enquiry this Sefton, fix the purport of fairly akertaining the cnnsparatibe quality of the malt in both countries. from a fair comparifon of average prods& : and on dais princi ple to charge Scotch malt with only its fair ropar 'ion, whatever that might be. For this deferable purpnfe, however, the Sefton was too far advanced; but, he trulled, that early in the next Seffion, a Com mittee would be adopted for the purpofe of cilia en quiry, and of obtaining every poffible information on the tubjed. Sir JAMES SINCLAIR ERSKINE had no ohjedion for the preterit to accede to the propnfed tax, provided the Right Honourable Gentleman would pledge him fell to the Committee he had mentioned, early in the next Seffion of Parliament. ... The CHANCILLOIL of the ExcHsii,xa did repeat his pledge. The MASTER of the Rou.s Paid he highly approv ed of the propofition of his Right Honourable Friend, to let this rubjed be invelligated by a Selea Com mittee, who Mould arcertain the relative duties that ought to he paid by England and Scotland ; for it was very well known, that the grain of Scotland was of a quality much inferior to that of England. Sir WILLIAM ERSKINE and Mr. CH•RLES GRANT thought fuch an inveßigation would be highly pro per and neceffary. THE CHANCILLIER of the EXCHtkpER, in reply to fume obfervations made by Lord Archibald Hama: ton, laid it was his intention, early in the next Scf lion, to move the appointment of a filed Committee, to confider of the relative duties which ought to in paid by both countries. Mr. Pitt a Id sa took notice of the duty paid by Malt in the beginning of the Amerind war, whicfraniount ed to no more than 61. .per quarter; if the duty now .propofed to be laid on was to take place, the - whole amount of the malt tax would be 343. Bd. pet guar ter.• Such a tax as this, coupled with the intended tax on land, would form a burthen fo heavy' that it could not be borne. He lhould therefore move, as an amendment, that inftead of the additional duty of as. there be laid a duty only of one lhilling per bu flid on malt. Mr. Lama feconded this amendment. Mr. CHARLES DUNDAS fupported it ' • becaufe this new tax would be a great harchhip on Malttlers,;whofe Rock in hand was now to pay the additional duty. The SrCRITARY at WAR, laid, that as the repre fentative of a great agricultural county, which molt be materially affeited by this tax, he felt it his duty to rapport the amendment propofed by his Hon. Friend. The malt tax had been carried to an extent much greater than it fhould have been ;, and much greater than fhould ever have exifted with regard to the produce of land. His canßituents were as loyal men as any in the country ; and they were ready to contribute every thing in their power towards its de fence ; but he confidered the prefent tax as a great grievance, which would have a very injurious opera. Lion on agriculture. - The CHANCELLOR of the Excirsoysa expreffed his fears that if the Committee adopted the amendment jug propofed, they would forego the principal means of carrying on the jug and neceffary war in which we were engaged; as the public would be deprived of no lefs a turn than two millions Reding. Unlefa a tax was to be laid on, which would carry into the pocket of the public the whole amount of that funhwe fhould forego a confiderable portion of what the public was juftly entitled to. Either this tax mull take place' to the whole extent of what was intended, or the brewer would have a moll enormous profit on his commodity t—unlefs a regulation was made which would import i - great hardthip upon him. If he was reltriEled with regard to the price of his beer, he would alter the quality of it to as to do a great inju ry to the public. What he propofed was, that the brewer fhould have a profit no greater than the amount of the tax ; and if the tax was to be lets than the amount propofed, the brewer would Rill charge an additional halfpenny per pot for his porter, and his profit would be equal to the funs, of which the; , public would be thus deprived. He would declare to the Committee that he had maturely confidered this fubjed, and from every thing he could learn concerning it, he knew not where to find a mode of carrying on the war fo little liable to ob jeCtion, as that of the prefent duty. If the Houfe was determined not to have taxes for the vigo irons profecution of the war, it was better to make peace at once on any terms that could be obtained. —Gentlemen mull do fo, unlefs they made up their minds to rapport the conteß they were engaged in. Every body knew that great facrifices mull be made, and great privations fuffered, in order to carry us through this Rruggle. All the different dales of the community mull bear their flare of the burthens, and the heft mode was to lay them on manfully at once. He was fore that the lower dares, who midi always feel the weight, even of taxes laid upon the rich, were alive to the fituation of the country, and ready to contribute their (hare to the exigencies of the public. He had had many opportunities of knowing the featirnents of the lower claffes of people ; and he could fay they were manly and patriotic in the higheft degree. He law them grieve for any mil fortune that might have befallen their country ; and he law them participate in the joy occafioned by any faVourable turns of ft:A-tune. He law them cheat fully contributing their mite towards Alm voluntotY contributions which had been railed in a period great difficulty. Every body knew what an enthu. tia Ric fpirit of patriotifm pervaded this clals of people. who compofed our fleets and our armies. They knew that their belt intereft was to fuflain the liberty and the conflitution of this country ; which could only . be done by making great faerifices. He could not agree with thole who Paid the prefent meafure would be injurious to agriculture. The continuance of the tat would be only commenfurate to the continuance of the war, and if this tax was now got rid of, he could allure the Committee, that it would not be poffible to put another in its place which would not be liable to Rill greater objections. With regard to the maltßers, he was ready to afford them every poffible relief as to paying the duty on the flock in hand. But if the pre fent motion was to be carried, the funs of t,30n,0001. would be placed in the pockets of the brewers ; and therefore he &mid confider bifida( as abandoning his duty, if he Unwed to any propofition by which the produce of the tax could be limited. Let Gen tlemen for a moment confider the nature and the courfe of the war we were engaged in, and fay whe ther we ought to (brink from a tat on tea, or on malt —a thing which was trifling compared to the mag nitude of the (Nee it was in accornplills. Sir Rosser Busrom Grid, be confidered the pre fent as an unequal tax upon landed property. Be. fides, he did not think the tat would bq lu Qradigtiv F as Arai mated. and %Ailed that. intlead of this, a tax might be laid on the Notts of Country Bankers. Mr. VAYSITTART pointed out the following as the times when the maltfters thould be required to pa( the duty on the flock in hand :—The fir ft inftalment on the t sth of September ; the fecond on the 24th of Oeober ; the third on the 16th of December ; and the fourth on the 15th of January. Mr. ATKINS WRIGHT and Mr. WHITBREAD wifhed the firli inllalment might not be made till the zit of November. After a low; converfation, in which re veral other Members took a part, the Houle divided. For Mr. Plummer's.Amendmenr, r r—Againti it 61. The Bills were then ordered to be reported. The other Orders of the aty bring dirpofed of, the Haute, at half pall eleven, adjourned. LONDON. SATURDAY, JUNE as. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK t Caofols for ()pg. 57,t—Omnium 24 . 35 3i difcount. 3 per Cent. Rod. 56i ssit Long Ann. 16 7.16 f. DUILLN, JUNE 21...4 per Crnt. 03e. Debentures 895. . Conde of Kichange—Oublin on London 135. This day we received the Bruinls Journals from the igth to the sad inft. inclufive: they do not, how• Awe!. bring much intelligence. ' • We bays alto veitgeed the Mahar, of she .1 9 th aide itd lull. (thafd of the loth' and- 21R are Rill . wanting.) • Three Hamburgh Mails have alto arrived. The Moniteur of the igth contains a loog article on the occupation of the Eledorate of Hanover. It difplays the fame wcaknefs and verbiage as the other political effulions •of the fame kind. which have at times appeared fence the commencement of hoftili ties, and concludes with the following threat—m If the .occupation of Hanover, which the weakoefs of the Britifh Government obliges us to call a tongue% be of little importance as a feat of arms. it is at leall an objet that may be beneficial by improve. ment. It is alto a grand military poll. It is of great advantage to have added fifty leagues mace to that wall of iron, fo well dtpiEted by Mr. Wrwon AM, and which will foots extend from the Shores where the Ocean produces the Mediterranean, es far at thole where it gives birch to the Baltic. The war at prefent is merely a trifle. When the Englifh • mall have finilhed on the feat their farce of capture and depredation, and wheel the French have completed on that line of coal} their formidable preparations, it will be then that the war will really begin. Every, ding announces that it will be terrible ! 1" The words which we have marked in halite de. ferve partiCular attention, and appearing in the Of. ficial paper, ought to draw the attention of *very European Power to the real views of France, which• feem to be nothing Mort of.univerfat dotttioion —• What follows are words of ceurfe. It is watts make u light u poffible all the lees therTuftain by the captures made by our veiTels.—lf the French Govern. ment can perfuade the people that the whole is onh. a Farce it will do wonders ! Hamburgh had not been taken poireinon of by tho French on the 17th intl. Indeed, it would appear that the independence of the Hans Towns has by fame inter/mare been completely fecured for a time at 1 leaft ! Complimentary and congratulatory communi- t ' cations even have been palling between the French and the Senate of Hamburgh. The French feern determined to Ape us with words. To prevent that detettion, which often refutes from a companion of dates, they are now giving their florin of this kind without any. The following is one of them : " NAPLES, " The plague fill prevails at Malta. and °et:afloat the greatef ravage : 3t 6 perfons have died there ita the midi of a week." I PARIS, Juan t; —Several of our Journals have copied a letter dated Vienna, June 3, which Rates. that Lnrd Et.cro, the Englith Ambafador, had ar rived there from Italy, and that it was fufpeitited, that the objeet of hi, journey WAS of a folitical stature. It is, however,.certain, that Lord Et.ate has been at Paris for.three weeks paR, and that he is detained libe.all the reR of his countrymen, who by a decree trovernusent. have been deflated prifonert of war. • Jule to.—The Maud of firth*, in the depertmattit Of the Cite.du-Nord, has been citified among the asr Mary places of war of As thin! sank. It has Win fortified with from forty to fitti Pieces of large cia. non, and provided with s Itrong:garrifors Every thing there has affusucki afpcsfi.: Several Englifh frigates and (loops rye eruifmg about in the neighbourhood, but at a great diftance, and without reach of the cannon. MALTA, MAT BALL, the Englifh Com• mandant, employs every means poffible to excite the people againft the Order of Malta. The coarfcli abfurdities are lavifhed, without • the least circumfpeaion ; every day gives birth to new &env. —Yeflerday the Giant of the Navy appeared in the drefs of the Grand Mafier, with the Bonnet, Grand Crofs of the Order, and all the other Badges of the Chief. He held in his hand an Ox's }Dora. The' mot! infulting Infcriptions proceeded from his pocket' and from below his arms. Englilh Antioch ranged around him prevented the people from deranging and part of this groterque fpeaacle. M. us Busses how ever, the Lieutenant of the Grand Mader, is her:, rr• duced to the necetruy of being II Vlitairi sp thcf:lo`' feeneu—Masetestr. t . ',, ~' II; • '. . i !) ', ! .. 1 CI I 1 4 1f• I ' ' I .! : ' F .i.! C 1 ! ' , , . r. i .. i i• .. Ii i • i !! ~. . i. . 1 ( 1 .:.I. • ; II r : ;il l if . , 1 • , 1 , • 1 ~ i . . I i , •, ' 1 ; i . l I I I , P ' • - il . L 1 1 , • • , . I