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F. ii , ' 4~ is I I 1 i ' . CLERGY RESIDLECE RILL. r i I , 4 IL.: i FARLIAMENTART PIitiCEEDLYGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, SATURDAY, JUNE IL irtee Houk met this day for the yurpofe of forwarding the nu merous quantity of Bills that lay upon their Lordfitipe 1 he Bells were accordingly forwarded through their rdpcdive tt About half-pall five Lord HOIDA IT delivered a Mel. cage from his May EST v neatly in the following words: GEORGS IL ■ His Majefty thinks groper to acquaint the Hnufe of Lords that, for the more effectual defence and fe unity of the United Kingdom againft the avowed claps of the many, be deems it ne cellar, to refort to fuch means as ar- belt calcukitsil for a vigorous profecution of the War; and, for thi. purple, that a ftrong addi• tional furctithould be forthwith ra►fed and affemhted. His Mislay therefore recommends this fubjea to the cnnfideration of the Houle of Lords, and relies, with perfedt confidence, on the teal and public fpirit of their Lordlhips, that they will concur in the adoption of fuch meafurea (hall appear to them molt effeCtual for thefe ends, and for carrying the fame into execution with the loft pofilble delay. G. Ft." _ . _ . After a few obfervations on the urgency of the men- fare fubsnitted to their Lott confideration, the Melf.ige was ordered to be taken into conficleration on Monday next.—Adjourned. Their Lordthips returned the Committee on the Clergy Refidence Bill, and, in a ditcuttion of Come contiderAble length, went through the remaining Claufes. _ _ _ The Billion of DURHAM congratulated the Houk upon the completion of a mealure fo truly defirable, and which went fo far (for it did not go to the whole length) towards attaining an objet of which every friend of the State, as well as of the Church mad of Chridianity in this Country, mull be at all times anxistifly defirout, namely, the permanent refidence of the parochial Clergy on their refpelive benefices. His Lortlfhip paid a jud tribute of acknowledgment and thanks to the Noble Lord on the Woolfack, for the patience, the i•ttention, the zeal, and the talents he had difplayed, in the courfe of the fuccefGve dif enflions oa this Bill, as well as to the Right Hon. Gentleman who had with fo much ability, care, at tention, and perfeverance, brought it forward in another Hoare of Parliament, and attended to the whole of its arduous progrefs there. So loon as this Bill fhonld pars into a law, he trolled that thofe to whom it, adrninidration was to he confided would not be wanting in their vigilance and seal to render it efficient fora purpofe, than which none could be more indifpenfably requifite ' not only for the main tenance of morality and the Chridian Religion in this Country, but to check the rapid progrefs of vice, falfe principles, and infidelity, which have of late years made fuch rapid (irides amongft us. The refidence gf the parochial Clergy, and their conflant vigilance and faithful miniary among their flocks, would, he was confident, have another good effete, in checking the moll prominent fourceof folic principles, equally injurious to Church and State, which he was forty to obferve bad of late years gained rapid influence amongtl the uninformed multitude, namely, that feet of wild enthufialts who went forth through this realm the Pelf-appointed preachers and teachers of the Got rel. Thefe fees were compofed, not of men of fence or learning, but of ignorant and fanatical tradefinen and mechanics, who, by the enthunaflical propaga tion of their own wild and fanatical doerines, princi• Dies, and opinions, religions and political, had done incalculable mifchief to the intereas of the State as well as of true. Religion. The Rev. Prelate did not in this allude to thole refpeeable Diffenters whole learning and piety were acknowledged, and who only differed for confcience-fake from the doftrines and discipline of the Church of England. To them he was not unwilling to allow every privilege of worfhipping the Dort in the manner they thought bell, and in the liberal fpirk of the Alf of Toleration ; which (pink he by no means conceived to extend to the fa natical feearies to whom he had previoufly alluded. After having gone very generally over the various points of the Bill, he Paid, there was one very prin cipal p oint which it did not fupply, and which he thought necerary, to give it real effect, namely, the decent and comfortable provilson of a moll ufeful, pious, and worthy dale of the Clergy—thole who had only (mall benefices of zol. or 301. a year, a great many of whom, he was forty to fay, there were, amongfi about 12,000 benefices which e.xill in this Country ; and alto for another very worthy and me ritorious clots, namely, the Curates. Another point was, the duration of this Bill ; which, as a meafttre of experiment, he thought mud require revilion at an very diflant period, and fhould not for the prefent be mated longer than for five years. The Reverend Prelate concluded by exprefling his zealous &fire to maintain the interests and rape& of the Church of England, as the bell fydem of eßab.ithed religion dust ever exiled in any Country ; and to which he would. with his dying breath, echo die words of the Italian Poet- 0 Efieperpetwa I" The Loan Creases:A.oa laid, that though their Lordffiips had now gone through the lad claufe of this Bill, yet there were feveral points which, in the coolie of its dikuffson, had been by common content Jefe, red to its lad doge. There were, alto. feveral oilers arifing out of the dircollion of the Bill, which i.e conceived nec,ffory to its more effeeual operation; and for the confidtration of thole feveral points, i t would he tiered:try for their Loid:hips to re.Jlve into a Committee again, upon Monday next, in order to their final adjuittnent. Whoa that than have been done, he fhould move that &Oin, with the whole of its amendments, be printed; mlien it might be re vised in that dupe, and a future day 4 repiplinted for its em thee confideraticm, and for the adoplen of any further points, which might be likely to fend it he* as pedal as porsble. The Learned and Noble Lord des. recurred, generally, to many of the molt prominent paints of argument which had oceerred its the eourfe of the difeutfion, with refped to the non relideoee of toe clergy, the inadequacy of this Bill for the great porpoise avowed, the poffeffion of p7uralities. and the exemption of Clergymen in certain notations from permanent refidence. With refpee to tbe exemption Collegiate Mem he raid, it wri'of the meson jut. ,riance to the Wets& of-religion, and of the flare ut this country. that the Clergy ilsould Maintain:l a rime eonneeion with its literature and learning; and with tepee to pluralities. it mull be acknowledged, that the es.reme fmallnefs of, by much the greater part of the livings in this country, reader them as,,,loch would remunerate the mein or the talents of men of learning, or enable them to main tain the common refpelt due to their fituations. No man lamented more than he did, the impoffibility of providing for every Clergyman, in a manner befitting the relpeet due to his chara&er and facred function. He had heard, with amazement. au argument, in the courfe of the dircuffion on this Bill. " that if the whole of the church pmperty in this country were equally divided, it would afford an adequate and comforta ble provifion for all the Clergy in their refpeaive na tions." But having long and minutely confidered this inbjea, he was moil fully convinced, that if fuch a divifinn were practicable tomorrow, many of their Lordfhips' upper fervent: would be infinitely better, and more comfortably provided for, than many of the moll worthy of thole mole refpeaable men. With re fpeel to the neceffity of refidenee, no man was more difpofed to exalt it than himfelf, whenever it was reafonable and prafticable ; in very many inftances, it was neither the one nor the other. There was nothing he more fincerely deprecated than that fpe cies of propenfity which too much prevailed within and without thofe walls, to throw indifcriminate cenfures upon the Clergy, for Non-refidence. It could do no good for the intere ft s of religion,but much harm; and, after all, it was but fair to look at the mifchief and its caufes, and to let every man take his jolt (hare of the blame, without throwing the whole upon the Clergy. The principal caufe was not to be found with them, but in that Om which it were fincerely to be wi(hed had never called in this or in any court try, namely, the fyftem of Lay Painamre to ecclefi aftical prefentations. It was truly lamentable to fee the abufes which, in modern days, obtained under this fyftem. which he was lure could not have been originally inffituted, but under the &idea injunlion of a principle that the Lay Patron had a folemn duty to perform, in recommending none but proper per lons, men of pious and moral charaaers, to livings in their gift, under a heavy refponfibility to their own confciences, and to a tribunal above all earthly power, for the fcrupulons difcharge of that duty, which, did they confcientioufly perform, we fhould never have heard of Clerical Non-Refidence, or the evils that refult from it. But lorry he was to know, that not only the molt fhameful inattention to the morals and charaaer of the perfon recommended prevailed. in conferring fuch livings, but that thole livings, under the &ape of advowfons, were openly brought to market, like cows or holies ; a thing which never could have been confonant to the fpint of any eccle fiaftical inflitution. If therefore thofe who hold fuch lay patronage, or thofe who foliated the exertion of it, would do their duty in a ferupulons regard to the morals and charaaers of the perfons upon whom fuch livings were to be conferred, they would do more towards preventing the evils of Non-Refidence, than all the Bench of Biffinpe could do together. With refpea to the time for which this Bill ought to be en ad/ed. the difference would be this, that if it was made permanent, Parliament way, at any future time, reconfider and improve it; but if only temporary, Parliament me/ reconfider it, and might be induced to rejea it ; and then all the evils would revive which it was calculated to prevent ; and every thing built upon the faith of this Bill by the Clergy, would be thrown again into confulion. He therefore thought the Bill ought to be fent forth now, as perfect as pa fible, enaaed permanently. and left for the experience of its operation to final fuels improvement at a future day asfhould render it molt effeaual. But this be begged to imprefs, that if the Legiflature did not pals the precast .Bill in the prefent Seflion, all the evils of the aat It of Henry VIII. would be revived with accumulated virulence. Lord AUCKLAND laid, the refidence of a Clergy man to perform the duties of his (nation amone his parithioners, in every parifh in England. was his ob- Isot, and the avowed objea of this Bill ; but when e looked at the numberlefs exemptions of Refidence which this Bill gave to Prebends of Colleges, to Of ficers of Univerfities, to Chaplains of Peers and Cor porate Bodies, to Mailers of Public. Seminaries, to Pluralifts, and to a van variety of other perfons. either of their own mere accord, or under a licer.c.: at the difcretion of the Bifhop, without any refponfi bility for the etercife of that difcretion, and above all, without any obligation whatever upon the Cler gyman, (fo non-relident, for his own pleafure, choice, or convenience,) to leave a refident Curate to do cle rical duty in his abfence, with an ample provifion for fetch Curate, the Bill mull be, to all intents and purpofes, nugatory; and he would much rather not pals it at all, than pals it in a 'hope which mutt go direaly to deprive the parifhieners in every parilh in England. of all effeaual claim upon the refidence and fpiritual duties of thofe Clergymen for whole maintenance they are fo heavily taxed. His Lord (hip's purpofe was. that in all cafes, when the parifh Minifter withdrew bimfelf from his duty, as his pari- Ibioners ought by no means to fairer by fuch privation, another Clergyman fhould be left to do that duty in his abfence; and if fuch parifh Clergyman Arnold omit to appoint a proper clerical fubditute, then it °resold be mandatory upon the Bifhop to appoint one in his place, at fuch Glary as be flsould deem ne ceffary, to be paid in the fire infiance out of the pro fits of the living ; fix it was ludicrous, as well as un jolt. that a beneficed Clergyman, deriving, perhaps, food. or :sod. a year from his living, fhould Went himfelf from refidence, and not leave in his place a proper Curate, competent in all ref - peas to fill his place. There was, be knew, by a former Act, a power vetted in the DM(MI) to appoint a curate in fuels cafes, after a certain period of non-relidence, at 751. a year; but this was inadequate ; and he waited to have the Bifliop enabled to appoint fuch a full and ample celery to an able and refpeaable divine as cu rate, according to his judgment, as the profits of the livingcould afford. The 1.10/DCNIANCI4LOR fully coincided in the prim *le of the Noble Lord, but thought it better to Peek its attainment by a different meafure, than by clogg ing this Bill with a clank, which would inevitably injure the lori of the Bill in the other Houle. Lord AucstawD thought that it was time enough to confider an alternative when the other Houk (ball have rejetted the clank.. The quellion war then put and agreed to. The Houk rerouted, and the Report was received pr fors■a i—arbd the bill, on the motion of the Loan , Corattest.s.oa, was ordered to be reontonitted to Cospnittee of the whole H•wfe oa Monday. The 'hour for gold* into a Committee, was zed 'for half pc* foor o'clock, and 'hely Lordlbip, were alto ordered to be Ationcgcd oo the occaGoo. MUSE OF COMMONS. The ferwrid reading of the Scotch Mannfarlurere ND was poft• prima till Monday. The Highlands of Scotland Roads Bill was read a fecood time, and ordered to be printed. The Twelve Million Loan BID was reported, and ordered to be read a third time 011 Monday. The Militia Subaltern Oaken Bill, and the kith Indemnity Bill were read a locoed time, and committed for Monday. The Eicife Duty Bill was read a fuft, and ordered to be read a fecond time oo Monday. Soon after the Houfe had affembled, a Meffage from the Lords acquainted the Houfe that their Lord (hips had agreed to the Northampton Ordnance Bill, and to the Amendments in the MaliciousShonting Bill. The Ci.atrcst.toe. of the Excurgy se delivered a moil gracious communication from his Majely to the fame effect as that delivered by Lord Hobart in the Houfe of Lords. _ . The Meffage was then read from the Chair, and ordered to be taken into confideration on Monday. TAX UPON TILOPILITY. The CHANCIILLOIL of the Exca &tam moved the fecond reading of the Bill for granting to his Majefty, for a time to be limited,con tributions on certain defc rip. tions of property, offices, &c. as therein mentioned. Mr. Fano usou obferved, that the prefent Bill was confidered by his conftituents, in that part of it which went to impofe a duty upon land, to be inconfiftent with the exprefs provifion of the Aft of Union be tween England and Scotland upon the fubjeft of the Land Tax, and, therefore, he defired that part of the laid AA of Union might be read, which was done accordingly. In fubmitting this matter, he Paid, to the Houle, he had done only his duty. He was fen fible of the liberality of the Englilh nation, and he exulted that no difference would arife upon the mean ing of this Article of the Ad of Union, on the appli cation of this Bill to that A&. Sir ROllk.llT Buxton raid, that in a former Parlia ment, he brought forward a claufe in the Land Tax Redemption Bill, which, although not fuccefsful in that Houft, yet, from the manner it was attended to, he obferved it had great effet at the time, and the fpirit of which was to be found in the Bill now before the Houfe : the claufe had this for its objed, to pro vide that when any Tax Ihould in future be laid on Land, a Tax of an equal amount Ibould be laid on all property whatever of equal value. When the Chan cellor of the Exchequer Rated this Tax to him, he confidered it as a Land 'fax, to which, as a Land Tag, be had confiderable objeaions; but confidering ' that Land, like every other property, ought to con tribute an equal (hare to the fupport of the State, he thought that this could not be deemed a Land Tax, provided all other fpecies of property was made to pay a like proportion; for, in that cafe, it was only to be confidered in the light of a contribution in com mon with every other fpecies of property. It was not a Land Tax, but a Contribution of Landed Pro- perty, like other Property : this got rid of the idea of a Land 'Tax, and that was all he wifhed, for a Land Tax was a duty on land alone, without regard to any other fpecies of property; but this was not fo, the impoll upon property was general, and land was only made to contribute its flier: among the reit.— Looking at this Tax in that light, he had no oblation to it, nor did he think it elated the Union with Scotland ; if it did, he fhould, as an Engliflonan, re fute his affent to it ; but this was nothing more than a fair call on all fpecies of property, to bear its (bare of a ueccfrary burden, to fupport the State, and as fuch it had his entire approbation. Mr. W. Dullest agreed with the Hon. Baronet, who (poke laR, that this was not a Land Tax, but a contribution of Landed Property, in common with every other fpecies of property, to fupport the State at an important mills. Neither did it come within the fpirit of the Ad of Union with Scotland; Co that his Hon, Friend (Mr. Fergufon) and his confiituents might be tatisfied in that particular; on the contrary, there was a claufe in that Aft of Union, which ex prefily authorifed a meafure of this kind—(Here he read another part 9f the Articles of Union, which empowers Parliament to impofe fuch hordens on both parts of the kingdom , as may be for te' interell of the whole;) and be obferved that regard was had to the different circumftances of the different parts of the kingdom, by making the charge upon the occu pier ninepence in the pound in one, and fixpence in the pound in the other. Mi. Kiri natio did not very readily fee the force of the metaphyfical dittindion which had been tie& between a Land Tax and a Tax on land, Of a Tax. as it was Rated to be, calling on Land to contribute 'to the State. It was raid that this Tas was laid on Land, as a Property in common with every other Property—He app r ehended that fuch was the cafe, when the Land Tax was arft introduced; for that the Tax was then imposed upon a view of the circum. fiances of the country ; and it mutt be prefumed that, in the opinion of the LegiLlature, other articles were taxed in their due proportion—however this might be, he laid in his claim hereafter, at leaft to difpute the propriety of the relative proportion aow made between England and Notth Britain. The eIIANCILLOII of the Ezell Kota raid, that after what had paired he did not think it neceliary to prolong this dircuirion. It did appear to him that his Hon. Friend had Rated the matter corredly. With regard to the readineis of the inhabitants of Scotland to bear their (hare of the necefary burthens of the State, that was 4 matter of which he had no doubt ; but Parliament would not make nil of that rradinefs fo to inipofe upon that part of the kingdom more than its due weight of the btwthen Co rapport the Suite. But this was not againft the fpirit of the Aft of Union, any more than the Income Tax, which had been laid on without dillindion upon England and Scotland alike. He took upon himfelf the negative of the proptilition that this was a Land Tax. It was not the objet to tax land for the purpore of railing money from land alone; but the tabled was to mire money from all !pecks of property, and land among the reft was made to contribute. It was not land that was made the *Wed of taxation, but property. and the pardfion of land was taken as the indication orproperty, and an ability in the owner and occupier to bear a given portion of the burthens of the State ; andin this 111141111tf all fpecics of property was called upon to contribute. This, therefore was not a Land Tax, nor an Income Tax. nor a'l'as upon the Funds, but it was an impol on every dercription of property, for the yurpofe of making it ilike contribute to the fupport of the State, the principle of which be Ihould not now arfor it was amply difcaffed, and fa tivfatorily determined, and fully recognizecrat the titre of palling time ta; called the Income Tat. FRANCE. A PRIVATE LETTER, PARIS, JUNE vs. Of thirty-fix gun-boats fubfcribed for here, four are already built, ten building, and two manned with Pariflan Sailors, have defrended the Seine as far as St. Clad, for the infpeflion and approbation of the Calle CossuL. Thefe Boats are to carry heavy metal, and are conftrueted after the model of the Swedith Gust boats, or Gallies, in the Gulph of Finland. The Military and Naval Selllions of the Council of State were yefterday ordered to St. Ckstd, and con tinue there yet. -All Officers on leave of abfence are ordered to join their refpeElive Regiments, and the greateft feverity and vigilance are afed to find oat the Confcripts and other Deferters; this does not promife a long duration of the Continental Peace, or prove that the Ufurper ads with the wire approba tion of the Great Powers :—many think Profile is lulled to fleep on a precipice, and that 'feria arid Frame andotilased each other. BONAPARTZ was fo well pleated with the Anfwer to the Manifefto of the KING of ENGLAND, in the Monitesr of yefierday, that be prefented its Author, HAL/TRIUNE, with 12,000 livres. Your Government cannot be too vigilant in fearch ing Veffels from France to Ireland :—for tome time the Rebels who write Libels in the Ages, have been bufy compofing, with the affillance of O'Comoos and Co. fevers! inflammatory and revolutionary Addreffes to the Irifh People, which have been fent to Bour deaus and other places, to be forwarded to Ireland. The arrival and departure of Couriers is unufually treat; yeflerday no lets than fix Couriers arrived at TAILITILAND'S Office. and the Spanifls. Portuguefe„ PrufGan, an d Dani lb Mini fters received each a Courier from their refpeame Courts. LONDON. MONDAY, JUNE 10. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent. Red. 5014 H—.Ncw 5 per Cent. 9114. Long Ann. 161 9-14.—Oriteitun sif f dikount. Confab for opening 5. PRICE Of STO CKS YESTERDAYt II A Stock ..- India Stock aalt 3 per Cent. Red. s6ii4 Ditto Bonds, u e 31. dZ 3 per Cent Coot that South Sea Sick Ints 4 to Caw nit* OW S. S. Anes. that S per Ct. Ann. that IleP• j per Cant J3* $ per Ct. AIM. 1797, 11 Eldon. Bills is. to Law Ann. sd 9-16 a t.t Modem sit ti *N il Sbert Ans. 3 it-till Confab for op 54 of A Doeu to, Jive t6....5 per Cent. Goy. Debentures eon. • Cowie at Ezebasze.—Debtla an Loads@ tjf. We cannot find that any certain accounts have yet been received of the French having taken pcdfcifion of Hamburgh ; it Teems however fo probable. this; it has been determined by the Pat Mailer General, that the Mails now detained at Harwich lince the 7th init. together with the mad of to-morrow, contain ing letters for the North of Europe. in general. will be difpatehed in a packet to Gottenburgh ; and than containing the letters for High and Low Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Turkey, in a packet to Ton ningen, a town in the Duchy of Slefwitk, on a pe. ninfula, formed by the river Eyder, and IS miles N. W. of Hamburgb. Every perfon is convinced that the offered mea t tion of Ruffia has brought on a negotiation between this country and France, which is carried on through the Ambalfadors of the Imperial Court, here, and a Paris ; hardly any one, however, promifes any thing from it. That Government does not, is evident, from the Meffage delivered to Parliament on Bator. day, recommending an additional force to be imme ! trtately railed for the defence of the country s that the people do not. is equally evident from the gene. ral with every where erprefed, that the was may bit profecnted with vigour, es the only means of putting an end to it fpeedily and honourably. We underßand the outline of the plan for ilrength• ening the military defence of the estuary to be as follows ; To conllitute a new force sonFtinx of 4p,000 pr go,ooo men, which is to be called ao Army of Re. ferve. It is to be balloted for in the fame way a 4 the Militia, but the men to be allowed Come how; —how much we have not learnt. ' bolt wbo may be drawn are to be permitted to provide fubßitutes. It is to be entirely Officered frown the half pay of the Regular gierviee.—The daration of its fervice to be limited to four years, or to GI months after the return of peace.-rTba ATTiCe to ta# limited to Great Britain or Ireland. There is alfo t we believe, a libel.. Ito be granted to one tenth of the army Co compofed to volunteer an nually into the regular fervice. If this be fo, it wi4 be an admirable nurfery for the regular army, which at this time is in want of a confiderahle number to complete its eftablifhment. Should the outline we have given prove coffee, and we believe it may be depended upon. there can be so doubt of the plan giving fatisfaition to the country at large: it will prove a completely efficient force, and a happy medium between the Militia and Regulars. No mails, nor intelligence of any kind have arrived this day from the Cootinent. Owing to the wctnefs of the day on Saturday, Ms Mijerry did not go to Afliford Common to review the eleventh Light Dragoons, but ordered them to be there this morning to - be reviewed. Yellerday all the Rout. FAMILY, with the ufual attendants, went in carriages to St. George's Chapels and attended Divine fervice.—After fervice all re turned to the Lodge. ' ' • On Wednefday the ROTAS. Foamy will remove from Windfor to Kew. ' ' YelterdaT morning, during the time of the Curds L a a s rading. a party oT police-officers attended in St. mes'il'ark, and picked op fevcral Wild bands for • Malay's Navy. • , .. l 1 -1.