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-114 Z. :32, • • • .."11 , -.met . r• .44 ~~ 4 dated, and by the Herterli4if a Committee of the bet- treasury, there can remain in that country few ob pet 44 Patlia aunt, made the last Ses,ioa, after very jeas of legitimate taxation. full inquiry. k has been proved beyond the possibi:ity of being As these publications, and that Report, are ac- controverted, that the cultivators of cigar in this cornpanied by e and grounded on, official docu menu, ieland,comprehending berth landholders and farmers, and the most remedable •evidence, the Committee are, with a very few exceptions, in the unfortunate consider it uneeiessary to enter on an investigation state supposed, even it they were exempt from the of fads now not controverted, and thrult they are burden of debts. justified in repowns that the tolluwing appear the The greatest proportion of the taxes of this country principal causes which have produced the extreme is raised on this body of proprietors diredly, and a depreciation of our principal staple, sugar : Ist. considerable share of the remainder indiredly, The departure from what has been usually caked through various classes of the inhabitants, whose the rule of the war of IW, but which, en fait, was chief means of support are drawn from the sugar established long before that period, end decided, plantations. . is That a neutra/ had no right to deliver rbelligerent It were vain to search for means of levying part from the praware of his else:rues' hostilities, by of a revenue that sloes not exist. And it is painful tradi g with his co/antes in time of war, in any to the Committee to state, that it will be imprac manner which was prohibited in. time of peace." I ticable to continue to raise, within this island, those Id. The peculiar relaxations of this rule, by the contributions which were cheerfully paid in happier orders issued to t he pris e Courts, in the years l7tl times, unless the sugar planters shall he enabled to aid 179$ rerpedively, which, with very trilling support their share of the public burdens, by some essidliceins, amino, to regulate the decrees of radical, effectual, and permanent measures, which these important tribuivals. Id. The geographical shall restore and insure to them an income, bearing position of the ports of the United States of North assist proportion to their large capitals, on which America, the neutral power chiefly engaged in carry- our local taxes have been heretof 're chiefly assessed. leg the produce of the enemies' West India Colonies, That. from the unexpected sums which have been, which renders the few restre&ions yet retuned by and may be, colleded, from the extraordinary im am last mentioned orders to be hazily an incon- portatson of Africans, as before stated, and the un minium. as they are go: over by systematic expelled ranee; in cf debts due to the public, it may fraud aid perjury. 4th The easy expense and se- be practicatee, with rigid economy in all other curity with wheal, by means of this fraudulent sys. branches et the public expenditure, to continue suds tem of neutrality, t' a sugars of the enemies' cold- subsistence another year. And the Committee re- Dies are transported to the European mat ket, it hay- commend to the House to vote sums necessary for ing been proved that, for freight and irisurance giving the said additional suesistence to the Slit day alone, the British planter payi, for every hundred of December, 1508. The Committee humbly weight of smear conveyed through the patent state hope, that, on a familial repr esentat i on to our most to the ports of Holland, or t' e north of Europe, gracious Sovereign. of the calamitous situation to Ss. I sel sterlina, and to the Mediterranean les. 6d. which his loyal subjects of this island are reduced, more than attaches on the goods of the French or His Majesty, with his accustomed benevolence, will Spaanh cultivator, carried in neutral bottoms to the recognize the uniform zeal with which the volun same mks. Sth. The restrictions on imports- tary contributions towards the comfort of His Ma tion into tlipteleetinental ports, from the power and jesty's troops in this island have been made, whilst influence oTFrench domination, whilst the tempts- the inhabitants bad the means : and, considering the Won to resist or evade it is taken away by the abun- state to which proprietors, once opulent, are re dant supply brought under the neutral flag. 6th. duced, that His Majesty will be pleased to direct A rigid enforcement of the navigation system, his Ministers to adopt such measures as shall be nee against the Ninth Colonies. at the time when it cessary for protecting this yet important colony, was thought expedient to grant rellusatioas in fa- from the general funds of the empire, to which it your of nenoals and enemies. The agriculture of contributes so large and disproportionate a share. the colonies of the latter has been encouraged by a And the Committee recommend to the House to ap monopoly of the demand from the United States of point a Committee to prepare a most humble Ad- Amerism, and by having their produce transported dress to His Majesty, setting forth these our griev under the safe and cheap protection of-the neutral antes and oppressions, earnestly beseeching His flag. to every market where it was in request. Majesty's commands on his Ministers to adopt pro- The British planter. without funds or credit in the per measures for our re l ie f an d re d ress . mother country. where his staple was of no value, Ordered. that Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Grant, Mr. bas been restrained from bartering any part Whitehorne, Mr. Sims. and Mr. Fialayson, be a of Ms sugar, in exchange for the lumber and Committee fur that purpose. fish which could not be dispensed with, which hie 2. Resolved, That this House, for itself, and on rum was unequal to satisfy. and for which, often, it the part of its constituents, and of all other persons would not be received. whilst it has been shown. in any manner con .erned in the welfare of this that rio other resources were lett. He has be e n island, do, in the most solemn and decided manner, protest against the Aft of the Imperi a l P a rli a m en t, called upon to send to the American market such produce as he wished to sell or barter there in Bri- Passed no the 25th day of March last, entitled, Web bottoms, but no convoys have bees appointed, "An A@ for the Abolition of the Slave Trade," not no facilities given to an intercourse which would oaly as a breath, on the part of Government, of have required the moat decided and regular protec- the conditions under which His Majesty's sobjefis doe. Ile is required to sacrifice his all to the pre- embarked in the seteement of this island, 'but as a serration of waist is called the Navigation System. novel. unjust, and unconstitutional interference with of that tratein be admit, the wisdom and owe s its internal govertune nt and affairs; calculated to utility ; bat Ise humbly submits that it should Ise tiefteg ate to subvert our laws, to deprive us of our eupperted at the common expense or the empire; dearest birth-right, the trial by jary, to raise envy end mast be permitted , to doubt th e justice of re- and jealousy in the breasts of th e sett l e d negroes ; laitiofit for temporary purposes, in favour of other subversive of an ancient and admitted principle of classes, and rigidly entosscing it against huts alone, the British Constitution, that no laws can be bind when not merely occasioning expense and ismanve. ing en those who are not represented in the Parlia nience, but overwhelming him with ruin. Sat& anent which enacts them, placing not only our The inadequacy of the demand for the use of Great rights and properties, but also oar lives in the most Britain and Ireland, compared with the prododion imminent danger, and tending to promote disaf of the colonies, which must, under the existing fedion in the minds of His Majesty's most loyal lame he carried aid deposited there, whether there subjects. shall /1, slaa/eurat be a presoak of exportation The 3. Resolved, That the Legislature of this island excess of impoillatioo, above the consumption of has,• and ever had, the exclusive and absolute right the UAW Kingdom, is mealy twoefiftha of tee •' to goad its own laws, and to regulate entirely its in- whehe quantity, or above 100,000 , hogsheads of tented government and affairs ; that the Imperial sugar; but the loss of two-fifilss of the pots pro- Parliament bath not, nor nath any other power upon dace cf bus estate will be far from the measure of earth, the most distant ri g ht to i nter f ere t h ere i n , (except only Hi s Majesty, in the instance of dim'. the planter's damage—the remaind er c an never b ear I lowing the laws h ere ma d e ), an d t h at i n support of a fair prier, whils t the quanti t y i n t h e market so far exceeds what the consumer require s . Wh ic h ex - (the dearest rights a n d liberties oh our fellow-subjects, cess and depression are increased by encouraging a 1 it is our duty, by a ll const i tut i ona l means i n our I licensed iotrereourse with the island of St. Domin g o power, to resist the attempt that has been, and or Hayti. Bth. The excessive duties which coo- every attempt that may be, made, to destroy or to tinuse to be levied on this staple, now bearing no abridge that right. proportion to the price, falling nearly, it not 4. Resolved, That this Home, in more fortu wholly, on the grower, and not as has been nate days, when the situation of the inhabitants of at all times iatended or professed, ost the son_ this island was different, and when the burdens and ii user. restridioos imposed by Great Britain were infinitely l'o these may be added, the discouragement to less oppressive than they now are, has never PAled in 'hewing the s t rongest disposition to render the the planters, by the consumption, i u t h e navy and otherwise, of foreign . :andies and spirits, the use situation of His Majesty's troops in this island most of which might be in a great measure superseded by comfortable; and that this house is still influenced runs. A policy infringing the system of reciprocal by the same disposition ; but is totally deprived of •nonopoly, and aggravating distress, which more the tame meant* 1 seral condisd teetaade the colonies might have a l. 5. Resolved, That the usual pay and sub s i stence leviated, granted to His Majesty's Write troops, stationed in Construing upon coffee a duty, amounting to a this island, to the extent of 3000 men, be continued prohibition, in place of endeavouring to bring this to them until the 3la day of December, 18011: in wholesome beverage into general use, must be a just the first place, by exhausting the funds to arise subjed of complaint to the inhabitants of this island. from the duties on new negroes, under the aft com mit' must by the Committee be adverted to. as at- manly called' The Additional Duty Bill,' and as to fading the price of an important staple, which may the deficiency, out of the monies to arise from some soon be excluded from the continental market, one or other of the money bills to be passed this through the only channel open to the grower. session. But theoverwhelming distress of the sugar planter, 6. Resolved, That the abolition ad, by its totally swallows up all inferior and less pressing evils.— destroying, for the future, the customary revenue, What has been long known and felt here, has been under the negro duty bill, by its baneful 'Ends on lately fully proved before a Committee of the oar ordinary resources, and its general tendency to Rouse of Commons, th a t, from the operation of overwhelm the unfortunate settlers and inhabitants the causes winch we bare only briefly adverted to, of this island, in combination with the excessive du the great staple of the British %eu Indies, sugar, ties and charges on our produce, and the well known does n,t sell its the markets of the mother country general distress of the colony, renders u s totally una• . . ble to make any provision for His Majesty's troops, ' the period above mentioned, nor can we contemplate a renewal of such grants until, by a the minds of our come clonal rights, shall be . the means shill again a burden. . pressure of a heavy lure's, now actually and from the pros. must be the inevitable I ad, it is absolutely net by moderating the taxes, - expenditure io every sof acknowledged public benefit and advantage. That the /Hite of the House, refusing the annual grant of 1.1,0001. for loads at a distance from the sea, by which internal settlers, who so much augment our strength, are discouraged, should be followed up by a reiolution to suspend for the present all grants for public build ings and barracks, except in a limited degree, under very apparent necessity. S. Resolved, 'Plat the further prosecution of the measures about to be adopted is the Imperial Par liament for the relief of the sugar colonies ; the re peal, in toto, of the Abolition At ; or, if that cannot be elicited, the absolute repeal, at least of all the ob noxious and unconstitutional enaelments thereof, coupled with a full compensation to the island for its losses, sufferings, and disappointments, in conse sitienee of the abolition of the trade ; the adoption by the British Government of the means of afford ing general protection to this colony, at the general expense of the empire; and, above all, an aban donment by the Imperial Parliament, of every pre tension to an interference with our internal govern ment or affairs, are objeCts of the highest import ance to this island, and call for the immediate, seri ous, and most energetic attention of the i4lani agent. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFF', COURT, TUESDAY, Drc.29. SEDUCTION.—MACKREATH to. WARDELL. This was an affirm brought by a Father to reeo. ter a conspensatirps in damages for the loss he had sustained in consequence of the ttefenclant having debauched his daughter, and thereby deprived him of her services and comfo r t. Th e Defendant, who is the son of a wealthy farmer in Kenr, suffered judgment by default, and this day the Jury met to assess the damages. It appeared in evidence, that she Plaintiff, wits) is a tradesman in Whitechapel, sent his daughter, in the summer of 1806, to pass a month with her grandmother, who resides at Ro chester. Amongst other persons, the Defendant visited at the house, -nd a mutual affedion took place between the parties. The Defendant, about the time of Miss Macreath's intended return to Lon don, broke his mind to the grandmother, and asked her, if she thought the Plaintiff would consent to his visiting his daughter in London ? The old lady replied, if his intentions were honourable, neithershe nor thePlaintiffsvould offer any obstruttion to hishap piness ; at the same time, she represented that the Plaintiff had a large family, and could give his daughter no fortune. The Defendant said, his views were not mercenary ; that he was aduated by an honourable love for Miss Mackreath, and he had no doubt, with the assistance his father could afford him, and his own industry, that they should over come the frowns of fortune. The Plaintiff was in formed of this conversation, and relying on the grandmother's prudence, conserred that the Defend ant should visit his daughter. After Miss M. re turned to town, the Defendant visited her at her fa- thet's house, they frequented the theatre together, and the Defendant was received as the destined hus band of the young lady. Miss M. was at this time ittle more than sixteen years old, and her mother wished her to attain her seventeenth year before she married. This was considered as no great hardship by the young people, and early in the spring of ' the present year, Miss Mackreath again visited her grandmother, and the Defendant was sel dom absent from her three days at a time.— They strolled into the fields together, loitered in the coolness of the shade, and frequently returned to the grandmother's after the day had closed in. In these seclusion, love got the better of prudence, and the young Lady expressed her eagerness to have the marriage solemnized. The Defendant was less at tentive and less frequent in his visits. The young Lady grew pensive and lost her natural .Sow of spi- rits. The family were concerned at her apparent anxiety, and suspeded that something more than the Defendant's absence was the cause. She re turned to her father's house, where her real situation could not be long a secret from a mother's investi gation, and it was discovered, to the inexpressible grief of the family. that their daughter was preg nant. An explanation soon took place, the Plain tiff instantly sought the seducer of his child, and insisted on his immediately marrying her. The Defendant at first affeded great concern for the discovery. and said the world should never re proach him with being the betrayer of innocence.— The Plaintiff's apprehensions were hushed. and he returned to his house, fully satisfied that his daugh ter would soon be made the wife of the man to whom she had so incautiously concluded herself. The sequel, however, proved that he was mistaken, and from that day neither the unhappy father, or the abused daughter. had seen the seducer. What aggravated the Defendant's condud still more was, that in a letter he had sent the Plaintiff, he insiau ated doabts as to the chastity of his daughter before he became acquainted with her, observing, that he should pause before he formed an alliance with a person whose conduit was so extremely equivocal. This also proved the principal feature in the de. fence; and evidence was adduced, of Miss M.'s general levity of manners, and that she had been seen in company with other young men, in the ab sence of the Defendant. It appeared, however, that there were no solid grounds for suspeding that she had been frail with any other incrie dual, or that her miscondud was at all the result of a vicious habit ; on the contrary, her condufl had, at all times, been chaste and virtuous. The Jury found a Verdiet for the Plaintiff. with rare Hundred Poaads Dasmageo. ......... ~. .. ~ ... ws . j . ~,,,,,,y s.•• -•a• ••••.•MII V. LUC cutony, miners for LI• duties, with the expenses and charges of ble to make any provision for His MA send ag it there. And that, with the exception of a beyond the period above mentioned few plantations, on 1 vcry large s:ale, or under cir- contemplate a renewal of such grans cuasstances peeul;arly fortunate. nu revenue what- redress of our grievanoss, the minds / e• ris left to the plan ter , f or ti:e scpport of his menu, respeßing ow con st it u ti ona l r i Lmily, or the satistaaion of his credito rs . quieted, and the possessi on o f t h e men / The Committee need hardly represent that the enable us to bear SO heavy a burden. only manse= sou rce o f taxation must b e t h e 7. Resolved, That, under the press% clear retinae or IL , ia.liviiiiaals compciieg the so- public debt, and of individual distress, ciety, Who give op a proportion of it to the geeeral felt and become insupportable; and I use, and for t'e cumaann safety, in whatever man- Prd of the calamities which must be 1 nor that proportion may be raised. If It commu- consequence of the abolition aft, it is pity shall ever he reduced to that calamitous *hie- ceuary to relieve all ranks, by modera ;ion, when the whole clear income of the proprietors and by retrenching the public expenc r .1,- —a .t,sii 1,.., h.pn nut iu resuisition for the , possible manner, even 14 Mile "6" 4)1 1 POLICE. yam-natl.. A detestable old monster,of the name of Rawlins, aged 61, with silver locks, was brought up by Glannon, one of the officers, from Dock-head, on the serious charge of infamously anaalting an in. fant child, his scholar, unchir the age of ten years. The story of the poor little injured innocent, with the view of the medical assistant, and other circum stances, fixed the charges so completely on the vil lain, that he was fully committed to the County Gaol. Sach was the indignation of the populace, that it was with difficulty the officers could preserve him from their fury, while on their route to the prison. This is the same Win who was so roughly handled in the pillory at Clerkenwell Green, within these last three months, for a similar offmce, ?J4FAL INTELLIC iNCII. tC• The wind has bl own e sale ll all day from 9. southwarul ; several ships have come into harts° among them the Matte, Elliott, with loss of chor, cables, &c. The American ship Me,-, is driven on shore.on the South Sea Brink; also t. Sarah and Ann. This morning upwards of thirty all of transpbt arrived at St. Helen's, from the Mediterranean, un der convoy of the Niger and letTaissi frigates. They must have haJ a short passage from Gibraltar, a s the Aurora, which arrived on Sunday, left there th-te ; and she was only a fortnight coming horn t But what seems more extrandinary, it is believe' that the force arrived is the same which left Skil . lately, with Si r J o h n M oore, and that he is come home w!th them. They have not had any commis. nication with the shore yet. Arrived the Resilience frigate, Captain Adam, with a French lugger privateer, of 10 guns, whici she took off Havre ; Sheldrake sloop, which chased two French lugger' off Beachy Head, on Sunda; night. Arrived the Mercury frigate, Captain Gordon from Newfoundland; and the Linnet, from a cruise. There are SOO sick troops on board the fiPet from Monte Video, besides more than 1000 who are in. felled with the scurvy, and many of them very bad cases. REMAIN AT SPITHEAD. frt. G uru. 11rwaswick.. Hip • 3O LaB4B‘aB/4. Dioniede ........ -- 1 )chlAllr1q• Leda 38 A OAK To;•Jse Thetis " VOlocta',. •••• 31 --- RILLCM. Mercury • • •• 32 Gomm*. Amphiult - Holm. Cherub Halifax Ludt Towt•sanD• • Bicase•mn IS --- PleeTT Hearty, Lueust, end Linit:t. PLYMOUTH, DEC 28. Arrived the Covirmre sloop from the Wesovai ; the Srorpum, 18 guns, Capt. Stanfell, from a cruise; the Pichte and Mil/root schooners, the latter %vita the loss of her mast, coming from Port4rnouth Arrived also the Mdrhal gun-brig,from off Itoc,,fort. Sailed the Raerborie, Id guns, Capt. Fisher, for the Jersey station. The Channel Fleet passed by yesterday for Tor bay, and fortunately sheltered themselves from the heavy gale of last eight—it is still very blowing wet weather. The Druid, 36, is come up Hamoaze to be re• paired. The Amason, 96. and Take, new sloop, are We and gone into the Sound. PRICE OF STOCKS, YZITIJUNLY. 3 per Cent. Redusa 4 per C-nt . Long Annuities. . , 171 1316 Imperial 3 per Cent 6211 Uranium India Sorel, F.xchequer per. 3 1 di,. Consols for 64111 T., Stock-Woke,. 4, a 9, Cnarint"et IRISH STOCICS, Dec f -.--------- GeuernMent Debentures S# pe, cent 711 Government Debenture 5 pet Cent . 9.1 BIRTH. Yetterdae morning, at the house of the Rev Dr. Mane, of Deptford, the Lady of William C. Grant, Esq of the 92d Re giment, of a daughter. MAR :MGRS. On Monday, the 26th instant, at Freshwater Church, We of iVight, by the Rev. Mr. Holmes the Rector, Sir John Pringle Dalrymple, Ran. Lieuttnant•Colunel of the Royal Re giment of Malta, to Mary, second daughter of Edward Ruh. worth, Esq. of Fatr.ngford.bill, in that tile. On the fißth instant, at Chiswick, by the Rev. Dr. Horne, the Rev. John Morris, A. M. of Rahorer,in, to Mir A. F. Braude, youngest daughter of Augustus Eterard Brande, Eq. or Chiswick. _ _ On Friday, the 25th instant, at St. George?* Church, Hano ver-square, Mr. James Pink, of Doser•rumt., to Miss Mary 3 Atin Harvey, only daughter of Mr. D. Harvey, of Faitfunt, Gloucestershire On Thursday, the Ist instant, in the Isle of Man, Ma j or Steuart, of the Royal Manz Regiment, to Miss Maio Smith. On Tuesday, the 22d instant, at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, lav the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Lord Sishop of Kildase, the Rey. Thomas Peyton Slapp, of Newton Flottinan, in N,.. folk, us Miss Beatty, may daughter of the late David Beatty. Eaq. of Dublin. DEATHS. Robert Hume, Esq. of Listless", county Cavan, brother of Gustavus Hume, Em. of Dublin. On Monday, at Richmond, Surrey, an awful proof of the uncertainty of hunsan life and benign happiness, Mrs. War den, wife of Geo r ge Warden, Esq of that place. Lately,: at Cork, Lieutenant George Phillimore, of His Ma jesty's ship Polyphemus, youngest son of the Rey. Joseph Phillimote, of Osten, is the county of Leicester. At Hanwell, at the atisaneal age of V, Mrs. Hanningtoi, formerly one of the Matrons of Eton College. On Sunday, at Cookhans, Berk% Mrs. Elisabeth Plume', sister of Wit tans Plainer, £aq. late Meagher fur the County of Herts. On Monday, at Lowestoft, in Suffolk, aged M, Mr. Richard Fowles; of Nag's head-eburt, Oneestainete-arsee. nicm wATia, THIS DAY, AT LtiNDON.BEIDGE.• ninni....39 WIC dMr .... 3 I Even. —34 a. Mt ops By Me.an. 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