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willbo *ado to the Sinking Fund, and at Am, perhaps, it will he most wanted, tthe ume bis f un d will be highly appropriate to ail the in wide(' purposes. The proportion which the present -Sinking Fund bore to the capital sum of the present Nut ational Debt, was at the IMO of one-forty-seco no nd to the whole ; and. recording to the plan w posed, in the course of ten years, that propor re t on will be saereased from one-fortieth to one eenteenth. If, at any future period, that Fund shall have increased to such a degree, that there b e a great accessioa of the principa l, iwtY i t then w ill become dispel itile as the Parlia ment shall think proper. Tlie provisions and tegolations under the propos-d plan, give com plete satisfaftion to stockholders. According to t he operation of the proposed plan, the access, in the course of nineteen years, will amount to 90,000,0001. more than could bave been redeemed ender the present system, and an amount equal to the present debt would have been redeemed in period of five years sooner than that of the pre system ; every objefl of the stockholder will he then satisfied, and every loan may he redeemed in 45 le.iff. It only remained now fur him to state what , e I ad set out with, which was the considerable i..aiasflion he felt ie being able to state to the I iause, that the property tax would be carried no tardier than during the war ; and from the regula tions he proposed, and the improved state of the finances, he hoped that the war loans and war tiles would be raised, in a short time, without in fringing upon the property tax; and, at the end of to ye.tts, (should the war last S 9 long.) that tax might be altogether repealed. .1 bus the ob lees of this plan will be more beneficial to the public, and the attention paid to the improvement of the Sinking Fund, will be more benefical t the stockholder, and better for tie public. Under such a system, this country, supported by her own in dustry, assured by her own talents, and towel by her own spirit of indept ndonce, may hope to arrive at that situation, not reetely su i •erior, at this time, to every nation up .n the globe, but superior to every nation that ever had existed on the face of the globe, or ever would. Thete yet remained to be stated, not a vein boast, of what we may have hereafter, hot of what we now ate possessed, re . ances within ourselves which cannot he eqitalled hi any power of Europe. Nothing could toduce us, he thought, to profit unfairly by such means as might be held out to us, in restoring that peace and happiness we so much looked for.— It was most fortunate thut„ should we he foiled in our future aitertipts, we have the spirit of re newing the attack ; bur if we cannot succeed to our wishes, we car. stand firmly against all attacks made on the othsr side. At the same time that we wish. d for Peace, we have the means of protratting the War to an indefinite period ; and should that scourge of Europe, who,blasting and consuming all he cannot reach, and threateninA to destroy those beyond his power, persist in bis plans against this country, we have institutions by which we can support ourselves, our liberties, and oar Constitu st.sn, against tyranny and oppression. We stand the guardians and delenders of our country ; and, with undiminished glory, we can preserve the faith and honour of the British Chara.lter. The Noble laird concluded by saying, he should now only wove. " Ttio the Resolutions be read, and the consideration of them postponed until Wednesday sennight." Mr. KO.:E said, he did not then mean to detain the Committee, but merely rose to ask, if the Noble Lord was aware that these Annnmes were now, by law, applied to she sinking fond ? but, he con ceived, the Bill of 17d6 provided that the Annuities ateuld fall into the sinking fund. Lor 1 HF.NitY YE rrY replied, that they were included in the previsions of the .stl ut I Tbj, but by an arrangement in 180.2, these annuities were detached. Whole on his legs, he observed, that besides the Resolutions, tha-re would be a table, which could not miserly he laid aefore the House, and reel y Gen:lemon would be furnished with a copy of each. Mr. JOHNSTONE said. he did nor w:sh to inter fere in this stage of the question, but there was one observation ...Well lie begged leave to make, which was, that an impression of a dangerous tendency would result from the Noble Lord's speech, by which the coo tor amnia be open to expeflations, which perhaps would never be realized. The Noble Lord, iu disploil,g a degree of talent scarteiy ever to he met with, had stated, that the Liconee Fax was not to be increased, he (Mr. Johnstone) could not well reconsile that with the Noble Load's itundu3 on a former occasion, when he refused the applications not to increase that tax. Never had he heard el,quence carried furt er than upon this occasion, when the N..ble Lord would persuade the C.:untry that all our debts should be I paid. lie wish, d the Noble Lord to consider the espenations held out at she beginning of the war, and what was the result ? He wished the Noble Lord to state, what probability these was that his ' assumption would be realized. Mr.IOIINS I'ONE begged pardon of the House for troubling them with any observations on what had been said by the Noble Lord. None could feel more sensibly than himself how ill-calculated he was to engage the attention of the House s afrer the brilliant display of talent ea.ibited in the very able speech of the Noble Lord ; though he had come to the House unprepared to meet thequestion, sod though the Noble Lord had purposely deferred the consideration of it, to a retired when the House should be possessed of ample documents, to decide nn the merits of the plan (au outline of which had, this evening, been laid belore them), he could nor, consistently with the duty he owed to the House, and the nation at large, pass over in silence, some parts which he conceived extremely ohjeltionable. Ile had first to observe, that the Noble Lord had, in his statement of the resources of the nation, for the ensuing years, completely negletted to take into consideration the state of the finances of Ireland, which had been lately very deficient ; and he had been apprised, from the best iliformation, that the result of the Union of the English and his!: F.x,:hequer would be extremely unfavourable to rojetts of the Noble Lord, as Ireland was at the present time totally incapable of furnithing her quota of tatatien, and the English I schemser would have to provide tar the late sum ra.sed ni Ireland, amounting to near five millions ; this was a nosttni of setkes importance. and ees tainly should not have escaped the Noble Lord in his financial investigation. fie also wished to re mind the Noble Lord of the general fallacy of spe culative calculations, and of die failure of that per Swim- system of emote's. which had been adopted by his ingenious predecessor, who had even asserted that the war could be carried on by his system, without any increase of the national debt ntewing the improvement projelled in the finances by the Nohle Lord, in this light, he teeny was of opinion the Noble Lord had been led away by the interest all projeCtors feel in the offspring of their own imagination, and hence induced to pro mise to the nation advantages which it would scarcely ever be possible could be fulfilled be any system whatever. Lest this system should be o tally as unproduCtive as e e former, which commenced in a display of innumerable ad• sn rages, and ended in nothing but disappoitoment and vexation, he had risen to remind the Noble Lord of the consequences of exciting the hopes and expeCta tions of the people, when they were called or. to mike the greatest sacrifices for the relay of the state, and when the necessary concomitant of the failure of the present scheme, would inevitably Le, on the part of the people, dejeftio.l and despair. Lord H. PEt' FY eche to answer the Hon. Gen tleman on the suhj .61 of Irish finance, and observed. that his system could not at present extend its bene ficial effects to that comfy. as there were no perma nent war taxes is the Irish establishment, the Irish system of finance being perfeEtty el-et from that of England. He begged leave to recline aoswer ing any objeetions which might he made this eire.shof, as he leaped to be able more explicitly to state to the House his system, on the evening appoilited fur its further consideration. Mr. H. ADDING I'ON rose in support of the sys tern adopted by his Noble Relative, when in of fice. He thanked the Hon Groot min Po the corn• plinsent he had paid Lord Silmouth ; but begged leave to remind him, that his L r snip, in his 111. A sanguine moments. had not promised the natfon his system sh..uld defray the riot nces of the war, with out circumscribing those rap-noes, and rating them at an average of twenty-s x millions per annum. li the expences of the war could h tee been reduced to that annuol sum, the Noble Lord, no doubt, would have made the conditional promise which he bad made. Mr. PARNELL observed, that the assertion o the Honourable Gentleman respetrintz Ir•land's ina• bility to defray her portion of the national expends• ture was unfounded. In consequence of the late regulations tespetling the Irish &sauce, the reveille had increased near hall a million ; from this ra o id increase, he tiought himself jostifi d in presuming Ireland would not only be able to furnish her own quota of taxation, but also to I iy by yearly a surplus to be applied to whatever public purposes might be deemed necessary. Mr. CORBY stated, that from his experience of Irish affeirs, he could vouch for Ireland being ade quafe to defray the annual -xpences necessarily en tailed on it by toe ACt of Lloion Ile thought that nothing enoll be more prejedicial to the government of tbs. counti 7, than this such a tern, tending to establish the ins deem of that country, at the mo ment when she was about to raise the necessary sop plie•, by loan, for the year, slims d go abroad• In this statement he was also suppurted by Mr Vaosittart. After some word:, :n explanation. by Mr. JOHN• S I'ON F. and Mr. CORBY, Mr. HOBHOUSE re• p 'nest pro ;rest, and asked leave to sit again on Aredoesday. Lord HOWICIE then stated, that he would con eider it a matte of personal favour. if the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Perceval) would consent to post pone his M360:1 • Wednesday To this Mr PERCEVAL ennuered, provided that, sh tilt there be no Hoase on Wednesday, in con,egastwe of a ballot, appointed for the same day, his motion should stand as the first from that day, which seas accordingly ordered. Sl.A'' E TR UE. Mr. WILBERFORCE said, that he rose not for the porpose se motel; any motion, but merely to observe, that probably it might be proper, in this new Patliarnent, that the Resolution, which was adopted by the last one, at the end of the last Session, relative to the Stove Trade, should be read to the House. the last Parliament had resolved, that, upon the grounds of justice and humanity, they would endeavour to take such steps, for the Abnli times of the Slave Tiade, as the wisdom of the House might think proper, and that too as soon as possible. It might be thought that those persons, who formerly hal taken up this busines, ought now to bring it forward ; but some, at the same time, might conceive, that as it lad lately been brought before the other House, it might be better to wait the result of their i'eliberations. He deemed it his duty to ioquire, whether it was in cuctereplation to adopt any meaesres in conformity with the former judgment of the House ? Lord HOWICK rose and answered, that since it was known that another Bull was pending in the other House, he should think it improper to adopt any steps upon their former resolution, till the re• suit of that deliberation was determined. He, no doubt, coneutred in the opinion with the Hoa. Gentleman, that it would be for the honour of the House to take up that business as speedily as pos sible, in order to ellen the abolition of that trade. which, by the vote of last Parliament, was declared to be contrary to the principles of humanity and jus tice. (Cries of hear / afar ! tbrutsils ad caartert of tie IJoeie.) MILITARY RETURNS. Lord CA.S I'LLREAGt I said, that there were certain papers which he would wish to have laid on the Table, previous to twilit' diseu.sion of the mi litary matters, still before the House. The Noble Lord, therefore, moved the following series of Mo tions, which, after a few occasional observations, were severally agreed to : A Return of the nutuoer of Men wanting to complete the ettabinhment of the Regular A,my, on the 1.1 Slay of Ja trusty, 1107, divtinguithrog the blush bunt Foreign, and Ca valry from Infantry. A la-turn of :he number and effectual orength of the Re minting runes empluyad 011 ale lit of January, 1.46, and the Ist of January, tail A Retain et the Member of Pentane enti.loyed open the lit of January. to levy hied Is the Amy, tender the Orders en Oaotter. 15.6 I ditti,nrw•hing those rune me on half ray, and spit:up:l 11161441E1hr . of Mama Law,' in feel. 14•04.. Mt.aTraessis of IC.lNAsist I. Iligiascat the Puldoc Offices. Prevhxhif 'waived. ttivegthen the gegen' opiaido. that the French have experienced, it not a decisiire defeat. at least a revers* of fortr.ne. _ . The Irdlisakca,...._, g ibe arrive of which frdm 1 . r the Cipe af Ocind Hope we lately mentioned , h as br .ught horse the detachment of the (aeon's , n r 43 Foote which, w4the tusk compasios of the o4:1t, - if *Abe tecoileolesi, were taken on their passage from Oihraltv, Sind carried to the Cape, wi.ile in pnesesaion of ilie:eitemy. Letters cl,.;e:: C.e 11th of November, melted by this •asiel, slat., that Sir DO.•110 RAigto was indefatigable iri v bis du:v. ar.J that th- troops were in high health a. 1.1 spirits The whole army was to be encamped at New. lands, on the 15th November. In the fribam, several Dutch families have come home, and a fe . c iovalils from the Regim::r.ts at the Cape, with the following Officers: Ciptaiii Celtins, of the MI Regintent. Pay .12-.te• %laic .Imson, of the 93J Ditto. !Win,: Master Humphries, ef Vie t I.t L.ght Dragoons. - • • A It•ltara a t file eatsalfles by Death. Denali'''. ee charge from the regular Arlsry, from il.e ;u January, Ito., a u ist Jeresers, IIYYJ, dirantge.ning each !est .1w rpecstyl , .g •ry abet casitalti s they hew heels removed, soother at Imes. or on the seva•al F.,te.ogn Watson.. A Itetrorts of the Nu bet .4 &Seel serving its the Rea tar tatinc, tintingusehing their 'reams et S. tvece and thee Ages, with the Swisher of Yet,. they have ',trod therein A It-two of r•11.1101. • ' 1 ro Gre•••trrich a,.d Lt rna,:haim pgral.; a .111 tire Nomeer of Seidler. who have se,red 14 and 7 irate, e..d the Ptmuwe.s who are ilittVad ea the_ saai• foetal pay of Is. The Irish Customs Regulation Bill vas t read a rhtral time and passed. The Platt India Judicature List was brouglia - jsp by Mr Vansittart, a.l.l.t.rdt.re.l to lie on the table; and the House adjourned un.il btquday. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, FRIDAY, JAmumir 30. Lord Hertav Petty ; last nigh., in the House of Commons. took a luminous and comprehensive I e---ea-e-aae view of our Finances, in the system of which, he 1 Yesterday morning the Prince of Wsr.es arrival onggested some important Amendments. His state- at Win .sor. on a vent to Their Manses ss. The m-nt Was ; what is vulgarly called, opet.:ng the Duke of YORK likewise arrive& on hi r sine.s na:1 1 Budget, with. Cirri exceptinn, that he did not 21 1 hours. MAJISTY, and continued with him hear two nounce the mode of defraying the interest of the We have the pleasure to inform the public, that Lieut. The amount of the Lean he stated at the Brigade of British Troops u... 1- tho orders r f General Wvovaitn. arrived in Sic il y on the .ith of I‘J'2°° 0001.—and 500 '0001' h- slid, w " the largest Dereniber, in the very best state of health. th e re sum that could possibly be wanted for Co-tinental being scarcely a case of serious Illness among the Subsidies. The produce of the Property Tax he troops The above Brigade landed at Catanaa, in enimated at 11,50,0001. He declared. at the sane which place and its neigt•bonrhond, the cows are for the present to be stationed. Sir Jona STU,. il t time, that it was not intended to increase it beyond is arrived at Portsmouth, from the Mediterranean, is present rate of 101. per cent.; and that it should on hdard the Serapit story nf war. :ease at the end of the war. A full report of Irk so ' n f t h h e tn ( n 'e . ar t e h r e it7 J.ust ßic t E i a v a A o s s ; ; from the Lace . E ft: Lordship's interesting and important statement is WARDS; fr •M -.—; were captured, on the 23d in given in our preceding columns. stant, by a French schooner privateer, of six guns, ---...-- and 65 men ; the tsao f orner were burnt; the latter giv n up to the crew, and is arrived at Miltord. l'he privateer had previously captured the Hoe, of Cardiff. By a Naval Officer, w o arriv-d a few days igo, from Jamaica. we learn, that ie ry smog r •ril - i tranquil in that Island. Sir Eves Coots. the vernor.General, a held in the logoest drove 01 respell and estimation. Admiral D. crkts, v.hr.l has had the command of the B.rricsr. on e. t !MIMI'. for three years past, is comihg,l one, and is to be socce -tied by Admiral Cocitaress ; the die posable force at Port Royal consists of six ships of the line, beside: itigates and sloops of war, amoent in the whole to upwards of thirty sail. A Rert from England arrived off Lisbin on the 15 h i-stant. We uoderstand that the long-contested question he waeu the Esti of (Nitwit, and the Crtrayns of Cork. whether or sot his Lordship is or is not en title-, to the prisare of wines Migrated i -n Cork, will shortly br- tally invcstsgat•-c, by a snit com menced by one of those ctuzens, and which will re. ceive trial nest assiars. The Esplanatury Grain Intercourse Bill, intro duced into the H us. of Commons. by Sir Uwe Isle.sv roar. mad., that th. - ! As 9 of the last Session. • misled 'I An Alt to permit the free interehange of v5.:..4 ea- ry species ix Gran between Carat Britain and I ' Ireland, and the several clauses and provisions therein mentioned, ri lacing to the exiscrtation and importation of any sit of corn or grain, meal, flour, bread, or biscuit, from Great Britain to Ire land, or from Ireland to Great Britain. was intend ed, and shall be constroed to extend, and the same is hereby declared td extend oily to corn or grain, meal, Ili or, bread or biscuit, being toe gronith. produce, or manufaltute of 1. eat Britain or Ire land respeCtively, and not to any corn or grain. meal. flour, bread, or hiicuit, behrg the growths produce, or manufaiture of any other country or I place ; any thing in the said recited Aft to the con trary notwithsranding." The following Gentlemen have been called to the degree of Barrister at Law, by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-Inn : Francis Lee.. Class's, E-q. Robert Great, E.q. W. Foiglisn Sit , Wl4 E-1. Rich .r.I II Cressesll. F...q, R. It "man Silly, E-q John Row.ll-r. jou. Eq. Th 00112.4 ‘Vebb Dwk-, Ksq Sam 4.1 Shams. Esq. Hon Charles F. Stuart Slinlael R &.h y, Esq. The great number of houses to be demolished for the intended enlargem nt of Smithfierd Mar ket. has so increased the value of property there, that the lease of a mnderatelv•smea house, for which, three years ago, 2001. would have been taken, was lately sold at GARR AMA T'S for 700 guineas. Mr. SHRPHKRO. who met with the unfortunate accident at Cov-nt-Garden The tee, was last night much better, hut not out of danger. Mr. Motto a's lively Comedy of Speed the Maui. and .11:4 her (1..... e's rale. attracted a crowded house, to Cowry-Garden Tnratre, last night. Some of the charadters in the Play have changed their Represent atives since its first performance. Mr. leawcarr. with great goul sense, has resigned chit of the youthful B,h H,intly to the lively Maas' to, wln.se tigire, gale y, and engaaing manner, make him a much fitter lover fur the young and interesting Serra 4,414 On the 113th inst. a public ball was given by the geotlemen of Liphin, Ireland, to celebrant the birth day of that no - oral and harmonious p et, oxivaa GoLoset res. the village being his birth plate. The room where i he inknpany assembled wasorn.s..Tented with various 4liarAeeratic decorations, and several transpirene.es Witt:tired scenes from his Terkaike. ice Dunn; some pauses of the dance, on- of the gemlemen reck d several heantitni passages t , -tt ik Deterred ri,lage. and other of Dr. Goi user T 0 Poem*. whose mist was afterward• crowne n ft hays, from tire lair hands of a charming you g lady. Tne company who were highly rushed with the festivities ot the night, were i .vited to par. take of a splendid defame, on the lawn, opposie to the Epiecopal Palace, in the m o t nona, to which the mild sass of she weather roved eattosnely favour- The ship, Chinn Pa,ket, arrived at Philadelphia, from CAlcatta, on the 31st December. She sailed .rom Calcu'ta on the II th of August last, and horn the Sand HeAlls On the 17th. It was ru moured at Calcutta, that an ern'targo would lake plnce in a few days, and be continued uttil the sail ing of the Company's fall fleet for Europe. Cal cutta goods, of every description. was =tom minly ►carce. - n 4 It was repored, last right, that Government are in possession of the 41rh or 50:h of the Grand Fren h Army, in which the French admit that battles were fought subsequent to the 26:h, and that tile had lost 7000 k lied, and ly Genetals Should the French publish awy-atcnunt of the mili tary operations between December Itio. and Jan t. we may elpea some ucla account. Tile Ame rican ship Bifirareirs„Calx. MIL LIR. 111Tret4 in nesd ay from Anasterd iv), which place rh.. left en the 25. h inst. The Captain states, tha• the reports in Holland, of the state of the French in Polind, are more unfavourable than they have been even in this country. The F,ench are said to have been falling back ever sine the battle of the etith. R port adds, that the Poles have risen upon them in their retreat, and destroyed great numbas, not even sparing the sick and wounded in the hospitals.— Capt. Mss.t.ea states, that no vessel is now permitted to leave H•iHand, till the Master gives bond to for feit double the amount of tke value of his vessel, if he should call at any EngliAs pert on his voyage home. An Edinburgh Paper or the 26:11, alluding to the reports on this subied. brought from Tonningen by the Night:m.l , 4k, as stated in Tar. Bait Isis Pans, on Wednesday. gives the following as a mare cos rea account of the intelligence received by that vessel : I. On the 13th January, a person from Hamburgh arrived in "founingen, with intelligence, that the Russians, in great force, had successtully attacked the French, and drove them with immense slang. ter lions their position ; and it was said, that, in conse quence, the Frenc's army was in full retreat to Ber lin. It was, nt.rreover, reported, that the Arch duke C: i s bad en.ered Sile.i a, at the head of 180,000 Ausuians. These reports were not com municated by the British Consul to Capt. Morr, of ' 1 the Prince /Alban, as formerly stated, but brought by one of the Prince ',Ana's boats from Tortnia. gen to Vollerwyk, where that vessel and the Nightin gale were at anchor. The Nightivale sailed on the morning of the 20th January." Another vessel reached the River yesterday, in seven days, from Bremen. It was reported there. at the time she sailed, that a battle had been fought between the French and Russians in Poland, in which the Latter had been defeated, with ttse loss of ten thousand men and eighty pieces of cannon ; but that, notwithstanding this vinery on the part of the enemy, NA roLsos was hastawns back from Wai -1 saw to Berlin with ail possible celerity: that eighty thousand men have been ordered to be raised imme diately. and sent to Elm as a teinlorcensent ; and hat every precaution is taken by the French in Bre men, to prevent any unfavourable reports Prom rt mg into circulation reap-ding tls- Bette aithe Ft each army. All these accounts, added t the reports *Ye. • ;1 ...0 ill