Star. — London, England, 1803-03-04 00:00:00

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O. tat: a .4rl I -r , ....11111, proct....S..zs Lock pllO.. wah C:cn Sonic Apr:re. burin& waa ef, nil:. upon In. t.JiC te,.c gaurt ally furwar,ll.4.l m CiLir rt rine tlva Aucs LA ND moved for thr pr.au inr. of ••cr 41 Fi tianri.l Ifur.nrricitts, in to that: be !t.,1 inr on a ..rrwr ; thof., on tLerin.lbo:s bang rte, wcrc ed ACCUI cur n. from the Tre:.n-ry, rrJented fundry Ac rout:, t,fpeaine We Revenue, purtuaut to an order o: :r Lois tlhi s. re, on Cud titlds being read, appeared to be the Eaten. rill Pocuin, 'is which were c rilered en be laid be(, re tht agreeably to the merlon of Lord Auckland on a [cr ept!' itik.ht. The Account' were ordered to lie or. this table. and after wirds, ou the toction of Lind .iketgLAAlo, ordered to be gritted for the tife ct their 1 I,rabips. Lord HOsarT moved the order of the Day for the trcond re:RI:T.(Ii the Militia Exercife Bill ; which being done, he oldetved, he felt it unntcef. flay to take up the time of the Houfe on the pre sent occalion ; the general fuhjed, of which die Bid formed a part, was well known to their Lord lhipr' as it had undergone amp!c and repeated thictiflinns in that Houle when it was Lift regularly before them. He would °Verve, that the Bill now under cor.flderation went merely to amend one claufe in the general Bill. It would be in their Lordlhips' recollation, that by the lalt Bill the Militia was to be called out for the purpofe of training and exercifing for the term of 21 days ; the Bill in queftion was limply to extend that term to z 8 da . ys. In the firft inftance the leifer interval was confidered as adequate, and the longer term was regarded as objeltionable, principally on the (core of expense. However, on maturer delibe ration, it was found expedient, and upon the whole de:trued advifable, to extend the term for the purpofes he had mentioned, to the fpace of 2 8 days ; this being all the Bill propofed to do, he sbould no longer detain the Houle, but merely move, that the Bill be now read a fecond time. The Duke of MONTROSE role and Paid, lie con. fidcred this Bill not as a meafura of light and tri vial concern, but as one of the molt ferious im portance to this country, as a meafure deeply in terefting to our very exitlence as a nation. This country had at pretcnt to contemplate the formi dable proximity of a rival nation; not fuch as that which was ftyled Old France, but a nation poll fefred of the whole line of oppofite coaft, from which, in cafe of rupture, we had to apprehend the molt formidable attacks, and ftrengthened by the acceffion of fo much additional territory, po pulation, revenue, and confequent power, from other nations of Europe, as rendered our comya native fituation fuch as to call for the utmoli vigh lance, and the perpetual maintenance of a compe tent and well difciplined force to repel any fudden attack which might be contemplated by that na tion. It could not be denied that the power which, aggrandized as it was by fuch new and extenfive acquifitions of territory, and Itrength ened as it was by fuch additional force, p cleated a moll formidable, military, and enterprifing na tion, at the head of which flood a man, into whole charaaer, for obvious realms, he would not now enter ; but whom the world would allow to be a man of the moil bold and adventurous fpirit, and not ablindly fcrupulous about the means of effed ing his projeCts. With:filch a profpeCt before us e and even withonnatfry immediate expeoftation of a mifunderfianding or rapture with that country (which yet was not impoffible, however unlikely) it behoved his Majefly's Minillerts to exert, at all times, the utmolt vigilance, and to keep tip every branch of the public fotee to its full efficiency ; and this could not be done without rendering dif cipline, in every department, as perfed as petlible. Under this idea, then, fo far was his Grace from refilling the meafure of extending the period of difciplining our Militia force from twenty-one to twenty-eight days, that he thought the time would be, with Rill greater propriety, extended td two ndottli• ; and if his Grace confidered him felt as of fuffisient weigh: and confidcration in that Houle to carry fuch a queltion, lie would move an amendment to that died in the Dill. Within thefe,wailt there were many military men, who had ferved their countr y with honour and glory. There were many Nt.ble Lords, who, though n. t military men by poi; tfi in, had yet felt it their duty to ferve their s in all times of public danger. by placing theinfelves at the head of the Militia in their ref, , esive enttrtlits. To die jtulg stunt t f thole Nobls lAA ds he wentld appeal, whe ther they thought that a body of men, mooed only for tale month in a vs. o• to milts y exercile, wete the kind of ty,or 60 n, meet an them y, cowpokd of veteran Ito. 1 .., Woo might happen to offal a landing in the y Ceilain he was that their Lordilitps could t think they were fit ; and, tL afore, it war tha La thought the Militia of the country, in r tiler to their l..:ttcr difcipline, ought to be trained, at lead in this hn po:tion of one this d of the whole, rot twa mouths in every year, iiillead one month, as now pop, fed, but in reality not mote :h.ta ft at :eon fifteen do., ;if it was th it four Sundays were to be dedufled from ihor.:l., betides the number of 1 , e . y to: the men to march from the moll sasys or c.uu:y to inia the parade, and ifs!. :o 1...t0th honie. liaggelliota he to or; ti,.• li!s •jt fly's Miniflers, duty he eon. ..•-e,i ,: to :, i n t h e • ea. 3 /1" a os, t • ....di. ev ry part ii t the !. f a:a: t a act G.il t tit as had 4.:en bc always I.' idv (udder..tan tor ems gi vier inrY f r g.nc n the kind of lett:l'2 landing • Lordlinp iLfore j i t t t i ;: I co u ntry , )e t a i a . ded,u le. d 11.( altrlW.ti .c . ,111 icn. :e cm: _7,t guY we did not expel it, yet we ought to be fay O. oared, as the Lett mode of preventing it. For :ach an attack, ihould it really take place, he had , no fears nor apprehensions as to the ultimate re ';llt. British tr.toN he believed, as to the butt. :,:f. A downright f. ghting, as had been raid in an -ether place—. upon equal ground, and no fa , vont," were inferior to no other trvops on earth; and though he tdr no doubt whatever as to the ultimate defeat ..f any enemy who might effect a landing, he wont.' not with to expofe the country to the rick of that enemy's indulging the hope of fecuring even a temporary footing, through any idea of instficieney in our public force. in cafe any ruptute thould, peradventure, unexpeftedly take place, he withed that our troops of the. line ihould be ready, at a moment, to (hike home a filmidable blow at any quarter where the enemy was mod alfailable; and that the Militia thould be ready, either to fupply their places for home de fence, or to join them efficiently in the field, in car,: of a landing from the enemy. Having Rated what he conceived mutt be obvious to the good feat: cf the Houfe, and of his Majetly's Minitlers, he conjeftured that the arguments moft likely to be pointed againft his propolition, were—fira, the extraordinary expencc ; fecondly, the trouble it would occafion to Gentlemen, in flaying an addi tional month from their families ; and, thirdly, the great loft of labour from thi agricultural bu fineis of the country. With regard to the firft, the charge, as Ile only propofed to call out one third of the whole for the two months at a time, could not exceed 6o or yo,oool. as the eftimate for the whole, at one month, was not above too,oool. an expence which aloft be deemed trivial, compared with the advantages to the public fervice and leen rit y : as to the fecond, he was confident no Gen tleman who loved his country, or had her fafety at heart, could think an extra month's attendance. once in three years, troublefome : and, with ref peel to the third objation, he would admit the lofs of labour would certainly be of tome difadvantage to the hay•harveft, but of none comparatively to t he.mifchief which fuch an arrangement would be calculated to defeat. Upon the whole, he thought the arrangement might not be of fuch preffing im portance in the prefent year, as he knew there was a confiderable number of well-trained foldiers amongft our Militia, and, therefore, he would not now prefs the adoption of the meafure upon his Majeßy's Minifters. What he thought it his duty to urge this night, proceeded by no means from any hatile feeling to them, for all of whom in general, and Tome in a more particular degree, he felt the warmeß regard and efteem. But he waited to prefs it on their confederation for a fu thre year ; and hoped they would give it ferious attention. Lord HOBART affured the Houle, that there was no propotial which could come from the Noble Duke, and which be thought of importance, that would not be always confidered as of weight, and received with attention by his Majehy's Miniflers. What the Noble Duke had now faid, with rerpeet to the training of the Militia, fhould certainly have that due coufideration to which it was entitled ; and though it was a rubjeft upon which he would not now pretend to give any opinion, yet he be lieved it had been found that the time ufually ap. portioned to the difcipline of the Militia troops had not been proved fo defeaive in attaining its ohjefts, as that the enlargement propofed by the prefent Bill would not be found to anfwer every defirable purpofe. The important Cervices per- I formed by the Militia troops in the courfe of the laft war, was no proof of their want of difcipline. Wiilt ref [wet to the variety of other topics to which the noble Duke alluded in the courfe of his fpeech, he felt no neceffity of replyinig to them minutely. One. however. be would notice, and that. was the Ratement made by the Noble Duke of the accu mulated power of another Nation ; and her poi: fetlion of the whole line of coati oppofite to our thorns. He could affure the Noble Duke that fulled was not without its due weight already in the confideration of his Majefty's Minifters ; and it had its effeft in the extent of the public force, which had been voted early in the Seffion : nor did he conceive any grounds whatever, to exill for apprehenfion or alarm to the Country on this head. . The Duke of Mowraoss replied, he was high ly fenfible of the impuitant fervices of the Militia in the late war, and his objea was to render them more efficient for prompt exertion, on any future exigercy• The (pain's paired in the affirmative ; and the Bill, having been iead the fccond time, was com• witted for to-morrow.--Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Houfe proceeded to call over the names of the Members, and afterwards chore by ballot the following Members to try the merits of the Peti. tion complaining of an undue eketion for the County rf Hereford LIM +eke Fitzgerald, Efq. Lord Gardner I lam Hamilton, Ffq. Wm. I nckenfao, jun. Efq. s.r Jinn wcowency. Dart. T.iionaa Tyrolltt, Ffq. Henry Eltorman, Efq. Cne. Daly, El+ Lord Wifcount %Sky Thnmas Bligh, Efq. Wm. Dickenfon, feta Wq. Sir Edmond Hartopp, Hon. Henry Harcourt John Chrittion Carmen, Elq. Right Hon. W. Windham The follerwing Membci merits of the Peiirhyn E Gen. Whit e Thomas, hfq. •eloacl 1 herniate Hoa. Janes Butler Hon. J hn Vaughan W. Smith (of Nonvide) Efq Marquis it Titchfield Rabe tS.nk. Efq It C..srr, :rs were chnfen to try the :leetion Pe:ttion :- 1 SO Edward Pe:lew Hon. Wm. Wacky Poole I .nrd C. It Smnerf..t Right Hon. Dudley Ryder Lord Milford I .ord Robert Spencer Iknjaano Hobbsule, Uq. The follbwing Nlembei merit% of tt.c StrAnraer P Hon. Lawrrnet lltni.tas Robert lb,,rnton. I Li. J Utak. Mills, Liy. Anklrew Hoc. ChArtes Jmnel.rat Jam Pak. r. 1 fq. Sr W. Vi i. Mi:n.r, Bar•. Is were cLofen to try the . . et;tiOn Sir W. W. Wynne. But. I..ate. Et* john Penn. Elq. Geo. Barcl..y, Efq. Hno. Geer ze Walpole Rnben Dumb* itiglat ilwu. jobs Stewart On :hr N:nfou c.f NI-. Ron, the Rig la Hon. Wit. Pitt nit ttin,..! Inv( ni* ,biare (or one month, on ac-ount of Nit hnith. :tvcr.,lottcr Air.tuku a3ca efitailatiolOgaace- The Report of the Commktee 04 the Army Extraordinariet 'was agreed to. The Ida Revenue Sear Dff.in...llfi..tian Bill was read a third time and paffcd. The Prince of Wales's Anntthy T .11 went through the Com mittee, and ordered to be reported to•nrorrow. The Order for confidering the kith Malt Duty Adt, was dif- charged, on the motion of Mr. Cony. M . VAN SITTAIL r moved for an Account of the number of vcffelt, with their tot nage, aniitsyed in the trade of Great Bri- I min, which had, during three yr ire, ending the sth of J 1044• ty left, cleared on , wards and inwards from the ports or Lon don, Liverpool, Brutal, Hull, Sunderland, Ace. He alto moved for an Account of the number of men employed in the fame— Alfo, for an Account of the monies paid during the fame period as Bounties for the Importation of Hemp and Flax—Alto, an Account of the number of valid: employed in the Greenland trade, anl the quantity of Oil and Blubber imported into this country—Ordered. Mr. VANSITTAILT alto moved for an Account of the monies apylicable to the payment of Judges' fairies, r. mining in the Exchequer on the sth of January laft, after the fame had been paid—Ordered. Mr. Fox prefented a Petition from the Chemins and Drug gifts of Wcftmitiffer, againa the Me brine Att.—.Ordercd to lie on the Table. Lord Casrxea taco moved for the prodoalon of feveral Batt India Accounts, which were ordered He then gave notice that he Gould bring forward toe India Budget co Thuriday next. IRISH REVFNUI. On the Report of the Refclutions perpetualing the Ili& Revenue Laws, Colonel &sown'. made the very fame objections to the meafure which he had advanced on the pre ceding day, and The Cumtcascoa of the Esc*'twat repeated the obfervations that had fallen from him on the fame occafion. _ _ _ Mr. Coeur obferved, that with regard to cer tain modifications in the Tax on Tenures, recom mended by his Hon. Friend, it would be impable to introduce them into the prefent Refoluttons.— They mutt be brought forward in force other (lupe. Mr. Sultanas (aid, he underftood there was now before the Houfe a general propofition to make perpetual the whole of the Revenues of Ire land, which hitherto had been voted annually.— ' He objeaed to fueh a meafure in the firfi infiance, on account of the ikon time the Houfe bad to de liberate upon it. And he waited to know what pretfure there was, at the prefent moment, which could make it neceffary for Parliament all at once to go away from the long eflablifhed mode of rai• fing there Revenues? If the time was fo very flort ; if the Iri(h Chancellor of the Exchequer had been detained on an Elation Committee, and was af terwards prevented from attending by indifpofi lion, what oblation could there be to follow the old courfe of proceeding at prefent t Could not the taxes be voted for another year, and Wert a chute in the Bill to enable Parliament to amend or alter it in the prefent &Eon ? This would certainly be the moll fair and candid mode of pro ceeding. If this was not done, he would certainly take another opportunity lit oppofing the meafure. The CI4•NCILLOR of the EXCHFQI/1a Paid, the principal objeft of making thele Taxes perpetual was, that the public credit of Ireland %tumid reft on as folid a foundation as it did in England. He then re-Rated the reafons why this meafure had been fo long delayed, and why it was neceffary it fhould be fpeedily carried into effeft. He was not aware that any oblation would have been made to this meafure from principle. Perhaps the voting of the Taxes annually in Ireland was a wife mea lure : under the circumltances in which the Parlia ment of that country Rood, it might have been a neccffary check in its hands. I3ut he faw no rea fon now for having the revenue continued on that footing. Its permanency was infeparable from the public credit of that part of the kingdom. The pradlice of Great Britain was now equally appli- cable to Ireland. Why (hould there be a diffe rence betwes:n the two countries ? why fhould the Revenue be permanent in one and only annual in the other ? If any fuch thing was to be propofed as that of making the revenues of Great Britain annual infiead of permanent, the effat would focal be felt in the depreciation of our public funds. The &tam (aid, in the ufual form, a Mr. Sheridan, explain." Mr. on riling, remarked, that per haps it was more neceffary the Chancellor of the Exchequer fhould go on to ex plain—(4 hod laugh.) That Right Hon. Gentleman had allowed, that the annual renewal of the taxes might once have been, of advantage to Ireland. In fait, that re newal was an excellent check on the Government; and if it was a gond Conititutional check former ' ly, he faw no reafon why it did not remain fo ' It was fingular that it fhould be Paid Ireland can have no public credit becaufe her taxes are annual. Were her debts not contraaed under annual taxes? • If he were to (peak as an bills creditor, he might perhaps fay that he would prefer having the taxes annu*l. Did not the Brit& Parliament frequently . . repeal taxes without injuring the credit of the country i The public creditor here relied on the Wfaith -of the Houfe to fubliitute another t.tx hat which was repealed ; and fo in Ireland the public sreditor relied on the faith of the Irifh Par'Repent for the renew al of the annual taxes.—The Ref°lut ions were then agreed to, and a BiU ordered to be brought in on the fame. ILICTIOU COMMITTIIS. The Cmascat.Loa of the Excascuita moved, that the names of the Members who were abknt on the ballot of this day, be called over by the Speaker on Monday next Ordered.—He alto moved that the Houfe be called over on Thurfday next. Ordered.—The Right Hon. Gentleman then obferved, that there was a great difficulty in procuring accommodations for the different Elec- tion Committees ; and that, if the four Commit tees, which Rood for next week, were to be bal loted for, a confiderabk embarrallinent might arife. He would therefore move to pat off the ballot for the Committees on the Chippenham and Carmarthen Petitions, which Rood for Tuefday next, to Thurfday i and that the ballot for the chefler and Eaft Grinflead Eleaioa Committees, which flood for Thurfday, be pot off to Tnellay the Isth. The& motions were put and agreed to. Mr: Fox obferved, that it would be a great con venience to let the whole of theft Peuuons Rand over till after the recefs. The CUMICIILLOIL of the Exc naturist raid. :twat his intention on Monday nest w make a motio.i to that &ed.—Adjourned at eight o'clock. LONDON. FRIDAY, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS 3 per C. Conf. money,y, Old 5 per Cent. rot} Omnium PRICE OE STOi Bank Stock 11194 ayo 3 per C. Conf. .7t 4 per Colt. 88 Hi. $ per C. Mn. 1014,1 5 per C. 1797, to4ji Short Ann. 4 9-14 India Stock 2161 MARCH 4. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. t ) (—for Ar.ril ate. 71i. It —New ditto to4it-. 31 diC ICS YESTERDAY! Imp. 3 per Ceet.... Imp. Ana. c c p-IS Irilh 5 per C. tot. 7.16 Earheq. Rills Is. /if. Omni= 4 dat teglifk Tickets 171. rm. Cad. for AprU ace. 721{1 Yefterdsy the Bank of Enitold Difcounted upwards of Eleven Hundred Tlioufand Pounds wor , l) of Bills, which, at this ju otturc, will be a great relief to the Conn crelal World. The Dutch Government has adopted a refols. tion with terpeft to the Flan CONsues intended vifit to Antwerp ; that as loon as his arrival in that ciiy Mall be known, a Deputation from the !embers of the Council of State is to be font to 'him. From this circumaance, and the menace thrown out againft the Batavian Republic by 80. xaeasre, in his review of the ante of France, we expeft•that fomething important to Holland will loon take place. The Serifs Confulta is at an end. A Dutch Confulta at Antwerp would intent! En. rope as much as the fate of the defiendants of Ws'. Luse TELL. A large body of French troops is fill in Holland. Letters which we have received from Gavel. tar, of the Bth ult. mention, that Sir RICMAIM Staacstax, who had put iti there in his way to join the fleet at Malta, carries out harm. Lions for the evacuation of that illand. Such at leaf was there believed to be the faEl. If AN we may infer that Egypt has already been evacuated, as it is well known that the troops there were to go to Malta when they quitted that country. We may alfo remark that if this intelligence be corral a proper guarantee for the independence of Malta mull have been obtained, though nothing has yet been officially publiffied refpating it ; for we cannot think our Government would abandon Malta without obtaining any fecurity that it fhould not afterwards be united to the poffeflions of Feast*. Should it turn out that we (ball have abandoned Malta without any fuch fecurity, to ►hat a humiliating fituation is Great Britain re duced! GIBRALTAR. FEBRUARY IL It ibelieved here that Sir Ric M. STILL CHIII,WhO arrived in the Doss scat., of 8o guns, on the 4th inftant from Portfmouth, and failed on the follow. ing day for Malta, carries with him orders for our fleet to bring away the Britilh troops. The ifland will not, however, be completely evacuated till his Majefly's (hips DRAGON, of 74 guns, and Its. wows, of 74 guns, now repairing here, and alto the Mott mou r it, of 64 guns, join the fleet at Malta. Yon (hall be informed when they fail. The Quarter Scflions, which commenced on the 3d hilt. ended yefterday. His Royal Highnefs, as ufual, prcfided as Chief Judge, and conduCted himfelf with great eloquence and propriety. The unwearied attention and pains he has uniformly (hewn to the protection of the inhabitants in all their civil rights, fence he was appointed Governor of this place, has juftly impreffed them with the higheft veneration and affeetion for his perfon and cbarader. The following is his Royal Highnefs's Addrefs to die Grand Jury : " Gentlemen of the Grand Jurp—ln the official flotation ie which I have to addrefs you, it becoMes my duty to Rate Mote points to which your attention is to be principally direded. in order that you may be able to folk! the truft mpored In you by the Public, in the manner belt calculated to produce the elfedt fur which you arc now affcmbled. " Your duty, Gentlemen, is twofold, in as much as you art called upon, both to prefentoffences, on your own knowledge, arid to decide upon fuck Indititments as may be fent up to you. In both theft cafes, your principal ettention thould be to adhere to the inftrudions prefcribed by the Charter of this Place, and to follow the execution of the Englik Law as clofely as local circusoftances will admit et. To do this dredually, you mount avoid, as mach as pliable, finding any indidtment founded upon Statutes lately paired. and sundered necegary only by tempora ry circutuftances peculiar to England; as profmoting upset theca grounds, may kad to legal, doubts, and the ncceffity of a rite on that account, although the Jury has itfelf entertained nom upon t►e fa&. Such was the cafe an a late trial which mokplace bat at the left Quarter &Mous, when two atrocious Criminals. whom the Jury found guilty of the whole of the charge exhibi ted againit them, efasped the punithment which they fo jufily merited, imply becauk t►e crime of which they were found guilty, was in fad of a marilscinous nature than that provided for in the fpccific Statute upon which they were tried. It will. therefore, be obvious, that the belt line for you to follow, tiW be to found your indictments as much as polfible upon dick dames, the intrinfic enormity of which has ever tws• dead them crimes by the Common Law ; (itch as Murder, info glary, Highway Robbery, and the like, to which, in moll coos uisa.capital punahnsent is named. As an additional modes for you to follow theft fuggeitions, I need only point set the evident Make that will thereby be done to foreigners,who may naturally plead ignorance of any peculiar Ertel& astute, whoa they cannot ufc fuch an argument, if they arc tried only for • mime, the commilloo of which would have been equally at tended midi a capital (entente in char own country. " It is trot, that, in fame inflames, o(cnders may drape by being tried upon indatbncats fo tound, who, had they been brought to trial under late Ststu tax, mutt have met the fentences they merited; but on the other band, all uncertainty or doubt after mormaima is avoided. and lei injury done to the Public, where implanitli units from the lenity, than when it is nee*. Boned ny Vic Intricacy of the law, in as much as an acquittal, rtialliat [ 'Kt want of proof, is prcfrrable to the occaty ... tli fc Is